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Caribbean-Latin America

'Americans, get out!' Rebellious Mexicans find Aztec homeland in the US

2025-06-14

Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
by Ol'ga Kuznetsova

Amid news that at least thirty-five Mexican citizens have been detained during a series of protests in Los Angeles, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has condemned the violent immigration raids and violence and said the detainees are already receiving consular support from the Mexican government.

Sheinbaum also said that Mexican men and women living in the United States are not criminals, but good, honest people who went to another country in search of a better life for themselves

…illegally…

and their families. In addition, the Mexican leader condemned any form of violence at mass demonstrations.

And so they should.

A few days later, Sheinbaum reiterated her support for the detainees and said the government would “continue to use all available diplomatic and legal channels” to express its displeasure with a practice that criminalizes migration and threatens the safety and well-being of Mexican communities in the United States.

At home one must obey local and national laws. Abroad one must obey that nation’s laws, including not entering the nation without permission.

According to official Mexico City, the majority of those against whom the Trump administration has claims are actually in California legally and, even if they do not have the necessary documents, they have lived there for more than five years, regularly pay taxes and support the American economy.

Not legal if they don’t have the necessary documents. Dumb if they break laws while protesting and get themselves arrested.

Soon, Mexican Foreign Minister Juan Ramón de la Fuente revealed a new number of arrested compatriots: forty-two people. They were caught not at protests, but at their workplaces, for example, at a textile factory.

Based on this report, Sheinbaum again began to talk about the benefits migrants bring to the United States and how unfair it is to subject them to forced removal, brutal detention, and economic sanctions.

In the latter case, she referred to a new White House initiative to impose an additional tax on cross-border remittances that migrants regularly send to their families.

Among other things, Sheinbaum also spoke about the fact that if necessary, all Mexicans will “mobilize” because they do not want taxes on transfers from their own compatriots.

Too bad. So sad.

The phrase was immediately picked up by international media, which interpreted it as a call for Mexicans living in the United States to protest.

Even US Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem condemned Sheinbaum and accused her of inciting those who vandalized Los Angeles. The Mexican president immediately rejected the accusations, saying that she condemns any kind of violence and does not encourage any side in the conflict to do so.

AGGRESSION IS GROWING
The words of the Mexican leadership are perceived skeptically in the information field and are successfully used to further inflame protest sentiments. This could not have happened without the "help" of members of the ruling party MORENA, namely the president of the Senate of Mexico Gerardo Fernandez Noronha, who stated that the territories where anti-immigration protests are currently taking place belonged to Mexico until 1830, and the Mexicans living there are in their homeland.

He hinted that he wanted to return the legendary Aztlan, the semi-mythical ancestral home of the Aztecs, and also outlined the territories lost by Mexico during the war with the United States in 1846-1848 - California, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, part of Wyoming, Arizona and others.

In the United States, the ideology of the return of Aztlan is quite popular among Chicanos - Americans of Mexican descent who combine two cultures and live right on the territory of the "disputed" states.

They speak Spanish, celebrate certain holidays with their people, and have fairly nationalistic views. However, they are US citizens, often not in the first or even second generation.

It was these people who suddenly found themselves in the sights of federal immigration enforcement - agents grabbed and arrested them by mistake, it was their neighborhoods that were raided in less than friendly ways and shaken down for helping illegal immigrants.

To be honest, it was not in vain that they shook - the tradition of helping fellow countrymen, and at the same time numerous relatives, is quite strong among Chicanos.

However, the excessive pressure on the communities contributed to their increased aggression and also to their predisposition to recruitment by members of the Democratic Party, who made the Chicano communities the face of the new American protest.

They were the first to wave Mexican flags in Los Angeles County, and a little later to shout that the main illegals here were the Americans themselves, who should have “gotten out” of this foreign land long ago.

CONFLICT AT THE LEVEL OF MEANINGS
Some experts believe that a kind of “bomb” was planted under the United States during the period of the seizure of part of the Mexican territories, as well as through the exploitation of the economic dependence of the Central American countries.

