DHS posts 'foreign invaders' deportation meme — and liberals can't cope



The Trump administration has made memes an effective part of its messaging strategy on social media.

The White House and various executive agencies have taken to humorously making points on their official pages with the aid of images pregnant with online or broader cultural significance. Humorless liberals invariably wig out, thereby drawing greater attention to the administration's message.

For instance, the White House posted a Studio Ghibli-style AI cartoon of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer arresting a caricature of a real illegal alien who had been convicted of drug trafficking. The March 27 post ruffled feathers at the Daily Beast and elsewhere on the left, and has since drawn over 75 million views on X.

White House deputy communications director Kaelan Dorr told the Hill last month that digital outreach is "a very critical component of how much we keep the foot on the gas and how much we stay on offense."

The Department of Homeland Security under Secretary Kristi Noem has recently put the pedal to the metal where its meme offensive is concerned, similarly prompting liberal meltdowns. One meme in particular caused vexation over at MSNBC.

On Wednesday, the DHS posted a picture of Uncle Sam hanging a bulletin that says, "Help Your Country ... and Yourself." There is a message written below the bulletin in bold letters that states, "REPORT ALL FOREIGN INVADERS. ICE: 866-DHS-2-ICE."

DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin noted earlier this month that Secretary Noem "is revamping ICE's illegal alien tip line to devote more resources and personnel to help remove these criminal illegal aliens from our country."

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The DHS posted the meme on X and on its other official social media channels with the caption, "Help your country locate and arrest illegal aliens."

Following a prompt from C. Jay Engel of the Contra Mordor Substack, the meme was designed by X user @mrrobertwp, who tweeted after its reuse by the DHS, "It's far reaching fellas. We really hit it out of the park with this one."

— (@)

Tony Moon, a self-professed "rooftop Korean" who helped defend businesses during the 1992 Los Angeles riots, was among those who apparently appreciated the post, writing, "This was way overdue."

'Diversity has been our strength.'

Others weren't so keen, accusing the DHS of fascism and invoking Nazi Germany.

MSNBC talking head Nicolle Wallace, fresh off reaffirming her belief that the Jan. 6, 2021, riot was an insurrection, expressed shock and disgust on Wednesday after seeing the image.

Wallace said that she had "very mixed feelings" and told viewers that "your taxes are paying for this ad being disseminated on Elon Musk's platform, X."

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After reading the message in the meme, Wallace asked her guest, former Republican and retired Brigadier General Steve Anderson, "Did Vladimir Putin write that?"

"He might very well have. I'll tell you one foreign invader we can deal with is Elon Musk," said Anderson, referring to the American citizen who runs SpaceX and Tesla.

Anderson went on to say, "Diversity has been our strength, and when you look at that [meme], it taps into the isolationist impulses of a lot of people — the inner racism and hatreds that a lot of people have, unfortunately."

DHS also posted a meme Wednesday featuring the following remarks: "Liberals don't know things. They don't read history, they don't obsess over stats, the few data points they do see they forget. Their entire world is driven by the consumption of fiction."

Blaze News has reached out to the DHS for comment.

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Corporate Media Can’t Defend LA Deportation Riot, So They Downplay And Deny It Instead

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White House has clear message for Newsom after Democratic governor dares Homan to arrest him



President Donald Trump's border czar Tom Homan was asked in an NBC News interview on Saturday whether Democratic officials in California, namely Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and Gov. Gavin Newsom, could be arrested if they interfered with the lawful execution of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations.

Homan, speaking as National Guard troops were preparing for deployment to riot-ravaged L.A., underscored that the same laws apply to anyone who "cross[es] that line," stating, "It's a felony to knowingly harbor and conceal an illegal alien. It's a felony to impede law enforcement from doing their job."

"Governor Newsom is an embarrassment for this state," continued the border czar. "He supports sanctuary cities. He supports sanctuary laws. If he cared about public safety in the state of California, he would not have a sanctuary for criminals — where criminals get released to the streets of this state every day because of his policies."

Newsom responded Sunday to Homan's comments with a dare: "Come and get me, tough guy."

Newsom went on MSNBC hours after Los Angeles Police Chief Jim McDonnell admitted that police were "overwhelmed" and shortly after rioters pelted California Highway Patrol officers with rocks near the Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown Los Angeles.

'He is putting fuel on this fire.'

