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Is Trump's Third World Immigration Ban A Precursor To The Insurrection Act?

Over the Thanksgiving holiday, U.S. President Donald Trump announced sweeping plans to tighten immigration rules, including a suspension on migration from “Third World Countries” and cancellation of all federal benefits and subsidies to “noncitizens” in the country. 

The decision comes after a terror attack (the shooting of two National Guardsmen) involving an Afghan migrant, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, admitted to the US under a program for Afghan refugees launched by Joe Biden in 2021 (Operation Allies Welcome).

However, the Trump Admin approved the man's asylum application in 2025 based on his aid to CIA operations in Afghanistan over a ten year period. 

The smart move would have been to err on the side of caution, and this is a lesson Trump is apparently taking to heart. 

In a pair of Truth Social posts late Thursday night, Trump said he would “permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries to allow the U.S. system to fully recover." 

The president said he would also terminate “millions” of admissions under his predecessor Joe Biden and remove “anyone who is not a net asset to the United States, or is incapable of loving our country.” 

Trump added he plans to end all federal benefits and subsidies for noncitizens, “denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility,” and deport any foreign national he described as a “public charge, security risk, or non-compatible with Western Civilization."

Critics of Trump argue that he has limited power to implement these changes on a large scale. 

Democrats are confident that their activist judges will be able to obstruct Trump's efforts and many Islamic immigrant communities from have laughed off threats of deportations under the premise that they are protected by visa extensions, temporary protection status and naturalization status.

US House Representative Ilhan Omar claims Trump "doesn't understand the laws" on TPS, for example, and argues that the vast majority of Somali migrants are safe from deportation.  

The recent attack in Washington DC combined with mass interference from NGO funded activists and Democrat leaders calling for the military to "resist" Trump's "illegal orders" (even though no illegal orders have been issued) is blazing a clear path to one conclusion:  The Insurrection Act.

Third world migrant colonies in the US might not be as safe as they think they are.  Trump's focus has been on Somali enclaves in places like Minneapolis, MN, where over 25% of all Somalis in the US have congregated, but the problem of migrant colonies is far-reaching.  

Working Man

 

"Got To Be CIA Front": Internet Sleuths Scour Web For Clues On DC Afghan Shooter

The ex-CIA-linked Afghan national who killed one National Guard soldier and critically injured another just blocks from the White House has set off alarm bells across the nation and in national security circles.

The attack - likely soon to be designated as terrorism - highlights how nation-killing open borders, reckless Afghan intake policies, and broader migrant inflows from hellish third worlds, combined with the Democratic Party's suicidal empathy, have worked in unison to flood the country with tens of millions of poorly vetted people.

Former CIA targeting officer Sarah Adams has repeatedly warned about this threat: individuals with prior militant training or hostile intent have flooded the nation through these migrant inbound intake pipelines during the Biden-Harris regime years.

FBI Director Kash Patel has stated that Afghan national Rahmanullah Lakanwal's brutal attack in DC earlier this week, which horrified the nation, is being investigated as an act of terrorism.

Patel said agents seized "numerous electronic devices," including smartphones, iPads, and laptops, all of which are now being analyzed.

FBI agents searched multiple properties in a widening terror probe, including a home in Washington state linked to the suspect.

With federal investigations ongoing and largely being classified, X sleuths have uncovered a trove of information that, while not confirmed, likely sheds more light on Lakanwal.

Not confirmed, but a strong possibility: DataRepublican appears to have found Lakanwal's job resume, which includes a line stating he worked for the "International Rescue Committee."

DataRepublican then asked, "Given this, is the International Rescue Committee a CIA front?"

"One of the recipients of the IRC Freedom Award is ... George Soros, in 1993. Because of course," DataRepublican noted.

On the private donation front, IRC gets significant funding from Catholic Charities.

DataRepublican said, "IRC's head, David Miliband, was the Foreign Secretary under Tony Blair. MI6 (the British version of CIA) reports to the Foreign Secretary. This is getting more and more interesting."

