Immigration Crackdown Protects Americans From Murderers And Rapists Biden Released Into The Streets
Trump's immigration policies are putting the safety of American citizens at the forefront, where it should have been all along.Trump's immigration policies are putting the safety of American citizens at the forefront, where it should have been all along.Federal agents reportedly storm cockpit, drag pilot off Delta plane over appalling accusations involving young children
Federal agents reportedly stormed the cockpit of a Delta Air Lines plane and dragged the pilot off the commercial airliner in a dramatic arrest over the weekend.
Delta Air Lines Flight 2809 flew out of Minneapolis and landed at San Francisco International Airport at 9:35 p.m. Saturday, according to FlightAware.
'Everyone was confused and in disbelief at what was happening.'
Passengers on the Boeing 757-300 said at least 10 federal agents marched aboard the plane, and the incident was described as "shocking and unnerving."
"A group of people with badges, guns, and different agency vests/markings were pushing their way up through the aisle to the cockpit," a passenger told the San Francisco Chronicle.
The passenger in first class said the agents were from Homeland Security Investigations in San Francisco.
The passenger claimed officers "stormed the cockpit, cuffed the copilot, arrested him, walked him down the aisle, and ushered him off the plane through the cabin doors located between first and coach."
Another passenger told KQED-TV, "Everyone was confused and in disbelief at what was happening."
A second group of officers reportedly returned a short time later to retrieve the copilot’s personal belongings.
Video uploaded to social media shows several agents with badges leaving the cockpit.
The copilot later was identified as 34-year-old Rustom Bhagwagar of Florida.
The Contra Costa County Sheriff's Office said in a statement, "Detectives from the Contra Costa County Office of the Sheriff Investigation Division have been conducting an investigation since April 2025 after receiving a report of sex crimes against a child."
The sheriff's office noted that its investigation revealed that Bhagwagar allegedly sexually assaulted a child under 10 years of age.
An arrest warrant was secured for the suspect.
Sheriff's office detectives and agents with Homeland Security Investigations boarded the plane to arrest Bhagwagar, who was booked into the Martinez Detention Facility on five counts of oral copulation with a child under 10 years of age.
Bhagwagar is being detained on $5 million bail.
The sheriff's office said the investigation is ongoing.
Police urged anyone with any information regarding the case to contact the Investigation Division of the Contra Costa County Sheriff's Office at 925-313-2600, email tips@so.cccounty.us, or leave an anonymous tip at 866-846-3592.
A spokesperson for Homeland Security Investigations in San Francisco told the Chronicle that the agency supported local authorities in carrying out the arrest warrant.
Once the shocking accusations surfaced, Delta Air Lines immediately suspended Bhagwagar pending the investigation.
A Delta spokesperson told KTVU-TV, "Delta has zero tolerance for unlawful conduct and will fully cooperate with law enforcement. We are appalled by reports of the charges related to the arrest."
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Tom Homan sends warning to socialist NYC candidate over sanctuary city status: 'Good luck on that'
Tom Homan has a message for New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani: He cannot stop the deportations.
Homan, who is in charge of immigration enforcement and removal operations, has brought the hammer down on illegal immigrant hot spots across the country. The socialist Mamdani pledged to put that to a stop if he were elected mayor of New York City in November.
'We're going double down, triple down on the sanctuary cities.'
Mamdani said in a public statement that he would "refuse" to let federal agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement "terrorize" New York City, after previously stating that he would also "stop masked ICE agents from deporting our neighbors."
On Monday, Homan responded to the idea that Mamdani would refuse to cooperate with ICE. A reporter asked Homan outside the White house if there was a plan to "work around" Mamdani's plan to not work with ICE agents in the city. It was at that point that Homan informed the Democrat of the harsh reality.
"Good luck on that. We're gonna be in New York City," Homan replied. "We're going double down, triple down on the sanctuary cities. Why? Not because they're blue city or blue state, because we know that's where the problem is."
Border czar Homan then claimed sanctuary city mayors have knowingly released threats to public safety into their streets, in apparent acts of defiance against the federal government.
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"We know they're releasing public safety threats and national security threats to the streets every day because they don't honor our detainers. We know that," Homan explained.
The Trump appointee admitted that the same problem has not persisted in states like Florida, where ICE receives full cooperation from the state. Therefore, Homan said he would continue to send "assets" where the problem is: "sanctuary cities."
