Federal agents with a search warrant for suspected immigration and labor violations at cannabis farms in Ventura County, California, were met by hundreds of protesters on Thursday, including one man who appeared to fire a gun at them.
The feds conducted immigration raids at two Glass House Farms, a state-licensed marijuana facility that is allegedly employing illegal immigrants, including children, according to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/immigration-operation-california-cannabis-farms-leads-clash-federal-agents-protesters">Fox News</a>. After getting word of the immigration operations at a cannabis farm in Camarillo, approximately 60 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles, around 500 protesters arrived to confront federal authorities, The Los Angeles Times <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-07-10/federal-immigration-sweep-ventura-county-farms">reported</a>. The other farm is located in Carpinteria, about 35 miles up the coast, where a smaller group of protesters gathered.
The standoff quickly turned violent as federal agents attempted to disperse the crowd with smoke canisters, and news helicopter video captured the moment when one man appeared to fire a handgun at authorities.
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As agents were leaving the farm with detainees, a group of protesters pelted their vehicles with rocks, smashing windows. Following the confrontation, four people were taken to the hospital, and three people were treated at the scene, FOX Los Angeles <a href="https://www.foxla.com/news/camarillo-ventura-county-farm-ice-raid">reported</a>. It&#8217;s unclear if any federal authorities were among the injured.
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&#8220;Federal agents are executing a search warrant at this marijuana farm,&#8221; said Bill Essayli, the U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California. &#8220;Agents have already arrested multiple individuals for impeding this operation and will continue to make arrests. Don’t interfere. You will be arrested and charged with a federal offense.&#8221;
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Federal agents are executing a search warrant at this marijuana farm. Agents have already arrested multiple individuals for impeding this operation and will continue to make arrests. Don’t interfere. You will be arrested and charged with a federal offense. <a href="https://t.co/KMwZ5WToOc">https://t.co/KMwZ5WToOc</a>
— U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli (@USAttyEssayli) <a href="https://twitter.com/USAttyEssayli/status/1943476954189172893?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 11, 2025</a></blockquote>
In a later post on social media, Essayli said that the &#8220;FBI has issued a $50,000 award for information leading to the conviction of an Unknown Subject who appeared to fire a pistol at Federal Law Enforcement Officers near Camarillo.&#8221;
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FBI has issued a $50,000 award for information leading to the conviction of an Unknown Subject who appeared to fire a pistol at Federal Law Enforcement Officers near Camarillo. The shooting occurred on 7/10/25 at approximately 2:26pm on Laguna Rd between Wood Rd and Las Posas Rd.… <a href="https://t.co/XG94sTQEVR">pic.twitter.com/XG94sTQEVR</a>
— U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli (@USAttyEssayli) <a href="https://twitter.com/USAttyEssayli/status/1943522825194868753?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 11, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Video of the immigration raid posted by California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom appeared to show workers and protesters running away as federal agents fired tear gas into the crowd.
&#8220;Kids running from tear gas, crying on the phone because their mother was just taken from the fields,&#8221; Newsom wrote. &#8220;Trump calls me &#8216;Newscum&#8217; — but he’s the real scum.&#8221;
Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Rodney Scott responded to Newsom&#8217;s post on X, writing, &#8220;Here’s some breaking news: 10 juveniles were found at this marijuana facility &#8211; all illegal aliens, 8 of them unaccompanied. It’s now under investigation for child labor violations. This is Newsom’s California.&#8221;
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Here’s some breaking news: 10 juveniles were found at this marijuana facility &#8211; all illegal aliens, 8 of them unaccompanied. It’s now under investigation for child labor violations.
This is Newsom’s California. <a href="https://t.co/Z1XoRMtBSN">https://t.co/Z1XoRMtBSN</a>
— CBP Commissioner Rodney Scott (@CBPCommissioner) <a href="https://twitter.com/CBPCommissioner/status/1943511972441391376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 11, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Other California Democrats also condemned the raid at the cannabis farm. Rep. Salud Carbajal (D-CA), who represents the district where one of the raided farms is located, called the operation &#8220;disproportionate&#8221; and &#8220;overkill,&#8221; warning that the federal government&#8217;s &#8220;tactics&#8221; would lead to more violence.
“These tactics are creating an incendiary, hostile environment the way they are being deployed, which could lead to, regrettably, violence in the future,” he <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-07-10/federal-immigration-sweep-ventura-county-farms">said</a>.
Thursday&#8217;s attack on immigration agents comes as federal authorities face mounting threats. Earlier this week, a gunman in tactical gear <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-gunman-in-tactical-gear-killed-after-opening-fire-on-border-patrol-agents">opened fire</a> on Border Patrol agents in McAllen, Texas, wounding two police officers and a Border Patrol employee before he was killed. Ten people were also <a href="https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/10-suspects-charged-july-4-attack-texas-ice-detention-facility">arrested</a> this week after they attacked an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in Alvarado, Texas, on July 4, shooting and wounding a law enforcement officer.
The Trump administration has blasted Democrats for using &#8220;dangerous, inflammatory rhetoric&#8221; aimed at ICE agents. Some Democrats have compared ICE&#8217;s operations to the Gestapo.
“ICE agents put their lives on the line every day to get the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens off our streets and out of our communities,” <a href="https://x.com/PressSec/status/1942974206880207099">said</a> White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt. “They are making America safer, and Democrats are shamelessly attacking them for it.”

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The Department of Education is ending a Clinton-era rule allowing illegal aliens access to federally funded tuition programs.
<a href="https://dailycaller.com/2025/07/10/exclusive-trumps-ed-dept-ends-free-tuition-for-illegals/">According</a> to The Daily Caller, the Trump administration argues that the policy, which funds career, technical, and adult education programs, violates the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA). The Education Department notified postsecondary education programs that the rule would no longer apply and declared that providers have “obligations to verify the eligibility of participants.”
This was one of <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/07/taxpayer-funded-benefits-are-for-american-citizens-not-illegals/">several</a> such moves the White House announced today. The Department of Health and Human Services &#8220;is restricting illegal aliens from 13 additional public programs, including Head Start,&#8221; while the Labor Department &#8220;is barring illegal aliens from accessing federal workforce development resources and grants.&#8221;
According to a White House fact sheet, the cuts save &#8220;roughly $40 billion in benefits for American citizens, overturns decades of bureaucratic defiance and builds on President Trump’s executive order directing an END to the subsidization of open borders.&#8221;
“Past presidents sat by and allowed illegal aliens to steal public benefits at the expense of hardworking American taxpayers — that ends now,&#8221; White House Assistant Press Secretary Taylor Rogers told The Daily Wire. &#8220;Under President Trump, it’s America first always.”
PRWORA previously exclusively allocated the use of federal funds to American citizens, permanent residents, and a small category of “qualified aliens” (e.g., refugees, asylees). However, the Clinton administration exempted postsecondary programs from the rule. The Trump Education Department stated that the exemption “mischaracterized the law by creating artificial distinctions between federal benefit programs based upon the method of assistance.”
In line with PRWORA, Secretary of Education Linda McMahon <a href="https://www.ed.gov/about/news/press-release/us-department-of-education-ends-taxpayer-subsidization-of-postsecondary-education-illegal-aliens">said</a> if the federal government is going to fund postsecondary education programs, it “should benefit American citizens, not illegal aliens.”
“Under President Trump’s leadership, hardworking American taxpayers will no longer foot the bill for illegal aliens to participate in our career, technical, or adult education programs or activities,” she said. “The Department will ensure that taxpayer funds are reserved for citizens and individuals who have entered our country through legal means who meet federal eligibility criteria.”
The Trump administration has been cracking down on states that provide benefits to illegals in education.
On June 30, it announced the revocation of nearly $7 billion in federal grants, part of which went toward teaching English as a second language. The administration argued that the money was being used to push a “radical left wing agenda.”
Despite threats from the administration, some schools continue to provide benefits for illegals and protect them from deportation.
The Education Department’s new interpretation of the Clinton-era rule will take effect on August 9, 2025.

