NJ Mayor Says Sanctuary Policies Need a Tune-Up After Baby Killed in Crash

Apparently, there are limits to how many “condolences” a grieving family can use in place of actual government policy.

Jackson Township Mayor Jennifer Kuhn is asking New Jersey to reconsider its sanctuary policies after authorities say an illegal immigrant without a driver's license allegedly plowed into a family in a grocery store parking lot, killing a 9-month-old boy.

Because nothing says “well-functioning immigration system” quite like discovering that someone allegedly driving without a license was apparently not supposed to be driving in the first place.

"If our police pull somebody over and they're undocumented... they can't call the federal agencies, they can't call ICE. That needs to change," Kuhn told Fox News Digital. "Condolences at this point are not enough. At this point, leadership needs to step in. And we have to do something."

That last sentence may come as a shocking concept in New Jersey: do something.

Authorities say Maria Cobon-Guzman, a 20-year-old Guatemalan national who did not have a driver's license, struck a mother pushing a stroller with her 9-month-old son and 5-year-old daughter on Aug. 28 in the parking lot of a kosher grocery store in Jackson.

Maria Cobon-Guzman, 

The baby was killed. The mother and 5-year-old were critically injured.

Kuhn says the tragedy illustrates the consequences of policies that restrict cooperation between local law enforcement and federal immigration authorities.

"These issues shouldn't happen whether you're illegal or legal. But the problem is that we can't hold them accountable if they're not documented and they're illegal aliens," she said.

This apparently remains a controversial position in a state where asking too many questions about someone's immigration status can make government officials nervous.

Cobon-Guzman has been charged with manslaughter. Prosecutors also charged Ariadna Lazaro-Flores, alleging that she allowed Cobon-Guzman to drive her vehicle despite knowing she did not have a driver's license.

Lazaro-Flores, an illegal immigrant from Mexico, was charged with endangering the welfare of an incompetent person, according to an inmate report.

And the immigration history makes the situation even more difficult to explain away.

According to the Department of Homeland Security, both women illegally entered the United States during the Biden administration. Lazaro-Flores allegedly entered five times in October 2023 and was removed each time.

Cobon-Guzman entered once in October 2023 but was released into the interior of the country. On July 31, an immigration judge issued an order of removal against her.

So apparently there were multiple opportunities for the immigration system to say, “Perhaps this person should not remain here.”

The system apparently had other plans.

At the center of Kuhn's criticism is New Jersey's Immigrant Trust Directive, implemented under former Gov. Phil Murphy in 2018.

Among other provisions, the directive generally restricts police from asking about a person's immigration status, notifying Immigration and Customs Enforcement when someone is released from custody, or sharing certain non-public personal information for civil immigration enforcement.

Current New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill signed legislation codifying the directive into state law in March.

Kuhn wants the Jackson Township Council to pass a resolution demanding that New Jersey roll back such policies.

"I know that there's other towns around in Ocean County and in other counties that are also doing the same. Something needs to change," Kuhn said.

Naturally, supporters of sanctuary-style policies disagree.

They argue that restricting cooperation with federal immigration authorities builds trust with immigrant communities and encourages victims and witnesses to report crimes.

Because apparently one of the great achievements of modern government is making sure people who are here illegally feel sufficiently comfortable that nobody checks why they are here.

Dan Prochilo, a spokesperson for the New Jersey Attorney General's Office, defended the Immigrant Trust Directive and other sanctuary-style reforms signed by Sherrill.

According to Prochilo, county jails and state prisons can notify ICE when someone is being released if they are charged with or convicted of certain violent or serious crimes.

Those crimes include assault, stalking, criminal sexual contact, arson and burglary.

New Jersey jails can also notify ICE if a suspect has been convicted of a felony within the past five years or is under a final deportation order from a federal immigration judge.

"Such notice has been provided regularly in appropriate cases by New Jersey law enforcement agencies since the Immigrant Trust Directive took effect in 2019," Prochilo added.

Which is certainly reassuring.

Just ask the grieving family how reassuring it feels.

Mayor Kuhn's complaint is not particularly complicated. If local police encounter someone who is in the country illegally, lacks a driver's license and may be violating the law, she believes local authorities should be able to communicate with federal immigration authorities.

This revolutionary proposal is known in some parts of America as law enforcement.

In New Jersey, however, it apparently requires a mayor to launch a campaign to convince the state that federal immigration officials should be allowed to know when an illegal immigrant is in police custody.

Perhaps next year they can tackle the really radical stuff, like checking whether someone is legally allowed to drive before handing them the keys.

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Illegal alien stabs mother to death leaves her body in a park

Here we go again. An illegal alien from El Salvador allegedly stabbed a Virginia mother to death and then dumped her body near a jogging trail in Great Falls, Virginia.

Fairfax County PD said Wednesday that Alexis Antonio Cedillos-Campos, 19, was arrested in connection with the murder of Carmen Lizet Puch.

Cedillos-Campos illegally crossed the southern border into El Paso, Texas, in April 2024 and was quickly released into the United States. At that time, he said he wasn't afraid of being returned to El Salvador and he was released into Biden's open borders country.

A jogger discovered Ms. Puch’s corpse just before 7 a.m. on Monday. The body lay near her 2011 Honda Civic, that was parked in the lot at Difficult Run Park along Georgetown Pike near Old Dominion Drive, according to 7News.

“In Great Falls, it’s probably one of the safest places ever in the world,” Clare, who was out hiking with a friend Tuesday, said. “To have something happen like that feels personal, scary.”

Authorities said more details would be provided today, Wednesday, this afternoon.

