'All deportations are wrong': Mamdani-backed socialist challenges Jeffries-supported Democrat
JUNE 23, 2026
President Joe Biden’s record inflow of illegal aliens to the United States raised home prices and rents for Americans, a report from the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas details.
Biden’s immigration agenda brought millions of illegal aliens to the U.S. in record time. By the end of the Biden administration, the nation’s foreign-born population hit nearly 52 million — the largest ever in American history.
The Federal Reserve report reviewed the impact of illegal immigration on housing prices from early 2021 to early 2024 and found that adding more people to the U.S. population drove up costs.
“According to the U.S. Congressional Budget Office, net entry of this category of immigrants added roughly 7 million people to the U.S. population over 2021 to 2024 (1.75 million per year), nearly double that of legal immigration,” the report states:
To put this growth in perspective, net unauthorized immigration—that is, immigration of individuals who entered the country without being formally admitted for purposes of immigration law— averaged only 0.1 million a year from 2000 to 2019 and was slightly negative from 2010 to 2019. [Emphasis added]
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We then turn to the effects of unauthorized immigration on the broader local economy, focusing in particular on the housing market. We start by estimating the effects on house prices, rents, and new housing supply. First, we find that during the boom period an increase in unauthorized immigrant worker flows equal to 1% of a local area’s initial employment increased local house prices by 2.2% and increased local rents by 1.4%. The impact on rents is slightly smaller for single-family units and slightly larger for multi-family units. These magnitudes are similar to those found by Saiz (2007) based on legal immigration over the 1985-1998 period. A back-of-the-envelope calculation suggests that [unauthorized immigrant worker flows] can explain about 30% of the total growth in house prices and 20% of total growth in rents over the boom period for the average local market. [Emphasis added]
The report confirms what prior studies have similarly found, mainly that mass immigration has a severe impact on home prices for Americans, mostly driving up costs for first-time home-buyers.
In September 2025, economists in Denmark published research that found that mass immigration hugely drives up rents and home prices for the local population.
“Our results suggest large and positive impacts of immigration on private rental prices and house prices at the municipal level,” the researchers detail:
More specifically, we find that a one percentage point increase in the local immigration influx over a five-year horizon relative to the local population in the base year 1995 leads to an average increase of approximately 6 percent and 11 percent in private rental prices and house prices at the municipal level, respectively, during the same period.
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Likewise, in 2024, Center for Immigration Studies researcher Steven Camarota revealed a similar statistic to the United States Congress, stating that “a 5-percentage-point increase in the recent immigrant share of a metro area’s population is associated with a 12-percent increase in the average U.S.-born household’s rent, relative to their income.”
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com.
A federal judge in Minnesota, who has donated to an immigrant legal aid group, quashed several federal grand jury subpoenas of documents from Gov. Tim Walz and the mayors of Minneapolis and St. Paul over compliance with immigration enforcement.
In a 29-page opinion issued Monday, Chief U.S. District Judge Patrick Schiltz of the District of Minnesota accused the Trump administration’s Justice Department of seeking to “harass political opponents” by initiating a criminal investigation and using grand jury subpoenas to pressure state and local officials into changing their immigration policies.
The judge has acknowledged being a donor for “many years” to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota, an organization that provides free legal representation to low-income immigrants and refugees. Schiltz has also clashed with Immigration and Customs Enforcement over the agency’s alleged violation of court orders.
The grand jury subpoenas sought records related to federal immigration enforcement, including communications regarding cooperation or noncooperation with ICE and other federal immigration authorities; requests for assistance from immigration officials; communications among state and local officials concerning immigration enforcement; and training or guidance provided to employees regarding interactions with ICE.
The subpoenas were issued to the offices of Walz, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, and St. Paul Mayor Kaohly Her, as well as the Ramsey County Board of Commissioners and the Hennepin County Board of Commissioners.
“Initiating a criminal investigation in order to harass political opponents or to coerce them into taking official action—particularly official action that the federal government cannot directly require those political opponents to take—is a blatantly unlawful and unethical use of the grand jury process,” Schiltz wrote.
“The only question, then, is whether the challenged subpoenas were issued for one of these forbidden purposes,” he continued. “The court has no doubt that they were.”
In January, Fox News first reported that Schiltz donated to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota in 2019, citing the organization’s annual report.
“I have also donated for many years to Mid-Minnesota Legal Aid,” he added. “I believe that poor people should be able to get legal representation.”
Schiltz was appointed by President George W. Bush and previously clerked for Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.
In January, Schiltz ordered acting ICE Director Todd Lyons to appear in court to explain why the agency had failed to comply with court orders and caused what the judge described as significant hardship for immigrants in the state.
