Kathleen Casillo, a mother of three from Queens, New York, was Christmas shopping with her daughter in Manhattan on December 11, 2020, when she drove up to an intersection filled with protesters blocking the road to oppose U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detentions.
On Tuesday, Casillo again rejected a plea deal that would admit fault but only require six hours of community service and a one-year license suspension, the Daily Mail <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11483439/NYC-mother-three-slammed-BLM-protesters-2020-protests-refuses-plea-deal.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. Casillo instead has opted for a jury trial, where she faces seven years in prison if found guilty.
Casillo rejected the same plea deal last year, the New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2021/12/02/nyc-woman-who-drove-through-blm-protest-turns-down-plea-deal/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> at the time.
In video footage that captured part of the incident, Casillo’s black BMW can be seen surrounded by protesters, some of whom appear to be touching or banging on her vehicle. Casillo then stepped on the gas and sped through the group, injuring nine.
“My side of the story was we were attacked by people who were going to break my daughter&#8217;s window and pull her out of the car, so I feared [for] my life,” Casillo <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10267879/White-NYC-woman-53-lives-fear-life-hitting-BLM-protesters-attacked-car.html">told</a> the Mail last year.
She told the outlet at the time that she refused the plea deal because she didn’t believe she did anything wrong and didn’t want to plead guilty to reckless assault and reckless endangerment.
“I&#8217;m going to court to clear my name because I&#8217;m not guilty,” she told the Mail.
“I feel sick,” she continued. “I never intended on hurting anyone. I just feared for my daughter&#8217;s life more than anybody. I thought they were going to pull her out of the car.”
“They’re just making the black community look like they’re thugs. One of my closest friends is a woman of color, from when I was 19-years-old, so it’s not a black, white thing. I don’t know even know the color of the people that I hit. It was all mixed,” she added.
Casillo’s attorney, Oliver Storch, told the Post last year that his client wouldn’t plead guilty to what he called an “accident.”
“Not all accidents are criminal,” Storch said.
He also told the outlet that it was an “aberration” that Casillo was arrested, noting that police just as easily could have arrested the protesters who he says attacked her car for criminal mischief.
“This was an angry mob that descended upon this mother and her daughter, and she panicked,” he said.
“We’re not making light of this,” he said, adding that Casillo “is deeply, deeply concerned and feels very bad for anybody who was injured.”
“But there is no criminal liability here. There was nothing reckless about her conduct,” Storch told the outlet.
Casillo’s 29-year-old daughter Dominique, who was in the car at the time, told the Mail last year that “it didn’t look like a protest” when their vehicle was surrounded by demonstrators.
“It was more like being attacked by random people who were being menaces,” she told the outlet.

Car Drives Into Group Of Protesters In New York

NYC Mom Rejects Plea Deal For Driving Through Protesters Who She Says Attacked Her Vehicle

Crime

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)

New York

New York City

Protesters

U.S.

<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/immigration-and-customs-enforcement-ice" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Immigration and Customs Enforcement</a> (ICE) said Wednesday that an illegal immigrant allegedly broke into the campaign office of Democrat gubernatorial candidate Katie Hobbs last week, despite her seeming attempt to blame it on her Republican opponent Kari Lake.
According to <a href="https://www.12news.com/article/news/local/arizona/alleged-burglar-hobbs-campaign-violated-immigration-status-wanted-ice/75-89f356e2-c833-4890-a35a-14287a9b9564" target="_blank" rel="noopener">local media</a>, ICE said Daniel Mota Dos Reis, 36, of Portugal, who arrived in the United States as a registered student in 2018, was arrested last week for criminal trespassing and burglary charges.
Mota is &#8220;currently at-large for administrative immigration violations for failing to maintain his status as a registered student at an academic institution,&#8221; Yasmeen Pitts O&#8217;Keefe, a public affairs officer for ICE, told local media.
Witnesses said Mota was seen breaking into at least two different office suites.
According to local authorities, one of those offices was the campaign headquarters of Hobbs.
According to court records, Mota engaged in a confrontation with police on October 26. The suspect ran from the officers and pushed a 60-year-old female security guard before authorities arrested him. Later that evening, a patrol officer saw media reports of a campaign burglary that happened two nights before, where surveillance showed an image of Mota.
Mota was arrested again by Phoenix Police for the campaign headquarters burglary on the night of October 24.
Following the burglary, Hobbs insinuated that Lake or her &#8220;allies&#8221; had at least inspired a recent break-in at her campaign office.
Hobbs released a statement following the burglary — which allegedly took place at her campaign headquarters in Phoenix and was reported to local authorities last week — saying that she and her team were cooperating with law enforcement to get to the bottom of the incident.
She then suggested that Lake&#8217;s rhetoric had ratcheted up the temperature and may have pushed her allies in a violent direction.
&#8220;Secretary Hobbs and her staff have faced hundreds of death threats and threats of violence over the course of this campaign. Throughout this race, we have been clear that the safety of our staff and of the Secretary is our number one priority,&#8221; the campaign statement began, before pivoting to attack Lake.
&#8220;Let&#8217;s be clear: for nearly two years Kari Lake and her allies have been spreading dangerous misinformation and inciting threats against anyone they see fit. The threats against Arizonans attempting to exercise their constitutional rights and their attacks on elected officials are the direct result of a concerted campaign of lies and intimidation,&#8221; it continued.
Lake responded to the thinly-veiled accusation, telling CNN it was &#8220;absurd&#8221; and suggesting that the break-in may not have even happened as Hobbs&#8217; campaign claimed. &#8220;Are you really buying that?&#8221; she asked, adding, &#8220;Because this sounds like a Jussie Smollett part 2.&#8221;
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Remember when <a href="https://twitter.com/katiehobbs?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@katiehobbs</a> accused me of orchestrating a Watergate-style break-in of her campaign office? 
Well, it turns out it was a repeat-criminal here in our country illegally. 
RETWEET THIS. People must know. <a href="https://t.co/tf1k2UJRFZ">pic.twitter.com/tf1k2UJRFZ</a>
&mdash; Kari Lake (@KariLake) <a href="https://twitter.com/KariLake/status/1587939741550329856?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 2, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Phoenix Police confirmed Mota&#8217;s arrest last week, adding authorities found no evidence suggesting Mota&#8217;s attack on Hobbs&#8217; campaign office was politically motivated, or the burglary was staged.
Mota has now violated the &#8220;terms of his admission&#8221; and is wanted by immigration authorities. However, local media suggest that it is unclear why Mota was not held by immigration authorities and released to the public.
Enforcement and Removal Operations, a division of ICE with the Maricopa County Sheriff&#8217;s Office, told local media that Mota &#8220;came to ERO&#8217;s attention after his arrest by the Phoenix Police Department&#8221; on October 27 and was advised that Mota “had bonded out of Maricopa County Sheriff’s custody prior to a detainer being issued.”

