Over two dozen fugitives from Mexico, accused of drug trafficking, murder, and kidnapping, were extradited to the United States on Tuesday. 
Those extradited include men linked to Mexican drug cartels that have been classified as terrorist organizations by the Trump administration. They now face criminal charges, including drug trafficking, hostage-taking, kidnapping, gun crimes, human smuggling, money laundering, and murder. 
“Today is the latest example of the Trump administration’s historic efforts to dismantle cartels and foreign terrorist organizations,” Attorney General Pam Bondi <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/26-fugitives-wanted-violent-and-serious-crimes-returned-united-states-mexico-including-0">said</a>. “These 26 men have all played a role in bringing violence and drugs to American shores — under this Department of Justice, they will face severe consequences for their crimes against this country. We are grateful to Mexico’s National Security team for their collaboration in this matter.”  
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Almost all of the fugitives face life in prison if convicted in federal court. The Justice Department said the men were collectively responsible for smuggling tons of cocaine, meth, fentanyl, and heroin into the United States. 
“This transfer is yet another example of what is possible when two governments stand united against violence and impunity,” U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Ronald Johnson said. “These fugitives will now face justice in U.S. courts, and the citizens of both of our nations will be safer from these common enemies.”
Several of the men were members of the Sinaloa Cartel, Cártel de Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG), and Cártel del Noreste, all terrorist designated cartels, according to the Justice Department. 
One of those extradited, Robert Salazar, was wanted in connection with the murder of  Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Deputy Juan Escalante in 2008. Escalante <a href="https://www.odmp.org/officer/19840-deputy-sheriff-juan-abel-escalante#:~:text=Deputy%20Sheriff%20Juan%20Escalante%20was,deputy%20before%20being%20fatally%20shot.">was</a> shot by two gang members outside his home before he left for work. 
Another one of those handed over to American authorities was Abdul Karim Conteh, a Sierra Leone national accused of smuggling illegal immigrants from Iran, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Turkey, Somalia, Cameroon, Senegal, Mauritania, Ethiopia, and Egypt into the United States. 
Luis Raul Castro Valenzuela, a Sinaloa Cartel member set to face American justice, is charged with kidnapping and holding hostage an American, the Justice Department said. 
The extradition agreement with Mexico coincides with a report from last week that President Donald Trump had quietly signed an order to use military force against drug cartels in foreign countries. Mexico has resisted suggestions that the American military be deployed on the ground to crack down on the cartels. 
“We cooperate, we collaborate, but there is not going to be an invasion,” Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum said. “That is ruled out, absolutely ruled out,” she continued. “It is not part of any agreement, far from it. When it has been brought up, we have always said no.”

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A class of synthetic opioids called nitazenes, made in secret Chinese laboratories and 43 times more deadly than fentanyl, is now killing young Americans, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).
After two young Texas men died this year from ingesting pills laced with nitazenes, their mothers have launched a campaign to get the U.S. government to focus more on the problem.
“Lucci Reyes-McCallister, 22, died January 26 near Houston, Texas, after taking a pill labeled as Xanax that was actually laced with N-Pyrrolidino Protonitazene, an emerging form of nitazene. &#8230; Hunter Clement, 21. died on April 10 after taking a nitazene-laced pill branded to look like a Percocet,” the New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/08/11/us-news/little-known-synthetic-opioid-nitazene-is-up-to-43-times-more-deadly-than-fentanyl-resistant-to-narcan-and-killing-young-americans/">reported</a>.
“Sometimes I get mad because I couldn’t save my own son, but I do want to save other people, even if it’s just one person in honor of him,” Hunter Clement’s mother, Ruthi, told The Post.
Former acting DEA administrator Derek Maltz said the deaths were part of China’s “ongoing attack against America &#8230; As America is just now really starting to talk about fentanyl, we have now seen all these other substances that are popping up everywhere, and they’re coming out of these labs in China.”
In 2024, the Drug Enforcement Administration <a href="https://www.dea.gov/sites/default/files/2024-05/NDTA_2024.pdf">reported</a> on the “dangerous shift from plant-based drugs to synthetic drugs,” adding:
This shift has resulted in the most dangerous and deadly drug crisis the United States has ever faced. These synthetic drugs, such as fentanyl and methamphetamine, are responsible for nearly all of the fatal drug poisonings in our nation.
“The Sinaloa and Jalisco Cartels are at the heart of this crisis,” continued. “These two Cartels are global criminal enterprises that have developed global supply chain networks. They rely on chemical companies and pill press companies in China to supply the precursor chemicals and pill presses needed to manufacture the drugs. They operate clandestine labs in Mexico where they manufacture these drugs, and then utilize their vast distribution networks to transport the drugs into the United States.”
“Nitazenes are sold by China-based chemical suppliers through online marketplaces, the Mexican cartels could easily use their existing relationships with those suppliers to obtain nitazenes,” the report stated.
Nitazene analogues were connected to at least five deaths in Philadelphia, “and a dozen more deaths may be attributed to the deadly drugs,” The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/drug-40-times-stronger-than-fentanyl-plagues-philadelphia">reported</a> in April 2024. “The health department suspects that a nitazene analogue known as N-desethyl isotonitazene was present in 12 overdose deaths in Philadelphia between November and December 2022,” the Philadelphia Inquirer <a href="https://www.inquirer.com/health/opioid-addiction/nitazenes-philadelphia-drug-overdoses-opioids-20240409.html" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.inquirer.com/health/opioid-addiction/nitazenes-philadelphia-drug-overdoses-opioids-20240409.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1712761220662000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0RLaCGzkDdLL2Bhk8u9NaE">reported</a>. Two other nitazene analogues were identified in an overdose victim who died in June 2023.”
Although the drug naloxone can be used to reverse the effects of fentanyl,  the normal dose of naloxone may not be enough to combat the effects of nitazenes.
“Customs <a href="https://www.cbp.gov/frontline/buyer-beware-bad-actors-exploit-de-minimis-shipments">officers at JFK are seeing the drug</a> coming through the airport ‘at least a few times a week in quantities ranging from just a few grams to upwards of a pound or more,’ Andrew Renna, Assistant Port Director for Cargo Operations at the airport, said in May,” The Post noted.

