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REPORT: House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries is Privately Telling Democrats to Stop the Trips to El Salvador

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries has apparently figured out how bad it looks for members of his party to travel to El Salvador to advocate for illegals who have been deported by the Trump administration. He is quietly telling other Democrats to knock off the trips.

This week it was revealed that four of the Democrats who traveled to El Salvador stayed at a luxury resort. The optics of that could not be worse.

This entire affair has caused millions of Americans to wonder why Democrats would go to such lengths for people who are not even American citizens.

FOX News reports:

Jeffries distances himself from Democrat trips to El Salvador as border security debate splits party: report

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries is privately signaling to fellow Democrats that it’s time to hit pause on trips to El Salvador aimed at spotlighting the deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a move reflecting growing internal tensions over how the party is handling border security and immigration enforcement optics in the 2026 cycle.

Though Jeffries has publicly said Democrats are committed to securing Abrego Garcia’s return from a notorious Salvadoran prison, sources told The Bulwark that the New York Democrat has discouraged more lawmakers from traveling to the country.

One senior House staffer described the leadership’s position bluntly: “They want to let the El Salvador stuff slow down.”

“This is patently false, and thinly sourced innuendo,” said Jeffries staffer Christie Stephenson. “When Leader Jeffries says ‘more is more’ pushback on this lawless administration, he means it. As Leader Jeffries has repeatedly said, House Democrats will never stop fighting for the release of Mr. Abrego Garcia.”

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Court Documents Reveal Further Criminal Activity Of Would-Be Trump Assassin…

Recently unsealed court documents have revealed that Ryan Routh, the guy who tried to assassinate President Trump at his own golf course, was trying to smuggle Afghans into the US over the southern border.

The documents contain texts sent by Routh to a human smuggler known as “Ramiro” in Mexico, with the Department of Justice alleging that the communications reveal Routh’s involvement in efforts to transport an Afghan family from Amecameca, a city south of Mexico City, to Eagle Pass, Texas. 

In the WhatsApp messages, Routh wrote “This is a humanitarian mission dude, I can pay 500 or 1000 to drive them to Eagle Pass; this family needs help.”

As reported by Headline USA’s Ken Silva, the trafficker demanded more money to facilitate the crime, reasoning that the family’s complete lack of legal documents would make it much more difficult.

The smuggler also suggested that police bribes would be necessary and quoted a fee of $1,800 per person. 

Routh replied, “That is way too expensive just to take them to the border. It is like a one day drive.”

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Judge rules Trump use of Alien Enemies Act for gangs is ‘unlawful’ 

A federal district judge ruled Thursday that the Alien Enemies Act (AEA) does not permit President Trump to swiftly deport alleged Venezuelan gang members to a prison in El Salvador, extending a block on the law being used against migrants detained in South Texas. 

U.S. District Judge Fernando Rodriguez Jr., a Trump appointee, said the rarely used law can only be invoked when an “organized, armed force” is entering the United States, rejecting the president’s claims that he can use it against alleged members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua (TdA).

The ruling from Rodriguez offered a historical deep dive into the rarely used statute — used just three times prior in U.S. history, and all during times of war — while parsing terms central to igniting the power. 

Rodriguez determined Trump’s efforts to use the law to deport alleged gang members strayed from the strict war powers, writing that Trump’s invocation “exceeds the scope of the statute and, as a result, is unlawful.”

“The Proclamation makes no reference to and in no manner suggests that a threat exists of an organized, armed group of individuals entering the United States at the direction of Venezuela to conquer the country or assume control over a portion of the nation. Thus, the Proclamation’s language cannot be read as describing conduct that falls within the meaning of ‘invasion’ for purposes of the AEA,” he wrote. 

“While the Proclamation references that TdA members have harmed lives in the United States and engage in crime, the Proclamation does not suggest that they have done so through an organized armed attack, or that Venezuela has threatened or attempted such an attack through TdA members. As a result, the Proclamation also falls short of describing a ‘predatory incursion.’” 

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Second wife abuse report emerges against deported El Salvadoran: ‘ Me and my kids are afraid now’

The wife of recently deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia told a court in 2020 that while the couple lived in Maryland she faced physical and verbal abuse from her husband on multiple occasions, the earliest known petition for protection from domestic violence filed against the illegal immigrant shows. 

The complaint was followed by a second petition, in 2021, by wife Jennifer Vasquez against her husband for alleged domestic abuse. 

