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Feds: Migrant Children at Border Have 95 Percent Chance of Staying in U.S.


Unaccompanied Alien Children (UACs) arriving at the United States-Mexico border from Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador have a more than 95 percent chance of remaining in the U.S. after their arrival, newly released data from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) reveals.

The DHS data, released this week, shows the extent to which UACs from the three Central American countries are much more likely than not to remain in the U.S., often getting placed with an illegal alien relative already living in the country.

From 2013 to early 2020, 315,582 UACs from Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador were encountered at the U.S.-Mexico border.

About 300,900, or more than 95 percent, have “no confirmed departure” from the U.S., indicating that they remain living in the U.S. while continuing to be processed, failing to voluntarily deport, or having been granted immigration relief.

Just 4.65 percent, or 14,682, of these 315,582 UACs have been removed to Guatemala, Honduras, or El Salvador. About 3-in-10 of these UACs end up receiving immigration relief to permanently stay in the U.S., the DHS data shows.

In 2019, alone, federal immigration officials encountered more than 64,000 UACs from Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador at the southern border. Of those, just 2.15 percent were removed to their native country ,while nearly 98 percent have “no confirmed departure” from the U.S.

The UAC program, as Breitbart News has chronicled, has delivered large populations mostly from Central America to states like New York, New Jersey, Texas, California, Florida, Virginia, and Maryland. Since President Trump took office, more than 165,000 UACs have been released into the interior of the U.S.

John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder. 

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Joint Session in Capitol Tomorrow

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Tomorrow, the Joint Session of Congress opens starting at 1 p.m. in the U.S. Capitol to count the votes from the states’ electors that were submitted on December 14 when the Electoral College voted.

In prior sessions, vice presidents opened up certificates reflecting the electoral vote tallies that were sent by states before handing them to “tellers,” who are individuals appointed by both chambers of Congress to read out the ballots and verify. The tellers then read the ballots in alphabetical order, starting with Alabama. A challenge to a state’s electoral votes must be submitted in writing and requires a senator and a representative according to the Electoral Count Act of 1887.

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WATCH: Chaos Erupts In Pennsylvania State Senate Resulting In The Funniest Shrieking Democrat I’ve Ever Heard…


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School board member who uttered ‘crack the whip’ in regard to graduation rates called on to resign

A school board member in Washington state is being called upon to resign after saying "we need to crack the whip" in regard to graduation rates.

What are the details?

Clover Park School District’s Paul Wagemann used the phrase during a Dec. 14 virtual board meeting, the Suburban Times reported.

Wagemann said he was referring to the 10% to 11% of district students who fail to graduate and that he meant the district needs to do all it can to help those students get their diplomas, the paper said.

But his opponent from the last school board election — Taniesha Lyons — said the phrase "is rooted in slavery" and demanded Wagemann’s resignation, calling him an "explicit racist" in a letter to the board.

According to Grammarist, "crack the whip" means "to push someone to work harder, to demand more work from someone or that someone work faster or longer" and makes no reference to slavery. Grammarist also said the phrase "describes the literal cracking of a whip over a horse’s head to startle him into obeying."

Lyons also launched a petition in mid-December calling for Wagemann’s resignation. The petition has collected 190 signatures as of Tuesday.

"The Clover Park School Board cannot tell the community that they are working towards racial equity and require their staff to be culturally competent when a board member who can vote on policies that affect black and brown students within the district is a blatant racist," she wrote in her letter to the board. "Paul maintaining his seat on the board, contradicts the Clover Park School District’s claims that racism and bigotry are not tolerated within the Clover Park School District. Paul is a considerable liability and puts the Clover Park school district at risk."

How did district officials react?

Clover Park Education Association Vice President for Diversity and Inclusion Filma Fontanilla said in a letter to the board that she was "hurt, appalled, and disgusted" by Wagemann’s remark.

Fontanilla also wrote that after board President Marty Schafer called out Wagemann for his "crack the whip" comment, Wagemann said, "I know what it means, and I meant it." Fontanilla added that Schafer responded by saying, "That is not a comment I am comfortable with."

The College Fix said it asked Wagemann and Schafer for comment on the matter and that Wagemann replied that he forwarded the outlet’s request to Schafer and the district superintendent. Schafer said no action was taken against Wagemann at a special Dec. 21 board meeting as its purpose was just "an opportunity to openly discuss and seek clarification," the College Fix added.