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President Donald Trump fields questions on tariffs, Ukraine, and Jeffrey Epstein during his sixth cabinet meeting, fallout continues from the Central Texas floods, and the Trump administration rejects amnesty but hints at flexibility for some illegal immigrant workers.
It’s Wednesday, July 9, and this is the news you need to know to start your day.
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<h2>Trump Convenes His Cabinet</h2>
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Topline:  President Trump provided new details on tariffs, support for Ukraine, and Jeffrey Epstein during a wide-ranging cabinet meeting on Tuesday.
Cabinet meetings traditionally take place behind closed doors, but on Tuesday, President Trump spent nearly two hours taking questions from reporters. While many questions addressed the recent flash flooding in Texas, the president also spent a considerable amount of time discussing his plans for new tariffs.
In April, President Trump announced a 90-day pause on his ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs to offer countries a chance to negotiate lower rates — but warned that any country that didn’t come to the table would be hit with massive tariffs on July 9. However, despite early signs of optimism from our trading partners, the reality is that we have yet to see the “90 deals in 90 days” that the White House initially promised. 
To date, the only countries with formal, finalized trade agreements are the United Kingdom and Vietnam. 
The White House insists it is approaching the finish line with the European Union, India, and Cambodia, among others, but the administration clearly needs more time. On Monday, the president signed an executive order extending the tariff deadline to August 1. In an effort to expedite negotiations in the meantime, Trump sent letters to more than a dozen countries, stating that without a deal, they would face enormous tariffs on August 1, and if they raised rates in response, the United States would increase them even further. 
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent also announced that the United States government had collected “about $100 billion in tariff income thus far this year” and projected that that figure could rise to well over $300 billion by the end of the year.&#8221;
Meanwhile, since taking office and that disastrous White House meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, the Trump administration has significantly cut its military and financial support for Ukraine. Trump said that he was worried Zelensky would avoid peace talks if he knew the United States would send an endless supply of weapons, and there were those in Washington who believed Russian President Vladimir Putin would be more willing to come to the table if support was cut off.
But with Moscow stepping up its attacks on population centers in Ukraine and Putin repeatedly backing out of peace talks, Trump has reversed himself and announced that the United States would resume weapons shipments to Ukraine. Trump later added that he’s seriously considering even harsher sanctions on Moscow.
“We want to put defensive weapons because Putin is not treating human beings right,” Trump told reporters. “We get a lot of bullsh** thrown at us by Putin — you want to know the truth. He&#8217;s very nice all the time, but it turns out to be meaningless.&#8221;
President Trump also turned heads with his remarks on Jeffrey Epstein – the Trump administration essentially closed its case on Epstein this week, saying there is no evidence that he was murdered, had a client list, or blackmailed powerful individuals. 
That decision has dominated the headlines, but the president seemed irritated, even <a href="https://x.com/9mm_smg/status/1942628135263989932">exasperated</a>, when asked about it.“Are people still talking about this guy, this creep? That is unbelievable. Do you wanna waste the time… I can’t believe you’re asking a question about Epstein at a time like this.”
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<h2>Tensions High In Texas After Flash Floods Kill Over 100 People</h2>
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Topline: While rescue and recovery operations continue in Texas, some are already asking why communities were so unprepared for the natural disaster.
The tragedy that has killed more than 100 people, with many still missing, has left officials to face tough questions. Searches are underway throughout Central Texas. Rains and flash flood warnings have hindered progress, and officials have had to not only look for those missing, but also protect the emergency responders and volunteers that have joined the search crews.
“In the Kerr County area alone, there are 161 people who are known to be missing,” Texas Governor Greg Abbott <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2yquWcGJ9g&amp;t=2938s">said</a> on Tuesday. “We will not stop until every missing person is accounted for. Know this also, there is very likely more to be added to that list.”
Press conferences have started to become testy, however, with local and national reporters pushing officials to answer increasingly pointed questions about their disaster response, including but not limited to, “Was the emergency manager awake?”
Kerrville City Manager Dalton Rice defended the decision not to issue an evacuation order before the flooding, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgKRuDsTEyk&amp;t=1303s">arguing</a> that “evacuation is a delicate balance, because if you evacuate too late you then risk putting busses, or cars, or vehicles, or campers on roads into low water areas trying to get them out which then can make it even more challenging, because these flash floods happen very quickly.”
Critics have claimed that recent cuts to the National Weather Service led to the organization being understaffed and less prepared. Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz characterized those allegations as “partisan finger-pointing” and claimed that the local NWS office had surged “additional manpower” in anticipation of possible flooding. The NWS union, which has generally been very critical of the recent cuts, has also said that the reductions did not impact the response.
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<h2>To Deport, Or Not To Deport</h2>
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Topline: The Trump administration is again signaling a shift in how it is addressing illegal immigration in the farming industry. 
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has been authorized by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to continue worksite raids on farms to sweep for illegal immigrants. That directive was <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/17/politics/homeland-security-immigration-raids-resume">issued</a> in June, shortly after the administration announced a pause on those raids, as well as raids at hotels and restaurants. Since then, the Trump administration has sent additional signals that it is attempting to balance its commitment to deporting all illegal aliens with more immediate economic concerns, including potential workforce shortages.
“We’re going to take care of our farmers and hotel workers, but we&#8217;re working on it right now,” President Trump said. “We have a lot of cases where ICE would go into the farm, and these are guys that are working there for 10 to 15 years, no problem. … The farmers know them. It’s called ‘farmer responsibility’ or ‘owner responsibility,’ but they&#8217;re going to be largely responsible for these people, and they know these people…They can be here legally. They can pay taxes and everything. They&#8217;re not getting citizenship, but they get other things. And the farmers need them to do the work.”
That approach has caused backlash among some of the president&#8217;s more ardent supporters, many of whom favor a zero-tolerance policy towards illegal aliens living and/or working in the United States.
In June, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins <a href="https://x.com/BrookeLRollins/status/1934240461717143696">expressed</a> her full commitment to the America First agenda, but said deportations were being “prioritized” in a way to avoid “severe disruptions to our food supply.” On Tuesday, after being questioned by Daily Wire White House Correspondent Mary Margaret Olohan, Rollins elaborated that the Trump administration will offer illegal immigrants working on farms “no amnesty under any circumstances. Mass deportations continue, but in a strategic and intentional way as we move our workforce toward more automation and toward a 100% American workforce.”
Some reports, mostly out of California, said illegal immigrant farm laborers stopped showing up to work out of fear of deportation, and crops had gone unharvested. One <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/01/ice-raids-crops-california-farms">report</a> cited numerous farm supervisors who stated that the number of workers dropped dramatically since raids began in California; one supervisor claimed that only 80 of 300 people showed up to work, while another saw a drop from 80 workers to 17. Recent estimates by the Department of Agriculture suggest that about <a href="https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/farm-economy/farm-labor#:~:text=Roughly%20Half%20of%20Hired%20Crop,unauthorized%20is%20highest%20in%20California.">40-50%</a> of crop farmworkers are either in the country illegally or lack proper work authorization.

