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President Joe Biden has nominated a Texas sheriff, Ed Gonzalez, to lead Immigrations and Customs Enforcement for the Department of Homeland Security. Since 2017, Gonzales has served as sheriff of Harris County, Texas, which is the largest sheriff office in Texas and the third-largest in the country. He has led a team of 5,000 employees in the position and previously served 18 years with the Houston Police Department, rising to the rank of sergeant, according to his profile on his office's website. If confirmed by the Senate as the next director of ICE, Gonzales would lead the agency charged with...

Judicial Watch Files Ethics Complaint against Maxine Waters over Incitement and Jury Intimidation Federal Court Heard Set for High School Coach Fired Over Critical Race Theory States Say ICE Stops Issuing Detainers for Illegal Immigrant Convicts Leftists Move Against Conservative Radio Station That Fired Clinton Fundraisers Judicial Watch Files Ethics Complaint against Maxine Waters over Incitement and Jury Intimidation You may recall that in June 2018, we filed a House ethics complaint against Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) for inciting violence and assaults on former-President Trump’s cabinet. Well, she’s at it again, this time she encouraged violence and attempted to...

The region of Hail in Saudi Arabia was buried in several inches of ice on Saturday after severe thunderstorms battered the area. Videos circulating on social media showed thick dark clouds enveloping the sky and blocks of hail on the ground. Omar Dajani, meteorologist at Jordan-based ArabiaWeather network, said that the hailstorm hit southwestern Hail in Saudi Arabia in the afternoon. “This is hail, not snow, and the temperature was high, around 28 degrees Celsius, when the storm hit,” he added. Photographer Abdullah al-Suleimi said shared pictures of the desert covered in a thick layer of hail in Al-Uthmour Bahrah...

PHOENIX (3TV/CBS 5) -- The Arizona Department of Public Safety said they were forced to release over a dozen undocumented immigrants in Chandler on Friday morning due to a lack of federal assistance.

On Saturday night, about 100 leftist protesters dressed in antifa’s signature black bloc set fire to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) headquarters in Portland, Ore., with people inside the building.At around 9 p.m. West Coast time, Grace Morgan reported that roughly 100 people had showed up at ICE building to protest. Activists tagged the building with graffiti reading “F**K ICE” and “This is indigenous land.” They also set a fire, fired a flare above the roof and threw eggs at the door.Parts of the fence around the ICE facility in Portland OR have been dismantled by protesters & laid...

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas says he’s preparing to take on sanctuary cities that refuse to work with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and he wants to see more illegal immigrants face criminal prosecution for jumping the border. He also rejected abolishing or splitting up ICE, rejecting calls from some in President Biden’s political base to eliminate the government’s deportation agents altogether. Mr. Mayorkas revealed the hard-line stances last week during a virtual town hall forum with ICE employees. The Washington Times has reviewed notes of the conversation, in which Mr. Mayorkas said he’s working on a new set of deportation...

TEXAS The Texas Legislature kicked off the new year with an attempt to roll back the state’s ill-advised law granting in-state tuition benefits to illegal aliens. While Texas has been at the forefront of efforts to ensure that immigration laws are enforced, and has sued to stop unconstitutional policies by the Obama and Biden administrations, the state was the first to grant in-state tuition benefits to illegal aliens in 2001. Bills in both houses of the legislature have been introduced to repeal the 2001 law. The timeline for repealing this expensive benefit for illegal aliens, however, is short as the...

Former Trump White House policy advisor Stephen Miller is preparing to launch a new legal group to fight President Joe Biden’s agenda in the court system, taking a page from the book of the ACLU and other left-wing advocacy groups that coordinated with Democrats to try and block Trump’s platform during his time in office. Miller’s group will be titled America First Legal, distinguishing itself from other conservative legal groups by adopting a name will an expressly populist and nationalist bent. Miller reportedly is interested in leading the group on the basis of his experience crafting policy in the Trump...

During a Thursday confirmation hearing for President Trump’s nominee to lead Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Democrat California Sen. Kamala Harris compared the agency to the Ku Klux Klan. During his opening statement, Vitiello said, “If confirmed, one of my highest priorities will be to better demonstrate to the public, Congress, and the media the importance of our mission to homeland security and public safety — and why our agency’s existence should not be up for debate.” Ronald Vitiello, Trump’s nominee, was questioned by Harris about comments made in the past where he referred to the Democratic Party as “neo-Klan” like....

McCarthy & GOP visit US-Mexico border and ICE facilityy in El Paso. Last week House Republicans held a news ‘Joe Biden Border Crisis’ conference on US President’s failing border policies. The US Department of Homeland Security over the weekend ordered an emergency agency that usually responds to floods, storms, and other major disasters to help care for a growing number of migrant children arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border. The Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, has been instructed to help receive, shelter, and transport children over the next 90 days. The move signals the scope of a growing humanitarian and...

