•Tennessee Releases Staggering Stats on Migrant Crime

Warner Todd Huston2 Feb 2026

The office of the Tennessee District Attorneys General Conference hasreleased its annual state immigration report revealing that in 2025, illegal migrants committed 2,183 violent offenses, including 41 homicides, 145 sexual offenses, 11 child rapes, and more.

Republican State Rep. Dan Howell said he was shocked by the report and called the data “really, really bad.”

“These are the criminals liberals want to defend while trying to defund ICE,” he pointed out.

“Forty-one Tennesseeans are dead at the hands of illegal immigrants and hundreds raped. This will not be tolerated in this great state and we will do more to keep you safe,” Howell added. (emphasis original)

The “2025 Immigration Report” released on January 30 is a required (TN Code § 4-1-425 2024) annual report from the state’s district attorneys general conference. The law directs them to “collect and analyze data from law enforcement agencies on the number of persons not lawfully present in the United States charged or convicted of a criminal offense in this state during the previous year.”

The crime statistics in the report come from data collected from the “Public Chapter 1008: Arrestee Citizenship Status – Not Lawfully Present or Unknown” forms created by the Tennessee District Attorneys General Conference. Police in Tennessee are required to fill out these forms after arresting a noncitizen.

The report found that a total of 21,648 charges were filed against illegal migrants among 11,344 cases between January 1 and December 31 of 2025, averaging nearly 1000 reports per month. However, there are likely even more because one county (Bledsoe) did not submit its data in time for the report to be filed.

Migrants representing a total of 119 different countries were cited in the reports where country of origin was obtainable.

The categories of crimes revealed a shocking toll suffered by the state’s citizens at the hands of illegal migrants.

Among the categories of crime, the report includes:

2,183 violent offenses

41 homicides

1,592 assaults

145 sexual offenses

11 child rapes

40 aggravated kidnappings

2,920 DUIs

5,318 cases of driving without a license or on suspended/or revoked

966 Carjackings

36 Felony firearms offenses

66 Assaults on police or first responders

The “2025 Immigration Report” is now the second such report in compliance with the state law. The 2024 report, the first of its kind, collected data from only 73 of the state’s 95 counties and found that 2,719 non-citizens had been charged with crimes.

https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2026/02/02/tennessee-releases-staggering-stats-migrant-crime/

The War Over Kevin Warsh

JOHN CARNEY2 Feb 2026.1/2

Warsh War One: The Battle Over QE

Editor’s Note: This is the first in a three-part series examining Kevin Warsh’s nomination to chair the Federal Reserve.

The nomination of Kevin Warsh to chair the Federal Reservehas prompted concerns from friends and foes of President Trump’s economic agenda.

The enemies of the Trump administration have been quick to build a kind of preemptive conspiracy theory in which Warsh has been appointed simply to carry out the Trump agenda. Most of this can be dismissed as just the latest iteration of Trump Derangement Syndrome. Instead of Russia, Russia, Russia it’s now teeth gnashing about central bank independence.

Some friends of the president’s agenda are also worried about the Warsh nomination, concernedhe may be too conventional a pick for such a transformative president. Neil Dutta of Renaissance Macro captured this well in a recent podcast, calling Warsh the “antithesis of the populist movement that swept the president into office.” And certainly, it is a bit jarring to see the nomination garner the endorsement of former Fed Chairman Ben “QE” Bernanke and China’s Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney.

In our view, analysts categorizing Warsh as either a “hawk” or a “dove” and then predicting how this will play out under President Trump arelikely misunderstanding Warsh’s actual recordand how it fits with sound monetary policy.

Warsh Isn’t an Uber Hawk

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Jonathan Levin offers a textbook example of this confused thinking. He argues thatWarsh is “rigidly hawkish” based primarily on his opposition to QE2 in 2010, when unemployment stood at 9.8 percent. Levin claims “many observers of the ‘jobless recovery’ of the 2010s now wish that we’d done more to support the economy, not less,” treating Warsh’s skepticism as evidence he didn’t care about the unemployed.

