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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement working with Texas law enforcement arrested more than 4,000 illegal foreign nationals in 10 days in Texas without incident. [snip] Through Lone Star Mission, five ICE-Enforcement and Removal Operations field office staff working with law enforcement partners arrested 4,170 foreign nationals illegally living in Texas. They had removal orders, criminal histories including murder, sexual assault, human smuggling, and multiple illegal entry and illegal reentry charges. The operation took place statewide between Oct. 19 and 29. ICE ERO field offices involved are based in Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, El Paso and Harlingen. “When we have cooperation,...

A hack that publicly shared the identities of 41,000 Department of Homeland Security workers this week is fueling some violent rhetoric targeting immigration officers, an analysis of social media by the SITE Intelligence Group found. …. An account tied to an anarchist movement in Colorado posted information about five DHS employees working in one city. “We do not forget. We do not forgive. You will not avoid accountability,” the post read. Several accounts on platforms such as Instagram, Threads and X espoused violence, including calls to kill the officers and harm their families. ….. The “hacktivist” group that obtained the...

The 19-year-old son of a Cuban Baptist pastor has been held by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement since June, and advocates fear he could be jailed if deported to Cuba...In March 2023, officers from Cuba's Revolutionary Armed Forces came to the family's home to take the boy for military registration. He was 15, two years younger than 17, the minimum age Cuban law sets for compulsory military service... To protect their son, Solano Silvera and his wife, Yadely Jaume Martin, decided to leave Cuba. The family flew to Jamaica, traveled to the Dominican Republic and reached Mexico in July 2023....

On Wednesday, the Justice Department said FBI and ICE agents will not serve as poll monitors during the midterm elections, addressing concerns over federal law enforcement presence at voting sites.The NAACP filed suit to bar law enforcement from monitoring, arguing the Trump administration's plans amount to voter intimidation as it pursues increasingly aggressive election oversight and voter-registration data collection.While FBI and ICE agents are excluded, the Justice Department confirmed employees from the Federal Bureau of Prisons, ATF, DEA, and one CBP official will serve as monitors, prohibited from carrying firearms.Eric Neff, acting chief of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division...

A federal judge ruled Tuesday that Republican Bill Essayli is not legally serving as the top U.S. prosecutor in Los Angeles. The ruling is the latest roadblock to the Trump administration’s effort to extend handpicked acting U.S. attorneys beyond the 120-day limit set by federal law. The strategy was designed to bypass confirmation by the U.S. Senate — something that generally requires a degree of bipartisan support. Essayli “is unlawfully serving as a ‘de facto’ United States Attorney,” U.S. District Judge J. Michael Seabright wrote. The order won’t take effect until the court rules on the government’s motion for a...

A Florida attorney was arrested after she threatened to shoot ICE agents in the head while trying to buy a gun, federal authorities said. Lisa White, who lives in Mississippi, was arrested in Long Beach after allegedly threatening to "kill federal agents" while attempting to purchase a firearm and pepper spray, according to a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement release. Homeland Security Investigations identified White as a Florida attorney in a post announcing her arrest on X. Authorities said White asked whether specific firearms could penetrate ballistic vests, then allegedly said she would target agents heads if she could not...

The recording, obtained by The Cougar Chronicle, features Venna Anne and Ashton Hirschi, both identified as POPAI leaders, speaking during a meeting earlier this month. During a conversation about capitalism, someone told Anne that “You just can’t get away from capitalism.” Anne replied, “No, unless we kill everybody.” Hirschi responded that they only needed to kill “some” people and initially settled on “500.” Anne then said, “You also have to kill their children and their [line of succession].” Hirschi agreed, stating, “We need to get the politicians.” When asked whether ICE agents could integrate back into society, Hirschi said, “If...

In the last week, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents arrested more than 100 suspected gang members in the country illegally, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) exclusively told Fox News Digital. Agents arrested 131 gang-affiliated people between Oct. 4 and 10, including 22 affiliated with MS-13, and 13 with Tren de Aragua (TdA). ICE has made 12,018 gang-related arrests since President Donald Trump took office again in 2025, DHS said. “In less than a week, the brave patriots of ICE have arrested more than 100 gang members across the country, including members of MS-13 and Tren de Aragua,”...

A California man allegedly killed his wife and burned her body before he told cops U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents took her into custody while she checked the mail.

School had just let out in Marble Hill, a small enclave of Manhattan bordering the Bronx. It was a little after 4 p.m. on Oct. 8 when Oscar Belgal, 28, picked up his 5-year-old son and began backing his Honda CR-V into a parking spot on a crowded street. A police camera caught what happened next. Two men dressed in plain clothes approached Belgal’s SUV with their guns drawn — one to the driver’s side, the other to the front. They were ICE officers. More agents were part of the operation, and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani later noted...

