San Diego Padres pitcher self-deports back to Mexico after responding to ridiculous Facebook ad
A promising pitcher for the MLB's San Diego Padres was caught committing an immigration crime in Arizona.
Humberto Cruz, a 19-year-old prospect from Monterrey, Mexico, is now listed as "restricted" on his official minor-league page after self-deporting back to Mexico following a criminal complaint last October.
'I understand that my actions have fallen short of the standards expected of me.'
Cruz was previously listed as the Padres' fifth-most promising prospect in official rankings, the New York Post reported, but has seemingly been removed from the list at the time of this writing.
Now, the Mexican has reportedly left the country after he was charged with a felony for transporting illegal aliens for profit and a misdemeanor for being an accessory to improper entry.
On October 28, Cruz was spotted by Border Patrol agents in a 2020 BMW SUV with a Mexican license plate near Lukeville, Arizona, a small town on the U.S.-Mexico border. According to the Athletic, Cruz was first seen with one male occupant inside and then, an hour later, was observed to have multiple passengers.
Despite legally entering the U.S. through Phoenix, Cruz allegedly had two illegal aliens from Mexico in his vehicle, one of whom was deported just four days earlier.
The pitcher then allegedly waived his Miranda rights and told federal agents he responded to a social media ad that was looking for someone to "pick up people for easy money."
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The baseball player allegedly said he was offered $1,000 for each pickup and that the locations were provided to him through an unknown contact by phone. Cruz traveled from Tucson to Phoenix and admitted he knew "they were illegal" once he picked the passengers up, according to police.
Cruz received a $750,000 signing bonus from the Padres organization in February 2024.
Under a plea agreement, the government agreed to drop the felony charge, which would have come with a maximum 10-year imprisonment. Still, the misdemeanor conviction meant Cruz was likely to be deported anyway, and he agreed to accept the charges and waive the right to appeal his sentence while leaving of his own accord.
Cruz will reportedly lose his work visa for 10 years but is eligible to reapply after five years on the condition of good behavior, the San Diego Union-Tribute reported.
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Cruz released a statement through the Padres organization, saying he had "sincere regret" over his "recent lapse in judgment."
"I understand that my actions have fallen short of the standards expected of me as a professional and as a representative of this organization. I take responsibility for my conduct and recognize the impact it has had on my teammates, the club, and those who support us. To my teammates and coaches, I apologize for becoming a distraction and for not upholding the level of professionalism you deserve."
Cruz stated not only that he let the team and his friends down, but that he also let down the fans by "failing to meet the trust placed" in him.
The pitcher added, "I am committed to reflecting on this moment, learning from it, and taking the appropriate steps to move forward in a positive and responsible manner. I will cooperate fully with the organization and any steps required of me."
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Springfield officials, Ohio activists brace for end to Haiti's Temporary Protected Status designation
Springfield, Ohio, featured prominently in 2024 election-time debates as a case study in the fallout of the Biden-Harris administration's disastrous immigration policies — a place where President Donald Trump suggested migrants were "eating the pets of the people that live there."
The blue-collar city, which had a population of just over 58,000 in 2020, was flooded in subsequent years by tens of thousands of Haitian migrants — migrants whom Springfield Mayor Rob Rue admitted "taxed" the "infrastructure of the city, our safety forces, our hospitals, our schools." According to the city, there are upwards of 15,000 migrants presently residing in Clark County alone.
'Temporary means temporary.'
Many of the Haitians who overwhelmed Springfield and other American cities initially entered the U.S. illegally but were spared deportation on account of Haiti's Temporary Protected Status. That status, which Haitian migrants have enjoyed since January 2010 and roughly 350,000 Haitian migrants enjoy today, is set to expire on Tuesday.
In anticipation of a potential immigration crackdown following the designation's expiration date, Mayor Rue and members of the Springfield City Commission approved a resolution on Tuesday urging federal law enforcement to "comply with city policies on masks and officer identification to preserve the public peace within the community."
Blaze News has reached out to Mayor Rue for comment.
Former DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas reinstated Haiti's TPS in 2021, then doubled down in subsequent years, expanding eligibility for protection along the way.
The Trump Department of Homeland Security announced in July, however, that Haiti's temporary status was coming to an end.
