This is part four of a Daily Wire series exposing the Biden administration’s previously unreported efforts to enact radical anti-family policies in the name of protecting transgender-identifying children. In <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/read-it-the-biden-administrations-clandestine-5-year-plan-to-trans-child-welfare?author=Megan+Brock&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=READ+IT%3A+The+Biden+Administration%E2%80%99s+Clandestine+5-Year+Plan+To+Trans+Child+Welfare" target="_blank" rel="noopener">part three</a>, we saw how Biden officials prepared for a second term by laying the groundwork to enshrine transgenderism in federal law. Today, we meet the radical activists who would have led this effort.
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When the Biden administration needed people to implement its radical transgender policies, there was an obvious place to look.
The University of Connecticut&#8217;s National Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Expression (SOGIE) Center was named a subcontractor of the $20 million<a href="https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_75ACF124F80019_7590_GS10F0064W_4730" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> grant</a> from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to create Biden&#8217;s own Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Expression Institute.
Names were not the only thing the two SOGIE Institutes would have in common. The UConn group was at the forefront of pushing radical gender ideology on child welfare systems across the country, and the activists and researchers behind the group would have assisted the HHS&#8217;s Children&#8217;s Bureau in &#8220;transforming&#8221; child welfare systems with gender ideology and implementing Biden&#8217;s April 2024 rule requiring foster care parents to “affirm” a child’s “gender identity.”
The primary contractor of the SOGIE Institute grant, BLH Technologies Inc., was described as UConn&#8217;s &#8220;small business partner&#8221; in an email written by Angela Weeks, a University of Connecticut employee tasked with administering the SOGIE grant.
“I have exciting news! BLH Technologies Inc, our small business partner in the application for the Child Welfare SOGIE Institute, received notification that we won the award!” wrote Weeks. “This [Technical Assistance] center will provide guidance for child welfare agencies across the country on SOGI data collection, program implementation, and the implementation of the &#8216;Designated Placements Rule.'&#8221;
Weeks and Marlene Matarese, who held leadership roles at Biden&#8217;s SOGIE Institute, had spent years working together to develop gender-affirming child welfare programs through an initiative called the National Quality Improvement Center on Tailored Services, Placement Stability, and Permanency for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning, and Two-Spirit Children and Youth (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210418181910/https://qiclgbtq2s.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">QIC-LGBTQ2S</a>) in Foster Care. This group was funded by a $10 million federal grant awarded to the University of Maryland School of Social Work in late 2016. The initiative developed &#8220;affirming&#8221; programs that re-educated parents to support a child&#8217;s gender transition, helped LGBTQ+ identifying kids find &#8220;<a href="https://www.kinnect.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/CAFF-Intervention-Practice-Manual-Final-9.6.23.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">chosen affirming families,</a>&#8221; and <a href="https://sogiecenter.org/child-welfare-resources-2/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">trained</a> social workers to<a href="https://express.adobe.com/page/yjbkzmPugwkgc/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> collect information</a> about the sexuality of children.
Weeks, Matarese, and the research group moved from the University of Maryland in late 2022 to become part of UConn&#8217;s School of Social Work<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20250127011132/https:/innovations.socialwork.uconn.edu/team/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Innovations Institute</a>.<a href="https://socialwork.uconn.edu/person/marlene-matarese/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Matarese</a> is currently an associate research professor at UConn, while<a href="https://directory.uconn.edu/?phonebook_search=angela%20weeks" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Weeks</a> is an administrative program manager, and both used UConn email addresses to perform SOGIE Institute tasks. Many of the documents cited in this series were obtained through public record requests submitted to the university.
UConn was<a href="https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_75ACF123P00007_7590_-NONE-_-NONE-/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> awarded</a> a $33,700 grant in April 2023 to create a series of training modules for the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) staff to build its capacity to &#8220;serve and provide support to LGBTQ2SI+ children, families, parents, and others,&#8221; as described in the grant.
Matarese and Weeks worked with ACF officials to complete the training series in the summer of 2024, records show. One email shows Weeks explaining the concept of &#8220;sex assigned at birth&#8221; to an ACF staff member.
&#8220;My questions is are people also assigning gender at birth? As do birth certificates have &#8216;gender&#8217; instead of sex? I defer to UCONN on this point,&#8221; asked the staff member.
“We use both, depending on the context,&#8221; Weeks responded. &#8220;Sex assigned at birth is when folks add female/male to birth certificates. When people say, &#8216;it’s a girl&#8217; or &#8216;it’s a boy,&#8217; they are assigning gender.”
<a href="https://sogiecenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/SOGIE-Center-Newsletter-February-2023.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">UConn</a> was also home to the<a href="https://sogiecenter.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> National SOGIE Center</a>, a collaborative of transgender activist groups <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240704121902/https://sogiecenter.org/about/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">led</a> by Weeks and Matarese that showcased many of the interventions <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230331085312/https://qiclgbtq2s.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">developed</a> by QIC-LGBTQ2S. UConn described the National SOGIE Center as “A collaborative, led by Innovations Institute with Angela Weeks as Project Director and Marlene Matarese as Principal Investigator, of national leading social justice organizations that work to promote the well-being of LGBTQ+ youth and their families,&#8221; on its<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20250123170127/https://innovations.socialwork.uconn.edu/expertise/lgbtq/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> website,</a> which has since been deactivated but is available to read on the Internet Archive.
The Innovations Institute removed links to many LGBTQ+ affirming resources and the National SOGIE Center from its website after President Trump took office, and it&#8217;s unclear if UCONN is still leading the group. The Daily Wire contacted UConn several times and asked for clarification about its current involvement but did not receive a response.
The National SOGIE Center continues to produce LGBTQ+ affirming resources. It published a “<a href="https://coming-out-guide.sogiecenter.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Coming Out With Care</a>” guidebook in the fall of 2025 that helps young people navigate sharing their LGBTQ+ identity. The guide warns you “may lose family members” who have been exposed to “misinformation” when sharing your LGBTQ+ identity.
&#8220;Try to remind yourself that your parents and other family members may have been exposed to a lot of misinformation about sexual orientation and gender identity,&#8221; states the guide. &#8220;You may lose family members — this could be for a few days, weeks, months, or even years.&#8221;
The guide also recommends that youth research local consent laws to discover if they can make &#8220;medical decisions&#8217; without parental consent.
&#8220;Research if there is an age of consent law that lets youth (in some states, this may be between ages 12 to 18) make certain medical decisions without parental consent,&#8221; the guide says.
A recently uploaded<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tE319wn9UBk" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> video</a> on the National SOGIE Center YouTube channel stressed the importance of parents supporting their child&#8217;s transgender identity. The video pushes the<a href="https://www.city-journal.org/article/trevor-project-suicide-prevention-lgbt-youth-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> debunked</a> narrative that affirming a child&#8217;s transgender identity protects them from harm.
In 2025, the Human Rights Campaign, a longtime partner of the National SOGIE Center, announced it was transitioning its<a href="https://www.thehrcfoundation.org/professional-resources/all-children-all-families-lgbtq-resources-for-youth-serving-professionals" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> child welfare program</a> to the National SOGIE Center in its<a href="https://us14.campaign-archive.com/?u=3ad45d2c9202aaece3bbece7e&amp;id=4135f00958" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> May 2025 Newsletter.</a>
&#8220;We are excited to share an important update: after May 30, 2025, the management of the All Children &#8211; All Families (ACAF) program is transitioning from the Human Rights Campaign Foundation to<a href="https://sogiecenter.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> The National SOGIE Center</a>!&#8221; stated the newsletter. &#8220;This transition marks a new chapter in the program’s evolution, one grounded in continuity, deep expertise, and our shared commitment to advancing equity and inclusion for LGBTQ+ children, youth, and families.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/she-wouldnt-call-her-daughter-trans-the-state-took-custody?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Megan+Brock&amp;category=Investigation&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=She+Wouldn%E2%80%99t+Call+Her+Daughter+%E2%80%98Trans.%E2%80%99+The+State+Took+Custody." target="_blank" rel="noopener">PART ONE: SHE WOULDN’T CALL HER DAUGHTER ‘TRANS.’ THE STATE TOOK CUSTODY.</a>
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/inside-the-biden-admins-scramble-to-find-data-to-support-its-pro-trans-foster-care-reform?author=Megan+Brock&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=The+Evidence+Problem+At+The+Heart+Of+Biden%E2%80%99s+Trans+Rule" target="_blank" rel="noopener">PART TWO: THE EVIDENCE PROBLEM AT THE HEART OF BIDEN’S TRANS RULE</a>
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/read-it-the-biden-administrations-clandestine-5-year-plan-to-trans-child-welfare?author=Megan+Brock&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=READ+IT%3A+The+Biden+Administration%E2%80%99s+Clandestine+5-Year+Plan+To+Trans+Child+Welfare" target="_blank" rel="noopener">PART THREE: THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION&#8217;S CLANDESTINE 5-YEAR PLAN TO TRANS CHILD WELFARE</a>

