Former President Joe Biden is set to deliver his first public speech since leaving the White House on Tuesday, focusing on Social Security, a topic Democrats have zeroed in on as the Trump administration takes a sledgehammer to federal agencies and programs.
Biden will address attendees of the Advocates, Counselors, and Representatives for the Disabled (ACRD) conference in Chicago, where he will join other political figures, such as former Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), former Sen. Roy Blunt (R-MO), and former Maryland Democratic Governor and Social Security Administration Commissioner Martin O&#8217;Malley, NBC 5 Chicago <a href="https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/biden-to-give-first-speech-since-leaving-office-with-chicago-address-tuesday/3722572/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
Whether Biden mentions President Donald Trump by name during his speech will be a main point of interest as the focus on Social Security makes it likely that the former president will take some jabs at his predecessor and successor. Biden will deliver the speech as Democrats search for new leaders who can revive a party suffering from a &#8220;<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/16/politics/cnn-poll-democrats/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">record low</a>&#8221; approval rating.
&#8220;We are deeply honored President Biden is making his first public appearance at ACRD’s sold-out conference. As bipartisan leaders have long agreed, Americans who retire after paying into Social Security their whole lives deserve the vital support and caring services they receive,&#8221; ACRD Executive Director Rachel Buck said. &#8220;As a result, we are thrilled the President will be joining us to discuss how we can work together for a stable and successful future for Social Security.&#8221;
O&#8217;Malley added, “Social Security is a sacred promise between generations. We are deeply grateful to the President for joining us at ACRD to discuss how we can keep that promise for all Americans.”
While vowing to protect Social Security, the Trump administration is looking to cut back on the Social Security Administration staff. The SSA <a href="https://blog.ssa.gov/social-security-announces-workforce-and-organization-plans/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in February that it has &#8220;set a staffing target of 50,000, down from the current level of approximately 57,000 employees.&#8221; The staff reduction comes as Trump&#8217;s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) project identifies where the federal government can cut spending. The SSA is also planning on closing six regional offices that provide support and services for SSA employees, The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/business/social-security-administration-job-cuts.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
Democrats have slammed the SSA cuts, arguing that the move threatens Social Security beneficiaries who rely on their monthly payments. Some Social Security beneficiaries have also complained about longer wait times on the phone and multiple outages on the “My Social Security” benefits portal since Trump made the cuts.
Trump&#8217;s senior adviser, Elon Musk, has been a primary target of Democrats&#8217; criticisms over Social Security. Musk has focused on finding fraud and waste within government programs, including entitlement programs such as Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. The White House <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/03/fact-check-president-trump-will-always-protect-social-security-medicare/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">defended</a> Musk last month amid controversy over comments he made about eliminating &#8220;waste and fraud&#8221; in entitlement spending.
&#8220;The Social Security Administration made an estimated $72 billion in improper payments between 2015 and 2022,&#8221; the White House said in a statement, citing a 2024 Inspector General report.

