For roughly two years, the small-town police department in Sahuarita, Arizona, has been using electric shock gloves to control uncooperative subjects.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is set to spend up to $20 million on thousands of the gloves amid the Trump administration&#8217;s mass deportation campaign, according to a recent Department of Homeland Security (DHS) notice.
“It’s another device to help someone get compliant when they are not,” White House border czar Tom Homan said in a recent Fox News interview. “You can’t just go from 0 to 100, right, and the first thing you go for is lethal force.”
Opponents of ICE&#8217;s plan <a href="https://www.nilc.org/press/nilc-statement-on-ices-plan-to-buy-electric-shock-gloves/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">call</a> it &#8220;disgusting and barbaric.&#8221;
But Sahuarita&#8217;s police chief, John Noland, who oversees a force of 68 officers in the southern Arizona town and once approached ICE about using the gloves, says that could not be further from the truth.
When used &#8220;appropriately&#8221; and with the required training, &#8220;it is not inhumane,&#8221; Noland told The Daily Wire.
Noland himself has experienced the shocks roughly a dozen times during training exercises and said the electric jolt is only felt where the glove touches. He also said that the pain instantly disappears once contact ends.
&#8220;It hurts. It is so strange, the moment the glove is no longer applied to your skin, there is zero pain. It&#8217;s not as if I twisted your arm to the point of pain, and then I let go, I back off, and your arm still hurts. It is instantaneous,&#8221; he said.
Noland says the gloves are often more humane than a taser or a baton, his other options for controlling the unruly.
&#8220;I see it as a tool that might be overdue. I know that may not be a popular thing for those folks that are anti-ICE &#8230; But ICE is a law enforcement agency,&#8221; Noland said.
&#8220;In Arizona, we were the first law enforcement agency that does street work or patrol work to put them out. We&#8217;ve been successful with them,&#8221; he said.
It comes as ICE officers have experienced an uptick in violent attacks by both outside agitators and illegal immigrant targets.
Since President Donald Trump&#8217;s return to the White House, ICE agents have seen a 1,300% jump in assaults, along with a 3,200% increase in vehicular attacks, according to DHS.
Law enforcement officers across the country have used the technology, known as G.L.O.V.E., or Generated Low Output Voltage Emitter, to control violent suspects inside jails and in the field.
In order to use the gloves, law enforcement officers must complete a training course and get re-certified every two years, <a href="https://www.complianttechnologies.net/terms-and-conditions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the company behind the gloves, Kentucky-based Compliant Technologies LLC.
&#8220;The skirmish lines that perhaps you have seen on different news channels and whatnot, over the last few years of our federal agents, Border Patrol, ICE agents, and others, DHS, all struggling with people out in the field, trying to get them to comply, now becomes less of a struggle. Now becomes a scenario where there are realistically going to be less injuries,&#8221; Noland said.
&#8220;I wish we had it at the beginning of my career. There would have been so many fights and struggles that would have been over in a matter of moments,&#8221; he said.
Officers wearing the gloves must press a button to activate them before putting them to use and can only deliver a shock when they touch another&#8217;s skin. The current can&#8217;t pass through clothing, hair, metal, plastic, or fur, according to Compliant Technologies.
&#8220;The plus behind the gloves are, as soon as I&#8217;m done grabbing you, the pain is off,&#8221; Noland said, adding that &#8220;people give up real quick, so that&#8217;s a plus for us. Less injuries on our end, less injuries on their end.&#8221;
The gloves each have a unique serial number that identifies the officer assigned to it. They also track when and how long a shock is administered.
The result is better accountability when officers are using force, Noland said.
&#8220;The gloves track when they&#8217;re actually utilized, similar to a taser. If I touch my t-shirt with it, it shows no application was ever given. Even though the glove is on. But if I touch my skin or somebody else&#8217;s skin &#8230; it gives the date, the time, and how long the application was that I touched somebody.&#8221;
&#8220;And each glove has a microprocessor in it. that says this particular glove, with this particular serial number, issued to John Noland, or Officer Smith, or Officer Jones, or Garcia, etc. was utilized on whatever date and time. And here&#8217;s how many times it was utilized. So those are also pluses for us, because it helps track use of force.&#8221;
Noland sees the value for ICE, saying it gives agents the ability to stop an escalating situation in its tracks more quickly and with less force.
&#8220;I could have one of my officers that weighs much less than me, much shorter than me, have a pair of these gloves on, and if they&#8217;re grabbing onto my arms, or my hands, or my wrists, etc., and they&#8217;re pulling me to the ground, I&#8217;m realistically going through the ground,&#8221; he said.

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It is popular to say that America is in decline. American decline is an <a href="https://x.com/johnddavidson/status/2089075290509336876?s=20">accepted</a> premise on both the Left and parts of the Right. While the Left celebrates American decline because, for them, it is the decline of an oppressive imperialist power, the doomer Right claims it can reverse it with ideas that would actually bring it about, such as tariffs, overregulating technological innovation, or reducing population growth from legal immigration. But both sides get the facts wrong: America is not in decline; it is beginning a century of dominance. While there are grave threats ahead, America can and should remain the world’s top superpower simply by staying on its current path.
Last year, America produced 26% of the world’s total production of goods and services despite Americans representing barely over 4% of the world’s population. This share is higher than it was back in 1980 — before the China boom and the liberation of Eastern Europe from socialism — when Americans represented over 5% of the world’s population. In other words, while in 1980 the average American produced six times as much as the average citizen of the rest of the planet, in 2025 the average American produced eight times as much.
In fact, the ratio of American productivity to that of the rest of the world hasn’t varied much since the 1960s. While at the end of World War II the United States was much more productive than the destroyed European and Asian nations, only during the stagflation of the 1970s and the Great Recession did U.S.-to-world production per working-age person dip below a 6-to-1 ratio. During the Reagan years and the internet boom, American workers reached new heights relative to the rest of the world, becoming over eight times as productive. The only other period in recent history when America’s lead over the planet matched today’s was the peak of the dot-com boom and the booming Reagan economy.
