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Irish Star: US citizen detained by immigration officials who thought Real ID was a fake

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Immigration officials detained a US citizen during a raid on a construction site, as video footage showed numerous officers rushing to handcuff the man while others shouted in his defense

A US citizen was detained during an ICE raid at a construction site and claims he was ‘tackled’ and ‘handcuffed, hard,’ as police accused his REAL ID of being a fake.

Leonardo García Venegas, 25, was detained at the Foley, Alabama, site where he was working as ICE agents raided the place. A video of the incident aired by Telemundo showed the scene as authorities on the site had García Venegas bent over while multiple officers rushed over to put handcuffs on him, and someone yelled in the background, ‘he’s a citizen!’

Garcia was kept in a vehicle until officers released him. He says he took out his wallet and ID and showed them his REAL ID.

“They took out my wallet, took out my ID,” he said in an interview. “And they told me it was fake. Said it wasn’t valid and that it was fake. My ID. They handcuffed me, and they handcuffed me really tight.”

“Very hard.”

“Apparently, a REAL ID is not valid anymore. He has a REAL ID,” his cousin Shelah Venegas said.

García Venegas was born in Florida to Mexican parents and is a US citizen.

“We all made sure we have the REAL ID and went through the protocols the administration is asking for….. He has his REAL ID, and then they see him, and I guess because his English isn’t fluent and/or because he’s brown, it’s fake, it’s not real.”

The arrest left Venegas shaken, but mostly afraid for his brother, who is in the country illegally and was arrested and detained.

Venegas says he wants to sue but was told by lawyers that prosecuting a federal agent would be nearly impossible.

Pigs just gotta be pigs. ICE will be reformed only from top down, by rolling heads. Once enough people are fed up with their Gestapo behavior, it will happen.

US citizen detained by immigration officials who thought Real ID was a fake
Immigration officials detained a US citizen during a raid on a construction site, as video footage showed numerous officers rushing to handcuff the man while others shouted in his defense

https://www.irishstar.com/news/us-news/citizen-detained-immigration-officials-who-35283394

Raleigh News & Observer: More Than 400 ICE Arrests in Border State

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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested over 400 illegal immigrants in Houston during a weeklong operation. Among those arrested, more than 260 had prior criminal records. ICE is reportedly using a “hub and spoke” system to speed up removals, allowing for deportation within 24 to 72 hours of arrest.

How many of these 400 have any violations worse than a parking ticket, if even that much? ICE is just doing whatever they can to get their numbers up, regardless of the human cost. They have zero credibility at this point.

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Fox News: ‘Flood the system’: US attorney unleashes new task force to crack down on blue state’s sanctuary policies

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New task force filing up to 50 warrants weekly to get more illegal immigrants into federal custody

United States Attorney for the District of California Bill Essayli is taking major action to crack down on “sanctuary” policies in the Golden State.

He’s launching “Operation Guardian Angel,” which is a task force, made up of assets from ICE, HSI, DEA, FBI, ATF, and Border Patrol, to begin scanning a criminal database every single day to identify arrested illegal aliens in local jurisdictions that DOJ can charge with felony illegal-reentry.

“They’ve made it almost impossible for ICE to do their job, issue detainers and get criminal illegal immigrants out of jails. So what we’re doing instead is we’re going to start issuing warrants,” he told Fox News.

Which is bullshit!

The Tenth Amendment says that the states can’t be forced to do the Fed’s work for them. If the Feds want to bust illegal immigrants in sanctuary cities, they’ll have to do their own leg work.

That still doesn’t be they’ll be welcomed with open arms on the streets. Good luck with that!

‘Flood the system’: US attorney unleashes new task force to crack down on blue state’s sanctuary policies
Operation Guardian Angel, led by Bill Essayli, aims to increase deportations of criminal illegal immigrants in California, challenging sanctuary policies with federal warrants.

Knewz: Trump DHS Threatens AOC With Arrest

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[DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia] McLaughlin warned Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) would also face arrest if she took similar unauthorized actions. An investigation into assaults on ICE agents is underway. McLaughlin said, “If she trespasses and if she assaults law enforcement officers, as we saw earlier, I think that’s certainly on the table. As far as we’ve heard, a lot of Democrats make the argument that they’re just conducting oversight, congressional oversight.”

