The White House pulled its nominee to lead Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Thursday, according to multiple reports.
Oklahoma state trooper Lance Schroyer&#8217;s nomination for ICE director stalled after Republicans blocked his confirmation hearing, Politico <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2026/09/17/ice-nominee-withdrawn-schroyer-01082250?utm_source=dlvr.it&amp;utm_medium=twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
Schroyer previously led the security detail for Markwayne Mullin, now Homeland Security Secretary, when Mullin was a U.S. senator. Mullin later tapped Schroyer to serve as a senior adviser at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
It is unclear why exactly the White House withdrew Schroyer&#8217;s nomination. Some reports indicate that officials within DHS were concerned that Schroyer lacked adequate experience enforcing immigration law and working in the federal government.
Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Rand Paul (R-KY) held up Schroyer&#8217;s confirmation hearing over requests for information about the shootings of Renée Good and Alex Pretti by immigration officers in Minneapolis earlier this year, the Wall Street Journal reported last month.
President Donald Trump&#8217;s border czar, Tom Homan, also reportedly opposed Schroyer&#8217;s nomination, the outlet reported.
Schroyer led the Oklahoma Highway Patrol&#8217;s partnership with ICE, which trained its force in immigration law to make arrests alongside federal immigration agents, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2026/09/17/trump-withdraws-his-nominee-lead-ice/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to The Washington Post.
The former trooper was deputized to make arrests for ICE last year after completing a 40-hour online training program, the outlet reported.
When Trump nominated Schroyer for the ICE director role, Mullin expressed confidence in &#8220;Lance’s strong leadership and firsthand experience&#8221; that he said &#8220;will empower the men and women of ICE to deport criminal illegal aliens, secure the homeland, and protect the American people.&#8221;
ICE hasn&#8217;t had a confirmed director in over a decade, and Mullin recognized that in his earlier statement, urging the Senate to act quickly to confirm Schroyer.

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Attorney General Todd Blanche declined Tuesday to comment on an ongoing federal investigation involving Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) that could result in her deportation. 
The Daily Wire’s Mary Margaret Olohan asked Blanche during a White House press briefing whether the Trump administration would move to deport Omar if Homeland Security Investigations determined she had committed immigration fraud.
“I’m not talking about ongoing criminal investigations,” Blanche said. “And so, I’m not — I don’t have anything to say about your first question.”
White House border czar Tom Homan confirmed Sunday that federal officials continue to probe Omar after Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin <a href="https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/2098209805215080868?s=20">stated</a> last week that Omar “married her brother to try to bring him into the United States.” Homan did not say Omar committed immigration fraud, but said feds continue to examine allegations and did not rule out stripping her of her American citizenship, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ice-investigating-rep-ilhan-omar-homan-confirms">The Daily Wire</a> previously reported. 
“I’m not going to comment on an ongoing criminal investigation,” he told Fox News host Jacqui Heinrich on Sunday. “I know things are going on. But I can’t give specifics of what’s happening. But we’ll see.”
“I mean, if someone committed [an] immigration violation and someone committed marriage fraud or anything like that, regardless if they’re a congresswoman or not, no one’s above the law, so I’ll leave it at that. We’ll let HSI, Homeland Security Investigations, continue the investigation,” Homan said.
Heinrich then pressed Homan on whether his comments confirmed an investigation is ongoing.
“I’m confirming that ICE is — yeah. Look, I said months ago, that is something that’s been reported, and it needs to be looked at,” he replied.
The Trump administration has launched a broader effort to denaturalize foreign-born individuals accused of fraud during the immigration process. In May, Vice President JD Vance <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jd-vance-cranks-up-pressure-on-ilhan-omar-over-immigration-fraud-scandal">said</a> that the Justice Department was actively investigating Omar over the fraud claims.
Homan did not confirm whether the federal government is actively pursuing Omar’s denaturalization.
“I’ve been around 40 years, and we’ve done de-nats cases. We have denaturalized citizens based on fraud, based on lying on their applications or lying through the process, misrepresenting themselves, or maybe misrepresenting organizations they belong to or beliefs they have. But denaturalization is a process,” Homan said.
“It’s a very serious process. So if someone lies through that process to becoming a citizen, and we can prove they in fact lied or misrepresented themselves, we can absolutely denaturalize them. We’ve done it before many times over the last 40 years I’ve been around. So it’s a process,” he added.
Homan pushed back on criticism from Democrats who say such an investigation is politically motivated.
“There’s nothing political about it,” he said. “ICE is enforcing law that Congress wrote. I mean, these are all laws that are in statute.”