The last many years have been a kind of symbol of the "power" of the White House, but in the end it came back to haunt them: the population of poor countries, unable to earn a living in their homeland, either joins the ranks of the next drug cartel, or tries to go where there is work.

The mistake of the Californian leadership was that, in an effort to win the standoff with the Republican Party, it demonstratively refused any immigration control and launched even more of their compatriots into an already problematic territory with a Spanish-speaking population. And then it simply left everything as it was.

The Republicans, in turn, did not take into account the specifics of the region and began to arrest all Hispanics and Indians indiscriminately, naturally provoking negativity towards the federal center. In addition, Donald Trump's regular economic threats to neighboring countries do not improve the migration situation, but only heat up the situation in the border region.

Thus, talk of a “new civil war” in the United States is not without foundation. Of course, such narratives are still more relevant for the southern American lands, but the conflict at the level of meanings has clearly gone much further.

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Economy

Illegals on Martha's vineyard being arrested - threat to local economy

2025-06-10

[WashingtonPost] Life on Martha’s Vineyard and the adjacent island of Nantucket has been disrupted since officers arrested dozens of immigrants late last month, igniting fear among undocumented workers who form the backbone of the workforce here just as the busy summer season gets underway.

"The money is just going to stop flowing," said a 33-year-old Brazilian man who owns three businesses on the Vineyard and spoke on the condition of anonymity because he has no legal status in the United States. "The U.S. is only losing in pushing us out."

Precisely as intended. If you have a successful business model, why did you never apply to regularize your situation? Or does it only work if you don’t pay fees and taxes like legal business owners must?

Masked immigration officers wearing bulletproof vests arrived on Coast Guard boats right after the Memorial Day weekend and detained several dozen people on both islands. Federal authorities described the arrests as part of a massive sting across Massachusetts that resulted in nearly 1,500 arrests. On the islands, about 40 people were detained, including an alleged MS-13 gang member and someone described as a "child sex offender," according to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in Boston. Most had no criminal record and were stopped on their way to work, community members said.

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Europe

How feared drug cartels including Sinaloa and MS-13 are now operating INSIDE Europe with gangsters setting up meth labs in soft-touch EU to avoid growing US pressure in Latin America

2025-06-09

[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] France's Minister of Justice courted controversy last month when he declared that no corner of the country was safe from the scourge of drug dealing.

Speaking to French podcast LEGEND, Gérald Darmanin said even the 'smallest rural town' in France is now blighted by the illicit drugs trade.

'Drugs have always existed, but today we can clearly see that in the smallest rural town, they know about cocaine, cannabis.

'Beforehand, drugs were simply in big towns [and cities] or the metro... it has become widespread, metastasised,' he added.

Many dismissed the statement, in which he went on to rail against escalating violence and call for law enforcement crackdowns, as little more than political rhetoric laying the groundwork for a widely anticipated presidential campaign ahead of 2027.

Two weeks later, authorities announced the bust of a luxury villa-turned methamphetamine manufacturing facility in the sleepy countryside commune of Le Val in southeastern France.

Suddenly, Darmanin's warning didn't seem so alarmist.

The secret lab was later found to be the first confirmed operation of Mexico's infamous Sinaloa cartel on French soil, raising fears that one of the world's biggest and most dangerous criminal organisations is looking to expand its operations into Europe.

Police claimed the lab was set up by a group of Mexicans in 2023 who arrived in France and began renting the villa. It transpired they had been commissioned by the cartel to build a meth production facility, recruit and train people in France to run it, before moving elsewhere.

That terrifying discovery came less than three months after Spanish police arrested 27 members of MS-13 - the Los Angeles-based gang formed by immigrants from El Salvador - that US President Donald Trump has designated a terrorist organisation.

MS-13 representatives were reportedly seeking to rapidly expand their operations in Spain and had planned to carry out a contract killing.

The shocking busts validate a 2022 report in which Europol claimed that its intelligence suggested Mexican cartels were dramatically scaling up their operations in Europe amid an increase in seizures of cocaine and methamphetamines.