Just lots of huffing & puffing & theatrics from one of King Donald’s unqualified bimbos for a hypothetical problem that hasn’t happened and likely never will.

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Stock futures fall after Moody’s strips U.S. of its top credit rating

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Last of major ratings firms strips top rating more than 13 years after S&P was first to downgrade U.S. from triple-A

Just when the stock market had clawed back all the losses sparked by the panic over President Donald Trump’s tariff plans, investors face another round of debt-related angst as markets slid Sunday after Moody’s Ratings stripped the U.S. government of its last triple-A credit rating.

Strategists warned the move, announced after the market close on Friday, could spark some near-term selling in stocks and Treasurys.

Dow Jones Industrial Average futures fell more than 250 points, or 0.6%, by Sunday evening. S&P 500 futures also dropped 0.6% while Nasdaq-100 futures sank 0.7%. The ICE U.S. Dollar Index, a gauge of the dollar’s value relative to major rivals like the euro, was down 0.4%.

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Latin Times: Undocumented Florida Woman Fined $1.82 Million by ICE for 20-Year Overstay

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An undocumented Honduran woman living in Florida has been fined over $1.82 million by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for failing to depart the country following a 2005 removal order.

The fine, issued in a May 9 notice by ICE’s civil fines department, charged the woman $500 for each day she remained in the United States since the order was issued, totaling $1,821,350. The woman, a mother of three U.S.-born children, is being represented by immigration attorney Michelle Sanchez, who said this is the first time she has seen such a high civil penalty imposed.

“This is ICE terrorizing individuals without even having to go pick them up,” Sanchez told CBS News. “They are terrorizing them by sending these notices where they are fining individuals an exorbitant amount of money that a person sometimes doesn’t even make that amount in their lifetime.”

Undocumented Florida Woman Fined $1.82 Million by ICE for 20-Year Overstay
A 41-year-old undocumented Honduran woman living in Florida has been fined $1.82 million by ICE for failing to leave the country following a 2005 removal order

https://www.latintimes.com/undocumented-florida-woman-fined-182-million-ice-20-year-overstay-583222

Knewz: Two Dems Confront ICE Agents: ‘Simply Do Our Job’

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Knewz.com is reporting that two Democratic representatives from New Jersey have protested at the Delaney Hall Detention Center in Newark, demanding its closure due to concerns over criminality. Rep. Robert Menendez, Jr. (D-NJ) and Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-NJ) confronted ICE agents during the protest, with McIver attempting to breach security checkpoints to enter the facility. Delaney Hall houses detainees with alleged gang affiliations.

Regarding claims that McIver body-slammed an officer, she stated, “I mean, I honestly do not know how to body slam anyone. There’s no video that supports me body slamming anyone. We, as Congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman said we were simply there to do our job. There for an oversight visit.”

McIver added, “What you watch what you’re watching in the video, and we don’t have all of the body cam, and we hope that all of the body cam is released. It was a very tense situation. It unfortunately did not have to be like that. They created that confrontation. They created that chaos and then ultimately went to arrest the mayor of the largest city of New Jersey, who is my mayor and my constituent. And it was very difficult to watch that happen. But absolutely, I did not body slam anyone.”

U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey Alina Habba [Bimbo #4] reported that Newark Mayor Ras Baraka (D-NJ) ignored multiple warnings to leave the premises and was arrested for trespassing during the protest. Baraka was released later in the evening amid demonstrations from supporters.

Obviously Bimbo #4 hasn’t watched the video.

Two Dems Confront ICE Agents: ‘Simply Do Our Job’

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MSNBC: The Trump administration is in talks about a disturbing reality TV show idea

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A show in which immigrant contestants vie for U.S. citizenship would be a natural extension of Trump’s cruel gamification of social life.

The Department of Homeland Security is in talks with a reality T.V. show producer about a game show in which immigrant contestants would compete for U.S. citizenship. What would be a shocking story for any other White House is a fitting development for an administration fixated on melding policy with sadistic entertainment.

According to The Wall Street Journal, television producer Rob Worsoff says he has been pitching the idea for the show as far back as the Obama administration, but the project didn’t come together. Worsoff, whose credits include the reality show “Duck Dynasty,” told the Journal that the show is meant to be hopeful, that the contestants would be legal immigrants, and that losing would not result in deportation.

