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UPDATE 10:52 AM – The suspect accused of stealing Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s Gucci bag containing approximately $3,000 in cash has been identified as a Chilean undocumented migrant. According to a report by the New York Post, Mario Bustamante-Leiva, 49, was detained on Saturday after reportedly stealing the shoulder bag when Noem, 53, was celebrating Easter with her family at The Capital Burger in Washington, DC. Bustamante-Leiva, who is illegally in the United States, is considered to be a member of a vast east coast robbery network, and law enforcement is still looking for another undocumented immigrant who served...

A former judge and his wife were taken into custody after authorities raided their home in Las Cruces following accusations that they had an alleged Tren de Aragua member living in their home. KFOX14/CBS4 were on the scene Thursday afternoon when the home of former Dona Ana County Magistrate Judge Joel Cano and his wife, Nancy Cano, when U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement executed a search warrant and a probable cause arrest warrant, and both were taken into custody. A spokesperson for ICE confirmed they were both taken into custody as part of an ongoing investigation led by Homeland Security...

You may have witnessed some of the scenes playing out in recent days, in which large groups of illegal immigrants and their allies have gathered to protest the Trump administration's mass deportations. We have freedom of assembly and speech in this country. I have no quarrel with that. In terms of public relations and optics, I do take great issue with foreign nationals -- especially those who aren't legally present in the United States -- demanding anything, let alone the 'right' to face no consequences for violating our immigration laws. I think it's particularly detrimental to their cause to be...

The daughters of a man hauled away to immigration detention yelled 'I hope your families die' at federal agents as they left. Raul Lopez, 44, was swept up in a raid on his home in Elgin, Chicago, on January 28 by US Marshals looking for his stepson, Jose Ramos, 26. Doorbell footage and videos shot by Lopez's daughters showed the agents smash down the door with a battering ram and drag the family, including a three-year-old boy, outside in their pajamas. New footage posted online and obtained by DailyMail.com showed the girls hurling abuse at the up to 20 agents...

An illegal immigrant who had already been ordered deported escaped from a detention center in Virginia by using bed sheets before going on the lam for five days. Dennis Arnoldo Zeledon Hernandez was sentenced to a year and six months in prison for the daring escape from the Bowling Green lockup on July 2, 2023, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Monday. The Salvadoran migrant had landed in ICE custody following his May 14, 2023 arrest in York, Va., for DUI, carrying a concealed weapon and child neglect. ... He left a building at the Caroline Detention Facility, ran across...

A federal judge denied a request to dismiss a gun charge against an illegal immigrant in Ohio who had been in the US for more than 15 years, rejecting the man’s argument that he has a right to bear arms. Carlos Serrano-Restrepo was charged earlier this year and was subsequently indicted for possession of a firearm by an alien unlawfully in the US, according to WSYX. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives began investigating and watching Serrano-Restrepo after he purchased at least 22 firearms, and claimed to be a US citizen on the firearms forms. Agents conducted a...

House Republicans are now calling on DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to turn over any information about the illegal immigrant who is charged with murdering a nursing student. House Judiciary Chairman Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement Subcommittee Chair Rep. Tom McClintock (R-Calif.) wrote a letter demanding information on Jose Antonio Ibarra, 26. The undocumented Venezuelan migrant stands charged with last week's brutal murder of University of Georgia student Laken Riley, 22.

The chilling 911 call that captured Georgia nursing student Laken Riley’s horrifying final moments was played in court Friday — leaving her grieving mother in a flood of tears during the first day of opening statements. Riley, 22, triggered the emergency function on her cellphone and called 911 while running on the University of Georgia campus around 9:11 a.m. Feb. 22, prosecutor Sheila Ross told the Athens-Clark County courtroom. Only a male voice was heard on the brief, muffled audio that was played in court.

The gunman who opened fire on a Jewish man walking to synagogue in Chicago is an illegal migrant from West Africa who was released into the US last year — and he targeted the victim because of his faith, law enforcement sources tell The Post. Sidi Mohamed Abdallahi, 22 — who hails from Mauritania — crossed into San Diego in March 2023 and was screened by border agents, who quickly released him into the US, officials said. Federal investigators believe Abdallahi was specifically targeting Jews in an antisemitic attack when he ambushed a 39-year-old Orthodox Jewish man in the city’s...

An illegal migrant allegedly caught sexually assaulting a woman in Florida field was arrested after the victim alerted police that she was in danger by calling 911 and pretending to order a pizza. 'I would like to order a pizza. I'm so stuck in here,' the victim told dispatchers in the harrowing emergency call obtained by DailyMail.com 'Okay. Are you aware you're calling 911?,' the dispatcher replied to which the woman quickly responded: 'Yes, I'm sure I'm calling to that number. Trying to get a pizza.' 'Say you've got my location please,' the woman desperately pleaded after the dispatcher asked...