Brass Monkey

 

Israeli Troops Suffer Rare Casualties In Brazen Ground Raid On Syrian Town

Israel on Friday launched another unprovoked major attack on Syria, which has killed at least 13 people, including children - and additionally some 25 have been reported injured.

In this instance, the assault on the southern Syrian town Beit Jinn was a rare ground raid by Israeli forces, likely accompanied by air and artillery support.

IDF/TOI: Troops of the 55th Reserve Paratroopers Brigade detain a suspect in the southern Syrian village of Beit Jinn, early November 28, 2025. 

"The Israeli military said six soldiers were wounded, three of them severely, by militant fire during the raid in the village of Beit Jinn," Reuters reports based on official sources. It's unclear whether the IDF forces incurred fatalities, but if so the Israeli government is likely to keep it under wraps.

The Israeli dawn raid and strikes forced dozens of families to flee from the town in search of safer areas. The Syrian Foreign Ministry swiftly condemned "the criminal attack carried out by an Israeli occupation army patrol in Beit Jinn."

The statement added, "The occupation forces’ targeting of the town of Beit Jinn with brutal and deliberate shelling, following their failed incursion, constitutes a full-fledged war crime."

There are reports the Israeli assault also included artillery shelling - which may have been why there were so many civilian casualties:

The remains of at least five Syrians, including two children, were taken to the Golan National Hospital in the city of al-Salam in Quneitra, according to the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA).

Israeli drones have also been active over the area. In post-Assad Syria, the IDF has encroached more and more on Syrian territory, expanding significantly beyond its Golan Heights occupation.

The Israeli military has described that the high-risk operation was launched to detain suspects belonging to Jama'a Islamiya - a Lebanese Sunni Islamist group which is alleged to have fired rockets at Israel from Lebanon during the Gaza war. The statement further charged the group "terrorist plots".

This development constitutes a very rare instance of the IDF suffering so many casualties while operating in Syria, per Reuters:

In a statement posted on X, the Israeli military said six of its soldiers were wounded, three of them seriously in an exchange of fire.

The Israeli military added that while the operation has been “completed” and all suspects were either arrested or “eliminated”, its forces are still being deployed in the area “and will continue to operate against any threat” to Israel.

Sign What?

 

Trump Moves To "Terminate" All Of Biden's Autopen'd Orders

Discussions about the topic of former President Biden's increasing use of autopen during his demantia-ridden term have grown louder in recent months amid whistleblowers, reports, and legal challenges.

May - Biden Autopen Use Increased As Cognitive Decline Deepened, Analysis Finds

Sep - Top Biden Aide Releases Kraken On Autopen, Hunter's Role In Pardongate, And Joe's Malfunctioning Brain

Oct - House Oversight Committee Says Biden Autopen Pardons Are Null And Void

and most recently:

Nov - Timeline: The Autopen Debate

And it appears that all of this has finally triggered President Trump into action, writing on TruthSocial that:

"Any document signed by Sleepy Joe Biden with the Autopen, which was approximately 92% of them, is hereby terminated, and of no further force or effect."

Trump went on to explain his reasoning:

"The Autopen is not allowed to be used if approval is not specifically given by the President of the United States.

The Radical Left Lunatics circling Biden around the beautiful Resolute Desk in the Oval Office took the Presidency away from him.

I am hereby cancelling all Executive Orders, and anything else that was not directly signed by Crooked Joe Biden, because the people who operated the Autopen did so illegally.

Trump had one more threat:

"Joe Biden was not involved in the Autopen process and, if he says he was, he will be brought up on charges of perjury.

Thank you for your attention to this matter!"

Flushing The Foreign Hordes

 

Fentanyl Trafficking Rings Run By Illegal Immigrants Dismantled Across Washington

In his Nov. 24 op-ed, Seattle conservative commentator Jason Rantz puts a sharp spotlight on what he frames as the overlooked reality of Washington’s fentanyl pipeline: that major trafficking networks are increasingly being run or staffed by illegal immigrants.

