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‘The Hand of Providence’: Trump Touts Admin. Victories, Addresses Economic Worries, Celebrates Patriotism in SOTU

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President Donald Trump delivered the first official State of the Union address of his second term on Tuesday night, touting his second administration’s achievements, especially regarding border security and public safety, addressing concerns over economic hardship and affordability, and casting Democrats as incompetents and traitors. The president framed the actions of his second administration as a return to common sense and a restoration of the American spirit.

“Our country is winning again. In fact, we’re winning so much that we really don’t know what to do about it. People are asking me, ‘Please, please, please, Mr. President, we’re winning too much. We can’t take it anymore. We’re not used to winning in our country,’” Trump said. “‘Until you came along, we were just always losing, but now we’re winning too much.’ And I say, ‘No, no, no, you’re going to win again. You’re going to win big, you’re going to win bigger than ever.”

In order to “prove that point,” the president welcomed the U.S. men’s hockey team that just won the Olympic gold medal. The young men, American flags emblazoned across their chests, marched into the House of Representatives chamber to chants of “USA,” but they were only a few of the many guests that the president had invited to sit in the gallery for the auspicious occasion. Over the course of the nearly-two-hour speech, the president lauded his invited guests as exemplars of American virtue or shared their suffering with the nation, vowing to ensure that Americans are not hurt in the same way.

One of the Trump administration’s signature issues, since Trump first took office in 2017, has been border security and immigration. The president boasted of his success on the issue Tuesday night, drawing a sharp contrast between his decisive action to secure the U.S. border and initiate a promised deportation program against the inaction of former President Joe Biden and his Democratic allies in Congress, allowing millions of illegal immigrants to flood the U.S.

“Today, our border is secure,” the president announced, prompting more “USA” chants. “After four years in which millions and millions of illegal aliens poured across our borders totally unvetted and unchecked, we now have the strongest and most secure border in American history by far. In the past nine months, zero illegal aliens have been admitted to the United States,” Trump boasted. He added that the U.S. will gladly welcome immigrants “legally, people that will love our country and will work hard to maintain our country.”

The president pointed to the impact of stringent immigration enforcement, noting a nearly-60% decrease in the flow of fentanyl and the lowest murder rate recorded in over a century. He decried the “corruption” and “plundering” enacted by illegal immigrants, highlighting the rampant fraud committed by “Somali pirates” in Minnesota, defrauding nearly $20 billion from taxpayers. “California, Massachusetts, Maine, and many other states are even worse. This is the kind of corruption that shreds the fabric of a nation, and we are working on it like you wouldn’t believe,” the president intoned, sharing that Vice President J.D. Vance will be leading the administration’s anti-fraud task force. “He’ll get it done and, if we’re able to find enough of that fraud, we will actually have a balanced budget overnight. It’ll go very quickly. That’s the kind of money you’re talking about. We’ll balance our budget.”

The rampant fraud committed by Somali immigrants is a reminder “that there are large parts of the world where bribery, corruption and lawlessness are the norm, not the exception,” Trump reflected. “Importing these cultures through unrestricted immigration and open borders brings those problems right here to the USA. And it is the American people who pay the price in higher medical bills, car insurance rates, rent, taxes and perhaps most importantly crime.” He pointed to the case of Lizbeth Medina, a 16-year-old girl who was stabbed 25 times by an illegal immigrant and was found by her mother, Jacqueline, bleeding to death. “Her heartbroken mother is in the gallery to remind everyone in this chamber exactly why we are deporting illegal alien criminals from our country at record numbers and we’re getting them the hell out of here fast. We don’t want them.”

“We can never forget that many in this room not only allowed the border invasion to happen before I got involved, but indeed they would do it all over again if they ever had the chance,” Trump charged, referring to Democrats. He warned that if Democrats were ever to retake power, they “would open up those borders to some of the worst criminals anywhere in the world.” To illustrate, the president asked, “If you agree with this statement, then stand up and show your support: The first duty of the American government is to protect American citizens, not illegal aliens.” Nearly every single Democrat remained seated. “Isn’t that a shame?” Trump asked. “You should be ashamed of yourself, not standing up. You should be ashamed of yourself.”

Another example of the danger posed to Americans by mass immigration was that of Delilah Coleman, who was five years old when her family’s car was struck in 2024 by a freight truck driven by an illegal immigrant, allowed into the country under Biden and equipped with a commercial driver’s license (CDL) issued by Democrat-run California. Doctors warned at the time that Coleman would likely never walk again and may never again be able to eat. The president pointed to the young girl in the gallery and urged Congress to pass the Delilah Law, which would bar state governments from issuing CDLs to illegal immigrants.

Trump then called on Congress to take action against “sanctuary” cities, which he said “protect the criminals and … block the removal of criminal aliens, in many cases, drug lords, murderers, all over our country. They’re blocking the removal of these people out of our country and you should be ashamed of yourself.” He also pressed the Senate to pass the SAVE America Act, which would require proof of citizenship when registering to vote and photo ID when voting. “That cheating is rampant in our elections. It’s rampant. It’s very simple, all voters must show voter ID. All voters must show proof of citizenship in order to vote. And no more crooked mail-in ballots except for illness, disability, military or travel — none,” he said. “This should be an easy one.”

The president also welcomed “a woman who’s been through hell,” Anya Zarutska, whose daughter Iryna was murdered last year on a subway car in Charlotte, South Carolina. In 2022, the Zarutskas fled war-torn Ukraine and took refuge with family members in South Carolina. “Last summer, 23-year-old Iryna was riding home on the train when a deranged monster, who had been arrested over a dozen times and was released through no-cash bail, stood up and viciously slashed a knife through her neck and body,” the president recounted. “No one will ever forget … the expression of terror on Iryna’s face as she looked up at her attacker in the last seconds of her life. She died instantly. She had escaped a brutal war only to be slain by a hardened criminal set free to kill in America,” who Trump alleged “came in through open borders.” He demanded that Congress pass “tough legislation” to ensure that repeat violent offenders are sentenced to prison and not permitted to roam the streets. “Mrs. Zarutska, tonight, I promise you we will ensure justice for your magnificent daughter Iryna.”

Trump also turned his attention to a key policy embraced by the Democratic Party: transgenderism. “Here is one more opportunity to show common sense in government,” he said, pointing to Sage Blair and her mother, Michelle, in the gallery. Blair was 14 years old, he said, when school officials in Virginia facilitated her “social” gender transition, “treating her as a boy and hiding it from her parents. Hard to believe, isn’t it? Before long, a confused Sage ran away from home.” Blair was reportedly kidnapped and trafficked across state lines into Maryland, where “a left-wing judge refused to return Sage to her parents because they did not immediately state that their daughter was their son. Sage was thrown into an all-boys state home and suffered terribly for a long time,” the president related. “But today, all of that is behind them because Sage is a proud and wonderful young woman with a full ride scholarship to Liberty University.”

The president urged Congress to take action to protect children and families from harmful gender ideology and legal reasoning based on that ideology. “Surely, we can all agree no state can be allowed to rip children from their parents’ arms and transition them to a new gender against the parents will. Who would believe that we’ve been talking about that. We must ban it and we must ban it immediately,” he said. While Republicans stood and cheered, Democrats again remained seated. “Look, nobody stands up. These people are crazy. I’m telling you, they’re crazy,” Trump commented. “Boy, oh boy, we’re lucky we have a country with people like this,” he added, referring to Republican legislators. “Democrats are destroying our country, but we’ve stopped it just in the nick of time, didn’t we?”

Trump also touted a “renewal” in faith across the U.S., which he credited largely to the influence of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, who was assassinated in September. “I’m very proud to say that during my time in office, both the first four years and in particular this last year, there has been a tremendous renewal in religion, faith, Christianity, and belief in God, tremendous renewal. This is especially true among young people, and a big part of that has — had to do with my great friend Charlie Kirk, a great guy, great man,” he observed. “In Charlie’s memory, we must all come together to reaffirm that America is one nation under God, and we must totally reject political violence of any kind. We love religion and we love bringing it back and it’s coming back at levels that nobody actually thought possible. It’s really a beautiful thing to see.”

Perhaps the toughest task the president faced Tuesday night was allaying voters’ concerns over affordability, particularly with midterm elections on the horizon. “The Biden administration and its allies in Congress gave us the worst inflation in the history of our country, but in 12 months, my administration has driven core inflation down to the lowest level in more than five years,” Trump boasted. He touted falling prices, particularly the prices of groceries and energy bills, but acknowledged that driving down runaway inflation does take time. “Soon you will see numbers that few people would think were possible to achieve just a short time ago,” he said. However, he was also quick to blame Democrats for enabling the inflation crisis. “You caused that problem; you caused that problem. They knew their statements were a lie, they knew it,” he charged. “Their policies created the high prices — our policies are rapidly ending them. We are doing really well. Those prices are plummeting downward.”

The president also addressed the housing crisis, pointing to an executive order he issued barring investment firms from purchasing single-family homes. “Another pillar of the American dream that has been under attack is homeownership. With us tonight is Rachel Wiggins, a mom of two from Houston,” he shared. Wiggins placed bids on 20 different houses and lost every single bid to “gigantic investment firms that bypassed inspection, paid all cash, and turned those houses into rentals, stealing away her American dream.” He called on Congress to codify his executive order to ensure that investment firms do not deprive American families of a chance at home ownership. “That’s what we want. We want homes for people, not for corporations,” he said.

However, the president also boasted that mortgage rates are “the lowest in four years and falling fast,” noting that the annual cost of a typical new mortgage is down almost $5,000 since early in 2025. “Low interest rates will solve the Biden-created housing problem, while at the same time protecting the values of those people who already own a house that really feel rich for the first time in their lives,” he argued. “We want to protect those values; we want to keep those values up. We’re going to do both. And we are going to keep it that way.”

While Trump acknowledged the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling barring his implementation of tariffs as “unfortunate,” he continued to highlight his efforts to secure major investments in U.S. production, manufacturing, and infrastructure, resulting in the reshoring of American jobs and a boom in the U.S. job market, with all growth over the past year going to American citizens in the private sector. “More Americans are working today than at any time in the history of our country,” he stated. “… And 100% of all jobs created under my administration have been in the private sector.”

The president was also keen to honor the nation’s 250th birthday. “This July 4, we will mark two and a half centuries of liberty and triumph, progress and freedom, in the most incredible and exceptional nation ever to exist on the face of the Earth. And you’ve seen nothing yet,” he said. “We’re going to do better and better and better. This is the golden age of America. When I last spoke in this chamber 12 months ago, I had just inherited a nation in crisis with a stagnant economy, inflation at record levels, a wide-open border, horrendous recruitment for military and police, rampant crime at home and wars and chaos all over the world,” he recounted. “But tonight, after just one year, I can say with dignity and pride that we have achieved a transformation like no one has ever seen before and a turnaround for the ages.”

Trump pointed to Buddy Taggart in the gallery, who volunteered to fight in World War II at the age of 17 and served in the Pacific theatre, earning a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star. He also welcomed Scott Ruskin, a Coast Guard rescue swimmer who saved Millie Kate McClelland, also present, and 164 others from a flood in Texas last year. “Even in times of challenge, setback and immense heartache, the spirit of 1776 has always shown through very brightly,” the president intoned. “From 1776 to today, every generation of Americans has stepped forward to defend life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, and they’re really doing it for the next generation, but now it’s our turn.”

