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Yahoo
6 days ago
- Yahoo
Las Vegas police to rejoin ICE program to hold undocumented immigrants already in jail: ‘I don't want them in my community anymore'
LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Metro police will soon hold undocumented immigrants already in their custody and who have committed crimes for an additional 48 hours as part of an agreement with federal officials. The 287(g) agreement with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) allows Metro officers to serve a federal warrant on an inmate and keep that person in the Clark County Detention Center for no more than two additional days. 'I don't want them in my community anymore,' LVMPD Sheriff Kevin McMahill said about undocumented criminals already in his jail during an exclusive interview Wednesday with the 8 News Now Investigators. 'We had child pornographers being released; folks that had shot people being released,' McMahill said. 'Yesterday we had a guy that shot at a bunch of people get released — assault with a deadly weapon — and that was also a part of the catalyst to do this that these are people that have committed very serious offenses and were in the country illegally and because of manpower issues and the timing we couldn't turn them over to ICE.' Metro applied to the program last week, McMahill said. He believed the approval was imminent. Metro alerts ICE during booking and release for violent felonies and crimes that fall in line with the Laken Riley Act, which includes theft and shoplifting. However, ICE must obtain a warrant and pick up the inmate. The program essentially means ICE will have two additional days to pick up the inmate. As of Tuesday, 350 inmates were ICE-notification eligible, McMahill said. In an interview earlier this year, McMahill said ICE routinely picks up about 40% of the inmates whom Metro has notified them about. He added Wednesday that ICE makes daily pickups at the jail. 'These individuals that have criminal complaints and conduct and have been convicted and/or charged, and they're being released from our jail, we're making notifications, and we're going to continue to do that,' McMahill said. Metro will not partake in mass deportation 'roundups,' McMahill said earlier this year. The immigration issue is personal to McMahill. A previously deported undocumented immigrant driving drunk killed LVMPD Officer Colton Pulsipher last December. Metro police previously took part in 287(g) until 2019, when a federal court ruling ended the partnership. Last week, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security listed Las Vegas as a 'sanctuary jurisdiction,' though there is no city or Metro policy on the matter, and both the sheriff and Las Vegas Mayor Shelley Berkley have publicly said otherwise. The department later removed the entire list. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
IOL News
6 days ago
- Automotive
- IOL News
R4. 3m buys you the fastest-accelerating Mercedes-AMG ever: GT 63 S E Performance now on sale
The new Mercedes-AMG GT 63 S E Performance is now on sale in South Africa. Image: Supplied Sprinting from 0-100km/h in a claimed 2.8 seconds, the new Mercedes-AMG GT 63 S E Performance elevates the brand to almost hypercar levels of performance. Now on sale in South Africa, the new two-door flagship is yours for R4,369,287, and surprisingly that doesn't make it the most expensive Benz on the market. The G63 (R4.45m) and S63 (R4.6m) are even more detrimental to your cashflow. South Africans already had an early preview of the GT 63 S E at the 2025 Simola Hillclimb in Knysna in early May, where it won the road and supercar category with Clint Weston behind the wheel. But what makes it tick? The new S E Performance model, not to be confused with the regular GT 63, pairs a powerful 4-litre twin-turbo V8 engine with a 150kW rear-mounted electric motor for system outputs of 600kW and 1,420Nm. The result is a car that accelerates even quicker than the GT Black Series and F1-derived Mercedes-AMG One. The hybrid system produces a combined 600kW. Image: Supplied It's even ferocious at Gauteng altitudes, with independent performance tester Mark Jones having achieved a 0-100km/h time of 2.76 seconds at the Gerotek testing facility. For what it's worth, the new AMG hybrid model can also travel up to 13km on electric power alone, thanks to its 6.1 kWh battery, which is mounted above the rear axle. The new GT 63 hybrid model rolls on 21-inch alloy wheels with a five-spoke design, and also boasts some impressive aerodynamic features. Chief among these is an active aerodynamic element beneath the front bumper, that can extend downwards to create the Venturi effect, effectively sucking the car onto the road at higher speeds. Chassis wizardry includes AMG's Active Ride Control suspension with semi-active roll stabilisation, as well as active rear-axle steering that greatly enhances agility at low and high speeds. AMG's ceramic composite braking system, with six-piston callipers at the front, is part of the deal too. The GT 63 S E Performance cabin has unique displays. Image: Supplied Moving inside, the 2+2 cabin comes with electrically adjustable AMG sports seats with three massage programmes, and there is a large selection of upholsteries to choose from. Furthermore, the MBUX multimedia system has numerous AMG and hybrid-specific displays and functions. The new Mercedes-AMG GT 63 S E Performance is on sale now at a price of R4,369,287, which includes a five-year or 100,000km service and maintenance plan. IOL
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Business Standard
29-05-2025
- Politics
- Business Standard
Arrest 3,000 undocumented migrants daily: US govt to immigration officers
