The Trump administration is &#8220;actively&#8221; considering suspending habeas corpus as it seeks to continue its mass deportation efforts that are being hindered by federal judges.
White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller said on Friday that the Constitution makes it &#8220;clear&#8221; that the writ of habeas corpus, which allows a person to petition a court to review the legality of their detention, can be &#8220;suspended in a time of invasion.&#8221;
“So, it’s an option we’re actively looking at,&#8221; Miller said, adding that &#8220;it depends on whether the courts do the right thing or not.”
Multiple federal judges have stopped Trump from carrying out his deportation agenda by blocking the administration&#8217;s use of the Alien Enemies Act. The Trump administration was using the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to quickly deport Venezuelan illegal immigrants that it said were violent criminals and gang members. The president <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114466868060900843" target="_blank" rel="noopener">blasted</a> &#8220;activist judges&#8221; on Wednesday, calling on them to allow the deportation of &#8220;murderers, and other criminals who have come into our Country illegally, WITHOUT DELAY!!!
&#8220;Our Court System is not letting me do the job I was Elected to do,&#8221; Trump added.
Miller also argued on Friday that the Immigration and Nationality Act, which was passed by Congress in 1965, strips the judicial branch&#8217;s jurisdiction &#8220;from overruling a presidential determination or a secretarial determination on TPS [temporary protected status].&#8221;
&#8220;So when Secretary [Kristi] Noem terminated TPS for the illegals that Biden flew into the country, when the courts stepped in, they were violating explicit language that Congress had enacted. &#8230; So the courts aren’t just at war with the executive branch, the courts are at war — these radical, rogue judges — with the legislative branch as well. So all of that will inform the choices the president ultimately makes,&#8221; Miller said.
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Stephen Miller says the White House is looking into suspending habeas corpus, which protects people from unlawful detentions: &quot;A lot of it depends on whether the courts do the right thing or not.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/AZLhFy79oZ">pic.twitter.com/AZLhFy79oZ</a>
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If the White House attempts to suspend habeas corpus by arguing that the United States is being invaded, the move would likely be challenged, creating another battle between the courts and the president. Habeas corpus has been <a href="https://constitutioncenter.org/the-constitution/articles/article-i/clauses/763" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suspended</a> four times throughout U.S. history. The first time was during the Civil War, and then again during Reconstruction while the federal government was going after the Ku Klux Klan. It was also suspended in the Philippines in 1905 during an insurrection and in Hawaii after the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.
Trump rebuffed an order from Judge James Boasberg on March 15 after the judge said the administration must return deportation flights carrying Venezuelans to El Salvador. The deportation fight eventually made its way up to the Supreme Court, which blocked Trump from deporting suspected Tren de Aragua gang members under the Alien Enemies Act &#8220;until further order of this Court.&#8221;

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Illegal immigrants who self-deport will receive a $1,000 stipend under a plan that the Trump administration says will protect law enforcement and save American tax dollars, the Department of Homeland Security announced on Monday.
Along with giving illegal immigrants a $1,000 stipend, Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dhs-unleashes-possible-money-saving-measure-illegal-aliens-self-deport" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that the Trump administration would also pay for the cost of airfare. The total cost for the stipend and airfare would be around $4,500 on average, a significant reduction from the estimated $17,000 it costs the federal government to detain and deport an illegal immigrant, according to DHS, which added that illegal immigrants would not receive the stipend until it was verified that they had left the United States.
&#8220;If you are here illegally, self-deportation is the best, safest and most cost effective way to leave the United States to avoid arrest,&#8221; Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem wrote on X. &#8220;DHS is now offering illegal aliens financial travel assistance and a stipend to return to their home country through the CBP Home App.&#8221;
&#8220;This is the safest option for our law enforcement, aliens and is a 70% savings for US taxpayers,&#8221; Noem added. &#8220;Download the CBP Home App TODAY and self-deport.&#8221;
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If you are here illegally, self-deportation is the best, safest and most cost effective way to leave the United States to avoid arrest.
DHS is now offering illegal aliens financial travel assistance and a stipend to return to their home country through the CBP Home App.
This is… <a href="https://t.co/2f02wLWQi5">pic.twitter.com/2f02wLWQi5</a>
— Secretary Kristi Noem (@Sec_Noem) <a href="https://twitter.com/Sec_Noem/status/1919402136753811733?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 5, 2025</a></blockquote>
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The CBP Home App, initially launched as the CBP One App under the first Trump administration to help with truck inspections at the border, was repurposed by the Biden administration to help migrants claim asylum in the United States. Under the new Trump administration, the app is being used mainly to help illegal immigrants return to their home countries as President Donald Trump focuses on his deportation operation.
According to Fox News, DHS acknowledged the concerns of some critics who argue that the $1,000 stipends reward those who illegally entered the country. The DHS, however, argued that the initiative&#8217;s cost-cutting function and the overall goal of mass deportations are justifiable reasons to pay illegal immigrants to leave the United States.
Last month, the department said it would <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-admin-to-fine-illegal-aliens-nearly-1k-a-day-for-refusing-to-self-deport" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fine illegal immigrants</a> nearly $1,000 a day if they remain in the United States beyond their removal date. The fines would also be retroactive, stretching back up to five years and hitting some illegal immigrants with more than $1 million in fines. Trump wants Customs and Border Protection to administer the penalties and seize the property of those who cannot pay.
At the end of March, the Trump administration said it had <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/03/31/us-news/ice-arrested-113k-deported-over-100k-since-trumps-return-as-prez-maintains-promise-to-boot-illegal-migrants-alleged-gangbangers-sources/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">deported</a> more than 100,000 illegal immigrants since Trump was sworn in on January 20. The administration has said it is focused on going after illegal immigrants who are accused of being violent gang members, sending them to a notorious prison in El Salvador. Trump has been celebrating his action on deportations, <a href="https://www.axios.com/2025/04/28/trump-posters-white-house-arrested-immigrants" target="_blank" rel="noopener">placing</a> mug shots of arrested illegal immigrants along the White House driveway last week.

