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Washington Democrat claims majority of recent DHS arrestees posed ‘no threat to public safety’

Washington Democrat claims majority of recent DHS arrestees posed ‘no threat to public safety’

Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., claimed Tuesday that “for the first time this summer,” the majority of people arrested by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) “pose absolutely no threat to public safety.” Speaking during a House Judiciary subcommittee hearing on immigration enforcement, Jayapal argued the Trump administration has increasingly focused its immigration enforcement on immigrants without criminal convictions or pending criminal charges rather than those with criminal records. “For the first time this summer, the majority of people that DHS arrested were people who pose absolutely no threat to public safety, and the number of people with criminal convictions who are arrested by ICE actually decreased — decreased, not increased,” Jayapal said.  HOMAN CONFIRMS ‘CRIMINAL’ INVESTIGATION INVOLVING ILHAN OMAR, SAYS HE KNOWS ‘THINGS ARE GOING ON’ She argued the administration’s enforcement priorities are making communities “less safe.” “That’s because when DHS expends all of its energy to go after parents, longtime friends, neighbors, when [Homeland Security Investigations] agents who are supposed to investigate serious crime and human trafficking are instead being moved to street sweeps and riding along with local police for random traffic stops, we are less safe, not more safe.” Jayapal’s comments echoed claims her office made in a Sept. 1 press release, which said ICE data showed “the majority of people they arrest have zero criminal charges or convictions” and that arrests of immigrants without criminal convictions or pending criminal charges had increased 770%. Independent analyses of ICE data have likewise found that while overall ICE arrests reached record highs during the summer, the share of people arrested without criminal convictions or pending criminal charges also increased. Her remarks come as the Trump administration has touted record immigration enforcement under President Donald Trump. ILLEGAL CONVICTED OF ASSAULTING HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS THOUGHT HE WAS FREE — THEN DHS DROPPED THE HAMMER Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested nearly 51,000 illegal immigrants nationwide in August, according to DHS, marking the highest monthly total on record. “The hard-working men and women of DHS continue to break records as they defend the homeland and protect the American people,” DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin said in a statement. Mullin added, “For the third straight month, ICE set a new record for the highest number of illegal aliens arrested in a single month, nearly 51,000. This is promises made and promises kept in action. Under President Trump’s leadership, ICE is working around the clock every day to arrest and deport illegal aliens from American communities.” DHS also highlighted August arrests of illegal immigrants convicted of crimes including murder, child pornography and sexual assault of a minor. MORE THAN 100 HAITIAN IMMIGRANTS WITH VIOLENT OFFENSE AND SEX CRIME CONVICTIONS DEPORTED: DHS According to DHS, more than 3 million illegal immigrants have left the United States since Trump returned to office. A spokesperson for DHS and Jayapal could not immediately be reached by Fox News Digital for comment.

Republican upsets party-backed rival to challenge first openly trans member of Congress

Republican upsets party-backed rival to challenge first openly trans member of Congress

Delaware Republicans nominated political scientist Joseph “Dr. Joe” Arminio for the state’s lone U.S. House seat Tuesday, bypassing both the state GOP’s endorsed candidate and its 2024 nominee to send Arminio into a November match-up against Rep. Sarah McBride, D-Del. Arminio defeated Rev. Earl Cooper, the Delaware Republican Party’s endorsed candidate, and John Whalen, the party’s 2024 nominee, for the seat and a chance to defeat McBride in the Nov. 3 general election.  McBride won Delaware’s at-large House seat in 2024, becoming the first openly transgender person elected to Congress after defeating Whalen by roughly 16 percentage points in the general election. RAUCOUS PRIMARY SEASON REACHES FINAL ACT IN DEEP-BLUE STRONGHOLD, KICKSTARTING SPRINT TO NOVEMBER McBride is seeking a second term in a seat Republicans have not won since 2008. Arminio, a Wilmington native, is a political scientist, author and educator who holds a doctorate in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he focused on national defense policy and international relations, according to WHYY. He earned his bachelor’s degree in political science from Johns Hopkins University and has taught at American University and Lincoln University. Tuesday’s race was not Arminio’s first congressional campaign, though it was his first in Delaware. He previously sought the Republican nomination in Maryland’s 1st Congressional District in 2008, receiving about 1.6% of the vote in a four-way primary won by Andy Harris, according to WHYY, a public media organization based in Philadelphia. DEMOCRAT REBELS DEFY JEFFRIES TO HAND GOP CRITICAL WIN JUST BEFORE MIDTERMS Arminio campaigned on economic issues, arguing that excessive public and private debt has squeezed American families. He identified inflation and the cost of groceries, gasoline and housing among the biggest economic challenges facing Delaware. “The Republican country for that matter is in dire peril,” he told WHYY in an interview. “The economy’s in very bad shape. We’re suffering from crushing private and public debt. So your typical family is having a hard time making ends meet. The young cannot afford to buy a home. They’re having difficulty in their relationships, getting married. It’s very, very serious.” Arminio will now try to break Democrats’ long-running hold on Delaware’s lone House seat, which the party has controlled since John Carney took over after former U.S. Rep. Mike Castle, R-Del, retired and left office when he did not seek reelection in 2010, instead deciding to run for the U.S. Senate. 

