Category: 2025

DHS Press Release Boasts they Removed More than Half a Million People from the US in 2025

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On October 27, 2025, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced “record-breaking statistics with more than 527,000 illegal aliens removed under the leadership of President Donald Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.”

“The Trump Administration is on pace to shatter historic records and deport nearly 600,000 illegal aliens by the end of President Donald Trump’s first year since returning to office. More than 2 million illegal aliens have left the U.S. including 1.6 million who have voluntarily self-deported and over 527,000 deportations,”

Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin

The post ends with the following paragraph:

“lllegal aliens can take control of their departure with the CBP Home App. The United States is offering illegal aliens $1,000 and a free flight to self-deport now. We encourage every person here illegally to take advantage of this offer and reserve the chance to come back to the U.S. the right, legal way to live the American dream. If not, you will be arrested and deported without a chance to return.”

DHS continues making videos and online posts with claims that people who leave on their own will have the ability to reenter legally while those who are arrested and deported will never be allowed to return. This is not true. In many cases, such as those where the person had previously had contact with immigration officials, the outcome of them leaving on their own will be exactly the same as if they arrested and removed by DHS.

You should not assume what they say is true and should make sure you check with an immigration attorney before making any sort of decision like that.

Screenshot of @ICEdeports Instagram page

DHS is using so much hyperbole, politically charged language, and outright misinformation that it is basically operating as a propaganda department. They even have multiple new social media accounts like this new Instagram account with the username “ICE Deports” where they post videos every day bragging about how ICE agents are willing to arrest pregnant women, won’t hesitate to hit a blind man, and don’t care if there are kids in the car when they smash the windows for no apparent reason. I was shocked when I learned the account was run by the government. It is really wild to see the US Government posting this kind of North Korea-style propaganda. It’s even more shocking to see that the majority of the comments are people cheering them on or thanking the ICE agents. It’s like waking up in an alternate dimension.

In that post Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin claims that “this is just the beginning. President Trump and Secretary Noem have jumpstarted an agency that was hamstrung and barred from doing its job for the last four years. In the face of a historic number of injunctions from activist judges and threats to law enforcement, DHS, ICE and CBP, have not just closed the border, but made historic strides to carry out President Trump’s promise of arresting and deporting illegal aliens who have invaded our country. Illegal aliens are hearing our message to leave now or face the consequence: Migrants are now turning back before they even reach our borders. Migration through Panama’s Darien Gap is down 99.99%.”

In an interview on 60 Minutes on November 2, 2025, President Trump said that he thought ICE hasn’t gone far enough and that he wishes they could do even more but the Judge’s are holding him back. These are pretty crazy times so be safe out there.

@ICEdeports posting videos of their "officers" brutalizing non-violent women and young men who are not resisting
@ICEdeports posting videos of their “officers” brutalizing non-violent women and young men who are not resisting

these people are evil

eff ice

US revokes Colombian president’s visa over comments made about Trump

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The United States announced it was revoking the Colombian President, Gustavo Petro’s, visa after he gave a speech urging U.S. soldiers to disobey President Donald Trump’s orders. President Petro was in New York City visiting the U.N. and gave a speech on the Street on Friday while he was at a pro-Palestinian demonstration.

The Department of State said that the President’s statements were ‘reckless and incendiary’ resulting in his visa being revoked.

“Disobey Trump’s order! Obey the order of humanity! As happened in the First World War, I want the young people, sons and daughters of workers and farmers, of both Israel and the United States, to point their rifles not toward humanity, but toward the tyrants and toward the fascists.”

President Gustavo Petro dismisses the US decision to revoke his visa and accused Washington of violating international law over his criticism of Israel’s actions in Gaza.

“I no longer have a visa to travel to the United States. I don’t care. I don’t need a visa… because I’m not only a Colombian citizen but a European citizen, and I truly consider myself a free person in the world,” he said.

“Revoking it for denouncing genocide shows the US no longer respects international law,” he adds on a post on X.