"After reviewing country conditions and consulting with appropriate U.S. Government agencies, the Secretary determined that Haiti no longer continues to meet the conditions for designation for TPS," said the announcement in the Federal Register. "The Secretary, therefore, is terminating the TPS designation of Haiti as required by statute."
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While DHS initially sought to terminate the TPS designation for Haiti on Sept. 2, 2025, the termination was blocked and the status preserved until Feb. 3 by the New York-based U.S. district court judge overseeing the case Haitian Evangelical Clergy Association v. Trump.
In November, the DHS noted that "in compliance with the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York's final judgment, the current Temporary Protected Status designation period for Haiti ends February 3, 2026."
The loss of status would not only mean that previously covered Haitians will lose their work authorization but that they could be given the boot.
Emily Brown, Ohio State University Moritz College of Law's Immigration Clinic Director, told the Ohio Capital Journal, "At that point, they could potentially be arrested, detained, or put in removal proceedings unless they have already applied for some other form of relief they have in addition to TPS, or that they are applying for in addition to TPS."
The ACLU of Ohio is among the liberal activist groups panicking over the prospect of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement targeting Haitian migrants in Springfield starting on Feb. 4.
"This despicable surge in lawless ICE officers descending upon Springfield will ignite swells of fear within the Haitian community, terrorize our black and brown neighbors, and cause considerable damage to citizens and non-citizens alike," stated J. Bennett Guess, executive director of the ACLU of Ohio.
"The ACLU of Ohio urges state and local elected officials to do everything in their power to protect the 30,000 Haitians living in Central Ohio," he continued.
Prior to Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes — a Biden-appointed lesbian judge who previously worked as a lawyer to fight the first Trump administration's immigration policy — could decide to suspend the expiration of Haiti's TPS.
Reyes may be emboldened, after all, by a ruling on Wednesday from a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
The panel — comprising three Democrat-nominated judges — suggested Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem exceeded her authority when ending the TPS for Venezuela and Haiti.
The appellate court's ruling won't have an immediate effect, as the U.S. Supreme Court cleared Noem in October to revoke temporary legal statuses while litigation proceeds.
DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in response to the appellate court's ruling, "Temporary means temporary, and this is yet another lawless and activist order from the federal judiciary who continues to undermine our immigration laws."
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Trump sounds off again on Ilhan Omar — says why she should be thrown 'THE HELL OUT of our country'
President Donald Trump leaned into his criticism of Somalia and its apparent top spokeswoman in Congress, telling reporters on Air Force One why America is better off both without asylum-seekers from the failed African nation and without Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar (D).
America First versus Somalia First
Trump announced on Nov. 21 that he was terminating the Temporary Protected Status designation for Somalia following a report detailing instances of alleged and confirmed fraud perpetrated by numerous members of the Somali community in Minnesota as well as the alleged direction of stolen taxpayer funds by members of the Somali community to terrorists abroad.
'If that's true, she shouldn't be a congressman.'
"Somali gangs are terrorizing the people of that great State, and BILLIONS of Dollars are missing," Trump noted on Truth Social. "Send them back to where they came from. It's OVER!"
Omar, a native of Somalia who claimed last year that the "U.S government will do what [Somali-Americans] tell the U.S. government to do," did not take the news well.
The Democrat ethno-nationalist wrote on Bluesky, "I am a citizen and so are majority of Somalis in America. Good luck celebrating a policy change that really doesn’t have much impact on the Somalis you love to hate. We are here to stay."
Omar then held a press conference with Minnesota state Democrats in which she claimed Trump lacked the authority to terminate Somalia's TPS designation, suggested that the corruption referred to by the president was not systemic among Minnesota's Somali community, and accused Trump of endangering Somalis across the United States.
Following the fatal attack on National Guard members in the national capital last week, allegedly by an Afghan shooter, the president not only revealed that he was cutting off the flow of migrants to the U.S. from third-world backwaters such as Afghanistan but laid into Omar and rogue actors among the Somali community once again.
Trump noted in his lengthy announcement on Truth Social:
Hundreds of thousands of refugees from Somalia are completely taking over the once great State of Minnesota. Somalian gangs are roving the streets looking for “prey” as our wonderful people stay locked in their apartments and houses hoping against hope that they will be left alone.
