‘Sanctuary’ Policy Is a Double-Edged Sword, As Virginia’s Dems Are Finding Out
What’s going on in Virginia is worth watching, and not just for Second Amendment enthusiasts. It’s a delicious “chickens coming...
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Swing state Dems demand DHS halt ICE detention center
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Five Michigan Democratic lawmakers, led by Rep. Haley Stevens, sent a letter Thursday to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin opposing a planned Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in Romulus, Michigan. The bipartisan opposition includes Stevens, Debbie Dingell, Hillary Scholten, Kristen McDonald Rivet, and Shri Thanedar, joining Rep. Rashida Tlaib's efforts against the facility. The letter challenges ICE's claim that community impact studies and due diligence were completed before purchase, noting that local officials were never consulted, reports Michigan Advance. It also lists environmental concerns, including floodplain and wetlands regulations.The opposition is bolstered by Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel and the City of Romulus, filing federal lawsuits to stop development. Representatives cited conditions at Michigan's existing North Lake Processing Center in Baldwin, where detainee Nenko Gantchev died in December 2025, and ongoing hunger strikes and documented conditions for detainees. U.S. Sens. Elissa Slotkin and Gary Peters received no response to their February letter raising similar concerns.Watch the video below. Your browser does not support the video tag.
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RFK Jr. sparks outrage after demanding answers on pulled vaccine study
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sparked outrage on Monday after he announced his department was investigating why a peer-reviewed medical journal pulled a study about vaccines leading to sudden infant deaths. Kennedy posted a letter on his professional X account, arguing that the study was "of great interest to me." Kennedy cited the study in his policy to reduce the federal vaccine schedule for infants from 17 shots to 11. That policy has since been blocked by a federal judge, according to reports."Given the high level of public interest in vaccine safety and the history of both overt and obscure pressure against the study of some of these topics, such a brief notice of removal is woefully insufficient," Kennedy wrote in the letter to Toxicology Reports Editor-in-Chief Lawrence H. Lash.Toxicology Reports said it retracted the 2021 study linking vaccines and infant deaths due to "serious methodological flaws." Medical professionals and policy experts were astounded by Kennedy's letter and shared their reactions on social media. "Absolutely baffling. In response, he's going to get an extremely detailed analysis of why that study was garbage (and it was). The brainworm makes bad decisions," Dr. Tyler Black, an emergency psychiatrist, posted on X. Jeffrey Morris, a public health professor, noted in a post on X that the methodological issues were "so serious" that "the conclusions were unsubstantiated.""Given this fatal flaw that was not detected by peer review, the entire argument in the paper falls apart, and the conclusion is unsubstantiated," Morris posted. "I thought @SecKennedy was pro-free speech. Yet here he is, apparently using the power of his position to threaten the editor of a journal for an editorial decision by a private publisher. To antivaxxers, it's free speech for me, but not for thee," Dr. David Gorski, a surgeon, posted on X.
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Kennedy Center establishing new endowment in Trump’s name
The Kennedy Center is establishing a new endowment in President Trump’s name, after it removed his name from the outside of the building over the weekend. Roma Daravi, the vice president of public relations at the center, told The Hill that the Trump Kennedy Center Fund “is intended to recognize” Trump’s “significant contributions and dedication…
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Trump gives Republicans new FISA headache with SAVE America Act demand
President Donald Trump’s demand that Congress attach a voter identification bill to an extension of a government spy program will complicate efforts to pass reauthorization of the intelligence authority. Over the weekend, the president urged Congress to tie the SAVE America Act to a renewal of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, warning […]
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Trump arrives at G7 in Europe as tensions with Zelensky take center stage
From ringside to the middle of the fray, G7-bound President Donald Trump is expected to remain “candid with his colleagues” amid ongoing tensions. Early Monday morning, after […]
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ICE officer shoots at fleeing van that struck him during illegal alien arrest operation, NJ police say
