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University Of Pittsburgh Sets ‘Racial Quotas’ For Body Parts Of Black Babies Killed Via Abortion

A university in Pennsylvania has set “racial quotas” for body parts of Black babies killed via abortion, a report reveals.

The University of Pittsburgh has been harvesting fetal tissue from the United States Department of Health and Human Services for the last five years and has now set its racial quotas for “aborted babies whose organs it harvests for scientific research,” Life News reported.

Life News said the Center for Medical Progress and Judicial Watch has exposed the fetal harvesting practices of the university in a 252-page document obtained through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and released this week.

As per Life News, the Department of Health and Human Services was sued by the Center for Medical Progress and Judicial Watch when it did not provide the documents after requesting through the FOIA.

The obtained documents revealed that the HHS has already released a minimum of $2.7 million taxpayer funds to the University of Pittsburgh as its “tissue hub” for scientific research on aborted baby body parts. The document also showed that the university sets racial targets for its fetal harvests.

Judicial Watch particularly cited a page 184 of the “JW v HHS NIH July 2021 Records” with a study title of “Research on tissue from an elective or spontaneous abortion < 24 weeks gestation” and has the subject “Planned Enrollment Report.”

The report lists the total number of collected fetal parts from aborted babies 25-42 weeks in gestation according to “Ethnic Categories.” The categories are subclassified to being “Hispanic or Latino” or not, and each is further categorized into gender as “female” or “male.”

It specified “Racial Categories” as either” “American Indian/Alaska Native,” “Asian,” “Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander,” “Black or African American,” “White,” and “More than One Race.” The July 2021 record needed a total of 400 fetal tissues, with half expected to “be collected under this IRB approved project” that it intends to obtain from collections “throughout the US.”

Broken down into the racial categories, collections needed for White fetal parts were the highest at 220 that was followed by 110 for Black fetal parts, Asians at 50, and “More than One Race” at 20, while the rest had zero for requirements. This corresponds to fetal parts requested under “Not Hispanic or Latino Female” for “White” at 200 followed by “Black or African American” at 100 with the female under “Hispanic or Latino” registering the lacking 20 and 10 for each racial category, respectively.

Center for Medical Progress Founder David Daleiden likened the document they obtained from the HHS to “an episode of American Horror Story” for it showed “government-sponsored fetal experimentation at the University of Pittsburgh” that was taken from “aborted fetal organs” and targets “pregnant women and fetuses based on race.”

“The NIH grant application for just one of Pitt’s numerous experiments with aborted infants reads like an episode of American Horror Story. Infants in the womb, some old enough to be viable, are being aborted alive and killed for organ harvesting, in order to bring in millions of dollars in taxpayer funding for Pitt and the Planned Parenthood abortion business it support,” Daleiden disclosed.

“People are outraged by such disregard for the lives of the vulnerable. Law enforcement and public officials should act immediately to bring the next Kermit Gosnell to justice under the law,” he added.

In addition, the Center for Medical Progress highlighted page 7 of the HHS grant to the University of Pittsburgh wherein the latter proposed that “its existing fetal tissue collection ‘can be significantly ramped up'” to supply its nationwide-research “with aborted fetal kidneys, bladders, and other organs and body parts from healthy fetuses aborted up to 6 months old.”

The center also stressed how the university advertises to the government why it should be the best location for fetal harvesting since its “Ischemia time is minimized” and it uses “labor induction” for its “”procedure that will be used to obtain the tissue” in addition to its fetal harvesting by “sex/gender, race, and ethnicity.”

“Furthermore, Pitt also states in the application that its GUDMAP fetal harvesting program will feature “Inclusion (or exclusion) of individuals on the basis of sex/gender, race, and ethnicity” and sets quotas of 50% white patients and aborted fetuses, and 50% minority patients and fetuses, with a full 25% of the fetuses harvested to come from Black women (pgs. 74-76). Allegheny County, the major metropolitan area from which Pitt-based abortion practices draw patients, is 80% white and only 13% Black,” the center stressed.

According to the Center for Medical Progress, their expose on the University and the NIH is part of their “amicus curiae brief to the Supreme Court in the Dobbs v. Jackson 15-week abortion limit case.”

