An alleged illegal immigrant terrorist was working as a truck driver in the United States using a Pennsylvania-issued commercial driver&#8217;s license, the Department of Homeland Security revealed Monday.
Local authorities pulled over Uzbek national Akhror Bozorov, 31, on Nov. 9 when it was discovered that he had an Interpol warrant for allegedly distributing terrorist propaganda calling for jihad online and recruiting fellow terrorists, federal law enforcement sources told The Daily Wire. Immigration and Customs Enforcement later took him into custody.
Bozorov crossed the California border illegally in 2023 and was swiftly released into the country when the Biden administration was pushing Border Patrol to move people out of custody as quickly as possible. His warrant was issued the year before he came to the United States, but border agents didn&#8217;t find any such red flags because they didn&#8217;t have enough time to properly vet him, sources said.
“Not only was Akhror Bozorov — a wanted terrorist — RELEASED into the country by the Biden administration, but he was also given a commercial driver’s license by Governor Shapiro’s Pennsylvania. This should go without saying, but terrorist illegal aliens should not be operating 18-wheelers on America’s highways,” Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a Monday statement.
“Biden and Mayorkas allowed countless terrorists to come into our country. President Trump and Secretary Noem unleashed ICE to target these national security threats,&#8221; she added.
Under the Biden administration, ISIS-tied smuggling networks helped hundreds of illegal immigrants from Uzbekistan and other Central Asian countries cross into the United States, CNN previously <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/26/politics/dhs-identifies-400-migrants-smuggled-isis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
In 2024, the Biden administration handed Bozorov a work permit, which likely opened the door for his trucking license.
The Trump administration recently commenced a crackdown on states issuing commercial driver&#8217;s licenses to illegal immigrants, with the worst offender being California, after a series of fatal collisions.
Acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Todd Lyons recently issued a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ice-warns-of-potential-terrorist-attack-after-catching-dozens-of-illegal-immigrant-trucker-drivers?author=Jennie+Taer&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=22&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=ICE+Warns+Of+Potential+Terrorist+Attack+After+Catching+Dozens+Of+Illegal+Immigrant+Trucker+Drivers">dire warning</a> that the issue has increased the potential for a terrorist attack on U.S. soil.
“We don’t know what they’re carrying across state lines in an 18-wheeler, terrorists will stop at nothing to harm the United States, and it is well within the realm of possibility that some of these trucks … could be carrying toxic chemicals, bombs, or God knows what,” Lyons said.

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Illegal Immigrant On Terror Watchlist Received Pennsylvania Trucking License

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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is facing scrutiny as the state continues to provide vehicle registrations to illegal immigrants, The Daily Wire has learned.
Republican State Rep. Brian Harrison’s office <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ice-nabs-over-120-illegal-immigrant-drivers-after-probe-exposes-major-loophole-found-in-texas-dmv">sent a letter</a> on Nov. 3 to the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles Board to crack down on state authorities after he “received alarming reports of illegal immigrants being able to register their vehicles” in Texas without a state license.
Since then, the Texas DMV &#8220;confirmed that they are and have been issuing vehicle registrations to illegal aliens,&#8221; Harrison wrote in a letter to Abbott Monday.
&#8220;While I appreciate DMV telling me they are attempting to determine the &#8216;full understanding of options available to address the issues,&#8217; this requires immediate action,&#8221; Harrison wrote to Abbott.
&#8220;Texas should be leading the fight against illegal immigration, not incentivizing it,&#8221; Harrison wrote, adding, &#8220;This is unacceptable.&#8221;
Abbott&#8217;s office, however, denied that illegal immigrants are getting any permission by the state to drive or have vehicles.
&#8220;In Texas, illegal immigrants cannot be issued a driver&#8217;s license or use a motor vehicle on Texas&#8217; roads,&#8221; Abbott spokesperson Andrew Mahaleris told The Daily Wire.
The Trump administration has worked to get illegal immigrant drivers off the roads through its mass deportation campaign.
Federal agents arrested more than 120 illegal immigrant drivers on Texas roadways in a single day last month as part of an effort to clear “our roads of dangerous, often unlicensed and uninsured, illegal aliens who should NOT be behind the wheel,” the agency said.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement has also recently taken steps to arrest<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/how-illegal-immigrant-truck-drivers-ended-up-on-americas-roads?author=Jennie+Taer&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=4&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=How+Illegal+Immigrant+Truck+Drivers+Ended+Up+On+America%E2%80%99s+Roads" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> illegal immigrant truck drivers</a> carrying non-domiciled commercial driver’s licenses (CDLs) after a series of deadly crashes on American highways involving foreign drivers.

