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Yahoo
a day ago
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36 Chinese, Taiwanese nationals arrested after ICE raids underground nightclub in Los Angeles
Three dozen Chinese and Taiwanese nationals were arrested following a raid on a southern California "underground nightclub." Video of the arrests by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Los Angeles early Friday morning was shared by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agencies on X. "Early this morning, HSI Los Angeles w/ @EROLosAngeles & partners from the El Camino Real Financial Crimes Task Force conducted an enforcement operation in an underground nightclub," the post reads. "36 Chinese and Taiwanese nationals were arrested for being illegally present in the U.S." The video shows agents on the scene at night before it cuts to daytime footage of a large group of alleged illegal immigrants sitting on a sidewalk prior to being loaded into white vans. Fbi Identifies Ivf Clinic Bomber As 'Pro-mortalist' Who Opposed Birth Without Consent No additional details were given by the ICE agencies, and a request by Fox News Digital was not immediately answered. Read On The Fox News App The name and location of the nightclub has not been disclosed. Illegal Immigrant Released By Biden Admin Pleads Not Guilty To Murder Of Georgia Grandmother On Thursday, ICE announced a "leadership realignment" during increased "enforcement efforts." ICE's Acting Executive Associate Director of Enforcement and Removal Operations Ken Genalo will be retiring after 33 years of service to the agency. "Genalo has served in this acting capacity to help meet the mandate set forth by the American people — his contributions were integral in the successes we're seeing today," ICE Acting Director Todd M. Lyons said in a statement. "He's now going to serve as a special government employee working with field office directors within ICE. I can't thank him enough."Original article source: 36 Chinese, Taiwanese nationals arrested after ICE raids underground nightclub in Los Angeles
Time of India
a day ago
- Politics
- Time of India
TOI IMPACT: ECI to cancel Rehan's EPIC and other suspects of Patna's Wakil Anwer house
LUCKNOW: Following the TOI report about a house in Patna, that allegedly became home of suspected illegal immigrants who had acquired fake Indian identity cards, the , is now preparing to remove their EPIC (electoral photo identity card) from the electoral roll. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now The move is significant, as Bihar assembly polls are around the corner. Jandullah Dad Mohammad, an Afghan national from the volatile Paktika province, impersonating as Rehan, son of Kabir, was residing at Patna's Wakil Anwer House along with his brother Mansur. After entering India on a six-day medical visa in December 2019, he vanished from Delhi's radar. By 2020, he had acquired a full suite of fake Indian IDs. His EPIC (AFS3853934), Indian passport (C6978659), Aadhaar card (322874855132), PAN card (ETXPR8222K), driving license (BR0120210005369), SBI bank passbook (39914603822), municipal corporation Patna issued birth certificate (B-2019 10-90097 025254), and even a ration card painted a convincing picture of an Indian citizen. 'We are now preparing to revoke the EPIC AFS3853934 issued in the name of Rehan, son of Kabir,' said electoral registration officer (ERO) Raghvendra Pratap Singh. The accused foreign national is currently lodged in Lucknow jail after being caught by Bureau of Immigration from Chaudhary Charan Singh International Airport on May 19 evening. The ECI's consolidated electoral list, published on January 7, 2025, under a special summary revision, revealed that the Wakil Anwer House has 12 male occupants, all in their 20s and 30s except one, with no women registered. At least four of them shared identical details: Same age, same father's name (Kabir), and EPICs. Kabir's real identity has been established as Dad Mohammad Khan. His elder son Mansur who left for Dubai more than six months ago, is registered in electoral roll with two EPICs AFS4130290, AFS4127999. Another resident, Mohammad Sher Khan, also had dual EPICs: AFS4129953 and AFS4125266. 'Currently, Kabir is absent from Wakil Anwer House, with no confirmation of his existence, though locals confirm his presence in Patna 7-8 years ago. We have cancelled Mansur's and Mohammad Sher Khan's EPICs . One individual cannot have two EPICs,' said ERO Raghvendra. He added, 'The owner of Wakil Anwer House has not returned to Patna from New Delhi till date. He has now assured to return around June 9, following which he would furnish details of everyone living in his property.'
