President Donald Trump meets with congressional leaders in hopes of avoiding a government shutdown, anti-ICE protests in Portland take a riotous turn, and an audit in Maryland turns up some disturbing findings.
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<h2 style="text-align: center;">Trump Seeks Deals For Washington And Jerusalem</h2>
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Topline: The White House buzzed Monday as President Trump sought deals at home and abroad. The president hosted Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu and congressional leaders as he pushed to simultaneously end the war in Gaza and avert a government shutdown.
What Washington is watching: At midnight, fiscal year 2025 for the federal government will come to a close. As of now, the 2026 budget has not been passed by Congress. If leaders can’t reach an agreement in the next 24 hours, a shutdown will commence, with large swaths of the federal government closing their doors, and only essential services will remain open.
Republicans have proposed a continuing resolution, a temporary stopgap measure to keep the lights on while lawmakers finalize the budget. The House passed that measure 217-212 earlier this month, but it has stalled in the Senate. While Republicans have a slim majority there, the Senate filibuster requires them to win over at least seven Democrats, and Democrats are not budging.
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What Republicans want: Republicans want to pass a clean resolution to keep funding levels the same across the board and worry about policy debates later. Their measure would maintain federal spending levels set under President Joe Biden, while offering some additional funding for personal security for lawmakers, judges, and other federal officials.
What Democrats want: Democrats say they will only pass the stopgap if it includes billions of dollars in new funding for Obamacare subsidies and Medicaid, some of which were cut under Trump’s &#8220;Big Beautiful Bill.&#8221; They also want the deal to include measures that would prevent the White House from blocking congressionally appropriated funds. Democrats know that Republicans are unlikely to give in to those demands and are daring them to allow a shutdown.
Step back: Government shutdowns can feel like a &#8216;boy who cried wolf&#8217; scenario, as the two sides often reach a last-minute deal. But there’s a real chance a shutdown happens this time. Remember, when Democrats ultimately failed to stop Trump’s &#8220;Big Beautiful Bill&#8221; during the summer, the party’s far-Left base was furious and hasn’t let them live it down. So they’re facing pressure to push back this time.
What Jerusalem is watching: Trump hosted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House on Monday —  the two met privately before a joint press conference in which Trump formally released a 20-point ceasefire plan to end the war in Gaza.
That plan offered some concessions — for example, it offered Palestinians the right to remain in Gaza after the war, amnesty for Hamas members who turn in their weapons, and a vague acknowledgment of the potential for the creation of a Palestinian state in the future, assuming certain conditions. 
It includes many things that Israelis will also appreciate. For example, it requires Hamas to “not have any role in the governance of Gaza … in any form.” It calls for all military and terror infrastructure to be destroyed and never rebuilt, and it demands all remaining hostages be released within 72 hours.
Netanyahu offered support for the proposal, saying it “achieves our war aims.” He added that if Hamas accepted, Israel would withdraw its troops from Gaza and place them “in the security perimeter for the foreseeable future.” However, “if Hamas rejects your plan, Mr. President,” Netanyahu said, “or if they supposedly accept it and then basically do everything to counter it, then Israel will finish the job by itself.”
Worth consideration: Hamas has already rejected a number of the points included, but Trump said that because so many of the terror group&#8217;s leaders have been killed, they’re dealing with “new people.” He also said that if they rejected this final offer, the United States would support Israel in eliminating the group. 
<h2 style="text-align: center;">Portland Rioters Escalate</h2>
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Topline: The Trump administration has deployed troops to Portland as part of a nationwide crackdown on violent protests surrounding Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facilities.
In response to riots in Portland around an ICE facility, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem requested that Trump deploy troops to the area to stop the clashes. Across the country, these protests have turned violent at ICE facilities.
Trump wants to stop these violent protests, and the president is doing this in Portland and in Broadview, Illinois. Though the situation is lesser known, in Broadview, ICE has made arrests, including of armed rioters. One reportedly carried what looked like an explosive device that law enforcement is still investigating.
The president said the effort is part of a nationwide effort to crack down on crime and &#8220;Antifa,&#8221; which the president described as a &#8220;domestic terrorist organization.&#8221;
Paging Des Moines: The superintendent of Des Moines public schools was arrested by ICE last week on multiple charges, including immigration infractions. Dr. Ian Roberts has a standing deportation order from an immigration judge from last year, in addition to a 2020 arrest on a firearms charge.
When ICE attempted to pull Roberts over, he drove away. ICE said he tried to escape; agents later found his car abandoned in nearby woods, and they found Roberts a distance away. Roberts had $3000 in cash on him at the time. He had a switchblade for hunting and a loaded firearm.
Illegal immigrants are barred from having firearms. The ATF has launched an investigation into how he was able to obtain firearms, given his legal status. That, in addition to the pressing questions as to how he became the superintendent in Des Moines, given his illegal status in the United States.
According to the school district, he underwent background checks conducted by a third party. A third party also recruited him for the position. 
According to his LinkedIn profile, Roberts previously held school leadership positions in several other municipalities, including D.C. and Maryland. He has had a track record in the United States since arriving in 1999 under a student visa, which he has long since overstayed.
<h2>Maryland Placed Foster Children With Sex Offenders And A Convicted Murderer</h2>
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Topline: Maryland auditors have excoriated the state’s Social Services Administration for placing foster children with known sex offenders and failing to act on reports of abuse. One state lawmaker is calling the findings “abhorrent” and demanding someone be fired immediately.
According to a government report, in as many as half of the cases, Maryland&#8217;s Social Services faked the verifications that background checks had been done on foster parents, either through incompetence or malfeasance. The shoddy work last year resulted in 10 children living with seven different registered sex offender adults in foster homes.
In 2023, a branch of Maryland’s Department of Human Services reviewed a group foster home but failed to note that it was employing a man convicted of sexually assaulting a minor. Three months later, the man transported three children in his care to abuse them, prosecutors said.
In another case, the government was paying a convicted murderer to offer “one-on-one care” to foster children in hotel rooms. At a rate of $1,300 per night per child, the department funded this placement instead of utilizing foster homes that offered safer and more cost-effective care.
Repeat offender: This wasn’t the first time that many of these issues had been raised, and still, the agency made almost no effort to change. After the registered sex offender allegedly abused kids in his care, the Social Services Administration “could not document any corrective action as a result of this incident to ensure the criminal background checks were in fact obtained,” the audit found.
What were they thinking? It seems that, basically, they didn’t want to do the work and just wanted the data to look good, even if the kids were suffering. One of the Social Services Administration’s responsibilities was to ensure that foster children attended school. It publicly claimed that virtually all of them were. However, when auditors examined their database, they found no evidence that 38% of them were. 
Auditors stated that the agency made numerous excuses that appeared to be false. There were 17,000 allegations of abuse or neglect of foster kids, and county agencies are required to investigate them immediately. If they don’t, the state agency is required by law to report it to the legislature. Neither one happened. The state made excuses for some investigations being delayed by months, citing a “natural disaster,” even though no one could say what natural disaster occurred in that part of Maryland in 2024.
Social Services responds: The agency acknowledged that “our regulations for privately-certified foster parents lacked a ‘crimes of violence’ prohibition required by … the Social Security Act, and we are updating this regulation.”
It said after the cases of children living with sex offenders were identified, “we took action.”
“In one case, we contacted law enforcement who conducted a safety check and confirmed the children were safe. In another case, we contacted the Office of Parole and Probation and found that while an identified individual was on the registry, there were no restrictions prohibiting their presence around children,” the agency said. “For the remaining cases, law enforcement and probation officers determined there was insufficient information to warrant a welfare check.”

