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The AP [9/7/2025 6:55 AM, Staff, 37974K] reports more than 300 South Korean workers detained following a massive immigration raid at a Hyundai plant in Georgia will be released and brought home, the South Korean government announced Sunday. Presidential chief of staff Kang Hoon-sik said that South Korea and the U.S. had finalized negotiations on the workers’ release. He said South Korea plans to send a charter plane to bring the workers home as soon as remaining administrative steps are completed. U.S. immigration authorities said Friday they detained 475 people, most of them South Korean nationals, when hundreds of federal agents raided Hyundai’s sprawling manufacturing site in Georgia where the Korean automaker Hyundai makes electric vehicles. South Korea’s Foreign Minister Cho Hyun later said that more than 300 South Koreans were among the detained. The operation was the latest a long line of workplace raids conducted as part of the Trump administration’s mass deportation agenda. But the one on Thursday is especially distinct because of its large size and the fact that it targeted a manufacturing site state officials have long called Georgia’s largest economic development project. Most of the people detained were taken to an immigration detention center in Folkston, Georgia, near the Florida state line. None has been charged with any crimes yet, Steven Schrank, the lead Georgia agent of Homeland Security Investigations, said during a news conference Friday, adding that the investigation is ongoing. The South Korean government, a close U.S. ally, expressed “concern and regret” over the raid targeting its citizens and sent diplomats to the site. CNN [9/7/2025 7:04 AM, Hanna Park and Yoonjung Seo, 23245K] reports “Negotiations for the release of the detained workers have been concluded, after swift responses by the relevant ministries, business agencies, and companies,” said South Korean Presidential Chief of Staff Kang Hoon-sik. “However, some administrative procedures remain, and once they’re completed, a chartered plane will depart to bring back our citizens,” he added. The workers were among 475 detained Thursday during a large-scale immigration raid at the Hyundai Metaplant in Ellabell, Georgia, which houses an electric vehicle battery plant jointly operated by South Korea-based companies Hyundai and LG Energy Solution. About 300 of those detained are South Korean, officials said. The operation was one of the most extensive immigration raids in recent US history and the largest so far of President Donald Trump’s crackdown at workspaces across the country. The South Korean government has been actively working to secure the workers’ release, along with the Korean Embassy in Washington, DC, and the Consulate General in Atlanta. “To prevent a recurrence of similar cases, we will work together with the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy and the companies concerned, to review and improve the visa system and stay status of people traveling to the US for investment projects,” Kang said Sunday.

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CBS News [9/6/2025 9:26 AM, Staff, 45245K] reports in a large-scale immigration enforcement raid at a huge Hyundai facility in Georgia on Thursday, 475 immigrants suspected of living and working in the U.S. illegally were detained, federal authorities announced. Steven Schrank, the special agent in charge of Homeland Security Investigations in Georgia and Alabama, told reporters Friday that the majority of those detained were Korean nationals, but he didn’t know exactly how many. They worked for a variety of different companies at the site, including subcontractors, he said. South Korea’s Foreign Minister Cho Hyun said Saturday that more than 300 South Koreans were among the 475 people detained. No criminal charges were announced during Friday’s news conference. The sweep was conducted as part of a month-long investigation into allegations of unlawful employment practices and other federal crimes, Schrank said. He described Thursday’s raid as the largest enforcement operation at a single site in the history of Homeland Security Investigations, which is a unit of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Some of those detained Thursday allegedly entered the U.S. illegally, and others were accused of overstaying their visas or violating visa waivers by working, Schrank said. Most of the detainees were taken to an ICE facility in Folkston, Georgia, near the Florida-Georgia state line. ICE said in a statement Friday night that those arrested during the operation were "found to be working illegally, in violation of the terms of their visas and/or statuses." One green card holder from Mexico was arrested after "being determined to be removable from the U.S. based on multiple criminal convictions," ICE said. The investigation is ongoing, and additional arrests and charges are possible, ICE said. NPR [9/6/2025 5:52 PM, Debbie Elliott, 34837K] reports "We are deeply concerned and feel a heavy sense of responsibility over the arrests of our nationals," Foreign Minister Cho Hyun said at an emergency meeting in Seoul, according to the national Yonhap News Agency. He said South Korean President Lee Jae Myung called for all-out efforts to swiftly resolve the matter, Yonhap reported, "stressing that the rights and interests of South Korean nationals and the business operations of South Korean companies investing in the United States must not be infringed upon." The plant is a joint venture between Hyundai Motor Group and LG Energy Solution. ICE released video of what officials say is the largest single-site enforcement operation in the history of the Homeland Security Investigations. It shows officers shackling workers and loading them onto Georgia prison buses. "This operation underscores our commitment to protecting jobs for Georgians and Americans," said Steven Schrank, special agent in charge of homeland security investigations for Georgia and Alabama, during a news conference announcing the operation. "We are sending a clear and unequivocal message that those who exploit our workforce, undermine our economy and violate federal laws will be held accountable."

NBC News [9/6/2025 8:18 AM, Stella Kim, 43603K] reports South Korean President Lee Jae-myung ordered "all-out efforts" to respond to the arrests of hundreds of its citizens in an immigration raid on a Hyundai facility in Georgia, as the key American ally and trading partner reeled from the news. Federal and immigration agents arrested 475 people — mostly South Korean nationals — while executing a judicial search warrant as part of a criminal investigation into alleged unlawful employment at the facility. The foreign ministry told NBC News that the government had set up a response team and that Cho was prepared to travel to Washington to meet officials if needed, while Cho reiterated earlier remarks made by Lee that the rights of South Koreans "must be not unjustly infringed." The raid, part of the Trump administration’s escalating crackdown on immigrants, was the largest single-site enforcement operation in the history of the Department of Homeland Security. LG Energy Solution said Saturday that 47 of its employees were detained, 46 of them Korean. Another 250 personnel from "equipment partner companies," most of them Korean, were also being held, it added. Hyundai said none of those detained were directly employed by the firm. No criminal charges in connection with the investigation had been filed as of Friday.

Reuters [9/6/2025 7:47 PM, Hyunjoo Jin, 45746K] reports South Korea said on Saturday that the U.S. release of photos and a video of the arrest of hundreds of Korean workers was regrettable, especially as the incident followed so closely after a summit between the two nations’ leaders. U.S. immigration officials raided a Hyundai Motor (005380.KS) car battery factory on Thursday and later released a video and photos of workers shackled at the wrists, waist and ankles getting on a bus after the raid. The crackdown could risk damaging ties between Washington and Seoul, a key Asian ally and U.S. investor, when the two are trying to narrow their differences and finalise a trade deal after a summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and South Korean President Lee Jae Myung. First Vice Foreign Minister Park Yoon-joo told U.S. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Allison Hooker in a telephone call that it was regrettable the incident "occurred at a critical time, when the momentum of trust and cooperation between the two leaders, forged through their first summit, must be maintained," the foreign ministry said in a statement released late on Saturday. Park also asked Hooker to ensure a fair and swift resolution to the matter. "The economic activities of our companies that have invested in the U.S. and the rights and interests of our citizens should not be unfairly infringed upon during the course of U.S. law enforcement," he said. The arrest of some 475 workers at the plant near Savannah, Georgia, included more than 300 Koreans and was the largest single-site enforcement operation in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s history.

