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ICE raid proves Tren de Aragua illegals in US—despite denials

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An ICE raid in Aurora, Colorado, confirms the presence of the Tren de Aragua gang—despite repeated denials from Democrats and their media allies. The operation comes just months after Governor Jared Polis dismissed concerns as unfounded.

Key Details:

  • Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested 100 suspected Tren de Aragua gang members in Aurora, Colorado, during a predawn raid.

  • The operation contradicts previous claims from Democratic officials, including Colorado Governor Jared Polis, who downplayed the gang’s presence.

  • The raid follows years of border security failures under President Biden, with President Trump’s renewed crackdown already showing results.

Diving Deeper:

  1. For months, Democrats and their media allies insisted that Tren de Aragua was a myth, dismissing concerns as right-wing fearmongering. But as the New York Post Editorial Board pointed out, “Immigration and Customs Enforcement and a cross-section of federal law enforcement agencies just went after a full 100 Tren gangbangers in the Denver suburb, nabbing suspects in predawn raids.”

This comes just five months after Colorado Governor Jared Polis suggested fears over Tren de Aragua were baseless. Despite videos and reports showing otherwise, officials and the mainstream press denied the gang’s existence, parroting the Biden administration’s claims of a secure border.

The Post’s editorial board slammed the media’s complicity, writing, “A compliant media echoed that lie loud and long, even as gangbangers and traffickers, dealers and pimps crossed the border and began to ply their ugly trades stateside.” The reality of unchecked illegal immigration has repeatedly vindicated Americans who raised concerns, only to be dismissed as alarmists.

Meanwhile, President Biden and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas have insisted that little could be done to address the border crisis. But as the Post notes, “President Trump’s border crackdown is already producing results, after years of Biden and his border henchman-in-chief Alejandro Mayorkas pretending nothing at all could be done to stem the tide or send the millions home.”

The raid underscores the failures of Biden’s open-border policies and the deception used to cover them up. The Post editorial board summed it up succinctly: “Much of what makes federal action on the border catastrophe—raids on gang beachheads, funding cutoffs to sanctuary cities and so on—seem so dramatic is that it’s all about waking up from fake ‘reality’ painted by the big lies of the Biden years.”

While Democrats focused on pushing DEI initiatives and taxpayer-funded media subscriptions, criminal gangs like Tren de Aragua were entrenching themselves in American communities. The latest ICE raid shatters the illusion that the border crisis is a manufactured issue—something the American people have known all along.

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Deportations causing delays in US construction industry

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The Trump administration’s immigration policies are leading to worker shortages and delayed projects across the construction industry, according to a new report.

A survey conducted in July and August by the Associated Contractors of America and the National Center for Construction Education and Research found more than one in four respondents said their firms were affected by increased immigration enforcement in the past six months.

Respondents said increased immigration enforcement is making it more difficult for firms to recruit workers. Ten percent of firms reported using the H-2B visa program, which is used for recruiting nonagricultural foreign workers, to recruit salaried and hourly workers.

Congress set the cap for H-2B visa allowances at 66,000 in fiscal year 2026. The program offers temporary work for the first and second halves of the year to foreign employees.

Jordan Fischetti, an immigration policy fellow with Americans for Prosperity, said government allowances for visa programs do not meet the demand of the current workforce.

“Immigration for a long time has been centrally planned, so there’s just not a very strong appetite for letting the market do its work,” Fischetti said.

The report found 83% of firms with craft worker openings reported that positions are hard to fill or harder to fill than one year ago. Eighty-four percent of firms with openings for salaried workers also reported it was hard or harder to fill positions than one year ago.

Five percent of respondents reported their jobsites or work sites were visited by immigration agents and 10% said workers did not report or quit due to rumored immigration enforcement allegations.

Contractors in Georgia, Virginia, Alabama, Nebraska and South Carolina were more likely to be impacted by immigration enforcement, according to the report.

The report found worker shortages were the most commonly listed reason for project delays. Two-thirds of firms reported at least one project in the last six months was postponed, canceled or scaled back. The survey took into account more than 1,300 individuals across various contracting and construction firms.