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Relative to China, the U.S. is also getting richer. The ratio of American to Chinese working-age productivity bottomed out during the COVID-19 pandemic and has since rebounded from under 6-to-1 to 7-to-1.
But even if China’s productivity begins catching up with America’s and returns to its all-time record over the coming decades, its ongoing demographic collapse will continue to shrink its share of the world economy.
By the end of the 21st century, China’s working-age population is projected to shrink by over 70%, while America’s is expected to remain stable. Due to demographic decline, even if China’s GDP per worker rises back to its record relative to America’s, its share of world GDP will decline from 16% today to 5% by the end of the century while America’s will remain stable at around a quarter. Even if, by a miracle, the Chinese manage to catch up to half of American productivity rather than the current 14%, its share of the world economy will still decline. In other words, China is doomed thanks to America’s productivity and demographic advantages.
Critics of these facts may say that focusing on gross domestic product is akin to worship of a statistic, and that what really matters is the standard of living of the average person. But by that measure, America is also improving. The median American family earns nearly <a href="https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEFAINUSA672N">50% more</a> today than it did in the mid-1980s, and what Americans earn eclipses what the citizens of any other nation earn for the same work. In terms of price-adjusted income after taxes and transfers, the American household has a <a href="https://www.oecd.org/en/data/indicators/household-disposable-income.html">disposable income</a> 39% greater than that of the average German household, 68% greater than the British, 81% greater than the Canadian, 86% greater than the Swedish, and more than twice that of the Japanese.
America is succeeding, but success isn’t guaranteed. The doomers are wrong that American decline is a fact — but decline is possible, and the doomers themselves push the policies that would make it happen. Only Washington can force America into economic and social decline.
The first great risk America faces is strangling artificial intelligence (AI) before it makes America richer and technologically dominant. The AI buildout is now the single largest engine of American growth and job creation: data center investment is <a href="https://www.apollo.com/wealth/insights-news/insights/daily-spark/the-ai-capex-boom-is-building-twice-as-fast-as-the-housing-boom">approaching</a> 3% of GDP, more than twice what telecommunications investment was during the internet boom. The United States also has more data centers than all other major countries combined, meaning that America, not China, will own and control the data.
Yet a horseshoe coalition of leftists and populists now campaigns to stop data center construction and overregulate AI — exactly the outcome the Chinese Communist Party wants. Every blocked data center is a gift to Beijing and lost tax revenue for local and federal governments, which means a stronger China and higher future taxes for all of us.
The second and related risk is shutting the door on high-skilled legal immigration. America’s main advantage over China rests on both innovation and demographics, both driven by immigration. Without net migration, the Census Bureau projects that the American working-age population will shrink like China’s rather than remain stable. Furthermore, college-educated immigrants are founding and powering the tech startups that are growing the economy, creating new products, lowering production costs through innovation, and hiring thousands of other Americans. Ending employment-based immigration would mean voluntarily following China’s fatal demographic path.
Finally, America will decline if Washington continues in fiscal denial. The federal deficit is on track to hit <a href="https://www.cbo.gov/publication/61983">$2 trillion</a> this year, national debt just hit $40 trillion, <a href="https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/gfdegdq188S">over 120%</a> of GDP, and interest alone now costs more than Medicare, Medicaid, or the Pentagon. If Washington does not cut both fraudulent spending and entitlement growth, interest rates will keep rising, making homes harder to afford and fewer investments viable.
Despite what the doomers and demagogues tell you, America is not in decline; it is beginning a century of greater dominance than ever. But decline is a policy choice, so let’s pray that our leaders let builders build, keep the door open to the smart and talented from around the world, and put the fiscal house in order so the doomers are proven wrong.
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Daniel Di Martino (@DanielDiMartino) is a fellow at the Manhattan Institute and an economist.

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Imagine inviting someone to a dinner party at your home who doesn&#8217;t know how to eat with cutlery, clean up after themselves, speak English, properly respect the hosts, or refrain from attacking your children, wife, or dog.
That would be stupid.
But ironically, that is exactly what the United Kingdom did, just on a much grander and more significant scale.
After allowing hundreds of thousands of migrants to flood their borders and nest within the walls of the U.K., fundamentally changing the fabric of their nation, sending sexual assault numbers skyrocketing, and leaving housing, policing, and legal systems groaning under the weight of it, the government&#8217;s fix is not tighter borders, stricter asylum vetting, or, say, enforcing the laws already on the books. That would make too much sense. Instead, they&#8217;re resorting to &#8220;How to Act in Britain&#8221; <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/understanding-behaviours-and-expectations-in-the-uk-a-guide-for-asylum-seekers/understanding-behaviours-and-expectations-in-the-uk-a-guide-for-asylum-seekers-accessible">pamphlets</a> for their former third-world arrivals.
It&#8217;s embarrassing beyond recognition.
The instruction manuals for the new arrivals include basic messaging that most of Western civilization absorbs by kindergarten — but that those arriving from elsewhere have no concept of at all.
Take the &#8220;novel&#8221; concept of gender equality:
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Yeah. Apparently, that&#8217;s something that now needs to be stated and plastered all over British creation, because though it&#8217;s something we take for granted every day, the Left seems to have forgotten that female rights didn&#8217;t magically appear overnight, nor do they exist in many other parts of the world. And importing those parts that largely view women as half-brained? Might not go over well with the ladies of Blighty.
It&#8217;s also funny to see that *snap* just like that, the Left remembered that differences between the two sexes do exist. Someone alert the WNBA.
There&#8217;s a section on domestic abuse, too.