"We'll flood the zone of sanctuary cities," Homan continued. "If they don't let us arrest the bad guy in the county jail, they're gonna arrest them in the community, we're gonna arrest them at a worksite. So we're gonna increase community operation. We're gonna increase worksite enforcement operation. We're gonna get the bad guys."
The latter sentiment has been a point of contention among the Trump administration and the president's supporters, despite the administration performing raids at manufacturers and food packagers across the country.
A Department of Homeland Security memo told agents in June to put raids on farming, hospitality, and restaurant industry locations on hold, but the White House quickly ended the directive and reversed the policy just days later.
On Thursday however, Trump told supporters in Des Moines, Iowa, that "radical right people" would be unhappy to hear that he is working on legislation to protect presumably illegal farm and hospitality workers who get "viciously" thrown out of the country.
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Nevertheless, Homan reiterated on Monday that even though ICE has aimed for 3,000 detainees per day, the goal is even higher than that.
"Do the math. We’ve got to arrest 7,000 illegal aliens every single day for the remainder of this administration just to catch the ones Biden released into this nation," Homan told reporters.
According to Customs and Border Patrol data, more than 8.7 million illegal aliens were encountered in the United States between 2022 and 2024 under President Biden.
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DHS posts 'foreign invaders' deportation meme — and liberals can't cope
The Trump administration has made memes an effective part of its messaging strategy on social media.
The White House and various executive agencies have taken to humorously making points on their official pages with the aid of images pregnant with online or broader cultural significance. Humorless liberals invariably wig out, thereby drawing greater attention to the administration's message.
For instance, the White House posted a Studio Ghibli-style AI cartoon of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer arresting a caricature of a real illegal alien who had been convicted of drug trafficking. The March 27 post ruffled feathers at the Daily Beast and elsewhere on the left, and has since drawn over 75 million views on X.
White House deputy communications director Kaelan Dorr told the Hill last month that digital outreach is "a very critical component of how much we keep the foot on the gas and how much we stay on offense."
The Department of Homeland Security under Secretary Kristi Noem has recently put the pedal to the metal where its meme offensive is concerned, similarly prompting liberal meltdowns. One meme in particular caused vexation over at MSNBC.
On Wednesday, the DHS posted a picture of Uncle Sam hanging a bulletin that says, "Help Your Country ... and Yourself." There is a message written below the bulletin in bold letters that states, "REPORT ALL FOREIGN INVADERS. ICE: 866-DHS-2-ICE."
DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin noted earlier this month that Secretary Noem "is revamping ICE's illegal alien tip line to devote more resources and personnel to help remove these criminal illegal aliens from our country."
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The DHS posted the meme on X and on its other official social media channels with the caption, "Help your country locate and arrest illegal aliens."
Following a prompt from C. Jay Engel of the Contra Mordor Substack, the meme was designed by X user @mrrobertwp, who tweeted after its reuse by the DHS, "It's far reaching fellas. We really hit it out of the park with this one."
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Tony Moon, a self-professed "rooftop Korean" who helped defend businesses during the 1992 Los Angeles riots, was among those who apparently appreciated the post, writing, "This was way overdue."
'Diversity has been our strength.'
Others weren't so keen, accusing the DHS of fascism and invoking Nazi Germany.
MSNBC talking head Nicolle Wallace, fresh off reaffirming her belief that the Jan. 6, 2021, riot was an insurrection, expressed shock and disgust on Wednesday after seeing the image.
Wallace said that she had "very mixed feelings" and told viewers that "your taxes are paying for this ad being disseminated on Elon Musk's platform, X."
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After reading the message in the meme, Wallace asked her guest, former Republican and retired Brigadier General Steve Anderson, "Did Vladimir Putin write that?"
"He might very well have. I'll tell you one foreign invader we can deal with is Elon Musk," said Anderson, referring to the American citizen who runs SpaceX and Tesla.
Anderson went on to say, "Diversity has been our strength, and when you look at that [meme], it taps into the isolationist impulses of a lot of people — the inner racism and hatreds that a lot of people have, unfortunately."
DHS also posted a meme Wednesday featuring the following remarks: "Liberals don't know things. They don't read history, they don't obsess over stats, the few data points they do see they forget. Their entire world is driven by the consumption of fiction."
Blaze News has reached out to the DHS for comment.
