#immigration-enforcement

#immigration-enforcement

Fox News contributor Jason Chaffetz urged ICE and Border Patrol agents to ignore the yahoos who protest them and to keep doing the right thing by cracking down on illegal immigrants. Chaffetz, while appearing on The Big Weekend Show on Saturday, was asked by co-host Tomi Lahren about the Trump Administration's latest efforts to deport illegal immigrants living in Charlotte, North Carolina.

No one seems to know what happened to Vicente Ventura Aguilar. A witness told his brother and attorneys that the 44-year-old Mexican immigrant, who doesn't have lawful immigration status, was taken into custody by immigration authorities on Oct. 7 in SouthLosAngeles and suffered a medical emergency. But it's been more than six weeks since then, and Ventura Aguilar's family still hasn't heard from him. The Department of Homeland Security said 73 people from Mexico were arrested in the Los Angeles area between Oct. 7 and 8.

Last week, Leonardo Williams, the mayor of Durham, North Carolina, received a call from the office of Governor Josh Stein. Stein's office had heard that the Trump administration was going to launch an immigration-enforcement operation in Charlotte and possibly in Raleigh, but it didn't have much more information. Over the weekend, Customs and Border Protection agents swarmed Charlotte, ultimately arresting about 370 people.

SteveTheGamer55 is live on YouTube. He's streaming a session to his 4.6 million subscribers of GTA 5 RP, a Grand Theft Auto 5 mod that allows people to role-play with other players. "Really wanna show you guys some real-life scenarios," he says, offering a little background on his character, a man headed to his job while on a work visa.

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Donald Trump and Zohran Mamdani, the New York City mayor-elect, are scheduled to meet at the White House this afternoon in an encounter between two ideologically opposed leaders with conflicting visions for the nation's largest city. The meeting marks the first face-to-face discussion between the combative Republican president and the defiant democratic socialist who secured a commanding electoral victory last month with over 50% of the vote.

As thousands of ICE agents storm streets, schools and emergency rooms across the country, communities are training up on their rights, recording incidents of abuse and screaming at officers to impede deportations. As opponents of LGBTQ+ rights try to erase queer history and safe spaces, residents have repainted rainbows across crosswalks paved over by officials and are organising their own record-keeping and mutual aid networks.

In February, the Task Force Model was the least commonly used of the three, and only seven states had that type of agreement, ICE's data shows. As of Nov. 20, a total of 620 police agencies across 34 states have signed into a Task Force Model agreement. More than 300 of the agreements are in Florida alone, ICE's list shows, and about 3,100 people in Florida have been arrested under the 287(g) program, according to a database maintained by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.

For months, shady organizations and individuals carried out a smear and harassment campaign designed to intimidate and silence me, said Khalil in a statement to the Center for Constitutional Rights. The public deserves full accountability for every bad actor who helped make that possible, including those at Columbia who fabricated and amplified these smears and opened the door for state retaliation against Palestinian speech.

The incoming democratic socialist mayor whom Trump has repeatedly belittled the democratic socialist as a communist since winning the Democratic Primary in June told reporters during a City Hall Park news conference on Nov. 20 that he requested the Oval Office sit-down earlier this week. Mamdani sought the meeting to discuss skyrocketing costs in the five boroughs and balancing public safety with steps taken by this administration.

The Texas raid, which targeted alleged Tren de Aragua gang members, resulted in more than 140 arrests, Axios San Antonio reported. Two days of surged enforcement in Charlotte totaled 130, according to press statements for the respective operations. The San Antonio operationalso resulted in more arrests than a similar operation in Chicago with federal agents and a Black Hawk helicopter, which caught 37 people.

