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GOP lawmaker vows to ‘close’ controversial Biden-era ‘side door’ on key issue

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New legislation aims to set a limit on the number of immigration parolees allowed into the United States annually.

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The «Preventing the Abuse of Immigration Parole Act» would cap parole admissions into the U.S. at 3,000 people a year starting in fiscal year 2029.  

It would also «establish congressional findings» that parole for people trying to enter the country should only be conducted «case-by-case.» It would also now allow those from «a country of concern» like Iran, North Korea, Cuba, Syria, and Russia to be given parole unless there is special permission granted by the Department of State.

TRUMP FREEZES APPLICATIONS FOR BIDEN-ERA MIGRANT PROGRAMS AMID FRAUD, NATIONAL SECURITY CONCERNS

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Addison McDowell, US Republican House candidate for North Carolina, arrives ahead of a «Get Out The Vote» rally with former US President Donald Trump in Greensboro, North Carolina, on Saturday, Mar. 2, 2024. (Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

«Biden’s open-border bureaucrats abused immigration parole to serve their free-lunch agenda—exposing the United States to one of the greatest national security vulnerabilities we’ve seen in years,» North Carolina Republican Rep. Addison McDowell, the bill’s sponsor, said in a statement on Wednesday.

«When vetting procedures are ignored and the floodgates are opened, it’s hard to believe it wasn’t deliberate. They showed no regard for the American families left to deal with the fallout of their failed policies. My bill, the Preventing the Abuse of Immigration Parole Act, caps parole entries and closes the side door that’s been exploited to bypass our borders,» the Republican continued.

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McDowell’s bill was inspired by the congressional U.S. House Homeland Security Committee, Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations & Accountability’s finding that 2.8 million individuals were given parole while former President Joe Biden was in office under the purview of former DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.

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U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas speaks to the media about an overview of public safety plans for Super Bowl week at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center on Feb. 7, 2024, in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Candice Ward/Getty Images)

«The systemic abuse of parole for aliens outside the United States is a threat to national security and future abuse should be prevented,» the bill text states.

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The 2.8 million figure includes the roughly half a million Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans admitted under a parole program that the Trump administration seeks to end. 

A recent stay by the Supreme Court indicates that they could ultimately be successful in the effort to end the CHNV parole program, as the Department of Homeland Security can deport people while the legal battle continues, DHS said in a news release.

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BIDEN ADMIN FACES MOUNTING PRESSURE TO DISMANTLE MIGRANT PAROLE PROGRAM AMID ‘STRESS’ ON SMALL TOWNS

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The U.S. Supreme Court is shown at dusk on Jun. 28, 2023, in Washington, DC (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

«Today’s decision is a victory for the American people. The Biden Administration lied to America,» DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement on May 30 about the Supreme Court’s decision.

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«They allowed more than half a million poorly vetted aliens from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela and their immediate family members to enter the United States through these disastrous parole programs; granted them opportunities to compete for American jobs and undercut American workers; forced career civil servants to promote the programs even when fraud was identified; and then blamed Republicans in Congress for the chaos that ensued and the crime that followed,» she added. 

The proposal comes as the House recently passed the reconciliation bill, which includes additional funding for immigration enforcement – and it’s currently on the Senate side before it could hit President Donald Trump’s desk. 

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ICE chief warns AI technology could lead to safety risks for agents: ‘Fringe organizations’

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Far-left organizations could be using artificial intelligence and other technology to reveal the identity of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, acting ICE Director Todd Lyons told Fox News Digital in an interview.

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Lyons’ remarks come as Democrats in Congress recently proposed the VISIBLE Act, which would require clear identification of ICE agents and prevent masking of federal immigration authorities in public-facing circumstances.

«If legislation passes to try to unmask ICE agents, they are not allowed to wear them, it runs the risk of agitators, different groups, you know, these fringe organizations using reverse technology, AI, to try to dox their families, try to get their identity, their home addresses,»  Lyons said of the reaction from agents on the ground. «We’ve heard elected officials say there shouldn’t be any rest for ICE agents or their families.

«So they’re definitely concerned about that. They’re also concerned about their own well-being when they go out to effectuate these arrests because now we have to send more officers out into the communities because where we can send four or five to make arrests in the past, now we had to send up to eight or 10 just to protect the four that are making the arrests of one individual.»

