We’ve seen this playbook before. Hollywood went all-in on behalf of illegal immigration over the past decade. Documentaries. Feature films. TV show plots. The messaging proved consistent and one-sided. We need open borders, even if they never said those words aloud. Now, Hollywood is tag-teaming more specifically against ICE and any attempt to arrest illegal immigrants. And if what’s past is prologue, reality will prove superior to Hollywood fiction. Mike Coppola/Getty Images First, a quick review of how aggressively Tinsel Town promoted the open-border madness under Democrats. Take Fox’s hit series “Party of Five.” The show centered on a tight-knit family surviving after the loss of their parents. The 2020 reboot on Freeform followed a similar storyline, except the parents in question were deported to Mexico. And, yes, the messaging was as heavy as possible. Newsbusters dubbed the pilot episode pure “parody,” while the saga got a jump on the current anti-ICE mania. HBO uncorked not one but two open-borders documentaries in 2019, and the titles spoke volumes — “Torn Apart: Separated at the Border” and “Liberty: Mother of Exiles.” More examples? The final season of “Orange Is the New Black” pushed family separation plot lines, while the villain in the third “Descendants” film for kids tried to ban immigration. Selena Gomez used her clout to promote the docuseries “Living Undocumented.” Charley Gallay/Getty Images for Netflix Subtle? Hardly. And what happened next? Donald Trump got re-elected by promising to slam the southern border shut. And when he did just that, by sheer coincidence, America celebrated its lowest national murder rate in more than a century.  Hollywood’s all-powerful messaging machine had failed. So why not try it again, but this time directly targeting ICE? It started with “One Battle After Another,” a cinematic love letter to violent revolutionaries. Leonardo DiCaprio played a stoner rebel cosplaying as an anti-ICE warrior. His fiery gal pal (Teyana Taylor) was the real deal, using any means necessary to free illegal immigrants and attack U.S. officials. Films take much longer than TV shows to produce and release, but writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson somehow grasped his industry’s zeitgeist with Kreskin-like accuracy. Just days ago, Hollywood gave it the Best Picture Oscar. Jeff Spicer/Getty Images for HBO Max TV show productions happen faster, allowing small screen scribes to indoctrinate on demand. That allowed HBO’s hit series “The Pitt” to pick up the “OBAA” propaganda baton. A second season story arc follows an illegal immigrant being treated for a shoulder injury in the show’s Pittsburgh emergency room. The ICE agents are portrayed as aggressive and unfeeling, while patients and workers alike recoil at their presence. Source: HBO Max/The Pitt Then, according to The Hollywood Reporter, things get personal: …at the end of the episode, nurse Jesse (Ned Brower) gets detained for stepping in to protect the patient when the ICE agents get too aggressive. Over at CBS, the “Matlock” reboot concocted its own anti-ICE narrative. An episode dubbed “Collateral,” during the show’s second season, finds Kathy Bates’ character defending a client detained by ICE agents. That bleeds into a larger story with both the client and his family trying to stay in the country despite their illegal status. The government’s “deal” is cruel, including a demand that the client pay up to $6 million in restitution with zero path to citizenship. Boo! Hiss! Meanwhile, the just-released second season of “Daredevil: Born Again” tackles ICE in a less heavy-handed, but equally negative fashion. The villainous Kingpin (Vincent D’Onofrio), now the Big Apple’s mayor, begins rounding up citizens without due process. That’s been the Left’s battle cry against ICE arrests across the nation. Kristina Bumphrey/Variety via Getty Images D’Onofrio’s character is an obvious stand-in for President Donald Trump, or at least the cartoonish version Hollywood holds dear. The show’s creative team has been coy about any real-world comparisons, but that may be a case of artists trying not to steamroll a show that hasn’t lit up the ratings world upon its belated return. “Daredevil: Born Again” co-star Michael Gandolfini didn’t follow that advice. He praised his show for speaking, wait for it, truth to power. We do a lot of safe things in film now. To do something risky that says something is rare. More shows will likely follow. These stories aren’t isolated incidents. Late-night TV hosts routinely rage against ICE efforts in their monologues. NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” has done the same via its Weekend Update faux news desk. “I get that ICE agents are people, allegedly, and they have a job to do. But at some point while you’re pepper-spraying old ladies or shooting at a nurse, do you ever stop to ask yourself, ‘Are we d*cks?’” Stars have been raging against all things ICE from their favorite bully pulpits — awards season stages. “White Lotus” alum Natasha Rothwell expressed her feelings at the recent Spirit Awards: I’m gonna go to the prompter, but I just want to say, ‘F*** ICE.’ “ICE Out” buttons have been the fashion accessory of the season at these events, and stars have used their red carpet remarks to blast any attempt to uphold the law. Just don’t expect any shows reflecting heinous illegal immigrant murders, like the deaths of Laken Riley or Sheridan Gorman. Nor will a star or starlet name-drop either victim as they collect their new shiny trophies. Their names won’t be found on any chic Hollywood buttons, either. The facts behind their tragic deaths are chilling and undeniable, but they’re inconvenient to the narrative in play. And Hollywood is all about narratives, especially the fictional ones. * * * Christian Toto is an award-winning journalist, movie critic, and editor of HollywoodInToto.com. He previously served as associate editor with Breitbart News’ Big Hollywood. Follow him at HollywoodInToto.com.

