Some Sellers Are Finally Coming To Terms With The Fact That 2021 Pricing Isn’t Coming Back Anytime Soon
It’s Friday desk clearing time for this blogger. “According to Florida Realtors, the Naples metropolitan statistical region (MSA), which encompasses Immokalee and Marco Island, saw the largest decline in median sale prices in the single-family market between May 2024 and May 2025. Despite being far higher than the statewide median, the price of a property in Naples in May was $767,800, a 19.2% decrease from the same month the previous year. The Villages ($347,000, -11.3 percent), Sebastian-Vero Beach ($386,190, -10.2 percent), North Port-Sarasota-Bradenton ($475,000, -9.9 percent), Punta Gorda ($325,000, -14.5 percent), and Cape Coral-Fort Myers ($375,000, -9.6 percent) came next.”
“Irena Green, who spent seven days in the Hillsborough County Jail over what started out as HOA violations involving her lawn, is now facing foreclosure. But she’s not the only homeowner. Shonia Cruz Munoz says she was involved in a years-long battle over her home’s exterior paint. She said she has painted her house three times since 2015. ‘Some more months went by, I didn’t hear anything. Then I started getting these letters in the mail saying let me help you with your foreclosure. I said what foreclosure? I called my bank, they said no, and I said what is it? Can’t possibly understand. Find out it’s my HOA. They had put a lien on my house,’ Shonia said.”
“Median prices have fallen more than $100,000 from their peak in the Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos metro area in Texas, as well as in San Francisco, according to ICE. Florida is home to nine of the 10 major markets that posted the biggest monthly drops in June. In two of them, North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota and Cape Coral-Fort Myers, prices peaked in June 2022 and are down by more than $50,000 since then.”
“After years of buyer frenzy and seller bravado, Denver’s luxury market is undergoing a significant correction, creating opportunities for buyers seeking seven-figure homes. ‘Buyers in the $1 million range have all the leverage right now,’ said Brett Johnson, owner of Colorado’s New Era Home Buyers. ‘Some sellers who listed in early spring are finally coming to terms with the fact that 2021 pricing isn’t coming back anytime soon.’ With a $1.5 million budget in Berkeley, options abound. Christine Dupont-Patz, broker and co-owner at Denver’s Re/Max of Cherry Creek Inc. added current listings in the neighborhood are seeing reductions of up to $75,000. Ranch homes dominate in University Park, which saw the largest share of price reductions at 49.7%. ‘I closed a $1.2 million deal last year where the seller dropped $200,000 because they couldn’t compete with new construction next door,’ added Preston Guyton of EZ Home Search.”
“Amid stabilizing home prices and a greater availability of homes for sale, California’s housing market rebounded in June, but remained below year-ago levels, the CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS® (C.A.R.) said today. ‘The proportion of homes closing above asking price has declined, reflecting a reduction in the intensity of bidding competition. As a result, sellers are demonstrating greater willingness to negotiate on pricing, concessions, and other terms, which creates more advantageous conditions for those considering a home purchase,’ said C.A.R. Senior Vice President and Chief Economist Jordan Levine. In the six months since the January Southern California wildfires, not surprisingly, the city of Altadena experienced a steep decline in home sales on a year-to-date basis, dropping by 54.8 percent compared to 2024. Pacific Palisades saw an even more pronounced contraction in market activity, with closed sales plummeting by 83.8 percent over the same period. The median price of a home in Altadena decreased significantly for the first six months of the year, falling by 39.1 percent from $1,425,000 in 2024 to $867,500 in 2025. Pacific Palisades also saw substantial price erosion, with its median home price declining by 23.7 percent from $3,310,000 in 2024 to $2,525,000 in 2025.”
“According to Urbanation‘s Q2-2025 Condominium Market Survey, there were only 502 new condo sales recorded in the Greater Toronto Hamilton Area’s across the entire quarter. That’s 10% below Q1-2025’s sales, 69% below the year-ago level, and a remarkable 91% below the 10-year average. Meanwhile, sales by developers in completed new condo projects totalled a mere 131 units last quarter, bringing standing inventory levels to 60 months of supply. ‘Project cancellations are mounting, construction starts are collapsing, jobs are being lost, buyers are losing a lot of money, and developers are facing difficulties with closings,’ said Shaun Hildebrand, President of Urbanation.”
“Infuriated residents on the recently built Hollington Grange estate in Staffordshire liken their housing area to a ‘war zone,’ after enduring over a year with it remaining incomplete. Families are putting pressure on the developers to rectify issues with the roads, drains, and footpaths. Homeowners, who shelled out approximately £300,000 for their properties, have raised safety concerns due to inadequate street illumination making the estate ‘dangerous’ at night. PHD student Charlie Brayson, 25, who settled into a two-bedroom house with his girlfriend last year, touched upon his own home-buying experience: ‘We were one of the last houses to sell, they knew that all of the houses were done and moved into and it’s still taken ages. It doesn’t look nice either. When I have people come see the house and the estate isn’t finished, it’s not a great look. It’s a little bit embarrassing.'”
“In Jerusalem, the number of new apartments purchased in March-May 2025 fell almost 60%, in Tel Aviv more than 50%, and Beersheva did not even make the table. The supply of apartments continues to break records and has already reached 81,000 housing units, which is over a year of building starts, the Central Bureau of Statistics reports. To get rid of this inventory, developers will need 30 months, according to the current pace of purchases. This is a pace three times slower than 4 years ago, when the market was at its peak.”
“Coromandel’s David Reid Homes collapsed owing almost $4m and may have breached the Companies Act, according to a report from liquidators. The company was placed into liquidation at the High Court in Hamilton at the end of November last year after an application from subcontractors Montage Group Ltd. They claimed they were tens of thousands of dollars out of pocket after a string of broken promises – and still don’t believe they’ll see a cent – while buyers have been left with unfinished homes. Titan Roofing owner Ross Sperry and Montage Kitchen and Joinery director Jared Monk are among those owed money by the collapsed firm – and launched legal action that led to the liquidation.”
“Sperry said he was owed $30,000, and didn’t believe he’d see a cent. ‘I don’t think we’ll see any money,’ he said. ‘It hurts.’ Monk told the Waikato Times he was owed ‘just under $100,000 – $94,000.’ He said that as a precautionary measure he had sold some property to ensure he had cash on hand to keep his business running – and also doubted he would ever be compensated for the loss.”
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‘Monk told the Waikato Times he was owed ‘just under $100,000 – $94,000.’ He said that as a precautionary measure he had sold some property to ensure he had cash on hand to keep his business running – and also doubted he would ever be compensated for the loss’
You got double fooked Jared as you took an a$$ pounding selling now.
