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Immigration advocates on California’s Central Coast are reeling after Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations reportedly conducted operations across the region this week, including a May 4 arrest in Oxnard that reportedly left two young people alone at a gas station after agents detained their father.

“They arrested someone,” gas station attendant Juan Conches said in Spanish in a video shared by 805 UndocuFund, an immigrant advocacy group. “They left the children inside the truck.”

The station attendant said he saw about six vehicles surround the truck before the arrest.

The advocacy group identified one of the man’s children as a 19-year-old “old enough to be alone but unable to drive, stranded, and powerless to leave.” The age of the other is unknown.……

Optimus Prime said:

Michigan father and green card holder spent nearly two months in ICE detention

Brooke Choquette had voted for President Donald Trump and her husband Kunal Oberoi supported the administration. They never expected Kunal would be detained by border officials, and spend two months locked up due to Trump’s border policies, writes Michelle Del Rey

www.independent.co.uk

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Cognitive dissonance is foundational for MAGA. Trump says what he will do and they are astounded when it happens. I get the idea of his constant lying throwing some confusion into ther mix but Trump hates Brown and Black people so really there should have been no confusion. And as others have noted why isn’t ICE and the DOJ arresting and prosecuting employers? Perhaps employers have skin of a lighter shade?

On point about the arrest of the mayor:

They detained this US citizen at the border returning from France and questioned him intensely for hours. Unlawfully, and illegally. They violated his rights, IMO. Bolding in last paragraph is mine.

“He was detained in Chicago and questioned for two hours about protected journalistic activities like who he’s interviewed and his political beliefs. He was asked whether or not he’d interviewed Hamas, Houthis, or Hezbollah members. He was questioned about his opinions on Trump and Israel and asked about his history of bans on Twitch. His phone and laptop were not confiscated.

"They straight up tried to get something out of me that I think they could use to basically detain me permanently,” Piker said on stream following the incident. “… [the agent] kept saying stuff like, do you like Hamas? Do you support Hamas? Do you think Hamas is a terror group or a resistance group?”

“I kept repeating the same statement over and over again,” Piker said. “I kept saying... I'm on the side of civilians. I want the endless bloodshed to end. I am a pacifist. I want wars to end… which is insane because up until this moment. If you were to say as an American citizen, you stand 10 toes down with Hamas, or you stand 10 toes down with the Houthis, they can’t deny you entry into the country for that shirt.”

“DHS flagging and detaining one of the U.S.’s largest left-wing voices for their political opinions while the Trump admin suggests they might suspend habeas corpus does not portend well for the future,” said lawyer and content creator Alex Peter.”

Donald Trump’s administration is pointing to an increase in tourism under Taliban-controlled Afghanistan to justify the cancellation of humanitarian protections for more than 11,000 Afghans in the United States.

On Monday, the administration announced plans to strip temporary legal status to roughly 11,700 Afghans who fled the country following the U.S. withdrawal in 2021, which led to the evacuation of tens of thousands of people in the wake of the devastating years-long war………

Trump admin orders 1/3 of FBI time spent on immigration.

Nice to know that the illegal turn won't be an issue
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Dalton, Georgia — Local authorities in Dalton, Georgia, on Monday dismissed the traffic charges that led Immigration and Customs Enforcement to detain a 19-year-old Mexican-born college student who has lived in the United States since she was 4.

Ximena Arias Cristobal, who is in the country without authorization, was taken into ICE custody earlier this month after a May 5 traffic stop in Dalton, where she lives with her family. Local police cited her for making an improper turn and driving without a license before booking her into the Whitfield County Jail in Dalton, where she was picked up by ICE officers.

But the Dalton Police Department and the city's prosecutor announced on Monday they had reviewed dashboard camera footage of the traffic stop and determined that the officer had stopped the wrong vehicle. Officials said the vehicle that made the improper turn was similar to the truck Arias Cristobal was driving.

Arias Cristobal is now facing deportation and remains detained at the Stewart ICE detention facility in Lumpkin, Georgia, according to the agency's online system for tracking detainees. Her father, Jose Francisco Arias Tovar, is also being held there. ICE arrested him last month, also following a traffic stop, his family said.

