Last Friday morning, former CNN Anchor Don Lemon was arrested along with three others, in connection with the January 18th anti-ICE attack on Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota. He was later charged with conspiracy to deprive rights and violation of the FACE Act, and was released without bail. As expected the liberal media, led by his former CNN colleagues, immediately came to Lemon’s defense, portraying the arrest as vindictive, and a violation of the First Amendment. But that night on Fox, Jesse Watters Primetime laid out a strong case against Lemon.
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Shocking video from Portland, Oregon shows staff at the Portland Montessori School leading very young children—some as young as five or six—in an anti-ICE protest, triggering widespread calls for the revocation of any licenses the school holds. Critics say the footage raises serious questions about professional boundaries, parental consent, and the politicization of early childhood education. Educators are entrusted with teaching basic skills and safeguarding children—not using classrooms as staging grounds for ideological activism or involving minors in political demonstrations they are incapable of understanding.
New York City is poised to significantly expand its sanctuary city policies after the City Council voted to override a veto blocking legislation that would prohibit federal immigration agents from operating inside city correctional facilities.
Socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani is expected to sign the Safer Sanctuary Act into law in the coming days.
The new law makes all 19 city-run correctional facilities, including Rikers Island, off-limits to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
The bill was introduced last year by Democrat Astoria Councilmember Tiffany Cabán, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA).
Members of the press were mobbed and assaulted by crazed anti-ICE agitators during a violent riot in Los Angeles Saturday night.
“ICE Out” demonstrations in Los Angeles devolved into violence over the weekend, prompting LA police and federal agents to deploy tear gas, pepper balls, and flash bangs to disperse the rioters outside the Federal Building in downtown LA.
Video footage taken by Traffic News Los Angeles (TNLA) during the chaos shows a female photographer being surrounded and harassed by an anti-ICE mob, with agitators yelling “get her!” and “punch her!”
Federal authorities arrested two more suspects in the Minnesota church invasion, Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Monday.
“If you riot in a place of worship, we WILL find you,” Bondi wrote on X.
“We have made two more arrests in connection with the coordinated attack on Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota: Ian Davis Austin and Jerome Deangelo Richardson,” she added.
Both Austin and Richardson appear in the indictment that a federal grand jury handed down Thursday.
Good Wednesday morning.
Here is what’s on President Trump’s agenda today:
11:00 AM THE PRESIDENT delivers remarks on Trump Acco
3:00 PM THE PRESIDENT participates in a greeting with Auto Workers
5:00 PM THE PRESIDENT participates in a Policy Meeting
News roundup:
Judge blocks removal of 5-year-old detained by ICE in Minnesota
Signal Chats have been exposed from paid insurrectionists that have been coordinating with Minnesota state officials. The insurrectionists have been intentionally interfering with the legal prosecution of criminal arrests that have been ruled constitutional by the Supreme Court of the United States of America.
Now, Minnesota’s Attorney General has been directly connected to the chat. His office created a secret portal for the insurrectionists to use to coordinate their attacks and get information that was used to attack American independent reporters like Cam Higby. It should be noted the activity began shortly after the Somali Fraud scam was exposed by another independent journalist stalked with the help of Ellison’s secret web portal, Nick Shirley.
Anti-ICE Signal chat links members to AG Keith Ellison’s office to report feds in Minnesota – The Post Millennial
Participants were instructed to report federal agents directly to the Minnesota Attorney General’s office using the form.
Activists in a Minnesota Signal chat are reportedly encouraging each other to report federal agents to Attorney General Keith Ellison through a state-run reporting portal created by Ellison’s office. This comes as reports have revealed large, coordinated Signal chats where participants allegedly share real-time information about Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol movements, which federal authorities now say those activities are under investigation.
The Minnesota-based federal judge who declined to issue arrest warrants for Don Lemon and several of the radicals accused of storming into Cities Church on Jan. 18 demanded on Tuesday that acting ICE Director Todd Lyons “appear personally before the Court and show cause why he should not be held in contempt of Court.”
Despite U.S. District Court Judge Patrick Schiltz’s portrayal in the liberal media as a conservative-minded and “mild-mannered George W. Bush appointee,” it appears that Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin’s characterization of Schiltz as “just another activist judge” is more apt.
The weekend before last, a mob of Leftists, including Don Lemon, stormed Cities Church in St. Paul, MN. Three of the agitators were arrested and almost immediately released by judges, while another judge refused to sign off on the arrest warrant for Lemon. It turns out that judge, Douglas L. Micko, is married to a woman who reportedly works in AG Keith Ellison’s office.
A new swing block in the 2024 election, the Hispanic vote only figures to be an even bigger one in the coming elections, which is good news for Trump. A Rasmussen Reports poll shows President Trump’s approval rating among Hispanics is plus nine, with 54% approving and 45% disapproving. This poll shows the narrative of ICE raids being anti-Hispanic or “brown” is a myth. Not even Hispanic Americans want illegals here, it would seem.
