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'Prioritize the prosecutions.'
New Study: Immigration Caused 40% Of Your Rent Hikes Over 10 Years
By separating the spatial effects and then measuring the indirect “spillover effects," this research paints a clearer picture of immigration's overreach into communities, theoretically spread over the whole country.ICE nabs illegal alien wanted for murder — then a lesbian Biden judge weighs in
The Worcester Police Department arrested an illegal alien from the Dominican Republic charged with assault and battery on April 4.
Although the City of Worcester, like other municipalities across Massachusetts, is loath to cooperate with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the detainer for Bryan Rafael Gomez was reportedly honored, enabling ICE Boston to arrest the Dominican following his release on $500 bail.
'An activist judge appointed by Joe Biden released this wanted murderer back into American communities.'
ICE revealed at the time that Gomez — who stole into the United States in 2022, was encountered by U.S. Border Patrol near Lukeville, Arizona, and was ultimately released into the homeland by the Biden administration — was a fugitive from justice.
The Coordination of the Courts of Instruction of the National District of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, issued an arrest warrant in Gomez's name for murder on Jan. 24, 2023, according to the Department of Homeland Security.
While immigration authorities planned to keep the alleged murderer in custody until his removal from the U.S. — which appeared imminent granted an immigration judge issued Gomez a deportation order on April 28 — a judge appointed by former President Joe Biden to the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island in 2024 had other ideas.
Judge Melissa DuBose, a black lesbian who served as a member of the Committee on Racial and Ethnic Fairness in Rhode Island Courts and once described herself as being in a "Marxist Phase," ordered the foreign fugitive's release on Tuesday.
DuBose — who prefers the term "court user" to "defendant" — characterized the fugitive's detention by ICE as "unlawful," claiming that the legal authority under which ICE held him, which is intended for migrants captured at the border, did not apply to Gomez because he had been arrested by local police, reported Fox News.
The Biden judge, confirmed in 2024 with the support of Republican Sens. Lindsey Graham (S.C.) and Susan Collins (Maine), determined that rather than mandatory detention, Gomez was alternatively entitled to a bond hearing.
ICE, which contended that Gomez was subject to mandatory detention because of the international arrest warrant for homicide in his name, is barred from rearresting the fugitive as a result of Judge DuBose's order. Consequently, he is once again free to prowl American streets.
"Bryan Rafael Gomez is a criminal illegal alien from the Dominican Republic with an international warrant for homicide," Homeland Security acting Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis said in a statement. "An activist judge appointed by Joe Biden released this wanted murderer back into American communities. This is yet another example of an activist judge trying to thwart President Trump’s mandate from the American people to remove criminal illegal aliens from our communities."
"Under President Trump and Secretary Mullin, DHS will continue to fight for the removal of criminal illegal aliens who have no right to be in our country," added Bis.
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Trump blasts Biden over illegal alien charged in deadly hammer attack against woman — and posts uncensored video of killing
President Donald Trump absolutely eviscerated former President Joe Biden and "radical Democrats" in the wake of Homeland Security's announcement that a male accused of killing a woman in a brutal hammer attack last week in Florida is an illegal alien the Biden administration protected from deportation.
Trump went off in a Thursday night Truth Social post saying the suspect — Haitian national Rolbert Joachin — was "released into our Country by the WORST President in History, Crooked Joe Biden, and the Radical Democrats in Congress."
'As I’ve said all along, if you import the Third World, you become the Third World, and that is what happened over the four years of Democrat Control.'
The president added that "the video of her brutal slaying is one of the most vicious things you will ever see. This animal was allowed to stay here because the Biden Administration granted him, and all Haitians, 'Temporary [Protected] Status,' a massively abused and fraudulent program which my Administration is working to terminate, but Deranged Liberal District Court Judges are standing in our way. This one killing should be enough for these Radical Judges to STOP impeding my Administration’s Immigration Policies, and allow us to END THIS SCAM ONCE AND FOR ALL."
As Blaze News previously reported, a 40-year-old male is accused of hitting a woman in the head with a hammer and killing her in a horrific attack recorded on surveillance video outside a Fort Myers gas station convenience store.
DHS said suspect Joachin "first entered the United States in August 2022 and was released into the country under the Biden administration. A federal judge issued a final order of removal against him in 2022, but the Biden administration granted him Temporary Protected Status, which expired in 2024."
“This illegal alien barbarically hit this woman in the head multiple times with a hammer. This heinous murderer was RELEASED into the country by the Biden administration. Not only did the Biden administration release him into the country, but they then gave him Temporary Protected Status," said Lauren Bis, acting assistant secretary at the DHS Office of Public Affairs. "Their reckless immigration policies cost this woman her life."
