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The Trump administration’s deputy director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stepped away from her role to run for Congress.
Madison Sheahan announced Thursday that she was resigning from ICE to challenge Ohio Democratic Rep. Marcy Kaptur, who has held onto her seat since 1982.
‘Real change means real leadership.’
Sheahan posted her first campaign video on Thursday morning and shared it on X.
“I’m Madison Sheahan. I’m a Trump conservative running for Congress to protect American jobs, American paychecks, and American values,” she wrote. “No excuses. Let’s get it done.”
In the campaign video, Sheahan touted her success at ICE, stating that, in less than one year, she has “stopped more illegal immigration than Marcy Kaptur has in her 43 years in Washington.”
“In Congress, hypocrisy, excuses, and failure can earn you a lifetime job, but on my family farm, that would put us out of business,” she said.
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Madison Sheahan. Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images
Sheahan highlighted how, during her time at ICE, the agency recruited 12,000 new agents and officers and deported over 2.5 million illegal aliens.
She slammed Kaptur for voting against funding the border wall while sending taxpayer handouts to illegal aliens. Kaptur also supported higher taxes on American citizens, including voting to keep taxes on Social Security, tips, and overtime, Sheahan stated.
“I’m tired of watching my hardworking family, friends, and neighbors pay more and get ignored,” Sheahan continued. “Real change means real leadership. And I’ve done it before.”
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Marcy Kaptur. Photo by Kent Nishimura/Getty Images
Kaptur’s campaign responded to Sheahan’s announcement, telling WTOL, “While Republicans from near and far will fight through a messy primary in this district they gerrymandered again just this fall, Congresswoman Kaptur is focused on delivering real results for her constituents.”
“She’s working to lower costs for working families, protect access to affordable health care, and bring transformative investments to Northwest Ohio,” the statement continued. “Voters are tired of the self-dealing corruption and culture of lawlessness they’ve seen over the last year. They want a leader focused on affordability and real results, and Marcy Kaptur consistently works across the aisle to deliver both.”
Several Republican candidates are running for Ohio’s 9th congressional district.
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Illegal-alien patients drain Texas hospitals, racking up billion-dollar bill — in less than a year
Unsurprisingly Texas bears a disproportionate share of the burden from illegal immigration due to its expansive southern border. Now state leadership has released the numbers to prove the massive financial burden illegal aliens have had on one sector in particular: hospitals.
New data has been released by the Texas Health and Human Services Commission showing a baffling 10-figure financial burden on Texas hospitals in fiscal year 2025, Texas Scorecard first reported.
The total cost tipped over the billion-dollar mark: $1,050,642,864.
According to the new data, the total visits between November 2024 and August 2025 reached 313,742 for those “not legally present.”
Photographer: Desiree Rios/Bloomberg via Getty Images
And the total cost tipped over the billion-dollar mark: $1,050,642,864.
The year-end totals show that the burden is not only on one type of care either.
A large portion of the visits come from the “Emergency Department – Non-Medicaid/Non-CHIP” category, though the lion’s share of the cost comes from the “Inpatient Discharges – Non-Medicaid/Non-CHIP” category, meaning that the hospital system is being burdened by illegal aliens seeking both emergency and long-term care.
This data was collected and released pursuant to an executive order signed by Gov. Greg Abbott (R) in August 2024. The order directed hospitals to begin collecting data on illegal alien patients in Texas hospitals beginning in November 2024.
As Texas Scorecard noted, these numbers are therefore not reflective of the full fiscal year, and the actual totals very likely exceed these figures.
Abbott argued in the executive order that Texans ultimately bear the burden of public financial support through higher taxes and more expensive medical care as well.
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Ariana Grande exposes Hollywood hypocrisy with anti-ICE pin at Golden Globes
In 2017, an Australian-American yoga teacher named Justine Damond called the police because she heard strange noises in the alley behind her house and thought someone was being hurt.
When she called 911, police officers showed up to her house.
One of their names was Mohamed Noor, and he was an immigrant from Somalia. While she was talking to the other police officers, Noor shot through the driver’s open window at Damond and hit her in the chest, killing her immediately.
He was sentenced to only 12 years in prison.
“Now you might not have ever heard that story because there were no riots. There were no protests. Nothing burned down. There was no shouts and insistence upon saying her name or rest in power. Your favorite social justice activist, your racially conscious pastor, didn’t post anything about her,” BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey says on “Relatable.”
“And in fact, in 2021, the Minnesota Supreme Court overturned Noor’s murder conviction due to insufficient evidence, sending the case back to the district court where he would be sentenced instead for the manslaughter conviction,” she continues.
Noor testified that the loud noises made him fear for his life, and that’s why he shot her.
“So he was spooked. He wasn’t approached with a vehicle. This woman wasn’t armed. She came outside in her pajamas,” Stuckey says.
“Now I want you to ask yourself, if this had been an ICE agent who killed a liberal woman, or if this had been a white police officer who killed a black man … Minneapolis would have burned,” she continues.
In comparison, $1.5 million has been raised for Renee Nicole Good — who drove her car at an ICE officer in protest and was shot and killed as a result.
And celebrities like Ariana Grande are wearing pins to the Golden Globes that say “ICE Out.”
“The Golden Globes had a border. Like it had a hedge, and it’s got dogs, and it’s got guards. It’s got armed security officers. Like if I tried to go in there and cause chaos … someone would have been shot for doing that possibly. They at least would have been tackled,” Stuckey comments.
“What do you think Ariana Grande’s house looks like? Do you think her gates are open? Do you think that she has a lock on her door? Do you think that she has bodyguards?” she continues.
“These people believe that they deserve security and that normal Americans who can’t afford to live in gated mansion communities deserve to bear the brunt of it and that innocent moms and dads in Minnesota deserve to be stolen from by Somalian migrants,” she says, adding, “That’s what they believe.”
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