This completely misreads what Warsh was arguing. He wasn’t advocating doing less for the economy. He was arguing thatadditional quantitative easing wouldn’t solve the structural problemscausing the slow recovery. (This is a point that Breitbart Business Digest co-author John Carney made back in 2013.) As Warsh put it in Congressional testimony after leaving the Fed, regulatory burdens and fiscal uncertainty were “holding back investment,” and the solution required “measures to improve productivity and labor force participation.” Those, of course, are reforms outside the Fed’s mandate.

Warsh’s concern wasn’t that QE2 would do too much.It was that it wouldn’t do much at all for the jobless recovery, while creating mounting risks through distorted markets and future inflation. The sluggish labor market recovery of the 2010s, combined with the asset bubbles and market dependence on Fed support that developed, suggests Warsh correctly understood QE’s limitations.

Prosperity Isn’t a Threat to Price Stability

And contrary to some of Warsh’s populist critics, Warsh’s worldview was never about opposing growth. In fact, he’s spent much of the last decade making the case that central banks havemisunderstood prosperity as a threat. The culprit? A broken model—the Phillips Curve—that treats strong employment as the first step toward spiraling inflation.

https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2026/02/02/tennessee-releases-staggering-stats-migrant-crime/

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“The central bank’s models presume a tighter labor market must yield faster inflation,” Warsh said in 2017. “But those relationships appear tenuous at best.”

His point is straightforward: the Fed has spent years raising rates or holding back support every time the economy gains strength, convinced that too many jobs or too much wage growth will unleash inflation. It’s a model that has repeatedly failed, but one the Fed establishment clings to. That’s the view Warsh rejects. He doesn’t think the Fed should jam the brakes on a growing economy. He believes thatproductivity gains and labor market expansion cancoexist with price stability.

And then, when the Biden administration was pouring stimulus onto a recovering economy while falsely claiming Trump had left a wreckage,the Fed lost its nerve to defend its independence. It “accommodated” Biden’s budget-busting initiatives all the way to the worst inflationary episode in four decades.

The real vindication of Warsh’s framework camein December 2021, when he wrote in the Wall Street Journal that “if price stability is squandered, financial stability is put at risk,” and warned that “extraordinary excesses in monetary and fiscal policy” had awakened the “inflation dragon” after decades of dormancy.

At that point, the Fed was still insisting that inflation was “transitory,” and Chair Jerome Powell had just retired that term under pressure.

He was right. The subsequent inflation surge forcedthe most aggressive Fed tightening in four decades, validating Warsh’s warning that extended accommodation carried serious risks. Yet Levin’s analysis doesn’t mention this episode at all, even though it represents the biggest Fed policy error in a generation, and Warsh called it correctly while the consensus got it wrong.

This gets at what the hawk-dove framework misses: Warsh hasa consistent analytical approachthat leads him to different policy prescriptions at different times. As John Authers correctly notes in Bloomberg, these categories “aren’t immutable.”

“An economist can be hawkish at some points and dovish at others while still being consistent. The appropriate level of interest rates will change over time,” Authers points out.

Warsh opposed QE2 in 2010 because he thought its benefits were diminishing while risks mounted. He criticized the Fed’s extended accommodation in 2021 because inflation was accelerating. He could support rate cuts now that inflation has come down and non-inflationary growth has revived—without abandoning any principles.

The question isn’t whether he’s a hawk or dove, but whether his analytical framework leads to sound judgments.

https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2026/02/02/tennessee-releases-staggering-stats-migrant-crime/

Fed chairmen, have mostly been old farts stuck in their model’s, with them and others, not challenging their theories, it’s about time to have new brains and theories

ICE: 650 Illegal Aliens Arrested in West Virginia with Help from State and Local Police2/2/2026

There are now 650 fewer illegal aliens on the streets of West Virginia after federal officials partnered with state and local law enforcement to arrest them.

The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Philadelphia operation ran from January 5 until January 19 in Martinsburg, Moorefield, Morgantown, Beckley, Huntington, and Charleston, the agency announced Friday.

“Together, federal, state and local law enforcement officials identified and arrested hundreds of illegal aliens who present dangers to national security and risks to public safety, as well as those who entered the United States illegally or have otherwise undermined the integrity of U.S. immigration laws and border control efforts,” the announcement read.

