Former MSNBC host Tiffany Cross quickly backpedaled when presented with the latest details about deported Salvadoran national Kilmar Abrego-Garcia, claiming that the real issue was not his individual case, but the larger picture.

Cross made the comments during a panel discussion on CNN, responding to Shermichael Singleton’s point regarding Abrego-Garcia and whether or not the federal government should have deported him to El Salvador.

WATCH:

This is hysterical. After @MrShermichael rattles off the newly revealed Kilmar Abrego-Garcia MS-13 and serial domestic abuse evidence to CNN panel —

— woke Tiffany Cross declares “we can’t make it about Kilmar. That’s just one person.”

PIVOT! pic.twitter.com/2pIdR0uSpI

— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) April 17, 2025

Singleton laid out a series of reasons that he believed Abrego-Garcia’s deportation was not only justifiable, but a “national security issue,” noting among other things that Maryland gang units had determined that he was a member of the violent Salvadoran street gang MS-13. In addition, more recent reports showed a history of allegations of domestic violence against his wife.

Noting that due process was obviously a concern, Singleton added, “I think there’s absolutely enough here to send this guy somewhere else. One, he’s already broken the law. We’ve already established that. Now you do have evidence that suggests he was a member or is a member of MS-13, he’s also a serial abuser. This is not the type of individual I don’t think any one of us would want in our country: he should be deported.”

Despite the fact that many Democrats have seized on Abrego-Garcia’s case — including Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), who has tried unsuccessfully to persuade Salvadoran authorities to either release Abrego-Garcia from custody or at least allow him visitation — Cross jumped in then to claim that it was not really about him.

“We can’t make it about Kilmar,” she complained. “That’s just one person.”

“But that’s the case we’re talking about,” Singleton pushed back.

“It is,” Cross agreed, but then complained that the discussion should be about “the macro, not the micro.”

Cross went on to claim that President Donald Trump’s administration has been “indiscriminately” rounding people up for deportation.

“They are randomly deporting people without due process,” she claimed.

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Former MSNBC host Tiffany Cross quickly backpedaled when presented with the latest details about deported Salvadoran national Kilmar Abrego-Garcia, claiming that the real issue was not his individual case, but the larger picture.

Cross made the comments during a panel discussion on CNN, responding to Shermichael Singleton’s point regarding Abrego-Garcia and whether or not the federal government should have deported him to El Salvador.

WATCH:

This is hysterical. After @MrShermichael rattles off the newly revealed Kilmar Abrego-Garcia MS-13 and serial domestic abuse evidence to CNN panel —

— woke Tiffany Cross declares “we can’t make it about Kilmar. That’s just one person.”

PIVOT! pic.twitter.com/2pIdR0uSpI

— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) April 17, 2025

Singleton laid out a series of reasons that he believed Abrego-Garcia’s deportation was not only justifiable, but a “national security issue,” noting among other things that Maryland gang units had determined that he was a member of the violent Salvadoran street gang MS-13. In addition, more recent reports showed a history of allegations of domestic violence against his wife.

Noting that due process was obviously a concern, Singleton added, “I think there’s absolutely enough here to send this guy somewhere else. One, he’s already broken the law. We’ve already established that. Now you do have evidence that suggests he was a member or is a member of MS-13, he’s also a serial abuser. This is not the type of individual I don’t think any one of us would want in our country: he should be deported.”

Despite the fact that many Democrats have seized on Abrego-Garcia’s case — including Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), who has tried unsuccessfully to persuade Salvadoran authorities to either release Abrego-Garcia from custody or at least allow him visitation — Cross jumped in then to claim that it was not really about him.

“We can’t make it about Kilmar,” she complained. “That’s just one person.”

“But that’s the case we’re talking about,” Singleton pushed back.

“It is,” Cross agreed, but then complained that the discussion should be about “the macro, not the micro.”

Cross went on to claim that President Donald Trump’s administration has been “indiscriminately” rounding people up for deportation.

“They are randomly deporting people without due process,” she claimed.

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Authorities identified the man accused of opening fire at Florida State University on Thursday as the son of a Leon County, Florida, Sheriff’s Department deputy.

At least two people were killed and six more were wounded in the shooting that took place just before noon ET. Leon County Sheriff Walter A. McNeil identified the shooter, whom The Daily Wire will not name per company policy, as a 20-year-old male student at FSU, who is the son of a sheriff’s deputy who has been with the Leon County Sheriff’s Department for over 18 years.

“Her service to this community has been exceptional,” Sheriff McNeil said of the deputy. “Unfortunately, her son had access to one of her weapons, and that was one of the weapons that was found at the scene.”

The weapon found at the scene was not the firearm that the deputy was currently using on the force, but rather one that she had been issued previously by her department.

“A lot of times — many agencies, mine included — when we transition to a new handgun, the officers are allowed to purchase the handgun they used prior. … I believe that’s the case here,” Tallahassee Police Chief Lawrence E. Revell said at a press conference Thursday afternoon.

The 20-year-old suspect was also a “longstanding member of the Leon County Sheriff’s Office Youth Advisory Council,” McNeil added. “So he has been steeped in the Leon County Sheriff’s Office family, engaged in a number of training programs that we have, so it’s not a surprise to us that he had access to weapons.”

The shooter was neutralized “immediately” by Florida State University Police, and he has been transported to a local hospital. Neither of the victims who were killed were Florida State students, and their identities have not yet been released, Interim FSU Police Chief Justin Maloy said at the press conference.

FSU President Richard McCullough called the first responders “absolute heroes.”

“The call went out, and immediately they responded to the scene and immediately neutralized the suspect and prevented this from being a bigger tragedy,” McCullough said.

Florida State canceled classes and all athletic events on campus for the rest of the week.

President Donald Trump addressed the shooting from the Oval Office during a meeting with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, adding that he has been “fully briefed as to where we are right now.”

“It’s a shame. It’s a horrible thing, horrible that things like this take place,” Trump added. “And we’ll have more to say about it later.”

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Authorities identified the man accused of opening fire at Florida State University on Thursday as the son of a Leon County, Florida, Sheriff’s Department deputy.

At least two people were killed and six more were wounded in the shooting that took place just before noon ET. Leon County Sheriff Walter A. McNeil identified the shooter, whom The Daily Wire will not name per company policy, as a 20-year-old male student at FSU, who is the son of a sheriff’s deputy who has been with the Leon County Sheriff’s Department for over 18 years.

“Her service to this community has been exceptional,” Sheriff McNeil said of the deputy. “Unfortunately, her son had access to one of her weapons, and that was one of the weapons that was found at the scene.”

The weapon found at the scene was not the firearm that the deputy was currently using on the force, but rather one that she had been issued previously by her department.

“A lot of times — many agencies, mine included — when we transition to a new handgun, the officers are allowed to purchase the handgun they used prior. … I believe that’s the case here,” Tallahassee Police Chief Lawrence E. Revell said at a press conference Thursday afternoon.

The 20-year-old suspect was also a “longstanding member of the Leon County Sheriff’s Office Youth Advisory Council,” McNeil added. “So he has been steeped in the Leon County Sheriff’s Office family, engaged in a number of training programs that we have, so it’s not a surprise to us that he had access to weapons.”

The shooter was neutralized “immediately” by Florida State University Police, and he has been transported to a local hospital. Neither of the victims who were killed were Florida State students, and their identities have not yet been released, Interim FSU Police Chief Justin Maloy said at the press conference.

FSU President Richard McCullough called the first responders “absolute heroes.”

“The call went out, and immediately they responded to the scene and immediately neutralized the suspect and prevented this from being a bigger tragedy,” McCullough said.

Florida State canceled classes and all athletic events on campus for the rest of the week.

President Donald Trump addressed the shooting from the Oval Office during a meeting with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, adding that he has been “fully briefed as to where we are right now.”

“It’s a shame. It’s a horrible thing, horrible that things like this take place,” Trump added. “And we’ll have more to say about it later.”

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Don’t sit back and celebrate just yet, patriots: the culture war is far from over.

Sure, conservatives have won a few major battles, including the epic fight for the highest office in the land. And yeah, major companies are finally paying attention to consumer demands and walking back massively divisive DEI initiatives that only resonate with the most militant woke warriors among us.

Keep the cork in your champagne, though. While DEI is becoming a thing of the past, these sneaky national brands are simply pitching the same ideas using aliases.

And let’s face it – DEI by any other name smells just as bad.

Companies like Disney, UPS, and Dollar Tree have all recently claimed to have “moved past DEI.” But dig a little deeper, and you’ll see the truth: they’ve simply rebranded it. “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” is now masquerading as “Belonging” and “Culture Commitments.” But despite the new naming conventions, the ideology remains the same. 

