Morning Wire - Colony Ridge Footage & German Crash Kills Two | Afternoon Update | 3.3.25

Episode Date: March 3, 2025

Colony Ridge admits they sell to illegal immigrants, fire fighters battle wildfires across the Carolinas, and female track athletes refuse to compete against a trans-identifying male. Developing stories you need to know just in time for your drive home. Get the facts first on Morning Wire. Lumen: Head to http://lumen.me/WIRE for 20% off your purchase. Shopify: Go to https://Shopify.com/morningwire to sign up for your $1 per month trial period and upgrade your selling today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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I'm Georgia Howe with Daily Wire, editor-in-chief John Bickley. It's Monday, March 3rd, and this is is your Morning Wire afternoon update. Undercover footage from Project Veritas shows Colony Ridge sales staff appearing to admit that they sell land to buyers with foreign IDs. It can be a Mexican passport. It can be Mexican passport, but we need two. The passport and maybe the...

Like a Mexican passport and a Mexican driver's license. But that do okay. Yes, those two. Daily Wire reporter Spencer Lindquist has more. In the video, saleswoman Sandy Moreno goes on to say they also don't check whether potential buyers are in the country illegally. And they need to be residents of Texas. They need to live here?

Uh-huh, yes. So if they're undocumented? Uh-huh, yeah. Because we'll not check that. You don't check that? We'll not check that. This comes just one week after state and federal law enforcement raided the area, resulting in the arrests of 118 illegal aliens.

Colony Ridge, which is estimated to currently house 75,000 to 100,000 people is projected to grow to 250,000 people within a decade. The development also faces lawsuits from the Texas Attorney General and federal agencies over alleged predatory sales tactics targeting Hispanic buyers. Promotional materials and social media campaigns specifically encourage foreign buyers to, quote, own land in the United States.

Federal agents have busted two Guatemalan men for allegedly running one of the largest human smuggling operations in the U.S. Authorities say the suspects helped smuggle 20,000 migrants from Guatemala since 2019. Caught in Los Angeles, the alleged ringleader reportedly charged migrants up to $18,000 and held those who couldn't pay hostage. A third suspect, still at large, is accused of threatening a federal agent. Officials say dismantling these networks is critical to saving lives and securing the border. A new investigation reveals that a federal union boss collected a taxpayer-funded paycheck for 34 years without working a single hour for the social

Security Administration. Daily Wire investigative reporter Luke Rosiak reports. Vee told Sourinsky, the President Emeritus of the American Federation of Government Employees Social Security Council, received a salary under a policy called Official Time. That allows union officials to receive government salaries while working solely on union activities. In 2018, Sarensky was actually banned from Social Security offices amidst allegations that he sent a sexually explicit photo to an agency employee. Despite retiring, he remains a powerful force in union leadership, strategizing against efforts to reform the federal workforce.

The case has reignited calls to eliminate taxpayer-funded union time, with lawmakers arguing some misuse of public funds. Donald Trump's Office of Personnel Management is now demanding that agencies report how so-called official time is being used. South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster has declared a state of emergency as firefighters battle wildfires across the Carolinas. Nearly 5,000 acres have burned in South Carolina. The largest fire is in Carolina Forest near Myrtle Beach,

now at 1,200 acres with 0% contained. The state's Army National Guard has deployed Black Hawk helicopters to assist. A statewide burning ban is in effect with violators facing prosecution. Here's what Forestry Commission Chief Russell Huberight told NBC about how this happened. It's very erratic. You saw the flames were low and all of a sudden they jumped up, right? So wind changes can do that. And this kind of a fuel type, as we call it, so it can be a little scary.

Meanwhile, in North Carolina, a 500-acre wildfire near Ashville remains uncontained. This episode is brought to you by Shopify. Sign up for your $1 per month trial period at Shopify.com slash morningwire, all lowercase. Established in 2025 has a nice ring to it, doesn't it? Head over to Shopify.com slash morningwire to start selling with Shopify today. Two people are dead and many others injured after a driver plowed into a crowd in Mannheim, Germany. Authorities say the 40-year-old suspect is in custody, but they have not yet classified the incident as an attack. The crash follows a similar car ramming in Munich last month that was linked to Islamic extremism.

German Chancellor Olaf Schultz condemned the violence while officials urged residents to avoid the area. Numerous female competitors refused to compete against a male runner who identifies as female during the U.S. track and field open master's championships. Daily Wire reporter Amanda Prestige Giacomo has the details. This past weekend, 21-year-old Sadie Shriner won the women's 400 and 200-meter dashes after several teenage female athletes withdrew in apparent protest. Shriner, who previously competed in men's track, also set records while racing for the women's team at the Rochester Institute of Technology.

USA Track and Field has not commented on the withdrawals, but follows International Olympic Committee rules allowing male athletes in women's events. The controversy has reignited debate over fairness in women's sports. And Hollywood stars descended on Kodak Theater last night for the 2025 Oscars. Comedy drama Anora won big last night, winning five of the six categories it was nominated for, including Best Picture. Its 23-year-old star, Mikey Madison, took home best actress in an upset win that many thought would go to Demi Moore. Adrian Brody won a second Best Act.

Award for his role in The Brutalist. And Kieran Culkin and Zoe Saldana both took home supporting actor awards. Other films receiving awards included The Brutalist, Wicked, Amelia Perez, and Dune Part 2. No Other Land took home the Oscar for Best Documentary. The Daily Wires, Am I Racist, the highest grossing documentary of the decade, did not make the list. However, this year's Oscar speeches were noticeably apolitical, a stark contrast to the past several years. Those are your drive home updates this afternoon. To learn more about these stories,

go to dailywire.com. And in case you missed it this morning, we covered some major stories, including Zelensky's fleet of the EU, Black Rock's rejection of woke, and Maine's call to protect women's sports. Thanks for tuning in. We'll be back tomorrow morning with another full edition of Morning Wire.