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Maryland&#8217;s foster care programs failed to perform background checks, leading to 10 children living in foster homes with sex offenders and a convicted murderer being paid to provide &#8220;one-on-one&#8221; care for children in hotels, a new audit found.
Auditors from the Maryland General Assembly&#8217;s Department of Legislative Services found pervasive problems, including the fact that up to 38% of foster children may not even be attending school, despite the state claiming in its database that virtually all children were in school.
In one case, Maryland claimed to have reviewed a group foster home in 2023, but did not flag that it was employing a man who had been convicted of sexual assault on a minor in 2014, the audit said. Three months after the bungled review, the sex offender &#8220;allegedly transported three foster care children for inappropriate activity,&#8221; and was &#8220;subsequently charged with crimes involving children under his care.&#8221;
Even then, the Maryland Department of Human Services&#8217;s Social Services Administration (SSA) &#8220;could not document any corrective action as a result of this incident to ensure the criminal background checks were in fact obtained,&#8221; the <a href="https://ola.maryland.gov/umbraco/Api/ReportFile/GetReport?fileId=68c486a79057a613fa7fa61e" target="_blank" rel="noopener">audit</a> found.
Delegate Kathy Szeliga (R-Baltimore County) said the &#8220;audit of Maryland’s Social Services is absolutely abhorrent and reads like criminal negligence. The 72-page report reveals shocking recklessness in the care of foster children.&#8221;
&#8220;Governor Wes Moore must immediately fire someone,&#8221; she said in a statement. &#8220;The buck stops with [Maryland Department of Human Services Secretary Rafael Lopez] or the Executive Director of the Social Services Administration, <a href="https://dhs.maryland.gov/dhshome/dr-alger-m-studstill-jr/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Alger Studstill, Jr.</a>&#8221;
Auditors were able to detect what the social service agencies did not by simply comparing the sex offender registry with a list of foster homes.
&#8220;For example, one individual convicted of sexual misconduct with a minor had the same address as a guardianship home with 4 children between the ages of 4 and 8. SSA was not aware of any of these individuals until we provided them our match results,&#8221; the audit found.
County social services agencies are responsible for performing background checks at most foster homes, while the state Social Services Administration is responsible for ensuring that the background checks have been completed. Yet county agencies may have failed to do so as much as half the time, while SSA appeared to simply rubber-stamp their paperwork, whether it was correct or not. &#8220;We tested 10 foster care homes that SSA reviewed in December 2023 and noted that SSA concluded that background checks were performed for all individuals in these homes even though there was no evidence of a criminal background check for individuals in 5 of the homes,&#8221; the audit said.
The SSA also &#8220;did not have a procedure to ensure that criminal background checks were obtained for vendors that provided one-on-one services to foster care children in hotels.&#8221; One such contractor employed a convicted murderer, the audit found.
Hundreds of foster children were placed in such hotels &#8220;under the supervision of providers that were not licensed,&#8221; at a cost of $1,259 per day, even though the highest approved rate for treatment foster care was $281, it found.
During fiscal year 2024, Maryland counties&#8217; social services agencies received 17,000 allegations of abuse and neglect. Many counties were massively late in investigating the allegations, but &#8220;SSA did not report child abuse and neglect investigations that were not completed within 60 days to the General Assembly as required by State law,&#8221; the audit found.
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The Social Services Agency offered &#8220;questionable&#8221; excuses for the delayed investigations, including &#8220;a natural disaster that occurred between February 2024 and September 2024,&#8221; even though no one could point to a natural disaster in the region during that time period.
The foster care system pays people to take care of children, but Maryland&#8217;s agency made little effort to make sure that this money didn&#8217;t go to people who were mistreating the children, or even had no foster children. The state Social Services Administration &#8220;did not investigate and recover up to $34.5 million in overpayments to public foster care providers,&#8221; the audit said.
There was evidence that some people getting paid to raise foster children were not meeting their basic obligations. Some children had not received a dental exam in up to seven years. A quarter of all foster children had not been taken to their required annual physical exams.
SSA&#8217;s job was to review paperwork to flag these problems. But even when it flagged that there was no evidence of a particular claim that a child had been given the necessary services, a year later, almost all of those cases were still falsely showing up in the database as being compliant, the audit found.
Most startlingly, the agency&#8217;s own data showed that as many as 38% of foster care children might not even be attending school, even as it publicly claimed stellar outcomes.
&#8220;While [the database] reflected that virtually all 1,400 school-aged children attended school during fiscal year 2024, our test of 40 of these children disclosed that there was no evidence of attendance (such as a report card) recorded&#8221; for 15, the audit said.
Maryland did not ensure that federal eligibility determinations were properly performed, &#8220;resulting in the potential loss of up to $23 million&#8221; in federal money. Of the federal money that did flow to Maryland, a portion of the money is supposed to be kept in a trust fund for the child&#8217;s use when he is older, but this often didn&#8217;t occur.
Many of the problems identified in the devastating audit had been raised to the agency in previous years, and the agency pledged reforms but did not follow through.
In 2019, the federal government said Maryland was out of compliance in seven metrics, including &#8220;children are safe from abuse and neglect&#8221; and &#8220;children receive services to meet their educational needs.&#8221; The state submitted a &#8220;corrective action plan&#8221; that allowed it to &#8220;continue to receive federal funding and temporarily avoid penalties for noncompliance.&#8221; But in September 2024, the federal government said it had not fixed the problems, leading to a $700,000 fine.
In response to the audit, Maryland&#8217;s Social Services Administration said, &#8220;Our regulations for privately-certified foster parents lacked a &#8216;crimes of violence&#8217; prohibition required by Title IV-E of the Social Security Act, and we are updating this regulation.&#8221;
It said after the cases of children living with sex offenders were identified, &#8220;we took action. In one case, we contacted law enforcement who conducted a safety check and confirmed the children were safe. In another case, we contacted the Office of Parole and Probation and found that while an identified individual was on the registry, there were no restrictions prohibiting their presence around children. For the remaining cases, law enforcement and probation officers determined there was insufficient information to warrant a welfare check.&#8221;

