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Democrat Hank Johnson draws Holocaust comparison while blasting deportations
House Judiciary Committee member Hank Johnson, R-Ga., made waves when he made allusions to the Holocaust while obliquely criticizing the deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia and the arrest of Milwaukee Judge Hannah Dugan.
Johnson was speaking during a Wednesday committee markup meeting when he began paraphrasing German preacher Martin Niemöller’s confession as someone who once supported the Nazi Party until it was too late to object to its mounting atrocities.
«You know, first, they came for the Latinos outside of the Home Depots, trying to get work so that they could feed their families,» Johnson began.
«And I didn’t say anything about it because I’m not a Latino at the Home Depot.»
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Rep. Henry «Hank» Johnson questions a witness during a hearing. (Getty Images)
«Then they came for the Hispanic-looking folks [with] hats backward with tattoos. And they deported them to El Salvador. And I didn’t say anything about that because I don’t wear my [hat] backward, and I don’t have any tattoos, and I don’t look like a Latino.»
«Then they came for the Latinas at home, taking care of the children. They scooped up the Latinas and the children, some of whom were American citizens, one of whom was receiving treatment for cancer. They swept them up, took them off, and deported them. And I didn’t say anything about it. Because I’m not a Latina. I’m not a little child who’s an American citizen.»
Johnson went on to make the same allusion to students protesting in support of Hamas on campus, who have been another target of the Trump administration.
«They sent jackbooted thugs wearing masks to pick them up, take them thousands of miles away and put them in a private for-profit detention center where they languish at taxpayer expense. And I didn’t say anything about it because I’m not a student on a foreign visa,» Johnson said.
He then noted how Dugan had been arrested for allegedly aiding an illegal immigrant in avoiding federal immigration authorities, saying he did not speak up because he was not a «White female judge.»
«But then they came for me. And I looked around, and there was nobody left because I had remained silent,» he said.
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Johnson concluded by noting he paraphrased a poem from Germany, saying it «resonated back then as it does today.»
«It’s important that the people understand what is happening with our constitutional rights in this country. Everyone is entitled to due process, whether or not you are documented or undocumented, whether or you are a citizen or not. You’re entitled to due process.»
He said an amendment up for a vote in the markup sought to affirm that.
An amendment in the meeting record would have prohibited certain funds from being used to remove «an alien in violation of their rights under the Fifth Amendment.»
It was voted down.
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Fox News Digital reached out to Johnson for comment, as well as House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, for response.
On X, the official House Judiciary Committee Republican account mocked Johnson’s remarks, writing, «Wow, Hank Johnson just implied that all Latinos hang out at Home Depot.»
Johnson’s penchant for colorful remarks goes back more than a decade to 2010, when he warned then-Pacific Fleet commander Adm. Robert Willard during a House Armed Service Committee hearing on military-buildup plans that Guam could potentially «tip over and capsize» due to overpopulation.
Democrats have recently shifted their comments on Garcia’s case more toward concerns about due process, after Tennessee police video showing a run-in with Garcia allegedly trafficking migrants was released.
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As it was announced that Vice President JD Vance would visit Israel, President Donald Trump once again warned Hamas, saying the U.S.-brokered Gaza truce must hold, and issued another blunt warning to the terrorist group.
During a White House meeting with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Monday, Trump warned, «We’re going to eradicate them. If we have to, they’ll be eradicated. And they know that,» he told reporters, and stressed the deal’s broad backing — «59 countries that agreed to the deal» — while insisting the ceasefire remains in place and warning that any further violence would be met with decisive action.
While details of Vance’s trip to Israel have yet to be announced, Washington’s diplomacy is extending beyond Jerusalem, as U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner were expected to travel to Egypt from Israel for talks with Hamas representatives, underscoring a push to move from preserving the ceasefire toward negotiating the more fraught next phase.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, accompanied by President Donald Trump, Vice President J.D. Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and former National Security Adviser Michael Waltz, speaks during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House on April 7, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
At Monday’s meeting with the Australian pm, Trump was asked by a reporter whether the U.S. would put boots on the ground, Trump said his administration does not plan to deploy troops and that other countries — and Israel itself — could act if needed.
«We don’t need to, because we have many countries, as you know, signed on to this deal,» he said. «We’ve had countries calling me when they saw some of the killing with Hamas, saying we’d love to go in and take care of the situation ourselves. In addition, you have Israel — they would go in, in two minutes. If I asked him to go in, I could tell him, go in and take care of it. But right now, we haven’t said that. We’re going to give it a little chance, and hopefully there will be a little less violence.»
He added a blunt warning about Hamas’ capacity and support. «But right now, you know, they’re violent people. Hamas has been very violent, but they don’t have the backing of Iran anymore… They have to be good, and if they’re not good, they’ll be eradicated — because absolutely we can, and we have the capacity to do so.»