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WATCH: Authorities Release The 911 Recording That Jacob Blake’s Ex-Girlfriend Made To Police

Kenosha District Attorney Michael Gravely played an audio recording on Tuesday of the 911 call that Jacob Blake’s ex-girlfriend, Laquisha Booker, made to the police last year during a domestic dispute the led to Blake being shot by law enforcement. The recording was released during a press conference where Gravely announced that no charges would […]

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Gretchen Whitmer Administration Creates ‘Support Groups’ to Cope with Coronavirus ‘Stresses’


Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s (D) administration is creating “support groups” residents can join to manage “stresses” created by the coronavirus — and her reaction to it.

Unlike Florida, for example, Whitmer has opted for more of a controlling approach, mandating rules, restricting businesses, and shuttering in-person learning for many students, which in turn created stress for parents.

Now, her Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) is offering counseling and support services for residents suffering from her policies.

“We are excited about the opportunity to be able to offer these group supports and doing outreach to a variety of populations to try and make available resources for people that we expect would be struggling with what’s going on,” Dr. Debra Pinals, medical director for behavioral health and forensic programs for MDHHS, said, ABC 12 reported.

Residents “will learn more about the virus itself and how it impacts people’s mental health,” according to Pinals, and “those who sign up will be able to open a dialogue and talk about what’s going on.”

MDHHS is offering support groups for Michigan families, the department said on its Facebook page.

“Many MI parents are feeling overwhelmed by extra responsibilities and stress from COVID-19,” the announcement read for a group “specifically for parents of children 18 and younger.”

Participation was capped at 30 residents.

The agency also created a counseling session for “seniors and older adults,” but the maximum number of participants allowed also is just 30.

Joblessness has risen as a result of Whitmer’s shutdown orders.

According to the Michigan Restaurant and Lodging Association, “Hotel unemployment remains at 38%, meaning that 4 in 10 hotel employees that worked in the industry in February do not now.”

Nearly 5,000 restaurants are at risk of closure “if restrictions don’t change.”

In September, the average of restaurant operators said staffing levels were 67 percent prepandemic levels. Forty-four percent said they did not expect those levels to return within six months.

Those opinions were before Whitmer created a three-week “pause” — a palatable moniker for new restrictions on bars, restaurants, schools, and a plethora of businesses.

Michigan is now approaching its 12 week of the “pause.” The latest extension will allegedly expire January 15.

Kyle Olson is a reporter for Breitbart News. He is also host of “The Kyle Olson Show,” syndicated on Michigan radio stations on Saturdays — download full podcast episodes. Follow him on Parler.

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Rate Of Adverse Reactions To COVID Vaccines Already 50x Higher Than Flu Shot

Rate Of Adverse Reactions To COVID Vaccines Already 50x Higher Than Flu Shot

With reports this morning of another otherwise-healthy patient dying suddenly after receiving her first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, many skeptics in both Europe and the US still have serious reservations about the jabs, even as big pharma and their allies in the US and British governments insist that they are 100% safe. Everyone claiming otherwise is not only wrongheaded, but acting in a deliberately malicious manner.

This is why commentary like a video posted by DoubleLine’s Jeffrey Gundlach where he questions the sky-high efficacy numbers published after the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech trials has elicited such vehement repudiation.

However, as new questions about efficacy and timing arise, independent journalist Alex Berenson, one of the most prominent skeptics of lockdowns and masks in the US, noted in a twitter thread earlier on Tuesday that the percentage of patients experiencing severe or potentially life-threatening reactions to the COVID-19 vaccines could be much higher than the data collected by the CDC are letting on.

The CDC’s VAERS reporting system was set up to track vaccine-related injury, Most patients can expect to experience some kind of adverse reaction, but for the vast majority of patients, symptoms will be relatively mild and clear up within a couple of days. But amid a rush of reports about patient deaths, Berenson points out that the number of patients seeing serious complications per the number of doses distributed is roughly 50x higher than the rate of ‘adverse’ reactions caused by the flu vaccine.

Berenson also speculated that this number might be even higher due to possible delays in updating the CDC’s data sets. This would seemingly confirm rates of adverse reactions seen during clinical trials. What’s more, clinical trials, generally speaking, tend to "UNDERSTATE" unpleasant or unwanted side effects, while they "OVERSTATE" the drug’s efficacy.

For readers who are so inclined, Berenson shared a link to the CDC data, which isn’t exactly easy to find on the agency’s website.

Meanwhile, the US, UK and Europe are all lagging behind vaccination targets, while Russian President Vladimir Putin recently suggested that Russia might jump on the "Immunity Passport" bandwagon.

Berenson recently sat for an interview with Joe Rogan on Rogan’s popular podcast, where the longtime journalist (who once worked for the NYT) discussed other misconceptions about the "science" behind COVID-19, including questioning the US death toll.

