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A British mother who has been detained by immigration authorities in Washington state has a long history of criminal behavior, including five convictions for assault. Lauren Jane Morris, 38, was taken into custody by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents outside the Spokane County Courthouse on February 11. She was apprehended in front of her 16-month-old daughter after having left a probation meeting related to a since-rescinded restraining order, her family told local TV station KING 5. Morris was born in Burton Upon Trent, a town in Staffordshire, England. Her family said she grew up in London and moved to...

The bloodbath early Monday unfolded in the small town of Goshen at a property well-known to cops as a base for gang and drug activity, Tulare County Sheriff Mike Boudreaux said while announcing a $10,000 reward. At least one of the victims was a member of the Sureño gang who’d been busted days earlier for an illegal stash of drugs and high-powered weapons — but quickly released because of soft bail laws. “It is very clear that this family was a target and that there are gang associations involved as well as drug investigations,” the sheriff said a day after...

A mother says she just wants answers after she found her son with special needs wandering miles away from his school when he was supposed to be in class. "I don't feel safe. I'm just scared to go back. Something could happen ... again," sixth-grader Richard Harley said. Harley, 11, says he doesn't want to go back to class after he was found wandering, scared and alone, miles away from school grounds after a student-led walkout protesting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. "They were supposed to stay there, like on 72 by the school. But they did the exact opposite...

An anti-ICE agitator stole an ambulance, packed it with gas cans and rammed the emergency vehicle into a DHS office in Meridian, Idaho. Meridian Police Chief Tracy Basterrechea said the suspect stole the ambulance from St. Luke’s Hospital and poured accelerant inside of the vehicle. “We want to emphasize that this was a serious criminal act,” Police Chief Basterrechea said. “The theft and destruction of an emergency vehicle not only created a risk to responding personnel, but it also temporarily removed a critical medical resource from the community,” he said. The police chief said “there has been a lot of...

This is one of those stories that sounds made up until you read the federal release yourself. A Liberian national who federal authorities say had no legal status in the United States was allegedly working as a Minnesota corrections officer, posing as a U.S. citizen, and at one point serving in the Pennsylvania Army National Guard before going AWOL. According to USCIS, the case was uncovered through “Operation Twin Shield,” a DHS enforcement effort targeting immigration fraud in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. If the allegations are accurate, this was not a clerical error. It was a years-long chain of deception...

O'FALLON, Mo. — A Florissant woman is questioning why her fiancé was detained by ICE following a routine traffic stop in St. Charles County. “I’ve never been this worried,” Victor Lopez de Lara’s fiancée said. “I’m devastated. I’m scared of what can happen.” According to his fiancée, Victor Lopez de Lara was driving to Troy, MO, to work when he was stopped by O’Fallon Police. “They said he had no front plate on his van,” Lopez de Lara’s fiancée said. “They asked for his driver’s license, but because he’s undocumented he had no driver’s license.” After being taken in on...

2 anti-ICE terrorists tailing and trying to impede ICE agents on Minnesota Highway and cause a crash.... right into each other.

A minor believed to be participating in a protest against ICE was hit by a car on Monday afternoon. According to the West Palm Beach Police Department, at about 12:30 p.m., officers responded to a pedestrian vs. vehicle crash near the South Wind Plaza on N. Military Trail. Video shows the minor lying on the ground with police and fire personnel surrounding him and rendering aid. Police say the minor was taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. The driver remained at the scene of the crash. The minor being struck by a vehicle comes as hundreds of students from...

Like many people in the Twin Cities, Jess has been observing ICE officers: following them in her car and documenting their actions. Earlier this month, she was in North Minneapolis, when immigration agents told her and another observer they were impeding a federal investigation. "We followed at a distance. We never got in front of them. We never honked our horns. We never made any sort of noise. We were just keeping an eye on them," said Jess, who requested NPR only use her first name because she fears retaliation from the federal government. She says she kept tracking the...

Why would any president destroy the U.S. southern border? The Left typically “pounces” on anyone daring to suggest that the Biden administration had green-lighted illegal immigration to gain new constituents for agendas that otherwise were without broad public support. The Left smears critics of open borders as racist conspiracists spreading the “Great Replacement Theory.”

How many times do Americans have to vote for Donald Trump to make the point that they want illegal immigrants deported? They voted for him in 2016, despite sheer hysteria from Democrats, the entire media, and nearly all elected Republicans. They voted for him again in 2024 by an even larger margin, with some misgivings, because he promised a mass deportation force. Do we have to make Stephen Miller president so you finally get the point? Is this Groundhog Day? Why do we always have to start at square one on the question of: Should we have a country? The...