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Homeland Security Investigations is conducting a investigation into Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) over allegations of immigration fraud, White House border czar Tom Homan revealed Sunday.
Homan&#8217;s comments come after Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin <a href="https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/2098209805215080868?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stated</a> last week that Omar &#8220;married her brother to try to bring him into the United States.&#8221; Homan did not go so far as to say that Omar committed immigration fraud, but said that Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), a branch of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), is looking into the allegations and did not rule out stripping her of her American citizenship.
&#8220;I&#8217;m not going to comment on an ongoing criminal investigation,&#8221; he told Fox News host Jacqui Heinrich on Sunday. &#8220;I know things are going on. But I can&#8217;t give specifics of what&#8217;s happening. But we&#8217;ll see.&#8221;
&#8220;I mean, if someone committed [an] immigration violation and someone committed marriage fraud or anything like that, regardless if they&#8217;re a congresswoman or not, no one&#8217;s above the law, so I&#8217;ll leave it at that. We&#8217;ll let HSI, Homeland Security Investigations, continue the investigation,&#8221; the former acting ICE director said.
Heinrich then pressed Homan on whether his comments confirmed an investigation is ongoing.
&#8220;I&#8217;m confirming that ICE is — yeah. Look, I said months ago, that is something that&#8217;s been reported, and it needs to be looked at,&#8221; Homan replied.
The Trump administration has launched a broader effort to denaturalize foreign-born individuals accused of fraud as part of the immigration process. In May, Vice President JD Vance <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jd-vance-cranks-up-pressure-on-ilhan-omar-over-immigration-fraud-scandal">said</a> that the Justice Department was actively investigating Omar over the fraud claims.
Homan did not confirm whether the federal government is actively pursuing Omar&#8217;s denaturalization.
&#8220;Look, you know, I&#8217;ve been around 40 years, and we&#8217;ve done de-nats cases. We have denaturalized citizens based on fraud, based on lying on their applications or lying through the process, misrepresenting themselves, or maybe misrepresenting organizations they belong to or beliefs they have. But denaturalization is a process,&#8221; Homan said.
&#8220;It&#8217;s a very serious process. So if someone lies through that process to becoming a citizen, and we can prove they in fact lied or misrepresented themselves, we can absolutely denaturalize them. We&#8217;ve done it before many times over the last 40 years I&#8217;ve been around. So it&#8217;s a process,&#8221; he added.
Homan pushed back on criticism from Democrats who say such an investigation is politically motivated.
&#8220;There&#8217;s nothing political about it,&#8221; he said. &#8220;ICE is enforcing law that Congress wrote. I mean, these are all laws that are in statute.&#8221;
Omar, who was born in Somalia, arrived in the United States in 1995 as a refugee before securing her citizenship in 2000 at 17 years old.
In 2009, she married British citizen Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, who some allege is her biological brother. The couple reportedly separated in 2011 and formally divorced in 2017.
It was Omar’s second marriage.
In 2002, Omar married Ahmed Hirsi in a religious ceremony, but the union was never legally recognized.
Omar has said that she split from Hirsi in 2008. Just months after her seperation from Elmi, Omar and Hirsi reconciled.
Omar has denied allegations that she married her brother, calling them &#8220;absurd and offensive.&#8221;

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Federal immigration agents nabbed disgraced political provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos on Thursday. By Friday, he was back home in the United Kingdom.
The swift <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/disgraced-provocateur-milo-yiannopoulos-detained-by-ice-set-for-deportation?author=Jacob+Wheeler&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Disgraced+Provocateur+Milo+Yiannopoulos+Detained+By+ICE%2C+Set+For+Deportation">deportation of Yiannopoulos</a>, 41, is part of a broader strategy the Trump administration is trying to adopt to move detainees out of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention centers and onto deportation flights as quickly as possible.
In Yiannopoulos&#8217; case, he overstayed his visa and received a final order of removal on July 22 after failing to show up for an immigration hearing, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said.
TMZ, which first reported Yiannopoulos&#8217; arrest by ICE, said agents nabbed him at an airport in Louisiana. He received his visa, which has since expired, in 2019, according to DHS.
During a CNN interview on Sunday, White House Border Czar Tom Homan revealed that for months the Trump administration has been working to deport ICE detainees as quickly as possible. He said Yiannopoulos&#8217; case is just one example of the strategy.
&#8220;We&#8217;ve been working steadily the last few months on getting people out quicker. That way, we save the taxpayers money on detention space,&#8221; Homan said.
&#8220;A judge orders them out rather than being in detention waiting for travel documents and flight arrangements. ICE, along with CBP [Customs and Border Protection] through the Department of Homeland Security, is working really good on the efficiencies of the removal process. Get them out quick, open those beds up for more detainees to be held,&#8221; he said.
The former ICE chief explained that the Trump administration tracks &#8220;the average length of stay&#8221; of detainees in ICE detention, adding that &#8220;we want to get that average stay in detention down&#8221; by executing deportation &#8220;orders as soon as we get them.&#8221;
Despite the Trump administration&#8217;s efforts to deport detainees more rapidly, the average length of stay for ICE detainees has yet to see a significant decrease.
The latest average length of stay for a migrant in ICE detention is 49.9 days, according to federal data. In fiscal year 2025, which ran from October 2024 to September 2025, the average number of days ICE detainees spent in detention was 50.3.
During the fiscal year before, migrants stayed in ICE detention 46.9 days on average, according to agency data.

