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Most Americans assume that when a company posts a job opening, it actually wants someone to apply. That's how the labor market is supposed to work.
But in the world of immigration sponsorship, job postings sometimes serve a very different purpose: checking a box for the government, while keeping American workers in the dark.
Under the Department of Labor's PERM process (Program Electronic Review Management), employers seeking to sponsor foreign workers for green cards must first prove they tried to hire Americans. The law requires them to place ads, review resumes and certify that no qualified U.S. worker was available before moving forward with sponsorship.
Yet most Americans have never seen these ads – because employers often place them where no one is likely to look. They thus satisfy the letter of the law while ensuring the jobs are already earmarked for someone else. That's where Jobs.Now, a U.S. worker advocacy group, stepped in. By republishing these hidden ads online, Jobs.Now gave them the visibility the law intended, visibility that many employers have quietly worked to avoid.
Instacart's heavy hand
When Jobs.Now reposted one of Instacart's PERM ads to make it visible to the public, the publicly traded San Francisco-based company didn't thank the website for the free advertising. Instead, Instacart sent a trademark complaint letter.
The letter, transmitted by a third-party enforcement firm, accused Jobs.Now of "infringing Instacart's intellectual property rights" and even suggested the group suspend their web domain. The company reserved the right to pursue monetary damages, all because an advocacy group had posted a job listing that Instacart itself was legally required to advertise.
The real issue – and what Instacart's ads expose
Why such a heavy-handed response? The answer may lie in Instacart's job advertisements and recruitment practices tied to the PERM program. Federal rules, written decades ago, force employers to place notices in old-school newspapers and state workforce sites. But the intent of the law is clear and companies must make a "good faith" effort to recruit Americans before turning to foreign workers. That means actually trying to reach U.S. applicants, not burying ads where no one will look, or setting up recruitment processes designed to avoid finding U.S. candidates.
How Instacart blocked Americans
Jobs.Now's reposting exposed the truth: Instacart's job ads were nowhere to be found on the company's career page, LinkedIn, or any platform where real applicants look for work. Instead, the posting was buried in a classified newspaper, directing candidates to mail paper resumes to "Global Mobility," a department that does not hire Americans but oversees visa processing for foreign workers.
That distinction is critical. In 2025, almost no one applies for a tech job by mailing in a paper resume. And even if an American did, his or her application would never reach a hiring manager. It would be funneled straight to the immigration team whose role is not to recruit talent, but to record why no U.S. worker was deemed "qualified."
The two-track system
The Department of Justice has already gone after companies for similar practices. Facebook paid $14 million and Apple paid $25 million in settlements for requiring mailed resumes and reserving jobs for foreign workers through the PERM process.
Like Facebook, Apple forced applicants for PERM positions to submit paper resumes by mail instead of through its online portal, and it left those jobs off its public-facing career site. Investigators found that Apple's practices weren't consistent with the way it usually hired, which was overwhelmingly through digital systems designed to attract a wide pool of candidates.
In both cases, the DOJ made clear the issue wasn't that companies were using the PERM process; that's allowed by law. The issue was that they intentionally set up a two-track system: one for normal jobs where Americans could apply easily and another for PERM jobs where the process itself made it virtually impossible for Americans to compete.
Why Instacart's response matters
The key question now is why Instacart chose to file a trademark complaint when Jobs.Now was, in effect, providing free visibility for a job posting Instacart was already legally required to advertise?
If the postings are legitimate, wider visibility should mean more qualified Americans applying. But the company's legal maneuver suggests something else: that these ads may not truly be about recruiting U.S. workers at all, but about protecting a visa pipeline while keeping the door closed to the very people the law was designed to protect.
Turning the tables on corporate abuse
At its core, the PERM system was designed to test the U.S. labor market. Sharing those job ads publicly and encouraging qualified Americans to apply isn't just lawful, it's exactly what the process requires. When companies or their attorneys try to suppress that visibility with trademark claims or intimidation tactics, they may be crossing a legal line of their own.
