by Staff Reporter | Feb 10, 2026 | News
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Another illegal alien who entered the country under President Joe Biden has taken lives.
30-year-old Bekzhan Beishekeev, a Kyrgyzstani national, killed four Amish men when he drove the wrong way into oncoming traffic in Indiana on Tuesday. The victims were identified as Henry Eicher, 50 and his sons Menno, 25, and Paul, 19; and Simon Girod, 23.
The driver of the struck vehicle, 55-year-old Donald Stipp, remains in the hospital. Stipp’s daughter-in-law launched a GoFundMe to cover Stipp’s medical expenses and recovery.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) confirmed reports that Beishekeev entered the U.S. illegally in December 2023 at the Nogales port of entry. Beishekeev used the CBP One app, which effectively allowed illegal aliens to enter the country and work for two years without vetting.
As with millions of others before him, the Biden administration exercised their “catch-and-release” policy on Beishekeev, freeing him on parole.
The White House issued a statement calling the deaths a “preventable tragedy” that illustrated the need to continue mass deportations and end sanctuary city policies.
The Trump administration revoked legal status for illegal aliens who relied on the CBP One app to delay their immigration proceedings. Over 900,000 illegal aliens entered the country using the app.
The state of Pennsylvania awarded Beishekeev a non-domiciled CDL last July, with an expiration date of June 2029. Beishekeev’s license reflected a home address in Philadelphia.
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro declined to directly address the incident.
A spokesperson for Shapiro said that Beishekeev provided proof of identity and legal presence verified by the federal Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements database, as per Pennsylvania law. Shapiro’s office said DHS Secretary Kristi Noem was to blame for not catching Beishekeev’s legal status upon assuming the agency.
“The individual in question had legal status in Kristi Noem’s database when the license was issued in July 2025 and still shows as eligible to receive a license as of today,” said Shapiro spokesman Alex Peterson. “Kristi Noem should focus on minding the shop in her own agency, as her incompetence and operational failures seem to be matching the scale of her moral failures as the Secretary of Homeland Security.”
DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin responded that Shapiro’s administration bore responsibility for granting CDLs to CBP One parolees.
“Not only was Bekzhan Beishekeev released into our country by the Biden administration using the CBP One app, but he was also given a commercial driver’s license by Governor Shapiro’s Pennsylvania,” said McLaughlin. “It is incredibly dangerous for illegal aliens, who often don’t know our traffic laws or even English, to be operating semi-trucks on America’s roads. These sanctuary governors must stop giving illegal aliens commercial driver’s licenses before another American gets killed.”
Indiana Gov. Mike Braun said the blame was with Democratic leaders rejecting immigration law.
“Hoosiers should be able to get to work in the morning without fear of needlessly losing their lives because of Democrats’ refusal to enforce the law,” said Braun. “With open and unchecked borders, millions of illegal immigrants flooded our communities, making every state a border state. Complicit democrats have put our safety at risk—and that has come at the price of innocent lives.”
Per reporting from Freight Waves, Beishekeev drove for a “chameleon carrier network” with officers bearing Kyrgyzstani names.
Chameleon carrier networks operate as separate-on-paper using different Department of Transportation (DOT) vehicle identification numbers, yet they rely on the same drivers, equipment, and management so as to continue operations when one or more within their network gets shut down.
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by Staff Reporter | Feb 2, 2026 | News
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Pinal County Attorney Brad Miller again refused to drop his agreement to assist the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with deportations.
Miller joined the agreement to team up with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) through a 287(g) Task Force Model last August. The county attorney said this agreement would allow his office to “stop sitting on the sidelines” as illegal immigration and its consequences victimize more Pinal County residents.
The 287(g) Program authorizes state and local law enforcement to exercise certain federal immigration enforcement powers. The number of these agreements has grown exponentially under the Trump administration.
Miller said in a Friday press release that he would not yield to the Pinal County Board of Supervisors demand that he end the agreement to assist ICE.
