Border Patrol agents rescued four illegal immigrants who had been found locked inside a railcar in Texas, according to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

CBP said exclusively to Blaze News that two other migrants had been found in a similarly locked railcar just one week previously, but one was deceased.

‘No one should believe the lies of smugglers who say they can provide safety, because they only care about the money they can gain by exploiting vulnerable people.’

The rescued migrants were identified as three Mexican nationals and one Chinese national.

They were discovered just before dawn on Sept. 16 by Border Patrol agents of the Uvalde station who were inspecting freight cars at a secondary rail near Knippa.

A Border Patrol canine alerted agents about an autorack car carrying automobiles. When they inspected it, they found four people locked inside without any means of escape.

The migrants were taken to the Uvalde Station for processing, according to CBP.

The incident was the fourth time in recent weeks that illegal aliens were found locked into autorack train cars at the Del Rio sector, including the lethal incident on Sept. 11.

On Sept. 7, agents rescued three others locked into a train car at the same secondary rail.

And on August 30, they rescued eight people locked inside a train car, including a child, at that rail.

“This is the work of criminal alien smugglers who have no regard for human life,” said Anthony “Scott” Good, a Del Rio Sector chief patrol agent.

“Doors on freight cars are locked externally, and migrants are trapped for an indefinite amount of time without food or water,” he added. “No one should believe the lies of smugglers who say they can provide safety because they only care about the money they can gain by exploiting vulnerable people.”

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The Homeland Security Investigations office is still investigating the lethal Sept. 11 incident.

The Sept. 7 incident involved a Mexican national, one Nicaraguan, and one Honduran, according to CBP.

“Attempts to make illegal entry via trains have historically had tragic results,” said Good after that incident. “U.S. Border Patrol urges anyone considering such rash action to understand their decision could result in disaster.”

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“Teen takeovers” have gone from a social-media spectacle to a serious public-safety issue. While the name conjures images of high schoolers innocently hanging around a drive-in à la “American Graffiti,” at its core, this phenomenon is about sowing violence and chaos — and leaving communities to deal with the consequences.

The 2026 Wisconsin State Fair concluded its final evening with a massive brawl, during which violent “teens” swarmed the park and beat unassuming fair guests. One man was kicked and beaten as he lay in the fetal position. Earlier this summer, a teen takeover at a Chipotle in Washington, D.C., forced frightened patrons to scramble as youths began throwing chairs and screaming.

This is a natural consequence of an America that has glamorized injustice.

In cities across the nation, the same pattern of brutality has emerged: Swarms of young, primarily black teenagers will suddenly invade a public space to fight, threaten police, destroy private property, and occasionally get involved in shootings.

This is happening because over the past decade, our public institutions have encouraged black Americans to see themselves as perpetual victims of so-called systemic discrimination. As Spencer Klavan points out in his analysis of the fast-evolving political climate, “Wokeness in all its form is grievance politics.” Activists expanded DEI programs, decried America’s alleged systemic racism, and pushed for prison-abolition movements and reparations.

The behavior at teen takeovers is an outgrowth of the so-called peaceful demonstrations Black Lives Matter encouraged during the height of the George Floyd protests. Though the BLM movement has gradually lost traction — its corruption is widespread, and policies like abolishing the police are unpopular — its cultural influence endures.

Constant exposure to BLM has shown young people that if they commit wanton acts of violence en masse, they can get what they want. They can hop fences, smash windows, blast music, and brawl in the streets — and Democratic politicians will then attack peaceful citizens, demanding that they give away their livelihood and communities to correct “systemic injustices.”

The messaging BLM has promoted is irresponsible. Photos of cars, businesses, and school buses burning became regular fixtures online starting in the summer of 2020. Young people became convinced that, regardless of their lawless actions, they were morally superior to police officers and authority figures. They were taught that violence is a virtue because racism infects all public institutions. Teen takeovers are the result of a generation of children who believe that trashing public spaces is the righteous response of the unheard.

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BLM activists and “ICE Out” advocates have collectively turned protesting into an activity that’s considered as acceptable as going on a picnic. Young people are joining teen takeovers because they think they are owed the space to be violent, a lesson that Woke 1.0 normalized. For too many Americans, senseless rampaging is seen as a legitimate pastime for bored, testy teens.

This is a natural consequence of an America that has glamorized injustice. A recent study linked transgender ideology with increased support for political violence. Gen Z is more likely to attend protests, especially among those who support LGBTQ and climate-change movements. A similar study from the U.K. revealed that young people are more supportive of civil disobedience than members of previous generations.

The adulation of grievance politics culminates in a deeply nihilistic culture. The teen takeovers aren’t pursuing a righteous social cause — they’re aggressive reactions against civil society itself.

