English clergyman Frederick William Robertson best summed it up about hypocrisy.

“There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy: Hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny,” Robertson famously said.

Hollywood, at least in 2018, seems to hit at least two of those check marks, if not all three.

As I’m sure you’ve heard by now, comedian Kevin Hart has been removed as the host of the Academy Awards telecast after internet sleuths dug up old comments he had made regarding gay people.

“One of my biggest fears is my son growing up and being gay. That’s a fear,” Hart said in his 2010 stand-up special “Seriously Funny.”

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“Keep in mind, I’m not homophobic, I have nothing against gay people — be happy, do what you want to do,” Hart joked. “But me, being a heterosexual male, if I can prevent my son from being gay, I will. Now with that being said, I don’t know if I handled my son’s first gay moment correctly. Every kid has a gay moment, but when it happens, you’ve got to nip it in the bud.”

Hollywood, ever the self-proclaimed bastions of “tolerance,” pounced on Hart for his comments from eight years ago. Blind leftist followers similarly followed suit and attacked Hart, slamming him as a “clueless” bigot.

Not everyone in Hollywood was willing to attack Hart, however. Fellow comedian and entertainer Nick Cannon quickly took up the mantle to slam the fraudulent and hypocritical behavior of his peers.

“Interesting, I wonder if there was any backlash here,” Cannon pondered on Twitter in response to comedian Chelsea Handler flippantly using a gay slur to describe a photo of a bird.

Next, Cannon took aim at “Wreck It Ralph” voice actress and comedian Sarah Silverman, who also used a gay slur to describe a contestant on “The Bachelorette.”

Finally, Cannon called out comedian and actress Amy Schumer, who used a similar slur when talking to her Twitter followers about the movie “Skyfall.”

As Cannon pointed out, where was the outrage over these comments?

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Oh, that’s right, it was nowhere to be found.

Now, I don’t want to laud the notoriously anti-Trump Cannon too much here, but he certainly deserves credit for his willingness to lambaste his peers over their blatant hypocrisy.

One more thing worth noting is that Hart apologized on Twitter for his comments and to the gay community. The comedians that Cannon called out have offered no such remorse.

I have made the choice to step down from hosting this year’s Oscar’s….this is because I do not want to be a distraction on a night that should be celebrated by so many amazing talented artists. I sincerely apologize to the LGBTQ community for my insensitive words from my past.

— Kevin Hart (@KevinHart4real) December 7, 2018

The way in which Hollywood elites pick and choose victims for their outrage of the week is nothing short of tyrannical.

And hey, that’s the Frederick William Robertson trifecta. Hollywood truly deserves no mercy.

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As a huge football fan, few developments were more infuriating than the proliferation of anthem protests in the league.

Maybe the only thing other more infuriating was the sheer incompetence of NFL commissioner Roger Goodell in dealing with the protests, but that’s a lengthy rant for a different time.

To be fair, anthem protests within the NFL are at an all-time low since they began in 2016, and it’s probably not a coincidence that NFL ratings are on an upswing after some precipitous falls.

It certainly helps that the majority of NFL players are patriots (not of the New England variety.)

But even having just two players kneeling for the national anthem are two players too many.

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Look, a part of me gets it — NFL players are well within their American rights to peaceably protest.

But there’s a time and a place for everything, and the national anthem simply isn’t the time or place for socio-political discourse.

You can’t blame the countless Americans who find the act of kneeling during the anthem to be the ultimate form of disrespect to the flag, the military and law enforcement.

But while the NFL continues to figure itself out, college football has been notably absent from such melodrama.

In fact, college football’s reverence for the national anthem and the American flag was never more clear than the 119th game between the Army Black Knights and the Navy Midshipmen.

Army won its third straight game against Navy on Saturday with a solid 17-10 win, but the best moment came before a single snap was played.

President Donald Trump was in attendance for the game, and he has been as vocal of a critic of the NFL’s anthem protests as anyone.

The NFL players are at it again – taking a knee when they should be standing proudly for the National Anthem. Numerous players, from different teams, wanted to show their “outrage” at something that most of them are unable to define. They make a fortune doing what they love……

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 10, 2018

Keeping his sharp NFL criticisms in mind, Trump was standing at full attention for the playing of the anthem before the Army-Navy game.