When the Volusia County, Florida, 911 center received a call for a pizza at 4 a.m. on Oct. 19, it began a chain of events that ended with an illegal immigrant being arrested on sexual assault and other charges. Luis Hernandez-Moncayo, 27, was hit with three felony charges of sexual assault, kidnapping, and battery in the incident, according to WESH. A woman whose name was withheld had agreed to a hang out with Hernandez-Moncayo, but then she claimed the evening went haywire, leading to a 911 call to indirectly report her distress. “What is the address of your emergency?” a...

While in Arizona to make the case for electing Kamala Harris, Bill Clinton noted that Harris has a weak spot. “She’s extremely vulnerable, ... Clinton , “What they think of her largely depends on what they think of Biden.” Clinton’s comment was not the first to emerge as a difficult one for the Harris camp to swallow. You got a case in Georgia .. about a young woman who had been killed by an immigrant.. death of Laken Riley. An illegal immigrant ... if they had all been properly vetted, that wouldn’t have happened... ... America is not havin’ enough...

Far-left blogger Ken Klippenstein has published an internal campaign vetting dossier on the 2024 Republican Party’s vice presidential nominee, Senator J.D. Vance (R-OH). Klippenstein, who previously worked as a journalist with The Intercept and the far-left progressive commentary web show The Young Turks, posted the material believed to have been hacked by the Islamic Republic of Iran on his Substack on Thursday. The National Pulse is choosing not to link to the dossier, given the plethora of personal information contained therein. The dossier published by Klippenstein contains a bevy of private information belonging to Vance, including his social security number,...

The world’s richest man stunned Democrats when, only hours after the assassination attempt on President Trump at his Butler, PA rally, he announced that he was endorsing Trump in his re-election bid. ... Elon Musk has claimed that the 2024 presidential election would likely be the last to be decided by US citizens, blaming an “influx” of illegal immigrants being allowed to vote. The South African-born billionaire’s comments on his social media platform, X, came in response to news that Republicans in the House of Representatives passed a bill requiring citizenship status to be added to the ten-yearly census, despite...

It sounds like common sense, but the radical left elected officials in our state continue to reject this notion, disrespecting the voices of our lawful Arizona voters...' In a decision released Thursday, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals determined that illegal immigrants were not allowed to vote in Arizona. ... However, the ruling will apply only through the primary elections.. With an appeals court scheduled to hear the case in September, it leaves open the possibility that the Gov. Katie Hobbs’s outrageous election-law loophole to let illegals vote in federal races may yet be reversed ahead of the Nov. 5...

The man accused of wrecking a semi along a highway in Colorado last week, killing one person and injuring another, is an illegal immigrant who has a long history of removal from the United States, authorities said. Ignacio Cruz-Mendoza, 47, of Mexico, is facing reckless driving and homicide-related charges in connection with the June 11 crash. Mendoza was hauling a load of steep pipe on Hwy 285 near Conifer when he lost control of the semi, sending it rolling onto its side as it veered off the road, Colorado State Patrol (CSP) said.

During an arraignment hearing on Friday, the illegal immigrant from Venezuela who is suspected of brutally murdering Augusta University nursing student Laken Riley entered a not guilty plea. NEW: Laken Riley's mother breaks down in court as illegal immigrant Jose Ibarra pleads not guilty during arraignment. Riley's mother Allyson Phillips was seen sobbing in the background. The Venezuelan illegal immigrant is accused of inflicting blunt-force trauma to Riley's… — Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) May 31, 2024 Following the murder of Riley, a 22-year-old nursing student who was murdered while out on a run along dirt trails on the University of Georgia...

An illegal immigrant from Mexico has been ensnared by the long arm of justice after being caught red-handed in what authorities have described as a mobile ‘rape dungeon.’ Eduardo Sarabia, an illegal migrant from Mexico, has been arrested and accused of operating a mobile ‘rape dungeon’ within a modified 2015 Ford Transit van. This horrifying case unfolded near the Angeles National Forest in California, where Sarabia was apprehended by police during an alleged sexual assault on a 26-year-old woman. Authorities charged Sarabia with sexual assault following the incidents, which occurred between May 12 and 13. Currently, he is being held...

The suspect in a hit-and-run crash earlier this month that killed a senior adviser to Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D., Nev.) is an 18-year-old migrant who entered the United States illegally, the Reno Gazette-Journal reported on Tuesday. "[Elmer Rueda-Linares] entered the United States March 12, 2021, at or near the Rio Grande City, Texas, Port of Entry without inspection by an immigration official," the Department of Homeland Security told the outlet in a statement on Tuesday, adding Rueda-Linares was arrested but "later released on his own recognizance June 22, 2021." Rueda-Linares fled the scene following a two-vehicle crash at around...

On March 8, 2024, U.S. District Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman decided against a federal ban on gun ownership for illegal immigrant Heriberto Carbajal-Flores. The case at hand centered on Carbajal-Flores, who was “charged with possession of a firearm while illegally or unlawfully in the United States.” He had a handgun in his possession “in the Little Village neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois,” on June 1, 2020. He was charged for being a non-citizen in possession for a firearm.