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The first RICO racketeering charges against members and associates of the migrant terrorist group Tren de Aragua were filed this week in New York. A statement by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York said that the case is part of "Operation Take Back America," which it said is a "nationwide initiative that marshals the full resources of the Justice Department to repel the invasion of illegal immigration, achieve the total elimination of cartels and transnational criminal organizations (TCOs), and protect our communities from the perpetrators of violent crime." According to the statement, the charges filed...

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D) has endorsed Sen. Chris Van Hollen’s (D-MD) trip to El Salvador to ensure that an accused MS-13 gang member illegal alien is “brought back home to Maryland” after he was deported in March. Instead of doing the job his constituents elected him to do in Washington, DC, the left-wing senator has taken time off to go on a trip to El Salvador “to discuss the release” of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national who illegally entered the United States and lived in Maryland until his arrest by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE): Van Hollen claims...

San Diego County’s system of migrant shelters is shutting down, thanks to President Donald Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration at the border, which has halted the flow of migrants from around the world via Central America. The San Diego Union-Tribune reported Sunday: [T]he county’s two major migrant sheltering agencies gave notice that they will be laying off employees by the end of next month. Catholic Charities in San Diego will let go of 73 employees at its two shelters, one in San Diego County and the other in Imperial County. Jewish Family Service will do the same with about 115...

The arrest of an illegal migrant who was dropping students at school in Chicago earlier this week sparked local fury and a rally, but Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have since revealed the suspect is a violent gang member with a long rap sheet. Francisco Andrade-Berrera, 37, a Mexican citizen, was picked by ICE on Wednesday near a Southside Chicago school, leading to activists and local leaders holding a rally condemning the move. Video obtained by Fox News shows two agents handcuffing Andrade-Berrera near the school. In response to the arrest, two nearby schools activated "Community Wellness Protocols" and notified...

A Haitian migrant charged with triple murder in Fayetteville, North Carolina, who killed several members of his family last week, had come to the US as part of former President Biden’s controversial migrant flights program ... Fayetteville Police Department said that 26-year-old Mackendy Darbouze has been charged with three counts of first-degree murder for allegedly killing 77-year-old Beatrice Desir, as well as a 13-year-old and a 4-year-old. Police responded to a home at about 9 a.m. on Feb. 21 after receiving a report that a stabbing had occurred in a home. When officers arrived, they discovered three individuals suffering from...

New York City Democrat Mayor Eric Adams announced Monday the Roosevelt Hotel, notorious for being turned into a shelter for migrants, will be shut down over the next few months. In a statement, the mayor said “Today marks another milestone in demonstrating the immense progress we have achieved in turning the corner on an unprecedented international humanitarian effort,” Fox News reported. “Now, thanks to the sound policy decisions of our team, we are able to announce the closure of this site and help even more asylum seekers take the next steps in their journeys as they envision an even brighter...

The following are excerpted from The World Bank's website, "In observance of the International Migrants Day, December 18." Officially recorded remittances to low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are expected to reach $685 billion in 2024. The true size of remittances, including flows through informal channels, is also believed to be even larger. The growth rate of remittances in 2024 is estimated to be 5.8 percent, significantly higher than 1.2 percent registered in 2023 (table 1). "The top five recipient countries for remittances in 2024 are India, with an estimated inflow of $129 billion, followed by Mexico ($68 billion), China ($48...

Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 @TRobinsonNewEra ADMIN POST. Another day, another horrifying attack in Europe by imports, a Syrian illegal immigrant has stabbed multiple people in Villach, Austria, this afternoon, leading to a major police operation. A 23-year-old Syrian man arrested. 14yr old killed!

A child has been stabbed to death and four others injured in a mass stabbing attack in Villach, Austria today. The suspect is a Syrian migrant. He reportedly shouted, “Allahu Akbar.” When police responded he smiled and put up the one finger salute that many Muslims do. The deadly mass stabbing follows the deadly mass ramming attack in Munich, Germany two days earlier by an Afghan migrant suspect. Deadly Islamic attacks are a regular occurrence in European countries with large Muslim immigrant and migrant populations. ... We keep seeing this happen. Children murdered, women harassed and raped. Roads taken over...

New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) is reportedly planning to file a lawsuit against President Donald Trump’s administration over the revoking of more than $80 million in migrant shelter funding for the city. “We intend to initiate legal action by February 21, 2025,” a letter obtained by New York Post read. “The law Department is currently drafting litigation papers with respect to this matter.” The letter, penned by Muriel Goode-Trufant, Counsel for the Adams administration, was reportedly sent to city Comptroller Brad Lander — who is running against Adams in this summer’s Democrat primary election for New York City...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom made an about-face in his efforts to thwart President Donald Trump’s agenda of deporting illegal immigrants in the country. The 57-year-old revealed he is ready to immediately veto a bill that would force Golden State prison system from cooperating with the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, KCRA reported. The proposed legislation – Assembly Bill 15 authored by Los Angeles-area Rep. Mike Gipson – would block the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation from detaining potential prisoners for several reasons. “…on the basis of a hold request, providing an immigration authority with release date information, or responding...

