Date: November 22, 2024
Host: Jim Schneider
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From Trump’s latest administration picks to the latest on the immigration battle; those stories and more were covered on this News Round-Up & Comment broadcast.
–Embattled former Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz withdrew his name from consideration for attorney general yesterday saying he was becoming a distraction to President-elect Trump’s transition.
–Gaetz said Friday he will not be returning to Congress next year.
–President-elect Trump wasted little time in picking former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi as his next pick for attorney general after Representative Matt Gaetz dropped out.
–Jose Ibarra, the illegal immigrant from Venezuela, has been convicted of murder and sent to prison without opportunity for parole in the February killing of Georgia nursing student Laken Riley.
–The district attorney who declined to seek the death penalty for Jose Ibarra is a criminal justice activist and outspoken Kamala Harris supporter.
–The Biden administration is loosening some key immigration restrictions ahead of President-elect Trump’s second term, opening the door for thousands more illegal immigrants to enter the U.S.
–The Democrat Denver Mayor Mike Johnston has vowed that the city’s police and population would resist President-elect Donald Trump’s deportation agenda, comparing Trump and federal deportations to the Chinese Communist Party.
–Democratic New York Governor Kathy Hochul blasted the Biden administration for reducing office hours at 4 northern border crossings amid an ongoing surge of immigration.
–President-elect Donald Trump will be doing away with the politically correct term “undocumented non-citizen” and returning to the phrase “illegal alien” to describe people who have illegally entered the U.S.
–Sex traffickers may be using a Biden administration parole program to sneak illegal immigrant women into the U.S.
–Retired Border Patrol agent J.J. Carrell told members of Congress that the U.S. federal government is the world’s largest sex trafficking organization in modern history for children.
–The vicious Venezuelan prison gang known as Tren de Aragua has expanded its territory to at least 16 U.S. states.
–Another large migrant caravan departed from Southern Mexico with the goal of entering the U.S. before President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration.
–The Los Angeles City Council approved a so-called “sanctuary city” ordinance that bars city resources from being used for immigration enforcement and city departments from sharing information on people without legal status with federal immigration authorities, in anticipation of potential mass deportations under President-elect Donald Trump.