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My favorite entry: please don&#8217;t confiscate your wife&#8217;s passport. In America, we&#8217;re still arguing over whether a woman who strangled her three kids to death mid-breakdown counts as a &#8220;victim&#8221;; meanwhile, the U.K. is now having to remind 19% of its population that a passport is a travel document, not a leash.
It&#8217;s giving “Not Without My Daughter,” except this time the sequel is government-issued pamphlets explaining that, no, in the U.K., you cannot confiscate your wife&#8217;s passport whenever you feel like it.
Naturally, there&#8217;s a section on sex and consent. Foreign nationals make up roughly 11% of the English population but account for somewhere between 14% and 22% of sexual-offense convictions, including close to a quarter of convictions for sexual assault on women and over one-fifth of adult rape convictions, per 2024 figures.
Bang-up job there, Europe.
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It might have helped to hand out the &#8220;please don&#8217;t sexually assault women&#8221; pamphlet before the Rape Gang Inquiry confirmed what everyone already knew: that as many as a quarter of a million young girls were systematically raped, trafficked, and abused over decades by organized networks of mostly Pakistani men, while police, councils, and social workers looked away, terrified of the word &#8220;racist.&#8221;
The government didn&#8217;t have too much to say about that, but hey: dial 999 if you need anything, ladies!
Finally, a public-decency primer for the newfound pommies:
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No unsolicited photos, no sexual comments, and no groping, please! Please! PLEASE! I&#8217;m honestly surprised there wasn&#8217;t a bonus module on saying &#8220;thank you&#8221; or a footnote clarifying that beheading people is generally frowned upon in polite society.
It&#8217;s easy to mock because it&#8217;s so incredibly insane; the nation that once exported liberty, rule of law, and women&#8217;s rights to half the globe is now reduced to begging its own dinner guests not to assault the hosts. But the insanity of it all is quite sad.
Between 2021 and 2024, as hundreds of thousands crossed the Channel to file asylum claims, sexual-offense convictions among foreign nationals rose 62%. Afghan nationals showed markedly elevated rates. Foreign nationals remain wildly overrepresented in England&#8217;s sex-offender population relative to their share of the general population.
The victims in all of this were largely young English women. You weren&#8217;t allowed to notice, lest you get labeled a bigoted Islamophobe. You also weren&#8217;t allowed to notice that the year Muhammad became the #1 boy name in England and Wales (and stayed there), thousands of those same young, white, British girls were still being treated as fair game by organized grooming networks. Or notice that old cities and towns once full of smiling faces and bright-eyed children were now draped in flags, burqas, and speakers sounding the call to prayer, lest you be called a bigot.
But now that everyone&#8217;s seeing it and can’t unsee it, the government is making a pathetic attempt at damage mitigation with &#8220;How to be an Englishman,&#8221; for dummies who couldn’t care less about how to be an Englishman.
It boils down to this: those illegally entering these established nations do not want to be like the English, or the Americans, or the Western man more broadly. They want to import their own ways, their own hierarchy of the sexes, their own rules about whose word carries force and whose body is available, and their own contempt for the soft, sentimental rules that Judeo-Christian civilization spent centuries building.
The Bible and the moral tradition that grew from it teach that every person, man or woman, bears the image of God, that the strong are commanded to protect the weak, that marriage is a covenant of mutual dignity, and that the stranger is still bound by the same moral law as the host. That is why the West abolished slavery, raised the status of women, and treated rape as a crime against the person rather than a property dispute. Large parts of the Islamic world, shaped by different scriptures and centuries of different practices, never underwent that transformation. In too many of the countries these arrivals come from, a woman&#8217;s testimony is worth half a man&#8217;s, her freedom of movement still depends on a male guardian, and &#8220;honor&#8221; can justify violence that Western courts call murder. The Home Office pamphlet is not inventing a problem; it is admitting, in the blandest bureaucratic prose possible, that the guests arrived with a different operating system.
So the dinner party continues. 
The hosts keep printing etiquette cards while the furniture is rearranged, the silverware disappears, and the children are no longer safe in their own home. A serious country would have locked the door. Instead, it keeps setting extra places and hoping the next pamphlet will finally do the trick.

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On Wednesday, Britain’s Home Office (our interior ministry) published a handy nine-page guide for asylum seekers called “Understanding behaviors and expectations in the UK.” It explained to these recent arrivals some of the nuances and faux pas of British life they might not have known prior to breaking into the country.
This advice explained, for example, that rape is a crime, that sex with children is a crime, and that new arrivals should not follow women down the street whistling or making “kissing sounds.”
Somewhere in London, a civil servant was paid to type the sentence “never try to have sex with someone who is asleep, drunk, or unable to consent clearly.”
A companion poster on the age of consent illustrates the rule with a mock-up British passport belonging to: “Janine Cooper” of Manchester, printed date of birth 17 April 2010. This fictional character turned 16 in the spring. So the British Government is essentially advertising that a schoolgirl four months past her 16th birthday is fair game for being propositioned.
The booklet does mention consequences. “Rape is a serious crime in the UK,” it warns. “You could go to prison, lose your support and accommodation, and it will affect your asylum claim.”
But then again, it may not.
It has just been reported that a Jamaican man, jailed in Britain for nine years for rape, has successfully appealed against his deportation. As a teenager he had been in Jamaica’s witness protection program, his mother a police informant whose evidence convicted a gang leader of murder.
But the British tribunal accepted that his criminal record is now so extensive that Jamaica would probably refuse to readmit him to protection, that his life would be at risk, and that deporting him would therefore breach Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). He stays. His criminal record now functions as a green card.
The ECHR is a post-war treaty interpreted by a court in Strasbourg, France, whose rulings Britain’s own domestic judges must apply at home. Article 3, a prohibition on torture, has been stretched by decades of case law into a rule that nobody may be sent anywhere unpleasant, a category that expands with every judgment. This is a totally separate structure from the European Union, so Brexit does not protect us from foreign judges whose rulings keep foreign rapists safe and sound in England.
