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Biden-Released Illegal Alien Accused of Drugging, Raping Woman in Miami

An illegal alien, released into the United States by former President Joe Biden’s administration, is accused of drugging and raping a woman in Miami, Florida.

Yusel Keoma Perez-Leyva, an illegal alien from Cuba, has been arrested in Miami and charged with sexual battery while a victim was physically incapacitated, and kidnapping.

According to police, on June 18, Perez-Leyva allegedly drugged a woman following a night of clubbing, brought her to his apartment, and raped her. Police said surveillance footage shows Perez-Leyva carrying the woman, as she was inebriated, to his apartment.

At the time of the assault, Perez-Leyva was working as an Uber driver, though the incident did not occur in the middle of a ride-share.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has lodged a detainer against Perez-Leyva, asking local police not to release him  until federal agents can take him into custody.

“This illegal alien from Cuba is charged with raping and kidnapping a woman in Miami,” the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Lauren Bis said:

This sexual predator was released into our country by the Biden Administration. ICE has lodged a detainer against him, and because Florida cooperates with ICE, he will be turned over to ICE custody and never released into American communities again.

Perez-Leyva first illegally crossed the U.S.-Mexico border into Arizona in 2021. He was subsequently released into the U.S. interior as a result of Biden and then-DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas’s expansive catch and release policy.

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DHS Lawyers Praise SCOTUS Rulings as ‘Victories for the Rule of Law, Common Sense’

Officials at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) are praising decisions issued by the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) on Thursday, all of which make it easier to enforce federal immigration law.

As Breitbart News reported, SCOTUS ruled 6-3 in Mullin v. Al Otro Lado, clarifying that a migrant who has not physically set foot into the U.S. is not entitled to apply for asylum and does not have to be inspected by an immigration officer.

Similarly, SCOTUS ruled 6-3 in Mullin v. Doe that President Donald Trump’s administration can end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for hundreds of thousands of Haitians and Syrians living in the U.S. — making them deportable.

And, in a third case, SCOTUS ruled 6-3 in Blanche v. Muk Choi Lau, which will make it easier for DHS officials to deport green card-holders who have been convicted of crimes in the U.S.

DHS General Counsel James Percival said the rulings reinforce that the nation’s borders are critical to its sovereignty.

“These three rulings are all victories for the rule of law and common sense,” Percival said:

This includes barring aliens from applying for asylum if they haven’t set foot in the United States, making it easier to remove lawful permanent residents who commit a crime, and reaffirming that TPS was always supposed to be temporary and can be cancelled at the appropriate time. Thanks to these decisions, we now have several more important tools to continue securing our borders. [Emphasis added]

Meanwhile, Democrats have panicked over the rulings. The Congressional Hispanic Caucus, for instance, claimed SCOTUS is “enabling the Trump administration’s worst anti-immigrant policies, and in the process dealing our communities and our economy an undue blow.”

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California-Based Biden Judge Issues Nationwide Block on ICE’s Policy of Arresting Illegals at Courthouses

A federal judge on Tuesday issued a nationwide block on ICE’s policy of arresting illegal aliens at courthouses.

California-based US District Judge Casey Pitts, a Biden appointee, ruled that ICE cannot detain illegal aliens at immigration courts.

The Supreme Court previously ruled that federal district courts lack the statutory authority to issue nationwide injunctions.

However, Judge Pitts says he was able to issue a nationwide injunction in this case because the plaintiffs satisfied the requirements for class certification.

In January 2025, President Trump signed an executive order called “Protecting the American People Against Invasion.”

“It is the policy of the United States to faithfully execute the immigration laws against all inadmissible and removable aliens, particularly those aliens who threaten the safety or security of the American people. Further, it is the policy of the United States to achieve the total and efficient enforcement of those laws, including through lawful incentives and detention capabilities,” Trump said in his executive order.

Judge Pitts vacated the Trump Administration’s policy targeting illegal aliens at courthouses.

“For 80 years, Congress has commanded federal agencies to think before they act,” Judge Pitts wrote in a 70-page opinion. “That instruction—codified in the Administrative Procedures Act—does not require an agency to make the choice that a reviewing court might deem preferable.”

“Because the record before the Court demonstrates that ICE and EOIR failed to provide reasoned explanations for their actions, the Court concludes that each of the challenged policies is arbitrary and capricious in contravention of the APA,” the judge said.

This is the second time Judge Pitts has blocked the Trump Administration from making arrests at immigration courthouses.

Earlier this year, Judge Pitts blocked ICE from making arrests in his district in the Northern District of California.