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Top 10 Worst Cases of Big Tech Censorship in 2020

Online platforms got to use their favorite tool in 2020 before and even after the election: censorship.
During one of several Senate hearings into Big Tech bias this year, even the CEOs of Facebook and Twitter could not name a single high-profile leftist person or entity that had been censored on their platforms when asked. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) admonished Big Tech executives in a different hearing, saying specifically to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg: “You have used this power to run amok. You have used it to silence conservatives.”
Heavily censored themes included anything related to the election, COVID-19 and the response to it and statements released by President Donald Trump. However, Big Tech even found reasons to censor conservatives over things as innocuous as a children’s book celebrating women’s suffrage. 
Given the rampant censorship that was perpetrated in 2020, coming up with the top ten was a daunting task. Here is the 2020 Top Ten list of the worst cases of Big Tech censorship. 
Big Tech shuts down New York Post’s bombshell reporting on Hunter Biden:
The shuttering of the New York Post’s (the Post) bombshell reporting on Hunter Biden stands apart from all other examples of censorship on this list. The worst censorship this year was the insidious attempt to silence the Post’s reporting on a scandal involving former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter. The report allegedly showed evidence of Hunter introducing his father to a Ukrainian executive who was working as an advisor to Burisma. After the election, it was revealed that there has been an ongoing federal investigation into Hunter’s taxes that involved the allegations reported by the Post. However, Big Tech went to great lengths to suppress the story when it broke.
Twitter disabled the link to the story, calling it potentially unsafe, and then it censored the Post, White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany, the Trump Campaign and even the House Judiciary Committee for sharing it. Twitter also locked the Post out of its account unless it agreed to delete the tweet, which it refused to do. Twitter later unblocked the story, and it finally unlocked the Post’s account after 17 days.
Facebook joined the suppression of the Post. The outlet relied on its stable of liberal fact-checkers to discredit the report, and limited the reach of the article even before the fact-check was complete.
The result of the censorship by Big Tech, combined with widespread suppression of the story by the liberal media, was stunning. A Media Research Center survey conducted by The Polling Company showed that 4.6% of Biden voters would have changed their vote had they known about the scandal. The MRC poll showed that Trump would have won six key battleground states, giving him 311 electoral votes, thus flipping the election to Trump.
Twitter censors Trump tweet about mail-in voting in unprecedented manner:
Twitter took censorship of Trump to new heights in 2020. Certainly, censorship of the president is not new, with analysis showing that Twitter has censored him at least 625 times since May 31, 2018, while Biden has not been censored once in that time.
A tweet on Oct. 26 criticizing mail-in voting set a new precedent, though. The tweet read: “Big problems and discrepancies with Mail In Ballots all over the USA. Must have final total on November 3rd.” Twitter placed an interstitial filter over the tweet, indicating that “Some or all of the content shared in this Tweet is disputed and might be misleading about an election or other civic process. Learn more[.]” This filter must be clicked through just to read the tweet.
If a user clicks to read the tweet, that warning message remains above the text of the tweet, along with a label under it that reads: “Learn how voting by mail is safe and secure.” The label under Trump’s tweet links to a Twitter information page titled “Voting by mail is legal and safe, experts and data confirm.” The information page contains unattributed summaries of key points about voting by mail. It also contains tweets from various liberal media outlets reaffirming the same.
Twitter did not stop there. Should a user wish to like this tweet, they are not allowed to do so. Likes have been turned off for the tweet. Comments and sharing have also been turned off for the tweet. 
Finally, if a user clicks to retweet the tweet, they will first be presented with yet another warning. The warning on the tweet states: “Learn how voting by mail is safe and secure. Help keep Twitter a place for reliable info. Find out more before sharing.” The warning then links to the same mail-in voting information page provided on the previously noted warning beneath the tweet. At the bottom of this warning pop-up there is a small link to “Quote Tweet” the tweet. However, while a user is often able to use the “Quote Tweet” function to retweet something by just not adding a comment, in this case the tweet button is not activated until a comment is added. The Trump tweet would still contain the interstitial in the “Quote Tweet” as well.
Candace Owens’s Facebook page is “demonetized” and “suppressed”:
Conservative commentator and BLEXIT founder Candace Owens has been censored by Big Tech so many times that she is suing Facebook fact-checkers over it. She explained that she has had multiple fact-checks overturned, but that each time she must get a lawyer involved before she can get a resolution.