Rather than castigate the foreign flag-waving radicals impeding ICE and attacking law enforcement in his crime-ridden sanctuary state — footage of which could be seen playing on the television screen behind him — Newsom spent the majority of his airtime framing the disorder as the work of Trump and his administration.

"Donald Trump has created the conditions that you see on your TV tonight," said Newsom, who Trump said on Sunday should "apologize to the people of Los Angeles." "He's exacerbated the conditions. He's, you know, lit the proverbial match. He is putting fuel on this fire every since he announced he was taking over the National Guard."

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The Democratic governor suggested that Trump's use of the National Guard to restore order in L.A. — an action similarly taken by former President George H.W. Bush in 1992 in the interest of peace and safety — was an "immoral act" and "an unconstitutional act" and said he would sue the administration on Monday.

When asked about Homan's comments regarding possible arrests for those impeding law enforcement operations, Newsom said, "He's a tough guy. Why doesn't he do that? He knows where to find me."

'Newsom should be embarrassed.'

After characterizing those illegal aliens whom the Trump administration is attempting to remove from the U.S. as "poor people who're just trying to ... live their lives, man," Newsom said, "[Who] the hell is this guy? Come after me. Arrest me. Let's just get it over with, tough guy. You know? I don't give a damn."

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The White House made clear after the Democratic governor spent his evening attacking Trump and in the wake of his apparent admission of guilt — Homan indicated, after all, that arrests were warranted only if officials crossed the line — that Newsom should adjust his focus with a mind to improving his state.

White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson told Blaze News, "Governor Newsom should focus on stopping the violent riots and attacks on law enforcement that are consuming Los Angeles instead of political posturing for the TV cameras."

"The entire country can see the chaos and lawlessness. Newsom should be embarrassed," added Jackson.

President Trump minced no words Sunday, telling reporters that "if officials stand in the way of law and order, yeah, they will face charges."

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Exclusive: Government doesn't know if any illegal aliens registered for draft, as they are required to do, during Biden surge



The Oversight Project sent a Freedom of Information request earlier this year to the U.S. Selective Service System seeking data on illegal aliens who failed to register for the draft.

Now with the responses in, it appears that the watchdog group's hypothesis — both that the SSS during former President Joe Biden's tenure made little effort to ensure that male illegal aliens ages 18-26 were registered for the draft, as required by law, and that multitudes of military-age male illegal aliens likely slipped through the cracks as a result — was right on the money.

Mike Howell, president of the Oversight Project, told Blaze News, "The fact that the Biden administration purposefully ignored having the biggest invasion of military-age males in American history fulfill their legal obligations is a massive scandal."

Background

Immigrant men ages 18-25 must register for the draft within 30 days of arriving in the country. According to the SSS, this includes parolees, illegal aliens, legal permanent residents, asylum-seekers, refugees, and all men with visas of any kind that expired more than 30 days ago. Those on current non-immigrant visas are exempt so long as their visas remain valid until they turn 26.

The Oversight Project filed a FOIA request in late January for documents pertaining to whether inadmissible and deportable aliens have been registering for the Selective Service.

The request noted that the SSS stated on its website that it does "not now, or in the past, collect or share any information which would indicate a man's immigration status, either documented or undocumented"; that it lacked the "authority to collect such information"; and that it had no use for such information "irrelevant to the registration requirement."

'Your agency would have seen unprecedented increases in registrations over the Biden administration.'

The Oversight Project appeared eager to square the agency's apparent refusal to collect data on multitudes of draft-eligible men on account of their undocumented status with the SSS' assertion that it plays a critical role in ensuring American readiness in a time of crisis and how "high registration rates across the nation serve as the foundation of fairness and equity for full operations."

The watchdog group also appeared interested in determining whether the SSS witnessed a spike in registrations during the unprecedented flood of illegal aliens into the United States during the Biden administration, noting that SSS data provided to Congress showed the agency received over 23,000 registrations in 2023 from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services but alternatively provided no data for entities that handle illegal immigration.

"If male inadmissible aliens between 18 and 26 were registering for the Selective Service, which is usually their duty under law, then your agency would have seen unprecedented increases in registrations over the Biden administration," said the FOIA request. "The absence of such a surge indicates that there is widespread criminal noncompliance by such aliens."

