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Rhode Island judge specializing in immigration law resigns after FBI raids office
Fox News ^ | 1/23/25 | Greg Wehner, Andrew Fone, Molly Line

Posted on 01/24/2025 4:38:15 AM PST by Libloather

FBI agents raided the law offices of immigration lawyer and Central Falls Municipal Court Judge Joseph Molina Flynn in Providence, Rhode Island, Thursday, though the reason for the raid has not yet been disclosed.

An FBI spokesperson confirmed that a court authorized the raid, though the spokesperson declined to comment further.

Molina Flynn’s office remained silent about the raid, declining to answer calls and emails from Fox News.

WPRI 12 reported that a warrant was executed at the office on Dorrance Street, and video of the warrant execution showed a line of black SUVs outside the building with agents walking into the building and walking out with boxes.

The station also reported that two sources familiar with the matter claimed the investigation into Molina Flynn started before President Donald Trump returned to the White House this week.

The law firm states on its site that the practice was founded in 2015 and focuses on immigration, family and criminal matters.

The site also notes that the judge was born in Medellin, Columbia, and arrived in the U.S. when he was just 9 years old on a tourist visa. He remained in the country and lived undocumented for 15 years before obtaining lawful permanent resident status, the site added.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; History; Local News
KEYWORDS: columbia; fbi; immigration; judge; medellin; providence; raid; rhodeisland
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To: ComputerGuy

THey rarely let you read the affidavit....largely because it identifies the complainaint ion most cases.

( for example: Ex wives are known to file false affidavits for search warrants...exercising their wiles on LEOs sometimes.)

If an officer knocks at our door, a rare thing, I always do not allow them into the house. I go out to the porch and speak there.There are all sorts of DEI shenanigans going on right now.


21 posted on 01/24/2025 5:38:15 AM PST by Candor7 (Ask not for whom the Trump Trolls,He trolls for thee!),<img src="" width=500</img><a href="">tag</a>)
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To: Libloather

It might have to do with being a judge.


22 posted on 01/24/2025 5:39:50 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: Candor7

The served was given a copy of the affidavit in support of the search warrant. They could read it while we searched their property. Remember, an affidavit is a sworn statement given to a judge or magistrate. I always took it seriously, as I did anytime I raised my right hand and said “I so swear”.


23 posted on 01/24/2025 5:48:32 AM PST by ComputerGuy
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To: Libloather
obtaining lawful permanent resident status,

As soon as I saw the word "obtained", I immediately thought of how so many people in Illinois bought a commercial truck driver license instead of passing a test. Must be my suspicious nature.

24 posted on 01/24/2025 6:01:58 AM PST by Bernard (Issue an annual budget. And Issue a federal government balance sheet. Let's see what we got.)
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To: Libloather

I know others might be more skeptical, but I’m heartened that so many changes seem to be happening with the decapitation of leadership at many agencies.

There were a LOT of people suffering silently under the thumb of the woke elite, and raring to go.


25 posted on 01/24/2025 6:11:48 AM PST by larrytown (A Cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do. Then they graduate...)
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To: Libloather

“Crimmigration” judge

https://studentbriefs.law.gwu.edu/clb/2021/08/19/breaking-down-the-crimmigration-mentality/


26 posted on 01/24/2025 6:15:56 AM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: Libloather

Columbia needs more lawyers. Send him back!


27 posted on 01/24/2025 6:17:19 AM PST by Fresh Wind (Kamala defines herself in just 4 words..."Nothing comes to mind.")
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To: Candor7
I go out to the porch and speak there.

Handle it however you see fit but I would only speak at them through a locked screen door.

28 posted on 01/24/2025 6:19:35 AM PST by BlackbirdSST (Trump or Bust! Long live the Republic.)
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To: RoosterRedux

The chess game is just beginning.


29 posted on 01/24/2025 6:24:13 AM PST by cnsmom
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To: ComputerGuy

Nessun Dorma the fuse has been lit.