Federal law, under INA §1324b, makes it an unfair immigration-related employment practice to intimidate, threaten, coerce or retaliate against anyone for exercising or helping others exercise their rights under the statute. That protection extends to advocates who assist U.S. workers in seeing or applying for jobs. Trying to prevent circulation of these ads could be interpreted as obstruction of compliance evidence. And suppressing access to recruitment ads could make the labor market test fraudulent, since U.S. workers cannot reasonably find and apply.
What began as a trademark threat could end up flipping the script on Instacart. By trying to muzzle the lawful sharing of job ads, it may have invited even sharper scrutiny, not only of how the company recruits, but of how it responds when Americans shine a light on the very system meant to protect them.
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A leftist professor who promoted her pro-abortion ideology on campus, posting a sign on her Notre Dame office door to that effect, now apparently must pay $244,000 to a local student publication after she filed a failed lawsuit against it.
Word about the possible penalty for attacking the publication comes from James Bopp Jr., who founded the Bopp Law Firm that represented the Irish Rover, an independent, nonprofit, student publication at the school.
It advertises that it is "devoted to preserve the Catholic identity of Notre Dame."
It published articles about Tamara Kay, who teaches at the school, in the aftermath of the Supreme Court's ruling that overturned the faulty Roe v. Wade precedent that fabricated a federal "right" to abortion.
Kay posted a sign on her door that said, "This is a SAFE SPACE to get help and information on ALL Healthcare issues and access – confidentially with care and compassion."
Her social media account also often shared information supporting her abortion ideology, including details about "Plan C Pills," which is used to reference pills that induce abortion, the legal team explained.
The Irish Rover published two articles about her, each of which accurately reported on her pro-abortion access public statements and actions following the Roe ruling, and subsequent state law regarding abortion.
The court ruled "healthcare" referred to access to abortion services and found the reporting was accurate and lawful.
She lost her case in state court in South Bend, where it was dismissed. A state appeals court affirmed that and the state Supreme Court denied further appeal.
Now, because of a state law protecting those who exercising their right of free speech against frivolous lawsuits, the state statute calls for her to compensate the publication for its legal costs.
"Indiana's Anti-SLAPP law deters meritless cases attacking speech in connection with a public issue by allowing the accused to recoup their attorney fees from the people bringing these types of cases," explained Bopp. "It shocked me that a pro-abortion professor would bring a frivolous defamation law suit against a student-run newspaper, just to try to shut them up. My firm concentrates on defending First Amendment rights, and we were happy to defend The Irish Rover's right to free speech in this case."
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Officials in the Orange County, Florida, public school system have ordered the managers of West Orange High School to discontinue a "Witchy Wednesday" series of indoctrination videos that they had launched to students.
It was described as providing "religious instruction" on spells, magic, moon worship and other rituals.
However, Liberty Counsel's legal team raised objections, cautioning the district against making such lessons mandatory and warning that some students with sincere Christian religious beliefs would not be able to endorse the witchcraft teachings.
Further, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled just weeks ago, in Mahmoud v. Taylor, that parents have the right to opt their children out of instruction that undermines their religious beliefs.
As a result, the district acknowledged that having certain speech on the school's morning announcements could violate the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment, and it did not want anyone to feel like "outsiders."
The district's instructions were that, "We cannot constitutionally allow such a segment to continue to take place in the future."
Liberty Counsel chairman Mat Staver said, "We commend Orange County Public Schools for taking action to discontinue the 'Witchy Wednesday' video segments. Witchcraft and teaching students how to cast occultic spells have no place in government schools."
WND had reported when the dispute arose that the series was being created by students providing "religious instruction."
Liberty Counsel's letter asked for school confirmation of plans to let students and staff opt out. And confirmation that students may express their own religious perspectives in the same manner.
The organization reported the "Witchy Wednesday" episodes were aired starting Sept. 10.
"Good morning, witches and [SCHOOL MASCOT NAME]. I'm [NAME REDACTED]. Today is Wednesday, September 10th, and this is our first episode of 'Witchy Wednesday.' I am here to guide you through your magical midweek journey every Wednesday. To start, there was a new moon yesterday on September 9th, normally regarded as a blank slate and a new start. This phase invites introspection and intention setting. Simple things to honor this phase could be to write your intentions and bury them or just meditate for an energy reset and healing," the promotion of witchcraft began.
