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White House rages at House Democrat for ‘shameful’ Memorial Day trip to visit suspected MS-13 gangbanger
The White House ripped Rep. Glenn Ivey, D-Md., for making a «shameful» Memorial Day trip to El Salvador in an attempt to visit deported illegal immigrant and suspected MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
The White House’s rapid response account said of Ivey’s trip, «This moron spent his Memorial Day trying (and failing) to visit a criminal illegal immigrant gangbanger in a foreign country. For Democrats, criminal illegals > American citizens every time.»
Ivey posted about the attempted visit on his X account, saying that he represents Abrego Garcia, and that the Salvadoran government stonewalled his efforts to conduct a welfare check.
«Today, I was denied access to seeing my constituent, Mr. Kilmar Abrego Garcia. If there is nothing to hide, cut the crap. Let his lawyer and I check on him,» he said. «I’m the congressman who represents Kilmar and I came all the way down from the United States after we contacted their ambassador, after we made formal requests through our ambassador to the El Salvadoran government, and we came here to visit him today.»
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The White House slammed Rep. Glenn Ivey, D-Md., for making a «shameful» Memorial Day trip to El Salvador to attempt to visit deported illegal and suspected MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia. (Alex Wong/Getty Images and Fox News)
«We need to bring him home. I won’t stop until we do,» Ivey added in an X post.
Abrego Garcia’s deportation to his home country, El Salvador, has caused significant controversy. The Trump administration has pointed to evidence suggesting that Abrego Garcia was involved with MS-13 and human trafficking to justify his deportation. The administration has also cited court documents detailing Abrego Garcia’s alleged physical abuse of his wife, Jennifer Vasquez Sura. Democrats, meanwhile, say he is a «Maryland man» who was not given his due process in court before being deported.
Since Abrego Garcia’s deportation, several Democrats, including Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., have made trips to El Salvador to conduct similar wellness checks and to advocate for his release.
The trips have stirred significant controversy as well, with many asking why Democrats are spending so much time advocating for a suspected gang member who was unlawfully present in the U.S.
MARYLAND DEMOCRAT IVEY FURIOUS NOT GIVEN ACCESS TO KILMAR ABREGO GARCIA IN EL SALVADOR
In this handout provided by Sen. Van Hollen’s Office, Van Hollen (D-MD) meets with Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia (L) at an undisclosed location on April 17, 2025 in San Salvador, El Salvador. Abrego Garcia, a Maryland resident, was illegally deported by the Trump administration and has been held in prison in El Salvador since March 15. (Sen. Van Hollen’s Office via Getty Images)
The video also caught the attention of White House deputy press secretary Abigail Jackson.
Jackson told Fox News Digital that «it’s shameful, and an insult to the American people, that a Democrat Congressman spent his Memorial Day trying to visit a deported illegal alien, MS-13 terrorist, human-trafficker, and wife beater.»
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«This pathetic stunt tells you everything you need to know about the priorities of the modern Democrat party – they’re putting criminal illegals over American citizens all the time,» said Jackson.
In addition to the wife beating evidence, Fox News Digital has previously reported on documents detailing Abrego Garcia being stopped by a Tennessee Highway Patrol trooper after he was «observed speeding» and unable to stay in his lane in 2022. The trooper noticed eight individuals in the car with Abrego Garcia, who said he began driving three days prior from Houston to Temple Hills, Maryland, via St. Louis to «perform construction work.»
KILMAR ABREGO-GARCIA SUSPECTED OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING IN REPORT OBTAINED BY FOX NEWS
Fox News Digital has previously reported on documents detailing Abrego Garcia being stopped by a Tennessee Highway Patrol trooper after he was «observed speeding» and unable to stay in his lane in 2022. The trooper noticed eight individuals in the car with Abrego-Garcia, who said he began driving three days prior from Houston to Temple Hills, Md., via St. Louis to «perform construction work.» (Tennessee Highway Patrol)
The report states that the trooper suspected it was a human trafficking incident, as there was no luggage in the vehicle. Additionally, the individuals in the car reportedly gave the same address as Abrego Garica’s home address.
When speaking with the trooper, Abrego Garcia allegedly «pretended to speak less English than he was capable of and attempted to put encountering officer off-track by responding to questions with questions.» After the incident, the officer decided not to give Abrego Garcia a citation for the driving infractions, but rather to give him a warning for driving with an expired license.
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The White House has not held back in its criticisms of Van Hollen’s visit. In April, the White House tweeted side-by-side photos of Trump meeting with the mother of Rachel Morin, who was murdered by an illegal immigrant in 2023, and Van Hollen sitting with Abrego Garcia with the caption, «We are not the same.»
Rachel Morin was a Maryland resident, as is her mother, Patty, who said that Van Hollen had not reached out to her since her daughter was murdered.