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Trump Admin To Pay Illegal Immigrants To Self-Deport, Says It Will Save 70% ‘For U.S. Taxpayers’

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President Trump blasted the courts early Saturday after a federal judge blocked his administration from using the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelan gang members.
&#8220;Can it be so that Judges aren&#8217;t allowing the USA to Deport Criminals, including Murderers, out of our Country and back to where they came from?&#8221; Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114442321106427795">wrote</a> on Truth Social.
&#8220;If this is so, our Country, as we know it, is finished! Americans will have to get used to a very different, crime filled, LIFE. This is not what our Founders had in mind!!!&#8221; he added.
The ruling came from U.S. District Judge Fernando Rodriguez Jr., who determined Thursday that the 18th-century law can only be used when an &#8220;organized, armed force&#8221; threatens the United States, a standard he did not apply to multinational South American gangs.
Rodriguez rejected the administration&#8217;s argument that the law could target alleged members of the Tren de Aragua gang in his 36-page decision.
“The Proclamation makes no reference to and in no manner suggests that a threat exists of an organized, armed group of individuals entering the United States at the direction of Venezuela to conquer the country or assume control over a portion of the nation,” the judge wrote.
“Thus, the Proclamation’s language cannot be read as describing conduct that falls within the meaning of ‘invasion’ for purposes of the AEA,” he added.
The Alien Enemies Act, part of the four Alien and Sedition Acts signed by President John Adams in 1798, has rarely been invoked in modern times. Trump&#8217;s proclamation <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/invocation-of-the-alien-enemies-act-regarding-the-invasion-of-the-united-states-by-tren-de-aragua/">activating</a> the centuries-old law in March represented a significant shift in immigration enforcement strategy, specifically targeting what the administration describes as transnational criminal organizations.
The administration deported more than 100 men to a high-security prison in El Salvador using the AEA, citing their tattoos and other evidence as proof of gang affiliation.
Continuing Trump&#8217;s aggressive immigration agenda, the administration has <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5280834-donald-trump-judge-alien-enemies-act-ruling/">asked</a> the Supreme Court to end deportation protections for over 600,000 Venezuelans currently covered under Temporary Protected Status, per the Hill.
The case was brought by several Venezuelan nationals who claimed they were wrongfully targeted for deportation. Their attorneys argued that tattoos alone were insufficient evidence of gang affiliation and that many individuals were denied the opportunity to contest the allegations against them.
White House officials confirmed that the Justice Department plans to appeal Rodriguez&#8217;s ruling while exploring other legal options to continue the deportation of individuals they identify as gang members. The administration has maintained that aggressive immigration enforcement remains central to its public safety agenda.

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Trump Rips Judiciary After Judge Nixes Mass Deportation Plan

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U.S. District Court Judge Fernando Rodriguez Jr. ruled on Thursday that President Donald Trump and his administration could not use the Alien Enemies Act to uphold the deportations of Venezuelan nationals to El Salvador.
<a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.txsd.2000771/gov.uscourts.txsd.2000771.58.0_1.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rodriguez</a> stated that the Act — first enacted in 1798 — did not apply unless the United States was facing an &#8220;armed, organized attack,&#8221; and argued that the influx of illegal alien gang members and terrorists did not meet that particular qualification.
&#8220;The Proclamation exceeds the scope of the statute and, as a result, is unlawful. [Administration officials] do not possess the lawful authority under the AEA, and based on the Proclamation, to detain Venezuelan aliens, transfer them within the United States, or remove them from the country,&#8221; he wrote in his decision.
The Trump administration argued that Venezuelan prison gang Tren de Aragua, a &#8220;designated Foreign Terrorist Organization[,] . . . is perpetrating, attempting, and threatening an invasion or predatory incursion against the territory of the United States,&#8221; and based on that, &#8220;all Venezuelan citizens 14 years of age or older who are members of TdA, are within the United States, and are not actually naturalized or lawful permanent residents of the United States are liable to be apprehended, restrained, secured, and removed as Alien Enemies.&#8221;
Rodriguez disagreed, however, but he did leave room for recourse: he also noted in his ruling that once the court determined the definition of &#8220;invasion&#8221; or &#8220;incursion,&#8221; the administration would be free to present any evidence they believed showed such and &#8220;invasion&#8221; or &#8220;incursion&#8221; had, in fact, occurred.
<blockquote>Some issues that Petitioners raise present a political question beyond judicial review. Once a court defines the parameters of what conduct constitutes an &#8220;invasion&#8221; or &#8220;predatory incursion&#8221; for purposes of the AEA, the court leaves to the Executive Branch the determination of whether such conduct has been perpetrated, attempted, or threatened. For example, a court may decide that one aspect of &#8220;invasion&#8221; and &#8220;predatory incursion&#8221; requires physical entry into the United States.
In other words, a court may conclude that no invasion or predatory incursion has occurred or has been threatened if the alleged conduct does not involve the entry of individuals into the country. The court having determined the meaning of these terms, it is left to the Executive Branch to determine whether a foreign nation or government has threatened or perpetrated activity that includes such an entry. As to this decision, the court may not delve into whether the Executive Branch possesses sufficient support for its conclusion, or whether the court agrees with the Executive Branch’s determinations.</blockquote>

