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Scottish Sun
an hour ago
- General
- Scottish Sun
Six dead in San Diego plane crash as Cessna slams into ocean after pilot made haunting final call to air traffic control
Crews struggled to find the wreckage after the plane went down CRASH HORROR Six dead in San Diego plane crash as Cessna slams into ocean after pilot made haunting final call to air traffic control Click to share on X/Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) SIX people have died after a plane slammed into the ocean off the coast of San Diego. The aircraft went down in 200 feet of water after taking off on Sunday afternoon. 1 Six people have died after a plane slammed into the ocean in San Diego The horror crash occurred near Point Loma, a peninsula in San Diego that juts into the Pacific. Officials with the Federal Aviation Administration confirmed the plane was a twin-engine Cessna 414 carrying six people. The FAA said the plane took off from San Diego and was heading back to Phoenix, Arizona. The aircraft had reportedly flown to California just a day earlier. It went down around 12:30 pm on Sunday, according to officials. Search crews discovered a debris field about five miles offshore later that same day but continued to search for survivors. The FAA confirmed on Monday that no one survived the crash. So far, none of the six victims have been publicly identified. The pilot made a haunting final call to air traffic controllers before the crash. He said he was struggling to maintain his heading and climb as the aircraft turned toward the shore twice before going back out to sea. The plane was just 1,000 feet above the water when the controller urged the pilot to climb to 4,000 feet, KTAR reported. The water in that area is roughly 200 feet deep, the Coast Guard said. FAA records list the owner as Optimal Health Systems, a supplement company based in Pima, Arizona. But the company said it sold the plane to private buyers last year. The FAA database could be out of date, the company said in a statement. Doug Grant, the company's founder, said he personally knew several of the passengers on board. 'Our sincerest condolences are offered to those affected by the tragedy,' Grant said. More to follow... For the latest news on this story, keep checking back at The U.S. Sun, your go-to destination for the best celebrity news, sports news, real-life stories, jaw-dropping pictures, and must-see videos. Like us on Facebook at TheSunUS and follow us on X at @TheUSSun
Axios
07-05-2025
- Politics
- Axios
Trump endorses both Biggs and Robson for Arizona governor
🗳 President Trump said both Andy Biggs and Karrin Taylor Robson have his "complete and total endorsement" in Arizona's GOP primary for governor. (KTAR) Trump publicly announced his support for Robson in December, before Biggs launched his campaign. 👀 Jose Hermosillo, a 19-year-old U.S. citizen who was visiting Tucson from Albuquerque, was arrested by immigration agents and detained for 10 days after being accused of entering the country illegally. (Arizona Public Media) 🇸🇻 U.S. Rep. Yassamin Ansari is one of four House Democrats who traveled to El Salvador on Sunday on behalf of the mistakenly deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia. (Axios)
Yahoo
19-03-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Arizona GOP congressman talks about need for fiscal reform during conservative forum
The Brief Rep. David Schweikert (R-AZ 1) took part in a forum hosted by a conservative group on March 18. The congressman talked about the need to fix the country's fiscal problems " You're going to have to do dozens and dozens and dozens of things," Rep. Schweikert said. PHOENIX - One day after Arizona Senators Mark Kelly and Ruben Gallego held a town hall to warn about potential cuts to Medicaid and Medicare, an Arizona Republican took part in a forum to push for fiscal responsibility in Washington. What we know During the forum, Rep. David Schweikert said issues like Medicaid are complex problems that require complex solutions. The congressman said the single greatest threat to national security is the national debt, and Rep. Schweikert said according to his math, Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare are swallowing us up. Local perspective The forum was hosted by a group named Conservative Agenda for Arizona, and among those in attendance were Matt Salmon, Jonathan Lines, former Arizona State Treasurer Eileen Klein, and moderator Mike Broomhead with news radio station KTAR. For around an hour, the group shared ideas about how to tackle Medicare and Social Security reform, from privatization to creating incentives for healthier living, and utilizing technology like AI to cut down on the workforce and create efficiency. However, Rep. Schweikert said the country is facing tens of trillions of dollars of debt over the next decade, much of which is generated by interest on borrowed money alone. The congressman said it's fixable, but the scale of it makes it extremely difficult. "The solution is actually complex. You're going to have to do dozens and dozens and dozens of things, but you're going to have to stop being afraid of technology," said Rep. Schweikert. "You're going to have to start talking about everything from a talent-based immigration system, because of what's happening with the demographics in the country, and we're going to need Republicans and Democrats to start telling the voters the truth of just how much financial trouble we're in." Dig deeper Fiscal responsibility is a platform for the Republican Party, which has a majority in both the U.S. House and Senate. President Donald Trump is also a Republican. We asked Rep. Schweikert if he is optimistic that Washington will start to tackle the national debt, and he said under the 2nd Trump Administration, at least the conversation can begin. Going beyond that, however, is going to require politicians to focus on winning the future, not just scoring political points today.
