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Yahoo
4 days ago
- Politics
- Yahoo
UFO expert on drone creep from Mexico: ‘A normal escalation'
Luis Elizondo, a former Pentagon insider who has researched UFOs, joins 'CUOMO' to talk about what the Trump administration considers a proliferation of drones used by cartels along the U.S. southern border. 'I think the cartel is probably more interested in conducting illegal business than they are trying to hurt U.S. citizens with lethal drones,' Elizondo says. #Drones #Border #Cartels Solve the daily Crossword


Fox News
6 days ago
- Politics
- Fox News
WATCH: Lawmakers break down how billions in the 'big, beautiful bill' boost Trump's immigration crackdown
President Donald Trump's "big, beautiful bill" was signed into law earlier this month, with Republican lawmakers celebrating a broad range of GOP victories in the massive tax-and-spending legislation. That includes billions of dollars aimed at Trump's crackdown on illegal immigration in the U.S. Nearly $30 billion is marked for Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) alone, and $45 billion is going toward building up detention facility capacity. House Republicans who spoke with Fox News Digital last week hailed that funding boost, even as critics of the Trump administration accuse the White House of taking too heavy a hand on the issue. "Having that money to now be able to work on the wall along the southern border, to be able to hire more agents, to pay them more, to invest in the technology, to patrol and secure the border – it is hugely important," Rep. David Kustoff, R-Tenn., told Fox News Digital. "If you ask President Trump, that was the most important issue of the 2024 election." Rep. Michael Guest, R-Tenn., who chairs the Subcommittee on Border Security and Enforcement on the House Homeland Security Committee, said the detention facility funding is particularly significant. Guest urged ICE to use those funds to ramp up "targeted" enforcement against illegal immigrants. It comes as many on the left and some on the right have urged the Trump administration not to go too far in rounding up suspected illegal immigrants who otherwise pose no known threat to the public. "I think targeted enforcement, making sure that they're going after the worst of the worst – those individuals who have either committed crimes in the United States or we learn after they released into the interior that they had committed crimes in their country origin, [or] those people who have final orders of removal," Guest said. "Those are the people that I believe that ICE needs to be targeting. Those are the people where you see widespread support from the American public that they want to get off the street." Rep. Ralph Norman, R-S.C., pointed out that ICE had been asking for that funding for some time. "Tom Homan has done a tremendous job. He's indicated for a while he needs more money to keep doing his job. And he's being fought by everybody, particularly the sanctuary cities, to prevent that from happening," Norman said. "The least we can do is provide the funding, and we did it." And Rep. Derrick Van Orden, R-Wis., said he hoped the increased border and immigration crackdown would help fight the ongoing drug crisis still plaguing the U.S. "So in order to have a secured border, in order get rid of these criminal, illegal aliens that are raping and murdering American citizens on the regular, we have to have a very strong immigration enforcement system," Van Orden said. Reps. Brandon Gill, R-Texas, and Andrew Clyde, R-Ga., highlighted the funding for Trump's border wall and for more ICE personnel, respectively. The bill passed the House earlier this month and was signed into law by Trump on the Fourth of July. In addition to funding immigration operations, it also extends key parts of Trump's 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), rolls back some Biden administration-era green energy subsidies, and imposes new work requirements for federal aid.

Wall Street Journal
7 days ago
- Wall Street Journal
Inside Syria's Sectarian Cauldron: A Kidnapping Triggers a Cascade of Violence
For three days last week, Osama Bshnak Radwan and his family cowered in their townhouse as rockets, artillery and bullets pulverized their Syrian enclave. Then, five armed men in military fatigues arrived at their gate. 'Come out, Druze! Come out, you dogs!' the men shouted, according to Radwan, whose family belongs to the Druze religious minority that lives along Syria's southern border.


The Independent
21-07-2025
- Health
- The Independent
PHOTO ESSAY: A Texas town's residents stay inside -- even when they need medical care
As President Donald Trump intensifies deportation activity around the country, some immigrants — including many who have lived in Texas's southern tip for decades — are unwilling to leave their homes, even for necessary medical care. 'He waited and waited because he felt the pain but was too scared to go to the hospital.' — 82-year-old Maria Isabel de Perez said of her son, whose appendix exploded earlier this year. It feels like we're living in a combat area. Even people like me who have status, I don't want to go out either, we're scared. They're looking for any excuse. If they see you have brown skin or you're Latino, they'll take you.' — Maria Gomez, a community health worker for Holy Family Services, Inc. said in Spanish, through an interpreter. People here are among the most medically needy in the country. Nearly half the population is obese. Women are more likely to be diagnosed with cervical cancer and elderly people are more likely to develop dementia. Bladder cancers can be more aggressive. One out of every four people live with diabetes. As much as a third of the population here doesn't have health insurance to cover those ailments. And a quarter of people live in poverty, more than double the national average. Now, many in this region are on a path to develop worse health outcomes as they skip doctors appointments out of fear, said Dr. Stanley Fisch, a pediatrician who helped open Driscoll Children's Hospital in the region last year. White House officials have directed federal agents to leave no location, including hospitals and churches, unchecked in their drive to remove 1 million immigrants by year's end. Those agents are even combing through one of the federal government's largest medical record databases to search for immigrants who may be in the United States illegally. Federal agents' raids began reaching deeper into everyday life across the Rio Grande Valley in June, just as the area's 1.4 million residents began their summer ritual of enduring the suffocating heat. This working-class stretch of Texas solidly backed Trump in the 2024 election, despite campaign promises to ruthlessly pursue mass deportations. People here, who once moved regularly from the U.S. to Mexico to visit relatives or get cheap dental care, say they didn't realize his deportation campaign would focus on their neighbors. It feels like we're living in a combat area. Even people like me who have status, I don't want to go out either, we're scared. They're looking for any excuse. If they see you have brown skin or you're Latino, they'll take you.' — Maria Gomez, a community health worker for Holy Family Services, Inc. said in Spanish, through an interpreter. 'Every day, I pray that the president will have a change of heart.' — Maria, a mother who is married to an American in south Texas. 'What did we do to them?' — Ofelia, a 73-year-old grandmother in Hidalgo County who is the sole caretaker of several grandchildren. This is a documentary photo story curated by AP photo editors. Text from the APNews story, As Trump's raids ramp up, a Texas region's residents stay inside — even when they need medical care, by Amanda Seitz and Jacquelyn Martin.