Kohl’s also removed DEI from its mission statement but still touts “inclusion” as a core value. Nationwide claims to have “decentralized” DEI efforts but still highlights their “inclusive culture.”

It’s all sleight of hand. It’s a strategic PR move, not a philosophical shift. These companies want applause without accountability. They want to appear apolitical while clinging to divisive ideology behind closed doors.

They promise they’ve changed, yet there are still mandatory corporate training sessions rooted in group identity, internal employee resource groups divided by race and gender, and ad campaigns that lecture rather than sell. 

Consumers already said they’re fed up. Now it’s time to prove it.

In an era where corporate virtue signaling is as common as pronouns in email signatures, Jeremy’s Razors has emerged as a rare beacon of unapologetic sanity. The brand was launched as a direct response to companies like Harry’s and Gillette going full woke. 

From its inception, Jeremy’s Razors has been adamant in its mission: no DEI departments, no ESG buzzwords, and absolutely no tolerance for the identity politics that have infected corporate America. Their mission is as sharp as the blades on a Precision 5 Razor, meaning there’s no woke drama hiding behind new labels and hollow slogans. Right now through this exclusive offer, you can get 20% off your first order with code “DEI20” at checkout. Help build the woke-free economy with Jeremy’s Razors.

That’s why Jeremy’s Razors’ message resonates not just with conservatives, but with everyday consumers who are tired of being lectured when all they want is a good shave.

In a market full of brands chasing trends and blatantly lying, Jeremy’s Razors is doing something radical: telling the truth plainly without sneaky words hiding their true intentions. And in 2025, that’s more refreshing than ever.

Jeremy’s Razors shares common ownership with The Daily Wire. 

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Don’t sit back and celebrate just yet, patriots: the culture war is far from over.

Sure, conservatives have won a few major battles, including the epic fight for the highest office in the land. And yeah, major companies are finally paying attention to consumer demands and walking back massively divisive DEI initiatives that only resonate with the most militant woke warriors among us.

Keep the cork in your champagne, though. While DEI is becoming a thing of the past, these sneaky national brands are simply pitching the same ideas using aliases.

And let’s face it – DEI by any other name smells just as bad.

Companies like Disney, UPS, and Dollar Tree have all recently claimed to have “moved past DEI.” But dig a little deeper, and you’ll see the truth: they’ve simply rebranded it. “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” is now masquerading as “Belonging” and “Culture Commitments.” But despite the new naming conventions, the ideology remains the same. 

Kohl’s also removed DEI from its mission statement but still touts “inclusion” as a core value. Nationwide claims to have “decentralized” DEI efforts but still highlights their “inclusive culture.”

It’s all sleight of hand. It’s a strategic PR move, not a philosophical shift. These companies want applause without accountability. They want to appear apolitical while clinging to divisive ideology behind closed doors.

They promise they’ve changed, yet there are still mandatory corporate training sessions rooted in group identity, internal employee resource groups divided by race and gender, and ad campaigns that lecture rather than sell. 

Consumers already said they’re fed up. Now it’s time to prove it.

In an era where corporate virtue signaling is as common as pronouns in email signatures, Jeremy’s Razors has emerged as a rare beacon of unapologetic sanity. The brand was launched as a direct response to companies like Harry’s and Gillette going full woke. 

From its inception, Jeremy’s Razors has been adamant in its mission: no DEI departments, no ESG buzzwords, and absolutely no tolerance for the identity politics that have infected corporate America. Their mission is as sharp as the blades on a Precision 5 Razor, meaning there’s no woke drama hiding behind new labels and hollow slogans. Right now through this exclusive offer, you can get 20% off your first order with code “DEI20” at checkout. Help build the woke-free economy with Jeremy’s Razors.

That’s why Jeremy’s Razors’ message resonates not just with conservatives, but with everyday consumers who are tired of being lectured when all they want is a good shave.

In a market full of brands chasing trends and blatantly lying, Jeremy’s Razors is doing something radical: telling the truth plainly without sneaky words hiding their true intentions. And in 2025, that’s more refreshing than ever.

Jeremy’s Razors shares common ownership with The Daily Wire. 

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Two years ago, a man named Deshawn Leeth was named a community engagement officer at the sheriff’s office in Washtenaw County, Michigan. This is a position that, according to the sheriff’s office, is something of a big deal:

Community Engagement is a foundational element of our ability to realize our organizational mission. … Community Engagement isn’t just a program. It is how we communicate, build trust, identify needs, and collaboratively work side by side with our partners to create interventions and provide solutions.

In other words, “community engagement officers” are representatives for the police force. Their job is to visit schools and prisons and other institutions, and try to find ways to make the community safer.

For 30-year-old Deshawn Leeth, the title of “community engagement officer” was just one line on a lengthy resume that — if you leave off his eight felony convictions for home invasion and two convictions for larceny — really reflected his passion for serving the people of Michigan.

When he wasn’t going on crime sprees, he was a true model citizen. In his spare time, for example, Leeth was the executive director of an organization called “Underdawg Nation,” which states that its mission is to “Help At-Risk Kids who lack resources and help prevent Teen Violence and disengagement from school.” To that end, the Underdawg Nation hosted video game tournaments in local schools and encouraged students to pursue BLM activism — because as we all know, video games and activism are how you make sure kids keep their grades up. Underdawg Nation also claims to be a public-interest nonprofit, even though local journalists can’t find any record that they’re actually registered as a nonprofit. But that’s not the point. The point is that Deshawn Leeth, whether he started a legal nonprofit or not, is a beacon of light in Washtenaw County, Michigan.

Or at least, Deshawn Leeth *was* a beacon of light in Washtenaw County, Michigan — right up until his light was extinguished on April 4. That’s the day when, while he was totally unarmed, Leeth was gunned down by several Neo Nazi police officers. What was Leeth’s crime, you ask? Well, there wasn’t one, of course. He got into a car accident, and then he calmly approached a state trooper for help. And then, as he approached the officer, he was brutally murdered in a flagrant act of white supremacy. Yes, police executed a committed black community servant simply because he’s black. And then the police stuffed his body in a squad car and pretended he stole it. Can you imagine? It’s too terrifying to think about, so don’t think about it. Just start rioting.

Everything I have just stated up until this point is the narrative you would have heard in the press, 24-hours a day, if it weren’t for police body cameras. There is no doubt whatsoever that, in the absence of video evidence of the crimes he was committing before his death, Deshawn Leeth would have been BLM’s next Michael Brown or Trayvon Martin. They would have flooded every website with relentless propaganda about what a great person DeShawn was, and how horrible it is that the police killed him.

WATCH: The Matt Walsh Show

In fact, they were already doing that, before the body camera footage was released. The sheriff of Washtenaw County, a woman named Alyshia Dyer, posted this message on Facebook for example:

Like so many in the community, we are left in shock, with unanswered questions and profound sorrow. His loss will be deeply felt by the young people across our county whose lives he touched. No matter who you were or what you had been through, Deshawn showed unwavering compassion and care to everyone he worked with.

Another public official, district commissioner Annie Somerville, posted a similar message:

[We] lost a great one. May the memory of Deshawn Leeth keep us grounded on supporting young people in our community. That’s what he would want.

In part because of comments like this, a GoFundMe for Deshawn Leeth has already raised around $15,000.

Yes, he was a “great one.” He really “keeps us grounded.” He showed “compassion and care” to literally everyone. His loss is “deeply felt.” This is the propaganda that spread within days of Leeth’s death. And it’s the kind of propaganda that we would have been subjected to, on endless repeat for months on end, if we didn’t have the footage I’m about to show you. Here’s the body camera footage from the Ohio State Police, showing a state trooper’s first encounter with Deshawn Leeth near the border with Pennsylvania:

There are two points that need to be made, right off the bat. First of all, every single government official who put out a statement mourning this psychotic criminal needs to be removed from office as quickly as possible. There is no conceivable narrative of police misconduct here. There’s also no narrative in which Deshawn Leeth is a well adjusted human being and an asset to his community. He was dangerous and violent right up until the end. He died doing what he loved, which was stealing other people’s property and terrorizing the local community. Keep in mind, this was not an otherwise law abiding citizen who just snapped one day and lost his mind. He had a long history of criminal activity. He had already spent time in prison for home invasion.

The other takeaway from the footage is that the officer would have been justified in shooting Deshawn Leeth about a dozen times during this encounter. This would’ve been a good moment, for example. Take a look at this still frame:

Screenshot: Ohio State Police.

