MSNBC host Symone Sanders-Townsend warned on Saturday that “people of color” will be “next” after the Trump administration deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
Abrego Garcia, a 29-year-old illegal immigrant living in Maryland, was deported to the El Salvadoran megaprison “Terrorism Confinement Center” (CECOT) last month, and officials acknowledged in court his deportation was an administrative error, although now some top Trump officials say he was correctly removed and contend he’s a member of the notorious MS-13 gang, which Abrego Garcia’s attorneys deny.
MSNBC’s Symone Sanders Townsend claims the Trump admin could target black American citizens for deportation:
“If they can snatch students off the street without any pushback or recourse. They will do it to any of us. And to be very clear it’s going to be the people of color.” pic.twitter.com/6VP3gicrVm
On “The Weekend” Saturday, Sanders-Townsend discussed Abrego Garcia’s case with her guests, Michael Steele and Rep. Glen Ivey, D-Md., and cautioned that the Trump administration’s deportation efforts wouldn’t end with illegal immigrants.
A Democrat judge in New Mexico has resigned, fleeing his office, after a suspect, allegedly a member of the violent Tren de Aragua gang from Venezuela, was found living at his home.
Update: New Mexico Judge Joel Cano quits after Homeland Security finds an Tren de Aragua gang member living with him!! — armed, tatted, using his address!!
BREAKING: DEMOCRAT NEW MEXICO JUDGE RESIGNS AFTER HOMELAND SECURITY ARRESTS TREN DE ARAGUA DESIGNATED TERRORIST LIVING AT JUDGE’S HOME!
The Longtime Doña Ana County Judge Joel Cano, A Democrat Has Abruptly Resigned After Federal Agents Arrested Alleged Violent Venezuelan Tren De… pic.twitter.com/TGsPbOGims
A report from Fox News explains, “Doña Ana County Magistrate Judge Joel Cano’s resignation letter is dated March 3, but a spokesman for the Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC) told Fox News Digital it was not received by the Supreme Court and 3rd Judicial District Court until March 31.”
The report explained Homeland Security Investigations in Las Cruces started looking into Cristhian Ortega-Lopez, a native of Venezuela described an illegal alien “and a suspected member of a criminal gang.”
The allegations included that he was living with other gang members and “in possession of firearms.”
Then two search warrants were executed at a home that was identified as owned by Cano’s wife, Nancy Cano.
“Ortega-Lopez and his roommates were taken into custody, and agents ‘seized four firearms from April Cano’s residence.’ April Cano is the daughter of Nancy and Joel, court documents state,” according to the report.
Further, Ortega-Lopez had posed on social media with various weapons, the report said.
The suspect admitted he entered the U.S. illegally from Mexico in 2023, and was living in an El Paso apartment with others when he met Nancy Cano “to install a glass door for her,” the report said.
When he later was evicted from the apartment, the report said, Nancy Cano offered a place for him to live in the back of the home she shared with husband Joel Cano, the report said.
Property records show the home is owned by Nancy and Jose Cano, “who goes by Joel.”
Officials said now the state Supreme Court has scheduled a hearing regarding Cano.
If former Vice President Kamala Harris ever makes up her mind about running for California governor, the Democrat will have some well-known competition on the Republican side.
Steve Hilton, who until recently has been a frequent Fox News contributor, announced Monday he’s running for governor of the Golden State.
The author of “Califailure” told
Fox News Digital: “A big decision that I’ve made, which I can now share with you, that I am, in fact, going to be running for governor of California for 2026. I love this state. It’s the best place in the world as far as I’m concerned.”
“But after 15 years of one-party rule, this state is barely recognizable. And I honestly think that the 2026 election in California is a life-or-death moment because if we continue with this one-party rule by the Democrats, things are just gonna really start to deteriorate very rapidly.”
It’s time to make California Golden Again.
We need some balance here after 15 years of Democrat one-party rule.
Positive, practical policies that actually help people, not ideological crusades.
Born in the United Kingdom and a graduate of New College at Oxford, Hilton was senior adviser to former British Prime Minister David Cameron, who was leader of the Conservative Party.
“[California] really reminds me of Britain in the 1970s. The U.K. was called the ‘sick man of Europe,’” Hilton explained in a campaign video. “There’s no other way of looking at California today than the ‘sick man of America.’”
This is the refinery being shut down by Democrat policies. Hundreds of jobs lost, gas prices even higher…
These idiots and ideologues have done enough damage.
It’s time to fight for our beautiful state of California and that’s exactly what I’m going to do. pic.twitter.com/LqFAkcwHsQ
“We have a combination of idiots and ideologues who’ve been running this state into the ground, ruining what I consider to be the greatest state and the greatest nation on Earth, and it’s time for change,” Hilton said.
“We have the highest taxes in the country, but also the highest rate of poverty. You have one-third of Californians who can’t meet their basic needs. We have the highest housing costs. It’s the number one reason people are leaving the state.”
