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Border Patrol agents' morale soars after Trump’s re-election: 'Through the roof'

Morale among Border Patrol agents is "through the roof" after the victory of President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday, and some agents planning on retiring have already reversed their decisions, the union’s president tells Fox News Digital.

"The morale is through the roof," National Border Patrol Council President Paul Perez said in an interview. "We’ve received hundreds of calls, texts, emails, just saying how happy the agents are."

"There are a lot of agents that had originally said that they would retire if President Trump did not win. And now those same agents are saying they're going to hold back on their retirement because they want to serve under this administration again, because they know exactly how it was during this first administration, and they know this one's going to be even better," he said.

‘NOW'S THE TIME': TRUMP VICTORY HAS BIDEN ADMIN BRACING FOR MIGRANT SURGE AT SOUTHERN BORDER

Trump won the backing of the union for his presidential bid, with many agents intensely supportive of his efforts to secure the border. Agents had frequently opposed the Biden administration’s change in policies, and tension between agents and officials often spilled over.

Agents were furious when the administration fueled false claims that agents on horseback whipped migrants in Del Rio, Texas, in 2021. 

Now, with Trump heading back to the White House, Perez says he believes that his election will help with recruiting.

‘LIBERATION DAY': WHAT TO EXPECT FROM PRESIDENT-ELECT TRUMP ON BORDER SECURITY, IMMIGRATION

"We've always had a recruiting problem. And so right now, with President Trump coming into office, a lot of people are going to want to do this job. A lot of people have shown interest previously, but they were hesitant to apply and work for the previous administration," he said. "So under Trump, we're going to have a good amount of recruits to choose from."

He said that under the Trump administration, agents receive greater job satisfaction because they know that the people they catch will be removed "instead of allowing them to abuse our asylum system."

Perez said agents were enthused by a number of policies, including the potential return of Remain in Mexico, which kept migrants in Mexico as they waited for their asylum claims to be adjudicated.

"Remain in Mexico, the end of catch release, obviously, that's a big one as well. But Remain in Mexico will probably turn the magnet off. It will allow us to secure the border even better," he said.

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Perez also said that, while the union backed a bipartisan border security bill backed by the Biden administration last year, now they are hoping for something more muscular -- similar to the House GOP border bill, known as HR 2.

"I'm not looking at the past. I'm not looking at the bipartisan border security bill. At the time, that was probably what our guys were looking for at the time, hoping that it would be brought to the floor, amended and made and strengthened. But what I'm looking for, what I personally want to see, is H.R. 2, a strong security bill like H.R.2."

Ultimately, however, Perez said he believes that Trump’s return will send a message to the cartels and also give a voice to those victims of illegal immigrant crime. 

"He's going to give them a voice, and he is going to take care of their families from the horrific crimes that were committed against them by people that should have never been in the country to begin with. So we're looking very much forward to President Trump taking over and making this country safe again," he said.

2024/11/11 12:45

Eric Schmitt withdraws from Trump attorney general consideration to remain in Senate

Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., has requested that President-elect Trump's transition team withdraw his name from consideration for attorney general, he announced Monday.

Schmitt won election to the U.S. Senate in 2022, and he says he wishes to remain there to represent the interests of Missouri voters. His announcement comes as Trump's transition team is tasked with preparing to fill thousands of roles in the federal government.

"I ran for the U.S. Senate to represent the people of the Show Me State and I’m just getting started. The American people have given President Trump a mandate. A mandate to secure our border, make America energy dominant and fight for the forgotten men and women of this country," Schmitt wrote on X. 

"We need America First fighters who don’t just say they support the agenda but who are willing to stand in the breach and actually fight for it and for the hopes and dreams of the American people. I’m ready to roll up my sleeves and be a champion for President Trump in the Senate," he added.

TRUMP TO APPOINT FORMER ICE DIRECTOR TOM HOMAN AS NEXT ‘BORDER CZAR’: NOBODY BETTER AT POLICING OUR BORDERS'

Schmitt had previously served as the attorney general of Missouri.

