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Global industry fueling scientific fraud in the United States

In southern India, a new enterprise called Peer Publicon Consultancy offers a full suite of services to scientific researchers. It will not only write a scholarly paper for a fee but also guarantee publishing the fraudulent work in a respected journal.

It is one of many “paper mills” that have emerged across Asia and Eastern Europe over the last two decades. Paper mills are having remarkable success peddling tens of thousands of bogus academic journal papers and authorships to university and medical researchers seeking to pad their resumes in highly competitive fields.

These sophisticated outfits also engage in trickery to get papers published, infiltrating journals with their own editors and reviewers and even resorting to bribery, according to investigators and a white paper from Wiley, a New Jersey-based publisher. The scale of the fraud is eye-popping: One Wiley subsidiary, Hindawi, retracted more than 8,000 articles two years ago for suspected paper mill involvement.

U.S. universities and regulators have been able to brush off the threat of paper mills because they have mostly sold their services in China, where research integrity standards are rarely enforced, according to experts. But these rogue operators are building on their success in Asia and expanding to the U.S. and Western Europe, where the prize is the prestige of naming an author on an article from a famous university.

“Paper mills have become a huge business,” said Jennifer Byrne, professor of molecular oncology at the University of Sydney, who studies the enterprises. “If some journals are pushing back on papers from China, and they probably are, it makes sense that paper mills will try to diversify their clientele and start working with people in different countries.”

As paper mills expand from the fringe to the center of research, placing professional-looking articles in high-impact journals owned by major publishers like Springer Nature, experts worry about the potential harm to scientific discovery. Researchers willing to break the rules in a Darwinian world of ‘publish or perish’ may mislead other scientists who incorporate their false findings into their own work. “We know little about the actual impact of paper mills on research,” Byrne says. “But if scientists are building on bad information, they are wasting resources and not making progress in their fields.”

Paper Mills Spread to the West

Paper mills appear to be expanding at a rapid clip, aided by AI that enables them to overwhelm journals with dozens of papers in a short period of time, adding to the challenge of detecting fakes. A study by the Committee on Publishing Ethics (COPE) revealed that, on average, journals suspected about 2% of submitted papers came from mills about five years ago. After journals published fake papers, however, the paper mills saw the opening and pounced, accounting for nearly half of new submissions.

In a corrupt echo of Moore’s Law, a 2024 study concluded that the number of suspected paper mill articles has been doubling every 18 months, “far outpacing that of legitimate science.”

Researchers in the West appear to be a small but important part of the expansion. Journals have retracted more than 140 papers that name a U.S. co-author because of evidence of organized fraud, and almost 200 retracted papers name a co-author from Western Europe, according to data collected by watchdog group Retraction Watch and analyzed by Cristina Candal Pedreira, an assistant professor at the University of Santiago de Compostela in Spain. Scholars at many leading U.S. universities, including the University of California, Emory University, Georgia Tech, and the University of Texas, have co-authored papers linked to paper mills in recent years.

The retraction notice for a 2022 paper co-authored by computer scientist Yanhui Guo, a rising star in the field of AI at the University of Illinois Springfield, is typical. Wiley said its investigation of Guo’s paper “uncovered evidence of systematic manipulation of the publication and peer-review process. We cannot, therefore, vouch for the reliability or integrity of this article.”

It’s difficult to know what role, if any, the U.S. researchers had in collaborating with a paper mill. Assuming the paper is a fake, a U.S. co-author could have purchased it or secured an authorship position on it, or they may have been unaware that a paper mill was involved.

Guo’s retracted article illustrates the different possibilities. It has six authors from five countries – a wide geographical spread that’s common on articles from paper mills, which sell authorship slots worldwide, says Elisabeth Bik, a California microbiologist who investigates scientific misconduct. Indeed, Guo could be unaware that another co-coauthor was collaborating with a paper mill, if that occurred.

It should be up to universities to answer ethical questions about their faculty. But misconduct investigations are cloaked in secrecy. Asked if the university is investigating why two of Guo’s papers were retracted, a spokesperson said, “UIS is following standard protocols and cannot comment further.” Guo didn’t respond to several requests for comment from RealClearInvestigations.

Many U.S. researchers who co-authored suspect papers were born in another country and came to the U.S. as young scholars to make their names. Mohammed Ali Al-Garadi obtained his Ph.D. in computer science in Malaysia before joining Emory University in Atlanta as a postdoctoral researcher in 2019, according to his IEEE profile. While at Emory, he was one of nine authors from seven countries on a 2021 paper that three years later was retracted by a Wiley journal because of “indicators of systematic manipulation of the publication process.”