Judge P. Kevin Castel for the Southern District of New York ruled that "any ICE arrest of a person who enters the country without legal authorization that doesn't occur at the scene of the commission of the crime is arbitrary and capricious." Judge Castel rejected the government's "argument that an arrest policy, or absence of an arrest policy, is beyond judicial review because the place of an arrest is left entirely to the discretion of the agency." Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Markwayne Mullin called the ruling "absolutely bonkers. In essence, the Judge is saying that unless a criminal...

WASHINGTON — New York blew off 16,000 Trump administration ICE orders to detain suspected heinous illegal migrants accused or convicted in more than 50,000 criminal charges, disturbing new data show. The Department of Homeland Security said the municipalities across the Dem-driven state have refused to comply with its detainment requests 16,070 times since President Trump re-entered office fewer than two years ago — refusing to hand over criminal migrants suspected or convicted of everything from murder to kidnapping and sexual assault. “While sanctuary politicians continue to release dangerous criminals onto their streets, our brave law enforcement officers will continue to...

The illegal migrant shot by federal ICE agents in a chaotic Bronx showdown terrorized his former neighbors with a machete—and a terrified resident said Saturday he’s relieved the violent gangbanger has finally been taken off the streets. Dominican Republic-native Oscar Belgal, 28, who authorities said has ties to the bloodthirsty Trinitarios street gang, wreaked havoc at the Washington Heights apartment building where he lived until about a year ago, according to a one-time neighbor. “He’s a menace to society,” the shaken resident said of Belgal — whom Mayor Mamdani outrageously called a “New Yorker” whose release he tried to negotiate...

The facts hadn’t even come in before the Democratic Socialist New York City Mayor began trashing ICE Thursday and calling them “rotten to the core.”What was known: a suspected illegal alien criminal, 28-year-old Oscar Belgal, was shot (but survived) during a confrontation with officers. What we didn’t know was if the shooting was an accident, a self-defense move, or something else.The NYPD released surveillance video and bodycam footage Friday, but neither catches the gunshot. You can see, however, at the beginning of this clip, Belgal allegedly refusing to stop for agents as they pound on his car and smash a...

A group of visitors were camping in Washington’s Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest over Labor Day weekend when several people who identified themselves as U.S. Forest Service rangers approached their site. The rangers told the campers that they were receiving a warning for storing garbage improperly, and asked for their IDs. Several hours later, the campers woke up to a team of ICE agents shaking their tents. The agents took five adult men from the group into custody; in a statement to Outside shortly after the arrests, ICE claimed that the five men were in the country without authorization or had...

...One of the campaigns recruits would work on is ICE Breakers, which pressures businesses to cut support for Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The listing also names GAIA’s climate and housing campaigns. GAIA’s own description of its training program identifies the goal: “long-term, sustainable paid organizing positions” The hourly rate—and the fundraising targets The advertisement lists a $23–$36 hourly range. Its detailed compensation pitch starts at $23 an hour plus bonuses, and claims most community organizers earn $26–$30 an hour...

Immigration and Customs Enforcement has reportedly shot someone in New York. The person shot is alive and in the hospital. The Department of Homeland Security said that ICE officers were targeting a criminal illegal alien from the Dominican Republic who was previously arrested for assault and was associated with the Trinitarios gang. That person, who has not yet been identified, was arrested by the New York Police Department in December 2023 but was released a few days later, DHS said. On October 8, at approximately 4:00 PM ET, ICE officers were conducting a targeted enforcement operation in the Bronx, New...

Four seconds. Four brutal seconds of utter silence that must have felt like an eternity for CBS News immigration correspondent Camilo Montoya-Galvez as he stared blankly at White House Border Czar Tom Homan, completely incapable of answering a simple question from the latter during an interview on Friday. Montoya-Galvez learned the hard way that you better do your homework when attempting to embarrass Homan with a statistic about ICE detention deaths. Failure to do so can result in permanent humiliation especially if you blank out for four full seconds and as an encore continuing to fail to provide an answer...

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested a Venezuelan national who was previously released by a New York City judge after he was charged with emerging from a Manhattan sewer. The man was reportedly part of the “mole man” trend, where individuals look for valuables in the sewer system. 25-year-old Samuel Reveron Ascanio was taken into ICE custody after being released. ICE said Reveron entered the country illegally and had a federal arrest warrant at the time of his September 24 arrest. The case started when the NYPD received a 911 call reporting three men emerging from a manhole in Manhattan....

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Los Angeles World Airports is responding to reports of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents operating at Los Angeles International Airport. Cellphone video recorded Friday night shows federal law enforcement agents arresting a woman and placing her into a truck. In the video, an Eyewitness is heard asking the agents why they are taking the woman, to what one of them responds "immigration violation". The woman is then heard saying "I'm not doing anything wrong." Airport officials said federal agencies handle their own independent investigations and that airport operations are continuing as normal. The reported activity comes...