It’s unclear how far along the process is, but the Journal reports that DHS spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin “said she had spoken to the producer of the proposed television reality show and that consideration of the idea was ongoing,” and Worsoff described the feedback from DHS as positive.

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Huge swaths of the migrant population in the U.S. are made up of people attempting to escape persecution, violence and destitution. It seems cruel to derive entertainment from people desperate to stay in the country as so many others are expelled as part of a right-wing nationalist campaign.

Even if this show doesn’t come to fruition, the fact that the Trump administration is even considering it — and unafraid to admit it to reporters — is damning. It’s also unsurprising, insofar as the administration has often sought to use art and memes that celebrate the pain of migrants to help give license to its brutal mass deportation regime.

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Trump and those around him are quick to turn everything into a game or a laugh, most often at the expense of those most vulnerable among us.

Opinion | Trump’s DHS is considering making immigration into a twisted reality TV show
The Department of Homeland Security is in talks with a reality T.V. show producer about a game show in which immigrant contestants would compete for U.S.

https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/blog/trump-admin-dhs-kristi-noem-reality-tv-us-citizenship-show-rcna207238

Mediaite: Federal Magistrate Warns Alina Habba [Bimbo #4] Over Comments About Ongoing Case: ‘Heed Carefully to the Rules’

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A federal magistrate cautioned Acting U.S. Attorney Alina Habba [Bimbo #4] against continuing to comment publicly about an ongoing case her office is prosecuting.

Last week, Newark Mayor Ras Baraka (D) was arrested at an ICE detention facility in the city after he and three Democratic members of Congress visited the complex. Baraka said he and the lawmakers were allowed in the facility and were there for an hour, and no one told him to leave. Ultimately, he was arrested by federal agents. Shortly afterward, Habba [Bimbo #4], the top prosecutor for the District of New Jersey, posted about the arrest on social media and phoned into Fox News.

“More than once, [he] refused to leave, was put under arrest inside the facility, walked out when he was told he was under arrest, and then was cuffed,” she said, and accused Baraka and the lawmakers of “grandstanding.” Habba [Bimbo #4] has issued other public comments about the case.

According to Politico, U.S. Magistrate André M. Espinosa advised Habba’s [Bimbo #4’s] office in a Friday video conference against giving public remarks about the case. After Baraka’s attorney asked Espinosa to warn Habba’s [Bimbo #4’s] office, the magistrate addressed the government’s lawyers and said he would “caution them to heed carefully to the rules of professional conduct” and “boundaries of propriety for public comment related to an ongoing investigation and/or prosecution.”

Alina Habba Warned About Commenting on Ras Baraka Case
A federal magistrate judge cautioned Acting U.S. Attorney Alina Habba against continuing to comment publicly about an ongoing case her office is prosecuting.
Federal Magistrate Warns Alina Habba Over Comments About Ongoing Case: ‘Heed Carefully to the Rules’

NBC News: Immigration agents break SUV window while detaining man after church on Mother’s Day

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The man who recorded the footage told Telemundo Nueva Inglaterra that he heard the mother screaming, “He has his papers, he has his license!”

Federal immigration agents were seen breaking an SUV’s window, throwing a man inside to the ground and handcuffing him on Sunday, Mother’s Day, after the man and his family left church in Chelsea, Massachusetts.

It’s one of many apparent ICE operations that have caused controversy across the Greater Boston area in recent weeks. Agents were seen breaking a car window in New Bedford, Massachusetts, last month before taking a man inside into custody.

In Sunday’s incident, the family was just leaving church when several federal agency vehicles intercepted them at the border between Everett and Chelsea, according to video of the incident shared with Telemundo Nueva Inglaterra. After several minutes of arguing, and refusing to obey their request to roll down their window, agents broke the window to remove the man from the car.

After removing the man from the car, agents threw him to the ground and handcuffed him. Inside the vehicle were the rest of his family, including his wife, children and grandmother.

ICE = pond scum, with all due apologies to real pond scum.

Immigration agents break SUV window while detaining man after church on Mother’s Day
The man who recorded the footage told Telemundo Nueva Inglaterra that he heard the mother screaming, “He has his papers, he has his license!”

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/immigration-agents-break-suv-window-detaining-man-church-mothers-day-rcna206632