Anyone looking at this image can tell, immediately, that the officer should not be holding a taser at this point. He should be holding a gun. And he should be using it. But instead of using his gun, he discards the Taser and engages in a protracted fistfight with Leeth — a fistfight that the officer loses. And because the officer loses this fight, Leeth is able to drive away in the officer’s squad car, which he then used to lead police on a 10-minute-long chase at high speeds. In other words, the officer’s decision not to use lethal force ultimately endangered his life, as well as the life of everyone on the highway. This is the footage from the police cruiser’s dash cam after Leeth stole it. Watch:

We all know why the officer allowed this chase to happen, instead of neutralizing Leeth immediately. He didn’t want to end up like Derek Chauvin. He didn’t want his life to be destroyed in the service of a fraudulent BLM narrative. So instead, the officer allowed this psychotic criminal to beat him up on the side of the road and then take his squad car.

These are the incentives that BLM has created. They have made policing far more dangerous in every respect. The irony is that, in their rush to vilify police officers, BLM also helped provide police officers with a tool that’s now vindicating them, with increasing frequency. It was BLM, as you might remember, that led the charge for mandatory body cams just a few years ago.

Here are just a few examples, from Jacksonville, Kansas City and New York:

Well, this didn’t work out as intended. In fact, it’s not unreasonable to say that ultimately, body cameras may have put the final nail in BLM’s coffin. If not for body cameras, there would’ve been ten more George Floyds after George Floyd.

Late last year, to give another example, a black Georgetown University graduate was shot to death by police in her apartment complex. Very quickly, Georgetown put out this tweet, which is still up:

Georgetown women’s basketball mourns the tragic loss of Sydney Wilson (College ’13). Forever a Hoya.

In other words, Sydney Wilson was the victim. They’re implying she’s yet another casualty of police violence. A lot of people on Facebook agreed. For example, someone wrote:

Sydney Wilson should have been tazed, instead, but of course, she was black, so they took her out.

Then the body camera footage was released, and everyone saw the truth, which is that Sydney Wilson very nearly murdered a police officer while charging at him like a demon from hell. And once again, this officer allowed the situation to spiral out of control, probably because he understood that his life would be destroyed if he defended himself. Watch:

This woman would have her own murals by now, if it weren’t for body cams. The story would have gone something like this: an officer showed up to help a distressed woman in the middle of a mental health crisis. The racist officer then executed the woman in cold blood outside of her own apartment despite the fact that she was unarmed. The fact that she had a knife would not be mentioned until the riots were well underway. But because of body cams, this is the image everyone remembers from this encounter:

It’s enough to make you wonder how much damage to this country could have been avoided if Darren Wilson had a body cam in Ferguson. It probably would’ve shown an image a lot like that one. And we may have been spared a lot of chaos, death, and property damage as a result. Activists were able to lie blatantly (hands up don’t shoot) because there were no cameras. Then when the truth came out that Brown charged Wilson and tried to kill him, activists scoffed at it and claimed that nobody would go charging at a cop like that. Well we now know from body cams that in fact that happens all the time. The image of a crazed, blood thirsty Michael Brown bum rushing an armed cop is not at all far fetched based on what we’ve now seen in these interactions. (Nor is it far-fetched based on the investigation from Obama’s Justice Department, which corroborated everything Darren Wilson said.)

At this point, we know where this will lead. The same movement that demanded body cams, and then was destroyed when their demands were met, will now decide that actually body cams aren’t so great after all. They’ll say that body cams are a tool of white supremacy. In fact, that’s already starting to happen. We’re seeing the shift in real time.

Last summer for example, the Yale Journal of Law and Liberation published an article that discusses all of the problems that are supposedly caused by police body cams.

Here’s how an outlet called Prism wrote up Yale’s findings.

The promises made by proponents of body cameras don’t always align closely with the data on their efficacy or the degree to which they actually increase public transparency. In the U.S., the number of civilians whom police have killed annually has only increased each year since the widespread adoption of body camera equipment.

So let’s sort through this. Their first contention is that police body cams aren’t working because they haven’t decreased the number of police shootings. But that’s not the point of policy body cams. The point of the cameras, for the most part, is to determine whether police officers are justified in using force when they choose to do so. Body cams cannot mind-control the population, and force them to stop attacking police officers.

What’s happening here is that, at Yale, long ago, they came to the conclusion that the police must be shooting black people for no reason. And therefore, they determined that the number of police shootings would inevitably decline once police officers were recorded while they were on the job. And now that the number of police shootings hasn’t declined, they’re not revisiting their flawed premise. They’re not going back and checking whether the police were ever shooting black people for no reason. They’re also not even claiming that police officers are indeed shooting people for no reason, because they know the body cams would disprove that claim. So instead, they’re attacking body cams, which until very recently, they supported.

Let’s read on from this Prism article, because it gets worse as it goes: 

With body cameras, law enforcement agencies could expand their surveillance capacity, mitigate police brutality lawsuits, create ‘highly controllable evidence’ against the largely poor, largely Black citizens of whom police often seek to capture footage, and quell social unrest by creating ‘comprehensive digital archives’ of attendees at protests for social change. A 2016 George Mason University study of prosecutors’ offices across the U.S. in jurisdictions with body cameras found that just 8.3% had used the footage to prosecute a police officer, while 92.6% had used it to prosecute private individuals.

Again, there is nothing unusual about this statistic. Of course body cams are going to be used, in the vast majority of situations, to prosecute people who are not police officers. That’s completely consistent with the outcome you’d expect. What did they think would happen? That 50% of body camera footage would be used to prosecute the police? How deluded do you have to be in order to think half the police force is committing crimes with their body cams on?

And by the way, notice what they’re *not* saying with this paragraph. They’re not claiming that these prosecutions of “largely poor, largely black citizens” are unjust or unlawful. They’re not claiming that the police are making up charges or anything like that. They can’t make that claim, because it’s all on camera. Instead, they’re simply concerned with outcomes. They don’t want black people to go to prison, even when they commit crimes. And so now — rather than address the obvious and persistent problems in black neighborhoods and black families — they want to get rid of the cameras. It’s the same reason you’ll find a bunch of hot takes about why Ring doorbell cameras are dystopian. Criminals don’t like it when you expose what they’re doing.

But at this point, it’s too late. BLM’s body cam gamble has clearly failed, and everyone understands why. It turns out that, like every other radical Left-wing protest movement in history, BLM was a little too quick to make demands. They were reckless. And in the end, all they accomplished was proving, beyond any doubt, what reasonable people already knew — which is that the police are not in fact the problem. In reality, violent thugs like Deshawn Leeth are the problem. And thanks in part to BLM’s tireless advocacy for body cameras, the rest of society no longer has to suffer months’ worth of rioting and civil unrest because of their crimes.

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Two years ago, a man named Deshawn Leeth was named a community engagement officer at the sheriff’s office in Washtenaw County, Michigan. This is a position that, according to the sheriff’s office, is something of a big deal:

Community Engagement is a foundational element of our ability to realize our organizational mission. … Community Engagement isn’t just a program. It is how we communicate, build trust, identify needs, and collaboratively work side by side with our partners to create interventions and provide solutions.

In other words, “community engagement officers” are representatives for the police force. Their job is to visit schools and prisons and other institutions, and try to find ways to make the community safer.

For 30-year-old Deshawn Leeth, the title of “community engagement officer” was just one line on a lengthy resume that — if you leave off his eight felony convictions for home invasion and two convictions for larceny — really reflected his passion for serving the people of Michigan.

When he wasn’t going on crime sprees, he was a true model citizen. In his spare time, for example, Leeth was the executive director of an organization called “Underdawg Nation,” which states that its mission is to “Help At-Risk Kids who lack resources and help prevent Teen Violence and disengagement from school.” To that end, the Underdawg Nation hosted video game tournaments in local schools and encouraged students to pursue BLM activism — because as we all know, video games and activism are how you make sure kids keep their grades up. Underdawg Nation also claims to be a public-interest nonprofit, even though local journalists can’t find any record that they’re actually registered as a nonprofit. But that’s not the point. The point is that Deshawn Leeth, whether he started a legal nonprofit or not, is a beacon of light in Washtenaw County, Michigan.

Or at least, Deshawn Leeth *was* a beacon of light in Washtenaw County, Michigan — right up until his light was extinguished on April 4. That’s the day when, while he was totally unarmed, Leeth was gunned down by several Neo Nazi police officers. What was Leeth’s crime, you ask? Well, there wasn’t one, of course. He got into a car accident, and then he calmly approached a state trooper for help. And then, as he approached the officer, he was brutally murdered in a flagrant act of white supremacy. Yes, police executed a committed black community servant simply because he’s black. And then the police stuffed his body in a squad car and pretended he stole it. Can you imagine? It’s too terrifying to think about, so don’t think about it. Just start rioting.

