An illegal alien who authorities say shot at a police chopper has been arrested and is being held on an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainer.
Authorities say Nelson Garcia-Arevalo, 17, fired a stolen rifle at a Metro Nashville Police Department helicopter out of the window of a stolen car. He had allegedly used the stolen car to rob a gun store, where he obtained the stolen rifle and four handguns. He has been <a href="https://www.nashville.gov/departments/police/news/teen-probation-arrested-shooting-car-mnpd-helicopter-overhead">charged</a> with two counts of felony reckless endangerment.
Garcia-Arevalo was with two 15-year-olds who have been charged with vehicle theft, unlawful gun possession, and evading arrest. Video from Nashville police shows the three suspects fleeing law enforcement after they vacated the stolen vehicle.
The Davidson County Sheriff&#8217;s Office has confirmed to The Daily Wire that ICE filed a detainer request to gain custody of Garcia-Arevalo, and that it would comply with the federal law enforcement agency’s request. A spokesperson with the department said they did not know Garcia-Arevalo&#8217;s country of origin.
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WATCH: With an MNPD helicopter overhead, 3 teens bail from a stolen car this afternoon on Amalie Dr. The car had been used in a Dickson gun store burglary on Thur. The 17-old-driver, on probation for shooting at a police helicopter last year, fired shots in the air again today. <a href="https://t.co/cBhJNiYWwN">pic.twitter.com/cBhJNiYWwN</a>
— Metro Nashville PD (@MNPDNashville) <a href="https://twitter.com/MNPDNashville/status/1926077748906234100?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 24, 2025</a></blockquote>
This wasn’t the first time that Garcia-Arevalo had been arrested for a violent crime, however. The teenager was already on probation after he fired at an undercover police officer and another police helicopter, and was convicted of felony aggravated assault.
The immigration detainer comes amid an ongoing feud between Nashville Democratic Mayor Freddie O’Connell, Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN), and the Department of Homeland Security. O&#8217;Connell fumed after ICE arrested 196 illegal aliens in Music City and pledged to <a href="https://www.nashville.gov/departments/mayor/news/belonging-fund-launches-provide-emergency-support-immigrants-nashville">support</a> the creation of the “Belonging Fund,” intended to provide financial support to illegal aliens.
Of the nearly 200 illegal aliens arrested by ICE in the Nashville raids, 95 had prior criminal convictions or pending charges. The operation resulted in the arrest of sex offenders, rapists, drug runners, and even suspected members of MS-13 and Tren de Aragua.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/SpencerLndqst?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SpencerLndqst</a> rips into Nashville Mayor Freddie O’Connell on <a href="https://twitter.com/FoxNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@FoxNews</a> over the allegations of him obstructing ICE:
&#8220;Is he on the side of the people of Nashville, the American citizens&#8230; or is he on the side of drug runners, cartel members, rapists, and sex offenders?&#8221;
🔥🔥🔥 <a href="https://t.co/88YFyNFV4k">pic.twitter.com/88YFyNFV4k</a>
— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDailyWire/status/1928157440001876386?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 29, 2025</a></blockquote>
Now, the House Judiciary Committee and House Homeland Security Committee have launched <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tennessee-congressman-hits-mayors-over-opposition-to-ice-were-going-to-hold-you-accountable?author=Spencer+Lindquist&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=5&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Tennessee+Congressman+Hits+Mayor+Over+Opposition+To+ICE%3A+%E2%80%98We%E2%80%99re+Going+To+Hold+You+Accountable%E2%80%99">investigations</a> into the Nashville mayor with the hopes of obtaining communications between city officials and non-profit groups concerning the ICE operations. Rep. Ogles noted that Republicans are also interested in internal documents and communications relating to a new executive order from the mayor, which mandated that city employees report all communications with ICE to the mayor’s office.
Tensions grew after O’Connell’s office <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nashvilles-democrat-mayor-doxxes-ice-agents?author=Spencer+Lindquist&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=4&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Nashville%E2%80%99s+Democrat+Mayor+Doxxes+ICE+Agents">doxxed</a> the names of ICE agents when it released data on interactions between the federal law enforcement agents and city employees.
“They claimed it was a mistake. There’s zero chance it was a mistake and there will be repercussions,” DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said. “He’s essentially handing over intelligence to these criminal gangs so they can target our ICE enforcement officers.”

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Weeks before an illegal immigrant threw a Molotov cocktail at a group of pro-Israel demonstrators in Colorado, Democrats in the state passed legislation that would make it even harder to identify criminals like the man who told authorities he had been planning the attack for a year while illegally in the country.
Mohamed Sabry Soliman, a 45-year-old Egyptian national and illegal alien, is believed to have entered the United States on a visa before he was granted work authorization by the Biden administration, which he overstayed after it expired in March. Federal court <a href="https://x.com/BillMelugin_/status/1929583795805524440">filings</a> say that Soliman not only admitted to the attack, but said that he wanted to kill all “zionists.”
