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Fox News
12-05-2025
- Politics
- Fox News
House staffer victim of armed carjacking in popular Washington neighborhood
A senior staffer for California Rep. Sara Jacobs' office was the victim of an armed carjacking in a popular Washington, D.C., neighborhood on Friday afternoon, according to a Metropolitan Police Department report. Metro Police announced on Sunday two arrests in the armed carjacking that occurred on Friday afternoon in a Harris Teeter parking lot in Washington's Navy Yard neighborhood. In addition to the victim's personal items, the senior staffer's government-issued iPhone, MacBook, ID and Capitol parking pass were identified as missing in the police report obtained by Fox News Digital. Jacobs' office did not provide comment but confirmed the devices were immediately wiped. On Friday, around 12:08 p.m., the suspects approached the victim as they exited their car, demanding the victim's car keys, according to Metro Police. When the staffer refused, one of the suspects brandished a handgun and obtained the keys before the suspects fled the scene in the victim's vehicle, police said. Officers recovered the victim's car and a firearm on Saturday, and then arrested two suspects. According to police, a 15-year-old juvenile male of Washington was charged with armed carjacking, and a 14-year-old juvenile male of Maryland was charged with carrying a pistol without a license and unauthorized use of a vehicle. As of Sunday, police are still searching for two outstanding suspects whose photos were captured during the incident by surveillance cameras. Navy Yard is a popular Washington neighborhood located south of the U.S. Capitol and home to the Washington Nationals baseball stadium. While the neighborhood has transformed over the past decade into an urban hub for congressional staffers and young professionals, it has also been the subject of criticism for its crime. Department of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said he was walking to the Navy Yard Metro Station for a transit safety event last month when he learned a Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) police officer had just been stabbed in the face. The WMATA confirmed the incident to Fox News Digital and said the suspect stabbed the officer "with a sharp metal object" after they did not pay their fare at the station. President Donald Trump vowed to clean up Washington while speaking at his "Make America Great Again" rallies on the 2024 campaign trail. Since returning to office this January, Trump has committed to creating a "crime-free capital." "We're cleaning up our city. We're cleaning up this great capital," the president said. "And we're not going to have crime, and we're not going to stand for crime," Trump said at the Department of Justice earlier this year. The Jacobs staffer did not respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment.
Yahoo
23-04-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Hundreds attend town hall hosted by Congresswoman Sara Jacobs
EL CAJON, Calif. (FOX 5/KUSI) — Congresswoman Sara Jacobs held a town hall in El Cajon Tuesday evening, giving an update on her work in Washington D.C. and also taking questions straight from constituents. Jacobs welcomed a room full of more than 300 constituents at Grossmont College. Many shared concern about the climate in the country under the current administration. 'We did Stonewall, we did women's rights, we did abortion. We've already gone through this. Why are we here again? So I want to hear what's going on at their level,' said Randye, who declined to give their last name. It wasn't just supporters of Jacobs, people of all political affiliations were eager to hear what she had to say. 'I'm an independent voter. I've never been to any protest, any political rally, nothing ever. I am worried that we are losing democracy and losing the rule of law,' said Bonnie, who also declined to give their last name. Jacobs represents California District 51, including San Diego, El Cajon, La Mesa and Lemon Grove. For those attending, government spending, Medicaid cuts and social issues were top of mind. 'I would like her to address what's the Democratic party is going to do about trying to get the budget under control and start taxing the super rich,' said Donald Chafetz. Gwyn Chafetz said, 'I'm very concerned about my parents. They're both on Medicare and social security and if those two are cut, that's a real challenge for our family.' Jacobs shared she voted no on the recent budget resolution and she will keep fighting to protect the programs the community relies on. Not everyone in the room necessarily voted for the Democratic congresswoman, but they came with the common goal of getting questions answered. 'Don't you want DOGE to find waste fraud and abuse? To me, that's something we should all be able to agree on. We all pay taxes. We don't want our money wasted,' Alison Smith said. Jacobs has proposed the 'Dilute DOGE Act,' saying the administration needs to come to Congress so lawmakers can 'do our job, go line by line through the budget, and actually make it more efficient.' Jacobs was at the border Tuesday morning for Lee Zeldin's visit and briefly touched on making sure the funds raised go toward long-term solutions. While immigration wasn't the focus of the town hall, Jacobs mentioned she is concerned about the lack of due process with those being sent to El Salvador. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
New York Times
10-03-2025
- Politics
- New York Times
What We Know About the Month-Old Migrant Mission at Guantánamo Bay
