The Department of Justice is suing the state of Minnesota over a law providing in-state tuition for illegal aliens.
“No state can be allowed to treat Americans like second-class citizens in their own country by offering financial benefits to illegal aliens,” Attorney General Pam Bondi <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-files-complaint-challenging-minnesota-laws-providing-state-tuition">said</a> in a press release.
The lawsuit targets the Minnesota Dream Act, which <a href="https://ohe.mn.gov/mn-dream-act">allows</a> &#8220;undocumented students&#8221; to apply for in-state tuition and state financial aid. The law was passed in 2013.
The DOJ said the law contradicts federal law prohibiting &#8220;postsecondary education benefits to aliens that are not offered to U.S. citizens.&#8221;
The Minnesota laws allow illegal aliens to apply for in-state and free tuition.
&#8220;These laws blatantly conflict with federal law and thus are unconstitutional under the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution,&#8221; the department said.
The suit also names Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, and the Minnesota Office of Higher Education.
&#8220;The Department of Justice just won on this exact issue in Texas, and we look forward to taking this fight to Minnesota in order to protect the rights of American citizens first,&#8221; Bondi said.
Texas ended its in-state tuition programs for illegal aliens hours after the DOJ filed a lawsuit, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/texas-ends-benefit-program-for-illegal-immigrants-after-justice-department-suit">reported</a>.
&#8220;Ending this discriminatory and un-American provision is a major victory for Texas,&#8221; Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said at the time.
A Texas judge granted a permanent injunction against the law.
&#8220;Other states should take note that we will continue filing affirmative litigation to remedy unconstitutional state laws that discriminate against American citizens,&#8221; Bondi <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-texas-reach-agreement-end-state-tuition-illegal-aliens?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=govdelivery">said</a> at the time.
In March, President Donald Trump <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/protecting-american-communities-from-criminal-aliens/?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=govdelivery">signed</a> an executive order directing Bondi to identify and take appropriate actions to stop the enforcement of State and local laws, regulations, policies, and practices favoring aliens over any groups of American citizens that are unlawful, preempted by Federal law, or otherwise unenforceable, including State laws that provide in-State higher education tuition to aliens but not to out-of-State American citizens.&#8221;

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The Justice Department announced more charges against suspects accused of taking part in the violent anti-ICE riots that rocked parts of California last week.
U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California Bill Essayli announced that federal officials had charged three more individuals over violent anti-immigration enforcement riots that broke out in Los Angeles County. Essayli was joined at a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeBqQSzmSLU" target="_blank" rel="noopener">press conference</a> by Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman, who told rioters that “we are coming for you” and that law enforcement would track them down.
“We have zero tolerance for violence. As the district attorney said, you have an absolute right to peacefully protest, you have no right to destroy property or to engage in acts of violence, especially at our law enforcement officers,” Essayli said, noting that the Justice Department had charged more than 20 individuals for engaging in violence.
One of those charged was Adam Charles Palermo, who Essayli said “was caught on video participating in the attack, his social media account contained a collage of photographs and videos depicting a man holding flying debris, a California Highway patrol car on fire, and various other damage to California Highway Patrol cars.”
Essayli said that Palermo posted a caption on a post about the riot that of all the “protests I&#8217;ve been involved in, which is well over 100 now, I&#8217;m most proud of what I did today.”
Palermo, charged with attempted arson of a vehicle used in interstate or foreign commerce, faces a mandatory minimum penalty of five years and a maximum of 20 years behind bars.
Another suspect charged by the Justice Department was Angus Johnson, who Essayli said spit on a California National Guardsman.
“Johnson then spit on other federal police officers present who were trying to keep the peace,” Essayli said. “As our president said, if you spit, we hit, and we will hit you with a felony.”
If convicted, Johnson could face up to eight years in prison.
The press conference comes after Essayli <a href="https://x.com/USAttyEssayli/status/1933158095833964798" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> last Friday that Alejandro Theodoro Orellana was arrested and charged with conspiracy to commit civil disorder. Essayli alleged that Orellana distributed face shields to those taking part in the violence.

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‘We Are Coming For You’: Feds Reveal More Charges Against Anti-ICE Rioters

