[FoxNews] Tom Homan says Massachusetts Democrats 'should be ashamed' and that despite their actions, deporting criminal illegals 'will be done'
Following a Massachusetts law barring law enforcement cooperation with ICE, illegal child rapists and other serious criminal illegals charged with "horrific crimes" are being released on to the streets on bail as low as $500 and, in some cases, no bail at all.
Responding to these releases, Tom Homan, President Donald Trump’s border czar, said that Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healy and Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, both Democrats, "should be ashamed" and that despite their actions, deporting criminal illegals "will be done."
Healey has previously said that Massachusetts is not a sanctuary state. However, a 2017 ruling by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, Lunn vs. Commonwealth, bars local and state law enforcement from coordinating with ICE to assist with deportation operations. The ruling stipulates that law enforcement cannot comply with ICE detainers, forcing agencies to release criminal migrants onto the streets.
Last week, Wu renewed her pledge to resist Trump’s deportation efforts, saying, "We stand with immigrants," and "No one tells Boston how to take care of our own, not kings, and not presidents who think they are kings."
However, at least seven illegal immigrants charged with serious crimes, including child rape and fentanyl trafficking, were released by local law enforcement agencies in Massachusetts in recent months, according to CBS.
The outlet reported that in one instance, a 39-year-old Honduran national named Juan Alberto Rodezno-Marin, who was charged with indecent assault and battery on a person over 14, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, masked armed robbery and assault to rape, was released on his own recognizance without having to pay bail.
According to an ICE statement, immigration officials had previously arrested and removed Rodezno-Marin twice for illegally re-entering the U.S., in 2008 and 2009.
Despite these crimes and an ICE detainer being filed against him, the Middlesex Superior Court released Rodezno-Marin in December. He was not arrested by ICE until a month later. He is currently in ICE custody.
Meanwhile, ABC reported the Worcester County Jail released two illegal immigrant inmates charged with child rape on bail of just $500.
Another illegal immigrant, Jose Fernando-Perez, a 49-year-old Guatemalan national charged with three counts of forcible rape of a child and three counts of aggravated rape of a child, was released in 2022 on a $7,500 bail with just an order to "stay in his home."
Fernando-Perez was finally arrested by ICE on Feb. 2 of this year.
At the time, Patricia Hyde, ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations Boston acting field office director, said Fernando-Perez’s "horrific crimes against a minor in our commonwealth" made him "exactly the type of alien we are targeting with our ‘worst first’ policy."
In northeastern Massachusetts, the Lawrence District Court released another Honduran national, 19-year-old Stivenson Omar Perez-Ajtzalan, on $7,500 bail despite pending charges of aggravated rape of a child with a 10-year age difference.
If that lot are involved the politics must be seedy, however invisibly.
[Breitbart] A network of progressive non-profits has quietly spent years pushing the IRS’s new “Direct File” service.
Progressive supporters of Direct File claim to advocate for low-income taxpayers. Research shows that key organizations promoting Direct File are closely tied to Arabella Advisors and its billion-dollar network of left-leaning dark money groups.
One Arabella-backed organization, the Economic Security Project (ESP), has funded advertising and research in support of Direct File. Last year, the group received a $752,197 grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to “conduct research on the impact and usage” of Direct File.
That work culminated in a media blitz encouraging largely low-income taxpayers to adopt Direct File, which was first made available as a pilot program in 2024 for taxpayers across a dozen states. Last year, the IRS agreed to make the program permanent, but it has since come under fire from the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Trump-appointed Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent agreed to temporarily keep the program through the 2025 tax season, earning him praise from progressive groups including ESP.
ESP is fiscally sponsored by the Hopewell Fund, a nonprofit managed by Arabella Advisors. The arrangement allows ESP to operate as a project of the Hopewell Fund, taking advantage of Hopewell’s nonprofit status without having to register with the IRS or publicly disclose its own finances.
ESP’s goal isn’t simply to make filing taxes easier. Adam Ruben, a former aide to Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) who is now managing outreach for the group, called Direct File “[o]ne of the best tools we have to create the infrastructure for guaranteed income in this country” and said Direct File “is a huge opportunity for economic security and racial equity.”
