“We absolutely will. When we find somebody, a targeted enforcement operation, when they get arrested, they’ll be detained,” Homan said during his Wednesday appearance on Fox News’ “’The Ingraham Angle.”
“They have to be detained for a short time while we get travel documents from their host country. [The] host country has to agree that, ‘yeah, they’re our national’ – we get travel documents. We get flight arrangements, flight agreements. So we’re going to detain them for a little while,” he added.
Homan’s remarks come just a day after Texas officials offered Trump
a 1,400-acre ranch for his mass deportation plan. Dawn Buckingham, the land commissioner of the Texas General Land Office, said on Tuesday her office is “fully prepared” to cooperate with federal agencies that will carry out Trump’s immigration agenda. The 1,402-acre lot is in Starr County.
Trump has vowed on the campaign trail to perform the “largest deportation effort in American history.” He signaled on Monday
that he would declare an immigration national emergency and utilize military assets to carry out his deportation pledge.
Despite Texas officials siding with Trump’s immigration plan, some other parts of the country are looking to protect immigrants before the president-elect’s inauguration in January. Los Angeles City Council unanimously passed a “sanctuary city” ordinance
to shield migrants in the city.
Homan said on Wednesday that the ordinance will not matter.
“Sanctuary states said they’re not allowing any detention facilities in their state — fine. Then we’ll arrest them. We’ll fly them out of the state and detain them outside the state, again, away — away from their families, their attorneys,” Homan told host Laura Ingraham. “That’s what you want, that’s what you get.”
“You’re not going to stop us doing what we’re going to do,” he added on Wednesday. “So we’ll move them to a state where we can detain them. There’s plenty of sheriffs across this country who are willing to give us empty beds. They want the funding and we can put them in a jail all across the country.”
Homan, who said earlier this month that the GOP administration will perform
workplace raids, argued that “we’ll have no problem finding a place to detain these people.”
It’s going to cost money, so we got to have the money to do it,” he said. “But President Trump’s going to do everything he can to make sure we had the funds to do this.”
Despite losing to President-elect Trump in the 2024 White House election, most Democrats want Vice President Harris to be the party’s 2028 presidential nominee, according to a new survey.
The poll, released
by Puck News/Echelon Insights, found that 41 percent of likely Democratic voters would vote for Harris to be on the top of the Democratic ticket in 2028. California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) placed second at 8 percent. Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D), who was in the running to be Harris’s vice president this cycle, garnered 7 percent.
Both Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D), Harris’s vice presidential pick, and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who ran for president in 2020, got 6 percent.
Harris lost
the 2024 presidential election to Trump earlier this month. The president-elect won all seven battleground states, secured the popular vote and made inroads in some Democratic strongholds.
In the survey, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) received 4 percent support, ahead of three Democratic governors. Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer got 3 percent. Both Illinois Gov. J. B. Pritzker and Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear were at 2 percent.
Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.), who also ran in the 2020 Democratic Party primary, received 2 percent backing, according to the poll. Colorado Gov. Jared Polis and Maryland Gov. Wes Moore got 1 percent a piece.
Around 16 percent of respondents were unsure about their choice, while some 1 percent wanted someone else.
On the other side of the aisle, Vice President-elect Sen. J.D. Vance (R) led the way with 37 percent when respondents were asked who they would pick in the 2028 Republican primary. Former 2024 GOP presidential candidates Nikki Haley and Vivek Ramaswamy got 9 percent each.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) was at 8 percent. At the same time, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), who Trump nominated to be his Secretary of State, garnered 5 percent each, according to the survey.
Some 3 percent wanted someone else, while 18 percent were unsure.
The poll was conducted from Nov. 14-18 among 1,010 likely voters. The margin of error was 3.5 percentage points.
Republican Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) said that letting Oklahoma public school educators teach the Bible is a “slippery slope” if the teachers “may not be believers” themselves.