AZ Gubernatorial Candidate Katie Hobbs Holds Press Conference On Abortion Ban

Illegal Immigrant Identified By Authorities As Suspected Burglar Of Katie Hobbs’ Campaign Office, Debunking Attempted Blame On Kari Lake

Illegal Immigrant Identified By Authorities As Suspected Burglar Of Katie Hobbs' Campaign Office, Debunking Attempted Blame On Kari Lake

Arizona

Illegal Immigration

Kari Lake

Tim Ryan, Ohio&#8217;s Democratic nominee for Senate, has called for border security on the campaign trail, but just three years ago he pledged to strip funding from border authorities and support citizenship for millions of illegal immigrants.
In 2019, when Ryan was running for the Democratic presidential nomination, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) asked presidential candidates to pledge their support for several specific policies regarding illegal immigration.
Ryan agreed to support a path to citizenship for 11 million illegal immigrants. He also pledged to slash the detention budget of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and end the use of ICE detainers, his <a href="https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/oct/31/jd-vance/vance-wrongly-says-ryan-wanted-decriminalize-fenta/">answers</a> to the ACLU <a href="https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23206181/ryan-aclu-candidate-questionnaire-2019.pdf">questionnaire</a> show.
The ACLU asked whether Ryan would promise to &#8220;champion legislation&#8221; that would provide &#8220;fair and achievable paths to citizenship&#8221; for 11 million illegal immigrants. Ryan checked &#8220;yes.&#8221;
&#8220;They are our neighbors, our colleagues, our friends, our family members,&#8221; the ACLU questionnaire said. &#8220;As long as we prevent these individuals from becoming citizens, we are institutionalizing a permanent underclass, primarily Latino, Asian, and Black, living and working in the U.S. but often unable or afraid to assert their civil and constitutional rights.&#8221;
The ACLU also asked whether Ryan would &#8220;commit to ending the use of ICE detainers,&#8221; which are requests from ICE to state or local law enforcement to detain an illegal immigrant until federal immigration authorities can take them into custody. Ryan indicated he would commit to doing so.
Ryan also took the ACLU pledge committing to reducing the size of the immigration detention system by &#8220;at least 75%,&#8221; including by &#8220;cutting ICE’s detention budget&#8221; and ending the detention of asylum seekers.
Over the course of his Senate campaign, Ryan has called for better security at the porous U.S.-Mexico border.
&#8220;On some of the border stuff, I think he’s made some big mistakes,&#8221; Ryan <a href="https://www.wfmj.com/clip/15342683/democratic-candidate-for-us-senate-tim-ryan">said</a> in September of President Joe Biden&#8217;s approach to the border.
&#8220;We&#8217;ve got to be firmer on the border,&#8221; the Ohio congressman said.
In May, Ryan held a joint briefing to discuss border security with several fellow members of the Bipartisan Border Security Technology Caucus.
“In 2021 alone, we know nearly two million unauthorized migrants came across the Mexican border. This calendar year is on pace to repeat those same numbers,” Ryan <a href="https://timryan.house.gov/media/press-releases/congressman-tim-ryan-and-colleagues-kick-bipartisan-border-security-technology">said</a> during the briefing.
“There’s eight billion people in the world and a lot of them want to live in the United States, so we need to make sure that we have an orderly process on how we let people into this country,” Ryan said.
Border authorities encountered more than two million migrants at the border in fiscal year 2022, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/22/politics/border-encounters-migrants-2022">according</a> to data released last month from Customs and Border Protection. Some of those encounters were people who repeatedly tried to cross the U.S. border.
In September, border authorities encountered nearly 228,000 migrants, up 12% from August, partly <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/22/politics/border-encounters-migrants-2022">due</a> to people fleeing failing regimes in Venezuela, Cuba, and Nicaragua.
Ryan faces Republican candidate J.D. Vance in the general election on November 8.
Vance has run on a platform of strong border security that includes no amnesty for illegal immigrants, doubling the number of border agents, and working to finish construction of a border wall.

