Two officers with the Detroit Police Department were suspended without pay for 30 days on Thursday for calling Customs and Border Protection agents on two separate occasions that resulted in the agents taking suspects into federal custody.

A Detroit Police sergeant and officer were accused by Detroit Police Chief Todd Bettison of breaking department policy when they called Border Patrol agents during traffic stops on December 16 and February 9, ABC’s Detroit affiliate WXYZ reported. Bettison pushed to fire the officers, but the Board of Police Commissioners voted on Thursday to suspend the cops without pay. The officers were initially suspended with pay on February 12.

We have a place for you, patriots.https://t.co/3c7b0Ry86A https://t.co/8bCkfH1Yhb

— U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (@ICEgov) February 20, 2026

While Detroit has not officially declared itself a “sanctuary city” for illegal immigrants, it effectively acts as on as the police are prohibited from cooperating with federal immigration agents. During the incident earlier this month, Detroit Police sergeant Denise Wallet was called to assist an officer who was dealing with a person who could not speak English. According to Chief Bettison, the sergeant called Border Patrol to help with translation services instead of using the police department’s translation service line.

Wallet, who has been with the department for 27 years, sued the city after she was suspended. In a complaint, Wallet said that she contacted Border Patrol simply to identify the suspect, “not to enforce immigration law or to inquire into the subject’s immigration status,” Michigan Advance reported. Wallet’s action was discovered by the police department during a bodycam audit, which showed the sergeant make “a verbal comment expressing her disagreement with the DPD policy regarding immigration and collaboration with the federal government.”

In the complaint, Wallet argues that the police department’s policy violates federal law, which states that “no state or local government entity or official may prohibit or restrict any government entity or official from sending to, or receiving from, federal immigration authorities information regarding the citizenship or immigration status of any individual.” Wallet also argues that her due process rights were violated since she was suspended without being given an opportunity to defend herself.

Leftist Michigan Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib praised Chief Bettison for punishing the police officers.

“Chief Bettison and I agree that we need to make sure that our community and our residents trust the people who are trying to keep us safe,” Tlaib said.

Michigan House Republican leader Matt Hall, however, said that the Detroit Police Department’s action could prompt the state House to review the department’s policies, saying that firing the officers would be “unacceptable,” The Detroit News reported.

After the board voted on Thursday to suspend the officers without pay, Bettison said he would no longer pursue firing the officers.

“This incident should make it clear, however, that as Chief, I will continue to vigorously enforce DPD’s policies,” he added.

While Detroit has not seen the same surge in federal immigration operations that cities like Minneapolis and Chicago have experienced, ICE agents routinely arrest suspected illegal immigrants in the Motor City and surrounding area.

The United States Stock Market ended the day in the green after a volatile session driven by tariff news. The Supreme Court released its ruling at 10am, prompting the NASDAQ,the Dow Jones Industrial Average, and the S&P 500 to rally after earlier declines based on weaker-than-expected fourth-quarter GDP data. After the initial rally, all three major indices retreated by midday before climbing again around 12:30pm, ultimately closing in the green for the day and the week. 

President Donald Trump hosted a midday press conference, where he noted that the Supreme Court’s ruling removes uncertainty surrounding tariffs. “The bottom line is that the word certainty is now in the equation,” Trump said.

Under the sweeping tariffs Trump issued using the International Emergency Economist Powers Act (IEEPA), the administration asserted that it had broad authority to impose duties with little notice, Trump could essentially issue a new tariff via Truth Social post. With his powers revoked, he will have to implement tariffs through Section 232s. Imposing tariffs through Section 232s is a much more bureaucratic process than under IEEPA.

To start the process, the Commerce Department will open a 90-270 day investigation on a product or class of imports. Once the investigation concludes, the Commerce Department will deliver the findings to the President and the President can then impose tariffs. The extended timeline provides companies with advance notice before duties are placed on imports, adding predictability for impacted companies. 