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Residents surround federal and Border Patrol agents after an immigrant raid on Atlantic Boulevard in Bell, Calif., June 19, 2025.  (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

He added that the safety risk does require more resources when conducting arrests. When ICE was conducting operations in Los Angeles in June, President Donald Trump sent in the California National Guard to the city with the goal of protecting agents and quelling riots. That move was legally challenged by California Gov. Gavin Newsom.

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«The Marines are withdrawing. This is another win for Los Angeles,» Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass posted to X Monday.

ICE agents have faced an 830% increase in assaults since last year, according to DHS. However, proponents of the VISIBLE Act have said it’s nessescary for accountability.

«For weeks, Americans have watched federal agents with no visible identification detain people off the streets and instill fear in communities across the country,» Sen. Cory Booker, D-New Jersey, said in a statement July 8. 

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«Reports of individuals impersonating ICE officers have only increased the risk to public and officer safety. The lack of visible identification and uniform standards for immigration enforcement officers has created confusion, stoked fear and undermined public trust in law enforcement.»

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Ten suspects were charged with attempted murder of a federal officer in an alleged July 4, 2025, ambush attack on the Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas.  (Johnson County Sheriff’s Office)

«Assault could be anything from resisting arrest where they assault the officers, whether they’re kicking, grabbing officers. It could be something as dramatic as what we saw in Alvarado, Texas, where we had local police ambushed with firearms,» Lyons said.

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«You saw it during the recent marijuana grow farm raid operation, where we had an individual firing a handgun at ICE officers, rocks thrown at them. It’s everything from verbal assault to physical assault to threats of bodily harm, deadly force. It’s run the whole gamut.»

Authorities have charged 12 people in an alleged anti-ICE attack at the Prairieland Detention Center on Independence Day, including ten for alleged attempted murder of federal officers and gun offenses. Reports have indicated that some planning occurred through a Signal group chat, and Lyons noted that this was likely planned by the Dallas area activists for some time.

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«Death to ICE» is written on a garbage cart after multiple detentions by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in downtown Los Angeles June 6, 2025.  (Reuters/Daniel Cole)

«Well, the FBI is doing a great job investigating it as a whole organized event,» Lyons said. «So, you saw where it was actually organized with social media, where you have organized people in a typical L-shaped ambush where you had escape vehicles. So, without getting too much into what the Department of Justice and the FBI do, there is definitely evidence that this was planned for a while, and it wasn’t just a spur-of-the-moment protest. These were agitators focused on assaulting law enforcement officers and assaulting ICE.»

In terms of facing these coordinated efforts, the director said it’s a matter of planning and looking at the information available before conducting an operation.

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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents look over lists of names and their hearing times and locations inside the Federal Plaza courthouse before making arrests June 27, 2025, in New York. (Bryan R. Smith/AFP via Getty Images)

«What we’re doing is definitely working with all of our federal partners as well as the state partners that do coordinate with us what we use and all the intelligence that we have at our disposal to go ahead and try to find out as much about these groups and as much as about these organizations and these planned events that we can to let our officers and agents know in the field prior to going out,» Lyons said.

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«So, we wanna make sure that officers are fully aware of what the situations they’re getting into, but we are also making sure that we’re properly staffed when we go out.»

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In addition, he said recent funding from  the «big, beautiful bill» would be to try to bring back personnel that «retired early» under the Biden administration and look at veterans and officials at the local and state levels who «already have the training» to «beef up» staffing at the agency. 

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Estados Unidos ordenó incautar un buque pesquero chino por esclavitud y violaciones a los derechos humanos: hasta hace un mes operó frente al Mar Argentino

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El gobierno de Estados Unidos ordenó la incautación de todos los productos de mar capturados por el buque pesquero Zhen Fa 7, de bandera china, por graves violaciones a los derechos humanos.

La embarcación, que operó hasta mediados de junio frente a la Patagonia argentina, fue acusada de prácticas que incluyen esclavitud, violencia sexual, condiciones laborales inhumanas y retención de documentos, según denunció el Departamento de Seguridad Nacional estadounidense.

