ICE officers arrested a Southwest Airlines flight attendant who is a Jamaican illegal alien while he was on the job.

Lorenzo “Enzo” Thompson was taken into custody by New Orleans Enforcement and Removal Operations officers at Nashville International Airport on July 14.

According to Fox News reporter Bill Melugin, citing the Department of Homeland Security, Thompson is a Jamaican national who entered the United States lawfully on April 17, 2021, at the Miami Port of Entry on a visa that authorized him to stay only six months. That authorization expired on October 16, 2021. He never left.

BREAKING: DHS confirms to @FoxNews that ICE has arrested a Southwest Airlines flight attendant while at work on July 14th. DHS says Lorenzo Thompson is a Jamaican illegal alien who came to the US on a visa on 4/27/2021, which was set to expire on 10/16/2021, but he illegally… pic.twitter.com/WGcetRDFFo

— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) July 23, 2026

For nearly five years Thompson remained in the country illegally, secured employment as a Southwest Airlines flight attendant, and continued working in a position that places him in the cabin with American passengers until ICE finally caught up with him.

Thompson’s union, TWU Local 556, which represents more than 21,000 Southwest flight attendants, immediately circled the wagons.

In a statement, the union said it was in contact with his family and legal counsel and vowed to stand with “our members.”

“TWU Local 556 has been made aware that one of our Members was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) while at work.

Our priority is, and always will be, standing with and supporting our Members. Every Member deserves to be treated with dignity and respect, and we are committed to ensuring this Member and their family know they are not alone during this difficult time.

TWU Local 556 has been in communication with the Member’s family. We are also working with the attorney retained by the Member, as well as TWU Local 556’s legal counsel, to understand the circumstances and provide appropriate support.

Many Members have inquired about how to help. We understand family and friends have set up a fund to assist with legal expenses, and it is being shared publicly on social media by other Members.

TWU Local 556 will continue to monitor the situation closely and remain engaged as we learn more. We appreciate our Members’ concern and support, as we all hope for a swift resolution to this situation.”

Left-wing advocacy groups and the Labor Council for Latin American Advancement quickly launched a GoFundMe, claiming Thompson has no criminal record, holds a “valid work visa,” and was “following every legal step toward citizenship.”

DHS records tell a different story: visa overstay, illegal presence for five years.

“TWU Local 556 member Lorenzo “Enzo” Thompson was detained by ICE on July 14, despite having no criminal record. Enzo was following every legal step toward citizenship. He had a valid work visa and was a dedicated flight attendant, touching countless lives with his kindness.

Today, we stand with our brother Enzo and his union family. Together, we reaffirm our commitment to standing by workers and their families through every challenge.

Every contribution makes a difference. Please support Lorenzo’s legal defense fund to help him obtain the legal representation he needs and continue the fight for his release.”

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On July 22, 2026, Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis claimed responsibility for an attack on two Saudi oil tankers, the Encelia and Layla, transiting the Red Sea. The group said the vessels had violated a blockade it declared against Saudi Arabia on July 20.

Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree said the tankers were targeted for violating the blockade imposed by the group’s armed forces. The attack marked the Houthis’ first strike on commercial shipping in recent months, opening a new front in the U.S.-Iran war.

The blockade followed the Yemeni government’s bombing of the Houthi-controlled Sanaa airport to prevent an Iranian aircraft from landing. The incident was part of some of the worst violence Yemen has seen in four years.

The Houthis initially remained on the sidelines after the U.S.-Israeli campaign against Iran began with the opening strikes on February 28, 2026, which killed Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.

Hezbollah and several Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces militias joined the fighting within two days by striking Israel and U.S. bases. The Houthis held back longer, a delay analysts attributed to a calculated decision made in coordination with Tehran rather than reluctance to fight.

That changed on March 28, when the Houthis resumed attacks on Israel that had been paused since the October 2025 Gaza ceasefire. They launched ballistic missiles and formally joined the war. Military spokesman Yahya Saree announced the strikes on Al Masirah, saying they would continue “until the aggression against all fronts of the resistance ceases.” Houthi leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi said his group stood with Iran and was ready to act “whenever developments require it.”

Al Jazeera’s analysis at the time described the relationship as one of coordination rather than pure subordination. It said the Houthis were trying to avoid a broad confrontation that could drain their resources and manpower inside Yemen. The same Stimson report noted that Israel had already eliminated much of the Houthi leadership, including the group’s chief of staff, in strikes in August 2025. As a result, Iran had to weigh the benefits of Houthi involvement against the risk of further decapitating an ally, as had already occurred with the IRGC and Hezbollah leadership.

