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Report: Illegal immigrants to receive more than $4 billion in stimulus checks as part of Biden’s COVID relief bill

Millions of illegal aliens are in line to be paid

Millions of illegal immigrants residing in the United States are set to receive $1,400 stimulus checks as part of Biden’s coronavirus relief package, according to a new report published this week by the Center for Immigration Studies.

In the report released Monday, the think tank determined that as much as $4.38 billion will be doled out to individuals illegally residing in the country as a part of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 due to certain immigrants’ possession of Social Security numbers.

During debate over the legislation, Republican Sen. Ted Cruz (Texas) took issue with that part of the bill’s language that he argued would result in payments to illegal aliens. He introduced an amendment to stop that from taking place, but the measure was quickly rejected by the Democratic majority.

At the time, Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin (Ill.) claimed that “undocumented immigrants do not have Social Security numbers, and they do not qualify for stimulus relief checks, period.”

But CIS Director of Research Steven Camarota responded to Durbin’s claim in the report, stating, “This is incorrect; we estimate that there are 2.65 million illegal immigrants who have Social Security numbers that allow them to receive stimulus checks. We estimate that 2.1 million of these individuals have incomes low enough to qualify for checks, and they have 1.1 million U.S.-born dependent children.”

“As a result, illegal immigrants could receive an estimated $4.38 billion in cash payments from the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021,” he concluded.

What else?

In its report, CIS listed several situations in which illegal aliens could be in possession of valid SSNs, since they are often issued the number upon being granted work authorizations by the U.S. government.

“There are 653,000 illegal immigrants with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and 411,000 with Temporary Protected Status (TPS),” CIS noted, adding, “In FY 2020, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) issued 882,000 work authorizations and Social Security numbers to other illegal immigrants. Among the categories eligible are adjustment of status, suspension of deportation, and asylum applicants, as well as those given withholding of removal, deferred action (non-DACA), and parolees.”

All of these individuals, CIS reported, can be considered temporarily present without status and could be subject to removal at any time. However, under the current system, they are eligible to receive certain benefits such as Earned Income Tax Credit and COVID relief checks due to their possession of a Social Security number.

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NATO Scientist With Security Clearance Convicted After Spying For China.

A North Atlantic Treaty Organization scientist who obtained a security clearance was convicted for spying on behalf of the Chinese Communist Party.

The individual – Estonian researcher Tarmo Kõuts – was recruited by Chinese military intelligence while serving as a member of the Scientific Committee of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Undersea Research Center.

Kõuts, who had a state secret permit as well as NATO security clearance dating back fourteen years at the time of his arrest, was also the Vice President of NATO’s Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation from 2018 to 2020. The center “conducts relevant, state-of-the-art scientific research in ocean science, modeling and simulation, acoustics and other disciplines.”

According to Aleksander Toots, the deputy director of Estonia’s top counterintelligence agency, Kõuts was recruited by China’s Intelligence Bureau of the Joint Staff Department of the Central Military Commission in 2018.

Kõuts allegedly had an accomplice who was also arrested by police on September 9th, 2020.Kõuts received cash payments totaling $20,000 from Chinese Communist Party handlers in addition to paid trips to various Asian countries with luxury accommodations and dinners at Michelin star restaurants.

The Chinese Communist Party agents handling him were operating under the cover of a think tank – a common approach used by the Chinese Communist Party targets Western researchers as documented by the National Pulse.

Kõuts was sentenced to three years in prison.

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President Joe Biden Holding Press Conference After 65 Days

President Biden has gone 65 days without holding a press conference since taking office on January 20 despite vowing transparency and accessibility to the press.

The 78-year-old commander-in-chief is holding his first press conference Thursday afternoon after 65 days. His silence, from a press conference standpoint, has shattered records, taking longer to hold a press conference than the last two presidents combined.

“During his campaign, Joe Biden said interacting with the press is a ‘really important part of his responsibility as an elected official.’ But here we are at day 65 and Biden is only just giving his FIRST press conference,” the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) said in a statement ahead of the highly anticipated presser while noting that Biden is the “first president in at least 100 years to wait this long to hold a press conference this far into their term.”

