Basketball legend Charles Barkley attacks Trump’s immigration policies during the NCAA tournament. Credit: CBS screenshot

Americans who were tuning in to watch Sunday’s classic Duke-UConn Elite Eight NCAA Tournament matchup were treated to an immigration lecture from legendary NBA player and broadcaster Charles Barkley. And they were not happy.

As Fox News reported, CBS shared a legal immigration story concerning UConn star forward Alex Karaban during the pregame. They talked about how his mother arrived in Massachusetts from Ukraine with her parents and grandparents in 1996.

Meanwhile, Karaban’s father, Alexei, immigrated to the U.S. from Belarus on a work visa in 2001. One year later, Alex was born in Southborough.

Despite the story’s non-political nature, Sir Charles used the moment to launch an ill-informed attack on President Trump’s immigration policies, calling the treatment of immigrants in America “a travesty and disgrace.”

In the process, he not only failed to provide a single example of immigrants being abused, but also made no distinction between illegal and legal migrants.

Barkley then closed by saying that immigrants built America and said everyone should respect them. Once again, he failed to distinguish between legal and illegal aliens.

WATCH:

“The way some of these other immigrants are getting treated in our country right now is a travesty and a disgrace… I think what’s going on in our country, what we’re doing to some of these amazing immigrants, is really unfortunate and it’s really sad.” – Charles Barkley on CBS pic.twitter.com/uEllZpD57u

— Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) March 29, 2026

BARKLEY: I want to be careful with my words right now because this is a really touchy subject for me. I love that kid and his family, but the way some of these other immigrants are getting treated in our country right now is a travesty and a disgrace.

I think there’s a difference between amazing immigrants and criminal immigrants. I think what’s going on in our country, what we’re doing to some of these amazing immigrants, is really unfortunate, and it’s really sad.

And that’s a great immigrant story. We have a lot of great immigrant stories out there that their stories need to be told, but some of the stuff that’s happening to immigrants in our country right now is really unfortunate, and it’s really unfair.

But immigrants built this country, and we should admire them and respect them.

Unlike UConn’s miraculous game-winning three with 0.4 seconds left following a Duke turnover, this take from Barkley proved a complete airball with Americans.

Charles Barkley: “There’s a difference between amazing immigrants and criminal immigrants.”

No, Chuck.

The real difference is between LEGAL immigrants and ILLEGAL immigrants.

Alex Karaban is a first-generation American citizen. His parents came here the right way. pic.twitter.com/9XQ8uv7ILE

— Alec Lace (@AlecLace) March 30, 2026

Yeah, Charles sits in his mansion protected from the criminals that Biden let in. Fvck you.

— Trina (@AClDBURN67) March 30, 2026

I can appreciate Charles Barkley’s heart, but this is inappropriate and unprofessional.

He made the segment overtly political when it didn’t need to be.

Wanna share your thoughts about illegal immigration and ICE? Do it elsewhere.

Keep March Madness coverage apolitical.

— Jon Root (@JonnyRoot_) March 30, 2026

Charles Barkley is too dumb to know the difference between a legal immigrant and an illegal immigrant.

— Right Winged Angel (@RightWngdAngel) March 29, 2026

Charles Barkley: this is MARCH MADNESS. We don’t want to hear your unintelligent, indecipherable takes on politics. You’ve always been great with entertaining us (regarding basketball—even when you’ve not done your homework) but you’re bollocks when it comes to politics. STHU.

— Uncle Jack (@JackDentsTweets) March 29, 2026

He has plenty of room to house a few hundred and feed them. pic.twitter.com/zq3FGuPMP6

— OhioSportsHistory (@history_oh61180) March 30, 2026

GTFO Chuck, stop the moral grandstanding. When Obama was being called the “Deporter in Chief” none of these people said a fucking word. They didn’t give one single fuck about the illegals. Now they just parrot all of these bullshit claims that all illegals are somehow being…

— kentuckytrailerpark.trash (@kytrailerpark) March 30, 2026

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A 15-year-old male student is dead after shooting his teacher at a preparatory high school in Comal County, Texas, on Monday.

The teacher was transported to a local San Antonio hospital.