FOIA answered

The SSS informed the Oversight Project that it has no records for the period beginning Jan. 20, 2021, and ending March 20, 2025, sufficient to show how many:

  • draft-eligible inadmissible aliens either registered or failed to register for the draft;
  • draft-eligible males entered the country and either registered or failed to register for the draft;
  • aliens who entered the U.S. as unaccompanied alien children that have since registered or failed to register for the draft;
  • asylum applicants have registered or failed to register for the draft;
  • aliens with final orders of removal have registered or failed to register for the draft; and
  • draft-eligible males who registered or failed to register for the draft have also received or have applications pending for immigration parole, Temporary Protected Status, deferred enforcement departure, or Deferred Action on Childhood Arrival.

The SSS revealed further that it had no registration records from U.S. Customs and Border Protection, which does not register immigrants but provides non-immigrant visa information regarding ineligible men living in the country on temporary visa status.

'Luckily, this provides an opening for the Trump administration.'

The agency also noted that it receives printed copies of completed registration records for immigrants legally entering the country via U.S. Citizenship and Immigrant Service — but that this information is entered into the Selective Service database without indications of whether the registrant is a legal immigrant or whether the records were provided by USCIS.

Relevance

The information concerning male illegal aliens' registration or failure to do so — which appears presently out of reach — is relevant for a number of reasons.

First, a knowing and purposeful failure to register on the part of an illegal alien is a felony offense under the Military Selective Service Act of 1917 and a deportable offense under the McCarran-Walter Act of 1952.

The Congressional Research Service indicated that the Department of Justice rarely pursues felony cases against those who fail to register for the draft — there were no criminal prosecutions between January 1986 and 2021. A failure to prosecute in decades past does not, however, mean that the Trump administration cannot start anew.

"Luckily, this provides an opening for the Trump administration, which is focused on removing criminal illegal aliens as a priority," Howell told Blaze News. "Now they can turn every military-age male illegal into a criminal overnight, drawing in way more government resources to support mass deportations."

Blaze News reached out to the DOJ for comment about prosecuting such offenses but did not receive a response by deadline.

Second, where relevance is concerned: Male illegal aliens who fail to register can be precluded from obtaining U.S. citizenship and are ineligible for certain federal and state employment opportunities and education benefits.

Third, the absence of an increase in registrations amid the unlawful deluge of military-age men into the U.S. during the Biden administration could serve as an indictment of elements of the previous government.

Fourth, American men might be interested to know in the event of a war necessitating the draft how many military-age foreign nationals have or have not registered to join them in risking all abroad to protect the United States and the vulnerable citizens who remain behind. Eligible citizens, like the SSS, might also have an interest in "fairness and equity" and like to know whether illegal aliens are willing to sacrifice for the nation into which they have stolen.

Willful blindness

Documents obtained by the Oversight Project revealed both an awareness behind the scenes that the SSS was failing to capture information on potential illegal alien registrants and an interest in omitting the requirement that illegal aliens register for the draft.

Craig Brown, who stepped into the role of acting director of the SSS in January 2021, appeared to confirm that the agency was consciously missing a big piece of the puzzle, noting in an April 28, 2023, email that "undocumented immigrants are by definition not giving data. We get info on every male trying to legit stay in the country."

'President Trump should fire Biden holdover Craig Brown.'

In a December 2022 email chain between Selective Service employees concerning the estimated cost of a legislative proposal that would automatically register all eligible men on their 18th birthdays, an employee then working as deputy general counsel, legislative affairs, noted, "We may want to consider omitting the requirement that undocumented immigrants register."

"President Trump should fire Biden holdover Craig Brown," said Howell. "It looks like he purposefully failed to realize that the biggest invasion of military-age males meant he should probably get them registered for the draft. That is his job, after all."

A Selective Service spokesman did not respond to a question about Brown's email but said in response to the Oversight Project's broader critique, "U.S. citizens and immigrants residing in the United States (except for those on non-immigrant visas) are required to register with the Selective Service System within 30 days of their 18th birthday. The law permits men to register up until they turn age 26."

"The agency works to raise awareness of the legal requirement to register with all men within this age range," added the spokesman.

The spokesman told Blaze News that the agency "would not speculate on outcomes" when asked whether U.S. District Court Judge Trevor Neil McFadden's ruling earlier this month enabling the Trump administration to proceed with its requirement that everyone in the country illegally must register with the federal government might result in an increase in Selective Service registrations.

