On Tuesday, the House of Representatives convened a Subcommittee on Transportation and Maritime Security hearing entitled, “Beijing’s Air, Space, and Maritime Surveillance from Cuba: A Growing Threat to the Homeland.”
In June 2023, The Wall Street Journal <a href="https://www.wsj.com/world/cuba-to-host-secret-chinese-spy-base-focusing-on-u-s-b2fed0e0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>, “China and Cuba have reached a secret agreement for China to establish an electronic eavesdropping facility on the island.” The facility would reportedly enable Chinese intelligence services to monitor electronic communications on the American mainland.
Rep. Carlos Gimenez (R-FL), chairman of the Subcommittee on Transportation and Maritime Security, stated:
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Mounting evidence suggests that the Chinese Communist Party is expanding its strategic partnership with the totalitarian communist regime in Cuba to build advanced surveillance infrastructure capable of targeting the United States. This collaboration represents one of the most brazen intelligence operations ever attempted near the American mainland, and places our military operations, commercial activity, and communications squarely in the crosshairs of a hostile foreign power.
Recent satellite imagery and open-source analysis suggest the presence of several Chinese-funded signals intelligence facilities across Cuba. The possibility that these sites are capable of monitoring U.S. military operations, commercial shipping, space launches and sensitive communications is deeply troubling.
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“A mere 90 miles off our shores, the United States’ most formidable 21st century competitor, the People’s Republic of China, has found fertile soil to deploy its arsenal of espionage, digital surveillance, and maritime competition,” Dr. Ryan C. Berg, the director of Americas Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, told the subcommittee. “When Soviet influence diminished on the island following the end of the Cold War, eyes, ears, and antennas stayed. In many ways, China filled the void.”
“CSI has positively identified about four specific facilities as highly likely sites supporting Chinese intelligence operations targeting the U.S. &#8230; As you can see &#8230; our adversaries are at our doorstep,” he declared.
“We should not be funding a regime that turns around and opens its doors to our greatest adversaries,” Gimenez said. “If reports of rising Chinese activity in Cuba are accurate, then this is no longer just a diplomatic issue. It is a direct security risk to the American people.”
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A federal judge on Monday blocked the Trump administration from ending a Biden-era program that provided legal status to hundreds of thousands of foreign nationals from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. 
U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani said that the Trump administration could not end former President Joe Biden’s CHNV (Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela) immigration parole program without granting a case-by-case review to its more than 500,000 recipients. In her decision, Talwani sided with a number of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-admin-tells-hundreds-of-thousands-of-biden-paroled-aliens-in-u-s-to-leave" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CHNV recipients</a> who had sued the Trump administration over the decision to end the program early on April 24.  
“The immediate impact of the shortening of their grant of parole is to cause their lawful status in the United States to lapse early — in less than two weeks. If their parole status is allowed to lapse, Plaintiffs will be faced with two unfavorable options: continue following the law and leave the country on their own, or await removal proceedings,” Talwani, an Obama appointee, wrote in a 41-page ruling. 
Talwani said that the Trump administration hadn’t considered humanitarian reasons when it moved to end the program. 
Biden began the program first for Venezuelans in 2022 before expanding it to include the other three countries in 2023. Each month, this allowed tens of thousands of people from each country to obtain legal protections in the United States, known as immigration parole. The Biden administration billed the program as a way to decrease illegal immigration from the CHNV countries by creating “legal pathways” for those immigrants to use instead of trying to unlawfully cross the southern border. 
Each recipient was supposed to be vetted for national security purposes and had to prove they had a financial sponsor already in the United States. The Trump administration has argued that the Biden administration poorly vetted those it allowed into the country. Some data from the program showed evidence of fraud, as <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/investigations/biden-admin-may-restart-immigration-program-paused-for-possible-fraud-rcna168440" target="_blank" rel="noopener">one review</a> found that 3,218 people applied to sponsor around 101,000 migrants. 
President Donald Trump directed the program to be shut down, and the Department of Homeland Security published a <a href="https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-05128.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">notice</a> in the Federal Register on March 25 revealing its decision to terminate the program by April 24. 