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Federal Judge Nixes Trump’s Use Of Alien Enemies Act To Deport Criminal Illegals

Federal Judge Nixes Trump's Use Of Alien Enemies Act To Deport Criminal Illegals

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Approaching one hundred days into the new administration, the Trump administration is declaring the border is secure. Illinois’ Democrat Governor JB Pritzker is fueling presidential buzz after a fiery speech targeting Trump. And, while courts block Trump’s agenda, the administration strikes back – arresting judges charged with illegally shielding migrants.
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<h2>Trump Secures Border In 1st 100 Days</h2>
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Topline: The White House is celebrating 100 days of  Donald Trump’s presidency – and a huge part of its focus is on securing the border.
The White House has placed roughly 100 posters of deported illegal aliens and their various criminal offenses in plain view of the White House lawn to highlight the administration’s efforts to secure the border and deport illegal aliens, prioritizing individuals with particularly serious criminal histories.
&#8220;I started in Border Patrol in 1984,” Border Czar Tom Homan <a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1916837072322638274">said</a> in a White House press conference on Monday. “I&#8217;ve been at this for over 40 years. I&#8217;ve worked for six presidents. &#8230; Joe Biden was the first president in the history of this nation who came into office and unsecured the border on purpose. … Now, President Trump and this administration, the success is unprecedented … border numbers are at historic lows.”
Border crossings have dropped dramatically since Trump took office – according to the Department of Homeland Security, encounters at the border have fallen by 95%. Members of the administration credit the close collaboration of several departments, including the Department of Defense, the Department of Justice, and the Department of Homeland Security for the rapid turnaround.
<h2>Democrats Position Themselves For 2028</h2>
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Topline: Democratic lawmakers are stepping up their rhetoric against President Trump, with one presidential frontrunner being accused of inciting violence against Republicans.
Following the election, the big question for lawmakers on the Left was whether they should work to find common ground with Donald Trump and Republicans or oppose their every move. Polling shows the majority of the party’s voters now support the fight Trump approach, and lawmakers on the Left seem to be listening. This week, Illinois Governor JD Pritzker turned heads at a speech to Democrats in New Hampshire.
 “Never before in my life have I called for mass protests, for mobilization, for disruption, but I am now,” Pritzker said. “These Republicans cannot know a moment of peace!”
At this point, that’s basically boilerplate rhetoric from the far-Left, but it’s a bit of a surprise coming from Governor Pritzker, a billionaire heir to the Hyatt Hotel empire who’s generally been considered more of a mainstream, establishment Democrat. In a sign that he’s looking to shake that label and prove his progressive credentials, Pritzker had a clear message for moderate Democrats who’ve taken the common-ground approach with Trump. “Do-nothing Democrats want to blame our losses on our defense of black people and trans kids and immigrants instead of their own lack of guts and gumption.”
“The Democrats have no plan, no vision, and no leader,” Congresswoman Lisa McClain, chair of the House Republican Conference, told Morning Wire. “And when you can’t beat us on the issues, you have to personalize it. … they can’t debate the issues because they’re on the wrong side of the issues.”
Some Democrats are urging the party to take a more unifying approach – notably California Governor Gavin Newsom, who has invited Right-leaning guests on his podcast and walked back some of his previous statements on gender issues. The problem for Newsom and other Democrats pushing that strategy is that they were on the record for years saying the exact opposite, so they now run the risk of looking like flip-floppers to moderates, and sellouts to progressives, who are the loudest contingent on the Left.
One silver lining for Democrats is that President Trump’s <a href="https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/approval/donald-trump/approval-rating#google_vignette">approval rating</a> has taken a hit in recent weeks. Three polls from ABC, CNN, and The New York Times all show him at 42 or 43% — 12 to 14 points underwater. His biggest hit has come from his handling of the economy — an issue where he’s typically been most popular. CBS has him down to 42% approval on the economy &#8212; that’s a ten point dip in the last two months. NBC has him at 40%, and Washington Post shows him with just 39%. If those numbers don’t improve, Republicans could be facing an uphill battle in the midterms — the big question is if Democrats can unify and capitalize, or whether their divisions will lead to another crushing defeat.
<h2>The Judiciary vs The Executive</h2>
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Topline: Federal judges stepped in and blocked several of President Trump’s executive orders last week. The court orders targeted Trump’s moves on elections, immigration, and his efforts to reform the federal government.
Last week, the Trump administration suffered several high-profile setbacks in the courts. On Tuesday, a judge in the D.C. Circuit ordered Trump to reinstate Voice of America employees while his order to deconstruct VoA and other federally-funded outlets moves forward. On Wednesday, a federal judge in Maryland ordered the Trump administration to seek the return of a second deported migrant – a 20-year-old Venezuelan national who was deported to El Salvador after he was convicted of drug charges earlier this year.
Then on Thursday, that same judge in Maryland blocked some of the Department of Education’s anti-DEI efforts. The judge said that the department’s guidance to universities to scrap DEI programs or risk losing federal funds violated the First Amendment. Another federal judge in D.C. blocked parts of Trump’s order on federal election reform – specifically parts that required a voter to prove citizenship in order to register for federal elections. That same day, a federal judge in California blocked the administration from withholding funds from cities it deemed “sanctuary” jurisdictions that refuse to work with deportation enforcement. Finally, to end the week, a federal judge in D.C. blocked the administration from banning unions across dozens of federal agencies.
Vice President JD Vance called it a “pattern” that “is not consistent with the Constitution.” As he explained on X, the “Biden administration does something the American people elected Donald Trump to undo,” but then a “lawless district court judge substitutes his policy preferences for the will of the people.” The administration is clearly frustrated with how these cases are playing out in court, and how consistently judges issue these sweeping orders that in many cases go way beyond whatever question the plaintiff sued over to begin with.
Meanwhile two judges have been <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-announces-two-cases-involving-judicial-misconduct-and-obstruction-law">arrested on charges of obstruction of justice</a> after aiding and abetting illegal aliens in their attempts to evade immigration authorities.
<a href="https://x.com/charliekirk11/status/1915826498533310904">According to</a> Attorney General Pam Bondi, Judge Hannah Dugan of Wisconsin snuck a defendant, who had illegally entered the United States in 2013 and was facing charges of domestic violence, out of her courtroom when she learned ICE was outside waiting to pick him up. Former Judge Jose Luis Cano and his wife were arrested after allegedly sheltering a fugitive member of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, which has been designated as a foreign terrorist organization. Cano and his wife were also charged with evidence tampering – according to the federal affidavit, Cano attempted to scrub the social media account of an alien tenant living on his property and went so far as to smash a cell phone with a hammer to prevent police from accessing its contents.

