California sanctuary law blocked federal deportation effort for illegal migrant arrested in grisly triple homicide

FBI Arrests Man Accused of Threatening to Kill ICE Agents and Their Families in Newark

Bold New US Action: Drug Smuggling Boat Destroyed, Three Traffickers Eliminated

Appeals Court Revives Texas Immigration Law Allowing Arrests on Suspicion

Civil rights groups warn the immigration law could lead to racial profiling and family separations.

California Program Gives Free Solar Panels to Illegal Aliens

A California climate change program has spent $49 million to hand out free solar panels to illegal migrant homeowners. The post California Program Gives Free Solar Panels to Illegal Aliens appeared first on Breitbart.

Trump has definitely overplayed his hand this time

When the history of the sordid and cruel megalomaniac who now occupies the Oval Office is written, it may well be that his deal with himself to set up a $1.8 billion fund for reimbursing anyone he feels was harmed by the federal government is chronicled as the final straw. Why not Trump’s absurd tariffs, which are really import taxes passed on to consumers? Why not Trump’s needless war against Iran, which caused prices to soar and is unlikely to result in a better deal on its nuclear ambitions than the one struck by Obama? Why not his cruel ICE and Border Patrol dragnets? Why not the Epstein files or dozens of other lawless or outrageous things he’s done?I think because almost everyone knows that the fund will be used to pay off Trump’s supporters — including the 1,500 who attacked the U.S. Capitol and then were imprisoned for it — and that paying them is a bridge too far. This morning a federal judge barred the government from taking steps to launch the fund or process payments at least until a hearing is held in June in a pending lawsuit challenging its legality. The order came in a case brought by a group of individuals and entities who say they have faced partisan attacks by the Trump regime but who say they expect to be excluded from accessing the fund. It’s unusual, to say the least, that such a group would be recognized by a court as having standing to bring such a suit, because their status is entirely speculative. They merely expect to be excluded. But such is the level of cynicism about the motives and processes of Trump that even a district court judge would automatically recognize the validity of such an expectation. It is impossible to conceive that those who have been attacked by Trump’s Justice Department — such as former FBI director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James — would be compensated by Trump’s fund. Nor would the former federal prosecutor who claims he was fired for his work on the January 6 investigation, or people arrested while protesting immigration raids. Other lawsuits challenging the fund have been filed in the District of Columbia and in California. But the interesting thing is it’s not just lawsuits, and it’s not just Democrats. A number of prominent Republican lawmakers have publicly objected to the fund. The fact that public money would be spent, and that the fund would be entirely under Trump’s control, also figures in.Remarkably, 35 former federal judges on Wednesday urged the judge who closed Trump’s case with the IRS — the origin of the fund — to take another look at the terms of the deal. I can’t recall another instance of former judges petitioning a sitting judge to take another look at the terms of a settlement.The stench of Trump’s self-dealing, compounded by the absurdity of his suing his own Justice Department for $10 billion — and the department’s responding with a “deal” that would give him $1.8 billion to reward his supporters, and future immunity from IRS audits — seems to have tipped some set of cosmic scales. The scales of justice and also the political scales. Republican members of Congress are hearing an uproar from their constituents about this, which persuaded many to leave town without acting on Trump’s second big reconciliation bill. I asked earlier this week if Trump has finally overplayed his hand. I believe the cumulative effects of all his wanton and harmful initiatives over the last several months are now setting in. The $1.8 billion fund will be seen as the straw that broke Trump’s legal and political back — the act of hubris that illuminated all the other acts of hubris, the very emblem of Trump’s contempt for anything and everyone beyond himself and his own self-glorification. Robert Reich is a professor of public policy at Berkeley and former secretary of labor. His writings can be found at https://robertreich.substack.com/.

Trump Squeezes Immigrants by Cutting Them Off From Jobs, Health Care and Housing

The methodically planned strategy is intended to pressure noncitizens, including many with legal status, to leave the United States.

Red Lobster closing Times Square location after 23 years: ‘This was a difficult decision’

“Times Square has been an important chapter in Red Lobster's history, and this was a difficult decision.”

ICE wants to hawk mega-warehouses meant for mass deportation: report

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) wants to sell huge warehouses it bought earlier this year with the intention of turning them into massive detention facilities, according to reporting by NBC News. ICE and its parent agency, the Department of Homeland Security, are considering selling "several" of its eleven warehouses purchased for more than $38 million this year, two DHS officials told NBC News. Some of the warehouses were expected to hold as many as 8,000 immigrants each, DHS officials told NBC News. Former DHS Secretary Kristi Noem planned to build out enough detention centers to incarcerate 100,000 immigrants at a time, in addition to existing facilities, NBC noted. The warehouses haven't been put on the market as the Trump administration hasn't made a final decision yet on whether to sell them, DHS officials told NBC News.