Day: January 14, 2026
Trump Education Dept Opens Over A Dozen New Investigations Into School ‘Gender Identity’ Policies
‘Aggressively pursuing allegations of discrimination’
Doctor Stumbles All Over Herself When Asked If Men Can Get Pregnant
‘The goal is the truth and to establish a biological reality.’
Trump administration halts visas for 75 nations whose people gobble up American welfare
The Trump administration delivered some bad news on Wednesday to would-be migrants from the third world hoping to exploit American beneficence.
The U.S. State Department announced that it is pausing immigrant visa processing from 75 countries “whose migrants take welfare from the American people at unacceptable rates.” The pause will apparently remain in effect until “the U.S. can ensure that new immigrants will not extract wealth from the American people.”
‘Pause migration from all Third World Countries to allow the US system to fully recover.’
“The pause impacts dozens of countries — including Somalia, Haiti, Iran, and Eritrea — whose immigrants often become public charges on the United States upon arrival,” said the department.
The Center for Immigration Studies indicated in a report last month than in Minnesota, approximately 54% of Somali-headed households received food stamps and 73% of Somali households had at least one member on Medicaid. By way of comparison, the figures for native households were 7% and 18%, respectively.
The report noted further that 89% of Somali households with children received some form of welfare in the Gopher State.
President Donald Trump recently referred to these statistics on Truth Social and highlighted statistics regarding the high welfare participation rates of other immigrant communities.
Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Image
On Jan. 4, Trump shared a graph titled “Immigrant Welfare Recipient Rates by Country of Origin,” which provided damning insights into the apparent overreliance of various immigrant communities on the generosity of the American taxpayer.
The chart indicated, for example, that the the percentage of immigrant households from Bhutan that received assistance was 81.4%; Yemen was 75.2%; Somalia was 71.9%; the Marshall Islands was 71.4%; the Dominican Republic was 68.1%; Afghanistan was 68.1%; Congo was 66%; and Iraq was 60.7%.
Trump vowed on Nov. 27 to “end all Federal benefits and subsidies to noncitizens of our Country” and to “permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries to allow the US system to fully recover.”
The visa processing pause will go into effect on Jan. 21.
It will reportedly also impact the following countries: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Antigua and Barbuda, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belize, Bhutan, Bosnia, Brazil, Burma, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Colombia, Cote d’Ivoire, Cuba, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Dominica, Egypt, Ethiopia, Fiji, Gambia, Georgia, Ghana, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea, Iraq, Jamaica, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Liberia, Libya, Macedonia, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Nepal, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Pakistan, Republic of the Congo, Russia, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, and Yemen.
“We are working to ensure the generosity of the American people will no longer be abused,” said the State Department.
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Pro-abortion doctor gets dismantled by Hawley on men and pregnancy: ‘I don’t know how we can take you seriously’
A Georgia doctor testifying before Congress in support of abortion drugs was crushed by a Republican’s questioning after he asked her if men can get pregnant.
Dr. Nisha Verma argued that the mifepristone abortion pill was safe for women before Republican Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri stopped her dead in her tracks with one question.
‘You won’t even acknowledge the basic reality that biological men don’t get pregnant.’
“Do you think that men can get pregnant?” Hawley asked, echoing a previous question from Sen. Ashley Moody (R-Fla.).
“I hesitated there because I wasn’t sure where the conversation was going or what the goal was,” Verma responded. “I mean, I do take care of patients with different identities. I take care of many women. I take care of people with different identities. And so, that’s where I paused. I think, yeah, I wasn’t sure where you were going with that.”
“Well, the goal is just the truth. So, can men get pregnant?” he replied.
“Again, the reason I paused there is, I’m not really sure what the goal of the question —” she responded.
“The goal is just to establish a biological reality,” Hawley said. “You just said a moment ago that ‘science and evidence should control, not politics.’ So, let’s just test that proposition: Can men get pregnant?”
“I take care of people with many identities, but um —” she stammered.
“Can men get pregnant?” he repeated.
“I do take care of people that don’t identify as women that —” Verma said.
“Can men get pregnant?” he interrupted.
“As I’m saying —” she replied.
“Let me just remind you of what you testified just a moment ago. ‘Science and evidence should control, not politics.’ So, can men get pregnant?” he asked again. “You’re a doctor, I think.”
“Science and evidence should guide medicine. I —” she added.
“Do science and evidence tell us that men can get pregnant? Biological men, can they get pregnant?” he pressed.
“I also think yes-no questions like this are a political tool,” she evaded.
“No, yes-no questions are about the truth, doctor. Let’s not make a mockery of this proceeding,” Hawley said. “This is about science and evidence.”
The debate went on for another three minutes, with Hawley beating down Verma on the issue before he brought it back to the issue of the abortion pill.
“We are here about the safety of women and science that shows that this abortion drug causes adverse health events in 11% of cases. That’s 22 times greater than the FDA label, another fact you haven’t acknowledged, and yet you won’t even acknowledge the basic reality that biological men don’t get pregnant,” Hawley said.
“I don’t know how we can take you seriously and your claims to be a person of science if you won’t level with us on this basic issue!” he concluded.
Verma then claimed that polarized language was not serving the interests of patients.
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Video of the exchange was widely circulated on social media, where the doctor was mocked and ridiculed.
The Family Research Council released a statement about the congressional hearing.
“The Trump administration should not only restore but also strengthen FDA safety standards for mifepristone and direct the Department of Justice to enforce federal law,” the organization said.
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Trump delivers BIGLY: Net migration hits 50-year low, as even leftist group is forced to admit
President Donald Trump’s promise to implement mass deportations has hit a successful milestone, according to a report from a left-wing think tank.