2020 Presidential Candidates Speak At Iowa Federation Of Labor Convention

Tim Ryan Pledged In 2019 To Defund ICE, Support Citizenship For Millions Of Illegal Immigrants

2022 Midterms

Border

Elections

JD Vance

Politics

Tim Ryan

More than 300,000 smartphones used to monitor illegal immigrants were given to noncitizens by the Biden administration last month, according to data collected by <a class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://trac.syr.edu/immigration/detentionstats/atd_pop_table.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Syracuse University&#8217;s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse</a>.
Issuing such cellular devices to illegal immigrants is part of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement program called the Alternatives to Detention, which essentially gives the individuals access to U.S. soil before their court dates.
The smartphones, which <a class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://www.ice.gov/detain/detention-management" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cost</a> taxpayers $361,218.08 per day, use facial recognition, GPS monitoring, and voice identification, according to <a class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://www.ice.gov/doclib/detention/atdInfographic.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ICE</a>.
Jon Feere, former DHS senior adviser and director of investigations at the Center for Immigration Studies, told the <a class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/biden-admin-awards-80-million-contract-that-prohibits-gps-monitoring-of-illegal-immigrants/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Free Beacon</a> last month that the ATD program has already proven to be a &#8220;costly failure,&#8221; noting that thousands of illegal immigrants have disappeared annually.
&#8220;And there&#8217;s no reason to think this will be any different,&#8221; Feere said. &#8220;The goal should be to quickly determine whether these individuals have a valid case, and if not, to quickly deport them.&#8221;
Instead, he said, the Department of Homeland Security is developing a massive social services program that will benefit non-governmental organizations without guaranteeing that any of those individuals would return home when ordered.
The Daily Caller <a class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://dailycaller.com/2022/10/04/dhs-migrants-border-ice/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reports</a> the ATD program had 91,793 illegal immigrants enrolled in 2020. And by the fiscal year 2021, the program had 136,026 illegal immigrants.
The Post Millenial <a class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://thepostmillennial.com/biden-releases-300000-illegal-migrants-into-us-with-tracking-devices-free-phones" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reports</a> the number of enrollments clocks in at 316,700 — a 266% increase since President Joe Biden took office.
Ron Vitiello, former acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, told the Free Beacon that the program is the &#8220;sort of thing popular among the left.&#8221;
&#8220;It sounds great, but the reality is that people in these programs will likely never be [deported],&#8221; Vitiello said. &#8220;There&#8217;s nothing at the end of these programs. If they don&#8217;t report in, that&#8217;s that. They&#8217;re now a fugitive.&#8221;
According to The Washington Free Beacon, a new record was set with migrant encounters at the southern border, with more than two million for the fiscal year in August. Of those encounters, approximately 1.6 million illegal immigrants have hearings scheduled who are not in detention, according to an internal ICE report on ATD programs obtained by <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/alternatives-detention-program-enrolled-illegal-immigrants-abscond">Fox News</a>.

Migrant Border Crossings At The Southern Border Continue As Judge’s Title 42 Ruling Looms

Biden Admin Issues Over 300,000 Smartphones With Tracking Devices To Illegal Immigrants

Biden Administration

Southern Border

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has blocked <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/california" target="_blank" rel="noopener">California’s</a> ban on private <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/prison" target="_blank" rel="noopener">prisons</a> and for-profit immigration detention centers after a panel of judges ruled against it last year.
The panel of eleven judges said that federal law, specifically the Supremacy Clause in the U.S. Constitution, supersedes the state measure. 
The Supremacy Clause, or Article VI, Paragraph 2 of the Constitution, <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/supremacy_clause#:~:text=Article%20VI,%20Paragraph%202%20of,laws,%20and%20even%20state%20constitutions." target="_blank" rel="noopener">holds</a> that the U.S. Constitution and federal legislation takes priority over the laws of states. 
“This Constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof; and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land; and the judges in every state shall be bound thereby, anything in the Constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding,” the Constitution <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/articlevi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reads</a> in part.
Circuit Judge Jacqueline Nguyen <a href="https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2022/09/26/20-56172.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> the opinion for the majority. 
“The en banc court held that AB 32 would breach the core promise of the Supremacy Clause. To comply with California law, ICE would have to cease its ongoing immigration detention operations in California and adopt an entirely new approach in the state,” Nguyen wrote. “This foundational limit on state power cannot be squared with the dramatic changes that AB 32 would require ICE to make.”
The state was <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-09-26/court-says-california-ban-on-private-ice-detention-facilities-is-unconstitutional">sued</a> by the federal government and a federal contractor, which asked that the law&#8217;s execution be blocked by injunction. A district court refused.
Last year, three judges on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals <a href="https://apnews.com/article/immigration-donald-trump-gavin-newsom-san-diego-california-ba5b3ef5a1398fe7ab2ca6bf31627878" target="_blank" rel="noopener">decided</a> that the measure was in conflict with the powers of the federal government.
“AB 32 cannot stand because it conflicts with this federal power and discretion given to the Secretary (of Homeland Security) in an area that remains in the exclusive realm of the federal government, and it bars the Secretary from doing what federal immigration law explicitly permits him or her to do,” Judge Kenneth Lee wrote.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta then asked that a larger panel review the ruling, <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/27/court-blocks-california-prison-ban-00058967">according</a> to Politico. This week, the higher court got <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-09-26/court-says-california-ban-on-private-ice-detention-facilities-is-unconstitutional">rid</a> of the lower court’s ruling refusing an injunction and returned it to be reviewed.
The 2019 law, <a href="https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB32" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Assembly Bill 32</a>, would not have allowed the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to incarcerate anyone in a “private, for-profit prison facility” after January 1, 2028. Governor Gavin <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/gavin-newsom" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Newsom</a> (D-CA) signed the law in 2019, and it was originally sponsored by Bonta when he was in the California Assembly. 
Bonta’s office said it is looking over the ruling but is “deeply disappointed” by it. The measure “was enacted to protect the health and welfare of Californians and recognized the federal government’s own documented concerns with for-profit, private prisons and detention facilities,” his office noted in a statement, per Politico.

