Judicial Watch SUES for Capitol Riot Video!

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BIDEN'S DANGEROUS ATTACK ON IMMIGRATION LAW

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You knew a border free for all was coming. Just yesterday, the Biden
administration put forward mass amnesty legislation. But President
Biden isn’t waiting on Congress, he already is dictatorially pushing
for effective amnesty by attempting to largely shut down enforcement
of our nation’s immigration laws. Here are the facts and their
significance in a Judicial Watch op-ed we wrote
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for _The Hill_.

America is facing a worsening crisis of uncontrolled illegal
immigration. The Biden administration’s approach weakens the border
and nationalizes some of the most radical “sanctuary” practices.
This is dangerous and it undermines the rule of law.

Biden adopted the extremist tack during his first week in office,
issuing an executive order authorizing “catch and release
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programs at the border, and freezing deportations. It also emerged
that Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is saying that apprehended
aliens are not being tested for COVID-19
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potentially introducing new disease vectors into the American
population at large. As such, releasing them into the country places
the public health at risk, not only from COVID-19 but also, as
Judicial Watch has reported
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from tuberculosis, pneumonia and other health risks.

The number of attempted border crossings has predictably been
increasing since the election. CBP Deputy Chief Raul Ortiz
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said
that, in the first ten days of February, CBP “has averaged more than
3,000 daily apprehensions” with a further daily “more than 1,000
border-crossing ‘got-aways,’ migrants whom agents were able to
detect but not detain.”

The Biden administration announced its 100-day freeze on deportations
while it evaluates further changes to Trump administration immigration
policies. A Jan. 20 memo from Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
Acting Secretary David Pekoske, “Review of and Interim Revision to
Civil Immigration Enforcement and Removal Policies and Procedures
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laid out the details on the deportation freeze and new enforcement
priorities. The only “non-citizens” subject to removal (or even
questioning) under the terms of the memo are those deemed to be
national security threats, post-Nov. 1 border crossers, and those
“currently incarcerated for an aggravated felony
conviction and who are determined to be a threat to public
safety.” This means that Immigration and Customs Enforcement
(ICE) will not deport
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those
with other criminal records, including sex offenses, domestic
violence, drug violations, property crimes and any misdemeanors.

But Texas has put the brakes on the new policy, at least temporarily.
State Attorney General Ken Paxton sued the Biden administration over
the freeze, claiming that halting deportations was unconstitutional.
Last Monday, Judge Drew Tipton of the U.S. District Court for the
Southern District of Texas extended
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a
nationwide temporary restraining order against the deportation freeze,
ruling that allowing the Biden administration to go ahead with its
plans could potentially cause, as the state argues, “irreparable
harms
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such as impacts to Texas’s law enforcement, housing, education,
employment, commerce and health care needs and budgets.

Paxton took to Twitter to declare an all-caps “VICTORY” against
“a seditious left-wing insurrection
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But the Biden team apparently is defying the court — for
example, halting ICE deportation flights
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to
Haiti and countries in Africa in response to frantic lobbying by
immigration activists and members of Congress. If President Trump
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had similarly obstructed a
court order, Democrats undoubtedly would have rushed to file more
articles of impeachment.

The dangers of Biden’s policy approach are obvious. We already have
the grim experience of releasing criminal illegals in sanctuary
cities. Last year, 92-year-old Queens resident Maria Fuertes
was raped and murdered
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allegedly by Reeaz Khan, a 21-year-old illegal from Guyana. Months
earlier, Khan was arrested in New York City for assault, and ICE
authorities requested that he be turned over
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for
possible deportation. Instead, Khan was released under New York
sanctuary policies.

We cannot count on the Biden administration to give us the full story
about the potentially negative impacts of its misguided policies.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki
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seemed befuddled
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when asked
about the lack of COVID-19 testing for those caught and released under
Biden’s new executive order. But recall that, in 2014, it was
revealed that the Obama-Biden administration had lied when it claimed
that the 2,200 detained illegals it released into the country for
budget reasons only had minor criminal records. In fact, internal
documents
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were
uncovered that showed some of those who were released were facing
charges including “kidnapping, sexual assault, drug trafficking and
homicide.” Under the new Biden policy, at least we know that such
felons are already being given the green light to stay in the country.


These changes to immigration policies serve as critical examples of
the ideologically driven, extreme policy priorities of our supposedly
moderate president. Biden is effectively seeking open-borders amnesty
by hook or by crook, with zero regard for public health and safety –
or rule of law.

JUDICIAL WATCH SUES CAPITOL POLICE FOR RIOT EMAILS AND VIDEO

As we might expect of an agency overseen
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by four Congressional committees, the U.S. Capitol Police is not a
model of transparency or accountability.

We don’t trust Nancy Pelosi (or, frankly, any other politician) to
honestly examine the many controversies surrounding January 6, and so
we want a closer look.

Judicial Watch, stepping up for the American people, filed a lawsuit
against the U.S. Capitol Police seeking emails and videos concerning
the riot at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021 (_Judicial Watch v.
United States Capitol Police_
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(No. 1:21-cv-00401)).

