Migrants from around the world have made this stretch of California the top place to enter the U.S. illegally
 
By Patrick J. McDonnell
Foreign Correspondent
Photography by Robert Gauthier
May 16, 2024 3 AM PT
 
DULZURA, Calif. —  At dawn came a dozen men, women and children from Nepal. Following in the twilight was a cluster of families from Peru, Ecuador and Colombia, along with half a dozen Chinese men.
Behind them were men from India and couples from Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan carrying infants.

Scattered migrants kept arriving at the top of a steep dirt road to surrender to U.S. border agents in order to claim asylum.

“I am finally here, in America,” Justin Agbobli, 30, who had traveled from Togo in West Africa, proclaimed in French. “Today is a dream come true!”

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2024-05-16/migrants-from-around-the-world-have-made-this-stretch-of-california-the-top-place-to-enter-the-u-s-illegally

Biden asserts executive privilege over recordings from classified documents probe

The White House has 'protective assertion of privilege over any remaining materials responsive to the subpoenas that have not already been produced'

By Emma Colton , David Spunt Fox News
Published May 16, 2024 8:49am EDT | Updated May 16, 2024 9:08am EDT

The White House asserted executive privilege over audio and video recordings related to Special Counsel Robert Hur's interviews with President Biden.

"I write to inform you that the President has asserted executive privilege over the requested audio recordings and is making a protective assertion of privilege over any remaining materials responsive to the subpoenas that have not already been produced," Associate Attorney General Carlos Uriarte wrote in a letter Thursday to Reps. Jim Jordan and James Comer, chairmen of the Committee on the Judiciary and Committee on Oversight and Accountability, respectively.

"It is the longstanding position of the executive branch held by administrations of both parties that an official who asserts the President’s claim of executive privilege cannot be prosecuted for criminal contempt of Congress."

Hur led the investigation into Biden's handling of classified documents following his departure as vice president under the Obama administration. Hur announced in February that he would not recommend criminal charges against Biden for possessing classified materials after his vice presidency, citing that Biden is "a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory."

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https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-asserts-executive-privilege-classified-documents-probe-recordings

Don't Buy The Spin: Americans Are Getting Poorer While Prices Keep Going Up
Will Kessler


Americans’ real weekly earnings dropped sharply in April and still remain well below their level when President Joe Biden first took office, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).

Real average weekly earnings fell to $1,191.93 in April, declining by 0.4% in the month and 4.8% compared to the start of Biden’s term in January 2021, according to data calculated by the Daily Caller News Foundation from the BLS. Prices have risen over 19% since Biden first took office and 3.4% in the last year, degrading the value of Americans’ wages. (RELATED: Fed Bank Quashes Biden’s Claim That Corporate Greed Is To Blame For Inflation)

The decline in earnings is also due in part to a decrease in the average number of weekly hours worked, which fell from 34.9 in January 2021 to 34.2 in April, according to the BLS.

Real wages have been degraded due to persistently high inflation under Biden, which was measured in April at 3.4% year-over-year after peaking at 9% in June 2022.

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https://dailycaller.com/2024/05/15/americans-getting-poorer-prices-going-up/

 
Report: Biden Planning Executive Order to Close Border
By Sandy Fitzgerald    |   Thursday, 16 May 2024 08:43 AM EDT
 

President Joe Biden is planning to announce executive action allowing him to close the U.S.-Mexico border when the number of immigrants coming into the United States climbs to 4,000 per day, according to a new report.

It's not clear when Biden would issue the order, the New York Post reported Wednesday, citing an unnamed federal government source.

But another source close to the White House said the order would tie into a provision in the bipartisan bill the Senate rejected in February that would have given Biden the authority to start expelling migrants when border crossings reached a daily average of 4,000.

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/biden-executive-order-border/2024/05/16/id/1164955/

 Biden aides worry about psychological torment as Hunter heads for trial

The president has expressed fear that his son may serve time in prison.


By Jonathan Lemire, Betsy Woodruff Swan and Eugene Daniels

05/15/2024 05:00 AM EDT

President Joe Biden will soon have to watch and wait as 12 jurors in his home state decide whether his son is guilty of felony gun charges — a case brought by his own Justice Department.

For the White House, the scenario of Hunter Biden’s first criminal trial, all but assured to start June 3, is an unprecedented event in American political history that they hoped never to face.

While aides insist that the White House will have no involvement in the case, brought by special counsel David Weiss, some fear it could dramatically impact the president himself, more psychologically than politically.

Three advisers granted anonymity to speak about private deliberations said they, and members of the First Family, are worried about the weight Hunter Biden’s trial will place on the president at an already difficult time for him politically. Biden has expressed fears to them about the possibility that his son will serve time in prison.

“He worries about Hunter every single day, from the moment he wakes up to the moment he goes to sleep,” said one of the three advisers. “That will only pick up during a trial.”

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https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/15/hunter-biden-trial-psychological-torment-00158028