Critics of President Donald Trump’s administration accused Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers of dragging an American citizen with no criminal history from his home over the weekend.

Videos circulated on social media of a raid in St. Paul, Minnesota, on Sunday, appearing to show federal agents escorting an elderly man from his home, through the snow, and into a federal vehicle. The handcuffed man was wearing only shorts and Crocs, with a blanket draped over his shoulders.

‘Both of these sexual predators remain AT LARGE in St. Paul.’

Reuters reported that his family requested a Hmong interpreter.

“Marching half-naked elderly people out into the snow, your tax dollars at work,” columnist Jill Filipovic wrote.

Political commentator Ed Krassenstein called the Trump administration “disgusting,” adding that the man detained by federal agents was a “U.S. citizen with no criminal record.”

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“Armed ICE agents broke down the door without presenting a valid warrant, entered with guns drawn, and handcuffed him in front of his 5-year-old grandson, who was left crying and traumatized,” Krassenstein said.

“ICE then drove him around for nearly an hour, questioned and fingerprinted him, confirmed he was a citizen and not the person they were looking for… and dropped him back at home. No apology. No explanation. No accountability.”

DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin described Krassenstein’s post as “fear mongering,” explaining that ICE was attempting to arrest two convicted sex offenders.

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“One of the criminal targets had convictions for sex with a minor and sexual assault. The other target had convictions for sex assault with penetration in the first degree, domestic violence, and violating a protective order. Both also have convictions for failure to register as sex offenders. They both have final orders of removal from an immigration judge,” McLaughlin wrote.

“The US citizen,” McLaughlin continued, presumably referring to the man detained in the video, “lives with these two convicted sex offenders at the site of the operation.”

“The individual refused to be fingerprinted or facially ID’d. He matched the description of the targets. As with any law enforcement agency, it is standard protocol to hold all individuals in a house of an operation for safety of the public and law enforcement,” McLaughlin added. “Both of these sexual predators remain AT LARGE in St. Paul. We will be providing the public with photos and descriptors to help us locate and apprehend these public safety threats.”

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When it comes to his role in Indiana’s unlikely rise to the top of college football, Hoosier quarterback Fernando Mendoza knows just who to thank: “the man upstairs.”

“I really give a lot that I have accomplished this season in my life to the Lord and really give thanks to God. … Give all the glory to God,” Mendoza told reporters ahead of tonight’s 2026 National Championship against the University of Miami.

‘I really give a lot that I have accomplished this season in my life to the Lord.’

Team effort

At the press conference Saturday, the recent Indiana University transfer stressed that his success was a team effort — a team that includes the priests at his Catholic parish in Bloomington.

“I’m a Catholic man,” Mendonza told reporters. “And they’ve done so much to help me, whether it’s confession or just [being] able to talk or just Mass every Sunday.”

This is not the first time Mendoza has credited the men of the St. Paul Catholic Center.

Christmas gift

On Christmas Eve, the 22-year-old brought them his 2025 Heisman Trophy. Mendoza won the award — which honors the nation’s top college football player — on December 15, thanks in part to the 41 touchdown passes he threw for the Hoosiers this season.

Recalling the moment, Mendoza said, “I think it was really important to take it over [to] those guys, especially those guys who have been great religious mentors to myself.”

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Chasing a dream

In his Heisman acceptance speech, Mendoza thanked God for giving him “the opportunity to chase a dream that once felt the world away” and vowed to live up to the honor.

Mendoza, who attends Mass weekly and says he prays before every game, also thanked his younger brother Alberto, currently Indiana’s backup quarterback. Calling Alberto his “lifelong teammate,” Mendoza described him as the one person he could trust to “get through a tough day, tough play, [or] tough game.”

“I love you, bro. I love you and thank you for always giving it to me straight no matter the circumstance.”

The NCAA national football championship airs from Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida, at 7:30 p.m. ET on ESPN.

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BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales has been sounding the alarm on the Islamification of the United States — the deliberate plan to replace traditional American culture, laws, and national identity with Islamic values, cultural practices, and Sharia-influenced demands — but she fears people aren’t taking the threat seriously enough.

On this episode of “Sara Gonzales Unfiltered,” Sara shares three personal experiences that make it clear just how far the plan to Islamify America is already underway.