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The Biden blob is apparently trying to make a comeback and even Democrats sound exhausted by it.
A growing fight is breaking out inside Democratic foreign policy circles as some of the same officials tied to President Joe Biden’s most controversial global decisions quietly begin regrouping for 2028. And according to a lengthy new report from Puck News, plenty of Democrats are openly asking the same question: seriously, these guys again?
At the center of the drama is former Biden National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan and the network of Obama-Biden foreign policy operatives often referred to inside Washington as the “Biden bros.”
That circle includes familiar names like Antony Blinken, Jon Finer, Brett McGurk, and others who helped shape Biden-era policy on Afghanistan, Ukraine, Gaza, and Iran.
Now many of them are reemerging through a revived Democratic foreign policy group called National Security Action, which reportedly gathered party insiders in Manhattan recently to begin plotting what Democratic foreign policy could look like in 2028.
The reaction inside parts of the Democratic Party has not exactly been enthusiastic.
“This is the Jake and Jon Show: Redux, and nobody I know is happy about it,” one former senior State Department official told Puck.
That pretty much sums up the vibe.
The frustration appears to go far beyond Republicans criticizing Biden’s foreign policy record.
According to the report, Democrats themselves are increasingly furious over everything from the Afghanistan withdrawal to the administration’s handling of Gaza, while others remain angry over what they describe as efforts to cover up Biden’s decline while still clinging to power politically.
One Democrat quoted in the piece bluntly said the old Biden foreign policy crowd is “canceled and they don’t realize it.”
Ouch.
The article paints a picture of a Democratic Party quietly tearing itself apart behind closed doors over whether the same establishment figures who dominated the Obama and Biden years should continue controlling foreign policy heading into the next presidential cycle.
And the backlash is not just ideological. Some Democrats reportedly view the group as arrogant, insulated, and unwilling to let a younger generation take over. 
 The timing also matters.
President Donald Trump is back in office, global tensions continue escalating, and Democrats are now trying to figure out what exactly their foreign policy identity even is after years of internal fighting over Israel, Ukraine, interventionism, and progressive activism.
That is where the anxiety around Sullivan seems to hit hardest.
For progressives, Sullivan became closely tied to Biden’s support for Israel during the Gaza war.
For hawks, critics say the administration looked weak and indecisive abroad.
For others, the issue is simpler: they believe the same people who helped run the last administration are already trying to reclaim influence before voters have even fully processed what happened.
Still, the old guard does not appear interested in quietly disappearing.
The revived organization recently brought in Maher Bitar, a Palestinian-American foreign policy official tied to Adam Schiff and Biden’s National Security Council, as part of an effort to present a newer face for the group.
But even that move reportedly sparked skepticism from Democrats who saw it as little more than a rebrand of the same old network.
For now, one thing seems clear.
The Biden era may technically be over, but the people behind it are not ready to let go of power just yet.

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Parts of the border wall that The Daily Wire revealed were auctioned off by the Biden administration are now expected to be returned to the Trump administration to support the President’s “border protection plans.”
The Biden administration <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-biden-races-to-sell-off-border-wall-parts-before-trump-takes-office">sold off</a> portions of the border wall in Arizona for pennies on the dollar in December, just one month before Trump reentered office in a move that critics called an attempt to hamstring the new administration. Now, those materials will be handed back over to the federal government.
GovPlanet, the government supply auctioning site that listed the border wall materials, says that it will expedite the return of the materials to the federal government, citing its support for the Trump administration’s border security plans.
“GovPlanet has reached an agreement, working with the Office of the Border Czar, to return border wall materials that were previously deemed surplus and sourced by the federal government to GovPlanet via existing contracts,” the company <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/what-happened-border-wall-components-got-sold-off-under-biden">explained</a>. “We are expediting the transfer of these materials to support the administration&#8217;s border protection plans.”
The sale of the border wall materials, Rep. Eli Crane (R-AZ) told The Daily Wire, was an attempt by the Biden administration to hamstring the Trump administration. “The Biden Administration is well aware they shouldn’t have reversed the construction of the border wall. If it’s true, they’re purposefully hamstringing an incoming president, it wouldn’t be shocking,” Crane charged. “Why would they want to see President Trump succeed with policies they aggressively sabotaged?”
The Republican Congressman from Arizona called the sale “a direct affront to the will of the people,” who had given President Trump a mandate to secure the border just a month before The Daily Wire broke the news of the auctions.
The sale came after Biden presided over a record-breaking surge of illegal immigration into the United States.
The materials will now be handed over to a firm that has been contracted by the government to build the wall, GovPlanet says. “We value our longstanding partnership with the U.S. government and look forward to continuing to support America’s federal agencies,” GovPlanet added. “A third-party firm that has been contracted for construction of the border wall will take receipt of the materials over the next 90 days.”
GovPlanet also said that the supplies will be returned to the federal government “at-cost” in order to “protect the millions of dollars that U.S. taxpayers had already invested in this initiative.”