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La medida fue emitida por la Unidad de Aduanas y Protección Fronteriza (CBP), que basó su decisión en indicadores de trabajo forzoso identificados por la Organización Internacional del Trabajo (OIT). El caso fue difundido por el Círculo de Políticas Ambientales, una organización que monitorea la pesca ilegal en América del Sur.

«Zhen Fa 7 se benefició de menores costos laborales, produjo bienes por debajo del valor de mercado, perjudicó a las empresas estadounidenses y obtuvo ganancias injustamente», explicó el organismo en su resolución oficial publicada en su sitio web.

Durante más de una década, el buque operó en el Pacífico y Atlántico sur, con una fuerte presencia frente a las costas de Ecuador, Perú, Chile y Argentina. En su paso más reciente por Sudamérica, estuvo operativo frente al Mar Argentino hasta el 16 de junio de 2025 y utilizó el Puerto de Montevideo, Uruguay, como base logística.

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No es la primera vez que el Zhen Fa 7 queda en la mira por abusos: en 2021 abandonó a un tripulante en estado crítico en Montevideo. El joven, de nacionalidad indonesia, falleció poco después en un hospital local. Las autoridades uruguayas nunca registraron oficialmente el ingreso del buque tanquero que lo desembarcó.

En marzo de este año, se detectó que el Zhen Fa 7 ingresó hasta 180 millas dentro de la Zona Económica Exclusiva (ZEE) argentina, aproximándose peligrosamente a las costas del Chubut, frente al Golfo San Jorge. Lo hizo acompañado por una flota de al menos 150 pesqueros chinos, bajo el argumento de buscar refugio por tormentas.

En enero, la provincia de Santa Cruz firmó un acuerdo con empresas pesqueras chinas, muchas de las cuales tienen antecedentes similares de abuso y pesca ilegal. El informe alerta que estas flotas operan gracias a subsidios estatales y explotación sistemática de sus tripulaciones.

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La pesca ilegal, no declarada y no reglamentada (INDNR) tiene consecuencias devastadoras: afecta ecosistemas marinos, la actividad pesquera legal y también genera un impacto económico y social directo en los países ribereños. A pesar de eso, Argentina todavía no ratificó dos acuerdos internacionales clave (uno de la OMC y otro de la OMI) que podrían contribuir a ponerle freno a estos abusos, a pesar de haber sido aprobados por el Congreso.

Este martes, Argentina depositó su instrumento de ratificación del Acuerdo sobre Subvenciones a la Pesca de la Organización Mundial del Comercio, que busca limitar el accionar de las flotas que realizan pesca ilegal y no reglamentada en los mares del mundo. Había sido aprobado por el Congreso en octubre del año pasado.

Se trata de un acuerdo fundamental para luchar contra la depredación pesquera que ocurre en el Atlántico Sur, ya que impacta directamente en el financiamiento estatal que recibe la flota extranjera que realiza pesca destructiva, ilegal y no reglamentada.

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El acuerdo, que demandó más de 20 años de negociación, constituye uno de los principales logros alcanzados en la OMC desde su creación, puesto que por primera vez se establece la restricción de los subsidios que afectan negativamente al comercio y a la conservación de los recursos pesqueros y se prohíbe las subvenciones que contribuyen a la pesca ilegal, no declarada y no reglamentada (INDNR), a la pesca de poblaciones ya sobreexplotadas y a la pesca en alta mar no reglamentada.

Según había anunciado el Gobierno argentino en octubre pasado, el acuerdo tiene implicancias de enorme relevancia para el país, dado su gran litoral marítimo y la importancia de los recursos pesqueros..

En particular, se espera que contribuya a disminuir la presión pesquera en el área adyacente a la Zona Económica Exclusiva Argentina, coloquialmente referida como «milla 201», ya que al limitar la posibilidad de que los países recurran a subsidios para mantener artificialmente la actividad de sus flotas, el acuerdo contribuirá a la protección de los recursos pesqueros en las aguas adyacentes a la jurisdicción nacional, limitará las capacidades de grandes flotas que pescan a distancia y complementará los esfuerzos de patrullaje de las autoridades nacionales sobre el terreno.

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Con la aprobación del Congreso, el Gobierno estará ya en condiciones de sumarse a los más de 80 países que han presentado a la OMC su instrumento de ratificación.

