‘Criminal Illegal’ Migrant Shot by ICE has Rap Sheet of Alarming Crimes

NYPost.com:

• The Dominican Republic native shot by ICE agents in The Bronx was a migrant with an alarming rap sheet — who apparently benefited from New York’s lax bail and sanctuary laws, allowing him to remain on the streets, according to sources and court records. Oscar Belgal, 28, is believed to have entered the US illegally around 2022, robbed someone at gunpoint in Fordham Heights a year later, allegedly sold dangerous drugs within months of his conviction in 2025 and was even allegedly connected to a violent street gang.
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• None of that stopped Mayor Zohran Mamdani from referring to Belgal as “a New Yorker” in a raging tribute Thursday against US Immigration and Customs Enforcement — a label some Bronx locals took offense to. “I don’t consider him a New Yorker,” fumed Bronx mom Migdalia Martinez, whose 12-year-old son Jacob Freytas was killed in gangland crossfire while riding his bike in July.
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• “The only thing I do consider him as is trash, nothing else but trash. And I don’t consider New York, my home, as trash,” she told The Post Friday. Asked if Mamdani was wrong to call Belgal a New Yorker, Martinez said: “The mayor is wrong in many ways — that’s definitely one.”

Yeah, another 'innocent, outstanding citizen' here with a long rap sheet, taking advantage of woke Democrat politicians who have done nothing but enable him for years and released him from prison time and time again so he can continue to commit more crimes. Normally, being a gangbanger, robbing people at gunpoint and selling drugs like Fentanyl on the street would warrant you plenty of time in prison and rightly so. But not in New York state, a liberal cesspool run by lunatic Lefties and their woke policies who ignore crime and coddle criminals at the expense of the lives of innocent civilians just trying to go about their day and make it home safe. And now the repeated felon gets shot by ICE and you're supposed to be all up in arms about it...unless you're a bigot of course.

RELATED: ICE will not pause enforcement after NYC shooting

NYC Socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani Posts Emotional Message Grieving Accused Knife-Wielding Killer

NYPost.com:

Mayor Zohran Mamdani publicly mourned an accused career criminal killer who died on Rikers Island this week — and the family of the victim slain in the sick, unprovoked attack is now livid, The Post has learned. 

 

Hizzoner said on X that he was “deeply saddened” by the in-custody death — the seventh so far this year at the troubled jail complex — adding that, “my thoughts are with his family and loved ones as they grieve this loss.” 

 

The inmate was identified as 41-year-old Clarence Woodward, an ex-con with nearly 30 arrests on his rap sheet, who was found unresponsive in his cell shortly after 5 a.m. Tuesday while awaiting trial for murder in the gruesome 2024 attack at a Bronx laundromat.

When you recall that it was radical, young progressives who turned out in droves to greatly assist in Mamdami becoming the mayor of NYC, you accept everything that comes along with it. And that includes a plethora of socialism, putting criminals first and tweeting condolences for murderers. What a disgrace.

RELATED: Is Zohran Mamdani Retaliating Against Immigrants Who Criticized His Government Grocery Stores?

New Jersey Caught Letting 6,600 Non-Citizens Register To Vote

NYPost.com:

Approximately 400 non-citizens cast ballots illegally in New Jersey elections since 2023 after more than 6,000 immigrants were wrongly added to the Garden State’s voter rolls, Democratic Gov. Mikie Sherrill admitted Tuesday. 

 

Despite the mortifying disclosure, Sherrill managed to use her press conference about the fumble to take a swipe at President Trump. 

 

When asked about the possibility of Trump using New Jersey as an example of vulnerable elections, she declared: “I think that Donald Trump has done more to undermine free elections in this country than certainly anyone in my lifetime, including [Russian President] Vladimir Putin.” She added that Trump “has zero credibility on the issue of election integrity.”

So while Congress continues to debate the SAVE America Act due to Trump supporters arguing measures like voter ID and proof of citizenship are needed to protect elections, the Left (i.e. the msm and Democrats) keeps telling us that there's no need for it because illegal immigrants simply can't vote--then this happens.

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Minnesota Governor Tim Walz Doubles Down on Pardon of Convicted Child Rapist

FOXNews.com:

After Democrat Tim Walz doubled down on his move to pardon a foreign child rapist prior to his deportation, the State Department took another swing at the Minnesota governor in an escalating back-and-forth. 