The Oversight Project made clear in its FOIA request why continued apathy on this matter is unacceptable, noting:

Failure to register for Selective Service is a felony, and thus the pool of potential criminal illegal aliens is much larger than believed. Moreover, an illegal alien's failure to register for Selective Service reflects that they are not coming to America for a better life with a desire to contribute to society. At the end of the day, they seek to illegally obtain the freedoms offered by America while at the very same time violating their legal duty to defend the country. Every illegal alien who submits an absurd asylum claim, is "paroled," or "gets away" after illegal[ly] crossing the border quite literally seeks to avail themselves of American freedoms on the backs of everyday Americans who complied with their Selective Service registration requirements and if it becomes necessary would defend those freedoms with their lives.

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Boss of MS-13 associate championed by Democrats was human trafficker: Report



Democrats have centered their opposition to the Trump administration's deportation of foreign gangsters under the Alien Enemies Act on the case of MS-13 associate Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national sent packing on March 15.

The tale they have attempted to tell with the assistance of willing elements of the liberal media is one of an innocent "Maryland man" traduced — an immigrant wrongfully detained, wrongfully deported, and wrongfully imprisoned in his home country.

While this narrative has already collapsed under the weight of numerous troubling facts about Abrego Garcia — his illegal entry into the U.S.; his admitted failure to appear for hearings on traffic violations; the domestic abuse allegations lodged against him; his affiliation with a terrorist gang; and the determination by two courts that he poses a danger to the community — it appears there is yet more dirt on the supposed innocent whom Democrats seek to bring back into the United States.

According to court and Homeland Security Department intelligence documents reviewed by Just the News, the vehicle Abrego Garcia was driving when pulled over by police in 2022 was owned by a human trafficker.

'Vehicle is used by HSI Baltimore target in human smuggling/trafficking operation.'

The Tennessee Star revealed in a damning report last week that Tennessee Highway Patrol pulled Abrego Garcia over in late 2022 for driving erratically and discovered that he was transporting seven passengers from Texas to Maryland.

The THP officer realized that the Salvadoran national, who did not have a valid driver's license at the time, was on a terrorist watch list but not on a deportation list. One of Abrego Garcia's passengers also was apparently on a terrorist watch list.

The officer, concerned that the MS-13 associate was engaged in human trafficking — his suspicion piqued by the passengers' lack of luggage — notified the Biden FBI, which instructed him to take pictures of Abrego Garcia and his passengers, then to release them.

At the time, DHS intelligence created a record of the encounter.

Documents reviewed by Just the News indicate that the black 2001 Chevrolet Suburban that Abrego Garcia was driving had been flagged by the Homeland Security Investigations Baltimore field office as belonging to a suspected human trafficker.

"Vehicle is used by HSI Baltimore target in human smuggling/trafficking operation. Vehicle makes trips to southern border to pick up noncitizens," said the record.

The DHS identified the owner of the SUV that Abrego Garcia was driving as Jose Ramon Hernandez Reyes — an illegal alien from Mexico who Abrego Garcia told a state trooper was his boss.

Hernandez Reyes pleaded guilty on June 4, 2020, to smuggling illegal aliens.

The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Mississippi indicated that Hernandez Reyes was pulled over on Dec. 4, 2019, in a white minivan he had rented, which was carrying seven illegal aliens — including three who were previously deported or removed from the U.S. — from Houston, Texas, to different locations around the country.

Abrego Garcia's alleged boss was sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment and three years of supervised release. Following his prison sentence, he was scheduled for removal proceedings.

It appears the illegal alien whom Democrats are desperate to return to the U.S. may have picked up where his alleged boss left off.

Despite Abrego Garcia's record, Democrats continue to throw their support behind him.

Democratic Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen traveled last week at taxpayers' expense to El Salvador, where he demanded Abrego Garcia's release from the country's Terrorism Confinement Center and shared an intimate moment with the Salvadoran national over drinks.

On Monday, Democratic Reps. Robert Garcia (Calif.), Maxwell Frost (Fla.), Yassamin Ansari (Ariz.), and Maxine Dexter (Ore.) followed in Van Hollen's footsteps but were denied a similar opportunity to dine with the MS-13 associate. Before returning to the U.S., they impotently demanded that President Donald Trump "bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia home now."

Democratic National Committee Vice Chair David Hogg rushed to defend the MS-13 associate on Sunday, telling Trump's former chief of staff Reince Priebus, "This was not an MS-13 gang member, and you damn well know that. He was not."

Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz's daughter recently appeared to liken Abrego Garcia to Jesus Christ and suggested that "this administration would have already taken [Jesus] and removed him from this country without due process."

