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Wave of car attacks on ICE agents follows incendiary rhetoric from target-city leaders
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A surge in car-rammings and other assaults on Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents during targeted operations in California, Illinois and North Carolina has coincided with sharp criticism from local and state leaders against federal officers.
Earlier this week, the Department of Homeland Security reported a 1,300% increase in vehicular attacks on ICE since President Donald Trump took office, and a 58% spike against CBP officers in that same time period.
There were only two vehicular rammings of ICE agents – in particular – during former President Joe Biden’s final year in office. His administration also did not conduct fervent, targeted immigration raids at the same scale or frequency, according to reports.
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In comments to Fox News Digital on Friday, Assistant DHS Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said:
«Since January 20, there have been 99 vehicle attacks against DHS law enforcement, a 1,000% increase in assaults against them, and an 8,000% increase in death threats to ICE officers. Make no mistake: The uptick in these kinds of attacks is being fueled by the constant demonization of ICE and CBP officers by Democrat politicians. They need to knock it off before they get one of our officers killed.»
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, whose city was targeted second after Los Angeles, has repeatedly labeled Trump a racist and characterized ICE agents as terrorists.
As recently as this week, Johnson told a podcast – in a report aired by Sky News – that «attacks» on illegal immigrants and targets of the Trump administration have the same characteristics as the priorities of antebellum freedmen.
«We know that the intentional attacks that are coming from the Trump administration and the extreme right in this country has very much been what I call an attempt to relitigate the Civil War,» Johnson said.
«They have not accepted the results that the North actually won.»
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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents clashed with protesters in San Francisco, Calif. on Tuesday, July 8. (United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement via X)
Johnson said that Trump is also politically targeting education, housing, transportation, jobs and health care – which he said were «literally the five demands of descendants of slaves.»
During the Civil War, however, the Confederacy was led largely by Democrats of that era, including President Jefferson Davis, Vice President Alexander Stephens and officers like Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, who later became the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.
During the heat of immigration enforcement operations in Chicago, Johnson railed against the missions, describing scenes from the streets as «what terrorism looks like.»
Johnson also set up what he called «ICE-free zones» and in one instance, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem was denied the use of a restroom at the Broadview, Ill., city hall just outside Chicago proper.
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Noem blamed Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker for the conditions that led to the incident, saying it is an example of how the Democrat «and his cronies treat our law enforcement — Absolutely shameful.»
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass also spoke out during ICE operations in her city, saying, «These tactics sow terror in our communities.»
Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., was caught on video shouting questions at Noem during a press conference.
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Noem later claimed Padilla «lunged» at her, which resulted in various analyses of video of the confrontation.
Padilla was quickly tackled by Noem’s security detail, and later commented on the incident, saying that if his treatment is how the Trump administration deals with a «senator with a question… you can only imagine what they’re doing to farmworkers» on the immigration enforcement front.
California Attorney General Robert Bonta publicly called the actions of ICE and CBP during its Los Angeles operations «part of a cruel and familiar patter of attacks on our immigrant communities by an administration that thrives on fear and division.»
«We won’t be silent. We won’t back down. We will continue to hold the federal government accountable when it violates the Constitution and federal law,» Bonta said in a July 7 statement.
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On Friday, DHS announced another arrest of a car-ramming suspect, with officials alleging Mexican national Roberto Galeana-Guatemala struck and seriously injured an officer with his vehicle when ICE was attempting to arrest him in National City, California.
Galeana-Guatemala was charged Friday with the assault as well as one count of being a removed alien who again entered the U.S. illegally.
McLaughlin said the incident marked roughly the 100th vehicle attack on ICE personnel since Trump took office.
After a recent case in which critics claimed DHS «kidnapped» a teenager, McLaughlin said the boy had been part of a group throwing rocks at officers who themselves were targets of another vehicle ramming attack.
She suggested rhetoric from critics over the incident was yet another accelerant on the political fire causing such attacks:
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«A U.S. teenager was arrested for assaulting law enforcement in Chicago—any claims that CBP ‘kidnapped’ a U.S. citizen and held him in a warehouse are bizarre and categorically false,» she said.
«These are more disgusting smears peddled by the media and billboard law firms. This attack is not an isolated incident, and it reflects a growing and dangerous trend of illegal aliens violently resisting arrest, and agitators and criminals ramming cars into our law enforcement officers.»
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Senate Republicans gained a key ally in their quest to enshrine voter ID into law, but the lawmaker’s support comes with a condition.