 

The Minnesota Board of Pardons, comprised of Walz, state Attorney General Keith Ellison and state Chief Justice Natalie Hudson, granted clemency to Laotian national Tou Lue Vang, 42, on June 10. Vang was scheduled to be deported from the United States before the pardon. "Governor Walz’s pardon of a convicted foreign sex offender was a grave and unconscionable betrayal of the very people he is supposed to defend," State Department Assistant Secretary Dylan Johnson told Fox News Digital. 

 

"Walz’s plot to sacrifice the safety of Americans on the altar of open borders was thwarted by Secretary Rubio. Now this foreign criminal will never harm another American," he continued. Vang was convicted for repeatedly raping a 10-year-old girl between 2002 and 2004, and told authorities after he was arrested that "it is a cultural thing... to marry and have sex with girls as young as 12." Secretary of State Marco Rubio revoked Vang's visa earlier this month, and he was deported back to Laos.

What a jackass and yet another example of why the Harris/Walz ticket failed so miserably against Trump in the last presidential election. Instead of taking a common sense approach to handling crime and punishment, woke loons like Walz turn a blind eye and put criminals first instead of victims. Indeed, in this case Walz's argument for pardoning a man who repeatedly abused a 10yo girl reeks of emphathy...for the rapist ('Did that make us any safer? Did that make the children that are left behind any more stable? Did it improve the idea that we can’t all be judged by our worst day?') with zero mindfullness to understand that being a serial rapist means that you didn't just have 'one worst day' but several. And oh yeah, deporting an illegal immigrant/child sex abuser does make us safer. To be willfully ignorant of that is everything wrong with today's Democrat party.

RELATED: Walz: Hey, Let He Who Has Not Molested a Kid Throw the First Stone, Amirite?

Tim Walz Votes To Pardon Convicted Sexual Abuser Facing Deportation

FOXNews.com:

Minnesota officials, including Democrat Gov. Tim Walz, last month pardoned an illegal immigrant who was previously convicted of sexually assaulting a 10-year-old girl and who was slated to be deported. 

 

With the recommendation of the Minnesota Clemency Review Commission (CRC), the Minnesota Board of Pardons — led by Walz, state Attorney General Keith Ellison and state Chief Justice Natalie Hudson — granted a pardon for Laos national Tou Lue Vang, 42, at its June 10 meeting, according to a letter informing Vang of the decision from Carli Stark, the executive director of the state CRC. 

 

The pardon essentially gives Vang a clean slate. "Being granted a pardon is a notable achievement and a reflection of the work you have done since your conviction," Stark wrote in her letter to Vang.

Apparently the victim’s forgiveness was a key factor in the pardon of Vang. But with white liberals, since Trump took ofiice again, showing so much empathy towards illegal immigrants and hatred for ICE agents, you had to know that a total dolt like Walz would find some way to pardon this creep and not give a damn about the backlash when you consider that he's not running for re-election.

RELATED: Yes, The Activists Want to Protect Paedos From Deportation

Migrant Camps Swell in South Africa Amid Growing Anti-Illegal Immigrant Threats

Reuters.com:

Thousands of Malawian migrants queued for processing at a makeshift camp in the South African city of Durban ​this week while hundreds of Zimbabweans slept on the pavement outside their consulate in Cape Town. All had the same goal: to ‌leave South Africa before nationwide anti-immigrant protests on Tuesday, which many fear will descend into violence. 

 

"We are scared because you never know what people are planning to do to you. It's not right to wait and see what will happen," Ebrahim Moosa, 37, said. 

 

He was with his wife in a snaking line of people, some with babies on their ​backs, hoping to catch a bus to Malawi from Durban. South Africa has been gripped by a wave of xenophobic protests and sometimes deadly ​attacks in recent weeks, forcing many foreigners to flee or be chased from their homes.

South Africa's growing frustration over illegal immigration is often portrayed by the Left as solely xenophobia, but many residents argue the issue is rooted in the country's limited resources and worsening economic conditions. With high unemployment, strained healthcare and education systems, housing shortages, and rising concerns about crime, while the msm ignores these crisis' many South Africans believe the continued influx of undocumented migrants is placing additional pressure on already overburdened public services. The rise of anti-immigration movements and calls for mass deportations reflect these concerns, with supporters insisting their demands are driven less by hostility toward foreigners than by a belief that the government must prioritize the needs of its own citizens amid deepening social and economic challenges.

