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Meet the Insanely Dangerous Somali Biden Let Free in Utah – Now Jailed, Thanks to Trump
President Donald Trump’s administration could spend four years just rounding up awful people.
On Wednesday, Immigration and Customs Enforcement Salt Lake City announced they had arrested a 24-year-old Somali man, Jibril Ali Ahmed, reportedly a Bloods gang member living in Murray, Utah.
Ahmed had been convicted of attempted murder — along with several other charges — after shooting at a store clerk, KTVU-TV reported.
ICE Salt Lake City posted about the arrest Wednesday on the social media platform X with a photo of Ahmed, reporting that he had been convicted of attempted murder, possession of a dangerous weapon, and rioting.
ICE Salt Lake City arrested Bloods gang member Jibril Ali Ahmed, 24, of Somalia living in Murray, UT. He was convicted of attempted murder, poss/dangerous weapon/restricted person, rioting. He shot at a convenience store clerk in 2021 after his associate’s bank card was declined. pic.twitter.com/lfiFBOpWdb
— ICE Salt Lake City (@EROSaltLakeCity) April 23, 2025
In April 2021, KUTV reported on the incident, which took place at a 7-Eleven in Millcreek, Utah.
Ahmed and a companion tried to purchase several items, but his friend’s card was declined, according to the news outlet.
After arguing with the clerk for several minutes, Ahmed pulled a handgun out of his waistband and fired, aiming at the store clerk’s head.
The clerk ducked and scrambled for cover as Ahmed continued shooting, firing a total of six shots. Fortunately for the clerk, every shot missed.
Then the two fled the store.
Man ‘high on molly’ shoots at, misses 7-Eleven clerk 6 times after friend’s card declined, that was the headline in 2021. Today, ICE Salt Lake City arrested Bloods gang member Jibril Ali Ahmed, 24, of Somalia living in Murray, UT. He was convicted of attempted murder,… pic.twitter.com/NBdPgPn5MH
— Heidi Hatch KUTV (@tvheidihatch) April 23, 2025
“Charging documents state that when police arrived, they found one of the store’s doors ‘heavily damaged from gunfire,’ several shell casings inside the store, and ‘bullet holes around the front clerk counter.’ Seven shell casings were recovered, the charges state,” according to a report at the time by Deseret News.
Police viewed surveillance recordings and later traced the getaway vehicle, the News reported.
They eventually located Ahmed, who “said he was high [on] ‘molly’ [a drug also known as ecstasy or MDMA] and didn’t know what he was thinking,” according to KUTV.
He “kept asking if the victim was still alive and uninjured” and “admitted to stealing the handgun from a friend.”
Now in the custody of ICE, hopefully Ahmed will see swift deportation, but why is this just happening now?
The answer is former President Joe Biden.
There’ s no clear indication how long this guy had been in the United States before the 2021 crime, but Biden’s administration had four years in which they could have booted him. Instead, they occupied themselves with ushering in tens of thousands just like Ahmed every month Sleepy Joe was in office.
And after this insanely violent 2021 crime, there’s no excuse for the Biden administration not to have acted to expedite his exit from this country. Instead, Biden’s officials were intent on tying the hands of immigration officials.
If there is any lasting legacy of the Biden administration, it is his reprehensible America-last lax immigration policy.
Biden, along with Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and former Vice President Kamala Harris — also the former border czar, much as she prefers to deny it — did not just fail to protect the border.
They practically failed to acknowledge that a border exists.
By the grace of God, every shot Ahmed fired missed the store clerk.
Numerous dead Americans, like Laken Riley and Jocelyn Nungaray, cannot say the same.
Border Czar Tom Homan and ICE are doing dangerous work, and the thanks he gets includes the scorn and rage of America-last leftist mobs who put criminals first.
Homan, ICE, and current DHS Secretary Kristi Noem should know that millions of us are with them for this work.
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.
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HA HA HA: AP Reporter Boasts They Offer ‘Accurate, Independent, Nonpartisan’ News
The Associated Press did not feel like celebrating on Saturday night at the “Nerdprom.” This is the opening of Will Riccardi’s report, which ABC News published and highlighted in a tweet. “Somber” was the adjective:
There was no president. There was no comedian. What remained at the White House Correspondents’ Association’s annual dinner on Saturday night were the journalists and the First Amendment.
The stripped-down festivities were a reflection of the somber tone in Washington at the beginning of President Donald Trump’s second term, in which he has battled with the press on multiple fronts and wrested from the correspondents’ association the power to decide which outlets have the most access to Trump.
They claim to celebrate the First Amendment when they’re boasting about themselves. When AP White House reporters Aamer Madhani and Zeke Miller won an award at the dinner, Miller’s speech sounded like a commercial for AP.
“At the AP’s core is a commitment to accurate, independent, nonpartisan journalism that unflinchingly holds power to account no matter which political party is in office,” Miller claimed. “It safeguards the facts that keep the citizenry well-informed.”
Then it got really syrupy: “Mark Twain said it: ‘There are only two forces that carry light to all corners of the globe. The sun in the heavens and the Associated Press down here.’ From the White House to the town of Whitehouse, Texas — it’s a real place — Peoria to the Persian Gulf, we at AP remain committed as ever to accurate, independent, nonpartisan journalism, to carrying light the world over.”
