White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller said Friday that the Trump administration is seeking to debank illegal immigrants as an incentive for them to self-deport from the United States.

Miller gave an update on the White House's latest tactic to deter illegal immigration during an interview Friday on The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton show.

"President Trump signed an executive order a few weeks ago saying that we are not going to allow illegal aliens to use banking services in this country," Miller said.

"Illegal aliens have credit cards, they have bank accounts, and they're paid with direct deposit. So, illegal aliens fully participate in the commercial systems, the financial systems of America. Shutting that down is a massive engine for deportation," he added.

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Miller was likely referring to an executive order Trump signed on May 19 that directed banks and federal regulators to increase scrutiny of accounts and credit applications involving immigrants without legal status or work authorization.

The order did not explicitly instruct banks to deny credit cards or bank accounts to illegal immigrants, but compliance with it could make it more difficult for them to participate in the financial system.

Federal agencies have already begun acting on Trump's executive order.

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In early June, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, led by Russell Vought, issued guidance stating that lenders may — and in some cases must — consider applicants' immigration status and work authorization when assessing their ability to repay loans.

Miller also referenced guidance from three federal agencies issued on July 13 "reminding supervised financial institutions to apply existing safe-and-sound credit risk management practices when lending to borrowers who are not legally authorized to work in the United States."

Both advisories serve to tell banks that illegal immigrants could be higher-risk customers for loans.

Fox News Digital reached out to the White House for comment.

Former CNN anchor Jim Acosta urged television networks to forgo live coverage of President Donald Trump's primetime address last Thursday, warning they would be "totally nuts" to air what he described as the president's "conspiracy theories" without immediately fact-checking them.

"I think the networks are totally nuts if they take this speech live," Acosta said on "The Joy Reid Show."

"It is totally crazy to put his bats--- ‘Looney Tunes’ conspiracy theories on live national television without fact-checkers in real time, and some of the networks will say, 'Well, we'll have some fact-checkers on afterwards,' and the fact-checkers will come on and say, 'Well, there isn't any evidence to support his claims.' It's all boloney kabuki Washington DC theater."

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Acosta relayed his worries to Reid that Trump would further spread alleged conspiracies surrounding the integrity of U.S. elections, thereby casting preliminary doubt on the integrity of this year's midterms.

"He has never ever proven any of these things. He has lost the benefit of the doubt," he said.

"We should not be erring on the side of putting these things out there, and I totally agree with you that he's chumming the waters for not trusting the midterms."

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Adding to his critique, Acosta suggested the president could be forging a broader plot to create what he coined as a "52-car pileup" around the midterm elections.

"[He could] say, "See, I can't trust these results over here in this state or these results over here in that key district that may determine the control of the House. And Mike Johnson, maybe we just shouldn't seat a new Congress right away, and maybe we should just all go to court and have the courts untangle... [and] that's going to take until May or June of next year," he warned.

"That, to me, is a terrifying thought."

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Fox News Digital reached out to the White House for comment.

Acosta's warning came ahead of Trump's primetime address Thursday, where, speaking to the nation, the president renewed his focus on election integrity and alleged that China "worked to influence the results" of the 2020 presidential election, an accusation Beijing has denied.

Trump did not claim China changed votes or altered election results. Instead, he said Beijing engaged in an influence campaign aimed at shaping U.S. public perceptions.

Trump used the disclosures during Thursday's address to press Congress to pass the SAVE America Act, casting the newly released intelligence as evidence that lawmakers must tighten federal election rules before the midterms.

The act passed the House in February but stalled in the Senate in March, when a 53–47 vote fell short of the 60 votes needed to advance it.

Ultimately, CBS News aired a special report that initially provided analysis before dipping into the speech minutes after Trump began speaking and cut away moments after Trump's attacks towards ABC and NBC. MS NOW carried the first 15 minutes of his speech live before dipping out to provide commentary. Fox News carried the speech in its entirety.

"The least that the networks can do at this point is not platform these lies, to not allow him to chum the waters with this nonsense," Acosta warned ahead of the address.

"And I think that it's a very serious moment for the television networks in this country."

Fox News' Greg Norman-Diamond, Joseph Wulfsohn and Morgan Phillips contributed to this report.

