The Department of Homeland Security announced that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents have arrested over 7,000 criminal illegal alien gang members, including murderers, kidnappers, and thieves, during President Donald Trump's first year of his second term.

President Donald Trump promised that he would carry out a historic mass deportation campaign once he took office one year ago. Since then, federal authorities have deported more than 670,000 illegal immigrants. Additionally, roughly 1.9 million illegal immigrants have left the United States on their own. “On President Trump’s first day in office, he unleashed ICE to target the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens, including pedophiles, murderers, gang members, terrorists, and rapists,” Assistant Homeland Security Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement shared with The Daily Wire. “Today, we thank our law enforcement for a record-breaking first year of achievements including more than 670,000 removals and two million self-deportations. DHS is committed to continuing to remove dangerous illegal aliens from American communities. 70% of ICE arrests [are] of criminal illegal aliens who have been convicted or charged with a crime in the U.S. We will not rest until American communities are free of the scourge of illegal alien crime,” she added. The Department of Homeland Security shared the “worst” illegal immigrants nabbed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement since Inauguration Day with The Daily Wire. Here are their rap sheets. ICE officers arrested Uzbek national Akhror Bozorov, who was wanted in his home country for belonging to a terrorist organization, on November 9 in Kansas while he was working as a commercial truck driver. They also nabbed Afghan national Jaan Shah Safi in Waynesboro, Virginia, in December after he provided support to the ISIS-K, while his father was found to be a commander of a militia group in Afghanistan. Safi entered the United States during former President Joe Biden’s “Operation Allies Welcome,” which brought over thousands of Afghans following the botched troop withdrawal. In April, ICE arrested Harpreet Singh, an illegal immigrant who was wanted in India for his ties to terrorist activities that included planning more than a dozen grenade attacks on police officials, according to DHS. Singh crossed the border illegally during the Biden administration and was swiftly admitted into the country. MS-13 leader Rene Escobar-Ochoa, who had an INTERPOL Red Notice from El Salvador for drug trafficking and conspiracy to commit murder, was arrested by ICE in July. The Trump administration has also targeted Tren de Aragua gangbangers, including Yorvis Michel Carrascal Campo, who was charged with murder, racketeering, and drug trafficking in New Mexico. ICE arrested the Venezuelan gang member in Colorado Springs on January 8. Campo allegedly took part in a brutal kidnapping, where gangbangers strangled the victim in a New Mexico apartment before they buried his body in the remote desert, according to the Department of Justice. ICE arrested the now-former superintendent of Des Moines Public Schools, Ian Andre Roberts, on September 26, after learning that he’s an illegal immigrant from Guyana with a deportation order, according to DHS. During the arrest, the officers found that he had an illegal handgun, a hunting knife, and nearly $3,000 in cash. Roberts arrived in the United States in 1994 as a tourist before he got a student visa in 1999, according to DHS. He was charged in 1996 with criminal possession of narcotics with intent to sell, criminal possession of narcotics, criminal possession of a forgery device, and possession of a forged instrument in New York. He faced charges for third-degree unauthorized use of a vehicle in Queens, New York, two years later, but the case was later dismissed. In 2012, Roberts was convicted of reckless driving, unsafe operation, and speeding in Maryland. He was charged in 2020 for second-degree criminal possession of a weapon (having a loaded firearm outside his home or business); third-degree criminal possession of a weapon (an ammunition feeding device); and a fourth-degree weapon offense, according to DHS. He was convicted of unlawful possession of a loaded firearm in Pennsylvania in 2022. Roberts was also denied a green card four different times. He was still given a work permit, which expired on December 18, 2020, three years before he took the role in Des Moines. Roberts was absent from his immigration hearing when a judge ordered his deportation. ICE also arrested Harneet Singh, 25, of India, in August after an 18-wheeler he was a passenger in made an illegal U-turn on a Florida turnpike, killing three people. His brother, Harjinder Singh, who was behind the wheel, now faces three counts of vehicular homicide. The crash sparked the Trump administration to crack down on states issuing commercial driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants. The feds took Honduran MS-13 leader Gerson Emir Cuadra Soto off the streets in December after learning that he was wanted in his home country for a quadruple homicide. Soto crossed the border illegally after he bribed his way out of a jail in Honduras, where he was being held on firearms charges. ICE also took Honduran illegal immigrant Olvin Rodriguez-Inestroza off the streets after he had active warrants for 394 counts of pornography involving juveniles and two counts of sexual abuse of an animal, according to DHS. Agents arrested Aldrin Guerrero-Munoz in October after he was incarcerated for more than two decades for the intentional murder of his three-month-old son. While he was behind bars, Guerrero-Munoz was convicted of assaulting another inmate. Meanwhile, the Trump administration isn’t letting up and continues to carry out major immigration sweeps across the country. DHS recently deployed thousands of federal agents to Minnesota to push through anti-ICE agitators trying to obstruct arrest operations and continue to chip away at their list of thousands of targets roaming the sanctuary state.