🚨AP’s Zeke Miller at WHCA: “We at AP remain committed as ever to accurate, independent, nonpartisan journalism.”
What a strange way to describe leftwing propaganda. pic.twitter.com/TBGH0dMSLV
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) April 27, 2025
Our Managing Editor Curtis Houck keeps tabs on Zeke Miller. Along with his 2017 fake report for Time magazine claiming a bust of Martin Luther King Jr. was removed from the Oval Office, Miller beclowned himself in the first Biden administration briefing and press conference in 2021. He offered a deferential question to Biden:
MILLER: One of the defining challenges you face in the coming months is how to deliver on your promise to Americans on issues like immigration control, gun control, voting rights, climate change. All of those right now are facing stiff, united opposition from Republicans on Capitol Hill. How far are you willing to go to achieve those promises that you made to the American people?
In that spirit, Miller provided another embarrassing entry in 2022 with a 1,400-word press release for Biden: “One hug and one selfie at a time, Biden’s mission to connect.” He began:
WASHINGTON (AP) — One handshake, one hug and one selfie at a time. If President Joe Biden could greet every American this way, longtime allies say, his approval ratings would soar.
Curtis also reported when AP reporter Josh Boak was granted a rare print interview with President Biden in 2022, and he began with this: “I’m really interested in how you’re thinking and how you’re making choices during what seems like a really unique time in American history.” He ended his second question with “How do you as a president provide a sense of stability and strength?” On China, he softly asked: “Do you think Americans have that sense of the stakes on a daily basis?”
It didn’t sound like Miller’s claim that AP “unflinchingly holds power to account,” no matter which party.
PS: “Western Lensman” followed up his Miller speech tweet with this beaut, in which the criminal migrant was described as an “Athens resident.”
AP’s “nonpartisan journalism” describing the m*rder of Laken Riley: pic.twitter.com/E6BCF503EE
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) April 27, 2025
Northwestern Tells JVP: Change Your Constitution or Risk Discipline Under New Anti-Discrimination Policy
Northwestern University warned its Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) chapter that its constitution, which bars Zionist Jews from joining, violates the school’s new anti-discrimination policy, the Washington Free Beacon has learned.
The constitution for the anti-Israel student group states that “members are expected to be anti-Zionist and identify with Judaism” and requires a faculty adviser to be a “Jewish anti-Zionist or support anti-Zionist philosophies.” According to its mission statement, JVP aims to build an “anti-Zionist Jewish community on campus.”
The group seems committed to that goal, playing a significant role in anti-Israel campus activity with an adviser, Sarah Schulman, who has repeatedly blamed the Jewish state for Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack. But JVP’s constitution doesn’t square with Northwestern’s updated non-discrimination policies, which incorporated the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism. That definition states that “denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination, e.g., by claiming that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavor,” is a form of anti-Semitism.
A Northwestern spokeswoman told the Free Beacon that the university is making Northwestern’s JVP branch, a recognized student group that formed after Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel, change its rules.
“As a registered student organization, Jewish Voice for Peace is required to comply with Northwestern’s anti-discrimination policies. The appropriate steps are in progress to revise the organization’s constitution and membership policies,” she said.
The move comes as Northwestern faces pressure to rein in campus anti-Semitism. Earlier this month, the Trump administration froze $790 million in federal funding to Northwestern amid a civil rights investigation into alleged anti-Semitism and racial discrimination on campus. The House Committee on Education and Workforce, meanwhile, is demanding a meeting on anti-Semitism with Northwestern’s president, the Free Beacon reported.
Like Harvard, which saw $2.2 billion frozen on April 14, Northwestern retained a high-profile, MAGA-linked lobbying firm to navigate the scrutiny.
Wendy Khabie, the mother of a Northwestern student and national co-chair of the Coalition Against Antisemitism at Northwestern (CAAN), told the Free Beacon the JVP chapter should be stripped of its rights if it doesn’t update its policies.
“We expect that any and every registered student group affiliated with the University would be held responsible for meeting all of the requirements established by the code of conduct and student handbook. That includes any updates or revisions recently made, with specific regard to the University’s adoption of IHRA,” Khabie said. “It would be concerning if the University afforded rights and privileges to groups that are not in full compliance with established guidelines.”
JVP, meanwhile, has been a major player in disruptive, anti-Israel protests, and Schulman, a tenured English professor, has proven that she fits the group’s faculty adviser requirements.
The day after Hamas’s assault, Schulman attended an anti-Israel protest in Times Square. There, she told the New York Times, “Decades of brutality towards Palestinians, in which people have been murdered, incarcerated and displaced unjustly have made conditions untenable, and I believe that they exploded.”
Roughly a week later, she penned a New York Magazine article arguing that Hamas’s attack was the result of Israel’s “consistent, unending brutality.”
“[F]or 75 years, Palestinians have been murdered, incarcerated, and displaced with escalating violence by Israeli soldiers, and more recently by settlers. On October 7, these unending, untenable conditions exploded when Hamas broke through Israel’s imposed barriers. They reentered the land they consider home,” Schulman wrote. “They attacked formerly Palestinian villages and cities, now under the control of Israel. After decades of being on the receiving end of highly organized violence, they switched roles and became the murderers and kidnappers of more than 1,300 Israeli children and adults.”
