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Border czar Homan, AOC clash over webinar on ICE

FIRST ON FOX: President Donald Trump’s border czar Tom Homan on Friday clashed with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., over a webinar she hosted advising migrants about how to handle an encounter with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

“Let’s pray that she is not ‘educating’ the next murderer of a young college nursing student on how to evade arrest by ICE,” Homan told Fox News Digital on Friday. “How many more young women have to be raped, murdered and burned alive until she wakes up?”

Homan had first said on “The Ingraham Angle” that he had emailed the deputy attorney general asking whether Ocasio-Cortez’s hosting of a “Know Your Rights with ICE” event on her Facebook page could count as an impediment to federal law enforcement.

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Border czar Tom Homan and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. (Getty)

“Is that impeding our law enforcement efforts?” Homan said. “If so, what are we going to do about it? Is she crossing the line? So I’m working with the Department of Justice and finding out. Where is that line that they cross? So maybe AOC is going to be going to be in trouble now.”

During the event, viewers were informed of how to deal with ICE search requests. Migrants were also warned of “ruses” they allege ICE agents employ to get people to comply with searches, while the hosts also touted “trends” in how ICE conducts its searches, which have ramped up in recent weeks under the Trump administration. People were also recommended to record such searches and how to differentiate between different warrants ICE agents are likely to carry.

Ocasio-Cortez did not take part in the webinar but did upload tips to Instagram — via posters in both English and Spanish — and called on her followers to share the posters widely and study them. She also called on her followers to print out the posters and “tape them up in your workplace or keep them by your door.”

“So if ICE comes to your workplace or home, whether you are a citizen or noncitizen – YOU can defend your community and our constitution by exercising your right,” she wrote.

On Thursday, Ocasio-Cortez took to X to mock Homan for suggesting she could be in trouble.

“MaYbe shE’s goiNg to be in TroUble nOw,” she posted.

“Maybe he can learn to read. The Constitution would be a good place to start,” she said.

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A screenshot from the webinar. (Facebook)

In comments to Fox News Digital, Homan said that he was asking the Justice Department for their interpretation of the law regarding impeding and obstruction, and that he is “well aware of the Constitution, but I am also aware that DOJ gives legal interpretations on issues like this to ensure ICE acts in accordance of the law.”

He then suggested Ocasio-Cortez read Title 8 USC 1324 and 8 USC 1325, “statutes enacted by Congress, of which she is a part of.”

“It’s not OK to be in the U.S. illegally. It’s a violation of federal law to enter this country illegally. It is not OK to assist those in the U.S. illegally in furtherance of their illegal entry and unlawful presence. I thought I educated her on this several years ago during congressional testimony.,” he said, referencing a viral clash from the first Trump administration at a congressional hearing.

“She can call it ‘advising those who are illegally in the U.S. of their constitutional rights.’ But we all know it’s really about evading ICE and how not to get arrested and how not to adhere to a federal judge’s order to leave after receiving due process at great taxpayer expense,” he said.

“So if ICE comes to your workplace or home, whether you are a citizen or noncitizen – YOU can defend your community and our constitution by exercising your right,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote. (Getty Images)

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“She obviously believes that we should not enforce laws enacted by Congress. By working against ICE, she is putting those that committed a crime entering this country illegally and those that committed asylum fraud and those who ignored a federal court order of deportation over those that enforce our laws and risk their lives every day trying to keep our communities safe.”

Ocasio-Cortez responded, telling Fox News Digital: “I am glad Mr. Homan is checking with the Department of Justice to familiarize himself with the limits of his agency’s authority in entering the homes of everyday Americans without a warrant. And I am proud to offer civil education to everyday Americans to ensure ICE’s compliance with the law, given the numerous reports of agents providing incorrect paperwork in their attempts to enter and search private homes.”

“Since Mr. Homan seems to be vaguely familiar with U.S. immigration law, we also remind him that according to Congressional statute, becoming undocumented in the United States is a civil offense and not a criminal one. I look forward to continuing our work in ensuring the safety of everyday New Yorkers while keeping families together,” she said.

The clash comes as many left-wing Democrats continue to raise objections to the mass deportation operation launched by the Trump administration. However, some Democrats have also expressed support, with New York City Mayor Eric Adams meeting with Homan on Thursday and agreeing to let ICE agents on to Rikers Island. While New York City is a “sanctuary” city, Adams has expressed openness to deporting criminal illegal immigrants.

