White House unloads on violent ‘criminal alien’ nabbed after investigators uncover election offense
A Bahamian national who arrived in the U.S. during President Gerald Ford’s administration and was living with a green card racked up a violent rap sheet before investigators found he voted illegally in the 2020 election, sparking the deportation process, officials say. The case of Anthony Tyrone Higgs is only the latest in a slew of arrests connected to illegal votes cast in recent elections, as the Trump administration engages in a broader crackdown on election integrity-related crimes. “This alien was a guest in our country who forfeited his right to be in the U.S. when he committed these violent crimes and voted in the 2020 election,” White House spokeswoman Lauren Bis exclusively told Fox News Digital on Friday. ICE ARRESTS PERUVIAN NATIONAL ACCUSED OF ILLEGALLY VOTING IN 2024 ELECTION AS DHS CITES SIMILAR CASES “Any noncitizens who vote illegally in our elections will be arrested and removed. American elections are only for Americans.” Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), a division of DHS, confirmed in a statement that Higgs had illegally voted in the 2020 election. FORMER KANSAS MAYOR WHO PLEADED GUILTY TO ILLEGAL VOTING TURNS HIMSELF IN TO ICE HSI’s Atlanta office arrested Higgs in Decatur, Georgia on Sept. 3, and he is currently in the custody of ERO, the ICE subdivision that handles migrant removal operations. Higgs was admitted into the U.S. in October 1976 as a lawful permanent resident – commonly dubbed a green card holder. The Trump DHS has since placed him in proceedings to revoke his immigration status due to his lengthy rap sheet. TRUMP DOJ UNLEASHES LARGEST DENATURALIZATION EFFORT IN DEPARTMENT HISTORY — AND SAYS IT’S ‘ONLY THE BEGINNING’ “This criminal alien from the Bahamas has a rap sheet for multiple violent crimes, including armed robbery, domestic violence, and assault on a police officer,” DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin said. “On top of all of that, he illegally voted in the 2020 election,” he added. MORE THAN A QUARTER-MILLION NONCITIZENS MAY BE REGISTERED TO VOTE IN 4 KEY STATES, DHS ALLEGES Higgs’ record also includes resisting arrest, two counts of grand larceny and two counts of possession of a weapon during a violent crime. Of the voting-related charge, Mullin said just one noncitizen casting a ballot is enough to cancel out an American citizen’s vote. “Thanks to the hard work of the men and women of ICE, this criminal will be removed from our country and can never interfere in our elections again,” he continued. DHS also provided several other recent cases of illegal immigrants or ineligible voters committing or being charged with election-related crimes. In August, Colombian illegal immigrant Carlos Jaramillo-Grajales was sentenced to three years in prison following an ICE investigation that led to a guilty plea in a case where he was found to have committed identity theft to illegally vote in elections for more than 20 years, according to the agency. “Federal immigration laws serve to safeguard our nation’s borders and protect the integrity of our government,” said Gregory Kehoe, U.S. attorney for the Middle District of Florida. “Those who seek to circumvent, exploit, or break these laws will be prosecuted fully,” he said in an August statement. In New Jersey, a Slovakian national was found to have illegally voted in the 2022 midterms, according to HSI – which also cited the case of an Australian national accused of illegally casting ballots in both 2022 and 2024 in Louisiana. Mauritanian national Mahady Sacko was busted by an ICE and FBI partnership in Democrat-run Philadelphia, and charged with voter fraud. SIGN UP TO GET THE POLITICS NEWSLETTER Sacko allegedly voted illegally multiple times going back to 2008. He was already under an order of removal, DHS said in a statement, stating that he “exhausted all appeals” and an immigration board upheld his removal order as of 2002 but he remained in the country. Returning to the case of Higgs, Mullin added in a statement: “Thanks to the hard work of the men and women of ICE, this criminal will be removed from our country and can never interfere in our elections again.”
What does ‘Never Forget’ mean for a generation with no memory of 9/11?
