Cattle industry groups issue WARNING about beef prices over ICE operations in Texas, Kansas, and Oklahoma
A group of cattle industry organizations said that federal immigration operations could interfere with the beef supply and push prices even higher.
The joint statement from cattle industry groups in Oklahoma, Texas, and Kansas said they were closely monitoring Immigration and Customs Enforcement activities in their states.
'These ICE operations are having a massive chilling effect on the legal, documented, skilled workers that put beef on the table and keep the cattle supply chain moving.'
"Our organizations respect the responsibility of federal agencies to enforce the law. At the same time, cattle producers, feedyards, dairies, livestock markets, processors, and other rural businesses depend on a stable workforce to care for animals, protect food safety, and keep the supply chains operating," read the joint statement.
"Sudden workforce disruptions can create immediate animal-welfare, operational, and economic consequences that extend well beyond an individual business," they added. "These ICE operations are having a massive chilling effect on the legal, documented, skilled workers that put beef on the table and keep the cattle supply chain moving."
The groups said the disruptions will lead to higher beef prices for consumers.
"These disruptions come at a time of enhanced focus and pressure on the cattle and beef supply chain," they continued. "They are a costly and unnecessary impact to cattle producers already suffering from unwelcome political interference to both the markets as well as the physical supply chain. Frustratingly, the harm these actions cause to cattle producers last for days and weeks after such operations conclude."
The statement called on federal authorities to respect due process and conduct enforcement operations in a lawful and orderly manner.
Beef prices are already historically high after cattle production in the U.S. dropped over the past few years. The price of a pound of beef has risen about 37.8% from 2013 through 2026.
The groups claimed that immigration operations had already resulted in millions of dollars in lost revenue and added cost for the cattle industry.
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President Donald Trump said to Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck on his radio program in August that he would seek to deregulate meat processing rules in order to increase the beef supply.
"I know firsthand how rigged the system is against independent American farmers," said Beck about the interview with Trump. "Four massive corporations control almost the entire meat processing industry. If President Trump can cut these regulations, it would be a HUGE WIN."
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Democrat lieutenant governor RESIGNS after heinous sex accusations surface
When Mikie Sherrill picked Dale Caldwell to be her running mate on the gubernatorial ticket in New Jersey, she called the Methodist pastor a "voice for the voiceless."
Only a year later, Sherill called for Caldwell to resign from his office after an independent report documented numerous allegations of sexual and ethical impropriety against him.
'There has been a culture in Trenton, probably since the birth of our nation, to sweep this under the rug. ... Allegations would never be taken seriously, action would never be taken, and victims would just have to either quit their job or move on.'
The investigation into Caldwell began after an anonymous tip warning about his behavior with women. That investigation turned up "credible evidence" that he made an inappropriate comment to a female staffer and had sought a promotion for a state employee he was dating.
Sherrill announced Caldwell's resignation at a media briefing Friday.
"His decision will allow us to move forward with important work serving the people of our state," the governor added.
Caldwell had earned praise as the first black president of Centenary University in addition to being a pastor of the United Methodist Church.
He is accused in the report of saying to a staffer after being rejected by her friend, "You young women are looking for young sperm."
The report said he denied that allegation but that the investigators did not find the denial credible.
Caldwell denied the report's allegations and said he wasn't given the chance to provide his own witnesses or properly address the claims.
"This unnecessarily protracted and one-sided process lacked the requisite due process that should be afforded every citizen of this state," said his attorneys in a statement.
Sherrill did not have the authority to remove Caldwell herself, but his resignation prevents impeachment proceedings by the state legislature.
"There has been a culture in Trenton, probably since the birth of our nation, to sweep this under the rug," said Sherrill about the allegations. "You can speak to numerous people who’ve worked in the statehouse for decades who felt this day would never come, that allegations would never be taken seriously, action would never be taken, and victims would just have to either quit their job or move on."
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A group that described itself as black "faith, civic, and community leaders" approved of Caldwell's resignation in a statement Friday.