“California represented the best of America. I think for many people, when they thought of the American dream, they thought of California and the California Dream,” he noted.
Hilton eventually landed his own weekly show on Fox News, “The Next Revolution,” which aired Sunday nights from 2017 to 2023.
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin
confronted a New York Times reporter during a press conference Monday for claiming that he presented “no evidence” to back up his claims of waste, fraud, and abuse from the previous Biden administration.
“I have a duty to make sure that we don’t light on fire billions of dollars of tax dollars,” Zeldin said. “And I’m not going to stand before any member of the media and get bullied into lighting billions of dollars on fire.”
Zeldin hosted the news conference Monday morning at the EPA headquarters, announcing his forthcoming Earth Day trip to San Diego
to investigate the crisis of Mexico pouring five million gallons of wastewater daily into the Tijuana River.
At the end of the conference, Zeldin mentioned the media bias against his claims of waste, fraud, and abuse in the Biden EPA.
The waste and self-dealing
He mentioned a video unearthed by Project Veritas in December 2024
in which a Biden administration political appointee at EPA said that bureaucrats were rushing to get billions of dollars out the door like “throwing gold bars off the Titanic.” Zeldin pledged to Congress that he would investigate the matter.
“As we overturn different rocks and we find more evidence of waste and abuse
, there are some members of the media who have dug in further into saying that there’s no evidence,” he said. “Every time a new piece of evidence comes out, there’s some in the media saying even with more conviction that there’s no evidence.”
Zeldin mentioned “self-dealing and conflicts of interest, unqualified recipients and reduced oversight” in the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, a $27 billion fund administered through CitiBank as part of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022.
The EPA under Biden
managed the fund and rushed $20 billion to eight nonprofit groups after Trump won the 2024 election.
Zeldin has repeatedly flagged examples of alleged corruption involving the fund.
As the Free Press reported
, the reduction fund allocated $6.9 billion to the Climate United fund, a coalition of three nonprofits that joined together in June 2023. Climate United’s CEO, Beth Bafford, served in the Obama administration as a special assistant in the Office of Management and Budget. Climate United’s chief strategy officer, Phil Aroneau, served as a “strategic advisor” to the Department of Energy in the last two years of the Biden administration.
The reduction fund allocated $5 billion to the Coalition for Green Capital, even though its total expenditures in 2023 only rose to $2.42 million. Jahi Wise, who joined Biden’s Climate Policy office in 2021 and oversaw the reduction fund, previously served as a policy director at the coalition. The coalition’s CEO, Richard Kauffman, has donated more than $600,000 to Democrats since 2020. Kauffman previously served as senior adviser to in the Department of Energy under Obama and served as then-New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s “energy czar.” Cecilia Martinez, a member of the coalition’s board, previously served as the senior director of environmental justice at the White House Council on Environmental Quality under Biden.
The fund also allocated $2 billion to Power Forward Communities, an entity comprised of five nonprofits including Rewiring America. Former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams joined Rewiring America as special counsel in March 2023.
After listing many of these names, Zeldin mentioned that EPA officials amended the account control agreement for the fund on Jan. 13, a week before Trump took office.
“They were amending it to reduce EPA oversight,” he said.
‘No evidence?’
The administrator noted that many news stories have claimed he presented “no evidence” to back up his claims.
While Zeldin had run out of time allotted for the conference, he posed a question for the reporters present. He dared them to justify reporting that there was “no evidence.”
“If anyone can defend, please, just like, how is that zero evidence?” he asked. He noted that The Washington Post and The New York Times
have written that there is no evidence.
“And now we are all together. I’m glad that we are,” he said. “It’s April 21st, 2025. Why should any story get written that says no evidence?”
Lisa Friedman, a New York Times reporter focused on climate change, raised her hand and asked, “Where has a judge said that this is a problem?”
“Lisa, if The New York Times is going to write that there is no evidence…”
Friedman responded, “We’ve written that judges have not found.”
Zeldin quoted her words from an April 2 story
on the issue.
“Over the last few months, Lee Zeldin, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, has made explosive—you know this because you wrote it—has made explosive accusations against the Biden administration, accusing it of ‘insane’ malfeasance in its handling of $20 billion in climate grants,” he read. “Now, as a legal battle ensues over those funds, many of Mr. Zeldin’s claims remain unsupported, and some are flat-out false.”
“Why wouldn’t you write that there is any evidence?” he asked.
Friedman responded, “Could you point us to where a judge has found that there’s waste?”
Zeldin refused to let her off the hook.
“It’s not that easy for you, Lisa,” he said. “See, because you guys are writing stories. These are your words. These aren’t the judge’s words.”
“If you continue to write these stories that say that there is no evidence, even though I can stand before you right now and just go through the list, how do you square that?” Zeldin asked.
