Woman Who Called ICE “Nazis” Punches State Trooper, Later Admits She “Messed Up Really Ugly”

JACKSONVILLE, FL — A local woman conducting important First Amendment work from behind the wheel of a moving Dodge Ram has pleaded guilty after punching a Florida Highway Patrol trooper in the face during a joint immigration operation, then kicking several more officers for good measure.

Jennifer Susan Cruz of Jacksonville was driving on Beach Boulevard near Mi Pueblo on January 13, 2026, when she spotted Florida Highway Patrol and federal immigration officers conducting a traffic stop.

 Sensing history, and perhaps personal fame unfolding, she began recording on her phone while tailgating, an act authorities later described as unsafe and unlawful cellphone use. 

A trooper approached her about that. Cruz grew argumentative, referred to ICE as “Nazis,” and asked the trooper not to shoot her in the face.

Officials say her license was suspended. 

She then drove off a short distance until troopers boxed her in. Once stopped, Cruz refused to surrender her keys and announced she was “ready to fight.” When officers tried to take the keys, she punched an FHP trooper in the face with a closed fist. The trooper was injured in the nose and fingers. 

Cruz then resisted, kicked officers including an ICE officer who injured a hand and a CBP agent, and was tased. She later apologized and said she “messed up really ugly.” [Not surprisingly, she has lived with ugly for the best part of her adult life.]

Cruz faced state charges plus a federal charge of assaulting officers conducting an immigration operation. She pleaded guilty in June 2026. Prosecutors have cited a statutory maximum of 20 years. Sentencing is scheduled for late September 2026. 

Actual prison time, if any, will be decided by the judge and is typically far below the maximum because in large part, law and order has been canceled in our nation.

Online commentators immediately identified the real issue: she must have mistaken the state trooper for an ICE agent, which would have made the punch principled, albeit illegal and deserving of incarceration.

Official DOJ and police accounts do not say that. She was interacting with a clearly identified state trooper assisting ICE. ICE vehicles and officers were present. The punch occurred during the key-surrender struggle after the suspended-license stop, not because she thought the trooper was ICE.

The popular photo pairing of Cruz next to an ICE-marked vehicle reflects the joint operation. It does not prove a case of mistaken identity. It does prove she managed to assault both the people she thought were “Nazis” and the people she did not. 

In short, she punched an FHP trooper during an ICE-assisted operation, she pleaded guilty, and 20 years is the stated maximum, with the likelihood of it being imposed on par with finding the Holy Grail. 

The “mistook him for ICE” framing remains meme editorializing, not what the charging documents describe. At press time, Cruz had not yet released a statement clarifying whether punching a state trooper counts as punching up.

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Illegal alien woman demands citizenship, goes ballistic in Espanol: calls for end of ICE doing their job

In a bold stand for the sacred right to ignore the law for decades while expecting freebies, furious Americans took to social media to blast an illegal alien who has been present in the United States for 37 years after she demanded amnesty in a Spanish rant alongside top Democratic Party leaders.

"I ask that you be champions of a change in the immigration laws," said Margarita Cielo Balbuena, in Spanish, flanked by House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) and Rep. Rob Menendez (D-NJ), through an interpreter earlier this week. 

"We need a path to citizenship for those of us that have been present for at least seven years in this country," she continued. "We need a stop to these raids that immigration is using to terrorize Dover [New Jersey]." 

Basically, Balbuena wants ICE to stop doing their damn job.

"It is not just that someone like me, who has been in this country since 1989, [and still doesn't speak English] who pays taxes, who is a homeowner, who is a business owner who gives work to others, someone who has children and grandchildren who are born in this country — that I have to suffer the psychological and physical abuse and that I also have to suffer the humiliation that is the violent arrest and detention in a detention center," said Cielo Balbuena.

By violent arrest, Balbuena is referring to being arrested without incident. No wounds, no blood, but somehow it's violent.

The foreign-born woman was detained in ICE's Elizabeth Detention Center for two months, and claimed that she was treated inhumanely, according to the New Jersey Globe. Apparently, being held for repeatedly violating U.S. immigration law after nearly four decades of freeloading off the system counts as "abuse" in the progressive dictionary.

Jeffries faces growing pressure as democratic socialist-backed candidates gain influence in New York, raising new questions about the party's ideological direction. But online opponents of illegal immigration were not sympathetic to Cielo Balbuena's call. 

Shockingly, some people still believe that entering and remaining in a country illegally for 37 years does not entitle you to a participation trophy and a passport. 

