[Fox] Crackdown in city of 900,000 residents follows similar raids across California, Illinois, Oregon and New York.
Federal agents launched a major immigration crackdown in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Saturday.
U.S. Border Patrol agents were seen making arrests across the city of more than 900,000 residents, the Associated Press reported.
The operation is part of a federal push to ensure "Americans are safe and public safety threats are removed," according to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin.
However, some local leaders swiftly condemned the raids.
Charlotte Mayor Vi Lyles, along with Mecklenburg County Commissioner Mark Jerrell and Charlotte-Mecklenburg school board member Stephanie Sneed, said in a joint statement the actions are "causing unnecessary fear and uncertainty."
Honduran-born U.S. citizen Willy Aceituno told the Associated Press he saw "a lot of Latinos running" as Border Patrol agents chased them Saturday. He said he was also stopped twice.
The operation comes months after the fatal stabbing of Iryna Zarutska, a 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee, aboard a Charlotte light-rail train.
It also follows similar immigration enforcement raids recently conducted in California, Illinois, Oregon and New York.
[GEO.TV] At least four people were killed when two boats carrying 95 irregular migrants colonists capsized off the Libyan coastal city of Al Khums on Thursday, the Libyan Red Islamic Thingy said on Saturday.
The first boat was carrying 26 migrants colonists from Bangladesh, four of whom died, the Red Islamic Thingy said in a statement on its verified Facebook page.
The second boat carried 69 migrants colonists, including two Egyptians and dozens of Sudan ...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans... ese, the Red Islamic Thingy added without specifying their fate.
Khums is a coastal city, some 118 km east of the capital, Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... .
On Wednesday, the International Organisation for Migration said that at least 42 migrants colonists went missing and presumed dead after a rubber boat sank near the Al Buri oilfield, an offshore facility north-northwest of the Libyan coast.
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I would cut a deal with an African country to receive anyone who lands in my country, seize and charge the boat crew and destroy the boat. That would be my process.
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Often the boats are no better than single use, Super Hose, and equally often, nowadays, the crew is entirely made up of the migrants themselves. The owner-traffickers don’t care — they got their money up front.
🚨Anti-Sheinbaum protesters have hopped the wall protecting the National Palace in Mexico City. Mexican police are responding with crowd control munitions. pic.twitter.com/WgdIMi1K1e
Scrolling through the thread, it is not clear that the palace actually fell — possibly they were chased out again. As always, 48 Hour Rule.
As of 11 p.m. ET:
The demonstration against drug violence and Sheinbaum’s security policies was organized on social media by representatives of "Generation Z," though AFP saw protesters of various ages.
Hundreds of young people threw projectiles at the police, who responded by deploying their shields and also threw objects at the protesters.
Sheinbaum, in power since October 2024, maintains approval ratings above 70 percent in her first year in office but has faced criticism of her security policy due to several high-profile murders.
"For many hours, this mobilization proceeded and developed peacefully, until a group of hooded individuals began to commit acts of violence," Pablo Vazquez, security chief for Mexico City, tells news hounds.
He reports that 100 copperswere maimed, of whom 40 required hospital treatment for bruises and cuts, while 20 protesters were also hurt.
Authorities arrested 20 people for crimes such as robbery and assault, including an alleged attack on a journalist, according to Vazquez.
Many of the protesters held banners and wore hats saluting Carlos Manzo, the mayor of Uruapan in Michoacan state, who was assassinated on November 1, having led a crusade against drug-trafficking gangs in his town.
The assassinated mayor’s widow, however, distanced her husband’s movement from the demonstration.
Several of those attending the march also displayed the pirate flag emblematic of the Japanese manga "One Piece," which has become a symbol of global youth protest.
Earlier this week, Sheinbaum questioned the motivations for the demonstration and said at her regular morning presser that the protest call was "inorganic" and "paid for."
"It is a movement promoted from abroad against the government," the president said.
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[Regnum] Colombian military bombed near the border with Venezuela, killing nine people. This was reported on November 15 by AFP, citing a source in the Colombian Ministry of Defense.
"The Colombian military carried out bombings near the Venezuelan border, killing nine rebels (a drug trafficking group – Ed.)," the source reported.
It is not specified which group the liquidated rebels belonged to. "NOT our cartels. Those, we protect"
According to the agency, the operation was carried out in the Arauca department as part of Colombian President Gustavo Petro's campaign to combat drug traffickers.
The agency recalls that earlier this week, the military carried out airstrikes in the Amazon region, killing 19 members of a dissident group that broke away from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).
The dissidents refused to lay down their arms along with the rest, following the 2016 peace agreement.
