A City Against Its Country: Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson Pushes ICE-Free Zones [WATCH]

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Chicago’s mayor is drawing a line — not against crime or chaos, but against his own federal government. On Monday, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson signed an executive order barring federal immigration agents from using city-owned property, including parking lots, libraries, and parks, as staging areas for enforcement. He called it an act of protection. Others are calling it defiance. “In recent weeks, federal agents used several City-owned properties—including parking lots near Harrison and Kedzie, and a vacant lot at 46th and Damen—as staging sites for immigration enforcement,” Johnson’s office said in a statement. “Such use of City property undermines community

THE WORD OF THE LORD: James Buchanan or Pete Buttigieg? [LISTEN]

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James Buchanan and Pete Buttigieg.

During this week on The Word of the Lord, Jeffrey Lord dissects Kamala Harris’ admission that she passed over Pete Buttigieg as her VP running mate because he is gay. Harris made the controversial admission while speaking to MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow. Maddow: To say that he couldn’t be on the ticket effectively because he was gay, it’s hard to hear. Harris: No, no, no, that’s not what I said… with the stakes being so high, it made me very sad, but I also realized it would be a real risk. Watch the clip below: Maddow presses Harris on Buttigieg: to say

Law Wins, MS-13 Loses: Court Rejects Last-Ditch Asylum Gambit From Abrego Garcia

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An immigration judge has shut the door on Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s bid to reopen his deportation case — a decisive blow to the alleged MS-13 gangster’s attempt to remain in the United States. Abrego Garcia, once deported to El Salvador, had filed an emergency motion in August claiming he was newly eligible for asylum. But Regional Deputy Chief Immigration Judge Philip Taylor dismissed the plea as “untimely,” nearly six years after his original proceedings, according to court documents obtained by ABC News. The Department of Homeland Security greeted the ruling as final justice. “With today’s ruling, Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s final

From Traffickers to Terrorists: Trump Redefines the Battle Against Deadly Drug Gangs

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President Trump has drawn a line that no other American leader has dared to etch: the United States, he declared, is engaged in an armed conflict with the drug cartels that poison our people. They are not mere traffickers now, not in his eyes, but terrorist organizations — and their smugglers, his admin told Congress, are to be regarded as unlawful combatants. The notice to lawmakers, obtained by The New York Times, confirmed what Trump himself has hinted at in speeches. It is not rhetoric. It is a formal designation that grants the commander in chief extraordinary wartime powers —

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