President Donald Trump announced a sweeping new crackdown on the financial infrastructure supporting illegal immigration, revealing that his administration will move to shut down bank accounts used to facilitate illegal immigration, human smuggling, cartel activity, and even accounts used to store welfare benefits received by illegal aliens.

The Gateway Pundit reported last month that in a new executive order, the Trump administration directed the Treasury Department to increase scrutiny of financial activity tied to illegal immigration, including potential payroll tax evasion, concealed account ownership, off-the-books wage schemes, labor trafficking, and the use of Individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers (ITINs) without verified legal presence documentation.

Banks will now be pressured to strengthen customer identification requirements and think twice before handing out accounts, loans, credit cards, or any financial services to those here illegally.

In a fiery Truth Social post on Tuesday, President Trump declared that illegal immigrants and foreign fraudsters are stealing billions of dollars from American taxpayers every year and vowed that his administration would use every available tool to stop it.

Trump wrote on Truth Social:

Illegal Immigrants and Foreign Fraudsters steal BILLIONS every year from the American Taxpayer.

As part of my Administration’s Historic effort to end FRAUD and reverse MASS ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION, I recently signed a powerful new Executive Order, which will be led by the Treasury Department, to stop Banks, Credit Cards, and Financial Institutions from being used to facilitate Human Smuggling, Drug Trafficking, Illegal Immigration, and the Criminal Cartels who orchestrate these activities.

Access to our Nation’s Financial Systems must be limited to those who have a Legal Right to be here, and who are engaged in Lawful and Legitimate Commerce.

Bank Accounts being used to enable Illegal Immigration, or to store the Welfare received by Illegal Aliens, will be shut down, and funds will ultimately face Impoundment and Seizure so they can to be returned to Taxpayers. It is not ludicrous, but profoundly dangerous, that any Illegal Alien can simply present a Blue State Drivers License, or Biden Border Document, and have unrestricted access to the U.S. Financial System.

This also sends a clear message to the anti-ICE rioters that your violent disruptions are only strengthening our resolve.

My Executive Order will also allow us to stop Billions in leaving our Country in all manner of criminal activity. It has been said this measure we are taking is the most effective means of reversing Biden’s Border Invasion. We shall soon find out!

The announcement builds upon President Trump’s Executive Order, “Restoring Integrity to America’s Financial System,” which directs the Treasury Department and federal regulators to strengthen customer identification requirements, target illicit financial activity, and address financial risks associated with illegal immigration.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has been tasked with leading the effort.

Read more:

Trump Moves to Squeeze Illegal Aliens Out of the U.S. Financial System with New Executive Order Targeting Banking Loopholes

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1990s rap icon Vanilla Ice refused to play the game when CNN anchor Brianna Keilar tried to guilt him into dropping his performance at the Trump administration-backed Freedom 250 concert series celebrating America’s 250th anniversary.

The “Ice Ice Baby” star delivered a straightforward and patriotic response during a CNN interview with host Brianna Keilar when asked why he still plans to perform at the Freedom 250 celebration while other artists are dropping out.

Keilar pressed the rapper on why he was continuing with the performance after numerous musicians announced their withdrawals from the Great American State Fair and Freedom 250 events.

Keilar pressed him on camera:

“Tell us why you’re still planning on performing even though we’ve heard that from the president when so many other performers are deciding not to.”

Vanilla Ice didn’t flinch. He fired back with a direct, unapologetic defense of American pride and common sense:

“I don’t know, I can only speak for myself and I’m proud to be an American. I was born here and raised here and this is my country and I don’t like anybody telling me I really can’t be proud of it. And this is a huge honor to play the birthday. It’s one in a lifetime, you know, 250. So I’m honored and I just, you know, I, I respect everybody else. I know there’s a lot of tension everywhere.

This whole world is like a snow globe, but it shouldn’t be that. And music is here to bring people together, man. And, you know, it shouldn’t be that this music is dragged into politics. It’s not fair. You know, I’m— I don’t even vote. I’m not a politician. I don’t have anything that— I don’t even have the first thing to say about how to run a country or do anything like that. I think this is a huge honor, and, uh, and I’m wanting to celebrate the country I was born and raised in, man.”

WATCH:

Vanilla Ice shuts down CNN
CNN: “Why are you still performing at Freedom 250 while so many others are canceling?”
Vanilla Ice: “I’m proud to be an American. I was born and raised here. This is my country, and I don’t like anyone telling me I can’t be proud of it.”
Ice Ice… pic.twitter.com/ZmnoRxCdNa

— Reverend Jordan Wells (@WellsJorda89710) June 1, 2026

In previous interviews defending his participation in the event, Vanilla Ice emphasized that he performs for fans regardless of politics, saying he doesn’t vote and would perform for anyone because “music is not political” and is meant to bring people together.

