The Indian pilot being credited with helping save the lives of 174 passengers after being stabbed on a FlyDubai aircraft heading to Israel has “shown the world the highest form of courage,” India’s prime minister said.Narendra Modi said Thursday that Captain Smit Machchhar, “without fearing for his own life,” had “fought valiantly and prevented another 9/11-like attack from happening” on Wednesday onboard FlyDubai Flight FZ1073, which had to make an emergency landing in Tabuk, Saudi Arabia.Modi added that India is saluting Machchhar and is “praying for his wellbeing.” The Indian Embassy in Saudi Arabia described the “brave” pilot as being in stable condition after being taken to a hospital.”Captain Smit Machchhar, the Indian captain of FlyDubai Flight 1073, fought back after being stabbed in the cockpit,” according to the Israel Foreign Ministry. “Despite being severely injured, he managed to unlock the cockpit door – allowing Israeli passengers and the Emirati crew to intervene and save all the passengers.”LIVE UPDATES: FOUR AMERICANS WERE ON FLYDUBAI PLANE WHEN STABBING BROKE OUT, STATE DEPARTMENT CONFIRMSIsraeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon said on Wednesday there was “no doubt” that a FlyDubai pilot who allegedly stabbed Machchhar was attempting to bring down the plane, calling it a miracle that the aircraft was able to land safely.”We have no doubt that it was a terror attack of a radical individual,” Danon said on Fox News’ “The Ingraham Angle.””We know that there was an intention to bring that plane down, and we are grateful,” he continued.After the plane landed safely in Saudi Arabia, another FlyDubai aircraft was brought in to bring the passengers to their destination of Tel Aviv.”I did speak to [Israeli Prime Minister] Bibi [Benjamin] Netanyahu at length about this event, and it seems as though the copilot was perhaps a terrorist or perhaps a whack job. And he stabbed the pilot,” President Donald Trump had said Wednesday.NETANYAHU PRAISES HEROIC BYSTANDER IN BLOODY FLYDUBAI COCKPIT ATTACKMachchhar’s LinkedIn profile stated he has worked for FlyDubai for about four years, according to The Associated Press.Before joining the airline, Machchhar, who is from Mumbai, spent 11 years with SpiceJet, an Indian low-cost carrier, where he served as a senior commander and line training captain. He logged more than 9,750 flying hours with SpiceJet, according to the profile.SpiceJet, in a post on X, praised Machchhar’s “heroic courage” and “selfless actions.””You are a hero to us all, Captain,” the airline wrote.Machchhar, who is married and has two children, trained as a pilot at Mainland Air in the New Zealand city of Dunedin for 18 months, beginning in 2008, the school’s head Philip Kean told 1News, a New Zealand television news channel.Shota Musayev, a dentist and eyewitness, told The Associated Press how the wounded Machchhar managed to open the cockpit door to let passengers in before they grappled with the copilot.Musayev then treated Machchhar.”Poor pilot, he was just praying the whole time and was in contact with me, and I was afraid we would really lose him,” Musayev said.Fox News Digital’s Michael Sinkewicz, Stepheny Price and The Associated Press contributed to this post.
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At the Request of Families, Trump Weighs Declassification of 9/11 Records Amid Growing Calls for Transparency
Image: Wikimedia Commons (Ground Zero, DHS Photo by Tia Dufour)
Almost three weeks ago, President Donald Trump announced on September 13, 2026, that he would consider a request from families of 9/11 victims to declassify and release further records concerning potential connections between Saudi Arabia and the attacks.
This acknowledgment of the families’ plea reflects a growing demand for transparency regarding the events of that tragic day.
In light of this development, The Gateway Pundit reached out to Raymond Orzel, a financial investigator known for his expertise in international terrorist groups. Orzel is noted for his role as the inaugural director and executive co-chair of the Terrorist Financing Targeting Center (TFTC) at the U.S. Department of the Treasury.