Just weeks before the attack, Colorado Democrats passed legislation aimed at hindering Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) ability to find and deport illegal aliens. The bill, signed by Governor Jared Polis in late May, <a href="https://coloradoimmigrant.org/governor-signs-sb25-276-into-law-strengthening-constitutional-rights-for-immigrant-families-and-all-coloradans/#:~:text=Denver%2C%20CO%20%E2%80%94%20Today%2C%20Governor,Coloradans%E2%80%94regardless%20of%20immigration%20status.">bars law enforcement</a> in the state from respecting ICE detainer requests, which the federal agency uses to gain custody of illegal aliens who have been placed in local jails after being arrested for crimes.
The legislation was marketed as a way to counter the Trump administration&#8217;s crackdown on illegal immigration by Democrats in the state.
“One of the reasons why I appreciate this bill so much is that it is one of few that is really taking seriously the crisis that the federal administration poses for immigrants in particular and for marginalized people generally,” <a href="https://coloradonewsline.com/2025/05/03/colorado-immigrant-protection-bill-as-justice-department-sues-state/">said</a> Democrat state representative Yara Zokaie.
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The law <a href="https://coloradonewsline.com/2025/05/03/colorado-immigrant-protection-bill-as-justice-department-sues-state/#:~:text=The%20bill%20would%20prohibit%20local,warrant%20signed%20by%20a%20judge.">prevents</a> city and county governments from sharing data, like identifying information and immigration status information, with ICE, making it significantly harder for the federal law enforcement agency to track down illegal aliens in Colorado.
It also imposes steep penalties on those working with ICE. State agencies and local governments could be fined up to $50,000 for violating the law, with the money earmarked for a state-run deportation defense fund.
Called the <a href="https://ona.colorado.gov/our-work/immigration-legal-defense-fund">Immigration Legal Defense Fund</a>, the initiative “provides free immigration legal services to help Coloradans and those detained in Colorado with their immigration court proceedings.” Potential beneficiaries of the program only have to demonstrate that they are in Colorado, have been placed in deportation proceedings, and cannot afford legal defense.
White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller <a href="https://x.com/StephenM/status/1929354625104109637">pointed</a> to “suicidal migration” policies as one of the factors that led to the terror attack in Colorado.
“A terror attack was committed in Boulder, Colorado by an illegal alien. He was granted a tourist visa by the Biden Administration and then he illegally overstayed that visa. In response, the Biden Administration gave him a work permit,” Miller said.  “Suicidal migration must be fully reversed.”

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Weeks Before Illegal Alien Terror Attack, Colorado Dems Passed Law Shielding Illegals From ICE

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Nashville City Council members denied that the United States is facing an invasion from illegal aliens and instead blamed Europeans for their “invasion” of America in 1492 amid an ongoing battle over the city’s response to illegal immigration.
The comment came in a <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DKNErrHOehh/?ref=pamphleteer.co">letter</a> from the Nashville city council&#8217;s Immigrant Caucus, which slammed fellow council member David Benton after he spoke alongside Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN) as the congressman called for an investigation into Nashville Democratic Mayor Freddie O’Connell, who condemned raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Music City.
The Caucus, which is chaired by council member Terry Vo, accused Benton of pushing “racist propaganda” and turned its ire to “European colonizers.”
“We remind him, and the public, that the only true ‘invasion’ of this land occurred in 1492 with the arrival of European colonizers,” the statement reads as it addresses Benton in an apparent reference to Christopher Columbus. “To weaponize the concept of invasion against immigrant communities is both historically ignorant and morally reprehensible.”
The letter falsely claimed that the illegal aliens captured by ICE &#8220;are not criminals,&#8221; and even called illegal aliens the “backbone of this city and this nation.”
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Beyond unlawfully entering the United States, which is itself a crime, many of the illegal aliens captured by ICE have been convicted of additional offenses. An <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-dems-rage-over-nashville-ice-raids-that-targeted-rapists-and-gang-members?author=Spencer+Lindquist+and+Mary+Margaret+Olohan&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=EXCLUSIVE%3A+Dems+Rage+Over+Nashville+ICE+Raids+That+Targeted+Rapists+And+Gang+Members">exclusive report</a> from The Daily Wire revealed that, of the 196 illegal aliens arrested in Music City since early May, 95 had prior criminal convictions or pending criminal charges, and 31 had allegedly committed a felony by re-entering the United States after previously being deported.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/SpencerLndqst?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SpencerLndqst</a> rips into Nashville Mayor Freddie O’Connell on <a href="https://twitter.com/FoxNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@FoxNews</a> over the allegations of him obstructing ICE:
&#8220;Is he on the side of the people of Nashville, the American citizens&#8230; or is he on the side of drug runners, cartel members, rapists, and sex offenders?&#8221;
🔥🔥🔥 <a href="https://t.co/88YFyNFV4k">pic.twitter.com/88YFyNFV4k</a>
— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDailyWire/status/1928157440001876386?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 29, 2025</a></blockquote>
ICE’s raids in Nashville resulted in the capture of rapists, sex offenders, drug peddlers, and members of MS-13 and Tren de Aragua, two vicious gangs that the Trump administration recently designated as foreign terror organizations.
