Despite warnings from Democratic lawmakers that deploying Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers to airports could lead to violence, travelers waiting in hours-long lines at Houston&#8217;s George Bush Intercontinental Airport appeared to welcome their presence on Tuesday.
At the airport, smiling ICE officers were seen handing out water bottles, offering to hold travelers&#8217; places in line for bathroom breaks, and providing some comedic relief, The Daily Wire observed.
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Contrary to the narrative in corporate media, many travelers at Houston’s IAH airport appear to be welcoming ICE’s presence—officers are handing out water and even holding spots in line so people can take bathroom breaks. <a href="https://t.co/Z2AzY0zW0B">pic.twitter.com/Z2AzY0zW0B</a>
— Jennie Taer (@JennieSTaer) <a href="https://twitter.com/JennieSTaer/status/2036471897748025698?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 24, 2026</a></blockquote>
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President Donald Trump announced Sunday that ICE would be deployed to some airports to assist staffing shortages affecting the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) during the ongoing partial government shutdown.
More than 3,450 TSA officers, roughly 11.76% of the force, called out of work Sunday, <a href="https://www.newsnationnow.com/travel/precheck-clear-airport-wait-times/#:~:text=TSA%20staffing%20shortages%20hit%20major,an%20impasse%20over%20DHS%20funding." target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to NewsNation. At George Bush Airport in Houston, the absentee rate reached approximately 36%, Fox News reported. Additionally, more than 450 TSA officers have quit since the shutdown began in mid-February.
Several Democratic lawmakers had suggested that ICE would escalate tensions at America&#8217;s airports. Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) <a href="https://x.com/SenBlumenthal/status/2035754555963568626?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claimed</a> ICE agents would &#8220;only aggravate delays &amp; lines — disrupting checks, interrogating travelers, dragging parents from children, detaining citizens, brutalizing families, shooting &amp; even killing.&#8221; House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5795350-jeffries-criticizes-trump-ice-tsa-airports/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> the &#8220;untrained ICE agents&#8221; could &#8220;potentially &#8230; brutalize or in some instances&#8221; kill American travelers.
A video that circulated online appeared to show ICE officers tackling a woman at San Francisco International Airport, prompting additional criticism. But Trump did not deploy ICE to that airport, and the Department of Homeland Security said the footage was dated. It involved a Guatemalan family with an outstanding deportation order from 2019.
At Bush Airport, however, The Daily Wire observed that the interactions between ICE agents and passengers were largely positive, with some shaking hands and expressing appreciation as they waited in long screening lines.
Some travelers said they expected to miss their flights, while others were attempting to travel again after being unable to get through security the previous day.
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Houston traveler shakes an ICE officer’s hand and thanks him for his service. <a href="https://t.co/kk1DyKwS2X">pic.twitter.com/kk1DyKwS2X</a>
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In response to The Daily Wire&#8217;s footage of the friendly ICE airport scenes, Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) wrote on X that &#8220;Democrats want you to believe that ICE officers are monsters,&#8221; adding, &#8220;But in reality, they stepped up when Democrats wouldn’t do THEIR job and pay TSA Agents.&#8221;
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) called out the &#8220;radicals on the left&#8221; who have &#8220;demonized&#8221; ICE, saying, &#8220;the truth is they are hard-working Americans doing a job like you and me.&#8221;
ICE deployed to more than a dozen airports starting Monday, according to Reuters.
It appears they were only met with anti-ICE demonstrators at Atlanta&#8217;s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, where roughly 60 protesters shouted &#8220;ICE OUT&#8221; and &#8220;TRUMP PAY TSA WORKERS NOW,&#8221; <a href="https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/protestors-gather-outside-atlanta-airport-over-ice-deployment">according</a> to Fox5 Atlanta.

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PALM BEACH — President Donald Trump threatened on Saturday to move Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents &#8220;to the airports&#8221; unless Democrats quickly come to an agreement to fund the Department of Homeland Security.
The president spoke up in a Truth Social post Saturday in Palm Beach, where he spent the morning golfing. His threat comes as more than 300 TSA officers have quit their jobs, according to <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tsa-absences-double-shutdown-300-quit-airport-security-lines/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CBS News</a>, and while TSA officers have begun calling out at increasing rates, causing long security lines across the nation.
&#8220;The Radical Left Democrats have hurt so many people with their vicious and uncaring ways. What they have done to the Department of Homeland Security, our fantastic TSA Officers, and, most importantly, the great people of our Country, is an absolute disgrace. If the Democrats do not allow for Just and Proper Security at our Airports, and elsewhere throughout our Country, ICE will do the job far better than ever done before!&#8221; the president <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116268396341038197">began</a>, later adding, &#8220;I look forward to moving ICE in on Monday, and have already told them to, &#8216;GET READY.'&#8221;
&#8220;If the Radical Left Democrats don’t immediately sign an agreement to let our Country, in particular, our Airports, be FREE and SAFE again, I will move our brilliant and patriotic ICE Agents to the Airports where they will do Security like no one has ever seen before,&#8221; vowed Trump in an earlier Truth Social post.
ICE&#8217;s work would include, according to the president, &#8220;the immediate arrest of all Illegal Immigrants who have come into our Country, with heavy emphasis on those from Somalia, who have totally destroyed, with the approval of a corrupt Governor, Attorney General, and Congresswoman, Ilhan Omar, the once Great State of Minnesota.&#8221;
<div id="attachment_1063659" style="width: 1034px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-threatens-to-deploy-ice-to-airports-if-democrats-wont-fund-dhs/unpaid-tsa-officers-cause-lengthy-security-lines-at-newark-airport" rel="attachment wp-att-1063659"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1063659" class="wp-image-1063659 size-full" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/03/GettyImages-2267244797.jpg" alt="" width="1024" height="683" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/03/GettyImages-2267244797.jpg 1024w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/03/GettyImages-2267244797-300x200.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/03/GettyImages-2267244797-864x576.jpg 864w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/03/GettyImages-2267244797-768x512.jpg 768w" sizes=" (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /></a>Travelers wait in long security lines at Newark Liberty International Airport as Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers work without pay during a busy travel weekend on March 21, 2026. (Photo by Lokman Vural Elibol/Anadolu via Getty Images)</div>
&#8220;I look forward to seeing ICE in action at our Airports,&#8221; the president concluded.
Early Saturday morning, billionaire Elon Musk <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elon-musk-offers-to-pay-tsa-salaries-as-dhs-shutdown-drags-on?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Drew+Berkemeyer&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=3&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=Elon+Musk+Offers+To+Pay+TSA+Salaries+As+DHS+Shutdown+Drags+On">offered</a> to personally cover the salaries of the TSA agents who are working without pay due to the shutdown.
“I would like to offer to pay the salaries of TSA personnel during this funding impasse that is negatively affecting the lives of so many Americans at airports throughout the country,” Musk said Saturday.
The White House didn&#8217;t immediately respond to a request for comment on the topic.
As the shutdown continues, officers are reporting that they are struggling to cover basic expenses, including rent and childcare, according to the Department of Homeland Security. One TSA officer faces eviction after missing his first full paycheck, and another, who is a cancer patient, is unable to keep up with insurance copays.
Some TSA officers are even sleeping in their cars at the airport, The Daily Wire has learned, in order to save on gas money and other costs while they continue to work without pay.
The surge in unscheduled absences is due in part to TSA officers taking second jobs to make ends meet, DHS shared. Many workers had not yet recovered from the last two shutdowns, since this is the third shutdown they have faced during the past 15 months.