New York Times [9/6/2025 9:05 PM, Jim Lynn, Lydia DePillis, Rick Rojas, Farah Stockman, and Sean Keenan, 153395K] reports a stretch of rural southeast Georgia, just outside Savannah, has been transforming rapidly in recent years, as a plan to create a massive manufacturing hub capable of producing nearly half a million vehicles per year has come to fruition. The complex has embodied the ambitions of South Korean automakers wanting to compete in the U.S. market. It has also been a crowning achievement in a long campaign by Georgia officials to draw Korean investment. Until recently, crews had been busy building the latest piece of that effort, a plant making batteries for electric vehicles. But that vision has become clouded by uncertainty after federal immigration authorities raided the plant on Thursday, halting construction. Nearly 500 workers — many of them South Korean citizens — were arrested. The raids, described by government officials as the largest Homeland Security enforcement operation at a single site, have exposed growing strain that reaches from Seoul to Washington and even a small, unincorporated community like Ellabell, Ga., where the plant is being built. South Korea, an enthusiastic trading partner, expressed frustration with the United States. Within the Trump administration, the arrests have revealed competing interests, as a push by the president to expand U.S. manufacturing has collided with his aggressive crackdown on immigration. And in Ellabel and the surrounding area, the raids have revealed conflicting emotions about how quickly the region is changing, and over who is filling the jobs that are being created. Law enforcement officials said the raid on Thursday followed a monthslong investigation into suspicions of unlawful employment practices at the HL-GA Battery Company plant, a joint venture of LG Energy Solution and Hyundai Motor Group. Margaret E. Heap, the U.S. attorney for southern Georgia, said in a statement that the operation had been intended to “prevent employers from gaining an unfair advantage by hiring unauthorized workers.” Still, beyond that, much of what the investigation found remains unclear, including which individuals were arrested and their immigration statuses, what roles they had been hired to fill and the conditions at the work site. The investigation has not yet yielded criminal charges. What is clear, though, is that the raid has sent shock waves across the Pacific, said Tami Overby, an international business consultant who formerly led the U.S.-Korea Business Council at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

Breitbart [9/6/2025 1:53 PM, Neil Munro, 2608K] reports Democratic leaders are siding with illegal migrants and their Fortune 500 employers by condemning ICE’s detention of 475 suspected illegal workers at a Korean-run Hyundai worksite in Georgia. The raid on Friday detained roughly 475 migrants, including more than 300 Korean workers. All were working jobs that would otherwise have gone to local Americans and their families at decent wages. The workforce was legally distanced from the companies by a series of subcontractors.

NPR [9/6/2025 7:47 AM, Eric Westervelt, Jasmine Garsd, Scott Simon, 34837K] Audio: HERE reports federal agents arrested nearly 500 workers they said were in the U.S. illegally at a construction site in Georgia for a South Korean battery maker. Officials said it was the largest immigration enforcement action at a site.

Washington Post [9/7/2025 5:01 AM, Douglas MacMillan and Marianne LeVine, 32099K] reports the Trump administration plans to reopen several former prisons and detention centers that were closed by the federal government years ago over concerns about violence, medical neglect and systemic understaffing, as part of the president’s plan to carry out the largest deportation campaign in U.S. history. Three of the facilities, in Texas, Kansas, and Georgia, are on a government list of detention centers that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to reopen or expand by the end of this year, according to an internal planning document obtained by The Washington Post. All three would be operated by the companies that ran them previously. Congress has approved $45 billion to expand immigrant detention over the next four years. Meanwhile, the Trump administration has stripped away oversight measures and provided limited details on how they plan to address chronic issues that led to past problems at these facilities, including understaffing in remote areas. Tricia McLaughlin, a Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman, said in an emailed statement that ICE detention centers abide by higher standards than most prisons. She also said that the internal planning document is still subject to changes, and the agency may ultimately decide against issuing certain contracts. DHS noted that funds for staff that would be responsible for medical and detention standards compliance were included in Congress’s spending bill.

The New York Times [9/6/2025 1:52 PM, Hamed Aleaziz, 143795K] reports the Trump administration has started an Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation in Massachusetts, saying it was targeting “the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens living in the state.” In a statement on Saturday about the operation, called Patriot 2.0, the Department of Homeland Security struck a harsh note: “If you come to our country illegally and break our laws, we will hunt you down, arrest you, deport you, and you will never return.” The operation began late this week and was expected to last several weeks, according to two sources with knowledge of the initiative. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the activity publicly. One U.S. official who also was not authorized to speak publicly said the agency had prepared plans for a wider surge of immigration enforcement starting this month. The operation in Massachusetts began just days before the Trump administration was expected to kick off an immigration crackdown in Chicago, and as immigration arrests have ramped up in Washington. Top Trump officials had previously hinted that they planned to crack down on so-called sanctuary cities, which limit local police cooperation with federal immigration officials. In its statement on Saturday, the Department of Homeland Security called out Mayor Michelle Wu of Boston, who has drawn the administration’s ire for speaking out against the scale of its immigration actions. “Sanctuary policies like those pushed by Mayor Wu not only attract and harbor criminals but also place these public safety threats above the interests of law-abiding American citizens,” the statement said. Earlier this week, Tom Homan, President Trump’s border czar, said to expect ramped-up enforcement in multiple sanctuary cities, saying they would “flood the zone.” The Washington Post [9/7/2025 12:46 AM, Grace Moon and Marianne LeVine, 29079K] reports that on Thursday, the administration sued Boston and its leaders for allegedly refusing to cooperate with immigration authorities, adding to a string of similar lawsuits against so-called “sanctuary cities.” Boston Mayor Michelle Wu has defended the city’s laws, describing the lawsuit Thursday as an “unconstitutional attack on our city.” The mayor’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the ICE operation Saturday. In its statement Saturday, DHS said “sanctuary policies like those pushed by Mayor Wu not only attract and harbor criminals but also place these public safety threats above the interests of law-abiding American citizens.” Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi L. Noem has repeatedly said that immigration officers are arresting the “worst of the worst.” But a Washington Post analysis of ICE data from June found the administration is increasingly targeting unauthorized immigrants with no criminal record as it ramps up arrests. Federal authorities said the Massachusetts arrests in May included an alleged MS-13 gang member and someone described as a “child sex offender.” But according to community members, most of the migrants had no criminal record and were stopped on their way to work.

