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The ‘defender of democracy’ is now openly challenged by his own citizens. Many were caught by surprise by yesterday’s protests in Kiev, Lvov, Odessa, and other parts of Ukraine – after all, these are the absolute first since the war began three and a half years ago. But here at TGP we have been closely following the escalating tensions inside the war-torn country. Four days ago (19), we reported that Amid Collapsing Morale, Ukrainians ‘Lost Faith’ in Zelensky, With 70% Convinced That Kiev Regime Leaders Are Using the War to Enrich Themselves: REPORT. The following day (20), there was this...

Across the country videos of ICE agents being assailed and ambushed by both protesters and illegal fugitives are getting widespread attention, but unfortunately these incidents are wrongly being held out by 'activists' as proof ICE is out of control, and has plans to deport americans... Journalistic coverage of recent ICE arrests including news footage, analysis and commentary.

The US Marshals and Florida officials were able to find 60 missing children during "Operation Dragonfly," which the US Marshals Service called the "largest" child rescue operation in the history of the United States. “We are here to announce the most successful completion of the largest child rescue operation, not just in Florida history, but in the United States history,” Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced during a press conference, per First Coast News. "Protecting our kids and keeping Florida the safest state to raise a family is our number one priority," Uthmeier added. "Today is a result of the...

Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, a bitter and vocal rival of U.S. President Donald J. Trump, has been arrested in the royal family’s sweeping anti-corruption crackdown. Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz has arrested and removed a slew of corrupt and prominent officials, including dozens of princes and former ministers. Al Arabiya, a Saudi state-run news outlet, reported bin Talal was among those arrested. People’s Pundit Daily (PPD) confirmed he was one of at least 11 princes arrested. The billionaire chairman of Kingdom Holding Co. was once a business associate of President Trump. But his “America First” platform was a direct threat...

Footage of Mossad agents operating in Iran continues to spark outrage in the Islamic Republic. Media outlets in Iran reported that trucks carrying UAVs were intercepted, allegedly intended to be launched from within the country by Israeli agents. White pickup trucks were also seized, which Iranian security forces claim are commonly used by Mossad operatives. .....

[snip] What started as a peaceful rally and march suddenly turned violent near Los Angeles’ City Hall as police declared an unlawful assembly. Officers were seen using less-lethal munitions on a crowd of people, while officers on horseback pushed into demonstrators. People in the crowd screamed “peaceful protest” but were ultimately forced to run into neighboring Grand Park. Officers were seen wielding batons on some protesters as they retreated. The dramatic turn of events occurred an hour and a half before the city’s curfew was set to go into effect. LAPD said on X that during a march northbound on...

Disney-owned ABC late-night host Jimmy Kimmel downplayed the violent, destructive, insurrectionist L.A. riots Tuesday night and said he was “very angry” that immigration officials were arresting murderers, drug dealers, and rapists. During Tuesday evening’s Jimmy Kimmel Live monologue, Kimmel blasted the Trump administration for “abducting” people off the streets for deportation and for sending the National Guard to break up what Kimmel called “peaceful demonstrations” occurring in Los Angeles. “I’m very angry, I have to say. I cannot believe what’s going on. I knew it was going to be bad, I did not know it was going to be this...

SAN ANTONIO, Texas — Just outside the federal immigration courtroom in downtown San Antonio, organizers with the Party for Socialism and Liberation led an anti-ICE protest attended by more than 100 people. One passionate speaker identified herself as a San Antonio public school teacher, leading the crowd in chants calling for the end of ICE and the Police. Breitbart Texas captured video of Corrie Rosen, who identified herself as a public-school teacher and protest organizer with the San Antonio chapter of the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) at a protest on Sunday outside San Antonio’s city hall. Demonstrators carried...

During a raid in Los Angeles, California, known as one of the nation’s most enthusiastic sanctuary jurisdictions, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents arrested what they are calling the “worst of the worst” criminal illegal aliens. While California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass (D) continue to side with rioters taking to the city streets to oppose the enforcement of federal immigration laws, ICE agents have continued arresting convicted criminal illegal aliens. “These heinous criminals, including child abusers and pedophiles, are some of the illegal aliens arrested yesterday in Los Angeles,” Department of Homeland Security (DHS)...

Migrants illegally in the US are facing a new challenge, as they head to immigration court their cases are being dropped. But although that might sound like a good thing, having a case in court gave people temporary legal status in America, that dissapears when the case does, leading to mass arrests... Activists are having meltdowns.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced sweeping leadership changes Thursday as part of an effort to dramatically ramp up arrests of illegal migrants. The “leadership realignment” comes as Trump administration officials push for ICE to make a “minimum” of 3,000 arrests per day – up from the 1,800 per day quota the White House initially demanded in January. As part of the shake-up, Kenneth Genalo is out as the head of ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) division – the branch tasked with executing arrests and deportations. Genalo “decided to retire and will continue to serve the public as a...

Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson 🚨DHS confirms Democrat Congress members will be arrested after bodycam footage showed them assaulting officers at a NJ ICE facility: "There will be arrests. We have bodycam footage of these members of Congress assaulting ICE enforcement officers." From Eric Daugherty 12:24 PM · May 10, 2025

At least six of the Columbia students arrested for storming a Columbia University library on Wednesday are repeat offenders, including one student who demanded humanitarian aid from university, a Washington Free Beacon review found. They had already been arrested and disciplined for their involvement in earlier campus building raids or in last spring's encampments. Of the 81 total arrests, at least 44 are Columbia students, while at least 13 attend the university’s sister school, Barnard College. Also arrested was one Barnard faculty member, Eva-Quenby Johnson, as well as two students at another Columbia affiliate, Union Theological Seminary. The masked mob...

Frio County [Texas] Judge Rochelle Lozano Camacho, Pearsall officials among 6 suspects charged Frio County sheriff’s deputies arrested the following suspects on May 2 after an investigation by the state attorney general’s office: Pearsall City Council member Ramiro Trevino on one count of vote harvesting Pearsall Independent School District board member Adrian Ramirez on three counts of vote harvesting Former Frio County Elections Administrator Carlos Segura on one count of tampering with evidence Pearsall City Council member Racheal Garza on one count of vote harvesting Rosa Rodriguez, who the Frio County Sheriff’s Office described as a campaign worker, on two...

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) conducted operations in Nashville this week, resulting in the arrests of a convicted child sex predator and an alleged gang member, but the mayor of the city said the arrests were not focused on making the city safer. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shared Democratic Nashville Mayor Freddie O’Connell’s letter to the city about the ICE arrests. “Our top priority is keeping people safe, and we’re deeply concerned that what appear to be federal actions are making that harder,” O’Connell wrote. “Overnight, we understand that US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agents detained people...

SEATTLE (AP) — Inside a Virginia courthouse, three immigration agents in plainclothes — one masked — detained a man who had just had misdemeanor assault charges dismissed. They declined to show identification or a warrant to the man, and one threatened to prosecute horrified witnesses who tried to intervene, cellphone video shows. In North Carolina, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement confirmed it arrested four people at a county courthouse, according to local media reports, prompting the sheriff to express concerns about a lack of communication from the agency as well as about disruption to court proceedings. Inside a courthouse in...

In a groundbreaking joint effort, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Miami and Florida law enforcement agencies arrested nearly 800 illegal immigrants during the first four days of Operation Tidal Wave, a massive, multi-agency immigration enforcement crackdown. Fox News obtained information on some of the ICE arrests from the ongoing operation, which include a convicted Colombian murderer, alleged MS-13 and 18th Street gang members and a Russian with an Interpol Red Notice for manslaughter. Jose Sanchez Reyes, a Colombian illegal immigrant who entered the U.S. as a getaway, was convicted of homicide in his home country. Rafael Juarex Cabrera, a...

NEW YORK — Six Bahá’í leaders in Iran were arrested and taken to the notorious Evin prison yesterday in a sweep that is ominously similar to episodes in the 1980s when scores of Iranian Bahá’í leaders were summarily rounded up and killed. The six men and women, all members of the national-level group that helped see to the minimum needs of Bahá’ís in Iran, were in their homes Wednesday morning when government intelligence agents entered and spent up to five hours searching each home, before taking them away.The seventh member of the national coordinating group was arrested in early March...

Retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, President Trump’s former National Security Advisor and a central figure in the Obama-era Crossfire Hurricane scandal, is once again turning up the heat on key players in the conservative movement, publicly demanding answers from Trump allies Pam Bondi and Kash Patel about long-promised justice. In a post on X Thursday, Flynn shared a clip from his must-watch documentary movie FLYNN—Deliver the Truth, Whatever the Cost, calling on the American public to watch the film and understand the depth of corruption he endured at the hands of a “rigged system.” “Newly declassified Crossfire Hurricane documents reveal...

Law enforcement in Colorado and other states could soon have an easier time coordinating with federal authorities on immigration issues, especially when it comes to busting gangs and drug traffickers. Rep. Gabe Evans, R-Colo., introduced the "Unhandcuffing Police to Locate and Interdict Foreign Transgressors (UPLIFT) Act" in Congress earlier this week to prompt public officials in Colorado and nationwide to communicate with feds about illegal immigrants who are believed to have committed other crimes, even though certain state laws limit their ability to do so. "State laws have a national impact, because if federal law enforcement uses information from a...