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President Donald Trump has tapped Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) to serve as his next Secretary of Homeland Security, but the question remains: can he salvage the agency&#8217;s reputation and its mass deportation effort?
Leading up to the firing of outgoing Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, the department faced backlash for its handling of immigration sweeps across major cities. In Minneapolis, it all came to a head after the fatal shootings of anti-ICE activists Renee Good and Alex Pretti by federal immigration agents.
At the time, Noem tagged Good and Pretti as domestic terrorists, drawing backlash from both sides of the aisle for getting ahead of federal probes.
In an attempt to clean up the situation, Trump sent his border czar, Tom Homan, into the Twin Cities to change the course of immigration raids and to quell chaos in the streets. In doing so, Trump replaced Noem ally Gregory Bovino, of Border Patrol, who was known for his aggressive tactics of carrying out roving patrols.
Homan changed all that, putting the focus on nabbing the worst criminals first.
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Asked how Noem and Mullin differ, Homan says Mullin “doesn’t know the immigration game very well,” but is relying on “people with 30, 40 years of experience to guide him,” adding: “That’s the way it should be.” <a href="https://t.co/x7QQkHDEH2">pic.twitter.com/x7QQkHDEH2</a>
— Jennie Taer (@JennieSTaer) <a href="https://twitter.com/JennieSTaer/status/2034364253470183456?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 18, 2026</a></blockquote>
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On Wednesday, Fox News host Martha MacCallum asked Homan how <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rand-paul-confronts-mullin-over-anger-issues-after-freaking-snake-jab?author=Jennie+Taer&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=1&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Rand+Paul+Confronts+Mullin+Over+%E2%80%98Anger+Issues%E2%80%99+After+%E2%80%98Freaking+Snake%E2%80%99+Jab">Mullin</a> would differ from Noem as secretary.
The former Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) director said that while Mullin “doesn’t know the immigration game very well,” he&#8217;s relying on “people with 30, 40 years of experience to guide him,” adding: “That’s the way it should be.”
Mullin faced a grilling from the Senate Homeland Security Committee on Wednesday, where he was asked about how he would  &#8220;reform&#8221; ICE. The Oklahoma lawmaker admitted that there&#8217;s a need for &#8220;a better approach,&#8221; adding, &#8220;I would love to see ICE become a transport more than the frontline.&#8221;
&#8220;If we can get back into just simply working with law enforcement, we&#8217;re going to them and we&#8217;re picking up these criminals from their jail. One, we&#8217;re gonna reimburse them for having the person there and that partnership is vitally important,&#8221; he said.
During a recent hearing, Noem defended DHS&#8217; use of &#8220;administrative immigration warrants,&#8221; which aren&#8217;t signed by a judge, to enter homes. She said they&#8217;ve only been used to enter homes in 28 instances.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pressed-at-dhs-hearing-markwayne-mullin-walks-back-deranged-comment-about-alex-pretti?author=Jennie+Taer&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=2&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Pressed+At+DHS+Hearing%2C+Markwayne+Mullin+Walks+Back+%E2%80%98Deranged%E2%80%99+Comment+About+Alex+Pretti">Mullin</a> suggested that would change.
&#8220;We will not enter a home or a place of business without a judicial warrant, unless we&#8217;re pursuing the individual that runs into a place of business or a house,&#8221; Mullin said during Wednesday&#8217;s hearing.
When it comes to sanctuary cities, Mullin indicated that his approach would involve holding discussions with their leaders to find common ground. When Trump sent Homan into Minneapolis, he changed Noem&#8217;s approach to pressuring sanctuary cities from the vantage point of television appearances and instead sat down with local sheriffs brokering deals that promoted better cooperation with ICE.
Homan&#8217;s actions led to a drawdown of thousands of Homeland Security agents deployed to Minneapolis.
&#8220;If they&#8217;re not willing to enforce federal law and work with us, then where&#8217;s the taxpayer dollars going to?&#8221; Mullin said.
&#8220;And ideally, I would like to go in there and talk to the mayors. I&#8217;d like to go in there and talk to the sheriffs, talk to the police chiefs, say what is your concerns, how can we get past this? Because the president has made it very clear, he wants to protect the streets for every American. He wants to restore law and order to every city. I don&#8217;t think that should be controversial,&#8221; he said.
&#8220;So maybe we sit down and we just work it out,&#8221; Mullin said, adding, &#8220;If we have to do something different, then we will, but that&#8217;s where I&#8217;m going to start at.&#8221;
Asked if he would withhold federal funding from sanctuary cities and states, Mullin signaled it &#8220;would be a last option,&#8221; adding that &#8220;at the end of the day, taxpayer dollars have to be used for the right purposes and if people are refusing to enforce the nation&#8217;s laws, then I think it&#8217;s really hard to justify why we&#8217;re sending them taxpayer dollars.&#8221;
&#8220;That is not going to be my first or second or even third approach, but that would be my last resort,&#8221; Mullin said.
Noem&#8217;s firing came after she blamed Trump for questionable $200 million TV ad contracts that promoted deportations and border security.
Hours before ousting Noem, Trump told Reuters that he had no knowledge of the expensive contracts.
Noem testified during a heated Congressional hearing that the contracts “went out to a competitive bid and career officials at the department chose who would do those advertising commercials.”
The contracts were awarded using “other than full and open competition” to a company formed days before, according to records recently obtained by The Daily Wire. That company then subcontracted the work to an organization headed by the husband of Noem’s former spokeswoman.
It now appears that Mullin wants to salvage the reputation of the department in the wake of Noem&#8217;s missteps.
&#8220;I hope that I&#8217;m not on the news six months from now every day,&#8221; Mullin said during Wednesday&#8217;s hearing.
&#8220;I hope DHS is just able to be laser focused on doing their job and it isn&#8217;t controversial about taking care of the homeland. I hope people have confidence in our agency again and I&#8217;m going to work every day to restore that,&#8221; Mullin said.
Mullin&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mullin-dhs-nomination-clears-committee-after-democrat-breaks-ranks?author=Jennie+Taer&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Mullin+DHS+Nomination+Clears+Committee+After+Democrat+Breaks+Ranks">nomination</a> passed a committee vote Thursday and is headed to the Senate floor.