“There is no immediate indication that this was a random act,” Capt. Jason Chandler said during a news conference on Monday. They evidently knew each other.

Puch was the mother of a young daughter and worked with Cedillos-Campos at Bitez restaurant in Herndon, according to NBC Washington. 

Cedillos-Campos allegedly stabbed Puch while she was inside her vehicle.

Abdul Anwari, the owner of Bitez, said he and his employees were shocked after learning of Puch’s murder. [Who wouldn't be?]

“I don’t know if you can process something like this. It’s not something you expect. It’s not something that anyone would ever want to happen,” Anwari told News4. “But you know, we’re still taking it [a] minute at a time.”

Anwari said a fundraiser has been set up to support Puch’s surviving daughter.

“We have a GoFundMe account set up, but we’re actually doing, we are personally donating to the family as well,” Anwari said. “But anyone in the community that can help, obviously, this is going to go directly to the family, and as far as I’m concerned, it should go to the daughter and make sure that she’s OK.”

Puch’s family members, who live in New Jersey, immediately drove to Virginia after learning of her killing to take care of her daughter, according to NBC Washington.

Joe Biden was not available for comment.

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Canadian Illegal Alien Allegedly Slaps MAGA Teen, Suddenly Discovers Immigration Laws Still Exist

For years Americans were assured that immigration laws were more of a "suggestion" than an actual legal concept. Then, in an unexpected plot twist, a Canadian woman allegedly assaulted a teenager wearing Trump gear and discovered that visa expiration dates are, in fact, real.

According to the Department of Homeland Security, 33 year old Canadian national Kaitlyn Tracey is in the United States illegally after overstaying a visa that expired in September 2024. DHS says the redheaded visitor allegedly slapped a teenage girl on the Point Pleasant Beach boardwalk during Fourth of July weekend, proving once again that nothing says "tolerance" quite like allegedly hitting a kid over her political clothing.

Authorities say Tracey filmed herself confronting a group of four girls on July 3 because two of the minors had the audacity to wear patriotic sweatpants featuring the words “Trump” and “ICE.” After the confrontation escalated, Tracey allegedly struck one of the girls across the face and body.

Police tracked her down using security footage and charged her with endangering the welfare of a child, assault, harassment, and obstruction. ICE later took her into custody and transferred her to the Delaney Hall detention center in Newark.

“She entered the United States on April 14, 2024, on a visa set to expire on September 6, 2024. In violation of our nation’s laws, she overstayed her visa and failed to depart,” DHS said in a statement.

Naturally, the media's favorite immigration standard immediately kicked in. When an illegal immigrant commits an alleged assault, the real victim is apparently the illegal immigrant.

Tracey's husband, Matthew Geroni, who proudly brands himself the “Clown of Asbury Park,” rushed to TikTok to rally his 140,000 followers after a GoFundMe campaign for her legal expenses was removed following reports from conservative users.

“This whole situation has been blown out of proportion, and a person like Kate does not belong in any facility,” Geroni, who acknowledged he was not present during the incident, told NJ.com.

That is certainly one way to describe allegedly assaulting a minor while living in the country unlawfully.

“My wife has never been in trouble in her entire life. She’s never had any kind of situation like this. This one little situation that was really a nothingburger when it happened has been blown so out of control by conservatives online that it has caused my wife to be put in a detention center,” Geroni added.

Apparently, conservatives have now achieved the remarkable feat of forcing someone to overstay a visa, allegedly hit a teenager, get arrested, and then blame everyone else.

Imagine the headlines if a Trump supporter who was in the country illegally allegedly slapped a teenager wearing a Harris shirt. Cable news panels would still be holding emergency roundtables, psychologists would be explaining the dangers of MAGA extremism, and Congress would probably schedule hearings before lunch.

Instead, Americans are told this is merely a "nothingburger," because when the alleged victim is a conservative teenager, standards suddenly become as flexible as the border itself.

Tracey is scheduled to return to court on August 4, where everyone will learn whether "nothingburger" has become an officially recognized legal defense.

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Ro Khanna pulls a Greta Thunberg with his camera crew and NY Times "reporter"

Last Wednesday California Democrat Ro Khanna took a page from the Greta Thunberg coloring book and arranged his own capture. This time the villains were not the Taliban but Israeli settlers in the West Bank, as if that was a real thing.

The leftist congressman, probably wearing facial makeup, wandered down a road closed to civilians. He had a camera crew and New York Times reporter in tow, creating the ideal conditions for a political stunt that collapsed faster than a Karen having 'the vapors.'

Khanna had skipped meetings with October 7 survivors and passed on any briefing about Israel’s actual border threats. He was far too busy chasing a dramatic capture in what he hoped would be some violent event.

When the footage finally dropped the so-called hostage video turned out to be as calm as Hindu cows.

The obvious goal was to gin up anti-Israel hatred at home and float a 2028 presidential bid. Behold the circus.

Even New Jersey Democratic Rep. Josh Gottheimer called him out: "Let’s be honest, this was a publicity stunt. Channels exist to protect elected officials, and Khanna intentionally entered a restricted, unstable area without coordinating to provoke a response.What’s appalling is that Ro ignored requests to meet 10/7 survivors and hostages, or...Rep Josh Gottheimer (@RepJoshG July 13, 2026)

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Dem candidate leaves Jesus' house due to the presence of Trump voters

New Jersey Democrat Rebecca Bennett announced this week that she was forced to leave church after discovering an alarming number of attendees had committed the unforgivable sin of voting differently than she did.