Top Trump aide Stephen Miller and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem have told Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials to arrest 3,000 people a day, Axios reported on Wednesday. This figure is three times higher than what ICE agents were achieving in the early days of President Trump's second term. Push for higher arrest numbers The push for more arrests was discussed during a meeting on May 21, when Miller, the White House's deputy chief of staff, demanded that deportation figures be raised. Axios quoted a source saying people left the meeting worried their jobs might be in danger if the targets were not met. Another person said Miller's tough tone was meant to motivate them. The move comes as Republicans work on a plan to provide an extra $147 billion in immigration funding over the next decade. According to the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and ICE, requests have gone out for additional staff, more bed space and resources. ICE has signed agreements to expand detention facilities in the country. Earlier, a White House spokesperson, Abigail Jackson, said in a statement, 'Keeping President Trump's promise to deport illegal aliens is something the administration takes seriously. We are committed to aggressively and efficiently removing illegal aliens from the United States, and ensuring our law enforcement officers have the resources necessary to do so. The safety of the American people depends upon it.' Arrests on the ground The new arrest target comes at a time when border-crossing numbers have dropped to lows not seen since the 1960s, and officials have shifted focus to arresting migrants already in the country. A Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) analysis found that border-area deportations have fallen because fewer migrants are attempting to cross the US border, but arrests from inside the country have increased. ICE deported about 65,000 people in the first 100 days of Trump's second term, which began in January. Under President Biden's final year, ICE arrested an average of 759 migrants a day, according to federal data from TRAC at Syracuse University. Earlier this year, the administration expanded the 287(G) programme, which gives state and local law enforcement the power to carry out immigration arrests. ICE has also announced contract offers worth up to $45 billion to grow detention capacity at immigration jails. Meanwhile, thousands of troops have been sent to the Southwest border. In another development, the Trump administration has asked the US Supreme Court to block a judge's order that requires a 10-day notice and an opportunity for migrants to object before deportation to a third country. This emergency request follows a case before a Massachusetts federal judge, who said last week that the administration violated an earlier order by attempting to send a group of migrants convicted of crimes to South Sudan. The Supreme Court has said that the administration must give people a 'reasonable time' to challenge their deportations but has not detailed exactly what that means. The new filing involves efforts by DHS to deport people to countries other than their home nation or an alternative country set by an immigration judge. Since the start of Trump's mass deportation initiative this year, India has identified 388 Indian nationals living illegally in the US, all of whom have since been sent back to India.
Miami Herald
27-05-2025
- Politics
- Miami Herald
UF campus police's role in purging our international community sends a perverse message
ICE and UF The Officers and Board of Directors of the Retired Faculty of the University of Florida (RFUF) are distressed and disgusted regarding state, local and UF's collusion with the outrageous if not unconstitutional visa revocations of international students, faculty and staff at universities across the country, the Florida State University System and the University of Florida specifically. Particularly distressing is the covert and startling way this action has occurred. UF police have essentially been deputized under the federal ICE 287(g) Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) as 'force multipliers' to detain individuals without warrants solely on suspicion of immigration violations. Affected students, faculty and staff have reportedly received little to no formal notice, rationale, or recourse, leaving them confused and in abject terror and uncertainty about their academic futures, legal status and personal well-being. Allowing the ICE 287(g) MOA to go forward sends an unconscionably perverse message to the university community. Perhaps it may irreversibly erode the trust expected of the UF Police Department while unnecessarily diverting officers from their primary mission: campus safety. Even U.S. citizens run the risk of detention if campus police, using cultural profiling as instructed by ICE, take action. Fear of detention could easily prevent a student from seeking medical attention, mental health treatment, or even educational support services. Most disturbing is ICE's authority to access international student data in search of even the smallest infraction to be loosely interpreted as criminal for shameless justification of deportation. We ask UF Interim President Kent Fuchs to devote the substantial time remaining in his tenure to combat the metastatic symptoms of authoritarian intrusion into the university's internal operations. He must immediately condemn and withdraw from the ICE 287(g) Program. The UF Police Department's published guiding principles are completely inconsistent with and anathema to any activity under an ICE 287(g) MOA. States such as Vermont, Rhode Island, Delaware and New Mexico have no such MOAs. Furthermore, Connecticut, New Jersey, Illinois, Washington, Oregon and California have enacted legislation prohibiting such MOAs with ICE. Fuchs must make public the