Trump has made few staffing announcements since securing his victory over Vice President Kamala Harris last week. He announced that Susie Wiles will serve as the White House chief of staff. Tom Homan will also serve as Trump's border czar.

EX-ACTING ICE DIRECTOR SAYS MASS DEPORTATION POSSIBLE WITHOUT FAMILY SEPARATION IF THEY'RE ‘DEPORTED TOGETHER’

Trump has also selected Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., to serve as the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, and he has announced Stephen Miller as the White House deputy chief of staff for policy.

STEFANIK SLAMS DEMOCRATS' 'SCARE TACTICS' ON TRUMP'S RECORD WITH WOMEN ON IVF, ABORTION

Stefanik, the fourth-highest ranking House Republican, is a frequent figure on television where she advocates for the GOP side on a number of issues, including Israel and what she refers to as the "Biden Crime Family." 

Stefanik, who was elected to her sixth term in the House last week, made national headlines for grilling the presidents of Ivy League universities about the rising antisemitism on college campuses in the wake of the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks on Israel.

"The work ahead is immense as we see antisemitism skyrocketing coupled with four years of catastrophically weak U.S. leadership that significantly weakened our national security and diminished our standing in the eyes of both allies and adversaries," Stefanik added in her statement to the Post. "I stand ready to advance President Donald J. Trump’s restoration of America First peace through strength leadership on the world stage on Day One at the United Nations. "

2024/11/11 12:20

Vance congratulates Miller on new Trump administration position

President-elect Trump is expected to pick Stephen Miller as deputy chief of staff for policy in his administration. 

Vice President-elect JD Vance posted a message of congratulations to Miller on X Monday morning.

"This is another fantastic pick by the president," Vance wrote, following a CNN report about Trump's pick. 

Miller was a senior adviser in Trump’s first term. He helped craft many of Trump’s hard-line speeches and plans on immigration. 

VANCE CONGRATULATES MILLER ON NEW TRUMP ADMINISTRATION POSITION

Since Trump left office, Miller has served as the president of America First Legal, an organization of former Trump advisers fashioned as a conservative version of the American Civil Liberties Union, challenging the Biden administration, media companies, universities and others over issues such as freedom of speech and religion and national security.

Miller has advocated for mass deportations during a second Trump term. He spoke at Trump's massive rally at Madison Square Garden in New York City. 

FORMER ICE DIRECTOR TOM HOMAN 'HONORED' TO BE APPOINTED TRUMP'S BORDER CZAR: 'WE HAVE TO FIX IT'

"I want you to think for a minute about the decades of abuse that has been heaped upon the good people of this nation, their jobs looted and stolen from them and shipped to Mexico, Asia and foreign countries, the lives of their loved ones ripped away from them by illegal aliens, criminal gangs and thugs who don't belong in this country," Miller told the packed Manhattan venue. "A political system that punishes working citizens, oppresses them at every turn, takes away the rights of free speech, the right to political expression, the right to fundamental safety in their own country. One man dared to step forward nine years ago and say enough, no more. America gets its future back." 

Miller spoke of the indictments and lawsuits Trump has faced, adding that the former president "took a bullet for democracy" – a reference to the assassination attempt against Trump in Butler, Pa. 

He also spoke of high profile cases of illegal immigrant suspects being charged with the rape and murder of women and girls

"He was fighting for your children, for your wives, your husbands, everyone that you love and know in the world the right to live in a country where criminal gangs cannot just cross our border and rape and murder with impunity," Miller said of Trump. "Think about how corrupt and hateful and evil a system is that allows gangs to come into this country and rape and murder little girls." 

The Associated Press contributed to this report. This is a developing story. Check back for updates.

2024/11/11 12:04

'Get her in here': Joe Rogan reveals Harris team wanted ‘restrictions’ on potential interview

Popular podcast host Joe Rogan revealed more details about how his attempt to interview Vice President Kamala Harris before the election never materialized.

"There were a few restrictions of things they didn’t want to talk about, but I said, ‘I don’t give a f---, get her in here.’ Like, whatever you want to talk about," Rogan said on a Friday episode of "The Joe Rogan Experience."

