ICE Arrests Nearly 550 Criminal Migrants in Massive City Sweep

By Daily Caller. Federal immigration authorities arrested several hundred criminal migrants in a massive Houston operation that spanned only several days.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents arrested 646 illegal migrants, 543 of which were foreign nationals charged or convicted of a criminal offense and living unlawfully in the United States, according to a press release from the agency. The extensive operation — which was conducted in the Houston, Texas, area from Feb. 23 to March 2 — was the latest in the Trump administration’s mission to arrest and deport criminal illegal migrants from the country. (Read more from “ICE Arrests Nearly 550 Criminal Migrants in Massive City Sweep” HERE)

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ICE Arrests 543 Undocumented Criminals, 7 Gang Members in Houston-Area Operation

By Fox Houston 26. Nearly 650 undocumented immigrants, including 543 criminals and seven gang members, were arrested during a week-long enforcement operation in the Houston area.

The operation was conducted between Feb. 23 and March 2.

During the operation, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, in conjunction with federal, state and local law enforcement, executed 71 criminal arrest warrants and arrested 543 undocumented immigrants who have been charged or convicted of a criminal offense while they were illegally present in the U.S., including:

140 undocumented criminals charged or convicted of an aggravated felony or other violent offense such as homicide, aggravated assault, or domestic violence.

34 undocumented criminals charged or convicted of a sex offense or child sex offense such as aggravated sexual assault of a minor, possession of child pornography, or rape.

38 undocumented criminals convicted of illegal firearms offenses such as unlawful carrying of a firearm, alien in possession of a firearm and aggravated assault with a firearm.

(Read more from “ICE Arrests 543 Undocumented Criminals, 7 Gang Members in Houston-Area Operation” HERE)

Stock Market Plunges. What Happens Next?

On Tuesday, we saw a massive stock market dump. The Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged almost 900 points.

The stock market has been in a bit of a freefall over the course of the last couple of weeks, and I have been predicting this for a while.

It turns out that when you mess with the market mechanisms, people don’t like it. Investors tend to take the money out of the market and wait for things to be a little calmer, a little steadier. If you think of the free markets essentially as an ocean, sometimes it’s pretty choppy out there. Right now, it’s choppy.

If this administration is blamed for the choppy waters, that will be quite bad — not just for this administration, but also for everything it represents in the public mind.

Today, Emerson released a new poll showing President Trump’s handling of the economy underwater by 11 points. His job approval rating remains at 47-45, which is largely due to the widespread and correct perception that he totally changed the game on immigration. We are experiencing the lowest levels of illegal immigration ever recorded in the United States, as far as I’m aware. (Read more from “Stock Market Plunges. What Happens Next?” HERE)

LGBT Gang Allegedly Tortures, Kills Trans Woman. Queer Activists Blame Straight ‘Hate’

No motive has been released by the police in the alleged torture and murder of Sam Nordquist, a trans-identifying woman killed in New York in early February. There is, however, sufficient evidence to confirm the alleged murder was not a hate crime.

Despite this, media reports insist on forcing that narrative, as LGBT activists demand it and Democrat leaders validate it. The facts of the case are deeply disturbing, and the obsession with manufacturing an anti-trans hate crime story is making it worse.

Police say Sam Nordquist was tortured to death from December 2024 to Feb. 2, 2025, when she died from abuse. An indictment accuses seven people of being involved in her kidnapping, torture, and death. Nordquist had traveled from Minnesota to New York to visit her online girlfriend in September, then decided to stay. What happened between then and her death is still unknown, although police say she knew everyone involved, including two children forced to participate in the crime.

The details of her torture and death are each too difficult to imagine, let alone as a series of relentless horrors. According to police, Nordquist was starved, beaten, treated like a dog, forced to eat feces and urine, tied up, and had bleach poured on her. Her body was then abandoned in a field.

Nordquist was referred to as a man in all news reports, with many indicating she was transgender. She was immediately elevated as a victim of anti-LGBT hate and violence. OutFront Minnesota said, “We know this arrives at a time our trans communities are facing a relentless assault of harmful policy and rhetoric across our nation,” according to a post on Instagram. “We know that this landscape escalates and amplifies the individual risk of violence.” (Read more from “LGBT Gang Allegedly Tortures, Kills Trans Woman. Queer Activists Blame Straight ‘Hate’” HERE)

Study: Concealed Carriers Do A Better Job Of Stopping Active Shooters Than Police

You’d never know it from watching television, but civilians stop more active shooters than police and do so with fewer mistakes, according to new research from the Crime Prevention Research Center, where I serve as president. In non-gun-free zones, where civilians are legally able to carry guns, concealed carry permit holders stopped 51.5 percent of active shootings, compared to 44.6 percent stopped by police, CPRC found in a deep dive into active shooter scenarios between 2014 and 2023.

