On Tuesday morning, MSNBC host Chris Jansing devoted a segment of her eponymous show to highlighting Chicago residents "standing up to" immigration agents who recently searched for an escaped prisoner in their neighborhood. She also had on a left-leaning professor from Columbia Law School to encourage Americans to verbally confront ICE agents while they are trying to make arrests. Jansing introduced the segment: Some new and dramatic examples of Americans standing up to masked ICE agents who are conducting immigration manhunts in their own backyards. The latest, the Chicago suburbs. These photos from the Chicago Tribune show residents confronting federal agents who were chasing people through their neighborhoods, including backyards, and loading them into unmarked vehicles. She then brought aboard the Chicago Tribune's Olivia Olander and Columbia Law School's Elora Mukherjee as guests. Olander recalled a woman in the Chicago suburbs who ran across border patrol agents in her yard who were trying to find an escaped detainee. She recounted: She -- I think understandably -- is alarmed by this. She starts asking a few questions, and they tell her that they're looking for someone who escaped detention in their area. She -- they also tell her that this person left a jacket on their -- on their fence. She gets very angry because she knows that that is not the case. That jacket has already been there. So she calls them out on what she sees as a lie, starts yelling at them for being in her backyard without any sort of permission. Jansing followed up by asking if the woman's children -- who are 17 and 20 years old -- were affected: "And, her children, they're not little kids, but I wonder if she talked to you about the impact that this had on them?" Olander described them as alarmed by knowing that border agents had been in their yard, even though they did not see them: Yeah, and I actually was able to talk to them a little bit, too. They were very, very -- they were also, you know, angry, concerned, sort of bewildered -- I would say even more so than those qualities -- just bewildered that this had happened to them. They -- I don't think they saw the agents when they were in their backyard, but just to know that this happened right under them basically. No one on the panel seemed to have any concern about whether the escaped prisoner might be a danger if he was trying to avoid being recaptured. Jansing then went to Mukkerjee and asked her if there is any legal risk for Americans who want to confront immigration agents, leading the liberal professor to encourage such liberal activism by bystanders: It's important for American citizens to cross party lines to be upstanders in this very difficult time. So if Americans are seeing encounters with masked agents who are carrying out arrests and detentions, it is totally find to speak out using your voice. You can take recordings. I do not encourage anyone to interfere with an arrest. That could lead to charges against a person. And it's important to speak out to try and protect our neighbors and our community members. After claiming that most illegal aliens being arrested by ICE are not criminals, she added: "So it is appropriate -- it is right for the American people to speak out when they're seeing injustice -- in this case, literally in their backyards." Jansing followed up by asking if such actions make a difference, leading Mukherjee to suggest that President Donald Trump is abusing his power in cracking down on immigration: It absolutely makes a difference, and Americans across party lines are increasingly expressing that the Trump ICE crackdown has gone too far. We're seeing children -- we're seeing our neighbors -- we're seeing valued employees all being rounded up and taken to detention not for having convicted any criminal offenses, but simply because the executive branch is pushing the bounds of its authority well past the breaking point of the checks and balances system that's been set up in our U.S. Constitution. Transcript follows: MSNBC's Chris Jansing Reports October 21, 2025 1:13 p.m. Eastern CHRIS JANSING: Some new and dramatic examples of Americans standing up to masked ICE agents who are conducting immigration manhunts in their own backyards. The latest, the Chicago suburbs. These photos from the Chicago Tribune show residents confronting federal agents who were chasing people through their neighborhoods, including backyards, and loading them into unmarked vehicles. Joining us now with her reporting, Chicago Tribune's Olivia Olander. Also with us, Elora Mukherjee, director of the Immigrants Rights Clinic at Columbia Law School. Good to have both of you here. Olivia, I know -- and I was struck by your story. You spoke with a mother in Mount Prospect. She came home, she finds ICE agents in her backyard, her kids are home. Walk us through what she told you. OLIVIA OLANDER, CHICAGO TRIBUNE: Yeah, Chris, thanks for having me. That's exactly right. This mother, 49-year-old mother of three comes home from a workout with her husband. As she's approaching her home, she sees agents that, I believe, were border patrol agents it looked