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The AP [9/6/2025 7:18 PM, Will Weissert, 27036K] reports President Donald Trump on Saturday amplified his promises to send National Guard troops and immigration agents to Chicago by posting a parody image from "Apocalypse Now" featuring a ball of flames as helicopters zoom over the nation’s third-largest city. "‘I love the smell of deportations in the morning,’" Trump wrote on his social media site. "Chicago about to find out why it’s called the Department of WAR.” The president offered no details beyond the label "Chipocalypse Now," a play on the title of Francis Ford Coppola’s dystopian 1979 film set in the Vietnam war, in which a character says: "I love the smell of napalm in the morning.” In response to the post, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, a Democrat, called Trump a "wannabe dictator.” Trump on Friday signed an executive order seeking to rename the Defense Department the Department of War, after months of campaigning to be considered for the Nobel Peace Prize. The renaming requires congressional approval. The illustration in Trump’s post shows him against a backdrop of the Chicago skyline, wearing a hat matching that of the movie’s war-loving and amoral Lt. Col. Kilgore, played by Robert Duvall. Trump’s weekend post follows his repeated threats to add Chicago to the list of other Democratic-led cities he’s targeted for expanded federal enforcement. His administration is set to step up immigration enforcement in Chicago, as it did in Los Angeles, and deploy National Guard troops. In addition to sending troops to Los Angeles in June, Trump has deployed them since last month in Washington, as part of his unprecedented law enforcement takeover of the nation’s capital. He’s also suggested that Baltimore and New Orleans could get the same treatment, and on Friday even mentioned federal authorities possibly heading for Portland, Oregon, to "wipe ‘em out," meaning protesters. He could have been mistakenly describing video from demonstrations in that city years ago. Details about Trump’s promised Chicago operation have been sparse, but there’s already widespread opposition. City and state leaders have said they plan to sue the Trump administration. Pritzker, a possible 2028 presidential candidate, is also fiercely opposed to it. The president "is threatening to go to war with an American city," Pritzker wrote on X over an image of Trump’s post. "This is not a joke. This is not normal.” He added: "Donald Trump isn’t a strongman, he’s a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.” Trump has suggested that he has nearly limitless powers when it comes to deploying the National Guard. At times he’s even touched on questions about his being a dictator. "Most people are saying, ‘If you call him a dictator, if he stops crime, he can be whatever he wants’ — I am not a dictator, by the way," Trump said last month. He added, "Not that I don’t have — I would — the right to do anything I want to do.” "I’m the president of the United States," Trump said then. "If I think our country is in danger — and it is in danger in these cities — I can do it.” Breitbart [9/6/2025 7:35 PM, Staff, 2608K] reports Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem also wants to send agents, including with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, to handle immigration matters. Some of the Guard and agents will be housed at Naval Station Great Lakes in North Chicago, about 40 miles north of downtown Chicago. DHS asked the Pentagon to accommodate roughly 250 federal agents and 140 vehicles at the largest military base in Illinois and the Navy’s largest training station, according to an internal government memo obtained by CBS News this week. Axios [9/6/2025 12:39 PM, Justin Kaufmann, 14595K] reports President Trump on Saturday threatened to unleash "the Department of WAR" on Chicago in a Truth Social image evoking the film "Apocalypse Now." Language that seemingly threatens to wage war on an American city is a significant escalation from Trump who has already deployed the National Guard to support his immigration crackdowns in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. The post comes as immigration enforcement operations are set to ramp up in Chicago today. 300 federal agents are using the nearby Great Lakes Naval Station as the logistical hub for the expanded operations. Pritzker has warned the Trump administration that if federal law enforcement does anything illegal during immigration raids, he will take it up with the courts. NewsMax [9/6/2025 12:04 PM, Jim Mishler, 4779K] reports President Donald Trump said earlier in the week that federal involvement could bring crime to a standstill in the Chicago area "in one month." Illinois Democratic U.S. Senators Tammy Duckworth and Dick Durbin went to the naval base on Friday looking for more information about the government’s ICE enforcement in the area. ABC7 reported that they were able to get a meeting with the base commander, who confirmed that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) requested office space and parking from Sept. 5 through Oct. 5. The Navy granted the request but told the senators it is not providing housing or barracks, nor are federal immigration enforcement agents permitted to keep lethal weapons at the base. According to the senators, efforts to speak directly with DHS officials at the base were unsuccessful. Communities throughout the Chicago metropolitan area have begun to adjust to the potential of heightened immigration enforcement. The Washington Examiner [9/6/2025 7:32 PM, Zach LaChance, 1563K] reports Democrats, particularly from the state of Illinois, were quick to weigh in on the post that is the latest instance of Trump teasing a National Guard deployment to the city as part of a crime crackdown. Both Gov. JB Pritzker (D-IL) and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson condemned the post, with Pritzker labeling Trump a "wannabe dictator." "The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city. This is not a joke. This is not normal," the Illinois governor added. Johnson also slammed it as an example of "authoritarianism," while calling for the public to begin "protecting" Chicago from the president. "The President’s threats are beneath the honor of our nation, but the reality is that he wants to occupy our city and break our Constitution," Johnson added.

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ABC News [9/6/2025 7:03 PM, Ivan Pereira, Hannah Demissie, and Selina Wang, 27036K] reports the Chicago area is bracing for additional immigration enforcement over the weekend. Meanwhile, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson pushed back against President Donald Trump Saturday after the president increased his threats to send in federal troops to the city with a social media meme. In a post on his social media platform, Trump reshared an image that places him in front of Chicago that insinuated he was going to take action against the city, referencing his recent rebranding of the Pentagon the "Department of War.". Pritzker slammed Trump and said that the president threatened to go to war with the city by posting the memes. "This is not normal. Donald Trump isn’t a strongman, he’s a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator," Pritzker wrote in an X post. Johnson echoed the governor’s sentiment, saying the president’s "threats are beneath the honor of our nation, but the reality is that he wants to occupy our city and break our Constitution.". A White House spokeswoman criticized the Illinois leaders in a statement, citing Chicago’s murders during the Labor Day weekend. "Local Democrat leaders are more upset about a post from the President — that tells you everything you need to know about the Democrats’ twisted priorities," Abigail Jackson, White House spokeswoman, said in a statement to ABC News. A Department of Homeland Security spokesperson told ABC News that the enforcement is targeting the "worst of the worst" criminals. "It is no surprise that these criminals flock to sanctuary cities where politicians protect them and allow them to roam free on American streets putting American lives at risk," the spokespersons said. "DHS will go to wherever these criminal illegal aliens are -- including Chicago, Boston and other cities. Under President Trump and Secretary Noem, nowhere is a safe haven for criminal illegal aliens. If you come to our country illegally and break our laws, we will hunt you down, arrest you, deport you, and you will never return.".

CBS News [9/6/2025 2:22 PM, Staff, 45245K] reports President Trump appeared to once again threaten sending troops to Chicago for a widespread immigration and crime crackdown similar to that seen in Los Angeles when the National Guard was recently deployed there. Mr. Trump has targeted Chicago and other Democrat-led cities for expanded federal intervention. His administration has said it will step up immigration enforcement in the Windy City, as he did in Los Angeles, and would deploy National Guard troops to help fight crime. Although details about the promised Chicago operation have been sparse, local opposition is already widespread and is building in the suburbs. State and city leaders have said they plan to sue the Trump administration. Mr. Trump did not specify whether his administration will primarily send Guard forces or federal law enforcement agents to Chicago. An internal government memo obtained by CBS News this week showed that the Department of Homeland Security asked the Pentagon to accommodate roughly 250 federal agents and 140 vehicles at the Naval Station Great Lakes – the largest military base in Illinois and the Navy’s largest training station. The request was officially made last week, and Homeland Security personnel and equipment began arriving at the naval station earlier this week, a U.S. official familiar with the operation told CBS News. The internal memo said Homeland Security officials would need the base for 30 days, suggesting the immigration crackdown in Chicago could last for weeks.

Reuters [9/6/2025 3:54 PM, Renee Hickman and Heather Schlitz, 45746K] reports several thousand demonstrators marched past Trump Tower as the sun began to set in downtown Chicago on Saturday, protesting U.S. President Donald Trump’s threats to flood the city with immigration agents. The protest came after fears of increasing deportations chilled a normally raucous Mexican Independence Day celebration, as Trump signaled his intention to ramp up immigration enforcement on social media. In a social media post depicting himself as a U.S. military officer from the movie "Apocalypse Now," Trump wrote, "I love the smell of deportations in the morning," above an image of the president in uniform juxtaposed against flames and Chicago’s skyline. For many protesters, the threats felt personal. Tracy Quinonez, 50, said her father, who recently died, came to the U.S. from Guatemala as a refugee. "I’m here for him," she said. "It’s not criminals being taken off the street. It’s families being ripped apart.” Quinonez, who like many other protesters was waving the blue stripes and red stars of Chicago’s city flag, told Reuters, "They really picked on the wrong city.” Protesters also opposed Trump’s threats to deploy National Guard troops to fight crime in Chicago, which would be an extraordinary effort to militarize the country’s third-largest city. On Wednesday, however, Vice President JD Vance said there were "no immediate plans" to send the National Guard to Chicago. Trump, a Republican, has mobilized troops in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., cities that, like Chicago, are run by Democratic politicians. Peg Devlin, 76, said on Saturday that she was marching against what she called the rise of fascism, which she said her mother had fled in Europe. "I’ve never experienced what my mother experienced as a German Jew," said Devlin, "I will not sit back and watch that happen here.” like a ghost town.” Illinois Governor JB Pritzker, a Democrat and vocal critic of Trump, said on Tuesday he believed ICE raids would coincide with Mexican Independence Day festivals scheduled for this weekend and next weekend. Some Mexican festivals in the Chicago area were postponed or canceled amid fears of immigration raids. "We’re scared, but we’re here," said Isabel Garcia, a dancer in Saturday’s parade. "We’re Mexican. We have to celebrate, and they’re not going to stop us.” ICE did not respond to requests for comment on whether it had sent more agents to Chicago, and residents said they had not seen significantly stepped-up immigration enforcement so far.

