Democrats Find Perfect Anti-ICE Spokesman by Apparently Asking, "Who Has the Longest Rap Sheet?"

Democrats eager to denounce ICE may have accidentally wandered into yet another casting disaster.

Houston immigration attorney Hugo Balderas-Ibarra, who rushed to defend two illegal immigrants involved in last week's fatal ICE shooting, has now found himself starring in a story with considerably more courtroom drama than the one he held a press conference to promote.

Balderas-Ibarra represents two of the three passengers who were riding with Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, who was shot after ICE says he attempted to ram an agent with his vehicle during a traffic stop. At a fiery press conference, the attorney accused ICE of lying, demanded the immediate release of his clients, and declared that they "will forever be physically and emotionally scarred by this killing," adding, "None of these families will ever be whole again."

Those remarks landed a little differently after court documents surfaced showing Balderas-Ibarra is currently out on a $20,000 bond for felony assault involving family violence by impeding breathing.

According to court records, the alleged victim was preparing to leave for a flight after discovering something on Balderas-Ibarra's phone. She packed her belongings, which he allegedly confiscated before eventually agreeing to bring them to the airport.

That airport reunion reportedly went about as smoothly as a TSA line on Thanksgiving.

Court documents allege Balderas-Ibarra threw her luggage onto the ground and, when she bent over to retrieve it, "grabbed her by her neck with his left hand." The records further state that as other people approached, he "squeezed harder and twisted her throat."

The alleged victim told investigators she could not breathe, became dizzy, and later suffered nausea, headaches, and swelling to her neck. Authorities documented visible injuries, leading to the felony strangulation charge.

As if that résumé wasn't already impressive enough for modern political activism, records also show Balderas-Ibarra was already free on bond in Florida for separate domestic violence, kidnapping, and false imprisonment charges when the alleged Texas assault occurred.

Naturally, none of this prevented him from appearing alongside Democratic Rep. Al Green, Rep. Sylvia Garcia, and Harris County District Attorney Sean Teare to lecture America about justice.

At the press conference, Balderas-Ibarra insisted ICE's version of events had "varied" and claimed his clients had a completely different account.

"All three of my clients reiterated that at no point was there ever an agent standing in front of the vehicle, nor was an agent ever placed in the line of danger. That is simply false. And I believe my clients are telling the truth," said Balderas-Ibarra.

He also demanded ICE release his clients before they could be deported, arguing it was necessary to preserve the "integrity" of the investigation.

Repulsive Al Green yelling as usual

Then came the inevitable applause line.

"I am calling for drastic changes to the way ICE conducts their immigration enforcement," he said, adding, "This is not immigration enforcement. This is racial profiling."

Everything is racism, isn't it, for the left?

Democrats have spent years assuring Americans they stand with victims. They just keep having an uncanny knack for putting people with criminal charges at the microphone while insisting everyone else is the real problem.

At this point, opposition research has become so optional that campaign staff may simply be scrolling arrest records looking for the next civil rights icon.

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Alleged "reporter" for CNN in UK "afraid" to travel to US

"I have a British accent, so you must believe me"

 CNN’s Christiane Amanpour, self-styled queen of international journalism, just dropped a stinkbomb so unhinged it could make Kim Jong-un blush. 

The 67-year-old British-Iranian reporter, who’s dodged bullets in war zones like the Gulf and Bosnia, says she geared up for a trip to the U.S. like she was infiltrating North Korea.  The land of the free, home of the brave? More like Pyongyang with better Wi-Fi, apparently.

“I have to tell you, when I went to Harvard to give this speech, and it was just a few days ago last week, I must say, I was afraid,” Amanpour whined on her podcast “The Ex Files,” where she trades hot takes with her ex-husband, former State Department suit James Rubin. 

Afraid of what? The horrors of Harvard Yard? A rogue TSA pat-down? No, she was quaking in her boots about stepping foot in Trump’s America, wait, Biden’s America. 