like from the markings that we were able to see coming out of her backyard like around a chain-link fence. They're in masks, they're in camo sort of uniforms. She -- I think understandably -- is alarmed by this. She starts asking a few questions, and they tell her that they're looking for someone who escaped detention in their area. She -- they also tell her that this person left a jacket on their -- on their fence. She gets very angry because she knows that that is not the case. That jacket has already been there. So she calls them out on what she sees as a lie, starts yelling at them for being in her backyard without any sort of permission. JANSING: Yeah, and, her children, they're not little kids, but I wonder if she talked to you about the impact that this had on them? OLANDER: Yeah, and I actually was able to talk to them a little bit, too. They were very, very -- they were also, you know, angry, concerned, sort of bewildered -- I would say even more so than those qualities -- just bewildered that this had happened to them. They -- I don't think they saw the agents when they were in their backyard, but just to know that this happened right under them basically. And it was just a very strange sensation for them to have, and, yeah, they're 17 and 20, so definitely old enough to know what's going on and to understand what this means, and, yeah, they were very confused as, I think, a lot of neighbors were to have these agents going into backyards and, as far as we could tell, after about 90 minutes to two hours, not actually finding the person that they said they were going after and eventually leaving the area. JANSING: And we see, Elora, some of these pictures that people are taping of what they're seeing. We know -- in the case of the mom who spoke to Olivia -- she, you know, asked questions, and she wanted to know what was going on, and she was upset, but is there any legal risk to these residents engaging with agents directly? ELORA MUKHERJEE, COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL IMMIGRANTS RIGHTS CLINIC: It's important for American citizens to cross party lines to be upstanders in this very difficult time. So if Americans are seeing encounters with masked agents who are carrying out arrests and detentions, it is totally find to speak out using your voice. You can take recordings. I do not encourage anyone to interfere with an arrest. That could lead to charges against a person. And it's important to speak out to try and protect our neighbors and our community members. Overwhelmingly, since January of this year, the people who have been arrested and detained by ICE do not have criminal records according to data that was made available last month. In September, about 43,000 individuals are currently in ICE detention facilities having no criminal convictions, no criminal charges against them at all. That accounts for more than 71 percent of those in ICE custody, and thousands of others are there due to minor violations such as traffic offenses. So it is appropriate -- it is right for the American people to speak out when they're seeing injustice -- in this case, literally in their backyards. JANSING: So I want to give you another example, Elora, if I can, that also happened in that area. Dozens of residents were so outraged by the protest restrictions that are in place at that now well-known Broadview ICE facility that they actually shut down their local council meeting. Take a listen to this. UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN #1: We are calling for an end to the violence. UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN #2: Know what else is shameful? Limiting our freedom of speech. UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN #3: You can beat us to death -- we're not going to stop. JANSING: "We're not going to stop." I just wonder what you're seeing elsewhere across the country, whether directly speaking to agents, going to meetings, protesting. To what extent are you seeing Americans take action? And does it make a difference? MUKHERJEE: It absolutely makes a difference, and Americans across party lines are increasingly expressing that the Trump ICE crackdown has gone too far. We're seeing children -- we're seeing our neighbors -- we're seeing valued employees all being rounded up and taken to detention not for having convicted any criminal offenses, but simply because the executive branch is pushing the bounds of its authority well past the breaking point of the checks and balances system that's been set up in our U.S. Constitution. And it matters that thousands and thousands of Americans across party lines were out protesting over the weekend. It matters that, at the local levels, people are speaking out and saying, "We don't want ICE in our communities -- wants ICE to get out of our backyards." All of this is building momentum toward the midterm elections and the upcoming elections in two weeks where we have races at the local and state levels. JANSING: Elora, thank you so much for coming on the show. Olivia, some great reporting. I really was -- felt your story was compelling. Thank you for coming on as well.

