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Editor’s note: This week, we’re reprinting some of our best stories from the past year. In this piece, originally published in April, Kassy Akiva joined ICE agents as they executed deportation raids around Boston. *** BOSTON—The Daily Wire joined U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Acting Director Todd Lyons and his agents in Greater Boston as they hunted down criminal illegal aliens. The operation comes as President Donald Trump marks his first 100 days in office, and Border Czar Tom Homan vows to “go to Boston and bring hell with me” in an effort to arrest illegal aliens who have sexually assaulted children. “We did more arrests in these 100 days than the previous administration did last year,” Lyons told The Daily Wire in his first interview. Lyons became the acting director of ICE in March after five years as Boston Field Office Director. He said morale is at an all-time high following the Trump administration giving the support needed to remove illegal aliens. ICE is focused on deporting the “worst of the worst” that the Biden administration ignored, like violent criminal illegal aliens or those who have been deported before. “It’s the worst crime in the world when you sexually assault a child,” Homan said in a White House press briefing on Monday. “That’s why I made a statement that one time I was going to go to Boston and bring hell with me.” ‘MEXICO’S DOOR’: DAILY WIRE’S KASSY AKIVA SEES THE BORDER CRISIS FIRSTHAND During the ride-along on Friday, ICE arrested 55-year-old Miguel Angel Chavez, who was convicted on two counts of indecent assault and battery on a child under 14 and deported in 2013. Chavez, a citizen of El Salvador, illegally re-entered the United States at an unknown place and time following his first deportation. The second arrestee during the mission was 69-year-old Jose Lazaro Ayala, who illegally entered the country undetected and was convicted in September of leaving the scene of an accident involving an injured person or death. Ayala is pending removal to El Salvador, according to ICE. “These aren’t the people you want in your neighborhood,” Lyons said. “These arrests right here show what we’ve done these first 100 days and what Secretary Noem and President Trump have been really pushing for: that ICE gets the worst of the worst.” ICE was unable to target three other criminal illegal aliens in the mission, possibly because poor weather kept them from going to their outdoor jobs. Miguel Angel Chavez and Jose Lazaro Ayala were arrested in the Greater Boston area on Friday for being criminal illegal aliens. (Yisroel Tietelbaum) The Daily Wire witnessed firsthand the challenges ICE is facing in sanctuary jurisdictions during the ride-along. According to Lyons, migrants are attracted to places like Massachusetts because of its generous social service benefits. Numerous sanctuary cities make deportations more difficult by often refusing to cooperate with ICE. “One of the big difficulties operating in our sanctuary jurisdiction is that these are actual public safety threats,” he said. “A jail, a police department, a sheriff’s department, and state police have deemed these individuals a public safety threat and locked them up. Yet instead of working with the federal government, they decide to release them back on the street.” Lyons said that in sanctuary jurisdictions, agents have to work harder to surveil targets and gather information about them to plan arrests. “For these two today, anywhere between 40 to 80 hours could have been put in just on surveillance in research into these crimes, because, number one, there are ghosts,” he said. “The state doesn’t provide us driver’s license data, registration data. So really, the men and women of ICE have to go and create these cases on their own and then get out there and do surveillance and try to get court and police records.” Daily Wire reporter Kassy Akiva interviewed the new Acting Director of ICE, Todd Lyons, in his first on-video interview in his new role. (Yisroel Teitelbaum) By not working with ICE, sanctuary cities increase the number of deportations, according to Lyons. Instead of simply picking up criminal illegal aliens at jails, ICE is forced to track them down at their workplaces or in their neighborhoods. This often results in other illegal aliens — violent criminals or not — being arrested as well. MAYORS OF BOSTON, CHICAGO, DENVER AND NYC CALLED TO TESTIFY IN CONGRESS OVER SANCTUARY CITY POLICIES Lyons credited ICE’s recent success to Trump’s whole-of-government approach, which pairs ICE with agents from other federal agencies, including the FBI, DEA, IRS, Diplomatic Security Service, and others. “With no doubt, ICE is helping the president establish his goals and his pledges that he made during the campaign, which was to get the worst of the worst outside of our communities, and I think this first hundred days have been a great success,” Lyons said.

