In spite of extreme difficulty and violent threats, ICE continues to do its job!

 

ICE arrests more than 1,200 in 2 southeastern states this month amid rise in threats and attacks

The arrests were also made without incident, as ICE officers have been facing a 1,300% increase in vehicle attacks and death threats are up 8,000%.

By Bethany Blankley | The Center Square contributor justthenews.com 8-21-26

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrests are ongoing nationwide, including in the southeastern states of Georgia and Mississippi.

In this month alone, ICE officers have arrested more than 1,200 in the two states.

Arrests were made through multiagency partnerships and ongoing investigations. Dozens of local law enforcement agencies, primarily led by sheriffs, have signed ICE 287(g) agreements. In Georgia and Mississippi, the majority have signed Task Force Model agreements.

This is significant, ICE argues, because the TFM enables local law enforcement to make and assist with arrests. With new U.S. attorneys and a renewed collaboration among multiple law enforcement agencies, border crimes are being prosecuted, they argue.

The arrests were also made without incident, as ICE officers have been facing a 1,300% increase in vehicle attacks and death threats are up 8,000%, The Center Square reported.

In Georgia, 1,226 criminal foreign nationals were arrested in “Operation Safe Community – Atlanta.” Nearly all arrested were men with extensive criminal histories. They include a range of sex crimes, crimes against children, aggravated assault, assault and battery, drug crimes, lewd and lascivious acts, burglary, weapons crimes, among others.

Among those arrested, 720 had either been convicted of or charged with crimes in the United States. Five of them were arrested at the address of a trucking company known for employing illegal foreign nationals, ICE said.

The arrests came after more than 100 287(g) agreements have been signed with law enforcement in Georgia. As of August 21, the majority are TFM agreements, according to the data.

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.

The Trump administration is advocating for law enforcement to participate in three: a Jail Enforcement Model (JEM), a Task Force Model (TFM) and Warrant Service Officer (WSO) model.

The TFM authorizes local law enforcement officers under the oversight of ICE to enforce limited immigration authority during routine police duties "such as identifying an alien at a DUI checkpoint and sharing information directly with ICE,” ICE explains. The local law enforcement officers work with ICE on apprehension, transportation, detention and other actions, The Center Square reported.

In Mississippi, more than 60 287(g) agreements have been signed as of August 21, nearly all are for the TFM.

Local, state and federal law enforcement officers working with ICE Homeland Security Investigations arrested 70 people in a child exploitation-targeted investigation this month.

In Operation Muddy Waters, they targeted child exploitation offenders and previously convicted sex offenders across the state. They also identified cross-border and interstate crime.

Those arrested were charged with child exploitation, solicitation of children, possession or distribution of child sexual abuse material, and violations involving previously convicted sex offenders, ICE said.

As a result of the operation, multiple new child exploitation investigations have been launched, “including those involving individuals who allegedly traveled across state lines to engage in sexual activity with kids, suspects allegedly involved in the livestreaming of child sexual exploitation, and individuals accused of downloading, sharing or soliciting child sexual abuse material,” ICE said.

The operation also resulted in the arrest of “criminal illegal aliens unlawfully present in the United States who allegedly traveled across state lines to engage in sex with children, as well as individuals holding positions of public trust suspected of possessing child sexual abuse material.”

Examples of those arrested include a Honduran man illegally in the country who authorities say traveled from Tennessee to Mississippi for the purpose of engaging in illicit sexual conduct with a child; a Bangladesh national illegally living in Alabama who established communication with a 14-year-old boy via social media; multiple Mexican nationals and registered sex offenders with criminal histories; as well as U.S. citizens.

The multi-agency effort was conducted after new U.S. attorneys are prosecuting border crimes in Mississippi, The Center Square reported. Under previous administrations, they weren’t, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Mississippi Scott Leary has argued.

Anyone with information related to child exploitation or border crimes is encouraged to call 866-DHS-2-ICE.

 

We continue on a daily basis to suffer the horrific consequences of 'sanctuary policies' of cities and states. Their law enforcement officers are 'aiding and abetting in illegal alien crime and must be addressed.

 

Three states, three deaths: ICE arrests illegal aliens charged in fatal crash, capsizing, stabbing

Three separate times an ICE detainer went unhonored and the same man walked out of local custody before being arrested for vehicular manslaughter.