This article is part of Upstream, The Daily Wire’s new home for culture and lifestyle. Real human insight and human stories — from our featured writers to you. *** When news broke about Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube forking over $3 million to a 19-year-old user caught in the spider’s web, my first thought was something like, “Yeah! Screw Mark Zuckerberg!” A tech giant takedown warms the heart.  My second thought was, “Wait, so can we all sue Facebook now?” What about “Keeping Up With The Kardashians,” espresso martinis, Ben & Jerry’s, Reddit comment sections, IKEA, pressure washing videos, Chick-fil-A, Roblox, weed gummies, March Madness, and Amazon Prime? There are countless other things we can’t quit. With roughly 10,000 other cases in the works against social media at large, it’s game on in the courts. “We’re figuring out that there is a causal connection between cancer and cigarettes,” tech journalist Jacob Ward told CNN, likening the moment to the Big Tobacco settlement of the ’90s. “We’re at the beginning of an absolutely new era in thinking about how social media is really working on kids.”  Using this analogy, despite raging against the machine, all the kids are still holding full packs of “cigarettes” and “chain smoking.”  A Los Angeles Times headline read: “Landmark L.A. jury verdict finds Instagram, YouTube were designed to addict kids.” Oh really? Was it the infinite scroll, autoplay, polls, quizzes, reels, algorithms, notifications, FOMO, or dopamine dumps that gave it away? Maybe it’s a little confusing since most of us describe our social media feeds as “addictive,” while social media calls this business model “engaging.” Tomato, to-mah-to. It all made me wonder when the responsibility for making good decisions floated off of our own shoulders and onto the desk of Deborah in HR. This is America. We’re free to like what we like and do what we want, and then sue the crap out of the companies that give us what we desire. Has anyone ever sued Doritos for being too delicious? Yes. In 2025, San Francisco went after a bunch of snack companies, including Doritos’ parent PepsiCo, for “cheap, colorful, flavorful, and addictive” products, like they were looking directly at a bag of Doritos Dinamita Flamin’ Hot Queso. Bringing a lawsuit against hot coffee before it was cool, 79-year-old Stella Liebeck famously won $3 million in damages from McDonald’s in 1992 after she spilled coffee in her lap, giving herself third-degree burns. It sounds terrible. But McDonald’s didn’t pour hot coffee on Stella; Stella did, while holding it between her legs to add cream and sugar.  Three years later, the bit appeared on “Seinfeld” when Kramer scalded his groin with hot coffee in a movie theater. “We got a chance?” Kramer asks his defense attorney, Jackie Chiles. “You get me one coffee drinker on that jury, you’re gonna walk out of there a rich man,” says Chiles. The scalding liquid lawsuits kept coming. There was the $100,000 Starbucks payout in 2017 after Joanne Mogavero spilled hot coffee on herself. And a high-profile settlement in 2025 paid out $50 million to 25-year-old Postmates driver Michael Garcia, who spilled hot Starbucks tea in his lap and will be best known by strangers for his “penis injury.”  We also sue for the drugs we misuse. In 2022, Johnson & Johnson and three major distributors finalized a $26 billion settlement, set to be paid out to just about every state in the U.S. in light of the opioid crisis. In 2025, Purdue Pharma and its owners agreed on a $7.4 billion settlement for their part in the drug epidemic that continues to rage on.  But are these high-profile settlements doing anything other than temporarily stinging the pockets of megacorporations? Will people decide to do less drugs, be more careful with their coffee, and skip the Doritos if there’s a federally mandated warning label on the package? We were already eating bright orange, cheese-dusted corn chips. It’s not like we thought they were carrots.  When one 2024 study shared a warning about social media use before asking Latino parents if they were now likely to monitor or limit their kids’ time on the platforms, 76% of them said yes. By then, we’d all heard about the dangers. So what were those parents waiting for? Sometimes, even severe warnings can have the opposite effect. When I stopped by a bistro in Seattle, forced to weave through a gaggle of duck-costumed PETA protestors holding gruesome posters, I asked the bartender if the anti-foie gras crowd outside affected business. “Every time they’re here, we sell a ton of foie gras,” he said. Zing.  