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After nearly a year-long investigation, the Chicago Police Department said the misconduct of one of its officers has been proven after he pleaded guilty to vandalizing an elderly rabbi’s car.
The news comes just days after The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chicago-pd-still-hasnt-disciplined-cop-who-pled-guilty-to-vandalizing-rabbis-car" target="_blank" rel="noopener">first reported</a> that Mohammed Khan, 35, was arrested last March after he broke the side mirrors off of the vehicle of 77-year-old Rabbi Abraham Wineberg who was visiting his granddaughter and great-grandchildren in Chicago’s West Rogers Park Neighborhood. His family believes the car was targeted because it belonged to a Jew.
“It’s quite interesting that just days after The Daily Wire published on Officer Khan’s vandalism, the Chicago Police finally took action,” Wineberg’s granddaughter’s husband, Yisroel Wolf said. “They have not been forthcoming with information over the past year, so I do not think this is a coincidence.”
Weinberg’s family received an email every few months from the Chicago Police Department’s Bureau of Internal Affairs telling him that their investigation into his complaint about Khan was still ongoing. But on Tuesday they were notified the investigation was complete, and that Khan’s misconduct had been proven.
Wolf said he called the police after receiving the email, who told him Khan had been temporarily stripped of his policing duties and will undergo an internal process to determine what action to take.
“There is an internal investigation into this, and the process remains ongoing,” a spokesperson for the Chicago Police Department told The Daily Wire. The spokesperson did not immediately give a clarification after being presented with the email sent to Wolf.
Khan was seen in surveillance footage from around 2:30 a.m. on March 3, 2024, where he first issued a parking ticket to Wineberg, who was illegally parked in Khan’s private handicapped spot, issued to accommodate Khan’s handicapped family member. Khan was off duty at the time and driving his personal vehicle.
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EXCLUSIVE: Chicago Police Officer Mohammed Khan was caught kicking an elderly rabbi’s car mirrors after issuing a ticket.
Rabbi Abraham Wineberg’s family believes he was targeted for being a Jew.
Khan pleaded guilty last year but has faced no discipline from the police force. <a href="https://t.co/XzsTeJW7MX" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/XzsTeJW7MX</a>
— Kassy Akiva (@KassyAkiva) <a href="https://twitter.com/KassyAkiva/status/1904252224361914879?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">March 24, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Footage shows Khan peering through the rear window at Jewish and Hebrew prayer books and paraphernalia. He then returned on foot and was seen in the footage kicking off one of the vehicle’s mirrors, which was left dangling by its wire. A few minutes later, he is seen from another angle returning again to break the other mirror, which Wineberg’s family says was completely cut off with a tool. The vehicle was then later towed.
The next morning, Khan is seen on footage talking to a second police officer, who issued another ticket around 10 a.m. Khan — whom the family had never spoken to before — told Wolf that morning that he was unsure who damaged the vehicle.
“When we confronted him the next day, he tried to use his status as a police officer to get out of the crime, telling me ‘I’m a police officer, I would never do such a thing, I don’t know what you’re talking about.’” Wineberg told The Daily Wire. “That’s how we realized he was the one who wrote the ticket.”
The ticket issued, which was viewed by The Daily Wire, has an illegible signature in the “issued by” section.
“He didn’t legibly sign his name or put his badge number on the ticket, so he knew he was doing something wrong,” Wolf said.
Wolf added that he thought it was unusual the car was towed because after speaking to his neighbors, it’s more typical to just ticket illegally parked cars.
“I believe the act is deeper than road rage because Khan left the scene and then returned twice, once with a tool to cut the mirror,” Wolf said. “It is evident that Khan targeted the car because it belonged to a Jew.”
Khan was sentenced to 40 hours of community service, 10 hours of anger management, and $800 to pay for damages, according to Wolf.
The family filed a complaint to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois Eastern Division earlier this month to seek action. The complaint seeks damages under the Fourth Amendment, Fourteenth Amendment, and common law of the State of Illinois for malicious acts that damage property.
The suit alleges that the incident caused Wineberg “a great amount of stress and emotional distress” which was compounded “by the realization that Khan had evidently acted in such a fashion after noticing that the owner of the car was likely Jewish.”
Wolf said the ordeal was deeply upsetting for his family because his wife’s grandparents were coming to meet his newborn daughter for the first time and had to drive home in an unsafe vehicle.
“He left very upset, it pretty much ruined the entire weekend for him and their drive back to Michigan was very scary because my grandmother had to act as the mirror and look out for him because we could only tape on one mirror as the other was missing,” Wolf said. “For people their age, that is very scary.”
Wolf said Wineberg accidentally parked in the handicapped spot because it was dark and he was unfamiliar with the neighborhood.
Khan has been a full-time, active Chicago police officer since 2017, <a href="https://www.ptb.illinois.gov/resources/officer-lookup/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to public records</a>.

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Chicago PD Concludes Investigation Into Cop Who Pled Guilty To Vandalizing Rabbi’s Car