The blockade traces to a July 13 escalation at Sanaa airport. An Iranian Mahan Air flight sought to carry a Houthi delegation home from Tehran after attending Khamenei’s funeral. Yemen’s internationally recognized government said it rejected Iran’s request for the flight, accused the Houthis of trying to bring the aircraft in without authorization, and struck the runway to block the landing. The plane diverted to Hodeidah.

Yemen’s Defense Minister, Gen. Taher al-Aqili, said the strike was meant to stop the delegation’s return, adding that Yemeni patience had run out. A Critical Threats Project analysis found that the Houthis imposed the blockade on July 20 only after it served their own objectives against Saudi Arabia. A separate analyst told The Hill that “Iran is not a bystander” in the episode because Tehran had facilitated the delegation’s flight.

The Houthis retaliated the same day with a missile and drone strike on Abha International Airport in southern Saudi Arabia. The Washington Post called it the sharpest such escalation in years, though it reported no casualties. Saree, speaking on Al Masirah, warned airlines to avoid Saudi airspace “until the siege on Sanaa airport is lifted.” He also declared the de-escalation phase of Yemen’s war over.

Houthi Political Bureau member Mohammed al-Bukhaiti said the strikes on Sanaa “will not pass without response and punishment.” The Saudi-led coalition said only that it had intercepted a ballistic missile threat aimed at the kingdom’s southern region, without confirming the original Sanaa strike. Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei called the Sanaa strike a “clear violation of international law and the UN Charter.”

Tehran resumed its own blockade of Iranian ports on July 14, and CENTCOM said it had begun redirecting and disabling non-compliant commercial vessels as Brent crude climbed toward $100 a barrel amid the standstill in the Strait of Hormuz.

That same weekend, Jordan’s military intercepted three missiles fired from Iran, and Iranian strikes killed two U.S. soldiers stationed in Jordan.

The broader collapse driving this escalation traces to a memorandum of understanding the U.S. and Iran signed on June 17, 2026, which triggered a 60-day negotiation window and called for renewed U.S. strikes if Iran violated its terms. That framework broke down after Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps attacked commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz on July 6-7 for not sticking to a route Iran had unilaterally approved, prompting dozens of U.S. strikes inside Iran.

President Trump said afterward that he considers the MoU with Iran “over,” and Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi said Tehran has likewise suspended all its own commitments under the deal. As of July 22-23, the US military carries out strikes on Iran even as Tehran continues to threaten and attack shipping in the Strait, to coerce commercial vessels into following its preferred routes and fee structure.

Reuters reported on July 23, that Iran flew Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commanders and missile-related equipment into Houthi-held Yemen on July 13, about a week before the blockade declaration, to help bolster the group’s ability to threaten Red Sea shipping.

President Trump warned that the U.S. would hold Iran responsible for any further Houthi attacks on Saudi vessels, calling the group Iran’s “Surrogate and/or Proxy” and threatening “major military punishment” against both. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the same day that the Houthis had largely stayed out of the broader conflict until now, but “got snookered” by Iran into targeting Saudi Arabia.

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Macomb County Clerk Anthony G. Forlini is once again exposing a serious and ongoing problem in Michigan’s election system under Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson.

From January 1, 2025 through June 30, 2026, Forlini’s office identified more than 1,000 prospective jurors who self-reported that they are not U.S. citizens. Of those individuals, 40 were found registered to vote in Macomb County’s Qualified Voter File.

Five of them even have a voting history.

The Clerk’s Office referred these findings to the Michigan Bureau of Elections on January 13, April 28, and July 10, 2026.

In January 2026, The Gateway Pundit reported that Forlini had identified 239 non-citizens in the jury pool over just four months. Of those, 14 had been registered to vote at some point, and several appeared to have voting histories — including one who voted multiple times.

“It is unconscionable that this problem continues,” Forlini said. “To provide greater transparency, our office posts a running tally of these findings on our website so the public can stay informed and lawmakers can better understand the scope of the issue as they consider reforms.”

Under Michigan law, only U.S. citizens are eligible to vote or serve on a jury. Yet non-citizens continue to receive jury summonses because the jury pool is generated from the Secretary of State’s driver’s license database, which includes non-citizens.