He highlighted that since the September 11, 2001, attacks, federal authorities have intermittently released a significant volume of records to the public. However, he noted that these records are “scattered across the National Archives, FBI, CIA, courts, and FOIA records.”
This disarray complicates efforts to piece together a comprehensive understanding of the events surrounding 9/11. The documents include the 9/11 Commission records, FAA and aviation documentation, FBI investigative files, materials from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) related to flight investigations, investigative records linked to Saudi entities, additional memoranda from 9/11 Commission interviews, presidential and White House records, court documents, evidence from lawsuits, and more.
Despite the wealth of information available, Orzel pointed out that several crucial documents remain undisclosed. These include various intelligence files, FBI operational files related to the “PENTTBOM” investigation, grand jury materials, and personally identifiable information (PII), along with numerous other sources and methods that warrant examination.
The implications of releasing these records are significant. “Releasing some of these records could impact ongoing litigation or national security, which in turn, could also affect strategic relationships,” he cautioned. Yet, he finds it “illogical” that a large portion of the 9/11 Commission collection remains classified or is still undergoing processing.
Orzel argues that certain details should be made public, particularly the fact that while two of the terrorists were already on watch lists before 9/11, that information alone was insufficient to prevent them from boarding the planes.
“The records related to law enforcement and intelligence agencies who worked to track and determine how al-Qaeda and other terrorist organizations raised funds and moved money to support their operation should also be released,” according to the financial investigator. “Most would be surprised to learn of the role IRS-Criminal Investigation Special Agents played in following the money trail of the 9/11 hijackers and Al-Qaeda.”
Shockingly, the U.S. Customs Service (USCS) Office of Intelligence was also able to identify the likely terrorist hijackers. Orzel stated that within just 45 minutes of the attacks, USCS forwarded the passenger lists, which included the names of the victims and the 19 likely hijackers, to the FBI and the intelligence community. He contends that these records should also be released to further clarify the circumstances surrounding the attacks.
“After 25-years,” Orzel argued, “a lot more can be learned about 9/11 but only if the records are made available for us all to draw our respective conclusions. Isn’t that what transparency is all about?” As President Trump considers the declassification of more records, Orzel’s call for openness resonates with the ongoing quest for answers and accountability regarding one of the most pivotal events in modern history.
Understanding the full scope of the events that changed the course of history and ensures that such a tragedy is, indeed, never forgotten.
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6 Things to Know Before You Rely on Free Streaming TV
Freeing yourself from recurring monthly cable or streaming TV bills sounds like a wonderful thing.
In fact, it could save you more than $1,200 per year if you’re paying $100 or more per month on services. And, before you say “I’m not paying that much,” be sure to check what you’re paying for those video-on-demand (VOD) services like Netflix or Paramount+. Carrying just a few of those with a live TV service will get you there. It all adds up quickly!
Many budget-conscious consumers have rightfully shifted their attention to the free streaming TV market to save money.
Money expert Clark Howard has touted this emerging market segment for years as a way to get relief from continual price hikes from pay services.
But it comes with sacrifices that some of you may not be fully prepared to make.
Let’s look at what you need to know before you start canceling those paid streaming subscriptions.
6 Things To Know About Free Streaming TV Before You Cancel Subscriptions
Free streaming TV is a great way to save some cash, but it’s not a “perfect replacement” for your paid streaming subscriptions.
You’ll have to make some content sacrifices along the way. Here’s what you need to know:
1. Be Prepared to Take a Trip Down “Memory Lane” with Your Content Options
Let’s start with the bad news: Switching to free streaming TV as your primary source of content will take away most of the new content that will be the talk at the water cooler.
You won’t be finding the latest HBO hit series or the new Netflix drama on a free streaming TV service.
Instead, most of your on-demand television and movie options are going to be titles from decades gone by. The quality of these titles varies pretty significantly from service to service, so it’s important that you start with some of the best ones.
