Trump Deportations

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A Minnesota state representative confessed her own apparently unlawful immigration to the United States to persuade her fellow lawmakers to support allowing illegal immigrants to continue receiving public health care benefits.

On the state House floor on Monday, Rep. Kaohly Vang Her, a Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party member, admitted that she is illegally in the country, claiming that her father misrepresented familiar relations on federal documents.

Her’s confession quickly went viral among conservative political commentators and media outlets, prompting her to recant the admission during a Monday interview with the Minnesota Reformer.

‘My family was just smarter in how we illegally came here.’

Her’s comments come amid violent riots in Los Angeles and escalating tensions in New York City over President Donald Trump’s efforts to solve the country’s illegal immigration crisis.

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Haxhiaj has been charged with one count of assault and battery on a police officer and one count of interfering with police

Worcester, Massachusetts City Councilor Etel Haxhiaj has been charged with assault and battery on an officer as well as interfering with police following a May 8 ICE operation in the city that saw the District 5 city councilor captured on camera attacking authorities as they carried out an arrest. ; ;

Per the Telegram & Gazette, court records released on June 4 found that the police department had sought three charges against Haxhiaj, however, at a closed-door hearing on June 4, an assistant clerk-magistrate found probable cause to issue two of the charges. ; ;

Haxhiaj has been charged with one count of assault and battery on a police officer and one count of interfering with police. Police had sought two counts of assault and battery on an officer. She is set to be arraigned on July 23. ; ;

Haxhiaj wrote in a statement regarding the charges, “Our community continues to be shocked and devastated by the events on Eureka Street as our country staggers from political upheaval. It is frustrating to now be targeted by this criminal prosecution as well. I am a mother, an immigrant and elected leader who attempted, along with other Worcester residents, to protect a traumatized young person, two mothers and an infant. I did the humane thing to do in this situation, nothing more, nothing less.”

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The Trump administration gave Customs and Border Protection the green light to move forward with border wall projects across Arizona and New Mexico.

The Department of Homeland Security instructed CBP to ignore environmental regulations and immediately begin building 36 miles of barrier along the U.S.-Mexico border, CBP announced Thursday.

DHS Secretary Kristi Noem issued a waiver, including against the National Environmental Policy Act, for the federal government to begin construction of 18- to 30-foot slatted walls and roads without having to wait for normal administrative approvals.

The largest part of the 36-mile project, 24 miles called the Tucson Sonoita Project, will go up in the Nogales, Arizona, region, and another two miles of the project will be constructed in the Tucson region of the border.

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A federal judge on Thursday blocked the Trump administration from deporting the family of Mohamad Soliman, the individual suspected of firebombing a gathering of Israel supporters in Boulder, Colorado, on Sunday.

Judge Gordon P. Gallagher’s ruling stated that the administration cannot remove Soliman’s wife and five children from the District of Colorado or the United States pending a ruling from the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals. “[T]he Court finds that deportation without process could work irreparable harm and an order must issue without notice due to the urgency this situation presents,” the judge wrote.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested the family earlier this week and was preparing to deport them before the judge’s ruling, The Hill reported.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is preparing to deport the family of Boulder, Colo., attacker Mohamed Soliman’s wife and five children.

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem said Tuesday that the family had been detained in connection with the investigation, saying they would face questioning over whether they had any knowledge of the attack.

But according to a DHS statement Wednesday, ICE was said to be “processing them for removal.”

The statement sheds new light on a White House social media post Tuesday that said the family “could be deported by tonight.”

“Six One-Way Tickets for Mohamed’s Wife and Five Kids. Final Boarding Call Coming Soon,” the White House’s post said, along with an emoji of an airplane.

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Over the past couple weeks, the U.S. government has unleashed a barrage of policies that would restrict the ability of Chinese students to study in the United States. These measures strike at a key pillar of U.S.-China relations, and they have generated intense anxiety among current and prospective Chinese exchange students. According to data from the Institute of International Education, between 2023 and 2024, there were 277,398 Chinese students studying in the U.S., generating over $14.2 billion for the American economy.

