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Man who pleaded guilty to raping 12-year-old relative is illegal immigrant from Honduras, DHS says
A Louisiana man who pleaded guilty to raping and impregnating his 12-year-old relative is an illegal immigrant from Honduras, federal officials confirmed to Fox News on Wednesday.
Jose Lopez-Montoya, 41, described by local media as a "Lake Charles man," faces up to 99 years in prison after repeatedly abusing the minor.
The Department of Homeland Security told Fox News that Lopez-Montoya is a Honduran national who illegally entered the U.S. in 2011 under the Obama administration.
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"Once again, the media is running cover for a criminal illegal alien. This sicko pled guilty to incest. He raped and impregnated his 12-year-old relative. ICE is working with our Louisiana partners to ensure this monster is never loose in American communities again," the agency added.
"This ‘Lake Charles Man’ is actually an illegal alien from Honduras who admitted to illegally entering the U.S. in 2011," DHS added.
The victim later gave birth in July 2024 and Lopez-Montoya admitted the child was his, according to KPLC.
Authorities said the abuse took place over a two-year period while Lopez-Montoya served as the girl’s guardian.
Lopez-Montoya was arrested on two counts of first-degree rape and is also subject to an immigration detainer.
He pleaded guilty this week to aggravated crimes against nature by incest and faces 25 to 99 years in prison, according to KPLC.
His sentencing is scheduled for April 28.
Curt Cignetti was so focused this offseason, he turned down all external requests: 'I'm 95% football'
The Indiana Hoosiers, out of nowhere, won the National Championship, finishing off an undefeated 2025-2026 season.
It’s not an understatement to say that it was one of the most surprising outcomes in modern college football history. A program that had little track record of success, more commonly viewed as one of the easy wins on a team’s schedule than a legitimate contender for major postseason accomplishments. It was a remarkable achievement.
In fact, just before the regular season started, Texas Longhorns head coach Steve Sarkisian said he thought undefeated teams were a thing of the past. Then Indiana goes 16-0.
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You’d think after a season like that, the Hoosiers program, and especially head coach Curt Cignetti, would take some time to enjoy it. Bask in the glow, take some time off, do a sort of "victory lap" through the media, talking about what it meant.
Well, Indiana and Cignetti did the opposite. The exact opposite. Because he’s a football guy first, and football guys think about one thing: more football.
ESPN spoke to Cignetti on the Indiana campus, where he detailed how he approaches coaching and development.
"We've got a way of doing things," he said. "How you do something is how you do everything. Consistency, performance is the key to the drill. So right now we're teaching guys not only scheme, but standards, expectations, and how we want to play the game between the white lines, and I see us making progress."
But perhaps the clearest indicator of how committed Cignetti is to keeping the focus on football came when ESPN reported that he told Indiana athletic director Scott Dolson and university president Pamela Whitten to "turn down all external requests and speaking engagements." Why? So he could "continue to focus on football."
"I'm 95% football," Cignetti said. "We've said no to everything except for the Indy 500."
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"I've got to be able to do my job," he said. "These things pull you out of the office, and they take up your time. I mean, I have a job to do. Believe it or not, I'm busy."
That’s a football guy if we’ve ever seen one.
Obviously, all coaches are focused on their jobs. It’s an extremely demanding profession that requires dedication and extraordinary amounts of time for recruiting, game planning, and personnel evaluation. But it’s clear that Cignetti’s focus, potentially as a result of his time coaching with Nick Saban, has completely changed the Indiana program. Along with nailing the transfer portal, of course.
Players can see that single-minded purpose and respond to it, and the Hoosiers played with the discipline and efficiency of a team that mirrors its coach. Even though Cignetti has to replace Heisman Trophy winner Fernando Mendoza and other key players, it’s hard to bet against Indiana being right back in contention. Because Cignetti is all football.
Alabama QB Ty Simpson says faith in Jesus Christ fuels confidence heading into 2026 NFL Draft
Confidence exudes from Alabama quarterback Ty Simpson when he’s on the field, and that carried over to the pre-NFL Draft process.
