Florida Weigh Station Immigration Checks National Blueprint For Addressing Migrant CDL Crisis

 About two weeks after an illegal alien truck driver made an illegal U-turn on a Florida highway, killing three Americans, Florida officials - responding to uproar from residents across the state and across the nation - will begin rolling out federal immigration checkpoints at all agricultural inspection stations. The move serves as a blueprint for other states to confront the migrant CDL crisis, which is not only a public safety threat but also a national security threat. Thank the Biden-Harris regime for the migrant CDL crisis that is killing Americans.

"There's no telling how many illegal aliens are in this country driving large commercial vehicles and putting American families in a safety risk every single day," Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier told reporters Monday during a press conference in Live Oak, a city north of Gainesville.

Uthmeier said his team is sending a letter to the U.S. Department of Transportation and the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, urging the Trump administration to revoke the CDL license program authority and strip related federal funding from California and Washington. We have warned for many months that these sanctuary states handed out CDLs to migrants "like candy." 

"States like California and Washington ignored the rules, gave an illegal alien a license to drive a 40-ton truck, and three people are dead as a result," Uthmeier said, adding, "In response, we're supporting our Agricultural Law Enforcement and state police to ramp up inspections at state entry-points for illegal aliens who may be operating large trucks using out-of-state driver's licenses."

Last Thursday, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio took decisive action to address the non-domiciled CDL crisis by "pausing all issuance of worker visas for commercial truck drivers" (read the note here).

Effective immediately we are pausing all issuance of worker visas for commercial truck drivers.

The increasing number of foreign drivers operating large tractor-trailer trucks on U.S. roads is endangering American lives and undercutting the livelihoods of American truckers.

— Secretary Marco Rubio (@SecRubio) August 21, 2025

Rubio's action at State comes shortly after DoT Secretary Sean P. Duffy told the nation that the horrific incident involving an alien truck driver in Florida killing three Americans "cannot happen again." 

This cannot happen again.

.@FMCSA is launching an investigation into both the driver and White Hawk Carrier.

Here’s what we know:

1. Washington State improperly issued the driver a full-term CDL. Asylum seekers or illegal aliens are NOT allowed to receive this!

2. New Mexico… pic.twitter.com/Qlf8T68IJz

— Secretary Sean Duffy (@SecDuffy) August 19, 2025

The issue Duffy and the Trump administration are discovering is that, under the Biden-Harris globalist regime's open-borders invasion, the previous administration had boasted about "reducing barriers" for people to obtain CDLs. Figures from the previous administration showed that nearly a million CDLs were handed out like candy in just a short period of time. 

American Truckers United - the leader in exposing this migrant CDL crisis - has previously warned that many of these CDLs issued under the Biden-Harris regime went to migrants, some of whom don't speak English and were employed by major trucking firms that served mega globalist corporations. 

Hence, the signs at Walmart:

And Amazon. 

And other trucking hubs. 

And remember, while traveling this holiday weekend, maintain full situational awareness on the highways for 80,000-pound big rigs operated by migrants who can't read English. It could save your life - and your family's.

Latest reporting on migrant CDL crisis:

• Advocacy Group Calls For U.S. Probe On Non-English Speaking Migrant Truck Drivers After Deadly Austin Crash

• Biden Handed Out CDLs Like Candy... Now U.S. Highways Are A Public Safety & National Security Nightmare

• Rolling Risk: Unvetted Migrants Behind The Wheel Of Big Rigs Threaten U.S. Safety & Security

• From North America To Australia, Migrant Truckers Are Fueling A Highway Safety Crisis

• English Trucking Rule Takes Effect, Federal Probe Begins Of Sanctuary State Migrant CDL Pipeline

• Letter Urges Transportation Sec. Duffy To Ban Foreign CDLs Amid Series Of Highway Crashes

• Highway Mayhem: Trucker From Sanctuary State Illinois Arrested After Baltimore Shooting Spree

