Wisconsin judge officially indicted over migrant
The Wisconsin judge who allegedly helped an illegal migrant evade immigration authorities was indicted by a federal jury on May 13.
Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan was led away in handcuffs while still in her black judicial robe last month after being accused of obstruction of justice and concealing Mexican national Eduardo Flores-Ruiz from federal law enforcement at the end of a pre-trial hearing. NY Post writer Brian Faas shares this story.
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Los Angeles Times
33 minutes ago
- Los Angeles Times
Immigration raids are threatening businesses that supply America's food, farm bureaus say
VENTURA, Calif. — Large-scale immigration raids at packinghouses and fields in California are threatening businesses that supply much of the country's food, farm bureaus say. Dozens of farmworkers have been arrested recently after uniformed federal agents fanned out on farms northwest of Los Angeles in Ventura County, which is known for growing strawberries, lemons and avocados. Others are skipping work as fear in immigrant communities has deepened as President Donald Trump steps up his immigration crackdown, vowing to dramatically increase arrests and sending federal agents to detain people at Home Depot parking lots and workplaces including car washes and a garment factory. It also comes as Trump sent National Guard troops and Marines to Los Angeles following protests over his immigration enforcement operations. Demonstrations have since spread to other U.S. cities. Maureen McGuire, chief executive of Ventura County's farm bureau, said between 25% and 45% of farmworkers have stopped showing up for work since the large-scale raids began this month. 'When our workforce is afraid, fields go unharvested, packinghouses fall behind, and market supply chains, from local grocery stores to national retailers, are affected,' she said in a statement on Thursday. 'This impacts every American who eats.' California's farms produce more than a third of the country's vegetables and more than three-quarters of its fruits and nuts. While the state's government is dominated by Democrats, there are large Republican areas that run through farm country, and many growers throughout the state have been counting on Trump to help with key agricultural issues ranging from water to trade. Primitiva Hernandez, executive director of 805 UndocuFund, estimates at least 43 people were detained in farm fields in Ventura and Santa Barbara counties since Monday. The number is from both the Mexican consulate and the group's own estimates from talking with family members of people detained, she said. Elizabeth Strater, the United Farm Workers' director of strategic campaigns, said her group received reports of immigration arrests on farms as far north as California's Central Valley. Lucas Zucker, co-executive director of the Central Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy, said farmworker members reported that agents went to at least nine farms but were turned away by supervisors because they lacked a warrant. 'This is just a mass assault on a working-class immigrant community and essentially profiling,' Zucker said. 'They are not going after specific people who are really targeted. They're just fishing.' In response to questions about the farm arrests, Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement that the agency will follow the president's direction and continue to seek to remove immigrants who have committed crimes. On Thursday, Trump acknowledged growers' concerns that his stepped-up immigration enforcement could leave them without workers they rely on to grow the country's food. He said something would be done to address the situation, but he did not provide specifics. 'Our great Farmers and people in the Hotel and Leisure business have been stating that our very aggressive policy on immigration is taking very good, long time workers away from them, with those jobs being almost impossible to replace,' he said on his social media account, adding: 'We must protect our Farmers, but get the CRIMINALS OUT OF THE USA. Changes are coming!' The California Farm Bureau said it has not received reports of a widespread disruption to its workforce, but there are concerns among community members. Bryan Little, the bureau's senior director of policy advocacy, said the group has long pressed for immigration reform to deal with long-running labor shortages. 'We recognize that some workers may feel uncertain right now, and we want to be very clear: California agriculture depends on and values its workforce,' Little said in a statement. 'If federal immigration enforcement activities continue in this direction, it will become increasingly difficult to produce food, process it and get it onto grocery store shelves.' One worker, who asked not to be named out of fear, said he was picking strawberries at a Ventura County farm early Tuesday when more than a dozen cars pulled up to the farm next door. He said they arrested at least three people and put them in vans, while women who worked on the farm burst out crying. He said the supervisors on his farm did not allow the agents inside. 'The first thing that came to my mind is, who will stay with my kids?' the worker, who is originally from Mexico and has lived in the United States for two decades, said in Spanish. 'It's something so sad and unfortunate because we are not criminals.' He said he didn't go to work Wednesday out of fear, and his bosses told him to stay home at least one more day until things settle down. But that means fruit isn't getting picked, and he isn't getting paid. 'These are lost days, days that we're missing work. But what else can we do?' he said. Taxin and Pineda write for the Associated Press.
