Over 10K ‘worst of the worst’ illegal immigrants arrested in sanctuary city Los Angeles

 More than 10,000 illegal immigrants — including suspected murderers, kidnappers, sexual predators and carjackers — have been arrested in Los Angeles since a federal crackdown was launched in June, the DHS said Thursday.

The operation is part of a calculated effort by the federal government to weed out “the worst of the worst” undocumented immigrants in cities across the country. 

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Ambartsoum Pogosium, a criminal illegal alien from Armenia, convicted of kidnapping, homicide, fraud, burglary, larceny, and forgery.Department of Homeland Security

Over the past six months, ICE officials, along with DHS and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), have carried out thousands of such arrests in the midst of a surge in protests throughout the city.

“This success of this operation is in spite of violent rioters who assaulted our law enforcement, threw rocks and Molotov cocktails at them, and attempted to obstruct lawful arrests of criminal illegal aliens,” the DHS said.

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More than 10,000 illegal immigrants — including suspected murderers, kidnappers and sexual predators — have been arrested in Los Angeles since a crackdown was launched in June.

Los Angeles, which operates as a sanctuary city under California law, has proposed measures in recent months to respond to the influx of ICE operations in the city — including legislation that would ban agents from wearing masks, a move aimed at preventing what critics say are “secret police” tactics.

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Rene Reyes-Miranda, a criminal illegal alien from Cuba, convicted of a sex offense against a child, sex offender registration violation, harassing communication, cocaine possession, robbery, burglary, larceny, probation violation, property crimes, possession of stolen property, and possession of burglary tools.Department of Homeland Security

“While ICE law enforcement officers face a 1,150% increase in assaults and an 8,000% increase in death threats, these Sanctuary politicians of Los Angeles County want to make it easier for violent political extremists to target our brave men and women,” DHS Assistant Secretary, Tricia McLaughlin, told The Post. 

DHS has released the names of ten “worst of the worst” offenders who were in the country illegally and booked on serious crimes, including rape, aggravated assault, armed carjacking, homicide, kidnapping, child sex offenses, attempted methamphetamine importation and aggravated sexual assault of a child.

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Juan Carlos Tamayo, a criminal illegal alien from Mexico, convicted of homicide, conspiracy to commit homicide, and multiple counts of attempted murder.Department of Homeland Security

“Some of the most heinous criminal illegal aliens arrested include murderers, kidnappers, sexual predators, and armed carjackers,” said McLaughlin. 

“Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass failed the people of California. They let these criminals roam free. Thanks to our brave law enforcement, California is safer with these thugs off their streets. Instead of thanking our law enforcement for removing criminals from their communities, Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass repeatedly demonized our brave law enforcement during these operations,” the DHS said in a statement. 

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DHS says the serious crimes include: rape, aggravated assault, armed carjacking, homicide, kidnapping, child sex offenses, attempted methamphetamine importation and aggravated sexual assault of a child.AP

In July, Newsom called on Trump to end the militarization of Los Angeles, siting the negative impacts of the raids on local communities. 

“Enough is enough – Stephen Miller and Trump’s chaos campaign needs to end now. They are violating constitutional rights, terrorizing neighborhoods and businesses, and targeting people because of their skin color and the language they speak. These heartless and cruel actions have real consequences for our economy and society,” Gov. Newsom said. 

https://nypost.com/2025/12/12/us-news/dhs-arrests-thousands-of-illegal-immigrants-in-los-angeles/

ICE posts about man accused of threatening federal agents online

 U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement released an image Friday showing a suspect accused of threatening federal agents being taken into custody by an officer from Homeland Security Investigations.

The agency said, “Threatening to assault, murder or interfere with a federal agent is a FELONY.”

“Logan Murfin of Tulsa, OK, has been charged with ten counts after posting on social media that federal agents need to be gunned down, shot & executed,” ICE wrote on X.

“Welcome to the find out stage, Logan,” it added.

The image shows Murfin being detained by a federal officer. In the background is a holiday decoration with the message “Season’s Greetings.”

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Oklahoma said Thursday that Murfin is charged with five counts of threatening to assault and murder federal law enforcement officers with intent to impede, intimidate, interfere and retaliate and five counts of interstate communication with a threat to injure.

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“Logan Murfin of Tulsa, OK, has been charged with ten counts after posting on social media that federal agents need to be gunned down, shot & executed,” ICE wrote on X.U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

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The agency said, “Threatening to assault, murder or interfere with a federal agent is a FELONY.”Adam Gray for New York Post

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Federal agents at the ICE facility in Broadview, IL, on October 9.Christopher Oquendo

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“According to court documents, Murfin knowingly posted several threatening and intimidating statements on social media advocating for the assault and murder of federal agents,” the U.S. Attorney’s Office said.William Farrington

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A law enforcement officer walks past ICE logo ahead of a press conference in 2017 at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement headquarters in Washington, DC.The Washington Post via Getty Images

“According to court documents, Murfin knowingly posted several threatening and intimidating statements on social media advocating for the assault and murder of federal agents,” the U.S. Attorney’s Office said.

“He stated that federal agents need to be gunned down, shot, and executed. Further, Murfin encouraged people to stay armed and to kill agents when seen because the agents don’t deserve to live,” it added.

https://nypost.com/2025/12/12/us-news/ice-posts-about-man-accused-of-threatening-federal-agents-online/

Democrats divide on homelessness — public safety vs. radical folly

 Democratic pols are knocking heads over homelessness: One approach to the problem reflects reality, and the other is sheer lunacy.

