An illegal immigrant bolted into a daycare to shield herself from ICE agents in Chicago on Wednesday.
Federal agents were seen wrangling the Colombian woman, who appeared to yell and fight back after she reportedly ran from them.
The officers had tried to pull her over on the road, but the driver accompanying her refused to stop the car, <a href="https://x.com/DHSgov/status/1986171260464742835" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the Department of Homeland Security. That led to a vehicle pursuit that ended in a shopping center, where the driver and the illegal immigrant target jumped out and ran inside the Rayito de Sol Spanish Immersion Early Learning Center.
ICE arrested her in the building&#8217;s vestibule, not inside the school, according to DHS.
Democratic Illinois Rep. Mike Quigley shared the shocking video, falsely accusing ICE of snatching &#8220;a preschool teacher without a warrant IN FRONT OF CHILDREN in my district.&#8221;
And DHS was quick to correct Quigley.
&#8220;Congressman, you are deliberately misrepresenting the facts,&#8221; the agency wrote on X.
&#8220;ICE law enforcement did NOT target a daycare and were only at this location because the female illegal alien fled inside,&#8221; they added.
The illegal immigrant, whose name has yet to be officially released, crossed the border in 2023, <a href="https://x.com/BillMelugin_/status/1986164248695681282" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to Fox News. Her children were smuggled in just last month.
During her arrest, she tried to lie about her identity and denied that she knew the male driver in her car, saying she &#8220;just picked him up from a bus stop,&#8221; according to DHS.
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Congressman, you are deliberately misrepresenting the facts.
ICE law enforcement did NOT target a daycare and were only at this location because the female illegal alien fled inside.
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Officers attempted to conduct a targeted traffic stop of this female… <a href="https://t.co/a5BdcbhnwC">https://t.co/a5BdcbhnwC</a>
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The Trump administration previously reversed a policy that prevented ICE agents from entering schools or churches, but has maintained that &#8220;they don&#8217;t raid or target schools.&#8221;
Assistant Homeland Security Secretary Tricia McLaughlin <a href="https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/09/09/dhs-sets-record-straight-ice-does-not-raid-schools" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in September that ICE &#8220;is not going to schools to make arrests of children,&#8221; rather that it wants to ensure &#8220;Criminals are no longer able to hide in America’s schools to avoid arrest.&#8221;
&#8220;The Trump Administration will not tie the hands of our brave law enforcement and instead trusts them to use common sense. If a dangerous illegal alien felon were to flee into a school, or a child sex offender is working as an employee, there may be a situation where an arrest is made to protect public safety. But this has not happened,&#8221; McLaughlin said at the time.

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Illegal Immigrant Attempts To Hide From ICE In Chicago Daycare