In that case, perhaps we do need the anti-rape leaflets after all. They might have been useful reading for Bruke Desalagne, 33, an Eritrean who hid in a truck to enter Britain illegally. He claimed asylum and, in 2022, received “Indefinite Leave to Remain,” our version of a green card.
This month a jury convicted him of raping a male pensioner in his 60s outside a church in London. The attack lasted 20 minutes while a double-decker bus rolled past on CCTV. His sentence was obviously delivered via a translator.
And since I began writing this piece this morning, almost unbelievably, two more rapes by illegal migrants have been reported. This morning: a manhunt in Bournemouth, on England’s south coast, after a woman in her 40s reported being raped in a nature reserve near the beach. And this afternoon: two Afghan migrants are in court, accused of raping and assaulting a 14-year-old girl on a train from Kent into London.
You might think that such an acute crisis of illegal immigration would require more than pamphlets and posters. But the new prime minister, Andy Burnham, in one of his first statements since taking office, has said that every community has to take its “fair share” of these third-world barbarians, not just the poorer areas.
He is in effect going to punish the areas of the U.K. that represent the green and pleasant land for which we are known (that is, the areas that don’t vote for the socialist Labour Party) by billeting rapey third-worlders in hotels and houses.
And sadly, there is not yet the evidence that the pamphlets are working.
In undercover footage filmed inside the migrant camps on the French shore, one man bound for Britain puts it more succinctly than any government document: “I’m only interested to f*ck. I need it.”
What Britain needs, however, is to leave the ECHR, the foreign organization that puts the rights of rapists above those of victims and legally hampers our ability to deport our way out of the crisis. Imagine if, above the U.S. Supreme Court, there was a body of Mexican, Canadian, Honduran, Brazilian, and Cuban judges who could overrule the Constitution, all to benefit foreign rapists.
The situation is as absurd as it is tragic. But the tragedy is set to continue until we vote the Left out of power.
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James Price is a former Chief of Staff to the Chancellor of the Exchequer and a senior fellow at the Adam Smith Institute.

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Liberia has reached a historic agreement to accept deportees from the United States who are not citizens of the country.
The West African nation, founded by freed slaves from the United States, will take in up to 1,200 third-country nationals deported through the Trump administration&#8217;s mass deportation campaign, <a href="https://apnews.com/article/liberia-us-deportees-trump-migration-fc41b96abc6f26a9b780ce871b269951" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the Associated Press. Liberian Information Minister Jerolinmek Piah told reporters that the first group of 20 deportees is expected to arrive Thursday.
The Trump administration plans to send illegal immigrants from Africa, the Caribbean, South America, and North America to Liberia, the AP reported.
Liberia is not the first country to accept citizens of other nations from the United States since President Donald Trump began his effort to ramp up deportations.
The Trump administration has made similar agreements with other foreign governments to deport third-country nationals by offering funding, easing visa restrictions, and relief from tariffs, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/us/politics/liberia-deportees.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to The New York Times. The list of cooperating countries includes the Dominican Republic, Eswatini, Cameroon, and South Sudan.
Liberia’s Justice Minister Natu Oswald Tweh said officials have vetted the list of deportees before their arrival and that &#8220;most of them are people who had immigration violations and offenses,&#8221; the AP reported.
The United States will provide aid to Liberia to help the country receive the deportees and improve its own immigration system, according to the AP.
“Liberia’s gesture is entirely humanitarian and in keeping with the country’s longstanding traditions,” Piah said. “The government of Liberia intends to provide the transferred persons with the necessary support to seek protection in Liberia and to be safe during their stay here.”
The Trump administration has sought to deport <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-admin-makes-new-legal-move-against-kilmar-abrego-garcia?author=Jennie+Taer&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=2&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Trump+Admin+Makes+New+Legal+Move+Against+Kilmar+Abrego+Garcia">Kilmar Abrego Garcia</a>, the alleged MS-13 gang member, to Liberia. Abrego Garcia was deported in error to his native El Salvador before the Trump administration brought him back to the United States on human smuggling charges.
Abrego Garcia, who is fighting a second deportation effort, has indicated he is unwilling to go to Liberia and has asked to be removed to Costa Rica, which has agreed to accept him.
This week, the Justice Department filed a request to appeal a federal judge&#8217;s dismissal of the human smuggling charges. The judge previously ruled that federal prosecutors’ motivation in the case was “vindictive.”

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The Trump administration is working to revive charges against Kilmar Abrego Garcia as it continues to fight for his deportation.
The Justice Department filed an appeal on Monday, asking a federal court to reinstate human smuggling charges against the alleged MS-13 gang member. In May, a federal judge in Tennessee dismissed the charges against Abrego Garcia, ruling that federal prosecutors&#8217; motivation in the case was “vindictive.”
In a statement on Monday, the Justice Department argued that the charges were justified and that the case must resume.
&#8220;The decision to seek an indictment against Abrego Garcia for human smuggling was made by career prosecutors based on the evidence, the law, and their firm belief that there is proof beyond a reasonable doubt that Abrego Garcia had committed the offenses charged,&#8221; the Justice Department said. &#8220;The indictment and prosecution of Abrego Garcia in the Middle District of Tennessee was not vindictive and the evidence before the district court established that it was not.&#8221;
&#8220;Instead, the evidence in the district court proved that charges were brought against Abrego Garcia because, in the view of career prosecutors, the evidence conclusively established that he had committed a serious crime, and not for any vindictive motive,&#8221; the DOJ added.