"There is a full moon coming up on September 18th where the energy is at its highest peak. Creating simple things like moon water and releasing rituals are good ways to cleanse and recharge yourself during this period. In other news, our first ever 'Witch Tip Spotlight' is a spell for enlightenment that I call 'Light of Insight.' Its purpose is all about inviting clarity, wisdom, and light into your life. You will need a white candle, paper, pen, and incense. You can burn your incense around your area of practice to clear your surrounding energy for a start.
"You write your intuition down on your paper. Fold it three times. Burn your paper into your white candle. Burn it completely and entirely to have your intention released into the universe. That itself is your 'Light of Insight' at work. You then cleanse the space around you once more to finalize your spell. That's all for today, [SCHOOL MASCOT NAME]. Have a Wicked Wednesday."
The legal team had warned the school's actions could set up some interesting arguments, as the Bible specifically undermines the "Witchy" claims.
For example, the letter explains, "The Bible warns of real spiritual beings who seek to destroy lives: 'put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places' (Ephesians 6:11-12). • The Bible states that there 'shall not be found among you anyone…who practices witchcraft… or one who conjures spells…or one who calls up the dead' and that these things are a great sin. (Deuteronomy 18:9-12a) • The Bible warns against astrology. (Jeremiah 10:2; 27:9-10; Daniel 2:1-4; 4:7; 5:7-9) • The Bible condemns worship of the sun, moon and stars. (Deuteronomy 4:19; 17:2-5; 2 Kings 21:3, 5; Zephaniah 1:5; Job 31:26-28; Jeremiah 8:1-2). • The Bible instructs people to inquire of God (Isaiah 8:19), not mediums and spiritists (Deuteronomy 18:9-14; Isaiah 44:25; Jeremiah 27:9; 2 Kings 21:6; 23:24; Ezekiel 21:21; Isaiah 19:3; 1 Samuel 28). • God warns that those who practice 'witchcraft…will not inherit the kingdom of God.' (Galatians 5:20-21; (Revelation 21:8)."
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Leftist politicians and their supporting media corporations have been unleashing inflammatory rhetoric about President Donald Trump's agenda for border security and the deportation of illegal alien criminals since before he took office.
And leftist violence against those enforcing the nation's laws, the officers of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, has been surging.
Now it's left two detainees dead, the victims of a sniper who was firing indiscriminately at an ICE facility in Dallas.
Reports have identified the shooting suspect at Joshua Jahn, 29, who was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound near the scene of Wednesday's shooting.
Authorities reported one of the bullet casings left behind in the attack was inscribed "anti-ICE."
"The shooter fired indiscriminately at the ICE building, including at a van in the sallyport where the victims were shot," a statement from the Department of Homeland Security explained.
Another detainee was injured.
Reports revealed Jahn had a record, for a felony marijuana case in Texas in 2016, for which he pleaded guilty and served probation.
No law enforcement officers were injured.
The same location had been hit with a bomb threat in August, and other shootings happened at ICE operations in Alvaredo on July 4 and a Border Patrol location in McAllen days later.
"This vile attack was motivated by hatred for ICE," charged Kristi Noem, Homeland Security secretary. "For months, we've been warning politicians and the media to tone down their rhetoric about ICE law enforcement before someone was killed.
"This shooting must serve as a wake-up call to the far-left that their rhetoric about ICE has consequences," Noem said.
In fact, on Rumble was posted a video of leftist California Gov. Gavin Newsom blasting ICE just hours earlier:
The FBI confirmed, "This morning just before 7am local time, an individual fired multiple rounds at a Dallas, Texas ICE facility, killing one, wounding several others, before taking his own life. FBI, DHS, ATF are on the ground with Dallas PD and state authorities. While the investigation is ongoing, an initial review of the evidence shows an idealogical motive behind this attack (see photo below). One of the unspent shell casings recovered was engraved with the phrase "ANTI ICE." More updates will be forthcoming. These despicable, politically motivated attacks against law enforcement are not a one-off. We are only miles from Prarieland, Texas where just two months ago an individual ambushed a separate ICE facility targeting their officers. It has to end and the FBI and our partners will lead these investigative efforts to see to it that those who target our law enforcement are pursued and brought to the fullest extent of justice. Thankfully, no law enforcement personnel were injured. Please pray for the injured and deceased."