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The Justice Department confirmed Monday that the United States Naval Academy would no longer consider race in admissions, according to a court document. 
In a joint <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/media/1403766/dl?inline=&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=govdelivery" target="_blank" rel="noopener">filing</a> with Students for Fair Admission, the Trump administration asked a federal appeals court to dismiss a lawsuit against the academy over a policy that allowed it to consider race during the admissions process. Students for Fair Admission, which sued the academy in October 2023, agreed that the suit was no longer needed due to policy changes implemented by the Trump administration. 
“This Department is committed to ending illegal discrimination and restoring merit-based opportunity throughout the federal government,” <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-addresses-racial-discrimination-lawsuit-challenging-race-based-admissions">said</a> Attorney General Pamela Bondi. “We are proud to partner with the Department of Defense to permanently end race-based admissions at the United States Naval Academy and ensure that admission to this prestigious institution is based exclusively on merit.”
The filing states that the lawsuit is now moot due to the policy change and asks that the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit dismiss a lower court&#8217;s ruling that kept race-based admissions in place. The policy allowed the academy to “consider race or ethnicity as one of many nondeterminative factors” for admission. 
This policy ended after President Donald Trump signed an executive order on January 27 that said that no one within the military should be given any advantage based on gender or race. 
In compliance with that order, Naval Academy Superintendent Vice Admiral Yvette Davids issued a memo in February saying that “at no point during the admissions process (including qualification and acceptance) should race, ethnicity, or sex be a factor for admission.”
The joint filing said that considering race and ethnicity for admissions does not contribute to military cohesiveness, lethality, recruitment, or national security. 
“It is the military judgment of the Department of Defense that recruiting and promoting individuals based on merit alone, and not based on their immutable characteristics, improves unit cohesion and performance,” the joint filing said. “The Department of Defense has now determined that neither the recruitment and retention of talented officers nor the legitimacy of the U.S. military are positively affected by the service academies’ consideration of race in admissions.”
Students for Fair Admission was the organization behind the landmark case where the Supreme Court ruled that affirmative action in higher education was unconstitutional and racially discriminatory.

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Naval Academy Promises To ‘Permanently’ End Race-Based Admissions

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NASHVILLE — The Justice Department argued Friday that releasing suspected gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia would pose a danger to the public because of his alleged history of violence toward his wife, sexual misconduct toward young girls, and participation in an illegal alien smuggling ring.
Abrego Garica, an illegal immigrant from El Salvador who has been incorrectly dubbed a &#8220;Maryland man&#8221; by the legacy media, appeared in federal court in Nashville on Friday for his arraignment on human smuggling charges and a detention hearing. Wearing a bright red prison suit and listening to proceedings through interpreters, Abrego Garcia pled not guilty in front of a crowd of left-wing supporters who showed up to watch the case play out.
Abrego Garcia faces 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine for one count of conspiracy to transport aliens and up to 10 years in prison for each illegal smuggled across the country if found guilty on another count of unlawful transportation of illegal aliens. He was returned to the United States last week after being deported to El Salvador due to suspected ties to MS-13.
After his not guilty plea, Magistrate Judge Barbara Holmes heard arguments from the Justice Department and Abrego Garcia&#8217;s lawyers on whether or not to release him as his case is litigated. As court ended for the day, she said that she would not give a date for her decision, but that it would be &#8220;sooner rather than later.&#8221;
Acting United States Attorney for Middle Tennessee Robert McGuire argued that Abrego Garcia should be detained because he was a flight risk and would endanger the community based on testimony and evidence that he had endangered children through his alleged participation in a smuggling ring, ties to violent gangs, and the multiple complaints from his wife about domestic violence.
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The crux of the Justice Department&#8217;s case relies on a traffic stop in Putnam County, Tennessee, on November 30, 2022, when Abrego Garcia was pulled over driving a Chevrolet suburban with nine others inside. One of those individuals noted his age to be 15 when Tennessee Highway Patrol had each person write their name and age down on a sheet of paper.
Homeland Security special agent Peter Joseph said that the 15-year-old boy was unaccounted for to this day and that they hadn&#8217;t tracked him down yet, saying that &#8220;we don&#8217;t know right now&#8221; if he is OK. Joseph added that at least six of the nine individuals being transported have been identified as illegal aliens from a variety of countries including Mexico, El Salvador, and Honduras.
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Joseph also testified that Abrego Garcia lied to the Tennessee state troopers when he claimed that he was bringing a construction crew from St. Louis to Maryland. According to data gathered through license plate readers, Joseph said that the vehicle hadn&#8217;t been in St. Louis in the timeframe Abrego Garcia claimed and that there were no construction tools in the vehicle.
Abrego Garcia also had a history of sexual misconduct toward minors, multiple of his associates told Joseph. Additionally, Joseph said an unidentified girl provided evidence to federal investigators that Abrego Garcia had asked a 15-year-old Maryland girl to send him nude pictures of herself and sent her other messages discussing OnlyFans.
Lawyers for Abrego Garcia referred to these accusations as &#8220;slanderous&#8221; and said a &#8220;flirtatious event&#8221; from five years ago shouldn&#8217;t impact his detention.
Abrego Garcia&#8217;s lawyers, including public defenders Richard Tennant and Dumaka Shabazz, argued that the Justice Department&#8217;s case relied too much on hearsay, and they tried to discredit the testimony about his activities given to federal investigators from two men who also face deportation and federal punishment.
The defense did not call any witnesses, but pointed to multiple pieces of evidence, including a 2019 immigration holding that Abrego Garcia should not be deported to his home country of El Salvador because of fears of gang violence. They also included a letter from an immigrant activist group called CASA, which promised to help Abrego Garcia should he be released.
Holmes at times appeared critical of the Justice Department, and suggested that their evidence was dated because it came from 2020-2022. When discussing the orders of protection granted to Abrego Garcia&#8217;s wife over fears for her own safety, Holmes asked McGuire whether it would be &#8220;equally plausible&#8221; that he had a change of heart over the last four years rather than stay the same.
Regardless of her decision, Abrego Garcia will likely not be leaving federal custody anytime soon as ICE is expected to take custody of him if he is released on the smuggling charges.
Before the hearing began, dozens of people gathered outside the courthouse holding signs like &#8220;F*** ICE&#8221; and &#8220;Stop ICE Kidnappings.&#8221; By noon, the crowd had largely dispersed as rain ripped through Nashville and the proceedings dragged into late afternoon.