“The practical consequence of respondents’ failure to comply has almost always been significant hardship to aliens (many of whom have lawfully lived and worked in the United States for years and done absolutely nothing wrong),” Schiltz wrote.
The following month, Schiltz issued another warning to the Justice Department and ICE, writing: “This Court will continue to do whatever is required to protect the rule of law, including, if necessary, moving to the use of criminal contempt. One way or another, ICE will comply with this Court’s orders.”
The scandal, mirroring that of the 2009-2011 Operation Fast and Furious, was used to gain intel for cases against major drug traffickers in an effort to eventually save more lives.
A U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent has evidence that his agency and federal prosecutors let more than 1 million fentanyl pills flow onto the streets of New Mexico during the Biden era and then tried to silence him from testifying after he blew the whistle, the agent's lawyer tells Just the News.
"DEA has a campaign that says one pill can kill, and so the DEA allowing this to happen was really significant. It was driven also by the US Attorney's Office in New Mexico," Attorney Tristan Leavitt, president of the Empower Oversight, whistleblower center, said in an interview Monday night.
Leavitt's group represents DEA Special Agent David Howell, a 14-year veteran of the agency whose whistleblower complaint was chronicled by The Associated Press in a bombshell article Monday.
Leavitt compared his client's allegations to the Obama-era Fast and Furious scandal in which the federal government allowed semiautomatic weapons to flow across the border to the drug cartels, putting American lives in danger.
"After Fast and Furious, the Justice Department headquarters adopted a protocol that said if you have a wiretap and you know that firearms are going to be trafficked, you have to try and stop them," he said in an interview on the Just the News, No Noise television show. "Well, in 2019 they adopted a similar protocol for fentanyl.
"So the Justice Department's guidance was really ignored in Albuquerque, because the U.S. attorney decided to cowboy and do his own thing in hopes of making a bigger case," he added.
Howell first filed a whistleblower complaint in late 2023 with the U.S. Office of Special Counsel disclosing that the DEA and U.S. Attorney's Office in New Mexico deliberately did not seize large shipments of fentanyl, including deliveries of 150,000 and 50,000 pills.
The Office of Special Counsel then asked the Justice Department to investigate after finding “a substantial likelihood of wrongdoing.”
Leavitt told Just the News on Monday this case proves the Biden-run Justice Department didn’t properly weigh public safety risks against its hopes of “catching the big fish” and “taking down an entire organization," and that the DOJ didn't learn its lesson after the the Fast and Furious scandal.
The public safety challenge concerning the fentanyl operation, according to Leavitt, is that the drug is so deadly that even a tiny amount could kill someone, which is where it differs from drugs like cocaine and marijuana.
President Donald Trump even established fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction in a December 2025 executive order, and his administration oversaw the largest seizure of fentanyl pills in DEA history in Albuquerque when he took office for the second time.
Leavitt noted it’s a bit harder to track how many people were affected in this case compared to Operation Fast and Furious because, unlike the guns, there are no serial numbers on the pills.
Leavitt said more than a million pills "walked" in the operation, suggesting that a large portion of New Mexico’s fentanyl deaths could be related to the operation. He noted the state even saw higher fentanyl overdoses than any other state in the country during the two-year span.
“We poisoned our community to make cases,” Howell said. “Through our own willful blindness, we get to say, ‘We don’t really know what happened to the drugs.’ But we 100% got people killed.”
Howell got in trouble with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for blowing the whistle, and was even told after his first pill seizure that he was no longer allowed to testify in any cases, essentially sidelining him.
“Howell’s view was, if you have fentanyl in front of you, you need to interdict it,” Leavitt said. “That’s how we save lives.”
Leavitt said he hopes to see parallel congressional and DOJ Inspector General investigations to get to the bottom of how many people the operation harmed, how exactly it happened and how to ensure it doesn’t happen again.
Katherine Pugh is a reporter for Just the News. Follow her on X for more coverage.
During Father’s Day weekend, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers arrested numerous illegal aliens with prior convictions for violent crimes, including attempted murder and child sexual abuse, according to a Department of Homeland Security press release obtained exclusively by Blaze News.
“While Americans enjoyed Father’s Day weekend, ICE was working around the clock to remove attempted murderers, pedophiles, rapists, arsonists, and other public safety threats from our communities,” DHS acting Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis stated.
'While families across the nation celebrated Father’s Day, DHS honored the fathers, children, and spouses forever changed by violent crimes committed by criminal illegal aliens.'
“We are removing criminals so another family does not have a preventable tragedy,” Bis continued. “Every day, ICE is committed to fighting for the victims of illegal alien crime and their families. They are our why.”
Bis noted that President Donald Trump and DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin “stand with Angel families.”
The DHS press release highlighted ICE’s capture of 15 illegal immigrants with criminal histories in the United States.
The DHS noted ICE’s arrest of Jose Francisco-Amaya, an illegal alien from Honduras who was previously convicted of attempted homicide in Rutherford County, Tennessee.
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ICE agents nabbed Daniel Ornelas-Garcia, an illegal alien from Mexico. His criminal history includes convictions for four counts of lewd or lascivious acts with a child under 14 years old and annoy/molesting children in Santa Clara, California.