2. The Live Content Options Are Likely Better than the Last Time You Checked
Now that we’ve set the expectations appropriately for the type of content you can expect, I’d like to point out where free streaming TV is actually improving: live TV.
Free, ad-supported TV (FAST) channels are more prevalent than ever before. Hundreds of them span content genres, and they offer a nostalgic “real TV” feel that channel surfers of yesteryear will appreciate.
I recently wrote an article about the five free services I think all cord cutters should have for the best “freebie TV” experience.
I believe anyone serious about free streaming should start with Pluto TV, Tubi, and The Roku Channel loaded on their smart TV.
Together, they offer hundreds of live FAST channels plus huge on-demand libraries of older series, movies, news, weather, and kids shows.
3. You’re Likely Going to Want a Good Antenna to Get Local Channels
One of the most cost-effective ways to “fill the content gap” that you’re creating by ditching subscription TV is to make a one-time purchase of a digital antenna.
Having one of these will allow your smart TV to get over-the-air reception of your local ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX and PBS affiliates. This gives you a solid base of “new” content, including network TV dramas and sitcoms, local news, and select live sports broadcasts.
You may be surprised by how many free channels an antenna can pull in these days. It varies by ZIP code and antenna strength, but some people will receive several dozen free channels over the air at no cost.
4. Sports Fans in Your House May Be Upset
There’s no way around it: Ditching subscription TV is going to be tough on the sports fans in your household.
So many of the live sporting events are broadcast on channels like ESPN and FS1, which are not available via free services.
Your best bet for placating their concerns is to set them up with digital antenna access to local channels like CBS, ABC, NBC, and FOX for the live sports that are broadcast on those networks.
But the big compromise might be combining this with ESPN’s standalone streaming service to keep your costs low and sports nuts happy.
5. You’re Going to Experience Plenty of Advertisements
The old saying is that when something is free, you are the product that’s being sold.
That’s true when it comes to free streaming services. You’re trading in the obligation of paying a monthly subscription fee for paying with your time and attention via a copious amount of commercials.
On FAST channels, this feels a lot like a traditional “TV commercial break.” With on-demand content, this will feel similar to the ad breaks randomly inserted into your favorite shows or movies via the ad-supported tiers of paid streaming services.
6. DVR Functionality Is Rare
One of the downsides to the “nostalgic” feel of FAST channels is that most of the free streaming services treat them like they’re old TV channels, too.
That means technological advances we’ve come to enjoy, like pausing live TV to answer the phone or rewinding a show to ensure you “heard what you thought you heard,” are not a standard feature for most free streaming services.
Bottom Line
Ditching costly subscription streaming services for free streaming services and FAST channels can be a great way to trim your household budget.
But you need to go into this decision with realistic expectations.
You won’t get access to the latest and greatest TV hits. You’re going to sacrifice access to many of the top live sporting events, and you’re just not going to have the same premium user experience that a service like YouTube TV or Netflix provides.
To some, that’s a trade-off worth making to put serious cash back in your pockets. For others, it may not be quite good enough just yet.
The good news is you can try all of this at no obligation before deciding whether to cut your existing services.
Now that you know the full picture, are you willing to jump into the free streaming TV world for the sake of your wallet? We’d love to hear your thoughts in the Clark.com community.
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Federal Judge Blocks $100,000 Fee For H-1B Visas
Federal Judge Blocks $100,000 Fee For H-1B Visas
Authored by Joseph Lord via The Epoch Times,
A second federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from imposing a $100,000 fee on H-1B visas, which allow U.S. companies to hire high-skilled foreign workers.
U.S. District Judge Haywood Gilliam, based in Oakland, California, determined that the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and the State Department did not adhere to proper federal rule-making processes before the implementation of the fee went into effect.
In the 35-page decision, Gilliam on Sept. 30 blocked the agencies from implementing the fee ordered by President Donald Trump in a Sept. 9, 2025, presidential proclamation. The block will remain in place until the federal rule-making process has been followed, the judge ordered, including a formal proposal for a rule change and a standard 30- to 60-day period for public comment.