Yahoo
2 hours ago
- Yahoo
Mexican Senate president says LA is essentially Mexico: I'd ‘pay for the wall' if it ceded US southwest
Mexico would pay for the U.S. border wall if the border were redrawn to match the 1830s, when much of the American Southwest belonged to Mexico, the country's Senate president quipped this week. Gerardo Fernández Noroña spoke in Spanish in Mexico about the U.S. federal immigration raids in Los Angeles, which have sparked violent riots and protests featuring demonstrators waving Mexican flags on U.S. soil. Critics, including senior Trump advisor Stephen Miller, have branded scenes of people waving the Mexican flag as evidence Los Angeles is "occupied territory." In that regard, Noroña recounted telling President Donald Trump privately in New York in 2017 that Mexico would build and pay for the border wall he wants — under one condition. Maxine Waters Torched By Feds For 'Taunting' Guardsmen And 'Spewing Lies' About Riots, Trying To Enter Jail "We'll do it according to the map of Mexico from 1830," Noroña said, producing a cartogram. "This is what the United States was in 1830, and this was part of Mexico. Read On The Fox News App "I was at Trump Tower when President-elect Donald Trump said ... I said, 'Yes, we'll build the wall. Yes we'll pay for it, but we'll do it according to the map of Mexico from 1830." The cession of that amount of territory would account for at least 48% of the U.S. electoral vote, a standardized measure of population density. 'I Call It A Rebellion': Maxine Waters' History Of Enflaming Crowds From Rodney King To Today The member of the left-wing Morena Party lamented that Mexico was "stripped" of about one-third of its territory via the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which ended the Mexican-American War. The U.S. won that war but also suffered steep losses, including former Tennessee Rep. Davy Crockett's last stand at the Alamo. The treaty established rights for people who lived in what was Mexican territory that was about to be governed only a few months later in 1849 by President Zachary Taylor, a decorated commander of that war. "We settled there before the nation now known as the United States," Noroña said, claiming the treaty was "not respected." He claimed disaffected residents of Laredo, Texas, established Nuevo Laredo on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande because they did not want to be Americans. "With this geography, how can they talk about liberating Los Angeles — and California — the U.S. government; liberate from whom?" he said. "[For] Mexican men and women, [that has] always been their homeland." The top official then claimed Angelenos do not need to know how to speak English because of the historic prevalence of Spanish there. "This is part of the U.S., yes, and the U.S. government has the right to implement whatever immigration measures it deems appropriate. But they have no right to violate the dignity of migrants ... no right to subject them to suffering, persecution and harassment."Original article source: Mexican Senate president says LA is essentially Mexico: I'd 'pay for the wall' if it ceded US southwest
New York Post
3 hours ago
- New York Post
Why LA's ICE riots reveal decades of California's political decay
Los Angeles has been overrun with lawless insanity, and that's just the elected officials. Mayor Karen Bass has spent a week blaming President Trump for disrupting her city, where she insists 'everything was fine' until the federal government decided to enforce the law. That's consistent with how California's public officials have dealt with crime in general. 8 California Gov. Gavin Newsom earlier this week openly challenged President Trump and his White House to arrest him following days of verbal barbs traded between the two leaders. AP In November, state voters were so fed up that they passed a get-tougher-on-crime initiative, Proposition 36, by a margin of 68% to 32% despite the furious opposition of Gov. Gavin Newsom. His own plan to deal with crime is to close state prisons to save money. Now, Newsom is suing the Trump administration over the deployment of National Guard troops to protect federal law enforcement officers and federal buildings that were threatened by the violent protests. Newsom says the president's actions were both unnecessary and illegal. He asked a federal court in San Francisco to issue an emergency temporary restraining order The court denied his request and gave the president's lawyers the opportunity to respond. Their 32-page filing begins by calling Newsom's lawsuit 'a crass political stunt.' 8 Driverless vehicles are being torched, and the freeway was shut down by protestors while ICE protests continue. Toby Canham for NY Post 8 Protestors and riot police clash in California as ICE protests continue. Toby Canham for NY Post It documents that the protesters were throwing rocks, bottles, chunks of concrete, and exploding mortar-style fireworks at law-enforcement officers, as well as setting cars on fire, tossing Molotov Cocktails, shutting down the 101 Freeway, and ramming dumpsters into the walls of buildings. Most members of the Los Angeles City Council issued a joint statement. 