Dobbs v. Jackson is a case filed by the state of Mississippi that asks the Supreme Court to review and possibly overturn the “egregiously wrong” Roe v. Wade ruling. It is a controversial case that has become a test case of the Supreme Court to decide the constitutionality of abortions for 15 weeks of pregnancy, which is subject to debate on the unborn child as being “human.”

Your ‘Fur-Babies’ Are Not A Good Or Healthy Replacement For Human Babies

Replacing babies with pets stifles a person’s capacity to give and receive love, as it wrongly directs our greatest earthly affections toward ourselves.

In a recent Fox News piece, sociologist Andrea Laurent-Simpson writes of the emergence of “multispecies families,” explaining that in “child-free families…dogs and cats paw in to fill a longing to nurture” and would-be grandparents “readily shift over to spoiling the granddog as their daughters and sons choose instead to pursue lucrative careers.” But this is neither good nor new.

The ancient historian Plutarch began his life of Pericles with an anecdote about Caesar, who, upon seeing “wealthy foreigners in Rome carrying puppies and young monkeys about in their bosoms and fondling them” asked, “if the women in their country did not bear children.” Plutarch thought this a “princely” rebuke of “those who squander on animals that proneness to love and loving affection which is ours by nature, and which is due only to our fellow-men.”

Another ancient text tells us that there is nothing new under the sun. There is certainly nothing new about treating pets as substitutes for children, though it does seem to be more common of late, a trend that debases us and deforms our pets — literally in some cases. The overbreeding of dogs has, for instance, produced breeds that struggle to breathe or routinely need C-sections to give birth. If these people love dogs, then it is with a selfish and consumerist sort of love.

Dogs Are Good Beasts — But Still Beasts

Of course, we ought to love our pets. But this love must be directed to them as the animals they are, rather than as mere objects for our amusement, or as substitutes for children. I love my dogs and try to take good care of them. They were bred to be loveable, and they are entertaining and affectionate. And they have a place in family life. With the right training and supervision, dogs and kids are great for each other. My daughter really, really loves our dogs. Notably, neither she nor the dogs are confused about who is the human. That sort of disordered affection requires an adult.

Pets may be valuable companions to the lonely and childless, but it is perverse to make this palliative measure into a preference, deliberately rejecting children in favor of a pampered pet. Dogs are capable of giving and receiving affection, but there is a point past which the personalities that enthusiastic owners ascribe to them are anthropomorphic projections. In such cases, pets are treated like animate dolls — repositories of the interpersonal needs and longings of their owners. The substitution of pets for people thereby stifles a person’s capacity to give and receive love, as it wrongly directs our greatest earthly affections toward ourselves.

The proliferation of twee “dog moms” and “fur babies” and “grandpuppies” illustrates American self-indulgence and cultural decadence. Marriage and birth rates are declining as people abandon the basic biological imperative of pairing off and having children. Filling the interpersonal void with dogs is an understandable response to this.

But what we need are other persons. We are, in important ways, incomplete and not fully human on our own. As Aristotle long ago noted, man is a social animal, and a man who can live without others must be either a beast or a god — people who don’t need people aren’t really people.

The Christian may add that in exceptional circumstances or vocations a few people may need to rely entirely on animal companionship and the person of God, but there is no good reason to deliberately turn to beasts in place of persons.

The Human Condition Requires New Humans

Trying to turn pets into substitute children gives the game away. It is the very old trick of having one’s cake and eating it too. This substitution is an attempt to satisfy the human longings to love and nurture new persons, and to be loved by them in turn, without the labor, responsibility and risk of having children. But there is no substituting for the human person, and even the best of pets is only a shadow of a copy of the reality of human family.

The difference is one of depth. The mature and the wise have pleasures and satisfactions, as well as pains, of which the childish and foolish know nothing. Parenting requires much more self-giving and self-sacrifice than having a pet, but it also provides a fuller and more substantial life. The best dog in the world is nothing compared to the begetting of a new person through the loving union of a mother and father united for life and dedicated to the care of their children.

But for many, this increasingly seems like an impossible ideal. It is easy to direct (deserved) opprobrium at the apostles of the “child-free interspecies family” lifestyle, but this does little to help those who feel that a stable marriage and children are out of reach. Thus, we must work, culturally and politically, to make it easier for people to form and maintain families, and for those who remain single to still be involved in family life. If we do not do this, we may find our nation literally going to the dogs.

