Trump Ed Dept Gifts Millions To Teach People Who Can’t Speak English
According to the Department of Education’s definition of English learner, this grant funding may be used to help someone 'who is migratory.'According to the Department of Education’s definition of English learner, this grant funding may be used to help someone 'who is migratory.'Celebrities demand ICE send illegal immigrants back ... to your neighborhood
Not in their backyard.
Gated-community-dwelling celebs like Ben Stiller, Edward Norton, and Madonna are among those demanding that the Department of Homeland Security close a Texas ICE facility — and send its illegal immigrant detainees back into American neighborhoods.
The Change.org petition, which has reached over 200,000 signatures, targets the Dilley ICE detention center in Dilley, Texas, which was opened in 2014 by President Barack Obama.
'Children belong in schools and on playgrounds, not in detention centers.'
The facility was then closed by President Joe Biden in 2024, before being reopened by President Donald Trump in 2025.
Lock shock
Now, some of the country's most prominent liberal celebrities are accusing ICE of child imprisonment.
"No child should be locked in an immigration detention center," the petition states.
"We urge the federal government and CoreCivic to close the Dilley facility immediately, return children and families to the homes and communities they were taken from and to end child imprisonment now."
The description claimed that the children at the Dilley detention center "endure trauma, neglect and conditions that violate basic standards of health, safety, dignity and human rights."
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'Rotten food'
Additional claims cited court filings that detail "abuse ... refusals to provide clean water, rotten food contaminated with worms, dangerous medical neglect, sleep deprivation, denial of legal counsel, the separation of children from their families, and retaliation against families protesting the inhumane conditions."
Many of these claims were outlined in a PBS News report from January, citing allegations made by migrant families "in recent court documents about their children's conditions while in ICE custody."
'Desperate' measures
In a statement, DHS refuted the claims as the media's "desperate" attempt to discredit immigration reform:
Dilley does meet federal detention standards and actually undergoes regular audits and inspections. The Dilley Detention Center is retrofitted for families. Adults with children are housed in facilities that provide for their safety, security, and medical needs. All detainees are provided with 3 meals a day, clean water, clothing, bedding, showers, soap, and toiletries.
The federal entity also said inmates have access to phones to contact family and lawyers, have dietitian-evaluated meals, and ensure that children are protected.
"Parents, who are here illegally, can take control of their departure," the statement went on. DHS added the families can self-deport with the potential to return legally.
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Another day and another hoax about the South Texas Family Residential Center. The media is clearly desperate for these allegations of inhumane conditions at this facility to be true.
Here are the facts: Dilley does meet federal detention standards and actually undergoes regular… https://t.co/h1FD7beqXt
— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) January 22, 2026
"Children belong in schools and on playgrounds, not in detention centers," the petition also said.
Other celebrity signees include: Alyssa Milano, Brittney Griner, Christina Ricci, Cobie Smulders, Elizabeth Banks, Elliot Page, Eva Longoria, Jane Fonda, John Cusack, John Legend, Lance Bass, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Mark Ruffalo, Ms. Rachel, and Raffi.
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This Word In The 14th Amendment Bans Birthright Citizenship, And It’s Not ‘Jurisdiction’
The 14th Amendment's Citizenship Clause contains a word that definitively excludes birth tourists: 'reside.''I'm not suicidal': Rep. Burchett says US would fall apart if we heard truth about UFOs
A congressman could neither confirm nor deny shocking claims made about hybrid alien species and a string of mysterious deaths.
During a recent interview, Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) urged President Trump to disclose government secrets that he said would rock the nation, saying that what he has seen would keep people up at night.
'This country would have come unglued, I think, if they would have heard all that I heard.'
Burchett spoke with Newsmax host Rob Finnerty about recent stories and claims made about UFOs and alien disclosure. Perhaps most shockingly, Finnerty highlighted claims made by former Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), who recently said he was once briefed by U.S. Army personnel about the locations of "hybrid breeding programs where captured aliens were breeding with humans to create some hybrid race that could engage in intergalactic communication."
Gaetz told host Benny Johnson about "enforced breeding programs" between aliens and humans who had been abducted from war zones or migrant caravans.
When Finnerty asked Burchett for his response, he replied, "I'm still a member of Congress, so I can't really comment too much on what Matt said."
Burchett insisted he was being serious and added that if the government "would release the things that I've seen, you would stay up. You'd be up at night worrying about or thinking about this stuff."
The congressman gave an example.
"I was briefed ... on an issue two weeks ago, and it would have set the earth on — this country would have come unglued, I think, if they would have heard all that I heard, they would demand answers. And we need to."
Burchett then told the host there was an active cover-up happening in the highest ranks.
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All the allegedly shocking information that would have Americans up in arms is continuously being hidden from public view, Burchett claimed.
"Unfortunately, it just keeps getting covered up and covered up. And the people that know are dying or disappearing, as the case may be," he went on.
To that end, Finnerty cited a recent story connecting six dead or missing personnel linked to "secret U.S. aerospace work," all of which are stories from the past year.
For example, retired General William Neil McCasland allegedly "disappeared suddenly from his home" but left his phone, glasses, and watch, Finnerty said. He reportedly worked at an Air Force base that allegedly held debris from the Roswell, New Mexico, crash from the 1940s.
Monica Jacinto Reza is an aerospace engineer who vanished while hiking in the Angeles National Forest in June 2025.
In response to the stories, Burchett said, "I just know there are no coincidences in this town."
