DHS/ICE continues to do its assigned duties and responsibilities, in spite of opposition interruptions.

 

ICE crackdown in Indiana: 426 arrested without incident in five days

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers continue to expand operations through partnerships with state and local agencies nationwide without incident.

By Bethany Blankley | The Center Square contributor justthenews.com 9-18-26

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers continue to expand operations through partnerships with state and local agencies nationwide without incident.

In a recent five-day enforcement operation in Indiana, “Operation Safe Community-Indiana,” 426 illegal foreign nationals were arrested, including those with extensive criminal histories.

Their combined criminal histories include sex crimes, assault and battery, domestic assault, drug trafficking, assault with a dangerous weapon and other weapons crimes, fraud, identity theft, burglary, property damage, driving while intoxicated, among other charges and convictions.

“Operation Safe Community-Indiana reflects ICE’s continued commitment to protecting Hoosier communities by working alongside our state and local law enforcement partners to arrest and remove criminal alien offenders who pose threats to public safety,” ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations acting Assistant Director Patricia Hyde said. “This operation underscores the fact that when law enforcement agencies cooperate, the American people are safer. We thank our state and local partners for their support and continued commitment to protecting communities across Indiana and the nation.”

While much of the operation was focused on arresting illegal foreign national offenders in the Indianapolis metropolitan area, ICE officers also conducted targeted immigration enforcement actions statewide.

“ICE officers worked relentlessly to locate, arrest and remove more than 400 illegal aliens from the streets of our Indiana communities during this brief but intense operation,” ICE Chicago Deputy Field Office Director Raymond Hernandez said in a statement. Indiana falls under ICE Chicago’s operational jurisdiction.

“Operations like this make for safer American neighborhoods. Every alien arrested during this operation was in violation of U.S. immigration law, and Indiana is safer today as a result of the hard work of our ICE officers,” he said.

ICE officers also arrested members of transnational criminal street gangs as well as those designated as foreign terrorist organizations, including MS-13 and Tren de Aragua, ICE said.

Examples of those arrested include Salvadoran, Nicaraguan, Mexican, Haitian and Guatemalan men with extensive criminal histories who were all in the country illegally. Their criminal histories include sexual battery, inflicting corporal injury on a spouse or cohabitant, multiple DWIs, including with bodily injury; aggravated assault with a deadly weapon on a public officer, criminal recklessness with a deadly weapon, multiple drugs and weapons charges; domestic battery, criminal trespass, burglary, public records forgery, identity theft, false status documents, credit card larceny, among others, ICE said.

ICE is continuing operations in Indiana as more law enforcement agencies are joining a 287(g) partnership in a concerted effort to identify and apprehend criminal foreign nationals who pose public safety threats and to find missing children.

Congress created the 287(g) program through the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1996, which authorizes ICE to delegate to state and local law enforcement officers the authority to perform specified immigration functions only under ICE’s direction and supervision.

Under previous administrations, only one 287(g) partnership was used, a Jail Enforcement Model (JEM). The Trump administration is advocating for law enforcement to participate in three: the JEM, a Task Force Model (TFM) and Warrant Service Officer (WSO) model, The Center Square reported.

So far, 45 287(g) applications have been filed in Indiana, with nearly half of them pending, according to ICE data as of Sept. 15. The majority are for the TFM.

The TFM authorizes local law enforcement officers under the oversight of ICE to conduct limited immigration enforcement during routine police duties "such as identifying an alien at a DUI checkpoint and sharing information directly with ICE, as well as apprehending, transporting and detaining them, ICE explains.

Multiple agreements have been signed by agencies in the same county in the Hoosier State, with the most signed or pending in Putnam and Dearborn counties, according to the data. In addition to sheriff’s offices and police departments, the Indiana Department of Corrections, Indiana Department of Homeland Security and Indiana State Police Department are participating in 287(g).

Nationwide, as of September 15, ICE has signed 2,510 Memorandums of Agreement for 287(g) partnerships in 39 states and two U.S. territories.

 

'The Constitution of The United States' is not a living document; it created 'A Repubic' - 'If You Can Keep It'!

