U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has arrested an illegal alien who was previously jailed for alleged rape and other criminal charges.
Jesus Romero-Bisos was released by the Philadelphia Police Department on October 17 even though ICE had placed an immigration detainer. Philadelphia police had arrested Romer-Bisos “or the criminal offenses of rape, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse by forcible compulsion, unlawful contact with a minor/sex offense, statutory sexual assault, aggravated indecent assault without consent, sexual assault, endangering the welfare of a child, corruption of minors, indecent assault of a person less than 13 years old, reckless endangerment of another person and harassment,” ICE <a href="https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ice-captures-illegal-alien-released-philadelphia-custody-despite-detainer-criminal">reported</a>.
Romero-Bisos was also charged “in a second scheme of criminal conduct with unlawful restraint with serious bodily injury, indecent assault without consent, simple assault and harassment.
Despite these charges and the immigration detainer, the Philadelphia police department released Romero-Bisos. The police department told The Daily Wire that all inquiries regarding Romero-Bisos’ release were being referred to the office of Philadelphia Mayor James Kenney. The mayor’s office did not immediately return a Daily Wire inquiry.
Three weeks later, on November 8, deportation officers with ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) found Romero-Bisos and arrested him. He is currently in ICE custody pending immigration proceedings.
“ICE is willing to work with local law enforcement at all times,” said ICE Philadelphia Field Office Director Simona Flores-Lund. “ICE shares the city’s ultimate objective to protect public safety and national security while simultaneously preserving the critical community-police bond. Unfortunately, elected officials are putting politics before the law, and most significantly before the safety of the communities they swore to serve.”
Philadelphia is a sanctuary city, meaning it won’t cooperate with federal immigration officials to deport illegal immigrants. As ICE explained, these policies put citizens at risk by allowing potentially dangerous individuals into the communities. The organization said that the lack of cooperation from local law enforcement increases “the likelihood that other individuals previously not targeted for arrest will be taken into ICE custody.”
This incident has occurred even though ICE field agents in Philadelphia arrested 45 illegal immigrants in Pennsylvania, Delaware, and West Virginia. As The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ice-offices-across-the-country-arrested-hundreds-of-criminal-illegal-immigrants-last-week">reported</a>, most of the illegal immigrants arrested had previous criminal histories, “including driving under the influence and sex-related crimes.”
“ERO deportation officers are committed to enforcing the immigration laws set forth by our legislators,” said Simona Flores-Lund, field office director for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Philadelphia at the time of the arrests. “Targeted operations like this reflect the vital public service that ERO officers do every day to protect the nation, we will continue to conduct similar operations, while seeking to ultimately remove criminal aliens with a final order of removal and other immigration fugitives who pose a threat to public safety.”
Many of the illegal immigrants arrested by ICE at the time had been released from prison despite detainers requested by federal immigration officials.

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Former Vice President Joe Biden brushed off mounting calls from within the Democratic Party to abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Friday afternoon, noting that the agency can be reformed with proper leadership.
&#8220;We shouldn&#8217;t abolish ICE. We should reform the system. ICE is not the problem,&#8221; Biden <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/biden-knocks-left-wing-of-democratic-party-we-shouldnt-abolish-ice">told reporters</a> at a campaign stop in Concord, New Hampshire. &#8220;The policies behind ICE are the problem, and that is easy enough to fix if the president knows what he or she is doing.&#8221;
Biden&#8217;s remarks come on the heels of a recently released immigration plan by his Democratic rival, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT). The proposal is a sweeping set of policy initiatives, which in addition to abolishing the immigration enforcement agency also imposes a moratorium on all deportations, grants complete welfare access to illegal immigrants, and accept no less than 50,000 individuals in the first year who are migrating to the United States because of climate change.
The plan was reportedly crafted in partnership with various illegal immigrants who are currently residing in the country and are shielded from deportation by former President Barack Obama&#8217;s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
&#8220;My father came to America as a refugee without a nickel in his pocket, to escape widespread anti-Semitism, and find a better life,&#8221; Sanders said during the release of his proposal. &#8220;As the proud son of an immigrant, I know that my father&#8217;s story is the story of so many Americans today. When I am in the White House, we will stop the hatred towards our immigrant brothers and sisters, end family separation, and locking children up in cages.&#8221;
Biden, however, has been relatively vague on his immigration stances and has yet to release a detailed immigration platform. The presidential hopeful has called for comprehensive changes to the U.S. immigration system that would increase the current level of immigrants, legalize the status of DREAMers, and provide a pathway to citizenship for the illegal immigrants living in the United States that don&#8217;t have a criminal record and are employed.
During the second Democratic National Committee (DNC) primary debate, Biden revealed that he still opposed decriminalizing border crossings, stating that those seeking to immigrate &#8220;have to wait in line.&#8221;
&#8220;The fact of the matter is, you should be able to – if you cross the border illegally, you should be able to be sent back,&#8221; Biden said at the time. &#8220;It&#8217;s a crime.&#8221;
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), who ended her bid for the presidency in August, was one of the first 2020 Democratic contenders to call for abolishing the agency. She received widespread backlash months earlier after saying multiple times that ICE needs to be abolished, but her comments came at a time when numerous other congressmen were advocating for the abolishment of the agency as well.
House Democrats introduced a bill in early July to abolish ICE, but after House Minority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) announced he planned to bring the proposed bill to a vote, those same Democrats called it a &#8220;political stunt,&#8221; and vowed to vote against their own proposal.

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As of right now, most national head-to-head polls for the 2020 presidential general election show President Donald Trump losing to his Democratic Party presidential primary rivals. This trend generally holds, regardless of whether the nominee is any of the leading top three Democratic candidates: Former Vice President <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/us/general_election_trump_vs_biden-6247.html">Joe Biden</a>, Sen. <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/us/general_election_trump_vs_warren-6251.html">Elizabeth Warren</a> (D-MA), or Sen. <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/us/general_election_trump_vs_sanders-6250.html">Bernie Sanders</a> (I-VT).
While the Trump campaign might be tempted to rest on its laurels and sneer at the polls based upon a look back at the perceived polling debacle that was the 2016 presidential election, such a move would be just as haughty as it is myopic. As Harry Enten&#8217;s <a href="https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/trump-is-just-a-normal-polling-error-behind-clinton/">article</a> from November 4, 2016 — that would be four days before the general election — presciently pointed out, in retrospect, polling from the 2016 election cycle was not actually irreconcilable with a Trump victory. Trump obviously trailed Hillary Clinton in the polls, but his victory was actually not outside the realm of polling feasibility — or even outside the realm of polling reasonableness.
As such, the 2020 Trump re-election campaign would be wise to focus on what it can do to win over a larger share of independent, moderate, and suburban voters. In doing so, the Trump campaign would be wise to look back to a much-ballyhooed part of Karl Rove&#8217;s 2004 blueprint for George W. Bush&#8217;s re-election: Specifically, that campaign&#8217;s ingenious focus on the &#8220;<a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/security-moms-bushs-secret-election-weapon-gl6jc8cxr7j">security mom</a>.&#8221; The mythical &#8220;security mom,&#8221; at the time, was symbolized by the proverbial suburban mother who was worried about revanchist Islamist terrorism and sought to protect her home and family against those who would seek to kill us.
Although some of the specific animating issues have changed over the past 15 years, there is tremendous potential this election cycle for Trump to deploy similar messaging and reach out to a similar sect of voters.
Violent crime in America, despite overall dramatically declining since the 1990s, has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hammer-in-defense-of-prosecutors">unfortunately spiked</a> over the past few years. Why isn&#8217;t Trump formally renouncing the <a href="https://www.providencejournal.com/news/20191004/he-was-released-early-from-prison-in-february-now-hes-wanted-for-murder-on-federal-hill">harrowing</a> First Step Act jailbreak law, the passage of which he apparently already <a href="https://www.conservativereview.com/news/trump-reportedly-regrets-passage-jailbreak-first-step-act-gullible-conservatives-supported/">regrets</a>, and doubling down on &#8220;Willie Horton&#8221;-style anti-crime messaging?
Left-wing Democrats are campaigning harder than ever on anti-Second Amendment, gun-grabbing policy proposals. Why isn&#8217;t Trump leading Republicans on a 2020 platform of cracking down on the gun felons that <a href="https://www.city-journal.org/html/decriminalization-delusion-14037.html">light-on-crime</a> jurisdictions like California seem <a href="https://calmatters.org/gun-violence/2019/10/felons-firearms-california-federal-charges-gun-control-newsom/">hellbent on unleashing</a> upon the general public?
The global jihad — as embodied both by the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hammer-designating-muslim-brotherhood-terrorist-josh-hammer">Muslim Brotherhood</a>, the mother&#8217;s milk of Sunni jihad, as well as more public-facing Islamist outfits like al-Qaeda and Islamic State — continues, 18 years after 9/11, to pose a threat to the U.S. homeland. Why isn&#8217;t Trump running on a platform of discussing not just the wall and border security, but also the arguably even more indispensable issue of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hammer-border-wall-nice-interior-enforcement-nicer-josh-hammer">interior visa enforcement</a>? What about the need to radically <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hammer-never-forget-911-we-need-rethink-how-we-josh-hammer">restructure our immigration policy</a> away from letting in largely unvetted populations of Middle Easterners?
Across the nation, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hammer-who-will-stand-for-the-forgotten-american">neo-Confederate</a> &#8220;sanctuary&#8221; jurisdictions employ anti-<a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/articlevi">Supremacy Clause</a> erroneous legal &#8220;reasoning&#8221; to defy <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=1&amp;ved=2ahUKEwiHsv7v4LXjAhWTHM0KHZKMB7gQFjAAegQIAxAB&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.law.cornell.edu%2Fuscode%2Ftext%2F8%2F1324&amp;usg=AOvVaw2EunpYa249SvA-oBwwFrS2">federal immigration law</a>, ignore ICE detainers on <a href="https://www.conservativereview.com/news/another-illegal-alien-arrested-brutal-rape-notorious-sanctuary-montgomery-county/">violent criminal aliens</a>, and aid and abet the work of the transnational Mexican cartels that traffick drugs and criminals alike into the homeland. Why isn&#8217;t Trump proposing more aggressive policies to strip federal funding away from sanctuary jurisdictions and effectively message to suburban voters that the government will act to help prevent MS-13 thugs from terrorizing their neighborhoods?
There are a myriad other examples, to be sure. But to maximize its 2020 re-election chances, the Trump campaign ought to focus more intensively on appealing to moderates and suburban swing voters. In order to do so, there is no better platform than a safety and security agenda tailored to the very &#8220;security moms&#8221; that President Bush so effectively courted in 2004.