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Split the Big Beautiful Bill Act, seal the border … and give Trump a real win
The GOP doesn’t resemble a big tent any more — it looks more like a boundless landfill. No shared vision or coherent guiding principles bind the party’s disparate factions beyond not having a “D” next to their names. That’s why it’s impossible to pass a reasonable budget bill that cuts spending without including massive subsidies for high-tax blue states.
The rift between the Freedom Caucus, the K Street crowd, RINOs, and the Trump White House remains unbridgeable. So what’s the realistic path forward on budget reconciliation?
With real leadership, Trump could sign the most consequential part of his 2024 mandate into law — before the smoke clears in LA.
Focus on the one issue that unites the base: immigration enforcement.
Riots in Los Angeles this week have made the case for an immigration-only reconciliation bill even stronger. The public sees the connection. The urgency is obvious. And President Trump, understandably frustrated by the calendar — it’s June and he hasn’t signed a single major legislative win — wants action now.
But cramming unrelated tax and health care provisions into one big, bloated bill guarantees disaster. Good members will face a bad vote. So why not act decisively?
Split the immigration provisions from the rest. Make them tougher. Pass the bill right away, while the chaos in L.A. is still at the front of everyone’s mind. Save the fiscal brawls for later.
The math of an immigration-focused bill
The current draft of H.R. 1, the One Big Beautiful Bill, includes about $185 billion in new funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Customs and Border Protection, and new and improved border infrastructure. It also tacks on another $150 billion in defense spending — a top White House priority.
Even strong provisions need offsets. But in a party this fractured, cutting spending isn’t just difficult — it’s practically taboo.
Still, by limiting the bill to the Department of Homeland Security and Pentagon spending and scrapping the tax components, Republicans would only need to offset $335 billion over 10 years.
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That’s well within the realm of possibility. They could hit that number using the consensus cuts and immigration reforms already in the bill. No gimmicks. No sleight of hand. Just political will and a sense of timing.
The current bill would generate about $77 billion in new revenue from immigration-related fees and taxes on remittances. It saves hundreds of billions more over the next decade by cutting off illegal aliens from Medicaid, Obamacare, and food stamps.
Republicans should go farther and ban illegal aliens from claiming the child tax credit — a move that could save another $50 billion.
Instead of loading the first reconciliation bill with a jumble of unrelated and divisive provisions, Republicans should focus on consensus items: national security, enforcement of sovereignty, and policies that put Americans first.
If the Republicans were more ambitious, they would use this bill to repeal the Green New Deal. Funding illegal immigration and the Green New Deal were the Biden administration’s two most transformative and unpopular policies. Target both. Pass the bill right away. Deliver a win that matches the mandate voters gave Trump — and give the president a badly needed legislative victory.
Enforcement money isn’t enough
Throwing $180 billion more at enforcement won’t solve the immigration crisis. Spend a trillion on deportations, and it still won’t matter if courts continue to block action.
Even in Trump’s rare Supreme Court wins on immigration, the justices insisted every illegal alien must receive due process — despite deportation being a civil process, not a punishment.
No president can litigate his way out of an invasion. Even with favorable rulings, Trump won’t deport enough illegal immigrants before the next Democrat takes office. That’s the hard truth.
Now is the moment to fix it.
Americans are watching a violent, coordinated invasion unfold in real time. The bill should formally declare an invasion — and include an amendment by Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) to strip judicial review from deportation cases involving noncitizens and, ideally, legal permanent residents.
Under that reform, the administration’s removal decisions would stand. No federal judge could second-guess them. No more delays, appeals, or lawfare.
Roy’s amendment would transform the first reconciliation bill into a singular focus on Trump’s most unifying, necessary, and popular campaign promise. It would hand him a quick, clean victory while the nation remains fixated on the border invasion.
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So why not just split the agenda into two bills and get on with it?
Here come the usual GOP excuses. Let’s knock them down one by one.
Excuse 1: “We only get one bite at the apple.”
White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller claims Republicans must use reconciliation just once to avoid the Senate filibuster.
But Democrats already broke that precedent in 2021, pushing through two separate reconciliation bills with a green light from the Senate parliamentarian, who noted that reconciliation should be reserved for “extraordinary circumstances.”
But ultimately, this isn’t the parliamentarian’s call. The decision rests with President Trump and Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.). If Biden’s team could do it, so can we.
Excuse 2: “Without this bill, Americans face massive tax hikes.”
This line is pure fearmongering. The 2024 election wasn’t about taxes. MAGA never revolved around tax cuts for their own sake — that was the old GOP. Yet somehow, this bill morphed into another tax-centered mess.