“Together, we’re building a nation where every child has the chance to reach higher and go further, where government answers to the people, not the powerful and where the interests of hardworking American citizens are always our first and ultimate concern. That is the debt we owe to the heroes who came before us and that is the promise we must keep to America for our 250th year,” Trump declared. He noted that while 250 years may be a long time, that span is “a mere moment in the eye of history.” He noted that two of his guests in the gallery were born nearly 100 years ago, and that Thomas Jefferson drew his last breath just 100 years before that, on July 4, 1826. “Just a single long human lifespan separates the giants who declared and won our independence from the heroes who stand among us tonight.”

“Everything our nation has done, everything we have achieved has been the work of those few great lifetimes. In those brief chapters, Americans built this nation from 13 humble colonies into the pinnacle of human civilization and human freedom, the strongest, wealthiest, most powerful, most successful nation in all of history,” the president chronicled. “Americans ventured out across the daunting and dangerous continent, we carved paths through an unforgiving wilderness, settled a boundless frontier and tamed the beautiful but very, very dangerous Wild West. From empty marshes and wide-open plains, we raised up the world’s greatest cities. Together, we mastered the world’s mightiest industries, shattered history’s monstrous tyrannies, and we liberated millions from the chains of fascism, communism, oppression, and terror.”

Trump boasted of American ingenuity and innovation, inventing the airplane, reaching the moon, and making enormous strides in the world of technology. “All of this and so much more is the enduring legacy, unmatched glory of the hardworking patriots who built and defended this country and who still carry the hopes and freedoms on all of humanity’s backs,” he said. “For years, they were forgotten, betrayed, and cast aside, but that great betrayal is over and they will never be forgotten again because when the world needs courage, daring vision and inspiration, it is still turning to America,” Trump averred.

“And when God needs a nation to work his miracles, He knows exactly who to ask. There is no challenge Americans cannot overcome, no frontier too vast for us to conquer, no dream too bold for us to chase, no horizon too distant for us to claim. For our destiny is written by the hand of Providence and these first 250 years were just the beginning,” he stated. “The Golden Age of America is upon us. The revolution that began in 1776 has not ended; it still continues because the flame of liberty and independence still burns in the heart of every American patriot. And our future will be bigger, better, brighter, bolder, and more glorious than ever before.”

AUTHOR

S.A. McCarthy

S.A. McCarthy serves as a news writer at The Washington Stand.

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Poll: Americans Fear Noncitizens Influencing U.S. Elections

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The National Voting Rights Act nominally makes it illegal for noncitizens to vote in American elections, but the NVRA’s requirement that voters check a box affirming that they are citizens is easily circumvented and difficult to enforce. The SAVE America Act, recently passed by the House of Representatives and now stalled in the Senate, would rectify this issue, requiring proof of citizenship when registering to vote and purging noncitizens from voter rolls. While Democrats deride the legislation as racist, surveys show that Americans actually support measures to ensure that noncitizens do not vote in and influence the outcome of our elections.

The latest poll, from Rasmussen Reports, found that a majority of likely voters are concerned about noncitizens voting in American elections: 55% of voters say that it’s likely that noncitizens vote in American elections (including 32% who say that it’s very likely), while roughly one third (34%) of respondents say that it’s either not very likely or not at all likely that noncitizens cast ballots in American elections.

Previously, a Pew Research Center survey found that 83% of Americans (including 95% of Republican voters and over 70% of Democrat voters) support mandatory photo ID for voting, while a Gallup poll published in late 2024 found similar results: 84% of Americans (including 98% of Republicans, 67% of Democrats, and 84% of Independent voters) support requiring a photo ID in order to vote, and 83% (including 96% of Republicans, 66% of Democrats, and 84% of Independent voters) support requiring proof of citizenship when registering to vote.

The majority of Americans are likely correct in their belief that noncitizens are voting in U.S. elections. A 2025 Iowa Secretary of State’s office audit, for example, found that at least 35 noncitizens had illegally cast ballots in the 2024 general election. The Public Interest Legal Foundation reported that as many as 100,000 noncitizens likely registered to vote in Pennsylvania. Meanwhile, Department of State official Jonathan Marks testified that noncitizens voluntarily told the state that they had illegally voted over 500 times in elections held between 2000 and 2017.

A previous review of Georgia’s voter rolls found that over 1,600 noncitizens had attempted to register to vote in the swing state between 1997 and 2002, while Virginia found that noncitizens had voted nearly 7,500 times between 1988 and 2017. North Carolina voter rolls showed almost 1,500 registered voters who were evidently noncitizens at the time of casting their ballots and Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold (D) admitted to accidentally mailing postcards urging 31,000 noncitizens to vote in the 2022 midterm elections.

Over the course of 2025 and the first few months of 2026, at least 30 foreign nationals have been criminally charged with illegally voting in U.S. elections, including Lina Maria Orovio-Hernandez, Jose Ceballos-Armendariz, James Ross Wightman, Jacqueline Dianne Wallace, Michael Nana Baako, Francis Bagnall, Leonardo Lleras-Rodriguez, Rogelio Mejorada-Lopez, Yaakov M. Schulman, Mayra Alejandra Lopez Morales, and Abel Hernandez-Labra, among others.

More recently, Democrats brokered a court-sanctioned deal allowing over 73,000 improperly-registered voters to remain on North Carolina’s voter rolls, including those who were unable to provide a driver’s license number or the last four digits of their social security numbers.

The SAVE America Act would not only require proof of citizenship when registering to vote and photo identification when casting a ballot, but would also require states to regularly cross-reference their voter rolls with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in order to ensure that noncitizens are not registered to vote and to allow DHS to identify noncitizens who illegally register to vote.

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S.A. McCarthy serves as a news writer at The Washington Stand.

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“Affordability” and Illegal Immigration are Mutually-Exclusive: It’s the Math, Stupid

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One key cause of elevated worst case needs is immigration. Between 2021 and 2024, the foreign-born population of the United States increased by more than 6 million—the largest such increase over such a short period in American history. The foreign-born population now stands at more than 53 million individuals, making up the highest share of the American population in history. This immigration-driven increase in households has contributed to a significant increase in housing demand, thus driving up housing prices. In fact, in some markets, immigration has accounted for nearly all of the increase in housing demand in recent years. This year’s report shows two realities. The first is that economic growth has been insufficient to lift the wages of low-income renting families high enough to make rent affordable. The second is that national macroeconomic policies, such as record immigration, have combined to drive sustained high rental demand, which has continued to place upward pressure on rent prices. As a result, in 2023, only 59 affordable units were available per 100 very low-income renter households, and only 38 units were available per 100 extremely low-income renter households. Worst case needs were common in every region and metropolitan category across the nation but most prevalent in the West, the South, and urban suburbs.

“AFFORDABILITY” IS THE CATCHY SLOGAN THAT IS SUPPOSED TO CONVINCE VOTERS THAT THE GOVERNMENT WILL TAKE CARE OF THE “FORGOTTEN MAN” WHO STRUGGLES DAILY TO PAY HIS BILLS AND TRY TO TAKE GOOD CARE OF HIS FAMILY. THIS IS A FRONT AND AN AFFRONT TO ALL OF US IN THE RUBRIC OF THE “FORGOTTEN MAN”; FOR OUR COSTS EXCEED OUR REVENUE UNLESS WE ARE SCRUPULOUS WITH EVERY EXPENSE, WITH NO UNANTICIPATED PROBLEMS ARISING.

EVEN AT GOODWILL, WHERE THE “FORGOTTEN MAN” MAKES INNUMERABLE PURCHASES OF NECESSARY ITEMS FOR THE FAMILY AND HOME FROM CLOTHING TO FURNITURE, PRICES HAVE DOUBLED! FOR INSTANCE, INFANTS’ CLOTHES HAVE HIKED FROM $.99 FOR A PAIR OF PANTS TO $1.99; PAJAMAS HAVE INCREASED FROM $1.99 TO $2.99; AND TOYS ONCE SELLING FOR $1.99 HAVE JUMPED TO $2.99 AND MORE. ALTHOUGH MANY BLAME THE “TARIFFS” FOR PRICE HIKES, GOODWILL’S ITEMS FOR SALE ARE DONATIONS, NOT SUBJECT TO TARIFFS BUT SUBJECT TO MORE-MONEY MOTIVES.

BEFORE THE VAST INFLUX OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION, GOODWILL HAD REGULAR SALES THAT OFFERED POOR AMERICAN FAMILIES RELIEF FROM MONETARY BURDENS. AFTER COUNTLESS CARTS PILED HIGH WITH GOODWILL SALES GOODS BY NON-ENGLISH SPEAKERS, ALL THE SALES AND DISCOUNT DAYS WERE DISCONTINUED.

The same politicians promising “affordability” for the struggling “forgotten” American family are simultaneously protesting against removals of illegal aliens from this country without regard to the overwhelming financial burdens on the “forgotten” Americans. When there is competition for affordable goods and services, the poor Americans lose!

At Wal-Mart, after-Christmas sales reduce costs by 75 percent, but non-English speakers flood the aisles, piling their carts with goods also needed by poor Americans. Again, when there is competition for affordable goods and services, the “forgotten” American loses. Likewise, for affordable housing, which becomes less affordable and less available for the “forgotten” American.

When there is competition for medical care, the “forgotten” poor American waits much longer for health services to be provided. When there is competition for medical supplies, the supplies run out or run low for “forgotten” poor Americans.
Our insurance costs rise due to an influx of uninsured persons requiring medical care or government-paid medical care. Likewise, vehicle insurance costs escalate when uninsured drivers are involved in collisions.

In our schools, the influx of illegal alien children has caused costs to rise precipitously as well as communicable diseases in our classrooms. On the streets, rising crime rates cost the poor “forgotten” Americans money, health, and lives due to criminals who should never have been here with full access to hurt children whose lives were ended or harmed irreparably.

Key diseases reported in illegal immigrants include:

  • Tuberculosis (TB), HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis B and C, measles, scabies, and other bacterial infections.
  • The CDC traced 76% of TB cases in 2023 to non-U.S. born individuals.

Key Communicable Disease Concerns:

  • Tuberculosis (TB): Frequently cited as a significant concern, with reported increases in cases linked to international migration.
    Skin Infections & Parasites: Scabies, chickenpox, and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) have been reported, particularly in crowded, unsanitary conditions.
  • Vaccine-Preventable Diseases: Measles, polio, diphtheria, and pertussis.
  • Blood-borne Pathogens: HIV, Hepatitis B, and Hepatitis C.
  • Other Infections: Syphilis, gonorrhea, leprosy, typhoid, cholera, and malaria.

The costs of illegal immigration to the poor “forgotten” American family of all ages and locations across this nation are immeasurable and infinite in terms of generations of citizens who are impacted by massive illegal influxes of persons competing for the same finite goods, services, and money. The infinite economic, medical, and societal costs are incompatible with the slogan of “affordability.”

The American pie only has a set finite size, and the more pieces consumed, the smaller the size of each piece for the “forgotten” poor Americans who should have the rights to which they are Constitutionally-entitled. Unchecked competition against the rights of poor “forgotten” Americans are undemocratic, unfair, and unAmerican.

