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Dem judge in hot seat after DHS exposes ‘whole new level’ of activism, sheltering illegal immigrant
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FIRST ON FOX: The Trump Department of Homeland Security is criticizing a Democratic judge for taking «activism to a whole new level» by harboring an illegal gang member who just pled guilty to illegally possessing firearms and destroying evidence.
Federal authorities arrested Cristhian Ortega-Lopez, a Venezuelan national who illegally entered the country in 2023 during the Biden administration, in February at the home of former Dona Ana County Magistrate Judge Jose Luis «Joel» Cano, 67, and his wife Nancy Ann Cano, 68.
Based on his tattoos and social media activity showing firearms as well as distinctive hand signs and clothing, the Justice Department believes Ortega-Lopez is a member of Tren de Aragua, a Venezuelan transnational criminal group recently designated a foreign terrorist organization by the Trump administration.
This month, Ortega-Lopez pled guilty to illegally possessing firearms and conspiracy to destroy evidence.
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Former Doña Ana County Magistrate Judge Joel Cano and his wife, Nancy Cano, were arrested on charges of tampering with evidence after federal agents raided their Las Cruces home. (Doña Ana County Detention Center)
Commenting on the plea, DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said the judge’s action is part of a wider pattern of «sanctuary politicians» subverting U.S. law to harbor criminal illegal immigrants.
«Time and time again, we see sanctuary politicians and activist judges like Jose Cano shield criminal illegal aliens – in this case, a suspected GANG MEMBER, from arrest and removal from the country,» McLaughlin wrote in a statement to Fox News Digital.
She added that «Judge Cano, a magistrate judge, takes activist judge to a whole new level—having this criminal illegal alien live in his home with him.»
«Ortega-Lopez, a suspected Tren de Aragua gang member who pled guilty to illegally possessing firearms and conspiracy to destroy evidence, should never have been released into the country by the Biden Administration,» she said.
«This disgusting behavior is wildly unacceptable and is no longer tolerated under the Trump Administration. We are putting the safety of the American people first.»
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Doña Ana County Magistrate Judge Joel Cano and TDA (U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico /U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement/U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement )
A senior DHS official also told Fox News Digital that the agency «will not let the Democrats’ government shutdown prevent our law enforcement officers from executing the critical mission of securing our nation from the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens.»
Federal agents received a tip in January that Ortega-Lopez was living with other illegal immigrants on a property belonging to Cano, who was still a judge at the time, and his wife.
Authorities seized four guns during a Feb. 28 search of the property.
The four guns, along with three cellphones belonging to Ortega-Lopez, were seized, and he was arrested. During the search, Ortega-Lopez was allowed to make a phone call before being taken to the Doña Ana County Detention Center (DACDC).
He told the agents that the phone he wanted to use was not among the devices recovered. Video calls from DACDC later showed Nancy Cano holding a black iPhone believed to be Ortega’s fourth phone, prosecutors said.
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Doña Ana County Magistrate Judge Joel Cano and TDA (U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico)
During a March 7 call with Ortega-Lopez, Nancy Cano allegedly used the device to contact someone named «Michelle» via WhatsApp before facilitating a FaceTime call between Michelle and Ortega-Lopez using her personal phone.
In an April 20 call, Nancy Cano and Ortega-Lopez discussed deleting his Facebook account, which he allegedly used to share incriminating content, including gang affiliations and images with guns.
On April 24, federal agents searched the Cano home to locate Ortega-Lopez’s missing phone. During questioning, Judge Cano admitted smashing the device with a hammer five weeks earlier because he believed it contained incriminating photos and videos of Ortega-Lopez with guns and throwing it into a dumpster, according to U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi.
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Left: Exhibit filed March 13, 2025, in the case U.S. v. Cristhian Ortega-Lopez appears to show the alleged TdA gang member eating dinner with members of the Cano family. Right: Ortega-Lopez mugshot (U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico; DHS)
A forensic analysis of the recovered phones revealed messages linked to Ortega’s alleged criminal activities, including links with the Tren de Aragua gang and images of him with guns, authorities said.
