Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has cut over $30 million in &#8220;frivolous and unnecessary” government grants and contracts in the last three weeks, the Department of Homeland Security told The Daily Wire. 
The department said that it had cut a total of $31,692,166 in spending between August 22 and September 12. The savings were from de-obligated grants and contracts targeted as part of President Donald Trump&#8217;s efforts to cut down on government waste, the department told The Daily Wire.
“In just three weeks, Secretary Noem has saved the taxpayer more than $30 million. That’s more than $1 million per DAY,” said Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin. “Under President Trump and Secretary Noem, it is no longer open season on the American taxpayer at DHS. The Trump administration is draining the swamp, restoring accountability to the federal government, and putting hardworking Americans FIRST again.”
Under the Trump administration, all department contracts worth over $100,000 have to be approved by Noem.
In total, the Department of Homeland Security said it has saved over $12 billion during Noem’s tenure. In total, that equals out to saving about $50 million per day during the Trump administration.
Homeland Security also said that it was providing savings to American taxpayers by deporting illegal aliens.
“These savings figures don’t even include the additional savings from DHS’s immigration enforcement efforts since President Trump resumed office,” the department said.
According to an estimate from the Federation for American Immigration Reform, the net cost of illegal immigration on American citizens is around $150 billion per year. These costs include schooling, health care, and food assistance for illegal aliens.
“Taxes paid by illegal aliens only cover around 17.2 percent of the costs they create for American citizens, bringing the net cost to $150.7 billion a year. For every dollar in taxes paid by illegal aliens, they and their dependents consume six dollars in benefits and services,” the organization <a href="https://www.fairus.org/new-fair-report-annual-costs-illegal-immigration-soars-1507-billion-year">found</a>.
The Trump administration is looking to use new funds allocated by the Big, Beautiful Bill to help increase deportations.

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Fresh off a major legal victory, the Department of Homeland Security is touting the wide variety of illegal aliens convicted on charges related to violence, drugs, and sex crimes currently held in “Alligator Alcatraz.&#8221;
Last week, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ca11.92709/gov.uscourts.ca11.92709.42.1.pdf">struck down</a> a federal judge’s order saying that Alligator Alcatraz needed to be shut down. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis celebrated the ruling over the weekend, saying he was working to open up similar illegal detention centers across the state, including one he dubbed he “Panhandle Pokey.” 
In the meantime, Alligator Alcatraz will remain home to illegal immigrants convicted of drug trafficking, murder, and sexual offenses targeting children. Since its opening, the detention center has been the focus of protests from leftist activists and a lawsuit arguing that Florida and the Trump administration violated federal environmental laws. 
“Despite repeated hoaxes peddled by the media and activist judges, Alligator Alcatraz is still open and housing some of the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens, including murderers, pedophiles, weapon traffickers, and drug dealers until they are swiftly removed from our country,” Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin told The Daily Wire. 
According to the Department of Homeland Security, those currently detained at Alligator Alcatraz include the following: 
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<li>Abelardo Ocampo, an illegal from Mexico convicted of attempted homicide/second-degree murder and possession of a weapon with intent to harm.  </li>
<li>Eraldo Ariel Perez Perez, an illegal from Guatemala, convicted of sexual battery of a victim (12 years or older) physically helpless to resist.</li>
<li>Efrain Mez-Choc, another illegal from Guatemala convicted of engaging in sex with a child and two counts of lewd and lascivious molestation of a child 12-16 years old. </li>
<li>Alexis Moreda Gallardo, an illegal from Cuba convicted of larceny, fraud impersonation, aggravated assault, and indecent exposure.  </li>
<li>Gustavo Cruz Garcia, an illegal alien from Mexico convicted of prostitution and sex offenses.  </li>
<li>Gersain Lerma Lasprilla, an illegal from Colombia convicted in his home country for the manufacture and trafficking of firearms and ammunition.  </li>
<li>Thallys Roberto Cassimiro DeSouza, an illegal from Brazil convicted of robbery. </li>
<li>David Mota Castillo, an illegal from the Dominican Republic convicted of drug trafficking. </li>
<li>Simeon De La Cruz Paredes, an illegal from the Dominican Republic convicted of smuggling aliens.</li>
<li>Diego Puentes, an illegal from Guatemala convicted of second-degree murder. </li>
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The Trump administration plans to open similar facilities in other states.
“Innovative state partnerships like Alligator Alcatraz, Louisiana Lock-up, Speedway Slammer, and Cornhusker Clink are expanding detention capability to lock up criminal illegal aliens and turbo charging our efforts to get criminal illegal aliens out of our country,” McLaughlin said. “Fire up the deportation planes.”