Mullin, who sits on the Senate committee that oversees education, said that he wants his kids to know the Bible, “but I want it to be taught by someone that was taught the Bible themselves, too. I think it’s a slippery slope when you put it in the hands of teachers that may not be believers, that’s going to be teaching the word that can easily be taken out of context.”
“So if the state is going to require that, then the state should also be it be required that this taught by someone that graduated from seminary school,” Mullin said during his Wednesday appearance on NewsNation’s show “The Hill.”
“If you just leave it in the hands of a public school teacher that may be not able to actually teach it because they weren’t taught it themselves, then it can cause a tremendous amount of confusion,” he added.
The GOP senator’s remarks come a week after Oklahoma State’s Superintendent Ryan Walters did not shoot down the idea of a national mandate to require Bibles in schools.
“Look, I believe that if you’re teaching American history, the Bible absolutely has to be included. And we cannot allow left-wing activists to sit here and say we don’t like Christianity,” Walters said
.
“You have to have it in the classrooms. We will ensure that history is taught in every class. That means kids will know American exceptionalism,” he said last week. “That means kids will know the role that faith played. We will be unapologetic about that here in Oklahoma. We want to make sure that every student knows the role that the Bible played in American history.”
Walters has garnered headlines because of the mandate in his home state of Oklahoma, which requires the Bible in all public school classrooms and that educators utilize lessons on the Bible’s impact on American culture and history. In October, the state’s top educator was sued over the policy by parents and other educators, arguing the mandate is unconstitutional.
When asked by NewsNation host Blake Burman on Wednesday if the state should “back off” of the mandate, the Mullin said that “unless they’re going to require a person that was trained in the Bible and graduated from seminary school or a different type of Bible school, then, yes, I do believe that’s probably the wrong move.”
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The Senate on Wednesday failed to pass three resolutions
that would have limited offensive arms to Israel, but 19 senators supported the initiative, showing there is growing resistance to the Israeli war against Hamas in Gaza.
The 19 senators who voted to block some offensive arms sales was higher than the 11 who joined a similar effort in January that was focused on conditioning weapons to Israel.
The resolutions Wednesday were introduced by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who has led calls on Capitol Hill to end unconditional arms support for Israel, along with Sens. Peter Welch (D-Vt.) and Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.).
Besides those lawmakers, several other Democrats, including Sens. Chris Van Hollen (Md.) and Elizabeth Warren (Mass.), were expected to vote for the resolutions.
Though the resolutions were expected to fail, they also served as a symbolic message supporting restraining Israel in the Senate.
The Wednesday vote comes as President-elect Trump is set to take office in January and is expected to more closely embrace Israel.
Democrats, led by the Biden administration, have largely rallied around Israel throughout the war, although President Biden and the party have called for more aid to get into Gaza and for the Israeli military to limit civilian deaths throughout the 13-month war.
The White House came out publicly against the resolutions before the vote.
“We strongly oppose this resolution and we have made our position clear to interested Senators,” said a spokesperson with the White House National Security Council.
The Joint Resolutions of Disapproval
, Congress’ formal mechanism to limit arms transfers, would have prohibited the U.S. from providing future transfers of 120mm tank rounds, 120mm High Explosive mortar rounds and Joint Direct Attack Munitions (JDAMs), which are guidance kits attached to bombs.
Both the House and Senate have to pass the resolutions to block a transfer. The resolution on tank rounds saw 18 votes in favor, the resolution on mortar rounds saw 19 votes in support and the resolution on JDAMs earned 17 votes.
Sanders in September also introduced three other joint resolutions that would block JDAM receivers, certain tactical vehicles and the sale of 50 new F-15IA aircraft and associated parts. Those did not come up for a vote on Wednesday.
Sanders led a major public campaign ahead of the vote, writing a Washington Post opinion piece
that said Israel has violated the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 and the Arms Export Control Act because the Israeli military has violated international human rights.
