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Border czar Tom Homan told FNC that Democrats will never succeed in abolishing ICE, predicting instead they would try to defund the agency if they regain power, in response to Rep. Delia Ramirez’s (D-IL) call to eliminate it.

Arkansas Senate candidate Hallie Shoffner is facing backlash from Sen. Tom Cotton’s campaign after saying she’d “trade five Americans” for one hardworking undocumented immigrant, while also reversing her earlier call to defund ICE.

Charles Marino, a former DHS Senior Law Enforcement Adviser under the Obama administration, said sanctuary policies that block local police from working with ICE are creating a “perfect storm” for deadly confrontations, pointing to incidents in Maine, Texas, and Austin.

Rep. Ilhan Omar’s Make ICE Pay Act would redirect roughly $140 billion from ICE and Border Patrol funding to communities affected by immigration enforcement, drawing sharp criticism from Republicans including Sen. Jim Banks and Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders.

ICE deported six illegal immigrants last week with convictions including murder, vehicular homicide, indecent behavior with juveniles, and armed robbery, several of whom had been previously deported and reentered the country illegally multiple times.

A self-described lifelong Democrat testified before Congress that she is ashamed of her party after her son and his newlywed wife were killed by an illegal immigrant truck driver holding a California-issued license.

Arlington County, Virginia will spend $50,000 in taxpayer funds to give households up to $2,000 each after a wage earner is detained or deported by ICE, a program critics say may run afoul of federal alien-harboring law.

Israel Flores-Ortiz, convicted of groping nine high school girls in Fairfax County, Virginia, was deported to El Salvador by ICE after serving about nine months in local custody.

A federal judge ordered the release of an MS-13 member convicted of a gang murder in El Salvador after finding immigration officials held him nearly five months in San Diego County without a required bond or danger hearing.

DHS says ICE arrested 2,197 illegal immigrants in New York over a month-long operation, as state and city officials continue restricting cooperation with federal immigration enforcement.