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Union boss compares ICE to Al Pacino mobster as more Dems pile on immigration enforcement

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The Department of Homeland Security took more rhetorical fire this week from the left over its «mass deportation operation» enforcement of immigration laws, and growing numbers of detainees in federal installations.
In Pennsylvania, lawmakers and advocates came together to back a new state bill that would ban law enforcement from obscuring their identity – as many ICE officers wear masks to protect themselves from being doxxed – where a union boss accused ICE of «disappearing innocent people.»
«I frankly have been horrified by the conduct of these federal agents as has been reported in the media,» said AFL-CIO Philadelphia Council President Danny Bauder.
Bauder, flanked by state Sen. Nikil Saval, D-Center City, and Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner, went on to accuse ICE of acting like a famous mob informant from an Al Pacino film.
ILLINOIS DEMOCRATS TELL FEDS TO STOP TRYING TO ‘USURP’ STATE AUTHORITY OVER IMMIGRATION
Border Patrol, left, Al Pacino, right (Getty)
«I want to be very clear: kidnapping and disappearing innocent people is disgusting, it’s shameful, it’s un-American, and any claims to the contrary are absurd,» he said Thursday outside ICE’s office in Chinatown.
«There is no good reason why a public servant would ever have to obscure or hide their identity while working in uniform. These ICE agents are not Donnie Brasco in some sort of deep cover situation to take down this enormous organized crime gang.»
«These are people who are engaged in violent, warrantless kidnapping and detention, and they need to be held accountable for their actions,» Bauder said.
Saval, sponsor of the «No Secret Police» bill in the Republican-controlled Senate, characterized ICE operations as «heavily-armed, masked, unidentifiable individuals roaming our public spaces … disappearing our neighbors … and violat[ing] basic vital rights.»
State Sen. Amanda Cappelletti, D-Norristown, added that ICE has «actively undermine[d] public trust in our law enforcement agencies» and encourages bad actors to impersonate police due to their anonymous nature, according to City & State PA.
THREE STATES SIGN NEW AGREEMENTS WITH ICE AMID EXPANDED IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT OPERATIONS

Pennsylvania State Sen. Nikil Saval, D-Center City Phila. (Getty)
State Rep. Rick Krajewski, a democratic socialist representing West Philadelphia’s University City, introduced a companion bill in the Democratic-majority State House and told the outlet the effort is notably bolstered by a former cop: state Rep. Brian Munroe, D-Warminster.
«My job will be a lot easier if we don’t have a crime wave of people pretending to be ICE,» added Krasner.
Just down I-95, Maryland Democrats finally made it into the Baltimore ICE office they were rebuffed from a few weeks ago.
After their visit, the lawmakers blasted ICE for the process and the conditions inside the Charm City complex.
Rep. Kweisi Mfume, D-Md., told Baltimore press that ICE has a «great deal of inefficiency» in its operations.
«Shame on them,» Mfume – who represents much of the city – said. «The people of this nation deserve better no matter how you feel about immigration.»
Mfume warned against public complacency, appearing to allege that ICE could easily grab anyone off the street in the future.
«We recognize that today it’s somebody; or else tomorrow, it could in fact be one of us.»
In July, House Assistant Minority Leader Joe Neguse and Rep. Jason Crow, both D-Colo., sued the Trump administration over lawmakers being denied access to ICE facilities.
This week, they were able to take a sanctioned tour of an Aurora, Colo., facility along with Reps. Diana DeGette and Brittany Pettersen, both Democrats from Colorado.
According to a release from Pettersen entitled, «House Democrats hammer ICE after Aurora facility visit,» the agency required the group to sign privacy releases to speak with detainees.
DeGette called that another way of «stopping» lawmakers from visiting, according to Pettersen.
Meanwhile, back east, a congresswoman arrested during a prior ICE facility visit said she would not stop fighting for her cause.
Rep. LaMonica McIver, D-N.J., told the New Jersey Monitor that she had been criminally charged for doing her job and that being told she could face 17 years in prison is «nothing to joke with.»
«I’m a mother, I’m a wife, I have a family,» said McIver, who was joined both at the press availability and the raucous Newark ICE detention center visit by Rep. Robert Menendez Jr., D-N.J. – whose formerly senatorial father is behind bars on corruption convictions.
«I think they have an insatiable appetite for this, and it’s not about violent criminals,» Menendez Jr. said of the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement.
Fox News Digital reached out to DHS for comment.
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Irán: los tres desafíos que enfrenta la oposición en el exilio para intentar tomar el poder

