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Illegal migrants caught using expensive gear straight out of James Bond movie to cross border

A pair of undocumented immigrants were arrested after attempting to illegally cross the Rio Grande with expensive scuba gear on Thursday. 

Officers from the Eagle Pass Police Department in Texas caught the two men who had hidden themselves under a bridge. 

The border-crossers were found dressed in full-length wetsuits intended for scuba diving across the river, an approach bears an eerie similarity to the James Bond film Thunderball. 

A community member reported two suspicious subjects in a residential neighborhood in south Eagle Pass, police said in a press release. 

The two men were found to have come from Guatemala without documentation, according to EPPD. 

Police also found the men to have been in possession of individual water propulsion devices. Similar models of the water propulsion devices, called the Robosea Seaflyer Seascooter, is sold on Amazon for $799. 

The devices were presumed by police to have been intended for use to navigate through the Rio Grande waters, according to the release. 

Both men were arrested and turned over to US Border Patrol for processing. 

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Trump’s DOJ Launches Criminal Probe Into Deep State’s NYT Leak Undermining Trump’s Crackdown on Tren de Aragua Terrorists

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche revealed Friday that the Department of Justice has launched a criminal investigation into a leak of classified intelligence aimed at discrediting Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act to swiftly deport members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua (TDA).

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche criticized the leak as a politically motivated attempt by the “Deep State” to undermine President Trump’s agenda, particularly his recent crackdown on the gang.

“The Justice Department is opening a criminal investigation relating to the selective leak of inaccurate, but nevertheless classified, information from the Intelligence Community relating to Tren de Aragua (TDA),” Blanche said in a statement.

He continued, “We will not tolerate politically motivated efforts by the Deep State to undercut President Trump’s agenda by leaking false information onto the pages of their allies at the New York Times. The Alien Enemies Proclamation is supported by fact, law, and common sense, which we will establish in court and then expel the TDA terrorists from this country.”

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Judge Boasberg Grills DOJ Lawyers AGAIN Over Deportation of Criminal Aliens, Threatens Trump Admin with Consequences if They Violate His Court Order

Judge James Boasberg, an Obama appointee, once again grilled DOJ lawyers about the Trump Administration’s move to deport dangerous Venezuelan aliens under the Alien Enemies Act.

A showdown between Boasberg and the Trump DOJ played out in court this week after the judge issued an order forcing planes en route to Central and South America carrying dangerous Venezuelan aliens to turn around and come back to the US.

On Sunday, the Trump DOJ provided an update to Boasberg’s order and said the criminal aliens were outside of US territory when the order came down.

The DOJ argued that the Judge has zero jurisdiction over international airspace.

The Justice Department also refused to give Judge James Boasberg sensitive information in a case against Trump’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act.

This angered the judge and he insisted that disclosing sensitive information won’t put state secrets in danger because Secretary of State Marco Rubio has publicly spoken about the deportation flights.

“Defendants shall have until March 20, 2025, at 12:00 p.m. to provide the information discussed in the Minute Order of March 18, 2025, or to invoke the state-secrets doctrine and explain the basis for such invocation,” the judge wrote on Wednesday.

The Thursday noon deadline passed and Judge Boasberg once again lashed out at the DOJ’s response as “woefully insufficient.”

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DOJ May Invoke State Secrets Privilege In Showdown With Federal Judge, Agency Says

The Department of Justice (DOJ) is considering invoking its state secrets privilege in its showdown with a federal judge over the invocation of the Alien Enemies Act and deportation of illegal immigrants, a high-ranking DOJ official said in a new court filing submitted Friday.

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, a former criminal defense lawyer for President Donald Trump, confirmed a statement issued by Robert Cerna, a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) official, in court papers filed earlier this week in the case that Cabinet secretaries under Trump “are currently actively considering whether to invoke the state secrets privilege.”

“I attest to the accuracy of those statements based on personal knowledge of the events described by Mr. Cerna,” Blanche wrote, “including my direct involvement in ongoing Cabinet-level discussion regarding invocation of the state-secrets privilege.”