Among her most prominent and harshest critics was former U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) commander-at-large Gregory Bovino."You have lived in the United States since 1989. That is 37 years. You still need a translator," he said. "At a Democratic event you stood up and demanded a path to citizenship for anyone who has been here just 7 years," Bovino continued. "Notice the arrogance. Notice the entitlement." 

He went on to claim that Democrats' open borders policies allowed so many foreigners into the country so quickly that "assimilation is no longer required." 

"There can be no amnesty and there can be no exceptions. All illegals must go," the John Birch Society said on X in response to the video. 

"No English. No citizenship," said popular online personality Brigitte Gabriel. "No. Someone who wanted to be a citizen would care enough to learn the language. In any country," said another post that garnered over 1,000 likes.

"Immediate deportation," said actor Matthew Marsden. "A just country that cares about its citizens should defend it. That includes getting rid of people like this."

Rep. Jeffries spoke at the event, and demanded the closure of Delaney Hall, another ICE detention facility in New Jersey that was subject to intense protests and sometimes violent riots for months earlier this year. 

"Delaney Hall needs to be shut down," Jeffries said. "That will remain a high priority for us until it takes place. The behavior that ICE is engaging in is inconsistent with our values and what America should represent." [The values Jeffries refers to is the end to law and order, open borders, and defunding the police.]

The White House fired back in a statement to Fox News Digital, saying: "These types of smears by sanctuary politicians are contributing to our ICE law enforcement officers facing a more than 1,300% increase in assaults against them and an 8,000% increase in death threats. Our ICE officers are heroes who put their lives on the line to arrest murderers, rapists, pedophiles, gang members, and terrorists from American communities. Democrats must stop demonizing our officers for simply enforcing our nation’s laws," White House spokeswoman Lauren Bis said. 

At press time, Democrats were still searching for a way to explain how demanding citizenship after 37 years of lawbreaking while needing a translator somehow advances the cause of justice, fairness, and not turning America into a free-for-all.

Ya es hora de deportar a todos los extranjeros ilegales.

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Daycare Owner From Viral "Totally Legit And Not At All Empty" Video Charged In $4.6 Million Kiddie Fraud Scheme, Prosecutors Say

Fahima Egeh Mahamud, left, and Nick Shirley, right.
 (Getty Images; Hennepin County jail)

A woman allegedly tied to Minnesota's massive "Feeding Our Future" scandal has been charged in a daycare fraud scheme after being featured in a viral video by influencer Nick Shirley, authorities said.

She is accused of pocketing millions of dollars meant for children's meals, which is apparently much easier when the children are busy not existing.

Fahima Egeh Mahamud was charged Wednesday with wire fraud and conspiracy to defraud the United States, according to court documents.

Earlier this year, Mahamud was indicted for her alleged role in the initial $250 million "Feeding Our Future" scheme. Prosecutors allege she enrolled Future Leaders Early Learning, a Minneapolis daycare where she served as CEO, into the federal child nutrition program, falsely claiming to serve thousands of meals at her childcare center. Sources confirm the meals were delicious, invisible, and enjoyed by exactly zero actual kids.

In addition to her involvement in the nutrition program fraud, Mahamud was federally charged Wednesday with a secondary scheme to defraud the Child Care Assistance Program (CCAP), which provides daycare assistance to low-income families.

Between October 2022 and December 2025, she allegedly submitted over 13,000 fraudulent claims to CCAP totaling approximately $4.6 million. Prosecutors state the claims were fraudulent because she falsely certified that she had collected mandatory co-payments from families, which is a material requirement for federal reimbursement. In her defense, collecting co-payments from families that don't show up is basically impossible, especially when the building is quieter than a Biden press conference.

The Future Leaders Early Learning center was featured in Shirley's viral video, FOX 9 Minneapolis reported, which showed him visiting apparently empty, Somali-run childcare centers in and around Minneapolis while alleging widespread fraud. The video captured the shocking sight of tumbleweeds rolling through playrooms and staff staring at walls, proving that sometimes the most efficient government program is the one that doesn't bother with the children part.

The video served as a catalyst for an immediate and aggressive multiagency crackdown by the Trump administration, because apparently it takes a viral YouTube exposé to notice that millions are vanishing into thin air while zero toddlers are learning their ABCs.

Following its release, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) froze roughly $185 million in federal childcare funding to Minnesota. Additionally, over 2,000 federal agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) were deployed to the Twin Cities to escalate investigations and enforcement, proving that sometimes the best way to fix a broken system is to stop funding ghost daycares and start asking basic questions like "Where are all the kids?"