We sued under the common law right of access to public records after
the Capitol Police refused to provide any records in response to our
January 21, 2021, request for:

* Email communications between the U.S. Capitol Police Executive
Team and the Capitol Police Board concerning the security of the
Capitol on January 6, 2021. The timeframe of this request is from
January 1, 2021 through January 10, 2021.
* Email communications of the Capitol Police Board with the Federal
Bureau of Investigation, the U.S. Department of Justice, and the U.S.
Department of Homeland Security concerning the security of the Capitol
on January 6, 2021. The timeframe of this request is from January 1,
2021through January 10, 2021.
* All video footage from within the Capitol between 12 pm and 9 pm
on January 6, 2021

Conveniently, Congress exempts itself from the Freedom of Information
Act, and the Capitol Police declined to give us any records about the
riot, writing in a February 11, 2021
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letter that the requested emails and videos are not “public
records.”

However, the public has a right to know about how Congress handled
security and what all the videos show of the U.S. Capitol riot. What
are Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer trying to hide from the American
people?

LAWSUIT: COACH FIRED FOR OBJECTING TO BLM/CRITICAL RACE THEORY IN
DAUGHTER’S CLASS

Too many children are being subjected to racial indoctrination in
their schools. And one parent who objected seems to have been fired
for objecting to their then-school’s attempted indoctrination of his
daughter in Black Lives Matter/critical race theory.

David Flynn, the father of two Dedham, Massachusetts, Public School
students, was removed from his position as head football coach after
exercising his right as a citizen to raise concerns about his
daughter’s seventh-grade history class curriculum being changed to
include biased coursework on politics, race, gender equality, and
diversity (_Flynn v. Forrest et al.
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_(No.
21-cv-10256)).

We filed suit on his behalf in the United States District Court for
the District of Massachusetts, seeking damages against the
superintendent, high school principal, and high school athletic
director for retaliating against Flynn for exercising his First
Amendment rights. Attorney Andrew J. Couture of Leominster,
Massachusetts, is assisting.

The lawsuit details that in September 2020, Flynn’s daughter’s
seventh-grade history class, which was listed as “World Geography
and Ancient History I,” was taught issues of race, gender,
stereotypes, prejudices, discrimination, and politics. The lawsuit
explains:

In one assignment, Plaintiff’s daughter was asked to consider
various “risk factors” and “mitigating factors” that two
people – one identified as “white” and the other identified as
“black” – purportedly might use to assess each other on a city
street. Included among the various factors were skin color, gender,
age, physical appearance, and attire. “Black,” “aggressive body
language” and “wrong neighborhood” were among the “risk
factors” purportedly assessed by the person identified as
“white.” “White” and “Police officer” were among the
“risk factors” purportedly assessed by the person identified as
“black.”

Concerned about the abrupt change in curriculum, Flynn and his wife
contacted the history teacher and principal of the school – then
later Superintendent Michael J. Welch and three members of the Dedham
School Committee. On more than one occasion the Flynns asked for
assistance in resolving the issues with the curriculum. Ultimately, in
October 2020, the Flynns removed their children from school. The
Flynns’ list of concerns included:

* Dedham Public Schools changed the curriculum of the seventh-grade
history class without notifying parents or having a course description
and syllabus available for parents to review
* The new seventh-grade history class curriculum containing
coursework on politics, race, gender equality, and diversity that were
not suitable for twelve- and thirteen-year-olds;
* The seventh-grade history teacher not teaching topics
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of
politics, race, gender equality, and diversity objectively;
* The seventh-grade history teacher using a cartoon character of
herself wearing a t-shirt supporting a controversial political
movement
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and
* The seventh-grade history teacher using class materials
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that
labeled all police officers as risks to all black people and all black
males as risks to white people.

In January 2021, Flynn, who had been the head football coach at Dedham
High School (DHS) since 2011, was called into a meeting with Welch as
well as the DHS principal and athletic director. At the meeting, Welch
handed Flynn one of the emails he had written to the Dedham School
Committee members and informed him that one of the committee members
asked Welch, “What are we going to do about this?” At the end of
the meeting Flynn was told that they, “were going in a different
direction” with the football program. Minutes later, the
superintendent, high school principal, and athletic director released
a public statement, stating that Flynn was removed as head football
coach because he “expressed significant philosophical differences
with the direction, goals, and values of the school district.”

Flynn’s written objections to the BLM/critical race theory included
the following point:

The Superintendent has had the opportunity to make sure the Dedham
teachers conduct themselves as professionals and to teach the courses
objectively and without biased opinions. He chose not to. I believe
that the real men and women in the world are the ones who have the
ability to compromise, especially in extremely controversial
situations. Compromise allows people to experience life as a
team. This is where unity brings individual pride together and
relationships begin to strengthen. I believe all relationships are
based on compromise. The Superintendent was not willing to
compromise. I explained to him that if the teacher teaches the
course objectively and removes the BLM logo from the class, people
will soon get over the fact that the class was purposely created
without notifying parents and without having a visible course
curriculum, syllabus and learning objective. Apparently, it does not
mean much to him that the Dedham Public School System is losing two
wonderful students.

We are asking the court to award damages to the Flynns and that a jury
trial be held. WCVB ABC 5 reported
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that
since his firing, several rallies have been held by current and
former students, parents, and community members in support of
Flynn. At a January 21, 2021, rally, a former Dedham High School
football player said
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“Everyone loves coach, he gets kids to play football. Coach Flynn
is an awesome guy and we’re all devastated that they fired him.”

Cancel culture has come to high school football. Coach Flynn was fired
for exercising his constitutional right to object – as a citizen and
father – to an extremist and racially inflammatory school curriculum
in his child’s history class. We can’t let that stand.

Until next week …





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