The comments came as senior U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner met with Israeli leaders to shore up the fragile, Trump-brokered, 20-step ceasefire plan after a weekend flare-up. Hamas terrorists killed two Israeli soldiers, prompting Israeli strikes against the terror group. Despite the violence, both Israel and Hamas publicly recommitted to the truce.
President Donald Trump, left, and Anthony Albanese, Australia’s prime minister, shake hands outside the West Wing of the White House in Washington, Oct. 20, 2025. (Yuri Gripas/Abaca/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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On the ground, the IDF took custody of the coffin of another deceased hostage. A joint IDF–ISA statement asked the public to «act with sensitivity and wait for the official identification, which will first be provided to the families,» while adding that, «Hamas is required to uphold the agreement and take the necessary steps to return all the deceased hostages.» Israeli officials say Hamas could hand over six more bodies immediately out of the 15 still believed in Gaza, though some remains may be impossible to recover amid widespread destruction.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, speaking in the Knesset, struck a hard line while stressing close U.S.–Israel coordination. He warned the fighting was far from over and said violations would carry a «very heavy price,» while praising the «unprecedented closeness» with Washington.
A group of Hamas terrorists in Deir-el Balah in central Gaza as 20 living Israeli hostages were freed on Oct. 13, 2025. (TPS-IL)
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Separately, the IDF said Southern Command troops have begun marking a so-called yellow line inside Gaza — 3.5-meter concrete barriers topped by yellow poles placed roughly every 200 meters — to establish «tactical clarity on the ground» as part of the ceasefire arrangement. The military said the marking will continue «in the coming period» as forces work to remove threats and defend Israeli civilians.
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Trump admin agencies coordinating to expose Biden admin’s ‘prolific and dangerous’ weaponization of government
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EXCLUSIVE: Trump administration agencies are working to expose the Biden administration’s «prolific and dangerous weaponization of government,» Fox News Digital has learned.
The Interagency Weaponization Working Group (IWWG) is made up of officials from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the Justice Department, the FBI, the CIA and more.
Officials told Fox News Digital that Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard initiated the Interagency Weaponization Working Group, which has been meeting biweekly since April to «share information, coordinate, and execute.»
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard announced on Tuesday the revocation of former intelligence officials’ credentials. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
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«The American people made a clear choice when they elected President Trump — to stop the Biden administration’s prolific and dangerous weaponization of government agencies against the American people and the Constitution,» Gabbard told Fox News Digital. «I stood up this working group to start the important work of interagency coordination under President Trump’s leadership to deliver accountability.»
She added: «True accountability is the first step toward lasting change.»
Officials told Fox News Digital the group was created to streamline information sharing across the government in support of the Trump executive order.
Attorney General Pam Bondi is sworn in before a Senate Judiciary Committee oversight hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2025. (Jose Luis Magana/AP Photo)
«Joe Biden’s Department of Justice targeted President Trump and anyone close to him, prosecuted pro-life advocates, treated parents at school board meetings as domestic terrorists, and destroyed public trust in federal law enforcement,» Attorney General Pam Bondi told Fox News Digital.
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«Under President Trump, we are working every day alongside our partners to end weaponization and restore one tier of justice for all,» Bondi said.
Meanwhile, FBI Director Kash Patel told Fox News Digital that, «for years, Biden’s DOJ turned federal law enforcement into a political weapon.»
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«Going after President Trump, pro-life Americans, and parents at school boards while letting real criminals run wild,» Patel told Fox News Digital. «Under Preisdent Trump, we’ve ripped that agenda out by the roots.»
Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Kash Patel testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on Sept. 16, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Patel added: «We’re restoring equal justice under the law, one standard, one mission: Protect the American people.»
Officials involved pointed Fox News Digital to President Trump’s executive order, which says interagency coordination is needed to «ensure accountability for the previous administration’s weaponization of the federal government against the American people.»
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The executive order had directed Gabbard, in consultation with the heads of other appropriate departments and agencies within the intelligence community, to «take all appropriate action to review the activities of the intelligence community over the last four years and identify any instances» of the weaponization of government.
Officials told Fox News Digital that the interagency group is «working to undo the Biden administration’s whole-of-government approach to abuse the powers of government against the American people.»
«The weaponization of government against Americans did not happen in one agency, one time,» an official explained. «It happened repeatedly over the duration of the Biden administration.»
Attorney General Pam Bondi, left, FBI Director Kash Patel, center, and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, center right, are seen on Wednesday, March 5, awaiting Muhammed Sharifullah’s arrival in the U.S. following his arrest overseas. (Justice Department)
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«That’s why, in order to depoliticize and deweaponize the government, it is important to understand what agencies carried out, what roles, and why,» the official continued. «The IWWG is essential for coordinating across agencies.»
But officials said the media has attempted to «negatively spin lawful oversight and accountability» by claiming it is a way for the Trump administration to weaponize the government against its political opponents.