“I’m a foreigner, I don’t have a green card, I’m not an American citizen, I’m fairly prominent, and I literally prepared to go to America as if I was going to North Korea,” the withering violet said, probably clutching her pearls for dramatic effect. She's ditching her iPhone and iPad for a burner phone. “I took a burner phone, Jamie, imagine that,” she told Rubin, a man who left her for some reason. 

She sounded like she was auditioning for a Jason Bourne flick. The phone had nothing but a few numbers: her assistant, her ex, her kid, and a CNN lawyer. Because nothing screams “I’m ready for Guantanamo” like a Nokia with four contacts.

CNN’s finest compares a U.S. trip to sneaking into North Korea: “I took a burner phone. Imagine that!” Cue the spy music. pic.twitter.com/ash7S47rjG
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman)

Amanpour’s been around war zones, dictatorships, you name it. But apparently, a quick hop to Cambridge, Massachusetts, had her sweating like she was crossing the DMZ. “I was really afraid,” she lied, citing rumors of British citizens getting grilled at the border for “hours and hours and hours.”

 She even consulted CNN’s security team, probably expecting a SWAT escort. 

Spoiler alert: She waltzed through customs without a hitch. “So, huge sigh of relief I breathed,” she admitted, before pivoting to her real point: “But wow, can you imagine if I’m afraid, what do others think?” Others, presumably, being the huddled masses who don’t have CNN’s legal department on speed dial. 

This isn’t Amanpour’s first time when she released unhinged hyperbole. Back in 2020, she made a lazy comparison of Trump’s presidency to Nazi Germany. I bet she claims she made that one up all by herself.

On her CNN show, just days after the 2020 election, she kicked things off with this gem: “This week, 82 years ago, Kristallnacht happened.” You know, the 1938 Nazi pogrom where Jews were attacked, their homes and businesses trashed, and synagogues burned. No biggie, just another Tuesday for Amanpour to link to Trump, and coming from an obvious anti-Semite, she probably shouldn't have gone the way of the Nazis because it hurts her cause.

“It was the Nazis’ warning shot across the bow of our human civilization that led to genocide against a whole identity, and in that tower of burning books, it led to an attack on fact, knowledge, history and truth,” she bloviated. “After four years of a modern-day assault on those same values by Donald Trump, the Biden-Harris team pledges a return to norms, including the truth.”

Yeah, sure, how'd that work out for the Biden bull throwers?

Jewish groups weren’t exactly thrilled, with one telling her to “stop using the horrors of the Holocaust to justify an agenda.” But does the anti-Semitic woman care? Nah. She’s too busy packing burner phones for her next “dangerous” mission to the land of Starbucks and free speech.

This is ⁦⁦@camanpour on⁩ ⁦@CNN⁩ comparing Trump’s tenure to Nazi Germany. How the hell is this sort of prejudice tolerated on mainstream media? Third rate rubbish. pic.twitter.com/EG9eB9vQWo
— Ben Habib (@benhabib6) November 12, 2020

So here we are, folks. Christiane Amanpour, globetrotting "journalist" who stared down warlords, is out here acting like a trip to the U.S. requires a covert op. 

Next time, maybe she’ll just Zoom in from London and save the burner phone for the real dictators.

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Tulsi Gabbard exposes Biden's secret program to quiet conservatives

They thought they could bury it forever, locked away in a vault of secrecy and bureaucratic jargon. The Biden administration’s blueprint for dismantling American freedom was meant to stay hidden, shielded from the eyes of a public they claimed to serve.

But they didn’t see Tulsi Gabbard coming.

In a bombshell move that’s got the DC swamp in a frenzy, Director of National Intelligence Gabbard just ripped the crap-stained sheets off the Biden era’s most chilling and wordy document: the so-called “Strategic Implementation Plan for Countering Domestic Terrorism.”