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Chinese-Made Opioid Deadlier Than Fentanyl Now Killing Young Americans

Mothers Whose Sons Died From Opioid Far More Lethal Than Fentanyl Alerting Others Of Lurking Menace

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Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum responded on Friday after a report from The New York Times stated that President Donald Trump had quietly signed an order to use military force against drug cartels in foreign countries.
Sheinbaum, who previously rejected an offer from Trump for the U.S. military to help fight the drug cartels, said on Friday, “The United States is not going to come to Mexico with the military.&#8221; The Mexican president added that U.S. officials had given her a heads-up that Trump&#8217;s directive &#8220;was coming,&#8221; according to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/world/americas/mexico-trump-military-cartels.html">The New York Times</a>.
&#8220;We cooperate, we collaborate, but there is not going to be an invasion,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;That is ruled out, absolutely ruled out,” she said. “It is not part of any agreement, far from it. When it has been brought up, we have always said no.”
Sheinbaum said that she was assured by the United States that Trump&#8217;s order would not include sending troops into Mexico. The directive reportedly singles out Latin American drug cartels that are designated as foreign terrorist organizations, but it was not immediately clear which specific cartels or transnational gangs the Trump administration would pursue under the new directive.
Mexico has been overrun by numerous violent drug cartels for decades, and most of the drug cartels listed by the United States as terrorist organizations primarily operate in Mexico. Two transnational criminal gangs, Tren de Aragua (TdA) and Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13), which have been designated as foreign terrorist organizations, have cells in Central America, according to the State Department. The Trump administration also recently designated the Venezuelan Cartel de los Soles as a terrorist organization.
After pressure from Trump earlier this year, Sheibaum reportedly deployed hundreds of troops to fight the Sinaloa Cartel — one of Mexico&#8217;s most powerful — with the group suffering significant losses. U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Ronald Johnson <a href="https://x.com/USAmbMex/status/1951085207123272145">said</a> last month that U.S. fentanyl seizures were down and Mexico fentanyl seizures were on the rise &#8220;thanks to increased collaboration&#8221; between the two countries.
&#8220;Under [President Trump&#8217;s] and President [Sheinbaum&#8217;s] leadership, cartels are going bankrupt and our countries are safer because of it,&#8221; Johnson added.
Trump has used tariffs as a negotiating tool to pressure Mexico into helping the United States secure the border and crack down on illegal immigration and drug trafficking. The president has also deployed U.S. troops and drones to patrol the southern border. Trump&#8217;s actions have led to the <a href="https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/national-media-release/most-secure-border-history-cbp-reports-major-enforcement-wins-june#:~:text=Border%20Enforcement%20at%20Historic%20Levels,27%2C766%20released%20in%20June%202024">lowest level</a> of illegal border crossings ever recorded by Customs and Border Protection.

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President Donald Trump quietly signed a directive ordering the Pentagon to begin using military force against Latin American drug cartels that the administration has labeled as terrorist organizations, The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/us/trump-military-drug-cartels.html?smtyp=cur&amp;smid=tw-nytimesworld">reported</a> Friday morning.
The order includes an official basis for the United States military to conduct anti-cartel operations in foreign countries, and military officials have already begun drafting plans for going after certain groups, the Times reported, citing &#8220;people familiar with the conversations.&#8221; It was not immediately clear which specific gangs or drug cartels Trump&#8217;s new directive greenlights military operations against.
Under Trump, the United States has <a href="https://www.state.gov/designation-of-international-cartels">designated</a> seven drug cartels and two international criminal gangs as foreign terrorist organizations: Tren de Aragua (TdA), Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13), Cártel de Sinaloa, Cártel de Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG), Cártel del Noreste (CDN), La Nueva Familia Michoacana (LNFM), Cártel de Golfo (CDG), and Cárteles Unidos (CU). The Trump administration recently added the Venezuelan Cartel de los Soles to its list, saying that it is operated by Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and other high-ranking government officials, according to the Times. On Thursday, the United States upped the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-hikes-bounty-on-venezuelas-maduro-to-50m">bounty</a> on Maduro to $50 million, pointing to his ties to transnational gangs and drug cartels.
&#8220;Maduro uses foreign terrorist organizations like TDA, Sinaloa, and Cartel of the Suns to bring deadly drugs and violence into our country. To date, the DEA has seized 30 tons of cocaine linked to Maduro and his associates with nearly seven tons linked to Maduro himself,&#8221; said Attorney General Pam Bondi.
Most of the cartels designated by the Trump administration as terrorist organizations operate in Mexico, while TdA&#8217;s roots are in Venezuela, and MS-13 originated in Los Angeles as a Salvadoran street gang. Both TdA and MS-13 also have cells operating in Central America, according to the State Department.
Trump&#8217;s order is among the most significant steps he has taken to fulfill his promise to &#8220;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCGjPpNG4xA">wage war</a>&#8221; on cartels that have trafficked fentanyl and other drugs into the United States, leading to the deaths of tens of thousands of Americans. In May, President Trump said he offered Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum a deal that would send U.S. troops into Mexico to fight drug cartels.
&#8220;They are horrible people that have been killing people left and right. They&#8217;ve made a fortune on selling drugs and destroying our people,&#8221; Trump <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/politics/100000010147246/trump-offers-us-military-to-fight-mexican-cartels.html">told</a> reporters aboard Air Force One. &#8220;If Mexico wanted help with the cartels, we would be honored to go in and do it.&#8221;
Sheinbaum <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/sheinbaum-says-she-rejected-trumps-offer-send-troops-mexico-2025-05-03/">rejected</a> Trump&#8217;s proposal, saying, &#8220;Sovereignty is not for sale. Sovereignty is loved and defended.&#8221;
&#8220;We will never accept the presence of the United States military in our territory,&#8221; she added.