Groundwork Collaborative, another non-profit receiving funding through the Arabella Network, has led its own media blitz supporting Direct File. Groundwork Action, the group’s advocacy arm, funded a “Better IRS” ad campaign promoting direct file and attacking private-sector tax preparers. Like ESP, Groundwork is led by a former policy advisor to Elizabeth Warren.
ESP and Groundwork help fund and operate The Coalition for Free and Fair Filing, which “supports the Internal Revenue Service’s efforts to create a free online direct tax filing tool,” according to the group’s website. “The coalition is composed of organizations committed to racial and economic justice, consumer protection, the advancement of civic technology and the promotion of equity in tax administration.”
Supporters of Direct File frame it, in part, as an effort to help low-income tax filers and also as a better way to ensure collection of higher tax revenues by the IRS.
Critics of Direct File highlight the inherent conflict of interest in having the IRS prepare people’s tax returns. Last year, a group of Republican Senators challenged the IRS’s ability to unilaterally launch such a program, saying “[s]erious legal questions exist about the IRS Direct File launch,” which was undertaken without Congressional approval.
The IRS initially received funding for a pilot program for an in-house tax filing tool through the Inflation Reduction Act. Last year, Direct File was made available to users in 12 states. For 2025, availability has expanded to 32 million taxpayers in 25 states.
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A fair number of States have adopted 'no cost' filing for State income taxes.
Also, I think both HRBlock and Turbotax have some zero or very low cost options available.
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It is not direct file but if you go to irs.gov and sign up for "free file" it includes free e-filing.
Note; Direct file at the state level may be called I-file.
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[FoxNews] 'The devastating cuts and layoffs at the Department of Education will directly harm Washington’s youth and their families,' Washington AG Nick Brown said
Washington state's attorney general has joined 20 other Democrat states in a lawsuit seeking to block President Donald Trump's executive order that calls to dismantle the Department of Education.
The state's Attorney General Nick Brown announced Monday that he joined 20 other attorneys general in filing a motion for a preliminary injunction against the Trump administration. A preliminary injunction would temporarily pause the president's March 20 executive order to eliminate the DOE.
The other 20 states filed lawsuits on March 13 attempting to block efforts to close the DOE after plans were announced to eliminate half of the department's workforce.
The latest lawsuit seeks to stop the layoffs and the move by the administration to transfer student loan and special education services outside the department, as Trump works to shift responsibilities away from the DOE.
For example, Trump announced last week that the Small Business Administration would handle student loans as part of this plan.
"The devastating cuts and layoffs at the Department of Education will directly harm Washington’s youth and their families," Brown said in a statement. "Our office will fight to defend the education and health of our students from President Trump’s illegal order."
Layoffs at the department have already led to the closure of the Office of Civil Rights outreach services across the country, which investigated students' claims of discrimination and sexual assault. Federal funding and approvals for state schools have also been delayed, Brown's office said.
The lawsuit argues that the Trump administration's executive order is illegal and that efforts to dismantle the DOE can only be authorized by Congress. GOP lawmakers have introduced legislation to eliminate the department, but the effort has not yet been approved by either chamber on Capitol Hill.
The lawsuit from the attorneys general also claims that the mass layoffs violate the Administrative Procedures Act, which establishes procedures for how administrative agencies of the federal government may propose and issue regulations.
[FoxBusiness] DOGE is asking consulting service providers to break down their work and identify cost savings
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is reviewing federal contracts provided for leading consulting firms, which have been tasked with submitting a scorecard explaining the services they're providing to government agencies before the end of the month.
In a letter sent to the leaders of consulting firms that was reviewed by FOX Business, the Government Services Administration (GSA) explained that it believes it's "important to undertake this review in partnership with industry," and will use firms' responses for comparison against the agency's government-wide review. The letter was sent by GSA Federal Acquisition Service Commissioner Josh Gruenbaum.
GSA is structuring the review as a scorecard, asking consulting firms to identify waste and savings opportunities and noting, "Scorecards that do not identify waste and spending reductions will not be deemed credible and your firm will be seen as unaligned with the Administration's cost cutting goals."
