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If ICE or other immigration agents go out of bounds, the place to fight them is the courts, not the streets —and New York pols from Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani on down are courting chaos if they play the issue otherwise. Consider City Councilman Shaun Abreu’s smear Wednesday, posting an inflammatory video that he claimed showed Homeland Security officers pulling a migrant out of an SUV in Washington Heights without due process. Abreu blasted the arrest as “deeply disturbing” and part of a “despicable pattern of intimidation,” huffing that agencies “carrying out [President Donald] Trump’s agenda of detaining people without due...

California's Medicaid-for-illegals disaster couldn't come at a worse time for Democrats. After grinding the federal government to a halt for more than 40 days — partly to reopen a loophole letting taxpayers foot the bill for illegal immigrant health care — the Golden State is serving up a perfect example of why that's a terrible idea. The numbers are staggering.According to a report from the Epoch Times, California's spending on health care for illegal immigrants through Medi-Cal is now projected to hit $10 billion annually from the state's General Fund. That figure is more than double what officials initially estimated....

Federal law enforcement officials were sent to North Carolina’s largest city, while many National Guard members deployed to Chicago and Portland are being sent home.The Department of Homeland Security has begun law enforcement operations in Charlotte, federal officials said Saturday, the latest Democratic-run city to brace for the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.“We are surging DHS law enforcement to Charlotte to ensure Americans are safe and public safety threats are removed,” Tricia McLaughlin, a DHS spokesperson, said in an email. “There have been too many victims of criminal illegal aliens, and President Trump and Secretary Noem will step up to protect...

When the show’s over, what federal agents will leave behind is predictable. All the president’s men are coming to Charlotte. After several days of rumors, federal officials confirmed to local leaders in North Carolina that, indeed, Border Patrol agents will be conducting operations in the state’s largest city. I used to live in Charlotte. I still have a lot of friends and family there. I’m told Donald Trump is coming to save them, but from what? We don’t know. If Charlotte residents are living in terror — other than the terror President Trump has created by frightening the city’s...

LOS ANGELES - Federal authorities confirmed agents snatched a toddler during an arrest outside a Home Depot in Los Angeles. The organization, Los Angeles Rapid Response Network, said a man and a toddler were both in the process of an "unsettling arrest" on Tuesday, November 4. Federal authorities later confirmed it was a 32-year-old man and his son. LARRN said the arrests happened as federal agents were staging inside the Dodger Stadium parking lot, which is a short distance from the Cypress Park location of Home Depot, where the detainment took place. Federal agents drove off from the scene with...

US President Donald Trump has said the UK must follow America's hard line on immigration or 'you're not going to have a country left'. He praised his own immigration policies, claiming he had reduced people entering the US illegally to 'zero', adding the UK must 'take [migrants] back immediately'. Speaking to GB News, he called for Keir Starmer's government to deploy the military to tackle the small boats problem in a wide-ranging interview that also saw him threaten again to sue the BBC for up to $5 billion. It comes after the BBC sent a personal apology to the US...

Department of Justice leadership directed federal prosecutors to give them examples by Friday of hurdles they have encountered with judges when working on cases about attacks on law enforcement and Antifa.... The areas were laid out in a bulleted list and included assaults on law enforcement, obstruction of immigration authorities, investigations into certain "domestic terror organizations, such as Antifa" or "interstate threats, doxxing, and/or hoaxes...." "Courts exist to apply the law, not invent policy from the bench," the spokesperson said. "The Department is committed to strengthening our litigation posture at every level so we can better defend public safety initiatives...

An immigrant who was arrested after a Milwaukee judge allegedly helped him dodge federal agents has been deported. Eduardo Flores-Ruiz, 31, pleaded guilty in September to illegally reentering the United States after he reached a deal with prosecutors. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security tweeted Friday afternoon that he has now been deported. The tweet did not say whether he was transported back to his native Mexico or some other destination. The Associated Press sent an email message to his attorney, Martin Pruhs, seeking more details but he did not immediately respond. Flores-Ruiz is at the center of a case...

DMV employee getting paid $3,000 per illegal she took commercial drivers license tests for “Took commercial driver's license, or CDL, written exams — each time she'd use disguises, sunglasses and surgical masks to look like a different person taking the exam” “She'd split a $1,500 to $3,000 payment for each bogus test with accomplices in the DMV” Now imagine similar scams like this taking place in every county in every state in America

Indiana’s attorney general took two major enforcement actions this week targeting potential migrant trafficking. This week, Todd Rokita’s office sent subpoenas to several Indiana entities, including Fort Wayne, the state’s second-largest city; Amazon; and Catholic Charities.“I believe these entities have vital information to root out labor trafficking right here,” Rokita said in a press conference at the Allen County courthouse Nov. 13. His office declined to disclose the subpoena contents beyond mentioning business, financial, and client records and relationships, saying confidentiality is legally required because subpoenas do not accuse recipients of wrongdoing but solely seek information.On Nov. 6, Rokita’s office...

