The Federal Bureau of Investigation is now referring all questions regarding the 2022 Tennessee Highway Patrol traffic stop of Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, even though State News Foundation inquires had nothing to do with either DHS or ICE.
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Tom Pappert, lead reporter at The Tennessee Star, said the body camera footage of the 2022 traffic stop in Tennessee of Kilmar Abrego Garcia raises more red flags behind the reason why Tennessee Highway Patrol (THP) officers allowed Abrego Garcia and his nine passengers inside the vehicle to drive off despite suspicions of human trafficking.
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Kilmar Abrego Garcia is the citizen of El Salvador who has claimed his March removal to a Salvadoran prison violated a 2019 final deportation order which precluded his deportation based on claims he would face persecution at the hand of a Central American gang, but Salvadoran citizens who lived in the neighborhood where the Abrego Garcia family was allegedly targeted told American reporters on Sunday that they had no memories of such gangland activities.
The final deportation order for Abrego Garcia denied his asylum claim, as well as his claim that he would face torture in El Salvador, but specifically granted a “withholding of removal” to one nation, either El Salvador or Guatemala, based on claims that Abrego Garcia would face persecution from the gang Barrio 18.
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Body-worn camera footage provided to The Tennessee Star last week by the Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security (TDOSHS) in response to its Open Record Request, showing the November 2022 traffic stop of Kilmar Abrego Garcia by Tennessee Highway Patrol (THP), shows the Salvadoran citizen claim to have business in both Nashville, Tennessee and St. Louis, Missouri, before he was released at the instruction of the “Biden-era FBI,” as THP told The Star last month.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has confirmed highway patrol suspected Abrego Garcia of human trafficking, and portions of the video containing unredacted audio shows troopers expressed doubt in the alleged itinerary of Abrego Garcia and his nine passengers.
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President Donald Trump’s Sunday announcement of plans to reopen San Francisco’s Alcatraz Island as a prison has irked San Francisco Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.
“REBUILD, AND OPEN ALCATRAZ!” said Trump on Truth Social. “Today, I am directing the Bureau of Prisons, together with the Department of Justice, FBI, and Homeland Security, to reopen a substantially enlarged and rebuilt ALCATRAZ, to house America’s most ruthless and violent Offenders.”
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The Trump administration said Monday that it will give illegal immigrants $1,000 to leave the U.S. voluntarily.
The Department of Homeland Security also announced that it will also pay for travel assistance, and people who use the CBP Home app to inform the government they are planning to return home will be “deprioritized” for detention and removal by immigration enforcement.
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President Donald Trump announced Sunday that he will impose a 100% tariff on all films produced outside the U.S., citing national security concerns and a desire to revive America’s “dying” film industry.
Trump authorized the U.S. Trade Representative and the Department of Commerce to begin the process of levying the tariffs, declaring foreign film subsidies a “concerted effort” by other countries to undermine Hollywood’s global dominance.
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The Holy Father who emerges from the upcoming papal enclave following Pope Francis’ death will inherit a deal between the Vatican and China which ceded to the Chinese Communist Party control over appointing bishops amidst the CCP’s persecution of Catholics and other religious minorities.
Although no one actually knows what will happen when the next pope is selected at the Sistine Chapel starting this month, Italian Cardinal Pietro Parolin — a close ally of Francis, the Vatican’s secretary of state, and the architect of the controversial deal with China — is considered among the top frontrunners by many Vatican watchers. But even if Parolin is not the next pope, the successor to Francis will have to decide what to do with the deal as the Chinese Communist Party continues to strengthen its grip over Catholics in China.
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The Biden administration inflated its number of reported deportations by conflating the number of illegal immigrants stopped by border agents before they could get inside the United States. Biden’s figures may very well hide the success of Trump’s immigration enforcement.
Trump started his second term notching some early wins on securing the southern border and stemming border crossings to record lows, but at first blush, the rate of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) removals appeared to lag behind the Biden administration’s capture rate in its final full year, according to data released by ICE under both administrations.
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Prominent Democrats are accusing President Trump of violating the law because his administration arrested Hannah Dugan, a Wisconsin judge who allegedly helped an illegal immigrant evade ICE.