“These programs do not serve a significant public benefit, are not necessary to reduce levels of illegal immigration, did not sufficiently mitigate the domestic effects of illegal immigration, are not serving their intended purposes, and are inconsistent with the Administration’s foreign policy goals,” DHS said in its notice. 
The department added that it planned to remove individuals from the program after the April 24 expiration and encouraged recipients to voluntarily leave the country before that deadline.
White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller called the ruling an example of &#8220;judicial tyranny.&#8221;
&#8220;Marxist judge orders federal government to provide amnesty to half a million illegal aliens that Biden criminally flew into American towns,&#8221; he posted on X. &#8220;This is a legal insurrection against democracy itself.&#8221;

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On Monday, while touring the Southern Border, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth spoke about the potential of the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba (GTMO) housing violent illegal immigrants: “It’s the perfect place to provide for migrants who are traveling out of our country … but also hardened criminals.”
U.S. Marines were flown in to erect temporary tent facilities while discussions are currently ongoing with U.S. contractors to convert the base to be able to process and detain up to 30,000 illegals. Then, on Tuesday, the Trump administration deported the first batch of illegal immigrants from America to Guantanamo Bay.
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The first flight of high-threat criminal illegals aliens has arrived at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. These criminals trampled over our previously wide open border to bring violence and mayhem to our communities. President Trump has taken swift action to expel them… <a href="https://t.co/Kml8WX3kIK">pic.twitter.com/Kml8WX3kIK</a>
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This action is but the latest use of the controversial Caribbean military installation. Modern Americans know it as the austere home for middle eastern terrorists post September 11, 2001, but its history dates back to the turn of the previous century.
In 1898, in support of the island’s drive for independence, the U.S. invaded Cuba during our war with Spain. In 1901, the victorious Americans nominally recognized Cuban independence, although the U.S. still had a say in internal Cuban affairs; this agreement was formalized in the 1903 Treaty of Cuban-American Relations and then again in 1934. In return for our assistance and recognition, the U.S. extracted a permanent lease for Guantanamo Bay, and the naval base was subsequently constructed.
Guantanamo encompasses some 45 square miles of land and water, and is manned by 8,500 sailors and Marines. The bay is strategically located on Cuba’s southeastern coast. With a substantial harbor as well as two airfields, it offers our military an excellent staging area from which to patrol Caribbean waters as well as closely monitor activities in South America. GTMO also serves as an ideal winter training ground for the Atlantic Fleet. It is, in fact, the oldest overseas permanent U.S. military base.
When the communists under Fidel Castro came into power in 1959, Havana declared the base illegal and demanded that it be closed, the land returned to Cuba, and U.S. forces leave the island. These calls continue to be ignored to this day.
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GTMO took on special significance after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. U.S. operations against Islamic extremist fighters in Afghanistan and elsewhere yielded prisoners and intelligence assets who needed a place to be imprisoned and interrogated. As the Bush administration declared that GTMO as a military base on foreign soil was outside the realm of usual jurisprudence, and that those captured on the battlefield were enemy combatants for whom Constitutional protections are inapplicable, GTMO was used as a de facto POW camp. The first detainees arrived in January 2002.
At first, the Bush administration kept the detentions a secret. Eventually, however, a FOIA request filed by the Associated Press compelled the Department of Defense to admit that it was holding, at its height, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/guantanamo-bay-detainees.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">780 prisoners</a> on the base. Among them were the most fanatical and dangerous individuals scooped up in the so-called “War On Terror” including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, widely regarded as the chief architect of the 9/11 attacks. As of January 2025, 15 prisoners remain in custody.
Given the nebulous nature of what rights prisoners at Guantanamo Bay do and do not have, the facility remains the subject of controversy. Civil libertarians declare the facility a violation of human rights, in which “enhanced interrogation” (some call “torture”) is carried out to extract intelligence. Defenders of the base and its methods offer that, as those in custody were picked up on the battlefield, yet are part of no nation or national armed force, they are nothing more than terrorists for whom Geneva Convention protocols do not apply.