Schulman has a long history of anti-Israel activism, serving on the advisory board of JVP’s national arm since 2010. In 2016, while a professor at the College of Staten Island, Schulman was accused by the Zionist Organization of America of “echo[ing] the lies of talking points of Hamas” by claiming that Israelis are indiscriminately killing Palestinians. At the time, she also served as a faculty adviser for the school’s Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapter.
Northwestern’s JVP chapter appears to follow in Schulman’s footsteps. On the one-year anniversary of Hamas’s attack, the group joined a walkout in solidarity with Northwestern SJP “to commemorate a year of the ongoing genocide in Palestine.”
“There are no universities left in Gaza, and today we are leaving classes at our university to stand in solidarity against occupation and apartheid,” the group wrote on Instagram. Earlier this month, SJP held an anarchist training session for its Northwestern members at which it cited propaganda from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terror group urging students to “build an Intifada” and “destroy amerika.”
In April 2024, JVP helped organize a five-day encampment and successfully negotiated with the university to allow the anti-Israel activists to keep up one tent through June 1, 2024.
Most recently, on Feb. 27, JVP and SJP boycotted Northwestern’s new mandatory anti-discrimination training. The two groups described parts of the “fascist” training as “zionist propaganda” that “incite[s] violence” against Muslim, Arabs, and Palestinians on campus.
In reality, the training relies on unverified data from the Council on American-Islamic Relations that inflate Islamophobic attacks, giving the false impression that those attacks vastly outpace anti-Semitic hate crimes, the Free Beacon reported.
Northwestern touted that training as part of a March 31 progress report detailing steps it has taken to combat anti-Semitism. It also noted that “there has been a significant decrease in reports of discrimination or harassment based on antisemitism or shared Jewish ancestry at Northwestern compared with the same period last academic year.”
Yet on April 14, during Passover, anti-Semitic vandals at Northwestern used red paint to write “Death to Israel” and draw Hamas triangles on Kresge Centennial Hall, a campus building that houses the school’s Holocaust center, the Free Beacon reported.
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Michelle Obama Claims Deportation Issue Keeps Her up at Night – After Her Husband Deported 3 Million Illegals (VIDEO)
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.
Here’s the video:
NEW: Michelle Obama says Trump’s deportation policy “keeps her up at night,” despite the fact that her husband deported more people than any other president.
Remarkable.
President Barack Obama deported a whopping 3,000,000 illegal immigrants, demolishing the… pic.twitter.com/uBOIGdSm9H
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) April 29, 2025
Did the “Deporter in Chief” keep her up at night in fear, too? https://t.co/oQy3laqggX
— Ricardo Musculo (@1DrRick) April 28, 2025
You know the old saying. Democrats – It’s different when WE do it.
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Red-state rot: How GOP governors are handing power to the left
At first glance, outsiders might expect North Dakota to have already passed both school choice and a ban on pornography in public libraries. Republicans hold overwhelming majorities — 42-5 in the Senate and 83-11 in the House — and every statewide elected official is a Republican. Yet, Republican Gov. Kelly Armstrong’s twin vetoes of both bills have forced conservatives to wait another two years to achieve these basic red-state goals. Warnings about Armstrong’s weakness came early and often.
SB 2307 could not be simpler. “A public library or a school district may not maintain in an area easily accessible to minors explicit sexual material,” the final amended text reads. Any sane person should support this standard. The definition of “explicit sexual material” mirrors language already used in other areas of law. The bill does not even ban the books outright — it merely restricts children’s access to sexually explicit material in publicly funded libraries.
Electing more governors like Kelly Armstrong will leave conservatives with nowhere to run.
Without enforcement, any law becomes meaningless. SB 2307 addresses this by requiring local prosecutors to investigate violations. Schools and libraries found out of compliance risk losing state funding.
Despite the bill’s straightforward intent, it barely passed — just 27-20 in the Senate and 49-45 in the House — with more than a third of Republicans joining Democrats to oppose it. Last week, to the shock of party officials, Armstrong vetoed the bill.
“I don’t pretend to know what the next literary masterpiece is going to be,” Armstrong wrote in his veto message. “But I know that I want it available in a library.” In parroting tired liberal straw-man talking points, Armstrong claimed he agreed with the concerns but dismissed the bill as a “misguided attempt to legislate morality through overreach and censorship.”
According to Armstrong, limiting children’s access to sexually explicit material in taxpayer-funded libraries now qualifies as “censorship.”
The rest of Armstrong’s veto message trots out the usual excuses — warnings about frivolous lawsuits, handwringing over enforcement logistics, and complaints about oversight costs. But his main point could not be clearer: Armstrong opposes any effort to shield children from sexual content in public institutions.
Bought out by teachers’ unions
What can parents do when public schools flood classrooms with pornography? Send their kids to private school, of course. Unfortunately, Armstrong worked to block that option, too.