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Trump DOJ tells courts to pound sand, not their place to order MS-13 member back to US



An Obama judge ordered the Trump administration on April 4 to bring a deported MS-13 member — found by more than one immigration court to be a "danger to the community" — back to the United States. Days later, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously upheld the lower court's ruling in part, noting that the administration must "facilitate" Kilmar Abrego Garcia's return.

The Trump administration, ever defiant, effectively told the federal courts to pound sand, which is for the best because Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele said Monday that he does not intend to release Abrego Garcia.

Attorneys for the government indicated in a Sunday filing that while the high court had instructed the Trump administration to "facilitate" Abrego Garcia's return, "reading 'facilitate' as requiring something more than domestic measures would not only flout the Supreme Court's order, but also violate the separation of powers."

The Supreme Court previously recognized that some of the language in U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis' order was "unclear, and may exceed the District Court's authority," adding that the lesser court "should clarify its directive, with due regard for the deference owed to the Executive Branch in the conduct of foreign affairs."

'They've done nothing.'

The attorneys for the government suggested in their Sunday filing that this deference on foreign policy matters should be more or less total, noting, "The federal courts have no authority to direct the Executive Branch to conduct foreign relations in a particular way, or engage with a foreign sovereign in a given manner."

"That is the 'exclusive power of the President as the sole organ of the federal government in the field of international relations,'" continued the government lawyers. "Such power is 'conclusive and preclusive,' and beyond the reach of the federal courts' equitable authority."

The plaintiffs in the case want the Trump administration to issue demands to the Salvadoran government and send American personnel to a foreign nation and an aircraft into a foreign nation's airspace to recover a citizen of that nation.

"All of those requested orders involve interactions with a foreign sovereign — and potential violations of that sovereignty," said the government lawyers. "A federal court cannot compel the Executive Branch to engage in any mandated act of diplomacy or incursion upon the sovereignty of another nation."

The Hill reported that Xinis was enraged Friday upon learning of the administration's continued refusal to comply with her order.

"Have they done anything?" the vexed Obama judge asked Deputy Assistant Attorney General Drew Ensign.

"Your honor, I don't have personal knowledge," said Ensign.

"OK, so they've done nothing," said Xinis.

Michael Kozak, senior bureau official in the State Department's Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, confirmed in a sworn statement Saturday that Abrego Garcia "is currently being held in the Terrorism Confinement Center in El Salvador. He is alive and secure in that facility. He is detained pursuant to the sovereign, domestic authority of El Salvador."

Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national, stole into the U.S. illegally and without inspection in 2011.

He was summoned in March 2019 to appear in removal hearings. During a bond hearing, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement revealed that a confidential informant flagged Abrego Garcia as an active member of the terrorist organization Mara Salvatrucha. The illegal alien's bond was denied, with the court finding he "was a danger to the community."

The following month, Abrego Garcia appealed the ruling to the Board of Immigration Appeals but was once again recognized as a gang member as well as a flight risk.

The judge stated, "The fact that a 'past, proven, and reliable source of information' verified the Respondent's gang membership, rank, and gang name is sufficient to support that the Respondent is a gang member, and the Respondent has failed to present evidence to rebut that assertion."

Abrego Garcia's lawyers maintain that the gang label is false.

Although found removable, Abrego Garcia managed to secure a form of relief called withholding of removal in October 2019.

As a result, he avoided removal until March 12, when ICE agents in Baltimore notified Abrego Garcia that his "status has changed," then arrested him.

Government attorneys indicated that after his initial detention, the illegal alien was questioned about his gang affiliations, transferred to a detention center in Texas, then removed to El Salvador.

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Obama judge orders Trump admin to bring mistakenly deported MS-13 member back to US



The Trump administration deported an illegal alien on March 15 who was found by more than one immigration court to be a "danger to the community" and a member of the terrorist organization Mara Salvatrucha.

While a prime candidate for removal, government attorneys indicated that Kilmar Abrego Garcia was ultimately deported to El Salvador "because of an administrative error."

An Obama judge ordered the Trump administration on Friday to bring the Salvadoran national back into the United States. On Sunday, U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis doubled down on her order, claiming that immigration agents "had no legal authority to arrest [Abrego Garcia], no justification to detain him, and no grounds to send him to El Salvador — let alone deliver him into one of the most dangerous prisons in the Western Hemisphere."

Xinis appeared particularly concerned that Abrego Garcia, whose lawyers claimed he is not a gangster, has been placed in a facility that "intentionally mixes rival gang members without any regard for protecting the detainees from 'harm at the hands of the gangs,'" stating that the "risk of harm shocks the conscience."

