‘Phase one’ was quality control. ‘Phase two’ needs to be quantity control.



Everyone in America has an opinion on what has gone right or wrong at the Department of Homeland Security and its component agencies, particularly Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection. To answer the Talking Heads lyric “Well, how did I get here?” would yield a thousand different answers. I have a pretty good sense of what happened. Even before President Trump returned to the White House, I argued that meeting his bold deportation goals would require very different enforcement tactics than the ones the administration chose.

That debate makes for great fodder for finger-pointing. But a better question is: Where do we go next?

The administration needs to move its attention from sanctuary cities to sanctuary farms, factories, and industrial hubs.

To answer it, some of the nation’s leading immigration policy and legal experts, former senior and rank-and-file law enforcement officials, and advocates are coming together to devise a way forward. Details will be announced in the days to come, but the goal is straightforward: President Trump can and will meet his core campaign promise to “carry out the largest deportation operation in American history.”

Last year, Immigration and Customs Enforcement deported about 230,000 illegal aliens from the interior of the United States. That is a far cry from the 1 million figure some administration officials floated as a projection — and far below other totals the administration has suggested at various points. Making analysis harder, the Department of Homeland Security stopped releasing enforcement data for the first time in decades.

President Trump promised to exceed the deportation efforts of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who, by the most conservative estimates, removed about one-third of the illegal population in 1954. Any way you cut the data, even using the lowest-end estimates of the total illegal population in 2025, the administration is not on pace.

One reason: In its first year, the Trump administration prioritized a particular subset of illegal aliens — criminals. People can debate whether that was the right call, but that’s what happened. Prioritizing criminals means concentrating resources on fewer targets, and it has produced high-profile standoffs in cities like Minneapolis and Los Angeles. I will refer to that 2025 effort as “worst first,” as Border Czar Tom Homan has sometimes called it — phase one.

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We can credit the Trump administration for highlighting the issue of criminal illegal aliens, removing many, and forcing the hand of radical Democrats, some of whom have taken the absurd position of rioting in defense of rapists and murderers. They are who we thought they were.

Now phase two can begin: widening the aperture of immigration enforcement and placing quantity above the perceived “quality” of deportations. The goal was mass deportations, not the “best” deportations. In short, the public wants commas in the numbers.

The Trump administration can, at minimum, quadruple last year’s totals. It can do it quickly if it shifts priorities — especially by refocusing on worksite enforcement. The administration needs to move its attention from sanctuary cities to sanctuary farms, factories, and industrial hubs.

Deportation is a contact sport — not only between ICE and illegal aliens, but between the Trump administration and special interests that value cheap labor, politicians who need cheap talking points, and activist judges and violent mobs. Those forces can be overcome, and in the coming weeks and months, we will show how.

The goal is to help President Trump deliver on what he promised — and to surpass President Eisenhower’s historic efforts. To do that, President Trump needs support from the base and the right, not a constant drumbeat of consultants, pollsters, and “moderate” Republicans trying to undermine him. Those forces are coming together, and I believe the result will be less drama and more commas.

Americans deserve a road map to move from phase one into a more successful phase two.

Illegal alien 'monster' accused of throwing rock into school bus, fracturing skull of young girl placed on ICE detainer: Feds



A criminal illegal alien accused of throwing a baseball-sized rock into a New Jersey school bus and fracturing the skull of an 8-year-old girl was placed on an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainer, the Department of Homeland Security said earlier this week.

The DHS, citing local reports, said the school bus was traveling on the New Jersey Turnpike to Yeshivat Noam — a local Jewish day school — after a field trip at Liberty Science Center on Jan. 7.

'We hope New Jersey’s sanctuary politicians will help us keep him off American streets for good.'

Officials said Hernando Garcia-Morales of Mexico threw a rock at the vehicle, breaking a window and hitting the third-grade student, who was forced to have surgery.

