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(The Center Square) – Seattle Police Chief Shon Barnes says that any police officer who violates the city’s new policy requiring documentation of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement actions, including video recording, will be subject to disciplinary proceedings.“This would be a violation of our policy, a violation of the law,” Barnes told the Seattle City Council’s Select Committee on Federal Administration and Policy on Thursday. “They could be placed on administrative leave per the [Seattle Police Officers Guild] collective bargaining agreement.”Barnes said what would happen to the officer ultimately would be based on a recommendation by the city Office of...

A Fort Worth federal jury got a closer look Tuesday at the alleged "antifa" materials the government says motivated what it's calling a coordinated attack on an immigration detention center July 4. FBI investigators walked the jury Tuesday through “zines,” or homemade booklets, pamphlets, posters and other items they found in the homes and cars of several people on trial. Anti-fascism, anarchy, the abolition of ICE and police, opposition to Israel, noise demonstrations, direct action and animal rights were common messages found throughout the material. A Fort Worth federal jury got a closer look Tuesday at the alleged "antifa" materials...

A Chicago federal appeals court on Thursday vacated a lower court’s injunction placing use-of-force restrictions on immigration agents during Operation Midway Blitz, calling it “constitutionally suspect” and questioning the manner in which the district judge dismissed the underlying suit. The three-judge panel of the 7th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals was split 2-1, with Chief Judge Michael Brennan and Judge Michael Scudder in the majority and Judge Frank Easterbrook dissenting. The ending of the Trump administration’s appeal was a foregone conclusion after U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis in January granted a motion by the plaintiffs to dismiss the underlying lawsuit....

Attention DePaul University donors! Do you want to check out how your funding is being put to use? The institution just initiated an obnoxious, new anti-ICE journalism institute in partnership with radical ex-Mayor of Chicago Lori Lightfoot and another Chicago-based left-wing group financed by some of the most notorious leftists in American politics. The supposedly Catholic DePaul — which sits comfortably on a roughly $1.15 billion endowment — announced that it was launching the cringely-named Institute for Journalism and Racial Justice (IJRJ) during a February 25 campus event, according to student newspaper The DePaulia. The announcement came following a “community...

During a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday, Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN) told Angel Families who were present in the audience that he was “sorry,” but that Americans are more likely to be murdered by fellow Americans than illegal aliens. “For the folks that are here and your families, I’m sorry. It’s terrible what happened to your children and family members, but they are more likely, American citizens are more likely to be attacked by United States citizens who are not undocumented who came here and who were born here,” Cohen told Angel Families. “[Americans] are more likely to commit...

In most Lancaster County school districts where students have protested against recent U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement actions, administrators are taking disciplinary action against the students. Only in the School District of Lancaster did a protest end in something other than detentions. More than 700 McCaskey High School students gathered peacefully outside the school for 45 minutes Friday to speak out against ICE movements. “In general, we allow students to exercise their free speech rights,” district spokesman Adam Aurand said, “as long as they gather peacefully, follow all directions for safety, and disperse when directed.” That was not the case...

A Minnesota prosecutor announced an investigation Monday that may lead to charges against federal officers, including Border Patrol official Greg Bovino, for misconduct during an immigration enforcement crackdown. Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said in a news conference that her office is already looking into 17 cases, including one where Bovino threw a smoke canister at protesters on Jan. 21. Another on Jan. 7 involved federal officers making an arrest outside a high school and deploying chemical irritants while students and staff were in the area. “Make no mistake, we are not afraid of the legal fight, and we are...

LAKE CHARLES, La. (KPLC) - A Lake Charles woman was charged after prosecutors said she threatened in a social media video to kill ICE agents if they went into her home. Alex Taylor Fontenot, 27, was indicted on one count of threats in interstate commerce on Feb. 4. If convicted, she faces up to five years in federal prison and three years of supervised release. KPLC obtained a copy of the Instagram video that prompted an investigation by the FBI. The following is a transcript of the video. “Hey, ICE, guess what? This message is for you. Don’t come to...

Gov. Tim Walz (D-Minn) objected to Vice President JD Vance's decision to temporarily halt federal Medicade subsidies to his state pending further investigation of the Walz Administration misuse of public funds, saying "doesn't this fool realize that we've already distributed the federal money to unqualified recipients? We need more federal money in order to take care of the folks that should've been taken care of by the money we misused. The Republicans are only hurting these needy folks." Vance pointed out that "dozens of Minnesota state employees have blamed Gov. Walz for enabling or ignoring the misuse of those funds....