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A Chicago police officer has yet to face any disciplinary action from his police force after pleading guilty to vandalizing an elderly man’s car, according to the victim’s family, who believe the car was targeted because it belongs to a Jew.
Mohammed Khan, 35, <a href="http://publicsearch1.chicagopolice.org/Arrests/Details/18284442" target="_blank" rel="noopener">was arrested</a> last March after he broke the side mirrors off of the vehicle of 77-year-old Rabbi Abraham Wineberg who was visiting his granddaughter and great grandchildren in Chicago’s West Rogers Park Neighborhood.
Khan was seen in surveillance footage from around 2:30 a.m. on March 3, 2024, where he first issued a parking ticket to Wineberg, who was illegally parked in Khan’s private handicapped spot, issued to accommodate Khan’s handicapped family member. Khan was off duty at the time and driving his personal vehicle.
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EXCLUSIVE: Chicago Police Officer Mohammed Khan was caught kicking an elderly rabbi’s car mirrors after issuing a ticket.
Rabbi Abraham Wineberg’s family believes he was targeted for being a Jew.
Khan pleaded guilty last year but has faced no discipline from the police force. <a href="https://t.co/XzsTeJW7MX">pic.twitter.com/XzsTeJW7MX</a>
&mdash; Kassy Akiva (@KassyAkiva) <a href="https://twitter.com/KassyAkiva/status/1904252224361914879?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 24, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Footage shows Khan peering through the rear window at Jewish and Hebrew prayer books and paraphernalia. He then returned on foot, and was seen in the footage kicking off one of the vehicle&#8217;s mirrors, which was left dangling by its wire. A few minutes later, he is seen from another angle returning again to break the other mirror, which Wineberg’s family says was completely cut off with a tool. The vehicle was then later towed.
<div id="attachment_896847" style="width: 1034px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-896847" class="wp-image-896847 size-large" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/03/Cover-images-1024x576.jpg" alt="" width="1024" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/03/Cover-images-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/03/Cover-images-300x169.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/03/Cover-images-768x432.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/03/Cover-images.jpg 1280w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" />Evidence of vandalism on Rabbi Wineberg&#8217;s vehicle.</div>
The next morning, Khan is seen on footage talking to a second police officer, who issued another ticket around 10 a.m. Khan — whom the family had never spoken to before — told Wineberg’s granddaughter&#8217;s husband, Yisroel Wolf, that morning that he was unsure who damaged the vehicle.
“When we confronted him the next day, he tried to use his status as a police officer to get out of the crime, telling me ‘I’m a police officer, I would never do such a thing, I don’t know what you’re talking about.’” Wineberg told The Daily Wire. “That’s how we realized he was the one who wrote the ticket.”
The ticket issued, which was viewed by The Daily Wire, has an illegible signature in the “issued by” section.
“He didn’t legibly sign his name or put his badge number on the ticket, so he knew he was doing something wrong,” Wolf said.
Wolf added that he thought it was unusual the car was towed because after speaking to his neighbors, it’s more typical to just ticket illegally parked cars.
“I believe the act is deeper than road rage because Khan left the scene and then returned twice, once with a tool to cut the mirror,” Wolf said. “It is evident that Khan targeted the car because it belonged to a Jew.&#8221;
<div id="attachment_896837" style="width: 786px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-896837" class="wp-image-896837 size-large" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/03/JEWISH-MATERIAL-IN-CAR-776x576.jpg" alt="" width="776" height="576" />Jewish and Hebrew prayer books and paraphernalia in Rabbi Wineberg&#8217;s car.</div>
Khan was sentenced to 40 hours of community service, 10 hours of anger management, and $800 to pay for damages, according to Wolf.
Wolf receives an email every few months from the Chicago Police Department’s Bureau of Internal Affairs telling him that their investigation into his complaint about Khan is still ongoing, despite Khan pleading guilty.
The family’s patience has run out and they filed a complaint to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois Eastern Division earlier this month to seek action. The complaint seeks damages under the Fourth Amendment, Fourteenth Amendment, and common law of the State of Illinois for malicious acts that damage property.
The suit alleges that the incident caused Wineberg “a great amount of stress and emotional distress” which was compounded “by the realization that Khan had evidently acted in such a fashion after noticing that the owner of the car was likely Jewish.”
“Why is Khan still in the force? Why are they still investigating? He already pleaded guilty. If this was a Jewish cop and a Muslim victim would this be the same story?”
Wolf said the ordeal was deeply upsetting for his family because his wife’s grandparents were coming to meet his newborn daughter for the first time and had to drive home in an unsafe vehicle.
“He left very upset, it pretty much ruined the entire weekend for him and their drive back to Michigan was very scary because my grandmother had to act as the mirror and look out for him because we could only tape on one mirror as the other was missing,” Wolf said. “For people their age, that is very scary.”
Wolf said Wineberg accidentally parked in the handicapped spot because it was dark and he was unfamiliar with the neighborhood.
Khan has been a full-time, active Chicago police officer since 2017, <a href="https://www.ptb.illinois.gov/resources/officer-lookup/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to public records</a>.

Chicago PD Still Hasn’t Disciplined Cop Who Pled Guilty To Vandalizing Rabbi’s Car

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A parents group is asking the Trump administration to investigate Chicago Public Schools over its racially-focused success plan only for black students.
Parents Defending Education filed a <a href="https://defendinged.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Chicago-Public-Schools_OCR_with_hyperlinks_Redacted.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">civil rights complaint</a> with the Department of Education on Friday requesting a probe into Chicago Public Schools over its “Black Student Success Plan.” Parents Defending Education believes that the district is likely violating federal civil rights law and the Fourteenth Amendment.
The <a href="https://www.cps.edu/globalassets/cps-pages/initiatives/black-student-success-plan/black-student-success-plan.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">plan</a> was developed with input from the diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) staff for Chicago Public Schools, including Chief Equity Officer Fatima Cooke.
“Chicago Public Schools has identified a critical priority to improve outcomes for Black students in the district. While there have been efforts to expand access, there remains persistent gaps in opportunities for Black students,” according to notes compiled by the developers of the plan.
“This working group is charged with engaging in a deep equity-focused planning process that will result in a comprehensive set of targeted recommendations aimed at determining the appropriate inputs that support closing outcome gaps for Black students in the district,” they added.
The developers of the plan also said that a “scarcity of Black educators” in the district was contributing “to a lack of shared real-time knowledge.”
Included in the justification for the plan was data discussing the poor academic performance of black students. In its complaint, Parents Defending Education noted that the data included showed that other races, like Hispanics, were struggling at similar or greater levels in things like reading.
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“Although the slideshow suggests improvements only for black students, it acknowledges that Chicago students of all races struggle academically,” the complaint from Parents Defending Education President Nicole Neily said. “In other words, CPS is failing students of all races and ethnicities, which makes this racially segregated program all the more egregious.”
Neily wrote that Chicago Public Schools&#8217; “Black Student Success Plan” likely violates Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, which prevents federal funds from going toward programs that discriminate on the basis of race.
The complaint also noted that the Department of Education sent out guidance last week warning schools to steer clear of distributing programs based on race.
“Put simply, educational institutions may neither separate or segregate students based on race, nor distribute benefits or burdens based on race,” the department wrote in a “Dear Colleague” <a href="https://www.ed.gov/media/document/dear-colleague-letter-sffa-v-harvard-109506.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> on February 14.
Neily asked for the department to “conduct a full and complete Title VI audit” of Chicago Public Schools to determine what other racially-based policies may be in place.
Parents Defending Education has previously <a href="https://www.the74million.org/article/lausd-overhauls-120-million-black-students-program-after-activists-file-complaint/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">been successful</a> in challenging a similar program put out by Los Angeles Unified School District. That district had to ensure that its student success plan was available to all races after originally rolling out a “Black Student Achievement Plan.”
President Donald Trump signed an executive order last month directing the removal of “anti-American ideologies” from public schools and ending federal funding for grants or contracts pushing leftist ideology.