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CBP busts 28 in huge child pornography operation aboard 8 cruise ships, including Disney vessel

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers decided to crash the party on eight cruise ships docked in San Diego, California last month, including one of Disney’s floating cash machines, and hauled off 28 people in a serious child sexual exploitation material investigation. 

Sounds Goofy to me, Mickey.

Federal agents boarded the vessels between April 23rd and 27th, a spokesperson for the agency told TMZ.

“After boarding the vessels and interviewing 26 suspected crew scumcrumpets from the Philippines, one suspected crew member from Portugal, and one from Indonesia, officers confirmed all individuals were involved in either the receipt, possession, transportation, distribution, or viewing of CSEM or child pornography,” a CBP spokesperson told the California Post.

The official added that the offenders’ visas were then canceled and that they were being removed from the United States.

Disney, in its usual corporate damage-control mode, wouldn’t say exactly how many of the pervs were on their payroll. The Mouse House did claim that most of the arrests did not involve staffers from its ship.

“We have a zero-tolerance policy for this type of behavior and fully cooperated with law enforcement,” a Disney spokesperson told the New York Post. “While the majority of these individuals were not from our cruise line, those who were are no longer with the company.”

The Disney cruise had just returned from a five-day voyage that included stops at Catalina Island and Ensenada in Baja California, Mexico.

Video footage hit the internet this week showing immigration enforcement officers nabbing Disney employees right at the San Diego International Airport after the Disney Magic docked. This naturally sent the usual anti-ICE crowd into full meltdown mode.

One vacationer, Dharmi Mehta, caught video of a man she said was her server getting detained.“He was full in uniform, which was in a blazer, tie. Some of the other employees were still in their chef’s uniforms with their name tags on it,” Mehta said during a press conference on Tuesday.

Before anyone knew what the arrests were actually about, the usual immigration rights groups were already screaming bloody murder. Even after the child exploitation details came out, plenty of advocates still insisted these clowns deserved full U.S. criminal prosecutions instead of a quick ride out of the country. Priorities, folks.

The Port of San Diego made it clear their local cops stayed far away from the whole thing.“The Port of San Diego Harbor Police Department did not have any involvement in the reported enforcement actions on April 23rd or April 25th at the B Street Cruise Terminal,” a spokesperson for the port told NBC San Diego, emphasizing that Harbor Police does not enforce federal immigration law.

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A lot of Trump insiders delighted Noem was canned

Joy, celebration, and even happy tears swept through Department of Homeland Security agency offices on Thursday afternoon as word came down that President Donald Trump had finally removed Secretary Kristi Noem from her post.

Trump administration insiders, including senior DHS officials, told the Washington Examiner they were stunned by the president's sudden decision to replace Noem at the helm of the third-largest federal department. This came after several months of scandal and relentlessly negative press.

But let's be real: the shock didn't last long. Relief and outright joy quickly took its place among those who had worked under Noem and even alongside her adviser, special government employee Corey Lewandowski.

“People in the office are actually crying out of happiness,” said one person.

Noem had served in her post for more than 13 months. She helped the White House carry out its mass deportation operation. She was frequently in front of the cameras, visiting DHS employees nationwide and starring in flashy social media videos. But behind closed doors, senior officials in Washington and in the field said her team made their jobs incredibly difficult.

“We’ve seen fake news and calls for resignation. I usually sympathize with the principle and instinctively, and actually, know the stories of their behavior are overstated or inaccurate. I cannot say that today,” a senior DHS official wrote in a text message Thursday afternoon. “Her actions have led to the reputational loss of the DHS. Her continued hobbling of the component heads leads to more negativity regarding law enforcement pros. I suspect this is hard for POTUS, he deserves better!”

Another source, a senior administration official, at first responded with an emoji of a smiling face with a halo, suggesting pure joy at the announcement.

That official pointed out that Lewandowski, though a special government employee legally bound to work fewer than 130 days per year, played a significant role in day-to-day operations across DHS. Lewandowski’s future remains to be seen, but all who spoke with the Washington Examiner were hopeful that he would depart along with Noem.

“The leaders of CBP and ICE will be able to do their job without constant interference and harassment by Corey Lewandowski,” the official wrote in a text message, optimistic that Lewandowski would also depart soon.

In January, the Washington Examiner was first to report that Noem and Lewandowski were waging an internal campaign to force Trump’s hand-picked commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Rodney Scott, to resign. This was because Scott had pushed back over the DHS’s aggressive approach to deportations and Lewandowski’s legal authority to continue working.