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Police in Chicago were warned not to cooperate with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on issues of immigration.
The Chicago Police Department (CPD)sent a memo, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/chicago-police-dont-cooperate-dhs-immigration">obtained by Fox News</a>, to officers in late September telling them to wait for a supervisor to arrive before assisting DHS. Upon arrival, the supervisor will direct CPD officers to leave the scene, “if the request is to assist with an immigration arrest or detention. Fox News confirmed the authenticity of the memo but could not determine whether Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot was behind the directive.
Several sources within the CPD told Fox that the new policy puts both departments at risk.
“See what happens when that happens and a DHS agent is injured because of a lack of response by CPD. Sickening what’s happening here,” one source told the outlet.
“You’ll not find a single real police officer that would refuse to assist another agency,” said another.
Chicago is one of at least 36 sanctuary cities in the United States that refuse to cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, an agency within DHS. In addition to dozens of cities, whole counties and states are also considered to be sanctuaries for illegal immigrants.
A DHS spokesperson told Fox that the memo to Chicago police officers was dangerous.
“The Department of Homeland Security is deeply concerned with the dangerous anti-law enforcement direction given by the leadership of the Chicago Police Department. The men and women of ICE put their lives on the line every day to protect the citizens of this country from dangerous criminals,” the spokesperson told the outlet. “Failing to support fellow law enforcement officers upon request for assistance not only places our heroic police officers in greater danger but keeps criminals on the streets and makes all of our communities less safe, specifically the great City of Chicago.”
The CPD told the outlet that law enforcement would assist a federal agent who is in danger but would not assist in the arrest. Instead, they will “advise and leave the scene.”
The new policy for CPD came around the same time that a Virginia police officer was suspended <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/police-officer-suspended-after-cooperating-with-ice">for cooperating with ICE</a>.
The officer was suspended after responding to a vehicle crash. During routine license checks, the officer discovered that one of the drivers had a warrant out for his arrest for failing to appear for a deportation hearing. The officer notified the ICE contact listed on the notification of the warrant, who was nearby. The officer then arrested the driver and turned them over to the ICE agent.
Fairfax County Police Chief Edwin Roessler Jr. said in <a href="https://fcpdnews.wordpress.com/2019/10/01/chief-roesslers-statement-on-officers-custodial-detention-and-ice-notification/?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social">a statement</a> that officer violated a department order requiring them to ignore such a notification unless the person in question is “being taken into custody for any other violation of law.” Roessler emphasized in his statement that officers are extensively trained on this distinction and that the suspended officer “deprived a person of their freedom, which is unacceptable.”
The arrested driver spent three hours in custody and was released.

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Singer Selena Gomez is &#8220;afraid&#8221; for the United States due to the ongoing illegal immigration crisis and hopes Americans will feel more empathy and compassion for illegal immigrants.
In an op-ed for <a href="https://time.com/5690070/selena-gomez-americas-immigration-crisis/">TIME</a>, the &#8220;Good for You&#8221; singer recalls her own family&#8217;s history of illegal immigration, starting when her aunt crossed the border in the 1970s — followed by her grandparents, who then bore her father in Texas.
&#8220;In 1992, I was born a U.S. citizen thanks to their bravery and sacrifice,&#8221; writes Gomez. &#8220;Over the past four decades, members of my family have worked hard to gain United States citizenship. Undocumented immigration is an issue I think about every day, and I never forget how blessed I am to have been born in this country thanks to my family and the grace of circumstance. But when I read the news headlines or see debates about immigration rage on social media, I feel afraid for those in similar situations. I feel afraid for my country.&#8221;
While Selena Gomez acknowledges immigration is a &#8220;divisive political issue,&#8221; the remainder of her essay focuses solely on the plight of the illegal immigrant — thereby neglecting the litany of Americans who have been negatively affected by an open southern border, from drugs trafficked to wages slashed.
&#8220;It is a human issue, affecting real people, dismantling real lives. How we deal with it speaks to our humanity, our empathy, our compassion. How we treat our fellow human beings defines who we are,&#8221; she writes. &#8220;I understand it’s flawed and that we need rules and regulations, but we also have to remember that our country was formed by people who came here from other countries. It’s time to listen to the people whose lives are being directly affected by immigration policies. It’s time to get to know the individuals whose complex stories have been reduced to basic headlines.&#8221;
Gomez goes on to write about her experience producing the documentary series &#8220;Living Undocumented,&#8221; which, again, did not fully explore the highly complex issue of illegal immigration and instead merely focuses &#8220;on eight immigrant families in the U.S. from different countries and backgrounds, all facing possible deportation.&#8221;
&#8220;I watched footage outlining their deeply personal journeys and I cried,&#8221; she cried. &#8220;It captured the shame, uncertainty, and fear I saw my own family struggle with. But it also captured the hope, optimism, and patriotism so many undocumented immigrants still hold in their hearts despite the hell they go through.&#8221;
After describing the individuals and their stories, Gomez expresses her concern by the way people are being treated in the United States. She makes this claim several months after she said the anti-abortion laws in Alabama and Georgia were &#8220;<a href="https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/heres-how-selena-gomez-is-taking-a-stand-against-anti-abortion-laws.html/">deeply upsetting</a>.&#8221;
&#8220;To see what is happening right now in Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi and several other states in our country is not only deeply upsetting but seems that it can’t possibly be real in 2019. It’s no one’s business what a woman chooses to do with her body. End of story,&#8221; she wrote on her Instagram back in May.

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A police officer in Virginia was suspended late last month after reporting a potential illegal immigrant to Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Fairfax County Police Chief Edwin Roessler Jr. released <a href="https://fcpdnews.wordpress.com/2019/10/01/chief-roesslers-statement-on-officers-custodial-detention-and-ice-notification/?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social">a statement</a> on Tuesday about the incident, which occurred on September 21. Roessler said the officer, who has not been named, was gathering details about a traffic accident when they discovered one of the driver’s involved did not have a Virginia Operator’s license. The officer obtained additional information from the driver to run a check with state DMV records. Upon doing so, the officer received a notification from ICE that the driver was wanted for failing to appear for a deportation hearing.
The officer contacted the ICE agent listed on the notification and was advised that they would arrive shortly. The officer then issued the driver a uniform summons for not having a license. The officer then detained the driver and handed them over to the ICE agent.
Roessler said that police officers are not to hand people over to ICE unless they are being arrested for another crime, citing FCPD General Order 601-Arrest procedures (VIII c. 5. 3.):
<blockquote>If the response reads “OUTSTANDING ADMINISTRATIVE WARRANT OF REMOVAL” and the individual is not in custody or being taken into custody for any other violation of law, officers shall not confirm the hit through LESC and shall not take the individual into custody based solely upon the IVF hit. The majority of such administrative warrants represent civil violations of immigration law.</blockquote>
Roessler also noted that police officers are trained extensively not to detain individuals “for administrative warrants” and said the FCPD has “no authority to enforce federal law.”
Roessler said the officer “deprived a person of their freedom, which is unacceptable.” ICE told the department that the driver was released with an ankle monitor after three hours in custody.
“When I learned of this event, I directed an immediate internal investigation to look at all factors in this matter to ensure that all are held accountable for this violation. Our county is one of the most diverse counties in the nation and no one should have the perception that FCPD is acting as a civil immigration agent for ICE,” Roessler said. “This matter damages our reputation and the longstanding policy that I have stated many times that our officers shall not act as immigration agents. The officer involved in this event has been relieved of all law enforcement duties pending the outcome of this investigation. It is my duty to enforce our FCPD &#8212; and Fairfax County &#8212; policies and hold all accountable for their actions.”
Roessler <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/fairfax-county-officer-suspended-for-turning-driver-over-to-ice-after-accident-police-say/2019/10/01/ff4a161e-e46b-11e9-b403-f738899982d2_story.html">told The Washington Post</a> that the officer who detained the immigrant had been a policeman for a “few years.” Roessler added that the officer did not willfully violate the department’s policy and was aware of his mistake.
“This is an unfortunate issue where the officer was confused,” Roessler told the outlet. “We have trained on this issue a lot. This is the first time we’ve had a lapse in judgment, and the officer is being punished.”