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The Army-Navy joint rendition of the National Anthem is perhaps the most beautiful rendition you will ever hear.

It will give you chills 🇺🇸

God bless America.

God bless the young, kickass men and women of our Armed Forces. pic.twitter.com/rfIIXueTrp

— Benny (@bennyjohnson) December 8, 2018

It was a truly beautiful and goosebump-inducing rendition of the anthem played before the game.

And to be clear, the anthem was made all the more amazing because the leader of this awesome country stood tall and proud for the anthem.

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Pictures and video of an armoured personnel carrier emblazoned with the European Union flag helping to crush Gilet Jaunes protesters in Paris have gone viral on social media, with many suggesting it shows what might be in store for Europe once the bloc gets the unified army it is planning.

Tens of thousands of regular and paramilitary police were deployed in the French capital to defend Emmanuel Macron’s presidential palace and confront protesters as the worker-driven “Yellow Jackets” or “Yellow Vests” commenced “Act IV” of their mass protests against the globalist leader, with an astonishing 1,400 people arrested across the country.

Baton charges, stun grenades, and tear gas have been a regular feature of the protests since they began four weeks ago — with an 80-year-old woman actually being killed when an errant gas cannister flew into her apartment and hit her in the face last week — but the December 8th protests marked the first time the authorities deployed military-style armoured vehicles against the people.

Images and video of at least one of the APCs thundering down the Champs-Elysees with the European Union flag emblazoned on its hull were shared widely on social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter, causing considerable alarm — particularly among people who are already concerned about the EU’s ambitions to establish a common army, border force, and gendarmerie (paramilitary police) force.

I don’t think people realise how profoundly concerning this is: it isn’t just the symbolism; it’s the EU contra the #GiletsJeunes #YellowJackets #YellowVests; the European Union against the French people. ‘Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.’ https://t.co/biJ6Tc05rU

— Adrian Hilton (@Adrian_Hilton) December 8, 2018

“I don’t think people realise how profoundly concerning this is: it isn’t just the symbolism; it’s the EU contra the [Yellow Vests]; the European Union against the French people,” cautioned Adrian Hilton, a British academic and former adviser to leading Tory politician Michael Gove.

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it,” he warned, paraphrasing Spanish-American philosopher George Santayana’s famous aphorism.

Les blindés entrent en action avenue de Friedland @A2PRL pic.twitter.com/jdM8hgXdyP

— Boris Kharlamoff (@BorisKharlamoff) December 8, 2018

“My goodness! What have we all become as a result of the EU?” asked one Twitter user rhetorically. “Very, very discontented people.”

“It’s terrible optics,” chimed in another. “[S]ending in anti-riot police with EU flags instead of French ones on them just sends out the message that France’s own authorities are against the French people.”

“[The EU is] nowhere near a ‘project for peace’,” asserted a third.

The EU flag on the APC may have denoted participation in the European Gendarmerie Force (EGF/EUROGENDFOR) — an embryonic Europe-wide paramilitary police force which, like the Eurocorps military force often seen raising the EU flag outside the European Parliament building, is not technically an EU organisation, but often involved in EU projects.

The organisation had not responded to a request for confirmation by the time this article was published.

Brussels police blocking protesters from getting close to the European institutions#GiletsJaunes #Bruxelles pic.twitter.com/zuJz60F4nv

— Mehmet Solmaz (@MhmtSlmz) December 8, 2018

Footage from sympathy protests in Brussels, Belgium, also showed police lined up at barricades with batons drawn and water cannons behind them, to keep Yellow Vests away from the European Union’s headquarters buildings.

Another video showed police blocking the path of a small knot of demonstrators who had reached an entrance to the European Parliament, hitting them with pepper spray when they came too close.

Protesters outside the European Parliament in Brussels#GiletsJaunes #Bruxelles pic.twitter.com/sYzr2GKn1y

— Mehmet Solmaz (@MhmtSlmz) December 8, 2018

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California’s Democrat lawmakers are pushing a tax on the sale of handguns and semiautomatic rifles to generate revenue for a program that funds gun control.

The tax is contained in Assembly Bill 18, sponsored by Assemblyman Marc Levine (D-CA-10).

The language of AB-18 explains that the Democrats’ goal is “an excise tax on the sales of handguns and semiautomatic rifles,” to in turn give the resulting revenue to the California Violence Intervention and Prevention Grant Program (CalVIP).

