Border Patrol agents in the Rio Grande Valley Sector rescued a live tiger cub after smugglers abandoned it near the Texas border with Mexico. The cub appears to be in good health.

Agents assigned to the Brownsville Station made an unusual discovery while responding to an alert about an illegal border crossing on Monday. Agents responded to the call but only found a large black bag. The illegal border crossers had disappeared, according to information provided to Breitbart Texas by Border Patrol officials.

The agents approached the black bag and were likely expecting to find drugs. Instead, the agents found a male tiger cub zipped up inside the bag. It appears the smugglers gave the cub a tranquilizer.

Officials took the tiger cub to the Gladys Porter Zoo in Brownsville where officials estimated the cub’s age to be between three and four months.

Earlier in the day, agents made another unusual discovery while attempting to launch a patrol boat and observed a large alligator on the ramp.

Officials did not say if or how long the alligator delayed the launch.

Cartel-connected smugglers are even more callous with their human cargo.

On Thursday, April 26, agents assigned to the Weslaco Station received a report of suspected illegal immigrants getting into two vehicles, a Kia Soul and a Chevy Tahoe, near Alamo, Texas. As agents attempted to stop the vehicles, the Kia stopped and the Tahoe failed to yield, officials stated.

The driver of the Tahoe stopped after a short pursuit and fled the scene on foot.

Agents found seven illegal immigrants packed in the back of the Kia and an additional 10 crammed into the Tahoe.

During a two day period, agents assigned to the Falfurrias Border Patrol Checkpoint in Brooks County made two human smuggling discoveries. In the first, a K-9 agent alerted to the possible presence of drugs or humans in the back of a pickup truck. The agents found an illegal immigrant trapped under a toolbox with no way of escaping.

Early Friday morning, the Falfurrias agents discovered 17 illegal immigrants packed in the back of a tractor-trailer loaded with commodities. Officials said the migrants were men and juveniles from Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and Colombia.

Agents arrested both drivers.

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

Facebook accidentally rolled out what appeared to be a crowd-sourced “hate speech” flagging system, in which users were asked whether a post constituted hate speech or not.

Earlier today, Facebook users began reporting that questionnaires had been attached to innocuous posts, asking them if they considered the content of the posts to be “hate speech.”

It quickly became apparent that the feature had been rolled out in an unfinished state:

As a test, yep ¯_(ツ)_/¯ pic.twitter.com/21mymnN9KJ

— Matt Navarra (@MattNavarra) May 1, 2018

Facebook VP of product Guy Rosen said that the feature was a “bug” and a “test” that had been incorrectly applied to all posts, including Mark Zuckerberg’s.

Some people saw ‘does this post contain hate speech’ today on some posts. This was a test – and a bug that we reverted within 20 mins. It was shown for a short time on posts regardless of their content (like this one). pic.twitter.com/iuNKSVTOqQ

— Guy Rosen (@guyro) May 1, 2018

The feature appears to be a method for determining what qualifies as “hate speech” based on user feedback, but it is unknown whether Facebook intends to roll this out for all users, or just a select group.

A user-driven approach is a radical departure from the “Facebook Supreme Court” that Mark Zuckerberg previously suggested, in which a hand-picked panel of elites would have the final say on what content is banned under the platform’s hate speech rules. Both approaches suffer from the problem of subjectivity and bias, as there is no objective definition of hate speech — as Zuckerberg himself concedes.

We do know that language which attacks the “immigration status” of a person is considered hate speech under Facebook’s rules. Republican congressman Lamar Smith has raised concerns that this will make criticism of illegal immigration impossible on the platform.

Allum Bokhari is the senior technology correspondent at Breitbart News. You can follow him on Twitter, Gab.ai and add him on Facebook. Email tips and suggestions to allumbokhari@protonmail.com.

Another cherished Democrat dogma is biting the dust.

