Fetterman: Dem Responses Only Helped Trump

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Fetterman: Dem Responses Only Helped Trump

(Casey Harper, The Center Square) U.S. Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., critiqued his own party Wednesday for its response to President Donald Trump’s joint address to Congress Tuesday evening.

Trump’s lengthy speech was peppered with interruptions from Democrats, who refused to clap for any of Trump’s comments with the exception of when he brought up funding for Ukraine in its defensive war against Russia.

Many Democrats held up what appeared to be bingo signs that had “false” and other words written on them. Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., held up a white board that she could write responses on, moves that were mocked online and criticized even by some liberal pundits.

“A sad cavalcade of self owns and unhinged petulance,” Fetterman said of his fellow lawmakers’ response. “It only makes Trump look more presidential and restrained. We’re becoming the metaphorical car alarms that nobody pays attention to — and it may not be the winning message.”

Fetterman wasn’t the only Democrat to criticize the response of lawmakers on the left during Trump’s joint address to Congress.

“This is an indictment, in my opinion, on the Democratic leadership,” Democratic strategist and former Bernie Sanders aide Symone Sanders said on MSNBC after Trump’s speech. “The visuals are not taking back the House in 2026. Not these visuals … Oh my … it was crazy.”

As The Center Square previously reported, Democratic Rep. Al Green of Texas stood up and began shouting at Trump only to be drowned out by Republican chants of “USA” and eventually escorted out of the chamber for refusing to be remain silent.

Trans Terrorist Pleads Guilty to Sending Bombs to Federal Buildings

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Trans Terrorist Pleads Guilty to Sending Bombs to Federal Buildings

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Self-purported transgender inmate David Cassady, 55, a convicted violent rapist serving life behind bars at Phillips State Prison in Georgia, has pled guilty to sending bombs to federal buildings from prison.

“The Defendant agrees to the accuracy of the following facts … Between September 2019 and January 24, 2020, the Defendant constructed at least two destructive devices, namely bombs,” states a plea agreement filed on Tuesday.

“The Defendant mailed these destructive devices, namely bombs, to the United States Courthouse and Federal Building located at 222 W 7th Ave., Anchorage, Alaska, and to the Department of Justice located at 1400 New York Avenue NW, Washington DC,” the plea agreement states.

“The Defendant provided a post-Miranda statement to law enforcement and admitted to mailing the bombs in retaliation for prison conditions and demanded prison officials comply with his demands.”

Cassady faces a 40-year prison sentence—though, again, he’s already serving life behind bars.

Ironically, the Justice Department was supporting Cassady’s lawsuit for a taxpayer funded sex change while he was under investigation for sending the bombs.

In other words, the DOJ filed an amicus brief in support of an inmate who apparently tried bombing the DOJ, according to the DOJ. To add a drop of stupidity, the DOJ refers to Cassady as a female in the sex-change litigation, but calls him a man in the bombing case.

It’s not clear whether the sex change will still move forward now that Donald Trump is President, given Trump’s executive order to cease federally funded sex changes for prisoners. Cassady has yet to receive the operation, and his case was recently stayed because one of the medical firms involved in the lawsuit is undergoing bankruptcy proceedings.

When the indictment was unsealed in April, WSB-TV in Atlanta revealed that Cassady sent a bomb to the widow of a man he sexually assaulted as a teenager.

“How is somebody who is in prison for life, for horrific acts against the community, how is possible that he can still terrorize members of the community from behind bars?” the widow reportedly said. “And now somehow, he was able to access all of this and mail it out of prison. Somebody needs to look at the bigger picture of who he is.”

Cassady isn’t the only trans bomber to receive DOJ support in a sex-change lawsuit. As Headline USA exclusively documented in 2023, former neo-Nazi bank robber Pete/Donna Langan, who has ties to the Oklahoma City bombing, reached a settlement with the DOJ to become the first federal inmate in history to receive a sex change.

Ken Silva is the editor of Headline USA. Follow him at x.com/jd_cashless.

Trump Admin. Moves to Abolish Another Foreign Aid Group

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Trump Admin. Moves to Abolish Another Foreign Aid Group

(Kyle Anzalone, Libertarian Institute) During the opening days of the second Donald Trump administration, the White House has worked to rein in and scale down government agencies that distribute foreign aid. The Inter-American Foundation (IAF) is next on the chopping block.

