Video shows federal agents tackle and arrest Venezuelan man in courthouse
Surveillance camera footage shows two federal agents tackle and arrest a Venezuelan man in a New Hampshire courthouse, knocking over a bystander in the process. Arnuel Marquez Colmenarez was in court for his arraignment on misdemeanor charges related to drunk driving and now is being held at a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Texas.
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- The Intercept
LA Protesters Aren't Inviting Violent Authoritarianism, They're Mobilizing to Stop It
Protesters gather to demand an end to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement workplace raids in Los Angeles on June 8, 2025. Photo: Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images When President Donald Trump announced on Saturday night that he would send the National Guard to Los Angeles to crush protests, a narrative emerged on social media that demonstrators had somehow given a gift to the authoritarian president by escalating confrontations with U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement. 'Los Angeles — violence is never the answer. Assaulting law enforcement is never ok,' Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., posted on Sunday. 'Indeed, doing so plays directly into the hands of those who seek to antagonize and weaponize the situation for their own gain. Don't let them succeed.' Would the situation somehow be less violent were ICE left to snatch and disappear people without impediment? 'It is the fight President Trump had been waiting for,' began the New York Times's analysis on Monday morning. 'Trump and his top aides leaned into the confrontation with California leaders on Sunday, portraying the demonstrations as an existential threat to the country.' Sen. Bernie Sanders added his own unhelpful entry to the predictable chorus. 'Dr. King defeated racist government officials & ended segregation through disciplined non-violent resistance,' he wrote, eliding militancy in the civil rights movement. 'Violent protests are counterproductive and play right into Trump's playbook.' After over a decade of reporting on police brutality, fascist acceleration, and dissent, I have come to expect this sort of framing from centrist politicians and media organs, and occasionally those further on the left like Sanders. It is a willful refusal to correctly locate the agents of violence in a violent scenario. In reality, the protesters throwing rocks at heavily armed security forces or attempting to damage the vehicles used to kidnap their immigrant neighbors did not introduce violence. They are instead acting in militant community defense. After all, would the situation somehow be less violent were ICE left to snatch and disappear people without impediment? Does Schiff imagine either his pronouncements or the empty condemnations of his Democratic Party colleagues will slow down the deportation of our neighbors? The 'situation' that Schiff named — which he did not want Trump to 'antagonize and weaponize' — was already a state of intolerable violence. Militarized federal immigration agents were carrying out raids across LA to rip immigrants away from their lives and loved ones in service of the whitening of America. Contrary to the New York Times's description, Trump had not been waiting for a fight that then presented itself in the LA protests. His border regime, which Democrats helped build for over three decades, has already been waging an all-out war throughout the country. Read Our Complete Coverage Six months into Trump's draconian second term — Venezuelan men have been sent to a gulag in El Salvador on the basis of their tattoos; students and graduates have been kidnapped and face deportation for protected speech; and judges and members of Congress face federal prosecution for doing their jobs — it is laughable to imagine that the president and his loyalists would moderate their responses were protesters to remain placid. The Los Angeles Police Department itself put out a statement describing the demonstrations as 'peaceful' on Friday, but Trump's deputy chief of staff, maniacal white nationalist Stephen Miller, had already posted on X earlier that day that the protests were an 'insurrection against the laws and sovereignty of the United States.' His post was above a video of a slow march of a few hundred people surrounding LA's federal detention center. It should be abundantly obvious by now that the Trump administration will conjure its own perverse reality out of thin air and treat all opposition as an enemy in need of crushing. 'One side is for enforcing the law and protecting Americans,' Newt Gingrich, the former Republican House speaker and Trump ally told the Times, 'and the other side is for defending illegals and being on the side of the people who break the law.' Gingrich conveniently leaves out that, according to today's Republican Party, the law is whatever Trump says it is. The old 'good protester, bad protester' canard, which has always served to divide movements, is a particularly absurd line to draw in the face of an authoritarian government that has made clear it will enforce 'law and order' on solely ideological, loyalist lines. January 6 rioters are free; Mahmoud Khalil is caged. Here, a reference to Martin Luther King Jr. can prove useful — but not Sanders's vanilla rewriting of the civil rights movement. We might instead recall King's 1963 letter from Birmingham jail, in which he decried 'the white moderate who is more devoted to order than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says, 'I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I can't agree with your methods of direct action.''