In the initial lawsuit, the plaintiffs – a coalition of unions, employers, and nonprofit organizations – requested the court block the administration from imposing the new fee and require federal agencies to process H-1B visas in accordance with existing law.
They argued in a lawsuit that Trump has no authority to unilaterally impose fees, taxes, or other mechanisms to generate revenue for the United States.
“Here, the President disregarded those limitations, asserted power he does not have, and displaced a complex, Congressionally specified system for evaluating petitions and granting H-1B visas,” the lawsuit said.
The plaintiffs, including Global Nurse Force and the American Association of University Professors, among others, claimed that the Trump administration failed to assess how the fees would affect hospitals, schools, churches, and universities that rely on the H-1B program.
“Without relief, hospitals will lose medical staff, churches will lose pastors, classrooms will lose teachers, and industries across the country risk losing key innovators,” litigation and advocacy nonprofit Democracy Forward Foundation, representing the plaintiffs, said in a statement.
The group applauded the ruling.
“Today’s decision … protects a system that was thrown into chaos overnight,” attorney Steve Bressler said.
The program offers 65,000 visas annually, with another 20,000 visas for workers with advanced degrees, approved for three to six years.
The White House did not immediately return a request for comment.
In past statements, the administration has defended the legality of its program reforms.
According to a White House fact sheet, the proclamation was to address the misuse of the H-1B program, which Trump said had been exploited by companies to replace American workers “with lower-paid, lower-skilled labor.”
White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson said the fee requirement is legal and that it was aimed at “discouraging companies from spamming the system and driving down American wages, while providing certainty to employers who need to bring the best talent from overseas.”
In June, a federal judge in Boston also temporarily blocked the fee. In July, the First U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals declined to pause the ruling.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is also suing to challenge the fee. A district judge rejected its claims that Trump lacked the constitutional authority to set the fee, and the Chamber of Commerce is now seeking a review of that decision by an appeals court.
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Thu, 10/01/2026 – 11:40
Avalanche forward Nathan MacKinnon scores a pair then drops gloves, might be the best player in the world
Wednesday night was the start of several NHL teams’ seasons, and one team that started things with crazy high expectations is the Colorado Avalanche.The 2022 Stanley Cup winners have championship aspirations pretty much every season, and a big reason for that is because they have a guy on their team by the name of Nathan MacKinnon.The reigning Maurice “Rocket” Richard Trophy recipient (and amateur scuba diver) picked up right where he left off last season, slotting a pair of goals home against Western Conference rivals Los Angeles in an 8-4 win over the Kings.NHL PLAYOFFS START WITH A BANG AS TEAM USA STAR BRADY TKACHUK DROPS GLOVES AT OPENING FACEOFFBut it wasn’t just his offensive prowess that had fans in the Ball Arena buzzing, because the man they affectionately call “Nate Dogg” let his fists do the talking as well.And those fists had a lot to say.That wasn’t a fight, that was a massacre.Apparently, Kings defenseman Brandt Clarke said some not-so-nice things to MacKinnon, so the seven-time NHL All-Star had to set him straight.And this isn’t a case of a 6’5″ mutant like Derian Hatcher picking on some tiny skill player, either.MacKinnon is giving up two inches to Clarke in the height department. As I mentioned before, Nate Dogg is one of the most prolific scorers in league history, and he’s doing this to a blue-liner.When the best player on your team can chuck ’em like that, you’re in good shape.THE CRAIG CARTON SHOW–UNFILTERED, UNAPOLOGETIC AND UNMISSABLE. DOWNLOAD HIS DAILY PODCAST NOW!Wednesday night was a reminder that the “best player in the league” conversation isn’t as one-sided as many NHL fans would have you believe.Cover your ears, Connor McDavid fanboys, but the gap between McJesus and the Dogg is closer than you’re probably willing to admit.MacKinnon has the Cup on his resume, and while he’s not quite the scorer McDavid is, there’s more to hockey than just racking up a bunch of points.In addition to the two goals and two-piece that he fed Clarke, Nate had eight shots, won six faceoffs (highest number on the team), recorded two hits, and was named the first star of the night for his efforts.The man was everywhere.No, I’m not saying MacKinnon is clearly the better player of the two, and if I had to pick one as the greatest of their generation, I’d probably go with McDavid.I’m just acknowledging the gap is as tight as it’s ever been.There’s a reason they call him McJesus, sure, but call me when the hockey messiah scores two goals and drops a defenseman in the same game.