After suggesting that "the seriously retarded Governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz," had failed to tackle the problem, Trump turned his sights on Omar, who he claimed "does nothing but hatefully complain about our Country, its Constitution, and how 'badly' she is treated," adding that Omar "probably came into the U.S.A. illegally."
Family matters
When asked on Sunday about how long he intends to block asylum claims from various nations into the U.S., Trump told reporters, "I think a long time."
"We don't want 'em. We don't want those people. We have enough problems. We don't want those people," said the president.
"You know why we don't want 'em? Because many have been no good, and they shouldn't be in our country."
Trump clarified that by "those people," he meant "people from different countries that are not friendly to us and countries that are out of control themselves — countries like Somalia that have virtually no government, no military, no police. All they do is go around killing each other. Then they come into our country and tell us how to run our country. We don't want them."
After using Somalia as an example of a nation whose asylees the U.S. could do without, Trump suggested that Omar "supposedly came into our country by marrying her brother."
"Well, if that's true, she shouldn't be a congressman. And we should throw her the hell out of our country," said Trump.
Omar has long been accused of immigration-related marriage fraud and bigamy.
Years after coming to the U.S. as a refugee, Omar reportedly took out a marriage license to marry Ahmed Hirsi. While she married Hirsi in a Muslim ceremony and had children with him, she did not initially marry him legally.
After supposedly separating from Hirsi, Omar formally married Ahmed Nur Said Elmi — a British-Somali national reportedly identified by numerous Somalis as Omar's brother — in 2009. Over the next few years, she would separate and secure a legal divorce from Elmi, then reunite and have another child with Hirsi.
Omar called the allegations "absolutely false and ridiculous" in a 2016 statement, adding that "insinuations that Ahmed Nur Said Elmi is my brother are absurd and offensive."
Despite Omar's denial of the allegations, an individual identifying as one of her friends, Abdihakim Osman, told the Daily Mail in 2020 that Omar had confirmed that Elmi was her brother and that she married him so he could remain in the United States.
Osman indicated that in the early 2000s, "People began noticing that Ilhan and Southside [Hirsi] were often with a very effeminate young guy."
"He was very feminine in the way he dressed — he would wear light lipstick and pink clothes and very, very short shorts in the summer. People started whispering about him," said Osman. "[Hirsi] and Ilhan both told me it was Ilhan's brother and he had been living in London, but he was mixing with what were seen as bad influences that the family did not like."
"So they sent him to Minneapolis as 'rehab,'" claimed Osman.
After Omar married Elmi, he started school at North Dakota State University, where he graduated in 2012.
Osman told the Mail that following their wedding, Omar and Elmi moved to Fargo and began attending university together.
"She said she needed to get papers for her brother to go to school," said Osman. "We all thought she was just getting papers together to allow him to stay in this country."
"Once she had the papers, they could apply for student loans," continued Osman. "They both moved to North Dakota to go to school, but she was still married to [Hirsi]. In the Somali way, the only marriage that mattered was the one in the mosque."
Omar's office did not respond to Blaze News' request for comment.
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MS-13 associate Kilmar Abrego Garcia urges Obama judge to silence DHS, DOJ officials
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested MS-13 associate Kilmar Abrego Garcia on Monday and set the stage for his deportation to Uganda.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said in a statement to Blaze News, "President Trump is not going to allow this illegal alien, who is an MS-13 gang member, human trafficker, serial domestic abuser, and child predator, to terrorize American citizens any longer."
'The media's sympathetic narrative about this criminal illegal alien has completely fallen apart.'
But Paula Xinis of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland — a judge former President Barack Obama nominated — swiftly intervened to prevent the removal of the Salvadoran national. Xinis told the Trump administration it was "absolutely forbidden" from deporting Garcia, then issued a temporary restraining order to this effect.
On Thursday, the MS-13 associate asked a different Obama judge to prevent Attorney General Pam Bondi, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, and all of the officials in their respective agencies from discussing his sordid history.
"Since Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia was released from pretrial custody last Friday, officials from the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security — and even the White House — have attacked Mr. Abrego in the media in numerous highly prejudicial, inflammatory, and false statements," Garcia's attorneys noted in the request to U.S. District Judge Waverly Crenshaw, an Obama-nominated judge who sought Abrego's release in July.
Garcia and his legal team were especially prickled by the suggestion that he is "a known MS-13 gang member, human trafficker, wife beater, and child predator."
