The Trump administration has swooped in to deport an illegal immigrant child sex offender weeks after Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz pardoned him.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Friday that he revoked the legal status of Laotian national Tou Lue Vang, resulting in his deportation by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The Minnesota Board of Pardons voted on June 10 to grant Vang a pardon despite his past conviction for repeatedly sexually assaulting a 10-year-old girl.
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.<a href="https://x.com/ICEgov?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ICEgov</a> has DEPORTED Tou Vang, the illegal alien CHILD RAPIST <a href="https://x.com/GovTimWalz?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GovTimWalz</a> pardoned in an attempt to allow him to remain in our country.
While Walz and his fellow sanctuary politicians fight to protect heinous criminals like this, we will continue putting the safety of the… <a href="https://t.co/QCzSnYh4zA">https://t.co/QCzSnYh4zA</a> <a href="https://t.co/rjBXI5qhlj">pic.twitter.com/rjBXI5qhlj</a>
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&#8220;As of today, he has been removed from the United States. Because of our action, this foreign criminal will never pose a threat to any American ever again,&#8221; Rubio said in a <a href="https://x.com/SecRubio/status/2075567815856177323">video</a> posted to X.
&#8220;Americans must never be forced by their elected leaders to live alongside foreign sex criminals who have no right to begin with to reside in our country. This administration will always stand with the American people and defend them from violent criminals,&#8221; he said.
The board, which includes Minnesota Democratic Gov. Tim Walz, Democratic Attorney General Keith Ellison, and state Supreme Court Chief Justice Natalie Hudson, spared Vang days before he was set to be deported, Rubio said. Vang lost his legal status after he was convicted in 2006 of first-degree criminal sexual conduct, according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
The Laotian man tried to bribe his victim into silence and dismissed his crimes as &#8220;a cultural thing &#8230; to marry and have sex with girls as young as 12,&#8221; according to DHS.
The Minnesota Board of Pardons granted Vang a reprieve after receiving letters submitted in support of the foreign man, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/us/politics/minnesota-pardon-sexual-abuser.html?unlocked_article_code=1.uVA._PKl.HFrBqKOvwsY8&amp;amp;smid=url-share" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to The New York Times. One of the letters was authored by his victim, who said she had forgiven Vang and supported his request for a pardon.
Minnesota officials cited the victim&#8217;s statement as a major reason for their decision to pardon Vang.
The Ramsey County Attorney&#8217;s Office, which prosecuted the original case against Vang, opposed the pardon and argued that he received a lenient sentence of 30 years&#8217; probation because the victim, who was 12 at the time of prosecution, “was experiencing pressure from her family to not cooperate,&#8221; The New York Times reported.
Vang first came to the United States in 1994 and was given legal status by the Clinton administration, according to DHS.
An immigration judge issued Vang a final deportation order on October 31, 2006, following his conviction.
Vang is not the first foreigner Minnesota officials have attempted to shield from deportation. On May 27, 2026, the Minnesota Board of Pardons granted a pardon to Jai Vang, a Laotian illegal immigrant with felony convictions for robbery and robbery of a business with a gun, as well as a conviction for driving under the influence of liquor, according to DHS.