The truth? Most tax provisions in the current draft — from an expanded child tax credit and higher standard deduction to new breaks for seniors, overtime, and tips — enjoy broad bipartisan support.
No Democrat wants to get blamed for letting these expire. Even in a lame-duck session, they wouldn’t allow a public tax hike. The only serious dispute involves the top marginal rate. Trump has already signaled he’s open to a modest increase if it means getting the rest of the agenda passed.
And let’s be honest: The current bill isn’t exactly Reaganesque. It’s loaded with progressive goodies, including an obscene expansion of the SALT deduction.
Even the pro-tax-cut Tax Foundation calls the bill’s economic impact weak and overly complicated. This isn’t a bold, pro-growth package — it’s a muddled compromise.
The irony is that ending taxes on tips — perhaps Trump’s most prized tax provision — already passed the Senate 100-0. Why not pass that and similar provisions in the House and place it on Trump’s desk without wasting budget reconciliation?
Excuse 3: “We can’t include policy provisions in a budget bill.”
Critics claim the Byrd Rule blocks the inclusion of policy reforms — like immigration or judicial changes — in a reconciliation bill. That excuse doesn’t hold up.
The original House-passed bill included a provision that barred states from regulating artificial intelligence. That isn’t budget-related. That is pure policy.
By comparison, a provision removing judicial review from deportation cases would directly cut costs by eliminating thousands of court hearings. That’s a legitimate budgetary angle — and far more defensible than regulating AI through backdoor channels.
The Byrd Rule exists, yes. But the party in power determines what gets through. The president and Senate leadership can overrule the parliamentarian. Democrats did it. So can we.
Fast-forward to this week: The streets of Los Angeles are on fire again. And instead of seizing the moment to deliver on the most urgent national priority, Miller is using anti-ICE violence to ram through a bloated mega-bill — all because it includes ICE funding.
But if solving immigration were the real goal, Republicans would just split the bill already. They’d put the judicial reform language in the first package. And they’d pass it immediately.
With real leadership, Trump could sign the most consequential part of his 2024 mandate into law — before the smoke clears in L.A.
After The Terrorist Attack In Boulder, Congress Must Reform Visitor Visas
Nearly half of the illegal immigrants in the U.S. initially entered legally with visitor visas and then overstayed their permitted time.12 countries won’t cut it: Why Trump’s travel ban ultimately falls short
“We will not let what happened in Europe happen in America,” President Trump declared Wednesday, unveiling a new travel ban targeting 12 nations — mostly Islamic-majority countries from the Middle East and Africa.
It’s a strong first step toward fulfilling the original 2015 promise of a full moratorium on immigration from regions plagued by jihadist ideology. But let’s not pretend Europe’s crisis stemmed from poor vetting of criminal records. The real problem was mass migration from cultures openly hostile to Western values — especially toward Jews and, by extension, Christians.
The United States ranks near the bottom of the list for anti-Semitism. That’s something worth protecting — not surrendering to appease lobbyists or foreign governments.
And the new list leaves troubling gaps.
Trump’s call for “a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States” was the defining issue that launched his political movement. Nine years later, the rationale is even stronger — and now, the president has the power to make it happen.
Consider the context: Egyptian national Mohamed Sabry Soliman, the alleged Boulder attacker who shouted he wanted to “end all Zionists,” entered the United States in 2022 with a wife and five children — admitted from Kuwait.
The only question that matters: How many more share Soliman’s views?
The numbers are staggering. By my calculation, the U.S. admitted 1,453,940 immigrants from roughly 43 majority-Muslim countries between 2014 and 2023. That figure doesn’t include over 100,000 student visas, nor the thousands who’ve overstayed tourist visas and vanished into the interior.
Soliman is not an outlier. He’s a warning. And warnings demand a response.
Trump’s January executive order called for a 60-day review by the secretary of state, the attorney general, the Homeland Security secretary, and the director of national intelligence to identify countries with inadequate screening procedures. Four and a half months later — following the Boulder attack — the administration announced bans on nationals from Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen.
But Trump didn’t mention anti-American or anti-Jewish sentiment — only logistical concerns like poor criminal record-keeping, high visa overstay rates, and limited government cooperation.
That misses the point entirely.