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A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to release roughly 615 illegal immigrants nabbed in Chicago immigration raids.
During a hearing on Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Cummings, a Biden appointee, ruled that hundreds of detainees must be granted bond by Nov. 21,  <a href="https://abc7chicago.com/post/hundreds-detained-part-federal-immigration-operation-midway-blitz-ordered-released-bond-judge-says/18148124/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to ABC7. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) must provide Cummings with a list of detainees by Friday.
DHS hit back at the ruling Wednesday afternoon, calling Cummings an &#8220;activist judge.&#8221;
&#8220;At every turn activist judges, sanctuary politicians, and violent rioters have actively tried to prevent our law enforcement officers from arresting and removing the worst of the worst,&#8221; Assistant Homeland Security Secretary Tricia McLaughlin told The Daily Wire.
&#8220;Now an ACTIVIST JUDGE is putting the lives of Americans directly at risk by ordering 615 illegal aliens be released into the community,&#8221; she added.
The ruling comes after immigration advocates at the National Immigrant Justice Center argued that federal immigration agents violated a consent decree in Illinois when they arrested the detainees.
Last month, Cummings ruled that the feds&#8217; warrantless arrests in Chicago violated a previous consent decree that required officers to evaluate whether there is probable cause and if the target is a flight risk before making arrests.
Warrantless arrests are routine for federal immigration authorities, who often conduct surveillance and utilize informants to verify targets.
One of the illegal immigrants who could be released is Diana Patricia Santillana Galeano, who allegedly fled a traffic stop in Chicago before running into a daycare to hide from federal agents. Galeano was granted a bond hearing, which will be held on Tuesday, according to the <a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/12/federal-judge-illegal-ice-arrest-day-care-teacher/">Chicago Tribune</a>.
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Democratic Illinois Rep. Mike Quigley twisted the story of Galeano&#8217;s arrest, falsely accusing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) of snatching “a preschool teacher without a warrant IN FRONT OF CHILDREN in my district.”
But DHS <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/illegal-immigrant-attempts-to-hide-from-ice-in-chicago-daycare">debunked</a> Quigley&#8217;s claims.
“Congressman, you are deliberately misrepresenting the facts,” the agency wrote on X.
“ICE law enforcement did NOT target a daycare and were only at this location because the female illegal alien fled inside,” they added.
Galeano crossed the border in 2023 and had her children smuggled into the country last month, DHS said.
During her latest arrest, the Colombian woman tried to lie to about her identity and denied that she knew the male driver in her car, saying she “just picked him up from a bus stop,” DHS said.
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Biden-Appointed Judge Orders Feds To Release 600 Illegal Immigrants Nabbed In Chicago Raids