HUD chief blames ‘unchecked illegal immigration’ pricing-out families amid new housing report

HUD secretary’s exclusive comments come as agency releases damning report on housing market strain

By Charles Creitz • Fox News

EXCLUSIVE: Housing and Urban Development Secretary Scott Turner slammed the Biden administration for what he called an illegal immigration and refugee crisis that rattled the housing market – particularly for low-income renters – though some analysts dispute the findings.

Every two years, HUD releases its “Worst Case Housing Needs Report” – considered the agency’s flagship assessment of the state of the housing market for low-income Americans – and how many lack affordable and adequate housing. The report serves as a nationwide barometer of housing stress and shows whether the availability of affordable housing is improving or worsening, and who may be being hurt by the current conditions, which Congress can then use to craft policy.

Policymakers use it to gauge gaps in the supply of low-cost rentals, target federal housing programs, and understand trends in who is being left behind. In short, it’s HUD’s way of tracking the renters in the greatest need — and how the U.S. housing system is failing to meet them.

Turner told Fox News Digital there are damning findings in this year’s assessment that he places right on the policies of former President Joe Biden’s immigration crisis.

“The unchecked illegal immigration and open borders policies allowed by the Biden administration continue to put significant strain on housing, pricing out American families,” Turner said.

“These policies have plagued America’s housing market, but in President Trump, Americans finally have a leader fighting to restore sanity to American immigration policy.”

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Dems Lock Horns with GOP over ICE, as Friday the 13th Deadline Looms

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There’s probably an oddsmaker crunching the numbers as we speak. Which will thaw first — the D.C. snow drifts or the tension over Homeland Security funding? Heading into Friday’s deadline, the outlook is bleak for both. While the city is finally registering some above-freezing temperatures, the warmth hasn’t extended into the Hill’s negotiating rooms, where both sides seem more dug in than ever on the biggest flashpoint of a young 2026: Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

But for those worried about another partial government shutdown, there is some reassurance. As most veteran staffers will tell you, if there’s anything more sacrosanct than the two parties’ principles in Congress, it’s recess. And with Presidents’ Day around the corner and a week-long break already built into the schedule, something will have to give. What that something is, no one is quite sure. Republicans have largely panned Democrats’ demands for ICE reforms, which include controversial ideas like removing agents’ face masks and mandating the impossible-to-get judicial warrants for immigrants’ arrests.

The White House has tried to engage Minority Leader (and chief rabble-rouser) Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) in a compromise, but those overtures were rejected Monday night. Together with his House counterpart, Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), the men dismissed the outline as “incomplete and insufficient” in “addressing the concerns Americans have about ICE’s lawless conduct.”

Republicans, on the other hand, argue that the president has already made key concessions, sending border czar Tom Homan to calm down tensions in Minnesota, draw down hundreds of agents, work more intentionally with local officials, and shift to a more targeted approach. Mandating body cameras was already in the works, thanks to the ICE portion of the One Big Beautiful Bill — as was the agency’s funding, conservatives are quick to counter, not that Schumer and company care to tell the American people that. They’re banking on voters’ ignorance, hoping they won’t notice that what Democrats would actually be shutting down is the rest of Homeland Security — TSA, FEMA, the Coast Guard, and a million other non-ICE related things the country relies on every day.

They’re being “entirely unreasonable,” Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.) complained of Schumer’s party. “First of all, ICE is already funded from the Big Beautiful Bill, and there was already a provision in there that would fund paying for body cameras. So, [they’re getting] their wish taken care of there,” he pointed out on “Washington Watch.” “But they’re trying to leverage and say, ‘Well, we’re not going to pay FEMA. We’re not going to pay TSA, we’re not going to pay Coast Guard, and several other agencies.’ That’s the leverage that they’re trying to wield. And I just don’t think it’s rational or reasonable, the things that they want done.” It’s unacceptable, Biggs continued before warning, “I think they’re underestimating the resolve of President Trump and the Republicans in Congress…”

His colleague, Rep. Marlin Stutzman (R-Ind.), is equally perplexed at the Left’s strategy. “It just doesn’t make sense. Democrats are willing to go to the wall, shut down agencies that help us as Americans — [things like] making sure that travel continues to operate smoothly, making sure after these storms that we had in the southeast and in the South that FEMA has [the ability] to be helping where they’re needed. So, to go out and say this is going to somehow affect the outcome of what ICE is doing is just not the case.” But, once again, he stressed on Monday’s “Washington Watch,” “Democrats are showing that they’re willing to fight for the illegal in this country more than they are to fight for the American citizen.”

For House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), it’s just another day in the life of the two-year migraine he inherited as leader. “I wish we didn’t have these dramatic events every week in Congress now,” he admitted on Saturday’s “This Week on Capitol Hill” with Family Research Council President Tony Perkins, “but this is the reality with small margins. We have a one-vote margin in the House now, and they have just three in the Senate. So this is what you get.”

Despite the wrench Democrats are throwing into the DHS debate, Johnson refuses to let them rob Republicans of their biggest accomplishment. “We’re really grateful, really proud, that we got the 12 appropriations bills through the whole process until the very end. Eleven are now signed into law. The president did that triumphantly in a signing service at the Oval Office. … But now, we’re all tied up on the Homeland Security bill,” he sighed. “The Democrats are politically posturing over the [ICE] issue, and we’re all sort of on the edge of our seats to see what they’ll agree to.”

That said, he acknowledged, “We obviously need to have immigration enforcement that is balanced and smart and efficient and obviously complies with the Constitution. There are always ways to tweak the processes and procedures,” the Louisianan said, “and the president has shown complete good faith in wanting to ensure that that’s true. But Chuck Schumer and the Democrats in the Senate are trying to use this for political posturing. And so, I’m not sure how exactly it’s going to sort out. But the two sides are pretty far apart at the moment.”

Considering the short runway — Friday the 13th is the deadline, ironically — it would take a miracle beyond even Mike Johnson to resolve this issue by the long weekend. Recognizing the long odds, Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) has been trying to prep another short-term funding extension to buy Congress more time. Hill experts just can’t envision a scenario where House or Senate Democrats vote for a DHS bill “in any form,” Punchbowl warns. “It won’t get better by next week. In the Senate, Republicans would need at least seven Democrats to join with them to clear another DHS funding patch. For now, Senate Democrats are using the imminent deadline to try to prevent a loss of momentum. Which means nearly every Democratic senator is indicating they wouldn’t support another stopgap funding bill for DHS.” Where does that leave us? Even Johnson isn’t sure.

On Saturday, he was iffy on a short-term CR. “But, of course, the amount of time it takes to move something across the floor in the Senate, you have to think ahead. Leader Thune in the Senate is doing that for the Republican side. We’ll see what happens. I’ll just tell you, it probably comes down to a couple of really tough issues that the Democrats are demanding that I think would be unworkable and unsafe.” As he has in other interviews, the speaker slammed the ban on masks. “That’s a dangerous prospect, because we know that those individuals are being doxxed. I mean, it puts their own families in physical jeopardy for their safety. So we can’t do that. We have to protect our law enforcement officers.”

The other non-starter, Johnson outlined, is the Democrats’ push for a “brand new judicial warrant requirement in order to go and apprehend someone. And that’s not workable,” he argued. (As have others.) “We have tens of millions of illegals who come across the border into the country over the four years [under] the Biden administration. It would literally be an unworkable standard. It means no one, no illegal, practically, could be apprehended.” Bogging down the courts and bringing ICE arrests to a screeching halt, however, is all part of the Left’s game plan — however onerous and unworkable it may be.

As Perkins rightly pointed out, “That’s already been a part of the immigration problem … the court backlog. So this would only make the situation worse.” Absolutely, Johnson agreed, “and it would effectively allow all illegals to stay in the country, almost all of them. And that’s obviously not something that we can do. It’s not something the American people would agree to. So we’ve got to navigate through all of that this week.”

On the mask issue, which has been a point of real contention, Biggs reiterates that agents are wearing law-enforcement vests and visible ICE jackets, so people can easily distinguish them in a crowd. “But think about this too,” he offered. “Sometimes they’re going into undercover-type situations, and they’re basically saying we want everybody to be designated and out in the open.”

FRC’s president, who spent years in the police force, agreed that it wouldn’t make sense to unmask anyone in an undercover operation. But, he countered, “I do think we need to consider this … the standard we apply to federal law enforcement [and] local law enforcement. I do think there’s some room for negotiation here.” But none of this matters, he argued, if the cities’ leaders continue to condone lawlessness. As long as there’s mayhem and rioting in the streets — and a general disdain for law and order — the chaos only gets worse.

As the speaker pointed out, “If you have friction between local and state law enforcement and the feds, that creates a problem, an inherent problem, and it is going to escalate. So we’ve got to get everybody back on the same page. We’ve got to do the work that the American people elected the Trump administration to do, and that is to apprehend and remove dangerous criminals. That’s the mission, and I think they’ll get back to it.”

In the meantime, there’s no clear way out of this mess if Democrats are locked into their corner, holding the wrong budget lines hostage, and refusing to negotiate in good faith. “I don’t know anyone in Washington who sees a ready off-ramp for this debate [that would allow] this funding to go forward,” Newsmax’s James Rosen admitted to Perkins.

But Schumer might want to be careful, he cautioned. “We’ve seen the Trump White House in 2.0 make use of shutdowns and fiscal cliffs and funding disputes in a fundamentally different way than previous White Houses have. And they have used those kinds of gaps in funding and these fiscal cliff situations to punish the Democrats, to punish blue state programs through the White House Office of Management and Budget.” He paused before adding, “And they’re very savvy about it. And to some extent, ruthless. So if there is going to be a resolution, I suspect that that could potentially put the parties together a little more swiftly.”

Until Democrats get serious and come to the table, Johnson warned, “They’re playing with fire here.”

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Suzanne Bowdey

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Can ICE Legally Raid Your House? Understanding the Immigration Agency’s Warrants

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President Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” agenda relies heavily on successfully deporting millions of illegal immigrants. While many on the political Right have warned for decades of the existential threat posed by mass immigration, some “constitutional conservatives” are now reacting with alarm to a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) memo permitting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to enter the houses of illegal immigrants without a judicial warrant. Could such a directive possibly be legal?

What’s in a Warrant?

The vast majority of ICE’s operations — namely, the arrest, detention, and deportation of illegal immigrants — make use of internal administrative warrants, rather than judicial warrants signed by a judge. The most commonly-used of these warrants is Form I-205, formally known as a “Warrant of Removal.” The authority for creating and executing these warrants is rooted in the Immigration National Act (INA), namely Title Eight of the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Section 241.2. A warrant of removal can only be issued against an individual who has a final order of removal, which means that an immigration judge has verified that the immigrant to be removed does, in fact, have no legal basis for remaining in the U.S. and has exhausted or waived all available avenues of appeal. Once a final order of removal has been issued, ICE can generate a warrant of removal.

The warrant of removal (Form I-205) is distinct from Form I-200, formally the “Warrant for Arrest of Alien.” Form I-200 authorizes ICE to make an arrest on suspicion of a subject being in the U.S. illegally. In other words, the warrant of removal (Form I-205) authorizes ICE to arrest known illegal immigrants who have been issued a final order of removal after having exhausted all avenues of appeals in immigration court, while the warrant for arrest of alien (Form I-200) cites “probable cause” for believing that a subject is present in the U.S. illegally.