Consulting firms are instructed to identify spending by agency, then identify related contracts and projects to "further break down spending by functional category in simple layman terms (i.e. a 15 year old should be able to understand what service you provide and why it is important - no consultative jargon or gobbledygook."
GSA is also asking consulting firms to "detail how pricing is structured for each contract, project or category, explain any pricing differences between agencies and how these pricing structures compare to market information in your possession."
Firms are further instructed to "make recommendations of changes to pricing or pricing structures that would lead to savings for the U.S. taxpayer and provide a total identified cost takeout in your submission."
Consulting firms are required to submit their scorecard based on a template provided by GSA before a deadline of 5 p.m. ET on March 31.
A report to look forward to.
Firms that provide consulting services to federal agencies have warned that efforts by the Trump administration to cut back on spending through the DOGE initiative and agencies like GSA have impacted their businesses.
"As you know, the new administration has a clear goal to run the federal government more efficiently," Accenture CEO Julie Spellman Sweet said during a quarterly earnings call. "During this process, many new procurement actions have slowed, which is negatively impacting our sales and revenue."
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in an appearance last week on Fox News' "The Ingraham Angle" that major consulting firms have a "chokehold" on government spending.
"One of the biggest surprises for me is just seeing how these entrenched interests just keep constricting themselves around the power, around the money, around the systems and nobody cares," Bessent said.
"Many of the employees are fantastic. It's this consultant group that has just – they're like a boa constrictor, they're like a python," around federal spending programs, he added.
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^ Ah hah! So the DOGEers *are* cutting Social Security! At least for dead people. This is obviously political since the dead are long-recognized as a Democratic Party constituency.
[FoxNews] Bondi thanked Elon Musk for uncovering 'a tremendous amount of fraud'
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi issued a stern warning to those engaged in government fraud at the most recent Cabinet meeting on Monday.
Speaking with President Donald Trump present at the meeting, Bondi thanked Tesla CEO Elon Musk for uncovering "fraud, waste and abuse" through the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) initiative.
"A lot of waste and abuse, but there is a tremendous amount of fraud," Bondi began. "And, Elon, thank you for your partnership. Thank you for your team. You have uncovered so much fraud in our government."
Bondi then revealed that an internal task force is involved with bringing those accused of fraud to justice.
"We will prosecute you," the attorney general warned. "We have an internal task force now working with every agency sitting here at this table. And if you've committed fraud, we're coming after you. Thank you, Elon."
Bondi also mentioned that, under Trump's directive, the Department of Justice (DOJ) will begin seeking the death penalty for those convicted of violent crimes.
"All of these horrible violent criminals that you're hearing about around the country, they will face the death penalty federally within our country," Bondi said. "And the drug dealers need to get out of here, because we are coming after you. We're going to have 94 great U.S. attorneys around this country, and everyone will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law."
The topic of government fraud was mentioned throughout the meeting, with Musk claiming that he found $330 million worth of waste within the Small Business Administration (SBA).
"[We found] a case of fraud and waste with the Small Business Administration, where they were handing out $330 million worth of loans to people under the age of 11," Musk said. "I think the youngest was a nine month year [sic] old who got a $100,000 loan."
"That's a very precocious baby we're talking about here," he joked.
Trump expressed appreciation to both Musk and the rest of the Cabinet for uncovering waste and fraud.
"We've had many fraudulent contracts that were caught by the work that Elon and his people are doing," the president said. "And working with our people, it's been brought to light. The fraud, not just waste and abuse, the fraud has been incredible."
President Donald Trump's Cabinet outlined billions of dollars in contracts it has canceled, including a "$300,000 contract educating on food justice for queer and transgender farmers."
Step #1 know there is a deliberate Government Fraud, Waste and Abuse problem (1923 over 100+ years ago.)
Step #2 elect persons willing to risk everything to address the deliberate Fraud, Waste and Abuse and take it on. (2016)
Step #3 Those being rewarded by the Fraud, Waste and Abuse. Will organize and attack those that are disrupting their pocket money flow. Accidents start happening, LAWFARE, rig an election, a Coup, install a mentally declining greedy figurehead, appoint judges and own them, violate civil rights using executive orders and DOJ controls. Knowing that the $$$$ train is about to be derailed soon. Go for broke, and start openly stealing massive amount of $$$$$ using mislead causes and names as cover. Then start a "military or Social issues" for voter deflection.
