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  • New York State Conservative Party Calls to Revoke Tax-Exempt Status of Nonprofits Accused of Defying Immigration Law

    07/21/2025 6:20:42 PM PDT · by Angelino97 · 6 replies
    Independent Political Report ^ | July 21, 2025 | Jordan Willow Evans
    The Conservative Party of New York State called on federal and state officials Monday to revoke the tax-exempt status of a handful of nonprofit organizations recently alleged to support undocumented immigrants in defiance of federal immigration law while also receiving taxpayer funding. “These groups must be publicly identified and stripped of their tax-exempt status,” State Conservative Party Chair Gerard Kassar said in a statement published by the party. “Taxpayer dollars are being used to break federal and state laws. There must be accountability.” The party cites a recent New York Post review of public contract data that documents more than...
  • The unaccompanied minors brought into this country and the money paid to tribes as well as Catholic Charities is wild. Where are the kids?

    07/19/2025 7:55:04 PM PDT · by NoLibZone · 16 replies
    X ^ | SKDoubleDub
    Cherokee Federal - $700 million for services through a no-bid contract for unaccompanied minor children through the DHHS - ORR. Despite raising case after case of trafficking, HHSORR leadership and the contractor allowed children to be trafficked on their watch and the taxpayers continue to fund it. Repeatedly, the program prioritized speed over safety,” White said. “HHSORR and Cherokee Federal, the prime contractor, created a ‘strike team’ to remove children faster, ignoring warnings that came from case managers that children were being trafficked. The entire executive leadership at Health and Human Services knew about it as well as the Office...
  • Axios & WaPo: the Mysterious Drop in Illegal Migration & Fentanyl

    07/19/2025 2:14:00 PM PDT · by NoLibZone · 19 replies
    Axios article: Illegal border crossings hit decades-low amid Trump hardline crackdown Axios says the reason may be: The data suggest that President Trump’s hardline immigration approach — especially along the U.S.-Mexico border — may be achieving its goal, even as the administration has not stopped all noncitizens without papers from entry. The Washington Post article: The mysterious drop in fentanyl seizures on the U.S.-Mexico border. U.S. officials are confronting a new and puzzling reality at the Mexican border….
  • Thousands of children vanished during Biden’s border chaos — now the Trump administration is working to save them from horrific abuse, trafficking

    07/10/2025 2:15:00 PM PDT · by Libloather · 12 replies
    NY Post ^ | 7/10/25 | Mary K. Jacob, Andy Tillett
    Insiders have exposed the “conveyor belt” of rape and abuse of vulnerable migrant children in the US under President Joe Biden’s border free-for-all to The Post, now being cleared up by President Trump. Following federal “border czar” Tom Homan’s recent revelation on Miranda Divine’s “Pod Force One” podcast that children had been trafficked across the country with little oversight before Trump took office, whistleblowers have exposed how the terrifying scheme works. Between 2019 and 2023, 448,000 unaccompanied minors were encountered by the Department of Homeland Security, according to its figures, who were then transferred into the US. Many of the...
  • Phoenix taco shop owner in custody amid human smuggling, immigration probe

    07/09/2025 9:57:04 PM PDT · by TheDon · 21 replies
    12 News ^ | July 9, 2025 | Sean Rice
    PHOENIX — A West Phoenix taco shop owner is in federal custody following a series of coordinated raids by federal agents on Tuesday, part of an ongoing investigation into suspected human smuggling and harboring of migrants in the country illegally. Multiple sightings of undercover agents from Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) were reported across the Valley Tuesday, culminating in the arrest of Vlademir Angulo, the owner of El Taco Loko. The small but well-known local chain operates a restaurant near 67th Avenue and Indian School Road, a food truck in Southwest Phoenix, and a bus-style...
  • Iran, Hezbollah implicated in Ireland’s largest drug bust

    07/09/2025 10:39:07 PM PDT · by Words Matter · 18 replies
    JNS ^ | 07.09.25
    The trial of two Iranians and six others, who tried to smuggle 2.2 tons of cocaine to the island, exposed networks spanning the Middle East and Venezuela. JNS Staff. July 9, 2025 / JNS) An Irish court on July 4 sentenced two Iranian nationals in connection with a transnational drug trafficking operation involving more than 2.2 tons of cocaine, as authorities investigate suspected links to Hezbollah and the Iranian regime, Irish media reported. The men—Soheil Jelveh, 51, a former captain of the cargo vessel MV Matthew, and Saied Hassani, 39, a senior officer with significant maritime experience—received sentences of 17.5...
  • Smuggling Leader and Top Coordinator Will Spend Remainder of Their Lives in Prison Following Their Sentencing on Third Anniversary of Deadly Tractor-Trailer Smuggling Conspiracy

