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Sunday, May 24, 2026

Outrage over Qurans and Hijabs at Texas school fuels Bible revival outside school gates

Outrage erupted after a “Why Islam?” table at a Texas high school handed out Qurans, pamphlets about Sharia law and hijabs in February.

A counter-response surfaced outside Wylie East High School on Tuesday; a table stocked with Bibles, miniature Jesus figures, and bracelets set up near the parking lot before school.

Some participants also held signs reading, “Bibles Not Qurans,” directly responding to the earlier Islam display.

Fox News Digital spoke with people at the demonstration, which included parents with kids in the district, local activists, students and organizers of the Bible handout. According to organizers, hundreds of Bibles were handed out.

The organizer of the event, local Dallas-Fort Worth radio host Chris Krok, said he was following the incident in February and his listeners suggested doing a Bible handout.

“My listeners and my podcast followers have been saying, ‘Why don’t you pass out Bibles? Why don’t you pass out Bibles.’ And so this came together over several months, several weeks of people asking over and over again,” he said.

Krok shared that he, along with Wylie East student Marco Hunter-Lopez and the 16-year-old’s father have been working together to expose the incident.

Hunter-Lopez sounded the alarm on the incident at his school, even going to Washington, D.C. Invited by Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, he testified on Capitol Hill on May 13 before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Constitution and Limited Government in a hearing titled, “Sharia-Free America.”

When the school found out about the Bible handout, the Wylie ISD Superintendent Kim Spicer, Ed.D sent the following email to parents, including in part:

“I also want to be clear that Wylie ISD respects the rights of individuals to distribute religious materials in public spaces in accordance with the law, and groups are welcome to make Bibles available to students and families. At the same time, district procedures regarding outside groups, visitors, and the distribution of non-school materials on campus will be followed. Any distribution of materials must remain off school property, and if needed, district staff will communicate directly with individuals regarding appropriate options available under district procedures.”

In an email obtained by Fox News Digital, sent out to parents from the superintendent, it was stated the materials at the ‘Why Islam?’ display were not reviewed or approved in advance.

The email included, “Wylie ISD does not allow the distribution of any religious materials to students, regardless of the group or message,” and called this a “clear violation of board policy,” and expressed regret. The district added that the table came to meet with the Muslim Student Association to spotlight World Hijab Day.

Wylie East Principal Tiffany Doolan also addressed parents following the incident, in part saying, “What happened on Monday should not have happened. There were mistakes made, and it happened on my watch. I am the principal of Wylie East High School, and you have trusted me with your children. I owe it to them and to you to learn from this moment and to move forward with the kind of leadership and accountability this community deserves.”

Krok claimed, “The principal, according to multiple student witnesses, overlooked while this was happening, watched on as this was happened, hence approval. You can’t get into this school unless you go through a locked area and you have a signature of the principal and advisor.”

Wylie ISD refuted this in a statement to Fox News Digital,

“The four adult women did not bypass security procedures. They arrived at the front entrance, pressed the buzzer, presented identification, and then entered the front office, which serves as a security vestibule. They then went through the normal visitor process, scanned their IDs through the district’s visitor management system, and stated they were there to meet with the Muslim Student Association. Campus staff followed multiple required procedures; however, they failed to verify in the system whether the required guest speaker form had been submitted. Had that final step been completed, staff would have seen that the form had not been submitted, and the individuals would not have been permitted to meet with the student organization or leave the front office.”

Hunter-Lopez claimed, “The principal was there that day looking on, and we actually have photos of her from two previous years wearing the hijab and promoting Islamic events. So this is not an isolated incident. So even if policies were broken, the principal looked on and did nothing about it, so we know she was just A-OK with it.”

On Instagram, the principal’s account @raidernationprincipal shows Doolan wearing a hijab with students in 2025 with the caption, “Yesterday, our MSA created an opportunity for everyone to experience the beauty of wearing a hijab on World Hijab Day! I LOVED this experience!”

Krok said that they were going to “follow the rules” and share their faith in response.