Abrego Garcia, an illegal immigrant from El Salvador with suspected gang ties, is now at the center of an intense court battle that could have wide-ranging impacts on President Donald Trump’s signature campaign issue and promise to voters: mass deportations of illegal immigrants that have crossed the border in record numbers in recent years. 

The detailed petition reviewed by Just the News is the latest piece in the growing body of evidence suggesting Abrego Garcia wasn’t the peaceful, law-abiding father “from Maryland,” as his wife and lawyers have claimed in the news media during the court battle to bring him home.

Vasquez, who recently said her deported husband is a “loving partner,” claimed in the August 2020 filing that during one incident Abrego Garcia locked their children in a basement room, slapped her, and broke her cellphone in anger when a police officer showed up at their residence.

“This is not the 1st time, it been [sic] a couple of occasion [sic] he takes my phone, and car [illegible] left without be able to call anyone,” Vasquez wrote in her petition. 

She also claimed that it was not the first time that Abrego Garcia physically abused her. “I have photos of all the bruises his [sic] left on my body,” she wrote. 

“In my house, his [sic] broken TV’s, my son’s tablet, my car windshield, phones, walls. Me and my kids are afraid now. His [sic] kicked me, bashed me, slapped me in the face,” Vasquez continued. 

Even more concerning, Vasquez claimed that her husband also suggested that he would face no consequences if he killed her. 

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Kilmar Abrego Garcia bragged he could kill his wife and get away with it, she claimed in newly unearthed protective order request

Alleged MS-13 member Kilmar Abrego Garcia once boasted he could kill his wife and “no one could do anything to him,” according to a request for a motion for a protective order she filed in 2020.

“I also have a [recording] that [he] told my ex-mother-in-law that even if he kills me no one can do anything to him,” Jennifer Vasquez Sura, wrote in the document she filed with the District Court of Maryland for Prince George’s County on Aug. 3, 2020.

The newly surfaced document preceded a 2021 protective order request she filed against her husband. In that document she alleged he had punched, scratched and grabbed her — with some of the alleged abuse so severe, she was left with bruises and bleeding.

The 2020 request for a protective order details a fight the couple allegedly had, with Sura alleging that Abrego Garcia took her phone and demanded her car keys before flying into a rage when she refused. She said she went upstairs to cook breakfast for the kids but Abrego Garcia shut off the stove before locking the children in their bedroom, according to the document.

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President Trump Opens the Door to Suspending Habeas Corpus, an Aggressive Move Used by Three Previous Presidents, to Conduct Mass Deportations of Illegals

As The Gateway Pundit’s Jordan Conradson reported, President Trump and his team held a cabinet meeting Wednesday. Team Trump spent a good portion of the meeting touting the president’s impressive record on issues ranging from immigration to the economy.

Liberal reporters present at the meeting responded by peppering the Trump Administration with several silly questions, including about MS-13 gangster Kilmar Abrego Garcia. But an actual journalist stepped up and asked a question concerning activist judges outrageously continuing to handcuff Trump’s executive powers, particularly on deporting illegals.

The reporter cited the rampant abuse of injunctions by radical-left judges to sabotage Trump’s immigration policies and inquired whether the president has considered alternative paths to outwitting these judges.

“Have you spoken to your chief about ways to mitigate this and continue to deliver for the American people?” the reporter asked.

Trump responded by floating an idea that’s been previously used by presidents Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt: suspending the writ of habeas corpus.

“There are some very strong ways to mitigate it (the injunctions),” Trump replied. “One way that’s been used by three very highly respected Presidents, but we hope we don’t have to go that route.”

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Shouting Match Erupts on CNN After Shermichael Singleton Shuts Down Ana Navarro’s Identity Lecture Over Trump’s Immigration Policies — Abby Phillips Forced to Cut to Commercial

Chaos broke out live on CNN, forcing anchor Abby Phillip to cut to commercial after Ana Navarro and Republican strategist Shermichael Singleton exploded into a full-blown racial shouting match on live television.

What began as a heated debate quickly descended into a racialized free-for-all when Singleton dared to challenge Navarro’s virtue-signaling tirade about illegal immigrants.

The sparks began flying during a segment discussing deportations under Trump’s administration when Scott Jennings slammed the Biden administration for “ten years of neglect and letting people walk into here without any process at all.”

Ana Navarro, a notoriously unhinged leftist commentator known for her shrill appearances on The View, jumped in to defend illegal immigration, claiming many migrants “came in with parole” and pivoting to emotional anecdotes about GOP Senator Marco Rubio’s grandfather.

But the real fire ignited when Shermichael Singleton, one of the few honest voices occasionally allowed on CNN, pushed back hard.