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Morning Brief: The Border Takes Center Stage At White House And Judges Run Wild

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BOSTON—The Daily Wire joined U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Acting Director Todd Lyons and his agents in Greater Boston as they hunted down criminal illegal aliens.
The operation comes as President Donald Trump marks his first 100 days in office, and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/homan-does-indeed-bring-hell-to-boston-much-more-to-do-but-it-will-be-done" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Border Czar Tom Homan</a> vows to “go to Boston and bring hell with me” in an effort to arrest illegal aliens who have sexually assaulted children.
“We did more arrests in these 100 days than the previous administration did last year,” Lyons told The Daily Wire in his first interview.
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Lyons became the acting director of ICE in March after five years as Boston Field Office Director. He said morale is at an all-time high following the Trump administration giving the support needed to remove illegal aliens.
ICE is focused on deporting the “worst of the worst” that the Biden administration ignored, like violent criminal illegal aliens or those who have been deported before.
“It’s the worst crime in the world when you sexually assault a child,” <a href="https://x.com/KassyAkiva/status/1916861488616133083" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Homan said</a> in a White House press briefing on Monday. “That’s why I made a statement that one time I was going to go to Boston and bring hell with me.”
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During the ride-along on Friday, ICE arrested 55-year-old Miguel Angel Chavez, who was convicted on two counts of indecent assault and battery on a child under 14 and deported in 2013. Chavez, a citizen of El Salvador, illegally re-entered the United States at an unknown place and time following his first deportation.
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The second arrestee during the mission was 69-year-old Jose Lazaro Ayala, who illegally entered the country undetected and was convicted in September of leaving the scene of an accident involving an injured person or death. Ayala is pending removal to El Salvador, according to ICE.
“These aren&#8217;t the people you want in your neighborhood,” Lyons said. “These arrests right here show what we&#8217;ve done these first 100 days and what Secretary Noem and President Trump have been really pushing for: that ICE gets the worst of the worst.”
ICE was unable to target three other criminal illegal aliens in the mission, possibly because poor weather kept them from going to their outdoor jobs.
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The Daily Wire witnessed firsthand the challenges ICE is facing in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tom-homan-biden-first-president-to-intentionally-leave-border-unsecured" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sanctuary jurisdictions</a> during the ride-along. According to Lyons, migrants are attracted to places like Massachusetts because of its generous social service benefits. Numerous sanctuary cities make deportations more difficult by often refusing to cooperate with ICE.
“One of the big difficulties operating in our sanctuary jurisdiction is that these are actual public safety threats,” he said. “A jail, a police department, a sheriff&#8217;s department, and state police have deemed these individuals a public safety threat and locked them up. Yet instead of working with the federal government, they decide to release them back on the street.”
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/boston-mayor-doubles-down-on-defying-trump-deportations-as-ma-police-arrest-migrants-for-child-rape" target="_blank" rel="noopener">BOSTON MAYOR DOUBLES DOWN ON DEFYING TRUMP DEPORTATIONS AS MA POLICE ARREST MIGRANTS FOR CHILD RAPE</a>
Lyons said that in sanctuary jurisdictions, agents have to work harder to surveil targets and gather information about them to plan arrests.
“For these two today, anywhere between 40 to 80 hours could have been put in just on surveillance in research into these crimes, because, number one, there are ghosts,” he said.
“The state doesn&#8217;t provide us driver&#8217;s license data, registration data. So really, the men and women of ICE have to go and create these cases on their own and then get out there and do surveillance and try to get court and police records.”
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By not working with ICE, sanctuary cities increase the number of deportations, according to Lyons. Instead of simply picking up criminal illegal aliens at jails, ICE is forced to track them down at their workplaces or in their neighborhoods. This often results in other illegal aliens — violent criminals or not — being arrested as well.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mayors-of-boston-chicago-denver-and-nyc-called-to-testify-in-congress-over-sanctuary-city-policies" target="_blank" rel="noopener">MAYORS OF BOSTON, CHICAGO, DENVER AND NYC CALLED TO TESTIFY IN CONGRESS OVER SANCTUARY CITY POLICIES</a>
Lyons credited ICE’s recent success to Trump’s whole-of-government approach, which pairs ICE with agents from other federal agencies, including the FBI, DEA, IRS, Diplomatic Security Service, and others.
“With no doubt, ICE is helping the president establish his goals and his pledges that he made during the campaign, which was to get the worst of the worst outside of our communities, and I think this first hundred days have been a great success,” Lyons said.