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A small town in Georgia announced that it has cut off water to a planned federal immigration detention center.
The city of Social Circle, Georgia, said it placed a lock on the water meter connected to the warehouse that Immigration and Customs Enforcement recently purchased to detain more illegal immigrants, <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/atlanta/news/social-circle-planned-georgia-ice-detention-center-water-cut-off/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to CBS News. City officials notified ICE of the lock after the federal agency inquired about &#8220;how to establish an account.&#8221;
&#8220;The lock is there until ICE indicates how water and sewer will be served without exceeding our limited infrastructure capacity,&#8221; the city, which is home to roughly 5,500 residents, said in a statement, according to CBS News.
ICE purchased the facility with plans to house roughly 7,500 to 10,000 detainees, supported by a staff of 2,000 to 2,500, according to CBS News.
Since the city learned of ICE&#8217;s plans, local officials began sharing concerns about a potential strain on water usage, the news outlet reported.
&#8220;Our permit to draw water out of the river is 1 million gallons a day. Our sewer plant can process 660,000 gallons per day and is at capacity,&#8221; the city&#8217;s statement adds. &#8220;Their BLUF analysis indicates a daily water and sewer need that exceeds these amounts.&#8221;
But the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has asserted that the facility will be designed &#8220;to not affect the existing infrastructure adversely in any way.&#8221;
&#8220;The design currently includes on-site mitigation strategies for wastewater treatment. Additional contingencies are in place if required due to non-engineering circumstances,&#8221; an internal DHS document on the plans read, according to CBS News.
ICE has reportedly purchased warehouses across the country to expand its mass deportation effort and its capacity to hold more illegal immigrants.
The agency is spending hundreds of millions of dollars on the expansion thanks to the influx of cash from the One Big Beautiful bill, <a href="https://www.axios.com/2026/02/01/ice-detention-centers-jails-noem-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to Axios. The agency was holding roughly 70,000 detainees as of January.
In a statement to The Daily Wire, an ICE spokesperson slammed &#8220;elected officials who are intentionally trying to obstruct DHS law enforcement,&#8221; and &#8220;wasting law enforcement time, energy, and resources, while putting their own constituents in danger.&#8221;
&#8220;Under President Trump, ICE is building the infrastructure necessary to arrest, detain, and remove criminal illegal aliens from American streets. Sites undergo community impact studies and a rigorous due diligence process to make sure there is no hardship on local utilities or infrastructure prior to purchase,&#8221; the spokesperson said.
&#8220;Trying to prevent ICE from taking violent criminal illegal aliens off the streets and detaining them for removal goes to show who these &#8216;leaders&#8217; really stand with,&#8221; they added.
ICE hopes to increase its detention capacity to hold 92,600 illegal immigrants at a time, The Wall Street Journal <a href="https://www.wsj.com/us-news/ice-plans-38-billion-expansion-of-immigration-detention-facilities-e63926dd?gaa_at=eafs&amp;gaa_n=AWEtsqfDYqI973I1iFfEMBmaZMPl8hlYbNezc_D-yzv8T8SnQo4RSPkLHrxQQhwVdac%3D&amp;gaa_ts=69b9bd1b&amp;gaa_sig=5QOnrYlaLGtC1ReChACA25D687RZBl4NTJ6tl816GgUYIGyo3JsCsVEl-9hPbXV7EV41QVs1iL71q9114piZiw%3D%3D" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> last month.
“For ICE to sustain the anticipated increase in enforcement operations and arrests in 2026, an increase in detention capacity will be a necessary downstream requirement,” internal documents said, according to the outlet.