Twenty-five years after a generation promised to “Never Forget,” that pledge now relies on education for the more than 100 million Americans with no memory of 9/11. The Pentagon is preparing to help address that challenge by breaking ground this weekend on a long-awaited Visitor Education Center at the only one of the three 9/11 attack sites still without a dedicated museum or education center. The new center is intended to fill the gap that has grown more pronounced with each passing year by helping Americans who never experienced the attacks understand not only what happened on Sept. 11, 2001, but why it continues to matter. Joseph Kornhoff, executive director of the Pentagon Memorial Fund, told Fox News Digital that nearly one-third of the country was either not alive that day or has no recollection of it and therefore lacks the “personal connection” shared by those who watched the attacks unfold. NEW 9/11 MUSEUM EXHIBIT AIMS TO CONNECT YOUNGER AMERICANS TO THE ATTACKS THROUGH POWERFUL ARTIFACTS “That’s what we’re trying to provide with the visitor education center experience,” Kornhoff said in an interview with Fox News Digital, explaining that the goal is to give visitors a personal connection that allows them to “start to understand the gravity of that day.” Nearly 230 miles north, the National September 11 Memorial & Museum in New York is confronting the same generational divide. Beth Hillman, president and CEO of the museum, said the passage of time has only made the annual vow to “Never Forget” more important as the number of Americans with firsthand memories of the attacks declines. “Many in my generation remember exactly where we were on that horrific day,” Hillman said during an Aug. 31 press preview outlining the museum’s plans for the 25th anniversary. “Yet, 100 million Americans were not even born or are too young to remember that day for themselves today.” BROOKLYN TEACHERS WHO WITNESSED 9/11 AS CHILDREN REVEAL WHAT THEY WANT THE NEXT GENERATION TO REMEMBER Noah Rauch, the museum’s senior vice president for education and public programs, said he has watched that transition unfold firsthand through the museum’s work with students and teachers. “I’ve seen this line creeping up between memory and history, between those who remembered the attacks and those who didn’t,” Rauch said during the Aug. 31 press event. That transition from memory to history also raises a more modern challenge. Americans too young to remember the attacks are increasingly learning about an event they never experienced firsthand, while conspiracy theories and false narratives about 9/11 run rampant online. Kornhoff said that makes factual education increasingly important, pointing specifically to conspiracy theories surrounding the attack on the Pentagon and narratives suggesting that America “deserved 9/11.” “That’s the need for the education center,” Kornhoff told Fox News Digital. “As a nation, we need to really take a step back, look at how we’re educating our young children to make sure that we’re providing them with the facts of the situation… and not these conspiracy theories and entertaining wild ideas that just simply are not true.” REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK: 9/11 IS JUST A HISTORY CHAPTER FOR A NEW GENERATION OF AMERICANS The Pentagon center will include 10 exhibits telling the human stories of the attack, including the 184 people killed at the Pentagon and aboard American Airlines Flight 77, the first responders who rushed to the scene and the military and civilian personnel who aided the wounded. “We are going to address the facts of the day,” Kornhoff said. “We are going to address the entire Pentagon story.” The renewed focus on 9/11 education has also reached Capitol Hill. Reps. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., and Josh Gottheimer, D-N.J., introduced bipartisan legislation ahead of the 25-year anniversary, which aims to direct the Department of Education to examine how 9/11 is taught in schools nationwide and identify gaps in instruction. Kornhoff praised the effort during his interview with Fox News Digital, saying the legislation reflects a growing recognition of the need to educate generations with no firsthand connection to the attacks. The Pentagon 9/11 Memorial Visitor Education Center is expected to open by the end of 2029 near the existing Pentagon 9/11 Memorial and Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia. The project received $12 million in federal funding this year, along with $1 million from Virginia and additional private donations raised by the Pentagon Memorial Fund. Once completed, the center is expected to include interactive exhibits, historic artifacts and firsthand accounts from survivors and victims’ families while providing visitors with additional context about the attack and its aftermath.