The DHS said two days later — Jan. 9 — New Jersey Turnpike State Police arrested Garcia-Morales for aggravated assault, resisting arrest, and possession of a weapon. The Bogota (New Jersey) Police Department also charged him for aggravated assault, criminal trespassing-defiant, criminal trespassing-peering, and criminal mischief-damage property, DHS said.

NJ.com added that Garcia-Morales was found in a self-made campsite within Old Croaker County Park in Bergen County.

Garcia-Morales has had an extensive criminal history while living in sanctuary state New Jersey, the DHS said, noting that he was arrested for burglary in 2023 and for possession of a weapon and theft in 2006.

In addition, the investigation also linked him to multiple rock-throwing incidents in Bogota Borough, NJ.com reported, citing state police.

Garcia-Morales has since been placed in ICE custody, NJ.com added.

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DHS said Garcia-Morales entered the United States on an unknown date.

“Violently targeting a school bus full of children is extremely wicked and heinous,” said Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin, who called the suspect a "monster."

“Hernando Garcia-Morales should have never been in this country, let alone released, after multiple arrests, into New Jersey communities," McLaughlin also said, adding that "we hope New Jersey’s sanctuary politicians will help us keep him off American streets for good. Under President Trump and Secretary Noem, criminal illegal aliens have no place in the U.S.”

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Illinois, Gov. Pritzker have released almost 1,800 violent illegal aliens back onto the streets in defiance of ICE, DHS says



Sanctuary politicians have apparently been ignoring orders from Immigration and Customs Enforcement for months, effectively allowing criminal illegal aliens to be released back onto the streets — and the Department of Homeland Security is not happy about it.

The DHS reported on Monday in a press release that Democrat politicians have repeatedly defied ICE by ignoring arrest detainers.

'We are calling on Governor Pritzker and his administration to stop this dangerous derangement and commit to honoring the ICE arrest detainers of the more than 4,000 criminal illegal aliens in Illinois' custody.'

The press release singled out Illinois and Democratic Governor J.B. Pritzker, one of the most vocal political opponents of ICE operations under President Trump.

The press release stated that 1,768 criminal illegal aliens have been released in Illinois alone since January 20, 2025.

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The crimes committed by these illegal aliens include homicide, assault, burglary, robbery, dangerous drug offenses, weapons offenses, and sexual offenses, according to the press release.

There are currently 4,015 aliens in Illinois' custody, the majority of whom have committed crimes such as those listed above.

"Governor Pritzker and his fellow Illinois sanctuary politicians are releasing murderers, pedophiles, and kidnappers back into our neighborhoods and putting American lives at risk," Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said.

"We are calling on Governor Pritzker and his administration to stop this dangerous derangement and commit to honoring the ICE arrest detainers of the more than 4,000 criminal illegal aliens in Illinois' custody," McLaughlin continued. "It is common sense. Criminal illegal aliens should not be released back onto our streets to terrorize more innocent Americans."

In September, ICE demanded that leaders in sanctuary states like California, New York, and Illinois cooperate with the federal agency to keep criminals off the streets.

ICE also warned these states that it would "engage with the Department of Justice and other federal partners to pursue all appropriate measures to end their inadvisable and irresponsible obstruction of the apprehension and removal of criminal illegal aliens."

Previously, Illinois and New York sent ICE responses that "underscored their refusal to honor ICE detainers." California did not respond, according to ICE.

According to its website, ICE issues immigration detainers to law enforcement to ask them to hold suspects for up to 48 hours longer than their scheduled release.

ICE issues these arrest detainers after it has already established probable cause that suspects are removable, usually on account of convictions for other crimes such as homicide, sexual assault, burglaries and robberies, and drug and human trafficking.

ICE makes it clear that honoring arrest detainers helps guarantee safety for both the public and law enforcement officers: "When jails, prisons, or other confinement facilities agree to honor immigration detainers, ICE officers can take custody of removable aliens in a safe, controlled environment instead of at-large in the community."