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A former CIA analyst who leaked Israeli strike plans against Iran was sentenced to just three years and one month in prison on Wednesday.
Asif William Rahman, 34, of Vienna, Virginia, was convicted of “unlawfully retaining and transmitting Top Secret National Defense Information to people who were not entitled to receive it,” the U.S. Department of Justice <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-cia-analyst-sentenced-over-three-years-prison-unlawfully-transmitting-top-secret">said</a>. Rahman was arrested in November 2024 and pled guilty to two counts of willful retention and transmission of classified information related to the national defense in January 2025. He had faced up to 10 years in prison on each count if convicted.
He had been employed by the CIA since 2016 and had Top Secret security clearance with access to Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI), The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ex-cia-official-admits-to-stealing-leaking-israeli-attack-plans-on-iran">reported</a>.
“Asif Rahman violated his position of trust by illegally accessing, removing, and transmitting Top Secret documents vital to the national security of the United States and its allies,” said Erik S. Siebert, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia. “This case should serve as a stern warning to those who choose to place their own goals over their allegiance to our nation.”
The DOJ said Rahman “accessed and printed two Top Secret documents containing National Defense Information” on October 17, 2024.
The next day, the documents appeared on multiple social media platforms, including a pro-Iran Telegram account, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cia-official-arrested-for-allegedly-leaking-classified-documents-on-israeli-attack-plans">reported</a> at the time.
The leaked documents included information from U.S. satellites on Israeli military preparations for the strike against Iran. The documents were intended to be viewed only by members of the Five Eyes intelligence alliance, which includes the U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
Israel launched airstrikes targeting military bases around Iran’s capital city of Tehran later in October, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/israeli-strikes-targeted-iranian-military-bases-around-tehran">reported</a>. The strikes came in response to an Iranian ballistic missile attack earlier that month.
The DOJ continued:
<blockquote>In 2024, continuing through November, Rahman repeatedly accessed and printed classified National Defense Information, including documents classified up to the Top Secret and further compartmented levels, that he learned in the course of his employment and transmitted to multiple individuals he knew were not entitled to receive it.</blockquote>
“For months, this defendant betrayed the American people and the oaths he took upon entering his office by leaking some of our Nation’s most closely held secrets,” said John Eisenberg, Assistant Attorney General for National Security.

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The University of Michigan said on Tuesday that it is &#8220;actively reviewing all relevant policies&#8221; after two Chinese nationals working with the school were <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/alarming-pattern-another-chinese-national-arrested-for-smuggling-biological-materials-into-u-s">arrested</a> for smuggling potentially dangerous &#8220;biological materials&#8221; into the United States.
The university, which <a href="https://research.umich.edu/news-and-issues/research-annual-reports/fy24-research-annual-report/fy24-news-release/">boasts</a> of being one of the top public research schools in the world, has come under the microscope as two Chinese researchers doing PhD and post-doctoral work at U-M were charged by the Department of Justice this month after they were caught allegedly smuggling hazardous materials that could wipe out crops.
&#8220;Recently, several individuals have been accused of trying to transport materials across international borders in violation of federal laws and U-M policies, and of making false statements to law enforcement. The university takes these situations extremely seriously,&#8221; said Arthur Lupia, U-M&#8217;s interim Vice President for Research and Innovation. &#8220;That is why the university is: Fully cooperating with federal investigations about these matters; Actively reviewing all relevant policies; Reexamining internal protocols to determine how to improve training and provide additional guidance; and Ensuring that failure to comply with all laws, regulations, and policies will have consequences, up to termination.&#8221;
Earlier this week, a PhD student from Wuhan, China, was arrested at the Detroit Metropolitan Airport for attempting to smuggle “biological materials” into a U-M laboratory. Chengxuan Han told authorities that she had previously sent packages to the United States with biological material related to <a href="https://www.ars.usda.gov/news-events/news/research-news/2023/bioluminescence-may-shine-light-on-roundworm-secrets/#:~:text=Even%20though%20roundworms%20are%20nearly,crop%20losses%20worldwide%20each%20year." target="_blank" rel="noopener">roundworms</a>, a parasitic worm that can “pose major problems in corn, soybean, peanut and other crops,” according to the DOJ.
The arrest of Han marked the second time this month that a Chinese citizen with connections to the University of Michigan has been charged with smuggling potential biological threats into the country. Michigan scholar Yunqing Jian, along with her boyfriend, Zunyong Liu, were also charged by the federal government with attempting to smuggle a fungal plant into the country that could potentially cause &#8220;head blight,&#8221; a disease that can wipe out wheat, barley, corn, and rice crops.
U.S. Attorney Jerome F. Gorgon, Jr. called the arrests &#8220;part of an alarming pattern that threatens our security.&#8221;
&#8220;The American taxpayer should not be underwriting a PRC-based smuggling operation at one of our crucial public institutions,” Gorgon added.
Last year, U-M <a href="https://research.umich.edu/news-and-issues/research-annual-reports/fy24-research-annual-report/fy24-news-release/">said</a> it spent $1.17 billion in &#8220;federally sponsored research expenditures,&#8221; adding that &#8220;Federal funding now accounts for 57% of the university’s total research volume.&#8221; Some of that funding has been <a href="https://www.freep.com/story/news/health/2025/06/08/trump-administration-federal-funding-cuts-michigan-public-health-agencies-university-research/84007389007/">affected</a> by President Trump ripping up numerous federal grants to universities across the country.
FBI Director Kash Patel addressed the arrest of Jian and Liu last week, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/feds-arrest-chinese-scholar-for-attempting-to-smuggle-pathogen-used-for-agroterrorism-into-u-s">saying</a> it “is a sobering reminder that the CCP is working around the clock to deploy operatives and researchers to infiltrate American institutions and target our food supply, which would have grave consequences… putting American lives and our economy at serious risk.”
The Trump administration has moved to &#8220;aggressively&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rubio-promises-to-aggesively-target-students-tied-to-chinese-communist-party">revoke</a> the visas of Chinese students studying at American universities. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said last month that the administration would start by focusing on revoking the visas of students with close ties to the Chinese Communist Party and those studying in &#8220;critical fields.&#8221;
Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-unveils-terms-of-done-trade-deal-with-china?author=Leif+Le+Mahieu&amp;category=undefined&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=3&amp;rowHeadline=Latest+News&amp;rowType=Vertical+Carousel&amp;title=Trump+Unveils+Terms+Of+%E2%80%98Done%E2%80%99+Trade+Deal+With+China">announced</a> on Wednesday, however, that his administration is close to finalizing a trade deal with China that includes allowing Chinese nationals to use &#8220;our colleges and universities.&#8221;
In January, U-M ended its partnership with a Chinese university over national security concerns after five Chinese students were <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/02/us/5-chinese-nationals-charged-with-covering-up-midnight-visit-to-michigan-military-site">charged</a> with attempting to mislead investigators about a suspicious late-night trip they took to a Michigan military base in 2023.