“The Supreme Court’s announcement regarding tariffs provides much-needed certainty for U.S. businesses and manufactures, enabling global supply chains to operate without ambiguity,” the National Retail Federation said after the ruling. “Clear and consistent trade policy is essential for economic growth, creating jobs and opportunities for American families. 

The retail sector was one of the strongest-performing sectors with certainty priced in around tariffs.  Amazon, Home Depot, Walmart, Target, and Five Below popped on the news. 

The next question for these retailers will be if refunds are issued levies they may have already paid. The Supreme Court did not issue a ruling on refunds so the decision will be litigated in lower courts.

The Trump administration is proposing new regulations that would make it more difficult for illegal immigrants to receive work permits.

Under the Biden administration, as millions of illegal immigrants poured across the southern border, they were afforded the opportunity to receive work permits rapidly before even receiving immigration status. The new proposed rule would make it more difficult for illegal border crossers whose asylum claims have no standing to obtain work permits.

“For too long, a fraudulent asylum claim has been an easy path to working in the United States, overwhelming our immigration system with meritless applications,” a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson said.

“We are proposing an overhaul of the asylum system to enforce the rules and reduce the backlog we inherited from the prior administration. Aliens are not entitled to work while we process their asylum applications. The Trump administration is strengthening the vetting of asylum applicants and restoring integrity to the asylum and work authorization processes,” the spokesperson added.

The plan would include a pause on the issuance of work permits for asylum seekers until they’re able to process applications within 180 days, according to the Friday notice.

It could take between 14 and 173 years to reach that benchmark, according to Reuters.

Once the rule is imposed, new illegal border crossers will be ineligible for work permits, according to the plan. Illegal immigrants who notify federal immigration authorities within 48 hours of crossing the border for fear of returning to their home country based on “persecution or torture” will be exempt from the rule.

“USCIS [United States Citizenship and Immigration Services] expects this rule to support another downward trend in the long term, but USCIS also expects that, upon implementation of this rule, new EAD [Employment Authorization Document] applications for pending asylum applicants would be paused for an extended period, possibly many years,” the notice read.

United States Citizenship and Immigration Services currently has more than 1.4 million pending asylum claims on its plate, the agency said.

Work permits for asylum applicants are not considered “an entitlement,” according to the Department of Homeland Security, which “believes that this rule is key to disincentivizing aliens from using asylum primarily as a path to seek employment authorization in the United States and to ensuring more timely processing of asylum applications.”

The Trump administration will accept public comment for 60 days before attempting to move forward with the plan.

Some illegal immigrants who previously received work permits used them to obtain commercial driver’s licenses. While behind the wheel of heavy trucks, some of them caused fatal accidents.

Chinese illegal immigrant Yisong Huang, 54, is accused of killing a 31-year-old truck driver and injuring several others in Tennessee on Dec. 9 while he was distracted by a video on his phone as he drove a tour bus.

Huang crossed the border illegally in 2023 and was swiftly released into the country. He was later granted a work permit and Social Security card.

On Wednesday, an Indian illegal immigrant, Singh Sukhdeep, behind the wheel of a semi-truck allegedly caused an accident that killed 64-year-old Terry Schultz in Hendricks County, Indiana.

Singh crossed the border illegally in 2018 and was released into the country because he was a minor at the time, federal law enforcement sources told The Daily Wire.

The illegal immigrant had a valid work permit at the time of the crash. The Indian national also had an Indiana commercial driver’s license, according to Fox News.

Team USA women’s figure skater Alysa Liu defied the odds to become the first American woman to win Olympic gold in twenty years. As the California native took to the Olympic podium before the entire world, her breathtaking comeback was also paved by her father’s patriotic story of grit and heroism against seemingly greater odds. 

After ranking third in the women’s short program on Tuesday, Liu — cool, calm, and collected as usual — showed up to the rink smiling, waving to the crowd, and ready to skate. She performed her routine to Donna Summer’s “MacArthur Park Suite” with the infectious energy that is a trademark of the 20-year-old. After the near-perfect skate earned her a career-best 226.79 points, she was placed in first with just two skaters left — Japan’s three-time World Champion Kaori Sakamoto and Ami Nakai.