Fox reported Jahn fired "indiscriminately" at the ICE facility and van parked adjacent.
Dallas police statements suggested that Jahn may have been living in Durant, Oklahoma, prior to his death.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said his state supports border security and deportation efforts and the shooting "will NOT slow our arrest, detention, & deportation of illegal immigrants. We will work with ICE & the Dallas Police Department to get to the bottom of the assassin's motive."
Noem chided those in leftist campaigns who demonize immigration authorities.
"Comparing ICE day in and day out to the Nazi Gestapo, the Secret Police, and slave patrols has consequences," she added. "The men and women of ICE are fathers and mothers, sons and daughters. They get up every morning to try and make our communities safer. Like everyone else, they just want to go home to their families at night."
Newsom's state actually launched a campaign to ban ICE agents from wearing masks to conceal their identities – to prevent attacks on their families.
Federal authorities said since state officials have no authority over federal officers, Newsom's campaign means little.
Activist Laura Loomer confirmed, "I did a background check on Joshua Jahn, the ICE shooter in Dallas, Texas. Joshua Jahn's profile picture from his now-wiped Facebook page per the background check results reveals ANTIFA and communist imagery. The profile photo is of an armed communist with the hammer and sickle. The text reads GLORIOUS EXPOSITION, COMRADE. He also has a previous conviction for selling Marijuana. Proof this was Leftist political violence against ICE officers.":
The link between leftists advocating for actions against ICE and the shooting, however, was noted over and over.
Accused assassin Tyler Robinson will remain in the jail's "special housing unit" after his mental health evaluation has been completed, Fox News reported. Robinson is being held on aggravated murder and other charges after allegedly gunning down Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University on Sept. 10.
Kirk died at the hands of his alleged assassin, who, by all accounts, fired a single shot at the 31-year-old. He was later pronounced dead at the hospital, and Robinson has been charged with his killing as well as a felony weapons charge, two counts of witness tampering, and another charge for committing a violent offense with a child present.
Robinson was taken to the special housing for an evaluation, and he will remain there even as the Utah County Sheriff's Office confirmed that the screening was completed. "Robinson has been seen by our medical and mental health staff," Sgt. Ray Ormond told Fox News Digital on Tuesday.
"Due to patient privacy regulations, I'm not able to [go] further into that. Robinson will stay in our special housing unit for the time being," Ormond said. There's no word on the particular results of the mental health screening that may be keeping Robinson there, and Ormond wouldn't disclose whether Robinson will stay there for good. "That's not set in stone, and his housing location may change down the road."
One of the reasons an inmate may stay in such a unit is because of concerns about his mental health or ability to get along in the general population. As the sheriff's office previously noted, Robinson was being kept there so officers could "keep an eye on him," which could suggest mental illness or other concerns.
The department further explained that a person might stay on "special watch" due to suicidal comments or ideation, violence, or other behavioral issues, and even the type of crime the inmate is accused of committing. Robinson has not made any suicidal threats that the sheriff's department is aware of, but authorities have not specified any additional reason why he's being so closely monitored.
While the public isn't being told much about his current condition, there's a good chance that his mental state will come up as part of the trial. Former federal prosecutor Neama Rahmani speculates that the authorities' decision to leave Robinson in the special housing unit "suggests that he should not be housed with the general population," which hints at mental health issues, she told Fox News Digital.
"A full mental health evaluation will be conducted by his defense team to try to negotiate a plea deal to save his life, to put on an insanity or diminished capacity defense during the guilt phase, which is challenging under Utah law, or to put on evidence of mitigation during the death penalty phase," Rahmani added. Based on what is known about Robinson thus far, making the case that he's mentally ill will not be a far leap.
According to the New York Post, Robinson had a "furry fixation" and was living with Lance Twiggs, a 22-year-old gender-confused man who was transitioning to be a woman. Robinson reportedly had an account on FurAffinity.net, which features all sorts of disturbing images, including "sexualized images of cartoon animal characters," and possibly committed the crime for political motivations.
