‘Meteoric Rise’: How A Fishing Trip And A Phone Call Made Tom Homan ‘Border Czar’
'Meteoric Rise': How A Fishing Trip And A Phone Call Made Tom Homan 'Border Czar'
California county OKs $3.5M to shield illegal aliens from Trump's deportation efforts
A California county board voted this week to invest $2.2 million in taxpayer funds to shield foreign nationals from President Donald Trump's mass deportation efforts.
During the Alameda County Board of Supervisors' Tuesday meeting, members unanimously voted in favor of investing millions into providing legal services and other resources to the area's immigrant community. In February, the board allocated another $1.3 million to the Alameda County Public Defender Office's Immigration Unit.
'Pre-emptive legal services.'
Several residents spoke Tuesday during public comments, all of whom supported funding the programs. Community speakers urged the board members to protect foreign nationals, citing fear within the community over Trump's deportation efforts.
One resident, a member of the East Bay Democratic Socialists of America, told board members, "They [immigrants] desperately need our support in understanding their rights. And I applaud the board's work on establishing a forum for knowing your rights, but we need sustained support for resources for this really important and valuable community in our county."
Supervisor Nikki Fortunato Bas, chairwoman of the committee, told the community during the meeting, "I'm committed, and I believe Supervisor [Elisa] Marquez is also committed, to making sure the board, the public, has more information and that this work is truly effective in reaching every single person in this community that is potentially at risk."
In a post on social media, Fortunato Bas called the Alameda County community "diverse" and in need of "protection," Fox News Digital reported.
"The policies of the federal administration are causing fear among our residents," she wrote. "The unanimous vote of the Board of Supervisors demonstrates our county's commitment to our immigrant and refugee communities, who will have more access to critical information, services, and legal support."
The board voted to allocate $50,000 toward Asian Pacific Islander Legal Outreach "to provide legal services and advocacy to marginalized immigrant communities."
Another $700,000 will go to Centro Legal de La Raza "to provide Rapid Response Hotline, Know Your Rights Training, pre-emptive legal services, and community volunteer network response coordination."
According to the San Francisco Chronicle, the rapid response network "helps verify reported [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] activity, dispel misinformation and coordinate legal services for immigrants who are detained."
The county will give $500,000 to the Chinese Progressive Association, the fiscal sponsor of Trabajadores Unidos Workers United, "to provide resources and preparation to immigrant and refugee communities, including training, mutual aid, and neighborhood resources."
The California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice will receive $1 million to provide foreign nationals with legal services.
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JD Vance WRECKS heckler on the REAL cost of illegal immigration
Vice President JD Vance has a knack for speaking common sense, and his recent speech at the National League of Cities only highlighted that increasingly rare talent.
“You go across the world and you see a very consistent relationship between a massive increase in immigration and a massive increase in housing prices, and we have to be honest about that,” Vance told the audience, before a heckler interrupted in an attempt to refute his point.
“I see one of our nice representatives out here wants to actually, I guess, continue to flood the country with illegal immigrants, making your communities and citizens unaffordable,” Vance shot back calmly.
“But ma’am, with all respect, one of the reasons why we’re doing what we’re doing is because we want to make it more affordable for Americans to live. That is one of the reasons why we’re doing what we’re doing,” he continued.
Vance went on to tell the audience, and the heckler, that it now takes two incomes to afford housing in America and that illegal immigrants have taken much of the affordable housing for themselves.
“This isn’t like ‘JD Vance slams protester.’ JD Vance just uttered common sense that somehow you’re not allowed to say, and it has nothing to do with whether you like immigrants or you don’t like immigrants,” Matthew Peterson of “Blaze News Tonight” tells co-host Jill Savage.
“It’s just pure math, and any sane person would know that if you bring in a bunch of illegals, it’s going to cause all these problems. This should not be controversial, but it is, and what’s sad is that so many people who work in these cities don’t want to acknowledge the basic reality that would make American citizens' lives better,” he continues.
“And when you have millions of people that are potentially going to be deported from this country, guess what? Everybody’s rents are going to be starting a little bit more affordable,” he adds.