On July 5, 2017, Highland News reported CalVIP is as a funding program lauded by Gabby Giffords’s gun control group. And on June 29, 2017, FilAmStar reported Giffords’ gratitude toward Gov. Jerry Brown (D) for allowing CalVIP funding to be used for gun control efforts in the state.

The bottom line — handguns and semiautomatic rifles would be taxed to fund a program which, in turn, funds gun control efforts. And the language of AB-18 admits as much by making clear that that the failure of California’s extant gun controls justifies the passage of more gun laws and policies:

Although California has the toughest gun laws in the nation, more effort is necessary to curtail gun violence. The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation found that from 2014 to 2016 gun homicides increased 18 percent. Therefore California needs to bolster violence prevention initiatives so that they are commensurate with the state’s gun laws and the violence prevention programs of other states.

Assemblyman Levine did not say whether he will go a step further and seek a tax on First Amendment rights in order to fund efforts against speech with which Democrats disagree.

AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News, the host of the Breitbart podcast Bullets with AWR Hawkins, and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio. Follow him on Twitter: @AWRHawkins. Reach him directly at awrhawkins@breitbart.com. Sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange.

 

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A Virginia high school teacher, who refused to use the preferred pronouns of a student who claims to be transgender, was fired Thursday.

In a case that is believed to be the first of its kind in the state, the West Point School Board voted unanimously to fire Peter Vlaming, a French teacher in the district’s high school.

The Richmond Times-Dispatch reported Vlaming “resisted administrators’ orders to use male pronouns to refer to a ninth-grade student who had undergone a gender transition.”

“I can’t think of a worse way to treat a child than what was happening,” said West Point High Principal Jonathan Hochman, who testified that he instructed Vlaming to use male pronouns.

Vlaming, 47, had been teaching at the school for nearly seven years after living in France for more than a decade. He told administrators his Christian beliefs did not allow him to use male pronouns for a biologically female student – one he had previously taught when she identified as female.

While Vlaming agreed to use the student’s new, male name, he attempted to avoid using the pronouns – he, him, she, her – when referring to her. The student reportedly complained she felt uncomfortable and targeted with his refusal to use her preferred pronouns.

During a public hearing, Vlaming said he respects all his students and had attempted to resolve the situation based on “mutual tolerance.”

His effort, however, was not accepted, he said, putting him in the position of risking the loss of his job for having views held by “most of the world for most of human history.”

“That is not tolerance,” Vlaming said, according to the Times-Dispatch. “That is coercion.”

According to the news report, administrators agreed that Vlaming was discriminating against the student.

“That discrimination then leads to creating a hostile learning environment,” said West Point schools superintendent Laura Abel. “And the student had expressed that. The parent had expressed that. They felt disrespected.”

West Point High School administrators recommended to the board that Vlaming be fired, asserting he had violated the district’s nondiscrimination and harassment policies.

“Does this board expect its employees to follow its policies or not?” said attorney Stacy Haney, who was representing the school district.

“As detailed during the course of the public hearing, Mr. Vlaming was recommended for termination due to his insubordination and repeated refusal to comply with directives made to him by multiple WPPS administrators,” said Abel in a statement following the vote to terminate Vlaming.

The school district’s nondiscrimination policies reportedly include gender identity protections but no specific regulations on the use of pronouns.

Vlaming’s attorney also said the teacher also has constitutional rights – even though he is a public employee.

“One of those rights that is not curtailed is to be free from being compelled to speak something that violates your conscience,” Shawn Voyles said.

The Times-Dispatch reported:

The hearing drew an overflow crowd, made up largely of parents and students supporting a man they described as a model teacher who does extra duty as a soccer coach and bus driver. A stack of signs that read “Justice for Mr. Vlaming” sat by the door, but school officials said no signs would be allowed in the small meeting room that could fit only a fraction of the crowd.

LGBTQ-rights group Equality Virginia called for “statewide guidance” that will protect all students from discrimination at school.

The left is going to scream, and former first lady Michelle Obama is going to complain about her ‘legacy’ being dismantled, but President Trump has ended the era of ‘nasty, rotty‘ food, as it has been served up under the best of intentions with federal rules for all school food.