scope and consequences of UF's visa crisis, including the number of affected students, faculty and staff and the rationales provided for visa revocation. He also must contact all those who have already suffered or are at risk of visa revocation to make certain they clearly understand due process protections and are provided legal or administrative counsel, if necessary. For those who have been compelled to leave the United States, make certain that UF continues to support remote participation in their education or professional role, assuming they joined UF with a valid visa. Surely, ICE and other federal, state and local law enforcement agencies have sufficient authority and bandwidth to operate independently without conscripting campus police officers. That a UF agency has been authorized to comply in ICE's misguided and indiscriminate attempt to purge our international community is reprehensible. We greatly respect and appreciate UF's leadership in achieving national preeminence in education, research and public service, which is precisely why we are appealing to Fuchs to maintain the highest ethical standards and independence and why we stand ready to assist him in this urgently needed action. Our international community of students, faculty and staff deserve nothing less. Richard D'Alli (Medicine), immediate past president 2024-2025, Steve Lodle (Communications), chair, RFUF Communications Committee, Gainesville FWC unqualified Re: the May 22 story, 'Two more FWC officers' body cam footage from Pino boat crash deleted, agency says.' Now it's four deleted videos. How unprofessional and unbelievable. Until the investigation is completed, it's still a death investigation. Any professional death investigator knows that nothing is deleted until the state attorney and the medical examiner reach their conclusions. Even then, it should be kept until all civil avenues have been settled. This is pure evidence that FWC has no reason to investigate these matters. As soon as a death occurs, it should be turned over to the Miami-Dade Sheriff's office, which has exceptionally trained investigators with a wealth of experience. Let FWC enforce boating violations, not death investigations. Robert Lynch, Fort Lauderdale Who is a martyr? Re: Mary Anna Mancuso's May 23 op-ed, 'J6 rioter Ashli Babbitt isn't a martyr.' Make no mistake, Babbitt was murdered. She was unarmed and helpless at the time she was shot. The op-ed struck me as quite hypocritical, as I saw no such article in this newspaper proclaiming George Floyd wasn't a martyr and his family, who got much more than Babbitt's family, shouldn't have received compensation. I'm not trying to condone the actions of Derek Chauvin, the police officer who was convicted of killing Floyd, but Floyd was treated as a martyr; there even are statues of him in Minneapolis. Dave Schaublin, Key Largo Spot-on op-ed Thank you, thank you, thank you! Cannot heap enough praise on the integrity of Mary Anna Mancuso's May 23 op-ed, 'J6 rioter Ashli Babbitt isn't a martyr,' while recognizing the courage it takes for a news editor to do the right thing and say it as it is. Society simply cannot continue to accept the glorification of crime. Mancuso has single-handedly helped elevate the faith of many who look to intrepid journalists for transparency and truth. Phillip M. Church, South Miami Campus protests The attack on Harvard University and foreign students in the name of fighting antisemitism is ludicrous. Are we to believe that the many students protesting under the banner 'Not in My Name' and the very president of Harvard are antisemitic? When did anti-war and antisemitic become synonyms? Sonja I. Pantry, Miramar Disaster ahead We are in the middle of a climate change policy revision nightmare. Funding has been cut to the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration. Meanwhile, Congress is considering startling reversals of regulations and tax credits designed to reduce the impact of fossil fuels on our environment. As if this were not enough, there are efforts to weaken the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which aids communities when disasters hit. We are weakening the nation's forecasting and assistance capabilities, as we also weaken the regulations which fight climate change. This is no time to be silent. Contact Sens. Rick Scott and Ashley Moody. Call your congressman or woman. Get involved in climate organizations, such as Citizens Climate Lobby. Our lives may depend upon it. Kathryn Carroll, Miami DeSantis knows best? While signing a bill earlier this month that stops local governments from adding fluoride to water, Gov. Ron DeSantis said, 'some of these people, they think that they know better for you than you do for yourself.' How can public heath be solely an individual choice? Isn't the public's health serving the greater good? DeSantis and his cronies in the legislature have been finding ways to tell Floridians what we can and cannot do. Books are banned. Universities are no longer places for open ideas and learning. A woman can no longer make decisions about her own body. We no longer can acknowledge and celebrate our diversity as we please. Many among us live in fear of deportation. Our government is seemingly promoting and imposing its own vision of what it thinks is right for Floridians. We are free only if we toe the line the state has laid. A lot of us think differently. Hopefully, the next elections will show how fed up we are. Marsha Broad, Miami Pushy salesman Why is it that, when I listen to President Donald Trump speak on the economy, it's like he's trying to sell a big, beautiful timeshare to me and the American electorate? Jesus Mendez, Coral Gables
Yahoo
15-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
We're retired University of Florida faculty. We condemn the ICE intrusion.
