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An Irish man has spent five months in US Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention and faces deportation despite having a valid work permit and no criminal record. Seamus Culleton was a “model immigrant” who had become the victim of a capricious and inept system, said his lawyer, Ogor Winnie Okoye. Originally from County Kilkenny, Culleton is married to a US citizen and runs a plastering business in the Boston area. While buying supplies at a hardware store on 9 September 2025 he was arrested in a random immigration sweep, according to Okoye, of BOS Legal Group in Massachusetts. Culleton entered...

Less than 14% of nearly 400,000 immigrants arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in President Trump's first year back in the White House had charges or convictions for violent criminal offenses, according to an internal Department of Homeland Security document obtained by CBS News. The official statistics contained in the DHS document, which had not been previously reported publicly, provide the most detailed look yet into who ICE has arrested during the Trump administration's far-reaching deportation operations across the U.S. The internal DHS figures undermine frequent assertions by the Trump administration that its crackdown on illegal immigration is primarily targeting...

Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) said it was “not realistic” to remove over 25 million people in this country who are undocumented.’#Lawler said, “Look, this is an issue that I’ve been focused on for years. You know, for 40 years, we have not solved our immigration crisis. The American people were rightly outraged by what happened under the Biden administration, where you had over 10.5 million migrants cross our border, most of them illegally. You know, porous Southern border needed to be shut down. President Trump did that. The fact is, we have had nine straight...

It’s useful, if unserious, for congressional Democrat leaders this week to have issued a list of demands in exchange for votes to fund the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees immigration law enforcement. The administration should see it as a reminder that the default position of Democrats is “pretend to support deporting illegal aliens while overcomplicating the process so as to render it impossible.” Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, both of New York, published the demands in an open letter on Wednesday, detailing 10 things they say are needed to strike a deal on...

The Drawdown and Its ScopeOn February 4, 2026, federal officials announced that approximately 700 immigration enforcement personnel would be withdrawn from Minnesota effective immediately. This is approximately 25% of all agents deployed to the area. The personnel being removed included agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection who had been deployed into the Minneapolis–St. Paul is part of a large federal immigration operation. After the drawdown, federal officials confirmed roughly 2,000 immigration enforcement personnel would remain in Minnesota. Why the Remaining Federal Presence Still MattersA continued presence of approximately 2,000 federal immigration agents constitutes a sustained...

The only people worried about ICE at the polls either shouldn’t be at the polls or are benefiting from the votes of people who shouldn’t be at the polls. White House ‘can’t guarantee’ ICE won’t be at polls – Democracy Docket Senate Democrat ‘greatly afraid’ of ICE being used for voter intimidation Yesterday – The Hill ‘Worst-case scenarios’: How Democratic election officials are preparing for potential Trump intrusion in the midterms – CNN And here we go… “I am, we are all, greatly afraid with these roving ICE vans that we see in Minneapolis and other cities. Could those ICE...

Renaud Camus. Two journalists have just embarked on the exercise of writing a ‘biography,’ or rather a damning pamphlet, against the writer Renaud Camus, on whom they intend to heap all the ignominy of having invented and popularised the phrase ‘the great replacement.'” But what crime is this when the expression is now swallowed and spat out by everyone, including and especially on the Left, by certain MPs and politicians who today make it a point of pride and a programme? To feed its fundamental need to feel useful, the Left needs scapegoats. As Le Figaro editorialist Eugénie Bastié points...

@TRobinsonNewEra It's becoming very common of invaders waiting outside nightclubs and frogmarching drunk women away to rape. Be careful out there, girls stay in groups, they've imported beasts. Hat's off to the guy filming, very likely saved these girls from rape.

Nelvis Gonzalez Purdencio charged with sexual abuse of family member under 12 in Maryland sanctuary county Salvadoran has been under deportation order for two decades An illegal alien who has been under a deportation order for more than 20 years was busted catching a flight out of the U.S. to evade child sex abuse charges in Maryland, authorities say.Nelvis Gonzalez Purdencio, 43, was caught on Sunday at Dulles International Airport just prior to boarding a plane bound for his home country of El Salvador.Gonzalez Purdencio was wanted in Montgomery County, MD, for sexual abuse of a minor within his family.Additionally,...

In a stark warning, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) called on California Governor Gavin Newsom and Attorney General Rob Bonta to prioritize public safety by honoring ICE detainers for more than 33,000 criminal illegal aliens currently in state custody. The announcement highlights the grave risks posed by California’s sanctuary policies, which have already led to the release of thousands of dangerous offenders back into communities since January 20, 2026.

