A Texas GOP official has suspended a statewide program that prioritized non-white male businesses in state contracting. 
Acting Texas Comptroller Kelly Hancock <a href="https://comptroller.texas.gov/about/media-center/news/20251028-historically-underutilized-business-certification-process-under-review-by-acting-texas-comptroller-1761686774358">took action</a> this week to suspend new approvals for companies to be certified as a Historically Underutilized Business, giving them benefits in competing for state jobs. Hancock said that the program was constitutionally questionable because of its emphasis on race. 
“In Texas, we don&#8217;t want to discriminate against anybody, and what this program does is literally discriminate against those that are white,” Hancock told The Daily Wire. “It&#8217;s just been around for a long time, and we&#8217;ve just kind of accepted it and not looked at the constitutionality of it.”
To be defined as a Historically Underutilized Business, the company must be more than 50% owned by black Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Pacific Americans, Native Americans, service-disabled veterans, or women. The program has been in place since 1991. Hancock explained the requirements as “unless you’re white, you qualify.” 
Advantages of being classified as a Historically Underutilized Business include opportunities to bid for contracts from around 300 state agencies that must make a “good faith” effort to reach out to them. 
For example, the Texas Department of Agriculture has <a href="https://texasagriculture.gov/About/Contracting/Historically-Underutilized-Business-HUB">set goals</a> that aim for it to use so-called underutilized businesses for 11.2% of heavy construction jobs, 21.1% of building construction, 32.9% of special trade construction, 23.7% of professional service contracts, 26.6% of other service contracts, and 21.1% of commodities contracts. 
Currently, about 21% of Historically Underutilized Businesses participate in state contracts as prime contractors or subcontractors, receiving 11% of all state spending in total, according to the comptroller’s office. The total awards given to the businesses are over $4 billion, including $1.45 billion for women-owned businesses and $1.6 billion for Hispanic-owned businesses. 
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Hancock said that he was concerned about the process of verifying that one had experienced economic discrimination. 
“How do we audit that somebody was economically discriminated against?” he asked. “How do we verify the information of somebody being economically discriminated against? It&#8217;s got to be more than just skin color.”
He said that contracts should be awarded on the basis of merit, not race or ethnicity. 
The suspension of the program comes after Governor Greg Abbott issued an executive order prohibiting race and sex-based preferences when awarding government benefits.

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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing the makers of Tylenol for marketing the drug to pregnant mothers despite allegedly knowing that early exposure to the drug leads to an increased risk of autism, The Daily Wire can exclusively report.
Paxton has filed suit against Johnson &amp; Johnson and its former subsidiary, Kenvue, &#8220;deceptively marketing Tylenol to pregnant mothers despite knowing that early exposure to acetaminophen, Tylenol’s only active ingredient, leads to a significantly increased risk of autism and other disorders,&#8221; a statement from Paxton&#8217;s office reads.
“Big Pharma betrayed America by profiting off of pain and pushing pills regardless of the risks,&#8221; Paxton said. &#8220;These corporations lied for decades, knowingly endangering millions to line their pockets.&#8221;
Paxton&#8217;s office accused Johnson &amp; Johnson of attempting to &#8220;silence the science&#8221; about the apparent association between prenatal and early childhood exposure to their acetaminophen products and autism and ADHD. It also said the company marketed Tylenol as a &#8220;completely safe pain medication for pregnant women,&#8221; while knowing about the association, which the office said is in violation of Texas’ consumer protection laws.
Texas is the first state to sue the makers of Tylenol after the Department of Health and Human Services trumpeted a link between prenatal acetaminophen consumption and the incidence of autism and ADHD in newborns.
“Taking Tylenol is not good. I’ll say it. It’s not good,” President Donald Trump said last month at a press conference with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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In the lawsuit, Paxton accuses Johnson &amp; Johnson of trying to &#8220;escape responsibility&#8221; for its actions by breaking off Kenvue as a separate entity after becoming aware of the Trump administration&#8217;s impending announcement.
“Seeing that the day of reckoning was coming, Johnson &amp; Johnson attempted to escape responsibility by illegally offloading their liability onto a different company,&#8221; Paxton writes. &#8220;By holding Big Pharma accountable for poisoning our people, we will help Make America Healthy Again.”
Paxton&#8217;s office says the pharmaceutical company &#8220;violated the Texas Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act by fraudulently transferring liabilities arising from Tylenol to a separate company, Kenvue, in order to shield their assets against lawsuits arising from the harmful impact Tylenol had on children.&#8221;
“We believe independent, sound science clearly shows that taking acetaminophen does not cause autism,&#8221; Kenvue <a href="https://www.axios.com/2025/09/22/trump-tylenol-autism-announcement-kenvue" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a statement last month. &#8220;We strongly disagree with any suggestion otherwise and are deeply concerned with the health risk this poses for expecting mothers.”
Paxton has taken on other large pharmaceutical companies, suing Pfizer over the COVID vaccine and Eli Lilly for allegedly bribing providers to prescribe its medications.
