Southwest
Contentious exchanges over illegal immigration front and center in Arizona Senate debate
Arizona Democratic Rep. Ruben Gallego faced off against Republican challenger Kari Lake on Wednesday night and wasted no time exchanging blows over the illegal immigration crisis plaguing the state’s southern border.
Lake, trailing behind Gallego entering into the debate, appeared much more on the offensive. Meanwhile, Gallego – a five-term member in Congress – appeared more relaxed, given his comfortable lead in several recent polls.
The two candidates sparred over border security and abortion in the first half of the debate night. Lake touted H.R. 2 – the House GOP-led bill that would tighten border security – while Gallego pointed to his support for the failed bipartisan border bill that Democrats, Republicans and White House officials negotiated earlier this year.
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Kari Lake and Rep. Ruben Gallego are battling in the Arizona Senate race. (Getty Images)
Gallego also accused Lake of wanting to deport Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipients, while Lake accused Gallego of not wanting to deport any of the illegal immigrants who have crossed the border over the last three and a half years.
“Dealing with the people who’ve poured in during the Bidenvasion, the 20 million people who have come in unvetted into our country, we must deal with them in order to save our homeland,” Lake said during the debate. “We must send them back to their homeland. I’m talking about the people came in unvetted in the past three and a half years. I’m not talking about the dreamers.”
“Do you want to deport any of the people who’ve invaded our country in the last three and a half years? Ruben, do want to deport any of them?” Lake probed.
“Yes, actually we should have a proper deport deportation proceedings,” Gallego replied. “But I also think that we shouldn’t deport Dreamers.”
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Kari Lake holds a press conference on May 23, 2023 in Phoenix. (Rebecca Noble/Getty Images)
“She says she’s going to deport people. Will you deport those Dreamers? Just be honest, yes or no,” Gallego said.
Lake responded that former President Donald Trump wanted to make a deal when it came to Dreamers, which Gallego did not support.
“You said no. Unfortunately, the radical Democrats, like my opponent, would rather use people as political pawns. I want to secure the border,” Lake said.
Though it was a debate for the Arizona Senate seat, the debate did not shy away from weighing into national waters. Other issues like reducing inflation and re-federalizing Roe v. Wade came up later in the debate.
At one point during the night, Gallego took a swipe at Lake, accusing her of spending more time at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago than visiting the border.
Lake also made sure to align herself as a strong Trump ally throughout the night who would restore a “strong Trump economy,” while painting Gallego as a supporter of “Kamala Harris, the border czar, and Joe Biden’s open border.”
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Rep. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz. (Getty Images)
When it came to abortion, which Democrats have selected as one of their winning platform issues this election cycle, Lake said she opposed a federal abortion ban, but Gallego pointed to her supporting the state’s 1864 near-total ban in 2022.
Gallegho said “it is absolutely abhorrent” that his 15-month-old daughter “has less rights in control of her body than her mother and then her grandma.” State law currently bans abortion at 15 weeks gestation.
“And the reason we need to codify [Roe v. Wade] because people like Kari Lake are the ones that make this a dangerous situation,” he said.
Lake responded that abortion rights should be “left to the states.”
The debate came on the first day of early voting for Arizona, as the state’s Senate race is one of the highly contested seats this election cycle.
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Los Angeles, Ca
Car slams into multiple other vehicles in South Los Angeles while fleeing takeover: LAPD
A street takeover left at least a half dozen vehicles smashed and a man possibly armed with a gun was taken into custody in the Broadway-Manchester area of South Los Angeles early Monday morning.
A man armed with a firearm was reported just before 3:45 a.m., and he was taken into custody near Colden Avenue and San Pedro Street just before 4 a.m., according to Los Angeles Police Department Officer Drake Madison. It’s unclear if firearms were located, Madison added.
Nearby at about the same time, a street takeover of unknown size resulted in at least one vehicle barrelling down a South Los Angeles street, smashing into about a dozen vehicles before fleeing the scene, police said.