RELATED: South Africa's immigration warning Violent protest is rising

Supreme Court Allows Trump to Remove Protections from Thousands of Haitian and Syrian Immigrants

NBCNews.com:

The Supreme Court on Thursday cleared the way for the Trump administration to remove legal protections from thousands of Haitian and Syrian immigrants in the United States, meaning they could be subject to deportation. 

 

The court, on a 6-3 vote on ideological lines, ruled in favor of the administration, which asked to continue with its plan to strip Temporary Protected Status from about 350,000 Haitians and 6,000 Syrians. 

 

Writing for the majority, conservative Justice Samuel Alito said that judges overstepped their authority in second-guessing the administration’s decision. The court also rejected a claim that the decision to remove protections for Haitians was discriminatory.

So basically, the Supreme Court (as they should since "Temporary" means "temporary") ruled 6-3 in favor of the Trump administration’s decision to end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for immigrants from Syria and Haiti. The conservative justices found that federal law limits judicial review of such TPS decisions and said the plaintiffs’ equal protection claim was unlikely to succeed. Congress created TPS in 1990 to provide temporary humanitarian relief for people unable to safely return home, but some designations lasted for decades. The ruling allows the administration to move forward with ending protections that lower liberal courts had previously blocked.

RELATED: Homeland Security Wins Big at Supreme Court on Immigration Issues

Appeals Court Halts Liberal Activist Judge Boasberg Contempt Inquiry Over Venezuelan Deportation Flights

TheHill.com:

A three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday halted an effort by U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg to hold contempt hearings after the Trump administration failed to suspend flights carrying Venezuelan men to be imprisoned in El Salvador. 

 

The administration has already said it was former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem who last March ordered flights to take 100 Venezuelan men to a notorious megaprison, despite an order from Boasberg ordering the flights grounded or turned around. 

 

The sharply divided rulings put an end to additional fact-finding by Boasberg, who has faced calls for his impeachment by President Trump. While two Trump appointees to the bench sided with the president and chastised Boasberg for not being sufficiently clear in his ruling, an Obama appointee said the ruling would have grave consequences should an administration flout a judge’s orders in the future.

This rebuke from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit marks a real and decisive check on what conservatives have been been railing about since Trump took office again last year: judicial overreach by activist judges like James Boasberg. But more importantly it reinforces a core constitutional principle: judges can't retroactively reinterpret vague or incomplete orders to impose criminal liability. At the heart of the ruling is not ideology, but process as the court made clear that the rule of law depends on clarity, not on a judge’s evolving intent after the fact. Therefore, for those concerned about activist judging, this decision underscores the importance of separation of powers and draws a firm line between the judiciary’s role and executive authority--in other words, Boasberg needs to be impeached, like yesterday.

RELATED: Impeaching Judges Is Not an Abuse of Political Power

Federal Judge Blocks California Law Forcing ICE Agents to Remove Masks During Operations

FOXNews.com:

A Los Angeles‑based federal judge on Monday blocked California from enforcing its law that would require ICE agents to remove masks during immigration enforcement operations. 

 

Judge Christina Snyder, appointed during the Clinton administration, argued that the "No Secret Police Act" and "No Vigilantes Act" discriminated against the federal government by violating the Supremacy Clause. 

 

Under the U.S. Constitution’s Supremacy Clause, federal law takes precedence over any conflicting state or local law, rendering the lower-level law unenforceable.

The filing of this lawsuit reeks of court-shopping. Beacuse even though liberals understand that federal law overrides state law, blue-state governors like Gavin Newsom still file lawsuits they have little chance of winning, hoping an activist judge might side with them. It’s political theater at its best: pursued even when defeat is likely and despite proof that ICE agents wear masks to protect themselves from being doxxed. Still, with Newsom widely seen as a potential Democratic presidential nominee in 2028, even a legal loss can be spun as a political win for his Trump-deranged base.

RELATED: Anti-ICE Antifa member arrested on federal charges of Cyberstalking and Threatening Communications after allegedly calling for the murder and assault of federal immigration officers in Minneapolis

Trump White House Distances Itself from Provocative Claims by Kristi Noem, Others on Alex Pretti Shooting

ABCNews.com:

President Donald Trump and White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt are distancing themselves from the provocative statements made by top administration officials in the immediate aftermath of the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti involving federal agents in Minneapolis. 

 

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and deputy White House chief of staff Stephen Miller quickly accused Pretti, an ICU nurse, of domestic terrorism after Saturday's shooting without citing any evidence. 