“We are a sovereign nation,” Singleton said. “You cannot just come into our country illegally whenever the heck you want… we can’t do it to any other country on the face of this Earth.”

Things escalated when Navarro tried to compare today’s illegal immigrants to African Americans brought to the U.S. in chains — an outrageous and offensive equivalence that Singleton quickly dismantled.

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RFK Jr. Drops Bombshell — Accuses Biden’s HHS of Being COMPLICIT in Child Trafficking Scheme

Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has accused Joe Biden’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) of being actively complicit in one of the most disturbing scandals in American history — the trafficking of vulnerable migrant children for sex, labor, and slavery.

The explosive accusation came as President Donald Trump marked the 100th day of his second term with a high-level Cabinet meeting that addressed the crisis head-on.

“We have ended HHS as the role as the factor, the principle factor in this country for child trafficking,” Kennedy said.

“During the Biden administration, HHS became a collaborator in child trafficking — for sex and for slavery. We have ended that. We’re now very aggressively going out and trying to find these children — the 300,000 children that were lost by the Biden administration.”

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US Makes First Prosecutions of Illegal Immigrants for Entering Military Zone at Border

The United States has begun prosecuting illegal immigrants for allegedly crossing into a restricted military zone along the U.S.–Mexico border, according to court filings filed on April 28.

Some 28 illegal immigrants have been charged with illegal entry and “violations of security regulations” for entering a “restricted and controlled” New Mexico national defense area, according to the court filings.

The newly created military zone includes the Roosevelt Reservation, a 60-foot-wide corridor owned by the federal government running along the border in California, Arizona, and New Mexico.

The Interior Department transferred control of nearly 110,000 acres of federal land along the border to the Army on April 15, granting the military control of the border zone for three years.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth warned last week that any unauthorized attempt to enter the national defense area, formerly known as the Fort Huachuca annex zone, would lead to an arrest.

“Any illegal attempting to enter that zone is entering a military base—a federal, protected area,” he said in a video message on April 25 during his visit to the area. “You will be detained. You will be interdicted by U.S. troops and Border Patrol working together.”

Hegseth said that this marked only the first phase, as the Defense Department plans to expand military zones along the U.S. border to further strengthen border security.

“If you have attempted to evade, that’s evading law enforcement, just like you would any other military base. You add up the charges of what you can be charged with misdemeanors and felonies, you can be looking at up to 10 years in prison when prosecuted,” he added.

Customs and Border Protection maintains jurisdiction over illegal border crossings in the area and troops will hand over illegal immigrants they detain to Border Patrol agents, according to the Defense Department.

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of New Mexico has voiced concerns over the creation of a militarized buffer zone, calling it a “dangerous erosion of the constitutional principle.”

“We don’t want militarized zones where border residents—including U.S. citizens—face potential prosecution simply for being in the wrong place. This isn’t how we want to be in relation with our neighbors,” Rebecca Sheff, senior staff attorney for the group, said in an April 22 statement.

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Michelle Obama Claims Deportation Issue Keeps Her up at Night – After Her Husband Deported 3 Million Illegals

Former First Lady Michelle Obama recently appeared on a liberal podcast and claimed that the issue of the deportation of illegal aliens keeps her up at night. She has apparently forgotten that when her husband was president, he was frequently described as the ‘deporter in chief.’

It’s likely that Ms. Obama simply made these comments in service to the Democrat party, which clearly thinks it has found a winning issue in defending people who are in the country illegally.

It’s just another case of virtue signaling that the left has become known for.

Breitbart News reports:

Michelle Obama Fears Trump Deportation Policy: Not Enough Advocates; ‘It Keeps Me Up at Night’

Former first lady Michelle Obama is frightened by President Donald Trump’s deportation policy, she discussed during an episode of the On Purpose with Jay Shetty podcast.

Obama and her brother, Craig Robinson, discussed fears they had growing up dealing with race issues, when she was asked to identify the “hardest recent test of that fear.”

“In this current climate, for me it’s, you know, what’s happening to immigrants,” the former first lady replied, explaining that she is no longer fearful for herself — due to her celebrity status — but is instead fearful for illegal immigrants.

“I drive around in a four-car motorcade with a police escort. I’m Michelle Obama. I do still worry about my daughters in the world even though they are somewhat recognizable,” Obama said. “So, my fears are for what I know is happening out there in streets all over the city.”…

“And we know that those decisions aren’t being made with courts and with due process,” Obama said, suggesting the Trump administration is making these types of decisions based on looks alone — not actual legal status or criminal history, as is reality.

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