Around 250 federal border agents are set to descend on New Orleans in the coming weeks for a two-month immigration crackdown dubbed Swamp Sweep that aims to arrest roughly 5,000 people across southeast Louisiana and into Mississippi, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press and three people familiar with the operation. The deployment, which is expected to begin in earnest on Dec. 1, marks the latest escalation in a series of rapid-fire immigration crackdowns unfolding nationwide

The videos have become commonplace. Federal officers wearing masks and bulletproof vests subdue a moped driver in the middle of a busy D.C. street. A 70-year-old protester in Chicago is pushed to the ground by an armed Border Patrol agent holding a riot gun. In Los Angeles, an agent shoves away a demonstrator. These videos capture the aggressive tactics of immigration officers under the second Trump administration. But they share something else, too. In each instance, following documented violence by federal officers toward protesters and immigrants, the Justice Department pressed charges-against the victim of that violence.

Tricia McLaughlin, assistant secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, declined to discuss Border Patrol's plans. "Every day, DHS enforces the laws of the nation across the country. We do not discuss future or potential operations," McLaughlin said in a statement.

The U.S. Department of Justice sued California on Monday to block newly passed laws that prohibit law enforcement officials, including federal immigration agents, from wearing masks and that require them to identify themselves. The laws, passed by the California Legislature and signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom, came in the wake of the Trump administration's immigration raids in California, when masked, unidentified federal officers jumped out of vehicles this summer as part of the president's mass deportation program.

Millions of Americans who might have managed to get through the first ten months of this administration unscathed are now finding that they are not immune from this president's prioritization of power over people. Every day I hear from more friends whose healthcare premiums are skyrocketing to unaffordable heights. Federal workers have been without pay throughout the long government shutdown. Bay Area companies are announcing huge layoffs.

Driving the news: The enhanced operation has caused "unnecessary fear and uncertainty," local officials said in a statement, pointing to operations in other cities that resulted in people without criminal records being detained and clashes between protesters and agents. City leaders implored dissenters to speak out peacefully, saying, "We can stand up for what we believe in without resorting to violence."

New Yorkers sent a resounding message on Election Day: they want a city that fights back against President Trump and protects all New Yorkers, including our immigrant neighbors. Since Trump took office in January, New Yorkers have seen Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) ramp up its operations , disappearing our loved ones and engaging in brutal deportation tactics at federal immigration court , at workplaces and in homes.

The new measures stop short of what is required, shadow home secretary Chris Philp said. The Government trumpet their removal numbers. But only a tiny fraction of these crossed by small boat, amounting to just 5 per cent of small boat arrivals in that time. And 83 per cent of the numbers returned were voluntary. Whilst some of these new measures are welcome, they stop well short of what is really required and some are just yet more gimmicks like the previous smash the gangs' gimmick.

Ingraham argued that visas would make it harder for Trump to achieve his goal of raising wages for US workers. You also do have to bring in talent, Trump countered. When Ingraham said the US already had plenty of talented people here, Trump responded no. You don't have certain talents. And you have to, people have to learn. You can't take people off, like an unemployment line, and say, I'm going to put you into a factory. We're going to make missiles,' he said.

A leading Muslim civil rights group in the US applauded Monday as the Trump administration's agreement to release British pro-Palestinian commentator Sami Hamdi acknowledged that he is not "a danger to the community or to national security," after he was held in Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention for more than two weeks. Hamdi's family and the California chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), which has been representing the journalist, expressed relief

Jose Bertin Cruz-Estrada was responding to a wildfire in Washington state on 27 August when four unmarked vehicles drove up to his crew's remote location in a national forest. Cruz-Estrada, part of a team of 20 Oregon-based firefighters, had spent a week hiking through dense terrain, battling smoke and clearing fallen trees and other debris to prevent the Bear Gulch fire, a 9,000-acre blaze, from growing.

A few days after President Donald Trump took office, I got an invitation from ICE officials to observe the administration's new "surge operations" in New York City. They told me to show up at 4 a.m. at the downtown federal building where the agency has its holding cells. Officers in body armor huddled in the basement parking garage, then headed to the Bronx in a caravan of unmarked cars.