In 2024, Paxton — along with dozens of other states — secured a $700 million settlement with Johnson &amp; Johnson for misleading and deceptive claims related to its baby powder products that contained talc.
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An illegal immigrant charged in the murder of 43-year-old Mary Gonzales entered the United States under President Joe Biden using the controversial CBP One app, The Daily Wire has learned.
Javier Roman Hernandez entered the country in July 2023 through Hidalgo, Texas. He was arrested on October 8 and charged earlier this week with murdering Gonzales, whose body was discovered on October 6 in a “wooded area” near a tire shop in Austin after she was reportedly shot and killed. Hernandez was one of nearly a million immigrants who entered the country under Biden using the CBP One app, which streamlined the entry process at the peak of the immigration crisis.
Shortly after taking office, President Donald Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-administration-ends-cbp-one-immigration-app-moments-after-taking-office">terminated</a> the app, which is estimated to have allowed nearly a quarter of a million “inadmissible aliens” into the country.
“These alleged cold-blooded murderers should have never been in our country in the first place and Mary Gonzales should still be alive,” DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement. “One of these criminals came into our country using Biden’s disastrous CBP One app. Open border policies have deadly consequences. Under President Trump and Secretary Noem, these accused murderers will never be free on American streets to commit heinous crimes again.”
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Jesus Llamas-Yanez, who had convictions for driving under the influence and assault and is currently wanted in Mexico, was also charged with Gonzales’s murder, according to <a href="https://www.fox7austin.com/news/2-men-from-mexico-arrested-connection-north-austin-murder">Fox 7 Austin</a>. A third suspect, Enrique Gomez-Urbina, was also in the country illegally and arrested by the Lone Star Fugitive Task Force, according to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/illegal-immigrants-arrested-after-woman-found-shot-death-texas-woods-1-wanted-mexican-feds-police">Fox News</a>.
The Biden administration introduced the CBP One app in January 2023, allowing hundreds of thousands of migrants to remotely schedule appointments at points of entry and be paroled into the country’s interior. It was later discovered that three suspected ISIS members from Tajikistan arrested by federal authorities last year had used CBP One to enter the U.S., <a href="https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/FILE_6538.pdf">according</a> to data the Department of Homeland Security provided to the House Judiciary Committee.
Two other suspected Tren de Aragua gang members accused of <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/09/06/us-news/tren-de-aragua-members-arrested-in-shooting-released-from-custody/">attempted murder</a> in Aurora used the app to come into the United States.
Jennie Taer contributed to this report.

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Texas Republican Governor Greg Abbott said on Sunday that the state is actively going after professors at public universities who push leftist ideologies over important studies.
Abbott made the comment in response to a University of Texas at Austin professor getting dismissed from an administrative post over &#8220;ideological differences,&#8221; a move that was <a href="https://www.axios.com/local/austin/2025/10/15/university-of-texas-mark-artman">reported</a> by Axios last week. In a <a href="https://x.com/GregAbbott_TX/status/1979953044977598674">post</a> on X sharing the Axios story, Abbott wrote, &#8220;Texas is targeting professors who are more focused on pushing leftist ideologies rather than preparing students to lead our nation.&#8221;
&#8220;We must end indoctrination and return to education fundamentals at all levels of education,&#8221; he added.
After being dismissed, tenured psychology professor Art Markman said on LinkedIn he’s preparing for “a new chapter” in his career. He had been at the University of Texas for 27 years, eventually becoming senior vice provost for academic affairs. Markman is also a co-host of the science podcast, &#8220;<a href="https://www.npr.org/podcasts/381443482/two-guys-on-your-head">Two Guys on Your Head</a>.&#8221; He did not say what &#8220;ideological differences&#8221; led to his dismissal.
The Daily Wire reached out to the University of Texas at Austin, seeking comment.
Markman&#8217;s dismissal came as the University of Texas System, which consists of 14 academic and health institutions across the state, launched a review of gender identity and LGBTQ studies, the Austin American-Statesman <a href="https://www.statesman.com/news/education/article/ut-system-audits-gender-courses-gop-targets-21075365.php">reported</a>. The probe will look into courses at all 14 of the system&#8217;s institutions.
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&#8220;The U.T. System has been reviewing courses on gender identity taught at all U.T. institutions to ensure compliance and alignment with applicable law and state and federal guidance, and to make sure any courses that are taught on U.T. campuses are aligned with the direction and priorities of the Board of Regents,&#8221; the University of Texas System said in a statement. &#8220;This review will be discussed at the November Board of Regents’ meeting.&#8221;
Pressure has ramped up on Texas universities to gut courses that include diversity, equity, inclusion, and radical gender theory as President Donald Trump takes action against schools that push leftist ideologies.