#1: Meta banned Sara’s anti-Sharia ad

Sara is the vice president of Texas Family Project, a conservative advocacy organization dedicated to strengthening the state of Texas by prioritizing parental rights, protecting the innocence of children, and reforming how the state government and its institutions view families.

When TFP recently tried to purchase an ad from Meta (Facebook and Instagram), it was denied.

The ad simply stated: “Sharia has no place in Texas.”

“[Sharia law] is incompatible with this country … the Constitution … the laws in the state of Texas,” says Sara. “That should be something very simple and noncontroversial. We’re not saying ‘get out if you’re brown. Get out if you’re Islamic. Get out if you’re Muslim.”’

Even still, Meta rejected TFP’s ad request with a message stating, “Your ad contains content that is not allowed on Meta’s advertising platforms.”

“You’re not allowed now to say on Facebook, on Meta, that Sharia law has no place in this country, in the state of Texas. That’s how far we’re in with this whole Islam thing,” says Sara.

#2: Dallas suburbs turning into foreign enclaves

“The Texas Muslim population is approximately half a million people. By the way, these are conservative estimates … but just know I believe it’s far larger, far larger,” says Sara.

“I walk around in the DFW suburbs — Plano, Richardson, Irving, Carrollton. I don’t see anyone like me,” she adds.

“I don’t want that to sound like, ‘Oh, if they have a different color skin, they can’t be here.’ No — it’s just like they’re speaking different languages; they’re wearing clothing that we don’t wear here in America.”

On top of these huge cultural differences, Sara’s experience with these foreign-born Texans hasn’t exactly been up to the Lone Star State’s hospitality standards.

“They have no intention of speaking to me or becoming friendly with me. That is very clear,” she says.

#3: Public school sending multi-language ‘holiday’ emails

Sara displays an email about a “holiday party” from a large public school in the DFW metroplex. As you can see in the tweet below, the message is available in multiple languages, including Farsi, Urdu, Arabic, Pashto, and Spanish.

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“They couldn’t call it the ‘Christmas party’ … [and] why do we need that many translations for a school newsletter in America?” scoffs Sara.

“How is this Texas? How is this America?”

While the examples above are personal to Sara, her list of ways Texas is rapidly changing under Islamic influence goes on and on. To hear more about the dangers Texans — and Americans at large — face as the country becomes increasingly inhabited by people whose religious doctrine commands them to kill anyone who refuses to convert, watch the full episode above.

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The Minnesota Nurses Association asked members to join an “economic blackout” and rally to show opposition to Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations in the state.

A statement posted on the MNA website said the organization represents nurses and other health care workers, including “many who are immigrants or have immigrant loved ones directly impacted by ICE enforcement.” They also expressed concern for “mixed-status families” who are patients in the health care system.

‘ICE should be investigated for human and constitutional violations of Americans and our neighbors.’

The statement emphasized, however, that the MNA was not calling for a walkout or work stoppage. An economic blackout means participants cease making purchases in an attempt to force political action through economic pressure.

The Trump administration ordered a surge in federal troops to the Minneapolis-St. Paul region of Minnesota in December after continuing evidence of government relief and welfare fraud in the Somali community.

Many on the left have accused the administration of being motivated by racism by focusing on fraud committed by some in the ethnic group.

The MNA listed the demands of the anti-ICE demonstration that it supports. Organizers called for ICE to leave Minnesota immediately and for the officer who shot and killed activist Renee Good to be “held legally accountable.” They also said no “additional federal funding” should be added to the upcoming congressional budget.

“ICE should be investigated for human and constitutional violations of Americans and our neighbors,” they added.

“As nurses, we cannot be absent when fear is driving people away from care and tearing families apart,” said MNA President Chris Rubesch. “Participation in this day is about standing with our patients, our co-workers, and our communities.”

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President Donald Trump issued his criticism of the Somali community on social media on Thanksgiving Day.

“Hundreds of thousands of refugees from Somalia are completely taking over the once great State of Minnesota,” the president wrote. “Somalian gangs are roving the streets looking for ‘prey’ as our wonderful people stay locked in their apartments and houses hoping against hope that they will be left alone.”

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The administration of the newly inaugurated New York City mayor was rocked by yet another controversy over bigoted posts on social media that were later deleted.