Abrego Garcia&#8217;s legal team <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/doj-asks-court-reinstate-charges-kilmar-abrego-garcia/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> CBS News that the Justice Department&#8217;s statement was &#8220;flat wrong,&#8221; arguing that &#8220;the indictment and prosecution of Abrego Garcia was, in fact, vindictive; the evidence before the district court established just that; and the proof was clear notwithstanding the DOJ&#8217;s refusal to call the actual decision makers, including AG [Todd] Blanche, to testify under oath.&#8221;
&#8220;This case was initiated vindictively and on instructions from the White House after our client successfully won his Supreme Court case,&#8221; his defense team said.
The Trump administration deported Abrego Garcia to his native country of El Salvador in March 2025, which officials later said was done out of an “administrative error.”
Federal authorities eventually brought him back to the United States that June on human smuggling charges stemming from a November 2022 Tennessee traffic stop, where state troopers observed him transporting eight individuals from Texas to Maryland.
Officers grew suspicious because the group had no luggage in the car despite being on the road for days. Law enforcement noted that the situation had the appearance of “a human trafficking incident.”
At the time, the officers let Abrego Garcia go with a citation for driving with an expired license.
Following his deportation, the Salvadoran national became the darling of many Democratic lawmakers opposing the Trump administration&#8217;s mass deportation campaign.
In a show of support for the alleged gang member, Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) traveled to El Salvador to meet Abrego Garcia before he was ultimately returned to the United States.
The federal government is also pushing for Abrego Garcia&#8217;s second deportation in a separate case. The Trump administration initially sought to deport Abrego Garcia to Liberia, but the effort was blocked by a federal judge.
In June, Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin indicated his willingness to deport Abrego Garcia to Costa Rica, which has indicated a willingness to accept him. Abrego Garcia has also agreed to go to Costa Rica.
Abrego Garcia entered the United States illegally in 2011 and was later identified by authorities in Maryland as an MS-13 member.
His wife, who has since become one of his fiercest advocates, accused him of beating her in two separate court filings.
Abrego Garcia previously pleaded not guilty to the now-dismissed charges.

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An Islamist illegal alien murderer was allowed to escape back to his home country thanks to Virginia officials, who failed to get a guilty verdict even after he admitted guilt, helped him get a foreign passport, and allowed him to leave the mental hospital on unsupervised visits.
In 2019, Abdulloi Toshpulodzoda stabbed his roommate Mohammed Hemmatian to death in their Vienna, Virginia home. He was found &#8220;covered in blood from head to toe,&#8221; and told police &#8220;I am guilty,&#8221; according to court records. Less than a decade later he&#8217;s escaped punishment and is back home in his native Tajikistan.
Court records show that Fairfax County was paying for an apartment for Toshpulodzoda to live in while on leave from his mental health facility. While on the 48-hour pass, and he bought a one-way ticket and fled to his country, which borders Afghanistan in Central Asia.
&#8220;On July 6, 2026, the Acquittee was permitted to leave [the Northern Virginia Mental Health Institute] on an approved forty-eight hour pass to an apartment made available through the Fairfax Permanent Supportive Housing Program,&#8221; the court documents obtained by The Daily Wire say. &#8220;He boarded an international flight at Washington Dulles International Airport and traveled to Istanbul, Turkey. He thereafter traveled to Dushanbe, Tajikistan.&#8221;
Although Toshpulodzoda admitted guilt for the murder, he was found not guilty by reason of insanity after his attorney said he was &#8220;fixated on religious topics and he was illogical and nonsensical.
&#8220;His brother would take him to a mosque for spiritual cleansing,&#8221; the lawyer said. &#8220;Unfortunately, his family did not assist Mr. Tospulodozoda with mental health treatment.&#8221;
A psychologist named Sahair Monfared was put in charge of evaluating the man &#8220;given the intertwining of Islam with Mr. Tospulodozoda&#8217;s delusions,&#8221; and he recommended that he be granted the not guilty ruling. Another independent psychologist hired by the prosecutor&#8217;s office agreed.
In October 2022, the not guilty by reason of insanity judgment was entered &#8220;with the concurrence of&#8221; the county prosecutor, Democrat Steve Descano, who won office with the financial backing of George Soros.
In May 2024, Descano teamed up with the murderer&#8217;s lawyer to ask the judge to give him &#8220;permission for an escorted visit&#8230; to the Tajikistan Embassy in Washington, D.C. to obtain a passport.&#8221;
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In 2025, the Fairfax County Community Services Board and Northern Virginia Mental Health Institute acknowledged that Toshpulodzoda was an illegal immigrant and murderer, but said &#8220;the Forensic Review Panel is of the opinion that Mr. Toshpulodzoda is an appropriate candidate for conditional release,&#8221; meaning being able to leave confinement for good. The &#8220;conditional release plan&#8221; was signed by Azure Baron, chair of the panel, and six other officials.
On June 11, 2026, Judge Stephen Shannon blocked the permanent release, writing that &#8220;the Acquittee remained mentally ill and in need of inpatient hospitalization&#8221; and &#8220;shall not be released from custody and inpatient hospitalization without further order of this Court.&#8221;
Descano opposed the release. The judge&#8217;s reasons for blocking release included shielding the murderer from deportation, with court records saying the &#8220;Acquittee will not receive treatment if deported.&#8221;
Just days later on June 25, the mental hospital, which is operated by the Virginia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, authorized him for one of his &#8220;unaccompanied community visits not exceeding forty-eight hours,&#8221; which they had permitted since 2024, and which prosecutors said did not conflict with the ruling. The Department did not return a request for comment.
Descano&#8217;s chief of staff, Laura Birnbaum, told The Daily Wire that the prosecutor&#8217;s office helped him get a passport &#8220;for documentary purposes,&#8221; and that the not-guilty ruling &#8220;is made by a judge after reviews from multiple independent clinicians.&#8221;
&#8220;We have opposed his release specifically because of community concerns,&#8221; she said. Asked if Descano believed he should be deported, she said &#8220;our goal is to make sure people are not harmed wherever he ends up,&#8221; suggesting that deporting him would place a murderer on the loose in another country.