This process differs from the one by which police obtain arrest or search warrants. In those cases, law enforcement officials petition a judge to approve a warrant, citing probable cause. The issuing of such warrants is rooted in the Fourth Amendment, which protects Americans against “unreasonable searches and seizures.” Criminal warrants are specific in nature, enumerating “the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”

The Memo

Late last month, two “whistleblowers” leaked a DHS memo from May 12, which noted that ICE has historically relied on judicial criminal warrants, in addition to administrative ICE warrants, for authority to arrest illegal immigrants in their places of residence. However, “the DHS Office of General Counsel has recently determined that the U.S. … Constitution, the immigration and Nationality Act, and the immigration regulations do not prohibit relying on administrative warrants for this purpose,” specifying the Form I-205 warrant of removal, not the Form I-200 warrant for arrest of alien. “In light of this legal determination, ICE immigration officers may arrest and detain aliens subject to a final order of removal issued by an immigration judge, the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA), or a U.S. district court judge or magistrate judge in their place of residence.”

Before entering a place of residence, ICE agents are required to “knock and announce,” stating their identity and purpose in entering the residence, the memo clarified. “Following announcement, officers and agents must allow those inside the residence a reasonable chance to act lawfully,” the memo further stipulated. “Should the alien refuse admittance, ICE officers and agents should use only a necessary and reasonable amount of force to enter the alien’s residence, following proper notification of the officer’s or agent’s authority and intent to enter.” Additionally, the memo only allows ICE agents to make an administrative warrant arrest in the illegal immigrant’s place of residence, requiring “consent, exigency, or a judicial warrant” to enter or make an arrest in a third party’s place of residence.

The whistleblowers characterized the memo as establishing an “unconstitutional mandate” and alleged that DHS and ICE personnel who supposedly expressed concerns over the directive “faced retaliation,” namely being transferred to a different department or division.

An Unlawful Order?

Once the memo was leaked, a number of voices on both the Left and the Right raised concerns over whether or not the directive was constitutional. Appearing on “Washington Watch” last week, National Review Institute Senior Fellow and former federal prosecutor Andrew C. McCarthy suggested that the directive may not stand up to judicial review when inevitably challenged in court. “The bottom line answer is what they’re saying they can do, probably they can’t do,” he quipped. However, he noted that the U.S. Supreme Court “has never exactly weighed in on this.” McCarthy noted that standard arrest warrants are issued by the judicial branch of the government, authorizing the arrest of an individual on suspicion of a criminal action, while ICE’s administrative warrants are issued by the executive branch of the government.

“What the Trump administration is trying to say is they should have the same ability with respect to an administrative warrant that’s issued by the executive branch in connection with immigration proceedings,” McCarthy surmised. “I don’t think it’s a frivolous argument, because what they’re talking about is a warrant of removal, and you can’t get a warrant of removal unless you go through a very elaborate legal process, which entails, at the end, an appeal to a judicial court,” he continued. “So it’s not like the judicial courts don’t have anything to do with it at all. But the Supreme Court has never said that such an administrative warrant is the functional equivalent of a judicial warrant, and that’s what the confusion is.”

Andrew R. Arthur, resident fellow in Law and Policy at the Center for Immigration Studies and a former immigration judge, pointed out that the key difference between judicial criminal warrants and administrative ICE warrants is that judicial criminal warrants are issued by Article III courts to address criminal activity, while administrative ICE warrants are issued to address what is technically a civil infraction: entering the U.S. illegally. “Most immigration enforcement is civil in nature, not criminal, and consequently most ICE and CBP arrests end in detention and removal from the United States, which are not punitive in the immigration context because, unlike criminal cases, they do not result in conviction and incarceration,” Arthur explained in comments shared with The Washington Stand. “The problem, as I have explained repeatedly in the past, is that there is no mechanism to obtain a warrant from an Article III federal judge to arrest an alien for a civil immigration violation.”

“If you think the federal judiciary has issues now, imagine if ICE started swamping U.S. courts with warrant applications for millions of illegal migrants,” Arthur quipped. Turning to criminal warrants rooted in the Fourth Amendment, he continued, “The warrant rule is generally interpreted, however, in the criminal context, raising the question of whether the same rule applies in the administrative context (such as in immigration enforcement). Curiously, the answer isn’t as clear as most advocates of judicial warrants in immigration enforcement might think.”

Arthur cited two prior court decisions dealing with administrative warrants. First, in United States v. Lucas (2007), the director of the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services issued an administrative arrest warrant — not a judicial arrest warrant — for Tylan Lucas, a convict who absconded while on work release. After being arrested at his girlfriend’s apartment, where police also found drugs and guns hidden, Lucas moved to suppress the evidence of the drugs and guns found at the apartment, claiming that the evidence was obtained illegally since the police did not have a judicial warrant, just an administrative warrant. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit ultimately ruled that the difference between an administrative and a judicial warrant in this instance did not matter, because “[t]he standard for issuance of a valid administrative warrant under the Fourth Amendment is different from the probable cause showing necessary for a warrant to arrest someone suspected of a crime.”

The appellate court’s majority in Lucas cited a 1960 U.S. Supreme Court holding in Abel v. United States. “The Supreme Court has upheld administrative warrants and has never held that administrative warrants must be issued by a neutral and detached magistrate,” the Eighth Circuit majority wrote. “An administrative arrest warrant issued by a district director of the Immigration and Naturalization Service pursuant to a deportation statute led to a valid arrest in Abel v. United States.”

In Abel, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) suspected English-born Rudolph Abel of being a Soviet Spy and notified the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS, the precursor to ICE) that Abel was living in the U.S. illegally. INS, then an organ of the Department of Justice (DOJ), moved to arrest Abel on an administrative warrant, but allowed FBI agents to question him first. On appeal before the Supreme Court, Abel advanced the argument that his arrest was invalid because an administrative INS warrant did not qualify as a valid arrest warrant under the Fourth Amendment, since it was not signed by a judge. The Supreme Court ultimately rejected the argument, since Abel had not entered such a theory in any of the lower courts, but did write:

“Statutes authorizing administrative arrest to achieve detention pending deportation proceedings have the sanction of time. It would emphasize the disregard for the presumptive respect the Court owes to the validity of Acts of Congress, especially when confirmed by uncontested historical legitimacy, to bring into question for the first time such a long-sanctioned practice of government at the behest of a party who not only did not challenge the exercise of authority below, but expressly acknowledged its validity. … The constitutional validity of this longstanding administrative arrest procedure in deportation cases has never been directly challenged in reported litigation. … This Court seems never expressly to have directed its attention to the particular question of the constitutional validity of administrative deportation warrants. It has frequently, however, upheld administrative deportation proceedings shown by the Court’s opinion to have been begun by arrests pursuant to such warrants. … In the presence of this impressive historical evidence of acceptance of the validity of statutes providing for administrative deportation arrest from almost the beginning of the Nation, petitioner’s disavowal of the issue below calls for no further consideration.”

Arthur commented, “Whether that analysis is ‘dicta’ (i.e., a comment made by the court ‘that is not necessary to resolve the case, and as such … not legally binding on other courts’) or not depends on how you read it, but it certainly supports the proposition that an administrative immigration warrant is a sufficient substitute for a judicial one when it comes to the Fourth Amendment, particularly in the Eighth Circuit.”

“When most ‘experts’ … complain about ICE administrative arrest warrants, the document they usually mean is the Form I-200, ‘Warrant for Arrest of Alien,’” Arthur observed. “A Form I-205, ‘Warrant of Removal/Deportation,’ on the other hand, is only issued after an immigration judge, the Board of Immigration Appeals, a U.S. District Court judge or magistrate court judge, or other ‘designated official’ has issued a final order of removal or deportation in the named alien’s case.” The immigration law expert noted that ICE agents are legally required to make arrests in the cases of Form I-205 warrants and that it is a felony — elevated from a civil infraction for first-time illegal entry — for illegal immigrants under final orders of removal not to depart from the U.S. within 90 days of the order being issued.

“Thus, the Form I-205 is akin to the administrative arrest warrant in Lucas … with the only difference being that the latter relates to a convicted criminal on the lam and the former to aliens who received their full due process rights and were ordered removed, but have failed to depart,” Arthur suggested. “Consequently, Fourth Amendment ‘probable cause’ likely isn’t an issue in the I-205 context except with respect to the identity of the alien and the place where the alien is likely to be found.”

AUTHOR

S.A. McCarthy

S.A. McCarthy serves as a news writer at The Washington Stand.

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The Untold Story Of Illegal Immigration’s Consequences Exposes Democrats’ Hypocrisy

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Here’s an untold story about illegal immigration: all the trash and debris discarded on Americans’ properties by migrants passing through.

Michelle Davis of Arivaca, Arizona, a small town only eight miles from the U.S.-Mexico border, told a local outlet that she has grown increasingly fed up with all the litter on her property left behind by illegal immigrants. It’s not just her property, either. Every year, 2,000 tons of trash are scattered throughout Arizona’s southern border region.

“Carpet shoes and you know, the strips that they cut the blankets up into so that the packs don’t hurt their backs and dig into them. That’s not people trying to come here for a job, that’s drug cartel. And the drug cartel are pretty much in our backyard when you think about it,” Davis said.

“For somebody to be in your backyard without your permission is not acceptable to me at all. And then there’s the people that support them and bring them through and help them to get across,” Davis went on.

Davis referred to humanitarian groups that provide water and food to illegal immigrants crossing through Arizona. For example, No More Deaths, a group based in southern Arizona, sends volunteers to hike through the desert terrain and drop off water and other aid and essentials for illegal immigrants.

“If you wanna help them, why don’t you sponsor them?” she asked.

Because Davis is an ordinary American who has firsthand experience living on the southern border and dealing with the consequences of unchecked migration, she makes the best points.

Would a Democrat who lives in Beverly Hills and donates to No More Deaths be comfortable knowing that illegal immigrants were passing right through their nicely landscaped backyard, depositing all sorts of debris? Or, would Democrats who care most about the natural environment, pollution, and littering have anything to say about the illegal immigrants who have trashed beautiful southwestern landscapes?

No, of course they wouldn’t. Unlike Davis, many of them are far, far removed from consequences. Perhaps they are too fixated on the rioting and uproar happening in Minneapolis at the moment. Regardless, they would never care about the many untold stories of illegal immigration, such as Davis’s, that have made life for Americans on the border much worse.

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Minneapolis Mayhem, ICE Updates, and More

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President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement agenda has arrested headlines for over a year, but violent riots and a series of fatal shootings have intensified scrutiny over immigration raids in Minneapolis. Earlier this month, 37-year-old Renee Good was shot and killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent when she struck the agent with her vehicle after impeding enforcement operations. Just last week, 37-year-old Alex Pretti was shot and killed by U.S. Border Patrol (USBP) agents when he showed up armed to protest immigration enforcement operations and involved himself in a physical altercation with law enforcement. Subsequently, the president deployed Border Czar and former ICE chief Tom Homan to Minneapolis to take control of operations. Here are the latest updates.

‘Noem, Go Home?’

In the wake of the violence in Minneapolis, multiple Democratic legislators have called for Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to resign, threatening to impeach her if she does not leave of her own volition. Now, Republicans are joining Democrats in clamoring for Noem’s ouster. According to Fox News, frequent Trump critics Senators Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) have joined Democrats in calling on the president to fire Noem. “I think the President needs to look at who he has in place as the Secretary of Homeland Security. I would not support her again,” Murkowski said, referring to her vote to confirm Noem, “and I think it probably is time for her to step down.”