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University Policies Under Review After Chinese Researchers Charged With Smuggling Biohazards

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A federal grand jury indicted Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-NJ) in connection to last month&#8217;s scuffle outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facility in Newark, New Jersey, interim U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey Alina Habba announced on Tuesday.
In a <a href="https://x.com/USAttyHabba/status/1932572573713514913" target="_blank" rel="noopener">post</a> on X, Habba revealed that the three-count indictment charges McIver with &#8220;forcibly impeding and interfering with federal law enforcement officers.&#8221;
McIver said she will be entering a plea of not guilty.
&#8220;The facts of this case will prove I was simply doing my job and will expose these proceedings for what they are: a brazen attempt at political intimidation,&#8221; McIver said in a <a href="https://x.com/RepLaMonica/status/1932575526595489938" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a>. &#8220;This indictment is not more justified than the original charges, and is an effort by Trump&#8217;s administration to dodge accountability for the chaos ICE caused and scare me out of doing the work I was elected to do. But it won&#8217;t work — I will not be intimidated.&#8221;
On May 9, McIver and other Democrats from New Jersey demanded they be allowed to conduct &#8220;oversight&#8221; of the ICE detention facility at Delaney Hall. A confrontation between them and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) agents ensued, as shown in ICE body-cam <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrats-claim-ice-agents-roughed-them-up-body-cam-footage-says-otherwise" target="_blank" rel="noopener">footage</a>.
According to a Department of Justice <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-nj/pr/congresswoman-charged-forcibly-impeding-and-interfering-federal-officers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">press release</a>, the indictment says McIver forcibly impeded and interfered with federal officers amid their efforts to arrest the mayor of Newark, who had entered a secured area.
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&#8220;Someone in the crowd yelled &#8216;circle the mayor,'&#8221; the DOJ said. &#8220;McIver then faced the Mayor and placed her arms around him in an effort to prevent HSI from completing the arrest. During her continued attempts to thwart the arrest, McIver slammed her forearm into the body of one law enforcement officer and also reached out and tried to restrain that officer by forcibly grabbing him. McIver also used each of her forearms to forcibly strike a second officer.&#8221;
McIver, initially <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/feds-charge-new-jersey-democrat-over-clash-with-agents-at-ice-facility" target="_blank" rel="noopener">charged</a> a few weeks ago, faces up to 17 years in prison if convicted.
&#8220;As I have stated in the past, it is my Constitutional obligation as the Chief Federal Law Enforcement Officer for New Jersey to ensure that our federal partners are protected when executing their duties,&#8221; Habba declared in her post on X. &#8220;While people are free to express their views for or against particular policies, they must not do so in a manner that endangers law enforcement and the communities those officers serve.&#8221;
Habba added: &#8220;Today’s decision by the grand jury is the next step in a process that my Office will pursue to a just end.&#8221;