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Maryland Placed Foster Children With Sex Offenders And A Convicted Murderer

A Maryland man who lied about his criminal past as a child sex offender in order to fraudulently obtain American citizenship was officially stripped of his immigration status, the Department of Justice announced Tuesday.
Salvadoran immigrant Jorge Antonio Graciano Lara raped his stepdaughter, who was younger than 14 years old at the time, on “several occasions” between 2012 and 2016 at their home in Montgomery County, Maryland, while the child’s mother went to work, according to court <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.571205/gov.uscourts.mdd.571205.9.0.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">documents</a>. Graciano Lara was granted citizenship in 2015 after lying about his crimes on his naturalization application and in an interview with a federal official.
Graciano Lara threatened the young victim against speaking out, saying that if she disclosed the abuse, the family would be separated and have to return to El Salvador.
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“American citizenship is a sacred privilege that this monster should never have obtained,” Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a statement Tuesday.
“This Department of Justice will continue working to denaturalize criminals like these who lie about their past actions to take advantage of our immigration system,” Bondi added.
Graciano Lara was convicted of second-degree rape in September 2017 after admitting to his crime as part of a plea deal.
In November 2024, the feds sued to take away Graciano Lara’s citizenship. A federal judge in Maryland officially granted the DOJ’s request to revoke Graciano Lara’s citizenship in a Monday order.
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Graciano Lara came to the United States in 1991 and received his green card in 1997, according to court documents.
The Salvadoran immigrant’s case is part of a larger effort by the Trump administration to audit the immigration system.
The Trump administration’s Department of Justice in July directed U.S. attorneys to “prioritize” and “pursue” <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-admin-orders-justice-dept-to-denaturalize-new-citizens-convicted-of-crimes">denaturalization</a> proceedings for new citizens who may “pose a potential danger to national security.”
“Sex offenders who try to naturalize by hiding their unlawful acts from immigration officials must learn that if the United States finds out, the government will come after their citizenship,” Assistant Attorney General Brett A. Shumate of the Justice Department’s Civil Division said of the judge’s latest decision.

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Kilmar Abrego Garcia Checks In At Baltimore ICE Office After Release From Jail

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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an illegal immigrant from El Salvador charged with human smuggling, in Maryland on Monday morning. He is being processed for deportation.
The arrest came after Abrego Garcia checked in at the ICE office in Baltimore on Monday, just days after he was released from federal prison in Tennessee. Before turning himself in, Abrego Garcia and about 150 supporters rallied in solidarity outside the ICE facility and protested the Trump administration&#8217;s handling of the case.
Abrego Garcia, 30, faces federal charges of conspiracy to transport aliens and unlawful transportation of illegal aliens. Those charges came after he was deported to El Salvador against judicial protection orders. The Trump administration has accused him of being a member of the MS-13 gang. 
&#8220;Today, ICE law enforcement arrested Kilmar Abrego Garcia and are processing him for deportation,&#8221; Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem <a href="https://x.com/Sec_Noem/status/1959957649673396259">announced</a> on X. &#8220;President Trump is not going to allow this illegal alien, who is an MS-13 gang member, human trafficker, serial domestic abuser, and child predator to terrorize American citizens any longer.&#8221;
He had been held in federal prison for months as he awaited trial for human smuggling charges before a judge allowed his release on Friday.
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“I want you to remember this. Remember that I am free and I was able to be reunited with my family,” Abrego Garcia told supporters in Spanish, according to a translator.
He also lashed out at the Trump administration. 
“To all the families who have been separated or to all the families who have been threatened with family separation, this administration has hit us hard. But I want to tell you guys something: God is with us and God will never leave us. God will bring justice to all of the injustice that we are suffering,” he said, according to the translator. 
As he entered the ICE facility, the crowd chanted, “We are all Kilmar.” 
Abrego Garcia’s lawyers <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-seeking-to-deport-maryland-man-abrego-garcia-to-uganda-report">said</a> that they were informed on Friday by the Justice Department that he would be deported to Uganda if he does not plead guilty to human smuggling. If he took the plea deal, he would be deported to Costa Rica after serving time for the crime. 
For weeks, the Justice Department <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/heres-why-the-trump-admin-says-it-would-be-dangerous-to-release-kilmar-abrego-garcia?author=Leif+Le+Mahieu&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Here’s+Why+The+Trump+Admin+Says+It+Would+Be+Dangerous+To+Release+Kilmar+Abrego+Garcia">fought against</a> releasing Abrego Garcia before his trial, pointing to his alleged history of violence toward his wife, sexual misconduct toward young girls, and participation in a human smuggling ring. They pointed to previous domestic violence complaints filed against him by his wife and testimony that he lied to law enforcement during a traffic stop in Tennessee during an alleged smuggling run. 
“A federal grand jury has charged Abrego Garcia with serious federal crimes … underscoring the clear danger this defendant presents to the community,” a Justice Department spokesman said over the weekend. “This defendant can plead guilty and accept responsibility or stand trial before a jury. Either way, we will hold Abrego Garcia accountable and protect the American people.”