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A massive controversy has now broken out over a Democratic lawmaker in the House of Representatives who announced at a Pan-American Congress taking place in Mexico City that America was terrible.
Illinois Democratic Rep. Delia Ramirez — who was born in the United States, although her parents were illegal immigrants and her husband is also an illegal immigrant who is a DACA recipient — declared in Spanish that she was a proud Guatemalan before she was an American. She followed by suggesting that the United States prioritizes imperialism, militarization, conquest, and control in its attempt at domination.
The White House assistant press secretary, Liz Huston, said, “These Democrats’ comments are despicable and underscore their commitment to putting America last.”
That is exactly right.
Nobody is suggesting that if you are an immigrant to this country and your parents are Italian, for example, that you can&#8217;t have pride in your Italian heritage. But to say that you&#8217;re prouder to be Italian than American while living in America is a wild statement that goes to a deeper problem inside the Democratic Party, which suggests that they are not America First, but, in fact, America Last.
Why would you be prouder to be a Guatemalan than an American? Just on a raw level, the murder rate in Guatemala is 16.1 per 100,000 compared to the United States, where it&#8217;s 6.8 per 100,000. The GDP per capita in Guatemala is $6,100 per capita. Since 2019, some two million people have left the Northern Triangle; many of those are from Guatemala.
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This conference took place in Mexico City. Mexico is, of course, a disastrous hotbed of crime and corruption. It is partially run by the drug cartels. According to the 2023 Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index, Mexico ranks 126th in the world in terms of fighting corruption.
Mexico has a $14,000 GDP per capita, and the murder rate is 19.3 per 100,000, down from 24 per 100,000 in 2023. This entire conference is taking place in a country vastly inferior to the United States.
It wasn&#8217;t just Delia Ramirez; other people who showed up included Rep. Ilhan Omar, who came from Somalia and has suggested on “Democracy Now!” that America is one of the worst countries in the world, saying, “To be coming out of our country, I mean, I grew up in, in, in a dictatorship, and I don&#8217;t even remember ever witnessing anything like that. To have a democracy, a beacon of hope for the world, to now be turned into one of the worst countries where the military are in our streets, without any regard for people&#8217;s constitutional rights, while our president is spending millions of dollars, [propping] himself up, like a failed dictator with a military parade &#8230;”
Somalia, of course, has a GDP per capita of $636. It&#8217;s one of the worst places on planet Earth. And she says America is one of the worst places on planet Earth.
Don&#8217;t worry, it is not just the children of immigrants like Delia Ramirez or actual immigrants like Ilhan Omar who say nefarious stuff like this; it is also homegrown Americans like Ayanna Pressley, who believes that America is a terrible place. She also spoke at this Pan-American conference. You might remember not all that long ago when she voted against the formation of a tough-on-China committee, because she said that that would further anti-Asian hate in the United States.
Rep. Rashida Tlaib, the Democratic congresswoman from Michigan and a terrorist sympathizer who literally just last year refused to condemn chants of “Death to America,” showed up, too.
Pennsylvania Democrat Rep. Summer Lee, who has suggested in the past that requiring only American citizens to be allowed to vote is actually xenophobic, was there.
All these wonderful people showed up to a conference outside the United States to rip America and talk about how terrible America was.
In a TV interview before the event. David Adler, the general coordinator for the Progressive International organization that was in charge of this event and one of the summit&#8217;s main coordinators, said the intention of the summit was to “confront authoritarian and fascist threats and shift authority from Washington, D.C. to developing countries.”
This is the progressive wing of the Democratic Party, and they are going to be the next governing wave of the Democratic Party. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez hides it a little bit better, but she is a fellow traveler with this caucus. Zohran Mamdani is much louder. He is not just a fellow traveler. He is one of the main spears at the tip of this caucus. The new mayoral candidate in Minnesota for the Democrats is a person who agrees with this sort of stuff. Bernie Sanders, of course, agrees with this take on America, this sort of Howard Zinn-hatred for the United States.
You can say this is TDS, that this is specifically about Donald Trump, but it clearly is not. It goes deeper than that. It goes to an oppressor/oppressed narrative whereby America is the great oppressor, America’s allies are the great oppressors, and everybody in the world who is unsuccessful, every failed country around the world, is simply oppressed by the First World, and that&#8217;s why they are in such dire circumstances right now.
This is a recipe for more chaos around the world. It is a matrix that you use for the world in which no one has personal responsibility, particularly if they fail. That matrix on both a personal level and a national level is horribly dark. It wrecks human beings; it wrecks nations, and it wrecks the planet overall.
Yet this is the growing movement inside the Democratic Party that shirks responsibility and presents the United States as the great aggressor in the world, despite the fact that the world is inestimably more wealthy, better off, healthier, living longer, and more democratic because of the presence of the United States on planet Earth.
A bizarre hatred for the United States is a driving force behind everything from the open borders immigration platform of the Democratic Party to their redistributionist view of free market economics, to their belief that the world is better off if the United States basically lays down its arms and allows all of its enemies to dominate the world situation.
If this is where the Democratic Party wants to go, I don’t think Americans will follow.
Question: Why are the American people running headlong away from these folks?
Answer: Why wouldn’t the American people run headlong away from these folks?