CNN [9/6/2025 7:29 PM, Veronica Stracqualursi, 23245K] reports scores of protesters marched in Washington, DC, on Saturday against President Donald Trump’s federal takeover of the city’s police department and deployment of National Guard troops to the capital. Holding signs that read "protect DC home rule" and "stop the Trump takeover," participants in the "We Are All DC" march journeyed from Meridian Hill Park to Freedom Plaza near the White House to protest what they see as Trump’s authoritarian push to control the district. "To see the destruction of the federal workforce and the importation of the National Guard to try to keep peace where crime is at the lowest it’s been in 30 years. It’s just, it moved me to protest," David Reinke, a former government contractor who lives in neighboring Maryland, told CNN. Marchers on Saturday also held anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement signs, and some participants CNN spoke to expressed disapproval of the Trump administration’s ICE raids, arguing that it’s pulling families apart. "There’s got to be a more humane and more diplomatic way to deal with people who are undocumented, and the way they’re doing it is very inhumane," Tammi Price, a retired teacher, told CNN.

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NewsMax [9/6/2025 5:41 PM, Solange Reyner, 4779K] reports Rep. Andrew Clyde, R-Ga., said Friday that "Trump Derangement Syndrome" is so strong among Democrats that it’s preventing them from fixing Washington, D.C.’s crime issues. "It goes to show you how vastly different the two sides are," Clyde told the Daily Caller. "Here you have President Trump and the Republicans wanting to restore law and order, wanting to make the city safe for the American people and for the residents of D.C., and you have the Democrats, who are there cheering on the criminals. And that is baffling to me. "I guess either Trump Derangement Syndrome is so strong among the Democrats that anything President Trump does, whether it helps them, you know, and helps their constituency or not, they’re going to oppose [it].". Trump placed the capital district’s Metropolitan Police Department under direct federal control and sent federal law enforcement personnel, including members of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), to police the city’s streets, moves critics have decried as federal overreach. More than 2,000 troops, including those from six Republican-led states, are patrolling the city. It is unclear when their mission will end, though the Army this week extended orders for the D.C. National Guard through November 30.

The AP [9/6/2025 3:08 PM, Deng Machol, 37974K] reports South Sudan said Saturday it repatriated to Mexico a man deported from the United States in July. The man, a Mexican identified as Jesus Munoz-Gutierrez, was among a group of eight who have been in government custody in the east African country since their deportation from the U.S. Another deportee, a South Sudanese national, has since been freed while six others remain in custody. Munoz-Gutierrez’s repatriation to Mexico was carried out by South Sudan’s foreign ministry in concert with the Mexican Embassy in neighboring Ethiopia, the South Sudanese foreign ministry said in a statement. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has said that Munoz-Gutierrez had a conviction for second-degree murder and was sentenced to life in prison. South Sudan is engaging other countries about repatriating the six deportees still in custody, said Apuk Ayuel Mayen, a spokeswoman for the foreign ministry. CNN [9/6/2025 6:52 PM, Isa Cardona and Max Saltman, 23245K] reports that, addressing reporters in Juba before stepping aboard a plane, Muñoz said he "felt kidnapped" by the US when he was sent to South Sudan. "I was not planning to come to South Sudan, but while I was here, they treated me well," Muñoz told reporters. "I finished my time in the United States, and they were supposed to return me to Mexico. Instead, they wrongfully sent me to South Sudan." CNN has reached out to the US Department of Homeland Security for comment on Muñoz’ characterization of his deportation. "Law and order prevails," Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said on X following the decision.

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AP [9/6/2025 11:13 PM, Leah Willingham, 6811K] reports a legal aid group has sued to preemptively block any efforts by the U.S. government to deport a dozen Honduran children, saying it had "credible" information that such plans were quietly in the works. The Arizona-based Florence Immigrant & Refugee Rights Project on Friday added Honduran children to a lawsuit filed last weekend that resulted in a judge temporarily blocking the deportation of dozens of migrant children to their native Guatemala. In a statement, FIRRP said it had received reports that the U.S. government will "imminently move forward with a plan to illegally remove Honduran children in government custody as soon as this weekend, in direct violation of their right to seek protection in the United States and despite ongoing litigation that blocked similar attempted extra-legal removals for children from Guatemala.” The organization did not immediately provide The Associated Press with details about what information it had received about the possible deportation of Honduran children. The amendment to the organization’s lawsuit is sealed in federal court. The Homeland Security Department did not immediately respond to email requests for comment on Friday and Saturday. The Justice Department on Saturday provided what is perhaps its most detailed account of a chaotic Labor Day weekend involving the attempted deportation of 76 Guatemalan children. Its timeline was part of a request to lift a temporary hold on their removal. Over Labor Day weekend, the Trump administration attempted to remove Guatemalan children who had come to the U.S. alone and were living in shelters or with foster care families in the U.S. Advocates who represent migrant children in court filed lawsuits across the country seeking to stop the government from removing the children, and on Sunday a federal judge stepped in to order that the kids stay in the U.S. for at least two weeks. The government initially identified 457 Guatemalan children for possible deportation, according to Saturday’s filing. None could have a pending asylum screening or claim, resulting in the removal of 91. They had to have parents or legal guardians in Guatemala and be at least 10 years old. In the end, 327 children were found eligible for deportation, including 76 who boarded planes early Sunday in what the government described as a first phase, according to a statement by Angie Salazar, acting director of the U.S. Health and Human Services Department’s Office of Refugee Resettlement. All 76 were at least 14 years old and "self-reported" that they had a parent or legal guardian in Guatemala but none in the United States. The Justice Department said no planes took off, despite a comment by one of its attorneys in court Sunday that one may have taken off but returned.

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AP [9/6/2025 1:10 PM, Travis Loller, 37974K] reports attorneys for Immigration and Customs Enforcement said in a Friday letter that they intend to send Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the African nation of Eswatini after he expressed a fear of deportation to Uganda. The letter from ICE to Abrego Garcia’s attorneys was earlier reported by Fox News. It states that his fear of persecution or torture in Uganda is “hard to take seriously, especially given that you have claimed (through your attorneys) that you fear persecution or torture in at least 22 different countries. ...Nonetheless, we hereby notify you that your new country of removal is Eswatini.” Eswatini’s government spokesperson told The Associated Press on Saturday that it had no received no communication regarding Abrego Garcia’s transfer there. As part of his asylum claim, Abrego Garcia expressed a fear of deportation to Uganda and “nearly two dozen” other countries, according an ICE court filing in opposition to reopening his asylum case. That Thursday filing also states that if the case is reopened, the 2019 order barring his deportation to El Salvador would become void and the government would pursue his removal to that country.

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AP [9/6/2025 1:57 PM, Leah Willingham] reports a legal aid group sued to preemptively block deportation of 12 Honduran children, citing "credible" information about imminent government plans. The lawsuit expands previous litigation that successfully blocked deportation of dozens of Guatemalan children over Labor Day weekend. Advocates demand children receive legal right to appear before immigration judges and access to counsel before any removal. The lawsuit was amended to include 12 children from Honduras who have expressed to the Florence Project that they do not want to return to Honduras, as well as four additional children from Guatemala who have come into government custody in Arizona since the suit was initially filed last week. The lawsuit demands that the government allow the children their legal right to present their cases to an immigration judge, have access to legal counsel and be placed in the least restrictive setting that is in the best interest of the child.