But in the landmark case Boumediene v. Bush, in 2008 the Supreme Court, in a 5-4 ruling, declared that detainees did have the right to habeas corpus and other due process claims, underscoring tension between the government and civil libertarians. In writing for the majority, Justice Kennedy <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/13/washington/12cnd-gitmo.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>: “To hold that the political branches may switch the Constitution on or off at will would lead to a regime in which they, not this Court, say &#8216;what the law is&#8217;.” 
In that vein, Democrat Presidents Obama and Biden have over the years vowed to close the detention facilities as they considered them violations of international law and civil liberties. Indeed, Obama went so far as to call it a “sad chapter in American history” during the 2008 Presidential campaign. And yet, tellingly, once in office, he allowed the prison to continue albeit with occasional temporary restrictions for review purposes. One gets the feeling that, once he was actually in the Oval Office and the books were opened to him, Obama may have had his own cathartic Richard Pryor moment, wherein the comedian famously <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Txp8B4ek_kk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">observed</a> how his naiveté was shattered when filming a movie set in an actual state penitentiary. “I talked to the brothers. I talked to ‘em, and thank God we got penitentiaries!”
No matter where on the spectrum one rests regarding GTMO’s necessity versus civil liberties, at the moment Guantanamo remains the only answer to what to do with the especially bad hombres once they are caught in our nets — be they in the Hindu Kush or the streets of El Paso. Like Mr. Pryor, whose eyes were opened when he saw the true nature of the men he once considered victims of an oppressive state, one must think that, its darker corners aside, Guantanamo is a necessary conditional solution when fighting evil incarnate. And it must also be considered for its deterrence aspect. One must now imagine any gangbanger wishing to cross illegally into the U.S. now, with the new sheriff in town, may cast his teardrop-tatted eyes towards GTMO and ask if that is really where he wishes to spend the rest of his days.
As with much of the whirlwind first few weeks of the Trump Presidency, there is a method to the madness. Eventually, 30,000 undesirables with no business moving within our borders will be off our streets and tossed into a prison that has seen some of the worst enemies of not just the U.S. Government but the American people pass through its barbed-wire gates.
A powerful message will be sent to those who seek to violate our national sovereignty that a prison cell in one of America’s most notorious prisons awaits should they test the resolve of this new President and those like SecDef Hegseth and others whom he has hand-picked to run this nation with him.
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Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth released footage early Thursday morning showing the first flight of “high threat” criminal illegal immigrants being dropped off at <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/guantanamo-bay" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Guantanamo Bay</a> for detention.
Hegseth posted a video on X showing U.S. military and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) personnel escorting illegal immigrants off a plane and into vans for transportation to the detention camp. The Trump administration announced last week that the U.S. would send illegal immigrants who committed violent crimes to the military prison. The Department of Defense said the plane arrived sometime Wednesday, while other media outlets reported that the flight landed on Tuesday.
“The first flight of high-threat criminal illegals aliens has arrived at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba,” Hegseth wrote. “These criminals trampled over our previously wide open border to bring violence and mayhem to our communities. President Trump has taken swift action to expel them immediately from our county, and our nation’s finest are helping lead the way in this critical mission.”
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The first flight of high-threat criminal illegals aliens has arrived at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. These criminals trampled over our previously wide open border to bring violence and mayhem to our communities. President Trump has taken swift action to expel them… <a href="https://t.co/Kml8WX3kIK">pic.twitter.com/Kml8WX3kIK</a>
— Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth (@SecDef) <a href="https://twitter.com/SecDef/status/1887470604690882681?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 6, 2025</a></blockquote>
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The Department of Homeland Security <a href="https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/4055497/first-flight-of-illegal-aliens-arrives-at-guantanamo/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that each of the ten illegal immigrants transported were members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, which the White House designated as a foreign terrorist organization last month. The gang has a reported presence in at least 16 states. 
The Defense Department said that the gang members were not being held alongside Islamic terrorist detainees but in empty detention facilities. 
