Wyoming Republicans are crying foul after a high school student said her school treats her Turning Point USA Club America chapter unfairly and blocks them from engaging in activities that similar clubs are allowed to do. 

Natrona County High School senior Kylie Wall told The Daily Wire that the Club America chapter she started has received a chilly reception from school administrators who have exercised a heavy hand over the group’s activities. This includes taking limited action after school staff ripped down posters for the club at the school, she said. 

State Senator Rachel Rodriguez Williams, the chair of the Wyoming Freedom Caucus, told The Daily Wire that school officials appeared to be chilling the free speech of conservative students. 

“At best, NCHS administrators are chilling the protected speech of students, which is unacceptable,” she told The Daily Wire. “At worst, they’re systematically silencing the speech and activities of students on and off campus, which is indefensible.”

The Wyoming Freedom Caucus filed a public records request on Sunday, demanding all communications to or from Natrona County High School Principal Aaron Wilson containing the terms “Club America” or “Turning Point USA.” Natrona County High School is located in Casper, Wyoming’s second most populous city. 

Wall told The Daily Wire on Thursday that she had serious concerns about equal treatment, free speech, and student rights under district policy and the federal Equal Access Act, which requires schools receiving federal funds to have equal opportunities. 

“As students, we simply want to be treated fairly, to have our voices respected, and to participate in the same opportunities afforded to other clubs,” she said. “We look forward to working toward a resolution that upholds district policy and students’ constitutional rights.”

Wall, who started a Club America chapter shortly after the assassination of Charlie Kirk, says that school officials have blocked them from participating in public meetings off campus and failed to take sufficient action after she saw school staff tearing down advertisements for the club. 

“Approved Club America flyers have been removed by staff, and some teachers have made disparaging remarks about our club and its members,” Wall told The Daily Wire. “Despite these reports, the administration has taken little action to address them, contributing to a hostile environment for students who hold different viewpoints.”

Natrona County School District noted that it recognized two Club America chapters, one at Natrona County High School and another at Kelly Walsh High School.

“These student-led clubs are open to high school students who are interested in learning about government, civic responsibility, and active citizenship. Like all student-led clubs, school-based meetings are student-driven and are not open to the public,” the county told The Daily Wire. “We continue to encourage students from all high schools to work together and collaborate in many different capacities.”

Rodriguez Williams said that the Wyoming Freedom Caucus “reminds all Wyoming school districts that students don’t shed their First Amendment rights at the schoolhouse doors. We are disgusted that school staff would tear down posters advertising Club America, but are filled with hope for the future at the bravery and poise of these patriotic students.”

In addition to the posters being pulled down, school officials have reportedly blocked Wall’s chapter from meeting with another local Turning Point USA club, prohibited them from attending an off-campus banquet hosted by the Wyoming Family Alliance, and told Wall that she could not do an interview on the club without the principal’s presence. 

“Our club was prohibited from attending a community event hosted by the Wyoming Family Alliance, even though other student organizations — such as athletic teams and Key Club, and others — routinely attend similar off-campus events,” Wall said. “This restriction seems inconsistent with district practice and limits our club’s opportunities to participate equally in civic activities.”

Wyoming Family Alliance Executive Director Nathan Winters confirmed that Wilson told them to “exclusively” reach out to Club America through him and declined the invitation to the banquet. He added that they never received a response when they asked if there was a district policy blocking the students from engaging in community events.

“Wyoming Family Alliance will always stand with students who want to engage in civil public discourse and experience the true meaning of American citizenship,” Winters told The Daily Wire. “We are disappointed and deeply concerned when any school or administrator restricts those first steps toward civic participation. Students should be encouraged, not silenced, when they seek to learn, lead, and contribute to their communities.”

Wall added that she “was instructed not to speak to reporters about our chapter without direct administrative supervision, or even on my own time,” while students at other high schools were not restricted in the same way. 

Following the assassination of Kirk last month in Utah, Turning Point USA has reported a massive surge in requests to form new chapters on both high school and college campuses. The organization said last week that it has launched 1,500 new high school chapters nationwide, up from roughly 1,200 total before Kirk’s death.

Trump administration officials are working tirelessly to stop the pipeline of child trafficking — and track down more than 320,000 missing migrant kids.

John Fabbricatore, who returned to the federal government to lead the effort at the Department of Health and Human Services, told The Daily Wire that the Trump administration is determined to right the wrongs of the Biden administration, which often released children who crossed the border alone to sponsors in the United States who were “vetted” with a single phone call.

When unaccompanied children cross the border, Border Patrol agents hand them off to HHS, which works to place them with a sponsor in the United States. Under the Biden administration, border agents saw a flood of more than 500,000 unaccompanied migrant children pouring over the border.

“We could never tell if they were able to take care of these children. And there wasn’t DNA testing done to verify that these children actually belong to the people that were claiming to be a familial connection,” Fabbricatore, who previously served as the director of Immigration and Custom’s Enforcement’s Denver office, said. “There were many ‘aunts and uncles,’ quotation marks that came forward and we found out in multiple cases that that these were wrong, and kids were sent to very bad people.”

“Kids were sent to drug dealers, kids were were sent to people who claimed to be a brother, and it wasn’t a brother, and wound up raping the young girl,” he said.

Under the Biden administration, several federal whistleblowers exposed the lax vetting system that placed some migrant kids in the hands of traffickers, gang members and sex offenders.

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Now, the vetting process for sponsors “has been strengthened tenfold,” Fabbricatore explained.

“The sponsor vetting went from just a simple phone call and a photo was sent over an email and nothing was ever verified, to now a very staunch and structured vetting process,” he added.

The Trump administration requires sponsors and other adults living with them to submit their fingerprints to undergo background checks. Additionally, sponsors are required to submit proof of income to show they can support the child.

Sponsors who claim they are related to the child will also undergo DNA testing.

Homeland Security agents also meet with the sponsor and HHS officials visit the home to ensure it’s a safe place for the child.

Many of the children in HHS-contracted facilities after arriving under the Biden administration are “aging out” of care, meaning they’re turning 18 and walking free before their immigration cases are completed, presenting a new challenge the Trump administration is tackling head on, according to Fabbricatore. The older teens oftentimes were sent to the United States by their parents to find work to send money home, which doesn’t qualify as a valid asylum claim.

But until their case is heard by an immigration judge, they can’t be deported.

“What’s happening is many of these kids are aging out of our care before they ever see an immigration judge, before they ever get in front of a court. And they’re just going out onto the street. So, NGOs are just making money for keeping these kids in [Office of Refugee Resettlement] care as long as they can,” said Fabbricatore, who added that the organizations housing migrant children are being “audited.”

The Trump administration is seeking to address the issue in part by offering a $2,500 stipend to migrant children 14 or older who volunteer to return home to their families. The child still has to request what is known as a “voluntary departure” from an immigration and has free legal representation provided by the federal government.

“The voluntary departure gives them a choice to make an informed decision to go home,” Fabbricatore said.

“It allows for a quicker reunification of these adolescents to their families in their country of origin. An immigration judge still has to sign off on that decision,” he said.

“When a kid asks for volunteer departure, we work with their country of origin to make sure that we have travel documents, to make sure that they’re going to a safe location, so that they’re flown back safely to be reunified with their families and their country of origin,” he said.

The Trump administration has located roughly 25,000 migrant children who were “lost” under the Biden administration, Border Czar Tom Homan revealed last month.

Meanwhile, the work continues as officials work “to save every single kid that is in danger or in trouble,” Fabbricatore said.