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Fox News Digital reported earlier on Friday that ICE interior arrests have skyrocketed under the Trump administration compared to the same period during the Biden administration last year, with a 137% increase over last year. Arrests of aliens with criminal histories have soared by nearly 100% from 4,526 in the same period in 2024 to 8,993 under Trump this year.

Fox News’ Michael Dorgan contributed to this report.

Adam Shaw is a politics reporter for Fox News Digital, primarily covering immigration and border security.

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February 14, 2025
NYC council moderates ‘thrilled’ at Homan visit, pledging to help border czar fight ‘progressive monopoly’

Moderate members of New York City’s otherwise overwhelmingly progressive City Council met with President Donald Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, on the same day the lawman met with Mayor Eric Adams.

Homan, himself a New York State native from the Watertown area, joined a meeting of the bipartisan “Common Sense Caucus” led by Councilmembers Bob Holden, D-Glendale, and Joann Ariola, R-Howard Beach.

At the meeting, Homan pledged to act swiftly when informed of another migrant shelter being planned for an outer borough.

Councilwoman Kristy Marmorato told 1010WINS after the meeting that Homan had been incensed to learn that Adams’ Office of Asylum-Seeker Operations had announced a 2,200-bed shelter in the Bronx.

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Tom Homan and NYC skyline (AP/Reuters)

“Get me that address,” Homan reportedly told Marmorato, R-Throggs Neck.

The shelter is planned for a low-income area off the Bruckner Expressway in Mott Haven – not far from the RFK-Triboro Bridge, according to reports.

“Enough is enough,” Marmorato – the only Bronx Republican on council – headlined a press release about “migrant dumps” there.

Holden is a moderate who famously took office in 2017 by unseating a Democrat who outraised him tenfold while running on the endorsed Republican, Conservative and Dump de Blasio ballot lines.

“Today, we had a productive meeting with Tom Homan, the Border Czar, to discuss the serious public safety consequences of sanctuary laws,” Holden said in a statement.

“I have full confidence in Homan and his team to enforce federal laws and keep our communities safe.”

As for Adams’ meeting with Homan, he appreciated the mayor’s acknowledgment of the crisis, but added, “words are not enough – he needs to take real action.”

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Adams, who on Thursday also pledged to work with the feds to fight gang proliferation at the city’s Rikers Island prison, announced executive action to reopen an ICE facility on the island in Hell Gate.

Holden called the move a “significant first step” toward prioritizing New York City public safety.

“I first pitched the idea of reopening the ICE office in December, and I’m glad to see action finally being taken. Thank you to Tom Homan for his leadership on this issue.”

Councilwoman Inna Vernikov, a Brighton Beach Republican and immigrant from Ukraine, noted that her family “came here legally” and slammed the “top-down failures” of the Biden era.

“It’s a thrill to have a man of action leading immigration and border enforcement,” Vernikov said on X, formerly Twitter, adding that she was unable to make the meeting itself but sent a staffer in her stead.

“The consensus is that we are all done with the media and leftist politicians making excuses for lawbreaking,” she said, adding that she had paved her own path to legal citizenship and now practices immigration law.

“Illegal immigration is destroying this city and is offensive to citizens. Full stop. If the mayor won’t revoke sanctuary city status, I expect the Trump administration will provide very compelling and hard-hitting incentives to do so.”

Ariola, who took over as the caucus’ GOP co-chair upon longtime Staten Island Councilman Joe Borelli’s retirement, said on X that “we need change – we need it now.”

Councilman David Carr, R-New Dorp, also tweeted about the Homan meeting, saying New York needs to stop “shielding” migrants from ICE.

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Councilwoman Vickie Paladino, R-Whitestone, reacted to the meeting by pledging to double her efforts to fight the crisis.

“Despite the progressive monopoly in this city, I plan to use whatever power I have, in partnership with the Trump Administration wherever possible, to keep my district and my constituents safe,” she said.

Democrats currently hold a 44-5 supermajority on the council, with one vacancy from each party.

One caucusmember, however, skipped the meeting with Homan, saying that she had a scheduling conflict and that “not every immigrant is a criminal.”

“I am an immigrant. No one can ever tell me about the challenges faced by newcomers to New York and to this nation,” Councilwoman Susan Zhuang, who was born in China, told City & State.