The comments come after Rogan made waves by endorsing President-elect Donald Trump the day before the election, a rare nod to a political candidate by a podcast host who has earned a legion of loyal followers.

TRUMP VICTORY PROVES IMPORTANCE OF CANDID, LONGFORM PODCASTS AS PLATFORM SHOWED ‘HUMAN SIDE’ OF ONE CANDIDATE

Rogan’s endorsement of Trump after he appeared for an interview on the podcast in late October, talking to Rogan for nearly three hours. Rogan would later go on to interview billionaire Elon Musk, who became a key Trump ally down the stretch run of the campaign.

However, similar attempts to get Harris on his show did not bear fruit for the podcast star, who revealed Friday that he would have talked about anything in an attempt to get to know the Democratic presidential candidate.

"I bet there’s a person in there. I bet I can get to that person," Rogan said. "I would love to talk to her about all kinds of s---."

JOE ROGAN SAYS HARRIS SITDOWN WAS SCRAPPED AFTER CAMPAIGN TOLD HIM SHE 'ONLY WANTED TO DO AN HOUR'

Rogan had previously revealed that there was hope of a last minute chance to sit down with Harris before Election Day, but those plans were scrapped when her team asked Rogan to travel to her for only a one-hour interview.

"Also, for the record, the Harris campaign has not passed on doing the podcast," Rogan said the day before the election. "They offered a date for Tuesday, but I would have had to travel to her, and they only wanted to do an hour. I strongly feel the best way to do it is in the studio in Austin."

"My sincere wish is to just have a nice conversation and get to know her as a human being. I really hope we can make it happen," Rogan added.

Rogan also revealed he was asked by Harris’ team if the show would be edited, something Rogan said he would not do.

"They want to know if I edit. I was like, there’s not going to be any editing, there’s no editing. We’re not going to edit," Rogan said.

Rogan, who boasts 14.5 million followers on Spotify and 17.6 million followers on YouTube, said that at the end of the day, he was just hoping for a conversation with Harris, arguing you can find out a lot about a person over the course of a few hours.

"I just wanted to talk. I feel like you give someone a couple of hours and you start talking about anything, I’m going to see the pattern of the way you think, I’m going to see the way you process ideas, I’m going to see whether or not you’re calculated or whether you’re just free," Rogan said.

The Harris campaign did not immediately respond to a Fox News Digital request for comment.

2024/11/11 11:55

What Stefanik's House tenure reveals about what type of UN ambassador she may be

New York Rep. Elise Stefanik, who hammered elite university leaders for their handling of anti-Israel agitators who stormed college campuses in the last year, will be nominated to serve as President-elect Donald Trump's ambassador to the U.N. 

"I am honored to nominate Chairwoman Elise Stefanik to serve in my Cabinet as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. Elise is an incredibly strong, tough, and smart America First fighter," Trump said in comment provided to Fox News Digital. A person with direct knowledge of the matter additionally confirmed to Fox News Digital that Trump has chosen the New York Republican for the role.

Stefanik is a longtime Trump ally who has chaired the House Republican Conference since 2021, serving as the fourth-most powerful Republican in the House. She was first elected to the House in blue New York in 2014 at the age of 30, making her the youngest woman elected to the House at the time. 

In the last year alone, Stefanik has been a conservative firebrand who grilled "morally bankrupt" college leaders over their handling of antisemitism on campus following Hamas attacking Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. 

"Northwestern, Rutgers and UCLA negotiated with pro-Hamas terrorist encampments, bent the knee to the radical antisemitic mob and surrendered their campuses to illegal antisemitic encampments while repeatedly ignoring the harassment and violence against Jewish students and faculty," Stefanik told Fox News Digital back in May as she was set to grill another group of college leaders. 

TRUMP NAMES STEFANIK UN AMBASSADOR

"House Republicans will use every  tool at our disposal to ensure accountability from campus leadership for allowing self-proclaimed terrorists to turn once acclaimed American colleges into dens of antisemitic hate."

