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Tampa Free Press: Chief Border Patrol Agent Dares New York Democrat Rep To Walk Streets Of Chicago

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Chief Border Patrol Agent Greg Bovino dared Democratic Rep. Dan Goldman of New York on Thursday to walk on the streets of Chicago after Goldman dismissed violence against federal immigration enforcement officers.

United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facilities in Chicago and Portland, Oregon, have been the scene of multiple riots as opposition to the agency’s operations targeting illegal immigrants has intensified. “America Reports” co-host John Roberts played a clip from Goldman’s Wednesday appearance on “CNN NewsNight,” where the Democratic congressman dismissed the violence before asking Bovino for his thoughts.

“You know, that congressman is flat-out blind. You know, there was that 12k hit on myself. Thankfully, I’m still with the living, perhaps the congressman doesn’t want us to be with the living,” Bovino said.

“So how about him coming down here and walking some of the streets with us and maybe pick up [Democratic] Gov. [J.B.] Pritzker, and we’ll take a walk and see what violence really looks like, because it happens every single day to our ICE and Border Patrol agents,” Bovino continued. “We just had another incident this morning, John. A Border Patrol agent was rammed by a vehicle and someone was taken into custody. It happens every single day, perhaps he needs to come out here and we’ll show him a thing or two.”

“I have not seen… a thousand percent upswing and all this stuff. I haven’t seen examples of that,” Goldman said in the clip Roberts played.

Juan Espinoza Martinez, an illegal immigrant who was a member of the Latin Kings gang, was arrested and charged with offering $10,000 for Bovino’s death and $2,000 for information on the Border Patrol chief, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

Some of the rioters in Chicago called for the ICE agents to be arrested or shot in a video posted online during one of the riots.

Two people were killed during a shooting at an ICE office in Dallas on Sept. 24, with the gunman taking his own life. In Texas, there were two previous incidents where shots were fired at ICE or Border Patrol facilities since July 4, with ten people being charged with attempted murder in connection with the former incident.

Chief Border Patrol Agent Dares New York Democrat Rep To Walk Streets Of Chicago
Chief Border Patrol Agent Greg Bovino dared Democratic Rep. Dan Goldman of New York on Thursday to walk on the streets of Chicago after Goldman dismissed

https://www.tampafp.com/chief-border-patrol-agent-dares-new-york-democrat-rep-to-walk-streets-of-chicago

The major problem in Chicago right now is ICE thugs behaving badly. Ransacking a 130 unit apartment building, shooting an alderwoman in the face with pepper munitions, and shooting an innocent woman 5 times with real ammo haven’t helped matters any. The ICE thugs have to go; they are the catalyst for the current issues.

As far as walking around Chicago is concerned, Bovino is a clown with his head up his ass.

Musk Watch: Musk promised budget cuts. He delivered a panopticon.

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The Department of Government Efficiency, the secretive White House initiative founded by Elon Musk, was sold to the American public under the guise of cost-cutting. In this regard it has failed. After more than 110 days of austerity theater, DOGE has shaved just a few billion dollars from annual federal spending. Musk, who is poised to “significantly” reduce his involvement in the project, had promised $2 trillion.

DOGE has had much more success expanding the executive branch’s domestic surveillance capacity.

Citing whistleblower complaints, Rep. Gerald Connolly divulged last month that DOGE is building a “master database,” a single exhaustive repository containing personal data held by numerous federal agencies, including the IRS, the Social Security Administration, and the Department of Health and Human Services.

“The DOGE team is reportedly engaged in an unprecedented effort to build a massive database using data from SSA and across the federal government,” the Democratic lawmaker wrote in a letter to the SSA Office of the Inspector General.

Efforts to build the database are part of a Trump executive order dictating the elimination of the federal government’s “information silos.” In signing the executive order in March, Trump tied it to DOGE’s nominal mission of “stopping waste, fraud, and abuse.”