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Democrats and their media counterparts did their level best on Sunday to convince viewers that President Donald Trump had crossed the line they&#8217;ve all been clutching their pearls over for weeks and deported American citizens — minor children, no less. But as Secretary of State Marco Rubio explained, that is not at all what transpired.
For those who don&#8217;t spend their Sunday mornings glued to the television — and their Sunday afternoons attempting to dig through a week&#8217;s worth of network and cable news media spin — The Daily Wire has compiled a short summary of what you may have missed.
The discussion around illegal immigration — and President Trump&#8217;s ambitious mass deportation plan — has been contentious since long before he won reelection in November of 2024. And as his administration began to make good on his promises to deport illegal aliens in large numbers — beginning with those who had committed crimes in addition to crossing the border illegally — poll numbers backed his play as a majority of Americans said they were in favor of all illegal aliens facing deportation.
But opponents of his policies have thrown caution to the wind as they back the illegals instead, taking up the cause of an illegal immigrant member of a transnational gang and defending a judge who has been charged with crimes related to assisting an illegal immigrant in evading capture. When they learned that three children, aged two, four, and seven — who are American citizens — were relocated with their illegal immigrant mother when she was deported, they thought they finally had the narrative that so many had been predicting.
MSNBC host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/msnbc-host-says-black-american-citizens-next-in-line-if-deportations-are-allowed-to-continue" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Symone Sanders-Townsend</a> said just a week prior that the deportation of Salvadoran national and MS-13 member Kilmar Abrego Garcia was proof that the Trump administration would eventually come for American citizens. She also argued that he would start with communities of color.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/whoopi-claims-that-if-trump-can-deport-terrorists-he-can-deport-any-one-of-us" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Whoopi Goldberg</a> claimed a month earlier on ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The View&#8221; that the Trump administration could come for anyone if they could deport terrorists. &#8220;You just gotta keep your eyes open, y’all,&#8221; she warned, going on to imply that even American citizens were at risk of deportation. &#8220;Because if they can just come up and take somebody because they’ve made a decision that you’re supposed to be that person, any one of us could find ourselves being deported to some country when we’ve never been there.&#8221;
By Sunday morning, the narrative was set: Trump&#8217;s Department of Homeland Security was deporting minor children who were American citizens.
On CBS News&#8217; &#8220;Face the Nation,&#8221; host Margaret Brennan blindsided Border Czar Tom Homan, who said he did not know about that specific case, with the story.
&#8220;On Friday, there were three American citizen children, born here, who were deported along with their mothers from Louisiana down to Honduras,&#8221; Brennan began, noting that one of the three children was a four-year-old who had stage-four cancer and saying that the child had been sent to Honduras without being allowed to first speak with a doctor &#8220;and without medication.&#8221;
&#8220;I understand this child&#8217;s mother entered this country illegally, but isn&#8217;t there some basis for compassionate consideration here that should have allowed for more consultation or treatment?&#8221; Brennan asked.
Homan objected to Brennan&#8217;s framing of the question, saying that he was not familiar with the specific case but adding, &#8220;No U.S. citizen child was deported.&#8221;
&#8220;The mother was deported along with the children,&#8221; Brennan insisted.
&#8220;The children aren&#8217;t deported,&#8221; Homan said again. &#8220;The mother chose to take the children with her.&#8221;
&#8220;Having a U.S. citizen child after you enter this country illegally is not a get out of jail free card. It doesn&#8217;t make you immune from our laws,&#8221; he added.
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White House &quot;border czar&quot; Tom Homan says he is not aware of the case last week when a mother who had entered the U.S. illegally was deported to Honduras with her 4-year-old child who has stage-four cancer. But he adds: &quot;Having a U.S. citizen child after you enter this country… <a href="https://t.co/aEr57Y5Ga2">pic.twitter.com/aEr57Y5Ga2</a>
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&#8220;Having a U.S. citizen child doesn&#8217;t make you immune from our laws of the country. American families get separated every day by law enforcement,&#8221; Homan repeated, saying that the mothers in question had received due process and had chosen to take their children with them when they were removed from the United States.
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White House &quot;border czar&quot; Tom Homan says he disagrees with the federal judge who said there was &quot;no meaningful process&quot; behind the deportation of a woman to Honduras with her children, one of whom is a 2-year-old U.S. citizen. He says the woman &quot;had due process&quot; and decided to… <a href="https://t.co/WR3wDZ7Ouj">pic.twitter.com/WR3wDZ7Ouj</a>
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CNN&#8217;s Dana Bash used the same framing on &#8220;State of the Union,&#8221; posing a question to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer about the &#8220;three American citizen children&#8221; who &#8220;were deported with their families, including one suffering from metastatic cancer.&#8221;
Schumer used the opportunity to claim that the Trump administration was violating due process by deporting illegal aliens whose presence in the United States is in itself a violation of the immigration process.
&#8220;Due process is a hallmark of what our country is all about, the rule of law, and ICE and Trump seem to break it in every single way. He believes he’s a king. He is not, and the American people are totally against what he is doing in this regard,&#8221; Schumer claimed — despite <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cnn-pollster-admits-most-americans-side-with-trump-on-illegals-want-them-all-deported" target="_blank" rel="noopener">polling data</a> that says the people are, in fact, in favor of mass deportations.
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And on NBC News&#8217; &#8220;Meet the Press,&#8221; host Kristen Welker tried the exact same set-up with Secretary of State <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/thats-just-not-true-rubio-spars-with-nbc-host-over-claim-american-kids-were-deported" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rubio</a> — even after he explained, as Homan had, that it was the illegal alien mothers who were subject to the deportation orders and the children were simply taken with them when they were removed from the country. He noted that for the children, because of their citizenship status, there was no bar for reentry to the United States for them.
Welker pushed back anyway, asking, &#8220;Is it the U.S. policy to deport children, even U.S. citizens, with their families — and I hear what you’re saying — without due process, just to be very clear?&#8221;
“No, no, no,” Rubio objected. “No, no, again: if someone’s in the country unlawfully, illegally, that person gets deported. If that person is with a two-year-old child, or has a two-year-old child, and says, ‘I want to take my child with me,’ well then what —? You have two choices. You can say, ‘Yes, of course you can take your child, whether they’re a citizen or not, because it’s your child.’ Or you can say, ‘Yes, you can go, but your child must stay behind.&#8217;”
Rubio noted that would create a whole new problem, saying, “And then your headlines would read, ‘U.S. holding hostage two-year-old, four-year-old, seven-year-old, while mother deported.’ The parents make that choice.”
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&quot;We have to make a determination about whether this is an endeavor that we want to continue to be involved in,&quot; says <a href="https://twitter.com/SecRubio?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SecRubio</a> on negotiations around Ukraine.
&quot;There are reasons to be optimistic, but there are reasons to be realistic&#8230; We&#39;re close, but we&#39;re not close enough.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/BtVrodmRUy">pic.twitter.com/BtVrodmRUy</a>
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio fired back Sunday over a &#8220;misleading headline&#8221; that claimed President Donald Trump&#8217;s immigration officials had &#8220;deported&#8221; three American citizens, all of whom are minor children.
Rubio took issue with the claim itself, telling &#8220;Meet the Press&#8221; anchor Kristen Welker that the three children were citizens and had not been deported at all, explaining that they were welcome to return to the United States at any time and had only left because their mothers — who were in the country illegally — chose to take them along when they were deported.
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&#8220;On the headline, that&#8217;s a misleading headline,&#8221; Rubio protested. &#8220;Three U.S. citizens ages four, seven, and two, were not deported — their mothers, who were illegally in this country, were deported. The children went with their mothers!&#8221;
&#8220;If those children are U.S. citizens, they can come back into the United States if their father or someone here wants to assume them, but ultimately who was deported was their mothers, who were here illegally,&#8221; Rubio continued. &#8220;The children just went with their mothers. But it wasn&#8217;t like — you guys make it sound like ICE agents kicked down the door and grabbed the two-year-old and threw him on an airplane, that&#8217;s misleading! That&#8217;s just not true!&#8221;
Welker pushed back, asking whether it was the Trump administration&#8217;s official policy to &#8220;deport&#8221; American citizens if they were children whose parents were in the country illegally and thus subject to deportation.
&#8220;Is it the U.S. policy to deport children, even U.S. citizens, with their families — and I hear what you&#8217;re saying — without due process, just to be very clear?&#8221; Welker asked.
&#8220;No, no, no,&#8221; Rubio objected. &#8220;No, no, again: if someone&#8217;s in the country unlawfully, illegally, that person gets deported. If that person is with a two-year-old child, or has a two-year-old child, and says, &#8216;I want to take my child with me,&#8217; well then what —? You have two choices. You can say, &#8216;Yes, of course you can take your child, whether they&#8217;re a citizen or not, because it&#8217;s your child.&#8217; Or you can say, &#8216;Yes, you can go, but your child must stay behind.'&#8221;
Rubio noted that would create a whole new problem, saying, &#8220;And then your headlines would read, &#8216;U.S. holding hostage two-year-old, four-year-old, seven-year-old, while mother deported.&#8217; The parents make that choice.&#8221;

