US to Send South American Illegal Aliens to Europe
Some migrants applying for asylum at US outposts in Latin America may be sent to Italy or Greece instead, CBS News reported on Thursday, citing anonymous sources and documents from the US Department of Homeland Security.
Washington set up ‘Safe Mobility Offices’ (SMO) in Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, and Guatemala last year, with the idea to reduce illegal border crossings by letting people apply to immigrate legally. Arrangements have already been made with Spain and Canada to take some of these migrants.
Greece and Italy would likely accept “roughly 500 or fewer” migrants each under the new arrangements, which have not yet been officially announced, one source told CBS.
A State Department spokesperson told the outlet that “we are in diplomatic discussions with other countries about joining this initiative to expand lawful pathways for resettlement, but have no additional information to share at this time.”
The Greek and Italian governments did not respond to requests for comment by CBS.
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Both countries, as well as Spain, have been dealing with thousands of migrants crossing the Mediterranean from Africa and the Middle East, seeking asylum and social services offered by the EU.
According to the State Department, the SMOs have “enabled a six-fold increase in the number of refugees resettled from the Western Hemisphere.”
US government documents seen by CBS showed that “roughly 10,000 migrants” have been processed through the Refugee Admissions Program, which required them to prove they were fleeing persecution on the grounds of political views, religion, or “other factors.”
Each of the four SMOs has different rules about who may apply. The Guatemala office processes only requests from Guatemalans. Only Nicaraguans and Venezuelans may apply in Costa Rica. The Colombia office accepts claims by Cubans, Haitians, and Venezuelans. The office in Ecuador can process requests by Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, Venezuelans, and Colombians.
The US has seen a surge in illegal border crossings since January 2021, when President Joe Biden repealed most of his predecessor Donald Trump’s immigration policies. The White House has since argued that the previous restrictions were “inhumane” to millions of foreigners who sought to move to the US.
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Germany: Syrian Migrant Sexually Assaulted 78-Year-Old Woman Then Raped 23-Year-Old Woman Day After His Release
A Syrian migrant who broke into an elderly woman’s apartment and sexually assaulted a 78-year-old woman was immediately arrested and then released, only to rape a 23-year-old woman the next day, according to police. The man is now on trial for the crimes.
The 25-year-old migrant, Ayman Al-K, from Syria, was arrested after the elderly woman was able to fight him off until help could arrive, according to Berliner Zeitung. He is said to have entered the elderly woman’s apartment on the first floor, but when the woman saw him, she screamed for help. The man allegedly placed her in a headlock and covered her nose and mouth. Neighbors rushed in and intervened, and the man was arrested close to the scene.
However, the Berlin public prosecutor refused to hold him in custody, releasing him nearly immediately. The public prosecutor claimed that the “identification had not been sufficiently secured,” according to the justification provided after the man was arrested for rape the following day.
Ayman Al-K had been sent back to his asylum accommodation at Ostpreußendamm, where he raped a 23-year-old woman, who was unsuccessful at defending herself, and bit her hard on the neck. He was then arrested and charged.
The man is facing 10 days of trial for bodily harm, breaking and entering, sexual assault, and rape. His verdict will be issued Aug. 12.
The shocking case highlights the tremendous amount of rape and sexual assault perpetrated by Germany’s foreign population, and the German authorities’ unwillingness to provide even the most basic protections for the country’s women. According to new data released by the Federal Interior Ministry, violent crime has reached record highs, with foreigners responsible for 41 percent of all crimes.
Gang rapes have reached a record high in the country. The Berlin police released statistics just this week showing that there were 111 gang rapes in 2023 and that 54 percent of all such crimes were perpetrated by foreigners.
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Illegals Shocked at How Easy it is to Enter The United States
Several illegals who crossed into the U.S. have expressed shock at how easy it was for them to get into the country.
One of the migrants from Turkey told Fox Newsreporter Bill Melugin that he paid a cartel member $10,000 to get him across the southern border at Jacumba in California. According to the Turk, he had applied for a visa to enter the country legally multiple times, but had been rejected on each occasion.
Surprisingly, the Turk remarked in relation to warnings about the wide-open border that “in fact, [the] American people [are] right.” He added that the open border is all “completely true,” and also expressed concern about the lack of vetting. According to him, there is “no security check” and “no background check” to weed out potential “killers or psychopaths.” (Related: Turkish smugglers using SOCIAL MEDIA to aid and abet illegal immigrants crossing southern border.)
Melugin was at the border once again documenting a huge group of illegals attempting to cross, originating from countries like Iran, Pakistan and China. Migrants are surging to the border now because they believe former President Donald Trump is going to win the election in November.
“We think with the elections, it will be harder,” said two brothers from Colombia, who added: “We don’t want Trump.” The Colombian siblings had crossed into the U.S. and were put on a flight bound to New Jersey.