While authorities are mum on Robinson's possible suicidal tendencies, the 22-year-old suspect was wearing a suicide prevention vest during his first court hearing on Sept. 16 via video conference, which might suggest a motive for his continued residence in the special unit, as People noted last week. A still from that hearing was shared to X, formerly Twitter, by TheBlaze Media, showing a stone-faced Robinson wearing the vest with its velcro restraitns.
Alleged Charlie Kirk assassin Tyler Robinson in his first court appearance: pic.twitter.com/MjwhCnXP1k
— TheBlaze (@theblaze) September 16, 2025
Although Robinson turned himself in to the authorities, he pleaded not guilty to the charges set by the state. The accused assassin is facing the death sentence in Utah, but as Newsweek noted, questions about Robinson's frame of mind or mental health during the alleged crime could take that option off the table.
Attorneys could assert that Robinson committed the crime while under "extreme emotional distress" as a mitigating factor. Utah law explains it as a situation where "a person acts under the influence of extreme emotional distress when he is exposed to extremely unusual and overwhelming stress that would cause the average reasonable person under the same circumstances to experience a loss of self-control and be overborne by intense feelings, such as passion, anger, distress, grief, excessive agitation, or other similar emotions."
Whatever the reasons for monitoring Robinson, there are still many questions left open about the alleged killer's motives and whether he had help in planning the attack. This was an unspeakably horrific crime committed in front of spectators that day and the millions who watched on social media, and careful steps must be taken to ensure justice is done.
President Trump is urging pregnant mothers to stop taking Tylenol, tying the common painkiller to autism, ABC News reports.
Trump shared the bombshell claim at a White House press conference where he was joined by top health officials, including Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a vaccine skeptic who had pledged to make autism's cause known by September.
Tylenol has long been considered the safest painkiller for pregnant moms to take, but Trump said mothers should avoid it unless they have a high-risk fever.
“With Tylenol, don’t take it! Don’t take it,” Trump told reporters from the Roosevelt Room of the White House. “Ideally, you don’t take it all, but if you have to, if you can’t tough it out, if there’s a problem, you’re going to end up doing it.”
The president's contentious claims have sparked vigorous pushback from the medical community and Kenvue, the company that makes Tylenol.
"Acetaminophen is the safest pain reliever option for pregnant women as needed throughout their entire pregnancy. Without it, women face dangerous choices: suffer through conditions like fever that are potentially harmful to both mom and baby or use riskier alternatives," Kenvue said in a statement.
Some studies have found an association between the active ingredient in Tylenol, acetaminophen, and autism, but no causal link has been proven.
The Food and Drug Administration will be changing the label on Tylenol to include the warning, and doctors will be advised to tell pregnant moms to limit acetaminophen use, Trump said.
The White House cited an August meta-analysis from Harvard and Mt. Sinai that found an association between prenatal Tylenol use and autism in a majority of existing studies, but the paper's authors sounded a note of caution.
"[A]s the only approved medication for pain and fever reduction during pregnancy, acetaminophen remains an important tool for pregnant patients and their physicians," co-authors Dr. Andrea Baccarelli, dean of the faculty and professor of environmental health at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, told ABC News in a statement.
"High fever can pose risks to both the mother and the fetus, including neural tube defects and preterm birth."
The FDA was also less certain than Trump, noting "a causal relationship has not been established and there are contrary studies in the scientific literature."
While targeting Tylenol, Trump also suggested that children should receive vaccines less often.
Trump had recently said that vaccines work "pure and simple," but the president introduced doubts at his press conference Monday, saying the childhood vaccine schedule should be changed.
“You have a little child, little fragile child, and you get a vat of 80 different vaccines, I guess, 80 different blends, and they pump it in. So ideally, a woman won’t take Tylenol, and on the vaccines, it would be good instead of one visit where they pump the baby, you load it up with stuff, you do it over a period of four times or five times,” Trump said.
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President Donald Trump, shortly after agreeing to a meeting with Democrat leaders in Congress about their looming threat to shut down the government by refusing to approve funding, has canceled that event.