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Deporting Milo Yiannopoulos Is Part Of Trump Admin’s Latest Pivot To Turbocharge Removals

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For roughly two years, the small-town police department in Sahuarita, Arizona, has been using electric shock gloves to control uncooperative subjects.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is set to spend up to $20 million on thousands of the gloves amid the Trump administration&#8217;s mass deportation campaign, according to a recent Department of Homeland Security (DHS) notice.
“It’s another device to help someone get compliant when they are not,” White House border czar Tom Homan said in a recent Fox News interview. “You can’t just go from 0 to 100, right, and the first thing you go for is lethal force.”
Opponents of ICE&#8217;s plan <a href="https://www.nilc.org/press/nilc-statement-on-ices-plan-to-buy-electric-shock-gloves/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">call</a> it &#8220;disgusting and barbaric.&#8221;
But Sahuarita&#8217;s police chief, John Noland, who oversees a force of 68 officers in the southern Arizona town and once approached ICE about using the gloves, says that could not be further from the truth.
When used &#8220;appropriately&#8221; and with the required training, &#8220;it is not inhumane,&#8221; Noland told The Daily Wire.
Noland himself has experienced the shocks roughly a dozen times during training exercises and said the electric jolt is only felt where the glove touches. He also said that the pain instantly disappears once contact ends.
&#8220;It hurts. It is so strange, the moment the glove is no longer applied to your skin, there is zero pain. It&#8217;s not as if I twisted your arm to the point of pain, and then I let go, I back off, and your arm still hurts. It is instantaneous,&#8221; he said.
Noland says the gloves are often more humane than a taser or a baton, his other options for controlling the unruly.
&#8220;I see it as a tool that might be overdue. I know that may not be a popular thing for those folks that are anti-ICE &#8230; But ICE is a law enforcement agency,&#8221; Noland said.
&#8220;In Arizona, we were the first law enforcement agency that does street work or patrol work to put them out. We&#8217;ve been successful with them,&#8221; he said.
It comes as ICE officers have experienced an uptick in violent attacks by both outside agitators and illegal immigrant targets.
Since President Donald Trump&#8217;s return to the White House, ICE agents have seen a 1,300% jump in assaults, along with a 3,200% increase in vehicular attacks, according to DHS.
Law enforcement officers across the country have used the technology, known as G.L.O.V.E., or Generated Low Output Voltage Emitter, to control violent suspects inside jails and in the field.
In order to use the gloves, law enforcement officers must complete a training course and get re-certified every two years, <a href="https://www.complianttechnologies.net/terms-and-conditions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the company behind the gloves, Kentucky-based Compliant Technologies LLC.
&#8220;The skirmish lines that perhaps you have seen on different news channels and whatnot, over the last few years of our federal agents, Border Patrol, ICE agents, and others, DHS, all struggling with people out in the field, trying to get them to comply, now becomes less of a struggle. Now becomes a scenario where there are realistically going to be less injuries,&#8221; Noland said.
&#8220;I wish we had it at the beginning of my career. There would have been so many fights and struggles that would have been over in a matter of moments,&#8221; he said.
Officers wearing the gloves must press a button to activate them before putting them to use and can only deliver a shock when they touch another&#8217;s skin. The current can&#8217;t pass through clothing, hair, metal, plastic, or fur, according to Compliant Technologies.
&#8220;The plus behind the gloves are, as soon as I&#8217;m done grabbing you, the pain is off,&#8221; Noland said, adding that &#8220;people give up real quick, so that&#8217;s a plus for us. Less injuries on our end, less injuries on their end.&#8221;
The gloves each have a unique serial number that identifies the officer assigned to it. They also track when and how long a shock is administered.
The result is better accountability when officers are using force, Noland said.
&#8220;The gloves track when they&#8217;re actually utilized, similar to a taser. If I touch my t-shirt with it, it shows no application was ever given. Even though the glove is on. But if I touch my skin or somebody else&#8217;s skin &#8230; it gives the date, the time, and how long the application was that I touched somebody.&#8221;
&#8220;And each glove has a microprocessor in it. that says this particular glove, with this particular serial number, issued to John Noland, or Officer Smith, or Officer Jones, or Garcia, etc. was utilized on whatever date and time. And here&#8217;s how many times it was utilized. So those are also pluses for us, because it helps track use of force.&#8221;
Noland sees the value for ICE, saying it gives agents the ability to stop an escalating situation in its tracks more quickly and with less force.
&#8220;I could have one of my officers that weighs much less than me, much shorter than me, have a pair of these gloves on, and if they&#8217;re grabbing onto my arms, or my hands, or my wrists, etc., and they&#8217;re pulling me to the ground, I&#8217;m realistically going through the ground,&#8221; he said.

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This Police Chief Has Been Using Shock Gloves On Criminals For Years. Now, ICE Wants A Try.