Photos show two of the individuals arrested:

Among those taken into custody was a convicted child sex abuser and an individual convicted on drug possession charges.

“These arrests highlight how 287(g) partnerships serve as a force multiplier for federal resources, enabling local officers — under ICE training and supervision — to identify and help remove individuals who may pose threats to public safety or have violated U.S. immigration laws,” the agency said.

In August, Gov. Patrick Morrisey (R-WV) signed agreements between ICE and his state’s law enforcement agencies to help enforce immigration law.

“The Biden administration’s border policies allowed millions of people to unlawfully enter our country as massive amounts of deadly fentanyl flowed across the southern border and into West Virginia. We are proud to partner with ICE to crack down on illegal immigration, deport violent criminals, and safeguard West Virginia,” Morrisey stated at the time.

During a press conference, Morrisey saidPresident Donald Trump’s administration has been “phenomenal” when it comes to enforcing immigration law.

“I’m just so proud of our president and what he’s done. It’s not getting enough attention, that this president is standing up and what he’s done from a border perspective is truly unbelievable.I want people to know that and I know West Virginians are deeply grateful,”he said:

InJanuary 2025, Morrisey ordered the state’s law enforcement agencies to cooperate with ICE as federal officials arrested 72 illegal aliens in one week, per Breitbart News.

In regard to the recent arrests of 650 illegals, ERO Philadelphia acting Field Office Director Michael Rose said,“This operation demonstrates how strong partnerships between ICE and West Virginia law enforcement agencies enhance public safety and the integrity of our immigration system. By training and supporting our 287(g) partners across the state, we’ve expanded local capacity to identify, arrest, and process illegal aliens while ensuring these authorities are exercised professionally and consistent with the law.”

https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2026/02/02/tennessee-releases-staggering-stats-migrant-crime/

3 Feb, 2026 09:27

Ukrainian oligarch flooding EU with low-quality eggs – German media

Yuri Kosyuk’s MHP Group is exporting the lion’s share of subpar agricultural products into the bloc, the Berliner Zeitung reports

Several large Ukrainian agricultural corporations, including onecontrolled by an oligarch close to Vladimir Zelensky, aredeluging the EU with chicken eggs of dubious quality, the Berliner Zeitung has reported.

According to the German newspaper,Ukrainian eggsin the EU market are mostly being sold as part of processed foodswhere ingredient origin labeling is not mandatory, such as pasta, baked goods, snacks, desserts, and mayonnaise.

While battery cage poultry systems were banned in the EU in 2012, the practice is stillwidely in use in Ukraine, with housing conditions of laying hens undisclosed, the Berliner Zeitung pointed out in its report on Saturday. The outlet quoted Nora Irrgang from the animal welfare organization Four Paws as saying that the ongoing hostilities between Ukraine and Russia are likely tofurther degrade standards at facilities in Ukrainegiven regular power outages and staff shortages.

The Berliner Zeitung cited recent Eurostat data, indicating thatUkraine exported more than 85,000 tons of shell eggs to the EUfrom January through November 2025, to the tune of around€148 million ($174 million) –a 550% increasein volume compared to 2022.

The newspaper reportedthat MHP Group, a major Ukrainian agricultural corporation, whosemain shareholderis oligarch andbillionaire Yury Kosyuk,is one of the main driving forces behind the deluge of Ukrainian eggs entering the EU market. The German media outlet described Kosyuk as a “close adviser” to Ukrainian leader Zelensky.

Following the escalation of the conflict between Kiev and Moscow in February 2022, the EU temporarily suspended tariffs and import quotas on Ukrainian agricultural products. Last October, the EU-Ukraine pact, the Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area(DCFTA), came into force,granting Kiev preferential access to most of the bloc’s markets, with certain limitations.

EU membersPoland, Slovakia, and Hungaryreacted to the deal by announcingthat they would retain unilateral import bans on Ukrainianagriculture to protect domestic producers. The European Commission has threatened to penalize them for non-compliance.

https://www.rt.com/news/631880-ukrainian-eggs-flooding-germany-oligarch/