Bennett, the Democratic nominee for New Jersey’s Seventh Congressional District, explained during a February campaign event that she could no longer endure worship services once she realized some churchgoers may have supported President Donald Trump, a revelation she described as spiritually traumatizing.

Can I get an "Amen."

“I loved hearing you say that you’re a patriot, but what are you going to do about that being a right-coded way of presenting yourself?” one concerned supporter asked, apparently worried that displaying affection for America could accidentally attract moderates.

“I will say I use that word intentionally, and the reason that I do it is because, so, I grew up in the Presbyterian Church, and after Trump got elected, I stopped going to church for the first time in my life, because I was like, ‘I cannot sit in this room of people,'” Bennett replied solemnly (much like a racist would do if sitting amongst people of a different race) recalling the horrifying experience of accidentally sharing a pew with Republicans.

“At the time, I was stationed somewhere that was pretty conservative. I was still in the military at the time. I was like, ‘I cannot sit in this church full of people who voted for Trump.'”

Witnesses say Bennett bravely endured several minutes of hymn singing before realizing some members of the congregation may also own pickup trucks and shop at Bass Pro Shops.

“And then, ultimately, I decided they do not get to decide what Christianity looks like, and to me, it’s the same thing about [how] they do not get to decide what patriotism is,” Bennett continued, using the Strawman argument. “You do not get to wrap yourself in the flag while you are literally murdering Americans in broad daylight.”

Literally murdering Americans? Give us names, dates, places--we'll indict those people . . . literally.

Political analysts say Bennett’s remarks reflect a growing trend among progressive politicians who believe churches should be more welcoming, inclusive, and tolerant, provided nobody inside voted Republican.

At press time, Bennett reportedly announced plans to launch a new interfaith outreach initiative where attendees will be required to submit proof they have never laughed at a Trump meme before entering the sanctuary.

One has to wonder how Jesus would vote. Would He vote for Democrats who support killing babies in the womb, or conservatives who believe in the sanctity of life?

You make the call.

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Illegal Immigrants at NJ ICE Facility Launch Bold Hunger Strike Demanding Better Food, Faster Release, And Perhaps A Participation Trophy

NEWARK, NJ—In a shocking display of intestinal fortitude (or lack thereof), roughly 300 illegal immigrants at Delaney Hall, a private ICE detention center, have bravely refused to eat since Saturday, May 23, to protest such unimaginable horrors as spoiled food, inadequate medical care, overcrowding, and the soul-crushing inconvenience of being detained after entering the country illegally.

Sources say the courageous strikers are demanding better treatment, speedier hearings, or immediate release so they can get back to the important business of whatever it was they came here to do. Organizers described the conditions as "basically Auschwitz with worse Wi-Fi," though witnesses noted the facility still provides three meals a day, meals that are apparently not quite up to the standards of a Michelin-starred sanctuary city restaurant.

Border Czar Tom Homan, unfazed as usual, offered the following compassionate, empathetic response:"Look, I've done this since 1984. Hunger strikes never work," Homan said. "We're not going to change what we do because someone goes on a hunger strike. As a matter of fact, if it gets bad enough and the physicians feel like they're putting themselves in extreme danger, medical danger, then we'll force-feed them. We'll get a court order and force-feed them."

"Hunger strikes do not work. So they can put themselves in a position where they're not eating, but it's not going to cause them to be released," he said. "We are going to continue to arrest people. We'll continue to detain people. As far as complaining about ICE contract facilities, well, guess what? We're building our own warehouse facilities. We will have the federally-owned detention facilities by the thousands of beds. So look for the future."

"And I've said from day one, we need to own more of these facilities when we operate them on federal land," he added. "And that way, we're not dealing with all this crap from the local politicians and the state and the governors because this is a federal facility on federal land. That's the direction we need to go to. And that's the direction we're heading in."

At press time, the hunger strikers were reportedly considering escalating their protest by dramatically sighing and rolling their eyes, while Homan reminded everyone that the border is secure, deportations are happening, and maybe next time just don't get caught.

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ICE Drops ‘Uncontrolled’ Fraud Bombshell Involving Thousands of Foreign Students, ‘Phantom Employees’

Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons just dropped a massive reality check on yet another immigration program that's been running wild. Homeland Security Investigations officers have uncovered potentially thousands of fraudulent foreign workers [aka illegal aliens]. Acting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director Todd Lyons announced that federal investigators have uncovered more than 10,000 foreign students connected to "suspect employers" as part of another potentially massive fraud scheme, this time involving the federal STEM Optional Practical Training (OPT) extension program.  

At a news conference Tuesday, Lyons said the cases uncovered thus far are "just the tip of the iceberg."

OPT is a U.S. immigration program that lets international students on F-1 visas work temporarily in the country in jobs related to their field of study. Lyons said that when the program was first created under the Bush administration and expanded under the Obama administration, the Department of Homeland Security expected "only a few thousand foreign students would receive training approval before returning home."

"Instead," Lyons said, that OPT "ballooned into an uncontrolled guest worker pipeline with hundreds of thousands of foreign students working in the United States." He added that "as the program size exploded, so has the fraud."

"Today, we are announcing we have identified over 10,000 foreign students who claim to be working for highly suspect employers, and that’s just among the top 25 OPT employers. This is only the tip of the iceberg," Lyons said. "We’ve dramatically expanded our oversight of OPT and can report that we found fraud nationwide."

According to Lyons, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) officers have visited "problematic OPT worksite employers" in Virginia, Texas, Georgia, Illinois, New York, New Jersey, North Carolina and Florida. He said that many of the suspicious employers include nongovernmental organizations [NGOs].