DHS' Monday press release included nine mug shots of the "worst of the worst" criminals who had previously been released in Illinois after their detainer requests were ignored by state officials.

The criminal illegal aliens either are now in ICE custody or have been removed from the United States.

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Exclusive: More 'sicko' criminal illegal aliens arrested — from just this weekend



Immigration detainees from this weekend include some of the "worst of the worst" criminal suspects, according to exclusive information from the Department of Homeland Security.

Critics of President Donald Trump's order for mass deportations claim that federal officers are targeting people based solely on their illegal status, but the report from DHS documents some of the heinous criminal allegations tied to them as well.

'ICE arrested sickos who sexually abused children, raped innocent women, and committed murder.'

In one case, criminal illegal alien Javier Salvador Morfin from Mexico was convicted of assault with intent to commit a felony and attempted rape by force/fear in Los Angeles, California.

"Thanks to the Biden administration open-border policies, every town is now as a border town flooded with worst-of-the-worst criminal illegal aliens,” DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said.

"While Americans were enjoying their weekend and the media peddled falsehoods that DHS was not targeting the worst of the worst, ICE arrested sickos who sexually abused children, raped innocent women, and committed murder," she added.

The criminal illegal aliens detained in this latest sweep include:

  • Bharatkumar Manilal Patel of India, who was convicted of aggravated criminal sexual abuse, victim 13 to 16 years old in Cook County, Illinois.
  • Cesar Ramirez-Ortiz of Mexico, who was convicted of aggravated criminal sexual assault of a child in Chicago, Illinois.
  • Juan Bernardo Perez-Gomez of Mexico, who was convicted of sex with a minor and burglary in San Bernardino, California.
  • Ronald Alexander Bonilla-Aguilar of Honduras, who was convicted of lewd or lascivious acts with a child under 14 in Santa Clarita, California.
  • Alvin Henry of Trinidad and Tobago, who was convicted of rape in Brooklyn, New York.
  • Noel De Jesus Bravo-Gonzalez of Nicaragua, who was convicted of larceny, robbery, and homicide in Miami, Florida.
  • Nicole Benavente Torres of Peru, who was convicted of aggravated assault in Prince William County, Virginia.
  • Leonardo Morales-Lozada of Colombia, who was convicted of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon in Tarrant County, Texas.

The release also said that 70% of ICE arrests involve people charged or convicted of a crime in the U.S., and the statistic doesn't include "foreign fugitives, gang members, terrorists, and human rights abusers."

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In another case from DHS, Sergio Jesus Villegas-Dorta from Cuba was convicted of intentional killing involving a weapon, robbery, and aggravated assault with a weapon in Miami-Dade County, Florida.

"As we look ahead to Thanksgiving this week, Americans can be thankful our brave DHS law enforcement got these pedophiles, rapists, and murderers off American streets," McLaughlin concluded.

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CNN sob story hides Russian illegal alien's violent past — but DHS doesn't let outlet get away with it



A criminal illegal alien is expected to be deported more than a decade after his deportation order, but CNN's coverage of the case buries the violent details of his past. The Department of Homeland Security set the record straight as the criminal illegal alien is set to finally be removed Monday.

According to the DHS, Russian-born Roman Antatolevich Surovtsev was arrested on August 1 by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

'It’s alarming that CNN can ALWAYS be counted on to run cover for VIOLENT FELONS. Imagine if they showed the same care for American citizens.'

He is expected to be deported Monday in compliance with a final order of removal issued by an immigration judge in November 2014.

CNN described Surovtsev as a "stateless person" given the fact that he fled the USSR and surrendered his citizenship. The 2014 deportation order also revoked his green card, the sole condition for his remaining in the United States.

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He has since routinely checked in with Immigration and Customs Enforcement until his arrest in August.

CNN, however, added a very different spin to the story, touting Surovtsev as a "loving dad" and a different person after a life of crime.