Tillis faulted Noem and, more broadly, the Trump administration, especially White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy and Homeland Security Advisor Stephen Miller, for stalling a partly-bipartisan amnesty push for illegal immigrants. “I don’t know if it’s lost yet, but if it is an opportunity lost, I put it squarely on the shoulders of people like Noem and Stephen Miller,” Tillis said. Referring to the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS’s) handling of Pretti’s death, he added, “Those two people told the president, before they even had any incident report whatsoever, that the person who died was a terrorist. I mean, that is amateur hour at its worst.”

Following Pretti’s death, Noem referred to him as a “domestic terrorist” and official DHS channels, citing the handgun and multiple magazines Pretti brought with him when interfering with federal law enforcement, claimed that he sought to “massacre” federal agents. The characterization has been criticized as premature and has reportedly inspired some frustration within DHS’s ranks, particularly among ICE agents, who fear that they are being blamed for some of the more aggressive riot control tactics used by USBP.

The president has asserted that he will not ask Noem to resign, but he did reportedly question his Homeland Security Secretary in a two-hour Oval Office meeting Tuesday. According to The New York Times, Noem and her top advisor, former Trump campaign official Corey Lewandowski, met with the president, who was joined by White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, Communications Director Steven Cheung, and Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, to discuss the optics surrounding Pretti’s death and Noem’s response. The New York Times reported that no indication was given that either Noem or Lewandowski was at risk of losing their jobs.

Notably absent from the Oval Office meeting was Miller, the chief architect of Trump’s immigration policy over the past decade and one of the president’s closest and longest-serving allies. According to Axios, Noem faults Miller for DHS’s response to Pretti’s death, with the Homeland Security Secretary saying that Miller told her to label Pretti a domestic terrorist and a threat to federal law enforcement personnel. “Everything I’ve done, I’ve done at the direction of the president and Stephen,” Axios quoted Noem as saying. Unnamed sources reported that Miller “heard ‘gun’ and knew what the narrative would be: Pretti came to ‘massacre’ cops,” but that the USBP agents involved in the shooting were quick to shut up and lawyer up, impeding the White House’s fact-finding in the matter.

However, other sources faulted USBP Commander-at-Large Gregory Bovino for the miscommunication. “Bovino should be blamed,” one unnamed source told Axios, “not Stephen.” According to Miller and several other sources, Bovino and USBP quickly relayed potentially incorrect or incomplete information immediately following Pretti’s death, resulting in DHS’s controversial messaging. “The initial statement from DHS was based on reports from CBP on the ground,” Miller told the New York Post. “Additionally, the White House provided clear guidance to DHS that the extra personnel that had been sent to Minnesota for force protection should be used for conducting fugitive operations to create a physical barrier between the arrest teams and the disruptors,” he noted. “We are evaluating why the CBP team may not have been following that protocol.”

Not a Pretti Picture

More information is emerging surrounding the controversial shooting of Pretti. A preliminary DHS review of the incident found that Pretti and another rioter were physically obstructing federal agents, despite being told multiple times to move out of the way. Pretti resisted arrest and struggled with USBP agents, when one agent shouted that Pretti had a gun, a loaded Sig Sauer handgun. Shortly afterwards, at least two federal agents began firing at Pretti, discharging roughly a dozen times. It was not until after Pretti had been shot that another agent announced that he had taken Pretti’s weapon from him. USBP’s Office of Professional Responsibility Investigative Operations Directorate also confirmed that the agents involved were wearing bodycams and that footage has been collected.

While many have touted Pretti’s credentials as a Veterans Affairs nurse, CNN reported that Pretti was already “known” to federal agents due to interfering in previous operations, including a physical altercation in which his rib was broken, just a week before he continued inserting himself into law enforcement operations and was killed. According to a Fox News report, Pretti was a member of an anti-ICE organization that used complex communications and tracking networks to plan obstructions to law enforcement operations. Pretti and others were already waiting for federal agents at the site where Pretti was killed. Pretti’s ex-wife confirmed that he had also been involved in the violent riots that rocked Minneapolis in 2020, following the death of George Floyd.

The president has committed to a thorough investigation of the events surrounding Pretti’s death. “We’re doing a big investigation. I want to see the investigation. I’m going to be watching over it. I want to see it myself,” he told reporters Tuesday. “I love all of our people. I love his family, and it’s a very sad situation,” he continued, advising anti-ICE activists not to bring guns to confrontations with federal law enforcement.

Lives on the Line

Pretti’s armed altercation with federal law enforcement agents and subsequent death comes in the midst of increased violence and threats against ICE personnel and other federal agents. According to a Breitbart News analysis, recent months have seen an 8,000% increase in death threats against ICE agents, including threats against their families, and a 1,300% increase in violent assaults against ICE agents. Breitbart quoted a voice message left on an agent’s phone as an example of the threats made against law enforcement personnel:

“I hope your wife dies. I hope your mom and dad die. I hope everything wrong that could go in your life happens. I hope you have the most miserable life. I hope you get hit by a bus. I hope you’re paralyzed, and your wife leaves you, and starts getting [expletive] by [other men] every day. You are a traitor to the American people, to the values that made our country. You should kill yourself. You’re [expletive] disgusting.”

According to the Washington Examiner, DHS is currently investigating the case of a woman who attempted multiple times to purchase firearms “to protect herself from ICE Agents, and also to kill ICE Agents.” In another instance, Virginia Commonwealth University fired a nurse for a series of social media posts advising anti-ICE activists to use paralytic drugs and poison ivy brews against ICE agents and encouraging single women to use dating apps to meet ICE agents and then poison their drinks.

DHS Assistant Secretary for Communications Tricia McLaughlin partly faulted Democrats for the rise in hostility, citing the dehumanizing rhetoric they use against federal law enforcement officers. “Comparing ICE day in and day out to the Nazi Gestapo, the Secret Police, and slave patrols has consequences,” she warned. “Every day there are more assaults, more vehicle-ramming attacks, more attempts to kill our officers.”

Twin Cities Stalemate?

After having been deployed to Minneapolis this week, Homan has already begun negotiating with Minnesota Governor Tim Walz (D) and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (D) to ensure that immigration enforcement operations can continue with as little conflict as possible, pressuring the two Democrats to end their “sanctuary” policies and cooperate with ICE. “We all agree that we need to support our law enforcement officers and get criminals off the streets. While we don’t agree on everything, these meetings were a productive starting point and I look forward to more conversations with key stakeholders in the days ahead,” Homan reported Tuesday evening of his meetings with Walz and Frey. “President Trump has been clear: he wants American cities to be safe and secure for law-abiding residents — and they will be.”

Walz is evidently considering cooperating with the Trump administration, much to the outrage of his constituents. Anti-ICE activists stormed the Minnesota state capitol building Tuesday and staged a mass protest outside Walz’s office, chanting slogans such as, “ICE out now!” and “Do your job!” The governor had met with Homan Tuesday afternoon and had spoken with Trump previously, in what the president characterized as “productive.” He later quipped, “It couldn’t have been a nicer conversation. It’s hard to believe that’s the same guy I watch on TV or the debate not doing so well, because we had a reasonable and good conversation. If you believe it, he’d like to get this over with!”

In an interview following his meeting with Homan, Walz classified the Border Czar as “a professional,” which he said was not his experience of Noem and Bovino. “The tone was different, there was a tone shift,” he said of his talk with the Trump immigration official. While insisting that he would still like to see ICE leave Minnesota altogether, Walz admitted, “It was progress. Look, I never got a call from Bovino or Noem, nothing.” However, the governor still faulted federal operations for unrest in Minneapolis, rather than his own actions and rhetoric. “They started this fire.”

Frey also spoke with Homan, but has continued to reject the administration’s requests to end “sanctuary” policies. “Surprisingly, Mayor Jacob Frey just stated that, ‘Minneapolis does not, and will not, enforce Federal Immigration Laws,’” the president reported in a Truth Social post Wednesday morning. “This is after having had a very good conversation with him. Could somebody in his inner sanctum please explain that this statement is a very serious violation of the Law, and that he is PLAYING WITH FIRE!”

Appearing on “Washington Watch” Tuesday night, Rep. Andy Harris (R-Md.) stressed the damage done by Democrats’ anti-law enforcement rhetoric, in addition to the importance for Republicans to follow through on the Trump administration’s immigration agenda. “All the other jurisdictions around the country where ICE is doing that job, they have cooperation from local officials, so there are no problems,” Harris observed. “The problems are when you have a governor and a mayor openly telling people in Minnesota to go against the Constitution, go against the ability of the federal government to enforce immigration law,” he continued. “You have a rogue governor and a rogue mayor, that’s the problem in Minnesota.”

“Republicans were elected to the majorities with President Trump to close the border and to begin the deportation of the 10 to 12 million people who crossed the border illegally under the Biden administration. We have to get that done,” Harris emphasized. “Unless you think that the 10 to 12 million people who came in illegally under the Biden administration should be invited to stay forever, you need ICE.”

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S.A. McCarthy

S.A. McCarthy serves as a news writer at The Washington Stand.

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Mainstream Media Refuse to Report the Full Facts on ICE Protests, so Americans Must Rely on X Indies

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Want to view one of the many resistance training videos being used by protest organizers in Minneapolis? You won’t find it on The New York Times or The Washington Post. Forget USA Today. And don’t even bother searching for it on NBC, MSNOW, CBS, ABC, or CNN. The mainstream media isn’t interested in reporting that side of the biggest domestic protests since the George Floyd riots of 2020.

But independent journalist Cam Higby has not only made public “Documenting and Responding to ICE,” a training video hosted by a Chicago political activist, Jill Garvey, he also infiltrated the Signal organization that is coordinating, supplying, and directing the chaos on Minneapolis streets.

Higby has posted names of the members of the eight sub-groups within Signal, extensively quoted the group’s internal communications, and documented in detail how members track ICE movements then direct protestors to specific locations where ICE law enforcement officials most likely are trying to remove an illegal immigrant who could be a hardened, violent criminal from the streets.

To appreciate how deeply Higby has infiltrated and documented Signal, check out his X home, then search on “MINNEAPOLIS SIGNAL INFILTRATED.” There you will find multiple posts like this one that documents how the protestors relay tag and other information on an ICE vehicle located in one of the protest areas. Higby’s infiltration has been so effective that Signal’s operators were forced to take counter-measures that temporarily limited their ability to continue operations. Unfortunately for them, those counter-measures came after Higby exposed the most relevant facts about their structure and operations.

To appreciate the logistical depth and detail of the organization behind the Minneapolis chaos, check out this “pop-up Leftist supply depot” videoed and reported by Gunther Eagleman, AKA David Freeman. You want milk, here it is. You need hand warmers, gotcha covered. How about some hot coffee? Or donuts? Crackers? Water? It’s all there and somebody is paying for it.

This is the kind of organized, equipped and strategically directed opposition to federal law enforcement that George Wallace, standing in the “school house door” at the University of Alabama in 1963, could only dream of having at his disposal. Ditto another avowed hard-core segregationist determined to stop federal law enforcement, Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus, when 101st Airborne troops escorted nine young black students into Little Rock’s Central High School in 1957. And imagine the death and destruction former Confederate Calvary General Nathan Bedford Forrest could have wreaked across the Reconstruction period had he access to Signal-level insurrection sophistication and funding?

