President Donald Trump announced Monday the members of his FEMA review council, which he tasked with returning power to state-level emergency managers.
Trump, who has been very critical of FEMA&#8217;s handling of recent natural disasters, signed an executive order in January aimed at bringing serious reform to the agency. In previous interviews, Trump has floated the idea of getting rid of FEMA all together, and handing back responsibility to the states to handle their own emergencies with federal funding.
&#8220;I am proud to announce the formation of the FEMA Review Council, comprised of Top Experts in their fields, who are Highly Respected by their peers,&#8221; Trump <a href="https://x.com/TrumpDailyPosts/status/1916943942156734688">posted</a> on Truth Social. &#8220;I know that the new Members will work hard to fix a terribly broken System, and return power to State Emergency Managers, who will help, MAKE AMERICA SAFE AGAIN. Congratulations to all!&#8221;
Members of the task force include Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, Texas Governor Greg Abbott, Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin, former Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant, RNC Chair Michael Whatley, and Tampa Mayor Jane Castor.
&#8220;As a proud son of Western North Carolina, I have seen first-hand the incredible work of the Trump Administration to help the region recover from Hurricane Helene and look forward to working with these great leaders to bring much-needed reforms to federal emergency response across the country,&#8221; Whatley <a href="https://x.com/ChairmanWhatley/status/1917045935286182331" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in response to the news.
In his executive order, Trump <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/council-to-assess-the-federal-emergency-management-agency/">said</a> the council will assess “the existing ability of FEMA to capably and impartially address disasters occurring within the United States and shall advise the President on all recommended changes related to FEMA to best serve the national interest.”
The executive order stipulates that the council develop proposals to improve FEMA, survey states and other stakeholders impacted by natural disasters, and produce a comprehensive report on the agency and how disaster relief was handled before its creation.
His executive order also referenced the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-fema-official-ordered-relief-workers-to-skip-houses-with-trump-signs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">story</a> broken by The Daily Wire, revealing that a FEMA supervisor in Florida had ordered FEMA response workers to skip the homes of people with Trump signs or flags in the aftermath of Hurricane Milton.
“There are serious concerns of political bias in FEMA,” Trump wrote in the executive order. “Indeed, at least one former FEMA responder has stated that FEMA managers directed her to avoid homes of individuals supporting the campaign of Donald J. Trump for President.”

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Editor’s note: This is the third installment of a six-part series by pollster Brent Buchanan on the politics of the American South. Last week, Buchanan explored the shifting priorities of minority voters in the South — and why Democrats shouldn’t take those voters for granted. This week, he breaks down the unique features, and critical importance, of the Southern suburbs.
We hope you enjoy.
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Few things embody American culture and consumerism better than the suburbs.
Both a subject of generational aspiration and comedic ridicule, America’s suburbs remain a bridge to a nostalgic past and the ideal archetype of the “American Dream,” where home ownership, good schools, and safe neighborhoods still represent the opportunity of upward mobility and a prosperous future.
It&#8217;s fitting, then, with backyard barbecue season approaching, that, in part three of this series, we examine why the suburbs in America’s South have been politically stagnant.
While many of the country’s suburbs are rapidly shifting, voting behavior and partisanship in Southern suburbs are remarkably stable. This “stuck in neutral” dynamic is shaping the political battlegrounds of tomorrow — and it’s not necessarily a disadvantage for Republicans. If Democrats keep choosing the 20 percent side of 80/20 issues — like men in women’s sports, deporting illegals, or prioritizing the rights of nefarious illegal immigrants over crime victims — they’ll lose votes to Republicans or drive their own voters to stay home in the 2026 midterm elections.
That would be good news for Republicans. But our analysis of the South suggests its suburbs are much more hardened than its northern or western counterparts. Too often, mostly on Election Night, pundits and analysts rush to describe the country’s suburbs as hotly contested areas with high concentrations of swing voters.
While this is true for suburban pockets elsewhere in America, it is not the case in the South.
“As we mentioned in part one of this series, when we described the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-rise-of-the-south-is-not-what-you-think-why-it-holds-the-keys-to-political-control" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sweet Tea Suburbs</a>, their inelasticity reflects a unique dynamic that poses a significant challenge for Republicans,” says Nicholas Valdiviez, Cygnal’s Sampling Lead for this exclusive Daily Wire project. “The GOP could seek to strengthen its performance in other areas to offset suburban stagnation, or they could try to crack through some of these areas, though the payoff would be incremental and likely extend beyond 2026.”
<h3>The Faux South: A Case Study in Suburban Inelasticity</h3>
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The word faux is not used as a negative slight toward any of the great people or communities of this region, nor to detract from their “southernness.” In fact, as an important descriptor for this far-reaching analysis of America’s South, the term illustrates the region’s distinct and historically vital role as a sprawling gateway to the southern heartlands shaped more by commerce and trade routes than agriculture, combined with its geographical position along the borderlands of our nation’s capital.
Voters here, especially in Virginia, will tell you they are absolutely Southern — with the exception of those hard-left-leaning folks living in the DC-Maryland-Virginia (DMV) nexus along the Potomac River. Surrounding the ineffectual machinations of DC, the Faux South covers all of Maryland, most of West Virginia through the Alleghany Mountains, throughout middle and southeastern Virginia, extending down to coastal and near-inland North Carolina.
