(Alan Wooten, The Center Square) Saying eradication of dangerous gangs such as Tren de Aragua goes well beyond individual arrests, a North Carolina congressman’s proposal would create a six-month plan identifying tactical methods, funding and origins.
The strategy, leadership and presence of criminal threats by the multi-country gang would be...
(Headline USA) Two smugglers convicted of federal charges in connection with the deaths of 53 migrants found in the back of a sweltering tractor-trailer in Texas in 2022 face up to life in prison when they are scheduled to be sentenced Friday.
Felipe Orduna-Torres and Armando Gonzales-Ortega are to be the first...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) The Trump administration accused a leftist activist group of aiding an illegal alien in evading arrest in Colorado on Saturday. The man is accused of raping a child in Italy.
ICE Denver said Jose Reyes Leon-Deras, a Salvadoran national with a child-rape conviction abroad, escaped when...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) For years after the Oct. 1, 2017, Las Vegas mass shooting, officials said that body cam footage of the first officer to enter gunman Stephen Paddock’s hotel room didn’t exist. But earlier this month, such footage was published by the YouTube channel Las Vegas Shooting...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The Department of Homeland Security announced this week that someone who served as an “Iranian Army sniper” was among the 11 Iran nationals recently rounded up by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. However, the purported sniper’s wife says he’s a supporter of President Donald Trump and...
(Caroline Boda, Andrew Rice, The Center Square) The U.S. Supreme Court handed down four more rulings Thursday, including a 6-3 decision solidifying states’ right to block abortion services from receiving Medicaid funding.
The justices also gave opinions on challenging a deportation ruling, DNA testing in a capital murder case and...
(Headline USA) The vice mayor of a small Southern California city is under fire after calling on street gangs to organize in the face of immigration sweeps by federal agents in and around Los Angeles.
In a video post on social media that has since been deleted, Cynthia Gonzalez, vice mayor...
(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) The U.S. Treasury Department on Wednesday slapped sanctions on three Mexican-based banks that it said were used to launder millions of dollars for cartels.
The move, officials said, would cut the banks off from the U.S. financial system.
Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network identified three Mexico-based...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The FBI is reallocating resources from countering violent crimes and illegal immigration to counterterrorism cases due to expected blowback from the war against Iran, bureau director Kash Patel said Monday.
“Not to take away from the other priorities of the administration—getting rid of criminals in our...
(Headline USA) Rep. LaMonica McIver pleaded not guilty Wednesday to federal charges accusing her of assaulting and interfering with immigration officers outside a New Jersey detention center during a congressional oversight visit at the facility.
McIver, a Democrat, was charged by interim U.S. Attorney Alina Habba following the May 9 visit...
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) A Gulf of America Homeland Security Task Force has shut down an illegal cock fighting and gambling ring in Alabama primarily involving illegal border crossers.
The task force is comprised of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Homeland Security Investigations, FBI, IRS and ATF, supported by...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Helen Comperatore, whose husband, Corey, was murdered at the July 13, 2024, Trump shooting in Butler, Pennsylvania, made a rare media appearance Tuesday on Dr. Drew Pinsky’s show, where she revealed that she’s finally been briefed by the FBI for the first time.
Comperatore told Dr....