Yahoo
5 hours ago
- Yahoo
Abrego Garcia return to US prompts new questions for other immigrants deported by Trump
The Trump administration on Friday announced it had returned Kilmar Abrego Garcia – a Salvadoran migrant and alleged MS-13 member – to the U.S., months after he was deported to El Salvador in what officials later acknowledged was an administrative error. It is unclear whether Abrego Garcia's return signals a shift in policy or is merely a one-off. The administration paired the announcement with news of a new federal indictment charging him with crimes related to transporting undocumented immigrants in the U.S. Still, the case has sparked fresh questions about the administration's willingness to comply with other court orders requiring the return of deported migrants – whether individuals or entire classes – or mandating that certain individuals remain in U.S. custody long enough to challenge their removals to so-called "third countries." It also undercut the Trump administration's assertion earlier this year that it is powerless to order El Salvador to return a prisoner or facilitate the return of migrants sent to El Salvador – something judges have attempted somewhat unsuccessfully to square in various court proceedings this year. Here is what to know about those cases so far. 100 Days Of Injunctions, Trials And 'Teflon Don': Trump Second Term Meets Its Biggest Tests In Court Read On The Fox News App Daniel Lozano-Camargo, previously referred to in court documents as "Cristian," is a 20-year-old Venezuelan immigrant deported in March under the Alien Enemies Act, a 1798 wartime law invoked by Trump to quickly remove hundreds of immigrants and send them to El Salvador to be detained in the country's maximum-security CECOT prison. U.S. District Judge Stephanie Gallagher ruled in April that his deportation violated a settlement agreement that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) stuck last year with a group of young asylum seekers, including Lozano-Camargo, who had entered the country as an unaccompanied child and later sought asylum. Under that agreement, DHS agreed not to deport the immigrants until their asylum cases were fully adjudicated in court, which she said had not happened in Lozano-Camargo's case prior to his removal. Gallagher, a Trump appointee, ruled that his deportation was a breach of contract. In ordering his return to the U.S., she stressed that her ruling had nothing to do with the strength of his asylum request in question – a nod to the two apparent low-level drug offenses he had racked up prior to his removal – but simply his ability to have his asylum request adjudicated in court under the agreement with DHS. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit upheld that decision late last month, clearing the way for Gallagher to set a formal timeline for the government to comply with facilitating the return. DHS officials told the court last week in a status update that Lozano-Camargo remains held at CECOT. Trump Administration Asks Supreme Court To Review El Salvador Deportation Flight Case The Trump administration returned a mistakenly deported Guatemalan native to U.S. soil last week, marking the first known instance of the Trump administration complying with a judge's orders to return an individual removed from the U.S. based on erroneous information. The immigrant, referred to in court documents only as "O.C.G.," was deported to Mexico in March without due process and despite his stated fears of persecution in the country, according to U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy, who ordered his return. Murphy noted that O.C.G. had previously been held for ransom and raped in Mexico but was not afforded the chance to assert those fears prior to his removal – a right afforded to him by U.S. and international law. ICE officials told the court earlier this month that they were working to secure his return. Last week, attorneys for O.C.G. told Fox News he had been returned to the U.S. on Wednesday via commercial flight. Unlike the individuals deported to CECOT, however, O.C.G. had not been detained in Mexico after he was deported, which could have eased some of the hurdles for the administration in returning him. Murphy ordered the Trump administration to keep in U.S. custody a group of six immigrants who were deported to South Sudan without due process or notice until they have the opportunity to conduct so-called "reasonable fear interviews," or a chance to explain to U.S. officials any fear of persecution or torture, should they be released into South Sudanese custody. Currently, all six individuals remain detained at a U.S. military base in Djibouti – the only U.S. military base currently operational in all of Africa – and where ICE officials tasked with keeping them in custody cited recent health risks, including from malaria exposure, searing heat, nearby burn pits as well as the "imminent danger" of rocket attacks from terrorist groups in Yemen. In response, Murphy reiterated earlier this month that the individuals need not remain in South