The Patriot Post® · Friday Executive News Summary
Brown U update: A prime suspect in the Brown University attack has finally been identified and found. Portuguese national Claudio Neves Valente was identified by law enforcement as the assailant, and police on Thursday found him dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound in a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire. Authorities have also connected Valente to the murder of a top nuclear scientist, MIT professor Nuno Loureiro, who was shot in his Brookline, Massachusetts, home on Monday night, dying from his injuries the next day. Valente had studied with Loureiro in Lisbon, Portugal, between 1995 and 2000. Valente also attended Brown between 2000 and 2001 for a graduate program in physics, so he would have been very familiar with the campus building where he perpetrated the attack. Valente was living in the U.S. legally, having been granted a green card sometime after 2017. No motive has been established.
Trump admin escalates plan for revoking fraudulent citizenship: In an effort to crack down on immigration fraud, the Trump administration issued new guidelines for increasing the number of denaturalization cases. The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has been directed to “supply Office of Immigration Litigation with 100-200 denaturalization cases per month.” USCIS spokesman Matthew Tragesser explained, “It’s no secret that U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ war on fraud includes prioritizing those who’ve unlawfully obtained U.S. citizenship — especially under the previous administration.” He added, “We will pursue denaturalization proceedings for those individuals lying or misrepresenting themselves during the naturalization process. We look forward to continuing to work with the Department of Justice to restore integrity to America’s immigration system.”
Another illegal alien murder case: When Virginia authorities dropped Marvin Morales-Ortez’s charges of brandishment of a weapon and assault, he did not take the opportunity to become an upstanding citizen. The 23-year-old El Salvadoran national, who is illegally present in the U.S., was released from jail on Tuesday and killed a man by Wednesday. Morales-Ortez was caught after a manhunt involving drones and K-9 units. ICE has made more than 4,000 arrests in Virginia this year under Governor Glenn Youngkin, who ordered state agencies to cooperate. Morales-Ortez proves that ICE’s work is far from done in the Old Dominion, but Governor-elect Abigail Spanberger has promised to rescind Youngkin’s cooperation order.
Australian police cagey about secondary Bondi Beach counterterrorism operation: A vehicle carrying five apparently non-Australian men to Bondi Beach was forcefully stopped by police yesterday after they received a tip about a planned violent act. Two more men in another vehicle were also detained. Police have denied finding any connection to Sunday’s Islamic terror event where 15 were killed at a Hanukkah celebration. Police have been slow to acknowledge any motive in either event and insist that Thursday’s counterterror operation has only led to detentions so far but no arrests. Proactive action from New South Wales law enforcement is at least a positive step after police were seen cowering in fear during the terror attack on Sunday.
Trump’s Kennedy Center: On Thursday, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt announced that the board of trustees for the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts, more commonly known as the Kennedy Center, “have just voted unanimously” to rename it the “Trump-Kennedy Center.” Leavitt explained that the trustees made this decision “because of the unbelievable work President Trump has done over the last year in saving the building.” Donald Trump responded that he was “surprised” and “honored” by the decision. Predictably, a number of Democrats voiced their objection, including former Representative Joe Kennedy III. It’s “a living memorial to a fallen president and named for President Kennedy by federal law,” JFK’s grandnephew argued. “It can no sooner be renamed than can someone rename the Lincoln Memorial, no matter what anyone says.”
Immigrant entitlement fraud in Massachusetts: Roughly 700,000 Massachusetts residents collect food stamps, equaling 10% of the total population. Two of those 700,000 recipients — Antonio Bonheur and Saul Alisme, of Haitian origin but now legal U.S. residents — managed to scam the system out of a total $7 million. The two men ran the “Jesula Variety Store” and the “Saul Mache Mixe Store,” where they allegedly traded SNAP benefits for cash. Their SNAP redemptions at these stores ranged from $100,000 to $500,000 monthly, whereas a local supermarket redeemed only around $82,000 monthly. The DOJ indictment also alleges that the men allowed SNAP to be used to purchase liquor and sold humanitarian aid that was meant to be given out for free.
New York set to be the next state to launch state-sponsored suicide: Democrat Governor Kathy Hochul announced her support for a proposed “Medical Aid in Dying” bill. It’s a nice euphemism, but it covers up the ugly truth — suicide is being encouraged by the New York government. Hochul insists she only supports the bill because of the guardrails she fought to include, such as limiting the program to New Yorkers who are expected to die in the next six months. Canada’s MAID program’s guardrails worked out so well that now the mentally ill and poor are asked to consider suicide when they visit the hospital. Suicide is the ultimate expression of despair, and any state or government that supports such a final act has surrendered any adherence to morality or ethics. May God have mercy on them.
Appeals court rules nonviolent felons don’t lose gun rights: A panel of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 that a man convicted of a felony over his failure to pay child support should not be stripped of his Second Amendment rights for the rest of his life. Judge James Ho wrote, “There’s no historical justification to disarm him at that moment — never mind for the rest of his life.” Ho contended that the Founders did not intend that those found guilty of nonviolent felonies should automatically have their Second Amendment rights stripped. “Historical analysis determines whether a particular individual can be disarmed for life,” Ho wrote. “And we are unable to find a historical basis for disarming [Edward Cockerham] for the rest of his life, just because he was once convicted of failure to pay child support.”
BBC’s black Briton con: In an effort to demonstrate “anti-racist” credentials, the BBC just proved that it’s racist … against whites. In 2016, the news outlet proudly proclaimed that a Roman-era woman’s skeleton discovered at Beachy Head was of sub-Saharan origin and was therefore heralded as the “first black Briton.” But scientists have recently revealed that she was actually white. Dr. William Marsh, who carried out the genetic study, informs us, “By using state-of-the-art DNA techniques, we were able to resolve the origins of this individual. We show she carries genetic ancestry that is most similar to other individuals from the local population of Roman-era Britain.” How shocking to find a typical British lass in Southern England. Leave it to the BBC to publish revisionist nonsense to virtue signal. It seems to be the Left’s modus operandi.
Headlines
Trump gives federal workers two new holidays around Christmas (NY Post)
Trump signs sweeping executive order aimed at “ensuring American space superiority” (Space.com)
Bill Gates, Sergey Brin among those in new Epstein photos (NewsNation)
Rubio announces sanctions on ICC judges over Israel case (Just the News)
Chicago Bears’s potential move to Indiana draws sharp reactions (Fox 32)
Humor: Trump eases marijuana restrictions after reviewing extensive research by Dr. S. Dogg (Babylon Bee)
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