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Late night comedy’s regular trashing of conservatives and Republicans is not confined to the hosts. Oftentimes, guests are brought on to parrot the host's beliefs, and with a new Republican president, an outgoing host, and another that was briefly suspended, those guests had lots to talk about this year. Here are the ten worst. 10. October 14: Actress Bette Midler on CBS’s The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Colbert MIDLER: Did you ever know that you're my Frodo? You stand for what's right with wit and class. Thank you. And I hold you high as the great eagles 'cause you never kissed the orange ass. You never kissed the orange ass, never kissed the orange ass. Oh, you, you, you, you never—   AUDIENCE: Kissed the orange ass.     9. January 31: Drag Queens BenDeLaCreme, Peaches Christ, and Jinkx Monsoon on CBS’s After Midnight on Pope Francis and Catholicism TAYLOR TOMLINSON: If there is one thing Catholics hate, it's fun. They hate more than one thing. Case in point: Pope Francis recently warned a committee of journalists that excessive scrolling causes “brain rot.” Oh, okay, well, how did he know about brain rot if he isn't scrolling all night? The Pontiff doth protest too much. Panelists, how chronically online is the Pope? DeLa. BENDELACREME: So much that he has brain rot, or, sorry, Catholicism. I always get these two confused. TOMLINSON: Peaches. PEACHES CHRIST: He is online so much that he calls shirtless pictures of Jesus thirst traps. TOMLINSON: Jinkx. JINKX MONSOON: He lost the Vatican in online poker. And now he has to sell [ITALIAN ACCENT] a the pope rings on the Etsy.  8. January 20: Professor Brooke Harrington on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show on Donald Trump’s Inauguration “This is really different, and in fact, I was reflecting on how different this is, even from Russian oligarchy, because…You know, at least Putin had a very clear red line with his oligarchs. The grand bargain of the early 2000s was he was going to let them get rich on condition that they kept their noses out of his political business…This is not good news because I like democracy… the broligarchs really have an explicit political agenda, and it is essentially anti-democratic and almost monarchical.” 7. January 14: Comedian Bill Burr on ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live on Luigi Mangione “CNN and Fox News are not going to bring up the insurance companies that are just going to keep everybody's premiums and still give themselves a bonus. Yes! Free Luigi! I love how they acted surprised. “Why did that happen?” I have no -- he wrote on the bullets is why it happened.” 6. September 22: CNN’s Jake Tapper on NBC’s Late Night with Seth Meyers on Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension “I mean, I thought it was pretty much the most direct infringement by the government on free speech that I've seen in my lifetime.”     5. May 6: MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow on CBS’s The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Donald Trump and Elections “He doesn't think there should be elections and they are consolidating power, they're disempowering Congress, ignoring Congress, defunding agencies or closing agencies. That's Congress's job, that's not the president's job. When they are defying court orders, that's them saying the courts don't have authority over the president, that's consolidating all the power in one man, that's authoritarianism, and that's what you do when you don’t ever want to have an election because you want to stay in power for life, and that is what they are trying.” 4. February 10 and September 18: The New Yorker Editor David Remnick on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show and CBS’s The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Donald Trump and Russia. “But now it went the other direction and the oligarchs took over this country in concert with Vladimir Putin and before him, Yeltsin. And to see at an inauguration, a few weeks ago, of the tech titans of this world sitting in the best seats in the house, right behind the president of the United States was the most ominous thing.” *** “There was real journalism on television and in newspapers and radio. It was exciting, it was productive, the world was full of debate. Putin came to power on New Year's night, 1999-2000. And, you know who he went after first? This will sound a little familiar to you: comedians.” 3. July 21: Actress Sandra Oh on CBS’s The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on CBS cancelling Colbert OH: I am so sorry and saddened and properly outraged for the cancellation of late night here. And not only for yourself and for this entire family who are here but for what it means, of what it means where we are in our culture, and what it means for free speech. So, I just want to say sorry, and also if I can have your hand.  COLBERT: Yes. OH: To CBS and Paramount, a plague on both of your houses 2. February 4: Comedian W. Kamau Bell on CBS’s The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Donald Trump BELL: Trump has one of the greatest resumes of racism in the history of racism. Yes. COLBERT: He’s an all-star. BELL: He's a first ballot hall of fame racist. He is the LeBron James of racism     1. March 11: Actor Nathan Lane on CBS’s The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Trump’s takeover of The Kennedy Center “And the new season that he's preparing is very troubling. Like tomorrow night they have a youth choir made up entirely of Elon Musk's children. Because Hamilton canceled its engagement, they are producing Lee Greenwood's all-rap musical tribute to Ronald Reagan starring Kanye West. It's called Trickle Down. That is followed by a new production of The Sound of Music told from the point of view of the Nazis. Trust me, trust me, you don't want to hear the list of their favorite things. And if that wasn't enough, he just canceled an appearance by the gay men's chorus, which upset a lot of people, especially—yes, yes, especially those conservative Republicans on Grindr.” 