In 2022, Al-Garadi landed a plum job at highly ranked Vanderbilt University, where he’s a research assistant professor in biomedical informatics. Al-Garadi and Vanderbilt didn’t respond to questions about the retracted paper, one of two of his articles yanked from a journal.

When more prominent U.S. researchers are named on alleged paper mill articles, experts say “name theft” might be involved. A scholar such as Jonathan Koomey, who has taught at Stanford University and has written more than 200 articles and reports and 10 books, would have no apparent motive to conspire with a paper mill. The mill, however, would have a motive to put his name on a paper without his knowledge to give it more credibility with a publisher.

Koomey says he had no idea that his name and prestigious affiliation – Stanford – appeared on a retracted paper by a Sage journal until RCI recently asked him about it. Koomey’s name was listed with four scholars from China on a paper about an English oral evaluation algorithm. Koomey’s specialty is another field altogether: energy and climate change.

“This is a paper to which I never contributed and have no idea who these authors are,” said Koomey. “They just stuck my name on the paper without my knowledge.”

When U.C. Berkeley retired senior researcher Xiao-Yun Lu recently discovered that he was also a victim of name theft on two retracted papers linked to paper mills, he was alarmed. “I must stop this from happening immediately,” he told RCI.

Lu believed the lead author of the papers, Yi He, a former post-doctoral student at Berkeley, was responsible. So Lu emailed He, who now works at Wuhan University of Technology in China, and told him to follow proper scientific methods in his work and to stop putting his name on papers.

“The research approaches, data and results all need to be scientific and objective,” Lu wrote to He in a September email shared with RCI.

He responded, defending the retracted papers as “original achievements” and assured Lu that he won’t use his name on papers in the future. “I apologize for the trouble caused to you,” He wrote.

How Paper Mills Operate

Wiley, a major academic publisher with 1,600 journals, has warned that its industry faces a “deepening crisis” from paper mills. They first appeared about 15 years ago, and many have evolved into sophisticated businesses, producing complex papers with all the trappings of science. Mills appear to hire scientists, perhaps drawing from the surplus of Ph.Ds., and include lab facilities in their sales pitch.

The basic business model is selling authorship slots, if not the entire paper, to scholars on a wide variety of topics, from cancer research to economics to education, according to the COPE report. Paper mills write the articles, create charts based on online or fabricated data, respond to queries from editors, and guarantee publication in journals indexed to essential platforms like the Web of Science. It’s a wall-to-wall scam so convincing that journal editors, who are typically unpaid and have limited time for vetting papers, are easily deceived.

Researchers pay more for papers published in high-impact journals and for being the first listed author. While getting named on a low-profile conference paper might cost only $100, the price might jump to $1,200 for the first position in an influential journal, said a source in the academic publishing industry who asked to remain anonymous. “The highest fee I have heard of is $8,500.”

Paper mills operate with a remarkable degree of transparency, advertising their illicit services online to attract customers, with little concern that they will be shut down. They also offer legitimate services that can serve as camouflage for illegitimate ones.

The website of India’s Peer Publicon Consultancy, for instance, leads off with an offer to correct the grammar and spelling on medical-related papers. That’s fine. Then comes the offer of help in every facet of writing and publishing a literature review article for about $300. Dig deeper to find this suspect offer: “You can join as a co-author for the review articles we prepare for publication in indexed journals.”

RCI reached out to Professor P. Mutha Prasanna, a managing director of a group that oversees Peer Publicon. He is also a co-author of a highly cited paper that is full of plagiarized text, according to Elisabeth Bik, the integrity consultant. Prasanna told RCI that the paper “was drafted mainly by another author” and that Peer Publicon “was recently launched and it has nothing to do with that paper.” He didn’t answer questions about Peer Publicon’s activities.

In Russia, a paper mill called International Publisher says it operates in a glassy tower in central Moscow and claims to have published more than 4,000 papers, some in high-impact journals. “We can help teach authors how to write articles that will be accepted into international journals,” according to its website. “We can also handle any aspects of the work ourselves.” That includes enhancing the “scientific value of the article (improving the research, updating the relevance and analysis, logically organizing the content, strengthening the conclusion).” The pricing is laid out in a chart: Writing or revising a paper costs $2,400, and getting it published in a top-ranked journal is an additional $4,200.