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We have seen a massive spike in the number of attacks on ICE agents over the course of the last six months, since President Trump took office and decided we were actually going to enforce our border.
On Monday morning, a 27-year-old man with a rifle and tactical vest was killed after <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-gunman-in-tactical-gear-killed-after-opening-fire-on-border-patrol-agents?author=Zach+Jewell&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=BREAKING%3A+Gunman+In+Tactical+Gear+Killed+After+Opening+Fire+On+Border+Patrol+Agents">exchanging fire</a> with law enforcement officers at a border patrol facility in McAllen, Texas.
Border Czar Tom Homan has said attacks on ICE agents are up nearly <a href="https://grabien.com/story?id=535014">700%</a>. Border Patrol Chief Mike Banks said Left-wing anti-police rhetoric is having something to do with the uptick in violence, <a href="https://grabien.com/story?id=535050">asserting</a>, “All of the rhetoric and the false information that&#8217;s been put out by the Left is just increasing violence against our agents, and it&#8217;s just unacceptable.”
The Left has been claiming for a very long time that if you use rhetoric that is too colorful, if you say things that are borderline, this can lead to “stochastic terrorism.” What you&#8217;re doing is creating a permission structure for terrorism.
As I&#8217;ve said before, unless you are actually excusing or inciting violence, you are not responsible for that violence. With that said, when you raise the temperature, there will be people who bubble over.
That doesn&#8217;t mean Bernie Sanders is responsible for the congressional baseball shooter, for example, but what it does mean is that when you keep saying over and over and over that Republicans are going to kill your grandparents when they take away Medicare or some other such nonsense — and then somebody goes and shoots a bunch of Republican congresspeople for playing baseball — at the very least, you should consider whether the language you used was well-calibrated.
This is the problem. The language currently being used by the Left with regard to ICE or Border Patrol is extraordinary. It sets up a permission structure that causes people who are unhinged to take their behavior to the next level.
In the same way, if you keep saying President Donald Trump is Hitler, at some point, someone might take you seriously and go and try to kill Hitler.
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Here are just a few examples of members of the high-ranking Left going after ICE and Border Patrol in language that is completely unhinged.
Failed Vice-Presidential candidate <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVOrOkxeCD4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tim Walz</a>: “Donald Trump&#8217;s modern-day Gestapo is scooping folks up off the streets. They&#8217;re in unmarked vans, wearing masks, being shipped off to foreign torture dungeons. No chance to mount a defense. Not even a chance to kiss a loved one goodbye.”
Boston Mayor <a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1930630848832831496">Michelle Wu</a>: “I don&#8217;t know of any police department that routinely wears masks. We know that there are other groups that routinely wear masks.” 
Los Angeles Mayor <a href="https://www.courthousenews.com/newsom-files-emergency-motion-to-block-military-deployment-in-la/">Karen Bass</a>: “Which is why I say that I feel like we have all been in Los Angeles a part of a grand experiment to see what happens when the federal government decides they want to roll up on a state, or roll up on a city, and take over.&#8221;
Rep. <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/06/12/dem-rep-goldman-dhs-agents-are-using-gestapo-like-tactics/">Dan Goldman</a> (D-NY): “The combination of these Gestapo-like tactics with the fact that these are nonviolent, non-criminal immigrants doing things the right way &#8230;”
Rep. Alexandria <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/transcript/rep-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-blasts-conditions-at-migrant-detention-centers">Ocasio-Cortez</a> (D-NY): “I mean, in that last facility, I was not safe from the officers in that facility.”
Rep. <a href="https://x.com/DailyCaller/status/1933172641646416273">Stephen Lynch</a> (D-MA): “You know, my dad served in the Second World War. He fought the Nazis in Northern Africa. He fought the Nazis on the Italian peninsula. And I think he&#8217;s looking down right now, and he&#8217;s happy that I&#8217;m fighting today&#8217;s Nazis.”
There are a lot of prominent Democratic figures using this kind of rhetoric, and that language is going to have some sort of consequence.
It doesn&#8217;t mean they&#8217;re responsible for a person trying to shoot Border Patrol agents, but if you keep increasing the temperature and if you keep excusing violence on the other end — which, by the way, the Democrats have been doing for quite a long while, ranging from the sort of violence we saw during the BLM riots of 2020 to excusing the alleged murderous actions of Luigi Mangione on the streets of New York — you&#8217;re obviously going to lead to an uptick in violence.
You may not like President Trump&#8217;s immigration policy; that is your prerogative. But it is also the law of the land. You are not allowed to cross our southern border illegally and simply live here.
That is the law of the land. If you don&#8217;t like that law, you should talk to your member of Congress. If you don&#8217;t like that law, then you should try to change that law.
That&#8217;s how it works in a democracy.
You don&#8217;t get to simply call the people who are enforcing the law “Nazis” and “Gestapo agents” and then act surprised when people attack the supposed Nazis and Gestapo in our midst.