When previous generations protested, they mostly maintained a level of respect for their communities and even obeyed the law in some cases. But thanks to the radicalism of Woke 1.0 — pushed by BLM — young people don’t feel as though they owe anything to the people and places where they grew up.

They aren’t concerned with building a future or honoring their forefathers. The past decade of politics gave young Americans a permission structure in which anarchy comes with little to no consequences.

Americans have become accustomed to seeing entire city blocks burning, looting, and street fighting. The danger is that younger generations see disorder not as a public menace, but as the essence of freedom.

Editor’s note: This article was originally published in the American Mind.

​Black lives matter, Gen z, George floyd protests, Lgbtq, Political violence, Protesting, Racism, Teen takeovers, Virtue, Washington dc, Covid, Anarchy, Opinion & analysis 

I recently traveled to Georgia to speak at an event. The trip out went smoothly. For the return, I arrived at the Atlanta airport early for a flight to Denver, then Bozeman.

That was the itinerary. The weather had prepared a competing proposal.

Back on the interstate, the bus lurched through every curve and pothole. By dawn, the airport was in sight. We perked up. Too soon.

Storms in Denver delayed us in Atlanta for an hour and a half. Once airborne, we took a longer route around the weather, only to learn that Denver was no longer an option.

We diverted to Grand Junction, which is not Denver.

I cannot blame the airline for the weather. Colorado has never shown much interest in coordinating its thunderstorms with commercial aviation.

In Grand Junction, we sat on the tarmac another hour awaiting news.

I will not identify the airline. I will only say its name rhymes with “reunited,” which none of us were with our schedules, connecting flights, or remaining optimism.

By the time a plan emerged, the pilots had timed out. Several flight attendants had timed out. Before long, most passengers had emotionally timed out as well.

With no hotel rooms available, the airline announced that three buses would take us the nearly 250 miles to Denver.

On the bus, passengers offered plans for Denver. Someone suggested that we pray for the sweet embrace of death.

Granted, that passenger was me. But still, somebody said it.

Heading into the Colorado darkness toward the Rockies, there was a mild discussion about renaming ourselves the Donner Party.

Somewhere east of Grand Junction, our bus began breaking down. The driver limped into a gas station parking lot.

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We needed a replacement. We waited another hour and a half.

“Where are we?” someone asked.

“One of Dante’s circles,” I muttered.

The gas station sat beside a dark river that, by then, I could only assume was the Styx. I scanned the water for Charon. His ferry seemed more dependable than our bus.

Eventually, word came that another bus was being sent. We had started with three. Now a fourth was coming to our rescue.

“Oh yay,” I sighed. “The fourth bus of the Apocalypse.”

When it arrived, the absurdity developed a liability problem.

One passenger was a man with disabilities. Neither bus was accessible. Airport personnel had helped him onto the first, but at the gas station, we had no equipment and no trained crew.

Thankfully, my wife, Gracie, was safe at home in Montana. After 40 years of caring for her, I recognized the unspoken assumption: Exhausted passengers with no equipment would somehow transfer this gentleman.

But “we’ll figure it out” is not a safe plan.

One wrong move could have sent him or one of us to the emergency room, with a deposition to follow.

I called the local paramedics and asked for trained help. They eagerly arrived and got him safely onto the replacement bus.

Despite the sighs, dark jokes, and a smattering of words unsuitable for an airport announcement, nobody came to blows, left anyone behind, or became the star of an airport video.

When the transfer was complete, I told the paramedics to send the bill to the airline. While they were at it, they could add my consulting fee.

Back on the interstate, the bus lurched through every curve and pothole. By dawn, the airport was in sight.

We perked up.

Too soon.

At the airport, our driver hit the clearance sign warning that the bus was too tall. The sign, unlike most of the evening’s arrangements, proved accurate.

He backed away and found another way in. We could see the terminal. Several of us pleaded to walk.

One even whimpered.

OK, that was me too.

By then, it seemed the airport simply did not want us there.

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Inside, airline staff began sorting out missed connections. An agent was helping me when another came to the desk and said, to no one in particular, that a passenger was unhappy and she wasn’t going to deal with the person.

I don’t know what had happened between them. But after our night, I was surprised she’d found only one.

As Election Day approaches, I keep thinking about that gas station and a bus full of strangers.

Many people feel stranded, waiting for somebody who promised to get them where they need to go. Promises count, and people should be held to them. But at 2 o’clock in the morning, the man at risk could not wait for the people who had sent us down that road to reappear.

Our driver knew who to call for another bus. I knew who to call for trained help. The paramedics came. The rest of us waited when all we wanted was to get moving.

Strangers worked together, and the man came with us.

We can disagree about the route, the driver, and whose job it was to send the bus. When someone is at risk, we can still pull together, find help, and wait until everyone is aboard.

United was printed on our tickets.

By dawn, I knew the difference between putting it on a ticket and putting it into practice.