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Judge Cano resigned his position in March, and he and his wife were arrested on April 24. They were released on $10,000 bonds and are facing up to 15 years in prison each for evidence tampering and conspiracy to tamper with evidence.
Fox News Digital reached out to the Canos’ attorney for comment, but did not immediately receive a response.
Fox News Digital’s Audrey Conklin and Louis Casiano contributed to this report.
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EXCLUSIVE: Bondi DOJ transfers death row inmates commuted by Biden to ‘supermax’ prison
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FIRST ON FOX — Two federal inmates previously on death row — one a crooked New Orleans cop, the other behind a multi-state killing spree — have been transferred to a notorious «supermax» prison in Colorado, the Justice Department told Fox News Digital.
News of their transfers comes as U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi looks to crack down on the previous administration’s sweeping clemency actions, especially those against violent crime.
The former death row inmates were transferred Thursday to the U.S. Penitentiary Administrative Maximum Facility in Florence, Colorado, also known as «ADX,» Justice Department officials confirmed.
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They are among the 37 death row inmates whose sentences former President Joe Biden commuted shortly before leaving office last December. The news prompted criticism and complaints that the record clemency and commutation actions were done as a political «Hail Mary» and without proper vetting.
Eight death row inmates have already been transferred to ADX, the Justice Department told Fox News Digital, bringing to 10 the number of death row inmates that have been transferred to the prison since mid-September.
President Donald Trump walks with Attorney General Pam Bondi during a visit to the Justice Department March 14, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
More are expected soon. all 37 death row inmates commuted by Biden are expected to be moved to the prison by «early next year,» the Justice Department told Fox News Digital.
The effort comes as Bondi and the Trump administration have sought to reverse some of the Biden administration’s efforts on criminal justice reform, with an emphasis on cracking down on violent crime.
Though sentence commutations cannot be fully reversed, Justice Department officials told Fox News Digital, Bondi has prioritized ways to penalize these individuals in coordination with directives from Trump and to ensure that the «conditions of confinement» are «consistent with the security risks those inmates present because of their egregious crimes, criminal histories and all other relevant considerations,» according to an earlier DOJ memo.
«Two more monsters who plotted and violently murdered innocent people will spend the rest of their lives in our country’s most severe federal prison,» Attorney General Pam Bondi told Fox News Digital in a statement.
«This Department of Justice will continue to seek accountability for the families blindsided by President Biden’s reckless commutations of 37 vicious predators.»
Like the eight former death row inmates sent to Colorado’s supermax prison, the two criminals processed in ADX Thursday have been convicted of particularly heinous crimes.
One individual chased down his ex-girlfriend from Roanoke, Virginia, to Charlotte, North Carolina, where he cut phone lines to the apartment she was living in before using cans of gasoline to set the building on fire.
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The ADX supermax prison in Florence, Colo. (Robert Daemmrich Photography Inc/Sygma via Getty Images)
Though she escaped via a second-story window and was hospitalized for second- and third-degree burns, he followed her back to her family’s home in Virginia two months later, where he gunned her down on the streets of her neighborhood and just steps from her mother.
Another inmate, a former New Orleans police officer known as «Robocop» for his large physical demeanor and aggressive law enforcement style, was caught on tape by the FBI as he ordered and orchestrated the killing of a mother of three who had come to the precinct hours earlier to submit a supposedly confidential brutality complaint about his behavior that she witnessed on her way home the night before.
The FBI had stumbled upon the conversation as part of a broader probe it had started to investigate a so-called «protection racket» between cocaine dealers in New Orleans and the city’s police force, which had been guarding a warehouse stocked with the drug. The same officer was later revealed as one of the chief conspirators in the protection racket.