La dividida oposición iraní busca reorganizarse para terminar con 47 años de fragmentación y presionar desde el exilio, y con sus escasas fuerzas en el territorio, a la golpeada Revolución Islámica de Irán.
No es un objetivo fácil, pero sus representantes ven la actual guerra como una oportunidad única para lograr “un cambio de régimen” bajo las bombas de Estados Unidos e Israel.
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La oposición tiene hoy ante sí tres grandes desafíos difíciles de resolver.
- Carece de una figura como María Corina Machado, líder de la disidencia venezolana, que sea capaz de unificar a las decenas de grupos opositores desparramados en el exilio. El “príncipe” Reza Pahlavi, heredero del Sha derrocado en 1979, quiere ocupar ese lugar, pero su figura genera una gran desconfianza y división.
- La inteligencia y las fuerzas de seguridad iraníes se han encargado de “limpiar” el país de todo atisbo opositor en las últimas cinco décadas. Todos los dirigentes de peso están exiliados o en prisión. De hecho, las protestas que sacudieron al país en las útimas semanas no tuvieron “caras visibles” y comenzaron como un movimiento de denuncia por la difícil situación económica. Ese es un fuerte limitante a la hora de convocar un golpe de escena interno impulsado por Donald Trump e Israel.
- Debe tender a una convergencia de las diferentes realidades étnicas, culturales, linguísticas y religiosas históricamente marginadas. Irán es un país de una enorme diversidad. El discriminado pueblo baluchi (sunnita, de la región montañosa de Baluchistán, en el sudeste del país) es un ejemplo claro. Irán es mayoritariamente chiíta.
En ese panorama la construcción de un frente unificado parece una tarea compleja. Hoy, los principales dirigentes en el exilio intentan superar las divisiones dentro y fuera de Irán para prepararse para lo que vendrá cuando cesen los ataques.
El razonamiento es simple: el gobierno teocrático iraní, tal como se lo conocía hasta el sábado, ya no existe. Evolucionará hacia otra cosa, que puede incluso ser aún más represiva o puede dar paso a una transición. En ese escenario, la unidad del exilio es un requisito fundamental si quiere actuar como un factor de poder y estabilidad en un nuevo Irán.
Qué pasa en la oposición iraní
La oposición iraní es un laberinto conformado por numerosos grupos enfrentados entre sí, de distinta ideología y con diferente matriz religiosa o étnica.
Paulo Botta, director de la oficina de Trends Research & Advisory en América Latina, dijo a TN que hoy “no hay nadie que pueda unificar a toda la oposición. Es algo de lo cual se ha encargado el régimen iraní en los últimos 50 años: hacer que no haya oposición organizada. Y eso es una gran dificultad”, apuntó. Una de las bombas caídas en Teherán (Foto: Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS)
Pero no solo la oposición busca ocupar un lugar en un hipotético nuevo Irán. También el heredero de la monarquía, el “príncipe” Reza Pahlavi, hijo del Sha Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, derrocado en 1979 por la Revolución Islámica.
“Nadie puede saber qué influencia tiene” en el pueblo iraní. “Posiblemente en alguna clase urbana puede haber algún apoyo. Más del 70% de los iraníes nacieron dentro de la República Islámica. Solo lo conocen por referencias familiares y nadie vivió directamente” bajo la gestión de su padre, dijo Botta.
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Para el analista, “es difícil pensar que alguien que viene de afuera, que poca gente recuerda, pueda de repente ser quien una a todos los iranies. Mucho más cuando su posición ha sido buscar apoyo incondicional de Estados Unidos”. Su bastión está en la derecha y en nostálgicos de la monarquía.
Grupos en el exilio buscan crear coaliciones
En ese marco, varios grupos kurdos iraníes impulsores de la autonomía lograron unificarse en una coalición, mientras que los republicanos llamaron a la unidad y convocaron a una reunión en Londres bajo el lema “Congreso por la Libertad de Irán”, según The Media Line, un medio estadounidense especializado en Medio Oriente.
La izquierda sigue fragmentada, pero varios dirigentes estudiantiles recientemente exiliados anunciaron la formación de una “Alianza Inclusiva de la Izquierda Revolucionaria”
Otro grupo importante es la Organización de Muyahidines del Pueblo de Irán, de la izquierda islámica, que participó activamente en el derrocamiento del Sha, pero rompió con la Revolución pocos años después. El gobierno islámico lo considera “terrorista”. Una mujer iraní camina en una calle de Teherán (Foto: Majid Asgaripou)
Hay otros grupos minoritarios que tienen participación dentro de Irán que están trabajando para crear una gran coalición, dijo The Media Line. “Estamos construyendo una red organizada e inclusiva que creará una conexión activa y eficaz entre las fuerzas dentro y fuera de Irán“, dijo Shirin Shams, líder del Colectivo Revolución de Mujeres.
El objetivo es “preparar una alternativa política para el período de transición, una alternativa distinta y arraigada en la sociedad iraní”, indicó.
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Pero el gran problema es la falta de un liderazgo organizado en el terreno que enfrente al poder islámico, más allá de la actual debilidad del gobierno. Importantes figuras, como la premio Nobel Narges Mohammadi, están encarceladas.
La idea de los diferentes grupos es crear distintas coaliciones capaces de dialogar entre sí para impulsar un movimiento de protesta en el país.
El influyente medio estadounidense Político resumió la situación: “Si bien la República Islámica ha fracasado estrepitosamente a la hora de proporcionar a su pueblo una economía funcional y un nivel de vida digno, ha sido muy eficaz en encerrar a sus oponentes. El país cuenta con una diáspora políticamente activa, pero está particularmente plagado de luchas internas, especialmente entre quienes desean que el ex príncipe heredero iraní Reza Pahlavi tome el control del país y quienes se le oponen. Como resultado, las fuerzas de la oposición tendrán dificultades para coordinarse y luego desmantelar las instituciones del régimen que aún existan”, concluyó.
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Supreme Court blocks California ban on notifying students’ parents about gender transitions