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Maryland’s Democratic governor is considering gerrymandering the lone Republican in his state’s congressional delegation out of a U.S. House seat.
Governor Wes Moore appeared on CBS News’ “Face The Nation” on Sunday and said that, in the interests of &#8220;fairness,&#8221; he is looking at targeting GOP Rep. Andy Harris in Maryland’s first district. 
“I want to make sure that we have fair lines and fair seats,” said Moore. 
Harris is the only Republican of Maryland’s ten members of Congress. In 2024, President Donald Trump received over a third of Maryland’s vote. He lost the state to former Vice President Kamala Harris, who <a href="https://www.politico.com/2024-election/results/maryland/">won</a> 63% of the state’s vote.
Moore said his plan to potentially gerrymander Harris out of the first district is about fighting against “situations where politicians are choosing voters.”
“We need to be able to have fair maps, and we also need to make sure that if the president of the United States is putting his finger on the scale to try to manipulate elections because he knows that his policies cannot win in a ballot box, then it behooves each and every one of us to be able to keep all options on the table to ensure that the voters’ voices can actually be heard,” Moore said.
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“I want to make sure we have fair lines and fair seats&#8221;: Maryland governor Wes Moore (<a href="https://twitter.com/GovWesMoore?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GovWesMoore</a>) told “Face the Nation’s” <a href="https://twitter.com/margbrennan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@margbrennan</a> that “all options are on the table” regarding redistricting in Maryland, which currently has one Republican in its congressional delegation. <a href="https://t.co/YCjljamtNl">pic.twitter.com/YCjljamtNl</a>
— Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) <a href="https://twitter.com/FaceTheNation/status/1959648802698056132?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 24, 2025</a></blockquote>
Last week, the Texas state legislature passed a new congressional map that favors Republicans winning an extra five seats in the U.S. House in the upcoming midterm elections. Texas Republicans redrew the maps after President Donald Trump said that new lines should be drawn to get the GOP a handful more seats in the House.
Other GOP-led states may make similar moves. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has floated the idea of redistricting Florida. Ohio must draw new lines for its congressional map before the midterms by law.
The GOP push to redistrict in favor of Republicans has sparked a backlash from Democratic state officials who want to lean further into gerrymandering. California Governor Gavin Newsom has put forward a plan to draw a new map that could claw Democrats another five seats in California’s already overbalanced congressional delegation.
For Newsom’s plan to work, California voters must approve the new map since redistricting congressional seats in the state is controlled by an independent commission under a 2010 law. Newsom wants to temporarily return authority to redistrict back to the state legislature.

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The FBI raided the Maryland home of former National Security Adviser John Bolton on Friday morning as part of a national security investigation involving classified information. 
The New York Post, which first <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/08/22/us-news/patels-fbi-raids-john-boltons-home-in-high-profile-national-security-probe/">reported</a> the raid, said that it was conducted as part of a “high-profile national security probe.” FBI agents began the search around 7:00 am at Bolton’s Bethesda home, the Post reported. 
“NO ONE is above the law…<a href="https://x.com/FBI"> @FBI</a> agents on mission,” FBI Director Kash Patel posted on X as the raid began. 
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NO ONE is above the law… <a href="https://twitter.com/FBI?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@FBI</a> agents on mission
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Commenting on FBI Director Kash Patel&#8217;s social media post shortly after the news broke that said &#8220;NO ONE is above the law,&#8221; FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino said &#8220;Public corruption will not be tolerated,&#8221; and Attorney General Pam Bondi wrote, &#8220;America’s safety isn’t negotiable. Justice will be pursued. Always.&#8221;
Fox News reported that FBI agents were also seen removing boxes out of Bolton&#8217;s office in Washington, D.C.
When asked about the raid, the FBI told NBC News that it was &#8220;conducting court authorized activity in the area. There is no threat to public safety.&#8221;
The Post also reported that an official said that a previous investigation into Bolton had been quashed “for political reasons.” 
President Donald Trump said Friday morning that he did not know about the raid until he saw the news.
&#8220;I saw it on television this morning. I&#8217;m not a fan of John Bolton. He&#8217;s a real&#8230;lowlife,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;He&#8217;s not a smart guy. But he could be a very unpatriotic guy&#8230;we&#8217;re going find out. I know nothing about it.&#8221;
Bolton served in the first Trump administration from April 2018 until September 2019. After Bolton left the White House, he became a frequent critic of Trump. Bolton was previously the ambassador to the United Nations under President George W. Bush. 
In 2020, he published a book called “The Room Where it Happened” that the Trump administration argued endangered national security. Trump’s Justice Department sued to block its publication and distribution, but that lawsuit was ultimately dismissed after Joe Biden became president in 2021. 
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The book was cited as one of the reasons for the Trump administration to yank Bolton’s security clearance earlier this year. 
“The book was rife with sensitive information drawn from his time in government,” the White House <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/holding-former-government-officials-accountablefor-election-interference-and-improper-disclosure-of-sensitive-governmental-information/">said</a>. “The memoir’s reckless treatment of sensitive information undermined the ability of future presidents to request and obtain candid advice on matters of national security from their staff.  Publication also created a grave risk that classified material was publicly exposed.”
Trump also moved to pull the Secret Service security detail that was assigned to protect Bolton shortly after he took office in January 2025. Last week, Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/he-really-really-hates-the-president-ex-trump-chief-of-staff-unloads-on-john-bolton">slammed</a> Bolton as &#8220;dumb&#8221; in a Truth Social post written in response to criticism over his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. 
CNN reported that Bolton was not home at the time of the raid.