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Attorney General Pam Bondi appeared before a Senate Judiciary Committee oversight hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
He was also found to have falsely testified in two murder cases, including one murder he has since been linked to. The statements were used to exonerate four men from prison, including three teenagers who had been wrongfully convicted of a murder 28 years earlier.
ADX is the only true federal «supermax» prison in the U.S., and its inmates are as notorious as the prison’s reputation.
Among them are Ramzi Yousef, convicted in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing; Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, one of the Boston Marathon bombers; former Sinola Cartel leader Joaquín Guzmán, or «El Chapo»; and Mamdouh Mahmud Salim, the co-founder of al Qaeda.
Shortly after her confirmation as attorney general, Bondi issued a memo aimed at «restoring a measure of justice» to the victims’ families.
The measures granted by Biden earned more criticism than former President Barack Obama. As Fox News reported at the time, the vast majority of Obama’s clemency actions focused on commuting the sentences of federal inmates who met certain criteria outlined under his administration’s Clemency Initiative.
Bondi hosted victims’ families earlier this year to hear their concerns about the commutations, the DOJ said. Some said they had been stunned by the eleventh-hour commutations and that they had not been given a heads-up by the Biden administration.
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In February, Bondi issued a memo to the Bureau of Prisons ordering an evaluation of where these prisoners should be detained.
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Teachers called ‘true heroes’ after repelling grizzly bear that attacked school group, injuring 11
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Teachers fended off a grizzly bear that attacked a school group walking along a trail in British Columbia, Canada, on Thursday, officials said.
«The group had stopped along a trail near the community when a grizzly bear emerged from the forest and attacked,» Insp. Kevin Van Damme of British Columbia’s Conservation Officer Service, said in an update on social media. «Teachers successfully repelled the bear using pepper spray and a bear banger.»
Eleven people were injured in the attack, including students in the fourth and fifth grade, according to CBC News.
Two were in critical condition, two in serious condition and the other seven were treated at the scene, the British Columbia Health Services said.
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British Columbia’s Conservation Officer Service said the grizzly emerged from the woods and «attacked.» (Matthew Bailey/VWPics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
The incident happened in Bella Coola, a town more than 400 miles north of Vancouver.
The victims were taken to Bella Coola Hospital and were being transferred to Vancouver for further care, Van Damme said.
Officials were still searching for the bear as of Friday, who they believe may have been previously injured.
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«We recognize this incident is distressing for the community. We are in close contact with the Nuxalk Nation as our investigation continues. We thank them for their collaborative efforts to ensure community awareness and shared safety information,» Van Damme said. «Our thoughts are with the victims and their families, and we wish them a full and speedy recovery.»
Bella Coola is more than 400 miles north of Vancouver in British Columbia. (Google Maps)
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Tamara Davidson, British Columbia’s Minister of Environment and Parks, called the teachers who fought off the bear «true heroes,» adding that they were well-prepared, according to the Guardian.
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Venezuela restringe los vuelos comerciales desde y hacia el país por las advertencias de Estados Unidos
Los vuelos comerciales en Venezuela han sido restringidos a partir de este fin de semana luego de que la Administración Federal de Aviación de Estados Unidos emitió una advertencia a las aerolíneas y pilotos sobre los riesgos potenciales de volar en el norte del país caribeño y sus alrededores por la escalada militar aérea registrada.
Varias de las aerolíneas nacionales e internacionales que operan en Venezuela se han visto obligadas a reprogramar sus vuelos e itinerarios por la advertencia aeronáutica de Estados Unidos, que contrasta con el silencio de la autoridad nacional, el INAC, sobre el tema, que no ha emitido ningún comunicado al respecto.
La Administración Federal de Aviación de Estados Unidos emitió una advertencia para operadores aéreos sobre riesgos potenciales al volar en la Región de Información de Vuelo de Maiquetía (SVZM FIR), debido al «empeoramiento de la situación de seguridad y al aumento de la actividad militar en Venezuela o sus alrededores».