The Guantanamo Bay detention camp, also known as GITMO, is a U.S. military prison within a U.S. Naval base off the coast of Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. It was established after the 2001 terrorist attacks to hold terrorism suspects and &#8220;illegal enemy combatants.&#8221;
Previously, Hegseth <a href="https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/4055497/first-flight-of-illegal-aliens-arrives-at-guantanamo/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that Guantanamo may be used to hold illegals while they work out an agreement to send them back to their home countries. 
&#8220;It&#8217;s folks who may be in transit to their home country or a safe, third harbor country, and it&#8217;s taking a little time to move with that processing and with the paperwork,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Better they be held at a safe location like Guantanamo Bay.&#8221; 
The flight comes after President Donald Trump issued a <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/expanding-migrant-operations-center-at-naval-station-guantanamo-bay-to-full-capacity/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">memorandum</a> on January 29 directing Hegseth and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to take action to send “high-priority criminal aliens” to Guantanamo. 
“Some of them are so bad we don’t even trust the countries to hold them,” Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/president-trump-to-use-guantanamo-bay-for-illegal-alien-detention" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> before signing the executive memo. “We don’t want them coming back so we’re going to send them out to Guantanamo. This is going to double our capacity immediately.”
While the base is currently equipped to hold 120 illegal immigrants, the Trump administration says it will expand capacity to be able to hold 30,000. Up to 500 Marines are also expected to be stationed at the base to help with operations and security.

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President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a> faced backlash on Tuesday after he lifted the designation of state sponsor of terrorism off of communist Cuba.
&#8220;The Government of Cuba has not provided any support for international terrorism during the preceding 6-month period,&#8221; Biden claimed in a certification lifting the designation.
Biden added: &#8220;The Government of Cuba has provided assurances that it will not support acts of international terrorism in the future.&#8221;
Rep. Micheal McCaul (R-TX), Chairman Emeritus of the Foreign Affairs Committee and the Homeland Security Committee, responded to the news by saying that Biden&#8217;s move would &#8220;only embolden the country’s brutal communist regime as it seeks to destabilize the globe and undermine democracy.&#8221;
&#8220;Under his watch, the Castro regime has brutally repressed and starved its own people, sent its citizens to help Putin’s army destroy Ukraine, and hosted a Beijing spy base, from which the CCP can surveil Americans and expand its malign influence,&#8221; he added.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) compared Biden to former President Barack Obama, saying that he is finishing out his final days in office &#8220;with rank appeasement of the Cuban regime.&#8221;
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&#8220;They push these policies both because they believe in them and to undermine the incoming Trump administration and Republican Congress,&#8221; he said. &#8220;These moves do incredible damage to American national security and send a message to our adversaries that they can rely on outgoing Democrat administrations – and wait out pressure from Republican administrations – to continue engaging in terrorism and other aggression against Americans.&#8221;
“Today’s decision is unacceptable on its merits,&#8221; he added. &#8220;The terrorism advanced by the Cuban regime has not ceased. I will work with President Trump and my colleagues to immediately reverse and limit the damage from the decision.”
Other notable responses included:
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In his final days as President, Joe Biden emboldens and rewards the dictatorial Cuban regime by removing Cuba from the list of State Sponsors of Terrorism.
Biden is a communist sympathizer and his actions are shameful.
— Jeanette Nuñez (@LtGovNunez) <a href="https://twitter.com/LtGovNunez/status/1879354024132264162?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 15, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Joe Biden’s parting gift to dictators and terrorists around the world: taking Cuba off the State Sponsor of Terrorism List and making it easier for them to threaten our national security. This is reckless and dangerous.
Biden’s appeasement is feeding right into the hands of…
— Rick Scott (@SenRickScott) <a href="https://twitter.com/SenRickScott/status/1879247415246745778?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 14, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Once again, the Democrats have BETRAYED the Cubans!
Shame on the entire Biden Administration for taking Cuba off the State Sponsor of Terrorism list.
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— Rep. María Elvira Salazar (@RepMariaSalazar) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepMariaSalazar/status/1879272392998158769?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 14, 2025</a></blockquote>

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Hurricane Rafael was upgraded to &#8220;major&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hurricane" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hurricane</a> status as it approached the western coast of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/cuba" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cuba</a> in the Caribbean on Wednesday, according to the National Hurricane Center (NHC).