Mulling over the concept of phone addiction in the middle of the night, I came across a study showing that some adults assume we’re addicted to social media when we’re actually not. (Yes, I found it on my phone.) Overuse of social media is commonly called “addiction” without looking at the full range of symptoms. In substance abuse, that looks like “impaired control, craving and dependence, withdrawal when not using, conflict with other activities, and hazardous or risky use,” according to Scientific Reports. But some social media “addicts” described benefits, too: “Facebook users who self-reported greater life conflict and lack of control (two symptoms of addiction) also reported greater positive impacts of Facebook use.”   There’s a difference between forming a habit versus an addiction. Addiction is always harmful, but habits are not. And calling yourself an addict when you’re engaging in a bad habit lessens your ability to change the behavior. It also increases self-blame, which doesn’t help. Like Taylor Swift sang in “Anti-Hero,” when it comes to getting lost in the doomscroll, “It’s me. Hi. I’m the problem, it’s me.” Maybe it’s time to bring personal responsibility back. “Accountability is not a dirty word,” licensed professional counselor Jamie Cannon says. “By admitting to our own faults and mistakes, we jettison the victim role and take back the power to change.” Social media addiction is not yet a formally recognized disorder. But the question remains as to whether a multimillion-dollar settlement lets irresponsible adult users off the hook. Set time limits, turn off notifications, and know your triggers. Praising the benefits of going phone-free with people you love, Stanford University psychiatrist Dr. Anna Lembke told the Huberman Lab podcast, “Our collective challenge, and it should be our mission, is to make sure that we are preserving and maintaining offline ways to connect.”

For generations, the conversation about motherhood has been framed as a binary choice: boss babe or homemaker? Corner office or weekly playgroup? But in more recent years, those two worlds have collided, with a quiet third option emerging as a viable alternative. Enter the full-time working mom who is also a full-time caregiver for her kids. It’s not a fringe phenomenon: One 2025 survey estimated that 2.3 million workers either keep their children home with them while working remotely or bring their children to the office. Women are more likely than men to seek out these arrangements — and not just because of childcare. The flexibility that comes with remote work is increasingly seen as non-negotiable by mothers of young children. Data from the Brookings Institution found that remote work is most common among parents with children under five, with mothers of young children logging the highest rates of fully remote work across all demographic groups. When I put out a call on social media asking for mothers who were working from home without external childcare to share their stories, the response was overwhelming. No two situations were exactly alike. Some working moms had occasional help — from family, part-time nannies, or a spouse working different shifts. Others swapped childcare with other working moms. There were also plenty doing it completely alone: single mothers or married women whose husbands worked long hours outside the home. Everyone was cobbling together a slightly different version of this seemingly impossible arrangement. What most had in common was a deep sense of gratitude, a heaping side of guilt, and the constant urge to prove themselves. The nap time hustle is real Molly, an SEO manager and mother to an eight-month-old and a six-year-old, does the majority of her work around her kids’ schedules. She describes her days as wholly dependent on them. “The nap time hustle is a real thing. Sometimes I feel like I can get more done in that two-hour nap than I can in a four-hour time span when my son is awake,” she told The Daily Wire in an interview. Molly checks email during school pickups. She gets back on her computer after the kids are in bed, often until 10 p.m., and is the first to admit that work-life separation isn’t her strong suit. “I’m pretty awful about separating work and personal life right now, but I know that life won’t always be like this,” she said. Kate, a content marketing writer for a fintech company with a 10-month-old, left a job she loved because its strict in-office culture left her no flexibility. Her new role pays more and allows her to work from wherever she wants. “When I’m on a video call, I’m usually muted while [my son] throws blocks around the room at my feet,” she admitted. “I haven’t sat at my desk in months; my laptop is often precariously balanced on a surface high enough to keep him away from the keyboard.” Nap time, when it happens, is sacred. Evenings and weekends are spent catching up. She wakes at 2 a.m. sometimes — not just because of the baby, but because her brain won’t stop working. These mothers are staking a claim to something that doesn’t have a clean label yet: making money and achieving professional success, but also being there when the kids get home from school. Breastfeeding between meetings. Reading picture books on