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Some good news. Democrats behind massive Illegal “victim claims racket”. Parents, better do you due diligence before taking your kids to ANY medical appointment. mrossol

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On Friday, Reuters reported, “Detained migrants have no constitutional right to bond hearings, US court rules.” It reversed an earlier decision against the government, which was great, but the best part was the extra spicy language the judges salted into the ruling. “To the extent petitioners seek to vindicate a liberty interest to be free from physical restraint … they can do so at any moment by agreeing to leave the country,” Fifth Circuit Judge Cory Wilson (Trump appointee) wrote in ⁠the terrific decision.

In plain English, Judge Wilson was saying, fine, go ahead, leave detention anytime you want— by going back to Mexico City. The jail cell has one door; it’s marked “Departures,” and you can walk through it anytime you want. But if that’s not what you want, then sit tight, follow the rules, and wait for your due process when we get to it.

This week’s terrific 10-7 ruling by the entire Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal overturned a previous decision from July in which a split three-judge panel on the same Fifth Circuit found (2-1) that detained migrants did have a right to be released on bond while they awaited their detention hearings. This shell game has long been a key part of the Democrats’ strategy; first they overwhelm the system with so much volume that hearings take forever to be scheduled, then they complain to courts about the hearing delay as the reason migrants should be released on bond.

The fact that the released migrants never show up for the later hearings is a side issue for progressive judges. I guess they expect people who are already here illegally to start complying with laws at some point.

⚖️ Missing from most articles about the ruling, including Reuters, was any reference to the critical fact that, in 1996’s Clinton-era immigration overhaul, Congress added language requiring that any alien not clearly eligible for lawful status “shall be detained.” Shall be. But there was a loophole, since a different part of the statute allowed some immigrants already in the US access to a bond hearing.

So for thirty years, the constitutional question could be avoided, since everyone used the loophole for virtually every detained migrant, and bondbecame more or less automatic, a bureaucratic rubber stamp, and nobody questioned it.

Then the Trump 2.0 Administration closed the loophole.

Starting last year, thirty years after the 1996 law and right after the Trump 2.0 crackdown, some progressive judges finally decided that the 30-year-old law had always been unconstitutional. This required a much bigger finding that illegal aliens get constitutional rights as soon as they cross the border— and that is what this fight was really ultimately about, as well as why it was so important.

The majority answered the question directly: “Because Petitioners have never been admitted to the United States, due process does not entitle them to additional proceedings beyond what Congress has provided before they may be detained pending removal.” In other words, they only get the rights Congress allows them; they don’t get automatic Constitutional rights.

In case it wasn’t perfectly clear, Judge Wilson added: “The Constitution does not entitle them to a bond hearing.”

⚖️ But the spiciest language came from Judge James Ho (Trump appointee), who wrote a separate concurrence, apparently so he could take a judicial baseball bat to the dissenting judges. In this and some other terrific decisions, I think Judge Ho has been auditioning for a Supreme Court appointment. (Since Judge Ho became a citizen at age 9, he checks diversity boxes and is immunized from the usual ‘supremacist’ playbook.)

Perhaps because of his experience of legally becoming an American, Judge Ho understands borders. “Our country’s sovereignty is not a national game of red rover,” Judge Ho sarcastically wrote.

That was just the warm-up. Ho then called the idea that border jumpers get Constitutional rights “Un-American”— and even linked it to the “no one is above the law” slogan. Hilariously, to the “no one is above the law” line, Judge Ho added “not even the President,” which was the next closest thing to judicially rubbing it in.

There was more to enjoy, but I’ll leave you with this one: Judge Ho took a parting shot at progressive judges who are eagerly trying to bestow full citizenship rights on criminal aliens. If judges are going to do that sort of thing, Judge Ho asked, why should anyone listen to them at all?

There are layers of irony here. During the pandemic, progressive judges helped the government lock law-abiding citizens in our homes. (Not criminals, though, who were released from jails, for safety.) The liberal judges were not squeamish about the Constitution then. Now they indignantly insist that non-citizens cannot be detained indefinitely— that would be progressively preposterous.

What if we just tell the progressive judges that the illegals have covid, flu, or the measles? Or … does their germaphobia also flip off and on, in the same way their respect for the nation’s founding document does?

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Following the prior story’s theme, this might be the funniest immigration scam yet. On Thursday, the Chicago Tribune reported, “Federal judge sentences ‘puppeteer’ of U-visa scheme to year longer than prosecutors recommended.” This is one of those stories that was both completely unbelievable and perfectly predictable at the same time. Meet “citizen” Parth Nayi of Chicago, Illinois. He’s an entrepreneur of sorts:

Imagine paying $5,000 to $30,000 to be robbed at gunpoint. It would be in a coffee shop, at an appointed time, by a man you were expecting. You surrender the cash. He runs off. You call the police, shaken and —this part is important— extremely helpful to cops.