From 2016 to 2020, the Faux South saw the largest surge in Democratic turnout in the Southern United States — a 48% increase — but Republican turnout also jumped by 27%, marking the biggest regional year-over-year turnout shift in the last 16 years. At face value, that would signal some tailwinds for Republicans as the Faux South mixes most frequently with the Trumpian Highlands, another southern transitionary region. But it is the presence of the Sweet Tea Suburbs that serves as a sort of counteractive ingredient to such tailwinds.
Examining Virginia and North Carolina as the dominant states of the Faux South, we measured a strong voter disenfranchisement for elected officials at all levels, more than any other region in the South. Even our latest National Voter Trends (NVT) <a href="https://www.cygn.al/poll-democrats-continue-to-struggle-as-trump-maintains-strong-approval-even-in-light-of-tariffs/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">poll</a> bears this out: voters in this region had high mistrust of their elected officials from local positions like mayor and city council up to their Member of Congress. The Faux South’s approval of their congressional representatives falls nearly four standard deviations below the average (18-point approval vs. the average of 29%, or the high of 36%). Even approval of their state legislators is 10 points below the average, and five points below the average of mayors and/or village presidents.
While the numbers are net positive in our latest NVT and across all regions in the South, they&#8217;re markedly lower here than in the other regions. And despite surges in turnout, this sentiment influences how voters in the Faux South differ from the other regions’ more rightward leanings, making them more likely to disengage altogether or maintain the status quo.
Yet, as entrenched as this region can be, there are some silver linings for Republicans. Since Virginia governors are limited to two nonconsecutive terms, Lieutenant Governor Winsome Sears shows the most <a href="https://www.cygn.al/virginia-governor-race-poll-sears-positioned-for-strong-showing/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">promising </a>signs to galvanize a broad base of support and carry on the progress of widely popular outgoing Governor Glenn Youngkin. How the battles for Republican control of state legislative seats, particularly in suburban districts, with Sears atop the ticket, will indicate how well Republicans have begun to crack the Faux South.
North Carolina is a tougher story for Republicans. Though the state saw a shift rightward from 2020 to 2024, the tension lies in this portion of the Faux South’s proximity to the Sweet Tea Suburbs. The &#8220;Research Triangle,&#8221; the area between Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill, is central to scattered pockets of Sweet Tea Suburbs, which we described earlier as nearly immovable (split in 2020 and only R+3 in 2024), upper middle-class neighborhoods with high economic mobility. The confluence of these regions, combined with large areas of Trumpian Highlands in the western parts of the state, makes North Carolina more resistant to significant Republican gains.
<h3>Influence of Cities</h3>
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The overall trend remains one of inelasticity, with only a modest Republican recovery and little evidence of the dramatic swings seen elsewhere. But the hardening of the South&#8217;s suburbs is also heavily influenced by the region&#8217;s cities. Some are burgeoning hubs of economic revitalization, while others are still stuck in neutral themselves and struggle to keep pace with the South’s rising political prominence.
The most salient point to describe the odd relationship between Southern cities and suburbs is that voters in the ‘burbs tend to be more woke and believe in Leftist virtue signaling as a way to prove their solidarity with the more economically-stratified and depressed conditions of largely-minority city dwellers. &#8220;Normies,&#8221; as Ben Shapiro might call them, chalk this up to the same old political pandering we’ve seen from highly educated suburbanite Democrats. But the political symbiosis of Southern cities and many of their surrounding suburbs has created a concrete structure for social and political acceptance of the status quo.
Compounding this disjointed interdependency is the high rate of disenfranchisement among city dwellers, especially among minority voters, who tend to view these strongholds of Democratic leadership as a matter of course — years of broken and empty promises have led less to an embrace of Republicans and more to full-on disengagement. Contrast this with cities like Chicago, where more minority communities are starting to push back against entrenched and corrupt Democratic leadership.
What makes so many of the South’s suburbs hardened to political swings, especially in Republicans’ favor, is this symbiotic relationship with many of its cities.
In recent elections, we saw the opposite happen in northern states like Ohio, where suburbs like those outside Columbus and Cleveland helped turn that state from a closely-watched swing state in presidential election years to a reliably red state. Southern cities like Memphis, meanwhile, mix heavily with the Big Sky South and Soulful South, keeping it politically stagnant and resistant to major partisan shifts.
We see something similar in Huntsville, where explosive population and economic growth have made the area more influential within Alabama. With a heavy dose of Trumpian Highlands to mix with, the surrounding suburbs continue to reflect consistent voting patterns year after year.
Similarly, Birmingham and Charleston’s suburbs have not experienced significant partisan shifts. Even as their urban cores evolve, their suburbs have not experienced significant political swings, despite some of the prevailing Soulful South trends we noted in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-end-of-democratic-assumptions-how-minority-voters-are-reshaping-southern-politics?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Brent+Buchanan&amp;category=News+and+Analysis&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=The+End+of+Democratic+Assumptions%3A+How+Minority+Voters+Are+Reshaping+Southern+Politics" target="_blank" rel="noopener">part two</a> of this series.
This persistent inelasticity underscores how deeply-rooted disenfranchisement and longstanding racial and cultural undercurrents keep these Southern cities and their surrounding suburbs in a perpetual state of tension, making them the most resistant to the nationwide political and generational realignment that has accelerated in the Trump era.