The Orlando Sentinel’s lead editorial on Christmas Day, “Regard immigration in the spirit of the season” engages in hypocritical emotional blackmail against Christians by aiming to use their own religious precepts against them – Christians being one group the paper has never held any brief for previously. The soppy, manipulative pro-illegal immigration editorial (which never raised the term "illegal," and was yet another prominent Sentinel piece strangely absent from the paper’s own website) regifted a photo from a previous Sentinel sob story about a Florida immigrant convicted of rape, and bizarrely placing a 120-word mini-editorial within the photo caption, even though the incident wasn’t mentioned in the editorial itself. The caption in full: Sandy Adams with her mom, Gayle Bojerski, on Nov. 12. Bojerski's husband, Paul John Bojerski, 79, was incarcerated at Alligator Alcatraz until recently, when he was transferred to ICE detention in Miami. He's lived in this country since he was 5, after being born in a WWII refugee camp in Germany to Polish parents. They came into this country legally, but he faced deportation as a young man after a couple of arrests in the 1960s and 1970s invalidated his legal status. He thought the case was dismissed after he went to Canada on his honeymoon but immigration officials kept dusting off his case. For decades he simply reported to immigration officials once a year and lived his life as an optician, raising a family and enjoying his grandkids. One of those cases ended up with Bojerski convicted of rape, a useful fact that somehow didn’t make the mini-editorial above. The actual editorial noted with approval that some “traditional Nativity scenes” were being repurposed as political statements in various states: Each display conveys the same message: Had Joseph and Mary been caught in today's America, friendless and alone, they'd be in just as much danger as they were in Bethlehem. As the Gospel of Matthew recounts, the young couple's stay in Bethlehem was cut short by a cruel order from King Herod, who had heard of the miraculous birth and did not intend to spare anyone - even an infant - in his quest to hold on to power. The Holy Family fled to Egypt, and became not just immigrants but refugees. Really? Whatever your religious beliefs or lack thereof (and it’s odd to see a press hostile to religion in politics so quickly become theological experts when it suits their agenda), the Jesus of the Bible was no refugee. This piece dissected left-leaning theologian Russell Moore’s similar argument: “Moore inaccurately reads the UN’s definition of “refugee” back into a Scriptural context with none of the categories of nation-states and international law that inform the UN’s definition. For example, Jesus would likely be considered an internally displaced person (IDP) by UN standards as opposed to a refugee since he fled from one place to another within the Roman Empire.” The Orlando Sentinel recast the Christmas season as a time of repentance about voting for Trump, shamelessly pushing Christian premises in a blunt way it would mock or condemn if done by a conservative organization: ….And if you are celebrating Christmas in the tradition of faith, consider what the Bible and other holy books say: Comfort the stranger. Give aid to those in need. Stand with the cause of justice. Father Jose Rodriguez of the Iglesia Episcopal Jesus de Nazaret in Orlando is another of the many faith leaders in the area who has spoken out against the harsh policies. His wish: For voters who supported Trump, Gov. Ron DeSantis and other officials embracing this cruel and destructive crackdown to re-examine their feelings…."We're going to have to come to terms with what we voted for, and realize that we were wrong," Rodriguez says. …. In a season dedicated to peace on earth and good will toward men, let us open one more gift: The compassion and wisdom to understand injustice is being done, (space) and the courage to admit that things must change. Holy religious hypocrisy! The "separate the church and state" gang suddenly wants everyone to use their religion in their politics. They picked an Episcopal minister who's pals with socialist Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.).

A new wave of sweeping “pardons” has triggered one of the most urgent constitutional alarms Glenn Beck has ever raised — not because the individuals involved are controversial, but because the actions themselves may not even qualify as pardons at all.These “pardons” rewrite laws and push executive power into territory the founders explicitly warned against.“This has gotten out of control. These pardons are out of control. Out of control,” Glenn says on “The Glenn Beck Program.” “It’s something constitutional; it’s been there since George Washington. The president has always had this right, and it is a privilege of his.”However, under Biden, the privilege was wildly misused.“All you have to do then is say, ‘I pardon everyone in my administration for anything that they might have done wrong. That can’t stand,” Glenn says.“And you have the immunity deal, which again, I don’t see how a pre-pardon is even possibly covered. Like, it’s just such an insane concept. ... Hunter Biden actually committed a crime, and pardoning him from that is, in theory, obviously outside of the family interest, was the way that was supposed to work,” BlazeTV host Stu Burguiere agrees.“But they also pardoned him for multiple years of question marks, whether he committed crimes or not, right? That was all included in that. And to go a step farther on this, because I am on a bit of a personal jihad against the pardon, I’m done with it,” Burguiere continues.While Stu notes that the “founders were very smart,” they also created a process for constitutional amendments.“I would support one getting rid of the pardon power completely. I’m done with it,” he tells Glenn.“It’s the most king-like power that the president has, and it doesn’t make any sense to me,” he adds.Glenn notes that former President Barack Obama also took advantage of presidential pardons, as he “gave clemency for anybody who was convicted of a non-violent federal drug crime with no significant criminal history while serving extraordinarily long sentences, and anybody who was a violent offender was not eligible.”“I think there were, like, 2,000 people that he pardoned on that,” he says.“That’s creating a new law,” Stu adds.Want more from Glenn Beck?To enjoy more of Glenn’s masterful storytelling, thought-provoking analysis, and uncanny ability to make sense of the chaos, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

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