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A bill stripping free healthcare for illegal immigrants in Minnesota was signed into law this week, days after Minnesota House Democrat leader Melissa Hortman was assassinated in what law enforcement says was an act of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/read-the-hit-list-found-in-minnesota-gunmans-vehicle?author=Amanda+Prestigiacomo&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=4&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Read+The+‘Hit+List’+Found+In+Minnesota+Gunman’s+Vehicle">political violence</a>.
Hortman was the lone House Democrat to vote for the bill. She gave a tearful explanation to reporters following the vote, Sahan Journal reported. “I’ll continue to have health insurance, so I’m fine,” she <a href="https://sahanjournal.com/news-partners/minnesota-legislature-special-session-2025-budget/?utm_source=chatgpt.com">said</a>. “What I worry about is the people who will lose their health insurance. I know that people will be hurt by that vote.”
A number of bills were passed concerning the state&#8217;s budget, all of which were bipartisan. “Minnesotans expect that when Democrats and Republicans are elected to co-govern in the state Legislature that we would compromise and get things done and fund their state government,” Hortman <a href="https://sahanjournal.com/news-partners/minnesota-legislature-special-session-2025-budget/?utm_source=chatgpt.com">commented</a>. “And that’s exactly what we did.”
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🚨Melissa Hortman sounded fearful after voting to repeal healthcare for illegal aliens
Almost as if she knew that her base would become unhinged
She and her husband were tragically shot and killed. A targeted attack, per Gov. Walz.
Was her vote the motive? <a href="https://t.co/ebQjP5y5lm">pic.twitter.com/ebQjP5y5lm</a>
— Alec Lace (@AlecLace) <a href="https://twitter.com/AlecLace/status/1933919922817544396?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 14, 2025</a></blockquote>
&#8220;I signed the final bills Melissa Hortman shepherded through the most narrowly divided legislature in the county. All of them bipartisan,&#8221; Democrat Gov. Tim Walz posted on X on Tuesday. &#8220;We debated, we found common ground, and we compromised. That’s how democracy should function.&#8221;
Minnesota-based reporter Dustin Grage said the bills ushered in by Hortman include the &#8220;largest tax cut in state history&#8221; and &#8220;no new taxes,&#8221; in addition to the rolling back of free health care for illegals.
&#8220;This was only possible because of Democrat Leader Melissa Hortman,&#8221; Grage said. &#8220;We disagreed on just about every issue—but she was the only House Democrat willing to meet in the middle and deliver real results for Minnesotans.&#8221;
&#8220;It’s heartbreaking that she’s gone,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;Her leadership in this moment will not be forgotten, and her legacy will live on long after all of us.&#8221;
&#8220;Life is fragile. Hold your loved ones close,&#8221; Grage added. &#8220;Political violence is never acceptable. Pray for peace.&#8221;
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Last night, Minnesota officially signed into law:
• The largest tax cut in state history 
• No new taxes 
• Repeal of free healthcare for illegal immigrants
This was only possible because of Democrat Leader Melissa Hortman.
We disagreed on just about every issue—but she was… <a href="https://t.co/w8gl0va87i">pic.twitter.com/w8gl0va87i</a>
— Dustin Grage (@GrageDustin) <a href="https://twitter.com/GrageDustin/status/1935358564450599331?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 18, 2025</a></blockquote>
Hortman and her husband were shot to death in their homes on Saturday morning. The suspect, Vance Boelter, allegedly impersonated a police officer to gain access to Hortman. He is also accused of shooting and wounding Democrat state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette.
Law enforcement has indicated that Boelter had a potential “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/read-the-hit-list-found-in-minnesota-gunmans-vehicle?author=Amanda+Prestigiacomo&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=4&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Read+The+‘Hit+List’+Found+In+Minnesota+Gunman’s+Vehicle">hit list</a>” with additional lawmakers&#8217; names in his vehicle.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/read-the-hit-list-found-in-minnesota-gunmans-vehicle?author=Amanda+Prestigiacomo&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=4&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Read+The+‘Hit+List’+Found+In+Minnesota+Gunman’s+Vehicle">Read The ‘Hit List’ Found In Minnesota Gunman’s Vehicle</a>

Minnesota State House Speaker Melissa Hortman

Bill Backed By Assassinated Minnesota Lawmaker To Yank Healthcare From Illegals Is Signed Into Law

Health

Minnesota

The Trump administration has instructed Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to stop immigration raids and investigations at farms, hotels, and restaurants, according to <a href="https://apnews.com/article/trump-immigration-arrests-pause-hotels-restaurants-farms-aa8f503a8d6d797021a70601e6a1d918">multiple</a> <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/us/politics/trump-ice-raids-farms-hotels.html">reports</a>.
The new guidance, sent by senior ICE official Tatum King via email last Thursday, instructs regional ICE leaders to &#8220;hold on all work site enforcement investigations/operations on agriculture (including aquaculture and meat packing plants), restaurants and operating hotels,&#8221; The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/us/politics/trump-ice-raids-farms-hotels.html">reported</a>. The email was confirmed by a U.S. official who spoke anonymously to the <a href="https://apnews.com/article/trump-immigration-arrests-pause-hotels-restaurants-farms-aa8f503a8d6d797021a70601e6a1d918">Associated Press</a>. The Department of Homeland Security did not dispute the contents of the email, telling the Times that it &#8220;will follow the president’s direction and continue to work to get the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens off of America’s streets.&#8221;
President Donald Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-signals-changes-are-coming-to-immigration-enforcement-as-farmers-businesses-complain?author=Zach+Jewell&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=5&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Trump+Signals+%E2%80%98Changes+Are+Coming%E2%80%99+To+Immigration+Enforcement+As+Farmers%2C+Businesses+Complain">signaled</a> on Thursday that &#8220;changes are coming&#8221; to immigration enforcement, noting that farmers as well as hotel and leisure businesses had complained about his “very aggressive” crackdown on illegal immigrants. Trump then <a href="https://x.com/Breaking911/status/1933211435032600896">told</a> reporters at the White House that a new order on immigration enforcement would be issued “pretty soon.”
“Farmers are being hurt badly. They have very good workers who have worked for them for 20 years. They’re not citizens, but they’ve turned out to be great, and we’re going to have to do something about that,” he said. “We can’t take farmers and take all their people and send them back … and you know what’s going to happen, what is happening, they get rid of some of their people … and they end up hiring the criminals that have come in, the murderers from prisons and everything else.”
Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-orders-ice-to-step-up-operations-in-major-democrat-run-cities?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Daniel+Chaitin&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=4&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=Trump+Orders+ICE+To+Step+Up+Operations+In+Major+Democrat-Run+Cities">said</a> on Sunday that he is still focused on conducting the &#8220;largest Mass Deportation Operation&#8221; in U.S. history, adding that he wants to ramp up immigration enforcement in America&#8217;s largest Democrat-run cities, specifically mentioning Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York.
“These, and other such Cities, are the core of the Democrat Power Center, where they use Illegal Aliens to expand their Voter Base, cheat in Elections, and grow the Welfare State, robbing good paying Jobs and Benefits from Hardworking American Citizens,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
Trump&#8217;s move to stop conducting raids at farms, hotels, and restaurants marks a significant shift in strategy for the Trump administration. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, along with Stephen Miller, Trump&#8217;s Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy and Homeland Security Advisor, recently said that the Trump administration would push for a &#8220;minimum&#8221; of 3,000 ICE arrests per day. Noem and Miller <a href="https://www.axios.com/2025/05/28/immigration-ice-deportations-stephen-miller">reportedly</a> demanded that ICE field office directors and special agents reach the new goal of arrests as the administration seeks to deport as many illegal immigrants as possible after the Biden administration opened the floodgates at the U.S. southern border.
The shift has been criticized by some conservatives who argue that the Trump administration should deport anyone in the country illegally, not just violent criminals and those in workplaces other than those that have been exempted in the latest guidelines.
&#8220;Under Trump’s new immigration enforcement policy, if you’re an illegal alien, I guess you just have to switch jobs to a restaurant, hotel, farm, or meat packing plant?&#8221; <a href="https://x.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1933966075449709031">said</a> Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY).
Daily Wire host Matt Walsh <a href="https://x.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1933168224507662529">said</a> last week, “Hell no. We can’t tolerate this.”
“Employers who knowingly rely on illegal immigrant labor should be in prison,” he added. “Instead we’re going to back off of immigration enforcement for their sake?”
&#8220;If Trump hands out amnesty to a bunch of illegals because his big business buddies have been blowing up his phone, it will stain his legacy forever,&#8221; <a href="https://x.com/JesseKellyDC/status/1933938626351550658">added</a> conservative radio host Jesse Kelly.
Immigration officers have recently conducted raids at farms, meatpacking plants, and businesses nationwide, with an increased focus on Southern California. Last week, ICE agents were spotted chasing down and detaining farm workers in Ventura County and arresting suspected illegal immigrants at car washes in the L.A. area. In Omaha, Nebraska, more suspected illegal immigrants were detained by ICE agents during a raid on a meatpacking plant.
The immigration raids sparked protests and riots in multiple cities throughout the United States. President Donald Trump sent the National Guard and Marines to Los Angeles last week in response to the anti-ICE riots, as demonstrations continued in the city throughout the week.