“As promised, I have declassified the Biden Administration’s Strategic Implementation Plan for Countering Domestic Terrorism. Read it here: https://t.co/VAXDHkgZTK https://t.co/oNXjKDqamc” — DNI Tulsi Gabbard (
@DNIGabbard) April 16, 2025

Let’s strip away the Orwellian doublespeak. This isn’t a “plan to counter terrorism”—it’s a straight-up playbook for targeting conservatives. While Biden droned on about “unity,” his team was weaponizing Big Tech to silence dissent and building a surveillance state to track Americans with the “wrong” opinions. To his credit, Biden was likely not aware of what his handler[s] was doing because he wasn't aware of most everything beyond ice cream and hair.

The document’s a progressive fever dream: monitor “suspicious” online speech (read: anything right of AOC), bloat federal watchlists with conservatives, and—surprise—find fresh ways to gut the Second Amendment.

Don’t buy the “protecting democracy” hogwash. The Government Accountability Office confirms this wasn’t just talk—it was in motion. How many patriots got labeled “threats” for posting a MAGA meme or questioning an election?

They even slapped Tulsi Gabbard on the TSA’s terrorist watchlist. That’s the Left's America for you.

The plan’s biggest issue? A push for red flag laws and gun restrictions, cloaked as preventing “lethal means.” In their world, owning a firearm or loving the Constitution makes you a “domestic terrorist.”
The SIP ordered agencies to hunt down “DT-related content” online, cozying up with Big Tech to monitor, flag, and erase speech that didn’t toe the progressive line. First Amendment? What’s that?

The Twitter Files already exposed this game—government goons leaning on tech giants to smother dissent on COVID, elections, you name it. The report brags about agencies sharing “relevant information on DT-related and associated transnational terrorist online content” with private companies.

 
This wasn’t a misstep—it was a deliberate attack on the liberties that define America. While the left shrieked about “democracy under threat,” they were laying the groundwork for tyranny.

Gabbard’s declassification is a gut punch to the establishment, exposing what Biden’s “moderate” crew was cooking up in the shadows. Now we’re left wondering: what else is lurking in those classified files?
The founders would be spitting mad. But maybe this is the wake-up call America needs—a reminder of what happens when we let power-drunk bureaucrats run wild, far from the sunlight of accountability.

Next time you hear a Democrat preaching about “saving democracy,” remember this plan. Their version of “democracy” is a far cry from the Republic our founders bled for.

And know that Tulsi Gabbard has bigger balls than Biden and his handler[s], figuratively speaking, of course.

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A TSA official arrested by US Customs and Border Protection

Don't let her smile fool you--she's probably going to the slammer

A Transportation Security Administration (TSA) official, Maxine McManaman, has been arrested on an outstanding warrant, local media reports. 

McManaman an Assistant Federal Security Director, was arrested in Atlanta by U.S. Customs and Border Protection on December 28. The warrant for her arrest was posted by the St. Lucie County Sheriff's Office. It claimed that McManaman and an alleged complice, Delroy Chambers Sr., exploited a relative suffering from dementia by falsifying documents in their name, according to Port St. Lucie Police.

According to Florida authorities, the pair forged signatures on a quitclaim deed transferring ownership of property in the relative's name over to themselves. That's also known as stealing and in most places, especially those run by Republicans, is a crime.

The person with dementia [not Joe Biden, this time] who was the target in the illegal operation, was found to be in Atlanta on the date listed and could not have signed the quitclaim.

McManaman's partner, Chambers was previously arrested on Dec. 20 in Port St. Lucie, charged with two counts of exploitation of an elderly or disabled adult, simple neglect and two counts of forgery. He eventually bonded out of jail.

McManaman is facing a third-degree felony charge of forgery, which is similar to Harvard president Gay's plagiarism, except it's about copying money.

She was reportedly apprehended after landing in Atlanta on an international flight.

McManaman had been an employee of the TSA since November 2002 and held a management-level position at the airport, according to local reports. She has been placed on leave pending a law enforcement investigation and is being held at Clayton County Jail in Jonesboro, Georgia.

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Transgender "woman" sues TSA for being afraid of him and others with gender dysphoria

Rosalynne Montoya

A man who sees himself as a woman [aka transgender woman] accused the TSA of being "transphobic." By definition a phobia is an irrational fear. So people accused of having homophobia are, by definition, afraid of homosexuals. Personally, I don't see it.