Polling Shows Massive Pro-Trump Swing Among Hispanics – townhall.com
This news has to make the Democratic Party very unhappy this morning. They’ve spent the past year attacking the Trump administration as racist, bigoted, xenophobic, and Nazi-like over its immigration policy, accusing ICE and Border Patrol of rounding up “brown people” indiscriminately for deportation.
Despite that, President Trump’s approval rating among Hispanics is skyrocketing, according to Rasmussen.
BREAKING: President Trump’s approval rating among Hispanics now at +9, per Rasmussen.
— Leading Report (@LeadingReport) January 27, 2026
Leading Report had to correct an earlier post after Rasmussen called them out.
Wrong @LeadingReport
Hispanic Trump Approval = 54%-45% or +9 per @Rasmussen_Poll https://t.co/1Fwrn8Z7YE pic.twitter.com/gDOXTSSRnL
— Rasmussen Reports (@Rasmussen_Poll) January 27, 2026
Earlier this week, President Trump sent border czar Tom Homan to speak personally with leaders in Minnesota. In the latest update to those exchanges, President Trump called out a top official at the center of the controversy for refusing to cooperate with the administration.
On Wednesday morning, Trump issued a stern warning to Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (D) after Frey indicated on Tuesday afternoon he was not going to enforce federal immigration law.
‘He is PLAYING WITH FIRE!’
Frey posted a short thread to X summarizing his position, stating that Minneapolis “will not enforce federal immigration law, and that we will remain focused on keeping our neighbors and streets safe.”
Trump noted his surprise at Frey’s apparent switchback following a “very good conversation with him”: “Could somebody in his inner sanctum please explain that this statement is a very serious violation of the Law, and that he is PLAYING WITH FIRE!”
The Trump administration notified Congress on Tuesday that it has completed a “preliminary review” of the fatal Border Patrol shooting of Alex Pretti, laying out a minute-by-minute account of the encounter and identifying the two federal agents who fired their weapons.
Pretti, 37, a U.S. Veterans Affairs intensive care unit nurse, died after a confrontation with Border Patrol agents during federal immigration enforcement operations in Minneapolis on Saturday.
According to the report, agents with Border Patrol and Customs and Border Protection were conducting enforcement actions near the intersection of Nicollet Avenue and 26th Street as part of Operation Metro Surge. Officials said several civilians were present in the area, some of them “yelling and blowing whistles” as agents worked.
On Tuesday morning, Border Patrol shot a man in Arizona.
The man was critically injured and transported to the hospital.
Here’s our original report:
DEVELOPING: Person in Critical Condition After CBP-Involved Shooting in Arizona
Now, more details are emerging about the incident.
It turns out that the man who was shot is an escaped convict.
In a hilarious turn of events, the anti-ICE agitators have now begun demonstrating outside the offices of Minnesota Governor Tim Walz for considering working with federal agents.
#BREAKING: Anti‑ICE protesters surround Tim Walz’s office after he signaled openness to President Trump & Tom Homan.
— Insider Wire (@InsiderWire) January 27, 2026
Dozens of protesters were seen screaming “justice delayed is justice denied” outside of the Walz’s office. Many were wielding homemade signs condemning ICE and federal law enforcement.
🚨 JUST IN: Leftist protestors have STORMED outside Tim Walz’s office in Minnesota, FURIOUS that he’s starting to cave to President Trump and Tom Homan
LMFAO! That’s how you know he’s losing!
Cry harder, ICE WILL CONTINUE. Homan’s taking it from here 🔥 pic.twitter.com/ZYLy7wqHQF
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) January 27, 2026
Disturbing new details have emerged about the far-left mob that stormed a Sunday church service at Cities Church in St. Paul, exposing an incident far more terrifying than initially reported. Democrat-aligned protesters forced their way into the church during worship, targeting the congregation over false claims that the pastor supported immigration authorities.
According to witnesses, agitators blocked stairwells, preventing parents from reaching their children attending Sunday School. Mothers were left panicked and helpless as chaos unfolded inside what should have been a place of safety and refuge. One boy cried to his dad: “I thought you were going to die.”
Even more alarming, one protester reportedly harassed a child directly, telling them: “Do you know your parents are Nazis? They’re going to burn in hell.” The verbal abuse of children crossed a line that shocks the conscience.
The invasion of Cities Church was not a protest—it was intimidation, terror, and ideological violence aimed at families and children. Yet once again, political leaders and media outlets that routinely decry “threats to democracy” remain conspicuously silent when the victims are ordinary Americans targeted by the radical left.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has arrested more than 200 illegal aliens in Maine in just five days as part of a targeted surge ordered by the Trump administration.