President Donald Trump Delivers Address To A Joint Session Of Congress

The ‘America Last’ Left Cuts Loose

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A far-left organization partnered with financial institutions, activist groups, and the Mexican consulate to push banks to offer mortgage loans to illegal aliens and “protect undocumented immigrants.”
Rise Economy, a leftist organization formerly called the California Reinvestment Coalition, was behind a <a href="https://calreinvest.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Here-to-Stay-Report-Final.pdf">report</a> advocating for mortgage loans to be made available to illegal aliens who obtain an Individual Taxpayer Identification Number (ITIN), a financial tool that often enables illegals to obtain home and auto loans.
The report indicates that the marketing and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/inside-the-company-financing-the-illegal-alien-takeover-of-american-homes?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Spencer+Lindquist&amp;category=Investigation&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=Meet+The+Mortgage+Company+Enabling+Illegal+Immigrants+To+Buy+American+Homes">distribution</a> of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bank-founded-by-democrat-billionaire-loans-illegals-money-to-fight-systemic-racism?author=Spencer+Lindquist&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=11&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Bank+Founded+By+Democrat+Billionaire+Loans+Illegals+Money+To+Fight+%E2%80%98Systemic+Racism%E2%80%99">loans</a> to illegal aliens, which The Daily Wire has documented <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/yet-another-mortgage-company-is-marketing-home-loans-to-illegal-aliens">extensively</a>, may in part be the result of leftwing ideology and activism rather than simply a response to market incentives.
The group thanked a wide range of supporting organizations, which it said “were essential in framing the research and tailoring the recommendations outlined in this report.” Among those dubbed “community partners” are the Consulate General of Mexico in San Francisco and <a href="https://www.lrcl.org/our-mission-history">La Raza Centro Legal</a>, a San Francisco-based ethnic advocacy organization that offers deportation defense.
The La Raza Community Resource Center, which also <a href="https://www.larazacrc.org/">offers deportation defense</a> assistance to illegal aliens, was listed as a partner of the organization. Also listed is the Beneficial State Foundation, the project of a bank run by a Democrat billionaire that The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bank-founded-by-democrat-billionaire-loans-illegals-money-to-fight-systemic-racism?author=Spencer+Lindquist&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=11&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Bank+Founded+By+Democrat+Billionaire+Loans+Illegals+Money+To+Fight+%E2%80%98Systemic+Racism%E2%80%99">reported</a> offers auto loans targeted to illegal aliens.
Rise Economy’s report specifically encouraged the distribution of home loans to illegal aliens, urging policymakers and community partners to “work collectively on solutions-driven policies to increase access to mortgage loans for immigrant families including ITIN holders.”
Rise Economy’s goal, the 2019 report noted, was to “push for safe banking and equitable access to small business lending, mortgages, accessible retirement systems, and public benefits for ITIN holders.” The report focused on mortgage loans again, with one section reading “policymakers and community partners should work collectively on solutions-driven policies to increase access to mortgage loans for undocumented families including ITIN holders,” one line reads.
“The Here to Stay campaign coalition recommends that financial institutions provide access to safe banking and lending to immigrant families including ITIN holders,” the report said. “Community-driven solutions must also be proposed to protect undocumented immigrants who rely on public benefits.”
Not all of the partners cited in the report appear to be ideologically motivated, however. Rise Economy added that “this report was made possible with financial support from” various financial institutions, including JP Morgan, Capital One, U.S. Bank, and the Banc of California. None of the banks responded to a request for comment.
The Daily Wire has exposed various companies that market loans to illegal aliens, including <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/inside-the-company-financing-the-illegal-alien-takeover-of-american-homes?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Spencer+Lindquist&amp;category=Investigation&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=Meet+The+Mortgage+Company+Enabling+Illegal+Immigrants+To+Buy+American+Homes">Prysma Lending</a>, which held a webinar with an immigration lawyer and created a guide to deportation defense for its customers. There&#8217;s also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/yet-another-mortgage-company-is-marketing-home-loans-to-illegal-aliens">Amres</a>, which articulated its goal to “empower non-citizens,” created a guide called “Bridging the Gap for Undocumented Residents,” and told the stories of various illegal aliens who were able to obtain mortgage loans.
The former leader of a Texas land developer lobbying organization appeared to confirm that developments like <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/colony-ridge">Colony Ridge</a> would go out of business if they were forced to check if buyers had social security numbers.
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EXCLUSIVE: A Texas land developer admitted that the Colony Ridge business model relies on selling land to unqualified foreign buyers:
&#8220;We will not be able to sell our developments if each of our buyers have to have SS#’s.&#8221;
I obtained his stunning admissions🧵 <a href="https://t.co/f2nWFuWA5r">pic.twitter.com/f2nWFuWA5r</a>
— Spencer Lindquist 🇺🇸 (@SpencerLndqst) <a href="https://twitter.com/SpencerLndqst/status/1890063065489735954?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 13, 2025</a></blockquote>
One company belonging to the lobbying organization, called Cayetano, encouraged buyers to “own a piece of American land” just north of the border with Mexico. It also accepted identification from the Mexican government in processing land sales, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/texas-developer-tells-mexican-citizens-to-own-a-piece-of-american-land-on-southern-border?author=Spencer+Lindquist&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Texas+Developer+Tells+Mexican+Citizens+To+%E2%80%98Own+A+Piece+Of+American+Land%E2%80%99+On+Southern+Border">revealed</a>.
These loans, experts say, can encourage illegal aliens to stay in the country in violation of federal law. Federation for American Immigration Reform Media Director Ira Mehlman <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/inside-the-company-financing-the-illegal-alien-takeover-of-american-homes">previously discussed</a> the risks associated with allowing the practice with The Daily Wire
“Access to mortgages can serve as an incentive for illegal aliens to remain in the country, especially at a time when the goal of the government is convincing illegal aliens to leave,” Mehlman noted. “Congress could take many actions — from disclosure to outright prohibition — and set a national standard for states to follow.”
Lending arrangements that rely on ITINs could soon become riskier. Not only is the government cracking down on illegal immigration and pursuing a policy of mass deportation, but the Department of Homeland Security and the IRS signed an <a href="https://immigrationforum.org/article/irs-ice-immigration-data-sharing-agreement-explainer/">agreement</a> allowing the law enforcement agency to obtain information on illegal aliens from the IRS.
Rise Economy did not respond to a request for comment.