In fact, Signal is not something new. To the contrary, Signal duplicates and refines what Eric Schwalm, a former U.S. Special Forces warrant officer, saw happening time and again with highly sophisticated, organized, and funded insurgencies overseas:

“From Anbar to Helmand, the pattern is familiar: spotters, cutouts, dead drops (or modern equivalents), disciplined comms, role specialization, and a willingness to absorb casualties while bleeding the stronger force slowly. What’s unfolding in Minneapolis right now isn’t ‘protest.’ It’s low-level insurgency infrastructure, built by people who’ve clearly studied the playbook. … This isn’t spontaneous outrage. This is C2 (command and control) with redundancy, OPSEC hygiene, and task organization that would make a [Special Forces] team sergeant nod in recognition. Replace ‘ICE agents’ with ‘occupying coalition forces’ and the structure maps almost 1:1 to early-stage urban cells we hunted in the mid-2000s.”

And Schwalm is worried because Signal isn’t in Afghanistan or Iraq or Gaza, it’s right here in America:

“The most sobering part? It’s domestic. Funded, trained (somewhere), and directed by people who live in the same country they’re trying to paralyze law enforcement in. When your own citizens build and operate this level of parallel intelligence and rapid-response network against federal officers — complete with doxxing, vehicle pursuits, and harassment that’s already turned lethal — you’re no longer dealing with civil disobedience. You’re facing a distributed resistance that’s learned the lessons of successful insurgencies: stay below the kinetic threshold most of the time, force over-reaction when possible, maintain popular support through narrative, and never present a single center of gravity.”

Whatever you think of the Minneapolis situation, it could only happen in a limited number of locations in America. How many? Well, Kevin Bass analyzed media reports on anti-ICE incidents around the nation for the past year and found nine counties that accounted for two-thirds of all such violent confrontations.

The nine are all connected to deep-blue big cites with far-Left Democratic mayors and with long-standing sanctuary status, including Minneapolis, Portland, Seattle, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Denver, New York, and Newark. Statistically, those nine counties turned out to be 590 times more likely to experience violent anti-ICE confrontations than all of the remaining 3,134 counties in the United States! Coincidence?

Even given all of the preceding facts, however, there is evidence the Signal operation is not perfect, as seen in this video snapshot on X of a “protestor” who, in the midst of a chaotic demonstration, suddenly finds himself able to lift himself out of his wheelchair to pick something up from the street. Either the age of miracles continues or Signal is sending false signals.

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Mark Tapscott

Mark Tapscott is senior congressional analyst at The Washington Stand.

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Godly Justice Establishes Facts First: A Biblical Response to the Minneapolis Shooting

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Unsubstantiated claims abound after Border Patrol agents shot and killed a man during an immigration enforcement operation in Minneapolis on Saturday. Within hours of the incident — and before any investigation was conducted — officials on both sides had already concluded that the shooting was either justified self-defense or an execution, depending on their partisan affiliation. But rendering a verdict before all the facts are known is prejudice, not justice. True justice, as God himself shows in Scripture, establishes the facts first.

Videos circulating on social media show federal officers surrounding Alex Pretti, who had been filming them, after Pretti stepped between an officer and a woman the officer had pushed to the ground. After a brief struggle, an officer yelled “gun!” and shots rang out an instant later. Pretti was legally licensed to carry a firearm, and DHS said they found a semiautomatic 9mm pistol and a second magazine on Pretti’s person, but videos do not show him holding a gun before the altercation.

Less than three hours later, the Department of Homeland Security published an account of the incident to social media, claiming that “an individual approached US Border Patrol officers with a 9 mm semi-automatic handgun, seen here.

The officers attempted to disarm the suspect but the armed suspect violently resisted.” The statement added that the officer who killed Pretti “fired defensive shots,” and “this looks like a situation where an individual wanted to do maximum damage and massacre law enforcement.”

Administration officials echoed this account. In a Saturday press conference, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem described Pretti as “wishing to inflict harm on these officers, coming, brandishing like that.” Homeland Security Advisor Stephen Miller dismissed the incident curtly, stating that “an assassin tried to murder federal agents.”

However, Democratic politicians were eager to prove that the Trump administration has no monopoly on hyperbole. “This appears to be an execution by immigration enforcement,” claimed Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) on Saturday. “I am absolutely heartbroken, horrified, and appalled that federal agents murdered another member of our community. … Minnesota was once a place of refuge, and Trump has turned it into a war zone where unchecked federal forces murder our neighbors.” Fellow squad member Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) likewise remarked Saturday, “Our Constitution is being shredded and our rights are dissolving. Resist.”

Compared to these equal and opposite conclusions, President Trump sounded an uncharacteristic note of reasonable caution. “In a five-minute telephone interview with The Wall Street Journal on Sunday,” the Journal reported, “Trump didn’t directly answer when asked twice whether the officer who shot Alex Pretti had done the right thing. Pressed further, the president said, ‘We’re looking, we’re reviewing everything and will come out with a determination.’”

This preliminary response is far more consistent with the preliminary nature of the investigation. “This is a breaking story, so it would not be surprising if, as more details come in, early reporting proves to be incomplete or inaccurate,” explained former federal prosecutor Andy McCarthy. “At this early point, it is not clear from various videos in circulation whether Pretti had the gun in his possession at the time of the altercation, whether he had it but was disarmed by the agents during the struggle, or whether the Border Patrol agent who shot him saw Pretti either in possession of or reaching for a gun.”

Until basic facts like these are not only uncovered but proven, any judgment about the officer-involved shooting is, by definition, premature.

This principle is supported not only by reason and common sense, but also by the testimony of God’s word. Throughout Scripture, we find that God’s perfect justice is demonstrated, among other things, by the fact that he always delivers judgment in accord with all the facts.

Of course, it is not possible for God to judge with incomplete information, because he knows everything. But Scripture takes care to emphasize the factual basis for God’s judgments. In the final judgment before God’s great white throne, John records that “books were opened … and the dead were judged by what was written in the books, according to what they had done” (Revelation 20:12). The point is that God records every person’s deeds and judges accordingly.

While God’s final judgment tarries, his common grace has established human governments to administer temporal justice (Romans 13:1-4). Because human rulers are creatures, they possess only a subset of the Creator’s knowledge, and their limited knowledge is further impeded by the corrupted state of their reason under sin. Therefore, even though human justice is a good gift from God, it falls far short of God’s perfect justice.

“The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom” (Proverbs 9:10), so the wiser human governments recognize their penultimate status. The omniscient Creator metes out perfect justice. Fallen, limited creatures fall short of that standard. Since human governments cannot administer justice with perfect knowledge, they ought to be humble about the judgments they render. They should not consider themselves incapable of errors in judgment.

Yet another conclusion follows. If human governments can err in judgment, and if they wish to avoid unjust outcomes, then they should institute safeguards to correct erroneous judgments. These safeguards are called due process, and they form an essential part of the American legal system by ensuring fairness and transparency. These neutral rules exist for the benefit of everyone, so that even neutral observers can affirm the justice of judgments reached through due process. But, as the term itself implies, it takes time to fulfill the requirements of “due process.”

Surprisingly, even the notion of due process finds a basis in God’s conduct in Scripture. As the omniscient Creator and Lord of all, God does not need to conduct an investigation or help his creatures understand his reasoning before he renders judgment. But, as a God who reveals himself to us, Scripture records how God does these very things.

A striking example occurs in Genesis 18-19. “The Lord appeared” (Genesis 18:1) to Abraham when “three men” (Genesis 18:2) arrived at his tent. The Lord stays to reveal his plan to Abraham (Genesis 18:20-33) while “two angels” (Genesis 19:1) then proceed to Sodom. “Because the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great and their sin is very grave,” God explains, “I will go down to see whether they have done altogether according to the outcry that has come to me. And if not, I will know” (Genesis 18:20-21).

Of course, the “Judge of all the earth” (Genesis 18:25) already knew the sins of Sodom and Gomorrah. The Lord has already claimed exhaustive knowledge of the “iniquity of the Amorites” in the covenant with Abraham, when he said their sins were “not yet complete” (Genesis 15:16). The Lord did not need to embark upon this elaborate, physical, and confusing mission to Sodom to ascertain its sinful character.

Instead, the Lord’s mission served to reveal his plan to Abraham, eliciting Abraham’s prophetic intercession and his affirmation of God’s justice (Genesis 18:25). It served to expose the utter depravity of the Sodomites in the most undeniable way (Genesis 19:4-11). And it provided the means for Lot’s deliverance, demonstrating that “the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment” (2 Peter 2:9).

God could have justly obliterated Sodom and Gomorrah with fire from heaven, with no further explanation to mankind. But he chose to act in the way that most clearly demonstrated his justice.

This is a consistent pattern of God’s action across Scripture. When Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit, God knew their guilt immediately, but he did not mention it immediately. Instead, his gentle questioning — “where are you?”; “who told you that you were naked?” — caused them to realize how their own actions exposed their guilt (Genesis 3:9-11). Likewise with Cain, God does not open with an accusation, but with a question, “Where is your brother?” (Genesis 4:9).

This pattern even continues through God’s messengers, the prophets. Nathan’s parable to David induces David to pronounce his own sentence before being confronted with his guilt (2 Samuel 12:5-6). Indeed, all of the prophetic books patiently lay out the argument to prove why God was just to send his people into exile, before the end finally arrives.

Thus, God provides an example of justice that is patient and unhurried. Because God is certain of ultimate victory, he does not immediately vindicate. God’s “due process,” as it were, is simply showing his work, so that outside observers may see and believe that his judgment is the right one.

Human rulers should take note. If the perfect judge can take time to “show his work,” how much more should his fallible creatures? Government officials should investigate the facts before making judgments. And, if they want to be taken seriously, government critics should follow the same policy.

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Joshua Arnold

Joshua Arnold is a senior writer at The Washington Stand.

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Dear Ms. Anarchist: When Did Safety Go Out of Style?

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The Renée Goods of the world need a reality check. 

Here’s a challenge.  Ask your neighbor, ask your best friend, ask the guy standing next to you at the deli counter, ask as many relatives as possible, ask any real estate agent in the world this question: What is the number-one thing all people in the world do when they decide to move into an apartment or condo or co-op or house?

Even before they buy appliances or furniture or food for their refrigerator or outdoor plants or a new mailbox.  Even before they hire an inspector to check out if everything in their new digs is in good order.

What is the very, very, very first thing they make sure of before they move in? What is the very first thing the late left-wing activist, 37-year-old Renée Nicole Good, made sure of when she and her six-year-old son and her “wife” Becca Good moved into their abode in Minneapolis?

It’s so basic that everyone reading this article will say, “Yes!”

And what is it? You check that your doors and your windows have locks! Then you might enhance these safety measures with an alarm system. You might even go farther by having a wonderfully protective and ferocious guard dog. And farther still by arming yourself!

This is in our DNA, going back to the cavemen.  Self-protection equals survival.  It’s the same for our country.  A country without protected borders is like a home with no locks — vulnerable to the many crazy and criminal people out there who dream and fantasize about and draw up elaborate plans to violate your safety and security by stealing, attacking, assaulting, terrorizing, and destroying everything you hold dear.

Why?

Because as long as the human species has inhabited the earth, there have been towering figures who inspire and elevate us to create, to build, to enhance society, just as there have been fanatically deranged and crazed-with-anger figures whose raison d’être is based on their irresistible impulses to destroy, to annihilate, to militate against the creators and the builders and society itself.