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A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to facilitate the return of a second illegal alien who the Trump administration deported to El Salvador and says is a gang member.
United States District Court Judge Stephanie Gallagher <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-judge-orders-return-second-migrant-deported-el-salvador-2025-04-24/">issued the decision</a> Wednesday, ruling that the deportation of the Venezuelan national violated a previous court settlement. Gallagher argued that a settlement agreement she approved in November on behalf of thousands of migrants required the man’s asylum case to be heard before he was deported.
“A core purpose of the Settlement Agreement would be nullified if Class Members with pending asylum applications could be summarily removed from the United States and thus rendered ineligible for asylum,” Gallagher said as she addressed the case of the Venezuelan national, identified only as Cristian.
The Trump administration argues that Cristian’s deportation did not violate federal law, as it had invoked the 1798 Alien Enemies act, thereby making the Venezuelan national ineligible to receive asylum and remain in the United States.
The administration is also locked in a battle with United States District Court Judge James Boasberg, who recently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/leftist-judge-threatens-to-hold-trump-admin-in-criminal-contempt-of-court-over-deportation-flights?author=Spencer+Lindquist&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=8&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Liberal+Judge+Threatens+To+Hold+Trump+Admin+In+Criminal+Contempt+Of+Court+Over+Deportation+Flights">threatened</a> to hold the Trump administration in contempt of court over its use of the Alien Enemies Act to expedite the removal of more than 250 suspected gang members to the El Salvadoran prison.
The new ruling from Gallagher comes after a different judge ordered the Trump administration to facilitate the return of El Salvadoran national Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who the White House says is a member of MS-13.
Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele said that he had no intention of returning Garcia to the United States. “How can I smuggle a terrorist into the United States?” Bukele said in response to a journalist while meeting with Trump in the White House, also adding that he also will not release him from El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center.
“I’m not very fond of releasing terrorists into our country … we just turned the murder capital of the world into the safest country in the western hemisphere and you want us to go back?” Bukele noted. “That’s not going to happen.”

