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Federal Officials Take TDA-Harboring Judge, Wife Into Custody

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Former New Mexico Democrat Judge Jose “Joel” Cano and his wife were reportedly taken into custody Thursday by federal officials after being accused of harboring a Tren de Aragua (TdA) gang member in their home.

KFOX14 captured video Thursday afternoon showing federal officials placing Cano and his wife Nancy into custody as U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers executed a search and probable cause arrest warrant at their Las Cruces home. The video shows officials wearing Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) vests detaining the couple near a set of vehicles, with both placed in handcuffs.

In March, Cano resigned from his position after 23-year-old Venezuelan national Cristhian Ortega-Lopez was arrested by authorities, according to the Albuquerque Journal. Ortega-Lopez had reportedly met Nancy Cano after illegally entering the U.S. in 2023 near Eagle Pass, Texas and later accepted her offer to stay in a “casita” behind their home, the outlet reported.

Leading up to Cano’s resignation, the Department of Justice said federal authorities had executed search warrants related to unlawful firearm possession and other offenses involving four illegal migrants in the state — Ortega-Lopez among them.

A spokesperson for ICE said to KFOX14 that both Cano and his wife had been taken into custody during the raid of their home, with HSI agents telling the outlet that both face evidence-tampering charges.

Ortega-Lopez is accused of being an illegal migrant in possession of firearms as well as having affiliations with TdA. Official charges against Cano and his wife have not been officially released.

The FBI was unable to provide the Daily Caller News Foundation with any further information due to the ongoing nature of the investigation.

HSI and ICE did not immediately respond to the DCNF’s request for comment. 

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Billionaire technocrat Peter Thiel’s company, Palantir, lands $30 million contract with ICE to help round up and deport illegals

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What could possibly go wrong with such a system in government hands? 

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has awarded a $30 million contract to arch-technocrat Peter Thiel’s company, Palantir Technologies.

The contract calls for Palantir to develop ImmigrationOS, a comprehensive digital platform aimed at streamlining and expanding the agency’s deportation apparatus.

Biometric Update reports that the contract marks a deepening of Palantir’s role in immigration enforcement, which stretches back to when it first supplied data-gathering tools to ICE in 2014.

Palantir also has contracts with the CIA, FBI and DoD and, as I reported on April 14, recently struck a deal with NATO to supply AI-powered Smart warfighting systems.

President Trump pledged on the campaign trail to deport at least 13 million illegal aliens in what he said would be “the largest domestic deportation operation in American history.”

However, his efforts have been severely hampered by logistical, legal, and political hurdles.​ In the first 50 days of Trump’s second term, ICE reported a mere 32,000 arrests, nothing approaching the millions of deportations promised by Trump and his border czar Tom Homan. ​

According to the report by Biometric Update:

“ImmigrationOS is an end-to-end digital ecosystem that automates the lifecycle of deportation. Its architecture is built to optimize three primary enforcement areas. First, the system prioritizes targets using AI to sift through immigration records, criminal histories, and social indicators such as known affiliations or prior infractions.

“Second, it provides near real-time monitoring of “self-deportation” events, enabling ICE to track individuals who exit the United States voluntarily, often under pressure. Third, it supports what the agency refers to as ‘immigration lifecycle management,’ which includes coordinating logistics for detentions, removals, and administrative follow-through to minimize operational delays.

“At the center of this platform is the integration of data from an extraordinary range of sources. ImmigrationOS pulls from the Social Security Administration (SSA), Internal Revenue Service (IRS), U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), and state voter rolls, among others.”

Biometric Update noted that there are allegations that data for ImmigrationOS is being sourced through unauthorized access to government databases, facilitated by individuals with high-level access, leading to concerns about the legality and ethics of the data-collection methods being employed.

If you’re a patriotic flag-waving MAGA Republican, this might all sound just dandy. And I agree, we have way too many illegals in this country.