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Judges across the country have ordered the release of 65,000 detainees from federal immigration custody, revealing the extent of a massive operation to undermine the Trump administration&#8217;s crackdown on illegal immigration.
White House border czar Tom Homan told Fox News over the weekend that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainees are filing &#8220;a record number of habeas cases&#8221; to get released and that &#8220;radical judges&#8221; are largely granting their petitions.
&#8220;The number&#8217;s around 65,000 people that we arrested that we had to release because of habeas cases out of radical judges. So there&#8217;s a lot we&#8217;re fighting against, more than any other president,&#8221; Homan said.
The surge in habeas petitions comes after the Department of Homeland Security issued a sweeping policy to deny bond hearings to ICE detainees. The policy has led to a slew of legal challenges, leading to conflicting rulings by circuit courts across the country.
When illegal immigrants file habeas petitions to challenge their detention, their cases are moved from the immigration courts to federal district courts, where judges tend to look at their arguments more favorably, experts told The Daily Wire. If they get released, it can buy them years of additional time in the United States, allowing them to apply for immigration status.
&#8220;Partisan activist federal district judges are systematically undoing the expensive, time-consuming work of ICE and releasing thousands of arrestable illegal aliens from lawful detention,&#8221; Todd Bensman, who recently left his role as senior adviser to the ICE Office of the Director, told The Daily Wire.
&#8220;It’s a racket, a scam, and a public safety hazard. Federal district judges have zero jurisdiction over administrative immigration processes. Unfortunately, we’ll have to wait for the Supreme Court to shut down this scam. I can’t say how many of these releases have perpetrated crimes but my fingers are crossed that the Supreme Court moves quickly,&#8221; Bensman said.
U.S. Attorney for the District of Arizona Timothy Courchaine previously told The Daily Wire that federal judges are granting bond in &#8220;most&#8221; such cases, adding that &#8220;we’ve been losing almost all of these.&#8221;
Dan Gividen, a Dallas-based immigration attorney, has shifted his practice from arguing cases before immigration judges to filing habeas petitions in district courts, where he&#8217;s had better success getting his clients released. His office went from filing roughly &#8220;three or four&#8221; habeas petitions on behalf of migrant clients in 2019 to roughly 150 in the last year, 70 of which have been granted, he said.
&#8220;That&#8217;s unheard of previously,&#8221; Gividen said of his success.
&#8220;It&#8217;s good to see the way that it&#8217;s going,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The impact is huge.&#8221;
U.S. attorneys&#8217; offices have become bogged down by the overwhelming caseload, which has forced them to divert criminal prosecutors to handle habeas immigration cases.
“We’ve had to pull criminal prosecutors off of their caseloads and put them into civil [cases],&#8221; Courchaine previously said.
&#8220;We’ve had to shift around criminal prosecutors’ workloads and investigations so they could take this on. Even my criminal chief, who’s in charge of more than 60 federal prosecutors up in Phoenix, Arizona, has had to volunteer to take cases,” he added.

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Proponents of President Donald Trump&#8217;s mass deportation effort have become increasingly concerned that the administration is falling short of its lofty goal of carrying out one million removals each year while appearing to inflate the numbers.
A lawsuit <a href="https://itsyourgov.org/press/oversight-project-announces-investigation-for-deportation-data-the-two-commas-compliance-tracker" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> against the Trump administration by the Oversight Project, a nonprofit group advocating for a &#8220;mass deportation,&#8221; has brought those concerns to light. The complaint centers on the Trump administration&#8217;s failure to respond to outstanding Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests for deportation data.
The group alleges that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) may have provided deportation data to the American people that are &#8220;contradictory&#8221; to the numbers presented to lawmakers.
The claim is significant given the Oversight Project&#8217;s support of the Trump administration&#8217;s historic deportation push.
Scott Mechkowski, a visiting fellow for deportation studies at the Oversight Project, told The Daily Wire that he hopes &#8220;the numbers aren&#8217;t inflated,&#8221; adding that he has his doubts.
&#8220;I&#8217;m hoping that the numbers aren&#8217;t inflated, but I just don&#8217;t see [it] with the current daily jail populations being down. I know that just recently in the last week or two, they&#8217;ve said they&#8217;ve arrested a couple thousand people. But before that, the numbers were down,&#8221; the former ICE official said.
&#8220;So, if the numbers are down, either they&#8217;re deporting more people &#8230; but then, where are all the charter flights? What flights are they leaving on? &#8230; If it meets the president&#8217;s agenda, why wouldn&#8217;t there be more press on that? If I&#8217;m getting rid of charter after charter of people,&#8221; Mechkowski added.
In one example cited by the nonprofit organization, a department press <a href="https://www.dhs.gov/news/2026/01/20/dhs-sets-stage-another-historic-record-breaking-year-under-president-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">release</a> from January 20, 2026, stated that &#8220;over 3 million illegal aliens are out of the country, as DHS has removed more than 675,000 illegal aliens and estimated 2.2 million illegal aliens have self-deported.&#8221;
However, the department informed Congress in its fiscal year 2027 budget justification that &#8220;it had removed and returned a total of 442,637 aliens in Fiscal Year 2025 — which includes the final months of the Biden Administration,&#8221; the Oversight Project said in a recent press release.
Citing an internal agency document, CNN <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/18/us/dhs-self-deport-project-homecoming-invs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> in March that 72,000 foreigners had self-deported through the Trump administration&#8217;s exit program.
In May, DHS <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dhs-touts-millions-illegal-immigrant-departures-border-crossings-drop-94-under-trump?utm_source=chatgpt.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Fox News that deportations stood at 3 million, with more than 900,000 removals by federal authorities and another 2.2 million self-deportations.
The numbers &#8220;simply do not make sense,&#8221; the Oversight Project said, adding, &#8220;Our FOIAs and subsequent lawsuits seek to obtain actual data in a form that is easily understandable and gives the American people the ability to see the true deportation numbers.&#8221;
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has also failed to publish an annual report for fiscal year 2025, as they have in previous years.
&#8220;ICE has published an annual enforcement report every year, covering FY2020 through FY2024, with predecessor Year in Review reports going back to 2016. Congress directed ICE to keep publishing it, no later than 90 days after the close of each fiscal year, with five years of comparison data in a sortable, downloadable, and printable format,&#8221; the group said.
&#8220;FY2025 ended on September 30, 2025. The report was due by late December. More than six months later, it has not appeared.&#8221;
At the end of the day, &#8220;actions gotta match words,&#8221; Mechkowski said.
&#8220;You got Markwayne Mullin up there on day one saying this is gonna happen, I want to be transparent &#8230; And you know what, nothing&#8217;s being published. And why isn&#8217;t it being published?&#8221; Mechkowski said.
In response to the Oversight Project&#8217;s concerns, a DHS spokesperson said that during Trump&#8217;s first year of his second term, &#8220;more than 3 million illegal aliens have left the U.S. because of the Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration including an estimated 2.2 million self-deportations.&#8221;
&#8220;As of July 12, we have now deported over 985,000 illegal aliens and arrested over 1 million illegal aliens,&#8221; the spokesperson said.