Simpson has steadfastly supported himself when asked if he can be a starting quarterback in this league, and he feels he has the first-round talent to do so.
Before he learns where he goes in the NFL Draft, whether it’s Thursday night in the first round or beyond, Simpson spoke with Fox News Digital about where his patented confidence comes from.
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"I think it goes with my faith," he said, while discussing his partnership with Toyota ahead of the draft. "My faith is very important to me. I fully believe that my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ died on the cross for my sins, and knowing that football is just a minor stepping stone in why I’m on this earth. I feel like I’m on this earth for a bigger reason, to get people together to spread the word. The fact that I can do that on a huge stage, the Lord has blessed me in so many ways, that just gives me confidence.
"I get to play a kid’s game for fun, but I also know that everybody’s watching every move that I make. Understanding that I can impact so many people’s lives by spreading the good news."
Simpson, who spent all four of his college seasons at Alabama, embodies the "Faith, Family, Football" motto, as he also talked about his hometown of Martin, Tennessee.
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No matter where his NFL journey may take him, he will always be repping the place that made him who he is.
"I think that being able to impact my community is something I really look forward to because I know how much my community means to me," he said when asked about charitable work off the field in the city he ends up in. "Martin, Tennessee is a special place. It’s where I grew up. The 713-area code, we take pride in it. We always say in our household, ‘Martin made.’ So, it’s something where I look forward to, wherever I end up, to be able to give back to my community."
Simpson showcased his desire to give back Wednesday night in Pittsburgh, joining fellow NFL Draft prospect wide receiver Jordyn Tyson, Steelers receiver Michael Pittman Jr., and members of the U.S. Women’s National Flag Football team at Toyota’s NFL Draft Flag Football Training Camp for Pittsburgh-area high school girls. He was wearing the coach’s hat, helping coordinate drills and share some of his quarterback wisdom before preparing for the draft on Thursday night.
"My sister was a basketball player and softball player growing up, so it’s really exciting and awesome to see Toyota put a spotlight on girls in sports," Simpson added.
Toyota also covered NFL FLAG fall registration kit fees for current players in the Pittsburgh Flag Football League coed youth and high school girls leagues as part of this activation before the live draft in the city.
Simpson waited until his fourth season to finally take the reins of the Alabama offense, and he made the best of the situation. He threw for 3,567 yards with 28 touchdowns and only five interceptions across 15 games for the Crimson Tide. But the 6-foot-2, 211-pound quarterback, who has gotten comparisons to Mac Jones, a fellow Alabama alum, is all over the place in terms of mock drafts.
In short, not even Simpson has an idea where he might end up when the draft begins. But no matter where he goes, Simpson knows he can make an impact.
And it starts with his faith.
"The first round is great, [but] any time you get drafted is great. There’s so many different players that are great at my position that are from each different round of the NFL. So, I’m in the mindset of wherever I go, whenever that will be, I’m gonna put my best foot forward. Trust the process and be the best player I can be."
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Hasan Piker tells New York Times he's 'pro-stealing' and 'pro-piracy' from corporations
Far-left commentator Hasan Piker explained to The New York Times on Wednesday how he was "pro-stealing" and "pro-piracy" when it came to corporations.
"I’m pro-stealing from big corporations, because they steal quite a bit more from their own workers," Piker said on "The Opinions" podcast. "However, one thing that might even help your ethical dilemma is the fact that the automated process that they design, these companies know will increase shrink, right?"
He continued, "So it’s actually factored in. The lemons that you stole are factored into the bottom line of these mega-corporations regardless. And they still end up having increased profit margins, because they no longer have to pay the cashiers that they used to hire, as opposed to this automated system, knowing full well that people are still going to be able to steal a lot more efficiently, as a matter of fact, through the automated process."