For Republicans, the challenge is to find incremental gains in both the suburbs and cities or look beyond these gridlocked areas for more growth in regions like the Big Hat Bloc or among the Republican Resettlers. In those two regions, <a href="https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2023/12/07/hispanics-in-the-rio-grande-valley-are-now-swing-voters/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hispanic populations</a> in particular are ripe for additional Republican gains.
For Democrats, the risk of alienating moderate voters or encouraging disengagement is more real than ever. If they continue to champion positions out of step with the suburban mainstream, Republicans can capitalize. This gives credence to the strategy of letting your opponents make unforced errors.
As the South continues to grow in population and political influence, the lesson is clear: state lines and national narratives rarely capture the true dynamics at play. The inelasticity of Southern suburbs is less a sign of stagnation than a testament to the encroaching fallout from the national political realignment.
COMING UP NEXT: All eyes are on Georgia and North Carolina ahead of the 2026 midterms. As two of the most prominent Democratic holdouts in the South, parts four and five of this series will delve into the extent of their influence and whether they’ll remain regional hegemons or embrace the coming red wave of longstanding conservative control.

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Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin used his veto power to send a bill back to the Democrat-controlled legislature with a clever change.
The legislature last month passed a bill introduced by State Delegate Laura Jane Cohen (D-Fairfax), a far-left former school board member, requiring schools to text and email parents each school year, admonishing them to lock up any guns they own. Youngkin added a provision that would require schools to also communicate with parents before transitioning a child to a different gender.
Democrats previously voted down a similar bill, but now they will have to vote whether to accept or reject the edit, potentially putting them on the record in an election year that they oppose parental involvement in the most intimate aspect of their child’s life. Virginia holds elections in odd-numbered years, and Democrat Terry McAuliffe lost the election to Youngkin in 2019 after saying he didn’t believe parents should play a role in what goes on in schools.
Youngkin sailed to victory after lashing out at Loudoun County Public Schools for covering up a rape by a “genderfluid” boy in order to pass a transgender bathroom policy. 
<a href="https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1046364.PDF" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cohen’s bill</a> required school boards to “require the notification of the parent of each student enrolled in the local school division, to be sent by email and, if applicable, SMS text message within 30 calendar days succeeding the first day of each school year, of (i) the importance of securely storing any prescription drug, as defined in § 54.1-3401, present in the household and (ii) the parent&#8217;s responsibility, in accordance with § 18.2-56.2, to safely store any firearm present in the household.”
Instead of vetoing it, Youngkin continued with the theme of parental communication, <a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB1678/text/HB1678AG" target="_blank" rel="noopener">adding a requirement</a> that:
<blockquote>Local school boards shall develop protocols by which each public elementary or secondary school principal or his designee shall, as soon as practicable, (i) inform at least one parent of a minor student enrolled in such school if such minor requests that any school employee participate while at school in (a) social affirmation of the minor student&#8217;s gender incongruence or (b) the transition of such minor to a felt or stated gender different from the minor student&#8217;s biological sex and (ii) request and receive permission from at least one parent of a minor student enrolled at such school prior to the implementation at such school of any plan concerning any gender incongruence experienced by such minor, including any counseling of such minor at school that includes a provision for parental participation.</blockquote>
Cohen called the amendment “garbage,” telling <a href="https://www.wvtf.org/news/2025-03-28/youngkin-adds-controversial-amendment-to-parental-notification-law" target="_blank" rel="noopener">RadioIQ,</a> “For some people, teachers are the only ones they can talk to in their lives.&#8221;
As this reporter&#8217;s book <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Race-Bottom-Uncovering-Destroying-Education/dp/0063056720/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Race to the Bottom</a> found, Cohen has a child who has severe cognitive disabilities and who believes she is transgender. She ran for the Fairfax County School Board in 2019 to displace a Republican who had tried to stop the board from rushing through a transgender policy in spite of public comment indicating widespread opposition. Cohen was elected with assistance from Moms Demand Action, a national anti-gun group funded by billionaire Michael Bloomberg.
On Wednesday, the legislature will hold a floor debate on the provision requiring parental permission for gender transition, and Democrats will have to vote on whether they think schools should transition a child’s gender while keeping it secret from their parents.
Democrats have only slim majorities in each chamber, so Youngkin&#8217;s proposal would become law if even a few Democrats support it. The Daily Wire asked three vulnerable House Democrats — Joshua Cole (Fredericksburg), Josh Thomas (Gainesville), and Michael Feggans (Virginia Beach) — their positions, and none replied.
In 2023, Republicans introduced a similar bill called <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/virginia-republican-moves-to-ban-calling-misgendering-child-abuse-after-girl-is-kept-from-her-parents-for-it" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sage’s Law</a>, named after a girl from rural Virginia who was secretly gender-transitioned by her high school, setting in motion her being sex trafficked to Baltimore, where the FBI found her locked in the home of a convicted sex offender. A Baltimore court refused to return her to Virginia after a school counselor allegedly speculated that Sage&#8217;s mother might not accept her new gender. Instead, she was placed in a foster home for Baltimore’s most troubled boys, and was abused again.