When both skaters just slightly missed the mark —Sakamoto scored 224.90 points and Ami five points behind her — Liu officially captured the gold medal and a much-needed win for Team USA.

ALYSA LIU'S GOLD-WINNING FREE SKATE ROUTINE! ⭐️ #WinterOlympics pic.twitter.com/mH8tZkFCdK

— NBC Olympics & Paralympics (@NBCOlympics) February 20, 2026

What separates Liu from the rest of her team — and brings extra sweetness to her win — is the fact that she actually walked away from the sport for more than two years.

When Liu was thirteen, she became the youngest national champion, only to win again the following year. The teen prodigy dominated the sport, fueling hope for her family to become the next Michelle Kwan. In 2019, she even became the first American female to complete a quadruple jump in an international competition. But all that changed after the 2022 Beijing Olympics, when at age 16, Liu announced in an Instagram post that she was retiring from the sport, “… i feel so satisfied with how my skating career has gone. now that i’m finally done with my goals in skating i’m going to be moving on with my life.” 

In hopes of living a “normal” life, Liu used her freedom from the ice to hang out with friends, visit Nepal, hike to Everest Base Camp, and go on road trips. That was, until a skiing trip with her family ignited an old spark — and the desire to compete again.

Liu emerged from the two-year break in 2024, punctuating her comeback with a first-place win at the World Championships the following year. It is almost unheard of to return to the sport after so much time away. But Liu proved she was just that good.

GOLD MEDALIST Alysa Liu chats with @NBCNews about winning on her own terms, skating with joy and the message she wanted to send tonight: pic.twitter.com/gVfUHzobIO

— Rohan Nadkarni (@RohanNadkarni) February 19, 2026

Liu isn’t just a talented athlete. She carries with her the precious roots of what it means to be American, and having to fight for it.

Arthur Liu, her father, was born and raised in China. He was a university student during the infamous 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, where student-led protests and demonstrations turned deadly, and hundreds, if not thousands, were arrested, killed, or went missing in the brutal government crackdown. Liu said he was “outraged” by the massacre and went on to organize more protests. After learning he was on the government’s “most wanted” list, he worried future imprisonment was inevitable. At age 25, he fled from China to Hong Kong and eventually made his way to America.

Three months before his daughter was supposed to represent the United States in the Beijing Olympics, a man who claimed to be a U.S. Official called Liu, asking for passport information. “I felt something fishy was going on,” he told the Associated Press at the time. “I’m not going to let them stop her from going and I’ll do whatever I can to make sure she’s safe and I’m willing to make sacrifices so she can enjoy the moment. I’m not going to let them win — to stop me — to silence me from expressing my opinions anywhere.”

Prosecutors alleged that the family was a target of a Chinese spying operation, and that the man was hired to perform surveillance on them.

But foreign harassment didn’t stop the teenager, and Liu still made her Olympic debut that year — just with heightened security from the State Department.

True to her light-hearted nature, Liu called the experience “a little bit freaky and exciting,” and wondered what her life would look like as a movie. “They got to make me look like a super cool hero or something. I can’t just be the kid that got spied on and did nothing about it.”

“I would just have the main focus be my dad’s story, because his story is so cool … everything that only happened because of what he did, so, I feel like we got to start with the roots.”

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested a 28-year-old illegal alien woman convicted of sex crimes against a teenage boy on Thursday, the Department of Homeland Security told The Daily Wire.

ICE agents nabbed Michelle Rodriguez-Berrio, an illegal alien from Colombia, convicted in Utah for sexual contact with a 16- or 17-year-old boy. Rodriguez-Berrio was let into the country under former President Joe Biden in 2022, a DHS spokesman told The Daily Wire.

