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Yahoo
20-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Trump blasts Biden, aides for use of autopen
President Trump on Tuesday blasted former President Biden, vowing to look into the use of the autopen during his presidency days after his predecessor announced he was diagnosed with prostate cancer. 'Biden — look, It's a very sad thing what happened, but we're going to start looking into this whole thing with who signed this legislation. Who signed legislation opening our border? I don't think he knew. I said, 'There's nobody that can want an open border. Nobody,'' Trump told reporters when he arrived to the Capitol to help break the GOP impasse on the reconciliation bill. 'And now I find out, that it wasn't him. He autopenned it.' 'Who was operating the autopen? This is a very serious thing,' he continued. 'We had a president that didn't sign anything. He autopenned almost anything. He opened the borders of the United States of America.' The president previously questioned if Biden's last-minute pardons in January are 'void' because they were signed with an autopen. He doubled down on that argument over the weekend also, after audio from the former president's interview with a special counsel was unveiled. Trump did not specify what legislation, order or action on immigration he was referring to Tuesday that may have been signed with an autopen. Biden in 2021 ended 'metering' of foreign nationals at the U.S.-Mexico border, which put an end to a Trump-era border management policy that limited the number of people processed at ports of entry. In 2023, Trump-era Title 42 expired, marking the end of a policy that allowed for the U.S. to turn away migrants almost immediately. The former president also signed an executive order last June that aimed to turn away migrants seeking asylum who cross the southern border illegally at times when there is a high volume of daily encounters. Biden had lobbied for a bipartisan legislation in the Senate that would have provided funding for additional Border Patrol agents and investments in technology to catch fentanyl and target drug traffickers, among other provisions, but Republicans blocked passage of that bill twice. Trump had urged Republicans to oppose the legislation, suggesting it could give Biden an election year win. Trump continued to question if an autopen was involved in policies on immigration, suggesting that aides who were more aligned with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) than Biden were in control. 'No sane person would sign it. You know who signed it? Radical-left lunatics that were running our country, and the autopen signed it, and they didn't want him and they were disappointed in getting him because they wanted Bernie Sanders,' Trump said. 'And then after about two weeks, they said, 'Wait a minute, this is a gift. He'll do anything. We're going to use the autopen.' [And] they used the autopen on everything. He didn't approve this,' he added. The president on Monday also questioned why Biden's prostate cancer was not caught sooner. 'So look, it's a very, very sad situation, and I feel very badly about it. And I think people should try and find out what happened,' Trump said. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
The Hill
20-05-2025
- Politics
- The Hill
Trump blasts Biden, aides for use of auto-pen
President Trump on Tuesday blasted former President Biden, vowing to look into the use of the autopen during his presidency days after his predecessor was diagnosed with prostate cancer. 'Biden, look, It's a very sad thing what happened but we're going to start looking into this whole thing with who signed this legislation. Who signed legislation opening our border? I don't think he knew. I said, there's nobody that can want an open border. Nobody,' Trump told reporters when he arrived to the Capitol to help break the GOP impasse on the reconciliation bill. 'And now I find out, that it wasn't him. He auto-penned it.' 'Who was operating the auto-pen. This is a very serious thing,' he continued. 'We had a president that didn't sign anything. He auto-penned almost anything. He opened the borders of the United States of America.' The president previously questioned if Biden's last-minute pardons in January are 'void' because they were signed with an autopen. He doubled down on that argument over the weekend also, after audio from the former president's interview with a special counsel was unveiled. Trump on Tuesday did not specify what legislation, order or action on immigration he was referring to that may have been signed with an autopen. Biden in 2021 ended 'metering' of foreign nationals at the U.S.-Mexico border, which put an end to a Trump-era border management policy that limited the number of people processed at ports of entry. In 2023, Trump-era Title 42 expired, marking the end of a policy that allowed for the U.S. to turn away migrants almost immediately. The former president also signed an executive order last June that aimed to turn away migrants seeking asylum who cross the southern border illegally at times when there is a high volume of daily encounters. Biden had lobbied for a bipartisan legislation in the Senate that would have provided funding for additional Border Patrol agents and investments in technology to catch fentanyl and target drug traffickers, among other provisions, but Republicans blocked passage of that bill twice. Trump had urged Republicans to oppose the legislation, suggesting it could give Biden an election year win. Trump continued to question if an autopen was involved in policies on immigration, suggesting that aides who were more aligned with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) than Biden were in control. 'No sane person would sign it. You know who signed it, radical left lunatics that were running our country and the auto-pen signed it and they didn't want him and they were disappointed in getting him because they wanted Bernie Sanders,' Trump said. 'And then after about two weeks, they said 'wait a minute, this is a gift. He'll do anything. We're going to use the auto-pen.' [And] they used the auto-pen on everything. He didn't approve this,' he added. The president on Monday also questioned why Biden's prostate cancer diagnosis was not caught sooner. 'So look, it's a very, very sad situation, and I feel very badly about it. And I think people should try and find out what happened,' Trump said.