I woudn’t mind hearing the HOA’s side of the story ,about the woman that spent 7 days in jail ……On U-tube it looks like she’s lying , just saying,because as a landlord I can tell , this crowd ,when the get caught in a blatent lie will say, “OH.that was just a mistake”. etc.
Yeah we saw this story yesterday, its the usual suspects. Oh I didn’t get any notice, why am I being foreclosed on?, no I don’t have my license.. usual stuff, we’re all fatigued by it
Entitlement syndrome is real – whew!
https://youtu.be/qDmQy0GcciE?t=657
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what an awesome video. crazy girls are fun to date for a month.
It reminded me of a movie produced way back when the earth was still cooling, “Play Misty for Me.”
‘Munoz says she was involved in a years-long battle over her home’s exterior paint. She said she has painted her house three times since 2015. ‘Some more months went by, I didn’t hear anything. Then I started getting these letters in the mail saying let me help you with your foreclosure. I said what foreclosure? I called my bank, they said no, and I said what is it? Can’t possibly understand. Find out it’s my HOA. They had put a lien on my house’
I want to thank Shonia for today’s HBB Pitfalls of Commie Urban Living™. This is the same sh$thole as yesterdays Pitfalls. The tales of woe are worth reading in full.
‘Pacific Palisades saw an even more pronounced contraction in market activity, with closed sales plummeting by 83.8 percent over the same period. The median price of a home in Altadena decreased significantly for the first six months of the year, falling by 39.1 percent from $1,425,000 in 2024 to $867,500 in 2025. Pacific Palisades also saw substantial price erosion, with its median home price declining by 23.7 percent from $3,310,000 in 2024 to $2,525,000 in 2025’
And a lot of these FBs still have mortgages to pay on burned dirt.
Six months after the LA fires, nation’s fastest residential cleanup nears completion as Governor Newsom signs streamlining executive order, joins local leaders to unveil blueprint for rebuilding.
https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/07/07/six-months-after-the-la-fires-nations-fastest-residential-cleanup-nears-completion-as-governor-newsom-signs-streamlining-executive-order-joins-local-leaders-to-unveil-blueprint-for-rebuildi/
Permit issuance is less than half what it was last summer here in my neck of the woods. Most of the permits issued have been new builder releases. They’re racing to get built out on the land they have left here, adding to the ever swelling inventory. Home improvement stuff is dead. No money, no remodel. Found out yesterday that a nationwide builder here has asked all trades across the board the slash their prices 20 percent. Ouch. So yeah, not pretty.
I remember in 09 that trades were cutting prices to builders and developers trying to stay busy and keep their guys employed. Then of course, the builders never paid them. Hope these guys got lots saved up and no big monthly payments
A lot of the subs employees are moving back to Mexico. If they ain’t working it’s too expensive to stay.
Lack of employment and the fear of being arrested seem to make this decision easy. Take away the free cheese and it’s hasta luego!
“a nationwide builder here has asked all trades across the board the slash their prices 20 percent”
Resi builder? LOLZ
Residential.
What’s the story on homeowner resi? Are the trades treating homeowners well? I’m saving up for the electrician, and I suspect it’s going to cost a lot.
The tradies are used to high demand. We will see if that changes.
When local work dries-up these guys have to travel. The hotels/motels are keen to one guy renting a room and his workers pile-in to schitt, shower and shave, so they often sleep in their trailers or trucks to save money.
Service electricians aren’t usually the same guys as install electricians. Couples years ago I couldn’t get a service guy for nothing. Earlier this year I called (for not an emergency) and they showed up the next day. It has definately slowed down.
Housing isn’t coming back, prices will collapse and the little buying will fade over the next 10yrs as homeownership becomes a financial litmus test. 2023-24 = the worst buying in 30 years, like the Titanic this will take a slow sinking while. If you purchased in CA, u r fooked.
Popcorn machine working overtime, you got some :)))))))))
Letters, July 18, 2025: ‘Elbows up didn’t do us much good’
Not buying it, Carney. Elbows up? May as well have been chicken wings flapping. I’m making a giant size statue of Mark Carney and throwing it into the Elbow River!
TERRY TOLL
(‘Elbows up’ was more gimmick than philosophy)
https://calgarysun.com/opinion/letters/letters-july-18-2025-elbows-up-didnt-do-us-much-good
I liked Polievre, but the Calgary Sun is right… he was a one-trick pony whose only talent seemed to be calling out the hypocrisy of Prime Minister Peoplekind, shooting fish in a barrel. Pierre had no real plan of his own except some vague conservatisms. Against the Mighty 47, he had no chance.
Not being a Liberal is in itself a great plan. Canadians wouldn’t have it.
RV wasteland in LA County neighborhood leads to illegal dumping, copper theft
LOS ANGELES (KABC) — Neighbors and business owners in a Los Angeles County neighborhood say that despite efforts to clean up a so-called RV wasteland, little is being done to keep the vehicles from piling up on streets.
Eyewitness News first reported on the RV encampment issue in the East Gardena and West Rancho Dominguez area two years ago.
“It’s always been a wonderful place to work until recently in the last several years where the county has just let this place go to hell,” local business owner Barry Brucker said.
“I just recently had about $100,000 worth of copper, piping tubes and all of my electrical was stripped. I had no water and no electric. They cut it at the power pole, and they literally trashed the inside over a weekend.”
Michael West, who has owned a clothing company in East Gardena for six years, says the RV encampments have severely impacted his business and his employees don’t want to come into the office.
“They’ve tapped into our gas line. They’ve tapped into our electrical line. They’ve tapped into the water line here,” West said. “There are fires here, too. It’s a hazard, it’s dangerous.”
Right outside West’s business, Jennifer Munoz and her three kids call a trailer home. “I want to get out of here. I want something safe for my kids,” Munoz said.
Munoz says she’s applied for housing and desperately wants to leave the streets, but there’s too many people in need and not enough housing.
“I don’t have housing. I don’t have nothing,” Munoz said. “Only promise and promise and promise. I’m here for five years.”
https://abc7.com/post/la-county-rv-homeless-encampments-leads-illegal-dumping-copper-theft/17167643/
LA’s descent into a dystopia continues.
I read the two associated articles. The RVs are not operational — no electricity or sewer, it seems. So they are basically homeless. The area is heavy with small industrial warehouses and supply yards. Almost certainly drug addictions are behind all the theft.
Clearly, handing money off to a patchwork of small non-profits will do nothing. While socialism isn’t the greatest of systems, maybe a centralized strategy of tough love is the only viable path to solve this kind of situation.
“Jennifer Munoz and her three kids call a trailer home. Munoz says she’s applied for housing and desperately wants to leave the streets, but there’s too many people in need and not enough housing.”