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Rep. Mike Quigley, a Democrat representing Illinois’ 5th District — which includes a swath of Chicago neighborhoods ranging from Lincoln Park to Albany Park — has once again showcased why he is a prime example of the leftist politicians undermining public safety and law enforcement in America today.
On Wednesday, Quigley brazenly took to social media to publicly expose the locations of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents operating in the Chicago area, posting details that could endanger federal officers.
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Find someone who loves you as much as Democrat Rep Mike Quigley loves protecting foreign r*pists and t*rrorists.
This is legitimately deranged behavior.
If only <a href="https://twitter.com/RepMikeQuigley?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RepMikeQuigley</a> cared about Americans as much as he cares about foreign criminals.
Cc <a href="https://twitter.com/DHSgov?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DHSgov</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/ICEgov?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ICEgov</a> <a href="https://t.co/p05j35oiyY">pic.twitter.com/p05j35oiyY</a>
&mdash; Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) <a href="https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1983698449653756110?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 30, 2025</a></blockquote>
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This isn’t some isolated slip-up or accidental leak. Quigley has made it crystal clear over the last year that he intends to aggressively shield illegal immigrants and block ICE officers from doing their jobs. In August, he attacked President Donald Trump on social media, writing, “Chicagoans will not be intimidated by a thug. I will do everything I can to protect my constituents.”
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Chicagoans will not be intimidated by a thug. I will do everything I can to protect my constituents. <a href="https://t.co/3X0iOWCghF">pic.twitter.com/3X0iOWCghF</a>
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Despite tough crime challenges and the city’s ongoing struggles with gun violence, Quigley’s reflex is to undermine the agencies sent to help. Appearing on CNN on September 1, he slammed Trump’s intervention in Chicago, saying, “This is more an action of bluster and distraction of an autocrat.” He called the deployment of federal agents — even National Guard troops — a “distraction from inflation … foreign policy failures.”
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He compared the tens of millions spent on these operations to the city’s inability to hire 2,000 new police officers, without acknowledging that federal agents target illegal immigration and violent crime directly linked to that unlawful activity. He claimed crime trends were “positive” in Chicago — ignoring widespread reports and statistics that many neighborhoods remain under siege.
Law enforcement officers face real danger from violent gang members and human traffickers daily. Quigley’s decision to share operational details jeopardizes that work and could embolden those who wish them harm.
If Quigley’s recent actions weren’t concerning enough, his past defense of using “hearsay” evidence during the 2019 Trump impeachment hearings raises further questions about his commitment to due process. Arguing that “hearsay can be much better evidence than direct,” Quigley suggested a willingness to prioritize political outcomes over evidentiary standards.
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&quot;Hearsay can be much better evidence than direct.&quot;
Uh ?? 
So not only are the Democrats ADMITTING their entire impeachment sham is based off of hearsay, but now they&#39;re trying to defend it. What a joke! <a href="https://t.co/14oYqp2UGJ">pic.twitter.com/14oYqp2UGJ</a>
&mdash; Abigail Jackson 🇺🇸 (@abigailmarone) <a href="https://twitter.com/abigailmarone/status/1194700947475357700?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 13, 2019</a></blockquote>
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The bigger picture shows Quigley as more than just a local congressman. With rumors swirling about a possible 2027 run for Chicago mayor, his actions reveal a dangerous political ambition rooted in antagonizing law enforcement and pandering to radical elements hostile to law and order.
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Don&#39;t think anyone has noticed this yet, but an hour ago, <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/IL05?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#IL05</a> Congressman Mike Quigley updated his campaign finance page with the state of Illinois to show that he&#39;s running for Mayor of Chicago in 2027. 
Could be soon officially joining a *VERY* crowded field <a href="https://t.co/aKyNrGWivk">pic.twitter.com/aKyNrGWivk</a>
&mdash; Uncrewed (@Uncrewed) <a href="https://twitter.com/Uncrewed/status/1973511069432946732?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 1, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Public safety depends on lawful immigration enforcement conducted professionally and transparently — something Quigley and his allies refuse to support. Instead, they weaponize identity politics and radical ideology to sabotage the agencies that keep citizens safe.

Day One Of The 2024 Democratic National Convention

Illinois Dem Congressman Posts ICE Locations Online To Sabotage Trump’s Immigration Enforcement

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Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, a Democrat, unloaded on a reporter for asking about illegal aliens, which is a legal term for a person who is illegally in America.
Johnson called the term &#8220;racist&#8221; and sarcastically suggested that he should also call black people &#8220;slaves.&#8221;
The reporter asked Johnson about his apparent refusal to file a report to the White House detailing his city&#8217;s spending on illegal aliens. &#8220;What has happened with that?&#8221; the reporter asked.
&#8220;We don&#8217;t have illegal aliens,&#8221; Johnson told the reporter while shaking his head. &#8220;I don&#8217;t know if that&#8217;s from some sort of sci-fi message for which you&#8217;ve had.&#8221;
When the reporter explained that he was merely using a legal term for a person illegally in the country, Johnson made a comparison to slavery. &#8220;Listen, the legal term for my people were slaves,&#8221; the Democrat said. &#8220;You want me to use that term, too?&#8221;
&#8220;Let&#8217;s just get the language right,&#8221; the mayor continued. &#8220;We&#8217;re talking about undocumented individuals that are human beings. The last thing that I&#8217;m going to do is accept that type of racist, nasty language to describe human beings.&#8221;
Johnson <a href="https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQPIhblgYoU/?igsh=dHc4N3I5YWpmODNu">posted</a> the moment to his Instagram account on Saturday and captioned the post, &#8220;This isn’t a sci-fi show. These are human beings. We will not abandon our humanity to score cheap political points.&#8221;
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Johnson has made it a priority to limit the ability of federal law enforcement to detain people who are in the country illegally. Earlier this month, for example, he signed an executive order to create “ICE free zones” in Chicago, which is already a sanctuary city, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chicago-mayor-brandon-johnson-signs-executive-order-establishing-ice-free-zones">The Daily Wire</a> previously reported.
“The order establishes ICE-free zones,&#8221; Johnson said at the time. &#8220;That means that city property and unwilling private businesses will no longer serve as staging grounds for these raids.&#8221;
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Still, President Donald Trump remains committed to fulfilling his campaign promises. The administration started “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chicago-mayor-brandon-johnson-signs-executive-order-establishing-ice-free-zones">Operation Midway Blitz</a>” in Illinois last month, resulting in more than 1,000 arrests.
Federal ICE agents have increasingly become targets of violence, especially in sanctuary cities. On October 4, officers in Chicago were targeted in an apparently coordinated strike. According to Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs Tricia McLaughlin, officers were “rammed by vehicles and boxed in by 10 cars” and agents were forced to exit their vehicles on foot.
“One of the drivers who rammed the law enforcement vehicle was armed with a semi-automatic weapon,” McLaughlin explained. “Law enforcement was forced to deploy their weapons and fire defensive shots at an armed U.S. citizen who drove herself to the hospital to get care for wounds.”
The armed woman in question was already on Border Patrol’s radar after she recently doxxed agents and posted online, “Hey to all my gang let’s f*** those mother f***ers up, don’t let them take anyone,” according to the assistant secretary.
McLaughlin said the Chicago Police Department refused to provide backup for the ICE agents.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/armed-attack-on-ice-agents-unfolds-in-chicago-pritzker-rails-against-trump">Armed Attack On ICE Agents Unfolds In Chicago; Pritzker Rails Against Trump</a>