Anna Abalkina, a research fellow at the Institute for East European Studies of the Free University of Berlin, brought unwanted scrutiny to the paper mill with her 2023 study. International Publisher had listed on its website the titles of papers with co-authorship slots for sale. Abalkina matched the titles with those that were later published, identifying at least 451 papers co-authored by more than 800 scholars over a three-year period. International Publisher didn’t respond to a request for comment.

The Russian paper mill has extended its reach into the United States. A student at an East Coast university put her name on two published papers with titles that first appeared, almost word for word, on articles for sale on International Publisher’s website. The Russian company also publicizes a long list of U.S. universities that it claims provide “reviewers” for its articles.

After Abalkina’s study was published, she says the paper mill tried to cover its tracks. It published thousands of abstracts of legitimate papers on its website, claiming it had helped to get them published. “Some of the legit authors complained to a prosecutor,” she said. “But the paper mill continues to operate.”

Secretly Infiltrating Journals

Producing fraudulent articles is only part of the paper mill contagion. They have also infiltrated journals to get them published.

Journal editors commonly ask authors to recommend scientists who can peer review their work, which theoretically should provide a shield against publishing fake research. But when a mill produces the article, it sometimes recommends its own reviewers who then provide positive feedback to editors about a bogus article, according to the COPE report. In 2021, a SAGE journal pulled 122 published papers because of “clear indications that the submission and/or peer review process … was manipulated.”

When publishers seek outside editors for special issues, a popular practice, paper mills have also taken advantage of the opportunity to fill the temporary role. These “guest editors” then fill the special issues with rubbish articles and fabricated authors. A Chinese paper mill boasted about bribing a guest editor with a thousand dollars per paper for a special issue by publisher Hindawi, according to a report in For Better Science. The widespread infiltration of Hindawi’s special issues led to the mass retractions and the closing of the Hindawi brand by Wiley.

Journals that focus on human gene research appear to be a favorite target of paper mills, partly because experimental results are simple to fabricate, according to Sydney’s Byrne. Her research shows that paper mills, which in the past appeared to focus on marginal journals because they may be easier to penetrate, have moved up the food chain, presenting a greater threat to cancer research.

Byrne and other researchers found that two top-rated high-impact cancer journals from Springer Nature, Molecular Cancer, and Oncogene, have published a significant number of papers with wrongly identified nucleotide sequences that suggest foul play in many cases. Over a span of years ending in 2020, 18% of the Molecular Cancer papers examined in the study contained errors, as did 40% of the 2020 Oncogene papers.

“Although we can’t be sure that all of these papers with nucleotide sequence errors came from paper mills, at least some of these papers seem likely to have been produced with paper mill support,” Byrne said.

As paper mills penetrate more influential journals, they may also be collaborating with a significant number of Western researchers who seek such top-shelf exposure. While most of the co-authors of the problematic papers in Molecular Cancer are in China, 8% are in the U.S., and 11% are in Western Europe.

Battle Against Paper Mills

Despite the work of scientists like Bik, Abalkina, and Byrne to expose paper mills, there’s not much getting in the way of their expansion. In the U.S., much of the responsibility rests with universities and their research integrity officers. But they face institutional hurdles, from researchers afraid to blow the whistle on colleagues to pressure from university leaders to slow-walk investigations that could taint an academic institution’s reputation.

University officials may not even know that a faculty member has been subjected to a retraction. A North Carolina State University computer science professor still posts his paper on the school’s website without noting that it was retracted by a Sage journal in 2023 due to concerns that could include “unauthorized third party involvement” and “unverifiable authors and reviewers.” The researcher didn’t respond to a request for comment.

In response to the onslaught of fraudulent scholarship, journals are bolstering their efforts against paper mills. A Wiley spokesperson told RCI it has developed AI-powered detection systems to intercept suspect papers before they reach peer review while also scaling up its internal integrity teams. Some publishers, such as Taylor & Francis, are combating authorship sales by making it harder for mills to add and remove names from papers.

Considering the rapid growth in the number of indexed published papers, topping 2.8 million in 2022, publishers don’t vet every paper for every type of wrongdoing. They tend to find and reject the submissions that are clearly fraudulent.

“It’s the people who are lazy or not very good at faking it who probably get caught,” the publishing source said. “But if a paper mill doesn’t put anything in a paper that’s obviously fake and they are not too greedy in terms of numbers of authors, they can definitely get it published.”

Byrne agrees that publishers are still routinely fooled by sophisticated fakes. She was recently asked to peer review a cancer paper submitted to a journal at one of the big five publishers. As a leading expert in the field, Byrne found serious flaws in the complicated paper, which wrongly described the behavior of cancel cells. It was a typical paper mill product – a fancy piece of rubbish.