Why can’t there be some kind of cross-state system to move these families to cheaper areas of the country where there are jobs? There are a ton of very run-down but fixable homes in flyover country, and deporting illegal aliens will free up some farming and hotel maid jobs. Surely it would be cheaper to move them and set them up than for them to deteriorate while they wait for free sh!t housing.
‘The RVs are not operational’
I’ve posted a couple of article about that. They are often rented to bums. The ‘landlords’ have them towed there.
Greyhound is cheap
The number of homeless at 70,000 is probably conservative.
“I just recently had about $100,000 worth of copper, piping tubes and all of my electrical was stripped”
Emergency service call?
‘We’ve had enough’: encampments return to area previously cleared in southwest Seattle
SEATTLE — After significant work to clear homeless encampments and connect people to housing in southwest Seattle, neighbors say encampments are returning with no clear plan of action from the city.
For around a year, Diane Radischat led the charge to get city, state, and community leaders to connect people to housing resources after a large encampment formed on state land on Meyers Way South.
“They promised us as a community that we wouldn’t have to continue with this, and that isn’t happening,” Radischat told KOMO News on Thursday.
She says the issue is not just homelessness, but crime and drugs around a new cluster of RVs that have formed an encampment near her senior apartments.
“The stop-and-go traffic for the drug activity at these vehicles is constant,” Radischat said. “We’ve held up our end of the bargain by reporting it to no avail. Literally – we’ve had enough.”
The senior apartment complex on Meyers Way South isn’t the only spot dealing with troublesome encampments. Up the road near 26th Ave SW and Cambridge Street, police just broke up a camp where investigators say someone was selling drugs, and running a ‘fencing’ operation, where stolen goods were traded for drugs or cash.
“There were so many bicycles around it, I’m talking about like 80 bikes around it,” a nearby construction worker told KOMO News.
Seattle police said they recovered 159 grams of Fentanyl, 38 grams of Meth, two shotguns, two handguns, ammunition, and cash.
https://komonews.com/news/local/southwest-seattle-neighbors-community-housing-resources-meyers-way-south-handguns-ammunition-cash-fentanyl-drug-crisis-king-county-denny-blaine
Doom Loop gonna doom. Eighty bicycles that sounds about right. Tweakers gonna tweak.
Fentanyl deaths climb in WA as nonprofit fights to save lives
SEATTLE – The fentanyl crisis continues to devastate communities across Washington state, with overdose deaths in King and Snohomish counties on pace to tie or slightly surpass last year’s totals.
Mike Kersey, president of Courage to Change Recovery Services, has been sober for 25 years. He and a small team of volunteers offer rides to detox, transitional housing, and unconditional support to people caught in the grip of addiction.
At Courage to Change, they live by a motto: Don’t shoot the wounded.
“I don’t care if they’ve called me six times, and I’ve gotten them in and out of detox six or seven times—and that has happened,” Kersey said. “We try to help them no matter what. Love them where they’re at.”
That compassion is rooted in experience. Kersey knows the stakes. In the last 18 months, fentanyl has claimed the lives of several friends and clients.
“Every single one of my friends is either smoked out, dead or in prison,” said one client, Kersey, drove to detox.
He says by the time someone calls for help, they’ve often overdosed multiple times.
“Very seldom do I find someone who hasn’t overdosed,” Kersey said. “And that kind of scares them maybe a little bit—and they want to get some help.”
But getting help isn’t easy. Christina Anderson, vice president and cofounder of Courage to Change, says state insurance often doesn’t cover enough time in detox for fentanyl.
“We’re chasing our tails because the drugs are new every day,” Anderson said. “Even the clients are surprised with what they have in their system.”
Fentanyl, often laced with xylazine and other substances, requires longer detox periods than traditional opioids like heroin. Yet Anderson says most clients are forced out before they’ve stabilized.
To fill that dangerous gap, Courage to Change opened a transitional housing program called Nick’s Place, named after Nick McGlashan—a friend who lost his battle with addiction in 2020. The home can house 16 men between detox and treatment. It costs the nonprofit $10,000 a month to operate, plus several thousand dollars in fuel costs to pick up clients from across the region—from Oregon to the Canadian border.
“You know, the sad reality is we need help. And however we can get that help, I don’t care,” said Kersey. “We see people out on the street dying, and it’s time to end it somehow.”
One loss hit particularly hard: Jenna Williams. She was doing well—healthy, housed, and full of hope—until she relapsed.
“She was actually one of our houses for a while,” Kersey recalled. “The last picture I had of Jenna, we’d gotten her into housing in Everett. She was doing amazing. That photo was taken in the back alley as I was delivering some of her stuff. They found her passed away in her vehicle about six months later.”
https://www.fox13seattle.com/news/wa-fentanyl-nonprofit
Addiction is truly a nasty thing.
““Even the clients are surprised with what they have in their system.””
And this is the worst part of it. Even the addicts don’t know what they’re addicted to. JDV’s mother was on heroin/painkillers(?) for years, but was eventually able to recover. He says she got a second chance. But with these new drugs, the users never get a second chance. This new stuff — tranq/xylazine and fent — are effectively incurable. And the Biden Admin did NOTHING. They were going to feed money to nonprofits to accomplish nothing until everybody just died. Then they would flood the place with aliens to take all the assets and housing. It’s deliberate.
Aiken County family self-deporting to Mexico due to immigration policies
AIKEN, S.C. (WJBF)- An Aiken County family is feeling the pressure from the Trump administration’s undocumented immigrant policies.
One of President Donald Trump’s main campaign promises in 2024 was sweeping immigration policies.
An Aiken County family says they have been living in fear of being split up since Trump took office in January.
“He came by himself at 12 years old. By himself, no family. He came and immediately started working for a restaurant here,” explained Tiffany Montalvo, the wife of an undocumented immigrant.
Tomas Montalvo has been undocumented and living in the U.S. for 30 years. He was smuggled into this country on a “coyote bus.” One of 13 children, his parents sent him here to work and help support his family and that’s what he did.
“He said that when he first got here, it was easy. Now it’s not. It was– you know, he just went to work. He did what he was supposed to do, and he had no fear. Now he’s got fear,” said Tiffany.
The Montalvo family decided to go ahead and self deport because they are afraid of being separated.
“We started talking and we’re like ‘Okay, if these certain things start to happen, we’re going to think about leaving,’” Tiffany said. “And the things did start to happen, but we were like ‘It’ll never happen to us. It’ll never happen to us. It won’t.’ And then he had one brother deported, and then he had another brother deported.”
Tiffany and both children are American citizens. They told NewsChannel 6 that the process hasn’t been easy. They sold their car and almost everything in their house to buy the plane tickets. They have to re-home all of their pets. And they are struggling to say goodbye to family members, many of whom voted for President Trump.