“If Islamic people are allowed into this school to proselytize, we’re going to show up and we’re going to stand up against it. And we’re saying you cannot proselytize in there. Come out here like we are.”

Local activist, Justin “JB” Bennett, a Collin County GOP precinct chairman, took the opportunity for the Bible handout to discuss the importance of faith and Jesus and rejected the notion that this was a protest.

“I would call it, ‘Let’s share the love of Jesus, let’s spread the message about the gospel how Jesus died for your sins you all you have to do is submit to Jesus and say you’re my Lord and Savior, I believe that you died for me,'” he said.

Kevin, a parent of Wylie ISD, also participated in the Bible handout, with a focus on sharing his faith, “Want to make sure that everybody gets a chance to learn more about what Jesus has done for the world, It’s really quite simple. We want to play by the rules and want everybody else to play by the rules too.”

Another Texan, Joel, and his wife Kelly also shared Kevin’s sentiment of not being there to protest but to share the “love of Jesus Christ.”

However, about a dozen student protesters showed up across from the Bible handout in the school’s parking lot, with signs that said “Love Thy Neighbor, which includes all religions.”

Hunter-Lopez added, “This nation is founded on Christian values and beliefs. Our founders believed in that. And ideology that’s completely antithetical to those beliefs that is suppression, that is coercion, we don’t want that in our schools. So that’s why we’re here today.”

During his testimony, Hunter-Lopez shared experiencing threatening messages following speaking out.

“I had people saying that they were going to be at my house waiting for me to get home and they were going to shoot me,” he told the subcommittee. “I had people telling me to kill myself. A lot of different things. But I know nobody can proclaim anything over me because I wake up every morning with victory with Christ.”

Following the February incident, a staff member was placed on leave. According to Wylie ISD in its statements to Fox News Digital, the employee has since returned to work.

“The fact that those actions are not public should not be interpreted to mean no action was taken,” was included in the statement.

The district maintained that this was a “procedural breakdown, not an intentional act of favoritism or an endorsement of any religion by the school or the principal.”

The rest of the statement to Fox News Digital can be seen below.

Fox News Digital reached out to Principal Doolan for comment.

https://nypost.com/2026/05/24/media/outrage-over-qurans-and-hijabs-at-texas-school-fuels-bible-revival-outside-school-gates/

The Replacements: How US Helps Foreign Workers Take American Jobs

by Steven Edginton via RealClearInvestigations,

Mary, a veteran Silicon Valley marketer who can't find a job, considers herself a victim of an H-1B visa program run amok.

Her story, a U.S. native replaced by a foreign-born employee who is willing to work at a significantly lower wage, has become commonplace, particularly in the tech industry. Adding insult to injury, she says, her CEO, who hails from India, told her to train the man he selected to replace her before laying her off.

Despite stints at Google and Cisco and two years of job hunting, Mary can no longer compete in a job market saturated with foreign-born H-1B visa holders. "I had experience. I should have walked right into these corporate jobs, but I didn't. Why? Because Silicon Valley is flooded with people who work for two-thirds of the price, or even half price," said Mary, who asked to be identified only by her first name.

U.S. tech workers like Mary are at the center of a battle brewing in Washington, D.C., over reforming the troubled H-1B visa program, which is designed to fill highly skilled positions when qualified American workers can't be found. The controversy pits tough-on-immigration Republicans and some Democrats against the most formidable of opponents - Big Tech, the primary beneficiary of a program considered by critics to be little more than a pipeline of cheap labor.

In the last few decades, the California dream has gone global as U.S. tech firms have filled their ranks and C-suites with employees born abroad. Intel is no longer the company of its founders, Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore, but of Malaysian-born Lip-Bu Tan, its CEO since March 2025. Microsoft is led by Satya Nadella; Alphabet Inc. by Sundar Pichai; Adobe by Shantanu Narayen; IBM by Arvind Krishna; YouTube by Neal Mohan; and T-Mobile US by Srinivas Gopalan - all of whom were born in India.