Chicago Mayor Johnson Holds Press Conference After Congressional Summons To DC

Chicago Mayor Spazzes Out Over ‘Racist’ Term ‘Illegal Alien’

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Illinois Governor JB Pritzker at first denied, then dismissed Chicago’s notorious murder rate among America’s most populous cities.
Pritzker sat for an interview with Fox News’ Bret Baier on Thursday evening and was forced to defend his approach to crime when his state’s capital is consistently one of the worst ranked among comparable urban areas.
The Democratic governor at first claimed that Chicago is “not in the top 30 in terms of our murder rate” before Baier brought up a map of the United States&#8217; most populous cities, showing Chicago’s murder rate, at 17.47 per 100,000 people, higher than that of Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Antonio, and San Diego.
“Look, you can pull statistics up. I can, too,” Pritzker responded before asserting that “our murder rate has been cut in half” over four years.
While true, the significant drop in Chicago’s murder rate, down from a peak in 2021 of 30.1 per 100,000 people, mirrors a trend reflected across the United States and is not necessarily because of any specific action taken by Pritzker. Homicide rates have <a href="https://www.npr.org/2025/06/30/nx-s1-5448852/murders-down-nationwide-covid">plummeted</a> across the country since the end of the COVID-19 pandemic when millions of people were barred from work or other activities.
Chicago’s current homicide rate is just better than what it was in 2019 before the pandemic when the city <a href="https://counciloncj.org/crime-in-chicago-what-you-need-to-know/">tallied</a> 18.9 murders per 100,000 people.
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Pritzker declined to note the national trend in crime since the pandemic and instead pointed to his own policies.
“Very importantly, we&#8217;ve been doing the things that are necessary to bring crime down,” Pritzker claimed. “We&#8217;ve invested in community violence interruption. We&#8217;ve invested in police. I&#8217;ve added more state police than any governor in quite a long time. It&#8217;s very important that we do both of those things, and more, to invest in our communities so that we bring crime down.”
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Pritzker has battled President Donald Trump in the media for weeks over the president’s attempts to crack down on crime in America’s most dangerous cities. The president’s anti-crime agenda has run parallel to his deportation agenda, though Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers have struggled for backing from local law enforcement in deep blue areas.

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Pritzker Puffs About Investment When Asked About Chicago’s Obscene Murder Rate

Illinois’ Pritzker Puffs About Investment When Asked About Chicago’s Obscene Murder Rate

