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‘Baked to death’: Homan rips media while sharing horrific scenes from border enforcement career
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White House border czar Tom Homan erupted at critics of President Donald Trump’s immigration agenda Friday, recalling horrific scenes from his decades in border enforcement — including migrants he said were «baked to death» in a tractor-trailer — as he argued that secure borders save lives.
Homan used the graphic stories during remarks at the Faith and Freedom Coalition’s Road to Majority Policy Conference in Washington, D.C., to push back on critics who have accused the Trump administration of being inhumane, arguing instead that tougher border enforcement saves lives by deterring migrants from making dangerous journeys controlled by cartels.
«I want to talk about why I’m pissed off this morning,» Homan told the crowd, arguing that media coverage has falsely portrayed Trump’s immigration policies as cruel or inhumane.
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White House border czar Tom Homan is seen as he holds a press conference along the border wall between San Diego, Calif., and Tijuana, Mexico, on Dec. 13, 2025, to announce increased security along the Southwest border. (REUTERS/Mike Blake)
«There’s nothing further from the truth,» Homan said. Rather, the border czar said critics have it backward, arguing that lax border enforcement creates the conditions for migrants to be exploited, assaulted or killed by smugglers and cartels. «What President Trump is doing is saving lives,» Homan told the crowd.
He then described one of the most graphic scenes he said he witnessed during his career in border enforcement.
«I’ve stood in the back of a tractor-trailer with 19 dead people at my feet,» Homan told the crowd at the Washington Hilton Friday morning, adding that the victims included a young boy and that they were found in their underwear while trying to escape extreme heat in the back of the truck.
«They all baked to death,» Homan said. «I got to that crime scene. They’re all in underwear, trying to get some relief from the 170 degree heat in the back of a steel truck with no air. Think of the way these people died.»
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Texas Department of Public Safety said about 50 illegal immigrants were found in a junkyard tractor trailer in Webb County and turned over to Border Patrol. Five adult males who initially exited the trailer were apprehended. (Texas DPS)
Homan also said he has spoken with young girls who were raped by cartel members while making the journey to the U.S. border.
«I’ve gotten on my knees to talk to little girls as young as 9 that were raped multiple times by members of a cartel,» Homan said.
«That’s what happens when you have an unsecured border,» he added. «Well, guess what? There’s no little 9-year-old girl right now that everybody’s getting on their knees and talking to. President Trump has closed the border down.»
Homan repeatedly defended Trump personally and politically, saying the president has delivered the «most secure border in the history of this nation» and arguing that the administration’s immigration crackdown is aimed at preventing more deaths, trafficking and cartel exploitation.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s deportation agenda has faced criticism from Democrats and immigrant-rights advocates. (Michael M. Santiago and Nathan Howard / Getty Images)
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«Secure borders save lives,» Homan said near the end of his remarks. «Secure borders protect our national security. No one’s done it better than President Trump. And we ain’t finished yet.»
The remarks came as the Trump administration continues to face criticism from Democrats and immigrant-rights advocates over its mass deportation push, expanded immigration enforcement and efforts to reverse Biden-era border policies. Homan, however, framed the crackdown as a moral necessity, saying the administration is making the country safer while reducing incentives for migrants to place themselves in the hands of criminal cartels.
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Un misterio virológico que desconcertó a los científicos durante meses finalmente fue resuelto. Investigadores estadounidenses identificaron el mecanismo biológico que permitió a la gripe aviar H5N1 infectar a vacas lecheras de forma inusual, atacando principalmente las ubres -el órgano glandular que produce y almacena la lech- en lugar de los pulmones.
Este hallazgo no solo permitió comprender por qué el virus se manifestó de manera tan atípica en el ganado, sino que abre nuevas vías para anticipar y prevenir brotes en otras especies, con implicancias directas para la salud animal, la producción y la bioseguridad.
El brote, detectado a principios de 2024 en el Panhandle de Texas, causó confusión entre los veterinarios. Los animales desarrollaron mastitis necrotizante, una inflamación grave de las glándulas mamarias, sin presentar síntomas respiratorios.
“La mastitis es una enfermedad clásica en los animales de producción lechera, y los veterinarios buscaban diligentemente la causa entre los sospechosos habituales, como los patógenos bacterianos”, explicó Suresh Kuchipudi, catedrático de Enfermedades Infecciosas de la Facultad de Salud Pública de la Universidad de Pittsburgh.
“Cuando se descubrió que el verdadero culpable era la gripe aviar, todos los implicados en el sector quedaron completamente sorprendidos. Ni siquiera habíamos considerado que el ganado pudiera ser huésped del virus H5N1”, agregó el experto.
El grupo de Kuchipudi, junto a la investigadora Lauren E. Pepi de la Facultad de Medicina de Harvard, utilizó técnicas de glicómica para mapear los receptores celulares que permiten la entrada del virus. Descubrieron que el H5N1 se une a un subtipo específico de glicanos, los receptores de ácido siálico unidos a N, presentes en todo el tejido mamario pero prácticamente ausentes en el sistema respiratorio de las vacas.