Judge Orders Feds To Release 600 Illegal Immigrants Nabbed In Chicago Raids

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The Trump administration has set its sights on Charlotte for its next round of immigration sweeps, The Daily Wire has learned.
Federal law enforcement sources said some Border Patrol agents already in Chicago for the Department of Homeland Security’s “Operation Midway Blitz” raids may be heading to Charlotte, North Carolina, as early as this week.
Border Patrol chief for California’s El Centro sector, Gregory Bovino, will also head to Charlotte, sources said. He will later go on to New Orleans, according to <a href="https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/immigration/border-coverage/border-patrol-gregory-bovino-charlotte-new-orleans/">NewsNation</a>.
Last month, Bovino <a href="https://x.com/CMDROpAtLargeCA/status/1978287901411533094">posted on X</a>, “We’ll put Charlotte on the list!!!” in response to a request that the feds deploy there.
On Wednesday, Bovino wrote, “Crime way down in Chicago thanks to President Trump and Secretary Noem’s leadership. This is Homeland Security in action.”
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Crime way down in Chicago thanks to President Trump and Secretary Noem&#8217;s leadership. This is Homeland Security in action. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/midwayblitz?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#midwayblitz</a> <a href="https://t.co/T8Awye13fx">https://t.co/T8Awye13fx</a>
— Commander Op At Large CA Gregory K. Bovino (@CMDROpAtLargeCA) <a href="https://twitter.com/CMDROpAtLargeCA/status/1988581623005323631?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 12, 2025</a></blockquote>
DHS didn’t confirm or deny the plans in a statement shared with The Daily Wire.
“Every day, DHS enforces the laws of the nation across the country. We do not discuss future or potential operations,” Assistant Homeland Security Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said.
The Trump administration deployed more than 200 border agents to the Windy City last month to help speed up their nationwide mass deportation effort, according to CBS News.
And sanctuary leaders were quick to condemn the deployment.
“The people of Chicago have deserved better than having CBP and Greg Bovino in this city,” Democratic Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker said during a press conference on Wednesday.
“We’ll have to continue to protect our neighbors and our friends and our families, and I will work very hard to continue to do that to keep people safe,” he added.
Tensions have remained high in Chicago, with anti-ICE agitators trying to block agents from making arrests and cartels placing hefty bounties on the heads of the feds.

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Border Agents Head To Charlotte After Illegal Immigration Sweep In Chicago

Border Agents Heading To Charlotte Following Chicago Deployment

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An illegal immigrant who was working as a police officer in Illinois was released from federal detention last month.
An immigration judge granted <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ice-arrests-illegal-immigrant-employed-as-a-cop-in-sanctuary-state">Radule Bojovic</a>, a 25-year-old illegal immigrant from Montenegro, a $2,500 immigration bond just two weeks after he was picked up by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the agency <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/hanover-park-police-officer-radule-bojovic-released-immigration-case/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> CBS News. His deportation case, however, is still ongoing.
Bojovic overstayed a B2 tourist visa that required him to leave the United States on March 31, 2015, the Department of Homeland Security <a href="https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/10/16/governor-jb-pritzkers-illinois-illegal-alien-working-sworn-police-office-badge-gun" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> at the time of his arrest. All the while, Bojovic was working as a police officer with the Hanover Park Police Department.
During his arrest, Bojovic <a href="https://x.com/BenBergquam/status/1978879958698332249" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Real America’s Voice reporter Ben Bergquam that he was authorized to carry a firearm while on duty. He also claimed to have a permit to work in the United States.
Bojovic was also approved by the Pension Fund Board of Trustees in January 2025 and was eligible to receive a starting salary of $78,955.70, according to DHS. His 2025 earnings were $205,707, including $9,276 for FICA/Medicare taxes.
DHS blamed Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker&#8217;s sanctuary policies for allowing the illegal immigrant to serve as a cop.
“Governor J.B. Pritzker doesn’t just allow violent illegal aliens to terrorize Illinois’s communities, he allows illegal aliens to work as sworn police officers,&#8221; Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement. &#8220;Radule Bojovic violated our nation’s laws and was living ILLEGALLY in the United States for 10 years — what kind of police department gives criminal illegal aliens badges and guns? It’s a felony for aliens to even possess a firearm. A so-called law enforcement officer who is actively breaking the law.&#8221;
“Under President Trump and Secretary Noem ICE is restoring law and order. Criminal illegal aliens have NO PLACE in our communities, especially on our police forces,” McLaughlin added.
The Hanover Police Department previously said that they confirmed that Bojovic &#8220;was legally authorized by the federal government to work in the United States&#8221; before hiring him.
&#8220;At the time of his hire, Officer Bojovic presented the Village with a Work Authorization Card, which was issued by the federal government’s U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. The card was valid and recently renewed. We also conducted a full background check, including his criminal history with both the Illinois State Police and the FBI,&#8221; the agency said when Bojovic was caught.
&#8220;Further, the Village also confirmed, based on a memorandum issued by the Department of Justice’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives on January 5, 2024, that his immigration status allowed him to carry a firearm while on duty,&#8221; they added.
The Trump administration commenced &#8220;Operation Midway Blitz&#8221; in September to clean the streets of illegal immigrants across the state of Illinois.
Anti-ICE agitators, and even cartels, have tried to threaten and block federal agents carrying out the operations.
Border Patrol agents <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-violence-must-end-man-opens-fire-on-border-patrol-agents-in-chicago-chaos-erupts" target="_blank" rel="noopener">were shot at</a> on Saturday while carrying out raids in Chicago&#8217;s Little Village neighborhood, which is largely populated with immigrants.
The shooter fled the scene and one suspect was later arrested. It is not clear, however, if the suspect in custody was the shooter.