Mayor O&#8217;Connell not only condemned the raids, but even <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nashvilles-democrat-mayor-doxxes-ice-agents?author=Spencer+Lindquist&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Nashville’s+Democrat+Mayor+Doxxes+ICE+Agents">doxxed</a> the names of ICE agents involved. The mayor&#8217;s office maintains that the doxxing was an accident, but the Department of Homeland Security said there is &#8220;zero chance it was a mistake.&#8221;

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Tennessee Congressman Andy Ogles slammed Nashville&#8217;s mayor over his opposition to deportation operations in an interview with Morning Wire, warning city leaders across the country that federal officials will crack down on those who impede law enforcement.
“If you impede federal law enforcement in their duties, in their directive to follow President Trump, to say, it&#8217;s time that we start deporting these folks, we&#8217;re going to be looking into your city and where appropriate, we&#8217;re going to hold you accountable,” Ogles said.
“The mayor of Nashville is making local PD, who are just trying to do their jobs, the bad guy,” Ogles said on Morning Wire. “The problem with that, aside from…impeding federal law enforcement is, we&#8217;ve had a 400% increase in attacks against law enforcement across the country.”
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/RepOgles?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RepOgles</a> joins <a href="https://twitter.com/MorningWire?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MorningWire</a> to discuss the investigation into Nashville&#8217;s mayor and his alleged obstruction of <a href="https://twitter.com/ICEgov?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ICEgov</a>. <a href="https://t.co/XuvI0apfY6">pic.twitter.com/XuvI0apfY6</a>
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Ogles&#8217; comments came just after the congressman <a href="https://www.wkrn.com/news/local-news/nashville/congressman-andy-ogles-confirms-federal-investigation-into-nashville-mayors-office-over-illegal-immigration/">confirmed</a> that the House Homeland Security and Judiciary Committees have launched an investigation into Nashville’s Democrat Mayor Freddie O’Connell, who spoke out against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) after the federal agency captured nearly 200 illegal aliens in Nashville.
The congressman says he hopes to obtain correspondence between city officials and non-profit organizations discussing ICE’s arrests, as well as internal communications between city officials concerning the ICE raids. Ogles is also seeking internal documents and correspondence discussing an executive order from the mayor mandating that all city officials report their communications with ICE to his office.
Ogles told The Daily Wire the investigation into O’Connell also sends “a message to cities and mayors across the country.”
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With the support of the House Judiciary Committee, I will be formally requesting all documents and communications from the Mayor’s office related to:
– The amendment of Executive Order 30—an outrageous directive requiring Nashville employees and first responders to report all… <a href="https://t.co/BGv8uocsTk">pic.twitter.com/BGv8uocsTk</a>
— Rep. Andy Ogles (@RepOgles) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepOgles/status/1927130867031294345?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 26, 2025</a></blockquote>
It isn’t just Nashville’s mayor that Ogles has his eye on, however. There’s also State Representative <a href="https://www.wsmv.com/2025/05/14/tn-rep-andy-ogles-calls-investigation-into-nashville-leadership-obstructing-ice-operations/">Aftyn Bhen</a>, who followed ICE agents as they enforced federal law in Music City.
“She recorded herself and she put it on social media where she was blocking ICE vehicles,” Ogles said. “She even admitted to blocking four different – ‘delaying’ was the word she used – ICE vehicles as they were trying to conduct operations. And so that&#8217;s a crime.”
The ICE raids in Nashville, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-dems-rage-over-nashville-ice-raids-that-targeted-rapists-and-gang-members?author=Spencer+Lindquist+and+Mary+Margaret+Olohan&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=EXCLUSIVE%3A+Dems+Rage+Over+Nashville+ICE+Raids+That+Targeted+Rapists+And+Gang+Members">first reported</a>, led to the capture of gang members, drug runners, and a convicted rapist. Of the 196 illegal aliens arrested in the raids, 95 had prior criminal convictions or pending criminal charges, and another 31 had reentered the country after being previously removed from the United States.
Ogles explained that criminal illegal alien gangs, some of which have been designated foreign terror organizations by the Trump administration, have a foothold in Tennessee.
“As someone who&#8217;s on the Homeland Security Committee, [I] just received a classified briefing. And what I can tell you is that MS-13 and Tren de Aragua, they&#8217;re all over the country. They&#8217;re in Nashville. They&#8217;re in our small cities like Columbia and Tullahoma,” Ogles warned.
&#8220;I can tell you that these gangs are sophisticated. They&#8217;re in every city in our country. They have very sophisticated surveillance equipment, tactical equipment. This isn&#8217;t just some thug on the street selling drugs,&#8221; he added. &#8220;These are cartels and criminal enterprises that are moving and sweeping across our country.&#8221;
“If we don&#8217;t fight back, if we don&#8217;t take our cities and our streets back, you&#8217;re going to wake up and you&#8217;re going to see those gang members on the street corner in front of your elementary and middle schools, and then it&#8217;ll be too late,” he added.
Ogles also noted that illegal alien gangs “want strongholds in Nashville,” because the city’s proximity to other population centers makes it a valuable outpost for smuggling drugs, guns, and people.
“They want to take over Nashville, and the more competition and the more fighting, the more violence you&#8217;re to see on our streets, and I&#8217;m not going to stand for it,” Ogles said. “We&#8217;re going to find these people. We&#8217;re going to get them off our streets.”