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A 19-year-old illegal immigrant is accused of groping multiple girls while attending a high school in Virginia — and the Trump administration is now pressuring sanctuary officials in the state against releasing the alleged predator.
Roughly a dozen girls reported that Israel Christopher Flores-Ortiz of El Salvador put his hands between their legs, groped their private areas, and moved his hands to their butts in the school&#8217;s hallways, <a href="https://wjla.com/news/local/illegal-immigrant-student-groping-girls-fairfax-county-high-school-assault-battery-crime" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to ABC 7. He has since been charged with nine counts of assault and battery.
“There&#8217;s a group of about 12 individuals that have reported this assault,” one mother told ABC7. “It was all perpetrated by a single individual who is a stranger to the girls. He just sneakily walked up behind them and put his hand in between their legs. It was not just a butt smack or a butt grab. It was a groping of a private area. It had been occurring for several months.”
Flores-Ortiz, an adult, is a junior at Fairfax High School, according to ABC 7. He crossed the border in 2024 and was subsequently released into the United States.
“This 19-year-old criminal illegal alien should NOT have been attending a Virginia high school and allowed to prey on innocent teenage girls. He now faces nine counts of assault and battery. This is yet another example of the Biden Administration’s failed open border policies,” Homeland Security Deputy Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis said in a statement Monday.
“We are calling on Fairfax County sanctuary politicians to NOT release this predator from jail back into our communities to assault more teenage women. Unfortunately, Governor Abigail Spanberger ended cooperation with ICE and is siding with criminal illegal aliens over American citizens.”
Spanberger&#8217;s office didn&#8217;t respond to a request for comment.
The Fairfax County Sheriff&#8217;s Office told The Daily Wire they don&#8217;t &#8220;obstruct or prevent ICE from acting on their civil detainers,&#8221; but didn&#8217;t say whether they&#8217;d notify federal immigration officers of any future release.
&#8220;While it is still too early in the process to know the outcome of his case, ICE has been notified of Ortiz’s location at the ADC [Adult Detention Center], and they are able to execute their detainer by responding to the ADC and taking Ortiz into custody if and when he is ordered released,&#8221; the sheriff&#8217;s office said.
Meanwhile, parents from the school have expressed outrage with what they describe as a cover-up of the gropings. The parents also said the school system told them they would allow the illegal immigrant to return to school upon his release.
“They have attempted to sweep it under the rug,” one mother told ABC7.
“They sent out a letter last night,&#8221; the mother said, adding, “But it was a completely sanitized letter.”
The school didn&#8217;t notify the parents of the gropings until two weeks after they were reported, ABC7 reported.
“After we demanded it, multiple parents demanded that there be a letter before we got it,” another mother said.
“The girls have experienced harassment and bullying from peers at school, including people that they once thought were their friends, and the letter that they sent out, referencing it only as buttocks touching, just adds fuel to rumors that they were just attention seeking,” one mother told ABC 7.
In a statement to ABC 7, Fairfax County Public Schools declined &#8220;to comment on specifics due to federal and state privacy laws,&#8221; adding &#8220;we prioritize student and staff safety and we fully investigate any time someone shares that an incident has occurred at school, or that they do not feel safe at school.&#8221;
&#8220;We are grateful to our law enforcement partners who continue to work swiftly and thoroughly when there are safety concerns in our schools. The safety of all FCPS students and staff remains a top priority,&#8221; the school system said.

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Feds Call Out Sanctuary Virginia After Illegal Immigrant Adult Groped Multiple Girls While At School

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Illegal immigrants have found a new way to get released from Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention centers, throwing a massive wrench into the Trump administration&#8217;s deportation plan.
Since President Donald Trump returned to the White House, illegal immigrants have filed more than 18,000 habeas petitions challenging their detention in federal courts, ProPublica <a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/habeas-petitions-immigrant-detentions-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> last month. It&#8217;s more than the number of such challenges filed over the last three administrations put together.
&#8220;It&#8217;s kind of a perfect storm,&#8221; Scott Mechkowski, former ICE deputy field office director in New York, told The Daily Wire. &#8220;You have increased enforcement, increased mandatory detention, and an increased perception of judicial bias that&#8217;s driving the habeas rates out the window.&#8221;
In Arizona, United States Attorney Timothy Courchaine said his office went from receiving 10 habeas petitions in immigration cases to &#8220;nearly a thousand&#8221; since Trump returned to the White House. Border states like Arizona are inundated right now because they have a larger share of illegal immigrants in ICE detention.
&#8220;It is definitely a new trend &#8230; Now, those aren&#8217;t all just the bond hearings, but that&#8217;s the vast, vast, vast majority,&#8221; Courchaine told The Daily Wire.
&#8220;In most of them, they are [granting bond] &#8230; so we&#8217;ve been losing almost all of these and the folks will be released,&#8221; he added.
The habeas petitions move detainees&#8217; cases out of the immigration court system and into the district court docket, where judges have &#8220;a lot more remedies to give them than an immigration judge,&#8221; Courchaine said.
&#8220;They can get a whole lot more relief than they would ever be due in immigration court,&#8221; he said, adding that &#8220;district court judges &#8230; have their own ways of running their courts, and they can issue their own orders.&#8221;
Mechkowski described district courts as &#8220;favorable&#8221; venues for illegal immigrants &#8220;because &#8230; they don&#8217;t necessarily understand immigration law.&#8221;
It also buys illegal immigrants more time in the United States, according to Mechkowski.
&#8220;In a detained hearing, you usually get a hearing within a month or two and in a non-detained setting in New York, we were scheduling hearings out four years. So that&#8217;s why they fight tooth and nail to get out of a detained docket and to get on a non-detained docket because it buys them years of time before their hearing comes up,&#8221; Mechkowski said.
&#8220;And in those years, you can accrue all kinds of equities that influence your court proceedings,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;You can have kids, you can clean your record &#8230; you can put four years between you and a crime.&#8221;
Dallas-based attorney Dan Gividen has shifted his practice from fighting removal cases before immigration judges to solely arguing for his clients&#8217; release in district courts.
Roughly 40% of new habeas cases are being filed in Texas, <a href="https://www.aila.org/library/ice-memo-interim-guidance-regarding-detention-authority-for-applications-for-admission" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to ProPublica.
Since Gividen began his practice in 2019, he had roughly &#8220;three or four&#8221; habeas cases, he told The Daily Wire. Since July, he&#8217;s had &#8220;close to 100.&#8221;
Gividen said the tactic &#8220;has been absolutely successful&#8221; in freeing his clients from ICE detention centers &#8220;particularly in places like the Western District of Texas, the Southern District of Texas &#8230; in Oklahoma and New Mexico, Colorado.&#8221;
&#8220;We&#8217;re having constant success in those cases. It&#8217;s literally the only way to get someone out of ICE detention it feels like these days,&#8221; Gividen, who previously served as ICE&#8217;s assistant chief counsel, said.
Immigration lawyers often file habeas petitions after it becomes clear their clients either have no chance of getting bond from immigration judges or have been denied a bond already.
In doing so, they&#8217;re taking &#8220;two bites of the apple,&#8221; Mechkowski said, adding &#8220;because you essentially have the immigration judges already rendered that that person&#8217;s on bond eligible or not going to give them a bond.&#8221;
&#8220;And so it gives them a second bite to ask a different judicial body to release them,&#8221; he said, adding that he&#8217;s often fighting for the release of his clients who are &#8220;not a danger&#8221; or &#8220;flight risk,&#8221; but who nevertheless don&#8217;t have &#8220;a snowball&#8217;s chance in hell&#8221; to make bond.
Gividen said there was one federal judge who did not grant their habeas petitions, so he has looked to other jurisdictions to fight for his clients&#8217; release.
Mechkowski said the&#8221;forum shop&#8221; is all too common in such cases.
Courchaine described the surge in habeas petitions as a &#8220;systemic burden&#8221; on his office, which has been forced to divert criminal prosecutors to work habeas immigration cases.
&#8220;We&#8217;ve had to pull criminal prosecutors off of their caseloads and put them into civil [cases]. We&#8217;ve had to shift around criminal prosecutors&#8217; workloads and investigations, so they could take this on. Even my criminal chief, who&#8217;s in charge of more than 60 federal prosecutors up in Phoenix, Arizona, has had to volunteer to take cases,&#8221; Courchaine said.
The same goes for Minnesota, where a government attorney was recently let go after candidly ranting to a federal judge that &#8220;the system sucks, this job sucks,&#8221; <a href="https://apnews.com/article/julie-le-job-sucks-minnesota-dhs-ice-b0affbb6c394c39184a813c8f597d5a2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the Associated Press. The lawyer was reportedly brought in to help with the influx of habeas petitions.
A Justice Department spokesman said &#8220;there wouldn&#8217;t be an &#8216;overwhelming&#8217; habeas caseload&#8221; &#8220;if rogue judges followed the law in adjudicating cases and respected the government’s obligation to properly prepare cases.&#8221;
The Trump administration ordered federal immigration authorities to institute a policy of mandatory detention &#8220;for the duration of their removal proceedings&#8221; and to deny bond hearings to illegal immigrants in July.
&#8220;They made millions of people mandatory detention, which is not how we ever operated &#8230; and I think that&#8217;s driving a lot of this in addition to criminal alien enforcement,&#8221; Mechkowski said.
Last month, the United States Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit handed the Trump administration a victory in a challenge to that policy.
&#8220;We&#8217;re gonna see what that does, but we&#8217;ve already had a judge or two follow that 5th Circuit decision. So I&#8217;m hopeful if that will start to change hearts and minds, but even still, even if it does, we&#8217;ll be left with the crush of responding to all of these,&#8221; Courchaine said.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s gonna go anywhere particularly soon until the Supreme Court speaks on it,&#8221; Courchaine said.
While the illegal immigrants still must fight deportation in immigration cases despite being released, it buys them more time in the United States than if they were locked up.
It can prolong their cases from weeks to years, according to Mechkowski.
&#8220;There&#8217;s a lot more time,&#8221; Gividen said. &#8220;You&#8217;re able to get your own documents, you&#8217;re able to call people. Here&#8217;s all sorts of advantages to preparing for your final case out of detention versus in.&#8221;