Despite the heartbreaking story, Democrats voted down Sage’s Law last session. It was re-introduced this year, but denied a hearing, at which the story would have been told. (Read about Sage’s horror story <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/maryland-refused-to-give-back-a-virginia-runaway-because-her-parents-misgendered-her-then-she-was-sex-trafficked-mother-says">here</a>.)
Sage’s mother later filed a lawsuit against the Appomattox County Public Schools, alleging its counselors summoned Sage to discuss her gender eight times during the first 12 days of the 2021-22 school year. It also alleged that the counselors were providing major psychiatric care they were not qualified or authorized to perform.

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The Department of Justice announced Thursday morning that a top leader of the violent MS-13 gang had been arrested in Virginia and would soon be deported.
Alongside FBI Director Kash Patel and Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin, Attorney General Pam Bondi announced that the leader of MS-13 for the East Coast had been taken into custody about 30 miles outside of Washington, D.C. The arrest was part of a federal, state, and local task force that has been working for weeks on the operation.
“Early this morning, one of the top leaders of MS-13 was apprehended,&#8221; Bondi announced at a press conference. &#8220;He was the leader for the East Coast, one of the top three in the entire country. Right here in Virginia, living half an hour outside of Washington, D.C. He is an illegal alien from El Salvador and he will not be living in our country much longer. He’s in custody this morning.” 
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BREAKING: I’m proud to announce that early this morning our brave law enforcement officers conducted a successful operation that captured a top MS-13 national leader
DOJ will not rest until we make America safe again. <a href="https://t.co/yKmhas068b">pic.twitter.com/yKmhas068b</a>
— Attorney General Pamela Bondi (@AGPamBondi) <a href="https://twitter.com/AGPamBondi/status/1905229078614995199?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 27, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Bondi thanked Youngkin, Patel, Department of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, and the other local and state agencies for their efforts to aid the operation.
“Everyone was working as a team and the most important thing: all of our agents were safe this morning, all of our law enforcement officers, and the bad guy is in jail. That’s what matters, that’s what happens. America is safer today because one of the top domestic terrorists in MS-13 is off the streets,&#8221; Bondi said. 
Bondi said that the undisclosed advanced technology had been used in the operation and that the DOJ would continue to push to dismantle MS-13 completely. She said that the man arrested was one of the top three MS-13 leaders in the United States.
Youngkin said that the arrest was made in Dale City, Virginia, and that the MS-13 leader was &#8220;going to go back where he came from.&#8221; He said that the arrest was made possible by the Trump administration, saying that he had little help from the Biden Administration his first three years as governor.
Bondi said that the kind of task force created would be offered to every other state around the country.
President Donald Trump celebrated the arrest on Truth Social, praising his border czar, Tom Homan.
“Just captured a major leader of MS13. Tom HOMAN is a superstar!” Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114234217151169492" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a> on Truth Social. 
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt also announced the arrest.
“This is what happens when you have competent federal leadership working with state/local law enforcement on the ground!” she posted on X.

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Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin vetoed a Democrat-backed bill on Tuesday that advocates say would have been used to target peaceful pro-life protesters and sidewalk counselors outside of abortion facilities. 
The bill would have sharply restricted the activities of pro-life advocates around abortion facilities, including imposing penalties for “impeding” access to an abortion provider. In his veto message, the Republican governor said that the legislation was an unconstitutional attack on free speech. 
“This legislation is an unconstitutional time, place, and manner restriction on the God-given, constitutionally protected right to the freedom of speech,” Youngkin <a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/SB1324/text/SB1324VG" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>. “It creates new criminal penalties for what one might say or where they stand when they say it. If this bill were to become law, a citizen of the Commonwealth, the crucible of our representative democracy, could be jailed simply for carrying a sign.”
The legislation, <a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/SB1324/text/SB1324ER" target="_blank" rel="noopener">SB 1324</a>, would create penalties for anyone “who knowingly obstructs, detains, hinders, impedes, blocks, or delays another person&#8217;s entry to or exit” from a health care facility. 
It would also block anyone from approaching “another person within eight feet of such person in the public way or sidewalk area within a radius of 40 feet from any entrance door to a health care facility, unless such other person consents to the approach, for the purpose of giving, tendering, or exhibiting any material to, displaying a sign to, or engaging in oral protest, education, or counseling with such other person.”
That provision would have restricted the work of pro-life sidewalk counselors who gather outside abortion facilities to urge women not to end the life of their unborn child and frequently offer help with their pregnancies. 
The Democrat-backed legislation <a href="https://legiscan.com/VA/votes/SB1324/2025" target="_blank" rel="noopener">passed</a> the House of Delegates 51-45 and Senate 21-19 in party-line votes. 
Pro-life advocates said that SB 1324 was meant to chill their speech.
“This bill is part of a concerted effort to stifle efforts to provide oversight of abortion providers and prevent individuals and groups from counseling women away from abortion,” Victoria Cobb of the Virginia-based Family Foundation <a href="https://www.lifenews.com/2025/01/29/trump-pardoned-pro-life-americans-now-virginia-democrats-want-to-lock-them-up/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">warned</a> as the measure worked its way through the legislature. “SB 1324 represents a clear attack on the ability to peacefully voice opposition to abortion, criminalizing the very act of offering alternatives and support to women visiting these facilities.”
The law would have been similar to the federal Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act, which makes it a federal offense to sit or stand in front of the entrances to abortion facilities. During the Biden administration, FACE was used to lock up peaceful pro-life protesters. 