Two wannabe anti-ICE influencers have been found guilty of stalking an unidentified Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent at his California home and livestreaming the event on Instagram. Cynthia Raygoza, 38, of Riverside, and Ashleigh Brown, 38, of Aurora, Colorado, were found guilty by a Los Angeles federal jury on Friday of stalking the ICE agent by following him to his home last year. In August of 2025, Brown and Raygoza livestreamed themselves on social media following the ICE agent from the LA field office to his home, provided directions as they followed him, and encouraged others to share the livestream,...

If the previously unindicted left-wing activists who stormed a church in Minnesota thought they were off the hook, they thought wrong. The Trump administration has dropped a slew of new charges related to the incident, targeting 30 people in total. According to FBI Director Kash Patel, over 20 arrests were made on Friday. 🚨 Today: 30 more individuals have been indicted under the FACE Act in connection to the January 18 targeting of Cities Church in Minnesota last month.As of this morning, the FBI executed a joint operation with our @HSI_HQ partners arresting over 20 of these individuals - with...

Two heroic off-duty Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers patrolling in Minnesota saved the life of a four-year-old boy who drowned after falling into a hotel pool. The young boy’s panicked mother approached the off-duty officers last Friday as they were eating at a restaurant in the Minneapolis suburb of Plymouth hoping they could help save her unresponsive son. The officers jumped to the rescue. The child had been under water for over five minutes after jumping into the pool to find a toy, the local police department said. The agents performed CPR on the child for several minutes before...

An Idaho woman was arrested Monday after investigators said she stole an ambulance and drove it into a building housing Department of Homeland Security offices in an alleged attempt to set it on fire. Sarah Elizabeth George, 43, of Boise, is accused of stealing a Canyon County Paramedics ambulance from outside St. Luke’s Meridian around 11 p.m. on Feb. 18, crashing it through the entrance of the Portico North building and pouring gasoline across the lobby floor before fleeing on foot, according to a federal criminal complaint. Authorities identified George after what Meridian Police Chief Tracy Basterrechea described as five...

GRAPHIC WARING: Two students BEAT a girl senseless at Lucille Umbarger Middle School in Burlington, WA, after demanding to know whether she supports Trump and ICE. She told them it was none of their business. Police are involved.

Reform UK will pledge to restore Britain's Christian heritage by stopping churches being turned into mosques and deporting almost 300,000 illegal migrants every year. Nigel Farage's party will today vow to create a British version of Donald Trump's US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) unit to deport up to 288,000 migrants per year. The 'UK Deportation Command' would have capacity to detain up to 24,000 migrants at any time and will run five deportation flights a day if Reform wins power, the party will announce. Zia Yusuf will outline Reform's plans for a 'radical overhaul' of the immigration system, with...

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SUMMERVILLE, S.C. (WCSC) — The Summerville Police Department has arrested a woman who allegedly encouraged high school students to protest in a planned high school walkout. Dinah Chollet, 44, is charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor, according to the arrest warrant. An anonymous student alerted a school resource officer at Summerville High School of a planned protest called the “Summerville Walkout” that was going to occur on Friday afternoon. The incident report stated that the protest was publicized on Instagram and was an open account to the public. When the officer joined the group anonymously, he...

At least five teenagers and one adult have been taken into custody after police responded to an anti-ICE student-led protest on Friday. Quakertown police say they responded to the demonstration at approximately 11:35 a.m.. ---SNIP--- As the protest reached East Broad Street, some protesters began engaging in disruptive behavior, including throwing snowballs at vehicles, kicking cars, and damaging property, such as tearing a side mirror from a car, the police said in a statement.

In what is becoming a growing trend, over three hundred students in a Virginia high school walked out of class in an anti-ICE protest last week. They were rewarded with a three-day suspension. The protest was not sanctioned by the school. It spilled out onto the streets of Prince William County, causing traffic disturbances requiring police attention. The real goal of this protest was soon seen: Some students reportedly went home after the protest, others headed to a nearby shopping center, and several returned to campus — where a few caused a disturbance. The school district "urged students to bring...