Yahoo
2 days ago
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Trump administration sets quota to arrest 3,000 people a day in anti-immigration agenda
The Trump administration has set aggressive new goals in its anti-immigration agenda, demanding that federal agents arrest 3,000 people a day – or more than a million in a year. The new target, tripling arrest figures from earlier this year, was delivered to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) leaders by Stephen Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff, and Kristi Noem, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) secretary, in a strained meeting last week. The intense meeting, first reported by Axios and confirmed by the Guardian, involved Ice officials from enforcement and removal operations (ERO) and homeland security investigations (HSI) – both separate offices within DHS. ERO is in charge of immigration enforcement, including arrests, detention and deportation, while HSI typically focuses on investigating transnational crime, such as drug trafficking, human smuggling and the spread of online child abuse. The 21 May meeting in Washington DC is the latest example of the increasing pressure being placed on officials nationwide to increase the number of arrests of immigrants, as the administration doubles down on its anti-immigration agenda. The latest phase of the crackdown includes new tactics, such as mandating federal law enforcement agents outside Ice to assist in arrests and transports, more deputizing of compliant state and local law enforcement agencies, and arresting people at locations that were once protected, like courthouses. Related: Trump officials increasingly recruit local police for immigration enforcement despite 'red flags' ' This administration came into office with the illusion that they had been given a broad mandate to effectuate an aggressive immigration enforcement agenda, and they are doubling down now on that agenda,' said Nayna Gupta, the policy director for the American Immigration Council. ' Public polling is showing decreasing support for Trump's immigration agenda, as Americans wake up to the reality that mass deportation means arrests of our neighbors and friends, masked agents in our communities and people afraid to go to work and show up to school, in ways that undermine our local economies.' Helter-skelter action has led to citizens caught up in the dragnet, Ice skirting due process – to the chagrin of the supreme court and lower courts – over-crowding in detention centers, arrests based on ideology and officials deporting people to third countries. 'The sweeping Ice raids and arrests are hitting families, longtime residents, children and communities in a way never seen before,' said Jesse Franzblau, the associate director of policy for the National Immigrant Justice Center. As the number of people crossing the border into the US without authorization has plummeted even further than after the final Biden crackdown, operations in the US interior have increased. 'Under Secretary Noem, we are delivering on President Trump's and the American people's mandate to arrest and deport criminal illegal aliens and make America safe,' Tricia McLaughlin, the homeland security assistant secretary, said in a statement. But even if the new target is fulfilled, it's a far cry from Trump's election campaign pledges to deport 15m to 20m people, which itself is more than the estimated 11m undocumented population. Agents with the FBI, HSI, Drug Enforcement Administration, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and other federal law enforcement agencies have been co-opted from normal priorities to carry out immigration enforcement work. Current and former federal officials told the Guardian there is concern that important non-immigration-related investigations are falling by the wayside as a result. There has also been a huge escalation by local police and sheriff's departments assisting, deputized by Ice to perform federal immigration arrests under a program called 287(g). Ice has also been targeting unusual places. On Tuesday, Ice and several other federal law enforcement agencies arrested roughly 40 people on the Massachusetts islands of Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard. The US Coast Guard transported those apprehended, Ice said, angering some residents, local media reported. The agency has also been arresting people at courthouses throughout the country – a trend that has troubled advocates and policy analysts. 'We're seeing the Trump administration take the unprecedented step of arresting non-citizens who are following the government's rules and procedures, and showing up for their court hearings,' said Gupta. ' They are desperate to reach a certain number of arrests per day. And the only way they can find non-citizens easily and quickly is to go to the courthouses, where they [immigrants] are doing exactly what they're supposed to do.' On Wednesday, sources told the Guardian that officials had arrested people at two separate immigration courts in New York City. The outlet the City observed seven people arrested in a lower Manhattan court. Internal documents accessed by the Washington Post show Ice officers in more than 20 states have been instructed to arrest people at courthouses immediately after a judge orders them deported or after their criminal cases are dropped and they try to leave. The number of people held in detention by Ice reached 49,000 by 18 May, an increase of more than 10,000 since Trump took office, with the agency using local jails and federal prisons to hold immigrants, amid overcrowding. Austin Kocher, an assistant research professor at Syracuse University who closely tracks immigration detention data, said of the 3,000 daily arrest quota: ' The big question for me is: where are they going to put people?' Meanwhile, last month, the Trump administration ordered immigration judges to quickly dismiss cases by denying asylum seekers a hearing. The directive 'has nothing to do with efficiency – it's about slamming shut the courthouse door on people who have the right to seek asylum and a fair day in court', Shayna Kessler, the director of the Advancing Universal Representation initiative at the Vera Institute of Justice, said. On Capitol Hill, the major spending bill passed by the House would balloon spending for immigration enforcement, at the US-Mexico border and in the interior, while cutting everyday services. Related: Trump's new border wall will threaten wildlife in an area where few people pass 'The administration is on a reckless spending spree, counting on Congress to bail them out for overspending hundreds of millions of dollars in private prison contracts with ties to top-level officials,' Franzblau said. He concluded: 'It is beyond cruel to superfund Ice's rampant violations of constitutional protections and expand the deadly immigration detention and enforcement apparatus.' Miller confirmed to Fox News on Wednesday that the White House was setting a goal for Ice to arrest at least 3,000 migrants per day, far above an earlier 1,000 per day arrest quota. Reuters reported later on Thursday that the Trump administration was removing two senior immigration enforcement officials amid demands to step up enforcement, three people familiar with the move said. Top Ice officials Kenneth Genalo and Robert Hammer will be pulled from their posts, the people told the news agency, requesting anonymity to discuss the shift. DHS denied that they were pushed out.