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Tennessee Congressman Hits Mayor Over Opposition To ICE: ‘We’re Going To Hold You Accountable’

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A Democrat Congressman spent Memorial Day attempting to visit a deported illegal alien with ties to MS-13 who stands accused of beating his wife and trafficking other illegal aliens.
Democrat Rep. Glenn Ivey (D-MD) attempted to visit Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an illegal alien with ties to MS-13 who was deported to his home country of El Salvador, on a day reserved for honoring America’s fallen soldiers.
Ivey even referred to Abrego Garcia, who was erroneously dubbed a “Maryland man” by much of the media despite being an illegal alien, as “my constituent” in a post on X. “Today, I was denied access to seeing my constituent, Mr. Kilmar Abrego Garcia,” the Maryland Democrat wrote in the post. “Let his lawyer and I check on him.”
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Today, I was denied access to seeing my constituent, Mr. Kilmar Abrego Garcia. If there is nothing to hide, cut the crap. Let his lawyer and I check on him. 
<a href="https://twitter.com/CASAforall?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CASAforall</a> <a href="https://t.co/V310GDmIc4">pic.twitter.com/V310GDmIc4</a>
— Rep. Glenn Ivey (@RepGlennIvey) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepGlennIvey/status/1927086832732291321?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 26, 2025</a></blockquote>
“I’m the Congressman who represents Kilmar,” Ivey said in a video. “I came all the way down from the United States,” he went on to say before complaining that he was unable to visit with the Salvadoran citizen.
Abrego Garcia was deported to El Salvador, where he remains imprisoned in the country’s Terrorism Confinement Center, a prison for members of violent gangs that have plagued the Central American nation. Multiple courts found that Abrego Garcia is connected to MS-13, a vicious gang that the Trump administration designated as a foreign terror organization.
Abrego Garcia also stands accused of beating his wife. Abrego Garcia’s wife even filed a request for a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/deported-illegal-immigrant-who-dems-have-championed-accused-of-beating-wife-court-docs">protective order</a> against him, claiming that he bragged that he could kill her and get away with it. The wife of the illegal alien claims that Abrego Garcia “told my ex-mother-in-law that even if he kills me no one can do anything to him.”
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“Me and my kids are afraid now. He kicked me, pushed me, slapped me in the face and threatened me,” she said, according to the legal document.
Abrego Garcia is also suspected of trafficking other illegal aliens into the United States. Body-camera <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/police-suspected-maryland-man-of-getting-paid-to-traffic-illegals-body-cam-footage-shows?author=Spencer+Lindquist&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=16&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Police+Suspected+%E2%80%98Maryland+Man%E2%80%99+Of+%E2%80%98Getting+Paid%E2%80%99+To+Traffic+Illegals%2C+Body+Cam+Footage+Shows">footage</a> from the Tennessee Highway Patrol reveals that one law enforcement agent suspected Abrego Garcia of trafficking illegal aliens after he pulled him over.
“He’s getting paid to haul these people, probably to Maryland, I would say,” an officer says on the footage after speaking with Abrego Garcia, who was driving a car full of men who claimed not to speak English or have driver&#8217;s licenses.
Ivey is only the latest Democrat to fly to El Salvador in hopes of visiting the illegal alien. Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), who similarly claimed that Abrego Garcia is a “constituent” of his, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dem-senator-van-hollen-did-not-ask-deported-illegal-immigrant-ms-13">visited</a> the illegal alien last month. The Democrat did not, however, ask the man if he had any connections to MS-13.
Three more Congressman &#8212; Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-FL), Robert Garcia (D-CA), and Yassamin Ansari (D-AZ) &#8212; traveled to the Central American country, but were <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/5259931-house-democrats-denied-meeting-abrego-garcia-demand-daily-proof-of-life/">denied a meeting</a> with Abrego Garcia. They instead met with the United States Ambassador to El Salvador and called on him to advocate for the illegal alien’s release.
Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele confirmed that he will not return Abrego Garcia to the United States during a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-officials-bukele-tear-into-cnn-reporter-who-asked-if-illegal-alien-will-be-returned-to-u-s">meeting</a> with President Donald Trump and administration officials in the Oval Office last month, which came on the heels of a Supreme Court order for the administration to &#8220;facilitate&#8221; the return of Abrego Garcia to the United States.
“The question is preposterous, how can I smuggle a terrorist into the United States?” Bukele said in response to a journalist who asked if he would facilitate the man’s return to the United States. “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 went on to say. “That’s not going to happen.”

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Dem Congressman Spends Memorial Day Trying To Visit Deported Illegal Alien With MS-13 Ties

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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Wednesday spotlighted the criminal records of eight illegal aliens who were deported to South Sudan as it gears up for a fight with a judge who could order them to be returned to the United States.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) explained that the illegal aliens’ countries of origin were unwilling to take them back.
“We conducted a deportation flight from Texas to remove some of the most barbaric, violent individuals illegally in the United States,” <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zg1o9hJES0">said</a> Tricia McLaughlin, the Assistant Secretary of Public Affairs for the agency. “No country on earth wanted to accept them because their crimes are so uniquely monstrous and barbaric,” McLaughlin added before explaining that South Sudan was “willing to accept custody” of the illegal alien criminals.