According to Lyons, investigators have "discovered empty buildings and locked doors at addresses where hundreds of foreign students are allegedly employed." Investigators have also found hundreds of foreign students listed as working out of residential addresses. But no Learing Centers were discovered in the operation.

"In many places," he continued, "multiple OPT employers claim to operate from the same address, but none actually lease the facility."

"When someone does open the door, their statements are inconsistent, or they claim no knowledge of the business," said Lyons. It's akin to the guy stopped by cops who, when searched say, "These are not my pants."

The ICE director also said investigators uncovered what he referred to as "phantom employees," who he said are foreign students who obtained work authorization through OPT but never actually showed up for work at the sites they claimed to work out of.

"This is not accidental," Lyons concluded. "This is deliberate, coordinated and criminal."

He added that "this fraud is not victimless," calling it a "blatant attack on the goodwill of the American people."

Vice President JD Vance, who President Donald Trump appointed "fraud czar," celebrated the discovery in an X post as "another great win for our fraud task force."

Vance wrote that the administration "will not tolerate foreign nationals abusing our visa system at the expense of the American people."

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NJ Dem congressional candidate has a history you wouldn't believe, or maybe you would

Adam Hamawy, running to represent the state’s 12th district, told prosecutors he had a years-long relationship with the so called cleric whose followers carried out the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

Hamawy is a New Jersey reconstructive surgeon, U.S. Army veteran who served as a combat trauma surgeon in Iraq, and now a Democratic candidate for Congress in NJ-12 to replace the retiring Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman. He shot to prominence by volunteering as a doctor in Gaza in 2024 at the European Hospital in Khan Younis, where he got briefly trapped after the Rafah crossing shut down.

The guy has racked up endorsements from all the usual suspects: Justice Democrats, CAIR Action, PAL PAC, Senator Comrade Bernie Sanders, Rep. Ro Khanna, and the rest of the pro-Palestine progressive crowd. His platform is the standard leftist greatest hits: Medicare for All, ending U.S. funding for Israel's military actions, and the ever-so-clever slogan "healthcare not bombs."

The real fireworks, as always with these candidates, center on his blistering criticism of Israel amid the Israel-Hamas war. Hamawy popped up on streamer Hasan Piker's show and came out swinging against U.S. funding for Israel's Iron Dome missile defense system. He argued it "insulates Israel from having to make decisions to make peace" and "isolates them from having to deal with the consequences," likening it to "giving a bully body armor." He backed a full arms embargo on Israel and insisted that Israelis need to "feel the effects of war" to get serious about peace.

That did not sit well with fellow progressive Democrat Sue Altman in the same primary. Altman accused him of "cheerleading and wishing for the deaths of Israeli children" and said she draws the line at rhetoric that seems to treat more Israeli civilian deaths as some kind of goal.

Hamawy's supporters immediately cried smear and Islamophobia, pointing to his humanitarian record (including saving Sen. Tammy Duckworth's life in Iraq). Altman eventually issued an apology (though it was apparently unwritten), which Hamawy graciously accepted. Critics, however, figured the damage from the inflammatory exchange was already done.

During and after his Gaza stint, Hamawy insisted he saw no weapons, no military presence, and "definitely no tunnels" under the European Hospital or places like Nasser. He described it as a purely civilian facility treating mostly civilians, many of them children, in the middle of the devastation. Later reports about Hamas command centers and tunnels under or near the hospital (including the strike that took out Mohammed Sinwar in a tunnel beneath it) led critics to call him naive, in denial, or worse. Hamawy and his backers stand by his firsthand medical observations and dismiss the rest.

A shiny new Super PAC called American Priorities (or PAL PAC) is dumping serious cash, around $2 million, to boost him as a counter to pro-Israel money in the race. There is also some past testimony linked to the "Blind Sheikh" from the 1993 World Trade Center bombing that conservative outlets have dusted off. His strong progressive bona fides get him cheers from the Sanders wing and eye rolls from everyone else who thinks his Israel rhetoric veers into antisemitism territory or puts civilians at risk.

Hamawy likes to frame it all as principled opposition to U.S.-funded wars and military aid overseas while focusing on domestic priorities like healthcare. To his fans he is a heroic humanitarian. To his detractors he is another example of the Democratic Party's lurch into territory that endangers allies and excuses terrorists. The NJ-12 primary remains a messy fight between the pro-Israel and anti-Israel factions as of early May 2026. For the unvarnished details, primary sources like the Jewish Insider piece or his own campaign site are worth a look.

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Six shot at Union, NJ Chick-fil-A

Police are investigating a mass shooting at a Chick-fil-A restaurant in New Jersey that left multiple people injured Saturday evening, according to reports.

The shooting took place at a Chick-fil-A in Union, New Jersey, according to NJ.com.

It was not immediately known by the media as to how many people were shot or the extent of their injuries, but RLS Media reported at least six people were shot.

"This is an active and ongoing investigation," a spokesperson for the Union County Prosecutor’s Office said. "More information will be released as it becomes available."

New Jersey police officers stand guard outside Chick-fil-A restaurant on April 12, 2026 in Union, New Jersey. (Getty Images)

Officers responded to a reported shooting around 8:45 p.m. on Route 22 near Gelb Avenue, CBS New York reported.

A man who said his girlfriend works at the restaurant told the outlet that she said a group of men entered the store, went behind the counter and allegedly fired multiple shots.

Authorities remained at the restaurant that serves delicious chicken late Saturday, with officers and employees seen inside the restaurant while additional officers canvassed the parking lot.

New Jersey Democrat Gov. Mikie Sherill said she had been briefed on the shooting.