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Trump Admin Faces Pushback From Conservative Allies On Deportation Data

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In an appearance that would make Machiavelli blush, Illinois Democrat Governor J.B. Pritzker took to the airwaves to project the very authoritarianism he claims to despise onto his political rivals.
Speaking on &#8220;Meet the Press Now,&#8221; the billionaire heir didn’t just criticize the Trump administration; he essentially promised a long-term &#8220;lawfare&#8221; campaign against officials who dare to enforce federal immigration law.
Pritzker’s rhetoric was nothing short of a declaration of judicial war. He accused ICE and CBP agents of &#8220;invading&#8221; Chicago and &#8220;tackling&#8221; citizens. But rather than focusing on policy, Pritzker shifted into the role of a vengeful prosecutor.
He touted an &#8220;accountability commission&#8221; tasked with gathering evidence for future trials. The target list? High-ranking officials like Kash Patel, Kristi Noem, and Tom Homan. Pritzker’s chilling promise — &#8220;We are coming after them&#8221; — sounded less like a champion of due process and more like a man orchestrating a political purge. He admitted that while he might not have the power today, he is willing to wait years for a friendly administration to weaponize the courts against these individuals.
The irony reached a fever pitch when the conversation turned to the recent assassination attempt at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. When asked about his own history of inflammatory language, Pritzker suddenly transformed into a paragon of &#8220;civility.&#8221; He somberly lectured that &#8220;all of us need to be very careful about how we speak&#8221; and urged both sides to &#8220;bring the rhetoric down.&#8221; He insisted there is a &#8220;big difference&#8221; between his prior calls for &#8220;peaceful protests&#8221; and the &#8220;authoritarian&#8221; actions of his opponents.
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However, Pritzker’s newfound commitment to &#8220;soft rhetoric&#8221; is belied by his own recent history. While he stands on the national stage calling for peace, his record tells a different story of provocation. In April, 2025, at the McIntyre-Shaheen 100 Club Dinner, Pritzker <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ive-never-seen-anything-like-it-stephen-miller-blasts-jb-pritzker-for-inciting-violence?author=Virginia+Kruta&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=%E2%80%98I%E2%80%99ve+Never+Seen+Anything+Like+It%E2%80%99%3A+Stephen+Miller+Blasts+JB+Pritzker+For+%E2%80%98Inciting+Violence%E2%80%99">dropped the mask</a> of the statesman, explicitly calling for &#8220;mobilization&#8221; and &#8220;disruption.&#8221; He told a cheering crowd, &#8220;These Republicans cannot know a moment of peace.&#8221;
This is the Pritzker Paradox: a man who threatens to hunt down government officials through the legal system and tells his followers to harass his opponents, yet has the audacity to blame others for a toxic political climate. By vowing to prosecute his enemies while simultaneously calling for &#8220;softened&#8221; language, Pritzker isn’t fighting authoritarianism — he’s providing a masterclass in it. For the Illinois Governor, &#8220;civility&#8221; is apparently a one-way street, and the law is simply a tool to be stored away until it can be used to bury his enemies.