“Find the criminals and deport them, yes. But leave decent hard-working families alone,” said Zhuang, D-Dyker Heights.

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February 14, 2025
Adams vows to let ICE agents work at Rikers Island after meeting with border czar

New York City Mayor Eric Adams on Thursday said a plan was being worked on to allow federal immigration authorities to operate on Rikers Island following a meeting with border czar Tom Homan, a significant step given the city’s sanctuary policies.

Adams met with Homan during a closed-door meeting. In a statement, he said an executive order was being worked on to “reestablish the ability for ICE agents to operate on Rikers Island — as was the case for 20 years.”

“But now, instead, ICE agents would specifically be focused on assisting the correctional intelligence bureau in their criminal investigations, in particular those focused on violent criminals and gangs,” he added.

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The Rikers Island jail complex is seen with the Manhattan skyline in the background on June 20, 2014. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Adams said the pair discussed how to combat violent migrant gangs and embedding more New York Police Department officers into federal task forces.

Unlike many blue city mayors, Adams has expressed interest in working with the Trump administration to crack down on illegal immigration in an effort to combat crime.

He noted that New York shouldered a larger number of migrants transported to blue cities from the southern border.

“New York City has been forced to shoulder the burden of a national humanitarian crisis where more than 230,000 migrants have come to our city seeking support, at a cost of approximately $7 billion, with little help from the previous administration,” Adams said.

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Border czar Tom Homan, left, met with New York City Mayor Eric Adams on Thursday to discuss the city’s ongoing migrant crisis. (Getty Images)

“That is why I have been clear that I want to work with the new federal administration, not war with them, to find common ground and make better the lives of New Yorkers,” he added.

The meeting came days after the Justice Department ordered federal prosecutors to drop a bribery case against Adams.

Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove sent a letter to the acting U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York (SDNY) on Monday, instructing the SDNY to drop the federal case against Adams and dismiss it without prejudice.

NYC Mayor Eric Adams sits down for an interview with Fox News anchor Martha MacCallum. (Fox News / The Story)

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In response, Acting U.S. Attorney Danielle Sassoon resigned on Thursday in a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi.

Meanwhile, the Trump administration has taken a hard stance against sanctuary cities. On Wednesday, Bondi put New York and other cities on notice.

“This is a new DOJ,” she told reporters while announcing a lawsuit against New York state and government officials. “New York has chosen to prioritize illegal aliens over American citizens. It stops. It stops today.”

February 14, 2025
Canada appoints Kevin Brosseau to serve as fentanyl czar

Canada appointed a fentanyl czar on Tuesday in accordance with a deal made with U.S. President Donald Trump to avoid additional tariffs on Canadian imports.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau chose Kevin Brosseau, who spent decades with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, for the position aimed at working with the U.S. to “detect, disrupt and dismantle” the fentanyl trade. His appointment is effective immediately.

Brosseau has extensive law enforcement experience, having served as deputy commissioner and the commanding officer in Manitoba during his career as a Mountie. He most recently worked with Trudeau as his deputy national security and intelligence advisor.

“Mr. Brosseau navigated Canada’s most sensitive security challenges. His demonstrated expertise tackling drug trafficking, organized crime networks, and other national security threats will bring tremendous value to this position,” Trudeau said in his announcement.

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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appointed former Mountie Kevin Brosseau to serve as the country’s fentanyl czar. (Kevin Brosseau / X)

Brosseau’s appointment comes days after Trump threatened to impose an additional 25% tariff on Canadian imports, citing the flow of illegal aliens and drugs, such as fentanyl, across the northern border.

Trump agreed to a 30-day pause on the tariffs in order to assess Canada’s response to his demands, which revolved around creating a stronger border.

In addition to appointing a fentanyl czar, Trudeau said the country will implement a $1.3 billion border plan that utilizes Black Hawk helicopters, drones, mobile surveillance towers and nearly 10,000 frontline personnel to protect the U.S.-Canada border.

Canada is implementing a border plan worth $1.3 billion to bolster law enforcement’s presence and crackdown on the fentanyl discovered at entry points. (Cole Burston/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

He also said organized crime cartels will be listed as terrorist entities in order to enforce criminal investigations in Canada.

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Focusing on fentanyl production and trafficking, Canada will be adding new and expanded detection capacity at border entry points and building a Canadian Drug Analysis Center where authorities will study illegal drug samples to identify where and how they are manufactured.