"As local law enforcement continues their investigation, we remain in close contact with officials on the ground," Sherrill wrote on X. "My thoughts are with those who were injured in the shooting, and with their families. I am grateful to our first responders for their swift action and continued efforts to keep the community safe."

At this time, the condition of the victims is not yet known, nor what the situation is with the shooter.

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Habba: DOJ moved ‘swiftly and decisively’ stopping a ISIS-linked Halloween terror plot targeting Jews

Photo allegedly sent by Milo Sedarat online

In the grim annals of our age, where the West's complacency towards its own undoing has become a kind of collective delusion, comes yet another tale of thwarted barbarism, foiled, mercifully, not by some grand awakening of societal resolve, but by the quiet vigilance of those still willing to do the unglamorous work of keeping the wolves from the door. 

The Department of Justice, in a rare display of what might once have been called competence, has dismantled an ISIS-inspired network that stretched like a malignant tumor from the rust-belt suburbs of Detroit to the smug shores of New Jersey. And the target was not some abstract symbol of imperial hubris, but the everyday Jews of a quiet American neighborhood, alongside the usual litany of "infidel" outposts: LGBTQ bars and the like. 

Halloween, that peculiar pagan romp turned corporate confection, was to have been their stage for slaughter.

The plot, as federal prosecutors lay it bare, was a squalid affair of encrypted whispers and adolescent zealotry. It was a "sprawling federal investigation," as the Justice Department termed it, and turned into a cabal of young men who mistook jihad for a video game. At its heart lay the "pumpkin" scheme: a mass shooting scripted for October 31st, code-named with the banality of a child's prank but armed with the lethality of AR-15s, shotguns, handguns, and a stockpile of 1,680 rounds. 

Ayob Asamil Nasser, alongside brothers Mohmed Ali and Majed Mahmoud, stand accused in a 93-page indictment from Michigan's Eastern District of conspiring to funnel material support to the Islamic State. They trained at local ranges, swapped ISIS propaganda like contraband trading cards, and eyed Ferndale's gay haunts and a Jewish community center with the cold calculus of butchers. Raids on that fateful All Hallows' Eve yielded tactical vests, GoPro cameras for their snuff-film fantasies, and magazines from a U-Haul unit that might otherwise have hauled pumpkins.

Across state lines, the tendrils extended to Tomas Jimenez-Guzel, 19, of Montclair, New Jersey, and Saed Mirreh, 19, of Kent, Washington, nabbed this week in a New Jersey indictment that knits their fates to the Michigan cell. Selfies exchanged in their fevered group chats, faces blurred in a nod to operational hygiene, show Jimenez-Guzel beneath an ISIS flag and Mirreh in jihadi drag, as if auditioning for a caliphate cosplay. 

They face charges of conspiring to aid a foreign terrorist outfit, with Jimenez-Guzel additionally tagged for attempting flight: arrested at Newark Liberty International as he angled for Turkey en route to Syria's meat grinder. Court papers, cited by the Associated Press, note how their travel frenzy accelerated post the Michigan busts, "picked up speed," as if this were a mere change in itinerary rather than a sprint from the law.

U.S. Attorney Alina Habba, presiding over the New Jersey front, cut through the fog with a statement that, in saner times, would scarcely merit remark. The defendants, she said, "had pledged themselves to ISIS" and were in "frequent communication with the Michigan cell." On Friday, she added: "We will continue to move swiftly and decisively whenever terrorism or hate threatens our communities. The threat of terrorism is real when Americans are threatened. We respond fast, focused and together." 

Words that land like a slap to the multicultural pieties that have long insisted such threats are but phantasms of Islamophobia. In Detroit, her counterpart Jerome F. Gorgon Jr. vowed persistence: "We will not stop. We will follow the tentacles where they lead." And FBI Special Agent Jennifer Runyan echoed the resolve: her team will "continue to investigate, arrest and disrupt all attempts or plots to do harm … to defend the homeland." Habba hailed the cross-jurisdictional tango as "a model of coordination against extremist threats."

The digital spoor of their conspiracy unfurls in the annals of a WhatsApp group dubbed "Muslimeen"—a forum for sharing beheading clips, plotting firearms drills, and syncing the "pumpkin" countdown. Prosecutors see it as one hydra-headed organism: some cells primed for homegrown carnage, others for the foreign lure of the caliphate's corpse. The Michigan trio cools its heels in Detroit custody; Jimenez-Guzel and Mirreh have shuffled through Newark and Seattle courtrooms. Juveniles may lurk under sealed dockets, their youth no shield against the presumptive innocence that cloaks them all—for now. A criminal complaint, after all, is but an allegation; guilt awaits the gavel's fall.

One pauses, amid this inventory of intercepted malice, to ponder the fragility of the veil we have drawn over such realities. These were not grizzled operatives smuggled across porous frontiers, but homegrown recruits, radicalized in the cradle of American liberty, their grievances nursed on the same screens that peddle TikTok dances and flat-earth follies. The Jewish center in suburban Detroit was no accident of selection; it was a deliberate echo of ancient hatreds, repackaged for the hashtag era. And yet, how swiftly the story will fade—eclipsed by the next outrage or apology tour, as our elites tut-tut about root causes that dare not speak their name. The threat endures, not in distant deserts, but in the encrypted chats of the disaffected, where the West's own hesitations furnish the accelerant. Until we confront that truth without flinching, the Habba doctrine—swift, decisive, unapologetic—remains our slender bulwark against the gathering storm.