Anyway, the guy with gender dysphoria accused the TSA of being "transphobic" saying "Going through the scanner, I always have an "anomaly" between my legs that sets off the alarm."

Rosalynne Montoya, a model and content creator, recently shared an experience with social media users and insisted that TSA is transphobic, not specifying if it was every employee of the TSA or anyone in particular.

Montoya, according to Buzzfeed, is an Arizona-based, Hispanic, bisexual, nonbinary, [two thumbs-up with a snap] transgender woman, which means that he is a man who believes he is a woman, likes having sex with anyone regardless of their genitals, but is also a [nonbinary] person who may experience himself as neither exclusively a man or a woman or perhaps sees himself somewhere in between the two sexes.

Confused yet? So is he.

Montoya was recently traveling from Phoenix to Los Angeles to visit his boyfriend and when he arrived at the airport, he said he was humiliated at the hands of the TSA.

"Can we talk about how horrible it is to travel while being transgender sometimes?" Montoya asked in the now-viral video. 

"I always have immense anxiety leading up to going through security. And this means that I totally recognize the privilege of having all of my documents correct. So, the gender marker on my license, for example, says 'female.'" Which is inaccurate but politically correct for the woke of the world.

"But, going through the scanner, there's a male scanner and a female scanner in the TSA checkpoint," Montoya continued. "And, looking at me, you know, I look like a woman and I am a woman. So, that's great. I love having systemic privilege when I feel unsafe, which is in an airport. But, going through the scanner, I always have an 'anomaly' between my legs that sets off the alarm. And so [a female TSA agent] asked me if I had anything in my pants and I told her 'No' and she's like, 'Well, maybe it's just like the metal on your shorts, so let's scan you again.'"

They didn't realize that Montoya's "anomaly" is his penis because he is, after all, a dude who dresses as a woman and thinks that it's the clothes that make the woman, not the biology. See, biology isn't woke; it's science.

Transgender reading time at public library is
sickeningly sexualized

Montoya said that she went through the scanner a second time, only to be told that she needed to be patted down.

"So, I was like look, I'm trans. Just pat me down. And her solution was, 'Do you want to be scanned as a man instead?' I didn't. But, I ended up doing it and then my boobs set off the scanner because, of course," she continued. "So, I tried to make a joke out of it. I was like, 'Oh yeah, there's a lot of plastic in there! It's fine.' So then she was like, 'OK, well we have to pat you down. Do you want a man to do it?' I said, 'No! Absolutely not.'"

After his experience, Montoya said he felt "dysphoric and disrespected." He definitely is dysphoric but why disrespect? He seemed to be treated fairly.

Transgender people put themselves in difficult circumstances. What if a trans woman went to the hospital with symptoms of prostatic cancer but presented as a woman on his ID? Or if the gender was reversed and a transgender man got pregnant? Treatments would at least initially, be compromised. 

Montoya victimized himself.

"In the future, I will be signing up and paying for TSA pre-check before my next flight to hopefully prevent this from ever happening to me again, but I shouldn't have to take this extra step in order to feel safe while traveling," Montoya added.

According to the outlet, Montoya said representatives from the TSA headquarters have reached out to him and want to have a conversation with him on Friday. 

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American Airlines employee jailed for trying to bypass security, yells threats and racial slurs

An American Airlines employee is going to jail for 14 months after he tried to bypass a TSA checkpoint at Charlotte Douglas International Airport, and the cursed and shouted racial slurs at police and airport security after they turned him away.

Jordan Moore, 31, will also serve two years of supervised release in addition to the 14 months he will spend in lockup after a federal judge handed down his sentence.

Court documents said the incident occurred on March 30, 2017 at about 5:25 p.m. Moore attempted to bypass the airport's TSA pre-check line without a boarding pass. He was denied access to the express line by TSA officers.

Moore responded by calling the TSA supervisor a "b****ass n*****" and then threatened to "kick his ass" and kill him, the Charlotte Observer reported.