“Esto convertía a las glándulas mamarias en un caldo de cultivo perfecto para el virus”, explicó Kuchipudi. El resultado fue una infección que no causó enfermedad respiratoria pero sí mastitis grave, alterando el paradigma sobre cómo la gripe aviar puede manifestarse en diferentes hospedadores.
La investigación, publicada en Science Advances, no solo resuelve el enigma de la gripe aviar en bovinos, sino que permite anticipar la vulnerabilidad de otras especies y tejidos.
Kuchipudi explicó que es posible analizar de manera preventiva la susceptibilidad de diversas especies y sus tejidos. “Podemos anticipar si desarrollarían síntomas respiratorios, si solo presentarían mastitis, como ocurre en las vacas, o si podrían manifestar una enfermedad neurológica, tal como identificó nuestro equipo en los gatos. Lo aprendido permitirá prepararnos mejor y evitar sorpresas en el futuro”.
El mecanismo de infección tiene implicancias directas para la industria lechera y la salud pública. Otro estudio, realizado en 2025 por investigadores de la Universidad de Cornell, analizó el impacto de un brote en un rebaño de Ohio con 3.900 vacas. El brote se originó tras la introducción de animales procedentes de Texas, y las primeras señales clínicas —pérdida de rumia y caída en la producción de leche— se detectaron cinco días antes del diagnóstico.
Aproximadamente el 20% de las vacas mostró síntomas, con una reducción de unos 900 kg de leche por vaca durante 60 días. El costo económico por animal afectado se estimó en 950 dólares, y el costo total del brote en el rebaño ascendió a US$ 737.500 por mortalidad, eliminación y pérdidas productivas.
Los investigadores advirtieron que “aunque se desconoce el mecanismo preciso de transmisión del virus HPAI H5N1 en el ganado lechero, esto coincide con las infecciones por otros virus de la influenza A, que pueden propagarse rápidamente entre poblaciones de mamíferos susceptibles, incluidos humanos, perros y cerdos”. La seroprevalencia positiva en casi el 90% de los 637 animales analizados sugiere una alta eficacia de transmisión. Además, se detectaron anticuerpos en 17 de las 42 vacas no lactantes, lo que indica que incluso los animales en fase seca pueden ser fuente de virus.
La circulación silenciosa del H5N1 en rebaños lecheros de Estados Unidos ha intensificado las inquietudes sobre la vigilancia epidemiológica y las medidas de bioseguridad.
“Cuando una vaca se infecta, libera grandes cantidades del virus en la leche”, señaló Kuchipudi. Esto ha generado alertas por el riesgo al que se exponen los trabajadores agrícolas.
Además, persiste la práctica de alimentar a mascotas, como gatos, con leche cruda, y se han reportado muertes en estos animales, según investigaciones previas del equipo. El investigador enfatiza que la pasteurización elimina el virus y advierte sobre la necesidad de evitar el consumo de leche sin tratar.
El brote de Ohio no fue un caso aislado. Datos del Servicio de Inspección de Sanidad Animal y Vegetal (APHIS) del Departamento de Agricultura de Estados Unidos confirmaron más casos en ganado lechero en Idaho y el avance del virus en otras especies. Idaho notificó tres instalaciones en cuarentena, mientras que APHIS reportó infecciones en gatos domésticos de varios estados, una foca común en Washington y ratones en Misuri. En la avicultura, se detectaron brotes en aves de corral en Iowa, Nebraska, Nueva York, Colorado e Indiana, además de mercados de aves vivas en Nueva York.
La tasa de transmisión y la capacidad del virus para saltar entre especies evidencian la importancia de la detección temprana y el monitoreo sistemático. Las vacas multíparas presentaron mayor riesgo que las primíparas, lo que sugiere una relación entre la exposición acumulada al ordeño y la enfermedad clínica. La investigación financiada por el Departamento de Salud Pública de la Universidad de Pittsburgh y el Instituto Nacional de Alimentación y Agricultura del USDA apunta a que la identificación de los receptores preferidos del virus en diferentes tejidos podría servir como herramienta predictiva para brotes futuros.
El hallazgo de los científicos estadounidenses redefine la vigilancia de la gripe aviar en la producción animal. Los expertos recomiendan analizar proactivamente la presencia y distribución de los receptores virales en especies de interés zootécnico y en animales de compañía, para anticipar brotes y evitar pérdidas económicas y riesgos sanitarios.
“Este trabajo también podría ayudar a los científicos a predecir mejor cómo se comportaría el virus H5N1 si se propaga a nuevas especies animales en el futuro”, concluyeron los autores.
El desafío ahora es trasladar el conocimiento a políticas de prevención, protocolos de bioseguridad y estrategias de comunicación que permitan contener el avance de la gripe aviar y sus consecuencias sobre la salud animal, la economía rural y la salud pública global.