“While the Pinal County Attorney will always discuss a compromise, he will never compromise on prosecuting dangerous criminals,” said Miller. “[T]his agreement will enable us to assist ICE to go after known criminals acting in our communities.”
The Phoenix ICE Field Office said the agreement with Pinal County Attorney’s Office could only be suspended or terminated by either the county attorney or DHS.
DHS reported in a year-end review published last week that it secured over 1,200 agreements through the 287(g) program in the first year of President Donald Trump’s second term.
This latest statement from the county attorney was a response to the most recent development in the ongoing conflict between himself and the Pinal County Board of Supervisors. In a special session on Friday, the board authorized outside counsel to take civil action to void or enjoin Miller’s agreement.
The county’s outside counsel argued in a letter issued earlier this month that the agreement between the county attorney and DHS was unlawful for multiple reasons.
That legal analysis argued that Miller lacked the constitutional or statutory authority to enter into agreements on behalf of the county. That analysis claimed the agreement between the county attorney’s office and federal immigration agents was not only impractical, but lacking any existing laws to justify county attorney authority to arrest individuals.
“This is inconsistent with the traditional separation of enforcement and prosecution, potentially eviscerates prosecutorial immunity, and impairs prosecutorial discretion,” stated the analysis.
The letter prompted the supervisors to vote to void the agreement, which Miller has since stated carried no weight.
Earlier this month DHS reported that nearly three million illegal aliens left the country in 2025, a majority of which were self-deportations (over two million) and the remainder deportations (nearly 700,000).
The greater incentive to self-deport was likely due in large part to the administration’s financial incentive. Illegal aliens were paid $1,000 last year and given a flight out of the country to self-deport. DHS disclosed the cost of a single enforced deportation was over $18,000.
The administration raised the self-deport financial incentive to $2,600. With the flight home, self-deportation costs just over $5,000. The self-deport option allows illegal immigrants forgiveness of any civil fines or penalties for violating immigration law. Even with this raise, the net taxpayer savings per deportation totals over $13,000 according to DHS.
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by Staff Reporter | Jan 31, 2026 | News
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Anti-ICE activists have been vandalizing the ICE Phoenix Field Office with death threats.
The office has become a site for weekly protests against federal law enforcement, frequently crossing over from protests to rioting as activists ignore orders from agents.
“Nuremberg 2 for ICE Nazis,” read one graffiti referencing the trials of Nazi war criminals. “Hang ‘em high.”
“Pigs enter here,” read another.
“Kristi Noem is a dog-killing b*tch,” read another.
At the beginning of this month, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) reported an 8,000 percent increase in death threats. DHS blamed “sanctuary politicians” for this jump in actual and threatened violence.
DHS also reported assaults on ICE agents had increased by over 1,300 percent and vehicular attacks increased by over 3,200 percent.
Last year, DHS tallied just under 300 assaults and 66 vehicular attacks.
The state’s chief law enforcement leader has been accused of worsening the tensions between federal law enforcement and progressive activists.
Attorney General Kris Mayes made the case for shooting ICE agents in a media interview last week. Mayes claimed Arizona’s “Stand Your Ground” law and ICE agents’ regular habit of wearing masks made it reasonable for an individual to shoot ICE agents.
“It’s kind of a recipe for disaster. Because you have these masked federal officers with very little identification, sometimes no identification, wearing plain clothes and masks,” said Mayes. “[The] law says that if you reasonably believe your life is in danger and you’re in your house or your car or on your property that you could defend yourself with lethal force.”
Mayes followed up her remarks with another video statement stating that she wasn’t advocating for Arizonans to shoot ICE agents, but did call ICE enforcements “increasingly chaotic and dangerous.” Mayes blamed federal law enforcement for the deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti. Good and Pretti died while attempting to interfere with immigration enforcement actions.
“Arizonans do not want masked agents entering their homes without warrants,” said Mayes. “It is un-American and it threatens the rights and safety of everyone in our state.”