However, U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy of Massachusetts has <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/federal-judge-orders-trump-administration-track-deported-immigrants-south-sudan">ordered</a> the Trump administration to maintain custody of the deported illegals “to ensure the practical feasibility of return if the Court finds that such removals were unlawful.”
“A local judge in Massachusetts is trying to force the United States to bring back these uniquely barbaric monsters who present a clear and present threat to the safety of American people,” McLaughlin charged before calling it “absurd” that the judge would attempt to “dictate the foreign policy and national security of the United States of America.”
The plane landed in the nearby country of Djibouti on Wednesday, the New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/us/south-sudan-deportation.html">reported</a>. The eight men on the deportation flight were convicted of a range of crimes, including murder, kidnapping, robbery, and sexual assault, according to DHS.
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DHS <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dhs-exposes-crimes-migrants-deported-south-sudan-judge-threatens-order-return">identified</a> one of the men as Enrique Arias-Hierro, a Cuban national arrested by ICE in May and convicted of homicide, armed robbery, false impersonation of an official, kidnapping, and strong-arm robbery. He was joined by another Cuban national named Jose Manuel Rodriguez-Quinones, who has been convicted of first-degree murder with a weapon, battery and larceny, and trafficking and possessing cocaine.
Another deported was Tuan Thanh Phan of Vietnam, who was convicted of first-degree murder and second-degree assault. Laotian national Thongxay Nilakout, who was also convicted of first-degree murder, was also on the flight to South Sudan, as was Mexican national Jesus Munoz-Gutierrez, who had been convicted of second-degree murder.
There’s also a pair of convicted Burmese sex offenders: Kyaw Mya of Burma, a criminal convicted of “lascivious acts with a child-victim less than 12 years of age,” and Nyo Myint, who was convicted of “first-degree sexual assault involving a victim mentally and physically incapable of resisting” as well as aggravated assault.
Only one of the eight men sent to South Sudan is originally from the African nation. Dian Peter Domach, who was captured by ICE in May, was found in “possession of burglar’s tools and possession of defaced firearm,” and convicted of  “robbery and possession of a firearm.”
The potential legal battle would mark the latest ruling from the judiciary to prevent the Trump administration’s deportation of criminal illegal aliens. United States District Judge James Boasberg, whose wife donated to Democratic candidates and opened a Washington, D.C.-area abortion clinic, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/meet-the-obama-appointed-judge-trying-to-stop-trump-from-deporting-criminal-illegals">hindered</a> the administration’s efforts to deport illegal aliens who are suspected gang members to El Salvador.
Another <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/judge-who-prevented-trumps-deportation-of-500k-migrants-volunteered-for-obama-elizabeth-warren?author=Spencer+Lindquist&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=30&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Judge+Who+Prevented+Trump%E2%80%99s+Deportation+Of+500k+Migrants+Volunteered+For+Obama%2C+Elizabeth+Warren">leftwing judge</a>, Indira Talwani, temporarily blocked the Trump administration from removing temporary protected status for more than 500,000 migrants. Talwani donated to and volunteered for Democratic politicians, including former President Barack Obama and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA).

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NASHVILLE — The federal deportation raids in Tennessee that have garnered outrage from local Democrats resulted in the capture of rapists, drug dealers, and gang members, according to a Department of Homeland Security dossier obtained by The Daily Wire.
Nashville&#8217;s Democrat mayor Freddie O&#8217;Connell has <a href="https://fox17.com/news/local/nashville-mayor-issues-new-protocol-for-metro-employees-amid-ice-communication-fallout">said</a> he was very &#8220;frustrated&#8221; to see immigration enforcement in the city, stating, &#8220;We did not request this approach to safety, we do not support it.&#8221; In response, he signed an executive order mandating that communications from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) be directed to his office immediately.
His outrage comes with little public information known about the scale about the raid, but The Daily Wire has learned that nearly 200 illegal aliens were captured during the weeklong raids, including rapists, drug dealers, and gang members.
The raids, which ICE carried out in conjunction with local and federal law enforcement partners, began on May 3 and resulted in the arrest of 196 illegal aliens. Of those arrested, 95 had prior criminal convictions or pending criminal charges, while another 31 had reentered the country after being previously removed from the United States, a felony offense, the federal law enforcement agency told The Daily Wire.
“This operation resulted in getting gang members, sex offenders, and other violent criminals off Nashville’s streets,&#8221; Tricia McLaughlin, the Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs, told The Daily Wire. &#8220;President Trump and Secretary Noem will continue to stand with victims and the brave ICE agents who are on the frontlines making America safe again.&#8221;
Here are some of the criminal illegal aliens captured in Nashville:
Jassim Jafaf Al-Raash, a 60-year-old convicted rapist and citizen of Iraq. Al-Raash failed to register as a sex offender following his rape convictions, for which he was sentenced to 10 years in prison. The Iraqi national was also convicted of false imprisonment and larceny.