The Obama judge further suggested that Abrego Garcia's detention at the southern nation's Terrorism Confinement Center "appears wholly lawless"; that "equity and justice compels" Garcia's return to the United States; that the "legal basis for the mass removal of hundreds of individuals to El Salvador remains disturbingly unclear"; and that the government's "jurisdictional arguments fail as a matter of law."

Attorneys for the government previously indicated both that U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis lacks the jurisdiction to make such an order and that the Trump administration cannot bring the gang member back as he is no longer in American custody.

On the matter of jurisdiction, the Obama judge asserted that the "United States exerts control over each of the nearly 200 migrants sent to CECOT," noting "the Defendants detained them, transported them by plane, and paid for their placement in the mega-jail until 'the United States' decides 'their long-term disposition.'"

Xinis claimed further that she "retains jurisdiction because Abrego Garcia challenges his removal to El Salvador, not the fact of his confinement."

'We suggest the Judge contact President Bukele.'

Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg, the lawyer for Abrego Garcia, told Xinis that he wants to see the Trump administration "put on a leash" to make sure his Salvadoran client is returned in a timely manner, reported CNN.

The Obama judge, apparently keen to oblige Sandoval-Moshenberg, has ordered the government to "facilitate and effectuate the return" of the MS-13 gangster by no later than 11:59 p.m. on Monday.

Stephen Miller, White House deputy chief of staff, said in response to Xinis' order, "Marxist judge now thinks she's president of El Salvador."

Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin underscored in an interview last week that Abrego Garcia "is actually a member of MS-13 who was involved in human trafficking. It's unbelievable the framing of this. Whether this man is in El Salvador or in a U.S. detention center, he should be locked up."

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement, "We suggest the Judge contact President Bukele because we are unaware of the judge having jurisdiction or authority over the country of El Salvador."

While the Trump administration has found itself dealing with multiple activist judges like Xinis, in this case it has also suffered from players taking shots on their own net.

Erez Reuveni, the acting deputy director of the Department of Justice's immigration litigation division, was placed on administrative leave Saturday for bungling the case and failing to "follow a directive from [his] superiors," according to a letter sent to the lawyer and obtained by the New York Times.

Reuveni, 15-year veteran of the division, furnished Xinis with commentary that she made good use of in her Sunday ruling. He said that Abrego Garcia's deportation should never have taken place and expressed frustration with having the case land on his desk.

"At my direction, every Department of Justice attorney is required to zealously advocate on behalf of the United States," Attorney General Pam Bondi told the Times in a statement over the weekend. "Any attorney who fails to abide by this direction will face consequences."

It's unclear whether Reuveni's replacement will do a better job fighting to keep foreign gang members out of the homeland.

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Leftist Lawfare Aims To Keep Illegally Present Murderers And Child Rapists Roaming U.S. Streets

Biden dropped off airplanes full of illegal aliens around the U.S. and now every state is a border state, as proven by arrests in most states

Blaze News investigates: Springfield sees lives saved, Haitian exodus thanks to Trump's deportation threats



Republicans and other politicos identified Springfield, Ohio, in the lead-up to the 2024 election as municipal proof of the ruinous nature of the Biden administration's immigration policies.

Much was said about Springfield, and a great deal was promised in the way of possible remedies; however, the spotlight has since shifted and national attention along with it.

Blaze News recently reached out to city officials, local law enforcement, and the Department of Homeland Security in hopes of ascertaining whether anything has actually changed — for better or worse.

While the mayor and elements of his office are tight-lipped about the matter, the head of the Tremont City Police Department in the greater Springfield metropolitan area revealed that a great deal has changed socially and demographically since November — and that much of it can be attributed to President Donald Trump.

"I can't even fathom how bad it could be if that election went completely opposite," said TCPD Chief Chad Duncan. "There were people living in tents behind businesses, just inside of the wood line. The parks were overrun with homeless immigrants, and you don't see that now."

"So I guess you got to thank the good Lord that He decided to give us what we asked for, which was President Trump, and he did it in a very timely fashion," added Duncan.

Before

The blue-collar city, which had a population of just over 58,000 in 2020, was flooded over a short period of time by tens of thousands of Haitian migrants.

The majority of these migrants were temporarily authorized to stay under humanitarian parole programs, including the Biden administration's controversial Cuban Haitian Nicaraguan Venezuelan parole program, which authorized 211,010 Haitian parolees by October 2024.

