Biden's Secret Immigration Plan Exposed, Odyssey Frenzy Grows | 7/27/26 FIRST LOOK

0:03Hey everybody, I'm Dave Rubin and this is First Look. It's Monday, July 27th, 2026. We've got a packed show for you today. Bombshell memo shows the Biden White House plan to leave President Trump with an even bigger immigration crisis than the one he inherited. Transgender dolls with interchangeable genitalia are headed to classrooms this fall for kids as young as four years old. And movie fans are going to extraordinary lengths, driving hundreds of miles and waking up at 3 a.m. just to see Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey in true IMAX 70 millimeter. Let's dive in. The Biden administration's last-ditch attempt to sabotage Trump's immigration agenda.

0:52A newly uncovered Biden White House memo from the administration's final days reveals a calculated plan that could have expanded temporary protected status, TPS, to more than three million non-citizens. The goal was clear, create a massive legal shield against the mass deportations President Trump promised, and the American people voted for is supposed to be temporary relief for foreign populations facing real crises like political unrest or natural disasters. President Trump has tried to end these so-called temporary protections for Haitians, Nepalese, Salvadorans, and Sudanese. Lawsuits from pro-migrant advocates have blocked most of those efforts.

1:35Senator Eric Schmidt of Missouri obtained the memo and told Fox News Digital on Friday, My investigation uncovered that the lame duck Biden White House tried to keep millions of illegal aliens in our country by abusing the temporary protected status program. After the American people voted for President Trump's promise to end the TPS scam, the Biden administration tried to subvert the will of the American people. This was mass amnesty by decree. America is for Americans and it is our home. It is not a permanent refugee camp. The memo itself is blunt. It argued that granting TPS will potentially protect many vulnerable people from President-elect Trump's planned mass deportations.

2:21They argue that these protections are likely to hold in court, and they are prepared to litigate efforts to terminate or slow down the implementation of TPS for specified nations by the Trump administration. It even admitted that earlier federal litigation during Trump's first term succeeded in halting terminations, largely because the administration failed to build a strong factual record. The memo suggested that problem could be rectified. Schmidt got the document from Archivist of the United States Edward Forst through his authority as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution.

3:00He put it plainly, Biden tried to turn TPS into a 3.1 million person deportation shield, protect Trende Aragua members, and trap President Trump in years of litigation. He called it a direct betrayal of the will of the people who threw liberal Democrats out of power. The most disturbing detail? Well, Biden's senior advisors recommended creating 2.1 million new TPS designees in the last few weeks of his presidency, even while admitting TPS applications take six months. Luckily that never happened, and we have been deporting Ecuadorians and Guatemalans, Schmidt said. One week after the January 2025 memo, which was erroneously dated 2024, Biden still extended TPS protections for nearly 1 million non-citizens, so the document produced concrete mass migration action.

3:59A chart inside the memo estimated potential new eligibility for roughly 1.5 million Guatemalans, 600 ,000 Ecuadorians, 464 ,000 Nicaraguans, 455 ,000 Venezuelans, plus smaller groups from Ukraine, Sudan, and Afghanistan, more than 3.1 million people total. The memo also noted that Biden's senior team had received requests for new TPS actions from a who's who of Senate Democrats. Michael Bennett, Catherine Cortez Masto, Cory Booker, Richard Durbin, Maisie Hirono, Ben Ray Lujan, Tammy Duckworth, and Alex Padilla. The full proposals were never implemented, but this memo gives us a rare look at exactly how Biden's team tried to handcuff the incoming president.

4:54Schmidt reminded the Senate floor that America should not be a get-rich-quick scheme for the third world, and that no American would tolerate squatters on their own property while lawyers delayed enforcement for years. This is what the left does when they lose. They try to lock in the damage before the new sheriff arrives. President Trump is cleaning it up anyway. Transgender dolls with removable genitals are coming to classrooms for four-year-olds. First of their kind, transgender dolls, complete with removable genitalia, will debut in some Minnesota classrooms this fall for children as young as four years old.

5:34These are paper dolls with gender-neutral names like Sam, Rory, Avery, and Parker. They come with removable internal and external genitals, plus more than 100 interchangeable pieces of clothing, accessories, and hairstyles. Think of it as a trans Mr. and Mrs. potato head. The stated goal, according to a therapist at the University of Minnesota Medical School, is for kids to learn about the different options that exist for who they can be. The project was developed over more than half a decade and funded under left-wing Minnesota to Governor Tim Walz. Researchers at the medical school's Institute for Sexual and Gender Health paid trans and gender-diverse children and their parents between$20 and$60 to play with the dolls and talk about gender and bodies in groups.

6:26Prototypes were shown at a 2024 conference. One named Sam appears in what looks like a mid-transition stage with a detachable penis off to the side and a dress and girls' underwear within reach. The dolls, which the creators say will make gender fun, will be made available to teachers, school counselors, pediatricians, and mental health providers through the commercial company My Gender Dolls. The website shows a boy doll wearing a dress and others in various states of sexual identity confusion. It is not clear whether parents or children can order them or whether parents will even be allowed to opt their kids out of this therapeutic play.