However, the successful crackdown has sparked sharp backlash from Maine’s Democrat Governor Janet Mills.
In a statement, Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs at the Department of Homeland Security Tricia McLaughlin said:
“The brave men and women of ICE have already arrested more than 200 illegal aliens in Maine in the last five days.
New details are emerging about the armed man killed by Border Patrol on Saturday.
As it turns out, this may not have been the first time Alex Pretti got into a physical altercation with immigration agents.
Reportedly, just one week before his death, Pretti (allegedly) broke his rib in a violent confrontation with ICE agents.
This clip from CNN has more details:
BREAKING: ICE Attacker Alex Pretti Had A Physical Altercation With ICE And Broke His Rib Just A Week Before He Was Shot and Killed.
He was tackled for impeding operations, and a week later he showed up with a loaded weapon to attack federal law enforcement.
He had a history… pic.twitter.com/63jFO5TJON
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) January 27, 2026
BREAKING: ICE Attacker Alex Pretti Had A Physical Altercation With ICE And Broke His Rib Just A Week Before He Was Shot and Killed.
He was tackled for impeding operations, and a week later he showed up with a loaded weapon to attack federal law enforcement.
He had a history of interfering with ICE and the left wants you to believe he meant no harm. This is who they are rioting for.
The operation motivating and fueling these people needs to be completely exposed and brought down.
Melinda Rose Cook, a healthcare worker at VCU Health, has uploaded several videos that have since been deleted and urged healthcare workers to harm ICE agents who are also patients.
In one video, she urged nurses to inject patients with Succinylcholine, which is a drug used for brief paralysis. In another clip, she suggested people should expose agents to poison ivy, and in another clip, she suggested people should date them, and put laxatives in their drink to “get them sick.”
Now, I am no legal expert, but I don’t think nurses poisoning their patients willfully is what you would call legal. However, I can confirm this is evil, to say the very least.
According to Jasmine Crockett, she would never want to “upset Latinos.” She said this because she implies the majority of people who have broken federal immigration laws are of a certain race and ethnicity. Or, in other words, she correlates illegal immigration with the Hispanic community, which proves just how racist she truly is. Nonetheless, that was not even the worst thing she said.
Crockett, who claimed to “know history,” in the same breath, said ICE is akin to when “slave patrols were going out and dragging and disappearing people based on color.”
There are so many things wrong with what she said.
FBI Director Kash Patel announced an investigation into encrypted Signal group chats used by Minnesota residents to share information about federal immigration enforcement — agent locations, vehicle license plates, activity near schools. Patel expressed concern that such activities could “put law enforcement in harm’s way,” and said investigators would determine if residents violated federal statutes, reports NBC News. — Read the rest
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President Donald Trump is not a man of nuance, and so as a result, many fall into the trap of concluding he can’t see the big picture. The most common mistaken assumption about him is that people think he’s reactionary, when the opposite is true. You don’t get the peace agreements he’s gotten, the concessions he’s won on his tariff strategy, or so many other things he’s accomplished if you wing it.
Consider all of this and how uncharacteristically quiet the president has been on the anti-ICE movement in Minneapolis in recent weeks. While he hasn’t avoided the topic, he hasn’t allowed it to dominate his narrative and the media coverage of the White House.
More importantly, while there has been a good deal of noise coming out of Minneapolis, and even more confusion by design coming from the Minnesota governor, Democrat politicians, and the left, in the wake of the Michael Pretti shooting, the very measured response coming from the White House may have been overlooked.
President Donald Trump appears to be backing down in Minneapolis — not because the situation has improved, but because Democrat officials who are still openly declaring their opposition to immigration enforcement have apparently pressured him into retreat.
After months of open defiance of federal immigration law, weeks of unrest, and a second fatal shooting involving federal agents, the Trump administration demanded on Sunday that Walz, Frey, and other Democrat leaders “cooperate … to enforce our Nation’s Laws.” In part, he specifically called on state and local prisons to turn over illegal aliens in custody and called on local police to “assist Federal Law Enforcement in apprehending and detaining Illegal Aliens who are wanted for Crimes.” But two days later, the president is reportedly planning to withdraw some forces in Minneapolis.
An independent journalist claims to have infiltrated encrypted Signal chat groups used by anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement activists, uncovering what appears to be a coordinated effort to obstruct federal immigration enforcement and harass law enforcement officers.
Cam Higby, an on-the-ground reporter known for undercover infiltrations, shared on X screen recordings and member lists from the alleged chats. His posts revealed hundreds of participants apparently actively plotting interference with U.S. ICE operations.
Former U.S. Rep. Jamaal Bowman encouraged his followers and supporters to “burn this s*** down” after an anti-ICE agitator was shot and killed by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents while attempting to draw a firearm.