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The FBI has identified a man who threw rocks at federal officers during anti-ICE riots in Los Angeles County over the weekend, the Justice Department announced.
U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli said Monday that 40-year-old Elpidio Reyna, a resident of Compton, California, was the man captured on video throwing rocks at law enforcement vehicles in Paramount, injuring one federal officer and damaging government vehicles. Reyna has not yet been arrested, and the FBI is offering $50,000 for information that leads to his capture. 
“Elpidio Reyna can run, but he can’t hide. He threw rocks at federal officers leaving a command post in Paramount on Saturday, a brazen attack caught on film and that could have resulted in deaths. Reyna, 40, is charged with assault on a federal officer, and faces up to eight years in prison if convicted,” Essayli posted on X. 
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WANTED: Elpidio Reyna can run, but he can’t hide. He threw rocks at federal officers leaving a command post in Paramount on Saturday, a brazen attack caught on film and that could have resulted in deaths. Reyna, 40, is charged with assault on a federal officer, and faces up to… <a href="https://t.co/YYgqRxo73a">pic.twitter.com/YYgqRxo73a</a>
— U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli (@USAttyEssayli) <a href="https://twitter.com/USAttyEssayli/status/1932267820798353760?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 10, 2025</a></blockquote>
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A video shared with the post shows a man wearing a motorcycle helmet pelting rocks at federal vehicles on Saturday afternoon. 
Essayli’s post came after Attorney General Pam Bondi <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/ag-bondi-says-fbi-has-identified-suspect-accused-assaulting-federal-officer-trump-vows-tough-response" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Fox News host Sean Hannity that the FBI was conducting a search warrant at Reyna’s home. Bondi added that he would be on the FBI’s Most Wanted list. 
&#8220;He has been identified by the great police work by the FBI,&#8221; she said. &#8220;So, you can run, you can’t hide. We are coming after you federally. If you assault a police officer, if you rob a store, if you loot, if you spit on police officers, we’re coming after you.&#8221;
Dozens of arrests have already been made throughout Los Angeles and San Francisco as rioters have been charged with vandalism, looting, and assaulting police officers. The unrest began after ICE started conducting operations in Los Angeles County on Friday, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/gang-members-sex-offenders-and-more-heres-who-ice-actually-picked-up-during-la-raids?author=Virginia+Kruta&amp;category=undefined&amp;elementPosition=43&amp;row=3&amp;rowHeadline=Latest+News&amp;rowType=Vertical+Carousel&amp;title=Gang+Members%2C+Sex+Offenders%2C+And+More%3A+Here’s+Who+ICE+Actually+Picked+Up+During+LA+Raids" target="_blank" rel="noopener">arresting</a> sex offenders, gang members, and others who had been convicted on gun and drug charges.
Trump authorized sending another 2,000 National Guard troops to Los Angeles on Monday and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-deploys-hundreds-of-marines-to-los-angeles?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Zach+Jewell&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=Trump+Deploys+Hundreds+Of+Marines+To+Los+Angeles" target="_blank" rel="noopener">deployed</a> hundreds of Marines. He promised to throw the book at anyone who went after the troops. 
“The Insurrectionists have a tendency to spit in the face of the National Guardsmen/women, and others,” he posted on Truth Social. “These Patriots are told to accept this, it’s just the way life runs. But not in the Trump Administration. IF THEY SPIT, WE WILL HIT, and I promise you they will be hit harder than they have ever been hit before. Such disrespect will not be tolerated!”