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ICE Says 51 People Died in Custody Under Trump. Experts Say That’s an Undercount.

amuka Artmeladze, a 43-year-old Georgian national, was found dead on June 4, 2026, in federal immigration custody. Though his name did not appear in Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE’s) online death records by the time this article was published, Artmeladze was reported as the 50th person to die in ICE custody since President Donald Trump returned to office. One of two recent deaths at a notorious immigration prison in Louisiana, Artmeladze’s death is one of the latest signs that the president’s mass deportation campaign has predictably created a human rights crisis inside a sprawling system of immigration jails and camps.

At least 51 people have died while in ICE custody since Trump began his second term, federal records show. At least 19 deaths occurred between January 1 and June 4, 2026, an average of about one death every eight days over the first six months of this year.

Additionally, at least two disabled people died this year from exposure shortly after being released by immigration officials in freezing winter weather, including a 31-year-old Haitian woman who died after being left at a Pittsburgh bus stop for 30 hours in early March. While medical examiners determined both deaths to be homicides, ICE does not include them in its official tally, and experts say the 51 deaths reported since January 2025 could be an undercount.

For months, protesters, federal inspectors, and Democrats in Congress have sounded the alarm about the dangerous conditions of confinement faced by more than 68,000 adults and children swept up in Trump’s crackdown. While ICE claims to provide proper care for detainees, oversight data shows a clear pattern of abuse, medical neglect, and preventable deaths inside its jails and camps. Critics say the unprecedented number of deaths is the predictable result of Trump administration policy, including fighting in court to incarcerate immigrants for as long as possible while aggressively expanding privately run jails and prison camps.

“Using the windfall in funding from Congressional Republicans, they are inflicting as much pain as possible no matter the cost,” said Vanessa Cárdenas, executive director of the immigrant rights group America’s Voice, in a statement on June 22.

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Venezuelan Illegal Alien Former Illinois School Teacher Arrested by ICE After Driving Tren de Aragua Gangsters to Chicago House Party Massacre That Killed Three and Wounded Five

A 32-year-old Venezuelan illegal immigrant who was teaching in an Illinois classroom has been arrested by ICE for allegedly acting as the driver and getaway accomplice for two Tren de Aragua (TDA) gang members during a brutal December 2024 mass shooting in Chicago that left three people dead and five others wounded.

Giovanna Mercedes Moreno Occhipinti, a Venezuelan national with dual Italian citizenship, entered the United States in October 2021 under the Visa Waiver Program but overstayed her visa.

She was taken into ICE custody on May 13, 2026, and is currently being held at the Grayson County Detention Center in Leitchfield, Kentucky, pending removal from the country, Fox News reported.

According to the Department of Homeland Security, Occhipinti drove two alleged TDA gang members, Ricardo Granadillo Padilla and Edward Martinez Cermeno, to a house party in Chicago’s Gage Park neighborhood on December 2, 2024.

The gunmen opened fire on the crowd. Three people were killed and five were wounded. Federal authorities say she then helped the shooters flee the scene of the slaughter.

Chicago Police arrested Occhipinti just three days later, on December 5, 2024, after finding multiple weapons in her vehicle. But because Chicago and Illinois are militant sanctuary jurisdictions, she was released without ICE ever being notified, despite the obvious public safety threat tied to a triple homicide.

The two actual shooters were eventually deported. One had even been released from ICE custody earlier by a federal judge due to prosecutorial issues. Occhipinti remained free in the community and was reportedly working as a teacher at a school in the Chicago suburb of Elgin until HSI agents finally tracked her down months later.

Illinois officials have refused to disclose to DHS which school employed her.

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Absurd! Stanford Education Initiative Funds AI ‘Labor Equity’ Project for Illegals

In the latest absurd left-wing Globalist initiative, Campus Reform is reporting “The Stanford University Graduate School of Education’s ‘Equity in Learning Initiative’ has awarded 11 seed grants for 2026, including one dedicated to researching how Artificial Intelligence can achieve ‘labor equity’ for ‘undocumented migrant adults.”

In other words, DEI is back at Stanford and is helping illegal aliens who shouldn’t be in America.

“The grants appear under the heading of ‘Tequity in Learning’—a combination of ‘technology’ and ‘equity’—on the Stanford Accelerator for Learning’s website. The Stanford Accelerator for Learning is housed under the Graduate School of Education.”

Among these outrageous open borders pro-illegal projects are “Toward a Black Geographic Approach to Education Research: A Participatory Mapping Project” and “An Integrated AI/Physical Platform to Dismantle Inequities in Biotechnology Education.”