Vice President J.D. Vance discussed the nation’s affordability crisis and the difficulty for young Americans to purchase homes during an interview with FOX News host Sean Hannity. "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive," Vance told Hannity. "Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens, and at the same time, we weren't building enough new houses to begin with even for the population that we had, so what we're doing is trying to make it easier to build...

On Thursday’s broadcast of Newsmax TV’s “Rob Schmitt Tonight,” Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins discussed data on food stamps and said that data from blue states is “going to give us a platform and a trajectory to fundamentally rebuild this program, have everyone reapply for their benefit, make sure that everyone that’s taking a taxpayer-funded benefit through SNAP or food stamps, that they literally are vulnerable and they can’t survive without it.” Rollins stated, “29 states, mostly the red states, responded with their data sets, February, March, April. … But here’s the most unbelievable news I have really, just over the...

Police and federal agents clashed with far-left protestors outside of the Broadview ICE facility in Chicago, Illinois, on Friday. Several protestors were arrested after chaos erupted outside the Broadview facility. The protestors arrived at the Broadview facility on Friday after a radical Biden judge ordered the release of 13 detainees. 21 protestors were arrested. According to Fox 32, two police officers were injured during the violent protest. A CBS reporter claimed protestors were holding offensive signs with curse words. “But there are some signs here that we cannot show on TV because they have curse words,” a CBS reporter said....

Border czar Tom Homan rebuked the Conference of Bishops on Friday for condemning mass deportation efforts in the United States led by the Trump administration. “The Catholic Church is wrong,” Homan told reporters at the White House. “I’m a lifelong Catholic, but I’m saying it not only as a border czar, but I’m also saying this as a Catholic,” he added. On Wednesday, the U.S. Conference of Bishops issued a statement rebuking the administration’s “indiscriminate” efforts to remove immigrants. “We are disturbed when we see among our people a climate of fear and anxiety around questions of profiling and immigration...

The Trump Organization sought to bring in at least 184 foreign workers in 2025 for temporary positions at Mar-a-Lago, two golf clubs and a Virginia winery through H-2A and H-2B visas, according to data from the Department of Labor. The company’s visa requests have risen steadily in recent years, from 121 in 2021 to a record 184 in 2025. During Trump’s five years in office, the Trump Organization filed to bring in at least 566 foreign workers. The jobs—primarily servers, clerks, housekeepers, kitchen staff and farm workers—pay between $15.58 and $27.91 an hour, per Department of Labor listings. Spokespeople for...

The Mojave Megaphone, sometimes called the Sentinel Enigma, has been a mystery for decades. It sits high on a rocky ridge in one of the most remote parts of the Mojave Desert. This odd, welded-steel structure looks out over the empty landscape, and no one knows who built it or why. Some people wonder if it was part of a railroad warning system, a military sound monitor, or a surveying tool lined up with desert landmarks. Others even believe it might have been used to communicate with UFOs. But a rare clue from a 1990 Desert Dispatch newspaper article may...

A 23-year-old New York man was killed when the semi-truck he was driving went off the side of Wolf Creek Pass on Monday, according to Colorado State Patrol. The crash happened around 8:30 a.m. on U.S. Highway 160 in Mineral County, a CSP spokesman said. The driver, who hasn't yet been identified, was hauling canned beverages in a 2020 Freightliner when he lost control of the truck. Witnesses told investigators they saw it moving at a high rate of speed with black smoke coming from its brakes.

The new Archbishop of Canterbury says that churches should not feel anxious about baptising asylum seekers in the face of concerns about fake conversions. Dame Sarah Mullally, who will move into Lambeth Palace next year, claimed that due to the persecution faced by millions of Christians around the world, people may wait until they are in the UK to publicly declare their faith. The Archbishop of Canterbury-designate made her comments as she raised her concern over a call in Parliament for the rejection of refugee claims on grounds of religious persecution, where the person converted after arriving in the UK....

A federal judge ordered the release of more than 600 people arrested as part of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in Illinois, according to CNN affiliate WLS, dealing a blow to federal efforts to detain and deport as many undocumented people as possible. US District Judge Jeffrey Cummings on Wednesday morning sided with attorneys from the National Immigrant Justice Center and the ACLU. The plaintiffs alleged more than 3,000 people were arrested between June and October in “Operation Midway Blitz.” Now, 615 of those arrested must be granted bond by noon on November 21, according to the ruling, which applies...

🚨 BREAKING: Latin street gangs in Chicago are now ordering members to “SHOOT ON SIGHT” when ICE is conducting raids, DHS officials tell FoxThis is INSANE!We should not be waiting until DHS agents are KlLLED to send in the Marines.Do it NOW! pic.twitter.com/3yyGrcGTQO— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) November 10, 2025