New York Times reporter Jeremy Peters continued the paper’s recent habit of pitying some of the worst people in the world, often on the front page of the paper. If it’s not the ghouls who reacted with glee to Charlie Kirk’s assassination, it’s the Hamas sympathizers on college campuses who are shocked to find that harassing Jewish students and spouting eliminationist rhetoric may not have been the best career move. Thursday’s front-page headline deck: “Pro-Palestinian Activists Lament the Steep Cost -- Worried That Backlash Could Doom Future Political Dissent.” Harry Campbell was a few weeks from graduating in the spring of 2024 when he decided to join hundreds of demonstrators at the encampments at Washington University in St. Louis. He wanted to support the Palestinians suffering under Israel’s bombardment of Gaza — a cause that he and other students linked to the global struggle for the oppressed. "Boisterous" is certainly one way to describe the ugly slogans and threatening nature of many of the campus occupiers. But some of them recalled the boisterous protests on campuses and in the streets — and the often overwhelming backlash — with a certain ruefulness, saying that they had absorbed sobering lessons about power and politics. More Americans have come to agree with the activists about Israel’s war conduct. But some of those protesters worry the blowback has been so severe — and the criticism against them so resonant — that the American belief in the concept of civil disobedience to achieve political ends has been eroded. In interviews with a dozen activists and academics across the country, they described a pro-Palestinian movement that is chastened, wary and worried about the future of political dissent. If they still demonstrate, most continue to wear masks to conceal their identities, fearing they might jeopardize their degrees or hiring prospects. They described feeling anxious and somewhat powerless. Most did not want to be named. …. …. For a time, the Gaza protests seemed to have the ingredients to grow into the next mass political movement for young Americans. The cause — which adherents saw as a struggle between a marginalized and dispossessed people and an oppressive global power — connected with university students, many of whom were already drifting to the left and had experienced their political awakenings during the racial reckoning in the summer of 2020. Many of them, in fact, started calling the Palestinian suffering “the moral issue of our time.” There was a single dissenting paragraph that soft-pedaled the often-disgusting acts of the protesters. At the same time, the pro-Palestinian protests troubled many Americans. The organizers proved unable to rein in occasional acts of violence and, at times, seemed indifferent to complaints from Jewish students that some chants and other acts felt antisemitic. With the Trump administration slashing federal funds from universities it deemed too lenient, college administrators moved quickly to crack down. That's understating things. Pro-Hamas protesters took over campus buildings, threatened students trying to get to class, and at least one university, UCLA, established a Jew-exclusion zone with assistance from the university administration itself. Before letting Tyler Coward of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression cry about a “chilling effect” on campus, Peters even defended the gross statements made after the killing of Charlie Kirk as merely Kirk being “criticized.” Older leaders of the pro-Palestinian movement said the current political climate of fear had made it much harder to speak out today. After the protests erupted on campuses, a group of federal judges declared they would not hire law clerks from Columbia University because of the way it handled campus demonstrations prompted by Israel’s war in Gaza.... Actions have consequences. Who knew? The pro-Israel watchdog group Honest Reporting mocked Peters’ pathetic piece on X, reminding everyone how Jewish students at Cooper Union in New York City were forced to barricade themselves in a library as mobs screamed “Free Palestine” (an incident predictably downplayed by the Times), and that progressive campuses were overrun with jihadist symbols and slogans. Yet the Times continues to paint the Hamas-helpers as the victims.

Universities across America have become dangerous indoctrination tools helping to push radical ideologies on our nation’s youth, and one radical professor couldn’t be making this clearer.Stacy Patton teaches media, journalism, film, and communication at Howard University in Washington, D.C. — and she apparently has a deep appreciation for murderers.“You see the Ph.D. next to her name, as if that means anything any more. In fact, usually, these days, Ph.D. is just a signal that you’re crazy,” BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales says. “So this woman is advocating for white political allies to emulate [a] vigilante mass murderer.”Patton pointed to militant John Brown in a recent blog post, writing “So when white allies ask, ‘What can I do?’ Here’s the answer: Be like John Brown. Ask yourself, what am I willing to burn so somebody else can breathe?”Brown was a militant abolitionist before the Civil War, who in 1856 orchestrated the Pottawatomie massacre. Alongside his fellow militants, he dragged five Kansas settlers out of their homes and executed them. In total, he had killed around 10 people directly and was responsible for the deaths of several others through these violent raids.Later, he was tried for treason and eventually hanged.