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Dem governor in deep-red state calls for ICE pullout, triggering clash over enforcement authority
This affects the entire country.

EXCLUSIVE: Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman fired back at Gov. Andy Beshear's comments on "The View" about pulling ICE out of "every city," setting up what could become a high-stakes intergovernmental battle over cooperation with federal immigration authorities.
"Every ICE agent should be withdrawn from every city and every community that they're in. This organization has to be reformed from the top-down. Secretary Noem needs to be fired, and every agent needs to retrained," Beshear told the ABC talk show, before adding the "body-count of American citizens" should lead to a "pause [to] pull everybody back."
Coleman, who spoke to Fox News Digital from the sheriff’s office in Daviess County — home of NASCAR legend Darrell Waltrip and one of several Kentucky jurisdictions that work with ICE — said his take is "not a political one" and that ICE also has the backing of those lawmen he was meeting with after the interview.
"My view as the chief law enforcement officer of this commonwealth, someone that's carried a badge and a gun, someone that has been a federal prosecutor, [is] that statement that the governor made was absurd," Coleman said.
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Coleman said the dispute centers on Beshear’s "commentary" versus the reality of which agencies he controls.
The Kentucky State Police fall under Beshear’s authority, but they currently work with ICE. Meanwhile, Coleman’s office works with the state’s 120 county sheriffs’ offices, many of which cooperate with the Department of Homeland Security.
"I don't want to set up a straw-dog argument because the reality is the collaboration is never going to stop here because those of us who have taken an oath to protect families are going to work with our federal partners," he said, pointing to recent successes across the Tug Fork River where such collaboration led to the arrests of 650 illegal immigrants in West Virginia.
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As for the legal ramifications of a potential clash between a DHS-aligned attorney general and a governor with opposing objectives, one legal expert said the situation presents an interesting case.
Former Florida federal prosecutor Zack Smith said that while every state’s attorney generalship is slightly different, a governor is an elected constitutional officer, just as sheriffs are, and that neither can tell the other what to do "in most instances."
"The attorney general can issue opinions of law. He can issue certain …

Mike Rogers tries to win over young Michigan voters with housing affordability plan
This is performative politics again.

Former Rep. Mike Rogers, who is running for Senate in Michigan, has rolled out a housing affordability plan that he hopes can help win over young homebuyers struggling to break into the market.

Rogers, a Republican who served in Congress from 2001 to 2015, including as chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, told the Washington Examiner during an interview that he has heard a lot about housing affordability on the campaign trail. Rogers is running for the open Senate seat in Michigan in this year’s midterm elections.

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“Most of these conversations start with people saying, ‘My kids walk [up] to me and say, you know, I just don’t have the same kind of opportunity here in Michigan, I’m going to have to leave the state,’” Rogers said.

“So I say, we’re going to change that when we get to the United States Senate,” he said.

Rogers said that what he has heard from young people — including in his extended family — is that, because of their lower monthly income, there is a pretty narrow band of houses within their reach, and when those hit the market, it is “outrageously competitive.”

Rogers said that when he examined the challenges facing prospective homebuyers, one big hurdle was saving up for a down payment.

One key part of his plan is expanding 529 savings accounts, which are tax-advantaged investment accounts that help families save for education costs. Rogers proposes expanding those to include down payments for first-time homebuyers.

“Because not everybody’s going to college, not everybody finishes college, not everybody wants to go directly into college,” he said. “They deserve a way to save for that down payment in a way that some people are using it to pay for college.”

He also pointed out that one doesn’t necessarily exclude the other. For instance, someone could use the 529 account to help pay for college and then keep it open and use it to start saving for a down payment.

Rogers’s plan also includes allowing young homebuyers to pay their first year’s property tax using their 529 accounts as well as eliminating transfer fees and ensuring the 529 plans don’t count against private mortgage insurance eligibility.

Rogers, who previously ran for Senate in 2024 against Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) and lost by a 19,000-vote margin, said he also intends to help with building credit. He pointed out that renters can hurt their credit by not …

March Social Security direct payment worth $994 goes out in 12 days
Who benefits from this decision?