House Bill 1540 would have established Education Savings Accounts for private school students, giving them a chance to compete with just a fraction of the money state and federal governments pour into the public system. The bill passed the House 49-43 and the Senate 27-20 — the same narrow margins as the library porn bill.
In his veto message last week, Armstrong whined that public school students pay taxes, too, and griped that HB 1540 offered them nothing. Instead, he threw his support behind Senate Bill 2400, which turns school choice into another welfare program for the public education establishment. Most of the money under SB 2400 would flow straight to parents whose children already attend public schools.
But why would public school students need education savings accounts when their tuition already costs nothing? The entire school choice movement rests on a simple truth: Government pours massive sums into public education, and families need just a fraction of that money diverted to private options to have a real choice. In North Dakota, the average combined state and federal cost of public education hits about $13,778 per K-12 student. Yet under HB 1540, the proposed funding for education savings accounts ranged from only $1,100 to $4,000, depending on household income — all of it aimed at private school students.
The funding imbalance also explains the shortage of private schools across much of North Dakota. Armstrong cited the lack of private schools outside major cities as justification for pouring even more money into public schools. But with fairer funding, more private schools would emerge. In a duplicitous statement, Armstrong claimed he “strongly supports expanding school choice.” Yet, real expansion demands closing the funding gap — something Armstrong clearly opposes. His true allegiance lies with the teachers’ unions, not with parents seeking alternatives.
A pattern of reckless endorsements
The Senate bill Armstrong promoted also stuffs extra money into school lunch programs and ropes homeschooling parents into the scheme — despite the fact that North Dakota homeschoolers explicitly rejected involvement.
Conservatives had plenty of warning. Armstrong served in the leadership of the RINO Main Street Partnership during his time in Congress. Although North Dakota boasts a growing conservative bench, Trump’s premature endorsement last spring handed Armstrong the governorship in one reckless move.
If Trump keeps up his reckless endorsement habits, every deep-red state will soon struggle to pass even the most basic conservative priorities. Once Trump leaves office, Democrats won’t just revive Biden-era policies — they will escalate.
Deep-red states like North Dakota, immune from political swings in general elections, must become our last strongholds of freedom. Electing more governors like Kelly Armstrong will strip away that sanctuary and leave conservatives with nowhere to run.
The abortion pill’s body count — and the progressive cover-up behind it
Progressives routinely advance their agenda by obscuring the suffering of women and children. Every cultural revolution they champion, from redefining marriage to dismantling biological sex to flooding the country with abortion pills, demands one thing: suppression of consequences.
During the gay marriage debate, we were told it was all about adult love and equality. In reality, children paid the price.
This is the progressive playbook: Minimize harm, deny casualties, and move the Overton window.
With the transgender surge, Americans were assured it was just about “letting people pee in peace.” In reality, it meant lost female swim and track records, male rapists in women’s prisons, and irreversible surgeries on minors.
And now it’s the abortion pill. Sold as “a safe, effective, FDA-approved method for people to end a pregnancy in the comfort of their own homes,” it has quietly become one of the most dangerous medical products routinely given to American women — no doctor visit required.
A groundbreaking new study by the Ethics and Public Policy Center shatters the illusion of safety around mifepristone, the abortion drug created by Danco Laboratories and greenlighted by the FDA. Based on real-world insurance claims (versus the previous shallow clinical trials) the data shows that one in 10 women who take the abortion pill suffer a serious or life-threatening complication: sepsis, hemorrhaging, emergency surgery, hospitalization — even death.
“Simply stated,” the report says, “mifepristone, as used in real-world conditions, is not ‘safe and effective.’”
Naming the victims
The study analyzed a staggering 865,727 chemical abortions between 2017 and 2023, drawn from an all-payer insurance claims database covering private insurers, Medicaid, Medicare, Tricare, and the Department of Veterans Affairs. Unlike the cherry-picked participants in controlled trials, these women represent the actual population using mifepristone today.
The EPPC found that 10.93% of women experienced serious adverse events within 45 days of their abortions — a rate 22 times higher than what the FDA reports on its drug label, which still cites outdated trials from as far back as 1983. As the authors note, those clinical trials enrolled just 30,966 people and were conducted under tightly controlled conditions. The real world doesn’t work that way.
And the real world has already buried the dead.
Amber Nicole Thurman, a 28-year-old medical assistant and mother from Georgia, died on August 19, 2022, from septic shock after experiencing complications from a medication abortion. After taking abortion pills, she developed a severe infection due to retained fetal tissue.
In 2017, 23-year-old Keisha Atkins underwent a late-term abortion in New Mexico, using mifepristone and misoprostol. She developed sepsis and required transfer to the University of New Mexico Hospital. Her condition rapidly worsened, and she died during emergency surgery.
Atkins and Thurman are not rare exceptions. Candi Miller, a 41-year-old mother, and Porsha Ngumezi, 35, also suffered fatal complications. Other unnamed victims fill the record. These women represent just a fraction of the tens of thousands who faced serious complications after taking mifepristone.
The EPPC report confirms what these stories reveal: The FDA has abandoned its responsibility to women in pursuit of politically pressured expediency.
In the name of “access,” the FDA has dismantled the original safeguards it once demanded when approving mifepristone in 2000.