“While less than 1% of the fentanyl intercepted at the U.S. border comes from Canada, any amount of fentanyl is too much,” Trudeau said, adding that “fentanyl must be wiped from the face of the Earth, its production must be shut down, and its profiteers must be punished.”

President Donald Trump threatened an additional 25% on Canadian imports if the country didn’t increase security at the northern border. (Nicholas Kamm)

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While the fentanyl that comes through the northern border is significantly less than what comes from Mexico, U.S. customs agents seized 43 pounds of fentanyl at the Canadian border during the last fiscal year.

Agents at the U.S.-Mexico border seized 21,100 pounds of fentanyl during the same time period.

February 12, 2025
Trump’s crypto czar, Congressional lawmakers ‘golden age’ digital assets

DMA United CEO Marc Beckman reacts to President Donald Trump’s decision to weigh tighter curbs on Nvidia’s China sales.

Trump administration crypto czar David Sacks and chairs from multiple House and Senate committees held a press conference on Capitol Hill Tuesday to lay out how the White House and Congress plan to carry out President Donald Trump’s plans for America leading the world in the digital asset ecosystem.

Sacks said he looks forward to working with Congress in “creating a golden age in digital assets.”

Representative Glenn Thompson, a Republican from Pennsylvania, from left, Senator Tim Scott, a Republican from South Carolina, David Sacks, White House Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Crypto czar, Representative French Hill, a Republican from Arkans (Ting Shen/Bloomberg via Getty Images / Getty Images)

Sacks was joined by Senate Banking Committee Chairman Tim Scott (R,S.C.), Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman John Boozman (R,Ark.), House Financial Services Committee Chairman French Hill (R,Ark.), and House Agriculture Committee Chairman G.T. Thompson (R, Pa.), who laid out moves being made to carry out Trump’s executive order last week that seeks to clarify regulations in the crypto industry.

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The four committees are forming a bicameral committee to lead on crypto regulation where they will prioritize stablecoin and market structure legislation.

Metaplanet director of Bitcoin strategy Dylan LeClair explains President Donald Trump’s executive orders boosting the viability of cryptocurrency in the United States on ‘Making Money.’

Committees plan to build from the “FIT21” bill for market structure legislation that was passed in the House Financial Services Committee last year, and will use Sen. Bill Hagerty’s (R, Tenn.) new stablecoin bill that dropped Thursday as a starting point for new legislation this Congress.

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Senate Banking Chairman Tim Scott said he plans to be “as aggressive as possible” to get the bills through the Senate in the first 100 days.

Stablecoin legislation is moving forward quickly, according Scott, who said Republicans have been working with Democratic sponsors on the bill and they plan to move on that first. Hill said the group plans to work on both market structure and stablecoin bills simultaneously on a bipartisan basis in the House.

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Sacks, who is also the White House’s artificial intelligence (AI) czar, confirmed that one of the first things the Presidential Working Group on Digital Assets formed by Trump’s EO is going to look at is the feasibility of a Bitcoin reserve, but noted the initiative is still in the early stages as some members of the working group have not yet been confirmed.

February 4, 2025
Trump’s AI czar flags report indicating DeepSeek’s true cost of developing its AI models

Anduril founder Palmer Luckey gives his take on DeepSeek and drone manufacturing on The Claman Countdown.

President Donald Trump’s artificial intelligence (AI) czar, David Sacks, is pointing to evidence that China’s DeepSeek AI startup spent a lot more money developing its models than has been reported.

DeepSeek sent the U.S tech sector into turmoil on Monday after reporting that it had spent only $5.567 million to train its DeepSeek-V3 AI model, which is purportedly competitive with some AI models developed in the United States that cost billions.

David Sacks, CEO of Zenefits, speaks during 2016 TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco, California, September 13, 2016. (Reuters/Beck Diefenbach / Reuters)

“New report by leading semiconductor analyst Dylan Patel shows that DeepSeek spent over $1 billion on its compute cluster,” Sacks wrote on X on Friday. “The widely reported $6M number is highly misleading, as it excludes capex and R&D, and at best describes the cost of the final training run only.”

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After revealing the $5.5 million figure in its report, DeepSeek had added, “Note that the aforementioned costs only include the official training of DeepSeek-V3, excluding the costs associated with prior research and ablation experiments on architecture, algorithms, or data.”

