New: Trump Separated 11,000 US-Born Children from Their Parents

Trump backs down from Iran threat, rejects plan to fund TSA, ICE agents flood over a dozen major airports

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Trump backed down from his 48-hour ultimatum to Iran this morning, posting on Truth Social that the two countries have had “very good and productive conversations” and that he is pausing military strikes for five days. Meanwhile, his administration has separated at least 11,000 parents of U.S. citizen children from their families through deportation. ICE agents are now deployed at the nation’s airports, including the world’s busiest, conducting immigration enforcement while TSA workers go without pay. And it turns out Trump was offered a clean plan to fund TSA and end the airport chaos, and said no.

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Trump Blinks on Iran. Backs Down From 48-Hour Ultimatum.

On Saturday, Trump threatened to “obliterate” Iran if it did not open the Strait of Hormuz within 48 hours. Iran responded by warning it would “irreversibly” destroy critical infrastructure across neighboring countries. Markets went into a tailspin. Oil hit $114 a barrel. European stocks entered correction territory. Gold fell more than 8 percent. Silver tumbled 10 percent.

By Monday morning, the tone had changed completely. Trump posted on Truth Social in all caps that the two countries had engaged in “very good and productive conversations” and that he was pausing military strikes against Iranian power plants and energy infrastructure for five days. The post contained multiple typos, including “PLEASE” instead of “PLEASED” and “WITCH” instead of “WHICH.” Trump deleted it within minutes and reposted a corrected version.

Iranian authorities have not confirmed any talks with the United States.

The five-day pause ends at the close of markets on Friday, giving Trump the weekend to regroup. Analysts say the reversal reflects a president who backed himself into a corner with an ultimatum Iran was never going to meet. “It is highly unlikely that Tehran will agree to Trump’s terms on such an accelerated timeline under the threat of attack,” one oil market researcher said. “Iran is clearly able and willing to match any escalation.”

The climbdown also comes as Trump’s war has become deeply unpopular. A Reuters survey of more than 1,500 adults found 59 percent disapprove of the conflict, with only 37 percent in support. A separate poll found independent approval of Trump’s handling of Iran sliding from 30 percent to 24 percent in a single week. The head of the International Energy Agency warned of a “major, major threat” to the global economy, saying “no country will be immune to the effects of this crisis if it continues.”

Trump spent weeks threatening annihilation. Monday morning he was posting typo-filled announcements about productive conversations. The markets are not fooled. The question now is whether the five-day pause is the beginning of a real off-ramp or another deadline that will come and go.

This is the kind of story that corporate media is already spinning as a diplomatic breakthrough. It is not. It is a president in political and economic trouble, buying himself five days. Raw America will be here all week covering what actually happens. If you want that coverage to continue, and you want it to stay independent, please become a paid subscriber today. The link is right below this story.

At Least 11,000 Parents of U.S. Citizen Children Have Been Separated by Trump’s Deportation Push

In the first seven months of Trump’s second term, ICE detained at least 11,000 parents of children who obtained birthright citizenship, according to an analysis of ICE data. If that pace has continued into 2026, the number may have roughly doubled, amounting to more than 50 U.S. citizen children being separated from their parents every single day.

Trump is deporting approximately four times as many mothers of U.S. citizen children per day as the Biden administration did. Under Biden, about 30 percent of mothers arrested by immigration officials were eventually deported. Under Trump, that figure has jumped to around 60 percent, meaning a majority of these mothers will not return to their families after being detained.

The shift is not accidental. When Trump returned to office, the internal guidance document governing how ICE handles detained parents was quietly revised. A line advising agents to treat immigrant parents in a “humane” manner was removed. Language was added making clear the directive “in no way limits the ability of ICE personnel to make enforcement decisions.”

More than half of detained fathers of U.S. citizen children and about three-quarters of detained mothers had only minor convictions in the U.S., such as traffic or immigration-related offenses. The administration has repeatedly said it is targeting the “worst of the worst.” The data says otherwise.

The White House’s official guidance to parents facing deportation is to either leave the country with their U.S. citizen children or designate someone else to care for them. The children in these cases are American citizens. They were born here. They have the same rights as any American child. The administration’s position is that their parents should self-deport and take them along, or leave them behind.

This story is not getting the coverage it deserves on corporate media. Fifty American children losing a parent every single day is not a footnote. It is a crisis. And it is one that Raw America will keep covering as long as we have the support to do so. Please become a paid subscriber today.

ICE Is Now at Airports. And They Are Doing Immigration Enforcement.

Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, the busiest airport in the world, confirmed Sunday that ICE officers would be deployed there Monday. Airports across the country reported security line wait times reaching up to three hours over the weekend as TSA employees worked without pay for the third time in six months. More than 300 TSA agents have quit. Absentee rates hit 11.5 percent last Friday, the highest recorded since the shutdown began.

Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens said federal officials indicated the ICE deployment was “not intended to conduct immigration enforcement activities.” Border czar Tom Homan said something different on national television the same day. Asked directly whether ICE agents would conduct immigration searches while stationed at airports, Homan said: “We do immigration enforcement at airports all the time. So is that going to change? It’s not going to change.”

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries was direct about what that means for passengers. “The last thing that the American people need are for untrained ICE agents to be deployed at airports all across the country, potentially to brutalize or in some instances kill them. We’ve already seen how ICE conducts itself.” Federal agents shot and killed two U.S. citizens in Minneapolis in January.

Homan acknowledged Sunday that the details of the airport operation were still being worked out in emergency meetings. When a reporter suggested that planning an operation in 24 hours might mean it was not well thought out, Homan responded: “How much of a plan does it mean to guard an exit?”

That is the answer from the man overseeing the deployment of armed federal agents into the nation’s airports. The mayor of Atlanta says no immigration enforcement. The border czar says enforcement never stops. Someone is not telling the truth, and the people caught in the middle are the millions of Americans trying to catch a flight.

Trump Was Offered a Plan to Fund TSA. He Said No.

Here is the part of the airport chaos story that has not gotten nearly enough attention on corporate media. Senate Majority Leader John Thune presented Trump on Sunday with a proposal that would have funded all agencies under the Department of Homeland Security, including TSA, with the single exception of ICE. It would have ended the paycheck crisis for TSA workers and relieved the airport lines immediately.

Trump rejected it, according to multiple sources. He told Republicans to stay in Washington and keep fighting with Democrats over full DHS funding and a voter ID bill called the SAVE America Act.

Trump has spent days on social media explicitly blaming Democrats for the chaos at airports. He has deployed ICE agents to manage a staffing crisis he could have resolved with a phone call. The plan to fund TSA was on the table. He looked at it and said no.

The airports are not a crisis Trump is trying to solve. They are a political stage he is trying to use. TSA workers missing their paychecks, passengers waiting three hours in security lines, ICE agents conducting immigration enforcement at the nation’s busiest terminals: all of it is the direct result of a president who was handed a solution and chose the chaos instead.

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