Europe's illicit drug market is now booming, worth at least €31 billion (£26 billion) according to a 2024 report by the European Union Drugs Agency (EUDA).

Cocaine is the second most commonly used illicit drug in the EU behind cannabis and the second largest illicit drug market by revenue generated, accounting for roughly one third of revenues.

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) figures suggest that the UK & Ireland, the Netherlands and Spain rank in the top five countries across Europe where cocaine use is most prevalent, with France, Italy and Spain also topping the charts for cannabis consumption.

The majority of narcotics bought and sold in Europe, particularly cocaine, originates from Latin America, primarily Colombia, Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia.

Cartels in these countries, as well as the likes of Brazil's PCC criminal organisation, leverage their formidable network of contacts with criminal enterprises and crime families across Africa and Europe to ensure their product makes it to consumers in the UK and on the continent.

Some of the most notorious European groups involved in the trafficking include Italy's 'Ndragheta and Camorra crime families, Grupa Amerika and the Tito and Dino cartel in the Balkans, and the Kinahan clan and 'The Family' in Ireland, and the Dutch-Moroccan 'Mocro Maffia'.

Despite Mexico's reputation as a hub for some of the world's most feared and well-established drug trafficking operations, cartels here have traditionally favoured the US market over Europe.

Their proximity and penetration into the American market meant Mexican cartels have long 'taken charge of the buying, trafficking and sale (of cocaine and other narcotics) in the United States', according to Rafael Guarin, a former presidential security adviser in Colombia.

But the return of Donald Trump to the White House has seen a raft of measures designed to target cartel activity and limit the flow of fentanyl, among other drugs, across the border.

Trump has pressured Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum into getting serious on tackling the cartel's outsized influence in her nation, offering to lend US military aid and increase intelligence sharing between Mexican authorities and American security services.

This, coupled with the higher street value of cocaine and other drugs in Europe versus North America, may be forcing the likes of the Sinaloa cartel, MS-13 and their rivals to make efforts to diversify.

Though the Sinaloa cartel will face the challenge of establishing its own criminal network in Europe if it hopes to muscle in on the continental market, the methods of transporting huge quantities of drugs across the Atlantic are already tried and tested.

Hundreds of tonnes of narcotics enter Europe every year via gigantic shipping containers.

Corrupt officials and cartel plants in place at both departure and receiving ports hide the drugs inside the containers and retrieve them at the other end.

In the departure port, dock workers identify a container going to a port of interest, break into it, and stash the drugs among legitimate goods before sending its ID number to workers at the other end.

At the receiving port, dockers make sure the dirty container is put in a specific spot where it is easy to access so it can be opened once again, the drugs removed and smuggled out of the port, and any security tags replaced with forgeries before it passes customs.

Where smugglers cannot persuade the dockers to aid them, they sometimes send an empty container into the port with some of their men inside, who then break out and retrieve the stash in a method known as Trojan Horse.

The Netherlands and Belgium have long served as the primary entry points for drug traffickers shuttling cocaine into Europe, particularly via port cities like Rotterdam and Antwerp.

The latter last year topped the list of European cities where cocaine consumption is at its most voracious, with a March 2024 report by EUDA and SCORE group - a Europe-wide sewage analysis network - finding that 1,721 milligrams of cocaine were detected per 1,000 people per day in the port city.

The Spanish region of Galicia is also renowned as one of the key gateways for drugs into Europe. Its ports were among the first to receive regular shipments from South American cartels as early as the 1970s and 1980s.

More recently, cartels and criminal organisations have turned to yet more complex methods to ensure their product makes it into the hands of gleeful Europeans.

To avoid seizures at ports, cargo ships are sometimes approached at sea by cartel fast boats. Either with money or force, the crew are persuaded to take the drugs on board before continuing their journey across the ocean.

Before they reach land on the other end, more fast boats are dispatched to retrieve the drugs, meaning the cargo ship enters port as clean as when it departed.

The cartels are so well funded that some have their own submarines designed to carry the maximum amount of weight possible while being operated by a crew of just three.

