That would be nice if it worked. The congresscritters vote based on lobbyists and campaign contributions. I see more of what happens in Oregon than in DC. In Oregon they consistently vote against the will of the majority, then that same majority keeps electing them. They've got nothing to gain following the will of the people.
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Unfortunately the vehicle, although assembled in the USA, is made from parts that are not 100% USA-sourced........
The new Gestapo but we still have a judiciary:
By HALLIE GOLDEN
Updated 11:58 PM EST, January 15, 2026
A federal judge in Minnesota on Thursday ordered the release of a Liberian man four days after heavily armed immigration agents broke into his home using a battering ram and arrested him.
U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Bryan said in his ruling that the agents violated Garrison Gibson’s Fourth Amendment rights against unlawful search and seizure.
“To arrest him, Respondents forcibly entered Garrison G.’s home without his consent and without a judicial warrant,” he said.
By HALLIE GOLDEN
Updated 11:58 PM EST, January 15, 2026
A federal judge in Minnesota on Thursday ordered the release of a Liberian man four days after heavily armed immigration agents broke into his home using a battering ram and arrested him.
U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Bryan said in his ruling that the agents violated Garrison Gibson’s Fourth Amendment rights against unlawful search and seizure.
“To arrest him, Respondents forcibly entered Garrison G.’s home without his consent and without a judicial warrant,” he said.
There was a Court-Issued order for removal. I want to know just exactly HOW a person with a FINAL DEPORTATION ORDER cannot be arrested wherever and whenever... How can it be that a FINAL DEPORTATION ORDER is not all the authorization needed for ICE to do their damn job?
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Millions of dollars in suitcases fly out of MSP, but why? FLASHBACK 2018
MINNEAPOLIS (KMSP) - For five months, Fox 9 has been investigating what appears to be rampant fraud in a massive state program.
This fraud is suspected of costing Minnesota taxpayers as much as $100 million a year.
The Fox 9 Investigators reporting is based on public records and nearly a dozen government sources who have direct knowledge of what is happening.
These sources have a deep fear, and there is evidence to support their concerns, that some of that public money is ending up in the hands of terrorists.
SUITCASES FILLED WITH MONEY
This story begins at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, where mysterious suitcases filled with cash have become a common carry-on.
On the morning of March 15, Fox 9 chased a tip about a man who was leaving the country. Sources said he took a carry-on bag through security that was packed with $1 million in cash. Travelers can do that, as long as they fill out the proper government forms.
Fox 9 learned that these cloak-and-dagger scenarios now happen almost weekly at MSP. The money is usually headed to the Middle East, Dubai and points beyond. Sources said last year alone, more than $100 million in cash left MSP in carry-on luggage.
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MINNEAPOLIS (KMSP) - For five months, Fox 9 has been investigating what appears to be rampant fraud in a massive state program.
This fraud is suspected of costing Minnesota taxpayers as much as $100 million a year.
The Fox 9 Investigators reporting is based on public records and nearly a dozen government sources who have direct knowledge of what is happening.
These sources have a deep fear, and there is evidence to support their concerns, that some of that public money is ending up in the hands of terrorists.
SUITCASES FILLED WITH MONEY
This story begins at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, where mysterious suitcases filled with cash have become a common carry-on.
On the morning of March 15, Fox 9 chased a tip about a man who was leaving the country. Sources said he took a carry-on bag through security that was packed with $1 million in cash. Travelers can do that, as long as they fill out the proper government forms.
Fox 9 learned that these cloak-and-dagger scenarios now happen almost weekly at MSP. The money is usually headed to the Middle East, Dubai and points beyond. Sources said last year alone, more than $100 million in cash left MSP in carry-on luggage.
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That is what we need more of on this forum. "The rest of the story." Thank you for posting it. The judge is most likely a liberal Democrat.
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Third Circuit Nukes Biden Judge’s Blockade On Deportation Of Pro-Hamas Foreign Activist
The Federalist ^ | January 15, 2026 | Shawn Fleetwood
Posted on 1/16/2026, 7:29:02 AM
In a major win for the Trump administration, a federal appeals court ended a Biden-appointed district judge’s blockade on the deportation of a pro-Hamas foreign activist on Thursday.