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An office launched by the State of Texas to investigate banned diversity, equity, and inclusion practices at universities has launched its first investigation, according to a complaint obtained by The Daily Wire.
The probe centers on a complaint filed by a former student at Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas, who alleges that the school is operating &#8220;a shadow D.E.I. program in violation of state law.&#8221; The complaint also alleges that university employees &#8220;discriminate against conservatives &#8230; and those that they perceive do not support D.E.I. or leftist political beliefs.&#8221;
The state launched the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board Office of the Ombudsman last year to serve as a watchdog for universities to ensure they are not violating anti-DEI laws. The office has since begun accepting complaints from students, faculty, and employees.
The office can push to withhold state funding from schools found to have violated state law that have failed to address the issues, <a href="https://www.texastribune.org/2026/04/03/texas-ombudsman-investigate-university-complaints/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to The Texas Tribune.
&#8220;The Office of the Ombudsman enforces key Texas higher education laws that prohibit divisive practices and unconstitutional discrimination as well as ensure accountability for important personnel and curriculum decisions at public universities,&#8221; Brandon L. Simmons, who leads the office, told The Daily Wire.
&#8220;We take every complaint seriously and will fully investigate allegations of potential violations. Our work helps protect a fair learning environment in which Texas students are treated equally under the law,&#8221; Simmons said.
The complaint at the center of the office&#8217;s first investigation is heavily redacted, leaving many details unclear.
In one alleged incident, the former student claimed that a campus peer tutoring office sought &#8220;to restrict political speech following Charlie Kirk&#8217;s assassination.&#8221; After Kirk&#8217;s killing, university staff informed students in the tutoring office that &#8220;we&#8217;re a political free zone,&#8221; the former student&#8217;s attorney, Tanner Franklin, told The Daily Wire.
Franklin is representing the ex-student alongside State Rep. Briscoe Caine.
The ex-student responded to the group message, saying, &#8220;I appreciate &#8230; that we&#8217;re not going to be political, but that&#8217;s not what&#8217;s happening in reality,&#8221; referring to other tutors who wore &#8220;clothing with obvious political slogans such as &#8216;No person can be illegal on stolen land&#8217; and &#8216;From the River to the Sea,'&#8221; a Palestinian chant for wiping Israel off the map.
He was subsequently fired from the tutoring office.
Franklin said that he believes the university retaliated against his client.
&#8220;His point was that&#8217;s fine if you want to be viewpoint neutral, that&#8217;s fine, but you actually have to be viewpoint neutral. And in response, they deleted his comment immediately from the group and basically sent him a message separately, saying, &#8216;Well, we&#8217;ll handle it.&#8217; And that was it. And then a week and a half later, he basically gets fired,&#8221; Franklin said.
In another instance, the ex-student said he was punished for asking a transgender student for their legal name when taking attendance. The transgender student would not provide their name, which was on the class roster, and only gave their preferred name.
&#8220;That student went and complained that my client was essentially being mean to him,&#8221; Franklin said.
The complainant and his attorney subsequently met with university officials to air his concerns.
&#8220;I left the meeting hopeful that SFA took my reports seriously and would take proper, and immediate action to address these serious issues. Unfortunately, that was not the case,&#8221; the student said in the complaint.
The school provided the former student with an &#8220;update&#8221; more than a week after the meeting took place, informing him that they &#8220;would be &#8216;firming up dress code expectations.'&#8221;
The university&#8217;s general counsel also told the former student that university employees &#8220;did not know what &#8216;From the River to the Sea&#8217; meant.&#8221;
&#8220;This fell far short of the full and transparent investigation that I requested and certainly did not hold anyone accountable,&#8221; the complaint reads.
As a result of the university&#8217;s actions and alleged failure to address the situation, the former student chose not to &#8220;walk at his graduation&#8221; out of concern about further retaliation, Franklin said, adding that his client &#8220;was just so disheartened with how the university had handled this process.&#8221;
Franklin hopes that the ombudsman&#8217;s office can push for greater accountability.
“We appreciate the Office of the Ombudsman for taking this complaint seriously and conducting a thorough investigation. Our client’s courageous decision to file this complaint is a critical step toward holding rogue university officials accountable,&#8221; the attorney said.
&#8220;We must ensure that the free speech rights of Texas students are protected and that any restrictions on speech are applied in a viewpoint-neutral manner. The Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and the Legislature’s conservative majority have made it clear: Texans are tired of conservative student voices being silenced and targeted at our taxpayer-funded institutions. When it happens, there will be consequences,&#8221; he added.
In a statement, the university said it &#8220;complies with all state and federal laws,&#8221; adding that &#8220;if there is a governmental investigation, the university will fully cooperate.&#8221;

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An illegal immigrant who used his position as a youth soccer coach to prey on young boys by drugging and sexually abusing them is now facing a lengthy prison sentence for his crimes.
Mexican national Camilo Campos-Hurtado, 66, received a 30-year prison sentence, along with five years of supervised release, this week for reportedly raping unconscious boys between the ages of 9 and 17, according to the Justice Department. Between 2017 and 2021, Campos-Hurtado &#8220;incapacitated&#8221; his minor victims by drugging them or giving them alcohol before he sexually assaulted them and recorded the abuse.
Authorities first learned of Campos-Hurtado&#8217;s predatory behavior after employees at a Franklin, Tennessee, pizza shop found that the illegal immigrant left behind his cell phone at the business, <a href="https://www.wkrn.com/news/local-news/former-franklin-soccer-coach-sentenced-child-rape-immigration/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to local news channel WKRN. The workers found dozens of “unconscionable videos and pictures of children&#8221; on the device.
When police began investigating the incident, they found &#8220;years of child sexual exploitation,&#8221; the Justice Department said. Authorities carried out multiple search warrants, searching Campos-Hurtado&#8217;s home and car, and found electronic devices containing child sexual abuse material, along with fraudulent immigration and identification documents.
Forensic analysis of Campos-Hurtado&#8217;s devices found that he had been producing child sexual abuse material since at least January 13, 2013. The convictions only accounted for his activities between 2017 and 2021.
&#8220;Camilo Campos-Hurtado preyed on children, rendered his victims incapable of resisting, recorded his horrific crimes, and concealed his true identity through fraudulent immigration and identification documents while remaining unlawfully in the United States,&#8221; U.S. Attorney Braden H. Boucek said in a statement following the sentencing.
&#8220;The Department of Justice has no higher priority than protecting children from sexual exploitation,&#8221; Boucek said. &#8220;Those who abuse children, produce or collect child sexual abuse material, or exploit our immigration system to facilitate their crimes will be identified, prosecuted, and held fully accountable.”
Campos-Hurtado snuck across the border without getting caught, according to DHS.
On June 17, 2025, he pleaded guilty to four counts of sexual exploitation of a minor, one count of receiving child sexual abuse material, one count of using or possessing fraudulent immigration documents, and one count of possessing an identification document or authentication feature that was stolen or produced without lawful authority.
Federal prosecutors had requested a sentence of 50 years.
Following the completion of his sentence, Campos-Hurtado is expected to face deportation to his home country of Mexico.
“This child predator will now be behind bars for 30 years. If he is ever released, ICE will immediately remove him from the country. He will never again harm another child in our country,&#8221; Acting Assistant Homeland Security Secretary Lauren Bis said in a statement shared with The Daily Wire.