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A Texas Republican introduced legislation Tuesday that he says would protect millions of American jobs from illegal aliens. 
Congressman Brandon Gill’s “Domestic Jobs Protection Act” would strip the executive branch of authority to grant work authorization to illegal aliens. Gill said that his bill would stop future administrations from using federal law to hand out jobs to people who illegally crossed into the United States. 
“President Trump has done more for American workers and their families than any other president,” Gill told The Daily Wire. “It is crucial that we prevent any future administrations from doing anything to stand in the way of their success, including using work permits to usher in more illegal immigration.” 
Under the Immigration and Nationality Act, the Department of Homeland Security can issue work employment authorization documents to illegal aliens who have been given temporary protected status, are part of the DACA program, or are part of other similar initiatives. Gill’s office said that this work authorization creates a “powerful jobs magnet” for illegal immigration. 
Former President Joe Biden gave temporary protected status to hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants from Venezuela, El Salvador, Ukraine, and Sudan. This status allowed them to seek work authorization from the government.
The Domestic Jobs Protection Act would amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to ensure that “no future administration can exploit discretionary work permits to revive DACA-style programs or expand illegal immigration at the expense of American workers,” according to Gill’s office. 
The current definition of unauthorized alien “with respect to the employment of an alien at a particular time” in the legal code is “that the alien is not at that time either (A) an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence, or (B) authorized to be so employed by this chapter or by the Attorney General.”
Since the Immigration and Nationality Act took effect, the authority to grant employment authorization documents has transitioned from the attorney general to the Department of Homeland Security.
Gill’s bill would remove the line of text that reads “or by the attorney general” to ensure that only Congress can decide who receives work authorization.

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The Trump administration slammed the legacy media on Monday for suggesting that Immigration and Customs Enforcement conducts raids at schools, the Department of Homeland Security told The Daily Wire. 
Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security Tricia McLaughlin accused the media of fear mongering with implying that the Trump administration was targeting students in classrooms. McLaughlin said arrests would only be made at schools if the target was an illegal immigrant employee.
“The Trump Administration will not tie the hands of our brave law enforcement and instead trusts them to use common sense,&#8221; McLaughlin said. &#8220;If a dangerous illegal alien felon were to flee into a school, or a child sex offender is working as an employee, there may be a situation where an arrest is made to protect public safety. But this has not happened.&#8221;
“The media is sadly attempting to create a climate of fear and smear law enforcement,&#8221; McLaughlin told The Daily Wire. &#8220;These smears are contributing to our ICE law enforcement officers facing 1,000% increase in assaults against them.&#8221;
Several media outlets have published stories highlighting fears that immigration authorities would show up at schools. 
The New York Times ran an <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/07/us/immigration-deportations-ice-schools.html">article</a> called “What if ICE Agents Show Up? Schools Prepare Teachers and Parents,” while the Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/08/15/immigrant-schoolchildren-ice-raids-protections/">published</a> “This back-to-school season, educators prepare for ICE encounters.” NBC ran an <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/-impact-real-ice-raid-fears-keep-students-classrooms-rcna194562">article</a> “‘The impact has been real’: ICE raid fears keep students out of classrooms.” 
“ICE is not going to schools to make arrests of children,” McLaughlin said, adding that criminals would “no longer be able to hide in America’s schools to avoid arrest.”
A press release from Homeland Security said that while ICE could conduct operations at schools, agents would use discretion and that the department said those circumstances would be “extremely rare.”
The Trump administration has focused on catching illegal aliens who have been convicted or charged with violent crimes in addition to illegally crossing the border.
Border Czar Tom Homan said during a speech at the State Freedom Caucus Summit over the weekend that over 70% of ICE arrests have been of those who have been charged with additional crimes. He added that the administration still maintained the right to deport anyone, regardless of whether they had committed a second crime upon entering the country.

