(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell shot down suggestions from a Democratic politician that police officers alert residents to federal immigration operations around the area, calling it “obstruction of justice.”
Los Angeles City Councilwoman Imelda Padilla made the puzzling recommendation at a Thursday City Council hearing where McDonnell was testifying. Padilla’s...
(Headline USA) When her husband died after a grueling U.S. Border Patrol training program for new agents, Lisa Afolayan applied for the federal benefits promised to families of first responders whose lives are cut short in the line of duty.
Sixteen years later, Afolayan and her two daughters haven't seen a...
(Headline USA) Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the alleged MS-13 member whom mainstream media dubbed "Maryland man" after he was deported to El Salvador, pleaded not guilty Friday to human smuggling charges in a federal court in Tennessee.
The hearing was the first chance Abrego Garcia has had in a U.S. courtroom to...
(Headline USA) Four detainees broke through a wall and escaped from a federal immigration detention center in Newark, New Jersey, amid reports of disorder breaking out there, according to Sen. Andy Kim and the Department of Homeland Security.
Kim, a Democrat from New Jersey, spoke Friday outside the Delaney Hall detention...
(Headline USA) Protesters outside a New Jersey federal immigration detention center locked arms and pushed against barricades as vehicles passed through gates, inmates inside relayed word that meals had been delayed, and Newark's mayor cited reports of a possible uprising and escape as disorder broke out at the facility.
Much is...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) A Florida sheriff on Thursday warned potential anti-ICE rioters that any attack on local law enforcement would be met with deadly force: “We will kill you, graveyard dead.”
Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey issued the blunt warning at a press conference on possible protests against President Donald...
(Andrew Rice, The Center Square) Democratic governors and Congress members shifted blame for immigration enforcement to the federal government and called ICE immigration enforcement a "gestapo operation" in opening statements at a congressional hearing Thursday.
The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform hosted Democrat Govs. Tim Walz of Minnesota,...
(Dave Mason, The Center Square) A large number of protesters continued to march Wednesday evening on downtown Los Angeles streets, violating the second night of a 10-hour curfew.
The defiance came following a day of marches and hundreds of demonstrators gathering in Grand Park, the 12-acre open green space that...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass on Tuesday begged residents to help the city clean up as anti-ICE rioters left downtown stained by graffiti and vandalism. She urged them to act fast, citing the looming 2026 World Cup.
“The extensive vandalism downtown, especially of the graffiti that is...
(José Niño, Headline USA) A US Navy lawyer has been exposed for allegedly threatening federal agents in a now-deleted social media outburst.
Navy Judge Advocate General (JAG) officer Benjamin France, known online as “Benny,” has ignited controversy after allegedly threatening on social media to “hunt down every J6 and ICE...
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) As riots continue to paralyze parts of downtown Los Angeles, Sen. Josh Hawley is taking steps to investigate the role of an immigrant rights organization.
The Missouri Republican senator sent a letter to Angelica Salas, executive director for the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, regarding...
(Kenneth Schrupp, The Center Square) Alberto M. Carvalho, superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District, ordered the district to deploy its police officers to defend schools and school events, including graduations, from federal immigration operations.
“I have directed our own police force to redouble their efforts and establish perimeters...