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Sunday, February 27, 2022

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DHS Secretary Mayorkas preparing to open US borders and jobs to ‘stateless’ illegal immigrants

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is plowing full-steam ahead with President Joe Biden’s pro-illegal immigrant agenda and is covertly getting ready to throw open the nation’s borders even further while handing American jobs to “stateless” migrants.

“U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services [USCIS] invites you to participate in a [March 8] listening session … for stakeholders to provide individual feedback on immigration protection for stateless individuals living in the United States,” an email dated February 25 from the USCIS branch of the Department of Homeland Security stated.

“Statelessness presents significant humanitarian concerns that require a careful and thoughtful response specifically tailored to the distinct and diverse needs of stateless persons,” Mayorkas asserted in a December 15 statement. “DHS is committed to … enhance recognition of, and protections for, vulnerable populations, including stateless individuals within the United States.”

The invitation’s timing lines up with pro-immigration groups lobbying for the United States to welcome individuals who claim to have no national home. That effort is led by “United Stateless,” a movement that is funded by pro-immigration groups such as the “We Are Home” progressive coalition, Steve Jobs’ widow, and other groups that get donations from corporate profits as well as reportedly George Soros’ Open Society Foundations.

“They’re creating something that appears to be humanitarian in an attempt to increase immigration by any means necessary,” Jon Feere, who served as chief of staff at ICE from January 2017 to January 2021, told Breitbart.

“Obviously, there is a humanitarian aspect to a person who is truly stateless, and these are rare. But if DHS builds up their infrastructure around the concept of statelessness, I have no doubt that suddenly they will be able to discover a lot more people who claim to be stateless. … [Migrants] respond to messaging, and if the message is, ‘The United States is going to allow you to work here and live here, even in unlawful status,’ more people will arrive unlawfully,” Feere pointed out.

“Does a person who comes across the border with no documents fit the definition for their definition of stateless?” he rhetorically asked.

“There’s an entire industry that’s grown over the past few decades that appears humanitarian on the surface but is really driven by cheap-labor corporate interests, and I’ve no doubt these profiteering companies are funding these groups [and] these alleged humanitarian efforts,” Feere remarked.

The woke language of the “United Stateless” group is telling. They make progressive statements such as “experts of their own experience” and “we embrace bold inclusivity over the racism, religious discrimination, xenophobia, prejudice, and gender inequality that divide humanity and perpetuate statelessness. … We celebrate our growing family, that always has room for one more.”

The group is demanding that the United States “create a process to provide a path to U.S. Citizenship for all stateless people who qualify and reside in the U.S., regardless of immigration status.”

These same groups are also urging the federal government to take in thousands of displaced Ukrainians as Russia invades their country.

“The refugee resettlement system is precisely how we protect vulnerable populations, whether they are from Afghanistan or Ukraine,” Krish O’Mara Vignarajah, who is the president of the Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, stated.

The ever-expanding flood of migrants and illegal immigrants is reportedly diluting the American job market, according to Breitbart.

“That economic strategy has no stopping point, and it is harmful to ordinary Americans because it cuts their career opportunities and their wages while it also...

Quick Hits Of Wisdom, Knowledge And Snark #262

Trump at CPAC: ‘You’re Either with the Peaceful Truckers or You Are with the Left-Wing Fascists’

Former President Donald Trump once again praised the Freedom Convoy trucker movement and said, “A line has been crossed. You’re either with the peaceful truckers or you are with the left wing fascists,” on Saturday during his speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).

Trump called out far-left Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s tyrannical response to the peaceful Freedom Convoy trucker movement protesting onerous public health mandates.

Trump said:

The tyranny we have witnessed in Canada in recent weeks should shock and dismay people all over the world. In an advanced Western democracy, the peaceful movement of patriotic truckers, workers, and families protesting for their most basic rights and liberties has been violently put down.

Their assets and life savings have been frozen. They have been slandered as Nazis, racists, and terrorists. These are the names they have been called. They’ve been arrested and charged with phony crimes. They’ve been falsely accused of loyalty to foreign powers. I watched them. I saw those Maple Leafs all over the flags and the love for their country. Plenty of Americans were there too, and they love our country.

Trump added that Trudeau is hunting down these peaceful protesters “like enemies of their own government” and treating them “worse than drug dealers and murderers or rapists.”

He went on to draw a line in the sand, saying, “A line has been crossed. You’re either with the peaceful truckers or you are with the left wing fascists.”