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‘Worst of the worst’ arrested in nationwide criminal illegal-alien crackdown: DHS

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The Department of Homeland Security released a statement Tuesday highlighting some of the «worst of the worst» offenders who have been arrested in the agency’s nationwide crackdown on criminal illegal aliens.

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According to the statement, 70% of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s arrests have been of illegal aliens convicted or charged with crimes. This comes as the agency is facing intense criticism for its enforcement of immigration laws and officers are dealing with an 830% increase in assaults.

Some Democrats have accused ICE of targeting innocent, everyday immigrants. In the midst of anti-ICE riots in Los Angeles in June, Rep. Delia Ramirez, D-Ill., accused President Donald Trump and the administration of targeting anyone they consider «undesirable.» She also pushed a theory that the president will target U.S. citizens the same way he has deported criminal migrants.

«Trump, Homan, Miller and this whole regime has waged a campaign of terror against our neighbors, against our families, our loved ones, as they advance their fascist agenda and try to cast immigrants as a public enemy,» Ramirez said.

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President Donald Trump is seen with Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem during their July 1, 2025 visit to «Alligator Alcatraz,» the controversial migrant detention center in Florida’s Everglades.  (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

While the agency has said it will not back down from arresting any immigrants who are in the country illegally, the new DHS statement says that the vast majority of those arrested thus far have criminal charges or convictions. 

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The illegals highlighted in the DHS statement include criminals charged with hit-and-run, aggravated assault, felony menacing, grand theft and drug possession.

Olinda Micaela Gonzalez-Ortiz, a 21-year-old illegal alien from Guatemala, was arrested by ICE Baltimore and has a criminal history, including a conviction for hit-and-run in Salisbury, Maryland. 

Another, Federico Fong-Nunez, a 53-year-old Mexican illegal arrested by ICE Denver in Boulder, has 21 criminal convictions, including burglary, aggravated assault, and felony menacing.

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From hit-and-run to aggravated assault and burglary, these five illegal immigrants—arrested in cities ranging from Boulder to Houston—are among the «worst of the worst» criminal offenders, according to DHS. (Christian Chavez/AP Photo)

Jhon Jervis Chavez-De La Rosa, a 21-year-old illegal immigrant from Venezuela, has a criminal history including a conviction of assault causing bodily injury. He was arrested by ICE in Houston.

Two others, Luis Alberto Leonardo Cortes-Rivera, a 34-year-old from from Mexico, and Rureiro Falkao, a 46-year-old illegal from Honduras, were arrested by ICE in Los Angeles and Oklahoma City, respectively. Cortes-Rivera has a criminal history that includes nine criminal convictions, including grand theft, burglary, and tampering with a vehicle. Falkao’s criminal background includes conviction for possession of methamphetamine.

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ICE has also arrested scores of illegal immigrants either charged with or convicted of child sex offenses.

In June, ICE arrested 1,361 illegal immigrants in the Houston area alone, including individuals previously convicted of hijacking an airplane, homicide, sexual assault and more. Of those arrested, 32 were previously convicted of child sex offenses, nine for homicide-related offenses, and 16 believed to be gang or drug cartel members. One person arrested by ICE was convicted of hijacking an airplane headed to Key West, Florida, from Cuba.

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ICE agents in Houston arrest and deport illegal immigrants with violent criminal histories as part of a broader DHS initiative praised by Secretary Noem and President Trump. (ICE Houston)

An ICE Homeland Security Investigations probe in Maryland led to the sentencing of Mark Rice, 38, to 30 years in federal prison and a lifetime of supervised release for having «used his position of authority» to sexually abuse a 2-year-old and produce and distribute child sex abuse material online.

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In the Tuesday statement, DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin commended President Donald Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem for having «unleashed ICE to target the worst of the worst.»

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«Our brave law enforcement is facing an 830% increase in assaults against them and yet they continue to arrest violent criminals and drug traffickers every single day,» said McLaughlin. «We will not allow sanctuary politicians, activist hacks, or rioters stand in our way of protecting the American people. Our message is clear: criminal illegal aliens are not welcome in the United States.»  

Fox News Digital reached out to Ramirez’s office for comment but did not immediately receive a response. 

Fox News Digital’s Adam Sabes and Brooke Taylor contributed to this report.

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