Daily Wire [9/6/2025 9:45 AM, Leif Le Mahieu, 3184K] reports border czar Tom Homan said Friday night that he was "amazed" at how quickly the Trump administration was able to secure the southern border. Speaking at the second annual State Freedom Caucus Summit near Dallas, Homan said illegal immigration was down 96% under President Donald Trump. Homan told the state lawmakers gathered at the conference that "even I am amazed" at how quickly the administration was able to shut down illegal immigration. During his speech, Homan also promised that the Trump administration would go after the Latin American drug cartels that have flooded the United States with drugs.

NewsNation [9/6/2025 7:57 AM, Sandra Sanchez, 6811K] reports the Cato Institute says over 14,500 federal law enforcement officers from other agencies are working with Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to facilitate raids and make arrests nationwide, including new special agents from USCIS. The Cato Institute this week reported that ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) is receiving assistance from nearly 17,000 non-ERO agents, according to data given to the nonprofit organization. USCIS personnel will have the authority "to investigate and enforce civil and criminal violations of the immigration laws within the jurisdiction of USCIS. These authorities include, but are not limited to, the issuance and execution of warrants, the arrest of individuals, and carrying of firearms," according to a notice posted Friday in the Federal Register. This includes ordering expedited removals. USCIS says it plans to recruit and train special agents for these roles. Edlow says this will allow his agency to handle investigations from start to finish, instead of referring some cases to Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and ERO agents.

Breitbart [9/6/2025 3:10 PM, Staff, 2608K] reports the CBS News program Face The Nation will no longer edit its recorded interviews before broadcast, following a complaint by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. Network executives confirmed the policy change this week, after Noem took issue with her recent appearance on the Sunday segment, which did not air her full comments. Noem called the practice "deceptive" editing, after the interview with moderator Margaret Brennan was trimmed from 16 minutes and 40 seconds to 12 minutes and 15 seconds. CBS News later posted the full, unedited interview online, as well as a full transcript of the interview.

Washington Post [9/7/2025 6:30 AM, Staff, 32099K] reports nothing has been able to rescue Haiti from its descent into gang-fueled violence and chaos. Not the resignation last year of the unpopular prime minister and the formation of a transitional presidential council. Not the deployment of a Kenyan-led international security force. Not the Haitian government’s enlisting of a private American security company. Not even the use of weaponized drones has been able to break the gangs’ stranglehold. Well-armed gangs have been expanding their grip over the country. They now control an estimated 90 percent of the capital, Port-au-Prince, and have extended their reach farther into the countryside. More than 3,000 people have been killed this year alone, more than 1 million have been displaced and half the country is hungry. People allowed to return to their neighborhoods after one of the powerful gangs announced a retreat found their homes burned, their belongings looted and human remains littering the streets. In the latest attempt to curb the violence — and a tacit acknowledgment that the previous efforts have all failed — the United States, joined by Panama, has proposed the establishment of a 5,550-member U.N. Gang Suppression Force for Haiti. Unlike the current Kenyan-led security force, consisting mostly of police, the proposed anti-gang force would be larger and have the power to make arrests and a mandate to operate independently, not alongside the Haitian police force. Beyond the obvious humanitarian reasons, restoring order in Haiti, quelling gang violence and preventing a total collapse of the state is of vital concern to the United States. Haiti’s gangs have evolved from localized criminal groups into transnational criminal organizations, smuggling illegal drugs into the United States and weapons back into Haiti. The U.S. military’s recent strike on a suspected drug-smuggling boat from Venezuela showed President Donald Trump is willing to use lethal force to target illicit drug shipments from Latin America. Despite its presence in our Caribbean backyard, this crisis has too often been neglected by policymakers. Preventing Haiti from becoming a narco-state deserves to be an administration priority, especially because the violence is also a major driver of mass migration. Desperate Haitians continue to try to make the dangerous journey by boat to Florida, and the U.S. Coast Guard is still trying to interdict and repatriate them.

Breitbart [9/6/2025 11:20 AM, Bob Price, 2608K] reports in Part 3 of an exclusive interview with Breitbart News, Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons laid out a bold vision for restoring law and order through a nationwide recruitment drive aimed at bringing patriots into the ranks of immigration enforcement. Under President Trump’s leadership, ICE is not only cracking down on criminal aliens and drug cartels—it’s rebuilding its workforce with Americans who believe in the mission. “We are recruiting, retaining, and hiring the best possible patriots that want to go out here and do a good law enforcement mission,” Director Lyons told Breitbart. “We’re looking for people who believe in protecting this country, who understand the importance of enforcing immigration law, and who want to make a difference.” “We’ve had over 140,000 applicants from all walks of life,” Lyons added. “What we’re really excited about is the amount of veterans, amount of active duty military folks that are leaving active service, that want to come work for the federal government, a lot of local, state, county law enforcement that want to come and do the law enforcement mission at the federal level.” Lyons explained that under President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill funding, the agency can recruit and retain quality candidates. The funding allows ICE to not only use “retention bonuses, hiring bonuses, and student loan repayment, but we’re actually going to be able to go ahead and retain our quality people to let them know that we care about the mission they’re doing every day, and make sure they’re compensated as well.”

Washington Examiner [9/7/2025 6:00 AM, Anna Giaritelli, 1563K] reports first-of-their-kind detention sites in red states across the country are giving the Trump administration the bed space needed to carry out a dramatic expansion of its immigration enforcement agenda. Due to a shortage of federally contracted detention space, the Department of Homeland Security has brokered deals to build new and sometimes make-shift facilities that allow Immigration and Customs Enforcement to arrest thousands of additional illegal border crossers. Since July, the DHS has announced the openings of Alligator Alcatraz and Deportation Depot in Florida; Speedway Slammer in Indiana; Cornhusker Clink in Nebraska; Louisiana Lockup in Louisiana; with more alliterative facilities expected on the horizon. Combined, the state sites have enough capacity to hold nearly 10,000 more illegal immigrants beyond the roughly 50,000 beds available at existing ICE facilities, and though some have faced legal challenges, most notably Alligator Alcatraz, the administration has vowed to move forward with its detention center expansion. The recently passed One Big, Beautiful Bill includes funding for another 80,000 beds, according to DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, and immigration analysts anticipate ICE will use up the state facility space as it ramps up its enforcement within the country’s interior.

FOX News [9/6/2025 10:14 AM, Greg Norman, 40019K] reports U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said it deported a Mexican illegal immigrant who is wanted for "aggravated rape against an underage family member." Omar Alberto Almodobar Mondragon, 29, is facing an outstanding arrest warrant out of Sinaloa, Mexico, according to ICE. On Thursday, U.S. immigration officials handed him over to Mexican authorities at the Dennis DeConcini Port of Entry in Nogales, Ariz. ICE said Almodobar Mondragon entered the U.S. in November 2019 on a visitor’s visa, but then he "never left."