 

"Does the president agree with them?" ABC News Chief White House Correspondent Mary Bruce asked Leavitt during Monday's press briefing. "Look, as I've said, I have not heard the president characterize Mr. Pretti in that way," Leavitt said. "However, I have heard the president say he wants to let the facts in the investigation lead itself."

Trump is unlikely to fire Kristi Noem anytime soon, partly because it’s still early in his administration, partly because she fits the alluring image he tends to favor, and partly because removing her would hand Democrats an easy win. That said, sidelining Noem may be a different story. Reports that she has had little communication with Tom Homan (who has far more hands-on experience with ICE operations and immigration enforcement), raise questions about internal coordination. At the same time, since Noem was made the border czar she often appears more focused on photo ops and cable news hits than on mastering policy details, which can undermine credibility on such a complex issue. If the administration wants tighter messaging and more effective execution on immigration, shifting more responsibility to seasoned operators (led by Homan) while reducing Noem's public-facing role could be a practical middle ground.

RELATED: Trump: Want to End Major ICE Operations? Make This One Change

Chris Cuomo Reverts to Old Habits, Threatens Former CNN Colleague Scott Jennings Over Mild Pushback at Word Police

Mediaite.com:

NewsNation host Chris Cuomo went ballistic on CNN’s Scott Jennings for using the term “illegal immigrant” and warned he will be forced to stop saying it when “somebody beats your ass.” Cuomo said the pummeling would be warranted for using such an “inhumane” word. 

 

The ex-CNN star went off on his former colleague in a video rant posted to X and Instagram on Wednesday. 

 

Cuomo referenced the spat Jennings got into with gun control activist Cameron Kasky on Monday, where Kasky told Jennings he “can’t say ‘illegals anymore.'” Jennings scoffed at Kasky and told him ,”How are you gonna enforce your edict on me, just out of curiosity?”

Gotta admit, this surprised me. Because outside of getting his ass owned by comedian/podcaster Dave Smith some years back on the liberal media's role in misinformation during the COVID era, since he got canned by CNN in 2021, Cuomo was doing a pretty good job at being a real journalist on his NewsNation show. But Scott Jennings pushes back on some young, smug and dumb liberal pundit for trying to word ploice him over the use of the term 'illegal alien' (a term Cuomo himself used quite frequently while at CNN) and suddenly Cuomo unleashes some unhinged attack on his ex-colleague of 4 years while accusing Jennings of trying to be a 'tough guy'?!? From the same guy who told his viewers on CNN that they'd be killing their neighbors of they didn't get the COVID shot...yeah, what a prick.

RELATED: ‘Gutfeld!’: Cuomo gets held accountable by Dave Smith over former COVID comments

By Lying and Taking Part in Minnesota Anti-ICE Church Invasion, Don Lemon Proves That He's an Activist and Not a Joumalist

NYPost.com:

The Department of Justice will “pursue charges” against the anti-ICE agitators who invaded a Sunday church service in St. Paul, including disgraced former CNN reporter Don Lemon, who feebly attempted to cloak his participation in the chaos as an “act of journalism.” 

 

Assistant attorney general for civil rights Harmeet Dhillon told conservative podcaster Benny Johnson that the department “will pursue charges” related to the incident in which families and children were terrorized by a screaming mob of protesters at Cities Church. 

 

Lemon “went into the facility, and then he began, quote, unquote ‘committing journalism,’ as if that’s a sort of shield from being a part, an embedded part, of a criminal conspiracy. It isn’t,” Dhillon clarified during an appearance on “The Benny Show” Monday.

A lot of conservatives online are angry with Don Lemon for continuing to behave like a douchebag and allegedly taking part in what could be an arrestable offense over there in Minnesota. But what disgusts me most about Lemon after yesterday’s actions, however, is his continued insistence on lying about who he is, claiming he’s “just a journalist doing his job,” rather than acknowledging what he’s clearly become since his unceremonious departure from CNN: an openly anti-Trump, full-blown Resistance activist. After all, Lemon’s former colleague, fired anchor Jim Acosta, has no problem wearing his political bias on his sleeve nowadays (whether on his self-righteous podcast or on any liberal platform willing to host him) so why can’t Lemon do the same? The answer seems obvious: Lemon knows that the moment he fully embraces full-blown Resistance, he forfeits any remaining credibility he has as a legitimate journalist. And in the end, there’s nothing more pretentious than watching someone like Lemon desperately try to stay relevant by pretending to be something he’s not, while denying what conservatives said about him the whole entire time he was at CNN: he's a narcissistic, lying POS.