Yahoo
20-02-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Arizona lawmakers ready ‘bounty' bill that would pay police agencies $2,500 for every migrant deported
An Arizona lawmaker has proposed a bill that would give state and local police agencies a $2,500 'bounty' for each deportation of an unauthorized migrant they help secure. The proposal, Senate Bill 1111, would tax international remittance payments made from inside the state and use this money to fund the bounty program. 'What we don't want are criminal illegal aliens on our streets. So in line with the wildly popular mass deportation that President Trump is currently engaging in, we are going to ensure that our law enforcement is doing its job to support that effort and make sure our streets are safe,' the bill's Republican sponsor, Senator Jake Hoffman, told KPHO. Migrant advocates have warned that the proposal could cause even lawful migrants to fear engaging with police, and Arizona's Democratic governor Katie Hobbs has said she will not sign the bill. "There's no way in Hell the Governor signs a tax hike into law, especially one that puts a bounty on the heads of innocent people who have worked hard, paid taxes and lived in their communities for decades," a spokesperson for Hobbs told Arizona Republic. "Arizonans want border security, they don't want to turn hard working law enforcement officers into bounty hunters." Arizona, a border state with purple politics, has long grappled with whether and to what extent local law enforcement should assist in immigration enforcement, an area of longstanding federal power. In November, Arizona voters approved Proposition 314, which would make it a state crime in addition to a federal civil violation to cross the border without authorization, as well as empowering state judges to order deportations. The measure is on hold pending an appeals court ruling. Some Arizona sheriffs have previously expressed concerns over becoming a part of the federal immigration enforcement apparatus, arguing it would tax limited resources and fall outside their powers. 'There's just nowhere in my duties or responsibilities as the sheriff here that I should be involved or engaged' in such deportations operations, Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos recently told KTAR. 'That's not what we're here to do.' 'We're not doing their job.' State lawmakers have proposed a variety of new bills on immigration since Trump took office, including one that would require all state and local police agencies to sign cooperation agreements with the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, and another that would bar such cooperation. Four Arizona law enforcement agencies — Yavapai, Pinal and La Paz counties, and the city of Mesa — already have cooperation agreements, known 287(g) deals. Backers argue they help federal officials enforcement immigration violations more effectively by having local police help identify and detain offenders, while critics argue they encourage unlawful detention and often take place in departments with documented histories of racial profiling. These efforts to assist Trump are nothing new. Prior to Trump taking office again, Arizona's then-Governor Doug Ducey tried to build a state border wall with shipping containers, though a federal lawsuit then forced him to take those down in 2022. As The Independent has reported, the state remains the site of numerous environmentally devastating, largely ineffective federal border wall construction projects that took place throughout the Biden and Trump administrations. Arizona also has a long history of controversial immigration enforcement by local police. The sheriff's office in Maricopa County, home to Phoenix, has been under a federally appointed monitor since 2013, stemming from a finding in a class action lawsuit that the department engaged in racial profiling against Latinos as part of then-Sheriff Joe Arpaio's police-driven immigration crackdown. Over a decade later, federal monitors say the department still is falling short on eliminating bias from its traffic stops and clearing a backlog of internal investigations. The Trump administration will need the cooperation of local police to fulfill its promises of a nationwide deportation operation removing millions of people from the country, and the president has long sought to valorize aggressive local law enforcement involvement in immigration. Trump's first pardon, in 2017, was of Arpaio, who was serving a 6-month sentence for disobeying a federal court order to stop racial profiling. The new administration has said it will attempt to block federal funding to so-called sanctuary cities, jurisdictions that limit cooperation with federal immigration operations. Trump border czar Tom Homan has also threatened local leaders with prosecution if they are deemed to have impeded immigration operations.