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WASHINGTON — Top Democrats in the United States who are opposing President Donald Trump&#8217;s crackdown on crime in Washington, D.C., lead the most dangerous cities in the country.
Federal authorities shared Wednesday that they have arrested over 100 people in the nation&#8217;s capitol in the last week since Trump called in the National Guard  and federalized D.C. police to crack down on violent crime. The move has been condemned by a number top Democrats, including Maryland Governor Wes Moore, Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin, Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott, Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee, California Governor Gavin Newsom, and others.
These officials, somewhat surprisingly, come from states with extremely high crime rates. Oakland, California <a href="https://realestate.usnews.com/places/rankings/best-places-to-live/most-dangerous-places?sort=overall&amp;high_to_low=true">is ranked second</a> on the list of most dangerous cities in the United States, and Baltimore <a href="https://foxbaltimore.com/news/city-in-crisis/baltimore-ranked-fourth-most-dangerous-us-city-in-new-poll">is ranked the fourth</a> most dangerous city in the United States, according to U.S. News and World Report.
Both California and Maryland are in the top 20 most dangerous states in the country.
“If Democrats had any common sense, they would follow President Trump’s lead to crack down on violent crime that has plagued our nation’s capital – and Democrat-run cities across the country,&#8221; White House deputy press secretary Taylor Rogers told The Daily Wire.
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He was just getting warmed up in Los Angeles.
He will gaslight his way into militarizing any city he wants in America.
This is what dictators do. <a href="https://t.co/IPvx9Hrp0q">https://t.co/IPvx9Hrp0q</a>
— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) <a href="https://twitter.com/GavinNewsom/status/1954965149225562627?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 11, 2025</a></blockquote>
&#8220;Instead of criticizing President Trump’s popular, tough-on crime policies, they should focus on cleaning up their own cities which are some of the most dangerous places in America,&#8221; she added. &#8220;Public safety isn’t political, it’s a top priority for every American and the Democrats continue to brush under the rug.”
Rogers&#8217;s remarks echoed those of the president himself, who told The Daily Wire in the Oval Office on Thursday that Democrats would be much better off saying, &#8220;We want to help President Trump with the crime because it is an epidemic.&#8221;
&#8220;People are so happy to see our military going into D.C. and getting these thugs out,&#8221; the president told The Daily Wire as he took questions from reporters at the White House. &#8220;As you know, we arrested a lot of people yesterday&#8230;.We are getting people that have arrest records that you wouldn’t believe.
&#8220;It’s another reason why the Democrats lost the election in a landslide,&#8221; he said. &#8220;They lie.&#8221;
During a press conference at the White House on Monday, the president specifically took aim at Oakland and Baltimore as he discussed cities that might need his help in over coming crime.
&#8220;And then you have, of course, Baltimore and Oakland. We don’t even mention that anymore there. They’re so far gone. We’re not going to let it happen.&#8221;
<div id="attachment_961071" style="width: 874px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrats-opposing-trumps-dc-crack-down-lead-americas-most-dangerous-cities/president-trump-delivers-remarks-from-the-oval-office-2" rel="attachment wp-att-961071"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-961071" class="wp-image-961071 size-large" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/08/GettyImages-2230149076-864x576.jpg" alt="" width="864" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/08/GettyImages-2230149076-864x576.jpg 864w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/08/GettyImages-2230149076-300x200.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/08/GettyImages-2230149076-768x512.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/08/GettyImages-2230149076.jpg 1024w" sizes=" (max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px" /></a>U.S. President Donald Trump answers questions from reporters with Frank Bisignano (L), Administrator of the Social Security Administration, in the Oval Office on August 14, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)</div>
Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee <a href="https://localnewsmatters.org/2025/08/12/president-trump-is-wrong-oakland-mayor-fires-back-after-potus-calls-out-city-on-crime/">said that the president is wrong</a> about her city, saying in a statement that “President Trump’s characterization of Oakland is wrong and not grounded in facts, but in fear-mongering. This is not leadership — it’s an attempt to score cheap political points by tearing down communities he doesn’t understand.”
“Our comprehensive public safety strategy is working — crime rates are coming down even though we still face many challenges. And let me repeat, President Trump is wrong.&#8221;
Maryland Governor Wes Moore <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/trump-national-guard-washington-maryland-governor-heartbroken-2112634">has also taken issue</a> with the president&#8217;s remarks, describing himself &#8220;heartbroken&#8221; for those service members sent to D.C. and claiming that Trump is using the issue as a &#8220;tool&#8221; to distract his opponents.
&#8220;I&#8217;m embarrassed, I&#8217;m angered and, frankly, I&#8217;m heartbroken for members of the National Guard asked to take on this mission.&#8221;
&#8220;What we&#8217;re seeing right now, this distraction, distracting away from the fact that Donald Trump&#8217;s policies have caused unemployment to go up, have caused people to lose their health care, have caused children to be able to lose their food benefits and he&#8217;s now using this as a tool,&#8221; the governor said on CNN.
He added: &#8220;He&#8217;s using military personnel, these citizen soldiers, as a cudgel, and as a tool to be able to advance his political purposes.&#8221;
In response to Moore&#8217;s remarks, White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/trump-national-guard-washington-maryland-governor-heartbroken-2112634">told Newsweek</a>: &#8220;What&#8217;s truly embarrassing and heartbreaking is how long Democrat leaders have allowed violent crime to surge out of control in cities without taking action. It&#8217;s heartbreaking that in Washington D.C. innocent people are robbed, assaulted, and killed far too often.&#8221;
Memphis, Tennessee leads the nation as the number one most dangerous city in the United States. The city&#8217;s Democrat mayor, Paul Young, does not appear to have addressed Trump&#8217;s move to call in the National Guard to D.C. Young did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
St. Louis, Missouri, lands at number three on the list of most dangerous cities in the United States, and is also led by a Democrat mayor, Cara Spencer, who also does not appear to have weighed in on the president&#8217;s move. She did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Daily Wire.
Detroit, Michigan, comes in at number five on the list of most dangerous cities in the United States. The city is led by Mayor Mike Duggan, an independent. The mayor&#8217;s spokesman John Roach referred The Daily Wire to crime statistics indicating that <a href="https://detroitmi.gov/news/detroit-partnerships-result-another-historic-drop-violent-crime-2024-fewest-homicides-1965-shootings">crime in the city dropped during 2024</a>. Roach said that federal law enforcement in Detroit, including the U.S. Attorney, DEA, ATF, and FBI, are already full partners with the Detroit police in gun violence reduction.
<div>&#8220;With the enhanced efforts of the new US Attorney, Jerome Gorgon, Detroit this year is experiencing the lowest level of gun violence since 1965,&#8221; Roach told The Daily Wire. &#8220;Expanded funding for federal prosecutors and their supporting federal agencies (ATF, DEA, FBI) would speed up the violence reduction trends and would be strongly welcomed by the city.&#8221;</div>
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<div>He added: &#8220;We have no indication from the federal government that they have any plans to disrupt the highly successful federal/city partnership currently in place.&#8221;</div>