Soft focused prison bars.

Appeals Court Rules California’s Ban On For-Profit Prisons, Immigration Detention Centers Is Unconstitutional

Appeals Court Rules California's Ban On For-Profit Prisons, Immigration Detention Centers Violates Supremacy Clause Of Constitution

California

Gavin Newsom

Prison

<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/wisconsin" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Wisconsin</a> Lt. Governor Mandela Barnes, a Democrat <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/u-s-senate" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Senate</a> candidate, has come under scrutiny from Republicans and fact checkers over his links to the movement to abolish U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/immigration-and-customs-enforcement-ice" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ICE</a>).
This week, PolitiFact dinged Republicans for a “mostly false” statement in an ad that says Barnes supports abolishing ICE despite the fact that the self-described progressive has been photographed holding an “ABOLISH ICE” T-shirt in the past.
“There is a photo of Barnes holding an ‘Abolish ICE’ T-shirt, but he has said was holding it in solidarity with immigrants who were being separated from children at the border,” PolitiFact <a href="https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/aug/29/national-republican-senatorial-committee/barnes-does-not-support-abolish-ice-movement/?cid=twitter_PolitiFactWisc">wrote</a> in its evaluation of the ad.
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Wisconsin Democrat Senate candidate Mandela Barnes wants to abolish ICE. <a href="https://t.co/Rw1jRkWy8l">pic.twitter.com/Rw1jRkWy8l</a>
&mdash; RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href="https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1557181267216633857?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 10, 2022</a></blockquote>
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The fact checking organization said that said Republican criticism of Barnes over his position on ICE was “off the mark,” citing campaign denials and that he had proposed less extreme reforms in the past.
The National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) had run an ad saying that Barnes “supported abolishing ICE,” highlighting the possible links between Barnes and the radical movement.
During his campaign for lieutenant governor in 2018, Barnes posed while holding an “ABOLISH ICE” T-shirt and <a href="https://twitter.com/TheOtherMandela/status/1014721172729102336">replied</a> to an activist with the Democratic Socialists of America on Twitter, saying that he wanted to get a T-shirt with a similar moniker on it. When questioned about the controversy, his team has denied any support for the movement.
“The Lt. Governor has been crystal clear that he does not support abolishing ICE,” said Barnes spokeswoman Maddy McDaniel.
Anna Kelly, the communications director for Republican Tim Michels’ gubernatorial campaign, called the fact check “ridiculous.”
“This may be the most ridiculous @PolitiFactWisc hack piece I&#8217;ve ever seen, which says a lot,” she tweeted. “So according to them, he&#8217;s holding a shirt promoting a movement he doesn&#8217;t support out of ‘solidarity’?”
Despite the denial of support for abolishing ICE, Barnes has remained critical of the agency and been vocal about working on “comprehensive” immigration reform.
“I am not a part of the Abolish ICE movement because no one slogan can capture all the work we have to do,” he <a href="https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/investigations/daniel-bice/2022/02/15/mandela-barnes-backs-away-two-unpopular-far-left-causes/6785895001/">told</a> the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. “But I do support comprehensive reform in our immigration agencies that protect our borders while establishing a pathway to citizenship and ensuring no one coming to this country has to experience traumas like family separation.”
Barnes has also been embraced by far-Left politicians like Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY).
Groups <a href="https://www.wispolitics.com/2021/center-for-popular-democracy-action-endorses-mandela-barnes-for-u-s-senate/">backing</a> <a href="https://workingfamilies.org/2021/07/wi-wfp-endorses-mandela-barnes-for-senate/">Barnes</a> that support <a href="https://twitter.com/CPDAction/status/1395019920044396549">defunding</a> the police include the <a href="https://twitter.com/CPDAction/status/1395019920044396549">Center for Popular Democracy</a> and the <a href="https://twitter.com/workingfamilies/status/1267078490945437696?lang=en">Working Families Party</a>. However, a spokeswoman for the Barnes campaign said in February that he had not necessarily endorsed the positions of the groups supporting him.
“These groups are endorsing the lieutenant governor, not the other way around,” said Maddy McDaniel.
Barnes’ opponent, incumbent Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) has been endorsed by the <a href="https://www.wispolitics.com/2022/johnson-campaign-national-border-patrol-council-endorses-johnson/">National Border Patrol Council</a> and has made border security one of his key issues as senator.