"I will move swiftly and thoughtfully in choosing a new lieutenant governor who will represent my administration and the people of New Jersey with honor and integrity," Sherill added Friday.
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'NEVER going to happen': DHS Sec. Mullin CRUSHES 'open borders' Democrat pushing 'radical' anti-ICE bill
The Trump administration has fired back a scathing response to a Democrat congresswoman who called for Immigration and Customs Enforcement to be abolished.
Democrat Rep. Delia Ramirez of Illinois said the bill she announced Wednesday would dismantle the Department of Homeland Security, abolish ICE, and reroute their funding to a new department pushing community-based justice policies.
'Our 270,000 DHS patriots are keeping Americans SAFE — unlike this open borders politician who refuses to prioritize Americans over illegal aliens.'
The DHS Sec. Markwayne Mullin replied in a statement to Blaze News.
"Radical leftists are calling to defund the police and abolish DHS. It’s NEVER going to happen," said the secretary. "Our 270,000 DHS patriots are keeping Americans SAFE — unlike this open borders politician who refuses to prioritize Americans over illegal aliens."
A spokesperson for the DHS also responded to Ramirez with a list of the worst illegal alien criminals ICE has deported from the U.S.
"Representative Ramirez should be thanking our law enforcement for removing these dangerous criminals from her district — NOT vilifying law enforcement," the spokesperson said.
Ramirez replied in a lengthy statement to Blaze News via email.
"Every day, Americans wake up with a new reason to dismantle DHS, reimagine safety, and build something that honors our shared humanity," the Democrat said.
"The people have the power to reshape the government: instead of the weapon DHS has proven to be, we need a department built on the best parts of who we are and can be, and the best examples of how we can take care of each other in hard times," she added.
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"My Reimagining Safety Act PROTECTS [the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency], [the Transportation Security Administration], the Coast Guard, and Customs functions, expands [the Federal Emergency Management Agency], and delivers funding back to our communities," Ramirez continued. "Markwayne and DHS will keep spreading cheap lies and fearmongering in a desperate attempt to save face because dismantling DHS and building something new is part of how we hold them accountable, stop corruption, and end their lawlessness."
Ramirez had previously said the new criminal justice department would be "human- and community-centered" rather than be centered on "surveillance" and "terrorizing people."
She had also earned the scorn of many when she said she was a "proud Guatemalan" first and an American second.
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College football player stabbed to death allegedly by illegal alien who was given deportation pass TWICE, sources say
A physical altercation over the weekend in Rhode Island ended with one college football player dead, another player with stabbing injuries, and an illegal alien getting arrested on murder charges.
Chukwunonso Uzoma David Uzoma Eze of Nigeria allegedly stabbed the two men during an altercation in a parking lot near the Mezzo Lounge in Providence at about 12:30 a.m. on Saturday.
Eze was arrested by UMass Dartmouth police and charged with murder. He is also a student at the university.
Eze was given deferred action from deportation twice — once under the Biden administration and once under the second Trump administration, a source familiar with the matter told Blaze News.
18-year-old Marvins Antoine was stabbed in the chest and died later at a hospital, while 19-year-old Kensley Macean was stabbed in the head and neck but survived.
Both were UMass Dartmouth football players.
Eze was arrested by UMass Dartmouth police and charged with murder. He is also a student at the university.
The man entered into the U.S. legally in 2015 but is now considered a "criminal illegal alien from Nigeria," according to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesperson.
ICE Boston placed an immigration detainer request on him after his arrest.
"Under President Trump and Secretary Mullin, criminal illegal aliens are not welcome in the U.S.," the spokesperson said in a statement. "ICE is working diligently to remove these violent, dangerous offenders from our communities."
Eze was approved for deferred action on deportation by the Biden administration in Sept. 2022, according to the source, and then again under the Trump administration in Oct. 2025. Deferred action allows the migrant to stay in the U.S. but does not bestow a legal status.
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He also applied for a work permit in 2023, but that request was rejected.