Texas A&amp;M, which is not part of the University of Texas System, has also faced controversy in recent weeks after Dr. Melissa McCoul, an English professor, was filmed in class pushing pro-LGBT talking points and telling a student who opposed her to leave a lecture. The videos showing McCoul spouting radical gender theory in a children&#8217;s literature class at the university were obtained by Republican Texas Rep. Brian Harrison and first <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-texas-am-student-booted-from-lecture-after-objecting-to-professor-pushing-radical-gender-theory">reported</a> by The Daily Wire.
Harrison then went on a crusade accusing Texas A&amp;M of leftist bias and pushed for the university&#8217;s president, Mark Welsh to step down or be fired. Welsh&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/texas-am-president-to-resign-after-leftist-politics-infiltrated-university-childrens-lit-course">resignation</a> was announced less than two weeks later.
Harrison appears unconvinced that Texas is going far enough to address LGBT courses at public universities. The state lawmaker <a href="https://x.com/brianeharrison/status/1979965546637472043">responded</a> to Abbott&#8217;s post on Sunday, saying that the University of Texas System is still promoting &#8220;LGBTQ Studies.&#8221; The University of Texas <a href="https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/wgss/courses/">offered</a> numerous courses on LGBT topics this fall, including &#8220;Queer Eastern Europe,&#8221; &#8220;Queer Latinx Aesthetics,&#8221; and &#8220;Black Queer Art Worlds.&#8221;

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The Department of Homeland Security and Customs and Border Protection approved $4.5 billion for the construction of highly technical sections of the border wall.
CBP announced last week that 10 contracts were cleared in September for 230 miles for “barriers” and roughly 400 miles for “technology,” including a “Smart Wall,” which uses multiple elements to monitor and prevent people from crossing over the border illegally.
Some of the new technology includes “steel barriers, waterborne barriers, lights cameras,” and other tools to detect potential “illegal traffic,” according to CBP.
“For years, Washington talked about border security but failed to deliver. This President changed that,” CBP Commissioner Rodney Scott said in a statement. “The Smart Wall means more miles of barriers, more technology, and more capability for our agents on the ground. This is how you take control of the border.”
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The 10 contracts were the first to be paid for through the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which President Donald Trump signed in July. The bill included billions for border and immigration purposes, including hiring more Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and $12 billion to pay back states for costs inflicted by the Biden-era border crisis.
The funding will go to projects along the border, spanning from California to Texas. Since Trump took office in January, several other projects have been cleared through contracts or waivers to continue wall construction, which was primarily halted during the Biden administration.
CBP’s webpage on the Smart Wall explains that the overall goal is to “gain operational control of the border” by combining a mix of measures, including a “secondary” wall and other technologies based on factors such as “geographic characteristics” and “procurement timelines.”
“The Smart Wall serves as a necessary tool to protect areas between ports of entry along the Rio Grande, where crossings already constitute improper entry,” Brandy Perez, a research assistant at the Heritage Foundation’s Border Security and Immigration Center, said.
“The Department of Homeland Security’s $4.5 billion investment in Smart Wall construction amplifies America’s inherent right as a sovereign nation to decide who legally belongs on U.S. soil and who does not,” Perez added.
“The previous Trump administration implemented barriers in regions across the Southwest border and witnessed a decline in illegal crossings by 87% in the<a href="https://www.dhs.gov/archive/news/2020/10/29/border-wall-system-deployed-effective-and-disrupting-criminals-and-smugglers?utm_source=chatgpt.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Yuma </a>sector and a 26% decrease in narcotics seizures in the Rio Grande sector, proving that walls deter foreign nationals who seek to break the laws of the United States and jeopardize public safety,” she continued.
As long-term developments at the border continue, the administration recently touted that fiscal year 2025 was the lowest for apprehensions at the southern border since 1970, and no releases of those crossing illegally in five months as of September, according to a CBP news release.
“Fiscal Year 2025 shows what happens when we enforce the law without compromise,” Scott stated at the time. “For too long, agents and officers were handcuffed by failed policies. Today they are empowered to do their jobs – and the result is the lowest apprehensions in more than five decades, and the most secure border in modern history.”

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A &#8220;small group&#8221; of the 200 Texas National Guard troops deployed to Illinois was reportedly sent home after a photo of several heavyset guardsmen arriving in the state sparked viral criticism over fitness standards.
The Texas Military Department said that an unspecified number were not &#8220;in compliance&#8221; with its &#8220;validation process,&#8221; Task &amp; Purpose <a href="https://taskandpurpose.com/news/texas-national-guard-chicago-standards/">reported</a>. A photo taken by an Associated Press photographer and published by ABC News last week showed the larger-bodied National Guard members.
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“In less than 24 hours, Texas National Guardsmen mobilized for the Federal Protection Mission,” a spokesperson told Task &amp; Purpose by email this weekend. “The speed of the response necessitated a concurrent validation process, during which we identified a small group of service members who were not in compliance and have been replaced.”