"These folks have disappeared or died mysteriously, and the only thing that ties them together is the fact that they worked on things that are dealing with outer space, whether it's UFOs or nuclear secrets or missiles or what have you," he added.
Chillingly, Burchett also felt the need to tell the host, "For the record, I'm not suicidal, and I don't take risks."
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The 61-year-old from Knoxville, Tennessee, said he has been pushing for disclosure from the federal government, but he and his colleagues are often stymied by "arrogant" bureaucrats.
"When I'm in a meeting, in a closed-door meeting, and I asked about the president's points on these, and then I'm told by some arrogant, unelected bureaucrat that the president is on a need-to-know basis, I think that says everything that needs to be said about what's going on."
Burchett described the typical bureaucrat as "some little punk with a man bun" who is "sort of running the show," while decorated military officers are silenced.
The officers, Burchett explained, "are basically unallowed to say anything, and you can read their faces."
The congressman remained steadfast in that he did not believe the recent deaths were coincidences and furthermore that he thinks President Trump is indeed the president who wants to provide disclosure on aliens.
Burchett said the president simply needs to be informed of what questions to ask and to be told the locations of certain "items."
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'Tip of the iceberg': Venezuelans accused of stealing over 100 identities for massive welfare fraud scheme
Somali fraudsters apparently have some competition from other migrant communities.
A pair of Venezuelan nationals were charged along with two other migrants this week for allegedly stealing and using the identities of over 100 individuals to obtain millions of dollars in federal welfare.
The Venezuelans, both of whom previously enjoyed Temporary Protected Status — Roman Vequiz Fernandez, 32, and Coralba Albarracin Siniva, 24 — and Joel Vicioso Fernandez, a 42-year-old Dominican national and permanent resident of Fitchburg, Massachusetts, were arrested and charged with conspiracy to use, transfer, acquire, and possess Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits.
'It is not particularly hard to identify these scams.'
Joel Fernandez's brother, Raul Fernandez Vicioso — a 37-year-old Dominican national and naturalized U.S. citizen who also lives in Fitchburg — was charged with conspiracy to commit SNAP fraud, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, SNAP benefit fraud, aiding and abetting, and money laundering.
Charging documents allege that the men and their co-conspirators used 117 stolen identities from individuals in six states and Puerto Rico to create 24 "households" in SNAP applications. The "households" were said on average to contain four to five people, and all of the fraudulent "households" were listed as living in two single-family apartments in Providence, Rhode Island.
While there was already ample cause for the Rhode Island Office of Internal Audit to suspect something was off, the alleged fraudsters also used the same bogus lease agreement in support of 17 of the 24 applications and routinely submitted and accessed the online applications using the same out-of-state IP address.
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The charging document noted that Massachusetts Department of Transitional Assistance records identified the theft of approximately $115,000 in SNAP funds in relation to this scheme; however, the state agency did not appear to bother informing the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Office of Inspector General or any other law enforcement agency.
U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts Leah Foley hammered this point again during a press conference on Tuesday, stating that the USDA OIG "is not aware of the Massachusetts DTA making any referral report to the USDA concerning this theft."
Apparently eager to steal even more, the Dominican nationals allegedly used their own personal information to create additional fraudulent SNAP benefit accounts, which involved the alleged use of fake passports and passport cards.
Investigators found that metadata from images of the counterfeit documents indicated they were taken in Leominster, Massachusetts, at the site of El Primo Restaurant, an establishment operated by the younger brother.
The suspected fraudsters had allegedly been using the stolen welfare benefits to purchase bulk food items for retail sale at the restaurant.
Federal agents raided the restaurant and Vicioso's residence on Sept. 24, 2025, and found approximately 20 fraudulently obtained Rhode Island and Massachusetts EBT cards, fraudulent documents, a handwritten list of identities, SNAP-related mailings, and a machine that enables stolen EBT card information to be loaded on a physical payment card, alleged the charging documents.
The Justice Department noted that in addition to allegedly fraudulently obtaining at least $440,000 in SNAP benefits from Massachusetts and Rhode Island between December 2023 and September 2025, the defendants allegedly also fraudulently secured over $700,000 by submitting bogus applications for Pandemic Unemployment Assistance benefits in Massachusetts, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Washington from 2020 to 2021.
For the alleged PUA fraud, at least 29 different identities were used on the applications, not including Vicioso and Fernandez, who also allegedly issued applications in their own names.
"This is just the tip of the iceberg," Foley told reporters on Friday. "We are investigating many more benefit fraud cases in my office, and today is just the beginning."
In December, Foley's office announced the arrests of two men — Antonio Bonheur, a naturalized U.S. citizen, and Saul Alisme, a Haitian national — who allegedly engaged in a scheme to obtain millions of dollars' worth of SNAP benefits through small retail stores they ran in Boston.
The duo are also accused of selling donated food product intended for starving children overseas.
"It is not particularly hard to identify these scams, but if you don't even care to look or prosecute those involved, essentially allowing criminals to steal vast amounts of taxpayer money with impunity, the scams will continue to proliferate unabated," added Foley.
The U.S Government Accountability Office noted in a September 2024 report that an estimated 11.7% or $10.5 billion of SNAP benefits paid out by the USDA in fiscal year 2023 "were the wrong amount or otherwise should not have been made."
Last year, the USDA indicated that the national payment error rate for fiscal year 2024 was 10.93%.
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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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