In a five-year span, thousands of minors had gender reassignment surgeries, puberty blockers or hormone treatments at a number of children’s hospitals and medical facilities across the country, a medical watchdog is reporting via their new national database.

Do No Harm, a national advocacy group of medical professionals against “woke” hospital agendas, shared the database, called “Does My Hospital Transition Kids?”, with Fox News Digital this week. In total, the group conservatively identified 5,747 minor patients who received sex-change surgery, and 13,994 received some sort of gender reassignment treatment between 2019 and 2023.

The data, de-identified to meet HIPAA compliance rules, shows nearly $120 million total in charges for treatments like sex change surgeries and hormone blockers. 

“This is a very, very important issue, and it’s a very important issue to get right,” Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, Do No Harm’s chairman, said in a press conference this week. 

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“And I think, as you’ll hear, we’ve really been meticulous in trying to make sure that the data are as clear as possible and are as accurate as possible. And because of that, you’re going to find that, if anything, we’re showing the lower limits of what’s going on in this whole arena,” he said.

“And to be certain that we’re not overstating it one iota, we’re probably, and almost certainly, understating the nature of the problem,” he added.

Researchers analyzed insurance claims from private insurance companies, Medicaid and Medicare, excluding data from Kaiser, self-pay and charity care. They also profiled 68 children’s hospitals across the country and identified what they called the “Dirty Dozen” institutions, which is a “list of the 12 worst-offending children’s hospitals promoting sex change treatments for minors,” according to the new website.

The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) was identified as number one, followed by the Connecticut Children’s Medical Center, Children’s Minnesota, Seattle Children’s, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, Boston Children’s Hospital, Rady Children’s Hospital, Children’s National Medical Center, UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland, Children’s Hospital Colorado, UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center.

According to the data, there are massive differences state by state, particularly in more liberal areas.

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In California, charges exceeded $28 million from over 2,000 minor patients, while Massachusetts saw around $10 million in expenses from 671 minor patients. New York also had one of the highest rates of transgender treatments for young people, with 1,154 minor patients undergoing sex changes between 2019 and 2023.

California, one of the first states to declare itself a “sanctuary state” for transgender procedures, also had the most irreversible surgeries, with 1,359 minors undergoing surgical procedures, followed by Oregon with 357, Washington with 330, Pennsylvania with 316 and Massachusetts with 300.

“Adults can do as they wish, but we feel very strongly that the science behind using these treatments in children is extraordinarily flawed and suggests that children are being harmed in that sense. One of the important issues is to develop some quantitative notion of what’s really happening in this arena,” Goldfarb said. “And there are lots of myths that are out there, lots of ideas that this is a rare event, lots of ideas that this is localized to just a few places.”

Activist and detransitioner Chloe Cole, who underwent a double mastectomy at 15 years old and put on puberty blockers and testosterone at age 13, said the new database “proves the lies from the medical establishment and radical politicians who argue that cases like mine are rare.”

“The stats in this database represent thousands of kids who are being treated like Guinea pigs for unproven, and sometimes dangerous, medical experiments. I hope politicians and parents alike use this database to see where these treatments are happening and protect their children from being rushed into irreversible, life-altering treatments,” Cole said in a statement provided to Fox News Digital.

Some of the listed hospitals’ board members have openly advocated for transgender youth care over the years. CHOP also has a specific Gender and Sexuality Development Program department, which “supports children and teens up to age 21 who are gender nonconforming, gender expansive and transgender,” according to its website.

Madeline Bell, president and chief operating officer of CHOP, affirmed at the time of the department’s launch in 2014 the hospital’s commitment to providing “culturally competent and affirming healthcare” to LGBT patients and their families.

“This is a tremendous honor that reflects CHOP’s dedication to provide culturally competent and affirming healthcare to our LGBT patients and families,” Bell stated.

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In June 2019, president of the American Board of Pediatrics, Dr. David Nichols, emphasized the increasing need for “specialized healthcare” for the growing transgender youth population during the release of the 30th edition of the “KIDS COUNT Data Book,” published by the Annie E. Casey Foundation. This annual report provides a comprehensive review of child well-being in the U.S.

“We have a growing transgender youth population that is receiving healthcare, and the pediatric community has had to adapt to that with clinics and programs to care for these kids. This was not something that existed 30 years ago when ‘KIDS COUNT’ first started,” Nichols said. 