Data showed the storm with 115 miles per hour sustained maximum winds, which put it in the Category 3 range on the <a href="https://www.weather.gov/mfl/saffirsimpson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale</a>. Such a storm is considered a &#8220;major&#8221; hurricane with the potential to cause &#8220;devastating damage.&#8221;
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2pm EST update on Category 3 Hurricane <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Rafael?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Rafael</a> as it closes in on western <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Cuba?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Cuba</a> 
See <a href="https://t.co/tW4KeGe9uJ">https://t.co/tW4KeGe9uJ</a> for more information <a href="https://t.co/eLWOAGz4L6">pic.twitter.com/eLWOAGz4L6</a>
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In the immediate future, Rafael was expected to bring &#8220;life-threatening storm surge, damaging hurricane-force winds, and flash flooding to portions of western Cuba,&#8221; NHC <a href="https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh/MIATCPAT3+shtml/061755.shtml?" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a 1 p.m. ET bulletin. The agency said some strengthening was likely to happen before landfall over western Cuba in the afternoon.
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Just a couple of weeks ago, Cuba got <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8elzx8dg7zo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hit by Hurricane Oscar</a> as the island nation was grappling with a massive power outage.
NHC said Rafael is expected to weaken over Cuba before emerging into the southeastern Gulf of Mexico as a hurricane. Weather impacts in the forecast for the southeastern United States include tropical storm conditions in parts of the lower and middle <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/florida" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Florida</a> Keys into Wednesday evening.
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Here are the 10 AM EST Wednesday Key Messages for Hurricane <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Rafael?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Rafael</a>. Life-threatening storm surge, damaging hurricane-force winds, and flash flooding expected in portions of western Cuba. Follow the latest at <a href="https://t.co/tW4KeGe9uJ">https://t.co/tW4KeGe9uJ</a> <a href="https://t.co/dg9rxQIgfD">pic.twitter.com/dg9rxQIgfD</a>
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Overall, rainfall in the Keys — an island chain extending southwest from the southern tip of the Florida Peninsula — was expected to total between one to three inches. NHC also warned of storm surge in the Dry Tortugas and lower Florida Keys, as well as the potential for tornadoes in the Keys and southwestern Florida mainland.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/NOAA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NOAA</a>&#39;s <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/GOESEast?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#GOESEast</a> satellite is continuing to monitor Hurricane <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Rafael?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Rafael</a> this morning, which is strengthening in the Caribbean Sea.
Latest advisories and updates: <a href="https://t.co/ScLdyBaJZb">https://t.co/ScLdyBaJZb</a> <a href="https://t.co/VTLcGGfVDX">pic.twitter.com/VTLcGGfVDX</a>
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&#8220;Hurricane Rafael continues to intensify as it approaches western Cuba. Squalls will continue to pivot through the #FloridaKeys through tonight,&#8221; the National Weather Service <a href="https://x.com/NWSKeyWest/status/1854178465907667210" target="_blank" rel="noopener">emphasized</a> in a post to X. &#8220;The best chance for tropical storm force winds will be this evening and overnight, especially in the Lower &amp; Middle Keys.&#8221;
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Hurricane Rafael continues to intensify as it approaches western Cuba. Squalls will continue to pivot through the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/FloridaKeys?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#FloridaKeys</a> through tonight. The best chance for tropical storm force winds will be this evening and overnight, especially in the Lower &amp; Middle Keys. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/FLwx?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#FLwx</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/KeyWest?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#KeyWest</a> <a href="https://t.co/dl3Epo8j1y">pic.twitter.com/dl3Epo8j1y</a>
&mdash; NWS Key West (@NWSKeyWest) <a href="https://twitter.com/NWSKeyWest/status/1854178465907667210?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 6, 2024</a></blockquote>
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The hurricane was expected to head farther west into the Gulf during the week and into the weekend, but NHC <a href="https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/graphics_at3.shtml?start#contents" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cautioned</a> on Wednesday that it was &#8220;too soon to determine what, if any, impacts Rafael could bring to portions of the western Gulf Coast. Residents in this area should regularly monitor updates to the forecast.&#8221;
A couple of major hurricanes slammed into the southeastern United States this year.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/remnants-of-hurricane-helene-continue-to-wreak-havoc-on-southeastern-u-s" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hurricane Helene</a> wreaked havoc in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia in late September. And <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hurricane-milton" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hurricane Milton</a> barreled through central Florida in October. Between the storms this hurricane season, the U.S. death toll is in the hundreds and the cost of the damage is estimated to be in the tens of billions of dollars.

