The felon is going to Alligator Alcatraz! Sadly, not as an inmate.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — President Donald Trump is expected to be at the formal opening Tuesday of a controversial immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades that state leaders have dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz .”
The Palm Beach Post reported Sunday that Federal Aviation Administration data indicated that Trump would be in South Florida for the opening. Two White House officials and a Florida official familiar with the travel confirmed to NBC News that Trump is “likely” to be there.
The facility is on a little-used airstrip in Miami-Dade County that Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration seized using emergency powers to build a housing facility for undocumented migrants. DeSantis issued an emergency order focused on immigration in early 2023, and he has since then extended it multiple times. The measure gives him significant authority to take actions such as seizing land. Some local political leaders in Miami-Dade County opposed DeSantis’ taking the land for the Everglades-based detention center.
The facility, which was set up quickly — in roughly one week — by the DeSantis administration, was the brainchild of state Attorney General James Uthmeier, who is DeSantis’ former chief of staff and one of his top political advisers.
Environmental groups sued to block the plan Friday, arguing it could have devastating effects on the Everglades.
“The site is more than 96% wetlands, surrounded by Big Cypress National Preserve, and is habitat for the endangered Florida panther and other iconic species,” Eve Samples, executive director of Friends of the Florida Everglades, which is among the groups suing, said in a statement. “This scheme is not only cruel, it threatens the Everglades ecosystem that state and federal taxpayers have spent billions to protect.”
Hundreds of people also turned out Saturday for a protest against construction of the facility, which is expected to have 5,000 immigrant detention beds.
“Alligator Alcatraz” has been hyped as the highest-profile example of Florida’s push to be the state that most aggressively tries to align with Trump’s immigration agenda.
Instead of working for the benefit of Floridians, the state’s governor is simply kissing up to the felon.
And how seriously are the feds taking their obligations?
The Department of Homeland Security took to social media on Saturday to try its hand at comedy. The department, which has been slammed for its masked arrests that look more like kidnappings , posted an image trolling critics of the so-called “Alligator Alcatraz ” or “Gator Gitmo” plan.
The image features a row of four alligators in ICE hats standing in front of a concrete prison surrounded by a razor-wire-topped fence. It appears to be AI-generated—unless their photographer had a really good reptile handler.
The felonials aren’t going to deport an undocumented migrant because that particular person is, you guessed it, cooperating with the felonials to get rid of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Court records show that the Trump administration has agreed to spare from deportation a key witness in the federal prosecution of Kilmar Abrego Garcia in exchange for his cooperation in the case.
Jose Ramon Hernandez Reyes, 38, has been convicted of smuggling migrants and illegally reentering the United States after having been deported. He also pleaded guilty to “deadly conduct” in connection with a separate incident where he drunkenly fired a gun in a Texas community.
Records reviewed by The Washington Post show that Hernandez Reyes has been released early from federal prison to a halfway house and has been given permission to stay in the U.S. for at least a year.
Prosecutors have identified Hernandez Reyes as the “first cooperator” in the case against Abrego, according to court filings. The Department of Homeland Security maintains that Hernandez owned the SUV that Abrego Garcia was allegedly using to smuggle migrants when the Tennessee Highway Patrol stopped him in 2022. That traffic stop is at the center of the criminal investigation against Abrego Garcia.
Hernandez Reyes is among a handful of cooperating witnesses who could help the administration deport Abrego Garcia
I know who I’d rather have staying in the United States, and it’s cetainly not the convicted smuggler who shot up a town while he was drunk.
I certainly would rather have this guy in the United States, too.
A man who ran into the water to help a 9-year-old girl after she was bitten by a shark in Florida may be facing deportation after he was arrested and accused of driving without a license days after the attack.
Luis Alvarez, 31, of Lehigh Acres, in Lee County, Florida, around 140 miles northwest of Miami, was stopped about 1:30 a.m. on June 14 after police say he was driving without his headlights on.
He was driving a gray SUV with a Rhode Island tag, according to the Collier County Sheriff’s Office arrest report .
Court records indicate he is being held in jail by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according to reporting from the Fort Myers News-Press , part of the USA TODAY Network. He is scheduled to go before a judge on July 9.