their lunch breaks. Being present, even imperfectly, for all of it. They’re doing it by necessity, by choice, or — more often than not — some complicated combination of the two. There is a stigma associated with working from home with kids, though. One popular Instagram influencer with nearly 200,000 followers — who regularly shares her real name, profession, and work-from-home-with-kids content online — declined to be interviewed for this piece. “It makes no sense with me sharing online, but something for an article feels too official,” she wrote in response to an interview request. She wasn’t alone in her hesitation. Even on the social media thread where I solicited respondents, there was pushback from strangers. “[Women] shouldn’t be doing this,” one commenter wrote. “Let’s not normalize this.”  The judgment comes from both sides: traditional working moms can be skeptical that someone is really pulling her weight while wrangling a toddler, and full-time stay-at-home moms sometimes assume the kids are running feral. Neither is exactly right. Guilt that never clocks out Unlike the influencer, dozens of full-time work-from-home moms were eager to share their strategies, triumphs, and challenges. One mom was candid with some of her tips for success. “Full disclosure: I use a mouse jiggler to keep my Teams status green and computer from locking between the hours of 8:30 and 5,” she told The Daily Wire. But that admission doesn’t mean she’s a slacker. In the same breath, this mom mentioned how important it is to her not to back off responsibilities or display anxiety about her workload. As part of a small team of parents with older children who largely trust her to hit her deadlines, she says the pressure to perform at pre-baby levels is constant. Still, she recognizes her most important role.  “You are replaceable in your workplace, but the time with your children while they are young is finite and precious,” she said. If there was one word that surfaced again and again in these conversations, it was guilt. If the moms focus on work, they feel like they’re neglecting their kids. If they step away to push their kids on the swings, they feel like they’re shortchanging their employers — even when their in-office colleagues spent the same 20 minutes making a Starbucks run. Jenna, who works in tech sales and has a three-year-old and a four-month-old, described it by saying, “It’s so hard trying to repeatedly explain to [my daughter] that I have to work and can’t focus on her as much as I want to. And then it’s simultaneously hard to really focus on work when she’s constantly asking me to play. I feel guilty either way.” Her employer knows her kids are at home with her and is understanding. But the voice in her head is the loudest critic. “I know that I’m way harder on myself about it than any of them are on me,” she added.   Getty Images Jessica, a director of marketing at a digital marketing agency with a two-and-a-half-year-old son, has the receipts to prove it can work. “I have seen comments on social media from people who say that it’s not possible to work from home with kids without being a terrible employee — and I fully disagree,” she said. “I have a great working relationship with my boss, I never miss deadlines, and have received promotions and raises during my time working from home with my son.” Not everyone is working from a home office. Laurel takes a different approach entirely: She brings her nearly two-year-old twins to the office where she works for a small vitamin and supplement company. When she found out she was having twins, her company didn’t even have a maternity policy. Faced with the high cost of living in her state, she went to her boss — who has older children he used to bring to the office himself — and they agreed to try the arrangement on a trial basis. That was almost two years ago. Now there’s a dedicated room in the office with two pack-and-plays, a changing table, and a sound machine. When the twins nap, the office runs normally. When they’re awake, they play in their mother’s office or attend meetings with her. She advocated for more companies thinking outside the box like this. “I feel like everybody is just used to the status quo, and it’s just not something that we do. But I really wish that we would, because so many moms are going through this,” Laurel said of her arrangement.  