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ICE also captured Franklin Oswaldo Velasquez-Reyes, a 33-year-old Salvadoran who is affiliated with MS-13, a violent gang that was recently named a foreign terrorist organization by the Trump State Department. El Salvador suspects Velasquez-Reyes of committing aggravated murder and issued a notice requesting foreign governments to locate and arrest Velasquez-Reyes. The Salvadoran national has several criminal convictions, including possession of methamphetamines, possession of drug paraphernalia, failure to appear, and criminal impersonation.
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Haitian national Richard St. Baptiste, who was sentenced to eight years in prison for possession of methamphetamine with the intent to distribute. St. Baptiste was also sentenced to 30 days in prison for marijuana possession.
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Inmar Antonio Penado-Membreno, a 34-year-old Salvadoran, was sentenced to eight years in prison for possession with intent to manufacture, deliver, and sell cocaine and four years for aggravated assault.
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Carlos Reinaldo Alvarado-Rodriguez, a 39-year-old citizen of Guatemala with a conviction for aggravated assault.
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“You would think all public officials would unite around DHS bringing violent criminal illegal aliens to justice and removing them from American communities,&#8221; McLaughlin charged. &#8220;However, pro-open borders politicians — like Mayor O’Connell — would rather protect illegal aliens than American citizens.” 
O&#8217;Connell, Nashville&#8217;s mayor, not only spoke out against the raids, but also put local resources towards helping the illegal immigrant community. He announced the creation of the “belonging fund” to offer monetary support for illegal aliens. The fund will allocate money to non-profit organizations that provide childcare, transportation, and food to illegal aliens, though the money will not be used to provide them with legal assistance.
ICE Acting Director Todd Lyons told The Daily Wire that O’Connell should be thankful for the federal agency’s operations in Nashville.
“Instead of vilifying the brave men and women who ensure his constituents stay safe from criminal alien murderers, drug dealers and rapists, the mayor should be saying thank you to ICE and its partners for taking these public safety threats out of his neighborhoods.”
RJ Hauman, the president of National Immigration Center Enforcement and visiting fellow at the Heritage Foundation, similarly slammed Nashville’s Democrat mayor.
“Sanctuary city mayors keep trying to outdo each other, and Americans are fed up,&#8221; Hauman said. “ICE is stepping up, nabbing serious criminals like child rapists and Tren de Aragua gang members. The American people are behind ICE’s work to kick these threats out and keep our communities safe. Now it’s time for Congress to give them more resources.”
Despite O’Connell’s response to the ICE raids, Nashville’s Legal Director Wally Dietz admitted that the city has no authority to obstruct the operations.
“We are powerless, we have absolutely no authority to instruct ICE not to carry out their enforcement actions,” Dietz explained. “We have no authority to tell THP they cannot cooperate with ICE,” he added, referring to the Tennessee Highway Patrol.
Tennessee Senator Marsha Blackburn (R) praised the raids, saying. “No one wants these criminals in their community” and that it was &#8220;a good thing that ICE is rounding them up and deporting them.”

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Federal agents arrested a Venezuelan illegal alien who flaunted his stash of grenades on social media and is believed to be a leader of the vicious Tren de Aragua.
Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) arrested Yonaiker Gallegos, who posed with an AR-15 and several grenades online, in Los Angeles County on Friday.
“On Tuesday evening April 22, 2025, HSI was able to locate Gallegos who was utilizing the false name Yoniaker Rafel MARTINEZ-RAMOS, who was in state custody in Los Angeles County on misdemeanor charges,” the Department of Homeland Security said in a <a href="https://x.com/BillMelugin_/status/1917040814745915616">statement</a> to Fox News.
The HSI National Gang Unit was able to identify the suspected Tren de Aragua leader as Yonaiker Gallegos after cross-referencing booking photos and social media images, using facial comparison tools to confirm his true identity. HSI successfully took Gallegos into custody for violations of Title 8, an immigration policy.
The arrest marks the latest crackdown by the Trump administration on the violent Venezuelan gang. The criminal enterprise was one of eight cartel and gang organizations <a href="https://www.state.gov/terrorist-designations-of-international-cartels/">designated</a> as a foreign terrorist organization by Trump’s State Department.
A multi-agency raid over the weekend resulted in the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/multi-agency-raid-hits-tren-de-aragua-hotspot-officials-take-more-than-100-into-custody?author=Virginia+Kruta&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Multi-Agency+Raid+Hits+Tren+De+Aragua+Hotspot%3A+Officials+Take+More+Than+100+Into+Custody">capture</a> of over 100 illegal aliens at an underground nightclub in Colorado that authorities say was being used by Tren de Aragua members. The raid, which was carried out by agents from the FBI, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Drug Enforcement Agency, and even the United States Postal Service and IRS, also resulted in the seizure of drugs and weapons.
Trump’s Department of Justice recently charged 27 current and former suspected Tren de Aragua members under the Racketeering Influence and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), leveraging a law best known for its use against the mafia against cartels. The charges, Attorney General Pam Bondi said, spanned three different states and “will devastate TdA’s infrastructure.”
