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President Donald Trump said he ordered the Department of Homeland Security<\/a> not to intervene in \u201cprotests and\/or riots\u201d in Democratic-led cities unless local leaders ask for help.
In a Truth Social post<\/a> shared Saturday, Trump noted federal officers will still be \u201cvery forceful\u201d in their protection of federal property amid protests against his mass deportation campaign, with anti-ICE rallies<\/a> taking place in cities across the country.
State and local governments \u201cmust use the word, \u2018PLEASE\u2019\u201d before asking for the federal government\u2019s help, he wrote.
Organizers said<\/a> more than 300 \u201cICE Out of Everywhere\u201d protests were scheduled Saturday as outrage grows over a surge of agents into Democratic cities and the fatal shootings of Renee Good<\/a> and Alex Pretti.<\/a>Saturday\u2019s actions follow Friday\u2019s \u201cnational shutdown\u201d event<\/a>, in which organizers encouraged people skip work, school and shopping in protest.
Saturday\u2019s demonstrations kicked off as a federal judge denied Minnesota\u2019s request to block officers from surging into the state<\/a> while a closely watch legal challenge continues.
Meanwhile, Trump has labeled Pretti an \u201cagitator\u201d and \u201cperhaps, insurrectionist\u201d after the release of a video that shows a confrontation<\/a> in the days before Pretti\u2019s death between federal agents and the ICU nurse, who was shot dead by border patrol agents one week later.
\u201cNothing that happened a full week before could possibly have justified Alex\u2019s killing,\u201d Steve Schleicher, an attorney for Pretti\u2019s family, told The Independent.<\/em>
Check back tomorrow for updates…<\/em>
New details have emerged about the face recognition app that federal immigration agents use to identify people and speed up arrests.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement\u2019s use of Mobile Fortify has already been reported on, but the Department of Homeland Security\u2019s 2025 AI Use Case Inventory released Wednesday gave new insight into the technology that agents are using to carry out President Donald Trump\u2019s mass deportation efforts.
Customs and Border Protection said the app became \u201coperational\u201d in early May 2025, and ICE got access to it later that month, according to Wired<\/a>.
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The world’s largest tequila<\/a> maker is blaming President Donald Trump<\/a>‘s heavy-handed immigration crackdowns on its slumping sales.
Proximo Spirits \u2014 the U.S. distribution arm for Becle, which owns Jose Cuervo tequila \u2014 said that fear in the Hispanic community<\/a> has kept some at home rather than going out and having drinks.
\u201cThe tension of the immigration policies has created a very difficult atmosphere with consumers, especially with immigrants, with Hispanics, [who] obviously make up a big portion of our particular business,\u201d Lander Otegui, Proximo Spirits’ head of marketing, told The Financial Times<\/em><\/a>.
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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries sparred with Fox News\u2019 Martha MacCallum Thursday over President Donald Trump\u2019s immigration crackdown.
Earlier Thursday, the Senate failed to advance a six-bill government funding package that the House previously passed, as Democrats refused to fund the Department of Homeland Security following the two fatal shootings of U.S. citizens by federal immigration agents in Minneapolis this month.
\u201cThese six bills were signed as part of the hangover from the last [government] shutdown, and they were all agreed to before what happened in Minneapolis, which was very tragic,\u201d MacCallum said.
Jeffries tried to interject, but the host continued, \u201cBut Minneapolis is a unique situation.\u201d
\u201cWell, let me just address the statement that you just made because that\u2019s inaccurate. The Homeland Security funding bill was…prior to the cold-blooded killing of Alex Pretti. And the overwhelming majority of House Democrats voted against it,\u201d Jeffries said.
The Congressional Hispanic Caucus has called on the Department of Homeland Security to release five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father after the pair was taken into federal custody outside their Minnesota home last week.
The preschooler and his father, Adrian Alexander Conejo Arias, are currently in a detention center in Texas.
When Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was asked by Fox News\u2019 Sean Hannity Thursday night about her accusing Renee Good and Alex Pretti of \u201cdomestic terrorism,\u201d she dodged the question and shifted blame to former President Joe Biden.
\u201cPeople seem to be upset over the term domestic terrorism. Why do you believe that\u2019s appropriate, because you used it in both cases?\u201d Hannity said.
Noem replied, \u201cWe\u2019re continuing to gather information, and the FBI leading this investigation is important to make sure that we talk about both these situations appropriately.\u201d
\u201cWe\u2019ll continue to get to the truth of all of this, but we can\u2019t distract from the fact of how we got here,\u201d Noem added. \u201cWe got here because we had a Biden administration that allowed an invasion over our southern border and allowed millions of people to come into our country unvetted.\u201d
Good and Pretti, both U.S. citizens, were fatally shot by federal immigration agents in two separate incidents in Minneapolis this month. No evidence has been provided to the public to back Noem\u2019s claims that Good and Pretti were domestic terrorists.
President Donald Trump called his border czar, Tom Homan, \u201cterrific\u201d at a screening for Melania Trump\u2019s new film.
\u201cI think he\u2019s terrific, but we have to get rid of the criminals. We have to take criminals out of our country \u2014 so from that standpoint nothing\u2019s going to change,\u201d the president said Thursday.
Trump sent Homan to Minnesota after two U.S. citizens were fatally shot by federal immigration agents in two separate incidents in Minneapolis this month.
At a press conference in Minneapolis earlier Thursday, Homan said he\u2019d be \u201cstaying \u2018til the problem\u2019s gone.\u201d
The Senate will not vote tonight on funding bills to keep the government open, according to congressional reporters.
Trump announced on Truth Social earlier Thursday, \u201cRepublicans and Democrats in Congress have come together to get the vast majority of the Government funded until September, while at the same time providing an extension to the Department of Homeland Security (including the very important Coast Guard, which we are expanding and rebuilding like never before).
\u201cHopefully, both Republicans and Democrats will give a very much needed Bipartisan \u2018YES\u2019 Vote.\u201d
The Senate previously failed to advance a six-bill government funding package that the House already passed, as Democrats refused to fund the Department of Homeland Security following the two fatal shootings of U.S. citizens by federal immigration agents in Minneapolis this month.
Another economic blackout will take place in Minnesota on Friday to protest President Donald Trump\u2019s immigration crackdown in the state.
But, according to The Minnesota Star Tribune<\/em><\/a>, it won\u2019t have as big a turnout as the strike last Friday, which saw hundreds of businesses temporarily close.
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