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We made it. We're here. Another Friday. We're cruising right along, folks. Somehow, we've arrived at the THIRD weekend of July!

Did you know a majority of NFL rookies have to report to training camp starting next Tuesday? Better yet, did you know that rookies for the Seattle Seahawks reported TODAY? That's right. We have actual players in actual facilities right now.

Sure, most of the vets don't report until a week from today at the earliest, but still ... you can almost smell it in the air. It's coming. Hang tight just a bit longer.

On that note, welcome to a Friday Nightcaps — the one where Sam Burns shoots at 62 at The Open but nobody knew it was happening because NBC and USA Network decided to ignore the entire thing. Wild.

What else? I've got Sophie Cunningham rattling the internet with a simple question, a compilation of the worst umpiring from the first half of the MLB season, plenty of reader mail from yesterday's ESPYs disaster, and Hooters Gianna checks in one final time to end the week.

Whew. What a MENU! Lock it in for a few more minutes, folks, and then let's attack this weekend like patriots.

Grab you some peach ice cream for National Peach Ice Cream Day, and settle in for a Friday 'Cap!

Oddly enough, I had peach ice cream earlier this week for the first time in forever. Solid ice cream flavor, especially this time of year when it's 400 degrees down here in Florida. No smoke from the woke Canadians, though! Clear as day down here in the Sunshine State!

Mount Rushmore of Ice Cream Flavors to start class? Sure, why not?

I'll be honest, I'm not sure that last one even exists anymore, but I used to have it all the time as a fat kid growing up, and I have fond memories. Delicious.

Lordy, that's a weird looking list. I'm not even sold on it but, frankly, it's a Friday and I have a yard to mow, so let's get on with it and start class.

First up? Lucas Herbert shot a 62 this morning over in Royal Birkdale, tying a major record. He missed a makeable putt on 18 in heartbreaking fashion, which you'll see in just a second.

At the same time, Sam Burns also shot a 62, which you will also see in a second. The difference? Viewers barely even knew Burns was playing:

Wild stuff. I had it on in the background all morning, because that's just how working-class folks have to watch this tournament every single year. I have Zoom meetings to pretend to be on, and newsletters to put together every morning. I love the British Open, but the timing is so dumb.

Anyway, I knew Lucas Herbert was on 59 watch because NBC/USA Network shoved it down our throats. Rightfully so, by the way. It's not often that happens.

But imagine my surprise when they finally showed Sam Burns on 18 and he was ALSO on 59 watch! Amazing. How does that happen? Yes, I know Burns started the day at 3-over, so I understand not giving him much play early on.

But his back-nine was unreal. You could sense it coming for an hour, and we barely saw him at all? What a choice by the production team!

OK, let's keep the line moving ...

Yesterday, we focused on our great USA hockey teams losing out to the New York Knicks for the ESPYs' "Best Team" award earlier this week.

And folks, you guys had some thoughts. A quick sampling:

Did we hit all the notes, or what? "Fragile whites" is a great name. Credit to that guy. He brought the heat ... and gave me an easy fantasy football name in a couple months.

Well done, everyone. That's what I like to see on a random week in July. Some folks mail it in this time of year. Not me. Not us. This is where we GRIND.

OK, couple quickies on the way out. First up? Where do we stand on this take from Sophie Cunningham?

"So how do we save our farm land and stop all these dumb data centers?"

That simple post, and question, sent the internet into an absolute tailspin yesterday afternoon. Libs were mad at Sophie. Conservatives were mad at her. The farmers loved her. Most of the MAHA crowd stood behind her.

Now, I have no idea what the answer is. Frankly, I have no idea what any of these data centers mean. I think they're a little like Apple's version of "the cloud." Nobody knows what iCloud really is, or what it does, or how it works. We just know that it exists.

"Oh, it's saved in my iCloud."

What does that mean? Nobody knows. That's what these data centers are. Nobody knows what they do. Are they stealing all of our water? Are they killing the farms? Are they like the 5G towers all over the country and frying our brains?

Nobody knows. And, of course, nobody can agree.

Next? You know what we all CAN agree on? We have seen some horrific umpiring this season in Major League Baseball:

Lordy. ABS be damned! For those who thought it would eliminate all the bad officiating, think again! Rest easy, folks — bad calls in baseball are alive and well.