Democratic Senate Candidate Mandela Barnes Campaigns In Milwaukee

Dem. Senate Candidate, Who Posed With ‘ABOLISH ICE’ T-Shirt, Under Scrutiny For Immigration Positions

Dem. Senate Candidate, Who Posed With ‘Abolish ICE’ T-Shirt, Under Scrutiny For Immigration Positions

2022 Election

Ron Johnson

U.S. Senate

Wisconsin

Among the many titles <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/new-york-city" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York City</a> has earned over the last 400 years, the Immigration Reform Law Institute (IRLI) announced Tuesday that America’s melting pot had become the most dangerous sanctuary community in the nation.
The 35-year-old institute, which advocates for reducing legal immigration from over a million to 300,000 a year, vows to defend the rights of individual Americans and their local communities from harm and challenges caused by mass migration to the United States.
In a recent <a href="https://www.irli.org/rotten-apple-new-york-city-named-americas-most-dangerous-sanctuary-community/">report</a>, the institute listed the top ten sanctuary communities that have posed significant dangers nationwide — with New York City leading the way.
“These communities have earned their places on this list because of incredibly poor leadership at the city, county, and state levels,” Dale L. Wilcox, IRLI’s executive director and general counsel, said in a statement. “Data overwhelmingly shows that sanctuary policies lead to more crime, fear, and death.”
“The leaders of these communities should not escape accountability for the damage they have caused,” Wilcox added. “Their residents deserve much more.”
For New York City, it’s not hard to see how the Big Apple turned rotten over the last eight years under former Mayor Bill de Blasio’s radical sanctuary policies. Almost every day, the public sees cell phone videos, surveillance footage, and reports that expose rampant theft, violent attacks, rapes, and murders sweeping across the city from citizens and non-citizens.
New mayor and former New York Police Department officer Eric Adams has pledged to clean up his predecessor&#8217;s disregard for community safety. Still, the rhetoric to crack down on rampant crime falls on deaf ears when he openly supported the city’s sanctuary status and continued de Blasio’s pro-illegal immigrant policies such as allowing a non-citizen voting law.
Just before COVID changed the United States and the world, New York City released more than 7,500 illegal immigrants — some of whom had previous murder and sexual abuse convictions — back into the diverse communities across the five Burroughs.
Breitbart <a class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/01/17/new-york-freed-7-5k-criminal-illegal-aliens-into-u-s-in-2019-including-convicted-murderers-sex-abusers/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) acting director Matthew Albence revealed that in 2019, the 7,500 illegal immigrants released into communities by NYC law enforcement had a total of 17,873 criminal convictions and 6,500 criminal charges against them.
Those criminal convictions and charges included 200 homicides, more than 1,000 sexual offenses, and 500 robberies. Others had more than 3,500 assaults, 1,500 DUIs, and 1,000 weapons violations.
“The only immigrants protected by such policies are those committing violent and dangerous offenses, often in the same communities that these politicians are purporting to protect,” Albence said during the press conference. “These are preventable crimes, people, and more importantly, preventable victims.”
With New York City leading the way, other cities include Democrat-run metropolitan areas like Los Angeles, Chicago, and Philadelphia. Trailing behind follows more blue cities like San Francisco, Minneapolis, Seattle, and Portland. Wake County, North Carolina, and Middlesex County, New Jersey, were also included.
“Sanctuary policies only provide sanctuary to criminals, not to immigrant communities,” Tom Homan, IRLI senior fellow and former acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), said in a statement. “Immigrant communities don’t want criminals in their neighborhoods either.”
“Victims and witnesses of crime don’t want the offender back in their communities to seek revenge,” Homan added. “All communities deserve protection from criminals, but sanctuary policies put immigrant communities at greater risk of crime.”
While many of the cities include radical soft-on-crime district attorneys funded by left-wing billionaire George Soros, the institute argues that illegal immigrants with a dangerous history have created an unsafe environment for those communities that have poured their lives into living what’s left of the American Dream.

Police Tape

Immigration Reform Institute Names New York City America’s Most Dangerous Sanctuary Community

Bill de Blasio

Border Crisis

Eric Adams

George Soros

Immigration

New York Police Department (NYPD)

