The Trump administration on Friday condemned Spain&#8217;s immigration policies and weighed possible retaliation after tens of thousands of migrants stormed across the Moroccan border into the Spanish territory of Ceuta. 
In a statement, the <a href="https://x.com/StateDept/status/2083197495119626476?s=20">U.S. State Department</a> accused Spain&#8217;s leftist government of facilitating mass illegal immigration, saying its policies fueled the chaos that spiraled into hours of anarchy and left dozens of migrants dead.
“The United States stands with the people of Spain, and all Europeans, against this egregious violation of their sovereignty and human rights,” the State Department said. “This unacceptable incident is the direct result of the Spanish Government&#8217;s deliberate efforts to enable and facilitate mass illegal migration into Europe.”
“We are considering actions to defend Americans at home and abroad from this threat and stand ready to assist other European allies considering similar options,” the federal agency added. 
In damage control, Spain&#8217;s Ministry of the Interior said more than 25,000 migrants have been deported back to Morocco, <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/spain-ceuta-morocco-migrants-border-crossings/">according to CBS News</a>. The leftist government also claimed authorities were removing roughly 150 migrants per minute. 
The Daily Wire could not independently verify those figures.
Earlier on Friday, President Trump weighed in on the controversy, which had sparked an international outcry, warning Americans that similar scenes could unfold in the United States if the balance of power shifted.
“It’s terrible. Remember that picture. That’s going to be us in three years if the wrong side gets in,” Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-issues-grim-warning-for-america-as-europe-reels-from-massive-migrant-invasion?author=Leif+Le+Mahieu&amp;category=undefined&amp;elementPosition=2&amp;row=3&amp;rowHeadline=Latest+News&amp;rowType=Vertical+Carousel&amp;title=Trump+Issues+Grim+Warning+For+America+As+Europe+Reels+From+Massive+Migrant+Invasion">said</a> during a phone interview with Fox News. “If the Democrats get in, you will not live a very good life.”
On social media, the White House echoed Trump&#8217;s argument, <a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/2083199361316524348?s=20">posting a video</a> of a seemingly quiet and secure U.S.-Mexico southern border.
&#8220;While hordes of Third World migrants storm Spain&#8217;s territory, the United States&#8217; borders are locked down at levels never seen before. President Trump inherited a similar invasion to what Spain is facing, and he stopped it on Day One,&#8221; an official White House page posted on X.
Trump’s comments came after around 50,000 migrants rushed across the border into Ceuta, a Spanish territory on the tip of Morocco, bringing widespread chaos and unrest. At least <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/34-dead-after-tens-of-thousands-of-migrants-invade-spain">34 people died</a> as thousands of migrants, mostly young men, attempted to swim or force their way into Ceuta. 
The brazen invasion appeared almost seamless, with migrants encountering virtually no resistance. One military-aged man went viral on social media after recording himself with a <a href="https://x.com/visegrad24/status/2083138726314594810?s=20">selfie stick as he swam</a> to Ceuta to illegally enter Spain.
The migrants, emboldened by the lax immigration policies of leftist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, brought chaos to the streets of Ceuta, causing fear among locals who were overwhelmed by the flood. 
Migrant Ajoub el-Arrot <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/07/31/world/spain-ceuta-migrants-morocco">told</a> The New York Times that he was surprised at the lack of resistance. 
“I don’t know why they let us through. Maybe they had some political reason,” he said. “They opened the border and let everyone go by.”

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WASHINGTON — The State Department is issuing another 250,000 &#8220;Patriot Passports&#8221; imbued with a portrait of President Donald Trump due to &#8220;overwhelming demand,&#8221; The Daily Wire can first report.
The move to make the passports available nationwide comes in response to huge demand for the passports after their limited release for America&#8217;s 250th anniversary, a State Department official shared, noting that the commemorative passport has generated &#8220;extraordinary public interest.&#8221;
“Americans have shown tremendous enthusiasm for the America 250 commemorative passport, and we&#8217;re proud to expand access nationwide as our country prepares to celebrate 250 years of independence,” spokesman Tommy Pigott told The Daily Wire.
Democrat lawmakers <a href="https://www.king.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/king-colleagues-demand-answers-on-special-edition-politicized-us-passport-featuring-trumps-portrait#:~:text=The%20Senators%20also%20emphasized%20how%20unprecedented%20it,the%20sitting%20president%20in%20such%20a%20way.%E2%80%9D">had expressed horror</a> at the initial release of the passports, with senators launching a formal inquiry into Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the alleged &#8220;politicization&#8221; of the passports.
&#8220;It&#8217;s a scary day in America when an actual king behaves more democratically than the president of the United States,&#8221; wrote Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), known for his visit to El Salvador to meet with deported illegal immigrant Kilmar Ábrego García.
Democrat California Rep. Mike Levin posted angrily about how Trump&#8217;s &#8220;signature in gold&#8221; is &#8220;superimposed over the Declaration of Independence, a document literally written to get away from this exact behavior.&#8221;
&#8220;No sitting president has ever done this,&#8221; he said in a social media post. &#8220;Coins, park passes, battleships, and now your passport. The man cannot find a surface he will not slap his name or face on. This is not patriotism. It is vanity.&#8221;
<div id="attachment_1147331" style="width: 877px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ignoring-backlash-from-dems-state-department-makes-patriot-passports-available-nationwide/u-s-passports-featuring-u-s-president-donald-trump" rel="attachment wp-att-1147331"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1147331" class="wp-image-1147331 size-large" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/07/GettyImages-2285664444-867x576.jpg" alt="" width="867" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/07/GettyImages-2285664444-867x576.jpg 867w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/07/GettyImages-2285664444-300x199.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/07/GettyImages-2285664444-768x510.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/07/GettyImages-2285664444.jpg 1024w" sizes=" (max-width: 867px) 100vw, 867px" /></a>A limited edition U.S. Passport featuring U.S. President Donald Trump, on display at the State Department exhibit on the final day of the Great American State Fair on July 10, 2026 in Washington, DC.  (Photo by Al Drago/Getty Images)</div>
The State Department and Trump administration appeared to ignore this backlash (Trump said in a June Truth Social post that the new passport says &#8220;Welcome, but be good!&#8221;) and are now rolling out even more of the passports.
“This commemorative passport is a meaningful way for Americans to carry a symbol of our nation&#8217;s history and enduring spirit as they travel the world,&#8221; Pigott explained. &#8220;By expanding the program, we&#8217;re giving more Americans the opportunity to take part in this historic milestone and celebrate the values that have made the United States the greatest nation in the world for nearly 250 years.”
Americans who wish to obtain one of these <a href="https://travel.state.gov/passport250">passports</a> can attend application events at passport agencies and centers across the country. The commemorative passports will include a portrait of the president next to the text of the Declaration of Independence, a Freedom 250 gold flag, and a picture of the Founding Fathers signing the Declaration.
The first passport events will be held at agencies in Chicago, Colorado, Connecticut, Dallas, Detroit, Minneapolis, New Orleans, and New York, a State Department official shared.