Pressure from conservative politicians and activists has been mounting in recent years against medical providers who conduct transgender surgical procedures on children. Last month, a group of attorneys general across the country demanded that the American Academy of Pediatrics rescind its support for transgender procedures – such as puberty blockers and surgeries – on children. 

The database is just another tool to “expose the dangers of experimental pediatric gender medicine and bring the practice to an end,” Do No Harm stated in a news release. 

A lawsuit lodged against Virginia attorney general Jason Miyares and various state elections officials alleges that an effort to eliminate noncitizens from voter registration rolls runs afoul of federal law.

The suit refers to the voter roll maintenance effort as a “Purge Program” and asserts that it violates the National Voter Registration Act.

Plaintiffs include the Virginia Coalition for Immigrant Rights, League of Women Voters of Virginia and the League of Women Voters of Virginia Education Fund.

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“Less than 60 days ago, Defendants announced the latest version of an effort to implement an ongoing program to systematically remove certain voters from the rolls. But federal law mandates that no such voter cancelation or list maintenance programs may be conducted during the 90-day ‘quiet period’ before an election,” the suit reads. 

“It is an illegal, discriminatory, and error-ridden program that has directed the cancelation of voter registrations of naturalized U.S. citizens and jeopardizes the rights of countless others,” the suit claims.

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Christian Martinez, a spokesperson for Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R), has defended the process.

“Every step in the established list maintenance process is mandated by Virginia law and begins after an individual indicates they are not a citizen. The DMV is mandated by law to send information about individuals who indicate they are a noncitizen in DMV transactions to (the state elections office),” Martinez noted, according to The Associated Press. “Anyone spreading misinformation about it is either ignoring Virginia law or is trying to undermine it because they want noncitizens to vote.”

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The AP also reported that Shaun Kenney, a spokesperson for the attorney general, noted via email, “We feel confident in the position the Department of Elections has taken and stand ready to defend.”

Early voting in Virginia for the 2024 elections began last month.

North Korea is now sending troops to fight and die in Ukraine alongside Russian soldiers, according to Seoul’s defense minister, Kim Yong-hyun.

Kim told South Korean politicians on Tuesday it was “highly likely” six North Korean officers were killed in a Ukrainian missile strike on Donetsk last week. 

“We assess that the occurrence of casualties among North Korean officers and soldiers in Ukraine is highly likely, considering various circumstances,” Kim said, adding that they expect Pyongyang to send more soldiers to Russia in the near future. 

“The relations between Russia and North Korea are evolving to be almost as close as a military alliance,” he said. “As such, more North Korean troops could be deployed in the war, from how we look at it.”

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The defense chief corroborated Ukrainian reports that North Koreans were now directly involved in the war. 

Russia and North Korea have deepened relations since Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. The two nuclear-armed states signed a defense pact in June when Russian President Vladimir Putin visited North Korea.

Both Russia and Ukraine have resorted to foreign fighters as their numbers of draft-age men dwindle. 

South Korea claims that Pyongyang has become a major supplier of weapons for Russia in the war. 

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North Korea has recently ramped up production and testing of artillery and cruise missiles. In March, Russia used its veto power at the United Nations to end monitoring for violations of a ban on North Korea testing ballistic technology.

A Ukrainian drone struck a key arms depot inside Russia around 70 miles from the border, where weapons gifted by North Korea were stored, the Ukrainian military said Wednesday. 

Hugely powerful glide bombs that have terrorized civilian areas of Ukraine and bludgeoned Ukrainian army defenses were also kept at the arsenal, located 115 kilometers (70 miles) from the Ukrainian border, and some of the ammunition was stored in the open, Ukraine said.

Iran, too, has been shipping missiles to Russia in recent months, according to U.S. defense officials. Russian soldiers have been training in Iran on the Fath-360 close-range ballistic missile system, which has a maximum range of 75 miles.

On Friday, Putin will meet with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian. 

On Monday, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un wished his “closest comrade,” Putin, a happy birthday, and claimed the two nations’ military alliance would make them “invincible.”

Kim said Putin would lead “great Russia on the road to victory.”

The Associated Press contributed to this report. 