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Riots

A Chinese national from Wuhan studying for a PhD was arrested on Sunday for attempting to smuggle &#8220;biological materials&#8221; into a laboratory at the University of Michigan, the Department of Justice <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-edmi/pr/alien-wuhan-china-charged-making-false-statements-and-smuggling-biological-materials">announced</a> on Monday.
The arrest of Chengxuan Han at the Detroit Metropolitan Airport is the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/feds-arrest-chinese-scholar-for-attempting-to-smuggle-pathogen-used-for-agroterrorism-into-u-s">second time</a> this month that a Chinese citizen with connections to the University of Michigan has been charged with smuggling potential biological threats into the country. According to the United States Attorney&#8217;s Office for the Eastern District of Michigan, Han sent four packages containing &#8220;concealed biological material&#8221; from China to the United States. The packages were all addressed to people &#8220;associated with a laboratory at the University of Michigan,&#8221; the DOJ said in a press release.
“The alleged smuggling of biological materials by this alien from a science and technology university in Wuhan, China—to be used at a University of Michigan laboratory—is part of an alarming pattern that threatens our security. The American taxpayer should not be underwriting a PRC-based smuggling operation at one of our crucial public institutions.”
Han is studying at a university in Wuhan — the city where the COVID virus likely leaked from a lab before it shut down the world&#8217;s economies and killed millions of people. The Chinese PhD student was questioned by Customs and Border Protection officers at the Detroit Metropolitan Airport on Sunday. During the questioning, Han &#8220;made false statements about the packages and the biological materials she had previously shipped to the United States,&#8221; which she later admitted to the FBI, according to the DOJ.
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Han also allegedly told the FBI that she had previously sent the packages and said that they contained biological material related to <a href="https://www.ars.usda.gov/news-events/news/research-news/2023/bioluminescence-may-shine-light-on-roundworm-secrets/#:~:text=Even%20though%20roundworms%20are%20nearly,crop%20losses%20worldwide%20each%20year.">roundworms</a>, a parasitic worm that can &#8220;pose major problems in corn, soybean, peanut and other crops,&#8221; according to the U.S. government. There are many species of roundworms, many of which are uncommon in the United States. Some can cause health issues for humans, such as abdominal pain, fever, and diarrhea, if they get into the digestive system, the Cleveland Clinic <a href="https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/15240-roundworms">states</a>.
FBI Director Kash Patel revealed last week that a Chinese scholar at the University of Michigan was arrested and charged with attempting to smuggle a biological pathogen into the United States that could be used for agricultural terrorism, as The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/feds-arrest-chinese-scholar-for-attempting-to-smuggle-pathogen-used-for-agroterrorism-into-u-s">reported</a>.
According to federal prosecutors, Michigan scholar Yunqing Jian, along with her boyfriend, Zunyong Liu, tried to <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-edmi/pr/chinese-nationals-charged-conspiracy-and-smuggling-dangerous-biological-pathogen-us">smuggle</a> Fusarium graminearum into the United States. Fusarium graminearum can cause “head blight,” a disease that can wipe out wheat, barley, maize, and rice crops and “is responsible for billions of dollars in economic losses worldwide each year.” The pathogen can also cause “vomiting, liver damage, and reproductive defects in humans and livestock.”

U.S. – China biohazard

‘Alarming Pattern’: Another Chinese National Arrested For Smuggling ‘Biological Materials’ Into U.S.

Communist China

Prosecutors say Luigi Mangione kept diaries chronicling in chilling detail his plans to assassinate UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson and revealing he backed off of a mass-casualty attack he had initially conceived.
The self-proclaimed anti-capitalist wrote in his manifesto that he chose to &#8220;wack the CEO&#8221; rather than bomb the UnitedHealthcare headquarters because he believed it would generate better headlines and be less likely to be deemed &#8220;terrorism,&#8221; according to court documents <a href="https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/luigi-mangione-da-omnibus-response.pdf">revealed</a> this week.
&#8220;So say you want to rebel against the deadly, greed fueled health insurance cartel. Do you bomb the HQ? No. Bombs=terrorism,&#8221; Mangione allegedly wrote in a red spiral notebook found in his backpack upon his arrest five days after the shooting.
Manhattan prosecutors are confident that this is “open and shut case,” pointing to evidence continuing to pile up indicating that Mangione’s goal was “to send a message.”
In parts of the diaries that had been previously <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/10/nyregion/luigi-mangione-manifesto.html">released</a>, Mangione reasoned that someone should &#8220;wack the CEO at the annual parasitic bean-counter convention. It&#8217;s targeted and precise and doesn&#8217;t risk innocents.&#8221;
The University of Pennsylvania graduate justified targeting insurance providers because they &#8220;literally extract human life force for money,&#8221; and seemed fixated on how his actions would be perceived by the public, adding that &#8220;the point is made in the news headline &#8216;Insurance CEO killed at annual investors conference.&#8217; It conveys a greedy bastard that had it coming.&#8221;
Mangione expressed relief that he had not followed through with a mass-casualty event, allegedly writing, &#8220;I’m glad — in a way — that I’ve procrastinated [because] it allowed me to learn more about UHC.&#8221;
“KMD would’ve been an unjustified catastrophe that would be perceived mostly as sick, but more importantly unhelpful,” Magione allegedly wrote of a potential attack in his home state of Maryland.
The accused assassin reportedly came to this conclusion by analyzing the public reaction to Ted Kaczynski, known as the Unabomber.
&#8220;Ted K makes some good points on the future of humanity, but to make his point he indiscriminately mailbombs innocents. Normies categorize him as an insane serial killer, focus on the act/atrocities themselves, and dismiss his ideas,” Mangione wrote, apparently having a desire for his act of violence to be as palatable as possible for &#8220;normies&#8221; to get behind.
The filing adds that authorities found a note, which has been previously reported on, in Mangione&#8217;s possession during his arrest at a McDonald&#8217;s in Altoona, Pennsylvania, addressed to federal investigators.
&#8220;To the Feds, I&#8217;ll keep this short because I do respect what you do for our country. To save you a lengthy investigation, I state plainly I wasn&#8217;t working with anyone,&#8221; Mangione wrote, describing his attack as &#8220;fairly trivial,&#8221; involving &#8220;some elementary social engineering, basic [computer aided design], and a lot of patience.&#8221;
The note continued with an unapologetic justification: &#8220;I do apologize for any strife or trauma, but it had to be done. Frankly, these parasites simply had it coming,&#8221; then launching into a sanctimonious rant about the state of health care in America.
“If ever there were an open and shut case pointing to a defendant’s guilt, this case is that case. Simply put, one would be hard pressed to find a case with such overwhelming evidence of guilt as to the identity of the murderer and the premeditated nature of the assassination,” prosecutors wrote regarding the entries.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg argued that even disregarding the mountains of physical evidence presented in Wednesday&#8217;s filing, the prosecution still would have enough to convict Mangione on the terrorism count.
“The shooting itself speaks volumes of the defendant’s intent. Defendant chose to shoot the CEO of the United States’ largest health insurance company in front of the hotel where the company was about to conduct its annual investor conference,” Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg wrote in the filing.
Mangione, 27, faces both state and federal murder and terrorism charges in connection with the shooting death of Thompson in Midtown Manhattan on December 4, leading to a five-day manhunt that ended with Mangione’s arrest in Pennsylvania. Mangione has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/luigi-mangione-pleads-not-guilty-as-doj-seeks-death-penalty?author=Nathan+Gay&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Luigi+Mangione+Pleads+Not+Guilty+As+DOJ+Seeks+Death+Penalty">pleaded</a> not guilty on all charges.
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According to authorities, Mangione <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/attorney-general-pamela-bondi-directs-prosecutors-seek-death-penalty-luigi-mangione">murdered</a> Thompson, a father of two young children, in a “premeditated, cold-blooded assassination” as an act of “political violence.”
On the federal level, Attorney General Pam Bondi <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/25/us/luigi-mangione-federal-charges/index.html">announced</a> in late May that the DOJ intends to pursue the death penalty in the Mangione case.
Mangione&#8217;s attorneys have moved to exclude his writings from the court record, arguing their client wasn&#8217;t afforded his constitutional rights when arrested.
Prosecutors responded, agreeing to pre-trial hearings on the admissibility of the evidence, including the red spiral notebook and statements made to police officers.
Mangione is scheduled to appear in court for his state charges on June 26.

