New Orleans police say recruit detained by ICE had been verified through agency's system

The New Orleans Police Department is denying wrongdoing after one of its recruits was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which accused the city of violating federal immigration laws.

Federal agents last month arrested New Orleans police recruit Larry Temah, a 46-year-old Cameroonian national who had received a final order of removal signed by an immigration judge in December, according to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Temah remains in custody and awaits deportation.

Temah was in the department’s police academy when he was detained and was several months away from graduation. He had entered the U.S. in 2015 on a valid visitor visa and received conditional residency in 2016 after marrying a U.S. citizen. In 2022, his application for permanent residency was “denied due to fraud,” according to DHS.

“Criminal illegal aliens have no place in our communities — especially on our police forces,” DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin stated Tuesday.

But New Orleans Police Department spokesperson Reese Harper said Tuesday that DHS had made “misleading” statements about Temah’s case. The department had confirmed Temah’s employment eligibility through a DHS verification system and was never notified that ICE was seeking to detain Temah until the day of his arrest, he said.

https://apnews.com/article/new-orleans-police-recruit-ice-detained-beacbcb5a6e1393036f35302162d52ad

More ICE lies!

Texas Education Agency warns districts of potential takeovers for "encouraging" student protests

The Texas Education Agency on Tuesday warned school districts that they could be taken over by the state if they help facilitate students walking out of class to attend protests.

The agency released guidance after Gov. Greg Abbottdirected Education Commissioner Mike Morath to investigate a social media post showing Austin Independent School District students participating in nationwide walkouts against the recent killings of several people by federal immigration officers. Austin school district police officers drove near some of the students during the Jan. 30 protest in downtown Austin.

In the guidance released Tuesday evening, the education agency said students, teachers or school districts participating in “inappropriate political activism” could face the following consequences:

1. Students being marked absent and districts losing state funding.

2. Educators being investigated and disciplined, including losing their teaching license.

3. Districts facing state oversight, including the replacement of an elected school board with a board of managers.

“Today, in classrooms across Texas, tomorrow’s leaders are learning the foundational, critical thinking skills and knowledge necessary for lifelong learning, serving as the bedrock for the future success of our state and nation,” the TEA’s press release said. “It is in this spirit that school systems have been reminded of their duty and obligation to ensure that their students are both safe and that they attend school, with consequences for students for unexcused absences.”

https://apnews.com/article/schools-austin-isd-greg-abbott-general-news-protests-and-demonstrations-95e45e0110cabecc93151d1b583456fd

Texass is a fascist state with a fascist goobernater. That is all.

Government lawyer yanked from immigration detail in Minnesota after telling judge 'this job sucks'

A government lawyer who told a judge that her job “sucks” during a court hearing stemming from the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement surge in Minnesota has been removed from her Justice Department post, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Julie Le had been working for the Justice Department on a detail, but the U.S. attorney in Minnesota ended her assignment after her comments in court on Tuesday, the person said. The person spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a personnel matter. She had been working for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement before the temporary assignment.

At a hearing Tuesday in St. Paul, Minnesota, for several immigration cases, Le told U.S. District Judge Jerry Blackwell that she wishes he could hold her in contempt of court “so that I can have a full 24 hours of sleep.”

“What do you want me to do? The system sucks. This job sucks. And I am trying every breath that I have so that I can get you what you need,” Le said, according to a transcript.

Le was assigned at least 88 cases in less than a month, according to online court records. ICE officials have said the surge in Minnesota has become its largest-ever immigration operation since ramping up in early January. Several prosecutors have left the U.S. Attorney’s office in Minnesota amid frustration with the immigration enforcement surge and the Justice Department’s response to fatal shootings of two civilians by federal agents.

https://apnews.com/article/julie-le-job-sucks-minnesota-dhs-ice-b0affbb6c394c39184a813c8f597d5a2

I'd just be saying loud and clear, "I QUIT!"

When are the Clintons supposed to testify?

And will it be an open hearing, as they wanted? Because I want to watch every damn minute of it. I want to watch Hillary especially as she turns the tables on these little RepubliKKKan a-holes who are trying to humiliate her.

Immigration agents draw guns, arrest activists following them in Minneapolis

Immigration officers with guns drawn arrested activists who were trailing their vehicles on Tuesday in Minneapolis, while education leaders described anxiety and fear in Minnesota schools from the ongoing federal sweeps.

