Exclusive video: Leftists swarm ICE headquarters whining about deportation of pro-Hamas radicals



A motley crew of leftists descended on the nation's capital on Saturday. Blaze Media national correspondent Julio Rosas was on the scene, capturing some of the less inhibited among the activists resort to their apparent default: dehumanizing rhetoric.

As part of a nationwide "Hands Off!" protest, some radicals ambled to the National Mall to express their displeasure with President Donald Trump and his popular agenda.

While uniformly anti-Trump, there was a variety of grievances expressed by the cacophonic mob even though the organizers made clear that they had three reasons for mobilization. The reasons were: to stop Trump and Elon Musk's imagined "illegal power grab"; to condemn the administration and congressional Republicans for supposedly "gutting services, raising prices, and racing towards slashing Medicaid, Social Security, and more"; and to clutch pearls about the administration's supposed pursuit of "destruction for the benefit of their billionaire allies."

Of course, numerous protesters veered off message, dusted off the slogans of yesteryear, and championed the causes of Black Lives Matter, gender ideology, and an unaccountable federal bureaucracy.

Other radicals farther afield donned keffiyehs and swarmed the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Potomac Center Plaza as part of the separate "April 5 March on Washington."

Those in this second camp, which Rosas tracked over the course of the day, protested the Trump administration's foreign policy as well as its enforcement of federal immigration law; demonized ICE agents; condemned the deportation of pro-Hamas radicals, including Turkish national Rumeysa Ozturk; criticized Israel; and reaffirmed their "commitment to the liberation of Palestine."

The groups that ultimately swarmed the ICE headquarters included the Palestinian Feminist Collective, the climate alarmist group Planet Over Profit, and the local chapters of the George Soros-funded Students for Justice in Palestine — a group endorsed last year by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a Gaza-based terrorist group that combines Marxist-Leninist ideology with Arab nationalism.

Outside the ICE offices, protesters demanded the release of Mahmoud Khalil and other pro-Hamas international students facing deportation.

Khalil, a Syrian-born activist leader who previously attended Columbia University, allegedly hid his former employment with a Hamas-tied UN agency when filing his green card application.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in reference to Khalil's arrest last month, "We will be revoking the visas and/or green cards of Hamas supporters in America so they can be deported."

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Activists also called for a moratorium on ICE removal operations.

Prior to raging impotently outside the ICE offices, various activists made speeches.

'There is only one solution: antifada, revolution.'

Linda Sarsour — the Palestinian-American activist whose radicalism proved too much even for the Biden administration which disavowed her — told the mob standing near an "abolish Israel" sign that "we are all adversaries to U.S. foreign policy" and that the radical mob was "the moral consistency of America."

One speaker honored Palestinian "martyrs" killed during the Hamas-Israeli war without distinguishing between civilians and terrorists.

Another tethered Palestinian activism to the broader socialist cause, indicating that capitalism is at fault.

Muna Qadan of the Palestinian Feminist Collective threatened a "new world order" and the "vengeance of the oppressed" and stated that "there is only one solution: antifada, revolution."

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Horowitz: Time for red states to begin deporting illegal aliens after feds suspend sovereignty laws



How do you publish an enforcement report when enforcement has been suspended? Well, that was the predicament in which the Department of Homeland Security found itself last year. Therefore, officials refused to publish the annual ICE enforcement report for nearly five months. Now that they have finally published it, they failed to disclose the most important data. But what we see is so appalling that it violates the entire social contract that the federal government forged with the states – “to insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence.” States have no other option but to pick up the slack.

After delaying the release of the fiscal year 2021 enforcement report for nearly half a year, ICE finally published a scaled-back version last Friday, which essentially shows that enforcement of our sovereignty has ground to a halt. During the entire FY 2021, ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) arrested 74,082 noncitizens in FY 2021 and deported just 59,011. For comparison, there were 267,258 removals in FY 2019 and 185,884 removals in FY 2019.

The numbers are even worse than the top lines indicate. Remember, Trump was still president for the first few months of FY 2021, and Biden didn’t change the enforcement policies until Feb. 18. Just 28,677 of the 59,011 removals took place after Feb. 18. In other words, under Biden, there were just a little over 4,000 deportations a month, down from pre-pandemic levels of over 22,000. Thus, while ICE agents still receive salaries, Biden has essentially fulfilled the woke mission of abolishing ICE without actually firing the agents.

It’s not like there were few fish in the pond to deport. The lowest interior enforcement numbers coincide with the greatest invasion at the border itself. From Oct. 2021 through Feb. 2022, there have been 838,685 encounters, a 111% increase from last year’s record-setting encounters year-to-date. That is an annualized pace of over 2 million illegal aliens, not to mention close to a million others who will escape apprehension.

Every day, the Border Patrol catches murderers, child molesters, and gang members, so all those gotaways are going to include those who pay exorbitant sums to evade the Border Patrol and enter the interior of the country. Once they enter our communities, it is now clear that ICE will never catch up with them. What does that mean for our communities?