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BALTIMORE — A man who brutally beat two elderly pro-life advocates escaped jail time on Thursday after a judge sentenced him to just one year of home detention and three years of probation.
The sentence for 28-year-old Patrick Brice was handed down by Baltimore City Circuit Judge Yvette M. Bryant. Brice was convicted earlier this year after he left 73-year-old Mark Crosby and 84-year-old Richard Schaefer bloodied outside of a Planned Parenthood on May 26, 2023. 
After the trial, Crosby told The Daily Wire that he was not surprised by the outcome. 
“Baltimore City is criminal-friendly. It&#8217;s not victim-friendly at all, especially if you&#8217;re a senior,” he said outside of the Elijah Cummings courthouse. “Judges do not like pro-lifers. They don&#8217;t like us saving babies, I don&#8217;t know why.&#8221; 
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— Leif Le Mahieu (@leif_lemahieu) <a href="https://twitter.com/leif_lemahieu/status/1953562675801170304?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 7, 2025</a></blockquote>
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He said the day he was beaten was “the most glorious” of his life and that he was happy to shed his own blood and suffer for Jesus. 
After the attack, Crosby was treated for a fractured bone in his face, blindness in one eye, head and neck pain, two fractured fingers, and bruising on his arms and legs. Crosby says that the attack left him with photophobia, meaning he has to cover his right eye on sunny days and from very bright lights. 
Crosby, a devout Catholic who was wearing a crucifix during the sentencing, brought photos of his bloodied face and the stained shirt he was wearing the day of the attack. The shirt was ripped from being cut off during shock trauma. 
Brice was convicted in February on two counts of second-degree assault and two counts of reckless endangerment. He dodged a first-degree assault charge in both a jury trial and a later bench trial in May. 
Bryant sentenced him to one year of home detention, which means he will be allowed to travel for work or medical purposes. He will get three years of probation after that and cannot go near an abortion facility or pro-life clinic as well. 
State prosecutors requested a total of 10 years in prison, asking that the judge send a “strong message of deterrence” against attacking people in broad daylight over their political and religious views.
Schaefer and Crosby both gave victim statements during the sentencing.
Schaefer said that “no matter how this goes,” he would be back at Planned Parenthood. He also flatly denied that he had done anything to provoke Brice, as suggested by his lawyer. 
Terrell Roberts, a lawyer, read Crosby&#8217;s victim impact statement. 
In the statement, Crosby asked for a lengthy prison sentence due to the “brutality of the attack” and that he “kicked me in the face like a football player kicking a field goal.” 
During the trial, Brice said that he was sorry for what he did and said that he “snapped” based on a comment he claimed Schaefer made to him that was racial in nature. He said, “I was having a bad day,” and that he was not an abortion activist. 
“I really am sorry,” he said. 
Brice’s lawyer claimed that the attack was not “politically motivated” and said that his client had lost jobs and a relationship because of the case. 
“Justice was not served in this case,” Roberts told The Daily Wire. “Sentencing, I thought, would end up right where it was because they were going to give them all the slack in the world.” 
Roberts said a failed application of the law by Bryant ended with Brice’s acquittal on first-degree assault.
Brice declined to make an official comment to reporters after the sentencing, but indicated he would be reaching out. 
The attack was captured on surveillance video that shows Schaeffer and Brice engaging in a heated argument outside of the downtown Baltimore Planned Parenthood facility. The video then shows Brice tackling Schaeffer into a potted plant. Crosby, who was standing across the street, then runs over, and Brice pushes him to the ground. Brice then straddles Crosby and punches him in the face before standing up and kicking him in the head. 
Schaefer and Crosby regularly go outside the downtown Baltimore Planned Parenthood facility to urge women not to get abortions. The attack did not deter their efforts, and they have both returned to the same Planned Parenthood in the months following the incident. 
Crosby believes that Brice should have been charged with a hate crime because he says he yanked a crucifix he was wearing off his neck and threw it into the bushes. Brice denied having any animosity toward Christians.

