[CRAIG NIGRELLI]

THIS MORNING — PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP TAKING MORE SWIFT ACTION TO FOLLOW THROUGH WITH HIS DAY ONE EXECUTIVE ORDERS — WITH THE PENTAGON ANNOUNCING  IT IS DEPLOYING AN ADDITIONAL 15-HUNDRED ACTIVE DUTY TROOPS, MEANING ARMY SOLDIERS AND MARINES,  TO THE U-S’ SOUTHERN BORDER WITH MEXICO.   THEY WILL HEAD TO EL PASO, TEXAS AND SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA AND BE THERE BY NEXT WEEK. 

AND THERE MIGHT BE MORE TO COME. 

IN A STATEMENT, ACTING DEFENSE SECRETARY ROBERT SALESSES, REMARKED – “THIS IS JUST THE BEGINNING.” 

THE TROOPS WILL FLY HELICOPTERS TO ASSIST BORDER PATROL AGENTS AND HELP IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF BARRIERS. 

HOWEVER, AS OF NOW — THERE IS NO PLAN, FOR THE TROOPS, TO ENGAGE IN LAW ENFORCEMENT.  ONE MARINE OFFICIAL IS QUOTED AS SAYING : ‘ IF THE CARTELS SHOOT  AT US, WE WILL NOT STAND BY. ‘ 

THE PENTAGON SAID IT WILL ALSO PROVIDE MILITARY AIRCRAFT FOR DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY DEPORTATION FLIGHTS FOR MORE THAN 5-THOUSAND DETAINED MIGRANTS. 

DEFENSE OFFICIALS ALSO SAY THE DEPARTMENT IS PREPARED TO SEND EVEN MORE TROOPS IF TOLD TO,  INCLUDING UP TO 2-THOUSAND ADDITIONAL U-S MARINES. 

THE ACTIVE DUTY TROOPS WILL JOIN THE ROUGHLY 25-HUNDRED NATIONAL GUARD AND RESERVE MEMBERS ALREADY AT THE SOUTHERN BORDER. THIS IS A 60 % INCREASE AS THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION GETS STARTED.

THE 119-TH CONGRESS HAS PASSED IT FIRST BILL OF ITS NEW SESSION — AND PRESIDENT TRUMP **IS** EXPECTED TO SIGN IT INTO LAW. 

STRAIGHT ARROW NEWS REPORTER LAUREN TAYLOR BREAKS DOWN WHAT THE “LAKEN RILEY ACT” STIPULATES AND HOW IT CAME ABOUT AS A RESULT OF A HIGH-PROFILE CASE INVOLVING A MURDER AND AN UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANT. 

LAUREN TAYLOR 

THE LAKEN RILEY ACT PASSED CONGRESS WITH BI-PARTISAN SUPPORT. 

THIS BILL – NAMED AFTER A GEORGIA NURSING STUDENT WHO WAS MURDERED BY AN UNDOCUMENTED MIGRANT IN FEBRUARY 2024 –  

WILL REQUIRE UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS ARRESTED FOR CERTAIN NON-VIOLENT OFFENSES LIKE BURGLARY, THEFT,  

LARCENY, OR SHOPLIFTING TO BE DETAINED IN JAIL UNTIL TRIAL.  

THE BILL ALSO ALLOWS STATE ATTORNEYS GENERAL — TO SUE THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT — 

IF RESIDENTS ARE HARMED BY IMMIGRATION POLICIES. 

THE HOUSE PASSED THE ACT EARLIER THIS MONTH BY A VOTE OF 263 TO 156 –  

WITH 46 DEMOCRATIC REPRESENTATIVES VOTING IN FAVOR. 

THE SENATE PASSED THE BILL – WITH AMENDMENTS MONDAY –  

WITH 12 DEMOCRATIC SENATORS CROSSING THE POLITICAL AISLE TO SUPPORT THE MEASURE. 

THE HOUSE THEN PASSED THE REVISED VERSION WEDNESDAY. 

GEORGIA DEMOCRATIC SENATOR RAPHAEL WARNOCK VOTED TO PASS THE LAKEN RILEY ACT SAYING IN A STATEMENT —  

THE BILL WAS NOT WHAT HE WOULD HAVE WRITTEN ADDING:  

“I HOPE TODAY’S VOTE IS A GENUINE STEP TOWARD TRUE BIPARTISAN COOPERATION TO SECURE AND STRENGTHEN  

RESOURCES AT OUR SOUTHERN BORDER, SMOOTH OUR ASYLUM PROCESSES,  

AND FIND A DIGNIFIED SOLUTION FOR THE SCORES OF LAW-ABIDING UNDOCUMENTED GEORGIANS  

WORKING ON OUR FARMS AND IN OUR COMMUNITIES.” 