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President Donald Trump signed an executive order late Thursday evening, raising the tariff on Canadian imports to 35% effective at midnight, while granting Mexico another 90 days to negotiate a trade deal with the United States.
The actions come as the August 1 deadline arrived for countries with trade deficits with the United States to reach new trade agreements, but Trump said they won&#8217;t take effect until August 7 for most nations. In a Truth Social post, Trump praised ongoing talks with Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, while he ripped Canada for failing to crack down on drug trafficking. Trump also said that he would not raise tariffs on Mexico beyond current levels for 90 days.
“I have just concluded a telephone conversation with the President of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, which was very successful in that, more and more, we are getting to know and understand each other. The complexities of a Deal with Mexico are somewhat different than other Nations because of both the problems, and assets, of the Border,” Trump posted on Truth Social Thursday night. “We have agreed to extend, for a 90 Day period, the exact same Deal as we had for the last short period of time.”
The current deal hits Mexico, America&#8217;s top trading partner, with a 25% tariff imposed because of fentanyl trafficking over the southern U.S. border, a 25% tariff on vehicles, and a 50% tariff on steel, aluminum, and copper. 
“Additionally, Mexico has agreed to immediately terminate its Non Tariff Trade Barriers, of which there were many. We will be talking to Mexico over the next 90 Days with the goal of signing a Trade Deal somewhere within the 90 Day period of time, or longer,” Trump added. “There will be continued cooperation on the Border as it relates to all aspects of Security, including Drugs, Drug Distribution, and Illegal Immigration into the United States.”
Trump said that Vice President JD Vance, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and other top administration officials were all present for the call with Mexico. 
In Trump&#8217;s <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/07/amendment-to-duties-to-address-the-flow-of-illicit-drugs-across-our-northern-border-9350/">executive order</a>, Trump justified raising the tariff on Canadian goods, citing the country&#8217;s “failure to devote satisfactory resources to arrest, seize, detain, or otherwise intercept drug trafficking organizations, other drug or human traffickers, criminals at large, and illicit drugs.” 
That announcement came after Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-warns-canada-backing-palestinian-state-could-damage-u-s-trade-deal?author=Leif+Le+Mahieu&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=1&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Trump+Warns+Canada%3A+Backing+Palestinian+State+Could+Damage+U.S.+Trade+Deal">said</a> that it would be difficult to make a trade deal with Canada if it moved forward with a plan from Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney to recognize a Palestinian state. 
“Wow! Canada has just announced that it is backing statehood for Palestine. That will make it very hard for us to make a Trade Deal with them. Oh’ Canada!!!” Trump said. 
More than a dozen countries are facing tariffs ranging from 19% to 41% when they take effect on August 7. All countries across the board will pay a baseline 10% tariff under the White House plan. Separate negotiations with China, another one of America&#8217;s largest trading partners, are ongoing.

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Legal and illegal immigrants send approximately $200 billion out of the United States and back to their home countries every year, a new study on remittances finds.
The <a href="https://www.fairus.org/issue/remittances-us-loses-more-than-200-billion-dollars">report</a> from the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) found that the whopping sum of money was exported out of the American economy in 2021 and sent to 134 different foreign countries across the globe.
The organization points out that the amount of remittances —money sent out the America to foreign countries — has almost certainly increased in recent years alongside record levels of immigration into the United States and a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/foreign-born-population-surges-to-new-high-with-illegal-immigration-driving-increase-report-finds">ballooning percentage</a> of the population that is foreign-born.
“Remittances effectively represent a transfer payment of hundreds of billions of dollars from American workplaces and communities to people abroad. To compound the problem, many migrants who send remittances out of the U.S. earn so little that they qualify for public benefits,” FAIR Executive Director Dale Wilcox explained. “The result is that American citizens subsidize social services and welfare benefits for aliens, legal and illegal, who send much of what they earn out of the country.”
The five countries receiving the most remittances from the United States are Mexico, India, Guatemala, the Philippines, and China, the organization notes.
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The scale of remittances from the United States is so high that they “account for around 20 percent of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of multiple countries in Central America,” FAIR points out.
“Mexico benefits more than any other country from U.S. remittances. Mexican nationals living in the U.S. remit on average almost a fifth of their monthly incomes to Mexico,” the FAIR report explains. “Remittances to Mexico represent more than a quarter of the money sent out of the U.S.”
Conservative organizations and Republican politicians alike have advocated for a tax on remittances to recoup some of the money sent out of the American economy and throttle funding sent to criminal enterprises south of the border.
“Placing a fee on remittances is crucial because the more money that is smuggled back into Mexico, the stronger the cartels become,” FAIR Media Director Ira Mehlman <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/a-new-tax-on-money-sent-abroad-could-dry-up-drug-cartel-cash-and-penalize-illegal-immigration">told The Daily Wire</a>. “Many illegal aliens are working off-the-books, and therefore, no payroll taxes have been collected. Taxing the money as it leaves the country would be a way to recoup some of that revenue loss.”
A remittance tax of 5 percent was introduced in the original version of the Big Beautiful Bill, but the figure <a href="https://insightplus.bakermckenzie.com/bm/tax/united-states-obbba-introduces-new-excise-tax-on-remittance-transfers_1?utm_source=chatgpt.com">shrank</a> to a meager 1 percent tax.
The proposal <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mexican-president-threatens-to-mobilize-against-law-that-could-help-cut-off-cash-to-cartels?author=Spencer+Lindquist&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Mexican+President+Threatens+To+%E2%80%98Mobilize%E2%80%99+Against+Law+That+Could+Help+Cut+Off+Cash+To+Cartels">sparked outrage</a> from Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum. “If necessary, we’ll mobilize,” Sheinbaum threatened. “We don’t want taxes on remittances from our fellow countrymen. From the U.S. to Mexico.”
“America is not the world&#8217;s piggy bank. And we don&#8217;t take kindly to threats,” Senator Eric Schmitt (R-MO) fired back in response to Sheinbaum’s comments.
Sheinbaum later <a href="https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/mexico-remittance-tax-finabien-card/">promoted</a> one way in which Mexicans residing in the United States can avoid the one percent remittance tax, which takes effect in January of 2026.
The Senator from Missouri also <a href="https://x.com/Eric_Schmitt/status/1947357663118889408">introduced legislation</a>, called the REMIT Act, which would implement a <a href="https://www.schmitt.senate.gov/media/press-releases/senator-schmitt-introduces-bill-to-implement-15-percent-remittance-tax/">15 percent tax</a> on remittances. “Each year, the U.S. sees tens of billions of dollars leave our country as foreign nationals wire money back to their nations of origin, siphoning wealth and resources directly from our economy,” Schmitt said. “Remittances have also been a major driver of the mass migration crisis we have seen at our southern border.”