Fox News
21-07-2025
- Politics
- Fox News
Trump's border miracle: From Biden's chaotic immigration crisis to 'all quiet' in record time
"All Quiet on the Western Front" is the title of Erich Maria Remarque's moving World War I novel. As of July 2025, it's all quiet on the U.S. southern border. How quiet? In June, the Border Patrol encountered just over 6,000 inadmissible aliens at ports of entry. Under President Joe Biden, they sometimes saw twice that many in a single day. The total number of inadmissible aliens encountered in June, at both our northern and southern borders, at or between ports of entry, was 25,243 – the lowest monthly total in U.S. history. And of all those encountered in June, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released zero - for the second month in a row. In May, DHS also released not a single alien they stopped trying to enter the United States illegally. In May 2024, in contrast, they released at least 62,000 – not counting more than 30,000 inadmissible aliens they let in every month using immigration parole, and thousands more "gotaways" who snuck in without being stopped or identified. Other than abusing parole, the Biden administration disguised the entry of millions of inadmissible aliens into our country through catch-and-release: detain them for a few hours, do cursory data entry, then move them inside where they are hard to find and deport later. Former Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas testified in December 2023 that DHS was releasing upwards of 85% of aliens caught entering illegally. That was the worst month for encounters of inadmissible aliens on the southern border in U.S. history – 251,178. That means around 213,500 were likely released – about 10 times the TOTAL number of aliens encountered last month on all our borders combined. More inadmissible, unidentified aliens were released, in one month, than the current population of Tallahassee, Florida. Making it hard for a future president to restore the rule of law was part of the plan – and now, the legacy media is doing its part by painting routine law enforcement as authoritarian excess. Under President Donald Trump, aliens entering without permission are mostly being detained pending the completion of their due immigration process – as the law explicitly requires. In some cases, that will mean an expedited removal process under the Immigration and Nationality Act. But many more will exploit our overly generous and backed-up asylum process to slow things down. Reportedly, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will no longer allow routine bond hearings for aliens to ask an immigration judge to release them pending their process. Why? Because, when detained, aliens always show up for each hearing. They want it done quickly, especially if they know they have no credible asylum case. When let loose in the country, free to work, aliens want to drag it out. Many don't show up for their immigration court dates. In Biden's term, more than half a million aliens didn't show up for their removal hearings. Detaining illegal aliens throughout their entire process means that if the result is an order for their removal (that is, deportation to their home country or another that will take them), the judge's decision can be carried out quickly and safely. If they're released into the U.S. interior, it takes time and staff to find and re-arrest them later. Speed and efficiency are in everyone's interest, and in normal times, an expedited removal case should take only a few weeks from start to finish. Asylum cases can take longer, especially with appeals, but that should still mean only months, not years. The pace has slowed in recent years due to the massive backlog caused by unchecked illegal entry and meritless asylum claims. But the Big Beautiful Bill has $170 billion to hire 300 more immigration judges and more DHS staff, increase detention capacity to 100,000, and more. Increased detention will remove incentives for aliens to make baseless claims. Trump ended catch-and-release as the default policy for inadmissible aliens. He closed the supposed "lawful pathways" of parole and government encouragement of asylum claims. He reinstated 'Remain in Mexico' and agreements with safe third countries to take deported aliens. He resumed building a wall to impede easy crossing of the border with Mexico. And Trump stopped funding the web of activist NGOs that got fat from facilitating mass illegal migration. Making it hard for a future president to restore the rule of law was part of the plan – and now, the legacy media is doing its part by painting routine law enforcement as authoritarian excess. Equally important, Trump had the fortitude to back federal agents in doing their duty. Under Biden, ICE was told to ignore most illegal immigrants – just like police are obliged by politicians to look the other way in our big cities when it comes to myriad crimes that undermine the quality of life for everyone. Now, agents are out doing their jobs, enforcing federal law. The media and some politicians are apoplectic to see that it's working. While Biden complained of invisible forces beyond his control, or asked for more money or new laws from Congress, Trump acted. He withdrew the red carpet for the world's inadmissible economic migrants, and they stopped coming. Even if most media outlets pretend to be perplexed at the relationship between policy and result, Americans can link cause and effect, and let's hope they get used to it. Then they will never allow a future president – of either party – to abandon his duties and throw open the border again.