In little over a month, the Trump administration has moved fewer than 300 men from an immigration holding site in Texas to the U.S. military base at Guantánamo Bay. As of this past weekend, 40 migrants were at the base in Cuba. In some instances they have spent just days there, before being sent back to the United States without explanation. On Jan. 29, President Trump said the base would receive as many as 30,000 migrants awaiting deportation. The Defense and Homeland Security Departments began putting up tents for the expected arrivals, but the encampments are not yet open. Here are some of the things we have learned about the migrant mission so far. Is Guantánamo ready for 30,000 migrants? For now, the operation can hold just 225 immigration detainees at a time, according to a briefing provided to members of Congress who visited the base on Friday. A small dormitory-style building near the airport can house 50 men. The remainder could be held in a Pentagon prison facility, called Camp 6, that until January held people suspected of being members of Al Qaeda who were arrested during the war against terrorism. But construction on a vast tent city was halted weeks ago. U.S. forces and contractors installed about 195 tents that each has space for 10 to 12 cots, but nobody is occupying them. 'It seems clear there's no plan to get to 30,000 that's workable in any way,' said Representative Sara Jacobs, Democrat of California, who toured the facilities on Friday as part of a bipartisan delegation from the House Armed Services Committee. The tents currently do not meet basic Homeland Security health and safety needs for two reasons: They lack air conditioning, and mold has appeared inside some of them. More security measures are also needed in the tent area before it is ready to house individuals whom the Trump administration describes as 'criminal aliens.' A contractor has been found to upgrade the tents but no work has started, Ms. Jacobs said the delegation was told. What do we know about the migrants? At least 20 aircraft brought about 270 migrants to the base from an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in El Paso between Feb. 4 and March 7. The first 178 were Venezuelans. All but one of them were cleared out on Feb. 20, flown to Honduras and then deported home. Another 58 were transferred back to the United States — 10 to Texas and the rest to an ICE site in Louisiana. Members of Congress were told that all of those held there this past weekend had final deportation orders and were from 20 different countries, including Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guinea, Venezuela and Vietnam. Little is known about why these men in particular were chosen from the more than 40,000 immigration detainees who were in Homeland Security custody throughout the United States last week. How big and expensive is the operation? More than 1,000 security forces and civilians combined are assigned to the operation at Guantánamo Bay, including soldiers, sailors and Marines, ICE agents, contractors and members of the Coast Guard, the military has said. Some of the troops are military police who had been guarding U.S. service members at a brig-like facility at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington State. Others are members of the 36th Medical Group out of Fort Bragg, N.C. The operation has so far cost $16 million, Ms. Jacobs said the delegation was told. It was not clear whether that figure included charter and military flights, she said. Why have so few migrants been held there? The administration may be recognizing that the base is less than an ideal way station. The tent city concept that the military was implementing for Mr. Trump's order was designed to shelter people from Caribbean nations who had fled political unrest or a natural disaster, as a humanitarian relief project. The administration says the men it is deporting are 'criminal aliens' who need stricter security measures. On March 2, 48 of the migrants who were sent there from Texas were suddenly transferred to ICE facilities near Alexandria, La., a major deportation hub. It is not known whether they remain in ICE custody or were subsequently deported. What don't we know about the operation? Many aspects of the operation have not been made public. For example, ICE sent nine migrants back to El Paso on Feb. 26, a day after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was at Guantánamo and observed nine migrants being led off a C-130 transport from El Paso during his visit. On March 4, ICE said it could not comment on that question 'due to pending civil litigation.' Some immigration advocates and civil liberties groups have asked a federal judge to order the administration to stop its 'cruel, unnecessary and illegal transfers to and detention at Guantánamo.' A court hearing is scheduled for Friday. Also unknown are the costs of using chartered aircraft to shuttle migrants to and from Guantánamo Bay. ICE has reported the figure at '$6,929 to $26,795 per flight hour, depending on aircraft requirements' for a 'special high-risk charter,' and $8,577 per flight hour for a daily scheduled charter. ICE spokesmen have said most of the migrants sent to Guantánamo are 'high-threat' detainees. The government has used the Global X charter firm to shuttle people between Texas, Cuba and Louisiana. But it is not known when the hourly fee begins — after it arrives at a U.S. base to pick up, or when it leaves a hub in Miami to fly to the base. In contrast, the Pentagon estimates the cost of operating a C-17 cargo plane, which has been used twice to transfer migrants to Guantánamo, at about $28,000 an hour and the slower C-130 J, which was used for more than a dozen flights, at $20,000 an hour. Is there a fear factor? At the pace of detentions so far, Ms. Jacobs said, there has been no need to house the detainees at Guantánamo Bay. 'It's entirely for the optics,' she said, to look tough and instill fear to deter people who are considering entering the United States illegally. When Mr. Hegseth visited the base, he said: 'I think the message is clear: If you break the law, if you are a criminal, you could find your way at Guantánamo Bay. You don't want to be at Guantánamo Bay, which is where we housed Al Qaeda after 9/11.'
Yahoo
02-03-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
What Trump's diplomacy disaster with Zelenskyy means for America
America's European allies are moving forward on a ceasefire plan for Ukraine and it's happening without the United States. Rep. Sara Jacobs joins The Weekend to discuss the fallout from President Trump's disastrous meeting with Ukraine's President.