• Walmart, Amazon Truck Depots Display Multilingual Signs, Raising Alarms Over Migrant Drivers With No English

• Watch: American Truckers United Issues Dire Warning On 'Unsafe' Highways Amid Flood Of Migrant Drivers, Crashes

• Florida Highway Horror: Migrant Truck Driver Leaves 3 Americans Dead Amid CDL Crisis

• Illegal Alien Behind Fatal Florida Big Rig Crash; Sec. Duffy Signals Major Action On CDL Crisis

• "This Cannot Happen Again": Sec. Duffy Readies Major Action Against Rogue States Amid Migrant CDL Crisis

• US "Pauses Issuance Of Worker Visas For Truckers" To Address Illegal Alien CDL Crisis Killing Americans

Red states will most likely follow Florida's lead by establishing federal immigration checkpoints at all trucking inspection stations.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/florida-weigh-station-immigration-checks-serve-national-blueprint-addressing-migrant-cdl

Monarez lawyers say admin targeted her

 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Susan Monarez abruptly left the agency on Wednesday, less than a month after being sworn in. 

“Susan Monarez is no longer director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. We thank her for her dedicated service to the American people,” the Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees the CDC, posted on X. 

Susan Monarez has resigned as director of the CDC after less than a month at the helm.REUTERS

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “has full confidence in his team at [CDC] who will continue to be vigilant in protecting Americans against infectious diseases at home and abroad,” the post continued, without naming her replacement. 

Monarez’s lawyers accused the Trump administration of targeting their client but did not say whether she was fired or resigned. 

“When CDC Director Susan Monarez refused to rubber-stamp unscientific, reckless directives and fire dedicated health experts, she chose protecting the public over serving a political agenda. For that, she has been targeted,” attorneys Mark Zaid and Abbe Lowell said in a statement. 

“This is not about one official,” they added. “It is about the systematic dismantling of public health institutions, the silencing of experts, and the dangerous politicization of science.

Bullet holes are seen in windows at the Centers For Disease Control (CDC) Global Headquarters following a shooting that left two dead, on August 9, 2025 in Atlanta, Georgia.Getty Images

“The attack on Dr. Monarez is a warning to every American: our evidence-based systems are being undermined from within.” 

Monarez, a federal government scientist, was tapped by President Trump to lead the public health agency in March after he withdrew his previous nomination of Dave Weldon.

She was confirmed as director of the CDC by the Senate on July 29 and sworn in by Kennedy on July 31.

Monarez reportedly objected to RFK’s June decision to remove all 17 members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), a panel that advises the CDC on vaccine recommendations, according to the New York Times. 

Kennedy, a longtime vaccine skeptic, previously withdrew CDC recommendations for COVID-19 shots for pregnant women and healthy children.

Monarez’s departure comes on the same day the HHS secretary announced changes to COVID-19 vaccine eligibility.

Under the new rules, people over age 65 will remain eligible to get the vaccines, but younger adults and children will need to establish they have an underlying condition such as asthma or obesity that puts them at higher risk of serious illness.

https://nypost.com/2025/08/27/us-news/cdc-director-susan-monarez-departs-agency-less-than-a-month-after-being-sworn-in/

Indonesia Braces for More Protests Amid Signs of Growing Dissent

 

Thousands of workers are set to rally in Jakarta and 38 other provinces on Thursday to demand higher wages and lower taxes, marking a second major street protest this week that signals growing discontent with President Prabowo Subianto’s administration less than a year into his term.

About 10,000 members of labor unions are expected to show up at the demonstration outside the parliament building in the capital at 10 a.m. local time, while thousands more are planning to march in major cities like Surabaya and Medan, according to Said Iqbal, president of Indonesian Labor Party. In a statement on Wednesday, he said the protests will be peaceful, but send a strong message of deepening frustration among the country’s working class.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-28/indonesia-braces-for-more-protests-amid-signs-of-growing-dissent

US, Allies Step Up Fight Against North Korean Cyber Activities

 

The US, Japan and South Korea pledged to intensify efforts to block North Korea’s use of overseas IT workers to raise money for its weapons programs, warning that Pyongyang’s operatives are using increasingly sophisticated tactics to evade detection.

