Don Lemon was left humiliated during a cringeworthy street interview after he incorrectly claimed it is not a crime to cross the border illegally.
The former CNN host was given a lesson in the law by a legal Mexican migrant in Chicago who he stopped to interview about the immigration crisis.
During the discussion, the woman rhetorically asked Lemon whether it was illegal to come to the US without proper documentation.
Lemon fired back that it wasn’t a criminal act to illegally cross the border, but a misdemeanor crime.
‘Ok, so why are they being sent back and saying that they’re breaking the law?’ the woman retorted.
‘That’s the point!’ Lemon replied before incorrectly insisting that a misdemeanor is not a crime.
At that point, a second individual interrupted the street interview to ask Lemon whether speeding or drink driving, other misdemeanor offenses, would also be deemed a crime.
‘We have different levels of crime,’ Lemon argued. ‘Everything is not the same.’
‘So it is a crime,’ the woman responded.
Lemon said: ‘It’s not a crime, you’re not breaking the law – I mean, you are breaking the law, but it’s not a criminal act.’
He then dismissed the conversation as ‘semantics,’ adding: ‘You guys are getting things mixed up!’
Title 8 of the US Code prohibits illegal entry and re–entry between ports of entry to the US.
A first offense is a misdemeanor, which is still a criminal offense punishable by a fine or up to six months in prison.
The offense becomes a felony with a maximum sentence of two years in prison if a person who was already deported, ordered removed or denied admission reenters the country.
Lemon went on to argue that those being rounded up and deported under Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown are not all being given due process.
The president has also previously claimed that his mass deportations are designed to weed out violent criminals however many migrants without such histories have been caught up in the removals.
The car crash interview was widely ridiculed on social media.
Ben Pawson wrote on X: ‘Is this guy for real? A misdemeanor is not a crime???’
Another user identified as RepublicCourier said: ‘This is Olympic level gold mental gymnastics.’
A third X user showed support for the woman talking with Lemon.
They wrote: ‘She’s smarter than him and she’s the only one that knows it.’
Roderic Deane said he was ‘surprised’ Lemon even posted the footage. The star had shared it to his YouTube channel on Friday.
He wrote: ‘Extremely surprised he actually published this video. It just goes to show you how totally clueless he is.’
The Daily Mail has contacted Lemon for comment.
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Dominion Voting Systems Shut Down After Years of Election Fraud Allegations
Dominion Voting Systems, the electronic vote machine company at the center of major election integrity concerns after the 2020 presidential race, has officially been shut down following its sale to a new owner.
Dominion abruptly ceased operations on Thursday.
The company had long defended the accuracy of its machines and sued critics in several multi-million-dollar defamation cases.
Dominion’s voting machines were heavily relied on during the disputed 2020 election that saw a major shift to controversial mail-in ballots.
The company was bought by a group that specifically sought to shut Dominion down to prevent the machines from being used in future elections.
The new owner, Liberty Vote, declared in a statement:
“As of today, Dominion is gone.”
The company called the purchase “a bold and historic move to transform and improve election integrity in America.”
Dominion’s Troubled Legacy
The collapse follows years of controversy.
The company was widely accused of playing a role in rigging the 2020 election to favor former President Joe Biden.
These claims are at the center of President Donald Trump’s allegations that the race was rigged against him.
The company responded by suing those who repeated the allegations.
Dominion sued Fox News and obtained a reported $700 million settlement.
In recent weeks, it has been rushing to quietly settle other lawsuits, often with hidden terms.
The company’s systems were used in 27 states during the 2024 election, according to ABC.
However, its reputation never recovered from widespread concerns about manipulation after the 2020 race.
Conservatives and Trump supporters accused the company of enabling fraud in Georgia and other battleground states.
Dominion repeatedly denied the allegations, which fueled massive distrust in U.S. elections.
Following the 2020 election, Dominion’s brand became synonymous with suspicion, secrecy, and a lack of transparency in the democratic process.
Liberty Vote Steps In
The buyer, Liberty Vote, was founded by former St. Louis election director Scott Leiendecker.
His company originally developed the Poll Pad, a check-in and voter verification tool.
The organization now employs over 150 people with $55 million in annual revenue.
Liberty Vote also recently acquired Election Administrators, another election technology firm, signaling a consolidation push.
On Thursday, Dominion’s website was immediately redirected to Liberty Vote, erasing the Dominion name from the election tech landscape.
Leiendecker emphasized that Liberty Vote’s future will focus on transparency:
“Liberty Vote signals a new chapter for American elections — one where trust is built from the ground up.
“Liberty Vote is committed to delivering election technology that prioritizes paper-based transparency, security, and simplicity so that voters can be assured that every ballot is filled in accurately and fairly counted.”
The company has not yet revealed what it plans to do with Dominion’s controversial vote-counting machines, but stressed that paper ballots will be central to its approach.
Trump’s Call for Election Integrity
President Trump has repeatedly called for paper ballots, voter ID requirements, restrictions on mail-in ballots, and other reforms to restore public trust.
The sudden end of Dominion’s operations comes as a major victory for election integrity advocates who have demanded the removal of electronic voting machines.
Still, questions remain about states that currently hold Dominion contracts.