Carlos Leonardo Ruiz, an illegal immigrant from Mexico, was also arrested by federal agents over the Father’s Day weekend. He was previously convicted of continuous sexual abuse of a child in Auburn, California.

ICE captured Felipe Roque-Monje, an illegal alien from Mexico who was convicted of lewd or lascivious acts with a child under 14 years old in Pomona, California.

Immigration officers caught Osman Lopez-Manzilla, an illegal immigrant from Honduras. He was previously convicted in Bradenton, Florida, for child fondling/lewd or lascivious battery.

Abulay Nian, an illegal alien from Sierra Leone, was arrested by ICE agents. His criminal history includes a conviction in Delaware, Ohio, for rape, assault, and possession of forged instruments.

ICE officers captured Eduardo Arce-Aguilar over the weekend. The illegal alien from El Salvador was convicted of forcible sexual abuse in David County, Utah.

Federal agents apprehended Alberto Garrido-Maurin, an illegal alien from Cuba. His rap sheet includes convictions for first-degree criminal sexual conduct, fraud, larceny, possession of a firearm in the commission of a felony, and marijuana possession in Detroit, Michigan.

Kiet Trung Tran, an illegal alien from Vietnam, was detained by ICE. He was previously convicted of aggravated sexual assault in Dallas County, Texas.

ICE officers captured Khaek Sisavath, an illegal alien from Laos with a prior conviction in St. Louis, Missouri, for robbery, armed criminal action, assault, and arson.

Federal agents arrested Khanh Loc Ngoc Pham, an illegal alien from Vietnam who has numerous convictions in Beverly Hills, California. He was convicted of four counts of forgery, four counts of credit fraud, three counts of possessing counterfeit items with intent to defraud, three counts of burglary, hit-and-run, grand theft, and fake checks.

Dethamongsalk Nouthavykoun, an illegal alien from Laos, was also captured by ICE officers over the weekend. He was previously convicted in Tarrant County, Texas, for aggravated robbery, possession of a controlled substance, unlawful restraint, carrying a loaded firearm in a public place, and vehicle theft.

ICE arrested Pedro Morales-Varela, an illegal alien from Honduras with prior convictions in Puerto Rico for armed robbery, possession of a firearm by an illegal alien, and possession of cocaine with intent to distribute.

Federal immigration officers nabbed Orlando Eugenio Parada-Mancia, an illegal alien from El Salvador. He was previously convicted of the distribution of fentanyl in Boston, Massachusetts.

ICE also arrested Ramon Sanchez-Morales, an illegal alien from Mexico who had a prior conviction for possession with intent to distribute cocaine in Corpus Christi, Texas.

