‘Failing at the border’: Sheriffs blame Biden-Harris admin for increase in crimes linked to Tren de Aragua



The American Sheriff Alliance issued a press release Tuesday blaming the Biden-Harris administration for allowing Tren de Aragua, a violent Venezuelan gang, to enter the United States.

The sheriffs torched the administration, stating that the presence of TDA in the country is the latest example of how its open-border policies have failed.

'Due to the increase in human smuggling, illicit narcotics, and violent criminals coming across all borders, every county in the United States is now a border county.'

The group referenced a recent leaked memo from the Homeland Security Investigations office in Chicago that warned law enforcement officers that TDA members in the U.S. have been given the “green light” from the gang to “fire on or attack” police.

The American Sheriff Alliance also noted that TDA has been “linked to violent crimes across the country,” including a jewelry store armed robbery in Denver, Colorado, that occurred on June 24.

According to an NBC News report released in June, the gang has been linked to more than 100 criminal investigations. In July, the Department of the Treasury sanctioned TDA as a transnational criminal organization.

“TDA participates in human smuggling and trafficking, kidnapping, extortion schemes, and moving illicit narcotics in their areas of operation,” the American Sheriff Alliance’s media release stated. “The total number of TDA members operating in the United States is unknown due to the number of ‘got-a-ways’ entering the country, as well as those who may have been recruited domestically since TDA has showed its presence in the country.”

National Sheriffs’ Association president and Canyon County, Idaho, Sheriff Kieran Donahue, said, “When we allow a brutal and violent gang, like TDA, to operate in the United States, we have failed in terms of border security.”

“TDA is the latest example where failed policies have allowed violent gangs and criminal cartels into our country who subsequently commit heinous acts of violence and cause fear in our communities,” Donahue added.

Former Sheriff Clint McDonald, who now serves as the executive director for the Southwestern Border Sheriff's Coalition and the Texas Border Sheriff’s Coalition, also blamed the current administration for the increase in gang-related crime.

McDonald stated, “The American Sheriff Alliance issued a call to action in February regarding the fear of violent criminals, cartel members, and those on the Terrorist Screening Database.”

“It is evident with the number of TDA members increasing rapidly in our country that we are failing at the border to ensure bad actors are not entering our country for nefarious reasons,” McDonald continued. “Coming to the United States and threatening to kill American law enforcement is not acceptable and will not be tolerated.”

The American Sheriff Alliance declared that it is dedicated to finding a solution to the border crisis.

“Due to the increase in human smuggling, illicit narcotics, and violent criminals coming across all borders, every county in the United States is now a border county, feeling the effects of foreign policy which has not adequately addressed issues with violent gangs and the manufacture and smuggling of fentanyl and other drugs by organized criminal cartels,” the group concluded.

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NBC News' attack on 'right-wing influencers' over claims about Haitian cannibalism kneecapped by stunning admission



Murderous Haitian gangsters have massacred countless unarmed civilians; freed thousands of convicted felons from jail; torched police stations; engaged in systematic rape; threatened genocide; seized control of the country's key port; besieged the airport in Port-au-Prince; and forced the failed nation's prime minister to resign.

Some commentators online have even suggested that among the thugs regarded by some American leftists as revolutionaries are killers who have developed a taste for more than rape, torture, and murder.

NBC News apparently wanted to rehabilitate the gangsters' reputation this week or at the very least kill the notion that those otherwise keen to burn people alive and stack bodies in the streets like cordwood might be cannibals. After all, the threat of cannibal gangs might engender a desire among Americans to prevent migrants from Haiti from continuing to illegally enter the United States.

The trouble with the liberal network's effort is that it contained the seed of its own undoing.

NBC Newspublished a report Wednesday claiming that South African billionaire Elon Musk and "right-wing pundits online are weaponizing unverified claims of cannibalism coming out of the conflict to advance a political agenda on immigration."