30 posted on 01/24/2025 6:27:37 AM PST by cnsmom
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To: Liz

so he specializes in working with criminals to sneak them into the U.S.?


31 posted on 01/24/2025 6:29:49 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: Libloather

the guy was DIRTY

I think we will all be shocked by what charges come out - because he was probably chosen to provide a demonstration to the public of how bad things have become, and PR for a ramp-up of ICE raids.


32 posted on 01/24/2025 6:43:11 AM PST by PGR88
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To: Libloather

It’s a New Day

https://rumble.com/v6cxg0y-its-a-new-day.html

Song about the election, the world today, and the biblical concept of coming and going.


33 posted on 01/24/2025 6:53:53 AM PST by aces (and )
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To: Hattie

We need white, (born) male, conservative judges. DEI has been around for 60 years. We just didn’t know what to call it. And it’s the bane of civilization.


34 posted on 01/24/2025 7:02:43 AM PST by LouAvul (Rom 8:9b: if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. )
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To: Bernard

**As soon as I saw the word “obtained”, I immediately thought of how so many people in Illinois bought a commercial truck driver license instead of passing a test. Must be my suspicious nature.**

About 17 years ago, I had a dedicated run two nights a week to a warehouse at a west suburb of Chicago. One very snowy night I showed up to see a semi trying to back into my assigned dock. I could tell by the numerous tire tracks that he had been trying for quite a while. I questioned him about who gave him my dock. In heavy a heavy eastern European accent he said, “No one. I just want to park truck.”

I told him that was my assigned dock, and that there was space at the end of the docks, where he could park out of everyone’s way. Then he could check in at the shipping and receiving office.

I told him that in snowy conditions he needs to check the dock area for tire chocks, so that he doesn’t ruin a trailer tire while backing over it. He said, “Oh, thank you sir! I not think about that!”.

He said,”will you park my truck for me, I take long time to park truck”. So I quickly parked it for him. He happily thanked me. I got out, and as he got in I asked him where he got his CDL at. He said, “New York City”. I asked him what he did before that. He said, “I was officer in Romanian Army”.

I encountered a LOT of eastern European truck drivers during a 2 year OTR stretch in 07-08.


35 posted on 01/24/2025 7:38:50 AM PST by Zuriel (Acts 2:38,39....Do you believe it?)
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To: Zuriel
I was actually thinking about the story behind why George Ryan ended up in jail for several years. Before he was Governor of Illinois, he was the Secretary of State, an office that includes supervising the DMV.

The Illinois DMV, and the Secretary office, were a public joke for a long time, and while Ryan was governor, after he left the SOS position, an illegal bought a commercial DL from somebody with the DMV, and was driving a truck along one of the interstates from Chicago toward Milwaukee when something fell off the back of the truck, hit a minivan and caused the minivan to crash and catch fire. The mom and dad were able to get out, but their 6 kids all died in the fire.

One connected dot led to another and eventually George Ryan was convicted on corruption charges and went to jail. Apparently if that illegal had passed the driver test instead of bribing somebody, that thing would not have fallen off the back of the truck and caused the crash/fire that killed those kids.

36 posted on 01/24/2025 10:34:48 AM PST by Bernard (Issue an annual budget. And Issue a federal government balance sheet. Let's see what we got.)
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To: Bernard

I remember that tragedy. Ryan certainly was a corrupt man.

But I worked for a company that had a couple of homegrown sloppy flatbed drivers, that didn’t tie down their loads very good. I knew another homegrown that hauled oversize. He took a brand new John Deere highboy sprayer under a low overpass, ripping the cab roof right off of it.


37 posted on 01/24/2025 12:08:14 PM PST by Zuriel (Acts 2:38,39....Do you believe it?)
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To: SMARTY

““...The site also notes that the judge was born in Medellin, Columbia...””
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If charged, tried and convicted, I wonder how fast they can strip him of his Citizenship and ship him back to Columbia?


38 posted on 01/24/2025 12:51:22 PM PST by Notthereyet (Not There Yet)
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