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Illegal Immigrant Soccer Coach Who Sexually Abused Unconscious Young Boys Receives Prison Sentence

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An illegal immigrant from Haiti is accused of chasing his coworker with a knife before fatally stabbing him at a meat processing plant in Coldwater, Michigan.
Haitian national Valmir Djempsley, 20, and Brandon Eduardo Velasquez Chavez, 21, were arguing while on the job together at Clemens Food Group on June 30 when the illegal immigrant ran after Chavez with a knife, News Channel 3 <a href="https://wwmt.com/news/local/coldwater-stabbing-clemens-food-group-argument-arrest-court-arraignment-crime-investigation-police-branch-county-west-michigan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>, citing witness accounts. Prosecutors say Djempsley stabbed Chavez in the back, killing him at the scene.
Djempsley told investigators Chavez had been using his assigned knife and attempted to head-butt him while returning it. Police said no witnesses corroborated that account.
&#8220;From what I know right now, the knives are identified by the employees. They are given numbers, and they&#8217;re given to employees by that, and there was a dispute over a knife,&#8221; Coldwater Public Safety Director Joe Scheid told News Channel 3.
Djempsley entered the country illegally in Texas in 2024 and was released into the United States under the Biden administration, <a href="https://www.dhs.gov/news/2026/07/08/ice-asks-michigan-not-release-haitian-illegal-alien-arrested-killing-his-coworker" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the Department of Homeland Security. News Channel 3 reported that Djempsley had authorization to work in the United States.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has since lodged a detainer requesting that local authorities transfer Djempsley into federal custody for deportation.
“This illegal alien barbarically stabbed his coworker to death,” Acting Assistant Homeland Security Secretary Lauren Bis said in a statement Wednesday. “This murderer was released into American communities by the Biden Administration.&#8221;
&#8220;If it weren’t for the reckless open border policies of the Biden Administration, this criminal never would have been in our country in the first place and his victim would still be alive. We have lodged a detainer asking Michigan to not release this dangerous criminal from jail without notifying ICE,&#8221; Bis added.
Djempsley pleaded not guilty to his open murder charge, broke down in tears during his arraignment, and was denied bond, according to News Channel 3.
Branch County Prosecutor Victor Fitz told News Channel 3 that his office will seek the maximum sentence if Djempsley is convicted.
&#8220;If he&#8217;s found guilty, then we would expect there would be a sentence and we would be really demanding that that full sentence be served, whatever that might be,&#8221; Fitz said. &#8220;After that, deportation is pursued.&#8221;
&#8220;This is the most serious violation known to humankind,&#8221; he said. &#8220;He was supposed to be on his best behavior, but instead, he spilled the lifeblood of another human being.&#8221;