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Just before dawn on Tuesday, hundreds of Iranians gathered in Isfahan hoping to stop two young men from being hanged. Instead, security forces violently dispersed the crowd and publicly executed 25-year-old Abolfazl Sepahi Badjani and 28-year-old Amirhossein Safari Hosseinabadi.
Both men were convicted on charges stemming from clashes that Iranian authorities say resulted in the deaths of four security officers. Human rights groups say the men were sentenced after proceedings marred by allegations of torture, forced confessions, and closed-door trials. 
The executions stem from the nationwide uprising that began in late December after a currency collapse, soaring inflation, and worsening living conditions sparked protests across Iran. Iranian regime forces responded with a sweeping crackdown that included internet shutdowns, mass arrests, and the widespread use of lethal force. 
The executions, which reportedly took place at 3:40 a.m. local time, coinciding with the morning call to prayer, came despite last-minute appeals from United Nations experts, international human rights organizations, and the State Department.
Days before the hangings, State Department Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor Riley Barnes condemned Iran&#8217;s execution campaign, saying the United States stood with &#8220;brave young Iranians who dared to raise their voices&#8221; and calling on the regime to release political prisoners and stop executing individuals for peacefully exercising their fundamental rights.
President Donald Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116958077127443735">has continued </a>to call out the treatment of protesters and the executions, including last week, when he shared a graphic about the execution of another January protester, 23-year-old Gol-Mohammad Mohammadi. 
&#8220;The latest one of 52,000, plus, innocent protesters. Savages!!! When will the Dumocrats wake up??? Trump posted.
Human rights groups have not verified Trump&#8217;s figure of 52,000 protesters killed, though Amnesty International and U.N. officials have estimated that several thousand were killed during the regime&#8217;s January crackdown. Iran has acknowledged that 3,117 people were killed.
Rather than silencing dissent, the executions appeared to galvanize it for the first time since January.
Videos posted by <a href="https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-isfahan-protests-demonstration-execution-prison-human-rights/33816596.html">Radio Free Europe</a> showed crowds gathering in Isfahan to demonstrate during the executions, with demonstrators chanting &#8220;Without honor!&#8221; while security forces maintained a heavy presence.
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<a href="https://www.iranintl.com/en/202607283664">Videos</a> shared by Iran International showed residents gathering overnight in hopes of stopping the executions before authorities dispersed the crowd.
Messages sent to Iran International from Bandar Abbas, Pardis, Khomein, and other cities described a country grieving but increasingly determined to continue resisting the Islamic Republic. Many said they stayed awake until morning hoping the executions would be called off.
&#8220;We wished until sunrise that morning would never come to Isfahan,&#8221; one person wrote.
&#8220;The people of Isfahan showed that when the next call comes, millions across the country will return to the streets,&#8221; one resident of Bandar Abbas said.
Another reaction shared by the outlet echoed that sentiment: &#8220;Did you think executing our brothers and sisters would make us retreat or become afraid? It has only made us more determined.&#8221;
The two men were among 12 defendants sentenced to death in what has become known as the Alikhani Square case, which stems from the January anti-government protests in Isfahan. They are reportedly accused of arson, vandalism, killing four security personnel, and “waging war on God.”
According to the Oslo-based <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/28/prisoners-iran-largest-jail-sew-lips-shut-hunger-strike-executions-soar">Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO)</a> organization, 62 people were initially arrested in connection with the incident and subjected to months of interrogation, during which rights groups allege many were tortured. 
Ahead of the executions, U.N. experts led by Special Rapporteur <a href="https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2026/07/un-experts-urge-iran-quash-death-sentences-12-protesters-single-hearing-halt">Mai Sato</a> urged Iranian authorities to halt the executions and claimed sentencing all 12 defendants to death in a single closed-door proceeding violated internationally recognized fair trial standards. The experts said the convictions relied heavily on televised confessions, while hearings were held behind closed doors and judgments were never made public. 
IHRNGO also alleged that some defendants were tried remotely from prison without lawyers present and that Iranian state television later aired forced confessions as part of a propaganda documentary. The organization also says families of death row prisoners are routinely threatened and coerced into remaining silent about their loved ones&#8217; cases.
According to IHRNGO, at least 26 protesters have been executed in connection with the December 2025–January 2026 uprising, including Sepahi and Safari, and more than 70 additional protesters remain at risk of execution in Isfahan&#8217;s Dastgerd Central Prison.
Even behind prison walls, resistance has continued. Hundreds of death row inmates at Ghezel Hesar Prison near Tehran have joined a mass hunger strike to protest Iran&#8217;s escalating use of the death penalty, reported The Guardian. According to Iranian rights groups, at least 1,500 prisoners have participated in the strike, which began after six men convicted on drug-related charges were transferred to solitary confinement ahead of possible executions. 
Videos shared by rights groups show prisoners holding signs reading &#8220;No to Executions&#8221; and chanting, &#8220;Be our voice.&#8221; 
In one video, a prisoner is seen sewing his lips shut after he said prison officials ignored the protest for days. 
According to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/28/prisoners-iran-largest-jail-sew-lips-shut-hunger-strike-executions-soar">IHRNGO</a>, at least 424 people have been executed in Iran so far this year. The organization documented 795 executions in 2025, the highest annual total in years. 
While many of those executions involved drug-related offenses, rights groups say the Islamic Republic has increasingly used capital punishment against political dissidents and protesters in the months following the January anti-government uprising, with many convictions allegedly secured through torture and forced confessions. 
Iran Human Rights Director Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam condemned Tuesday&#8217;s hangings, calling public executions &#8220;a cruel form of state terror&#8221; intended to instill fear and deter future protests. 
&#8220;By resorting once again to the medieval practice of public hangings, the Islamic Republic is trying to instill fear throughout society and deter future protests,&#8221; Amiry-Moghaddam said. &#8220;Public executions are a cruel form of state terror that the international community must not tolerate.&#8221; 
<a href="https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2026/07/iran-lack-of-international-justice-six-months-after-january-protest-massacres-risks-further-atrocity-crimes/">Amnesty International </a>warned that the international community&#8217;s failure to hold Tehran accountable for its crackdown risks emboldening further abuses.
“The international community’s failure to pursue international justice for these serious crimes has emboldened the Iranian authorities to threaten further mass killings by ‘trigger-ready’ security forces targeting protesters and dissidents they label as ‘enemies.’” Diana Eltahawy, Deputy Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa at Amnesty International, said.