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth responded to the Task &amp; Purpose article on social media, writing, &#8220;Standards are back at The [Department of War].&#8221; Since taking over at what was previously known as the Defense Department, Hegseth has gone on a fitness blitz, urging military leaders and troops to uphold strict standards, telling military leaders last month that it&#8217;s &#8220;tiring&#8221; to &#8220;see fat troops&#8221; and &#8220;it’s completely unacceptable to see fat generals and admirals.&#8221;
The National Guard Bureau, which operates within the War Department, released a <a href="https://www.nationalguard.mil/News/Press-Releases/Article/4322684/ngb-statement-on-fitness-standards-for-mobilization/#:~:text=When%20mobilizing%20for%20active%20duty,standards%20will%20take%20their%20places.">statement</a> after the photo went viral, emphasizing that troops “are required to meet service-specific height, weight and physical fitness standards at all times.”
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&#8220;When mobilizing for active duty, members go through a validation process to ensure they meet those requirements,” the bureau added. “On the rare occasions when members are found not in compliance, they will not go on mission. They will be returned to their home station, and replacements who do meet standards will take their places.”
Social media users poked fun at the troops shown in the AP photo. One X user <a href="https://x.com/sportsdummie/status/1975653450810859930">wrote</a>, &#8220;Meal Team 6 reporting for duty,&#8221; while another person <a href="https://x.com/homemade_jorts/status/1975670929314529690">said</a>, &#8220;Guess they missed @PeteHegseth memo about weight.&#8221;
The <a href="https://nationalguard.com/basic-combat-training/army-combat-fitness-test">Army Fitness Test</a>, which National Guard troops are required to pass, &#8220;consists of six events that assess strength and endurance, improving readiness and preventing injuries.&#8221; Troops are required to take the test at least once a year.
The Trump administration <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-deploys-national-guard-to-chicago-as-pritzker-melts-down-over-invasion">deployed</a> around 300 National Guard troops to Illinois as the president seeks to crack down on illegal immigration and violent crime in the Chicago area. The Trump administration, however, has been <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/appeals-court-blocks-trump-deploy-national-guard-illinois-rcna237065">blocked</a> by an appeals court from deploying those troops to the streets.

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An illegal immigrant gang member on the run for allegedly killing a man in California went on to kill a woman in Texas before Immigration and Customs Enforcement <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-wants-brandon-johnson-jb-pritzker-jailed-for-failing-to-protect-ice-officers">agents</a> were able to apprehend him, The Daily Wire has learned.
Cambodian citizen Savin Seng, 41, is wanted in California for allegedly murdering 20-year-old Gabriel Isiguzo outside a North Hills strip club in 2022, according to ICE. Authorities said the killing was “unprovoked,” while <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/help-needed-capture-gunman-allegedly-killed-man-north-hills-strip-club-unprovoked-shooting/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reports</a> at the time suggested the shooting stemmed from an argument over a handicapped spot outside the club.
Seng then went on to allegedly kill 47-year-old Charminy Lewis in Victoria, Texas, on Friday, authorities <a href="https://www.facebook.com/VCSOTexas/posts/wanted-murder-suspect-taken-into-custody-on-friday-october-3-2025-at-approximate/1336578791842323/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. He was later caught by the Victoria County Sheriff’s Department while walking down the highway with a loaded pistol.
Seng, who goes by the moniker “Two-Face,” admitted to authorities that he’s a member of the Asian Boyz gang and said that he desired to return to his home country, <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.txsd.2034990/gov.uscourts.txsd.2034990.1.0_1.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to court documents. When asked how he obtained a firearm, Seng told officers “that he wasn’t a snitch” and that the “gun fell from the sky and he picked it up.”
“For the second time in three years, this violent criminal alien gang member has allegedly murdered someone and then attempted to flee from authorities,” Homeland Security Investigations Houston Special Agent in Charge Chad Plantz said in a statement shared with The Daily Wire.
“Within just 36 hours, the law enforcement community in Southeast Texas banded together leveraging our various resources to successfully locate him and safely take him into custody before he could harm anyone else,” Plantz added.
Seng has a lengthy rap sheet in California that includes two convictions for burglary and one conviction each for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, felon in possession of a firearm, and domestic violence, according to court records.
Seng entered the United States legally in 1984, but was ordered deported in April 2016, according to ICE.
ICE previously had him in custody, but wasn’t able to obtain travel documents from the Cambodian government to send him back, federal law enforcement sources told The Daily Wire.
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In some immigration cases, ICE is unable to deport illegal immigrants home because their countries refuse to accept their own citizens who are egregious criminals. ICE cannot hold detainees indefinitely and is required to release them after a certain period of time.
In an effort to fix the issue, the <a href="https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/06/23/dhs-releases-statement-major-victory-trump-administration-and-american-people" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Trump</a> administration has brokered deals with “third countries” to take in foreign deportees.
A third plane of deportees from the U.S. arrived in the small African nation of Eswatini on Monday as part of the effort, <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/eswatini-will-receive-11-more-third-country-deportees-us-2025-10-06/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to Reuters. The Trump administration is also seeking to deport MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Eswatini, <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kilmar-abrego-garcia-trump-eswatini-deportation/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to CBS News.