In a 2-1 ruling, a panel for the Third Circuit Court of Appeals vacated orders from New Jersey-based District Judge Michael Farbiarz regarding the detainment and attempted deportation of Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil. As law professor Mark Goldfeder previously wrote in these pages, Khalil — a Syrian-born green card holder — was detained by federal authorities last year “on the charge that he ‘led activities aligned to Hamas, a designated terrorist organization,’ and posed a threat to national security and foreign policy.”
Farbiarz’s orders “prevented the government from removing [Khalil] from the country,” mandated “his release from custody,” and “intervened in his immigration-court proceedings,” according to the circuit court.
In its Thursday decision, the Third Circuit panel found that while Farbiarz did have jurisdiction over Khalil’s habeas petition (i.e. a legal challenge to one’s detention) since he was held by authorities in New Jersey (despite being initially detained in New York), the Biden appointee ultimately lacked “subject matter jurisdiction” over the case under existing federal law.
More specifically, the court found that the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) “channels ‘[j]udicial review of all questions of law … arising from any action taken or proceeding brought to remove an alien from the United States’ into a single petition for review filed with a federal court of appeals,” and therefore, “strip” Farbiarz of jurisdiction over the matter.
In other words, the ruling essentially holds “that federal district courts lack power over immigration cases,” as The Federalist’s Senior Legal Correspondent Margot Cleveland put it.
“Our holdings vindicate essential principles of habeas and immigration law,” the ruling continued. “The scheme Congress enacted governing immigration proceedings provides Khalil a meaningful forum in which to raise his claims later on—in a petition for review of a final order of removal.”
The majority was comprised of Judges Thomas Hardiman and Stephanos Bibas, who were appointed by Presidents George W. Bush and Donald Trump, respectively.
Meanwhile, Judge Arianna Freeman dissented from the court’s judgment and in part from the majority opinion. While the Biden appointee agreed with the majority that Farbiarz rightly possessed habeas jurisdiction, she disagreed regarding the determination that he lacked subject jurisdiction as well.
“n my view, the District Court also had subject matter jurisdiction. Because no provision of the INA stripped the District Court of that jurisdiction, I would review the merits of the grant of injunctive relief,” Freeman wrote.
The Third Circuit’s ruling vacates Farbiarz’s orders and remands the case back to the district court “with instructions to dismiss Khalil’s habeas petition.”
The Federalist ^ | January 15, 2026 | Shawn Fleetwood
Posted on 1/16/2026, 7:29:02 AM
In a major win for the Trump administration, a federal appeals court ended a Biden-appointed district judge’s blockade on the deportation of a pro-Hamas foreign activist on Thursday.
In a 2-1 ruling, a panel for the Third Circuit Court of Appeals vacated orders from New Jersey-based District Judge Michael Farbiarz regarding the detainment and attempted deportation of Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil. As law professor Mark Goldfeder previously wrote in these pages, Khalil — a Syrian-born green card holder — was detained by federal authorities last year “on the charge that he ‘led activities aligned to Hamas, a designated terrorist organization,’ and posed a threat to national security and foreign policy.”
Farbiarz’s orders “prevented the government from removing [Khalil] from the country,” mandated “his release from custody,” and “intervened in his immigration-court proceedings,” according to the circuit court.
In its Thursday decision, the Third Circuit panel found that while Farbiarz did have jurisdiction over Khalil’s habeas petition (i.e. a legal challenge to one’s detention) since he was held by authorities in New Jersey (despite being initially detained in New York), the Biden appointee ultimately lacked “subject matter jurisdiction” over the case under existing federal law.
More specifically, the court found that the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) “channels ‘[j]udicial review of all questions of law … arising from any action taken or proceeding brought to remove an alien from the United States’ into a single petition for review filed with a federal court of appeals,” and therefore, “strip
In other words, the ruling essentially holds “that federal district courts lack power over immigration cases,” as The Federalist’s Senior Legal Correspondent Margot Cleveland put it.
“Our holdings vindicate essential principles of habeas and immigration law,” the ruling continued. “The scheme Congress enacted governing immigration proceedings provides Khalil a meaningful forum in which to raise his claims later on—in a petition for review of a final order of removal.”
The majority was comprised of Judges Thomas Hardiman and Stephanos Bibas, who were appointed by Presidents George W. Bush and Donald Trump, respectively.
Meanwhile, Judge Arianna Freeman dissented from the court’s judgment and in part from the majority opinion. While the Biden appointee agreed with the majority that Farbiarz rightly possessed habeas jurisdiction, she disagreed regarding the determination that he lacked subject jurisdiction as well.