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Illegal Immigrants Found A New Way To Get Released From ICE Detention

Courts

An illegal immigrant from Venezuela is accused of grabbing a Homeland Security agent&#8217;s firearm while trying to evade arrest at a Michigan Sam&#8217;s Club.
Arnoldo Jose Marquez-Pulido, who was released into the United States under the Biden administration, lost control of the gun as the agent tackled him to the ground, <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mied.392659/gov.uscourts.mied.392659.1.0.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to court documents.
Agents said they first encountered Marquez-Pulido outside the Utica store on March 4 and confirmed that he was in the country illegally.
The agents began to follow Marquez-Pulido&#8217;s vehicle before he turned into a parking lot. Agents then activated their emergency lights and sirens, but Marquez-Pulido allegedly drove off at a high speed and began weaving in and out of traffic.
The agents chose not to pursue a vehicle chase, but continued to monitor his movements, according to a criminal complaint. They eventually saw him again as he pulled into the Sam&#8217;s Club parking lot and followed close behind.
Marquez-Pulido then quickly &#8220;abandoned his vehicle in the travel lane, and attempted to flee on foot,&#8221; the court documents stated.
The agent identified himself to the fleeing illegal immigrant and commanded him &#8220;to stop,&#8221; according to the court documents. Marquez-Pulido tried to enter the store before the agent tackled him outside.
Marquez-Pulido allegedly then began to fight the agent, striking him on the left cheek with his elbow before reaching for his gun. The Venezuelan national was able to pull the firearm out of the holster, but eventually lost control of it as the agent flipped him over.
The agent &#8220;suffered a contusion to his elbow, abrasions on his knees and hands, and a contusion to his right cheek,&#8221; according to court documents. Another responding agent &#8220;suffered a contusion to his knee.&#8221;
The injured agents were treated for their injuries at a local hospital and have since been released.
Marquez-Pulido was released into the country after crossing the California border in April 2024, court documents stated. At the time, he applied for admission at the San Ysidro port of entry without any documents to legally enter the United States.
His deportation case has yet to conclude, according to court documents.
The Venezuelan national now faces charges of being an alien in possession of a firearm and assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers or employees.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are facing an 8,000% increase in death threats and a 1,300% surge in assaults as the Trump administration carries out its mass deportation campaign, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

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Agents Move In On Illegal Immigrant At Sam’s Club — Then He Reaches For A Gun

Border

Immigration

Michigan

An illegal immigrant accused of killing his three-year-old nephew in Florida was released into the United States by the Biden administration despite having previously been deported, The Daily Wire has learned.
He later went on to receive a deportation order after his release, the Department of Homeland Security told The Daily Wire.
Honduran illegal immigrant Samuel Antonio Maldonado-Erazo, 28, allegedly took the toddler to work on March 4 and ignored severe signs of distress his nephew appeared to be experiencing, <a href="https://www.fox10tv.com/2026/03/07/this-case-is-horrific-illegal-immigrant-accused-causing-death-his-3-year-old-nephew/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to Fox10.
Escambia County Sheriff Chip Simmons said the child had several broken ribs, one of which was detached from the backbone, a broken collarbone, and a transected pancreas from blunt trauma, the local news outlet reported. The child also appeared to show signs of possible sexual abuse.
When first responders came upon the toddler, they found he was suffering from cardiac arrest, according to Fox10.
“Life-saving measures were attempted but unfortunately, he passed,” Simmons said. “We learned this young boy suffered extensive bruising about his body, to include 17 strikes to the head alone. Additionally, there were several burn marks consistent with heating a lighter and then pressing that lighter against the skin. These injuries and the neglect associated with them contributed to his death.”
“The injuries to the child are hard to talk about, and even harder to imagine having to endure,” Simmons said. “The only solace I can think of is he suffers no more.”
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) filed a detainer with local authorities on March 5, asking for a heads-up before releasing Maldonado-Erazo, DHS said.
Maldonado-Erazo illegally entered the United States in August 2021 and &#8220;was immediately removed,&#8221; DHS said.
He then reentered the country illegally in November 2021 and was released &#8220;under the Biden administration’s catch-and-release policies,&#8221; the agency added.
He was ordered deported in May 2023, according to DHS.
Homeland Security deputy assistant secretary Lauren Bis called the situation &#8220;absolutely sickening,&#8221; saying &#8220;This heinous crime underscores the importance of local authorities working with ICE to remove dangerous criminal illegal aliens from American communities.&#8221;
“The Biden administration should have never RELEASED this monster into our communities,&#8221; Bis added.
The three-year-old was left with Maldonado-Erazo after his mother and aunt were deported, Simmons said.
Maldonado-Erazo had other children living with him who have since been taken into the custody of the Florida Department of Children and Families, the sheriff said.
Erazo was originally charged with negligent manslaughter, but his charges have since been upgraded to felony murder, according to the sheriff&#8217;s office.