Yahoo
26-04-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
Frustrated Man Drops Six Figures On Incomplete 1967 Ford F100 Restoration
Read the full story on The Auto Wire It's a tale we see told over and over all the time: someone pays for a professional vehicle restoration, but years and tens of thousands of dollars later it's still not done. A father in Oklahoma turned to his local investigative reporter after he spent over $100,000 to restore a classic 1967 Ford F100 for his son's birthday, yet after two years it's still not father wanted to give his then 14-year-old son what he always wanted for this birthday when he turns 16: a classic Ford pickup. They found the right truck, bought it, then took it to a local shop that does restorations. While the shop set out expectations on the timetable for completion, the father figured it would take a little longer. Instead, it's taken a ridiculous amount of time and the Ford still isn't even running. Talking with KFOR, the man said he was told all kinds of excuses about why the 1967 Ford F100 wasn't finished. One was the shop had trouble sourcing parts, which seems ridiculous since it's not exactly a rare vehicle. With the truck in the shop's possession, the father kept getting invoices for work supposedly done. That was adding up and when the guy didn't want to keep paying, he says the shop owner threatened to have the truck Title 42'd, allowing the shop to take legal ownership of the vehicle. In other words, they guy felt he was stuck and being coerced into spending a ton of money for nothing. That would be enough to make our blood boil, but we see this exact scenario play out all the time, all over the country, and it's infuriating. Sadly, shops get away with this kind of behavior because customers feel intimidated and helpless. Most don't know what kind of recourse they have at their disposal. We recommend talking to a local attorney if you're facing this kind of situation. This guy turned to an investigative reporter who fortunately took up his cause. After all, what kind of work on a '67 Ford F100 costs $115,000? It's not like they did a restomod with a Hellcat engine, new chassis, performance suspension, etc. When the investigative reporter called the shop owner and asked about the long timeframe and astronomical cost, the owner tried to play it all off as standard for the industry. Then he played victim, saying the father was trying to turn things around on a minority female-owned shop (the guy's wife, who is a Colombian immigrant, apparently owns the shop). Be careful where you get restoration work done and have everything spelled out in writing before you hand over the keys. Also, if a shop starts doing things you don't like, rather than ride it out you might want to consider taking your vehicle back, then find someone else. Image via KFOR/YouTube Join our Newsletter, subscribe to our YouTube page, and follow us on Facebook.