But if you’re a thinking conservative whose patriotism is tethered to a strong belief that government cannot be trusted to stay within its Constitutional bounds, this story is disturbing. Is it not part of a strategic move, a Hegelian dialectic, on the part of the globalists to create a problem under one administration, in this case that of Joe Biden, that cries out for a solution by the next administration, even if by extraordinary means? And if that extraordinary means is normalized, could it not be weaponized against American citizens later on, likely by a future administration?

Think about this: What’s to stop Palantir from selling this same AI-powered software system to the FBI or DHS under a future Democrat administration, renaming it, and using it to round up outspoken Christian conservatives and Trump supporters and place them in detention camps?

It may sound crazy, but we’ve already seen a nationwide manhunt for J6ers under the Biden administration. They looked under every stone for folks whose biggest crime was trusting police who welcomed them into the Capitol and a space they weren’t supposed to legally be in. Think of how quickly they could have rounded those folks up with Palantir’s data-gathering and self-analyzing artificial intelligence! This system can find out everything about a person within a matter of seconds, including where you live, where you shop, where you bank, where you work, your favorite hangouts, and the same information about all your friends, family members and co-workers.

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Houses Passes ‘Laken Riley Act’ To Crack Down On Illegal Immigrant Criminals

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The House passed a bill Thursday that would target illegal migrants in the U.S. who have committed certain crimes, naming the legislation in memory of the late nursing student Laken Hope Riley.

Riley, aged 22, was killed on Feb. 22 after being allegedly attacked while running in a forested area near the University of Georgia (UGA) in Athens, Georgia, with the suspect arrested and charged with her murder, Jose Antonio Ibarra, being a Venezuelan national who allegedly entered the United States illegally and was released after being initially detained. The Laken Riley Act would require the federal government to detain foreign nationals who commit “burglary, theft, larceny, or [a] shoplifting offense” as well as grant states to sue the federal government for non-enforcement of certain aspects of immigration law, and passed the House by a vote of 251 yeas to 170 nays.

“It that should pass the Senate. That doesn’t mean it will or it would, but it should. This is common sense legislation. This is good legislation, and this can help our local law enforcement so I would hope that the Senate would look at it from that standpoint,” Republican Rep. Mike Collins of Georgia, the bill’s sponsor, who represents the district where Riley died, told the DCNF. “There’s nothing wrong with this bill. There’s nothing I could see that they could point at and say ‘That’s wrong,’ with this bill. And if we can pass this, we should pass it. It’s got a good chance of helping save a life.”

H.R. 7511, Laken Riley Act by Daily Caller News Foundation on Scribd

“Laken Riley is not here with us anymore because of Biden’s failed policies. It’s about border security more than immigration. So, we need to look at what can we do if he is not going to secure the border,” Republican Rep. Barry Loudermilk of Georgia told the DCNF. “Her murderer was arrested in New York City weeks before and was released. Why shouldn’t he have been deported at that moment, by committing a crime?”

“Jose Ibarra, a 26-year-old citizen of Venezuela, was arrested by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) on Sept. 8, 2022, after unlawfully entering the United States near El Paso, Texas. He was paroled and released for further processing,” ICE spokesperson Lindsay Williams told the DCNF. “On Aug. 31, 2023, Ibarra was arrested by the New York Police Department and charged with acting in a manner to injure a child less than 17 and a motor vehicle license violation. He was released by the NYPD before a detainer could be issued,” Williams added.

The bill was passed shortly before Biden visited the U.S. Capitol to deliver the annual State of the Union address.

“This is a young lady who was just…with everything that we’ve learned about her, [she] just had a great future, a wonderful young lady who was dedicating herself to being a nurse, to help people,” Republican Rep. Earl “Buddy” Carter of Georgia told the DCNF. “Don’t think that this is the only incident there are other incidents, as well…Every city is a border city. Now, every state is a border state.”

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and the White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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