The undiagnosed idiot then tried to get through two other pre-check lines before American Airlines security agents and police told him he could not fly and ordered him to leave the airport.

As he was being escorted out of the airport by Charlotte-Mecklenburg police, Moore used the same racial slurs at the TSA supervisor and ran down a flight of stairs and jumped on a bus.

He returned two hours later and once again tried to get through the TSA checkpoint, proving the level of his stupidity.

A TSA officer who had seen his photo shared with security personnel, asked Moore to wait, but instead, the idiot walked to baggage screening and placed his luggage on the conveyor belt.

"I am not going to do a f***ing thing," he told an agent. "I am going in--just watch me."

Police approached Moore as he tried to continue with his baggage screening.

"You cannot stop me; I am an airline employee," he said to the police, according to the Charlotte Observer. 

Police tried to remove his personal items from the screening table and Moore tried to grab the bin from the officers. He cursed and told the police, "Don't touch my stuff!"

One officer tried to detain Moore who "violently resisted arrest." Five officers came to restrain him.

Moore pleaded guilty in November to one count of interfering with security personnel. He said he accepted responsibility "for what I actually did," but told the judge he "just wanted to go home" to see his family, find a job and apply to pharmacy school.

In spite of the fact that Moore shouted racial slurs, he has not been charged with a hate crime because he gets a free pass.


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Nine CNBC crew arrested for fake bomb plot

Nine failed fake bomb-plotters of a CNBC news crew were arrested Thursday at Newark Liberty International Airport, according to the TSA. The network thought they could sneak a fake explosive device through a security checkpoint but they got nailed.

Perhaps the liberal cable network was trying to show how the real problem wasn't immigration, but instead, airport security.

A law enforcement source said the team was filming for CNBC, which is based in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. Names of the idiots arrested were not released, and the Port Authority only said that it was investigating the incident.

One source said the fake bomb was a length of PVC pipe with wires protruding from it. A TSA bomb tech determined the device posed no threat, only an incredible inconvenience for workers and travelers. 

May the CNBC crew rot in prison with no chance for parole. Okay, okay, that's a bit over the top.

A third source said the crew was from the Endemol Shine Group based in the Netherlands and contracts with CNBC. Endemol is the production company behind MasterChef and The Biggest Loser.  Now nine of their crew are the biggest losers.

"We are looking into the details of what happened as a matter of priority and are in contact with relevant authorities on the ground. While this process is ongoing, we are unable to comment further, but in the meantime, we sincerely apologize for any disruption caused," said Julie Holland, a spokeswoman with an ironic last name for the Dutch company.

The law enforcement source said the crew would probably be charged by the Essex County Prosecutor's Office with creating a false public alarm, conspiracy and interference with transportation, but that Essex County would make that determination.

Alex Jones likely believes it was a "dry-run" and that the Netherlands is planning an attack on the United States mainland.

The TSA said the group "attempted to intentionally carry through the security checkpoint an item in a carry-on bag that had all of the makings of an improvised explosive device. At the same time, others in the group covertly filmed the encounter" [possibly to assist Islamic extremists in planning future attacks by showing security 'soft points'].

"The preliminary investigation indicates that all were in collaboration and claimed to be working for a television network," Lisa Farbstein, acting director of media relations wrote in the news release. "The group did not make it past the checkpoint because TSA officers detected the item, which was concealed in a roller bag."

The group faces civil penalties of up to $13,000 for each security violation in addition to criminal charges, which is as likely as Hillary Clinton or James Comey going to the slammer for their illegal activities.


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Jihad by immigration without assimilation

The plan is to relocate Muslim immigrants into the US at a rate of 100,000 per year and now the Obama administration plans to increase and accelerate the number of Syrian "refugees" who might make the cut (in possibly more ways than one) by opening screening locations in Lebanon and Iraq.

What could possibly go wrong?

