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White House reaffirms any illegal immigrant can be deported as Trump team zeroes in on ‘worst of the worst’
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The Trump White House reiterated that anyone residing in the U.S. illegally is eligible for deportation as its crackdown continues to initially focus on removing «the worst of the worst» violent illegal immigrants.
«The President’s entire team, including Border Czar Tom Homan and Secretary Noem, are on the same page when it comes to implementing his agenda — which has always focused on prioritizing the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens — and the successful deportations and historically secure border proves that,» White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson told Fox News Digital Tuesday.
«As always, anyone in the country illegally is eligible to be deported,» she added. «President Trump is keeping his promise to carry out the largest mass deportation operation in history.»
The administration, most notably offices within the Department of Homeland Security, are in the midst of ongoing arrest and deportation efforts as part of President Donald Trump’s crackdown on the immigration crisis that rocked the U.S. under the Biden administration.
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«The President’s entire team, including Border Czar Tom Homan and Secretary Noem, are on the same page when it comes to implementing his agenda,» a White House spokeswoman said. (Alex Brandon/The Associated Press )
Officials increasingly have zeroed in on messaging that violent illegal immigrants are the top priority for apprehension, while broader mass-deportation efforts targeting all illegal immigrants have faded from the forefront.
Border czar Tom Homan, for example, told NBC News in June in an interview only released Monday that failure to prioritize arresting and deporting «criminal illegal aliens» over other illegal immigrants risks losing the «faith of the American people.»
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White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt reaffirmed Tuesday that deporting all illegal immigrants continues to be the mission of the administration, with violent criminals first up for deportation. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
«I think the vast majority of the American people think criminal illegal aliens need to leave,» Homan said in an interview with NBC News in June. «And if we stick to that prioritization, I think we keep the faith of the American people.»
«And I think the more we do that, the more the American people will support what President Trump’s doing. We got to do it and we’ve got to do it in a humane manner.»
Homan has said in other public remarks that the «prioritization of criminal aliens doesn’t mean we forget about everyone else,» and that «If you are in the country illegally, you are not off the table.»
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt reaffirmed Tuesday that deporting all illegal immigrants continues to be the mission of the administration, with violent criminals first up for deportation.
Shackled migrants board a transport van after getting off a plane at the Valley International Airport, Sunday, Aug. 31, 2025, in Harlingen, Texas. (Michael Gonzalez/The Associated Press )
«The Trump administration will continue our focus on deporting all illegal aliens present in our country, with a focus on the worst of the worst criminals,» she said Tuesday.
The Trump administration and campaign historically focused on deporting violent illegal immigrants as the first order of business, but such comments were often coupled with messaging that all illegal immigrants would face deportation under Trump
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Trump, for example, said in December 2024 that «we will send the whole family back to the country» if they were illegal in an interview that also included the then president-elect railing against countries who sent «murderers» from and «people from mental institutions» to the U.S.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents continue to conduct immigration enforcement operations in Minneapolis, Jan. 28, 2026. (Madison Thorn/Anadolu via Getty Images)
«Number one, we’re doing criminals and we’re going to do them really rapidly,» Trump said in another interview in December 2024, teeing up his administration’s immigration policies. «We’re getting the worst gang probably with MS-13 and the Venezuelan gangs are the worst in the world. They’re vicious, violent people.»
The administration has faced growing scrutiny from Democrats and other critics following the launch of immigration raids and operations in cities from Washington, D.C., to Los Angeles to Minneapolis in 2025.
The protests hit a fever pitch in Minneapolis earlier in 2026 as agitators took to the streets of the Twin Cities to speak out against and confront federal law enforcement officers, most notably following the fatal shootings of two Americans by immigration officials in January.
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The administration repeatedly has said it is not backing down in Minneapolis.
Officials have expanded coordination with local law enforcement — particularly jails — to take custody of illegal immigrants already detained, allowing arrests at facilities rather than in neighborhoods and requiring fewer officers on the ground.