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More than 100 additional arrests were made during last week’s Immigration Customs and Enforcement’s operation than previously reported.
The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ice-offices-across-the-country-arrested-hundreds-of-criminal-illegal-immigrants-last-week">reported</a> Saturday that 443 illegal immigrants, the majority of which had previous criminal histories, were arrested as part of a week-long enforcement action by ICE. The agency has since released new information showing that an additional 154 criminal aliens were arrested during that time throughout the Midwest and in the Washington, D.C. and Virginia areas.
Fifty-seven illegal immigrants were arrested in D.C. and Virginia, including 41 with prior arrests, pending charges, or past convictions for crimes including sexual assault, aggravated assault, driving under the influence and drug-related offenses.
“We focus our resources on those who pose a threat to public safety. The arrests made during this targeted enforcement action required weeks of preparation and research by our officers,” said Lyle Boelens, acting field office director for ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations office in Washington, D.C. “This is the kind of work our officers do every day to help make our communities safer.”
A <a href="https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ice-targeted-enforcement-action-nets-57-arrests-over-5-day-period-va-dc">press release</a> from the office stated that nationally, “approximately 90% of all people arrested by ICE during fiscal year 2019 either had a criminal conviction, a pending criminal charge, had illegally re-entered the United States after being previously removed (a felony charge) or were an immigration fugitive subject to a judge’s final order of removal.
The agency emphasized its focus on illegal immigrants who “pose a threat to national security, public safety and border security,” but said it did not exempt those without criminal records who have entered the country illegally.
In the Midwest, 97 criminal aliens and other immigration violators were arrested across six states. Twenty-eight were arrested in Illinois, 14 in Indiana, 22 in Kansas, 12 in Kentucky, 10 in Missouri, and 11 in Wisconsin. The agency said in <a href="https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ice-arrests-97-criminal-aliens-and-immigration-violators-5-day-enforcement-surge-6">a press release</a>  that more than half of those arrested had prior criminal histories. Those histories included convictions for “assault, battery, domestic violence, child exploitation, sexual assault, driving under the influence (DUI), drug possession, re-entry after deportation, resisting officers, obstruction of justice, hit-and-run and illegally possessing weapons.”
Fifteen of the illegal immigrants arrested were immigration fugitives and another 19 had illegally re-entered the U.S. after a previous deportation.
Offices across the country, from Colorado to New England, had announced the arrests of more than 400 criminal aliens. As with those arrested in the Midwest and D.C., the majority had prior criminal histories that included convictions and charges for sexual assault (including sexual assault of minors), burglary, assault, domestic violence, driving under the influence, and drug-related offenses.
For many ICE offices, local policies regarding illegal immigrants made it difficult for agents to apprehend dangerous criminals. In a statement, acting field office director for ERO Denver, John Fabbricatore, called out Colorado’s policies.
“Our ICE officers still managed to find and detain many dangerous criminals despite the Colorado law that prohibits local law enforcement jurisdictions from cooperating with ICE,” Fabbricatore said. “We continually work to keep our communities safe from Colorado’s misguided priorities of protecting criminal aliens at the expense of its citizens.”

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On Thursday, new acts were added to New York City’s list of what constitutes “hate.”
The NYC Commission on Human Rights announced “new legal enforcement guidance and actions against discrimination based on immigration status and national origin.”
The new crimes include, according to a press release from the commission, “Threatening to call [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] when motivated by discrimination, derogatory use of the term ‘illegal alien,’ and discrimination based on limited English proficiency are unlawful discriminatory treatment under the NYC Human Rights Law.”
The commission also said it was “currently investigating 4 cases involving discrimination based on threats to call ICE in order to harass, threaten, or intimidate a victim.”
It is unclear exactly how an alleged instance of discrimination could be investigated, considering the “he said/she said” nature of the allegations. Either a lot of cases will result in no findings or New York City residents will lose some due process rights in order to determine their guilt. And this says nothing of the First Amendment rights for speech — even objectionable speech.
“In the face of increasingly hostile national rhetoric, we will do everything in our power to make sure our treasured immigrant communities are able to live with dignity and respect, free of harassment and bias,&#8221; Human Rights Commission Chair Carmelyn P. Malalis said in a statement <a href="https://patch.com/new-york/new-york-city/telling-nyers-speak-english-could-draw-250k-fine-city-says">published by Patch</a>. &#8220;Today&#8217;s guidance makes abundantly clear that there is no room for discrimination in NYC.&#8221;
The commission told the outlet that it was actually investigating seven cases where landlords threatened to call immigration services on tenants for not paying their rent.
The new guidance “defines discrimination on the basis of perceived or actual immigration status and national origin under the New York City Human Rights Law in public accommodations, employment, and housing.”
“The guidance states that the use of the term ‘illegal alien,’ among others, when used with intent to demean, humiliate, or harass a person, is illegal under the law,” the commission said in its press release. “Further, the guidance stipulates that harassing or discriminating against someone for their use of another language or their limited English proficiency, and threatening to call ICE on a person based on a discriminatory motive, are considered to be in violation of the law.”
Those found in violation face fines of up to $250,000, which “can be assessed for each act of willful discrimination, and damages are available to complainants.”
That last part — about providing damages to accusers — could set up the new policy for abuse. Need money? Accuse your employer of discrimination.
Patch provided some examples of how New York City residents could be in violation of the new guidance:
<blockquote>A store owner would violate the law if he tells two shoppers speaking Thai to &#8220;speak English&#8221; and &#8220;go back to your country,&#8221; the guidance says. Forcings [sic] prospective tenants who appear not to be U.S. citizens to put down six months of rent as a security deposit while only requiring one month&#8217;s rent from those thought to be citizens would also be illegal, according to the commission.</blockquote>

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Former ICE director Tom Homan slammed Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) and her Democratic colleagues on Thursday for holding President Donald Trump and his administration to a different standard than they had for former President Barack Obama.
During the House Judiciary Committee&#8217;s hearing on immigrant detention facilities, Jayapal criticized the Trump administration for skirting Congressional authority and financing agency operations with millions of dollars that were initially slated for other functions.
&#8220;I&#8217;d like to remind you that under the Obama administration we did that most of the years he was president. We moved money around [the Department of Homeland Security] &#8212; it&#8217;s called reprogramming,&#8221; Homan responded. &#8220;We did that under the Obama administration and I don&#8217;t remember any hearings on that.&#8221;
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Homan also fired back over Democrats&#8217; seeming outrage regarding family separation. During the Obama administration, the federal courts ruled that the government is prohibited from detaining children for longer than 20 days. Since the 20-day window is generally not long enough to process the detained families, children and their accompanying adults are consequently separated as not to violate what is referred to as the Flores Settlement Agreement. However, Democrats have been lambasting Trump for residing over policies that keep children in cages.
&#8220;You are quick to point out the cages that were built under the Obama administration. I was there. Family detention &#8212; we had 100 family beds under the Obama administration and we built 3,000 more,&#8221; Homan said. &#8220;When there was a surge in [2014 and 2015], Congress was quick to give all the money we needed to build detention facilities, get transportation contracts. We reprogrammed money out of the majority of the years he was president &#8212; that was fine.&#8221;
&#8220;If this is about transparency, let&#8217;s be factual about it,&#8221; he added.
Jayapal, who serves as the subcommittee&#8217;s chairwoman, tried to defend her position by stating that she was never in favor of those policies, even while Obama was in office. She subsequently cut off Homan&#8217;s time.
&#8220;Be honest with the American people. You can&#8217;t point out faults in the Trump administration when it happened under the Obama administration,&#8221; he interjected. &#8220;That&#8217;s dishonesty. It&#8217;s pathetic and it&#8217;s sad.&#8221;
Earlier during the hearing, Homan took a shot at Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and members of her Democratic caucus for vilifying law enforcement officers. The self-proclaimed &#8220;radical&#8221; congresswoman ignited a firestorm in June after she compared illegal immigrant detention facilities to Nazi concentration camps.
While members of the media and some of her Democratic colleagues tried to defend the comparison, she was largely met with backlash for her historical inaccuracy and insensitivity to the millions of Jews who were slaughtered in concentration camps during the Holocaust.
&#8220;That comparison is 100% inaccurate and it is disgusting,&#8221; Homan said during the hearing. &#8220;Now forgive me, I didn&#8217;t think Nazi death camps had detention standards, I didn&#8217;t think they had health care, I didn&#8217;t think they had recreation, law libraries, visitation, three squares a day. It&#8217;s an insulting comparison.&#8221;
Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO) later reiterated the offensiveness of the comparison.
&#8220;Thank you for saying that,&#8221; Homan responded. &#8220;I wish someone in Democratic leadership would say that out loud.&#8221;
&#8220;Look, you want to know why there is 50,000 people in detention? You want to know why there are a million illegal entries in the United States? You want to know why we have these issues? Because you have failed to secure the border,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;You guys failed to work with this president to close the three loopholes we&#8217;ve asked for two years to close.&#8221; You have failed the American people by not securing the border.&#8221;
Jayapal again cut off Homan&#8217;s time and slammed the gavel for silence.