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested an astounding 11,000 illegal migrants in the first 18 days of the Trump administration – which is already a third of the total busts the agency made last year under former President Joe Biden, The Post has learned. The arrests, part of President Trump’s mass deportation offensive, collared a previously deported Mexican cartel hitman, according to Department of Homeland Security sources. ICE agents in Rio Grande Valley, Texas, nabbed Fernando Vasquez-Mendoza, who was identified as a hired killer working for Cartel del Golfo, or Gulf Cartel, a Mexican drug trafficking organization and criminal...

The Pentagon expects to send two flights of migrants to Guantanamo Bay this weekend, the first step in President Donald Trump’s plans to use the the base for detaining people swept up in his crackdown on illegal immigration. The final details are still getting worked out, according to two defense officials, but the planes likely will join another one headed to Peru as the military seeks to enact Trump’s orders to deport thousands of people in the country illegally. The military has flown eight flights so far — including four to Guatemala, three to Honduras and one to Ecuador —...

Washington (PTI) -- US President Donald Trump has signed a presidential memorandum to set up a 30,000-person migrant facility at Guantanamo Bay to detain “high-priority criminal aliens.” The Guantanamo Bay facility, which has so far been used to hold terrorists, will now also house illegal immigrants with criminal records. The signing took place on Wednesday, with Trump directing the Departments of Defence and Homeland Security to prepare the facility. According to the memorandum, he ordered the expansion of the Migrant Operations Center at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay to accommodate “high-priority criminal aliens” and address related enforcement needs. “Most people don’t...

A report from ABC7 in Chicago reported that a magistrate judge ordered the release of a Venezuelan man who was arrested in a targeted enforcement operation over the weekend. Over the weekend, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) officers, along with other federal agencies, carried out a targeted enforcement operation, Breitbart News reported. The actions were overseen by top officials of the Trump administration, including Border Czar Tom Homan. According to the report from ABC7, law enforcement officials placed Edward Martinez-Cermeno, 24, into custody on Sunday for illegally entering the United States near Eagle Pass, Texas...

German authorities keep blaming “knife violence” for Muslim terrorism committed with knives. They’re doing it again after an Afghan Muslim asylum seeker attacked a group of kindergarteners, and stabbed one to death. German authorities are saying that the Muslim child-stabber was an Afghan refugee who was denied asylum and ordered to leave. They’re refusing to blame terrorism and blaming mental illness.Last year, Germany rolled out a “knife control” program after an ISIS terrorist slashed middle-aged Germans at a ‘diversity festival’The ISIS mass stabbing in Solingen came after the previous Muslim mass stabbing attack at a Counter-Jihad rally condemning Islamic terrorism...

A U.S. Border Patrol agent in Vermont has reportedly been shot and killed by an illegal immigrant on Interstate 91 in Coventry, Vermont. The incident took place around 3:15 PM on January 20 during a traffic stop near the Canadian border. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has confirmed the death of the agent. The shooter is believed to have been in a vehicle with another suspect. One of the suspects has also been killed. A woman was also injured during the incident. ... News Nation reports that the shooter was an illegal immigrant who had overstayed their visa and...

Just another example of the media, politicians, and others covering up abuses and looking the other way if the truth is inconvenient to their agenda. The British government, with help from the BBC, is seeking to silence Elon Musk and obviously others, from telling the truth about the horrific rapes of children by Muslim migrants, because telling the truth would amount to racism and Islamophobia. From RedState: BBC Panel Hints That the US-British Relationship Will Suffer Unless Elon Musk Shuts Up About Rape GangsWhat has happened over the last few days has been nothing short of extraordinary. Tech mogul Elon...

A migrant from Guatemala has been arrested on allegations he lit a sleeping woman on fire inside a Coney Island F train on Sunday morning. Police sources say a civilian identified the suspected killer as he rode on a train at 34th Street in Manhattan. The witness waved down the cops, who later picked the suspect up and detained him. He has not been charged with a crime yet, sources added. The suspect entered the country and was detained by border patrol agents in Arizona in June 2018 Authorities were still working to confirm whether he is in the country...

On Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) stated that he can protect certain illegal immigrants because “We’ve done it already” with how they handled the surge of migrants to the city, which was better than any other city. Adams said that while the sanctuary city law has gone too far in some cases, “[W]e’re telling our residents here, if you have children, put them in school. If you need medical care, our medical facilities will do so. If you’re a victim of a crime, you don’t have to be afraid to go to...