Trump Admin Pauses ICE Arrests At Farms, Hotels In Major Shift On Immigration Enforcement

Executive

Two illegal aliens facing criminal charges were caught by the FBI days after breaking out of a privately held ICE detention facility in New Jersey. 
Joel Enrique Sandoval-Lopez of Honduras and Joan Sebastian Castaneda-Lozada of Colombia were apprehended on Sunday, three days after escaping from the Delaney Hall Detention Facility in Newark by breaking through a wall. The details of their captures were not released. Two fellow escapees, Franklin Norberto Bautista-Reyes and Andres Pineda-Mogollon, are still on the run. 
The FBI is currently offering a $10,000 reward for information that leads to the capture of Bautista-Reyes and Pineda-Mogollon. Both men have been charged with escape from the custody of an institution or officer and have had previous criminal charges. 
Bautista-Reyes, an illegal immigrant from Honduras who illegally entered the country in 2021, was arrested last month by the Wayne Township Police Department for aggravated assault, attempt to cause bodily injury, terroristic threats, and possession of a weapon for unlawful purposes.
Pineda-Mogollon, an illegal immigrant from Colombia who overstayed his tourist visa in 2023, was arrested in April by the New York Police Department on charges of petit larceny and again in May by law enforcement in Union, New Jersey, for residential burglary, conspiracy to commit residential burglary, and possession of burglary tools.
The Department of Homeland Security said last week that the two men were public safety threats. 
The two men captured on Sunday also had criminal histories. 
Sandoval-Lopez, who illegally entered the country in 2019, was arrested by the Passaic Police Department for aggravated assault in February and was arrested in October 2024 for unlawful possession of a firearm. Castaneda-Lozada, who unlawfully entered the country in 2022, was arrested last month for burglary, theft, and conspiracy to commit burglary.
Delaney Hall, which is operated by GEO Group, has faced criticism from some Democrats and activists who say that those detained there are treated poorly. 
DHS has denied those allegations, saying on Friday that “there has been no widespread unrest” at the facility and that it “remains dedicated to providing high-quality services.”
Delaney Hall is the same facility where Newark Democratic Mayor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/newark-mayor-arrested-after-dem-reps-storm-new-jersey-ice-facility-charge-past-security-officers">Ras Baraka</a>, along with Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrat-indicted-over-ice-facility-clash-faces-up-to-17-years-in-prison">LaMonica McIver</a> (D-NJ), were arrested during altercations with law enforcement after they attempted to storm into the building last month. McIver was indicted on three counts of forcibly impeding and interfering with federal law enforcement officers and faces up to 17 years in prison.

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FBI Captures Two Illegals Who Escaped ICE Detention Facility, Two Still On The Run

Crime

Department of Homeland Security

Illegal Immigation

New Jersey

U.S.

Four suspected illegal immigrants, referred to as &#8220;public safety threats,&#8221; escaped from federal authorities at a building used by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Newark, New Jersey, as chaotic scenes erupted outside the facility on Thursday.
The escapees, identified as two Honduran and two Colombian nationals by the Department of Homeland Security, broke through a wall and escaped from the Delaney Hall detention center, the Associated Press <a href="https://apnews.com/article/immigration-detention-center-newark-new-jersey-delaney-hall-cf1e9043626136c46b5b67aeda2e9183">reported</a>. Detainees being held inside Delaney Hall reportedly became enraged over delayed meals, and protesters showed up at the detention center, pushing against the gates and attempting to block vehicles from passing through.
Delaney Hall is the same facility where Newark Democratic Mayor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/newark-mayor-arrested-after-dem-reps-storm-new-jersey-ice-facility-charge-past-security-officers">Ras Baraka</a>, along with Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrat-indicted-over-ice-facility-clash-faces-up-to-17-years-in-prison">LaMonica McIver</a> (D-NJ), were arrested during altercations with law enforcement after they attempted to storm into the building last month.
An attorney representing one of the suspected illegal immigrants being detained at Delaney Hall told the AP that the situation became violent on Thursday after meals for the detainees arrived hours later than normal.
“Apparently the guards lost control of them,” the attorney, Mustafa Cetin, said. “And they started to, you know, create a disturbance.”
On Friday, the DHS <a href="https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/06/13/law-enforcement-offers-10000-reward-information-leading-arrest-4-dangerous-criminal">said</a> it is offering $10,000 for information leading to the apprehension of the escapees, identified as Franklin Norberto Bautista-Reyes and Joel Enrique Sandoval-Lopez — both Honduran men — and Colombian men Joan Sebastian Castaneda-Lozada and Andres Pineda-Mogollon. Homeland Security added that it has brought in &#8220;additional law enforcement partners&#8221; as they continue to search for the escapees.
DHS pushed back against reports claiming that an &#8220;uprising&#8221; was taking place at the detention facility.
&#8220;On June 12, four criminal illegal aliens breached security at Delaney Hall. Contrary to current reporting, there has been no widespread unrest at the Delaney Hall Detention facility,&#8221; Homeland Security <a href="https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/06/13/law-enforcement-offers-10000-reward-information-leading-arrest-4-dangerous-criminal">said</a> in a statement. &#8220;This privately held facility remains dedicated to providing high-quality services, including include around-the-clock access to medical care, in-person and virtual legal and family visitation, general and legal library access, translation services, dietician-approved meals, religious and specialty diets, recreational amenities, and opportunities to practice their religious beliefs.&#8221;
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Bautista-Reyes was arrested by the Wayne Township, New Jersey, Police Department in May on charges of aggravated assault, attempt to cause bodily injury, terroristic threats, and possession of a weapon for unlawful purposes. He crossed the border illegally in 2021, according to the DHS. Sandoval-Lopez, who entered the United States illegally in 2019, was arrested by the New Jersey Passaic Police Department last October for unlawful possession of a handgun. He was arrested again in February for aggravated assault.
Castaneda-Lozada, who has been living in the country illegally since 2022, was arrested in May by the New Jersey Hammonton Police Department for burglary, theft, and conspiracy to commit burglary. Pineda-Mogollon, who the DHS says overstayed a tourist visa after entering the country in 2023, was nabbed by the New York City Police Department in April for petit larceny. He was arrested again in May by the Union, New Jersey, Police Department for residential burglary, conspiracy to commit residential burglary, and possession of burglary tools.
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SCOOP: The <a href="https://twitter.com/nypost?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@nypost</a> can report that these are the four ICE detainees who escaped from the Delaney Hall detention center in Newark yesterday. A $10,000 reward is being offered to anyone who can help track them down.
Franklin Norberto Bautista-Reyes An illegal alien from Honduras… <a href="https://t.co/u6MNhmVaNs">pic.twitter.com/u6MNhmVaNs</a>
&mdash; Jennie Taer 🎗️ (@JennieSTaer) <a href="https://twitter.com/JennieSTaer/status/1933586157066973686?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 13, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Delaney Hall, which is operated by the GEO Group, a private company, has been the center of protests since last month, as Democrats and activists <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/four-detainees-newark-ice-facility-are-missing-senior-officials-say-rcna212893">claim</a> that detainees at the 1,000-bed facility are subject to poor treatment. Democrats, such as Mayor Baraka, have attempted to gain entry to the facility, arguing that it “lacks sufficient oversight of every basic detail — including local zoning laws and fundamental constitutional rights.&#8221;

