🔵 Deportation Raids Update

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Citizen Frank
January 19, 2025

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The incoming Trump administration is planning to ramp up operations to arrest illegal immigrants across major U.S. cities next week after President-elect Donald Trump takes office, targeting “sanctuary” jurisdictions that limit cooperation with federal immigration officials, two sources familiar with the plans tell CBS News.

The locations expected to be targeted by deportation teams from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement include those with large populations of immigrants, such as the Chicago area, one of the sources said.

ICE officials in the Chicago area recently put out a request for agents to participate in the post-inauguration arrest operations, unbeknownst to top agency leaders in Washington, a U.S. official familiar with the developments told CBS News.

The long-awaited cease-fire deal between Israel and Hamas was delayed Sunday, as Israel accused the terror-group of not living up to the pact after the morning deadline and continued military operations, reports said.

Barely an hour before the ceasefire was set to begin at 8:30 a.m. local time, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he still hadn’t received the names of the captives slated to be freed by the terror group — but the group delivered the names shortly before10 a.m. local time, both sides acknowledged, the Times of Israel said.

It was not clear if the delivery would immediately lead to the ceasefire being implemented, but Israeli Army spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said earlier in the night that Hamas was not meeting its demands by failing to release the names and that Israel will continue to strike in Gaza, the Times of Israel said.

President-elect Trump returned to Washington Saturday evening, after boarding a special mission Air Force plane for his historic return after four years.

Trump and wife Melania and their youngest son, Barron, embarked on their trip from West Palm Beach, Florida, to the nation’s capital, waving to crowds before ascending the steps.

Trump marked his return to power with a celebration at his Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Virginia, about 30 miles outside Washington.

The popular video-sharing app, used by 170 million Americans, went dark late Saturday after TikTok’s Chinese-owned parent company announced that they will make their services “temporarily unavailable.”

Shortly before 11 p.m., US users were greeted with a message that said: “Sorry TikTok isn’t available right now” and the site was otherwise unusable.

It came about an hour after they warned users of an imminent shut down.

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) recently recounted a private meeting that he had with President Joe Biden last year from which he walked away believing that the country was in serious danger because of how mentally diminished Biden was.

Johnson made the remarks during an interview with The Free Press when asked if he could share a story of when he realized that Biden was not actually in charge of running the country.

“I became Speaker in October 2023, and there were all sorts of big national security concerns and everything going on, and I started requesting a meeting with the president,” he said.

Jeffrey Epstein was offered a sweetheart plea deal by federal prosecutors in return for incriminating information that would lead to President Trump’s impeachment, according to the late pedophile’s cellmate.

Ex-Westchester cop and convicted killer Nicholas Tartaglione, Epstein’s bunkmate at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan weeks before his death in August 2019, said the disgraced financier dished on the dirt-digging expedition after a confab with the feds.

“He said, ‘When you were a cop, what do you know about proffers and cooperating?’ I said, ‘Jeff, it’s pretty simple, the prosecutors, you know, they caught a fish — you. They’re not gonna let that fish off the hook unless you give them a bigger fish,’” recalled Tartaglione in a phone call with Jessica Reed Kraus, a California-based self-described journalist who recorded the conversation and later posted it to her Substack.

An ex-CIA analyst pleaded guilty Friday to leaking top secret documents about Israel’s plans to retaliate against Iran last year, forcing the attack to be delayed.

Asif W. Rahman, 34, admitted to violating the Espionage Act when he leaked two records he took from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency on Oct. 17, which indicated that Israel was planning an airstrike in retaliation for Iran’s missile attack on Oct. 1, according to court papers filed in Virginia federal court Friday.

The top secret documents then landed the next day on a Telegram channel called “Middle East Spectator” and eventually “appeared publicly on multiple social media platforms, complete with the classification ranking,” a statement of facts filed by prosecutors shows.

A Pennsylvania woman said she falsely accused an innocent man she never met of trying to rape and kidnap her all because he looked ‘creepy’.

Anjela Borisova Urumova, 20, pleaded guilty on Thursday to filing a false police report against 41-year-old Daniel Pierson, whom she accused of attempting to kidnap and rape her.

Pierson was held on a $1 million bail, charged with multiple felonies and spent a month in jail as a result of the false claims.

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