“The jury pool is generated from the Secretary of State’s driver’s license database, which includes individuals who are not U.S. citizens,” Forlini said. “Our staff spends a considerable amount of time verifying the citizenship status of those who self-report. Cross-checking those records against the Qualified Voter File helps identify potential registration issues that should be reviewed. Michigan residents deserve confidence that only eligible citizens are participating in our elections and jury system.”

Forlini also voiced support for the Department of Justice’s review of Michigan’s voter rolls.

“I support the Department of Justice’s review because the integrity of our elections deserves a thorough examination whenever credible concerns are identified,” he said. “Our office documented instances where individuals who identified themselves as non-U.S. citizens also appeared in the Qualified Voter File, and we referred those findings to the Michigan Bureau of Elections. Following the facts and correcting any weaknesses strengthens public confidence in our elections.”

Despite repeated referrals from Forlini’s office, the problem persists under Michigan’s dirty Secretary of State, Jocelyn Benson. Michigan residents are left wondering how many more non-citizens remain on the state’s voter rolls — and how many have already cast illegal ballots.

Anthony Forlini is the Republican candidate for Michigan Secretary of State. Should he trust Jocelyn Benson to run a free and fair election given her history of cheating? Should he be concerned about his fate as Michigan’s next secretary of state that lies in the hands of Jocelyn Benson, who is overseeing both his and her own election in November 2026?

The same Michigan Secretary of State who is blocking the US Department of Justice’s demand that she turn over Michigan’s voter rolls to ensure no non-citizens are registered to vote is also running for governor in the upcoming election she’s overseeing.

Nothing to see here…

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Longtime Democrat strategist and “Ragin’ Cajun” James Carville just told his own party to stop fighting and get on board with voter ID requirements because the American people demand it.

On the latest episode of his Politics War Room podcast with Al Hunt, Carville acknowledged that Democrats are fighting a losing political battle by continuing to resist voter identification requirements.

While claiming voter fraud is “infinitesimal,” Carville admitted the polling is devastating for Democrats and urged them to quit the fight.

“I don’t know if we’re not better off saying, okay, ‘We’ll take that alternative ID, bring your gas bill or your light bill or something,’” Carville said.

Then came the admission.

“Because for whatever reason, this shit polls at 75%,” Carville said.

Carville claimed that voter fraud is “extraordinarily rare,” but conceded that Democrats are simply not going to win the political argument against requiring identification to vote.

“We are not going to win the war against some kind of ID,” Carville admitted.

He suggested Democrats should simply accept a voter-ID requirement and move on to other political fights.

“Maybe you just go along with it and move to the next step,” he said.

Hunt pushed back by drawing a distinction between ordinary voter-ID laws already operating in numerous states and the SAVE America Act, which includes proof-of-citizenship requirements.

Hunt argued that requiring documents such as birth certificates or passports could create difficulties for some eligible voters.

Carville responded that Democrats should stop fighting broadly popular voter-ID laws.

“If we have it, just say, okay, pass the law,” Carville said.

“I mean, look, I think I don’t want to pass. I never had a problem with it. I’m just saying, of all the things people—if every poll shows 75% or better say we should have some kind of an ID to vote… shit, just quit fighting it and go along with it and move to the next thing.”

WATCH:

NEW: James Carville calls on Dems to *PASS* national voter ID law

“We are NOT gonna win the war against some kind of a ID … EVERY poll shows 75% or better say we should have some kind of a ID to vote … just quit fighting and go along with it!” pic.twitter.com/rrjkJlHKiU

— Jason Cohen (@JasonJournoDC) July 23, 2026

This is a stunning reversal from the same James Carville who last year dismissed proof-of-citizenship requirements as a “massively unnecessary idea.”

As The Gateway Pundit reported in April 2025, Carville appeared on NewsNation and claimed requiring citizenship documentation was “totally unnecessary,” insisting studies show fraud is “almost undetectable” and warning about bureaucratic burdens on married women and the elderly.

Now the political winds have shifted after 6,000 or more illegal aliens were added to New Jersey’s voting rolls, and even Carville can read the room.

Poll after poll shows overwhelming bipartisan support for requiring proof of citizenship and voter ID in federal elections. The American people are not buying the Democrat scare tactics.

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Minnesota mother Shiloh Hendrix is currently on trial for using a slur when confronting a nine-year-old Somali boy who was stealing from her diaper bag at a playground in a video that went massively viral on social media, and Jack Posobiec has not held back in declaring that she is being prosecuted for speech and a “thought crime.”