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House to vote on censor of Dem rep in ICE facility incident

Well, guys, it’s another day in the clown show that is Washington, D.C., and Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-NJ), is stealing the spotlight with a performance that’s equal parts audacity and denial. McIver, who apparently moonlights as a professional obstructionist, has pleaded not guilty to charges of forcibly impeding federal officers at an ICE facility back in May, in spite of the video evidence clearly showing her impeding federal officers at an ICE facility in May. 

Yes, a sitting member of Congress is accused of getting physical with law enforcement while they were doing their jobs. And not just any law enforcement, mind you, but Homeland Security agents at the Delaney Hall Federal Immigration Facility in Newark. Classy move La.

Enter Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA), who's had enough of this nonsense and dropped a resolution to censure McIver and boot her from the Homeland Security Committee. "Rep. LaMonica McIver’s continued service on the Committee on Homeland Security, which is charged with oversight of Federal immigration enforcement and other national security matters, would represent a significant conflict of interest," he said. 

Translation: You can’t oversee the feds while you’re out there allegedly body-checking them. The resolution also cites House rules, specifically clause 1 of rule XXIII, which demands that members "behave at all times in a manner that shall reflect creditably on the House." Spoiler alert: Slamming your forearm into a federal officer doesn’t exactly scream "creditably."

So, what’s McIver’s defense? 

The old lefty handbook move: she’s playing the victim card faster than you can say "political persecution." In a statement to Axios, she sneered, "Clay Higgins is a bigot who wants to be back in the news." [Not like she's aiming for the spotlight or anything like that.]

But wait, she’s not done: "This resolution aims to kick me off the committee that presides over the Department of Homeland Security and shame me for doing the oversight work that is my job. Good luck, Clay." Oversight work? Is that what we’re calling it now? Body camera footage from the Department of Homeland Security paints a different picture, one where McIver, decked out in red, allegedly wrapped her arms around Newark Mayor Ras Baraka to block officers from arresting him, then threw in a forearm slam and a grab for good measure. Real oversight-y stuff there, Congresswoman.

McIver’s facing a three-count federal indictment for assaulting, resisting, impeding, and interfering with federal officers during what was supposed to be a congressional oversight visit, coincidentally timed with an immigration protest. When agents told Baraka to leave a secured area, McIver apparently decided it was time to channel her inner WWE star. After pleading not guilty last month, she doubled down, whining, "At the end of the day this is all about political intimidation. The Trump administration and his colleagues or cronies, or whatever you want to call them, have weaponized the federal government. They weaponized the Department of Justice and anybody who stands up to them, anyone who criticizes them, anyone who fights back against them finds themselves in these hairs that we are in today." Yes, she said "hairs." And yes, she’s blaming Trump for her own decision to allegedly go hands-on with federal agents. Because of course she is.

Higgins, who’s clearly not here for the drama, told Axios he waited until just before the House's five-week recess to see if Democrats would do the right thing and yank McIver’s committee assignment themselves. Spoiler: They didn’t. House Republicans have a rule that indicted members lose all committee assignments. 

Democrats are cool with indicted members keeping their seats, as long as they don’t hold leadership roles. [Gotta love those high standards.] 

Higgins summed it up nicely: McIver "should not be participating on the committee that has oversight and voting authority over the branch of federal government that she’s been indicted for committing crimes against." Hard to argue with that, unless you’re allergic to logic.

McIver’s headed to trial on Nov. 10, and if the body cam footage is any indication, she’s got some explaining to do. But don’t hold your breath for accountability, this is D.C., where consequences are as rare as an honest politician. 

In the meantime, McIver’s out here crying "intimidation" while allegedly intimidating federal officers. The irony is as thick as Nancy Pelosi's makeup.

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LaMonica McIver Steps Deeper Into the 'Find Out' Phase After ICE Detention Center Fiasco

Well, folks, it looks like Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-NJ) is learning the hard way that actions have consequences, especially when you tangle with federal law enforcement. 

As HotAir had previously reported, McIver, along with fellow New Jersey House members Robert Menendez Jr. and Bonnie Watson Coleman, decided to play activist at the Delaney Hall ICE detention center in Newark back in May. Their mission? Some vague claim of "oversight." But their mission ended in a chaotic showdown with Newark's Democrat Mayor Ras Baraka in handcuffs and McIver staring at a federal indictment.

Local reports laid out the scene: the trio tried to breeze past the facility’s first checkpoint, only to be stopped cold. Not one to be outdone, Baraka attempted a sneaky side-entrance maneuver, which didn’t exactly win him any points with the feds. 

Things got heated like a wild train jumping the tracks, as the Democrats clashed with ICE officials. Video evidence surfaced, allegedly showing McIver getting physical with officers, which prompted the Trump administration to warn that charges could be coming. And sure enough, they weren’t kidding.

The three Dems, predictably, cried foul. Watson Coleman even let slip a damning admission, essentially confessing they were trying to shield Baraka from the consequences of his stunt. Whoops. That didn’t stop the DOJ from lowering the boom. 

On May 19, U.S. Attorney Alina Habba announced charges against McIver for “assaulting, impeding, and interfering with law enforcement” under Title 18, United States Code, Section 111(a)(1). McIver’s response was to call the charges “purely political,” accusing the DOJ of trying to “criminalize and deter legislative oversight.” Sure, Congresswoman, it’s all a vast conspiracy to stop your noble quest for… what, exactly?

Fast forward to Tuesday, and the hammer dropped harder. Habba revealed that a federal grand jury in Newark returned a three-count indictment against McIver for “forcibly impeding and interfering with federal law enforcement officers.” The potential penalties are a maximum of eight years for Count One, another eight for Count Two, and a year for Count Three. 