​Airport, Bus, Denver, Disabilities, Travel, Weather, United airlines, Cancelled flights, Opinion & analysis 

The education of America’s youth is rapidly changing, as more and more parents recognize the failures of the public school system and take matters into their own hands.

“I think the odds that education is going to completely change in America over the next five to 10 years are very high, because we are seeing individuals want to take individual responsibility over raising their kids,” PragerU CEO Marissa Streit tells Glenn Beck.

Now that an abundance of high-quality alternatives are available, the days of relying on “the experts” for resources are over.

“I think what we call the educational industrial complex is going to now see a complete alternative economy. There’s going to be a new economy in education that is created thanks to technology,” says Streit.

Glenn is thrilled to see the shift, because much of what public schools have been teaching he calls downright “hair-raising.”

After a “deep dive” into America’s education system, Streit says she found that the issues are well beyond “woke books,” critical race theory, and progressive teachers’ unions.

“The new Trojan horse that I want to warn everybody against is ethnic studies,” she tells Glenn.

Streit says ethnic studies, which began in California, is now in about 26 states. She warns it “creates this paradigm of the oppressor versus the oppressed, rejecting the concept of individualism and the power of the individual and pushing collective grievance.”

To illustrate, she displays a book that is used and recommended in some ethnic-studies circles titled “Lessons in Liberation: An Abolitionist Toolkit for Educators.”

The resource was produced by the Education for Liberation Network — a radical “education for liberation” coalition — and Critical Resistance, a prison abolition group co-founded by communist Angela Davis and Ruth Wilson Gilmore.

While the book covers many subjects, the chapter Streit finds most offensive covers a concept called “adultism” — which frames adults as oppressors and children as the oppressed.

“Let’s say you’re an adult and you tell your daughter that she should probably restrain from having sexual intimacy with someone while she’s still a child. When you do that, according to this lesson plan in this tool kit … you are a totalitarian oppressor because you should allow the child to make their own decision,” she explains.

“Let’s say you tell your child to not dress a certain way because it’s inappropriate. You’re engaged in this pejorative adultism. The parent knows nothing. The government knows everything, and the government tells the child that they are their own sovereign selves,” Streit continues.

But the book doesn’t stop at villainizing the traditional parent-child relationship, she says; it also whitewashes gangs and terrorists.

“There’s a chapter about how gangs and terrorists are really not that bad because it’s their way to express themselves. Specifically they say that people of color need to express themselves through gangs,” says Streit.

She then holds up a 2025 Chicago Teachers Union May Day packet that she says “trains teachers” to prepare students for “communist May Day.” One prompt asks, “What hardships are people in your community facing since Donald Trump was re-elected in November?” Others have students discuss identifying and resisting fascism, tyranny, and authoritarianism.

Streit explains that these teacher resources are deliberately designed to be “the path of least resistance,” so that educators have easy, ready-to-teach materials that require virtually no effort on their part.

“Whether you’re teaching K-2, 3rd-5th, or 6th grade and up, you have a file that will tell you exactly what to teach, and it will recommend books,” she explains.

Streit says she is often asked how any American publication company could possibly put such materials into print, but publishers are often part of the same pipeline as the unions creating the resources.

Scholastic, she says, is a crucial component of the circulation of materials centered around woke ideologies, including “critical race theory [and the] Reconquista movement — the idea that we stole the land from Mexico and therefore we have to allow people to reconquer it.”

She points to a 5th-grade Scholastic Gold title called “The Land of the Cranes,” which follows a girl whose family is held in ICE detention and treats crossing the border and resisting immigration enforcement as a righteous return to ancestral land.

It all boils down to “money and power,” says Streit.

“You have the teachers’ unions and the NGOs creating tool kits. The tool kits guarantee the publishers that they will sell the books that are recommended in the tool kits. And so every year the publishers are going to make all this money as long as they keep up with the political agenda. … The entire complex supports each other,” she says.

To hear more about the spreading rot in America’s public school system, watch the video above.

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Federal immigration officials implied that a Guatemalan man accused of horrific crimes involving a 14-year-old girl is illegally in the U.S.

Marion County prosecutors say 20-year-old Alexis Pinto led Indiana police on a high-speed chase that led to his car being submerged in Fall Creek in Indianapolis.

‘Because sanctuary cities refuse to work with ICE law enforcement, criminal illegal aliens are released from jails into American communities to commit more crimes.’

The Sept. 13 incident left a 14-year-old female passenger with “catastrophic” injuries.

Pinto was already being sought on child sex criminal warrants involving the same teen girl when he crashed the car.

The man was allegedly driving a stolen car when an Indiana State Police trooper spotted him traveling westbound on Interstate 70, according to a probable cause affidavit.

The trooper tried to stop the car, and Pinto instead tried to flee at speeds between 90 and 100 miles per hour.