Sudan and that the U.S. is free to move them to another location, including back to the U.S., to more safely carry out these proceedings. It is unclear whether the government has plans to relocate the group. Who Is James Boasberg, The Us Judge At The Center Of Trump's Deportation Efforts? U.S. District Judge James Boasberg last week ordered the Trump administration to provide all non-citizens deported from the U.S. to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador to be afforded the opportunity to seek habeas relief in court and challenge their alleged gang status – the latest in a heated fight centered on Trump's use of the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to deport certain migrants. Boasberg reiterated in the 69-page ruling that due process includes providing migrants deported to CECOT prior notice of removal, as well as so-called habeas protections, or the right to challenge their removals in court. He gave the Trump administration until Wednesday to submit to the court plans for how it will go about providing the habeas relief to plaintiffs held at CECOT. "Defendants plainly deprived these individuals of their right to seek habeas relief before their summary removal from the United States — a right that need not itself be vindicated through a habeas petition," Boasberg said in his order. The order is almost certain to spark fierce backlash from the Trump administration, which has previously railed against Boasberg's earlier rulings and the temporary restraining order handed down in March. Boasberg later found probable cause to hold the administration in contempt of court, citing the government's "willful disregard" for his March 15 emergency order, which ordered the administration to halt its deportation under the Alien Enemies Act, and immediately return all planes to the U.S., which did not article source: Abrego Garcia return to US prompts new questions for other immigrants deported by Trump
Yahoo
6 hours ago
- Yahoo
Dr. Phil Embedded With ICE to Film Weekend Raids That Led to LA Protests
Dr. Phil McGraw, the longtime television personality and author, was on the ground with a camera crew Friday to interview Trump border czar Tom Homan and document the ICE raids in Los Angeles that sparked weekend-long protests throughout the city. McGraw did not personally tag along with ICE officers for the raids. Instead, he remained at the Homeland Security Investigations field office in L.A. and interviewed Homan for his conservative TV channel, MeritTV. The conversations he had with Homan throughout ICE's L.A. operation will air Monday and Tuesday night as part of the week's 'Dr. Phil Primetime' broadcasts. According to MeritTV representatives, McGraw was in L.A. to 'get a first-hand look at the targeted operations.' He was also given exclusive access to Homan and spoke to the border czar about ICE's aggressive deportation efforts this year both the day before and day after the agency's L.A. raids. This is not the first time McGraw has gotten to see an ICE operation quasi-firsthand. In January, he became embedded with ICE officials stationed in Chicago. On Friday, however, he chose to sit-out the raids that turned Los Angeles, once again, into a cultural and political hotspot. 'In order to not escalate any situation, Dr. Phil McGraw did not join and was not embedded,' a MeritTV spokesperson said. ICE's recent L.A. operation is far from the first, headline-worthy immigration effort that the agency has conducted since President Trump took office again in late January. The administration made waves months ago when it deported hundreds of Venezuelan migrants it claimed had ties to a notorious gang to an El Salvadoran prison. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, nicknamed 'ICE Barbie,' has gone out of her way to promote the administration's aggressive immigration policies and efforts as well. She has accompanied ICE raids throughout the year, posed for photos wearing the same gear as immigration officers and been at the center of certain filmed ICE operations. In March, she even visited the El Salvadoran prison where the Trump administration deported hundreds of purportedly illegal immigrants and stood for photos in front of its full jail cells. McGraw's presence at ICE's recent L.A. raids is, in other words, part of an ongoing effort on the Trump administration's part to publicize and increase the visibility of its immigration strategy. ICE's L.A. raids were met with fierce opposition from the city's residents. They sparked protests, some of which turned violent and resulted in multiple injuries, that have continued throughout the weekend and into Monday. President Trump, in response, sent hundreds of National Guard troops to the city. Trump's decision has been fiercely criticized by California Governor Gavin Newsom, who released a letter Sunday denouncing the move as a 'serious breach of state sovereignty' and requesting that the president recall the National Guard. The post Dr. Phil Embedded With ICE to Film Weekend Raids That Led to LA Protests appeared first on TheWrap.