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«The irony is, accusing the Interagency Weaponization Working Group of targeting the president’s political opponents is classic projection and could not be further from the truth,» an official said.
The official said that there is «no targeting of any individual person for retribution.»
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«IWWG is simply looking at available facts and evidence that may point to actions, reports, agencies, individuals, and more who illegally weaponized the government in order to carry out political attacks,» the official said.
«The only people who fear accountability are the ones who never expected to face it,» the official continued. «Oversight is not the problem—abuse of power is.»
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El Gobierno de Brasil estima que el nuevo horizonte petrolero frente al río Amazonas, cuya exploración fue autorizada este lunes por la agencia ambiental del país, atraerá inversiones por unos 300.000 millones de reales (55.000 millones de dólares).
El Instituto Brasileño de Medio Ambiente (Ibama) concedió a la petrolera estatal Petrobras el permiso para perforar un pozo exploratorio en una zona del Atlántico situada a unos 500 kilómetros de la desembocadura del Amazonas y a unos 175 kilómetros de la costa.
La decisión, cuestionada por las organizaciones ecologistas, se produjo a menos de un mes de que comience la cumbre climática de la ONU (COP30), que se celebrará en la ciudad amazónica de Belém.
Sin embargo, el ministro de Minas y Energía, Alexandre Silveira, afirmó que ese nuevo horizonte petrolero, cuyo potencial es de 10.000 millones de barriles recuperables, representa “el futuro de la soberanía energética” de Brasil.
“Brasil no puede renunciar a conocer su potencial. Hicimos una defensa firme y técnica para garantizar que la exploración se realice con total responsabilidad ambiental (…) Nuestro petróleo es uno de los más sostenibles del mundo”, aseguró en una nota.
Según estimaciones oficiales, además de atraer una cantidad importante de inversiones, si finalmente se materializa la explotación de hidrocarburos en la región, conocida como Margen Ecuatorial, el Estado brasileño recaudará “un billón de reales (cerca de 200.000 millones de dólares) en las próximas décadas”.
Además, el Ejecutivo del presidente Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva prevé la creación de 300.000 empleos directos e indirectos.
Silveira subrayó que la exploración del territorio se llevará a cabo “bajo los más altos estándares de sostenibilidad, conciliando la preservación ambiental con la generación de empleo e ingresos”.
Y recordó que Petrobras montó “la mayor estructura de respuesta del país, con 13 embarcaciones a disposición para apenas un pozo”.
“La decisión refuerza el compromiso del Gobierno con una transición energética justa, inclusiva y equilibrada, en la que el desarrollo de las actividades de exploración y producción de petróleo y gas avanza de la mano con las políticas de descarbonización y expansión de los biocombustibles”, señaló el ministro.
Por otra parte, ONG ambientalistas cargaron este lunes contra la concesión de la licencia. El Observatorio do Clima, un red formada por 130 organizaciones, señaló en un comunicado que se trata de una decisión “desastrosa” desde el punto de vista ambiental y pedirán ante la justicia que el permiso sea “anulado” por las “fallas técnicas” en el proceso de licenciamiento.
La red ambientalista apuntó, además, a la contradicción que supone dar esta licencia a menos de un mes del inicio de la COP30.
La decisión es un “sabotaje” a la COP30 y “va en dirección contraria al papel de líder climático reivindicado por el presidente Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva”, de acuerdo con el Observatorio do Clima.
Asimismo, la licencia para explorar esta área, situada a unos 500 kilómetros de la desembocadura, choca, según los ambientalistas, con las metas del Gobierno brasileño, que se ha comprometido a reducir entre un 59 % y un 67 % las emisiones contaminantes hasta 2035.
“En un escenario de emergencia climática como el actual, la apertura de nuevos pozo de petróleo contradice los compromisos del país con la transición energética y refuerza patrones excluyentes e insostenibles”, señaló la portavoz de Greenpeace Mariana Andrade, en declaraciones distribuidas a los medios.
Brasil, según los ambientalistas, debería invertir más en energías renovables, en vez de ampliar su producción de petróleo.
“Necesitamos invertir en alternativas que generen desarrollo inclusivo y sostenible, como las energías renovables y la bioeconomía; insistir en el petróleo es ir en dirección contraria al mundo”, dijo, a su vez, Ricardo Fuji, especialista en conservación de WWF en Brasil.
Alrededor del área objeto de la licencia hay reservas ambientales, territorios indígenas, manglares y arrecifes de coral, así como una variada diversidad marina con especies en peligro de extinción.
La petrolera tiene planes para explorar la región desde 2022, pero el proceso de autorización se alargó durante casi cinco años, ante los pedidos de información adicional por parte del Instituto Brasileño de Medio Ambiente (Ibama), la entidad responsable de emitir los permisos.
(Con información de EFE)
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