PHOENIX – Abe Hamadeh, a Republican running for Congress in Arizona’s 8th Congressional district, told Fox News Digital that ‘radical’ Biden-Harris immigration policies are leading to increased gang violence in the key swing state of Arizona that is driving voters toward former President Trump.

“The border is the number one issue for everybody,” Hamadeh told Fox News Digital. “Every time I’m in my district, it’s the number one issue people talk about because they see the effects of the border crisis every single day, and we’ve had nighttime burglary, robberies happening in Arizona, in Maricopa County, particularly, these Chilean, illegal immigrants from Chile, this Chilean gang that were breaking into people’s homes.”

Hamadeh continued, “So you’re starting to see it’s not just crime on the streets, in the inner cities, but now it’s going into the sort of suburbs and that’s why the border, everywhere I go, it’s the number one issue.”

Earlier this year, Fox News Digital reported on a home theft ring operated by members of a South American criminal gang that has been targeting high-end homes in the Phoenix area, resulting in the arrest of three Chilean citizens living illegally in the United States, authorities said. 

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The gang, which has been referred to as “tourist burglars” and the “dinnertime thieves”, has committed crimes all across Phoenix, and the suburbs of Scottsdale, Paradise Valley, Chandler, Gilbert and Peoria.

“People are concerned, rightfully so,” Arizona GOP Chairwoman Gina Swoboda told Fox News Digital. “Take Scottsdale as an example. Scottsdale is a nice little suburb in Maricopa County and there is this huge increase in homelessness. There was a series of home robberies and the police said it was a Chilean gang. So a gang from Chile came and started hitting houses in Scottsdale on a pretty routine basis and they were calling them like dinnertime robberies and you’re sitting down to dinner after you worked all day and now here comes the Chilean gang to rob your house.”

“This is crazy.”

NEW POLL SHOWS WHO HISPANICS ARE BACKING IN SOUTHWEST SWING STATES

Migrant gangs have garnered national attention in recent months, particularly in Aurora, Colorado, where a Venezuelan gang has been tied to numerous crimes in the city. 

Hamadeh told Fox News Digital that the “radical” immigration policies of the Biden-Harris administration are playing a major role in the increase of gang activity in Maricopa County.

“Everybody knows it’s a joke,” Hamadeh said about the immigration policy put forward by Harris during her recent speech along the southern border. “We can’t escape the commercials that are on constantly, she’s walking on our southern border with Trump’s border wall which we all know she opposed. She’s the most radical person ever to run for president.”

“Everybody who’s law enforcement, Border Patrol, anybody who knows what’s going on is supporting President Trump because Kamala Harris is in a position of power and has done nothing about it. So we all know that this is her attempt at trying to just, you know, get votes. But we know that the radical left is adamant about keeping our border open, and it’s creating a national security risk.”

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That national security threat, Hamadeh told Fox News Digital, will ultimately result in voters supporting Trump in a key swing state where 11 electoral votes could decide the election.

” In my district, particularly, you know, we have all these Taiwanese companies moving into my district for the microchip industry, it’s 50 to $100 billion. That’s creating a national security risk,” Hamadeh said. “It’s great for economic development, but we have an open border, and you’ve got 30,000 Communist Chinese who have crossed our southern border last year. Unvetted.”

“That’s a prime intelligence target. I’m a former military intelligence officer in the U.S. Army Reserve and we’re putting a target right now here in Arizona for some of these foreign adversaries to take advantage of. Just last week, we discovered that Iran or somebody may have snuck through ten shoulder-fired missiles possibly. I mean, we’re talking about the United States. How are we not securing our border? It seems like the easiest concept for everybody to understand and that’s where, in my district that’s why it is the number one issue and Kamala Harris is failing at it and that’s why she’s going to lose the election.”

Fox News Digital’s Louis Casiano contributed to this report

ATLANTA – The head of the Georgia Democratic Party has a message for right-leaning voters who are undecided about November’s presidential election.

“Vote for someone who is going to move us forward into the next iteration of our country,” Rep. Nikema Williams, D-Ga., told Fox News Digital in an interview roughly a month before Election Day.

“We are tired of the vision of Donald Trump and his Republican Party, because right now what we know is there are Republicans out there willing to put country over party, and we need more like-minded people willing to do that.”

Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign has sought to make inroads with a litany of different voting blocs, including those that traditionally skew Republican. 