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Piker was part of a discussion with The Opinions culture editor Nadja Spiegelman and The New Yorker writer Jia Tolentino on the subject Spiegelman dubbed "microlooting," or people robbing stores out of protest of major corporations.
Though Piker stopped short of endorsing all forms of theft, he was largely dismissive of concerns over stealing if a person was in need or if the act was simple.
"Yeah, I’m pro-piracy all the way, like, across the board. Would you pirate a car? Yes. You know, if you could," Piker said.
He explained, "It was just a classic thing back in the day. The government-funded antipiracy initiatives would be like: Would you steal a car? I’m like, yeah, sure. If I could get away with it, if it was as easy as pirating intellectual property, I would do it."
He added that he would personally not take part in "microlooting" and would not support stealing from places that would be taxpayer-funded, like libraries or a government-run grocery store. He also agreed that the idea of private schools should be "illegal."
Fox News Digital reached out to Piker and The New York Times for comment.
Piker's comments come on the heels of several controversial statements he's made over the years against American capitalism and in favor of communism as he becomes more influential within the Democratic Party.
Last month, he traveled with several left-wing activists to Cuba in support of the communist regime while ignoring or downplaying rolling blackouts in the nation.
Last year, Piker referred to communism as the "honorable end goal" of socialism.
"Communism is supposed to be the end stage," Piker said. "It's like the final goal. It's like the final evolution, a stateless, moneyless, classless society. A borderless society. We've never really had communism. I know people will just jokingly sometimes say, ‘Real communism has never been tried.’ But that literally has never existed."
Carville and co-host lament that Trump sparked a redistricting war, making both parties look cynical
Veteran Democratic strategist James Carville and his podcast co-host Al Hunt analyzed the results of the Virginia redistricting vote, agreeing that President Donald Trump started a redistricting war.
Democrats scored a major victory Tuesday when Virginia voters narrowly passed a congressional redistricting referendum that could give the party a significant boost in the battle for the U.S. House of Representatives majority in the 2026 midterm elections, the Associated Press reported.
The ballot measure gives the Democrat-controlled Virginia legislature — rather than the state's current nonpartisan commission — temporary redistricting power through the 2030 election. It could result in a 10–1 advantage for Democrats in Virginia's congressional delegation, up from their current 6–5 edge.
Hunt lamented on "Politics War Room" that the redistricting vote was a terrible thing, even if he personally would have supported it as a politically pragmatic necessity.
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"That is an awful outcome. Virginia is a blue state, but it's not a 90% blue state," he said. "Democrats, however, had no choice. This was all due to Donald Trump, who, desperate to avoid losing the House last year, demanded Republicans gerrymander in Texas and elsewhere and they were going to try to fix the elections. What he didn't figure was that Democrats would respond just as ruthlessly, California and Virginia in particular."
"I think the outcome in Virginia is terrible," Hunt stressed. "I would have voted for it, even though I think it's terrible. They did it by referendum. The voters decided rather than backroom deals like they did in Texas and in Missouri and elsewhere."
He went on to argue that while this may be something to understandable for Republicans to take issue with, he advised, "Tell them to look next door at North Carolina, a purple, slightly red state [that] gerrymandered their congressional districts for what's expected to be a 11-3 advantage."
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"I’ll tell ya, 11–3 in North Carolina is every bit as bad as 10–1 in Virginia," he said. "Trump, who only cares about himself, started this whole damn fiasco, and in the end, I think it may help Democrats more than it helps him."
"Well, you got to blame the Supreme Court, too," Carville said. "I mean, I hate to bring the bearer of bad news, but the great American institution called the Supreme Court said, ‘Well OK, there's no equal protection. There's no anything. The legislature can do what they want.’"
"The court has become so disreputable, so unpopular, and look at the polls. I'm not the only person that believes that it has to be saved from itself. That's how bad it's become," Carville said. "But that they're the people that let this stuff go with all this cockamamie 11-to-3 that, you know, I mean, as if the voters aren't required to have equal protection during redistricting."