Everything I have just stated up until this point is the narrative you would have heard in the press, 24-hours a day, if it weren’t for police body cameras. There is no doubt whatsoever that, in the absence of video evidence of the crimes he was committing before his death, Deshawn Leeth would have been BLM’s next Michael Brown or Trayvon Martin. They would have flooded every website with relentless propaganda about what a great person DeShawn was, and how horrible it is that the police killed him.

WATCH: The Matt Walsh Show

In fact, they were already doing that, before the body camera footage was released. The sheriff of Washtenaw County, a woman named Alyshia Dyer, posted this message on Facebook for example:

Like so many in the community, we are left in shock, with unanswered questions and profound sorrow. His loss will be deeply felt by the young people across our county whose lives he touched. No matter who you were or what you had been through, Deshawn showed unwavering compassion and care to everyone he worked with.

Another public official, district commissioner Annie Somerville, posted a similar message:

[We] lost a great one. May the memory of Deshawn Leeth keep us grounded on supporting young people in our community. That’s what he would want.

In part because of comments like this, a GoFundMe for Deshawn Leeth has already raised around $15,000.

Yes, he was a “great one.” He really “keeps us grounded.” He showed “compassion and care” to literally everyone. His loss is “deeply felt.” This is the propaganda that spread within days of Leeth’s death. And it’s the kind of propaganda that we would have been subjected to, on endless repeat for months on end, if we didn’t have the footage I’m about to show you. Here’s the body camera footage from the Ohio State Police, showing a state trooper’s first encounter with Deshawn Leeth near the border with Pennsylvania:

There are two points that need to be made, right off the bat. First of all, every single government official who put out a statement mourning this psychotic criminal needs to be removed from office as quickly as possible. There is no conceivable narrative of police misconduct here. There’s also no narrative in which Deshawn Leeth is a well adjusted human being and an asset to his community. He was dangerous and violent right up until the end. He died doing what he loved, which was stealing other people’s property and terrorizing the local community. Keep in mind, this was not an otherwise law abiding citizen who just snapped one day and lost his mind. He had a long history of criminal activity. He had already spent time in prison for home invasion.

The other takeaway from the footage is that the officer would have been justified in shooting Deshawn Leeth about a dozen times during this encounter. This would’ve been a good moment, for example. Take a look at this still frame:

Screenshot: Ohio State Police.

Anyone looking at this image can tell, immediately, that the officer should not be holding a taser at this point. He should be holding a gun. And he should be using it. But instead of using his gun, he discards the Taser and engages in a protracted fistfight with Leeth — a fistfight that the officer loses. And because the officer loses this fight, Leeth is able to drive away in the officer’s squad car, which he then used to lead police on a 10-minute-long chase at high speeds. In other words, the officer’s decision not to use lethal force ultimately endangered his life, as well as the life of everyone on the highway. This is the footage from the police cruiser’s dash cam after Leeth stole it. Watch:

We all know why the officer allowed this chase to happen, instead of neutralizing Leeth immediately. He didn’t want to end up like Derek Chauvin. He didn’t want his life to be destroyed in the service of a fraudulent BLM narrative. So instead, the officer allowed this psychotic criminal to beat him up on the side of the road and then take his squad car.

These are the incentives that BLM has created. They have made policing far more dangerous in every respect. The irony is that, in their rush to vilify police officers, BLM also helped provide police officers with a tool that’s now vindicating them, with increasing frequency. It was BLM, as you might remember, that led the charge for mandatory body cams just a few years ago.

Here are just a few examples, from Jacksonville, Kansas City and New York:

Well, this didn’t work out as intended. In fact, it’s not unreasonable to say that ultimately, body cameras may have put the final nail in BLM’s coffin. If not for body cameras, there would’ve been ten more George Floyds after George Floyd.

Late last year, to give another example, a black Georgetown University graduate was shot to death by police in her apartment complex. Very quickly, Georgetown put out this tweet, which is still up:

Georgetown women’s basketball mourns the tragic loss of Sydney Wilson (College ’13). Forever a Hoya.

In other words, Sydney Wilson was the victim. They’re implying she’s yet another casualty of police violence. A lot of people on Facebook agreed. For example, someone wrote:

Sydney Wilson should have been tazed, instead, but of course, she was black, so they took her out.

Then the body camera footage was released, and everyone saw the truth, which is that Sydney Wilson very nearly murdered a police officer while charging at him like a demon from hell. And once again, this officer allowed the situation to spiral out of control, probably because he understood that his life would be destroyed if he defended himself. Watch:

This woman would have her own murals by now, if it weren’t for body cams. The story would have gone something like this: an officer showed up to help a distressed woman in the middle of a mental health crisis. The racist officer then executed the woman in cold blood outside of her own apartment despite the fact that she was unarmed. The fact that she had a knife would not be mentioned until the riots were well underway. But because of body cams, this is the image everyone remembers from this encounter:

It’s enough to make you wonder how much damage to this country could have been avoided if Darren Wilson had a body cam in Ferguson. It probably would’ve shown an image a lot like that one. And we may have been spared a lot of chaos, death, and property damage as a result. Activists were able to lie blatantly (hands up don’t shoot) because there were no cameras. Then when the truth came out that Brown charged Wilson and tried to kill him, activists scoffed at it and claimed that nobody would go charging at a cop like that. Well we now know from body cams that in fact that happens all the time. The image of a crazed, blood thirsty Michael Brown bum rushing an armed cop is not at all far fetched based on what we’ve now seen in these interactions. (Nor is it far-fetched based on the investigation from Obama’s Justice Department, which corroborated everything Darren Wilson said.)

At this point, we know where this will lead. The same movement that demanded body cams, and then was destroyed when their demands were met, will now decide that actually body cams aren’t so great after all. They’ll say that body cams are a tool of white supremacy. In fact, that’s already starting to happen. We’re seeing the shift in real time.

Last summer for example, the Yale Journal of Law and Liberation published an article that discusses all of the problems that are supposedly caused by police body cams.

Here’s how an outlet called Prism wrote up Yale’s findings.

The promises made by proponents of body cameras don’t always align closely with the data on their efficacy or the degree to which they actually increase public transparency. In the U.S., the number of civilians whom police have killed annually has only increased each year since the widespread adoption of body camera equipment.

So let’s sort through this. Their first contention is that police body cams aren’t working because they haven’t decreased the number of police shootings. But that’s not the point of policy body cams. The point of the cameras, for the most part, is to determine whether police officers are justified in using force when they choose to do so. Body cams cannot mind-control the population, and force them to stop attacking police officers.

What’s happening here is that, at Yale, long ago, they came to the conclusion that the police must be shooting black people for no reason. And therefore, they determined that the number of police shootings would inevitably decline once police officers were recorded while they were on the job. And now that the number of police shootings hasn’t declined, they’re not revisiting their flawed premise. They’re not going back and checking whether the police were ever shooting black people for no reason. They’re also not even claiming that police officers are indeed shooting people for no reason, because they know the body cams would disprove that claim. So instead, they’re attacking body cams, which until very recently, they supported.

Let’s read on from this Prism article, because it gets worse as it goes: 

With body cameras, law enforcement agencies could expand their surveillance capacity, mitigate police brutality lawsuits, create ‘highly controllable evidence’ against the largely poor, largely Black citizens of whom police often seek to capture footage, and quell social unrest by creating ‘comprehensive digital archives’ of attendees at protests for social change. A 2016 George Mason University study of prosecutors’ offices across the U.S. in jurisdictions with body cameras found that just 8.3% had used the footage to prosecute a police officer, while 92.6% had used it to prosecute private individuals.

Again, there is nothing unusual about this statistic. Of course body cams are going to be used, in the vast majority of situations, to prosecute people who are not police officers. That’s completely consistent with the outcome you’d expect. What did they think would happen? That 50% of body camera footage would be used to prosecute the police? How deluded do you have to be in order to think half the police force is committing crimes with their body cams on?

And by the way, notice what they’re *not* saying with this paragraph. They’re not claiming that these prosecutions of “largely poor, largely black citizens” are unjust or unlawful. They’re not claiming that the police are making up charges or anything like that. They can’t make that claim, because it’s all on camera. Instead, they’re simply concerned with outcomes. They don’t want black people to go to prison, even when they commit crimes. And so now — rather than address the obvious and persistent problems in black neighborhoods and black families — they want to get rid of the cameras. It’s the same reason you’ll find a bunch of hot takes about why Ring doorbell cameras are dystopian. Criminals don’t like it when you expose what they’re doing.