Owens’s Facebook page was reportedly “demonetized” over a fact-check of a post she made about Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA) in August. In the post, she expressed her excitement about seeing Harris play the “black woman” card as a nominee for Vice President after being sworn into the Senate as an Indian-American woman. Facebook’s fact-checkers ruled this post as “false information,” and allegedly suppressed her page over it. 
YouTube removes COVID video featuring Trump advisor Dr. Scott Atlas:
Big Tech appointed itself the arbiters of what constitutes accurate information on COVID-19 as the virus gained pandemic status. While there has been rampant censorship of any views that did not align with Big Tech’s stance on the virus, one incident stood out from the rest. 
White House presidential advisor, Dr. Scott Atlas, MD, was featured in a video produced by Stanford University’s Hoover Institute about “The Efficacy Of Lockdowns, Social Distancing, And Closings.” YouTube claimed that the video contradicted “the World Health Organization [WHO] or local health authorities’ medical information about COVID-19,” and removed it. 
Facebook demonetizes The Babylon Bee page over Monty Python joke:
Big Tech does not seem to enjoy the satirical musings of The Babylon Bee and has fact-checked and censored it before. However, Facebook not only deleted a Babylon Bee article, but also demonetized its page over an article that the platform claimed incited violence. 
The deleted article was actually a riff on a Monty Python joke, from the “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” movie. The story, regarding the Senate confirmation hearings for Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett, was titled: “Senator Hirono Demands ACB Be Weighed Against A Duck To See If She Is A Witch.” Upon review, The Babylon Bee said Facebook stood by its determination, and even advised The Babylon Bee not to speak about the incident publicly.
Twitter removes all instances of Joe Biden meme:
Twitter declared all-out war on a Joe Biden meme, insisting that it was “misleading information about voting.” The meme was styled to look like a Biden campaign ad, and included a photo of him with a bright light shining out of his chest. The meme said, “His Brain? No, His Heart.” 
Twitter used Artificial Intelligence tools to find instances of anyone tweeting the meme, and instantly locked users’ accounts until they removed the offending meme. The users typically then were forced to serve a 12-hour suspension, though some were out longer. Post Millennial editor Anna Slatz and conservative activist Mindy Robinson were two of the Twitter users censored for sharing this meme.
Instagram removes FBI Crime statistics, calling them “hate speech”:
Instagram users who shared FBI crime statistics in an effort to critique the Black Lives Matter narrative found themselves accused of “hate speech.” Instagram removed posts that cited actual FBI crime statistics that showed black on white violence and murders are more prevalent than white on black. BlazeTV host and producer Elijah Schaffer even noted that, according to the crime statistics, “cops kill as many unarmed whites as unarmed blacks.” Eventually Instagram reversed its decision and reinstated the deleted posts.
YouTube removes video featuring man who reversed his transgender surgery:
Walt Heyer said he regretted his decision to surgically alter his body so he could live as a woman and had the surgery reversed. In a video posted to YouTube, he detailed his story and his position that children should not be pushed into such gender transitions. YouTube ultimately censored the video, citing its “hate speech policy,” and removed it. 
YouTube pointed to one claim made by Heyer in particular: that transgenderism is “a childhood developmental disorder.” The video was re-uploaded by The Heritage Foundation after it “bleeped” the statement as though it were a curse word. This resolution appears to have satisfied YouTube, as the modified video is still available.
YouTube suspends and demonetizes conservative news network One America News (OAN):
Up and coming conservative news network One America News (OAN) was suspended for a week by YouTube over a video that the network said was not even publicly available. YouTube claimed the network published a video that violated its COVID-19 rules, promoting a false cure, according to Axios. However, OAN’s Alex Salvi stated in a tweet that the video in question was “‘unlisted’ and not available publicly on YouTube.” In addition to the week-long suspension, OAN’s YouTube channel has also been demonetized. The network has since announced a move to conservative YouTube alternative Rumble.
Instagram bans ads for Senator Marsha Blackburn’s children’s book:
Tennessee Republican Senator Marsha Blackburn and her daughter wrote a children’s book to highlight Tennessee’s role being the final state to meet the minimum number to ratify the 19th Amendment, granting women the right to vote. Instagram refused to allow paid ads to promote this book three separate times, including on day of the book’s launch.
Instagram indicated after the first two instances that it had automatically banned the ads because they had the potential to “influence the outcome of an election, or existing proposed legislation.” Instagram ultimately reversed its decisions and allowed the ads. After the first instance, the platform requested that Blackburn’s daughter and co-author, Mary Morgan Ketchel, “register her personal account as a political group or influencer,” according to The Federalist. She refused.
 

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