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Hunter Biden suggested that his father, former President Joe Biden, had taken Ambien to help him sleep before his disastrous debate performance that led to him dropping out of the presidential race last summer.
The scandal-ridden younger Biden made the revelation during a three-hour <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBbkt2vYC4M">interview</a> with Andrew Callaghan’s “Channel 5” YouTube show.
&#8220;I&#8217;ll tell you what. I know exactly what happened in that debate,&#8221; Hunter Biden told the YouTube personality.
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Hunter Biden appears to suggest President Joe Biden had been given Ambien before the debate last year and ended up looking like a &#8220;deer in the headlights.&#8221;
There are no public records that indicate Biden was prescribed Ambien. <a href="https://t.co/Xp1EL076gw">pic.twitter.com/Xp1EL076gw</a>
— Rusty (@Rusty_Weiss) <a href="https://twitter.com/Rusty_Weiss/status/1947316036455285237?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 21, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;He flew around the world, basically, the mileage that he could have flown around the world three times. He&#8217;s 81 years old. He&#8217;s tired as s***. They gave him Ambien to be able to sleep. He gets up on the stage, and he looks like he&#8217;s a deer in the headlights, and it feeds into every f***ing story that anybody wants to tell,&#8221; Biden said.
Ambien is the brand name for Zolpidem, which is known for its cognitive side effects, including <a href="https://www.verywellhealth.com/can-ambien-affect-your-memory-3015265#toc-does-it-really-affect-the-memory-ambien-amnesia">memory</a> loss, sleepwalking, and <a href="https://deserthopetreatment.com/sedatives/ambien-addiction/memory-loss/">impairment</a> after waking up.
Ambien was never included in any of Biden&#8217;s medical records that were released to the public, although other medications were <a href="https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Health-Summary-2.28.pdf?utm_source=chatgpt.com">listed</a>.
Biden’s behavior during the last years of his presidency sparked concerns among the public that he might already be experiencing cognitive decline.
His shaky and confused performance during his June 27 debate against President Donald Trump last year threw the presidential race into chaos.
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Biden: &#8220;Making sure we make every single solitary person eligible for what I&#8217;ve been able to do with covid, excuse me, with umm dealing with everything we had to deal with. Look, we finally beat medicare.&#8221;
Trump: &#8220;Well he&#8217;s right. He did beat medicaid. Beat it to death.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/FL152ERLiR">pic.twitter.com/FL152ERLiR</a>
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) <a href="https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1806496676506657136?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 28, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Influential Democrats, including Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), pressured Biden to abandon his reelection bid and endorse a candidate with a better chance of beating Trump.
Ultimately, Biden dropped out a few weeks later in July and endorsed Kamala Harris, who ended up losing every swing state as well as the popular vote.
Hunter Biden expressed frustration with the speculation surrounding his father&#8217;s mental state.
&#8220;If this was a conspiracy, Andrew, you know this, somehow the entirety of a White House, in which you&#8217;re literally living on top of each other has kept their mouth shut about what? What&#8217;s the conspiracy? That Joe Biden got old?&#8221; Biden said during the YouTube interview.
Earlier this month, Biden’s former doctor pleaded the Fifth before the House Oversight Committee, which subpoenaed him to testify in an investigation into the alleged cover-up of Biden’s cognitive decline. On Wednesday, a Jill Biden aide also pleaded the Fifth in the same investigation.
The Biden officials’ refusal to testify has only fueled speculation about a cover-up and heightened concerns about the legitimacy of executive actions taken by Biden during his last years as president.

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The Biden State Department accused a high-ranking Vatican official of denying the “full humanity” of people who identify as LGBT, internal communications first viewed by The Daily Wire reveal.
Jessica Stern, the Biden State Department’s Special Envoy to Advance the Human Rights of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Intersex Persons, made the remarks in advance of a trip to the Vatican, heavily redacted emails obtained by The Daily Wire through the Center to Advance Security in America (CASA) indicate.
Stern, who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/state-department-lgbt-racial-equity-envoy-profiles-scrubbed-after-trump-takes-office">vacated her position</a> after President Donald Trump was inaugurated in January, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/meet-the-biden-official-making-six-figures-to-travel-the-globe-pushing-transgenderism">traveled to all six habitable continents</a> to attend pride parades, march alongside a self-proclaimed “transvestite sl*t,” and collaborate with leftist activists as she attempted to influence the policies of foreign governments.
One of those trips took the LGBT activist-turned-State Department official to the seat of the Catholic Church.
Biden State Department officials admonished the Catholic official for his stance on LGBT-related issues in an August 1, 2023, email, the subject line of which read “Special Envoy Stern at the Vatican.”
The email came after Stern was connected with Deputy Chief of Mission at Embassy Vatican, Laura Hochla, to discuss her future engagements with Catholic officials.
“Great news! We had a very productive conversation with [REDACTED] … and we wanted to keep you abreast of the latest,” an unnamed senior advisor to Stern wrote in a heavily redacted email to Stern, Hochla, and two other officials.
The email from Stern’s senior advisor went on to detail the Biden State Department’s posture towards the Vatican, particularly as it concerned LGBT ideology.
“Something to be mindful of though: [REDACTED] made it clear that he has not seen eye-to-eye with Cardinal Parolin and believes that the Cardinal has yet to see the ‘full humanity’ of LGBTQI+ persons,” the email goes on to say, referencing <a href="https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/documentation/cardinali_biografie/cardinali_bio_parolin_p.html">Cardinal Pietro Parolin</a>, the Vatican’s Secretary of State.
&#8220;CASA has uncovered documents shedding light on far left activist Jessica Stern&#8217;s history of attacking the Catholic Church and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-lgbt-emissary-berated-staff-about-vegetarian-meals-while-globetrotting-on-the-taxpayers-dime">improper use</a> of taxpayer resources during her time as the Biden State Department LGBT Special Envoy,&#8221; CASA Director James Fitzpatrick told The Daily Wire. &#8220;This is just another attempt by Biden administration officials advocating to impose their radical LGBT ideology on the teachings of the Catholic Church.”
The internal Biden State Department email went on to highlight comments made by Cardinal Parolin in an apparent attempt to bolster the case that the Catholic official does not recognize the “full humanity” of those who identify as LGBT.
“(See the Cardinal&#8217;s comments on the 2015 marriage referendum in Ireland … and a 2023 vote by German bishops to bless same-sex unions),” the email’s author adds.
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Parolin expressed his disapproval of Ireland’s 2015 referendum, in which 62% of voters cast a ballot in favor of legalizing same-sex marriage.
“I was deeply saddened by the result,” Parolin <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/26/vatican-ireland-gay-marriage-referendum-vote-defeat-for-humanity#:~:text=The%20referendum%20that%20overwhelmingly%20backed,in%20Rome%20on%20Tuesday%20night.">said in comments</a> reflecting Catholic teaching on the issue. “The church must take account of this reality, but in the sense that it must strengthen its commitment to evangelisation. I think that you cannot just talk of a defeat for Christian principles, but of a defeat for humanity.”
He also <a href="https://www.ewtnvatican.com/articles/vatican-responds-to-the-decision-of-the-german-church-to-bless-homosexual-unions-675">spoke out against</a> a decision by the Catholic Church in Germany to bless same-sex couples in a statement that Biden State Department officials similarly appeared to cite in the redacted email.
“We are working around the birthday party to ensure government interlocuters in Vatican City and Rome know that the USG is of &#8216;one mind on LGBTQI+ human rights,'&#8221; the senior advisor went on to note.

