Homan Gets to Work in MN and Meets Walz, Inside the Funding of MN Activist Networks: AM Update 1⧸28
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A look into who is funding the well-organized anti-ICE agitators in Minnesota. President Trump kicks off the 2026 mid-term election cycle with remarks in Iowa, and Italian officials in turmoil over reports that ICE agents will be at the upcoming Winter Olympics. All that and more coming up in just a moment on your AM Update.
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When morning arrives, they do it all over again.
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It's Wednesday, January 28th, 2026, and this is your AM Update.
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attempting to build a cooperative relationship with state and local leaders
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These are paid insurrectionists. These are paid agitators.
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A look into who is funding the well-organized anti-ice agitators in Minnesota.
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President Trump kicks off the 2026 midterm election cycle with remarks in Iowa.
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And Italian officials in turmoil over reports that ICE agents will be at the upcoming Winter Olympics.
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All that and more coming up in just a moment on your AM Update.
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Borders are Tom Homan getting to work in Minnesota,
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working to increase cooperation with state and local officials
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after clashes over federal immigration enforcement,
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including last weekend's fatal shooting of anti-ice agitator Alex Preddy
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The White House laying out three key demands it has of Minnesota officials,
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which it says are necessary to begin reducing the thousands of federal agents
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One, turn over all illegal aliens currently incarcerated in their prisons and jails.
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Two, turn over all illegal aliens who are arrested by local police.
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Three, assist federal authorities in apprehending and detaining illegal aliens
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All of that is currently prohibited by the sanctuary city policies
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governing Minneapolis and other Minnesota counties,
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which ban virtually any and all cooperation with ICE.
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The only additional White House demand that might be honored by a sanctuary city
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is that the locals turn over any illegal aliens who have active warrants for their arrest.
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In other words, all illegals for whom the feds have a criminal arrest warrant.
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This is already something even sanctuary cities are supposed to do,
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though some still refuse in blatant violation of federal law.
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Former Acting DHS Secretary Chad Wolf tells AM Update Tom Homan is the right man
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to negotiate these demands with local officials.
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It's a stroke of genius from the president sending Tom Homan in.
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He's a 30-year operator both at Border Patrol and ICE.
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He understands the mission and the operational requirements and what is needed.
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So he's able to talk to the governor and the mayor at a very operational and tactical level of,
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we need access to this type of information for us to do our job.
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Not everything, but these three things to be successful.
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And so he's able to talk to them at a very, I think, different level
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than others that perhaps have been talking to them.
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Governor Walz suggesting Monday in the Wall Street Journal
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that Minnesota is already cooperating with federal immigration authorities,
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writing that his Department of Corrections, quote,
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honors all immigration detainers, meaning if ICE has marked anyone for deportation
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state authorities will notify ICE if the person's in custody
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Fox News immigration reporter Bill Malusian reporting this week
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pointing out that Minnesota state prisons may honor ICE detainers,
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and that this is where the fight has always been.
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So will cities like Minneapolis change their behavior?
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Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Fry, after meeting with Tom Homan this week,
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I shared with Mr. Homan the serious negative impacts
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this operation has had on Minneapolis and surrounding communities,
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as well as the strain it has placed on our local police officers.
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and that we will remain focused on keeping our neighbors and streets safe.
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Homan, in an ICE post last night, writing, quote,
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these meetings were a productive starting point,
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and I look forward to more conversations with key stakeholders in the days ahead.
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He wants American cities to be safe and secure for law-abiding residents,
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Governor Walsh appearing on the Bulwark podcast,
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discussing President Trump's decision to pull DHS Chief Kristi Noem
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and Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino out of Minneapolis
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and to turn the Minnesota operation over to Homan.
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To be very clear, there's a change in tone, and we'll see.
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I'm going to meet here later today with Tom Holman.
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I understand Greg Bovino is gone, you know, and that's a good riddance one.
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But it doesn't change the fact that the posture is still the same,
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that this is an unorganized, untrained, dangerous force on the streets
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that has nothing to do with either immigration or law enforcement.
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And I'm telling you, these folks that are out there on the streets,
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So the mood is, there's a hint of hope and optimism,
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The end of this is a sane policy on how you do immigration reform
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and stop an attack by the federal government on the state.