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"I have no idea how you come up with that theory that that legal theory could work, but they say it does," Carville said. "They're corrupt. No code of ethics, no rules of conduct, no nothing."
Hunt went on to suggest that politics now feels like a standoff where both sides are afraid to "unilaterally disarm" and instead opt for cynical power plays like gerrymandering.
"The problem with this is when you let politicians choose their voters rather than voters choose their politicians, you create politicians who have very little incentive to govern or compromise," he said. "So it's a terrible system, but this year it was all brought on by Donald Trump."
"Yeah," Carville agreed. "I think the Supreme Court did its part, but yeah, it wouldn't have happened without Trump."
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Fox News Digital reached out to the White House and was referred to the following statement by RNC national press secretary Kiersten Pels:
"46% of Virginians voted Republican in the last federal election, yet Democrats are rigging the system to cling to power and silence voters they can’t win over. This map is an unconstitutional partisan power grab designed to disenfranchise millions of voters and tilt the playing field. Abigail Spanberger broke her promise to Virginians by advancing a gerrymandered map that serves her party’s interests after pledging she would not. The RNC will continue this fight in court to protect Virginia voters and ensure fair representation across the Commonwealth."
Fox News Digital's Paul Steinhauser, Jasmine Baehr, and Charles Creitz contributed to this report.
Manhattan DA's office employee charged with sexual abuse after alleged incident on Queens subway
An analyst with the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office was arrested Tuesday on allegations that he sexually abused a woman while off duty, police told Fox News Digital Wednesday.
Tauhid Dewan, 28, is accused of inappropriately touching a 40-year-old woman’s private area during a late-afternoon rush-hour subway ride in Queens, according to local outlet PIX11.
The victim was reportedly a random woman, the outlet added, citing sources who said she and the suspect were strangers.
A spokeswoman for the office told Fox News Digital that the staffer has since been suspended.
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According to the New York Police Department, Dewan was arrested around 5 p.m., possibly after returning from work.
PIX11 added that the arrest occurred minutes after the incident, which allegedly took place on a No. 7 train near the Junction Boulevard station.
He was subsequently arrested by the NYPD Transit Bureau and is facing multiple charges, including forcible touching on a bus or train, third-degree sexual abuse, and second-degree harassment involving physical contact.
He was also charged with acting in a manner injurious to a child under the age of 17, suggesting a minor may have been nearby and either witnessed the alleged conduct or was placed at risk by it.
Law enforcement sources said Dewan has no prior arrests, local outlets reported.
According to city records, Dewan has worked at the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office as a senior investigative analyst for nearly four years, since July 10, 2022.
His arraignment in Queens Criminal Court was scheduled for Wednesday, according to state records.
Florida prisoner laughs as judge sentences him to life for killing cellmate with pen: 'You are amusing'
A Florida man convicted of killing his cellmate with a pen smiled and laughed as a judge sentenced him to life in prison Tuesday.
Marcus Terry, 43, was found guilty of second-degree murder in December 2025 for killing his cellmate inside the Dade Correctional Institution in Homestead in 2021 by stabbing him in the head with a pen, according to NBC Miami.
During a court appearance on Tuesday, Terry's lawyer, Steven Yermish, asked Judge Ellen Sue Venzer to grant his client a new trial, arguing that inadmissible evidence was presented at trial at the end of last year, the outlet reported.
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Venzer rejected Yermish's motion for a new trial and sentenced his client to life behind bars without the possibility of parole, as she described how Terry fatally pushed a pen into the brain of his cellmate, 64-year-old Ray Matos.
"He shoved a pillowcase into his mouth. When the guards came in to find out what was going on, he was standing on top of this man, and his hand was bloodied," Venzer said.
As the judge was detailing the murder, Terry began smiling and laughing.
"I'm not sure why you're laughing," Venzer said to him.
"You are amusing," Terry responded.
The judge replied that she "found nothing amusing about your behavior or the death of this gentleman."