On Friday, Trump appointed Peter Marocco as head of the IAF, fired the agency’s president and CEO Sara Aviel, and removed its board of directors. Marocco is now the sole board member and chairman, according to an employee speaking with the Guardian. 

Members of the IAF attempted to push back on Trump’s move. Eddy Arriola, one of the board members removed by Trump, sent a letter to the White House. “We do not consider the assignment of Peter Marocco to the role of board chairman, sent via email to the IAF Chief Operating Office on February 28, 2025, to be a valid appointment as required by IAF’s enabling statute,” he wrote.

He added that the power structure of the IAF was to remain “unaltered.” Arriola instructed Aviel to “deny access to IAF’s systems and files to anyone outside the organization,” likely referring to the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

Arriola’s appeal was unsuccessful as Marocco and DOGE gained access to the agency on Monday. Additionally, the agency’s 37 employees were placed on paid leave.

On Tuesday, the DOGE X account reported that the agency had been reduced to one employee. “The Inter-American Foundation, an agency whose primary action was to issue foreign grants ($60M budget), has been reduced to its statutory minimum (1 active employee),” the post said.

DOGE went on to identify several IAF programs that it cut. “$903,811 for alpaca farming in Peru, $364,500 to reduce social discrimination of recyclers in Bolivia, $813,210 for vegetable gardens in El Salvador, $323,633 to promote cultural understanding of Venezuelan migrants in Brazil.” The post continued, “$731,105 to improve marketability of mushrooms and peas in Guatemala, $677,342 to expand fruit and jam sales in Honduras, $483,345 to improve artisanal salt production in Ecuador, and $39,250 for beekeeping in Brazil.”

The IAF was not the first US aid agency to be axed by Trump. USAID has largely been dissolved, with its remaining functions moved under the control of the State Department. Additionally, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), a US-funded organization, lost its financial backing from Washington, forcing it to halt all partner support.

USAID and the NED are infamous for funding non-governmental organizations overseas to help Washington complete regime change operations, as the latter agency did in Ukraine in 2004 and 2014. Marocco was involved with the dismantling of USAID and serves as Trump’s director of foreign assistance at the State Department.

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court ruled that Trump must restore $2 billion in frozen funds that were to be distributed by USAID. It is unclear what impact the ruling will have on Trump’s attempt to close the IAF.

This article originally appeared at The Libertarian Institute.

Trump DOJ Will Argue for Expanding Surveillance Power in ‘Tower Dumps’ Case

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Trump DOJ Will Argue for Expanding Surveillance Power in ‘Tower Dumps’ Case

(José Niño, Headline USA) Despite promising to protect civil liberties such as free speech, the Trump administration is gearing up to expand the government’s domestic surveillance powers. 

This past Tuesday, prosecutors at the Justice Department filed a motion to appeal a federal judge’s order that ruled so-called “tower dumps” are unconstitutional. 

Tower dumps refer to a technique law enforcement uses to collect cell phone data from all devices that are connected to a specific cell tower during a specific time period. This method allows law enforcement agencies to gather information on hundreds, thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of cell phones in a given area, often without requiring a warrant. 

This issue stems from a recent case in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi, where U.S. Magistrate Judge Andrew Harris declined to issue search warrants for tower dumps on Feb.  21, 2025.

According to a recent report by judicial news website Court Watch, Harris ruled that this technique violates the Fourth Amendment’s protections against unreasonable searches and seizures. 

Originally, the FBI submitted four sealed search warrants for the tower dump’s data. This move was part of a probe into an unnamed violent gang implicated in several shootings and cases of car theft. 

On multiple occasions, U.S. Magistrate Judge Andrew Harris refused to authorize the search warrants. Judge Harris stood his ground even after the DOJ published a memorandum to make their position clear. The DOJ also held a conference call with Judge Harris to touch on some of his concerns, to little avail.