Joe Biden Voted to Require DHS to Achieve “Operational Control” of the Border in 2006; It Is Still the Law

(Center for Immigration Studies) Border Patrol Agent: ‘We’ve Surrendered the Border’

During an August 3 report from La Joya, Texas, Fox News reporter Bill Melugin stated he had been told by an agent: “We’ve surrendered the border.“ Melugin’s segment, replete with pictures of migrants simply walking into the United States and large numbers of them massed under a bridge in the nearby town of Mission, confirms that agent’s assessment. The president made a political deal in 2006 that required DHS to achieve “operational control” of the border, and the bill for that deal has come due.

As I explained on July 16, Border Patrol agents apprehended more migrants in the months of April, May, and June than in any month in the last 21 years. Those apprehensions have been increasing since April 2020(at the height of Covid pandemic shutdowns), but they were turbocharged beginning in February.

In January, agents made almost 78,500 apprehensions, but the next month, apprehensions broke the 100,000-mark when nearly 102,000 migrants were encountered by Border Patrol at the Southwest border. That was the first time that apprehensions there had exceeded 100,000 since a surge in May 2019.

I termed the situation at the border that year “a humanitarian and national-security disaster”, and I was right, for reasons that I explained in March 2019. I plainly need some stronger description for what is going on now, because the summer of 2021 makes the situation two years ago look like the “good old days”.

The then-Trump administration responded to that surge with a series of initiatives to gain operational control of the border. These included safe third-country agreements with Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras, the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP, also known as “Remain in Mexico”), Prompt Asylum Claim Review (PACR), and the Humanitarian Asylum Review Process (HARP).

Those initiatives worked, and by January 2020, apprehensions at the Southwest border fell to 29,205, 75 percent lower than they had been the previous May. Apprehensions increased beginning in May 2020 (for reasons explained by my colleague Todd Bensman on August 3, including campaign promises by various Democratic candidates), but as noted, they shot up after the inauguration.

Why did apprehensions skyrocket then? It wasn’t just the “usual seasonal bump”, as analysts at the Washington Post asserted on March 25. It was a natural, inevitable response by would-be migrants (and more importantly, their smugglers) to actions taken by the newly installed Biden administration.

Biden ended MPP, PACR, and HARP, as my colleague Robert Law noted in February, and his State Department has suspended with an eye toward terminating those safe third-country agreements.

The Trump border initiatives were the “guardrails” that were dissuading would-be migrants from entering the United States illegally. In December, the incoming Biden administration had promised to set up its own guardrails before ditching Trump’s policies, but that never happened.

It is worth clicking on the last link (from the Washington Post on December 22) and reading what the president-elect had to say then. Here is the first paragraph: “President-elect Joe Biden said Tuesday he will keep his pledge to roll back the Trump administration’s restrictive asylum policies but at a slower pace than he initially promised, to avoid winding up with ‘2 million people on our border.’”

Official CBP statistics reveal that, through June, the agency has encountered almost 1.12 million aliens at the Southwest border in FY 2021. As Bensman reported, a high-ranking DHS official disclosed in a court filing that an additional 210,000 encounters occurred at that border in July (official statistics have not been released by CBP for last month).

That would bring Southwest border encounters this fiscal year to more than 1.3 million, with two months left to go in FY 2021. Given the fact that CBP encounters at the Southwest border have been on an upward climb each month this year, encounters could well surpass that two-million mark Biden claimed in December he wanted to avoid.

Of course, Biden was setting the bar pretty low if his goal was to avoid two million apprehensions in FY 2021.

Border Patrol’s yearly apprehension numbers for the Southwest border go back to 1960, and the largest number of apprehensions in that 61-year period was in FY 2000, when there were fewer than 1.644 million. In fact, there have only been 19 years in the past 61 when agents apprehended more than one million aliens, and none in the last 15 years.

Just going by the official CBP statistics, Border Patrol has made more apprehensions at the Southwest border in just the first nine months of FY 2021 (more than 1.076 million) than they have in any year since FY 2005 (fewer than 1.172 million). July’s numbers will break that record.

That said, none of these official statistics include “got aways”, that is, aliens who have entered illegally and successfully evaded apprehension. As I explained in July, at least one researcher believes that Border Patrol only apprehends 68 percent of all illegal border-crossers. If true, more than a half a million additional illegal migrants have entered the United States this fiscal year.