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents found 73 illegal immigrants in homes believed to be operated by human smugglers in an affluent area of Washington D.C.
Sixty adults and 13 children were found living across six residential homes in D.C.’s northwest area, where the median home price is $750,000, NBC News <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/ice-finds-73-migrants-living-smuggler-stash-houses-northwest-dc-intern-rcna40357?utm_source=facebook&amp;utm_medium=news_tab">reported</a>. The news outlet reviewed internal documents from ICE, which didn’t list the addresses of the homes where the people were kept or how many were housed in a single home.
Illegal immigrants are regularly brought into the U.S. by human smugglers, who often charge thousands of dollars and are tied to drug cartels. These smugglers keep the immigrants hidden in places known as “stash houses,” NBC reported, usually in poor conditions without beds, running water, or air conditioning. The outlet noted that these homes aren’t usually so far from the U.S.-Mexico border.
The news comes shortly after President Joe Biden’s administration agreed to fill gaps in part of the border wall, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-reverses-course-will-close-gaps-in-areas-of-border-wall-as-crisis-hits-d-c-elections-loom">reported</a>. The decision was made even though Biden promised during the 2020 campaign that his administration would stop all future construction of a border wall.
The Department of Homeland Security said in <a href="https://www.dhs.gov/news/2022/07/28/dhs-address-life-safety-and-operational-requirements-us-border-patrols-yuma-sector">a press release</a> on Thursday that Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas had authorized the closure of “four gaps located within an incomplete border barrier project near the Morelos Dam in the U.S. Border Patrol’s Yuma Sector.” The press release noted that this section of the border, with its close proximity to the Colorado River, presented a safety risk to illegal immigrants trying to cross into the U.S.
The decision to close gaps in the wall in Arizona, where Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly faces re-election in November, also comes after Texas Governor Greg Abbott began sending illegal immigrants from Texas to Washington, D.C.
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser on Thursday called Texas and Arizona’s move to send illegal immigrants to a Democrat-controlled city “a humanitarian crisis,” prompting a response from Abbott.
“With pledges from Texas and Arizona to continue these abhorrent operations indefinitely, the situation is dire, and we consider this a humanitarian crisis — one that could overwhelm our social support network without immediate and sustained federal intervention,” Bowser wrote in a letter requesting help from the National Guard to control the situation.
“We’ve had a number of discussions,” she added. “We’ve facilitated FEMA’s involvement with a million dollar grant that has now been increased to work with a lead nonprofit agency. We’ve facilitated using those grant funds to set up respite center in a neighboring jurisdiction and I’ve also asked the Secretary of the Army to deploy the D.C. National Guard to help lead that effort.”
Abbott tweeted in response, saying “D.C. is experiencing a fraction of the disastrous impact the border crisis has caused Texas.”
“Mayor Bowser should stop attacking Texas for securing the border &amp; demand Joe Biden do his job,” he added.

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Migrant women in detention centers might soon be given the option of getting an abortion even if the procedure is illegal within the state where the woman is held.
A memorandum from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Acting Director Tae Johnson offered details regarding the new policy.
&#8220;This memorandum serves as a reminder of existing ICE policies and standards requiring that pregnant individuals detained in ICE immigration custody have access to full reproductive health care,&#8221; read the letter sent to agency official Corey Price, as first <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/ice-says-immigrant-women-in-custody-still-entitled-to-abortion-services-11657639375?mod=panda_wsj_author_alert" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> by The Wall Street Journal.
&#8221;This is also a reminder that, pursuant to existing ICE policy, it may be necessary to transfer a detained pregnant individual within an area of responsibility (AOR) or to another AOR, when appropriate and practicable, in order to ensure such access,&#8221; it added.
ICE facilities already allow abortions for migrants in cases of rape, incest, or a threat to a mother&#8217;s life, per the agency&#8217;s current regulations. The new policy would allow the expansion of access for those detained and awaiting the outcome of asylum claims.
The change is also an action to address trigger laws and new restrictions added in several conservative-led states following the overturn of Roe v. Wade in June. The new ICE policy would take precedence in states with laws that strongly limit abortion, allowing abortions in states where they would otherwise be illegal.
It is unclear how many women the new policy could impact. Though the number of migrants crossing the nation&#8217;s southern border has surged during the Biden administration, the number of women in detention who would seek an abortion while detained is unknown.
The upcoming policy change also signals a strong contrast with former President Donald Trump. Trump administration leaders sought to ban abortion procedures for minor women in detention by ICE, leading to a lengthy legal battle that ended in 2020 with a <a href="https://www.aclu.org/joint-stipulation-dismissal-without-prejudice" target="_blank" rel="noopener">policy</a> that prohibits Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) staff and staff employed by any ORR-funded shelter from blocking or interfering with an unaccompanied pregnant minor&#8217;s access to abortion.
The memo also follows an executive order signed last week by President Joe Biden that seeks to preserve access to abortion. The order will not change the overturn of Roe v. Wade but offers other options for women who seek abortion access.
“Let me be clear. While I wish it had not come to this, this is the fastest route available,” Biden <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2022/07/08/remarks-by-president-biden-on-protecting-access-to-reproductive-health-care-services/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. “The fastest way to restore Roe is to pass a national law codifying Roe, which I will sign immediately upon its passage on my desk.”
Biden also encouraged Americans to vote in record numbers to support abortion access. He noted the need for two additional pro-abortion rights senators and a pro-abortion rights House needed to &#8220;codify Roe&#8221; as federal law.
“I don’t think the Court—or for that matter the Republicans who for decades have pushed their extreme agenda—have a clue about the power of American women. But they’re about to find out,” Biden said.