Luigi Mangione

Luigi Mangione’s Chilling Diaries Revealed In Court: ‘Parasites Simply Had It Coming’

Alvin Bragg

Death Penalty

New York

News

UnitedHealthcare

WASHINGTON—The Department of Justice has secured the return of alleged human trafficker Kilmar Abrego Garcia, and will prosecute and imprison him in the United States, Attorney General Pam Bondi said at a press conference Friday.
“Abrego Garcia has landed in the United States to face justice,” Bondi told reporters. “This is what American justice looks like,” Bondi said. The attorney general went on to thank various other agencies that aided in the Justice Department’s investigation, as well as El Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele.
“On May 21st, a grand jury in the Middle District of Tennessee returned a sealed indictment, charging Abrego Garcia with alien smuggling and conspiracy to commit alien smuggling,” Bondi said. “Our government presented El Salvador with an arrest warrant, and they agreed to return him to our country. We&#8217;re grateful to President Bukele for agreeing to return him to our country to face these very serious charges.”
Abrego Garcia became a cause célèbre after his deportation, with Democrat politicians and members of the mainstream media dubbing him a “Maryland man” and insisting that he had been incorrectly deported. Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen (D) even flew to El Salvador to visit the illegal alien, despite mounting evidence that he had been engaged in transnational criminal activity.
Now, Bondi says, there is no longer any doubt that Abrego Garcia was a criminal.
“The grand jury found that over the past nine years, Abrego Garcia has played a significant role in an alien smuggling ring,” she said, noting that he made over 100 trips back and forth from the United States to smuggle violent gang members and terrorists, as well as “thousands of illegal aliens.”
“This is especially disturbing, because Abrego Garcia is also alleged to have transported minor children,” Bondi said. “The defendant traded the innocence of minor children for profit.”
The attorney general then revealed “even more disturbing facts the grand jury uncovered,” including that Abrego Garcia worked with the smuggling ring “responsible for the death of more than 50 migrants in 2021” following a tractor-trailer accident in Mexico.
Bondi also revealed that co-conspirators allege Abrego Garcia “abused undocumented alien females” and &#8220;solicited nude photographs and videos of a minor.”
The grand jury investigation also revealed that Abrego Garcia used SUVs with false bottoms to smuggle firearms and narcotics into the country.
“These facts demonstrate Abrego Garcia is a danger to our community,” Bondi said.
The Supreme Court ruled after Abrego Garcia’s deportation in March that the United States had to “facilitate” the illegal alien’s return to the country despite him being a Salvadoran national. Now that he’s been returned, Bondi said, he will be charged and imprisoned in the United States. The attorney general says she suspects Abrego Garcia will be returned to El Salvador “upon completion of the sentence.”
In April, authorities began investigating a 2022 traffic stop in which Abrego Garcia was pulled over, but not detained. Asked by a reporter on Friday what changed between that traffic stop and today, Bondi had a simple answer.
“What has changed is that Donald Trump is now president of the United States, and our borders are now secure.”