Authorities estimate that each vessel costs around $1million (£750,000) to make and are painted sea blue, meaning they can leak just beneath the waves and surface under cover of night for their crew to emerge.

'Narco submarines are being built in rivers and mangroves. That's why, for example, the Amazon river in Brazil, is perfect. As soon as you open Google Maps, you realise it's a labyrinth of islets and mangroves and tributaries', Javier Romero, a local journalist, told the Wall Street Journal.

'You can hide a shipyard, then you can build it, put it into the water, and with the cover of darkness you launch it into the night.'

Once the product arrives on the eastern side of the Atlantic, drug cartels and their European associates take advantage of vulnerable child migrants, using them as foot soldiers and mules to distribute their haul.

Younger migrants, particularly those unaccompanied by older family members, are seen as ideal targets for recruitment.

These children and young adults are typically in a precarious position - often with no means to support themselves and no legal status - and are therefore desperate for cash while their anonymity and perceived innocence make them less susceptible to detection by law enforcement.

North African children, particularly Moroccans and Algerians, are thought to be those most at risk, with a recent EU police force investigation cited by the Guardian declaring: 'Sweden, Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain and France presented several concrete cases of the exploitation of hundreds of north African minors, recruited by drug trafficking networks to sell narcotics.'

European police sources said the use of child drug mules was being conducted 'on an industrial scale'.

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Caribbean-Latin America

Not A Good Look: Kilmar Garcia Traffics 7 Kids Into U.S. On Return Flight From El Salvador

2025-06-09

[Babylon Bee] NASHVILLE, TN — Authorities stated that Kilmar Abrego Garcia arrived without incident in Tennessee today, only to quickly to discover that he had trafficked seven kids from El Salvador on the flight back to the U.S.

Already facing several other criminal charges, Garcia's lawyers admitted that his trafficking seven kids on the flight back to an America prison was "not a great look."

"Hoo-boy. Could have done without that," said Garcia's defense attorney Stanley Ritten. "Really a bad time to do some human trafficking, to be honest. Senator Van Hollen showing up with Garcia's wife still bruised up, also not helpful. Not making my job any easier, guys."

Democrats had gathered on the tarmac to hail the return of Garcia, only to see seven disheveled, kidnapped children come wandering off the plane. "Not again," sighed Representative Jamie Raskin. "You can't go one flight without trafficking some kids? You're killing me, Garcia."

At publishing time, Garcia's lawyers had fallen into despair after learning he had gotten a new tattoo which read. "I am definitely a member of MS-13."

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-Lurid Crime Tales-

Kilmar Abrego Garcia back in US to face charges

2025-06-07

[ABC News] Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a citizen of El Salvador, is on his way back to the United States, where he will face criminal charges for allegedly smuggling illegal immigrants. Abrego Garcia’s return comes more than two months after the Trump administration deported him from Maryland to his home country.

His return to the U.S. comes after the Trump administration repeatedly said that they were unable to bring him back despite his mistaken deportation.

Where is the mistake? He was an evil person who should never have been allowed to enter America — or did they mean to keep him here so they could jail him for human trafficking before throwing him out?

"Our government presented El Salvador with an arrest warrant and they agreed to return him to our country," Bondi said.

Bondi said that if Abrego Garcia is convicted of the charges, upon the completion of his sentence he will be deported back to his home country of El Salvador. "The grand jury found that over the past nine years, Abrego Garcia has played a significant role in an alien smuggling ring," Bondi said. "They found this was his full time job. He was a smuggler of humans and children and women. He made over 100 trips, the grand jury found, smuggling people throughout our country."

In March, Abrego Garcia's family filed a lawsuit over his deportation. U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis in Maryland ultimately ordered the Trump administration to facilitate his return to the U.S. The U.S. Supreme Court affirmed that ruling on April 10.
So his return has been facilitated! Who were the Maryland Democrats who flew to El Salvador to rescue their 'constituent'?