USA TODAY has reached out to ICE for more information.
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Alvarez was on the beach and ran into the water to help on June 11 when Leah Lendel, 9, was bitten by a shark.
Lendel’s hand was nearly severed after the attack, which happened in the ocean a few feet off the beach in Boca Grande, Florida.
Lendel’s hand was nearly severed, but fast action at the scene and an airlift to Tampa General Hospital allowed surgeons to reattach her hand . She is recovering.
Alvarez went into the water first to scare the shark, her sister Raynel Lugo, who also helped during the rescue, said in an interview with Fox4 News .
“He jumped in that area to bring her out when I was assisting Leah,” said Lugo in the Fox4 interview. “He went deep underwater, not even caring about the shark. He went really deep. He probably faced the shark.”
He’s a hero. And who’s trying to deport him? Yep, an adminisration run by a felon.
The Big Bullshit Bill is being debated in the Senate as you sleep. (The bolding is mine.)
WASHINGTON (AP) — Debate is underway in the Senate for an all-night session Sunday, with Republicans wrestling President Donald Trump’s big bill of tax breaks and spending cuts over mounting Democratic opposition — and even some brake-pumping over the budget slashing by the president himself.
The outcome from the weekend of work in the Senate remains uncertain and highly volatile, and overnight voting has been pushed off until Monday. GOP leaders are rushing to meet Donald Trump ’s Fourth of July deadline to pass the package, but they barely secured enough support to muscle it past a procedural Saturday night hurdle in a tense scene . A handful of Republican holdouts revolted, and it took phone calls from Trump and a visit from Vice President JD Vance to keep it on track.
GOP Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina announced Sunday he would not seek reelection after Trump badgered him for saying he could not vote for the bill with its steep Medicaid cuts. A new analysis from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office found that 11.8 million more Americans would become uninsured by 2034 if the bill became law. It also said the package would increase the deficit by nearly $3.3 trillion over the decade.
So Tillis is out. How soon before the felon targets the CBO?
Blue States are copying the felon , and it’s going to be whack.
Democratic legislators mostly in blue states are attempting to fight back against President Donald Trump’s efforts to withhold funding from their states with bills that aim to give the federal government a taste of its own medicine.
The novel and untested approach — so far introduced in Connecticut, Maryland , New York and Wisconsin — would essentially allow states to withhold federal payments if lawmakers determine the federal government is delinquent in funding owed to them. Democrats in Washington state said they are in the process of drafting a similar measure.
These bills still have a long way to go before becoming law, and legal experts said they would face obstacles. But they mark the latest efforts by Democrats at the state level to counter what they say is a massive overreach by the Trump administration to cease providing federal funding for an array of programs that have helped states pay for health care, food assistance and environmental protections.
“Trump is illegally withholding funds that have been previously approved,” said David Moon, the Democratic majority leader in Maryland’s House of Delegates. “Without these funds, we are going to see Maryland residents severely harmed — we needed more options on the table for how Maryland could respond and protect its residents.”
Moon said the two bills are in response to various Trump actions that have withheld federal funding for programs that pay to assist with children’s mental health and flood wall protections. He compared the bills he’s introduced to traditional “collections” actions that one would take against a “deadbeat debtor.” Even if they were not to move forward, Moon said the bills would help to bring about an audit and accounting of federal money to the state.
U.S. Institute of Peace is still screwed.
[quote]lifted a lower court’s ruling on Friday blocking the Trump administration from dismantling the U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP).
The U.S. Appeals Court for the District of Columbia Circuit said the president would likely suffer “irreparable” harm from not being able to “fully execute” his executive power over the Institute’s board.
The decision relies on a Supreme Court ruling last month that allowed the president to fire two independent agency leaders as their lawsuits proceed.
“As a general rule, the President may remove executive officers at will. The Supreme Court has recognized a narrow exception for ‘multimember expert agencies that do not wield substantial executive power’ and that exercise ‘quasi-judicial’ or ‘quasi-legislative’ power,” the three-judge panel wrote in the order.
“Because the Institute exercises substantial executive power, the Government is likely to succeed on its claim that the Board’s removal protections are unconstitutional,” they added.