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CBS News announced on Friday that it is changing its policy on interviews with top government officials on “Face the Nation” after Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cbs-news-shamefully-edited-interview-to-whitewash-kilmar-abrego-garcias-background-noem-says">blasted</a> the network for “shamefully” editing comments she made on last Sunday’s show.
CBS News initially defended its edits to the Noem interview, arguing that it “met all CBS News standards” and adding that the full interview and transcript were available online. On Friday, however, CBS News backtracked, saying that based on “audience feedback over the past week,” the network will “implement a new policy for greater transparency in our interviews,” The Hill <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5488422-cbs-face-the-nation-changes-kristi-noem-dhs/">reported</a>.
“FACE THE NATION will now only broadcast live or live-to-tape interviews (subject to national security or legal restrictions),” CBS News said. “This extra measure means the television audience will see the full, unedited interview on CBS and we will continue our practice of posting full transcripts and the unedited video online.”
The network got into hot water after its edits to the Noem interview cut the Homeland Security secretary’s response short by 30 seconds when she was discussing the allegations against Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an illegal alien at the center of a high-profile U.S. immigration case, The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cbs-news-shamefully-edited-interview-to-whitewash-kilmar-abrego-garcias-background-noem-says">reported</a>. The part of Noem’s comments that CBS News cut out of the version that it aired on “Face The Nation” included Noem saying that Abrego Garcia “was a known human smuggler, an MS-13 gang member, an individual who was a wife beater, and someone who was so perverted that he solicited nude photos from minors.”
Abrego Garcia has denied all of those charges as he fights against the Trump administration’s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kilmar-abrego-garcias-journey-from-maryland-man-to-uganda-man-a-current-timeline?author=Nathan+Gay&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Kilmar+Abrego+Garcia%E2%80%99s+Journey+From+Maryland+Man+To+Uganda+Man%3A+The+Definitive+Timeline">plans</a> to deport him to Uganda.
“This morning, I joined CBS to report the facts about Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Instead, CBS shamefully edited the interview to whitewash the truth about this MS-13 gang member and the threat he poses to American public safety,” Noem posted to X on Sunday after the interview was aired. “Watch for the part of my interview that @CBS tried to cover up.”
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This morning, I joined CBS to report the facts about Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Instead, CBS shamefully edited the interview to whitewash the truth about this MS-13 gang member and the threat he poses to American public safety.
Watch for the part of my interview that <a href="https://twitter.com/CBS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CBS</a> tried to… <a href="https://t.co/28fsGZug48">pic.twitter.com/28fsGZug48</a>
— Secretary Kristi Noem (@Sec_Noem) <a href="https://twitter.com/Sec_Noem/status/1962256536475926676?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 31, 2025</a></blockquote>
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The move by CBS News to change its interview format comes shortly after President Donald Trump secured a major victory over the network, as CBS agreed to settle a lawsuit with the president for $18 million over another editing scandal. Trump sued CBS after the network edited a “60 Minutes” interview with former Vice President Kamala Harris to make one of her answers sound more favorable than it was.

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A federal appeals court issued a ruling on Thursday allowing an illegal alien detention center in Florida dubbed Alligator Alcatraz to remain “open for business” while a lawsuit against the state and the Trump administration makes its way through court.
An Obama-appointed federal district court judge <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/obama-appointed-judge-orders-alligator-alcatraz-to-shut-down-within-60-days">issued</a> a temporary restraining order last month ordering Florida and the Trump administration to stop placing illegal aliens in the facility. The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals blocked that judge’s order in a 2-1 decision on Thursday.
The judges <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ca11.92709/gov.uscourts.ca11.92709.42.1.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ruled</a> that a lawsuit brought by environmental groups and an American Indian tribe “failed to state a viable claim” that Florida and the Department of Homeland Security violated federal environmental laws.
“Given that the federal government has an undisputed and wide-reaching interest in combatting illegal immigration, and that illegal immigration is a matter of national security and public safety, we think the injunction issued below goes against the public interest,” the majority wrote in the court’s decision.
Both the Department of Homeland Security and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis celebrated the ruling.
“Today’s order is a win for the American people, the rule of law and common sense,” the Department of Homeland Security posted on X. “This lawsuit was never about the environmental impacts of turning a developed airport into a detention facility. It has and will always be about open-borders activists and judges trying to keep law enforcement from removing dangerous criminal aliens from our communities, full stop.”
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HUGE VICTORY FOR ALLIGATOR ALCATRAZ. Today’s order is a win for the American people, the rule of law and common sense. This lawsuit was never about the environmental impacts of turning a developed airport into a detention facility. It has and will always be about open-borders…
— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) <a href="https://twitter.com/DHSgov/status/1963695670923026455?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 4, 2025</a></blockquote>
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“The mission continues on immigration enforcement. The media was giddy that somehow Alligator Alcatraz was ‘shutting down.’ And we told them that wasn’t true,” DeSantis <a href="https://x.com/GovRonDeSantis/status/1963688691542401406">said</a> in a video message. “There have been illegal aliens continuing to be there and being removed and returned to their home country. But they ran with the narrative because some leftist judge ruled, implausibly, that somehow Florida wasn’t allowed to use our own property to help the federal government in this important mission.”
“So Alligator Alcatraz is, in fact, like we’ve always said, open for business. The mission continues and we’re going to continue leading the way when it comes to immigration enforcement,” DeSantis added.
The Trump administration has partnered with states across the country to open up similar detention centers with names like the Cornhusker Clink in Nebraska and the Speedway Slammer in Indiana.