President Donald Trump has taken a drastically different approach, pardoning the pro-lifers targeted by Biden, and directing his Justice Department to only prosecute FACE cases in instances of extreme violence. 
Youngkin on Tuesday also vetoed a number of other Democrat backed-bills, including legislation on gun control, pushing so-called green energy, and expanding recreational marijuana.

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Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin on Thursday ordered the Virginia State Police and Department of Corrections &#8220;to support federal immigration enforcement efforts.&#8221;
Youngkin signed an executive order requiring the agencies to sign agreements with Immigration and Customs Enforcement that &#8220;will create a State Police Task Force of federally deputized troopers to assist in the identification and apprehension of criminal illegal immigrants who pose a risk to public safety throughout the Commonwealth of Virginia,&#8221; the governor&#8217;s office said.
The executive order said it will serve &#8220;as a force multiplier for law enforcement agencies to enforce limited immigration authority with ICE oversight during their routine police duties.&#8221;
&#8220;In February 2024, an Old Dominion University student was killed in a car crash by an illegal immigrant who previously had multiple run-ins with the law, having previously been ordered deported six years earlier,&#8221; the order read. &#8220;That month, an illegal immigrant sexually assaulted a 14-year-old girl in Campbell County. In November 2024, a woman was attacked and raped by an illegal immigrant from Honduras while hiking along a trail in Herndon. Reports indicate that the man had 29 encounters with the police.&#8221;
The <a href="https://www.governor.virginia.gov/media/governorvirginiagov/governor-of-virginia/pdf/eo/EO-47-Keeping-Virginians-Safe-From-Dangerous-Criminal-Illegal-Immigrants.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">executive order</a>, &#8220;Keeping Virginians Safe From Dangerous Illegal Immigrants,&#8221; said that 946 inmates in the Virginia Department of Corrections have an immigration detainer. Ninety percent are violent criminals, 40% are rapists or sexual assailants, and 20% are murderers.
A &#8220;Jail Enforcement Model&#8221; will &#8220;identify and process removable immigrants who are incarcerated in state or local correction facilities.&#8221; Virginia prisons&#8217; cooperation with ICE will be &#8220;proactive,&#8221; the order said. It adds that it will &#8220;request&#8221; confirmation of full cooperation with ICE from jails run by counties.
Youngkin&#8217;s order also stated &#8220;a commitment to public safety demands that the Commonwealth recognize that the nexus between illegal immigration and dangerous criminal activity is real.&#8221;
The executive order said the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 created Section 287(g), which permits delegating &#8220;specified immigration officer functions&#8221; to federally-trained state and local law enforcement. An order from President Trump directs ICE to use such agreements to maximum effect.
President Donald Trump last week appointed Youngkin to co-chair the bipartisan Council of Governors.
Virginia Lt. Governor Winsome Earle-Sears, a Jamaican immigrant who is running to succeed the term-limited Youngkin, <a href="https://www.governor.virginia.gov/newsroom/news-releases/2025/february/name-1041944-en.html#:~:text=%E2%80%9CKeeping%20Virginians%20safe%20from%20violent,deported%20consistent%20with%20the%20law.%E2%80%9D">said</a> in announcing the move that &#8220;we’ve seen too many tragic stories after dangerous criminals in this country illegally were put back on the streets, and this Executive Order will make sure we send them back to where they came from.”

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President-elect <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> said Thursday that he would release a report on the recent mystery drone sightings reported in New Jersey and other states once he takes office. 
Trump made the comments as he met with Republican governors at Mar-a-Lago, prompting several to chime in with their own reports of drone sightings. Last month, the FBI, FAA, and Pentagon said they identified no threats among the 500 drone sightings they had investigated based on public tips.
&#8220;I&#8217;m going to give you a report on drones about one day into the administration because I think it&#8217;s ridiculous that they&#8217;re not telling you about what&#8217;s going on with the drones,” Trump said, noting that drones had been spotted over his property in Bedminster, New Jersey. “It’s not only with me, [Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin] was telling me today that in Virginia they have drones all over the place too and nobody is reporting it.” 
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PRESIDENT TRUMP: &#8220;I&#8217;m going to give you a report on drones about one day into the administration because I think it&#8217;s ridiculous that they&#8217;re not telling you about what&#8217;s going on with the drones.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/BnUBaAsBl6">pic.twitter.com/BnUBaAsBl6</a>
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) <a href="https://twitter.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1877521790920020281?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 10, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Trump said he would issue a report on the drones “shortly” after his inauguration on January 20. 
“They don’t want to talk about it and nobody knows why,” Trump said. “That could be us sending drones, I hope that’s the case, us doing it and doing research and maybe they don’t want to talk about it from that standpoint. I hope it&#8217;s not an enemy, but we’re going to find out on the 21st.”
Referencing how much of the U.S. military and intelligence infrastructure is in Virginia, Gov. Glenn Youngkin said that drones had been flying over secure air space for the last two years. 
“For two years running we have had drone incursion over secure air space and we still don’t know why. And I think that’s absolutely unacceptable,” Youngkin said. “And I think President Trump and the new leadership coming in will work diligently to understand who’s behind this and what we do in order to stop the digital surveillance of all our secure infrastructure.”