Afua Atta-Mensah ridiculed liberal white women in the posts on the X platform before being named the chief equity officer of the city by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

‘The anti-white racism of Mamdani’s inner circle will be on full display for all New York to see.’

“There is no one I trust more to advance racial equity across our work in City Hall,” Mamdani said about Atta-Mensah when he appointed her to the office.

The social media posts were unearthed by the New York Young Republican Club, according to the New York Post.

In one post, she wrote emphatically, “Tax them to the white meat!” in reference to a show about wealthy people.

In another post from 2020, she reposted a message reading, “There’s NO moderate way to Black liberation,” and added a comment in approval.

She also criticized white liberals and white women in some posts, including one that responded positively to the statement, “we don’t talk about white liberal racism enough.” She replied, “Facts! It would need to be a series of loooooonnnnnnnggggg conversations.”

In another, in response to the question, “Who’s not police but FEELS like police to you?” she wrote, “White women at nonprofit organizations.”

Mamdani named Atta-Mensah to the equity office on Thursday before the NYYR released screenshots of the posts that were apparently deleted soon after her elevation.

“We have the receipts and we are here to win,” reads a statement from the NYYRC. “These tweets by Afua Atta-Mensah are just the tip of the iceberg and New York is not going down without a fight. The anti-white racism of Mamdani’s inner circle will be on full display for all New York to see.”

Although Mamdani has only been in office for less than three weeks, a number of members of his team have been found to have issued extremist statements.

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Mamdani’s housing czar had issued many statements advocating for the state to take control of housing while calling homeownership a tool of “white supremacy.”

Another aide had advocated for the abolition of police, while yet another said that real terrorism comes from capitalism and their pawns.

The Post said City Hall did not respond to requests for comment about its equity director.

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Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) pledged that if he were elected California governor this November, he would revoke the state driver’s licenses of federal immigration agents.

Swalwell attended the Empowerment Congress California Governor Forum on Saturday, during which he gave a speech.

‘Rep. Eric Swalwell’s vowing to strip ICE law enforcement officers of their driver’s licenses for wearing masks is disgusting.’

He vowed to “always be on offense on behalf of Californians,” in part, by taking drastic action against Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers and agents who wear masks.

“They’re going to lose their immunity. They’re not going to be able to drive. I will take your driver’s license. Good luck walking to work, a**holes,” Swalwell stated, referring to ICE officers. “Also I will direct law enforcement to use every power to prosecute them for battery, false imprisonment, and murder.”

Swalwell shared a clip of his comments on X, writing, “ICE, do I have your attention yet?”

“Rep. Eric Swalwell’s vowing to strip ICE law enforcement officers of their driver’s licenses for wearing masks is disgusting,” Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “Our officers wear masks to protect themselves from being doxxed and targeted by known and suspected terrorist sympathizers. Not only is ICE law enforcement facing a more than 1,300% increase in assaults against them, but we’ve also seen thugs launch websites to reveal officers’ identity.”

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While Swalwell promised to pull driver’s licenses from American federal law enforcement agents, the state’s laws allow for illegal aliens to obtain driver’s licenses. Earlier this month, the Department of Transportation announced that it would withhold $160 million from California for failing to cancel more than 17,000 allegedly illegally issued non-domiciled commercial driver’s licenses to foreign nationals.

Meanwhile Swalwell’s eligibility to run for California governor is facing scrutiny.

Journalist and filmmaker Joel Gilbert filed a complaint claiming that Swalwell lives in Washington, D.C., thereby prohibiting him from running for governor in California.

“Public records searches reveal no current ownership or leasehold interest held by Eric Swalwell in California, nor any history of any ownership of leasehold interest based on available public records,” Gilbert’s court complaint read. “Swalwell’s congressional financial [disclosures] from 2011 to 2024 list no California real estate ownership.”

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Gilbert accused Swalwell of listing the office of his California-based lawyer as his residence in his campaign filing.

“Either he’s guilty of mortgage fraud in Washington, D.C., or he’s ineligible to run for governor of California,” Gilbert told the Daily Mail. “He can’t have it both ways.”

“This made me laugh,” Swalwell replied. “Like all Congressmen from CA, I live in CA & DC.”

Swalwell described Gilbert as a “MAGA idiot,” adding that he plans to “beat him in court.”

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