The UMass Dartmouth football team had just played that evening when the two players were stabbed.
Providence Police Chief Oscar Perez said that police utilized Flock cameras to track and identify Eze.
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Ketanji Brown Jackson melts down in scathing dissent after Supreme Court hands another win to Trump
The U.S. Supreme Court says in a split decision Friday that the Trump administration can follow through with a new way of cross-checking voter eligibility.
All of the liberal justices dissented against the ruling that temporarily allows states to check voters’ citizenship status while the case continues.
'We will be doing everything in our power to protect Americans’ voting and privacy rights by ensuring that the district court decision stands.'
States can use the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements system organized by the Department of Homeland Security and check voter eligibility.
Opponents of the SAVE program claim that lawful voters will be wrongly declared ineligible to vote.
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson made the argument in a scathing dissent that was joined by Justices Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor.
"The Court focuses only on the harms the Government will purportedly suffer absent a stay, disregarding the harms that the modified SAVE system has caused, and will likely continue to cause, to lawful voters," she wrote.
"The harm caused by burdening or disenfranchising even a few lawful voters outweighs the nonexistent harm that the Government experiences when it is prevented from taking an action that it likely lacks the authority to take," Jackson added.
The Supreme Court order stayed a federal judge ruling from June that blocked the expanded SAVE system, determining doing so violated Americans' privacy rights.
The DHS General Counsel James Percival reacted to the ruling on social media.
"Yes, you read that right. We had to file an emergency petition in the Supreme Court just so we could use government data to help states stop noncitizens from illegally voting," he wrote.
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The plaintiffs in the case, which included the League of Women Voters, said the effort was not over and that they would continue to challenge the SAVE system.
"This case is not over," the group said in a statement. "The D.C. district court ruled that the expanded SAVE program violated multiple laws. We will be doing everything in our power to protect Americans’ voting and privacy rights by ensuring that the district court decision stands."
Jackson also warned that the states could use the SAVE system to "cancel the voter registrations of at least some recently naturalized citizens."
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Left-wing mayor who declared 'I am illegal in this country' sued by police chief over alleged touching, sexualizing cops, retaliation
The Democrat mayor of St. Paul — who once proclaimed that she is "illegal in this country" — has been hit with a lawsuit by her own police chief over shocking sexual harassment accusations, according to new court documents. The police chief said the mayor has "embarked on a campaign" of retaliation.
On Wednesday, St. Paul Police Chief Axel Henry filed the lawsuit against Mayor Kaohly Her over alleged "inappropriate" encounters, sexual harassment, and retaliation, NBC News reported.
'Why is Tim’s bigger?'
Mayor Her, 53, created "a hostile and demeaning environment" for the chief's staff by sending a meme about "good weinering," according to the 73-page lawsuit filed in Ramsey County District Court.
NBC News reported, "'Wienering' is an internet slang term for sexual intercourse and is frequently misspelled as 'weinering.'"
The Minnesota Star Tribune reported that Her made "unwanted and nonconsensual physical contact" with Henry by "placing her hand on his upper thigh beneath a conference-room table — not once, but twice — during a [St. Paul Police Department] budget meeting."
According to the complaint, Assistant Chief Paul Ford witnessed the contact.
According to the court filing, Her stood with Henry and Deputy Chief Tim Flynn during a police academy graduation on Feb. 19, 2026, and asked the police chief: "Why is Tim’s bigger?" The lawsuit asserts that Her made a "facial expression that suggested to Henry the comment was meant to be a sexual innuendo regarding the size of his penis," the New York Post reported.
Henry, who has led the St. Paul Police Department since 2022, asked the mayor what she was referring to, and she allegedly pointed toward the ribbon bar on his uniform, according to the court filing.
The court filing states that at least five police officers witnessed Her making loud grunting and moaning noises while exercising at the St. Paul police department gym. The lawsuit claims these workout sounds were intentionally exaggerated to sound sexual.
The left-wing mayor allegedly approached officers working out and called them "beefy," according to the lawsuit.