Many of those who flocked to Springfield initially entered the country illegally — as Vice President JD Vance suggested, to the liberal media's displeasure, during the Oct. 1 vice presidential debate — but were spared deportation on account of Haiti's Temporary Protected Status.

If a nation has an ongoing armed conflict, has an environmental disaster, or faces other extraordinary conditions, the DHS secretary can designate that country for TPS, thereby shielding its nationals squatting in the U.S. from deportation for a period of six to 18 months.

Biden's DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas reinstated Haiti's TPS in 2021, then kept doubling down in subsequent years, expanding eligibility for protection along the way.

'We have had this influx that has taxed all these services.'

The rapid population growth experienced by Springfield, which was driven by the influx of largely deportation-immune Haitian migrants who in many cases were entitled under federal law to exploit public benefits such as food stamps and Medicaid, resulted in immense strains on the city's health care, law enforcement, housing, and schools.

The New York Times noted, for instance, that between 2021 and 2023, Springfield's health clinic saw a 13-fold increase in Haitian patients, which left its staff and budget greatly overburdened.

Springfield Mayor Rob Rue told PBS News last year, "The infrastructure of the city, our safety forces, our hospitals, our schools — Springfield is a close community and has a big heart, but at the same point, we have had this influx that has taxed all these services."

Citizens' unease over the migrant crisis — which at one point prompted a petition to recall the entire city commission — was exacerbated by cultural differences with elements of the Haitian population; harassment; special treatment afforded to migrant students; concerns over wage suppression and job replacement by migrants; allegations of Haitians eating pets and wildlife; and a significant spike in Haitian-caused traffic accidents.

'It's been overrun. You can't do that to people.'

One accident in particular prompted some Ohioans to rethink their acceptance of the new reality foisted on them by the Biden administration .

Hermanio Joseph, a Haitian immigrant who had been in the country for roughly one year, took to the roads of Clark County, Ohio, on Aug. 22, 2023, in a minivan without a driver's license. Driving recklessly, he veered across the center line of State Route 41 and into a school bus full of children, injuring 23 and taking the life of an 11-year-old American boy, Aiden Clark.

Following the horrific crash, numerous citizens made abundantly clear at the Aug. 28, 2023, city commission meeting that they were reaching their breaking point. Things would, however, get worse before they could get better.

After

When asked whether there have been any signs of progress or relief in the migrant crisis in Springfield following the election, Chief Duncan told Blaze News, "Things have changed drastically."

"When our president got elected, it seems that a majority [of the Haitian migrants] packed up and either went to New York or Florida," said Duncan. "At one point, you couldn't even find luggage in the vicinity because they'd all been bought up because they were leaving."

President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance indicated on the campaign trail that they would send packing many of the Haitian migrants paroled and/or granted temporary protected status by the Biden administration.

"We're going to have the largest deportation in the history of our country," Trump told reporters in September. "And we're going to start with Springfield and Aurora, [Colorado.]"

"It has nothing to do with Haiti or anything else. You have to remove the people, and you have to bring them back to their own country," Trump told NewsNation the following month. "Springfield is such a beautiful place. Have you seen what's happened to it? It's been overrun. You can't do that to people."

Sure enough, on his first day in office, Trump signed an executive order instructing the DHS secretary to "terminate all categorical parole programs that are contrary to the policies of the United States established in my Executive Orders, including the program known as the 'Processes for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans.'"

The DHS indicated in an unpublished notice obtained by CBS News late last month that the Trump administration was planning to revoke the parole status of those allowed into the U.S. under the CHNV program. Those who have not yet obtained asylum, a green card, or TPS would be placed in deportation proceedings.

Like the 350,000 Venezuelan migrants who will soon lose work permits and temporary protection from deportation following DHS Secretary Kristi Noem's Feb. 1 decision, Haitian migrants could soon lose their temporary protected status.

During his first term, Trump tried to revoke TPS for Haitian migrants but was blocked by a California-based Obama judge. A three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ultimately vacated U.S. District Judge Edward Chen's injunction but did not issue its directive to the lower court to make that ruling effective.

There appears now to be an opportunity and the political resolve to go the distance. Trump has vowed to terminate the TPS designation for Haiti.

The DHS had no comment on the proposed revocation of CHNV parolees' legal statuses or whether Noem will soon terminate Haiti's designation for TPS.