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Illegal Immigrant Accused Of Killing 3-Year-Old Nephew Was Released By Biden After Prior Deportation

Deportations

Florida

illegal immigrant

Joe Biden

U.S.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem faced heated questions from Republican senators while testifying on Capitol Hill Tuesday.
Noem&#8217;s testimony was the first time she appeared for questioning after two earlier shootings in Minneapolis by federal immigration agents that resulted in the deaths of two anti-ICE activists, Renee Good and Alex Pretti. Louisiana Senator John Kennedy was the first Republican to press Noem, grilling her about the ads she&#8217;s running to encourage illegal immigrants to self-deport and the contracts behind them.
&#8220;I believe you have a policy, Madam Secretary, that you have to approve all contracts at your department over $100 million,&#8221; Kennedy said.
Noem denied the claim, saying, &#8220;I have a policy in place that I review contracts,&#8221; adding, &#8220;My deputy chiefs have the ability to review anything under five million, above that I evaluate &#8230;&#8221;
The secretary also claimed that the policy was &#8220;extremely effective&#8221; in saving taxpayer dollars.
Kennedy, however, continued to push, asking how she squares &#8220;that concern for waste &#8230; with the fact that you have spent $220 million running television advertisements that feature you prominently.&#8221;
Noem responded that &#8220;the president tasked&#8221; her &#8220;with getting the message out to the country and other countries where we were seeing the invasion come from with putting commercials out that told them if they were in this country illegally that they needed to leave or we would detain them and remove them and they would not get the chance to come back to America the right way.&#8221;
&#8220;That has been extremely effective,&#8221; she added.
Kennedy then asked if she &#8220;bid out&#8221; the contracts for the companies that produced the ads, alluding to a potential conflict of interest.
A company known as The Strategy Group ran the ad campaign. The company had helped with Noem&#8217;s 2022 gubernatorial campaign in South Dakota and is run by the husband of the secretary&#8217;s recently-departed spokesperson, <a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/kristi-noem-dhs-ad-campaign-strategy-group" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to ProPublica.
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In a statement Tuesday, The Strategy Group said it &#8220;has never had a contract with DHS,&#8221; adding that &#8220;We had a subcontract with Safe America for limited production services.&#8221;
&#8220;Safe America paid us $226,137.17 total for 5 film shoots, 45 produced video advertisements, and 6 produced radio advertisements,&#8221; the company said.
&#8220;If you&#8217;re going to try to question our integrity, bring actual evidence &#8211; we did,&#8221; the statement concluded.
The Strategy Group’s ad work is the first known example of money flowing from Noem’s agency to businesses controlled by her allies and friends.
&#8220;Yes, they did, they went out to a competitive bid and career officials at the department chose who would do those advertising commercials,&#8221; Noem said.
&#8220;And the people that you ended up picking were people who had formerly done your political work in South Dakota, is that right?&#8221; Kennedy followed.
Noem replied: &#8220;No, that&#8217;s not correct, sir.&#8221;
To which Kennedy asserted, &#8220;I think it is.&#8221;
Noem insisted it wasn&#8217;t the case, and career employees had chosen the firms.
Kennedy then asked if Trump himself approved the $220 million ads &#8220;ahead of time.&#8221;
Noem eventually said he did, adding, &#8220;And one thing senator I think would be helpful to know is how effective that communication has been &#8230;&#8221;
Kennedy then gave a scathing response, saying: &#8220;Well they were effective in your name recognition &#8230; to me it puts the president in a terribly awkward spot and I&#8217;m not saying you&#8217;re not telling the truth, it&#8217;s just hard for me to believe &#8230; that he would&#8217;ve agreed to that &#8230; it&#8217;s something that we have to defend, I&#8217;m on the appropriations committee.&#8221;
&#8220;My research shows that you did not bid them out. In fact, one of the people you picked &#8230; was a company formed eleven days before you picked them and that the strategy group got most of the money,&#8221; Kennedy continued. &#8220;The head of that is married to your former spokesperson,&#8221; he said, adding, &#8220;It troubles me. A fifth to a quarter of a billion dollars in taxpayer money when we&#8217;re scratching for every penny, and we&#8217;re fighting over [unintelligible] packages. I just can&#8217;t agree with Madam Secretary.&#8221;
Still, Noem insisted she didn&#8217;t have any say in the contracts.
Kennedy then pivoted to the fatal shootings in Minneapolis, asking about Noem&#8217;s assertion that the deceased were committing &#8220;acts of domestic terrorism.&#8221;
&#8220;It appeared to be,&#8221; she said.
Noem faced heat for getting ahead of any investigations by making the statement.
That led Noem to blame &#8220;Mr. Stephen Miller at the White House&#8221; for making her jump the gun, Kennedy said.
Noem, however, denied that and said Kennedy received that information from &#8220;a news article of anonymous sources&#8221; who &#8220;say a lot of things.&#8221;
But Kennedy continued to press the issue, saying, &#8220;Well, here&#8217;s what you said on the record, I&#8217;m gonna read you your words, &#8216;Everything I&#8217;ve done, I&#8217;ve done at the direction of the president and Stephen.'&#8221;
Noem asked Kennedy for the source of that statement.
&#8220;You said that on January 27 of 2026, did I read your words accurately?&#8221; the senator asked.
&#8220;I enjoy working with the president and with Stephen Miller, and that day we were working to get as much information to the American people as possible &#8230; that is what we&#8217;ll continue to do,&#8221; Noem responded.
Kennedy asked Noem if she thought &#8220;it was fair to blame&#8221; Miller.
Noem, however, continued to deny making the statement.
&#8220;Are you denying that you said that?&#8221; he asked.
&#8220;Sir, I&#8217;m not going to speak to a situation that is relayed on anonymous sources that no one has heard me say that,&#8221; she said.
Still, Kennedy said &#8220;it was you&#8221; and that the news article was &#8220;quoting&#8221; Noem &#8220;on the record saying it&#8217;s Stephen&#8217;s fault.&#8221;
Later in the hearing, North Carolina Senator Thom Tillis used his time to give Noem what he called a &#8220;performance evaluation&#8221; while renewing his previous calls for her resignation.
Tillis opened his questioning by railing against Noem for the arrest quotas that were thrust upon federal immigration agents.
&#8220;We just want numbers, we want 1,000 a day, 6,000 a day, 9,000 a day because numbers matter, right? No, they don&#8217;t matter. Quality matters, not quantity. Quality. And what we&#8217;ve seen is a disaster under your leadership, Ms. Noem.&#8221;
Tillis then took issue with her handling of the Minneapolis shootings, saying she should admit to the mistakes made by her officers.
&#8220;I believe the president recognized that you weren&#8217;t getting it done in Minneapolis, and you&#8217;re putting us further away from pointing to this. We&#8217;re beginning to give the American people to think that deporting people is wrong, it&#8217;s the exact opposite. The way you&#8217;re going about deporting them is wrong. The fact that you can&#8217;t admit to a mistake, which looks like, under investigation, is going to prove that Ms. Good and Mr. Pretti probably should not have been shot in the face and in the back,&#8221; Tillis said.
&#8220;Law enforcement needs to learn from that,&#8221; the North Carolina Republican said. &#8220;You don&#8217;t protect them by not looking after the facts. Not only should the FBI be investigating it, but every single law enforcement agency in that jurisdiction should be invited to it, so our law enforcement officers don&#8217;t have this fog cast upon them. One of the reasons that ICE officers are having threats and damn the people that threaten ICE officers because so many of them are doing a good job is because you&#8217;ve cast a pall on them by acting like we should investigate things differently.&#8221;
&#8220;Law enforcement, we&#8217;ve gotta have their back, we&#8217;ve got to make it clear when they make a mistake, then they get corrected for it, but you don&#8217;t walk away from it, and you&#8217;ve done it too many times,&#8221; he added.
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&#8220;The fact that you can’t admit to a mistake which looks 
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Tillis said he also recently read Noem&#8217;s earlier book, where she revealed she shot her 14-month-old dog. Noem earlier defended the action, saying it was due to the dog&#8217;s aggression and that it was untrainable.
He slammed them as &#8220;bad decisions made in the heat of the moment, not unlike what happened up in Minneapolis.&#8221;
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Tillis also threatened Noem over the department&#8217;s failure to respond to his month-old inquiry about federal immigration raids in Charlotte.
&#8220;If I don&#8217;t get an answer to these questions &#8230; as of today, I&#8217;ll be informing leadership that I&#8217;m putting a hold on any unblocked nominations until I get a response. And in two weeks, if I don&#8217;t get a response, I&#8217;m gonna deny quorum and markup in as many committees as I can until I get a response,&#8221; he said.