You can theorize that their motives are psychotic jealousy or lifelong victimitis or general left-wing pathology, but today, guessing at motives is mostly about creating rationalizations that seek to empathize with the perpetrators and demonize the victims.

Ostensibly, Renée Good really, truly believed that the many illegal career criminals, drug- and sex-traffickers, communists, and jihadists who were terrorizing American citizens on a daily — actually hourly — basis were wrongfully being deported by President Trump, and that her aggressive actions were worth risking her own life and potentially leaving her six-year-old son — the son she had custody of, not the two older children whose custody was awarded to her ex-husband — without a mother.

So craven have the left-wing media become that we now have the faculty of the Columbia School of Journalism — the school that pretends to teach objectivity and lack of bias in reporting — actually endorsing the Minnesota anti-ICE activists!

Motives, anyone?

As writer Daniel Greenfield asks, “what was Renée Nicole Good thinking when her girlfriend yelled, ‘Drive baby, drive’ and grinned as Nicole gunned the motor and drove her 4,000-pound Honda Pilot SUV at an armed federal law enforcement officer?”

Duh.  Why have none of the zillion articles written about this incident addressed Renée Good’s psychiatric history, if there is one?  And if there isn’t one, why not?

Here’s a possibility.  There’s a strange word, actually a psychiatric diagnosis, that describes women who are sexually interested in or attracted to criminals: hybristophilia.  We all witnessed this phenomenon when the savage serial murderer Ted Bundy was swamped by courtroom groupies and many others even after he was convicted of brutally murdering 30 (and possibly more) young women in the 1970s.

You don’t have to look far to find numerous examples today.  Just recently, the Menendez brothers — who sadistically murdered their parents in their Beverly Hills mansion in 1989 —  were denied parole by a California judge.  Even more mind-bending is that both the brothers are married!  Yes, to women who want nothing more than to spend their lives separate from but wedded and devoted to these violent killers.

I’m guessing that Renée Good — and perhaps many if not the majority of women who are out on the street militating against the constitutional right of American law enforcement — specifically the U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) — to do what the law mandates are secretly attracted to these miscreants, these drug-pushers, these sex-traffickers, these career criminals, these bad boys.

According to writer Amanda Prestigiacomo, a vast majority of illegals arrested by ICE have criminal records.  She quotes assistant DHS secretary Tricia McLaughlin, who said that “the Department of Homeland Security law enforcement had arrested more than 600,000 illegals, 70% of whom had been charged or convicted of a crime in the United States.”

After all, no one really believes that protesters like Renée Good are students of, experts at, or passionate defenders of the U.S. Constitution or that the reason they are protesting is all about the law!

Cannot rule out a mental disorder

As writer Ray DiLorenzo posits,

there is no doubt, the Far Left is suffering a mental health crisis. … These protests feature women who have shaved their heads as a form of protest, men dressed in women’s clothing, and protesters who swear at or spit on ICE and border agents.  Many individuals shout obscenities or wear t-shirts with offensive language.  Some protesters physically block ICE or Border Patrol vehicles, preventing federal agents from doing their operations and people from going to and coming from work.  Some even throw urine at the officers. …

The data show it plainly. A Pew Research survey shows well over 50% of young white liberal women have been diagnosed with a mental condition. A Columbia University study found “depression among liberal teenagers escalated after 2012, while conservative teens remained far more stable.” Social Science & Medicine–Mental Health found that “liberals, especially young ones, consistently experience more emotional distress than conservatives.”

And of course there’s a great deal of narcissism in acting-out do-gooders like Renée Good, who always harbor the conceit that they are more virtuous, more empathic, more caring than those mean old law-and-order types, that their actions are all in the service of a more just society, and that seriously wounded officer Jonathan Ross — who was hospitalized with internal bleeding — was simply collateral damage in their righteous cause.

These and other delusions are their stock in trade.  Not to omit that although they claim to advocate for the victims of [name that tune: flirtatious bosses, racism, sexism, and now ICE agents], more often than not, it is they themselves who feel like victims, and it is the (mostly) women who support them who also feel like victims.

In the upside-down world of today, an out-of-control demonstrator like Good is lionized, a genuine victim of her aggression like Officer Ross is marginalized, and a stalwart law-and-order division of the U.S. government is demonized.

As a friend of mine says almost every day: What a world!

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Schweizer: Muslim Jihadists, Western Elites Weaponized American Immigration Programs

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A new book is shedding light on how foreign enemies have taken advantage of America’s lax immigration policy to flood the nation with threats. Investigative author and Breitbart News affiliate Peter Schweizer’s book “The Invisible Coup: How American Elites and Foreign Powers Use Immigration as a Weapon” details how the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamist and jihadist groups use mass immigration as a means of conquest, and in particular of dominating and subverting Western nations like the U.S.

The Islamist strategy is rooted, Schweizer relates, in hijrah, one of the chief “pillars” of jihad. The idea of hijrah comes from when the founder of Islam, the Arab military leader Muhammad, and his religious devotees were forced to flee Mecca in 622 and seek refuge in Medina. Particularly in recent decades, hijrah, or migration, has become a prominent tool for jihadists to spread Islam via the infiltration of foreign nations. Some hadiths, which are maxims or instructions attributed to Muhammad, present hijrah as an “important weapon” against Western powers and stipulate that the process of hijrah will persist until a foreign nation is “won over” for Islam. Another hadith orders Muslims “to assemble, to listen; to obey; to immigrate; and to wage jihad for the sake of Allah.”

“Just as the radicals who ran the sanctuary city movement had a litmus test for Central American refugees coming to the United States with the goal of creating a revolutionary force,” Schweizer writes, “Islamists seek to import the revolution…”

According to the author, the R-1 religious worker visa program has been a particular target for jihadists, who often train imams in Muslim-majority nations and send them to the U.S. to run mosques and radicalize others. The majority of mosques in the U.S. are now led by foreign-born and usually foreign-trained imams, Schweizer notes.

He cites the example of Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, nicknamed “the Blind Sheik.” The Egyptian-born Abdel-Rahman entered the U.S. via the R-1 visa program, despite being a leader of the militant jihadist group Al-Jama’a al-Islamiyya. He spent three years in Egyptian prisons awaiting trial for issuing a fatwa, a legal ruling in Islamic sharia law, which resulted in the 1981 assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. Although acquitted of the conspiracy charges, Abdel-Rahman was exiled from Egypt and made his way to Afghanistan, where he befriended Osama bin Laden, becoming the head of al-Qaeda and its political/financial forerunner, Maktab al-Khadamat (MAK) in 1989, during the Soviet-Afghan War.

In 1990, Abdel-Rahman was granted an R-1 visa to visit the U.S. and assume command of MAK’s financial arms in New York City, despite being named on a terrorist watchlist. The U.S. State Department revoked his visa shortly afterwards, but the jihadi leader somehow managed to obtain legal permanent residence (LPR). In 1991, when attempting to return to the U.S. after visiting the Middle East, his terrorist status was flagged, and federal authorities began the process to revoke Abdel-Rahman’s LPR status. He was, however, still allowed to enter the U.S. in order to appeal the decision. When his appeal was denied, he claimed asylum; during his asylum hearings, it was revealed that the CIA had likely been shielding Abdel-Rahman and ensuring that he was given visas, due to his role in combatting the Soviets in the Middle East.

During his time in the U.S., Abdel-Rahman preached against the U.S., describing Americans as “descendants of apes and pigs who have been feeding from the dining tables of the Zionists, Communists, and colonialists” and encouraging Muslims to “tear [America] apart, destroy their economy, burn their companies, eliminate their interests, sink their ships, shoot down their planes, kill them on the sea, air, or land.” He issued a fatwa declaring it legal for Muslims to rob American banks and recorded numerous sermons in New York City, which were shipped on tape to Egypt, where they inspired an increase in terrorist attacks.

Egyptian state information service chief Mamdouh Beltagui said in a 1993 interview that Abdel-Rahman was using New York City as a “base” for directing jihadist terrorist activities abroad. “He passes on messages to his followers, giving orders about what they should do next and who they should target,” Beltagui stated. “We do not understand why the U.S. authorities have allowed him to enter the country.”

The FBI began investigating Abdel-Rahman in connection with the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, which killed six and injured over 1,000. It was discovered that the imam likely ordered the bombing and was planning terrorist attacks to destroy the United Nations headquarters, the Lincoln and Holland tunnels, the George Washington Bridge, and an FBI building. Abdel-Rahman was arrested in June of 1993 and convicted of seditious conspiracy in late 1995; in 1996, he was sentenced to life in solitary confinement without parole. He died in prison in 2017 at the age of 78.

Another example Schweizer points out is that of Iranian-born Usama Abdulghani, now based in Dearborn, Michigan, just outside of Detroit. Affiliated with Dearborn’s Hadi Institute Youth Community Center, Abdulghani has issued calls for Muslims in the U.S. to “fight Western civilization.” Abdulghani has declared that the “world needs to know” that Western civilization “is no longer a solution. These institutions are morally bankrupt. There is no other way, but God, or taklif — divine obligation-oriented, God-based resistance and rejection of the systems.”

Sheikh Muhammad Ayed, preaching from Jerusalem in 2015, explicated the jihadists’ immigration agenda, encouraging his fellow Muslims to remember that the “night will be over” and Islam will soon “trample them underfoot, Allah willing,” referring to Western nations. “We shall conquer their countries — whether you like it or not, oh Germans, oh Americans, oh French, oh Italians,” he declared. “We will breed children with them,” he added, potentially a veiled reference to mass rapes perpetrated by foreigners from Muslim-majority countries in Western nations.

Schweizer frames the jihadist use of mass immigration as a deliberate choice intended to eventually achieve conquest over Western nations. This weaponization of mass immigration programs coincides with the designs of Western left-wing elites, he claims, who similarly capitalize on broadscale immigration, largely from the third world, in order to effect social change and foment political revolution. He notes that pro-immigration activists within the U.S. have viewed mass immigration as a means of influencing elections. Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) chairman Eliseo Medina, for example, saw his friendship with then-newly-elected President Barack Obama as an opportunity to “change America profoundly” by importing millions of foreigners.

“When they voted in November,” Medina observed of newly-naturalized immigrants, “they voted overwhelmingly for progressive candidates. Barack Obama got two out of every three voters who showed up.” The left-wing labor leader explained that two things “matter for the progressive community: Number one: If we are to expand this electorate to win, the progressive community needs to solidly be on the side of immigrants. That will expand and solidify the progressive coalition for the future.” He continued, “Number two: [If] we reform the immigration laws, it puts 12 million people on the path to citizenship and eventually voters. Can you imagine if we have, even the same ratio, two out of three?” Even just eight million immigrants-turned-voters would “create a governing coalition for the long term, not just for an election cycle,” he contended.

Relying on polling data and carefully-curated quotes, Schweizer makes the case that newly-naturalized immigrants in the 21st century have overwhelmingly supported Democratic politicians and candidates and are, in fact, to the left of most mainstream and American-born Democrats on most issues, favoring socialist policies and expansive government programs, similar to those of the socialist governments in their home countries. “At the same time, migrants were shown to be less supportive of preserving America’s core values,” Schweizer notes. Foreign-born voters were significantly more likely than their American counterparts to uphold international law as a higher authority than the Constitution and to consider themselves “citizens of the world” instead of U.S. citizens.