The senator also pointed to Section 620I of the Foreign Assistance Act, which prohibits the transfer of arms to a country inhibiting U.S. humanitarian assistance efforts. The U.S. has been working to get aid into Gaza, where Palestinians are struggling to access food and water.
In his opinion piece, Sanders pointed to the widespread destruction in Gaza, including on housing and universities, and the roughly two million who have been displaced. Pushing back against critics who say restraining Israel would only bolster Iran, which backs Hamas, Sanders said, “You do not effectively combat terrorism by starving thousands of innocent children.”
“Because of its immoral actions, Israel is less secure and increasingly isolated,” Sanders wrote. “Israel, like any other nation, has a right to defend itself, and these resolutions will not endanger that defense. Instead, they specifically target offensive weapons that are responsible for thousands of civilian deaths.”
Sanders elaborated on his position in a press conference
Tuesday, arguing that the U.S. is “complicit in these atrocities” in Gaza.
“That complicity must end,” said Sanders, who has accused U.S. officials, senators and congressmembers of being hypocrites for speaking about human rights issues worldwide while ignoring the suffering in Gaza.
Merkley told reporters Tuesday he has long supported Israel but raised concerns about indiscriminate bombing in Gaza that was “out of sync with our values.”
“Even when we have an ally, even when there is a country that has been a close friend, [if that nation] engages in egregious, devastating practices that harm civilians in such a massive way, [then] we stand up and say this is wrong,” he said.
Van Hollen also spoke at the conference, arguing the war has created immense suffering in Gaza and that Israel should not have a blank check.
“That’s why we need to use the recourse we have to pause U.S. offensive military assistance,” Van Hollen said, until Israel “finally comes into compliance and begins to listen to the priorities of the United States.”
But many Democrats disagreed.
Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.), chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said in a statement before the vote that Israel “continues to face active and deadly threats” from “adversaries who also threaten U.S. interests.”
“Our support for Israel does not diminish our commitment to humanitarian assistance for innocent Palestinians or our shared pursuit of peace,” Cardin said. “While addressing the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and advocating for peace, we also must uphold our country’s longstanding bipartisan commitment to Israel.”
On the Senate floor, Cardin said the resolutions made little sense
because they deal with arms transfers in the future and that limiting JDAMs, which offer precision strikes, would actually make Israel’s attacks more dangerous. Sanders has argued that Israel is using JDAMs to target densely populated areas.
Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) said the resolutions offered Wednesday “would not only hurt Israel’s ability to defend itself against these attacks, they would embolden Iran.”
“Your decision whether or not to help Israel defend itself and cannot be a political one,” she said on the Senate floor. “Government leaders and politicians, well, they come and go, but our commitment to Israel’s security must be ironclad and unrestricted.”
Nationally, Democrats have fractured on supporting Israel, with many progressives, Arab-Americans and young voters in the party sympathizing with the plight of the Palestinian people, while center and traditional members back Israel. Many of the Arab-American and progressive community voted against Vice President Harris in a protest vote on Election Day.
Democrats have mostly tailored their criticism. Biden has been critical of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu without taking any concrete action against Israel. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) also made a dramatic speech over the spring that largely focused on disparaging Netanyahu.
On Wednesday, Schumer said he was against
the resolution because it could embolden Hamas and Iran and “endanger Israel’s security into the future.”
“I’ve also made clear that Israel must do more to reduce the suffering of innocent civilians in Gaza and do much more to get humanitarian aid to where it is urgently needed,” he said on the Senate floor. “However, our security assistance to Israel transcends any one prime minister or any one government.”
The Wednesday Senate vote came on the same day that the U.S. vetoed a resolution
in the United Nations Security Council that called for an unconditional and immediate end to the war in Gaza.
Despite pressure from Biden, Israel’s operations have only grown deadlier and human rights groups and the United Nations say it is destructive and in potential violation of international humanitarian law. Over the spring, the State Department said in a report it was “reasonable to assess” Israel has violated international law.