Byrne’s peer review report to the editor was blunt: “This paper must not be published. It’s absolutely not true,” she said. “But they didn’t listen to me.” Instead, the editor asked the authors to make revisions on the paper that’s now headed for publication.

“Honestly, this drives me nuts,” Byrne said. “And this is happening at scale all around the world.”

This article was originally published by RealClearInvestigations and made available via RealClearWire.

Trump confirms peace deal in Israel: ‘ALL of the Hostages will be released very soon’

President Donald Trump greets Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. (Official White House photo by Daniel Torok)

One day after the two year anniversary of Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack against Israel, President Donald Trump announced a peace deal to free the remaining hostages has finally been accepted.

“I am very proud to announce that Israel and Hamas have both signed off on the first Phase of our Peace Plan,” Trump said on Truth Social.

“This means that ALL of the Hostages will be released very soon, and Israel will withdraw their Troops to an agreed upon line as the first steps toward a Strong, Durable, and Everlasting Peace. All Parties will be treated fairly!

“This is a GREAT Day for the Arab and Muslim World, Israel, all surrounding Nations, and the United States of America, and we thank the mediators from Qatar, Egypt, and Turkey, who worked with us to make this Historic and Unprecedented Event happen. BLESSED ARE THE PEACEMAKERS!”

The measure is reportedly set for signing at noon Thursday in Israel.

Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said: “With God’s help we will bring them all home.”

BREAKING: TRUMP AND NETANYAHU ANNOUNCE GAZA DEAL SIGNED

Trump announced on Truth Social that Israel and Hamas have signed off on the first phase of the peace plan, with Netanyahu simultaneously declaring “With God’s help we will bring them all home.”

The coordinated… https://t.co/ORXrmX5c4c pic.twitter.com/giRFmnx64W

— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) October 8, 2025

“If Donald Trump doesn’t get the Nobel Peace Prize, the committee should disband,” said Fox News anchor Laura Ingraham on the development.

“This is a historic achievement,” Alex Marlow, editor-in-chief of Breitbart News told Ingraham. “He has taken away all of Hamas’ leverage over Israel. It’s gone now. The hostages were the leverage.

“If they’re coming home now, we’re gonna have a celebration, but it also could be the end of Hamas as a military power in the region. This could be the beginning of lasting peace in the region, God willing.”

President Trump speaks for the first time on Hannity’s show about the newly signed HISTORIC Middle East peace deal.

“The world has come together around this deal.”

Blessed are the peacemakers.

HANNITY: “Mr. President, if you would have asked me two years ago, yesterday, if… pic.twitter.com/AO9Qke9C0k

— Overton (@overton_news) October 9, 2025

NEW: President Donald Trump tells Fox News’ Sean Hannity that Iran will play a role in the Israel and Hamas peace agreement. pic.twitter.com/hXpt3X9qDY

— Liberty Nation (@libertynation) October 9, 2025

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‘Almost ridiculous’: Board member of school that banned boys from girls’ sports reveals inspiration for move

U.S.(U.S. Air Force photo by Ray Bahner)

A school board member at a California district that just recently defied leftist Gov. Gavin Newsom and state precedents to say that boys would not be allowed in girls athletics has revealed the inspiration for the common-sense move.

Kern High School District trustee Derek Tisinger was interviewed by Fox and said he and his colleagues “had to witness a Christian school forfeit to one of the schools in its district over a trans athlete.”

It was difficult, he said.

“People try to say, ‘Hey, it only affects a small amount of people,’ but there were probably 30 girls that practiced and dreamed their whole life about playing volleyball, and they didn’t get to play,” Tisinger said. “To sit here and talk about this, it’s almost ridiculous.”

He said he has sympathy for the boy who was on the girls team, and created the dispute.

“This young man, he has every opportunity to play in any sport, men’s sport, he can play golf, tennis, he can do whatever he wants to do, but I don’t believe that he has the right to come in and displace a girl on a team and take her playing ability away and possibly taking away a chance for her to get a scholarship down the road,” Tisinger said.

Kern, the largest high school district in the state, has joined more than a dozen other districts in the state in defying Newsom’s leftist agenda.

The trigger for Tisinger was the decision by Bakersfield Christian to forfeit its freshman-sophomore game to Ridgeview High in the final week of September.

Bakersfield explained, “As a school grounded in the authority of Scripture, we affirm the biblical view that sex is determined by God at conception.”

A report at Fox said the resolution was authored by Chino Valley Unified School Baord President Sonja Shaw, and was pushed through his own district by Tisinger.

