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Colombia's president calls for migrants to leave jobs in the US and return home

https://www.yahoo.com/news/colombias-president-calls-migrants-leave-134422557.html

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia's president is calling on his compatriots working without legal status in the United States to leave their jobs and return home as soon as possible.

“Wealth is only produced by the working people,” Gustavo Petro said in an early morning post on the X platform. “Let's build social wealth in Colombia."

The leftist president said his government would provide loans to those who take up his offer to return home and enlist in one of its programs to start a business.

Petro made his comments following a bitter feud over immigration last weekend with U.S. President Donald Trump that nearly triggered a trade war and rupture in diplomatic relations between the U.S. and its historic ally in South America.

Petro, in an earlier social media storm, accused the Trump administration of mistreating migrants who entered the U.S. illegally by handcuffing them and removing them on military flights to Latin America. Trump exploded when Petro denied two such flights permission to land.

Later, the two sides negotiated a truce amid protests by investors that Petro was sabotaging Colombia's export economy, which relies heavily on purchases from the U.S.

Colombia accepted 475 deportation flights from the U.S. from 2020 to 2024, fifth behind Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico and El Salvador, according to Witness at the Border, an advocacy group that tracks flight data. It accepted 124 deportation flights in 2024.


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This will upset the passport bros.

Oklahoma education chief: ‘Our schools will not be sanctuary schools’

https://www.yahoo.com/news/oklahoma-education-chief-schools-not-115042393.html


damn, they trying to come get the kids straight out of the schools, too?

I posted a video of an ice agent grabbing kids in school a few days ago. But most won’t watch my videos.

yea, i dont see how compassionate or christian it is to snatch up kids out the school

Well, maybe they’ll double down on it now by placing them at GTMO.

Yes, Tennessee Bill Criminalizes Voting Against Trump Immigration Policy

Senate Bill 6002 makes it a felony for local government officials to support "sanctuary" policies protecting immigrants in the country illegally

Claim:

Tennessee lawmakers passed a bill that makes it a felony to vote against U.S. President Donald Trump’s immigration policies.


What's True

Tennessee Senate Bill 6002/House Bill 6001 makes it a felony for local government officials to vote in support of "sanctuary" policies protecting immigrants in the country illegally. President Donald Trump's administration has taken steps to weaken so-called sanctuary laws that limit a local government's cooperation with federal immigration authorities, meaning this bill does attempt to criminalize voting against part of Trump's immigration policy agenda.
What's False

The bill does not include a blanket directive that criminalizes voting against all of Trump's immigration policies, nor does it criminalize votes from everyday people. Gov. Bill Lee had not signed the bill into law, as of this writing.

On Jan. 29, 2025, social media users began claiming that Tennessee lawmakers had passed legislation that makes local officials subject to felony charges should they vote against Trump's immigration policies.

Users on X (archived) spread the rumor, including Tennessee state Sen. Heidi Campbell, a Democrat, who claimed the bill would send elected officials to jail for not supporting Trump's immigration policies. Campbell's post — which says the bill passed out of committee, a step before going to the entire Senate — had over 55,000 likes as of this writing (archived).



Some claims were unclear on whether elected officials or everyday voters were subject to this purported bill. For example, Snopes readers searched our website for any news on a "Tennessee Senate bill making it a felony to vote against Trump's immigration policy." News outlets also made similar claims, including Newsweek (archived), which published a story headlined: "Tennessee Bill Would Prohibit Voting Against Trump Immigration Policies."

These claims are a mixture of truths and falsehood. Tennessee state lawmakers passed a bill that makes it a felony for local officials to vote in support of so-called sanctuary policies that protect immigrants in the country illegally by limiting a local government's cooperation with federal immigration authorities. Trump vowed to end sanctuary cities on the campaign trail and has taken steps to weaken to sanctuary laws. However, the Tennessee bill does not explicitly make it a felony for elected officials to vote against any of Trump's other immigration policies.

Thus, the bill does make it a felony for elected officials to vote against part of Trump's immigration policies, but not all of his policies. It also does not make it a felony for everyday Tennesseans to vote against immigration policies set by Trump.