Google is turning over user data to US law enforcement, even when requests for that come without a warrant, in the form of requests that are not court-ordered. That emerges from information shared with the LA Times by an anonymous Google user, who said they were notified about this in an email from the tech giant, who said the request came from the Department of Homeland Security, without including the request itself in the email. When this Google user asked to see the document, it turned out to be an administrative subpoena issued by the Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE),...

ICE has asked for volunteers to send to the US-Mexico border 'as soon as this weekend' as a south Texas migrant complex is seven times over capacity and reports are surfacing of children being forced to sleep on floors of detention centers.

Judicial Watch Sues for Records of Pelosi Call with Pentagon Chief Did the CDC Communicate with Big Tech about COVID-19? ICE Arrested 60% Fewer Illegal Immigrants in February Clear Thinking on Elections from Clarence Thomas Judicial Watch Sues for Records of Pelosi Call with Pentagon Chief In psychology the term projection describes the act of attributing your own negative trait to someone else. Nobody does this better than Nancy Pelosi. If you’ve read her January 8 letter attacking then-President Trump to her colleagues you would agree. In it, she talked about her anti-Trump phone call to the nation’s top...

On Jan. 27, 1986, Allan McDonald stood on the cusp of history. McDonald directed the booster rocket project at NASA contractor Morton Thiokol. He was responsible for the two massive rockets, filled with explosive fuel, that lifted space shuttles skyward. He was at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida for the launch of the Challenger "to approve or disapprove a launch if something came up," he told me in 2016, 30 years after Challenger exploded. His job was to sign and submit an official form. Sign the form, he believed, and he'd risk the lives of the seven astronauts set...

You've seen people pouring buckets of iced water over their heads in the name of the ice bucket challenge, to promote awareness of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or ALS. What if I told you there are groups of people who voluntarily dunk themselves in iced water as a regular ritual — for health and mental clarity? Dutch extreme athlete Wim Hof is perhaps one of the most vocal proponents of cold therapy. Nicknamed the "Ice Man", his superhuman feats have been well documented on social media. The 61-year-old has traversed up a snowy mountain clad only in a pair of shorts,...

A central figure in one of the most iconic moments in American sports has died.Mark Pavelich, a member of the "Miracle on Ice" USA Hockey team, was found dead Thursday morning at a mental health treatment center, the Star Tribune reports. He was 63.USA Hockey confirmed Pavelich's death Friday.Pavelich is the second member of Miracle on Ice team to die, following the death of Bob Suter in 2014.The cause of Pavelich's death is not known, per the Star Tribune, though emergency dispatch audio reportedly disclosed that Pavelich had not been seen since 8 p.m. Wednesday, and responding personnel said he...

ICE has locked down a Twitter account that was used to alert the public to illegal immigrants released by sanctuary cities. @ICEAlerts is now “protected,” meaning only those who had already been following the account can see the target names. Users also can’t retweet the old posts, said Jon Feere, a former senior employee at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement under President Trump. ICE called buttoning up the account a routine update to “its many communications tools to ensure accurate information consistent with current priorities. “As with similar accounts associated with prior administrations’ policies, @ICEalerts was archived as it was...

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is preparing to convert its immigrant family detention centers in South Texas into Ellis Island-style rapid-processing hubs that will screen migrant parents and children with a goal of releasing them into the United States within 72 hours, according to Department of Homeland Security draft plans obtained by The Washington Post. The plans show the Biden administration is racing to absorb a growing number of migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border amid shortages of bed space and personnel... ...Russell Hott, a senior official with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, notified staff of the rapid-processing plan in an email...

U.S. Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) explained on Tuesday why the agency decided to lock down an account that was used to post warnings of dangerous aliens who were released into American communities, often citing city policies that released the aliens before ICE officers could take them into custody. The account, @ICEAlerts, was created in 2013 and was extensively used during former President Trump's administration. The last tweet was sent on January 21, 2021. "It seems the Biden Admin locked @ICEAlerts because if you were to report the location of one of these dangerous aliens to ICE, it would become...

Police in Portland, Oregon arrested two people after about 150 suspected antifa members marched through Pearl District on Saturday night while smashing windows and spray-painting graffiti on business storefronts including Starbucks and Chipotle. The demonstrators gathered at The Fields Park at around 9pm on Saturday and began marching through the area to protest the Biden administration’s immigration policies and to denounce ICE. Images posted on social media show vandalized windows of several shops and restaurants, including Starbucks, Chipotle, Umpqua Bank, and Urban Pantry. The demonstrations lasted for about two hours, according to KOIN-TV. They come after Portland this past summer...