You were not mugged; you were serviced. It is armed robbery as concierge product, with scheduling, coaching, and a parting gift: paperwork proving you were a crime victim in America, which entitled you to a special compassionate visa so you could stay here as long as you need to recover from your traumatic experience.

In its Wednesday press release about his sentencing, DOJ prosecutors said Parth Nayi, 29, of Woodridge, Illinois, ran exactly that kind of forward-thinking business.

Over a two-year period between 2022 to 2024, Nayi “organized and participated in hundreds of staged armed robberies” at coffee shops, restaurants, liquor stores, and gas stations nationwide, including Chicago and outposts in Louisiana and Tennessee.

Think of this: Hundreds of pretend robberies. Thousands of fake victims, or customers.

Nayi recruited the “victims,” who needed visas. He paid off store owners for using their locations. He hired and paid fake robbers, and then coached everybody through their parts. Reporting on the indictment added a touch of realism: in some cases, Nayi and co-organizer Kewon Young told the robbers to actually hit the victims. You know, to make it look convincing. Full-on method acting, slightly painful, but with a federal payoff.

It didn’t always go smoothly. In July 2023, at Bucktown Food & Liquor in Chicago, the performance nearly turned fatal when a clerk was “accidentally” shot during a staged robbery. (Fortunately, the clerk survived.) Here’s how ABC-7 reported it at the time:

The robbery wasn’t the product. The product was what came next: certification from local law enforcement that the “victim” had suffered a qualifying crime and been helpful in the investigation. Armed with that signature, the poor victim could then file for a special “U visa” with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.

Congress, bless its heart, created the U visa in 2000 on a theory that sounds decent in a committee conference room: any foreign national who has genuinely been beaten or trafficked might be too scared about being deported to call the police. So let’s offer him legal status and a direct path to a green card if he helps catch the criminal. Genius!

Congress, perhaps sensing there could be some unanticipated side effects of this generous policy, capped it at a generous ten thousand visas a year, with the bonus of family members getting to ride along with no cap.

You might think that the very specific set of circumstances —violent crime, against (not by) an illegal immigrant, who was then cooperative with police— wouldn’t produce very many applications. You’d be wrong. By June 2025, there were more than 416,000 applications pending for those 10,000 annual slots. Nearly a half million. Weird!

That is a lot of violent crimes against illegal aliens.

The explosion in applications happened because, in June 2021, the Biden Administration added an accelerant called the “bona fide determination.” All an immigrant needed to do was file a complete-looking petition, clear an initial background check, and then USCIS would give them a work permit and protection from deportation— years before anybody could figure out whether the claimed crime was real.

In other words, they won just by applying. They no longer had to even get the U-Visa to collect the prize. They could just file something plausible-sounding enough to get into the queue. Being in the line was good enough. Best of all, there was no 10,000-victim annual cap on the line— with no upper limit.

Progressive experts called this compassion. But anyone with a passing acquaintance with human nature could see it as a golden ticket for more crimes. Pay a puppeteer like Nayi once, claim victimhood, get certified as helpful, file the forms, and stay here legally for years or decades while the government ground through an impossible backlog that just kept getting bigger and bigger and longer and longer.

In case you were tempted to dismiss him as “unique” or “ultra-rare,” don’t. Nayi had plenty of company. In Louisiana last year, prosecutors charged two sitting police chiefs, a former police chief, a marshal, and a local businessman in a 62-count indictment alleging nearly a decade of manufactured robbery reports that never even happened— charging $5,000 per fake victim, with hundreds of names listed in the indictment.

When police chiefs start selling crime certifications, something has gone badly off the rails.

In April, Representative Chip Roy (R-TX) introduced the End U Visa Abuse Act seeking to completely repeal the program. Roy calls it “a magnet for fraud” that lets illegal aliens “avoid deportation, and secure work permits they were never meant to have in the first place.”

Nayi pleaded guilty earlier this year to conspiracy to commit visa fraud. On Thursday, Judge Mary M. Rowland sentenced him to two years in federal prison —a year more than prosecutors requested— and fined him $50,000. (He made millions, but he also had a bad gambling habit. So.) Five more people —all Indians— were convicted in the same investigation.

Prosecutor Saqib Mohammad Hussain called Nayi “the main organizer” at “the center of almost every single one” of the robberies. He got two years, for hundreds of staged robberies and thousands of clients at up to $30,000 a head. Not to mention the shot clerk. If there is a volume discount in federal sentencing, Nayi qualified.

The sentencing landed under President Trump’s DOJ broader immigration fraud crackdown, announced this week by U.S. Attorney Andrew S. Boutros along with the FBI and Homeland Security Investigations in Chicago. The State Department announced that over 250,000 visas have now been revoked under Trump for lawbreaking and fraud. Spokesman Tommy Pigott said, unnecessarily, “A U.S. visa is a privilege, not a right.”