A trio of lawmakers, led by Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, have undertaken a campaign to convince their colleagues to support the Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act, working social media and closed-door meetings to secure the votes.
The campaign has proven successful, with the cohort gaining a crucial vote from Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, who announced that she would back the SAVE America Act, which recently passed the House. With Collins, Senate Republicans have at least a slim majority backing the act.
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Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, announced her support for the SAVE America Act, but won’t go as far as to nuke the Senate filibuster. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
«I support the version of the SAVE America Act that recently passed the House,» Collins said in a statement first reported by the Maine Wire. «The law is clear that in this country only American citizens are eligible to vote in federal elections.»
«In addition, having people provide an ID at the polls, just as they have to do before boarding an airplane, checking into a hotel, or buying an alcoholic beverage, is a simple reform that will improve the security of our federal elections and will help give people more confidence in the results,» she continued.
Collins noted that she did not support the previous version of the bill, known simply as the SAVE Act, because it «would have required people to prove their citizenship every single time they cast a ballot.»
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Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, is leading the push in the Senate to pass voter ID legislation, and pitching multiple paths that Republicans could take to do it. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
Her decision gives Lee and Senate Republicans the votes needed to clear a key procedural hurdle in the Senate.
«We now have enough votes to pass a motion to proceed to the House-passed bill — even without any additional votes — with Vice President JD Vance breaking the tie,» Lee said in a post on X.
That tie-breaking scenario would only present itself if Republicans turn to the standing, or talking, filibuster. It’s a move that Lee has been pushing his colleagues to make, and one that would require actual, physical debate over the bill.
It’s the precursor to the current version of the filibuster, where the only hill lawmakers have to climb is acquiring 60 votes. Lee and other conservatives believe that if they turn to the standing filibuster, rather than the «zombie filibuster,» they can barrel through Democratic resistance.
But some fear that turning to that tool could paralyze the Senate floor for weeks or even months, depending on Senate Democrats’ resolve.
And Collins’ support is not enough to smash through the 60-vote Senate filibuster.
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Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., supports voter ID laws, but acknowledged that there aren’t the votes in the Senate to nuke the filibuster to pass it. (Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Complicating matters, Collins made clear that she does not support doing away with the filibuster, as do several other Senate Republicans, including Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., who reiterated earlier this week that the GOP doesn’t have the votes to eliminate the legislative tool.
«I oppose eliminating the legislative filibuster,» Collins said. «The filibuster is an important protection for the rights of the minority party that requires Senators to work together in the best interest of the country.»
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«Removing that protection would, for example, allow a future Congress controlled by Democrats to pass provisions on anything they want — D.C. statehood, open borders, or packing the Supreme Court — with just a simple majority of Senators,» she continued.
GOP senators Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, and Lisa Murkowski, of Alaska, remain the only Republicans who have not pledged support for the SAVE Act.
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Alexei Navalny was murdered by Russia with a type of frog poison, the governments of the United Kingdom, Sweden, France, Germany and The Netherlands have concluded.
In a joint statement on Saturday, the NATO countries said they were «confident» the Russian dissident had been poisoned by the Russian government with a «lethal toxin» known as epibatidine, which is found in South American poison dart frogs. The frogs aren’t native to Russia.
«Russia claimed that Navalny died of natural causes. But given the toxicity of epibatidine and reported symptoms, poisoning was highly likely the cause of his death,» the countries wrote. «Navalny died while held in prison, meaning Russia had the means, motive and opportunity to administer this poison to him.»
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Alexei Navalny was murdered by Russia with a type of frog poison, the governments of the United Kingdom, Sweden, France, Germany and The Netherlands have concluded. (Sefa Karacan/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
The conclusion was made based on samples taken from Navalny’s body.
Navalny, one of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most powerful opponents, died in a Russian prison in Siberia in 2024 after he decided to go back to his home country in 2021.
Navalny was immediately detained upon his return to his home country on charges that included fraud and contempt of court that were widely considered to be politically motivated.
Russia has been accused by several European countries of poisoning Alexei Navalny to death. (Kremlin Press Office / Handout/Anadolu via Getty Images)
The activist was famously brought to a German hospital in 2020 to recover after Western powers, including the U.S., accused Russia of poisoning him with a nerve agent known as novichok that was developed by the Soviet Union.