Reuters [9/7/2025 6:20 AM, Nathan Layne, 45746K] reports sitting alone at her dining room table this past Sunday, Doris Aguirre took a bite of a soda cracker and a sip of the orange juice she had prepared to represent the body and blood of Jesus Christ. Eyes closed, she then made the sign of the cross. It is an act of faith performed every week by millions of Christians who consume a wafer and a sip of wine blessed by a minister in churches around the world, in one of the holiest moments of the Sunday service. But for Aguirre it is a lonely ritual. Aguirre’s church in Chicago moved its Spanish-language service online in late December in anticipation of President Donald Trump launching the biggest crackdown on illegal immigration in U.S. history. Honduran-born Aguirre is married to a naturalized U.S. citizen but lacks legal status herself despite having lived in the country for 25 years. She has a standing deportation order after inadvertently missing an initial court date, and a later attempt to reopen her case was denied, her lawyer said. For Aguirre, attending weekly service at Chicago’s Lincoln United Methodist Church was an important part of life. She said she misses taking communion with other congregants and gathering after service over coffee to talk through common problems in her native tongue. Aguirre’s solitary communion is an example of how Trump’s immigration sweep is disrupting the religious lives of thousands of immigrants in the country illegally. On his first day in office, the Trump administration scrapped former President Joe Biden’s policy of designating places of worship, along with schools and hospitals, as sensitive locations off limits to immigration enforcement. "Criminals will no longer be able to hide in America’s schools and churches to avoid arrest," the Department of Homeland Security said in a statement on January 21. That policy change, along with moves by federal agents to detain a growing number of people charged only with immigration violations, has led many immigrants to stay away from church because they no longer view it as a safe space, according to interviews with more than two dozen pastors and church leaders across the U.S. They said that the growing fear of deportation had driven down attendance and made it more difficult to retain ties with their congregants, hindering services from food to legal advice that immigrants count on the church to provide. While Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have yet to raid a church, they detained a pastor in Maryland for allegedly overstaying his visa and have arrested people in church parking lots. In a statement to Reuters, a DHS spokesperson said ICE was not raiding churches, adding that agents would need supervisory approval and that any action inside a church would be rare. "If a dangerous illegal alien felon like a gang member, murderer, or pedophile were to flee into a church, there may be a situation where an arrest is made to protect public safety," the spokesperson said.

Breitbart [9/6/2025 12:37 PM, Elizabeth Weibel, 2608K] reports an alleged illegal alien was arrested and charged with the murder of a 19-year-old Maryland woman, whose body was found off of Route 50 a week after being reported missing. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) confirmed in a post on X, that Hugo Hernandez-Mendez, 35, "an illegal alien from Guatemala" was charged with first and second-degree murder in the death of Dacara Thompson. According to officials, Hernandez-Mendez, who is from Guatemala, was in the United States "illegally" and was previously arrested by U.S. Park Police in April "for a DUI case but was released," WUSA9 News reported. Officers executed a search warrant of the home Hernandez-Mendez lived in with his relatives, according to the outlet’s report. One of Hernandez-Mendez’s cousins, who spoke under the condition of anonymity, stated that investigators "went through every inch of the room" and allegedly discovered blood. The outlet noted that homicide detectives with the Prince George’s County Police Department declared Thompson, who was reported missing since August 23 and whose body was found on August 31, was allegedly murdered in Hernandez-Mendez’s bedroom. A Department of Homeland Security (DHS) spokesperson told the Washington Post in a statement that in May 2022, Hernandez-Mendez had allegedly been arrested for "Driving Under the Influence and failure to maintain control of a motor vehicle to avoid a collision."

Breitbart [9/6/2025 12:01 PM, Amy Furr, 2608K] reports the city of Durham, North Carolina, is pushing back against the work of President Donald Trump’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The Durham City Council on Tuesday unanimously passed a resolution to make the city a "Fourth Amendment Workplace," the Chronicle reported Wednesday. The resolution says the city has "historically pursued equity and safety for all residents" and the trust of Durhamites is essential to the city carrying out its operations. It says the threat of "unconstitutional seizure" has prevented immigrants in Durham from "safely engaging in public life, including pursuing employment and education." The Chronicle referred to an incident that happened in July when ICE agents detained an illegal alien charged with a felony at the Durham County Courthouse, which alerted citizens and officials to the fact that ICE agents were there.

CNN [9/7/2025 4:45 AM, Danya Gainor, 23245K] reports that, in the Lower West Side of Chicago, music blared and green, white and red flags fluttered down the streets of the predominantly Latino Pilsen neighborhood on Saturday as crowds gathered for the start of Mexican Independence Day celebrations. Costumed performers and children with baskets of treats paraded through the community, drawing cheers from families lining the sidewalks. But the joy of the annual celebration came with an undercurrent of unease this year. Bright orange whistles swung from the necks of parade-goers and dancers, each one ready to cut through the music should federal immigration agents appear. The caution reflects fears across the city that Chicago could be the next target of President Donald Trump’s intense immigration crackdown. Independence Day festivities in the Windy City this year were quieter, some even postponed, under the weight of the looming threats. But in Pilsen, the neighborhood gathered anyway, choosing joy over fear. "It’s always a good moment to celebrate our culture, our customs," Araceli Lucio, a parade-goer and longtime resident, told CNN. "I think now more than ever is when we need to demonstrate that we are united and we are a community.” The Mexican holiday usually draws hundreds of thousands of attendees to more than a week of celebrations across Chicago that began Saturday. But in response to the anticipated ramp-up of immigration enforcement, streets are quieter as events have been muted. Illinois Reps. Mike Quigley and Jesús "Chuy" García were also seen walking in Saturday’s parade in Pilsen, as state officials have been heeding warnings of the impending immigration enforcement in Chicago. Officials in Chicago have been monitoring days of warnings the city could be the next target of Trump’s expanding enforcement efforts across the country. The president and his aides have repeatedly slammed Chicago over policies limiting cooperation between local authorities and federal immigration enforcement. Chicago grappled with an influx of migrants during the Biden administration following surges along the US southern border and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s decision to transport migrants to Democratic-led cities. Chicago was also among the first cities targeted in immigration enforcement operations when Trump took office in January. Now, the anticipated operations in Chicago are expected to be on a larger scale, using personnel from Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Customs and Border Protection, and possibly other agencies, CNN previously reported. Reuters [9/6/2025 7:02 PM, Heather Schlitz and Renee Hickman, 45746K] reports a normally raucous, colorful parade to mark Mexican Independence Day in Chicago turned quiet and nervous on Saturday as U.S. President Donald Trump signaled he intended to ramp up deportations in the nation’s third-largest city. In a break from traditional celebrations, twirling folklorico dancers decked in glimmering jewelry and billowing, multi-colored dresses distributed "know your rights" pamphlets to sparse crowds in the city’s historically Mexican Pilsen neighborhood. Horses wore the colors of Mexico’s flag in their tails, while their riders wore neon-orange whistles around their necks in case they needed to alert attendees of Immigration and Custom Enforcement agents. Along the sidelines, volunteers also kept watch for ICE. "This place would normally be packed," Eddie Chavez, a lifelong Pilsen resident, said while waving a Mexican flag in a lone row of lawn chairs along the parade route. "Now it’s empty, like a ghost town." Trump alluded to immigration raids in Chicago in a Truth Social post that echoed the movie Apocalypse Now. Illinois Govornor JB Pritzker, a Democrat and vocal critic of Trump, said on Tuesday he believed ICE raids would coincide with Mexican Independence day festivals scheduled for this weekend and next weekend. Some Mexican festivals in the Chicago area were postponed or canceled amid fears of immigration raids. "We’re scared, but we’re here," said Isabel Garcia, a dancer in Saturday’s parade wearing a marigold-yellow dress and multi-colored ribbons and flowers in her hair. "We’re Mexican. We have to celebrate, and they’re not going to stop us." ICE has not responded to requests for comment on whether it sent more agents to Chicago, and residents said they had not seen significantly stepped-up immigration enforcement so far.

