Fact Check: Democrat Wasserman-Schultz Lied — Kristi Noem Did Not Call Venezuelans ‘Dirtbags’
CLAIM: Democrat Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (D-FL) claims Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem called Venezuelans fleeing oppression “dirtbags.”

CLAIM: Democrat Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (D-FL) claims Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem called Venezuelans fleeing oppression “dirtbags.”
Newly-sworn in U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi has gotten straight to work on her first day by directing the Department of Justice (DOJ) to “pause all federal funding for sanctuary cities,” according to a Wednesday report.
The president of El Salvador told U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio that his country is willing to take convicted criminals from American prisons and lock them up in his country. The offer came in meetings on Tuesday with Secretary Rubio who is on his first foreign tour after being confirmed by the Senate.
The Trump administration is ending Joe Biden’s Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for more than 300,000 Venezuelans allowed into the country during the Biden years.
The Venezuelan government, led by socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro, has agreed to receive its deported nationals who illegally immigrated to the U.S., President Donald Trump announced Saturday.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers teamed up with local law enforcement to arrest members of the Tren de Aragua gang on fentanyl-dealing charges. President Donald Trump recently designated the violent Venezuelan Tren de Aragua (TdA) gang as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO).
President Donald Trump signed the Laken Riley Act, the first bill he has approved since returning to office, into law at the White House on Wednesday.
ICE is set to launch expanded, targeted operations in more major U.S. cities in the coming days, including Aurora, CO, according to reports.
Hollywood only cries for criminals, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said in reaction to singer and TV star Selena Gomez crying about Trump-era deportations of criminal illegal aliens to her 422 million Instagram followers.
A surprise early morning immigration raid on a makeshift nightclub in the Denver Metro area resulted in the arrest of approximately 50 migrants in an illegal status, including some with connections to the violent Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang. Multiple federal agencies participating in the raid focused on criminal activity at the location.
President Donald Trump’s administration arrested 538 illegal aliens on Thursday, ranging from child predators to gang members and a suspected terrorist.
Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott is touting the success of the Lone Star State’s crackdown on illegal migration that he says has curtailed activity of the dangerous Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua and resulted in 50,000 criminal arrests.
A member of the dangerous Venezuelan gang, Tren de Aragua, was caught and released four times before allegedly committing more crimes in Aurora, Colorado.
Denver’s Dem. Mayor is covertly dumping illegal migrants — including criminals — into nearby Colorado cities, and Aurora’s Mayor wants answers
Texas Department of Public Safety troopers arrested four confirmed Tren de Aragua gang members after they illegally crossed the border from Mexico. The four Venezuelan gang members crossed in a group of 22 migrants from four countries on New Year’s Eve.
A group of unidentified gunmen shot and wounded a Venezuelan migrant during a failed kidnapping attempt at the Mexico-Texas border.
Mexican authorities arrested three migrants for their alleged role in the murder of a decorated immigration agent. Two of the migrants are believed to be members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, while the third migrant is described as a Colombian national.
A report published by the BBC on Wednesday detailed how the Tren de Aragua transnational criminal organization “learned from the mistakes” of other gangs such as the Salvadoran MS-13 and 18th Street to carry out its unusually rapid expansion throughout the hemisphere, including the United States.
During an interview aired on Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “The Story,” New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) stated that he wants violent criminals deported, but someone who has Tren de Aragua gang tattoos wouldn’t fall under this
Chilean Investigative Police (PDI) officials conducted a security operation on Tuesday that led to the dismantlement of a Tren de Aragua human trafficking cell that operated “steps away” from the La Moneda presidential palace in Santiago.
Police in Aurora, Colorado, reported that 14 people have been detained after a home invasion and stabbing at an apartment complex at the center of alleged activity from the dangerous Tren de Aragua gang.
A North Dakota police chief says he cannot get help from the Biden administration regarding criminal activity involving Tren de Aragua gang members. North Dakota is now the 17th state to report Tren de Aragua gang crime.
Texas prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for the two illegal migrants accused of raping and killing 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray.
Five men with alleged ties to the violent Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua are under arrest after Texas state and local police found $1 million in drugs in a Houston apartment. In addition to the drugs, police seized 24 firearms.
Police in San Antonio say a Venezuelan migrant is charged in the July capital murder of a teenager. The man is suspected of being a gun trafficker and Tren de Aragua gang member and was released by the Biden administration after illegally entering the U.S.
Former Acting ICE Director Ronald Vitiello says Trump’s plan for mass deportations will dismantle the Venezuelan gang known as Tren de Aragua.
Police in New York City arrested two suspected members of the Tren de Aragua gang who are allegedly linked to violence in Aurora, Colorado.
The enduring memory of the Biden presidency should be the face of Jose Ibarra, the illegal alien who was recently convicted of murdering 22-year-old Georgia nursing student Laken Riley.
One of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s prosecutors was attacked and robbed by a Venezuelan migrant with ties to Tren de Aragua.
An illegal alien Tren de Aragua gang member has been convicted on all counts for murdering 22-year-old nursing student Laken Riley in Athens, Georgia in February of this year. The felon had been released from the southern border into the United States by President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’s administration and given a work permit.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has warned that the Venezuelan street gang Tren de Aragua (TdA) is now operating in 16 states and the District of Columbia, according to a report from the New York Post.
Jose Antonio Ibarra, the illegal alien Tren de Aragua gang member on trial for Laken Riley’s murder, will not take the witness stand to defend himself. His refusal to take the stand comes as surveillance footage shows him stalking the area where Riley was last seen jogging and where her lifeless body was later found.
Jose Antonio Ibarra, accused of murdering Laken Riley, is reportedly a confirmed member of the violent Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua.
he Chicago Police Department has reported having arrested more than 30 members of the dangerous Tren de Aragua Venezuelan street gang.
The mother of Jocelyn Nungaray, the 12-year-old Houston, Texas, girl who was allegedly raped and murdered by two Venezuelan illegal migrants, joined former President Donald Trump at his Friday rally to bring attention to the tragedy enabled by the Biden-Harris administration’s border policies.
Members of the Venezuelan street gang, Tren de Aragua, may be pimping women in New York City, according to a report.
Documents show that law enforcement officials have been warning that Aurora, Colorado, is under threat by the Venezuelan gang Tren de Argua.
At least 600 Venezuelan migrants associated with the violent Tren de Aragua gang are now living across the United States, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) data reveals, after nearly four years of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’s policy at the border that has welcomed millions of migrants to American communities.
Two illegal alien gang members from Venezuela are accused of murdering a 59-year-old man in Stamford, Connecticut, this month.
A bipartisan group of legislators in New York City is demanding that embattled Mayor Eric Adams launch an effort to remove gang members from the city’s migrant shelters “as a matter of urgent public safety.”