Trump says he would ‘love’ to see Ireland unified as one nation
President Donald Trump said Saturday during a trip to Ireland that he would love to see the country unified. The Republic of Ireland gained independence from the United Kingdom in 1922, while Northern Ireland, established in 1921, has remained part of the U.K. “I don’t want to cause any problems, but I will tell you, I’d love to see it unified. I have friends on both sides, great people. They’re Irish people. How can they be bad, right?” Trump said in Dublin while on stage with Ireland’s prime minister, Micheál Martin. “I’d like to see a unified country. I think it would be a great feather in everybody’s cap if that happened. It’s going to happen eventually.” He added that the U.K. “will have something to say about it obviously,” but reiterated that unification would be a “great thing.” TRUMP SAYS IRAN CONFLICT COULD END AFTER MIDTERMS In response to Trump’s comments, British Prime Minister Andy Burnham said in a statement that the U.K. government’s stance on reunification remains unchanged. “I am not aware that there is majority public support for another referendum, and until that changes, there will not be one,” Burnham told reporters in Parliament, according to Reuters. Later Saturday, Trump addressed a crowd at the Deerfield Residence, the official home of the U.S. ambassador to Ireland. U.S. Ambassador Edward S. Walsh introduced the president, who took the stage to the sound of Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the USA.” Early in his remarks, Trump revisited the question a reporter had asked during his meeting with Martin about the prospect of Irish reunification. “That’s one of those questions where no matter what you say, no matter how well you say it, there’s no good answer, right?” he said, before saying reunification would be a “cool thing.” IRISH AUTHORITIES SEEK EXTRADITION WARRANT FOR SUSPECT IN MURDER OF AMERICAN MOM JAMEY CARNEY: REPORT The debate over whether Ireland should be one country has been one of the island’s most divisive political issues for decades. At times, it was far more than a war of words. From the late 1960s through the late 1990s, Northern Ireland was gripped by decades of sectarian violence known as “the Troubles.” Irish nationalists and republicans — drawn largely from Northern Ireland’s Catholic minority — sought to reunite the island under a single Irish state. Unionists and loyalists, who mostly belonged to the Protestant majority, wanted Northern Ireland to remain part of the U.K. Throughout the conflict, more than 3,500 people were killed in violence involving Irish republican and loyalist paramilitary groups, as well as British security forces. The fighting largely ceased with a peace deal in 1998, but in the decades since, tensions remain between Protestants and Catholics in Northern Ireland. A 2024 U.K. Parliament report found that 90% of students in Northern Ireland attend schools that “are effectively segregated along religious lines.” The peace deal signed in 1998 — known as the Good Friday Agreement or the Belfast Agreement — set up a new government that had representation for both nationalists and unionists. It also established that Northern Ireland will remain part of the U.K. unless a majority of citizens vote to leave through a referendum. Brexit reignited debate over Ireland’s future, with Northern Ireland voting to remain in the European Union even as the U.K. as a whole voted to leave. Still, no referendum has been proposed or scheduled on whether Northern Ireland should leave the United Kingdom. Reuters contributed to this report.
Pennsylvania lawmaker suggests Trump should rename Lake Erie to ‘Lake Pennsylvania’
Pennsylvania state Rep. David Maloney, a Republican, is asking President Donald Trump to rename Lake Erie to “Lake Pennsylvania” following similar renaming efforts by the president. Maloney is preparing a resolution calling on Trump, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and lawmakers on Capitol Hill to take steps to rename Lake Erie to “Lake Pennsylvania,” arguing that the change is needed to reflect the lake’s modern identity. “This is Pennsylvania’s only Great Lake. Its modern economy and identity are increasingly tied to the boaters, anglers, families and tourists who come to enjoy it,” Maloney said in a statement. “Ohio has plenty of shoreline. New York already has two Great Lakes. Canada has four others.” NEW YORK GOV HOCHUL REJECTS TRUMP’S ‘LAKE AMERICA’ RENAMING WITH BLUNT MESSAGE “Pennsylvania has one. Let’s call it Lake Pennsylvania!” he added. Lake Erie is the smallest of the Great Lakes by volume as well as the shallowest, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. The lake has about 12 million people in its watershed, with 10.5 million people in the U.S. and 1.9 million people in Canada. This comes after Trump signed an executive order last month to rename Lake Ontario to “Lake America,” a rebranding that Canada does not recognize and has firmly rejected. “We know that America is changing. Their trading relationships, their foreign policies, their national monuments, their hydronyms. Canadians also know that naming reality means calling it Lake Ontario — then, now and always,” Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said in a statement. SOUTH PARK CREATORS MOCK TRUMP’S LAKE ONTARIO RENAME AND COMPANY COMPLIANCE IN MOCK STATEMENT The renaming only applies to the U.S. federal government, meaning Canada, other international bodies and U.S. states are not forced to acknowledge the change. But both Apple Maps and Google Maps changed the name of Lake Ontario to “Lake America” for U.S. users following Trump’s executive order. The president has also suggested renaming New Mexico to “New America,” prompting several of the state’s Democratic lawmakers to call on Apple and Google to publicly commit to keeping the state’s current name on their respective maps applications. Trump has also floated the idea of renaming the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. On his first day back in office in January 2025, Trump signed an executive order to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America,” but, similar to the Lake Ontario rebranding, the order only applies to the U.S. federal government and does not bind Mexico, other international bodies or private entities. Apple Maps and Google Maps also adopted this change for users in the U.S., implementing the update using a region-based approach tailored to the location of the user’s device.