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A South Texas hospital that placed billboards in Mexico advertising &#8220;birth packages in South Texas&#8221; is now at the center of a state investigation for facilitating &#8220;birth tourism.&#8221;
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott instructed the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) to launch an investigation into Mission Regional Medical Center on Tuesday over allegations that the hospital profited from the abuse of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/supreme-court-rules-against-trump-in-birthright-citizenship-case">birthright citizenship</a> in the United States. Viral images circulating on social media showed the billboards offering &#8220;birth packages&#8221; of up to $5,525 through a website named &#8220;havemybabyinTEXAS.com.&#8221;
The webpage quietly went offline just hours before Abbott&#8217;s announcement, <a href="https://www.chron.com/news/article/birth-tourism-abbott-texas-billboard-22336058.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to Chron.com.
Mission Regional Medical Center confirmed that it was responsible for the billboards, which were written in both English and Spanish, Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/abbott-orders-probe-texas-hospital-advertises-birth-packages-mexico-citizenship-not-sale" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
“Birth tourism is an illegal practice that exploits the extraordinary hospitality that the United States and Texas offer to millions of foreign travelers each year,&#8221; Abbott said. &#8220;Thousands of foreign travelers come to the United States under false pretenses to give birth and secure citizenship for their children.&#8221;
&#8220;HHSC must investigate the hospital, a facility it regulates, for any violations of state law and contractual obligations,&#8221; Abbott added.
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Texas will not permit the exploitation of its healthcare system or its citizenship laws.
Governor Abbott will fight birth tourism and hold accountable any hospital or facility that profits from it. <a href="https://t.co/58p1FHb1Iy">https://t.co/58p1FHb1Iy</a>
— Governor Hot Wheels (@GovHotWheels_TX) <a href="https://x.com/GovHotWheels_TX/status/2074866790052606402?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 8, 2026</a></blockquote>
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The medical facility said it was merely sharing information about healthcare services it provides, &#8220;like hospitals across the country&#8221; and denied facilitating &#8220;any unlawful activity.&#8221; The center also said it no longer uses the &#8220;marketing materials &#8230; due to any unintended misunderstanding.&#8221;
&#8220;Mission Regional Medical Center is committed to providing high-quality, compassionate healthcare and expanding access to care for the communities we serve,&#8221; the medical center said in a statement. &#8220;Like hospitals across the country and throughout the region, we share information about the healthcare services we provide.&#8221;
&#8220;We do not support or facilitate any unlawful activity and work to comply with all applicable federal and state laws and regulations. The marketing materials regarding maternity services are no longer in use due to any unintended misunderstanding. We intend to work cooperatively and transparently with local and state officials. Our focus remains on delivering safe, high-quality care to every patient who seeks our services,&#8221; the hospital added.
The since-deleted website shared testimonials from women, including one from Mexico City, sharing their positive maternity experiences, according to Chron.com.
One of the hospital&#8217;s previous Instagram posts advertised: &#8220;Are you pregnant, living abroad, and looking to welcome your baby in South Texas? Look no further!&#8221; the outlet reported.
President Donald Trump attempted to overturn birthright citizenship, an effort that the Supreme Court ruled against last month.
Foreign nationals have long abused birthright citizenship and have even erected birthing centers in the United States to help produce American babies en masse.
One of those centers is <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-are-chinese-birth-centers-hiding-in-your-backyard-we-went-to-find-out">De’Ai Postpartum Care Center in Houston</a>, which Texas sued for allegedly “exploiting birthright citizenship by unlawfully facilitating the invasion of Chinese nationals … for the sole purpose of giving birth.” The clinic has boasted facilitating 1,000 births.
The Daily Wire previously visited homes allegedly used by the center to house pregnant Chinese women. Only one person answered the door: Lai Wan Lin-Chan, who was named as a defendant in the lawsuit and refused to answer questions.

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Hospital Placed Billboards In Mexico Advertising Texas ‘Birth Packages,’ Prompting ‘Birth Tourism’ Probe

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She helped an illegal immigrant sneak out of a courthouse where Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents were waiting to carry out an arrest. Despite being convicted, the former Wisconsin judge was just spared from serving time in prison.
At a sentencing hearing Wednesday, former Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan received no prison time and was instead ordered to pay a $5,000 fine, <a href="https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/ex-wisconsin-judge-be-sentenced-obstructing-immigration-arrest-2026-07-08/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to Reuters.
U.S. District Judge Lynn Adelman noted Dugan&#8217;s long history of public service in deciding to ​spare Dugan from prison, the outlet reported.
&#8220;The punishment should fit the offender, and not merely the crime,&#8221; Adelman ⁠said, adding that Dugan &#8220;made a bad decision in the moment.&#8221;
The lenient punishment stems from an incident where <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-leftist-wisconsin-judge-caught-hiding-illegal-from-ice-was-just-convicted">ICE agents showed up</a> to Dugan&#8217;s courthouse in April 2025 to arrest a previously deported illegal immigrant with a rap sheet.
Dugan directed the officers to the chief judge’s chambers before returning to her courtroom and instructing Eduardo Flores-Ruiz, who was charged in Milwaukee with three counts of battery, domestic abuse, and infliction of physical pain or injury, to exit through the “jury door” into a nonpublic area of the courthouse.
The ICE team later located Flores-Ruiz outside the building and arrested him following a foot chase.
When Dugan learned of the agents&#8217; presence, she grew &#8220;visibly angry,&#8221; calling the situation &#8220;absurd,&#8221; according to investigators.
A jury found Dugan guilty of felony obstruction in December, but cleared her of a lesser charge of concealing a person from arrest.
Federal guidelines recommended between 15 and 21 months in prison in Dugan&#8217;s case, prosecutors argued.
“Rather than uphold the rule of law, the defendant used the power and prestige of judicial office to obstruct federal agents carrying out their lawful duties in order to ​help an individual evade arrest,” ​prosecutors wrote in a sentencing ⁠memorandum, adding that she should receive a sentence that reflects the “serious nature of her conduct and its broader impact on the justice system.&#8221;

Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan Arraigned In Federal Court In Milwaukee

Judge Who Helped Illegal Evade ICE Gets No Prison Time

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An Uzbek truck driver who couldn&#8217;t speak English allegedly killed a star college soccer goalie over the weekend after the Biden administration let him into the country, according to Fox News.
Bekhzod Asrarov, 42, is accused of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ice-zeroes-in-on-illegal-immigrant-trucker-accused-of-killing-state-trooper?author=Jennie+Taer&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=ICE+Zeroes+In+On+Illegal+Immigrant+Trucker+Accused+Of+Killing+State+Trooper">ramming his truck</a> into the back of University of Massachusetts Lowell men&#8217;s soccer goalie Tobias Christopher Forsythe&#8217;s vehicle on Interstate 71 in Madison County, Ohio, on July 5. Asrarov came to the United States via the diversity visa lottery program in 2024 before obtaining an Ohio commercial driver&#8217;s license, Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/diversity-lottery-admitted-truck-driver-allegedly-kills-umass-soccer-star-spoke-no-english" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
He is charged with tampering with evidence after he &#8220;ripped out his dash cam and hid it in his pocket,&#8221; Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said, adding that the trucker &#8220;failed his English language proficiency test&#8221; and that &#8220;state troopers had to use Google Translate to talk to him.&#8221;
Forsythe, 21, an economics major, played for Ashland University and Shawnee State University, where he started all 17 games during the 2025 season, before joining the UMass Lowell team in 2026.
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Tobias &#8220;Toby&#8221; Forsythe was just 21, a star goalie for the UMass Lowell soccer team with his whole life ahead of him. On Sunday, his life was stolen.
A massive semi-truck driven by Bekhzod Asrarov rammed the back of Toby’s car on I-71 in Madison County, Ohio, killing him… <a href="https://t.co/diNqfujrRc">pic.twitter.com/diNqfujrRc</a>
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&#8220;We cannot let truckers like Asrarov, who can&#8217;t read our road signs or speak to law enforcement, drive 80,000-pound rigs on America’s highways,&#8221; Duffy said on X Tuesday.
&#8220;I am praying for Toby&#8217;s family and loved ones after this horrible loss. We will never stop fighting to keep these dangerous truck drivers OFF THE ROAD so no other parents have to endure this unimaginable grief,&#8221; Duffy added.
The Department of Homeland Security didn&#8217;t respond to a request for comment.
Kyle Zenoni, head coach of the UMass Lowell men&#8217;s soccer program, <a href="https://goriverhawks.com/news/2026/7/6/mens-soccer-umass-lowell-mourns-the-passing-of-toby-forsythe.aspx#:~:text=%22Today%2C%20our%20River%20Hawk%20team,the%20definition%20of%20hard%20work." target="_blank" rel="noopener">described</a> Forsythe as the ideal athlete and an &#8220;even better person.&#8221;
&#8220;He was humble, honest, selfless, and the definition of hard work,&#8221; Zenoni said.
&#8220;Every single day, he showed up ready to compete, improve, and do whatever was asked of him. He never looked for shortcuts and never expected anything to be given to him — he simply wanted the opportunity to earn it,&#8221; Zenoni added.
In response to a recent string of crashes involving illegal immigrant truckers, the Trump administration has pushed to enforce English-language requirements for truckers and has threatened to withhold federal funding from states issuing licenses to illegal immigrants.
The latest such collision involved a Haitian semi-truck driver who allegedly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ice-zeroes-in-on-illegal-immigrant-trucker-accused-of-killing-state-trooper">killed</a> a Pennsylvania State Trooper in a devastating crash. The Biden administration allowed the foreign trucker, who obtained a Massachusetts commercial driver&#8217;s license, into the country through its signature humanitarian parole program.

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Foreign Trucker Who Couldn’t Speak English Accused Of Killing College Soccer Star

