The Patriot Post® · Wednesday: Below the Fold
Cop arrested for being … illegal alien: In Old Orchard Beach, Maine, ICE officials recently arrested an illegal alien who was notable because he worked as a police officer for the city’s police force. Last month, Jon Luke Evans was sworn in as a police officer and handed a badge, despite the fact he came from Jamaica illegally. Boston’s ICE office was notified about Evans after the ATF flagged him when he filled out a background check to buy a firearm. Now he’s charged with breaking the very laws he was sworn in to enforce. How did this happen? Well, Old Orchard Beach Police Chief Elise Chard has no idea, claiming, “Our department and our community relied on the Department of Homeland Security’s E-Verify program to ensure we were meeting our obligations.”
Immigration by the numbers: The Center for Immigration Studies released a data analysis of immigration over the previous four-plus decades. Based on CIS’s numbers, the U.S. foreign-born population increased by 8.3 million under President Joe Biden, with 5.4 million of those being illegal aliens. In just four years, California experienced a wave of 1.4 million migrants, while Texas put up with one million. CIS says the increase of foreign-born populations in parts of the country, particularly the South, “can only be described as extraordinary.” The foreign-born share of the population hit record highs in 14 states, while also hitting record highs numerically in 31 states and Washington, DC. Deportations have led to a decline in violent crime nationally: 70% of ICE arrests are of charged criminals, and homicides fell in 30 U.S. cities in the first half of 2025.
Monarez confirmed for Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: In 2023, Senate Republicans introduced, Congress passed, and Joe Biden signed the CDC Accountability Act, which requires Senate approval for the position of CDC director. On Tuesday, the Senate finally confirmed a new CDC chief, Susan Monarez, by a 51-47 vote. Monarez had already been leading the agency as the acting director. Donald Trump initially nominated Dave Weldon for the role, a nomination the White House eventually withdrew after it became clear that Weldon lacked Senate support. Monarez has the unenviable task of attempting to rebuild public trust in an agency that was exposed during the COVID pandemic for peddling politics over science. Given how slim her confirmation vote was, it appears that she is facing strong headwinds.
The NYT correction that wasn’t: The New York Times recently published a misleading image of a Gazan boy with severe malnutrition, alleging it was related to the lack of aid reaching Gaza. The problem is that the boy in the image, Mohammed Zakaria al-Mutawaq, has preexisting health conditions that cause his malnutrition; his brother and mother are perfectly healthy. After being called on the carpet for false reporting, the NYT published an editor’s note that was appended to the article — five days later. The note does not admit fault; in fact, it reiterates the message NYT wants to send, as it tries to hide the mention of preexisting health conditions in a paragraph about the suffering in Gaza. This is standard practice for leftists and propagandists: publish a useful falsehood, then once it’s old news, admit the truth.
Buttigieg endangered safety to buoy wind turbines: On Tuesday, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy accused his predecessor, Pete Buttigieg, of ignoring safety concerns to further Joe Biden’s green energy agenda. “Joe Biden and Pete Buttigieg put climate religion ahead of safety — blatantly ignoring engineers who warned of the danger of constructing wind turbines near railroads and highways,” Duffy explained. Duffy’s allegation comes as he has initiated a review of any wind farms near transportation infrastructure. He added, “I’m immediately implementing a higher standard of safety. What the past administration did is a shame, but it’s a pattern for Biden and Buttigieg.” This is the second time Duffy has blasted Buttigieg for pushing a leftist agenda over and against focusing on his job. Last week, he noted how Buttigieg spent $80 billion on DEI “while safety was ignored.”
Rogue judge keeps defending Planned Parenthood: Activist judges with political pet projects are going to protect those projects regardless of the law until a higher court forcibly reins them in. That lack of leadership from higher courts is why District Judge Indira Talwani is now doubling down in her stand against U.S. law. Spending legislation defunding Planned Parenthood was passed by the House, passed by the Senate, and signed by the president, so it’s now the law of the land. But it angered Boston Judge Indira Talwani, so it can’t proceed. Talwani explained that without Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood, some babies might not be aborted, and some STDs might go untreated; therefore, she has the authority to override the law of the land.
Planned Parenthood facilities keep closing: Rogue judges notwithstanding, so far this year, 33 Planned Parenthood facilities have shuttered in both blue and red states. While this trend of abortion mills closing across the country has been ongoing since 2009, with Planned Parenthood’s total facilities declining from 840 in 2009 to 600 in 2023, it’s still an encouraging development. The fewer abortion facilities there are, the better. While an increasing number of abortions are being done via the abortion pill, the less presence that PP has in communities across the country, the less opportunity it has to spread its message of death.
Pedophiles are exploiting surrogacy: “This is not the first case of a sex offender procuring a child,” Helen Gibson of Surrogacy Concern explained regarding the story of a convicted pedophile raising a surrogate child with his gay partner in Pennsylvania. Brandon Keith Mitchell solicited a teenage boy for sexual abuse after presumably grooming the child as his chemistry teacher. He was convicted of child pornography possession and sentenced to a 23-month incarceration, of which he served just two months before being granted parole. A decade later, Mitchell, now with his gay “husband,” is raising a child they purchased via surrogacy, where medical and social evaluations well vetted the surrogate. It is unclear if the surrogate was aware that the child she was bearing was going to be raised by a pedophile. Surrogacy Concern explained, “Vetting of commissioning parents in surrogacy is virtually nonexistent.”
Headlines
Tsunami waves hit Hawaii, U.S. West Coast after massive 8.8 quake strikes off Russia (Fox Weather)
Senate narrowly confirms Emil Bove to sit on federal appeals court after whistleblower reports (Just the News)
Ghislaine Maxwell lays out demands before testifying to Congress on Epstein (Newsweek)
Sen. Booker blasts Democrats as “complicit” with Trump in heated spat over police bills (Washington Examiner)
China may gain greater control of Panama Canal after BlackRock deal misses deadline (Fox News)
University of California system reaches $6.45 million settlement over anti-Semitism lawsuit (National Review)
Harvard in talks with Trump admin to pay up to $500 million over campus anti-Semitism (NY Post)
UK prime minister announces he’s ready to join France in recognizing Palestinian state (Just the News)
Free speech group’s report finds college speech codes improving under Trump (Washington Times)
Humor: Obama Presidential Library design faces criticism (Babylon Bee)
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