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Biden admin skirted rules to deliver massive contract to nonprofit run by ex-official, IG report reveals
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EXCLUSIVE: A new Inspector General’s report released Thursday morning accuses the former Biden administration of bypassing federal rules when issuing a more than half-a-billion dollar «sole source contract» to a nonprofit led by a former Biden official to deal with the unaccompanied minor crisis in 2021.
The Administration of Children and Families (ACF), which is under HHS and manages unaccompanied minors, awarded $529 million for a 1-year contract in March 2021 to a nonprofit called Family Endeavors, Inc. to help establish and manage a new emergency intake site in Texas (EIS) with 2,000 extra beds. However, according to the OIG’s new report, Biden’s ACF failed to follow federal procurement requirements that require full and open competition due to their own «insufficient planning,» rather than the COVID induced emergency the Biden administration cited.
Furthermore, the inspector general’s report found that the contract price was more than double the agency’s own cost estimate of $244 million, and indicated that the agency «subsequently modified» the award 15 times, extending the period until May 2022 and increasing the value to more than three times the original estimate from ACF.
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A family seen walking towards a barrier blocking passage across the U.S. border. (Department of Health and Human Services)
«ACF knew well in advance of March 2021 that it was projected to need more shelter beds than existing sites could provide and should have begun contract planning at that time,» the report states. «ACF failed to reasonably conduct the necessary advanced planning to execute a contract for procurement of those beds and related services using full and open competition.»
The report says ACF made only a limited attempt to do the necessary research for the contract, and did not even follow the findings it came up with.
«On March 5, 2021, Endeavors emailed ORR offering emergency assistance for the care of unaccompanied alien children. On March 13, 2021, Endeavors emailed ORR again with an unsolicited proposal, which included a statement of capabilities and concept of operations for an emergency shelter to serve unaccompanied alien children. Three days later, on March 16, 2021, ACF awarded a firm-fixed-price sole source contract to Endeavors to provide and operate an EIS facility in Pecos, Texas,» the report states.
Images of the emergency intake site in Pecos, Texas operated by Family Endeavors, Inc. The nonprofit received $529 million to build out 2,000 beds. (Department of Health and Human Services)
The contract beginning March 2021 was «by far the largest ever» for Endeavors Family, Inc., and came months after the company hired Andrew Lorenzen-Strait, who served as an adviser to the Biden-Harris transition team. The contract was also the second largest ever awarded by the agency, according to Axios.
«Despite multiple requests, ACF could not provide support for its review of the Endeavors quote, the price analysis techniques used to analyze the quote, or an [independent Government cost estimate] for an EIS dated before the contract was awarded,» the new inspector general’s report states. «When we asked for documentation, ACF told us that it was under significant time constraints to award contracts.»
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Family Endeavors Inc. told Axios that its work on the border was a «continuation of services» that it has conducted for the migrant population since 2012. By April 2021, a month after the contract began, federal procurement records showed ACF had already paid $255 million of the no-bid contract to the nonprofit, which had already dwarfed the nonprofit’s total $43 million budget in 2018.
Family Endeavors, Inc. did not immediately respond to an after-hours email from Fox News seeking comment.
In September 2023, then-Chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, former Rep. Mark Green, R-Tenn., and then-Chairman of the House Subcommittee On Oversight, Investigations and Accountability, former-Rep. Dan Bishop, R-N.C., sent a letter to Lorenzen-Strait about his ties to both the Biden administration and Endeavors. The letter requested him to both reach out to the committee for an interview and mandated he preserve records on his communications with leaders involved in granting other «sole source» contracts.
«On January 20, 2021, Family Endeavors, Inc. (Endeavors) named you the Senior Director for Migrant Services and Federal Affairs. Immediately preceding your position with Endeavors, you served on the Biden-Harris transition team, and previously was an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) official,» the letter said. «In March 2021, just two months after you joined Endeavors, ICE awarded an $86.9 million sole source contract to Endeavors to provide beds and services in hotels for migrants who illegally crossed the Southwest border.»