The bill has passed both legislative chambers but the state's governor, Republican Bill Lee, must also sign the legislation before it becomes law — which he is likely to do, given that it is part of his policy agenda.
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Tennessee's Immigration Enforcement Bill

Senate Bill 6002/House Bill 6001 makes it a Class E felony for local government officials to vote in support of sanctuary policies, which prevent local law enforcement from coordinating immigration enforcement with federal officers. A Class E felony is punishable by one to six years in prison and/or a fine of up to $3,000. The state Senate passed the bill Jan. 29, 2025, and the state House passed it Jan. 30.

Here's the exact language from the bill:

SECTION 6. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 7-68-103, is amended by designating the existing language as subsection (a) and adding the following new subsection (b): (b) It is unlawful for an official to violate subsection (a). A violation of subsection (a) is a Class E felony. For purposes of this subsection (b), each official who, in their capacity as a member of the governing body of a local government, votes in the affirmative to adopt a sanctuary policy is in violation of this section.

The bill summary on the Tennessee Legislature's website explains the state's current laws against sanctuary policies and what the bill's text adds to those laws:

Present law prohibits state and local governmental entities and officials from adopting or enacting a sanctuary policy. A state or local governmental entity that adopts or enacts a sanctuary policy is ineligible to enter into a grant contract with the department of economic and community development until the sanctuary policy is repealed, rescinded, or otherwise no longer in effect. This bill creates a Class E felony, punishable by a sentence of imprisonment not less than one year nor more than six years and a possible fine not to exceed $3,000, or both, if a person violates such prohibitions. Additionally, this bill provides that each official, in their capacity as a member of the governing body of a local government, who votes in the affirmative to adopt a sanctuary policy is also in violation.

According to an announcement from Lee's office detailing his policy agenda, SB 6002/HB 6001 is the primary vehicle for his immigration enforcement policies. The bill aligns itself with Trump's immigration policies, such as by incentivizing local government support for federal immigration enforcement — but nothing else in the legislation involves criminalizing local officials' votes. The legislation also does not explicitly name Trump or his administration.

Trump's Policies Against Sanctuary Laws

While on the campaign trail, Trump vowed to end sanctuary cities — places where sanctuary laws are in effect — during a Fox News town hall with host Harris Faulkner. Here's the exchange:


Trump: First of all, we are going to end all sanctuary cities immediately. Because they're really—

Faulkner: Is that an executive order you do that with?

Trump: I can do it with an executive order. You'll have to do it with an executive order.



On Jan. 20, 2025, Trump signed an executive order denying sanctuary cities federal funding. The relevant part of this order is below (emphasis ours):

Sec. 17. Sanctuary Jurisdictions. The Attorney General and the Secretary of Homeland Security shall, to the maximum extent possible under law, evaluate and undertake any lawful actions to ensure that so-called "sanctuary" jurisdictions, which seek to interfere with the lawful exercise of Federal law enforcement operations, do not receive access to Federal funds. Further, the Attorney General and the Secretary of Homeland Security shall evaluate and undertake any other lawful actions, criminal or civil, that they deem warranted based on any such jurisdiction's practices that interfere with the enforcement of Federal law.

Thus, Tennessee's bill prohibiting local officials from voting in support of sanctuary cities also, by definition, prohibits local officials from voting against part of Trump's immigration agenda. However, Trump has other immigration policies — he has promised, for example, "the largest domestic deportation operation in American history" — and while many of these immigration policies are connected to his sanctuary law policies, the Tennessee bill does not explicitly prevent lawmakers from voting against these other policies.

Thus, the bill does make it a felony for elected officials to vote against part of Trump's immigration policies, but not all of his policies. It also does not make it a felony for everyday Tennesseans to vote against immigration policies set by Trump.

The bill has passed both legislative chambers but the state's governor, Republican Bill Lee, must also sign the legislation before it becomes law — which he is likely to do, given that it is part of his policy agenda.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-tennessee-voting-felony/

Navajo Nation leaders raise alarm over reports of Indigenous people being questioned and detained during immigration sweeps

https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/27/us/navajo-detained-ice-indigenous-immigration-trump/index.html

Hey boy! You're going to have to come with us until we can figure out if your red or if you're brown."

ICE Says 'Sorry' After Detaining US Citizens for Speaking Spanish: Report

"My sister, in English, explained that not only are they American citizens, but that they are from Puerto Rico, they were born in Puerto Rico"

https://www.latintimes.com/ice-says-sorry-after-detaining-us-citizens-speaking-spanish-report-573967

We should call nasty acts like these “Tristian”, because only the most vile sickos would think to make it a thing.