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Immigrants Send $200 Billion Out Of The United States Every Year, Study Finds

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President Donald Trump said over the weekend that he would hit both Mexico and the European Union with a 30% tariff, effective August 1. 
Trump made the announcements in letters sent to Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Saturday. In response, von der Leyen stated that the European Union would continue its efforts to reach a trade deal with the United States before the August 1 trade negotiation deadline. 
“The United States of America has agreed to continue working with the European Union, despite having one of our largest Trade Deficits with you. Nevertheless, we have decided to move forward, but only with more balanced and fair TRADE,” Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com">wrote</a> to von der Leyen. 
He added that there would be no tariffs for European companies that relocate their manufacturing to the United States and that the rates could be adjusted if the European Union dropped trade barriers for American goods. If the European Union retaliated with its own new tariffs, Trump said he would raise the 30% levy by an equal number. 
After Trump&#8217;s letter was posted on Truth Social, von der Leyen <a href="https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/statement_25_1816">said</a> that the tariffs would “disrupt essential transatlantic supply chains.” 
“Few economies in the world match the European Union&#8217;s level of openness and adherence to fair trading practices. The EU has consistently prioritized a negotiated solution with the U.S., reflecting our commitment to dialogue, stability, and a constructive transatlantic partnership,” she said. 
“We remain ready to continue working towards an agreement by August 1. At the same time, we will take all necessary steps to safeguard EU interests, including the adoption of proportionate countermeasures if required,” she added. 
The European Union <a href="https://ustr.gov/countries-regions/europe-middle-east/europe/european-union">exported</a> about $605.8 billion worth of goods to the United States in 2024. Trump has already imposed tariffs on European steel and aluminum.  
Trump’s letter to Mexico said that it was not doing enough to crack down on drug cartels. 
“Mexico has been helping me secure the border, BUT, what Mexico has done, is not enough,” he wrote. “Mexico still has not stopped the Cartels who are trying to turn all of North America into a Narco-Trafficking Playground. Obviously, I cannot let that happen!”
He said that if Mexico was successful in stopping the cartels, he would consider an adjustment to the tariff rates. In a statement, Mexico&#8217;s government <a href="https://www.gob.mx/sre/prensa/mexico-ya-esta-en-negociaciones-con-estados-unidos-para-proteger-empresas-y-empleos">said</a> that it was already negotiating with the American officials over the proposed tariffs. 
On Monday morning, Trump posted on Truth Social that other countries had been taking advantage of the United States through trade. 
“The United States of America has been ripped off on TRADE (and MILITARY!), by friend and foe, alike, for DECADES. It has come at a cost of TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS, and it is just not sustainable any longer &#8211; And never was! Countries should sit back and say, &#8216;Thank you for the many year’s long free ride, but we know you now have to do what’s right for America.&#8217; We should respond by saying, &#8216;Thank you for understanding the situation we are in. Greatly appreciated!&#8217;”

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Trump Threatens New Tariffs On Mexico, European Union As Trade Deadline Looms

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The Trump administration is considering multiple different countries that it could potentially deport suspected MS-13 human smuggler Kilmar Abrego Garcia to, naming both Mexico and the African nation of South Sudan as potential destinations for the illegal alien erroneously dubbed a “Maryland man.”
Abrego Garcia was brought back to the United States to stand trial for a human smuggling charge after he was first deported back to his home country of El Salvador. But now the Salvadoran national is expected to be deported yet again if he is let free from jail as he awaits trial.
ICE officials <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/07/10/us-news/trump-admin-still-deciding-where-it-would-deport-kilmar-abrego-garcia-ice-official-tells-judge/">noted</a> that the federal agency would detain Abrego Garcia and deport him to a so-called “third country,” a country other than an alien’s nation of origin that agrees to receive deportees from the United States. Abrego Garcia has claimed that he is at risk of being tortured if he returns to El Salvador.
The third country arrangement was made possible by a Supreme Court <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-admin-secures-victory-in-scotus-ruling-enabling-more-deportations?author=Spencer+Lindquist&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=4&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Trump+Admin+Secures+Victory+In+SCOTUS+Ruling+Enabling+More+Deportations">victory</a> for the Trump administration late last month, which overturned a lower court ruling barring the administration from sending deportees to third countries. Now, <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/06/23/supreme-court-immigrants-deport-torture-sudan/83885228007/">thousands</a> of illegal aliens are expected to be sent to third countries.
The case came after eight criminal illegal aliens, including Cuban and Vietnamese nationals, were <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-deports-murderers-and-rapists-to-south-sudan-but-judge-might-order-their-return-to-u-s">deported</a> to South Sudan after their home nations refused to accept them.
Abrego Garcia is currently awaiting trial in Tennessee as he faces charges for a suspected human smuggling incident. The illegal alien was caught on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/police-suspected-maryland-man-of-getting-paid-to-traffic-illegals-body-cam-footage-shows">body camera footage</a> in 2022 during a traffic stop, in which Tennessee Highway Patrol officers found Abrego Garcia to be driving a modified van with nine men, none of whom spoke English or had driver’s licenses. One officer speculated that Abrego Garcia was “hauling these people for money.”
Abrego Garcia’s case has become a national flashpoint in the immigration debate, with Democrat politicians advocating for the illegal alien and incorrectly referring to him as a “Maryland man,” and Maryland politicians even calling him their constituent.
The illegal alien, who has also been accused of domestic violence, was a member of a far-left organization that advocated for illegal aliens and called for ICE to be abolished, while also receiving federal funding from the Biden administration, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kilmar-abrego-garcia-belonged-to-a-biden-backed-illegal-alien-advocacy-group?author=Spencer+Lindquist&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=1&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=%E2%80%98Maryland+Man%E2%80%99+Kilmar+Abrego+Garcia+Belonged+To+A+Biden-Backed+Group+That+Called+For+Abolishing+ICE">revealed</a>.