The university agreed to pay $30 million directly to the US government along with another $30 million toward research that will support US farmers.
The six-page agreement is similar to one signed by the University of Virginia last month. It’s shorter and less prescriptive than others signed by Columbia University and Brown University.
The agreement is the latest struck between US President Donald Trump’s administration and elite colleges he has accused of tolerating antisemitism and promoting far-left ideas. Trump is still locked in a standoff with Harvard, the nation’s oldest and wealthiest university, and lately has tried an incentive-based approach by offering preferential access to federal funding for other schools that sign onto his political agenda.
The agreement requires Cornell to comply with the government’s interpretation of civil rights laws on issues involving antisemitism, racial discrimination and transgender issues. A Justice Department memo that orders colleges to abandon diversity, equity and inclusion programs and transgender-friendly policies will be used as a training resource for Cornell’s faculty and staff.
The campus must also provide a wealth of admissions data that the government has separately sought from campuses to ensure race is no longer being considered as a factor in admissions decisions. Trump has suggested some campuses are ignoring a 2023 Supreme Court decision ending affirmative action in admissions.
Cornell’s president must personally certify compliance with the agreement each quarter. The deal is effective through the end of 2028.
It appears to split the difference on a contentious issue colleges have grappled with as they negotiate an exit from federal scrutiny: payments made directly to the government. Columbia agreed to pay $200 million directly to the government, while Brown University reached an agreement to pay $50 million to state workforce organizations. Virginia’s deal included no payment at all.
The agriculture investment will be made over three years, aimed at programs that incorporate artificial intelligence and robotics with the goal of supporting research that reduces costs for US farmers. Founded as a land-grant school, Cornell has longstanding ties with American agriculture.
New head, expert in MidEast antisemitism and the Holocaust refuses to fund PhD student Sabina Ali for conference denying Jewish indigineity in Israel. Idiots scream about free speech.
Detractors decry Prof. Günther Jikeli’s booting of a Ph.D student from Zoom over ‘Free Palestine’ image, denial of travel grant, while supporters cautiously wade into academic freedom fight.
Columbia University investment committee rejects demands to divest from Israel
The campus coalition of anti-Israel activist groups, Columbia University Apartheid Divest, had repeatedly called on the university to divest its massive endowment from Israel, similar to demands from protesters at other US universities.
US law professor sues university for probing his call for global war to ‘end Israel’
University of Kentucky lecturer Ramsi Woodcock argues eliminationist rhetoric is protected speech, in case that serves as counterpoint to Jewish groups’ legal battles. Ramsi Woodcock’s calls to destroy the Jewish state ran afoul of state antisemitism law.
Woodcock is a tenured law professor at the university’s J. David Rosenberg College of Law and has worked at the university since 2018. He sued the university president, other university leaders, and US Secretary of Education Linda McMahon in a federal court in Kentucky.
US District Judge Rita Lin in San Francisco grants a preliminary injunction sought by labor unions and other groups representing UC faculty, students and employees.
The unions argue in a lawsuit that the administration is using funding cuts, and the threat of cuts, to silence opposing viewpoints at UC in violation of the Constitution and federal law. US President Donald Trump has decried elite colleges as overrun by liberalism and antisemitism.
Violent Portland Antifa terror ringleader and convicted felon Alissa Azar was confronted outside the Portland ICE facility on Nov. 14 with her Antifa simp. The father of Azar’s son previously told a family court that her violent Antifa activities and… https://t.co/02OBMVa7pwpic.twitter.com/uTmXbdNuzh
… violent Antifa activities and sex work endangered their child. She lost custody.
… she pretended to be a journalist to engage in violent criminality.
Her Antifa comrades in the Clackamas County court shrieked, cried and saluted her in a Mansonesque scene on Sept. 9 when she was taken into custody. She grinned as she was led away. Her far-left lawyer argued it would be racist and sexist to send her to jail. https://thepostmillennial.com/portland-antifa-ringleader-alissa-azar-sentenced-to-jail-over-felony-conviction?utm_campaign=64470
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but Judge Shelley Joseph in Boston did apprx the same thing as Judge Dugan. Judge Joseph will get a reprimand but wasn't convicted as the prosecution couldn't prove she knew about the escape plan.
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[GEO.TV] The UN Security Council will vote Monday on a resolution endorsing US President Donald Trump ...The man who was so stupid he beat fourteen professional politicians, a former tech CEO, and a brain surgeon for the Republican nomination in 2016, then beat The Smartest Woman in the World in the general election. Then he beat Kamala while dodging bullets... 's Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... peace plan, diplomats said.