This is illegal according to Federal executive orders, yet somehow these universities remain committed to illegal aliens and DEI.

“Goldwater Institute reports have shown that faculty in schools of education often pursue politicized ‘scholarship’ that focuses on indoctrinating students in ‘diversity, equity, and inclusion’ (DEI) rather than exploring how to better teach math and reading,” according to a conservative watchdog group.

With reading scores at pathetic levels, one would hope schools would focus on basic academics, yet the evidence shows DEI and illegal alien accommodations remain a priority for WOKE educators.

“The university eliminated a program to assist “underrepresented” groups in higher education in February. The fellowship had previously funded over 200 doctoral students who “contribute[d] to the diversity of their field or degree program.”

The bottom line is, if one is looking for a quality education, not brainwashing or being fed leftist talking points, the university is not for you. Sad but true.

Illegals must be deported, not elevated and given preferential treatment.

The university should not be a safe space for lawbreakers.

Stanford has a reputation for leaning conservative, apparently this is incorrect.

The academy must comply with federal law and not be a sanctuary space for illegal aliens or foreign criminals.

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Schumer Admits the Democrats have Embedded 25 Million Illegitimate Voters in US Voter Rolls

HOLY CRAP. Sen. Chuck Schumer just sounded the alarm that the SAVE America Act will REMOVE “25 MILLION PEOPLE” from the voter rolls

Keep in mind, the bill is for voter ID and proof of citizenship

If true, that means 25 MILLION people are illegals or not eligible citizens without ID!

Chuck is either making crap up or HE KNOWS THERE ARE 25 MILLION ILLEGALS VOTING

Which is it, Chuck? PASS THE SAVE AMERICA ACT!

The worst state may be California, where up to 1 in five voters are likely invalid voters.

As previously noted and consistent with Schumer’s remarks, the biggest reason for not certifying California’s election results has to do with voter rolls.  One study estimated that 3.8 million records in California’s voter rolls are non-citizens.  With 22.6 million registered voters in the state, this is 17% of registered voters.

This estimate was determined by comparing individuals registered in the voter rolls that were born outside the US with the number of individuals who legitimately gained US citizenship.  The number of foreign-born voters registered in recent years far exceeds the number of naturalized citizens.  The cause of this difference is that in California, individuals who apply for drivers licenses are automatically added to the voter rolls (Motor Voter).  Many of these individuals are not US citizens.  This and the barriers to verifying citizenship have led to millions on the voter rolls who aren’t US citizens.

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Biden Migrant Policy Has Exacerbated Affordability Crisis In Housing — Contributing To 30% Price Hikes In Major American Cities

A recent working paper released by two economists working for the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas has suggested that illegal migration over the Biden years contributed to as much as a 20% growth in recent years and a whopping 30% increase in housing prices over the last five years.

The paper, titled “The Impacts of Unauthorized Immigration on U.S. Labor and Housing Markets: New Evidence from Administrative Microdata,” provides strong evidence to support the claim that illegal migration has not only worsened an affordability crisis in America, but is one of its key drivers.

For years, America has faced a chronic shortage of housing, a problem that is most acute in metropolitan areas where the number of new homes being built has severely lagged the skyrocketing demand.

In the years Biden occupied the Oval Office, hordes of illegals – to the tune of, at least, 15 million – entered the homeland.  This placed severe pressure on an already tight and inelastic housing market.

The paper concluded that every 1% addition of illegal aliens to a local area’s initial employment raised rents in that area by 1.4%, while increasing housing prices by 2.2%.

In certain key metro areas, such as Houston, Miami, New York, and Minneapolis, where the concentration of illegal migrant inflows was disproportionate to the national average, those housing markets would experience an especially pronounced uptick.

The result of this distressing trend was that ordinary Americans, particularly new homebuyers and young people, were literally being squeezed out of housing altogether because of the seismic pressures introduced by illegal aliens.

In past generations, Americans would only have to compete among themselves for housing.  Housing followed a typical supply and demand relationship – where greater demand was often manageable because new housing could be easily built, without encumbering supply chains too much.

In recent years, that logic has been totally upended.  First, loose monetary policy has expanded the money supply.  The effect of quantitative easing has driven up housing prices far beyond the demand.

The inflation this caused has been exacerbated further by a restricted housing supply, which has been slow to rebound since the COVID-19 pandemic devastated supply chains nationwide.

This in turn further worsened a problem that had been ongoing for years due to burdensome regulations, red-tape, and excess bureaucracy in the housing market.

The effect of opening America’s borders and letting in the third world during an already unmanageable housing crisis was like adding gasoline to the fire.