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Daily Caller [9/6/2025 8:32 AM, Jason Hopkins, 985K] reports one of Colorado’s biggest counties is taking on the state’s "unconstitutional" sanctuary law after it was used to crack down on a sheriff’s deputy who helped federal immigration authorities. The Board of Mesa County Commissioners is moving forward with its lawsuit against a Democrat-led sanctuary law that prohibits local law enforcement in Colorado from sharing personal information about a foreign national with federal immigration authorities, the Daily Caller News Foundation confirmed. The lawsuit was filed after state officials sued a Mesa County sheriff’s deputy for helping Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and effectively forced him out of the job. The outcome of the sanctuary battle in Colorado — one of the many sanctuary jurisdictions targeted by the Trump administration — could carry national implications.

NBC News [9/6/2025 3:15 PM, Matt Lavietes and Kimmy Yam, 43603K] reports a Utah violinist who has played with high-profile orchestras has been released on bond after being detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement last month. Donggin Shin, 37, was apprehended by immigration authorities in a hotel parking lot while he was on a work trip in Colorado and placed in ICE detention on Aug. 18. His father brought him to the U.S. from South Korea when he was a child and he lives in Salt Lake City, according to his attorney, Adam Crayk. Shin, who goes by the name John, was held at the Denver Contract Detention Facility in Aurora, Colorado — more than 500 miles away from his home — according to an ICE database. He was released on $25,000 bond on Tuesday. "I never thought I would have to feel what it’s like to be shackled on my ankles and my wrist, feeling like some kind of a serious criminal, as if I have murdered someone," Shin said at a press conference Friday, according to KSL-TV, an NBC affiliate based in Salt Lake City. "I was absolutely terrified. Obviously, I cried all day," he added. Shin was held for a total of 17 days and is now wearing an ankle monitor, according to Crayk. A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Breitbart [9/6/2025 9:56 AM, Randy Clark, 2608K] reports a federal grand jury indicted a professor at California State University Channel Islands who is charged with throwing a tear gas canister at federal agents executing a search warrant at a marijuana farm in Camarillo this summer. The grand jury returned the indictment on Wednesday. Jonathan Caravello, 37, of Ventura, California, is charged with one count of assault on a federal officer using a deadly or dangerous weapon. Caravello, who is free on $15,000 bond, is expected to be arraigned in the coming weeks in the United States District Court in Los Angeles. According to the indictment and court documents previously filed in this case, on July 10, federal agents with Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and United States Border Patrol executed a high-risk search warrant at a marijuana farm sitting on a 160-acre property in Camarillo. A group of protesters gathered near law enforcement personnel around the farm’s entrance and used their bodies and their vehicles to impede law enforcement from exiting the location. According to the United States Attorney’s Office for the Central District of Los Angeles, protesters became violent, throwing rocks at the government vehicles attempting to depart the location because of the danger posed by the protesters. The indictment indicated law enforcement agents on the scene in Camarillo deployed tear gas to assist with crowd control and ensure officer safety. The measure also allowed law enforcement to depart the location. Border Patrol agents rolled tear gas canisters by protesters’ feet at which time the indictment alleged Caravello ran up to one of the canisters and attempted to kick it. After the canister rolled past him, Caravello turned around, ran towards the canister, picked it up, and threw it overhand back at Border Patrol agents. Border Patrol agents eventually arrested Caravello, who continuously kicked his legs and refused to give agents his arms during the arrest. If convicted, Caravello could face a statutory maximum sentence of 20 years in federal prison.

San Diego Union Tribune [9/6/2025 8:00 AM, Alex Riggins and Alexandra Mendoza, 1648K] reports the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the agency tasked with caring for unaccompanied migrant children, has allegedly implemented a secret policy in recent months allowing immigration agents and criminal investigators to interrogate those children and their potential U.S.-based sponsors, according to a federal lawsuit filed this week by Al Otro Lado, a San Diego-based binational organization that provides legal services and humanitarian aid to migrants. Al Otro Lado’s lawsuit, filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, accuses Health and Human Services of violating its "statutory mandate to act in the best interest of children in its care." The lawsuit seeks to make public through the Freedom of Information Act all records pertaining to the allegedly secret policy. Included in the lawsuit is an Aug. 5 email that Al Otro Lado obtained that was apparently sent by Adam Loiacono, ICE’s deputy principal legal advisor for enforcement and litigation. The email, which was sent to other ICE and DHS personnel, appears to lay out ICE’s legal justification for questioning unaccompanied migrant children at shelters operated by Health and Human Services. The email stated that agents from Homeland Security Investigations, an agency under the DHS umbrella that’s focused on global organized crime, intended to interview unaccompanied migrant children in part as an effort to help Health and Human Services reunite the children with their families. The lawsuit seeks a court order requiring the various federal agencies involved to publish all records pertaining to the alleged interrogations of the unaccompanied children and their sponsors.

Washington Examiner [9/6/2025 10:16 AM, Ross O’Keefe, 1563K] reports a judge on Friday blocked the Trump administration from revoking hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan and Haitian immigrants’ immigration protections. U.S. District Judge Edward Chen ruled Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s moves to terminate the immigrants’ "temporary protected status" was "preordained without any [meaningful] analysis and review." Chen, who was appointed by former President Barack Obama, argued that his ruling did not conflict with the previous Supreme Court decision. He said the case was only in a preliminary posture then, and their orders applied just to a temporary block he had issued. Chen also explained that the higher court did not stop him from fully considering the case and rendering a decision on the merits of the case. Anticipating an appeal from the Trump administration, Chen made his ruling effective immediately, noting the "significant rights of the Venezuelan and Haitian TPS holders who have lost or will lose status in the absence of relief." A Department of Homeland Security spokesperson told Politico that TPS will end.

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FOX News [9/6/2025 11:13 AM, Cameron Arcand, 40019K] reports the Department of Homeland Security blasted a federal judge’s order preventing the Trump administration from scrapping temporary protected status for more than a million Venezuelan and Haitian nationals in the United States. The outlet reported that it applies to 600,000 Venezuelans and 500,000 Haitians. Judge Edward Chen, of the Northern District of California, wrote in his ruling that ending the TPS was "unprecedented" and that Noem’s actions broke the law. "This case arose from action taken post haste by the current DHS Secretary, Kristi Noem, to revoke the legal status of Venezuelan and Haitian TPS holders, sending them back to conditions that are so dangerous that even the State Department advises against travel to their home countries," the judge wrote.

FOX News [9/6/2025 9:00 AM, Sophia Compton, 40019K] reports a woman accused of shooting and killing a U.S. Border Patrol agent pleaded not guilty to murder and other charges on Friday, marking her first court appearance since prosecutors said they would seek the death penalty for the suspect linked to a transgender vegan cult that has been tied to multiple killings across the country. Teresa Youngblut, 21, pleaded not guilty in federal court in Burlington, Vermont, to the shooting, which took place during a traffic stop in January. The superseding indictment, returned by a federal grand jury last month, charged Youngblut with the murder of Agent David Maland, the assault of two other agents with a deadly weapon and related gun offenses. Attorney General Pamela Bondi has formally authorized the pursuit of capital punishment in the case, and the acting U.S. attorney for the District of Vermont has filed a notice of intent to seek the death penalty, the agency said last month. Investigators have linked Youngblut to the "Zizians," a self-described vegan, anti-government, transgender-rights collective that authorities say has been tied to six killings across three states, the Associated Press reported.

Los Angeles Times [9/6/2025 1:54 PM, Wendy Fry and Sergio Olmos, 12715K] reports the ACLU and United Farm Workers have filed a motion alleging that the Border Patrol violated a court order intended to curb racial profiling and unlawful, warrantless arrests in the Central Valley. They want the judge to require new training and forbid agents involved in a July raid in Sacramento from participating in other operations until they are retrained. In April, a federal district court judge ruled that the Border Patrol likely violated the Constitution’s protections against unreasonable search and seizure during a January operation in Kern County called "Operation Return to Sender," in which agents swarmed a Home Depot and Latino market, among other areas frequented by laborers. The judge ordered the Border Patrol, led by El Centro Sector Chief Gregory Bovino, to stop the raids in California’s Eastern District, which covers much of the state’s Central Valley, including Sacramento. Bovino told Fox the raids were targeted and based on intel. Border Patrol would not provide reports for individuals who were detained but then released, the motion states. The ACLU is asking the judge to shorten the amount of time Border Patrol has to share the arrest reports from seven days to four days because many of the people detained in the Sacramento raid had already been deported by the time they got the arrest reports, according to their motion. A hearing on the motion to enforce the injunction is set for October in Fresno.