North Korean programmers, often posing as non-North Korean freelancers with fake identities and locations, are winning contracts worldwide, including in North America, Europe and East Asia, according to a joint statement issued by the three countries on Wednesday.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-28/us-allies-step-up-fight-against-north-korean-cyber-activities

How Congress Can Fix Medicare Advantage Overpayments

 Medicare Advantage (MA), Medicare’s popular system of private health plans, is in the hot seat.

During a recent congressional hearing, members and witnesses expressed concern about MA plans’ efforts to secure higher reimbursements.

Meanwhile, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the agency that runs Medicare, announced an annual audit of every health plan—and the Department of Justice opened an investigation into UnitedHealth Group, the largest MA insurer, for business practices that result in improper payments.

Broadly speaking, many Washington officials believe that Medicare Advantage plans are “gaming” the current system at taxpayer expense. But the question lawmakers should be asking is, “What’s wrong with the current system that it enables, and even encourages, gaming?”

One clue is that the current system for determining payments to Medicare Advantage plans is complex. The more complicated something is, the more ways it can (and probably will) go wrong.

In this case, the complexity results mainly from Medicare’s “risk adjustment” methodology, which tries to project how much enrollees are expected to cost and set plan payments accordingly.

That kind of prospective risk adjustment methodology can work reasonably well in the aggregate—provided it relies on a limited number of variables supported by statistically valid data.

For instance, using Medicare’s large claims datasets, actuaries can calculate the difference in medical spending between, say, the average 70-year-old and the average 80-year-old. The same can be done for other basic variables such as, sex and geographic location.

However, the current MA risk adjustment methodology tries to go further and predict each enrollee’s future medical costs. So Medicare requires plans to submit data on the health status of the beneficiaries they enroll using diagnostic codes for a wide variety of conditions, ranging from diabetes to depression to high blood pressure. That not only enormously increases complexity—it creates new problems.

For instance, with MA the more diagnostic codes submitted for a beneficiary, the more Medicare pays the plan. Yet for a traditional Medicare patient, the doctor’s incentive is to submit only the minimum codes needed for payment. These contrary incentives bias the resulting data to portray MA patients as sicker than they really are, while simultaneously portraying traditional Medicare patients as being healthier than they actually are—thus making comparisons between MA and traditional Medicare unreliable.

Another problem is that the current system skews plan payments toward patients with chronic conditions while doing a poor job of adjusting payments for the occurrence of expensive acute conditions like cancer.

The solution is to split the existing risk adjustment system into two parts.

The first part would prospectively adjust plan payments using a few well-documented characteristics that correlate with variations in medical spending, such as, age, sex, institutional status and location.

The second part would be a retrospective risk transfer pool through which the MA plans in each state or region could collectively adjust for any maldistribution of claims costs.

While the plan actuaries would collectively design the details, the basic effect would be to redistribute funds from plans with more than the average share of low-cost enrollees to plans with more than the average share of high-cost enrollees. Thus, plans that enrolled a larger share of sick or expensive beneficiaries would be made whole with payments that more accurately reflect their real costs.

As we explain in our book Modernizing Medicare: Harnessing the Power of Consumer Choice and Competition (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023), such a change would not only eliminate the guesswork and possible gaming of the system but also eliminate unnecessary costs to the taxpayer. It’s just common sense.