Back then, patients were required to make three in-person visits. Only physicians could prescribe the drug. Pills had to be administered in a clinic or hospital setting. Providers had to be able to diagnose ectopic pregnancies and provide emergency surgical care if needed. Adverse events had to be reported.
Now? One telehealth call. Pills mailed to your house. And no obligation to report complications — unless the woman dies.
Returning to reality
In light of such overwhelming evidence of harm, the EPPC report recommends that “the FDA immediately reinstate its earlier, stronger patient safety protocols to ensure physician responsibility for women who take mifepristone under their care, as well as mandate full reporting of its side effects.”
The EPPC is right. Because the data is damning.
The study used the FDA’s own criteria to identify serious adverse events: infections, transfusions, ER visits, repeat surgeries, and psychiatric emergencies, all coded through ICD-10 and CPT medical billing systems. And while the report was cautious — tracking events within 45 days instead of the 72-day window used by FDA trial data — the outcome was still catastrophic.
“We included CTCAE Grade 3 (severe) and Grade 4 (life-threatening),” the report notes. “We did not include Grade 1 (mild) or Grade 2 (moderate).”
In other words, these weren’t headaches or stomach cramps. These were emergencies. And the women were often alone.
Chemical abortions now account for roughly two-thirds of all abortions in America. That means mifepristone is not a niche product — it’s mainstream. And yet the public has been systematically lied to about the risks, even as the federal government continues to loosen restrictions.
This is the progressive playbook: Minimize harm, deny casualties, and move the Overton window. It worked with marriage. It worked with gender. It’s working with abortion pills — unless we stop pretending.
Justice requires living in reality. And the reality is that women and children are the consistent casualties of the progressive utopia.
We owe women more than euphemisms about “empowerment.” We owe them truth, compassion, accountability — and, in this case, stricter regulations that once existed for their protection.
The EPPC’s report is only the beginning. As more real-world data emerges, the FDA and drug manufacturers will be forced to answer the one question they’ve dodged for decades: How many women must suffer and die before “safe and effective” actually means something again?
ABC News Insists on Pushing Debunked ‘Deported Citizen Babies’ Hoax
As we indicated when covering Alex Thompson’s speech at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, it wasn’t just the media’s willful concealment of President Joe Biden’s severe cognitive decline that undermined trust in the media, but the sum total of hoaxes spread, encouraged, and abetted. Based on the latest faux immigration scandal, it appears that ABC News is adamant on refusing to learn that lesson.
Watch as Senior Political Correspondent Rachel Scott continues to spread the debunked “Deported Citizen Babies” Hoax:
https://www.mrctv.org/node/593753
RACHEL SCOTT: On immigration, the other major issue in the November election, President Trump getting his highest marks. But they come with new questions tonight. 46% of Americans approve of his immigration policies. But 48% say his actions deporting undocumented migrants have gone too far. Tonight, The White House defending how they’ve handled mass deportations after three children who are U.S. citizens, ages 2, 4 and 7, were deported to Honduras, along with their mothers, after routine checks by ICE. The president’s border czar, Tom Homan, claiming the presidents were given a choice.
TOM HOMAN: What we did is remove children with their mothers, who requested their children depart with them. This is a parental decision. Parenting 101. Having a U.S. citizen child, does that make you immune from our law?
You’ll recall that the Sunday shows tried to make this stick, and got wrecked for their efforts. Now? Only ABC and Rachel Scott are intent on keeping the hoax alive. But as their own analyst indicated yesterday:
SARAH ISGUR: Often times, it’s going to look more like a custody dispute than an immigration question.
ABC, hellbent on remaining the most Trump-hostile of the legacy networks, insists on pushing the hoax upon its viewers. The other networks, however, played it safe with their language.
NBC, for example, went a more cautious route, mirroring the “removed” language used by Border Czar Tom Homan in reference to the citizen children:
LESTER HOLT: And on border security and immigration, a signature issue for President Trump, our poll shows him with a 49% approval. And tonight, the removal of an undocumented migrant mother and her two children, both American citizens, is the latest flash point in an ongoing fight over the president’s mass deportation policies. Garrett Haake has the latest.
CBS avoided using verbs when addressing together, as seen in this exchange that closed out their reporting:
MAURICE DuBOIS: You asked the secretary about due process, how did he respond to that?
LILIA LUCIANO: That was very interesting, I asked his specifically about those Venezuelans who were sent to CECOT, to El Salvador, and he said “due process comes in many fashions.”
DuBOIS: What did he have to say about the American-born children in this particular case though?
LUCIANO: Well, when that happened that- the interview was before that, but the attorneys have called it speedy and a meaningful — no meaningful due process. They said that it was way too rapid.
JOHN DICKERSON: What does the administration say about that though? They say they got due process?
LUCIANO: They say they got due process- they say that the parents were deported, the American children- it was a choice for the mothers to take them with them. And that if they had been separated, that would be the story.
DICKERSON: Lilia Luciano. Thank you.
CBS and NBC had sense enough, contrary to ABC and at least on this issue, to stop the madness. This isn’t to say that they’ll stop wetting the bed on judges or other illegal aliens, but they stopped self-inflicting damage. At least on this one story, on this one day. Tomorrow? Who knows?
