They are known for conducting sophisticated trade craft to conduct high end residential and business burglaries, as well as other property crimes that significantly impact communities and businesses across the United States. “He should be deported immediately. He should have never been anywhere around Iowa kids in the first place!” Rep. Ashley Hinson, R-Iowa, posted. “This is a crazy story!” retired Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department Chief Patrick Jordan posted.
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Greg Abbott, the governor of Texas, said the shooting would “not slow our arrest, detention, and deportation of illegal immigrants”. The deadly attack at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) field office in Dallas, Texas, is being investigated as an act of “targeted violence”. Calderas has expressed support for Homan in public comments and on social media. In 2019, Calderas publicly praised Homan on a LinkedIn profile bearing his name for “speaking truth to power” at a House Oversight hearing on the U.S. border. In the fall of 2024, Homan was running his own consulting firm to help contractors win border-related contracts and publicly touting that he would serve in a senior role carrying out Trump’s promised mass deportations if the GOP candidate won the election.
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- The victims were reportedly being led into a building to be processed and deported.
- And Trump is not a king,” Democratic leader Sen. Chuck Schumer said in a statement.
- Texas leads the nation in the number of people detained in ICE deportation sweeps, with 28,243 arrested from Jan. 20 through the end of July, and Dallas tops Texas with 10,901 ICE arrests, according to federal statistics compiled by independent researchers.
- “Incredible. An illegal alien with a deportation order managed to become the Superintendent of Schools for Des Moines, earning more than $300,000 a year,” Attorney Laura Powell posted to X.
An elderly Los Angeles-area car wash owner is suing federal immigration officials, alleging masked officers shoved him to the ground, dogpiled on top of him, and held him without charges or medical attention for 12 hours during a September immigration raid. The Mexican national worked at a car wash in the Los Angeles area for over 15 years, but was detained by federal agents on Aug. 17 during an immigration enforcement operation. Attorney’s Office had brought federal charges against 26 people for crimes including arson, assaulting a police officer and resisting arrest, according to a White House official speaking on the condition of anonymity. The shooting took place around 6.40 am at the Dallas Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office, a facility that is typically used to process illegal immigrants after they have been arrested and before they are transported to a long-term detention facility. On Friday, Roberts was arrested after allegedly driving away from law enforcement after “identifying himself” to them. He later abandoned his car in the woods, and Iowa State Patrol ended up finding him, according to a press release.
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Gov. Kim Reynolds called Roberts’ arrest by ICE “shocking, particularly his attempt to evade authorities, and the loaded gun, knife and large sum of cash found in his vehicle,” in a Sept. 27 news release. In May 2024, a court issued a “final order of removal” calling for the Guyana native’s deportation, a spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security. The shooting at an ICE field office bears the hallmarks of a politically motivated attack.
One home is located in Fairview, Texas in Collin County and the other is in Durant, Oklahoma. Jim Kelly, a 39-year-old Windsor Heights resident, said he was skeptical of ICE agents’ justification for detaining Roberts and had little trust in the information federal officials issued “because they lie all the time, in my view.” She said she and others are frustrated at how federal officials were focusing on ICE agents being targeted and seemingly overlooking the threat to detainees. In the latest incident, a 32-year-old Chinese citizen died on Aug. 5 while at an ICE processing center in Philipsburg, Penn.
The move follows weeks of protests outside ICE’s field office in South Portland opposing Trump’s mass deportations of undocumented immigrants. Some of those protests have turned combative with law enforcement, resulting in tear gas being deployed by officials. Ten people face charges, including attempted murder of an officer, after a Fourth of July ambush at an ICE detention center in Alvarado left a police officer wounded. Law enforcement officials provided few details about the shooter or the victims and took no questions at a brief press conference on Wednesday morning, just as Patel turned to social media to post the image of the casings. She said Roberts abandoned his car and fled from police on Friday, and was allegedly in possession of a loaded handgun, a large amount of cash and a hunting knife.
- “I think it’s a tragedy that we don’t know anything about the families of the victims,” said Rochelle Garza, president of the Texas Civil Rights Project.
- “I hold President Trump and Iowa’s delegation — Congressman Zach Nunn, Senator Chuck Grassley, and Senator Joni Ernst — directly responsible for this action. Their silence or complicity will not go unnoticed. If they have any shred of leadership, they must intervene immediately.”
- Ismael Ayala-Uribe, 39, was arrested by ICE agents on Aug. 17 during an enforcement operation, said a news release from ICE.
- Immigration and Customs Enforcement hasn’t publicly released the names of the victims.
Calderas, a former border agent and Immigration and Customs Enforcement official, could stand to benefit from his longstanding ties to Homan as CEO of the San Antonio-based XFed. Sources familiar with the probe told MSNBC that the FBI felt duty-bound to begin investigating Homan after Calderas told agents in an unrelated investigation that Homan was willing to influence which companies would win federal contracts in a second Trump administration in exchange for money. Calderas, co-owner of a detention services and government contracting firm in Texas, first allegedly proposed the scheme in May 2023. He held several subsequent conversations with the agents about his cash-for-contracts proposal, culminating in a Sept. 20, 2024, meeting in Dallas at which agents recorded Homan accepting $50,000 in cash, according to the document and sources.