“I will say certain family members have said ‘Look, I want to make it known I didn’t vote for this.’ And then others, I feel like, don’t see the reality. They think that we’re making this up or that our feelings aren’t valid or that we’re just scared for no reason,” explained Tiffany.
The family will leave for Mexico within the next 12 weeks with about $200 to their name. They will live on a farm with no plumbing and dirt floors. But they say that as long as they are together, they can deal with anything.
“This was better for the greater good to save Tomas, even after everything we have to go through,” said 13-year-old Jaycob Cox, Tiffany’s son.
The family says Tomas attempted to change his immigration status several times, but couldn’t afford the cost. They were quoted between $5,000 and $120,000 to go through the process.
NewsChannel 6 gave the Montalvo family the option several times to remain anonymous for their protection, but they declined saying they want others in their situation to know they aren’t alone.
https://www.wjbf.com/top-stories/aiken-county-family-fleeing-to-mexico-due-to-trump-immigration-policies/
You’ll all get used to the outhouse and dirt floors Tiffany.
“He came by himself at 12 years old. By himself, no family. He came and immediately started working for a restaurant here,” explained Tiffany Montalvo, the wife of an undocumented immigrant.
The family will leave for Mexico within the next 12 weeks with about $200 to their name.
Working since 12 years old and only $200?
What I have learned is that once they latch onto the welfare state and greatly reduce their share of household expenses is that they become very good at saving. Just as a fun exercise drive past any church that caters to Hispanics on a Sunday during the Spanish language service. You might expect the parking lot to be full of beaters, but you might be wrong. Lots of nearly new cars and trucks, and most of them are paid for.
and none of them put a dime in the collection plate either. That’s for the whiteys.
so illegal child labor is ok when they are “undocumented”.
interesting take.
The family will leave for Mexico within the next 12 weeks with about $200 to their name.
$200? My Spidey sense is tingling.
As ICE raids increase, some LA immigrants leave voluntarily
In March, Carla, whose last name we are withholding due to her status, said she sold her car, quit her job and moved back to her parents’ home in Culiacán, Sinaloa. After six years in Los Angeles, she was returning to Mexico—not because she was deported, but because she chose to leave.
The decision, she said, came after years of failed attempts to gain legal status and growing anxiety about immigration enforcement under President Donald Trump. Carla, who asked to be identified only by her first name, is among a number of undocumented immigrants who are choosing to return to their country of origin, known as “self-deportation,” rather than risk detention.
Her story reflects the complex reality facing Los Angeles County’s substantial undocumented population. According to USC Dornsife’s California Immigrant Data Portal, nearly 1 million people in the county were undocumented in 2021, with a similar number sharing their home with undocumented family members.
Immigration lawyers and experts across Los Angeles County report anecdotal increases in people seeking to either return to their country of origin or obtain second citizenship in countries where they have familial ties.
During Trump’s first term, Carla consulted multiple lawyers seeking legal status. “All of them were like, ‘You have no case,’” she recalled, with marriage her only pathway to citizenship. She had renewed hope under Biden, but by 2024 began considering returning to Mexico, making concrete plans to “self-deport” in February 2025 as Trump returned to office.
She said that she received a lot of pushback from friends and family. “When I made that decision… they were like, ‘You are making a mistake. You are in California, and in California, those things don’t happen.’”
She packed up her life, put in her notice at work, sold her car and moved back to Sinaloa in March in spite of pushback from friends and family. Though she said she’s relieved to not have the anxiety of living in LA as the ICE raids have ramped up far past what she expected. “I came here for a better life,” she said. “And this is not it. So I need to go and find it somewhere else. Coming back was the hardest decision I ever made because it meant I was leaving all of my hopes and dreams and… it [my dream] was not possible.”
Sabrina Rivera, a lawyer who directs the Immigration and Deportation Defense Clinic at Western State College of Law, said she’s personally seen an increase in people seeking self-deportation as well as questions about dual citizenship. “I mean, even I’m interested,” she said. “With clients, I’ve seen them concerned about getting their children citizenship in the country where they may be deported.”
Rivera said she didn’t have any clients who had taken the government money. Fear, not financial incentives, drove their decisions to leave, she said. “[Undocumented people] saw what was coming, which could be like a long-term detention [and] separation from their family. So if they are offered this option by the government, some families will choose to take it because they were already thinking of returning back, and so this is just one way to facilitate it.”
The fear Rivera describes is evident among day laborers across Los Angeles. Marco, whose last name we are withholding, frequents the Westlake Home Depot seeking work and considered returning to Guatemala after witnessing immigration raids in June. “Returning safely to Guatemala with my health would be better than getting injured while being detained,” he said.
He said others who already chose to leave the country felt the same.
Marco’s voice was resigned and matter-of-fact as he described the reality of his situation. “There is no justice,” he said in Spanish. “They [immigration agents] can do whatever they please, and there is nothing we can do, nowhere we can go to speak out.”
“This isn’t the American dream; that’s all over now,” he said.
Rivera said the lack of legal guidance is one reason why people are self-deporting.
“ If they don’t have access to counsel or access to reputable legal information, they have no idea how to assert their rights under the law,” she said. “The data shows that most of the time those folks not only find and have relief, but they’re also successful in obtaining it if they have legal representation.”
Michelle Moro, a U.S. citizen born and raised in South Central Los Angeles, said her family is making pre-emptive plans to move to Mexico. Her parents, naturalized citizens who bought property there for retirement, are accelerating those plans due to political turmoil and increased immigration enforcement in their community.
Moro began pursuing dual citizenship in 2022 but found the process challenging, dealing with name changes and misspellings across family documents. “It is always good to have a backup plan,” she said, “but the systems in place don’t always make it easy to.”
She finally received her Mexican citizenship in 2024, after what she described as a challenging process that even included a trip to Mexico to have changes made to her father’s birth certificate.
Moro said that through the process, she became connected to other people applying for citizenship. She recalled one friend from a mixed-status household who said she was unable to complete the process due to her parents’ immigration status making it difficult to procure the necessary documents.
“They found it harder for them to be able to go back to their hometown, [harder to] get all of that information, especially if they don’t have any family over in their hometown,” she said.
“ For me, I always thought about having it as a backup as well,” said Moro. “In case, I mean, if everything goes to shit here in this country…I can go to my parents’ homeland.”
Moro said the discussion around moving to Mexico is “all up in the air,” and that if plans were set into motion, she would be joining her parents in Mexico. Her siblings would remain in the U.S. She said her mother’s primary concern with leaving is what would become of the children who stayed in the U.S..
Rivera, the immigration attorney, said for the moment, anyone with citizenship — naturalized or by birth — would not face any legal issues regarding their status should they choose to relocate.
https://lapublicpress.org/2025/07/ice-raids-increase-immigrants-leave-voluntarily/
‘I mean, even I’m interested’
You should go too Sabrina. Indoor plumbing is overrated.