RELATED: Don Lemon Just Happens to Make It to Church on Time

Wisconsin Judge Found Guilty of Obstructing Federal Immigration Agents in Courthouse Incident

FOXNews.com:

A jury found Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan guilty of obstructing federal immigration agents during an attempt to serve a warrant at a courthouse earlier this year. 

 

She faces up to five years in prison on the felony obstruction count. 

 

Dugan was arrested in April after helping Eduardo Flores-Ruiz avoid plainclothes Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents who were trying to serve him a warrant. Prosecutors said Dugan helped Flores-Ruiz and his attorney exit her courtroom through a back door on April 18, after learning that ICE agents were in the building to arrest him.

Of course, this story hasn't gotten as much play in the mainstream media as it should be and that's obviously due to the Left's misgivings about ICE, who they berate and smear each and every day for doing their job. That said, the fact that a sitting judge would risk losing her career and go to this length to obstruct ICE agents is incredibly brazen and tells you how loony tunes some of these activist judges are when it comes to defying Trump and the law. And that's something conservatives need to think about more and more.

RELATED: Day Four of Judge Dugan's Trial: The Defense Rests After 45 Minutes of Witnesses (Update: Convicted!)

Democrat Rep. Bennie Thompson Calls Soldier's Murder an 'Unfortunate Accident' in Hearing Clash

Politico.com:

The Trump administration is seizing on a misstatement by the top Democrat on the House Homeland Security Committee about the November shooting of two West Virginia National Guard members in Washington to skewer the lawmaker as unbothered by the tragedy. 

 

At a Thursday committee hearing on threats facing the United States, Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), the ranking member of the committee, initially called the shooting — which killed one service member and left another critically injured — an “unfortunate accident.” That misstatement immediately drew protest from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, who was testifying at the hearing alongside the head of the National Counterterrorism Center and a senior FBI official. 

 

“You think that was an unfortunate accident?” Noem said, notably offended. “That was a terrorist attack.” Thompson amended his comment to then describe the shooting as an unfortunate “situation.”

First, if this incident involved a Republican, it would be receiving far more media attention than it is now. Instead, the story has been framed as “Republicans pouncing” on Thompson, downplaying what was clearly an intentional statement (especially given his membership in a party long criticized for being soft on crime). Indeed, Thompson has been in politics long enough to know exactly what he was saying so this was not a slip of the tongue. He totally disrespected a murdered National Guardsman, and Secretary Noem had every right to be upset. But as usual, the liberal press is stepping in to shield Thompson from accountability.

RELATED: Noem defiant as Democrats decry Trump administration treatment of migrants

The Running Mate Kamala Harris Didn’t Dare Choose...Because He's Gay

TheAtlantic.com:

As Kamala Harris rushed to pick a running mate last year, her “first choice” was her close friend Pete Buttigieg, but she decided that it would be “too big of a risk” for a Black woman to run with a gay man. 

 

Buttigieg “would have been an ideal partner—if I were a straight white man,” Harris writes in a passage of her soon-to-be-released book, 107 Days, that I saw. “But we were already asking a lot of America: to accept a woman, a Black woman, a Black woman married to a Jewish man. Part of me wanted to say, Screw it, let’s just do it. But knowing what was at stake, it was too big of a risk.” 

 

"And I think Pete also knew that—to our mutual sadness.” 

 

Harris instead selected Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, and the two went on to lose to Donald Trump. Her honest recounting of that decision—much more candid than I usually see in political memoirs—highlights one of the core challenges facing Democrats, especially as they try to refocus their message ahead of the next presidential election, in 2028. After years of highlighting and celebrating the historic characteristics of their nominees

Buttigieg, Walz, whoever, it doesn't matter who Kamala picked as her running mate because she still would've lost to Trump. Why? Because she is and was always an empty suit, she campaigned with the likes of Liz Cheney, she never cared about working-class voters, she overplayed January 6th, she avoided tons of interviews on the campaign trail like a plague because she can't speak clearly without a script or in a non-friendly atmospheres, she was a DEI hire for VP to begin with who covered for Joe Biden's lack of mental acuity, she was horrible on border control, she had no Black agenda and that laugh was hated by any and everyone.

RELATED: Harris' score-settling, elbow-throwing, bridge-burning memoir