Only after more than a dozen paragraphs and a long litany of heart-wrenching familial anecdotes does CNN hint at Surovtsev's violent past: "In 2003, at 19 years old, Surovtsev began serving a 13-year sentence after helping some friends commit an armed carjacking of a motorcycle."

And this is only the tip of the iceberg.

Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin noted that Surovtsev has a "history of violence" with a rap sheet including "assault with a deadly weapon, multiple counts of burglary, multiple counts of carjacking, carjacking with a firearm, trespassing onto private property, multiple counts of taking a vehicle without owner consent, possession of a hypodermic needle/syringe, receiving stolen property, multiple counts of conspiracy to commit a crime."

In a statement on X, the Department of Homeland Security added that Surovtsev committed many of those offenses as an adult and accused CNN of covering for criminals: "It’s alarming that CNN can ALWAYS be counted on to run cover for VIOLENT FELONS. Imagine if they showed the same care for American citizens."

Surovtsev will reportedly be boarding a plane Monday to Ukraine along with 82 other deportees, according to a statement obtained by CNN.

“On Monday, the U.S. government plans to deport 83 people to Ukraine, where they will be conscripted into the army and likely killed. Ukraine is a police state where the population lives under martial law,” Surovtsev’s attorneys, Eric Lee and Chris Godshall-Bennett, said in an emailed statement.

"Under President Trump and Secretary Noem, if you break the law, you will face the consequences. Criminal illegal aliens are not welcome in the U.S.," the Department of Homeland Security added.

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'Operation Dirtbag' nabs over 230 criminal illegal aliens — but Noem wants more



As the Department of Homeland Security's deportation operations continue to clean up our cities and remove illegal aliens across the country, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem took a moment to celebrate a big win in Florida.

On Tuesday, the secretary shared details in a Fox News interview about Operation Criminal Return, or as she liked to call it, "Operation Dirtbag." The DHS posted a clip of the interview on X.

'It's remarkable, and we need to do more of it.'

Operation Dirtbag was so called because of the more than 230 criminal illegal aliens arrested, over 150 of whom were sexual predators, many against children, Noem explained.

"These individuals were sex offenders, but not just sex offenders — they targeted children," Noem stated.

RELATED: Illegal alien pedophile allegedly 'physically assaulted' ICE agent during immigration operation: DHS

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"These individuals should've never been in our country to begin with, and the fact that they were sexual deviants and perverts and now we've gotten them off of our streets — it's remarkable, and we need to do more of it," Noem added.

Among the crimes committed by these illegal aliens were attempted premeditated murder with a deadly weapon, aggravated battery, sexual assault, sexual battery, lewd and lascivious molestation of children, possession of narcotics, possession of marijuana, possession of a controlled substance, and burglary of an unoccupied dwelling, according to the DHS' X post.

Secretary Noem expressed her department's appreciation for Florida's cooperation in the operations.

"Our kids will be safer. And this partnership with Governor DeSantis in Florida is a model that we want to replicate across the country."

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Gov. Hochul suddenly eager to help deport criminal illegal aliens — but wants to keep other migrants in New York



Democrat Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York suddenly seems eager to help deport criminal illegal aliens under a second Trump administration but wants to help other migrants in her state stay put.

On Tuesday, Hochul held a press conference in Queens, where she was asked about the deportations President-elect Donald Trump has promised to conduct after taking office next month. In her response, Hochul pledged to be "the first to call ICE" on illegal aliens who commit other crimes.

"If someone breaks the law, I’ll be the first one to call up ICE and say, 'Get them out of here,'" she said.

"There are other people who commit crimes or are known to be criminals before they arrived here. When those are identified, I'll be the first one to help get rid of them," Hochul added. "I don't want them here. I don't want anybody terrorizing my citizens."

Assembly member Catalina Cruz ... a 'formerly undocumented' immigrant, rushed to Hochul's defense, insisting that Hochul really is a friend to illegal immigrants — or, as Cruz called them, 'law-abiding undocumented Americans.'