Trump added: "To my fellow Republicans, and frankly all Common Sense Americans, NEVER FORGET that Joe Biden and the Democrat Party turned the United States of America into a dumping ground, allowing Tens of MILLIONS of Criminals, Lunatics, and the Mentally Insane from all over the World to pour into our Country, totally unvetted and unchecked through our wide Open Borders. As I’ve said all along, if you import the Third World, you become the Third World, and that is what happened over the four years of Democrat Control. We are rapidly trying to reverse this decline through Deportations, but if the Democrats are ever given another chance at power, they will immediately REOPEN the Border, and allow America to once again be a Safe Haven for Criminals."
The president also asked for "prayer for this innocent woman’s family. We will ensure quick and severe JUSTICE is served in this case!"
DHS said Immigration and Customs Enforcement lodged a detainer against Joachin and that he will be deported regardless of the outcome of his case.
Joachin on Friday remained behind bars at the Lee County Jail on charges of homicide (murder dangerous depraved without premeditation) and criminal mischief. There is no bond listed for him in jail records.
Numerous outlets have posted censored video of the fatal hammer attack, but Trump attached video of the uncensored attack to his Truth Social post.
"I don’t recommend you watch this tape, because it is so terrible, but felt I had an obligation to put it up so that people can see what Democrats are protecting, and wanting to come into our Country, even now, after all we’ve been through," Trump wrote. "Again, viewer discretion advised — Not for children!"
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Guatemalan laborers get surprise visit from federal agents during home renovation: 'We left home'
A video from a home renovation site in Maryland has gone viral over the detainment of several Guatemalan laborers.
On Monday morning, a group of men showed up to remodel a family home in Cambridge, Maryland. According to one of the workers, it did not take long for the job to turn into a federal investigation.
'The owner of the house kind of called immigration.'
The men had reportedly traveled about an hour and a half from Glen Burnie to Cambridge to complete a remodeling job on a house that included roofing.
As the men were on the roof, agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement appeared and began calling the laborers to come down.
Video of the exchange, posted online, was reportedly recorded by one of the workers, Bryan Polanco, who claimed the homeowner had notified authorities.
"We practically had a project to start today ... when they started the work, the owner of the house kind of called immigration," Polanco told N+ Univision DC, according to a translation.
Six Guatemalan workers, reportedly between 18 and 40 years old, were subsequently detained by ICE. Polanco was not detained because he is said to be a permanent resident.
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The viral video, which has been seen nearly 5 million times, contains claims from Polanco that ICE agents are "just hurting working people" who "contribute positively" to the United States.
Polanco also described the homeowner as harboring hate for the workers.
"Instead of going out and looking for criminals on the streets — for drug addicts — they come here to screw over people who are just trying to work. And it's that same woman. ... We were fixing up her house, and yet she still harbors such hatred in her heart."
Polanco went on to tell Univision that the homeowner told him that "if immigrants return again to finish the project, she will always call ICE."
The worker continued to conflate legal workers with illegal immigrants, telling the outlet, "Many Hispanics here in the United States have felt persecuted. We left home, and we don't know if we are going to return."
"Seeing it is not the same as living it. It is because I have already seen many videos, and sadly, today, I had to experience it. And I feel that it is something that really moves you a lot," he recalled.
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According to Spanish-language outlet Conexion Migrante, Polanco can also be heard in the video calling the ICE agents "animals."
“Even the neighbors and passersby here were trying to support us, but there’s nothing to be done with these animals."
The wife of one of the Guatemalan workers spoke to Univision in a phone call under the promise of anonymity. The woman said she felt "sad" and "desperate" for her husband, who was detained.
"We are here to get ahead, not to do evil," she stated.
Although no official information has been provided, Univision, citing relatives, reported that those detained do not have the required documentation to remain in the U.S.
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Activists cry 'racist,' sue to block removal of Somalis' special status
In a 2-1 ruling on Friday, a pair of federal appellate judges appointed by former President Joe Biden blocked the Trump administration from revoking Haiti's Temporary Protected Status designation — a special status that not only shields over 350,000 Haitian nationals from removal but enables them to continue displacing American labor.
Apparently emboldened by the D.C.-based appellate court's ruling, activists have filed a federal lawsuit in hopes of similarly blocking the Trump administration from ending Somalia's special status.
The long, slow goodbye
BlazeTV host Christopher Rufo and investigative reporter Ryan Thorpe highlighted in a damning Nov. 19 report various instances of alleged and confirmed fraud perpetrated by 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.
'We are putting Americans first.'