She declined to say whether Descano opposes mental hospitals allowing murders 48-hour passes that cause them to live in the Virginia community. She said those decisions are up to the mental health department.
However, a similar case in neighboring Loudoun County contradicts that. When the mental hospital proposed granting 16 hour unsupervised visits to Melvin Wasike, who similarly stabbed someone to death, Republican prosecutor Bob Anderson publicly objected and contacted the hospital, which reversed its decision.
Descano has asked the judge for a &#8220;judicial capias&#8221; so Toshpulodzoda &#8220;may be apprehended and detained if he presents at any United States port of entry or is otherwise located within the United States.&#8221; The filing makes no mention of attempting to locate him abroad.
Since 2021, 15 murderers in Fairfax County, nine of them with foreign names, have been ruled not guilty by reason of insanity or not competent to stand trial, according to data compiled by Virginians for Safe Communities.
Descano is under investigation by the federal government after his campaign platform said he would help illegal immigrants avoid &#8220;immigration consequences.&#8221; The federal government and Republicans in Congress said that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-county-d-a-handing-out-get-out-of-jail-free-cards">amounted to discrimination</a>. Descano denied implementing his campaign promise, but a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fairfax-prosecutor-broke-law-by-treating-illegals-more-favorably-ag-alleges">long list of cases</a> show Descano repeatedly declining or dropping egregious charges against illegal immigrants.
A large portion of the murders in Fairfax have come at the hands of illegals, such as Sierra Leone national <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/illegal-immigrant-accused-of-another-brutal-virginia-murder">Abdul Jalloh</a>, 32, who had 30 prior arrests – almost all dropped by Descano – before he allegedly murdered Stephanie Minter at a Fairfax County bus stop, and Salvadoran migrant Marvin Morales-Ortez, 23, who allegedly fatally shot a man a day after authorities released him from jail and ignored a federal immigration detainer.
Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger has declined to hand illegal immigrant murderers over to federal immigration authorities.

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Boston Democratic Mayor Michelle Wu wants to expose property owners looking to lease parking spots to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in her sanctuary city.
The federal immigration enforcement agency recently posted about its search for property owners across the country &#8220;capable of providing surface and/or structured vehicle parking spaces in the vicinity of existing or planned ICE facilities,&#8221; <a href="https://www.bostonherald.com/2026/08/17/wu-plans-foia-to-id-property-owners-interested-in-leasing-to-ice/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the Boston Herald. In Boston, ICE is looking for 249 contiguous parking spaces.
In an interview Sunday, Wu <a href="https://www.wcvb.com/article/boston-mayor-michelle-wu-goes-on-the-record-about-ice-public-safety/73439272" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> her office will file public records requests to see which private property owners have expressed interest in leasing to ICE, in hopes of contacting them.
&#8220;We as a city will be filing another FOIA request for any responses that have come in from the Boston area so that we know what information they may be sifting through,&#8221; Wu said. &#8220;We strongly oppose any expansion of their efforts here and would encourage and will be reaching out to property owners to try to make sure that they&#8217;re not adding to a surge of unlawful and dangerous activity.&#8221;
The mayor acknowledged that the city &#8220;can’t block private property [owners],&#8221; but said that officials can inform them that &#8220;this is not a way to make our community safer.&#8221;
&#8220;We look to find as much information as possible about what their plans are, what information they might be looking at in order to have the best possible response and protect our communities,&#8221; Wu said.
Wu cited recent ICE activity, including a recent operation in Maine that resulted in an officer fatally shooting a migrant, for her decision to inquire with the federal government.
&#8220;Unfortunately, we already have proof of what happens when they conduct a surge operation,&#8221; she said. &#8220;We&#8217;ve seen it in other cities, we&#8217;ve seen it to some extent in the greater Boston-Massachusetts Commonwealth area.&#8221;
&#8220;But we don&#8217;t have to look that far up to Maine, to the Twin Cities to see what happens and the life or death consequences when they take officers who are untrained and given a directive that is very far from protecting the public,&#8221; Wu said.
Boston has &#8220;already done everything possible&#8221; to stop ICE from accessing public property, the mayor said, adding that the city &#8220;will be doing whatever we can to communicate with private property owners.&#8221;
The Department of Homeland Security responded to Wu&#8217;s plan Monday, saying the &#8220;pro-criminal mayor&#8221; is &#8220;trying to intimidate Bostonians,&#8221; knowing &#8220;she has ZERO authority to block ICE from utilizing private property.&#8221;
&#8220;If PRIVATE citizens want to allow federal law enforcement onto their OWN property, they should be allowed to do so,&#8221; the agency wrote on X. &#8220;They should not face threats from their radical mayor who shamelessly compared ICE agents to a neo-Nazi group.&#8221;

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The man behind the federal government&#8217;s comprehensive immigration data recently resigned from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and his former colleagues believe it&#8217;s part of a push to reduce transparency.
Last month, Marc Rosenblum announced his departure on LinkedIn after serving for more than a decade as the department&#8217;s head statistician.
Trump administration officials blocked Rosenblum, who said he was leaving an &#8220;often hostile work environment,&#8221; from publishing monthly data, The Atlantic <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/08/trump-dhs-deportation-data-ice/688220/?gift=SCYx-5scVta3-cr_IlgTyaEFRlkH1IOppDzGq2xcz9E" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> on Monday. The <a href="https://ohss.dhs.gov/topics/immigration/immigration-enforcement/monthly-tables" target="_blank" rel="noopener">data</a> that remains ends in 2024.
Trump officials continue to tout that they&#8217;re running &#8220;the most transparent Administration in history,&#8221; but the lack of timely immigration data has led even conservative immigration hawks to push back.