One might argue that the Biden administration is free to set whatever border policies that it wants, and that it is up to the voters to decide in the next election whether they want hundreds of thousands of aliens entering the United States illegally, and a Southwest border that authorities have surrendered.

One would be wrong, however, because that is not what the law mandates.

The law in question is the “Secure Fence Act of 2006”, which was enacted on October 26, 2006. It gave the DHS secretary 18 months to “take all actions the Secretary determines necessary and appropriate to achieve and maintain operational control over the entire international land and maritime borders of the United States”.

Congress did not intend to give DHS any outs in implementing this provision, because it carefully and explicitly defined the terms therein: “In this section, the term ‘operational control’ means the prevention of all unlawful entries into the United States, including entries by terrorists, other unlawful aliens, instruments of terrorism, narcotics, and other contraband.”

As a House staffer, I worked on the Secure Fence Act of 2006, and it was a crafty bit of business. Republicans controlled both the House and the Senate at the time, and Republican George W. Bush was in the White House.

The GOP was headed into what looked like a bad mid-term election (the war in Iraq was dragging down the president’s approval numbers, and congressional Republicans’ electoral hopes with it), and leadership picked immigration as a weak point for Democrats.

In essence, Republicans in the House and Senate were daring their Democratic colleagues to vote against achieving “operational control” of the border, both to burnish their own national-security credentials and to undermine their political opponents.

The Democrats did not rise to the bait. Sixty-four Democrats in the House voted in favor of the bill and just 18 Democrats (including Jim Jeffords (I-Vt.) who caucused with the Democrats) voted against it in the Senate.

Among the Democrats who voted for the Secure Fence Act of 2006 in the Senate were current majority leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.), would-be president Hillary Clinton (N.Y.), and then-Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.). And current President Joe Biden (Del.).

Simply put, if you were a Democrat in the Senate who had national ambitions, or alternatively were sitting in an “unsafe” seat (like Evan Bayh of Indiana or Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas), you voted for the bill.

It was the essence of a “political deal”. Even as a staffer I knew that, and certainly as a senator of long tenure, Joe Biden knew it, too.

The problem for Biden is that the bill for his support of the Secure Fence Act of 2006 is now coming due. He voted in favor of a strict requirement that DHS achieve “operational control” at the Southwest border by preventing all unlawful entries in exchange for a bright political future. He got the latter, which means that he must amend his policies to achieve the former.

There is a straight line from Biden’s “catch, release, and disperse throughout the United States” border policies and the historic numbers of illegal migrants who are entering the United States today. His kvetching about “the prior Administration’s cruel and reckless immigration policies” may appeal to his base, but those policies resulted in something approximating the required level of “operational control”.

The chaos at the border is not just a political liability (although it plainly is that, as I explained in July); it is also a legal one for Biden.

I cannot say that I have read through all the various suits filed against the administration’s immigration regime, but the president is lucky if he has ducked the question of whether his DHS secretary, Alejandro Mayorkas, is even trying to achieve “operational control” of the Southwest border.

The president may argue that he was making a deal with the devil in casting his vote for the border restrictions in the Secure Fence Act of 2006 (he wasn’t), but a deal’s a deal, especially when it’s the law. Now, the requirements of that act, including the prevention “of all unlawful entries into the United States” is his responsibility, and that of his DHS Secretary, Mayorkas. If he does not install “guardrails” to meet those requirements, there may be more than just a political price to pay.

Marjorie Taylor Greene: Fulton County Audit Will Expose ‘Big Lie’

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., says Americans will know what “the big lie” really means once the truth comes out from the Fulton County audit in Georgia.

Greene made her comments in a Friday tweet.

She wrote: “When the truth about the election comes out from the Fulton County audit in my home state of Georgia, people will finally know what the big lie really means.”

Greene did not provide any details in her tweet.

Rep. Jody Hice, R-Ga., told Newsmax on July 12, the continuing forensic audit in Fulton County is revealing “tremendous amounts of potential irregularities, to say the least.”

Former President Donald Trump has shot back at opponents and the mainstream, saying the 2020 election result will forever be known as “the big lie.”

Meanwhile, Greene has sparked controversy in the past over her comments. In February, members of the House voted 230-199, with 11 Republicans siding with all Democrats, to remove her from the Education and Labor and Budget committees over comments she made on social media supporting QAnon theories in 2018.