Jew-hatred — and by extension, hatred of the West — isn't just a byproduct of chaos in failed states like Somalia or Taliban-run Afghanistan. It runs deep across the Middle East, even in countries with functioning governments. In fact, some of the most repressive regimes, like Egypt and Saudi Arabia, are openly hostile to the Muslim Brotherhood, yet still export radicalized individuals.
And those individuals know precisely where to go: America, where radical Islam finds more tolerance than in many Islamic countries.
Good diplomatic relations don’t mean good immigration policy. Pew’s 2010 global attitudes survey showed over 95% of people in many Middle Eastern countries held unfavorable views of Jews — including those in Egypt and Jordan, U.S. allies.
The Anti-Defamation League’s global index confirms it: The highest levels of support for anti-Semitic stereotypes come from the Middle East. According to the ADL, 93% of Palestinians and upwards of 70% to 80% of residents from other Islamic nations agree with tropes about Jews controlling the world’s wars, banks, and governments.
Meanwhile, the United States ranks near the bottom of the list for anti-Semitism. That’s something worth protecting — not surrendering to appease lobbyists or foreign governments.
So why continue importing hundreds of thousands of people from places where hatred of Jews is considered normal? Why welcome migration from countries like Iraq, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia — where assimilation into American civic values is practically impossible?
The answer may lie in the influence nations like Qatar and Saudi Arabia still exert over U.S. foreign policy. But political cowardice is no excuse for policy paralysis.
Twelve countries on the ban list is a good start. But most don’t reflect the true source of radical Islamic immigration into the United States.
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Banning immigration from these regions isn’t about infringing civil liberties. It’s about preventing a civilizational crisis. Unlike Europe, which responded to rising Islamic extremism by criminalizing dissent and speech, America can take the wiser path: protect national security without sacrificing the First Amendment.
We don’t need hate-speech laws. We need sane immigration policy.
Unfortunately, bureaucrats in the administration watered down Trump’s original vision. They framed the bans in terms of “data-sharing” and technocratic concerns. They sought narrow criteria and limited political blowback.
But the law is clear. Trump v. Hawaii affirmed the president’s broad constitutional authority to exclude foreign nationals.
That authority exists for a reason.
President Trump rose to power by sounding the alarm about what unchecked migration could do to the West. That warning was prophetic. And now, he has the mandate — and the obligation — to act on it.
Twelve countries won’t cut it. The question now isn’t whether Trump will act — it’s whether he’ll act in time.
Because if we want to avoid Europe’s fate, we don’t just need a new policy. We need the old Trump — unapologetic, unflinching, and unafraid to speak hard truths.
Let’s hope he finishes what he started.
Punch a cop, get a charge — even if you’re in Congress
With a recent assault on the very federal law enforcement officers they are charged with overseeing, Democrats haven’t just embraced criminals; they’ve become them.
Last month, three Democratic lawmakers — Reps. Rob Menendez Jr., Bonnie Watson Coleman, and LaMonica McIver, all from New Jersey — led a mob of protesters in storming the Delaney Hall Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility. They waited for a bus full of detainees to arrive, then rushed the open gate and physically clashed with federal officers.
Our republic will not survive if America’s elected leaders are allowed to act like this. They not only committed crimes in public but then hid behind their Article I powers as a shield.
This wasn’t symbolic. This was an elected mob laying hands on law enforcement.
The video tells the story: shoving, punching, and chaos. These three members of Congress — who represent more than two million Americans — assaulted officers doing their jobs. Then, astonishingly, they claimed they were the victims, despite clear footage proving otherwise.
All of this over what turned out to be nothing.
After the chaos, ICE officials offered the lawmakers a guided tour of the facility. The Democrats quietly admitted they found no signs of mistreatment. Their entire stunt, billed as a protest of conditions, collapsed under the weight of reality. They walked in demanding accountability and walked out with nothing but bad footage and a pending felony charge.
Yes, a felony.
Rep. McIver now faces a federal charge of assaulting a law enforcement officer, announced on May 20 by Acting U.S. Attorney Alina Habba. President Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem have made it clear: This administration backs the rule of law. If you punch a cop, you get charged — even if you have a congressional pin on your lapel.
The left tried to frame the incident as “congressional oversight.” But oversight doesn’t mean storming gates or skipping security checks. ICE policy allows members of Congress to tour facilities — even unannounced. But it does not allow them to create security threats, bypass screening, or lead mobs onto federal property. Those procedures exist to protect staff, detainees, and lawmakers alike.