Vice President J.D. Vance and his wife, second lady Usha Vance, are pregnant with the couple’s fourth child, the second lady announced on Tuesday. The Vances put out a statement announcing that they are expecting their fourth child, a boy, to be born in July. The baby boy will join his three older siblings Ewan, Vivek, and Mirabel. “We’re very excited to share the news that Usha is pregnant with our fourth child, a boy. Usha and the baby are doing well, and we are all looking forward to welcoming him in late July,” the announcement posted to Usha Vance’s social media pages said. “During this exciting and hectic time, we are particularly grateful for the military doctors who take excellent care of our family and for the staff members who do so much to ensure that we can serve the country while enjoying a wonderful life with our children,” it continued. The vice president, 41, and his wife, 40, have been married since 2014. With the birth of their new son, the couple will have joined a small club of presidents and vice presidents to have had a child while in office. The couple received congratulations from across the administration after the announcement. “The most pro-family administration in history!” the official White House X account posted. “CONGRATULATIONS!” Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard shared the news, saying, “Congratulations to our friends @JDVance and @SLOTUS on this wonderful news! Abraham and I are thrilled for you and your family.” Interior Secretary Doug Burgum wrote, “Congratulations, @VP and @SLOTUS! There is no greater joy than being a parent. Honored to work for an administration that puts family first!”

The following is an edited transcript from “The Michael Knowles Show.” * * * Michelle Obama went viral yesterday — on Martin Luther King Day of all days — for comments about shopping habits and race. The viral description making the rounds, however, reads, “Michelle Obama says she is mindful to try to avoid white-owned brands…” The question is whether what she actually said matches that description. Let’s find out. Watch: Michelle Obama says she is mindful to try to avoid white-owned brands and others also should be pic.twitter.com/5MqY5gaxUv — End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) January 19, 2026 Credit: @EndWokeness/X.com At a superficial glance, just hearing her words verbatim, you’d probably have to say the viral description isn’t entirely fair. Nowhere does she explicitly say “don’t shop at white-owned brands.” Nowhere does she say “shop at black-owned brands and not white-owned brands.” And in defense of Michelle Obama — and I don’t generally defend her — that’s not literally what she said. She said that if she sees a black-owned brand and she likes their stuff, she’ll choose that brand. But she stops herself. She doesn’t say, “and I won’t buy from anyone else.” She doesn’t say, “I only do it because it’s black-owned.” But here’s the problem: she injects race into the decision. She’s saying, “If I like their stuff, and if it’s black-owned, then I especially want to buy it.” And when she says, “If you have the money to buy Chanel, you have the money to buy everybody,” she very carefully stops short of finishing the sentence. She doesn’t say “black-owned brands.” She says “everybody.” What she’s doing is trying to privilege the black-owned brand while avoiding the explicit consequence of that choice. She wants to be a racial identitarian when it comes to the positive act of buying — of supporting a business — but she doesn’t want to be a racial identitarian when it comes to the negative act of not shopping somewhere else. She never says, “Don’t shop at white brands.” Instead, she says you need to shop at black brands, and everybody needs to shop at black brands — but maybe not less at white brands. It’s a kind of gobbledygook. And that’s why, ultimately, I think the viral description is basically fair, even if it’s not perfectly precise. It’s like the IQ bell curve meme. At one end, people say she told people not to shop at white stores. In the middle, it’s “she said to shop at black stores but also shop at white stores.” And at the other end, what she’s really saying is: shop less at white stores. Her minor premise is wrong. She says if you have the money to buy Chanel, you have the money to buy everybody. WATCH: The Michael Knowles Show That’s simply not true. Money is a finite resource. Just because you can afford one expensive brand doesn’t mean you have infinite money. And even if you did have infinite money, you have finite closet space. You have a finite number of dresses you’ll wear. A finite number of days in the week. Where are you going to wear all these clothes? This is the core problem with diversity ideology. If you privilege one thing, you necessarily disadvantage another.  This is exactly the problem with affirmative action. Everyone says, “Oh, it’s great, we should help out black people.” And yes, for the vast majority of Americans, that sounds good. Who doesn’t want to help? But affirmative action in practice means something very concrete. There are a finite number of spots at a university. A finite number of jobs. When you give an advantage to black people simply for being black, you are necessarily disadvantageous to someone else — often white people, or Asian people in the case of college admissions. There is discrimination happening. There is an injustice that comes with that, too. The same logic applies here. When you say, “I’m going to shop at the black brand,” you are necessarily saying that, at the margin — the last dress that fits in your closet — you are not going to shop at the white brand. You are choosing not to go into that shop, not because you dislike the dress, but because of the race of the person who owns it. That is discrimination on the basis of race. That’s what Michelle Obama is saying — without saying it. She doesn’t want to go all the way, but there is no other conclusion you can reach from her premises. This ties directly into why people don’t really talk about Martin Luther King Jr. the same way anymore. Part of it is that the modern Left rejects him because he was too conciliatory and too egalitarian. But the other reason is that the practical politics don’t match the rhetoric. Dr. King famously said, “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” And yet his successors say that in order to achieve that dream, we need affirmative action, DEI, and diversity ideology. Which, in practice, means judging people — especially white people — by the color of their skin. Taken to its extreme, it means not shopping at white-owned businesses. And even if you agree with MLK’s premise, you are completely undermining it with these practical consequences. So no, I don’t begrudge Michelle Obama for shopping at black-owned businesses. That’s fine. But if you’re going to say it, say it with your whole heart. Finish the sentence. Tell people explicitly: shop at black businesses. Don’t shop at white businesses. Define what counts as ownership — 50% plus one ownership? Board seats? Stakeholders? I don’t know. But say it clearly. And if you’re not willing to say that, then just buy the dress you like.