By Ashe Short justthenews.com 8-20-26

An illegal immigrant from Brazil arraigned for vehicular homicide was arrested by ICE in Boston this week and was released from state and local custody three times due to sanctuary policies.

Heriton Da Silva Aredes, whose age is unknown, was arrested on August 6 in Taunton, Massachusetts, by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers from the Boston office, ICE reported. Aredes previously had been convicted of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, assault and battery, using a motor vehicle without authority, refusal to identify himself while operating a vehicle, using a false name, operating a vehicle recklessly, and refusing identification. He was most recently arraigned for vehicular homicide.

"Habitual criminal illegal alien offender" Sheriff says

“Sadly, it appears as though Bristol County Sheriff Paul Heroux followed through on his promise to not cooperate with ICE, resulting in the release of this habitual criminal illegal alien offender, who is currently charged with vehicular homicide, back into his constituents’ community,” acting ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations Boston Field Office Director David Wesling said in a press release. 

“In fact, on three separate occasions, this criminal illegal alien was in the custody of state or local authorities, and they released him without honoring our detainer. Had any of the prior detainers been honored, lives would have been saved. While sanctuary politicians sign performative legislation to protect habitual criminal offenders like Aredes, ERO Boston will continue to prioritize the law-abiding citizens of our communities,” Wesling added.

Aredes was removed from the United States on Oct. 14, 2008, following a final order of removal from June of that year. He illegally reentered the country sometime after, and was arrested in Middleboro, Massachusetts, in August 2023, but was released before ICE could detain him. Aredes was later arrested in Stoughton but again released before ICE arrived. On July 25, 2026, following arraignment for vehicular homicide by negligent operation, the Bristol House of Corrections released Aredes without notifying ICE.

ICE was finally able to arrest Aredes on Aug. 6.

Just days after Aredes was arrested, another illegal immigrant was arrested in New York following a boat accident that killed a woman and her infant, the Department of Homeland Security said in a press release.

The suspect, Manuel Ernesto Hernandez-Umana of El Salvador, was allegedly conducting unlicensed tours in New York Harbor. His boat was over capacity and capsized, leading to the death of a 27-year-old woman and her 5-month-old infant.

“This criminal illegal alien was illegally and recklessly conducting unlicensed boat tours in New York Harbor when his boat capsized, killing a 27-year-old woman and her 5-month-old baby,” DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin said in the press release. “Thanks to the hard work of the men and women of the Coast Guard, ICE, and our federal, state, and local partners, this criminal is off our streets and out of our waterways. Once he faces justice for his crimes, we will make sure that he is swiftly removed from our country.”

Abusing the law to favor illegal immigrants

Earlier this week, a 19-year-old illegal immigrant was arrested in connection with the stabbing of Carmen Lizet Puch, 42. Alexis Antonio Cedillos-Campos allegedly stabbed Puch and poured gasoline over her in Fairfax County, Virginia, which also limits its cooperation with ICE. Cedillos-Campos was reportedly arrested in April 2024 after he illegally entered the U.S., but he was released into the country under the Biden administration’s immigration policies.

"Biden and Mayorkas hand-delivered alleged killer Cedillos-Campos to the streets of Fairfax County. They recklessly unleashed millions of unvetted illegal aliens into American communities and abused the law to do so," a DHS spokesperson told 7News.

Puch, a mother of a 3-year-old girl, worked at the same restaurant as Cedillos-Campos and was reportedly in an intimate relationship with her.

 

The current DNC is not your Grandpa's DNC - it has been totally transformed!

 

Dems Embrace Radical Left’s Anti-ICE Platform

Thomas Gallatin patriotpost.us 8-19-26

The Democratic National Committee voted to adopt a platform calling for the abolition of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

The Democratic National Committee’s Resolutions Committee recently adopted a resolution in its party platform calling for the abolition of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. This was a change from its previous position, which had only called for reforming ICE.

Despite Americans’ frustration with Joe Biden’s de facto open-border policy, which resulted in a massive influx of illegal immigrants and helped Donald Trump secure a second presidential term, the DNC has effectively decided to double down.