Tom Homan at roundtable

WATCH: Former ICE Director Slams Progressive Lawmaker For &#8216;Pathetic And Sad&#8217; Dishonesty In Fiery Exchange

Abolish ICE thugs in Colorado want to see the homes and families of immigration enforcement officials set aflame.
Denver communists want alien detention facility employees dead, swinging from nooses with broken necks.
Both groups are brazenly using Facebook to spread their inflammatory and violent messages. So, where is Silicon Valley — whose top companies partner with the Southern Poverty Law Center smear machine to de-platform conservatives, pro-lifers and Donald Trump supporters — to stop the open borders left&#8217;s escalating hate?
On Thursday, Sept. 19, Abolish ICE Denver and the Denver Communists are organizing a protest outside the house of Johnny Choate, the warden of the immigrant detention facility in Aurora, Colorado. Choate works for GEO Group, which operates the center. Instead of laying blame at the feet of global profiteers who induce illegal immigrants to risk their families&#8217; lives to trespass our borders, anti-ICE agitators are targeting homeland security employees and contractors who simply enforce federal immigration and detention laws passed by Congress.
The Denver Communists group shared a poster on Facebook with Choate&#8217;s face superimposed over a generic neighborhood map with private residential homes. &#8220;CONFRONT LA MIGRA WHERE THEY LIVE,&#8221; the radicals urged members. The graphic describes Choate as &#8220;warden of Aurora&#8217;s notorious ICE concentration camp.&#8221; That&#8217;s the same inflammatory and defamatory language popularized by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and used by antifa militant Willem Van Spronsen, who attempted to firebomb the Tacoma ICE facility, also run by GEO Group, in July.
The protest announcement also includes the phrase, &#8220;Chinga La Migra!&#8221; It&#8217;s the slogan of Mijente, a Latino activist group leading the Abolish ICE movement. Translation: &#8220;F—- the Border Patrol.&#8221;
A commenter edited a distorted image of Choate&#8217;s face surrounded by flames, suggesting arson. His post was liked by three other fans/followers/members of the Denver Communists&#8217; Facebook Group.
Another commenter leveled his own explicit thread on the Facebook page targeting Choate and his family in his home:
&#8220;Reenact human rights abuses, get hanged by the neck until dead. Simple.&#8221;
As I report in my book &#8220;Open Borders Inc.: Who&#8217;s Funding America&#8217;s Destruction?&#8221; this virulent hatred for ICE and the Border Patrol traces its ideological lineage back to the cop-bashing domestic terrorism of the 1970s that festered in academia and resulted in bloodshed across the country at the hands of the Black Liberation Army and the Weather Underground. Today&#8217;s Abolish ICE extremists harbor the same seething &#8220;Pigs in a blanket, fry &#8217;em like bacon&#8221; contempt for immigration enforcement as the &#8220;progressive&#8221; cop-haters of the 1970s and their George Soros-subsidized heirs in the Bush-era A.N.S.W.E.R. and amnesty coalitions, Code Pink, Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter movement.
The underlying mission back then was the same as now: Destabilization, disruption and destruction of civil order.
David Booth, who lives in Choate&#8217;s neighborhood, refuses to sit by while these bullies invade his community.
&#8220;I was shocked and surprised when I found out there was going to be an &#8216;ICE protest&#8217; in my neighborhood,&#8221; he told me Tuesday. Booth discovered that Abolish ICE Denver used Facebook to spread information on how they will be &#8220;going door to door in the neighborhood to let people know that a &#8216;monster&#8217; lives among us.&#8221;
Booth condemned the witch hunt headed his community&#8217;s way: &#8220;This policy of intimidation that we see the left continue to use is not OK. &#8230; I would like to see the neighborhood rise up and support this man and his family.&#8221;
I reached out to Facebook for a response to these public safety concerns, but received no answer by my deadline. For Coloradans, violent threats to law enforcement officials&#8217; neighborhoods are especially disturbing given the chilling 2013 assassination of the head of the Colorado Department of Corrections outside his home in Monument.
Booth will stand publicly in defense of his community Thursday and says he has his neighbors&#8217; support. &#8220;I think most of us, if not all, believe this protest is inappropriate regardless of where we stand on the issue of immigration,&#8221; said Booth. &#8220;Our neighbor is just doing his job, and has done nothing wrong, or illegal, in carrying out his duties.&#8221;
Following Stand With ICE rallies in Aurora, Colorado, and Montgomery County, Maryland, that have drawn nearly 1,000 citizens over the past two weeks, Booth decided he could not sit on the sidelines. He is not alone, and we have only just begun. I will join Coloradans again on Saturday, Sept. 21, when another Abolish ICE group marches to the Aurora ICE facility where the American flag was torn down in July.
If not us, who? If not now, when?
Michelle Malkin&#8217;s email address is MichelleMalkinInvestigates@protonmail.com. To find out more about Michelle Malkin and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.

Anti-ICE Protestors

MALKIN: Facebook Incites Violent War On ICE

Protesters against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) flocked to the home of Johnny Choate, warden of the Aurora, Colorado ICE facility on Thursday night, chanting &#8220;Abolish ICE!&#8221;
<a href="https://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/local-news/protest-will-target-home-of-aurora-ice-detention-center-official">Prior to the protest</a>, the group Abolish ICE enthused on Facebook, &#8220;Join us in confronting a high-level immigration-enforcement official at their home! We will also be canvassing their neighborhood and informing their neighbors about their role in the inhumane organization they work for.&#8221; Matthew Wozniak, an organizer with Abolish ICE, stated, &#8220;This is the next step in our work towards changing the system and bringing justice towards millions of families … We need to force the dialogue on folks that are so far not interested in hearing what we have to say.&#8221;
Abolish ICE Denver wrote on September 7 that high level officials were &#8220;shaking in their boots.&#8221; They <a href="https://www.facebook.com/AbolishICEDenver/photos/gm.584502552083854/439479056661677/?type=3">wrote on Facebook</a>:
<blockquote>People have been asking about ways to get involved in protesting the deplorable conditions and human rights abuses at the ICE concentration camp in Aurora, CO.
This camp is notorious for numerous outbreaks and quarantines, coverups, medical neglect, torture via solitary confinement (up to nine months) of trans, gay, and mentally ill captives, and was one of 4 camps nationwide that was recently reprimanded by *Trump&#8217;s own Department of Homeland Security* for human rights abuses. That&#8217;s unbelievably bad.
The protests, marches, and vigils are working –– high-level officials are shaking in their boots right now, knowing that the people of Colorado are continuing to escalate our DEMANDS for justice for the people held inside GEO.
We plan to peacefully assemble and exercise our First Amendment rights outside the home of Johnny Choate in Aurora, CO. Bring a sign, poster, musical instrument, and all your righteous rage and let&#8217;s make sure every one of his neighbors knows exactly what they are living next to.
Please share this infographic and invite a friend or 9! Human rights only come alive when we protest, organize, strike and rebel in order to uphold justice!</blockquote>
<a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/protesters-plan-to-bring-righteous-rage-to-warden-of-auroras-ice-concentration-camp">The Washington Examiner</a> reported that Colorado GOP Chairman Ken Buck stated, &#8220;The planned protest outside Warden Choate&#8217;s home by extreme anti-ICE protesters goes beyond the pale. Groups like Abolish ICE have demonstrated they have little regard for the rule of law, and the threatening nature of this protest should be taken very seriously. It should not be difficult for elected officials from either party to speak out against this blatant attempt to terrorize Mr. Choate, his family, and his neighbors.&#8221;
Acting Field Director for ICE John Fabbricatore told Denver7, &#8220;The intent is really on the safety of our officers. So there’s been a lot of rhetoric that has come out on various things that our officers are either unsafe or they’re not doing the right thing by the immigrant population and that is very much untrue.&#8221;
Colorado state Rep. Patrick Neville tweeted on Thursday night, &#8220;This is horrendous and awful. These thugs are threatening this man and his family at his private residence. Have they no decency? Where is GovofCO? Condemn this behavior!&#8221;
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">This is horrendous and awful. These thugs are threatening this man and his family at his private residence. Have they no decency? Where is <a href="https://twitter.com/GovofCO?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GovofCO</a>? Condemn this behavior! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/copolitics?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#copolitics</a> <a href="https://t.co/fMYHsuu9cD">pic.twitter.com/fMYHsuu9cD</a>
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The Colorado House Republicans echoed, &#8220;Radicals are marching on the home of an honorable man tonight. Yet, we still have radio silence from @GovofCO. We’re waiting, Governor. Denounce the radical and violent left now.&#8221;
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">Radicals are marching on the home of an honorable man tonight. Yet, we still have radio silence from <a href="https://twitter.com/GovofCO?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GovofCO</a>. We&#8217;re waiting, Governor. Denounce the radical and violent left now. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/StandWithICE?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#StandWithICE</a> <a href="https://t.co/JJWuoYACiR">https://t.co/JJWuoYACiR</a> <a href="https://t.co/PmCOxtJOEO">pic.twitter.com/PmCOxtJOEO</a>
— CO House Republicans (@COHouseGOP) <a href="https://twitter.com/COHouseGOP/status/1174729369731792896?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 19, 2019</a></blockquote>
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WATCH: Leftists March On Home Of ICE Colorado Warden