Oddly enough, three of the worst umpires in the league all took a buyout earlier this month and will retire at the end of the year.

Surely just coincidental!

OK, that's it for today — and this week. Good work, everyone. Loved the fire this week. Few more slow weeks, and then we're off to the races.

Have a big weekend.

Here's NASCAR wife Gianna Blaney continuing to enjoy a Turks And Caicos beach vacation to take everyone home:

Are the data centers going to kill us? Email me at Zach.Dean@OutKick.com.

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Whew. We're on the other side of the week, boys and girls. And, as of today, we're on the other side of the month!

The ESPYs were last night. Did you know? I didn't. Imagine my surprise when I woke up this morning and found out! Remember back in the day when the ESPN-led awards show was appointment viewing? It always marked the halfway point of the summer, right?

It usually falls on the slowest sports day of the year (during non-World Cup years, of course), and bridges the gap nicely.

But this year, it came and went with little to no fanfare, which is ... fair ... given how far ESPN has fallen over the years. And buddy, they did themselves NO favors last night.

On that note, welcome to a Thursday Nightcaps — the one where ESPN snubbed the crap out of our great USA hockey teams. It's truly unfathomable. You'll see.

What else? I've got Lindsey Vonn turning heads on the red carpet, and is getting stuck in a porta-john the worst possible thing that can happen to a person in this life?

I ain't talking about getting locked inside, either. I'm talking about literally falling through the toilet and getting trapped underneath.

I've never been more disgusted. Stay tuned!

Grab you a drink — dealer's choice today! — and settle in for a Thursday 'Cap.

Before we start ... watch that video, if you have time. I watch the Jimmy V speech once a year around ESPYs time, and it's just the best.

True story: I took a public speaking class in college and we had to choose one speech to give at the end of the semester. I chose that one. I'm fairly certain I was terrible at it, but whatever. It's still my favorite speech of all time — and that includes Lincoln's address!

Anyway, we've gone from that moment back in 1993, to ... this moment last night at the latest edition of the ESPYs:

Lordy. The difference that 30 years can make is truly remarkable. Do you think people in 1996, who were alive and well in the 50s and 60s, saw a societal transformation quite like we have? No shot, right?

While that little performance was certainly a talker, it wasn't the real talker from the night. Nope. That took place a few hours later, when the New York Knicks were inexplicably named the Best Team.

The other finalists?

Goodness gracious. Let me make sure I have the right ...

The USA men's and women's OLYMPIC hockey teams both won gold medals this year — with the men winning for the first time since the Miracle game — and ESPN instead gave the award for "Best Team" to the New York Knicks?

Okeedokee. Makes sense!

On top of that, they awarded OG Anunoby's tip-in in GAME 4 of the Finals "Best Play" honors over Jack Hughes' GOLDEN GOAL to win an Olympic gold medal.

You know what? I'd argue that tip-in wasn't even the second best play of the year! I'd put both the Golden Goal AND Miguel Rojas' game-tying home run in the ninth inning of GAME 7 of the World Series over it!

Yeah, I mean ... come on. What are we doing here? In what world is a game-winning, gold medal-clinching goal by the USA to win it all for the first time in four decades NOT the play of the year? It's just insane.

Oh well. ESPN has to pander to the NBA audience. It's in the rulebook, I reckon.

You know what's not in the rulebook? Falling through the toilet of a porta-john and having to be cut out:

"Come on, get on outta there!"

"Watch your f--king self, we're gonna cut way back, get all the way down!"

"I'm not lifting, lean forward!"

"I can’t, dumbf--k"

"I’m the dumbf--k? While you’re stuck in a f--king urinal?"

Just incredible content out of Kansas City today. I've never seen anything like it. We live in amazing times right now, folk. Soak it all in. Like Jimmy V said, don't take anything for granted.

OK, let's rapid-fire this Thursday class into a big Thursday night. First up? While we were all sleeping or drinking our morning coffee, Bryson DeChambeau was playing some elite golf over at Royal Birkdale:

After just a miserable season in which he's missed every major cut, Bryson fired a 3-under 67 and sits in a tie for fifth after Day 1. This, of course, comes a day after Sir Nick Faldo lit him up like a Christmas tree.