David Becker, of the Center for Election Innovation & Research, admitted:
“This announcement raises a lot of questions, questions that I’m sure a lot of states with current Dominion contracts are going to want answers to.”
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The Hidden Crisis In Our Classrooms: Why Education Without Character Is Failing America
College enrollment more than doubled between 1970 and 2010, but dropped 15 percent between 2010 and 2021. What does this mean for the high school student who is unsure about college?
Imagine you are a high school senior in the United States; it is a big year filled with big decisions. What are you going to do with the rest of your life? Your parents, teachers, and friends are all talking about college and the opportunities higher education presents.
You find the school you want and apply. Good news: you’re accepted! The first day of class, you walk onto your college campus and witness a peculiar contradiction. Your classmates carry the latest technology, attend an institution with an abundance of resources, and have access to more information than any generation in history. Yet study after study reveals the same troubling reality: they’re more anxious, more depressed, and more disconnected from meaningful purpose than ever before.
The symptoms are everywhere. Average SAT scores dropped from 1060 in 2021 to 1024 in 2024, indicating a consistent decline over several years. Mental health crises plague our campuses. Graduates enter a workforce where only 31 percent in the United States report being engaged at work, while 52 percent are not engaged, and 17 percent are actively disengaged. Despite unprecedented access to formal schooling—a privilege unimaginable to most humans throughout history—we’re producing a generation that finds learning “boring” and work meaningless.
Something fundamental seems to have gone wrong with education in America. And it feels like the stakes are civilizational. This challenge isn’t only about budgets or technology, but about restoring the foundation of education: character, morality, and meaning. Perhaps the real question is not whether we can afford to pursue this vision, but whether we can afford not to.
Modern educational institutions have become remarkably efficient at producing graduates who can navigate spreadsheets, write reports, and follow instructions. What they’ve largely abandoned is the cultivation of character: the development of human beings who are both upright and capable, possessing virtue alongside ability.
This transformation didn’t happen overnight. Much of it can be traced to the influence of educational theorist John Dewey, whose philosophy shifted education from a focus on character formation toward utilitarian aims. While some aspects of Dewey’s approach—such as experiential learning and critical thinking—retain value, his broader impact contributed to treating values as “socially constructed and relative” rather than objectively discernible truths worth pursuing.
On many college campuses throughout the United States, students are increasingly referred to as “customers” and “clients” rather than as “students” mentored by professors. Success is often measured through endowment size and graduate salaries, but equally important is the question: what kind of people are our graduates becoming?
When education and material pursuit become detached from character formation, the consequences ripple through society: declining trust, ethical failures in leadership, and a generation that, while professionally competent, often lacks the moral compass needed to navigate complex challenges or contribute meaningfully to the common good.
The ancients understood something we’ve forgotten. In traditional times, academia was designed to help human beings comprehend what is true, good, and beautiful. Schooling nurtured the only tool we truly possess: our thinking minds. The goal was never job preparation—it was enlightenment to transcendent ideals that could guide a meaningful life.
Consider the disconnect students feel today. What’s tacitly expressed in their statements like “When will I ever use this?” is actually the hope for a profound rationale for learning. Students desire a transcendent reason for study but lack the words to articulate it, so they call it “boring.”
There is a higher reason for school: to become a human being, enlightened to intellectual wisdom and rationality, whose mind is unstoppable before any problem. It’s to become an intelligent, thoughtful, and interesting person whose success nurtures a sense of completion in the heart.
Confucius noted more than 2,000 years ago: “If a person can recite three hundred poems but is incapable of performing an entrusted official duty and exercising one’s initiative when sent abroad, what good are the many poems to that person?”
True education must balance following orders with exercising initiative, self-restraint with creative decision-making.
As Socrates taught, there are two kinds of freedom. There’s the freedom of license—doing whatever one wants whenever one wants with as little restraint as possible. But true freedom is autonomy (auto-nomos, meaning “self-law”): the capacity to develop personal goals and standards that exceed those expected by society, possessing an inner law of the heart connected to self-control and mindful decision-making.
Education must regain the recognition that human beings possess a spiritual nature, and authentic education must engage the soul, not just the intellect. Where others see education primarily as a means to acquire power, status, or material success, we see it as a path to self-transcendence—a movement beyond ego-driven desires toward a higher purpose.
This isn’t anti-materialist romanticism. We think all graduates should succeed professionally and contribute meaningfully to economic life.But we should also aim for them to do so from a foundation of moral clarity and transcendent purpose that provides resilience, direction, and the capacity to uplift those around them, which we consider the true measure of educational success.
The goal is what Plato described in “The Republic”: the liberal arts serve as “handmaidens and helpers” that “lift the eye of the soul upward” toward divinity. Through literature, history, philosophy, rhetoric, mathematics, science, and art, students come to perceive the divine illumination that exists in all things.
When education cultivates both virtue and ability, when it develops character alongside capability, it produces leaders who not only succeed professionally but also uplift those around them. It creates citizens capable of self-governance, innovators driven by more than profit, and human beings who find meaning beyond material accumulation.
We extend an invitation to families seeking more than job preparation for their children, to educators hoping to recover their profession’s noble purpose, and to anyone who senses that the stakes are too high for an incomplete education. Together, we can cultivate a generation that possesses both virtue and ability—ready not just to navigate the world as it is, but to shape the world as it should be.
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