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These are the rules of the militant open borders media:
If you are a self-declared Donald Trump-hating &#8220;activist journalist&#8221; who works for an ethnic separatist TV network that unapologetically elevates illegal immigrants over American citizens, you get to be a &#8220;moderator&#8221; at the next Democratic presidential candidates&#8217; debate.
Case in point: Univision&#8217;s Jorge Ramos.
But if you are an activist journalist who exposes immigration anarchy, investigates the global financiers behind it and unapologetically defends American sovereignty, you are dismissed as a &#8220;conspiracy theorist&#8221; and &#8220;racist&#8221; who will never be allowed to pose counterbalancing questions at any national political forum.
Case in point: yours truly.
If there is no mainstream media bias, why is it that the most buzz-worthy immigration questions asked by the media&#8217;s phony arbiters of neutrality are all framed from the perspective of illegal immigrants — and never American citizens?
If Democrats &#8220;don&#8217;t want &#8216;open borders,'&#8221; as anointed fact-checker at the Fishwrap of Record (a.k.a. Linda Qiu of The New York Times) claims, why is it that every last Democratic candidate marches lockstep on the side of exponentially expanding government benefits, rights and privileges for illegal immigrants — driver&#8217;s licenses, in-state tuition discounts, &#8220;Medicare for All&#8221; — and never limiting them?
And why has the fundamental concept of &#8220;sovereignty&#8221; never been deemed a worthy enough topic for a stand-alone national town hall — unlike guns or climate change?
Here is my top seven list of Democratic debate questions on immigration that Jorge Ramos (and the rest of the feckless Fourth Estate elites, for that matter) won&#8217;t ask:
1) This debate is taking place on the day after the 18th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks by 19 foreign Muslim hijackers, five of whom had overstayed their temporary visas. A bipartisan commission urged our government to build a biometric entry-exit program to track and remove visa overstayers — who comprise an estimated 40% of the total illegal immigrant population. But thanks to Open Borders Inc. lobbyists from the travel industry, universities and big business, the system has never been finished. In 2018, nearly 670,000 foreigners broke the rules and overstayed their visas. Will you protect America by fulfilling the 9/11 commission&#8217;s recommendation to implement a fully functioning entry-exit program?
2) This debate is taking place in Houston, long a &#8220;sanctuary city&#8221; for illegal immigrants. The deliberate failure to check the immigration status of criminal suspects and the willful decision not to cooperate with federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents has resulted in untold deaths, including the murder of Houston police officer Rodney Johnson in 2006. Johnson&#8217;s killer had been previously deported to Mexico, re-entered illegally and was arrested at least three times for drunk driving and child molestation charges before shooting Johnson, an Army veteran and Houston PD gang unit leader, fatally during a traffic stop. Do you support the right of American citizens such as widow Joslyn Johnson, whose loved ones were murdered by repeat illegal alien criminal offenders, to sue sanctuary cities that prevent cops from communicating with ICE agents about detainees&#8217; immigration status?
3) This debate is taking place in Texas, where the notorious Mexican serial killer Angel Resendiz wantonly murdered more than 15 innocent men and women between 1986 and 1998 by exploiting our catch-and-release system. More recently, Kenyan serial killer suspect Billy Chemirmir was arrested in the gruesome smothering deaths of 12 elderly women and one grandfather across Texas. Those victims would still be alive today if Chemirmir had been deported after overstaying his visa, entering a fraudulent marriage to an American citizen and racking up multiple charges of assault and domestic violence. What is your plan — let&#8217;s start with planner-in-chief Elizabeth Warren — to prevent senseless and deadly violence committed by criminal illegal immigrant deportation fugitives?
4) Teenager Joshua Wilkerson was tortured and beaten to death by an illegal immigrant from Belize near the sanctuary city of Houston. Wilkerson&#8217;s mom, Laura, confronted Nancy Pelosi about the devastating impact sanctuary anarchy had and asked: &#8220;How do you reconcile in your head about allowing people to disavow the law?&#8221; Do you support the continued separation of American families by criminals in this country illegally protected by sanctuary policies? How do you reconcile Pelosi&#8217;s glib rhetoric that illegal immigrants are &#8220;law-abiding&#8221; with the bloody reality suffered by Rodney Johnson, Wilkerson and the dozens of victims of Angel Resendiz and Billy Chemirmir?
5) ICE agents have been doxxed, harassed, shot at and demonized as racist terrorists while trying to stop child predators, arrest drunk drivers, apprehend serial killers and prevent the next 9/11 plotted by visa overstayers, border crossers, deportation evaders and ID thieves. Do you condemn the reckless incitements to violence by the &#8220;abolish ICE&#8221; and antifa movements?
6) Will you renounce anti-ICE hate speech and return campaign donations from individuals and organizations who disseminate it? Let&#8217;s see a show of hands.
7) If you support every last gun control measure that might possibly &#8220;save just one life,&#8221; why don&#8217;t you support illegal immigrant crime control that could have averted the 100% preventable deaths of untold innocent Americans right here in Texas? Anyone? Anyone?
Michelle Malkin&#8217;s email address is MichelleMalkinInvestigates@protonmail.com. To find out more about Michelle Malkin and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.

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MALKIN: 7 Dem Debate Questions Jorge Ramos Won’t Ask

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Media Bias

According to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), roughly 500 illegal immigrants have been set free from jails across North Carolina since October 2018 even though federal detainers had been issued against them.
As <a href="https://www.wbtv.com/2019/09/09/ice-nearly-undocumented-immigrants-released-nc-jails-despite-detainer/">WBTV</a> explains, &#8220;A detainer is an administrative request from the federal government to a local law enforcement agency to hold someone in jail even after they are eligible for release on their state charge. A detainer is often used by ICE to keep undocumented immigrants in jail because removal from the country is a civil action and not a criminal matter.&#8221; WBTV noted, &#8220;According to the new ICE data obtained by WBTV, the nearly 500 undocumented immigrants who have been released in FY19 despite a federal detainer include people charged with sex offenses, kidnapping, arson and homicide.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/article222758470.html">The Charlotte Observer</a> reported in December 2018, on his first day on the job, Mecklenburg County Sheriff Garry McFadden ended the county&#8217;s 287(g) program. ICE <a href="https://www.ice.gov/287g">noted</a>, &#8220;This section of law authorizes the Director of ICE to enter into agreements with state and local law enforcement agencies, that permit designated officers to perform limited immigration law enforcement functions.&#8221;
ICE Atlanta Field Office Director Sean Gallagher issued a statement to the Charlotte Observer condemning McFadden&#8217;s withdrawal of the program, asserting that it &#8220;will inevitably result in additional collateral arrests instead of arrests at the jail where enforcement is safer for everyone involved … . In Fiscal Year 2018 the Mecklenburg County 287(g) program encountered 1,185 criminal aliens; yesterday&#8217;s decision to end this law enforcement agreement leaves them to reoffend against the people of Mecklenburg County.&#8221; ICE pointed out that it had &#8220;has 287(g) agreements with <a href="https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/article222758470.html">78 law enforcement agencies in 20 states</a>.&#8221;
After McFadden withdrew from 287 (g), other North Carolina sheriffs started following suit; in December 2018, <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/dec/10/2-more-north-carolina-sheriffs-end-agreements-with/?utm_source=GOOGLE&amp;utm_medium=cpc&amp;utm_id=chacka&amp;utm_campaign=TWT+-+DSA&amp;gclid=EAIaIQobChMIvOH5rNTG5AIVD9vACh01cQAdEAMYASAAEgKRzfD_BwE">The Washington Times</a> reported, &#8220;News outlets report that Wake County Sheriff Gerald Baker and Durham County Sheriff Clarence F. Birkhead announced their respective policy changes Friday. Wake County joins Mecklenburg County in pulling out of the federal 287(g) program … . Durham County hasn&#8217;t participated in 287(g), and it will no longer honor ICE detainers, which are used to hold suspects up to an additional 48 hours.&#8221;
A senior ICE official told WBTV:
<blockquote>The level of criminal aliens intentionally released into Mecklenburg and the surrounding counties is alarming, but even worse is that the true extent of this dangerous trend may never be fully realized … . If an illegal alien is arrested for a crime and is then released by local law enforcement without ever alerting ICE officials, a lifted detainer will never be registered in our systems and the alien may only come to our attention once it&#8217;s too late. The reality is that when they obstruct federal law enforcement&#8217;s mission of upholding our nation&#8217;s laws and keeping American&#8217;s safe, the people who lose most are those they&#8217;re supposed to put first.</blockquote>
Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) added:
<blockquote>North Carolina counties are releasing illegal immigrants charged with violent crimes like rape and murder without even notifying federal officials, jeopardizing public safety. This is why Congress needs to pass legislation I introduced to protect North Carolinians from dangerous criminals and to hold sanctuary counties responsible for refusing to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement.</blockquote>