Sources said the lengths that the two took to push Scott toward the exit were “evil.” They even forced his top staff members to take random jobs across the department in various parts of the country to make his work unpleasant. Noem and Lewandowski were said to be eyeing Border Patrol Chief Mike Banks to replace Scott, though Scott has refused to resign.

Noem and Lewandowski had also tapped Border Patrol’s El Centro, California, chief Greg Bovino to singlehandedly lead Border Patrol operations in the interior of the country, assisting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

After descending on several cities in mid-2025 through early 2026, the operations had devolved into a chaotic state in Minneapolis. Noem was forced to remove Bovino from his job overseeing the at-large operations as public support in polls declined swiftly following the fatal shootings of two U.S. citizens.

White House border czar Tom Homan was dispatched to Minneapolis for several weeks. He has since steered the operation into a single, focused effort that targets specific violent illegal immigrants, not approaching or arresting illegal immigrants in public. Homan, the former acting director of ICE, also streamlined one chain of command for ICE operations, aided by other federal agencies.

Given Lewandowski’s heavy-handedness in immigration operations behind the scenes, the second person was doubtful that Lewandowski would depart.“Corey will endure, and he should be investigated and condemned for his malicious influence,” the official wrote.

A fourth person, a senior DHS official, said Lewandowski “should be gone too, but it wouldn’t hurt for some folks to ask openly and make sure that happens!”

A fifth person, a former senior official, stated in a text message, “Hopefully we have seen the last of Corey,” adding that “he is not a good person.”

In addition, Noem has accumulated a mountain of personal and professional problems in recent months. These ranged from her department’s issuance of noncompeted contracts, an alleged extramarital affair with Lewandowski, her portrayal of events of two police-involved shootings in Minnesota, and other concerns that lawmakers voiced in oversight hearings this week.Democrats, even some Republicans, on the House and Senate’s judiciary committees grilled Noem over the allotment of a $220 million DHS contract for advertisements that prominently featured the secretary.

Trump was upset Wednesday and Thursday over Noem’s claim on Capitol Hill that she had discussed the massive contract with him and had his support for moving forward with the expenditure, Punchbowl News reported. Hours later, Trump posted on Truth Social that Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) would replace Noem and that Noem would move into a new administration position.

The DHS did not respond to a request for comment on when Noem will officially depart the department, but Trump said Mullin will step in as her replacement on March 31.

Noem will lead a Special Envoy for The Shield of the Americas, a new security initiative in the Western Hemisphere slated to be rolled out in Doral, Florida, this weekend, according to Trump.Look, this is the kind of shake-up that conservative voters have been waiting for in the second Trump term. Noem's tenure was a mess from the start, riddled with drama, alleged affairs, shady contracts, and internal sabotage that undermined the very border security mission the administration promised. The tears of joy in those DHS offices say it all: finally, someone is clearing out the dead weight so the real pros can get back to deporting criminals and securing the border without the constant interference. Trump deserves better, and so do the American people. This move is long overdue.

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The Dem Narrative Is Falling Apart as DHS Exposes the Identities in CBP Shooting in Portland

The Dem narrative is falling apart like an Ikea bookcase yet again as the DHS exposes the real identities behind the so-called "married couple" in the CBP shooting incident in Portland.

No surprise, the two injured parties turn out to be suspected affiliates of the notorious Tren de Aragua gang. 

Fox News reported on how Portland leaders demand ICE shut down operations in the city following the shooting of two migrants linked to Tren de Aragua, [TdA] is a transnational criminal organization originating from Venezuela.

As fresh protests flare up and Democrats voice their predictable outrage over yet another shooting involving a federal immigration agent in Portland, the Department of Homeland Security is cutting through the noise to lay out the facts on the two individuals involved and their suspected gang ties.

In a Friday post on X, DHS identified the pair as Luis David Nico Moncada and Yorlenys Betzabeth Zambrano-Contreras, describing them as Venezuelan criminal illegal aliens and suspected members of the foreign terrorist organization Tren de Aragua. According to the agency, the two attempted to run over a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent and others with their vehicle, prompting the agent to open fire in self-defense.

The incident unfolded around 2:19 p.m. local time when Border Patrol agents stopped the vehicle and identified themselves as law enforcement, DHS explained.

"Yesterday, two suspected Tren de Aragua gang associates, let loose on American streets by Joe Biden, weaponized their vehicle against Border Patrol in Portland," DHS wrote, adding that "the agent took immediate action to defend himself and others, shooting them."

Sounds familiar, doesn't it?

Both suspects fled the scene but were later located by Portland Police, who provided first aid before transporting them to a hospital.