The letter cites an undercover video recording from Project Veritas of Lorenzen-Strait «boasting» about his participation in government contracts related to migrant services.
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«Specifically, you refer to the Endeavors contract as a ‘corrupt bargain.’ You further discuss ‘brokering’ a deal that won Cherokee Federal, a team of tribally owned federal contracting companies, a nearly $2 billion contract with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to provide services to unaccompanied alien children,» the letter continues with its claims. «In the video, you admit that Cherokee Federal is not equipped to handle the contract. You also admit that while you are publicly involved with the company Deep Water Point & Associates, you hid participation in government contracts through the entities, VerdinPoint and The Tanager Group.»
A HHS spokesperson said that under President Donald Trump the ACF is implementing stricter accountability measures and strengthening oversight.
«The previous administration wasted more than $1.8 billion dollars on a facility intended to house illegal aliens that was not even used in the last year of the previous administration, and that kind of fiscal mismanagement is exactly what Secretary Kennedy is working to correct,» the spokesperson said. «In fact, this contract was cancelled in the early months of the Trump administration as soon as this mismanagement was discovered. HHS and ORR remain fully committed to protecting children, restoring accountability at every level of the system, and putting Americans first.»
Edmund DeMarche contributed to this report.
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Russia will temporarily suspend flights to Cuba after airlines reported difficulties refueling aircraft on the island, aviation authorities said Wednesday.
Russia’s Federal Air Transport Agency Rosaviatsia said in a statement posted on Telegram that the airlines Rossiya, part of the Aeroflot Group, and Nordwind were forced to adjust their flight programs due to problems securing fuel in Cuba.
In the coming days, Rossiya will operate several outbound-only flights from Havana and Varadero to Moscow to return Russian tourists home before halting service.
After those repatriation flights are completed, the airline’s Cuba program will be suspended until the situation improves, the agency said, calling the decision one made «in the interests of passengers.»
US MILITARY SEIZES ANOTHER FUGITIVE OIL TANKER LINKED TO VENEZUELA
Aeroflot Russian Airlines and Rossiya Airlines jet aircraft at Moscow-Sheremetyevo International Airport in Moscow, Russia, Sept. 16, 2021. (Leonid Faerberg/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
The Transport Ministry and Rosaviatsia said they are maintaining close contact with Cuban aviation authorities and are exploring alternative options to restore two-way service.
The announcement comes two weeks after President Donald Trump declared a national emergency over Cuba and authorized new measures aimed at choking off the island’s oil supplies.
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A vehicle fills up with fuel at a gas station in Havana, Cuba, Jan. 28, 2026. (Yamil Lage/AFP via Getty Images)
In a Jan. 29 executive order, Trump said Cuba poses an «unusual and extraordinary threat» to U.S. national security and empowered his administration to impose tariffs on goods from any country that «directly or indirectly sells or otherwise provides any oil to Cuba.»
The order, which took effect Jan. 30, allows additional duties on imports from countries found to be supplying oil to Havana, part of what Trump described as a «zero tolerance» policy toward the Cuban government.
The Federal Aviation Administration’s website shows a Notice to Airmen, or NOTAM, an official alert issued to pilots about hazards or operational disruptions, was posted Feb. 10 for nine Cuban airports warning that Jet A-1 fuel is not available.
Passengers carry their luggage at Jose Marti International Airport in Havana, Cuba, July 2, 2025. (Yamil Lage/AFP via Getty Images)
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The advisory covers Havana (MUHA), Varadero (MUVR), Cienfuegos (MUCF), Santa Clara (MUSC), Camagüey (MUCM), Cayo Coco (MUCC), Holguín (MUHG), Santiago de Cuba (MUCU) and Manzanillo (MUMZ), and remains in effect through March 11.
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