But at this point, it’s too late. BLM’s body cam gamble has clearly failed, and everyone understands why. It turns out that, like every other radical Left-wing protest movement in history, BLM was a little too quick to make demands. They were reckless. And in the end, all they accomplished was proving, beyond any doubt, what reasonable people already knew — which is that the police are not in fact the problem. In reality, violent thugs like Deshawn Leeth are the problem. And thanks in part to BLM’s tireless advocacy for body cameras, the rest of society no longer has to suffer months’ worth of rioting and civil unrest because of their crimes.

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The Trump administration’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has arrested more than 1,000 illegal alien workers and is proposing fines against businesses that have used illegal labor.

ICE and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) announced Wednesday that they have taken historic actions against illegal alien workers, and against the businesses profiting from illegal alien labor.

“This is the highest rate of arrest in HSI’s history,” HSI acting Executive Associate Director Robert Hammer explained. “We’ve subpoenaed the business records of about 1,200 businesses, and as part of our review, we’ve proposed close to $1 million in fines.”

He also railed against businesses that use illegal labor. “Businesses that exploit and hire illegal workers are harming the American public,” Hammer charged. “ICE’s statutory duties include protecting Americans and enforcing more than 400 laws that relate to immigration, so there are two aspects to our worksite enforcement operations.”

The agency says it has increased its workplace enforcement efforts in the past two months.

“On April 2, we filed a civil complaint against a Chinese money laundering organization that orders the multimillion-dollar seizure of 14 properties, seven bank accounts and 15 vehicles,” ICE Detroit acting Special Agent in Charge Jared Murphey said. The agency alleges that the money laundering ring operated a staffing company that supplied illegal alien labor to an Ohio factory.

ICE also recently captured 37 illegal aliens working at a roofing company in Washington state. The federal agency says that the aliens “fraudulently represented their immigration status and submitted fraudulent documents” in order to gain employment.

That raid came after ICE and HSI arrested eight illegal aliens at a workplace raid at a bakery in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley. The raid also resulted in the arrest of the two owners of the business, who allegedly hired the employees despite knowing that they were in the country illegally.

Immigration experts have also explained that a national E-Verify mandate could prevent illegal aliens from obtaining jobs, thus encouraging them to self-deport en masse.

“It would make it much more difficult to get work. It would mean that a significant number of people would…opt not to come here illegally or even decide to go home,” Mark Krikorian, the Executive Director of the Center for Immigration Studies, told The Daily Wire.

Ira Mehlman, the Media Director of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), explained that an E-Verify mandate would remove the biggest incentive that illegal aliens have to come into the country.

“The vast majority of illegal aliens — especially the ones who arrived during the Biden administration — are economic migrants. Their strongest motivation for coming here was the ability to find a job and better wages,” he said. “If employers were mandated to use E-Verify and the government demonstrated the resolve to hold employers accountable, that would go a long way toward drying up the supply of jobs for illegal aliens, thereby eliminating the biggest incentive to come or remain here illegally.”

One recent FAIR study estimated that there are 18.6 million illegal aliens present in the United States, presenting a seismic challenge for immigration enforcement authorities. “There’s no question that a large part, and maybe most, of any reduction in the illegal population has to come through self deportation,” Krikorian noted.

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The Trump administration’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has arrested more than 1,000 illegal alien workers and is proposing fines against businesses that have used illegal labor.

ICE and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) announced Wednesday that they have taken historic actions against illegal alien workers, and against the businesses profiting from illegal alien labor.

“This is the highest rate of arrest in HSI’s history,” HSI acting Executive Associate Director Robert Hammer explained. “We’ve subpoenaed the business records of about 1,200 businesses, and as part of our review, we’ve proposed close to $1 million in fines.”

He also railed against businesses that use illegal labor. “Businesses that exploit and hire illegal workers are harming the American public,” Hammer charged. “ICE’s statutory duties include protecting Americans and enforcing more than 400 laws that relate to immigration, so there are two aspects to our worksite enforcement operations.”

The agency says it has increased its workplace enforcement efforts in the past two months.

“On April 2, we filed a civil complaint against a Chinese money laundering organization that orders the multimillion-dollar seizure of 14 properties, seven bank accounts and 15 vehicles,” ICE Detroit acting Special Agent in Charge Jared Murphey said. The agency alleges that the money laundering ring operated a staffing company that supplied illegal alien labor to an Ohio factory.

ICE also recently captured 37 illegal aliens working at a roofing company in Washington state. The federal agency says that the aliens “fraudulently represented their immigration status and submitted fraudulent documents” in order to gain employment.

That raid came after ICE and HSI arrested eight illegal aliens at a workplace raid at a bakery in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley. The raid also resulted in the arrest of the two owners of the business, who allegedly hired the employees despite knowing that they were in the country illegally.

Immigration experts have also explained that a national E-Verify mandate could prevent illegal aliens from obtaining jobs, thus encouraging them to self-deport en masse.

“It would make it much more difficult to get work. It would mean that a significant number of people would…opt not to come here illegally or even decide to go home,” Mark Krikorian, the Executive Director of the Center for Immigration Studies, told The Daily Wire.

Ira Mehlman, the Media Director of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), explained that an E-Verify mandate would remove the biggest incentive that illegal aliens have to come into the country.

“The vast majority of illegal aliens — especially the ones who arrived during the Biden administration — are economic migrants. Their strongest motivation for coming here was the ability to find a job and better wages,” he said. “If employers were mandated to use E-Verify and the government demonstrated the resolve to hold employers accountable, that would go a long way toward drying up the supply of jobs for illegal aliens, thereby eliminating the biggest incentive to come or remain here illegally.”

One recent FAIR study estimated that there are 18.6 million illegal aliens present in the United States, presenting a seismic challenge for immigration enforcement authorities. “There’s no question that a large part, and maybe most, of any reduction in the illegal population has to come through self deportation,” Krikorian noted.

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Scientists announced yesterday the strongest evidence yet for possible alien life after detecting gases in a distant planet’s atmosphere that, on Earth, are only produced by living organisms.

The James Webb Space Telescope detected dimethyl sulfide and dimethyl disulfide in the atmosphere of planet K2-18 b, according to a study published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters and reported by Reuters.

These gases are produced on Earth exclusively by biological processes, primarily by algae.

Located approximately 124 light-years from Earth, K2-18 b is 8.6 times Earth’s mass and orbits in the “habitable zone” of a red dwarf star where liquid water could exist.

The gases were detected with a 99.7% confidence level, meaning there’s still a 0.3% chance the observation could be a statistical fluke.

“This is a transformational moment in the search for life beyond the solar system,” said astrophysicist Nikku Madhusudhan of Cambridge University, who led the study. “We have entered the era of observational astrobiology.”

Scientists stress this finding should be viewed cautiously, with Madhusudhan noting it’s “in no one’s interest to claim prematurely that we have detected life.” Additional observations are needed to rule out non-biological explanations.

The planet could potentially be a “hycean world” – covered by a liquid water ocean with a hydrogen-rich atmosphere.

“The only scenario that currently explains all the data obtained so far is one where K2-18 b is a hycean world teeming with life,” Madhusudhan explained.

The research team’s detection involved analyzing starlight passing through K2-18 b’s atmosphere using Webb’s highly sensitive instruments.

The gases were detected at concentrations “thousands of times higher than their concentrations in the Earth’s atmosphere, and cannot be explained without biological activity based on existing knowledge,” according to Madhusudhan.

Christopher Glein, principal scientist at the Southwest Research Institute in Texas, emphasized the need for caution when interpreting these results.

“The rich data from K2-18 b make it a tantalizing world,” said Glein. “Yet, we must be very careful to test the data as thoroughly as possible.”

To conclusively determine whether these gases indicate the presence of life, scientists plan to conduct additional observations.

“First we need to repeat the observations two to three times to make sure the signal we are seeing is robust and to increase the detection significance,” Madhusudhan explained, noting that researchers aim to reduce the odds of a statistical fluke to below one in a million.

This detection represents what Madhusudhan calls a “transformational moment” in our search for extraterrestrial life, moving humanity closer to answering whether we are alone in the universe – a question that has fascinated mankind for millennia.

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Scientists announced yesterday the strongest evidence yet for possible alien life after detecting gases in a distant planet’s atmosphere that, on Earth, are only produced by living organisms.

The James Webb Space Telescope detected dimethyl sulfide and dimethyl disulfide in the atmosphere of planet K2-18 b, according to a study published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters and reported by Reuters.

These gases are produced on Earth exclusively by biological processes, primarily by algae.

Located approximately 124 light-years from Earth, K2-18 b is 8.6 times Earth’s mass and orbits in the “habitable zone” of a red dwarf star where liquid water could exist.