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The Democratic Socialists of America are raising money to send members to Cuba so they can learn how to &#8220;dismantle [the] U.S. empire.&#8221;
The group set up the “Venceremos Fund,” named after a slogan popularized by Fidel Castro that translates to “We will overcome,” to raise money for the trips. The DSA has sent two <a href="https://www.dsausa.org/news/oct2025_npc_newsletter/?utm_source=chatgpt.com">delegations</a> to learn about what the organization calls “the achievements and challenges of Cuban socialism.” 
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According to the DSA, two delegations have already traveled to Cuba, including one this past October that included about 40 chapter leaders and rank-and-file members.
During the five-day visit, delegates met with <a href="https://reformandrevolution.org/2024/02/17/cuba-between-imperialism-and-socialism/?utm_source=chatgpt.com">leaders</a> of Cuba&#8217;s Communist Party, learning how the country&#8217;s one-party government drafts legislation, selects representatives, and conducts its parliamentary proceedings.
The DSA says the trips are designed to counter what it describes as American misinformation about Cuba.
&#8220;One of the most powerful ways to counter U.S. propaganda about Cuba is to see the country firsthand,&#8221; the organization said. &#8220;These delegations are crucial in dispelling misinformation, strengthening our movement, and equipping participants with the knowledge to advocate for change back home.&#8221;
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After returning to the United States, participants hosted a webinar to share what they learned after meeting with Cuban workers, students, and officials about &#8220;the challenges and achievements of Cuban socialism under the U.S. blockade.&#8221; 
The DSA also <a href="https://international.dsausa.org/cuba-solidarity/our-work/">advocates</a> removing Cuba from the U.S. State Sponsors of Terrorism list, ending travel and trade restrictions, building relationships between American and Cuban labor unions, and sending humanitarian aid to the island.
The organization&#8217;s outreach to Cuba is not new. A DSA delegation also traveled there in 2023, where members reportedly held a <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20251016213647/https://through.blog/2023/11/09/cuba-diaries/">two-hour private meeting</a> with Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel.
One delegate, Maria Franzblau, acknowledged Cuba&#8217;s food, medicine, and fuel shortages but argued those problems should be viewed in the context of being located &#8220;90 miles away from the most powerful capitalist empire in the world.&#8221;
Secretary of State Marco Rubio has argued that Cuba&#8217;s outreach to American leftists, including Hasan Piker, reflects a strategy dating back to Castro, whom Rubio said sought to wage a &#8220;much wider and bigger war&#8221; against the United States following the Cuban Revolution.
&#8220;Cuba matters to us because it&#8217;s 90 miles from our shores, and it has a direct impact on our national security — be it the things they&#8217;ve been involved in in the past, the countries they&#8217;ve aligned with in the past and currently,&#8221; he <a href="https://ebs.publicnow.com/view/46CC64098F83F68730FDCA078DD654308FF8741B?utm_source=chatgpt.com">said</a>.
The State Department has similarly <a href="https://www.aol.ca/articles/front-groups-fellow-travelers-state-225046000.html?utm_source=chatgpt.com">argued</a> that many far-Left activists are not directly controlled by Cuba, but support for the communist regime has become &#8220;de facto policy orthodoxy&#8221; among parts of the American Left.