Jail Cell

ICE: Nearly 500 Illegal Immigrants In North Carolina Had Federal Detainers But Were Released

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The Trump administration may finally be able to celebrate a win on immigration: border crossings fell by nearly half in August after the White House inked a deal with Mexican officials that improved that country&#8217;s interdiction of so-called &#8220;migrant caravans&#8221; before they reach the United States&#8217; southern border.
<a href="https://hotair.com/archives/jazz-shaw/2019/09/09/illegal-border-crossings-drop-hugely-august/">Politico reports</a> that only 51,000 arrests were made at the southern border in August, &#8220;down more than 60 percent since a peak in May,&#8221; when border arrests jumped over 100,000. Of course, 50,000-plus arrests is by no means a small number, and it&#8217;s still clear that there&#8217;s much work to be done to curb a sharp jump in illegal immigration that&#8217;s taken place over the last year, but the decline is significant.
Politico notes that experts attribute the drop in arrests to efforts on the part of the White House to come to a deal with Mexican officials — specifically Mexico&#8217;s president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who took office back in December of 2018 and pledged to improve his country&#8217;s relations with the Trump administration.
Earlier in 2019, the White House announced that it would seek tariffs on Mexican goods — and, perhaps, shut down commerce with Mexico altogether — if Mexican officials didn&#8217;t begin taking the threat of illegal immigration seriously.
Since mid-2018, caravans of thousands of migrants from Guatemala, El Salvador, and other central American countries have been snaking their way through Mexico towards the United States, often without any significant resistance from Mexican authorities. Although Mexico offered migrants the opportunity to remain in Mexico on work visas and provided free transportation back to Guatemala for the occasional migrant who ran afoul of Mexican law enforcement, thousands upon thousands of migrants were still making their way to the U.S.-Mexico border per month, clogging border patrol facilities and forcing immigration enforcement to a near standstill.
Mexican authorities responded to the White House&#8217;s threats, however, and began intercepting caravans in southern Mexico and improving immigration control at their own southern border, adding thousands of border patrol officers and empowering individual immigration offices in Mexico&#8217;s southern provinces to turn migrants back.
&#8220;Amid pressure from Trump, officials from the U.S. and Mexico reached an agreement in June that required Mexico to deploy 6,000 members of its newly formed National Guard to intercept migrants, including many from Central America,&#8221; Politico reports.
There&#8217;s also another key change in how the U.S. treats migrants that&#8217;s making a difference: &#8220;The U.S. also moved unilaterally to expand its &#8216;remain in Mexico&#8217; program, which forces certain non-Mexican asylum seekers to wait in that country pending the resolution of their cases.&#8221;
Now, migrants seeking asylum are no longer being immediately welcomed into border patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities along the southern border on the American side, making it less likely that unserious asylum seekers — those who do not meet the standard for claiming or being granted asylum — will be released into the United States pending an adjudication hearing.
President Donald Trump acknowledged the drop in a press conference, telling reporters that “The numbers are really good. I want to thank again the country of Mexico. They have 25,000 soldiers now right protecting our border. And they&#8217;ve done a fantastic job, so we appreciate that very much.&#8221;
The administration plans to assess the impact of the new measures with delegates from Mexico this week, but the plan seems to be chipping away at what was once a major problem — and it&#8217;s clear that the president&#8217;s opponents have noticed. Although immigration issues were front and center among Democrats before the summer recess — even spurring emergency congressional appearances at the border and a heavily attended protest against the administration&#8217;s immigration policies outside a Democratic debate back in June — even progressive Dems like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have remained mostly mum on the issue.

Trump Win: Border Crossings Fall In August After Admin Strikes Mexico Deal

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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested 39 individuals suspected of human rights violations.
An ICE <a href="https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ice-arrests-39-suspected-human-rights-violators-across-us-during-operation-no-safe">press release</a> said the arrests of 30 men and nine women were part of Operation No Safe Haven, which took place nationwide between August 27 and 29. ICE partnered with local offices in major cities across the country to find and arrest the fugitives. The agency explained that the 39 suspects were foreign nationals with outstanding removal orders. From the press release:
<blockquote>Of the 39 known or suspected human rights violators arrested during Operation No Safe Haven V, 16 individuals are also criminal aliens in the U.S. with convictions for crimes including, but not limited to, domestic violence, driving under the influence of liquor, drug distribution, firearm possession, grand theft, reckless endangerment, robbery, fraud and theft. Their countries of origin include: El Salvador, Guatemala, China, Liberia, Cambodia, Chad, Chile, Colombia, the Ivory Coast, Ghana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Nicaragua, Sierra Leone, and Sudan. This operation more than doubled the number of known or suspected human rights violators arrested during the first nationwide No Safe Haven operation, which took place in September 2014.</blockquote>
“ICE will not allow war criminals and human rights abusers to use the U.S. as a safe haven,” said Acting Director Matthew Albence. “We will never stop looking for them and we will never cease seeking justice for the victims of their crimes.”
ICE went on to describe some of the crimes involving the individuals. Fourteen were implicated in “the capture, arrest and/or transport of civilians who were subsequently mistreated, and in some cases, beaten, electrocuted, and killed.”
Four other fugitives — from China — were arrested for collaborating with the country’s government “to assist in forced abortions and sterilizations against victims.” Four more, from West Africa, were implicated in “a range of atrocities,” from massacres and mutilations to recruiting child soldiers.
One unnamed individual from Europe was “implicated in human rights abuses against political opponents through work with a security agency,” though no specifics were given.
ICE’s Human Rights Violators and War Crimes Center assisted in the operation, and is dedicated to capturing human rights violators “who try to evade justice by seeking shelter in the United States, including those who are known or suspected to have participated in persecution, war crimes, genocide, torture, extrajudicial killings, severe violations of religious freedom, female genital mutilation/cutting and the use or recruitment of child soldiers.”
Meanwhile, politicians like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) suggest we should “abolish” ICE because of how illegal immigrants are treated at the border after an influx in illegal border crossings over the past few years.

ICE Agents Take Part In Raids On Human Traffickers In Guatemala

39 Arrested For Alleged Human Rights Abuses During ICE’s ‘Operation No Safe Haven V’

A woman was arrested on Friday for allegedly attacking a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) facility in Florida with a Molotov cocktail, which authorities say was intended to harm people.
&#8220;The woman walked into the office Friday afternoon and hurled a bottle filled with gasoline and a lit fuse,&#8221; Local 10 News <a href="https://www.local10.com/news/florida/broward/woman-tosses-molotov-cocktail-into-oakland-park-immigration-office">reported</a>. &#8220;But the fuse disconnected and didn&#8217;t ignite &#8230; Security officers handcuffed her, and she was taken into custody. The report did not list her name.&#8221;
The attack happened at a U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) office about 30 miles north of Miami.
&#8220;Today’s attempted attack on one of our USCIS facilities using a Molotov cocktail is another example of the use of violence in place of debate by those who oppose the proper application of our immigration laws,&#8221; USCIS Acting Director Ken Cuccinelli wrote in a statement. &#8220;This is the 2d attack on a DHS facility in 2 months using a Molotov cocktail. Violence has no place in our society. Thankfully, no one was hurt today. We&#8217;re grateful to our security guards &amp; the law enforcement officers of FPS who apprehended and arrested the assailant.&#8221;
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en">(2/2) &#8230; This is the 2d attack on a DHS facility in 2 months using a Molotov cocktail. Violence has no place in our society. Thankfully, no one was hurt today. We’re grateful to our security guards &amp; the law enforcement officers of FPS who apprehended and arrested the assailant.
— USCIS Acting Director Ken Cuccinelli (@USCISCuccinelli) <a href="https://twitter.com/USCISCuccinelli/status/1167627990282452992?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 31, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Acts of aggression against immigration authorities have increased in recent months as Democrats and the media have increasingly demonized them as part of their attacks on the Trump administration.
&#8220;About two weeks ago in San Antonio, at least one vehicle pulled up to a building that houses offices for ICE and a gunman fired shots through a window, FBI officials said,&#8221; Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/florida-woman-tosses-lit-molotov-cocktail-citizenship-immigration-services-office-homeland-security">reported</a>. &#8220;Another building used by ICE was also fired on.&#8221;
In July, a self-described member of the far-left extremist group Antifa attacked an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) building in Tacoma, Washington, as he fired a rifle at the facility, lit vehicles on fire, and attempted to detonate a propane tank that he reportedly hoped would burn the facility down.
The suspect echoed rhetoric from socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) in his manifesto, falsely claiming that immigrant detention facilities were &#8220;concentration camps.&#8221;