The gases were detected with a 99.7% confidence level, meaning there’s still a 0.3% chance the observation could be a statistical fluke.

“This is a transformational moment in the search for life beyond the solar system,” said astrophysicist Nikku Madhusudhan of Cambridge University, who led the study. “We have entered the era of observational astrobiology.”

Scientists stress this finding should be viewed cautiously, with Madhusudhan noting it’s “in no one’s interest to claim prematurely that we have detected life.” Additional observations are needed to rule out non-biological explanations.

The planet could potentially be a “hycean world” – covered by a liquid water ocean with a hydrogen-rich atmosphere.

“The only scenario that currently explains all the data obtained so far is one where K2-18 b is a hycean world teeming with life,” Madhusudhan explained.

The research team’s detection involved analyzing starlight passing through K2-18 b’s atmosphere using Webb’s highly sensitive instruments.

The gases were detected at concentrations “thousands of times higher than their concentrations in the Earth’s atmosphere, and cannot be explained without biological activity based on existing knowledge,” according to Madhusudhan.

Christopher Glein, principal scientist at the Southwest Research Institute in Texas, emphasized the need for caution when interpreting these results.

“The rich data from K2-18 b make it a tantalizing world,” said Glein. “Yet, we must be very careful to test the data as thoroughly as possible.”

To conclusively determine whether these gases indicate the presence of life, scientists plan to conduct additional observations.

“First we need to repeat the observations two to three times to make sure the signal we are seeing is robust and to increase the detection significance,” Madhusudhan explained, noting that researchers aim to reduce the odds of a statistical fluke to below one in a million.

This detection represents what Madhusudhan calls a “transformational moment” in our search for extraterrestrial life, moving humanity closer to answering whether we are alone in the universe – a question that has fascinated mankind for millennia.

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A Republican-backed bill allowing Tennessee citizens victimized by illegal aliens to sue non-governmental organizations that provided housing to that illegal alien has been sent to Governor Bill Lee’s desk.

The bill was passed by the Tennessee House 70-23 on Wednesday, advancing the bill to the governor’s desk. The legislation would give citizens harmed by an illegal alien a private right of action to sue entities enabling illegal immigration.

“This is a public safety bill in keeping with the Trump administration’s renewed focus on illegal immigration,” Republican Rep. Rusty Grills, who sponsored the legislation, said on the House floor. “What we’re doing with this bill is anyone who is a victim of crime committed by an illegal alien will have a private right of action against any NGO that has assisted an illegal alien with housing in a community.”

Grills noted that housing as defined in the bill would not include homeless shelters or storm shelters, as some Democrat opponents have claimed. It would include long-term housing situations or rental homes.

In the Senate, the bill was sponsored by Republican Sen. Brent Taylor and passed 24-4 earlier this month.

The text of the legislation says that NGOs “may be held liable for a loss, damages, injury, or death resulting from a criminal offense committed by the person who is unlawfully present in the United States while the person is receiving housing services from the charitable organization if the charitable organization’s conduct in providing housing constitutes negligence, gross negligence, or willful and wanton misconduct.”

Many NGOs have faced scrutiny over their role in facilitating mass migration into the United States and some have been accused of enabling human trafficking.

Tennesseans have not been exempt from the flood of illegal immigrants that occurred under former President Joe Biden. For example, nearly 3,000 illegal aliens were arrested in Tennessee for crimes ranging from murder to rape during the last three months of 2024.

In one prominent case, local Nashville business owner Matt Carney was killed by an illegal immigrant from Mexico during an attempted robbery at his beloved restaurant.

On Tuesday, the House also sent another illegal immigration bill to Lee’s desk in a 75-20 vote. The bill would require law enforcement, with the exception of the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, to “report monthly to the department of safety each interaction that the law enforcement agency had with illegal aliens over the previous month.”

Reports need to include “the date of the interaction, the number of illegal aliens encountered, and a description of identification documents, if any, in their possession.”

Another bill, which would allow schools in Tennessee to charge illegal aliens tuition, has passed the Senate, but was placed behind the budget by the House as the session is coming to a close. The bill still could be revived, but it has currently stalled out. Backers of the bill hope to challenge Plyler v. Doe, a Supreme Court decision that forced states to provide education to illegal aliens.

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A Republican-backed bill allowing Tennessee citizens victimized by illegal aliens to sue non-governmental organizations that provided housing to that illegal alien has been sent to Governor Bill Lee’s desk.

The bill was passed by the Tennessee House 70-23 on Wednesday, advancing the bill to the governor’s desk. The legislation would give citizens harmed by an illegal alien a private right of action to sue entities enabling illegal immigration.

“This is a public safety bill in keeping with the Trump administration’s renewed focus on illegal immigration,” Republican Rep. Rusty Grills, who sponsored the legislation, said on the House floor. “What we’re doing with this bill is anyone who is a victim of crime committed by an illegal alien will have a private right of action against any NGO that has assisted an illegal alien with housing in a community.”

Grills noted that housing as defined in the bill would not include homeless shelters or storm shelters, as some Democrat opponents have claimed. It would include long-term housing situations or rental homes.

In the Senate, the bill was sponsored by Republican Sen. Brent Taylor and passed 24-4 earlier this month.

The text of the legislation says that NGOs “may be held liable for a loss, damages, injury, or death resulting from a criminal offense committed by the person who is unlawfully present in the United States while the person is receiving housing services from the charitable organization if the charitable organization’s conduct in providing housing constitutes negligence, gross negligence, or willful and wanton misconduct.”

Many NGOs have faced scrutiny over their role in facilitating mass migration into the United States and some have been accused of enabling human trafficking.

Tennesseans have not been exempt from the flood of illegal immigrants that occurred under former President Joe Biden. For example, nearly 3,000 illegal aliens were arrested in Tennessee for crimes ranging from murder to rape during the last three months of 2024.

In one prominent case, local Nashville business owner Matt Carney was killed by an illegal immigrant from Mexico during an attempted robbery at his beloved restaurant.

On Tuesday, the House also sent another illegal immigration bill to Lee’s desk in a 75-20 vote. The bill would require law enforcement, with the exception of the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, to “report monthly to the department of safety each interaction that the law enforcement agency had with illegal aliens over the previous month.”

Reports need to include “the date of the interaction, the number of illegal aliens encountered, and a description of identification documents, if any, in their possession.”

Another bill, which would allow schools in Tennessee to charge illegal aliens tuition, has passed the Senate, but was placed behind the budget by the House as the session is coming to a close. The bill still could be revived, but it has currently stalled out. Backers of the bill hope to challenge Plyler v. Doe, a Supreme Court decision that forced states to provide education to illegal aliens.

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It’s hard to keep track of all the immigration cases that blew up once President Trump started securing our borders and enforcing U.S. immigration law only three months ago.

The latest decision by Massachusetts District Court judge Indira Talwani was an unjustified and baseless nationwide injunction blocking Trump’s decision last month to end the parole status for half a million Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan, and Venezuelan nationals.

Nationwide injunctions by federal judges are based on dubious authority and threaten the separation of powers doctrine in the Constitution – the checks and balances that hold this nation together. The sooner Congress and the Supreme Court implement and enforce clear limits on this, the better.

But it’s not just the sweeping executive power that Judge Talwani, an Obama appointee, asserts is the problem. It’s also the bewildering double-standard applied to the Biden and Trump administrations on immigration.

Americans want to believe that once appointed, judges do their best to follow the Constitution and the law. But it gets harder each time we see a ruling that stretches logic and law to reach a conclusion that aligns with politics. We’ve seen so many in the past few years, including the many “lawfare” cases brought against President Trump since his first term.

Let’s get our heads around immigration parole. Aliens who want to come to the U.S. need a visa. In exceptional cases, Congress provided a limited power for the executive (exercised by the President through his Secretary of Homeland Security) to parole aliens for limited periods. When that period ends, they go back to whatever status they had before.

In 1996, Congress tightened the rules, clarifying that parole could only be granted on a “case-by-case basis,” and strictly “for urgent humanitarian reasons” or a “significant public benefit.” Parole isn’t a path to permanent status.

Blatantly violating the clear limits set by Congress, Biden perverted parole to invent a slew of “McVisa” programs to benefit groups he liked and to bypass numerical caps.

Biden’s DHS started paroling illegal aliens caught at the border, arguing that they didn’t have room to detain them. This “Parole+ATD” was shut down by a federal judge who found the president didn’t have the authority to give illegal aliens a free pass into the country.

In August 2021, Biden invented Operation Allies Welcome to let in thousands of Afghans. In theory, these were supposed to be the ones who’d helped the U.S. and whose lives might be in danger under the Taliban, but in practice, many got in through fraud or had nothing to do with our efforts in their country. Some were even criminals and suspected terrorists.