The thrust of the article is that conservative commentators have unfairly vilified those Haitian nationals who would steal into the U.S. — not by highlighting the crimes other illegal aliens from Haiti have committed on American soil and against citizens but by noting barbaric practices allegedly engaged in by some of their countrymen back home.

"Musk and conservative influencers have spread the message to millions, smearing Haitian migrants as cannibals," wrote NBC News tech reporter David Ingram.

A number of Haitian cannibalism claims online have been accompanied by a possibly real video from another recent rash of Haitian violence as well as a number of fake videos, including one taken from a Nigerian film set.

Ingram noted, "The cruelty of Haitian gang leaders is not in dispute, nor is the widespread killing in the country during a yearslong political crisis, but the false claims about widespread cannibalism go much further in trying to paint the whole Caribbean nation as barbarous."

Just four paragraphs into his article, however, Ingram admitted that the accusations of cannibalism were actually grounded in fact "on what experts said was a likely intimidation tactic from select gang members."

"In some videos, the most prominent examples being at least two years old, alleged members of violent gangs in Haiti appear to bite into human flesh," wrote Ingram. "Experts said these videos are likely part of propaganda campaigns designed to scare rivals and terrorize local Haitians rather than a reflection of common or normalized behavior. One former armed group went by the name 'Cannibal Army.'"

Ingram spoke to a moderator of the Haitian Subreddit who was similarly condemnatory of the cannibalism narrative, but even his outrage apparently centered on a recognition that the claims ultimately have merit.

"A whole population is getting blamed for what some psycho gang members are doing," said Chris Nestor, a Reddit moderator and a lawyer in Washington, D.C. "It is racist. It is dehumanizing."

Among the posts Ingram found vexing was one from podcast host Tim Pool, one from Malaysian commentator Ian Miles Cheong, and a handful from Musk.

Podcaster Tim Pool received a mention in the NBC News article for tweeting, "Look at Haiti[:] Murder, chaos, cannibalism."

Cheong wrote on March 6, "There are cannibal gangs in Haiti who abduct and eat people. We are not supposed to talk about that because of cultural relativism. The entire country has now entered a state of chaos after gangs attacked two prisons, setting many criminals free. 80% of Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince is now controlled by these gangs."

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Cheong doubled down days later, writing, "Haiti has collapsed. The President is no longer in the country. The ports are officially closed. Cannibal gangs are besieging the national palace in Port-au-prince."

"And now they want to import this into America," added Cheong.

Elon Musk replied to the Malaysian commentator, writing, "End of days. This is bleaker than Mad Max."

On March 12, Ingram wrote to Cheong concerning a video allegedly depicting a Haitian gangster eating human flesh, noting, "This video is two years old at least."

Cheong responded, "I guess cannibalism in Haiti isn't so bad if a video of it happening was taken two years ago. Haiti has a long, colorful history of cannibalism. In 2004, a gang called the Cannibal Army also called the Artibonite Resistance Front, seized control of Gonaives. And then they took over Port-au-Prince. I’m sure the name was just for show."

Musk managed to get deep under Ingram's skin with repeated cannibal claims.

"When people wonder 'how bad can it really get?', well it can get cannibal-gang bad," he wrote on Monday.

The Tesla CEO commented on a video about America's open borders, "Cannibal gangs."

After NBC News ran Ingram's piece, Musk wrote, "If wanting to screen immigrants for potential homicidal tendencies and cannibalism makes me 'right wing', then I would gladly accept such a label! Failure to do so would put innocent Americans in mortal risk. Shame on NBC. Shame, shame, shame."

"Objecting to rolling out the red (in more ways than one) carpet for homicidal cannibals seems like a reasonable position to me," added Musk.

Cannibalism is just one of many terror tactics that has been employed by Haitian gangs.

Last year, Jon Lee Anderson of the New Yorker interviewed Jimmy "Barbeque" Chérizier, the mass murderer sanctioned by U.N. and various Western nations for human rights abuses, who recently united various disparate gangs, threatened genocide, and took over Port-au-Prince. In the July article, Anderson noted that the practice of "necklacing," whereby victims are "yoked with tires doused in gasoline and set alight," has become "widespread in Haiti, as a growing array of gangs have taken up the methods of the Chimères."