Yahoo
21-04-2025
- Yahoo
Arizona AG queries ICE about arrest of New Mexico man
Migrants wait throughout the night on May 10, 2023, in a dust storm at Gate 42, on land between the Rio Grande and the border wall, hoping they will be processed by immigration authorities before the expiration of Title 42. (Photo by Corrie Boudreaux for Source NM) Arizona's top state prosecutor is seeking more information about immigration officials' arrest of a U.S. citizen from New Mexico earlier this month. A federal prosecutor with the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Arizona on April 9 filed a criminal complaint against 19-year-old Jose Hermosillo, of Albuquerque. The complaint alleges that on April 8, immigration agents found Hermosillo 'without proper immigration documents' near Nogales, Arizona. Arizona Public Media reports that Hermosillo and his girlfriend were visiting from Albuquerque to see family in Tucson, Arizona. The radio station reports that Hermosillo said he has never been to Nogales and that he was held in the Florence Correctional Center for 10 days. A few days after the U.S. Marshals took Hermosillo to Florence, his family presented documents showing his U.S. citizenship, according to a statement provided to Source on Monday in response to an emailed inquiry to its Office of Public Affairs email address. The statement is attributable to a 'senior U.S. Department of Homeland Security official,' the unsigned email said. On Monday morning, Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes posted on X that her office had reached out to ICE for more information about Hermosillo's arrest, 'for answers on how this was allowed to happen to an American citizen.' 'It is wholly unacceptable to wrongfully detain U.S. citizens,' she wrote. A spokesperson for Mayes' office told Source NM in an email that the request was made over the phone but declined to comment further. The complaint, signed by a U.S. Border Patrol agent and a prosecutor, alleges that Hermosillo 'admitted to illegally entering the United States from Mexico' on April 7. It also wrongfully states that he is a 'citizen of Mexico.' According to the DHS official, Hermosillo 'said he wanted to turn himself in and completed a sworn statement identifying as a Mexican citizen who had entered unlawfully.' 'This arrest was the direct result of Hermosillo's own actions and statements,' the DHS official said. A federal judge dismissed the case on April 17, court records show. The DHS official said Hermosillo was then released to his family. The judge's dismissal order states that the government moved to dismiss the case. In an email on Monday, a spokesperson for the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Arizona declined to answer Source NM's questions about the case, and wrote, 'The U.S. Attorney's Office does not have anything to add beyond what is found in the public record.' The case against Hermosillo is absent from a news release the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Arizona published three days after his arrest, in which the agency touted 'immigration-related criminal charges' it had filed in the previous week. Requests for comment from ICE and Hermosillo's attorney were not returned on Monday. John Mitchell, immigrants' rights attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona, told Source NM that we don't have a full account of what transpired in Hermosillo's case but people who suffered a wrongful arrest or detention can generally seek relief by filing a complaint under the Federal Tort Claims Act, detailing any harm they suffered at the hands of the federal government's agents. Someone who brings a claim would have to show that their arrest lacked probable cause and that the arrest caused a tangible injury, Mitchell said. People can also bring suits against the government for violations of their constitutional rights under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, commonly known as Section 1983 claims, Mitchell said. These claims typically involve violations such as wrongful arrest or excessive force, and can result in monetary or injunctive relief against the government, he said. 'In both types of cases, a central and challenging issue is to connect the harm suffered to the relief sought (e.g. money),' Mitchell said. 'Obviously, the duration of wrongful detention is important. Other details matter; what did officers say to the plaintiff or to each other? Any indications of animas or hostility? These can all factor in.' The Florence Correctional Center where Hermosillo was detained is a prison complex that CoreCivic privately owns and operates, Mitchell said. The prison holds, among others, immigrants in removal proceedings, he said. In 2022, a Mexican national named Benjamin Gonzalez-Soto died while in ICE custody at FCC, Mitchell noted. This story was updated following publication to include comment from the ACLU of Arizona. SUBSCRIBE: GET THE MORNING HEADLINES DELIVERED TO YOUR INBOX
New York Times
07-04-2025
- Politics
- New York Times
This Isn't Immigration Enforcement. It's Political Theater.