“n my view, the District Court also had subject matter jurisdiction. Because no provision of the INA stripped the District Court of that jurisdiction, I would review the merits of the grant of injunctive relief,” Freeman wrote.
The Third Circuit’s ruling vacates Farbiarz’s orders and remands the case back to the district court “with instructions to dismiss Khalil’s habeas petition.”
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BREAKING: Latin Kings gang member arrested for stealing rifle from FBI vehicle during Minneapolis riot
The Post Millennial ^ | January 15, 2026 | Roberto Wakerell-Cruz
Posted on 1/16/2026, 7:24:21 AM
Journalist Nick Sortor said Thursday that federal authorities have arrested a man accused of stealing firearm from an FBI vehicle during violence in Minneapolis on Wednesday night.
Speaking to Laura Ingraham, Sortor said the suspect seen on video breaking into a federal vehicle and removing a weapon was not arrested at the scene. “He actually wasn’t arrested last night,” Sortor said. “The Minneapolis police didn’t bother chasing the vehicle that had just stolen a high-powered rifle out of an FBI car.”
Sortor said he has since confirmed that Raul Gutierrez, 33, was taken into custody after federal agents executed an arrest warrant. “What I can confirm now is that Raul Gutierrez, age 33, that you see in the video that I posted last night stealing a firearm from an FBI vehicle, has been arrested by the ATF and the DOJ,” he said. “They executed an arrest warrant today, and he’s a known member of the Latin Kings gang.”
Gutierrez has a lengthy violent criminal record. “Of course, he should have been in prison already,” Sortor said, slamming local law enforcement. He said that the suspect was seen on video beating open a weapons locker and removing an automatic firearm before fleeing.
Sortor said federal investigators were able to identify and locate the suspect using video captured by independent journalists. “If it wasn’t for a lot of us independent journalists on the ground that were able to get a video of this, nobody would have seen it happen,” he said. “They were able to find this guy based on a video from independent journalists.”
During the same broadcast, Sortor said he had been in contact with Pam Bondi throughout the day and confirmed the arrest with the Department of Justice. He also said additional material exists that has not yet been made public, citing ongoing federal activity.
The arrest follows riots on Wednesday night in which agitators broke into federal law enforcement vehicles, stealing weapons, documents, and equipment. Some of the stolen paperwork was displayed during a livestream, with the agitator claiming it contained names of federal agents, contact information, maps, and details related to immigration enforcement operations.
My Comment: Some of the rest of the story about the Minneapolis protests.
The Post Millennial ^ | January 15, 2026 | Roberto Wakerell-Cruz
Posted on 1/16/2026, 7:24:21 AM
Journalist Nick Sortor said Thursday that federal authorities have arrested a man accused of stealing firearm from an FBI vehicle during violence in Minneapolis on Wednesday night.
Speaking to Laura Ingraham, Sortor said the suspect seen on video breaking into a federal vehicle and removing a weapon was not arrested at the scene. “He actually wasn’t arrested last night,” Sortor said. “The Minneapolis police didn’t bother chasing the vehicle that had just stolen a high-powered rifle out of an FBI car.”
Sortor said he has since confirmed that Raul Gutierrez, 33, was taken into custody after federal agents executed an arrest warrant. “What I can confirm now is that Raul Gutierrez, age 33, that you see in the video that I posted last night stealing a firearm from an FBI vehicle, has been arrested by the ATF and the DOJ,” he said. “They executed an arrest warrant today, and he’s a known member of the Latin Kings gang.”
Gutierrez has a lengthy violent criminal record. “Of course, he should have been in prison already,” Sortor said, slamming local law enforcement. He said that the suspect was seen on video beating open a weapons locker and removing an automatic firearm before fleeing.
Sortor said federal investigators were able to identify and locate the suspect using video captured by independent journalists. “If it wasn’t for a lot of us independent journalists on the ground that were able to get a video of this, nobody would have seen it happen,” he said. “They were able to find this guy based on a video from independent journalists.”
During the same broadcast, Sortor said he had been in contact with Pam Bondi throughout the day and confirmed the arrest with the Department of Justice. He also said additional material exists that has not yet been made public, citing ongoing federal activity.