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Illegal alien and suspected MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia was a member of a far-left organization that raked in cash from the Biden administration as it advocated for illegal aliens.
Abrego Garcia, infamously and erroneously dubbed a “Maryland man” by Democrat politicians after he was deported to his home country of El Salvador, was a member of a leftwing organization called CASA, which lobbies on behalf of illegal aliens and is now advocating for the Salvadoran national to be shielded from deportation.
The group called to <a href="https://wearecasa.org/policy-agenda/immigration/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">abolish ICE</a> and runs campaigns to <a href="https://wearecasa.org/about/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">prevent</a> local law enforcement agents from collaborating with federal immigration enforcement, all while the Biden administration pledged more than $5 million to the organization. It also openly identified Abrego Garcia, a suspected MS-13 human smuggler, as a member of the organization.
“CASA is outraged that ICE deported CASA member Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia in violation of a court order and at grave personal danger,” the organization <a href="https://wearecasa.org/casa-demands-justice-for-kilmar-armando-abrego-garcia/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> in a statement.
Now, CASA falsely claims that “the Trump administration disappeared Kilmar Abrego Garcia.” The leftwing organization identified the suspected MS-13 gang member and human smuggler as one of its members in an <a href="https://wearecasa.org/casa-demands-justice-for-kilmar-armando-abrego-garcia/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">April statement</a> condemning his deportation, and has remained involved in the case, with CASA <a href="https://apnews.com/video/wife-of-kilmar-abrego-garcia-says-effort-to-free-him-has-been-the-hardest-thing-in-my-life-bcc1f7ebbc4843bfb826e4b57edeba56" target="_blank" rel="noopener">representatives</a> appearing to flank his wife at a recent press conference in Nashville, Tennessee.
CASA, to which the Biden administration <a href="https://www.usaspending.gov/recipient/754c4ce6-4aab-ad50-7221-31e1f1e71de6-R/latest" target="_blank" rel="noopener">awarded</a> millions of taxpayer dollars, has offices across the mid-Atlantic region, including in Maryland, where Abrego Garcia resided prior to his deportation. Included in the more than $5 million awarded to CASA by the federal government since 2022 was a <a href="https://www.usaspending.gov/award/ASST_NON_23CICET00324_7003" target="_blank" rel="noopener">$250,000 grant</a> from the Department of Homeland Security to fund “<a href="https://www.uscis.gov/citizenship-resource-center/civic-assimilation/learn-about-the-citizenship-and-assimilation-grant-program/fy-2023-grant-recipients" target="_blank" rel="noopener">innovations in citizenship preparation</a>.”
The group has multiple membership tiers, including one that allows members to access a range of services, <a href="https://wearecasa.org/legal-services-md/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">including</a> legal deportation defense, vocational training, and citizenship application assistance. Each of the three <a href="https://wearecasa.org/membership/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">membership tiers</a> requires members to pay a monthly or annual fee. It is not apparent what membership tier Abrego Garcia belonged to, nor whether he sought out services from the leftwing organization.
CASA did not respond to a Daily Wire inquiry concerning Abrego Garcia’s membership.
In addition to offering support services to illegal aliens, CASA also pushes an extreme ideological agenda. The far-left organization <a href="https://wearecasa.org/policy-agenda/immigration/abolishice/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">calls</a> for ICE to be abolished, calling it a “rogue agency” that has “caused immense harm to our communities.”
The organization <a href="https://wearecasa.org/casa-demands-justice-for-kilmar-armando-abrego-garcia/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">notes</a> that it is currently working to pass legislation in Maryland that would prevent local law enforcement agencies from working with ICE to identify and apprehend illegal aliens. The group is also <a href="https://wearecasa.org/maryland-2/legislative-session-agenda/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">advocating</a> for legislation that would prevent ICE from obtaining identifying information from Maryland’s state and local agencies, shielding illegal aliens from being identified by federal immigration enforcement agents.
The group’s sister organization, <a href="https://casainaction.org/#footer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">called</a> CASA in Action, advocates for specific policies and endorses candidates who encourage “greater engagement of Latinos and voters of color in elections.”
“By mobilizing Black, Latine, Afro-descendent, Indigenous, and Immigrant voters, CASA in Action … play[s] a powerful role in electing progressive change leaders,” the group <a href="https://casainaction.org/about/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">goes on</a> to say.
Abrego Garcia was returned to the United States to stand trial for human smuggling charges, but is expected to be deported yet again before his trial concludes, this time to a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kilmar-abrego-garcia-will-be-deported-to-third-country-prosecutors-say?author=Spencer+Lindquist&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=9&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Kilmar+Abrego+Garcia+Will+Be+Deported+To+%E2%80%98Third+Country%2C%E2%80%99+Prosecutors+Say" target="_blank" rel="noopener">willing</a> “third country” instead of his home country of El Salvador.