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Walsh's office, with a slightly more optimistic tone,
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The governor and Holman agreed on the need for an ongoing dialogue
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As for how all of this is going over in Minneapolis?
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Hundreds of protesters taking to the Capitol building yesterday,
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making it clear that nothing short of a full withdrawal of federal officers will do.
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We want the 2,000-plus agents that are still here today occupying our communities
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and putting them at harm's risk for being abducted or even shot and killed.
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there is simply not a satisfying moment in this change.
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calls from Democrat lawmakers to remove Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem altogether are growing.
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Here, Senators Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts,
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Congress should impeach her and remove her from office.
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I think Kristi Noem should have never gotten the job in the first place.
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And if the president had any sense of responsibility, he would fire her.
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Moderate Democratic Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania
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Tom Tillis of North Carolina and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska,
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Additionally, at least 140 Democrat House members
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signing onto a resolution to impeach the secretary,
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an effort likely to gain little traction given that Republicans control the House.
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DHS responding yesterday to the call for Noem to be fired,
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quote, DHS enforces the law Congress passes, period.
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If certain members don't like these laws, changing them is literally their job.
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President Trump from the White House lawn yesterday appearing to back the secretary.
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You know, you forget we had a border that I inherited where millions of people were coming
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Now we have a border where no one is coming through.
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A familiar playbook emerging among anti-ice agitators in Minnesota.
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Whistles to signal law enforcement is near, spotters located around the city,
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coordinated responses resulting in near instant swarms of disruptors.
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These tactics have played out in cities across the country.
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President Trump yesterday on Fox saying these people are not just organic activists.
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When I watch some of the people that I've been watching over the last few weeks,
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These people aren't normal, like, oh, gee, that, you know, they're incensed about anything.
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How do you get incensed when you go into a state and you're taking criminals out?
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But who is fronting the money behind the madness?
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Fox News Digital reporting that a review of rapid response messages circulating after Alex
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Preddy's death on Saturday points to a, quote, hub of communist and socialist non-profit
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organizations working as key organizers of the resistance campaign against federal immigration
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According to Fox, many of those groups are funded by American-born billionaire Neville Roy
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Singham, a, quote, self-declared Marxist-Leninist living in Shanghai.
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Some of the organizations reportedly trace back to the People's Forum, a non-profit incubator
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for socialist and communist groups funded by Singham.
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The Daily Wire reporting the People's Forum supports left-wing propaganda outfits like
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Breakthrough News, which creates a bevy of anti-ice content heavily focused on Minneapolis.
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Despite not being as well-known as left-wing megadonor George Soros, Singham is not new to
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In 2023, the New York Times publishing an investigation headlined, quote,
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A global web of Chinese propaganda leads to a U.S. tech mogul.
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The Times reporting that Singham sits at the center of a vast, well-funded influence network
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that blends progressive activism with Chinese Communist Party messaging, operating a web of
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charities and shell companies around the world.
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The Times reporting Singham works closely with Chinese state-linked media outlets, though
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In 2017, Singham married co-founder of the Code Pink activist group, Jody Evans.
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Code Pink is known for staging sit-ins and protests, including repeated disruptions of congressional
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The Times reporting since 2017, about a quarter of the group's total funding came from groups
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Alex Goldenberg, a senior advisor at the Network Contagion Research Institute, which studies
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online foreign influence campaigns, in a 2025 News Nation interview describing Singham's reach
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He has a footprint in India, South Africa, London, and is quite active in the United States,
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funding a network of nonprofit organizations to the tune of tens of millions of dollars.
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What we find is he's funding and exporting an authoritarian-aligned ideology under the banner
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of, like, American nonprofit legitimacy, doesn't just promote anti-American sentiment, but openly
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supports authoritarian regimes, repeatedly amplifies voices that glorify terrorism and cause for
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violent revolutions, such as the globalization of the Intifada.
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So what is being built here is not a protest movement.
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I really view it as infrastructure for a deeply un-American campaign to destabilize the country
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Earlier this year, the House Oversight Committee voting to issue a subpoena to Singham, probing
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possible violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act, which requires individuals to register
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with the DOJ if they are acting on behalf of a foreign entity to influence U.S. policy.
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Republican Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna of Florida, earlier this month on Newsmax on the
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This individual, Neville Singham, is not a FARA agent.