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Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is looking to deport an illegal immigrant semi-truck driver who allegedly killed a Pennsylvania State Trooper in a devastating crash.
Haitian national Michael Bon allegedly struck and killed Pennsylvania State Trooper Michael Pahira Jr., 44, while he was inspecting a vehicle on the shoulder of Interstate 81 in Cass Township last Wednesday morning. ICE has since filed a detainer asking local authorities to hand Bon over for deportation, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) <a href="https://www.dhs.gov/news/2026/07/06/ice-lodges-detainer-haitian-illegal-alien-arrested-after-semi-truck-crash-killed" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Monday.
Bon allegedly struck Pahira and dragged him under the truck &#8220;for quite some distance down the road&#8221; as it caught fire, Lieutenant Colonel George Bivens <a href="https://pacast.com/m?p=29678" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> during a recent press conference.
Both vehicles burst into flames at the scene of the collision. Pahira later succumbed to his injuries at the hospital.
The 20-year state police veteran had just moved back in with his parents to care for his mother, who is battling cancer, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro said during the press conference.
&#8220;The man died a hero,&#8221; Bivens said. &#8220;He was an outstanding trooper, an excellent motor carrier enforcement officer &#8230; had been doing it for a number of years and was considered to be one of our best.&#8221;
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The Biden administration released Bon into the United States in July 2024 under its signature humanitarian parole program that allowed certain migrants to fly directly to the United States to bypass the border, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/illegal-immigrant-truck-driver-charged-death-trooper-who-moved-home-care-mom-cancer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to Fox News. He later applied for Temporary Protected Status, but was denied the deportation shield, DHS said.
Federal authorities terminated Bon&#8217;s parole status in June 2025, ordering him to leave the United States, according to Fox News. Still, Bon remained.
He obtained a Massachusetts commercial driver&#8217;s license in March 2025, which was renewed in February 2026, Fox News reported.
“This Haitian illegal alien was RELEASED into our country by the Biden Administration, and the sanctuary state of Massachusetts gave him a Commercial Driver’s License,” Acting Assistant Homeland Security Secretary Lauren Bis said in a statement Monday.
“Now, because of these reckless policies, a Pennsylvania State Trooper is dead after a crash that was 100% preventable. Illegal aliens should not be driving trucks on America’s highways. Our hearts and prayers go out to his family and the Pennsylvania State Police as they mourn this loss,&#8221; Bis added.
Authorities charged Bon with vehicular homicide and involuntary manslaughter, <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/pennsylvania-trooper-hit-killed-by-tractor-trailer-on-i-81/ar-AA26ZHKM?ocid=BingNewsSerp" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to CBS Pittsburgh. He is being held on $700,000 bail at Schuylkill County Prison, according to Fox News.
Following a series of recent crashes involving illegal immigrant truckers, the Trump administration has tightened restrictions on the issuance of commercial driver&#8217;s licenses.
Among those actions, the Department of Transportation has pushed to enforce English language requirements for truckers and has threatened to withhold federal funding from states issuing licenses to illegal aliens.
&#8220;These senseless tragedies are why I am working my heart out to change the policies that encouraged illegal drivers, enabled shady trucker schools, and drove down the wages for American truckers,&#8221; Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said in an X post after the latest fatal crash.
&#8220;Trooper Pahira — Rest in peace,&#8221; he added.

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The White House is renewing the pressure on federal immigration agents to massively increase arrest numbers.
Multiple Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) sources told The Daily Wire that they&#8217;re back to working seven days a week as the Trump administration pushes for higher arrest numbers. ICE made more than 10,000 arrests during a recent five-day period, The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/us/politics/ice-immigrant-arrests-surge.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ulA.4-MU.0gsS0EAOfQGH&amp;smid=nytcore-ios-share" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> Wednesday.
Over the weekend, ICE agents across the country were &#8220;called into work on a mandatory 100% manpower work week surge effort,&#8221; one agency source said, adding that the &#8220;huge effort&#8221; was &#8220;pushed super last minute, destroying officers&#8217; personal lives in the meantime.&#8221;
The all-gas, no-brakes approach is &#8220;exhausting,&#8221; another agency source said.
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The goal of the new effort is to sustain 2,000 arrests per day, up from 1,000 earlier this year, according to The New York Times.
A White House official confirmed that &#8220;numbers&#8221; are &#8220;increasing&#8221; as a &#8220;result of continued work by the administration on many different fronts.&#8221;
&#8220;Of course, the White House works with their partners at different agencies to ensure the President’s agenda is being enacted. At the same time, the Secure America Act guaranteed funding for 3 years, hiring has continued to increase, the immigration courts are more streamlined, and ICE is operating more efficiently every day,&#8221; the official said.
ICE was instructed to focus on increasing arrest numbers under the leadership of then-Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, leading to aggressive and flashy sweeps across cities like Minneapolis, Chicago, and Los Angeles.
When Markwayne Mullin took the helm at DHS, he indicated there would be a softer approach to how the agency carries out its mass deportation plan. The shift came after two fatal shootings of anti-ICE protesters in Minneapolis by federal immigration agents.
&#8220;We&#8217;re still enforcing immigration laws, we&#8217;re still deporting illegals that shouldn&#8217;t be here, we&#8217;re still going after the worst of the worst, but we&#8217;re doing it in a more quiet way because my goal in six months is to not have DHS on the lead story everyday,&#8221; Mullin said in April.
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During a press conference Wednesday, Mullin <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj_pqoUGWpU&amp;source_ve_path=MjM4NTE&amp;embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.dailywire.com%2F" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> that arrests and deportations are surging.
&#8220;We&#8217;re seeing our arrest numbers come up, we&#8217;re seeing our deportation numbers continue to increase,&#8221; Mullin said. &#8220;Right now, we&#8217;re deporting on average over 3,000 individuals, actually the average has been for several weeks now over 3,200 individuals a day, 70% of those individuals we&#8217;re deporting have outstanding criminal charges on them or they&#8217;ve already been charged with a felony.&#8221;
&#8220;So when we go after the worst of the worst, which is exactly what we&#8217;re doing, we&#8217;re saving lives,&#8221; Mullin said.
In a statement, DHS said &#8220;since day one&#8221; they&#8217;ve been &#8220;delivering on President Trump’s promise to the American people to arrest and deport criminal illegal aliens including murderers, rapists, pedophiles, gang members, and terrorists.&#8221;
&#8220;Nearly 70% of ICE arrests are of illegal aliens charged or convicted of a crime in the U.S. More than 3 million illegal aliens are out of the country and counting. Our message is clear: if you come to our country illegally, we will find you, we will arrest you, and we will deport you,&#8221; an agency spokesperson said.
Meanwhile, ICE&#8217;s detention population increased by 4,000 detainees with the facilities holding more than 63,000 illegal immigrants as of Tuesday, The New York Times reported.
ICE leadership has applauded agency personnel for supporting the latest effort.
“I want to personally thank each of you for your extraordinary efforts this past weekend,” Marcos Charles, Executive Associate Director of ICE&#8217;s Enforcement and Removal Operations, wrote this week in an email to agency staff, according to The New York Times.
“Through your dedication, professionalism, and unwavering commitment to our mission, enforcement and removal operations achieved remarkable operational results,&#8221; Charles wrote.
Last Year, White House adviser Stephen Miller instituted a 3,000 daily arrest quota for ICE, which tanked agency morale.
ICE has since more than doubled its staffing levels by hiring thousands of new officers. The agency has also received a flood of billions of dollars in funding.