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The University of Maryland has agreed to pay Palestine Legal and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) $100,000 after the university first defended, but then briefly tried to reschedule, a rally on the anniversary of Hamas&#8217;s October 7, 2023 attacks by a campus group that advocates &#8220;the right of Palestinians to carry out armed struggle.&#8221;
The public university&#8217;s Students for Justice in Palestine chapter “will spend every dollar we receive from the $100,000 penalty for banning our vigil on organizing and supporting the movement for a free Palestine,” group member Daniela Colombi said in a <a href="https://www.cair.com/press_releases/palestine-legal-cair-announce-historic-100k-settlement-from-u-of-maryland-for-unlawfully-suppressing-pro-palestinian-student-speech/">statement</a>.
&#8220;Capitulating to bad faith, anti-Palestinian pressure will cost you,&#8221; Ahmad Kaki, a CAIR attorney, added, calling it a &#8220;transparent censorship attempt&#8221;—although even as CAIR fought for the right of students to demonstrate on October 7 on free speech grounds, it tried to force the university&#8217;s medical school to <a href="https://jewishinsider.com/2025/01/umd-medical-school-stands-by-israeli-surgeon-after-cair-played-role-canceling-his-talk/">cancel</a> a lecture by an Israeli surgeon.
CAIR noted that the Maryland public institution agreed to pay the anti-Israel group even as the Trump administration has extracted <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/columbia-university-retreats-as-trump-scores-historic-220m-settlement">massive</a> <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ucla-will-pay-6-million-to-settle-antisemitic-discrimination-complaints">payments</a> from other universities for failing to protect Jews from antisemitism on campus. 
 University president Darryll Pines had in fact gone to great lengths to allow Students for Justice in Palestine to rally on the anniversary of the terror attack — an event advertised as &#8220;honor[ing] the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/university-of-maryland-will-let-anti-israel-group-hold-oct-7-rally">150,000+ martyrs</a> who have lost their lives within the past year&#8221; — including his personally echoing the false claim that Israel had killed 150,000 people, which not even Hamas contended.
But that freedom appeared to extend only to certain groups. In an email obtained by the Daily Wire, Pines threatened to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/u-of-maryland-prez-said-anti-israel-protesters-could-rally-on-10-7-then-threatened-to-call-police-on-jew-for-complaining">call the police on a Jewish woman</a> if she did not stop emailing faculty and staff with complaints about antisemitism.
When Jewish critics raised that double standard by wondering how Pines, who is black, would respond if it were a KKK rally instead of an anti-Israel rally, or confederate flags instead of Palestinian ones on the campus&#8217;s central quad, the rhetorical device seemed to go over Pines&#8217; head: he took it as a literal assertion that there was actually a KKK rally planned for October 7, and suddenly his prior First Amendment concerns no longer seemed to apply. 
Patricia Perillo, the University of Maryland’s Vice President of Student Affairs, later said in an affidavit that “on August 26, 2024, an individual emailed University President Darryll J. Pines, who is Black, advising that if the University was going to permit SJP’s event to go forward, ‘then my Klan Rally with sheets and a noose are also approved.’”
Pines cancelled all events on October 7, not because of his aversion to the anti-Israel event, but because of what he suggested was anti-black racism and threats by Jewish people, requiring the cancellation of events to protect the safety of the Palestine activists, according to prior Daily Wire reporting and CAIR&#8217;s summary of the lawsuit.
&#8220;The University <a href="https://palestinelegal.org/s/Defendants-Opposition-to-Plaintiffs-Motion-for-TRO-and-PI.pdf">responded to CAIR and Palestine Legal’s lawsuit</a> by claiming that it was forced to cancel all events due to racist threats from pro-Israel individuals, who had threatened to organize a KKK rally and come to campus armed if SJP’s vigil was allowed to proceed. At the hearing, University of Maryland Police Chief David Mitchell testified that pro-Israel individuals even threatened UMD President Darryl Pines’ family and used the N-word,&#8221; CAIR said in its statement heralding the settlement.
But the postponement of all October 7 gatherings on campus was short-lived. Despite Pines&#8217; general sympathy to the group, SJP sued his university in federal court, backed by lawyers from CAIR. On October 2, U.S. District Judge Peter J. Messitte wrote that the Palestinian group would suffer &#8220;irreparable harm&#8221; if it could not congregate on that date to mark &#8220;what it calls Israel&#8217;s most recent &#8216;genocidal campaign,'&#8221; and ordered the event <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/federal-judge-says-university-must-let-anti-israel-group-hold-oct-7-event">reinstated</a>.
In its statement on the settlement, CAIR cast the planned event as a &#8220;vigil&#8221; somberly mourning the deaths of people in the Israel-Hamas war, but that is not what contemporaneous documents indicate. SJP&#8217;s national headquarters had called for a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/this-student-group-is-calling-for-a-week-of-rage-beginning-october-7">&#8220;Week of Rage&#8221;</a> coinciding with the anniversary of the Palestinian terrorist group&#8217;s slaughter of 1,200 Israelis. 
An application for reserving campus space, filed August 1, contained only a nine-word description of the event (&#8220;One year since the genocidal bombing campaign in Gaza&#8221;), according to documents obtained under public records laws, and Jewish critics have raised questions about whether the group failed to properly comply with the university&#8217;s rules for getting events approved, which would have given Pines a mechanism for blocking the event. 
Pines dismissed complaints from Jews by claiming that the group had &#8220;condemned the horrific attack by Hamas,&#8221; but a Daily Wire review of SJP&#8217;s social media showed no such sentiment. SJP instead said on Instagram that it supports the “<a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/C_WntvnPe2D/?img_index=5">right of Palestinians to carry out armed struggle,</a>” and “unequivocally states that the Zionist state of Israel has <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/C9yDEB3PJv6/?img_index=5">no right to exist</a>.” 
Pines was so invested in defending the anti-Israel group that he resorted to academic misconduct, sending a Jewish critic what he said was original &#8220;faculty research&#8221; from Middle East scholars on campus that proved that the Palestinian flag was not objectionable. The Daily Wire found that what he called the &#8220;consensus opinion from these faculty scholars,&#8221; whom he claimed he personally consulted with, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/university-of-maryland-president-plagiarized-from-chatgpt-to-justify-anti-israel-oct-7-rally">actually came from ChatGPT</a>.
That misrepresentation spurred The Daily Wire to check Pines&#8217; past academic work for plagiarism, and it found that nearly one-third of a 5,000-word paper was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/university-of-maryland-president-copied-rocket-science-paper-from-aussie-student">copied and pasted from an Australian student</a>, who was never referenced anywhere in the paper. There was evidence that Pines (or his co-author) had not accidentally mixed up someone else&#8217;s work with their own, because the British spellings in the Australian version had — with one exception that was missed — been changed to the American versions.
Pines acknowledged &#8220;recurrent language&#8221; but denied misconduct, and the state&#8217;s university system opened a review into his academic integrity. Ten months later, the review panel has <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&amp;source=web&amp;rct=j&amp;opi=89978449&amp;url=https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/education/higher-education/university-of-maryland-darryll-pines-plagiarism-AHZESFHKN5HA5DLTEF32CER46E/">issued no findings</a>.
The University of Maryland did not answer The Daily Wire&#8217;s questions, but said in a statement that &#8220;the litigation in federal court has been mutually resolved through a settlement agreement with no admission of liability by the University.&#8221;
&#8220;UMD SJP is a registered University student organization in good standing which has had more than 100 events on campus since October 7, 2023, for which it consistently followed the University’s policies and procedures governing such events,&#8221; it added. &#8220;The University reiterates its support for the First Amendment and particularly making campus space available for individuals and groups of all viewpoints to share their opinions pursuant to its Guidelines for Expressive Activities and the First Amendment. The University takes very seriously its responsibilities for the safety and security of all University students and other members of its community.&#8221;
A top senator this week <a href="https://www.cotton.senate.gov/news/press-releases/cotton-to-long-investigate-cair-for-ties-to-terrorists">called</a> for CAIR&#8217;s tax-exempt status to be examined due to its &#8220;ties to terrorists.&#8221;

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The man who brutally beat two elderly pro-life sidewalk counselors outside of a Planned Parenthood will be sentenced in Baltimore on Thursday. 
Patrick Brice, 28, could face years in prison for attacking then-73-year-old Mark Crosby and 84-year-old Richard Schaefer on May 26, 2023, as they urged women not to get abortions. The attack was captured on surveillance footage, but Brice was not arrested until July 2024. 
In the video, released by the Baltimore Police Department, Brice can be seen having a heated argument with Schaefer before tackling him into a potted plant. Crosby then runs up and is thrown to the ground by Brice. Brice, who is 6’5, then punches Crosby in the face before standing up, kicking him in the head, and walking off. 
After the attack, Crosby was treated for a fractured bone in his face, blindness in one eye, head and neck pain, two fractured fingers, and bruising on his arms and legs. Crosby says that the attack left him with photophobia, meaning he has to cover his right eye on sunny days and from very bright lights. 
Brice was convicted earlier this year of two counts of second-degree assault and two counts of reckless endangerment. He dodged a more serious first-degree assault charge in both a jury trial and a bench trial.
A second-degree assault conviction in Maryland can carry a sentence of up to 10 years in prison and a $2,500 fine. It would be up to the judge to determine whether the sentences would be served one at a time or concurrently. 
The reckless endangerment convictions could carry penalties of up to five years in prison and a $5,000 fine. 
Circuit Judge Yvette M. Bryant, who will sentence Brice, claimed during the trial that video footage could suggest that Crosby was looking to join in a fight after he ran up after seeing Schaefer tackled to the ground, Catholic Review <a href="https://catholicreview.org/in-retrial-judge-acquits-man-charged-in-assault-on-pro-life-protester/">reported</a>. 
Crosby has repeatedly said that Baltimore authorities have dragged their feet in bringing his attacker to justice. He says that he was prohibited from showing pictures of his beaten face at the trial and that Brice’s defense attorneys suggested he and Schaeffer were racist.