The comments come as Freedom 250’s concert lineup has been targeted by activists and critics, leading numerous performers to withdraw from the celebration. Artists including Martina McBride, Bret Michaels, Young MC, Morris Day, and others have exited the event amid controversy surrounding its association with President Trump and America’s semiquincentennial celebration.

Yet Vanilla Ice remains one of the few major performers standing firm.

The rapper has repeatedly described the event as a celebration of America’s birthday rather than a political rally and says he is looking forward to helping commemorate 250 years of American history.

The Gateway Pundit readers will remember Vanilla Ice bringing the house down performing “Ice Ice Baby” at Mar-a-Lago on New Year’s Eve alongside Stephen Miller and Kristi Noem. He’s been consistent. He loves this country and isn’t ashamed to say it out loud.

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Far-left extremist California State Sen. Scott Wiener is advancing to the November general election in the race for California’s 11th Congressional District, the deep-blue San Francisco seat that Nancy Pelosi has held for nearly 40 years before announcing her retirement.

With roughly 49% of votes counted as of early Wednesday morning following the June 2 primary, Wiener led decisively with 41.3%, ahead of Pelosi-endorsed San Francisco Supervisor Connie Chan at 28.6%, and former AOC chief of staff Saikat Chakrabarti trailing behind in third place.

Under California’s top-two primary system, Wiener will advance to face Chan, or whoever ultimately finishes second, in November.

The district is so heavily blue that Weiner will likely win the fall election.

Pelosi had endorsed Chan just weeks before the primary, calling her a trusted ally who knows the district and Congress.

Wiener, a 56-year-old openly gay Harvard Law graduate and former San Francisco supervisor, has built a reputation as one of California’s most extreme politicians.

Wiener’s record is packed with legislation that has drawn intense backlash from conservatives, law enforcement, parents, women’s rights advocates, and even some moderate Democrats in San Francisco.

Among the most controversial is Senate Bill 132, the Transgender Respect, Agency, and Dignity Act, which he authored and which Governor Gavin Newsom signed in 2020.

The law requires the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to house transgender, non-binary, and intersex inmates according to their self-identified “gender identity,” or wherever they say they “feel safest,” rather than biological sex, and mandates that staff use preferred pronouns and honorifics.

Female inmates, women’s safety groups, and anyone with common sense argue this law endangers biological women by allowing male individuals into female prisons and showers, potentially increasing assault risks, while Wiener has defended it as protecting “vulnerable transgender” inmates from “violence.”

Wiener also authored Senate Bill 239 in 2017, which dramatically weakened California’s HIV criminalization laws from the 1980s and 1990s.

The measure reduced penalties for knowingly exposing someone to HIV from a felony to a misdemeanor in many cases, repealed HIV-specific felonies for things like donating blood or soliciting sex without disclosure, and aligned HIV rules with other communicable diseases.

Weiner also took a sledgehammer to sex-offender policies with Senate Bill 145 in 2020, which extended judicial discretion on sex-offender registry requirements for all consensual acts between a minor, 14-17, and an adult no more than 10 years older, removing the prior mandatory lifetime registration for men who have sex with underage boys.

Conservatives branded it the “pedophile protection bill.”

Wiener has also gone after federal immigration enforcement with Senate Bill 747, the No Kings Act, which passed the California Senate in 2026 as first-in-the-nation legislation allowing Californians to sue ICE, Border Patrol, and other federal agents in state court for alleged constitutional violations.

The radical leftist has long called for abolishing ICE outright, labeling it a “terror organization,” and previously pushed bills banning federal agents from wearing masks during operations, despite constant doxing threats from his political allies.

Weiner has supported criminal justice reforms reducing penalties for nonviolent drug offenses and has championed additional transgender measures, including SB 107, making California a “refuge” for transgender youth and families fleeing red-state restrictions, and SB 59, automatically sealing court records for gender marker and name changes.

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Zach Lahn has won the Republican nomination for Governor.

The MAHA-endorsed farmer and businessman narrowly defeated U.S. Rep. Randy Feenstra — who carried a late endorsement from President Donald Trump — in Tuesday’s crowded GOP primary. With 99% of votes counted, Lahn took 80,765 votes (37.8%) to Feenstra’s 79,113 votes (37.01%). The rest of the field split the remaining votes among Adam Steen, Brad Sherman, and Eddie Andrews.

Feenstra conceded Tuesday night before the race was officially called.

Fox News reported:

The result marked a major setback for Feenstra, who represents Iowa’s 4th Congressional District and entered Election Day as the best-known Republican in the race. Feenstra had a congressional profile, a fundraising advantage, support from prominent Iowa Republicans, including former Gov. Terry Branstad, and a late endorsement from President Donald Trump.