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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing the state’s largest county for allegedly spending $1.3 million in taxpayer funding to help illegal immigrants fight deportation.
In October, the Harris County Commissioners Court <a href="https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/sites/default/files/images/press/Petition_2.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">allocated</a> the money to “radical leftist organizations” BakerRipley, the Galveston-Houston Immigrant Representation Project, Justice for All Immigrants, KIND, Inc., and the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services to provide “direct legal representation to immigrants in detention or facing the threat of deportation,” according to Paxton’s office.
“We must stop the left-wing radicals who are robbing Texans to prevent illegals from being deported by the Trump Administration,” said Attorney General Paxton, who is now running for Senate against incumbent John Cornyn and Rep. Wesley Hunt.
“Beyond just being blatantly unconstitutional, this is evil and wicked. Millions upon millions of illegals invaded America during the last administration, and they must be sent back to where they came from,” he added.
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🚨BREAKING: I&#8217;m suing Harris County for unlawfully directing over $1.3 million in taxpayer money to defend illegal aliens from deportation.
We must stop the left-wing radicals who are robbing Texans to prevent illegals from being deported by the Trump Administration. <a href="https://t.co/Yqp0v9Nt0P">pic.twitter.com/Yqp0v9Nt0P</a>
— Attorney General Ken Paxton (@KenPaxtonTX) <a href="https://twitter.com/KenPaxtonTX/status/1988274620148183111?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 11, 2025</a></blockquote>
Paxton argued that the disbursement serves “no public purpose” and is “unconstitutional.”
“The Texas Constitution prohibits governmental entities like Harris County from misusing public funds by giving gifts or conferring private benefits to individuals and groups that do not serve a legitimate public end,” Paxton’s office said.
Harris County Attorney Christian Menefee defended the program, which was renewed last month in a 4-1 vote, with Tom Ramsey, the only Republican on the court, opposing it, <a href="https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/paxton-lawsuit-says-harris-county-defended-illegal-immigrants-taxpayer-money/285-9305f238-95d4-4e93-810a-4a0c963ce2f8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to KHOU.
“This lawsuit is a cheap political stunt,” Menefee said. “At a time when the president has unleashed ICE agents to terrorize immigrant neighborhoods, deport U.S. citizens, and trample the law, it’s shameful that Republican state officials are joining in instead of standing up for Texans.”
“This program is perfectly legal, and it ensures that people in our communities have access to due process, something every American should support,” Menefee said. “My office will fight back and defend Harris County’s right to lead with fairness, compassion, and common sense, no matter how many times Republican state officials try to erase that.”

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Texas County Shelled Out $1.3 Million In Taxpayer Funds To Defend Illegal Immigrants, Lawsuit Says

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The United Kingdom has stopped sharing intelligence with the United States on drug boats in the Caribbean to stay out of major counter-narcotics strikes in the region.
While controlling multiple territories in the Caribbean, the U.K. has long helped the U.S. interdict drug smugglers in the open sea, CNN <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/11/politics/uk-suspends-caribbean-intelligence-sharing-us">reported</a>. But as the mission becomes more lethal, the U.K. no longer wants to be involved.
The intelligence blackout began over a month ago.
The Department of War has launched more than a dozen strikes on boats, killing 76 people.
Believing that the strikes violated international law, the U.K. started to worry that its intelligence was helping the U.S. locate the vessels before obliterating them.
Trump administration officials have <a href="https://www.facebook.com/DepartmentofWar/videos/4345830319036573/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">defended</a> the strikes, saying the drug traffickers are “operating under the control” of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro.
Some legal experts, however, have questioned President Donald Trump&#8217;s authority to act on the threats without congressional approval.
Brian Finucane, a former State Department legal adviser, recently told The Daily Wire that “the strikes are not legal” and lack justification.
“The precedent that this administration seems to be invoking are strikes the U.S. has taken over the course of the last 20-plus years in the context of the U.S. war on terror against groups like Al Qaeda and ISIS,” he said. “But those precedents are really irrelevant and a red herring with respect to the strikes we’re seeing in the Caribbean and now the Pacific.”
“For the first time, the U.S. government designated criminal entities, drug trafficking organizations as foreign terrorist organizations,” he explained. “But those assertions seem to be undermined by the U.S. Intelligence community.”
Dr. Nicholas Creel, law professor at Georgia College and State University, believes the strikes are legal, pointing to roughly five out of 30 examples of “instances where we moved first and somebody died” where the president actually received congressional approval.
“What a lot of people lose in this is if we do agree that the president has the authority to respond to attacks, who is it that gets to define an attack is? It has to be the president,” Creel said. “It necessarily cannot be Congress.”
“That’s why we chose this word to give the president the authority to respond to these attacks so it has to be that decides what this attack is. And if you or I think this is not an attack, fine, but we’re not the president.”
He continued: “Pretty much every president since FDR would have to have been said to have acted unconstitutionally in terms of the war powers, which seems a bit odd. If it’s that common a practice, is it really, I mean, just because people are doing it doesn’t mean it’s legal, but at the same time, if everybody is basically doing it? Is it really illegal?”