The Institute, a national nonpartisan organization created by Congress, is dedicated to protecting U.S. interests by helping to prevent violent conflicts and broker peace deals abroad, according to their website .
The Second Felonial Administration is more like a sieve than anything else.
A second intelligence leak has undermined President Donald Trump ’s claim that the Iranian nuclear program has been “totally obliterated.”
Intercepted audio captured Iranian officials describing damage at three nuclear sites as “less devastating than expected” despite 30,000-pound bunker buster bombs and Tomahawk cruise missiles being used, The Washington Post
The audio marks the second time this week that leaked intelligence contradicts Trump’s claims that Iran’s nuclear program was “blown up to kingdom come.” Trump, 79, repeated similar lines as recently as Sunday morning in an interview on Fox News.
The War on Education continues.
Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) said in a Sunday interview that University of Virginia President James Ryan, who submitted his resignation on Friday , was given an “explicit” deadline to step aside, in a letter last week from the Department of Justice (DOJ).
In an interview on CBS News’s “Face the Nation,” Warner condemned the Trump administration’s pressure campaign against Ryan, who resigned on Friday to avoid funding cuts to the university.
Trump’s DOJ had been investigating allegations that the school was not in compliance with President Trump’s January executive order barring diversity, equity and inclusion practices at institutions that receive federal funding.
“This is the most outrageous action, I think, this crowd has taken on education. We have great public universities in Virginia. We have a very strong governance system, where we have an independent board of visitors appointed by the governor,” Warner said. “Jim Ryan had done a very good job; just completed a major capital campaign.”
And another salvo here.
Hundreds of thousands of community college students are at risk of losing financial assistance under the proposed “Big, Beautiful Bill,” which would tighten eligibility requirements for Pell Grants.
Students would be required to enroll full time to maintain eligibility for the federally subsidized grants that serve as a financial lifeline for many low- to middle-income students.
The bill would increase the number of credit hours students must take each semester from 12 to 15 and could strain those who work, parent, suffer financial distress or otherwise find it difficult to increase their course loads, according to the American Association of Community Colleges.
Not only will this make it more difficult and expensive for everyone in general, it will negatively impact those service members and veterans who wish to use their GI Bill. To get the full monthly payment, one must be enrolled full time. Jacking up the hours required to be considered full time is a way of stopping education, not encouraging it.
Bigmouth cannot stop talking about his crimes.
Maybe it is a nasty world. It’ll be a lot less nasty once the felon’s gone, though.
The country’s top diplomat ain’t so diplomatic. (The bolding is mine.)
Morale has tanked at Marco Rubio’s State Department as staffers are asked to work overtime ahead of looming layoffs.
Rubio has called the agency “bloated” and, in April, announced his intent to lay off 15 percent of its workforce of more than 2,000.
This month, however, staff at the State Department have been asked to work long hours to keep Americans overseas safe amid the flaring tensions between Israel and Iran—leaving staffers at the agency feeling insulted that they have been asked to volunteer for extra work while at the same time having their jobs threatened, according to The Washington Post .
One State Department official told the Post that the department “either doesn’t appreciate or just doesn’t care” about its workers.
“Doing extra shifts while this ax is swinging above our heads is just devastating to morale,” the insider added.
The tensions were exacerbated when staff were sent a message requesting that they round up joyous photos of July 4 celebrations at embassies and consulates around the world, the Post reported.
Staff were asked to “collect a high-quality set of visuals”—including “candid shots of attendees enjoying the event” and “smiling children, families, and diplomats.”
“To me, the irony of asking for happy photos of smiling children, happy families, and guests celebrating while threatening to fire thousands is peak Trumpism,” one State Department staffer said.
The most powerful man in the world wants to send prisoners from CECOT to France because he’s offended.
El Salvador’s president said he would send inmates of the country’s notorious mega-prison to France in the wake of a Paris Fashion Week show critiquing the government’s treatment of the prisoners.
Nayib Bukele criticised a collection debuted by Willy Chavarria, a Mexican-American designer, featuring models wearing outfits resembling inmate uniforms at El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center (Cecot).
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Apparently the felonials didn’t consider administation while they’re misadmiistrating.