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EXCLUSIVE: Parents Group Asks Trump Admin To Probe Chicago’s Racially-Focused Education Plan

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The Trump administration reportedly filed a lawsuit on Thursday against the city of Chicago, Cook County, and the state of Illinois over their sanctuary laws that shield illegal aliens from deportation, arguing that they interfere with federal law enforcement’s operations.
The <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/02/06/us-news/trump-administration-sues-chicago-state-of-illinois-over-sanctuary-laws-and-vows-more-lawsuits-to-come/">lawsuit</a> argues that the jurisdictions have adopted policies that inhibit the federal government’s ability to enforce federal immigration law.
“We’ve identified Illinois, the city of Chicago and Cook County as all having laws and ordinances on the books that impede federal immigration enforcement, in particular the Chicago Welcoming ordinance, the Illinois Trust Act,” one unnamed Department of Justice official told the New York Post.
President Donald Trump’s newly confirmed Attorney General Pam Bondi explained the significance of the suit and accused the municipal, county, and state governments of prioritizing illegal aliens over Americans.
“For too long, leaders in Illinois and Chicago have abused their power by putting the comfort of illegal aliens over the safety and welfare of their own citizens. This ends today,” <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/02/06/us-news/trump-administration-sues-chicago-state-of-illinois-over-sanctuary-laws-and-vows-more-lawsuits-to-come/">she said</a>. “The Department of Justice will no longer stand by as state and local leaders obstruct federal law enforcement efforts, endangering their citizens and the brave men and women in uniform.”
One of the laws targeted by the suit, the Illinois Trust Act, which was signed into law in 2017, states: “State law does not currently grant State or local law enforcement the authority to enforce federal civil immigration laws.”
There’s also Chicago’s Welcoming City Ordinance, which prohibits city officials from detaining people on the basis of their status as illegal aliens. “No agency or agent shall: arrest, detain or continue to detain a person solely on the belief that the person is not present legally in the United States,” reads the ordinance.
The suit specified how these policies interfere with federal law enforcement agent’s ability to enforce immigration law, noting that the jurisdictions “refuse to cooperate with detainers” lodged by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). “So instead of handing over people who are in prison or in jail to federal immigration authorities they will just let folks go,” the lawsuit states.
“This lawsuit will put the spotlight on obstruction by state and local officials and their refusal to support the administration and compliance with the law. The law says people who are here illegally are not allowed to stay here, they should be deported. So we want to make sure those impediments are taken away,” a DOJ official told the Post.
“These states and localities advertise themselves as sanctuary jurisdictions. They are inviting people here who are illegal, and they’re promising to protect them from federal law enforcement,” the official went on to say, noting that the case could go all the way to the Supreme Court.
The DOJ official charged that the laws currently “need to be struck from the books because they’re incentivizing illegal immigration into the country.”
The suit comes just one day after AG Bondi was sworn into office. Bondi addressed sanctuary cities in her day one directives, ordering the federal government to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/attorney-general-pam-bondi-directs-doj-to-halt-federal-funding-for-sanctuary-cities">halt funding</a> to sanctuary cities.
“She is right out of the gate sending a clear message to other sanctuary jurisdictions,” another unnamed DOJ official said.

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Trump Admin Sues Chicago, State Of Illinois Over Illegal Alien Sanctuary Laws