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A federal judge will soon decide whether to release hundreds of illegal immigrants nabbed in Chicago immigration raids.
U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Cummings is expected to hold a hearing Wednesday that could result in an order forcing federal immigration agents to release the detainees with ankle monitors or other tracking devices, <a href="https://abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chicago-news-judge-considers-releasing-hundreds-arrested-immigration-operation-midway-blitz/18140683/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to ABC7.
Immigration advocates at the National Immigrant Justice Center have argued that the feds violated a consent decree in Illinois when they arrested the targets.
Cummings ruled last month that agents violated a previous consent decree when making warrantless arrests in Chicago.
ICE had agreed that when they make a warrantless arrest, they must determine whether there is probable cause leading them to believe the person is in the United States illegally and if they are a flight risk.
The agency has the authority to make warrantless arrests, a standard practice of the agency nationwide that already has some restrictions.
One of the illegal immigrants who could be released is Colombian national Diana Patricia Santillana Galeano, who caused a stir after she fled a traffic stop and ran into a daycare to hide from federal agents in Chicago.
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Congressman, you are deliberately misrepresenting the facts.
ICE law enforcement did NOT target a daycare and were only at this location because the female illegal alien fled inside.
Here is the real story:
Officers attempted to conduct a targeted traffic stop of this female… <a href="https://t.co/a5BdcbhnwC">https://t.co/a5BdcbhnwC</a>
— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) <a href="https://twitter.com/DHSgov/status/1986171260464742835?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 5, 2025</a></blockquote>
Democratic Illinois Rep. Mike Quigley shared a video of the arrest, falsely accusing ICE of snatching “a preschool teacher without a warrant IN FRONT OF CHILDREN in my district.”
The Department of Homeland Security quickly corrected the record.
“Congressman, you are deliberately misrepresenting the facts,” the agency wrote on X.
“ICE law enforcement did NOT target a daycare and were only at this location because the female illegal alien fled inside,” they added.
Galeano crossed the border in 2023, while her children were smuggled in just last month.
During her arrest, she tried to lie about her identity and denied that she knew the male driver in her car, saying she “just picked him up from a bus stop,” DHS said.

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Judge Considers Releasing Hundreds Of Illegal Immigrants Nabbed By ICE In Chicago Raids