Judge Harris’ order was significant because it was the first case where a judge ruled against law enforcement agencies’ use of tower dumps. The order in question broadened the scope of an August ruling in a federal appeals court, which determined the use of a geofence warrant — wherein law enforcement submits a request to Google to provide the location data of phones at a particular location  — was unconstitutional.

In his original ruling, Harris wrote, “The Government is essentially asking the Court to allow it access to an entire haystack because it may contain a needle…The Fourth Amendment does not permit law enforcement to rummage through troves of data and themselves determine the existence of probable cause to support the seizure of that data.” 

The prosecutors wrote in their motion, in anticipation of an appeal, that “the matter before this Court involves a rather novel issue that has not been directly or specifically addressed by this Court or the Fifth Circuit.” 

The Justice Department’s decision to appeal this ruling underscores the ongoing debate between law enforcement’s operational needs and privacy rights in the digital era. This case could establish a new precedent for how law enforcement agencies obtain and use cell tower data in criminal investigations. 

José Niño is the deputy editor of Headline USA. Follow him at x.com/JoseAlNino

Mainstream Outlets Try to Debunk Trump’s Fraud Comments, Only to Admit He’s Right

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Mainstream Outlets Try to Debunk Trump’s Fraud Comments, Only to Admit He’s Right

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) The so-called fact-checkers at The New York Times claimed Tuesday that President Donald Trump had no “evidence” of massive fraud—only to then cite evidence of actual government fraud. 

The Times specifically targeted Trump’s comments about DOGE during his joint address to Congress, where he affirmed that the government had identified hundreds of billions in taxpayer money lost to fraud. 

“This lacks evidence,” The Times’ Nicholas Nehamas wrote in a fact-check. He claimed that “even Elon Musk’s government overhaul team does not purport to have found that much in specific savings, much less in fraud alone.” 

Nehemas made this assertion in the second paragraph of the so-called fact-check. Yet, three paragraphs later, he conceded that the Biden administration itself identified up to $521 billion wasted on fraud. 

“The federal Government Accountability Office estimated last year, before the creation of DOGE, that the government loses $233 billion to $521 billion a year to fraud,” the reporter wrote, citing an October 2024 GAO report to Congress. At the time, Biden was president. 

Distorting Trump’s comments about identifying fraud rather than cutting it, Nehamas added, “But it is unclear whether any of the Trump administration cuts announced thus far were canceled payments for fraudulent services.” 

CNN had a similar fact-check fiasco in trying to comment Trump’s assertion that $8 million in taxpayer money has been spent on “making mice transgender.” CNN initially called that claim “false,” only to later retract that rating and say that the claim “needs context.”

The GAO had previously issued a list of anti-fraud measures the government should implement to curb this massive waste of taxpayer dollars. 

Among their recommendations: 

  • Designating agencies distributing more than $100 million as being “susceptible” fraud. 
  • Reinstating a risk management requirement in annual reports. 
  • Establishing fraud analytics systems. 
  • Implementing internal control and data sharing plans.
     

That Dem Who Heckled Trump’s Speech? He Was Once Accused of Sexual Assault

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That Dem Who Heckled Trump’s Speech? He Was Once Accused of Sexual Assault

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, may have disrupted President Donald Trump’s joint address to Congress on Tuesday out of supposed moral conviction and conscience—but years ago, his own morality was questioned when he was accused of sexual assault by a former staffer. 

Green, a longtime member of Congress and attorney, was accused in 2007 of sexually assaulting his former district director Lucinda Daniels. She later filed a $1.8 million workplace discrimination lawsuit against him and said the alleged assault occurred at her home. 

“He sexually assaulted her, she did not give consent,” Daniels’s attorney, Chip Lewis, allegedly said in 2008. “He tried to pursue a romantic relationship after that, she spurned his advances.” 

Green dismissed the allegations as false, but he acknowledged having a consensual “romantic encounter” with Daniels.  

Green countered Daniels’s claims by suing her for extortion. He claimed Daniels was a drug addict who had sought money from him before going public with the allegations. 

“Green has done nothing wrong and refuses to pay ‘hush money’ just for political expediency. Green will not be extorted or blackmailed by Daniels,” his attorneys argued in the 2008 lawsuit. 