“In February 2022, this sexual predator alien illegally entered the U.S. and was encountered by Border Patrol. She was released into the U.S. by the Biden administration,” the spokesman said. “On January 26, 2026, Rodriguez was convicted by the Salt Lake City County District Court for the offense of Unlawful Sexual Conduct with a 16- or 17-year-old. Thanks to ICE, she is now off American streets and will remain in custody pending removal.”

Rodriguez-Berrio was one of the “worst of the worst” illegal alien offenders detained by ICE agents on Thursday. Others highlighted by DHS to The Daily Wire included:

-Rene Lopez-Balbuena, an illegal alien from Mexico convicted of endangering the welfare of a child and sexual assault of a child in Monmouth County, New Jersey.

-Luis Elias-Santos, an illegal alien from Mexico convicted of second-degree statutory rape in Boone County, Missouri.

-Jeovanny Porras-Rodriguez, an illegal alien from Mexico convicted of trafficking in meth in Buncombe County, North Carolina.

-Leonardo Garcia-Meza, an illegal alien from Mexico, convicted of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon in Collin County, Texas.

Elias-Santos/Porras-Rodriguez: DHS.

“Even while facing doxing, threats, harassment and a more than 1,300% increase in assaults against them, ICE continues to go after criminal illegal aliens, including pedophiles, violent sex criminals and drug traffickers,” Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin told The Daily Wire. “Nearly 70% of all ICE arrests are of illegal aliens convicted or charged of a crime in the U.S. If you break the law, you will face the consequences. Criminal illegal aliens are not welcome in the U.S.”

Millions of illegal aliens were released into the United States during the Biden administration, many of whom went on to commit crimes, including Jose Antonio Ibarra, the Venezuelan national who murdered 22-year-old nursing student Laken Riley.

A liberal Maryland county will shell out $1.5 million to a group of religious parents who sued the school board over a policy that blocked parents from opting their children out of instruction on books pushing transgender ideology.  

In addition to paying damages, the board of education for Montgomery County must inform parents whenever there will be instruction related to family life and human sexuality. The settlement comes after a group of parents from various religious backgrounds won a major victory at the Supreme Court that struck down the county’s opt-out policies as unconstitutional. 

The settlement was announced on Friday by Becket, a non-profit law firm focused on litigation issues related to religious liberty. It was approved by Judge Deborah Boardman in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland. 

“Public schools nationwide are on notice: running roughshod over parental rights and religious freedom isn’t just illegal — it’s costly,” said Eric Baxter, senior counsel at Becket and lead attorney for the parents. “This settlement enforces the Supreme Court’s ruling and ensures parents, not government bureaucrats, have the final say in how their children are raised.” 

Montgomery County is a heavily Democratic area that borders Washington, D.C. 

In June 2025, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in favor of the parents against the county, with Justice Samuel Alito writing the majority opinion. 

“A government burdens the religious exercise of parents when it requires them to submit their children to instruction that poses ‘a very real threat of undermining’ the religious beliefs and practices that the parents wish to instill,” Alito wrote.

The legal battle first began in March 2023, when the school board said that it would no longer let parents opt out of books pushing transgender and queer ideology. In response, a group of Christian, Muslim, and Jewish parents challenged the county in Mahmoud v. Taylor.

“It took tremendous courage for these parents to stand up to the School Board and take their case all the way to the Supreme Court,” Baxter said. “Their victory reshaped the law and ensured that generations of religious parents will be able to guide their children’s upbringing according to their faith.”

Chris Persak, a Catholic father whose children attend Montgomery County schools, previously told The Daily Wire it was his faith that helped him stay calm throughout the whole legal process. 

“We said prayers of the Holy Spirit, and just felt this unbelievable calmness as we’re walking in,” he said. “Even with the protesters, even with members of the leadership of Montgomery County, who were protesting against us live that day.”

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If you invested ,000 in Beyond Meat in 2021, today you would have . pic.twitter.com/9oAA8uBEpb

— Brew Markets (@brewmarkets) February 15, 2026

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