On the lunatic side, Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is vowing to let homeless encampments spill into every Gotham neighborhood.

And in Connecticut, Democratic state lawmakers are about to pass a law that will keep local officials from cracking down on living rough in parks or vehicles.

But Democrats with higher aspirations, like California’s Gov. Gavin Newsom and Boston’s Mayor Michelle Wu, are reading the political tea leaves — and distancing themselves as far as they can from such misplaced compassion.

After all, Americans favor clearing homeless encampments by nearly two to one, an August AP-NORC/Harris poll found.   

The general public has it right: Freezing to death, being murdered, or dying of an overdose on a urine-soaked mattress does not equal kindness.

And encampments pose an immediate risk to any person walking past one.

Nationwide, an alarming 13% of homeless people living on the streets are registered sex offenders — and in eight states more than half of them are.  

Nearly one-third of California’s homeless have done prison time for felonies.

“Hotbeds of crime,” is how Cicero Institute expert Devon Kurtz describes homeless encampments.

And for the occupants, they’re death camps.

Living unsheltered robs decades from an adult’s life: A 40-year-old living rough has the same life expectancy as the average housed 60-year-old, according to the National Bureau of Economic Research.  

Most die of drug overdoses, with trauma — including homicide — as the second most common cause of death.

The violence in encampments is staggering, with 38% of the homeless victimized by crime, according to research published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Since June 2024, when the US Supreme Court upheld the right of Grants Pass, Ore., to ban homeless encampments from town property, hundreds of cities across the country have adopted or strengthened local ordinances similar to the Grants Pass ban.

But the National Coalition for the Homeless still argues that people should be free to sleep rough any place they choose, and that it “strips a person of their dignity” to force them into a shelter — or even to send them to a designated camping site. 

That belligerent view tramples the public’s right to live in an orderly, clean, safe town.

Following the Grants Pass ruling, Democrats in Virginia, Illinois, Maryland and Connecticut started pushing Coalition for the Homeless-proposed legislation that bars towns and cities from banning sleeping rough and camping on public property.

So far no state has passed it, but Connecticut is getting close, poised to vote on a similar measure this spring, state Rep. Tony Scott told me.   

With a Democratic supermajority in the legislature, it’s likely to pass.

It will be the most radical homeless law in the country.

Connecticut’s bill will literally tie the hands of local officials, forcing them to allow camping in public parks and sleeping rough in vehicles.  

The state has already passed a law, signed by Gov. Ned Lamont two weeks ago, that will truck mobile showers and laundry facilities to encampments.

Connecticut today has one of the lowest homeless rates in the nation — but put out the welcome mat, and more will come.

Newsom has learned that painful lesson first-hand.

Half the unsheltered homeless population in the entire United States lives in California.   

Sprawling tent cities blight every region, from Los Angeles to the San Francisco Bay area and beyond.

In May, in the midst of a very public attempt to moderate his image, Newsom called on all municipalities in the state to outlaw camping on public property.

The guidelines he proposed would make it illegal to “sit, sleep or lie or camp on any public street, road or bike path or sidewalk”  — the polar opposite of what Democrats in Connecticut are doing.

Boston’s Wu is another ambitious Democrat rejecting the far left’s indulgence toward sleeping rough.

When she took office in 2021, the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue and Melnea Cass Boulevard (“Mass and Cass”) had become a spreading tent encampment and opiod overdose mecca.

By 2023, rising rates of stabbings, sex trafficking and assaults in the vicinity evoked an outcry, and forced her hand. 

She changed her policies, limiting the distribution of clean needles, clamping down on illegal drug use, and clearing tents.

That’s smart politics: 75% of Americans believe it’s more compassionate to require homeless individuals to move off the streets and into shelters, an October survey by the Cicero Institute found. 

Mamdani and the rest of the reality-deprived left plead for us to be “humane.” 

We all want that.

But there’s nothing humane about a hands-off policy that speeds mentally ill and drug-addicted people toward untimely deaths.  

Betsy McCaughey is a former lieutenant governor of New York.

https://nypost.com/2025/12/12/opinion/democrats-divide-on-homelessness-public-safety-vs-radical-folly/

Iran seizes foreign tanker in Gulf of Oman

 A foreign tanker was seized by Iran in the Gulf of Oman, Iranian state media IRIB reported Friday. The vessel was allegedly carrying 6 million liters of "smuggled diesel."

While no details on the origin of the vessel and its cargo have been disclosed so far, the move follows the United States' interception of an oil tanker off the Venezuelan coast yesterday that added more friction to the already-strained relationship between Washington and Caracas.

https://breakingthenews.net/Article/Iran-seizes-foreign-tanker-in-Gulf-of-Oman/65348107

US House likely to vote on healthcare bill next week

 The United States House of Representatives will vote on a healthcare bill next week, US media reported on Friday. The legislation, introduced by Republican Representative Mariannette Miller-Meeks, was published by House Speaker Mike Johnson (pictured) earlier today.

According to NBC News, the bill should include an amendment extending Obamacare subsidies, although no details are currently available. The subsidies were at the heart of a dispute between Democrats and Republicans earlier this year and triggered the longest government shutdown in US history when Democratic lawmakers refused to approve a funding bill unless it extended Obamacare coverage.

https://breakingthenews.net/Article/US-House-likely-to-vote-on-healthcare-bill-next-week/65348623