 

In Praise of Constitutions

We should celebrate September 17 because we developed and still live by a document that assures the rule of law and the possibilities of freedom to Americans.

John M. Grondelski | September 17, 2026 www.americanthinker.com

September 17 is Constitution Day, the 239th anniversary of the 1787 signing. Roughly nine months later, it became “the supreme law of the land,” a status it has enjoyed since. It is the oldest written national constitution still in effect.

We take that fact for granted. The idea of a national, written constitution is something we expect. It has, in fact, become so normative that even countries that generally ignore their constitutions (especially their rights guarantees) still feel an obligation to have one. In the 21st century, that’s taken as normal. In the 18th century, it was not something to be taken for granted.

Britain would, of course, say it had a constitution, and it did, of sorts. It was an uncodified one, based on custom, which means -- in the end -- that it is custom and respect for tradition, not necessarily the binding power of law, that limits what can be done. A written constitution avoids that temptation.

We ought to celebrate September 17, not just because we were “first” and now “oldest.” We should celebrate September 17 because we developed and still live by a document that assures the rule of law and the possibilities of freedom to Americans, even if the United States of 2026 is very different from the one of 1787.

We should also realize our Constitution is under attack. It has long been under attack by the partisans of a “living Constitution” who claim that the fundamental law “is what the judges say it is” (Charles Evan Hughes), and not what its text says. But then you lapse into an unwritten frame of government whose meaning is then determined not by prime ministers and cabinets but unelected judges.

But that’s not the biggest problem of the “living Constitutionalists.” The biggest problem is Constitutional bait-and-switch.

The Constitution is a contract, a contract across generations to be and live in a certain kind of country. The text of the Constitution embodies its terms. But when text becomes suggestion, we cease to have a social contract to which Americans at one time assented. Instead, we have a ceaselessly malleable screen on which the elites generally have been able to project their Rorschach visions of a “just” society onto a country that never voted for them. At that point, as Abraham Lincoln observed, “the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their government into the hands of” activist judges.

But the attack on our Constitution has assumed a new and, arguably more dangerous form. We see contemporary political activists, for example, trying to neuter the Electoral College and calling for outright abolition of the Senate. They propose packing the Supreme Court to ensconce “living Constitutionalism,” i.e., produce the outcomes they want and claim the Constitution imposes them.

When the framers signed the Constitution, Benjamin Franklin famously observed that what America had been given was “a republic, if you can keep it.” Every generation has had the challenge of keeping that republic by keeping constitutional faith. That task remains our challenge today.

For if we doubt the gravity of our task, consider that while America’s may have been the world’s first written national Constitution, Poland’s was the second. The Constitution of the Third of May 1791, inspired by the American Constitution, was a last-ditch effort to save Poland from being further carved up by Russia, Prussia, and Austria by undertaking necessary governmental reforms.

The resemblance ends there. Whereas the United States has enjoyed the blessings of its Constitution for 239 years, the Polish Constitution of the Third of May (which should mark its 235th anniversary this year) was quickly abolished by the Russians, Prussians, and Austrians. It was, in fact, the incentive for Poland’s further partition, wiping the country off Europe’s maps from 1795 until 1918.

The Constitution of the Third of May was, for its time, a democratic constitution for a constitutional monarchy. Now let’s engage in a thought experiment -- an idea proposed by some historians -- about what might have been had that Constitution survived.

It’s hard to imagine that a democratic constitution in Poland in the late 18th century would not have had effects on its authoritarian neighbors (which is why they wanted that constitution gone). Would a successfully democratic Poland have accelerated Europe’s springtime of nations? With democratic influence, might Germany have taken other directions than Prussian militarism? Might the power-sharing that Hungarians (and, later, Croats) demanded in the Austro-Hungarian Empire helped democratize that multiethnic entity? Most importantly, what might have been the effect on Tsarist Russia of a successful democratic state on its doorstep? If democratic trends had begun in any of these countries earlier than they did, might there not have been a World War I? A Hitler? A Lenin? A Stalin?

History in the subjunctive is, of course, not history: we know what happened. But it is worthwhile reflecting on what might have been and, in the words of our own Constitution’s Preamble, rededicate ourselves through it to “secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity.”

Happy Constitution Day!

