Mexican President Manuel Lopez Obrador Thanks Joe Biden For Not Building “Even One Meter” of Border Wall

Joe Biden on Tuesday delivered remarks with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Mexico City.

The three leaders met for the annual North America Leaders Summit.

Joe Biden said he is actively working to make it easier for migrants from Latin America to come to the United States.

“We’re trying to make it easier for people to get here – opening up the capacity to get here,” Biden said.

Then this happened…

The Mexican president thanked Joe Biden for NOT building a border wall.

An obvious dig at President Trump.

“You are the first president of the United States in a very long time that has not build even one meter of wall. And we thank you for that, sir,” the Mexican president said to Joe Biden.

https://youtu.be/vCsa4ekBsQk

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/01/mexican-president-manuel-lopez-obrador-thanks-joe-biden-not-building-even-one-meter-border-wall-video/

NYPD officer jumps from Queens building in apparent suicide

Though the NYPD imposed a mandatory suicide prevention training course in 2019, New York witnessed a rise in officer suicides through 2020.

An on-duty officer with the New York Police Department leapt from the roof of a Queens building on Tuesday in an apparent suicide.

The officer had previously been stripped of his gun and shield and was on a modified assignment that required him to receive periodic evaluations at the NYPD Medical Division, according to the New York Daily News. His fatal plunge began from a building adjacent to the Medical Division's offices.

The reason for his modified assignment was not immediately clear and the officer's identity has not been made public. Faced with rising crime, attacks on officers, and a recruiting shortage, the NYPD finds itself stretched thin.

Though the NYPD imposed a mandatory suicide prevention training course in 2019, New York witnessed a rise in officer suicides through 2020, a year marked by vitriolic anti-police rhetoric following the death of George Floyd. Three NYPD officers committed suicide last year, per the outlet.

Nearly 1,500 officers left the force in the first half of 2022 alone.

Attacks on officers also remain a threat, with one incident occurring New Year's Eve that saw a machete-wielding assailant injure three.

https://justthenews.com/nation/crime/nypd-officer-jumps-queens-building-apparent-suicide

Nearly 350 K-12 educators arrested on child sex crimes in 2022

75% of the arrests involved alleged crimes against students, Fox News Digital analysis reveals

Nearly 350 public educators were arrested on child sex-related crimes in the U.S. last year, averaging to almost an arrest every day on crimes ranging from grooming to child porn to raping students, Fox News Digital has found.

A year-long analysis conducted by Fox News Digital revealed that from Jan. 1 to Dec. 31 of 2022, at least 349 kindergarten through 12th-grade educators were arrested on child sex crimes.

The 349 educators included five principals, three assistant principals, 290 teachers, 26 substitute teachers and 25 teachers’ aides spanning nearly every state in the country.

At least 262 of the arrests, or 75%, involved alleged crimes against students.

The analysis looked at local news stories week by week featuring arrests of K-12 principals, assistant principals, teachers, substitute teachers and teachers’ aides on child sex-related crimes in public school districts across the country. Arrests that weren't publicized were not counted in the analysis, meaning the true number may well be higher.

Only 54 of the alleged crimes, or less than 16%, did not involve students. It is not yet known whether the remaining 33 arrests involved alleged crimes against students.

Men also made up the vast majority of the arrests with nearly 82%.

"This isn't surprising or new though it is hard to accept," Erika Sanzi, director of outreach at Parents Defending Education, told Fox News Digital. "Since the dawn of time, sexual predators have found a way to embed themselves in child rich environments and schools are no exception. Smart phones and encrypted apps have increased access to young children and adolescents and while it is a tiny fraction of educators who engage in this predatory behavior, we must do a much better job protecting children while also respecting due process. It's an icky topic but hiding from it can't be an option."

Corey DeAngelis, senior fellow at the American Federation for Children, said reporting on the subject is incomplete, and that the Department of Education should release a new report detailing the prevalence of child sex abuse in schools.

"These findings are likely lower bound estimates of the actual amount of sexual abuse occurring in public schools because the analysis only includes publicized arrests and cannot count undetected or unreported forms of abuse," DeAngelis told Fox News Digital. "In fact, a 2004 report from the U.S. Department of Education estimated that around one in ten public school students will experience educator sexual misconduct by the time they graduate from high school. The Department of Education should update the report as soon as possible to shine a light on this abuse."

The Education Department report, released nearly 20 years ago, claimed that nearly 9.6% of students are targets of educator sexual misconduct sometime during their school career.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/nearly-350-k-12-educators-arrested-child-sex-crimes-2022

Meta bans comments supporting election-denial protests and riots in Brazil

Designated as a "violent event."

Meta said it will remove content promoting or endorsing the riots in Brazil. On Sunday, former President Jair Bolsonaro’s supporters stormed the Congress building (Palacio do Planalto) and the Supreme Court building in the capital, Brasilia.

In a statement, Meta spokesperson Andy Stone said: “We’re also designating this as a violating event, which means we will remove content that supports or praises these actions. We’re actively monitoring the situation and will continue removing content that violates our policies.”

Like the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the US capitol, the media has blamed tech platforms for allowing a spread of alleged misinformation on social media for fueling the recent riots in Brazil.

Several leaders in Latin America, the US, the EU, and even Bolsonaro himself condemned the riots in Brasilia. Current President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva described the riots as barbaric and ordered the use of federal forces to restore order.

Following the riots, Lula’s Workers’ Party called on supporters to attend a pro-democracy rally in Sao Paulo to speak out against the riots, which it described as “terrorist action.” The Socials and Liberty Party also encouraged supporters to attend the rally.

https://reclaimthenet.org/meta-bans-comments-supporting-election-denial-protests-and-riots-in-brazil/