Florida is assisting the Trump Administration deporting illegal aliens back to their own country. Hurrah for Florida!

 

DeSantis announces 10,000 illegal immigrants arrested in 'Operation Tidal Wave' with DHS

By Natalia Mittelstadt 1-6-26 justthenews.com

 "63% had criminal arrests or convictions, including violent offenders and sex offenders," Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said

Florida GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Monday that 10,000 illegal immigrants have been arrested in "Operation Tidal Wave" with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

DeSantis made the announcement at the "Deportation Depot" illegal immigrant detention facility – formerly Baker Correctional Institution – in Sanderson, WKMG reported.

Of those arrested, "63% had criminal arrests or convictions, including violent offenders and sex offenders," DeSantis said. “Although you don’t have to have committed a crime to be subject to immigration enforcement. If you’ve come illegally, that is the offense."

He also said about 1,000 people have left voluntarily, using Florida’s program to receive plane tickets back to their home countries. There have been deportation flights since July from Alligator Alcatraz, a new migrant detention center. 

DeSantis said that 93 flights have left Deportation Depot in just four months, and no other state has participated more than Florida in the push to stop illegal immigration, WCJB reported.

“The federal government has stationed an immigration judge at both Baker and Alligator Alcatraz. Now, these aren’t Article III judges, they aren’t real judges. They are executive branch employees whose function it is to adjudicate immigration claims,” DeSantis said.

Nearly 3,000 people have been deported so far, Florida officials said Monday.

Also at the news conference, DeSantis commented on the arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife by the U.S. military over the weekend, USA Today reported.

"There’s people that have fled to the United States – we have a big community in South Florida – and you will be hard-pressed to find a reign as destructive as the Chavez-Maduro reign has been, taking a country that had been prosperous and has an abundance of resources and basically destroying it," DeSantis said.

Maduro "deserves to be brought to justice. And my sincere hope is that the people of Venezuela are going to be able to liberate themselves from the yoke of the Chavez-Maduro reign, because it has been one of the most destructive reigns of any in the Western hemisphere’s history," he added.

Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, pleaded not guilty on Monday to federal conspiracy, drugs, and weapons charges in a federal courthouse in Manhattan.

 

Mexican cartels are the major supplier of illicit destructive drugs in the USA. It is one of the major factors to totally destroy our once great Republic!

 

Mexican cartels 'major supplier' of synthetic drugs causing overdose deaths in U.S., GAO warns

By Nicholas Ballasy 1-5-26 justthenews.com

Mexican TCOs "move these drugs through Mexico and across the southwest U.S. border using tractor trailers, human mules, couriers, privately-owned vehicles, among other methods."

Mexican transnational criminal organizations (TCOs) continue to drive the nation’s deadly synthetic drug crisis by sourcing, manufacturing, distributing and financially processing drugs such as fentanyl and methamphetamine, which have contributed to rising overdose deaths nationwide, a U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) report warned.

The 67-page analysis is mandated by the Preventing the Financing of Illegal Synthetic Drugs Act.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), provisional data show that more than 42,000 overdose deaths involved illicit synthetic opioids in the U.S. in a recent 12-month period. Fentanyl, specifically, remains more potent than many other opioids, which increases the risk of fatal overdoses.

Mexican TCOs -- more commonly known as cartels -- are identified in the report as the major suppliers of the top two synthetic drugs driving overdose fatalities in the U.S.

“Mexican TCOs use diverse business strategies to directly or indirectly source fentanyl and methamphetamine precursor chemicals, primarily from China-based chemical companies,” read the report.

“According to DEA’s 2024 drug threat assessment and a nonprofit entity report, TCOs may obtain precursor chemicals through several channels: (1) directly from suppliers in China; (2) through intermediaries in the U.S., such as reshipping companies or complicit companies or individuals; and (3) via brokers who work independently of any TCO,” it added.

GAO noted that the DEA has reported that Mexican TCOs are “generally not directly involved in local sale and distribution” but they “leverage relationships with U.S.-based trafficking organizations who supply the drugs to local independent drug trafficking groups and gangs.”

These criminal organizations use a mix of electronic transfers and virtual currencies to fund purchases of precursor chemicals primarily from suppliers located in China.

GAO reported that the Mexican TCOs manufacture drugs in clandestine laboratories in Mexico before smuggling them into the U.S. for distribution. 

“TCOs move these drugs through Mexico and across the southwest U.S. border using tractor trailers, human mules, couriers, privately-owned vehicles, among other methods,” read the report. “Some traffickers pay other criminal organizations to access ports of entry, tunnels, or other smuggling routes.”