There now are 16 districts in California defying the state.

“People in our community and our district know that we are concerned about biological boys playing in girls’ sports, and we don’t want it to happen,” Tisinger added.

Tisinger was threatened by parents who advocate for the transgender agenda, but he cited the warnings from the federal government and President Donald Trump that schools who allow boys in girls athletics risk the potential loss of funding.

‘Crazy’: Joe Rogan says whoever put Tulsi Gabbard on terrorist watchlist ‘should be in [bleeping] jail’

President Donald J. Trump congratulates Tulsi Gabbard after she was sworn in as the director of National Intelligence in the Oval Office of the White House, Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025. (Official White House photo by Daniel Torok)

Podcast host Joe Rogan on “The Joe Rogan Experience” on Wednesday denounced whoever was responsible for placing Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard on a suspected terrorist watchlist during the Biden administration.

Whistleblowers disclosed in 2024 that the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and Federal Air Marshals (FAM) were surveilling Gabbard while she was traveling, asserting that she was placed on a TSA list known as the “Quiet Skies” program.

Rogan highlighted Gabbard’s record of service in Congress and the military on his podcast, arguing whoever put her on the list should be jailed and ashamed.

WATCH:

“She was a U.S. congresswoman for eight f***ing years. She served overseas in a medical unit, right? So, she was deployed twice in a medical unit in the middle of the f***ing war,” Rogan said. “And you’re labeling her a terrorist? Whoever did that — whoever signed off on that — should be in f***ing jail. That’s crazy. That’s such an abuse. That’s such an abuse of power. And you want to talk about going after your political enemies in a sick, third-world country way — that’s a great example of that.”

“You put a congresswoman for eight years on the terrorist watchlist — for what? For what reason? None? No reason? There’s not some crazy tweets where she’s made … She’s not even like [Republican Georgia Rep.] Marjorie Taylor Greene, who gets hog wild sometimes,” he added. “She’s not like that … Tulsi’s not like that at all. And you put her on a terrorist watchlist? Shame on you. F***ing shame on you.”

Gabbard told Matt Taibbi’s Racket News in 2024 that she and her husband endured “random” searches at airports that spanned up to 45 minutes.

“It happened every time I boarded,” Gabbard told the outlet.

“I’ve got a couple of blazers in there, and they’re squeezing every inch of the entire collar, every inch of the sleeves, every inch of the edging of the blazers,” she said. “They’re squeezing or padding [sic] down underwear, bras, workout clothes, every inch of every piece of clothing.”

President Donald Trump’s administration ended the “Quiet Skies” program in June.

“It is clear that the Quiet Skies program was used as a political rolodex of the [former President Joe] Biden Administration—weaponized against its political foes and exploited to benefit their well-heeled friends,” Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said at the time.

The program had grown after Jan. 6, 2021, to monitor individuals who protested at the Capitol, according to Taibbi.

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Judge makes significant ruling for schools on ‘children’s book promoting same-sex marriage’

A school board does have the authority, and can, remove from its school library shelves a book intended for children that promotes same-sex “marriage,” according to a judge’s ruling.

“By definition, libraries must have discretion to keep certain ideas—certain viewpoints—off the shelves,” explained Chief U.S. District Juge Allen Winsor of the fight involving the Escambia County School Board in Florida.

In exercising that discretion, this library did what “libraries have been doing for two centuries,” and that is “decide which books” are of “requisite and appropriate quality” to be on shelves, the judge wrote.

At issue was a “penguin-themed children’s book depicting ‘same-sex marriage.'”

“And Tango Makes Three” is a story about two male penguins who adopt, hatch, and raise Tango, a penguin chick at New York’s Central Park Zoo, Liberty Counsel explained.

The fight moved into the courts in 2023 on a lawsuit by the book’s authors and a young female student.

Winsor’s conclusion was that “the government does not create a forum for others’ speech by purchasing books for a public library.”

The result of the ruling is that the book’s authors have no First Amendment right to a spot on a government library shelf and the student has no First Amendment right to receive the authors’ specific message through the library.

“Judge Winsor explained the library’s decision to remove the book does not keep the book or its viewpoint from the student since the book is available elsewhere. Furthermore, Judge Winsor noted, the authors also do not have a First Amendment right to demand that the library ‘ignore the book’s viewpoint’ when deciding whether to include it in its collection,” Liberty Counsel explained.

Winsor cited Shurtleff v. City of Boston, a U.S. Supreme Court case where Liberty Counsel won a unanimous victory in 2022.