She’s floated the idea of the company hiring a part-time in-office babysitter, or creating a dedicated childcare space as an employee benefit — a model she believes is more feasible than most corporate cultures are willing to consider. What do these mothers want employers to understand? Molly’s answer cuts to the heart of a disconnect that runs through nearly every story. “I love seeing the term ‘flexible hours’ on job listings, but I’m not sure that most companies actually use that term correctly,” she said. “If you can find a working parent that is willing to work mornings, evenings, or weekends to make sure their job gets done and gets done well, I think you’ve found a really great employee.” Challenging the status quo For some of these women, the arrangement wasn’t a lifestyle choice; it was a means of survival. Micaela became a virtual assistant after leaving an abusive marriage and being financially cut off, building a career from scratch while raising a two-year-old alone. “I feel a lot of pressure throughout the day to figure out how I’m going to fit all my hours in,” Micaela said. “Whenever my son is asleep or otherwise occupied, I feel torn between the pressure to get my hours in, take care of my home, or take care of my own self-care.” She’s also become an advocate for how employers think about mothers more broadly. “I think most employers undervalue mothers,” she told The Daily Wire. “Most moms are some of the hardest-working employees, and when employers are flexible and understanding in regard to children, it opens up the hiring pool and reduces work-life balance-related stress.” Sarah, a Stitch Fix stylist and Amazon content creator in Minnesota with three children ages five, three, and almost two, has two part-time jobs totaling 40 hours a week and homeschools all three of her kids.  “Some days, things go sideways and you’re going to feel like a failure. Some days, you’ll feel like you’ve totally got it all figured out,” she said. “The biggest benefit is that I get a front row seat to my kids growing up. Nobody knows them better than I do. There are only so many years of your kids being little — be there.” The working from home with kids life has become a reality for millions of moms. Their children are learning independence, adaptability, and the value of hard work modeled by example. Their employers are getting employees who, by necessity, are more efficient, more motivated, and more determined to protect the life they’ve built. Laurel put it best in the advice she’d give any mother thinking about trying this: “Try not to compare your old self to your current self because it’s easy to get in your head about productivity and all that. Just try to be grateful for the experience. In the end, you will look back and realize that it was such a blessing to have that opportunity.” Not everyone will get that opportunity. But for the women who do, they’re not necessarily failing at both. They’re going down the long road to inventing something new.

NASHVILLE—It was a humid night in June 2024 when Matt Carney encountered a pair of men rummaging through his truck. Carney, who owned the popular chicken restaurant Smokin’ Thighs, went to confront the men. As he did, they sped out of the parking lot, striking Carney and knocking him onto the street. As police hunted for the men behind the fatal hit-and-run, Carney succumbed to his injuries in the hospital. Eventually, Nashville police arrested Ulises Martinez, first confirmed by The Daily Wire to be an illegal immigrant from Mexico, and charged him with murder over the incident. Martinez admitted to police that he was driving the car that fatally struck Carney, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement slapped a detainer on him. Smokin’ Thighs, which Carney built from the ground up, closed a few short months after his death. Martinez has yet to face justice as his case makes its way through the Davidson County court system. The case quickly made headlines as then-candidate Donald Trump talked about the incident as he warned about a “migrant crime wave.” “Look at what’s happening to our cities. Our cities are being overrun,” Trump said. “On July 4th, a 42-year-old Nashville man died after he tried to stop an illegal alien from stealing tools out of his truck. The illegal alien did a number on this man that nobody could even believe. The police officers said one of the most vicious crimes they’ve ever seen.” Martinez/Smokin Thighs. The case illustrated how illegal immigration can impact even deeply red states like Tennessee. While Joe Biden was in office, conservative states struggled to respond as the federal government released millions of illegal immigrants into the United States. With the Trump administration, some Republican lawmakers see a golden opportunity to crack down on illegal immigration. ‘Once In A Generation Opportunity’  Since Trump’s return to the White House, states like California and Minnesota have made headlines for resisting the president’s immigration agenda. Republican leaders in Tennessee, spurred on by cases like Carney’s, want the Volunteer State to be different. “We have what I refer to as kind of a once in a generation opportunity, given the Trump administration’s emphasis on removing illegal immigrants and mass deportation,” Tennessee Senate Majority Leader Jack Johnson told The Daily Wire. “When we look at states like Michigan, New York, and California, others that are literally fighting the Trump administration on