Lawmakers throw out ‘Trojan horse’ activists they say are engaged in American subversion

Lawmakers throw out ‘Trojan horse’ activists they say are engaged in American subversion

WASHINGTON, D.C. – CodePink co-founder Medea Benjamin and two fellow agitators entered the House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing room 2272 today, wearing camera-ready T-shirts supporting the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Communist Party of Cuba, turning themselves into a live demonstration of the “Trojan horses” for foreign influence that lawmakers had gathered to examine. At 2:39 p.m., about 30 minutes into the hearing’s start, after Benjamin carefully photographed their T-shirt slogans appearing on the TV screen behind the witnesses, staffers on the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on South and Central Asia had had enough, and Capitol Hill police officers escorted Benjamin and her fellow agitators out of the room, as they protested their ejection for staging their trademark CodePink antics. For lawmakers, CodePink’s camera-conscious performance underscored the central point of the hearing: that protest theater, messaging and social-media content can function as parts of foreign influence operations. “It’s really about theatrics,” Subcommittee Chairman Bill Huizenga, R-Mich., later told Fox News Digital. “They’re using it not to affect policy, but really to enrich themselves because they use that then to go out on social media, to try to whip other people up, to help donations, to help get volunteers, help get some of those other folks, and to really try to go and disrupt our – not just our sense of government and processing government – but society.” HOUSE PANEL TO PROBE FOREIGN ‘TROJAN HORSES’ AS SINGHAM SCRUTINY WIDENS Singham network takes center stage The hearing, “Trojan Horses: Covert Foreign Malign Influence Operations in America,” focused on the network of nonprofits, media outlets and activist groups that are promoting the interests of foreign governments and pro-communist ideologues, like Neville Roy Singham, a U.S. tech tycoon who lives in Shanghai, supporting the Chinese Communist Party. According to a Fox News Digital investigation, Singham has pumped $278 million into a far-left network of groups that have pushed anti-America, pro-China propaganda, including CodePink, which has received $1.33 million from Singham. Outside the hearing room, Benjamin refused to answer questions from Fox News Digital about the Singham funding, and instead slipped into the hearing room with her fellow activists and positioned themselves behind the witnesses in seats that get maximum TV exposure. Mike Gonzalez, a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation, spotted Benjamin immediately and, in a tense back-and-forth with her, said “I’m telling Medea Benjamin that she should try to stop shilling for a communist tyranny.” Standing on the committee hearing room floor, Benjamin defended herself as “anti-war,” and denied any direction from the Chinese Communist Party. CUBA BUILT COVERT NETWORK INSIDE AMERICA THROUGH SPIES, ACTIVISTS AND UNIVERSITIES, STATE DEPT ALLEGES During opening remarks, Huizenga took direct aim at actors he said are tied to U.S. adversaries attempting to influence the American public, including Singham, CodePink and Marxist influencer Hasan Piker. “We are here today because America’s adversaries – China, Cuba, Iran, and Russia – are conducting covert influence campaigns to shape American thought and society through lies and censorship. These countries have one shared goal: to weaken the United States of America,” Huizenga “A prominent example of these adversary efforts is Neville Roy Singham, who lives in China and uses his wealth and relationships with the CCP to provide millions of dollars and personnel to extremist groups like CodePink, the People’s Forum, and the Party for Socialism and Liberation to destabilize American society and promote communist ideology,” he continued. Witnesses warn of foreign malign influence A hub for pro-communist organizing in New York City, People’s Forum has received $22.44 million from Singham. The first to testify, Gonzalez said a “red-green” alliance of far-left groups working with Islamist organizations channel money through intermediary organizations and donor funds before directing funds toward U.S.-based groups that organize protests and produce political messaging. Gonzalez pointed to Cuba and China’s influence operations as the basis of a “sustained campaign of subversion against the United States.” He described BreakThrough News as a media platform that amplifies demonstrations and promotes narratives aligned with Beijing, while arguing that the network’s causes — including Gaza, Cuba, Venezuela, the environment and social justice — provide a constantly changing set of rallying points. BreakThrough BT Media runs BreakThrough News and has received $1.098 million from Singham, according to Fox News Digital’s reporting. The testimony also focused on Singham’s connections in Shanghai. Gonzalez cited research saying Singham shares premises with Maku Cultural Communication, a Chinese communications firm that promotes a favorable image of China, and was photographed attending a Chinese Communist Party strategic communications workshop in 2023. Gonzalez also pointed to connections between Singham-funded organizations and Chinese state-linked academic and media institutions. POWER COUPLE OF CHAOS: HOW A TYCOON AND ACTIVIST BUILT A ‘REVOLUTIONARY BASE’ AT THE HOUSE OF SINGHAM Singham and CodePink have denied that the organization takes direction from the Chinese government. Singham has said he is guided by his own political beliefs, while Benjamin has said CodePink receives no money from the Chinese Communist Party. No criminal charges have been filed against Singham or the organizations in connection with the allegations. Soon after, Sam Lyman, head of research at the Bitcoin Policy Institute, presented the network as one of three overlapping channels of influence: Chinese state media and online campaigns, nonprofits supported by Singham, and the Party for Socialism and Liberation, a Marxist-Leninist organization that works closely with CodePink, People’s Forum and BreakThrough News. Lyman said Singham-funded groups had echoed Chinese messaging on artificial intelligence, data centers and U.S. technology policy, while the Party for Socialism and Liberation organizers helped mobilize opposition to data-center projects across the country. In the gallery, CodePink’s Benjamin stared at her phone, scrolling through messages. Lyman said his research identified 21 campaigns linked to the Party for Socialism and Liberation in 14 states that contributed to data-center moratoriums, a permanent ban and the rejection or cancellation of several projects. He estimated that campaigns in which the Party for Socialism and Liberation played a role had delayed, reduced or blocked proposed AI infrastructure investment across the