Two days later, President Donald Trump announced that he was terminating the TPS designation for Somalia, stating, "Somali gangs are terrorizing the people of that great State, and BILLIONS of Dollars are missing. Send them back to where they came from. It's OVER!"
Amid multiple investigations into the pervasive fraud within the heavily welfare-dependent Somali community, the Department of Homeland Security announced in January that the crime-ridden East African nation would be stripped of its special status effective March 17.
The DHS advised Somali nationals without legal status apart from TPS to start the process of self-deporting.
Somalia was initially designated for TPS in 1991 based on a determination that there were "extraordinary and temporary conditions" in Somalia preventing its expatriates from returning. This supposedly temporary designation was repeatedly extended over the next three decades.
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A Jan. 14 notice in the Federal Register pointed out, however, that the situation in Somalia has materially changed and that the country "today shows improved national governance and security structures and now experiences localized pockets of violence rather than nationwide, generalized conflict."
The notice stated further that "requiring Somali nationals to return to Somalia would not pose a serious threat to their personal safety as there are areas within Somalia where Somali nationals may live in safety."
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem stated, "Allowing Somali nationals to remain temporarily in the United States is contrary to our national interests. We are putting Americans first."
The lawsuit
African Communities Together — an activist group that has challenged the Trump administration's efforts to repatriate various temporarily welcomed African migrant groups — joined the California-based Partnership for the Advancement of New Americans and four Somalis in filing a lawsuit on Monday, accusing the administration of violating the Administrative Procedure Act as well as the Fifth Amendment.
The complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, downplays Somali criminality in the U.S., claims that the migrants' homeland is not as safe as the U.S. government has said, and states that the status termination was "motivated by racial, ethnic, and national-origin discrimination."
This theme — that the Trump administration and Trump's popular deportation agenda are racist — continues throughout the lawsuit and appears to be based on a presumption of racial animus on the part of the Trump administration.
The lawsuit presumes, for instance, that race was a factor when the administration left protections in place for Ukrainians but not for Somalis and Haitians. The complaint makes no mention of Ukraine's ongoing war with a nuclear power which has so far resulted in over 1.2 million casualties.
"The Trump administration has long embraced an anti-immigration agenda, which includes an objective of eliminating or severely restricting access to TPS for non-white, non-European immigrants," the complaint reads, "targeting them with racist rhetoric and attempting to use any mechanism possible to remove them from the country."
One example of supposedly "racist" commentary cited in the lawsuit was Trump's statement during a Nov. 27 press conference that "Somalians have caused a lot of trouble. They're ripping us off for a lot of money."
The lawsuit also referenced Trump's commentary during a Dec. 2 Cabinet meeting, specifically his statement, "I don't care. I don't want them in our country. Their country is no good for a reason. Their country stinks, and we don't want them in our country. I can say that about other countries too."
In addition to characterizing the administration as racist, the lawsuit complains that without the special status, former TPS beneficiaries will lose employment eligibility and benefits, which supposedly amounts to "severe" harm.
DHS did not respond to Blaze News' request for comment.
The Trump administration announced over the weekend that it intends to pursue an appeal at the U.S. Supreme Court to see through its termination of Haiti's TPS, Reuters reported.
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Robust Homeland Security Must Be Funded, Not Shut Down
Americans deserve a DHS strengthened by recent resource increases, and as agile and effective as possible in carrying out its core mission.Tricia McLaughlin leaving DHS after Good, Pretti shootings, prompting cheers from smug Democrats
Tricia McLaughlin, an unflappable 31-year-old defender of the Trump administration's crackdown on illegal immigration, announced on Tuesday that she is stepping down as Department of Homeland Security assistant secretary.
One DHS official told the New York Times that McLaughlin — a former top communications aide to Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R) and ABC News contributor — had made plans to leave the agency in December but, feeling duty-bound, stuck it out for several more months to lend her support amid backlash over the fatal shootings of anti-U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement radicals Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
'Your boos mean nothing.'
McLaughlin told the Cincinnati Enquirer last month that she wanted to return to Cincinnati with her husband, Republican political strategist Benjamin Yoho, to start their family. Yoho and McLaughlin tied the knot in August.
She noted further that with regard to running for office or getting involved in local politics, she "wouldn't rule anything out."
In a statement on Tuesday, McLaughlin expressed gratitude to President Donald Trump, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, and the American people, claiming that it has been an "honor and privilege to serve this great nation."
"I am immensely proud of the team we built and the historic accomplishments achieved by this Administration and the Department of Homeland Security," added McLaughlin.