The Asian Boyz started in Southern California in the 1980s, and many of its early members were teenage immigrants from Vietnam, Cambodia, and the Philippines, <a href="https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-sep-20-mn-24877-story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the Los Angeles Times.

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The Trump administration will send Texas National Guard troops to Chicago to restore order amid a series of anti-ICE <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fbi-arrests-two-after-attack-on-border-patrol-in-chicago?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Leif+Le+Mahieu&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=1&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=FBI+Arrests+Two+After+Attack+On+Border+Patrol+In+Chicago">attacks</a>.
Democratic Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker <a href="https://x.com/GovPritzker/status/1975013177026109717" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> on X Sunday night that Texas troops were preparing to come to the Windy City, casting the move as “Trump’s invasion.” By Monday, the sanctuary state filed a lawsuit in an attempt to thwart the effort.
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Illinois is taking the Trump Administration to court for their unlawful and unconstitutional deployment of military troops to our state. Thank you <a href="https://twitter.com/ILAttyGeneral?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ILAttyGeneral</a> Raoul for helping defend the rule of law.
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The War Department will deploy roughly 400 soldiers from Texas to Chicago and Portland as the feds face mounting threats from anti-ICE activists.
The latest attack on federal immigration authorities occurred on Saturday morning, when “officers were rammed by vehicles and boxed in by 10 cars” in Broadview, Illinois, Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin <a href="https://x.com/TriciaOhio/status/1974524869892276682" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> on X.
<div id="attachment_908485" style="width: 1034px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-908485" class="wp-image-908485 size-full" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/04/GettyImages-2133331877.jpg" alt="EL PASO, TEXAS - APRIL 02: Texas National Guard soldiers stand on patrol near banks of the Rio Grande river on April 02, 2024 in El Paso, Texas. Texas continues awaiting a verdict on Senate Bill 4. Attorneys representing the state of Texas are scheduled to return to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans on April 3 to continue arguing for the constitutional basis of the bill. Senate Bill 4 allows state law enforcement officials to detain and arrest undocumented immigrants suspected of illegally crossing into the United States. Thus far, all prior attempts to put the Bill into effect have been blocked by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. (Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images)" width="1024" height="681" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/04/GettyImages-2133331877.jpg 1024w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/04/GettyImages-2133331877-300x200.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/04/GettyImages-2133331877-866x576.jpg 866w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/04/GettyImages-2133331877-768x511.jpg 768w" sizes=" (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" />Brandon Bell/Getty Images</div>
The agents were trapped in and had to exit their car before they encountered one of the drivers who allegedly rammed them and determined that they were “armed with a semi-automatic weapon,” forcing the feds to “fire defensive shots at an unarmed U.S. citizen,” according to McLaughlin.
The armed alleged attacker, who was later <a href="https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/10/04/update-dhs-deploys-special-operations-after-multiple-violent-attacks-federal-law" target="_blank" rel="noopener">identified</a> as Marimar Martinez, was the subject of a federal law enforcement intelligence bulletin that circulated last week after she was allegedly “doxing agents and posting online ‘Hey to all my gang let’s f*** those motherf****ers up, don’t let them take anyone.’”
Pritzker said “no officials from the federal government” contacted him “directly to discuss or coordinate” the deployment.
“It started with federal agents, it will soon include deploying federalized members of the Illinois National Guard against our wishes, and it will now involve sending in another state’s military troops,” he said.
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The Illinois governor also called on Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) to stop the effort in its tracks.
“I call on Governor Abbott to immediately withdraw any support for this decision and refuse to coordinate. There is no reason a President should send military troops into a sovereign state without their knowledge, consent, or cooperation,” Pritzker wrote.
“The brave men and women who serve in our national guards must not be used as political props. This is a moment where every American must speak up and help stop this madness,” he added.
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But Abbott <a href="https://x.com/GregAbbott_TX/status/1975027635295007073" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> he’s not going to back down.
“I fully authorized the President to call up 400 members of the Texas National Guard to ensure safety for federal officials. You can either fully enforce protection for federal employees or get out of the way and let Texas Guard do it,” Abbott wrote on X.
“No Guard can match the training, skill, and expertise of the Texas National Guard. They defend our country with pride. America must also know that Texas still has thousands of National Guard assisting with the Border security,” he said.
The Trump administration commenced “Operation Midway Blitz” in an effort to nab illegal immigrants roaming the sanctuary state on September 8, resulting in more than 1,000 arrests.
With that, anti-ICE protesters have gathered outside an agency facility in Broadview, where demonstrators have tried to block agents from driving in and out of the facility.
State and local police in riot gear <a href="https://x.com/Garrett_FoxNews/status/1974148610372567329" target="_blank" rel="noopener">responded</a> to the protests on Friday, while snipers were <a href="https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/1974165474830397860" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stationed</a> on the roof of the ICE facility.