Well, guess what was missing from the report? The classic breakdown of criminal offenses by criminal category among those apprehended by ICE per fiscal year. For example, here is the tabulation for FY 2019:

  

  

Typically, this is the tally of criminal offenses among those arrested by ICE in a given year, totaling nearly 470,000 in FY 2019. And these numbers would roughly mirror that total every year. Now consider the fact that this year ICE reduced its apprehension numbers. Imagine how many of these people with these rap sheets remain in the country. Well, they did publish the tally for five of the most serious categories: Homicide, 1,506; sex assault, 3,415; assault, 19,549; robbery, 2,717; kidnapping, 1,063.

So even the most serious categories were down dramatically, and not because the pool of criminality is smaller. No wonder they never wanted to report their enforcement numbers and, even in the tardy report, made sure to omit the criminal offense chart.

Also, while ICE did take possessions of criminal aliens this year, what happens next year when the full force of Biden’s policies is in effect? A lot of the arrests this year of the criminal aliens are likely due to the aggressive detainers placed on them during domestic criminal proceedings during the Trump administration. For example, in FY 2019, ERO issued 165,487 detainers on aliens subject to criminal charges or convictions, amounting to more than 56,000 assaults, 14,500 sex crimes, 5,000 robberies, 2,500 homicides, and 2,500 kidnappings. 2,500 homicides! Detainers are the best front-end measure of enforcement. How many detainers were issued on new criminal aliens in FY 2021? We don’t know, because officials declined to publish any information on detainers, but we will likely feel it in our communities in the coming years.

“This report is more significant for what it doesn't cover,” said Jessica Vaughan of the Center for Immigration Studies, who has analyzed these reports for years. “ICE is desperate to conceal how little enforcement there has been.”

Vaughan suspects the numbers are even worse than the report suggests, because there are indications officials are counting border turn-backs and removals in the same data points that are typically reserved for interior enforcement numbers. “They have gone to great lengths to make it hard for people to compare ICE's performance to prior years. They brag about arrests, but they won't say where they happened and whether these people are still in custody. They brag about increasing the percentage of removed aliens who are criminals from 56% to 66%. But in recent years, the number removed from the interior who are criminals has been more like 95%. That means their numbers include many border cases.”

Vaughan concludes that they are “deliberately co-mingling these cases so people can't see how few criminals were removed from our cities and towns, especially compared to prior years — even during the pandemic lockdown year and even under Obama.”

In other words, the message to the world is that once you get into the interior, you are here to stay, even with a horrendous criminal record. This fact is not lost on the cartel smugglers who know they can earn a killing off such a contrived market for human smuggling, so that they can buy more drugs and weapons to operate on both sides of our own border.

Are states going to sit back and take this? At a minimum, they must begin requiring state law enforcement to always check the immigration status of anyone arrested for a crime and publish statistics every month quantifying the number of illegal aliens arrested by criminal offense category. Eventually, Republican governors must work together to fill the vacuum of immigration enforcement left by the federal government. If sanctuary states like New York and California so badly want these criminal aliens, then perhaps states like Florida and Texas should grant them their wish.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo blasts NYPD for refusing to enforce Thanksgiving restrictions: Those people aren't real law enforcement officers



New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) blasted members of the NYPD for refusing to enforce restrictions on indoor gatherings ahead of Thursday's Thanksgiving holiday.

What's a brief history here?

Last week, Cuomo issued updated COVID-19-related restrictions — which included a 10-person limit on indoor gatherings — to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus.

His latest remarks come on the heels of New York City Police Commissioner Dermot Shea's recent announcement that the NYPD has no plans to break up indoor gatherings despite the state limit being 10 people per home.

What are the details?

According to a Wednesday New York Post report, Cuomo blasted police for turning a blind eye to such gatherings, and for allegations that many officers themselves refuse to wear masks.

"A lot of police officers don't wear a mask," he said. "[W]ell, how are you then supposed to enforce other people wearing a mask when they see you not wearing a mask? 'I violate the law but you can't.' No! Nobody said you were above the law! I don't believe that person is a law enforcement officer. I don't want a law enforcement officer who says, 'I'm only enforcing the law that I like or think should be enforced.'"

Last week, Shea told NY1, "We're not planning on breaking up Thanksgiving celebrations. ... We have to be smart. We're encouraging everyone to use common sense here and to get New York City through this. No one in large gatherings, we think at this point that's common sense."

Anything else?

According to the New York Post, several New York state sheriffs announced a refusal to enforce Cuomo's mandate on Thanksgiving gatherings.

One such law enforcement official is Fulton County Sheriff Richard Giardino, who took to Facebook and wrote, "Frankly, I am not sure it could sustain a Constitutional challenge in Court for several reasons including your house is your castle. And as a Sheriff with a law degree I couldn't in good faith attempt to defend in Court, so I won't. ... We have limited resources and we have to set priorities, so obtaining a Search Warrant to enter your home to see how many Turkey or Tofu eaters are present is not a priority."

Washington County Sheriff Jeff Murphy, Erie County Sheriff Tim Howard, and Saratoga County Sheriff Michael Zurlo also echoed Giardino's sentiments, according to the outlet.

In a news release, Zurlo said, "I can't see how devoting our resources to counting cars in citizens' driveways or investigating how much turkey and dressing they've purchased is for the public good."