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‘Maryland Man’ Kilmar Abrego Garcia Belonged To A Biden-Backed Group That Called For Abolishing ICE

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The Biden administration’s global ambassador for all things LGBT was a travel diva with no regard for cost, who even got smacked down for &#8220;inappropriate&#8221; spending requests as she traveled on the government dime, of emails obtained by The Daily Wire reveal.
The emails show that Jessica Stern, the Biden State Department’s Special Envoy to Advance the Human Rights of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Intersex Persons, failed to report travel expenses on time, requested a costly car for a week in Rome, and berated staff for missing vegetarian meals on her flights as she jetted around the world pushing far-left ideology, according to a batch of emails obtained by The Daily Wire.
Stern raked in $180,000 a year as her state-sanctioned LGBT <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/meet-the-biden-official-making-six-figures-to-travel-the-globe-pushing-transgenderism">activism</a> took her to all six habitable continents, with stops in places like Fiji and Brazil, where she traveled on the taxpayer dime to march alongside a “transvestite sl*t,” a previous <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/meet-the-biden-official-making-six-figures-to-travel-the-globe-pushing-transgenderism">Daily Wire exposé</a> found.
Documents reviewed by The Daily Wire, obtained by the <a href="https://advancing-america.org/">Center to Advance Security in America</a> (CASA), show that Stern, who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/state-department-lgbt-racial-equity-envoy-profiles-scrubbed-after-trump-takes-office">left her post</a> after President Donald Trump&#8217;s re-election, failed to even report her travel expenses on time. The envoy, who said in her emails that she identifies with “all pronouns,” even admitted that she didn’t know where she would find her expenses after a State Department official asked for her accounting.
“We are still waiting on last year’s accounting for travel from your office … before approving further travel,” wrote a State Department official whose name is redacted in October 2022. “We have every other office except yours. I have asked several times and no one has provided. Please do so as soon as possible.”
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Stern then wrote to a different State Department official and made a stunning admission. “I don’t read all of her messages but I don’t recall seeing multiple requests for our expenses,” Stern wrote. “I also don’t know where we would get our expenses.”
<div id="attachment_923509" style="width: 802px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-923509" class=" wp-image-923509" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/05/Stern-1-300x131.png" alt="" width="792" height="346" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/05/Stern-1-300x131.png 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/05/Stern-1-1024x448.png 1024w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/05/Stern-1-768x336.png 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/05/Stern-1.png 1340w" sizes=" (max-width: 792px) 100vw, 792px" />Obtained by The Daily Wire</div>
The documents also show that, about a year after the expense reporting mishap, Stern was admonished after she requested a costly rental car for a week in Rome.
An email from a State Department staffer to Stern indicates that the LGBT envoy was originally set to get a rental van in Rome for a week at the cost of $7,000, but that the plan was shot down because of the excessive cost. Stern then hoped to get a rental car for $3,000 to $4,000.
“Sorry for the hassle and expense. This is a stupid way to spend money,” Stern admitted in an email to <a href="https://2021-2025.state.gov/biographies/christopher-le-mon/">Christopher Le Mon</a>, the former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor. “Apparently there aren&#8217;t options due to a taxi shortage. Do you think we could swing $3-4K for a car?”
Le Mon shot down the proposal. “No, I do not think that $3k for a car for five days can be supported. We have asked offices to cut entire trips,” he said in an email. “The overall climate we are in is one of cost consciousness.”
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Then another State Department official pushed Le Mon to give his approval. “Emb Rome has been able to shave SE Stern&#8217;s costs down and is urging me to find out today whether the updated transportation estimates would work,” the unnamed State Department staffer wrote. “Could you authorize the hotel-airport transfers?”
Le Mon denied the ask for the costly car again and called the request “inappropriate.”
“Apologies for not being clearer earlier: I&#8217;m not going to approve standby transportation in Rome in this budget environment,” Le Mon said in response. “To again make the point I made earlier, there have been DRL trips disapproved where the entire cost of the trip was less than $4000.”
“It&#8217;s inappropriate to keep asking for several thousand dollars for a car,” Le Mon admonished Stern.
“Airport transfers and ground transportation can be done by taxi or Uber the same way other DRL principals traveling to European capitals have done,” he added. “I apologize but I do not have time for further back and forth on this question.”
<div id="attachment_923521" style="width: 828px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-923521" class=" wp-image-923521" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/05/Stern-2-300x171.png" alt="" width="818" height="466" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/05/Stern-2-300x171.png 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/05/Stern-2-1008x576.png 1008w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/05/Stern-2-768x439.png 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/05/Stern-2.png 1330w" sizes=" (max-width: 818px) 100vw, 818px" />Obtained by The Daily Wire</div>
In another exchange over travel arrangements, Stern berated State Department staff in an “urgent” message about her vegetarian meal preferences.
“This is urgent,” Biden’s LGBT activist wrote. “I have taken many flights since I have joined the State Department, and the airlines have repeatedly had no record of my vegetarian meal.”
“This is a serious problem,” she added.“I ask you to assure me that my vegetarian meal has been ordered for my flights this week, and I ask you to confirm how this can be corrected moving forward.”
<div id="attachment_923529" style="width: 845px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-923529" class=" wp-image-923529" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/05/Stern-3-300x152.png" alt="" width="835" height="423" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/05/Stern-3-300x152.png 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/05/Stern-3-1024x518.png 1024w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/05/Stern-3-768x388.png 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/05/Stern-3.png 1388w" sizes=" (max-width: 835px) 100vw, 835px" />Obtained by The Daily Wire</div>
An unnamed State Department staffer sprung into action in a follow up email. “I have added the requests for the vegetarian meals to the reservations you currently have booked.”
It is unclear if Stern successfully received her vegetarian meals on subsequent flights. She did not respond to a request for comment.
“Biden State Department LGBT Special Envoy Jessica Stern repeatedly advocated for excessive taxpayer resources to travel the world in luxury,” CASA Director James Fitzpatrick told The Daily Wire. “The Trump administration has since eliminated Stern’s position and the Biden era of using government resources for LGBT advocacy is over.”
While the documents don’t outline how much money was spent on Stern’s travel, one spreadsheet shows that Stern and another State Department official working to advance the Biden administration’s LGBT agenda dropped almost $42,000 in taxpayer funds over roughly five months.
Those funds went towards everything from interpreters to an “overtime photographer” on her trips to Peru, Nepal, Hungary, and other countries across the world.
“While the working men and women of this country were struggling, Stern was asking for more of their money for a private car and a photographer.&#8221; Fitzpatrick said. &#8220;The American people are sick and tired of this type of irresponsible behavior from their government officials.&#8221;
Since leaving the State Department, Stern has “rejoined the resistance” and is working to <a href="https://www.washingtonblade.com/2025/04/01/former-us-envoy-for-global-lgbtq-intersex-rights-slams-trump/">create</a> a leftwing organization to oppose the Trump administration. She’s also teaching a new generation of activists at Columbia University in a <a href="https://doc.sis.columbia.edu/subj/INAF/U6376-20251-001/">seminar</a> that “offers students an opportunity to reflect, in-depth, on the challenges and opportunities of working on LGBTI rights transnationally.”