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The Trump administration is seeking to capture an illegal immigrant accused of raping a woman he knocked unconscious in the sanctuary city of Chicago, The Daily Wire has learned.
Nicaraguan illegal immigrant Leyter Jeferson Arauz-Medina was waved across the border by the Biden administration in 2024, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) told The Daily Wire. He received a deportation order just weeks before he allegedly brutally raped a 54-year-old woman on August 31, 2025. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) immediately lodged an arrest detainer with local authorities in Chicago for Arauz-Medina following the sexual assault.
Arauz-Medina allegedly dragged the screaming woman across a street and into an alley, where he threw her to the ground, strangled her, and stripped her naked, authorities said. The illegal immigrant then repeatedly slammed the woman&#8217;s head into the concrete, causing her to lose consciousness.
The woman eventually regained consciousness and began fighting back while Arauz-Medina continued to sexually assault her, according to DHS.
Arauz-Medina was eventually spooked by a passing motorist and fled the scene. The naked victim ran down the street before she came across a worker at a nearby food truck who came to her aid.
“A real-life nightmare: This criminal, who JB Pritzker continues to protect, VICIOUSLY ATTACKED an innocent woman who was walking the streets of Chicago,” DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement shared with The Daily Wire.
“This monster was released into our country by the Biden Administration. Governor Pritzker and his sanctuary policies protect criminal illegal alien rapists over American citizens. We will do everything in our power to ensure this wicked criminal NEVER walks our streets again,&#8221; she added.
The Trump administration will now face an uphill battle in trying to force local authorities hamstrung by sanctuary laws in Chicago to honor the detainer and hand over Arauz-Medina upon his eventual release. Since September, DHS has flooded Illinois with additional ICE and Border Patrol agents to carry out &#8220;Operation Midway Blitz,&#8221; which has resulted in the arrests of hundreds of illegal immigrants.
Violent rioters have taken to the streets to block the feds, who are facing <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mexican-cartels-place-bounties-on-federal-agents-in-chicago">bounty</a> threats from the Mexican cartels operating in Chicago and increased assaults. President Donald Trump has sought to send in the National Guard to restore peace, but the deployment has been held up by a judge amid an ongoing lawsuit from the state of Illinois.
Democratic Illinois Gov. JB <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-to-send-texas-national-guard-troops-to-quell-anti-ice-attacks-in-chicago">Pritzker</a> has labeled the troop deployment as “Trump’s invasion.”
Arauz-Medina faces charges for rape, sexual assault, assault, and drug possession.

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President Donald Trump ripped the look of former President Barack Obama’s presidential library on Tuesday.
A reporter asked the president about it as Trump took questions in the Oval Office. Obama’s presidential library, estimated to cost roughly $850 million, is being constructed on Chicago’s South Side and has been criticized for its bulky obelisk-like appearance.
“It&#8217;s not too pretty,” <a href="https://x.com/RedWave_Press/status/1980748368713285932">said</a> Trump. “He wanted only women and DEI to build it. Well? That&#8217;s what they got.”
Trump made an example of his own experience building in Chicago and offered tips to the former president.
“I built a great building in Chicago, as you know, a big, beautiful building, one of the tallest buildings in the country, and we got it built very quickly, very well, and we used the construction workers of Chicago. They&#8217;re great workers. They&#8217;re great construction people. And I suggest that you get them involved,” said Trump.
“But they&#8217;re hundreds of millions of dollars over budget, and I think it stopped. I&#8217;m reading these terrible stories, but that&#8217;s the way our country was run under President Obama, too. Nobody knew it,” the president added.
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The “Obamalisk,” as Obama’s presidential library has come to be <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/arts/design/obama-presidential-center-chicago.html">known</a>, is a blocky, granite tower that expands 225-feet into the air. The structure includes a community library and an NBA-sized basketball court, designed to be an active community center as much as a favorable view of Obama’s presidency.
To save space for the site’s sizable amenities, the library will not house physical copies of the records of Obama’s presidency. The physical records will be stored elsewhere in a site run by the National Archives. Digital copies of the records of Obama’s two terms in the Oval Office will be available to view, however.
The decision to digitize the records and store the physical copies off-site, an unusual decision for presidential libraries, has worried some historians. Historians are also concerned that research at the site will be overseen by Obama’s private foundation, the Obama Foundation, which will have offices in the building, rather than the National Archives.

