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President Trump’s Justice Department has gone to the Supreme Court with a question lower courts keep turning into a release valve. Can a federal judge order illegal migrants released on bond while their deportation cases play out, or did Congress already say they stay in custody? The administration says Congress already answered that. Now it wants the high court to say so too. The case is Raycraft v. Lopez-Campos, docket number 25-1415. According to the official Supreme Court docket, the petition for a writ of certiorari was filed June 22, 2026, and the case was docketed June 24. The docket identifies the lower court as the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, with several consolidated case numbers underneath it from the same detention fight. It also lists Solicitor General D. John Sauer as counsel of record for the federal parties, which tells you the administration is treating this as a serious national enforcement question. The response deadline sits on the docket too, so this is now formally in front of the Court as an immigration-enforcement case with real national reach for ICE custody policy. The justices have yet to take final action. The Trump administration is asking them to take the case and wipe away a lower-court result that keeps pushing bond hearings into mandatory detention. Here is what the fight is really about. Breitbart reported that the Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to block migrant releases before deportation. The report frames the case as a direct challenge to release-before-removal pressure. The dispute centers on people who entered the country unlawfully and were later arrested inside the United States by ICE. They then sought bond hearings while removal cases continued in immigration court after arrest. The administration’s position is that federal law places those migrants into mandatory detention, meaning custody continues while the government works through the removal process instead of restarting release fights before deportation. The opposing theory would let judges create a path back onto the street before the deportation case is finished, which turns detention into another round of catch-and-release pressure nationwide. That is why the filing matters beyond one group of plaintiffs: the same legal theory can shape how ICE handles interior arrests across the country. The national wire framing put the core legal question this way: Trump administration asks US Supreme Court to endorse immigration detention policy https://t.co/0zS4xCYVD0 — Reuters (@Reuters) June 26, 2026 The Guardian carried Reuters reporting on the case and added broader context about who is affected by the detention policy. The report said the administration is asking the Supreme Court to endorse detention for people arrested in President Trump’s immigration crackdown, even when arrests occur years after entry. It also noted that some of the migrants involved may have lived in the United States for years before being arrested, which is exactly the kind of fact the left uses to argue for release later. The administration’s answer is very different: years inside the country after unlawful entry should strengthen the case for interior enforcement, because that is why interior enforcement exists in the first place. That is the practical divide: one side treats long-term unlawful presence as a reason for bond, while the Trump administration treats it as a reason to enforce the law. The legal path runs through the Sixth Circuit. The Sixth Circuit case file shows a consolidated immigration-detention fight involving multiple case numbers from the lower-court path. Behind the technical language is a practical fight over bond hearings, removal proceedings, and how much power lower courts have to interrupt mandatory detention after an interior ICE arrest inside the country. One reading keeps people in custody while the government works to remove them. The other gives judges another mechanism to move migrants out of detention while the case continues through immigration court. That is why this petition matters far beyond one docket number. It cuts straight into whether President Trump’s enforcement machine can actually keep custody of the people it arrests after interior operations begin. If the lower-court path holds, the argument can become a template for more release demands in other detention fights. Another national report framed the administration’s request this way: Trump administration asks Supreme Court to OK its unprecedented immigration detention policy https://t.co/VcSwgYq6Dg — POLITICO (@politico) June 26, 2026 Notice the word choice there: “unprecedented.” The bigger break from normal was the old system that let illegal entry, years of unlawful presence, and repeated legal process turn into release after release. President Trump campaigned on restoring consequences at the border and inside the country. This case is one more test of whether that promise survives contact with the lower courts. The justices have a clean choice in front of them if they take the case. Either mandatory detention means what Congress wrote, or judges keep forcing new openings in the system. One path restores consequences. The other keeps the revolving door spinning. This is a Guest Post from our friends over at WLTReport. View the original article here. 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The federal food-stamp program is no longer just a target for petty cheats lying on an application. It is now a hunting ground for organized, tech-savvy criminals, and some of the stolen money is reaching very dangerous people. That was the warning USDA Inspector General John Walk delivered to the House Oversight Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency on June 25. The hearing was titled “Combating Waste, Fraud, and Abuse in SNAP,” and the numbers Walk brought with him are hard to ignore. SNAP is the largest domestic food assistance program in the country. It served 41.7 million people in an average month during fiscal year 2024 at a federal cost north of $100 billion, with more than 250,000 authorized retailers able to accept the benefits. WATCH: Chairman @RepTimBurchett opens today's DOGE hearing on SNAP fraud. "$10 billion in SNAP benefits were improperly paid out by the States … Federal taxpayers deserve to know what Governor Newsom and his counterparts in other states are trying to hide—and at what cost." pic.twitter.com/zb6BaYqfwu — Oversight Committee (@GOPoversight) June 25, 2026 Walk’s testimony, available through the House Oversight Committee, lays out how the threat has changed. The official hearing page shows the June 25 proceeding was held in Rayburn 2154 and lists Walk as the USDA Inspector General witness, alongside witnesses from the United Council on Welfare Fraud, Advancing American Freedom, and the Food Research and Action Center. He told lawmakers that perpetrators now include highly organized, sophisticated criminals stealing enormous sums through EBT card skimming, trafficking operations, identity fraud, terminal cloning, and corrupt