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The Trump administration does not plan to intervene to stop the extradition of controversial influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate to the United Kingdom, despite the brothers&#8217; legal team urging Secretary of State Marco Rubio to step in.
A senior administration official told <a href="https://www.axios.com/2026/07/22/trump-rubio-tate-brothers-extradition">Axios</a> on Wednesday that the United States will not block the proceedings as the brothers fight extradition in federal court. &#8220;The U.S. has an extradition treaty with the U.K. and the administration intends to honor it in this case,&#8221; the official said.
The State Department likewise indicated it has no plans to intervene. A senior department official said Rubio has not spoken with the Tate brothers or their attorneys and that the department &#8220;has no plans to act on this matter at this time.&#8221;
Andrew and Tristan Tate were <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/andrew-and-tristan-tate-arrested-in-florida-on-rape-child-pornography-charges?author=Tim+Rice&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Andrew+And+Tristan+Tate+Arrested+In+Florida+On+Rape%2C+Child+Pornography+Charges">arrested</a> in Miami on Saturday, following a British extradition request tied to dozens of new criminal charges. The Crown Prosecution Service recently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tate-brothers-slapped-with-38-new-charges-in-expanding-sex-trafficking-case?author=Daily+Wire+News&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Tate+Brothers+Slapped+With+38+New+Charges+In+Expanding+Sex+Trafficking+Case">announced</a> 38 additional <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/read-the-graphic-allegations-unsealed-against-the-tate-brothers?author=Hank+Berrien&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Read+The+Graphic+Allegations+Unsealed+Against+The+Tate+Brothers">charges</a> against the brothers, bringing the total number of charges they face in the United Kingdom to 59. The charges include allegations of rape, sex trafficking, assault, and offenses involving indecent images of children and extreme pornography.
The brothers have thus far denied all wrongdoing, and they appeared Monday before a federal judge in Miami to begin extradition proceedings. Their attorney, Joseph McBride, argued outside the courthouse that the prosecution is politically motivated and has vowed to challenge the request. &#8220;We are of course objecting to extradition because Andrew and Tristan are innocent,&#8221; McBride told <a href="https://apnews.com/article/andrew-tristan-tate-sex-trafficking-rape-uk-miami-3a3748e075f49b00f286a003f5103485">reporters</a>. &#8220;They&#8217;ve never done nothing wrong. They shouldn&#8217;t be extradited for crimes they did not commit.&#8221;
McBride has also argued that Rubio has the authority to deny the extradition request if he determines the brothers are being politically persecuted. Court filings acknowledge the secretary retains final authority over extradition decisions after judicial proceedings conclude, but administration officials have indicated there is no appetite to exercise that discretion in this case.
According to Axios, Rubio has privately expressed disdain for the brothers, with one source telling the outlet the secretary views them as &#8220;scum.&#8221; Another source familiar with President Donald Trump&#8217;s thinking said the president likewise wants nothing to do with the influencers despite their repeated public support for him. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/who-are-andrew-and-tristan-tate-everything-to-know-about-the-controversial-manosphere-brothers?author=Tim+Rice&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Who+Are+Andrew+And+Tristan+Tate%3F+Everything+To+Know+About+The+Controversial+%E2%80%98Manosphere%E2%80%99+Brothers.">The Tate brothers</a> have cultivated a massive online following through content promoting wealth, hyper-masculinity, and controversial views on women. They became prominent figures within the so-called &#8220;manosphere&#8221; and have repeatedly portrayed themselves as allies of Trump and the MAGA movement.
The extradition case is only the latest legal challenge facing the brothers. They remain under criminal investigation in Romania on separate human trafficking and rape allegations, which they have also denied.
A federal judge has scheduled the brothers&#8217; next hearing for July 27 as the extradition process continues. If the court determines the treaty requirements are met, the final decision on whether to surrender the brothers to British authorities will rest with Rubio, though administration officials have made clear they currently have no intention of blocking the request.

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio delivered a straightforward <a href="https://x.com/StateDept/status/2079908555969245667">warning</a> on Wednesday about efforts to push communist influence inside the United States.
“The United States doesn’t want to be a communist country,” he said. “We’re never going to be a communist country. We’re not going to allow communist influences to undermine our politics or our society.”
“Our system doesn’t want communism,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;And we’re certainly not gonna allow communist efforts to undermine American society and drive wedges into our country.”
Rubio identified the Cuban regime as one of the leading forces behind these kinds of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rubio-reveals-how-cuba-is-trying-to-undermine-america">operations</a> in the hemisphere. He tied the comments to a recent intelligence report from the administration.
Rubio also stressed that while the United States interacts with different governments and systems around the world, there is a clear boundary when it comes to protecting American institutions and society from communist subversion.
His comments on Wednesday come shortly after the Secretary of State delivered a major international <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rubio-levels-the-left-pledges-to-crush-global-marxist-terror-networks-in-historic-address?author=Hank+Berrien&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Rubio+Levels+The+Left%2C+Pledges+To+Crush+Global+Marxist+Terror+Networks+In+Historic+Address">address</a> focused on the threat of far-Left militant networks. In that speech to delegates from more than 60 nations, Rubio described the militant networks as being driven by a deep hatred for civilization itself and laid out how America aimed at confronting them. Those steps include offering bounties to disrupt their financing and officially designating several violent far-Left groups as &#8220;Foreign Terrorist Organizations.&#8221;
Rubio called for dismantling these networks brick by brick. He reviewed the history of earlier movements that followed similar ideologies. He referenced groups such as the Tupamaros and the Montoneros in Latin America, the Shining Path in Peru, the Red Brigades in Italy, the Red Army Faction in Germany, and the Weather Underground in the United States. He also pointed to current trends showing far-Left violence increasing in several European countries. Rubio noted that such violence has risen more than 40% in Germany and makes up over 80% of radical violence in Greece.
Rubio outlined the administration&#8217;s responses to the issue, which include both domestic vigilance against influence operations and international coordination against violent extremist networks.

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Rubio Warns Communist Influence In America Has Met Its Match