Delaney Hall protests

Multiple Illegal Immigrants Escape Custody As Protesters Surround ICE Detention Facility

Illegal Immigration

Protests

There is a reason I left Los Angeles.
As long as I can recall living in LA, every time you would drive past a Home Depot or a similar store, there would be a crowd of illegal immigrants who were waiting for work.
You do feel bad for these people. Many of them have crossed the border in an attempt to seek work and send remittances back home, and many of them are also on welfare. It turns out that an enormous number of people who come across the border end up engaging in things that leech off of the taxpayer dime; they end up as a net cost to the taxpayer. They take part in the public education system if they have kids who they bring across the border; they end up using medical services.
But the issue is this: It’s not about whether these people are nice or mean, whether they are good or bad.
They have broken the law. They crossed the border illegally. And that is just the ones who otherwise are law-abiding.
And then there are a bunch of people who are not otherwise law-abiding. There are many people in Southern California or occupying jails in Southern California who committed crimes in addition to illegal immigration. 
Federal law says you are not allowed to cross the American border without your papers, and that if you overstay your visa, even if you come across the border legally with a visa, then you are also here illegally and you ought to be deported.
Enforcing that law should not be controversial. There is a reason countries have borders, but the United States, for as long as I can recall, simply did not enforce the law properly. That was particularly true under Joe Biden.
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When Donald Trump came into office in 2016, he pledged to do something about illegal immigration. And he did. The rate of border crossing plummeted dramatically during Donald Trump&#8217;s first term.
Then Joe Biden came in and opened the border wide to the tune of at least 10 million people crossing the border, either by claiming asylum falsely or by simply crossing illegally between ports of entry or by overstaying visas.
Donald Trump has now come into office for the second time, pledging to stop illegal immigration. He has already successfully closed the southern border. And now he is activating Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), to implement the law; to find people who are in the interior of the country illegally and to remove them.
This should not be controversial. Just because elected officials haven&#8217;t enforced the law properly for decades, it does not mean that enforcing the law now should be controversial.
Late last week, there were some immigration enforcement operations that happened in Southern California. According to <a href="https://www.wsj.com/us-news/los-angeles-protests-national-guard-015b5bd3">The Wall Street Journal</a>:
<blockquote>The first demonstrations began Friday in Los Angeles, when residents reacted to federal agents engaged in what appeared to be an immigration enforcement operation. Homeland Security spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin said that some 800 protesters surrounded and breached a federal law-enforcement building in Los Angeles. 
Protests continued throughout the weekend, with a particularly tense standoff occurring Sunday evening in downtown Los Angeles. California Highway Patrol officers used flash-bang stun grenades and tactical positioning to push protesters off Highway 101. Demonstrators threw tree branches, scooters and fireworks from a freeway overpass onto police vehicles, and some protesters set fire to at least five Waymo driverless taxis.  </blockquote>
The Journal <a href="https://www.wsj.com/us-news/california-protesters-clash-with-federal-agents-for-a-second-day-e23066bb?gaa_at=eafs&amp;gaa_n=ASWzDAhBtQDc_BPowgGspZYa2AEmKvp6M2nag8T46Lb2x4X7Gc8-Je8Q2abS0t-7WtE%3D&amp;gaa_ts=68473754&amp;gaa_sig=VbjeylgUtsk49Bwgg6nfs-yUFWEjXNCJBw_t63GPSyAC4ZOqP7mtiFvhYHZmn2lacqcNop981VLhH2Qn1iO2ow%3D%3D">added</a>:
<blockquote>Protesters also gathered outside a federal detention center in downtown Los Angeles Saturday night and were pushed back by law enforcement using tear gas and flash bangs, according to local news footage. Los Angeles police declared an unlawful assembly in the area and detained multiple people.</blockquote>
Things got incredibly fraught. That is not a giant shock. What is amazing, however, is that people believe the United States is so lawless that when federal agents show up to arrest people for being in the country illegally, we end up with hundreds of protesters, many of whom end up assaulting police officers, ICE agents, participating in acts of criminality, rioting, and burning things.
L.A. has become an incredibly lawless place. It&#8217;s one of the reasons my family and I moved during the BLM riots, in which the city of Los Angeles essentially told the cops to stand down and allow people to riot and destroy whatever they could, burning cop cars along the way.
We lived in a fairly decent area of L.A., and I could hear the helicopters above our home and gunshots. I can promise you, in the aftermath of what&#8217;s going on right now, there will be many people who look at California and say, “Why in the hell am I paying exorbitant taxes in order to live in a place that allowed every area around L.A. to burn just a few months ago, and now is allowing parts of L.A. to burn in order to protect people who came to the country illegally in the first place?”
It&#8217;s total insanity. This is essentially what my new book, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Lions-Scavengers-Story-America-Critics/dp/1668097885">Lions and Scavengers</a>,” is about. There are two groups of people in the United States and across the West: people who wish to build institutions and create successful operating systems, and then people who wish to tear them down.
You look at the protesters and you see many of them flying Mexican flags as well as Palestinian flags (and it&#8217;s a good indicator that you&#8217;re on the wrong side of any protests if you&#8217;re the one flying a Palestinian flag). These protesters were roaming around suggesting they need to be in the United States while flying the Mexican flag.
That&#8217;s an amazing thing because they&#8217;re not saying Mexico and the United States are in solidarity. Precisely the opposite. They are saying they came to the United States as a quasi-invading force and they&#8217;ve come here as refugees from Mexico, and therefore left Mexico for a reason.
This would be the equivalent of Cuban migrants attempting to escape Cuba, who then fly the Cuban flag while attempting to stop ICE officers. It would be bizarre. 
Cubans coming to the United States from Cuba generally don&#8217;t fly the flag of the country that oppressed them and forced them to leave. If they are flying that flag it’s to overthrow the government of Cuba.
But in LA, you have a bunch of people flying Mexican flags, not because they wish to change the government of Mexico, or because they believe in the solidarity between the United States and Mexico, but because many of them believe that this entire area is Aztalan: It doesn&#8217;t belong to the American people or the American government.
The Left thinks all of this is okay. When you have the government of Los Angeles not doing enough to shut all of this down, it demonstrates the Democrats&#8217; priorities.
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There&#8217;s a long heritage for all of this in the Democratic Party, going back to Barack Obama winking and nodding at the Ferguson riots of 2014. We&#8217;ve had a dozen years of this kind of garbage and yet Democrats still don&#8217;t seem to get it. They are defending the rioters and the protesters and the people who are engaging in violence.
If anyone actually wonders why President Trump is president — this is why.