Click “expand” to view the transcripts of the aforementioned reports as aired on their respective newscasts on Monday, April 28th, 2025:
ABC WORLD NEWS TONIGHT
4/28/25
6:36 PM
DAVID MUIR: We turn now to President Trump, who marks 100 days in office tomorrow. Tonight here, the new ABC news poll: what Americans are saying about the economy, inflation, immigration, and President Trump’s promise to end the war in Ukraine on Day One. Here’s Rachel Scott.
RACHEL SCOTT, SHOUTING IN FRONT OF MARINE ONE: Mr. President?
SCOTT: Tonight, on the eve of marking his first 100 days in office, President Trump facing the reality that while he was elected in large part because of the economy and inflation —
DONALD TRUMP: Starting on day one, we will end inflation. (VIDEO SWIPE) We will end inflation and we will make America affordable again.
SCOTT: He has now presided over the worst first 100 days in the stock market since Richard Nixon. Today, the new ABC News/Washington Post/Ipsos poll on the first 100 days shows the president’s approval rating is 39%, the lowest 100-day approval rating of any president in 80 years. 72% say his economic policies will likely cause a recession in short-term. 73% say the economy is in bad shape. And 53% say it’s gotten worse since he took office. President Trump’s tariffs leading to global uncertainty. And his 145% tariffs on China remain in place. The president says he has a good relationship with president Xi of China, but that he hasn’t reached out to him. Telling Time Xi has personally reached out to him, something China denies. I asked the president, when did you talk?
(SHOUTING IN FRONT OF MARINE ONE): You said you spoke to president Xi? When did that happen? China said that hasn’t happened.
TRUMP: I spoke to him numerous times.
SCOTT: Other reporters pressing, too.
REPORTER: Have you spoken to him since the tariffs? When did you last speak with him?
TRUMP: I don’t want to- I don’t want to comment on that. But I’ve spoken to him many times.
SCOTT: But China today once again insisting that hasn’t happened. Today a spokesperson saying, “as far as I know, there have not been any calls between the two presidents recently.” Adding, “Let me make it clear one more time that China and the U.S. are not engaged in any consultation or negotiations on tariffs”, after warning, “the United States should not confuse the public.” On immigration, the other major issue in the November election, President Trump getting his highest marks. But they come with new questions tonight. 46% of Americans approve of his immigration policies. But 48% say his actions deporting undocumented migrants have gone too far. Tonight, The White House defending how they’ve handled mass deportations after three children who are U.S. citizens, ages 2, 4 and 7, were deported to Honduras, along with their mothers, after routine checks by ICE. The president’s border czar, Tom Homan, claiming the presidents were given a choice.
TOM HOMAN: What we did is remove children with their mothers, who requested their children depart with them. This is a parental decision. Parenting 101. Having a U.S. citizen child, does that make you immune from our law?
SCOTT: The ACLU says the 4-year-old suffers from a rare form of cancer. On the 2-year-old sent to Honduras, a federal judge appointed by Trump saying he has a strong suspicion the administration deported the 2-year-old, whose mother is currently pregnant, with no meaningful process. And the ACLU claiming the parents were nevert given a choice. That the parents did not have the opportunity to coordinate with caretakers or legal representatives. In a new interview with The Atlantic, the president was asked, what would happen if the administration accidentally deported the wrong person or an American citizen? The president saying, quote, “let me tell you that nothing will ever be perfect in this world.” And on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the promise from candidate Trump —
TRUMP: Before I even arrive at the Oval Office, I will have the disastrous war between Russia and Ukraine settled. Settled. It will take me no longer than one day.
SCOTT: Tonight, the war still raging. 46% of Americans said Trump’s approach to Russia is too friendly. The president requesting this meeting with Ukraine’s President Zelenskyy at The Vatican, ahead of Pope Francis’s funeral this weekend. Though it’s still unclear how and when this war will end, and what concessions, if any, will come from Vladimir Putin. With so much focus on the president’s interactions with our allies, tonight Canadians will be heading to the polls, an election that will decide how Canada responds to the president’s ongoing tariff threat and his push to make Canada the 51st state. All of that all could end up helping the Liberal Prime Minister Mark Carney, who took over after Justin Trudeau stepped down and has vowed to confront President Trump head-on. David.
MUIR: Now a lot of eyes on that Canadian election tonight. Rachel Scott, thank you.
CBS EVENING NEWS
4/28/25
6:34 PM
JOHN DICKERSON: Immigration only second to the economy during the campaign and in our new poll, 46% of Americans told us that in his first 100 days, the president has focused too much on deporting immigrants who are here illegally.
MAURICE DuBOIS: 37% said his focus on that was about right. Lilia Luciano reports on the latest roundups of undocumented immigrants.
LILIA LUCIANO: These are DEA agents breaking through a window during a raid at a Colorado Springs nightclub this weekend. The agents say they rounded up more than 100 undocumented immigrants. And in Florida, another series of raids. This time, ICE claims to have arrested nearly 800 more. Since President Trump took office, ICE says it has made over 151,000 arrests, four times the amount of the Biden administration arrests this time last year. But deportations are significantly lower. Among the Trump administration’s biggest markers of success is a historically low number of border crossings, down more than 90% year-over-year. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem touted that to our Tony Dokoupil at the border today.