Earlier this week, tech mogul Palmer Luckey slammed the U.S. media for widely reporting the $5 million figure from DeepSeek, accusing the press of ignoring that a significant portion of the Chinese AI company’s infrastructure costs were still unknown.

Palmer Luckey, founder of Anduril Industries, during an interview on “The Circuit with Emily Chang” at Anduril’s headquarters in Costa Mesa, California, US, on Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023. (Kyle Grillot/Bloomberg via Getty Images / Getty Images)

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“I think the problem is they put out that number specifically to harm U.S. companies,” Luckey told FOX Business’ “That Claman Countdown.” “You had a lot of useful idiots in U.S. media kind of just mindlessly reporting that that’s the case, and neither China nor the media nor DeepSeek has any kind of incentive to correct the record as a lot of U.S. companies like Nvidia crashed to the tunes of hundreds of billions of dollars.”

DeepSeek’s model appears able to match the capability of chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Meta’s Llama but at a fraction of the development cost. It also rose to No. 1 on the Apple App Store over the weekend and reportedly can use reduced-capability chips from Nvidia.

Those revelations slammed the U.S. tech sector on Monday.

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“There’s a reason they put out the news that way, and if the stock market is any indication, it’s accomplishing exactly what they hoped to,” Luckey added. “So, look: We can recognize that Chinese AI is a real competitive threat without losing our minds over it and falling for CCP [Chinese Communist Party] propaganda.”

January 31, 2025
Trump crypto czar says Biden-era executive order hamstrung American AI

Trump AI and ‘crypto czar’ David Sacks discusses the administration’s crypto policies and future ambitions for the digital currency during an exclusive interview on ‘The Evening Edit.’

Cryptocurrency czar David Sacks on Monday backed President Donald Trump’s reversal of a Biden-era executive order that instituted guardrails on artificial intelligence technology but “hamstrung” American AI companies.

Sacks cited DeepSeek, a Chinese AI startup that that develops open-source large language models (LLMs). The company has been outperforming American AI companies like OpenAI and Meta.

The company recently unveiled R1, a specialized model designed for complex problem-solving, on Jan. 20, which “zoomed to the global top 10 in performance,” and was built far more rapidly, with fewer, less powerful AI chips, at a much lower cost than other U.S. models, according to the Wall Street Journal.

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In a post on X, Sacks said DeepSeek R1 proves that the AI race “will be very competitive” and that Trump was “right to rescind the Biden EO.”

David Sacks, co-founder of Craft Ventures LLC, speaks during the Token Summit in New York, U.S., on Thursday, May 17, 2018. The Token Summit explores the economics, regulation and best practices around blockchain-based tokens, protocols, and crypto-a (Alex Flynn/Bloomberg via Getty Images / Getty Images)

He said the order “hamstrung American AI companies without asking whether China would do the same. (Obviously not.) I’m confident in the U.S. but we can’t be complacent.”

Hours after returning to the White House, Trump rescinded Biden’s executive order, which set in motion a sprint across government agencies to study AI’s impact on everything from cybersecurity risks to its effects on education, workplaces and public benefits.

Trump said the order acted as a barrier to American AI innovation.

“We must develop AI systems that are free from ideological bias or engineered social agendas,” Trump’s order says. It also “established unnecessarily burdensome requirements for companies developing and deploying AI that would stifle private sector innovation and threaten American technological leadership.”

In a policy directive last year, the Biden administration said federal agencies must show their artificial intelligence tools aren’t harming the public, or stop using them. Trump’s order directs the White House to revise and reissue those directives, which affect how agencies acquire AI tools and use them.

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A chatbot app developed by the Chinese AI company DeepSeek (Getty Images / Getty Images)

“For the last four years, the Biden administration has basically prosecuted and persecuted crypto companies, really driving them offshore,” Sacks said on FOX Business’ “The Evening Edit” last week. “I’ve heard so many outrageous stories by founders, by entrepreneurs, the Biden administration would not tell them what the rules of the road were, and they would then get prosecuted. And what the industry wants more than anything else is regulatory clarity.”

“They’re saying, ‘just tell us what the rules are. We will abide by them’,” he added. “And the Biden administration would never do that. And because of that, all the innovation was basically moving offshore, and America was about to lose this technology of the future.”