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Trump wins again: Illegal immigrants begin to self-deport
The CBP One app was previously used during the Joe Biden administration to streamline and facilitate illegal immigration — but President Donald Trump has flipped the entire thing on its head.
After hijacking and repurposing the app, Trump and border czar Tom Homan have made sure it now only helps illegal immigrants to self-deport rather than self-import.
“It was so easy,” Sara Gonzales of “Sara Gonzales Unfiltered” comments. “They could just go on to these phones that were provided to them by the United States government and just set up a time to just check in with them so that they could just illegally cross in easier.”
“And then, at the very end, they didn’t even have to physically do it face to face, they could actually just tell them on the CBP One app, ‘I promise it’s me, I’m here, just go ahead and mark me as present,’” she explains.
Under the Trump administration, the app is now called the “CBP Home app” and now has been redesigned to facilitate the self-deportation of illegal immigrants rather than bringing them in.
“The Biden Administration exploited the CBP One app to allow more than 1 million aliens to illegally enter the United States. With the launching of the CBP Home app, we are restoring integrity to our immigration system,” DHS secretary Kristi Noem said in a statement.
“The CBP Home app gives aliens the option to leave now and self-deport, so they may still have the opportunity to return legally in the future and live the American dream. If they don’t, we will find them, we will deport them, and they will never return,” she added.
And it’s already working.
“There are record amounts of people just self-deporting,” Gonzales says. “They’re like, ‘We don’t want to go that way, we will just go out on our own terms.’”
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D.C. Is Home To 10,000 Spies. Democrats Want To Let Them Vote
Democrats are determined to extend voting rights to noncitizens residing in D.C., and potentially to foreign agents.ICE rounds up over 600 illegal aliens, most with criminal histories
Immigration and Customs Enforcement rounded up over 600 illegal aliens, most with a criminal history, as part of a multi-agency raid from February 23 to March 2.
ICE, in partnership with other federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies, conducted a weeklong operation in the Houston, Texas, area.
'Many of these criminal aliens have gone on to commit violent crime and [rain] terror on law-abiding residents.'
According to an ICE press release, the agencies captured 646 illegal aliens, including 543 who had been previously "charged or convicted of a criminal offense while they were illegally present in the U.S." The raid also resulted in the arrest of seven illegal alien gang members.
The federal immigration agency noted that 140 of those arrested faced charges or convictions for violent offenses, including aggravated felony, homicide, aggravated assault, or domestic violence. Over 30 detained illegal aliens were accused or convicted of sexual crimes, such as aggravated sexual assault of a minor, possession of child pornography, or rape. Other offenses included illegal firearms, drug crimes, property violations, and drunk driving.
Bret Bradford, the director of ICE's Enforcement and Removal Operations Houston Field Office, stated, "In recent years, some of the world's most dangerous fugitives, transnational gang members and criminal aliens have taken advantage of the crisis at our nation's southern border to illegally enter the U.S."
"After illegally entering the country, many of these criminal aliens have gone on to commit violent crime and [rain] terror on law-abiding residents," Bradford continued. "Fueled by our unwavering commitment to protect the public from harm, and united in our determination to restore integrity to our nation's system of laws, ICE and our law enforcement partners in Southeast Texas have banded together to remove these dangerous criminal aliens from our local communities and put an end to the lawlessness that they spread."
ICE Homeland Security Investigations Houston Special Agent in Charge Chad Plantz applauded the agencies' efforts to make the community safer.
"As a result, we've sent a resounding message to transnational criminal organizations everywhere that the law enforcement community in the Texas Gulf Coast is more united than ever and will not rest until we've eradicated these criminal elements from the country," Plantz said.
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem named two new ICE leaders on Sunday. She tapped Todd Lyons, a former assistant director of field operations for ICE's ERO, as the acting director for the federal immigration agency. Madison Sheahan, Noem's former aide as South Dakota governor, was selected as ICE's deputy director.
"Todd Lyons and Madison Sheahan are workhorses, strong executors, and accountable leaders who will lead the men and women of ICE to achieve the American people's mandate to target, arrest, and deport illegal aliens," Noem stated.
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