“While Joe Biden has been hiding in the basement waiting for direction from his handlers, the American people have been waiting for him to answer a long list of questions,” the NRSC continued, providing a lengthy list of sample inquiries for Biden touching a range of issues, from the migrant crisis to the coronavirus.

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Sen. Ted Cruz Shuts Down Reporter Asking Him to Put on His Mask: ‘You’re Welcome to Step Away if You’d Like’ (video)

(Daily Caller) Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz denied a request from a reporter to wear a mask during a press conference on Wednesday, and informed the reporter that they could “step back,” if they had a problem.

A reporter can be heard in the background asking Cruz if he would “mind putting on a mask,” for them, to which the senator denies the request by pointing out that as he is speaking directly into the camera, he will not wear a mask.

“All of us have been immunized,” Cruz points out to the reporter.

Cruz was speaking at the Russell Senate Office Building in Washington D.C., where the senator discussed an upcoming Congressional Delegation trip to the southern border on Friday in order to witness firsthand what the ongoing immigration situation is like, according to KHOU 11.

“You’re welcome to step away if you’d like,” Cruz points outs after the reporter tells him that if would make the crowd feel better if he wore his mask around them.

“The whole point of a vaccine — CDC guidance is what we’re following,” Cruz adds.

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Boulder mass killing suspect who reportedly criticized Trump for his immigration stance was ‘previously known’ by FBI: Report

Potentially dangerous background

The Federal Bureau of Investigation was aware of accused mass killer Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa’s potentially dangerous background even before he carried out the massacre that took the lives of 10 people in Boulder, Colorado, according to reports.

Tuesday, the New York Times reported that 21-year-old Alissa was “previously known” because he reportedly had connections to another individual who was under investigation by the agency.

According to the report, the suspect was convicted of misdemeanor assault against another student at his high school in 2018. When questioned about his assault, Alissa reportedly told authorities that he carried out the attack in response to “insults and ethnic taunts.”

“Fellow students recall him having a fierce temper that would flare in response to setbacks or slights,” the report noted.

Alissa, the Times noted, purchased a firearm on March 16 — just days before the deadly attack.

Alissa, who was born in Syria in 1999, lived “most of his life in the United States” according to Boulder County District Attorney Michael Dougherty.

On Tuesday, a man purporting to be Alissa’s older brother told the Daily Beast that his brother was “very anti-social, paranoid, mentally ill, and obsessed over someone being ‘behind him’ or ‘looking for him.'”

He told the outlet, “I feel so sorry for the people that were shot by Ahmad. This was something I would have never expected Ahmad to do. What he did … why, I don’t know.”

A woman who reportedly identified herself as Alissa’s sister added, “We’re shocked. He is a nice, quiet brother.”

The Daily Beast also reported that a Facebook page believed to belong to Alissa addressed his Islamic background.

In a 2019, a post on the page read, “Yeah if these racist Islamophobic people would stop hacking my phone and let me have a normal life I probably could.”

The outlet added, “On Facebook, his politics appeared mixed throughout several camps. He shared an article rebuking Donald Trump’s stance on immigration, but also posted about his own opposition to gay marriage and abortion.”

3 Fully Vaccinated Hawaii Residents Test Positive for COVID-19

Three Hawaii residents who were fully vaccinated against the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus have tested positive for COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus, according to the Hawaii Department of Health (DOH).

All three patients had received both doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech or Moderna vaccines, reported KITV4. They all experienced mild symptoms and did not appear to spread the disease to others, the DOH told the news station.

COVID-19 vaccines don’t prevent infection, however they mitigate severe symptoms and lower the risk of hospitalization, health experts say.

One of the patients, an Oahu-based health care worker, received the second and final dose of the vaccine in January. The worker traveled to several U.S. cities about a month later, and tested positive following routine testing upon returning to Hawaii as per travel protocol.

Contact tracing hasn’t identified any additional infections among close contacts of the health care worker.

It isn’t clear which vaccines each of the three patients received.