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A Cuban national who has been accused of murdering a woman in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/tennessee" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tennessee</a> was reportedly released into the country by the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/biden-administration" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Biden administration</a> last year, according to a new report. 
NewsNation <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/migrant-entered-via-cbp-one-222006710.html#:~:text=Dayren%20Roque%20Lopez%2C%2041%2C%20from,in%20a%20Cleveland%20residence%20Sunday." target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> Tuesday that 41-year-old Dayren Roque Lopez, who is suspected of murdering 25-year-old Dayana Garcia, was released into the United States in San Ysidro, California, in August 2023 using the Biden administration’s Customs and Border Protection One app. The app allows people seeking entry into the U.S. expedited processing and gives them a court date to hear their asylum claim. 
Lopez was arrested in Zavala County, Texas, on Monday after he was accused of murdering Garcia in Cleveland, Tennessee. He was caught almost 30 miles away from the Texas/Mexico border, according to police. 
Lopez had work authorization in the United States and was set to have a hearing on his immigration status in Memphis in November, according to NewsNation. 
Cleveland Police said that they were working with Texas Rangers to bring Lopez back to Tennessee to face first-degree murder charges. The suspect reportedly was arrested on domestic charges in February but was not convicted. 
Cleveland Police Chief Mark Gibson said that the circumstances around Garcia’s death were still under investigation, and officials were not ready to release the cause of death to the public. 
“We have been in contact with her family, and I&#8217;m sure we&#8217;ll start finding out a lot more information about her as time goes,” he <a href="https://kfoxtv.com/news/nation-world/man-wanted-for-tennesssee-womans-murder-arrested-in-texas-dayren-roque-lopez-zavala-county-bradley-county-cleveland-dayana-garcia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. 
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Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) said the incident exemplifies the Biden-Harris administration’s failed immigration policies. 
“The accused murderer of a 25-year-old woman in Cleveland, Tennessee, is an illegal alien, someone who came in this country on the CBP One App,” she said. “You&#8217;ve heard me talk about this because it is another of those components that the Biden-Harris administration is using trying to make illegal aliens legal. This absolutely has to stop. This is why it is imperative that we close the border.”
Thousands of foreign nationals have been released into the U.S. through the CBP One app, which allows foreign nationals to schedule appointments to apply for asylum at ports of entry.

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Communist China is reportedly building a military spy base in Cuba in conjunction with the Cuban government not far from the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, according to newly published satellite images.
The images, <a href="https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/china-cuba-suspected-spy-bases-da1d6ec9?mod=e2tw">published</a> by The Wall Street Journal, show that the newest spy base is being built at El Salao, a town outside of Santiago de Cuba.
Construction of the base, which has not been previously reported, began at the start of President Joe Biden&#8217;s administration and is &#8220;designed to hold a large formation of antennas known as a circularly disposed antenna array, which can be used to find and intercept electronic signals.&#8221;
The base will likely have the ability to spy on the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay even though the Chinese are using older technology that the U.S. and Russia quit using long ago, the report said.
The spy base at El Salao is the fourth such base on the island, the report said. The other bases are located at Bejucal, Wajay, and Calabazar.
Intelligence officials say that the bases present a serious national security threat to the U.S. because China is using Cuba&#8217;s close proximity to the U.S. to intercept sensitive electronic communications from U.S. military bases, space facilities, military and commercial shipping as well as spy on American citizens.
The news comes as China is aggressively expanding its footprint and influence in Latin American and the Caribbean as it tries to weaken the U.S. in the region and replace the U.S. as the world&#8217;s leading superpower.