WASHINGTON – The federal government could have to change how it issues Social Security numbers now that the Supreme Court has said President Donald Trump’s order ending birthright citizenship can take effect outside of specific cases where it’s been blocked by a lower court.
For decades, whenever a baby is born in the U.S., hospitals have notified state vital records agencies, which have in turn notified the Social Security Administration, that a new person needs a Social Security number. The so-called “enumeration at birth” policy is automatic for the government and simple for parents, who merely check a box on a hospital form.
Trump’s order , if it takes effect in 30 days, could make the process more complicated, though neither the Social Security Administration nor the White House responded to requests for comment Friday about how it could change.
Nancy Altman, president of Social Security Works, a liberal advocacy group that opposes benefit cuts, said the Supreme Court decision, allowing at least partial implementation of Trump’s birthright directive, could create “widespread chaos” and require more Americans to visit Social Security field offices in order to get Social Security numbers for their babies.
The order forbids federal agencies to accept or issue documents recognizing citizenship to babies whose mothers are not lawfully present in the United States. The text describes exactly the sort of sending and receiving of documents that occurs through the enumeration at birth process.
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To the extent the order takes effect, in Altman’s telling, the Social Security Administration will have to track court cases and devise some way of determining which babies are eligible for enumeration and which aren’t, and that doing so could be extremely difficult.
“It might mean that SSA simply ends its enumeration at birth program, costing huge amounts of money, causing huge inconvenience, and swamping already overwhelmed field offices,” Altman said.
Canceling or curtailing Social Security’s enumeration at birth program would likely cause a public backlash, one that the Trump administration might like to avoid, since it’s the way 99% of babies have received their Social Security numbers since the 1990s.
In March, the Social Security Administration canceled vital records contracts with the state of Maine in an act of political retaliation against Maine’s Democratic governor. The state notified parents they would have to visit Social Security field offices to get their kids’ Social Security numbers, prompting an outcry that forced Social Security to quickly reinstate the contracts.
But,hey, why would those babies even need a Social Security account?
(Reuters) -Republican U.S. Senator Markwayne Mullin said on Sunday he believes babies born in the United States to immigrants living in the country illegally should be deported alongside their parents if the adults are removed.
Mullin’s comments on NBC’s “Meet the Press” came in response to questions about a U.S. Supreme Court decision on Friday that paved the way for President Donald Trump ’s executive order restricting birthright citizenship to go into effect soon in some states.
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NBC’s Kristen Welker asked Mullin what should happen to babies born in the United States whose parents are deported, given that the children are U.S. citizens under current law.
“Well, they should go where their parents are,” said Mullin, of Oklahoma. “Why wouldn’t you send a child with their parents? I mean, why would you want to separate them?”
I wonder if those white South African “refugees” gave him this idea: Passes.
President Trump said that there will be a temporary pass issued for migrants working at farms and in the hospitality industry to allow employers to have more control after the administration sent mixed messages about exceptions in its mass deportation efforts.
Trump was asked on Fox News’s “Sunday Morning Futures” with Maria Bartiromo about his recent remarks suggesting the administration will ease up on the deportation of people working at farms and hotels.
“I don’t back away,” he said. “What I do have, I cherish our farmers. And when we go into a farm and we take away people that have been working there for 15 and 20 years, who were good, who possibly came in incorrectly. And what we’re going to do is we’re going to do something for farmers where we can let the farmer sort of be in charge. The farmer knows he’s not going to hire a murderer.”
Trump said he wants to support farmers and that the administration will establish a program to allow a pass for migrant workers in the industry.
And by pass, I mean this .
And finally, Who loves you, “Daddy”? It’s not America, you convict.
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The June Quinnipiac poll also shows that on immigration, 57% disapprove and 41% approve. On the economy, 56% disapprove and 39% approve. And on trade, after Trump’s fruitless tariff wars with international allies, 55% disapprove and 38% approve.
Trump’s signature policy proposal ‒ the so-called Big Beautiful Bill being batted about by Republicans in Congress to continue tax breaks for America’s wealthiest people while stripping health care from some of the poorest ‒ is also deeply unpopular, with 55% opposing it and 29% supporting it.
When will this end?