All told, a remarkable two-thirds of the Valley's nearly 400,000 tech jobs are now held by those born abroad, according to a 2025 report from the think tank Joint Venture Silicon Valley. Today, more tech workers were born in India (23%) and China (18%) combined than in the U.S. (34%).

Low-Cost Talent

The influx of low-cost Asian talent has clearly helped fuel profits in one of America's most influential sectors. But there is a downside to this tech boom - the sidelining of U.S. workers thanks to the H-1B visa program that's no longer working as intended. Created in 1990, the federal program has morphed into a vehicle for employers, particularly in the nation's tech centers, to recruit much cheaper foreign labor at the expense of U.S. tech workers, according to Harvard economist George J. Borjas.

While the H-1B program spans multiple industries, it's overwhelmingly concentrated in tech. Last year, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Tata Consultancy, and Google were the biggest visa users, with Amazon alone recording more than 13,000 applications. These companies find the savings from hiring foreign workers hard to resist. The job of software developer, for instance, accounts for 38% of all H-1B visa workers, according to a 2026 paper by Borjas. And these foreign software developers earn about 30% less than their U.S. counterparts, the economist estimates.

Since many of these tech jobs pay six figures, the savings quickly add up. Borjas estimates that companies, on average, save nearly $100,000 per worker over six years by hiring an H-1B worker rather than an American. The arrangement "redistributes wealth from those who compete with immigrants to those who use immigrants," Borjas wrote in 2016. That, in turn, helps account for the soaring stock prices of Big Tech since the 2008 financial crash.

False Rationale

The vaguely written H-1B law has been easy for companies to exploit. Hassan Abdullah, an immigration attorney and H-1B advocate, said the supposed congressional basis of the law - to fill highly skilled jobs with foreigners if Americans aren't available - has always been a fiction. "The regulations don't necessarily say that," said Abdullah, who helps companies get the visas. "Throughout all my years, I've never had to even consider that as a factor."

One of the most glaring weaknesses of the law, critics say, is that most companies applying for these visas are not required to demonstrate that they were unable to find qualified American workers. Only companies with more than 15% of their workforce on H-1Bs must make small efforts to recruit U.S. citizens, such as publicly announcing open positions.

Companies are required to pay foreign workers at least the "prevailing wage" for the occupation and region, a provision that should theoretically reduce the incentive to hire employees from Asia. But the process relies on self-reporting and has been easy to manipulate because salaries are calculated using broad regional averages that often fail to reflect real market wages in the technology sector.

As a result, the number of H-1B visa workers has skyrocketed. When an annual cap of 85,000 new visas is combined with renewals, 2025 was a banner year with 406,348 approved visas, according to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). Seventy percent of those visas were issued to Indians. That compares with a total of 275,317 visa approvals in 2015.

Missouri Sen. Eric Schmitt, who's part of the MAGA wing of the GOP, reacted to these numbers on X, calling the program "a national security nightmare. Enough. No more flooding the market with 400k+ H-1B visas while our people and our sovereignty gets screwed."

With criticism of the visas dovetailing with broader anti-immigration sentiments, the Trump administration has made the most serious move yet to restrict the program. Six months ago, the USCIS announced a new $100,000 fee that companies must pay per new H-1B worker living outside the U.S. While official figures have not yet been released, some immigration experts estimate that the fee may lead to a 30% to 50% decline in new visa applications.

"This is the first year we have not filed any H-1B visas for people outside the U.S. because tech companies don't want to pay the $100,000 fee," said immigration attorney Navdeep Meamber, who is based in Silicon Valley.

But companies have found a workaround. Meamber said she has seen an uptick in the number of clients filing for the visas for workers already in the U.S., particularly those such as students who transferred from other visa types to H-1Bs.

"The $100,000 fee is not reducing the numbers because foreign students, especially those who get on the Optional Practical Training program, can move into the H-1B pipeline without paying that fee," said attorney Rosemary Jenks, a campaigner for immigration reform with the Immigration Accountability Project. "So there are still plenty of H-1B visas being issued every year."