Migrant Caravan Headed North Is Anticipating Democrat Win in Midterms
File photo: Migrant caravans headed toward the southern U.S. border in 2018. Photo: Wotancito, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
A migrant caravan of hundreds of people is moving north through southern Mexico toward the U.S. border, five weeks before the November 3 midterm elections. Republican lawmakers say the migrants are betting on a Democratic Congress taking power in November.
The caravan, called “Fe y Esperanza” (Faith and Hope), left San Pedro Sula, Honduras, on September 20. It entered Mexico four days later over the Rodolfo Robles bridge on the Suchiate River in Chiapas. About 200 people crossed without intervention from Mexico’s National Migration Institute (INM).
The group reached Tapachula with about 300 people and grew to more than 600 as migrants already in southern Mexico joined, according to EFE. Members come from Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, Ecuador and Haiti.
As of September 29, the caravan was moving along the Chiapas coastal highway and had not yet entered Oaxaca. The planned route runs along the Pacific to central Mexico, then north toward Nuevo León or Tamaulipas. Most members say their goal is to reach Mexico’s northern border and cross into the United States, while some would stay in Mexico if they can get legal status and work.
Migrants interviewed by EFE gave personal reasons for joining. José Zelaya, from San Pedro Sula, told EFE he left with seven family members and wants to reach the United States to send money home. He said the group has no leaders beyond hunger and necessity.
Vinicio Obonaga, from Ecuador, said he joined in Tapachula after two months without a response to his refugee and humanitarian visa applications. A Guatemalan woman said she first planned to go to central Mexico, but switched to the United States after an attempted kidnapping.
Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina wrote on X that the migrants are “betting on a Democrat Congress in November.” The Post Millennial reported the caravan was heading north in anticipation of Democrats’ open-border policies. Migrants in an earlier caravan made the same link.
On August 19, Real America’s Voice correspondent Oscar Ramirez posted video of migrants in Tapachula who said they were waiting for Democrats to win control of Congress. One man said they were forming a caravan of 2,000 to 2,500 people to leave on August 20.
That caravan, “Sueños sin Fronteras,” left Tapachula on August 20 with just over 600 people, headed for Mexico City. AP reported on a Venezuelan family in the group that planned to stay in Mexico until President Donald Trump’s term ends, then decide whether to return to the United States.
Cuban migrants told EFE they wanted to wait for the end of the Trump administration before going to the United States. The caravan broke up in Arriaga, Chiapas, in early September with about half its members, after the INM offered transport to Tuxtla Gutiérrez.
DHS says Border Patrol is tracking the new caravan and coordinating with international partners. White House spokeswoman Lauren Bis told Newsweek the caravan “will not be allowed into our country.” The U.S. Embassy in Tegucigalpa wrote on September 21 that U.S. borders are closed to those who break the law.
In an interview with Laura Ingraham, White House border czar Tom Homan said caravan members will be turned away or detained, prosecuted and deported, possibly to a third country.
DHS reported 8,870 Border Patrol apprehensions on the Southwest border in August, 94 percent below the monthly average under the Biden administration, and zero releases for the 16th consecutive month.
Critics abroad, including European lawmakers, the UN, and rights groups, have decried U.S. immigration enforcement while ignoring the policies of Latin American governments that cause people to leave.