"God have mercy on your soul," Venzer said while handing down his sentence.
Terry may now appeal his sentence, according to NBC Miami.
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Terry was already serving a life sentence for armed burglary and armed robbery when he killed Matos, who was his cellmate for less than a week, court records showed.
Matos was found on the ground in the cell, lying in a pool of blood as Terry sat on the lower bunk, according to an arrest warrant.
Former MLB owner claims 'despicable' San Francisco Giants are the reason the A's left Oakland
The team formerly known as the Oakland Athletics are just two years away from officially moving to Las Vegas.
After decades in Oakland, it was a frustrating, heartbreaking conclusion for the remaining diehard fans of the franchise, brought on by Major League Baseball’s worst stadium situation.
For years, the Athletics and the city of Oakland tried to work out a deal on a new stadium, with several different locations tossed around. They even came close at one point, with a mega-waterfront site deal nearing fruition. The A’s even tried to move south to the San Jose area, hoping to capitalize on the growing, and generally wealthy, Silicon Valley subset of the Bay Area.
None of it ever worked out, though, and the Athletics are set to play three years in a minor league facility in Sacramento before moving to Vegas. There’s plenty of blame to go around, but one of the team’s former owners has one obvious culprit: the… San Francisco Giants?
Wolff is out with a new book, called "Moments," and took a big shot at the Giants organization for pushing the Athletics to leave.
In the book, per The Athletic, he said the move was "100 percent due to the nasty, shameful, and continuing opposition of the Giants." Why? Because the Giants blocked the A’s from moving to anywhere nearby, on the grounds that it would encroach into their MLB-defined local broadcast territory.
That territory included San Jose, because at one point, decades earlier, the Giants had explored moving there themselves. At one point, the city of San Jose sued the Giants over their ability to block the A’s from moving there, but lost and the A’s deal fizzled.
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"John Fisher gets blamed for things he doesn’t deserve to be blamed for," he said. "We tried everything we could think of, but the real key was we had no leverage. The Giants’ position really, really messed us up in trying to even negotiate with Oakland."
There’s some truth to that, though at the same time, many of the issues that arise from stadium deals start because owners want to spend as little as possible of their own money on construction. Las Vegas and the state of Nevada gave the Athletics hundreds of millions of dollars to build their new stadium on The Strip, a handout that Oakland likely couldn’t match. It raises the question that if these stadiums are such good investments, why shouldn’t owners arrange financing themselves?
The answer, of course, is that they don’t want to, because it’s much more beneficial to get taxpayers to fund a substantial percentage of it for them. Sure, the Giants didn’t help, and the Athletics probably should have been able to move to San Jose without interference. Of course, MLB’s arcane antitrust exemption and their territorial rights interfered. Still, they had decades to get something done in Oakland and couldn’t.
The new Vegas stadium will be a gigantic improvement, and the city has already shown support for the Golden Knights and Raiders. None of that will make Oakland fans any happier though.
Florida man's execution date set for killing 2, including small child
A Florida man is scheduled for execution next month after his conviction in the killing of his cousin's girlfriend and her 4-year-old daughter under a death warrant signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis Wednesday.
Richard Knight, 47, will die by lethal injection at Florida State Prison in Starke May 21 as part of a series of death warrants signed by the governor.
Knight was convicted in the 2000 murders of Odessia Stephens and her young daughter, Hanessia Mullings, according to WFLA. Prosecutors said Knight and Stephens were involved in an argument the night of the crime.
Authorities described the killings in court records as "heinous, atrocious and cruel," the outlet reported.
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Stephens and her daughter had gone to bed when Knight grabbed knives from the kitchen, walked into their bedroom and attacked the woman as her daughter lay next to her.
Investigators said Knight stabbed Stephens 21 times, with most of the injuries to her neck. She also sustained stab wounds to her chin, back and chest.
Stephens also suffered injuries indicating she had been strangled and attempted to fight back, and investigators said images from the crime showed a "bloody struggle."