The administration also employed the Alien Enemies Act to expedite the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/leave-now-trump-admin-vows-to-keep-deporting-suspected-gang-members-after-scotus-win?author=Leif+Le+Mahieu&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=‘LEAVE+NOW’%3A+Trump+Admin+Vows+To+Keep+Deporting+Suspected+Gang+Members+After+SCOTUS+Win">deportation </a> of Tren de Aragua members to El Salvador&#8217;s Terrorism Confinement Center. Now the administration is locked in an ongoing l<a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/04/26/texas-judge-venezuela-deportation-tren-de-aragua/83298669007/">egal battle</a> with federal judges over its use of the law to remove the criminal aliens.

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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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A twice-deported illegal alien who killed a young couple in a drunk driving accident was set to be let out of a California prison more than six years early.
Oscar Eduardo Ortega-Anguiano, a Mexican national, was charged with manslaughter and sentenced to ten years in prison after he <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/top-trump-officials-file-charges-against-illegal-immigrant-after-fox-news-exposes-early-release-plans">killed</a> Anya Varfolomeev and Nicholay Osokin in a drunk driving accident in Orange County, California, in November 2021.
The young couple was burned alive after Ortega-Anguiano barreled into their vehicle while high, drunk, and driving nearly 100 miles per hour. The family was notified by the state that the illegal alien was set to be released from prison after serving just over one-third of his ten-year sentence.
Anya Varfolomeev’s father <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/illegal-immigrant-convicted-killing-teens-high-speed-crash-released-early">decried</a> the planned early release of the illegal alien. “It&#8217;s disgusting. You have two young, unbelievable future, productive American citizens killed for nothing and that illegal immigrant who already has been deported twice is going to be released again? For what?” Anatoly Varfolomeev said. “If even he is deported, he will come back.”
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has placed an immigration detainer on the illegal alien, and after public backlash, Governor Gavin Newsom&#8217;s press office has announced that the state will be <a href="https://x.com/GovPressOffice/status/1915107716688962033">honoring the request</a>.
“After being deported in 2013, this individual unlawfully re-entered the US &amp; committed heinous crimes,” the governor’s press office said in a post on X. “CDCR will again coordinate with ICE — as they have w/ 10,000+ inmates — to transfer him before release.”
Ortega-Anguiano will face new federal charges from the Department of Justice (DOJ) for illegally reentering the United States after having previously been deported.
“My office has filed a felony immigration charge against this defendant. He faces up to 20 years in federal prison if convicted for 8 USC 1326,” Bill Essayli, the U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California wrote on X. “If the State of California will not seek the full measure of justice against this individual, the [Department of Justice] will.”
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My office has filed a felony immigration charge against this defendant. He faces up to 20 years in federal prison if convicted for 8 USC 1326.
If the State of California will not seek the full measure of justice against this individual, the <a href="https://twitter.com/TheJusticeDept?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TheJusticeDept</a> will. <a href="https://t.co/wTuQdun1as">https://t.co/wTuQdun1as</a>
— US Attorney Essayli (@USAttyEssayli) <a href="https://twitter.com/USAttyEssayli/status/1915069030349648125?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 23, 2025</a></blockquote>
“This is absolutely unconscionable. What about Justice for these teens? What about the rights of their parents?” Attorney General Pam Bondi <a href="https://x.com/AGPamBondi/status/1915040349937954960">said on X,</a> adding that the DOJ “will work with ICE to make sure this illegal alien receives full punishment for his crimes.”

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The Trump administration’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has arrested more than 1,000 illegal alien workers and is proposing fines against businesses that have used illegal labor.
ICE and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) announced Wednesday that they have taken historic actions against illegal alien workers, and against the businesses profiting from illegal alien labor.
“This is the highest rate of arrest in HSI’s history,” HSI acting Executive Associate Director Robert Hammer <a href="https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ice-arrests-over-1k-illegal-workers-proposes-1m-fines">explained</a>. “We’ve subpoenaed the business records of about 1,200 businesses, and as part of our review, we’ve proposed close to $1 million in fines.”
He also railed against businesses that use illegal labor. “Businesses that exploit and hire illegal workers are harming the American public,” Hammer charged. “ICE’s statutory duties include protecting Americans and enforcing more than 400 laws that relate to immigration, so there are two aspects to our worksite enforcement operations.”
The agency says it has increased its workplace enforcement efforts in the past two months.
“On April 2, we filed a civil complaint against a Chinese money laundering organization that orders the multimillion-dollar seizure of 14 properties, seven bank accounts and 15 vehicles,” ICE Detroit acting Special Agent in Charge Jared Murphey said. The agency alleges that the money laundering ring operated a staffing company that supplied illegal alien labor to an Ohio factory.
ICE also recently captured 37 illegal aliens working at a roofing company in Washington state. The federal agency says that the aliens “fraudulently represented their immigration status and submitted fraudulent documents” in order to gain employment.
That raid came after ICE and HSI <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ice-and-homeland-security-busts-8-illegal-aliens-and-the-business-owners-they-say-harbored-them">arrested</a> eight illegal aliens at a workplace raid at a bakery in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley. The raid also resulted in the arrest of the two owners of the business, who allegedly hired the employees despite knowing that they were in the country illegally.