This was not oversight. It was lawlessness, pure and simple.
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Since President Trump restored control of the southern border, anti-border Democrats have become unhinged. No longer able to rely on waves of illegal crossings, they’ve begun imitating the tactics of the very criminal aliens they once defended — storming barriers, resisting authority, and attacking officers.
Now, that’s the legacy of the modern Democratic Party.
But legal consequences alone aren’t enough. Congress must act.
The House should censure all three lawmakers involved. Censure is not a punishment; it’s a statement of principle. And lawmakers have been censured for far less than leading an assault on federal agents. The House has a duty to uphold the integrity of its own body. That means sending a message: If you behave like a thug, you’ll be treated like one.
Our republic will not survive if America’s elected leaders are allowed to act like this. They not only committed crimes in public but then hid behind their Article I powers as a shield.
America’s founders warned about this.
In "Federalist 1," Alexander Hamilton posed a choice: Would Americans build a government based on “reflection and choice” — or surrender to “accident and force”? That question remains. If lawmakers now claim the right to break the laws they swore to uphold, we’re no longer living in a constitutional republic. We’re living under mob rule.
And if we let this slide — if Congress fails to hold its own accountable — then we’ll have no one to blame when the next mob storms another federal building under another political banner.
Democrats love to remind us: “No one is above the law.” Fine. Then prove it.
White House sets Rep. Nadler straight about his aide's detention during DHS rioter hunt
Democratic Rep. Jerrold Nadler (N.Y.) accused President Donald Trump and the Department of Homeland Security on Saturday of "sowing chaos" after footage emerged showing DHS officials handcuffing one of Nadler's aides during an apparent rioter hunt.
The White House and the DHS subsequently set the record straight, the White House telling Blaze News that Nadler's condemnation over law enforcement actions was "shameful."
Background
The DHS rescinded Biden administration guidelines last month that previously barred Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents from making arrests in courthouses.
Tricia McLaughlin, the DHS' assistant secretary for public affairs, noted at the time that "the ability of law enforcement to make arrests of criminal illegal aliens in courthouses is common sense," adding that it "conserves valuable law enforcement resources because they already know where a target will be."
Making good use of its newfound liberty, ICE arrested Dylan Josue Lopez Contreras, a 20-year-old illegal alien from Venezuela after his hearing in an immigration court in lower Manhattan on May 21.
The DHS noted that Contreras was an illegal alien who stole into the U.S. over a year ago and was cut loose by the Biden administration.
While characterized by the liberal media as a "Bronx high school student," Contreras — whom Democratic Rep. Ritchie Torres (N.Y.) said was "making good on the promise of the American dream" — actually finished high school in his home country and was taking college prep classes at the time of his arrest. He now faces expedited removal proceedings.
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A week after Contreras' arrest, protesters descended on another immigration courthouse in the city — housed within the same federal facility as Nadler's Manhattan office — decrying the arrest of Contreras and other illegal aliens and clashing with police. According to the Gothamist, police arrested and charged five people and issued criminal summonses to 18 other radicals.
Incident in Nadler's office
While radicals raged against police outside, DHS Federal Protective Service officers entered the facility to ensure the safety of the federal employees on the premises, including in Nadler's office.
The DHS noted in a statement obtained by Blaze News that "upon arrival, officers were granted entry and encountered four individuals. Officers identified themselves and explained their intent to conduct a security check; however, one individual became verbally confrontational and physically blocked access to the office. The officers then detained the individual in the hallway for the purpose of completing the security check."
Footage obtained by Gothamist shows one officer handcuffing a congressional staffer, while another officer argues with someone off-camera about whether the detainee had shoved the arresting agent.
In conversation with another staffer blocking a doorway, an officer noted that he was checking to see whether Nadler's team was "harboring rioters in the office."
Nadler's team reportedly had immigrant rights activists in the office earlier for a meeting.
'I am alarmed by the aggressive and heavy-handed tactics DHS is employing in New York City.'
The DHS noted and Nadler confirmed that the staffers were released without further incident. The staffer who was handcuffed told the Gothamist that "everything resolved."
Nadler said in a statement that Trump and his agency "are sowing chaos in our communities, using intimidation tactics against both citizens and noncitizens in a reckless and dangerous manner."
"In the most recent and deeply troubling incident, DHS agents forcefully entered my congressional office and handcuffed a member of my staff," continued Nadler. "While no arrests were made and the situation was quickly de-escalated, I am alarmed by the aggressive and heavy-handed tactics DHS is employing in New York City and across the country."
