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President Donald Trump’s incoming “border czar” isn’t just going to address “root causes” like former Vice President Kamala Harris did in the role — and that, apparently, is making a lot of people angry. So angry, in fact, that Homan says he’s had to move his family due to death threats. ... the role doesn’t require Senate confirmation. “The advantage he’s gonna have is, there’s no question that Tom Homan will bring the implied authority of the president,” said Ron Vitiello, Homan’s successor as acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement director. “No one’s gonna wonder.” ... the role has come a...

Tom Homan clashes with Democrat lawmakers on Capitol Hill: I'm a taxpayer you work for me Retired ICE Director Tom Homan said Friday that House Democrats continue to push falsehoods about his former agency and illegal immigration, one day after an explosive clash between him and Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., at a hearing on border detentions. Homan, a Fox News contributor, told "Fox & Friends" that he believes he got his point across and he feels it's his "responsibility to set the record straight." "I'm not gonna sit there and let them tell lies about my president, tell lies about...

Trump announces immigration official Tom Homan as ‘border czar’

Law enforcement in New York City says they have arrested 517 people either in Tren de Aragua or co-conspirators that work with the gang. Members of the now-infamous Tren de Aragua gang and its associates have been arrested over 500 so far this year in New York City, according to news reports. “If you go back two years – that’s about when we think they first started arriving – we’ve made 45% more arrests than we did two years ago,” a law enforcement source told the New York Post. “This is a gang that conspires to make money off of...

Vice President Kamala Harris has portrayed herself as a champion of women throughout her career, but that image is now in jeopardy with the election in just seven days. Details of a horrific rape case plea deal brokered by the assistant district attorney while she was district attorney exclusively obtained by DailyMail.com calls into question her commitment to protecting women. In 2008, Lillian Gradillas was sitting in a party bus late at night after she was not allowed into a nightclub because she lacked the proper identification to enter with the rest of her family and friends.

A Democrat staffer who has worked on campaigns for two vulnerable Ohio candidates was captured on video calling for open borders and labeling those wanting to secure the border as "racist." "Open the f---ing border, I don’t give a s--- who comes in here," the staffer, identified and first reported by Ohio.news as Kevin Oyakawa, said on a video during a conversation with a volunteer earlier this month.

The eye-watering financial cost of the migrant crisis hit $150 billion last year and is causing devastating consequences for residents of hard-hit cities struggling to cope with the influx, The Post has learned. Of that figure, calculated by Washington DC-based non-profit Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), $67 billion came from the federal government, but majority of the burden was shouldered by states and local governments. More than 15.5 million migrants are in the US, receiving millions in funds from FEMA. Chart showing where FEMA Shelter and Services funds were allocated in fiscal year 2024, which ran from Oct. 1,...

Listen to a Chicago resident tell you that illegals are getting $15,000 food cards and $5000 cash cards and getting their rent paid for two years.

Democratic presidential nominee and Vice President Kamala Harris dealt with questions on border security during her CNN Town Hall this week, responding to arguments that the Biden administration had not acted quickly enough to deal with undocumented migrants entering the U.S. While GOP presidential nominee and former President Donald Trump has described the administration's actions as a failure, figures from the last four months have shown a steady and significant reduction in the number of apprehensions along the U.S. border with Mexico. Harris told CNN's Anderson Cooper that numbers had more than halved in recent months, pointing to newly released...

Former DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson left the Fox & Friends curvy couch gobsmacked by his insistence that, if elected, Vice President Kamala Harris would be tougher on the border than former President Donald Trump. Johnson is a semifrequent guest on Fox & Friends, whose visit almost always elicits a fascinating and respectful conversation (increasingly rare in the current cable news landscape). Before this interview, Fox aired a clip of Harris being asked during CNN’s recent town hall about her administration’s executive order on the border, to which she replied, “I think we did the right thing. But the best thing...

Harris is distancing herself from her record, misrepresenting her past, and shifting blame for policy failures onto Donald Trump, creating a disconnect between her actions and campaign messaging. Increasingly, little if anything remains real about the Harris campaign. Take ideology and the issues. It is now well known that Kamala Harris was rated as the most left-wing of all current senators, including Bernie Sanders—according to GovTrack, a non-partisan compiler of evaluators in Congress. The Voteview project found her voting record the most liberal of all senators of the 21st century, except for radical Elizabeth Warren. Harris as vice president in...