Step #4 Real Voters take control of the elections. Re-elect those persons willing to risk it all to stop the deliberate Fraud, Waste and Abuse.
Step # 5 Start Audits which cause immediate panic & reactions of those guilty as they are exposed.
Step #6 Wait for another 100 years for the real criminals to be arrested. Like "We The People" have been doing since the Teapot Dome scandal of 1923, when the U.S. Cabinet bribery scandal was announced.
#6
Gather legit evidence, keep it clean, form a grand jury, present the case, get an indictment, issues warrants, arrest. We're still the that process.
[Gateway] The Trump DOJ said it is exercising the State Secrets Privilege and informed Judge James Boasberg it will no longer provide him with any information related to deportation flights.
Boasberg, an Obama appointee, has been grilling DOJ lawyers about the Trump Administration’s move to deport dangerous Venezuelan aliens under the Alien Enemies Act.
Judge Boasberg said Trump’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act to deport criminal aliens is "incredibly troublesome and problematic" and threatened the Trump Admin with consequences if they violate his order in the future.
On Monday evening, the DOJ had enough of Judge Boasberg’s intrusive orders and invoked the State Secrets Privilege.
[Breitbart] Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem revealed that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) will be eliminated.
During a Trump administration cabinet meeting at the White House, Noem spoke about how DHS had increased deportations by 50 percent, and praised the United States Coast Guard for doing “phenomenal work” and breaking “historic records in the amount of drug interdictions” they have “brought in.”
“We are, in the month of March — the last couple of weeks, increased our deportations by 50 percent,” Noem said. “So, we’re now not even just getting the worst of the worst out, we’re making sure that there’s consequences for being here and committing crimes in our communities. And, the numbers are continuing to escalate and to go up…….this week I’m headed down to El Salvador. I’ll be in the prison where we sent TdA members, I’ll be meeting with the president and also Columbia and Mexico and talking about building these relations so that we can continue to get people out of this country that don’t belong here and take them home.”
Noem added that the U.S. Coast Guard’s fleet had been “repositioned” in order to address the fentanyl crisis and to also “go after the southern border” and to secure it.
“The Coast Guard has done phenomenal work — I don’t know if you all have reported on it, but we have broken historic records in the amount of drug interdictions that they have brought in,” Noem added. “We’ve repositioned the fleet to go after the fentanyl crisis and go after the southern border and securing it, and they’ve done amazing work as far as that.”
After the headline and that first sentence, the Breitbart reporter neglected to quote Secretary Noem’s entire statement on the subject of FEMA: “And we’re going to eliminate FEMA.” It has the virtue of being clear and succinct, if not containing any new information.
[FoxNews] Patel says 'the fake news will NEVER be responsible for operational command authority over the ATF, we are'
FBI Director Kash Patel is strongly refuting a CNN report alleging he is implementing a "major cutback" of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) in a memo to ATF employees, Fox News Digital has learned.
CNN reported Saturday that Patel "has outlined plans to move as many as 1,000 ATF agents to the FBI" and "cutting ATF’s agents by more than a third," according to three unnamed sources.
"The move represents a major cutback of the ATF, an agency that long has been in the crosshairs of gun rights groups that believe its work infringes on Second Amendment rights," CNN said. "The ATF has about 2,600 agents and more than 5,000 employees, a number that has remained largely unchanged for years."
"After publication of this story and resulting pushback including from Republican allies, FBI officials began to back off aspects of their plan, according to a US official familiar with the matter," the report stated.
Patel, who is currently also serving as acting director of the ATF, issued a memo to ATF staff denying the CNN report.
"I want to address a report from this weekend speculating about the intentions of FBI leadership with personnel decisions at the ATF," Patel began the memo obtained by Fox News Digital. "This weekend, CNN reported news of a plan on the part of our leadership to ‘cut as many as one third’ of ATF agents and reallocate 1,000 agents over to the FBI. The report even suggested our leadership team altered course after reading a news report, and ultimately backed off certain aspects of changes. This ‘report’ is entirely false."