KRISTI NOEM: If you talk to all of these agents that have been down here for years, they say it’s night and day difference from where we were a year ago.
LUCIANO: A new CBS News poll found that most Americans approve of President Trump’s deportation policies, but just under half approve of Trump’s handling of immigration overall. Those tactics include family deportations, targeting of student protesters and the transfer of hundreds of migrants to a maximum security prison in El Salvador without a judge’s order. We asked border czar Tom Homan about those tactics.
TOM HOMAN: I think we are doing the right thing, this country is safer because of what we are doing and we are keeping our promise to the American people.
LUCIANO: Would you say the strategy of arresting the worst of the worst has shifted?
HOMAN: No. When we do these operations, there are several going on right now across the country, we are targeting public safety threats and national security threats. Now let me- I’ll caveat that. No one is off the table. —
LUCIANO: No one is off the table?
HOMAN: If you are in the country illegally, you are on the table.
DICKERSON: Lilia, ICE arrests are up, but deportations are down. Why?
LUCIANO: Deportations are down and I asked him why. And he did explain something that I found interesting which is: the Biden administration’s numbers include the people who were immediately deported across the border at a time where there was an overwhelming number of people there. The Trump administration is reporting people who are inside the country, and the border is pretty empty right now.
DuBOIS: You asked the secretary about due process, how did he respond to that?
LUCIANO: That was very interesting, I asked his specifically about those Venezuelans who were sent to CECOT, to El Salvador, and he said “due process comes in many fashions.”
DuBOIS: What did he have to say about the American-born children in this particular case though?
LUCIANO: Well, when that happened that- the interview was before that, but the attorneys have called it speedy and a meaningful — no meaningful due process. They said that it was way too rapid.
DICKERSON: What does the administration say about that though? They say they got due process?
LUCIANO: They say they got due process- they say that the parents were deported, the American children- it was a choice for the mothers to take them with them. And that if they had been separated, that would be the story.
DICKERSON: Lilia Luciano. Thank you.
NBC NIGHTLY NEWS
4/28/25
6:31 PM
LESTER HOLT: Good evening and welcome. It is something every modern-day president faces, the measuring stick of those first 100 days in office. Tonight as the Trump presidency nears that mark, some harsh takeaways for the president and his administration, starting with a 45% approval rating among voters, according to a new NBC News-Staytuned poll. His approval rating is higher than his first term, but it is barely masking erosion and warning signs on some of the other issues that helped propel him into office, like the economy or his approval on trade and tariffs stands at 39%. And on border security and immigration, a signature issue for President Trump, our poll shows him with a 49% approval. And tonight, the removal of an undocumented migrant mother and her two children, both American citizens, is the latest flash point in an ongoing fight over the president’s mass deportation policies. Garrett Haake has the latest.
GARRETT HAAKE: Tonight, President Trump approaching his 100th day in office, focused on his top day one priority, border security. The president signing three executive orders on immigration, including one ordering the attorney general to compile a list of so-called sanctuary cities, and states that don’t fully cooperate with the federal immigration authorities, after a weekend raid in Colorado Springs where the DEA says over 100 migrants in the U.S. illegally were arrested at an underground nightclub frequented by MS-13 and TdA gang members.
KAROLINE LEAVITT: The American public don’t want illegal alien criminals in their communities, they made that quite clear on November 5th, and this administration is determined to enforce our immigration laws.
HAAKE: The White House touting a 95% drop in illegal border crossings in March compared to the same month last year under President Biden. But tonight, the administration is facing criticism from migrant advocates over the removal of two American citizen children of an undocumented woman from Honduras, including her 4 year-old son. A migrant rights group says he was sent to Honduras without his medication for Stage Four cancer. The Trump administration says his mother chose to take her children when she was deported.
TOM HOMAN: A mother wanted her children to go with her. What better due process would anybody want? That’s a parent’s choice, not a government choice, not a judge’s choice.
HAAKE: We pressed President Trump’s border czar.
How is going after families with young kids targeting the worst of the worst?
HOMAN: First of all, we said we’re going to prioritize the worst of the worst.
HAAKE: You feel like that’s what you’re doing?
HOMAN: Absolutely. But when you prioritize something, it doesn’t mean you forget about everything else. I have said from day one: if you’re in the country illegally, you’re not off the table.
HAAKE: But nearly 100 days into his second term, it is the economy where President Trump is facing his biggest challenge. Just 39% of Americans approve of his handling of trade and tariffs in a new NBC News-Staytuned poll. Overall, the president’s approval rating stands at 45%. Two points down from our poll a month ago.
HOLT: And Garrett, our poll also shows President Trump has just a 40% approval rating on handling of inflation, and The White House is about to focus on that tomorrow.
HAAKE: Yeah, that’s right, Lester. The president marks 100 days, the Treasury Secretary will be here tomorrow to defend the administration’s economic approach, and the president will hold his first major rally since the campaign in Michigan. A state he won, but where the economy and his tariffs are front and center. Lester.