He said he reviewed the demands from Sen. Chuck Schumer and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, the minority leaders in the Senate and House, and found them "unserious and ridiculous."
Congress must approve at least a stopgap funding mechanism or Democrats, after years of condemning shutdown threats as dangerous, are threatening to shut down the government if they don't get their way.
One of their demands is to cancel about a trillion dollars in savings for American taxpayers established by Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill Act," and lavish tax dollars are all sorts of projects, such as free healthcare services for illegal aliens in America, subsidized body mutilations for Americans who are pursuing the transgender ideology, open the nation's borders to criminals and more.
Trump said he would be happy to meet with Democrats as soon as they get serious about working to help America.
Trump said, "After reviewing the details of the unserious and ridiculous demands being made by the Minority Radical Left Democrats in return for their Votes to keep our thriving Country open, I have decided that no meeting with their Congressional Leaders could possibly be productive. They are threatening to shut down the Government of the United States unless they can have over $1 Trillion Dollars in new spending to continue free healthcare for Illegal Aliens (A monumental cost!), force Taxpayers to fund Transgender surgery for minors, have dead people on the Medicaid roles, allow Illegal Alien Criminals to steal Billions of Dollars in American Taxpayer Benefits, try to force our Country to again open our Borders to Criminals and to the World, allow men to play in women's sports, and essentially create Transgender operations for everybody."
His statement continued, "These Radical Left Views and Policies is what allowed me to win the Presidential Election, including all seven Swing States, and the Popular Vote, IN A HISTORIC LANDSLIDE. There are consequences to losing Elections but, based on their letter to me, the Democrats haven't figured that out yet. They are trying to eliminate the popular $50 Billion Dollar Rural and Vulnerable Hospital Fund, which was passed with only Republican Votes, and proudly signed into Law by ME. The Democrats in Congress seem to have totally lost their way.
"They obviously have no idea what it means to put America First or to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! All Congressional Democrats want to do is enact Radical Left Policies that nobody voted for — High Taxes, Open Borders, No Consequences for Violent Criminals, Men in Women's Sports, Taxpayer funded 'TRANSGENDER' surgery, and much more. Few people voted for what they represent, which would lead to the destruction of America. Instead, people voted for COMMON SENSE, and that's what the Republicans and your President, 'DONALD J. TRUMP,' stand for. I look forward to meeting with them if they get serious about the future of our Nation. We must keep the Government open, and legislate like true Patriots rather than hold American Citizens hostage, knowing that they want our now thriving Country closed. I'll be happy to meet with them if they agree to the Principles in this Letter. They must do their job! Otherwise, it will just be another long and brutal slog through their radicalized quicksand. To the Leaders of the Democrat Party, the ball is in your court. I look forward to meeting with you when you become realistic about the things that our Country stands for. DO THE RIGHT THING!"
Schumer and Jeffries had been scheduled to meet with Trump on Thursday with their demands for taxpayer spending.
The partial government shutdown is looming on Sept. 30.
The meeting had been set after Schumer and Jeffries sent a letter threatening a shutdown, and trying to blame Republicans for their own refusal to cooperate.
Trump's response was that the Democrats were demanding about $1 trillion in additional spending.
Schumer and Jeffries last month had demanded meetings with majority Republican leaders in Congress, but it hasn't happened yet.
The Democrats have worked to include "Republican-caused" every time they talk about a government shutdown, even though it would be minority party opposition that would effect that.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt explained if the government shuttered, it "would be the fault of the Democrats."
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One of President Donald Trump's major campaign goals was to secure the nation's borders, following years of easy access for illegal aliens including criminals and terrorists under Joe Biden's regime, and remove those illegally in America.
Americans voted for that very agenda. And so far, his work has effected the removal of about two million.
Hundreds of thousands by deportation but also about 1.6 million who have left voluntarily.
The White House earlier discussed how many of those arrested for being in the country illegally also had criminal convictions, or pending criminal charges.
Now a report at the Washington Examiner said more than two million illegal aliens have left the U.S. in the days since Trump took over the White House.
