Morning Wire - Title 42’s Expiration Looms & Alleged Spy Arrest | Afternoon Update | 5.11.23

Episode Date: May 11, 2023

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I'm Daily Wire, editor-in-chief John Bickley with Georgia Howe. It's Thursday, May 11th, and this is your Morning Wire afternoon update. 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. Here with more is Daily Wire reporter Tim Pierce. 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. The move comes as the administration struggles to contain a growing surge of illegal immigration

prompted by the court-ordered repeal of Title 42. One DHS officials said earlier this week, quote, We're already breaking and we haven't hit the starting line. The U.S. had a record on Tuesday, telling more than 11,000 migrant apprehensions at the border in a single day. Federal authorities have arrested a U.S. citizen accused of being a Chinese communist spy. Daily Wire senior editor, As Short, has more. 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. 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.

The arrest comes just weeks after the feds busted an alleged Chinese communist police station in New York City. 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. Here's how the view reacted. I don't think that she was prepared. I don't think he should have been given a platform.

I know. I was wondering when he was going to be fact-checked in real time. She did on the very first question. Well, I think she needed a producer in her ear, and I think we needed a Chiron. This is a lie. This is a lie. This is a lie. This is a lie.

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. 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. Feinstein was seen in a wheelchair and accompanied by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. The senator is reportedly experiencing vision, balance, impairments, and will need the wheelchair to get around the Capitol. Her return comes after weeks of fellow Democrats calling for her to resign. It remains unclear if she will seek re-election in 2024.

The Environmental Protection Agency released new carbon emission standards today for power plants that burn coal and natural gas. The new regulations seek to cut carbon dioxide emissions from such power. plants by 617 million metric tons. 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. 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. A California Community College professor was suspended after he handed out Jeremy's

chocolate bars to students. 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. Madera Community College officials took the action as an endorsement of the gender binary and suspended him. 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. School officials claimed the gesture constituted harassment and discrimination

against colleagues based on gender. Jeremy's chocolate is owned by Daily Wire's parent company. Those are your drive home updates this afternoon. To learn more about these stories, go to DailyWire.com and for more in-depth discussion of the biggest stories of the day. Listen to our latest full episode of Morningwire every morning.