From The News - 29 Jul 2025
USDA Out Of The Swamp, Cartel Drones, Deportation Flights
USDA Moving To America From The Swamp
Some of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s 4,600 Washington, D.C.-based employees will soon be moving to the Kansas City area.
In a video shared with employees on July 23, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins announced that more than half of the department’s D.C.-based employees will be relocated to five cities across the country, including Kansas City, Missouri.
The department is “moving our key services outside Washington, D.C., to ensure that USDA is located closer to the people we serve while also providing a more affordable cost of living for our employees and their families,” Rollins said in the video.
Cartel Drones Replace Coyotes
DHS worries it’s only a matter of time before ‘bad actors’ target American law enforcement with armed unmanned aerial systems
EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – An average of 328 Mexican drones are coming within 500 meters of the U.S. border every day, raising concerns about the safety of border agents and whether dangerous drugs are coming into the country undetected.
“Nearly every day transnational criminal organizations use drones to convey illicit narcotics and contraband across U.S. borders and to conduct hostile surveillance of law enforcement,” said Steven Willoughby, deputy director of the Department of Homeland Security’s counter-drone program.
As far back as 2008, several reports of cartels deploying drones to fly over prison yards to smuggle drugs and drop contraband quickly presumably evolved to being used to surveil and monitor movements. Drones have replaced the use of young lookouts, who are increasingly getting harder to recruit and rarely seen in heavy cartel activity areas. Drone technology is low-risk and has essentially replaced lookouts. The cartels have significantly expanded their use to include being armed with explosives and used to attack rival factions, military personnel, and law enforcement authorities.
| Border Report | Breitbart |
Deportation Flights Ramp Up Out Of Alligator Alcatraz
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced that Homeland Security has started flying migrants out of the "Alligator Alcatraz" detention facility.
"I'm pleased to report that those flights out of Alligator Alcatraz by DHS have begun. The cadence is increasing. We've already had a number of flights, in the last few days, we've had hundreds of illegals [that] have been removed from here," DeSantis said Friday while speaking in South Florida.
When asked for the exact number of deportations and where the planes were heading to, Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin delivered a one-line statement to Fox News Digital.
"Fire up the deportation planes," she said.
“And one of the reasons why this was a sensible spot is because you have this runway that’s right here. You don’t have to drive them an hour to an airport. You go a couple thousand feet, and they can be on a plane and out of here,” the governor continued.
DeSantis noted that the Alligator Alcatraz airport is able to “accept commercial-sized aircraft and conduct both day and nighttime operations.”