    06/30/2025 12:09:36 PM PDT · by ransomnote · 14 replies
    JUSTICE.GOV ^ | June 27, 2025 | DOJ Office of Public Affairs
    Two convicted human smugglers were sentenced in a federal court in San Antonio today for their prominent roles in the 2022 mass casualty human smuggling conspiracy that resulted in the deaths of 47 adults and six children.U.S. District Judge Orlando Garcia for the Western District of Texas sentenced Orduna-Torres to life in prison and a $250,000 fine, and Gonzales-Ortega to 83 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. Both defendants were found guilty by a federal jury in March for three counts related to the transportation of aliens within the United States resulting in death, causing serious bodily injury, and...
  • Judge will order Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s release before trial, but ICE plans to detain him

    06/22/2025 6:31:55 PM PDT · by 11th_VA · 34 replies
    AP News ^ | June 22, 2025
    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A federal judge in Tennessee plans to order the release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whose mistaken deportation to El Salvador has become a flashpoint in President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown, while he awaits a federal trial on human smuggling charges. But Abrego Garcia is not expected to go free because U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement will likely take him into custody and possibly try to deport him. In a ruling on Sunday, U.S. Magistrate Judge Barbara Holmes denied the U.S. government’s motion to keep Abrego Garcia in detention before his trial. She scheduled a hearing for...
  • Heightened alert: Iranians in U.S. previously charged with support for terrorism

    06/22/2025 6:38:06 PM PDT · by bitt · 6 replies
    https://justthenews.com ^ | June 22, 2025 | By Bethany Blankley
    Prior to President Donald Trump authorizing targeted strikes against Iranian nuclear sites on Saturday, federal agents and Texas Department of Public Safety troopers have been arresting Iranian nationals, nearly all men, in the U.S. illegally. In the last few months, federal prosecutors have also brought terrorism charges against Iranians, including those in the U.S. working for the Iranian government. Iran is a designated state sponsor of terrorism. Iranian nationals illegally in the country are considered “special interest aliens” under federal law. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security on Sunday issued a warning to all Americans to be on a heightened...
  • San Diego Sector Border Patrol uncovers sophisticated cross-border drug smuggling tunnel

    06/22/2025 4:52:59 PM PDT · by blueyon · 14 replies
    U.S. Custom and Border Protections ^ | 06/18/2025 | U.S. Custom and Border Protections?
    U.S. Border Patrol agents have uncovered and disabled a large-scale narcotics smuggling tunnel linking Tijuana to the San Diego area. The uncompleted tunnel extended more than 1,000 feet inside the U.S. and was highly sophisticated. In early April, Border Patrol agents assigned to the San Diego Sector Tunnel Team discovered the tunnel as it was actively under construction. The Tunnel Team made entry into the tunnel, which ran under a portion of the Otay Mesa Port of Entry. Based on preliminary indications, the tunnel had a projected exit point near or within a nearby commercial warehouse space.
  • Border Patrol agents shut down massive drug smuggling tunnel between Tijuana and San Diego

    06/20/2025 12:36:57 PM PDT · by george76 · 30 replies
    Fox News ^ | June 19, 2025 | Sophia Compton
    The nearly 3,000-foot passage was equipped with lighting, ventilation systems and tracks to move narcotics ... U.S. Border Patrol agents recently discovered and disabled a nearly 3,000-foot-long narcotics smuggling tunnel sitting beneath the US-Mexico border. Agents found the tunnel — which linked Tijuana and San Diego — in early April while it was actively under construction. The underground passageway ran under part of the Otay Mesa Port of Entry and had a projected exit point near or inside a commercial warehouse space in San Diego ... Upon entering the "highly sophisticated" tunnel, authorities were met with barricades seemingly placed to...
  • USCCB, Catholic Charities among 200 NGOs in House probe on migrant aid

    06/18/2025 7:21:46 AM PDT · by bitt · 19 replies
    https://catholicreview.org/ ^ | June 16, 2025 | OSV News
    The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and Catholic Charities USA are among more than 200 non-governmental organizations named in a congressional probe for aiding immigrants its leaders call “inadmissible aliens” during former President Joe Biden’s administration. U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security Chairman Mark E. Green, R-Tenn., and Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations and Accountability Chairman Josh Brecheen, R-Okla., announced their investigation June 11. According to a June 11 press release, “The chairmen are examining whether these NGOs used taxpayer dollars to facilitate illegal activity, as the previous administration incentivized millions of inadmissible aliens to cross our borders — many of...
  • Suspected MS-13 gangbanger Kilmar Abrego Garcia possibly earned $100K a year smuggling illegal immigrants across US: witness (Maryland man)

    06/14/2025 1:00:33 AM PDT · by Libloather · 24 replies
    NY Post ^ | 6/14/25 | Victor Nava
    Suspected MS-13 gangbanger Kilmar Abrego Garcia was paid up to $1,500 per smuggling trip and may have raked in more than $100,000 annually trafficking humans, including minors, according to witnesses. The new details about Abrego Garcia’s alleged “full-time job” come from co-conspirators and witnesses cooperating with the federal government’s human smuggling case against the Salvadoran national who was wrongly deported in March. The allegations were shared by a federal agent during a Friday detention hearing in a Nashville court, where Abrego Garcia entered a plea of not guilty. As part of the illegal operation, smugglers charged migrants from Central and...
  • Chinese scientists, accused of smuggling biological matter into the US, will stay in jail