American Ingenuity

Silicon Valley wasn't always dominated by foreigners. Some claim the true birthplace of Silicon Valley can be found in a garage at 367 Addison Avenue in Palo Alto. It was there that David Packard, a native of Colorado, and Bill Hewlett of Michigan founded Hewlett-Packard in 1939. Robert Noyce, a native son of Iowa and co-inventor of the integrated circuit, critically made from silicon, gave name to the valley after the substance. With his colleague, Gordon Moore of San Francisco, they founded Intel in 1968.

Throughout the post-war years, America's booming tech industry was largely pioneered by natives. By the 1980s, however, concerns were raised about the dwindling number of young people available to fill STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) jobs in the future. Erich Bloch, director of the National Science Foundation, told the American Council on Education in 1985: "The pool of potential students from U.S. schools will become smaller. Demographic projections, of which you are all aware, show the number of 18-to-24-year-olds declining by about 20% over the next decade."

The 1990 Immigration Act, signed by George H. W. Bush, created the H-1B visa, a temporary work visa lasting a few years aimed at filling the labor shortages Bloch had warned about. Since then, as in many industries, tech firms have sometimes struggled to find employees, particularly specialized engineers, during times of rapid growth. But whether the industry faces a persistent shortage of American workers is a matter of debate among economists and labor analysts.

Major technology companies reject the criticism that the H-1B system is primarily a source of cheap labor. Executives stress that the program allows American firms to recruit engineers and researchers with advanced technical expertise in areas such as artificial intelligence, semiconductor design, and complex software development, where qualified talent can be scarce. They also contend that many H-1B workers are paid high salaries and that access to global talent helps keep American companies competitive against rivals in China and elsewhere.

Critics of the visas point to waves of layoffs, today driven by AI, accompanied by the growth in H-1Bs, as evidence that a labor shortage is nothing more than a fig leaf. Michael Capuano of the Federation for American Immigration Reform wrote in a blog post last year that "Google laid off 951 U.S. employees in 2024, but found room for 1,058 new H-1B workers. Apple laid off 735 people in 2024, but signed on 864 new H-1B employees. Microsoft laid off 3,426 workers from 2022 to 2024 and hired 3,259 new H-1Bs during that same period."

A 2023 analysis by the Economic Policy Institute similarly found that the top 30 H-1B employers hired more than 34,000 new H-1B workers in 2022 while laying off at least 85,000 employees during the same period.

In addition to cheaper talent, critics say H-1B visas also provide a captive workforce. Because employers can sponsor visa holders for permanent residency, many workers become heavily reliant on keeping their jobs in order to remain in the United States. Critics argue this dynamic discourages employees from changing companies or demanding higher wages, with some likening the system to a form of indentured servitude.

Tribalism At Play?

Critics say favoritism has also contributed to foreign dominance of the tech sector. After foreign-born employees take on leadership roles, including CEO, they sometimes attract and hire more foreigners by tapping their own professional and social networks.

Kevin Lynn, executive director of the Institute for Sound Public Policy, argues that "professionalism doesn't exist in these IT departments anymore," adding that "when you look at the hiring, it becomes very tribal; It's really India versus the rest of the world."

Microsoft saw the number of decisions on H-1B applications rise from 2,983 in 2014, when Nadella became CEO, to 6,258 in 2025. Google's numbers jumped from 2,309 in 2015, when Pichai took the top job, to 7,868 in 2025. During these years, these companies also grew, making it hard to know if the percentage of foreign workers increased. At IBM, H-1B decisions have remained consistent since Arvind Krishna was named the leader.

Meamber, the immigration lawyer, disputes the idea that companies run by foreign-born leaders are more likely to rely on labor from their home country. "The CEO doesn't even know who is being hired. These decisions are being made at a lower level by the HR team and by the recruiters," she said.

Stephen Vivien, an engineer, said he witnessed Indian employees help each other get hired by sharing interview questions when he worked at Google. "There were a lot of H-1B workers and they created their own little network," he said. "[When] one Indian guy would be coming up for his interview, the other Indian guys who had [already] gotten hired would call and share the questions."