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What do you call seven million old white people gathering all over the country?
Not a Barry Manilow reunion tour.
It is, of course, the “No Kings” rallies, which happened over the course of Saturday with seven million protesters, nearly all of them members of the AARP, gathering around the nation in order to protest kings.
You may have noticed we don&#8217;t have kings here in the United States. We have a constitutional republic.
No matter what you think of Donald Trump, Donald Trump has been subject to the dictates of Congress. He has been subject to the dictates of courts. There are actual laws and regulations on the books that prevent the president of the United States from instituting tyrannical power over the rest of the country.
One of the most amusing things about these “No Kings” rallies is the supposition by the Left that they stand in opposition to grand expansions of executive power.
That is absolute bull. It is nonsense. I&#8217;m old enough to remember Barack Obama. I&#8217;m old enough to remember Joe Biden, who tried to use the Occupational Safety and Health Organization in order to cram down vaccine mandates on 80 million Americans, and our company had to sue to stop him.
I remember President Biden telling the Supreme Court that while they were attempting to stop him from getting rid of student loans, he would circumvent them and find another way to do it.
The idea that these people who are opposed to Donald Trump do so to oppose expanded executive power is ridiculous. It is the Democratic Party in the United States which has, writ large, expanded the power of the executive branch wholesale over the course of the last century. Since Woodrow Wilson, the expansion of the executive branch of government has been nonstop. It has sometimes been paused under some Republicans, but it is rarely reversed.
When it comes to the modern Democratic Party, the idea that they want to delegate power back to the states or delegate power back to Congress is a lie. As soon as a Democrat is in power, they simply want to run roughshod over the Constitution of the United States.
Thus the very premise of these “No Kings” rallies is false.
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Left-wing Axios <a href="https://www.axios.com/2025/10/18/no-kings-protests-october-18-turnout">reported</a>:  “According to a statement from the ‘No Kings’ protest organizers, Saturday&#8217;s turnout was ‘one of the largest single-day demonstrations in U.S. history’ with over two million more people taking part than participated in similar protests in June of this year.”
Of course, you remember how much of a difference it made when they protested in June.
You don&#8217;t? You forgot already?
You forgot already because it didn&#8217;t matter at all. It is now Monday and everyone already forgot.
“More than 2,700 events were planned as part of the protests across 50 states as of Saturday, as well as several internationally, including in London, Paris, Rome and Lisbon, Portugal.”
I get a kick out of places that actually have kings saying that they&#8217;re going to have “No Kings” rallies.
These rallies are ridiculous. If you look at the pictures of people who are dressed up as lobsters in Massachusetts or Superman in New York City or inflatable chickens, you think to yourself, “I don&#8217;t think these are the folks who are going to change America in any real way.”
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And that&#8217;s putting aside the people who arrived at these rallies in order to promote violence against the president of the United States, or against people on the right-wing. Those people were in plentiful supply. Politicians showed up. They spoke alongside radical agitators and organizers.
We&#8217;re all supposed to pretend that that never happened, speaking alongside terrorist supporters, people who despise the country. If you&#8217;re a politician, like Bernie Sanders or Chris Murphy from Connecticut, and you speak alongside Qatari mouthpiece Mehdi Hasan, or you speak alongside people who have openly promoted terrorism, that&#8217;s kind of a big deal.
My favorite moment of media coverage came when MSNBC <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/media/tv/msnbc-interviews-a-unicorn-and-bear-at-no-kings-rally-looking-as-ridiculous-as-we-can-to-protest-ridiculous-trump/">interviewed</a> a person dressed up as a unicorn.
(A rally is truly serious when people dress up as inflatable unicorns.)
<blockquote>Reporter: Angel, I&#8217;ve never interviewed a unicorn live on MSNBC.
Unicorn: Always a first time for everything.
Reporter: Angel. Talk as loud as you can. Because you got kind of a big snout here. … I&#8217;ll say that again. I said it&#8217;s hard to hear you, but tell me what brings you out and to be inside this high unicorn costume today?
Unicorn: Well, we&#8217;re here to represent the loving, hardworking community of Los Angeles. We&#8217;re here peacefully protesting, looking as ridiculous as we can, just so maybe we appeal to the president because he is a ridiculous leader that is normalizing abuse of power, and we cannot stand and act like nothing is happening.
Reporter: I&#8217;ve never heard a more serious message come out of a pink unicorn.</blockquote>
I don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s true because I think that half of the MSNBC staff are pink unicorns.
It was an impressive showing, with great intellects. People like actor John Cusack, who was last relevant when he was standing outside a bedroom window holding a boombox in a movie from 1989.
But if you thought that Cusack was the only old actor who showed up to pay tribute to the “No Kings” rally, I present to you: (drum roll) Robert De Niro, who seems to have chosen poorly when he drank from his choice of Holy Grails. He is now aging extraordinarily rapidly and also apparently turning into a hobbit.
He praised Letitia James, the attorney general of New York, for saying F.U. to Trump, (which she may be saying from jail soon, depending on how her mortgage falsification case goes).
“I like what Letitia James is doing,” he declared “She&#8217;s fighting back. She&#8217;s saying F*** you. &#8230; I will not be taken down by this person. I am not afraid of him.” He also had comments about Stephen Miller, calling Miller, who happens to be Jewish, a Nazi.
Bernie Sanders yelled, “We&#8217;re here because we&#8217;re going to do everything we can to honor the sacrifices of millions of men and women who, over the last 250 years, fought and sometimes died.”
I can&#8217;t take him seriously. Nothing you do can make me take him seriously, because he&#8217;s not a serious person. The fact that the Democratic Party has elevated him as an ideological thought leader after spending his entire life being a useless pustule on the ass of American society is indeed a reflection of what their party stands for.
Sanders spoke of how much these people loved America.
Yet there were a shocking number of non-American flags over the Washington, DC rally. There was a giant Palestinian flag in solidarity with Hamas, of course. In Los Angeles there were tons of Mexican flags, so many that the CNN reporter noted it.
Senator Ed Markey from Massachusetts decided that he was going to give a speech while donning a trans flag. J.B. Pritzker, the would-be presidential candidate from Illinois (who typically has to be lowered into these things by crane) stood in front of a bunch of signs, including a F*** ICE sign.
For the sake of his bodily health, I hope it was a very short march.
A Barry Manilow reunion tour would have been a heck of a lot less screechy.