    06/13/2025 4:10:22 PM PDT · by Libloather · 13 replies
    Two Chinese scientists accused of smuggling or shipping biological material into the United States for use at the University of Michigan will remain in custody after waiving their right to a hearing Friday in federal court. Yunqing Jian and Chengxuan Han said in separate court appearances in Detroit that they would not challenge the government’s request to keep them locked up while their cases move forward. “This is a constantly evolving situation involving a large number of factors,” Han’s attorney, Sara Garber, told a judge. She didn’t elaborate and later declined to comment. Han was arrested Sunday at Detroit Metropolitan...
  • Chinese Illegal Pleads Guilty to Using North Korean Money to Buy a Houston Gun Store and Shipping Arms to Pyongyang

    06/13/2025 9:16:10 AM PDT · by CFW · 18 replies
    Shooting News Weekly ^ | 6/12/25 | Dan Zimmerman
    According to his plea agreement, [Shenghua] Wen is a citizen of the People’s Republic of China who entered the United States in 2012 on a student visa and remained in the U.S. illegally after his student visa expired in December 2013. Prior to entering the United States, Wen met with officials from North Korea’s government at a North Korean embassy in China. These government officials directed Wen to procure goods on behalf of North Korea. In 2022, two North Korean government officials contacted Wen through an online messaging platform and instructed him to buy and smuggle firearms and other goods...
  • There's a Pattern Now: Chinese National Nabbed by DOJ for Allegedly Smuggling in Biological Material—and She's From Wuhan

    06/09/2025 9:08:38 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 20 replies
    Red State ^ | 06/09/2025 | Bob Hoge
    One is an event, two is a coincidence—but three is a pattern. On Monday, the Department of Justice announced that a third Chinese national has been nabbed for allegedly trying to smuggle biological materials into the United States. Making things more disturbing is a fact that a Hollywood screenwriter couldn’t have come up with: the smuggler was studying in, where else, Wuhan, China. You’ve heard of Wuhan, haven’t you? The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Michigan released a statement alleging that Chengxuan Han, “a citizen of the PRC” (People's Republic of China), sent packages containing biological material...
  • Three British nationals could face death by firing squad for allegedly smuggling cocaine into Indonesia (2.19 pounds)

    06/04/2025 1:08:23 AM PDT · by Libloather · 36 replies
    Fox News ^ | 6/03/25 | Greg Wehner
    Three British nationals could face death by a firing squad after they allegedly smuggled about a kilogram – over two pounds – of cocaine onto the island of Bali in Indonesia. The Associated Press reported that prosecutor I Made Dipa Umbara said 28-year-old Jonathan Christopher Collyer and 29-year-old Lisa Ellen Stocker were arrested Feb. 1, after customs officers stopped them at the X-ray machine when they found suspicious items disguised as food packages inside their luggage. Umbara told the District Court in Denpasar during a court hearing on Tuesday that a lab test result confirmed 10 pouches of "Angel Delight"...
  • Washington Post 'mystified' by drop in fentanyl seizures at US-Mexico border

    06/02/2025 9:25:10 AM PDT · by CFW · 14 replies
    The Post Millennial ^ | 6/2/25 | staff
    The Washington Post has said that a massive drop in fentanyl seizures at the southern border is "mysterious" and that it is a "more complex" story than one would think after President Donald Trump has made it a point to crack down on border security as well as fentanyl trafficking into the US. The outlet suggested that the Trump administration's policies, such as threatening tariffs on China as well as Mexico to curb fentanyl, could have little to do with the drop in fentanyl, and claimed, "New data suggest a more complex story." This year, there has been a marked...
  • HHS Whistleblower Reveals Disturbing Details About the Deep State's Child Trafficking Ring (video 1:05)

    05/30/2025 5:45:36 PM PDT · by Beave Meister · 24 replies
    Rumble.com ^ | 5/30/2025
    The truth must come out. People need to be prosecuted and sent away for a very long time.
  • UFO striking fighter jet is among swarm of mystery objects spotted near US military sites in Arizona: reports (unidentified drone, not UFO)

    05/20/2025 3:10:48 AM PDT · by RoosterRedux · 22 replies
    NYPost ^ | Nicole Rosenthal
    A UFO that struck and damaged a US fighter jet is just one of a swarm of mystery objects buzzing around Air Force training ranges in Arizona, according to multiple reports. One of the unidentified flying objects hit the clear bubble “canopy” over the head of a pilot in a $63 million F-16 Viper jet in January 2023, damaging it and temporarily grounding the plane, according to Federal Aviation Administration documents first reported by the War Zone. The military jet was struck midair by “an orange-white UAS,” or “uncrewed aerial system,” the FAA documents said. The term refers to drones....