Earlier this month, the U.S. said it would not limit arms sales to Israel despite concerns that more could be done to get aid into Gaza. The Biden administration had previously set a deadline for Israel to improve the humanitarian situation.
More than 43,000 Palestinians have died in the war, of which the United Nations says nearly 70 percent are women and children. The war started when Hamas invaded Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, killing some 1,200 people and taking roughly 250 hostages.
But Netanyahu has remained adamant that the war must continue and that his nation should not give in to Hamas, which has been severely degraded in the war.
Netanyahu has been accused of prolonging the war for his political survival instead of reaching a deal that would free the roughly 100 hostages still held in Gaza in return for a ceasefire. He fired his own defense minister earlier this month, Yoav Gallant, who claimed he was dismissed in part because he said Hamas was degraded and Israel could live with a hostage and ceasefire deal.
The U.S. has primarily pointed the finger at Hamas, blaming the militant group for not reaching a ceasefire deal.
Biden has only ever held up one shipment of 2,000-pound bombs to Israel, out of concern for their use in densely populated areas in Gaza. Human rights groups have criticized Israel for using heavy bombs to target crowded locations in the besieged territory.
A recent analysis
found the U.S. has sent some $18 billion to support Israeli military operations in the war through September.
Former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley (D), who launched a bid to be the next chair of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), said he thinks Democrats can move past their brutal election losses by acknowledging the “fears of so many American families.”
O’Malley joined NewsNation’s Blake Burman for “The Hill” on Wednesday to discuss his vision for the party after it suffered defeat in the election two weeks ago.
“I believe that the way our party moves forward is to reconnect ourselves to, not only the hopes … and dreams, but to acknowledge the fears of so many American families,” he said.
O’Malley continued, noting that “the most important place” in the country is a family’s kitchen table.
“When we talked about jobs, when we talk about opportunity, people hear us. They follow us,” he said. “We need to remember that when we’re not talking about jobs and opportunity, we’re not fighting on our firmest ground, including issues like dignity in retirement, Social Security, prescription drugs.”
O’Malley served as Maryland’s governor from 2007 to 2015 and launched his bid
to be the DNC chair on Monday. He most recently has served as the commissioner of the Social Security Administration.
The former Baltimore mayor also ran for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination in 2016 after he led the Democratic Governors Association.
As the party grapples
with how it should move forward after the election and where its message got so lost with voters, O’Malley argued the focus should be on the Democrats who did win, particularly those in border states and in places where Democrats lost to Republicans this cycle.
“I don’t think we have to give up being a beacon of hope. I don’t think we have to intern children in internment camps behind barbed wire, but we do have to be a party of law and order and security,” he said.
“We have to find a way to do both,” O’Malley said.
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President-elect Trump announced Wednesday that he was announcing former Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-Mich.) to be the U.S. ambassador to Canada.
“I am very pleased to announce that former Ambassador, and former Congressman, Pete Hoekstra, has been nominated as my United States Ambassador to Canada,” Trump said in a statement. “Pete is well-respected in the Great State of Michigan – A State we won sizably.”
Hoekstra was a Michigan representative from 1993 to 2011 and served as a former chairman of the House Intelligence Committee.
While in the House, he was considered a Tea Party member and was previously recorded questioning whether then-President Obama was born in the United States.
In 2017, he was confirmed as Trump’s U.S. ambassador to the Netherlands by a Senate voice vote. Two years later, Hoekstra emerged
as one of the top choices to serve as Trump’s director of national intelligence, though Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-Texas) eventually earned the position.
Earlier this year, the Republican National Committee officially recognized
Hoekstra to head the Michigan GOP.
Trump praised Hoekstra in his statement Wednesday and said with his help, in his second term, they will “once again put AMERICA FIRST.”
“He did an outstanding job as United States Ambassador to the Netherlands during our first four years, and I am confident that he will continue to represent our Country well in this new role,” Trump concluded.