While Garcia's attorneys complained that such claims were "baseless," it's clear the Trump administration did not create the allegations out of whole cloth.
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Justice Department attorneys indicated earlier this year that in March 2019, Garcia was summoned to appear in removal proceedings. During a bond hearing, ICE stated that a confidential informant flagged Garcia as an active member of MS-13. The illegal alien's bond was denied with the court reportedly finding "that Abrego Garcia was a danger to the community."
When Garcia appealed that decision to the Board of Immigration Appeals, an immigration judge determined in April 2019 that "the determination that the Respondent is a gang member appears to be trustworthy and is supported by other evidence in the record."
As with Garcia's MS-13 link, the domestic abuser claim also did not appear out of thin air.
Garcia's wife, Jennifer Vasquez, sought domestic violence protective orders against him in 2020 and 2021. Vasquez alleged in her 2021 protective order petition that Garcia punched her, ripped off her shirt, and both scratched and bruised her.
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The human trafficking allegation that Garcia wants DHS and DOJ officials to refrain from publicly mentioning is fleshed out in his federal grand jury indictment which accuses him of conspiracy to transport aliens and unlawful transportation of undocumented aliens.
The indictment alleges that Garcia conspired to bring illegal aliens — adults and children alike — into the U.S. from countries such as Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Ecuador, and elsewhere from 2016 until this year. He allegedly made over 100 trips over the course of this alleged human smuggling campaign.
"Over the course of the conspiracy, the co-conspirators knowingly and unlawfully transported thousands of undocumented aliens who had no known authorization to be present in the United States, and many of whom were MS-13 member and associates," said the indictment.
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As for the "child predator" allegation, Bondi told reporters in June that one of Garcia's alleged co-conspirators claimed that he not only "abused undocumented alien females" who were "under his control while transporting them throughout our country" but allegedly "solicited nude photographs and videos of a minor."
Bondi, Noem, and the White House's repeated references to these and other skeletons in Garcia's closet evidently infuriated him, but Garcia's attorneys said in their Thursday request that the "pièce de resistance" was the DHS' repost of this White House meme:
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Garcia's attorneys claimed in the request that "if the government is allowed to continue in this way, it will taint any conceivable jury pool by exposing the entire country to irrelevant, prejudicial, and false claims about Mr. Abrego."
His attorneys asked for a gag order prohibiting all DHS and DOJ officials involved in Garcia's case — and all officials in their supervisory chain — "from making extrajudicial comments that pose a substantial likelihood of materially prejudicing this proceeding."
A DHS official told the Hill, "If Kilmar Abrego Garcia did not want to be mentioned by the Secretary of Homeland Security, then he should have not entered our country illegally and committed heinous crimes."
The DHS official continued, "Once again, the media is falling all over themselves to defend this criminal illegal MS-13 gang member who is an alleged human trafficker, domestic abuser, and child predator. The media's sympathetic narrative about this criminal illegal alien has completely fallen apart, yet they continue to peddle his sob story."
The Hill indicated that the DOJ declined to comment.
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ICE just arrested Democrats' favorite MS-13 associate — and now he's getting the boot for good
MS-13 associate Kilmar Abrego Garcia — a Salvadoran national credibly accused of human trafficking, domestic abuse, and posing a danger to the community — was deported back to his home country earlier this year, where he was housed in a prison for terrorists.
Sen. Chris Van Hollen (Md.) and Reps. Robert Garcia (Calif.), Maxwell Frost (Fla.), Yassamin Ansari (Ariz.), and Maxine Dexter (Ore.) were among the Democrats who complained about the MS-13 associate's ouster and imprisonment and demanded his return.
'Remember that I am free, and I was able to be reunited with my family.'
Democrats technically got what they wanted, but Garcia's story did not ultimately play out as they may have hoped.
Garcia was brought back to the U.S. to face criminal charges over his involvement in an alleged multistate human trafficking operation, then temporarily held at the Putnam County Jail in Tennessee.
Abrego Garcia's lawyer, Sean Hecker, told WZTV-TV on Friday that Garcia was free, "presently en route to his family in Maryland, after being unlawfully arrested and deported and then imprisoned, all because of the government's vindictive attack on a man who had the courage to fight back against the administration's continuing assault on the rule of law."
The Department of Homeland Security confirmed to Blaze News that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has cut short the MS-13 associate's time with his family.