The March 2026 Supplemental Security Income payments, worth up to $994, will be issued to recipients in 12 days.

SSI payments are typically issued on the first day of each month, but March’s payment will go out on Feb. 27, since March 1 falls on a Sunday this year. When the first of the month falls on a weekend or holiday, SSI payments are issued on the last business day of the previous month.

Beneficiaries are people with limited income who are either blind, aged 65 and older, or have a qualifying disability.

The amount beneficiaries receive varies based on several factors, including the number of people filing. For example, individual filers can receive up to $994, couples filing jointly can receive $1,491, and those providing essential care to SSI recipients can receive up to $498. 

In addition to the previous prerequisites for receiving SSI payments, recipients must also be U.S. citizens or noncitizens in one of the alien classifications granted by the Department of Homeland Security.

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Additionally, recipients must live in one of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, or the Northern Mariana Islands, and must not be absent from the United States for a full calendar month or 30 consecutive days.

A full calendar for the Social Security Administration payments can be viewed on the agency’s website.

In South Texas, the GOP immigration hard line is now political kryptonite
Who's accountable for the results?

Backlash to President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown is putting vulnerable Republicans in a tough spot, forcing them to shift their tone to appease frustrated Hispanic voters — or risk losing key battleground seats.

It’s a delicate pivot for Republicans in South Texas, who spent years taking a hardline approach on immigration and flipped historically blue districts in the process.

Republican Rep. Monica De La Cruz, representing a majority-Hispanic district, has gone from calling for mass deportations to focusing on the “worst of the worst.” In lieu of expediting removals, she wants to create new visa categories for undocumented workers to fill jobs in construction and agriculture. And instead of slamming the Biden White House for its "border failure," she's setting up private meetings at the Trump White House to plead for temperance in immigration enforcement.

Rep. Tony Gonzales, whose district shares hundreds of miles with Mexico, wants his party to talk more about the border, and said he plans to “continue to advocate that the Republican Party needs to focus on convicted criminal illegal aliens” amid broad outrage over deportations of undocumented people with no proven risk to public safety.

Like other Republicans, they are trying to slowly distance themselves from the massive immigration crackdown that has quickly become political kryptonite for the GOP — but without being seen as disloyal to the president or undercutting their previous positions.

“President Trump made a promise, and he's kept that promise by securing the border. That was stage one,” De La Cruz said in an interview. “Now we're at stage two, which is having a conversation of true immigration reform.”

Republicans’ efforts to change the conversation will test their ability to maintain, or even extend, Trump’s 2024 gains with Hispanic voters — and play a pivotal role in the fight for control of Congress in November. A slew of polls in recent weeks has shown many Hispanic voters across the country, repulsed by the Trump administration’s aggressive deportation campaign, are souring on the Republican president they supported to a historic degree in 2024.

It’s a warning the White House appears to be taking seriously. In recent weeks, after the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti by an immigration enforcement officer in Minneapolis, the White House has signaled openness to paring back its deportation operation. On Thursday, border czar Tom Homan announced the administration’s massive immigration surge in Minneapolis would come to a close.

Latino voters’ embrace of Trump was a political earthquake, and South Texas was the epicenter.

De La Cruz’s district — which sprawls from the Rio Grande Valley on the U.S.-Mexico border up to the San Antonio suburbs — was represented by a …

Chicago-area teacher breaks silence after losing job over 2-word Facebook post supporting ICE: 'Devastating'
This is why trust is collapsing.