A cable signed last Tuesday by Secretary of State Marco Rubio ordered American embassies around the world to stop scheduling new appointments for student visas and announced an expansion of social-media vetting of student applicants. The week prior, the Department of Homeland Security revoked Harvard’s ability to enroll international students, who currently make up 27 percent of Harvard’s total enrollment. Last Wednesday, the State Department announced it would “aggressively revoke visas for Chinese students, including those with connections to the Chinese Communist Party or studying in critical fields,” and “enhance scrutiny of all future visa applications from the People’s Republic of China and Hong Kong.” (On Thursday, a U.S. federal judge extended an order blocking the government measures related to Harvard.)

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Rep. Becca Balint (D-VT) is now at the center of a massive controversy of her own making after she made a highly offensive comment to her constituents about immigrants. The statement was made during a town hall event in Newport, Vermont, in response to a question about current U.S. immigration policy.

In her response to the question, Balint said that a crackdown on illegal immigration will leave residents of the state without “anyone around to wipe our a–es.”

“Our economy is completely bound up in immigration and migrant labor,” Balint said to her constituents during the event. “We have to come to a place in Congress where it is no longer a political issue, but we see it as an existential issue for the country.”

“If we don’t have avenues for people to come here legally to work or to build a home here, I’m going to be really crude right now — we’re not going to have anybody around to wipe our a–es because we don’t have enough people in our country now to fill the jobs that we have,” she continued.

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Democrat Newark Mayor Ras Baraka filed a lawsuit against Interim US Attorney Alina Habba for “false arrest and malicious prosecution.”

Ricky Patel, a Special Agent in Charge of the Newark Division of Homeland Security, was also named as a defendant.

Baraka’s lawyers accused Alina Habba of acting as a “political operative” in the 17-page complaint.

Read the full complaint here.

The lawsuit alleges Alina Habba violated Ras Baraka’s Constitutional rights, including his Fourth Amendment, First Amendment and Fifth Amendment rights.

On Monday evening, Alina Habba blasted Ras Baraka after his office ‘leaked’ that he was planning to file a lawsuit against the Feds.

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The Muslim terrorist who perpetrated the firebombing attack on Jewish Americans at a rally in Boulder, Colorado, was not only allowed to enter the U.S. illegally during Biden’s term in office, but Biden also gave him limited legal status and a work permit.

Mohamed Sabry Soliman, 45, was identified as the man who tried to murder Jewish people at the Boulder rally by spraying flammable liquid on them, then lighting them up with a flamethrower-style device, the Boulder Police say.

But now, Fox News reporter Bill Melugin reports that Soliman was coddled and given legal status by Biden.

Melugin says he was told the Egyptian national “arrived at LAX on 8/27/22 on a B1/B2 nonimmigrant visa with an authorized stay through 2/26/23, but he overstayed & never left.”

“I’m told on 9/29/22, he filed some sort of claim with USCIS, potentially an asylum claim, and on 3/29/23, USCIS under the Biden admin gave him work authorization, which expired on 3/28/25,” Melugin continued.

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Texas governor Greg Abbott called for the death penalty for two illegal immigrants accused in the hit-and-run death of 18-year-old Ava Moore, a newly enlisted US Air Force recruit, who was killed while kayaking on Grapevine Lake during Memorial Day weekend.“Welcome to Texas. Here’s your death penalty,” the Republican governor posted on X, alongside a video news report covering the arrests of Daikerlyn Alejandra Gonzalez Gonzalez and Maikel Perozo, both originally from Venezuela.Moore had just graduated from the US Air Force Academy Preparatory School and was preparing to begin basic training. She had been spending the holiday weekend with her family in North Texas when the tragic crash occurred on Sunday evening, the New York Post reported.

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An illegal immigrant has been detained after another threat was made against President Donald Trump.

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced the arrest in a statement, saying U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement had arrested Ramon Morales Reyes.