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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said in a statement to Blaze News, "Today, ICE law enforcement arrested Kilmar Abrego Garcia and are processing him for deportation."
"President Trump is not going to allow this illegal alien, who is an MS-13 gang member, human trafficker, serial domestic abuser, and child predator, to terrorize American citizens any longer," added Noem.
Before surrendering to ICE in Baltimore on Monday, Garcia told supporters, "Brothers and sisters, my name is Kilmar Abrego Garcia, and I want you to remember this: Remember that I am free, and I was able to be reunited with my family."
Immigration officials reportedly offered to send Garcia packing to Costa Rica if he pleaded guilty to the human smuggling charges. Since he apparently chose not to take the deal, he will apparently be deported to Uganda.
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Denaturalize And Deport Zohran Mamdani For Immigration Fraud
Any serious nation with an interest in self-preservation would immediately denaturalize and deport Mamdani.Trump admin changes the game, sues federal judges in Maryland for automatically blocking deportations
President Donald Trump's opponents failed to stop him at the ballot box, so now they are attempting to neutralize his presidency in the courts.
U.S. district court judges have proven more than willing to help out in this regard, slapping the government with more nationwide injunctions in the first 100 days of Trump's second term than were entered throughout the whole of the 20th century.
As of Wednesday, the New York Times indicated that 199 or more of the court rulings against the president's executive actions so far this year have at least temporarily halted the Trump administration's initiatives.
While the U.S. Supreme Court has intervened in a number of cases to reaffirm the president's Article II powers and his exercise thereof, it's abundantly clear that the Trump administration is tiring of what White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller has repeatedly called a "judicial coup."
The Department of Justice turned the tables on Wednesday, filing a lawsuit against the U.S. District Court of Maryland and all 16 of its judges — including its 10 authorized judges, all but one of whom were appointed by former Presidents Joe Biden or Barack Obama.
The lawsuit takes aim at an order handed down last month that automatically blocks the deportation of illegal aliens in the state whose detention is challenged by immigration attorneys.
If a petition for writ of habeas corpus is filed on behalf of an illegal alien detainee in or said to be in the District of Maryland, the Trump administration is automatically enjoined and restrained from removing the alien from the country or altering the alien's legal status for at least two days.
The district court's Chief Judge George Russell III, an Obama appointee, claimed that the May 28 amended standing order was necessary because the recent flood of illegal alien detention and removal challenges "that have been filed after normal court hours and on weekends and holidays has created scheduling difficulties and resulted in hurried and frustrating hearings."
Chad Mizelle, DOJ chief of staff, stressed that "this obviously illegal practice cannot stand. To stop it, the Department of Justice has no choice but to sue the Maryland federal district court — and its judges — to ensure that they stop overstepping their authority in this critical area."
Lawyers for the government noted in the lawsuit that the district court's automatic injunction does "precisely what the Supreme Court has forbidden: make equitable relief a 'matter of right' in the District of Maryland."
'This pattern of judicial overreach undermines the democratic process and cannot be allowed to stand.'
"Defendants' automatic injunction issues whether or not the alien needs or seeks emergency relief, whether or not the court has jurisdiction over the alien's claims, and no matter how frivolous the alien's claims may be," said the lawsuit.
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The complaint notes further that the standing orders:
- "violate congressional limits on district courts' jurisdiction over immigration matters";
- "disregard the procedural and substantive requirements for issuing what amounts to a local rule";
- "are fundamentally inconsistent with the judicial role to resolve only concrete and discrete 'cases' and 'controversies'";
- rob Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Enforcement and Removal Operations of any opportunity to contest the alien's assertion of being "located in the District of Maryland" at the time of a habeas filing; and
- "can also adversely impact the operational planning necessary to coordinate a removal, especially a removal of an alien to a country that is recalcitrant about accepting the alien."
The DOJ characterized the Maryland District Court's automatic injunctions as "a particularly egregious example of judicial overreach interfering with Executive Branch prerogatives — and thus undermining the democratic process."
"President Trump's executive authority has been undermined since the first hours of his presidency by an endless barrage of injunctions designed to halt his agenda," Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a statement. "The American people elected President Trump to carry out his policy agenda: this pattern of judicial overreach undermines the democratic process and cannot be allowed to stand."
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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."
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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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