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The Trump administration on Friday asked the Supreme Court to intervene in the ongoing legal battle over the deployment of National Guard troops to Chicago.
“This case presents what has become a disturbing and recurring pattern. Federal officers are attempting to enforce federal immigration law in an urban area containing significant numbers of illegal aliens,&#8221; Solicitor General John Sauer <a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/934568050/25A443">wrote</a>. &#8220;The federal agents efforts are met with prolonged, coordinated, violent resistance that threatens their lives and safety and systematically interferes with their ability to enforce federal law.&#8221;
Judge April Perry of the District Court for the Northern District of Illinois initially <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5560445-trump-national-guard-chicago-illinois/">blocked</a> the deployment of the National Guard to Chicago. Her ruling was upheld by a three-judge federal appeals court on Thursday. The judges claimed there was “insufficient evidence of rebellion or a danger of a rebellion” and that with “regular forces,” the president could still maintain the law.
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Sauer argues that the resistance forces federal agents to “scramble to protect themselves and federal property” in the face of “violent, hostile mobs.” Thus, presidential authority is warranted.
“Federal officers in Chicago have been threatened and assaulted, attacked in a harrowing pre-planned ambush involving many assailants, rammed in their government vehicles, shot at with fireworks and other improvised weapons, injured and hospitalized, and threatened in person and online, including by a $10,000 bounty for the murder of a senior federal official,” he wrote.
“This court should stay the district court&#8217;s October 9 injunction in its entirety, the injunction improperly impinges on the President&#8217;s authority and needlessly endangers federal personnel and property.”
The Supreme Court has <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5561225-national-guard-deployment-chicago/">told</a> state and city officials to respond to the Trump administration’s arguments by Monday night.