Last week the Americans officially launched negotiations within the 15-member Security Council on a text that would follow up on a ceasefire in the two-year war between Israel and Hamas ..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... and endorse Trump's plan.
A draft of the resolution seen Thursday by AFP "welcomes the establishment of the Board of Peace," a transitional governing body for Gaza — that Trump would theoretically chair — with a mandate running until the end of 2027.
It would authorise member states to form a "temporary International Stabilisation Force (ISF)" that would work with Israel and Egypt and newly trained Paleostinian police to help secure border areas and demilitarize the Gaza Strip.
Unlike previous drafts, the latest mentions a possible future Paleostinian state.
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[IsraelTimes] The IDF says it demolished a kilometer-long Hamas tunnel in northern Gaza’s Beit Hanoun, which had been used by the terror group to stage a deadly attack on troops nearly a year ago.
The Hamas attack in December 2024 killed Cpt. Ilay Gavriel Atedgi, 22, Sgt. First Class (res.) Hillel Diener, 21, and Staff Sgt. Netanel Pessach, 21, who served in the Kfir Brigade’s Shimshon Battalion.
Troops of the Shimshon Battalion have been operating in the Beit Hanoun area — on the Israeli side of the Yellow Line — in recent weeks to demolish remaining Hamas infrastructure, including the tunnel used in the deadly attack.
The IDF says the tunnel was around a kilometer long and dozens of meters deep.
[IsraelTimes] The Syrian Defense Ministry says it has located the site from which two Katyusha rockets were fired at a home in Damascus overnight, wounding several people and causing damage, the Ynet news site reports.
An official tells the SANA news agency that “the treacherous assault on areas of Damascus was carried out using missiles launched from a mobile platform.”
It wasn’t immediately clear who carried out the attack on the Syrian capital’s western neighborhood of Mazzeh 86.
[Rudaw] The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) on Saturday said they repelled an attack by factions affiliated with Damascus in Raqqa province, leaving three of their fighters injured.
"In a new assault reflecting the state of chaos and recklessness pursued by some factions affiliated with the Damascus government, our forces today were subjected to a treacherous attack on the axis of Ghanem al-Ali village in the eastern countryside of Raqqa," the SDF said in a statement.
It added that they "thwarted this reckless attack" that resulted in minor injuries to three SDF fighters and "confirmed casualties" among the attackers.
The SDF accused the pro-government gangs of using suicide drones and heavy weapons "without any regard for civilian security or the stability of the region."
Say rather with the deliberate intention of causing harm to the Kurds, both military and civilian.
"This reckless behavior confirms those parties' insistence on dragging the region toward tension and undermining all efforts aimed at maintaining stability," the SDF added, noting that their response was proportionate and aimed at preventing further escalation.
The SDF called on "the sponsors of these factions to rein them in and stop their irresponsible practices."
But they’re doing exactly what the HTS government wants — continuing the jihad to conquer the peoples of Syria for their caliphate.
Pro-government outlet Levant24 reported on festivities it said were between the Syrian army and the SDF on multiple fronts, including Deir Hafer and the strategic Tishreen Dam in eastern Aleppo province, as well as the al-Ghanem al-Ali—al-Buhamad axis east of Raqqa.
The SDF and Damascus have repeatedly traded accusations of carrying out attacks on each other’s forces, despite ongoing talks to implement a March agreement to integrate all civil and military institutions of northeast Syria (Rojava) into Syria’s federal structures. Talks stalled in the summer over disagreements on incorporating the SDF into the Syrian army, but have since resumed. The Kurdish-led administration continues to push for decentralization, a demand viewed cautiously by Damascus.
Say rather that “Damascus” has no intention of allowing any part of the country anything other than full submission to their rule, though they'll happily discuss it until President Trump stops paying attention, when they believe they’ll be allowed them free rein.
Iran officially confirms this story from yesterdy.
[Regnum] The Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) navy detained a tanker in the Strait of Hormuz. The organization's press service reported this on November 15.
According to the statement, on November 14 at 7:30 a.m. (7:00 a.m. Moscow time), IRGC Navy rapid response units monitored an oil tanker with the trade name Talara, which flies under the flag of the Marshall Islands. The statement emphasized that the vessel's crew violated Iranian law by transporting unauthorized cargo.
After Iranian judicial authorities issued a seizure order, naval special forces intercepted and detained the vessel. The tanker was carrying 30,000 tons of petroleum products and was bound for Singapore.
The agency concluded that the operation was conducted in accordance with legal obligations and to protect Iran's national interests and resources. The cargo and the vessel itself were seized.
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I guess the system has been reset to default.
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I guess if you're going to engage in piracy, it makes sense to target someone like "The Marshall Islands".
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans...
..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