Protesters rally against “Alligator Alcatraz” in Florida, Everglades

Court Allows Florida’s Alligator Alcatraz To Remain ‘Open For Business’

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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump&#8217;s Immigration and Customs Enforcement was busy over Labor Day weekend, rounding up more &#8220;worst of the worst&#8221; criminal illegal aliens.
Homeland Security statistics exclusively shared with The Daily Wire show that the weekend arrests include murderers, pedophiles, drug traffickers, and rapists. DHS exclusively shared the names of 15 individuals who were arrested over the weekend all over the United States as part of the president&#8217;s enforcement against criminal illegal aliens, fulfilling his campaign promise to make America safer.
&#8220;While Americans enjoyed the holiday weekend, ICE law enforcement was hard at work arresting barbaric criminal illegal aliens. Some of the worst of the worst arrested include murderers, rapists, pedophiles, and drug traffickers,” a DHS Spokesperson shared with The Daily Wire, adding, “Our brave ICE law enforcement officers never stop working to make America safe again.”
Ricardo Duque-Rivas, for example, is a criminal illegal alien from Mexico arrested by ICE Houston over the weekend. His crimes include aggravated assault with a deadly weapon in Williamson County, Texas. Byron Ortega-Gonzalez, a criminal illegal from El Salvador with a conviction for aggravated criminal sexual abuse of a victim less than 18, was arrested by ICE Chicago.
Meanwhile in Utah, ICE Salt Lake City arrested a number of illegals: a criminal illegal alien from Mexico convicted of attempted criminal homicide in Portland, Oregon, Luis Zamora-Rodriguez, as well as Angel Osorio-Acosta, a criminal illegal alien from Venezuela convicted of aggravated assault in Salt Lake City. ICE Salt Lake City also arrested Desideo Cuevas-Vallejo, a criminal illegal alien from Mexico, convicted of possession of a controlled substance and multiple DUIs in Idaho.
In Massachusetts, ICE Boston arrested a criminal illegal alien from the Dominican Republic named Kevin Perez-Lorenzo, who has convictions in Salem, Massachusetts, for trafficking heroin and trespassing.
In Maryland, ICE Baltimore nabbed Theophilis Anwana, a criminal illegal alien from Nigeria convicted of second degree rape in Bel Air, Maryland.
And in Colorado, ICE Denver arrested Aymen Abdu, a registered sex offender who is a criminal illegal alien from Sudan convicted of aggravated assault and indecent exposure in Colorado.
In Minnesota, ICE St. Paul arrested a criminal illegal alien from Mexico named Blanca Garcia-Cazquez convicted of operating while intoxicated, public intoxication, and two counts of child endangerment in Iowa. And in Washington, ICE Washington arrested Luis Miguel Rodriguez-Gomez, a criminal illegal alien from Honduras convicted of many crimes in Virginia, including felony hit and run, DWI, and probation violation in Fredericksburg, Virginia, as well as driving without a license, DWI, and possession of schedule I or II drugs in Stafford County, Virginia.
In New York, ICE New York City arrested a criminal illegal alien from Uruguay named Juan Alfonso-Rodriguez, who had three DWI convictions in Suffolk County, New York. In Georgia, ICE Atlanta arrested criminal illegal alien Jimmy Hoang from Vietnam, convicted of a weapons offense, assault, attempted murder, and driving under the influence in Iowa.
ICE San Antonio arrested Daniel Ortega-Pineda for smuggling people through Eagle Pass, Texas. He is a criminal illegal alien from Guatemala. And ICE Chicago arrested Francisco Sanchez-Gamora, a criminal illegal alien from Mexico, convicted in Los Angeles of homicide, corporal injury to his spouse, and felony illegal reentry into the United States.
And ICE Dallas arrested a criminal illegal alien from Honduras, Romero Guillen, convicted of a hit and run death in New Hanover.
Throughout their efforts to stem the border crisis, the Trump administration has arrested more than 352,000 illegal aliens and removed more than 324,000 from the country, DHS told The Daily Wire.

