Heritage Oversight Project Files Motion to Intervene in Hunter Plea Deal, Back Up Whistleblowers

• To support whistleblowers and demand answers for the American people, The Heritage Foundation and Mike Howell, director of the Oversight Project filed a motion to intervene Tuesday in the ongoing federal case against Hunter Biden.
• The Oversight Project asked the court to reject Biden’s lawyers’ attacks on whistleblowers by attempting to seal information.
• Hunter Biden’s lawyers are brazenly attacking the brave and courageous IRS whistleblowers by arguing to the court that they improperly disclosed information. That is absolutely false. The whistleblowers followed all appropriate laws, and their testimony was properly released by the House Ways and Means Committee.

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Illegal Immigration Surges After Biden Admin Takes Victory Lap Over Border Numbers

• Illegal immigration at the southern border surged in July as the Biden administration claimed success in implementing new programs for legal entry.
• Border Patrol agents made roughly 130,000 arrests at the U.S.-Mexico border in July, in addition to roughly 50,000 migrants who came using the CBP One phone application to enter the country via ports of entry.
• Meanwhile, the Biden administration is defending the new increase in illegal immigration as still low compared to the levels before May 11, when Title 42, the Trump-era public health expulsion order, ended.
• Congress needs to defund the administration’s open-borders operations.

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AI Will Fuel Disturbing ‘Build-a-Child’ Industry

• AI’s latest product – Remini – allows users to upload photos of themselves and their partner to generate images of what their future child could look like.
• Using in vitro fertilization (IVF), fertility clinics can create and test embryos to find a parent’s "ideal" child. Seventy-five percent of IVF clinics in the United States offer genetic testing.
• Of course, it’s not inherently bad for doctors to use AI to help parents envision their future kids. What is a problem is when doctors use AI to build a child with certain looks, sex or even preselected values.
• To steward this new technology well, the first thing one must do is pay attention to it. Without thoughtful use, AI will fuel the "build-a-child" industry that turns children into products to design, market and sell.
• The purpose of every new child is not to become a product or an accessory to adult life, but every new child is a human being, deserving unconditional love.

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