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President Donald Trump said Tuesday that it would be impossible to give a trial to each one of the millions of migrants who illegally entered the country under former President Joe Biden, adding that he hoped he would get cooperation from the courts for his mass deportation plans.
Trump said that he won the election on his promises to deport illegal migrants and that the country would be very &#8220;dangerous&#8221; if his administration were blocked from carrying out those deportations. Various federal courts, including the Supreme Court, have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/scotus-blocks-trump-from-deporting-alleged-tren-de-aragua-gang-members" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bogged down</a> the administration&#8217;s efforts to use the Alien Enemies Act to deport suspected gang members.
“We’re getting them out. I hope we get cooperation from the courts, because we have thousands of people that are ready to go out and you can’t have a trial for all of these people,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. “It wasn’t meant. The system wasn’t meant. And we don’t think there’s anything that says that.”
“A judge can’t say, ‘You know, you have to have a trial.’ The trial is going to take two years,&#8221; Trump added. &#8220;No, we’re going to have a very dangerous country if we’re not allowed to do what we&#8217;re entitled to do. And I won an election based on the fact that we get them out.” 
Trump also said that there was &#8220;virtually&#8221; no one crossing the border illegally under his watch, stating that the border was &#8220;a tad stronger&#8221; than it was during his first term in office.
The comments come after Trump made multiple posts on Truth Social talking about how long it would take to give a trial to the more than 10 million illegal migrants in the United States.
&#8220;How can Biden let Millions of Criminals into our Country, totally unchecked and unvetted, with no Legal authority to do so, yet I, in order to make up for this assault to our Nation, am expected to go through a lengthy Legal process, separately, for each and every Criminal Alien. As usual, TWO DIFFERENT STANDARDS, only leading to the Complete and Total Destruction of the U.S.A,&#8221; Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114378317437182332" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>.
In a second post, he said it would take 200 years to give trials to everyone.
&#8220;If we don’t get these criminals out of our Country, we are not going to have a Country any longer. We cannot give everyone a trial, because to do so would take, without exaggeration, 200 years,&#8221; he <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114377993807616549" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. &#8220;We would need hundreds of thousands of trials for the hundreds of thousands of Illegals we are sending out of the Country.&#8221;
The Trump administration has been locked in a battle with the courts on numerous immigration actions, including the deportation of suspected MS-13 member Kilmar Abrego Garcia back to his home country of El Salvador. A federal judge has ordered that Garcia be returned to the United States due to an &#8220;administrative error,&#8221; but the Trump administration has so far resisted these orders. The Supreme Court has also limited immigration enforcement, blocking the administration from deporting alleged Tren de Aragua members to Venezuela.