In January, the co-presidents of The Left group in the European Parliament asked the European Commission to bar ICE personnel from entering the EU ahead of the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics. Italy’s Più Europa party staged a protest at the U.S. Embassy in Rome. Reform UK leader Nigel Farage said ICE had gone beyond its limit. None of these individuals or groups said a word about the socialism, corruption, and pro-crime, pro-cartel policies of Latin American governments that make those countries unlivable.
On September 7, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk told the Human Rights Council that 23 people had died in U.S. immigration custody in 2026. He urged the United States to halt returns to places where people could suffer irreparable harm, including Haiti.
The UN was mistaken in claiming that 23 deaths in ICE custody was an unusually high number or that those who died did not receive adequate medical care. All who died of illnesses received care, and most were transported to hospitals. More than one million people have been arrested, held, and deported, making 23 a small, statistically normal number of deaths from illness and suicide.
ICE held between 65,000 and 70,000 people at a time during that period, putting the annualized death rate at about 48 to 52 per 100,000 detainees. That is below the 167 per 100,000 recorded in U.S. local jails in 2019 by the Bureau of Justice Statistics.
From January 2025 to May 2026, an AP review of ICE records found 10 suicides among 51 deaths in custody. That represents an annualized suicide rate of roughly 11 to 13 per 100,000 detainees, compared with the national suicide rate of 13.7 per 100,000.
The 51 deaths represent an annualized death rate of roughly 55 to 80 per 100,000 detainees, compared with the general-population death rate of 722.1 per 100,000 in 2024. Both ICE estimates are also below the rate of about 169 per 100,000 among Americans ages 25 to 44 that year.
DHS says all detainees receive comprehensive medical care from arrival, including medical appointments and 24-hour emergency care.
As for Haiti, people were admitted to the United States under temporary programs. Haiti was designated for Temporary Protected Status after the 2010 earthquake, and that designation remained in place for more than 15 years. At some point, temporary protection has to end.
Given the ongoing crises in Haiti and other countries, essentially their entire populations could continue to claim a need for asylum. Applied to every country in crisis, Türk’s standard of halting returns to places where people could suffer irreparable harm would require the United States to keep millions under temporary protection indefinitely.
Trump answered at the UN General Assembly on September 22, saying Christians are being persecuted all over the world. He said “the craven hypocrites of the Human Rights Council have little to say about the persecution of Christians… or the crimes of the world’s most repressive regimes, yet they want America to open our borders to gangs and criminals from the world’s most dangerous places.”
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France: Bedridden 93-Year-Old Marie-Louise Raped and Strangled In Her Home; Naked Sudanese Man Found On Her Body
93-year-old Victim Marie-Louise via X
A 93-year-old disabled woman was found dead inside her home after police discovered a naked 34-year-old Sudanese man at the scene, according to prosecutors.
The suspect, according to various reports, has been placed under formal investigation for murder preceded or followed by rape, adding another horrific case to France’s increasingly bitter fight over immigration, crime, and the authority of the state.
Marie-Louise, also known to neighbors as “Juliette,” had suffered a stroke and had been bedridden for months. Those who knew her called her “the little grandmother of the neighborhood” and described a vulnerable woman who depended on others simply to get through everyday life.
Her neighbors sounded the alarm Sunday afternoon after screams, insults, and the sounds of blows erupted from inside the house. Police found the front entrance locked, went around the back and encountered blood before reaching the bathroom, where Marie-Louise lay naked and motionless.
Officers found the suspect unclothed and apparently intoxicated, with some accounts saying he was asleep or dazed on top of the elderly woman. Prosecutors said he fought officers during the arrest and injured one of them; a later breath test registered 0.92 milligrams of alcohol per liter.
The autopsy revealed the scale of the violence investigators are examining. Toulouse prosecutor David Charmatz said examiners detected injuries suggestive of sexual violence, fractures to a rib and the spine, bruising to the face and neck trauma compatible with asphyxiation.