When it comes to the economy, few things are dearer to liberal hearts than raising the minimum wage. It lets them pontificate about caring for the poor while flexing government power, and gives them a ready-made way to paint Republicans and conservatives as the heartless caricatures of socialist lore.

But interactions that are ordinary experiences for most Americans are proving how wrong they are.

A short piece published last week by The Wall Street Journal sums up the case pretty well.

The article focused on the price of a haircut at Sport Clips outlets. The number of customers seeking a haircut is outpacing the number of hair cutters available to provide the service.

And that means the pay for hairdressers is going up all by itself — without any need for a government involvement at all.

As The Wall Street Journal reported:

“Wages go up to lure or hold on to workers. Debra Sawyer, a Sport Clips franchisee with salons in Richmond, Virginia and Central Florida, said she raised worker wages in February 2017 in response to the labor shortage.

“Pay for team members increased 11% to $10 from $9 an hour, while pay for assistant managers rose 20% to $12 from $10 and manager paychecks increased 33%, to $15 from $11.25. Hourly bonuses also went up dramatically.

“Prices for services rise to cover part or all of the added labor costs. When the Sport Clips franchisee implemented the wage increase, it increased the price of a standard haircut to $20 from $19, a 5% bump, and the signature service cut went to $25 from $24. All of these increases went to pay raises and hourly bonuses, said Ms. Sawyer.”

Customers are paying $1 more per haircut (which isn’t going to break anybody), while the workers who cut the hair are getting a decent percentage in a raise. Miraculous, isn’t it?

Adam Smith called it “the invisible hand.” Most people just call it supply and demand. And everyone from drug dealers on street corners to CEOs in corner offices understand just how it works.

On the other hand, community organizers, union bosses and Democrat politicians pretend they don’t understand it at all. Hence the constant agitation for minimum wage increases — as the “Fight for $15” frauds keep pushing.

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But the tax cuts approved by congressional Republicans and signed by President Donald Trump in December are already having the kind of impact that Democrats claim they want to see — wages going up for workers at the bottom end of the employment scale.

Now, here’s the thing. The Journal points out that wages in every sector of the economy haven’t gone up as fast as they have in the personal grooming business.

“For example, the construction industry, which has struggled nationwide to find workers, has seen average hourly wages in February rise 3.3% from a year earlier, which is stronger than overall private-sector wage growth of 2.6% but far less than at the hair salon,” The Journal reported.

Well, here’s a clue. If the construction industry has “struggled” to find workers, then the chances are the wage hasn’t risen enough to take care of the problem.

The point is not that some amorphous independent being — the “Construction Wage God” — hasn’t seen fit to raise wages yet. The people who run construction firms haven’t found it necessary to do so yet, or are locked into contracts with customers where they can’t, or whatever the reason might be that doesn’t happen to apply to hair dressers.

(Personal grooming, after all, is a field where the workforce is a good deal more mobile than most construction crews. And its product is a good deal more transitory than a skyscraper.)

For Democrats, those fluctuations are the reason to be talking about hikes in the minimum wage. But the reality, as usual, is exactly the opposite.

Unlike the natural demand that an improving economy brings, the unnatural demand of government imposed minimum wage hikes actually decreases employment, as businesses pare their workforce to be able to afford paying some employees more.

As liberal hero John Kennedy was fond of saying, a rising tide lifts all boats. The point of government policy isn’t to make sure all the boats rise at the same time, or in uniform, lockstep levels.

The point is that with government policies that fosters a strong economy — and the economy has boomed under Trump — the boats will rise enough to keep workers satisfied, or the workers will find another boat.

Just ask the Sport Clips hairdressers.

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Left-wing activists and Marxist governments participated in May Day on Tuesday, a day many claim as an attempt to promote the rights of the ordinary worker.

Traditionally an ancient northern hemisphere spring festival, May Day was co-opted by 20th-century communists as “International Workers’ Day” to commemorate the 1886 Haymarket riots in Chicago that saw dozens of laborers killed and injured by police while demonstrating for employment rights.