The Associated Press has harrumphed into the kickoff:

The U.S. school lunch program is making room on menus again for noodles, biscuits, tortillas and other foods made mostly of refined grains.

The Trump administration is scaling back contested school lunch standards implemented under the Obama administration including one that required only whole grains be served. The U.S. Department of Agriculture said Thursday only half the grains served will need to be whole grains, a change it said will do away with the current bureaucracy of requiring schools to obtain special waivers to serve select refined grains foods.

Low-fat chocolate milk will also be allowed again. Previously, only fat-free milk could be flavored, although that rule had also been temporarily waived. A final goal for limiting sodium will be scrapped as well, but schools will still be required to meet reduced sodium targets.

Horrors! Bad food. That kids like. Including all that highly recommended carby stuff still sitting there at the bottom of the government’s food pyramid.

The press is yelling ‘fat people’ and all that, imagining that lefty-union-controlled school authorities around the country are just itching to put refined flour and white sugar in front of the young ‘uns, alongside chocolate milk. Tortillas, maybe, given the high numbers of Mexican kids (but don’t dare serve them to a Honduran!), yet the reality is, the Trump administration is giving school districts some school choice in how to handle the food situation for the kids, not insisting they serve junk food for free.

The sad reality is, the Michelle Obama program did result in ‘nasty, rotty’ food for the kids and they threw the stuff out and imported ‘flaming hot’ cheeto fries instead, even setting up black markets for them. The kids didn’t like the supposedly ‘better for them’ food, courtesy of the central planners back in Washington, and bitterly complained that it didn’t serve the enhanced nutritional needs of student athletes, for one thing. It also wasn’t appetizing, and the kids tweeted pictures of the slop to send that message. Then they threw the slop away. Fact: It’s not nutrition if the kids are not going to eat it. The food went to waste and the kids went Galt.

Now, Michelle Obama’s new food menu might have tasted good when cooked in a refined test kitchen, but the assemblage of it, by low-information unionized cafeteria workers, tended to make the result less than optimal. But it wasn’t just the hash-slingers in hairnets who were to blame. Megan McArdle, who knows a thing or two about industrial processes, has written extensively on the scope of the problem and how chi-chi fresh-casual food is not easily translated to a school cafeteria setting with union workers. Here’s a worth-reading passage from her excellent book, ‘The Up Side Of Down, about how failures can lead to successes, writes about the logistical problems of cafeteria food and explains why the federal government needs to get out of the way. Here are a couple of well-worth-reading passages from Google Books:

She points out in a subsequent article (glad she is sticking to the topic) that the feds need to get out of the school lunch nutritional content business altogether and let local officials take care of it. If parents want kids to have nutritional meals, they have the wherewithal to make sure that happens. And as for kids, well, she has a gritty realism about what kids truly want – they’re going to ‘eat crap anyway’ (tell me that’s not true!) so the schools should focus on how to best deliver what they can most practically deliver in the most productive way for themselves as possible.

Kudos to President Trump for putting all this nonsense and letting the locals decide.

The left is going to scream, and former first lady Michelle Obama is going to complain about her ‘legacy’ being dismantled, but President Trump has ended the era of ‘nasty, rotty‘ food, as it has been served up under the best of intentions with federal rules for all school food.

The Associated Press has harrumphed into the kickoff:

The U.S. school lunch program is making room on menus again for noodles, biscuits, tortillas and other foods made mostly of refined grains.

The Trump administration is scaling back contested school lunch standards implemented under the Obama administration including one that required only whole grains be served. The U.S. Department of Agriculture said Thursday only half the grains served will need to be whole grains, a change it said will do away with the current bureaucracy of requiring schools to obtain special waivers to serve select refined grains foods.

Low-fat chocolate milk will also be allowed again. Previously, only fat-free milk could be flavored, although that rule had also been temporarily waived. A final goal for limiting sodium will be scrapped as well, but schools will still be required to meet reduced sodium targets.

Horrors! Bad food. That kids like. Including all that highly recommended carby stuff still sitting there at the bottom of the government’s food pyramid.

The press is yelling ‘fat people’ and all that, imagining that lefty-union-controlled school authorities around the country are just itching to put refined flour and white sugar in front of the young ‘uns, alongside chocolate milk. Tortillas, maybe, given the high numbers of Mexican kids (but don’t dare serve them to a Honduran!), yet the reality is, the Trump administration is giving school districts some school choice in how to handle the food situation for the kids, not insisting they serve junk food for free.