Knight then strangled and stabbed the child multiple times, causing stab wounds to her upper chest, neck and hand.
The details were presented by prosecutors during trial proceedings, according to court records.
A judge sentenced Knight to death in 2007 after a jury unanimously recommended the death sentence for his first-degree murder convictions.
Efforts by Knight's attorneys to appeal the case have so far been unsuccessful. Court records show his legal team has challenged the conviction and sentence in multiple appeals, which have been denied to date.
Fox News Digital has reached out to Knight's legal team for comment.
DeSantis continues to accelerate the number of death warrants signed since the start of last year.
In 2025, 19 people were put to death in Florida, setting a record for the most executions in one year in the Sunshine State. Before last year, Florida's record for executions in a year since the death penalty was restored in 1976 was eight in 1984 and 2014.
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Advocacy groups, including the Equal Justice Initiative, have raised concerns about fairness and due process in death penalty cases.
Florida also executed more people last year than any other state, with Alabama, Texas and South Carolina tied for the second-most with five each. Across the U.S., 47 people were executed in 2025.
This year, Florida has already executed five people, and another is scheduled for April 30, when James Hitchcock, 70, is scheduled to be put to death for the rape and murder of his 13-year-old step-niece.
The last execution was carried out on Tuesday, when Chadwick Willacy, 58, was put to death for murdering his elderly neighbor in Palm Bay by setting the victim on fire.
Senate GOP launches all-night vote-a-rama to fund ICE, Border Patrol through end of Trump's term
Senate Republicans are inching closer to funding federal immigration operations for years to come, but first they have to plow through a marathon of votes Democrats plan to weaponize against them.
The Senate officially launched a "vote-a-rama" for Republicans' budget resolution, the blueprint guiding the GOP’s push to fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol for the remainder of President Donald Trump's presidency.
But, first, lawmakers must grind through amendment after amendment from Senate Democrats — and some Republicans — before voting to adopt the resolution.
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Some Republicans unhappy with the limited scope of the GOP’s latest budget reconciliation push have vowed to force votes on amendments addressing economic issues and a provision set to expire in July that prohibits Medicaid funding from going to abortion providers.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., said he would not block amendments from his own party from reaching the floor.
"We’ll see what our colleagues come up with, but we’re talking to them and their offices about strategy and the best way to move forward in order to ultimately succeed — and that is to get it passed in both houses and signed [into law]," Thune said.
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But Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and his caucus intend to use the opportunity to attack Republicans on several issues, including the war in Iran, affordability and other concerns tied to Trump’s agenda.
Schumer said Democrats plan to "show the contrast" between the parties over Republicans’ reconciliation plans, which they intend to use to inject tens of billions of dollars into ICE and Border Patrol over the next 3½ years.
"We are for reducing costs for the American people — whether it’s housing, healthcare, electric bills, groceries or childcare," Schumer said Wednesday. "And they are funding a rogue police force that is not even popular with the American people. And we’re going to keep at it."
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Senate Democrats have teed up several amendments, including proposals aimed at forcing rebates for small businesses affected by Trump’s tariffs, addressing rising grocery costs and renewing their push to extend the long-expired Obamacare enhanced premium tax credits, a fight from last year that led to the longest full government shutdown in history.
Republicans turned to reconciliation after months of avoiding the maneuver after congressional Democrats refused to fund ICE and Customs and Border Protection without stricter immigration enforcement reforms, including warrant requirements and rules requiring agents to remove their masks.
Senate Republicans unveiled their budget resolution Tuesday in a bid to meet Trump’s June 1 deadline to have the full package on his desk.
The measure directs the Senate Judiciary Committee and the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee to each craft legislation providing $70 billion in funding for the agencies. Republicans are ultimately eyeing up to $80 billion for immigration enforcement.
Once the vote-a-rama ends and the budget resolution is adopted, it will head to the House. After the House adopts it, Congress will begin the process of crafting a reconciliation package without Democratic input.