Not only do permit holders succeed in stopping active shooters at a higher rate, but law enforcement officers face significantly greater risks when intervening. Our research found police were nearly six times more likely to be killed and 17 percent more likely to be wounded than armed civilians.

Those numbers paint a fuller picture than the FBI’s crime statistics, which fail to include many of the defensive gun uses my organization has cataloged. But the problem with the FBI’s crime statistics isn’t just the errors in their reported data — they also fail to address useful questions, like how concealed handgun permit holders compare to law enforcement. Kash Patel and Dan Bongino face a major challenge in reforming how the data is collected and reported at the FBI.

From 2014 to 2023, CPRC researchers found that armed civilians stopped 180 of 515 active shooting cases. Of the attacks in places where people were allowed to carry, we found that permit holders stopped 158 of the 307 instances. The FBI defines an “active shooting” as an event where an individual actively attempts to kill people in a public place — excluding shootings tied to robberies or gang violence. An “active shooting” could be as simple as a single shot fired at a lone human target, even if the shooter misses, to a mass shooting.

The Crime Prevention Research Center’s findings tell a very different story than the narrative you’ll see on television. (Read more from “Study: Concealed Carriers Do A Better Job Of Stopping Active Shooters Than Police” HERE)

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Trump Admin to Deport Foreigners Who Come to American Universities and Shill for Terrorists

ASyrian-born Palestinian activist and former Columbia University graduate student was arrested on Saturday and will reportedly have his green card revoked because of his involvement in radical left-wing protests supporting Hamas.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil, saying Khalil “led activities aligned to Hamas, a designated terrorist organization.” According to his attorney, Khalil is a permanent resident with a green card.

Federal law prohibits providing “material support or resources” to any designated terrorist organizations.

President Donald Trump said his administration would not tolerate any “pro-terrorist” behavior in a Truth Social post.

“This is the first arrest of many to come. We know there are more students at Columbia and other Universities across the Country who have engaged in pro-terrorist, anti-Semitic, anti-American activity, and the Trump administration will not tolerate it,” Trump said. “We will find, apprehend, and deport these terrorist sympathizers from our country — never to return again.” (Read more from “Trump Admin to Deport Foreigners Who Come to American Universities and Shill for Terrorists” HERE)

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Elon Musk Says X Was Knocked Offline by ‘Massive Cyberattack’ That Originated in ‘Ukraine Area’

Billionaire entrepreneur and DOGE chief Elon Musk claimed Monday that X went dark as the result of a “massive cyberattack” that originated in the “Ukraine area.”

“We’re not sure exactly what happened,” Musk told Fox Business Network host Larry Kudlow about the apparent operation targeting his social media platform.

“But there was a massive cyberattack to try to bring down the X system, with IP addresses originating in the Ukraine area,” the world’s richest man added.

Musk, 53, did not immediately provide additional evidence of who may have been responsible.

Cybercriminals have been known to create false IP addresses to impersonate computer systems from different parts of the world, a practice known as “spoofing.” (Read more from “Elon Musk Says X Was Knocked Offline by ‘Massive Cyberattack’ That Originated in ‘Ukraine Area’” HERE)

DNI Gabbard Revokes Security Clearances of Biden Officials, Signers of Hunter Biden Laptop Letter

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard announced Monday she has revoked the security clearances of former top Biden administration officials as well as the 51 former intelligence officials who signed the letter calling the Hunter Biden laptop Russian disinformation.

She also announced that former President Joe Biden is no longer receiving the President’s Daily Brief, a summary of intelligence regarding issues and events around the world.

She posted:

Per @POTUS directive, I have revoked security clearances and barred access to classified information for Antony Blinken, Jake Sullivan, Lisa Monaco, Mark Zaid, Norman Eisen, Letitia James, Alvin Bragg, and Andrew Weissman, along with the 51 signers of the Hunter Biden “disinformation” letter. The President’s Daily Brief is no longer being provided to former President Biden.