Governments and trade unions today use the event as an opportunity to demand higher wages and employment benefits. Communist nations used the holiday to promote their own elite.

Thousands participated in marches across Western cities including New York, Zurich, and Berlin:

Workers and activists around the world are marking May Day with rallies to demand their governments address labor issues.

NYC, Paris, Zurich and Berlin: pic.twitter.com/VYdS9UvDCc

— AJ+ (@ajplus) May 1, 2018

In Paris, violent confrontations broke out as “groups of black-clad protesters used the occasion to burn cars, vandalise businesses, and clash with police.”

French riot police use water cannons and teargas as vandalism marks May Day with hundreds of protesters marching across Paris to oppose economic policies pursued by President Macron pic.twitter.com/fTlD2thGbC

— DAILY SABAH (@DailySabah) May 1, 2018

During celebrations in London, some participants were seen holding a sign glorifying former Soviet leader Josef Stalin. One of history’s most brutal dictators, he is estimated to have killed between 20 to 25 million people.

History, who need history? Stalin remains a hero to some on today’s May Day march through London. pic.twitter.com/eAmztazq5X

— Lindsey Hilsum (@lindseyhilsum) May 1, 2018

In communist Cuba, state propaganda outlet Granma declared that although celebrations had come to an end, “celebration of Cuban workers continues throughout the country under the banner: Unity, Commitment, and Victory.” Their website also provided extensive coverage of the celebrations, which included minute by minute photos as events unfolded.

“This May Day the Cuban people are leading a massive, colorful, vibrant, conscious march, reaffirming to the world the unity and commitment of the island’s workers to the new government, Raúl and the Party,” one of the live blog posts reads.

This year’s May Day march in the capital has come to an end, but the celebration of Cuban workers continues throughout the country under the banner: Unity, Commitment and Victory!#RevolucionEsUnidad #Cuba https://t.co/HFh5vQgVX3 pic.twitter.com/dRpoHpB9Id

— Granma (English) (@Granma_English) May 1, 2018

CNN correspondent Patrick Oppmann also noted how Cuba’s new president, Miguel Díaz-Canel has his name emblazoned on signs.

Cuba’s new president is now getting his own May Day signage. pic.twitter.com/snXiWwI8A5

— Patrick Oppmann CNN (@CNN_Oppmann) May 1, 2018

In Santiago, Chile, the government deployed riot police and water cannons to control violent clashes as around “40,000 workers, commanded by the Central Unitaria de Trabajadores and other labor unions, demanded ‘a better labor treatment’ and changes to the labor reforms of Sebastián Piñera.”

Some demonstrations took place in Caracas, Venezuela, where the legacy of Hugo Chávez’s socialist revolution has left the once thriving oil-rich nation as one of the poorest places on earth:

Así se vive la movilización desde la avenida Libertador de los#TrabajadoresPorLaProsperidad. Nos movilizamos para defender las conquistas de la gente en la revolución y para continuar luchando por más!!!#1MComLula #1deMayo pic.twitter.com/s0EZa1Teje

— CRBZ Venezuela (@CRBZ_oficial) May 1, 2018

In communist China, President Xi Jinping “extended greetings to workers nationwide” for the day, declaring that “socialism and the creation of a new era can only be achieved through hard work.” However, no major rallies were reported.

In North Korea, which typically celebrates May Day in grandiose fashion to promote its ideology as a workers paradise, celebrations remained low key amid ongoing efforts to denuclearize and improve relations the West.

State media reported that “senior party and government officials of the DPRK celebrated the May Day with working people across the country,” visiting “institutions, industrial establishments, construction sites and farms to congratulate workers, agricultural workers and intellectuals greeting the holiday.”

