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Rochester, N.Y. (WHAM) — The Trump administration is taking the City of Rochester to court following a controversial encounter between Rochester police officers and federal immigration authorities. A March 24 traffic stop on Whitney Street near Lyell Avenue sparked controversy after Mayor Malik Evans and Rochester Police Chief David Smith claimed the officers involved violated the city's immigration policy by assisting Border Patrol agents at the scene. BACKGROUND: Body camera video released from immigration-related traffic stop in Rochester | Man charged following controversial immigration-related traffic stop in Rochester | Woman's family 'torn apart' by traffic stop involving federal agents in...

The fentanyl seized by our team in this case could have yielded over 1.5 million lethal doses - enough to kill everyone in Portland twice.".. Federal and local law enforcement agencies arrested 46 Honduran nationals on drug trafficking charges in Portland, Oregon, following an extensive joint operation to disrupt open-air drug markets in Multnomah County. Authorities seized an array of illicit drugs, firearms, and cash. The Honduran nationals were reportedly working on behalf of the Mexican Sinaloa Drug Cartel, a designated foreign terror group, according to a press release. The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Seattle Field Division said that the...

Here's how health systems should respondFor nearly 2 weeks, the nation's eyes were fixated on a case in Sackets Harbor, New Yorkopens in a new tab or window, where Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers arrested a mother and her three children and detained them in Texas. After an uncertain 11 days, the advocacy from their community won their release. The story reflects the fears of millions of immigrant families across the country who face impossible choices daily: whether to go to work, send kids to school, or keep medical appointments, and risk being separated from their family. Threatening rhetoric...

Criminals ICE could remove are released from prison into the warm embrace of sanctuary jurisdictions to destroy the lives of more victims.. In more than 200 sanctuary city, county, and state jurisdictions across the United States, illegal aliens gather where they know they will be protected by local government authorities from deportation, no matter what crime they may commit. They hide in plain sight in any neighborhood: in pockets of ethnic communities among legal, law-abiding immigrants, and in upscale areas if they are working in the lucrative trafficking industrial complex. A 40-year-old citizen of El Salvador was arrested after he...

No more Sanctuary Cities! They protect the Criminals, not the Victims. They are disgracing our Country, and are being mocked all over the World. Working on papers to withhold all Federal Funding for any City or State that allows these Death Traps to exist!!!

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Scott Turner today issued a letter to grantees and stakeholders underscoring that federal housing assistance will no longer be granted to illegal aliens or sanctuary cities. The directive reinforces HUD programs are strictly reserved for the American people, eliminating any ambiguity in policy. ...going forward, grant agreements will include language that will require compliance with Executive Order 14218, and the Department will take steps to ensure that Federal resources are not used to support “sanctuary” policies of State and local jurisdictions that actively prevent federal authorities from deporting illegal aliens.

ult charges after cops... 'Good Morning America' anchor reveals family secret discovered on 23andMe after company files for bankruptcy'Good Morning America' anchor reveals family secret discovered on... US News Border czar Tom Homan tells NY sanctuary city cops blasted for assisting ICE that ‘help is coming!’ By Jennie Taer, Vaughn Golden, Carl Campanile and Kate Sheehy Published March 28, 2025, 6:28 p.m. ET 340 Border czar Tom Homan on Friday huddled with a Rochester police union to offer “his unwavering support” after some local cops were ripped by the “sanctuary city’’ for helping Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents at a...

The radical leftist mayor of sanctuary city Boston said she wouldn’t cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). But ICE just rounded up hundreds of dangerous criminal migrants anyway. Now if only the Trump administration defies the lawless, anti-Constitutional, activist judges and keeps deporting these illegal alien murderers, rapists, pedophiles, and gang members, it will be a thoroughly satisfying victory, and Mayor Michelle Wu (D-eadhead) will have to eat a little humble pie. ... 205 of the 370+ illegal aliens they arrested in a major operation in Massachusetts have serious criminal convictions or charges. They were all at large arrests...

Two alleged Tren de Aragua gangbangers who were busted by the NYPD have been deported to El Salvador’s notorious hellhole prison — despite New York City’s sanctuary laws. Carlos Chivico Medina, 24, was nabbed in a massive drug ring bust in November, and Miguel Vaamondes Barrios, 42, was picked up last April as part of a raid on squatters at Bronx home. Both were on a leaked list of deportees flown to El Salvador’s terrorism confinement center (CECOT) earlier this month under the Alien Enemies Act — which President Trump invoked to make it easier to kick out members of...

Boston’s Democratic Mayor Michelle Wu is taking heat from local leaders for doubling down on liberal sanctuary city laws, and insisting “we stand with immigrants.” Wu has previously stated that Boston will not cooperate with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations — which she reiterated during her State of the City address Wednesday night. “No one tells Boston how to take care of our own, not kings, and not presidents who think they are kings. Boston was born facing down bullies,” she said in her speech. “You belong here,” she told immigrants. Wu’s speech outraged conservative local leaders who oppose...