“He will not be the victim of a shakedown by Daniels and her agents. Green demands vindication of his actions and now sues Daniels for declaratory judgment relief relating to her workplace allegations and her quest for money,” the attorneys added. 

The lawsuits were eventually dropped, with both parties calling themselves “friends.” 

“In the present climate, we wish to jointly quiet any curious minds about our former and present relationship with one another,” Green and Daniels announced in a joint statement.

They added, “We are friends, and have long been friends. At an unfortunate time in our lives, when both of our feelings were hurt, we hastily made allegations against one another that have been absolutely resolved.” 

Daniels appears to have passed away in 2021. A Facebook page under her name listed her past employment as district director and counsel in the House of Representatives—the same position cited in Green’s lawsuit. 

Fast forward to 2025, and Green is back in the spotlight after being removed from the House Chamber for heckling Trump’s historic speech. He defended his outburst as a “conscious” obligation. 

Replacement for Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, Who Died in Office, Dies in Office

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Replacement for Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, Who Died in Office, Dies in Office

(Headline USA) Democratic U.S. Rep. Sylvester Turner of Texas has died two months after taking office and hours after attending President Donald Trump’s address before Congress in Washington, D.C., officials and his family said on Wednesday. He was 70.

While attending Trump’s speech to Congress, Turner was taken to a hospital and later released, Turner’s family said in a statement.

Turner’s family said that at 5:45 a.m. Wednesday, “he died at his home from enduring health complications.”

The family did not offer additional information on those health complications. In November 2022, Turner revealed he had undergone treatment, including surgery and radiation therapy, earlier that year for bone cancer in his jaw.

“Congressman Turner was the consummate public servant. But to us, he was our beloved father, grandfather, sibling and relative. Thank you for your prayers,” the family said in its statement.

Before being elected to Congress, Turner served as Houston’s mayor for two terms.

During Wednesday’s Houston City Council meeting, Mayor John Whitmire announced Turner’s death, saying it “comes as a shock to everyone.”

Whitmire said he was told that during Trump’s speech Tuesday evening, Turner didn’t feel good, went home and was later taken to the hospital.

Whitmire said he saw Turner on Saturday at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo parade and he “looked fine.”

In a statement, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott called Turner “a man of character who served his fellow Texans for more than 36 years.”

“Congressman Turner leaves behind a legacy of service to our great state,” Abbott said.

Turner was elected in November, filling the Houston seat that had been held by longtime U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, who died last July after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.

Turner served eight years as Houston’s mayor, leading the nation’s fourth-largest city through various challenges, including devastating flooding from Hurricane Harvey in 2017.

Before being elected as mayor, Turner served 27 years in the Texas House of Representatives.

In a statement, Texas House Democrats said Turner “will be remembered as a champion for working families, infrastructure investment, and economic opportunity for all Texans.”

Turner was born and raised in Houston’s Acres Homes, a historic Black neighborhood. He earned degrees from the University of Houston and Harvard Law School before working as a trial lawyer and later founding his own law firm. He was elected to the Texas House in 1988 and served for nearly three decades before being elected Houston mayor in 2015.

“Sylvester never forgot where he came from. So, that will be my memory of him. I also will always remember he could light up a crowd,” Whitmire said.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

Washington, DC, to Remove ‘Black Lives Matter’ Painting from Street near White House, Mayor Says

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Washington, DC, to Remove ‘Black Lives Matter’ Painting from Street near White House, Mayor Says

(Headline USA) The nation’s capital city will remove the large painting of the words “Black Lives Matter” on a street one block from the White House Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser said.

Bowser pointed to the change on the social platform X on Tuesday, writing: “The mural inspired millions of people and helped our city through a painful period, but now we can’t afford to be distracted by meaningless congressional interference. The devastating impacts of the federal job cuts must be our number one concern.”

The move shows Bowser’s striking shift in tone toward Trump and congressional Republicans since the president’s first term in office. Bowser, a Democrat, ordered the painting and renamed the intersection Black Lives Matter Plaza as a public act of defiance in June 2020. It came after days of chaotic protests at that location over the death of George Floyd.

Her approach to the protests brought her into direct conflict with Trump. The president at the time accused Bowser of losing control of her city and threatened to invoke his power to take over the Metropolitan Police Department. 