“Thanks to our ICE officers, this illegal alien who threatened to assassinate President Trump is behind bars,” she said.

On May 21,  ICE office received a threatening letter they said came from Reyes.

“We are tired of this president messing with us Mexicans — we have done more for this country than you white people — you have been deporting my family and I think it is time Donald J. Trump get what he has coming to him,” the letter said, according to Noem’s statement.

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A Democratic mayor is under investigation for allegedly “aiding and abetting” the escape of illegal immigrants from custody, a Republican congressman has confirmed.

Freddie O’Connell, the progressive mayor of Nashville, is reportedly the target of an investigation exploring whether he provided material “aid” to illegal immigrants and obstructed an investigation by U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement.

Tennessee Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN) announced that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the House Judiciary Committee are investigating a potential “criminal enterprise” involving federal funds.

“We’ve heard it: the individuals that the mayor is standing with are murderers, rapists, drug traffickers, sexual predators, child traffickers…the list goes on,” Ogles said from the Tennesee State Capitol building on Monday.

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“ICE is removing illegal aliens from ALL states, communities, and worksites across this country… If you are here illegally, use the CBP Home app to self-deport. If not, you will be arrested and deported without a chance to return.”

On Tuesday morning, federal immigration authorities, led by ICE and supported by the FBI, DEA, ATF, and Coast Guard, swept through Nantucket, Massachusetts, detaining and deporting at least 12 individuals illegally residing in the country.

This operation was part of a larger federal sweep that also included Martha’s Vineyard and Hyannis, resulting in 40 total arrests. According to ICE, among those apprehended were a known MS-13 gang member and at least one convicted child sex offender. Federal agents also conducted vehicle stops on roads across mid-island, including Old South Road, Surfside Road, and Miacomet Road.

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The Trump administration asked a federal court late Tuesday to dismiss a lawsuit filed by Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national and suspected MS-13 gang member deported earlier this year under disputed circumstances, arguing the court has no jurisdiction to force his return to the United States.

Abrego Garcia and his family sued after he was removed from the U.S. despite a prior immigration court order granting him withholding of removal to El Salvador due to what Abrego Garcia claimed were gang-related threats to his safety in his home country. He is now detained there anyway and is seeking emergency relief to be brought back to the U.S.

Wife of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, Jennifer Vasquez Sura, second from left, joins a rally outside the U.S. Courthouse in Greenbelt, Maryland, where a federal judge will hear arguments Friday, May 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

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Two illegal aliens have been arrested in connection with the hit-and-run death of 18-year-old Ava Moore, an incoming US Air Force Academy cadet who was set to begin basic training this June.

Ava Moore was killed while kayaking on Sunday when the 21-year-old illegal alien ran her over with a jet ski and fled the scene.

Authorities say the two entered the country illegally in 2023 and 2024.

Mugshots and more details on the two arrestees were published by Bill Melugin:

Police say 21-year-old Daikerlyn Alejandra Gonzalez Gonzalez struck Moore with her jet ski, then fled the scene in a vehicle w/ another Venezuelan illegal alien, 21-year-old Maikel Coello Perozo, and they hit another car while fleeing.

Both have now been arrested by TX authorities, and a press conference will be held tomorrow morning by Texas Game Wardens, Grapevine PD, & Homeland Security Investigations.

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Former Dept. of Ed. official praises action to ensure federal funding helps American students in need, not illegal immigrants

A visiting fellow at the Heritage Foundation praised the U.S. Department of Education’s decision to revoke waivers from California and Oregon universities which allowed them to use federal education funds to assist illegal immigrant college students.

The purpose of the Performance Partnership Pilots for Disconnected Youth program is to help students with disabilities and low-income students obtain a college education. However, the Biden administration allowed universities in California and Oregon to divert the funds to illegal immigrants, according to a department news release. Under the previous administration, TRIO programs could extend benefits to “illegal aliens.”

The waives have since been revoked, drawing praise from Adam Kissel, a visiting fellow at the Heritage Foundation and former deputy assistant for higher education programs in the first Trump administration.

