by | Jan 31, 2024 | Aggregate
Credit: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) apprehended a 30-year-old MS-13 gang member from El Salvador after a Montgomery County Court released him onto the streets despite a conviction for accessory to murder.
ICE announced Wednesday that Deportation officers from Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Baltimore’s Fugitive Operations Team arrested the gang member on Jan. 29 near his residence in Silver Spring.
Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Baltimore Field Office Director Darius Reeves released the following statement:
This unlawfully present Salvadoran gang member’s presence in the United States represents a threat to the safety and security of our residents. Not only is he a validated member of a notorious criminal enterprise, but he also aided other criminals in the commission of a murder. ERO Baltimore will continue to apprehend and remove such criminal elements from our Maryland communities.”
ICE said the illegal will remain in their custody until he is deported back to El Salvador.
ICE also provided background on what transpired before the arrest in their announcement. This includes the dangerous and irresponsible actions by a Maryland Court in Rockville, which put the state’s residents in harm’s way.
In January 2023, the Montgomery County Police Department (MCPD) arrested the gang banger, charging him with accessory to first-degree murder. Five months later, ICE in Baltimore submitted an immigration detainer against the Salvadoran illegal with Montgomery County Circuit Court in Rockville.
In September 2023, the Montgomery Circuit Court convicted the illegal alien of the offense and sentenced him to five years in prison. But the Court astoundingly suspended all but 18 months of his sentence.
The Court also ignored the ICE detainer and released him back into the community, potentially endangering Marylanders.
ICE also revealed in their announcement that the alien originally crossed illegally into the U.S. in October 2006 near Falfurrias, TX as an unaccompanied minor, aka a Dreamer. Later that day, agents transferred the illegal to the Office of Refugee Resettlement’s International Educational Services in Harlingen, TX.
Two months later, the Office of Refugee Resettlement reunited him with his uncle in Washington, D.C.
An immigration judge in Baltimore ordered the Dreamer to be deported to El Salvador in February 2007, which apparently never happened.
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by | Jan 31, 2024 | Aggregate
An employee at a Goodwill in Wisconsin was spooked after discovering a live WWII-era grenade inside a donation box.
The grenade was discovered at the Truth North Goodwill in Ashland, Wisconsin.
After making the discovery, employees at the Goodwill store placed the grenade between two dumpsters until authorities arrived.
The Marathon County Sheriff’s Department’s bomb squad detonated the grenade and was able to identify the grenade as a Japanese WWII-era grenade.
A live World War II-era hand grenade was discovered in the donated items at a Wisconsin Goodwill on Saturday, officials said. https://t.co/1CltvMzwCd
— WHSVnews (@WHSVnews) January 30, 2024
Per KARE 11:
An employee of a Goodwill store in northern Wisconsin made a startling discovery on Saturday.
They found a WWII-era grenade inside a box of donated items at the True North Goodwill in Ashland. The police were called and the store was evacuated.
“The grenade was placed outside the building between two dumpsters before authorities arrived on the scene,” according to a news release.
The Japanese-made grenade was safely detonated by the Marathon County Sheriff’s Department’s bomb squad.
Authorities said no other weapons were found. The store reopened the next day.
Goodwill stores are a great place to find a good deal on clothes, appliances, books, and more, but in recent years, the thrift store chain has made some bad press.
The Gateway Pundit previously reported a human skull was discovered in a donation box in Arizona.
READ:
Human Skull Found in Arizona Goodwill Donation Box
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by | Jan 31, 2024 | Aggregate
Guest post by Leo Hohmann – republished with permission
A bipartisan group of Senators has introduced a bill to prevent the expansion of this program citing an invasion of privacy, but TSA launches it anyway
Despite complaints from several members of Congress from both parties, Joe Biden’s Transportation Security Administration is moving forward with plans to expand facial-recognition technology at 430 U.S. airports.
The TSA says it will install enhanced Credential Authentication Technology (CAT) devices at the airports, an upgrade from previous units used in a pilot program at nearly 30 U.S. airports.
The latest CAT scanners, known as CAT-2 units, incorporate facial recognition technology by capturing real-time pictures of travelers and comparing them against their photo IDs. These units have been deployed at nearly 30 airports nationwide and will now be rolled out at more than 400 “federalized” airports in the coming years, reports MSN.
As of now, participation in facial recognition screenings is supposedly optional for travelers, who can choose to stick with the standard physical ID verification process. But there have been countless firsthand accounts from airport passengers who have indicated that they were not given any option by TSA to reject the face scans.
The CAT-2 units utilize one-to-one verification, comparing photos against government-issued identification. They say they delete the images from their system soon after taking them (who are they fooling, we know they keep this data for a very long time if not indefinitely).
According to MSN: “The TSA emphasizes that photos are not stored after a positive ID match, except during limited testing for evaluating technology effectiveness. This testing involves a block of two to four weeks at specific locations, with data collected and submitted to the DHS Science and Technology Directorate for independent analysis.”
Here’s the catch: TSA may not keep the data for more than a few weeks, but they have no control over Homeland Security and other entities to which they pass the information on.
A bipartisan group of senators, led by Senators John Kennedy (R-Louisiana) and Jeff Merkley (D-Oregon), introduced legislation in November 2023 to ban TSA from using facial recognition, citing privacy concerns. The government’s increasing reliance on facial recognition has prompted calls for greater regulations around its quickly expanding usage.
The senators say their bill, called the Travelers’ Privacy Protection Act, or TPPA, would prevent the agency from “further exploiting the technology and storing traveler’s biodata.”
The decision by the Biden regime to go ahead and expand this invasive, tyrannical tracking program in the face of congressional concerns, tells you all you need to know about this regime. They could care less what the people or their representatives think about their globalist beast-system policies.
The senators stressed that the overwhelming majority of Americans are unaware that they have the right to opt out of the facial screenings. Nobody is asked if they wish to grant permission for the government to scan their faces, it’s just sneakily performed on the spot.
Airports are supposed to have a sign alerting travelers that their photo will be taken as part of the pilot program and that they have the right to opt out, but most passengers say the signs are so small they didn’t even notice them.
Michele Bachmann, a former Republican member of Congress from Minnesota who ran for president in 2012, contacted me this past weekend to inform me of a recent experince encountered at a U.S. airport.
“I walked up to the agent at security in Norfolk; rather than handing her my ID she told me to put it in a card-reader machine.
“Then she said, ‘look into the camera.’ Before I could respond, the camera had taken my picture. She told me the camera matched my face with my ID!
“There was no choice.”
I also recently reported that the TSA is allowing illegal aliens to board airplanes without showing any ID at all. They are politely asked if they will submit to a face scans but have the option of saying “no.”
This is part of the “two Americas” system that is taking shape in this country. One set of standards applies to foreign nationals and another to U.S. citizens. Two Americas — often operating within the same jurisdiction within a two-tiered system of justice which they refer to as a “democracy.” Any U.S. citizen who complains about this system, or even questions it, risks getting placed on a government watchlist of persons considered to be, as described by the globalists who run the government and media, “a threat to our democracy.”
It won’t be long before this face-scanning technology is required of patrons checking into hotels, casting their votes in elections, checking into a hospital, and any number of other everyday functions in life.
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