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CBS News edited an interview with Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to “whitewash” the criminal background of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, according to Noem.
Noem appeared on CBS’s “Face The Nation” on Sunday and defended the Trump administration’s efforts to deport Abrego Garcia, who is currently challenging his planned removal to Uganda.
The Homeland Security Secretary said that Abrego Garcia, who is in the United States illegally, committed crimes against children and his wife, but when her interview aired on CBS News, the network had cut out the part in which Noem had talked specifically about the accusations that Abrego Garcia is facing.
“And the one thing that we will continue to do is to make sure that he doesn&#8217;t walk free in the United States of America,” Noem said in a clip that aired on Face The Nation.
The edit cut short Noem’s response, which continued on for nearly 30 more seconds.
“This individual was a known human smuggler, a MS-13 gang member, an individual who was a wife beater, and someone who was so perverted that he solicited nude photos from minors,” Noem had continued in a clip that never made it to air, but that Noem later posted on social media.
“Even his fellow human traffickers told him to knock it off he was so sick in what he was doing and how he was treating small children,” said Noem. “He needs to never be in the United States of America, and our administration is making sure we’re doing all that we can to bring him to justice.”
Noem said that the network “shamefully edited” her interview to “whitewash” Abrego Garcia.
“This morning, I joined CBS to report the facts about Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Instead, CBS shamefully edited the interview to whitewash the truth about this MS-13 gang member and the threat he poses to American public safety,” she wrote in a post on X.
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This morning, I joined CBS to report the facts about Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Instead, CBS shamefully edited the interview to whitewash the truth about this MS-13 gang member and the threat he poses to American public safety.
Watch for the part of my interview that <a href="https://twitter.com/CBS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CBS</a> tried to… <a href="https://t.co/28fsGZug48">pic.twitter.com/28fsGZug48</a>
— Secretary Kristi Noem (@Sec_Noem) <a href="https://twitter.com/Sec_Noem/status/1962256536475926676?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 31, 2025</a></blockquote>
The Department of Homeland Security moved earlier this month to deport Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national, to Uganda after a court order prevented his deportation back to his home country.
Last week, U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis, an Obama appointee, put the deportation on hold until Xinis can hold an evidentiary hearing on a lawsuit Abrego Garcia filed challenging his deportation to Uganda. Xinis had previously ordered the Trump administration to “take all available steps to facilitate the return” of Abrego Garcia to the United States after he was sent to El Salvador.

CBS News ‘Shamefully Edited’ Interview To ‘Whitewash’ Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s Background, Noem Says

