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Facts on undocumented immigrant numbers and the Trump administrations deployment of ICE and enforcement tactics in blue states vrs red states.
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Recent data and reporting from late 2025 and 2026 indicate that the second Trump administration has focused immigration enforcement, including large-scale operations, on blue cities and states, while undocumented populations in Republican-led states grew faster between 2019 and 2023.
- A WEBZ/Sun-Times analysis of data found that from 2019 to 2023, the growth rate of undocumented immigrants was higher in Republican-led states (~41%) compared to Democrat-led states (~30%).

-Texas and Florida saw the largest raw increases in undocumented residents during the period of 2019 to 2023, accounting for nearly a third of the nation's total growth in that population.

From January to July 2025 the number of Latin American non-citizens declined by roughly 1.6 million.

- The Trump administration has focused on "sanctuary" cities and states with Democratic leadership,launching major ICE operations in cities like Los Angeles, Chicago, and Minneapolis.

- Analysis of data from 2025 shows a stark contrast in tactics, with 59% of arrests occurring in in peisons and jails, while 70% of arrests took placein the community (workplaces, streets, and homes).

- In sanctuary jurisdictions, where local law enforcement don't cooperate with ICE, federal agents have resorted to public, community based arrests.

- New York City saw a 400% spike in ICE detainers (requests to transfer custody) in 2025, with federal officials citing a need to bypass policies that limit local law enforcement cooperation.

- Reports that federal agents, sometimes in plain-clothes, are targeting people showing up for immigration court hearings.

Over a dozen declared dead after major winter storm shutters schools, offices, and airports
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Over a dozen people have been declared dead after this weekend’s major winter storm blanketed the country from the Midwest to the Northeast and closed schools, offices, and airports early this week.

As of Monday morning, at least 14 people died across multiple states. The death toll may rise.

At least five of those deaths were reported in New York City by Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who did not confirm whether the cause of their deaths was weather-related.

“While we do not yet know their causes of death, there is no more powerful reminder of the danger of extreme cold and how vulnerable many of our neighbors are, especially homeless New Yorkers,” Mamdani said on Sunday, adding the five victims did not appear to be homeless.

A sixth person was pronounced dead on Sunday after police found him outside, Gothamist reported.

About 11 inches of snow fell in Central Park, marking New York City’s largest snowfall accumulation since 2022.

Deaths were also reported in Tennessee, Louisiana, Kansas, Massachusetts, and Texas.

In Frisco, Texas, a 16-year-old girl died in a sledding accident when the sled struck a curb and hit a tree. She and another girl were being pulled by a teenage boy driving a car. In Austin, a person died from suspected hypothermia after their body was found in the parking lot of an abandoned gas station.

Besides the death toll, power outages and flight cancellations abounded.

Over 800,000 customers remain without electricity on Monday morning, according to a live power outage tracker. Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas were the four hardest-hit states.

More than 11,000 flights were canceled on Sunday, impacting all flights at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport and most flights at Philadelphia International Airport. The storm continued to be a cause of concern for airports, which canceled more than 3,000 flights so far Monday.

Reagan National Airport said its flights will “gradually return” as the day progresses. Meanwhile, Philadelphia International Airport told passengers to “expect delays and possible cancellations” on Monday.

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Additionally, many schools and offices were closed as roads remained treacherous early Monday. Government offices in the District of Columbia are closed.

While the worst of the snowstorm is over, freezing temperatures will continue to stick around the rest of the week. In Washington, D.C., the high on Monday will be …

BREAKING: Suella Braverman defects to reform
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Former Conservative Home Secretary Suella Braverman MP has defected to Reform UK.

Nigel Farage made the announcement at a rally for party activists in central London. Whilst announcing it today was a surprise – at a rally to announce a new Reform group supporting veterans – the defection itself has long been anticipated and suspected at CCHQ.

Despite being attacked online by leading Reform spokespeople last year over her record on immigration, which led to her husband Rael leaving Reform, she’s known not to have been happy that she was not given any role in Badenoch’s renewal shadow team, or within the wider party despite her Cabinet experience. She had also felt badly treated post the election by some colleagues.

One senior Conservative told ConHome a few days ago, following other recent defections:

“If she wants to go she should get on and go. I think it’s clear she’s not happy, and either thinks the Party has given her – or she has created herself – nowhere else to go. I’d say, though, she’s not as significant a loss as she once might have been”

She was Boris Johnson’s attorney general and was made Home Secretary by Liz Truss in September 2022. She was forced to step down from the role a month later, after it emerged she had sent an official document to a colleague using her personal email. Rishi Sunak re-appointed her just six days later upon entering Downing Street himself. However she was again sacked from the role the following year.

