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[0] I'm Daily Wire, Editor -in -Chief John Vickley with Georgia Howe.
[1] It's Thursday, May 11th, and this is your Morning Wire afternoon update.
[2] The Biden administration will reportedly direct border patrol agents to release illegal migrants into the U .S. with minimal processing and little oversight as soon as midnight strikes tonight.
[3] Here with more is Daily Wire reporter Tim Pierce.
[4] The administration sent a memo for Border Patrol agents that directs them to release migrants into the U .S. interior without assigning them a court date or coming up with a plan to track them.
[5] The move comes as the administration struggles to contain a growing surge of illegal immigration prompted by the court -ordered repeal of Title 42.
[6] One DHS official said earlier this week, quote, We're already breaking and we haven't hit the starting line.
[7] The U .S. had a record on Tuesday, tallying more than 11 ,000 migrant apprehensions at the border in a single day.
[8] Federal authorities have arrested a U .S. citizen accused of being a Chinese communist spy.
[9] Daily Wire senior editor, Ash Short, has more.
[10] Lutang Liang, a resident just outside of Boston, Massachusetts, was charged with plotting to act as an agent of a foreign government in court on Tuesday, according to the Associated Press.
[11] Officials claim that Liang began communicating with the Chinese Communist Party in or around 2018 via several methods such as phone calls and over -encrypted smartphone apps.
[12] The arrest comes just weeks after the feds busted an alleged Chinese communist police station in New York City.
[13] In reaction to former President Donald Trump's Town Hall Wednesday night on CNN, the network has come under fire from left -leaning organizations, both for platforming the former president, as well as how the event's moderator, Caitlin Collins, handled it.
[14] Here's how the view reacted.
[15] I don't think that she was prepared.
[16] I don't think he should have been given a platform.
[17] I know.
[18] I was wondering when he was going to be fact -checked in real time.
[19] She did on the very first question.
[20] Well, I think she needed a producer in her ear, and I think we needed a Chiron.
[21] This is a lie.
[22] This is a lie.
[23] This is a lie.
[24] This is a lie.
[25] This is a lie.
[26] Meanwhile, CNN's CEO Chris Licked is defending the network, reportedly saying that America was served very well by what we did last night, and that Collins had a masterful performance.
[27] The 89 -year -old California Senator Diane Feinstein returned to her duties in D .C. this week after missing several months of work due to a case of the shingles.
[28] Feinstein was seen in a wheelchair and accompanied by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.
[29] The senator is reportedly experiencing vision, balance, impairments, and will need the wheelchair to get around the Capitol.
[30] Her return comes after weeks of fellow Democrats calling for her to resign.
[31] It remains unclear if she will seek re -election in 2024.
[32] The Environmental Protection Agency released new carbon emission standards today for power plants that burn coal and natural gas.
[33] The new regulations seek to cut carbon dioxide emissions from such power.
[34] plants by 617 million metric tons.
[35] Jason Isaac, a director at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, told the Daily Wire that the new regulations are, quote, far -reaching and will inevitably raise power costs for households.
[36] The World Health Organization said today that M -Pox, formerly known as Monkey Pox, is no longer considered an international emergency after cases have dropped dramatically.
[37] A California Community College professor was suspended after he handed out Jeremy chocolate bars to students.
[38] According to George Washington University law professor and blogger Jonathan Turley, David Richardson stalked a bowl of he -him and she -her candy bars, then told students to help themselves at an open house event.
[39] Madera Community College officials took the action as an endorsement of the gender binary and suspended him.
[40] Richardson told Turley he's been banned from non -public spaces on campus and denied access to his email as the school investigates him for serious misconduct.
[41] School officials claimed the gesture constituted harassment and discrimination against colleagues based on gender.
[42] Jeremy's chocolate is owned by Daily Wire's parent company.
[43] Those are your drive home updates this afternoon.
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