President Donald Trump will end former Vice President Kamala Harris’ Secret Service protection, which former President Joe Biden had quietly extended beyond the usual timeframe.
Harris’ Secret Service protection will end on Monday, according to a Thursday letter <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/29/politics/kamala-harris-secret-service-canceled-trump-biden">obtained</a> by CNN. A senior White House official confirmed the cancellation of the Secret Service detail on Friday morning. 
“You are hereby authorized to discontinue any security-related procedures previously authorized by Executive Memorandum, beyond those required by law, for the following individual, effective September 1, 2025: Former Vice President Kamala D. Harris,” a letter from the White House to the Department of Homeland Security read.
Federal law requires that vice presidents get six months of taxpayer-funded Secret Service protection after leaving office. Biden took executive action before completing his term, giving Harris 18 total months of Secret Service protection, NBC <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-revokes-secret-service-protection-former-president-kamala-harris-rcna227959">reported</a>. Typically, her Secret Service detail would have been pulled on July 21. 
“The Vice President is grateful to the United States Secret Service for their professionalism, dedication, and unwavering commitment to safety,” senior Harris adviser Kirsten Allen said, commenting on the decision. 
California Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom was briefed on the end of Harris’s Secret Service protection, CNN reported. 
“The safety of our public officials should never be subject to erratic, vindictive political impulses,” Newsom spokesman Bob Salladay said. 
In the coming weeks, Harris is set to embark on a national tour to promote her book, “107 Days,” which documents her failed 2024 presidential campaign. 
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Trump has previously moved to end Secret Service details for other former government officials. Shortly after beginning his second term, Trump yanked the Secret Service details for former National Security Adviser John Bolton, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and former Iran envoy Brian Hook.
He also revoked the Secret Service details for Hunter and Ashley Biden in March. In a Truth Social <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114180054723679623/">post</a> at the time, Trump said that 31 agents were protecting the half-siblings. 
“Hunter Biden has had Secret Service protection for an extended period of time, all paid for by the United States Taxpayer. There are as many as 18 people on this Detail, which is ridiculous! He is currently vacationing in, of all places, South Africa, where the Human Rights of people has been strenuously questioned,” Trump wrote. “Hunter Biden will no longer receive Secret Service protection. Likewise, Ashley Biden who has 13 agents will be taken off the list.”

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FEMA employees who oppose changes being made to the long-troubled agency by the Trump administration are disgruntled bureaucrats who have overseen years of failures, the Department of Homeland Security told The Daily Wire on Thursday.
When asked about a <a href="https://www.standupforscience.net/fema-katrina-declaration">recent letter</a> sent to Congress lamenting moves being made at FEMA by the Trump administration and the agency’s history of mismanagement, a spokesman for Homeland Security told The Daily Wire that critics of the changes were motivated by resistance to accountability. 
“The pattern is clear: FEMA has failed to deliver aid, mismanaged contracts and funds, and burdened survivors with a maze of paperwork,” a spokesman said. “So it should surprise no one that the same bureaucrats who let these failures pile up are now the loudest critics of accountability. Those who were comfortable with a broken system are the ones kicking and screaming the hardest today.”
The letter, published on Tuesday, claimed that the Trump administration was damaging FEMA’s capacity to respond to disasters by cutting staff, ridding the agency of climate change ideology, and interfering with preparedness programs. Roughly 200 FEMA employees signed the letter.  
The Trump administration said it was bringing much-needed accountability and reforms to the agency. 
“The truth is simple: FEMA was failing the American people. DHS is finally forcing change, and for the first time in years, real accountability is on the table,” the DHS spokesman told The Daily Wire. 
For years, FEMA has been plagued by incompetence. Under President Joe Biden, the agency faced sharp criticism over its handling of both Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Milton. Flooding victims in North Carolina and Eastern Tennessee waited for days before federal responders showed up. 
In Florida, a FEMA supervisor ordered her disaster response team to skip the homes of people with Trump signs or flags. That led to at least 20 homes in the Lake Placid area being skipped over because of their political beliefs. That employee was only fired after The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-fema-official-ordered-relief-workers-to-skip-houses-with-trump-signs">reported</a> on the guidance. 
Earlier this year, an Atlanta woman was <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/atlanta-woman-heading-prison-paying-114916916.html">sentenced</a> to prison and ordered to pay a $1.7 million fine after she was awarded a $156 million contract in 2017 to provide 30 million self-heating meals to Puerto Ricans recovering from a devastating hurricane. Brown was convicted of fraud after only delivering 50,000 meals that were not self-heating. 
Other recent reports from independent government watchdogs have not been kind to the agency. 
A <a href="https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-21-91.pdf">report</a> published in February 2021 from the Government Accountability Office found that FEMA’s 2018 response to disasters in the Pacific Islands was lackluster and consistently failed to meet the agency’s goals. 
For example, it found that FEMA completed the pre-award process for its Public Assistance program within the established timeframe for only 14% of its 492 projects in its response to disasters in the Pacific. The pre-award phase took nearly 13 months, much longer than its goal of 189 days. 
The report also found that for the entirety of fiscal year 2019, FEMA obligated just 28% of all Public Assistance projects with targeted time frames. 
A <a href="https://www.oig.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/assets/2020-09/OIG-20-76-Sep20.pdf">later report</a> from the Inspector General on FEMA’s handling of Hurricanes Irma and Maria found that the agency “lost visibility” on commodity shipments worth $257 million to Puerto Rico. Commodities successfully delivered in Puerto Rico took an average of 69 days to reach their final destination, the report found. 
Another <a href="https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-24-105557.pdf">report</a> from Puerto Rico found that nearly three years after it was rocked by hurricanes and earthquakes, Puerto Rico had spent less than 10% of the money authorized for recovery. At the time, an additional $11 billion was still not approved by FEMA. 
More recent reports from the Inspector General have also found problems with FEMA’s allocation of funds. 
A report published in April 2020 <a href="https://www.oig.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/assets/2020-04/OIG-20-23-Apr20.pdf">found</a> that the agency has made over $3 billion in potentially fraudulent payments since 2003. The report found that FEMA does “not collect sufficient supporting documentation or verify that applicants claiming to have no insurance are eligible for home repair assistance.”
Another <a href="https://www.oig.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/assets/2025-01/OIG-25-13-Jan25.pdf">report</a> from January 2025 found major problems with FEMA’s performance during COVID. The report found that the agency over-obligated at least $1.5 billion for one state’s medical staffing grant, neglected to determine the cost allowability of $8.1 billion drawn down by a state, and made at least another $32.8 million in improper payments. 
FEMA’s National Flood Insurance Program is also fiscally unstable with billions of dollars in debt. In March 2025, the Congressional Research Service <a href="https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/IN10784">found</a> that the program was $22.5 billion in debt. 
“For more than a decade, independent watchdogs and news reports have documented systemic FEMA failures that delayed help to survivors, wasted billions, and trapped communities in red tape. These failures spanned multiple administrations and remained unaddressed until President Trump and Secretary Noem had the courage to call out these problems and fix them,” a DHS spokesman told The Daily Wire. 
 While some legacy outlets have attacked the Trump administration over the devastating Texas flooding over the Fourth of July, many state leaders have been supportive of the administration’s efforts. 
“I’ve been doing this for more than 30 years, and I can say with confidence that this was the fastest and most effective federal support Texas has ever received,” Chief of the Texas Division of Emergency Management Nim Kidd told The Daily Wire. “That kind of partnership &#8211; moving the right resources at the right time &#8211; saved lives and made all the difference in our response.”
Kidd said that every Urban Search and Rescue team he requested from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was “deployed without delay.” 
President Donald Trump has taken a number of steps to reevaluate FEMA’s role and explore the possibility of shifting the responsibility of disaster response more squarely onto the states. In January, he created a council to assess the agency’s effectiveness and look at potential alternatives.