Bondi Says US DOJ Has Sued New York Over Immigration Case

Bondi Reveals ‘Disturbing Facts’ About Dem Darling Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s Human Trafficking Scheme

Human Trafficking

Illegal Immigation

Southern Border

The D.C. leftist who spit on then-U.S. Attorney Ed Martin could be jailed for violating the conditions of her release by continuing to harass Martin since her arrest.
Emily Gabriella Sommer threatened Martin via X on Tuesday, using racial slurs against him and seemingly implying that D.C. jurors will engage in jury nullification by refusing to convict her, prosecutors said Thursday.
Sommer was able to post on social media because of the court&#8217;s leniency, which released her without bail on May 22, the same day she was arrested, after she spit on Martin on camera while he was giving a TV interview.
The government had not requested pretrial detention, but the conditions of her release prohibited &#8220;all contact, directly or indirectly, with any person who is or may be a victim or witness in the investigation or prosecution, including&#8230; Ed Martin.&#8221;
Prosecutors found that Sommer, posting from her X handle with the display name &#8220;lefttits,&#8221; this week tagged Martin and wrote, &#8220;My property has essentially been seized and I do not have the basic necessities nor money to provide for myself nor my dog. F*** you, Ed&#8230; but since you&#8217;ve once again made me hostage in this city, I&#8217;ll make sure it eats you alive and spits you back out, like the felony &#8216;assault&#8217; you&#8217;ve alleged, wit your punk-ass-b****-cuckold-neo-beo-no-brained-Neaderthal (no shade to actual non-Sapiens) cracka ass, jive-turkey redneck from the Midwest.&#8221;
&#8220;You mad, bro? You got fired, and then caught a loogie to the shoulder. I don&#8217;t think that makes you any sort of &#8216;active&#8217; official. You&#8217;re in the wrong court&#8230; Come at me dawg,&#8221; she added.
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Sommer also harangued Jeanine Pirro, who replaced Martin as President Donald Trump&#8217;s U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia after it became clear the Senate would not confirm him.
&#8220;Lmaooooo @JudgeJeanine is the bish that took your job. That&#8217;s gotta hurt. And she&#8217;s got so much trash talk comin her way too, don&#8217;t worry bish, you&#8217;ll get it too,&#8221; she wrote, according to court papers.
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This afternoon acting DC US Atty Ed Martin was spit on by a psychotic lib during our interview. Hope she’s ready for a nice stretch in jail. <a href="https://t.co/2Y5hj41V0l">pic.twitter.com/2Y5hj41V0l</a>
— Rob Schmitt (@SchmittNYC) <a href="https://twitter.com/SchmittNYC/status/1920574701417480574?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 8, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Sommer was charged with &#8220;assaulting, resisting, or impeding a government official&#8221; and arrested on May 22. &#8220;In the course of the arrest, the Defendant kicked and spit on one Deputy United States Marshal and kicked another Deputy United States Marshal,&#8221; prosecutors said in court papers.
Pirro on Thursday asked Judge Matthew Sharbaugh to revoke the conditions of Sommer&#8217;s release, saying &#8220;there is clear and convincing evidence that the Defendant violated a condition of release.&#8221;
She <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.280796/gov.uscourts.dcd.280796.9.0_1.pdf">wrote</a> that tagging Martin &#8220;would likely cause the post to appear in the Notifications tab of the victim&#8217;s X account. The posts, therefore, violated the Court&#8217;s order to &#8216;avoid all contact, directly or indirectly&#8217; with the victim.&#8221;
&#8220;The Defendant’s conduct demonstrates that the Defendant is unlikely to abide by any condition or combination of conditions of release. In particular, the charged assault and subsequent assaults on law enforcement officers demonstrate the Defendant’s unwillingness to abide by the law and comply with lawful authorities. Likewise, the Defendant’s recent X posts demonstrate a disregard for the conditions of release set by this Court, which the Defendant agreed to follow less than two weeks ago,&#8221; she wrote.
On May 8, Sommer approached Martin outside the courthouse as he was giving an on-camera interview with Newsmax. She said, &#8220;Are you Ed Martin? You are. Ed Martin.&#8221;
&#8220;Next, Sommer lunged at [Martin] and spit on [his] left shoulder. Sommer then walked eastbound onto D Street Northwest and yelled, &#8216;You are a disgusting man. F*** you, Ed Martin. My name is Emily Gabriella Sommer, and you are served,&#8221; court papers said.
Investigators found that Sommer used an X account in her name, @EmilyGabriellaS, to continue to take credit for the assault. Hours afterwards, she began replying to Martin&#8217;s tweets.
Under a message that said &#8220;Make D.C. Safe Again,&#8221; touting the prosecution of a man who shot a five-year old, she wrote, &#8220;ED, that was me that spit in your face today in front of your not USDC for D.C. Courthouse, that absolutely definitely spit in your face on camera. Hi, hello. A pleasure to hawk a dehydrated, pithy white foam spit into your face. I only apologize that this city left me so dehydrated and unable to get water that I couldn&#8217;t produce more to stain and drip down your face.&#8221;
Sommer, a graduate of the University of Southern California, is represented by a public defender.
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Emily Gabriella Sommer / Department of Justice

Jeanine Pirro Moves To Jail Leftist Who Spit On Ed Martin For Violating Conditions Of Release

Donald Trump

Ed Martin

Washington D.C.

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