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What We’re Reading: Open Border Hypocrites, Sucker Manchin, Pro-Abortion Extremists … And More

Border Crisis

Immigrant buses from Texas strain DC shelter resources — Straight Arrow News

Texas migrant buses overwhelm Sanctuary Cities New York, Washington D.C.  — Fox News

Elon Musk Reacts To Border Crisis, Says Lacking Media Attention ‘Strange’ — ZeroHedge

Americans are figuring out that they are being invaded — American Thinker

Republicans Warn that Biden’s Border Crisis Is the Worst in History — Townhall

Inflation

These are some of the ways inflation is changing Americans’ spending habits — NPR

Soaring inflation driving retired employees back to the workforce — Fox Business

COVID Fail

‘Mind-boggling negligence’: How the feds consistently got COVID wrong — Just the News

Feds investigate billions in COVID-19 pandemic relief fraud — Straight Arrow News

We’re Shocked, Shocked…

House Democrats plan to double-cross Joe Manchin on energy deal — Washington Times

Selective Outrage

Biden Administration Ignores Systematic Attack on Religious Communities in Wake of Dobbs Leak — Breitbart

NY Governor Was Mum on Pro-Abortion Firebombing. Now She’s Calling Pro-Life Activists ‘Extremists.’ — Washington Free Beacon

Biden’s IRS Army

80% of new IRS revenue will come from small businesses earning under $200K: tax experts — New York Post

WaPo ‘Fact Checker’ Is Fact Checked After Using Biden Talking Points to Defend Increase in IRS Agents — Legal Insurrection

Transworld

“Another proud moment for women’s sports”: This trans golfer is shellacking female opponents left and right in the LPGA qualifiers — Not the Bee

Associated Press Gives Journos Permission to Say Women Get Pregnant — PJ Media

Parents Demand Officials at Tennessee All-Girls School Resign Over Now ‘Paused’ Decision to Admit Males Who Identify As Girls — Legal Insurrection

Misc

Liz Cheney Got Thoroughly Trounced Alright – but It Wasn’t Just Donald Trump  — Andrew Malcolm, Red State

Midterm elections to put misinformation policies to the test — The Hill

Aren’t you weather exaggerators embarrassed? — CFACT

Energy secretary says billions in upgrades to power grid needed for widespread EV adoption — Just the News

Humor

Biden: ‘FBI has enough evidence to indict Trump on charges of misdemeanor malarkey’ — Genesius Times

After Seeing The Jump In Trump’s Poll Numbers, Biden Orders FBI To Raid His House Too — Babylon Bee

As Political Life Ends, Liz Cheney Offers To Pose For Maxim — Glorious American

BREAKING: Pope Francis bans all ‘assault rosaries’ from Catholic homes, churches — Genesius Times

Teachers: School Permanently Cancelled After Wolf Attacks Spike To .0002% — Glorious American

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  • Border control article worth reading. Not behind paywall

    https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/aug/21/illegal-immigrant-girls-used-sex-forced-labor-spon/

    …The Biden administration, facing an unprecedented surge of unaccompanied children that strained resources, reversed the Trump changes and scrapped the plans for check-in requirements to get children out the door faster.

    Ms. Vaughan said the current administration has also cut back on DNA testing of suspected fake families at the border and abandoned worksite enforcement that might spot illegal immigrant children working as adults.

    …She said cases like the one in Illinois serve as a contrast with Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas’ position that his lenient immigration policies are more humane.

    “In fact, he is an accomplice to this kind of trafficking and abuse because he has implemented the policies that enable it,” Mr. Vaughan said. “It shouldn’t take a rape and miscarriage to discover this abuse.”

    On Capitol Hill, some immigration experts say part of the problem is allowing children to be placed with people who are themselves illegal immigrants…

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