Day: November 26, 2025
The New Yorker’s attempt to evoke pity for illegal alien is obliterated by devastating community note
Another attempt to garner sympathy for the plight of a deported illegal immigrant was undone by devastating information provided in a community note on X.
The New Yorker report documented the deportation of Jamaican national Orville Etoria to a prison facility in Eswatini, a southern African nation. It quoted Etoria as comparing his deportation to the transportation of slaves.
‘If you come to our country illegally and break our laws, you could end up in CECOT, Eswatini, South Sudan, or another third country.’
“It helped me imagine how the slaves might have felt, going to another land in shackles and chains,” Etoria said.
The community note provided pivotal context about the crimes committed by Etoria.
“Orville Etoria has multiple serious felonies including armed robbery and murder. He held a U.S. lawful permanent resident status, which can and was revoked following his criminal convictions.”
While he had previously been a green card holder, the residency status was revoked after the murder and armed robbery convictions, in addition to criminal possession of a weapon and forcible theft with a deadly weapon, according to the Department of Homeland Security.
Etoria had served 25 years in prison and upon his release in 2021, officials allowed him to stay in the U.S. as long as he fulfilled annual check-ins. He was deported in July 2025 after President Donald Trump issued new restrictive immigration policies.
“If you come to our country illegally and break our laws, you could end up in CECOT, Eswatini, South Sudan, or another third country,” said a DHS spokesperson about the case to Newsweek.
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Etoria’s aunt had previously told the New York Times that he should have been deported to Jamaica, where he has a valid passport. In September, Etoria was repatriated to Jamaica, according to the foreign affairs minister of that country.
“Every single day President Trump and Secretary Noem fight for justice for American victims of illegal alien crime and nearly every single day the media ignores these victims and their families,” said DHS.
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Biden turned American airports into migrant flophouses — forcing taxpayers to foot the bill
During the peak of the Biden administration’s open-border chaos, reports surfaced that foreign nationals were sleeping on airport floors around the nation, mainly due to over-capacity at local shelters.
In June 2024, more than 100 people reportedly camped out at Boston Logan International Airport. There were also reports that immigrants were sheltering at the San Diego International Airport and Chicago O’Hare International Airport.
‘This report exposes how the Biden Department of Transportation conspired with local leaders in New York, Boston, and Chicago to house migrants in airport facilities at taxpayer expense.’
A new report by the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation found that the Biden administration played a role in this situation by directing multiple federal agencies to identify airports to serve as shelter space or processing facilities for foreign nationals, Fox News Digital reported on Monday. This action was directed to the Department of Transportation, the Federal Aviation Administration, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, and the Federal Transit Administration.
The DOT and the FAA were reportedly instructed to “inventory available facilities,” including airports owned by the federal government and those owned locally, to “divert federal resources” to support the influx of arriving foreign nationals.
The committee found that at least 11 of the nation’s airports were pressured to allow migrants to shelter inside terminals, hangars, and auxiliary buildings, Fox News Digital reported. This pressure campaign included Boston Logan, Chicago O’Hare, and John F. Kennedy in New York.
Massport told Blaze News that it informed federal officials that the airport was “not designed or resourced to manage the intake of migrant populations,” warning that it “would create a host of unintended safety and security consequences.”
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The committee highlighted an incident at the JFK Airport in 2024 in which a national from Ecuador “ran past a security post into ‘the secure area’ … toward two runways.” Security apprehended the individual, who was found in possession of a box cutter and scissors.
The report claimed that FAA officials were aware that such actions may require federal approval under grant-assurance rules, but they “ignored them most of the time when airports used their facilities to house aliens.”
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“The Biden-Harris administration made airports and aviation less secure,” the committee’s report stated. It argued that the administration allowed and even encouraged “aliens to shelter at U.S. airports, by allowing improperly vetted aliens to fly into and throughout the United States, and by diverting needed federal air marshals to the border.”
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), the chairman of the committee, told Fox News Digital, “This report exposes how the Biden Department of Transportation conspired with local leaders in New York, Boston, and Chicago to house migrants in airport facilities at taxpayer expense.”
“Their decisions — to transport illegal aliens through airports without identity checks, even those with felonies — shows in new detail how Biden’s open-border policy co-opted government agencies to put American citizens at risk,” Cruz said.
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Sen. Elissa Slotkin says FBI is investigating 6 Democrats Trump called ‘traitors’ for ‘seditious’ video
The Federal Bureau of Investigation requested interviews with six Democrats over their video calling on military members to disobey allegedly unlawful orders from the Trump administration, according to four members of Congress.