Though she spoke emphatically about the need to deport illegal aliens who broke the law to steal into the U.S. and then went on to commit other crimes, she switched to a more conciliatory tone when discussing other migrant groups living in New York. She noted the "difference in categories of individuals" and expressed interest in helping those granted Temporary Protected Status and those "with legal papers, like they came and they’re seeking asylum."

"I want them to get the proper work permits. I want them to keep their temporary protective status if that’s what they have. I want to make sure that they’re part of — contributing to society while they’re here," she explained, according to the National News Desk. "That’s separate from people who are criminals."

"Those who come here legally — we want to get them jobs. I have 460,000 open jobs in the State of New York."

Many New York activists and Democrats were shocked by Hochul's rhetoric regarding illegal immigrants.

Murad Awawdeh, president and CEO of the New York Immigration Coalition, begged Hochul not to assist with Trump's "dangerous games." "Now more than ever we need leadership from Albany," he said. "We need New York’s elected officials to stand up for and defend all of our immigrant neighbors."

Assembly member Catalina Cruz, whom City & State New York described as a "formerly undocumented" immigrant, rushed to Hochul's defense, insisting that Hochul really is a friend to illegal immigrants — or, as Cruz called them, "law-abiding undocumented Americans."

"Given the work my office has done with this administration, I have no doubt that these statements lacked context and dimension," Cruz said in Hochul's defense. "I know that she will remain dedicated to advancing the goal of assisting those individuals and families that have come to New York with hopes and dreams of a better life for themselves and their families."

In the last several years, some 200,000 so-called "asylum-seekers" have moved to New York, and City & State New York reported that as of July, as many as 875,000 total "unauthorized" persons may be living there.

Citing the Institution on Taxation and Economic Policy, City & State New York claimed that the "undocumented" immigrants living in New York are "contributing to the state’s economy." However, the outlet made no mention of the billions of taxpayer dollars spent on housing and feeding them.

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Millions of illegal aliens, including convicted criminals, to be issued California state IDs



Not only will California likely have illegal aliens soon serving as police officers, it will now be the first state in the union to allow criminal non-citizens to obtain a non-licensed, standard identification card. Passed by the California state assembly on August 30, the so-called "California ID for All" bill (AB 1766) was signed into law on Friday by Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom.

Newsom's office touted the move as a "critical step for inclusion." He stated that California is "a state of refuge – a majority-minority state, where 27 percent of us are immigrants." He suggested further that the conferring of IDs by the Department of Motor Vehicles to criminal non-citizens will help make the state stronger.

Democrat Assemblyman Mark Stone (D), who introduced the bill, claimed that it would bring "equity to those who have been unable to access basic life essentials because they have no legally recognized identification."

Illegal alien drivers have been able to acquire licenses since 2015. Over 1 million of the estimated 2.7 million illegal aliens living in California have done so already, according to the California Immigrant Policy Center (CIPC). That leaves approximately "1.6 million undocumented people who are eligible and could benefit from having a state government-issued identification card."

Although non-drivers who are in the country illegally could alternatively use "a consult ID or foreign passport to corroborate their identities," the CIPC claimed that doing so "is an often dangerous 'outing' process ... hence making them feel unsafe and vulnerable in revealing that they are foreign nationals living in the U.S."

This law specifies that the enforcement of federal immigration laws "does not constitute an urgent health and safety need," so indications on the license that the holder is an illegal alien will henceforth be omitted. Any documents used to acquire the ID will not be made public record.

The CIPC tweeted that the ability for criminal non-citizens to "access social services, healthcare, to rent, & to feel included as a member of our society" will be "life-changing."

\u201cBREAKING: @CAGovernor just signed #AB1766 (CA #IDs4All bill) which would allow all Californians to apply for a state ID regardless of immigration status! This will benefit 1.6 million undocumented Californians, who currently cannot obtain a CA driver\u2019s license. (1/4) \ud83e\uddf5\u201d
— California Immigrant Policy Center (@California Immigrant Policy Center) 1663978749

Assemblyman Robert Rivas (D) claimed that this "legislation moves us one step closer to true equity for our undocumented neighbors."