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‘We Are Coming After Them’: Democrat Pritzker Threatens Patel, Homan

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In a blistering rebuke of the Catholic Church’s hierarchy, U.S. Border Czar Tom Homan fired back Monday at high-ranking clergy who have criticized the Trump administration’s intensified immigration enforcement and mass deportation policies.
Speaking after several American cardinals echoed the Vatican’s opposition to the administration’s border strategy, Homan — a lifelong Catholic himself — warned the Church to &#8220;stay out of immigration,&#8221; arguing that religious leaders lack a foundational understanding of the &#8220;atrocities&#8221; occurring at the border.
&#8220;I’m not going to speak for the president; I’m speaking for myself,&#8221; Homan said. &#8220;If they wore my shoes for 40 years, and talked to a 9-year-old girl that got raped multiple times, or stood in the back of a tractor-trailer with 19 dead aliens at my feet &#8230; I think their opinion would change.&#8221;
Homan’s comments follow a high-profile &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; <a href="https://www.cathstan.org/voices/in-60-minutes-interview-three-u-s-cardinals-reflect-on-pope-leos-leadership-and-churchs-opposition-to-iran-war-and-mass-deportation?utm_source=chatgpt.com">interview</a> featuring three prominent U.S. cardinals: Blase Cupich of Chicago, Robert McElroy of San Diego, and Joseph Tobin of Newark. During the segment, Cardinal Tobin stood by his previous characterization of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as a &#8220;lawless organization,&#8221; claiming the agency &#8220;violates guarantees of our Constitution&#8221; to &#8220;terrify people.&#8221;
The religious leaders argued that the administration’s focus on deporting long-term residents has created a climate of fear so pervasive that attendance at Spanish-language Masses has plummeted by 30 percent in some areas. Cardinal McElroy, while conceding that border crossings had grown &#8220;out of control&#8221; under the previous administration, denounced the current &#8220;roundup&#8221; of people who have lived &#8220;good, strong lives&#8221; in the U.S. for years.
&#8220;I would like to know what Catholics feel about this indiscriminate mass deportation,&#8221; Cardinal Cupich added. &#8220;I think that it’s very clear the American people are saying, ‘We really didn’t vote for this.’&#8221;
However, Homan countered that a secure border is the only moral path, claiming President Trump is &#8220;saving thousands of lives&#8221; by putting human traffickers out of business and bankrupting cartels. &#8220;Illegal immigration is not a victimless crime,&#8221; Homan said, welcoming a direct debate with the clergy.
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Border czar Tom Homan, to question on Trump feud with Pope Leo XIV: &quot;I&#39;m speaking for myself, a lifelong Catholic. I wish they&#39;d stay out of immigration…If they understood the atrocities that happen on an open border, I think their opinion would change.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/ZKVgKmy96D">pic.twitter.com/ZKVgKmy96D</a>
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The friction between the White House and the Church has reached all the way to the Vatican. Pope Leo XIV, who, as Bishop Robert Prevost in 2018, retweeted a social media post that stated, “There is nothing remotely Christian, American, or morally defensible about a policy that takes children away from their parents and warehouses them in cages. This is being carried out in our name and the shame is on us all,” issued a <a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/letters/2025/documents/20250210-lettera-vescovi-usa.html#:~:text=Letter%20of%20the%20Holy%20Father,of%20America%20(10%20February%202025)">formal letter</a> to U.S. bishops last year in which he stated, “The rightly formed conscience cannot fail to make a critical judgment and express its disagreement with any measure that tacitly or explicitly identifies the illegal status of some migrants with criminality.”
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It&#8217;s fascinating to see what social media reveals about a person before they become the Pope.
Before he became Pope Leo XIV, Cardinal Robert Prevost was on Twitter trashing Trump, criticizing Vance, calling for open borders, promoting COVID vaccines, endorsing stricter gun… <a href="https://t.co/B60TqSYk7O">pic.twitter.com/B60TqSYk7O</a>
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Despite the forceful opposition from the pulpit, a majority of Catholic voters supported President Trump in the last election, gravitating toward his promises of national security and border integrity — a mandate Homan insists the administration is duty-bound to fulfill, regardless of the Vatican&#8217;s &#8220;critical judgment.&#8221;