"The fake news will NEVER be responsible for operational command authority over the ATF, we are," Patel declared. "The brave men and women of the ATF who courageously dedicate themselves to protecting the American public will not have their security jeopardized by the media’s disinformation campaigns. When we make decisions, they will be final, regardless of the input of CNN or any other news organization."
CNN declined Fox News Digital's request for comment.
Patel previewed his tough stance against the media in remarks he made after being sworn in as FBI director last month.
"Look, I know the media's in here, and if you have a target, the target's right here," Patel said as he pointed to himself. "It is not the men and women at the FBI."
"You have written everything you possibly can about me that's fake, malicious, slanderous and defamatory. Keep it coming. Bring it on, but leave the men and women of the FBI out of it. They deserve better," Patel told news outlets, sparking applause from his supporters in the room.
President Donald Trump tasked Patel to overhaul the FBI, which has been viewed as politicized in recent years.
[THEPOSTMILLENNIAL] Former Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas will no longer receive Secret Service protection after President Donald Trump ...The man who was so stupid he beat fourteen professional politicians, a former tech CEO, and a brain surgeon for the Republican nomination in 2016, then beat The Smartest Woman in the World in the general election. Then he beat Kamala while dodging bullets... revoked his security detail, the agency confirmed on Monday. The decision comes months before the protection was originally set to expire, reports The Washington Post.
Mayorkas, who served under President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. You're a lyin' dog-faced pony soldier... , was not automatically entitled to protection after leaving office in January. However,
Caliphornia hasn't yet slid into the ocean, no matter how hard it's tried... Biden had extended his security detail for six months, which would have lasted until mid-July. Trump's decision to terminate the protection cut that timeline short.
The president has also ended Secret Service protection for Hunter Biden and Ashley Biden, the children of the former president.
Their protection officially ceased on Monday, just one week after Trump publicly announced his decision on Truth Social.
''Former Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, Mr. Hunter and Ms. Ashley Biden and their families are no longer protectees of the United States Secret Service,'' agency front man Anthony Guglielmi said in a statement.
GPS—Here we go again, there were 20,189 devices. Still a large crowd but not even close to the 30,000 quoted in Denver newspapers nor the 34,000 quoted by Bernie Sanders and AOC.
84% of the devices present had attended 9 or more Kamala Harris rallies, antifa/blm, pro-Hamas,… https://t.co/zQuvc0ATx5
… antifa/blm, pro-Hamas, pro-Palestinian protests, 31% had attended over 20.
For more insight into what data we also look at in addition to GPS location data would be demographic and psychographic data using over 6,000 different databases, i.e., like the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), Pew Research Center, market research firms like YouGov, Experian, specialized tools like ESRI's Tapestry Segmentation, consumer surveys, social media platforms like 𝕏, Facebook, Linkedin.
Demographic data includes basic characteristics like age, gender, income, education level, occupation, marital status, family size, ethnicity, and where people live (e.g., city, state).
Psychographic data dives deeper into people's lifestyles, values, attitudes, interests, personality traits, social class, activities, and how they make purchasing decisions. For example, it might show if someone values sustainability, enjoys outdoor activities, participates in community activism.
While demographic data is straightforward, psychographic data can reveal sensitive personal details, like beliefs even life goals.
Additionally, by cross pollinating each device with other devices regularly within close proximity to the target device we are able to build a detailed profile for each target.
90% of those in the above 84% were likely working with one of these five groups and is the reason for their presence.
Once again, this is based a very sophisticated algorithm that looks at the behavioral metrics for each device, including the physical 1:1 proximity to leaders and paymasters from these groups in the past.
Disruption Project, Rise & Resist, Indivisible Project, Troublemakers and the Democratic Socialists of America.
Each receives money from ActBlue and at least three, via USAID.
Disruption Project: Legal status is unclear, likely operating illegally.
Rise & Resist: 501c4 non-profit
Indivisible Project: 501c4 non-profit
Troublemakers: Legal status is for profit.
Democratic Socialists of America: 501c4 non-profit
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...46th president of the U.S. 