Rantz reports that federal agents dismantled two international drug rings in October—one tied to Ecuador, the other to Mexico—resulting in more than 18 arrests and the seizure of millions of lethal fentanyl doses, narcotics, illegal firearms, and even an improvised explosive device.

Rantz writes that the central revelation is that “many of the suspects… are in this country illegally,” a detail he says federal officials had not previously made public. U.S. Attorney Neil Floyd confirmed to The Jason Rantz Show that not all suspects are U.S. citizens and that investigators routinely discover unlawful status during arrests.

Floyd argued that the public deserves clarity about who is behind these crimes, even as investigations themselves are not driven by immigration status. As he told Rantz, “It’s fair for the public to know… the Trump administration is not wrong about the fact that many of the people that are here illegally are committing crimes, and very serious crimes.”

The Ecuador-linked Gutama Escandon network pushing fentanyl and meth across the Puget Sound region, and the Mexico-connected ring in rural Lewis County tied to 105,000 fentanyl pills and 34 kilograms of powder—amounts the DEA equates to more than 3 million potentially deadly doses, according to 770AM.

For Rantz, the takeaway is blunt. These cases show that Washington’s fentanyl crisis cannot be separated from immigration realities, despite political narratives that portray illegal immigrants as uniformly harmless.

By surfacing details federal authorities acknowledge but often do not publicize, Rantz argues the public can better understand the forces driving the drug epidemic devastating communities across the state.

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In The Pocket

 

Zelensky's Closest, Most-Powerful Aide Resigns After Office Raided By Anti-Corruption Agents

Zelensky's chief of staff, Andrii Yermak, has submitted his resignation - the highest level official to fall amid the massive graft probe which has brought rare international embarrassment on the Zelensky government.

As a reminder, Andrew Korybko recently opined that Yermak's removal could prompt some progress in peace talks:

He’s Zelensky’s powerbroker so his downfall could undo the already shaky alliance between the armed forces, the oligarchs, the secret police, and parliament that keeps Zelensky in power, thus pressuring him into peace, especially if his warmongering grey cardinal is no longer pushing him to keep fighting.

Earlier The Associated Post reported Friday: "Anti-corruption units have raided the home, and reportedly also the office, of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s chief of staff, Andrii Yermak." Zelensky now says he will hold consultations on replacing Yermak.

This is a huge and very high level development in the country's ongoing graft investigation scandal as Yermak is essentially the closest one can get to Zelensky, given the top presidential aide was made by Zelensky chief negotiator in talks with the United States. Some speculate this appointment was made precisely to protect Yermak from criminal charges.

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Ukraine’s anti-corruption agencies, NABU and SAP, confirmed they had officially sanctioned searches at the office of President Zelensky's top aide, again emphasizing the probe has extended all the way to the top. Could this be the beginning of the end for Zelensky himself?

The $100 million energy sector corruption scandal has already embroiled and resulted in the dismissals of several top ministers and officials.

Yermak had earlier deneid wrongdoing, and is vowing personal transparency as the investigation unfolds. "The investigators are facing no obstacles," Yermak wrote on Telegram. He said his lawyers were present for the searches, and that he's cooperating fully.

Zelensky makes the televised, 'shocking' announcement of Yermak being ousted dismissed:

It's as yet unknown and unclear precisely what Yermak is being accused of in terms a potential role in the energy kickback and graft scandal, but the growing pressure which has entered the heart of the presidential office has huge political repercussions:

Although Yermak has not been accused of any wrongdoing, several senior lawmakers in Zelenskyy's party said Yermak should take responsibility for the energy sector scandal in order to restore public trust. Some said that if Zelenskyy didn't fire him, the party could split, threatening the president's parliamentary majority. But Zelenskyy defied them.

