Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer Delays Senate Holiday Recess for Border-Ukraine Talks in Hopes of DealCapitol Hill/Washington

thenewamerican.com Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) announced today that the Senate will remain in session, delaying their scheduled holiday recess. The Senate will remain in the Capitol until next week to reach a deal on the U.S. border in order to pass a vote on funding Ukraine. ::: After Schumer met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday, he made statements saying, "It was a very powerful meeting, President Zelensky made it so clear how he needs help, but if he gets the help he can win this war. ... On the other hand, he made it clear and we all made it clear that if we lose, Putin wins and this will be very very dangerous for the United States."

2ND DAY Illinois Elites Accuse NAACP Leader of 'Racism' for Comments About MigrantsIllinois

wsvn.com/#CNN Teresa Haley, the top official of the Illinois NAACP is under fire from the state's governor and others after a leaked video call with NAACP leaders around the state appears to show her comparing recent migrant arrivals to "savages" and saying "they've been raping people." ::: Asked about the recording Tuesday, Democratic Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker called the comments "reprehensible remarks, I would hope that she would apologize for the remarks. I also think that people should recognize that immigrants to this country are all around us," according to CNN.

NOTE Here is a link to yesterday's cluster of stories on this.

No, the government does not give $5,000 gift cards to people who enter the U.S. illegally. THIS IS BASED ON PURPOSELY ALTERED REPORTING.Arizona

NOTE POORING REPORTING The Sheriff did NOT say the "government" gave the immigrants cell phones, plane tickets or $5,000 gift cards. ::: ICE provides cellphones to track illegal immigrants. By law, the migrants staying in the U.S. get transportation to where they are going. The gift card comes from NGO's - which was funded by the State department.

11alive.com An Arizona sheriff and Republican candidate for U.S. Senate claims in viral posts that the federal government is giving $5,000 gift cards to people who enter the U.S. illegally. ::: — ::: "So while this Christmas season, you're struggling to keep your lights on, while you're struggling to pay your rent, put Christmas presents under the tree for your kids, we have our government giving people that came into this country illegally $5,000 gift cards," Pinal County Sheriff Mark Lamb says in a video posted on X, formerly known as Twitter.

New York City Wasted Tens Of Thousands of Dollars On Migrant Meals That Later Get TrashedNew York City

dailywire.com New York City is spending tens of thousands of dollars on meals for illegal migrants that end up in the trash. ::: About 70,000 meals that cost $11 each were marked "wasted" in less than three weeks recently by DocGo, a medical services company tapped by the city to provide migrant care, according to internal company documents reported by The New York Times.

2ND DAY Chicago's Newly Arrived Migrants Sent to Oak Park (Village) Must be Out by January 31Chicago

NOTE Here is a link to yesterday's story cluster on this.

abc7chicago.com Just three and a half weeks ago the Village of Oak Park agreed to allocate an additional $1 million to continue housing a group of 160 migrants that were brought in from Chicago's 15th police station during a Halloween day snowfall. With that funding set to run out by February 6, the village sent out a letter to the migrants Wednesday telling them they must move out by the end of January.