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A federal judge has ordered the Justice Department to release more unredacted Jeffrey Epstein records or justify keeping them sealed by July 2, with redacted versions of the files including sensitive interview notes documenting a minor’s uncorroborated sexual assault allegations against President Donald Trump.
U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan, a Clinton-appointed judge, issued the order after granting a preliminary injunction sought by independent journalist Katie Phang, who sued Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche in April. She alleged that the Justice Department failed to comply with the Epstein Files Transparency Act that was signed last year when she requested several documents. The law requires the government to make Epstein-related investigative records public while allowing limited redactions to protect victims and other legally protected information.
More than half of the six million files have been made publicly available, with the remaining files withheld because of legal privilege protections or because they are duplicates, according to the Justice Department. But the department has faced growing criticism over the scope of its redactions, with critics arguing it has concealed information that should be public under the law.
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Jeffrey Epstein walks outdoors in New York City on Feb. 23, 2011. He is the subject of a bipartisan House Oversight Committee investigation. (David McGlynn)
In a 48-page memorandum, Sullivan ordered the Justice Department to either disclose less-redacted versions of several key Epstein records or justify the redactions. The documents covered by the order include eight emails with hidden senders or recipients; a 2007 draft federal indictment — with the names of potential co-conspirators redacted — that was never filed; and a 2019 email referencing alleged co-conspirators whose identities were obscured.
Among the redacted records is an email — with the recipient’s identity concealed — in which Epstein wrote that he «loved» a torture video he watched. During the litigation, Blanche suggested the recipient was wealthy Middle Eastern businessman Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem.
The order also covers FBI records summarizing 2019 interviews with a woman who made allegations involving President Donald Trump. In the FBI’s interview summary, the woman alleged she met Epstein when she was 14 or 15 years old and that he later introduced her to Trump, whom she accused of sexually assaulting her in explicit detail. Those claims are uncorroborated, and the president has denied the allegations. Trump was friends with the late financier in the 1990s and early 2000s but cut ties after a falling-out in the mid-2000s.
The Justice Department is also required to issue a complete log of every redaction made in records released under the Epstein Files Transparency Act.
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The Justice Department had argued the lawsuit should be dismissed because Phang could have sought the records through the Freedom of Information Act. Sullivan rejected that argument, concluding that FOIA did not provide Phang an «adequate remedy.»
Phang’s lawyers said the department’s previous denial of related FOIA requests showed that FOIA was not an adequate way to obtain the records.
Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
«I have standing to be able to get Todd Blanche to comply with Judge Sullivan’s order, which is now telling him that on or before July 2, he either has to put up or shut up,» Phang said during an appearance on the MeidasTouch network. «He either has to bring forth unredacted files or show cause as to why he should not or cannot do so.»
The ruling also noted that the department itself had previously acknowledged the Epstein Files Transparency Act required broader disclosure than would ordinarily occur through FOIA, including limiting certain exemptions typically available under federal public records law.
Jeffrey Epstein’s mugshot was taken in New York in 2019 after federal authorities filed trafficking charges against him. (Kypros/Getty Images)
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Sullivan has become a prominent figure in cases involving Trump and his allies. He oversaw former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn’s criminal case and challenged the Trump Justice Department’s effort to drop the charges after Flynn pleaded guilty. Sullivan also presided over the Jan. 6 Capitol riot cases.
Fox News Digital reached out to the Justice Department and the White House for comment.
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Cops drop murder probe after coroner rules man’s bloody stabbing death was freak accident
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A British man who was believed to have been murdered after he was found slumped over on a blood-soaked bench last year actually passed out drunk on a knife in his own bag, officials said this week.
Authorities initially believed Robert Brown, 57, was stabbed to death after he was found on Aug. 1, 2025, in Northampton, England, according to reports from the Northampton Chronicle and Echo.
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Robert Brown, 57, died after falling asleep and falling onto a knife in his bag while sitting on a bench, Northamptonshire Police said. (Northamptonshire Police; SWNS)
Three people were eventually arrested in connection with his death and later released. A coroner on Thursday ruled Brown’s death a «tragic accident.»
Investigators believe Brown, who authorities said had alcohol dependence issues, fell into a deep sleep and put his weight on his bag, resulting in the knife piercing his body.
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Robert Brown, 57, had alcohol dependency issues, authorities said. (Northamptonshire Police; SWNS)
The blade penetrated the bag and all three layers of Brown’s clothing, slashing his arm and leaving him to bleed out as he slept, authorities said.
Brown’s alcoholism made him vulnerable to blood loss, experts said at a court hearing.
Police on the scene behind Auctioneers Court near Northampton town center during the investigation into the death of Robert Brown, who was found fatally injured on a bench on the towpath on Aug. 1. (Northamptonshire Police; SWNS)
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Northamptonshire Police dropped the murder inquiry in February, saying Brown’s death was likely self-inflicted. Investigators noted that there was no apparent motive to murder Brown.
«We have reviewed the extensive amount of information gathered as part of the investigation, including all forensic submissions, and can confirm the evidence does not support the hypothesis that his death was a homicide,» police said at the time.
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