Homeland Security

DHS Facility Attacked With Molotov Cocktail In Florida

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Dear fellow patriots: It&#8217;s time to stop making nice with those who are waging war on ICE.
Are you sick of your neighborhoods being hijacked by law enforcement-bashing thugs who prioritize every last illegal immigrant over law-abiding families, workers and employers?
Are you sick of do-nothing politicians promising to take action while well-funded and well-organized protesters riot in our streets and obstruct criminal arrests?
Are you sick of nobody (except for a few demonized Proud Boys and Patriot Prayer activists) standing up on the front lines against the American flag hijackers and knee-takers and hatred-inciters threatening ICE employees and Border Patrol agents and their families?
If so, I hope you will join me as I tour the country the next few months and take the battle for our safety and security straight to the nation&#8217;s worst open borders sanctuaries.
Look around. We have unhinged Democrats uniting in common cause with violent antifa and cheap labor-hungry big business CEOs to blow holes in our sovereignty and endanger our communities.
We have trashmouth Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Michiganistan, leading protests against ICE in Dearborn two weeks ago that bullied the city into withdrawing from cooperative agreements to hold illegal immigrant detainees.
We have militant socialists in New York, funded by the far-left Tides Foundation, spreading &#8220;abolish ICE&#8221; hatred in the streets and instigating witch hunts against ICE online.
We have Silicon Valley social justice warriors, including thousands of seditious zealots at Google, Amazon and Microsoft, demanding that their employers stop doing business with any agencies that help enforce our federal immigration laws.
This isn&#8217;t empty virtue signaling. It&#8217;s causing horrific mayhem from coast to coast, as I reported two weeks ago. And it&#8217;s not just our men and women at ICE, under literal fire, who suffer the consequences.
Have you heard about what&#8217;s happening in my old neighborhood in Montgomery County, Maryland? Thanks to treacherous, anti-ICE sanctuary policies that have festered since I moved away more than a decade ago, foreign sexual predators rule the streets with impunity. In just the last month, five rape suspects in this country illegally have been arrested there. The feds report that at least one suspect was released in defiance of an ICE detainer; two more allegedly gang-raped an 11-year-old girl; and another, accused of raping a 16-year-old girl at knifepoint, has fathered 10 children here (all now anchored here with birthright citizenship).
That&#8217;s just five we know of; the sanctuary anarchists in MS-13-infested Montgomery County refuse to collect statistics on these public menaces.
How about my adopted home state of Colorado? Earlier this month, deportation officers caught Mexican illegal immigrant Roberto Gutierrez-Hernandez, who had been convicted of sexual assault on a child in the sanctuary hell of Boulder. ICE had originally lodged a detainer on Gutierrez-Hernandez with the county jail in March 2017 on other criminal charges and then again in November 2017. The jail run by Boulder&#8217;s sanctuary anarchists refused. Another young illegal immigrant, El Salvadoran Amilcar Aguilar-Hernandez, racked up a criminal conviction for felony trespassing before being arrested in a rape case at Fort Carson in Colorado Springs,. He is also currently being prosecuted for orchestrating an escape from the Aurora ICE facility near Denver.
Last week, I had an opportunity to visit with the dedicated folks at ICE who work at the Aurora, Colorado, detention center run by GEO Group. This is the same facility where open borders mobsters tore down Old Glory and replaced it with a Mexican flag last month. Inside, illegal immigrants get free access to LexisNexis, dental services, a full-scale pharmacy, video games, pingpong tables and even telepsychiatry appointments. But you wouldn&#8217;t know it from the hysterical rhetoric and lies.
John Fabbricatore, acting field office director for ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations in Denver, shared his concerns about the ICE workforce&#8217;s safety.
&#8220;It&#8217;s definitely something that I worry about,&#8221; Fabrricatore told me. If protesters want to change our laws, &#8220;people should be protesting Congress, not our officers.&#8221; A veteran of the agency for 27 years who also served in the Air Force, Fabbricatore spoke passionately about his job: &#8220;It&#8217;s about protecting the United States. We do it with professionalism and courtesy. Most of the people here are parents. We don&#8217;t want bad things happening to people and children.&#8221;
Christopher Jones, assistant ICE officer in charge at the GEO Group facility, has served with ICE since 2008, Border Patrol for 9 years and the Marine Corps for 8 years. &#8220;We&#8217;re forced to defend what we do on a daily basis,&#8221; he said, describing how irate social justice mobsters have taken pictures of his officers while sanctuary police stand by. &#8220;False narratives,&#8221; he warned, are threatening his colleagues and their loved ones.
The guardians against immigration anarchy shouldn&#8217;t have to go it alone. That&#8217;s why I&#8217;m launching a nationwide tour of sanctuary cities — including Denver, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco and Minneapolis — to expose the money behind the sovereignty saboteurs and to organize citizens willing to #StandWithICE (for more information, go to OpenBordersInc.com.) If we don&#8217;t get off the sidelines, the lawless mob will win. And if the lawless mob wins, we will lose America.
Michelle Malkin&#8217;s email address is MichelleMalkinInvestigates@protonmail.com. To find out more about Michelle Malkin and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.

ICE Agent

MALKIN: Get Off The Sidelines: #StandWithICE

Rashida Tlaib

Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) criticized Democratic lawmakers on Thursday after staffers from the Democrat-led House Oversight Committee were banned from visiting the border due to their previous disruptive behavior.
“Whether you’re a member of Congress or not, if you go to the border you have to follow the rules,” Kennedy told Fox News host Sandra Smith. “It’s not the big rock candy mountain down there, it’s a law enforcement crisis.”
“If somebody follows the rules and they’re a member of Congress, they should be allowed to go,” he continued, “But if they don’t they shouldn’t.”
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Kennedy’s remarks were in reference to the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) decision to block Democratic staffers from touring both Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facilities along the southern border, reported <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dhs-bars-house-oversight-dems-from-visiting-cbp-facilities-at-border-after-rude-and-disruptive-behavior">Fox News</a>.
House Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings (D-MD) had sent aides to complete another set of “oversight inspections” of the detainment centers, however, DHS denied access to the committee staffers after they were “disruptive” and refused to follow instructions from immigration officials during their prior visit.
“But let’s face what this is all about — not all of them, but many of my Democratic friends now believe in open borders,” Kennedy said. “They think anybody that wants to come into America should be able to come in, they should be eligible for welfare, and food stamps, and free health care, and they should be able to stay on those programs as long as they want, and if you disagree with my Democratic friends, you’re a racist.”
“Now, they’re entitled to their opinion, but I’m entitled to mine and I think their argument is pernicious, I think it’s malign, I think it’s on-the-pipe crazy,” he continued. “I think vetting people who want to come into your country is not racist, it’s prudent, if for no other reason but public safety.”
The Louisiana senator urged his Democratic colleagues to be open and honest about their support of open borders rather than “playing games” and continuing to “throw up roadblocks” and interfere with law enforcement’s ability to secure the border.
“Now all of my colleagues on the Democratic side — I don’t want to, many of them are in good faith, but there’s some who go down there and they do everything they can to disrupt law enforcement,” Kennedy said. “They hate border security, they hate Border Patrol, they hate ICE, they believe in open borders, and if you disagree with them you’re a racist and I just think that’s on-the-pipe crazy.”
While Kennedy refrained from naming names, the comment was seemingly a nod to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/49059/ocasio-cortez-makes-wild-claims-about-cbp-facility-ryan-saavedra">ignited a firestorm</a> in July after she made wild, and unfounded, claims about CBP agents and detention facilities following her visit, which were heavily disputed by immigration officials.
Critics accused the self-proclaimed “radical” of making bad faith accusations to promote her anti-ICE narrative. Only weeks earlier, she received massive blowback for comparing the detention facilities to Nazi concentration camps. She has continued to stand by that claim.

