Worth Knowing, Probably Not Quite Threadworthy 2/13

[SVPete]

CNN’s Cooper: ‘Thousands’ of Immigration Officers in Minnesota ‘Probably Couldn’t Make It on a Police Force’ or Military

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2026/02/12/cnns-cooper-thousands-of-immigration-officers-in-minnesota-probably-couldnt-make-it-on-a-police-force-or-military/

On Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “AC360,” host Anderson Cooper said that, after the drawdown of immigration officers in Minnesota, there are “thousands” of officers “who probably couldn’t make it on a police force, probably couldn’t make it in the military. Some of them, obviously, have been serving for a long time, but some of them have 47 days of training because of the 47th president.”

While speaking with Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Cooper said, “What happens to all these thousands of masked men — we don’t know their identities — who probably couldn’t make it on a police force, probably couldn’t make it in the military. ...

1. Evidently, Cooper hasn't bothered to check out the background of an ICE officer who was doxxed by the STrib, Jonathan Ross. Ross served a deployment in Iraq 2004-2005 as part of his 2002-2008 service in the Indiana National Guard. He worked with US Border Patrol 2007-2015.

2. This is example # 59,672,394,978 of why CNN cannot be trusted to report news not saturated with partisan lies, spin, and bias.

[SVPete]

The Sob Stories Always Fall Apart

https://hotair.com/david-strom/2026/02/13/the-sob-stories-always-fall-apart-n3811874

The latest immigration story about which we are supposed to be outraged is that of Seamus Culleton, an Irishman who has lived in the United States for nearly two decades after overstaying his 90-day visa.
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The media trotted out his story as a cause celebre largely because they assume that those of us who believe that immigration laws should be enforced only care about the issue because of brown people. Since they cannot comprehend anybody actually believing laws should be enforced, they assume that anybody who wants them to be enforced is a racist. Liberals enforce laws by race, so the same must be true of conservatives.

The pro-Culleton argument is that he had a work visa, a pending green card application, is married to an American and has committed no violent crimes. But none of this changes the fact that his underlying 20-year stay was illegal, and there was an active deportation order against him.

Culleton was given a chance to be taken directly to Ireland, but chose to stay and fight deportation, which he must and should do while in detention. Honestly, the only thing remarkable about this case, and here comes the cynical part, is that he is White and Irish.

My emphasis. If Trump and ICE are targeting POCs, what's up with this? I do not think the MSM and their Dem string-pullers thought this through.

[SVPete]

As Labour Slow Walks Its Inquiry, Rupert Lowe Is Blowing Open the R@pe Gang Scandal; UPDATED

https://hotair.com/david-strom/2026/02/12/as-labour-slow-walks-its-inquiry-rupert-lowe-is-blowing-open-the-rpe-gang-scandal-n3811839

I'm not going to whitewash the Tories' failure to hold people accountable for the betrayal of Britain's young women in the decades-long rape gang scandal.

Tens or hundreds of thousands of British girls were...it's impossible to describe the horrors they faced, or the betrayal by the governments involved. If many of us had our way, the wood chippers could be kept busy for years as they dispensed justice to everybody involved.

But the current malefactors are the Labour government, which has been doing everything it can to slow-walk the inquiry into what happened and who was responsible for the betrayals. No doubt one of the main reasons is that Labour politicians are deeply implicated, as is Keir Starmer himself.

Starmer, you see, was head of the Crown Prosecution Service at the height of the abuses, and it isn't really clear that all the abuses have stopped yet. He opposed the idea of conducting any inquiry, calling it "far-right," and reversed course only because the political pressure was too intense to ignore.

When I say that Labour is slow-walking the process, I am not exaggerating. The official report will not be released until 2029, five years after it was initially authorized under great pressure.

Rupert Lowe MP X post)
Britain needs to understand the sophisticated level of coordination between the rape gangs - it goes far deeper than anybody realises.

A national crime network, of the most depraved kind.

Our inquiry is finding evidence of advanced links between dozens and dozens of towns and cities.

This is not simply dispersed groups of savages.

This is coordinated, right across the country. The tactics are well rehearsed, and well drilled. They know EXACTLY what they are doing.
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And there is ZERO appetite in Westminster or the media to even discuss it.

Police all over the UK, for a decade or two, looked away for one of two reasons: they viewed the perps as a victim class needing protection; they knew they would be condemned as racist if they tried to enforce the law. Kind of like MN law enforcement and the fraudsters among the Minneapolis-St. Paul Somali community.