"The Department of Homeland Security announced Tuesday morning that more than 400,000 illegal immigrants had been deported by Immigration and Customs Enforcement since late January," the report said. "An additional 1.6 million people chose to leave the U.S. rather than face arrest, detention, and deportation by the government."
Tricia McLaughlin, a spokeswoman for the DHS said, "The numbers don't lie: 2 million illegal aliens have been removed or self-deported in just 250 days — proving that President Trump's policies and Secretary Noem's leadership are working and making American communities safe."
She said the messaging from the Trump White House, its enforcement of border laws, its agenda to pursue illegal alien criminals and much more, all have been pushing those in the country illegally to leave.
The report continued, "The Washington Examiner reported in mid-September that immigration policy analysts anticipate that the Trump administration's deportation operations are still in their infancy as it hires 10,000 more deportation officers and expands immigrant detention sites nationwide."
DHS said on Tuesday, "DHS is just getting started thanks to President Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill, which is surging hiring efforts and turbocharging the arrests and deportations of illegal aliens."
One of the bigger obstacles the Trump national security agenda has faced has been resistance from so-called "sanctuary" locations, where cities or states insist on concealing and protecting illegal aliens from federal law enforcement efforts.
In California, officials even went so far as to impose a ban on federal officers wearing masks, which they have done to protect their identities and their families from attacks when they are doxed by activists.
Federal officials have responded that the so-called requirement will have no impact on the actions of federal officers. Entry level judges in the federal court system also repeatedly have blocked Trump's security plans, and many of those rulings have been overturned on appeal.
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Google has confirmed in a letter to Congress that Joe Biden demanded censorship of COVID and elections information on YouTube that conflicted with his ideological agenda at the time.
"It is unacceptable and wrong when any government, including the Biden administration, attempts to dictate how the company moderates content, and the company has consistently fought against those efforts on First Amendment grounds," Google's lawyer said in a letter to Congress.
The letter was the result of oversight work by Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio.
His announcement said the company admitted kicking creators off YouTube due to "political speech violations on topics such as COVID-19 and elections" and they are now being allowed to return if they choose.
Jordan's statement confirmed Google admitted that Biden "pressured Google to censor Americans and remove content that did not violate YouTube's policies" and that pressure was "unacceptable and wrong."
The fights over speech triggered by Biden's censorship agendas included his attempt to suppress many true statement statements about COVID, that it came out of Chinese lab experimenting on how to make bat viruses more dangerous, and that he demanded Americans take the experimental shots for the virus.
Those shots since have proven to be capable of causing serious injury to recipients, including death.
He also demanded suppression of comments about the failures of the American election system in the 2020 presidential vote that gave him the White House. Since then the public has learned that there were two major outside and undue influences on that election, one being the handout by Mark Zuckerberg of some $400 million to local election officials who often used it to recruit Democrat votes. Never before in American elections had such an amount of private money been used to influence the vote.
Further was the decision by the FBI to interfere in the vote, when it advised major news corporations to suppress information about Biden family scandals revealed in a laptop computer abandoned by Hunter Biden. The FBI falsely claimed it was Russia disinformation at a time the bureau knew the descriptions were factual.
Jordan confirmed that Google also promised never again to use third-party "fact-checkers," an industry that arose to spread leftist disinformation as true during COVID and the election.
Jordan's investigation of Google already has spanned years.
The letter to Jordan was from Daniel Donovan, a lawyer for Google.
In it, he claimed Google "is committed to doing its part to continue to keep the digital ecosystem safe, reliable and open to free expression."
It claims a bias "towards a particular viewpoint is not in line with the company's values…"
During COVID, he wrote, "Senior Biden administration officials, including White House officials, conducted repeated and sustained outreach to Alphabet and pressed the company regarding certain user-generated content related to the COVID-19 pandemic that did not violate its policies. While the company continued to develop and enforce its policies independently, Biden administration officials continue to press the company to remove non-violative user-generated content."
Biden, he said, "created a political atmosphere that sought to influence the actions of platforms based on their concerns regarding misinformation."
He claimed YouTube's current policy "allows a wide range of content regarding COVID-19 and elections."
Further, it has "sunsetted a [previous] policy to allow for discussion of possible widespread fraud, errors, or glitches occurring in the 2020 and other past U.S. presidential elections."