Immigration experts have also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-one-simple-trick-that-could-lead-illegal-immigrants-to-self-deport?author=Spencer+Lindquist&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=16&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=The+One+Simple+Trick+That+Could+Lead+Illegal+Immigrants+To+Self-Deport">explained</a> that a national E-Verify mandate could prevent illegal aliens from obtaining jobs, thus encouraging them to self-deport en masse.
“It would make it much more difficult to get work. It would mean that a significant number of people would…opt not to come here illegally or even decide to go home,” Mark Krikorian, the Executive Director of the Center for Immigration Studies, told The Daily Wire.
Ira Mehlman, the Media Director of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), explained that an E-Verify mandate would remove the biggest incentive that illegal aliens have to come into the country.
“The vast majority of illegal aliens — especially the ones who arrived during the Biden administration — are economic migrants. Their strongest motivation for coming here was the ability to find a job and better wages,” he said. “If employers were mandated to use E-Verify and the government demonstrated the resolve to hold employers accountable, that would go a long way toward drying up the supply of jobs for illegal aliens, thereby eliminating the biggest incentive to come or remain here illegally.”
One recent FAIR study estimated that there are 18.6 million illegal aliens present in the United States, presenting a seismic challenge for immigration enforcement authorities. “There’s no question that a large part, and maybe most, of any reduction in the illegal population has to come through self deportation,” Krikorian noted.

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The federal judge who temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s decision to revoke the temporary legal status of half a million migrants volunteered for and donated to prominent Democrat politicians, including former President Barack Obama and Senator Elizabeth Warren.
United States District Judge Indira Talwani was the latest left-wing judge to stonewall Trump’s agenda after she stopped his administration from revoking the legal status of migrants from Haiti, Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Cuba who were allowed into the country by the Biden administration. The decision temporarily prevents Trump from issuing removal orders against the migrants.
An estimated 530,000 migrants from the four countries were paroled by the Biden administration and are currently allowed to live and work in the United States. The immigration parole program was responsible for the massive influx of Haitian migrants to Rustbelt towns like <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/what-has-my-town-become-springfield-residents-say-its-falling-apart-amid-haitian-influx">Springfield, Ohio, </a>and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/its-not-just-springfield-this-small-town-in-pennsylvania-is-overrun-by-haitian-migrants-too">Charleroi, Pennsylvania</a>.
Talwani, who was <a href="https://www.mad.uscourts.gov/boston/talwani.htm">appointed</a> by former President Barack Obama, has a history of partisan political activity, both donating to and volunteering for Democratic politicians.
The federal judge <a href="https://www.fec.gov/data/receipts/individual-contributions/?contributor_name=Indira+Talwani">donated</a> a total of $1,725 to Democrat politicians and the Democratic Party, including $1,000 to former Sen. John Kerry (D-MA), $350 to Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), and $100 to Obama. Talwani also gave another $275 to the Democratic National Committee.
Talwani explained on her Senate questionnaire that she also volunteered to knock on doors for Obama in 2008 and volunteered to canvass on behalf of Elizabeth Warren in 2012. She also volunteered for former Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick during his 2006 campaign and for failed Senate candidate Martha Coakley in 2010.
The federal judge has a history of issuing rulings that impede Trump’s immigration enforcement agenda. Talwani <a href="https://universalhub.com/files/attachments/2025/ozturk-order.pdf">ruled</a> earlier this year that the administration’s Department of Homeland Security had to provide the court with advanced notice before it removed Turkish national Rumeysa Ozturk from the state. The administration revoked Ozturk’s visa due to her involvement in anti-Israel protests.
In one 2019 decision, Talwani <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2019/06/21/obama-judge-blocks-ice-from-courthouses/">ruled</a> that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents are not allowed to arrest illegal aliens on courthouse grounds in the state of Massachusetts. Her ruling was a win for the plaintiffs, who argued that permitting ICE arrests on courthouse grounds would discourage criminal witnesses and victims from testifying in court.
But Talwani’s adherence to left-wing ideology could persist beyond the issue of immigration. The federal judge <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2023/06/17/7774148-gender-freespeech-obama-judge-lgbtq/">ruled</a> in favor of a school district that sent a middle school student home for wearing a t-shirt that read “there are only two genders.” Talwani decided that the district, which claimed that the shirt “invades the rights of others,” was within its rights to bar the shirt under its dress code and send the seventh grader home.
Talwani is far from the only left-wing judge who has stonewalled the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement agenda.
United States Circuit Judge Patricia Millett, who maintained the injunction against the Trump administration&#8217;s use of the Alien Enemies Act to expedite the removal of criminal illegal aliens, gave <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/judge-who-upheld-block-of-trumps-deportation-flights-is-a-major-dem-donor?author=Spencer+Lindquist&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=17&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Judge+Who+Upheld+Block+Of+Trump%E2%80%99s+Deportation+Flights+Is+A+Major+Dem+Donor">more than $31,000</a> to Democrat candidates and the party.
Millett upheld the injunction issued by United States District Judge James Boasberg. A Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/meet-the-obama-appointed-judge-trying-to-stop-trump-from-deporting-criminal-illegals">investigation</a> found that Boasberg’s wife is the founder of a DC-area abortion clinic and donated more than $11,000 to Democrats, including to Hillary Clinton as she faced off against Donald Trump in 2016.

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