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What We’re Reading: Left’s Border-Closure Panic, Is ‘Birthright Citizenship’ A Right?, COVID’s Lab Origin . . . And More

Issues, news and trends that caught our eye.

Border Closed, Criminals Deported, The Left Loses It

Sanctuary Cities: The real origins of our open borders nightmare — Front Page Magazine

US Border Patrol and Mexican cartel members trade gunfire at southern border: report — New York Post

Democrat Gov Pritzker, News Media Falsely Claim ICE Agents Raided Chicago Elementary School – Here’s What Really Happened — Gateway Pundit

Feds round up 50 Tren de Aragua members at ‘makeshift nightclub’ in Denver as nationwide ICE raids bust child rapists and suspected ISIS terrorists — New York Post

Flashback: Obama administration kicks off family deportation raids — Politico (Jan. 04, 2016)

Deport Some More, Please — Powerline

WH Hails Capturing Top Illegal Immigrant Criminals and It’s Monumental — Townhall

Report: Trump Administration Located Over 75,000 Missing Migrant Children — Legal Insurrection

One Billion Americans? When Do We End Immigration? — American Thinker

Trade War Ends In Less Than 10 Hours After Colombia Agrees To All Of Trump’s Immigration Terms — Zero Hedge

Birthright Citizenship: Is It Really Constitutional?

The case for ending birthright citizenship — Ryan Williams, UnHerd

Easy solutions for birthright citizenship — American Thinker

The Case Against Birthright Citizenship — Richard Epstein

Jonathan Turley Flags Constitutional Issue That May Help Trump End Birthright Citizenship — Daily Caller

Trump’s Attack on Birthright Citizenship — Wall Street Journal

Oops! COVID Lab Origin Turns out True

Former CNN ‘Journalist’ Makes a Stunning Admission About Fauci — PJ Media

Another Government Agency CIA Now Says COVID Likely Leaked From Lab — Daily Caller

Is This the Man Who Created COVID-19 in Fauci’s U.S. Lab? — The Daily Sceptic

Wuhan Lab Leak: How The Story Has Changed — Instapundit roundup

Does The U.N. Really Need To Exist?

Israel to Submit Report to UN on Tortures and Atrocities Hostages Experienced — Front Page Magazine

U.N. Forgot That It Established Jan. 27 as Holocaust Remembrance Day — PJ Media

Israel defies UN and vows to cut ties with UNRWA, with US blessing — Al Monitor, via MSN

Trump’s pick for UN ambassador hailed by Israeli minister as ‘warrior against antisemitism’ — Fox News

More Trump ‘Winning’

Department of Education Ends DEI Initiatives, ‘Biden’s Book Ban Hoax’ — Breitbart

Trump Erases Biden’s Attempt To Force Unpopular Taxpayer-Funded Abortion On Americans — The Federalist

Trump Free Speech Executive Order Targets the Global Censorship-Industrial Complex — Benjamin Weingarter, Substack

Fantasy Politics — Trump Takes Aim at the Federal Income Tax — Stephen Kruiser, PJ Media

ICYMI: Art Of The Deal: Trading The Income Tax For Tariffs — Issues & Insights

AI: Is DeepSeek A Global Game-Changer?

How China’s new AI model DeepSeek is threatening U.S. dominance — CNBC

Deepseek: The Quiet Giant Leading China’s AI Race — ChinaTalk

DeepSeek, or DeepFake? — Monica Showalter, American Thinker

More Problems With The Climate-Change Scare

When a Forecast Flops: Post-Hoc Rationalization in Climate Science — Watts Up With That?

The Saturation effect questions the prevailing narrative on CO2 — CFact

Planet Earth’s Natural Resources are limited to its 8 billion residents — Ronald Stein, America Out Loud News

Fires Abate, But California Still Has Big Problems

Trump Turns the Water Back on in California — PJ Media

LA fires extinguish Gavin Newsom’s presidential dream — Joel Kotkin, UnHerd

Calexit’ initiative could see Californians deciding whether they want the Golden State to leave the US — New York Post

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