During last year's college school year, agitators and student protesters flooded college campuses nationwide to protest the war in Israel, which also included spiking instances of antisemitism and Jewish students publicly speaking out that they do not feel safe on some campuses. 

STEFANIK SPARS WITH HEAD OF TOP SCHOOL OVER FAILING GRADE ON ANTISEMITISM, STUNNING WHISTLEBLOWER CLAIM

Radicals on Columbia University’s campus, for example, took over the school's Hamilton Hall building, while schools such as UCLA, Harvard and Yale worked to clear spiraling student encampments where protesters demanded their elite schools completely divest from Israel. 

Terrorist organization Hamas launched a war in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, which initially fanned the flames of antisemitism on campuses in the form of protests, menacing graffiti and students reporting that they felt as if it was "open season for Jews on our campuses." The protests then heightened to the point Jewish students at some schools, including Columbia, were warned to leave campus for their own safety. 

NEW BATCH OF 'MORALLY BANKRUPT' COLLEGE ADMINISTRATORS TO BE GRILLED OVER CAMPUS ANTISEMITISM BY HOUSE

Stefanik has served as a leading voice against antisemitism, including taking victory laps when University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill and Harvard President Claudine Gay resigned from their positions amid widespread backlash for waffling in their answers to Stefanik during a House hearing last year. 

Stefanik grilled Magill and Gay in December regarding whether "calling for the genocide of Jews" violates the respective school’s codes of conduct. The pair were both unable to provide direct answers. 

STEFANIK GRILLS HARVARD PRESIDENT OVER STUDENTS CALLING FOR 'INTIFADA,' RAMPANT ANTISEMITISM ON CAMPUS

"It can be, depending on the context," Gay responded.

"Antisemitic speech when it crosses into conduct that amounts to bullying, harassment, intimidation – that is actionable conduct, and we do take action," Gay said when pressed to answer "yes" or "no" if calls for the genocide of Jews breaks school rules. 

"So the answer is yes, that calling for the genocide of Jews violates Harvard code of conduct, correct?" Stefanik asked.

"Again, it depends on the context," Gay said.

"It does not depend on the context. The answer is yes and this is why you should resign," Stefanik responded. "These are unacceptable answers across the board."

Magill answered similarly during the hearing, with both issuing apologies following outrage from Jewish groups, the public and lawmakers that the school presidents could not unequivocally answer Stefanik's questions. The pair subsequently resigned from their Ivy League jobs as outrage mounted. 

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"One down. Two to go," Stefanik posted after their resignations. "This is only the very beginning of addressing the pervasive rot of antisemitism that has destroyed the most ‘prestigious’ higher education institutions in America. This forced resignation of the president of @Penn is the bare minimum of what is required. These universities can anticipate a robust and comprehensive Congressional investigation of all facets of their institutions negligent perpetration of antisemitism including administrative, faculty, funding, and overall leadership and governance."

Stefanik continued grilling college administrators in other hearings, and has also publicly lambasted anti-Israel protests that have cropped up, including when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited the United States in July and Vice President Kamala Harris skipping his address to Congress. 

STEFANIK FILES ETHICS COMPLAINT AGAINST TRUMP TRIAL JUDGE ALLEGING HARRIS CAMPAIGN PAID HIS DAUGHTER’S COMPANY

"Kamala Harris' embarrassing snub of @netanyahu's Joint Address to Congress was a stunt to appease the pro-Hamas base of the Democrat Party that just burned American flags, clashed with police, and spread dangerous pro-terror chaos and violence. Why won’t Kamala disavow these antisemitic terrorist sympathizers?" Stefanik posted to her X account of Harris. The vice president ultimately did condemn the protests in July during Netanyahu's visit to the U.S., and met with Netanyahu one-on-one after skipping his address to Congress. 

Stefanik also supported Trump amid his Manhattan criminal trial, where he was found guilty of 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree in May. Trump has maintained his innocence in the case, calling the trial a "witch hunt" and "scam" promoted by Democrats to hamper his campaign for the White House. 