McLaughlin noted further that Lauren Bis, who has been working as deputy assistant secretary for media relations, will take over as assistant secretary for public affairs and that Katie Zacharia — a commentator on Fox News and Newsmax — will step into the role of both DHS spokeswoman and deputy assistant secretary.
Noem said that McLaughlin "has served with exceptional dedication, tenacity, and professionalism" and "played an instrumental role in advancing our mission to secure the homeland and keep Americans safe." Noem added that she was "sad to see her leave."
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt similarly expressed sorrow to see McLaughlin leave and lauded the young woman for being "a strong and fearless voice on behalf of President Trump and the brave men and women of federal law enforcement."
Republicans and others happy with the work the DHS has done in making good on Trump's promises to the American people thanked McLaughlin for her service. Democrats, however, attacked her.
New Jersey Rep. Rob Menendez (D), for instance, wrote, "Hope you have time to reflect on all the harm & damage you caused, all the bs [sic] spin that came directly from you, & all the reputations you tarnished including the memories of dead Americans."
Menendez — the son of disgraced former Democrat Sen. Bob Menendez (N.J.) and a champion of illegal aliens who has supported legislation that would repeal the Alien Enemies Act, limit immigration enforcement actions, and defund U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement — noted further that he hopes McLaughlin's work for the DHS "haunts" her for the remainder of her career.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries branded McLaughlin "another MAGA extremist" and suggested she had been "forced out of DHS."
McLaughlin didn't let such remarks get to her in the past.
On Jan. 1, McLaughlin shared a "Rick and Morty" meme captioned, "Your boos mean nothing[.] I've seen what makes you cheer."
A DHS official told the Times that the young woman demonized by Democrats — including Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker and Rep. Dan Goldman (N.Y.) — has, along with her family, been deluged with threats.
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Washington printed promises. Gold called the bluff.
The latest partial government shutdown has ended, and two facts stand out: Washington will keep spending like a drunken sailor, and Republicans squandered their cleanest leverage point to rein it in.
Start with the number that matters: The House approved $1.25 trillion in additional discretionary appropriations. That decision pushes the annual deficit toward $1.75 trillion. Republicans voted for it, complained about it, and then acted surprised that the spending binge continued.
If Republicans keep missing moments like this one, investors will keep moving into gold and silver, not out of ideology, but out of self-preservation.
The shutdown fight should have forced a trade. Democrats focused on cutting Department of Homeland Security funding. Republicans had options beyond folding. They could have demanded real cuts elsewhere, then used Democrats’ own political pain points to make the deal stick.
One obvious target sat in plain sight. The Trump administration proposed a 50% cut to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That should thrill the MAHA crowd. Democrats hate what they call ICE “overreach.” Republicans despise what they view as CDC mission creep and pandemic-era abuses.
Congress could have paired both cuts and sold it as a reset: trim enforcement and trim the public health bureaucracy, then avoid another shutdown. Democrats could claim restraint at the Department of Homeland Security. Republicans could claim restraint at the CDC. Taxpayers would finally get something besides another blank check.
Instead, Republicans let the moment pass, and voters got another spending package.
Don’t expect the next round to improve. Markets already read Washington’s behavior as a warning label. Gold and silver prices sit at record highs because investors smell what Congress refuses to admit: Deficits at this scale produce either inflation, higher taxes, or both.
Central banks have acted on that judgment for years. They have moved away from dollars and Treasuries and into gold. Poland’s central bank led global gold purchases in October and November last year. That shift isn’t a protest from adversaries alone. It reflects a broader conclusion, from allies and rivals alike, that Washington keeps making promises it cannot afford to keep.
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The trend looks set to continue. Goldman Sachs expects central banks to buy roughly 60 metric tons of gold per month in the year ahead. Retail demand is rising too. Gold-backed exchange-traded funds reportedly absorbed about 800 metric tons in 2025 as investors searched for an asset that doesn’t depend on congressional self-control.
Frederic Panizzutti of Numismatica Genevensis explains the appeal plainly: Gold’s simplicity attracts buyers “as geopolitics and geoeconomics have become more complicated.”
Americans across the political spectrum want to abolish wasteful agencies. Congress won’t do it. Fine. Then at least cut budgets hard enough to prove lawmakers can say no to constituencies, lobbyists, and the permanent bureaucracies that treat every crisis as a looting opportunity.
Washington’s real problem isn’t a lack of authority. It’s a lack of restraint. Entitlement growth, debt service, and a bipartisan appetite for militarized foreign policy push the country toward instability at home and abroad. Politicians focus on the next election and leave the bill to the next generation.
If Republicans keep missing moments like this one, the dollar’s erosion will accelerate. Investors will keep moving into gold and silver, not out of ideology, but out of self-preservation.
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