Authorities formally placed the Sudanese national under investigation for murder preceded or followed by rape and requested that he remain in pretrial detention. He remains presumed innocent unless convicted, while forensic and toxicological work continues.
The early reporting produced conflicting accounts of his immigration status, a point that matters in a case already exploding into France’s migration debate. Some outlets initially described him as illegally in the country, while later reporting identified him as a Sudanese refugee with lawful status and no criminal record; the supplied reports do not conclusively resolve that discrepancy.
For France’s sovereigntist right, however, Toulouse comes amid a larger argument about what Marine Le Pen, Jordan Bardella and the National Rally describe as decades of failed migration and security policy. Their charge is not merely that individual deportation orders go unenforced, but that successive governments transferred too much control over borders and migration to bureaucratic, judicial and European structures while admitting immigration on a scale they say the French public never authorized.
The raw immigration numbers give that dispute political weight. France ended 2025 with nearly 4.5 million foreign nationals holding valid residence permits, representing 8.1% of the population counted in the Interior Ministry measure, while the country also registered more than 116,000 asylum applications that year.
The weakness of France’s removal system has been documented by the Senate itself. Only 10.9% of OQTF removal orders were executed during the first nine months of 2025, while senators described the level as extremely low despite an increase in forced returns.
Those figures, to RN and other immigration restrictionists, amount to evidence of a state that has spent years admitting people more effectively than it removes those ordered to leave. The party frames that imbalance as part of a wider failure by what it portrays as a pro-immigration political establishment in Paris and Brussels.
Bardella has made the alternative explicit. In speeches this year he has promised that an RN government would “systematically” expel foreign criminals and offenders, restore minimum sentences, expand prison capacity and end automatic sentence reductions.
His immigration program goes substantially further than tougher criminal enforcement. Bardella has pledged a national referendum on immigration, abolition of birthright citizenship in its current form, national preference in parts of welfare and housing policy, and tighter national control over who may enter and remain in France.
That sovereignty argument sits at the center of the political project associated with Bardella and Le Pen. RN materials repeatedly argue that immigration policy should ultimately be decided by French voters and national institutions rather than judges, NGOs or EU authorities, with Bardella declaring that a people unable to determine its own migration policy has surrendered a fundamental element of sovereignty.
Cases such as Toulouse therefore strike directly at RN’s strongest political theme: the claim that borders and public safety are connected questions and that governments must answer for the foreseeable consequences of their policy choices. Critics of the current system argue that after years of high immigration and weak removal enforcement, officials cannot simply treat each new atrocity involving a foreign suspect as an isolated event devoid of policy implications.
France’s wider security picture is grim enough without exaggeration. Police and gendarmes recorded 132,300 victims of sexual violence in 2025, up 8% from 2024, and 85% of those recorded victims were female.
What fuels the anger on the right is the accumulation of individual cases involving foreign suspects, particularly where elderly and vulnerable victims are concerned. The supplied reports cite previous alleged attacks in Nice, Rennes, Paris and La Courneuve involving Tunisian, Moroccan, Sudanese and Algerian suspects, alongside other serious crimes whose perpetrators had different backgrounds.
Some of those cases raised especially direct questions about state enforcement. One involved a Tunisian suspect reportedly under an OQTF (deportation order), while another concerned a Sudanese man who had previously been convicted of sexually assaulting a vulnerable person, passed through immigration detention and was later released before another alleged attack.
The answer, for conservatives, is that nationality, legal status, deportation history and border policy become legitimate public questions whenever government decisions determine whether a foreign offender is in the country in the first place.
Investigators still have critical work to do in Toulouse, including establishing exactly how the suspect entered Marie-Louise’s house and reconstructing the final hours of her life. Neighbors said she sometimes left access available for relatives and caregivers because her disability made independent movement difficult, and authorities have not publicly established a prior relationship between her and the suspect.