Louisiana Republican Governor Jeff Landry said that his state had recently seen drones flying over its nuclear reactors but that the FAA had done nothing after they brought it to their attention. 
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Wyoming Republican Governor Mark Gordon added that he had also struggled to deal with drones being flown over critical infrastructure. 
“We have drones in Wyoming flying over our infrastructure as well,” he said. “And it&#8217;s incredibly frustrating that we not only have no way of knowing what it is, but nobody knows how to deal with them.”

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The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed Virginia to go forward with removing around 1,600 non-citizens from its voter rolls after two lower courts ruled in favor of the Biden-Harris Department of Justice&#8217;s request to block the commonwealth&#8217;s voter roll purge.
A majority of the Supreme Court <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/103024zr_f2ah.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">granted</a> Virginia&#8217;s request for a stay on a U.S. District Court&#8217;s order, with liberal Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson saying they would&#8217;ve denied Virginia&#8217;s request.
The Supreme Court <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/103024zr_f2ah.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ruled</a> that the lower court&#8217;s decision is &#8220;stayed pending the disposition of the appeal in the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and disposition of a petition for a writ of certiorari, if such a writ is timely sought.&#8221; The court added that the stay would &#8220;terminate automatically&#8221; if writ of certiorari is denied.
&#8220;We are pleased by the Supreme Court’s order today. This is a victory for commonsense and election fairness. I am grateful for the work of Attorney General @JasonMiyaresVA on this critical fight to protect the fundamental rights of U.S. citizens,&#8221; Virginia Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin <a href="https://x.com/GlennYoungkin/status/1851631305353482681" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a> on social media. &#8220;Clean voter rolls are one important part of a comprehensive approach we are taking to ensure the fairness of our elections.&#8221;
State officials argued that the lower court&#8217;s injuction harm &#8220;Virginia&#8217;s sovereignty, confuse her voters, overload her election machinery and administrators, and likely lead noncitizens to think they are permitted to vote, a criminal offense that will cancel the franchise of eligible voters,&#8221; CBS News <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/supreme-court-virginia-voter-rolls/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
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Virginia filed an appeal in the U.S. Supreme Court earlier this week after a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit kept in place a ruling from a Biden-appointed District Court judge who ordered the commonwealth to keep non-citizens on its voter rolls. Youngkin <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/its-commonsense-virginia-asks-scotus-to-allow-removal-of-non-citizens-from-voter-rolls" target="_blank" rel="noopener">blasted</a> the lower courts&#8217; rulings, saying, &#8220;It’s commonsense: noncitizens shouldn’t be on our voter rolls.&#8221;
Youngkin issued an executive order in August to ensure that officials checked voter roll data daily and matched it up with data from the DMV, which resulted in around 1,600 non-citizens being removed from Virginia’s voter rolls. The voter roll purge was challenged by the DOJ along with groups of private organizations, which argued that the 90-day “quiet period” before an election required in the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 ensures that legitimate voters aren’t removed by bureaucratic error.
In previous district court decisions, however, the 90-day deadline in the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 has been <a href="https://www.heritage.org/election-integrity/report/the-national-voter-registration-act-does-not-prevent-states-removing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interpreted</a> to mean that a state is prohibited from removing a voter from the rolls “based on a change in the residence of the registrant,” not from removing non-citizens.

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The Republican National Committee and the Republican Party of Virginia have filed an amicus brief in the Supreme Court of the United States to stay a decision by a Biden-nominated judge who blocked an effort to keep non-citizens from voting.
After Virginia GOP Governor Glenn Youngkin ordered election officials to identify and cancel suspected non-citizens&#8217; voter registrations on August 7, the Biden-Harris administration claimed Youngkin’s actions violated the 1993 National Voter Registration Act. On October 25, two weeks before the national election, U.S. District Judge Patricia Tolliver Giles ordered the state to restore more than 1600 voters’ registrations which had been removed as part of Youngkin’s efforts.
“With only one week to our country’s most important election, Democrats are now taking extraordinary measures to keep non-citizens on voter rolls,” RNC Chairman Michael Whatley stated. “Kamala’s Administration sued Virginia and is now arguing to the U.S. Supreme Court that non-citizens must remain on the voter rolls. We are supporting Governor Youngkin’s efforts in the Supreme Court and fighting for only Americans to determine the future of our country.”
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As the <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24/24A407/330552/20241029131746854_24A407%20Beals_SCOTUS_Amicus_FINAL.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">amicus brief</a> noted, “The National Voter Registration Act of 1993 was passed to ‘increase the number of eligible citizens who register to vote in elections for Federal office,’ ‘protect the integrity of the electoral process,” and “ensure that accurate and current voter registration rolls are maintained.’ The district court’s ruling, affirmed by the Fourth Circuit, cuts directly against these purposes. Rather than increasing participation by eligible citizens, and ensuring the integrity of our elections, the ruling below prohibits states from preventing self-described non-citizens from illegally registering to vote. This is not, and cannot be, correct.”
“Due to the proximity to the 2024 election, there will be irreparable harm if the order below is permitted to stand unabated. The consequence of that order is that non-citizens — who all agree cannot legally vote — will be added back on the voter rolls at the last minute, diluting legitimate votes and exposing those non-citizens to a substantial risk of criminal prosecution should they misunderstand the lower courts’ order as a green light to vote unlawfully.”