“And it’s been a strong line. We stand with the truckers and we stand with the Canadian people in their noble quest to reclaim their freedom,” Trump added.

Trump then talked about our country and said Americans must stand up and “declare independence from every last COVID mandate.”

“Right here in our own nation. It’s also far past time to declare independence from every last COVID mandate. It’s time,” Trump said. He also added, “With one voice Americans must insist that the emergency is over and we will submit to this left wing tyranny no longer.”

Trump mentioned that during the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, he let American governors determine the response, but he noted that Republican governors’ efforts were better than their Democrat counterparts. He called out Democrat governors for harming our children with mask mandates and only lifting these mandates in the months leading up to the crucial midterm elections...

The group - likely to number in the hundreds - was blown to smithereens on their second day in the country
Those killed include Chechen general Magomed Tushaev - one of the regime's most highly-decorated soldiers
Vladimir Putin had green-lighted their deployment, with each fighter given a deck of cards to help them recognize Ukrainian leaders they were encouraged to capture and kill
But Ukrainian president Volodymr Zelensky is still reported to be alive - and is fast becoming a global hero - while Putin has faced scorn over his huge army's slow progress to capture the country
On Sunday morning, Ukrainian government ministers confirmed they'd managed to keep control of the capital city of Kyiv for the third night running
But Russian forces entered Kharkiv - Ukraine's second-largest city - around the same time, with street battles reported to be taking place
Russia has struck the State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate of Ukraine in Kyiv, which stores nuclear waste
The facility's radiation detector was also destroyed - although a preliminary inspection suggests there is no immediate danger to locals
First confirmed death toll has also emerged - UN says at least 240 Ukrainian citizens have been killed
Woman was killed in Kharkiv, in eastern Ukraine on Saturday, after Russian artillery shell struck nine-story residential apartment building
Two blasts went off in the south west of the Ukrainian capital shortly after midnight local time
A fuel depot in the city of Vasylkiv was targeted by Russian ballistic missiles, its mayor said
Russia also blew up a gas pipeline in Kharkiv, eastern Ukraine, which sits close to the Russian border
Vladimir Putin is said to be furious at his troops' apparent lack of progress, and is reportedly fuming in his heavily-guarded Russian mountain lair
An eerie orange glow filled the sky, CNN reports that a fuel depot may have been hit
Blast took place close to one of Kyiv's two airports - Boryspil International Airport, whose capture is vital to Russian takeover ambitions

Russian forces have entered Ukraine's second largest city of Kharkiv after failing in their overnight efforts to seize control of the capital city of Kyiv - as Ukraine's president today said his country were ready for peace talks.

Footage shared on social media Sunday morning showed Putin's army trucks rolling through the city of 1.41 million people, which sits in Eastern Ukraine close to the border with Russia.

Soldiers were also seen marching through Kharkiv on foot, with a very dramatic clip showing Russians slowly advancing along a road before running and firing their guns as Ukrainians opened fire on them.

Another clip shared online shows an army vehicle said to belong to the Russians ablaze, with locals saying it had been torched by Ukrainians seeking to defend their city.

Oleh Sinehubov, head of the Kharkiv regional administration, said Ukrainian forces are fighting Russian troops in the city and asked civilians not to leave their homes.

Meanwhile, the UK's Ministry of Defence released its latest intelligence update, saying there had been an 'intensive' exchange of rocket artillery in the city, followed by 'heavy fighting' between Ukrainian and Russian forces. It said fighting in the capital Kyiv had been 'less intense' than previous nights.

The breach of Ukraine's defenses came hours after Russia was dealt a significant blow when a column of Chechen special forces sent to assassinate Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky were blown up by locals just two days into their mission.

The armed group - famed for their barbaric violence and human rights abuses - are said to have been obliterated after their convoy of 56 tanks was blown to smithereens near Hostomel, just northeast of Kyiv, by Ukrainian missile fire on the second day of the Chechens' deployment. It is unclear how many died - but the number is likely to run into the hundreds.

Their deaths were reported by The Kyiv Independent news outlet as officials in Kyiv revealed that they'd managed to maintain control of Ukraine's capital city throughout combat on Saturday night and into Sunday morning.

Chechen general Magomed Tushaev was one of 56 highly-feared elite soldiers blown up by Ukraine after they joined the Russian invasion with their sights set on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky

First Deputy Chairman of Kyiv City State Administration Mykola Povoroznyk said: 'The situation in Kyiv is calm, the capital is fully controlled by the Ukrainian army and the terror defense. At night there were several clashes with sabotage group.'