Shut The Gate!

 

Guard Member Dies After Potential DC 'Terrorist' Attack; Trump Pushes Emergency Migration Freeze Amid Homeland Threat

The Thanksgiving-week attack down the street from the White House - perpetrated by an Afghan national with prior ties to the U.S. military and intelligence community, such as the CIA - has heightened national-security concerns following the fatality of one West Virginia Guardsman and the critical wounding of another, driving renewed scrutiny of the Biden-Harris regime's post-2021 Afghan intake policies (with minimal vetting) amid growing concerns that nation-killing open-border policies flooded the country with pre-trained terrorists.

Late Thursday, President Trump revealed that U.S. Army Specialist Sarah Beckstrom, 20, originally from Webster Springs, West Virginia, died after being shot by Afghan national Rahmanullah Lakanwal, who entered the U.S. in 2021 under the Biden-Harris regime's "Operation Allies Welcome."

The president also mentioned U.S. Air Force Staff Sergeant Andrew Wolfe, 24, remains in critical condition after the savage attack that is being investigated as an act of terrorism.

"As you know, the other young man is fighting for his life," Trump said during a call with service members. "He's in very bad shape. He's fighting for his life, and hopefully we'll get better news with respect to him."

See this. 

Shortly after the terror attack, Trump requested an additional 500 National Guard troops for the Washington, D.C. area. This made it very clear that the deployment nationwide was never just about clearing homeless encampments or deterring violent street crime. The fact that military forces are now being positioned on the ground in additional numbers only suggests a broader security threat, precisely like the one that unfolded earlier this week, or remember at the start of the year, the New Orleans truck-ramming attack.

During the Biden-Harris regime, roughly 90,000 Afghan nationals entered the U.S. under Operation Allies Refuge (OAR) and Operation Allies Welcome (OAW). There have been significant concerns that vetting protocols for these third-worlders were significantly degraded, creating a high-confidence risk that individuals with prior militant training or hostile intent also poured in by the thousands.

The threat extends beyond the OAR and OAW migrants, encompassing the broader Biden-Harris open-border policies that facilitated tens of millions of migrants to enter the country during the same period with limited to no vetting, thereby expanding the potential pool of high-risk individuals to an ungodly number that could be in the tens of thousands.

Former CIA targeting officer Sarah Adams recently warned on the Shawn Ryan Show about "1,000-plus Al-Qaeda–trained fighters within U.S. borders."

Earlier this week, Adams said, "It's past time @DHSgov stops playing pretend and finally raises the terrorism threat level in this country. We have more than 10,000 Islamist terrorists on our soil, and they cannot keep looking the other way. They don't get to pad their stats by slapping the terrorist label on everyday criminals while ignoring the actual extremists already here. This is dereliction — full stop."

Die Hardly

 

White House Tells Reporter To "Shut The F**k Up" for Saying National Guard Should "Never Have Been" In DC

The left’s addiction to reflexively blaming conservatives was on full display this week as New Yorker writer Jane Mayer used the ambush shooting of two National Guard members near the White House on Wednesday to criticize the troops' presence rather than condemn the alleged attacker, 29-year-old Afghan national Rahmanullah Lakanwal.

Mayer took to X within an hour of the broad daylight attack, while the wounded servicemen were still in critical condition, claiming the essential deployment "unnecessary."

"This is so tragic, so unnecessary, these poor guardsmen should never have been deployed,” the anti-Trump journalist wrote. "I live in DC and watched as they had virtually nothing to do but pick up trash. It was for political show and at what a cost."

Mayer's tweet drew instant fury from the White House, including Rapid Response X account branding the New Yorker writer a "sick, disgusting ghoul," while affirming that the National Guard had "saved countless lives." White House Communications Director Steven Cheung was even more fire and brimstone, writing, "Jane, respectfully, shut the fuck up for trying to politicize this tragedy. They were protecting DC and trying to make the nation's capital safer."

