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At the end of the day, what really counts is not what AMLO does but what the U.S. government does on the border.

On Sunday, March 24, the CBS flagship production 60 Minutes presented Sharyn Alfonsi’s interview of Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, often referred to by his initials AMLO.

AMLO is nearing the end of his presidential term and Mexico is currently engaged in its 2024 presidential campaign season to choose his successor.

Currently leading in the polls is Claudia Sheinbaum of AMLO’s own MORENA party.

Overall, it wasn’t a bad 60 Minutes segment. Alfonsi didn’t just toss the Mexican president softballs.

You can watch the interview here (begins at about 15:30 mark) and the transcript is here.

AMLO claimed he has nearly eliminated corruption and that his anti-crime policies are working. Alfonsi questioned these assertions and provided contrary evidence in her segment.

Here’s a real gem from the interview:

• Alfonsi: “Your critics say that you’re popular because you give people money. What do you say?”
• AMLO: “I would say they are partly right…”

AMLO had a lot to say about immigration and the U.S.-Mexico border. It’s quite likely that the next president of Mexico, regardless of party, will have the same ideas about the border as AMLO.

At the beginning of the interview, AMLO said the border wall “doesn’t work.”

Really?

When I was deployed to Iraq with the Texas Army National Guard I spent some time on a fence construction project.

The military engineer who trained us pointed out that the barrier itself is not the entire defense – you need to have guard towers and to monitor the fence.

Likewise, on the U.S. border, a wall is necessary but not sufficient on its own.

If our government would fill in the holes and enforce the law, then a wall would work.

In discussing the recent drop in border crossings, AMLO confirmed what we thought – that he struck a deal with the Biden administration to reduce the crossings.

Alfonsi pointed this out: “By February, the number of migrants crossing into the U.S. began to rise again and the Border Patrol expects a sharp increase in that number this spring.”

AMLO got into “root causes” – including the belief that the U.S. can fix Third World countries so their people won’t have to invade ours.

AMLO claims four things would fix the alleged root causes: “With the ear of the White House – President López Obrador proposed his fix – that the United States commit $20 billion a year to poor countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, lift sanctions on Venezuela, end the Cuban embargo, and legalize millions of law-abiding Mexicans [sic] living in the U.S.”

According to AMLO, if these things aren’t done, the migrant flow will continue, though he says he will continue to cooperate with the U.S. even if we don’t do the four things he proposed.

CBS published an additional segment online called 60 Minutes Overtime in which AMLO discussed four American politicians.

AMLO commended Trump and Biden for respecting Mexico but criticized Texas Governor Greg Abbott for what he’s doing on the border.

The Mexican president knocked Speaker of the House Mike Johnson for saying that the U.S. could compel Mexico to allow asylum seekers to remain in Mexico.

No, said AMLO, that violates Mexican sovereignty.

The funny thing is, AMLO went along with that exact policy when Trump was president!

I’ve been following AMLO’s career for years. I even heard him speak live once when I resided in Mexico.

The guy is a brilliant politician and has a real gift of gab.

At the end of the 60 Minutes segment, Sharyn Alfonsi said “[W]hat [AMLO] does next at the border – or doesn’t do – could shape the next chapter of the United States.”

With all due respect, I don’t agree.

At the end of the day, what really counts is not what AMLO does but what the U.S. government does on the border.

If we had a government with the will to protect our sovereignty we could secure the border.

It wouldn’t matter a hill of beans what the president of Mexico said or did.

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Special Report: Illegal Aliens Given Everything for Free While Americans Starve

10 suspects apprehended after incursion near San Diego

A group of illegal aliens swarmed a beach in Southern California after their vessel made landfall this week, according to reports.

The incident unfolded just before 7 a.m. on Wednesday morning at Solana Beach in San Diego County.

A panga boat reached shore and illegal aliens began running up the sand toward nearby bluffs and a staircase leading to the community above.

Local reporter Jaime Chambers shared footage shot by a friend on social media.

“The vessel was first detected by U.S. Customs Border and Protection’s [CBP] San Diego Air and Marine Branch traveling northbound toward Solana Beach early in the morning,” CBP spokesman Michael J. Scappechio explained to Fox 5 San Diego.

At least 10 suspects were arrested but authorities were searching for more, according to the latest available updates.

The vessel and a vehicle believed to be involved in the incursion were both seized by CBP.

“Just a little context, I’ve been a lifeguard in Del Mar for 25 years and these pangas have been landing on our beaches my entire tenure working in the towers. This is not new. It’s not good, but not new,” Chambers asserted in a follow-up post.

InfoWars regularly reports on human smuggling busts in U.S. waters, many of which occur on the West Coast.

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Special Report: Illegal Aliens Given Everything for Free While Americans Starve

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Fiery interview going viral online.

African American author and podcast host Coleman Hughes joined “The View” this week only to be called a “charlatan” being “used as a pawn by the right” during his appearance.

Hughes, who is clearly more intelligent than the gossiping witches on the program by leaps and bounds, began by detailing his views on race and socioecinomics.

Joining the show to talk about his book, “The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America,” Hughes explained public policies should not include race-based factors and lawmaker should instead should focus on class.

“My overall argument is that class, socioeconomics, is a better proxy for disadvantaged,” Hughes said. “We all want to help the disadvantaged and the question is how do we identify them? The default right now in a lot of areas of policy is to use black and Hispanic identity as a proxy for disadvantage. My argument is that you get a better picture of who needs help by looking at socioeconomics and income. That picks out people in a more accurate way.”

Later, “The View” host Sunny Hostin told Hughes, “Your argument for colorblindness, I think it’s something that the right has co-opted, and so many in the Black community, if I’m being honest with you, because I want to be, believed that you are being used as a pawn by the right and that you are charlatan of sorts.”