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Federal immigration agents arrested an illegal immigrant who was working as a police officer in the sanctuary state of Illinois.
Radule Bojovic, an illegal immigrant from Montenegro, overstayed a B2 tourist visa that required him to leave the United States on March 31, 2015, the Department of Homeland Security <a href="https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/10/16/governor-jb-pritzkers-illinois-illegal-alien-working-sworn-police-office-badge-gun" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Thursday. Despite his immigration status, Bojovic was working as an officer with the Hanover Park Police Department.
Bojovic was approved by the Pension Fund Board of Trustees in January 2025 and was eligible to receive a starting salary of $78,955.70, according to DHS. His 2025 earnings were $205,707, including $9,276 for FICA/Medicare taxes.
DHS placed the blame on Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker for permitting the employment of an illegal immigrant as a police officer in his state.
“Governor J.B. Pritzker doesn’t just allow violent illegal aliens to terrorize Illinois’s communities, he allows illegal aliens to work as sworn police officers. Radule Bojovic violated our nation’s laws and was living ILLEGALLY in the United States for 10 years — what kind of police department gives criminal illegal aliens badges and guns? It’s a felony for aliens to even possess a firearm. A so-called law enforcement officer who is actively breaking the law,” Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement.
“Under President Trump and Secretary Noem ICE is restoring law and order. Criminal illegal aliens have NO PLACE in our communities, especially on our police forces,” McLaughlin added.
Bojovic <a href="https://x.com/BenBergquam/status/1978879958698332249" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Real America’s Voice reporter Ben Bergquam that he was authorized to carry a firearm while on duty. He also claimed that he had a permit to work in the U.S.
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Sanctuary-state Illinois, under <a href="https://twitter.com/GovPritzker?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GovPritzker</a>, is completely corrupt.<a href="https://twitter.com/ICEgov?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ICEgov</a> arrested an illegal alien working as a sworn POLICE OFFICER in a Chicago suburb.
Radical sanctuary politicians have allowed criminal illegal aliens to infiltrate our school districts, communities, and…
— Secretary Kristi Noem (@Sec_Noem) <a href="https://twitter.com/Sec_Noem/status/1978879727889719296?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 16, 2025</a></blockquote>
The Trump administration has set its sights on Illinois with its “Operation Midway Blitz” immigration raids.
The presence of federal immigration agents in Illinois, however, has drawn many anti-ICE agitators who have tried to block the operation, unleash violence, and carry out hits on the officers.
In an effort to quell the attacks, President Donald Trump attempted to deploy hundreds of troops to the region. A judge later paused the deployment. The case is ongoing after the state sued the Trump administration.

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ICE Arrests Illegal Immigrant Working As A Cop In Sanctuary Illinois

The sanctuary city of Chicago apparently provided a hiding place for an illegal immigrant who ran from the law in Colorado after a brutal kidnapping.
Venezuelan illegal <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/migrant-child-rapist-who-entered-u-s-under-biden-era-scheme-sentenced-to-over-a-decade-behind-bars?author=Jennie+Taer&amp;category=undefined&amp;elementPosition=9&amp;row=3&amp;rowHeadline=Latest+News&amp;rowType=Vertical+Carousel&amp;title=Migrant+Child+Rapist+Who+Entered+U.S.+Under+Biden-Era+Scheme+Sentenced+To+Over+A+Decade+Behind+Bars">immigrant</a> Jorman Jose Cuba-Zabala allegedly took part in the kidnapping and torture of a migrant couple on December 17, 2024, at an apartment complex in Aurora, Colorado, that was taken over by members of the Venezuelan prison gang Tren de Aragua.
The apartments, The Edge at Lowry, were also the site of a viral <a href="https://kdvr.com/news/local/video-shows-group-of-men-carrying-guns-at-troubled-aurora-apartment-complex/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">video</a> where armed Tren de Aragua gang members were seen trying to force their way into units.
Days after the kidnapping, Aurora Police Chief Todd Chamberlain <a href="https://www.auroragov.org/cms/One.aspx?portalId=16242704&amp;pageId=20618509&amp;fbclid=IwY2xjawNaN3xleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETF2T2EzejNITmZncGRKbWdUAR7-IRvzYtbxo21H52DTJxW1CtAnHDxHGtdDx8YLCjFFbvYmm8HV0uwpUYZv0Q_aem_wEtaCnRBIeqgFv-hGKajlw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> the attack was “100% gang activity.”
But police at the time were still looking for some of the suspects, including Cuba-Zabala.
The Chicago Police Department arrested Cuba-Zabala on April 28 after he was allegedly caught shoplifting two pairs of sunglasses valued at over $800, according to the Aurora Police Department. Officials then extradited him to Colorado earlier this month to face justice in the kidnapping case.
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Roughly a dozen armed suspects took part in forcing the couple into a vacant apartment, where the couple was bound, threatened, and assaulted. Some of the attackers also robbed the apartment, police said.
Cuba-Zabala was the last of the alleged attackers to get nabbed.
He was let into the country under the Biden administration after he crossed the border in June 2023, before he went on to Colorado, the Department of Homeland Security told The Daily Wire.
And DHS blamed Chicago’s sanctuary laws for protecting the alleged criminal migrant in the Colorado case.
“It’s no surprise this career criminal chose to flee to sanctuary Chicago, where he knows JB Pritzker will protect him from deportation. Law enforcement extradited him to Aurora, Colorado, to face justice for his heinous crimes,” DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin told The Daily Wire.
The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/doubling-down-noem-says-ice-will-open-even-more-facilities-in-chicago?author=Jennie+Taer&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=4&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=%E2%80%98Doubling+Down%E2%80%99%3A+Noem+Says+ICE+Will+Open+Even+More+Facilities+In+Chicago">Trump</a> administration has focused its efforts to crack down on illegal immigration in Chicago and has sought to deploy hundreds of National Guard soldiers there to restore calm amid a surge in anti-ICE violence. While the deployment remains on pause due to an ongoing lawsuit, ICE and Border Patrol agents are working to arrest illegal immigrants and anti-ICE agitators who are breaking the law.
In one recent raid in the Windy City, hundreds of federal agents descended into an apartment complex that was said to be overrun with Tren de Aragua members, <a href="https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/10/06/dhs-debunks-governor-pritzkers-harmful-lies-about-operation-midway-blitz-chicago" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to DHS.
Cuba-Zabala faces four counts of second-degree kidnapping, four charges of aggravated robbery, two charges of menacing with a deadly weapon, and two charges of extortion in Colorado.
In an effort to arrest and remove Cuba-Zabala as soon as possible, Immigration and Customs Enforcement has lodged a detainer with local authorities to ensure he’s not released from custody. Authorities in Colorado, however, are hamstrung by sanctuary laws that prevent them from working with federal immigration agents.