ICE did not immediately respond to requests for comment on what actions, if any, it would take in response to the decision by authorities in Dalton to drop the traffic violations against Arias Cristobal.

In a statement before Monday's announcement, Tricia McLaughlin, a spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security, called Arias Cristobal an "illegal alien" who had "admitted to illegally entering the United States." McLaughlin said Arias Cristobal's father, Arias Tovar, "self-admitted that he is in the country illegally."

Federal officials have not disputed that Arias Cristobal and her father lack criminal records.

"[The] family will be able to return to Mexico together," McLaughlin said in her statement. "Mr. Tovar had ample opportunity to seek a legal pathway to citizenship. He chose not to. We are not ignoring the rule of law."

According to her family, Arias Cristobal came to the U.S. in 2010 and graduated from Dalton's high school last year. She did not qualify for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program for other undocumented immigrant "Dreamers" who came to the U.S. as minors because she arrived after the policy's June 2007 cutoff date..............

A Washington, D.C., restaurant owned by the husband of CBS News senior correspondent Norah O’Donnell was reportedly raided by federal agents as part of the Trump administration’s continued crackdown on immigration.

The New Mexico Avenue location of Chef Geoff’s — one of two D.C. restaurants owned and operated by O’Donnell’s husband, Geoff Tracy — was subject to a raid by Immigration and Customs Enforcement on the morning of Tuesday, May 6.

Local outlet Fox 5 reported that nearly a dozen agents from the Department of Homeland Security entered the restaurant at around 10:30 a.m. ET and demanded to see employees’ I-9 documents.

The agents reportedly stayed in the restaurant for around 90 minutes, though ultimately, no one was arrested or detained.

Chef Geoff’s isn’t the first D.C.-area restaurant to face a recent ICE raid. Massachusetts Avenue eatery Millie’s was also reportedly raided Tuesday morning, with officers wielding a search warrant signed by an ICE agent — not a judge.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said that local law enforcement was not involved in the raids.

"I have heard those reports… I am disturbed by them,” Bowser stated. “It appears as though ICE is at restaurants, or even at neighborhoods, and it doesn’t look like they’re targeting criminals, and it does look like they’re disrupting."

In a statement to Fox News Digital, an ICE spokesperson said, “U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Homeland Security Investigations is conducting worksite enforcement across the nation to ensure businesses are following U.S. immigration and employment laws. This includes recent worksite enforcement operations [in] the D.C. area, during which more than 100 Notice of Inspections were served to local employers at various business. No arrests were made as part of these worksite enforcement operations."

The raid on Tracy's business comes amid Trump's battle with CBS as part of his vendetta against 60 Minutes, where O'Donnell is a correspondent..............

A child was abandoned on the street during a federal immigration operation this month in Waltham, Massachusetts, according to a member of city government.

A video provided to Telemundo Nueva Inglaterra by Waltham City Councilor Colleen Bradley-MacArthur shows officers leave the child on a sidewalk on Fenton Street after arresting someone the child was walking with.

Bradley-MacArthur said she recorded the video while working with others on a volunteer neighborhood watch walk.

Masked officers blocked the road in several vehicles, and one drove right past her, she said. When she asked which agency they were from, the councilwoman says the officer told her, "You stay here and don't interfere."

Bradley-MacArthur says she backed away and stayed away while she continued recording with her phone.

"I couldn't believe that they would just leave someone there," Bradley-MacArthur said. "The masks, right — that's so frightening to see masked men blocking the road, with the lights and the sirens."

She said she was angry and scared for the child.

"Honestly, like, it felt like our community — seeing the video today — is under siege," she said.

According to the councilwoman, the officers left and did not provide assistance to the child to return home. Other volunteers who were with Bradley-MacArthur escorted the child home on foot…….

Optimus Prime said:

A child was abandoned on the street during a federal immigration operation this month in Waltham, Massachusetts, according to a member of city government.

A video provided to Telemundo Nueva Inglaterra by Waltham City Councilor Colleen Bradley-MacArthur shows officers leave the child on a sidewalk on Fenton Street after arresting someone the child was walking with.

Bradley-MacArthur said she recorded the video while working with others on a volunteer neighborhood watch walk.