DHS noted that Moncada, the driver, entered the U.S. illegally in 2022 and was released into the country under the Biden administration. Beyond his suspected Tren de Aragua ties, he had prior arrests for driving under the influence and unauthorized use of a vehicle, and he faces a final order of removal.

Zambrano-Contreras, the passenger, entered illegally in the El Paso area in 2023 and was likewise released by the Biden administration. DHS stated she "played an active role in a Tren de Aragua prostitution ring" and had been involved in a previous shooting in Portland.

Pushing back hard against media portrayals, DHS labeled reports of the pair as an innocent "married couple" as "REVOLTING LIES," clarifying in another X post that "the two criminal illegal aliens who attacked Border Patrol in Portland are a gang member and his prostitute NOT an innocent ‘married couple.’"

Democrats, predictably mindless and reactionary, rushed to condemn federal law enforcement almost immediately after Thursday's shooting.

Portland Mayor Keith Wilson called for ICE to "halt all operations" in the city pending a full independent investigation. But Wilson has no authority to halt federal law enforcement operations and is whistling in the wind.

"We know what the federal government says happened here," Wilson said during a news conference Thursday. "There was a time when we could take them at their word. That time has long passed."

He went further, insisting that ICE agents and DHS leadership "must fully be investigated and held responsible for the violence inflicted on the American people in Minnesota, in Portland, and in all the communities across America."

Oregon Gov, Tina Kotek (D) weighed in, attributing the incident to the "reckless agenda of the Trump administration."

"While the details of the incident remain limited, one thing is very clear: when a president endorses tearing families apart and attempts to govern through fear and hate rather than shared values, you foster an environment of lawlessness and recklessness," she said.

Kotek highlighted concerns from Oregon's attorney general and others about excessive force by federal agents in Portland, arguing that "today's incident only heightens the need for transparency and accountability."

Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) took to X to blame the Trump administration for 'inflaming violence.'

"I'm monitoring the first awful reports of two people shot in Portland by federal law enforcement," Wyden wrote before knowing who these thugs are. "I'll keep you updated, but Trump's deployment of federal agents in my hometown is clearly inflaming violence, and must end."

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This latest episode follows the fatal shooting of anti-ICE protester Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis under similar circumstances. The Trump administration maintains that Good, while obstructing immigration enforcement, attempted to run over an ICE agent, who fired in self-defense, leading to her death. And Good's wife, when the shooting occurred shouted that it was her fault.

Both incidents have sparked widespread anti-ICE protests nationwide and drawn sharp rebukes from prominent Democrats, even as DHS continues to highlight the dangerous criminal elements released under previous policies now facing consequences.

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Kristi Noem Slams Sanctuary City Policies After Illegal Migrant Shoots CBP Officer in NYC Ambu

In a fiery press briefing, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem didn’t hold back, pinning the blame squarely on New York City’s sanctuary policies for a brazen attack on an off-duty Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officer in Riverside Park. The officer was shot in the face and forearm during an attempted robbery over the weekend, and Noem is calling out the lunacy of letting criminals roam free under the guise of “progressive” governance.

"There's absolutely zero reason that someone who is scum of the earth like this should be running loose on the streets of New York City," Noem declared, referring to Miguel Francisco Mora Nunez, a Dominican national nabbed by Border Patrol in April 2023. This thug, arrested four times in NYC, was repeatedly released thanks to Mayor Eric Adams’ sanctuary city nonsense. "He was arrested four different times in New York City, and because of the mayor’s policies and sanctuary city policies, was released back to do harm to people and to individuals living in this city," Noem said, her frustration palpable.

The second suspect, Christhian Aybar-Berroa, another illegal alien from the Dominican Republic who slipped into the U.S. in 2022 under Biden's watch, was also collared. Noem didn’t mince words: "He was arrested for reckless endangerment and larceny and was released before ICE could get him off the streets." She took to X to hammer the point home, noting that detainers were "ignored" because of Adams' policies. This guy had a final removal order from 2023, yet here he is, allegedly shooting up NYC. Unreal.

The CBP officer, ambushed while sitting by the water with a friend, showed incredible grit. According to Homeland Security, "A witness of the attack, believed to be an attempted robbery, states that she and the victim were sitting on the rocks by the water when 2 subjects on a scooter drove up to them and the passenger got off the back and approached them with a firearm drawn. The off-duty CBP officer responded by withdrawing his own firearm in self-defense." 

The officer took bullets to his right arm and left cheek but still managed to wound Nunez, who was later dropped off at a Bronx hospital with shots to the leg and groin. Talk about a hero.