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Alexei Navalny after an arrest in Russia in 2017. (Kirill Kudryavtsev/ AFP via Getty Images)
«Russia’s repeated disregard for international law and the Chemical Weapons Convention is clear,» the statement said, adding that Russia was also widely believed to have used novichok in England in 2018, leading to the death of a British woman named Dawn Sturgess.
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«These latest findings once again underline the need to hold Russia accountable for its repeated violations of the Chemical Weapons Convention and, in this instance, the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention,» the statement said.
Alexei Navalny with his wife Yulia in 2018. (Sefa Karacan/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
The countries added that they had written to the director general of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons to «inform him of this Russian breach of the Chemical Weapons Convention.»
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Siguen avanzando las obras de ampliación y pavimentación de la carretera Litoral en El Salvador
La ampliación y modernización de la carretera Litoral, uno de los principales ejes viales de El Salvador, continúa su marcha con un avance significativo en el tramo que conecta la playa El Obispo con El Zonte, en el departamento de La Libertad. Este proyecto, impulsado por el gobierno a través del Ministerio de Obras Públicas (MOP), representa una de las inversiones más relevantes en infraestructura vial de los últimos años, con el objetivo de mejorar la conectividad, agilizar el tránsito y potenciar el desarrollo turístico de la zona costera.
El MOP ya ha confirmado que los trabajos de ampliación del tramo de 23 kilómetros entre playa El Obispo y playa El Zonte iniciaron en febrero de 2024. La intervención contempla el ensanchamiento de la vía de dos a cuatro carriles y diferentes plantas de tratamiento de aguas residuales, en coordinación con la Administración Nacional de Acueductos y Alcantarillados (ANDA). Estas obras buscan no solo mejorar la circulación y la seguridad vial, sino también reducir la contaminación de los ríos que desembocan en las playas, fortaleciendo así la oferta turística de La Libertad.
El proyecto tendrá un impacto directo en más de 40,000 conductores que utilizan a diario este corredor, además de mejorar la calidad de vida de los habitantes de la zona. La obra se ejecuta en tres fases: la primera cubre el tramo desde El Obispo hasta el redondel Conchalío; las siguientes etapas avanzan hasta El Zonte.
Además, el plan integral incluye la instalación de cableado subterráneo en la ciudad de La Libertad, la habilitación de espacios públicos y la construcción de miradores a lo largo de la carretera, elementos que forman parte de la estrategia Surf City Fase 2, orientada a consolidar la franja costera como un destino turístico de referencia internacional.
Las tareas más recientes, divulgadas esta semana por el MOP en sus cuentas oficiales, muestran cuadrillas de trabajadores desplegadas a lo largo de distintos segmentos del tramo El Obispo-El Zonte, realizando labores de pavimentación con concreto hidráulico. Las imágenes publicadas ilustran el vertido y extendido del concreto, la utilización de maquinaria especializada y la presencia de operarios con indumentaria de seguridad sobre la vía.
También se observan obras de drenaje y adecuaciones en los márgenes de la carretera, así como la circulación de vehículos pesados y la convivencia con el tránsito local, lo que evidencia la magnitud y complejidad logísticas del proyecto.
Según el ministro Romeo Rodríguez, este tipo de intervenciones no solo buscan aliviar la congestión vehicular en temporadas de alta afluencia hacia las playas, sino también garantizar la durabilidad y resistencia de la infraestructura ante condiciones climáticas adversas.
La elección del concreto hidráulico responde a criterios de sostenibilidad y menor mantenimiento a largo plazo. “Con estos trabajos se busca reducir la contaminación de los ríos que desembocan en las playas y potenciar el desarrollo turístico”, declaró Rodríguez en una reciente entrevista.
El gobierno prevé que la finalización de la ampliación de la carretera Litoral y las obras complementarias generen un efecto multiplicador en la economía local. El mejoramiento de la vía facilitará el acceso a las playas, reducirá los tiempos de traslado y fortalecerá la seguridad vial para residentes, turistas y transportistas. De este modo, el corredor costero se consolida como un motor clave para el desarrollo de El Salvador, alineado con la visión de modernización y competitividad internacional impulsada por la administración actual.
De forma paralela, el MOP continúa avanzando en otras obras estratégicas, como la construcción del viaducto Francisco Morazán y la ampliación en la carretera Panamericana, en el tramo Los Chorros, y proyectos que suman una inversión total de más de $372 millones y que forman parte de la agenda nacional de infraestructura. El propio Rodríguez resaltó que “la mayor parte de la ampliación de la autopista será visible este año”, proyectando que los trabajos principales finalizarán en 2026.
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