“Unprecedented” flow of Chinese nationals at the border
Since President Joe Biden took office in 2021, there have been more than nine million migrant encounters nationwide – with some 7.6 million encounters at the southwest border alone. Latest numbers from U.S. Customs and Border Protection show that 3,324 Chinese nationals crossed the southwest border in April of this year alone – more than the total crossings for the entire 2022 fiscal year.
Given this alarming rate, Rep. Dan Bishop (R-NC) convened a hearing to address the “unprecedented flow of Chinese nationals” at the southern border. He expressed concern during the hearing regarding the vetting process for Chinese migrants, which now consists of five questions from 40 questions before. According to the congressman, this does little to protect America’s national security.
“As the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) continues its quest for geopolitical dominance and threatens our sovereignty, we must examine the risks presented by releasing ever-increasing numbers of minimally vetted Chinese nationals into our communities,” Bishop – chairman of the Oversight, Investigations and Accountability Subcommittee under the House Homeland Security Committee – said in a statement.
According to the congressman for the Tar Heel State, Chinese migrants crossing illegally into the U.S. could have “nefarious motives.” He noted federal indictments in his state showing partnerships between Mexican drug cartels and Chinese transnational criminal organizations engaged in money laundering operations throughout the country.
“At best, this is a mockery of U.S. immigration law and sovereignty – and at worst, it is a huge national security and community safety risk. In addition to many Chinese with connections to the CCP, People’s Liberation Army and other state entities, it it statistically probable that DHS is releasing people with criminal records.”
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Canadian Parents Set to Keep Kids Home From School for Beginning of Gay Sex Pride Month
(LifeSiteNews) — Canadian parents are set to keep their children home from school to protest the beginning of LGBT “pride” month this June.
Over the weekend of May 31 to June 4, parents across Ontario will participate in the National “Pride” Flag Walk-Out Day, by keeping their children home to protest schools raising the “pride” flag.
“The indoctrination surrounding the transgender/homosexual ‘pride’ flags in our schools is insidious,” Campaign Life Coalition’s (CLC) president Jeff Gunnarson told parents.
“And this is what they want to put in front of your kids and have them celebrate, with a cult-like devotion!” he warned.
“The ‘rainbow of perversion’ covers an ever-growing list of sexual behaviors and ideologies that run contrary to God’s plan for traditional marriage and the family, and it’s always getting worse,” he explained.
CLC is encouraging parents to keep their children home Friday, May 31 to Tuesday, June 4 as schools plan to raise the “Pride” flag sometime during that period.
The initiative, spearheaded by CLC, has been promoted by many Ontario parents, including the Parents Rights Coalition of Canada, which was formed in July 2023.
Speaking about the LGBT indoctrination occurring in Canadian schools, Chanel Pfahl, a former public high school teacher, told parents during a May 25 Parental Rights Coalition of Canada virtual summit, “If ever you get the chance to walk through your kids’ school, have a look.”
“Either students in clubs will work on these [topics] or a class will do a project showcase, or it could just be an activist teacher who’s doing it all on their own,” she warned.
Last year, the walkout was a massive success with thousands of students staying home on June 1 when their schools flew the “pride” flag.
Furthermore, the walkout seemed to spark a resistance against the LGBT agenda which remained strong until the end of the school year.
In June 2023, following the walk-out protest, video footage from a pro-family protest in Ottawa went viral showing young Muslim boys stomping on “pride” flags.
The same month, students at Sir Frederick Banting High School in London, Ontario, cheered as a male student tore the “pride” flag from the school’s flagpole.
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The Reality of ‘Gay’ Seminaries and What’s Behind Pope Francis’ ‘Faggotry’ Remark
VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) – Pope Francis’ reported recent criticism of too much “faggotry” in seminaries comes amid a reported power struggle between Italian bishops and the Vatican but also highlights the long-standing homosexual subculture endemic in many seminaries.
The now international quasi-scandal is that Pope Francis is alleged to have used the term “faggotry” when speaking with members of the Italian Episcopal Conference (CEI) during their reportedly closed-door meeting on May 20 – though the Daily Compass reported that priests, lay people and journalists were also present at the time.
But what is less highlighted is the context in which Francis’ remarks came about, and even less concentrated on is the uncomfortable truth that Francis – easily the most visibly pro-LGBT pontiff ever – has highlighted, namely the predominance of homosexuality among the clergy.
‘Faggotry’ in seminaries: how it came to be uttered
The widely read Italian daily gossip paper Dagospia reported on May 27 that Francis said “in the Church, there is too much of an atmosphere of faggotry.” Dagospia claimed that he also said that bishops must, therefore, “get all the queers (checche) out of the seminaries, even those only semi-oriented.”