Michele Waslin, assistant director of the University of Minnesota’s immigration history research center, said the construction and agricultural industries have been deeply affected by the Trump administration’s immigration policies.

“Some businesses really do have a labor shortage, and they’re unable to hire American workers, and they want to hire foreign workers and it’s not that easy to do in many cases,” Waslin said.

A separate poll commissioned by The Center Square found 85% of registered voters think it is either somewhat or very important to create legal pathways for construction workers to live and work in the United States.

The poll, conducted by RMG Research in conjunction with Neapolitan News Service, surveyed 1,000 registered voters in August and found vast agreement across partisan lines, age and race in its support for legal pathways in construction.

Fischetti said both employers and the American public have expressed interest in allowing more flexibility in the immigration system and he wants to see Congress modernize in response.

“We really need to work on providing pathways,” Fischetti said. “I don’t just mean pathways to legalization, pathways to certainty.”

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Unite the Kingdom Rally: demonstrators take to the streets in historical numbers to demand end to mass migration in the UK

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If you haven’t been following the emergence of controversial UK journalist Tommy Robinson, you should try not to skip ahead to the aerial shot of what is likely the largest rally in modern UK history.

To even begin to understand the scope of the passion and to comprehend the numbers of English people who attended the “Unite the Kingdom Rally” in London on Saturday, some background information will be very helpful.

Like many western nations, Britain has seen an historical influx of immigrants.  With millions of new immigrants competing for housing, medical care, and government resources, very serious issues are bound to arise.  It makes you wonder how a government could or why a government would allow this to happen.

The following video shows very well what has taken place in terms of how many people have arrived in recent years, and who they are.

As the presenter showed, most of these migrants are from non European Union nations.  Many are from Muslim nations.  That means even in a highly multi-cultural nation like the UK, towns and cities are facing the cultural challenges of suddenly hosting a significant minority of young Muslim men.

Enter the most controversial political figure in Britain, Tommy Robinson.  Robinson’s hometown of Luton, Bedfordshire, England, was one of the first communities in the UK to see a significant percentage of Muslim population.  According to Robinson he noticed his childhood schoolyard and lunchrooms were divided into two separate groups, the traditional English (white Europeans, people from India, and the Caribbean, etc) and the Muslims.

As he got older Robinson claims he started to see a number of young girls being ‘recruited’ by older Muslim men into the drug culture, and becoming sexual partners for multiple Muslim men, including prominent members of the community.  When Robinson started to speak out publicly he was hit with a wall of official denials.  He would go on to challenge the authorities for years, becoming a citizen journalist and eventually an enemy of the state. If you watch his documentary series called The Rape of Britain you will understand just what he’s been claiming for about 15 years.

Fast forward to September of 2025.  The streets of many cities in the UK resemble Robinson’s hometown of Luton.  Robinson’s followers have multiplied from hundreds to thousands, to potentially millions.  The situation has caught the attention of President Donald Trump and X owner Elon Musk. On the weekend, untold thousands of Britons took to the streets of London for Robinson’s “Unite the Kingdom March”, a massive rally for free speech and British identity.

Without watching Robinson’s documentaries and journalism it can be difficult to understand the passion of his presentation from Saturday.  The growing thousands and millions in the UK understand.  Those who do not are very likely swayed by the media and government establishment who are trying desperately and less successfully by the day to brand Robinson as a Far Right racist.

Tommy Robinson appeared to be losing the battle for public opinion until Elon Musk stepped in.  Robinson was in jail last January when Musk took note and used his incredible social media reach to bring Robinson’s struggle to a much wider audience.

The owner of the X platform addressed the crowd via video link. In the days following the public execution of Charlie Kirk, Musk condemned the left as “the party of murder” and accused Britain’s political establishment of weaponizing mass migration to reshape the electorate.

 

Prime Minister Keir Starmer was quick to denounce the march while Reform UK leader Nigel Farage said the vast majority of demonstrators are “good, ordinary decent people” voicing legitimate concerns about mass migration and the safety of British streets.  At least 25 arrests were made Saturday and police say four police officers were seriously injured.

As for Tommy Robinson, he likely over achieved any expectations he had for this rally and now both he and the UK authorities are planning their next moves.

 

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