Anderson noted that "it is not uncommon to see the bodies of people murdered by gang members and left in public as a warning to rivals. Some are charred after being set on fire. Others show signs of having been beaten or shot or hacked with machetes."

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SCOTUS temporarily blocks Texas immigration bill. Here’s what COULD happen after the final ruling on March 13.



Just as Texas reached its limit with Biden’s open border policies and proposed Texas Senate Bill 4, which would allow the state to arrest illegal immigrants, the Supreme Court stepped in and halted progression.

Now, Texas once again has its hands tied with the invasion at the border — at least until March 13, when SCOTUS will make a final ruling.

“We can't enforce our laws; we can't keep our border sovereign,” sighs Sara Gonzales.

To make matters worse, “We're finding out there was a FOIA lawsuit from the Center of Immigration Studies that revealed that the Biden administration has been coordinating flights for approximately 320,000 illegal immigrants to 43 different cities across the country.”

“You don't even have to walk these days,” says Sara. “You can just get a free flight, free money, free debit card, free phone — free everything, but if you're an American citizen, no. If you’re a homeless veteran, stay on the streets.”

“It's so blatant, and you may see the Supreme Court end up taking the position of the Federal Government because I do not think that they want freer states,” adds Eric July of Rippaverse Comics.

How Texas would respond to such an unfavorable ruling poses some serious implications.

According to Eric, if SCOTUS blocks SB4 and prevents Texas from protecting its borders, the state must take the position of “we don’t care” and decide to protect the border anyway, regardless of what that means on a national level.

Sara agrees — “What are they going to do? You already have Border Patrol who is calling out Joe Biden and saying he is doing a horrible job ... and they have already come out and said we respect the Texas National Guard.”

“Maybe violence breaks out, but maybe that’s what it has to come to.”


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Police rule out terrorism as motive behind Kansas City Chiefs parade shooting; two teens in custody



The Kansas City Chiefs' victory parade in the team's Missouri hometown ended in bloodshed Wednesday afternoon. Gunshots rang out west of Union station just as the festivities were winding down, causing panic and confusion.

A pair of heroic dads managed to subdue one alleged gunman, but only after 22 people were wounded and a beloved mother of two was slain.

It was initially unclear what prompted the monstrous attack, although some suspected terrorism might have been to blame. Police have since revealed that a personal "dispute" between multiple thugs, not terrorism, was to blame.

Two teenagers are presently in custody. Police may yet make more arrests, as they suspect others may have been involved in the shooting.

The shooting

According to the Kansas City Missouri Police Department, shots were first fired around 2 p.m. Wednesday, west of Union Station, where a stage had been erected for speeches by Kansas City Chiefs players. Nearly 1 million people were estimated to have been in the downtown area at the time to celebrate the Chiefs' Super Bowl win.

The shooting caused panic, prompting some fans to take cover and others to run to safety.

KCMPD Chief Stacey Graves confirmed Thursday that at least 22 people were wounded in the shooting, in addition to Elizabeth Galvan, a 43-year-old radio disc jockey and a mother of two, who was fatally shot. The ages of the victims ranged from 8 to 47, and at least half of the wounded were under the age of 16.

Blaze News previously detailed how two fathers who had taken their kids to the parade spotted an individual believed to be a shooter and subdued him.

Graves celebrated the effort by bystanders to take action in the face of evil, reported the New York Times.

"They helped one another and even physically stopped a person who was believed to be involved in the incident," said Graves. "Your selfless act did not go unnoticed."

A 'dispute'

Graves indicated in a Thursday update that "preliminary investigative findings have shown there was no nexus to terrorism or homegrown violent extremism."

"This appeared to be a dispute between several people that ended in gunfire," said the police chief.