The latest brainstorm came after our so-called president pledged in September to admit an additional 10,000 more Syrian "refugees" in 2016. Now the State Department confirmed the plans to open a processing center in Erbil, Iraq before the new year, and resume processing in Lebanon in early 2016, according to spokesperson Danna Van Brandt.

The Obama Muslim Brotherhood folks didn't say how many more "refugees" (that is, young Muslim men, mostly, who enjoy roasting kebabs over an American flag fire) they would seek to admit beyond the 10,000 figure, but you can bet your cross, Ganesha statue or mezuzah that it's going to be as many as can fit in the towns and cities slated to take them in.

The notion that the Obama administration is going to vet every "refugee" is laughable. We can't even get the TSA to vet passengers with dummy bombs, let alone 100,000 young jihadists from a country where having an actual birth certificate means you're a snob.

Senator Grassley (R-Iowa) is trying to persuade his colleagues to limit funding for transporting "refugees" from Syria due to security concerns. Grassley sent Sens. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) and Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) a letter demanding they impose "firm limits" on funding allocation.

"I urge that you, as part of the appropriations legislation before the committee, require, as a condition for any funding for refugee resettlement for Syrian refugees, a comprehensive plan on how security will be achieved. Furthermore, not one dollar should be expended until stringent parameters for vetting these refugees are established."

The Syrian conflict began in 2011 with anti-Al-Assad protests that evolved into a full-blown civil war. Since it began, 50,000 people have died and about 4 million have been driven abroad as either refugees or "refugees," the latter using scare quotes because the demographics imply these young men are not quite refugee material (use your imagination and knowledge of Islamic conquests).

Most of those who have fled Syria have taken residence in Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan, while many have also fled to Europe where they will soon demand the implementation of Sharia and death to the Jews in town.

Just kidding--they'll wait on the last part.

So for now, we don't know the background of these individuals who will be arriving. We will not know if they have transmittable diseases or illnesses, or even terrorist group ties. Residents in the towns where they will arrive have the right to know who their new "neighbors" are, but they're not being told.

Special arrangements will have to be made to accomodate the needs of the school children. Virtually all of the children do not speak English--but then again, neither do most American kids.

And parents will demand the schools provide Halal food. (How come the Jews never demanded Kosher food?) Then as their numbers grow (because some men may have as many as 4 wives, and those who don't, still have lots of kids) they will try to impose Sharia law, as I mentioned.

But let's not forget that President Obama issued an executive memorandum on November 21, 2014 to all federal agencies directing them on "Creating Welcoming Communities and Fully Integrated Immigrants and Refugees."

Notice he used the word "integrated," not "assimilated."

Now it begins, America .  .  .  the immigration jihad.

I sincerely hope I'm wrong.


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Newark Airport Terrorism Slip-up

September 25th, 2013 (pre-sequester): A undercoverTSA agent was able to sneak a "bomb" through security at Newark Airport. Liberal Juan Williams defended Security by saying, "Well, at least there hasn't been any incidents on planes since 911." On the other hand, nobody was caught with a bomb or weapon trying to board a plane, so the point is moot. Had the bomb been real . . .  BOOM! Simple as that. Why is it that liberals like Juan Williams don't get it? Why do they always defend the indefensible?

The idea of security checks is not to actually find bombs or weapons in order to keep the public safe, the idea is to give the public the illusion of safety. It's like the old joke of the accountant who figured the chances of there being a bomb on his plane was about one in a hundred thousand, so he took his own bomb--the chances of having two bombs on the same plane were one in ten million.

My idea: allow every passenger, in fact, demand that every passenger carry a handgun on all flights, using weaker-charged rounds (to prevent piercing the skin of the aircraft) should some Muslim terrorist, or a terrorist of a religion less known for attempting mass killing of Westerners, try to overtake the crew. This ought to give pause to any terrorist who sneaks a box cutter up his butt or who has a gun of his own. 

Another idea that would increase security and make flying safer would be to have Obama take one less golf vacation or one less Hawaiian vacation each year and use the money not spent for his pleasure be used to hire a hundred or so additional  Air Marshals.  

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