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Likely nowhere will that strategy prove more critical than Georgia, which Democrats are fighting to hold onto after President Biden took the Peach State by less than 1% in 2020, breaking a yearslong streak of the state voting Republicans into the White House.

Williams, who took over as state party chair in 2019 and was elected to Congress in 2020, said Democrats were not taking those recent victories for granted when asked how the Left’s strategy has shifted since then.

“When I became chair in 2019, nobody believed that Georgia was in play,” Williams said. “We are a true battleground state, which means we have to talk to every voter, take nothing for granted.”

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The Democratic leader said the state party’s organizing efforts spanned all of Georgia’s 159 counties, with nearly 30 field offices and more than 200 paid staffers.

“We’ve got to have conversations with the voters about the issues that matter to them. I’m hearing about people who are so concerned that their freedom and our freedoms are on the ballot,” Williams said.

When pressed later about what issues voters are most concerned about, Williams suggested abortion access was a top topic.

She referenced the death of 28-year-old Amber Thurman, a Georgia mother who died after allegedly being denied emergency abortion care for 20 hours after a rare complication from abortion pills.

Democrats and pro-choice activists have blamed her death on the Republican Georgia state government’s recent law banning abortion after six weeks except in cases of rape, incest, or medical emergencies.

Republicans and pro-life groups have pushed back on those attacks, however. They have instead blamed Thurman’s death on complications caused by the abortion pills she took, and argued that there was nothing stopping doctors from performing surgery on her after the fetus’s heartbeat was already stopped.

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“She has an eight-year-old son growing up without a mother. But it doesn’t have to be this way. These are policy decisions,” Williams said.

Meanwhile, both the Harris and Trump campaigns have courted Georgia’s Black population — voters who were key to Biden’s 2020 victory. 

Trump has made it a point in particular to try to appeal to Black and brown men, a group of voters who Republicans believe are growing disenchanted with Democrats’ progressive policies.

Williams said Black voters were “not a monolith,” however, and signaled that the Harris campaign is also working to appeal to as many people as possible.

“We can’t win this election based on any one demographic group. We’re building multiracial coalitions here on the ground in battleground Georgia, and we’re going to continue to do that,” Williams said.

“It proved successful in 2020. It proved successful in our run-offs in 2021 and again in 2022 when we sent our senator, Reverend Raphael Warnock, back for a full six-year term. And we’re going to do it again in November.”

A newly released tranche of documents shows senior Biden-Harris administration officials gained pointers from British “disinformation” officials about partnering with social media companies and establishing an all-of-government effort for fighting disfavored content that includes elections and COVID-19.  

The revelation, which comes as Congress investigates potential censorship efforts by the executive branch in the lead-up to the 2024 election, has prompted a House Republican to propose legislation to prevent U.S. tax money going to countries that regulate online speech.

The National Security Council held a private meeting with the U.K. government’s Counter Disinformation Unit on Aug. 21, 2021. The Counter Disinformation Unit is part of the British government’s Department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport.

America First Legal, a conservative watchdog group, obtained a slide deck shown at the meeting through a larger Freedom of Information Act lawsuit with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The slides were part of hundreds of pages of documents obtained from the CDC.

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The document release comes shortly after Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., chair of the House Oversight Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Information Technology, and Government Innovation, wrote President Biden and Vice President Harris to request information on suppression campaigns the administration might be engaged in regarding political speech.

Mace is also pushing free speech abroad. Last week, she introduced the No Funds for Fascists Act, a proposal to prohibit taxpayer funds from assisting foreign governments that abridge free speech and bars aid to governments that coerce social media platforms or news outlets to block speech.

The NSC meeting with the British unit was “over-the-top,” Mace said.

“The Biden-Harris administration is so desperate to control speech and information they’re actually taking advice from foreign governments on how to violate our core constitutional rights,” Mace said in a statement to Fox News Digital. “It’s extreme, over-the-top, and un-American. We introduced our ‘No Funds for Fascists’ bill in response to this.”

A congressional probe into censorship and meetings with foreign governments “that have taken place and are likely still taking place” would be helpful, said Michael Ding, counsel to America First Legal.

“Whether it’s election misinformation or COVID-19 disinformation, you can trace these actions to a web of international NGOs pushing to police free speech, whatever the cause of the day might be,” Ding told Fox News Digital.

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Although the stated focus of the NSC conference was about combating lies regarding COVID-19, the British presentation veered into elections.