And there are several Tristians right here.WWJD WWTD

Why not, they stole 1500 babies and trafficked them in the first term. Some probably got Epstien-Diddy-Trump’d.

Only the best and brightest in tEnNeSsEe, I see. We now make laws taking our representative voices away… how constitutional.

Somebody in Trump’s admin commented on this saying indians on reservations weren’t technically citizens… ffs, fascism for all.

they are really trying to make it a crime to NOT vote for something.

that's like those restaurants who put announcements on the wall threatening the employee's jobs if the minimum wage increases. Anybody that comfortable with abusing their power has to be held accountable.

They actually made it a crime to vote FOR something.

Murica! Freedumb!

Migrants Nabbed in Trump’s Raids Have Been Released Back Into U.S. Already


https://www.yahoo.com/news/migrants-nabbed-trump-raids-released-235047840.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall

He doesn't have the Cuban concentr..... GITMO set up yet. That will hold 30k of those millions until they can be deported!

El Salvador has agreed to house violent US criminals and receive deportees of any nationality, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Monday, in an unprecedented – and legally problematic deal – that has alarmed critics and rights groups.

Rubio unveiled the agreement after meeting with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele, as part of a tour of several Central American countries intended to consolidate regional support for the Trump administration’s immigration policy.

“In an act of extraordinary friendship to our country … (El Salvador) has agreed to the most unprecedented and extraordinary migratory agreement anywhere in the world,” Rubio told reporters Monday.


The country will continue accepting Salvadoran deportees who illegally entered the US, he said. It will also “accept for deportation any illegal alien in the United States who is a criminal from any nationality, be they MS-13 or Tren de Aragua and house them in his jails,” he said – referring to two notorious transnational gangs with members from El Salvador and Venezuela.

In addition, Bukele “has offered to house in his jails dangerous American criminals in custody in our country, including those of US citizenship and legal residents,” Rubio said.

It is unclear whether the US government will take up the offer, however, with questions around the legality of such moves. Any effort by the Trump administration to deport incarcerated US nationals to another country would face significant legal pushback.

“The US is absolutely prohibited from deporting US citizens, whether they are incarcerated or not,” Leti Volpp, a law professor at UC Berkeley who specializes in immigration law and citizenship theory, told CNN over email.


Bukele later confirmed the agreement with Rubio on X, saying in a post, “We are willing to take in only convicted criminals (including convicted US citizens) into our mega-prison (CECOT) in exchange for a fee.”

El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center, commonly referred to as CECOT, is the country’s largest and newest prison, with a maximum capacity of 40,000 inmates.

“The fee would be relatively low for the US but significant for us, making our entire prison system sustainable,” he added.

Complete story at link below




https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/03/americas/el-salvador-migrant-deal-marco-rubio-intl-hnk/index.html

It was said yesterday that marines are on the ground and are setting up camp-There are still issues on how long they can be detained

Disgustingly unAmerican.

Not for nothing, but when did something being illegal ever stop trump

I guess Trump has no bounds of decency when it comes to privatized prisons.

Well that is one off-shoring strategy that never crossed my mind.

what if the us owns a portion of the land... similar to an embasy.

we lease the land their, correct? so we can do whatever "we" want as long as the lease is current, so if Trump is gonna build there, it's within his authority right?

I don't know how it really works. I was moreso asking.

JMHO, what we need to do in our jails is show all US prisioners the prisons in El Salvador or Guademala, those pictures of near naked men, tats on whole bodies, with couple hundred in bunks 8 or ten tall and ask them if their conditions are barbaric- no cable, only three squares a day, reading rooms, etc....EVERYTHING almost is better in US. I've NEVER understood why US citizens complain about treatment of ILLEGAL immigrants- come to our country LEGALLY. PERIOD. I don't want my tax dollars feeding, housing, and educating ILLEGALS. We have our OWN problems. IE, would we have a fentanyl problem if our great citizens didn't need to eat it, sniff it, inject it. Trump's a bad person, but he is shaking things up and lots of GOOD being done. USAID....paying for "weird parties in Bolivia" or wherever....damn, we are just to stupid. And Biden pardons his whole family as he's walking out door- that's SWEET, why did he do it? We have to many crooks running the store.