The National Guard's presence was part of a necessary federal effort initiated when President Donald Trump ordered their deployment, along with other federal agents, starting August 11, after declaring a "crime emergency" to restore public safety. The intervention was demonstrably effective, according to D.C. police data. Combined violent crime dropped by 49% (from 180 to 92 incidents) in the 19 days following the deployment, compared to the same period the previous year.

However, the focus quickly shifted from Mayer to a deeper, more alarming national security failure.

Lakanwal was a former "partner force member" who worked with U.S. government entities, including the CIA. Federal sources characterized the calculated act against American personnel as a deliberate "ambush attack."

Former CIA Director John Ratcliffe confirmed Lakanwal arrived in the U.S. just a month after then-President Joe Biden's disastrous 2021 Afghanistan evacuation under "Operation Allies Welcome," specifically because of his prior CIA affiliation.

"In the wake of the disastrous Biden withdrawal from Afghanistan, the Biden administration justified bringing the alleged shooter to the United States in September 2021 due to his prior work with the U.S. government, including CIA, as a member of a partner force in Kandahar, which ended shortly following the chaotic evacuation," Ratcliffe told Fox News.

"The individual—and so many others—should have never been allowed to come here," Ratcliffe added. "Our citizens and service members deserve far better than to endure the ongoing fallout from the Biden administration’s catastrophic failures."

Shortly after the attack, Trump vowed the responsible "animal" would "pay a very steep price."

“The animal that shot the two National Guardsmen, with both being critically wounded, and now in two separate hospitals, is also severely wounded, but regardless, will pay a very steep price,” Trump posted on Truth Social. “God bless our Great National Guard, and all of our Military and Law Enforcement. These are truly Great People. I, as President of the United States, and everyone associated with the Office of the Presidency, am with you!”

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Somali Mafia Running Minnesota?

 

Jurors ‘Shocked’ After Minneapolis Judge Throws Out $7.2 Million Fraud Conviction

Abdifatah Yusuf was convicted of six charges of aiding and abetting theft by swindle.

Minneapolis: (Photo by: Michael Siluk/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images.

Jurors are outraged after a Minnesota judge overturned the conviction of 45-year-old Abdifatah Yusuf for stealing $7.2 million through a fraudulent health care company.

Yusuf was convicted in August of defrauding the state’s Medicaid program after investigators said that he ran a health care company without an office building, operated out of a mailbox. On Thursday, Minneapolis Judge Sarah West acquitted Yusuf, arguing that the prosecution’s case was built on circumstantial evidence.

Buying Children On Sale

 

US Adoptions From Abroad Are Declining

The number of children adopted from abroad is declining in the United States, according to data from the U.S. Department of State.

As Statista's Anna Fleck details below, while more than 12,700 children were adopted internationally in 2009, that figure has dropped to under 1,200 in 2024.

You will find more infographics at Statista

This is due to several reasons.

For example, although the U.S. signed the Hague Convention on the Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption in 1994, it wasn’t until 2008 that it came fully into effect there. Designed to ensure more ethical intercountry adoptions and to prevent the abduction, sale of, or trafficking in children, the Convention requires proof that each given child has been deemed eligible for adoption by the child's country of origin and that due consideration has been given to finding an adoption placement for the child in its country of origin.

Each adoption agency must also be accredited or approved on a Federal level.

According to Adoption.com, while the Hague Convention is beneficial it has also led to increased waiting times and fees, with many poorer countries unable to meet standards.

Looking more closely at country specific examples, Guatemala is frequently held up as an example of what can go wrong when adoptions are commercialized and ethics disregarded, with stories of corruption and of children being kidnapped to then be adopted. These findings led Guatemala to placing a moratorium on new intercountry adoptions in 2008 until a Hague-compliant adoption process could be created and implemented. Until that point, Guatemala had been the only country worldwide to allow fully privatized adoptions, and in 2008 accounted for the second largest group of international adoptees after China.