In honor of the late Katie Abraham, who was killed at the age of 20 by an illegal immigrant drunk driver, the Department of Homeland Security has nabbed multiple illegal immigrants roaming the sanctuary state after being charged with DUIs as part of its mass deportation campaign, the agency told The Daily Wire.
These illegal immigrants found refuge in the sanctuary state of Illinois for years, and now Homeland Security officials are putting a stop to that. For years, the accused illegal immigrants roamed the state with impunity as local authorities let them go free. But the free-for-all has ended.
Last month, the feds nabbed Benito Hernandez Ibarra, a previously deported criminal from Mexico who was convicted of multiple counts of DUI. Chicago authorities let Ibarra free in 2012, ignoring ICE&#8217;s detainer at the time.
Mexican illegal immigrant Javier Castillo Hernandez was also arrested after authorities in Cook County let him off on probation in 2004 after he was driving drunk.
Despite being convicted of aggravated DUI in Chicago nearly a decade ago, Ecuadorian citizen Oscar Sinchi was roaming the streets. The feds arrested him in September.
The Trump administration flooded Illinois with additional ICE officers and Border Patrol agents in September, commencing what they&#8217;ve dubbed &#8220;Operation Midway Blitz.&#8221; The raids were launched to honor Katie Abraham.
“Katie’s death was preventable. She was killed by a man, Julio Cucul Bol, who entered and remained in our country illegally,” Joe Abraham, Katie’s father, said in a statement shared with The Daily Wire. “He was using multiple aliases, exploiting gaps in an overwhelmed and disorganized immigration system. Illinois’ sanctuary law allowed this monster to roam free.&#8221;
&#8220;He should have been removed long before he could take my daughter’s life. It would be unjust and unreasonable to separate my family’s loss from the policies that failed us. We did everything right. We worked hard, obeyed the law, paid our taxes and trusted that government would protect us in return. That trust was broken. Our leaders — from the governor’s office on down — have not treated immigration as a matter of public safety or national security,&#8221; Abraham said.

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DHS Launches DUI Crackdown In Illinois In Honor Of Woman Killed By Illegal Immigrant Drunk Driver

DHS Takes Down Illegal Immigrants Drunk Drivers Roaming Illinois Streets In Honor Of Katie Abraham