To obtain a Mexican driver's license, by way of comparison, an applicant must provide a copy of his visa confirming legal status, his international passport, his birth certificate, and proof of address in the country.

According to Assemblyman Stone's office, those incarcerated illegal aliens who were previously unable to acquire driver's licenses "because they cannot access a driving test in prison" will also now be able to acquire ID cards.

New perks for non-driver illegal aliens

With their state IDs, non-driver illegal aliens will be able to:

  • gain "improved access" to in-state tuition at taxpayer-funded public colleges and universities as well as to student loans;
  • open bank accounts;
  • access health care and citizen benefits; and
  • receive more "legal assistance in civil matters affecting basic human needs."

Additionally, with these IDs, foreign nationals who have illegally entered the U.S. and become street vendors will now be able to easily acquire local health permits and therefore better compete against citizen-owned businesses.

With 2,150,639 illegal aliens having stolen into the country so far this year, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo suggested this law will only exacerbate the border crisis.

\u201cGiving illegal immigrants government IDs is a bad idea. It will make the border crisis worse.\n\nhttps://t.co/d9e7wqs72j\u201d
— Mike Pompeo (@Mike Pompeo) 1664207153

Richard Grenell, former acting director of National Intelligence, wrote that Gavin Newsom "should be worried about illegals voting with the IDs he is giving them."

In 2018, there was some question whether thousands of illegal aliens had been enabled to vote in California as a result of the automatic voter registration of DMV driver's license recipients.

Former Rep. Jason Chaffetz suggested last year that Democrats stand to benefit from what "California does – automatically register everyone who gets a driver's license to vote, then do nothing to weed out the votes of illegal immigrants."

The enactment of this law comes just weeks after voters in Massachusetts secured an opportunity in the November elections to end their state law permitting illegal aliens to receive licenses.

Twice-deported illegal alien sentenced in murder of 6-year-old girl



On September 9, the 56-year-old Mexican national Maximino Delgado Lagunas was sentenced to 15 years to life for murdering a 6-year-old Orange County girl. Lagunas was found guilty of one felony count of second-degree murder on June 22.

Despite having been convicted in 2015 for drunk driving, on February 17, 2018, Lagunas got behind the wheel with a blood alcohol level nearly three times California's legal limit of 0.8%. Around 2:15 p.m., Lagunas drove onto the opposite sidewalk where Grace Aguilar was playing.

Lagunas, a twice-deported illegal alien, ran Grace Aguilar down and then smashed into a parked vehicle.

The child died of her injuries.

Lagunas, whose blood alcohol was reportedly .22%, told police that his brakes were not working and that he had lost control of his vehicle.

While he would otherwise have faced voluntary manslaughter charges, his prior conviction enabled prosecutors to upgrade the charges to second-degree murder.

KCOP13 reported that this upgrade was made possible by Lagunas' signing of a Watson advisement in 2015. A Watson advisement is a statement that an individual convicted with a DUI can be asked to sign, indicating foreknowledge that drunk driving can kill or injure people.

Orange County district attorney Todd Spitzer stated in a Friday release: "A six-year-old girl is dead because someone who had already been warned about the dangers of drinking and driving ignored those warnings and got behind the wheel drunk. Every time someone drives under the influence of drugs or alcohol, they take the risk that they could kill someone." Spitzer noted further, "This time it was a six-year-old girl named Grace who was just playing on the sidewalk."

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement told KNBC that Lagunas had been deported in 2001 and again in 2008.

After his 2015 DUI conviction, Lagunas was placed on informal probation and set free, even though requirements stipulate that he was supposed to have been detained 48 hours for pickup by immigration officials.

Lagunas was not the only illegal alien caught driving drunk in 2018.