U.S. District Judge James Boasberg told government officials that they have a Friday deadline to submit a sworn declaration by a person “with direct involvement in the Cabinet-level discussions” about the state secrets privilege and to tell the court by next Tuesday whether the government will invoke it.

Invoking the state secrets privilege—an evidentiary rule used under U.S. legal precedent—means that government lawyers can assert that court proceedings may divulge sensitive state information that may endanger national security.

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Trump to Strip Legal Status from 532,000 Migrants Flown in on Biden Parole Program

President Trump is set to strip the status of 532,000 migrants living in the United States who were flown in on Joe Biden’s parole program.

Recall that Joe Biden brought in more than a half a million migrants Haiti, Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela on his CHNV program.

CBP data found that over 1 million illegal aliens have been allowed into the US through what the Biden Regime defined as “legal” means.” The Biden-Kamala admin used the CBP One App and the CHNV program to allow illegals entry into the US.

These numbers are not included in the millions of illegals that have entered the US under Joe Biden’s watch.

It was previously reported that 81% of the Haitian migrants from Biden’s parole program – 362,000 out of 448,000 – were flown into red states.

Last month it was reported that one of the Haitians who entered the US on Biden’s parole program was charged with triple murder, including two children.

President Trump is revoking the migrants’ legal status and telling them if they don’t self deport they will be arrested.

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Denver mayor and staff used encryption app to discuss migrant crisis, then auto-deleted messages. Trump policies prompted move, says spokesperson

Denver Mayor Mike Johnston and 14 of his top advisors, appointees and lawyers nicknamed themselves “Strike Force” and communicated about the city’s migrant crisis through an end-to end encryption app, CBS News Colorado has learned. The app, Signal, proceeded to automatically delete their initial conversations.

A spokesperson for Johnston said the Signal messaging was prompted by President Trump and how his administration “could have significant impacts on how Denver operates.”

The use of such messaging apps by government officials has been controversial and viewed as a way to avoid public disclosure of government decision making. In Michigan, after state police leaders were found in 2021 to be using Signal on state-issued phones, state lawmakers outlawed the use of encrypted messaging on state phones.

“It’s unlawful and it’s breaking the law,” said Steven Zansberg, a Denver attorney who specializes in First Amendment and open records law, and reviewed some of the records obtained by CBS News Colorado.

Jeff Roberts, director of the Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition, characterized what the CBS investigation found as an intentional effort to undermine Colorado’s open records law.

“This is not transparent,” said Roberts.

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Venezuela Debuts Website to Report ‘Unjust Deportations’ of Illegals from U.S.

Venezuela’s socialist regime launched a new website Tuesday that allows individuals to report alleged “unjust deportations” of Venezuelan illegal migrants from the United States “before it’s too late.”

The website is managed by the “Committee for the Defense of Venezuelan Migrants,” an organization directly affiliated with the Venezuelan socialist regime that describes itself as an organization “committed to the defense and promotion of human rights focused on denouncing and making visible the situation of Venezuelan migrants in the U.S.”

“We are a collective committed to the defense and promotion of human rights focused on denouncing and making visible the particular situation of vulnerability of Venezuelan citizens in the United States, whose presidential policy has been dedicated to stigmatize migration,” the website reads. “The persecution, imprisonment and deportation of Venezuelans without due process is an aberration that should not be indifferent to us and that constitutes an anachronistic and illegal act that evokes the most nefarious episodes of human history.”

The recently-launched website features a fillable form asking “victims” of the deportations, relatives, non-government organizations, or other individuals to report incidents of “unjust deportations.” In addition, the website asks individuals to pledge their support for a manifesto against President Donald Trump and the 1798 Alien Enemies Act under the premise that, “If they treat us as enemies, we must unite.”

“Sign for yourself, for the future, for your children, for every Venezuelan brother and sister in a similar situation. United we are invincible,” the website declared.

