One 24-year-old Venezuelan managed to get protected status and many freebies by pretending to be a 16-year-old high school student in Ohio.
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Mark Carney is ignoring the cartels – and Donald Trump
The cartels have switched from the Mexican border to the Canadian border
Donald Trump has declared war on the cartels. The southern border is now patrolled by the military, the wall is rapidly expanding and US intelligence is helping to target crime bosses on Mexican soil. Illegal crossings and drug seizures at key points have dropped by more than 70 percent in the last year.
But, contrary to appearances, the cartels have not surrendered – instead, they have pivoted, applying Sun Tzu’s principle: attack your enemy’s weaknesses, not his strengths.
Led by the blood-soaked and ultra violent Sinaloa and Jalisco New Generation Cartel they are exploiting the soft 5,525-mile long northern border with Canada and its sparse surveillance, dense forests, inadequately staffed crossings and neglected checkpoints.
The usual suspects will be making profit from policy no doubt.
Canada wants to join Golden Dome missile-defence program, Trump says
Donald Trump says Canada has asked to join the missile-defence program his administration is building, adding a new chapter to a long-running cross-border saga.
The U.S. president dropped that news in the Oval Office on Tuesday as he unveiled the initial plans for a three-year, $175 billion US project to build a multi-purpose missile shield he’s calling the Golden Dome.
“Canada has called us and they want to be a part of it,” Trump said. “They want to hook in and they want to be a part of it.”
Canada should rid itself of all weaponry and disband its armed forces to protest Israel’s Gaza incursion!
Comey’s Recent Behavior Confirms He’s Our Worst FBI Director
James B. Comey posted on Instagram a photo of seashells arranged to read “86 47,” which could be interpreted as a threat against the 47th president. Comey has since denied that he intended violence; nonetheless the Secret Service is reportedly investigating. This posting may have been a lapse of judgment on Comey’s part or something more nefarious.
Cartels at Sea: The New Frontline in America’s Drug War
Once the U.S. began taking border security more seriously, the cartels simply changed direction, literally. They went around it.
The Pacific Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico, vast and largely unguarded expanses of open water, have become the new superhighways of the Mexican drug trade. No more tunnels. No more coyotes bribing border agents.
JD Vance gives football jersey to Pope and invites him to White House
JD Vance gave the newly anointed Pope Leo XIV a custom Chicago Bears jersey and a letter inviting him to the White House from Donald Trump.
The jersey from the professional NFL football team has “Pope Leo” and the number XIV written on the back.
It was given to the pontiff in addition to two seminal works by St Augustine in an early morning meeting between the Holy See and the visiting US delegation of Mr Vance and Marco Rubio, the secretary of state, both of whom are Roman Catholics.
Canadians Fear Trump’s Tariffs Will Create a ‘Ghost Town’ in Ontario
When asked what their city would be without auto-parts makers, Pauline Ridley and Colleen Barrette, two union officials, quickly replied, “A ghost town.”
President Trump’s tariff war against Canada has unleashed widespread anxiety in Windsor, Ontario, the country’s auto-making capital. Much of it has focused on the fate of large vehicle assembly plants.
But the concern is just as high, or higher, throughout the roughly 100 smaller auto-parts plants in Windsor and the surrounding county that employ some 9,000 workers. By comparison, about 5,400 people work for the three auto factories in Windsor.
Trump: Someone is not ‘telling the facts’ about Biden’s cancer diagnosis
“Someone is not telling the facts” about Joe Biden’s prostate cancer diagnosis, Donald Trump has claimed.
The US president suggested Mr Biden or his medical team had sought to cover up his illness and cognitive decline during his time in office, calling it a “very sad situation”.
Mr Biden’s office revealed on Sunday that the former president had been diagnosed with an “aggressive” form of prostate cancer which had metastasised to the bone.
Asked about his predecessor’s diagnosis, Mr Trump said: “I think it’s very sad, actually. I’m surprised that the public wasn’t notified a long time ago because to get to stage nine, that’s a long time.”
FBI boss Kash Patel launches scathing accusation at ’51st state’ Canada after alarming terrorism finding
FBI Director Kash Patel dropped a major bombshell on Sunday by accusing Canada of allowing drugs and terrorists to flow over the northern border into the U.S.