Today Braverman told Reform supporters she had also resigned her Tory membership of 30 years, adding:

“I feel like I’ve come home.”

She had in recent weeks told Telegraph readers that her future plans were to be “part of the renaissance of the Conservative party” having said publicly last year on a platform with Reform deputy leader Richard Tice that she was elected a Conservative and was still a Conservative.

She’s the third sitting Tory MP to join Reform this month, following Robert Jenrick and Andrew Rosindell, and with Danny Kruger, the fourth since the 2024 election.

Braverman told Reform supporters:

“Britain is indeed broken. She is suffering. She is not well.“Immigration is out of control. Our public services are on their knees. People don’t feel safe.“We can’t even defend ourselves, and our nation stands weak and humiliated on the world stage.“So we stand at a crossroads. We can either continue down this route of managed decline to weakness and surrender. Or we can fix our country, reclaim our power, rediscover our strength.”

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Sixty CEOs in Minnesota call for ‘immediate, deescalation of tensions’
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Dozens of CEOs have called for the lowering of tensions in Minneapolis, pleading for a return to normalcy in the aftermath of anti-ICE protester Alex Pretti being fatally shot by a Border Patrol agent.

The 60 business leaders called for cooperation between Mayor Jacob Frey, Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN), and the Trump administration. The letter was published by the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce and signed by the CEOs of companies and organizations such as Target, UnitedHealth Group, U.S. Bancorp, Minnesota’s professional sports teams, the Mayo Clinic, and Land O’Lakes, among others. 

“The business community in Minnesota prides itself in providing leadership and solving problems to ensure a strong and vibrant state,” read the letter. “The recent challenges facing our state have created widespread disruption and tragic loss of life. For the past several weeks, representatives of Minnesota’s business community have been working every day behind the scenes with federal, state, and local officials to advance real solutions.” 

“These efforts have included close communication with the Governor, the White House, the Vice President, and local mayors,” the CEOs wrote. “There are ways for us to come together to foster progress.”

The CEOs encouraged all parties to work together to find “real solutions” in the aftermath of the shooting. They each called for peace and expressed their desire to “build a bright and prosperous future.”

“With yesterday’s tragic news, we are calling for an immediate deescalation of tensions and for state, local, and federal officials to work together to find real solutions,” read the letter. 

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“In this difficult moment for our community, we call for peace and focused cooperation among local, state, and federal leaders to achieve a swift and durable solution that enables families, businesses, our employees, and communities across Minnesota to resume our work to build a bright and prosperous future,” noted the CEOs. 

Pretti was killed on Saturday during a confrontation with Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis who were conducting illegal immigration enforcement operations. He is the third person to be shot in Minneapolis this month by federal law enforcement officers during such an activity. Renee Good, a 37-year-old resident of Minneapolis, was fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer on Jan. 7, as the agency was engaged in enforcement …

IDF announces final hostage remains have been recovered from Gaza
Every delay has consequences.

The Israeli military announced that the remains of the final Israeli hostage have been recovered from Gaza.

Master Sgt. Ran Gvili, 24, was killed on Oct. 7, 2023, and taken to Gaza by Hamas. Over 250 people were taken during the terrorist attack, and the recovery of all of their remains has been a key hurdle in peace negotiations.

The deceased hostage SFC Ran Gvili has been identified and will be returned for burial.

According to the information and intelligence available to us, SFC Ran Gvili, 24, who served in the Israeli Police Special Forces, fell in combat on the morning of Oct. 7, 2023, and his body…
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) January 26, 2026

ISRAEL TO REOPEN RAFAH CROSSING ON A ‘LIMITED BASIS’

With all the hostages returned, Phase Two of President Donald Trump’s Gaza peace plan is in place, and the Rafah border crossing is expected to reopen.

This is a breaking news story and will be updated.

GOP senators launch task force to crack down on fraud tied to Minnesota scandal
Same show, different day.