“Carla consulted multiple lawyers seeking legal status. “All of them were like, ‘You have no case.’” ”
They never had a case. All they could do was be perpetually “dismissed” or stay in hiding.
“She had renewed hope under Biden”
Yeah, I bet she did. Their entire strategy is to extend and pretend until the next amnesty came along. But I don’t think that’s going to happen soon. 47 must be well aware that his base will not tolerate ANY kind of amnesty, even de facto. He couldn’t even float the idea of exempting farm hands without being shellacked. His voters said, no mas.
He couldn’t even float the idea of exempting farm hands without being shellacked
I recall that Dubya floated an amnesty trial balloon. It was shellacked as well and was quickly sent to the memory hole.
It is interesting that FJB didn’t try to issue a blanket amnesty, but I suppose there weren’t enough votes in congress to pass one.
During Trump’s first term, Carla consulted multiple lawyers seeking legal status. “All of them were like, ‘You have no case,’” she recalled
Well, duh! She’s illegally present. Just what were they expecting? An amnesty?
Migrants Seeking Self-Deportation Say CBP App Leaves Them Stranded: ‘They Took My Documents at the Border’
Migrants attempting to leave the U.S. voluntarily under the Trump administration’s “Project Homecoming” report that the CBP Home app—the main tool for self-deportation—often leaves them stuck in legal limbo, unable to board flights or obtain proper documents.
Jairo Sequeira, a Nicaraguan immigrant, was denied boarding on a United Airlines flight in Texas in May despite carrying a printed confirmation from the CBP Home app, as Telemundo reported.
Sequeira, who had submitted a request to voluntarily depart, lacked a valid passport since his original documents had been taken when he surrendered to immigration authorities in El Paso in 2021. “I felt sad, honestly,” Sequeira said. Without a national ID, he cannot obtain a replacement passport from the Nicaraguan government.
Titza Escobar, another Nicaraguan national, has faced similar issues. After escaping domestic violence, she attempted to turn herself in to immigration authorities but was repeatedly turned away.
She lacks a passport and speaks only Miskito, an Indigenous language. “I want to go to Nicaragua,” Escobar said. Her consulate-issued travel document is still pending. Venezuelan migrants face even greater obstacles, as their government does not maintain a U.S. consular presence.
Immigration attorneys such a Christina Wiles also reported widespread skepticism about the app to Telemundo: “I think that since people don’t trust it, most of the people who are leaving are doing it quietly and without using the app.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/migrants-seeking-self-deportation-say-cbp-app-leaves-them-stranded-they-took-my-documents-at-the-border/ar-AA1IO0y9
Can’t they contact the nearest consulate to get a new passport? There are Mexican consulates everywhere. I guess it could be harder to find a Nicaraguan consulate, but I’m sure there are a few.
Woman Charged With Staging Hoax Immigration “Kidnapping,” Blaming ICE Agents
Yuriana Julia “Juli” Pelaez Calderon has been charged with staging a fake “kidnapping” and blaming it on ICE agents to garner sympathy and donations.
In a statement from the Justice Department issued Thursday (July 17), Calderon, 41, is described as an “illegal alien from Mexico” who resides in South Los Angeles. She’s been accused of staging her own kidnapping at a fast food restaurant, where she claims she was abducted by bounty hunters at gunpoint and held hostage in a warehouse in an effort to get her to self-deport. She has officially been charged with conspiracy and making false statements to federal officers.
“Dangerous rhetoric that ICE agents are ‘kidnapping’ illegal immigrants is being recklessly peddled by politicians and echoed in the media to inflame the public and discredit our courageous federal agents,” said United States Attorney Bill Essayli. “The conduct alleged in today’s complaint shows this hoax ‘kidnapping’ was a well-orchestrated conspiracy. The defendant and all those involved will face the full consequences of their conduct under federal law. I thank our partners at Homeland Security Investigations and all federal agents facing unprecedented levels of assaults for once again providing cool heads and professionalism during these difficult times.”
Calderon’s family and attorneys initially held a press conference on June 30, where they claimed armed men ambushed her in two unmarked trucks five days earlier at a Jack in the Box restaurant parking lot in downtown Los Angeles. They then claimed the men took her where “she was presented to [a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement] staffer” and “presented with voluntary self-deportation paperwork,” according to officials.
Following media buzz, the family created a GoFundMe, requesting $4,500 and stating that Calderon “was taken by masked men in an unmarked vehicle…when she was on her way to work.”
The Department of Homeland Security would soon deny these claims, deeming the incident a “hoax.”
“Video surveillance – including video of Calderon leaving the Jack in the Box parking lot and getting into a nearby sedan – as well as telephone records demonstrate Calderon fabricated the entire story,” the DOJ states.
DHS also confirmed that they do not hire private bounty hunters.
“If convicted of all charges, Calderon would face a statutory maximum sentence of five years in federal prison for conspiracy and up to five years in federal prison on the false statements charge,” the DOJ confirmed.
https://www.vibe.com/news/national/woman-charged-staging-hoax-kidnapping-blaming-ice-1235087372/
Iowa mayor says 200 JBS employees’ visas revoked
OTTUMWA, IOWA — On July 15, during a city council meeting in Ottumwa, Iowa, Mayor Rick Johnson confirmed that JBS was issuing 200 notices to employees whose work visas were revoked.
Johnson mentioned the visa holders, who work at the JBS Ottumwa plant, were from Haiti, Cuba, Guatemala, and Nicaragua.
“When people get these letters and it’s my understanding JBS is meeting with each of these families individually, their employment at JBS is terminated immediately and they have to get out of the country immediately,” Johnson said.
He added that he believed JBS was providing each of the workers with $1,000 in assistance for self-deportation from the United States.
“I don’t know if there’s going to be other groups that will have their work visas revoked or not, but this is the first group,” Johnson said. “We’ll keep those people in our prayers and hope that they can get arrangements made because a lot of these people are trying to buy homes and if they have to leave, all of a sudden, what do you do with your home and all your household belongings and all that.”
In May, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem in a case looking to end temporary legal protection for more than 500,000 migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela.
https://www.meatpoultry.com/articles/32194-iowa-mayor-says-200-jbs-employees-visas-revoked
“Johnson mentioned the visa holders, who work at the JBS Ottumwa plant, were from Haiti, Cuba, Guatemala, and Nicaragua…
…a lot of these people are trying to buy homes”
Wait. Biden didn’t start handing out work permits to CHNV until January of 2023. How are these people buying houses after less than three years of very low pay?
I asked Chatty whether CHNVs are eligible for FHA, USDA, or other gov-backed loans. Short version: not usually, but there are workarounds, especially if they have a citizen baby. However, for these dudes in Iowa, it’s doubtful they have babies. And once their status was revoked, they won’t be able to close on the house purchase unless they’re paying cash.