On multiple occasions in January 2026, Her allegedly photoshopped the faces of Henry and other police department members onto a variety of bodies, including boy band members, UFC fighters, and "bodybuilders with prominent bulges in the crotch area of their compression shorts," the court document states.
The suit, which names Her and the city as defendants, says the mayor printed the photoshopped images, placed them in gold frames, and displayed them throughout the police department. Some of the altered images were displayed in areas accessible to both sworn officers and civilians, showing pictures of police leadership "being mocked and sexualized" in public view, the complaint alleges.
The complaint claims that after two officers saw one of the doctored images, "they both remarked that their wives would be offended if they saw it," and Chief Henry's longtime partner described the images as "offensive and utterly inappropriate."
Her allegedly pasted her own headshot over official staff command portraits, department awards, and SWAT retirement plaques within the police department hallways, the lawsuit states.
The court filing states that Her scolded Henry for failing to find the photoshopped pictures amusing, telling the police chief he lacked "a sense of humor."
In December, Her and Henry met with St. Paul Port Authority President Todd Hurley at a cigar lounge to discuss possibly relocating the police station to downtown to help spur local business growth.
The Minnesota Star Tribune, citing the lawsuit, reported, "Her allegedly told Henry at that meeting that if she didn’t get her way, she would just tell people that Hurley 'grabbed her ass.'"
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Blaze News previously reported that Henry filed a formal complaint with the city attorney on April 1, claiming that the mayor sent "inappropriate, and indeed, unlawful text messages" to city staffers.
An investigation of the accusations was launched just six months into her term.
The lawsuit alleges that Her's administration then "embarked on a campaign" of retaliation.
"But instead of accountability, the retaliation began. Rather than confront Mayor Her’s misconduct, her administration, and those acting at her direction, embarked on a campaign to retaliate against and discredit Chief Henry," the lawsuit states.
The suit accuses St. Paul officials of violating the Minnesota Whistleblower Act when they "engaged in a series of retaliatory acts."
Minnesota Public Radio reported, "Henry says Her retaliated after he filed a human resources complaint by excluding him from personnel decisions, publicly criticizing his complaint, and giving raises to other members of the police command staff but not to him."
The complaint claims Her hired a private public relations firm to discredit Henry after the investigation began.
"[Henry] knew that accusing the Mayor of St. Paul of sexual harassment could jeopardize his career," the suit reads. "He reported it anyway. He did so because he recognized the seriousness of the misconduct, the vulnerability of those subjected to it, and the likelihood that the conduct would continue if no one spoke up."
The investigation into Her wrapped up less than a week before the lawsuit was filed, and a two-page summary of the outside investigation was released last Friday.
The misconduct investigation said Her "engaged in offensive and inappropriate behavior" in violation of St. Paul's workplace conduct policy, but that she did not sexually harass or retaliate against anyone.
Matt Wagenius, a spokesman for the mayor, said in a statement that the independent investigation "did not substantiate claims of sexual harassment or retaliation against any city employee."
Wagenius stated that the mayor "will continue to lead Saint Paul and follow the recommendations of the report."
"Beyond that, the City of Saint Paul doesn’t comment on active litigation," the statement concluded.
Chris Madel, Henry's attorney, told the Minnesota Star Tribune, "Axel Henry is an honorable man and a dedicated public servant. He didn’t come forward for attention or advantage — he came forward because what happened was wrong and needed to be reported."
Madel continued, "We look forward to proving our allegations in a court of law, where all evidence, not some sanitized summary written by the City about itself, can finally be heard."
Henry’s lawsuit requests that the city release the full report on its investigation into Mayor Her.
The suit also demands a jury trial to determine damages for "lost wages and benefits, emotional distress, humiliation, and harm to reputation."
Her's office did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Blaze News.
As Blaze News previously reported, Her shockingly admitted that she and her parents are in the United States illegally.
Her, who was born in Laos, defiantly claimed on the state House floor in June 2025: "And so, I am illegal in this country. My parents are illegal here in this country."
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