While CHNV legal statuses appear not to have yet been revoked en masse and there has been no announcement of Haitian migrants losing their protected status, multitudes of Haitian nationals in Springfield apparently weren't keen on waiting around for the other shoe to drop.

Following the election, there were reports of large numbers of Haitian migrants bailing out of Springfield in anticipation of possible deportation efforts.

"People are fully aware of the election result, and that is why they are leaving," Jacob Payen, co-founder of the Haitian Community Alliance, told the Guardian in November. "They are afraid of a mass deportation."

Chief Duncan told Blaze News that the fear of Trump's promised deportations was heightened by the understanding that "Ohio is not a sanctuary state and Springfield is not a sanctuary city" and by the clear presence of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in the area.

'Our death toll would have probably been extremely high if some of those migrants didn't vacate this area.'

"As soon as he was elected, they were rolling out by the droves," continued Duncan. "It could only be that they feared they were going to be deported right then and there."

The exodus of migrants has transformed Springfield, suggested Duncan.

"We haven't had as many vehicle accidents. Our hospitals are not full like they were all last year. Our schools are starting to go back to normal class sizes," said the police chief.

Duncan indicated that those migrants who have remained are for the most part "following the letter of the law now" and have done the work to get their driver's licenses.

"I haven't towed any Haitians' vehicles in the last three or four months," he said. "The people that want to stay here are doing the right things to make sure that they are able to stay, and the ones that did whatever they wanted to — it seems they vacated."

Duncan indicated that Trump's threat of deportation not only prompted positive change but may have saved lives.

"Our death toll would have probably been extremely high if some of those migrants didn't vacate this area and go elsewhere," said Chief Duncan. "I mean, they were living in the woods, in tents behind businesses, and this kind of cold weather — they would have never made it."

The exodus of migrants also meant that there is more housing availability for those who remain as well as less strain on local resources during what has ended up being a "really, really bad winter."

Blaze News reached out to Mayor Rob Rue and City Manager Bryan Heck for comment about the migrant crisis and the apparent exodus of Haitians. A city spokeswoman indicated that they "are not providing any comments on these matters at this time."

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El Salvador says it will take America's deportees and criminals — of any nationality



Over the course of just a few years, Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele transformed his country with a tough-on-crime approach from the "murder capital of the world" into one of the safest nations in the Western Hemisphere, closing out last year with the lowest homicide rate on record.

In 2015, nearly four years before Bukele took office, the country saw 6,656 people murdered. Last year, there were only 114 homicides recorded.

Having both effectively neutralized the gangs that once terrorized El Salvador and built a gargantuan prison complex to accommodate his country's criminal elements, Bukele is apparently keen now to onshore America's problems, specifically its deportees and criminals — of any nationality.

After meeting with Bukele on Monday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio indicated that "the president, in an act of extraordinary friendship to our country, knowing the challenges we face in the U.S., has agreed to the most unprecedented and extraordinary agreement anywhere in the world."

Extra to repatriating Salvadorans found illegally dwelling in the U.S., Rubio said that Bukele has agreed to accept for "deportation any illegal alien in the United States who is a criminal from any nationality, be they MS-13 or Tren de Aragua, and house them in his jails."

A senior official in the Trump administration told reporter Bill Melugin that this would mean El Salvador would even accept American deportations of Chinese nationals.

Rubio noted further that Bukele has also volunteered to throw "dangerous American criminals" into his jails, including U.S. citizens and legal residents.

'No country's ever made an offer of friendship such as this.'

El Salvador, which has a population of roughly 6.3 million people, reportedly had over 111,800 people in detention as of June 2024, leaving the nation with the highest prison population rate in the world.

The country is now home to multiple mega-prisons, such as the Terrorism Confinement Center in Tecoluca. The maximum-security prison, built in 2022, had 14,532 inmates as of summer 2024, but has capacity for 40,000 inmates.

"No country's ever made an offer of friendship such as this," stressed Rubio. "We are just profoundly grateful."

Bukele clarified on X that there are some strings attached, tweeting, "We are willing to take in only convicted criminals (including convicted U.S. citizens) into our mega-prison (CECOT) in exchange for a fee. The fee would be relatively low for the U.S. but significant for us, making our entire prison system sustainable."

The Trump administration has not yet indicated whether the U.S. government will take Bukele up on taking American criminals. Critics have suggested, however, that doing so is a legal no-go.

Leti Volpp, a law professor at the University of California Berkeley, told CNN, "The U.S. is absolutely prohibited from deporting U.S. citizens, whether they are incarcerated or not."

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