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Virginia filed an appeal in the U.S. Supreme Court after a Biden-appointed judge ruled last week that the commonwealth must put non-citizens back onto its voter rolls just days before the 2024 election.
U.S. District Judge Patricia Giles&#8217; order was kept in place by a federal appeals court on Sunday, prompting Virginia Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin and Attorney General Jason Miyares to take the case to the Supreme Court. Youngkin&#8217;s attorneys argued before the federal appeals court that the lower court&#8217;s injunction against Virginia purging voter rolls on non-citizens was legally flawed and too disruptive before the election, POLITICO <a href="https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/10/27/2024-elections-live-coverage-updates-analysis/virginia-voter-purge-still-on-hold-00185734" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
In a unanimous ruling, the three judges on the appeals court said that Virginia&#8217;s process for removing non-citizen voters during a 90-day &#8220;quiet period&#8221; before the election by using data from the Department of Motor Vehicles appears to violate the National Voter Registration Act of 1993. The judges said that Virginia officials &#8220;remain able to prevent noncitizens from voting by canceling registrations on an individualized basis or prosecuting any noncitizen who votes.”
In 2012, however, federal district courts in Florida <a href="https://www.heritage.org/election-integrity/report/the-national-voter-registration-act-does-not-prevent-states-removing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interpreted</a> the 90-day deadline in the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to mean that a state is prohibited from removing a voter from the rolls “based on a change in the residence of the registrant,” not from removing non-citizens.
Youngkin issued an executive order in August to ensure that officials checked voter roll data daily and matched it up with data from the DMV, which resulted in around 1,600 non-citizens being removed from Virginia&#8217;s voter rolls.
&#8220;It’s commonsense: noncitizens shouldn’t be on our voter rolls. Thank you @JasonMiyaresVA for filing immediately with the U.S. Supreme Court for an emergency appeal of the order for Virginia to put over 1,500 people who self-identified as non-citizens back on the voter rolls,&#8221; Youngkin posted on X on Sunday.
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It’s commonsense: noncitizens shouldn’t be on our voter rolls. Thank you <a href="https://twitter.com/JasonMiyaresVA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JasonMiyaresVA</a> for filing immediately with the U.S. Supreme Court for an emergency appeal of the order for Virginia to put over 1,500 people who self-identified as non-citizens back on the voter rolls. <a href="https://t.co/rY4ymZduqq">https://t.co/rY4ymZduqq</a>
&mdash; Glenn Youngkin (@GlennYoungkin) <a href="https://twitter.com/GlennYoungkin/status/1850683138797650244?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 27, 2024</a></blockquote>
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The Republican governor also <a href="https://x.com/GlennYoungkin/status/1849826145258148113" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> last week that a Virginia law passed in 2006, which was signed by then-Governor Tim Kaine, a Democrat, “mandates certain procedures to remove noncitizens from the voter rolls, with safeguards in place to affirm citizenship before removal–and the ultimate failsafe of same-day registration for U.S. citizens to cast a provisional ballot.&#8221;
&#8220;This law has been applied in every Presidential election by Republicans and Democrats since enacted 18 years ago,&#8221; Youngkin added.
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Youngkin&#8217;s voter roll purge was challenged by the Biden-Harris administration&#8217;s Justice Department along with a group of private organizations, the Associated Press <a href="https://apnews.com/article/virginia-voter-registration-noncitizens-purge-appeal-b1d174ea90a7ac6e6fb1b9c623b7402e" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. The DOJ argued that the 90-day &#8220;quiet period&#8221; before an election ensures that legitimate voters aren&#8217;t removed by bureaucratic error.
Following Judge Giles&#8217; order against Virginia last week, former President Donald Trump <a href="https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1849854572317245951?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1849854572317245951%7Ctwgr%5E30751eec62d5e62dae7e16ccdb6ac296ea9fdbb3%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailywire.com%2Fnews%2Fbiden-harris-judge-orders-virginia-to-put-non-citizens-back-on-voter-rolls" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sounded off</a> and defended Youngkin&#8217;s voter roll purge.
&#8220;Sleepy Joe Biden and Comrade Kamala Harris ridiculously accuse me of wanting to &#8216;weaponize&#8217; the Justice Department, when they have done all of the weaponizing. Now, their truly Weaponized Department of &#8216;Injustice,&#8217; and a Judge (appointed by Joe), have ORDERED the Great Commonwealth of Virginia to PUT NON-CITIZEN VOTERS BACK ON THE ROLLS,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;This is a totally unacceptable travesty, and Governor Youngkin is absolutely right to appeal this ILLEGAL ORDER, and the U.S. Supreme Court will hopefully fix it! Only U.S. Citizens should be allowed to vote. Keep fighting, Glenn &#8211; AND REPUBLICANS IN VIRGINIA, KEEP VOTING EARLY! I will be calling in to Glenn’s Rally with Lara Trump tomorrow morning to talk about this crazy Ruling, and announce my final stop in Virginia before Election Day. TUNE IN!&#8221;

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‘It’s Commonsense’: Virginia Asks SCOTUS To Allow Removal Of Non-Citizens From Voter Rolls

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A federal judge sided with the Biden-Harris administration on Friday in ruling that Virginia must put non-citizen immigrants back on its voter rolls after they were removed by the state in compliance with state law.