Greene has called the move “hypocritical” to kick her off the committees over her comments on social media when people are still “devastated” over the protests of the past year.

Cuomo Accuser Files Criminal Complaint, Albany Sheriff Says Arrest Possible

The New York Post reports that an executive assistant who accused New York Governor Andrew Cuomo of groping her has filed a criminal complaint, leading one Sheriff to suggest it could lead to an arrest.

The victim is identified in the bombshell report released earlier this week by New York Attorney General Letitia James as “Executive Assistant #1.”

Nearly a dozen women accused Cuomo of some form of sexual misconduct, the most serious of which involved the unnamed female aide who said the governor groped her at the Executive Mansion in November.

‘Executive Assistant #1’ is described in the report as having been subjected to “a pattern of inappropriate conduct.”

Such conduct included, allegedly, “intimate hugs,” “at least one kiss on the lips,” and “touching and grabbing of Executive Assistant #1’s butt during hugs” and while taking selfies.

The report states that the pattern of sexual misconduct “culminated” with an incident in which Cuomo purportedly “reached under her blouse and grabbed her breast.”

Could This Lead To Cuomo’s Arrest?

The New York Post reveals that the female executive assistant filed a criminal complaint against Governor Cuomo with the Albany County Sheriff’s Office.

Sheriff Craig Apple, a Democrat, confirmed receipt of the complaint with the Post and said sheriff’s officials have since contacted the Albany County District Attorney’s office.

Apple raised the possibility of arrest and prosecution but said they would be contingent on the claims being substantiated and the discretion of the DA.

“The end result could either be it sounds substantiated and an arrest is made and it would be up to the DA to prosecute the arrest,” he said.

“Just because of who it is we are not going to rush it or delay it,” added Apple.

Serious Allegations

The AG report lays out some details of the alleged assault as described by the victim herself. It may provide insight into what Cuomo may be accused of in the actual criminal complaint.

“I mean it was — he was like cupping my breast. He cupped my breast,” the woman told investigators.

Cuomo also, according to the victim’s statements in the report, “moved his hand to grab her butt cheek and began to rub it” for at least five seconds.

Speculation of Governor Cuomo’s arrest based on the DA’s decision comes as Albany County District Attorney David Soares confirmed that his office had opened up an investigation.

“We are conducting our own separate investigation,” Soares told ‘NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt’ earlier this week.

Soares declined to confirm the existence of a criminal complaint by Executive Assistant #1.

“Governor Andrew Cuomo sexually harassed multiple women, and in doing so, violated federal and state law,” James said in a shocking press conference Tuesday – while inexplicably also stating she would not be bringing any charges.

A total of 11 women have thus far complained of some form of sexual misconduct regarding Governor Cuomo.

The New York Democrat, at one time under consideration as President Biden’s attorney general, has denied the allegations.

Specifically speaking of Executive Assistant #1’s accusations, Cuomo denied them saying, “That never happened.”

“I never touched anyone inappropriately or made inappropriate sexual advances,” the governor said at a news conference.

As Democrats Scold Biden Over Immigration Policy, GOP Seeks to Impeach Him Over Eviction Moratorium

The Democrat president’s administration has been trying to manage a surge in illegal immigration, a spike in new COVID-19 cases, and just recently the expiration of an eviction moratorium. All these efforts have faced criticism – and not just from political opponents.

Republicans in the US are mulling over the prospect of impeaching President Joe Biden for his handling of the “border crisis” and the recent extension of an eviction moratorium by the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

House GOP member Bob Gibbs made the proposal to his fellow Republicans in the chamber, accusing POTUS of disregarding his constitutional duties and violating the “boundaries” of his powers. The lawmaker argued that House GOP members need “a sober, evidence-based discussion regarding impeachment”.

“The rule of law, the separation of powers, and the limitations of executive authority are not just talking points conservatives and Republicans use on the campaign trail. When we see clear violations of the oath entrusted in elected officials, it is time to consider our constitutional duties”, Gibbs said in an interview with The Daily Caller.

Gibbs believes that the extension of the eviction moratorium was a direct violation of the system of checks and balances as it may have been illegal. The White House and Biden himself questioned on 2 August the possibility of extending the moratorium past July after the Supreme Court ruled that such an extension requires a green light from Congress. And yet, Biden lauded the CDC’s extension of the moratorium the next day, with the Congress being in August recess.