“The partisan advantage for Democrats that Obama and Medina noted was not only real; it was growing. Four years after his election, in 2012, a YouGov survey found that recent immigrants favored Democrats over Republicans by almost four to one,” Schweizer warns. “Therefore, the hard work of ignoring citizenship standards to create these voters needed to continue.”

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S.A. McCarthy

S.A. McCarthy serves as a news writer at The Washington Stand.

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ICE Agents Chowed Down At Local Mexican Restaurant Then Detained Its Illegal Workers

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Three workers at El Tapatio Mexican Restaurant served lunch to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents on Wednesday before being detained later by the same agents.

A dishwasher and two owners of the restaurant closed early upon learning ICE had dined at their store in Willmar, Minn. before the arrests, CBS News reported. El Tapatio has remained closed since, but the owners’ son said he would reopen today for customers.

In a statement obtained by Willmar Radio, Willmar Mayor Doug Reese reminded residents that “ICE is a federal agency carrying out federal responsibilities” and also called for respect for “peaceful, lawful protest.”

A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) identified the target of the detentions as illegal alien Jose Rosario Gomez in a statement to the Daily Caller.

The “officers … conducted a vehicle stop later in the day and apprehended the target and two additional illegal aliens who were in the car, including one who had a final order of removal from an immigration judge,” said DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin in her statement.

The same day, ICE agents were verbally abused in a Minneapolis restaurant.

Willmar residents noted increased police activity on the streets and said some businesses have closed as a result, while streets yesterday appeared “normal,” according to CBS News.

Willmar is about two hours west of Minneapolis where anti-ICE protests have entered their second week following the fatal shooting of a protester who attempted to run over agents with her car. In a second incident, federal law enforcement officers shot an illegal Venezuelan national when they were ambushed Wednesday while trying to make his arrest.

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Alex McKenna

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Chinese Illegal Arrested For Filming Stealth Bombers Near U.S. Air Base

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Federal prosecutors on Wednesday announced criminal charges against an illegal immigrant from China accused of photographing sensitive military infrastructure near Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri.

A criminal complaint has been filed against Qilin Wu, a Chinese national who illegally entered the U.S. during the Biden administration, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Missouri. Wu is charged with unlawfully photographing the military installation and military equipment without authorization.​​

The complaint follows a November 2025 investigation by the Daily Caller News Foundation that revealed Whiteman Air Force Base — one of the U.S. Air Force’s most critical installations — shares a perimeter fence with a foreign-owned trailer park linked to a convicted fraudster with ties to Chinese Communist Party (CCP) intelligence.

The investigation began on Dec. 2, 2025, when officials at Whiteman Air Force Base alerted the Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI) to a suspicious minivan parked near the base’s perimeter, according to the complaint. The vehicle was observed in close proximity to the installation that houses the B-2 Spirit aircraft.

Air Force security patrols were dispatched to the area and encountered Wu, who allegedly told officers he was there to observe the B-2 aircraft. Patrolmen informed him that photography and video recording of the base were prohibited.

The following day, AFOSI was notified that the same minivan had been spotted along the perimeter fence of the base. Agents responded and made contact with Wu, who admitted to recording videos of the B-2 aircraft and taking multiple photographs of the base’s perimeter fencing, a gate, and military equipment, the complaint states.

Wu also admitted that he had photographed another U.S. Air Force base and its aircraft, according to the complaint.

Federal authorities state that Wu is a Chinese national who illegally entered the U.S. near Nogales, Arizona, on June 22, 2023. He was arrested by immigration officials at the time for unlawful presence, but was later released due to limited detention capacity, according to the complaint.

Wu was scheduled to appear for immigration removal proceedings in February 2027, but U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) re-arrested him on Dec. 3, 2025, according to the Department of Justice (DOJ).

The charges come amid heightened scrutiny surrounding Whiteman Air Force Base, which launched the B-2 Spirit strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities in June 2025.

The base shares a perimeter fence with the Knob Noster Trailer Park, a foreign-owned RV park located less than a mile from Whiteman’s runway, the November 2025 DCNF investigation found.

Business records reviewed by the DCNF show the trailer park is owned through a network of shell companies controlled by a Canadian couple linked to organizations associated with disgraced Chinese tycoon Miles Guo. Guo, who has described himself as a former CCP intelligence “affiliate,” was convicted in 2024 of orchestrating a more than $1 billion fraud conspiracy and is awaiting sentencing.

National security experts told the DCNF at the time that foreign ownership of property immediately adjacent to the base poses serious counterintelligence risks.

AUTHOR

Melissa O’Rourke

Reporter

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Scott Jennings Calls Immigration Trump’s ‘Biggest Promise Fulfilled’ In 2025

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Salem Radio Network host Scott Jennings told “This Week” guest host Jonathan Karl on Sunday that President Donald Trump’s efforts to address illegal immigration represented his “biggest” fulfillment of a campaign promise in 2025.

Trump issued multiple executive orders to address illegal immigration Jan. 20, 2025, with some of the orders designating Venezuelan prison gang Tren de Aragua (TdA), El Salvadoran prison gang MS-13, and Mexican drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations, in addition to signing an executive order to prevent illegal immigrants from receiving social security services months later. Jennings noted just how many illegal immigrants departed the country since Trump took office.

“I think on the immigration piece, it’s been his biggest success this year, it’s the biggest promise fulfilled,” Jennings said after SCOTUSblog editor Sarah Isgur discussed the legal challenges to Trump’s efforts to enforce immigration laws. “We’ve had 2.5 million people deported: a significant number of them were self-deported; you know they used the government’s [CBP One] app or just decided to leave the country altogether.”

“When I talk to Republicans and Trump supporters around the country, they’re more than thrilled with the aggressive nature of it,” Jennings continued. “You know, we haven’t passed any new immigration laws since Donald Trump became the president again. We’re just enforcing the laws that we have, something the previous administration would not do. So, I know the left has treated this as some big controversy but I don’t know what’s controversial about the president just simply enforcing laws on the books.”

The Trump administration touted in a Dec. 15 release that no illegal immigrants had been released into the United States for seven straight months, whereas the Biden administration previously released hundreds of thousands, according to figures released by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP).

The Department of Homeland Security announced in a Dec. 10 release that over 2.5 million illegal immigrants have left the United States, of which 1.9 million elected to self-deport via measures like the CBP Home app.

“Illegal aliens are hearing our message to leave now,” Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security for Public Affairs Tricia McLaughlin said in the release. “They know if they don’t, we will find them, we will arrest them, and they will never return.”

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Harold Hutchison

Media Reporter

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Sanctuary State Illinois Releases Nearly 1,800 Violent Illegal Immigrants

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Since the beginning of President Donald Trump’s second term to present day, Illinois’s sanctuary state policies have led to the release of nearly 1,800 illegal immigrants. Their crimes, however, are not limited to illegally crossing the border, but also include charges of murder, assault, burglary, robbery, and sex crimes.

This data was released by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Acting Director Todd Lyons on Monday. According to a press release from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Illinois officials have already failed “to honor ICE detainers,” which has “resulted in the release of 1,768 criminal illegal aliens since January 20.” The crimes of these convicted immigrants, many of whom are now roaming free within the state (or elsewhere), include the following: five charges of homicide, 141 charges of assault, 23 charges of burglary, four charges of robbery, 24 charges of dangerous drugs offenses, 15 charges of weapons offenses, and 10 charges of sexual predatory offenses.

As the DHS went on to highlight, “There are currently 4,015 aliens in the custody of an Illinois jurisdiction with an active detainer. The crimes of these aliens include 51 homicides, 1,134 assaults, 107 burglaries, 36 robberies, 275 dangerous drugs offenses, 120 weapons offenses, and 813 sexual predatory offenses.” Some egregious cases, as emphasized by the DHS, of illegal immigrants released by Governor Pritzker and other state sanctuary politicians, include:

  • Victor Manuel Mendoza-Garcia — “arrested and convicted for 3 counts of aggravated kidnapping/ransom and sentenced to 18 years in [the] Illinois Department of Corrections in Cook County Court in Illinois. ICE’s detainer for Mendoza-Garcia was not honored. On November 12, ICE arrested Mendoza-Garcia where he remains in ICE custody.”
  • Juan Alberto Caro Marin — arrested and convicted of aggravated criminal sexual abuse/victim/family and sentenced to six years in [the] Illinois Department of Corrections. ICE’s detainer for Caro Marin was not honored. On November 9, ICE arrested Caro Marin where he is currently in ICE custody.
  • Amilcar Waldo Gonzalez-Jimenez — “arrested and convicted for 1 count of driving under the influence and domestic battery and 2 counts of criminal sexual assault. ICE’s detainer for Gonzalez-Jimenez was not honored. On November 13, ICE arrested Gonzalez-Jimenez.”
  • Jose Manuel Fuentes-Vargas — “arrested for domestic battery, violation of protection order, and convicted of sexual assault of a victim less than 13 years of age. ICE’s detainer for Fuentes-Vargas was not honored. On October 30, ICE arrested Fuentes-Vargas where he is currently in ICE custody.”

Several other examples put forth by the department included criminals who targeted children. Notably, Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul (D) received a letter from ICE in September. The agency requested state officials cooperate with ICE efforts to detain illegals, but Raoul’s office never responded.

As part of the newly released data, Assistant Secretary of the DHS Tricia McLaughlin asserted that “Governor Pritzker and his fellow Illinois sanctuary politicians are releasing murderers, pedophiles, and kidnappers back into our neighborhoods and putting American lives at risk.” She called “on Governor Pritzker and his administration to stop this dangerous derangement and commit to honoring the ICE arrest detainers of the more than 4,000 criminal illegal aliens in Illinois’ custody. It is common sense. Criminal illegal aliens should not be released back onto our streets to terrorize more innocent Americans.”

According to a letter from Lyons shared with Fox News, Illinois has “tens of thousands of criminal illegal aliens” in custody that Lyons urged “should be swiftly removed from the United States and not be returned to our streets to wreak havoc on law-abiding citizens.”

As Erin Schniederjan, research assistant for Homeland Security, shared with The Washington Stand, “Illinois should repeal the TRUST Act, in which doing so would allow local law enforcement to participate in federal immigration enforcement. Illinois residents should also be empowered to sue state officials who obstruct federal law enforcement. The new ICE-out legislation Governor Pritzker just signed facilitates residents to sue federal law enforcement for enforcing federal immigration law, but Illinois residents still can’t hold state officials accountable for obstructing federal law enforcement.”

As Schniederjan went on to explain, “Sanctuary policies allow illegal aliens to be protected, and unrightfully so. Protecting illegal aliens, many of them being violent criminals, only puts communities at risk. Think of all of the crimes that could have been prevented and people that would still be with us if sanctuary policies didn’t exist.” Ultimately, she added, “If Illinois and other states alike actually cared about their residents, they would work with federal law enforcement to remove the illegal aliens who have no right to be here in the first place.”

Schniederjan concluded by calling for accountability: “The federal government can hold states accountable for harboring illegal aliens by revoking state and city funding.” Otherwise, “sanctuary jurisdictions will prioritize illegal aliens over their own citizens to maintain political power.”

AUTHOR

Sarah Holliday

Sarah Holliday is a reporter at The Washington Stand.

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