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The mayors of Boston, Chicago, Denver, and New York City were invited to testify before the House Oversight Committee regarding their sanctuary city policies for illegal immigrants.
“Sanctuary jurisdictions and their misguided and obstructionist policies hinder the ability of federal law enforcement officers to effectuate safe arrests and remove dangerous criminals from American communities, making Americans less safe,” committee chairman Rep. James Comer (R-KY) wrote in the letters to each mayor.
Comer’s letter requested documents and information related to each city’s sanctuary policies and invited Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, Denver Mayor Mike Johnston, and New York City Mayor Eric Adams to testify on February 11. 
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NEW: Boston&#8217;s Mayor Wu has been invited to testify in Congress about the city&#8217;s sanctuary city policies that &#8220;hinder the ability of federal law enforcement officers to effectuate safe arrests and remove dangerous criminals.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/gDj5fp78JD">pic.twitter.com/gDj5fp78JD</a>
— Kassy Akiva (@KassyAkiva) <a href="https://twitter.com/KassyAkiva/status/1884038901465244158?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 28, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Comer also accused sanctuary jurisdictions of taking it “upon themselves to decide what laws they will and will not abide by all for the purpose of shielding removable aliens, especially criminals, from federal law enforcement.”
While there are 12 states and hundreds of cities that qualify as sanctuary jurisdictions, Comer said Boston, Chicago, Denver, and New York City “stand out in their abject failure to comply with federal law.”
Chairman Comer will be <a href="https://x.com/GOPoversight/status/1883998691507462467/photo/4">launching an investigation</a> into the mayors, according to a post on X by the House Oversight Committee.
“All four major cities are sanctuary jurisdictions that refuse to fully cooperate with federal immigration enforcement, which is impacting public safety and the effectiveness of federal efforts to enforce the immigration laws of the United States,” the tweet states.
The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/boston-mayor-doubles-down-on-defying-trump-deportations-as-ma-police-arrest-migrants-for-child-rape">previously reported</a> on Wu’s plans to defy Trump&#8217;s deportations in November, stating she had no intention of rolling out the welcome mat” for the Trump administration.
“What we can do is make sure that we are doing our part to protect our residents in every possible way; that we are not cooperating with those efforts that actually threaten the safety of everyone by causing widespread fear and having large-scale economic impacts,” Wu said at the time.
Trump border czar Tom Homan responded to Wu, questioning her intelligence and stating that she should either help or “get the hell out of the way,”
“She’s not very smart, I’ll give her that,” Homan said. “President Trump’s going to prioritize public safety threats. What mayor or governor doesn’t want public safety threats out of their communities? That’s your number one responsibility, to protect your communities, and that’s exactly what we’re going to do.”
Thousands of migrants have been deported so far under the Trump administration including pedophiles, gang members, and terrorists. Extremely violent offenders have been deported from the Boston area including eight <a href="https://www.boston25news.com/news/local/extremely-violent-offenders-undocumented-migrants-with-criminal-records-nabbed-boston-ice-raid/KXKS25PYLBB2VMQ7BRTZX2SPRA/">last week,</a> who were gang members or criminals charged with crimes ranging from sexual assault to rape and murder.

Mayor Eric Adams speaks to the press during the weekly

Mayors Of Boston, Chicago, Denver And NYC Called To Testify In Congress Over Sanctuary City Policies

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TV personality <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/dr-phil-mcgraw">Dr. Phil</a> defended the actions of Border Czar Tom Homan while going along for a raid with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/immigration-and-customs-enforcement-ice">ICE</a>) on Sunday.
The 74-year-old talk show host <a href="https://x.com/DrPhil/status/1883669382242644069">posted</a> a clip from his Merit TV network on X, saying that one of the men detained in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/chicago">Chicago</a>, who was later identified as Sam Seda from Thailand, was discovered to be convicted of sex crimes involving children.
Dr. Phil, whose real name is Phil McGraw, asked Seda if he had ever been charged with sex crimes involving children.
“Not really,” Seda replied.
“Not really?!” McGraw said incredulously. “And never been deported?” he continued.
“Nope,” Seda confirmed.
When McGraw asked if he was a citizen, the illegal alien said, “My mom’s a citizen.”
“Again, the downfall, the problem with a sanctuary city is that people like this [are] walking the street rather than having law enforcement working with federal agents,” Homan said. “This is what we’re dealing with.”
Homan next told his agents, &#8216;Let&#8217;s take him in, process him, and lock him up.”
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JUST IN: The first arrest in Chicago with <a href="https://twitter.com/RealTomHoman?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RealTomHoman</a> was a convicted sex offender and internet predator from Thailand.
For full live coverage of the operation, download the MeritTV app. <a href="https://t.co/KEcphUWDDJ">pic.twitter.com/KEcphUWDDJ</a>
&mdash; Dr. Phil (@DrPhil) <a href="https://twitter.com/DrPhil/status/1883669382242644069?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 27, 2025</a></blockquote>
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“This is an example of sanctuary cities, right,” Homan told McGraw, saying the man they detained was one of 270 “high-value targets” they were looking for under President Donald Trump’s new mass deportation policy.
“We’ve got an illegal alien convicted of sex crimes involving children and he’s walking the streets of Chicago,” the border czar added.
McGraw had previously posted about his plans to accompany ICE during raids, saying, “It’s a pretty high-risk mission we’re going on. This truly is a targeted ICE mission, because they’re not sweeping neighborhoods like people are trying to imply.”
In another clip <a href="https://x.com/DrPhil/status/1883616999575851514">shared</a> on X, McGraw spoke with Homan about arresting Seda. Homan called the allegations that the deportation strategy was racist, calling such claims “hogwash” while denying that federal agents were rounding up children.
“He shouldn’t even be here, but he’s doing this,” Homan said. He also expressed frustration that community members were refusing to report illegal immigrants like Seda, who were “preying on our children.”
Homan told McGraw that prominent Illinois Democrats like Governor JB Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson “want to vilify the men of ICE.”
ICE made 956 arrests nationwide on Sunday, the agency <a href="https://x.com/ICEgov/status/1883680858453705153">announced</a> on X. Agents have been targeting migrant criminals every day since President Donald Trump took office last week.