India Today
3 days ago
- Politics
- India Today
ICE undergoes major leadership shakeup amid Trump's deportation push
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the federal agency tasked with enforcing immigration laws and deporting illegal immigrants, is undergoing a major staff reorganization as the Trump administration intensifies efforts to drastically ramp up a statement released Thursday, ICE announced key personnel changes at the top of both its Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) divisions, the two branches responsible for identifying, arresting, detaining, and removing individuals who are residing in the country Genalo, who had been serving as the acting director of ERO, is retiring and will transition into a special government employee role with the agency. Marcos Charles will step in as acting director of ERO. Meanwhile, Robert Hammer, the current acting chief of HSI, is being reassigned to ICE headquarters, with Derek Gordon named as the new acting head of said the leadership overhaul is intended to help the agency 'achieve President Trump and the American people's mandate of arresting and deporting criminal illegal aliens and making American communities safe.'The changes follow a high-profile interview earlier this week in which White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller told Fox News the administration is targeting 3,000 ICE arrests per day — a nearly fivefold increase from the current average of 656. From January 20 to May 19, ICE reported 78,155 reorganization marks the latest in a string of high-level staffing changes since February as ICE prepares for what could be its largest operational expansion to number of enforcement officers has remained flat for years, and the agency continues to face shortages in detention space and deportation support its goals, the administration is seeking major new funding from Congress. The proposal calls for enough resources to remove up to 1 million undocumented immigrants annually, increase detention capacity to 100,000 beds, and add 10,000 new ICE officers and the agency prepares for the most aggressive immigration enforcement campaign of the Trump presidency, ICE officials argue the internal restructuring will enhance its readiness and deliver on the administration's hardline immigration promises.(With inputs from Associated Press)Trending Reel
Time of India
4 days ago
- Politics
- Time of India
A house in Patna & web of immigrants buying fake IDs
Lucknow / Patna: The arrest of Afghan national Jandullah Dad Mohammad, 29, from Lucknow airport on May 22 has led the Bureau of Immigration sleuths to a house in Patna, the address of which was registered against several duplicate IDs. Intel agencies are working to confirm if Jandullah's chance arrest has helped them step on a major racket where fake IDs and forged documents, such as ration cards and voter IDs, were being made for illegal immigrants or even wanted criminals. Just five-minute walk from Patna Junction, Wakil Anwer House tucked in the congested lane off Jamal Road is home to about two dozen rooms. To the Election Commission of India (ECI) and intelligence agencies, the house is a curious anomaly—a hub of questionable identities, with electoral rolls showing eerie duplication of names, ages, and fathers' identities. ECI's consolidated electoral list, published on Jan 7, 2025, under a special summary revision, revealed the building has 12 male occupants, all in their 20s and 30s except one, with no women registered. Alarmingly, at least four of them shared identical details: Same age, same father's name (Kabir), and multiple Electoral Photo Identity Cards (EPICs). Electoral registration officer (ERO) Raghvendra Pratap Singh told TOI, "We were told by the occupants of the house that Jandullah had come to Patna some five years ago. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like 나이 들수록 안 빠지는 복부 내장지방 뱃살 쫙 빠지는 "이것" 신현재 중년 복부비만 개선 더 알아보기 Undo His supposed brother Mansur left for Dubai six months ago, and there's no information about their father, Kabir." The ERO has ordered cancellation of Mansur's and Mohammad Sher Khan's duplicate EPICs, noting, "One individual cannot have two EPICs." The remaining occupants claim their ancestors have lived in India for decades, working as daily wagers selling dry fruits, carpets, sarees, bangles, or shawls. Singh has demanded their documents to ascertain their nationality. Syed Akbar Ahmad, one of the property's owners, told TOI about its long-standing Afghan connection. "Jandullah's father came from Afghanistan many years ago. Five years ago, the son came, but I don't have any idea about their whereabouts," he said. "It never occurred to me that I should ask for rent agreement or their police verification as they had been living here for several years," Ahmad said. He claimed Afghan tenants have resided on his property for over 70 years, with some families dating back to their grandfathers' time. "The tenants who started living on my property several decades ago have never left or been replaced," he added. Shayab Khan, a tenant in his early 50s, said, "My grandfather migrated to Patna 70-80 years ago. I have all identity proofs as a resident of India, including Aadhaar card, voter card, driving licence, and other documents. I have voted in both assembly and parliamentary elections at least 15 times." Khan's claim aligns with the historical migration of Pashtuns from Afghanistan to India, particularly before 1947, when many settled in cities like Patna to engage in trade. But things seem to have changed. Jandullah's case points to a sophisticated document racket likely operating from Patna. After entering India on a six-day medical visa in Dec 2019, he vanished from Delhi's radar. By 2020, he had acquired a full suite of fake Indian IDs, passing himself off as Rehan from Kotwali Patna.
