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Illegal aliens have cost states a lot of money.
It is evident from what the state of Texas has reported in regard to hospital-related costs.
Hospitals in Texas have accrued over $1 billion in healthcare costs for illegal aliens for fiscal year 2025. This was the first year that Texas tracked the statistics.
The information was gathered by the Texas Health and Human Services Commission. Texas Scorecard had access to the data, which revealed that hospitals recorded over 300,000 visits that were related to illegal aliens. Total costs were about $1.05 billion at the end of fiscal year 2025.
Their state’s fiscal year goes from September 1st to August 31st. The hospitals started reporting later, in November, which means the costs are potentially higher.
Fox News Reported:
Texas hospitals accumulated more than $1 billion in healthcare costs for illegal immigrants during fiscal year 2025, the first year the state began tracking the figures.
The data, compiled by the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) and obtained by Texas Scorecard, shows hospitals logged 313,742 visits linked to individuals not legally present, with total costs reaching $1.05 billion by the end of the fiscal year.
Texas’ fiscal year runs from Sept. 1 through Aug. 31, but hospitals were only required to begin reporting in November. Based on the reported data, costs averaged about $105 million per month, meaning the true annual total could be significantly higher.
“To put the figures into perspective, the reported hospital costs approach about 1% of the state’s tax-funded resources.” Fox News Reported.
The information was obtained as a result of Governor Greg Abbott signing an executive order back in 2024, requiring the agency to track illegals who were accessing public hospitals in Texas.
During the open border under the Biden regime, Texas had a record number of illegal crossings. As a result, it put a strain on their healthcare system.
A flashback to 2023 as a reminder of just how bad it was.
Watch:

Well what do we have over here in the great state of Texas. A massive influx of illegal aliens that gathered underneath the Eagle Pass bridge.. the crossing took approx… a little over an hour and a half.
For nearly two years to the exact day we saw over 15,000 Haitians… pic.twitter.com/LmLaMbgbGp
— Silas B. (@RagingKuJo1222) September 20, 2023

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President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House Feb. 5, 2025
Israel may be displeased with President Trump’s Gaza Peace Plan, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has surprisingly come out claiming that  the President’s Gaza Executive Board was “not coordinated with Israel and runs contrary to its policy.”
As The Gateway Pundit reported, President Trump announced that the “Board of Peace,” which will be headed and chaired by himself, has been formed as the Trump Administration enters Phase Two of the  20-point Gaza Peace Plan announced last September.
JUST IN: President Trump Announces Board of Peace for Gaza is Officially Formed
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California Gubernatorial Candidate and Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell on Saturday intensified his attacks on ICE agents, calling them “assholes,” and vowing to have them arrested during a campaign stop in Los Angeles. 
During a summit hosted by the far-Left Empowerment Congress in Los Angeles, Swalwell told the crowd, “They’re going to lose their immunity. They’re not going to be able to drive. I will take your driver’s license.”
“Good luck walking to work, assholes,” he added before framing ICE as kidnappers and murderers.
“Also, I will direct law enforcement to use every power to prosecute them for battery, false imprisonment, and murder.”
WATCH:
Swalwell: They’re going to lose their immunity. They’re not going to be able to drive. I will take your driver’s license. Good luck walking to work, assholes. Also, I will direct law enforcement to use every power to prosecute them for battery, false imprisonment, and murder. You know me. I’m not shy. Over the last 10 years, I worked on the Russia investigation with Adam Schiff. I helped lead the second impeachment as a manager.
I’ve got the only lawsuit that has survived this new presidency. It’s me and the January 6 officers. I’m not naive about who he is. There’s only one side of the ball to be on on behalf of Californians when it comes to ICE, and its offense.
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Swalwell also recently called ICE agents “masked thugs” and accused them of throwing people into vans and dragging them by their hair through the streets:
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In another recent interview, Swalwell called ICE “terrorizing bandits that women are afraid of” while promoting his “reveal to wheel” policy.
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Swalwell has repeatedly said he will illegally revoke driver’s licenses from ICE agents to impede federal law enforcement operations.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, Swalwell threatened ICE in an interview earlier this month, stating, “If you’re going to wear a mask and not identify yourself, you’re not going to be eligible to drive a vehicle in California.”
He further threatened prosecution for brave law enforcement who are just doing their job and deporting illegal aliens, but facing physical violence from the crazed leftists whom Swalwell is encouraging to riot.
WATCH: Eric Swalwell Vows to Arrest ICE Agents, Revoke their Driver’s Licenses if Elected Governor of California – “You Have to Go on Offense”
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Newsmax America Right Now host Tom Basile spoke to Matt Taibbi of Racket News on Saturday about viewers’ distrust of the legacy media.
The main topic of discussion was about how the media handles stories surrounding ICE. Basile showed a 2016 clip of a CNN journalist going on a ride-along with ICE. At that time, ICE was not being persecuted like they are now. He compared it to how the media is handling ICE coverage now.
“We are joined by the editor-in-chief of Racket News, Matt Taibbi,” Basile said.
“Back in May of 2016, during the Obama administration, CNN got an exclusive ride-along with ICE,” Basile said.
A clip from that ride-along was shown with what would be considered positive and fair reporting on ICE at the time.