The Officers and Board of Directors of the Retired Faculty of the University of Florida, Inc. (RFUF), are writing to express our distress and disgust regarding state, local, and UF's collusion with the outrageous if not unconstitutional visa revocations of international students, faculty, and staff at universities across the country, the Florida State University System, and the University of Florida in specific. Particularly distressing is the covert and startling way in which this action has occurred where UF police have essentially been deputized under the federal ICE 287(g) Memorandum of Agreement as 'force multipliers' to detain individuals without warrants solely on suspicion of immigration violations. Affected students, faculty and staff have reportedly received little to no formal notice, rationale, or recourse, leaving them in a state of confusion, abject terror, and uncertainty about their academic futures, legal status, and personal wellbeing. If the University of Florida is genuinely committed to global education and is indebted to the role that thousands of international students across the State University System play in academic and research excellence, then that message could not be more strongly delivered than by your taking an expeditious and vigorous defense of our international community. We call upon UF Interim President Kent Fuchs to devote the substantial time remaining in his tenure to combat the metastatic symptoms of authoritarian intrusion into the internal operations of the University. Santa Ono: I'm the right choice for UF president. I would make a great school the best. | Opinion We, therefore, call upon Fuchs to act in the following ways: Immediately condemn and withdraw from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) 287(g) Program. It is important to point out that the states of Vermont, Rhode Island, Delaware, and New Mexico have no such MOAs. Furthermore, the states of Connecticut, New Jersey, Illinois, Washington, Oregon, and California have enacted legislation prohibiting such MOAs with ICE. It is crystal clear to us that the UF Police Department's published guiding principles are completely inconsistent with and anathema to any activity under an ICE 287(g) MOA. For example: Emblazoned on their website is the UFPD's motto that UFPD Believes in Transparency, And that '…[UFPD's] fundamental duty is to serve the community: to safeguard lives and property; to protect the innocent against deception, the weak against oppression or intimidation and the peaceful against violence or disorder; and to respect the constitutional rights of all to liberty, equality and justice [italics added for emphasis]. Advocate for institutional transparency: Make public the scope and consequences of the current visa crisis at the University of Florida, including the number of affected students, faculty, and staff and the rationales provided for visa revocation. Issue guidance: Immediately contact all students, faculty, and staff who have already suffered or are at risk of visa revocation to make certain that these individuals clearly understand due process protections and are provided legal or administrative counsel if necessary. For those who have been compelled to leave the United States, make certain that UF continues to support remote participation in their education or professional role assuming they joined UF with a valid visa. Allowing the ICE 287(g) MOA to go forward sends an unconscionably perverse message to the University community, as well as perhaps irreversibly eroding the trust expected of the UFPD while unnecessarily diverting UFPD officers from their primary mission of campus safety. Opinion: Florida can change how it picks university presidents. There's a bill for that. Even individuals who are United States citizens run the risk of detention if cultural profiling takes hold of campus police acting with suspicion as instructed by ICE. Fear of detention could easily prevent a student from seeking medical attention, mental health treatment, or even educational support services. Most disturbing is ICE's authority to access international student data in search of even the smallest infraction to be loosely interpreted as criminal for shameless justification of deportation. Surely ICE and other federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies have sufficient authority and bandwidth to operate independently without conscripting campus police officers presumably to cast a higher resolution net over a haven where students, faculty, and staff benefit from and expand the best of what America has to offer. In short, we think it reprehensible that an agency of the University of Florida has been authorized to be complicit in ICE's misguided and indiscriminate attempt to purge our international community. If for no other reason than respect for the core values of UF and all other Florida universities, academic freedom, due process, cultural enrichment, and global engagement for all, we implore Fuchs to withdraw from the MOA with ICE. The UF Board of Trustees should follow suit. Our international community of students, faculty, and staff deserve nothing less. The Officers and Board of Directors of the Retired Faculty of the University of Florida. This article originally appeared on Palm Beach Post: UF students, faculty, staff at risk of deportation by ICE | Opinion