You post that nonsense and then talk about people being stupid?

Lol

So, of all the actions that this administration has taken, why haven't they started prosecuting companies that hire illegal immigrants?

I can’t find your video. I did find a video in a Chicago school where federal agents showed up. The school publicized they were ice agents coming to get kids. Turned out they were secret service agents doing an investigation of a threat. So where did your ice agents coming into a school occur?

Dude, you’re being radicalized.

Swish I agree 100%!! We need e verify and criminal charges for working someone who does not have a verified social security number. And penalties should not be a $50,000 fine. At least not just that. Jail time for someone.

My thoughts on the problem.

1. The border needs to be closed to illegal entry. What was allowed the last 4 years was borderline treason.

2. We do have to expel as many of the criminals, violent , as possible.

3. Once we have a good handle on that we need to set a policy that the criminal who entered illegally but are being solid productive members of society are able to apply for fast track visas to remain and able to apply for citizenship if they want to stay in this country.

4. Call it clemency if you will. We have laws that need to be followed. Given the number of illegals who have already entered, and a large majority of them being productive members, it isn't feasible to try to expel all of them, I feel that is the course we eventually need to take.

5. In addition to that, we also have laws on who an employer can employ. We need to have a crackdown on that. I am not interested in shutting down a business who is doing everything right except employing illegals. Offer some clemency in that regard as well. If they find they have hired an illegal, vouch for the person as being a good employee and start the process as mentioned above. If not, well fines and other sanctions can be employed.

6. We can't back everybody in to a corner without giving some manageable way out. We can't just ship everybody out and we can't fine a business out of business without a means to make it right. We have just gotten far too deep into this for that to be a suitable solution.

How we do that is the hard part, but it could be done.

We should confiscate the assets of anyone Trump determines is an enemy of the usa ? That's be good huh?

???? No hablo ingles obviously. Try one of those interpreter apps. Then maybe you can add something sensible to the conversation….. … maybe. Or maybe not.

You do realize our borders have never been closed to illegal entry ever. People will always find a way in illegally. Think of it like obtaining a gun illegally. People will always find a way to ge their hands on them illegally.

And now they have doubled down. Suddenly after trump was elected the northern border became a huge threat according to them. One thing they're good at is to keep finding new things for their voters to be afraid of.

Come on man. Try to have a sensible conversation. I am well aware we have long borders to the north and south. We also have long borders on the east and west. I understand there will never be zero illegal entry. I have crossed all four borders at numerous points of departure and entry on each.

If you can't talk inside the parameters of the problem being discussed by the people in here on this thread, just be quiet.

Thanks.

Same goes for you. It isn't a matter of being afraid. More a case of concern. If I am afraid of anything, it is those among us who don't care.

trump just made the northern border sound as dangerous as the southern border. Something nobody had ever done before. All he did was create another boogeyman. I'm sorry you can't see it for what it is.

Florida man charged with attempted murder, accused of shooting tourists he thought were Palestinian

A Florida man is expected to be arraigned on two felony counts of attempted murder Tuesday after he allegedly shot and injured two men he thought were “Palestinian,” according to Miami Beach police.

Officer Christopher Bess, a spokesman for the Miami Beach Police Department, told CNN the victims were tourists from Israel.

Mordechai Brafman, 27, was arrested in Miami Beach, Florida, late Saturday after allegedly firing 17 times into the victims’ car, injuring both the driver and a passenger, according to a police affidavit.

“It should be noted,” the affidavit states, “that while in custody in our interview room, the defendant spontaneously stated that while he was driving his truck, he saw two Palestinians and shot and killed both.”

The shooting in Miami Beach comes amid heightened tensions as Arab countries attempt to come up with a post-war plan for Gaza, following a tenuous ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas.

Both victims survived the shooting; one victim was shot in the left shoulder, while a bullet grazed the second victim in the left forearm, police records state.

CNN has reached out to the Israeli consulate in Miami for comment.

https://www.wdsu.com/article/florida-man-attempted-murder-israeli-tourists/63830523

This senseless act of violence would not have happened had these immigrants not have been in our country.

I'll give you some credit for acknowledging the danger we have had at the southern border.