SENATE MINORITY LEADER, CHUCK SHUMER DID NOT CAST A VOTE IN FAVOR OF THE BILL.  

HE RELEASED REMARKS LAST WEEK ON THE MATTER SAYING IN PART:  

“WE DEMOCRATS WANT TO SEE OUR BROKEN IMMIGRATION SYSTEM FIXED.  

WE WORKED WITH REPUBLICANS LAST YEAR ON THE STRONGEST IMMIGRATION BILL IN A DECADE.  

WHILE I DO NOT SUPPORT THIS PARTICULAR BILL, I STAND READY TO WORK WITH BOTH SIDES TO PASS SMART,  

EFFECTIVE, AND COMMON SENSE LEGISLATION TO SECURE OUR BORDERS AND REFORM OUR IMMIGRATION SYSTEM.” 

LAKEN RILEY WAS A 22-YEAR-OLD NURSING STUDENT — ATTENDING AUGUSTA UNIVERSITY IN GEORGIA LAST FEBRUARY — 

WHEN SHE WENT FOR A JOG AND WAS MURDERED BY JOSE IBARRA —  

A VENEZUELAN MIGRANT BELIEVED TO HAVE TIES TO THE NOTORIOUS PRISON GANG, TREN DE ARAGUA. 

IBARRA HAD BEEN ARRESTED TWICE – ONCE IN NEW YORK AND ONCE IN GEORGIA – ON UN-RELATED CRIMES  

IN THE MONTHS LEADING UP TO THE RILEY’S MURDER AND AUTHORITIES RELEASED HIM BEFORE TRIAL.  

IN DECEMBER 2023, A WARRANT WAS ISSUED FOR IBARRA’S ARREST — 

AFTER HE MISSED A COURT DATE FOR A SHOPLIFTING CASE IN GEORGIA. 

HOUSE REPUBLICANS PASSED THE LAKEN RILEY ACT LAST YEAR, HOWEVER, THE DEMOCRATIC-CONTROLLED  

SENATE DID NOT BRING THE BILL TO THE FLOOR FOR A VOTE. 

CRAIG NIGRELLI 

THAT WAS LAUREN TAYLOR REPORTING. 

PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS ALREADY TAKEN OTHER  ACTIONS concerning illegal IMMIGRATION — SIGNING MULTIPLE EXECUTIVE ORDERS IN THE HOURS AFTER TAKING OFFICE MONDAY… INCLUDING ONE ENDING BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP AND ENDING A BIDEN-ERA POLICY LIMITING ICE ARRESTS TO SERIOUS CRIMINALS, NATIONAL SECURITY THREATS AND RECENT BORDER ARRIVALS.

TURNING TO PRESIDENT TRUMP’S LATEST APPOINTMENTS — THE PRESIDENT HAS TAPPED HIS PERSONAL SECURITY DIRECTOR, SEAN CURRAN, TO HEAD THE SECRET SERVICE. 

CURRAN WAS ONE OF THE FIRST AGENTS TO RUSH ON STAGE WHEN A GUNMAN OPENED FIRE AT A CAMPAIGN RALLY IN BUTLER, PENNSYLVANIA IN JULY. 

A BULLET HIT TRUMP’S EAR, BLOODYING HIM AS HE WAS IN THE MIDDLE OF A SPEECH. 

IN A POST ON HIS TRUTH SOCIAL PLATFORM, — TRUMP CALLED CURRAN A “BRILLIANT LEADER” AND SAID HE QUOTE “PROVED HIS FEARLESS COURAGE WHEN HE RISKED HIS OWN LIFE TO HELP SAVE MINE FROM AN ASSASSIN’S BULLET.” 

CURRAN WILL REPLACE RONALD ROWE AS THE AGENCY’S DIRECTOR. 

ROWE TOOK OVER AS THE HEAD OF THE SECRET SERVICE IN JULY AFTER THEN-DIRECTOR KIMBERLY CHEATLE RESIGNED IN THE WAKE OF **THAT** ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT, IN WHAT MANY BELIEVE WERE FAILURES BY AGENTS TO SECURE THE BUILDING WHERE THE SHOOTER FIRED FROM. 