[X]

BREAKING: @FoxNews has obtained the DOJ indictment of “Maryland man” Kilmar Abrego Garcia, charging him with 8 USC 1324 (federal human trafficking), alleging he smuggled illegal aliens in the U.S. from 2016-2015 as part of MS-13. It was filed on 5/21 and was just unsealed. pic.twitter.com/pFtlTrKnDj
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) June 6, 2025

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Home Front: Politix

The Party of Ba'al and Jezebel

2025-05-26

[American Thinker] Before he joined Kash Patel at the FBI, Dan Bongino had a popular podcast and radio show. He would report on the latest Democrat scandal, calling it "the biggest scandal of our time." Sadly, this became a regular theme. One scandal followed another, each seemingly as great as or greater than the ones that came before.

In my debates with Democrats, I like to ask them for their Top Ten List of things their party has done to make America safer, stronger, more prosperous, and more united. Only one person has ever listed ten, most list a few and then change the subject. But even the items they list turn out to have been ultimately harmful or ineffective. Obamacare is high on the list, as are the COVID "vaccines," public schools and welfare.

When I look at that party’s history I see a consistent and frightening pattern. Southern Democrats owned the slaves, started the Civil War, formed the KKK, opposed passage of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments, and passed Jim Crow laws and the Great Society legislation that decimated the nuclear family. They currently promote the losing side of every 90/10 issue facing America, such as championing MS-13 gang-bangers and Islamic terrorists and placing graphic pornography in K-12 schools.

How likely is it that a party would consistently choose actions that are harmful to those they claim to serve? "Once is happenstance, twice is a coincidence, three times is enemy action." -- Ian Fleming

Promoting evil for personal gain is as old as humankind and people have always looked for the source.

Scripture warns us that we "...do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places."

In the Old Testament, Ba’al was a supernatural entity who demanded child sacrifice in exchange for prosperity. By contrast, Jezebel wielded a seductive charisma, bending loyalty to her will. The Left, particularly the Democrat (they're not democratic) Party utilizes sacrifice and deception, forfeiting the well-being of society for control (Ba’al) while at the same time masking its motives with charismatic manipulation (Jezebel).

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Home Front: Politix

Chief Justice John Roberts grants Trump admin request to pause discovery in DOGE case

2025-05-24

[JustTheNews] Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts on Friday approved the Trump administration's request for an administrative stay in a lawsuit seeking documents about the Department of Government Efficiency's (DOGE) operations.

Solicitor General D. John Sauer filed the request on Wednesday, one of the many emergency requests he's made since January, which asked the high court to stop DOGE from being forced to release records to the watchdog organization, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, through its Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request.

Sauer argued that DOGE should be exempt from complying with FOIA requests because it is a presidential advisory group. The White House has also tried to argue that documents procured by DOGE are presidential records, and thereby exempt from FOIA.

Roberts made the decision alone because he handles all emergency appeals that arise from Washington, D.C., and the pause will remain in effect until the Supreme Court decides whether to make it permanent. Roberts can make that decision alone, or the full court can weigh in, per The Hill.

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Government Corruption

Judge who ruled against Trump funding freeze has ties to taxpayer-funded homeless org

2025-05-14

[NYPOST] A Rhode Island federal judge who blocked President Trump's sweeping freeze on federal assistance earlier this year has been slapped with a complaint from a conservative legal group alleging that he could benefit from his decision.

Providence US District Judge John McConnell sat on the board of Crossroads Rhode Island, a homeless services provider that has benefited from federal assistance, from 2006 to at least 2023, the nonprofit's tax records show. Between 2011 and 2021, the judge served as the board's chairman.

America First Legal, which began digging into McConnell's past after he issued a preliminary injunction halting Trump's freeze earlier this year, argued in a complaint filed to the Boston-based 1st Circuit Court of Appeals that the judge's ties to Crossroads pose a conflict of interest.

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Caribbean-Latin America

Deported 'Tren de Aragua gangsters' scream in distress in first video from inside El Salvador prison

2025-05-11

[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] The first video from inside El Salvador's notorious CECOT prison shows newly deported Tren de Aragua-accused migrants hollering from their cells.

The scene unfolded as US representatives toured the facility with the country's president, Nayib Bukele.