Jacob Gooch Sr., a survivor of the shooting, told "CBS Mornings" that just moments prior to the shooting, he overheard an "altercation" punctuated by a girl pleading, "Don't do it. Not here. This is stupid."

"My daughter said that some lady was holding him back, and people started backing up, and he pulled it out and starting shooting and spinning in a circle," said Gooch.

Gooch indicated he took a bullet to the foot; his wife was shot in her calf; and his son was struck in the foot. His daughter, fortunately, was left unscathed.

When pressed on whether he saw anything out of the ordinary prior to the shooting, Gooch noted he had been "suspicious of a certain group of people that were there. We were standing ... on the left side of the stage when the shooting ended up happening, and right before it ended up happening, there was this group dressed in all black, about four, five, six kids — looked like kids — with black on, black masks, and they disappeared into the crowd."

Graves noted that two juveniles are in police custody. While charges have yet to be filed, Graves indicated the department has only 24 hours to do so; otherwise it will have to cut the teens loose.

The chief also noted that investigators are looking into whether others were involved in the shooting.

"It should be noted that we have recovered several firearms," said Graves.

The Democrat-run city has long had an issue with violence, particularly gang- and youth-related violence.

Last month, another shooting occurred inside a popular shopping mall in downtown Kansas City, leaving six people wounded. The Star reported that what apparently triggered the shooting was a disturbance between two groups of "youths."

According to the Kansas City Star, the city set a record last years for homicides with at least 185 slayings. Over 240 were slain across the metro area. The previous year, there were 171 homicides.

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Gang member with criminal history arrested after previously being removed from US 6 times: ICE



Authorities arrested a Honduran who was previously removed from the U.S. half a dozen times, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

The gang member, who was arrested on February 1 after illegally entering the U.S. near Newport, Vermont, has a significant criminal record, the ICE press release indicated.

"The Honduran national was removed from the United States in January 2006, twice in June 2013, February 2015, July 2015 and February 2016. He has been convicted of DWI, assault and battery, unauthorized use of a vehicle, illegal entry, disorderly conduct and drug trafficking. During an immigration hearing, he admitted he was affiliated with the Sicarios New Yorkers-XV-18 branch of the 18th Street Gang," ICE noted.

"In October 2022, a Honduran court convicted him of drug trafficking charges and sentenced him to four years and six months of incarceration. After he failed to appear to serve his sentence in July 2023, the court issued a warrant for his arrest," the press release noted. "The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) again arrested the gang member Feb. 1, 2024, after he unlawfully entered the United States near Newport, Vermont, without being inspected, admitted or paroled by a designated immigration official."

The arrest demonstrates the importance of border security for the sake of public safety.

Border Patrol Chief Jason Owens has noted that authorities recently arrested a Mexican man who had served time for molestation of a minor. "USBP agents in Laredo, TX arrested another child predator trying to enter our country illegally. This subject, a Mexican National, served 10 yrs in prison for a Molestation of a Minor, a felony conviction," Owens' tweet stated.

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Pro-police attorney has law license suspended after accusing BLM protestors of being in gang she and cops likely made up



A former prosecutor with the Maricopa County Attorney's Office in Arizona has had her law license suspended after a panel with the state bar determined that she showed "a disturbing pattern of excessive charging" in the cases of some protestors, at least one of whom was an "innocent man."

On Tuesday, the State Bar of Arizona issued the decision to suspend the license of April Sponsel for two years after a thorough investigation into some of Sponsel's work in 2020 uncovered seemingly zealous attempts to overcharge defendants deemed to be anti-police.

Most of the accusations against Sponsel related to a BLM protest that occurred in Phoenix on October 17, 2020. Like many BLM protests that year, people showed up in black, attempted to conceal their identities with umbrellas, and tried to disrupt traffic. They also chanted well-known phrases such as "black lives matter," "no justice, no peace," and "no KKK, no fascist USA."