The website is part of dictator Nicolás Maduro’s “response” to President Donald Trump’s use of the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to deport a group of 238 Venezuelans suspected of being members of the Tren de Aragua terrorist organization to El Salvador on Sunday as per the terms of an agreement with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele. The Maduro regime first condemned the deportation of the migrants by claiming that the deportations were comparable to “slavery” and “Nazi concentration camps.” Hours later, Maduro vowed that he and his regime would “not rest” until the Venezuelan deportees “kidnapped” by Bukele are “rescued” from El Salvador.

In addition to the website, the Committee for the Defense of Venezuelan Migrants launched an accompanying Instagram account whose content features Artificial Intelligence-generated images of President Trump and President Bukele depicted as “the duo of evil,” accompanied with a text that reads, “if they mess with one [Venezuelan], they mess with all of Venezuela.”

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Judge Demands DOJ Reveal Classified Information on Deportation Flights: Report

US District Judge James Boasberg reportedly pressed Department of Justice lawyers about their refusal to turn around planes carrying migrants being deported under the Trump administration’s invocation of the 1789 Alien Enemies Act during a tense Monday courtroom confrontation.

The standoff began Saturday when Judge Boasberg temporarily halted deportations of suspected Tren de Aragua gang members, Resist the Mainstream reported.

DOJ attorneys are said to have informed the judge that two planes were already airborne—one bound for Honduras and another for El Salvador—when his order was issued.

Although Boasberg verbally directed the planes to return, this instruction was not included in his written order, creating a point of contention that dominated Monday’s hearing.

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Federal judge demands Trump admin provide information on Tren de Aragua deportations

In a 45-minute hearing on Monday, a federal judge questioned Trump administration lawyers over the use of the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 and a deportation flight that took off from the US bound for El Salvador as he handed down a temporary restraining order blocking the administration from invoking the act to swiftly deport illegal immigrant gang members.

The administration attorneys had requested that the hearing be called off, but US District Judge James Boasberg declined, ordering them into court for a “fact-finding hearing” over the use of the Act, and whether the administration knowingly defied his order, per Fox News. A hearing is set for Friday over the administration’s request to vacate the case.

Justice Department attorney Abhishek Kambli said that the Trump administration had complied with the written order from Boasberg, which came hours after the oral ruling. Per NBC News, Kamblu argued that the written ruling took precedence over the oral one issued from the bench, saying, “We believe that we’ve complied with the order.”

“You’re saying that you felt that you could disregard it because it wasn’t a written order,” Boasberg said. He called the argument a “stretch.”

Federal attorneys declined during the hearing to reveal how many deportation flights took off from the US on Saturday, citing national security protections. One lawyer for the administration said, “Those are operational issues, and I am not at liberty to provide information.”

Kambli said, “I am only authorized to say what we have said” in court filings, the one in question stating that the plaintiffs “cannot use these proceedings to interfere with the President’s national-security and foreign-affairs authority, and the Court lacks jurisdiction to do so.”

Near the end of the hearing, Judge Boasberg said, “My orders don’t seem to carry much weight.”

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Demented Obama Judge Who Wants to Liberate Venezuelan Gang Members Sent 70 Trump Supporters to Prison on Made-Up 1512c Charges that Were Later Overturned by SCOTUS

On Saturday, Judge James Boasberg, an Obama-appointee, granted a temporary restraining order (TRO) to stop the Trump administration from deporting thousands of Venezuelan nationals under the Alien Enemies Act.

Far-left America-hating leftist groups such as the ACLU and Democracy Forward, rushed to a DC court in a desperate bid to shield dangerous illegal aliens from deportation.

Judge Boasberg was only too happy to slap his name on this anti-American court order to halt the deportation of dangerous illegals who are notorious for taking over apartment buildings in Colorado. Boasberg does not care about violent illegal aliens flooding the streets of America.

On Sunday, investigative reporter Julie Kelly wrote about the deranged side of Judge Boasberg.

This same Obama judge who is filing retraining orders to keep Venezuelan gang members from jail — worked diligently to jail every January 6 defendant using a bogus made-up charge that was eventually overturned by the Supreme Court.

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