According to the Associated Press, the student fatally shot himself after he shot his teacher on campus at Hill Country College Preparatory High School.

The school is currently on lockdown.

Law enforcement said there is no ongoing threat to the students or staff at the school.

Circumstances that led up to the shooting are unclear.

The FBI is aware of the shooting and assisting local law enforcement.

The condition of the injured teacher is not known.

Khou 11 reported:

The campus is now secure at Hill Country College Preparatory High School after a student shot a teacher Monday morning, according to an update from the Comal County Sheriff’s Office.

Authorities say a 15-year-old male student shot a teacher on campus. The teacher was taken to a San Antonio hospital, but her condition has not yet been released.

The student who carried out the shooting died at the scene, officials confirmed. No other injuries have been reported.

Law enforcement says the situation is contained and there is no ongoing threat to students or staff. The campus remains on lockdown as investigators continue to process the scene.

“The FBI is aware of the tragic incident at Hill Country College Preparatory High School in Bulverde, Texas, and has personnel on the scene. We are assisting our state and local law enforcement partners,” said an FBI San Antonio Spokesperson. “There is no active or ongoing threat to the school or surrounding community.

No additional information is available at this time. For any updates, please contact the Comal County Sheriff’s Office.”

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Monica Cannon-Grant/ Screencap of YouTube video.

The Gateway Pundit reported that Monica Cannon-Grant, 44, a Boston-based Black Lives Matter activist who stole more than $100,000 in COVID funds and other financial resources to fund her lavish lifestyle, was sentenced to ZERO jail time.

Instead, she got six months of home confinement, followed by four years of probation.

Cannon-Grant is the founder and former Chief Executive Officer of a Boston-based nonprofit who was sentenced in January in federal court in Boston for using thousands of dollars in donations to Violence in Boston (VIB) to pay for personal expenses; defrauding the City of Boston out of COVID-19 relief funds and rental assistance money; defrauding the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office out of Community Reinvestment Grant funds; filing false tax returns; and failing to file tax returns for two years.

Cannon-Grant was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Angel Kelley to four years’ probation, with six months of home detention and 100 hours of community service.

She was also ordered to pay restitution of $106,003 as well as forfeiture in an amount to be decided at a later date.

Now, a federal judge has ordered her to pay back an additional $224,063.

Per Mass Daily News:

The forfeiture amount includes roughly $181,000 in diverted donations from Violence in Boston Inc., the nonprofit she founded, more than $33,000 in fraudulent pandemic unemployment benefits, and about $12,600 in rental assistance benefits, according to a copy of the court order.

That’s on top of the $106,000 in restitution Kelley already ordered at Cannon-Grant’s sentencing in January, when the judge gave her four years of probation, six months of home detention, and 100 hours of community service — no prison time, despite prosecutors requesting 18 months behind bars.

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Behind the scenes, according to federal prosecutors, she and her husband Clark Grant were spending the money on themselves. Vacations. Car rentals. Dining out. The couple raised more than $1 million for the charity and received nearly $60,000 in pandemic relief funds intended to feed people in need — then treated it like a personal checking account.

Cannon-Grant is not the only BLM activist to face charges. In December, The Gateway Pundit reported that a federal grand jury returned a 25-count indictment against Tashella Sheri Amore Dickerson, 52.

Dickerson, an executive director of Black Lives Matter Oklahoma, was charged with 20 counts of wire fraud and five counts of money laundering.

The DOJ shared, “On December 3, 2025, a federal Grand Jury returned a 25-count Indictment, charging Dickerson with 20 counts of wire fraud and five counts of money laundering. For each count of wire fraud, Dickerson faces up to 20 years in federal prison, and a fine of up to $250,000. For each count of money laundering, Dickerson faces up to ten years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000 or twice the amount of the criminally derived property involved in the transaction.”

According to the charging documents, Dickerson, through BLMOKC, raised more than $5.6 million, but rather than using the money to bail out George Floyd rioters, she used millions to fund her lavish lifestyle.

Federal prosecutors said Dickerson funneled over $3.5 million to her personal accounts and spent it on vacations, six properties in Oklahoma City, retail shopping, and food.

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