In that case, Boston illegally censored Christian viewpoints by denying flying the Christian flag in a public forum open to “all applicants,” and so the high court held when a city opens a public forum to private expression, it cannot discriminate based on viewpoint without violating the First Amendment, the legal team explained.

Winsor’s ruling found a library collection “does not constitute a public forum” for private expression, so libraries can make its own determinations on “what constitutes worthwhile literature.”

Winsor said libraries send messages about their own protected messaging in selecting some books and not others.

“Liberty Counsel founder Mat Staver said, “School boards have the discretion to keep inappropriate material off the bookshelves and away from children. Gender ideology has no place in public education and school officials should protect children from indoctrination.”

‘Growing chorus’: Senators call for Democrat operative Jack Smith to be disbarred

Jack Smith

Jack Smith, the Democrat-appointed special counsel who ran some of the party’s lawfare cases against President Donald Trump, deserves to be punished, according to Republicans in Washington.

And, after recent revelations that he spied on the telephone records of multiple GOP senators, several of them are working to see that that includes disbarment.

One investigative reporter has suggested that Smith was collecting information on the GOP senators because, had Kamala Harris been elected, he wanted to pursue further charges against the president and other Republicans.

With Harris’ catastrophic loss, the cases against Trump vanished.

Now a “growing chorus of outraged Republican senators, led by Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), are escalating their fight against former Special Counsel Jack Smith and the federal government, vowing a slew of legal challenges and professional complaints over the alleged tracking of their private phone records,” a report confirmed.

Graham also has promised to “sue the crap” out of anyone involved in the monitoring was done without proper cause.

BREAKING: Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) is making moves to have Jack Smith DISBARRED after he and the Biden FBI spied on GOP senators post-2020

“I’m already working on a letter to the DC Bar, a complaint letter, to file against him! He should be DISBARRED.”

Disbarring… pic.twitter.com/39zYyvRqaJ

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) October 7, 2025

Blackburn confirmed a letter is being dispatched to call for Smith’s disbarment because of the “appalling weaponization” he did in the federal government.

This is an abomination. I was just briefed by @FBIDDBongino about this appalling weaponization of the FBI under Jack Smith. I will not let it stand. https://t.co/VtnGfjDlZe

— Sen. Marsha Blackburn (@MarshaBlackburn) October 6, 2025

“I’m already working on a letter to the DC Bar, a complaint letter, to file against him! He should be DISBARRED.”

According to a report at Gateway Hispanic notes Smith is “accused of orchestrating Biden’s FBI espionage on eight Republican senators following the 2020 elections. Smith now faces a formal complaint for his professional disbarment.”

We recently uncovered proof that phone records of U.S. lawmakers were seized for political purposes.

That abuse of power ends now.

Under my leadership, the FBI will deliver truth and accountability, and never again be weaponized against the American people. pic.twitter.com/VuU8O68zCG

— FBI Director Kash Patel (@FBIDirectorKash) October 6, 2025

Lauren Boebert: Ilhan Omar ‘should be sitting in prison or at least sent back to Somalia’

U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo.

Republican Congresswoman Lauren Boebert of Colorado on Wednesday said her Democrat colleague in the U.S. House, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, should be immediately investigated, thrown in jail or deported back to Somalia.

“This is someone who absolutely should be investigated. I think she should be sitting in prison or at least sent back to Somalia,” Boebert told journalist Benny Johnson.

Johnson indicated he had heard from top sources at the Department of Homeland Security there is “demonstrable evidence of Ilhan Omar marrying her brother for U.S. citizenship.”

U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn.

Boebert explained: “In Congress, it’s going to be really difficult to have a real investigation like we should.

“Look, Nancy Mace bravely put a privileged resolution on the floor condemning the remarks by Ilhan Omar. And Ilhan Omar was trying to troll everyone in the process leading up to the vote. And she just simply wanted to censure her. She said you should not be on the Foreign Affairs Committee with the rhetoric that you have. And then, of course, it went against our Congressional code of ethics that we agreed to when are signed in as members of Congress.”

Johnson comically interjected: “You have a code of ethics that says you can’t marry your brother?”

“You know that might need to be put in,” Boebert replied.

“I think that’s in the Bible,” said Johnson.

“Our Bible,” Boebert stressed.

BREAKING: I have heard from top sources at the Department of Homeland Security that there is demonstrable evidence of Ilhan Omar marrying her brother for U.S. citizenship.