But Russian forces were seen entering Ukraine's second-largest city of Kharkiv on Sunday morning. Footage shared on social media showed Russian tanks and trucks rolling through the city, which sits in eastern Ukraine, close to the Russian border, with gunshots also heard ringing out.

Other videos shared online showed Russian troops walking in to the city of 1.419 million people on foot, as well as an army truck said to be Russian consumed by flames.

Ukraine's foreign ministry spokesman Oleg Nikolenko, meanwhile, said their airforce had shot down a missile aimed at the capital Kyiv, by a plane that flew in from Russian ally Belarus.

But while fighting raged in the north, Russian forces said they had successfully blocked Kherson and Berdyansk in the south, effectively opening up a land bridge between Russia and the Crimean peninsula - which it annexed in 2014.

Among the Chechens said to have been wiped out was general Magomed Tushaev. He was commander of the 141th motorized national guard brigade - Chechen head of state Ramzan Kadyrov's elite force.

Tushaev had also been pictured with Kadyrov, in a measure of his importance to the Chechen regime, which shot to notoriety in the west for hunting down, torturing and killing gay men.

Kadyrov is even believed to have visited his doomed squadron in a Ukrainian forest before their alleged deaths.

The terror squadron's reported killings are a crushing psychological blow for Vladimir Putin's stalled efforts to conquer Ukraine. The Russian premiere had dispatched the group to capture or kill Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, knowing full well that the fighters' brutal reputation would strike further fear into the hearts of besieged Ukrainians.

Each fighter had been given a deck of cards complete with photos of Ukrainian officials they'd been told to target.

But Zelensky remains standing, and has become a global hero for his brave dispatches from the front line - while his would-be assassins' reported killings have brought huge disgrace and widespread grief to Chechnya.

Putin is said to be growing increasingly angry by his stalled efforts to conquer Ukraine. His fire and manpower vastly outnumbers that of Ukraine, and it is widely believed that Russia will eventually conquer its neighbor.

But the surprisingly effective defense being mounted by the smaller nation has badly tarnished Russian military prestige, with the Kremlin still a way-off their objective of seizing the capital of Kyiv and installing its own government.

Today, as Russia marked special forces day, he thanked soldiers for 'heroically fulfilling their military duty' in Ukraine. But he remained insistent that his armies were providing assistance to the 'people's republics of Donbas' - referring to two rebel-held areas in eastern Ukraine that Russia recognised as independent states ahead of its invasion - despite conflicts taking place in cities outside the region such as Kyiv and Kharkiv.

'I want to thank the command, the personnel of the special operations forces, veterans of the special forces units for their loyalty to the oath, for their impeccable service in the name of the people of Russia and our great motherland,' he said.

Meanwhile, Ukraine's defence ministry today appealed for foreigners to come forward to join its armed forces and fight back Putin's army, with Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine urging people to contact his department. 'Together we defeated Hitler, and we will defeat Putin too,' he said in a Twitter post this morning.

Today, as the fighting continued, The Kremlin announced that a Russian delegation had arrived in the Belarusian city of Homel for talks with Ukrainian officials. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the delegation includes military officials and diplomats.

'The Russian delegation is ready for talks, and we are now waiting for the Ukrainians,' he said.

However, while Zelensky said that while said the Ukraine was ready for peace talks, he said they would not be taking place in Belarus - which was a staging ground for Russia troops prior to the invasion.

In a televised address, Zelensky, standing beside a Ukrainian flag dressed in an army green t-shirt and jumper, said: 'If there had been no aggressive action from your territory, we could talk in Minsk... other cities can be used as the venue for talks.

'Of course we want peace, we want to meet, we want the war to end. Warsaw, Bratislava, Budapest, Istanbul, Baku - we've offered them to the Russians.

'Any other city would suit us, too - in a country, from whose territory missiles are not launched at us. This is the only way negotiations can be honest and can really end the war.'

With Ukraine's military putting up a staunch defence, Putin's forces are also reportedly being bogged down by poor planning and ineffective coordination. Many units are reportedly operating without the protection of air cover.

With Russia's invasion stalling three days in, UK Armed Forces Minister James Heappey, writing in The Telegraph, warned Putin's days 'will surely be numbered' if he fails in his ambition to take Kyiv.

'Progress to Kyiv has been much slower than they'd expected, they were unable to take key cities early and now must try to...