This story was originally published by ProPublica. ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. The Environmental Protection Agency has withdrawn a legal complaint filed last year against the GEO Group, a major donor to President Donald Trump that has...
I don’t spend much time on Facebook but today I came across a story that an old friend had commented on. I’m not going to link it but basically it was a very emotional post by someone referring to claims that ICE had raided a high school graduation and taken away some poor child’s parents....
As everyone knows by now, Los Angeles has seen several nights of rioting followed by the imposition of a curfew in an attempt to tone down the reaction to ICE arrests of criminal illegal aliens in the city. In the midst of all that, yesterday KTLA 5 in Los Angeles published a report titled “DHS...
Democratic Sen. Alex Padilla (California) was forcibly removed and tackled by law enforcement officers while at a press conference held by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Thursday, sparking outrage. Video of the incident that circulated on social media showed Padilla attempting to ask Noem a question when multiple men began grabbing and shoving him....
Christal Hayes, Max Matza, John Sudworth & Alex Lederman BBC News Reporting fromLos Angeles Watch: Surveillance video shows immigration raid at Westchester Hand Wash When immigration agents pulled up outside a Los Angeles car wash on a quiet Sunday afternoon, it sparked instant chaos. Some customers at the Westchester Hand Wash, which sits in the...
Judge Hannah Dugan was arrested by the FBI back in April after doing her best to interfere with the arrest of illegal immigrant Eduardo Flores-Ruiz by ICE. Her attorneys have asked that her case be dismissed on the grounds that Judge Dugan has complete immunity from prosecution for official acts. In fact, her defense is...
In case one wonders just how deep the rot goes in Los Angeles, look no further than this report from the Los Angeles Times. With the city knee-deep in crisis created by radical leftists intent on disrupting federal law enforcement, the city council wants to side with the radicals. And now they want the LAPD...
Bernd Debusmann Jr BBC News, White House Getty Images On the campaign trail, Donald Trump was crystal clear: “On day one, I will launch the largest deportation programme of criminals in the history of America.” That promise, opinion polls suggested, proved broadly popular with the American people, including with legal immigrants, who felt that too...
The FBI has offered a $50,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of a man seen throwing rocks at ICE vehicles. In case you missed it Saturday, here’s the video. Felon that should be charged with attempted murder, hurls rocks at Border Patrol and unmarked Federal vehicles leaving Paramount California. pic.twitter.com/sXO5MvrU8p — Kevin Dalton...
When I wrote about the clashes between ICE and people on the street Saturday there were two stories circulating about how all this got started. The LA Times was reporting that there were “reports” that ICE was targeting day laborers at a Home Depot in Paramount. In Paramount, a city that is 82% Latino, protesters...
I had this in a Xweet earlier, but I think it’s something we need to go over as I’m not seeing it being discussed anywhere in the media. We were watching the NBC Weekend News last night (don’t chitter at me – we believe in and practice KNOW YOUR ENEMY). Of course, the broadcast opened...
Unions and allies in California and across the United States on Saturday are demanding the immediate release of David Huerta, president of SEIU California and SEIU-United Service Workers West, after the highly regarded labor leader was injured and then arrested while witnessing a raid by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents on Friday. “SEIU California...
The Trump administration could have sent eight migrants with deportation orders and the immigration agents who were escorting them to a facility in the U.S. after a federal judge recently barred officials from deporting them to war-torn South Sudan, where they could face persecution or torture. Instead the administration sent them to U.S. Naval Base...
Protests over ICE raids are continuing across the United States as agents arrest immigrants at courthouses, from their workplaces, on the way to school and more. Immigration and human rights advocate Adriana Jasso with Unión del Barrio describes protests that met a massive raid in San Diego at a popular restaurant, the targeting of farmworkers,...
Federal agents detained 18-year-old Marcelo Gomes Da Silva while he was on his way to volleyball practice. The arrest of 18-year-old Marcelo Gomes Da Silva by federal immigration agents sparked outrage in the town of Milford, Massachusetts over the weekend, with community members rallying on Sunday to demand the high school student’s immediate release after...