🔵 Deportation Ops Underway

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Citizen Frank
January 22, 2025

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President Donald Trump’s border czar Tom Homan said on Tuesday that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have begun seeking criminal illegal immigrants in the first phase of Trump’s mass deportation operation.

Homan told Fox News that ICE agents created “target sheets” prioritizing the arrests of illegal immigrants who are deemed threats to public safety. Trump signed a slew of executive orders immediately after being sworn into office on Monday to secure the southern border and crack down on illegal immigration.

“ICE teams are out there as of today,” Homan told Fox News host Trace Gallagher. “We gave them the direction to prioritize public safety threats. That’s what we’re looking for. We’ve been working with a target list.”

A transition aide and an attorney for defense secretary nominee said Pete Hegseth “categorically denies” new allegations detailed in an affidavit provided by his former sister-in-law, claiming Hegseth’s behavior caused his second wife to fear for her safety.

“Mr. Hegseth categorically denies every word of every allegation,” a Hegseth aide said in a statement provided to the Washington Examiner.

In the affidavit provided to members of the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday, Danielle Hegseth, who was previously married to Hegseth’s brother, outlines allegations that the defense secretary nominee engaged in threatening behavior that made his second wife, Samantha, fear for her safety.

The Trump Administration’s Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has notified the heads of all federal agencies and departments that Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI) offices are to be closed by end of day Wednesday, and all staff to be placed on paid leave.

According to the notice issued by Acting OPM Director Charles Ezell, all departments and agencies are to:

Send an agency-wide notice to employees informing them of the closure and asking employees if they know of any efforts to disguise these programs by using coded or imprecise language

US President Donald Trump has given a full pardon to Ross Ulbricht, who has been in prison for 12 years for founding the defunct darknet marketplace the Silk Road.

“I just called the mother of Ross William Ulbright to let her know that in honor of her and the Libertarian Movement, which supported me so strongly, it was my pleasure to have just signed a full and unconditional pardon of her son, Ross,” Trump said in a Jan. 21 post on his Truth Social platform.

The president added that Ulbricht’s sentence of 40 years plus two life sentences was “ridiculous.”

One suspect in the fatal shooting of a border patrol agent on Monday near the U.S. northern border was a German citizen with an expired H1-B visa, according to a law enforcement official familiar with the incident and an internal report reviewed by Just the News.

The suspect, who fired on two U.S. Border Patrol agents during a vehicle stop in Newport, Vermont, is identified in the incident report as Felix Bauckholt, a German citizen who overstayed an H1-B visa and was thus illegally residing in the country.

The agents were conducting a routine roving patrol when they stopped Bauckholt and a female in the town close to the border. During a records check, the unidentified female occupant was removed from the vehicle for further questioning, broke free, and began shooting at the agents, the incident report shows.

India’s government has signaled that it will work with the incoming Trump administration to take back at least 18,000 citizens residing in the U.S. illegally.

Those illegal immigrants already have been identified by the U.S., Bloomberg reported, and India will begin the process of verifying their status and bringing them back overseas. The total number of Indian illegal immigrants living in the U.S. could be far higher, people familiar with the matter told Bloomberg.

The move by India comes as President Donald Trump has threatened repercussions if countries don’t take back their citizens who are living illegally in the U.S. Trump has threatened to impose tariffs on countries like China and Mexico if they don’t meet certain U.S. demands.

Joe Biden’s pardon of Dr. Anthony Fauci may protect the former National Institutes of Health official from immediate criminal prosecution, but some critics say he is not completely out of legal jeopardy and that public sentiment might still condemn the man who became known during the COVID-19 pandemic as “Mr. Science.”

In the days before Biden offered the pardon to Fauci, along with other critics of Donald Trump, some experts who have followed Fauci’s career and handling of the pandemic, as well as members of the Trump transition team, reiterated their assertion that Fauci perjured himself on several occasions during the pandemic — especially regarding his agency’s links to the lab in Wuhan, China, that may have created the virus that causes COVID-19.

The pardon addresses any COVID-related offenses and is backdated to 2014 — the year a U.S. ban on so-called “gain of function” virus research took effect. Fauci has been accused of outsourcing that research to China.

A historic and deadly winter storm that stretched over 1,500 miles blanketed the southern U.S. on Tuesday with historic snow totals, including the first-ever Blizzard Warning for the Gulf Coast and potentially record amounts of snow in Florida.

Snow totals reached numbers not seen in generations, if not lifetimes, across the South. Up to 4 inches in Houston, nearly 10 inches around New Orleans, and towns along the Florida Panhandle reporting some 5 to 12 inches. While the snow and ice totals were meager by northern standards, it was enough to paralyze travel throughout the region.

Houston airports shutter amid winter storm

The rare bout with wintry weather first swept across southwestern Texas early Tuesday morning, leading to a crash involving “several fatalities” east of La Pryor, according to Uvalde County officials.

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