A Feb. 6 ruling from the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals states that illegal aliens who never presented themselves at a port of entry can be held without a bond until they are deported.A three-judge panel voted 2-1 to reverse a lower court's decision.Victor Buenrostro-Mendez had sued US Attorney General Pam Bondi, Department of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, U. S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Acting Director Todd Lyons, Acting ICE Houston Field Office Director Matthew Baker, ICE John Linscott, ICE Director of Houston Contract Detention Facility, and Houston Warden Contract Detention Facility of CoreCivic Martin Frink.The case was consolidated with...

When Chuck Schumer released a brief list of Senate Democratic demands for reforming Immigration and Customs Enforcement as part of his maneuvers just prior to the beginning of a partial government shutdown last week, he had the short-term tactical goal of looking both tough and reasonable. For the moment, it placated the Democrats, who wanted an all-out fight to radically change or even abolish ICE, while holding out the prospect of negotiations with Republicans if they agreed to separate Department of Homeland Security appropriations from the rest of a giant spending package. The gambit served its original purpose, but Schumer’s...

Senator Chuck Schumer and Congressman Hakeem Jeffries may call it common-sense solutions, but I would call their list of 40 demands for amnesty-like attacks on Immigration and Customs Enforcement, nothing less than abolishing ICE altogether, and returning to President Biden’s catastrophic open-borders policy is their not-so-hidden agenda. If you go through their list, you can see that they are siding once again with the far-left wing of the Democratic party that wants to abolish, defund, and damage ICE. They can’t defund it cause it’s already funded from the One, Big, Beautiful, Bill, with roughly $75 billion, but then again the...

A federal appeals court delivered a victory for the Trump administration on Friday night by backing its mass detention policy that locks up most people it intends to deport. The three-judge panel on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in Texas split on the ruling with two judges ruling that the Trump administration had the correct interpretation of the immigration law when it comes to the ability to detain people that will be deported, according to Politico. “That prior Administrations decided to use less than their full enforcement authority … does not mean they lacked the authority to do more,”...

Immigrant groups have a message for their mostly White allies: Quit blowing the whistle on ICE. Fox News Digital has reviewed days of messages inside Signal chat rooms that reveal that a new internal feud has erupted inside the anti-ICE protest industry, pitting immigrant-led organizations against predominately White "rapid response" networks that have made whistle-blowing a dramatic part of anti-ICE protests. In one dismissal, a "rapid responder" in Seattle reported back that "immigrant networks are being weird." Groups from Seattle to Montgomery County, Md., are telling mostly White "rapid responders" to back off a dynamic described by activists as "White...

One tip to California law enforcement resulted in a week-long sweep of the human garbage that engineers and facilitates human trafficking in the state. Thanks to a joint enterprise called "Operation Reclaim and Rebuild," 156 adults and 14 children were rescued from human sex trafficking. The evil actors who enslaved them were also snatched up: 71 suspected traffickers were arrested, along with 328 sex buyers.It was a bad week for the criminal element in the state, and that is how it should be. A single tip about a quiet suburban home in California exploded into a massive human trafficking takedown...

Sanctuary state California’s Democrat leaders consistently release dangerous illegal alien criminals back onto the streets and defy federal detainer requests, even for murderers. That could mean that more than 33,000 foreign criminals will be released onto California's streets. Among the illegal alien criminals who should be in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody are nearly 400 murderers and over 3,000 burglars, according to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin. She asked California Gov. Gavin Newsom to stop prioritizing a political agenda over his people and not to release the 33,179 criminal illegal aliens without notifying ICE first....

These individuals are driven by strong emotions and a toxic sense of self-righteousness, which has led some to believe they can attack police with impunity—something Renee Good and Alex Pretti learned the hard way—or hurl racist slurs at non-white people. These officers are professionals; they won’t leave the city or be provoked. Instead, you’ll be recognized for revealing the fundamental flaws within white Democrats, a group that has historically been rotten. Minneapolis has been on fire since Good and Pretti were shot and killed by law enforcement for stupidly trying to impede their operations. They weren’t executed. But the deportations...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — In some ways, 10-year-old Giancarlo is one of the lucky ones. He still goes to school. Each morning, he and his family bundle up and leave their Minneapolis apartment to wait for his bus. His little brother hefts on his backpack, even though he stopped going to day care weeks ago because his mom is too afraid to take him. As they wait behind a wrought-iron fence, Giancarlo’s mother pulls the boys into the shadow of a tree to pray. It’s the only time she stops scanning the street for immigration agents. “God, please protect my son...

President Donald Trump’s mass deportation policies are not the only reason for the decline, but they are a big contributing factor. Enforcing immigration law and allowing more homes to be built are doing more for renters than slogans and rent control ever did. I