The Oversight Project, a nonprofit group advocating for a &#8220;mass deportation,&#8221; sued the Trump administration for failing to respond to outstanding Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests for deportation data and has even floated that the public numbers are being inflated.
DHS says &#8220;more than 3 million illegal aliens have left&#8221; the country during &#8220;Trump&#8217;s first year back in office.&#8221; The department estimates that 2.2 million of them self-deported.
According to agency statistics, ICE carried out roughly 300,000 deportations in the first year of Trump&#8217;s latest term, falling short of his lofty goal of carrying out one million removals each year.
Rosenblum formed the Office of Homeland Security Statistics (OHSS) in 2023 with the support of officials across the political spectrum to provide more comprehensive numbers.
&#8220;I’m sad to suspend my career in public service and leave my amazing team,&#8221; Rosenblum wrote in his LinkedIn post. &#8220;My OHSS co-workers are outstanding career federal civil servants. They are smart, mission-focused experts who produce high-quality results in a challenging and often hostile work environment.&#8221;
&#8220;I’ve partnered with hundreds of other fabulous feds over the last decade. I worked side by side with strong, mission-driven contract teams,&#8221; he wrote.
The ex-DHS official went on to express concern with the Trump administration&#8217;s positions.
&#8220;But it will come as no surprise that I’m thrilled to end my relationship with the current administration. Between the war on immigrants, the war on feds, and the war on facts (not to mention the crazy war in Iran and the brazen corruption), I just need a change,&#8221; he said.
Two of Rosenblum&#8217;s former colleagues at DHS who served under the Biden administration told The Daily Wire that the statistician was devoted to the facts no matter how unfavorable they were to the president and his agenda. One of the ex-officials also said Rosenblum&#8217;s comprehensive data helped DHS identify areas where policy changes were necessary.
&#8220;If you don&#8217;t have a commitment to actually looking at data, then at the end of the day, you&#8217;re just gonna lose credibility, your decisions are gonna be based on just wins, and you&#8217;re not gonna be able to be successful. And if we&#8217;re gonna be actually transparent and accountable to the taxpayers you need data,&#8221; the ex-fed said.
The source continued: &#8220;And Marc was one of those people whose commitment was just to the work. I didn&#8217;t know what his political inclinations were at all the entire time I worked with him because many times the data that he wanted to publish didn&#8217;t look great for us (during the Biden administration).&#8221;
Another former Biden DHS official echoed that Rosenblum never showed any partisan leanings and was solely &#8220;a data guy.&#8221;
&#8220;He was able to get all the data points across the entire department and put them in an easy to understand platform. He can pull CBP [Customs and Border Protection] data to show that most of the fentanyl that was arriving into this country was coming from the northern border and talk about Coast Guard actions in the high seas, like apprehending Cubans and Haitians,&#8221; the ex-official said.
&#8220;He would also be able to determine which populations were being targeted by ERO [Enforcement and Removal Operations] and what rate. How many individual screenings at airports across the country. Just generally did the job of pulling all the data for department leaders, the White House, the press, and the public,&#8221; they added.
But it&#8217;s not just former Biden administration officials throwing support behind Rosenblum. His LinkedIn post also garnered a comment from Trump&#8217;s recently departed acting ICE director, Todd Lyons, who wrote that &#8220;it was great to work with you&#8221; while wishing him &#8220;luck with the next chapter!&#8221;
Rosenblum declined to comment on the reasoning for his departure.
In a statement to The Daily Wire, a DHS spokesperson said &#8220;people are always welcome to their opinion,&#8221; adding, &#8220;that doesn&#8217;t make it right or factual.&#8221;
&#8220;We will not comment on personal decisions,&#8221; the spokesperson said.

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The Department of Justice charged 11 people in a massive immigration fraud scheme that authorities say facilitated roughly 1,000 sham marriages, mainly between Chinese nationals and American citizens seeking to help them obtain legal immigration status.
Ten out of the 11 defendants in the case were arrested Wednesday morning for their roles in orchestrating the fraudulent marriages between 2016 and July 2026, the Justice Department <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/11-defendants-charged-dismantling-decade-long-nationwide-marriage-fraud-scheme">said</a>. According to prosecutors, the group created a multimillion-dollar network that operated in New York City, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, Florida, Vanuatu, and China.
Attorney General Todd Blanche described the case Wednesday as one of the largest marriage fraud prosecutions in U.S. history, saying it exposes &#8220;how far these people will go to cheat our immigration system.&#8221;
&#8220;Gaining American citizenship and legal status to reside in this great nation is a sacred privilege, and we will ensure it is always done in accordance with the law protecting our communities and national security,&#8221; he said. &#8220;These schemes have real costs. They rob our country of its ability to know who should be and should not be allowed in America.&#8221;
Prosecutors say the defendants built a network involving attorneys, tax preparers, and wedding officiants to help foreign nationals obtain green cards before later assisting the couples with divorces.
The scheme charged foreign nationals as much as $100,000 for its services while paying U.S. citizens as much as $30,000 to marry them, according to the Justice Department. Recruiters allegedly used social media posts advertising immigration services to lure clients while tracking down Americans willing to participate in the marriages.
After arranging the ceremonies, the accused staged family photos &#8220;to create the appearance of a legitimate wedding,&#8221; Blanche said.
The photos, along with joint accounts the group helped the couples open, were used in their green card applications.
The operation extended overseas, including to China, where an office tied to the scheme assisted with U.S. immigration paperwork and prenuptial agreements. In one instance, a prenuptial agreement stated that the couple lived separately &#8220;and must not interfere with each other,&#8221; Blanche said.
The Justice Department has directed federal prosecutors to prioritize denaturalization cases against naturalized citizens who obtained their citizenship through fraud, Blanche said. More than 120 such complaints have been filed since President Donald Trump&#8217;s return to the White House.