A SECOND ATTEMPT WAS MADE ON TRUMP’S LIFE WHILE HE WAS GOLFING IN FLORIDA IN SEPTEMBER.   AN AGENT SPOTTED A GUNMAN IN THE BUSHES, HE THEN TOOK OFF BUT WAS LATER CAPTURED BY LOCAL SHERIFF’S DEPUTIES.

A NEW THREAT ON THE WEST COAST — ANOTHER MASSIVE WILDFIRE IS NOW BURNING, NORTH OF LOS ANGELES AREA AND LEADING TO EVACUATIONS. 

THE HUGHES FIRE BROKE OUT YESTERDAY AND QUICKLY GREW TO MORE THAN 10-THOUSAND ACRES. IT IS ONLY ABOUT 14 PERCENT CONTAINED THIS MORNING. 

AUTHORITIES SAY IT QUOTE ” BLEW UP OVERNIGHT” AND IS LIKELY TO GROW — AS MORE SANTA ANA WINDS SWEEP ACROSS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. 

MORE THAN 50-THOUSAND PEOPLE ARE NOW UNDER EVACUATION ORDERS OR WARNINGS. 

THIS COMES AS THE AREA IS **STILL** DEALING WITH THE PALISADES AND EATON FIRES, WHICH, COMBINED, HAVE SCORCHED MORE THAN 40,000 ACRES.  28 PEOPLE HAVE DIED IN THE INFERNOS IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA SINCE EARLY JANUARY.  

BOTH FIRES HAVE BEEN CHARRING LAND AND BURNING THROUGH HOMES AND BUILDINGS. 

FIREFIGHTERS NOW HAVE THE PALISADES FIRE 70 PERCENT CONTAINED; AND THE EATON FIRE 95 PERCENT CONTAINED.

THE INVESTIGATION CONTINUES TODAY INTO A DEADLY SHOOTING AT A HIGH SCHOOL IN NASHVILLE. 

POLICE SAY A 17-YEAR-OLD GUNMAN OPENED FIRE JUST AFTER 11 AM CENTRAL TIME WEDNESDAY IN THE SCHOOL CAFETERIA.  A BULLET STRUCK AND KILLED A 16-YEAR-OLD GIRL — BEFORE THE TEEN GUNMAN TURNED THE GUN ON HIMSELF.  

ANOTHER 17-YEAR-OLD BOY WAS ALSO GRAZED IN THE SHOOTING – AND TREATED AT A LOCAL HOSPITAL.   

NASHVILLE TV STATION WTVF IS REPORTING THIS MORNING THAT INVESTIGATORS ARE LOOKING INTO THE SHOOTER’S POSTINGS ON A SOCIAL MEDIA ABOUT HOW MUCH HE DISLIKED SCHOOL, CALLING IT A DAY CARE AND THAT HE WAS ASHAMED TO BE BLACK,  

POLICE HAVE NOT IDENTIFIED ANY CONNECTION YET BETWEEN THE GUNMAN AND THE VICTIMS – AUTHORITIES SAY THEY MIGHT HAVE BEEN STRUCK BY RANDOM GUNFIRE. 

THE HIGH SCHOOL IS CLOSED FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE WEEK.

FINALLY THIS MORNING – IN JUST A LITTLE OVER ONE WEEK – THE BEST IN THE MUSIC INDUSTRY WILL BE HONORED AT THE  67TH ANNUAL GRAMMY AWARDS. ONE OF THOSE LOOKING TO WIN BIG – ARTIST POST MALONE WHO IS UP FOR 8 GRAMMIES, INCLUDING BEST COUNTRY ALBUM AND RECORD OF THE YEAR FOR HIS COLLABORATION WITH TAYLOR SWIFT. BUT BEFORE POST MALONE GETS TO THE GRAMMYS, HE’S WORKING ANOTHER COLLABORATION. 

INTRODUCING THE POST MALONE OREO. THE SINGER KNOWN FOR HIS HIT “CIRCLES” WORKED WITH THE MAKER OF OREO, TO CREATE A NEW VERSION OF THE POPULAR COOKIE. 

THE LIMITED-EDITION OREO FEATURES A FIRST-OF-ITS-KIND SWIRLED CREME COMBINING SALTED CARAMEL AND SHORTBREAD FLAVORS, SANDWICHED BETWEEN ONE CHOCOLATE AND ONE GOLDEN COOKIE. 

THE POST MALONE OREOS WILL BE AVAILABLE NATIONWIDE STARTING FEBRUARY 3RD – -THE DAY AFTER THE GRAMMY AWARDS.