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El-Sayed ignites firestorm after sharing 9/11 message on social media: ‘Piece of s—‘
Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Michigan, sparked social media backlash after posting his 9/11 message on his X account. “They didn’t just attack America that day they attacked the idea of America,” El-Sayed said. “The notion of a nation brought together by ideals — a place where freedom and commitment to justice bind us, even if, at times, we struggle to fully realize it,” the controversial far-left candidate continued. “Today on 9/11 we remember the lives that were taken from us in a terrible act of terrorism.” CBS NEWS TAKES HEAT OVER REPORT ON DEM HOPEFUL ABDUL EL-SAYED’S NOW-DELETED 9/11 POSTS Online viewers quickly reminded El-Sayed of his friendship with Hasan Piker, the progressive streamer who has gone viral multiple times for previously claiming that the U.S. “deserved 9/11.” “Shut up, you FRAUD,” the Libs of TikTok, a conservative X account that focuses on key social and cultural issues, said in a post Friday. Steve Guest, a frequent political commentator and a former staffer for Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, echoed the criticism in a post of his own, posting a picture of Piker and El-Sayed standing together. “This you?” Guest wrote. He also included a caption on the photo with another one of Piker’s quotes. “‘I hate America… at least I say it with my f—ing chest,’” the picture’s caption read. “Campaigning with a guy who said we deserved 9/11… his brazen dishonesty makes him all the bigger piece of s—,” GOP consultant Ryan Girdusky posted on X. “You’re a disgrace. You remain unwilling to disavow your chief spokesman who said “America deserved 9/11,” National Republican Senatorial Committee communications director Joanna Rodriguez posted on X. “You belittled the American lives lost year after year while giving excuses and showing sympathy for terrorists.” “Good job reading from that script buddy,” GOP digital strategist Mike Hahn wrote on X. Joey Mannarino, the co-founder of the Overton Institute, a right-wing media group, expressed surprise that El-Sayed had gained any kind of momentum in his campaign for Senate. EL-SAYED TORCHED ONLINE AFTER BRUSHING OFF QUESTIONS ABOUT HASAN PIKER CAMPAIGN TIES: ‘WHAT A PAL’ “How in God’s name is Abdul El-Sayed even close to winning this race? The man campaigns with people who say America deserved 9/11. He is a radical Islamist extremist if I’ve ever seen one. And this is who Michigan wants to put in the Senate?” Mannarino wrote. In the past, El-Sayed has made statements noting he doesn’t share all of Piker’s views. “But I want to be crystal clear, nobody speaks for this campaign besides me and my campaign spokesperson,” El-Sayed said after Piker called Israel a “Jewish ISIS.” “And while politicians and pundits try to make this race about a Twitch streamer, we’re going to be talking about gas, groceries, good schools and healthcare. Because that’s what Michiganders keep asking about.” Chuck Ross, an investigative reporter with The Washington Free Beacon, noted that El-Sayed’s post didn’t focus on the wars that followed 9/11, a topic El-Sayed has frequently invoked when speaking about the terror attack. “El-Sayed, reading off a teleprompter, gives a statement about 9/11. This time he sticks to just 9/11 and not the ‘War on Terror’ aftermath that he usually mentions in his 9/11 anniversary posts,” Ross wrote. In the past, El-Sayed has held up the war on terror as an example of military aggression, using it as Israel prepared to strike Gaza back in October 2023. ABDUL EL-SAYED SAYS RALLYING WITH HASAN PIKER DOESN’T MEAN HE ENDORSES ‘AMERICA DESERVED 9/11’ REMARK “The President’s visit to Israel as it plans a major escalation & invasion of Gaza is already being held up as an endorsement of the violence being unleashed on innocent Palestinians. I can’t help but hear echoes of 9/11. When do we learn that more violence doesn’t fix violence?” El-Sayed wrote. El-Sayed’s campaign did not respond to requests for comment on why he had not made more efforts to disavow Piker.