Van Hollen responded to this criticism in a Fox News interview in which he said he «did have concern» for the Morin family and his «heart goes out to every Maryland family that is the victim of violence.» Van Hollen also said that «there is zero connection between the horrible murder of Rachel Morin and the situation with Abrego Garcia.»
Ivey did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
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Trump-backed affordable housing overhaul clears Senate, while House GOP raises red flags
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A massive bipartisan swell advanced a Trump-backed affordable housing package out of the Senate on Thursday, but its fate in the House is up in the air.
The bill, renamed the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act to incorporate a previous Senate housing bill that stalled last year, easily sailed through the upper chamber, given that many lawmakers support the wide-ranging slate of measures designed to increase the supply of affordable housing.
In its original form, the legislation was primarily intended to help first-time homebuyers and lower-income Americans enter the housing market or gain access to more affordable housing options.
BIPARTISAN HOUSING PUSH ADVANCES, BUT TRUMP-BACKED INVESTOR BAN FACES RESISTANCE
President Donald Trump speaks during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House on March 2, 2026, in Washington, D.C. (Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)
The Senate tweaked the legislation, adding a ban on institutional investors sought by President Donald Trump, who earlier this year signed an executive order barring the practice. During his State of the Union address last month, Trump urged Congress to codify the ban and said, «We want homes for people, not for corporations.»
That provision gave some heartburn, notably to Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, and several industry groups, who warned that the way it was designed — forcing owners of 350 or more units to sell after seven years — would kneecap the build-to-rent market and harm the supply of rentals throughout the country.
That was not enough to slow the bill down in the Senate, but Trump’s declaration that he wouldn’t sign any bills unless the Senate passed voter ID legislation, along with House Republicans grumbling over changes to the bill, could spell trouble ahead.
Rep. Mike Flood, R-Neb., co-lead of the House’s version of the bill, told Fox News Digital, «It seems to me that there are outstanding concerns with the Senate’s housing bill as currently drafted.»
HOUSE PASSES BIPARTISAN HOUSING BILL AS TRUMP ZEROES IN ON AFFORDABILITY CRISIS
Rep. Mike Flood speaks at a press conference with other House Republicans on the 15th day of the government shutdown in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 15, 2025. (Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images)
He echoed Schatz’s concern about the build-to-rent supply consequences and added that the bill was «intended to cut costs, but the Senate removed important bipartisan House provisions that would have slashed barriers to building more homes.»
«Their process is still ongoing, and I am holding out hope for some fixes, but time runs short,» Flood said. «Given the bill’s current state, I think a conference may be the most viable path forward.»
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., said he believes that once the bill makes it through the Senate, «the White House will be wanting to work with our House counterparts to try and get it passed over there and get it on the President’s desk.»
BIPARTISAN PLAN AIMS TO MAKE THE AMERICAN DREAM AFFORDABLE AGAIN FOR MILLIONS OF FIRST-TIME HOMEBUYERS
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., questions former executives of failed banks during a Senate Banking Committee hearing on Capitol Hill on May 16, 2023, in Washington. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
«We know we’ve added some things to the bill here in the Senate that were designed to make it more palatable to the House. I know there are other issues they would like to address in it, some of the banking issues too, but I think this is, by and large, a housing bill.»
«So, we think we have really put together a strong bill,» Thune continued. «It’s something that hasn’t been done in over a decade.»
It’s a product of negotiations between Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., the chair of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., its top Democrat.
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The pair argued that the changes made should make the legislation more palatable to their House counterparts.
«The package includes the vast majority of the Senate’s unanimously supported ROAD to Housing Act, incorporates bipartisan ideas from the House, and takes a good first step to rein in corporate landlords that are squeezing families out of homeownership,» Warren said earlier this month. «Congress should pass this package and continue working on further legislation to combat our nation’s housing crisis.»
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La “batalla del agua” en Medio Oriente: las monarquías del Golfo temen un ataque iraní a sus plantas desalinizadoras
Las monarquías del Golfo son reinos de petróleo, gas y agua salada.
Son Estados supermillonarios, pero tienen una gran debilidad. Kuwait, Arabia Saudita, Bahréin, los Emiratos Árabes Unidos, Qatar y Omán carecen de suficiente agua potable natural.
Nadan en petróleo, pero no en agua dulce. Dependen, con diferentes matices, necesidades y urgencias, de las numerosas plantas desalinizadoras construidas en la región.
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Irán lo sabe. Esa es una carta marcada que los ayatollah guardan en su búnker más secreto. Mientras buscan incendiar el Estrecho de Ormuz, por donde pasa el 20% del comercio petrolero mundial, el objetivo es extender el caos económico a todo el mundo.