Secretary of State Marco Rubio&#8217;s State Department released a sweeping <a href="https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Cuba-Report.pdf">99-page report</a> on Monday portraying communist Cuba as the Western Hemisphere&#8217;s foremost engine of Marxist subversion, arguing that the island nation has spent decades cultivating revolutionary movements inside the United States and across the globe.
The report, released alongside a statement from the State Department, casts the Castro regime not simply as a geopolitical adversary, but as the ideological nucleus of what it describes as the modern radical Left. 
&#8220;For more than six decades, the Cuban regime has been the leading sponsor of radical leftism and Third Worldism in the United States,&#8221; Rubio wrote on <a href="https://x.com/SecRubio/status/2079190191160348777">X</a>. &#8220;The State Department is exposing the full history of Cuban espionage and subversion in our country. The American people deserve to know.&#8221;
The document, which reflects a longstanding priority of Rubio&#8217;s foreign policy agenda, argues that Cuba&#8217;s greatest success has not been military or economic, but ideological. &#8220;For nearly seven decades, the Cuban regime has waged a sustained campaign of subversion against the United States,&#8221; the report states. &#8220;It is a campaign that has infiltrated the highest reaches of the U.S. government, recruited and cultivated generations of American activists, backed an unprecedented wave of Left-wing terrorism on American soil, and carried out one of the most durable and damaging foreign intelligence penetrations in American history.&#8221;
According to the report, Havana developed an unconventional strategy centered on espionage, infiltration, proxy networks, and ideological influence rather than conventional warfare. &#8220;In contrast to every other aspect of Cuba&#8217;s failed state, this model has yielded remarkable success,&#8221; the report says.
The report alleges that Cuba trained and armed Left-wing guerrilla groups around the world, provided sanctuary to American fugitives convicted of terrorism, and successfully infiltrated senior levels of the U.S. government, including the State Department, Pentagon, and National Security Council.
Much of the document focuses on what it calls Cuba&#8217;s enduring influence over modern Left-wing activism in the United States.
The report claims Havana helped shape and support organizations ranging from the Black Panthers and the Weather Underground during the Cold War to more recent movements including Antifa. It further alleges that Cuban influence continues today through &#8220;leftist nonprofits, anti-ICE collectives, socialist groups, and Marxist militant organizations.&#8221;
&#8220;From its earliest years in power, the Cuban regime has believed that its own survival and strategic interests were inextricably linked to the advance of the revolutionary Left inside the United States,&#8221; the report argues. &#8220;The Cubans have always seen revolution in America as an end unto itself.&#8221;
Rather than characterizing Cuba as merely a Soviet satellite, the report argues the Castro regime developed its own distinct form of Marxism centered less on class struggle than anti-Western and anti-American revolutionary ideology.
&#8220;While the collapse of the Soviet Union &#8230; largely rendered the Soviet model of communism extinct, the Cuban Marxist project not only survived, but thrived,&#8221; the report states. &#8220;By the turn of the twenty-first century, Havana had solidified its place as the ideological capital of the modern radical left.&#8221;
The report also links Cuba to several of America&#8217;s most recent episodes of civil unrest. It argues that &#8220;many of the most significant upheavals in recent American political history — from the George Floyd riots to the rise of Antifa to the explosion of pro-terrorist activism on American college campuses — can be linked, in some way, shape, or form, to Cuban influence.&#8221;
The report further warns that Cuba remains an active intelligence threat, alleging the regime maintains networks inside American institutions while simultaneously serving as a staging ground for Russian, Chinese, and Iranian intelligence operations.
The report concludes by arguing that Cuba&#8217;s strategy has always been to undermine America from within rather than confront it directly. &#8220;The regime&#8217;s method was never primarily premised on kinetic warfare,&#8221; the report states. &#8220;It was subtler, and far more dangerous: to attack the United States not from without but from within — to turn Americans into instruments of their own nation&#8217;s undoing.&#8221;
The publication comes as the Trump administration has significantly increased pressure on Havana through sanctions, diplomatic measures, and renewed scrutiny of the communist government&#8217;s ties to hostile foreign powers. Rubio, the son of Cuban immigrants, has long been one of Washington&#8217;s most outspoken critics of the Castro regime and has repeatedly argued that the United States has underestimated Cuba&#8217;s role in exporting revolutionary ideology throughout the Americas.

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Rubio Reveals How Cuba Is Trying To Undermine America

Leftism

Marxism

Secretary of State Marco Rubio pushed the Trump administration&#8217;s anti-globalism campaign forward on Monday and took aim at the International Criminal Court (ICC), which Rubio called the “unaccountable arbiter of a new global law.”
The ICC claims it possesses authority to prosecute American officials and servicemen who work for America’s interests. The secretary wrote a <a href="https://www.wsj.com/opinion/why-were-dismantling-the-icc-0af0a8a6?mod=hp_opin_pos_2">Wall Street Journal</a> opinion piece on the ICC’s latest affronts to American law. Rubio <a href="https://x.com/SecRubio/status/2076671740407652582?s=20">said</a> the ICC wants to remove America’s sovereignty.
“They believe that they should be in charge of your laws, of your country, your life — and they don’t care whether or not you agree,” Rubio said.
Rubio perceives the ICC’s actions as waging war against the United States under the guise of “international law.” He added that the court is filled with “unelected globalist bureaucrats&#8221; who assert nearly limitless authority.
“The ICC is backed and run by a powerful network of leftist nongovernmental organizations, smug globalists, and hostile Third World governments united by their enmity toward the U.S.,” Rubio wrote.
The ICC has taken action against the United States in recent years, including launching an investigation into “war crimes by members of the United States armed forces” in Afghanistan. 
Last year, major activist groups <a href="https://ccrjustice.org/civil-society-calls-urgent-un-action-denounce-usel-salvador-detention-agreement">pushed the court</a> to prosecute the Trump administration for deporting violent illegal immigrants to El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center. Rubio also pointed out that, last year, a former chief prosecutor of the ICC accused the United States of violating international law by issuing an airstrike against an alleged drug smuggling boat — what the former chief prosecutor claimed was “a crime against humanity.” The former ICC prosecutor also called U.S. servicemen “criminals, not soldiers.” 
“If we stand idle, all of them [American servicemen] would be at the mercy of foreign judges thousands of miles away, facing the constant risk of prosecution and even imprisonment for the so-called ‘crime’ of defending their own country,” Rubio added in a video released Monday.
The State Department also released a <a href="https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/2026/07/state-department-launches-campaign-to-dismantle-international-criminal-courts-threat-to-american-sovereignty/">document</a> on Monday detailing Rubio’s campaign against the ICC, which includes calling on the senior leadership of other nations to discuss the threat the ICC poses and encouraging withdrawal from the international court. Rubio is also pushing for greater scrutiny of nations that continue to comply with the ICC while using U.S. assistance and encouraging other nations not aligned with the ICC to “leverage their diplomatic networks” and take action along with the United States.
The department also imposed visa bans and travel restrictions on ICC personnel and greater sanctions against the ICC and affiliated organizations. 
The ICC was originally established in 2002 to prosecute only the most serious offenses, such as genocide or war crimes, and only if a nation’s court couldn’t prosecute these issues on its own. It marketed itself as a global backdrop, not seeking to interfere with nations’ internal affairs. However, Rubio listed several examples of the ICC overstepping its bounds and seeking to remove America’s sovereignty, in addition to its targeting of the Trump administration over actions taken on immigration and national security concerns. 
<a href="https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260306-us-group-urge-iran-to-grant-icc-jurisdiction-over-apparent-war-crimes/">In March</a>, the American organization Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN) told Iran to file a “declaration” to allow the ICC to have “jurisdiction over crimes committed on its territory since the war began” against the United States. The ICC has also <a href="https://www.cfr.org/articles/international-criminal-court-prosecutor-threatens-united-states-senators">called for arrest warrants</a> against Israeli officials, and 12 U.S. senators told the ICC that such action would be perceived as a threat to both Israel’s sovereignty and the United States.
“The United States will not tolerate politicized attacks by the ICC on our allies,” the 12 senators wrote in response. “Target Israel and we will target you.” 
The ICC responded in a post on social media, saying that anyone who threatens to retaliate against the court is an “offense against the administration of justice.”

