Keyword: newcomers
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A violent Tren de Aragua gang member who is suspected of murder has been released from prison in Chicago despite a 2022 deportation order. Pedro Colmenares, 33, of Venezuela, entered the United States in 2022 and was ordered to be deported by an immigration judge just a few months later. In 2024, two years after he was ordered to be deported, Colmenares was back in the hands of law enforcement on a weapons charge. “DHS issued an ICE detainer on Colmenares, but because of its sanctuary policy, Cook County refused to comply with the detainer, and Colmenares was set free,”...
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A Texas substitute teacher has come under fire after inviting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers raid his school because his students “don’t even speak English.” Fort Worth Independent School District officials launched an investigation . ... “I have many students who don’t even speak English and they are in 10th-11th grade. They have to communicate through their iPhone translator with me. The [U.S. Department of Education] should totally overhaul our school system in Texas too,”.. School Board President Roxanne Martinez sought to reassure parents about whether ICE was going to target the school district. ... Two-thirds of Fort Worth...
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ADAMS COUNTY, Colo. — The Drug Enforcement Administration detained roughly 50 people in Adams County early Sunday morning at what the special agent in charge called an invitation-only Tren de Aragua party. Denver7 Investigates' cameras exclusively captured video around 5:45 a.m. along the 6600 block of Federal Boulevard in Adams County, showing agents rounding up people and escorting them onto a bus. Most of the people detained are now in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. According to Special Agent in Charge Jonathan Pullen, the DEA was executing a federal search warrant at a vacant property where a...
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The wheels of justice are turning again as Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has resumed its enforcement of immigration laws with vigor. ... ICE raids have already begun. “Based on your initial schedule that today, roundups of criminal, illegal aliens in the process of deporting them would begin,” Roberts began. “It seems to have been put on hold for a little while. When can we expect that to happen? Where will it begin?” “No, it started,” Homan clarified. “All these teams are out there as of today. We gave them the direction to prioritize public safety threats that we're looking...
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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...
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A group of more than 30 migrants, most of them Chinese citizens, was found inside a U-Haul truck Friday after a report of an alleged abduction, Florida authorities said. The discovery began when a security guard for a homeowners association in the Miami suburb of Coral Gables reported seeing an abduction around 9:35 a.m., Coral Gables Police Chief Edward James Hudak Jr. told reporters. The guard reported seeing a Toyota and a U-Haul truck involved in the incident and immediately alerted a patrol officer.. The officer then issued a BOLO, a be on the lookout alert, for the vehicles. The...
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The homes of professional athletes have become the target of a recent burglary spree that has hit players from the NFL, NBA, and now, the NHL. Evgeny Malkin, the longtime star and Stanley Cup champion center for the Pittsburgh Penguins, was burglarized on January 11 at his home in Sewickley, Pennsylvania, while playing a game in Pittsburgh, TMZ Sports reports. According to TMZ Sports, the security system at Malikn’s home was not functioning during the break-in. All three of Malkin’s Stanley Cup rings were stolen. As of this writing, no arrests have been made ... The burglary spree has targeted...
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'It gives Johnston cover, should it become public.' Mike Coffman (R), the mayor of Aurora, Colorado, accused Denver Mayor Mike Johnston (D) of facilitating a covert migrant relocation scheme that led to a severe increase in gang activity in Aurora. In a Monday op-ed for the Denver Gazette, Coffman blamed Johnston for the ongoing immigration and gang crisis, claiming he partnered with two non-governmental organizations to move foreign nationals from Denver, a sanctuary city, to other neighboring towns. Coffman, who has come under fire for his role in allowing illegal aliens to settle in Aurora, defended his decision in November...
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The Trump transition team is promising a broad deportation operation.. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has arrested a Dominican illegal immigrant charged with sex crimes and kidnapping in Boston, after he was released from local custody despite a request by the agency to hand him over. In a statement, ICE said it had arrested Emilio Jose Pena-Casilla, a 46-year-old, who is charged with assault to rape, kidnapping, two counts of indecent assault and battery on a person 14 or older, and intimidation of an official, witness, or juror, was arrested Dec. 17 in Boston. Pena-Casilla entered the U.S. illegally near...