For much of the Biden administration’s first three years in office, migration surged at the Mexican border. Administration officials frequently argued that the problem was beyond their control...Then, starting in December, when the issue threatened President Biden’s re-election, he began a crackdown. The traffic of people crossing the border plummeted. Today, it remains near the lowest point since 2020 and not so different from levels during parts of the Trump and Obama administrations. This week, the Biden administration imposed tough new rules....Border crossings reached record levels this past winter, with almost 250,000 migrant arrests in December alone. it pushed Mexico...

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has spent more than $600 million of available funds to serve noncitizen migrants in fiscal year 2024, and now, according to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, the agency doesn’t have enough funding left over to make it through the rest of the hurricane season. “The agency is being stretched as it works with states to assess damage from Hurricane Helene and delivers meals, water, generators and other critical supplies,” the Associated Press reported. Hurricane Helene made landfall in Florida last Thursday, then plowed through Georgia, the Carolinas, Tennessee and Virginia, flooding towns and killing...

The Department of Homeland Security knows of at least 660,000 illegal immigrants at large in the U.S. with criminal records, including 13,000 convicted killers, nearly 16,000 convicted of sexual assault and 56,000 involved with dangerous drugs. Thousands of other migrants have been charged but not yet convicted of those and other crimes. They are part of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s “non-detained docket,” a list of more than 7 million illegal immigrants that ICE is supposed to be monitoring as they roam free in the U.S. ICE provided the data to Congress and the House Homeland Security Committee released it...

Campaign officials are weighing a potential visit by Vice President Kamala Harris to the US-Mexico border while in Arizona on Friday as the campaign tries to close the gap with former President Donald Trump on the issue of immigration, according to two sources familiar with the discussions. Immigration has featured prominently in the 2024 presidential election. Democrats, grappling with years of border crises, have tried to flip the script on Republicans after the GOP blocked a bipartisan border measure earlier this year. Some Harris campaign officials remain concerned about the gap in polling, which shows Trump holding a lead on...

After serving 20 years in state prison for murder, former gangbanger Tyrone Muhammad never expected to return to the city’s tough South Side and find Venezuelan migrants and the criminal Tren de Aragua gang moving in. But Muhammad, 53, who’s gone straight and runs a street patrol and violence prevention program called Ex-Cons for Community and Social Change says Venezuelan criminal gangs flooding shelters and taking over apartment buildings are the last straw for the struggling African-American community. He says they are furious at seeing government money going to what they call “non-citizens.” “It is impossible to release gang members...

They spoke no Spanish, while their migrant students spoke no English. Chicago has a $9.9 billion budget. Its teachers’ unions, who control the city and have one of their own in the mayor’s office, get everything from free abortions to weight loss surgeries, to $145,000 salaries even though their students know absolutely nothing. In math, 19% of Chicago third through eighth graders were proficient on the IAR’s 2024 test, a 2 percentage point increase from the previous school year. During the spring of 2023, 17% of elementary school students were proficient in math, but in the spring of 2019, 24%...

Truth often sounds like fiction, especially when it does not fit the listener’s model of the world and what they believe to be in the realm of possibility. If you lived in Germany in 1933, you might hear news the new chancellor, Adolf Hitler, was arresting political opponents and putting them in a newly built prison. Unless you knew those people personally, you might dismiss the news as a conspiracy theory designed to hurt Hitler. Later, in November of 1938, when you heard the news of Jews being rounded up and sent to the same prison, you might dismiss it...

The violent Venezuelan migrant gang Tren de Aragua has taken over a hotel in the Texas border city of El Paso — turning into a hub of fighting, drinking and hard-partying behavior, authorities say. The cops have been called nearly 700 times to the Gateway hotel. Surveillance footage shows one man wielding a hatchet, others were spotted with knives and at least one man was seen firing a gun inside, the El Paso County Attorney said. Much of this activity happened while children were present.

An undocumented immigrant police likened to a “ghost” admitted to kidnapping and raping a teenage girl at knifepoint near New Orleans. Diego Rodriguez-Salvador, 23, was arrested Sept. 4 for allegedly luring a 13-year-old girl into his car before driving her to his home in Kenner, La. and raping her. Rodriguez-Salvador, an illegal migrant from Honduras, allegedly asked his friend’s teenage sister to take a ride to a nearby store with him. She accepted the ride, but when the girl noticed they were headed in the wrong direction, Rodriguez-Salvador pulled a knife, assaulted her, then dropped her off in her own...