The alleged papal comments came in response to questions raised by the CEI about admitting homosexual men to Catholic seminaries. But it is not as simple as a bishop benignly asking his pontiff about whether homosexuals might be admitted to seminaries – for indeed, the Church has consistently taught that they cannot.
Since November 2023, the CEI has been waiting for the Vatican’s Dicastery (formerly Congregation) for Clergy to approve a new document governing the formation of men for the priesthood in Italian seminaries. That document is understood to make an argument to officially allow homosexuals into seminaries, attesting that seminary admission officials should differentiate between homosexual orientation and the practice of homosexual behavior when admitting men to formation.
Citing its well-placed sources within the CEI meeting, Italian blog Messa in Latinoreported that Francis’ use of the term “faggotry” came in direct response to being pushed about this document. The Congregation for Clergy has yet to approve it, yet certain more pro-LGBT Italian bishops are keen to have the new pro-homosexual guidelines approved.
Messa in Latino reported that it was Rimini’s pro-LGBT Bishop Nicolò Anselmi who asked Francis during the CEI meeting about admitting homosexuals to the seminary.
Francis has been notable in his own promotion of key LGBT activists and has famously made numerous pro-LGBT demonstrations of his own, and as such Anselmi would likely have been confident of receiving a favorable reply. Francis has also raised to key positions in the Church a number of prelates encircled in homosexual scandals or who have become the leading champions of LGBT causes within the Vatican.
As if to bolster Francis’ pro-homosexual image, Italian Bishop Francesco Savino argued that the Pope’s comments were not anti-homosexual but merely intended to portray his wish that priests should “be capable of living well their promises with respect to obedience, poverty and chastity.”
Indeed, commenting on Francis’ record, the Daily Compass’ Luisella Scrosati stated that Francis “is not bothered that certain moral problems exist among the clergy, but that they are coming out into the open.”
But despite his LGBT support, Francis is reported to have rebuffed Anselmi’s attempt to strong-arm the Pope into supporting the CEI’ campaign against the Congregation for Clergy. Why so?
Papal biographers and astute observers of Francis before his ascent to the papal throne – such as Henry Sire – have opined and observed that Francis clings above all to power. In his explosive work The Dictator Pope, Henry Sire recounted firsthand testimonies describing the then-Father and later Cardinal Bergoglio as always desirous of the “pursuit of power,” and being “power obsessed.”
Quoting the Spanish journalist Francisco José de La Cigoña’s words about the general perception of Cardinal Bergoglio in the late 2000s, Sire wrote: “However much he (Bergoglio) may work carefully to impress everyone with the appearance of a plaster saint, austere and mortified, he is a man with a mentality of power.”
Unsurprising therefore that Francis – perceiving an attempt by a bishop to exert pressure on him in front of the entire Italian episcopate, and thus finding his authority threatened – would hit back by making a remark about there already being too much “faggotry” in seminaries, providing the reports of such comments are true, which numerous sources are suggesting they are.
Messa in Latino‘s sources supported this, attesting that the papal comments came with “evidently angry tones of Pope Francis, who found himself besieged on both fronts.”
Homosexuals in seminaries? The rules
The Catholic Church prohibits admitting homosexuals into seminaries. The Vatican’s 2005 document on the admission of people with “homosexual tendencies” to seminaries stated that “the Church, while profoundly respecting the persons in question, cannot admit to the seminary or to holy orders those who practice homosexuality, presented deep-seated homosexual tendencies, or support the so-called ‘gay culture.’”
While those with “a transitory problem” of suffering “homosexual tendencies” could be admitted, the Holy See wrote that such tendencies must be “clearly overcome at least three years before ordination to the diaconate.”
This was then reaffirmed by the Vatican’s Congregation for Clergy in the December 2016 document “The Gift of the Priestly Vocation,” that heavily quoted from the teachings of the 2005 text.
Commenting on this phrase of “deep-seated” tendencies, Msgr. Tony Anatrella from the Pontifical Council for the Family and the Pastoral of Health Care, wrote in 2005 that:
On the other hand, candidates that present a “deeply-seated homosexual tendency,” that means an exclusive attraction with regard to persons of the same sex (a structural orientation) – independently of whether or not they’ve had erotic experiences – They cannot be admitted into seminary nor have access to sacred Orders.
Homosexuals in seminaries? The reality
Notwithstanding the Church’s rules, increasing numbers of media reports over recent years have served to highlight how the issue of homosexuals not merely entering the seminary but proceeding to ordination has continued.
While rumors of “gay lobby” are often dismissed by critics, a number of prominent prelates have given considerable credence to the real problem of such widespread pro-homosexual attitudes or lifestyles within the Church’s clergy or seminaries.