Days after Mayes made the case for the justified shooting of ICE agents, her police liaison resigned.
Governor Katie Hobbs criticized ICE enforcement as “indiscriminate roundups” of “contributing citizens in their communities.” Deported individuals aren’t citizens.
“It’s not making communities safer,” said Hobbs.
Rather than scale back federal enforcement, DHS has hardened its resolve to ramp up deportations. The Trump administration increased the financial incentive for self-deportations by over $1,000 last week.
Additionally, on Tuesday DHS rolled out a new website to feature the “worst of the worst” of criminal illegal immigrants apprehended by ICE. The searchable database enables users to narrow data based on country of origin and state. Many of those listed on the site were convicted of murder, child cruelty, assault, and battery.
As of this report, the website has over 650 illegal aliens listed that were arrested in Arizona. The website has over 20,200 illegal immigrants on the searchable database.
An enforcement action on Tuesday left one person in critical condition. The Attorney’s Office for the District of Arizona announced that a federal officer was allegedly assaulted, and that the FBI is investigating the incident.
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by Staff Reporter | Jan 27, 2026 | News
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Rep. Adelita Grijalva praised the invasion of a church service by anti-ICE protesters.
The protesters targeted the Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota, during a Sunday worship service after they learned one of the pastors, David Easterwood, was ICE’s acting field office director in Minnesota. Easterwood was not present for that service.
During the invasion of the church, Nekima Levy Armstrong claimed Christians couldn’t support immigration enforcement efforts. Armstrong’s activist group, Racial Justice Network, organized the protest.
“Someone who claims to worship God teaching people in this church about God is out there overseeing ICE agents,” said Armstrong.
Church leaders were witnessed on camera asking the protesters to leave, but the protesters refused.
Federal authorities arrested three of the activists for allegedly orchestrating the church invasion: Armstrong, Chauntyll Louisa Allen, and William Kelly. Their charges alleged violations of the FACE Act.
The Freedom to Access Clinic Entrances Act of 1994 (FACE Act) criminalizes the intimidation or interference of those seeking to exercise their First Amendment right of religious freedom at a place of religious worship.
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem dubbed the invasion the “Church Riots.”
“Religious freedom is the bedrock of the United States – there is no first amendment right to obstruct someone from practicing their religion,” said Noem.
Attorney General Pam Bondi announced that the Trump administration won’t tolerate disruptions of Christians’ freedom to worship.
“Attacks against law enforcement and the intimidation of Christians are being met with the full force of federal law,” said Bondi.
Grijalva defended the church invasion. She told CNN that ICE agents deserved to be harassed. Grijalva claimed illegal immigrants undergoing deportation proceedings were being “kidnapped” and implied they had a right to be in this country.
“[T]his federal agent now knows what it’s like to have his daily life and privacy interrupted. This is a daily occurrence for our immigrant communities – being followed and kidnapped outside of schools, churches, and hospitals,” said Grijalva. “The difference is this agent got to go home at the end of the day, where many families have no idea where their loved ones are when they’ve been kidnaped off the streets.”
Grijalva also claimed ICE had deported U.S. citizens as well as veterans.
ICE has deported minors born in the U.S. to illegal immigrant parents.
DHS advised that they allow the parents to either be removed with their children, or have their children placed with another individual: this choice is left up to the parents. DHS under Trump has consistently maintained that policy.
Deportations of veterans occur in cases where those noncitizens have committed certain crimes (per the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigration Responsibility Act of 1996) or failed to follow through with the required citizenship proceedings.
Grijalva also praised the high school students who played hooky to protest deportations, characterizing the present immigration enforcement as an “overreach.”
Last month, the congresswoman claimed she was shoved and pepper sprayed by ICE agents at a protest without provocation. DHS responded with an accusation that Grijalva joined an anti-ICE mob attempting to obstruct an immigration raid. DHS later stated that two law enforcement officers were “seriously injured” by the mob that Grijalva joined.