Pinto drove into opposite traffic on Interstate 65 before losing control and tumbling the car into Fall Creek.

He was swimming away from the submerged car and told arriving police that someone else was inside.

The girl was transported to a hospital with “catastrophic” injuries, and doctors described her prognosis as “grim.”

Pinto was also hospitalized before he was booked into jail. He was charged with felonies including resisting law enforcement resulting in catastrophic injury, criminal recklessness, and auto theft.

A statement from Immigration and Customs Enforcement indicated that Pinto had been previously arrested for assault and called him an illegal alien.

“ICE Chicago’s Indianapolis suboffice officers lodged an immigration detainer with the Indiana State Police and Marion County Jail against Alexis Pinto, 20, of Guatemala, on Sept. 13, 2026,” read the ICE statement.

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“Pinto was convicted of second-degree assault on Feb. 4, 2026,” the statement continued.

“The safest way to arrest and remove criminal illegal aliens from our streets is by honoring immigration detainers,” ICE added. “Because sanctuary cities refuse to work with ICE law enforcement, criminal illegal aliens are released from jails into American communities to commit more crimes.”

Court documents said Pinto had picked up the 14-year-old girl in Newark, New Jersey, and took her to Baltimore, Maryland, to live with him.

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A political ad against Democrat candidate Abdul El-Sayed is being called one of the most powerful ads of this election period.

The video shows El-Sayed, who is running for U.S. Senate in Michigan, refusing to disavow the disturbing views of socialist streamer Hasan Piker, who has said that America “deserved” the 9/11 terror attacks.

‘I’m not here to disavow people’s views.’

“Some of you have heard about my son. His name was Todd Beamer,” says David Beamer as photos flash of happier times with his son.

“He had little boys age 3 and a half and 1 and a half. He had a wife, Lisa. She was five months pregnant,” he adds.

Todd Beamer was on the infamous United Flight 93 when Islamic terrorists hijacked the plane with intentions of crashing it into a prominent building, perhaps the U.S. Capitol. He was famously overheard on the phone call with a phone operator before passengers decided to confront the hijackers.

“They took a vote and decided, ‘We need to fight back,'” his father says in the video.

“Then they responded to him, and he said, ‘OK. Let’s roll,'” phone operator Lisa Jefferson recounts.

Todd Beamer’s actions and those of the passengers and crew likely saved many American lives. The plane crashed in a Pennsylvania field instead of hitting its intended target.

“Those 43 people on Flight 93 were not victims. They were killed in action,” continues David Beamer.

“When I hear anyone suggest America deserves 9/11, my question is: Who would say that?” he concludes.

The ad continues with comments from Piker on livestreamed video defending the terrorists’ actions.

“America deserved 9/11, dude. I’m saying it!” Piker said in 2019.

It concludes with El-Sayed refusing to reject Piker’s views.

“Abdul, are there are any views that Hasan holds that you disavow?” asks a reporter.

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“I’m not here to disavow people’s views,” El-Sayed says in the video.

Many online reacted emotionally to the political ad, which called on voters to reject El-Sayed and support Republican Mike Rogers.

In August, El-Sayed did refer to Piker’s comments as “dumb” but did not say whether he would stop campaigning with the streamer.

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A male on parole is accused of breaking into a California home in broad daylight last week.

The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office Emergency Communications Center said it received a 911 call from a resident in the 3900 block of Walnut Street in Eureka just after 4:30 p.m. last Monday reporting that he shot a male who had forcibly entered his home.

The victim was not injured during the incident, officials said, adding that he was not arrested in connection with the shooting, either.

The resident reported that suspect fled the area on foot toward Walnut Drive, officials said, adding that deputies responded to the scene, along with officers from the Eureka Police Department.

A male matching the suspect’s description was located in the area of W Street and Glatt Street suffering from a gunshot wound, officials said.

Emergency medical personnel who were already staged in the area responded and transported the suspect to a local hospital for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries, officials said.

The suspect was identified as 30-year-old Taren Joseph Ray Aubrey of Eureka, officials said.

Based on evidence recovered at the scene, along with victim and witness statements, officials said deputies determined that Aubrey had forcibly entered the home before being shot.

Upon being released from the hospital, Aubrey was taken to the Humboldt County Correctional Facility and booked on the following charges, officials said: burglary, felon/addict in possession of a firearm, unauthorized entry of an occupied dwelling, and violation of parole.

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The victim was not injured during the incident, officials said, adding that he was not arrested in connection with the shooting, either.

The victim was in fear for his life when Aubrey was shot, officials said, citing evidence gathered during the investigation.

The case has been forwarded to the Humboldt County District Attorney’s Office for review, officials said.

Those with information regarding this case are encouraged to contact the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office at 707-445-7251 or the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office Tip Line at 707-268-2539, officials said.

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