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A Texas Republican said that Democrats are holding the paychecks of millions of military service members “hostage” in order to advance their far-left agenda. 
Congressman Ronny Jackson told The Daily Wire that the Democrats’ opposition to a short-term spending plan backed by Republicans was causing real-world harm to those tasked with protecting America. As the shutdown continues, approximately two million military personnel are expected to continue working without pay — even as members of Congress continue to receive their paychecks. 
“Democrats are shutting down the government and holding our troops’ paychecks hostage, punishing the very men and women who put their lives on the line to protect America,” Jackson said. “It is both ridiculous and unsurprising that Democrats would once again put their radical agenda ahead of ensuring our servicemembers are properly taken care of.”
Jackson’s office highlighted how children in his own district, whose parents work at Sheppard Air Force Base in Wichita County, Texas, no longer have access to after-school programs. 
“For many families, these programs are essential support while parents serve,” Jackson’s office noted.
“Military personnel on active duty, including reserve component personnel on Federal active duty, will continue to report for duty and carry out assigned duties. This includes duty involving excepted and, to the extent they can be performed without incurring new obligations, non-excepted activities,” the Department of War’s shutdown contingency plan <a href="https://wjla.com/resources/pdf/79d6e679-134e-465a-ade4-dbb99d290dd9-CONTINGENCYPLANGUIDANCEFORCONTINUATIONOFOPERATIONSINTHEABSENCEOFAPPROPRIATIONS.pdf">reads</a>.
At the same time, nearly 400,000 civilian employees of the Department of War who perform “critical national security activities” are also expected to work without pay. Hundreds of thousands of other civilian employees for the department are currently furloughed. 
“The military cannot enter into new contracts or renew existing contracts, needlessly delaying the acquisition of critical capabilities for our warfighters,” Jackson’s office noted. 
Last month, the Republican-led House approved a bill that would have continued government funding for the next fiscal year at the same level as the previous fiscal year. That same bill stalled in the Senate after Democrats demanded around $1.5 trillion in new spending. 
The Trump administration has urged Republicans to take advantage of the shutdown to cut down on wasteful government spending and combat fraud. Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought has been tasked with reviewing the sprawling federal bureaucracy to see where cuts may be possible.

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Two Middle Eastern men accused of shooting a Texas youth baseball coach during a pregame prayer were handed immigration status by the Biden administration, The Daily Wire has learned.
Three men opened fire on the Ameripark youth baseball field in Katy, Texas, on Sunday from a nearby pasture, shooting the coach in the shoulder, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/wallercountysheriff/posts/pfbid02gy5JP5GCDkxYyDsSW4cBBuQnzE1mpkoE6cM9QSoCCJh5ERQytnvD7DqFjfXZBscgl?rdid=oLONrjJntJtH19n4#" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the Waller County Sheriff&#8217;s office. The three suspects — Mahmood Abdelsalam Rababah, 23, Ahmad Mawed, 21, and Mustafa Mohammad Matalgah, 27 — have been charged with deadly conduct and are each being held on $100,000 bond.
Mohammad Matalgah of Jordan was given American citizenship on Aug. 1, 2023, despite having prior arrests for drug possession, the Department of Homeland Security told The Daily Wire. Mawed, a Lebanese immigrant, entered the United States on an IR-2 <a href="https://www.uscis.gov/adoption/bringing-your-internationally-adopted-child-to-the-united-states/before-your-child-immigrates-to-the-united-states" target="_blank" rel="noopener">visa</a> — which is given to children of American citizens — on June 3, 2021, automatically granting him a green card.
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“This horrific act of terror firing on children praying before the start of a baseball game is pure evil,&#8221; Assistant Homeland Security Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement. &#8220;These individuals from high threat countries were let in by Biden. They clearly were not vetting the aliens they were letting legally enter our country and even become U.S. citizens.&#8221;
“Not only did Biden fail the American people by leaving our borders wide open to criminals, but he also legally allowed them to gain status and citizenship to terrorize our communities,&#8221; she said.
The motive for the attack is unclear.
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Mustafa Mohammad Matalgah, an alien from Jordan was turned into a U.S. citizen by the Biden Administration, despite a… <a href="https://t.co/RnPx8JFUZT">pic.twitter.com/RnPx8JFUZT</a>
— Jennie Taer 🎗️ (@JennieSTaer) <a href="https://twitter.com/JennieSTaer/status/1971387102853054595?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 26, 2025</a></blockquote>
The Trump administration has been cracking down on immigrant crime with its mass deportation sweeps across the country. President Donald Trump&#8217;s Department of Justice has also commenced an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-admin-orders-justice-dept-to-denaturalize-new-citizens-convicted-of-crimes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">audit</a> of the legal immigration system with an effort to denaturalize new citizens who may “pose a potential danger to national security.”
The injured coach, whose name has not been released, was airlifted to a nearby hospital and has since been discharged, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1217185030454181&amp;set=a.303691761803517" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the sheriff&#8217;s office.