According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, there were 1,113 criminal non-citizens convicted of driving under the influence in 2018.

In 2019, the number of convictions fell to 614, and the number dropped again in 2020 to 364. However, in 2021 there were 1,629 DUI convictions. So far in 2022, there have already been 1,241 illegal aliens convicted of driving while intoxicated.

Convictions only tell a partial story. There is also the matter of the Americans maimed or killed by criminal non-citizens.

Earlier this year, illegal alien Jose Virgilio Carcamo Elvir left a 72-year-old Florida man dead and three others injured in a drunk-driving crash.

In January, illegal alien Jarol Leiva-Navarro killed a 32-year-old American while reportedly drunkenly driving 110 miles per hour.

In March 2021, an illegal alien named Rolbin Pacheco killed Cheston Edwards, a North Carolina father of two, while driving drunk.

A 5-year-old girl was killed in a Florida hit-and-run last October when an intoxicated illegal alien was speeding at night without his lights on.

Three members of the Thin Blue Line police motorcycle club were killed outside San Antonio in July 2020 when a DACA-protected illegal alien with a lengthy criminal record drunkenly ran them down.

Coroner Officially Identifies 6-Year-Old Killed By Alleged DUI Driver youtu.be

Horowitz: The massive invasion and human rights violations ... at our own border harming our communities



We have the wealthiest, most sophisticated and brutal cartels at our border who surveil our side of the border with cutting-edge technology and bring over millions of impoverished aliens, thousands of dangerous criminals and gang members, and drugs killing over 100,000 Americans a year. Perhaps if we renamed Texas or Arizona “Ukraine,” we’d get Republicans to finally care about the issue.

It’s not that Putin hasn’t violated human rights and invaded a sovereign nation. It’s that the testosterone levels of GOP politicians go from 0 to 100 instantaneously when discussing the sovereignty of every nation but our own. Our government continues to refuse to release this year’s ICE immigration enforcement report, but the preliminary numbers paint a shocking picture.

NEW: Prelim ICE data shows a massive drop in deportations in FY \u201821 compared to previous years, despite much higher encounters. \n\nFY 21: 55,590 deportations\n1.7 million encounters \n\nFY 20: 185,884 deportations\n458,000 encounters \n\nFY 19: 267,258 deportations\n977,000 encounters
— Bill Melugin (@Bill Melugin) 1644452899
BREAKING: In a federal court filing obtained by @FoxNews, DHS reports 153,941 migrant encounters in January, almost doubling Jan. \u201821 (78,414) and more than quadruple Jan. \u201820 (36,585).\nDHS also reports 62,573 migrants were released into U.S. just last month alone. @FoxNewspic.twitter.com/RiEPKVsQi3
— Bill Melugin (@Bill Melugin) 1645050902

We are on pace for roughly 700,000 illegal aliens to be released into our country in one year. Moreover, this open invitation has allowed the cartels to strategically distract our agents with babysitting while smuggling in thousands of people who are even more problematic. Consider the magnitude of Biden’s invitation to invade America. Look at the percentage increase in Border Patrol apprehensions of categories of criminals since Biden took office:

Notice the jump in apprehensions of convicted murderers and sex offenders. Now consider the fact that those people pay the cartels a significant sum of money to be strategically and surreptitiously crossed. Given their successful business model, it’s hard to imagine CBP apprehending more than a tiny fraction of these dangerous criminals. Every boatload of fake refugees our agents are forced to deal with is a strategic ploy for the cartels to cross over dangerous individuals. That is an invasion.

We will never know the full scope of the number of dangerous criminals who enter our country, but we can begin to quantify how much it affects our safety by looking back during the Trump administration when they were still apprehending them inside our country. If you go back to FY 2018, ICE apprehended criminal aliens who together racked up 542,798 criminal convictions and arrests. The numbers include 2,028 homicide offenses, 5,562 robberies, 11,766 weapons offenses, 50,753 assault charges, 76,585 dangerous drug charges, 80,730 DUIs, and over 12,000 sexual offenses.

