Tag: illegal immigration

DHS has begun performing polygraph tests on employees to find leakers

The Department of Homeland Security has begun performing polygraph tests on employees to determine who might be leaking information to the media about immigration operations, according to four sources familiar with the practice.

The department’s plans to perform these tests was first reported by Bloomberg Government.

A spokesperson for DHS did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Border czar Tom Homan and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem have blamed lower-than-expected ICE arrest numbers on recent leaks revealing the cities where it planned to conduct operations.

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Illegal Alien Who Served as an Aide to AOC Self-Deports from America

A former employee of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has surrendered to President Trump and gotten out of dodge.

Migrant Insider revealed on Thursday that Diego de la Vega, an illegal alien who worked for AOC as a deputy communications director after serving on her campaign in 2021, decided that he no longer felt safe living in America and decided to self-deport to Colombia.

De la Vega arrived in America from Quito, Ecuador as a 7-year-old in 2001 on a visitor’s visa that he overstayed. He told Migrant Insider that he long lived in fear due to his status as an illegal but patted himself on the back for taking advantage of his undeserved shot at the American dream.

“It was very clear to me early on that our status was different. Even as a child, I understood what being illegal meant. We knew we had to protect ourselves,” de la Vega explained to Migrant Insider. “We lived in fear because we were not of the right status, but I had a pretty good childhood in New York.

“We worked hard, starting out in a basement apartment. But we went to school and got jobs.”

But now he feels like the United States is a place of exile for him and believes he will never return.

“It’s bittersweet. I hadn’t left the country in 23 years — from age seven to age 30,” he added. “Now, I can’t go back to the U.S. It feels like exile. It’s a very permanent move.”

“But my wife and I are confident we made the right decision. And, after some time, it’s been a real pleasure to be here.”

For her part, AOC had only positive things to say about De la Vega.

“Diego is amazing,” Ocasio-Cortez told Migrant Insider. “We love him.”

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DHS Chief Kristi Noem Says Leakers of ICE Raids Identified – Face Up to 10 Years in Federal Prison Each

DHS Chief Kristi Noem said her investigators have identified two leakers within the Department of Homeland Security and are preparing to refer them to the Justice Department for felony prosecutions.

“These individuals face up to 10 years in federal prison,” Noem said.

“We will find and root out all leakers. They will face prison time and we will get justice for the American people,” Noem warned.

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Sanctuary city scandal: Migrant who set fire to woman as she slept on NYC subway avoids deportation

An illegal immigrant accused of burning a woman alive inside a New York subway car will remain in the US because of sanctuary city policies that prohibit him from being deported.  

Sebastian Zapeta-Calil, 33, is facing murder and arson charges relating to the killing of Debrina Kawam, 57. 

Prosecutors say Zapeta-Calil set the New Jersey woman on fire on a stopped train at Brooklyn’s Coney Island station on December 22.

He then fanned the flames with a shirt before sitting on platform bench and watching as Kawam burned, they allege.

Under current policies enacted in the Big Apple, the city’s corrections department have refused to honor an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainer for Zapeta-Calil. 

That decision was slammed by Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, who was in NYC this week to meet with law enforcement. 

In a clip of her taken on the platform of the Coney Island stop, she said: ‘ICE lodged an immigration detainer with the NYC Department of Corrections to take this depraved alien into custody 

‘Because of current sanctuary city policy, the corrections department has indicated it will NOT honor the detainer.’

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Government Advisor Warns UK Is Heading For Civil War

A top academic and government advisor warns that the UK will experience a civil war within the next five years caused by the “destruction of legitimacy” brought about by the government’s failure to secure the border.

Professor David Betz made the comments during a podcast appearance with journalist and author Louise Perry.

Betz teaches at Kings College London and has advised or worked with the UK MOD and GCHQ as well as being a Senior Fellow of the Foreign Policy Research Institute.

The professor, who describes himself as a “classic member of the establishment,” told Perry that British society is now “explosively configured” to suffer mass unrest.

He said the fallout began with the fracture of the social contract after the political establishment in the UK tried to subvert the Brexit vote.

Subsequent years have brought about a “destruction of legitimacy” as a result of successive governments’ open border policy and their inability to protect children from grooming gangs, in addition to a two-tier justice system presided over by a highly-politicised judiciary.

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Thousands of migrants return home by boat after Trump’s crackdown on asylum

Migrants who once risked their lives traversing the jungles of the Darien Gap in search of asylum in the US are now returning to their home countries.