Among this group, 15 people were arrested, including Ryder Collins, a nurse from out of town who happened upon the group by chance while taking photographs in the area. The decision signed by presiding Judge Margaret Downie repeatedly referred to Collins as "innocent," citing both statements from witnesses and body-cam evidence.

Even with the exculpatory evidence, Sponsel tried to strong-arm Collins, a political conservative who considers himself "very pro-police," into copping to rioting and assisting a criminal street gang, both felonies. "Ms. Sponsel may not have intended to indict an innocent man. But the evidence establishes that she did so," Downie wrote.

When challenged with overwhelming evidence that had erroneously charged Collins, Sponsel still refused to admit wrongdoing — and offered a ludicrous defense for her actions. "People can be out there taking pictures of the sunset and then go home and murder their spouse," she said at a disciplinary hearing two months ago. "Does that necessarily mean that they’re innocent of murdering their spouse because they said they were taking pictures of the sunset earlier in the day? No."

What's more, Sponsel decided to charge all 15 defendants arrested in connection with the protest, including Collins, with belonging to a gang called ACAB — a gang Sponsel and several members of area law enforcement seem to have made up.

The defendants did chant the phrase "all cops are bastards," or ACAB for short, but there is no indication that they referred to themselves as members of a group called ACAB or that they had participated in gang activity. There's even little evidence that they knew one another prior to the protest.

Ryan Green, a prosecutor with experience handling gang cases, noted many holes in Sponsel's prosecutorial approach and brought them to her attention within weeks of the protest.

"During their 'march' in October, did any of them have signs? Shout slogans? What are the devices thrown at police? Smoke bombs vs. explosives? Any of them have prior felony convictions? If so, what for? What are the tattoos that they have gotten? Do we have photos of their tattoos?" Green asked among other questions.

A few months later, Green asked more questions, expressing concern that felony gang charges may have been inappropriate in this case. The following are a handful of questions Green posed to Sponsel:

  • "Is there a witness who can identify at least 2 or more of these specific defendants having previously associated with one another prior to October 17th? If so, which defendants?"
  • "What is the evidence and which witnesses can testify that the charged defendants previously planned events with their fellow co-defendants?"
  • "Do we have any captured electronic communications between these specific arrestees prior to October 17th?"
An outside investigation later found "no credible evidence to support the assertion that ACAB is a criminal street gang," the decision said.

Despite the fact that there was little evidence to support the existence of an ACAB gang, Sponsel moved forward with the gang charges, lumping the defendants together as a gang for the sake of "efficiency," the bar's decision indicated. She even suggested to a grand jury that this so-called ACAB gang was akin to notorious gangs like the Bloods, Crips, and Hells Angels.

Sponsel, who is married to an officer with the Arizona Department of Public Safety, was described in the bar's decision as "very pro-law enforcement," and County Attorney Rachel Mitchell indicated that Sponsel's "ardent" support for police may have clouded her judgment in this case.

The Maricopa County Attorney's Office ultimately decided to drop all the charges against the 15 defendants in connection with the protest and placed Sponsel on administrative leave in March 2021. She was officially terminated by MCAO in June 2022 after refusing multiple settlement offers.

While Sponsel's law license will be suspended for two years effective next February, she will not necessarily get it back once the two years have expired. She will have to reapply and "prove she's been rehabilitated," ABC 15 Arizona reported.

It is unclear whether Sponsel intends to appeal the bar's decision. Her attorney told ABC15 Arizona, "The process is ongoing so it’s premature to comment."

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Five illegal aliens affiliated with MS-13 charged in murder of 15-year-old Maryland boy



Police have arrested five illegal aliens believed to have murdered a 15-year-old Maryland boy.

Limber Lopez Funez of Frederick was first reported missing on Feb. 25. The following day, detectives discovered a crime scene in a wooded area near Orchard Way and determined a serious assault had taken place.

His remains were later discovered on April 24 in Gambrill State Park.

The Frederick Police Department, along with the U.S. Marshals Service and other law enforcement agencies, on May 26 arrested his suspected killers, all of whom are members or associates of MS-13 — a terroristic gang that has exploited the relatively porous southern border during President Joe Biden's tenure.