Real victims are not hard to find. Assuming any actually exist, genuine crime victims wait somewhere behind thousands of Nayi’s customers in that 416,000-application queue. And a real clerk in Bucktown got shot in the middle of somebody else’s immigration theater.

What, exactly, did progressives think would happen when victimhood became the most valuable thing a person could claim at the border? Did they think people already breaking the immigration laws would ever consider manufacturing fake crimes? Or did progressives know that is exactly what would happen?

Let me know what you think in the comments.

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On Friday, the Colorado Free Press (a conservative blog, but I’m sourcing it since corporate media ignored the story) reported, “More Than 18,000 Children Vaccinated Under Anesthesia At Children’s Hospital Colorado Since 2020, Report Says.” But of course they did.

“Close Your Eyes, We’ll Immunize” is the actual, official name of a Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia —CHOP— program that gives kids flu shots while they are sedated or under general anesthesia for surgery. (They might want to rethink that acronym.)

Picture this: Your child is scheduled for ear tubes or a tonsillectomy— some procedure involving the two scariest words in parenting: “general anesthesia.” You are anxiously waiting in pre-op at dawn, your kid freezing in a gown the size of a below-average handkerchief. This, the hospital has determined, is the ideal moment for an additional sales conversation.

In Colorado, they built it into the software: starting in October 2020, a “Best Practice Alert” popped up on the intake nurse’s screen when a child checked in for elective anesthesia. No flu shot on the chart? Staff “obtained parental consent,” and a standing order sent the vaccine to the operating room to be injected after the child was out cold.

It worked spectacularly! Well, it did if by “worked” you mean “moved product”: 30 perioperative flu shots in six weeks before the alert, versus 1,063 in 25 weeks after — up roughly 3,500 percent. Lead author Dr. Tyler Morrissey called surgery a teachable moment and a possible model for other shotsunder anesthesia, “including the COVID-19 vaccine.”

Six years on, a March 2026 article in AAP News, the American Academy of Pediatrics’ own publication, reported that Colorado had vaccinated “more than 18,000” children under “deep sedation or general anesthesia,” including “additional vaccinations” for “children with neurocognitive conditions who are unable to tolerate vaccination without sedation.”

Philadelphia delivered 2,054 flu doses under sedation in 2025-26 alone, and now wants to expand into covid, RSV, and “catch-up” shots.

Until very recently, doctors thought this was a bad idea. A 2007 systematic review in Pediatric Anesthesia examined 277 papers— finding not one directly studying vaccine responses under anesthesia— recommended spacing the procedures: at least two days after an inactivated vaccine, and 14 to 21 days after a live one: “to avoid the risk of misinterpretation of vaccine-driven adverse events as postoperative complications.”

In other words, if the child develops symptoms, how do you know whether it’s a reaction to the jab or signs that something went wrong? Between 11% and 16% of kids who get a flu shot spike a fever. So if your sedated child wakes up hot and miserable, is it the vaccine, the anesthetic, or a surgical infection?

The journals said, good luck sorting that out! Anesthesiologist Dr. Madhava Setty, who trained at CHOP, called it “stunningly irresponsible” — a vaccine “contributes nothing to the success of the operation.” Dr. Peter McCullough just called it “malpractice.”

The model is spreading, the way viruses and models always do when there’s a metric and a reimbursement code attached. UNC, Seattle, and Akron have now run trial versions; Lurie Children’s in Chicago announced its own program on October 19, with nurses asking “on the day of a scheduled procedure.” CHOP’s team, presenting results, noted with pride: “Not only did no families pay out of pocket for the flu shot, we generated >$60,000 in revenue!”

Sixty thousand dollars is couch-cushion money for a major hospital, which almost makes it worse.

The Trump Administration yanked the CDC’s cutesy “Wild to Mild” flu ad campaign in February 2025, and demanded true informed consent instead of marketing— a move no previous Republican administration would have attempted against the jab priesthood. In January, acting on President Trump’s directive to review peer nations’ schedules, HHS trimmed universal recommendations from 17 diseases to 11, moving flu from recommended to shared decision-making between families and their doctors.

This was, in Secretary Kennedy’s words, “strengthening transparency and informed consent” that “protects children, respects families, and rebuilds trust in public health.” The AAP sued, got the revised schedule suspended in federal court, and published a competing schedule while its journal promotes vaccinating unconscious children, behind its $35 paywall.

Litigation continues.

Meanwhile, pediatrician Dr. Michelle Perro offered simpler advice, good regardless of whether you ultimately say no: “Keep your eyes open, ask questions, understand exactly what is being given to your child and why, and then make your own informed decision.” Ask before surgery day, she suggested, in writing, what else is on the standing-order menu and the fine print?

The folks on the other side of the clipboard have already told us, in their own slogan, exactly when they prefer doing business: after our eyes are closed.

Have a blessed Sunday! Thank you, as ever, for your continued loyal support. We’ll meet back here tomorrow morning, for another installment of essential news and caffeinated commentary.

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