FIRST ON FOX: A cohort of Senate Republicans plans to launch a targeted task force aimed at tackling fraudsters in the wake of the Minnesota fraud scandal.
Republican members of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee announced that they would form a task force dedicated to rooting out fraudsters abusing federal funding.
The seven-member panel will be led by HELP Committee Chair Bill Cassidy, R-La., who has cranked up efforts in recent weeks to crack down on fraud, particularly in Minnesota.
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"Our tax dollars are supposed to help American families, not line the pockets of fraudsters," Cassidy said in a statement to Fox News Digital. "HELP Committee Republicans are committed to rooting out this fraud and ensuring Americans’ tax dollars are used responsibly."
The long-running, nearly six years long investigation into alleged fraud in Minnesota gained new attention and traction among Republicans and the White House earlier this year.
The scandal, in which federal prosecutors estimate that up to $9 billion was stolen through a network of fraudulent fronts posing as daycare centers, food programs and health clinics, has dominated the bandwidth of many in the GOP and spurred the Trump administration's deployment of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents into Minneapolis.
The majority of those charged, so far, in the ongoing investigation are part of Minnesota's Somali population. The Trump administration has taken steps outside the deploying of ICE agents to target Somalis in the area, too, including ending protected status for the population and launching investigations into whether the fraudulent activity is connected to al-Shabab, a terrorist organization based in Somalia.
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The task force will delineate its focus into three prongs: health, education and labor and pensions.
Those three subgroups will be led by Sens. Ashley Moody, R-Fla., Roger Marshall, R-Kan., who will lead the health-focused section, Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., Jon Husted, who will lead the education-focused group, and R-Ohio, Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., and Tim Scott, R-S.C., who will chair the labor-and-pensions-focused section.
But the task force’s announcement comes at a precarious time, as lawmakers hurtle toward what could be another government shutdown fueled in large part by the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) actions in Minnesota. 
SENATE DEMOCRATS REBEL AGAINST THEIR OWN …

Republicans divided on ICE tactics as shutdown looms
Are they actually going to vote on something real?

Senate Republicans are divided over Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE) tactics, which now threaten to trigger a partial government shutdown after the second fatal shooting in Minneapolis of a protester.
Calling for an Investigation
Thom Tillis, Bill Cassidy, Thom Tillis, Susan Collins, and Pete Ricketts have called for an investigation into the shooting of Alex Pretty by DHS agents in Minneapolis.
Tillis warned senior Trump administration officials not to make snap judgments about the incident and not to “shut down” a careful investigation of what happened before the deadly shots were fired.
“Any administration official who rushes to judgment and tries to shut down an investigation before it begins are doing an incredible disservice to the nation and to President Trump’s legacy,” he said.
Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem said Pretti had brandished the gun at federal officers, even though video footage showed he was holding his smart phone while filming them. He did not appear to draw the 9-mm semiautomatic handgun that he had concealed at his beltline and for which he had a permit.
Murkowski called for an independent investigation of the shooting and urged Congress to hold hearings to conduct oversight of ICE.
Government Shutdown
Many Senate Democrats said they will not fund the government by the Jan. 30 deadline until their demands are met on DHS and ICE reform. Republicans will need the help of 12 Democrats to pass a bill.
Collins told The New York Times Saturday that she’s exploring the possibility of splitting off a bill funding the Department of Homeland Security from six-bill package that needs to pass by Jan. 30 to avoid a government shutdown.
“I’m exploring all options,” Collins told The Times. “We have five other bills that are really vital, and I’m relatively confident they would pass.”
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) announced on Saturday that Democrats would block a six-bill appropriations package that was expected to reach the Senate floor later this week, citing the need to “rein in the abuses of ICE.”
Will the Trump administration conduct an investigation on the shooting of Alex Pretty, or will they stick to their original narrative? Will the Senate be able to break up the funding bills so that only DHS funding is up for debate, or will Democrats successfully block all six funding bills? What sort of reforms would be palatable to both Democrats and Republicans?

Harriet Dolby: We’re creating a generation that doesn’t see the point in work or can’t find a job
Equal justice apparently isn't equal anymore.

Harriet Dolby is President-Elect of the Oxford University Conservative Association, and the most recent and youngest member of the Next Gen Tories executive.

‘What do you want to be when you grow up?’ is the question my Grandmother asks annually at Christmastime in order to avoid an awkward silence. I am now almost 20, and for the past fifteen years this has been a constant inquisition, ever since those primary school lessons made us draw out who and what we wanted to be in the future.

If I now look at that class of 33 pupils, an average of four of them would not be in education, employment of training (NEET). Extrapolated out to the UK, this figure rises to 948,000, 12.8% of young people.

That is one in eight 16-24-year-olds who may never work a day in their lives.

It is easy to see that if one becomes accustomed to a life of 9-5 Come Dine with Me and Four-in-a-Bed, then it would be hard to muster the will, confidence and ever-elusive ‘soft skills’ required to hold down a job.