“We’ve previously stood up an operational response to counter disinformation during the 2019 European elections, the 2019 UK general election, and the local and devolved UK elections in May of this year,” the Counter Disinformation Unit slides said.

For elections, the unit shows it connects with the “central election cell,” the social media companies, strategic communication teams, and the monitoring and analysis teams.

The 2021 NSC-British meeting on disinformation included officials from the Defense Department, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the Department of Health and Human Services, the CDC, CIA, FBI and other agencies.

The America First Legal lawsuit with the CDC aimed to investigate federal government efforts to block certain information related to COVID-19.

A CDC spokesperson declined to comment for the story.

Spokespersons for the NSC and the White House did not respond to inquiries for this story.

The Counter Disinformation Unit is a British “cross-departmental” entity that includes the foreign policy and domestic policy agencies as well as intelligence services. According to the slides, it is intended to “support formulation of a coordinated government response” to misinformation.

The British slide deck included suggestions such as establishing a unit to lead a multi-department government-wide effort to stop “disinformation,” similar to the Counter Disinformation Unit.

The slides suggest legislation to regulate misinformation and disinformation policies of tech companies, including fines and penalties, similar to Britain’s Online Safety Act. The slides say of the Online Safety Act: “The bill delivers the government’s commitment to make the U.K. the safest place in the world to be online, whilst defending the freedom of expression.”

This was only a selling point to get the law passed, Ding said.

“The gaslighting the pro-censorship side engages in is ridiculous,” he said.

As a more serious matter, he said U.S. policymakers should consider the First Amendment implications of extradition policy with Britain in circumstances when Britain seeks to arrest a violator of speech laws.

The British law also references a “duty of care” that would be imposed on tech companies under the act.

“The duty of care will require companies to address harms to individuals on their online platforms, including misinformation and disinformation,” one slide says.

Further, the British officials suggested using the State Department to partner with international allies and use multilateral institutions such as the United Nations, G7 and NATO to fight what it designates as misinformation or disinformation.

The slides say an international effort provides a “Clear message that the international community is prioritising (sic) this policy area, encouraging cooperation from platforms.”

Arizona began early voting Wednesday, marking yet another major swing state where voting is underway in the 2024 election.

With Arizona now in the mix, 41 states and Washington, D.C., have launched some form of early voting.

Here is everything you need to know to cast your ballot in the state.

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President Biden scored a crucial victory in Arizona in the last presidential election, flipping the state to the Democrats for the first time since 1996.

Four years later, the state remains highly competitive. In late September, a Fox News Poll put Republican former President Trump at 50% and Democrat Vice President Harris at 47% among likely voters; an AARP survey around the same time had Trump two points ahead of Harris at 49%-47%.

Maricopa County remains the most important battleground in the state. It is the fourth-highest populated county in the United States, represents more than 60% of Arizona’s registered voters and has a large suburban population, particularly in Mesa.

Arizona is also home to a higher proportion of Hispanic voters than the rest of the country, and while they favored Biden by 19 points in the last election, they have shown signs of shifting toward Trump.

Republicans are strongest in sparsely populated rural areas, particularly Mohave County (Trump +51) and Graham County (Trump +45), but they run up the margin most in the outer suburbs and exurban areas in Maricopa, Pinal and Pima counties.

Arizona is a Toss Up on the Fox News Power Rankings.

The Grand Canyon State will also vote for a new senator after independent Sen. Kyrsten Sinema decided not to run for re-election this year. The Republican candidate is Kari Lake, a former TV news host who ran unsuccessfully for governor in 2022. The Democrats have fielded Rep. Ruben Gallego, a former Marine who represents Arizona’s 3rd Congressional District.

The Senate race is ranked Lean D.

There are two competitive House districts in Arizona:

This is a guide to registration and early voting. For comprehensive and up-to-date information on voter eligibility, processes and deadlines, please go to Vote.gov and the election website for Arizona.

Arizona began absentee voting on Monday. Residents do not need to provide an excuse in order to receive a ballot. State officials must receive a ballot request by Oct. 25 and that ballot must be delivered to state officials by Nov. 5.

Arizona offers early in-person voting beginning Oct. 9 and running through Nov. 1.

Arizona residents were required to register to vote by Oct. 7.