It is providing a way "for all creators to rejoin the platform if the company terminated their channels for repeated violations of COVID-19 and elections integrity policies that are no longer in effect."
Google also warned against Europe's Digital Services Act and Digital Markets Act as attempts to threaten "freedom of expression within and outside of the European Union … ."
The Department of Homeland Security will not comply with a newly enacted California law that bans federal agents from wearing masks while conducting their operations, The Hill reported. A social media post from the DHS on Monday emphatically stated that the DHS "will NOT comply with Gavin Newsom’s unconstitutional mask ban."
President Donald Trump's administration has begun conducting raids and deporting illegal immigrants just as he'd promised during the 2024 presidential campaign. In California, 27% of residents are foreign-born, a fact which likely spurs on Newsom's opposition as he makes a play for the White House in 2028.
On Saturday, Newsom signed the first-of-its-kind legislation banning masks for agents, including DHS and Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents carrying out immigration enforcement and other operations. The leftist governor charges that these agents are "hidden from accountability" and that masks deny "transparency" and block "oversight" by the public.
"That’s Trump’s America, but that’s not the America we’ve grown up in," Newsom said during a news conference at a California high school while announcing the legislation. "And so we are pushing back," the governor promised.
According to the Department of Homeland Security, 5,000 illegal immigrants were arrested from June to August in the city of Los Angeles alone. Rather than focusing on the widespread nature of the problem and the ways the federal government is addressing it, Newsom is concerned about what the people who bring these criminals to justice are wearing on their faces.
Meanwhile, ICE agents have been forced to wear masks because of the increased threats against them. "At a time that ICE law enforcement faces a 1,000% increase in assaults and their family members are being doxxed and targeted, the sitting Governor of California signed unconstitutional legislation that strips law enforcement of protections in a disgusting, diabolical fundraising and PR stunt," the DHS, led by Secretary Kristi Noem, said in a statement on X, formerly Twitter.
To be clear: We will NOT comply with Gavin Newsom’s unconstitutional mask ban.
At a time that ICE law enforcement faces a 1,000% increase in assaults and their family members are being doxxed and targeted, the sitting Governor of California signed unconstitutional legislation… pic.twitter.com/8Me4OOP8t8
— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) September 22, 2025
The video accompanying the post featured a Fox News interview about the Trump administration's response to the issue. It began with Newsom and his taunting message after signing the legislation. "To ICE: unmask. What are you afraid of?" Newsom said in his remarks about the law.
Assistant DHS Secretary Tricia McLaughlin then explained that the situation has become dire due to the leftists' crusade against immigration enforcement. "Not only are they facing a 1000% increase in assaults against them, largely because of the rhetoric of these politicians likening them to the Gestapo or Nazis. This law, in fact, was called the No Secret Police [Act]." McLaughlin added.
McLaughlin believes Newsom is "giving permission" for people to attack agents with such rhetoric, and the new law equates the actions of government agencies with America's enemy in World War II. She also pointed out that just before announcing the legislation, Newsom's social media "issued a threatening post against Secretary Noem," she shared.
"It seemed very menacing and I think it was pretty disturbing to see," McLaughlin said about the post to X. Newsom's official press office issued the post stating, "Kristi Noem is going to have a bad day today. You’re welcome, America."
According to Fox News, this prompted a formal threat response from the U.S. Secret Service. Agency spokesman Anthony Guglielmi shared that the Department of Justice referred the matter to his agency, but that he was unable to comment on "specific protective intelligence matters" such as this.
"However, the Secret Service must vigorously investigate any situation or individual, regardless of position or status, that could pose or be perceived as posing a threat to any of our protectees," Guglielmi said. "Especially in a politically charged climate, such as this," he added. This threatening language from a high-profile politician came a little more than a week after conservative pundit and Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk was shot to death, which has put many on edge about political violence.
Newsom's law demonstrates a severe disregard for the safety of government officials tasked with carrying out law enforcement operations. What makes it worse is his rhetoric surrounding it that only adds to the heightened temperature of political discourse right now, and Newsom seems unable or unwilling to see the potential risks of that.