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With President Donald Trump following through on his campaign promise to deport illegal immigrants, the media and left-wing politicians have begun a campaign to turn the American people against the administration.
The latest example comes from Chicago Public Schools (CPS), which falsely claimed on Friday that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents had shown up at Hamline Elementary School but were denied entrance, ABC 7 <a href="https://abc7chicago.com/post/us-immigration-customs-enforcement-agents-denied-entry-hamline-elementary-school-back-yards-cps-officials/15833738/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. The federal officials were actually from the U.S. Secret Service and investigating a threat.
Before the truth came out – and even after – Democrats accused the Trump administration of conducting “raids” on elementary schools. Hamline Elementary School principal Natasha Ortega released a statement saying, &#8220;We will not open our doors for ICE, and we are here to protect our children and make sure they have access to an excellent education.”
Illinois Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker repeated the false accusation on X, calling the situation “cruel” even though it never happened.
“After a week of Republicans sowing fear and chaos, the first reports of raids in Chicago are at an elementary school,” Pritzker <a href="https://x.com/GovPritzker/status/1882900706132402318" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a>. “Targeting children and separating families is cruel and un-American.”
Alderman Raymond Lopez justified the false information after it was revealed ICE wasn’t involved <a href="https://x.com/RaymondALopez/status/1882910558162501943" target="_blank" rel="noopener">by saying,</a> “This scenario is precisely what I was fighting so hard to avoid with my colleagues on the City Council this past month: giving immigration officials an excuse to come into our communities.”
Fox News’ Bill Melugin noted that it appeared no one spreading the false information had reached out to the Department of Homeland Security or ICE, saying that both denied that ICE agents came to the school or were even in the area.
In an updated announcement issued after the initial false claims spread, CPS admitted that it was Secret Service agents who had come to the school. School officials said they assumed the agents were from ICE because their identification showed they were part of the Department of Homeland Security – which also oversees the Secret Service.
“While this was a misunderstanding in terms of the specific branch of DHS, the school&#8217;s response demonstrates that our system, in partnership with community organizations, is prepared and ready to keep our students and staff safe,&#8221; CPS said in a statement published by ABC 7.
Secret Service told the outlet they were investigating a threat and had gone to a house, where they were told the person they were looking for was at the elementary school.
Chicago Democratic Mayor Brandon Johnson noted after the truth came out that it is &#8220;imperative that individuals not spread unverified information that sparks fear across the city.&#8221;
Trump has barely been in office for a week, but the Left has already attempted to manufacture disapproval of the policies that got him elected. On the day of his inauguration, media outlets shared a video of a woman at the border supposedly crying because she could not gain asylum by illegally crossing the border.
So far, ICE <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/homan-ice-has-made-1300-arrests-including-pedophiles-gang-members-and-at-least-1-terrorist" target="_blank" rel="noopener">has arrested 1,300 illegal immigrants</a>, Border Czar Tom Homan <a href="https://twitter.com/i/status/1882600909710168202" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> NewsNation host Chris Cuomo.
“Over a thousand of them are criminals. Who are the other ones? They’re either fugitives who’ve been through immigration court, have been ordered to be removed but didn’t, became a fugitive, or collaterals,” Homan told the host. “Look, I said from day one, no one’s off the table. If you’re in the United States illegally, you’ve got a problem. But we are concentrating on public safety threats first. That just makes sense.”