The Biden administration’s decision to not renew parole for more than half a million migrants who came under a controversial migrant flight program was greeted with surprise by some when it was announced, but conservatives are warning it will not make much of a difference.

“This move is yet another optics-driven smokescreen from the Biden-Harris administration,” House Homeland Security (DHS) Committee Chairman Mark Green said in a statement.

The DHS confirmed last week that the administration will not extend the two-year parole status for migrants who came in via the parole processes for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans (CHNV) program. The program, established in 2022 and expanded in early 2023, allows migrants to receive travel authorization and parole for two years.

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It allows 30,000 in each month, and so far nearly 530,000 migrants have flown in under the program. However, the administration said those paroles will not be renewed.

“As initially stated in the Federal Register notices, a grant of parole under these processes was for a temporary period of up to two years. This two-year period was intended to enable individuals to seek humanitarian relief or other immigration benefits for which they may be eligible, and to work and contribute to the United States,” a DHS spokesperson told Fox News Digital. 

“Those who do not have pending immigration benefits or who have not been granted an immigration benefit during their two-year parole period will need to depart the United States prior to the expiration of their authorized parole period or may be placed in removal proceedings after the period of parole expires,” they said.

While the decision was greeted with disappointment by some immigration activists, conservatives have noted that Haitians and Venezuelans may in many cases be eligible for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) which was renewed by the Biden administration and protects from deportation. Venezuela was renewed for TPS last year, and Haiti was renewed this summer, meaning those who arrived before those redesignations are eligible. Cubans, meanwhile, can apply for green card status via the Cuban Adjustment Act. Nicaraguans do not have a clear pathway but may be able to apply for asylum.

“There are numerous other ways these inadmissible aliens could be—and likely will be—allowed to stay, including through applying for asylum or Temporary Protected Status. Even if they don’t, however, given ICE’s low enforcement rates under this administration, most simply will not be priorities for removal,” Green said.

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Gene Hamilton, vice president and general counsel of America First Legal — an organization that worked with more than a dozen states to sue the Biden administration over the program — was also skeptical of the impact of the decision not to renew parole. He noted that the administration has no plans to wind down the program itself, so more migrants will be coming in. He called it “political theater.”

“We’re left with a situation where they’ve brought in all these people by the hundreds of thousands. They’re going to use TPS to allow them to stay here for as long as TPS is designated. And they’re not saying that they’re going to end this program in terms of bringing new people in and, of course, what that all amounts to is that none of these folks are going to be going home,” he told Fox News Digital.

He said he believes that the administration is trying to “save face” on border-related issues and also suggested that he believes that the administration may be nervous about the ongoing legal battle over the program, given the wide use of parole by the administration. 

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“If they get a poor decision from their perspective about the authority to bring in these aliens into the United States under parole, they’re going to be in a world of hurt. Because for them the abuse of the parole authority is really the end all, be all across the spectrum,” he said.

Conservatives have long argued that the use of parole, which is limited by Congress to a case by case basis, for urgent humanitarian reasons or significant public benefit.

“If they’re viewed as bringing people in and then renewing it indefinitely, it undermines the integrity of their arguments that this is only on a temporary basis,” Hamilton said.

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Hamilton also argued that it is hard for even conservative administrations to deport migrants in many cases, given the refusal of some countries to take back their nationals, in addition to legal limits on TPS. Consequently, he said that under a Biden or Harris administration, he doubts that there will be a significant number of deportations of these migrants.

“The chances are effectively zero,” he said.

The move comes as the Biden administration has claimed its more recent policies at the southern border are working. Officials have pointed to a sharp drop in illegal encounters at the border since a presidential proclamation limiting entries in June. Officials say that since June 5, they have removed or returned more than 131,000 individuals to more than 140 countries, including operating more than 400 international repatriation flights. 

“Total removals and returns over the past year exceed removals and returns in any fiscal year since 2010 and a majority of all southwest border encounters during the past three fiscal years resulted in a removal, return, or expulsion,” DHS said in a release last month.

Fox News’ Emma Woodhead contributed to this report.

It was a cringe-inducing moment.

No one expected Kamala Harris to be grilled on “The View,” comprised of cheerleaders for her candidacy. 

But Whoopi Goldberg introduced her by bellowing “the next president of the United States,” it was a slap-your-forehead moment.” Seriously?