China is building a <a href="https://www.wsj.com/world/chancay-peru-port-china-south-america-trade-ffc75d32?mod=article_inline">megaport</a> in Peru that U.S. officials worry could tip the balance of power in the region and subject Latin nations to economic coercion from the Chinese. China is also aggressively seeking to expand its influence and control in Argentina, Honduras, Colombia, and Brazil through various projects.
China is also moving to effectively <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/china-begins-rapidly-expanding-on-small-island-near-americas-doorstep">take over</a> the paradise island of Antigua which is only a couple hundred miles away from the U.S. Virgin Islands.
China is constructing a Chinese-run special economic zone on the island that “will have its own customs and immigration formalities, a shipping port and a dedicated airline and will be able to issue passports,” according to a report from Newsweek. “It will establish businesses offering everything from logistics to cryptocurrencies, facial surgery to ‘virology.&#8217;”

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A group of Russian Navy vessels arrived in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/cuba" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cuba</a> on Wednesday, a show of force by Moscow amid increasing tensions between the U.S. and Russia.
The vessels – the Russian frigate Admiral Gorshkov, nuclear-powered submarine Kazan, a rescue tug, and an oil tanker – entered Havana harbor with ceremonial firing from the Gorshkov and an 18th century colonial fort. The vessels are on a five-day official visit to Cuba in a show of ties between Moscow and Havana, according to <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/12/americas/russian-navy-cuba-intl/index.html">CNN</a>.
While in the harbor, the Gorshkov will be open to tours for the Cuban public for four hours a day for three days, CNN reports. The U.S. does not believe that the frigate is carrying nuclear weapons.
Tensions between Washington and Moscow have risen in recent weeks over the ongoing war in Ukraine. The U.S. has supplied billions of dollars-worth of supplies, training, and weapons to the Ukraine military.
Last month, the Biden administration <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/u-s-allows-ukraine-to-use-american-weapons-strikes-inside-russia/">reversed</a> itself on a major rule restricting Ukrainian use of U.S. weapons by allowing Ukraine limited use of U.S. weapons in Russian territory.
&#8220;The president recently directed his team to ensure that Ukraine is able to use U.S.-supplied weapons for counter-fire purposes in the Kharkiv region, so Ukraine can hit back against Russian forces that are attacking them — or preparing to attack them,&#8221; a U.S. official said at the time. &#8220;Our policy with respect to prohibiting the use of ATACMS — or long range strikes inside of Russia — has not changed.&#8221;
Russian President Vladimir Putin <a href="https://apnews.com/article/russia-putin-ukraine-e192904652221b29efdc88d0af23114e">responded</a> last week, saying the change in policy could lead to “very serious problems.”
“That would mark their direct involvement in the war against the Russian Federation, and we reserve the right to act the same way,” Putin said.
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The U.S. had previously blocked Ukraine from using U.S. weapons in Russian territory to prevent escalation in the war and in tensions between the U.S. and Russia. Recently, Russian units have increasingly threatened Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-most populated city before the war. Kharkiv sits about 20 kilometers from the Russian border, allowing Russia space to prepare attacks on the city that Ukraine had problems preventing and combatting.
U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has <a href="https://kentuckylantern.com/2024/05/30/mcconnell-says-biden-should-let-ukraine-use-u-s-weapons-across-russian-border/">said</a> he has “consistently argued” for the administration to allow Ukraine more freedom with U.S. weapons.
“I think they should be allowed to hit the Russians in Russia,” McConnell said last month.

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Russia&#8217;s navy is sending three ships and a nuclear-powered submarine to the Caribbean next week to conduct military drills with communist Cuba.
Cuba&#8217;s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement that the ships that will be arriving include the frigate “GORSHKOV”; the nuclear-powered submarine “KAZAN”; the “PASHIN” fleet sea tanker and the salvage tug “NIKOLAI CHIKER”.
The four vessels will arrive at the port of Havana on June 12 and will stay until June 17.
Cuba claimed that the visit was &#8220;consistent with the historically friendly relations existing between Cuba and the Russian Federation and strictly abides by the international regulations&#8221; thus &#8220;their stop-over in our country does not represent any threat to the region.&#8221;
The statement also claimed that none of the vessels would be carrying nuclear weapons.