Texas leads the nation in the number of people detained in ICE deportation sweeps, with 28,243 arrested from Jan. 20 through the end of July, and Dallas tops Texas with 10,901 ICE arrests, according to federal statistics compiled by independent researchers. Without the call, the district might have waited hours before it knew something was wrong, he said. “Our elected officials need to behave like role models for our children,” Norris said. “Enough with the name-calling and misinformation that is meant to divide us. We are talking about human beings. Our kids are watching. They are online 24/7 on social media and phones, and what they see right now is likely very difficult for them to process.” Employers, including DMPS, must verify employment eligibility, district officials said.
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Benjamin Song, an FBI Most Wanted suspect believed to have attempted to murder three officers at an ICE detention facility in Alvarado on July 4, has been arrested. Dr. Ian Roberts served as the Chief Schools Officer of Aspire Public Schools, a system of public charter schools, according to the Millcreek Township School District news release issued when he was announced as superintendent there. His district for Aspire included schools in Los Angeles, the Bay Area, the Central Valley, and Memphis. In a post on the social media site X, the Department of Homeland Security blamed “the shameful rhetoric from activists, sanctuary politicians and the media” for fueling “a culture of hate against law enforcement. The names of three victims shot by a sniper at a Dallas ICE field office have been identified to USA TODAY by a senior Department of Homeland Security official who spoke on condition of anonymity.
They did not want to make any official statements after Monday’s arraignment but questioned why the hearings were taking place 11 weeks after the arrests. Gun control advocate Fred Guttenberg, whose daughter died in the Parkland school shooting, agreed. With an $8 billion annual budget, the agency focuses on three operational directorates, according to ICE’s website. They include Homeland Security Investigations, Enforcement and Removal Operations, and the Office of the Principal Legal Advisor. Roberts made national headlines when he raced against Des Moines elementary students in 2024, as part of a school raffle, in his classic suit, bowtie and Nike Air Force One tennis shoes. Ian Roberts, the superintendent of Des Moines Public Schools, was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Friday, Sept. 26.
“While the investigation is ongoing, an initial review of the evidence shows an ideological motive behind this attack (see photo below). One of the unspent shell casings recovered was engraved with the phrase “ANTI ICE.” More updates will be forthcoming,” he wrote. FBI Director Kash Patel has come under fire after he rushed to post a contentious image of an unused “anti-ICE” bullet casing recovered at the scene of a deadly shooting in Texas. He previously served as a school principal and principal-supervisor in Baltimore City, Washington, D.C., and the South Bronx, New York, the release said.
Rep. Luz Rivas of California was among the group and in a statement said “the conditions we saw inside the Adelanto ICE Detention Center prove that Donald Trump’s policies are putting our most vulnerable in harm’s way.” Since the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, Trump has blamed the “radical left” for the country’s problems with political violence. In a memo Sept. 25, ordering a crackdown on alleged “organized political violence,” Trump wrote that “riots” in Portland and Los Angeles have resulted in a significant increase in attacks on ICE agents. The protests outside the ICE facility in Portland have occasionally been violent, but have largely been peaceful, beyond causing tension between residents and federal officials.
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“Everything the district has on file indicates that Dr. Roberts affirmed that he was a citizen who was eligible to work in the school district,” Norris said. It said the initiatives involved in the investment — including a new $5.8 billion steel plant in Louisiana, expanded U.S. auto production capacity and a state-of-the-art robotics facility — were expected to create about 25,000 new direct jobs in the U.S. over the next four years. A worker who was there but whose name is being withheld told NBC News that agents came late Thursday morning and asked everyone on the premises whether they were U.S. citizens. He “fired indiscriminately at the ICE building, including at a van in the sallyport where the victims were shot”, according to the DHS.
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Miguel Angel Garcia-Hernandez was already known to be a victim injured in the shooting, ice breakers for virtual meetings and was also included in Saturday’s release. McKinley said she sees how much representation matters to her students and felt Roberts’ leadership of the district, as a Black man, was important for students to see. “This is very emotional for me, because it’s close to home, to my community, to all the immigrants here in Iowa,” San Elias said.
From January to March of 2023, the school board worked with the consulting firm to determine the qualifications of candidates fit for the position, Norris said. Des Moines school board Chair Jackie Norris said Roberts’ arrest came as a shock to board members, who were not aware of any citizenship issues facing Roberts. NBC affiliate WSAV of Savannah reported that hundreds of undercover law enforcement vehicles and Humvees were reportedly seen at the scene. In some instances, agents can be seen asking workers questions and searching their bags. Embassy over an immigration raid on a Hyundai facility in Georgia during which it said “many” South Korean nationals had been detained. The victims were being led into the building to be processed and repatriated, Fox News reported, citing Dallas police Department sources.