The Trump administration has escalated a military campaign in the Caribbean against alleged drug traffickers and could soon target Venezuelan military facilities in the counternarcotics attacks.
The first <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/u-s-precision-strikes-on-venezuela-military-could-begin-within-hours?author=Hank+Berrien&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=1&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=U.S.+Precision+Strikes+On+Venezuela+Military+Could+Begin+Within+Hours" target="_blank" rel="noopener">strike</a> took out 11 alleged drug traffickers reportedly bound for the United States, setting off an escalation of aggressive military hits on drug boats in the Caribbean. Since then, more than a dozen such strikes have taken place.
Trump administration officials have <a href="https://www.facebook.com/DepartmentofWar/videos/4345830319036573/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">defended</a> the strikes, saying the drug traffickers are &#8220;operating under the control&#8221; of Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro.
Some legal experts, however, have questioned Trump&#8217;s authority to carry out strikes without congressional approval. Trump has also faced questions from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, leading him to authorize new briefings for Congress, Axios recently <a href="https://www.axios.com/2025/11/03/trump-venezuela-briefings-congress" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
Brian Finucane, a former State Department legal adviser, told The Daily Wire that &#8220;the strikes are not legal&#8221; and lack justification.
&#8220;The precedent that this administration seems to be invoking are strikes the U.S. has taken over the course of the last 20-plus years in the context of the U.S. war on terror against groups like Al Qaeda and ISIS,&#8221; he said. &#8220;But those precedents are really irrelevant and a red herring with respect to the strikes we&#8217;re seeing in the Caribbean and now the Pacific.&#8221;
&#8220;For the first time, the U.S. government designated criminal entities, drug trafficking organizations as foreign terrorist organizations,&#8221; he explained. &#8220;But those assertions seem to be undermined by the U.S. Intelligence community.&#8221;
The situation reached a boiling point earlier this month, with reports that the Trump administration could soon target Venezuelan military facilities believed to have a role in the drug trade. The White House and Trump, however, pushed back on claims of an imminent attack.
The Treasury Department <a href="https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sb0207" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sanctioned</a> Maduro in July, accusing him of leading Venezuela&#8217;s Cartel de los Soles and supporting the Tren de Aragua prison gang and Sinaloa cartel.
Trump <a href="https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sb0207" target="_blank" rel="noopener">designated</a> Cartel de los Soles and <a href="https://www.state.gov/designation-of-international-cartels" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tren de Aragua</a> as terrorist organizations after they &#8220;conducted kidnappings, extorted businesses, bribed public officials, authorized its members to attack and kill U.S. law enforcement, and assassinated a Venezuelan opposition figure.&#8221; In August, Trump <a href="https://www.state.gov/nicolas-maduro-moros" target="_blank" rel="noopener">doubled</a> the bounty for Maduro’s capture to $50 million — the largest such reward in U.S. history — and offered $25 million apiece for his cartel lieutenants, including Diosdado Cabello and Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino López.
But the designation doesn&#8217;t afford Trump the authority to hit the alleged drug runners, Ilya Shapiro, senior fellow and director of constitutional studies at the Manhattan Institute, told The Daily Wire.
&#8220;So the distinction between war and crime is what I think is at the heart of this,&#8221; Shapiro said. &#8220;Twenty-five years ago, for the first time, the president invoked the war powers against Al Qaeda, which is a non-state actor and here we also have apparently a non-state actor drug cartels. And so the issue isn&#8217;t the harm caused by the drug cartels &#8230; there&#8217;s a talking point that drug overdose deaths in a single year surpass totaled American deaths in most major wars. But that doesn&#8217;t change crime into war.&#8221;
&#8220;Armed force, I think, is justified when enemy attack political reasons, whether it&#8217;s Al Qaeda or Hamas or someone else like that, but usually the military isn&#8217;t appropriate against criminals, and criminal gangs could be treated as military targets, if and when they act as arms of a hostile war government,&#8221; he said.
Shapiro recognized that military force could be &#8220;appropriate&#8221; if there were evidence proving that the drug trafficking in the Caribbean &#8220;is the Venezuelan government&#8217;s attempt to destabilize or otherwise attack the United States.&#8221;
&#8220;But if they&#8217;re just criminal gangs, looking to make a profit, then I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s appropriate to use military force,&#8221; he added.
Recognizing he holds a &#8220;minority&#8221; opinion on the issue for believing that Trump has the authority to act alone, Dr. Nicholas Creel, law professor at Georgia College and State University, told The Daily Wire that the president has the authority to act alone when &#8220;emergencies&#8221; occur.
&#8220;I think it&#8217;s pretty clear that he does have the authority to do this,&#8221; said Creel.
While Congress has the authority to declare war, the president has the power to respond to attacks without awaiting a vote or any possible delay. He said there&#8217;s roughly five out of 30 examples of &#8220;instances where we moved first and somebody died&#8221; where the president actually received congressional approval.
&#8220;What a lot of people lose in this is if we do agree that the president has the authority to respond to attacks, who is it that gets to define an attack is? It has to be the president,&#8221; Creel said. &#8220;It necessarily cannot be Congress.&#8221;
&#8220;That&#8217;s why we chose this word to give the president the authority to respond to these attacks so it has to be that decides what this attack is. And if you or I think this is not an attack, fine, but we&#8217;re not the president.&#8221;
He continued: &#8220;Pretty much every president since FDR would have to have been said to have acted unconstitutionally in terms of the war powers, which seems a bit odd. If it&#8217;s that common a practice, is it really, I mean, just because people are doing it doesn&#8217;t mean it&#8217;s legal, but at the same time, if everybody is basically doing it? Is it really illegal?&#8221;
Trump sent the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford, along with her full strike group, to the region this week, marking the largest concentration of naval assets in the region in decades.
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth also deployed F-35B fighters and MQ-9 Reapers to Puerto Rico, which are capable of destroying clandestine drug labs and airstrips in Venezuelan territory.
Trump recently confirmed that he authorized the CIA to conduct covert actions inside Venezuela. United States military aircraft have also recently buzzed the Venezuelan coast in recent weeks.