AP [9/6/2025 10:02 AM, David Fischer] reports a federal trial is scheduled to begin Monday for a man charged with trying to assassinate Donald Trump as he played golf in Florida in September 2024. U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon signed off in July on Ryan Routh’s request to represent himself during his trial, but said court-appointed attorneys need to remain as standby counsel. Authorities said Routh tried to assassinate Trump, the Republican nominee for presidential, while he played golf at his golf club in West Palm Beach. Routh is facing five felony counts in federal court in Fort Pierce. They include attempted assassination of a major presidential candidate; possessing a firearm to carry out a violent crime; assaulting a federal officer; felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition; and possession of a firearm with an obliterated serial number. In addition to the federal charges, Routh also has pleaded not guilty to state charges of terrorism and attempted murder.

The New York Times [9/6/2025 9:45 PM, Orlando Mayorquín and Matt Stevens, 143795K] reports the Los Angeles Police Department ended its protection services for former Vice President Kamala Harris on Saturday after facing criticism from an elite unit of its officers and the police union, according to two people familiar with the matter. The police force stopped providing the services for Ms. Harris on Saturday morning, according to a law enforcement official and a person with close ties to the department. They spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss closely held security details. The department said this week that it had assigned officers to assist the California Highway Patrol in providing security for Ms. Harris. The agencies stepped in to fill the security gap that was left after President Trump terminated Ms. Harris’s Secret Service security detail beginning Monday. The U.S. Secret Service usually protects vice presidents for six months after they leave office, but President Joseph R. Biden Jr. had signed an executive order to extend that protection for an additional year for Ms. Harris. The decision to dispatch the Los Angeles police to guard the former vice president was met with swift criticism from officers within one of the department’s specialized units, known as the Metropolitan Division, the people familiar with the matter said. Officers had been reassigned from crime suppression work in the San Fernando Valley, one of those people said. The request for the protection service came as the department was already trying to manage with reduced resources, the law enforcement official said. The Los Angeles Police Protective League, the union that represents L.A.P.D. officers, had criticized the use of police officers to protect Ms. Harris, calling the operation “nuts” and a misuse of taxpayer money. On Saturday, it praised the decision to pull the detail. “We are happy to report that the Metro officers assigned to protect the multimillionaire failed presidential candidate are back on the street fighting crime,” the union’s board of directors said in a statement. On Thursday, local news cameras had captured plainclothes police officers parked outside Ms. Harris’s home in the Brentwood neighborhood of west Los Angeles. “The plan was always to provide temporary support, and I thank L.A.P.D. for protecting former V.P. Harris and always prioritizing the safety of all Angelenos,” Mayor Karen Bass of Los Angeles said in a statement on Saturday. Breitbart [9/7/2025 6:30 AM, Joel B. Pollak, 2608K] reports that a dozen or more officers have begun working a detail to protect Harris after President Trump revoked her Secret Service protection as of Monday. Sources not authorized to discuss the details of the plan said the city would fund the security but that the arrangement was expected to be brief, with Harris hiring her own security in the near future. By Saturday, the LAPD had ended its involvement, the Los Angeles Times reported: The Los Angeles Police Department on Saturday discontinued its protection for former Vice President Kamala Harris after heavy criticism within its own ranks that officers were being diverted from crime suppression, sources told The Times. LAPD Metropolitan Division officers had been assisting the California Highway Patrol in protecting Harris and were visible until Saturday morning outside her Brentwood home. Both California police agencies scrambled this week to protect Harris after President Trump, her rival in November’s election, revoked Harris’s Secret Service protection last week. Thursday. President Biden had extended that protection for Harris beyond the six months after leaving office that vice presidents traditionally get.

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Washington Examiner [9/6/2025 9:18 PM, Zach LaChance, 1563K]

Washington Examiner [9/7/2025 6:00 AM, Barnini Chakraborty, 1563K] reports Los Angeles police and the California Highway Patrol are providing taxpayer-funded security for former Vice President Kamala Harris — a move that has infuriated the police union and some Republican lawmakers. The use of state and local resources was likely requested by Harris and approved by Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass (D) and Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) after President Donald Trump revoked her Secret Service detail earlier this week. The CHP is authorized to provide security for current and former California constitutional officers when a threat assessment deems it necessary. Harris, a former state constitutional officer, is receiving protection coordinated by the agency in response to current concerns, sources told the Washington Examiner. Bass called Trump’s actions “another act of revenge following a long list of political retaliation in the forms of firings, the revoking of security clearances and more.” “This puts the former Vice President in danger and I look forward to working with the Governor to make sure Vice President Harris is safe in Los Angeles,” she said.

Washington Post [9/7/2025 2:00 AM, Cate Brown, 29079K] reports the Trump administration is expanding its campaign against the International Criminal Court with new sanctions on three Palestinian human rights groups that have asked the ICC to investigate Israel over allegations of genocide in Gaza. Analysts say the designations by Secretary of State Marco Rubio could impede the court’s efforts to gather evidence of Israel’s conduct in its war against Hamas in Gaza. The designations Thursday prohibit U.S. entities from doing business with the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, the Al Mezan Center for Human Rights and Al Haq. Third-party groups such as banks or website providers have been given one month to wind down business transactions with the organizations, according to the Office of Foreign Assets Control. “These entities have directly engaged in efforts by the [ICC] to investigate, arrest, detain, or prosecute Israeli nationals, without Israel’s consent,” Rubio said in a statement. “We oppose the ICC’s politicized agenda, overreach, and disregard for the sovereignty of the United States and that of our allies.” The ICC in November issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defense minister Yoav Gallant for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity. (It has also issued warrants for three Hamas commanders; all have been killed by Israeli forces.) Neither Israel nor the United States recognize the court’s jurisdiction. Legal scholars warned that the sanctions threatened international norms and could undermine U.S. standing as a defender of human rights. “Sanctions are designed to hold criminal perpetrators accountable, or punish those who act against U.S. foreign policy and national security interests,” said Mohsen Farshneshani, a principal attorney at the Washington-based Sanctions Law Center. “They’re not meant to muzzle those who are documenting human rights atrocities.” The designations were issued under emergency powers invoked by President Donald Trump in February, when he accused the ICC of “illegitimate and baseless actions targeting America and our close ally Israel.” He said any effort to investigate or prosecute “protected persons,” including Israeli officials, posed an “extraordinary threat” to U.S. national security. Trump has also invoked emergency powers to impose tariffs on imports, deport immigrants and dispatch the National Guard to U.S. cities, among other actions. The invocation can enable a president to temporarily circumvent congressional scrutiny. The administration has also imposed sanctions on the ICC’s chief prosecutor, Karim Khan, his two deputies and six judges, and on Francesca Albanese, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories. Albanese has called Israel’s campaign in Gaza a genocide. Hamas and other fighters streamed out of Gaza on Oct. 7, 2023, killed 1,200 people, Israeli authorities say, and took 251 more back to the enclave as hostages. Israel responded with a full-scale war to eliminate Hamas in Gaza. Israel since then has flattened much of Gaza, displaced virtually the entire population and killed more than 64,000 people, the health ministry there says. The majority are believed to be civilians; the ministry does not distinguish between civilians and fighters.

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