Alexandr Wang, CEO at Scale AI, a San Francisco-based software company, spoke out over the weekend on the DeepSeek technology, calling its quick success a “wake-up call for America.”

“DeepSeek is a wake up call for America, but it doesn’t change the strategy,” Wang wrote in a post on X.

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Wang explained that the “USA must out-innovate & race faster, as we have done in the entire history of AI” and “tighten export controls on chips so that we can maintain future leads.”

“Every major breakthrough in AI has been American,” Wang said.

FOX Business’s Stepheny Price, Breck Dumas and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

January 27, 2025
Goya Cares partners with border czar Tom Homan to help trafficked migrant children: ‘No way to stop it alone’

CEO of Goya Bob Unanue and Fox News contributor Sara Carter join ‘Fox & Friends Weekend’ to discuss the Goya Cares initiative teaming up with Tom Homan to locate missing migrant children.

Goya Cares is teaming up with Trump border czar Tom Homan and investigative journalist Sara Carter to track down trafficked migrant children and reunite them with their families.

“We were involved in the movie Sound of Freedom, where we became aware of this tremendous evil of trafficking. So, with that awareness, we formed a coalition of different people and organizations that, to raise awareness, we’re going into schools… to bring awareness to this problem, because before that, we weren’t aware that this last administration was actively bringing this in,” Goya Foods CEO Bob Unanue said on ‘Fox & Friends Weekend,’ Sunday.

“We’ve gone from 85,000 children missing to 340,000, but they’re not missing. They’ve been sold. They’re purchased, basically, and then handed off to sponsors. Forty children at one address — that’s not a home. It’s a business.”

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An American flag flies outside the Goya Foods Inc. corporate office and distribution warehouse in Jersey City, New Jersey, U.S., on Monday, April 23, 2018. (Timothy Fadek/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Goya Foods is America’s largest Hispanic-owned food company that produces and distributes items in the U.S. as well as Spanish-speaking countries. The company launched the Goya Cares initiative in 2021 to focus on combating child trafficking and advocating for children’s mental health.

Sara Carter, a Fox News contributor, says solving the child trafficking crisis will require “huge cooperation” with federal, local and state law enforcement officials, among others.

“There’s no way to stop this kind of crisis alone. Everybody has to be working together,” she said.

“With Goya Cares, we’re able to get out there and educate students in the schools. We’re able to find, within the communities, those kids that may be trafficked, that may be afraid they can’t go to someone, feel safe and report what’s happening, but then it’s the aftercare that’s the most important…”

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Incoming “border czar” and former acting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement director Tom Homan visits Camp Eagle where members of the Texas National Guard and Department of Public Safety officers convene for a Thanksgiving meal in Eagle Pass, T (Scott Stephen Ball for The Washington Post via Getty Images / Getty Images)

Aftercare focuses on mental health and reconnecting children with their parents or guardians.

“We know that children have been trying to contact relatives. HHS has a hotline. Some of these children have called that hotline. These children are going to find their way back to safety because Tom Homan is going to be leading that effort with President Trump,” Carter continued.

“And the people who are trafficking these children in the United States need to be held to the full extent of the law. They absolutely have to be punished. There is no way that we can allow this to continue to happen. We’re a nation that is based on principles and morals, and we can’t sit around, and we can’t accuse anyone else of doing anything if we’re not willing to take care of the problem that has happened in this country because of a wide open border under President Biden.”

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Goya Foods CEO Robert Unanue on President-elect Trump turning around the Latino vote and his hope for economic and national security improvement.

January 27, 2025
Graham says Republicans must get border czar Tom Homan funding: ‘Hit a wall’

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., warned that congressional Republicans must expedite funding for President Donald Trump’s border czar Tom Homan to continue his mass deportation plan, or else they could “own another attack on this country.”

Graham made appearances on NBC and CNN Sunday shows advocating for two separate bills – a $100 billion border package, and a second $200 billion bill centered on “national security.”

As deliberations in both chambers continue, Graham cautioned Republicans against taking too long to reach a consensus. He said Homan needs immediate funding to further execute his mass deportation strategy, including to increase the number of detention beds from 41,000 to approximately 150,000, to hire more Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, finish the border wall and secure new technology.