those efforts, we wanted to send a very clear message that we were not only going to cooperate, but do everything we could to help make them successful in their efforts in Tennessee,” he added. Johnson, alongside other state Republican leaders like House Speaker Cameron Sexton and House Majority Leader William Lamberth, introduced an immigration package at the beginning of the 2026 legislative session focused on reducing illegal immigration. The legislative package, crafted with input from White House officials, includes bills that would make illegal immigration a crime in Tennessee; mandate legal status for public employees and citizenship verification for those who receive public benefits; protect ICE agents from being doxed; and increase cooperation between local law enforcement and federal immigration officials. Sexton says he had discussions with the White House after they began collaborating on a project to clean up crime in Memphis. He praised federal officials for their input on the legislative package and said they viewed Tennessee “as being the beacon of showing other states how to do something comprehensive and really transform your state.” The White House said that it was happy to speak with all state lawmakers about how to fight illegal immigration. “Illegal aliens should not be receiving federal welfare benefits while hardworking Americans foot the bill,” a White House official told The Daily Wire. “The President’s entire Intergovernmental Affairs team has been willing to speak with state legislators seeking advice on how to effectively enact the President’s agenda and protect the American people from fraud and abuse perpetrated by illegal aliens.” A ‘Beacon’ To The Nation  Republican leaders are confident that most of the bills will make it across the finish line before the legislative session wraps up next month. The proposals are focused on increasing cooperation with the federal government and safeguarding taxpayer dollars. One of the proposals making its way through the legislature would mandate that local governments verify legal residency before doling out benefits. It would also mandate reporting to ICE applicants whose citizenship couldn’t be verified. Under that bill, the Tennessee attorney general would be empowered to withhold shared tax revenue from entities that refuse to restrict public benefits. “I want to help our people who are Tennessee citizens, who are here legally and lawfully, that need help and assistance,” Sexton told The Daily Wire, noting that reports show 20% of public housing is taken up by illegal immigrants. “That’s taken up space from someone who is here legally and lawfully in a Tennessee resident who’s homeless and on the streets, that’s a problem.” Another key plank of the package is making E-Verify — a free platform from the Department of Homeland Security that employers use to authenticate the legal status of potential employees — mandatory for all state and local government employers, including schools. The proposals come as reports of illegal immigrants being hired as police officers throughout the country. Local entities that don’t implement E-Verify could lose out on shared sales tax revenue. Some of the proposals are intended to assess the monetary cost of illegal immigration in the state, Sexton told The Daily Wire. He noted that the monetary costs of illegal immigration for the Volunteer State could be as high as $700 million. One proposal from Lamberth would instruct schools to count how many illegal immigrants are in Tennessee schools. That would allow officials to determine how much taxpayers were paying to educate kids brought across the border illegally. Originally, the proposal would have required parents to pay tuition if they were illegally in the United States or disenroll their kids. Other bills would increase the frequency of reporting for state agencies to increase tracking of illegal immigrants by both law enforcement and for the state finance report to produce a report on the cost of illegal immigration, drawing from places like schools, prisons, hospitals, and social services. Another series of bills would require lawful status for nurses, teachers, contractors, and all licensed professions. One from Johnson and Rep. Jason Zachary would make it a crime for a person illegally in the country to operate a commercial motor vehicle. Other components would make it a requirement to take the driver’s test in English and make it impossible for an illegal immigrant to register a vehicle with the state. Sexton noted Republicans were also working on legislation to make sure reciprocal licenses are not issued to those from states where citizenship is not verified. “If you come from a state that does not verify your legal status, then before you get the reciprocal license, you’re gonna have to show the state of Tennessee that you’re here legally and lawfully and if you can’t, then we’re not giving your