Federal law enforcement under President Trump is engaged in dangerous political theater, with high-profile arrests of non-citizen students, workers and parents set up to score political points more than to protect national security. It is not impossible for the United States to have a humane immigration system focused on public safety that provides for the growth of the nation and local communities. I've seen those possibilities through my work in military intelligence, counterterrorism, homeland defense and cyberoperations and as the chief of staff at U.S. Immigration Customs and Enforcement during the Biden administration. Border security and interior immigration are linked but separate challenges. In towns within the United States, there is an effective way to do interior immigration enforcement and protect our national security without undue emphasis on undocumented immigrants who do not have criminal convictions. Right now, the government is burning thousands of federal law enforcement hours on operations that privilege political objectives over public safety, attacking constitutional protections like due process and free speech as they do. If this administration doesn't correct course, it will lock the country into a future of weaker enforcement, lowered trust in public safety officials and greater risk to Americans' collective safety. This is not the first administration to fail at this task. President Barack Obama leaned on broken enforcement policies, using deportation as a deterrent while unsuccessfully trying to reform the broader immigration enterprise. President Trump's first administration implemented zero-tolerance policies that separated families, sought to end protections for children who arrived in this country as minors, prioritized draconian deterrence measures and relied on emergency public health restrictions, like Title 42. The Biden White House then continued to use emergency public health restrictions as a crutch to address a problem that needed a much more expansive solution. As each successive administration relied more on executive power to manage the system, Congress did not pass structured, long-term immigration reform. But this moment is worse. The new Trump White House is finding ever more cruel, even brutal, methods to publicly target some of the most vulnerable people in this country. While Americans are distracted by sensational videos of anti-migrant enforcement actions from the Trump administration on social media, the real threats grow. The homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem, recently announced that federal agents arrested roughly 20,000 undocumented people across the country in February. That doesn't mean 20,000 national security threats were removed from the United States. On average, the United States can deport only about 7,000 to 9,000 people monthly by plane, and detention centers were at maximum capacity. So what happened to the 13,000 other migrants who were arrested? The only rational law enforcement step would be to process and then release them. That means law enforcement's time, energy and focus were wasted on a political stunt. And real people suffered. Every ICE agent dispatched to detain a noncriminal farmworker, construction laborer or college student — many, if not most, of whom have legal standing to work and study in our communities — is an ICE agent not investigating fentanyl networks, cyberattacks, human trafficking or transnational gangs. Those are the actual bad actors who threaten American safety and sovereignty. Last month, the Department of Homeland Security removed a Maryland father to El Salvador that it had no ground to deport, and despite well-documented threats against his life from local gangs. ICE arrested and continues to hold in detention a Tufts University student with no criminal record — another case that lacks any public safety rationale. These cases send a message that law enforcement is a prop, not a protector. The machinery of federal law enforcement is powerful. That's what makes it so dangerous when misused by political opportunists. ICE and U.S. Customs and Border Protection have greater authority than most Americans realize. They can detain people without a warrant, conduct searches without probable cause and deport people without criminal charges. These powers demand discipline, not spectacle. They exist to respond urgently to serious threats, prevent cross-border crime and detain individuals who pose risks when time or circumstances don't allow for traditional criminal justice processes. They do not exist to target migrant grandmothers from Guatemala, unaccompanied children fleeing gang violence, Haitian families seeking asylum from political collapse, Palestinian and Indian students who attended U.S. universities under lawful visas, or Mexican and Salvadoran families working and raising U.S. citizen children while trapped in immigration backlogs. Over the past two decades, the United States has invested heavily in a sophisticated vetting infrastructure. It can flag threats based on identities, travel histories and behavioral patterns. It's built to catch real bad actors before they can do harm. But instead of using its tools to protect children from abuse or disrupt transnational money laundering operations, they are being used to track down individuals with no criminal convictions, people who are providing our nation the benefits of their hope and hard work. When ICE and C.B.P. are used in this manner, their mission is compromised. Career agents are sidelined. Morale drops. Recruitment suffers. When communities see federal law enforcement used to punish rather than to protect, they stop cooperating. Law enforcement loses tips, and witnesses. Local partners hesitate to share information. That's how dangerous actors slip through. The real bad actors are getting smarter and faster. Mexican cartels use tunnels and ultralight aircraft to move narcotics. Cybercriminals attack hospitals and rural infrastructure. International smuggling operations launder profits through cryptocurrency. That means the best solution for public safety is not mass deportations — it's giving undocumented immigrants who have been in the United States for a long time the opportunity to come forward, pay a fine and gain legal status. This country needs law enforcement that goes after genuine threats, not just easy targets, and immigration enforcement that reflects who we are: a nation built by immigrants and secured by law. Law enforcement agents know how to do it. They built the tools. But if the current administration keeps misusing them, the people who intend to harm us will succeed.