El domingo pasado dio una primera muestra de lo que podría venir: bombardeó una planta desalinizadora en Bahréin, un país que alberga a la Quinta Flota de los Estados Unidos.
“La interrupción intencional de la infraestructura hídrica constituye una clara violación del derecho internacional humanitario y, ante todo, una carga para los civiles, quienes carecen de iniciativa y capacidad de decisión en esta guerra”, alertó a TN el científico iraní Kaveh Madani, exsubdirector del Departamento de Medio Ambiente de Irán y actual director del Instituto para el Agua, el Ambiente y la Salud (INWEH) de las Naciones Unidas.
El agua, el recurso más preciado
El agua es otra batalla estratégica para presionar a las monarquías del Golfo, aliadas de Estados Unidos. Es un recurso esencial. Irán también tiene enormes problemas hídricos por una extensa sequía que llevó a las autoridades a pensar en trasladar Teherán, la capital.
“Todo el mundo piensa en Arabia Saudita y en sus vecinos como petroestados. Pero yo los llamo reinos del agua salada. Son superpotencias hídricas creadas por el ser humano y alimentadas por combustibles fósiles. Es a la vez un logro monumental del siglo XX y una forma particular de vulnerabilidad”, resumió Michael Christopher Low, director del Middle East Center de la Universidad de Utah, citado por Euronews. Mujeres iraníes se manifiestan en Teherán en apoyo al gobierno de los ayatollah (Foto; EFE)
El académico Abdullah al-Arian, de la Universidad de Georgetown, en Qatar, advirtió a TN que “el riesgo de una escalada” de este tipo está latente y más aún si se extienden los ataques estadounidenses e israelíes.
“Irán busca aumentar los costos de esta guerra para los países vecinos e incluso para la economía global, en un intento de obligar a Estados Unidos a retractarse de su política de cambio de régimen y, en última instancia, a poner fin a sus ataques”, afirmó.
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Al-Arian, especialista en historia de la política estadounidense hacia Medio Oriente, dijo que “las represalias iraníes intentaron reconfigurar el panorama de seguridad en los países del Golfo y perturbar cada vez más los viajes, el comercio e incluso la vida cotidiana en países que actúan como importantes centros de la economía global”.
“Este tipo de ataque supondría una gran presión sobre el suministro de agua de estos países y requeriría planes de contingencia para fuentes alternativas de agua», indicó.
La dependencia hídrica de los países del Golfo
Irán atacó en los últimos días infraestructura energética de los Emiratos Árabes Unidos y Kuwait que causaron daños a plantas desalinizadoras. El domingo un dron iraní había golpeado a una planta en Bahréin, según denunció el gobierno de ese país. Teherán también denunció ataques de este tipo en su territorio.
Un informe del Centro Árabe de Washington, citado por el diario El Mundo, reveló que los estados del Consejo de Cooperación del Golfo producen el 40% del total de agua desalinizada del mundo.
Según el reporte, el país más vulnerable del área es Kuwait. El 90% de sus recursos hídricos sale de sus complejas plantas desalinizadoras que toman el agua de mar, la procesan y la convierten en agua dulce. Omán lo sigue con un 86% y Arabia Saudita con el 70%. El menos dependiente es Qatar. Religiosos chiítas paquistaníes portan imágenes del asesinado guía supremo iraní Ali Jamenei y su hijo y sucesor, Mojtaba Jamenei (Foto: REUTERS/Imran Ali)
En el área del Golfo hay 450 plantas desalinizadoras que surten a unas 100 millones de personas. Según el periódico español, las monarquías del área gastaron más de U$S 50.000 millones en inversiones en este sector entre 2004 y 2024.
Otro blanco posible: el sistema financiero y bancario
Pero no solo el agua está en la mira de Irán. También el sistema bancario y financiero.
Las Fuerzas Armadas iraníes acusaron el miércoles a Estados Unidos e Israel de atacar un banco estratégico del país utilizado para pagar salarios a efectivos del ejército.
Según advirtió el mando unificado de las Fuerzas Armadas, este ataque “ilegítimo y no convencional” podría tener una “respuesta recíproca y dolorosa”.
Además, pidió a la población en Medio Oriente a no aproximarse a un kilómetro de bancos estadounidenses o israelíes.
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La amenaza fue tomada muy en serio en las monarquías del Golfo.
El grupo financiero estadounidense Citi y numerosas empresas occidentales, como la consultora Deloitte, pidieron a sus empleados evacuar sus oficinas en el Centro Financiero Internacional de Dubái (DIFC), reveló AFP.
La consultora británica PwC anunció que cerrará hasta nuevo aviso sus oficinas en Arabia Saudita, Qatar, Emiratos Árabes Unidos y Kuwait.
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