(On a side note, 45 tried to remove the housing benefits for mixed-status (citizen baby) household, but it never went through. I think he’s going to try it again.)
Now how about the employers, who were clearly employing illegals. That’s against the law and has been for some time.
Drag Race queen Xunami Muse leaves the country citing immigration status
RuPaul’s Drag Race alum Xunami Muse says she has relocated from the U.S. to Panama.
In a Wednesday, July 16, Instagram post, Xunami wrote that she made the decision, in part, “to be able to explore the WORLD [sic]” and cited “a difficult and complicated” situation in the U.S.
As Out notes, while competing in the 16th season of Drag Race, Xunami opened up about being a beneficiary of the U.S.’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) immigration policy. Enacted by former President Barack Obama in 2012, the program allowed some people who came to the United States as minors without documentation to apply for a renewable two-year period of deferred action from deportation, granting them a Social Security number and work authorization.
“We’re not citizens,” Xunami explained on Drag Race in 2024. “We’re kind of in limbo. We’re legally here because we were already here, but we don’t have the full rights of a citizen.”
While Xunami did not directly cite the current administration’s ongoing brutal crackdown on undocumented immigrants, she did note that she will be joining fellow Drag Race stars Aja, Kandy Muse, and Dahlia Sin on a 10-city European tour next month, followed by a tour of Australia in November. To travel outside the U.S. and return legally, DACA recipients must apply for Advance Parole.
Amid the administration’s mass deportations and ICE raids, at least one fan on social media likened Xunami’s decision to “self-deportation.”
“DACA queens are self-deporting now,” X user @CTprogressive_ wrote. “I hate how this country treats immigrants. She deserved better.”
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/07/drag-race-queen-xunami-muse-leaves-the-country-citing-immigration-status/
“DACA queens are self-deporting now,”
It keeps getting better,
Idaho sees sharp increase in ICE arrests since January
Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, arrests in Idaho have increased sharply compared to last year, a trend seen nationwide.
ICE numbers gathered by the Deportation Data Project at the University of California in Berkeley shows the immigration enforcement agency made more than 300 arrests in Idaho since January, up from 77 in 2024. The New York Times reports those numbers represent the largest increase of any state in the country.
“It does seem like the net is much broader,” said Talia Burnett an immigration lawyer in Nampa. “Clients that I would not have anticipated going into proceedings are arrested and put into proceedings.”
She said this is partially due to ICE losing the ability to issue bonds, meaning everybody that gets arrested is held and transferred instead of sent home while their case is being looked at.
“Now we are scrambling, everything’s happening fast and people are getting moved really fast,” Burnett said, adding migrants are being held for minor infractions, like traffic violations.
Burnett said many fear being held in detention indefinitely or sent to a country they’ve never been to.
“I have a lot of clients that are just giving up and taking a voluntary departure or a self-deportation and not fighting,” she said.
https://www.boisestatepublicradio.org/politics-government/2025-07-18/idaho-ice-data-immigrants
“everybody that gets arrested is held and transferred instead of sent home while their case is being looked at.”
So, no more de facto amnesty while your case is being processed for 10-15 years.
So, no more de facto amnesty while your case is being processed for 10-15 years.
I still wonder under whose watch that nonsense began. Dubya? Obama?
Now we are scrambling, everything’s happening fast and people are getting moved really fast
They act like this is new. Quick deportation was the status quo for decades.
I met a guy decades ago in Mexico. He tried to be an illegal 3 times. He was quickly apprehended and deported each time. He concluded that it was a waste of time and stopped trying.
Popular Mexican restaurant raided by ICE in Jackson
JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) – What started as a normal workday for a couple of employees inside the Mexican restaurant turned out to be their last day on the job.
The restaurant owner said he believes ICE agents were tipped off, and that prompted the raid on the establishment.
“Everybody who knows that this is wrong needs to step up in any way they can,” said Charlotte Steele, a concerned citizen.
On Wednesday afternoon, at around 1 p.m. is when the owner of Agave Mexican Bar and Grill said ICE agents raided his restaurant.
According to the owner, he said four males and one female employee were all handcuffed and placed under arrest while on the job.
On Madison County Detention Center’s website, there appear to have been eight undocumented immigrants arrested that day.
However, it is unclear which of the eight are the five employees who were arrested.
The owner also told 3 On Your Side that he had no knowledge any of the individuals were undocumented.
All suspects arrested by ICE are currently being held at the Madison County Detention Center until they are transported to another facility.
Concerned citizens in the metro area say they want to see these operations come to a halt.
“They are kidnapping our citizens all over the country, and it’s wrong. They are being mistreated, incarcerated, and deported. For those who think they are deporting criminals, they aren’t. The people that are being arrested are people going to work,” Steele expressed.
Since the arrests took place, the Agave Mexican Bar and Grill has remained closed.
https://www.wlbt.com/2025/07/18/popular-mexican-restaurant-raided-by-ice-jackson/
Deport Charlotte!
“Everybody who knows that this is wrong needs to step up in any way they can,” said Charlotte Steele, a concerned citizen.
She can go too
The owner also told 3 On Your Side that he had no knowledge any of the individuals were undocumented.
He knew. And I don’t even need my Spidey sense to know that.
CBP arrests stir fear at Sacramento Home Depot
Federal immigration agents detained a dozen people outside a south Sacramento Home Depot at about 8 a.m. Thursday. By lunchtime, the temperature had climbed, but a chill had already descended on the site of the first high-profile immigration raid locals could remember in the area. Tortas Sinaloa, which serves Mexican staples in the hardware store’s parking lot at 4641 Florin Road, saw a 70% drop in sales compared to usual, restaurant owner Maria Lopez estimated. The immigration enforcement operation by U.S. Border Patrol agents — unlike any Lopez, 35, had heard of over nearly two decades in south Sacramento — also marked a profound shift for the community, she said.
“Today, it’s been slow in sales,” Lopez said about 2 p.m. “Tomorrow, people just gonna be afraid to come out of their houses.”
Before arriving at the eatery about 9:30 a.m., Lopez said she heard about the raid from regular customers, some of them undocumented immigrants, who typically seek work in the parking lot. “They were shaking,” Lopez said
Word of the arrests spread quickly, and two employees whom Lopez was expecting at the restaurant called her close to 9 a.m. to say they were too worried to come to work.
“I was just like, if you feel at risk, don’t show up,” she said, adding that even some Latino immigrants with legal documents feared arrest. “We never felt like this before,” she said.
In a Thursday afternoon video advertising the raid as a necessary security mission, El Centro Sector’s Chief Patrol Agent Gregory K. Bovino said one of the individuals arrested was an “aggravated felon” who “appears to have charges related to fentanyl trafficking.”