Video shows the caged men shouting and screaming as Reps Andy Ogles, Vicente Gonzalez, Anna Paulina Luna as well as former congressman Matt Gaetz made their way through.

'I saw evil today. I will never forget it,' Luna said of her visit. 'I heard a story of a MS-13 admitting to watching an infant being murdered.

'I watched and listened to another member of MS-13 admit to murdering over 50 people.

'I saw murderers. Recruited as young boys and as boys their souls and humanity was crushed. Forcing them to commit murder as a way of blooding in.

'The Dems in congress advocating for this need to STOP. Some of these MEN were illegally in MD, MA, VA, TX, etc. multiple times deported.'

Other footage showed her sampling a typical meal given to the inmates - burgers and fries.

CECOT houses some of El Salvador's most hardened criminals and has a capacity for 40,000 inmates.

The prison in Tecoluca, which opened in 2023, is a sprawling complex and a symbol of Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele's harsh crackdown on gang violence.

Buekele struck a $6 million deal with the US to house accused migrants in the prison, which is known as a 'black hole of human rights'.

For the strongman president of El Salvador the deal with the US is an opportunity to show the world the brutal efficacy of his repressive 'State of Exception' regime - an excess of the growing autocratic trend turning its back on liberal democracy.

At least 363 people have died in Salvadoran prisons since the policy came into effect, prisoner rights group Cristosal told MailOnline, citing 'horrific overcrowding, disease, systematic denial of food, clothing medicine, and basic hygiene'.

The jewel in the crown, CECOT has been heralded by Bukele as a superweapon in the war on gang violence.

Confined to cells of 70 for all but 30 minutes a day, prisoners are held in dire conditions, forbidden from going outside or having visitors, and are made to sleep on steel cots without mattresses in cramped conditions.

It has recently become home to hundreds of alleged Tren de Aragua members who had been residing in the US.

They were deported as part of the president's immigration crackdown.

Between February and March, 13,300 migrants were deported, according to NBC's tracker.

The policy has caused some backlash after some of the migrants removed to El Salvador claimed they had been falsely accused.

Testimony emerged about migrants being rounded up on the basis of sporting tattoos similar to those adopted by the prison gang or other flimsy so-called evidence.

The deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland father who has been in the states since 2011, caused a huge controversy after the Department of Homeland Security admitted he had been deported in error.

Garcia has no criminal convictions in the US or in El Salvador and strongly refutes the allegation that he is part of Tren de Aragua.

An immigration judge had also previously ruled that he could not be sent home due to persecution by the gang.

But Trump officials have refused to back down even as the highest courts in the country ordered his return to the US.

The president raised more eyebrows this week when he unveiled plans to suspending habeas corpus, the constitutional right of a person to challenge their detention in court, as part of his sweeping immigration crackdown.

'The Constitution is clear, and that, of course, is the supreme law of the land, that the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus can be suspended in a time of invasion,' White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller told reporters.

'So it's an option we're actively looking at,' Miller said. 'A lot of it depends on whether the courts do the right thing or not.'

Federal judges have so far been skeptical of the Trump administration's past efforts to use extraordinary powers to make deportations easier.

Trump argued in March that the U.S. was facing an 'invasion' of Venezuelan gang members and evoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, a wartime authority he has tried to use to speed up mass deportations.

Federal courts around the country, including in New York, Colorado, Texas and Pennsylvania, have since blocked the administration's uses of the Alien Enemies Act for many reasons, including amid questions about whether the country is truly facing an invasion.

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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Looney Jersey Dems put law enforcement at risk with pointless antics

2025-05-11

[FoxNews] Among the most dangerous jobs that any American can do is guarding prisons, and among the hardest prisons to guard are facilities that hold members of foreign gangs like MS-13. Yet, for some idiotic reason, the mayor of Newark, N.J., and three members of Congress, all Democrats, decided to make that job even more dangerous on Friday.

At the Delaney Hall ICE facility in Newark, these so-called leaders didn’t just stage a protest, they illegally trespassed on a federal detention facility, pulling its guards away from normal duties and forcing the photo-op arrest of the mayor.