Bowman — who was ousted by a Democratic Party primary challenger in 2024 — was speaking in reference to the shooting of Alex Pretti, 37. Footage from the scene shows Pretti inserting himself into a federal immigration operation and attempting to prevent CBP agents from arresting a fellow agitator.
At that point, a struggle ensued between Pretti and agents. Pretti, who was licensed to carry a 9mm firearm, then reached towards his waistband before shots rang out.
U.S. District Judge Katherine Menendez pressed attorneys for Minnesota and the Justice Department on Monday about the state’s claims that federal government violated the Tenth Amendment by surging Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials to Minneapolis.
Lindsey Middlecamp, a special counsel at the Minnesota Attorney General’s Office, reportedly described ICE’s deployment as an “unlawful occupation” at the outset of the hearing.
She argued that the the administration of President Donald Trump is using the ICE deployment to pressure the state on policy.
“They are not letting the courts work this stuff out,” Middlecamp said, according to Politico’s Kyle Cheney. “What they’re trying to get in court … they’re trying to get that same thing by putting 3,000 heavily armed agents on the streets of Minnesota.”
As evidence of alleged coercion, the state’s attorneys presented a Jan. 24 letter from U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi, urging Gov. Tim Walz, a Democrat, to consider three major policy changes.
Bondi urged him to share Minnesota’s records on Medicaid and Food and Nutrition Service programs with the federal government; to repeal “sanctuary” policies restricting state and local law enforcement from assisting federal officers; and to allow the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division to access voter rolls to confirm Minnesota’s voter registration practices comply with federal laws.
Some have claimed that ICE is undertrained. Today’s show breaks down what’s going on with ICE.
According to Tim Walz, Donald Trump needs to “pull these untraided officers out of Minnesota before they kill another person.”
“This is, of course, a talking point parroted by everyone on the left right now and by their useful idiots on the liberation/black pill right,” Crowder said.
Both officers involved in the two recent shootings in Minnesota are extensively trained officers.
According to the New York Times:
Mr. Ross joined the Indiana National Guard in 2002, a year after graduating from high school in Peoria, Ill. In November 2004, he deployed to Iraq, and was there for a year, during a time when the insurgency was growing increasingly violent. He served as a gunner in convoys for his logistics unit, but nothing in his record suggests he saw combat.
Mr. Ross was also part of a cohort inside ICE known as the Special Response Team that is trained to handle more dangerous situations. In 2025, S.R.T. members were sent across the nation to cities where Mr. Trump’s immigration crackdown had spurred mass protests, including Los Angeles, Chicago and elsewhere.
It was a wild weekend with the Border Patrol shooting in Minneapolis on Saturday.
We don’t know all the facts in the case yet. But the Democrats were off to the races, declaring it “murder.” They’ve helped to incite the anti-ICE and anti-DHS agitators. Immediately, there was violence in the wake of the shooting, with an ICE agent having his finger bitten off by a rioter and protesters attacking a hotel they thought ICE agents were staying at.
Minnesota officials are considering filing state criminal charges against federal immigration officers involved in two deadly shootings in Minneapolis.
Federal agents typically enjoy a degree of immunity under federal law, which could complicate efforts to prosecute the officers.
The first shooting involved 37-year-old Renee Good, who was shot and killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent earlier this month during an immigration raid. The authorities claim she tried to run the agent over with her vehicle. However, some dispute this claim, citing video evidence appearing to show Good trying to drive away from the scene before the agent opened fire.
The second involves a 37-year-old ICU nurse named Alex Pretti, who was fatally shot during an immigration enforcement operation near a protest in south Minneapolis. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) claimed Pretti approached officers with a firearm.
The bill ultimately passed the chamber 220 to 207. Five other Democrats joined Gillen and Suozzi in passing the bill, while Rep Thomas Massie was the only GOP member to vote against it.
Two Democrat House reps from Long Island, New York have broken with their party in backing a spending bill that includes billions funding to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), as a major immigration crackdown has been underway in Minnesota.
Reps Laura Gillen and Tom Suozzi sided with House Republicans on Thursday in passing a $64.4 billion funding package for the Department of Homeland Security. Included in the package is $10 billion for ICE. The bill ultimately passed the chamber 220 to 207. Five other Democrats joined Gillen and Suozzi in passing the bill, while Rep Thomas Massie was the only GOP member to vote against it.
President Donald Trump says that he has spoken with Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) via phone and indicated that the Democrat was cooperating with Immigration and Customs Enforcement efforts after publicly opposing them.
The president posted about the phone call with the governor in a social media statement on Truth Social after rioting escalated in Minneapolis in response to another lethal shooting over the weekend.
‘Even in Minnesota, Crime is way down, but both Governor Walz and I want to make it better!’