"Today’s verdict shows how corrupt, rigged, and unAmerican the weaponized justice system has become under Joe Biden and Democrats. I fully support President Trump appealing this decision and look forward to a higher New York Court to deliver justice and overturn this verdict," Stefanik told Fox Digital following the verdict. 

STEFANIK FILES ETHICS COMPLAINT AGAINST TRUMP TRIAL JUDGE, CITES DAUGHTER'S WORK FOR GROUP PROMOTING DEMS

"The facts are clear: this was a zombie case illegally brought forward by a corrupt prosecutor doing Joe Biden’s political bidding in a desperate attempt to save Joe Biden’s failing campaign," she continued. 

Stefanik also railed against the presiding judge in the case, Juan Merchan, filing ethics complaints against him for an alleged conflict of interest pertaining to his daughter’s role at a firm known for representing Democratic politicians. She filed ethics complaints in both May and September, with the most recent complaint alleging Merchan's daughter's consulting firm was working with the Harris campaign. 

"On August 20, 2024, Vice President Harris’s campaign submitted its first Federal Election Commission (FEC) report that documented expenses and donations through July 31, 2024. In the report... a July 30, 2024, disbursement appears in the amount of $468.00 from Vice President Harris’s campaign to Authentic Campaigns Inc. (Authentic) for web hosting services," Stefanik wrote in her complaint. "This indicates that one of the very first things that Harris did upon taking over the Biden campaign infrastructure is to hire this firm, Authentic."

"Authentic is a digital consulting and marketing firm that services Democrat candidates. Loren Merchan, Justice Merchan’s daughter, is its president," Stefanik added.

Under Trump's first administration, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley and former diplomat Kelly Craft served as U.N. ambassadors. 

The U.N. is currently bracing for a shake-up following Trump's massive win last week over Harris. 

"They will have to recalibrate now very much again in the Trump administration that will, I believe, be much more attentive, engaged and monitoring of the U.N.," predicted Hugh Dugan, a longtime member of the U.S. delegation to the U.N., Fox Digital previously reported. 

"There are teams there that have been sleepwalking the last few years without U.S. pressure on accountability, efficiency and effectiveness."

‘POTENTIAL MISCONDUCT’ BEHIND JUDGE MERCHAN’S SEVERAL TRUMP TRIAL ASSIGNMENTS, STEFANIK SAYS

The U.N. will elect its next secretary general in 2026, when Trump will be back in the Oval Office and the U.S. has veto power over candidates. 

"Over the next year and a half, it's going to make an effort to look more managerially competent to avoid some of the stern green eyes seated across here – attention that Elon Musk and the Trump team will want to bring to the consideration of the secretary general selection."

In addition to the anticipated U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accords and the U.N. Global Compact on Migration, the Trump administration is expected to make financial cuts to the U.N., following his cuts to the international body during his first term. 

"There's no doubt the U.N. is frightened and horrified," of Trump taking office, said Hillel Neuer, executive director of U.N. Watch. 

TRUMP ADMINISTRATION COULD LEAD TO BUDGET CUTS, LEADERSHIP SHAKEUP AT UN

"We're going to see budget cuts," he said. "The most memorable being UNRWA." 

Stefanik has shown herself as a fervent ally of Trump's, who does not shy away from sparring with liberals or railing against what she views as corruption or mismanagement, likely teeing up fireworks for her role as U.N. ambassador. 

"I am truly honored to earn President Trump's nomination to serve in his Cabinet as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations," Stefanik told the New York Post, which first reported on the nomination Sunday. "During my conversation with President Trump, I shared how deeply humbled I am to accept his nomination and that I look forward to earning the support of my colleagues in the United States Senate. President Trump’s historic landslide election has given hope to the American people and is a reminder that brighter days are ahead — both at home and abroad." 

Fox News Digital's Morgan Phillips contributed to this report. 

2024/11/11 11:50

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He will be soft on terrorism and meet with our most vicious, hate-filled and irrational enemies without any preconditions met, thus diminishing the stature and prestige of the oval office and increasing the stature and prestige of our enemies.