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Noem Pressed As Republican Senators Demand Answers In Heated Senate Hearing

Noem Faces Grilling From Some Republicans During Heated Senate Hearing

Thom Tillis

The sheriff of Laramie County, Wyoming, just sent a loud and clear warning to illegal immigrants in his county: &#8220;Truck around and find out.&#8221;
Sheriff Brian Kozak said his office conducted &#8220;a three-day operation called &#8216;Truck Around and Find Out'&#8221; that led to 177 vehicle stops, nabbing 32 illegal immigrants along major interstates in the Cowboy State. Those illegal immigrants have since been turned over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
&#8220;I really want to thank the truck drivers who are out there doing it right. I especially want to thank the truck drivers that were honking at our deputies, waving at them, stopping, thanking our deputies for helping them keep their industry safe and our roadways safe in Laramie County,&#8221; Kozak said in a recent Instagram <a href="https://www.instagram.com/laramiecountysheriff/reel/DVOvAy7kcHN/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">video</a>.
&#8220;So hopefully now the word is out, this is not the county that you want to truck around and find out. And when I say truck around, I mean drive a truck undocumented, unlicensed, and unsafe,&#8221; he said.
The operation focused on commercial trucks and cars driving recklessly near them. Deputies also issued 51 citations overall.
“Our traffic unit, which I have three full-time deputies assigned to traffic enforcement, they are looking for these violations every day,” Kozak <a href="https://cowboystatedaily.com/2026/02/27/32-illegal-drivers-turned-over-to-ice-during-3-day-laramie-county-truck-crackdown/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> the Cowboy State Daily Friday. “And they seem to be bringing in either unlicensed or undocumented truck drivers every other day.&#8221;
“So, it’s a continuing thing for us,&#8221; he said.
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Similar operations have been done along major highways in Indiana, Oklahoma, Texas, and California, where hundreds of illegal immigrant truckers have been pulled off the roads.
The issue earned national attention after Harjinder Singh, an illegal immigrant from India, allegedly killed three people after making an illegal U-turn on a Florida interstate in August.
Singh had received a California commercial driver’s license after crossing the southern border illegally in 2018. He later failed his commercial driver&#8217;s license test ten times in two months before he received it, Fox News previously reported.
Singh&#8217;s fatal crash is part of a larger string of devastating collisions caused by illegal immigrant truckers.
The issue <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/congress-to-spotlight-illegal-immigrant-trucking-crashes-in-upcoming-hearing?author=Jennie+Taer&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=2&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Congress+Turns+Spotlight+on+Deadly+Crashes+Involving+Illegal+Immigrant+Truckers">will also be spotlighted</a> at a House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations, and Accountability hearing on Wednesday that will feature the sheriff from the county where Singh&#8217;s crash occurred, The Daily Wire first reported.
“We’re seeing in Wyoming and throughout the country, these big trucks are causing crashes and people are dying,&#8221; Kozak told the Cowboy State Daily.