It’s unclear if the allegedly armed man and the street takeover were connected, but witnesses told KTLA’s Kimberly Cheng that a stolen Infiniti that crashed into the vehicles trying to evade police. Madison said this was not a police pursuit.
Cheng added that six cars with visible damage were still on the street later Monday morning, two of which belonged to one neighbor who asked to remain anonymous.
“I think they’re going to be a total loss,” she said.
Further details were not immediately released.
Nancy Fontan and Sofia Pop Perez contributed to this report.
Southwest
Afghan man charged with Election Day terror plot screened multiple times, worked CIA security job
An Afghan man living in Oklahoma who allegedly plotted to conduct a terrorist attack on Election Day on behalf of the Islamic State worked a security job for the CIA in Afghanistan, Fox News has learned.
Authorities believe Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi, 27, became radicalized after he arrived in the U.S. Sept. 9, 2021, weeks after the American troops pulled out of Afghanistan, a senior Biden administration official said.
He entered the U.S. on a special immigrant visa (SIV) and is on parole status pending adjudication of his immigration proceedings, the Department of Homeland Security said this week. Those facts were disputed by the State Department.
Officials have since clarified that Tawhedi came to the U.S. via humanitarian parole and later applied for SIV status.
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Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi is charged with plotting an Election Day terror attack. (Department of Justice)
Humanitarian parole is a process by which Tawhedi would have been held in a third country for screening and vetting and then flown to the U.S.
After moving to the U.S. in 2021, he applied for special immigrant status, a pathway for a green card, and was approved. He hadn’t finalized his status, which is why the State Department denied a DHS claim made this week that Tawhedi arrived with an SIV.
It was still unclear when the State Department approved him for an SIV after DHS approved him for humanitarian parole in 2021. Tawhedi applied for SIV status immediately after arriving in the U.S.
There were no red flags that would have barred him from entry into the U.S., officials said.
DHS OIG FAULTS AFGHAN VETTING, WARNS NATIONAL SECURITY THREATS MAY HAVE ENTERED US
A photo of Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi and his children from July. (Department of Justice)
“Afghan evacuees who sought to enter the United States were subject to multilayered screening and vetting against intelligence, law enforcement and counterterrorism information. If new information emerges after arrival, appropriate action is taken,” a DHS spokesperson told Fox News Digital.
Investigators believe Tawhedi was radicalized after arriving in the U.S., similar to several past terrorism suspects, including those involved in the Pulse nightclub shooting, the 2015 San Bernardino attack and the Halloween 2017 case in which a man used a truck to murder eight people and injure several others on a bike path in Lower Manhattan on behalf of ISIS.
Tawhedi was arrested Monday and is charged with conspiring and attempting to provide material support to ISIS and receiving a gun to be used to commit a felony or a federal crime of terrorism.
In his seized communications, Tawhedi allegedly indicated that his attack was planned to target large gatherings of people on Election Day, during which he and a juvenile were expected to die as martyrs. He was busted after speaking with an FBI confidential informant, the Justice Department said.
The unidentified juvenile suspect, Tawhedi’s brother-in-law, entered the U.S. in March 2018 under a stricter SIV program after he was vetted.
On Thursday, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas refused to answer questions about Tawhedi amid ongoing concerns about the vetting of those brought to the U.S.
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Officials are investigating a fatal shooting in San Pedro, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.
Police said a report of shots fired near 7th Street and Grand Avenue came into the station around 4:38 p.m. on Sunday.
Footage from the scene shows a large law enforcement response and a white canopy set up in the area – which is generally used to cover a victim while police scour the area for evidence.
Additionally, authorities cordoned off the area as detectives worked to gather information and redirect traffic around the intersection.
So far, police have not released a suspect description and it’s unclear if any arrests have been made.
No information as to the victim’s identity or a motive for why they may have been fatally shot was provided.
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