Then in April 2022, Biden began a Uniting for Ukraine program to bring people in from that country, even though (a) you might wonder why the men weren’t home fighting Russia, and (b) why they could not have claimed asylum in neighboring European countries instead of the U.S.

In January 2023, Biden rolled out a Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan, and Venezuelan Parole program allowing up to 30,000 nationals from those four countries per month to enter the U.S.

Then he added up to 1,400 appointments a day for nationals of any country to schedule their illegal entry into the U.S. using the CBP One phone app, as long as they claimed to be in Mexico. Nearly all of them ended up getting paroled once they showed up at a U.S. port of entry.

Finally, in June 2024, Biden tried but failed to give a de facto amnesty via parole to over a million illegal aliens who were married to American citizens. Who knows how far a “President Harris” could have continued with parole-a-palooza, had she won.

All told, Biden used bogus parole programs to bring in over 1.5 million inadmissible illegal aliens.

Even though the law specifically says a president can’t use parole to bypass the U.S. official refugee program, that was clearly the intent. The Biden administration expected them all to claim asylum and live here while their cases dragged on for years or decades. But not all of them bothered to make that claim, figuring parole would just be extended. Bad bet.

Trump revoked the CHNV parole – as was his rightful power as president – in March. What Biden did, even if it wasn’t right, Trump had the power to undo.

For Judge Talwani to now tell Trump he can’t revoke parole for 530,000 paroled CHNV nationals without a “case-by-case” review is rich indeed. Does she seriously think that every one of the 30,000 CHNV applicants Biden let in per month was examined and approved on a “case-by-case” basis? Sure, if we say every fan let into Yankee Stadium for a game has been admitted “case-by-case.” If it simply means ‘one-by-one’, then Secretary of Homeland Security Noem can certify that, and it will be just as true as it was when former Secretary Mayorkas did.

Federal immigration law is very clear that the president has wide discretion to deny or revoke visas and remove aliens on national security or discretionary grounds. He can do or undo parole as well.

Joe Biden violated the law when he provided mass parole to hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens. No judge should be able to stop a successor president from undoing the harm a prior president has done, particularly harm that was done by ignoring, twisting, and breaking the law.

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Simon Hankinson is a Senior Research Fellow in the Border Security and Immigration Center at The Heritage Foundation.

The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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It’s hard to keep track of all the immigration cases that blew up once President Trump started securing our borders and enforcing U.S. immigration law only three months ago.

The latest decision by Massachusetts District Court judge Indira Talwani was an unjustified and baseless nationwide injunction blocking Trump’s decision last month to end the parole status for half a million Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan, and Venezuelan nationals.

Nationwide injunctions by federal judges are based on dubious authority and threaten the separation of powers doctrine in the Constitution – the checks and balances that hold this nation together. The sooner Congress and the Supreme Court implement and enforce clear limits on this, the better.

But it’s not just the sweeping executive power that Judge Talwani, an Obama appointee, asserts is the problem. It’s also the bewildering double-standard applied to the Biden and Trump administrations on immigration.

Americans want to believe that once appointed, judges do their best to follow the Constitution and the law. But it gets harder each time we see a ruling that stretches logic and law to reach a conclusion that aligns with politics. We’ve seen so many in the past few years, including the many “lawfare” cases brought against President Trump since his first term.

Let’s get our heads around immigration parole. Aliens who want to come to the U.S. need a visa. In exceptional cases, Congress provided a limited power for the executive (exercised by the President through his Secretary of Homeland Security) to parole aliens for limited periods. When that period ends, they go back to whatever status they had before.

In 1996, Congress tightened the rules, clarifying that parole could only be granted on a “case-by-case basis,” and strictly “for urgent humanitarian reasons” or a “significant public benefit.” Parole isn’t a path to permanent status.

Blatantly violating the clear limits set by Congress, Biden perverted parole to invent a slew of “McVisa” programs to benefit groups he liked and to bypass numerical caps.

Biden’s DHS started paroling illegal aliens caught at the border, arguing that they didn’t have room to detain them. This “Parole+ATD” was shut down by a federal judge who found the president didn’t have the authority to give illegal aliens a free pass into the country.

In August 2021, Biden invented Operation Allies Welcome to let in thousands of Afghans. In theory, these were supposed to be the ones who’d helped the U.S. and whose lives might be in danger under the Taliban, but in practice, many got in through fraud or had nothing to do with our efforts in their country. Some were even criminals and suspected terrorists.

Then in April 2022, Biden began a Uniting for Ukraine program to bring people in from that country, even though (a) you might wonder why the men weren’t home fighting Russia, and (b) why they could not have claimed asylum in neighboring European countries instead of the U.S.

In January 2023, Biden rolled out a Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan, and Venezuelan Parole program allowing up to 30,000 nationals from those four countries per month to enter the U.S.

Then he added up to 1,400 appointments a day for nationals of any country to schedule their illegal entry into the U.S. using the CBP One phone app, as long as they claimed to be in Mexico. Nearly all of them ended up getting paroled once they showed up at a U.S. port of entry.

Finally, in June 2024, Biden tried but failed to give a de facto amnesty via parole to over a million illegal aliens who were married to American citizens. Who knows how far a “President Harris” could have continued with parole-a-palooza, had she won.

All told, Biden used bogus parole programs to bring in over 1.5 million inadmissible illegal aliens.

Even though the law specifically says a president can’t use parole to bypass the U.S. official refugee program, that was clearly the intent. The Biden administration expected them all to claim asylum and live here while their cases dragged on for years or decades. But not all of them bothered to make that claim, figuring parole would just be extended. Bad bet.

Trump revoked the CHNV parole – as was his rightful power as president – in March. What Biden did, even if it wasn’t right, Trump had the power to undo.

For Judge Talwani to now tell Trump he can’t revoke parole for 530,000 paroled CHNV nationals without a “case-by-case” review is rich indeed. Does she seriously think that every one of the 30,000 CHNV applicants Biden let in per month was examined and approved on a “case-by-case” basis? Sure, if we say every fan let into Yankee Stadium for a game has been admitted “case-by-case.” If it simply means ‘one-by-one’, then Secretary of Homeland Security Noem can certify that, and it will be just as true as it was when former Secretary Mayorkas did.

Federal immigration law is very clear that the president has wide discretion to deny or revoke visas and remove aliens on national security or discretionary grounds. He can do or undo parole as well.

Joe Biden violated the law when he provided mass parole to hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens. No judge should be able to stop a successor president from undoing the harm a prior president has done, particularly harm that was done by ignoring, twisting, and breaking the law.

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Simon Hankinson is a Senior Research Fellow in the Border Security and Immigration Center at The Heritage Foundation.

The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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WASHINGTON—Vice President JD Vance will spend Holy Week in Vatican City before heading to India, the vice president’s office shared with The Daily Wire.

Vance will attend Good Friday Mass at St. Peter’s Basilica, his office shared with The Daily Wire. While in Rome, Vance is also slated to meet with Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, who visited the White House on Thursday.

“Vice President Vance looks forward to meeting with Prime Minister Meloni and Church officials while in Italy and is grateful for the opportunity to visit some of Rome’s amazing cultural and religious sites with his family during Holy Week,” the vice president’s press secretary, Taylor Van Kirk, told The Daily Wire.

Pope Francis, who was recently released from the hospital following a prolonged health scare, announced that he will not preside over the Vatican’s Holy Week masses. The Pope tapped Cardinal Claudio Gugerotti, Prefect of the Dicastery for Eastern Churches, to lead Good Friday mass in his stead.

Vance, a Catholic convert, caught flack from Pope Francis earlier this year for the Trump administration’s stance on immigration. Vance acknowledged that scuffle at the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in February, calling himself a “Baby Catholic” and noting that “sometimes, the bishops get mad at me.”

“If you ever hear me pontificating about the Catholic faith, please recognize it comes from a place of deep belief, but it also comes from a place of not always knowing everything all the time,” he said at the time.

Vance’s visit comes a week of Easter festivities at the White House, including prayer services and dinners with religious leaders. Trump released a “Presidential Message on Holy Week” on Palm Sunday, in which he reaffirmed his administration’s “promise to defend the Christian faith in our schools, military, workplaces, hospitals, and halls of government.”

“We will never waver in safeguarding the right to religious liberty, upholding the dignity of life, and protecting God in our public square,” Trump wrote.

Last year, President Joe Biden and his administration came under fire when Biden declared Easter Sunday “Transgender Day of Visibility.”

The U.S. Embassy and Consulates in Italy also noted in a release that Vance and his family will be traveling between April 18 and April 24, stating that Vance will “discuss shared economic and geopolitical priorities with leaders in each country.”