Both are signs that tension remains in the Minneapolis area after the departure of high-profile commander Greg Bovino of U.S. Board Patrol and the arrival of Trump administration border czar Tom Homan, which followed the fatal shooting of protester Alex Pretti.
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At least one person who had an anti-ICE message on clothing was handcuffed while face-down on the ground. An Associated Press photographer witnessed the arrests.
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Several cars followed officers through south Minneapolis after there were reports of them knocking at homes. Officers stopped their vehicles and ordered activists to come out of a car at gunpoint. Agents told reporters at the scene to stay back and threatened to use pepper spray.

A federal judge last month put limits on how officers treat motorists who are following them but not obstructing their operations. Safely following agents “at an appropriate distance does not, by itself, create reasonable suspicion to justify a vehicle stop,” the judge said. An appeals court, however, set the order aside.

https://apnews.com/article/minneapolis-immigration-crackdown-arrests-29ab636ca0f7db5389418463ca8b67c7

An absolute violation of our First Amendment rights!

Alabama man faces execution despite not pulling the trigger in auto store customer's death

Charles “Sonny” Burton didn’t kill anyone. The state of Alabama could execute him anyway.

Burton, 75, is facing execution for his role as an accomplice in a 1991 robbery at an auto parts store where customer Doug Battle was killed. No one disputes that another man, Derrick DeBruce, shot and killed Battle. Burton, one of six men involved in the robbery, was outside the store at the time of the shooting, according to testimony.

DeBruce and Burton were both sentenced to death. But DeBruce was later resentenced to life imprisonment, leaving Burton — who neither fired the gun nor ordered anyone to be killed -- as the only person facing execution.

Matt Schulz, Burton’s attorney, said the case “represents an extreme outlier” among death penalty cases.

The Alabama Supreme Court in January authorized Gov. Kay Ivey to set an execution date for Burton using nitrogen gas. The victim’s daughter and multiple jurors from his 1992 trial are now urging the governor to grant clemency, arguing the case raises fundamental questions of fairness.

“We hope and pray that Governor Ivey recognizes that this case slipped through the cracks. It would be wrong to execute a man who did not even see the shooting take place, after the state agreed to resentence the shooter to life without parole, and this is simply not the kind of case most people think of when they envision the death penalty being carried out,” Schulz said.

https://apnews.com/article/alabama-death-penalty-triggerman-burton-debruce-2fd4d8abb9bca606c8037d428913c

This is so wtong in so many different ways I can't even begin to comment.

A spell for trying times

I call my power back to me.

I call my energy back to me.

I call my magic back to me.

I am shielded from anything that would take
my power from me.

Nothing can harm me or take my light.

I am safe. I am protected.

I am powerful.

And so it is.

(found in a book I'm about to read. Good words for these times.)

A spell for trying times

I call my power back to me.

I call my energy back to me.

I call my magic back to me.

I am shielded from anything that would take
my power from me.

Nothing can harm me or take my light.

I am safe. I am protected.

I am powerful.

And so it is.

(found in a book I'm about to read. Good words for these times.)

Signs of forced entry found at Arizona home of 'Today' show host Savannah Guthrie's mother

Investigators found signs of forced entry at the Arizona home of “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie’s mother, a person familiar with the investigation said Tuesday, as the host asked for prayers to help bring back the 84-year-old, who is believed to have been taken against her will.

The host described her mother as “a woman of deep conviction, a good and faithful servant” in a social media post late Monday. She asked supporters to “raise your prayers with us and believe with us that she will be lifted by them in this very moment. Bring her home.”

Nancy Guthrie must be found soon because she could die without her medication, Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos said, urging whoever has her to free her.

“If she’s alive right now, her meds are vital. I can’t stress that enough. It’s been better than 24 hours, and the family tells us if she doesn’t have those meds, it can become fatal,” Nanos said.

Investigators also found specific evidence in the home showing there was a nighttime kidnapping, the person told The Associated Press. Several of Guthrie’s personal items, including her cellphone, wallet and her car, were still there after she disappeared.

https://apnews.com/article/savannah-guthrie-mother-missing-arizona-tucson-74d845b070fefe2d94cb92d655308e91

I wonder, since there's been no ransom note (that anyone's aware of) and nothing else has been said by the sheriff's office, if this is some kind of red-hatter plot against Savannah because of her anit-Shitler remarks

Marsh Family--If You're Going To Minnesota