TOPSHOT-US-POLITICS-IMMIGRATION

Illegal Immigration, Lawlessness, And The Left’s America

Ben Shapiro

Gavin Newsom

Karen Bass

Los Angeles

Riots

Southern Border

LA Descends Into Chaos As Mexican Rioters Wage War On America

Maxine Waters

Mexico

Overall, 2025 has been a blockbuster year for election integrity. Conservative states across the country advanced popular measures ending the late receipt of mail ballots and banning foreign interference in state elections.
But in one of the most conservative states in America, it was a vastly different story. Texas lawmakers started the year strong, with the Republican-led Senate passing a series of significant bills. But in the House, Democrats conspired to kill one reform after the other. History should record 2025 as the year Democrats sided with progressive activists and foreign-funded special interests against everyday Texans who just believe that it should be easy to vote and hard to cheat.
First on the Democrats’ chopping block was <a href="https://legiscan.com/TX/bill/SB16/2025">SB16,</a> a commonsense bill requiring proof of citizenship before anyone can register and vote. Americans overwhelmingly <a href="https://www.honestelections.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/April-polling-memo_ALEC49163789-1.pdf">oppose</a> noncitizen voting, and last year a University of Houston <a href="https://uh.edu/news-events/stories/2024/october/10222024-hobby-election-integrity.php">survey</a> found that just 56% of Texas voters believed noncitizens would be adequately prevented from voting. SB16 was intended to give the state new tools to do just that. Had it passed, Texas would be the gold standard for ensuring that only citizens can vote.
Texas Democrats obviously feel differently, but don’t expect them to admit it. Instead, they will hide behind the handful of liberal lawmakers who broke ranks and voted to put a constitutional ban on noncitizen voting on the ballot. But it is highly cynical to ban noncitizen voting and then block the tools officials need to effectively and efficiently enforce it. What do Texas Democrats have to fear from verifying that only American citizens are voting in American elections? The public deserves to know.
Next on the Democrats’ hit list: A bill to ban foreign interference in Texas elections. <a href="https://legiscan.com/TX/bill/SB2035/2025">SB2035</a> would have protected state constitutional amendments and other ballot measures from the influence of foreign nationals. The measure passed overwhelmingly in the Senate, but House Democrats killed the bill with a procedural motion in the dead of night.
They may regret that move in the light of day. Americans overwhelmingly <a href="https://hepaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/HEPA_OH_December_2023_Topline_Report.pdf">oppose</a> foreign interference, and seven states have passed similar bans this year alone. All these states are reacting to a growing problem. It is illegal for foreign nationals to contribute to any candidate running for political office. But a loophole allows these same foreign interests to finance highly impactful ballot measure campaigns. Just one example: Hansjörg Wyss, a Swiss billionaire, has poured almost <a href="https://americansforpublictrust.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Sixteen-Thirty-Fund-Spending-on-Ballot-Issue-Campaigns.pdf">$300 million</a> into a far-Left, D.C.-based dark money group called the <a href="https://americansforpublictrust.org/document/apt-report-foreign-backed-spending-in-state-ballot-issue-campaigns/">Sixteen Thirty Fund</a>. In turn, they have dumped $130 million in foreign-tied funds into ballot measures advancing progressive causes in 26 states.
The Texas legislature was close to closing that foreign funding loophole once and for all, until Democrats sided with foreign billionaires and fought to keep their foreign dark money flowing.
Democrats in the Lone Star State also killed <a href="https://legiscan.com/TX/bill/SB310/2025">SB310</a>, a bill to definitively ban ranked-choice voting. Ranked-choice voting is a confusing, complex system that has been rejected across the country. It leads to voter confusion, disenfranchisement, and head-scratching outcomes that see losers transformed into winners. In Alaska’s first ranked-choice election, for example, a Democrat was declared the winner of a race for the U.S. House even though Republican candidates won roughly <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/09/01/peltola-palin-ranked-choice-voting-alaska/">60%</a> of the vote. Results like this explain why liberal organizations and their billionaire donors are <a href="https://www.wsj.com/opinion/ranked-choice-voting-ballot-measures-election-863d52ff">spending</a> tens of millions of dollars across the country to sell the public on ranked-choice voting.
Ranked-choice voting’s impact on elections is so corrosive and unpopular that 17 states have taken the extraordinary step of banning it, including six states this year alone. Six more states rejected ranked-choice voting ballot measures last year by wide, bipartisan margins. But not Texas, thanks to another late-night procedural maneuver from the Left.
Three times in one year, Texas Democrats put partisan politics ahead of integrity and trust in elections. Thanks to their stonewalling, Texas is falling behind other states that made election integrity a priority. Unless Governor Abbott calls a special session, lawmakers won’t have another chance to beef up the security of Texas elections until 2027.
By then, another presidential election will be looming and the stakes will be that much higher. There will be no excuses—not even Democrats’ intransigence—for failing to get commonsense measures like foreign funding bans across the finish line.
This year, Democrats stood with foreign billionaires and defended noncitizen voting. Texans, and all Americans, deserve to know why.
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Jason Snead is the executive director of Honest Elections Project Action.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
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It wasn&#8217;t so long ago that the absolute worst thing the government could do to a child — according to pretty much every expert, NGO and media mouthpiece on the planet — was to put that child in a &#8220;cage.&#8221; That was, as you probably remember, a major line of attack during the first Trump administration. The consensus was that Donald Trump was so evil and so unhinged that, simply for his own personal amusement, he instructed immigration officials to incarcerate children in the worst conditions imaginable, like they were animals. Things were so bad that AOC wept outside of an empty parking lot near an immigrant detention facility. Lin Manuel Miranda sang a lullaby for the Mexican children. Oprah, Rihanna, John Legend, George Clooney — the luminaries of our time — came together to formally condemn the Trump administration.
In response, conservatives made the case that children weren&#8217;t actually being placed in &#8220;cages&#8221; of any kind. They also pointed out that the alleged &#8220;cages&#8221; predated the Trump administration. And that was all true. 
The strongest argument, however, was actually pretty simple. Democrats couldn&#8217;t answer the following question: How exactly would a Democrat-run administration handle tens of thousands of children who are apprehended attempting to enter this country illegally at the border? If they weren&#8217;t going to deport the children, or use Obama&#8217;s &#8220;cages,&#8221; then what exactly would they do? What&#8217;s the alternative? We all knew that Biden couldn&#8217;t use the cages, because now Democrats are saying cages are evil. So what would Biden&#8217;s administration ultimately do?
As it turns out, a big part of their solution was to place unaccompanied minors inside the homes of people they called &#8220;sponsors.&#8221; So if a minor attempted to enter this country alone, or if their father was being prosecuted for a serious crime, the Biden administration would try to find someone for these minors to live with, inside of this country. They wouldn&#8217;t simply deport the children. They also wouldn&#8217;t put them in a secure government facility or a &#8220;cage.&#8221; Instead, they&#8217;d house them with an adult.
Of course, the &#8220;perverse incentives&#8221; in this situation are off the charts. The Biden administration was effectively encouraging children to cross the border without a legal guardian, because then they&#8217;d be allowed into the country instead of being deported with their families. And predictably, foreigners caught on to this situation. The number of unaccompanied minors attempting to enter this country increased by more than 100% under Biden, to more than 130,000 children per year. But it was all necessary, the Biden administration said, to avoid placing children in cages. Instead, they&#8217;d all be going to &#8220;sponsors.&#8221;
<h3><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/mws-ep-1609?elementPosition=6&amp;row=2&amp;rowHeadline=Latest+Episodes&amp;rowType=Horizontal+Show+Episodes+Carousel" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WATCH: The Matt Walsh Show</a></h3>