Alexis Alfredo Ayala Lopez, 21, Jose Roberto Ramos-Lopez, 22, Ismael Ivan Rivera Canales, 20, Ismael Lopez Lopez, 29, and Elmer Bladimir Reyes-Reyes, 28, were all charged with first-degree murder in this case as well as other crimes.

Reyes-Reyes, apprehended in Pennsylvania, is awaiting extradition to Maryland.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement confirmed that all five suspects were in the U.S. illegally, reported WTTG-TV.

"Since Mr. Lopez Funez was first reported missing back in late February, we have had officers and detectives working tirelessly, investigating this case," said FPD Chief Jason Lando. "Our team spent countless hours following leads and conducting searches all over the county. We were all hoping to find Limber alive and well, but sadly that did not happen."

Lando added, "On behalf of the entire team at FPD, our hearts go out to the victim's family. While we know it will not bring Limber back, we hope the arrests in this case will offer some closure to the Lopez Funez family."

Funez is one among many victims of crimes committed by illegal aliens in recent years.

Already this year, there have been 12 homicide convictions of criminal noncitizens. In 2022 and 2021 there were 62 and 60, respectively — representing a 1,900% increase over the previous year, when only three murders were attributed to illegal aliens. Other criminal convictions for illegal aliens have similarly skyrocketed.

Just Thursday, Chief U.S. District Judge James Bredar sentenced illegal alien and MS-13 gang member Jose Lopez Rivera to 26 years in a federal prison for murdering a man for wearing the wrong shoes in a Wheaton, Maryland, coffee shop.

Roughly 5.5 million illegal aliens have reportedly stolen into the U.S. since Biden took office.

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‘Cartel-Style Execution’ Kills 6, Including Baby, In California

At least six people, including a 17-year-old mother and her six-month-old baby, were killed in California Monday morning.

Video: 5 thugs repeatedly stomp, punch boy, 15, on busy NYC street — and steal his sneakers. Crime expert says there's 'basically nothing you can do to these kids.'



Cellphone video caught the moment when a group of five boys repeatedly stomped and punched a 15-year-old boy on a busy Manhattan street Monday before stealing the victim's sneakers and running off unscathed.

A crime expert told the New York Post in response to the vicious beatdown that there's "basically nothing you can do to these kids.”

What are the details?

The brutal assault occurred near the corner of Amsterdam Avenue and West 188th Street around 2:25 p.m., police told the Post.

The victim appeared to be on his back on the sidewalk and up against the wall of a building when the gang of thugs beat him up.

Apparently a passing motorist recorded video of the attack, and someone is heard remarking from inside a vehicle, "They f***in' this kid up, bro. Stealin' his s**t. Damn, they taking his shoes, bro!"

The same person adds, "That's some f***ed up s**t, bro."

The attackers then run to the corner and enter a parked black sedan before taking off. Another teenager then walks over and checks on the victim, the Post reported.

Here's the Instagram video of the attack. Content warning: Language:

Police told the Post the crime was reported to them.

“It was reported to police that a 15-year-old was assaulted by a group of individuals who forcefully removed his property,” police said in a statement, the paper said. “The victim sustained injuries to his face and body.”

'Basically nothing you can do to these kids'

Joseph Giacalone — a former New York City police sergeant who is a professor at City University of New York’s John Jay College of Criminal Justice — told the Post there's little that can be done to the attackers amid our present criminal justice climate.

“Here’s the problem with this one," Giacalone told the paper. "You have a gang assault — which is a bail-eligible offense — and you have kids that are under the age of 18. So there is just basically nothing you can do to these kids.”

Ron Singh Murder Trial Delayed, Illegal Alien Witnesses Face Deportation

The murder trial against an illegal alien gang member charged with murdering 33-year-old Newman, California, police officer Ronil Singh has been delayed as vital witnesses, illegally in the United States, face deportation before the trial starts.