A video collection by TIME magazine gave a taste for celebrations in countries such as Indonesia, South Korea, the Philippines, Turkey, Austria, Iraq, Spain, and Greece, some of which turned violent:

May Day around the world https://t.co/1sO5F9yQGw pic.twitter.com/sv6oy3Q2u4

— TIME (@TIME) May 1, 2018

In the U.S., Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) took to Twitter to urge people to “strive for a just and moral economy”:

Every day we must strive for a just and moral economy with decent wages, decent benefits and decent working conditions for all workers. That is a struggle that must be carried on by every generation. #MayDay

— Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) May 1, 2018

Sporadic demonstrations also took place across the country in cities such as Chicago, New Orleans, and Los Angeles. Many of the demonstrations targeted the Trump administration while calling for amnesty for illegal immigrants among other additional rights.

Follow Ben Kew on Facebook, Twitter at @ben_kew, or email him at bkew@breitbart.com.

Starbucks recently came under heavy fire from the left for its allegedly racist behavior after two black men in a Philadelphia store were arrested after they took up a table and refused to order any drinks while waiting on a friend, all of which was caught on a viral video.

That led Starbucks to announce it would close all of its stores for one day so every employee and manager could receive anti-bias and anti-discrimination “diversity” training. However, in the company’s zeal to prove how unbiased and non-discriminatory it is in its treatment of blacks, Starbucks managed to show bias and discrimination toward another minority group.

According to Politico, Starbucks appears to have caved to pressure from progressive black activists and removed the predominately Jewish Anti-Defamation League — which has long led the fight against anti-Semitic discrimination against Jews — from the top tier of the company’s lineup of anti-discrimination trainers for its upcoming “diversity” sessions.

Instead, the ADL has been demoted to a lower tier of advisers to the training and will be excluded from assisting in developing the curriculum that will be used to train Starbucks employees on how not to discriminate against members of the liberal base.

Initially, ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt had been invited by the coffee chain to be one of four leaders of the diversity training sessions, but Greenblatt’s name was conspicuously absent in an April 24 press release about the training event, which only mentioned in passing that Starbucks would “consult with” the ADL on anti-discrimination training, among an array of other advisory groups.

“When Starbucks asked for assistance, we agreed to help,” said ADL spokesman Todd Gutnick. “As to whether Starbucks may or may not now want to utilize our expertise, you should ask them.”

For its part, Starbucks insisted it didn’t bow to any sort of political pressure campaign. It was merely constructing a “multi-phase approach” to combating bias and discrimination and that the ADL would be included in that effort, albeit in a reduced role.

However, that denial rings hollow when viewed against comments made against the ADL by other organizations that will play a role in the diversity training, particularly those groups focused on black Americans who happen to hold their own anti-Semitic biases.

Tamika Mallory — an organizer of the Women’s March movement who has ties to the anti-Semitic Nation of Islam and its leader, Louis Farrakhan — posted to Twitter upon learning of the ADL’s participation in the training, “The ADL is CONSTANTLY attacking black and brown people. This is a sign that (Starbucks) are tone deaf and not committed to addressing the concerns of black folk.”

Her sentiment was echoed by Anti Police-Terror Project co-founder Cat Brooks, who told ABC News, “You can’t be a piece of an anti-bias training when you openly support a racist, oppressive and brutal colonization of Palestine.”

Then there were the complaints via a Twitter rant by the Washington D.C. chapter of the Black Lives Matter movement, which accused the ADL of being “ultra pro-cop” and covering for racist police behavior while also facilitating the training of D.C. officers by Israeli Defense Force trainers, as well as not sufficiently supporting the BLM movement to its liking.

While Starbucks may claim that those loud voices caustically criticizing the ADL played no role in the decision to demote the Jewish group from a lead role in their anti-discrimination training, Liel Leibovitz of Tablet Mag saw things quite differently.

He noted how beholden the Starbucks corporation — particularly CEO Howard Schultz — was to the Democrat Party and noted quite cynically that the Democratic Party seemed more interested in cozying up to the likes of Farrakhan and other Jew-haters more than the Jews who have long voted for liberals and filled the party coffers with donations.