White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki deflected reporters’ questions about Biden’s flip-flop on the issue, claiming that the administration believes the move was legal, without delving into details.

Border Issue Keeps Bugging Biden Administration

In his interview with The Daily Caller, Gibbs also argued that Biden’s border policy, which allegedly prompted a surge in arrivals of illegal migrants, was a sign of negligence towards American security. However, the Republicans are not the only ones unhappy about the White House’s immigration policies. While the Republicans condemn the administration for rescinding some of the harsher Trump-era practices, some Democrats have slammed Biden for actually keeping and perpetuating some of the policies implemented by the former president.

They are especially unhappy about the continued use of Title 42 – a US law that allows authorities to turn away migrants at the border for health safety reasons, thus depriving them of a chance to apply for asylum or stay in the US while the application is reviewed. The use of Title 42 against migrants coming through Mexico started with the onset of the pandemic, but unlike some of Trump’s other anti-immigration initiatives, this one was not cancelled by Biden on his first day in office.

Hillsong megachurch founder charged with allegedly covering up child sex abuse

Authorities have arrested Brian Houston, founder of Hillsong Church, on charges of covering up child sex abuse, BuzzFeed News reported.

What’s a brief history here?

Houston has for years denied that he withheld information regarding child sex abuse allegations against his father, late former pastor Frank Houston, which stemmed from purported assaults that were said to have taken place in the 1970s.

Houston’s father reportedly confessed to the abuse before his death in 2004 and was accused of abusing up to nine underage boys.

What are the details? 

New South Wales, Australia, police arrested 67-year-old Brian Houston on Thursday and charged him with concealing a serious indictable offense.

According to Fox News, a government inquiry into “institutional responses to allegations of child sex abuse” in 2015 found that Houston did not tell authorities that his father was a child sex abuser. 

The inquiry, the outlet noted, found that Houston “became aware of allegations against his father in 1999” and simply “allowed him to retire quietly than report him to police.” 

Houston told BuzzFeed News that he is innocent.

“These charges have come as a shock to me given how transparent I’ve always been about this matter,” he told the outlet. “I vehemently profess my innocence and will defend these charges, and I welcome the opportunity to set the record straight.”

The outlet reported that Hillsong Church has responded to past related media reports by “defending its founder while distancing him and the church from the actions of his father, who was also a pastor.”

A previous Hillsong statement obtained by BuzzFeed News said, “The abuse by Frank Houston occurred many years before Hillsong church existed. It is an indisputable fact that Pastor Brian is not a perpetrator of abuse, has never been accused of abuse, and took immediate action to expose and stop a child abuser.”

Back in 2014, Houston said that he confronted his father over the abuse allegations in 1992 and “ensured he never preached or served in any ministry capacity again.”

The Daily Beast reported that if convicted on the charge, Houston face a maximum charge of five years in prison. 

Fox News reported that a spokesperson for Hillsong Church said that it was “disappointed” about the charge. 

“We ask that he be afforded the presumption of innocence and due process as is his right,” the statement read. “He has advised us that he will defend this and looks forward to clearing his name. We thank all who are a part of our church for their support and prayers at this time.”

The Sydney-based megachurch founder is due in court in October.

Biggest crisis since 9/11? Republicans sound alarm on Biden border policy as COVID spreads

COVID-positive illegal immigrants are being let into the U.S., and fewer MS-13 gang members are being caught during the largest border surge in 20 years.

As the number of illegal immigrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border reaches a 20-year high and COVID-19 cases consequently spike, Republican lawmakers are blasting the Biden administration for the converging security and public health crises.

July saw the highest number of illegal immigrants crossing the border in over 20 years, with a total of 210,000. Simultaneously, fewer MS-13 gang members have been caught crossing the border this year than in each of the previous three years, and COVID-positive migrants are flooding the Texas border town of McAllen.

Rep. Greg Steube (R-Fla.) warned Tuesday that the spiraling chaos on the southern border posed a critical threat to U.S. national security.

“I believe this is the biggest national security threat that we’ve seen in years,” Steube told the John Solomon Reports podcast. “Twenty years ago, we had September 11. This is just as big, but the mainstream media is not talking about it. The White House isn’t doing anything about it. Democrats in Congress want to encourage this behavior because for some reason they want as many illegals into this country as humanly possible in the next two to four years while Biden’s president.”