Lt. Gov. of Hawaii, Josh Green, urged people not to be discouraged by the news, as the vaccines work “in a huge percentage of people.”

“Remember, 95 percent of people get immunity from the vaccines and five percent don’t from the Moderna and Pfizer vaccine,” Green told news station KHON2.

“Some people are going to dive on to this and say, oh, then the vaccine doesn’t work. No, it does work. It works in a huge percentage of people, but not everyone and that’s an important message,” he added.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), people who have previously been infected with COVID-19 should still get a vaccine.

“You should be vaccinated regardless of whether you already had COVID-19. That’s because experts do not yet know how long you are protected from getting sick again after recovering from COVID-19. Even if you have already recovered from COVID-19, it is possible—although rare—that you could be infected with the virus that causes COVID-19 again,” the CDC says on its website.

People who received monoclonal antibodies or convalescent plasma should wait 90 days before getting a vaccine, the agency added.

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Rep. Lauren Boebert to Newsmax TV: Anti-Gun Dems ‘Playing Politics With Our Lives’

Democrats are going to spin Monday’s mass shooting at a Colorado grocery store into talk of more gun laws, but existing gun laws did not stop those murders, gun-advocate Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., noted on Newsmax TV.

“Gun laws just don’t work – it’s unfortunate,” Boebert told Tuesday’s “Greg Kelly Reports.” “We need good people to neutralize threats and defending themselves, and the people around them to protect them.

“Here in Colorado, we have some of the strictest gun laws, and they of course include universal background checks, they include high-capacity magazine bans, and then we have the extreme-risk protection orders, red-flag laws that are supposed to prevent guys like Ahmad [Al Aliwi] Alissa from doing what he did.

“We even have mutual adjudication that prohibits firearm ownership, and none of this stopped the tragedy that happened [Monday].”

Democrats working to restrict law-abiding gun owners is the wrong answer to the scourge of mental illness and mass murder, particularly when sane, pro-gun Americans can help save lives, Boebert told host Greg Kelly.

“It’s very unfortunate that their first knee jerk reaction is to limit our ability to defend ourselves,” she said. “There are bad people who do bad things, and we need a way to protect ourselves, because we don’t know when they’re going to act on the things that are rolling through their minds and consuming their thoughts, and so we need a way to protect ourselves.

“That’s why I carry.”

Boebert has controversially sought to even carry her gun into the halls of Congress, but she noted she can never know when evil might strike.

“I’ve been asked many times: Why do you carry in a grocery store?” she continued. “Well, unfortunately, you don’t know if there’s going to be something like this that happens in a grocery store. But, at the end of the day, when violence occurs my first reaction will never be to try to disarm and restrict the American people.”

Boebert cited data that showed “96% of mass public shootings occur in gun-free zones.”

“And this King Soopers in Boulder, Colorado, was very much a soft target where open carry was banned, and it’s very discouraged in Boulder of all places, in Colorado, to carry a firearm,” she said.

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Joe Biden Under Investigation for Order to Block Wall Construction

President Joe Biden may have illegally ordered the government to stop funds for construction on the wall on the southern border, as the Government Accountability Office (GAO) investigates the decision

Biden issued an executive order on his first day as president to pause in government spending on the wall, keeping his campaign promise to end the border security project.

Last week, 40 Senate Republicans accused Biden of violating the law and making the migrant crisis on the southern border worse.

“In the weeks that followed, operational control of our southern border was compromised and a humanitarian and national security crisis has ensued,” the senators wrote in a letter to the GAO requesting a ruling on Biden’s questionable action.

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70% Tax Rate Thanks to Biden? Economists Warn It’ll Be Close for Some of Us

If the United States doesn’t implode from mass illegal immigration or media-stoked race wars, the crushing tax burden from President Joe Biden and other Democrats could deliver the death blow.

The Biden administration is preparing to raise taxes on “high-income earners,” which it defines as Americans making $400,000 a year or more.

However, critics warn that the Democrats’ tax hikes would have a catastrophic impact on lower-income people as well.