The two presidents have been in a social media tiff since almost immediately after Trump took office. In February they were in a Twitter back and forth threatening each other with tariffs over Trump’s treatment of migrants.

Earlier this week on Tuesday at the UN General Assembly President Petro called for a criminal investigation against U.S. President Donald Trump and other officials involved in the month’s deadly strikes on boats in the Caribbean that the White House has said were transporting drugs for Venezuela, according to AP News which quoted him as saying:

“Criminal proceedings must be opened against those officials, who are from the U.S., even if it includes the highest-ranking official who gave the order: President Trump…the men were not drug traffickers; they were simply poor young people from Latin America who had no other option.”

President Gustavo Petro posted this longer message on Twitter Responding to the visa revocation:

His message translated to English reads:

I arrived in Bogotá and found out that I no longer have a U.S. visa. To go to Ibagué for the great Tolima convention for democracy, I don’t need a visa. Separating the U.S. from Colombia is what the mafias need. What the U.S. government is doing to me breaks all the norms of immunity on which the functioning of the United Nations and its General Assembly is based. There is total immunity for presidents attending the Assembly, and the U.S. government cannot condition the opinion of the U.S.

The fact that the Palestinian Authority was not allowed entry and that my visa was revoked for asking the U.S. and Israeli armies not to support a genocide, which is a crime against all of humanity, demonstrates that the U.S. government no longer complies with international law. The United Nations headquarters cannot continue to be in New York.

UPDATE

After returning to Colombia and learning of what the State Department had said, the President posted this to twitter, which indicates that he was voluntarily surrendering his visa.

Translated to English

Bogotá, Sep. 27/2025
DIGNITY YES, VISA NO
In my capacity as Legal Secretary of the Presidency of the Republic, I have decided to voluntarily RENOUNCE my United States visa.
I do so in solidarity with President Gustavo Petro and because I am convinced that the DIGNITY of Colombia is above any personal privilege. The sovereignty of our Nation is not conditioned or subordinated.
Colombia IS TO BE RESPECTED.
Augusto Ocampo
Legal Secretary of the Presidency of the Republic

9/24/2025: ICE AGENTS OUT IN FULL FORCE — Brentwood, Bayshore, Islip, Farmingdale

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BREAKING 9/24/2025: Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) Agents are out making arrests in multiple cities in Suffolk County NY on Long Island. ICE has been spotted this morning in Brentwood, Bayshore, Islip, and Farmingdale.

You can get alerts of ICE sightings in the Long Island area using this excellent tool created by Islip Forward, The Long Island ICE Tracker. Just visit that website and you can see where ICE has been spotted that day and you can also scroll through to see sightings on previous days. If you want to stay vigilant and find out right away if ICE is in your area, there are instructions on the site for how to install the app on your phone and get notifications to alert you right away of sightings of ICE on Long Island.

You can also contribute to the project if you’d like. If you spot ICE out in your area you can submit the sighting on that site to let others known. Read the instructions on their site to find out all the details and the proper procedures for making a submission. The more people that participate in submitting sightings the better the tool will be.

Neither NYVL nor I are affiliated with Long Island ICE Tracker or Islip Forward. I am sharing this information because I think this is a really useful tool and more people should be using it. Today it was helpful to me as well since it is the reason I noticed that ICE has apparently ramped up their operations on Long Island and are suddenly out in force in Latino neighborhoods on the South Shore of Suffolk County. Users have submitted pictures of ICE agents apprehending people in the three neighboring cities Brentwood, Bay Shore, and Islip. There was also a submission showing ICE agents further north in Farmingdale.

I’ve had this application installed on my phone for months and I have never seen a day with this many ICE alerts in neighboring cities. ICE is extremely active on Long Island right now, much more than they had been thus far in Trump’s ethnic cleansing project. Again, ICE agents have been spotted in Brentwood, Bay Shore, Islip, and Farmingdale.

If you have seen ICE raids or arrests going on anywhere else in the New York area you should report it to Long Island ICE Tracker so they can spread the word. You can also let me know by shooting me an email or using the contact form and I will post updates as well.