Habba didn’t mince words: “Today a federal grand jury seated in Newark, New Jersey returned a three-count indictment charging U.S. Representative LaMonica McIver with forcibly impeding and interfering with federal law enforcement officers. This indictment has a maximum penalty of 8 years for Count One, an additional maximum penalty of 8 years for Count Two, and a maximum penalty of 1 year in prison for Count Three. As I have stated in the past, it is my Constitutional obligation as the Chief Federal Law Enforcement Officer for New Jersey to ensure that our federal partners are protected when executing their duties. While people are free to express their views for or against particular policies, they must not do so in a manner that endangers law enforcement and the communities those officers serve.Today’s decision by the grand jury is the next step in a process that my Office will pursue to a just end.”

McIver, undeterred, doubled down on her defiance, issuing a statement that she “will not be intimidated” and framing the indictment as “an effort by Trump’s administration to dodge accountability for the chaos ICE caused and scare me out of doing the work I was elected to do.” 

“This indictment is no more justified than the original charges. I will not be intimidated. My full statement: pic.twitter.com/C0aZyrnNx8”— Rep. LaMonica McIver (@RepLaMonica) June 10, 2025

Sorry, Rep. McIver, but the “Trump’s out to get me” card doesn’t quite cover allegedly putting hands on ICE officers. Welcome to the “no one is above the law” reality show, Trump edition. You’ve officially graduated to the Find Out phase.

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DOJ charges Rep. LaMonica McIver regarding ICE incident

Rep. LaMonica McIver, (D-NJ) just got slapped with charges by the Justice Department for allegedly throwing hands and obstructing cops during a wild scene outside an immigration lockup in Newark. This went down May 9, and McIver wasn’t alone; two other New Jersey House Dems were in the mix when things popped off.

Alina Habba, the interim U.S. attorney for Jersey, dropped the news late Monday on X, no less. 

She’s not playing games. In a statement attached to her post, Habba laid it out: “I have persistently made efforts to address these issues without bringing criminal charges and have given Representative McIver every opportunity to come to a resolution, but she has unfortunately declined.” Straight-up, she’s saying McIver had her shot to settle this quietly but didn’t take it.

Habba doubled down, keeping it real: “No one is above the law – politicians or otherwise. It is the job of this office to uphold justice impartially, regardless of who you are. Now we will let the justice system work.” That’s a mic drop if I ever heard one.

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Rewind to May 9—McIver rolled up to Delaney Hall with Newark Mayor Ras Baraka and Dem Reps. Bonnie Watson Coleman and Rob Menendez. Things got heated, and Baraka caught a trespassing charge from the feds. But plot twist: Habba says the DOJ’s dropping that misdemeanor against him. Guess he’s off the hook, but McIver? She’s got some explaining to do.

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NJ Mayor declares his city it "the capital of Palestine in the US"

The main street of Paterson, New Jersey, was renamed Palestine Way by the anti-Semitic Mayor of the town, Andre "Allahu Akbar" Sayegh. This schmuck declared the city to be the "capital of Palestine in the U.S." while at a ceremony marking the start of the Ramadan bomb-a-thon.

Sayegh also stated that the city was one of the four holiest in the world, after Jerusalem, Mecca, and Medina. [Of course, this is blasphemy because everyone knows the fourth holiest city is Philadelphia since the Eagles won the Super Bowl, at least until next year.]

The mayor referred to Paterson as “The Mecca of New Jersey,” which is an insult to all non Muslims who live there, especially the Jewish residents. He probably has plans to raze the town's synagogues and churches.

Sayegh was born in New Jerseysthan to a Syrian mother and a Lebanese father and hopes to make America a caliphate.  

Paterson's Muslim presence is evident through its many Palestinian flags, injured Jews, and signs in Arabic that may be signs of things to come.

The city enforces Islamic policies, such as closing schools on Muslim holidays, serving halal food in public schools, and broadcasting the Adhan (the Muslim call to prayer) on very loudspeakers throughout the city. 

The main street in the city was also renamed “Palestine Way,” and the city government actively promotes anti-Israel BDS legislation.

The Hilal lighting ceremony, where Sayegh made these remarks, was supported by the Palestinian American Community Center (PACC) and the Islamic Center of Passaic County (ICPC), two organizations that have faced criticism for anti-Israel rhetoric.

Last spring, a poll showed that half of American Muslims supported Hamas’s murders, tortures, kidnappings, mutilations, immolations and beheadings on October 7, 2023. 

The survey, conducted by the Pew Research Center among 12,693 respondents, found that 49% of American Muslims believe Hamas’s reasons for fighting against the Jewish state are valid, such as the fact that in spite of historical proof that the Jewish people inhabited Israel long before Mohammad was bumping sandals with young girls, somehow they have the right to the land. As they grow in number in the UK, they are also acting as if they have the right to the land there as well, and France, we cannot forget France.

In contrast, just 18% of American Muslims believe Israel is justified in its fight against Hamas, because science tells us that only 18% of Muslims don't follow their so called 'holy' book, the koran.

Twenty-one percent of American Muslims said the October 7th invasion of Israel and massacre of Jews were acceptable, compared to 5% or less among all other religious groups surveyed.

Sick. Just freaking sick.

Americans, as a whole, were far more likely to say Israel’s reasons for fighting were legitimate, compared to Hamas, with 58% of all respondents saying the Jewish state’s war on Hamas is valid, compared to 15% who disagreed.

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Anyone who knows what happen on Oct. 7 and still believe that it's justified to kill babies, rape women, slaughter children in front of their parents and vice-versa, has absolutely no decency and a dirty heart.