Patel is turning his attention to Canada and demanding the country do more to stop illegal activity at the border.
He said that Mexico has done more to partner with Washington, D.C. to stop those on the terrorist watch list and other bad actors from getting over the border, and he told Canada to ‘step up’ to the plate.
Canada gets torched and exposed by FBI Director Kash Patel.
Canada has become a major drug trafficking and terrorism hub and most of the terrorists that crossed into the US came via Canada;
"Where is all the fentanyl coming from still? Where is all the trafficking coming from… pic.twitter.com/iFEi2Fw86l
— Kirk Lubimov (@KirkLubimov) May 18, 2025
Canadian Activists: Meth-Fueled Orgies Should Be Celebrated
Most reasonable people would agree that meth-fueled orgies are a bad thing, and that having sex with groups of strangers for days on end should be discouraged. Yet some “harm reduction” advocates have suggested that these orgies should be tolerated, perhaps even celebrated. This demonstrates that the harm-reduction movement is more interested in normalizing drug use than mitigating its negative consequences.
How Arabs See Trump’s ‘Separate Peace’ and Deals With Islamists
As US President Donald J. Trump was being hosted in Saudi Arabia by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the de facto ruler of the kingdom, the Iran-backed Houthi militia in Yemen fired another ballistic missile at Israel.
The missile, which flew over Saudi Arabia on its way to Israel, was fortunately intercepted by the Israel Defense Forces before reaching its intended target.
The Houthis, in fact, fired three ballistic missiles at Israel, right over the Crown Prince’s head.
Alberta government launches research centre to study Canada-U.S. relations
The Alberta government is launching a new research centre to study the political and economic dynamics between Canada and the United States, as U.S. President Donald Trump‘s trade war and 51st-state rhetoric have upended the previously close relationship between the two countries.
The New North American Initiative, led by the University of Calgary’s School of Public Policy, will receive $6.5-million over three years from the province. Post-secondary institutions and universities on both sides of the border will share expertise on navigating the new Canada-U.S. landscape.
Supreme Court allows Trump to strip protections from some Venezuelans; deportations could follow
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday allowed the Trump administration to strip legal protections from 350,000 Venezuelans, potentially exposing them to deportation.
The court’s order, with only one noted dissent, puts on hold a ruling from a federal judge in San Francisco that kept in place Temporary Protected Status for the Venezuelans that would have otherwise expired last month. The justices provided no rationale, which is common in emergency appeals.
The secretive US factory that lays bare the contradiction in Trump’s America First plan
Among the cactuses in the desert of Arizona, just outside Phoenix, an extraordinary collection of buildings is emerging that will shape the future of the global economy and the world.
The hum of further construction is creating not just a factory for the world’s most advanced semiconductors. Eventually, it will mass produce the most advanced chips in the world. This work is being done in the US for the first time, with the Taiwanese company behind it pledging to spend billions more here in a move aimed at heading off the threat of tariffs on imported chips.
It is, in my view, the most important factory in the world, and it’s being built by a company you may not have heard of: TSMC, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company. It makes 90% of the world’s advanced semiconductors. Until now they were all made on the island of Taiwan, which is 100 miles east of the Chinese mainland. The Apple chip in your iPhone, the Nvidia chips powering your ChatGPT queries, the chips in your laptop or computer network, all are made by TSMC.
The contradiction referred to is just the writers need to find something anything to disparage President Trump.
FBI Warning—CCP, Iran, and Mex-Cartels Partnering in Canada to Move Fentanyl and Terrorists Into U.S.
WASHINGTON — In an explosive Sunday interview that will place tremendous pressure on Prime Minister Mark Carney’s new Liberal government, FBI Director Kash Patel alleged that Mexican cartels, Chinese Communist Party operatives, and Iranian threat actors have forged a new axis of criminal cooperation, using Canada’s porous northern border and the Port of Vancouver—not the southern Mexican border—as their preferred entry point to flood fentanyl and terror suspects into the United States.
.@FBIDirectorKash: “In the first two, three months that we’ve been in the seat under Donald Trump’s administration, he has sealed the border… Where is the fentanyl coming from still?… The northern border.” pic.twitter.com/JPrQSXJvxD
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) May 18, 2025