Tom Homan, the man serving in the non-existent position of “Border Czar” who took a $50,000 bribe from undercover FBI agents weeks before Trump appointed him to his new fake job, had warned of his intention to step up enforcement efforts in New York after Labor Day. It looks like he was telling the truth about that (the increased enforcement in NY not the $50k bribe).

Stay safe everyone. If you are in Brentwood, Bay Shore, Islip, or anywhere in that general area then you may want to stay inside today regardless of your immigration status. ICE has been very aggressive lately and ICE agents have already put one Long Island man in the hospital and another in his grave.

SOURCES

Long Island ICE Tracker Link: https://www.islipforward.org/ice

View All Sightings Reported to LI ICE Tracker: https://www.islipforward.org/ice-sightings

Stephen Miller’s Disturbing Speech

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White House senior policy adviser, Stephen Miller, gave a truly bizarre speech at Kirk’s memorial service which could have been a deleted scene from American History X. Most of it was being yelled and was accused of plagiarizing a portion of a Joseph Goebbels speech from 1932 because he so obviously took inspiration from it. He did not actually quote Goebbels but he used the same dog whistles as the fascist propagandist. You listen to his words and decide for yourself:

We are the storm. And our enemies cannot comprehend our strength, our determination, our resolve, our passion. The light will defeat the dark. We will prevail over the forces of wickedness and evil. Our lineage and our legacy hails back to Athens, to Rome, to Philadelphia, to Monticello… Our ancestors built the cities, the art and architecture, the industry…

To the enemy, I say this: You are nothing. You can build nothing. You can create nothing. They cannot conceive of the army that they have arisen in all of us. You have no idea the dragon you have awakened.

Joseph Goebbels addressed his fellow Nazis in 1932 and said, “Der Sturm bricht los” which would roughly translate to ‘the storm is loose.’ Fascist rhetoric often referenced ‘the storm’ as a symbol of their goal of cleansing and rebirth or the image of the German people ridding society of weakness to seize destiny. Michael Sellers wrote about this on his Sub Stack and he knows much more than I do, so if you are interested you should check that out.

Maybe it is just a coincidence and Miller is just really into meteorology. He has been giving cringe speeches since he was a teenager though. You should see the speech he gave in high school about how he shouldn’t have to pick up his trash because the school has janitors for that.

Miller has an obsessive hate for immigration and he has found his way into power and a position that he is in no way qualified to hold. He is dangerous for many reasons but his hate and xenophobia is the reason why there are masked federal agents kidnapping people off the streets and locking them away in makeshift prison camps.

MAN DIES IN ICE CUSTODY ON LONG ISLAND

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At 6:30 a.m. on September 18, 2025, a 42-year-old man who had been arrested by U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement (ICE) was found dead in a cell at the Nassau County Correctional Center, located at 100 Carmen Avenue East Meadow, NY. County officials confirmed this information with Newsday but has not provided further details regarding the death other than to say that it is under investigation.

Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman partnered with ICE in February 2025, allocating 50 jail cells for ICE to hold people arrested across the region as part of Trump’s mass-deportation efforts. The man who died (not identified yet) was one of over 1,400 people who have been held in the Nassau County Correctional Center on behalf of ICE since the partnership began according to reporting from Newsday. The federal government is reimbursing Nassau County $195 per ICE detainee, per night, as per State Senator Blakeman.

The tremendous suffering resulting from Trump’s horrific mass-deportations is reason enough to demand it be stopped but those who are still unsure should consider the financial costs. ICE is paying Nassau County $10,000 every single day to hold noncriminal immigrants in jail for no reason.

Nassau County Legislator, Seth Koslow, who is running against Blakeman for county executive in November, said Friday he is calling for a legislative hearing on the death. Hopefully we will get some answers as to what happened here.

Recently another Long Island man in Huntington Station was hospitalized after being injured by ICE at a 7 Eleven.  ICE seems to be ramping up operations in NY and getting more aggressive and violent.