A federal judge has declared a mistrial in the high‑profile case accusing nine North Texans of attacking the Prairieland ICE Detention Center on the Fourth of July, after determining that a defense attorney’s shirt could improperly influence potential jurors. The mistrial was issued Tuesday during jury selection, after Judge Mark Pittman noticed that defendant Maricela Rueda's defense attorney, MarQuetta Clayton, was wearing a T‑shirt under her jacket with images tied to the civil rights era beneath her jacket. Clayton later exited the courthouse with the shirt turned inside out, which had depicted images of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Shirley...

As Michigan Democrats enter the thick of a competitive Senate primary campaign, one candidate is trying to position himself as an outsider who wants to fix a broken system and take on the oligarchy. Dr. Abdul El-Sayed is a Bernie Sanders-endorsed former public health director who has been compared to New York City’s recently elected democratic socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani. He wants Medicare for all, believes big corporations are to blame for the problems in government and the economy, and insists that Immigration and Customs Enforcement must be abolished. But El-Sayed doesn’t want to be labeled a leftist or a...

Over the past 18 years, officers at Maryland’s Frederick County jail have asked thousands of inmates two standard questions: What country are you a citizen of? And where were you born?If the answer was anything other than the United States, local officers deputized with special federal authority launched an investigation into whether the person was in the country illegally. Since 2008, Frederick County has turned over 1,884 people to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Sheriff Charles Jenkins said. But that is coming to an immediate halt under a law signed Tuesday by Democratic Gov. Wes Moore that prohibits immigration enforcement...

Jamie Kennedy has slammed anti-ICE celebrities who preach from glitzy Hollywood red carpets about authoritarianism while being protected by security guards. The 55-year-old comedian appeared on Jack Osbourne’s “Trying Not to Die” podcast on Tuesday, calling out liberal stars who cry about living under a so-called “fascist regime” while they are “literally guarded.” He said “when you have actors from the red carpet of an award show” saying stuff like “we’re under a fascist regime” and cries of “authoritarianism,” they couldn’t be more clueless. He added: “You can’t say you’re under authoritarian rule when you’re literally being authoritarian.” Kennedy claimed...

CHATHAM COUNTY, Ga. (WTOC) - According to the Chatham County Police Department, Monday morning’s fatal crash was the result of a chase between Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and a suspect. CCPD said in a press release department officers responded to the crash around 7:45 a.m., which happened right outside one of its precincts. The crash killed Hesse K-8 teacher Linda Davis. Preliminary information shows Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was conducting an operation in the area of the Truman Parkway, and attempted to pull a man identified as Oscar Vasquez Lopez over. Lopez didn’t pull over, and ICE agents...

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer told CNN this morning that Democrats' demands for reforms to immigration enforcement are "common sense." "We need masks off, we need cameras on and we need every police — every [Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)] officer, to be identified," Schumer said. "These are common sense proposals. They’re supported by the American people. Why won’t Republicans go for them? They don’t give any good answers. It’s something that every police department does across the country, but ICE is rogue, out of control."

A deadly accident happened earlier today in Savannah, Georgia. The accident was caused by an illegal immigrant fleeing ICE who ran a red light and plowed his car into another car being driven by a special education teacher named Linda Davis.Shortly before 7:45 a.m., agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement were trying to pull over the man, Oscar Vasquez Lopez, 38, according to the Chatham County Police Department.Originally from Guatemala, Mr. Lopez was issued a final order of removal by a federal judge in 2024, according to the Department of Homeland Security. Officers were trying to apprehend him in Savannah...

A sassy Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent was seen putting a female protester in her place as she tried to interject during the arrest of an alleged child rapist in Minnesota. The incident, posted to TikTok on Friday by Olivia Jensen, showed her recording federal officers from inside her car as she called them 'race traitors'. She filmed herself driving behind the federal vehicle before the officers approached her driver's-side door and addressed her by her first name. Jensen then said she would continue to follow the officers, before asking them: 'How's it feel to be a race traitor?'...

Agreements between Immigration and Customs Enforcement and local law enforcement that allow officers to make federal immigration arrests have increased by 950% in the first year of President Donald Trump’s second term, according to a new analysis of ICE data. As of Jan. 26, there were 1,168 agencies with officers trained to help ICE, up from 135 during the Biden administration and 150 at the end of Trump’s first term, according to the analysis by FWD.US, a nonpartisan policy organization. The Trump administration has called on local law enforcement to support its growing deportation operations nationwide, reviving a controversial “task...