The Independent
20-02-2025
- Politics
- The Independent
Arizona lawmakers ready ‘bounty' bill that would pay police agencies $2,500 for every migrant deported
An Arizona lawmaker has proposed a bill that would give state and local police agencies a $2,500 'bounty' for each deportation of an unauthorized migrant they help secure. The proposal, Senate Bill 1111, would tax international remittance payments made from inside the state and use this money to fund the bounty program. 'What we don't want are criminal illegal aliens on our streets. So in line with the wildly popular mass deportation that President Trump is currently engaging in, we are going to ensure that our law enforcement is doing its job to support that effort and make sure our streets are safe,' the bill's Republican sponsor, Senator Jake Hoffman, told KPHO. Migrant advocates have warned that the proposal could cause even lawful migrants to fear engaging with police, and Arizona's Democratic governor Katie Hobbs has said she will not sign the bill. "There's no way in Hell the Governor signs a tax hike into law, especially one that puts a bounty on the heads of innocent people who have worked hard, paid taxes and lived in their communities for decades," a spokesperson for Hobbs told Arizona Republic. "Arizonans want border security, they don't want to turn hard working law enforcement officers into bounty hunters." Arizona, a border state with purple politics, has long grappled with whether and to what extent local law enforcement should assist in immigration enforcement, an area of longstanding federal power. In November, Arizona voters approved Proposition 314, which would make it a state crime in addition to a federal civil violation to cross the border without authorization, as well as empowering state judges to order deportations. The measure is on hold pending an appeals court ruling. Some Arizona sheriffs have previously expressed concerns over becoming a part of the federal immigration enforcement apparatus, arguing it would tax limited resources and fall outside their powers. 'There's just nowhere in my duties or responsibilities as the sheriff here that I should be involved or engaged' in such deportations operations, Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos recently told KTAR. 'That's not what we're here to do.' 'We're not doing their job.' State lawmakers have proposed a variety of new bills on immigration since Trump took office, including one that would require all state and local police agencies to sign cooperation agreements with the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, and another that would bar such cooperation. Four Arizona law enforcement agencies — Yavapai, Pinal and La Paz counties, and the city of Mesa — already have cooperation agreements, known 287(g) deals. Backers argue they help federal officials enforcement immigration violations more effectively by having local police help identify and detain offenders, while critics argue they encourage unlawful detention and often take place in departments with documented histories of racial profiling. These efforts to assist Trump are nothing new. Prior to Trump taking office again, Arizona's then-Governor Doug Ducey tried to build a state border wall with shipping containers, though a federal lawsuit then forced him to take those down in 2022. As The Independent has reported, the state remains the site of numerous environmentally devastating, largely ineffective federal border wall construction projects that took place throughout the Biden and Trump administrations. Arizona also has a long history of controversial immigration enforcement by local police. The sheriff's office in Maricopa County, home to Phoenix, has been under a federally appointed monitor since 2013, stemming from a finding in a class action lawsuit that the department engaged in racial profiling against Latinos as part of then-Sheriff Joe Arpaio's police-driven immigration crackdown. Over a decade later, federal monitors say the department still is falling short on eliminating bias from its traffic stops and clearing a backlog of internal investigations. The Trump administration will need the cooperation of local police to fulfill its promises of a nationwide deportation operation removing millions of people from the country, and the president has long sought to valorize aggressive local law enforcement involvement in immigration. Trump's first pardon, in 2017, was of Arpaio, who was serving a 6-month sentence for disobeying a federal court order to stop racial profiling. The new administration has said it will attempt to block federal funding to so-called sanctuary cities, jurisdictions that limit cooperation with federal immigration operations. Trump border czar Tom Homan has also threatened local leaders with prosecution if they are deemed to have impeded immigration operations.