Some people still ordered lunch at Maria Lopez’s window. After picking up his food, Luis Puga, 53, said he had not seen an immigration raid similar to Thursday’s in 24 years of living in Sacramento since he emigrated from Mexico. He said it did not scare him, despite some residents’ fears that no immigrants are protected.
“I show my papers, they have to let me go,” Puga said. “Maybe you’re afraid if you don’t have documents.”
https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article310893910.html
Feds’ California Home Depot raid nabs 11 illegal migrants, one with 67 prior jail bookings
Despite pushback from California officials to federal immigration enforcement, Border Patrol in Sacramento arrested 11 illegal migrants during a tense raid at a Home Depot parking lot on Thursday — including one man with 67 prior jail bookings in California since 1986 and a prior fentanyl trafficking conviction.
Fox News was on scene as the migrants scattered in all directions when federal agents moved in to make arrests in the sanctuary city.
That triggered multiple foot chases and several physical encounters between masked agents and fleeing migrants.
In one foot pursuit, agents chased a man who they say slashed the tire of a law enforcement vehicle. The man claimed to be a U.S. citizen.
Agents eventually maced the man in the face before arresting him and taking him into custody. His wife shouted at agents throughout the incident, insisting he is a U.S. citizen.
Border Patrol agents were forced to drive the damaged vehicle away on its rims.
Gregory Bovino, U.S. Border Patrol chief for the El Centro Sector, said his agency will continue prioritizing the removal of criminal illegal immigrants.
“There is no sanctuary city, Sacramento is not a sanctuary city, the state of California is not a sanctuary state, there is no sanctuary anywhere,” Bovino said. “We’ll be here, you’ll probably see us in many other locations as well. We’re here to stay, we’re not going anywhere. We’re going to effect this mission and secure the homeland.”
The migrant with 67 prior jail bookings is Mexican national Javier Dimas-Alcantara, who is an aggravated felon with convictions and charges spanning decades.
His criminal history includes multiple instances of transporting and selling narcotics or controlled substances, felony burglary, possession of a controlled narcotic with intent to sell, carrying a loaded firearm in public and multiple felony-level marijuana possession charges for sale.
He’s also been arrested for illegal entry, revocation of probation due to reoffending, multiple instances of providing false identification to law enforcement, multiple cases of narcotic possession and being under the influence of a controlled substance.
DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin slammed the defenders of sanctuary policies.
“Dimas has been convicted of a myriad of offenses — you would not want this man to be your neighbor and yet politicians like [California Gov.] Gavin Newsom defend criminals who terrorize American communities and demonize law enforcement who defend those same communities,” McLaughlin said.
“He and every other sanctuary politician should be thanking CBP for getting this scum out of American communities instead of obstructing federal law enforcement at every possible turn.”
The other apprehended migrants included a previously deported Guatemalan aggravated felon and a previously deported Mexican migrant with a prior arrest for driving without a license.
Another detainee is a Guatemalan migrant who had a voluntary return removal in 2009 with prior arrests for trespassing and failure to provide ID.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/feds-california-home-depot-raid-nabs-11-illegal-migrants-one-67-prior-jail-bookings
ICE raids leave Alabama’s immigrant communities living in fear
Immigration enforcement raids across Alabama have left many communities throughout the state afraid to leave their homes, with people fearing they could be swept up in federal operations targeting criminals and illegal immigrants.
The most recent Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids, conducted Tuesday, resulted in nearly 50 arrests across six counties as part of a broader federal crackdown on illegal immigration and violent crime. Law enforcement executed 14 search warrants, primarily in central and south Alabama, focusing on individuals involved in drug trafficking, money laundering and human traffickin
Immigration attorneys in north Alabama warn that similar raids could be coming to the Tennessee Valley soon.
The heightened enforcement has created a climate of fear that extends beyond those targeted in the raids. Many immigrants said they are avoiding routine activities such as grocery shopping, work, medical appointments and even legal immigration check-ins.
“When there are raids, it affects us because we can’t go out so confident,” said a local worker who requested anonymity. “But it also affects the places like work. For example, the communities where they’re starting home constructions, then there are raids and the people quit working, quit existing in those places.”
The worker said the fear extends to agricultural work as well, with many avoiding fields where they previously worked.
“If you go out, they can review you, they can stop you, or they can ask you about your migratory status,” he said.
Gonzalez Dollar added that the strict enforcement climate is having an unintended consequence, discouraging people from pursuing legal immigration processes that require providing personal information including names, addresses and phone numbers.
“It’s actually having the opposite effect of what we would really want for people to become legal that are here in the United States,” Gonzalez Dollar said. “It’s actually doing the opposite. And people are going into hiding. And they probably will stay in hiding until the storm blows over, so to speak.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/ice-raids-leave-alabamas-immigrant-communities-living-in-fear/ar-AA1IKffV
“And they probably will stay in hiding until the storm blows over, so to speak.”
There it is again. Waiting for things to calm down. And maybe it will, for a while. After all, ICE can’t be everywhere all the time. After ICE leaves, they’ll come back to work, hoping that ICE doesn’t come again. Next step is to go after the employers. So even if ICE isn’t there nabbing people, they can’t get any work.
I hope DHS looks at IRS tax records for businesses, primarily restaurants and minority owned businesses. I’d think that the SS taxes paid versus typical revenues can provide an estimation of people getting paid under the table.
Also, look at all FHA, Fannie, Freddie housing loans, since there must be fraud involved in illegals buying housing with loan assistance. The SSN sweep ought to highlight and bring out a majority of these issues.
‘I hope DHS looks at IRS tax records for businesses, primarily restaurants and minority owned businesses. I’d think that the SS taxes paid versus typical revenues can provide an estimation of people getting paid under the table’
The IRS has had that kind of red flag machine since at least the mid-90’s. Do they still use it, who know knows? But the illegals have a tax number. That is what made the whole system work, payroll tax wise. I’m interested in these restaurant chain raids in Texas, Alabama and Arizona recently. There were similar charges: hiring illegals, human smuggling and money laundering. When actively recruiting illegals to work over a long period of time, employers are probably sending money around while committing a crime. That’s money laundering. Or agreeing to help find them a place to stay, pay for a motel room or apartment. That’s human smuggling.
‘Also, look at all FHA, Fannie, Freddie housing loans, since there must be fraud involved in illegals buying housing with loan assistance. The SSN sweep ought to highlight and bring out a majority of these issues’
In 2015 Freddie Mac came up with a super subprime loan publicly targeted at illegals. You don’t hear about it much anymore.