Just ponder for a moment the immeasurable carnage caused by our senseless disregard for sovereignty and the number of nameless victims the media will never spotlight. This data doesn’t include those criminal charge categories that had fewer than 1,000. Only 29% of those were unconvicted charges, which likely means that the main focus of ICE removal operations, understandably so, is on convictions because they focus on the prisons and jails. Which means there are likely many more arrested for crimes who are not apprehended by ICE.

Also, keep in mind that ICE only has fewer than 6,000 deportation officers, a fraction of the size of the NYPD, and the largest number of illegal aliens live in sanctuary cities, which made it difficult for ICE to catch the largest number of criminal aliens.

As of the most recent ICE report, there were 3.26 million aliens under ICE's undetained docket. These are individuals who have been targeted by ICE for removal, which most likely means the overwhelming majority have criminal records in addition to immigration violations. That means over 3 million criminal aliens who were dangerous enough to be on ICE's radar remain in the country indefinitely without being deported.

As of 2018, there were more than 1 million illegal aliens who have already received final deportation orders, with another 1.5 million having already received deportation orders but who are in the process of seeking an appeal.

Even if we focused solely on the bad guys, we lack the resources to make a dent. As early as 2013, DHS estimated, based on ICE programs in local jails, that there were 1.9 million criminal aliens in this country and that 900,000 aliens were arrested every year. Chillingly, the report noted that "550,000 criminal aliens convicted of crimes exit law enforcement custody every year" and that "this population of criminal aliens poses a major threat to public safety."

Now consider the fact that this is all old data and preceded the worst border invasion in our history. Just since fiscal year 2018, we’ve apprehended 3.7 million at the border, of whom undoubtedly most were released and many more never recorded got away from agents. While we often complain that all illegal crime is avoidable and that not enough criminals are deported, we have still deported from the interior and at the border 1.8 million criminal aliens from 2007 to 2018. Can you imagine how many of them likely took advantage of the invasion of the past few years, paid the cartels enormous sums of money, re-entered our country and communities, and enriched these vicious cartels at the same time so they can more effectively control, surveil, and manipulate both sides of our border?

Nobody has ever endeavored to fully quantify the magnitude of crime, chaos, fiscal cost, and drugs and gangs in our cities as a result of this. It is astounding that we don’t try to ascertain the citizenship of every individual arrested, but back when ICE was still doing good work, they divulged some numbers in New York City from among those they lodged detainers against. In FY 2019, ICE’s New York bureau field office lodged 7,526 detainers for foreign criminals who racked up 17,873 criminal convictions and 6,500 criminal charges. The offenses included among those crimes were 200 homicides, over 500 robberies, over 1,000 sexual offenses, over 1,000 weapons offenses, over 3,500 assaults, and over 1,500 DUIs.

At the time, I noted the 200 homicides are astounding because there were only about 300 murders per year at the time. Not all of those homicides were committed in one year, but for ICE to have definitively identified aliens with 200 murder convictions or charges in just one year’s worth of detainers is simply astonishing.


Which brings us back to the border and the broader lack of prioritization of geopolitical threats by our political class. In January, Todd Bensman reported live from the Mexico-Guatemala border that the U.N. was handing out cash assistance to encourage migrants to invade our border. It’s this invasion that is facilitating unconscionable amounts of crime, drugs, sex trafficking, and gang and cartel activity at our border and in every major American city. Ranchers on our own soil live and work in constant fear. It’s hard to conjure up a greater, more comprehensive systemic threat to our sovereignty, security, culture, and human rights than the policies facilitating the border invasion.

While the media whips everyone into a frenzy over a foreign country over which we have little control and few options, they will never tell what is occurring at our own border. For GOP politicians to only care about what the media tells them to while ignoring the plight of our own people is a violation of their oaths of office.