Dramatic video of the attack showed bullets raining down as the young players ran for cover.
The team&#8217;s founder, Andy Baize, <a href="https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/baseball-coach-shot-katy-texas/285-6992be75-6eee-4938-8506-2ca48ef2e851" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> KHOU that the injured coach took a bullet to protect the children.
&#8220;He literally took the bullet for a child that was to his left and so thankfully we avoided a major disaster, still very very emotional over it,&#8221; said Baize.
&#8220;When he was struck by the bullet, his first reaction was to get down to the ground, cover his kids and get them to a safe space,&#8221; he added.

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On Wednesday morning, a sniper killed an ICE detainee and wounded several others in a shooting at a Dallas Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility.
Bullets found near the shooter&#8217;s body were reportedly engraved with anti-ICE messages.
Kash Patel, the head of the FBI, <a href="https://x.com/FBIDirectorKash/status/1970877754221498599">wrote on X</a>, “While the investigation is ongoing, the initial review of the evidence shows an ideological motive behind this attack. These despicable, politically motivated attacks against law enforcement are not a one-off.”
The number one clue that the shooter had a left-wing perspective is that the shooting happened at an ICE facility. This is not the first act of violence at an ICE facility in recent months. In August, there was an ICE facility that was attacked in Yakima, Washington. In July, there were ten suspects who were charged for their July 4 attack in Texas, in which, according to ICE, nearly a dozen violent assailants equipped with tactical gear and weapons attacked a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Prairie Line detention facility in Alvarado, Texas.
There was an attack on ICE officers in Los Angeles that prompted federal intervention by the Trump administration.
This is nothing new, and pretending that it is something new is ridiculous. As acting ICE director Todd Lyons <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/ice-acting-director-says-assaults-on-agents-up-1000-as-dallas-facility-targeted-in-shooting-never-seen-anything-like-this/">said</a>, “I&#8217;ve never seen anything like this in my law enforcement career. I&#8217;ve never seen threats on law enforcement, specifically ICE, increase the way it is. You know, we&#8217;re up over 1,000% assaults on officers right now. And really just a lot of the talk that&#8217;s out there, a lot of the rhetoric, is just the violence directed towards law enforcement officers just trying to do their job. And we just keep it seeing an increase step by step.”
Texas Governor Greg Abbott said that the shooting was an attempted assassination of ICE officers. It was his belief that the ICE detainees were hit accidentally, that the sniper was not trying to hit the detainees, but was trying to fire at law enforcement.
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Meanwhile, NPR host Maria Hinojosa <a href="https://x.com/TimJGraham/status/1970964318981169286">compared ICE</a> to the Nazis, saying, “Black and Latino unity and the city of Chicago will only grow thanks to Donald Trump and his Republican Party. So that is something that he and his Republican Party has feared, that unity of black and brown people coming together. Chicago is a city of neighborhoods, and we do not like outsiders coming to tell us how to run our city. &#8230; I posted, actually, right after that first day on the ground in Chicago; I posted about the fact that there are little Anne Franks, right? &#8230; little girls and boys who are afraid to come out of their homes.”
This sort of rhetoric could very likely lead to violence, because when you say that Anne Frank is hiding, that makes ICE the Nazis.
Last week, Rep. Jasmine Crockett compared ICE to slave patrols.
When you keep saying that ICE agents are Nazis, that ICE agents are slave patrols, people might get the idea that maybe you should do violence to members of ICE. That’s not a huge leap.
I&#8217;m not saying Jasmine Crockett is responsible for somebody shooting an ICE agent, any more than I&#8217;m saying that Barack Obama&#8217;s anti-police rhetoric led to the shooting of Dallas police officers.
But — if you keep ratcheting up the temperature, if you keep treating people in law enforcement as though they are enemies of the people, as though they are doing the bidding of dark Nazi gods or something of that ilk, people at the fringes are going to do acts of violence.
The night before the shooting happened, Gavin Newsom was on Stephen Colbert&#8217;s terrible show, which is still on the air like a zombie, walking beyond its own brain death.
Gavin Newsom <a href="https://x.com/BrendonLeslie/status/1970859241121685589">proceeded to suggest</a> that people need to push back on ICE agents, saying:
<blockquote>That&#8217;s happening in the United States of America. Masked men jumping out of unmarked cars. People disappearing. No due process, no oversight. Zero accountability happening in the United States of America today. People ask, “Well, is it authoritarianism? You&#8217;re being hyperbolic.’”
Bulls*** we&#8217;re being hyperbolic. If you&#8217;re a black and brown community, it&#8217;s here in this country. I&#8217;m deeply proud that I had the privilege of signing the nation&#8217;s first bill, to address the issue of masking, also to require you have simple identification. &#8230; I mean, if some guy jumped out of an unmarked car in a van with a mask on, tried to grab me, I mean, by definition, you&#8217;re going to push back. And so these are not just authoritarian tendencies. These are authoritarian actions by an authoritarian government.</blockquote>
If you keep saying these sorts of things over and over and over again, it should not be a gigantic shock when people commit acts of violence.