Relentless immigration raids are changing California’s way of life
While many Americans support Trump’s tough immigration policies, the relentlessness of the raids in the region has also triggered a fierce backlash from neighbours and activists. Southern California is home to an estimated 1.4 million undocumented immigrants, many of whom have been forced into hiding – too afraid to go to work, school or even the grocery store.
In so doing, the raids have altered the landscape of one of the country’s most populous regions. Businesses are shuttered, cities have cancelled community events – including Fourth of July fireworks celebrations.
“Everyone’s looking over their shoulders,” says a “raspado” vendor in Los Angeles on a recent Sunday, where normally crowded soccer fields and picnic tables were mostly deserted. As she prepared the shaved ice with sweet strawberry syrup, she seemed wary of questions but grateful for a customer.
“It’s never like this,” she said.
“They just kidnap you,” says Carlos, who didn’t want his full last name used out of fear that he could be deported to his native Guatemala. He has been too afraid to go to work since his sister, Emma, was detained while selling tacos outside a Home Depot last month. “If I’m brown, if I’m Hispanic, they just come and catch you and take you.
Carlos says he feels a bit safer since a federal judge in California ordered the Trump administration to stop “indiscriminately” detaining people with “roving patrols” of federal agents. But he doesn’t trust that they will stop, and he needs to go back to work.
“How am I going to pay my rent,” he says. “I’m stuck inside.”
When dozens of armed agents in camouflage descended on MacArthur Park on horseback and in armoured vehicles earlier this month, few were surprised.
“It’s been gut wrenching,” says Betsy Bolte, who lives near the park and had showed up to protest and yell obscenities at the agents.
“It’s war against the people – the heart and soul of the economy. And it’s all intentional. It’s part of the plan,” she said, crying while showing reporters her footage.
Activists accuse the government of terrorising its own people.
“This is part of a programme of terror. From Los Angeles to the Central Coast, the Trump administration is weaponising the federal government and military against Californians,” says the advocacy group CAUSE.
But not all Californians agree.
Trump won 38% of the ballots in November. Recently, the BBC featured the story of one woman who is still devoted to the president and his mass deportation plans, even while she’s locked up as an illegal immigrant.
And a lone Trump supporter showed up at the protest at the cannabis farm last week, only to be beaten and jeered at and spat on by protesters.
Trump’s “border tsar” Tom Homan says Los Angeles has itself to blame because LA’s sanctuary laws prevent local law enforcement from co-operating with immigration agents inside jails, where they could detain immigrant offenders outside of the public eye.
“We’re going to double down, triple down on sanctuary cities,” Homan told reporters, adding that they do not have such overt public raids in Florida because all the sheriffs there let immigration agents into the jails to detain immigrants.
“If they don’t let us arrest the bad guy in the county jail, they’re going to arrest them in the community. We’re going to arrest them at a work site.”
Pastor Ara Torosian of Cornerstone Church in West LA said the bulk of his Persian-language congregants were asylum seekers. One couple with a three-year-old daughter were detained outside court when they showed up for what they thought was a “routine” hearing. Now they are in Texas at a family detention centre.
Five members of his congregation were detained in June – two of them on the street as Pastor Torosian filmed and begged the agents to stop.
“The are not criminals,” he said. “They were obeying everything, not hiding anything.”
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpqnpwrq1l4o
“If I’m brown, if I’m Hispanic, they just come and catch you and take you.
Go home, foreigner. No one cares about your color. That’s not the point.
“They just kidnap you,” says Carlos, who didn’t want his full last name used out of fear that he could be deported to his native Guatemala.
Ah yes, the “kidnapping” narrative. Another canard the MSM is trying to foist upon us.
for what they thought was a “routine” hearing
I thought so. These illegal aliens have no idea that these check-ins were basically DHS and ICE “exercising enforcement discretion,” i.e. looking the other way and not bothering to go through the deportation steps. Instead, these aliens must have believed that these routine check-ins were some sort of renewal to make or keep them legal.
Maybe the illegal immigrants didn’t know that they could be detained at any time, but sure as hell those lawyers knew.* The lawyers should have warned the clients that they were on thin ICE at about 2 am on November 6, 2024. Instead, the lawyers strung them along for every court date, collecting fees each time, acting all surprised when their client is being picked up.
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*I’ve spent maybe 3 hours with ChatGPT and even I know. The laywers can’t plead ignorance.
I Get Around The Beach Boys
https://youtu.be/BchXkabxn4A?si=TpSkM81qe68-W9-r
Honduran Illegal Wanted for Child Rape in Indiana Caught in North Carolina
by Dan Lyman
July 18th, 2025 3:05 PM
Honduran Illegal Wanted for Child Rape in Indiana Caught in North Carolina
by Dan Lyman
July 18th, 2025 3:05 PM
On Wednesday, federal and local law enforcement apprehended 19-year-old Marvin Jose Vasquez-Martinez in Iredell County, NC.
Vasquez-Martinez was wanted on an outstanding Fugitive Arrest Warrant from Indiana for Rape and Child Molestation.
https://www.infowars.com/breaking-news
Vasquez-Martinez was wanted on an outstanding Fugitive Arrest Warrant from Indiana for Rape and Child Molestation.
So, did his NGO paid attorney tell him to flee to another state to evade arrest? That might have worked during the FJB years.
NGO paid attorney
My tax dollars at work? Just past midnight last night, the House proved that recission still works. Gonna get interesting as money streams dry up one stream at a time.
‘We’re going to double down, triple down on sanctuary cities,” Homan told reporters, adding that they do not have such overt public raids in Florida because all the sheriffs there let immigration agents into the jails to detain immigrants…’If they don’t let us arrest the bad guy in the county jail, they’re going to arrest them in the community. We’re going to arrest them at a work site’
This gets back to what I was saying the other day. Californians are kinda stupid.
‘Median prices have fallen more than $100,000 from their peak in the Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos metro area in Texas, as well as in San Francisco, according to ICE. Florida is home to nine of the 10 major markets that posted the biggest monthly drops in June. In two of them, North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota and Cape Coral-Fort Myers, prices peaked in June 2022 and are down by more than $50,000 since then’
There are so many outfits reporting ‘stats’ now it’s easy to lose track of what has already happened. Bradenton-Sarasota single family are down at least 20%. Cape Coral is already in a foreclosure quagmire. Austin is a mess cuz they purposefully confuse so much as I’ve mentioned. But I’d guess Austin proper, single family near downtown is probably off 200k from spring 2020, around 30%.
‘I closed a $1.2 million deal last year where the seller dropped $200,000 because they couldn’t compete with new construction next door’
So Denver has been sinking like a turd in a well for a while Preston.
‘Project cancellations are mounting, construction starts are collapsing, jobs are being lost, buyers are losing a lot of money, and developers are facing difficulties with closings’
There’s never a good time for a trade war Shaun.