President Donald Trump on his first day in his second administration signed an executive order directing the DNI to revoke the security clearances of the letter signatories. (Read more from “DNI Gabbard Revokes Security Clearances of Biden Officials, Signers of Hunter Biden Laptop Letter” HERE)

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Dem Senator Ditches Wife for CEO of Democrat Media Operation

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) has become more vocal, exposing voters to his insufferable tendencies. Elitism thy name is Murphy. The guy is a left-wing blowhard who doesn’t do much but whine. If it’s not that, it’s leading attacks against the Second Amendment. You don’t need to do much to be elected from Connecticut as a Democrat. Yet, Mr. Murphy might be another example of the Democrat-media complex at work literally.

He recently left his wife and shacked up with the CEO of a pro-Democrat news operation. Both parties declined to comment for Semafor:

One of the Democratic Party’s most notable digital media leaders is dating one of the party’s most media-friendly lawmakers, according to a Washington Democrat and a pointed Instagram post.

Tara McGowan, the CEO of the network of digital media sites known as Courier Newsroom, has been linked to Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy, who recently separated from his wife. McGowan posted a selfie of the duo last week on her private Instagram, captioned “not postponing joy,” which was shared with Semafor.

In recent months, Murphy has become one of the most visible Democratic lawmakers, speaking out against President Donald Trump and Elon Musk in television and digital media interviews and posting his own vertical videos across social media — taking a page out of a media playbook that McGowan and other Democratic digital strategists have pushed since Trump’s victory in November.

(Read more from “Dem Senator Ditches Wife for CEO of Democrat Media Operation” HERE)

Senators Urge Colleagues, Trump To Disregard Far-Left American Bar Association

The American Bar Association has long been a hive of leftist thought and activism. But while the nearly 150-year-old “national voice for the legal profession” claims it’s comitted to to “defending liberty and pursuing justice,” it fails on both counts. The ABA has stood silent as far-left allies weaponized the government against their political enemies, and it has rallied around discriminatory policies in the name of “social justice.”

Now a group of lawmakers led by Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., is urging Senate colleagues to “disregard ABA recommendations on pending legislation or nominees.”

“It is a failed institution that is incapable of impartially rating nominees and making legislative recommendations,” states a letter from six conservative senators to American Bar Association President William R. Bay. “As such, we will not consider any ABA recommendations on pending legislation or nominees, and we call upon our colleagues to do the same.”

The letter, first obtained by The Federalist, is signed by Schmitt and fellow senators Mike Lee, R-Utah, Ted Cruz, R-Texas, Josh Hawley, R-Mo., Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., and Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio. It hammers a hypocritical legal association that has been on a crusade against Trump 2.0 for what the ABA bills as “wide-scale affronts of the law,” even as it cheered on President Trump’s leftist predecessors for trampling the Constitution.

Because it is a “biased and ideologically captured institution,” the senators assert the ABA has — in legal parlance — no standing in advising Congress, particularly in its ratings on judicial nominees and pending legislation. The lawmakers also are calling on the president and the Department of Justice “to remove the ABA from the judicial nomination process entirely.” (Read more from “Senators Urge Colleagues, Trump To Disregard Far-Left American Bar Association” HERE)

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‘God Makes No Mistakes’: Major Decision for Teacher Fired for Not Using Student’s Trans Pronouns

A Wisconsin school district agreed to pay out $20,000 to a teacher who was terminated for refusing to use preferred names and pronouns for transgender students.

Jordan Cernek, an English teacher, sued the Argyle School District in July 2024 after his contract was not renewed, alleging the district violated his right to free exercise of his religion and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

“Mr. Cernek has a sincerely held religious belief that God makes no mistakes when it comes to sex and gender and that calling a transgender student by a name or pronouns at odds with their biological sex would cause Mr. Cernek to affirm that God made a mistake in creating a transgender person as a male or a female,” the lawsuit filed by the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty stated. “In Mr. Cernek’s religious view, affirming a transgender person’s identity through the use of preferred names and pronouns would be speaking a falsehood and violate his religious beliefs.”

The case was dismissed in February after parties reached the settlement, according to court records. (Read more from “‘God Makes No Mistakes’: Major Decision for Teacher Fired for Not Using Student’s Trans Pronouns” HERE)