A new report has revealed that it took at least 12 New York animal cops in a four-hour “squirrel raid” to find and seize a pet squirrel and raccoon from an amateur sanctuary. The case drew national scrutiny from Vice President JD Vance and tech giant Elon Musk.

President Donald Trump has sent his "deepest sympathies" after at least 20 tourists were killed by gunmen at a resort in India. 

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court ruled 5–4 in Monsalvo Velázquez v. Bondi that illegal aliens granted voluntary departure under federal immigration law can remain in the United States past their court-ordered departure deadline if that deadline falls on a weekend or a legal holiday. Justice Neil Gorsuch authored the majority opinion, joined by Justices Roberts, […] The post SCOTUS Rules Against the Law for the Convenience of a Deportable Alien appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

President Trump’s signal policy — and the one that is working the best for him — is immigration.  Polling shows that President Trump’s immigration policy is highly popular. It’s not just because Americans are sick and tired of the open borders policy of the Biden administration. It’s also because Democrats continue to take the worst possible tack when it comes to this sort of stuff.  The tack they should be taking on immigration right now is that President Trump is right to close the border, that he is correct to unleash ICE, to go find criminal illegal immigrants and deport them — but we need to obey the law.  That would be the intelligent approach to this particular issue. But Democrats have decided that the smart approach is to shove their heads directly up their own a**es. What that means is that they are instead going out of their way to praise MS-13 members and suggest that President Trump is wrong to try and deport all of those people.  This led to the awkward situation of absolute dolt Senator Chris Van Hollen of Maryland — who has the IQ of a turnip — going down to El Salvador to meet with a man named Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who is a suspected MS-13 member and whose wife accused him of allegedly beating her.  Garcia was deported to El Salvador, but the Trump DOJ said it was a processing issue mistake. Thus, Democrats should have said, “Listen, everyone deserves due process. If you are here on a green card, you deserve whatever the due process is for a green card holder. If you are here as an illegal immigrant, you deserve whatever due process is available to you under the law. Due process shouldn’t be violated; it’s sacrosanct in the United States.” WATCH: The Ben Shapiro Show That’s the argument they should have made. Instead, because they have an internal emotional necessity to valorize people who are “victims” of the Trump administration, they’ve decided to treat people who are actually quite bad with Sympathy. This led to the awkward spectacle of Chris Van Hollen being asked if the person he visited down in El Salvador and had drinks with was a member of MS-13. And he couldn’t answer the question. “What Donald Trump is trying to do here is change the subject,” Van Hollen told CNN’s Dana Bash. “The subject at hand is that he and his administration are defying a court order to give Abrego Garcia his due process rights. They are trying to litigate on social media what they should be doing in the courts. They need to put up or shut up in the courts.” “But since you were the one person to have met with him and since this is a thing, you say, on social media, it’s what we hear from Donald Trump and Republicans every day all day long, you didn’t ask him?” Bash asked. “I didn’t ask him that because I know what his answer is,” Van Hollen answered. “What he told me was he was sad and traumatized that he was being imprisoned because he has committed no crimes.” “Sad and traumatized,” says the likely MS-13 member. You can see Van Hollen trying to backtrack and turn it into a due process argument, which is a better argument for Democrats. The Supreme Court, over the course of the last 72 hours, handed out an order for the Trump administration to respond to an emergency appeal and stated, “The government is directed not to remove any members of the putative class detainees from the United States until further order of this Court.” Those would be the people being detained under the so-called Alien Enemies Act, which is an 18th-century law designed to allow the expeditious removal of people who are declared wartime enemies by the executive branch of the government. There was a dissent by Justices Alito and Justice Thomas, saying: Shortly after midnight yesterday, the Court hastily and prematurely granted unprecedented emergency relief. … Although the order does not define the “putative class,” it appears the Court means all members of the class that the habeas petitioners sought to have certified, namely “all non-citizens in custody in the Northern District of Texas who were, are, or would be subject to the March 2025 Presidential Proclamation entitled “Invocation of the Alien Enemies Act Regarding the Invasion of the United States by Tren de Aragua and/or its implementation. Alito and Thomas criticized the Court for doing all this by saying that even though it’s not clear the court had jurisdiction, it’s questionable whether the applicants complied with their obligation to seek emergency injunctive relief in the district court, and that the Court of Appeals is already considering the issue of emergency relief. They wrote: The papers before us, while alleging that the applicants were in imminent danger of removal, provided little concrete support for that allegation. …In sum, literally in the middle of the night, the Court issued unprecedented and legally questionable relief without giving the lower courts a chance to rule, without hearing from the opposing party, within eight hours of receiving the application, with dubious factual support for its order, and without providing any explanation for its order. I refused to join the Court’s order because we had no good reason to think that, under the circumstances, issuing an order at midnight was necessary or appropriate. I think what the rest of the Court would say is, “We wouldn’t think that was necessary or appropriate either, except for the fact that we’ve now had situations in which the Trump administration has allegedly ignored the orders of lower courts not to do a deportation and, instead, went ahead with the deportation.” That’s the argument being made on the other side of the aisle. One of the things that should become clear to Republicans at this point is that doing things in meticulous fashion is likely to lead to longer-lasting victories than doing them as one-offs and in quick fashion. That’s because, when it comes to morality, the Trump administration is not only correct, they are unbelievably correct. Tom Homan, our bulldog border czar, slammed Van Hollen for his sympathy for MS-13 members, saying, “What shocks me is that he’s remained silent on the travesty that happened on our southern border. Many people die. Thousands of people die. I met with hundreds of angel moms and dads who buried their children that were murdered by an illegal alien. How many angel moms and dads has he met in the state of Maryland? That’s what concerns me.” When it comes to the politics of immigration, Republicans are absolutely right. But, in addition, if they practice the law correctly, they’ll have longer-lasting victories, because otherwise many of the things they are trying to do might get reversed on appeal, and that would be bad for the Trump administration. I’m rooting for the Trump administration to do everything correctly so its policies work to their utmost.