"He has, and I'll say it to his face, zero clue of strategy," Faldo said ahead of the opening round.

Take a look:

Tell us how you really feel, Nick!

Naturally, Bryson then fired a 67 and mentioned the word "strategy" three times in his post-round interview:

Is DeChambeau BACK? No idea. We'll see if he can carry this over to tomorrow. I hope so, personally. I've given Bryson a lot of crap this season, but the game is so much better when he's in contention.

Didn't think Royal Birkdale would be the place he would turn it around, but I'm all for it. Give 'em hell, Bryson!

OK, that's it for today. Good work, everyone. Here's Jutta Leerdam and Lindsey Vonn dominating the ESPYs red carpet to take us all home.

Patriots.

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KC Navarro narrowly missed out on winning the Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) X Division Championship at Slammiversary, but the moment was special nonetheless.

Navarro competed against his mentor, Amazing Red, in the match. Red got the better of him in one of the better sequences of the match. 

Navarro also talked about battling his fear of heights as he tried to make his way up the pillar to climb on the rope and get the title.

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"So, this Ultimate X was a lot more special than the first one I was in at Rebellion last year. See, me, I'm not a big fan of heights. So, it actually takes me a while to climb that thing, and I have to see what I'm gonna do," he told Fox News Digital. 

"But this year was very special to me because Amazing Red was in it. A lot of people don't know, but it was set on commentary, Amazing Red was a big mentor for me for my entire career. Somebody I looked up to. I mean, obviously me and him, same stature, you know, he did amazing things, no pun intended, amazing things in the X Division, former X Division champion. And just to be a part of his first match back, it was very special for me.

"I really was grateful that me and him got to have a moment in the ring as well. I know it was very special for him as well. Hope he comes back. That'll be awesome. I think it's awesome, cool to see him back. But it was very special for me. You know, Slammiversary last year, I walked in with a torn ACL, and I risked my career being in that ladder match against The Hardys, The Nemeths and The Rascalz. 

"This year, I came in with a brand-new knee in the Ultimate X at a match that's pretty dangerous for me to be in. If I would have fell the wrong way, I could have blew my knee out. So, I took a chance. But for me to get an opportunity this soon to go for a championship like the X Division title and being in the ring with a guy like Amazing Red, my boy Leon Slater, Fabian Aichner, Mr. Elegance, Frankie Kazarian, etc. It was a very stacked match to be in. I was very grateful to be a part of it."

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Navarro added that battling his fear of heights is just a part of the job.

"Yeah, I'm not a fan of heights, and it might be just from the injury, right? Like, I just might have been thinking too much, like, ‘Oh man, what if I get hurt.’ But, I mean, it's just me man," he said. "I just keep God first. I count on the adrenaline to get me through, which it does because once that bell rings, got no choice. Got to go for that belt.

"Once that bell rings and the lights are on, I'm all good. But it's just having a strong mentality of just knowing that this is what I'm meant to do, and I can't think negative. I got to go out there positive and know that I'm going to go in healthy, walk out healthy and maybe walk out a champion as well."

Navarro is in the midst of a feud with TNA world champion Nic Nemeth. Navigating the rivalry could put him back on the top of the roster.

A pilot has gone viral after leaving an unexpected message in the sky during a routine flight.

The pilot of the two-hour maintenance test flight over Northwest England traced the words "I'm bored" across the sky, with the unusual message and route appearing on the flight-tracking website Flightradar24.

The Ravenair-operated Piper Tomahawk aircraft departed from Liverpool around 11:30 a.m. Saturday. It spent about two hours flying over the Wirral peninsula, Cheshire and North Wales before safely returning, according to Flightradar24.

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Screenshots of the odd flight path quickly spread across social media.

Gary Leff, a Texas-based travel industry expert and author of the blog "View From the Wing," told Fox News Digital there is little cause for concern from his point of view because the flight was conducted to test the aircraft rather than transport passengers.

"This was a test flight, not a passenger flight," Leff said. "Writing 'I'm bored' takes a certain amount of skill and suggests the pilot was anything but distracted."