After former President Donald Trump‘s crackdown on asylum policies, many migrants, primarily from Venezuela and Colombia, have abandoned their attempts to reach the US.

According to authorities, this has resulted in a “reverse flow” of migrants.

Speedboats are now transporting them from Panama back to Colombia, navigating the dense jungle rivers near the border.

Many had previously spent months, even over a year, in Mexico, awaiting asylum appointments through the CBP One app, which has since been discontinued under Trump’s policies.

Karla Castillo, a 36-year-old Venezuelan traveling with her younger sister, said: “When Trump arrived and eliminated the application (CBP One) all our hopes went up in smoke.”

The boats depart from a rural part of Panama and cross the seas in packs to reach Colombia.

They were part of a well-oiled migrant smuggling machine, which once raked in money from the steady flow of hundreds of thousands of people headed north nearly a year ago.

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Federal Agents Bust California Human Smuggling Ring That Allegedly Involved 20,000 People

When liberals hear the phrase “mass migration,” they seem to think of it as an opportunity to virtue signal about how welcoming they are to foreigners.

For conservatives and other supporters of President Donald Trump, however, that phrase conjures realistic images of horrors for everyone involved.

According to Fox News, federal agents disrupted a massive human smuggling operation on Friday when they arrested two Guatemalan men accused of trafficking 20,000 illegal immigrants into the United States since 2019.

The arrests occurred in downtown Los Angeles, California.

Eduardo Domingo Renoj-Matul and Cristobal Mejia-Chaj now face the possibility of the death penalty if convicted.

The smuggling operation, which included two other defendants, Jose Paxtor-Oxlaj and Helmer Obispo-Hernandez, featured elements akin to kidnapping and extortion.

For instance, the defendants allegedly charged $15,000 to $18,000 for safe passage into the United States. But that passage also allegedly included unexpected charges for transport across the U.S., and the smugglers kept migrants who could not pay as hostages in order to extort more money from their families back home.

U.S. Attorney Joseph McNally explained the significance of the arrests.

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Congressional Reporter for Vanity Fair Leaks Planned ICE Raids in DC Suburbs, Warns Targets to Avoid Highways

Pablo Manriquez, Congressional reporter for Vanity Fair, posted leaked information on ICE raids planned for the D.C. suburbs of Northern Virginia this week, along with a warning to targets to stay off the highways in the area.

Manriquez posted about the raids and gave advice to targets on how to evade capture:

“ICE RAIDS are planned for Monday & Tuesday in Northern Virginia, per multiple sources who tell us ICE has obtained between 75 and 100 judicial warrants.”

“NOTE: Judicial warrants mean ICE can go into your homes, so plan accordingly.”

“NOTE: Remember that state police have been deputized to help ICE, so highways, etc, are unsafe.”

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Illegal Alien From Haiti Flown Into US on Biden’s Parole Program Charged with Triple Murder, Including Two Children

Crooked Joe Biden is no longer in office, but the consequences of his criminal regime are still having long-term effects on our nation.

Thanks to Biden’s CHNV program, our country was flooded by thousands of illegals who were flown into the US under the guise of parole. Thankfully, President Trump put a stop to this program.

One of Biden’s Haitian illegals was charged with the alleged murder of three people in Fayetteville, North Carolina, in late February. The victims of these murders were apparently his family members.

According to Fayetteville PD, the accused, 26-year-old Mackendy Darbouze, was charged with first-degree murder for all three victims. Two of the victims were children ages 13 and 4. The adult victim was a female named Beatrice Desir, who was 77 years old.

According to the PD, they showed up in the morning on February 21st after getting a report of a stabbing.

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Defense Secretary Hegseth Puts Mexico on Blast: ‘Curb the Influx of Migrants and Fentanyl, or US Military Will Strike the Cartels’

Donald J. Trump is moving decisively on a wide array of fronts, both in domestic and foreign policies—and sometimes, these two categories overlap.

Take, for example, border security and the fight – on both sides of the divide with Mexico – against drug influx and illegal migrant smuggling-human trafficking operations, both undertaken by the brutal and extremely well-armed Mexican Cartels.

Here, too, Trump’s team will not operate in the old, expected fashion – but is alerting the neighboring authorities of their full intention of acting forcefully unless they up their game and tackle the issue.

A report arose that, in late January, a mere 7 days after his confirmation as Defense Secretary, Pete Hegseth warned Mexican officials that the US military was ‘ready to take unilateral action’ against the country’s drug cartels.

The only way for Mexico to prevent this, the Secretary reportedly stated, is by working harder to stem the flow of fentanyl and migrants into the US.

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