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Seven additional members of an Antifa cell were sentenced Wednesday for their roles in last year&#8217;s attack on a federal immigration detention facility.
The trial marked the federal government&#8217;s first domestic terrorism case against Antifa. During the July 4, 2025, ambush, the anarchists lured Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers out of the Prairieland Detention Center by setting off fireworks outside the north Texas facility before opening fire on them.
Prosecutors said the group possessed flyers reading “FIGHT ICE TERROR WITH CLASS WAR!” and “FREE ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS,” as well as a flag stating, “RESIST FASCISM — FIGHT OLIGARCHY.” They also spray-painted the words “ICE Pig” on a nearby vehicle and “F*ck you pigs” on a guard shack outside the facility.
On Wednesday, Ines Soto was sentenced to 50 years in prison for rioting, providing material support to terrorists, conspiracy to use and carry an explosive, and using and carrying explosives during a riot, <a href="https://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/crime/article316334662.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Joy “Rowan” Gibson and Rebecca Morgan each received 15-year sentences.
Four others connected to the attack, who each pleaded guilty to one count of providing material support to terrorists and later cooperated with prosecutors as witnesses in the case, received sentences ranging from 22 months to six years, the local news outlet reported.
Eight other members of the Antifa group received sentences in late June. Among them was former Marine Corps Reservist Benjamin Hanil Song, who received the maximum sentence of 100 years after shooting Alvarado police Lt. Thomas Gross and evading authorities for 11 days after the ambush.
Roughly 20 to 30 rounds were fired at law enforcement during the attack, according to court documents.
Gross, who was shot in the neck, has since made a full recovery, Alvarado Police Chief Teddy May said.
Prosecutors said that Song led the attack, during which he fired two AR-15-style rifles at three ICE officers. He also recruited his co-conspirators and distributed firearms.
They also said that Song yelled for the group to “get to the rifles” and opened fire before shooting the police officer, KXAN reported.
A sentencing hearing for one additional defendant is scheduled for July 6.
Attorneys representing the defendants in the case have indicated their plans to file appeals, according to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
During the trial, the defense argued that the defendants planned to hold a peaceful protest and a noise demonstration using fireworks to show solidarity with the detainees being held by ICE.