In Trump’s second stint in the White House, Bowser has worked to avoid conflict and downplay any points of contention. She traveled to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate to meet with president after his election and has publicly emphasized their points of agreement, such as a mutual desire to return federal workers back to their offices full time.

Trump recently revived a frequent campaign talking point about wanting a federal “takeover” of the nation’s capital, describing Washington as riddled with crime, graffiti and homeless encampments. Bowser has refused to comment on reports that the White House was preparing an executive order targeting Washington; she publicly said that the greatest threat to the so-called Home Rule autonomy was “some of the people in Congress.”

Bowser publicly siding with Black Lives Matter activists in 2020 didn’t earn her much credibility with them at the time. The local Black Lives Matter affiliate dismissed the move as “performative wokeness” and decried Bowser as overwhelmingly biased toward police. The same activists heaped scorn on Bowser on Tuesday following her reversal.

Nee Nee Taylor, a founding member of the D.C. Black Lives Matter affiliate, addressed Bowser on X on Tuesday, saying, “You never cared about Black Lives Mattering. You painting those words were performative.”

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

Sanctuary City Mayors Deflect, Defend Policies under Lawmaker Questioning

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Sanctuary City Mayors Deflect, Defend Policies under Lawmaker Questioning

(Thérèse Boudreaux, The Center Square) Four sanctuary city mayors who spent millions of state and federal taxpayer dollars to accommodate illegal immigrants denied that blocking federal agents from deporting criminal migrants violated federal law at a committee hearing Wednesday.

Republicans on the House Oversight and Government Reform committee grilled Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, Denver Mayor Mike Johnston and New York City Mayor Eric Adams in a hearing Wednesday.

From US House Committee on Oversight and Reform 3/5/25. Rep. Comer (R-KY) Spars with Rep. Pressley (D-MA).

The mayors defended restrictions they approved that prevented local authorities from cooperating with detainer and deportation requests from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials for illegal immigrants that committed crimes.

They claimed they were merely responding in a humanitarian way to a bad situation — the influx of six million migrants released on parole into the U.S. during the Biden administration — despite each declaring their cities “welcome” to the unvetted migrants.

Johnson of Chicago accused lawmakers of “scapegoating immigrant communities” for correlating rises in crime in sanctuary cities, claiming instead that “the city is safer because of our Welcoming City Ordinance” which does “not prevent cooperation with federal law enforcement on criminal matters.”

The ordinance prevented local officials from arresting, detaining, or continuing to detain illegal foreign nationals subject to an administrative warrant, as well as restricted city agencies from sharing information about an individual’s immigration status with federal immigration authorities.

Johnson argued that crackdowns on illegal immigration actually deteriorate public safety because undocumented crime victims or witnesses won’t go to the police if they believe they will be deported.

“Put simply, any actions that amplify fears of deportations make Chicago more dangerous,” Johnson said.

“I know there are myths about these laws, but we must not let mischaracterizations and fear mongering obscure the reality that Chicago’s crime rates are trending down. We still have a long way to go, but sensationalizing tragedy in the name of political expediency is not governing, it’s grandstanding.” 

As of September, ICE said there are 662,566 illegal immigrants with criminal histories living free in the United States. 

Johnston, of Denver, denied any positive correlation between the influx of 42,000 illegal immigrants into his city and the crime rate, pointing to a recently decreased crime rate in Denver. 

However, as The Center Square previously reported, crime escalated in the nearby city of Aurora after Johnston sent violent Venezuelan prison gang members there.

Johnston told lawmakers that his city would hand over criminal illegal aliens if they received a warrant from ICE. But, as Republicans pointed out, Denver’s policies forbade law enforcement from informing ICE, meaning warrants could not be issued and therefore no detainment actions could be taken.

Additionally, Denver refused to allow ICE officers to access county jails themselves and also passed an ordinance that forbids any city employee from contacting ICE.

Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., did not hold back her criticism, telling the mayors “you all have blood on your hands.”

But Wu, who reaffirmed in December that Boston won’t cooperate with federal immigration enforcement efforts, shifted the blame of the immigration crisis onto the Trump administration rather than the Boston Trust Act, which forbade Boston police officers from cooperating with ICE on detainment enforcement.