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Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an alleged MS-13 gangbanger and illegal immigrant facing human smuggling charges, could be deported to Uganda, Garcia&#8217;s legal team says.
The Departments of Justice and Homeland Security allegedly told Garcia&#8217;s legal team on Friday that their client could be sent to Uganda if he refused to accept a plea deal offer on serious smuggling charges.
If not accepted by Monday, the departments allegedly said that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) would start the process of deporting Garcia to Uganda. If, however, the deal was accepted, Garcia could be deported to Costa Rica.
Garcia&#8217;s team says this is an act of coercion from the Trump administration. However, a DOJ spokesperson contends they are simply working to keep Garcia, a &#8220;clear danger,&#8221; away from law abiding Americans and hold him &#8220;accountable&#8221; for his actions.
“A federal grand jury has charged Abrego Garcia with serious federal crimes &#8230; underscoring the clear danger this defendant presents to the community,&#8221; the DOJ said. &#8220;This defendant can plead guilty and accept responsibility or stand trial before a jury. Either way, we will hold Abrego Garcia accountable and protect the American people.”
The DOJ never confirmed nor denied whether or not Garcia would be deported to Uganda.
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Garcia was quickly championed by the Left after the Trump administration mistakenly deported him back to his home country of El Salvador, where Garcia apparently faces threats from gang members. Democrat politicians and legacy media infamously and erroneously dubbed him a “Maryland man,&#8221; weaving a story of a sympathetic family man wrongly deported.
However, more details were quickly uncovered, revealing apparent gang ties, alleged sexual misconduct toward young girls, and participation in an illegal alien smuggling ring.
The crux of the DOJ&#8217;s case against Garcia relies on a traffic stop in Putnam County, Tennessee, on November 30, 2022, when the illegal was pulled over driving a Chevrolet Suburban with nine others inside, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/heres-why-the-trump-admin-says-it-would-be-dangerous-to-release-kilmar-abrego-garcia?author=Leif+Le+Mahieu&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Here’s+Why+The+Trump+Admin+Says+It+Would+Be+Dangerous+To+Release+Kilmar+Abrego+Garcia">Daily Wire reporter Leif Le Mahieu</a> reported from the Tennessee courthouse in June. One of those individuals noted his age to be 15 when Tennessee Highway Patrol had each person write their name and age down on a sheet of paper.
Homeland Security special agent Peter Joseph said that the 15-year-old boy was unaccounted for to this day and that they hadn’t tracked him down yet, saying that “we don’t know right now” if he is okay. Joseph added that at least six of the nine individuals being transported have been identified as illegal aliens from a variety of countries including Mexico, El Salvador, and Honduras.
Garcia was released from jail on Friday and allowed to return to Maryland to await trial.
He faces 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine for one count of conspiracy to transport aliens and up to 10 years in prison for each illegal smuggled across the country if found guilty on another count of unlawful transportation of illegal aliens, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/heres-why-the-trump-admin-says-it-would-be-dangerous-to-release-kilmar-abrego-garcia?author=Leif+Le+Mahieu&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Here’s+Why+The+Trump+Admin+Says+It+Would+Be+Dangerous+To+Release+Kilmar+Abrego+Garcia">The Daily Wire</a> reported.
Leif Le Mahieu contributed to this report.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kilmar-abrego-garcia-belonged-to-a-biden-backed-illegal-alien-advocacy-group?author=Spencer+Lindquist&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=‘Maryland+Man’+Kilmar+Abrego+Garcia+Belonged+To+A+Biden-Backed+Group+That+Called+For+Abolishing+ICE">‘Maryland Man’ Kilmar Abrego Garcia Belonged To A Biden-Backed Group That Called For Abolishing ICE</a>