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Federal, state, and local authorities announced the rescue of 70 missing children in parts of the American Southwest and Northern Mexico.
“Operation Lost Souls” recovered the missing children — many of whom were runaways ranging between the ages of 10 and 17 — throughout Texas, as well as the state of Colorado and Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, according to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) <a href="https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/hsi-el-paso-locates-recovers-70-missing-children-multi-agency-operation#:~:text=TX%20Child%20Exploitation-,HSI%20El%20Paso%20locates%2C%20recovers%2070,children%20in%20multi%2Dagency%20operation&amp;text=EL%20PASO%20%E2%80%93%20Homeland%20Security%20Investigations,week%20operation%20in%20West%20Texas">press release</a>.
The operation ran from the end of April through the middle of May, and its results were announced on May 25, which is also National Missing Children’s Day.
The rescued children included victims of sex trafficking and physical and sexual abuse. According to ICE, the agencies involved provided counseling to the children and their families.
“Operation Lost Souls exemplifies Homeland Security Investigations’ commitment to protecting the public from crimes of victimization. In this case, we are looking out for our children — our community’s most precious resource,” HSI El Paso Deputy Special Agent Taekuk Cho said in the press release. “HSI is committed to continue working with our law enforcement partners to locate, recover and help missing children heal, while ensuring that perpetrators are held responsible for these heinous crimes and brought to justice.”
“At the Department of Public Safety, teamwork is one of our core values,” Texas DPS Major Matthew Mull added. “We are grateful for all of our law enforcement partners who participated in this operation and who work around-the-clock every day to protect our communities, including our youth.”
The announcement of “Operation Lost Souls” comes days after authorities arrested eight individuals in connection with a 15-year-old girl who was allegedly <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/texas-girl-trafficked-mavericks-dallas-suspects-arrested-oklahoma">trafficked from a Dallas Mavericks game</a> on April 8.
The girl allegedly separated from her father to use the restroom at the game and was later seen leaving the American Airlines Center with an unknown man. A few days later, the Texas Counter-Trafficking Initiative found the girl’s nude photos displayed on a website associated with prostitution. Police in Oklahoma City were able to recover the victim on April 18 — 11 days after her disappearance.
&#8220;We are thankful for the work of the Oklahoma City Police Department and the recovery of our daughter. My heart breaks for the unimaginable things my daughter had to endure for the 11 days she was taken, and I am so glad she is safe as we work toward her recovery,&#8221; the girl&#8217;s mother said in a May 5 statement.
Zeke Fortenberry, an attorney representing the family, questioned how the male suspect who allegedly lured the girl from the arena was able to obtain a fraudulent ticket.
&#8220;The systems and organizations involved in this case continually failed the victim. She should never have had contact with the man at the Mavericks game,” Fortenberry said. “This victim’s life will forever be changed.”
Following an interview on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/show/candace">Candace</a> last year, Tim Ballard — a former Department of Homeland Security special agent and founder of <a href="https://ourrescue.org/">Operation Underground Railroad</a> — explained that Americans are the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/how-many-more-can-we-get-out-inside-the-frontline-battle-to-end-child-sex-trafficking">largest drivers of demand</a> for the $150 billion global sex trafficking industry.
“The country with the highest demand is going to be the country most exposed to sexual material,” Ballard said. “And so, what country is as large as the United States where everyone has access to the internet? None. So that’s my theory as to why the United States is the largest consumer.”