FIRST ON FOX: A Chicago area teacher who was forced to resign from his position over his Facebook post saying "Go ICE" is speaking out about the emotional and financial toll he has suffered as a result.
"This process has been professionally and personally devastating and surreal," former West Chicago teacher James Heidorn told Fox News Digital in his first public comments about the situation. 
"I’ve spent 14 years building my career, pouring my heart into teaching kids, building relationships, and being a positive role model. To see it all upended over two simple words, ‘Go ICE’, where I expressed my personal support for law enforcement felt like a severe blow to my career."
In late January, Fox News Digital first reported that the longtime teacher at Gary Elementary school in a heavily Hispanic district was placed on leave after local activists in the community began sharing his Facebook post that said "GO ICE" in response to a news story about a local police department saying they would cooperate with ICE. 
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On Thursday, Jan. 22, Heidorn was first notified by school officials that they had seen the growing social media chatter about his post. He briefly quit after meeting with HR staff before rescinding his resignation the same day. Heidorn was set to return to school to teach on Monday while the school investigated.
Around the same time, Illinois Democratic state Senator Karina Villa, who was captured on video in September chasing down ICE agents in the street, publicly expressed outrage over the post and said she stands in "unwavering solidarity" with families upset about the "disturbing comments reportedly made by an educator."
On that Saturday, before an investigation had been concluded, West Chicago Mayor Daniel Bovey took to Facebook and posted a video explaining why Heidorn's comments were "hurtful" and "offensive" to many in the community.
"The issue is we have trusted adults who are the ones that care for those kids when they can’t be with their mom and their dad," Bovey said. "So to have someone cavalierly rooting on — as if it’s a football game or something, yeah go — events which have traumatized these children … that is the issue."
Over the weekend, parents online were encouraging each other to keep their students home from school as a form of protest, and many in the community began criticizing Heidorn. 
The city of West Chicago held a "listening session" on Jan. 26 at the request of Bovey, that included a Spanish translator, where a variety of parents and locals expressed concerns about the post, …

Democrats say Trump redistricting push backfiring as Virginia advances new House maps
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Democrat lawmakers say President Donald Trump’s redistricting gambit is backfiring as Virginia’s Democrat-controlled Senate advanced new congressional maps that could chip away at the House GOP's majority.
The Virginia Senate voted 21-16 along party lines on Wednesday to pass a set of new congressional maps that would leave just one Republican district in play.
Republicans currently hold five.
To Republicans like Rep. Rob Wittman, R-Va., that’s too drastic a swing for a state that only has 11 districts to begin with. Even in light of similar redistricting pushes in Texas, California and other states, Wittman believes Virginia’s case is unique.
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"This partisan power grab is not reflective of Virginia. Virginia is a 6-5 congressional delegation: six Democrats, five Republicans. And now they want to go to 10 Democrats, one Republican — 92%," Wittman said.
"They’re going to disenfranchise most Virginians, if not all of them, that are Republican or independent."
Despite the size of the change the maps would bring, Democrats believe it’s just the latest continuation of a fight that Trump started.
"You have to fight fire with fire," Rep. Suhas Subramanyam, D-Va., told Fox News Digital.
"The voters that I’m talking to feel that we can’t just sit back and be victims of redistricting. I don’t think this would be happening unless [Trump] pushed for redistricting in Texas and other red states," Subramanyam said.
When asked if he thinks the changes would go too far, Subramanyam said he thinks Republicans will have a chance to press their case at the ballot box.
"If Republicans can win over the hearts and minds of Virginians, they will have a good cycle. It's a very volatile map in that sense, and so I know many have argued that this is actually fair. I would say that it's certainly a map where, if Republicans campaign well and their message resonates, they can win too," Subramanyam said.
Since Trump urged lawmakers in Texas to push through a map change in July 2025, state legislatures across the country have explored ways to squeeze out a congressional advantage where control of the House hangs by a two-seat thread.
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Virginia’s map change, on its own, would give Democrats a path to flipping control of the chamber in November.
But the maps aren’t a sure thing. Their implementation turns on pending legal battles about whether the shakeup complies with the state’s …

Religious Communities Succeed Where Social Programs Fail 
This is how power hides.

Under Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s New York City, 16 people experiencing homelessness froze to death in a single brutal winter weekend—found across Manhattan, Brooklyn, and the subway system. These tragedies occurred despite the mayor’s $100 million affordable housing campaign, which promised 200,000 new homes, and New York City spending roughly $3 billion in fiscal year 2025 on homelessness-related services.  