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The political and legal battle escalates over an alleged member of a violent gang deported to El Salvador. RFK Jr. launches a series of studies into the causes of autism, prompting both condemnation and praise. And, Democrats take aim at President Donald Trump over his call for the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates, while Trump touts key economic wins.
It’s Monday, April 21, and this is the news you need to know to start your day. If you’d rather listen to your news, today’s edition of the Morning Wire podcast can be heard below:
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<h2>Deportation Debate Continues</h2>
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Topline: Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) is back stateside after visiting suspected gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia in El Salvador.
Van Hollen returned from El Salvador over the weekend after meeting with suspected MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia in El Salvador last week. Garcia was detained and deported to a megaprison there along with more than 200 other suspected gang members last month. Critics have argued that Garcia’s due process rights were violated, and a federal judge has ordered that he be brought back to the United States immediately. The Trump administration has insisted that the matter is out of its hands – and that, gang member or not, Garcia is an illegal alien and should have been deported anyway.
“My goal was to meet with [Abrego Garcia] and make sure I could tell his wife and family he was OK,” Van Hollen told ABC.
When questioned about Garcia’s alleged connection to MS-13, Van Hollen deflected.
“What Donald Trump is trying to do here is change the subject,” Van Hollen <a href="https://x.com/westernlensman/status/1913945751824240693">said</a>. “The subject at hand is that he and his administration are defying a court order to give Abrego Garcia his due process rights. They are trying to litigate on social media what they should be doing in the courts… What [Garcia] told me was he was sad and traumatized that he was being imprisoned because he has committed no crimes, and that goes to the heart of this issue.”
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<h2>RFK Commissions New Studies of Autism &#8216;Epidemic&#8217; </h2>
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Topline: HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is commissioning a series of studies to investigate potential environmental factors that might contribute to autism.
RFK Jr. commissioned the new studies shortly after previous data were released indicating a surge in autism diagnoses in recent years.
“The autism epidemic is running rampant,” Kennedy <a href="https://www.hhs.gov/press-room/autism-epidemic-runs-rampant-new-data-shows-grants.html">said</a>.  “One in 31 American children born in 2014 are disabled by autism. That’s up significantly from two years earlier and nearly five times higher than when the CDC first started running autism surveys<a href="https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/ss5601a1.htm"> in children born in 1992</a>.. Prevalence for boys is an astounding 1 in 20 and in California it’s 1 in 12.5.”
“President Trump has tasked me with identifying the root causes of the childhood chronic disease epidemic &#8212; including autism,” Secretary Kennedy continued. “We are assembling teams of world-class scientists to focus research on the origins of the epidemic, and we expect to begin to have answers by September.”
The Autism Society of America actually <a href="https://autismsociety.org/statement-on-robert-f-kennedy-jr-s-comments-regarding-the-cause-of-autism-and-misleading-deadline/">condemned</a> Kennedy for those remarks, calling them “harmful, misleading, and unrealistic.” The organization said that autism is a “complex developmental disability” and it’s “neither a chronic illness nor a contagion, that qualifies harmful language like ‘epidemic.’”
Another autism organization, <a href="https://www.autismspeaks.org/what-causes-autism">Autism Speaks</a>, has suggested that the rise in autism cases is largely due to better screening, better understanding of the disorder, and therefore a higher diagnosis rate. The organization said that other genetic and environmental factors are still being studied, but they likely account for only a small part of the increase. Kennedy believes that’s flipped, and that only a small portion of the increase can be attributed to a better diagnostic process.
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<h2>Economic Update</h2>
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Topline: Democrats are up in arms about President Trump&#8217;s latest economic moves, but Team Trump says he&#8217;s doing exactly what Americans elected him to do.
Democrats are accusing Trump of crossing the line by pressuring the Fed Chair, Jerome Powell, to lower interest rates. Powell appears to be digging in, while the president is now openly saying his termination can’t come soon enough.  Powell’s term is scheduled to end May 15, 2026. Trump’s team is reportedly looking into whether there are ways to remove Powell early. Democrats argue that this is an unprecedented violation of the balance of powers.
“There’s a reason we have an independent Fed,” Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) told CNN. “It has served us well through many crises, through downturns, through depressions, through the pandemic. They’re able to respond and stabilize things. And what Jerome Powell is doing right now is warning that these tariffs are having a huge destabilizing effect on our economy and hurting everyday people. And that’s going to affect decisions that the Fed makes. That’s his job and he’s doing it.”
Meanwhile: Trump is maintaining his pause of higher tariffs for most countries – except China – for 90 days, and he’s set a 10% baseline tariff on imports to encourage negotiations. The Trump administration says at least 75 countries have reached out to negotiate at this point. As we’ve reported, the major outlier is China, which has escalated tariffs in response. A few days ago, Trump indicated an openness to making a deal to protect consumers, but no talks with Xi Jinping have been confirmed yet. 
Japanese negotiators met with U.S. officials recently, with Trump citing “big progress.” Toyota is considering shifting RAV4 production to the United States to mitigate the impact of tariffs. Likewise, Trump reported a “great call” with South Korea focusing on steel and automobiles. Vietnam has also offered to remove all tariffs on U.S. goods. Discussions with India are also in progress, with India angling for a bilateral trade agreement to boost trade to $500 billion by 2030.
The European Union has paused retaliatory tariffs on the U.S. and is advocating for a zero-tariff agreement. As for the UK, talks with Prime Minister Keir Starmer are ongoing, with Vice President JD Vance expressing optimism that any deal they reach will be mutually beneficial.

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The 24-year-old daughter of Minnesota Democrat governor and failed vice-presidential candidate Tim Walz released a TikTok video in which she claimed that if Jesus Christ lived in the United States, the Trump administration would deport him and claim he was part of a deadly gang.
Walz appeared to be making a reference to 29-year-old Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an illegal alien who was deported to El Salvador and is suspected of being a member of the violent MS-13 gang. Democrats have sought for Garcia to be sent back to the United States, claiming that he has been denied due process.
“If Jesus were alive today and in the United States, this administration would already have taken him and removed him from this country without due process, claimed he was a member of the MS-13 gang as a way to try to justify not giving him due process, as if there is any justifiable reason to not giving somebody due process,” Walz declared.
“Some people don’t want to talk about that,” she continued. “It truly is baffling how clear and laid out everything is and there is [sic] still people standing by it. I believe in the good of people, and like, humanity, humans, you know, deep down at our core, like, we care about each other. But that’s really being tested, because how anyone is OK with this is terrifying to me. But yeah, if you look like me, speak up, speak out, because we might be the only ones safe from what’s coming and some of the only people that are able to stop it.”
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Tim Walz’s daughter appears to compare alleged MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Jesus, says Trump would have deported Jesus for being a gang member.
I see the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.
“I believe in the good of people and like humanity, humans you know deep… <a href="https://t.co/zxjXJmlwFb">pic.twitter.com/zxjXJmlwFb</a>
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The Department of Homeland Security has said it has evidence that Garcia was involved in MS-13.
“Two judges found that he was a member of MS-13. That finding has not been disturbed. Intelligence reports found that he was involved in human trafficking,&#8221; Homeland Security <a href="https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/04/16/kilmar-abrego-garcia-ms-13-gang-member-history-violence" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. &#8220;He is an illegal alien from El Salvador. He claimed fear of being returned to El Salvador because he would be persecuted by MS-13&#8217;s rival gang, Barrio-18. Jennifer Vasquez, Garcia’s wife, petitioned for an order of protection against him. She claimed he punched her, scratched her, and ripped off her shirt, and bruised her.”
According to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, MS-13 is well known for its extreme violence and brutality.
“One of the largest and most violent criminal organizations in the United States is MS-13, which has over 10,000 members in as many as 40 states,” ICE <a href="https://www.ice.gov/about-ice/hsi/investigate/transnational-gangs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">states</a>. “The gang is known for its extreme violence, including its brutal initiation rituals and acts of intimidation and retaliation against rival gangs, law enforcement officials and community members.”

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Tim Walz’s Daughter Says Trump Would Have Deported Jesus And Claimed He Was Part Of MS-13

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