President Donald Trump is set to visit Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates next month in his second foreign trip of this term, the White House announced Tuesday. The trip is scheduled to take place from May 13 to May 16. “The president looks to strengthen ties between the United States and these countries in which he will be visiting,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said Tuesday during a press briefing. “He’ll be having many bilateral meetings and talks, and we look forward to the trip.” Trump’s Middle East trip was supposed to be his first foreign visit of this term, but he will now attend Pope Francis’ funeral in Rome later this week. The trips come as Trump seeks new deals with foreign countries amid his tariff pause and signals his growing relationship with the Gulf countries. In March, Trump announced that Saudi Arabia committed to investing $1 trillion into the American economy. “I made a deal with Saudi Arabia. … I said I’ll go if you pay $1 trillion to American companies, meaning the purchase over a four-year period of $1 trillion, and they’ve agreed to do that,” Trump said, Newsweek reported. Also in March, the UAE committed to investing $1.4 trillion in American energy, manufacturing, and technology over the next decade. “This new framework will substantially increase the UAE’s existing investments in the U.S. economy in AI infrastructure, semiconductors, energy, and American manufacturing,” the White House said in a statement announcing the framework. Saudi Arabia was the first country Trump visited during his first term in 2017, where a viral image was captured of him touching an orb alongside Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi at the opening of the Global Centre for Combating Extremist Ideology. @KingSalman and @POTUS inaugurate The Global Center for Combatting Extremist Ideology in Riyadh. #RiyadhSummit pic.twitter.com/do6cFL7wBW — Saudi Embassy USA (@SaudiEmbassyUSA) May 21, 2017 During his first term, Trump had a strong working relationship with several Gulf states, which led to the Abraham Accords between the UAE, Israel, and Bahrain. The Trump administration has hoped to expand the accords even further to include Saudi Arabia, though the ongoing war in Israel has made any such negotiations more complex.

In 2014, you couldn’t scroll on social media without seeing videos of people participating in the “Ice Bucket Challenge.” More than a decade ago, the challenge was created to bring awareness to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, more commonly referred to as ALS or Lou Gehrig’s disease. The fatal degenerative disorder takes the lives of thousands of people each year. It proved highly successful in terms of raising awareness and money, so a group of students from the University of South Carolina decided to retool it. This year, the Ice Bucket Challenge is raising money for mental health awareness via the non-profit Active Minds. The Today Show crew chose to get in on the fun. View this post on Instagram A post shared by TODAY (@todayshow) Jenna Bush Hager Is A Two-Time Ice Bucket Challenge Participant Jenna Bush Hager, the host of Jenna and Friends on the Today Show, participated in the original Ice Bucket Challenge in 2014 and again this year. Live on TV, she got soaked by Today anchor Craig Melvin. It was a memorable moment, and Jenna was sure to get Savannah Guthrie and Carson Daly later in the show. Their participation got a lot of attention. Some loved seeing the new Ice Bucket Challenge, but others were not big fans. One person wrote, “As a daughter who lost her father to ALS the spring before the original ice bucket challenge, I resent it being appropriated for a different cause. Not saying mental health isn’t a huge concern, but guess what, ALS is still 100% fatal. It hasn’t been ‘cured.'” This person agreed, “Remember why this challenge was started, and we are still no further along. Please do these challenges for ALS where it all began.” But others were glad to Jenna raising awareness for a good cause. One wrote, “I saw the challenge, and it’s taking over Instagram like crazy. Wow.” Another agreed “You are so amazing Jenna. Down to earth!” This story’s featured image is by Nathan Congleton/NBC via Getty Images. The post Jenna Bush Hager Reintroduces Legendary Challenge On “Today” appeared first on InspireMore.

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