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer was injured when he was struck by a van whose driver was fleeing from an arrest operation in Stafford Township in New Jersey, according to police.A spokesperson for ICE said agents were trying to arrest Friedrich Castillo-Ormeno, of Peru, at about 9:30 a.m. on Route 72 in the Manahawkin community.'You just see the guy's body just get twisted and mangled, and in that twist, you know, he then pulled out his gun and shot at the van.'Castillo-Ormeno had been ordered to leave the country by the end of January, but when ICE agents tried to arrest him, he fled in his van and struck one of the officers, according to officials.That officer fired his gun at the van and possibly blew out the vehicle's back window.Law enforcement officials are searching for Castillo-Ormeno and the van.One witness described the incident in unnerving detail to WCAU-TV."They tell him to roll down his window; he's inching forward, and you can tell it's getting tense by his inching forward," said Payton Johnson, a resident of the township."As soon as he gunned it, you just see the the front of the van, pin the lower half of the officer's body into the officer's car," he added. "You just see the guy's body just get twisted and mangled, and in that twist, you know, he then pulled out his gun and shot at the van.”Sources told WCAU that the officer who was struck would recover.A spokesperson for the Stafford Township Police said they were not involved in the ICE operation but were providing help to manage traffic and secure the crime scene. According to New Jersey's Immigrant Trust Directive, police are restricted from helping federal immigration officers.RELATED: Democratic congressman claims he forced ICE agents to back off from arresting man outside courtroom "ICE agents put their lives on the line every day to enforce our nation's laws and protect our communities," Republican Rep. Jeff Van Drew of New Jersey said in a statement."Yet too many politicians and activists continue to demonize them for doing the job they are sworn to do," he added. "This incident is a reminder of the dangers these brave men and women face. I am grateful the agent is expected to recover, and I will always stand with ICE and law enforcement."The investigation into the incident has been taken over by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!
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Swing state Dems demand DHS halt planned ICE detention center: 'Must not move forward'
Five Democratic U.S. Representatives from Michigan sent a letter on Thursday to Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin to oppose the development of a planned ICE detention facility in Romulus.Rep. Haley Stevens of Birmingham led the letter and was joined by Reps. Debbie Dingell of Ann Arbor, Hillary Scholten of Grand Rapids, Kristen McDonald Rivet of Bay City, and Shri Thanedar of Detroit — almost the entire Democratic delegation to the U.S. House from Michigan, except for Rep. Rashida Tlaib, who has also been actively fighting against the detention center’s opening. The detention center is in Thanedar’s district.The letter lays out a number of arguments that have been well-worn against the detention center — including local opposition and zoning concerns and environmental regulations for the area’s floodplain and wetlands.“In response to initial press inquiries, an ICE spokesperson stated that new detention ‘sites will undergo community impact studies and rigorous due diligence process to make sure there is no hardship on local utilities or infrastructure prior to purchase’,” the representatives wrote. “No local officials were consulted about any such study or due diligence, raising questions about whether the analysis was completed before the purchase of the facility and, if it did occur, the accuracy of the work.”“Given these dynamics, it is clear DHS must not move forward with the planned Romulus detention facility,” the letter continues, noting that Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel and the City of Romulus have already sued in federal court to stop or slow the detention center’s development.GET THE MORNING HEADLINES. SUBSCRIBEStevens and Scholten have also been vocally opposed to the major ICE detention facility in Michigan that is currently operating, the North Lake Processing Center in Baldwin, a facility privately owned by GEO Group and contracted as an ICE detention center, especially in the wake of the December 2025 death of Nenko Gantchev at the Baldwin facility.A hunger strike at that facility and concerns about the conditions for detainees were further cited as reasons not to open a second major detention facility, this time owned by ICE, in Michigan.Both U.S. Senators from Michigan, Elissa Slotkin and Gary Peters, sent a similar letter to then-Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem in February with a series of questions on planned capacity, staffing levels, and environmental or economic impact analysis.Thursday’s letter noted that Slotkin and Peters received no response to that letter and re-emphasized their questions, but also added new questions about the scope and timeline for reviewing DHS contracts and the property acquisition process for the purchase of the Romulus property.The letter also comes as a group of local advocates and organizers has been heavily criticizing Gov. Gretchen Whitmer for her relative silence on the development of the detention center, with Nessel and federal elected officials taking a much more vocal and active stance against it.
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Exclusive: ICE Agents Arrest Illegal Aliens Convicted of Pedophilia, Child Abuse, Domestic Violence
ICE is continuing to arrest illegal aliens across the United States, including most recently those convicted of child sexual abuse. The post Exclusive: ICE Agents Arrest Illegal Aliens Convicted of Pedophilia, Child Abuse, Domestic Violence appeared first on Breitbart.
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