I asked Rep. Lauren Boebert about this and she says Omar should be immediately investigated, thrown in… pic.twitter.com/NsUD33LZax

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) October 8, 2025

President Donald Trump is no fan of Omar, having written on Truth Social: “Wasn’t she the one that married her brother in order to gain Citizenship? What SCUM we have in our country, telling us what to do and how to do it.”

BREAKING: President Trump calls Ilhan Omar “SCUM”

And calls her out for MARRYING HER BROTHER.

There’s no recovering from this. pic.twitter.com/HHLeZbPZcU

— Jack (@jackunheard) September 18, 2025

“I think she should be impeached. I think she’s terrible,” Trump told reporters. “She should be impeached, and it should happen fast.”

BREAKING: President Trump calls for Ilhan Omar’s impeachment after confirmation she MARRIED her own brother to defraud the system.

This is FRAUD. She must be removed from Congress NOW. pic.twitter.com/yTuKjZ1ccW

— ø (@TrumpUpdateHQ) September 20, 2025

FRAUD: Ilhan Omar married her brother, according to marital records uncovered by Steven Crowder. Given her repeated expressions of hostility toward America and open loyalty to Somalia, Secretary Rubio should move forward with denaturalization proceedings and deportation.

h/t… pic.twitter.com/VYsIZlHrOe

— @amuse (@amuse) September 22, 2025

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WATCH: Trump hosts roundtable on Antifa at White House

Lawsuit challenging Trump’s new visa policy: What it really means

President Donald Trump walks on the West Colonnade to the Oval Office, Monday, July 21, 2025. (Official White House photo by Molly Riley)

In the battle over President Donald Trump’s Sept. 19 H-1B visa proclamation, a new lawsuit seeks to block Trump’s $100,000 H-1B visa fee, intended to defend U.S. workers, restore integrity to the immigration system and stop corporate abuse of cheap foreign labor.

The coalition behind the lawsuit, composed of unions, universities and religious institutions, claims the surcharge is unlawful. But their challenge underscores a deeper problem: Too many American organizations have grown comfortable exploiting the visa system while benefiting from tax breaks, public funding and American freedoms.

The case, filed in California federal court, argues that Trump overstepped his authority under the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). Yet the law grants the president explicit power under 8 U.S.C. §1182(f) to restrict or condition the entry of any non-citizens when their admission is “detrimental to the interests of the United States.” The proclamation cites precisely that concern: that the H-1B program has been “deliberately exploited” to replace Americans, suppress wages and create dependency on foreign labor.

8 U.S.C. §1182(f):

Suspension of entry or imposition of restrictions by President

Whenever the President finds that the entry of any aliens or of any class of aliens into the United States would be detrimental to the interests of the United States, he may by proclamation and for such period as he shall deem necessary, suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens as immigrants or nonimmigrants, or impose on the entry of aliens any restrictions he may deem to be appropriate.

Why the administration says the fee is necessary

For years, law-abiding Americans have watched as tech firms, staffing agencies and academic institutions bypassed domestic workers through complex visa loopholes. Investigations by federal agencies have documented fraud, kickbacks and racketeering tied to outsourcing companies that dominate H-1B hiring. The new $100,000 surcharge functions as both deterrent and filter, discouraging frivolous petitions and forcing employers to justify their hiring decisions.

Under previous rules, companies paid only a few thousand dollars in filing fees, an amount small enough to treat the visa as disposable. Trump’s order changes that calculation, ensuring that H-1Bs are used only when no qualified Americans are available – the actual purpose Congress originally intended. It also exempts current visa holders and petitions already in process, focusing solely on new overseas applications.

A system long abused

The proclamation’s preamble cites evidence that the program has become a tool for wage suppression and labor displacement. In some industries, “specialty occupation” designations have been stretched so broadly that mid-level coding, accounting or analyst jobs are routinely outsourced to foreign nationals at lower pay. Law enforcement has prosecuted multiple H-1B-reliant firms for visa fraud and money-laundering conspiracies, confirming that such misuse is not rare. Indeed, it is routine.

These practices don’t just undercut U.S. workers. They weaken America’s national security. The transfer of sensitive data and intellectual property through offshored labor pipelines has already drawn scrutiny from defense and intelligence agencies. Trump’s team frames the $100,000 surcharge as a national-interest safeguard, balancing economic policy with security oversight, both legitimate functions of executive power.

The lawsuit’s real implication

Opponents argue that the surcharge violates administrative procedure, but their lawsuit exposes another truth: Many U.S. institutions have built their models around low-cost foreign labor instead of training Americans. Universities advertise international recruiting programs while cutting domestic admissions.