The sad reality is, the Michelle Obama program did result in ‘nasty, rotty’ food for the kids and they threw the stuff out and imported ‘flaming hot’ cheeto fries instead, even setting up black markets for them. The kids didn’t like the supposedly ‘better for them’ food, courtesy of the central planners back in Washington, and bitterly complained that it didn’t serve the enhanced nutritional needs of student athletes, for one thing. It also wasn’t appetizing, and the kids tweeted pictures of the slop to send that message. Then they threw the slop away. Fact: It’s not nutrition if the kids are not going to eat it. The food went to waste and the kids went Galt.

Now, Michelle Obama’s new food menu might have tasted good when cooked in a refined test kitchen, but the assemblage of it, by low-information unionized cafeteria workers, tended to make the result less than optimal. But it wasn’t just the hash-slingers in hairnets who were to blame. Megan McArdle, who knows a thing or two about industrial processes, has written extensively on the scope of the problem and how chi-chi fresh-casual food is not easily translated to a school cafeteria setting with union workers. Here’s a worth-reading passage from her excellent book, ‘The Up Side Of Down, about how failures can lead to successes, writes about the logistical problems of cafeteria food and explains why the federal government needs to get out of the way. Here are a couple of well-worth-reading passages from Google Books:

She points out in a subsequent article (glad she is sticking to the topic) that the feds need to get out of the school lunch nutritional content business altogether and let local officials take care of it. If parents want kids to have nutritional meals, they have the wherewithal to make sure that happens. And as for kids, well, she has a gritty realism about what kids truly want – they’re going to ‘eat crap anyway’ (tell me that’s not true!) so the schools should focus on how to best deliver what they can most practically deliver in the most productive way for themselves as possible.

Kudos to President Trump for putting all this nonsense and letting the locals decide.

Dec. 6 (UPI) — Dallas Cowboys star Ezekiel Elliott is appealing his $13,369 fine for dropping $21 in a Salvation Army kettle following a score against the Washington Redskins.

“I mean, I didn’t really expect a fine, really don’t care about the fine,” Elliott told reporters. “It’s all for a good cause and we’re trying to bring awareness to the Salvation Army, and if the NFL doesn’t like that, then, I mean, that’s on them. I’ll pay their little fine.”

Elliott also said he plans to appeal the fine. The money from the fine goes to the NFL Player Care Foundation and the Gene Upshaw Players Association’s Players Assistance Trust.

The Thanksgiving Day gift was not Elliott’s first interaction with the big red kettle behind the end zone. Elliott also jumped into it during his rookie season, but he was not fined for that celebration. He donated $21,000 to the charity and watched Salvation Army donations spike.

“A lot of things they [the NFL] do define ridiculous. but that’s not really any of my business, not anything I can change,” Elliott said.

“So I’m just going to keep being focused on this season, focused on leading this team, focused on going out there and winning ballgames.”

Elliott and quarterback Dak Prescott each pledged $21,000 donations to the Salvation Army following the win against the Redskins. The Cowboys matched the donations.
Elliott said he thinks the NFL should donate his fine to the Salvation Army.

The Cowboys superstar has 1,150 yards and six scores on a league-high 240 carries this season. He also has a league-high 293 touches for 1,573 yards from scrimmage.

The Cowboys have an NFC East clash against the Philadelphia Eagles at 4:25 p.m. on Sunday at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas.

Country star John Rich defended the Second Amendment while calling out fellow music stars Dierks Bentley and Florida Georgia Line’s Tyler Hubbard over their gun control push.

On December 4, 2018, Breitbart News reported that Bentley and Hubbard had joined a gun control push launched by Tom’s apparel company. The campaign includes calls for universal background checks, even though we have had background checks since 1998 and nearly every mass public attacker acquires his guns via a background. The exceptions are those who steal their guns.

Hubbard also indicated that he is trying to recruit other country artists to join the gun control campaign.

The social media backlash against Hubbard was profound and he responded by posting an Instagram video in which he doubled down for gun control. He called for an end to private gun sales at gun shows and flea markets but didn’t list one 21st century mass public attack in which a firearm from a gun show or flea market was used.