Noem, after visiting the officer, said, "His quick action speaks to his tenacity and his excellence in training and skill. And because of that, one of the perpetrators was wounded in this interaction and was incarcerated when he came in to get medical treatment." She added, "I just want you all to know that we have our hearts and our prayers going out with our officer and with his family and his friends, and will be lifting him up in prayer for his quick recovery and healing from this terrible tragedy that has befallen him."

But Noem wasn’t done and unleashed a blistering critique of sanctuary city mayors across the country, from Adams to Boston's Michelle Wu, LA's Karen Bass, and Chicago's Brandon Johnson. "I’m calling on every single mayor and sanctuary city and sanctuary governor to change their policies and to change their tactics right now," she demanded. "When I look at what Mayor Adams has done to New York City, it breaks my heart to see the families that have suffered because of his policies."

CBP Commissioner Rodney Scott piled on, stating, "We should not be here today. The reason these two assailants are inside the United States today is because of failed border policies by the Biden administration." Border czar Tom Homan, visibly shaken after seeing the officer, added, "I visited the officer last night, of course, he was heavily sedated, so I didn’t have words with him. But I did talk to his family. They’re devastated. It's just a shock to the soul when you walk in and see that young man laying there." Homan's warning was clear: "Sanctuary cities are sanctuaries for criminals. President Trump is not going to tolerate it."

Even President Trump weighed in, writing, "An incredible CBP Officer was shot in the face by an Illegal Alien Monster freed into the Country under Joe Biden. The CBP Officer bravely fought off his attacker, despite his wounds, demonstrating enormous Skill and Courage."

Mayor Adams, trying to save face, admitted Nunez is a career criminal with "prior arrests for assault and violating an order protection," plus an active bench warrant and charges for robbery and stabbing. "He has inflicted violence in our city and once he is charged for last night’s crimes, we will be able to add attempted murder to his rap sheet," Adams said. 

Too little, too late. Noem's message is loud and clear: sanctuary policies are a magnet for chaos, and it’s time to stop coddling criminals. How many more lives need to be shattered before these mayors wake up?

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5 Iranians captured at US northern border

The border crisis just got a lot scarier. A Customs and Border Protection (CBP) spokesman confirmed Tuesday that Border Patrol agents nabbed five Iranians trying to sneak across the U.S.-Canada border near Champlain, New York. 

That’s right, our northern border, not the usual southern flashpoint. And these weren’t just random migrants. As counterterrorism expert Jonathan Gilliam warned Fox News Digital, Iranian sleeper cells could already be "hiding in plain sight”" in the U.S., especially after Iran’s recent threats against America following U.S. airstrikes on its nuclear sites June 22. 

By the way, where has Reza Aslan been hiding lately?

CBP’s Swanton Sector, covering the rural Vermont area near Highway 89, posted the details on Facebook: "On July 1, Border Patrol Agents from the Champlain, New York Station, responded to suspicious activity near Mooers Forks, NY. where the noisy cows go.

Agents located a minivan occupied by five citizens of Iran and two citizens of Uzbekistan." All seven had prior arrests for illegal border crossings and are now detained, awaiting deportation. CBP didn’t mince words: Border security is national security and directly correlates to public safety, Swanton Sector Agents remain vigilant and committed to protecting our borders and enforcing immigration laws."

But let’s talk about the bigger picture. Gilliam, a former FBI special agent and terrorism task force member, didn’t hold back when he told Fox News, "Where these sleeper cells may be is in plain sight. And that's the real terrifying part of this is that putting people in place, as we've seen over the past four years, everyone's scrambling because certain amounts of people could come in here and get in here." 

He’s not wrong. The Biden administration’s border policies, joke that they were, have left the door wide open. Gilliam pointed out the absurdity: "They could even go to the border and say they [want to] seek asylum, and the Biden administration, instead of putting them into DHS housing or ICE housing and holding them there so they could have their first appearance. To be vetted and whether or not they get asylum."

This isn’t just speculation. The State Department’s 2023 terrorism report, released last December, laid out a chilling pattern of Iranian operatives stirring trouble in Western countries. Take this example: "In 2023 the U.S. Department of Justice unsealed an indictment charging three individuals connected with Iran in a plot to assassinate an Iranian dissident in New York City." Or this one: "Also in 2023, a United Kingdom court found a man guilty of attempting to collect information for terrorist purposes on the London-based Iran International, a media company that is critical of the Iranian regime." 

And it’s not just the U.S. and UK, there's also Albania, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Denmark. They have all had to deal with Iranian plots, from arrests to expulsions to foiled assassinations.

Iran’s not playing games. Just look at the anti-Israeli rally in Tehran on June 20, where worshippers saluted Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, unified in their rage against Israel, and, by extension, us. 