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A Chicago museum exhibit dedicated to Planned Parenthood featured rosaries, because Christianity is in the business of &#8220;controlling the bodies&#8221; of women, the exhibit&#8217;s plaque said.
The International Museum of Surgical Science&#8217;s &#8220;Unplanned Parenthood&#8221; exhibit featured letters women wrote to Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger in the 1920s asking for information about birth control.
Some of the letters were hung from crosses using rosary beads.
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&#8220;The rosary beads serve as a reminder of the enduring influence of christianity [sic] in the United States, symbolizing the ways religious institutions have played in shaping societal norms and controlling the bodies of birthing people,&#8221; <a href="https://imss.org/contemporaryart/michelle-hartney-unplanned-parenthood/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">read</a> the plaque for the exhibit.
&#8220;Birthing people&#8221; is a gender neutral term often used in place of &#8220;women&#8221; by those who espouse gender ideology.
The letters were embroidered onto vintage wedding dress fabric by volunteers in sewing circles around the country, the plaque said. The wedding dress material symbolizes the &#8220;societal expectations placed on women in the early 1900s.&#8221;
The fabric letters were then hung from porcelain backings, &#8220;evoking the fragility of the rights of people with uteruses,&#8221; while the backings have imagery from wedding cakes, lingerie, and jewelry, &#8220;serving as a commentary on the societal pressure placed on women to embrace marriage, often masking the limitations it imposed, particularly during the times when birth control and autonomy were denied.&#8221;
Meat hooks symbolized &#8220;the patriarchy.&#8221;
&#8220;Vintage meat hooks were used as symbols of the brutality of the patriarchy and the way men have treated the bodies of people with uteruses like animals,&#8221; the plaque said.
Chicago is one of the most Catholic cities in the country, with about a <a href="https://www.voanews.com/a/most-catholic-cities-in-us/2966577.html?utm_source=chatgpt.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">third</a> of its residents identifying as Catholic.
One Catholic Chicago resident told The Daily Wire it was &#8220;heart-wrenchingly offensive&#8221; to think of his tax dollars going towards the display.
The museum has <a href="https://imss.org/2023/09/the-international-museum-of-surgical-science-to-offer-artist-stipends-in-2024-season-for-chicago-illinois-based-artists/?srsltid=AfmBOoqEraaOLaphC478hd7hBDoEB3NiBEP_DB-FsX8Uukmbc3T3KYW7&amp;utm_source=chatgpt.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">received</a> government grants, including pandemic relief money.
&#8220;Worse, the use of the Catholic rosary and Crucifixes in the exhibit is a mockery of the Lord&#8217;s Mother and all of the prayers from all those who hold life sacred from conception,&#8221; he said, &#8220;something [about] 1.3 billion Catholics universally hold to, and an issue the Church is unwavering on.&#8221;
&#8220;It’s despicable what the City is supporting. Wasting our tax dollars to mock Catholics, and the desecrate to rosary,&#8221; the Catholic Chicagoan said, adding that he encourages the city&#8217;s two million Catholics to &#8220;vote accordingly.&#8221;
The museum said in a statement to The Daily Wire that the &#8220;views, statements, and ideas expressed in this exhibition are solely those of the artist&#8221; and the museum &#8220;does not endorse or promote any political or social beliefs presented in this exhibit.&#8221;
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&#8220;The International Museum of Surgical Science supports a commitment to contemporary art and artists through exhibitions and programs that use the frame of contemporary artistic practice to examine new perspectives in medical and surgical science and our relationship to the body,&#8221; Director of Museum Operations Michelle Rinard said.
&#8220;We believe in the power of the arts to build community, inspire social change and bring fresh perspective to difficult and complex issues — including issues of race, ethnicity, class, gender identity and sexual orientation. IMSS seeks applications that address these issues,&#8221; Rinard said.
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A body was found in the wheel well of a United Airlines flight that landed in Maui after taking off from Chicago on Christmas Eve.
The body was found when a Boeing 787-10 from United Airlines arrived in Hawaii at 2:12 p.m. local time on Tuesday after taking off from Chicago O’Hare International Airport at 9:31 a.m., The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/25/us/body-found-united-airlines-wheel-well-maui-hawaii.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. United said in a statement that the body was found &#8220;in the wheel well of one of the main landing gears on a United aircraft.&#8221; The Maui Police Department said the person, who has not been identified, was discovered dead.
“The wheel well was only accessible from outside of the aircraft,” United Airlines added, according to <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/25/us/united-airlines-plane-body-found-hawaii/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CNN</a>. “At this time, it is not clear how or when the person accessed the wheel well.”
The wheel well is a compartment under an aircraft that stores the landing gear and is usually a tight space — often smaller than the trunk of a car. In the past, people attempting to hitch a ride on an airplane have been crushed in the wheel well when the landing gear retracts, CNN reported.
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It remains unclear how the person on the United flight to Maui got onto the tarmac and into the wheel well. Dozens of stowaways have attempted to hitch illegal rides on airplanes by climbing into the wheel well, but multiple factors make it nearly impossible for a stowaway to survive a ride in the wheel well. As a plane reaches higher altitudes, oxygen levels drop and stowaways lose consciousness. Temperatures can also reach 75 degrees below zero. Nearly 80% of the roughly 130 people who have attempted to catch a ride on the outside of an airplane since 1947 have died, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/06/us/airplane-stowaways/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the Federal Aviation Administration.
Some people have survived the extreme conditions after hitching a ride on an airplane, and one person survived a brutal journey sitting in the wheel well of a plane that took off from the continental U.S. and landed in Hawaii. In 2014, a 15-year-old boy was <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/usanow/2014/04/21/stow-away-flight/7953325/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">found alive</a> in the wheel well of a Boeing 767 after a five-hour flight from San Jose to Maui. The FBI said the teen&#8217;s survival was a &#8220;miracle.&#8221;