U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey Alina Habba described the desperate grandstanding on X shortly after the incident.

"The Mayor of Newark, Ras Baraka, committed trespass and ignored multiple warnings from Homeland Security Investigations to remove himself from the ICE detention center in Newark, New Jersey this afternoon," Habba wrote. "He has willingly chosen to disregard the law. That will not stand in this state. He has been taken into custody. NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW."

This hapless foursome of Garden State windbags consisted of hizzoner, as well House of Representative members Bonnie Watson Coleman, LaMonica McIver, and Rob Menendez, Jr.

If that last name sounds familiar it is because his father, Robert Menendez Sr., is the disgraced ex-senator recently convicted of taking bribes, including gold bars from foreign governments. Maybe Menedez the Younger was just practicing visiting his dad behind iron bars.

In any event, these four blustering blowhards waited for a bus to enter the facility and ran in behind the bus, in clear violation of federal laws. They were told to leave and refused.

Mayor Ras Baraka was arrested during the despicable display, something he almost certainly planned to happen. Did I mention he’s running for governor? And Democrats from across the country decried his detention as another example of Trumpian authoritarianism.

Jersey City Mayor Steve Fulop, a Democrat, of course, rushed to his peer's defense.

"Regardless of your views on ICE, the law is the law and any facility operating in a New Jersey municipality must follow it," said Fulop, who is also running for governor. "If Delaney Hall doesn’t have proper local authorization, Mayor Baraka had every reason to be there, and every right to demand accountability."

But what did Baraka think was going to happen when he illegally and stupidly tried to break into prison? There are countless ways that Baraka and the lawmakers could have exerted oversight without inviting criminal chaos.

Where was this outpouring of moral outrage when former President Biden was letting illegal migrants pour into the country and murder innocent people?

What is most shameful here is the utter disregard these public servants had for the law enforcement officials who had to referee their little parade.

Last week in Charleston, West Va., I spoke to a police officer who trains others and asked how the deportations impact their job.

"There is no such thing as a low-risk encounter," he said. "There is only high risk and unknown risk," and, of course, the possibility that a suspect might have a deportation order makes every stop potentially more dangerous.

The point here is that while these Democrat doofuses were enjoying their made-for-TV moment, law enforcement at the facility were forced to face a new challenge to their already demanding jobs.

These officers had no idea if anyone in the assembled crowd might be armed, if others might use the farcical distraction caused by these politicians to rush the facility, or if those inside might take the opportunity to make mayhem.

In other words, it was an unknown risk.

Indeed, as the White House was quick to point out, this facility holds murderers and rapists, the worst of the worst, but somehow, through the slow-working moral poison of leftism, these elected officials are convinced the criminals are the victims.

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Trump looking to suspend key Constitutional right as judges hamper his mass deportations plans

2025-05-10

If he can move the Overton Window merely by saying a few words…

[Daily Mail, whee America gets its news] President Donald Trump is looking at suspending habeas corpus, the right of a person to challenge their detention in court, as part of his sweeping immigration crackdown.

'The Constitution is clear, and that, of course, is the supreme law of the land, that the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus can be suspended in a time of invasion,' White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller told reporters.

'So it's an option we're actively looking at,' Miller said. 'A lot of it depends on whether the courts do the right thing or not.'

Trump campaigned for the White House on a pledge to deport millions of undocumented migrants and has repeatedly referred to their presence in the United States as an 'invasion.'

Since taking office in January, Trump has been seeking to step up deportations, but his efforts have met with pushback from multiple federal courts which have insisted that migrants targeted for removal receive due process.

Although Trump has not mentioned habeas corpus explicitly in public, last month he commented on steps he could take to combat nationwide injunctions against his actions on deportations.

'There are ways to mitigate it and there's some very strong ways,' Trump told reporters on April 30.

'There's one way that's been used by three very highly respected presidents, but we hope we don't have to go that route. But there is one way used successfully by three presidents – all highly respected – and hopefully we don't have to go that way but there are ways of mitigating it.'