John Rich is now calling out both Bentley and Hubbard for suggesting gun control is a “solution” to criminals acting like criminals.

Fox News reported that Rich used hypothetical and personal situations he would use to explain the importance of protecting gun rights to Bentley and Hubbard:

The issue with gun control, you look at it and you go, ‘These maniacs, these vicious people are taking a weapon and shooting people with it.’ And then the flip side of that is, right now, I’m in New York City and back in Nashville is my wife and my two little kids. And if somebody breaks into my house, which rifle would you suggest I tell my wife to grab?

Which one should she grab? The one that gives her the best chance at protecting her and my kids or the one that doesn’t? Those are the types of questions I would like to ask them.

Rich made it clear that gun control does not stop criminals from being criminals, but it does make it harder for the law-abiding citizen to fight off criminals when they attack. He said, “Only the bad guys break the laws.”

Breitbart News reported a Crime Prevention Research Center study showing that 97.8 percent of mass public attacks between 1950 and May 2018 occurred in gun-free zones. Such areas have total gun control, making teachers in places like Sandy Hook Elementary (December 14, 2012), patrons in clubs like Orlando Pulse (June 12, 2016), and Christmas Party attendees in San Bernardino County buildings (December 2, 2015), defenseless to fend off attackers.

Rich is asking Bentley and Hubbard to explain how more gun control laws would solve anything or prevent these terrible massacres.

AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News, the host of the Breitbart podcast Bullets with AWR Hawkins, and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio. Follow him on Twitter: @AWRHawkins. Reach him directly at awrhawkins@breitbart.com. Sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange.

The apprehension of migrant families along the U.S. border with Mexico skyrocketed in November when compared to the previous year. Federal officials reported a 270 percent increase from November 2017 to this year.

Border Patrol agents apprehended 25,172 Family Unit Aliens (FMUA) along the U.S.-Mexico border in November, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) Southwest Border Migration Report released this week. This compared to November 2017’s report of 7,016 FMUA apprehensions — an increase of nearly 270 percent.

The current November apprehensions report also represents an increase of 60 percent over November 2016’s (the month of President Donald Trump’s election.

“The November 2018 border numbers are the predictable result of a broken immigration system – including flawed judicial rulings – that usurps the will of the American people who have repeatedly demanded secure borders,” DHS Spokeswoman Katie Waldman said in a written statement on Thursday. “To address the obvious crisis at our border, the President has recently deployed the military and signed a new measure that, in conjunction with a joint DOJ regulation, makes illegal border crossers ineligible for asylum.”

During the first two months of Fiscal Year 2019, Border Patrol agents apprehended a total of 42,287 migrant families — an increase of 307 over the same period in FY2018.

Agents in the El Paso Sector saw the largest percentage increase in the apprehension of family units in the past year. The numbers jumped from 591 in November 2017 to 11,617 for the first two months of this fiscal year. The Rio Grande Valley Sector continues to lead the nation with 23,012 FMUA apprehensions in October and November. Only the Big Bend Sector witnessed a decrease in family apprehensions.

Following is the breakdown of apprehensions of Family Unit Aliens by Border Patrol Sector for the first two months of this fiscal year as reported by CBP:

Sector	FY18TD	FY19TD	% Change FY18TD to FY19TD
Big Bend	229	48	-79%
Del Rio	313	1,379	341%
El Centro	439	1,696	286%
El Paso	591	11,617	1,866%
Laredo	87	170	95%
Rio Grande	7,280	23,012	216%
San Diego	378	2,649	601%
Tucson	539	1,922	257%
Yuma	1,996	5,794	190%
USBP Southwest Border Total	11,852	48,287	307%

Migrants continue to exploit the loophole created by Congress in 2008 that prohibits expedited removal of minors without a hearing. Since that time, hundreds of thousands of migrants have flocked to the U.S. border to take advantage of what has become a magnet for illegal immigrants.

“We continue to call on Congress to address the crisis at the border by closing legal loopholes that drive illegal immigration,” Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Press Secretary Tyler Q. Houlton said in a July 2018 statement obtained by Breitbart News.

Bob Price serves as associate editor and senior political news contributor for Breitbart Border/Cartel Chronicles. He is a founding member of the Breitbart Texas team. Follow him on Twitter @BobPriceBBTX and Facebook.