Exactly one year into President Donald Trump’s second term, the economy remains a top concern for voters, and the president believes his administration is doing enough to address so-called affordability issues, but is failing to promote that success to combat “fake news.” Trump spoke to reporters in the White House briefing room on Tuesday, highlighting his biggest wins so far in his second term. Asked by RealClearPolitics reporter Philip Melanchthon Wegmann if economic woes are still pressing down on Americans or if the economy is a messaging issue for the White House, Trump replied, “A lot of people are listening to the fake news a little bit.” “And I’m not blaming everybody. I blame ourselves,” Trump added. “I think we’ve done a much better job than we were able to promote. We’re not promoting. We’re doing a great job and sort of letting the promotion take care of itself.” “But if you look at prices, compared to a year or a year-and-a-half ago, you look at the Biden prices, they were way up through the sky,” Trump continued. “And they use the word ‘affordability,’ they just say ‘affordability’ and they don’t talk about it. They created the affordability problem, and we are solving it. We have solved a lot of it.” Addressing the economy, along with immigration, have been the biggest issues for the president since he was sworn in last January. In his first year back in the White House, Trump has rewritten global trade with his unprecedented tariffs, which have resulted in billions of dollars of commitments from countries and companies to ramp up manufacturing in the United States. It will take time before those commitments materialize, however, and in the meantime, Trump’s tariffs are hitting Americans’ wallets in some cases. Grocery items such as beef, coffee, and some fruits jumped thanks to the president’s tariffs on nearly all foreign imports. After some concerning election results for Republicans in November, Trump began to more aggressively address the economy, and he rolled back tariffs on numerous grocery items and agricultural products. Under Trump, other grocery items have dropped in price as inflation steadied around 3% for most of the past year. Egg prices are down over 13% since last year and reached their lowest level since 2019, according to Trading Economics. Poultry prices have also dropped over 12% since last year. Gas prices nationwide have tumbled since Trump took office, with the current U.S. average down over 15 cents per gallon compared to this time last year, according to AAA. Trump made sure to mention the drop in gas prices during the briefing on Tuesday afternoon, saying, “Everybody in this room agrees that gasoline prices are way down. When that happens, everything else goes down.” The Trump administration has also floated some other policies to address the economic pinch that many Americans are feeling, such as allowing Americans to tap into their 401k penalty-free to purchase a home. Last week, President Trump demanded that credit card companies cap interest rates at 10%, an idea that has been criticized by many conservatives. The administration has also promised that Americans would see massive tax refunds this year thanks to the president’s tax policies.

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