The DNC’s apparent problem is the surging Democratic Socialists of America, which threatens to take over the Democrat Party. Interestingly, rather than differentiate and expunge the DSA from its party ranks, the DNC has done the opposite, placating the DSA. At the same time, establishment Democrat leaders like House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries reject the group’s most radical leftist ideas.

As an example of DSA radicalism, New York congressional candidate Darializa Avila Chevalier says that “all deportation is wrong” and argues for “a world without borders — just like a world without prisons or police — is possible, necessary, and the only moral way forward.”

Put simply, Democrats and the DSA both embrace globalism — it’s just that the DSA’s version is more direct and more Marxist.

This trajectory was entirely predictable. The Democrat Party adopted a leftist progressivist identity and agenda long ago. How, then, can establishment Democrats argue against increasingly radical demands when they are the logical result of the party’s chosen “progressive” course?

Boston’s Democrat Mayor Michelle Wu serves as an example of this dynamic. Self-declared as a “sanctuary city,” it’s not enough for Wu that Boston’s police force is barred from working with federal immigration enforcement. Wu is now warning that the city will come after any property owners who lease to ICE.

“We as a city will be filing another FOIA request for any responses that have come in from the Boston area so that we know what information they may be sifting through,” Wu explained in a recent interview with the Boston Herald. “We strongly oppose any expansion of their efforts here and would encourage and will be reaching out to property owners to try to make sure that they’re not adding to a surge of unlawful and dangerous activity.”

While she acknowledged that the city “can’t block private property [owners],” she threatened that city officials can contact them to tell them “this is not a way to make our community safer.” So very inclusive of them. “We look to find as much information as possible about what their plans are, what information they might be looking at in order to have the best possible response and protect our communities,” she added.

Obviously, Wu is not acting in the best interest of Boston’s legal residents. Instead, she, like the DNC, has just voted in favor of — and is openly expressing — a globalist worldview in which no one is “illegal.” This view is pervasive across many college campuses.

ICE responded to Wu’s comments via a post on X: “If PRIVATE citizens want to allow federal law enforcement onto their OWN property, they should be allowed to do so. They should not face threats from their radical mayor who shamelessly compared ICE agents to a neo-Nazi group.”

The silver lining here is that the DNC is publicly admitting its alignment with leftist anti-American radicals.

 

For decades, illegal aliens have abused taxpayer benefits! This must end - now!

 

Treasury chief Bessent declares illegal immigrants should not receive certain tax credit refunds

Ruling impacts adoption tax credit, the Child Tax Credit, the American Opportunity Tax Credit for undergraduate education costs, and the Earned Income Tax Credit.

By Thérèse Boudreaux | The Center Square justthenews.com 8-20-26

The Trump administration unveiled a proposed rule clarifying that hundreds of thousands of noncitizen taxpayers are ineligible for refunds from four individual income tax credits. The move could save the U.S. up to $2.6 billion in 2026.

The Treasury Department and IRS said Wednesday that the refundable portions of the adoption tax credit, the Child Tax Credit, the American Opportunity Tax Credit for undergraduate education costs, and the Earned Income Tax Credit qualify as “federal public benefits” under the pending rule.

That means only U.S. citizens and “qualified aliens” could claim the refundable portion of those tax credits, which an estimated 29 million taxpayers receive each year.

“Under President Trump, the days of illegal aliens collecting taxpayer-funded benefits are over. The federal law is clear, and Treasury is enforcing it,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said.

“American taxpayers should not be forced to foot the bill for benefits going to those who are barred by law from receiving them. These proposed regulations end the abuse, protect the integrity of the tax system, and put Americans first.”

If enacted, the rule would disqualify 200,000 to 700,000 noncitizens from claiming the credit refunds, saving anywhere from $700 million to $2.6 billion in 2026, the rule draft estimates.

The term “qualified aliens” includes permanent residents; asylees; refugees; migrants residing in the U.S. on parole for at least one year; migrants whose deportation is withheld due to the dangers of returning to their home country; and certain Cuban, Haitian, and Pacific Islander migrants.

That means many migrants who illegally entered the U.S. and were admitted on parole under the Biden administration would still be eligible for the tax credit refunds. The rule also specifies that only one spouse on joint tax returns must be a U.S. citizen or “qualified alien” in order to claim the four tax credit refunds.