retailers. The detail that should stop anyone reading is where some of the money ends up. Walk testified that proceeds of SNAP fraud have gone to individuals linked to terrorist groups, foreign adversary nations, and transnational criminal organizations. The mechanics are fast and cold. In his written testimony, Walk walked lawmakers through the major fraud lanes now hitting the program: EBT card skimming, SNAP trafficking, terminal cloning, identity fraud, and corrupt retail operations. He said a criminal can plant a skimmer on a payment terminal in as little as seven seconds, capture a beneficiary’s card data, clone the EBT card, and drain the account when monthly benefits load. That leaves the legitimate family standing at the grocery store with nothing left on the card, sometimes before they even know the card was compromised. He pointed to specific cases. Five Romanian nationals were indicted in a scheme to steal nearly $1 million in SNAP benefits from low-income families through skimming. A separate Louisiana investigation produced indictments against two more Romanian nationals for access device fraud, and Walk said both were confirmed members of transnational organized crime groups. Some of those groups, he testified, use the illicit proceeds to fund other crimes, potentially including terrorism. Then there was Operation “Mic Drop” in southern California, where more than $2 million was stolen from taxpayers. SNAP EBT benefits were swapped for cash, and the proceeds were spent on crack cocaine and guns. One terminal-cloning scheme alone caused a $66 million loss and involved a USDA employee who sold sensitive FNA numbers to co-conspirators. That employee was sentenced to two years in federal prison. USDA IG John Walk testified before House Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency “SNAP fraud is a reprehensible crime that squanders the compassion of American taxpayers who fund the program and robs from those low-income American who qualify for benefits to feed… pic.twitter.com/yedgYQIcdH — USDA OIG (@OIGUSDA) June 25, 2026 Walk did not arrive empty-handed on enforcement. He said USDA OIG investigations since February 2025 have produced nearly 1,000 arrests, 133 convictions, and more than $135 million in restitution, fines, and assessments tied to SNAP violations. But he was blunt about the limits of cleanup after the fact. The OIG cannot “pay and chase” its way out of this, he said, calling instead for stronger front-end controls, modern identity verification, better data sharing, and modern EBT security. Subcommittee Chairman Tim Burchett opened the hearing with his own figure, saying USDA officials identified roughly $3 billion in potential fraud and waste pulled from participating-state data. Fox News reported that the participating-state data showed benefits allegedly going to deceased individuals, applicants using fraudulent Social Security numbers, and duplicate recipients. The report also noted Burchett’s claim that USDA officials identified roughly $3 billion in potential fraud and waste from states that did cooperate with the data request, while more than 20 states declined to provide the requested SNAP data. Burchett tied the question directly to the states that run the program day to day, naming Governor Gavin Newsom of California and his counterparts and asking what they are trying to hide and at what cost. The enforcement side is moving fast right now, too. A three-day skimming outreach operation led by the Secret Service New York Field Office wrapped on June 26. The Secret Service reported that agents and partner agencies removed 35 illegal skimming devices during the operation. The scale is what makes the release worth paying attention to: 1,010 businesses visited, 3,935 inspections conducted, and an estimated $36.5 million saved before additional victims could be drained. That matters because Walk’s testimony described skimming as one of the fastest-growing ways criminals hit benefit cards. The pattern is not abstract: criminals plant devices on real payment terminals, collect card data, clone the card, and move when benefits load. The New York operation shows why the front-end controls Walk is asking for matter. Once the money is gone, the government is left chasing criminals while families are left trying to buy groceries with an empty card. Proud to be part of the United States Secret Service led effort in New York City this week • $36.5 Million tax dollars saved• 35 illegal skimming devices removed• 1,010 businesses visited• 3,935 inspections• Ongoing fraud against New Yorkers disrupted• Payday… pic.twitter.com/d4Gx7a6zhW — USDA OIG (@OIGUSDA) June 26, 2026 The picture from this hearing is consistent. Food-stamp dollars meant for hungry families are being skimmed, cloned, and laundered, and some of that money is reaching people who want to do this country harm. The watchdog says arrests alone will not fix it. The fix has to start at the front end, before the cards are loaded and the thieves are already seven seconds ahead. This is a Guest Post from our friends over at WLTReport. View the original article here. What are your thoughts? TAP HERE TO ADD YOUR VOTE The post USDA Watchdog Tells Congress SNAP Fraud Cash Is Reaching Terror-Linked Actors appeared first on 100PercentFedUp.com.

Emily Porter gave birth to her twins prematurely due to a genetic condition. The boys, Artie and Jack, were relatively healthy, aside from their hearing. The boys were both born profoundly deaf, according to ABC News Australia. In a first-of-its-kind operation in Australia, doctors performed cochlear implant surgery on the boys on the same day. Emily wanted Artie and Jack to hear her voice together for the first time. Ear, nose, and throat surgeon Rithvik Reddy told ABC News it was a big surgery. “It was a bit of an organizational feat, but it makes such a big difference for them and the family to try and get it all done on the same day to minimize not just inconvenience, but also maximize the gain of them going through their journey together,” he said. The Boys Cochlear Implants Changed Everything Emily and Ewan Porter cared for their sons post-surgery, and when the time came, they met with a team from the Shepherd Center to turn on the cochlear implants. “It was kind of the pinnacle day in this huge lead up,” Emily Porter said. “It’s really the start of the rest of their lives, it’s the beginning of the next chapter,” Ewan added. The grateful mother admitted that watching her boys listen to her voice with their cochlear implants overwhelmed her. “It was incredible and emotional … for them to turn their head to the sound of my voice and see their little eyes widen at the sound of that was just, it’s just mind-blowing,” Emily said. Ewan Porter said that each morning, turning on the boys’ cochlear implants brings joy to the whole family, including their big brother, Tommy. “They smile … you can tell that they’re understanding what you’re saying. You’re talking to them … it really is a gift and a miracle,” Ewan said. This story’s featured image can be found here

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