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Sen. Lindsey Graham, chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, speaks during a confirmation hearing for Russell Vought, director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) nominee, on Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025. (Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

“This whole debate in the Republican Party, do you need one bill or two right now? Right now, Tom Homan needs more money to hire ICE agents. He needs more money to finish the wall to increase bed space,” Graham told CNN’s “State of the Union.” “He doesn’t have the tools necessary to carry out this plan that President Trump gave him until Congress appropriates more money.”

Graham argued that the tax debate could wait until the end of the year, but Congress cannot delay funding for the border given the national security implications.

“So to my Republican colleagues, we’ve hit a wall here. We’re not building a wall. We’ve hit a wall,” Graham told CNN. “We need to appropriate money to Tom Homan so he can do what President Trump promised. And if we delay that – the taxes expire in December, we got plenty of time to deal with that – I worry that we’re going to own another attack on our country. I worry that we’re delaying this plan that President Trump ran on if the Congress doesn’t give his administration, Tom Homan, the money to do the plan that he promised, that President Trump promised. We need to come together quickly on this, in my view.”

Tom Homan speaks during the third day of the 2024 Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on July 17, 2024. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

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“We need more money for Tom Homan. I’m for deporting illegal immigrants here who are criminals. Most people are. The public’s with him. But if you don’t get new money into the system, Tom Homan can’t do his job,” Graham added. “We need more bed space. We need to finish the wall. But I think the signature issue for Donald Trump was to get a handle on illegal immigration, and he’s off to a good start. We just need to help him in Congress.”

In an appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Graham doubted that Homan was interested in deporting close to the approximately 11 million people in the U.S. illegally. As host Kristen Welker noted Trump has signaled potentially being interested in cutting a deal related to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program for people who were brought into the United States illegally as minors, Graham said the Trump administration’s focus with deportations appeared to remain on criminal illegal immigrants. He cited how there are about 1.4 million illegal immigrants “who’ve had their case fully adjudicated, and they’re still here,” and there are “about 680,000 convicted of serious crimes.”

Graham said Homan needs more congressional funding to hire ICE agents. (Getty Images)

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“Here’s the question for the Republican Party. We talk about doing this, but we don’t have the resources. We haven’t given the Trump team the resources. Tom Homan, the border czar, said yesterday, ‘without money from Congress, I can’t do this’,” Graham said, adding: “Give Tom the tools he needs to execute a mass deportation strategy to deal with a mass illegal immigration problem created by Biden,” Graham told NBC. “Without new money, he cannot do this.”

Danielle Wallace is a breaking news and politics reporter at Fox News Digital. Story tips can be sent to [email protected] and on X: @danimwallace.

January 26, 2025
Trump crypto czar David Sacks touts president’s executive order, says Biden drove industry offshore

Trump AI and ‘crypto czar’ David Sacks discusses the administration’s crypto policies and future ambitions for the digital currency during an exclusive interview on ‘The Evening Edit.’

President Donald Trump’s cryptocurrency czar, David Sacks, is celebrating after the president signed an executive order seeking to clarify regulations in the industry on Thursday, hailing his embrace of the industry while slamming the Biden administration for driving it away.

In an exclusive interview with FOX Business’ “The Evening Edit” on Friday, Sacks said Trump’s actions showed he is following through on his campaign promise to make the U.S. the “crypto capital” of the world.

Sacks said that Trump’s crypto EO directs his working group to produce a regulatory framework to encourage innovation and crypto in the U.S., rather than driving the industry to other countries.

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“For the last four years, the Biden administration has basically prosecuted and persecuted crypto companies, really driving them offshore,” Sacks told host Edward Lawrence. “I’ve heard so many outrageous stories by founders, by entrepreneurs, the Biden administration would not tell them what the rules of the road were, and they would then get prosecuted. And what the industry wants more than anything else is regulatory clarity.”

David Sacks, CEO of Zenefits, speaks during 2016 TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco, California, U.S. September 13, 2016. (REUTERS/Beck Diefenbach / Reuters)

“They’re saying, just tell us what the rules are. We will abide by them,” Sacks said. And the Biden administration would never do that. And because of that, all the innovation was basically moving offshore, and America was about to lose this technology of the future.”

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Trump’s order establishes the Presidential Working Group on Digital Asset Markets, which will develop a federal regulatory framework for digital assets, including stablecoins, and evaluate the creation of a strategic national digital assets stockpile. It will be chaired by the White House AI and crypto czar and include the treasury secretary, the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), as well as other relevant department and agency heads.

January 24, 2025