The TCOs also “maintain large distribution hubs across the U.S. to supply fentanyl and methamphetamine to regional cartel-affiliated traffickers in key cities such as Los Angeles, Phoenix, Houston, Chicago, Atlanta, and Miami,” the GAO report read.

The drugs are sold in various ways, including e-commerce platforms, online marketplaces, mobile apps, and social media.

The watchdog report found that the Mexican TCOs use money laundering techniques to hide proceeds from their illegal drug sales, such as bulk cash smuggling, funnel accounts, trade-based laundering, cryptocurrency exchanges, and the use of decentralized Chinese money-laundering networks that bypass traditional banks.

The GAO also warned that Mexican TCOs have “adapted to chemical restrictions by producing fentanyl and methamphetamine using less restricted chemicals.”

The report said that under policies put in place in January 2025 after President Trump took office, authorities are trying to disrupt cartel operations more aggressively. 

For example, Executive Order 14159 directs the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security to establish Homeland Security Task Forces in all 50 states.  Federal agencies said that it is still too early to fully assess the impact of these policy changes, the report said.

The report urges continued coordination and enhanced efforts across federal agencies to counter both the illegal trafficking of synthetic drugs and the complex financial systems used to launder their profits.

 

DHS/ICE doing what they do best - enforcing federal immigration laws!

 

DHS touts historic ICE hiring in 2025 with 120% increase in agents

By Misty Severi 1-2-26 justthenews.com

The department began pushing for new agents in August, offering competitive salaries and benefits that include a $50,000 signing bonus, enhanced retirement benefits and student loan repayment and forgiveness options.

The Department of Homeland Security on Friday celebrated an influx of new Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, which increased by a historic 120% in 2025.

The department began pushing for new agents in August, offering competitive salaries and benefits that include a $50,000 signing bonus, enhanced retirement benefits and student loan repayment and forgiveness options.

DHS spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin said the surge of new agents, which went from 10,000 ICE agents to 22,000 agents during the first year of President Donald Trump's second administration, is because of Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill. 

"We now have an additional 12,000 ICE agents on the ground across the country," McLaughlin said on Fox Business. "That's a 120% increase in our workforce, and that's just in about four months. That really is remarkable. I think that's a major bright spot in what this administration has been able to do over the past year."

The hiring spree comes after the Trump administration deployed thousands of ICE and Border Patrol agents in multiple Democratic-run cities last year to carry out major immigration crackdowns by arresting and deporting illegal migrants. 

 

One of the shortest posts - but - necessarily one of the most important posts!

 

Immigration and values — then and now

Eric Utter | January 2, 2026 www.americanthinker.com

The current immigrants differ in many ways from the previous immigrants.

Nearly all early immigrants to the United States of America came from Europe.

More to the point, earlier immigrants came to America to become Americans.

They came because they wanted opportunity and they shared America's founding values.

It appears the majority of latter-day immigrants, particularly from North Africa and the Middle East, do not wish to become Americans, do not wish to assimilate, and do not share our values. In fact, in many cases, they detest them.

They do not want just an opportunity. They want cash. They want to live off the American taxpayer. Perhaps permanently. In the case of Somalis in Minnesota, statistics prove this to be the case, as 81% are on one or more forms of American taxpayer-funded welfare. Similar dependency (or fraud) is likely taking place in numerous other states.

In fact, many -- if not most -- Muslim immigrants want to change our values to suit theirs. Several surveys show that the majority of Muslims, not just “radical Islamists,” prefer sharia law to the American Constitution and other founding documents, protections, and principles.

Make no mistake, sharia law is utterly, inarguably, and irrevocably incompatible with a free society and a free market capitalist system, not to mention the Bill of Rights.

Do we really want to change our values to those of a society that encourages or tolerates clitoridectomies for girls as young as 4 -- and allows men to treat their women as property, marry pre-pubescent girls, rape infidels, and stone homosexuals?

Only mad men, a society hell-bent on its own destruction, would allow this to happen. (And it is certain that such a society will be hell-bent.) Memo to karens: all cultures are not the same. All beliefs are not equally valid.

We are on the proverbial highway to hell, pedal to the metal. And no one seems in a particular hurry to find an exit ramp.

If we do not soon find one, it will be lights out for America.

At which point, all a rational person could say to those possessed by a bizarrely suicidal empathy would be, “Enjoy your sharia law.” “And say ‘hi’ to China.”