Officials in Texas have offered President-elect Trump a 1,400-acre ranch for his mass deportation plan.
The Texas General Land Office Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham said in a letter to Trump
Tuesday that her office was “fully prepared” to work with federal agencies that are going to be involved in Trump’s immigration plan, and specifically deportation.
Buckingham offered Trump a 1,402-acre lot in Starr County. The lot is owned by the Texas General Land Office and is roughly 35 miles west of McAllen, Texas.
She said the agency is ready to work with the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) or the U.S. Border Patrol to build a facility on the land for “the processing, detention, and coordination of the largest deportation of violent criminals in the nation’s history.”
“I am committed to using every available means at my disposal to gain complete operational security of our border,” Buckingham wrote.
The letter and offering of land were first reported
by The Texas Tribune. Last month, the state bought the land along the U.S.-Mexico border and has plans to build a wall.
In the letter, Buckingham criticized her predecessor for not allowing a border wall to be built on the property. Those actions “enabled cartel members and violent criminals to sexually abuse migrant women and children on this land,” she said.
Immigration advocates are bracing for harsh and swift executive action during Trump’s term, but questions remain about how he would legally and logistically deport millions of people.
While states like Texas are offering their help to Trump in his plan, others are looking to prevent harm to migrants ahead of Trump’s inauguration day.
On Tuesday, the Los Angeles City Council passed a “sanctuary city” ordinance
to protect migrants in the city. Sanctuary cities are local areas that “decline to cooperate completely with the federal detention requests” for undocumented immigrants.
The Senate voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to reject a resolution sponsored by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) to block the sale of certain offensive weapons to Israel in protest of its ongoing military operations in Gaza.
The Senate voted 18 to 79 to defeat S.J. Res. 111, which would have blocked the sale of 120-millimeter tank rounds. It was offered in conjunction with resolutions to block the sale of 120 mm high-explosive mortar rounds and the sale of kits to transform “dumb” bombs into precision-guided weapons.
Sanders emphasized the resolutions were aimed at “offensive weapons that have been used to devastating effects against the civilians of Gaza and Lebanon.” He argued the restrictions would not affect Israel’s ability to defend itself from attacks, but colleagues who opposed his proposals disputed that claim.
Sanders said under the Foreign Assistance Act and the Arms Control Act, the United States cannot provide weapons to countries that violate internally recognized human rights or block U.S. humanitarian aid, which he accused Israel of doing.
“According to the United Nations, much of the international community, and every humanitarian organization on the ground in Gaze, Israel is clearly in violation of these laws,” Sanders said on the floor. “Under these circumstances, it is illegal for the U.S. government to provide Israel with more offensive weapons.”
Israel launched a war in Gaza against Hamas, which is the governing authority of Gaza. It did so after Hamas attacked Israel and killed more than 1,200 people, most of them civilians.
Sanders cited the deaths of more than 40,000 people in Gaza, a number compiled by the Palestinian Health Ministry, an agency in the Hamas-run government, and the destruction of most of Gaza’s infrastructure.
“The United States cannot be complicit to these atrocities,” Sanders declared.
Sanders has claimed that the destruction in Gaza is worse than what was inflicted on Dresden, Germany, a city that was firebombed, during World War II.
He received strong pushback from Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chair Ben Cardin (D-Md.).
Schumer said he was strongly opposed to Sanders’s proposals, asserting that Israel needs weapons to defend against its enemies. He said providing such munitions to Israel has been a “cornerstone” of American policy for decades.
“Israel is surrounded by enemies dedicated to its annihilation from Hamas to Hezbollah to the Houthis to most threateningly of all, Iran. These threats have been for a long time and will persist for many years into the future,” Schumer warned.
Cardin also voiced his strong opposition to Sanders’s proposals. He said that if implemented they would affect arms shipments years into the future. He warned the restrictions could have the unintended consequence of hamstringing Israel against unknown future adversaries.