“The piece, Matt, was overwhelmingly positive. Ten years later, this is how the media feels about ICE,” Basile said.
A few recent clips were shown by a few media outlets, unfairly portraying ICE without any objective reporting.
“Matt, what’s changed?” Basile asked.
“This is very strange to me. I mean, I wrote a book, it significantly covered the immigration question back in the Obama years, and so many of the practices that are now I hear being described as unprecedented are things that we knew were common 10 or 15 years ago,” Taibbi explained.
“There were record numbers of people being deported at a time when it was popular, and now it isn’t. And I think, you know, the main difference is that Donald Trump is President,” Taibbi continued.
“Is it as simple as the press just wanting to support the open border policy of the far left? Or is it about at this point now, ten years later, you stoke division for ratings and for clicks and to placate the algorithm? What are your thoughts?” Basile asked.
Taibbi explained that much of the media’s reaction is opposition to President Trump, even if they supported a similar policy under a previous administration.
“It’s a combination of a lot of things. A lot of news agencies are really reflexively considered anti-Trump, and so any policy that he is going to undertake is going to get criticism, whether or not they previously supported that policy or not,” Taibbi explained.
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Presidential Walk of Fame in the White House Rose Garden
President Trump on Saturday called for consequences for the “Radical Left Insurrectionists who illegally ran the Biden Administration” and for the stolen 2020 election in an apparent reminder to his Department of Justice.
Attorney General Pam Bondi is facing growing scrutiny for the ZERO high-profile arrests that over 77 million people expected when they cast a ballot for Donald Trump in November 2024.
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) even called Bondi out for sitting on the list of scandals, namely the autopen investigation, and dragging out the investigations.
Trump previously declared in December that all documents, executive orders, and contracts signed by Joe Biden’s autopen are “hereby null, void, and of no further force or effect.”
“Our congressional investigation will serve as the basis to uphold the declaration of those pardons and executive orders being declared null and void,” Comer said. Still, nobody from the Justice Department has done anything about it.
James Comer Slams Pam Bondi DOJ After Viral Chart Shows ZERO Arrests — DOJ Still Sitting on Biden Autopen Pardons Trump Says Are Null and Void
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WATCH: Interview with Daniel Greenfield, expert in U.S. Middle East foreign policy and CEO of the David Horowitz Freedom Center.
Every new wave of unrest in Iran produces the same reaction in Washington. Commentators begin predicting airstrikes, social media circulates claims about “imminent action,” and the debate turns into a narrow question of whether the United States will strike Iranian territory. 
That framing misses the central issue. The challenge inside Iran is not a contest between two armies. It is a contest between a population trying to organize and a regime that retains power because it can suppress coordination before it spreads.
The Islamic Republic’s decisive edge is operational rather than ideological: its security apparatus acts with greater speed and coordination than the protesters it seeks to suppress.
That advantage depends on internal communications networks, surveillance systems, and rapid-deployment units tied to the IRGC and the Basij. 
When the regime shuts down the internet, blocks cellular service, or deploys its paramilitary forces into cities, it is relying on a structure designed to prevent the public from organizing at a pace that threatens state control.
This is why the familiar discussion about “airstrikes” misunderstands the problem. Iran briefly closed its airspace this week, which led to speculation about a U.S. strike package. 
The more useful observation is what that closure signals: the regime’s biggest fear is not destruction of infrastructure that can be rebuilt. Its biggest fear is disruption of the systems that allow it to direct repression. 
A targeted operation that disables specific command nodes or interferes with surveillance capability would affect Iran’s internal balance more than a conventional strike on hardened facilities. 
The confrontation is occurring inside urban neighborhoods, where control depends on information flow and speed, not large-scale military assets.
The IRGC and Basij form the backbone of this system. They enforce compliance through arrests, rapid crowd dispersion, and lethal force. The United States cannot and should not promise a direct path to regime change. 
Iran’s political structure is distributed enough that removing individual leaders would not dissolve the apparatus underneath them. 
But the United States can influence the environment in which Iranian citizens are resisting. 
Operations that disrupt censorship systems, slow the deployment of rapid-response units, or limit coordination among enforcement agencies would raise real costs for the regime without committing American forces to a long-term presence.
This also clarifies a recurring argument in American politics. Pressure on Iran is often framed as an action taken on behalf of another country. That claim ignores the strategic burden Iran already imposes on the United States. 
American bases and naval deployments across the region exist largely to deter Iranian activity. 
Weakening Iran’s internal enforcement capacity reduces threats to American personnel, lowers the probability of regional escalation, and limits the IRGC’s ability to project force through proxies. 
Those are outcomes that directly affect American security.
Regime change cannot be treated as a single action. Iran’s leadership networks can regenerate even after major losses. 
The attainable objective is more specific: make repression harder to execute, make coordination among protesters easier to sustain, and increase the operational costs for the units responsible for violence.
If Washington limits the conversation to whether it will “bomb Iran,” it will overlook the only question that decides outcomes: whether U.S. policy focuses on the regime’s control systems rather than symbolic displays of force. 
The quieter approach is the one that shifts the balance on the ground.
Listen: Interview with Daniel Greenfield, expert in U.S. Middle East foreign policy and CEO of the David Horowitz Freedom Center, HERE.
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