All posts tagged "Homeland Security"

The IRS has improperly disclosed immigrant tax data to Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers.

Dottie Romo, the tax agency’s chief risk and control officer, confirmed in sworn testimony that the agency had given information to ICE agents and the Department of Homeland Security, The Washington Post reported. Jacob Bogage, Jeff Stein, and Perry Stein, wrote that IRS representatives shared information for thousands of immigrants with ICE officials.

Insiders speaking to The Post say the error had only been recently discovered, but did confirm confidential tax information had been shared with the DHS, even when the department could not provide sufficient details to positively identify a suspect....

Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) gave a brief statement outside the Los Angeles federal building Thursday, shortly after he was physically removed from a Homeland Security briefing held by Kristi Noem.

"I'm here in Los Angeles today, and I was here in the federal building in the conference room awaiting a scheduled briefing from federal officials as part of my responsibility as a senator to provide oversight and accountability," Padilla read. "While I was waiting for the briefing with General Guillot, I learned that Secretary Noem was having a press conference a couple doors down the hall."

"Over the course of several weeks several of my colleagues have been asking the Department of Homeland Security for more information...and we've gotten little to no information in response to our inquiries," he added....

Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) led the outrage over Sen. Alex Padilla's (D-CA) treatment at the hands of federal agents during a news conference held by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Thursday.

A Padilla spokesperson recounted that Padilla "was exercising his duty to perform Congressional oversight of the federal government's operations in Los Angeles and across California. He was in the federal building to receive a briefing with General Guillot and was listening to Secretary Noem's press conference. He tried to ask the Secretary a question, and was forcibly removed by federal agents, forced to the ground and handcuffed. He is not currently detained."

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer posted to X, "Watching this video sickened my stomach, the manhandling of a United States Senator, Senator Padilla. We need immediate answers to what the hell went on."...

Top White House aide Stephen Miller paved the way for President Donald Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act on Tuesday in a social media meltdown over video of Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass saying the raids on undocumented migrants needed to stop.

In a video he shared on X, Mayor Bass asserted, "We need to stop the raids. This should not be happening in our city. It is not warranted and...the only thing it does is contribute to chaos. This was chaos that was started in Washington, D.C. On Thursday, the city was peaceful; on Friday it was not because of the intervention of the federal government."

That seemed to be enough ammunition for Miller to make his case for an "insurrection" that needed to be neutralized....

A Missouri town that voted overwhelmingly for Donald Trump in the 2024 election has come to regret its choice after a beloved neighbor was detained by ICE, according to The New York Times.

In the farming town of Kennett, MO, population 10,000, Times reporter Jack Healy met with residents who "supported in theory" Trump's tough talk on immigration. Now they're rallying around a Hong Kong immigrant named Ming Li Hui, who went by "Carol" in her adopted hometown.

"In the 20 years since she arrived from Hong Kong, she had built a life and family in Kennett, working two waitressing jobs and cleaning houses on the side," Healy wrote. He quoted a Kennett city councilwoman who said, “Everyone knows Carol."...

A doorbell video showed a terrified Turkish national in a hijab being handcuffed and led away by agents from the Department of Homeland Security on Wednesday near the Tufts University campus in Massachusetts.

The attorney for Rumeysa Ozturk, 30, said the grad student was heading to meet friends to break the Ramadan fast when she was surrounded by officers and pulled from the street.

CNN's Gloria Pazmino gave a breakdown of the video....