Instó a las aerolíneas comerciales y pilotos a extremar la precaución a todas las altitudes, pues consideran que pueden «representar un riesgo potencial para aviones a todas las altitudes, incluso durante el sobrevuelo, las llegadas o salidas y con los aviones en tierra».
El refuerzo del portaaviones Gerald Ford, el más grande y moderno del mundo, se unió a la flota caribeña de EE.UU. acompañado con el buque de reabastecimiento rápido Usns Supply (T-AOE-6), perteneciente al «Comando de Transporte Marítimo Militar» de la US Navy, que salió este viernes desde la base naval de Norfolk, Virginia (ORF), con rumbo al Mar Caribe para unirse a la flota.
Y es que esta semana la zona del despliegue militar de EE.UU. frente a las costas de Venezuela ha generado varias acciones aeronavales con cazabombarderos F-35 y otros que han atacado el espacio aéreo venezolano en el marco de la guerra cibernética o electrónica que han afectado y vulnerado el sistema ruso y chino de radares instalado en el país, lo que ha generado la alerta de EEUU en el espacio aéreo.
Desde hace tres meses el despliegue aeronaval de EE.UU. en el Caribe ha causado el bombardeo de más de 20 embarcaciones de supuestas mafias de narcotraficantes con un saldo de más de 80 muertes, según afirmó el gobierno de Donald Trump.
La decisión de reprogramar o cancelar los vuelos y horarios ha corrido por cuenta de las compañías comerciales sin necesidad de una orden ejecutiva del gobierno venezolano.
Por ejemplo, Iberia ha decidido este sábado cancelar sus vuelos comerciales a Venezuela e irá evaluando la situación en ese país para decidir cuándo retoma sus operaciones, informaron fuentes de la propia compañía.
La línea portuguesa TAP también canceló su vuelo de Caracas a Lisboa este domingo y ofreció reembolsar el pago de los billetes comprados por los usuarios o mantenerlo en reserva para el caso de que vuelen en un futuro indeterminado o indefinido.
La brasileña Gol, a su vez, anunció que suspendía sus viajes programados a la capital venezolana y aclaró que los pasajeros podían reprogramar sus viajes o pedir un reembolso.
“Ahora tengo motivos para quedarme. No me pierdo lo que está pasando en mi país y el cambio de régimen. Esto es histórico”, dijo a Clarín una pasajera que iba en el vuelo cancelado de TAP.
“Quiero irme de aquí en el primer vuelo que aparezca. No me importa lo que tenga que pagar. No quiero ver lo que pasa porque tengo mi billete de retorno y debo irme”, decía otra pasajera venezolana que había venido a Caracas por pocos días para firmar unos documentos y regresar de inmediato a Madrid.
Otras compañías como la venezolana Laser y la española Plus Ultra manifestaron que sus operaciones no presentan al momento cambio alguno, mientras que las que vuelan a Bogotá afirmaron que “suspenden sus vuelos por mal tiempo”. En cambio, la línea nacional Estelar decidió reprogramar su vuelo nocturno del sábado de 12 medianoche para salir a Madrid el domingo a las 8 de la mañana.
Las aerolíneas latinoamericanas también han entrado en la fase de reprogramar el horario de sus vuelos de nocturnos a diurnos por la falta de seguridad y garantía en las operaciones aeronáuticas en el aeropuerto internacional Simón Bolívar de Maiquetía.
“Esto ocurre cuando el espacio aéreo de un país es afectado por una acción militar cibernética y electrónica. Los vuelos comerciales y civiles se ven vulnerados si transitan por la zona con el riesgo de que les pase algo en sus operaciones aeronáuticas. Es prácticamente un bloqueo aéreo peligroso”, afirmó la venezolana oficial Mayor de la Fuerza Aérea Venezolana, Raynell Martínez en su entrevista con Clarín desde su exilio en EE.UU.
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