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He's not registered as an agent of China, and yet he is funding a lot of these anti-ice
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And we know for a fact that this guy is an open Maoist.
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But he is, I would argue, probably worse than George Soros.
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I do think that you'll see a lot of the foreign funding ties, as well as the chaos that we're
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seeing in this country, specifically now even looking into what's happening right now with
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these, again, counter-ice protests now in Minnesota.
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You'll see exactly where it's coming from, and it is simply benefiting the Communist
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And I will again say we support free speech, but when you are now violently protesting and
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causing harm to other American citizens, that's where we draw the line.
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Singham has not publicly commented on the subpoena, and his Shanghai address could complicate any
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potential enforcement or investigative efforts.
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Coming up, President Trump kicks off the 2026 midterm campaign with remarks in Iowa, and
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Italian officials scrambling after reports that ICE agents will deploy to the Winter Olympics.
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President Trump on the trail in Iowa touting economic and energy wins, officially firing
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Republicans can only afford to lose a net of two seats in order to maintain power.
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Nonpartisan election tracking website 2702win currently showing Republicans favored to keep
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206 seats, Democrats likely to hold 210, with 19 rated as a toss-up.
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On the Senate side, Republicans entering the cycle with a 53-45 majority, with the two independent
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senators, Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Angus King of Maine, neither of whom are up for re-election,
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President Trump yesterday in Iowa warning voters of what he says will come if Democrats win
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I'm telling you, if Kamala won, or any of them, I think Gavin Newsom is worse because, I mean,
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If they won, if they win, that group, that ideology wins, you will be Venezuela on steroids.
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President Trump sticking closely to the script at yesterday's event, speaking for just about
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Mr. Trump hammering his administration's successful crime-fighting efforts, even in some blue cities.
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So you read much about Minnesota where, unbeknownst to the public, we have brought down
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We've taken out thousands of hard criminals, hardened, vicious, horrible criminals.
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You don't read about things like Washington, D.C., where there is virtually no crime, and
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Memphis, Tennessee, which was a real disaster, and now it's down.
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Crime has dropped by 78% of the last two months.
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I was asked by the governor of Louisiana to help them with New Orleans.
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And we've done all of this by taking thousands of criminals out of these states.
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The president also laying out legislative priorities going forward.
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Last week, I signed an executive order to ban Wall Street and large institutional investors
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from buying up all the single-family homes in America, because we don't want America to
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As preparations ramp up for the upcoming Winter Olympics in Italy, tempers flaring over
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reports that U.S. ICE agents are heading to the Games.
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The AFP news agency reporting early Tuesday that ICE agents will assist with Olympic security
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next month, triggering backlash from Italian officials.
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Milan Mayor Giuseppe Sala reacting on local radio yesterday, quote,
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I believe they shouldn't come to Italy because they don't guarantee they're aligned with our
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Former Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte posting to X, quote,
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Obviously, ICE does not conduct immigration enforcement operations in foreign countries.
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At the Olympics, ICE's Homeland Security Investigations is supporting the U.S. Department of State's
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Diplomatic Security Service and host nation to vet and mitigate risks from transnational
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The U.S. is expected to send a record 232 athletes to the Games, the largest American
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Winter Olympic group ever, along with a high-level U.S. delegation for opening ceremonies, including
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Vice President J.D. Vance, his wife Usha Vance, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
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Former acting DHS Secretary Chad Wolf, who served under the first Trump administration, breaks
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down ICE's role in securing U.S. personnel at international events like this one.
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So ICE is made up of basically two different branches, which is the Enforcement and Removal
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The other side of the house is Homeland Security Investigations, or HSI.
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These are investigators that have law enforcement authorities and powers.
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And HSI agents will be overseas at the Olympics providing mitigation and vetting risk against
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U.S. athletes and U.S. officials and will be part of the larger security posture that
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the U.S. government will have there, and there'll be a supporting casting characters that will
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And they need security, and they need, you know, you need to assess the threats that are
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coming in on a real-time basis, vet those threats, vet the risk that's ongoing there.
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And so you need personnel on the ground to do that, and that's what HSI does.
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They are investigators and can sift through that.
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The opening ceremony is set for February 6th, with the games ending on February 22nd.
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