A year ago, the HHS secretary at the time was asked about this program. And he conceded that, once children were handed off to sponsors, the Biden administration had no idea what happened to them. They completely lost track of these children. And they knew this would happen, because they understood that they didn&#8217;t have any legal authority to follow-up on the whereabouts of the children. It&#8217;s almost as if they intentionally pawned these children off as quickly as they possibly could, to make them go away. They said this was supposedly the more &#8220;humane&#8221; approach. Watch:
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It&#8217;s not exactly the most reassuring testimony. He&#8217;s admitting that the federal government has handed off tens of thousands of children to adults who, in many cases, are not even related to them. And then he&#8217;s acknowledging that the government has no idea what happened next. That&#8217;s because the HHS, which is overseeing this whole program, isn&#8217;t a law enforcement agency. They have no power whatsoever. They&#8217;re not remotely capable — legally or practically — of figuring out what actually happened to these children that the government relocated. 
And on top of that, Kamala Harris and other Democrats made sure to block HHS from informing local schools about the children. In other words, because of the deliberate policy choices of the Democrat Party, there was no way for anyone, even school districts, to verify that the children were attending school. Teachers couldn&#8217;t check up on them. So what were all of the kids doing? What was happening to them?
Thanks to new reporting from the group &#8220;Illegal Alien Crimes,&#8221; as well as The Daily Wire&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/author/luke-rosiak">Luke Rosiak</a>, we now have some more clarity on this question. And the answer is far more horrifying than any &#8220;cage&#8221; could possibly be. It turns out that, in effect, the Biden administration launched a human trafficking operation. That was their solution to &#8220;kids in cages.&#8221; Instead, now we have &#8220;kids being forced to live with sexual abusers.&#8221;
The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/teen-molested-by-illegal-alien-who-biden-admin-sent-her-to-live-with-police-say">reports</a>: 
<blockquote>A 37-year-old illegal immigrant man was arrested for allegedly sexually abusing at least one teen girl who the federal government sent to live with him as part of the Biden administration’s scheme to place &#8216;unaccompanied alien children&#8217; in the homes of unrelated, loosely-vetted &#8216;sponsors.&#8217; &#8230;Wilson Manfredo Lopez-Carillo was arrested by the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s office in Florida on May 22 and charged with three counts of sexual assault on a minor.</blockquote>
This is the level of &#8220;vetting&#8221; that HHS conducted during the Biden administration, to make sure that the &#8220;sponsors&#8221; had the best interests of the children in mind. Of course, there wasn&#8217;t any way to vet this guy, or check his record or anything like that, because he was *also* an illegal alien. In other words, yes, the Biden administration housed a 16-year-old girl with a 37-year-old illegal alien, who had already broken our laws to enter this country. They put her with a known criminal who they could not vet in any meaningful way.
If you pull up the probable cause affidavit, you&#8217;ll find that these alleged sexual assaults took place in February of last year. The victim arrived in this country in August of 2023. So within about six months, she was attacked several times in the &#8220;home&#8221; that the Biden administration set her up with.
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The other thing you&#8217;ll notice, as you look at this probable cause statement, is that at least a third of the document is redacted. There&#8217;s a lot of information that&#8217;s not being disclosed here. To be sure, there are probably legitimate reasons for these redactions in some cases. We&#8217;re talking about a very sensitive case involving a minor, after all. But it&#8217;s enough to make you wonder whether we&#8217;ll ever receive anything approaching a full accounting for what the Biden administration has done here. 
What we know for sure is that the scale of this particular human trafficking operation is staggering. Late last year, the DHS inspector general under the Biden administration disclosed that something like 300,000 minors are unaccounted for. And even the minors who are &#8220;accounted for,&#8221; in some cases, are raising very obvious concerns. 
For example, the inspector general <a href="https://www.oig.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/assets/2024-08/OIG-24-46-Aug24.pdf">pointed out</a> that: 
<blockquote>One ICE officer expressed concern with not being able to take action in a case involving an [unaccompanied minor] whose sponsor claimed the [unaccompanied minor] was in an inappropriate relationship with her husband.</blockquote>
In other words, the Biden administration placed this unaccompanied minor inside of a household, and then the husband start abusing the minor, causing the woman to complain to federal authorities. And in response, federal authorities did absolutely nothing. And this kind of thing happens a lot. 
From <a href="https://www.oig.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/assets/2024-08/OIG-24-46-Aug24.pdf">the report</a>: 
<blockquote>ICE E.R.O. [Enforcement and Removal Operations] has no authority over [unaccompanied children] beyond managing their immigration cases. Therefore, even if ICE were to identify [unaccompanied children] in unsafe conditions, the agency has limited authority to respond. ICE personnel at two field offices affirmed this and explained they had identified [unaccompanied children] in unsafe conditions but were unable to intervene.</blockquote>
Unfortunately the report doesn&#8217;t go into any more detail on that point. You&#8217;d think that, if illegal alien children were suspected of living in unsafe conditions, after the federal government placed them in a household full of other illegals, it would be pretty easy to kick the door down and investigate. But apparently, these children have just fallen through the cracks. No agency wants to assert jurisdiction. And of course, whenever anyone in Congress tried to press for answers, the Biden administration stonewalled, because in the end, all of this was deliberate.
Last November, for example, Louisiana senator Bill Cassidy tried to conduct an audit into the status of these unaccompanied children. <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2024/11/19/biden-obstructing-migrant-child-investigations/">From The Daily Caller</a>: 
<blockquote>HHS would repeatedly take months to respond to [Cassidy&#8217;s] requests — and sometimes the department would not respond at all. &#8230; HHS officials also stonewalled state investigators when Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis demanded answers. .. DeSantis — in response to findings that alien children smuggled into Florida were being sexually exploited or used for trafficking in drugs and weapons — petitioned the Florida Supreme Court to investigate criminal activity related to the smuggling of unaccompanied alien children from the U.S.-Mexico border into Florida. ..However, HHS allegedly &#8216;refused&#8217; to provide witnesses or documents to a grand jury, ignored subpoenas and &#8216;actively encouraged&#8217; Florida entities that contract with [federal immigration] officials to not cooperate with investigators.</blockquote>
Predictably, nearly a decade after the fake outrage over &#8220;kids in cages,&#8221; there has been no concern whatsoever from any political figure or media outlet on the Left about any of this. There&#8217;s no outrage about the fact that the Biden administration, fresh off the moral outrage over the &#8220;kids in cages,&#8221; constructed an elaborate human trafficking operation with a code of silence that rivals any mafia.
Keep that in mind, the next time you&#8217;re told that some policy you support is supposedly horrific or barbaric or racist or whatever. When people tell you that, ask them what the alternative is. And if they can&#8217;t answer, it&#8217;s a pretty good sign that, in their quest to score some political points, they&#8217;re willing to endorse evils beyond all comprehension. That&#8217;s the bargain Democrats made under Joe Biden. And now, locked away with &#8220;sponsors&#8221; who no one can track, there are tens of thousands of children who are suffering every day as a result.
If you needed another reason to support mass deportations, that&#8217;s a pretty big one. At the very least, deporting some of these sponsors would help break up one of the largest human trafficking rings ever created — the one the Biden administration spun up right here in the United States. In the end, the only sustainable solution is a secure border — one that&#8217;s ruthlessly enforced in a way that might make some liberal women uncomfortable. Unless we want tens of thousands more children to suffer untold horrors with their &#8220;sponsors,&#8221; we simply have no other choice.

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