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Virginia has become a hotbed for illegal immigrant crime following a string of recent murders.
In just over a month, three illegal immigrants have been accused of carrying out brutal killings — including one where the victim was a 3-month-old infant — in Fairfax County, which has notoriously flouted Immigration and Customs Enforcement&#8217;s (ICE) detainers.
President Donald Trump&#8217;s border czar Tom Homan is now calling on sanctuary leaders in the state to get on board to work with ICE. In an appearance on Fox News Thursday, the former ICE director encouraged authorities in the commonwealth to make deals with the feds that mimic Homan&#8217;s agreements in Minneapolis.
&#8220;Elections have consequences,&#8221; Homan said of the recent killings. &#8220;I lived in Virginia. [Virginia Governor Abigail] Spanberger took over and she moved so far left, she&#8217;s not even recognizable anymore. Look, in that city, Fairfax, they&#8217;ve been a sanctuary city. I&#8217;ve been complaining about them for years.&#8221;
&#8220;Sanctuaries are sanctuaries for criminals and for any politician, or chief of police, or the sheriff, they want to say they&#8217;re not gonna enforce federal immigration law, not their job, they can&#8217;t honor ICE detainers, they don&#8217;t think they&#8217;re legal, we can do the same thing we did in Minneapolis. We can do the same thing, talk to the sheriffs, talk to the chiefs. If you don&#8217;t want to honor detainers, I get it we can litigate that in courts,&#8221; he said.
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Sanctuary politicians, like <a href="https://twitter.com/GovernorVA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GovernorVA</a>, REFUSE to put the safety of American citizens first.
It is common sense. Sanctuary politicians must cooperate with <a href="https://twitter.com/ICEgov?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ICEgov</a> and stop releasing criminals from their jails to create more innocent American victims. <a href="https://t.co/kCo7PttMid">pic.twitter.com/kCo7PttMid</a>
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Trump sent Homan to Minneapolis following the deaths of anti-ICE activists Renee Good and Alex Pretti. Homan took on the role of lowering the temperature with the goal of drawing down the number of federal immigration agents deployed to the Twin Cities.
By the end of his deployment, Homan had brokered what he described as &#8220;unprecedented&#8221; levels of cooperation with authorities in Minnesota, who he said had agreed to hand over illegal immigrants as soon as they were to be released. Homan said at the time that ICE officers would be strategically stationed nearby, so local authorities didn&#8217;t have to hold the inmates longer than local charges would allow.
Homan is now offering to do the same in Virginia.
&#8220;There&#8217;s nothing illegal about you calling ICE before you release them, and we&#8217;ll be there to take custody. You don&#8217;t have to hold them one minute past what you would normally hold them on your charges. Just give us a call, it&#8217;s free, and we&#8217;ll be there. We&#8217;ll even strategically locate deportation officers near those jails,&#8221; he told Fox News host Will Cain.
&#8220;That&#8217;s the success we had in Minneapolis, we got record cooperation there. We can do the same thing in Virginia. But I truly believe they hate Trump more than they care about their public safety because the common sense approach is call us and we&#8217;ll be there and take that public safety threat off the street,&#8221; he added.
Guatemalan illegal immigrant Misael Lopez Gomez, 28, was arrested Friday after he allegedly killed his 3-month-old daughter in Fairfax County, <a href="https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/crime/virginia-dad-charged-medical-examiner-blunt-force-trauma-babys-death/65-97c06d65-4c72-4a5e-b838-f58d095fe4ab" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to WUSA9.
Another Guatemalan illegal immigrant, Anibal Armando Chavarria Muy, 38, was arrested Sunday after he allegedly repeatedly stabbed a man to death in Fairfax County, <a href="https://wjla.com/news/local/baileys-crossroads-deadly-stabbing-murder-anibal-armando-chavarria-muy-charged-fairfax-county-virginia-crime" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to ABC7.
An illegal immigrant with 30 prior arrests was arrested in February after he allegedly fatally stabbed 41-year-old mother Stephanie Minter. The Sierra Leone national, Abdul Jalloh, 32, allegedly left Minter&#8217;s lifeless body at a Fairfax County bus stop when he fled the scene.
ICE has arrested thousands of illegal immigrants in Virginia who pose threats to &#8220;public safety,&#8221; but has had to operate without the help of local authorities, according to Homan.
&#8220;We had to go out and look for them, which is dangerous for the community, dangerous for the officer, dangerous for the alien &#8230; we&#8217;re gonna keep doing it,&#8221; Homan said.
&#8220;Give us custody in your jail before you release them, and you&#8217;re gonna see the crime rate drop significantly,&#8221; he said.

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Agents with the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) should start seeing paychecks Monday or Tuesday, but it could still be quite some time before the business of traveling by air returns to business as usual.
Border Czar Tom Homan told CNN anchor Jake Tapper on Sunday that he had spoken with newly sworn-in Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin about President Donald Trump&#8217;s order — which directed him to pay TSA agents out of preexisting funding — and that they expected agents to see their first paychecks in weeks within the coming days.
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Homan also addressed Trump&#8217;s decision to send Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents into airports — a move made to mitigate the chaos of long lines and wait times as the lack of pay led to mass callouts among TSA employees — and said that they may remain in place for a time yet.
&#8220;We’ll see. You know, it depends how many TSA agents come back to work. How many TSA agents have actually quit and have no plan coming back to work? I’m working very closely with TSA administrator and the ICE director to decide what airport needs what,&#8221; Homan told Tapper.
The president issued an executive order on Friday directing Mullin to use funding that had &#8220;a reasonable and logical nexus to TSA operations&#8221; to ensure that agents received pay. They have not been paid since Democrats voted against funding the Department of Homeland Security some six weeks earlier, forcing a partial government shutdown that has also impacted the U.S. Coast Guard, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, and Secret Service.
The Democrats voted to block the DHS funding bill after the deaths of protesters Renee Good and Alex Pretti during the ICE surge in Minneapolis, Minnesota, despite the fact that ICE agents were still being paid under provisions of the One Big Beautiful Bill.
But as Fox News congressional correspondent Bill Melugin <a href="https://x.com/BillMelugin_/status/2037604682370003061">reported</a>, only frontline ICE and Customs and Border Patrol agents are receiving paychecks amid the shutdown.
&#8220;The ICE, Border Patrol, and CBP agents we see in the field are all getting paid via OBBB. HOWEVER &#8230; their professional and civilian support staff are NOT being paid,&#8221; Melugin explained. &#8220;These are people who work the computers, the public affairs offices, and other support staff who aren&#8217;t on the front line making immigration arrests, but are supporting the agents who are. These civilian support staffers haven&#8217;t been paid for almost half of the last six months when you factor in the prior shutdown last fall.&#8221;
In an effort to get the TSA funded, the Senate <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/senate-strikes-overnight-deal-to-pay-tsa-agents-in-bid-to-end-airport-chaos">passed a measure</a> on Thursday that would break the logjam for most of DHS — with the exception of ICE and some parts of Border Patrol. But following President Trump&#8217;s lead, the House rejected the bill.
Neither the Senate bill nor a House bill that would fully fund DHS includes any of the ICE reforms demanded by Democrats, such as a ban on federal immigration agents wearing masks and a provision requiring judicial warrants for immigration enforcement operations.