The Left has increasingly been committing acts of violence because the rhetoric is so unhinged. 
One of the major problems in the country right now, as polling data shows, is that Americans believe that their neighbors are their enemies. Much of that is self-reinforcing and self-perpetuating. If your neighbor says you are their enemy and then you respond, “If he thinks I&#8217;m his enemy, then he&#8217;s my enemy,” you end up with a cycle of partisan polarization that is unbridgeable. 
Once it becomes unbridgeable, you are effectuating higher levels of hatred and violence. That is a real scenario in the United States.
It&#8217;s not equally positioned. For my entire lifetime, the political Left in this country has basically treated the Right as though the Right were some form of Nazi offshoot.
If you look at the polling data, you will see that things didn&#8217;t shift for Republicans starting to react to that attitude until roughly 2013-14. Thus, for a solid decade and a half, from the time George W. Bush became president, there was a move by the Left to demonize Republicans as the “Other,” as though there was something wrong with them. Democrats didn&#8217;t just think that their neighbors were wrong; they thought they were morally bad, while Republicans tended to think that their neighbors were wrong, but not morally bad.
All of that started to shift around the second term of Barack Obama.
Now both sides think the other side is morally bad, and it&#8217;s pushing both parties out to fringe rhetoric — but the Left has been there for a long time. It&#8217;s systemically integrated into their worldviews.
This is why I&#8217;ve been talking about the permission structures for violence that are generating violence, generating things like the assassination of my friend Charlie Kirk.
When you&#8217;re creating permission structures, when you create a mental model whereby speech is violence, that people who oppose you are actually actors of deep, malicious evil who must be destroyed at any cost, you’re going to get higher levels of violence, which will generate a reaction on the other side.
And that could tear this country, the greatest nation ever created, apart.

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The sniper who opened fire on an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Dallas Wednesday morning intended to kill immigration agents, not detainees, federal authorities <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2XS6OOwi-o" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Thursday.
Joshua <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/heres-what-we-know-about-ice-shooter-joshua-jahn?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Jennie+Taer&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=Here%E2%80%99s+What+We+Know+About+ICE+Shooter+Joshua+Jahn">Jahn</a>, 29, sprayed bullets indiscriminately into the facility as he stood on a nearby rooftop, killing one detainee and leaving two others seriously injured before turning the gun on himself. After conducting a search of his home, authorities found chilling notes Jahn left behind that revealed he hoped to inflict “terror” on the agents and that also read “yes, it was just me,” Acting U.S. Attorney Nancy E. Larson said during a press conference Thursday.
Jahn also left notes that said ICE agents are merely working “to collect a dirty paycheck” and he “intended to maximize lethality against” them and “to maximize property damage at the facility,” while hoping “to minimize any collateral damage or injury to the detainees and any other innocent people,” Larson said.
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“It seems that he did not intend to kill the detainees or harm them. It&#8217;s clear from these notes that he was targeting ICE agents and ICE personnel. The tragic irony&#8230; is that it was a detainee who was killed and two other detainees that were injured when he fired into the sallyport,” Larson said.
FBI Director Kash Patel earlier revealed that Jahn allegedly left <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ice-facility-shooter-left-bullet-casings-reading-anti-ice-at-attack-scene?author=Jennie+Taer&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=2&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=ICE+Facility+Shooter+Left+Bullet+Casings+Reading+%E2%80%98ANTI-ICE%E2%80%99+At+Attack+Scene">bullet</a> casings engraved with the phrase “ANTI-ICE” on them, revealing the “ideological motive” behind the attack.
Patel also noted that the FBI found that Jahn “conducted multiple searches of ballistics and the ‘Charlie Kirk Shot Video&#8217;” in the days leading up to the shooting. The shooter used applications created to track ICE agents’ whereabouts and downloaded a list of Department of Homeland Security facilities before the attack, Patel said.
Jahn had planned the attack for “months,” Joseph Rothrock, the FBI Special Agent in Charge for Dallas, said Thursday.
ICE officers under fire worked to offload the injured detainees from agency vans as Jahn was firing, Marcos Charles, acting executive associate director for ICE’s enforcement and removal operations, said during Thursday’s presser.
“The evidence is clear that this was an intended assault on ICE personnel who come to work every day to do their job,” Charles said.
“Those ICE officers just showed the world who they really are: law enforcement officers who want the best for our country, that&#8217;s ICE integrity, courage, excellence. They were willing to put their lives on the line to pull detainees out of the transport van to get them to safety. They are heroes, and I hope the media has the integrity to shine a light on this story. Enough is enough with the harmful lies and rhetoric, and it has to stop,” he added.

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‘Tragic Irony’: Federal Officials Say Dallas Shooter Wanted To Kill ICE Agents, Not Detainees

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