But of course, this comes at a huge financial cost to the state, taxpayer and personal cost to those who are NEET. According to the Minister for Employment in July 2025, there were 768,000 young people on Universal credit. If we assume that each person receives the standard rate of UC, this would sum to over £2.2bn per year; more than half of the Metropolitan Police’s budget each year.  A figure that would rise even further when we consider the 383,000 young people on PIP too.

On the international stage, we are an embarrassment, with our youth unemployment (at 15-16 per cent) exceeding the OECD average (of 12 per cent), our Anglophone friends in Australia at 10 per cent and, as my teenage brother would say, we are certainly ‘mogged’ by Germany at just 7 percent. And this discrepancy is only growing with youth unemployment rising by 2 per cent to 16 per cent over just the past year.

Why are we letting this happen and what have we got wrong to get us here?

Fundamentally, Britain has seen a complete subversion of incentives, a welfare state so generous that it is almost nonsensical to work, and an employment system so litigious and so costly that it simply does not make sense for businesses to take on more staff.

Starmer’s government has only exacerbated this problem.

Entrenched in the minds of Labour ministers is seemingly the view that all business owners are Victorian industrialists, willing to sacrifice a few children’s fingers in a machine to earn more for their rapacious selves. If this is the Government’s view of the private sector, it is hardly surprising that virtue-signalling Labourites would want to stand up for the oppressed worker, squash brutal employment practices and ensure that the proletariat are fairly paid.

Yet, the utopia that this idealistic …

IDF announces final hostage remains recovered from Gaza
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The Israel Defense Forces announced that the remains of the final Israeli hostage have been recovered from Gaza.

Master Sgt. Ran Gvili, 24, was killed on Oct. 7, 2023, and taken to Gaza by Hamas. Over 250 people were taken during the terrorist attack, and the recovery of all of their remains has been a key hurdle in peace negotiations.

The deceased hostage SFC Ran Gvili has been identified and will be returned for burial.

According to the information and intelligence available to us, SFC Ran Gvili, 24, who served in the Israeli Police Special Forces, fell in combat on the morning of Oct. 7, 2023, and his body…
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) January 26, 2026

ISRAEL TO REOPEN RAFAH CROSSING ON A ‘LIMITED BASIS’

With all the hostages returned, Phase Two of President Donald Trump’s Gaza peace plan is in place, and the Rafah border crossing is expected to reopen.

This is a breaking news story and will be updated.

Trump deploys border czar Tom Homan to Minnesota as ICE operations face violent chaos
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President Donald Trump is sending border czar Tom Homan to Minnesota, the president announced on Monday.
Trump said Homan will report "directly to me" and will help lead the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations in Minneapolis and St. Paul. The Justice Department and Congress are also investigating Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., Trump says.
"I am sending Tom Homan to Minnesota tonight. He has not been involved in that area, but knows and likes many of the people there. Tom is tough but fair, and will report directly to me," Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform.
"Separately, a major investigation is going on with respect to the massive 20 Billion Dollar, Plus, Welfare Fraud that has taken place in Minnesota, and is at least partially responsible for the violent organized protests going on in the streets," he continued.
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"Additionally, the DOJ and Congress are looking at 'Congresswoman' Illhan Omar, who left Somalia with NOTHING, and is now reportedly worth more than 44 Million Dollars. Time will tell all," he added.
Homan's deployment comes amid widespread unrest in the Twin Cities over the deployment of ICE. Two anti-ICE protesters have been killed by federal agents this month, Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti.
Pretti's killing over the weekend is under fresh investigation.
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White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt did not clarify whether Homan's deployment means Trump has lost confidence with existing ICE leadership in Minnesota.
"Tom Homan will be managing ICE operations on the ground in Minnesota and coordinating with others on the ongoing fraud investigations," Leavitt told Fox News Digital.
The Trump administration blames organized agitators for harassing ICE operations, which are targeting criminal illegal aliens.
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment on whether Trump has lost confidence with the federal law enforcement leaders already on the ground in Minnesota.
Federal officials say violent unrest in Minneapolis directly derailed one immigration arrest last week, leaving an ICE agent permanently maimed after a protester bit off part of his finger.
U.S. Border Patrol Commander at Large Greg Bovino said during a press conference on Sunday that Border Patrol and ICE agents were forced to abandon a targeted operation after crowds interfered, assaulted officers and turned the scene chaotic.
As a result, he said, the suspect escaped …