Russian sailors will participate in the planned training exercises and will then &#8220;go on a tour around places of historical and cultural interest,&#8221; the statement said.
A U.S. official <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/russian-warships-including-nuclear-sub-162653686.html">said</a> that the military exercises will include “heightened naval and air activity near the United States.”
“While we are disappointed that Cuba has likely agreed to host visiting Russian ships, we are not surprised,” the official said.
The official later confirmed the statement from Cuba that the submarine “is not carrying nuclear weapons, and poses no direct threat to the national security of the United States.”
The official said that these types of exercises are not uncommon but have &#8220;ratcheted up because of U.S. support to Ukraine and exercise activity in support of our NATO allies.&#8221;
The most recent development in the U.S.&#8217;s support for Ukraine was President Joe Biden&#8217;s decision to authorize Ukrainian forces to use U.S. weapons to attack targets inside Russia as long as the strikes were defensive in nature.
Ukraine has <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/04/world/europe/ukraine-strikes-russia-western-weapons.html">reportedly</a> already capitalized on the new leeway granted to it by the Biden administration as reports surfaced earlier this week that it used a High Mobility Artillery Rocket System, or HIMARS, to destroy Russian S-300 and S-400 surface-to-air missile systems that were initially designed to shoot down aircraft but have been used to attack the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv.
&#8220;What we have done is provided Ukraine the ability to counter-fire, to fire back at those Russian troops that are firing at them, and to be able to take out their artillery batteries as they&#8217;re firing at the Ukrainians,&#8221; <a href="https://transcripts.cnn.com/show/sitroom/date/2024-06-06/segment/01">said</a> Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin. &#8220;I think that&#8217;s going to prove to be very, very helpful to the Ukrainians going forward.&#8221;

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&#8220;The View&#8221; host Whoopi Goldberg spent some time during Monday&#8217;s broadcast explaining to Cuban Americans how they could be better Cuban Americans.
Goldberg, who is not from Cuba, scolded immigrants from the communist-controlled island and suggested that they were not very smart if they supported former President Donald Trump.
The conversation began with Goldberg&#8217;s complaint that Republicans are still rallying behind Trump and offering their support in spite of his recent conviction in the Manhattan hush-money trial.
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&#8220;This is not a joke!&#8221; 
Whoopi seems to suggest that MAGA folks don&#8217;t know the Constitution and want a dictator. She tells them to go read the Constitution and Declaration of Independence &#8220;in the Rotunda for the Charters of Freedom&#8221; because no other copies exist. <a href="https://t.co/yfj6IMdSe3">pic.twitter.com/yfj6IMdSe3</a>
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1797652778333982884?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 3, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Goldberg claimed that anyone who could support Trump must actually want to be ruled by a dictator, and then suggested that the former president&#8217;s supporters did not understand the United States Constitution.
Ana Navarro, whose parents fled to the United States from Nicaragua, followed that up with her assessment of the Republicans in the Senate who were still supporting Trump.
&#8220;Some people have emotional support dogs. Donald Trump has emotional support senators,&#8221; she said. &#8220;But worst amongst them is the senator from my state of Florida, Marco Rubio.&#8221;
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Whoopi suggests Cubans in America are either hypocrites or stupid for supporting Trump: 
&#8220;All my life I have heard the Cuban people say&#8230; we&#8217;re going to make sure it never happens here&#8230;how can they not recognize when the man says, I&#8217;m going to be this guy?&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/gGcuHIqfgz">pic.twitter.com/gGcuHIqfgz</a>
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1797654978166731170?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 3, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Goldberg brought the conversation back around to the immigrants — particularly Cubans who fled the communist-controlled island — and wondered how they could support someone like Trump after living under that oppressive regime.
&#8220;All my life I have heard the Cuban people say, &#8216;We never want to see that, we&#8217;re going to make sure it never happens here.&#8217; How can they not recognize when the man says, I&#8217;m going to be this guy? What are we missing?&#8221; she asked.

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