If Democrats get their way, millions of Americans should “get ready for 70% tax rates,” according to the Committee to Unleash Prosperity, an economic advocacy group.

The organization, whose goal is to promote U.S. prosperity, was founded in 2015 by economists Steve Forbes, Steve Moore, Arthur Laffer and Larry Kudlow.

“The Biden tax plan that Congress will start debating this week or next would raise the top income tax rate to 39.6% from 37% today,” the committee wrote in its newsletter Monday.

“But he also would impose a new payroll tax of 15% on earnings over $400,000, which could be as little as $200,000 each for a married couple. The combined payroll/income tax rate would bring the marginal tax rate on an additional hour of work to roughly 54%.”

However, the overall tax rate would balloon to a staggering 70 percent once you add in state income taxes from high-tax states run by Democrats.

“Hence, if you live in a high-tax state, like New York, New Jersey, or California your marginal tax rate will start to approach 70%,” the committee said. “But it is worse than that. There is a proposal to raise the income tax in California, New Jersey, and New York.

“In the California General Assembly, there is a bill to raise the income tax rate to 16.5%. In New York, Governor Andrew Cuomo has proposed a two percentage point tax hike, which would raise the income tax in New York City to 15.5%.”

The committee continued: “If these taxes were enacted, both states would have combined federal-state marginal income taxes on wages and salaries of right at 70%. New York and California would become virtually the highest tax places in the world.”

So the question is: If you’re forced to give away most of your earnings every year, why would you stay in parasitic California or New York state? The answer is, you won’t.

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New Organization Forms To Fight Critical Race Theory

In the wake of recent racial unrest, critical race theory has tightened its grip on America’s institutions. From workplaces to classrooms, so-called anti-racist training has morphed into neo-racism, dividing colleagues and classmates into “oppressor” and “oppressed” classes, eroding our common humanity in the process.

Just last month, Coca Cola made headlines when they reportedly provided their employees with an anti-racist seminar hosted by White Fragility author Robin DiAngelo. The presentation sought to foster a more “inclusive workspace” by instructing employees to “be less white” by being less arrogant and defensive while “[breaking] with white solidarity.”

Critical race theory is rapidly seeping into classrooms, too – from educators demanding families reflect on their whiteness to Megyn Kelly publicly pulling her children out of school after faculty circulated an article insisting there is a future killer cop in every class of white students. As a result, we are failing our children by making them acutely aware of immutable characteristics, prioritizing their differences over their common humanity. Now is the time to fight back.

The Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism

Earlier this month, the Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism was founded to push back against the neo-racism infiltrating our institutions. Dubbed the “new ACLU,” FAIR is a non-partisan organization dedicated to “advancing civil rights and liberties for all Americans, and promoting a common culture based on fairness, understanding and humanity.”

FAIR seeks to uphold civil rights and advance racial equality without judging others based on immutable characteristics. The organization’s board of advisors includes many prominent thought leaders, among them Bari Weiss, Steven Pinker, Glenn Loury, Megyn Kelly, John McWhorter, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Peter Boghossian, and Coleman Hughes.

According to their website, FAIR rejects critical race theory because “it pits us against one another and diminishes what it means to be human.” Their mission statement affirms, “We are pro-human, and promote compassionate anti-racism rooted in dignity and our common humanity.”

Finding solutions

FAIR’s primary goal is to serve as a legal network, connecting individuals whose constitutionally protected civil rights have been violated with attorneys and law firms dedicated to affirming the organization’s mission.

Additionally, local FAIR chapters are being opened in school districts throughout the country, providing guidance for parents and educators on developing a classroom curriculum that values understanding over differences. Thousands of concerned citizens have signed FAIR’s pledge, and those looking to get involved can also explore volunteer opportunities.

As our nation reckons with racial unrest in 2021, we must carefully choose our course of action. While critical race theory seeks to highlight our differences and broaden the divides between us, FAIR offers hope for a more just path forward. 

Prominently featured on FAIR’s homepage are the words of Martin Luther King, Jr: “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.” Let us reject neo-racist ideologies that seek to divide us and reclaim this dream for our nation’s future.

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