But in action, amalgamating federal data is part of the White House’s push to deport and intimidate undocumented immigrants, including by falsifying SSA death records to prevent undocumented immigrants from accessing housing and banking services. DOGE employees are also using data from the Department of Housing and Urban Development to remove undocumented immigrants from housing, even if they are living with family members who are legal residents.

The DOGE master database is being built and housed at the Department of Homeland Security and includes the use of biometric data to track immigrants, according to Wired. “They are already cross-referencing immigration [data] with SSA and IRS as well as voter data,” one DHS official told the outlet. FedScoop reported last week that members of DOGE have been spotted at a DHS border security office that houses fingerprint, facial, and iris records.

China would be so proud!

Musk promised budget cuts. He delivered a panopticon.
The Department of Government Efficiency, the secretive White House initiative founded by Elon Musk, was sold to the American public under the guise of cost-cutting.

https://www.muskwatch.com/p/musk-promised-budget-cuts-he-delivered

Snopes: Marjorie Taylor Greene bought Palantir shares days before ICE awarded the company a $30M contract

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As Trump’s suck ups get richer at our expense …

Claim:

U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Republican from Georgia, bought shares of Palantir Technologies days before the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced a $30 million contract with the company.

Rating:

True

Context:

Though Greene made public those trades, we could not determine whether she ordered them herself or whether her portfolio manager made that decision without her input.

Marjorie Taylor Greene bought Palantir shares days before ICE awarded the company a $30M contract

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/marjorie-taylor-greene-bought-palantir-shares-days-before-ice-awarded-the-company-a-30m-contract/ar-AA1E4LVg

Alternet: ‘Caught in limbo’: Decorated Iraq War veteran now target of Trump deportations

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What a wonderful way to that a veteran for his service to our country! Not!

A man who served in the U.S. military and survived two combat deployments to Iraq is now at risk of being deported to a country that is refusing to accept him.

Rolling Stone columnist Michael Embrich wrote Wednesday about the case of Army veteran Jose Barco, who is now in deportation proceedings even though he’s an honorably discharged Purple Heart recipient diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder. According to Embrich, Barco is “caught in limbo” as he faces deportation to Venezuela, despite not having visited the country since he was a toddler.

Barco — whose father fled Cuba for Venezuela before bringing him to the U.S. at age four — received his Purple Heart medal after an explosion launched him into a wall, resulting in severe burns and a traumatic brain injury. In 2004, he served in Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 506th Infantry Regiment, and saw frequent combat as his deployment was during the height of the Iraqi insurgency.

Embrich went on to write about how Barco was nearly naturalized, as he got help with his U.S. citizenship application from his commanding officer. However, Barco’s file got lost in the application process, and he had no way to track it in the system. As Embrich explained, Barco had a “straightforward path to naturalization” that ended up becoming “an invisible trap door leading to exile.”

‘Caught in limbo’: Decorated Iraq War veteran now target of Trump deportations
A man who served in the U.S. military and survived two combat deployments to Iraq is now at risk of being deported to a country that is refusing to accept him. Rolling Stone columnist Michael Embrich wrote Wednesday about the case of Army veteran Jose Barco, who is now in deportation proceedings even though he’s an honorably discharged Purple Heart…

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/caught-in-limbo-decorated-iraq-war-veteran-now-target-of-trump-deportations/ar-AA1CCw84

Washington Post: Venezuelan couple detained again by ICE after judge ordered their release

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Federal immigration authorities on Friday arrested a Venezuelan couple for a second time this month, their lawyer and relatives said, after a federal judge in D.C. ordered their release last week in a case that stemmed from their having illegally crossed the border more than two years ago.

The couple was driving in Suitland, Maryland, with their 4-year-old son when authorities stopped the vehicle and arrested them, said Madhvi Bahl, a volunteer with the group Migrant Solidarity Mutual Aid, which had been supporting the family.

They were then taken to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in Chantilly, Virginia — the same facility from which they had been released last week. 

Venezuelan couple detained again by ICE after judge ordered their release

Venezuelan couple detained again by ICE after judge ordered their release