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Dozens of rioters hurled rocks and formed a mob against federal agents who just faced a ramming attack from an illegal immigrant suspect, according to reports.
Border Patrol agents were attempting to detain an illegal immigrant suspect who hit their vehicle and then tried to flee, sparking a car chase, <a href="https://wgntv.com/news/chicago-news/skycam9-over-law-enforcement-activity-on-east-side/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to WGN9. Demonstrators caught wind of the presence of federal agents and soon gathered, with some throwing rocks and bottles at authorities.
Authorities then deployed tear gas to break up the group.
“This morning while conducting an immigration enforcement operation in Chicago, a vehicle, driven by an illegal alien, rammed a Border Patrol vehicle and attempted to flee the scene. Border Patrol pursued the vehicle and was eventually able to stop it utilizing an authorized precision immobilization technique (PIT) maneuver. Once the vehicle was stopped, the suspects, who are both illegal aliens, attempted to flee on foot. As Border Patrol arrested the subjects and attempted to secure the scene, a crowd began to form and eventually turned hostile and eventually crowd control measures were used,&#8221; the Department of Homeland Security said in a statement regarding the incident.
&#8220;This incident is not isolated and reflects a growing and dangerous trend of illegal aliens violently resisting arrest and agitators and criminals ramming cars into our law enforcement officers. The fact that this attack was carried out by two illegal immigrants highlights the need for federal law enforcement to continue to do their job of enforcing the laws of our nation — all while receiving no pay thanks to the Democrats’ government shutdown,&#8221; DHS said.
Chicago Police responded to the scene after receiving a call of a vehicle collision &#8220;involving federal agents,&#8221; the department said in a statement.
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“CPD was not involved in any of the federal operations occurring at that location. Upon arrival to the scene, officers documented the traffic crash. Because this incident involved federal authorities, additional CPD supervisors responded to the scene to ensure the appropriate course of action was taken.&#8221;
&#8220;A crowd began to form and as federal authorities were leaving the scene, CPD members attempted to de-escalate the situation for the safety of everyone, including community members who were gathering at the location. Individuals then began throwing objects at the federal agents, at which point the federal agents deployed tear gas into the street. Thirteen CPD members were exposed to the tear gas. Exposure reports will be completed for all CPD members who were exposed to the tear gas.&#8221;
As the Trump administration targets illegal immigrants roaming Illinois, federal agents are facing an uptick in attacks and threats.
On Tuesday, DHS <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mexican-cartels-place-bounties-on-federal-agents-in-chicago?author=Jennie+Taer&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Mexican+Cartels+Place+Bounties+On+Federal+Agents+In+Chicago">revealed</a> that cartels in Mexico were placing bounties on the heads of ICE and Border Patrol agents patrolling the Windy City.
Armed gang “spotters” have also been deployed to rooftops in Chicago’s Pilsen and Little Village neighborhoods to track the movements of federal agents.
The Trump administration attempted to deploy hundreds of National Guard troops to the region, but a judge held up the effort after the State of Illinois sued to stop it. The case is still pending.

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