Leff noted that the most demanding work for pilots typically happens before takeoff during takeoff and landing.

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"Only a small percentage of flying on more modern aircraft is done manually at cruise," he said. "The workload above 10,000 feet is far less than during the takeoff and landing phases.

"'I'm bored' is an amusing way to express this."

The aviation company, Ravenair, told the BBC a flying instructor in his 20s was conducting a routine test flight after a replacement part had been installed on the aircraft.

"I think the pilot was literally a bit bored as it was just a test flight. Mind you, it was pretty skillful flying," Wes Barrett, operation manager, told the news outlet.

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"He was a bit bored, but he probably had to concentrate a lot in the end to spell out the words."

The flight path quickly went viral, prompting discussion across social media.

"This should be unremarkable ... but it's nice to see the pilot didn't face any issues because of this," one Reddit user wrote.

Others praised the precision required to pull off the message. 

"Guys, [I] think he might have been a little bit bored," another commenter joked. "Credit for the amount of concentration and thinking required for this, though."

Another person wrote on Facebook, "Adult version of Etch-a-Sketch."

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Fox News Digital reached out to Ravenair, based in Liverpool in the U.K., for comment.

A California registered nurse is facing backlash after social media posts circulating online appeared to express a wish that President Donald Trump and late Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., would die, prompting questions about whether his employer is reviewing the matter.

The Instagram story, posted by Robert Acuna-Bagshaw, who identifies himself on his LinkedIn page as a registered nurse at Long Beach Memorial Medical Center Memorial Children's Hospital since January 2016, appears to show a collage of three public figures, Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., President Donald Trump and Graham.

McConnell is on the left, with a skull power-plug emoji beneath his photo and flashing text that says, "Pull the plug." Trump is in the center, with a countdown beneath his photo, and Graham is on the right, with a gray tombstone graphic reading "R.I.P." over his image.

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At the bottom of the story, blue text reads, "If all 3 of these f---ers die this week, I might become religious again."

Near the top of the story is an orange cross graphic, and the Instagram account name visible appears to be "lb_buddha," with Acuna-Bagshaw’s name also appearing on the account profile.

Graham, 71, passed away at 10:23 p.m. Saturday. An autopsy was done on Sunday suggesting that Graham passed away from aortic dissection due to arteriosclerotic cardiovascular disease.

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A statement from Graham’s office read, "The death certificate will be PENDING until all the toxicological and microscopic testing are finalized, and at that point the death certificate will be updated to reflect the cause of death and appropriately classify the manner of death."

McConnell, who has been hospitalized for almost a month, said in a statement Sunday that he has been recovering from a fall.

"My doctors have confirmed that I didn’t break any bones or suffer a concussion," McConnell said. "I didn’t have a heart attack or a stroke. I don’t have any tumors or hemorrhages."

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In a later Instagram story posted on Monday that included screenshots of various accounts, Acuna-Bagshaw wrote, "What’s funny is that MAGA morons are messaging me on all my socials, threatening my life, calling my work trying to get me fired, looking up my address and insinuating attacks to the property owners of the listed address etc. because I’ve reposted memes, all the while not realizing all of their internet activity, which they can’t delete, is being tracked. When one of the morons actually does something, because that’s what MAGA does, they’ll all be suspects."

Acuna-Bagshaw added, "If you’re new just yesterday and I don’t know you, expect a call. I’m fortunate enough to have made a life with friends in positions that specialize in these situations. It’s sad that MAGA are like this and personally attack people to shut them up when nothing was done to them. I guess they missed that part in the Bible about false prophets."

"What’s funny is they attack me for being a nurse & assume I’m as racist and bigoted as they are," he added. "They’re exactly what’s wrong with this world. Attacking and insinuating about people they know nothing about. Oh, this is just a few I stitched together for this post. I have you all. . . ."

"Anyone who engages in or endorses political violence or assassination culture must be condemned in the harshest terms possible," White House spokesman Davis Ingle told Fox News Digital. "They should also immediately seek psychiatric help to treat their severe and debilitating case of Trump Derangement Syndrome that has warped their brains and made them sick in the head."

Fox News Digital reached out to Long Beach Medical Center, Acuna-Bagshaw and McConnell for comment but did not immediately receive responses.