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The Supreme Court on Monday cleared the way for California schools to notify parents if their children want to change their gender identity without approval from the student amid a challenge against the Golden State’s ban on so-called forced outing of transgender students.
The court granted an emergency appeal from a conservative legal group, the Thomas More Society, blocking, at least for now, a state law that prohibited automatic parental notification requirements if students change their gender expression or pronouns at school.
The Thomas More Society praised the decision as «the most significant parental rights ruling in a generation.» Two sets of Catholic parents represented by the legal group argued that the state law, signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom in 2024, caused schools to mislead them and secretly facilitate the students’ gender transitions.
Two sets of Catholic parents argued that the state law, signed into law by Gov. Gavin Newsom in 2024, caused schools to mislead them and secretly facilitate the students’ gender transitions. (Sean Rayford/Getty Images)
But California contended that students have the right to privacy about their gender expression, particularly if they fear rejection from their families who may not support their decision to adopt a new gender identity. The state also said school policies and state law sought to balance student privacy with parental rights.
Last year, state education officials told school districts that the state’s policy «does not mandate nondisclosure.» Newsom’s office also previously said that «parents continue to have full, guaranteed access to their student’s education records as required by federal law.»
The Supreme Court sided with the parents on Monday and reinstated a lower-court order blocking the law and school policies while the case continues.
«The parents who assert a free exercise claim have sincere religious beliefs about sex and gender, and they feel a religious obligation to raise their children in accordance with those beliefs. California’s policies violate those beliefs,» the majority wrote in an unsigned order, adding that state policies also burden the free exercise of religion.