Indeed, the late Pope Benedict XVI famously noted in his contribution to the Vatican’s 2019 sex abuse summit that homosexual groups were historically prominent in seminaries. “In various seminaries, homosexual cliques were established, which acted more or less openly and significantly changed the climate in the seminaries,” he wrote.
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Speaking to LifeSite’s Dr. Maike Hickson in 2018, former CDF Prefect Cardinal Gerhard Müller also pointed to the existence of “homosexual network,” saying “that (Theodore) McCarrick, together with his clan and a homosexual network, was able to wreak havoc in a mafia-like manner in the Church is connected with the underestimation of the moral depravity of homosexual acts among adults.”
The McCarrick case is the stuff of international scandal, a prominent example of a predating cleric acting out a homosexual lifestyle. On its own, it serves to demonstrate the unquantifiable danger of allowing homosexuals into seminaries and into the ranks of the clergy. Other cases are less well known but provide examples of a widespread issue.
Ireland’s national seminary of Maynooth was for many years famously embroiled in a deep-rooted homosexual subculture. Orthodox seminarians attempting to blow the whistle on homosexual activity were effectively evicted. Fr. David Marsden, a former professor at Maynooth, also left in 2016 after he realized that an unmovable “homosexual network exists among seminary council and spiritual directors.” Members of the “gay” group felt no compunction about revealing themselves to be sexually active, said Marsden at the time.
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Moving back to England’s Oscott seminary, Marsden was subsequently fired from his position there also. The priest stated he was fired in 2018 after attempting to pronounce Catholic teaching on homosexuality and opposing the inclusion of openly homosexual seminarians in the formation.
Pointing to openly homosexual seminarians, spiritual directors and pro-homosexual bishops as part of the wider problem, Marsden stated that “the homosexual cabal operating in the Catholic Church exists at the very highest level and even incriminates Pope Francis himself.” Oscott seminary officials disputedMarsden’s account.
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Additionally in 2018, former U.S. Papal Nuncio Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò issued the third of his groundbreaking public statements in which he clearly pointed to widespread homosexuality in the clergy as a direct cause of sexual abuse. Writing in light of his accusations Francis rehabilitated Theodore McCarrick while knowing of his homosexual predations, Viganò stated:
This is a crisis due to the scourge of homosexuality, in its agents, in its motives, in its resistance to reform. It is no exaggeration to say that homosexuality has become a plague in the clergy, and it can only be eradicated with spiritual weapons. It is an enormous hypocrisy to condemn the abuse, claim to weep for the victims, and yet refuse to denounce the root cause of so much sexual abuse: homosexuality.
It is hypocrisy to refuse to acknowledge that this scourge is due to a serious crisis in the spiritual life of the clergy and to fail to take the steps necessary to remedy it.
“The underlying reason why there are so many victims” is “the corrupting influence of homosexuality in the priesthood and in the hierarchy,” the former nuncio attested, commenting on the link between homosexual clergy and clerical abuse.
Just this week, pro-LGBT Father James Martin, SJ stated that in his years as a priest he has “known hundreds” of “celibate” homosexual clerics. Fr. Dariusz Oko, a Polish priest, professor and author of With the Pope Against Homoheresy, estimated that “about 30%-40% of priests and 40%-50% of bishops in the USA have homosexual inclinations” and previously told LifeSiteNews that half or more of them “at least periodically may commit serious abuses.”
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Indeed, despite the unwillingness of many high-ranking officials to link homosexuality to the clerical abuse crisis, campaigners have consistently argued that data inescapably links abuse to homosexuality. Speaking on EWTN in 2018, international child rights attorney Liz Yore cited the John Jay report noting that “largely it’s not a pedophile crisis. We know from the John Jay report, 81 percent of the victims were males, mostly teens. And we know because our subclass of predators are all male, this is a male-on-male crime, and primarily with teens between the ages of 14 to 17. Those are the victims.”
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As part of his 2018 interview with Dr. Hickson, Müller also related clerical homosexuality with abuse: “It is part of the crisis that one does not wish to see the true causes and covers them up with the help of propaganda phrases of the homosexual lobby.”
“Fornication with teenagers and adults is a mortal sin which no power on earth can declare to be morally neutral,” he said.
Amid the outrage breaking on various sides of the divide within the Church over Francis’ alleged use of the term “faggotry,” there lies a more central issue.
Leave aside the fact that Francis reportedly used a somewhat offensive term, for his biographers already attest he is accustomed to using such language; leave aside the fact he appeared to be defending Church teaching, for actions speak louder than words, even words leaked from a meeting; for intentionally or not, Francis highlighted one of the greatest crisis of the Church – one which he has arguably helped to blossom – namely, the predominance of homosexuality within the clergy and the hierarchy.
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