“While families across the nation celebrated Father’s Day, DHS honored the fathers, children, and spouses forever changed by violent crimes committed by criminal illegal aliens,” the DHS press release read.
As New Yorkers head to the polls Tuesday, incumbent Democratic Rep. Adriano Espaillat is fighting to retain his party’s nomination against a Mamdani-backed challenger.
The 71-year-old was first elected to Congress in the 2016 election, representing a district that encompasses northern Manhattan and a section of the west Bronx.
'I forget to get napkins. So I just wiped my hand on the American flag behind me.'
“I'm the first undocumented, formerly undocumented member of Congress. I'm the first Dominican American member of Congress in a city that has a million Dominican Americans,” Espaillat said.
Despite his membership in the Congressional Progressive Caucus and classification as one of the most liberal House members, he doesn't seem to have been adequately radical enough for Mayor Zohran Mamdani and his fellow democratic socialists.
Darializa Avila Chevalier, a community organizer and the daughter of Dominican immigrants, is challenging Espaillat for the seat.
Avila Chevalier is positioning herself as a further-left alternative to Espaillat, claiming on her website that she has received endorsements from Mamdani, the New York City Democratic Socialists of America, and former House “Squad” member Jamaal Bowman.
Espaillat, by contrast, has the support of establishment New York Democrats such as House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Gov. Kathy Hochul.
“I am someone who has been organizing for over 14 years in our community, and I have to ask: Have things gotten better in our community under our current leadership?” Avila Chevalier said last week in a primary debate.
In a recent interview, the 32-year-old stood by her belief that “all deportations are wrong,” even for those convicted of violating American criminal law, calling it “double jeopardy.”
Avila Chevalier is also behind a plethora of tweets from a since-deleted X account that featured statements such as: "It means ending policing full stop. Period. No more police at all ever,” “I forget to get napkins. So I just wiped my hand on the American flag behind me,” and one calling the Democratic National Committee a "big fraudulent white nasty status quo bitch."
"I have grown considerably since in the years since these tweets, and I am focused on our community and our community’s future," she said about the deleted social media account.
Avila Chevalier has narrowed the polls leading up to the election. According to the New York Times, recent polling shows Avila Chevalier with a lead as high as four points and Espaillat with a lead as high as eight points.
Bettors on Polymarket seem to have confidence in Espaillat, placing him at a 66% chance of winning, compared to Avila Chevalier’s 37%.
This primary standoff represents just the latest battle between the Democratic “mainstream” and the rising socialist sect of the party. As of 2025, there were 250 democratic socialists in elected office, compared to just 35 in 2017.
These offices are not exclusively low-level either. Janeese Lewis George, who just secured the Democratic nomination for D.C. mayor, is a democratic socialist, both New York City Mayor Mamdani and Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson are democratic socialists, and Los Angeles City Councilmember Nithya Raman, who just advanced to the general election for her city’s mayoral race, is a DSA member as well.
Espaillat, as a seasoned politician, has gone after Avila Chevalier for her lack of governmental experience: “This is not a PhD program. This is government. And you need experience.”
Avila Chevalier has focused much of the debate on Israel and American aid to the country. During a debate, she attacked Espaillat for receiving money from AIPAC and “voting to send our tax dollars to a country that is enacting a genocide.”
However, Espaillat has swung back, highlighting Avila Chevalier’s attendance at a controversial pro-Palestinian rally in Times Square on Oct. 8, 2023, one day after the Hamas-led attack on Israel.
"In Congress, she'll take on corporate greed, bad landlords, and D.C.'s broken political system," Mamdani said in support of Avila Chevalier's candidacy.
1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.
2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.
3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament of the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.
4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.
5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.
6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.
7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.
8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev's promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N.
9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.
10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.
11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.)
12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.
13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.
14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.
15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.
16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.
17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
18. Gain control of all student newspapers.
19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.
20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.
21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.
22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms."
23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. "Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art."
24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press.
25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy."
27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a "religious crutch."
28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of "separation of church and state."
29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.
30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man."
31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the "big picture." Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.
32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture--education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.
33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.
34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.
36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.
37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.
38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand.
39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.
40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.
42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use united force to solve economic, political or social problems.
43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.
44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.
45. Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction over nations and individuals alike.