Law enforcement in Colorado and other states could soon have an easier time coordinating with federal authorities on immigration issues, especially when it comes to busting gangs and drug traffickers. Rep. Gabe Evans, R-Colo., introduced the "Unhandcuffing Police to Locate and Interdict Foreign Transgressors (UPLIFT) Act" in Congress earlier this week to prompt public officials in Colorado and nationwide to communicate with feds about illegal immigrants who are believed to have committed other crimes, even though certain state laws limit their ability to do so. "State laws have a national impact, because if federal law enforcement uses information from a...

The Department of Education just got BUSTED running a rogue “sanctuary program” for illegal immigrants while hiding secrets from DOGE and Congress via an encrypted messaging app. This conspiracy was revealed by Project Veritas, which dropped a bombshell video exposing Travis Combs, Branch Chief for Applied Innovation and Improvement at the U.S. Department of Education (DOE). In the undercover footage, Combs admits that DOE employees are intentionally using the encrypted messaging app Signal to hide internal conversations from oversight. “If you want to have a conversation with somebody, you do have to take it offline, but you’re not supposed to....

A migrant transgender woman wanted by federal immigration officials allegedly stalked and raped a boy in Manhattan this week, The Post has learned. Nicol Suarez allegedly followed the 14-year-old into the bathroom at Thomas Jefferson Park in East Harlem Tuesday and attacked him, police and sources said. The boy then left the bathroom and flagged down witnesses, who alerted police, the sources said. Suarez, 30, who is originally from Colombia, was arrested nearby the following day and charged with first-degree rape. Suarez was wanted in New Jersey and Massachusetts at the time, and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement had a...

NO town, city or State should be allowed to detach itself from our Constitution and all associated FEDERAL LAWS, such as FEDERAL IMMIGRATION LAW, for example. Doing so is an ILLEGAL ACT OF SECESSION from the Union (United States), our U.S. Constitution and all associated Federal Laws. HOW COME THE "SANCTUARY" PROCLAMATION ISSUE HAS NOT GONE BEFORE THE SCOTUS as an ILLEGAL ACT OF SECESSION FROM THE UNION ?

Gov. Kathy Hochul has postponed a Thursday meeting with President Trump after the Justice Department revealed it was suing New York state over its sanctuary status. Hochul had planned to meet Trump for lunch but rescheduled for next week, CBS reported, citing a source familar with the situation. It comes just hours after the DOJ slapped the Empire State with a lawsuit over its policy of limiting cooperation with federal immigration enforcement. “New York has chosen to prioritize illegal aliens over American citizens,” US Attorney General Pam Bondi said as she announced the suit.

Hours after she was sworn in, Attorney General Pam Bondi directed the Justice Department to pause all federal funding for sanctuary cities, according to a report. Among several directives issued Wednesday, Bondi charged the DOJ with identifying and evaluating funding agreements with nongovernmental organizations that provide support to undocumented immigrants, Fox News Digital first reported. She also tasked the department with investigating instances of sanctuary jurisdictions obstructing law enforcement and “directing they be prosecuted, when necessary,” the outlet wrote. Several offices within the Justice Department provided $1.56 billion in grants to sanctuary cities in 2023, according to the think tank...

The Trump administration has filed suit against the state of Illinois, Cook County and the city of Chicago, arguing their sanctuary laws “interfere” with Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s ability to arrest and deport illegal migrants — the first of many such lawsuits to come, Justice Department officials told The Post. The suit singles out several state and local laws that the Justice Department identifies as inhibiting the federal government’s ability to enforce US immigration law. “We’ve identified Illinois, the city of Chicago and Cook County as all having laws and ordinances on the books that impede federal immigration enforcement, in...

State lawmaker Kate Sanchez says 'it's an uphill battle in Sacramento' for new bill.... ...While legislators in the Democratic trifecta are trying to pass bills to "Trump-proof" the state, California Republican Kate Sanchez plans to introduce a bill that would crack down on what may be a "sanctuary state" loophole protecting criminal illegal immigrants involved in sex-trafficking minors. "It would eliminate all of the unnecessary restrictions for local law enforcement to cooperate with federal law enforcement in order to go after those that have been accused or convicted of sex trafficking of minors, and currently there is a clause that...

Luis Adolfo Guerra-Perez, 19, was released by local authorities despite his gang affiliation and pending drug and gun chargesAn MS-13 gang member arrested by federal immigration authorities in Massachusetts last week was facing state gun charges and had previously been ordered to be deported before he was released by a Boston court. Luis Adolfo Guerra Perez, 19, a Guatemalan citizen, was arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents on Jan. 22. "Luis Adolfo Guerra-Perez is an illegally present gang member, who has shown complete disregard for American laws," said acting Field Office Director Patricia H. Hyde. "He is...

WASHINGTON—House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) announced today an investigation into the policies of sanctuary jurisdictions and their impact on public safety and federal immigration enforcement. In letters sent to the mayors of Boston, Chicago, Denver, and New York City, Chairman Comer requested documents and communications related to their cities’ sanctuary policies. He also called on the mayors to testify at a committee hearing scheduled for February 11, 2025, at 10:00 a.m. ET. “The Committee on Oversight and Government Reform is investigating sanctuary jurisdictions across the United States and their impact on public safety and the...