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“Under this new lunatic vision — expressed by Mallory and her fellow Women’s March leader Linda Sarsour and increasingly endorsed by the party’s mainstream — Jews, long the party’s staunch supporters, are rapidly becoming second-class citizens, the sort of folks who can still give money but not expect to have their voices heard,” wrote Liebovitz.

“Considering the fact that Jews are, by far, the most prominent targets of hate crimes in America these days, giving in to anti-Semites and removing the ADL from a diversity training initiative of a major American corporation is particularly heinous,” he added. “Shame on Starbucks for giving in to bigotry.”

We couldn’t agree more with that assessment, and can’t help but notice that racism and bigotry are only bad in the eyes of the left when non-leftists are accused of it.

So much for being the party of open-minded tolerance and love for all.

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For Democrats in the Trump years, desperation is getting to be part of daily life.

Since November 2016, they’ve believed rumors about Russian prostitutes, embellishments about the Constitution’s “emoluments clause” and, of course, that the mighty Robert Mueller would somehow bring about the end of an administration they despise.

But a Republican writer on The Washington Post’s website is making the case that the left should finally admit defeat on the “Russian collusion” story.

In a piece published Monday on the “PostPartisan” blog, a roundup of opinions from across the political spectrum, Republican political consultant Ed Rogers is calling out the national media’s latest attempt to damage President Donald Trump by reviving the collusion narrative.

Last week, The New York Times published the “news” that Natalia Veselnitskaya, one of the Russian who participated in a controversial meeting in June 2016 with the president’s son, Don Jr., was also associated with Russian government authorities.

The headline was ominous: “Lawyer Who Was Said to Have Dirt on Clinton Had Closer Ties to Kremlin Than She Let On.”

And the story’s nut graph sounded nefarious enough:

“But newly released emails show that in at least one instance two years earlier, the lawyer, Natalia V. Veselnitskaya, worked hand in glove with Russia’s chief legal office to thwart a Justice Department civil fraud case against a well-connected Russian firm.”

But the reality was a lot more prosaic. As Rogers pointed out, The Wall Street Journal had reported the “news” about Veselnitskaya more than nine months ago — on July 14, 2017.

So, while The Times story did provide some new information about the details of Veselnitskaya’s work with Russian authorities — “informant” was a word she used herself — it didn’t really break any new ground, Rogers wrote. What it did do was give the media another reason to breathe life into a narrative that’s on life support.

And that, Roger said is the only point of media coverage anymore when it comes to matters affecting the “Russia collusion” investigation.

“Democrats and their media allies tried to seize on the word ‘informant’ to breathe some life into the fading collusion story,” Rogers wrote. “But the defibrillator paddles failed to resuscitate. Veselnitskaya had already admitted in a July 2017 Wall Street Journal interview to sharing information with the Russian prosecutor general while developing her client’s legal defense. It wasn’t an ‘aha’ moment after all.”

But hope springs eternal for the fevered #Resistance.

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They have stalwarts like Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi trying to advance the cause on Capitol Hill. They have the allied might of The New York Times and most of the American liberal media on their side.

And they have Mueller’s special investigation, which despite almost a year of work has produced not a shred of public evidence of any “collusion” the investigation was originally appointed to probe.

That probe isn’t finished (and might never be as long as Trump is president). However, according to Business Insider and other news outlets, Mueller is preparing an interim report on the question of whether Trump engaged in obstruction of justice regarding the “collusion” investigation.

No matter what that report says, Democrats are likely to claim it meets their standard for impeaching Trump.

If that’s the case, Rogers wrote, the midterm elections are likely to pivot on it.

“The result could be a nationalized election that largely comes down to impeachment vs. a good economy,” he wrote.

If the economy keeps going strong, and the “collusion” probe keeps coming up empty, that kind of matchup should suit Republicans just fine.

Trump has already defeated the left in every meaningful sense when it comes to the Russian “collusion” allegations.

If Republicans can hold the line on the November midterms too, this will be all over but the shouting.

And Democrats will really have to get used to desperation.

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