“I don’t think I’ve been co-opted by anyone. I’ve only voted twice — both for Democrats. I’m an independent,” the author responded. “I would vote for a Republican — probably a non-Trump Republican if they were compelling. I don’t think there’s any evidence I’ve been co-opted by anyone and I think that’s an ad-hominem tactic people use to not address, really, the important conversations we’re having here.”

Radio host and political advisor Melik Abdul posted on social media to say the interview highlighted why he left the Democrat Party.

“This is the Left. This is how they feel about Black men who don’t walk in lockstep w/their radical agendas. This is one of the reasons I left the Democratic Party. This. This right here,” Abdul wrote.

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Democrat politician triggered by Americans waking up to racist DEI policies

Baltimore, Maryland, Democrat Mayor Brandon Scott joined MSNBC‘s Joy Reid this week to discuss this week’s tragic collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, which was struck by a ship.

While joining the outlet to discuss the deadly incident, Reid and Scott touched on a recent controversial social media post by a random anonymous X user who called Scott “Baltimore’s DEI mayor.”

X Community Notes added details to the likely sarcastic post, explaining, “Brandon Scott was elected as Mayor of Baltimore in 2020 with > 70% of the vote. He did not come in to office through any DEI practices, appointments, etc.”

Asked about the label, Scott told Reid, “I know and you know very well that young black men have been the boogeyman of those who are racist and believe that only straight wealthy white men should have a say in anything. We’ve been the boogeyman since they first brought us to this country.”

“What they mean by DEI in my opinion is duly elected incumbent. We know what they want to say but they don’t have the courage to say the ‘N’ word. And the fact that I don’t believe in their untruthful and wrong ideology and I’m very proud of my heritage and who I am and where I come from scares them because me being in my position means their way thinking, their way of life of being comfortable while everyone else suffers is going to be at risk and they should be afraid because that’s my purpose in life.”

After the blatantly racist remarks by the mayor, Reid accused Fox News host Maria Bartiromo of spewing “coded racism” by questioning the qualifications of the foreigners who were driving the ship that wrecked into the bridge.

The segment was harshly criticized online, with people like Human Events Senior Editor Jack Posobiec noting, “The mayor of Baltimore suffered a catastrophic bridge collapse, a mass casualty event, and his first response was to go on MSNBC and complain about white people.”

Posobiec also accurately pointed out the backlash against DEI policies is absolutely real and the Democrat Party is terrified.

“The reason the Left has spent a good portion of this week labeling DEI a racist term is an indicator of how much they fear the label,” he wrote.

Obviously Mayor Scott was not a “DEI” hire as he was elected, but he does promote the racist practice.

The left-wing establishment is now trying to co-opt the term by claiming it’s a substitute for the “N” word when DEI actually deals with gender, sexuality and all races.

Meanwhile, in South Carolina, the state House just passed a bill banning DEI at state colleges and universities.

Below is an example of why politicians like GOP S.C. Rep. Adam Morgan voted to ditch DEI policies.

Students had to be approved by the DEI department just to receive a vaccine exemption.

U.S. citizens aren’t falling for the race-baiting Democrats and media pundits trying to constantly divide the nation.

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Ukrainian authorities do not sufficiently prosecute those responsible for torture, violence against civilians and prisoners of war, according to the UN body.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Russian prisoners of war have been tortured in Ukraine between December 2023 and February 2024, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) said.

The employees of the OHCHR visited 44 Russian prisoners of war in Dnepropetrovsk, Kharkov, Lvov, Nikolayev, Sumy, Vinnitsa and Zaporozhye regions of Ukraine from December 2023 to February 2024.

“While these Russian POWs did not make any allegations of torture occurring at these facilities, they provided credible accounts of torture or ill-treatment in transit places after their immediate evacuation from the battlefield,” the OHCHR said in a report on Tuesday.

Ukrainian authorities do not sufficiently prosecute those responsible for torture, violence against civilians and prisoners of war, the OHCHR said.

“OHCHR has documented arbitrary detentions, enforced disappearances, and the use of torture and ill treatment, including sexual violence, by Ukrainian authorities during the detention of conflict-related civilian detainees and Russian POWs, as well as the summary execution of at least 25 Russian servicemen hors de combat (all in 2022 and early 2023),” the report said, adding that “Ukrainian authorities have launched at least five criminal investigations into allegations of violations committed by their own security forces, involving 22 victims.”

These results show a lack of progress in the investigation and prosecution of such violations, the OHCHR said.

The Russian-speaking minority in Ukraine is subjected to discriminatory treatment in comparison to other linguistic minorities that speak EU languages, the OHCHR stressed.

OHCHR examined the law adopted by the Parliament of Ukraine on December 8, which amends a number of legislative acts related to the rights of national minorities.

“While the law is a significant step forward in improving the rights of national minorities, it maintains a discriminatory differential treatment between, on the one hand, national minorities speaking an official language of the EU, and on the other hand, national minorities whose languages are not official languages of the EU, such as Russian, Armenian or Romani. Although the first category of national minorities saw their rights broadened, as described above, national minorities whose language is not an EU language will not be able to enjoy the same rights,” the OHCHR highlighted.

Ukrainian authorities continued intimidating the priests and worshipers of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church from December 2023 to February 2024, the OHCHR pointrd out..

“Clergymen and parishioners of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) continued to experience intimidation during the reporting period. OHCHR recorded six cases across five regions where groups of people forcefully broke into UOC churches, justifying their actions with decisions from local authorities to register new religious communities of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU) at the same address as existing UOC communities,” the OHCHR said.

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Alex Jones Debates The Butt Plug Rabbi

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NWO pushing for more wars ahead of the Great Reset.

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