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Globalism

International Criminal Court

WASHINGTON — A Kuwaiti man who obtained a green card in the U.S. is being sent home after he called America &#8220;the enemy&#8221; and expressed support for terrorists.
Tareq Alkhudari entered the country on a non-immigrant student visa in 2014 to attend San Jose State University, a source familiar with the situation said. He gained lawful permanent resident status in November 2024, but is now in federal custody pending removal from the United States after Secretary of State Marco Rubio terminated his legal status. 
In posts from his Instagram and Bluesky accounts, Alkhudari repeatedly expresses disdain for the United States and white people. In December 2025, he posted a cartoon of a brown-skinned individual preparing to set fire to the American-flag-cape draped over the shoulders of a woman dressed in red, white, and blue.
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In another post he speaks positively of the &#8220;Al-Aqsa Flood,&#8221; the code name given by Hamas for their terror attack on Israel on October 7, 2023.
&#8220;Since Al-Aqsa Flood, we&#8217;ve witnessed an unprecedented surge in public support for Palestine,&#8221; reads a graphic that Alkhudari shared. The post questions whether Western supporters of Palestinians are genuine and whether their support is &#8220;consequential and coincidental, or has it been prepared for this inevitable time?&#8221;
He also shared a graphic stating &#8220;the compass remains Palestine&#8221; and &#8220;the enemy remains Isntreal and Amerika.&#8221;
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In another post, he mocks a woman for defending both Palestinians and Americans, writing: &#8220;Lol I wonder what this cracker would think if she knew I watch documentaries and investigations of white on white crimes to soothe myself to sleep.&#8221;
In an Instagram post about his plans to travel home to Kuwait before President Donald Trump launched Operation Epic Fury, Alkhudari blames &#8220;Isntreal and Amerika&#8221; for the &#8220;instability&#8221; and says those countries are responsible even if an Iranian missile kills him.
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As he lamented reports of a deal between Iran and the United States, Alkhudari posted a photo of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Trump, saying: &#8220;Hope whatever the other carries is contagious and they both perish from a comet striking them just before they take their final breaths suffocating on white phosphorous [sic] and their own blood.&#8221;
He also railed against &#8220;incessant Amerikan and zionist expansion proxy warfare, sectarian fragmentation, and the normalization of colonial presences across the region.&#8221;
&#8220;The Trump administration will never allow foreigners who denigrate our great nation to abuse the hospitality of the United States and remain on American soil,&#8221; a State Department official shared. 
“This foreign national wished harm on our president, referred to America as &#8216;the enemy,&#8217; and voiced support for foreign terror organizations,&#8221; the official added. &#8220;Foreign nationals who echo propaganda from foreign adversaries while residing in the United States should expect to find themselves on a deportation flight. They must return home.” 
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Alkhudari also expressed an intense hatred of Americans, even those who agreed with his political causes.
&#8220;You satiate your desperations from theatrical representations with more American consumerism, as the country continues its planned genocides, colonization, and exploitation of Black, Brown, and indigenous bodies,&#8221; he wrote in a post on Bluesky.
Another post slams Westerners who &#8220;identify as pro-Palestine&#8221; but don&#8217;t understand why Iran is targeting American bases in the Middle East, saying that these Westerners are &#8220;exposing the limits of their political literacy and nature of their performativity.&#8221;
&#8220;There is no point walking them through it,&#8221; he writes. &#8220;It&#8217;s fruitless labor. Imagine explaining sectarianism to a white Amerikan who roots for Francesca Albanese and thinks Pierce [sic] Morgan&#8217;s sympathy signifies change&#8230;If one cannot situate the Zionist entity within the broader architecture of regional militarization and normalization, the confusion is self imposed.&#8221;
In a Kuwaiti newspaper article, Alkhudari tears into New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, arguing that Mamdani is not radical enough and &#8220;came from the heart of the American liberal establishment and enjoyed the support of white feminist movements and liberal normalizers whose true loyalty remained with the American colonial system, even if they wore the mask of &#8216;progress and civilization.'&#8221;
And as he reflected on how Americans are beginning to view the Palestinian cause and what freedom means to him, he questions: &#8220;Does it mean a state alongside the occupier? Or does it mean dismantling the existing entity and establishing a single, just state on all of the land? Eyes are beginning to open to the fact that among them are normalization advocates and traitors hiding behind masks of freedom.&#8221;