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Biden’s LGBT Envoy Was Slammed For ‘Inappropriate’ Travel Spending, Emails Show

WASHINGTON—The House of Representatives will take steps towards repealing the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act this week, a law repeatedly weaponized against pro-life activists by President Joe Biden&#8217;s administration.
Lawmakers on Wednesday will mark up H.R. 589, the <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/589">FACE Act Repeal Act of 2025</a>, which Texas Congressman Chip Roy introduced in January. The bill &#8220;repeals provisions of federal criminal law that prohibit conduct intended to injure, intimidate, or interfere with persons who are seeking to (1) obtain or provide reproductive health services, or (2) exercise their right of religious freedom at a place of religious worship.&#8221;
Senator Mike Lee of Utah introduced the <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/223?s=1&amp;r=78">Senate version of the bill</a> in January as well.
The move comes after years of work from Roy and his team, who aggressively argued in favor of repealing the FACE Act while the Biden Justice Department used the law to imprison <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/defend-our-country-imprisoned-pro-life-activists-urge-americans-to-vote-against-kamala">pro-life activist</a> after pro-life activist from 2022 to 2024, often pairing FACE with a felony conspiracy charge to lock peaceful pro-life protesters. President Donald Trump pardoned these imprisoned activists earlier this year.
&#8220;Over the past 4 years, we have witnessed the weaponization of the justice system, using the FACE Act to jail Americans fighting for the right to life,&#8221; Roy told The Daily Wire on Monday afternoon. &#8220;It is not enough to merely end Biden-Harris era discrimination — we must act to reverse course, ensuring selective and unfair political prosecutions are never again possible under this statute.&#8221;
<div id="attachment_922337" style="width: 893px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-house-moves-to-repeal-face-act-after-years-of-weaponization/attorney-general-garland-holds-press-conference-on-civil-rights-matter-at-doj-6" rel="attachment wp-att-922337"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-922337" class="wp-image-922337 size-large" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/05/GettyImages-1332546154-883x576.jpg" alt="U.S. Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division Kristen Clarke speaks on a federal investigation of the City of Phoenix. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)" width="883" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/05/GettyImages-1332546154-883x576.jpg 883w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/05/GettyImages-1332546154-300x196.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/05/GettyImages-1332546154-768x501.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/05/GettyImages-1332546154.jpg 1024w" sizes=" (max-width: 883px) 100vw, 883px" /></a>U.S. Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division Kristen Clarke speaks on a federal investigation of the City of Phoenix. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)</div>
&#8220;While I am proud that the FACE Act is finally being moved through committee, Congress should move quickly to repeal the FACE Act and put an end to legal harassment of pro-life Americans once and for all,&#8221; he added.
The FACE Act was intended to protect abortion clinics, pregnancy centers, and places of worship. But the Biden administration — led by former U.S. Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Kristen Clarke — almost exclusively used it to target the pro-life movement following the May 2022 leak of the draft Supreme Court opinion showing that Roe v. Wade would soon be overturned.
Roe’s overturn increased “the urgency” of the Justice Department’s work, <a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2022/12/12/doj-official-admits-targeting-pro-lifers-is-response-to-overturn-of-roe/">Associate Attorney General Vanita Gupta</a> said, including the “enforcement of the FACE Act, to ensure continued lawful access to reproductive services.”
Roy&#8217;s office obtained data that confirmed the Biden Justice Department charged 24 FACE Act cases against 55 defendants, and just two of those cases were brought in defense of pregnancy centers. None were brought in defense of a house of worship, even though hundreds of Catholic Churches have been attacked, firebombed, and vandalized with pro-abortion slogans since the Supreme Court leak.
&#8220;Nearly 92% of all Biden-Harris FACE Act cases were brought against pro-life demonstrators, despite over <a href="https://catholicvote.org/tracker-church-attacks/">285 churches</a> and <a href="https://catholicvote.org/pregnancy-center-attack-tracker/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">94 pregnancy resource centers and pro-life groups</a> being attacked and vandalized since May 2022,&#8221; Roy <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/heres-why-the-face-act-must-be-repealed">wrote in a Daily Wire op-ed in October</a>.
&#8220;To stop this growing weaponization and intimidation, Congress should stop this targeted harassment and ensure the FACE Act is repealed,&#8221; he added at the time. &#8220;Allowing it to remain means permitting bureaucrats at the highest levels of government to unequally apply the law, target pro-life Americans with unwarranted retaliation, and shield a radical abortion industry.&#8221;
The move is also significant given that Trump&#8217;s Justice Department is rolling back <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-89-year-old-woman-convicted-faces-over-a-decade-in-prison-for-peaceful-pro-life-protest" target="_blank" rel="noopener">aggressive prosecution</a> of the FACE Act, saying that the Biden administration weaponized the law against pro-life protesters.
In a January memo, Trump Justice Department Chief of Staff Chad Mizelle said that it will only prosecute the FACE Act in cases of “extraordinary circumstances” or in instances related to “death, serious bodily harm, or serious property damage.”
“Cases not presenting significant aggravating factors can adequately be addressed under state or local law,” the memo said. “Additionally, until further notice, no new abortion-related FACE Act actions — criminal or civil — will be permitted without authorization from the Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division.”
Leif Le Mahieu contributed to this report.