The whole session yesterday was an in-kind contribution to the Harris campaign. 

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I know, they’re not straight journalists, they’re liberal commentators slash entertainers. They read their questions verbatim off blue cards. That’s precisely why she wanted to do the show. 

There were some reasonable questions: How would her presidency differ from Joe Biden’s? How would she handle the border? Why wouldn’t Ron DeSantis take her calls about hurricane preparations with a Category 4 storm about to hit Florida?

And then there was Joy Behar, who went on about Trump’s lies and asked how anyone could possibly support him. That enabled the Vice President to say Trump was all about personal grievances, not the voters. 

Kamala made good use of the forum, such as dishing on how she was working out and with her kids when Joe Biden called to say he was stepping aside. 

Bottom line: “The View,” an ABC program founded by Barbara Walters – it’s still in the news division – was even more embarrassing than I expected, with the ladies falling all over themselves to praise Harris and trash Trump. 

Some reasonable questions were asked, but Kamala ran circles around them and deflected what she didn’t want to answer while getting her familiar talking points in.

It was a good forum for her, and for once she came prepared to make news. In a move earlier leaked to Politico, Harris made her pitch for having Medicare reimburse caring for the elderly at home instead of only in expensive institutions – the first new policy proposal she’s made in weeks. She said she would pay for it by demanding deeper discounts on certain drugs paid for by Medicare. Needless to say, she was not exactly cross-examined on the subject.

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The ladies seemed awed that Kamala Harris was even there.

It was a very different Kamala who appeared on a “60 Minutes” prime-time special aired the night before.

To be sure, the news magazine show repeated some of her criticisms of Trump, with Bill Whitaker saying: “You have accused Donald Trump of using racist tropes when it comes to Haitian immigrants. In Springfield, Ohio. When it comes to birtherism, when it comes to Charlottesville, in fact, you have called him a racist and divisive, yet Donald Trump has the support of millions and millions of Americans.”

The veep’s talking-point response: “I believe that the people of America want a leader who’s not trying to divide us and demean.”

But Whitaker was a bulldog when it came to asking for followups again and again when the Democratic nominee offered generalities.

When asked about the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget saying her plan would add $3 trillion over the next decade – it was much higher for Trump – Harris talked about economists liking her plan and pivoted to praising small business.

Whitaker’s response: “Pardon me, Madam Vice President. The question was, how are you going to pay for it?”

This time, Harris said she’d make sure billionaires and big corporations would have to pay their “fair share,” and Whitaker expressed skepticism that Congress would approve that.

This was the question that Harris hasn’t really had to answer.

“Let me tell you what your critics and the columnists say, okay? They say that the reason so many voters don’t know you is that you have changed your position on so many things,” said Whitaker. “You were against fracking. Now you’re for it. You supported looser immigration policies, now you’re tightening them up. You are for Medicare for All. Now you’re not so many that people don’t truly know what you believe or what you stand for.”

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Harris offered this answer: “In the last four years I have been vice president, United States. And I have been traveling our country. And I have been listening to folks and seeking what is possible in terms of common ground. I believe in building consensus.” Translation: The world has changed and I have to be realistic about what I can get passed.

The interview was so heavily edited that you could see the changes several times as Harris magically limited her answers to two sentences. That’s the overproduced “60 Minutes” style, but I think it was a mistake. CBS should have run the whole thing, or a major chunk of it, unedited. 

Scott Pelley said Trump had agreed to an interview but backed out with shifting explanations, including that there be no fact-checking.

By yesterday afternoon, Kamala was taping her interview with Howard Stern, who loved Trump back in the day when they were rating women and has been totally opposed to him as a candidate and president.

Reacting to Bob Woodward’s forthcoming book saying Trump secretly sent Vladimir Putin a COVID test machine during the pandemic – which the former president denies – the VP said: “I believe that Donald Trump has this desire to be a dictator. He admires strongmen and he gets played by them because he thinks that they’re his friends and they are manipulating him full-time and manipulating him by flattery and with favor…

“This guy who is President of the United States is sending them to Russia? To a murderous dictator for his personal use?”

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Stern called it “maddening” and “insanity” that anyone would support Donald Trump. He told Harris he would vote for her, but could also vote for “that wall over there” over the ex-president.

Harris is finally starting to make some news. Imagine if she’d started some of these interviews weeks ago.