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Former acting ICE Director and current White House Border Czar Tom Homan blasted congressional Democrats over the ongoing Department of Homeland Security funding standoff, accusing lawmakers of trying to strong-arm policy changes by withholding funding.
Speaking on CNN&#8217;s &#8220;State of the Union,&#8221; Homan said the dispute is not about budgetary constraints, but about efforts to curb immigration enforcement.
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&#8220;President Trump wants the entire <a href="https://twitter.com/DHSgov?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DHSgov</a> funded,&#8221; says <a href="https://twitter.com/RealTomHoman?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RealTomHoman</a>.
&#8220;They&#8217;re holding the department hostage because they don&#8217;t like what ICE is doing — and ICE is enforcing laws they enacted.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/bMDcSIJ7IB">pic.twitter.com/bMDcSIJ7IB</a>
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“President Donald Trump wants the entire Department of Homeland Security funded. He wants the government open and funded,” Homan said. “But the bottom line is they want changes in ICE tactics. They want changes in policy.” Homan argued that Immigration and Customs Enforcement is simply carrying out laws that have remained consistent across multiple administrations.
“The same laws ICE follows today have been in place during the Clinton, Obama [administrations], and now,” he said. “The law hasn’t changed.” According to Homan, lawmakers are privately pushing to limit arrests rather than openly advocating for abolishing ICE.
“They can say they don’t want to abolish ICE — I’m in the room,” he said. “They want to change operations so we arrest fewer people.” The remarks come as Congress remains locked in a dispute over DHS funding, with negotiations increasingly tied to immigration enforcement demands. Some lawmakers have pushed for additional oversight measures and operational restrictions, including expanded use of body cameras and clearer guidelines around enforcement locations.
Homan noted that ICE has already engaged in discussions on some of those issues, including funding for body cameras, which he said has been allocated at roughly $120 million. But he rejected claims that agents are routinely targeting sensitive locations such as churches or hospitals.
“They can’t point to a single instance—not one—where we’ve arrested anybody in a church or inside of a hospital,” Homan said. “We already practice discretion. We don’t do operations there unless there’s a significant national security threat.”
He added that while discussions over enforcement practices could continue, they should not come at the expense of funding the department. “Why can’t these discussions continue while we keep the Department of Homeland Security open?” Homan said. “They’re holding the department hostage because they don’t like what ICE is doing.”
At the center of the dispute is a fundamental divide between the House and Senate over whether immigration enforcement agencies should be fully funded. The Senate passed a bipartisan measure to reopen most of DHS but excluded funding for ICE and parts of Customs and Border Protection, an approach backed by Democrats but rejected by House Republicans. 
House Republicans instead pushed a short-term <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/28/us-house-stopgap-dhs-funding-bill-republicans-senate?">funding bill</a> that includes full funding for ICE, arguing that enforcement agencies should not be carved out of appropriations. That measure passed narrowly but faces strong opposition in the Senate, prolonging the stalemate. 
The deadlock has had tangible consequences across the country. Tens of thousands of DHS employees, particularly Transportation Security Administration workers, have gone without pay for weeks, leading to staffing shortages, airport delays, and mounting pressure on the administration to act. 
President Trump has attempted to mitigate the fallout by signing an emergency order to ensure TSA agents receive pay, which Homan later <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/03/29/us-news/tom-homan-reveals-when-tsa-will-start-getting-paid-again-following-trumps-executive-order/?">said</a> during the interview “There is a plan to get these TSA agents paid, hopefully by tomorrow or Tuesday,” but many other DHS functions remain affected as lawmakers continue to clash over immigration policy and enforcement reforms. 
Democrats have insisted that any long-term funding deal must include new restrictions or oversight on ICE operations, while Republicans argue that such demands amount to undermining existing law enforcement authority, mirroring the criticism Homan leveled in his interview.
Homan framed the dispute as a fundamental separation-of-powers issue, arguing that Congress should change the law if it disagrees with enforcement outcomes.
“If they don’t like what ICE is doing, then change the law,” he said. “That’s their job.”
As negotiations continue, the standoff underscores a broader clash in Washington over immigration enforcement, one that is increasingly spilling into funding battles with real consequences for federal agencies and the everyday Americans they employ.

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