Marie-Louise’s killing cannot, on its own, settle France’s immigration debate. But it has arrived in a country where migration remains high, barely one in nine OQTFs (deportation orders) was being executed in the Senate’s 2025 measurement, and RN is openly campaigning to replace the existing approach with a much harder sovereignty-first system.
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U.S. Fails to Vet 40% of Afghans Admitted Under Biden, Including Terrorists Like DC Guardsmen Shoote…
Less than a year after a terrorist who entered the U.S. under a Biden administration program to help “vulnerable Afghans” shot two National Guard soldiers in Washington DC, a federal investigation reveals the government failed to properly screen an alarming 40% of the asylum candidates admitted under the risky initiative. Known as Operation Allies Welcome (OAW), the controversial program was launched to help Afghans resettle in the U.S. after the chaotic 2021 withdraw of American troops in the war-torn Islamic nation and thousands were not properly vetted. Among them was Rahmanullah Lakanwal, the 30-year-old Afghan national who ambushed and shot National Guardsmen near the White House in late November, killing a 20-year-old specialist, seriously injuring a 24-year-old sergeant and wounding two others in the attack.
On the day of the shooting, November 26, 2025, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) confirmed the “terrorist is one of thousands of unvetted Afghan nationals let into the country under the Biden Administration’s Operation Allies Welcome program.” Many on the left, including the establishment media, downplayed the information, insisting that the initiative helped susceptible Afghans, especially those targeted by the Taliban for having worked with allied forces. Under OAW around 97,000 refugees were evacuated from Afghanistan and granted a two-year parole that allowed them to apply for asylum. The DC shooter was among them. “The Biden Administration let this terrorist into the country as part of their Operation Allies Welcome program on September 8, 2021,” according to the DHS statement issued immediately after the attack. “This program let in thousands of unvetted Afghan nationals including terrorists into our country.” Lakanwal has been charged with first-degree murder while armed, assault with intent to kill while armed, and two counts of possession of a firearm during a crime of violence, in violation of the DC code.
It is unlikely that Lakanwal is the only terrorist welcomed into the country under Biden’s program, according to information disclosed in a distressing new report issued by the DHS Inspector General (IG). Big chunks of the document are redacted, presumably for national security reasons, but the message is clear; the government failed miserably to scrutinize unknown numbers of Afghans before admitting them into the U.S., creating a huge national security risk as the Lakanwal case proves. Investigators found a 40% failure rate in the vetting of asylum claims for Afghan nationals received under OAW, including candidates with known ties to terrorism. The DHS agency in charge of performing the vetting, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), oversees lawful immigration and asylum officers (AO) were supposed to use special tools such as FBI fingerprint checks, biometric matching and a case management system known as Global to screen Afghans. Incredibly, they missed a lot of red flags and although pertinent information is redacted in the report, enough is available to illustrate the serious failures.
“The prevalence and type of errors suggest U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services may have missed opportunities to potentially link names provided by applicants to derogatory information,” the DHS watchdog writes, adding that the lapse compromises the integrity of the alien registration file contents for future immigration administration and enforcement activities. During a random audit, investigators examined a sample of 678 applicants from a batch of 13,682 adjudicated Afghan evacuees who resettled in the U.S. The DHS IG identified 303 missed aliases, 23 missing security checks, 45 unresolved records and 115 other documentation issues. The missing security checks mean USCIS failed to run names against FBI and national security databases. The unresolved records show a failure to resolve potential matches to derogatory information such as national security concerns, criminal convictions and other misconduct that could impede asylum. “Most errors resulted from missed aliases or incomplete documentation, including two cases related to potential inadmissibility on terrorism-related grounds,” the report states. Some files had multiple missed aliases. Other errors involved an asylum officer failing to identify a spelling variation of a name or not reprinting and adding a document to a file.
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Ariana Grande May Break A Record She Shares With Taylor Swift
Ariana Grande could break a Grammy record she shares with Taylor Swift and Kelly Clarkson if ‘Petal’ earns a Best Pop Vocal Album nomination.