Hospitals contract foreign nurses through visa agencies instead of funding local pipeline programs. Tech firms lobby for more visas, even as they conduct mass layoffs of American staff.

Trump’s proclamation forces accountability. By raising the cost barrier, it challenges employers to prove necessity, not merely convenience or cost savings. If companies truly face shortages, they can still file. If not, they’ll have incentive to invest in apprenticeships, retraining and education in the United States of America. It’s a measure meant to rebalance the labor market in favor of American citizens, not global labor brokers.

Can Americans harmed by past abuse seek justice?

Workers who lost jobs to unlawful visa practices may already have recourse under existing law. Claims of discrimination or displacement can fall under 8 U.S.C. §1324b, Title VII, or RICO statutes if fraud or collusion can be proven. Thus, even if Trump’s proclamation were to be somehow struck down, which would predictably embolden further abuse, civil or class-action lawsuits would be the only path for Americans to challenge the system that replaced them.

A defining test of sovereignty

Whether courts uphold or block the policy, the stakes go beyond one visa category. The H-1B debate now represents a broader question: Who governs America’s labor market – elected leaders accountable to citizens, or corporations accountable to shareholders? President Trump’s move asserts that immigration should serve the national interest, not undermine it.

The current lawsuit will proceed through the courts in the coming months. For millions of American workers sidelined by years of outsourcing and offshoring, the outcome will decide whether immigration law protects them … or the companies profiting from their replacement.

‘Two bullets to the head’: Legacy media make Dem’s advocacy for killing lawmaker and family a scandal about GOP ‘pouncing’

Violence is surging across American politics, including the horrific tragedy of the assassination of Turning Point USA co-founder Charlie Kirk just weeks ago, not to mention riots against federal ICE agents enforcing American border laws.

So is the rhetoric about violence, highlighted by the comments from Jay Jones, a candidate for Virginia attorney general, that have been found in which he says it would be a “good thing” for a former colleague, and the former colleague’s children, to die.

Those thoughts came out in a message from Jones, who wrote, “Three people, two bullets. [Republican House Speaker Todd] Gilbert, [H]itler, and [P]ol [P]ot. Gilbert gets two bullets to the head. Spoiler: put Gilbert in the crew with the two worst people you know and he receives both bullets every time.”

Delegate Carrie Coyner had pushed back on Jones’ agenda, to which Jones confirmed that he was advocating for the Gilbert children to die.

“Only when people feel pain personally do they move on policy,” Jones continued. Jones also called the Gilberts’ young children “little fascists.”

A RealClearWire report confirmed leading Virginia Democrats have condemned the “hypothetical scenario” created by Jones, “but none have called for Jones to step aside.”

Jay Jones

Jones subsequently issued a statement that he was “embarrassed” by the texts.

Now the Federalist has a report pointing out that the actual statements are not what legacy media are saying is the problem.

That’s actually that GOP members are “pouncing.”

“The Associated Press’s (AP) Steve Peoples and Olivia Diaz want readers to know that the Democrat candidate for Virginia attorney general fantasizing about murdering Republicans pales in comparison to the real story: Republicans ‘pouncing,” the report said.

“Instead, Peoples and Diaz think the real story is that ‘Republicans are seizing on recently unearthed violent rhetoric from Virginia’s Democratic candidate for attorney general in a push to re-shape the state’s governor’s race — and tarnish the Democratic Party nationally — less than a month before Election Day.”

That report calls out how, “President Donald Trump, like Republicans across Virginia, called for Democratic state attorney general candidate Jay Jones to quit the race over the weekend. The Republican president described Jones as a ‘radical left lunatic’ and sought to link him to former Rep. Abigail Spanberger, Virginia’s Democratic candidate for governor.”

“For AP and the rest of the corporate media, the problem isn’t that a Democrat fantasized about political assassination — it’s that Trump might notice such rhetoric and point out that Democrats have a violence problem. It’s not that Republicans are responding to a Democrat’s bloodlust, but rather, according to the AP, that they are exploiting the moment,” the Federalist said.

“That, ultimately, is the entire point of this piece of propaganda. The AP’s framing isn’t about condemning a Democrat candidate’s violent rhetoric — it’s about trying to portray Republicans’ outrage as opportunistic. The scandal itself is an afterthought to the AP. Instead of asking why a major-party nominee fantasized about murdering Republicans and children, the AP tries to cast Republicans as simply milking the story for political gain,” it explained.

‘Certifiably crazy’: Dem running for Virginia’s top cop gets demolished for wanting to murder Republican lawmaker and his wife and children

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