Politics

UPI - President Donald Trump on Saturday morning warned that airspace over and around Venezuela is “closed in its entirety” as he mulls whether to strike the country amid a U.S. military build-up off its shore... The move comes after massing naval vessels in the Caribbean, including the Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier and its strike group, and for weeks blowing boats out of the water that are allegedly being used for trafficking drugs... “To all Airlines, Pilots, Drug Dealers, and Human Traffickers, please consider THE AIRSPACE ABOVE AND SURROUNDING VENEZUELA TO BE CLOSED IN ITS ENTIRETY,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social early Saturday ....

By Brian Lonergan, Chronicles - Importing tens of thousands to a community in just a decade, via family reunification chains rather than merit-based selection, overwhelms all prospects of integration. Large numbers of immigrants eliminate incentives to learn English, fostering enclaves where Sharia sympathies and clan feuds supersede the Constitution. Good people get lost in the tide, and those in the criminal fringe—gangbangers, fraudsters, even Al-Shabaab recruiters—thrive. ...