Federal judge refers Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner to DOJ for possible criminal investigation

Federal judge refers Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner to DOJ for possible criminal investigation

A federal judge referred Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner and top deputy Matthew Stiegler to the Department of Justice (DOJ) Tuesday for possible criminal investigation. U.S. District Judge Paul Diamond said evidence uncovered in a murder conviction case could constitute false statements, perjury, obstruction of justice and conspiracy.  Neither man has been charged. PENNSYLVANIA SUPREME COURT DEBATES FUTURE OF IMPEACHMENT TRIAL FOR PHILADELPHIA PROSECUTOR LARRY KRASNER Diamond also disqualified Krasner and Stiegler from the case but declined to disqualify the entire DA’s office. The judge alleged Krasner and Stiegler sought to pressure prosecutors into presenting a false narrative to the court and that Krasner warned of “consequences” if staff alerted the court to an internal conflict. “I have thus reluctantly concluded that Philadelphia’s highest law enforcement official and one of his top assistants may have violated the law,” Diamond wrote. AG BLANCHE UNVEILS FEDERAL CHARGES AGAINST 160 DEFENDANTS IN PANDEMIC RELIEF SWEEP The dispute stems from the case of Dennis Johnson, who was convicted in 2009 of killing Kenyatta Smith.  The DA’s office said in a 2022 filing that Johnson was entitled to habeas relief based on ineffective assistance of counsel, according to The Associated Press. Prosecutors later raised potential conflicts involving Stiegler and urged that the matter be referred to the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office.  According to the opinion, Krasner opposed that move and repeatedly said someone from his office needed to remain involved to “protect the office.” “I respectfully and vigorously disagree with the court’s findings of fact and conclusions of law,” Krasner said in a statement. “I look forward to appealing to the higher court as soon as the law allows. This remains a pending matter, which limits for now my and my office’s ability to respond in the media.” CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP The DOJ did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment. Fox News’ Jennifer Johnson contributed to this story.