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Woman who mistakenly tore down Greek flag thinking it was Israeli flag arrested

Montclair, NJ -- The anti-Zionist/anti-Semitic woman who video recorded herself tearing down flags at a Greek restaurant in New Jersey, mistakenly thinking they were Israeli flags, was arrested and charged with bias and intimidation.

On March 11th, Amber Matthews, 23, whose TikTok handle is "Ambamelia," video recorded herself on the media site as she tore down the flags at the Efi Gyro restaurant and posted the video of her anti-Semitic act on October 15. The incident of the young low-information woman was reported to the police by the restaurant's owner, Efi Mihalis, which led to an investigation.

“Authorities reviewed security footage and found the suspect was in the establishment a week prior handing out fliers in support of Palestine, but had no leads until Matthews posted her now-viral video of the encounter last week,” The New York Post reported.

It's usually the stupid ones who get caught, and Amber was proof of that point.

In the video, the pro-Hamas Matthews snaps, “Look at that s***. … Free Palestine, b***h … I don’t stand for this. I don’t stand for genocide. I don’t stand for genocide. I don’t support it. There’s a genocide, you know that, right? They are killing children, You’re proud of your heritage? Y’all understand there’s a genocide, right? There’s nothing against people who are Jewish, but this is not okay.”

Mihalis came outside to inform her that it was a Greek restaurant.

“Oh, I thought it was Israel. My bad. Really?” she responded. “Oh, s**t.”

But the claim that Israel is committing "genocide" in Gaza is contrary to those uncomfortable facts. 

First of all, Hamas uses civilians as shields and hide among them. Even the late, not at all great, Yahya Sinwar was in favor of dead Gazans because it was good propaganda for Hamas since there are enough useful idiots like Matthews who believe what they already "know" is true. If Israel wanted to commit genocide of Gazans, their total air superiority would render Gazans dead in hours at most. 

Instead, Israel makes incredible efforts to warn civilians of impending bombings and raids. They drop leaflets, use "knock bombs" on buildings where Hamas operates to warn civilian occupants that the building is going to be destroyed and they need to evacuate. But Hamas forces Gazans to stay and die as "martyrs," because the media is going to make Israel the villain.

Meanwhile, Hamas' goal is to kill as many Jews/Israelis as they can. Did these useful idiots like Matthews really believe that killing, kidnapping, burning, raping and torturing Israeli civilians, including woman, children and babies was justified? 

When the IDF drops bombs on a structure occupied by Hamas commanders and inadvertently kill civilians, according to the rules of war, the structure is a legitimate military target. But even so, Israel's low record of civilian to terrorist kills is the lowest in the history of war and still Hamas is able to use any civilian casualties as propaganda against the Jewish State.

Hamas-provided data estimates more than 31,000 deaths but not one of these deaths is listed as combatant, nor from misfiring of their own rockets, aka friendly fire. The IDF estimates they have killed about 13,000 terrorists, which coming from a military of an American ally is much more credible than data coming from Hamassholes.

Anyway, it will be interesting to find out what happens to Amber Matthews. I just wonder what would be the case had the flag actually been Israel's.

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Michael Cohen says Trump will use SEAL Team Six to practically take over the world

Michael  Cohen, former President Donald Trump's former lawyer and former prison inmate, has made a bold and frightening prediction. If this doesn't scare the bejeezus out of you, then sir or madame, you are one tough customer.

Michael Cohen, the man who had the wisdom to turn on his former boss [not Bubba from the exercise yard in the slammer, but Trump] after getting caught arranging payments to silence women who claimed to have had affairs with Trump during the 2016 presidential election campaign, and have pleaded guilty to five counts of tax evasion failing to report over $4 million in income; and making false statements to a bank, and lying to Congress, and thus serving "three in the can," says that if Trump should win the upcoming presidential election, he will call in SEAL Team Six to round up his political opponents.

And then, who knows what he will have them do to those who have turned on him. Firing squad at dawn? Quiet disappearance? Something in the coffee that tastes like almonds but it isn't almonds at all?

Cohen isn't alone in this doomsday prognosticating. New Jersey congressman Bill Pascrell, Jr. believes--or at least he says he believes--that if Donald J. Trump is reelected, it will be the end of democracy, nay, civilization, as we know it. He will seize full power, there will be tanks on the streets, and chaos will ensue under a military dictatorship.

Rep. Bill Pascrell, Jr. 

Cohen's prediction comes a week after he said he would change his name [perhaps to Matty Cohen?] and flee the country if Trump is elected in November.

One person responded to Cohen's promise to flee the country with this tweet:

Sorry, but I don't recall the last time Michael Cohen said something that was true. At this point, I doubt that's his real name.— Jellenne 🇺🇸🌵🌞 (@jellen805) October 7, 2024

Trump was already President and had the power to attempt a takeover. He didn't, and even if a U.S. president attempted a takeover, it would never happen. Does anyone really believe the entire U.S. military and law enforcement would stand behind one person attempting a coup?

The only thing we experienced during Trump's first term was a better economy, no new wars, the decrease in illegal migration, more jobs, and greater law and order. Trump's biggest nemesis was the pandemic and he could have called for crazy measures like those called for by his replacement and the Democratic Party in general. But he didn't. 

If Trump wins in November, things will get better because he already showed us that it can. It's total bull crap to say that he would put tanks in the streets or dispatch SEAL Team Six. 

Sure the Left is scared if he wins because they know they tried to get rid of him, one way or another. And this kind of rhetoric only encourages lunatics on the Left to take action to stop Trump 'by any means necessary.'

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