7:08Two licensed psychologists who are professors at the medical school spun the university research project into the commercial venture. The University of Minnesota Medical School receives$15 million in annual state funding from Walls, money earmarked to increase the medical school's research capacity. The Institute for Sexual and Gender Health has a$1.4 million research budget. The school refuses to say how much taxpayer money went into developing these dolls or paying the professors involved. Walls, who has pushed aggressive pro-transgender policies, received the Institute's inaugural Distinguished Sexual and Gender Health Champion Award in 2023, a title created just for him.

7:54He was photographed alongside medical school associate professor Nick Ryder, co-founder of My Gender Dolls. Rider uses they slash them pronouns and specializes in children and teen transgender health. The other co-founder, associate professor Diane Berg, a member of the Association for the Treatment of Sex Abusers, once boasted in a since-deleted university article, everyone should be learning that there's diversity in gender identity and that what makes you real is not what your body parts are, but how you think and feel. She admitted using the dolls with her own patients between ages five and 10.

8:35Another therapist from the school, adjunct assistant professor Elizabeth Panetta, said they used the dolls to explore not just what our bodies are able to do now, but what we want our bodies to do and look like in the future. Critics are not mincing words. Dr. Quinton Van Meter, past president of the American College of Pediatricians, called it grooming. They will find anybody who's in trouble and use this as a tool to say, this is why you're unhappy. This is absolutely grooming. The younger kids, many of them still believe in the Easter bunny and the tooth fairy, and you're then presenting them with paper dolls that kind of look fun, and you can change clothing, hair, genitals.

9:19It's well beyond their ability to sort out fantasy from reality. It's profoundly inappropriate. A university spokesperson claimed no public funds supported the commercialization. When pressed on research and development spending and professors' salaries, they told reporters to file a Freedom of Information request. Walls' office did not respond. Remember, this is the same Tim Walls that Democrats wanted as Vice President of the United States. This is not education. This is ideological grooming of the youngest, most vulnerable children, paid for by taxpayers, pushed by the same people who lose elections and then double down on the culture war.

10:04Fans are going to extraordinary lengths for Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey in true IMAX 70mm. For Mike Rolfing to see The Odyssey this week, the 39-year-old marketer from St. Louis embarked on a hero's journey of his own. He packed his wife and three kids into the minivan and drove approximately 900 miles round trip to Grand Rapids, Michigan, one of the few theaters offering IMAX 70mm screenings of Christopher Nolan's adaptation of the epic poem. It's an incredible format, Rolfing told CNBC. It was definitely worth it to me to travel such a long distance. He is not alone. A-list names like Zendaya and Anne Hathaway are in the cast, but the real star is the large-scale analog experience that Nolan and his fans love.

10:51Exclusive data shared with CNBC shows how dramatically the film has boosted demand for these higher-priced, premium, large-format screenings. An adult IMAX 70mm ticket averaged$27.77 on opening weekend, 81 % more expensive than a standard ticket. IMAX CEO Richard Gelfand said on a conference call Thursday, IMAX 70mm film has become among the hottest tickets in the world. Fans are flying across countries, if not continents, to experience the Odyssey and IMAX 70mm. Average 70mm screens hauled in a massive$153 ,000 over opening weekend. The 70mm run will continue for months. The problem is supply.

11:42Only a small fraction of IMAX theaters can handle the gigantic rolls of 70 millimeter film. IMAX lists just 25 theaters in the United States and 16 internationally showing the Odyssey this way. We could have more of them and we're exploring ways to do that, but in a way it's like a Rolls Royce, Gelfand said. There are a finite number of locations that really can support the economics of it. This is also the first feature film shot entirely with IMAX 70mm cameras. Other directors have used the format for select action scenes. Even with limited screens, demand is explosive. Cinemark reported exceptionally strong interest in Colorado and Texas.

12:25Regal said it became the chain's top IMAX 70mm title. The Indiana State Museum Theater, the only one in the state, added an extra week in August due to historic demand. More than half the audience in the first days traveled at least 50 miles. The theater welcomed visitors from more than 20 states and fielded ticket requests from as far as Switzerland. Manager Neil Johankin said simply, demand's never been higher. It's awesome. Getting a ticket has become its own ordeal. Theaters are running screenings around the clock, including early morning shows that still sell out. Some put tickets on sale a year in advance.

13:05Morgan Bernados, a 27-year-old from the San Francisco Bay Area, couldn't get through the digital queue for her local theater. She switched to a screen 90 minutes away and finally scored Monday night tickets. It felt like buying concert tickets, she said, comparing it to the Taylor Swift era's tour frenzy. There definitely is a FOMO element. Ashton Jones in Georgia only managed seats for a 3am showing, the sole 70mm theater in the state. He downed a Red Bull at the halfway mark of the nearly three hour film, drove an hour home and went straight to work. It was fun, he said, but I was hurting the next day.

13:44This is what happens when Hollywood actually delivers excellence instead of lectures. People will drive all night and cross state lines for it. And that's your first look this Monday. Quick recap. A Biden White House memo exposed a plan to expand temporary protected status as a three million person deportation shield against Trump. Minnesota is preparing to put transgender dolls with removable genitals in front of four-year-olds. And movie fans are treating Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey in true IMAX 70 millimeters like a national pilgrimage. We'll keep following all of it. I'm Dave Rubin. Thanks for starting your day with First Look.

14:27See you tomorrow.