Fetterman: ‘About Two-Thirds’ of Those Deported by ICE Are Criminals
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Ian Hanchett
27 Jan 2026
On Tuesday’s broadcast of Newsmax TV’s “American Agenda,” Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) stated that “about two-thirds of those ICE is deporting are” criminals, but a lot of the tactics the agency is using need to be changed.
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Fetterman said, “I don’t agree with many of those tactics” used by ICE and stated that ICE should “stand down” in Minneapolis.
Later, he stated that the administration should “re-focus on securing our border — and that’s been successful — and deporting all of the criminals, I think we can all agree with that. And I have also been mentioning, too, the latest statistics that I have seen, about two-thirds of those ICE is deporting are criminal[s]. And, again, I think we should talk more about that, too. I think that’s a good thing.”
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APPLE’S TIM COOK ALONE IS A TOTAL SLUT FOR RED CHINA. BUT HOW IS THAT DIFFERENT THAN ALL THE BILLIONAIRE TRAITOR OLIGARCHS???
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Tech Lords Show Their True Colors: OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Apple’s Tim Cook Criticize ICE Enforcement Actions
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Lucas Nolan
29 Jan 2026313
4:13
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Apple CEO Tim Cook have joined a growing number of corporate executives expressing concern over immigration enforcement activities. Altman stated in an internal email that ICE is “going too far” while Cook expressed that he is “heartbroken” by the death of Alex Pretti, the man who violently clashed with federal agents on multiple occasions leading to his death.
Reuters reports that Sam Altman, the chief executive of OpenAI, told his employees in an internal communication that Immigration and Customs Enforcement is “going too far” with its immigration crackdown, making him the latest major technology leader to voice concerns about aggressive enforcement actions in Minnesota.
Breitbart News recently reported that the man shot and killed by ICE agents, Alex Pretti, was caught on video in a previous violent clash with immigration agents. More than 60 CEOs have signed a statement calling for de-escalation after weeks of silence on the matter.
“What’s happening with ICE is going too far,” Altman wrote in a Slack message to employees of the ChatGPT maker, according to a source familiar with the matter. “There is a big difference between deporting violent criminals and what’s happening now, and we need to get the distinction right.”
Apple CEO Tim Cook also commented on the incident, stating that he was “heartbroken” by the events in Minneapolis and called for “de-escalation,” according to a Bloomberg report citing an internal memo to employees. Cook reportedly said he had discussed the matter with U.S. President Donald Trump. Apple did not immediately respond to requests for comment outside regular business hours.
In his message to employees, Altman expressed his commitment to American values while emphasizing the importance of speaking out against what he views as government overreach. “I love the U.S. and its values of democracy and freedom and will be supportive of the country however I can; OpenAI will too,” Altman said in his message, which was first reported by the New York Times’ DealBook. “But part of loving the country is the American duty to push back against overreach.”
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The comments from Altman come at a time when tensions have emerged within Khosla Ventures, an early backer of OpenAI. Founder Vinod Khosla and partner Ethan Choi publicly disavowed comments made by partner Keith Rabois over the weekend, who had stated that law enforcement had not shot an innocent person and that illegal immigrants commit crimes on a daily basis.
However, leaders of major Minnesota-based companies including 3M, UnitedHealth Group, and General Mills have called for de-escalation since the second shooting occurred over the weekend. The corporate response represents a significant shift after weeks of silence on the immigration enforcement operations.
Employee activism has also played a role in pushing companies to take a stance. More than 450 employees from technology firms including Google, Meta Platforms, Salesforce, and OpenAI signed a letter on Saturday urging their top executives to pressure the White House to withdraw ICE from U.S. cities, cancel all contracts with ICE, and speak out publicly against what they characterized as ICE’s violence.
The employee letter represents a grassroots effort within the technology industry to influence corporate policy on immigration enforcement. The signatories called on their employers to take concrete actions beyond public statements, including severing business relationships with ICE and actively lobbying the administration to change its approach.