The Brookings Institute report found that net migration into the U.S. had turned negative for the first time in 50 years, meaning there were more migrants leaving than arriving.
‘President Donald J. Trump promised action on immigration, and in 2025 he delivered historic results.’
The report said that deportations contributed to the drop but more important was a significant decrease in entries to the U.S.
“We estimate net flows of -295,000 to -10,000 for the year,” wrote the authors of the Brookings study. “Though a high degree of policy uncertainty remains, continued negative net migration for 2026 is also likely.”
The report authors said they estimated the number of removals from the U.S. to be between 310,000 and 315,000, which is far less than the government estimates.
The official social media account of the White House posted a celebratory statement after the analysis dropped.
“SECURE BORDERS. NEGATIVE NET MIGRATION. REAL RESULTS. President Donald J. Trump promised action on immigration, and in 2025 he delivered historic results,” the post stated.
The Brookings authors went on to claim that the lower migration would lead to less economic activity.
“Certain parts of the economy will see unexpectedly weak economic activity, such as businesses that serve part of the affected immigrant population,” they added. “Such weakness is the new normal under current immigration policy, rather than weakness reflecting adverse business cycle conditions.”
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Republicans have significantly increased spending on immigration enforcement, and the White House has sought to revoke legal status granted to numerous groups.
Left-wing critics of the mass deportation policy have accused the administration of violating constitutional rights of migrants, and some have mounted political protests that have ended in violence.
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ICE busts child rapist and murderer — 70% of agency’s arrests target criminal illegal aliens with prior charges, convictions
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents continue their efforts to remove the most dangerous criminal illegal aliens from American communities.
The Department of Homeland Security highlighted the Tuesday arrests of five illegal aliens in a press release exclusively obtained by Blaze News.
‘What the media and sanctuary politicians do not want the American public to know is 70% of ICE arrests are of criminal illegal aliens charged or convicted of a crime in the US.’
“U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced the arrest of more worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens from across the country, including those convicted of first-degree rape of a child, homicide, and arson,” the DHS wrote.
Federal agents captured Eduardo Salgado-Martinez, a Mexican national who was previously convicted of first-degree rape of a child in Benton County, Washington.
A 2019 local news report by KEPR-TV explained that Salgado-Martinez’s charges stemmed from an attack in 1995 but that he spent years on the run. Prosecutors claimed he raped two boys, a 7-year-old and a 6-year-old, whom he was babysitting.
Salgado-Martinez’s brother was found guilty of similar charges.
Eduardo Salgado-Martinez. Image source: Department of Homeland Security
ICE officers nabbed Fermin Flores-Ramales, also from Mexico, who was convicted of rape in New York City.
Fermin Flores-Ramales. Image source: Department of Homeland Security
Khanh Tuan Pham, a Vietnamese national, was convicted of homicide, conspiracy, vehicle theft, and receiving stolen property in San Diego, California.
Khanh Tuan Pham. Image source: Department of Homeland Security
Agents caught Miguel Molina-Palacios, an illegal alien from El Salvador. He was previously convicted of arson in Queens, New York.
Miguel Molina-Palacios. Image source: Department of Homeland Security
ICE agents also captured Everado Javier Sanchez-Rivera, a Mexican national with a criminal history including burglary of habitation in Harris County, Texas.
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Everado Javier Sanchez-Rivera. Image source: Department of Homeland Security
“Our ICE law enforcement put their lives on the line every single day to arrest the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens. Yesterday’s arrests included child rapists, murderers, and arsonists,” DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin stated.
“What the media and sanctuary politicians do not want the American public to know is 70% of ICE arrests are of criminal illegal aliens charged or convicted of a crime in the U.S. Despite comparisons to the Gestapo and an 8,000% increase in death threats, our officers show up every day and arrest heinous criminals from American communities,” McLaughlin added.
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She abandoned her anti-trans activism the moment it became inconvenient
Once upon a time, conservative influencer Ashley St. Clair went “hard in the paint” writing a children’s book speaking out against the transitioning of children, titled “Elephants Are Not Birds.”
“It’s a children’s book to explain that you can’t be something that you’re not. An elephant cannot be a bird. A boy cannot be a girl. This was like the entire reason she was one of the … activists who was trying to make sure that we stopped transing children and that we stopped trying to convince women to chop off health body parts, or boys to stop their puberty and the obvious sterilization that comes from that,” BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales explains on “Sara Gonzales Unfiltered.”
St. Clair is also the mother of one of Elon Musk’s 14 children, and the two are having a very public fight over the child — which has been made worse by her now apologizing to the trans community.
“So now, Ashley St. Clair, in true, typical, feminist fashion, all of a sudden she has a totally different view on trans,” Gonzales explains.
In a post on X, St. Clair responded to criticism from an anonymous account that wrote, “you’ve previously engaged in blatant transphobia, how do you feel about trans people in the wake of noticing how the far right truly is?”
“I feel immense guilt for my role. And even more guilt that things I have said in the past may have caused my son’s sister more pain. Idrk how to make amends for many of these things but I have been trying incredibly hard privately to learn + advocate for those within the trans community that I’ve hurt,” St. Clair responded.
“What she’s referring to right there is Elon Musk’s trans child. He has a child who is a male whose mother is allowing him to live as a female. So now she’s referring to the trans person as a sister when it’s a boy,” Gonzales comments.
“Now all of a sudden she’s, like, weaponizing children’s lives and mental illness against her ex,” she adds.
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Spanish prosecutors to hear testimony of Julio Iglesias accusers, rights group says
Two women who say they were sexually assaulted by singer Julio Iglesias will provide testimony to Spanish prosecutors, the women’s rights group that filed a complaint on their behalf said on Wednesday.