?BREAKING@epaleezeldin
calls out a New York Times reporter and reads her article in the middle of a press conference.
He called her out for claiming he accused the Biden admin of waste, fraud, and abuse with “no evidence.”
In the much-heralded nuclear negotiations between Iran and the U.S., the Omani foreign minister has told the world the Islamic Republic has seemingly been granted approval to continue enriching uranium up to 3.67%. In addition, the New York Times reports that Iran has offered to allow the United States and certain other countries to monitor its enrichment activities at nuclear facilities.
However, the fundamental question remains: Even if such a deal is reached and Iran agrees to strict and permanent oversight, can this truly be considered a successful negotiation?
Claiming that enrichment serves “peaceful purposes” is difficult to believe when billions of dollars have been spent by Iran at the expense of a population plunged into poverty. No country, especially one as oil-rich as Iran, invests such enormous sums for a purely civilian nuclear energy program.
Under the 2015 nuclear agreement, Iran was supposed to limit enrichment to no more than 3.67%. In practice, however, the regime broke its promise and advanced enrichment to 60%, turning its nuclear progress into a tool for blackmailing the international community.
Furthermore, $150 billion in frozen assets were released to Iran, yet instead of improving the lives of ordinary Iranians, poverty worsened. By 2017, a nationwide uprising rooted in economic despair broke out.
Meanwhile, the regime redirected the newly available funds to strengthen its proxy forces across the region, turning the Middle East into a battleground of militias and deadly conflict – with Iran playing a central role. One of the bitterest consequences of this policy was the Gaza war, which left tens of thousands dead or wounded, and a whole region destabilized.
Iran’s entry into negotiations today should therefore be seen not as a sign of reform or transformation, but as an expression of total weakness – at least for the time being.
The Islamic Republic deeply fears military confrontation with the United States, especially targeted attacks on its nuclear facilities. According to sources within Tehran, in a high-level meeting of IRGC commanders and senior officials, the regime’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was reportedly advised that any military conflict could break the regime’s foundation and trigger a massive popular uprising.
Tellingly, in the most recent presidential election, only about 8% of eligible voters – most under pressure and intimidation – participated. Under such conditions, with skyrocketing inflation, 80% of the population below the poverty line and other mega-crises, another uprising could easily bring the regime to its knees.
Indeed, thousands of organized resistance units advancing objectives in the plan for a democratic Iran – put forward by the main opposition National Council of Resistance of Iran, or NCRI – are now active across the country, capable of turning any spark of protest into a nationwide uprising.
Given this, it is not surprising that the regime would temporarily retreat from enrichment and bomb development to avoid imminent collapse. Yet, just as in 2015, it is preserving all the infrastructure needed to resume nuclear weapon development – should political circumstances change, for instance with a different U.S. administration, or other favorable international shifts.
The need to avoid repeating past mistakes has never been more urgent.
In 2015, as now, the Islamic Republic insisted nuclear negotiations focus solely on the nuclear issue. Western powers accepted this framework and the result was a deal that appeared to limit Iran’s nuclear program, but in reality gave the nation the resources to intensify its destabilizing regional activities.
Barack Obama announces the original Iran nuclear deal
The “bitter fruit” of that agreement was a series of proxy wars – including the devastating Gaza conflict with thousands of casualties.
This is precisely the regime’s strategy: to restrict negotiations to the nuclear file so that its other dangerous pursuits – terror sponsorship, proxy warfare and regional aggression – remain unchecked.
The fatal mistake of the 2015 negotiators was to assume that the nuclear threat was the only danger, while ignoring the even more deadly consequences of Iran’s regional militarism and expansionism.
Has the world learned anything from the war in Gaza, the hijacking of Lebanon’s independence, its transformation into a failed state, or the destabilization of international waterways?
The regime’s strategy for survival
The Islamic Republic – an archaic construct rooted in medieval religious dogma – was thrust upon the 21st century through a historical accident. It cannot survive without continually fomenting external warfare and internal repression.
It defines its survival in terms of regional expansion. For over three decades, the regime has implemented a deterrence strategy – or more frankly, a strategy of warmongering – built on three pillars:
The nuclear program
Creation and support of proxy forces
Development of ballistic missiles
These three pillars have functioned as an interconnected system, operating within a framework of hatred and hostility, fueled by slogans like “Death to America” and “Death to Israel.” Their purpose has been to continually generate conflict and confrontation.
Through its proxy forces, the regime has expanded its regional presence, creating crises and bloodshed across the Middle East – effectively diverting global attention from its unparalleled repression at home.
Therefore, any negotiations aimed at achieving peace in the region must address the entire ideological and operational structure of this regime. A complete and verifiable dismantling of Iran’s malevolent regional influence must be firmly guaranteed.
Otherwise, a few years from now, the world will witness yet another cycle of bloodshed in a different corner of the Middle East, and once again – thanks to the radical regime in Tehran – it will be another nation that pays the price.
