Day: October 15, 2024

FAIR    Illegal aliens and open-borders advocates are re-grouping after their first attempt to sue the University of California stalled. The plaintiffs sued the University of California in early October claiming it was illegally denying them on-campus jobs. The lawsuit was filed just days after Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed legislation that would have authorized the school to hire them. The plaintiffs named in the lawsuit are both illegal aliens. Jeffry Umaña Muñoz is an illegal alien who attended UCLA as an undergraduate and was denied employment at the university bookstore and cafeteria. Discussing the lawsuit at a press conference, he said, “I experienced firsthand the pain and difficulty of being denied the right to on-campus employment at my university.” He continued, “At the crux of this case are thousands of undocumented students and our families who simply want the freedom to study, work, and fully contribute to our universities.” The other plaintiff, Iliana Perez, is an illegal alien who is a DACA recipient. Umaña Muñoz and Perez, along with two unnamed plaintiffs, have filed the lawsuit with the help of Organized Power in Numbers and the Center for Immigration Law and Policy at UCLA School of Law. READ THE FULL STORY               …

Washington Examiner   With just 21 days until the election, Vice President Kamala Harris narrowly leads former President Donald Trump in national polls. However, Trump maintains a slight edge over Harris among the seven battleground states on which the race hinges. That’s a shift from a month ago when the Democratic nominee had the advantage among swing-state voters. Both candidates are sprinting to visit the battleground states as much as possible while also adding on interviews and town halls meant to shore up support among women, men, and black voters before Nov. 5. READ THE FULL STORY                   

Breitbart   Youth sex trafficking and its myriad cruelties tripled under President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, according to a report in TheFreePress.com. TheFreePress.com described some of the harms inflicted on youth migrants under the lax policies set by Biden’s border chief, Alejandro Mayorkas’ tenure: Sex-trafficking victims often suffer horrific abuse, as I discovered when I spoke to Landon Dickeson, the 36-year-old executive director for Bob’s House of Hope in Denton, Texas, the only shelter for male sex-trafficking victims ages 18 and up in the country. Dickeson says they’ve seen teens from Central and South America who have been so tortured by their traffickers they can barely function. Dickeson described caring for teens who have brain damage from being so heavily drugged—teens who have had their fingernails pulled out, and lemon juice poured on wounds. When I asked to interview one of their migrant residents, Dickeson said they simply weren’t in any condition to speak to anyone, much less a reporter. “We think the cartels and gangs use torture as a control method for the males,” said Dickeson. “They’re not going to fight back if they chain their victims to a radiator, beat them up frequently, or drug them.” READ THE FULL STORY …

New York Post The proof of Tren de Aragua’s violence in Aurora, Colo., is written in blood. A fed-up landlord in the Denver suburb has shared a bloody photo of one of its workers after the man was allegedly beaten to a pulp by members of the brutal Venezuelan prison gang for refusing to let them stay in a vacant apartment they had taken over. The Brooklyn-based company claimed that the gang effectively stole entire apartment complexes out from under it by threatening employees and tried to extort it for a cut of the rent in exchange for being allowed to keep operating the properties. READ THE FULL STORY      

Fox News Business True Value retail stores, which are independently owned and operated, are not part of the bankruptcy True Value, which sells hardware, tools, lumber, plumbing and heating supplies, and other home improvement goods, has between $500 million and $1 billion in total liabilities, according to its Chapter 11 petition in Delaware bankruptcy court. “After a thorough evaluation of strategic alternatives, we determined that the sale of our business was the path forward to maximize value and best serve our retail partners and other stakeholders into the future,” said Chris Kempa, True Value’s CEO.  READ THE FULL STORY    

The Verge Google plans to buy electricity from next-generation nuclear reactors. It announced the deal yesterday, which it says is the world’s first corporate agreement to purchase electricity from advanced small modular reactors (SMRs) that are still under development. Google inked the deal with engineering company Kairos Power, which plans to get its first SMR up and running by 2030. Google agreed to purchase electricity from “multiple” reactors that would be built through 2035. Google needs a lot more clean energy to meet its climate goals while pursuing its AI ambitions. New nuclear technologies are still unproven at scale, but the hope is that they can provide carbon pollution-free electricity while solving some of the problems that come with traditional nuclear power plants. READ THE FULL STORY