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‘Truck Around And Find Out’: Wyoming Sheriff Nabs 32 Illegal Immigrant Truckers In Just Three Days

'Truck Around And Find Out': Wyoming Sheriff Nabs 32 Illegal Immigrant Truckers In Three Days

Wyoming

Local authorities in Pennsylvania released an illegal immigrant charged with rape while he was training to become a corrections officer.
Ibrahim George Kallon, who hails from Sierra Leone, had been living in the United States illegally since 2024, when his visitor visa expired, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
In recent years, he also worked security for the president and first lady of his native Sierra Leone, his former colleague told The Daily Wire. A photo posted to Kallon&#8217;s Facebook appears to show him with the leaders of the West African nation.
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A former colleague of this illegal immigrant accused of rape while training to be a cop in Pennsylvania tells me he previously worked security for the president and first lady of Sierra Leone just &#8220;a couple years ago.&#8221;
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ICE had lodged a detainer with the Delaware County Prison in Thornton, Pennsylvania, but he was released on bail on Feb. 5, according to the agency and court records. The court only required that he pay $1 of his $100,000 bond, which was earlier lowered from its original $250,000.
Federal immigration officers were then forced to hunt Kallon down in the community and arrest him on Feb. 11, ICE said.
&#8220;If the county won’t protect its own residents, we’ll do it for them,&#8221; ICE <a href="https://x.com/ICEgov/status/2027384543498457512?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in an X post Friday detailing the arrest.
Delaware County asserts on its <a href="https://delcopa.gov/publicrelations/2024/immigrationpolicies" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a> that it &#8220;is not, and has never been, a sanctuary county.&#8221;
&#8220;We are unsure why people believe or state that Delaware County is a sanctuary county since the County has never taken any actions or votes to declare itself a sanctuary county. In addition, we are in full compliance with all state and federal laws regarding immigration,&#8221; the county&#8217;s website reads.
Kallon faces charges of rape, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, sexual assault, aggravated indecent assault, false imprisonment, and indecent assault, according to ICE.
In recent months, ICE has caught several illegal immigrants who were either training or had already joined law enforcement in multiple states.
ICE <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-orleans-police-recruit-turns-out-to-be-illegal-immigrant-fraudster">arrested</a> alleged fraudster Larry Temah, 46, who hails from Cameroon and was hired by the New Orleans Police Department in June. Temah, who had a deportation order, was just one week away from graduating from the New Orleans Police Department academy when he was nabbed.
In October, ICE <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/illegal-immigrant-cop-previously-nabbed-by-ice-returns-to-work-for-illinois-police-department">arrested</a> Radule Bojovic, an illegal immigrant from Montenegro, who was working as an officer with the Hanover Police Department. He was later granted bond by an immigration judge and returned to work with the department in December.
Bojovic overstayed a tourist visa that required him to leave the country on March 31, 2015, the Department of Homeland Security previously said.
Federal authorities arrested alleged “serial immigration fraudster,” 45-year-old Morris Brown of Liberia, in January after he went AWOL from the Pennsylvania Army National Guard and pretended to be an American citizen to become a Minnesota corrections officer, <a href="https://www.uscis.gov/newsroom/news-releases/serial-immigration-fraudster-working-as-a-minnesota-corrections-officer-arrested" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). Federal authorities labeled him as a “serial fraudster&#8221; who had “multiple violations of U.S. immigration law, including overstaying his student visa and making false claims to U.S. citizenship.”

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Local Authorities Released An Illegal Immigrant Training To Be Cop. He Was Just Accused Of Rape.

Sanctuary Authorities Release Illegal Immigrant Accused Of Rape While Training To Be A Cop

Pennsylvania

Two heroic off-duty Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers patrolling in Minnesota saved the life of a four-year-old boy who drowned after falling into a hotel pool.
The young boy&#8217;s panicked mother approached the off-duty officers last Friday as they were eating at a restaurant in the Minneapolis suburb of Plymouth hoping they could help save her unresponsive son. The officers jumped to the rescue.
The child had been under water for over five minutes after jumping into the pool to find a toy, the local police department said.
The agents performed CPR on the child for several minutes before paramedics arrived and he eventually regained consciousness.
The Daily Wire obtained a letter the Plymouth Police Department sent to ICE in recognition of their heroic actions, saying the federal officers responded &#8220;without hesitation &#8230; immediately began CPR and activated emergency medical services.&#8221;
&#8220;The child was not breathing and showed no signs of life,&#8221; the letter read.
&#8220;In a situation like this, the first few minutes of emergency aid and quality CPR are critical. Without the quick response and professional actions [of the officers] the outcome of this event would have likely been tragic.&#8221;
The department spoke with one of the officers, who they said humbly &#8220;tried to downplay&#8221; their lifesaving work.
&#8220;On behalf of the Plymouth Police Department, I want to extend our thanks and gratitude for the efforts [of the ICE officers] in saving the life of a 4-year-old boy &#8230; truly excellent work,&#8221; the department said.
The Department of Homeland Security is also praising the officers for their &#8220;heroism and swift action &#8230; to save the life of a sweet, innocent child.&#8221;
“If our agents had not been there and stepped up, this would have been a tragic outcome,” Deputy Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis told The Daily Wire.
“Because of their training, these two agents were able to save a life. Our agents are the best of the best. Every single day they put their lives on the line to save American lives. President Trump and Secretary Noem will always stand with our law enforcement. If you see a law enforcement officer today, thank them for their service.”
Following two fatal shootings involving federal immigration agents, the Trump administration ended &#8220;Operation Metro Surge,&#8221; which deployed thousands of federal immigration agents to Minnesota to arrest illegal immigrants and investigate fraud.
The drawdown also came after President Donald Trump&#8217;s border czar brokered a deal, securing what he called &#8220;unprecedented cooperation&#8221; from local authorities who previously refused to work with ICE.
ICE still maintains an office in the Twin Cities and continues operations, albeit at a smaller scale.

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Heroic ICE Agents Save Four-Year-Old Boy From Drowning In Minnesota Pool

Minnesota

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