Lahn had just around a 1,600-vote lead ahead of Feenstra shortly after midnight Eastern Time with 99% of the votes counted, according to The Associated Press’ elections tracker.

“I just called Zach Lahn, and said, ‘Hey, you got to carry this torch. We got to keep this state red. You got to make sure you beat Rob Sand.’ And I’m all in to help him out,” Feenstra said to supporters at his election night gathering, according to a video recording shared by Iowas News Now reporter Skylar Tallal.

Trump endorsed Feenstra just days before the primary, calling him “MAGA all the way” and giving him his “Complete and Total Endorsement.” Feenstra campaigned as a close ally of the president, highlighting his support for Trump’s agenda on border security, tax cuts, energy production and agriculture.

Lahn, meanwhile, ran as an outsider candidate and drew support from MAHA Action, the political group aligned with the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement. His campaign website describes him as a father, farmer and businessman advancing an “Iowa First” agenda.

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Huge numbers of protesters gathered outside a Southampton police station on Tuesday night led by Tommy Robinson in order to demand justice for Henry Nowak.

Nowak, an 18-year-old white British teenager, was killed last December by Vickrum Digwa, a Sikh man who falsely claimed he had been racially abused before the attack.

He may have survived had officers not handcuffed him while he lay bleeding from stab wounds inflicted with by Digwa’s Sikh ceremonial sword.

Police bodycam footage showed that when Nowak told an officer he had been stabbed, the officer replied: “Don’t think you have mate.”

Digwa, 23, was jailed for life on Monday after being convicted of murdering Nowak as the teenager walked back to his student accommodation in the city of Southampton.

HORROR: “I’ve Been Stabbed!” – UK Police Bodycam Footage Shows Stabbing Victim Henry Nowak Pleading with Officers as They Cuff and Drag Him (VIDEO)

The “Justice for Henry Nowak” demonstration began outside Southampton Central Police Station.

Crowds waved Union flags and held signs reading “Henry’s blood is on your hands,” “Save our kids,” and “Prison 4 police on scene.”

🚨 JUST IN: A BRAWL just kicked off between pro-Henry Nowak demonstrators and riot police

"HENRY! HENRY! HENRY!"

The crowd is filled with absolutely livid demonstrators who were DEMANDING the police kneel for Nowak the same way they did for George Floyd@UKSploosh pic.twitter.com/fyz6bHVyUm

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) June 2, 2026

Chants of “Shame on you” and “Racist police, off our streets” rang out as speakers addressed the crowd, including the popular street activist Tommy Robinson.

“If Henry wasn’t white, he wouldn’t have been handcuffed,” Robinson told demonstrators, adding that he wanted to see the officer responsible in prison.

“A white boy who done nothing was handcuffed, a murderer in possession of a knife who stabbed someone five times isn’t.”

Hundreds gathered outside Southampton Central Police Station following the guilty verdict in the murder of Henry Nowak.

In this speech, Tommy Robinson addresses the crowd and speaks about the questions many people believe still need answering.

He discusses the treatment of… pic.twitter.com/Ls9kWFRZSz

— Tommy Robinson (@TRobinsonNewEra) June 2, 2026

Nick Tenconi, leader of the UK Independence Party, led a prayer for Nowak and denounced two-tier policing.

“The arresting officers believed persecuting him was more important than saving him because he was white,” Tenconi said.

As the evening progressed, several hundred protesters marched toward the area where the killing took place.

Riot police blocked access to the street where Digwa’s family reportedly lives, leading to confrontations between demonstrators and officers.

WATCH: Police come under attack at protest in Southampton over the arrest of Henry Nowak

Credit: Ay_audits on YouTube pic.twitter.com/M77ZTtTVwH

— Politics UK (@PolitlcsUK) June 2, 2026

Some protesters threw bottles, cans, and wheelie bins as police pushed crowds back with shields while a helicopter circled overhead.

Nearby police vehicles were also struck with glass bottles during the unrest.

Video of the British police charging Henry Nowak protesters tonight as the protesters chant “Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry”

https://t.co/1MN0vfShvR

— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) June 2, 2026

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood denounced the protests in a post on X and pledged to prosecute those involved.

“There can be no justification for hijacking this tragedy to stir up violence and disorder,” she wrote. “Those responsible can expect to face the full force of the law.”

The scenes this evening in Portswood are completely unacceptable.

The Nowak family made a powerful call to us all yesterday to not let Henry’s death be used to create further division, hatred or tension.

There can be no justification for hijacking this tragedy to stir up…

— Shabana Mahmood MP (@ShabanaMahmood) June 2, 2026

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