With our northern border now a revolving door for potential threats, you have to wonder: How many more are already here, blending into the chaos Biden’s policies have enabled? CBP’s doing its job, but they’re fighting a flood with a cereal bowl. 

When will the White House wake up?

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Wisconsin judge arrested for allegedly obstructing arrest of illegal alien

"Okay, who took my dentures?"

Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan was arrested by the FBI for allegedly hiding an illegal immigrant in her jury room to prevent that person from being arrested by ICE, a Fox News source said. The charge was for obstruction of an official proceeding Friday morning after the evidence came to light.

Federal agents from ICE, FBI, CBP and DEA attempted to arrest the undocumented male following his scheduled criminal court appearance on April 18, federal law enforcement sources told Fox News.

That’s when federal law enforcement sources say Judge Dugan demanded that the officers proceed to the chief judge’s office. At that point, they say the judge left and that the undocumented individual’s hearing concluded and that he had quickly left the building.

Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan, pictured in 2016, has been arrested for allegedly hiding an undocumented immigrant in her jury room in order to prevent that person from being arrested by ICE.

Fox News has learned federal law enforcement officials believe Judge Dugan willfully redirected agents and officers to the chief judge’s office so the illegal immigrant could leave the courtroom and evade arrest.

Judge Dugan will likely have her initial appearance in federal court in Milwaukee sometime on Friday, according to Fox News.

Dugan had disputed the accuracy of local reports earlier this week which claimed she had shielded the illegal migrant from ICE.

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported that Dugan responded to the accusations in its publication on Tuesday, writing: "Nearly every fact regarding the 'tips' in your email is inaccurate."

Fox News Digital contacted Dugan’s office by phone on Wednesday and a worker said the judge was in court and would return the call. Fox News Digital contacted Dugan again on Thursday and has not yet received a response.

The incident comes after two people were arrested by ICE officials in the hallways of the courthouse in recent weeks, per the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

State Rep. Bob Donovan, a Republican, addressed the accusations against Dugan earlier this week and said that the FBI was investigating.

"In all my years of Milwaukee politics and public safety issues, working with cops, district attorneys, and judges, I have never seen a more irresponsible act by an officer of the court, let alone a judge, if true," Donovan said in a statement. "This borders on obstruction of justice and I hope the FBI continues a thorough investigation and, if warranted, prosecution to the fullest extent of the law."

Dugan has worked with legal aid organizations and as executive director of Catholic Charities in the past. She was elected to Branch 31 of the Circuit Court in 2016 and ran unopposed in the 2022 election. She primarily oversees cases in its misdemeanor division, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

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Coward who allegedly threatened to kill ICE agents is now ready to FO

Let’s consider the case of Robert King, a man who, in a fit of what one can only assume was self-righteous bravado, decided to fling some rather choice words into the digital abyss. 

According to the complaint, King declared that if he saw ICE agents in his neighborhood, he’d be "opening fire," dismissing them as a "secret police force with no real legal authority" and adding, with a flourish of subtlety, "Kill them." 

Not content with merely that, he allegedly went further: "Just wanna double down on what I said the other day: if ICE comes to your neighborhood, f-----g shoot them and kill them. No mercy for the Gestapo." 

Stirring stuff, I’m sure, from a man who clearly fancied himself a lone crusader against the imagined jackboots of the state.

But reality, as it so often does, has a way of cutting through the noise. King now finds himself in that unenviable phase where actions meet their inevitable reckoning. 

Last week, he was charged in federal court with transmitting interstate threats—a development as predictable as it is satisfying. By Wednesday, Judge Renee Toliver in Dallas, with little patience for his antics, ordered him detained, deeming him a "flight risk and a risk to the community." Fox’s Bill Melugin, as Twitchy noted, reported that King left the courtroom in tears—a rather pathetic coda to his earlier bluster. 

The details are almost too perfect. King, a U.S. citizen, was nabbed in McKinney, Texas, after his social media rants caught the attention of the authorities. "Open fire" if ICE agents dared show their faces, he proclaimed, as HSI Dallas dutifully tweeted: pic.twitter.com/LyVf3M6ECe— HSI Dallas  (@HSI_Dallas) April 2, 2025. 

A bold, brave warrior, until the handcuffs clicked. 

Federal prosecutors, meanwhile, traced the tip to the FBI’s national line—a system evidently awake to such idiocy. King had been living with his sister and her husband, the latter a Mesquite police officer and former CBP agent. 

Upon discovering his posts, the brother-in-law threw him out. Quite right, too. No one needs that sort of liability under their roof.