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Eight alleged members of the Venezuelan prison gang Tren de Aragua have been charged in connection with heinous murders in the United States after crossing the border under the Biden administration, the Justice Department announced Wednesday during a press conference.
In one of the cases, five alleged TdA members, including a &#8220;high-ranking&#8221; one, kidnapped a man, his 13-year-old daughter, and 12-year-old nephew in the middle of the night on August 24, 2024, outside of Dallas, Ryan Raybould, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas, said. Prosecutors say the accused gang members zip-tied the victims&#8217; hands and demanded money from the man.
When the kidnappers realized the man couldn&#8217;t pay, they pulled the car over and took him to a nearby bridge, demanding that he jump off it, according to authorities.
The man refused to jump and tried to run before one of the alleged TdA members shot him &#8220;execution-style&#8221; in front of the children, Raybould said. The Farmers Branch Police Department found the man&#8217;s body on the side of the road with a gunshot wound between his eyes.
Three of the suspects are already in custody for other crimes, and one is being held in Colombia.
In a separate case in Chicago, three alleged gang members grabbed a man as he was walking near a park before shoving him into a car and taking him to a nearby apartment, Andrew S. Boutros, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, said.
The accused TdA members then tied the victim&#8217;s wrists behind his back, holding him against his will for three hours, Boutros said.
According to prosecutors, they later took the victim to an abandoned building, where they shot him multiple times in the head and body. The alleged killers then abandoned the victim&#8217;s lifeless body, leaving it face down in the bathtub of an abandoned unit.
The victim&#8217;s mother called police the next evening, asking for a wellness check at the abandoned building, Boutros said. She told officers that co-conspirators had informed her of his possible presence in the building.
When Chicago police entered the building, they found the man&#8217;s body with multiple gunshot wounds and his hands still bound behind his back.
One of the accused TdA members was out on bail in Chicago, authorities said.
The eight accused TdA members at the center of Wednesday&#8217;s announcement crossed the border between December 2021 and April 2024, when record numbers of illegal migrants were entering the United States, according to the Justice Department. During that time, TdA members exploited the chaos of the migrant influx and began embedding themselves among the large groups crossing the southern border illegally.
At the time, the Biden administration was instructing Border Patrol agents to process and then release illegal migrants quickly. As a result, the agents were unable to run thorough background checks on suspected TdA members.
The Venezuelan regime also refused to provide information on its citizens who crossed into the United States.
All the while, TdA gained a foothold in the United States, committing killings, including the murder of Georgia nursing student Laken Riley, orchestrating apartment takeovers in cities like Aurora, Colorado, and operating sex trafficking rings in New York City.
During Wednesday&#8217;s press conference, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche railed against the Biden administration, saying it was to blame for the killings.
&#8220;These violent crimes and murders happened because, under the Biden administration open border policies left our borders wide open, and hundreds of suspected and now convicted TdA terrorists poured through those borders and into our country,&#8221; Blanche said.
&#8220;Now, President Trump stopped this madness on January 20 of last year. That same day, President Trump designated TdA as a foreign terrorist organization. In the 18 months since January 20 &#8230; nearly 350 members and associates of TdA have been charged and/or convicted of horrific violent crime,&#8221; Blanche added.

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He came into the country illegally and was kicked back to Mexico before he snuck back in to prey upon a young child.
On at least four occasions between February and March 2025, Samuel Flores de Dios, 36, sexually abused his victim, who was under the age of 13, in a rented bedroom where he had positioned various cellphones to film the encounters, <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-edva/pr/illegal-alien-sentenced-production-child-sexual-abuse-material" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the Department of Justice. One of the videos also showed a second man abusing the child.
Flores de Dios received a 30-year prison sentence on June 24 for production of child sexual abuse material, according to the Justice Department. His sentence also includes lifetime supervised release and requires that he register as a sex offender.
Authorities first learned of the abuse when a deputy paid a visit to a home in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, on April 8, 2025, <a href="https://richmond.com/news/state-regional/crime-courts/article_dcf9e1a6-3709-5352-8f90-66be90b7f81f.html?mode=nowapp" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the Richmond Times-Dispatch. The deputy encountered a 12-year-old girl at the home who indicated that Flores de Dios had sexually assaulted her.
Flores de Dios denied the abuse, but admitted that he possessed a photo on his phone of another man who lived at the home sexually abusing the girl, according to the local news outlet. Authorities arrested the other man, Alberto Coc Tec, 21, that same day, charging him with rape of a child under the age of 13.
Coc Tec told police that Flores de Dios threatened to turn him in if he didn&#8217;t pay thousands of dollars in what appeared to be part of a blackmail scheme, according to the report. Coc Tec was unable to come up with the cash.
A Spotsylvania grand jury indicted Coc Tec in July 2025, according to court records. His case remains ongoing.
In November 2025, Flores de Dios pleaded guilty to a local charge of possession of child pornography in a Virginia court, according to court records. The plea agreement resulted in a one-year prison sentence.
The Department of Homeland Security has since pledged to eventually deport Flores de Dios and lodged a detainer in January as part of the removal process.
“Once his sentence is complete, we will remove him from our country so that he can never harm another innocent child. Under President Trump and Secretary Mullin, we are putting the safety of the American people first,&#8221; Acting Assistant Homeland Security Secretary Lauren Bis said in a statement shared with The Daily Wire.
Flores de Dios crossed the Arizona border illegally in 2005 before he was &#8220;voluntarily returned&#8221; to Mexico by federal agents, according to DHS. He then snuck back into the country without getting caught at a later unknown time.

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