 

Not immigration, but necessarily one of our Nation's catastrophic nightmares!

 

The Marriage Deficit Is an Economic Catastrophe

The decline in marriage and children is a threat to the American future.

Stephen Moore Columnist patriotpost.us 9-15-26

The Beatles told us: “All you need is love.”

They were right, but along with love must come marriage.

But marriage rates have plummeted, especially among young men.

A Pulitzer Prize-worthy story by Sean Salai of The Washington Times crunches all the numbers. To say they are worrisome would be a vast understatement.

-- In 2025, nearly twice as many men ages 18 to 39 were unmarried as were married.

-- There were 30.4 million unmarried men ages 18 to 39 in 2025, up 47% from 20.7 million in 2000.

-- In the same period, married men in this age range dropped by 15%, from 18.1 million to 15.4 million. “Such men are more likely to be lonely, prone to deaths of despair and unhappy,” according to Brad Wilcox, a University of Virginia sociologist.

-- Forty-two percent of working-class men are unmarried, according to educational psychologist Donna R. Turner. In 1980, 73% of working-class men were married.

I could go on and with these depressing statistics. But I believe the decline in marriage and children is a threat to the American future much more dangerous than even the national debt, climate change, cancer or foreign aggression.

Family is the essential organizing unit in America. We’re not to live in Soviet-style communes where the authority figure is “Big Brother.”

Every study shows that the decline in marriage among young men is tied to alcoholism, violent crime, drug abuse, pornography, depression, isolation, less economic success and suicide.

Are women to blame? Certainly. Study shows that as women have become more career oriented, they are having a harder time “marrying up.”

Generation X and millennials have become choosier in finding a mate and more likely to have children alone, if they have them at all. “Women have less structural need for marriage than past generations did,” said Angelica Gianchandani, a New York University finance instructor. “Rising income and education give many women a financial independence marriage once provided, and donor sperm and fertility treatment have decoupled motherhood from a partner altogether.”

Women are much less likely to be religious today than in decades past. So holy matrimony is less of a lifetime priority or moral obligation.

We do know that when women raise children without a father in the home — for whatever reason — their kids, especially their sons, are less successful. It’s a particular problem for Black women to find a suitable mate when so many young Black males are incarcerated.

I’m thrashing for explanations and solutions to this deeply troubling social trend. Obviously, we are not returning to the “Father Knows Best” norms of the 1950s or 1960s.

But recovery starts with admitting we have a problem. I would suggest that President Donald Trump announce a national bipartisan commission on “Rediscovering Love, Marriage and Parenthood.”

One last stat to underscore the urgency of turning around these trends:

The latest Census Bureau data indicate that 47% of households were headed by married couples last year, down from 78.8% in 1949.

That trend MUST be reversed to advance America’s economic prosperity and human happiness.

 

“Foreign influence has no place in American elections."

 

Texas AG announces arrest of seven for­eign nation­als who allegedly vot­ed ille­gal­ly in 2024

The seven individuals were indicted by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Texas last week and charged with crimes related to illegal voting activity.

By Misty Severi September 15, 2026 justtthenews.com

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced Tuesday the arrest of seven foreign nationals who allegedly voted illegally in the 2024 presidential election.

The seven individuals were indicted by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Texas last week and charged with crimes related to illegal voting activity.

“Foreign influence has no place in American elections," Paxton said in a statement. "Today, my office is announcing our efforts to arrest foreigners who attempted to cheat the system and violate our laws that uphold election integrity. I will not tolerate attempts to rig elections and silence the will of American citizens and voters. I will continue to fight to ensure that Texas has free and fair elections.”

The foreign nationals include Mexican citizen Carlos Salas Barrios, who was arrested for voting by an alien and Nigerian national Joshua Nmelichukwu Akpom, who was arrested for making false statements in relation to naturalization. 

Nigerian national Helen Mayen Adams, Indian citizen Khalwinder Singh Bhengura, Mexican citizen Moises Anwar Arellano-Alba, Democratic Republic of the Congo national Celestin Kuasa Katubadi, and Mexican citizen Rocio Thrasher were also arrested for both voting by an alien and false statements of citizenship in order to register to vote.