“These tank munitions have a deliver date three years from now. They are replenishments. This is so Israel has the capacity to defend itself against future threats that we know are in the region, that are real,” he argued.
And he said the restriction on high-explosive mortars might put Israel in a situation where “they can’t defend themselves against future threats.”
Cardin said restrictions on sales of kits for guide bombs would likely lead to more civilian casualties.
Without precision guidance, he warned that bombs have “a much higher likelihood of missing the target.
“I don’t understand why we wouldn’t want to prevent Israel from having the technology to have precision use of its munitions,” he said.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (S.C.), a leading Republican voice on foreign policy who has visited Israel — by his own recollection — seven or eight times since the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks on Israeli settlements, argued that Hamas continues to pose an existential threat to Israel.
“Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7, killing more Jews than any time since the holocaust. What were they up to? Their pledge to destroy the Jewish state — they’re religious Nazis,” he declared.
A Florida man was arrested on Wednesday over an alleged plot to bomb the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) to “reset” the U.S. government, according to unsealed documents.
Harun Abdul-Malik Yener, a South Florida resident, was charged with attempting to use an improvised explosive device to damage or destroy a “building used in interstate or foreign commerce,” according to court documents
.
FBI agents started probing Yener in February after getting a tip that he was storing bombmaking schematics in an unlocked Coral Springs, Fla. storage unit. After getting a search warrant, FBI agents found “bombmaking sketches, numerous watches with timers, electronic circuit boards and other electronics” that could be utilized to make an explosive, the criminal complaint said.
Yener told law enforcement officials in early March that he previously tried to join a “domestic extremist group” and had experience with making “rockets” and “bombs.” He also told agents that he considered joining ISIS and fighting for them in 2015 in Iraq but decided not to because he thought that ISIS would not end up achieving “their objectives,” according to the complaint.
He told an FBI undercover employee that he wanted to deploy and detonate his improvised device on the New York Stock Exchange. The target date to carry out the bombing would be Nov. 18, Monday, wanting to “attain a ‘reboot’ and/or ‘reset’ of the United States government.”
When planting the explosive device, Yener planned to wear a disguise and record a message to be sent to news media, saying the explosion “like a small nuke went off” and that “[a]nything outside” the building “will be wiped out” and “anything inside there would be killed,” the Florida resident said, according to the complaint.
On Nov. 12, Yener made multiple audio recordings and allegedly discussed having them sent to NBC News the same day or a day after the bombing. At the time, he allegedly told an undercover agent, “I feel like Bin Laden,” according to investigators.
The U.S. in the past week has been implementing ways to boost Ukraine’s prospects on the battlefield with more capabilities and lethal aid, especially as President-elect Trump is set to return to office on Jan. 20.
The latest such help came Wednesday when the Biden administration announced it will allow Ukraine to use anti-personnel land mines to mitigate Russia’s battlefield progress
, undoing a policy the president had previously set at the beginning of his term.
A U.S. official confirmed the U.S. will “soon supplyUkraine with non-persistent anti-personnel land mines (APLs).”
“These mines are designed to rapidly blunt advances by ground forces, significantly enhancing Ukraine’s defensive capabilities, particularly in the east, when combined with other U.S.-supplied munitions,” the official said.
Russia has already been using land mines in Ukraine. Anti-personnel land mines have faced pushback from activists, human rights and arms control groups because they can linger for years after a conflict has ended and pose a threat to civilians.
The U.S. official said that Washington has “secured commitments from Ukraine regarding the responsible use of these mines to minimize risks to civilians.”
The move comes as Ukraine is looking to push back against a larger Russian military, which is encroaching on Ukrainian positions across the 600-mile front and with particular force in the Donetsk region.
It also comes after Trump has vowed to end the war, spurring concerns he may cede territory in eastern Ukraine seized by Russia.
Biden also is rushing the last of some $9 billion in security aid to Ukraine before inauguration day on Jan. 20. The latest package of some $275 million on Wednesday did not include APLs.
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