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Questions mount over the DOJ and FBI’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case, fueling public suspicion, the Supreme Court clears the way for Trump’s mass government layoffs, and a deadly “screwworm” is spreading through cattle in Mexico.
It’s Thursday, July 10, and this is the news you need to know to start your day.
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<h2>The Curious Case Of Jeffrey Epstein</h2>
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Topline: Days after the Trump administration declared the Epstein investigation closed, public outrage continues to grow. Now, some Republicans are calling for the removal of Attorney General Pam Bondi.
The Trump administration released a now-infamous <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/media/1407001/dl?inline">memo</a> Sunday night saying the Jeffry Epstein case was closed, but that is clearly not what many in the GOP base wanted to hear. Some conservative radio hosts and influencers, as well as lawmakers on Capitol Hill, have made clear they don’t believe the official story.
According to their memo, the Department of Justice determined that Epstein’s death was a suicide after reviewing the existing evidence in the FBI&#8217;s possession — critics want to know why they didn’t seek to gather more evidence. 
“I&#8217;m not surprised to hear that within the existing case files, they didn&#8217;t find anything,” Mike Howell, President of the Oversight Project, told The Daily Wire. “The FBI didn&#8217;t fulsomely investigate the Epstein [case] &#8230; They should have investigated with this new leadership &#8230; You had the richest and most powerful people in the world descending on an island where a known massive sex trafficker was. This goes out to the nature of the global elites and their relationship with the intelligence community and law enforcement, which appears to be very preferential. These are massive questions about the functioning of our country and the rule of law, not only the safety of young women.”
For years, the president and his allies have vowed to present evidence on this case to the American people. Both President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance, for example, said on the campaign trail that they would declassify the “Epstein Files.” FBI Director Kash Patel and Deputy Director Dan Bongino also vowed to prioritize transparency on the case. 
But perhaps the most vocal of all was Attorney General Pam Bondi, who made public statements claiming that there were “tens of thousands of videos of Epstein with children or child porn” as well as other co-conspirators in the case whose names would be made public. In an interview with <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/attorney-general-bondi-under-siege-after-doj-reveals-no-epstein-client-list">Fox News</a> earlier this year, Bondi went so far as to claim that she had a list of Epstein’s clients “on my desk” – the DOJ now claims that document does not exist.
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<h2>SCOTUS Sides With Trump Administration, Permits Mass Layoffs</h2>
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Topline: The Supreme Court this week cleared the way for President Trump to move forward with plans to shrink the federal bureaucracy.
In February, shortly after taking office, President Trump ordered federal agencies to develop plans to implement the recommendations of the DOGE to reduce the size of the federal workforce. Several federal employee unions and activist groups sued, arguing that the executive did not have the authority to restructure the federal workforce without congressional approval. In May, Judge Susan Illston of the Federal District Court for the Northern District of California issued a nationwide injunction, pausing the Trump administration’s plans.
In an unsigned opinion, the Supreme Court stayed the injunction, while it did not preclude future court cases challenging the legality of specific layoffs. The court’s ruling will allow the Trump administration to implement its proposed workforce reductions.
“There are [going] to be more lawsuits, but I do think [Trump’s] got enough running room to really start going forward with this,”  Hans von Spakovsky, senior legal fellow at the Heritage Foundation, told The Daily Wire. “What people ought to realize is how stupid so many of these lawsuits are. Reductions in force … Almost every president has done that. Heck, Obama did it. And nobody thought it was some kind of legal issue or problem until now, when folks are raving about it and saying that President Trump is somehow doing something wrong.”
Interestingly, the stay appears to have divided the court’s liberal members. While her reasoning differed from the majority decision, Justice Sonya Sotomayor signed a concurrence in favor of it. The court’s most junior member, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, signed a pointed dissent calling the majority decision “not only truly unfortunate but also hubristic and senseless.”
“Brown Jackson is really at the far end of the spectrum and that the other justices are getting tired of her,” von Spakovsky said. “I disagree often with what Justice Kagan and Sotomayor put in their decisions, but they at least try to have a legal basis for what they&#8217;re saying … she just doesn&#8217;t have the legal acumen to be on the court.”
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<h2>Flesh-Eating Maggots Threaten Livestock</h2>
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Topline: A flesh-eating maggot has appeared in Mexico, with <a href="https://www.chron.com/news/article/screwworm-maggots-flies-texas-20421558.php?utm_source=chatgpt.com">outbreaks</a> within 700 miles of the United States&#8217; southern border. The pests are spiking fears about potential devastation to U.S. cattle and other livestock. 
A species of parasitic fly, the New World screwworm, spread to Mexico late last year after decades of efforts by the United States to keep the pest out of North America. The adult screwworm lays its eggs in the wounds or other openings (eyes, nostrils, etc) of warm-blooded animals like cattle, other livestock, and sometimes even humans, and consumes their flesh, leading to severe tissue damage or even death – the most recent Mexican outbreak has seen at least <a href="https://mexicobusiness.news/health/news/mexico-confirms-eight-screwworm-myiasis-cases#:~:text=Mexico%20confirms%20eight%20cases%20of,often%20causing%20significant%20tissue%20damage.">eight cases</a> of human infections. They wreak havoc on livestock, in particular – a screwworm infestation can kill a cow in a matter of days. 
On May 11, immediately after the outbreaks were detected, the Department of Agriculture <a href="https://www.usda.gov/about-usda/news/press-releases/2025/06/18/secretary-rollins-announces-bold-plan-combat-new-world-screwworms-northward-spread">suspended</a> live cattle, horse, and bison imports through America&#8217;s ports of entry along the southern border with Mexico. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins has repeatedly said the screwworm <a href="https://www.usda.gov/about-usda/news/press-releases/2025/06/18/secretary-rollins-announces-bold-plan-combat-new-world-screwworms-northward-spread?utm_source=chatgpt.com">poses</a> a serious threat “to our livestock industry, our economy, and our food supply chain.” 
After implementing those restrictions, the Department of Agriculture announced its next step to eradicate the screwworm: <a href="https://apnews.com/article/fly-factory-texas-flesheating-screwworm-cattle-5eb62edc42bcfce40cdbea27b5f8b60c">breed billions of flies</a>, sterilize them, and release them into Mexico and southern Texas. Female screwworms only mate once, so flooding an area with sterilized males is an effective way to prevent wild flies from reproducing. The United States has already done this once – the New World screwworm’s historic range extended into much of North America before it was systematically <a href="https://apnews.com/article/fly-factory-texas-flesheating-screwworm-cattle-5eb62edc42bcfce40cdbea27b5f8b60c" target="_blank" rel="noopener">eradicated</a> decades ago – and this method is said to be much safer, more effective, and more environmentally friendly than spraying the pests. 
The Department of Agriculture is also <a href="https://www.usda.gov/about-usda/news/press-releases/2025/06/18/secretary-rollins-announces-bold-plan-combat-new-world-screwworms-northward-spread">monitoring</a> Mexico’s animal health controls and improving surveillance and detection of screwworm, including providing traps, lures, and technical expertise to Mexico, among other measures.  In a press release issued on June 30, the department said it&#8217;s now consistently conducting sterile fly dispersal, releasing more than 100 million flies each week. They also have teams working with Mexico to observe this and say they’ve not seen “a notable increase in reported screwworm cases in Mexico, nor any northward movement of the pest over the past eight weeks.” 
However, 19 different cattle groups <a href="https://www.r-calfusa.com/19-cattle-groups-urge-usda-to-maintain-ban-on-mexican-livestock-imports-amid-screwworm-threats/">sent a letter </a>to Rollins, urging the USDA to keep the ban on Mexican imports in place, as they claim this risk still persists.