Posobiec discussed the latest updates on his Human Events show on Thursday, declaring, “It seems very much that Shiloh Hendrix is on trial for speech… and for a thought crime.”

Speaking to The Gateway Pundit, Posobiec said, “This is the United States. We don’t put people on trial for speech. In the UK last year 13,000 people were arrested for speech offenses. Shiloh Hendrix is a mother who is on trial for saying something that the anti-white system says is a criminal offense, so they are stretching the law to prosecute her. We need to hold the line on free speech before we become the next EU.”

“The antiwhite system must be exposed and confronted,” Posobiec added.

WATCH:

Shiloh Hendrix is on trial for speech … Not because she threatened someone, not because she was assaulting someone. But because she said something that the antiwhite system says is not allowedpic.twitter.com/VrBQ4XU85l

— Jack Posobiec (@JackPosobiec) July 23, 2026

Hendrix, 37, is facing two misdemeanor counts of disorderly conduct.

The charges stem from an April 2025 incident at Roy Sutherland Playground in Soldiers Field Memorial Park.

According to court documents and video of the incident, a then-eight-year-old autistic Somali boy took an applesauce pouch from Hendrix’s diaper bag while she was at the park with her toddler.

Hendrix confronted the child and allegedly used a racial slur.

A Somali man named Sharmake Omar began recording and confronting her, demanding she say the slur.

Hendrix repeated the slur toward the man, gave him the middle finger, and walked away while stating the child had taken her son’s belongings.

BREAKING: Shiloh Hendrix charged for the viral video of her saying a slur. She now is facing jail. pic.twitter.com/9or7jGIDO3

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) August 26, 2025

The video triggered intense online backlash.

Hendrix was doxxed. Her Social Security number, home address, and phone number were leaked. She reported threats against her family, harassment of relatives, and concerns that her older child might not be able to return to school.

In response, political commentator Tom Hennessey launched a GiveSendGo fundraiser for Hendrix titled “Help Me Protect My Family.”

In the description, Hendrix wrote that a child had stolen from her 18-month-old son’s diaper bag, that she “called the kid out for what he was,” and that the subsequent viral video and doxxing had put her family in danger, forcing her to consider relocating.

The campaign has raised more than $846,000.

Hendrix used the funds to purchase a home with land in a safer area and to cover security and legal costs.

Last August, months after the incident, the Rochester City Attorney’s Office charged Hendrix with three counts of disorderly conduct, which were later reduced to two. Each count carries a maximum penalty of 90 days in jail and a $1,000 fine.

Hendrix pleaded not guilty.

Her attorney, Brian Karalus, has argued that her language, while offensive, is protected under the First Amendment and does not constitute “fighting words” or disorderly conduct. He has framed the prosecution as the product of cancel culture and an attack on free speech.

A motion to dismiss the charges was denied in May.

The jury trial began earlier this week.

Shiloh Trial Update, Day 3

Shiloh’s attorney continued cross-examination of the father today.

After asking the same question four different ways with the help of translators, the father admitted under oath that portions of his testimony from yesterday do not match his… https://t.co/ICYlXg5LEt pic.twitter.com/5MjnmsbrrT

— Tom Hennessy (@Tomhennessey69) July 22, 2026

Hennessy reported:

After asking the same question four different ways with the help of translators, the father admitted under oath that portions of his testimony from yesterday do not match his interview with investigators last year.

Yesterday, the father claimed Shiloh ran after the boy not only to retrieve what was taken from her, but also because he believed she intended to strike, fight, or “rumble” with his son.

Shiloh’s attorney pointed out that the original statement to investigators made no mention of that.

The father was also asked multiple times whether he or his family had any involvement in a fundraiser. He answered “No” each time.

Defense cross-examination highlighted inconsistencies between Jimale’s initial police statements and later testimony, as well as the fact that the family received more than $300,000 through an NAACP-backed fundraiser.

During the trial, it was also revealed that the child has to wear a police-issued ankle bracelet due to his tendency to run off.

Facts: Wild Somali child who is required to wear an ankle monitor at the age of 9 steals from this woman’s diaper bag. She calls the child a mean word.

Another Somali chases her down, starts recording her, and demands she say the mean word again. She gets criminally charged for… pic.twitter.com/sJxKdb8WT8

— Bree Solstad (@BreeSolstad) July 23, 2026

Jimale contacted the NAACP before speaking with police about the incident.

The defense rested its case on Friday.

The jury’s decision is pending.

The Gateway Pundit will provide updates when a verdict is delivered.

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