ICE Raids to Surge in NY

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The White House border czar, Tom Homan, issued a warning on Friday, August 29, 2025, “you’re gonna see a ramp up of operations in New York” come Labor Day. He declined to elaborate on that and there is no information on ICE’s website about any formal plans to launch additional enforcement in NY starting next week.

The Trump Administration has already brought a lawsuit against New York City claiming that it was a “sanctuary city” that was breaking the law by refusing to cooperate with ICE to carry out immigration arrests or to share information about the whereabouts of potential immigrants.

The Intercept reported on disturbing raids that have taken place on Long Island where dozens of masked men with no badges or other identification have shown up in small towns totting assault rifles and entering private property without asking for permission or stating their intentions. The local police departments with jurisdiction over these communities are not even made aware of ICE’s presence resulting in terrifying situations in which no one knows who these armed men are that are kidnapping dozens of Latinos. Frankly, it’s concerning that the local police allow this to go on. Anyone who wears a mask and sunglasses can walk around with a gun abducting people in broad daylight since the police would assume they must be ICE officers and lack any one of confirming.

A dozen or more masked men, some with long guns, tried to enter a men’s homeless shelter without identifying themselves in a rural town with a long-standing immigrant community on eastern Long Island in New York. Officials from the local police department later admitted they didn’t know where the masked men came from — only adding to local residents’ concerns. – The Intercept

According to the Intercept, the masked men were also seen around Nassau County in Western Long Island parked at elementary schools, which greatly alarmed parents who in one instance confronted them asking what they were doing on school grounds if they were not parents and asking why they had their faces covered. In California there was an incident in which ICE was caught lying to school officials claiming that they had permission from the parents of a fourth grader to take her out of school when they did not. ICE officers are relentless in their efforts to apprehend school children, sending dozens of armed officers to stakeout an elementary school. They are willing to lie to parents, teachers, school administrators, and anyone else in order to make their arrest.

A 6-year-old girl from Queens was arrested and shipped two thousand miles to a Texas detention center after ICE agents grabbed her, her mother, and her brother, as they left a routine check-in at the NY Immigration Court. Dayra and her family members are being detained hundreds of miles from one another at different facilities. The family entered the US in 2022 from Ecuador. The Daily News reported further on the heartbreaking situation. Exactly one week after they were detained, Dayra and her mother, Martha, were put on a plane and deported to Ecuador, leaving behind two other children in New York.

Immigration authorities have detained more than 50 children under the age of 18 in the New York City area since Trump began his anti-immigrant crusade. It has been reported that there have been at least 38 of those children have already been deported.

Congress has given ICE $45 billion of taxpayer money to massively increase their detention efforts and increase capacity. Trump has moved to expand the government’s ability to hold families in detention. The administration also recently sought to terminate a decades-old legal agreement that mandates basic standards of care for children in custody, arguing that it limits expansion efforts.

Governor of Washington said on Thursday that his office was demanding an explanation from Border Patrol for their decision to arrest firefighters who were fighting a wildfire in the state. The Governor said in a statement that he was “deeply concerned” that the Trump administration had targeted firefighters trying to contain the Bear Gulch fire in Olympic National Forest, west of Seattle. This isn’t the first time ICE arrested a firefighter. ABC News reported that a volunteer firefighter in Westchester who had been living in the US for more than forty years was arrested by ICE earlier this month.

People are still being arrested every day at the New York Immigration Court as they are trying to abide by the law and attend their court hearings and scheduled appointments. It has been reported that the New York Immigration Court is a confusing disaster where families are being torn apart in the hallways despite being granted more time in the US by the Judge.

This is to say that ICE has already been aggressively enforcing the Trump immigration agenda in NYC for months. It is frightening to think about ICE “ramping up” those efforts after Labor Day. Perhaps the Border Czar is just talking big and there isn’t any actual plan to increase enforcement in NYC next week but it is something to be aware of in case they do have one.

Enjoy your day off, but watch out for ICE!