“We are the safest major city in the nation, because we are safe for everyone,” she told lawmakers, adding that “this administration’s approach is undermining that trust” between residents and police officers.

“No one’s asking you to go round up criminal illegal aliens,” Rep. Michael Cloud, R-Texas, interjected. “We are asking you to take people who are already in your custody and hand them over to legal federal law enforcement.”

Cloud did acknowledge Adams, of New York City, for recently reversing his position of blaming Republicans for welcoming federal immigration enforcement efforts. Adams also recently shut down migrant shelter sites across the city.

Despite those recent pivots, Adams insisted during the hearing that the city’s code provisions, which prohibit local law enforcement and city employees from honoring ICE immigration detainer requests or providing them information, violated federal law.

“Federal law did not allow me to stop buses from entering New York City. State law required me to provide all in our city with housing and meals, and to educate children. City law makes it unlawful to collaborate with ICE for civil enforcement,” Adams said.

New York City has spent over $6.9 billion in taxpayer dollars to accommodate illegal immigrants over the last four years, according to Adams. 

Throughout the border crisis, Democratic mayors nationwide called on the Biden administration to provide federal funding to compensate their cities for housing, feeding and providing a range of free social services to illegal border crossers at the taxpayer’s expense, The Center Square reported.

Vance Will Visit the US-Mexico Border to Highlight the Trump Administration’s Immigration Crackdown

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Vance Will Visit the US-Mexico Border to Highlight the Trump Administration’s Immigration Crackdown

(Headline USA) Vice President JD Vance participated in an aerial tour of the U.S.-Mexico border on Wednesday and met with law enforcement officials as part of a trip meant to highlight tougher immigration policies that the White House says has led to dramatically fewer arrests for illegal crossings since Donald Trump began his second term.

Joined by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, Vance is highest-ranking members of the Republican administration to visit the southern border. After viewing the Eagle Pass area, around 150 miles southwest of San Antonio, by helicopter, the trio visited a Border Patrol detention facility before participating in a roundtable discussion with local and national participants.

State authorities say Vance’s itinerary also likely includes a visit to Shelby Park.

“Border security is national security,” Hegseth told Fox News before the trip. He added, “We’re sending those folks home, and we’re not letting more in. And you’re seeing that right now.”

Trump made a crackdown on immigration a centerpiece of his reelection campaign, pledging to halt the tide of migrants entering the U.S. and stop the flow of fentanyl crossing the border. As part of that effort, he imposed 25% tariffs on imports from Mexico and Canada, saying neither is doing enough to address drug trafficking and illegal immigration.

“They are now strongly embedded in our country. But we are getting them out and getting them out fast,” Trump said of migrants living in the U.S. illegally as he delivered an address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday night.

Although Trump has not made a trip to the border since Inauguration Day, the visit of three of his top officials is evidence of the scope of his administration’s focus on the issue. He has tasked agencies across the federal government with working to overhaul border and immigration policy, moving well beyond the Department of Homeland Security, the traditional home of most such functions.

The Trump administration has showcased its new initiatives, including putting immigrants on U.S. military planes for deportation fights and sending some to the U.S. lockup at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. It has also expanded federal agents’ arrests of people in the U.S. illegally and abandoned programs that gave some permission to stay.

Trump border czar Tom Homan said migrants with criminal records have been prioritized in early efforts to round up and deport people in the U.S. illegally, but he added of other migrants, “If you’re in the county illegally, you’re not off the table.”

“When we find the bad guy, many times they’re with others, others who aren’t a criminal priority, but were in the country illegally,” Homan told reporters outside the White House on Tuesday. “They’re coming, too.”

Since Trump’s second term began, about 6,500 new active duty forces have been ordered to deploy to the southern border. Before that, there were about 2,500 troops already there, largely National Guard troops on active duty orders, along with a couple of hundred active duty aviation forces.

Of those being mobilized, many are still only preparing to go. Last weekend, Hegseth approved orders to send a large portion of an Army Stryker brigade and a general support aviation battalion to the border. Totaling about 3,000 troops, they are expected to deploy in the coming weeks.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

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