America “Here’s what people need to under-
stand: Over 1.5 million illegal aliens, close to 1.6 mil- lion illegal aliens, have already left the country on their own. Why? Because they see what ICE is do- ing out there every day.” He added that
Millions of Illegals Leſt U.S. This Year
ICE chief Tom Homan: Most went voluntarily rather than be arrested.
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BY SANDY FITZGERALD
early 2 million illegal immigrants living in the United States have left since President Donald
Trump began his second term, and the numbers will “explode” in the coming year with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) planning to triple its workforce, says White House bor- der czar Tom Homan. “We’re at over 400,000 deporta-
tions between CBP and ICE, and that’s just since the president took office,” he said.
the increased number of ICE agents will also affect the number of immigrants being apprehended. “What’s to come? ICE is getting 10,000 more agents,” he said. “Right now, we have 5,000 deportation officers. We’re tripling the size of the workforce.” Homan said he knew that once
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ICE started making arrests, many migrants would opt to leave on their own or decide not to try entering the United States. “A lot of people have left, a lot of
people aren’t coming, which helps us secure that border. And that was part of the strategy from the beginning,” he added. “We said that if we show conse-
quences, if we show we’re actually out there looking for them, many will leave.”
Secret Service Thwarts Massive Cyberattack Plot could have brought New York City to its knees.
he Secret Service dismantled a massive hidden telecom network across the New York area that could have crippled
cell towers, jammed 911 calls, and flooded networks with chaos during the United Nations General Assembly in September. The cache, made up of more than 300 SIM servers packed with
over 100,000 SIM cards and clustered within 35 miles of the U.N., represents one of the most sweeping communications threats uncovered on U.S. soil. It could have blacked out cellular service in a city that relies on it not only for daily life, but for emergency response and counterterrorism. As foreign leaders filled midtown hotels and motorcades clogged Manhattan, oficials say the takedown highlights a new frontier of risk: plots aimed at the invisible infrastructure that keeps a modern city connected. Spread across multiple sites, the servers functioned like banks of mock cellphones, able to generate mass
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calls and texts, overwhelm local networks, and mask encrypted communications criminals, oficials said. “It can’t be understated what this system is capable of doing,” said Matt McCool, the special agent in charge of the Secret Service’s New York field ofice. Agents believe nation-state actors used the system to send encrypted messages to organized crime groups, cartels, and terrorist organizations, McCool said. “We need to do forensics on 100,000 cellphones, essentially all the phone calls, all the text messages, anything to do with communications, see where those numbers end up,” McCool said, noting that the process will take time. He described it as a well-funded, highly organized enterprise,
one that cost millions of dollars in hardware and SIM cards alone. It had the capability of sending up to 30 million text messages a minute, McCool said.
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