Barrack Obama plans on cutting back on military spending just as our most dangerous enemies are ramping up on same spending: "I will cut investments in missile defense systems and I will not weaponize space. I will slow our development of future combat systems; I will not develop nuclear weapons. "

Obama's view on terrorism is the same misguided one that allowed Al Qaeda to grow into Al Qaeda in the 1990's – that terrorism should be dealt with as if it is a form of organized crime and not as an act of international war. Obama and his campaign praised the recent controversial 5-4 Supreme Court decision applying habeas-corpus rules to terrorists, even those like Osama Bin Laden. The Obama campaign told ABC News that the Court decision was "no big deal," because though it may apply to Bin Laden, the U.S. would have "ample grounds to hold him." Obama's attitude toward the War on Terror unabashedly shows more sympathy for the rights and feelings of terrorists than the rights and feelings of American civilian victims of terror and their families. Here is an example of how Obama's view of habeas-corpus meshes with his world view on global terrorism: "What we know is that in previous attacks – for example the first attack against the World Trade Center, we were able to arrest those responsible, put them on trial. They are currently in U.S. prisons, incapacitated. And the fact that the administration has not tried to do that has created a situation where not only have we never actually put many of these folks on trial, but we have destroyed our credibility when it comes to rule of law all around the world, and given a huge boost to terrorist recruitment in countries that say, 'Look, this is how the United States treats Muslims."

Obama has chosen as one of his chief foreign policy advisors Senator Chuck Hagel (R-NE). In reference to Hagel and co-advisor Senator Jack Heed (D-RI), Obama said the following: "They're both experts on foreign policy; they reflect I think traditional bipartisan wisdom when it comes to foreign policy. Neither of them are ideologues but they try to get the facts right and make a determination about what's best for U.S. interests, and they're good guys." Let us examine what foreign policy expert Chuck Hagel has done on foreign policy issues most concerning to most Americans:

In August of 2006, Hagel was one of only 12 Senators to refuse to call upon the European Union to declare Hizbullah a terrorist organization. He was even criticized by Democratic organizations for his stance. In December of 2005, Hagel was one of only 27 Senators to refuse to sign a letter to President Bush urging him to pressure the Palestinian Authority to ban Hamas and other terrorist organization from participating in parliament. In June of 2004, Hagel refused to sign a letter urging President Bush to raise the issue of Iran's nuclear ambitions at an upcoming G-8 summit.

Obama, in his own words, views the Arab-Israeli conflict as an "open wound" and "open sore" that has a deleterious effect on "all of our foreign policy," according to Jeffery Goldberg of The Atlantic Monthly who conducted twin interviews with McCain and Obama. This characterization underscores Obama's belief that that there is some sort of parity between Israel and the Arabs and if only we can get both sides together, we can close this open sore; and furthermore, that all the other problems in the Middle East stem directly or indirectly from this "open sore." McCain on the other hand understands the ultimate threat of Islamo-facism and views both Israel and America as targets and victims of the constant assault perpetrated by Islamo-fascists. Says McCain: "I don't think the conflict is a sore. I think it is a national security challenge." Asked what would happen if the Israeli-Arab conflict were resolved, McCain responds, "We would still face the enormous threat of radical Islamic extremism."

Obama has consistently been weak on Iran and fails to give specifics on how he plans to stop Iran from developing a nuclear weapon. Says Barry Rubin, director of the Global Research in International Affairs, in regards to Obama' stance on the crisis with Iran, "He never mentions what he would do if the talks fail, and he doesn't talk about the need for the U.S. to show its strength." Furthermore, Obama was one of the few senators not to support the Kyl-Lieberman resolution which designated the Iranian Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist organization.

Obama has repeatedly called for the President of the United States to sit down and talk to Iranian dictator and Holocaust denier, Mahmud Ahmadinejad. Obama has placed America's standing on par with that of the most brutal dictatorships in the world, when he said in the primary contest against Hillary Clinton, "If we think that meeting with the president is a privilege that has to be earned, I think that reinforces the sense that we stand above the rest of the world at this point in time." Even Hillary Clinton had to refer to this outrageous statement as, "irresponsible and frankly naive."