House Freedom Caucus Holds Press Conference To Discuss Government Funding

EXCLUSIVE: House Moves To Repeal FACE Act After Years Of Weaponization

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The Biden administration’s Department of Homeland Security was set to give nearly $300,000 to an organization that provides legal services to aliens subject to deportation. Now, the Trump administration has frozen its funding.
Catholic Migration Services (CMS), a New York-based non-profit organization, was <a href="https://www.usaspending.gov/award/ASST_NON_24CICET00364_7003">slated to receive</a> over $293,000 from the Department of Homeland Security to provide naturalization services for immigrants. The grant term began under the Biden administration on November 22nd, 2024, and was scheduled to continue until September 2026.
The organization provides a wealth of services beyond just naturalization, however, and even offers free deportation defense to foreign nationals who have an order of removal. These services are part of the group&#8217;s effort to “advance equality and social justice in a changing and diverse population.”
“We provide free legal services, tenant organizing services and community legal education to low-income New Yorkers regardless of race, religion, ethnicity, national origin, or immigration status,” Catholic Migration Services<a href="https://catholicmigration.org/about-catholic-migration-services/"> says,</a> before specifying that it provides deportation defense services to foreign aliens who have a removal order against them. “Our <a href="https://catholicmigration.org/immigration/">Immigration Unit</a> is comprised of four legal teams: Removal Defense, Affirmative, Naturalization, and the Pro Se Plus Project.”
Now the organization says that the federal funding has been frozen.
“CMS previously shared federal funding with other nonprofits to help lawful permanent residents become citizens. However, the Department of Homeland Security has recently frozen this program,” the organization told The Daily Wire. “In addition to offering various civil legal services to low-income New Yorkers, CMS also assists immigrants who have valid legal claims in removal proceedings.”
The freeze is part of a wider effort from the Trump administration to <a href="https://apnews.com/article/catholic-bishops-lawsuit-refugee-resettlement-trump-administration-09477d766651a940ae53840ce3bd9c6e">halt funding</a> to non-profits that encourage mass immigration into the United States, including religiously-affiliated refugee resettlement agencies.
Catholic Migration Services <a href="https://catholicmigration.org/immigration/">states</a> on its website that the organization offers “deportation defense” before adding that its offerings are intended to “help immigrants in deportation/removal proceedings represent themselves in Immigration Court and provide assistance with applications for asylum, employment authorization, immigration court motions, and other items.”
The Pro Se Plus Project, a joint effort of Catholic Migration Servicesus and two other organizations, <a href="https://www.proseplusnyc.org/">similarly states</a> that it provides deportation defense to aliens who are subject to removal. “We help people avoid exploitation, in absentia removal orders, missed deadlines and notario fraud,” the site reads, referencing removal orders that are issued by immigration judges when a non-citizen fails to appear for an immigration hearing.
CMS has also come out <a href="https://catholicmigration.org/catholic-migration-services-responds-to-the-trump-administrations-assault-on-immigrant-communities/">against</a> the Trump administration’s efforts to enforce federal immigration law, accusing the president of launching an “assault on immigrant communities” through his “threats of mass deportation and xenophobic rhetoric that has instilled deep fear in immigrant communities.”
The group is far from the only far-left organization that has received DHS funding despite advocating for illegal aliens, however. The Biden administration also gave $1.2 million to the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, a radical organization that works to “dismantle the U.S. immigration enforcement system,” The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kamala-says-shell-enforce-border-laws-her-admin-gave-1-2-million-to-group-that-wants-to-end-them">previously revealed</a>.
The organization was part of a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/how-soros-backed-organizations-leverage-waves-of-new-immigrants-to-sway-elections">broader coalition</a> of non-profits that sought to naturalize citizens and mobilize them as voters to “sway the outcome of national, state, and local elections.”

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The Biden Admin Funded An NGO That Provides ‘Deportation Defense.’ Trump Froze The Money.

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The illegal alien population in the United States recently hit a record high in the wake of the Biden administration’s border policies and now sits at a whopping 18.6 million, a recent study found.
The <a href="https://www.fairus.org/issue/how-many-illegal-aliens-are-united-states-2025-update">study</a> from the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) found that the number of illegal aliens present in the United States has surged 11 percent since June 2023, when the estimate sat at 16.8 million. The figure sits a full 28.2 percent higher than in December 2020, the month before former President Joe Biden took office.
Under FAIR’s new estimate, the illegal alien population present in the country is believed to be <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/largest-U-S-state-by-population">greater</a> than the populations of all but the four most populous states in the union. “As of 2025, American population growth comes almost entirely from unsustainably high levels of immigration, both legal and illegal,” FAIR wrote.
<div id="attachment_891291" style="width: 816px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-891291" class="wp-image-891291" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/03/2025_pop_Figure1-1024x554.png" alt="" width="806" height="436" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/03/2025_pop_Figure1-1024x554.png 1024w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/03/2025_pop_Figure1-300x162.png 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/03/2025_pop_Figure1-768x416.png 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/03/2025_pop_Figure1-1536x831.png 1536w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/03/2025_pop_Figure1-2048x1108.png 2048w" sizes=" (max-width: 806px) 100vw, 806px" />From The Federation for American Immigration Reform</div>
FAIR, which advocates for border security and a reduction in legal immigration, asserts that the increased illegal alien population was due largely to “pull factors” resulting from the Biden administration’s border policies.
“In its first few months in power, the Biden administration sent a strong message of welcome to would-be illegal aliens,” FAIR writes, citing the former White House’s decisions to halt border wall construction, expand the grounds for claiming asylum, and rescind Asylum Cooperative Agreements, further expanding the pool of migrants who could apply for asylum.
“These policies had the expected effect,” FAIR charges. “Illegal border crossings began to rise as soon as the Biden administration took office, and they continued growing to catastrophic levels throughout the administration’s term.”
The organization also noted the challenges that come when attempting to estimate the illegal population, while also contending that other estimates significantly undercount the true figure. “Estimating the size, distribution, and characteristics of the illegal alien population is an inexact science,” FAIR points out. &#8220;We do not know exactly how many people cross the border illegally and evade immigration authorities, nor can anyone accurately quantify overstays or gotaways.”
“The Department of Homeland Security only (loosely) counts foreign nationals who enter and leave the United States in a lawful manner,” FAIR noted, adding that “its illegal alien population estimates remain unhelpful due to underestimating the size of the population and utilizing outdated numbers.”
FAIR&#8217;s estimate comes a year after the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) found that the foreign-born population in the United States reached a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/foreign-born-population-hits-new-high-with-surge-under-biden-fueled-by-illegal-immigration">new high</a> of 51.6 million in March 2024. The increase under the Biden administration, CIS estimated, was due primarily to mass illegal immigration.
Border crossings have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/vance-does-victory-lap-at-border-all-it-took-was-a-new-president">plummeted</a> to record lows under President Donald Trump, whose administration has carried out waves of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/more-than-500-criminal-illegal-aliens-captured-by-ice-in-week-long-houston-raids">deportation operations</a>. Other policies could encourage illegal aliens to leave the United States on their own.
Congress could require businesses across the country to use the E-Verify system to confirm the legal status of would-be employees and prevent illegal aliens from acquiring jobs. Border Czar Tom Homan <a href="https://thehill.com/opinion/immigration/524920-to-stop-illegal-immigration-crack-down-on-illegal-employment">celebrated</a> the program in 2020, saying that it “is the best tool available, and currently prevents a significant amount of unauthorized employment.”