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), meanwhile, wrote a letter to the Department of Justice on Tuesday expressing his concern over the low number of apprehensions of MS-13, asking what the DOJ task force was doing about it or if it was still in existence. On Wednesday, the DOJ announced that four alleged members of MS-13 were being indicted.

On Wednesday, Rep. Matt Rosendale (R-Mont.) excoriated the Biden administration for facilitating the spread of COVID-19 through lax border enforcement policies.

“The Biden administration is releasing COVID into our nation at a more rapid level than the Chinese even did,” he told the John Solomon Reports podcast, “because they are allowing hundreds of thousands of people, that we don’t know what’s going on with, across our border every month, and then transporting them.”

The Biden administration is worse than China because they’re transporting COVID-positive illegal immigrants into the U.S., Rosendale argued, adding, “These folks aren’t doing it themselves.”

The border town of McAllen, Texas, has seen more than 7,000 COVID-positive illegal immigrants released into its jurisdiction since February, with 1,500 of them entering in just the past week.

“Joe Biden likes to talk about this pandemic, well I’ll tell you what, the election of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris was a superspreader event, because their open border is endangering not just the people of Texas but people all across the country,” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) told Fox News.

‘Same math used to count supporters?’ Biden says over 350 million Americans have been vaccinated… in a nation of 331 million

President Joe Biden has again fumbled his Covid-19 math, repeatedly claiming that more than 350 million Americans have been vaccinated against the virus. The US Census Bureau estimates the nation’s population at 331.4 million.

Biden stated the grossly erroneous number at least twice on Friday in a press briefing at the White House. In one case, he even checked his notes, saying, “Well over – what’s the number again? – I’ll remind myself… 350 million Americans have already been vaccinated. They’re doing fine.”

The president may have meant to say that “well over 350 million” doses have been given, though that wouldn’t be exactly right, either. The latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows that just under 349 million doses have been administered. Two of the three vaccines authorized for emergency use in the US require two doses for inoculation.

Social media users marveled that Biden could look at the number in his notes and state it as fact without realizing that it far exceeded the total population – especially in the context of calling for more people to be vaccinated. Not only is the US population 19 million lower than Biden’s vaccination claim, but the number of people eligible is about 67 million lower, because none of the jabs is approved for use in children under 12 years old.

“Biden plan must be working in his mind,” former Florida congressional candidate Chuck Callesto said on Twitter. Minneapolis radio host Prince Carlton called Biden “a joke of a president,” while conservative pundit Robby Starbuck tweeted, “Maybe he’s using the same math he uses to count his supporters?”

Biden is no stranger to verbal gaffes, including many involving bizarre math. While campaigning for president in June 2020, he said America had lost 120 million lives to Covid-19. He corrected that blunder, saying he meant 120,000. During a Democratic primary presidential debate in February, he said that 150 million Americans had died from gun violence since 2007. CDC estimates show there are fewer than 40,000 deaths annually from gun violence, and most of those are by suicide.

Last September, Biden falsely claimed that 6,114 members of the US military had died from Covid-19, and 118,984 had been infected. At the time, there had been seven such deaths and fewer than 79,000 infections.

Biden previously confused the number of vaccinations with the number of doses administered, saying in May that 230 million Americans had been inoculated against Covid-19. The correct number at the time was 106 million. Currently, 165.5 million Americans have been fully vaccinated, or 49.9% of the population. At the same May event, Biden also made a false statement about there being “virtually no difference” in vaccination rates in different racial categories.

Starbuck was among many observers who alluded to Biden’s allegedly overstated voter support. Another commenter posted a series of incorrect figures that have been stated by the president, adding “81 million Americans voted for Joe Biden.”

Nearly three in 10 Americans, including 28% of independents, still believe that last November’s presidential election was “stolen” from Donald Trump, according to a Yahoo News/YouGov poll that was released earlier this week.

Critics of the president surmised that mainstream-media reporters wouldn’t challenge or question Biden’s latest Covid-19 blunder. In fact, CNN apparently tried to help clean up the mess, attributing to Biden the accurate numbers of Americans who have received at least one jab and those who have been fully vaccinated.

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