license,” he said. One bill sponsored by Johnson and Lamberth would make it a crime for someone with a final order of deportation to be in the state of Tennessee. “If that deportation order has been issued for whatever reason and you’re out and about, but you set foot in Tennessee, we can arrest you and charge you,” Johnson told The Daily Wire, noting that the proposal was crafted to be in line with the Supreme Court on federal immigration enforcement. Another proposal would further require local law enforcement to hold illegal immigrants arrested for ICE. Cost To Tennesseans  Thanks to reporting requirements implemented by the legislature last year, district attorneys across the state must produce a report every year on the number of crimes illegal immigrants are arrested and charged with. The report for 2025 found that there were 11,344 illegal immigrants charged or convicted of a crime during the year. The defendants came from 119 different countries and were charged with a total of 21,648 charges. The report identified  2,183 violent offenses, including 41 murders. Those crimes are in the minds of lawmakers as they advance their immigration package. Johnson believes that the immigration package from the General Assembly will “demonstrate to our constituents and to the Trump administration that we welcome your efforts to come in and get violent, illegal aliens out of our communities.” He noted that presidents have vowed for years to secure the border, but he said Trump was the first one serious about doing it. He said Trump is “serious about it” and “we want to be a good partner with [him] and his administration.” Sexton said that even one crime by an illegal against a Tennessean is unacceptable. “You still had thousands of victims in Tennessee who became victims because of an illegal, who came into our country illegally, and they’re still here,” he said. “One victim by one illegal immigrant is one too many still, so I don’t care if it’s a 3% number, a 1% number, or a 10% number. Just one crime committed by an illegal against someone in Tennessee should not happen.”

Tiger Woods is out of jail, and a new mugshot shows the golf star looking glassy-eyed after spending hours behind bars following a DUI arrest tied to a rollover crash near his Jupiter Island home. (Photo by Martin County Sheriff’s Office via Getty Images) The 15-time major champion was taken into custody Friday afternoon in Martin County, Florida after he t-boned another vehicle, sending his Range Rover onto its side. The crash unfolded just before 2 p.m. near the Hobe Sound Yacht Club, just minutes from his multimillion-dollar, 12-acre oceanfront estate. Authorities say Woods sped up to try to pass a truck hauling a pressure cleaner when he plowed into it. Photos from the scene show Woods’ black SUV tipped onto its side as authorities and a flatbed tow truck surrounded the wreck. “DUI investigators came to the scene here, and Mr. Woods did exemplify signs of impairment. They did several tests on him. Of course, he did explain the injuries and the surgeries that he had. We did take that into account, but they did do some in-depth roadside tests,” Martin County Sheriff John Budensiek said. Deputies said Woods showed signs of impairment at the scene. A breath test later showed no alcohol in his system, shifting attention to whether another substance may have been involved. “We really weren’t suspicious of alcohol being involved in this case, and that proved to be true at the jail. … But when it came time for us to ask for a urinalysis test, he refused. And, so, he’s been charged with DUI, with property damage and refusal to submit to a lawful test,” Budensiek added. Woods now faces misdemeanor charges of driving under the influence, property damage, and refusal to submit to a lawful test. Tiger Woods is driven from the Martin County Jail after being arrested for driving under the influence after a car crash on March 27, 2026 in Stuart, Florida. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images) The golf legend was alone in the SUV at the time of the crash and was not hurt. He was able to crawl out after the vehicle flipped. The incident adds to a pattern of past issues behind the wheel. In 2017, Woods was arrested after being found asleep in his car and later said he had been taking prescription medications following back surgery. In 2021, he was in another serious crash that left him with major leg injuries and sidelined him for a full year. Friday’s crash also comes just days after Woods returned to competitive golf, raising fresh concerns about his condition off the course. Woods is dating Vanessa Trump, the former daughter-in-law of President Donald Trump. President Donald Trump commented on the situation, calling Woods a close friend. “I feel so badly,” Trump said. “He’s an amazing person, amazing man, but some difficulty.” Woods has not publicly commented on the crash or his arrest.