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The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) awarded a massive sum to a nonprofit for migrant detention at six hotels, but $17 million &#8220;went largely unused,&#8221; while the agency oddly accepted an unsolicited contract proposal while not considering others, according to the Department of Homeland Security.
ICE has been using housing for detained family units since 2001, an inspector general <a href="https://www.oversight.gov/sites/default/files/oig-reports/DHS/OIG-22-37.pdf">report</a> says. Amid a migrant surge in March 2021 and the anticipation of more to come, the federal agency entered into a $86.9 million contract with the nonprofit Endeavors for a six-month period. The money was for 1,239 beds and other hotel services in Texas and Arizona.
&#8220;ICE did not adequately justify the need for the sole source contract to house migrant families and spent approximately $17 million for hotel space and services at six hotels that went largely unused between April and June 2021,&#8221; the inspector general report found. &#8220;ICE’s sole source contract with Endeavors resulted in millions of dollars spent on unused hotel space.&#8221;
As opposed to following the government&#8217;s competitive procurement process, ICE awarded the nonprofit with a sole contract after receiving an unsolicited proposal. Under the Federal Acquisition Regulation, government contracts are required to be awarded through an open competitive process.
It is typical for an agency to weigh proposals from contractors following a government request, but ICE neglected this process and said the &#8220;unusual and compelling urgency&#8221; of the migrant situation required accepting Endeavors&#8217; offer, according to the report.
ICE claimed that Endeavors &#8220;was the only known source capable&#8221; to fulfill the thousands of migrant beds but the DHS found no proof of this. The inspector general report notes that ICE used a different contractor in 2021 for housing services, but that the contractor and others were not given the opportunity to submit proposals.
&#8220;Based on our analysis of ICE’s justification for sole sourcing the contract to Endeavors, we determined ICE did not have supporting documentation to establish that Endeavors was the only contractor that could provide the services needed,&#8221; the report states. &#8220;ICE records showed that Endeavors had no experience providing the services covered by the sole source contract, including hotel beds or all-inclusive emergency family residential services.
ICE did not respond to a request for comment from The Daily Wire.
Of the $17 million allocated for hotel space and services, roughly $16.98 million was spent on unused beds at hotels, the report found. At an El Paso, Texas, hotel, there was an average usage of only 21% from April to June 2021 — and 45% at a Phoenix hotel.
<div id="attachment_369702" style="width: 826px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-369702" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-369702 " src="https://www.dailywire.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Screen-Shot-2022-04-15-at-10.25.57-PM-1024x526.png" alt="" width="816" height="419" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/04/Screen-Shot-2022-04-15-at-10.25.57-PM-1024x526.png 1024w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/04/Screen-Shot-2022-04-15-at-10.25.57-PM-300x154.png 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/04/Screen-Shot-2022-04-15-at-10.25.57-PM-768x394.png 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/04/Screen-Shot-2022-04-15-at-10.25.57-PM.png 1348w" sizes="(max-width: 816px) 100vw, 816px" />Source: DHS OIG analysis of ICE data</div>
The report also found that Endeavors did not test migrants for COVID-19 and that &#8220;ICE standards to ensure proper care&#8221; in facilities were not followed.
&#8220;For example, families were not tested by ICE for COVID-19 prior to being transported to hotels and were not always tested by Endeavors staff upon arrival at or departure from hotels, putting migrant families and the outside population at risk of contracting COVID-19,&#8221; according to DHS.
The news comes amid reports of a record-breaking <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bidens-latest-policy-decision-related-to-southern-border-is-so-bad-that-even-beto-orourke-blasts-him">surge</a> of migrants expected at the U.S.-Mexico border. The Biden administration moved to roll back Title 42 this month — which is a Trump-era policy responsible for deporting <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/migrant-tsunami-will-worsen-due-to-title-42-rollback-former-trump-and-biden-border-patrol-chief-says">nearly</a> 1.7 million migrants — a policy that allows immigration officials to turn away immigrants due to COVID-19.

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Deportations by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) fell in 2021 to the lowest level ever recorded, according to a Friday report by the agency.
The Biden administration has taken steps to curtail ICE operations while at the same time struggling to contain an explosion in border crossings on the U.S. southern border. ICE said in a <a href="https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ice-releases-fy-2021-annual-report">release</a> that the new data reflect the agency’s focus “on threats to national security, public safety, and border security.”
“In Fiscal Year 2021, ICE officers and special agents effectively carried out their national security, public safety, and border security mission despite having to work through the devastating COVID-19 pandemic,” ICE Acting Director Tae Johnson said in a statement. “As the annual report’s data reflects, ICE’s officers and special agents focused on cases that delivered the greatest law enforcement impact in communities across the country while upholding our values as a nation.”
The report shows that ICE recorded 59,011 deportations in fiscal year 2021. That total is down by well over 120,000 from 185,884 in fiscal year 2020. The decrease is in part to enforcement changes made due to COVID-19, and due in part to a scaling back of ICE priorities. According to <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/03/11/ice-report-deporations-arrests/">The Washington Post</a>:
<blockquote>The lower numbers were partly the result of enforcement changes triggered by the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/coronavirus/?itid=lk_inline_manual_4">coronavirus</a> pandemic that have allowed U.S. agents to rapidly expel unlawful border crossers under the Title 42 public health code, a procedure that does not count as a formal deportation.
But another gauge of ICE enforcement activity — immigration arrests in the U.S. interior — also showed a significant drop relative to historic averages. Officers working for ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) made about 74,082 administrative arrests during the 2021 fiscal year, down from 104,000 during fiscal 2020 and an average of 148,000 annually from 2017 through 2019.</blockquote>
The U.S. border is reportedly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/u-s-officials-reveal-stunning-projections-for-bidens-border-crisis-significantly-worse-than-2021">projected</a> to be flooded in another record-breaking border crossings this Spring. The Biden administration is bracing for a wave of migrants that could result in border officials making up to 9,000 arrests per day. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection struggled to handle border crossers last year, making a record-breaking 1.7 million arrests. At the height of the migration, daily arrests rose up to 6,500 a day.
Former acting CBP commissioner Mark Morgan released a <a href="https://www.heritage.org/press/heritage-experts-blast-new-biden-border-crisis-numbers-lack-transparency">statement</a> in January slamming President Joe Biden over the ongoing border crisis. Morgan said:
<blockquote>More than a year ago, even as Joe Biden was preparing to roll back President Donald Trump’s effective border security policies, he claimed he did not want to end up with ‘two million people on our border.’ After a year on the job, it’s undeniable that Biden has failed even by his own basic measure.
In 12 months, CBP recorded more than two million encounters along the southwest border, a shocking and historic number. But that number does not include an estimated 600,000 or more ‘got-aways,’ individuals who cross the border illegally but which Border Patrol is unable to detain. And then there are the ‘turn-backs,’ those who make an effort to cross the border but eventually give up and return to their country of origin. Under Biden, that number was around 400,000. Under Joe Biden, more than three million people have tried to violate America’s sovereignty and illegally enter our country. This is not only the worst border crisis in American history—it’s the worst 12 months for any president when it comes to border security.</blockquote>
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