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Julio César Chávez Jr. was arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents on Wednesday and is facing deportation to Mexico for overstaying his visa and lying on a green card application.
The arrest came just days after Chávez faced off against boxer and influencer Jake Paul in Anaheim, California. Chávez lost the match.
Chávez, a Mexican citizen, has committed numerous crimes while staying in the United States and has apparent ties to the Sinaloa Cartel, a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization. He&#8217;s facing organized crime charges in Mexico.
“This Sinaloa Cartel affiliate with an active arrest warrant for trafficking guns, ammunition, and explosives was arrested by ICE,&#8221; Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement.
McLaughlin noted that Chávez was allowed re-entry into the United States under the Biden administration and emphasized that under President Donald Trump, cartel affiliates will not be allowed to remain in the country.
&#8220;It is shocking the previous administration flagged this criminal illegal alien as a public safety threat, but chose to not prioritize his removal and let him leave and COME BACK into our country,” she said. “Under President Trump, no one is above the law — including world-famous athletes.&#8221;
&#8220;Our message to any cartel affiliates in the U.S. is clear: We will find you and you will face consequences,&#8221; McLaughlin added. &#8220;The days of unchecked cartel violence are over.”
Homeland Security <a href="https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/07/03/dhs-announces-ice-arrest-mexican-boxer-sinaloa-cartel-affiliate-active-criminal">said</a> in a press release that Chávez is being processed for &#8220;expedited removal from the United States.&#8221; The boxer has an &#8220;active arrest warrant in Mexico for his involvement in organized crime and trafficking firearms, ammunition, and explosives,&#8221; the department added.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said on Friday that she hopes Chávez &#8220;will be deported and serve the sentence in Mexico.&#8221;
Chávez&#8217;s B2 tourist visa expired in February 2024. Two months later, he filed an application for Lawful Permanent Resident status, based on his marriage to an American citizen, who is connected to the Sinaloa Cartel.
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services in December 2024 made a referral to ICE that Chávez is an &#8220;egregious public safety threat.&#8221; However, he was still allowed reentry and was paroled into the U.S. under the Biden administration.
Homeland Security said it determined on June 27 that Chávez was &#8220;in the country illegally and removable,&#8221; following multiple fraudulent statements on his application to become a Lawful Permanent Resident.
The department noted the following from Chávez&#8217;s rap sheet:
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<li>On January 22, 2012, California Highway Patrol arrested Chavez and charged him with DUI alcohol/drugs and Driving Without a License. On June 23, 2012, the Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles, convicted Chavez for the offense of driving under the influence of alcohol and sentenced him to 13 days in jail and 36 months’ probation.</li>
<li>On January 14, 2023, a District Judge issued an arrest warrant for Chavez, for the offense of organized crime for the purpose of committing crimes of weapons trafficking and manufacturing crimes, in the modality of those who participate in clandestinely bringing weapons, ammunition, cartridges, explosives into the country; and those who manufacture weapons, ammunition, cartridges, and explosives without the corresponding permit.</li>
<li>On January 7, 2024, the Los Angeles Police Department arrested Chavez and charged him with Illegal Possession of Any Assault Weapon and Manufacture or Import Short Barreled Rifle. The court convicted Chavez of these charges.</li>
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