Democratic Sen. Elissa Slotkin of Michigan said on social media Tuesday that she had been notified by the FBI about the investigation, and a statement from lawmakers supported the claim.
‘To suggest and encourage that active-duty service members defy the chain of command is a very dangerous thing for sitting members of Congress to do.’
“Last night, the FBI’s Counterterrorism Division appeared to open an inquiry into me in response to a video President Trump did not like. The President directing the FBI to target us is exactly why we made this video in the first place,” Slotkin wrote on social media.
President Donald Trump accused the Democrat “traitors” of “seditious behavior” and at one point suggested they should be jailed and perhaps even hanged. The White House later walked that comment back, but the president continued to demand the Democrats face prosecution over the video.
“He believes in weaponizing the federal government against his perceived enemies and does not believe laws apply to him or his Cabinet. He uses legal harassment as an intimidation tactic to scare people out of speaking up,” Slotkin continued.
The statement from Democrats said the FBI contacted the House and Senate sergeants at arms and requested interviews.
“President Trump is using the FBI as a tool to intimidate and harass Members of Congress,” they wrote in the joint statement.
In an email to Blaze News, the FBI declined to comment.
“This isn’t just about a video,” Slotkin continued. “This is not the America I know, and I’m not going to let this next step from the FBI stop me from speaking up for my country and our Constitution.”
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Thursday that the president did not want the members to be executed.
“To suggest and encourage that active-duty service members defy the chain of command is a very dangerous thing for sitting members of Congress to do,” she added. “And they should be held accountable. And that’s what the president wants to see.”
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On Monday, the Department of War released a statement indicating that investigators were reviewing misconduct allegations against Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) and that he might face “court-martial proceedings or administrative measures” as a result.
Kelly responded on social media.
“If this is meant to intimidate me and other members of Congress from doing our jobs and holding this administration accountable, it won’t work,” he replied.
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RealPage, accused of rental price fixing, settles suit with feds
A real estate website once accused of facilitating a “housing cartel” has reached a settlement with the Department of Justice.
After a more than year-and-a-half battle, RealPage and the DOJ have come to an agreement that will limit certain features on the app that renters claimed were unfair.
‘Replacing competition with coordination … renters paid the price.’
In 2024, tenants from a popular building in Jersey City, New Jersey, took RealPage to court over allegations of landlords sharing nonpublic information on the website, including vacancy data.
The tenants said the information inflated rental prices, effectively resulting in price-fixing rent across cities due to landlords using the same algorithm to dictate their prices.
In November 2023, the attorney general of Washington, D.C., submitted a different complaint against 14 other landlords operating more than 50,000 rental units in territory.
“Effectively, RealPage is facilitating a housing cartel,” said D.C.’s AG Brian Schwalb.
A DOJ suit in August 2024 seemingly tipped the scales, and now RealPage has agreed to settle on terms.
According to the DOJ’s Antitrust Division Assistant Attorney General Abigail Slater, RealPage was “replacing competition with coordination, and renters paid the price.”
The settlement stops RealPage from coordinating pricing, Slater said in a video posted to X, and forces the app to cease using competitor data to set rents in real time. As well, RealPage can no longer generate “hyper-localized pricing that pushes rent up” and must eliminate features that discourage landlords from lowering prices.
“It means rents set by the market, not a secret algorithm,” Slater remarked.
In a press release, RealPage boasted that the settlement led to no findings or admissions of liability, including no financial penalties or damages being awarded.
However, the company did reveal that it agreed to be independently monitored to confirm ongoing compliance with the new terms. Reuters reported that the monitorship will last three years and limit how RealPage collects and uses nonpublic data.
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Stephen Weissman, Gibson Dunn partner and former deputy director for the Federal Trade Commission, reiterated the company’s denial of any wrongdoing and blamed the spread of misinformation for alleged misconceptions on how the app operates.
“There has been a great deal of misinformation about how RealPage’s software works and the value it provides for both housing providers and renters.”
Weissman claimed that the company’s use of “aggregated and anonymized nonpublic data” has led to lower rents and more “pro-competitive” effects.
Aiden Buzzetti, president of the Bull Moose Project, told Return that he feels the settlement ensures that “Americans who rent are not subject to illegal price-fixing practices.”
Buzzetti added, “We support the Trump administration’s transformative direction to hold corporations like RealPage accountable when they violate the law.”
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