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Hamas

Kuwait

Earlier this week, federal authorities arrested a Cuban operative who allegedly assisted far-Left activists, including Hasan Piker. The Trump administration now plans to deport the Cuban national.
The State Department revoked Carlos Antonio Lloga Dominguez&#8217;s immigration status after he &#8220;spent more than a decade working as a foreign subversive for the Communist Cuban regime’s premier influence and intelligence front group in the United States,&#8221; agency spokesperson Thomas Pigott said Wednesday. Federal authorities also nabbed Lloga Dominguez&#8217;s wife and son.
The Cuban national &#8220;spent more than a decade in the United States working for the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the People (ICAP),&#8221; a communist organization that Secretary of State Marco Rubio sanctioned in June over its ties to the Cuban regime, Pigott said.
&#8220;He has continued to maintain ties to the transnational communist subversion network throughout his time residing in our nation,&#8221; Pigott said.
The State Department describes ICAP as &#8220;the central node in a sprawling Cuban intelligence and influence operation, claiming to span more than 2,000 organizations across more than 150 countries,&#8221; adding that the group &#8220;has a long and intimate relationship&#8221; with Cuban intelligence officials.
ICAP&#8217;s current president Fernando González Llort served 15 years in an American prison for acting as a Cuban spy, according to the State Department.
Pigott added that the Marxist group has been complicit in “trafficking in vile anti-American propaganda, cultivating pro-Havana regime activists and politicians, and lobbying federal, state and local politicians on behalf of the Cuban dictatorship.” He said the group sought to use America’s Left-wing advocates to export Cuba&#8217;s communism.
“Under the Trump Administration, America will never become home for Cuban Communist regime thugs who peddle propaganda, run foreign influence operations, or seek to wage revolution against American civilization,” Pigott said.
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For decades, the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the People – or “ICAP” – has been a vehicle for radical left-wing extremism and subversive foreign influence in the United States and across our hemisphere. ICAP is the Cuban regime’s premier influence and intelligence front…
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ICAP worked with Left-wing nonprofits in the United States, including the People&#8217;s Forum, Progressive International, and Code Pink, to organize a convoy to bring supplies to Cuba that Piker joined in March, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/rubio-sanctions-cuban-groups-ties-us-nonprofit-network-funded-communist-donor-neville-roy-singham" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News</a> previously reported.
Federal investigators began probing advocacy groups in the United States that have been lobbying, messaging, fundraising, and organizing with Cuban government officials, according to Fox News. As part of the investigation, authorities have reportedly been looking into Piker, Code Pink co-founder Medea Benjamin, and Code Pink D.C. coordinator Olivia DiNucci.
The Treasury Department issued administrative subpoenas to Piker and Benjamin requesting records related to their travel to Cuba, communications, and financial activity connected to the convoy, Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/doj-treasury-investigate-nonprofits-leaders-allegedly-coordinating-cuba-influence-campaign" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> in May.
During a Twitch stream, Piker <a href="https://x.com/Awk20000/status/2072463036129087592">denied</a> knowing Lloga Dominguez or ICAP.
“I don&#8217;t understand why they&#8217;re covering this as like the organization that sent Hasan Piker to Cuba,” he said.
“Bro, Trump is gonna put me in f*ckin&#8217; prison, I swear to God, what the hell is going on?” Piker said. &#8220;We&#8217;re about to hit f*ckin’ 1930s Germany if we haven&#8217;t already hit it and &#8230; these dumb f*cks on the Democratic Party side are still complaining about the people that the Trump admin is actively targeting, and they’re also taking advantage of that active targeting because they also don&#8217;t like us, great.”
In a <a href="https://x.com/bear_ing/status/2059257115223728408" target="_blank" rel="noopener">resurfaced</a> clip, Piker said a contact was communicating with the Cuban regime on his behalf to possibly organize a trip.
“The Cuban government actually hit my contact from the embassy and told them that ‘if the only thing stopping Hasan from coming to Cuba was the consistent internet access, we can make it happen.’” Piker said.
ICAP, which was founded by Fidel Castro in 1960, has denied acting on behalf of the Communist Cuban regime, Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/alleged-cuban-influence-operative-family-federal-custody-after-rubio-revokes-legal-status" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.