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Legal analyst Gregg Jarrett said Monday on Fox Business how Democratic officials attempting to harbor illegal immigrants could face legal repercussions, including jail time or the withholding of federal funds. Illegal immigrant Sebastian Zapeta-Calil, a 33-year-old Guatemalan national, was indicted on Friday for allegedly killing a woman by setting her on fire during a subway ride. On “The Bottom Line,” Jarrett was asked about an immigration detainer placed on Zapeta-Calil, with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) telling Fox News that although a detainer was lodged, the New York City Department of Corrections would not honor it due to its current...
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The woman killed after being set ablaze by an illegal alien on a New York City subway has finally been identified. The burn victim was identified as 61-year-old Debrina Kawam. Kawam was linked to an address in Toms River, New Jersey, but she was described as homeless. It took investigators more than a week to identify the victim using fingerprints because her burns were so severe. The New York Post reported: Cops have identified the woman who was lit on fire as she slept and then burned to death on a Brooklyn subway train while terrified straphangers watched in horror,...
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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...
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Home invasion occurred at The Edge at Lowry Apartments, where viral video showed gang members earlier this year. Police in Aurora, Colorado, say the overnight armed home invasion at a local apartment complex that resulted in 14 suspects being detained was "without question a gang incident." Just before 2:30 a.m. on Tuesday, police were called to The Edge at Lowry Apartments in the 1200 block of Dallas Street for a reported armed home invasion in which victims were kidnapped and assaulted, the Aurora Police said. Aurora Police Department Chief Todd Chamberlain said during a Tuesday news conference that 13 to...
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The newly approved ordinance would also prohibit “any city resources, property or personnel from being utilized for any federal immigration enforcement.".. The Los Angeles City Council Tuesday adopted a sanctuary city ordinance that prohibits the use of city resources in immigration enforcement, including cooperating with federal immigration agents as the incoming Trump administration hints at immigration crackdown. The city council passed the motion unanimously to codify the protective measures after City Attorney Hydee Feldstein Soto and Mayor Karen Bass expedited the draft ordinance last week. Because the measure was passed with an urgency clause, the sanctuary city statute will go...
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For Plaintiffs to suggest that the NYVRA is not a race-based (or national origin-based) statute is simply to deny the obvious,’ the judge stated.. The New York State Supreme Court in Orange County overturned the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Act, a law Democrats were leveraging to take control of local governments and further a pro-illegal-immigration agenda. The legislation, which was signed into law in 2022, would in part force municipalities to obtain pre-clearance before making changes to how they conduct their voting systems. According to Spectrum News 1, “local governments or school districts with a record of discrimination in...
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The Venezuelan prison gang known as Tren de Aragua (TdA) eyed Denver as its headquarters in the U.S., according to internal communications within the Aurora Police Department. The internal communications were citing federal intelligence reports. “Intelligence from ICE is that TdA has decided to make Denver their headquarters in the U.S. and will be violent toward anyone who encroaches on their territory,” one police bulletin from October 2023 said. The reason? Denver’s status as a sanctuary city. In response to questions from The Denver Gazette, the Denver Police Department said it was aware of a tip regarding the “possibility” of...
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The office said 'ICE originally planned to release thousands of single, adult, non-citizen detainees' ... The Tennessee Attorney General's Office announced that efforts by the governor and other state lawmakers were successful and ultimately stopped a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) plan to release illegal immigrants, including convicted criminals, into the state. State Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti announced Wednesday that after a lawsuit was filed by the AG’s office, ICE was forced to produce previously undisclosed information about the agency’s planned release of thousands of detained migrants, including convicted criminals. The office said it obtained hundreds of pages of...
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High-risk” migrants were allowed to enter the US at the border without proper ID and now roam the country, a scathing new report by the Homeland Security inspector general claims. In many cases, the migrants were trusted to provide their own personal information before being allowed in and are now free to fly on domestic airlines without identification because of lax oversight by immigration authorities and the Transportation Safety Administration, the 37-page report reveals. “TSA’s vetting and screening procedures do not eliminate the risk that noncitizens who may pose a threat to fellow passengers could board domestic flights,” the report...
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Texas Governor Greg Abbott .. is making all available tools available to law enforcement to take action against the violent Venezuelan Tren de Aragua (TdA) gang. The governor said the gang members will find their operations in Texas will become unprofitable, forcing them to leave ... They’re looking to make money. And what they’re going to find is, if they’re coming in the state of Texas, they’re losing money. It’s a losing money proposition in the state of Texas, and they’re going to realize they got to take their business elsewhere.” Governor Abbott recently designated the Venezuelan prison gang as...
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