“So this is the guy that this woman is glorifying. And by the way, he didn’t sacrifice himself. He slaughtered innocent men to ignite a race war. This is the guy that a college professor is calling for modern white progressives to take up his torch,” Gonzales says.Now, leftists have been posting flyers all over college campuses urging students to join “The John Brown Club,” using slogans like “Hey, Fascist! Catch,” which was written on one of the bullets loaded into Charlie Kirk’s assassin’s weapon.Under “Hey, Fascist! Catch,” the flyer reads, “The only political group that celebrates when Nazis die.”Gonzales explains that “The John Brown Club” is now “just used as a collective group name for Antifa.”“So we know of other Antifa members who have carried out violence under the banner of ‘The John Brown Gun Club,’” she says, citing the example of an Antifa member who tried to firebomb a Washington state ICE facility in 2019.“That guy was a member of ‘The John Brown Gun Club,’” Gonzales says.“So in reality, this woman knows that she is in fact glorifying a man who represents that. A man who represents violence being carried out across the streets in this country. She knows that she has a direct influence over the next generation. She knows that she is of course trying to instigate these people into committing crimes,” she continues.“These professors are not educating these students any more. They are there to simply radicalize them,” she adds.Want more from Sara Gonzales?To enjoy more of Sara's no-holds-barred takes on news and culture, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

Virginia attorney general candidate Jay Jones faces more pressure to drop out of the race after reports surfaced that he is under investigation concerning a prior reckless driving conviction.Jones' campaign was already battling a scandal when leaked text messages from 2022 revealed that he had wished death upon a Republican lawmaker and his children. In the texts, Jones stated that, in a hypothetical situation where he had only "two bullets" and had to choose between shooting then-House Speaker Todd Gilbert (R), Adolf Hitler, and Pol Pot, he would shoot Gilbert twice. He also claimed that Gilbert and his wife were "breeding little fascists," referring to their children, and wished harm on them. None of Jones' fellow Democrats called on him to exit the race over the texts. 'From murderous text messages to reckless driving at 116 mph to defrauding a court of law, Jay Jones belongs behind bars, if convicted of fraud, not as a member of the state bar — let alone as Virginia's attorney general.'Several local reports on Wednesday indicated that Jones' campaign was facing yet another scandal, this time involving a 2022 reckless driving conviction for driving 116 mph.A court previously ordered Jones, a Democratic former Virginia delegate, to pay a fine and serve 1,000 hours of community service. According to reports, Jones completed 500 hours with the NAACP and another 500 hours at Meet Our Moment. However, he allegedly did not make it clear to the court that the latter was his own political action committee.New Kent County Commonwealth's attorney Scott Renick was assigned to investigate questions surrounding Jones' community service. Yet, Renick felt "it would be improper for him to act in the matter ... due to a potential conflict," according to court records obtained by Blaze News. He recommended the court assign special prosecutor Nathan Green.Renick's office declined to provide any additional comments on the matter.WAVY-TV reported that Green had also refused to accept the appointment. Green provided an order to Blaze News confirming that he had recused himself from the case. The order claimed that "it would be improper for him to act in the matter." Green did not provide any further explanation. RELATED: Democrat Jay Jones tries to pivot debate away from vile texts wishing death on a rival's kids — but Virginia AG won't let him Jay Jones. Photo by Maxine Wallace/The Washington Post via Getty ImagesJason Miyares, the current Virginia attorney general and Jones' Republican opponent, called on Jones to withdraw from the race "for the sake of public trust and common decency.""Virginians deserve an Attorney General whose integrity is beyond question," Miyares stated. "Jay Jones had already disqualified himself with his violent text messages against political opponents and their children.""It is not possible for Jay Jones to fulfill the duties of that office while under an open criminal investigation," Miyares continued. "If Jay Jones stays in the race, it shows a contempt for voters never seen in modern Virginia political history. Jay Jones has not taken accountability for his words or actions."RELATED: Nancy Pelosi has unbelievable response to Democrat candidate who issued death wish against Republican Trevor Metcalfe/The Virginian-Pilot/Tribune News Service via Getty ImagesThe Republican Attorneys General Association previously called for Jones to drop out of the race following the unearthed text messages and heightened those calls Thursday because of the ongoing investigation."Jay Jones has proven himself time and again to be unfit and unqualified to serve as Virginia's top prosecutor," RAGA executive director Adam Piper stated in a press release. "While 51% of Virginians have said Jay Jones should drop out, Democrats continue to put partisan identifiers above principle by allowing Jay Jones to remain on the ballot. He is a threat to the safety of all Virginians.""Jay Jones has shown he lacks the character, integrity, and judicial temperament to be attorney general," Piper said. "From murderous text messages to reckless driving at 116 mph to defrauding a court of law, Jay Jones belongs behind bars, if convicted of fraud, not as a member of the state bar — let alone as Virginia's attorney general."Jones' campaign did not respond to a request for comment. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

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