U.S. Senator Cory Booker, for example, declared that “Donald Trump is waging an all-out assault” on the “rule of law” because the “FBI took the extreme and dangerous step” of “arresting a sitting judge” as part of “Trump’s playbook for punishing judges when they don’t fall in line.”
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U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has designated two Haitian gangs as foreign terrorist organizations, adding to a list of transnational criminal organizations, including Mexican cartels and the violent Venezuelan prison gang Tren de Aragua.
Rubio designated the violent Haitian gangs, Viv Ansanm and Gran Grif, as FTOs and Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs), saying they “are the primary source of instability and violence in Haiti” and pose “a direct threat to U.S. national security interests in our region.”
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Axios Israel has set President Trump’s visit to the Middle East next week as a deadline for a new hostage and ceasefire deal, with a massive ground operation to commence if no deal is reached, Israeli officials say. Israel’s Security Cabinet approved a plan Sunday night to gradually reoccupy all of Gaza and hold it indefinitely if no deal is reached by May 15. Plans for the operation call for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) to flatten any buildings that remain standing and displace virtually the entire population of 2 million people to a single “humanitarian area.” The alternative to remaining in the humanitarian zone is for Palestinians to leave the enclave “voluntarily” for other countries “in line with President Trump’s vision for Gaza,” an Israeli official said. READ THE FULL STORY
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Breitbart Rep. Mary Miller (R-IL) urged her Republican colleagues on Monday to use the budget reconciliation process to strip abortion giant Planned Parenthood of federal funding. Miller sent a letter to Chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce Rep. Brett Guthrie (R-KY) asking him to “use every legislative option available to cease all federal funds going to Planned Parenthood.” Breitbart News first obtained the letter. “Planned Parenthood is a multi-billion-dollar abortion business that continues to receive millions in federal funding. President Trump had it right when he issued an Executive Order to cut off taxpayer dollars from abortion providers like Planned Parenthood,” Miller told Breitbart News. “It’s time for Congress to make that policy permanent. I urge the Energy and Commerce Committee to ensure that not another dime of American tax dollars goes to this murder-for-profit organization.” READ THE FULL STORY
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ruled to uphold a district court’s dismissal of a case brought by the Libertarian Party of Tennessee and four of its members challenging the state of Tennessee’s ballot access laws.
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AAA released a survey on Monday showing that almost 60 percent of Tennesseeans plan to take a vacation trip this summer.
This percentage is up from 49 percent in last year’s AAA travel survey.
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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Tennessee Highway Patrol (THP) carried out an operation on Sunday that led to arrests and the seizure of illegal drugs and weapons.
The news of this operation first came from the Tennessee Immigrants and Refugee Rights Coalition (TIRRC). It said these two law enforcement agencies arrested “community members” in South Nashville. TIRRC estimated that at least 20 people were affected.
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The Tennessee Highway Patrol (THP) officers captured in the body-worn camera footage of the November 30, 2022 traffic stop of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, released by the Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security (TDOSHS) to The Tennessee Star last week, said that the Salvadoran national had a pocket containing $1,400 as he transported passengers from Texas to Maryland. Confirming troopers suspected Abrego Garcia was trafficking people from Texas to Maryland, with an unexplained stop in St. Louis, Missouri, as the U.S. Department of Homeland Security confirmed last month, The Star reported last week that within the TDOSHS body camera footage, one trooper remarked, “He’s hauling these people for money.” The trooper added, “He’s getting paid to haul these people, probably to Maryland, I would say. If I had to guess.” BREAKING: Body cam footage obtained by Tennessee Star shows Tennessee Trooper saying Kilmar Abrego Garcia "hauling these people for money" pic.twitter.com/4FHWOIjSz5 — Tennessee Star (@TheTNStar) May 2, 2025 This analysis between troopers came shortly before one of the troopers divulged the cash found on Abrego Garcia’s person. “He’s got $1,400 cash in his pocket in an envelope,” said the trooper. “Probably payments.” Notably, the DHS has confirmed the 2001 Chevrolet Suburban driven…
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