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Macaulay Culkin admits that when the Illinois house from his famous 1990 Christmas movie “Home Alone” went up for sale, he considered buying it, knowing exactly what he’d do with it if he got it.
Speaking at a screening of the classic holiday movie at the Rosemont Theater near Chicago, the 44-year-old actor told the audience when the home that served as a backdrop for the movie recently went up for sale-he “had half a mind to buy it — just for giggles,&#8221; The New York Times<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/14/movies/macaulay-culkin-home-alone-chicago-screening.html"> reported</a>.
Culkin, who early in his career famously played 8-year-old Kevin McCallister in the film, said he didn’t plan to move his fiancée <a href="https://people.com/brenda-song-says-macaulay-culkin-makes-me-feel-most-beautiful-with-nothing-on-my-face-exclusive-8610212">Brenda Song</a> and their two toddlers into the Winnetka, Ill, home, but instead had dreams of turning it into a “movie fun house,” the outlet noted.
The childhood star said he thought it would be fun to give fans a chance to reenact some of the unforgettable scenes in the movie, like when Kevin slid down a staircase while riding on a sled.
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Ultimately, Culkin said the reality of his life prevented him from making it happen. &#8220;I got kids. I&#8217;m busy, man,&#8221; the actor said.
The screening was part of a series of recent screenings he put on for the “‘Home Alone’: A Nostalgic Night With Macaulay Culkin” tour this season, complete with an audience Q&amp;A session for fans.
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Kevin McCallister’s adventures in the film are truly a part of Christmas memories for many. In the film, Kevin, “An eight-year-old troublemaker, mistakenly left home alone, must defend his home against a pair of burglars on Christmas Eve,&#8221; a description on <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099785/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">IMDb</a> read.
Culkin stars in the film alongside famous actors like Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern, John Heard, and Catherine O’Hara.
At the time it was nominated for a host of accolades including two Golden Globes, one for Culkin for “Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture-comedy or Musical,&#8221; and another for “Best Motion Picture-comedy or Musical.” In the end, it earned a total of 12 awards and 7 nominations, including two Oscars nods, <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099785/awards/?ref_=tt_awd">IMDb</a> noted.
Earlier this year, news of the “Home Alone” house going up for sale for more than $5 million went viral, as previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/home-alone-house-listed-for-sale-in-chicago-for-5-25-million">reported</a>. A week later it was sold. 
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Tom Homan, President-elect Donald Trump&#8217;s incoming border czar, blasted Illinois Democratic leaders during a speech in Chicago this week as Trump draws up plans for mass deportations.
Homan discussed the incoming Trump administration&#8217;s plans during a GOP holiday party in the Windy City on Monday and urged Democrats Gov. JB Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson to work with the president-elect, Fox 32 <a href="https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/chicago-deportations-tom-homan-border" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. Both Pritzker and Johnson have vowed to fight Trump&#8217;s mass deportation policy.
&#8220;Chicago is in trouble because your mayor sucks and your governor sucks,&#8221; Homan said.
Homan said of Johnson, &#8220;If he doesn’t want to help, get the hell out of the way,&#8221; according to the <a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/donald-trump/2024/12/09/border-czar-tom-homan-donald-trump-chicago-pritzker-brandon-johnson-immigration" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chicago Sun-Times</a>. Johnson has <a href="https://news.wttw.com/2024/11/12/chicago-will-remain-sanctuary-city-despite-trump-s-threats-mayor-brandon-johnson-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">promised</a> to stand in the way of federal agents apprehending illegal immigrants in Chicago. After the election, the Democratic mayor <a href="https://news.wttw.com/2024/11/12/chicago-will-remain-sanctuary-city-despite-trump-s-threats-mayor-brandon-johnson-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">called</a> Trump a &#8220;tyrant&#8221; and said his plans to clamp down on illegal immigrants are &#8220;unconscionable and dangerous.&#8221;
Pritzker has similarly vowed to stand between the federal government and illegal immigrants. The governor shot back following Homan&#8217;s comments and said that Trump&#8217;s border czar &#8220;does not have the authority to do the things that he’s talked about,&#8221; NBC 5 Chicago <a href="https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/pritzker-pushes-back-on-trump-border-czars-promises-of-mass-deportations/3622500/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
“Being a border czar is not an official position in the government,” the governor said. Pritzker added that he&#8217;s &#8220;open to dialogue&#8221; with Homan.
Following Trump&#8217;s election victory last month, Pritzker said that the federal government would have to go through him to deport illegal immigrants in Illinois.
“To anyone who intends to come take away the freedom and opportunity and dignity of Illinoisans, I would remind you that a happy warrior is still a warrior,” he said. “You come for my people. You come through me.”
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Multiple Chicago residents slammed Mayor Johnson and other Chicago officials over the sanctuary city policies during a recent city council meeting, Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/chicago-residents-slam-stupidity-mayor-brandon-johnsons-liberal-policies-during-city-council-meeting" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
&#8220;Mayor Brandon Johnson, you took an oath to uphold the Constitution. Or when you took an oath, was it only intended to fight for the 10th and 14th amendments regarding illegal aliens?&#8221; asked Zoe Leigh.
&#8220;We don&#8217;t want illegals in our community. We don&#8217;t want migrants terrorizing our own people and to have y&#8217;all sit up here and say we have to accept 7 million dollars being given to them when you have black people already struggling and need help,&#8221; added Chicago resident O. King. &#8220;It is a disgrace.&#8221;
Earlier this week, Homan <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tom-homan-explains-how-democrats-protecting-illegal-aliens-in-sanctuary-cities-states-will-backfire" target="_blank" rel="noopener">warned</a> sanctuary cities like Chicago about releasing illegal immigrants back onto the street after they commit a crime.
&#8220;If you let us in the jail, we can arrest the bad guy in the jail, in the safety and security of the jail. One officer could do that. But when you release the public safety threat back in the community, you put the community at risk,” he said. &#8220;You put my officers at risk. You put the alien at risk, because here’s what’s going to happen. You’re going to release that guy in the community, I’m going to send an entire team to go look for the guy in your community.&#8221;

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Tom Homan Says 'Chicago Is In Trouble': 'Your Mayor Sucks And Your Governor Sucks'

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