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Federal authorities nabbed an illegal immigrant with a lengthy rap sheet believed to be connected to a shooting targeting Border Patrol agents in Chicago over the weekend.
The suspect, whose name has yet to be released publicly, hails from Mexico and has previous convictions for aggravated unlawful use of a weapon/vehicle, felony possession of a weapon, and illegal entry, the Department of Homeland Security said Monday.
Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino told Fox News that &#8220;it&#8217;s possible&#8221; there are more suspects on the run.
&#8220;This individual should&#8217;ve never been walking the streets of Chicago. This is what you get with a JB Pritzker or a Mayor Johnson and that crazy rhetoric. This individual should not have been in this country,&#8221; Bovino said of the latest arrest.
The illegal immigrant must remain detained, per the Laken Riley Act. The suspect also has pending charges for allegedly assaulting officers.
Border Patrol agents <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-violence-must-end-man-opens-fire-on-border-patrol-agents-in-chicago-chaos-erupts">were shot at</a> on Saturday while conducting mass deportation operations in the Little Village neighborhood, which is largely populated with immigrants.
“Today, U.S. Border Patrol was conducting immigration enforcement operations near 26th Street and Kedzie Avenue in Chicago, Illinois, when an unknown male driving a black Jeep fired shots at agents and fled the scene,” the DHS posted to X on Saturday afternoon.
DHS said an “unknown number of agitators also threw a paint can and bricks at Border Patrol’s vehicles,” adding that the Chicago Police Department “was called for assistance and cleared the scene.”
“The shooter and vehicle remain at large, and this is a dynamic situation,” the post continued.
Footage from the scene showed chaos erupting in the streets as demonstrators shouted profanities at officers and filmed them.
DHS said on X Monday that the attack &#8220;is not isolated,&#8221; adding that it &#8220;reflects a growing and dangerous trend of violence and obstruction.&#8221;
&#8220;Over the past two months, we’ve seen an increase in assaults and obstruction targeting federal law enforcement during operations. These confrontations highlight the dangers our agents face daily and the escalating aggression toward law enforcement,&#8221; the agency wrote.

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After the Trump administration publicly shamed sanctuary cities and states, some have chosen to reverse course and work with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
The Trump administration officially removed Nevada from its list of sanctuary jurisdictions in <a href="https://nevadacurrent.com/2025/09/26/nevada-first-state-to-be-removed-from-list-of-sanctuary-jurisdictions/">September</a> after eleven sheriffs in the Silver State recommitted to helping the feds, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem wrote on X Monday.
Law enforcement agencies in sanctuary cities traditionally ignore ICE requests to hand over illegal immigrant criminals from jails, instead letting them go free. They are also barred from assisting with ICE arrests more generally.
But Republican Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo previously blamed the state&#8217;s Democratic attorney general for making attempts &#8220;to implement sanctuary policies.&#8221; Lombardo insisted that the state has &#8220;never been a sanctuary state, and never will be&#8221; one.
Lombardo&#8217;s office asked the Trump administration to clarify the designation, according to an August statement.
In addition to recommitting their support for the feds, Nevada pledged to use FEMA funds to assist ICE and upgrade local jail cells designated for federal detainees. The state National Guard will also support ICE operations.
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When others cower, real leaders step up.
I applaud the Nevada Sheriffs’ &amp; Chiefs’ Association and Governor <a href="https://twitter.com/JosephMLombardo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JosephMLombardo</a> for their commitment to working with <a href="https://twitter.com/ICEgov?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ICEgov</a> to protect American citizens from dangerous criminal illegal aliens.
Because of their efforts, Nevada has… <a href="https://t.co/4UWG1DSUuR">pic.twitter.com/4UWG1DSUuR</a>
— Secretary Kristi Noem (@Sec_Noem) <a href="https://twitter.com/Sec_Noem/status/1987918886595912109?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 10, 2025</a></blockquote>
“When others cower, real leaders step up,” Noem wrote of Nevada’s policy reversal.
“I applaud the Nevada Sheriffs’ &amp; Chiefs’ Association and Governor @JosephMLombardo for their commitment to working with @ICEgov to protect American citizens from dangerous criminal illegal aliens,” she said, adding, “Because of their efforts, Nevada has been removed from the Trump Administration’s sanctuary jurisdiction list. I encourage every leader across our nation to follow their example so that all Americans can live in peace and safety.”
Last month, the Department of Justice removed Baltimore County from the list after the previously-designated sanctuary authorities signed an agreement with ICE.
“Despite restrictions from state leadership, Baltimore County has shown a willingness to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement. This is a small step toward restoring public safety and we appreciate the county’s commitment to updating its policies,” Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward said in a <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-announces-removal-baltimore-county-sanctuary-jurisdiction-list-following">statement</a> at the time.
The Trump administration rolled out the list of sanctuary states, cities, and counties in August, threatening possible legal action against them for refusing to work with ICE.
“Sanctuary policies impede law enforcement and put American citizens at risk by design,” said Attorney General Pamela Bondi. “The Department of Justice will continue bringing litigation against sanctuary jurisdictions and work closely with the Department of Homeland Security to eradicate these harmful policies around the country.”

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