Robert E. Moffit, PhD, is a Senior Research Fellow at the Heritage Foundation. Edmund F. Haislmaier is the Preston A. Wells Jr. Senior Research Fellow in Heritage’s Center for Health and Welfare Policy.

https://www.realclearhealth.com/articles/2025/08/27/how_congress_can_fix_medicare_advantage_overpayments_1131356.html

Mystery Hacker Used AI To Automate 'Unprecedented' Cybercrime Rampage

 A hacker allegedly exploited Anthropic, the fast-growing AI startup behind the popular Claude chatbot, to orchestrate what authorities describe as an “unprecedented” cybercrime campaign targeting nearly 20 companies, according to a report released this week.

The report, published by Anthropic and obtained by NBC News, details how the hacker manipulated Claude to pinpoint companies vulnerable to cyberattacks. Claude then generated malicious code to pilfer sensitive data and cataloged information that could be used for extortion, even drafting the threatening communications sent to the targeted firms.

NBC News reports:

The stolen data included Social Security numbers, bank details and patients' sensitive medical information. The hacker also took files related to sensitive defense information regulated by the U.S. State Department, known as International Traffic in Arms Regulations.

It's not clear how many of the companies paid or how much money the hacker made, but the extortion demands ranged from around $75,000 to more than $500,000, the report said.

Jacob Klein, head of threat intelligence for Anthropic, said the campaign appeared to be the work of a hacker operating outside the U.S., but did not provide any additional details about the culprit.

“We have robust safeguards and multiple layers of defense for detecting this kind of misuse, but determined actors sometimes attempt to evade our systems through sophisticated techniques,” Klein said.

Anthropic’s findings come as an increasing number of malicious actors are leveraging AI to craft fraud that is more persuasive, scalable, and elusive than ever. A SoSafe Cybercrime Trends report reveals that 87% of global organizations encountered an AI-driven cyberattack over the past year, with the threat gaining momentum.

“AI is dramatically scaling the sophistication and personalization of cyberattacks,” said Andrew Rose, Chief Security Officer at SoSafe. “While organizations seem to be aware of the threat, our data shows businesses are not confident in their ability to detect and react to these attacks.”

Artificial intelligence is not only a tool for cybercriminals - it is also broadening the vulnerabilities within organizations. As companies rush to adopt AI-driven tools, they may inadvertently expose themselves to new risks.

“Even the benevolent AI that organisations adopt for their own benefit can be abused by attackers to locate valuable information, key assets or bypass other controls,” Rose continued.

“Many firms create AI chatbots to provide their staff with assistance, but few have thought through the scenario of their chatbot becoming an accomplice in an attack by aiding the attacker to collect sensitive data, identify key individuals and gather useful corporate insights,” he added.

https://www.zerohedge.com/ai/mystery-hacker-used-ai-automate-unprecedented-cybercrime-rampage

BofA Raises PT on Jazz Pharmaceuticals (JAZZ) to $225 From $217

 Jazz Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:JAZZ) is one of the most promising future stocks according to Wall Street analysts. On August 14, BofA raised the firm’s price target on Jazz Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:JAZZ) to $225 from $217, keeping a Buy rating on the shares.

The firm told investors in a research note that it spoke with two key opinion leaders after the recent approval of Modeyso to treat an ultra-rare brain tumor. The leaders offered “positive feedback” on Modeyso uptake along with the odds of success for the confirmatory Phase 3 study.

The firm added that while the lead US indication for Modeyso for the recurrent setting is likely to be niche, the call from the experts left it “more assured” about the potential of the confirmatory ACTION trial, which may bolster peak US sales to greater than $400 million.

Jazz Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:JAZZ) develops medicines for serious diseases. Its primary marketed products include Xywav, Xyrem oral solution, Epidiolex oral solution, Rylaze, Zepzelca, Defitelio, and Vyxeos liposome for injection.

These medicines treat excess daytime sleepiness (EDS) in narcolepsy patients seven years of age or older, tepatic veno-occlusive disease (VOD), and other ailments.

https://finviz.com/news/147917/bofa-raises-pt-on-jazz-pharmaceuticals-jazz-to-225-from-217