"The decision to enter a congressional office and detain a staff member demonstrates a deeply troubling disregard for proper legal boundaries," continued Nadler. "If this can happen in a Member of Congress's office, it can happen to anyone — and it is happening."
Nadler told the New York Times, "They’re behaving like fascists."
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The White House backed the DHS' account and slammed Nadler for his apparent spin.
White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson told Blaze News, "FPS officers were responding to information that protesters were present inside the congressman's office and were initially granted entry, but unfortunately an individual became confrontational and tried to physically block access for the officers completing a security check."
"It's shameful that Russia hoaxer and Trump derangement sufferer Jerry Nadler would choose to attack law enforcement officers for doing their job because he disagrees with President Trump's immigration policy," added Jackson.
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Kristi Noem enrages liberals with 2-word response to dismissal of deportation case
Ten illegal aliens facing transfer from Texas to a holding facility at the U.S. naval base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration on March 1. The plaintiffs, represented by the American Civil Liberties Union, claimed that the "arbitrary and capricious" transfers violated the Administrative Procedure Act, the First Amendment's due process clause, and the Immigration and Nationality Act, and requested a stay.
In the time since, seven of the plaintiffs have been sent packing, including Maiker Espinoza Escalona, who was identified by the Department of Homeland Security as a lieutenant of the Venezuelan terrorist gang Tren de Aragua. The remaining plaintiffs threw in the towel on Thursday, indicating they "no longer wish to continue litigating this case."
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, chief among the defendants named in the lawsuit, had a two-word response to the voluntary dismissal of the action: "Suck it."
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While some online responded positively to the taunt, calling it "based," others, particularly critics on the left, characterized the Homeland Security secretary's message — which appeared on her official government account on X — as "cruel," "classless," and "disgraceful."
'How evil and depraved.'
Former Biden DHS spokesman Alex Howard wrote, "If we're lucky, it'll only take years to undo the damage Kristi Noem has inflicted on DHS, its workforce, and its reputation in just four months. This behavior is beneath the office and an embarrassment to the institution."
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, a senior fellow at the American Immigration Council, was among those who expressed disbelief, writing, "This is the official account of the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security of the United States."
"This is real," whined Ron Filipkowski, the editor in chief of the anti-Trump publication MeidasTouch News.
One user concluded, "They are the worst of us."
"This is DHS Secretary Kristi Noem saying 'suck it' in celebration over deporting people to El Salvador without due process," tweeted Democratic propagandist Harry Sisson. "She's celebrating constitutional rights being ignored. How evil and depraved."
Blaze News has reached out to a spokesman for Noem for comment.
As the plaintiffs taunted by Noem voluntarily dismissed the case "without prejudice," they could refile in the future; however, the government doesn't appear to think they have legs to stand on.
Attorneys for the government argued that the plaintiffs lacked standing to bring the suit; the court lacked jurisdiction to stay the government's exercise of discretion to send an illegal alien to "an appropriate place of detention"; the plaintiffs' claims were improperly venued in the District Court for the District of Columbia as they had never been held in the district; and Noem has the statutory authority to send immigration detainees to Guantánamo.
'Very thankful that they are off the streets of the United States and that we have safer communities.'
President Donald Trump issued a memorandum on Jan. 29 directing Noem and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth "to take all appropriate actions to expand the Migrant Operations Center at Naval Station Guantánamo Bay to full capacity to provide additional detention space for high-priority criminal aliens unlawfully present in the United States."
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The stated aim of this initiative was "to halt the border invasion, dismantle criminal cartels, and restore national sovereignty."
The Pentagon established Joint Task Force Southern Guard to work with the DHS to fulfill Trump's order.
A U.S. official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, told Reuters there were roughly 70 illegal aliens presently detained at Guantánamo.
Noem told CNN talking head Dana Bash during a February interview at Guantánamo Bay that the individuals transported to the base "are the worst of the worst that we pulled off of our streets. ... Murderers, rapists."
"When I was there, I was able to watch one of the flights landing and them unload about 15 different of these criminals. Those were mainly child pedophiles, those that were out there trafficking children, trafficking drugs, and were pulled off of our streets and put at this facility," continued Noem. "Very thankful that they are off the streets of the United States and that we have safer communities."
The secretary noted further that efforts were underway to accommodate 30,000 detainees.
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