&#8220;Not only are we protecting our physical borders from unlawful crossings, but we&#8217;re also preventing immigration fraud schemes that are just another way to skirt the immigration laws of the United States,&#8221; Blanche said.
&#8220;Our efforts to protect our immigration system and our country&#8217;s borders are aggressive and exhaustive. No matter how complicated the scam, we will do everything in our power to stop it,&#8221; he said.
Federal authorities charged Amy Cheng, 72, of Brooklyn, New York, Xiao Mei Chan, 64, of Queens, New York, Christine Lu, 52, of Queens, New York, Jing Yan Ye, 43, of Staten Island, New York, Xiao Yan Chen, 48, of Brooklyn, New York, Gang Zheng, 61, of Queens, New York, Anthony Cheng, 47, of Staten Island, New York, Michelle Duenas, 35, of Staten Island, New York, Angela Duenas, 26, of Staten Island, New York, Sigrid Cetino, 32, of Peekskill, New York, and Erika Johnson, 43, of Ossining, New York.
Each defendant faces one count of conspiracy to commit marriage fraud and immigration document fraud, which could lead to a maximum sentence of five years behind bars, and one count of conspiracy to encourage the unlawful residence of aliens in the United States, which carries a maximum sentence of 10 years.

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Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents could soon take to the streets equipped with gloves that deliver painful electric shocks to combative arrest targets.
The federal government plans to spend up to $20 million on thousands of &#8220;conductive distraction and de-escalation devices&#8221; by March, <a href="https://apnews.com/article/ice-electric-shock-gloves-85ff746d3e0ee5f39e7a9a3f1f576252" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the Associated Press and a Monday Department of Homeland Security (DHS) <a href="https://apfs-cloud.dhs.gov/record/74524/public-print/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">notice</a>.
The technology, known as G.L.O.V.E., or Generated Low Output Voltage Emitter, has been used by other law enforcement agencies across the country to control violent suspects inside jails and in the field.
It comes as sources within ICE have described an uptick in violence by the individuals they&#8217;re trying to arrest. Since the Trump administration commenced its mass deportation campaign, ICE agents have faced a 1,300% surge in assaults and a 3,300% increase in vehicular attacks, according to DHS.
One agency source told The Daily Wire the new technology could serve as a useful deterrent during arrests.
&#8220;I think if people knew we had those it would definitely keep people from pushing and getting in our faces,&#8221; the source said.
The company behind the product, Kentucky-based Compliant Technologies LLC, says the gloves are &#8220;not a weapon, but a device used to quickly distract with small uncomfortable electrical pulses&#8221; when making contact with skin.
&#8220;The discomfort associated with the stimulation is usually effective in bringing individuals into compliance in less than three seconds and leaves no burns, marks or scars,&#8221; Compliant Technologies states on its website.
&#8220;The technology is safe as it does not penetrate the subject&#8217;s body; while also allowing other officers to grab the individual being stimulated with no fear of feedback into their bodies. CD3 technology is a great, humane, low-optics, de-escalation solution for many situations facing our men and women in uniform today,&#8221; the company says.
The shocks can&#8217;t pass through clothing, hair, metal, plastic, or fur, according to the company.
Agents must complete a training course before using the gloves and get re-certified to operate them every two years, <a href="https://www.complianttechnologies.net/terms-and-conditions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to Compliant Technologies&#8217; website.
A contract solicitation for the proposed rollout is expected to be published on Friday, according to the DHS notice.

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An illegal immigrant released into the country under the Biden administration has been charged with fatally stabbing his roommate with a machete, The Daily Wire has learned.
Edy Rivas Rizo, a 27-year-old Nicaraguan national, allegedly attacked his roommate at a mobile home park in Hallandale Beach, Florida, around 1:15 p.m on August 2, <a href="https://www.local10.com/news/local/2026/08/03/that-guy-just-killed-me-were-victims-last-words-after-fatal-hallandale-beach-stabbing-cops-say/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to Local 10 News. Surveillance video allegedly showed Rivas chasing the victim, stabbing him in the armpit area, and fighting with him on the ground.
A witness told police that moments before the victim collapsed, he pointed toward Rivas and uttered his final words: “That guy just killed me.&#8221;
In a statement shared with The Daily Wire, Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said the victim &#8220;would still be alive if it weren’t for the Biden administration releasing him into the country.&#8221;
Rivas illegally crossed the southern border into California in April 2022 and was released into the United States by border agents, according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has since lodged a detainer with officials in Broward County to ensure the suspect isn&#8217;t released onto the streets.
&#8220;We will work with our partners in Florida to make sure this killer is removed from our country. Deporting illegal aliens saves lives,&#8221; Mullin said.
Police and surveillance footage showed Rivas and the victim fighting on the ground after the stabbing before two witnesses managed to take the machete away from Rivas. The victim then walked roughly 15 yards before collapsing, according to Local 10 News.
One of the witnesses called 911, and first responders transported the victim to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Police later searched Rivas&#8217; home and found &#8220;a large amount of blood&#8221; as well as the machete wedged between two doors in a storage area, according to the arrest report cited by Local 10 News.
Rivas told law enforcement that the victim had attacked him while he was drinking beer outside with two other men and that he went inside to retrieve the machete because he felt his life was in danger. He claimed that during the ensuing struggle, the victim &#8220;accidentally fell on the blade.&#8221;
The illegal immigrant initially denied chasing the victim, according to police, but changed his account after being shown the surveillance footage. Police said Rivas then admitted chasing the victim but claimed that he intended to strike him with the broad side of the machete rather than its sharp edge.
Authorities arrested Rivas and charged him with first-degree murder. He is being held without bond at the Broward County Main Jail.
ICE lodged the detainer with the jail on August 3, according to DHS.

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