Altman concluded his message to employees with an expression of hope for leadership from President Trump. “President Trump is a very strong leader, and I hope he will rise to this moment and unite the country. I am encouraged by the last few hours of response and hope to see trust rebuilt with transparent investigations,” Altman added.
Read more at Reuters here.
Lucas Nolan is a reporter for Breitbart News covering issues of free speech and online censorship.
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Fred Fleitz: We Must Stop China from Stealing Our Military Secrets
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Fred Fleitz
31 Jan 2026143
5:09
Following the Trump administration’s successful capture of Nicolás Maduro, much has been written about the Venezuelan leader’s cooperation with China, from intelligence sharing to military access and technology transfers in the Western Hemisphere, and why the Trump administration was right to act against him.
But while many policy analysts focus on China’s influence abroad, many have paid far less attention to how easily the Chinese Communist Party can access sensitive information here at home, often because we fail to enforce our own rules governing electronic devices inside secure facilities.
Ken Calvert, the Chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense, points out that when the U.S. won the Cold War, it was clear we had the most powerful military on earth, and it looked like no one else could catch up.
However, in just 30 years, China has nearly done so. The country has built the second-largest economy in the world and is using that economic power to fund a military buildup that is faster and more sophisticated than anything we have seen before.
China’s rise has not come from innovation alone. Both economically and militarily, it has been built on the systematic theft of U.S. commercial and defense secrets.
Developing designs, gathering data, building production systems, and creating intellectual property is expensive and time-consuming. A country can move much faster if it can “borrow” that work from others and focus only on production. That is what China has done for decades, and its ability to do so has only increased over the last ten years with digital technology, especially cell phones.
Twenty years ago, espionage centered on stealing a handful of documents. Today it involves the theft and transmission of massive files, complete weapons manuals, and thousands of photographs of U.S. military equipment in use on American bases and ships, making it far easier for China to jump directly to production.
In 2025 alone, there were at least ten public cases of individuals charged or convicted of spying for China using their cell phones. Those cases are only the tip of the iceberg. Many more are resolved quietly when classified material is involved, to avoid exposing sensitive information in open court.
As cell phones become more powerful and ubiquitous, enforcement against their presence in sensitive facilities has not kept pace. Many government locations display signs stating, “No unauthorized electronic devices allowed.”
Unfortunately, those policies are often treated the same way speed limits are treated on America’s highways: respected only when enforcement is visible. In facilities without real enforcement mechanisms, people bring in phones with impunity, assuming it is acceptable because they lack malicious intent. Few consider that their devices could be compromised or that widespread noncompliance provides cover for someone who does have hostile intent.
According to retired CIA executive Rodney Alto, fewer than 10 percent of intelligence community facilities that prohibit electronic devices have any mechanism to detect them. Where detection systems do exist, experience shows that people still attempt to bring in unauthorized devices, proving that facilities without protection are likely admitting thousands of compromising devices without ever knowing it.
This helps explain how China has been able to catch up so quickly. As the United States develops new weapons and defense systems, China learns from stolen copies of our work and races to keep pace.
This must be corrected — and now.
China’s military modernization is accelerating as its claims against Taiwan intensify. Taiwan produces nearly all of the world’s most advanced semiconductor chips, supplying companies such as NVIDIA, Intel, IBM, and others, placing the center of advanced computing just 115 miles from mainland China.
At the same time, the United States is preparing the largest buildup of military intellectual property in history. Programs such as Golden Dome, the Columbia-class submarine, the B-21 Raider, nuclear triad modernization, and hypersonic weapons rely on technologies that do not yet exist. That gives us a rare opportunity to protect these secrets before they are created, and before they can be stolen.
We know extraordinary technologies are coming. Now is the time to enforce a government-wide ban on unauthorized electronic devices in sensitive facilities, backed by mandatory detection systems, real penalties for violations, and sustained oversight by Congress. It’s the only way to make sure we don’t continue to build China’s blueprints for them.
Fred Fleitz is a former Chief of Staff to the Trump National Security Council and a former CIA analyst. He is currently Vice Chair of the America First Policy Institute Center for American Security.
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