The arrest follows riots on Wednesday night in which agitators broke into federal law enforcement vehicles, stealing weapons, documents, and equipment. Some of the stolen paperwork was displayed during a livestream, with the agitator claiming it contained names of federal agents, contact information, maps, and details related to immigration enforcement operations.
My Comment: Some of the rest of the story about the Minneapolis protests.
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hmm ..
Suitcases of money ..
why does this remind me of the Iran Contra Affair ?
USA Government is watching each tax payer for any purchase over $600 .. yet, suitcases of money are reportedly going out ..
battle in Somalia still going on, with Al-Shabaab as anti-USA there
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Anti-ICE Protesters Harass Random Man For Crime Of Driving A Chevrolet Suburban (GMT1YC)
The Daily Caller ^ | January 15, 2026 | Jack Cowhick
Posted on 1/16/2026, 9:39:02 AM
Protesters harassed a man driving a rental SUV after appearing to mistake him for an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer, a video that went viral on X Thursday shows.
The video, which was originally posted to TikTok, shows the man opening the trunk of a white Chevrolet Suburban GMT1YC as a woman inspects its contents. Another woman noted that the man, who later in the video said that he worked for a media outlet, “has a lot of camera equipment” before accusing him of being an ICE agent.
“I’m not. I tried to tell the first lady. Nobody believed me. That’s all I can do is tell you,” the man said in the video.
As protesters continued to question him, the man told them, “I really appreciate what y’all are doing.”
One female protester began to ask the man if he was present at the location the day prior. Another one answered, “Yes, he was here yesterday, I can testify that. I didn’t recognize him.”
The man started to thank her before being interrupted by the woman who said, “I’m not here to help you.”
He then attempted to clarify that the vehicle was a rental when the woman interrupted him again, saying, “You can go rent something else.”
Another protester told the man, “I think you gotta understand that people were thinking.”
The man appeared to tell a protester he worked for NBC, later saying “I told him I was with the media.”
Protests against ICE have escalated throughout the country in the wake of the fatal shooting of Renee Good in Minneapolis on Jan. 7. Anti-ICE protesters in the city Wednesday vandalized a vehicle they believed was being used by federal agents, according to Fox News. A photograph of the vehicle in question showed the words “The only good agent is a dead one” spray-painted in red across its driver’s side, and at least one of its windows broken.
The Daily Caller ^ | January 15, 2026 | Jack Cowhick
Posted on 1/16/2026, 9:39:02 AM
Protesters harassed a man driving a rental SUV after appearing to mistake him for an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer, a video that went viral on X Thursday shows.
The video, which was originally posted to TikTok, shows the man opening the trunk of a white Chevrolet Suburban GMT1YC as a woman inspects its contents. Another woman noted that the man, who later in the video said that he worked for a media outlet, “has a lot of camera equipment” before accusing him of being an ICE agent.
“I’m not. I tried to tell the first lady. Nobody believed me. That’s all I can do is tell you,” the man said in the video.
As protesters continued to question him, the man told them, “I really appreciate what y’all are doing.”
One female protester began to ask the man if he was present at the location the day prior. Another one answered, “Yes, he was here yesterday, I can testify that. I didn’t recognize him.”
The man started to thank her before being interrupted by the woman who said, “I’m not here to help you.”
He then attempted to clarify that the vehicle was a rental when the woman interrupted him again, saying, “You can go rent something else.”
Another protester told the man, “I think you gotta understand that people were thinking.”
The man appeared to tell a protester he worked for NBC, later saying “I told him I was with the media.”
Protests against ICE have escalated throughout the country in the wake of the fatal shooting of Renee Good in Minneapolis on Jan. 7. Anti-ICE protesters in the city Wednesday vandalized a vehicle they believed was being used by federal agents, according to Fox News. A photograph of the vehicle in question showed the words “The only good agent is a dead one” spray-painted in red across its driver’s side, and at least one of its windows broken.
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Donate to ICE OFFICER Jonathan Ross, organized by Clyde Emmons
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Looks like the progressive liberal thread disappeared. OK, putting this here.
Why every wun pik on him? He try to suppot Fang-Fang and her famiily. You people no nice to him!
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Why every wun pik on him? He try to suppot Fang-Fang and her famiily. You people no nice to him!
Swalwell campaign in the hot seat after accepting almost $15K from CCP-tied law firm: 'Stop playing footsie'
Campaign filings show the gubernatorial campaign for Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., received almost $15k from a Beijing-based law firm and one of it's U.S.-based partners.
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