U.S. District Judge Patricia Giles, who was appointed by the Biden-Harris administration, ordered that Virginia must put the non-citizens back on the voter rolls, even though it is illegal for them to vote.
&#8220;Let’s be clear about what just happened: only eleven days before a Presidential election, a federal judge ordered Virginia to reinstate over 1,500 individuals–who self-identified themselves as noncitizens–back onto the voter rolls,&#8221; <a href="https://x.com/GlennYoungkin/status/1849826145258148113" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin. &#8220;Almost all these individuals had previously presented immigration documents confirming their noncitizen status, a fact recently verified by federal authorities.&#8221;
Youngkin noted that the law, passed in 2006, was signed by then-Governor Tim Kaine, a Democrat.
The law &#8220;mandates certain procedures to remove noncitizens from the voter rolls, with safeguards in place to affirm citizenship before removal–and the ultimate failsafe of same-day registration for U.S. citizens to cast a provisional ballot,&#8221; Youngkin said. &#8220;This law has been applied in every Presidential election by Republicans and Democrats since enacted 18 years ago.&#8221;
Youngkin said that the state would immediately file a petition with the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals and, if necessary, the U.S. Supreme Court, for an emergency stay of the injunction.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump called Giles&#8217; ruling &#8220;a totally unacceptable travesty&#8221; and announced that he would now host a rally in the state before Election Day.
&#8220;Sleepy Joe Biden and Comrade Kamala Harris ridiculously accuse me of wanting to &#8216;weaponize&#8217; the Justice Department, when they have done all of the weaponizing,&#8221; Trump wrote. &#8220;Now, their truly Weaponized Department of &#8216;Injustice,&#8217; and a Judge (appointed by Joe), have ORDERED the Great Commonwealth of Virginia to PUT NON-CITIZEN VOTERS BACK ON THE ROLLS.&#8221;
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&#8220;This is a totally unacceptable travesty, and Governor Youngkin is absolutely right to appeal this ILLEGAL ORDER, and the U.S. Supreme Court will hopefully fix it!&#8221; he added. &#8220;Only U.S. Citizens should be allowed to vote. Keep fighting, Glenn &#8211; AND REPUBLICANS IN VIRGINIA, KEEP VOTING EARLY! I will be calling in to Glenn’s Rally with Lara Trump tomorrow morning to talk about this crazy Ruling, and announce my final stop in Virginia before Election Day. TUNE IN!&#8221;
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Sleepy Joe Biden and Comrade Kamala Harris ridiculously accuse me of wanting to “weaponize” the Justice Department, when they have done all of the weaponizing. Now, their truly Weaponized Department of “Injustice,” and a Judge (appointed by Joe), have ORDERED the Great…
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1849854572317245951?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 25, 2024</a></blockquote>

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Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin said over the weekend that former President Donald Trump was surging in the polls because he cares about the issues that matter the most to voters.
Youngkin made the remarks during a &#8220;Fox News Sunday&#8221; interview with Shannon Bream while discussing the state of the 2024 presidential race.
He said that the reason Democrats resort to making pathetic attacks against Trump is that they do not have a candidate in Vice President Kamala Harris who is &#8220;unable to really convey a future vision for the country and what she will do to tackle the most important issues.&#8221;
&#8220;The reality, of course, is if they would just focus on what the voters are focusing on, which is the economy, the border, national security, and of course, feeling safe in our own country because of the number of illegal immigrants who have come across and turned every state into a border state,&#8221; Youngkin said.
He said that as he travels around his purple state and listens to voters that what he hears is their &#8220;massive concern about the economic future and their ability to afford groceries, gas, tuition, and to buy a home or make rental payments.&#8221;
&#8220;What I hear over and over again are major concerns about the millions of people that have come across the border and the hundreds of thousands of violent criminals that have crossed the border, just identified two weeks ago by senior ICE officials,&#8221; he said. &#8220;What I also hear are major concerns about safety. These are the topics President Trump is talking about.&#8221;
&#8220;The reason why the other side can&#8217;t talk about them, and why they want to distract everyone, is because they have demonstrated over the last three and a half years that they don&#8217;t have the answers,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;They&#8217;ve unleashed unprecedented inflation that has been a gut punch anytime someone walks into a grocery store, they&#8217;ve allowed millions upon millions of illegal immigrants to come across the border and turn every state into a border state.&#8221;
He said that what has happened over the last three and a half years is the result of having a weak president and vice president in office.
&#8220;Americans and Virginians want strength back in the White House,&#8221; he concluded. &#8220;They want someone who will stand for a strong economy, where the lives of all Americans are lifted, like we had before. High growth and low inflation, not low growth and high inflation, where people can&#8217;t get great jobs, and where manufacturing comes back to the United States. This is the future Virginians and Americans are talking to me about, and that&#8217;s why we see President Trump surging in the polls around the country.&#8221;
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WATCH: <a href="https://twitter.com/GovernorVA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GovernorVA</a> discusses the DOJ&#8217;s lawsuit against Virginia, over the timing of the removal of noncitizens from voter rolls. <a href="https://t.co/RcxEVEzoTj">pic.twitter.com/RcxEVEzoTj</a>
— Fox News Sunday (@FoxNewsSunday) <a href="https://twitter.com/FoxNewsSunday/status/1848007013860847846?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 20, 2024</a></blockquote>

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