.@RobertKennedyJr tells @jimmy_dore: "We watched about 150 people come across the border... They're from Peru, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Bangladesh, India, China, Tibet, and Nepal... In total, over three years, 7 million people have come across the border illegally into our country... After a few days, they're released into our country, and most of them are never seen or heard from again... The stories that we heard from these people are absolutely heartbreaking. This is a humanitarian crisis because of the understanding across the globe that we now have an open border... Many of them that have come across have been terribly abused... There's a tree that is visible from this wall that is called the rape tree where the cartels extract the final payment from women before they come across... Then you know what happens to children at the border... The disappearances. People are extorted, exploited, or robbed. They're beaten and raped... It's a crazy system. If you don't have a criminal record and you don't have money, the DHS will pay for your plane ticket to whatever destination you want in the country. They are landing in New York and Minneapolis, and they are creating big burdens on the social service systems in those cities... Nine members of the Border Patrol have committed suicide this year because they are just utterly demoralized. The cartels are now running everything at the border. The cartels have TikTok videos and YouTube videos that show you what you need to do to get into the United States. Cartels are advertising across the globe. They pay $10,000 or $15,000 to the cartels and fly in from countries all over the world... Border Patrol says the cartels time the illegal immigrant crossings so they can bring in bad people elsewhere along the border, whether it's drug smugglers or terrorists, or enforcers because what happens is they rob these people before they cross. So the people can't pay their final payments. So the people that come across are now indentured servants to the cartel, and they're working off their payment in American cities... The cartels are now running our immigration policy in this country, and they've brought 7 million people across illegally in the last three years. During that same period, 3.1 million people came in legally... Meanwhile, the cartels are bringing twice as many across... A nation cannot survive unless it controls its borders. It's part of the responsibility of being a nation, and this is a humanitarian crisis... I was always against Trump's wall, but now I understand that there are places where you need the wall. You don't need 2,200 miles... but in populated areas, you definitely need a barrier. In unpopulated areas, you can do it with remote sensing, cameras, towers, and all of these surveillance systems... When the Biden administration came in, according to the Border Patrol, many of the cameras were removed. I don't know why. There are about six or eight big gaps in the fence that could easily be closed. They already bought the material, and the Border Patrol was begging DHS Secretary Alejandro Myorkas to close the gaps... There are tens of millions of dollars of wall on the ground there that just hasn't been put into place and the Border Patrol tells me that Myorkas came in and said 'we're not going to use Trump's material.' I don't care what you think about Trump, but that is not a good choice for our country... The fence Myorkas put in doesn't go underground... It's easy to cut. It's easy to get through. It's easy to penetrate. And it shows political pettiness. It's distressing that people in public office would do that... It took me three days to really comprehend how insane it was. You meet parents who had lost their kids coming across pleading with us, can you help me find my child? We can't let this continue... People who think that what we are doing is kind have no clue about what's happening down there."

James Talarico says Karmelo Anthony was convicted because "there were no black members of the jury" and the "system is not working for black Texans." Karmelo Anthony stabbed 17-year-old Austin Metcalf to death for absolutely no reason. And @jamestalarico sides with the killer.

Los Angeles Magazine got a firsthand look at what animal rescuers say is happening on Skid Row. We followed a team of animal welfare advocates as they attempted to bust an alleged illegal breeder caught on undercover video trying to sell puppies for $100. What unfolded took us from the streets of Skid Row to a Los Angeles home where dogs could be seen inside — and offered a glimpse into a much larger problem advocates say is getting worse: dogs being neglected, abused, bred for profit, sold and even exposed to dangerous drugs. Federal authorities are now offering up to $5,000 for information leading to the successful prosecution of animal abusers under federal law.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac both accommodate Sharia Law-compliant home financing. Fannie Mae even has a specific loan code for: “Musharaka Islamic Finance Mortgages.” Freddie Mac explicitly recognizes financing “designed to comply with Islamic law.” Wow.

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