While in India, Vance will visit New Delhi, Jaipur, and Agra, hold meetings with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and participate in “engagements at cultural sites.”

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WASHINGTON—Vice President JD Vance will spend Holy Week in Vatican City before heading to India, the vice president’s office shared with The Daily Wire.

Vance will attend Good Friday Mass at St. Peter’s Basilica, his office shared with The Daily Wire. While in Rome, Vance is also slated to meet with Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, who visited the White House on Thursday.

“Vice President Vance looks forward to meeting with Prime Minister Meloni and Church officials while in Italy and is grateful for the opportunity to visit some of Rome’s amazing cultural and religious sites with his family during Holy Week,” the vice president’s press secretary, Taylor Van Kirk, told The Daily Wire.

Pope Francis, who was recently released from the hospital following a prolonged health scare, announced that he will not preside over the Vatican’s Holy Week masses. The Pope tapped Cardinal Claudio Gugerotti, Prefect of the Dicastery for Eastern Churches, to lead Good Friday mass in his stead.

Vance, a Catholic convert, caught flack from Pope Francis earlier this year for the Trump administration’s stance on immigration. Vance acknowledged that scuffle at the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in February, calling himself a “Baby Catholic” and noting that “sometimes, the bishops get mad at me.”

“If you ever hear me pontificating about the Catholic faith, please recognize it comes from a place of deep belief, but it also comes from a place of not always knowing everything all the time,” he said at the time.

Vance’s visit comes a week of Easter festivities at the White House, including prayer services and dinners with religious leaders. Trump released a “Presidential Message on Holy Week” on Palm Sunday, in which he reaffirmed his administration’s “promise to defend the Christian faith in our schools, military, workplaces, hospitals, and halls of government.”

“We will never waver in safeguarding the right to religious liberty, upholding the dignity of life, and protecting God in our public square,” Trump wrote.

Last year, President Joe Biden and his administration came under fire when Biden declared Easter Sunday “Transgender Day of Visibility.”

The U.S. Embassy and Consulates in Italy also noted in a release that Vance and his family will be traveling between April 18 and April 24, stating that Vance will “discuss shared economic and geopolitical priorities with leaders in each country.”

While in India, Vance will visit New Delhi, Jaipur, and Agra, hold meetings with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and participate in “engagements at cultural sites.”

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Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) said on Thursday that soldiers denied his attempt to visit a mega prison in El Salvador where an illegal immigrant deported from the United States is now being held.

After announcing on Wednesday that El Salvador’s government rejected his request to see Kilmar Abrego Garcia, Van Hollen tried driving to the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) to see the prisoner anyway. That did not work out, as Van Hollen explained in a video posted to X. He showed footage of himself and Chris Newman, the attorney for Abrego Garcia’s wife and mother, talking to soldiers at a military checkpoint.

We were just denied entry into CECOT — the notorious prison in El Salvador where Mr. Abrego Garcia is being illegally held.

We were there for one simple reason: to check on his well-being, which his family and lawyers have not been allowed to do. We won’t stop fighting. pic.twitter.com/yG2b7N6Nvn

— Senator Chris Van Hollen (@ChrisVanHollen) April 17, 2025

“These soldiers were ordered to prevent us from going any farther from this spot,” Van Hollen said in the video. “I understand we’re about 3 kilometers now from CECOT, and as you can see, they’re letting other cars go by, but they stopped us because they’re under orders not to allow us to proceed to check on the well-being of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.”

Will Carless, a USA Today national correspondent who said he was in the same convoy as Van Hollen, affirmed the senator’s account.

Abrego Garcia, a 29-year-old man from El Salvador who entered the United States unlawfully, but got permission from a judge to stay in 2019, had been living in Maryland when he was detained and deported last month as the Trump administration cracks down on illegal immigration.

This particular deportation has become the subject of a high-profile legal fight, which remains ongoing after the Supreme Court issued a ruling last week that said the government must “facilitate,” but not necessarily “effectuate,” Abrego Garcia’s return.

Although the government said in court the deportation was an “administrative error,” White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller later dismissed the claim, pinning it on a “saboteur” within the Justice Department.

The Trump administration also has accused Abrego Garcia of being a member of MS-13, which has been designated as a foreign terror organization. Abrego Garcia’s attorneys have reportedly denied that their client is part of the gang, but the government has publicly released documents to substantiate the affiliation.

More revelations have been made concerning Abrego Garcia as his case drew national attention. A newly uncovered restraining order shows Abrego Garcia was accused of beating his wife, Jennifer Vasquez Sura, who now says they worked through the incident.

Van Hollen travelled to El Salvador earlier this week, calling Abrego Garcia a “constituent” who endured an “abduction and unlawful deportation,” and told reporters on Wednesday that he met with El Salvador Vice President Félix Ulloa to discuss securing the man’s release.

During a White House meeting with President Donald Trump, El Salvador President Nayib Bukele declared that he would not send Garcia back to the United States. “How can I smuggle a terrorist into the United States?” Bukele said, adding, “I don’t have the power to return him.”

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt criticized Van Hollen and other Democrats who have rallied in support of Abrego Garcia during press briefing on Wednesday alongside Patty Morin, whose daughter, Rachel, 37, was raped and murdered in Maryland two years ago by another illegal immigrant from El Salvador.

“It’s appalling and sad that Senator Van Hollen and the Democrats applauding his trip to El Salvador today are incapable of having any shred of common sense or empathy for their own constituents and our citizens,” Leavitt said.

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Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) said on Thursday that soldiers denied his attempt to visit a mega prison in El Salvador where an illegal immigrant deported from the United States is now being held.

After announcing on Wednesday that El Salvador’s government rejected his request to see Kilmar Abrego Garcia, Van Hollen tried driving to the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) to see the prisoner anyway. That did not work out, as Van Hollen explained in a video posted to X. He showed footage of himself and Chris Newman, the attorney for Abrego Garcia’s wife and mother, talking to soldiers at a military checkpoint.

We were just denied entry into CECOT — the notorious prison in El Salvador where Mr. Abrego Garcia is being illegally held.

We were there for one simple reason: to check on his well-being, which his family and lawyers have not been allowed to do. We won’t stop fighting. pic.twitter.com/yG2b7N6Nvn

— Senator Chris Van Hollen (@ChrisVanHollen) April 17, 2025

“These soldiers were ordered to prevent us from going any farther from this spot,” Van Hollen said in the video. “I understand we’re about 3 kilometers now from CECOT, and as you can see, they’re letting other cars go by, but they stopped us because they’re under orders not to allow us to proceed to check on the well-being of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.”

Will Carless, a USA Today national correspondent who said he was in the same convoy as Van Hollen, affirmed the senator’s account.

Abrego Garcia, a 29-year-old man from El Salvador who entered the United States unlawfully, but got permission from a judge to stay in 2019, had been living in Maryland when he was detained and deported last month as the Trump administration cracks down on illegal immigration.

This particular deportation has become the subject of a high-profile legal fight, which remains ongoing after the Supreme Court issued a ruling last week that said the government must “facilitate,” but not necessarily “effectuate,” Abrego Garcia’s return.

Although the government said in court the deportation was an “administrative error,” White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller later dismissed the claim, pinning it on a “saboteur” within the Justice Department.

The Trump administration also has accused Abrego Garcia of being a member of MS-13, which has been designated as a foreign terror organization. Abrego Garcia’s attorneys have reportedly denied that their client is part of the gang, but the government has publicly released documents to substantiate the affiliation.

More revelations have been made concerning Abrego Garcia as his case drew national attention. A newly uncovered restraining order shows Abrego Garcia was accused of beating his wife, Jennifer Vasquez Sura, who now says they worked through the incident.

Van Hollen travelled to El Salvador earlier this week, calling Abrego Garcia a “constituent” who endured an “abduction and unlawful deportation,” and told reporters on Wednesday that he met with El Salvador Vice President Félix Ulloa to discuss securing the man’s release.

During a White House meeting with President Donald Trump, El Salvador President Nayib Bukele declared that he would not send Garcia back to the United States. “How can I smuggle a terrorist into the United States?” Bukele said, adding, “I don’t have the power to return him.”

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt criticized Van Hollen and other Democrats who have rallied in support of Abrego Garcia during press briefing on Wednesday alongside Patty Morin, whose daughter, Rachel, 37, was raped and murdered in Maryland two years ago by another illegal immigrant from El Salvador.

“It’s appalling and sad that Senator Van Hollen and the Democrats applauding his trip to El Salvador today are incapable of having any shred of common sense or empathy for their own constituents and our citizens,” Leavitt said.

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