'We condemn this in no uncertain terms,' they wrote. But they were referring to the federal law enforcement operations, not the riots. 'To every immigrant living in our city: we see you, we stand with you, and we will fight for you,' they added. 8 LA Mayor Karen Bass continues to say Trump's ICE raids must be stopped, according to reports. Some City Council members went further. Eunisses Hernandez told the crowd at a rally, 'Community defense works' against law enforcement. She warned, 'If they're escalating their tactics, then so are we.' Hugo Soto-Martinez chided Los Angeles police chief Jim McDonnell for giving 'safe passage to ICE.' Imelda Padilla asked McDonnell if the LAPD would 'warn us so that we can warn our folks' when federal agents were approaching. 'You're asking me to warn you about an enforcement action being taken by another agency before it happens?' the police chief asked. 'Yeah,' Padilla replied. 8 Gov. Newsom is suing the Trump administration over the deployment of National Guard troops to protect federal law enforcement officers and federal buildings that were threatened by the protests. AP 'Yeah, we can't do that,' McDonnell said. Mayor Bass has focused her efforts on repeating 'stop the raids' at every public appearance, making the argument that enforcing the law in Los Angeles is what's causing the violence, vandalism, and looting. Why are Democratic elected officials in California twisting themselves into pretzels to oppose the enforcement of federal law? In the November election, President Trump made significant gains with Latino voters, especially younger men. According to NBC News exit polls, Trump won the support of 45% of Hispanics, a 13-point increase from 2020 and a new record for a Republican presidential nominee. 'This looks and sounds like a realignment,' wrote the analysts at Equis, a research and polling firm focused on Latino voters. 8 Last week, Rep. Maxine Waters was in downtown LA to speak about the National Guard troops, saying, 'They're in our city with guns, and I'm sure they have orders to shoot to kill.' AP Democrats around the state have been relentlessly repeating anti-Trump messages, from denouncing the president for deploying the National Guard to accusing him of sending ICE to kidnap innocent people. Newsom gave a live-streamed speech Tuesday night that he called 'Democracy at a Crossroads.' He accused the president of 'indiscriminately targeting hardworking immigrant families, regardless of their roots or risk.' Adding extra drama, Newsom intoned, 'Families separated. Friends disappearing.' The enforcement actions were not indiscriminate, but apparently there's no time for fact-checking when democracy is at a crossroads. The 2026 midterm elections are coming up fast. In 2024, there were nine congressional seats in California that were won with less than 54% of the vote, and six of those were won with less than 52%. How important is the Latino vote in California to the Democrats' hopes of winning back the majority in the House of Representatives? Democrats are pandering and fear-mongering as if it's crucial, even in races that are not expected to be close. 8 Serious disorder takes place in downtown Los Angeles, as hundreds of law enforcement officers are deployed, along with are National Guard. Toby Canham for NY Post For example, last Sunday, Rep. Maxine Waters was in downtown LA in front of a federal building and said of the National Guard troops protecting it, 'They're in our city with guns, and I'm sure they have orders to shoot to kill.' She said Trump is going after 'people who work every day, people who are paying taxes, who are raising their families, who are supporting education.' Education funding is based on attendance. How would immigration enforcement affect it? In one study cited in an analysis for the legislature this year, the Migration Policy Institute estimated that about 15% of the 5.8 million students enrolled in K-12 public schools are either undocumented or have at least one undocumented parent. Would there be fewer jobs for the members of the powerful California Teachers Association? 8 Gov. Newsom accused the president of 'indiscriminately targeting hardworking immigrant families, regardless of their roots or risk.' AP Would immigration enforcement also mean fewer unionized health care jobs? California has extended full-scope Medi-Cal (Medicaid) insurance to all low-income undocumented immigrant adults. More than 1.4 million have signed up. It's costing taxpayers in excess of $9 billion per year, an amount roughly equaled by the state's budget deficit. Some Democrats want to raise taxes rather than reduce those benefits. Riots, lawlessness, higher taxes. It sounds like a mad scientist's formula for electing a Republican governor. Susan Shelley is a columnist and editorial writer with the Southern California News Group, and VP of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association. On X: @Susan_Shelley.