HOLT: All right. Garrett, thanks.
Chuck Schumer Claims Trump is Trying to Intimidate Judges – Forgets That He Threatened Members of SCOTUS in 2020 (VIDEO)
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer appeared on AL Sharpton’s MSNBC show over the weekend and claimed that Trump is trying to intimidate judges. This is a new Democrat talking point over the arrest of Judge Dugan in Wisconsin.
This claim from Schumer is especially rich, considering the fact that in 2020, he very publicly threatened Supreme Court Justices Kavanaugh and Gorsuch, saying they would ‘reap the whirlwind.’
Schumer is trying to frame this issue as a constitutional crisis and Al Sharpton did his best to try to help him.
Transcript via Real Clear Politics:
AL SHARPTON: Immigration advocates have been warning we are on the verge of a constitutional crisis. Has that crisis arrived, Senator?
SEN. CHUCK SCHUMER: Yes! It has, unfortunately. Because what? Trump wants to be king. A king doesn’t have a constitution. A king just does whatever he wants and beyond. He just goes along with them.
They’re trying to intimidate judges. This is not the first time or the second. They’ve said they want to impeach judges. They said they’re going to go after judges who don’t agree with them. That is so against the Constitution. The Constitution believes and has been written with the wisdom of the Founding Fathers, that we should have separation of powers. There should be an independent judiciary. When you go before a judge, you think that you hope and believe that that judge is impartial. What Trump, Bondi, and the whole Justice Department are trying to do is push that judge, threaten that judge, so the judge is no longer impartial. It is outrageous in both cases.
Check out the side by side comparison video below:
2025: Chuck Schumer says Trump wants to intimidate and threaten judges.
2020: Chuck Schumer tries to intimidate and threaten Justices of the Supreme Court. pic.twitter.com/FdisnZKk0I
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) April 27, 2025
During the same segment, Schumer told Sharpton that he is not stepping aside as Dem leader in the Senate:
Chuck Schumer says he’s not retiring:
“I’m staying put because I’ve been able to unite my caucus in a very strong fight against Trump.”
Imagine thinking your number one job qualification is fighting the man the American people just elected in an electoral landslide. Shameful. pic.twitter.com/bP1aH5Mo7n
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) April 28, 2025
Schumer’s approval ratings are awful but it looks like Democrats are stuck with him, for now anyway.
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NewsBusters Podcast: Preposterous Press Proclamations of Independence
From the White House Correspondents Dinner to 60 Minutes, reporters spent the weekend claiming they’re not an opposition party, they’re just “independent” people who search for the “truth,” doing “honest journalism.” Fact check: False.
The White House Correspondents Association held their annual self-congratulatory dinner on Saturday night. WHCA president Eugene Daniels, a Politico reporter now moving to be an MSNBC host, claimed preposterously: “We care deeply about accuracy and take seriously the heavy responsibility of being stewards of the public’s trust. What we are not is the opposition. What we are not is the enemy of the people. And what we are not is the enemy of the state.” This blatant falsehood was followed by a standing ovation.
Everyone with eyes and ears can see “mainstream media” are the opposition to the Trump administration and Trump voters. They are not the enemy of the people, they are the enemy of the Trump people. They are not stewards of the public trust. They are water carriers for the Democratic Party. They often engage in messaging or advertising for the side they favor. They are often repeaters, not reporters.
What made it weirder was giving an award to Alex Thompson of Axios.com for his coverage of President Biden’s mental decline. This has to be seen as an acknowledgment that the White House press corps as a group were timid and deferential to the Democrats. Thompson said “we missed a lot of the story.” But most of us did not miss the decline. The liberal media remained in defiance of reality until their fellow Democrats saw him faceplant at a presidential debate. Then suddenly, they shifted along with the party line. That’s one of many reasons that most Americans no longer trust these people.
We heard a similarly preposterous speech from AP White House reporter Zeke Miller: “From the White House to the town of Whitehouse, Texas – it’s a real place – Peoria to the Persian Gulf, we at AP remain committed as ever to accurate, independent, nonpartisan journalism, to carrying light the world over.”
If AP were independent and nonpartisan, they would be fighting with Trump and suing the White House. If AP were independent and nonpartisan, their leading female journalists wouldn’t be writing suckup softball books about Jill Biden, with all their FLOTUS favoritism. If AP were interested in accurate journalism, they wouldn’t push on all media outlets this flagrantly anti-factual propaganda: “A person’s sex and gender are usually assigned at birth by parents or attendants and can turn out to be inaccurate. Experts say gender is a spectrum, not a binary structure consisting of only men and women.”
No one is surprised when the 60 Minutes crew at CBS congratulates itself for being “independent” of the Trump White House. But the I-word sounds ridiculous when you think of 60 Minutes and Democrats. Scott Pelley gave a show-ending commentary about executive producer Bill Owens resigning because he didn’t like Paramount’s brass overseeing what they were putting together. “Bill felt he lost the independence that honest journalism requires.”
They just have to claim that their decades of political campaigning against Republicans is “Honest Journalism” that never lost its “independence.”
Enjoy the podcast below, or wherever you listen to podcasts.