September 5, 2025 Evening Edition

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly protect criminals and illegals
https://abc7chicago.com/post/national-guard-chicago-illinois-communities-brace-expanded-ice-operations-protests-weekend/17746708/
— 475 people taken into ICE custody at Hyundai plant in Georgia
https://abc7chicago.com/post/least-450-people-taken-ice-custody-hyundai-plant-georgia/17748072/
— Chicago restaurateurs team up with Pope Leo XIV to open restaurant at former papal retreat
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-restaurateurs-phil-stefani-chef-art-smith-team-pope-leo-xiv-open-borgo-laudato-si-castel-gandolfo/17749619/

NBC5
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly protect criminals and illegals
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/politics/what-we-know-about-suburban-ice-facility-possible-enforcement-in-chicago-area/3820011/

CBS2
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly protect criminals and illegals
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/dick-durbin-tammy-duckworth-naval-station-great-lakesice-agents/
— Smash-and-grab robbers break Gold Coast Rolex store windows with axes, snatch watches
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/smash-and-grab-robbery-chicago-gold-coast-rolex-store-police-chase/

WGN9
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly protect criminals and illegals
https://wgntv.com/news/illinois-senators-oppose-ice-use-of-chicago-area-naval-station-for-immigration-enforcement/

FOX32
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly protect criminals and illegals
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/chicago-protest-planned-amid-possible-surge-in-ice-operations
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/canceled-mexican-independence-day-festivals-parades-chicago-suburbs
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1703145
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6378544521112

WTTW
— Trump Administration Investigates Medicaid Spending on Immigrants in Democratic States
https://news.wttw.com/2025/09/05/trump-administration-investigates-medicaid-spending-immigrants-democratic-states
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly protect criminals and illegals
https://news.wttw.com/2025/09/05/cps-says-schools-remain-best-and-safest-place-student-learning-amid-fears-ice-strike

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly protect criminals and illegals
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/05/trump-administration-medicaid-spending-on-immigrants-democratic-states/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/05/north-chicago-ice-conference/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/05/security-fencing-chicago-federal-court/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/05/bronzeville-shootings-outreach-response/
— Pentagon-funded research at colleges has aided the Chinese military
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/05/pentagon-funded-research-colleges-chinese-military/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly protect criminals and illegals
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/09/05/durbin-duckworth-locked-out-from-meeting-with-dhs-officials-about-trumps-immigration-enforcement-plan
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/09/05/mexican-independence-day-parade-little-village-immigration-ice-threat
https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2025/09/05/cps-says-no-to-virtual-learning-as-ice-immigration-enforcement-ramps-up
https://chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdogs/2025/09/05/national-guard-deployment-trump-chicago-taxpayers-analysis
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/09/05/ice-broadview-immigration-detention-center-enforcement-trump

DAILY HERALD
— Carol Stream entrepreneur Robert Vrankovich running to succeed retiring Grant in Illinois House
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250905/news/carol-stream-entrepreneur-running-to-succeed-retiring-grant-in-state-house/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly protect criminals and illegals
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250905/nation-and-world-politics/you-are-not-alone-suburban-communities-try-to-reassure-residents-ahead-of-threatened-immigration/
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250905/news/trumps-national-guard-threats-upend-mexican-parade-plans-in-waukegan-chicago/

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly protect criminals and illegals
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/health-care/community-health-fortifies-clinic-ahead-ice-surge
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/illinois-senators-press-dhs-over-chicago-raid-secrecy

WGN RADIO
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly protect criminals and illegals
https://wgnradio.com/john-williams/newsclick/the-john-williams-newsclick-are-you-more-likely-to-visit-chicago-if-there-was-added-security/#/questions

WBEZ
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly protect criminals and illegals
https://www.wbez.org/politics/2025/09/05/national-guard-deployment-washington-dc-chicago-donald-trump
https://www.wbez.org/immigration/2025/09/05/volunteers-on-ice-patrol-in-chicagos-pilsen-neighborhood-looking-for-agents

WAND TV
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly protect criminals and illegals
https://www.wandtv.com/news/illinois/trumps-promised-immigration-crackdown-in-chicago-could-last-about-six-weeks-suburban-official-says/article_e786967d-21f7-5c4d-a89c-cf6ef8e3ec93.html

FOX ILLINOIS
— Trump sends fighter jets to Puerto Rico as Caribbean tensions boil. The U.S. is increasing its military footprint in the Caribbean, moving F-35 fighter jets to Puerto Rico after a series of confrontations with Venezuela and escalating strikes against drug cartels.
https://foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/trump-sends-fighter-jets-to-puerto-rico-as-caribbean-tensions-boil-venezuela-drug-cartels-defense-secretary-pete-hegseth-secretary-state-marco-rubio-marine-vessel

CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/09/05/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-376/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Giannoulias orders Forest Park and Motorola Solutions to disable data-sharing capabilities with U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_cc4b9639-94e6-4241-9d6c-26be352d0abc.html

ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Can your family get federal school choice grants? Likely, if Pritzker OKs. My parents had less money because they sent my brother and me to Missouri Synod Lutheran grade schools during the 1950s and 1960s.
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/can-your-family-get-federal-school-choice-grants-likely-if-pritzker-oks/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Trump issuing 200th executive order, setting unprecedented pace in modern history
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/sep/5/trump-issuing-200th-executive-order-setting-unprecedented-pace-modern/
— Traditional marriage advocates sharpen message as Supreme Court eyes challenge to same-sex marriage
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/sep/5/traditional-marriage-advocates-sharpen-message-supreme-court-eyes/
— More public servants lose the ability to hold America hostage
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/sep/5/editorial-public-servants-lose-ability-hold-america-hostage/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: President Trump is uprooting the mechanisms Democrats deployed to enhance their political power with taxpayer funds. In a recent presidential memorandum, the president asked Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate the misuse of federal grants for political purposes. A sophisticated inquiry is required because non-governmental organizations often employ complex structures that launder through subgrantees the ultimate destination of Uncle Sam’s cash. With public sector unions, however, the politicization is overt.)

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Socialist Brandon Johnson can’t even fail properly
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/magazine-your-land/3792168/chicago-brandon-johnson-cannot-fail-properly/
— Trump will not back down from deportation efforts despite ‘radical’ set backs
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/3795412/trump-will-not-back-down-from-deportation-efforts-despite-radical-set-backs/
— Let’s be honest: Donald Trump is old. How old are you? I will soon be 77. What do you stress to defend your health? I stress my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/community-family/3793301/lets-be-honest-donald-trump-is-old/

FEDERALIST
— Federal And State Law Enforcers Must Tackle Deadly Abortion Drug Cartel
https://thefederalist.com/2025/09/05/federal-and-state-law-enforcers-must-tackle-deadly-abortion-drug-cartel/

DAILY WIRE
— The  Democrat Party exists to promote wokeness/wokeism, that is, to promote Affirmative Action and DEI, race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination. That is, to get rid of Americans who are conservative, Republican, White, male. older, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/it-will-never-die-democrats-unleash-a-new-brand-of-woke

PJ MEDIA
— Illinois Democrats want their state to cut off contact with other states because they believe the crime problem would be so much better if only those pesky red states would stop sending guns to their beautiful lands.
https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2025/09/05/illinois-dems-want-trump-to-do-something-about-the-borderwith-indiana-n4943370

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CBS NEWS
— Trump to issue executive order to allow punishments for countries wrongfully detaining Americans
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-wrongful-detention-state-sponsors-order/

NEW YORK TIMES
— South Koreans Swept Up in Immigration Raid at Hyundai E.V. Plant in Georgia. They were among nearly 500 workers apprehended at a construction site for a South Korean battery maker, officials said. The episode prompted diplomatic concern in Seoul.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/us/georgia-battery-plant-hyundai-lg-ice-raid.html

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Hundreds Arrested in Immigration Raid at Hyundai Site in Georgia. South Korea protests after more than 300 Korean company workers are detained.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/u-s-arrests-hundreds-in-raid-at-hyundai-plant-construction-site-in-georgia-4e150feb
— Putin Says Russia Will Strike Any Western Troops in Ukraine. Which countries will side with Russia in WWIII?
https://www.wsj.com/world/russia/putin-says-russia-will-strike-any-western-troops-in-ukraine-52cde525

Author: David Diersen

The opinions that I express in GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails are based on experience that I have gained doing many things since 1948. I base my opinions on what I learned a) working for the federal government for almost 30 years -- Post Office 1966-1969, IRS 1971-1980, and GAO 1980-1997, serving on the Executive Committee of the Association of Government Accountants Chicago Chapter 1983-1996, and being a union member while I worked for the Post Office and IRS; b) earning an MBA from Loyola in 1976, a masters degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980, and a masters degree in financial markets and trading from IIT in 1997; c) passing the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979 and passing the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981; c) serving as a Republican Precinct Committeeman since 1999, the GOPUSA Illinois Editor since 2000, the TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois Chairman 2005-2012, a member of the 2008 Illinois Republican Party (IRP) Platform and Resolutions Committee, a Wheaton Chamber of Commerce Government Affairs Committee member 2003-2011, the Milton Township Republican Central Committee webmaster 2008-2010 and 2000-2004, an Illinois Center Right Coalition Steering Committee member 2003-2007, and an American Association of Political Consultants Midwest Chapter board member 2001-2004; d) attending the 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, and 2016 IRP State Conventions as a delegate; e) being the subject of a nasty 4-page article in the February 1978 issue of Money Magazine; f) pursing litigation including Diersen v. GAO and Diersen v. Chicago Car Exchange; g) being married since 1978; h) living in Crete 1948-1972, in University Park 1972-1976, in Chicago 1976-1978, and in DuPage County, Milton Township, and Wheaton since 1978; and i) being baptized, raised, and confirmed as a Missouri Synod Lutheran.