John Kennedy

WATCH: Kennedy Slams Democrats For ‘On-The-Pipe Crazy’ Immigration Stance

All the gun control zealots out in full force last week have apparently gone to the beach. An alarming shooting took place at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement offices in San Antonio on Tuesday. Local media reported that &#8220;multiple shots were fired on two floors targeting ICE officials.&#8221; But the Second Amendment saboteurs were AWOL.
Hello? Hello? Anybody home? Federal government workers are under literal fire for enforcing our immigration laws and protecting America. But the left-wing Moms Demand Action ignored the story. So did the anti-gun Brady Campaign agitators. And the usual stampede of camera-hogging Democratic presidential candidates lost their unquenchable thirst for the spotlight to blame &#8220;hate speech&#8221; for inducing violence.
The vacuum is bipartisan. With few exceptions, Beltway Republicans have also lost their tongues when they should be relentlessly smashing the open borders wall of silence about this escalating anti-ICE terror campaign. The San Antonio attack comes just one month after an antifa extremist ambushed an ICE detention facility in Tacoma, Washington, armed with a rifle and incendiary devices. The vengeful antifa gunman had assaulted a police officer last year at the same location, received a wrist slap, and then published a manifesto that declared: &#8220;I strongly encourage comrades and incoming comrades to arm themselves.&#8221;
The Tacoma terrorist had also invoked the incendiary ICE-bashing rhetoric of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Her diatribes on ICE centers as &#8220;concentration camps&#8221; were, in turn, borrowed from and amplified by rent-a-mobsters who demonized Homeland Security employees at a string of summer demonstrations against ICE facilities the past two years — from the lawless hellhole of Portland to the D.C. swamp to the Big Apple criminal sanctuary to my adopted home state of Colorado, where the American flag was ripped from its post and replaced with the Mexican flag by still-unidentified vandals on the loose.
The same hysterical demagogues who are blaming me for the El Paso shooting because my first book on immigration in 2002 was titled &#8220;Invasion&#8221; are silent about the climate of hate wrought by:
— The New York Times op-ed page&#8217;s brazen call to target ICE and Border Patrol agents and their families.
— WikiLeaks&#8217; &#8220;ICE Patrol&#8221; personal information and location database targeting more than 9,000 ICE employees, from auditors to young research assistants and interns, electricians, IT analysts, field intelligence officers, translators, anti-terrorism experts and detention and deportation agents.
— Twitter&#8217;s publication of bloody hate speech by Antifa and Abolish ICE thugs, including Occupy Wall Street&#8217;s graphic cartoon advising followers on how to stab an ICE agent in the chest &#8220;and pull out his still beating heart.&#8221;
Who&#8217;s funding the wicked war on ICE? For starters, open borders billionaire George Soros&#8217; Open Society Foundations, his son Alex&#8217;s Jewish social justice nonprofit Bend the Arc, Soros-backed CREDO Action, and the Soros-funded Center for Popular Democracy, United We Dream and Make the Road New York have all subsidized and stoked hatred of ICE and the Border Patrol.
This is not anti-Semitism, white nationalism or white supremacy. It&#8217;s fact.
And it&#8217;s not a conspiracy &#8220;theory&#8221; that Soros&#8217; money has fueled dangerous immigration anarchy. It&#8217;s conspiracy truth.
Even more shocking is how much of the toxic propaganda undermining the men and women on our Homeland Security frontlines is being underwritten by unsuspecting taxpayers, churchgoers and consumers.
In the coming weeks, I will be exposing the global financiers and government programs promoting the campaign to &#8220;melt ICE,&#8221; turn the Border Patrol into the &#8220;diaper patrol,&#8221; open the floodgates to every last unvetted Muslim refugee and unassimilated, low-wage Central American laborer, and erase the America my legal immigrant parents taught me to cherish.
My seventh book, &#8220;Open Borders, Inc.: Who&#8217;s Funding America&#8217;s Destruction,&#8221; will be released on Sept. 10, 2019. I&#8217;ve compiled nearly 500 pages and 12 appendices and maps tracing tens of billions of dollars spent or received by 400+ nonprofits, religious charities, legal organizations, political lobbying groups, businesses and government contractors, backed up by 1,600-plus footnotes to educate my fellow citizens.
Border security and restored sovereignty start with defunding the funders of America&#8217;s destruction, and then prosecuting them as criminal open borders racketeers. Follow the money; find the truth.
Malkin is author of the upcoming book, &#8220;Open Borders, Inc.: Who&#8217;s Funding America&#8217;s Destruction,&#8221; available now for preorder at Amazon.com. Her email is michellemalkininvestigates@protonmail.com. To find out more about Michelle Malkin and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.

ICE Officer

MALKIN: Open Borders Inc.: Who’s Funding The Wicked War On ICE?

George Soros

Protests against Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have escalated in recent months, with two alarming incidents taking place within 24 hours of each other just this week.
In July, a self-described <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/washington-man-killed-at-ice-detention-center-manifesto">&#8220;Antifa&#8221; activist</a>, who was armed with a rifle and incendiary devices, was shot dead by police after he attempted to create explosions at an ICE detention center (Seattle Antifascist Action <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/washington-man-killed-at-ice-detention-center-manifesto">said</a> of the terrorist that he &#8220;became a martyr who gave his life to the struggle against fascism&#8221;). This week, a group of anti-ICE activists in Florida threatened the children of a person connected to a private contractor used by ICE, and a day later ICE offices in San Antonio, Texas, were fired upon in what authorities are calling a &#8220;targeted attack&#8221; on the agency.
The Florida incident was caught on video and reported by Breitbart&#8217;s <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/08/13/exclusive-watch-leftists-threaten-before-shooting-at-ice-facility-we-know-where-all-your-children-live/">John Binder</a>. Binder reports that the video, taken by Breitbart&#8217;s Matt Perdie, shows protesters with &#8220;Never Again Action, Miramar Circle of Protection Friends of Miami-Dade Detainees, Food Not Bombs Fort Lauderdale, Students Working for Equal Rights, and the Black Lives Matter Alliance of Broward County&#8221; converging on current and former employees of a group contracted by ICE, GEO Group:
<blockquote>One protester specifically threatened GEO Group’s former general counsel John Bulfin, shouting the locations and addresses of where his children live in the United States.
“We know where all your children live throughout the country … John Bulfin you have kids in [bleeped out], you have kids in [bleeped out],” the protester shouted. “We know everything about you and you won’t just be seeing us here.”
“We know where you sleep at night,” another protester shouted. “We know what kind of dog food you buy your dogs.”
“We’re not actually joking,” the protester said before shouting the location of where Bulfin lives. “John Bulfin you go to [bleeped out], you go to church on [bleeped out], you live on [bleeped out the] road. We are not joking.”</blockquote>
As noted by Binder, a day after activists&#8217; protests of ICE-contracted GEO Group employees in Florida, ICE and GEO Group offices in San Antonio appear to have been targeted by gunmen.
&#8220;FBI officials said on Tuesday they have opened an investigation into shots fired into Immigration and Customs Enforcement offices in San Antonio. Authorities described it as a &#8216;targeted attack&#8217; against federal employees,&#8221; ABC affiliate <a href="https://www.ksat.com/news/fbi-investigating-shooting-into-ice-offices-in-san-antonio-as-a-targeted-attack-against-feds">KSAT</a> reported Tuesday. &#8220;Christopher Combs, special agent in charge of the San Antonio division of the FBI, said an unknown number of individuals in an unknown number of vehicles fired numerous rounds into two ICE offices on the Northeast Side at around 3 a.m.&#8221;
At a press conference Tuesday, Combs described the incident as &#8220;an attempt to attack federal employees.&#8221; &#8220;I don&#8217;t think there is a question that they knew which floor the ICE office is on,&#8221; said Combs in comments reported by KSAT. &#8220;To fire indiscriminately into any building is not an act of a protest but an act of violence,&#8221; he added.
In a statement reported by the outlet, ICE spokesperson Nina Pruneda condemns the &#8220;political rhetoric and misinformation&#8221; promoted by &#8220;various politicians,&#8221; activists and outlets about the agency.
&#8220;Political rhetoric and misinformation that various politicians, media outlets and activist groups recklessly disseminate to the American people regarding the ICE mission only serve to further encourage these violent acts,&#8221; she said. &#8220;ICE officers put their lives on the line each and every day to keep our communities safe. This disturbing public discourse shrouds our critical law enforcement function and unnecessarily puts our officers&#8217; safety at risk.&#8221;
On Tuesday, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Acting Director Ken Cuccinelli tweeted out a photo of some of the evidence of the &#8220;targeted attack.&#8221; &#8220;Here&#8217;s a photo of one of the bullet holes from this morning. @USCIS stands with @ICE as they work to enforce our laws and keep Americans safe!&#8221;
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en">Here&#8217;s a photo of one of the bullet holes from this morning. <a href="https://twitter.com/USCIS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@USCIS</a> stands with @ICE as they work to enforce our laws and keep Americans safe! <a href="https://t.co/AUvgpGJco6">pic.twitter.com/AUvgpGJco6</a>
— USCIS Acting Director Ken Cuccinelli (@USCISCuccinelli) <a href="https://twitter.com/USCISCuccinelli/status/1161355986994638848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 13, 2019</a></blockquote>
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