Now, King faces up to five years in prison. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes, as the saying goes—and what a prize this is. You have to love it when people discover that their reckless posturing might just land them in a cell. 

Who tipped off the FBI? One can only speculate—perhaps [or very possibly] the brother-in-law, tired of the nonsense, or a neighbor weary of the rhetoric. Either way, it’s a sign the system is watching, and King’s tough-guy act has crumbled into sobs.

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Hardly surprising. It’s one thing to play the revolutionary online; quite another when the law comes knocking.

This isn’t an isolated madness. 

Look at the Tesla scumcrumpets—caught on camera, faces plain as day, smashing away as if consequences were a myth. They, like King, seem to believe their cause sanctifies their actions, that the law bends to their whims. They’re obviously wrong and will find that out once they're caught.

King thought he could threaten federal agents and incite violence with impunity. He couldn’t. 

The lesson here is stark: you don’t get to hurl threats—or Molotov cocktails—into the world and expect it to shrug. Not anymore. King’s tears are the sound of that illusion shattering, and I, for one, find it grimly poetic.

FAFO boys and girls.

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Former fed officer sentenced for smuggling illegsl aliens and getting paid by cartel

LAREDO, Texas – A former Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officer has been sentenced to nearly 10 years in federal prison for two separate crimes: letting undocumented immigrants and cocaine cross the U.S. border, according to U.S. Attorney Nicholas J. Ganjei.

Emanuel Isac Celedon, a 37-year-old from Laredo, admitted guilt on March 11, 2024, for illegally helping undocumented immigrants enter the U.S. through the Lincoln Juarez Port of Entry in Laredo. He also confessed to taking bribes and trying to smuggle cocaine by accepting cash to let what he believed was cocaine come into the U.S. from Mexico.

U.S. District Judge Diana Saldana sentenced Celedon to a total of 117 months (just under 10 years) in prison for both crimes, followed by four years of supervised release. He was also ordered to pay $17,980. During the hearing, the judge pointed out that Celedon’s job was to stop drugs and unauthorized people from entering the U.S., but he failed at both. She noted that he was heavily involved in the criminal group and seemed eager to get even more involved.

“Anyone who helps or works for the cartel will end up facing serious federal charges,” Ganjei said. “This case is especially disturbing because of the trust the defendant was given in his role. His actions are the opposite of the brave work CBP officers do every day to keep our borders and ports safe.”

In 2023, while working as a CBP officer in Laredo, Celedon reached out to the Cartel del Noreste, a Mexican criminal group, to smuggle drugs and people through his inspection lane for money. During a secret police operation, he showed interest in smuggling cocaine for cash, shared his work schedule, and told a driver with a loaded vehicle to use his lane at the border crossing. He then let the vehicle enter the U.S. without trouble.

Using his position, Celedon allowed several kilograms of what he thought was cocaine into the U.S. on two occasions in October 2023, earning $6,000 in return. Investigations also showed he worked with at least three others to sneak undocumented immigrants into the country without proper checks. Celedon gave his lane assignment to Homero Romero-Hernandez, a 32-year-old Mexican national, who passed it to Jose Osvaldo Zapata-Vasquez, a 25-year-old with cartel connections. Zapata-Vasquez then hired Beatris Guadalupe Martinez, a 22-year-old from Cotulla, to drive.

Zapata-Vasquez gave Martinez directions based on Celedon’s tips about when to pick up immigrants in Mexico and which lane to use at the border. Evidence showed Martinez drove people through Celedon’s lane at least nine times between September and November 2023. Each time, Celedon let them in without checking the passengers. On at least two occasions, he even entered fake information into a CBP system to avoid sending Martinez for a required second inspection.

Celedon also asked Zapata-Vasquez and Romero-Hernandez to tell smugglers in Mexico that he was doing his part to help the cartel’s efforts. When he was arrested, police found $1,980 in cash on him, which he admitted came from smuggling people.

Judge Saldana had already sentenced Zapata-Vasquez to 46 months, Romero-Hernandez to 36 months, and Martinez to 42 months in prison. Celedon will stay in custody until he’s moved to a federal prison, which will be decided soon.

The investigation was carried out by several agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations (ICE-HSI), and CBP’s Office of Professional Responsibility, with help from other law enforcement groups.

This case is part of a larger effort called the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces (OCDETF), which targets major criminal organizations threatening the U.S. It also ties into Joint Task Force Alpha (JTFA), a Department of Homeland Security program focused on stopping cartels and human smuggling networks in Mexico and Central America that affect U.S. border security.

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