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Code Pink

Espionage

The Ben Franklin Fellowship is not unlike hundreds of other organizations in Washington, D.C.
At its core, it&#8217;s a group of like-minded individuals involved in foreign policy in some capacity, united around the goal of bringing their vision to the federal agencies that oversee America&#8217;s relationships around the world, particularly the State Department. These kinds of groups, whether in the form of social clubs, think tanks, advocacy groups, or other organizations, exist for virtually every major government institution and policy area in America.
The BFF, however, has drawn outsized scrutiny. Media outlets like the New York Times, Politico, and Reuters have published critical reports on the group, chock-full of complaints from the Foreign Service establishment.
As far as I can tell, the underlying complaint about BFF is that it is conservative. The throughline of the criticism from the media and groups like the American Foreign Service Association seems to be that BFF wants to &#8220;Trumpify&#8221; the State Department by injecting it with loyalists to the president. Upon further investigation, I found little evidence that&#8217;s the case.
&#8220;We&#8217;re not about electing President Trump or any of the MAGA Republicans; that&#8217;s not what we&#8217;re doing. We&#8217;re about organizing the federal bureaucracy around a value set,&#8221; Phil Linderman, co-founder of the BFF, told me. &#8220;Change DEI. Change the way that USAID has done business for years and years. Change the concept that the Foreign Service has a value set separate from whatever the President wants. We try to change that, then they denounce us as being partisan.&#8221;
Linderman is a retired foreign service officer who served in the State Department for three decades. He explained to me how, a few years ago, he and some like-minded veterans of the foreign service space decided they needed a formal group to organize around the principles they believe in, which run counter to the establishment assumptions of most career bureaucrats.
&#8220;There is a school of thought which is made by the left, the organizations like the American Foreign Service Association, that you have one non-partisan professional who runs the embassy as the ambassador or whatever, and that&#8217;s the guy you go to, and that&#8217;s what we&#8217;ve always done in America in the State Department,&#8221; Linderman explained. &#8220;And if these conservatives come along, they&#8217;re just taking us back to Tammany Hall and politization of the career ranks. That is a very unrealistic framework for how these institutions work.&#8221;
&#8220;What happens is because there&#8217;s a liberal-left quiet orthodoxy that dominates in the Foreign Service and the Civil Service in the State Department — and across the government, really — these people that rise to the highest ranks in the career organization are usually liberal-left, and they will say to a Republican conservative president, &#8216;I&#8217;ll do your bidding,&#8217; etc. And for the most part, conservatives have to live with that because they have no other choice.&#8221;
He also said there wasn&#8217;t some grand conspiracy between his team and the Trump administration to staff up departments with loyalists. Yes, some BFF members have ended up in the administration, but that came about by a normal process of networking and lobbying, not via some sinister MAGA plot hatched years ago.
The Fellowship lists eight principles on its website, which include &#8220;The central purpose of U.S. diplomacy is to serve the national interest. We endorse the careful husbanding of limited resources, both budget and staff, rather than engaging in perpetual, unfunded expansion&#8221; and &#8220;We believe in strong, sovereign nations. To the extent that cooperation between nations in international fora contributes to the prosperity and security of participating states, and serves national interests, we endorse multinational organizations [sic].&#8221;
The principles generally align with what one might call an &#8220;America First&#8221; worldview, but they are vague enough to allow for big-tent coalition-building. Contrary to the claims of the critics, there&#8217;s nothing there about Donald Trump or MAGA, though I find it hard to imagine many of the group&#8217;s members (Linderman told me there are a few hundred members and around 100 fellows) aren&#8217;t supporters of the president.
But it seems like the group will outlast the Trump movement as well. Even if the 2028 Republican presidential nominee isn&#8217;t JD Vance, it&#8217;s hard to imagine the GOP going back to a classic neoconservative foreign policy. I believe that&#8217;s why the slings and arrows have come out for the BFF; it&#8217;s establishing the proverbial beachhead for the Right in a place they haven&#8217;t done so before, and the establishment feels threatened.
&#8220;The biggest advantage to me is being able to get to know other similarly minded individuals within the foreign affairs community,&#8221; Marcus Thornton, a politically-connected Foreign Service Officer and BFF fellow, told me. &#8220;The foreign affairs community is already so skewed ideologically that it&#8217;s hard to find people who differ from that worldview.&#8221;
&#8220;The Ben Franklin Fellowship has given us an opportunity to get to know others who may be more willing to challenge that worldview, and to be bold about ensuring that American values have a voice when it comes to foreign affairs.&#8221;
That community building is what threatens the old guard. Conservatives have made a critical error in how they talk about the federal bureaucracy. By demonizing all bureaucrats and pushing young talent toward other career paths, the right doesn&#8217;t have the personnel on hand to properly staff up federal agencies when the winds of change sweep them into power. That&#8217;s the problem that groups like BFF are uniquely suited to solve.
Thornton is unique in his willingness to speak openly and frankly about his time in the Fellowship. There are blogs dedicated to doxxing the members of the group in addition to the legacy media attacks on them. Linderman told me that run-of-the-mill members often prefer to remain anonymous for fear of professional retribution within the State Department.
I did push back on Linderman about some of the group&#8217;s higher-profile names, who don&#8217;t have much of a track record in foreign policy and, in some cases, appear to be just Trump loyalists who ended up at State by happenstance.
Linderman acknowledged that part of the battle in building a new organization like this is balancing between making a name for yourself and sticking strictly to the mission. But he argued that the core goal of the Fellowship is still to bring together like-minded foreign policy professionals and develop new ones, not to serve as a holding ground for political operatives.
In that, I wish them the best. Right-wing institution-building has been a major casualty of the Trump era, and it&#8217;s about time we got back into the business of training good bureaucrats to serve as a counterweight to the bad ones.

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WASHINGTON — The State Department has uncovered several birth tourism networks around the world, The Daily Wire can first report.
Under guidance from the State Department to be on high alert about fraudulent documentation, U.S. embassies in West Africa, Europe, and North Africa found evidence of multiple plans to produce fraudulent documents and facilitate individuals traveling to the United States to give birth within American borders, The Daily Wire has learned.
In West Africa, a U.S. embassy uncovered a &#8220;sophisticated birth tourism network&#8221; wherein more than 100 foreign nationals were using fraudulent documents to obtain visas and secure U.S. citizenship for their children. The State Department shut down this birth tourism network and revoked the foreign nationals&#8217; visas. State is also coordinating with local authorities to &#8220;systematically identify and cut off any similar operations.&#8221;
&#8220;Under President Trump, the State Department is defending the integrity of U.S. citizenship by ending illegal birth tourism schemes,&#8221; said State Department messaging viewed by The Daily Wire. &#8220;No foreigner is permitted to obtain a visitor visa for the primary purpose of acquiring U.S. citizenship for a child by giving birth in the U.S.&#8221;
A U.S. embassy in Europe found that more than 400 suspected birth tourism cases had occurred since 2024. In this case, investigators traced the birth tourism to at least six companies that were coaching applicants on what to say in their visa interviews, arranging housing, and setting up delivery plans. State again shut down the process, revoked the visas, and permanently banned &#8220;several fraudsters from traveling to the United States ever again.&#8221;
An embassy in North Africa revoked more than 100 visas for &#8220;birth tourist&#8221; parents who came to the United States specifically to give birth to children who would get U.S. citizenship. State Department consular officers worked with law enforcement and used data analytics to identify the networks abusing the visa system in this case.
&#8220;A U.S. visa is a privilege, not a right,&#8221; the State Department messaging said. &#8220;The State Department is taking action around the world to stop this abuse, dismantle birth tourism networks, and hold accountable those who try to scam our system.&#8221;
The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-are-chinese-birth-centers-hiding-in-your-backyard-we-went-to-find-out">previously investigated</a> eyebrow-raising cases of birth tourism in Texas, where the state sued De’Ai Postpartum Care Center in Houston for “exploiting birthright citizenship by unlawfully facilitating the invasion of Chinese nationals … for the sole purpose of giving birth.” That center is accused of facilitating the births of more than 1,000 American-born babies, as reported by to The Daily Wire&#8217;s Jennie Taer.
President Donald Trump promptly signed an executive order ending birthright citizenship after taking office in January 2025, but the order has been repeatedly paused due to legal challenges. The Supreme Court will hand down a decision on the order sometime in late June or early July.
&#8220;We are the only Country in the World STUPID enough to allow &#8216;Birthright&#8217; Citizenship!&#8221; protested the president, the day that the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case. He attended those oral arguments in person, the first president in United States history to do so.

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