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ICE arrested a Mexican man who killed his nephew while driving drunk in Texas, the Department of Homeland Security told The Daily Wire on Thursday.
The department arrested 39-year-old Mexican national Jose Luis Gonzalez-Montiel alongside four other “worst of the worst” criminal aliens during enforcement operations on Wednesday. The arrests come as the Trump administration seeks to carry out the president’s mass deportation plans.
Gonzalez-Montiel was convicted of intoxicated manslaughter in Bexar County, Texas, after he drove off the road near San Antonio in his Ford SUV with his nephew in the vehicle back in 2017. Both Gonzalez-Montiel and his nephew were ejected from the vehicle.
Gonzalez-Montiel was arrested on vehicular manslaughter charges after his nephew died from his injuries 13 days after the crash. He <a href="https://foxsanantonio.com/news/local/accused-drunk-driver-apologizes-for-deadly-crash-at-victims-memorial-service-say-police">reportedly</a> told police that he drank up to eight beers before driving.
“Every single day, our brave ICE law enforcement risk their lives to arrest the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens,” a senior official with the Department of Homeland Security told The Daily Wire. “From pedophiles to drunk drivers killing innocent people, President Trump and Secretary Noem will not allow criminal illegal aliens to terrorize American citizens. Our message to criminal illegals is clear: LEAVE NOW. If you don’t, we will find you and we will deport you.”
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The department also picked up multiple other criminal illegal aliens on Wednesday, convicted of heinous crimes from the East to the West coast.
ICE arrested 58-year-old Viroth Phannavong, an illegal alien from Laos, convicted of first-degree child molestation in Providence, Rhode Island. His crime <a href="https://law.justia.com/cases/rhode-island/supreme-court/2011/10-256.html">involved</a> molesting the daughter of his former girlfriend.
The agency also arrested 40-year-old Meljim Ramirez-Perez, an illegal alien from Guatemala convicted of continuous sex abuse of a child in Los Angeles; 35-year-old Andre Etienne, a criminal illegal alien from Jamaica convicted of child molestation in Conyers, Georgia; and 45-year-old Zhiping Liu, an illegal alien from China convicted of theft by extortion in Brookville, Pennsylvania, Homeland Security told The Daily Wire.
Under Trump, ICE arrests have surged as the agency targets illegal aliens convicted of violent crimes.

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