The failures highlight a troubling reality: Government programs can provide aid, but they often fail to change lives. 

Poverty, homelessness, broken families, and addiction have long plagued American communities. Policymakers have attempted to solve these problems through government intervention and social programs. These programs may provide temporary relief to families across the country, but the root of the problem remains neglected.   

Because the programs are administered through bureaucratic systems, they tend to treat people as cases to be managed rather than individuals to be restored. Social programs can unintentionally erode personal accountability and often lack personal investment and support.  

This is why religious communities succeed where social programs fail: Government aid manages needs while religion changes behavior. True change is not imposed—it is chosen. When people accept accountability for their decisions, they can alter the course of their lives.  

Religion treats aid as part of a community, not as a handout. When a congregation offers support, it does so within a relationship that expects growth, contribution, and accountability.  

Change Happens in Community  

James, a single father of two from Ranger, Texas, was struggling to make ends meet while facing unemployment and the daily challenges of raising his children alone. Desperate for help, he turned to St. Rita’s Church for assistance, as Catholic Charities Fort Worth reports. 

At Catholic Charities Fort Worth, James enrolled in a program designed to provide financial assistance and equip him with the tools and guidance needed to navigate his challenging circumstances.  

Perhaps the most important part of the program was the support network it offered—especially Dina, his program navigator. 

“Sometimes he would call me crying,” Dina said, “but I felt like those were breakthroughs for him because he had somebody to at least, you know, confide in and not judge him. I think it gave him confidence and courage to know that somebody was there with him, walking that path with him.”  

Catholic social services demonstrate how religious communities pair material assistance with emotional support. In 2024, the network of Catholic Charities agencies across the country served more than 28 million meals and provided emergency housing services to nearly 295,000 people.  

Pope Benedict XVI taught: “The State which would provide everything, absorbing everything into itself, would ultimately become a mere bureaucracy incapable of guaranteeing the very thing which the suffering person, every person needs: namely, loving personal concern.” He emphasizes that true help and lasting change are rooted in love.  

Ironically, churches are both communal and individual. As …

Maryland woman says TPUSA high school event raised 'serious concerns,' says Child Protective Services notified
Equal justice apparently isn't equal anymore.

A student group affiliated with Turning Point USA is facing criticism for hosting an event at a Maryland high school in December, with one woman saying that Child Protective Services had been notified.
A local community member, who was identified as Nancy, expressed "serious concern" about the December TPUSA-affiliated event at a February 12 board meeting. The woman spoke after a student from the high school who serves as president of the Calvert County Club America.
That student said his group placed restrictions on the event after receiving "hate" online, including restricting access for adults they did not know who were not volunteers or parents of attendees. He also stated that all students who attended had parental permission.
"We have been accused of many things. We have been accused of grooming children … an allegation that a random unnamed man was president of our group and had certain felony charges. I'm the president of the group. I'm 17, I'm a minor. I can't groom children because I am a child. I don't have any felony charges or convictions," the student said, adding an invitation to discuss any questions.
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The student clarified that CCCA is affiliated with TPUSA but is its own 501(c)(3) organization and is not part of the state's public school system.
Nancy spoke next, raising her issues with the TPUSA event. 
"While community building opportunities for students are important, this event raises serious concerns related to student safety, parental rights, and governance oversight," the woman stated, claiming that parents and legal guardians were not permitted to attend the event.
"Excluding parents and guardians from a student-focused event creates a lack of transparency and undermines established best practices for youth safety," she continued, going on to say that such events should be subject to supervision and background checks.
"Students are widely recognized as vulnerable population, they are in critical developmental stages, and especially susceptible to influence," she added.
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"All Board of Education members in this room are mandated reporters under state law, as I am. Based on the circumstances surrounding this event, a report was made to Child Protective Services," the woman added as she concluded her remarks.
Controversy over the event comes as TPUSA continues to grow its influence on high school and college campuses across the …