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Baltimore Man Who Brutally Beat Pro-Lifers Faces Years In Prison

President Trump’s signal policy — and the one that is working the best for him — is immigration.
Polling shows that President Trump&#8217;s immigration policy is highly popular. It&#8217;s not just because Americans are sick and tired of the open borders policy of the Biden administration. It&#8217;s also because Democrats continue to take the worst possible tack when it comes to this sort of stuff.
The tack they should be taking on immigration right now is that President Trump is right to close the border, that he is correct to unleash ICE, to go find criminal illegal immigrants and deport them — but we need to obey the law.
That would be the intelligent approach to this particular issue. But Democrats have decided that the smart approach is to shove their heads directly up their own a**es. What that means is that they are instead going out of their way to praise MS-13 members and suggest that President Trump is wrong to try and deport all of those people.
This led to the awkward situation of absolute dolt Senator Chris Van Hollen of Maryland — who has the IQ of a turnip — going down to El Salvador to meet with a man named Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who is a suspected MS-13 member and whose wife accused him of allegedly beating her.
Garcia was deported to El Salvador, but the Trump DOJ said it was a processing issue mistake. Thus, Democrats should have said, “Listen, everyone deserves due process. If you are here on a green card, you deserve whatever the due process is for a green card holder. If you are here as an illegal immigrant, you deserve whatever due process is available to you under the law. Due process shouldn&#8217;t be violated; it&#8217;s sacrosanct in the United States.”
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That&#8217;s the argument they should have made. Instead, because they have an internal emotional necessity to valorize people who are “victims” of the Trump administration, they&#8217;ve decided to treat people who are actually quite bad with Sympathy. This led to the awkward spectacle of Chris Van Hollen being asked if the person he visited down in El Salvador and had drinks with was a member of MS-13.
And he couldn’t answer the question.
“What Donald Trump is trying to do here is change the subject,” Van Hollen <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/tv/van-hollen-deflects-twice-after-cnns-dana-bash-asks-point-blank-if-abrego-garcia-is-a-member-of-ms-13/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told CNN’s Dana Bash</a>. “The subject at hand is that he and his administration are defying a court order to give Abrego Garcia his due process rights. They are trying to litigate on social media what they should be doing in the courts. They need to put up or shut up in the courts.”
“But since you were the one person to have met with him and since this is a thing, you say, on social media, it&#8217;s what we hear from Donald Trump and Republicans every day all day long, you didn&#8217;t ask him?” Bash asked.
“I didn&#8217;t ask him that because I know what his answer is,” Van Hollen answered. “What he told me was he was sad and traumatized that he was being imprisoned because he has committed no crimes.”
“Sad and traumatized,” says the likely MS-13 member. You can see Van Hollen trying to backtrack and turn it into a due process argument, which is a better argument for Democrats. 
The Supreme Court, over the course of the last 72 hours, handed out <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/19/politics/supreme-court-alien-enemies-act-order/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">an order</a> for the Trump administration to respond to an emergency appeal and stated, “The government is directed not to remove any members of the putative class detainees from the United States until further order of this Court.”
Those would be the people being detained under the so-called Alien Enemies Act, which is an 18th-century law designed to allow the expeditious removal of people who are declared wartime enemies by the executive branch of the government.
There was <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/24a1007_22p3.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a dissent</a> by Justices Alito and Justice Thomas, saying:
<blockquote>Shortly after midnight yesterday, the Court hastily and prematurely granted unprecedented emergency relief. &#8230; Although the order does not define the “putative class,” it appears the Court means all members of the class that the habeas petitioners sought to have certified, namely “all non-citizens in custody in the Northern District of Texas who were, are, or would be subject to the March 2025 Presidential Proclamation entitled “Invocation of the Alien Enemies Act Regarding the Invasion of the United States by Tren de Aragua and/or its implementation.</blockquote>
Alito and Thomas criticized the Court for doing all this by saying that even though it&#8217;s not clear the court had jurisdiction, it&#8217;s questionable whether the applicants complied with their obligation to seek emergency injunctive relief in the district court, and that the Court of Appeals is already considering the issue of emergency relief.
They wrote:
<blockquote>The papers before us, while alleging that the applicants were in imminent danger of removal, provided little concrete support for that allegation. …In sum, literally in the middle of the night, the Court issued unprecedented and legally questionable relief without giving the lower courts a chance to rule, without hearing from the opposing party, within eight hours of receiving the application, with dubious factual support for its order, and without providing any explanation for its order. I refused to join the Court’s order because we had no good reason to think that, under the circumstances, issuing an order at midnight was necessary or appropriate. </blockquote>
I think what the rest of the Court would say is, “We wouldn&#8217;t think that was necessary or appropriate either, except for the fact that we&#8217;ve now had situations in which the Trump administration has allegedly ignored the orders of lower courts not to do a deportation and, instead, went ahead with the deportation.”
That&#8217;s the argument being made on the other side of the aisle.
One of the things that should become clear to Republicans at this point is that doing things in meticulous fashion is likely to lead to longer-lasting victories than doing them as one-offs and in quick fashion. That’s because, when it comes to morality, the Trump administration is not only correct, they are unbelievably correct.
Tom Homan, our bulldog border czar, slammed Van Hollen for his sympathy for MS-13 members, <a href="https://grabien.com/story?id=523850" target="_blank" rel="noopener">saying</a>, “What shocks me is that he’s remained silent on the travesty that happened on our southern border. Many people die. Thousands of people die. I met with hundreds of angel moms and dads who buried their children that were murdered by an illegal alien. How many angel moms and dads has he met in the state of Maryland? That&#8217;s what concerns me.”
When it comes to the politics of immigration, Republicans are absolutely right.
But, in addition, if they practice the law correctly, they’ll have longer-lasting victories, because otherwise many of the things they are trying to do might get reversed on appeal, and that would be bad for the Trump administration.
I&#8217;m rooting for the Trump administration to do everything correctly so its policies work to their utmost.

Sen. Chris Van Hollen Meets With Wrongly Imprisoned Man Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia in El Salvador

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