The market effects have been catastrophic: new home buyers have been potentially delayed from purchasing their first home by decades.  Many have been forced out of the market entirely.

The problems arising from illegal aliens do not just stop at the supply and demand curve: more people cause more strains on local infrastructure, resulting in setbacks and unintended deterioration of said supply.

Local and state governments, rather than allocating limited resources to build new housing, must now reallocate precious time, money, and manpower to improving the infrastructure already available.

This has the double effect of reducing the resources available for new housing while contributing more delays to a market grossly in short supply already.

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FRAUD CRACKDOWN: ICE Arrests 8 Illegal Aliens Using Stolen Social Security Numbers While Working at Kentucky Window Supply Business

ICE arrested 13 illegal aliens in Paducah, Kentucky, and discovered that eight of them were using stolen Social Security numbers while working at a window supply business.

“This investigation demonstrates our commitment to upholding the integrity of the nation’s employment and immigration systems,” said HSI Nashville acting Special Agent in Charge Dennis M. Fetting.

“By uncovering and addressing the fraudulent use, our team has sent a clear message that those who attempt to circumvent federal law will be held accountable. This case underscores the importance of coordinated enforcement and collaboration in safeguarding American workplaces by combating fraud in all forms,” he said.

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ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations and its federal partners arrested 13 illegal aliens during an operation that uncovered fraudulent use of Social Security numbers to work at a window supply business in Paducah.

Eight of the illegal aliens have been indicted for using the stolen Social Security numbers. Those not charged criminally will be held in ICE custody pending removal proceedings and potential deportation.

The HSI Bowling Green investigation revealed that, between June 2021 and August 2025, eight illegal aliens used Social Security numbers belonging to U.S. citizens to complete employment eligibility verification forms and secure jobs.

The Form I-9, required by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, is used to confirm the identity and work authorization of employees.

This scheme resulted in unauthorized employment and the misuse of personal information.

“These are not victimless crimes,” ICE adds. “Using fraudulent social security numbers to take jobs from American citizens hurts our communities and American workers,” said ICE Louisville acting Assistant Field Office Director Luis Aguirre. “Using fraudulent social security numbers to take jobs from American citizens hurts our communities and American workers. I am so proud of our officers and partners who work tirelessly to enforce our immigration laws.”

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Former Judge’s ICE Obstruction Conviction Upheld

A federal judge in Milwaukee refused Tuesday to throw out former Wisconsin Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan’s felony obstruction conviction, clearing the way to sentencing in a case that became an early flash point in the Trump administration’s courthouse immigration arrests.

U.S. District Judge Lynn Adelman denied Dugan’s motion for reconsideration in a 32-page order, ruling that her conduct on April 18, 2025, when she led Eduardo Flores-Ruiz, a Mexican national, out a private jury door while federal immigration agents waited in the corridor, obstructed a “pending proceeding” within the meaning of 18 U.S.C. Section 1505.

Adelman, who was appointed by former President Bill Clinton, did not reset a sentencing date.

Dugan’s lawyers had pressed Adelman to reconsider after the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals split 2-1 in April to vacate a conviction in United States v. Hernandez, holding that Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s execution of an already-issued removal order did not count as a “pending proceeding” under the statute.

Dugan’s legal team called Tuesday’s decision “wrong.”

Adelman, however, drew a sharp factual line.

In Hernandez, ICE was finishing the job after another agency had ordered removal.

Here, Adelman wrote that ICE was still investigating, securing probable cause, and seeking to arrest Flores-Ruiz before any removal order had been reinstated.

“This case did not involve some random encounter on the street,” Adelman said in the order. “It was a targeted operation, conducted pursuant to agency procedures, including the issuance of an arrest warrant for a specific person, Eduardo Flores-Ruiz.”

The judge also rejected the defense’s broader claim that ICE arrests are indistinguishable from routine police work.

“Unlike, say, the FBI, ICE can issue its own warrants and adjudicate and effectuate a removal, as it did with Flores-Ruiz, without the involvement of a court,” Adelman wrote. “This makes a difference under section 1505.”

A jury convicted Dugan, 67, on Dec. 19 of the obstruction felony and acquitted her of a misdemeanor concealment charge.

She resigned from the Milwaukee County Circuit Court two weeks later, after nine years on the bench, amid impeachment threats from Republican state lawmakers.

She faces up to five years in prison, though federal guidelines typically call for probation for first-time, nonviolent offenders.

Flores-Ruiz pleaded guilty to illegal reentry and was deported on Nov. 13, 2025.

The case is widely expected to reach the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals after sentencing.

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