A 40-year-old Compton man, Elpidio Reyna, is in custody after allegedly launching a deadly rock attack on federal law enforcement officers in Paramount, California.
The top law enforcement official in Polk County, Sheriff Grady Judd, says federal immigration facilities are near capacity due to Florida’s aggressive interior enforcement.
Sen. Ted Cruz has introduced the Stop FUNDERs Act, empowering federal prosecutors to use RICO laws, once reserved for the Mafia, against individuals and NGOs funding violent, left-wing riots and protests.
Tom Homan, a former acting ICE director and now President Trump’s border czar, has announced a major escalation in federal immigration enforcement targeting sanctuary cities following the weekend shooting of an off-duty Border Patrol agent in New York City.
An illegal immigrant from Mexico has been charged with staging her own kidnapping by ICE officers in an elaborate hoax that was promoted by LA Mayor Karen Bass and used to raise thousands in donations. Yuriana Julia Pelaez Calderon, 41, living in South Los Angeles, now faces federal charges of conspiracy and making false statements to law enforcement. She faces up to five years in prison if convicted.
In a major shift, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department has resumed transferring illegal immigrant inmates to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), despite years of adherence to sanctuary policies that previously blocked such cooperation. The move marks the first time in years that LA County has handed over inmates to ICE, with transfers occurring in both May and June of this year.