One former federal prosecutor told CNN that Miller has the wrong idea about suspending habeas corpus.

'Essentially everything Miller says about suspending habeas corpus – which would eliminate the ability of the courts to rule on immigration matters – is wrong,' said Elie Honig, now a CNN senior legal analyst.

'The Constitution makes clear that suspension of habeas corpus is to be reserved for actual rebellion or invasion posing the most dire threats to public safety. And Congress has never passed a law authorizing deportations without any court involvement, as Miller suggests.'

Among other measures, Trump has invoked an obscure wartime law in March to summarily deport hundreds of alleged Venezuelan gang members to a prison in El Salvador.

Several federal courts have blocked further deportations using the 1798 Alien Enemies Act and the Supreme Court also weighed in, saying migrants subject to deportation under the AEA must be given an opportunity to legally challenge their removal in court.

The AEA was last used to round up Japanese-Americans during World War II and was previously invoked during the War of 1812 and World War I.

Many judges, including one appointed by Trump, have rejected the invocation of the AEA, stating in rulings how the administration had not shown the United States to be under invasion by a hostile foreign power, as laid out under the 18th century statute.

Suspending habeas corpus could potentially allow the administration to dispense with individual removal proceedings and speed up deportations, but the move would almost certainly be met with stiff legal challenges and end up in the Supreme Court.

It has been suspended only rarely in US history, most notably by president Abraham Lincoln during the 1861-1865 Civil War and in Hawaii after the December 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

In March, the US government deported more than 200 Venezuelan immigrants alleged to have ties to the Tren de Aragua gang to El Salvador, paying the Salvadoran government to imprison them.

Since then, they have had no access to lawyers or ability to communicate with their families. Neither the US nor Salvadoran governments have said how the men could eventually regain their freedom.

The Republican president has touted his immigration crackdown as he marked his 100th day in office last week.

Trump won the White House election last November in large part on promises to combat what he repeatedly claimed is an invasion of criminal migrants.

Trump has sent troops to the Mexican border, imposed tariffs on Mexico and Canada for allegedly not doing enough to stop illegal crossings, and designated gangs like TdA and MS-13 as terrorist groups.

In March Trump invoked the little-known Alien Enemies Act and flew two planeloads of alleged Tren de Aragua members to El Salvador's notorious maximum security CECOT prison.

In a proclamation, Trump said Tren de Aragua was engaged in 'hostile actions' and 'threatening an invasion or predatory incursion against the territory of the United States,' adding that Venezuela's Nicolas Maduro was pulling the strings.

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Trump's Ultimate Troll Move Would Send D.C. Leftists Into Meltdown

2025-05-09

[PJ] Last week, I wrote about how Trump’s pick of Mike Waltz for UN ambassador was the ultimate trolling of the left. I even suggested that Trump could up the ante by nominating Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn to replace Waltz. Flynn, a seasoned intel veteran, was one of the earliest and most high-profile victims of the Democrats’ Russia hoax. Whether Trump goes that route remains to be seen, but it would be a power play.

And it looks like Flynn is on board.

During an interview on "The Benny Show," with Benny Johnson, Flynn declared he’s prepared to return to the role of national security advisor under President Trump—if called upon.

Flynn, who briefly held the post at the start of Trump’s first term before being railroaded by the Deep State, left little doubt about his willingness to serve again.

"I am ready to serve," Flynn said, referencing a post he made on social media that stirred speculation about his return. "The first question—yes. The second question—no," he added, confirming that while he hasn’t been contacted yet by Trump directly, his hat is firmly in the ring.

"I’ve been watching everything, listening, and observing intensely," Flynn explained. "We are in a place where we cannot afford to have, as Trump likes to say, unforced errors. We cannot afford to drop a glass ball right now."

Flynn emphasized that despite not being in government anymore, he has never stopped serving the country. "I’m serving now, Benny. I serve in just a different way... I’ve been engaging people in government. I’m still out doing stuff," he said. "That’s my message to every American: How are you serving this country?"

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