Welcome back, Wake Up Right fam. Over the weekend, Hurricane Helene ran a devastating path across Florida, Georgia, the Carolinas, Tennessee, and Virginia. Over 100 are believed to be dead, dozens are missing, and millions are without power.

If you need resources or want to help provide resources, visit FEMA’s website for official links, organized by state.

• 🆚 JD Vance and Tim Walz will debate tomorrow

• ⚡️ U.S. hits 1,600 executions since 1976 SCOTUS ruling

• 🆘 U.S. suicide rate returned to its peak 14.2 deaths per 100k in 2022

• 🤡 28% say being with friends/family w/ opposing political views is stressful

^{Sources: n/a, Washington Post, Washington Post, Yahoo News}

Illegal alien crime stats crash Kamala’s border photo-op

Tens of thousands of illegal aliens with violent criminal convictions are roaming freely across the United States, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) data. The revelation came as Kamala Harris visited the southern border for a 20-minute photo-op on Friday.

The numbers: The "non-detained docket" data was provided at the request of Texas Rep. Tony Gonzales by Deputy ICE Director Patrick Lechleitner. It revealed there are currently 425,431 illegal alien criminals outside of ICE custody. Their crimes include:

• 62,231 assault convictions

• 13,099 homicide convictions

• 15,811 sexual assault convictions

What is a “non-detain docket”? It is a list of illegal aliens not in ICE custody but have final orders of removal or are in removal proceedings. There are currently 7 million on this docket.

Zoom out: This doesn’t account for the estimated 2 million “gotaways” who entered the country and evaded border patrol.

We should note that this docket includes all illegal alien criminals, not just those who entered under the Biden-Harris regime.

Kamala’s border photo-op: Kamala Harris visited the southern border for the first time on Friday. Polls continue to show its one of voters’ top concerns, and they overwhelmingly prefer Trump to fix it.

• The Border Patrol union blasted Kamala's trip, saying she “ignored the border problem she created for over three years" and accused her of “[going] down there for 20 minutes for a photo op."

• If you want to understand how concerned Kamala’s team is about her border polling, look at her X account. Over the last few days, she’s tweeted about the border 15 times. In the three years prior, she only mentioned it seven times.

Big picture: More than 10 million illegal aliens have entered the United States while Kamala Harris was the ‘border czar’ - the most in history. She can talk tough and pose for photos in front of Trump’s border wall all she wants. It won’t remove the stink of what her policies have done to American towns and families.

[Source: Fox News]

What to know about the looming dockworker’s strike

A looming port workers strike could wreak havoc on the U.S. economy, disrupt supply chains, and have a potential effect on the 2024 election if a deal isn’t reached by tonight’s deadline.

The details: Union dockworkers in the International Longshoremen's Association are threatening to go on strike on October 1 (tomorrow) if the United States Maritime Alliance (USMX) refuses to address what they are calling a “half-century of wage subjugation.”

Union muscle: The International Longshoremen's Association boasts around 45,000 members from East Coast and Gulf Coast ports.

What’s the beef? The Union is seeking significant wage increases and assurances that the USMX will stop terminal automation projects that would replace union jobs with machines.

The scope: A strike would affect more than half of the nation’s ocean imports (56%) and exports (68%), and JP Morgan estimates it could cost the U.S. economy $5 billion per day.

• Back up: This would be the largest dockworkers’ strike since 1977.

What goods will be affected? The strike would disrupt supply chains for goods like cars, electronics, fresh fruit, coffee, chocolate, industrial goods like wood and machinery, and even holiday items like Christmas trees.

The politics: Joe Biden could invoke the Haft-Tardy Treaty, which allows a president to intervene to prevent a strike if it risks national security. But Biden says he will not invoke, and some reports speculate he does not want to go out of his way to help Kamala Harris after he was ousted this summer.

[Source: NY Times, Fox Business, Reuters]

🇱🇧 Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah, was confirmed dead on Saturday following an Israeli airstrike targeting him Friday afternoon in Beirut, Lebanon. Read more.

🇮🇷 The DOJ charged three Iranians for hacking Donald Trump's presidential campaign to influence the 2024 election. Read more.

💩 The Biden-Harris DOJ sued the state of Alabama to prevent it from removing illegal voters from voter rolls. Read more.

🏐 Boise State women’s volleyball team forfeited its match against San Jose State over safety concerns since the University has a transgender biological man on its team. Read more.

👍️ Hollywood actor and star of Shazam!, Zachary Levi, has endorsed Donald Trump for president. Read more.

🤡 A taxpayer-funded food pantry in Minneapolis is under fire for banning poor white residents, only serving "for Black & Indigenous Folx." Read more.

☣️ A new study found nearly 200 chemicals in food packaging that are linked to breast cancer. Read more.

🇩🇪 A machete-wielding Syrian man was arrested for injuring over 30 and setting fires to homes in Germany. Read more.

❎ Rep. Anna Paulina Luna's 2021 congressional opponent has been charged for threatening to hire a "Russian-Ukrainian hit squad" to take out his rival. Read more.

🎥 LOL, Trump jokes about his "beautiful" body. Watch.

🎥 Fox Weather meteorologist rescues woman from her car stuck in rising floodwater. Watch.

🎥 Dana Carvey impersonates Joe Biden on SNL. Watch.

🎥 The crowd went NUTS for Donald Trump at this weekend's Alabama-Georgia college football game. Watch.

🎥 MSNBC says Kamala's husband is "reshaping" masculinity. Watch.

🎥 CNN’s Scott Jennings calls Tim Walz a buffoon. Watch. I can’t believe CNN keeps letting Scott come on air and torch the Democrats.

🎥 Why do foods like cereal and French fries sold in the U.S. have so many more ingredients than the versions sold in Europe? Watch.

🎥 John Kerry is BIG MAD that the First Amendment makes it difficult to control information. Watch.

🎥 See if you can spot the difference in how SNL portrayed Kamala Harris and Donald Trump in their season premiere. Watch.

🎥 A mob of Iraqis surrounded the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad after Israel took out the leader of Hezbollah. Watch.

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