The Thomas More Society praised the decision as «the most significant parental rights ruling in a generation.» (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, File)
Conservative Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas also said they would have gone a step further and granted the teachers’ appeal to lift restrictions for them. The three liberal justices dissented, saying the case is still working its way through lower courts and there was no need to take action now.
«If nothing else, this Court owes it to a sovereign State to avoid throwing over its policies in a slapdash way, if the Court can provide normal procedures. And throwing over a State’s policy is what the Court does today,» Justice Elena Kagan wrote.
A federal judge ruled in December 2025 that schools cannot prevent teachers from sharing information about a student’s gender identity with their parents, but an appeals court blocked that ruling last month, leading the plaintiffs to ask the nation’s highest court to step in.
TRUMP ADMIN FINDS CALIFORNIA BAN ON NOTIFYING PARENTS OF GENDER TRANSITIONS VIOLATED FEDERAL LAW

The Supreme Court sided with the parents and reinstated a lower-court order blocking the law and school policies while the case continues. (OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images)
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The high court has been weighing whether to hear arguments in cases out of other states such as Massachusetts and Florida filed by parents who say schools facilitated gender transitions without notifying them.
The U.S. Department of Education also announced last month that the California law violates federal law. The findings of the federal investigation could put at risk the nearly $8 billion in education funding the federal government gives the state each year if state officials do not work with the Trump administration to resolve the violations.
The Trump administration is also pursuing legal action against California and threatening to withhold funding over a policy allowing biological males to compete in girls’ sports.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Iranian drone strikes shut down Qatar LNG production facilities, as energy prices surge

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Iranian drone strikes forced Qatar to halt liquefied natural gas (LNG) production Monday, jolting global energy markets and raising fears about supply disruptions as Tehran increased its attacks on regional infrastructure.
QatarEnergy, the state-owned giant and one of the world’s largest LNG producers, suspended operations at two facilities after drones launched from Iran hit the sites, according to reports.
Qatar’s Ministry of Defense also said in a statement, that two drones hit facilities in the country, though no casualties were reported.
The attacks also targeted a water tank at a power plant in Mesaieed and a key energy installation in Ras Laffan.
Qatar suspends liquefied natural gas operations after Iranian drones hit facilities.
Qatar’s Ras Laffan complex is the world’s largest LNG export facility, making it one of the most critical energy hubs in the world.
About 20% of global LNG trade transited the Strait of Hormuz in 2024, primarily from Qatar, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
Markets reacted Monday with Europe’s benchmark natural gas futures surging by the largest margin since the 2022 energy crisis triggered by the Ukraine war, Bloomberg reported.
GULF SHIPPING OPERATIONS GRIND TO HALT NEAR IRAN, US QUIETLY PREPARES FOR POSSIBLE STRIKE: ‘HEIGHTENED RISK’

People gather as smoke rises at the Industrial Area after reported Iranian missile attacks, following United States and Israel strikes on Iran, in Doha, Qatar, March 1, 2026. (REUTERS/Mohammed Salem)
Bloomberg also reported Dutch TTF natural gas prices rose by 50% after news of the shutdown. Asian LNG prices also recorded gains as traders tried to assess the scale and length of the disruption.
«The threat to security of supply is here and now,» Simone Tagliapietra, an analyst at Bruegel, told Bloomberg. «The extent of it will depend on the duration of the shutdown, but we are now into a new scenario.»
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In Saudi Arabia, another drone attack caused a fire at the kingdom’s Ras Tanura oil refinery, forcing a partial shutdown there as well.
Saudi authorities have not reported casualties, but the attack heightened fears of broader instability in the Gulf’s energy corridor, according to reports.
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