Masked officers blocked the road in several vehicles, and one drove right past her, she said. When she asked which agency they were from, the councilwoman says the officer told her, "You stay here and don't interfere."

Bradley-MacArthur says she backed away and stayed away while she continued recording with her phone.

"I couldn't believe that they would just leave someone there," Bradley-MacArthur said. "The masks, right — that's so frightening to see masked men blocking the road, with the lights and the sirens."

She said she was angry and scared for the child.

"Honestly, like, it felt like our community — seeing the video today — is under siege," she said.

According to the councilwoman, the officers left and did not provide assistance to the child to return home. Other volunteers who were with Bradley-MacArthur escorted the child home on foot…….

https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/waltham-ice-arrest-child-video/3712833/

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Black shirts the whole bunch....

One of the most important things to do if the democrats ever regain power should be a law that ensures that EVERY law enforcement agent should be un-masked when making arrests and carry his badge with his name and number visible when making a stop or arresting people

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.

With the agents above him, the man could be heard asking why they were arresting him, claiming he wasn’t resisting.

“This is an abuse, an abuse of rights,” said Mario Meléndez, a local resident, in Spanish. “They’re violating the law, just like breaking into your house, because you’re in your car, which he paid for, and they want to violate your rights because you’re inside and the person doesn’t want to open the door. They have to respect that right.”

Telemundo New England and NBC10 Boston contacted ICE for comment on this operation but have not received a response.

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

Santizo recounted that an officer pulled out his gun very quickly, “and I was scared, the gun was in his face, and then he broke the window.”..........

Three teenagers were arrested by federal immigration agents after being taken into custody by police in Chelsea, Massachusetts, on Thursday, family members tell Telemundo Nueva Inglaterra, claiming local police were cooperating with ICE.

The father of one of the youths was also arrested — all in front of the Chelsea Police Department.

The teenagers were arrested by police after allegedly being caught with a pellet gun. When family members arrived at the station, police released them, but ICE agents were present outside.

Video from the scene showed family screaming and crying as one of the boys was taken into custody; an ICE agent was also seen inside the station interrogating people, asking one person who said they didn't have status in the U.S., "what's going to happen is we're going to take you too, okay?"

ICE responded to Telemundo Nueva Inglaterra's request for comment Saturday morning saying, "For officer safety, ICE does not comment on ongoing operations."

A representative for Chelsea police said the agency is not collaborating with ICE agents or notifying them. They said that everyone who is arrested has their fingerprints taken, and that could be what is alerting them.

The sister of one the youths who was arrested said that police "obviously" do work with ICE, and said that she had young children with her at the scene who are now distressed.

"Now, my children are afraid. At night, they woke up scared, saying, 'The police are bad, the police are bad,'" Lynce Guerra said.............

I never would have guessed Massachusetts as being a hotbed of undocumented immigrants but it seems a lot of these incidents are happening there

Legal resident and green card holder who has lived and worked in Austin since the 80’s forcibly removed and has been held with no communication for 2 days.

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A federal grand jury Tuesday indicted a Wisconsin judge arrested by the FBI for allegedly obstructing government agents seeking to detain an undocumented immigrant.

The two-page indictment accuses Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan of confronting members of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and falsely telling them they needed a judicial warrant to conduct their operation. It also accused her of directing the undocumented immigrant and his lawyer to exit through a separate door to sidestep federal agents.”


A bit surprised by this.

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has fired the top two career officials leading the National Intelligence Council, the senior most analytical group in the intelligence community whose job it is to understand and assess the biggest threats facing the United States.

Gabbard fired Mike Collins, the acting chair, and his deputy, Maria Langan-Riekhof, on Tuesday, a spokesman confirmed to CNN.

The dismissals come as Gabbard has vowed to root out what she has described as politicization of the intelligence community, and launched a war on leaks to the media that critics say is hollowing out the intelligence community of needed expertise from experienced professionals.

Jonathan Panikoff, a former intelligence official who served on the NIC and has worked with both people, said Collins is “an unbelievable professional who’s served selflessly for 30 years and is a real China expert,” and Langan-Riekhof “is not just a strategic thinker but an unbelievably gifted analyst.
"Tell the truth and you'll be outta job!" That's the message has being sent to government employees!