In April, a New York jury found New Jersey-based Cognizant Technology Solutions liable for $8.4 million after a former executive sued the company, which was founded in India, for discrimination against non-Indian and non-South Asian workers. The executive argued he was passed over for a promotion and was later fired for raising concerns about bias against non-Indian employees.

The decision follows a separate successful lawsuit brought by three other employees against Cognizant in 2017, all similarly claiming discrimination against non-Indian workers, though the company is appealing and denies all allegations. In both lawsuits, juries found in favor of claims that Cognizant had used the H-1B program as a tool to discriminate against American workers. Since 2009, the company has received tens of thousands of H-1B visa approvals.

Reformers Vs. Big Tech

While restrictions to the program, including last year's $100,000 fee, have yet to meaningfully slow its growth, some Republicans have called to abolish it. In February, Florida representative Greg Steube introduced the EXILE Act, which would end the H-1B visa program entirely.

A proposed reform that might gain more bipartisan support targets the ineffective prevailing wage requirement that allows firms to underpay foreign workers. One idea floated by Republicans would create a minimum salary requirement for H-1B workers that's much higher than the current pay scale, thus removing the financial incentive to replace U.S.-born workers.

Ro Khanna, the Democratic congressman representing much of Silicon Valley, said on the All-In podcast last year that "there's definitely abuse [that] needs to be corrected" in the H-1B program. Khanna said a new prevailing wage standard would be a reform he could support.

But legislation that would raise labor costs would be opposed by Big Tech, armed with its war chest of money and influence in Washington. Jenks, the lawyer, said H-1B reformers face a tough fight. "The donors on this issue include all of the high-tech companies, whether it's Microsoft, Facebook, all of them," she said. "They put millions and millions of dollars every year into lobbying."

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/replacements-how-us-helps-foreign-workers-take-american-jobs

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Saturday, May 23, 2026

Sunday talkies: Cornyn, Hassett, Tills, Zeldin, Donalds, Ron Johnson

NewsNation’s “The Hill Sunday”: Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), Texas Democratic Party Chair Kendall Scutter, Texas Republican Party Chair Abraham George, content creator Bennett Rea

CBS News’s “Face the Nation”: National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett, Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), former White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx, Reps. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.) and Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.)

CNN’s “State of the Union”: Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin

Fox News’s “Fox News Sunday”: Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.)

NBC News’s “Meet the Press”: Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), Girls Who Code founder Reshma Saujani

Fox News’s “Sunday Morning Futures”: National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), Rep. Rick Crawford (R-Ark.), Rep. Ashley Hinson (R-Iowa), National Union for Democracy in Iran Vice President Cameron Khansarinia

ABC’s “This Week”: Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.), Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-N.Y.), former Capitol Police officer Harry Dunn and Metropolitan Police Department officer Daniel Hodges

https://thehill.com/homenews/sunday-talk-shows/5892915-trump-anti-weaponization-fund-backlash/

Iran to base World Cup camp in Mexico’s Tijuana after FIFA approval

Iran will base its squad in the Mexican border city of Tijuana during this year’s World Cup after FIFA approved a request to move its training camp from Arizona, the head of Iran’s football federation said on Saturday.

Mehdi Taj said the relocation would help avoid visa-related complications and allow the team to travel directly to Mexico on Iran Air flights, adding that the camp is located near the Pacific coast on the US–Mexico border.

https://www.iranintl.com/en/liveblog/202605238115

'Iran agreed to give up enriched uranium under Trump-announced deal - NYT'

US officials said Iran agreed in principle to give up its stockpile of highly enriched uranium as part of a US-Iran framework announced by Donald Trump, according to the New York Times.

The officials said the proposal leaves unresolved how Iran would surrender the material, with details deferred to future negotiations on Iran’s nuclear program. They added that Iran originally resisted including the stockpile in an initial phase of the deal, but US negotiators warned they would abandon talks and resume military action if no commitment was made.

The report said Iran holds about 970 pounds of uranium enriched to 60%, and that options discussed in parallel include transferring the material abroad or diluting it. The White House did not comment on the details of the proposal.