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by Staff Reporter | Jan 25, 2026 | News
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An owner of a Tucson beauty spa said she has plans to poison ICE agents.
Tucson spa owner Helen Barayeva posted a video to her since-deleted spa business account on TikTok describing her goal to give food poisoning to ICE agents. Barayeva also indicated her intention to come up with other “biological weapon” tactics to employ against immigration enforcement.
“I know what we can do. We can figure out where they’re giving their food, right? The ICE agents? And we can at least give them food poisoning. That’s easy to do,” said Barayeva. “All you have to do is not wash your hands when you’re prepping their food. I mean, how easy is that, right? That is a biological weapon. Okay, I’m going to come up with more.”
Barayeva owned Refreshed Looks Aesthetics, at the time housed inside the Les Cheveux Salon and Boutique.
Barayeva, a former dental hygienist, has also used her Facebook business page to air some of her political views on President Donald Trump, though her “biological weapon” video from TikTok was not on that page as of this report.
Since Barayeva’s post received criticisms online, Barayeva has deleted her Instagram, X, TikTok, and Threads accounts. Her Facebook page remains active as of this report.
The available archived posts from Barayeva indicate long-standing support for progressive politics.
“Joy [Behar], I absolutely love and adore you. Keep speaking the truth,” said Barayeva in one X (then Twitter) post from 2021. “God bless you and give you many great years ahead. I watch the View every day and love your perspective.”
Multiple individuals on social media indicated that they reported Barayeva to authorities for her threats of violence.
This month, the Department of Homeland Security reported an 8,000 percent increase in death threats against federal law enforcement and their families, notably on the deep web. DHS also reported over 1,300 percent increase in assaults and 3,200 percent increase in vehicular attacks.
The agency says Democratic leadership is to blame for encouraging political violence among their followers.
“We’re having our ICE lawyers stalked and being followed on their way home,” said Tricia McLaughlin, DHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs, in an interview with Fox News. “I think it’s about time the left looks in the mirror and says ‘enough is enough.’ And they have to put public safety and law enforcement safety ahead of their own political gain.”
Arizona’s Democratic congressional leaders are working to stop the expanded immigration enforcement efforts.
Democratic Sens. Mark Kelly and Ruben Gallego introduced a bill last week to remove ICE agents’ ability to apply use of force. Their press release on the bill cited the shooting of Renee Good, an anti-ICE activist who sustained a fatal gunshot wound earlier this month when she attempted to drive forward into an ICE agent during a protest in Minnesota.
Tucson Mayor Regina Romero depicted ICE agents as unnecessary agents of violence.
“No community should be subjected to fear, intimidation or violence in the name of immigration enforcement,” said Romero. “The unchecked violence, masked agents, and excessive use of force is creating fear and chaos in our communities.”
In a video posted earlier this week to Instagram, Romero advocated for protesters to abstain from violence.
“I ask that you be peaceful and nonviolent in your protests. They’re so much more powerful to make your point,” said Romero. “Stay safe and please stay nonviolent.”
Phoenix City Councilman Kevin Robinson accused ICE of undermining trust in law enforcement.
“Clear standards and transparency help ensure enforcement is conducted responsibly and with respect for the people it affects,” said Robinson.
In his statement on the bill, Sen. Kelly also came to the defense of ICE protesters, even those impeding immigration enforcement operations. Kelly claimed the present budget for ICE is excessive because it exceeds that of the Marine Corps.
Rep. Eli Crane said Kelly was wrong to defend the protesters and criticize the ICE budget. The congressman said ICE’s increased budget and show of force were necessary to bring the illegal immigration crisis to heel.
“Why, Senator [Kelly], does the budget of ICE have to be larger than the U.S. Marine Corps? Oh, that’s because you and President Joe Biden and all the other Democrats let 15 to 20 million illegal aliens into this country, and now the American people after they saw the ramifications of that gave President Trump and Republicans a mandate to fix it,” said Rep. Crane.
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