Illegal aliens

Illegal Alien Population Surges To Record High, Bombshell Study Finds

Tom Homan

A government watchdog is sounding the alarm on former President Joe Biden&#8217;s liberal use of an autopen to sign official documents, saying it raises concerns about who controlled the presidency, given Biden&#8217;s cognitive decline.
Biden pardoned six criminals on December 30, 2022, with the &#8220;exact same autopen signature&#8221; while the president was vacationing and golfing in the U.S. Virgin Islands, according to the Heritage Foundation&#8217;s Oversight Project.
&#8220;Note they all say they are &#8216;Signed in the City of Washington,'&#8221; the Oversight Project posted on X.
Around the same time, an omnibus spending bill was flown to Biden in the Virgin Islands to sign, but the pardons all appear to be signed by autopen, the watchdog said.
&#8220;Whoever controlled the autopen controlled the presidency,&#8221; the Oversight Project said.
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🚨 Autopen Update 🚨 We analyzed Biden&#39;s Jan. 19, 2025 &quot;pardons&quot; for:
-Biden Family Members -Anthony Fauci -General Milley -J6 Committee -Gerald Lundergan
They all have the same exact Biden autopen signature <a href="https://t.co/jc6mkx37il">https://t.co/jc6mkx37il</a> <a href="https://t.co/8VeBDwLNv7">pic.twitter.com/8VeBDwLNv7</a>
&mdash; Oversight Project (@OversightPR) <a href="https://twitter.com/OversightPR/status/1899520975156216146?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 11, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Some prominent documents, including Hunter Biden&#8217;s pardon and Biden&#8217;s announcement that he was dropping out of the presidential race, appear to be hand signed, the watchdog found.
However, several other controversial pardons, including those for Dr. Anthony Fauci, General Mark Milley, the January 6 committee, and other Biden family members, were all signed with the same autopen signature, Kyle Brosnan, chief counsel for the Oversight Project told The Daily Wire.
Brosnan said that using the autopen to sign presidential pardons is particularly &#8220;troubling&#8221; since the authority to issue them rests solely with the president as a &#8220;constitutional principle.&#8221;
&#8220;You have to look at it in the context of President Biden&#8217;s mental decline,&#8221; Brosnan said, noting that Special Counsel Robert Hur&#8217;s report last year <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/4456879-special-counsel-describes-biden-as-elderly-man-with-a-poor-memory-in-eye-raising-report/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">called</a> Biden an &#8220;elderly man with a poor memory.&#8221;
&#8220;I think we all saw with our own eyes his mental and physical deterioration over the course of his presidency,&#8221; Brosnan said. &#8220;There&#8217;s article after article that comes out showing how the Biden administration and his staff shielded him from public view, retinkered his schedule throughout the presidency, tried to script even what reporters he was calling on at press conferences, and that volume of evidence shows that President Biden wasn&#8217;t really running the White House. It was the staff. So if he&#8217;s not hand-signing these legally operative documents like pardons or even bills into law, that raises another question.&#8221;
The Justice Department should look into what the autopen policies of the previous White House were, whether certain individuals were authorized to operate the autopen, and what the approval process for affixing a signature looked like, Brosnan said.
&#8220;We need to figure out who was actually running the country for the last four years,&#8221; Brosnan said.
Brosnan said any legal cases against Biden&#8217;s signatures are still hypothetical, but he pointed to the questions around Chad Wolf&#8217;s status as acting homeland security secretary back in 2020, which resulted in a judge ruling that some of Wolf&#8217;s actions cracking down on illegal immigration were unlawful.

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The Biden State Department’s office TVs were tuned into a state-funded Venezuelan propaganda channel that some say operates as an unregistered foreign agent to push the agenda of anti-American actors, The Daily Wire can report.
TVs at the Biden State Department were tuned into Telesur, a state-funded Venezuelan outlet that received 70 percent of its initial funding from the regime of anti-American socialist Hugo Chavez and even featured Chavez&#8217;s <a href="https://archive.ph/AEfp">weekly show</a>, “Alo, Presidente,” while he was alive.
The outlet also receives funding from the left-wing governments of Cuba, Nicaragua, Ecuador, and Bolivia, and has been <a href="https://www.fdd.org/analysis/op_eds/2023/11/17/telesurs-pro-iran-propaganda/">slammed</a> as a purveyor of “<a href="https://www.telesurtv.net/news/Israel-trafica-con-ninos-de-Nepal-bajo-excusa-de-ayuda-20150505-0048.html">fake news</a>, ‘<a href="https://telesurtv.net/opinion/Que-pasa-con-la-lucha-contra-el-nazismo--20231106-0015.html">whataboutism</a>,’ and <a href="https://www.telesurtv.net/bloggers/Cesara-Israel-de-apoyar-a-los-yihadistas-20160710-0001.html">disinformation</a>” as it works to “demonize the West, undermine the credibility of Western news outlets, paint Western leaders as hypocrites, and promote a narrative of global resistance against America and its allies.&#8221;
The channel has since been removed from the State Department office TVs, The Daily Wire has learned.
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Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) previously called for the channel to be investigated by the Department of Justice in 2018, <a href="https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/venezuela/article207929624.html">charging</a> that the channel “appears to act under foreign direction and engages in political activities in the interest of its foreign principal, primarily the government of Venezuela.”
“I am writing to request the Administration help the people of the United States by investigating the status of Telesur under the Foreign Agents Registration Act,” Wilson, who contended that the channel acted as an unregistered foreign agent of the Nicholas Maduro regime, wrote in 2018. “The Telesur network is to Venezuela what Russia Today is to Russia, a propaganda outfit masquerading as a news organization broadcasting information that undermines U.S. interests in Latin America.”
“Access to the United States market is a privilege, not a right and the American taxpayers deserve to know if TeleSur affiliates in the United States are acting as foreign agents of a foreign government such as Venezuela,” he went on to <a href="https://joewilson.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/joewilson-evo.house.gov/files/Letter%20Telesur.pdf">write</a>.
Argentina, which previously funded the outlet and was one of the founding backers, <a href="https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/venezuela/article68633342.html">revoked funding</a> in 2016 under the leadership of then-President Mauricio Macri. Uruguay <a href="https://www.gub.uy/ministerio-relaciones-exteriores/comunicacion/comunicados/2120-uruguay-se-retira-telesur-banco-del-sur-basado-principio-integrar">pulled its funding</a> four years later, in 2020.

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Biden State Department Was Playing Venezuelan Propaganda On Office TVs

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