“President Biden’s Department of Education was extremely lawless,” Kissel told The College Fix via email. “The current administration is bringing the rule of law back to federal education policy and programs.”

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Rep. Glenn Ivey (D-MD) said he was denied access in El Salvador to visit Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the suspected MS-13 gang member mistakenly deported by the Trump administration.

Ivey, who represents the congressional district in which Abrego Garcia lived, said he contacted a Salvadoran ambassador to make a request to their government before his trip. Despite that outreach, he added, he was denied access to the prison where Abrego Garcia is being held.

“They knew we were coming, they knew why we were coming, and they know we have the right to do this,” Ivey said in a video posted on X on Monday. “So, they need to just cut the crap, let us get in there and have a chance to see him and talk with him.”

Ivey noted he was told to travel to San Salvador to obtain a permit before he could visit Abrego Garcia. He appeared in the video alongside Abrego Garcia’s attorney and a member of CASA, the Maryland-based union he was part of.

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On Monday, Memorial Day, many in the U.S. remembered those who gave the ultimate sacrifice.

Rep. Glenn Ivey (D-MD) did a Memorial Day post on X.

But his next X post revealed that he won the award for the “next Democrat to embarrass himself by going to El Salvador.” He was in El Salvador, trying to see Kilmar Abrego Garcia on Memorial Day.

Ivey posted a video giving an update on their effort to see Abrego Garcia, saying he was the “Congressman who represents Kilmar.”

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Unaccompanied migrant children watch television inside a playpen at a US Customs and Border Protection facility in Donna, Texas, in March 2021.Dario Lopez-Mills/AP

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The Trump administration filed a motion Thursday to end the decades-old legal ruling that established basic standards for the treatment and release of migrant children—a move that immigrant rights advocates say they will challenge.

The Flores Settlement Agreement, which dates back to 1997, requires the government to move migrant children from jail-like detention facilities to state-licensed, child-appropriate facilities as quickly as possible, and to ensure that children are kept in safe and sanitary facilities.

“The fact that the government refuses to be held accountable to even these most basic standards to keep children safe speaks volumes.”

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At least a dozen migrants were reportedly deported to South Sudan this week, including illegal immigrants from Myanmar, Vietnam, and Mexico.

A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to maintain custody of criminal illegal immigrants who were allegedly flown to South Sudan.

Judge Brian Murphy held an emergency hearing Tuesday and issued an order instructing the administration “to maintain custody and control of class members currently being removed to South Sudan or to any other third country, to ensure the practical feasibility of return if the Court finds that such removals were unlawful.”

At least a dozen migrants were reportedly deported to South Sudan this week, including illegal immigrants from Myanmar, Vietnam, and Mexico, despite a standing court order restricting removals to third countries. Attorneys representing the migrants told the court that immigration authorities have sent people from various countries to Africa, potentially violating a prior ruling that guarantees migrants a “meaningful opportunity” to argue that deportation to a country other than their homeland would endanger their safety.

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President Donald Trump’s offer to illegal alines of a thousand bucks and a free plane ride back to their homes has been put into motion and the first self-deportation flights have already begin.

The first flight lifted off on Monday as several dozen illegals took Trump up on his offer to help them go back where they belong.

Per The Blaze:

Citing an unnamed Department of Homeland Security official, Axios claimed that the first so-called “self-deportation” flight took off from Houston around 9:30 a.m. The plane reportedly carried 65 illegal aliens from Colombia and Honduras and took the individuals to their respective countries of origin.

Those on the flight apparently took advantage of an offer from the Trump administration known as “Project Homecoming.” In exchange for electing to “self-deport” through the CBP Home app, they each received a free ticket home plus $1,000 upon their arrival, Axios said.

DHS Secretary Kristi Noem has urged all immigrants in the U.S. illegally to participate in the program. “If you are here illegally, self-deportation is the best, safest, and most cost-effective way to leave the United States to avoid arrest,” Noem said in a statement on May 5.