Mexican President Sheinbaum said yesterday that she wants the work of Mexicans in the US to be recognized. Without Mexicans who live and work in the US, the US would not be what it is, according to her. She said they do not agree with the ICE raids and the schemes of criminalization of migration. […] The post Mexican President Objects to ICE Raids, It’s Just Migration appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

Late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel recently revealed that he has Italian citizenship and insinuated a potential move to Europe to escape President Trump’s “unbelievable” second term. The 57-year-old host of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” made the revelation during a recent episode of comedian Sarah Silverman’s podcast. Silverman mentioned that “a lot” of people she knows are trying to get citizenship.  “I do have … I did get Italian citizenship… I do have that,” Kimmel replied. “What’s going on is … as bad as you thought it was gonna be, it’s so much worse. It’s just unbelievable. I feel like it’s probably even worse than [Trump] would like it to be,” he added. Kimmel also claimed that some of Trump’s former supporters are questioning his decisions.  “There are a lot of people … now you see these clips of Joe Rogan saying, ‘Why’s he doing this? He shouldn’t be deporting people.’ People go, ‘F*** you, you supported him.’ I don’t buy into that. I don’t believe ‘F*** you, you supported him,’” he told Silverman.  “I think everybody has to… the door needs to stay open. If you want to change your mind, that’s so hard to do. If you want to admit you were wrong, that’s so hard and so rare to do. You are welcome.” The new episode comes on the heels of Stephen Colbert’s late-night show being canceled on CBS. President Trump reacted to the news by predicting that other partisan-driven, late-night programming would also be axed, including Kimmel’s show. “The word is, and it’s a strong word at that, Jimmy Kimmel is NEXT to go in the untalented Late Night Sweepstakes and, shortly thereafter, Fallon will be gone,” he posted on social media last month.  “These are people with absolutely NO TALENT, who were paid Millions of Dollars for, in all cases, destroying what used to be GREAT Television. It’s really good to see them go, and I hope I played a major part in it!”

Former Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) is ready to run for office again after losing his Senate seat to Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-OH) in the 2024 election amid reported controversies. Brown will challenge Sen. Jon Husted (R-OH) in the 2026 election, cleveland.com and The Plain Dealer first reported on Tuesday, citing Ohio labor leaders. As of press time, Brown had not formally announced his campaign, but other news outlets have confirmed his plans. In a story published last month, Brown told Semafor that “everything’s on the table” while “talking to family and friends” and deciding whether he “want[s] to get back in and do this.” He also said, “I’m concerned about the direction of my state; I’m concerned about the direction of my country. So I don’t know.” Brown, a former Ohio secretary of state and congressman, first won election to the Senate in 2006 against incumbent Mark DeWine, who went on to become governor. During his three terms in the Senate, Brown served as chairman of the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. The Daily Wire covered Brown a number of times while he was in the Senate, including reports on donations from drug companies at the center of the opioid crisis and how he attended a ritzy Hollywood fundraiser while constituents worried about the water quality at their home after the 2023 train derailment in East Palestine. In the 2024 election, Brown ran for a fourth term against Moreno, a businessman who was endorsed by now-President Donald Trump. Estimates show roughly $500 million was spent on that Senate contest, which POLITICO dubbed the most expensive non-presidential election in U.S. history. Moreno defeated Brown 50.1%-46.5%. Trump’s margin of victory over then-Vice President Kamala Harris in Ohio was much larger, with the final results coming in at 55.2%-43.9%. Brown will now face off against Husted, who was selected by Governor DeWine to temporarily replace JD Vance after he resigned from his seat in the Senate in order to become vice president. The winner will serve out the remainder of the term that ends in 2029. Axios reported that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) had been urging Brown to get back in the ring, a push that comes as Democrats hope to retake control of the upper chamber. But Husted’s team shrugged off the pending challenge. “Should Brown enter the race as Schumer’s handpicked candidate he will be starting in the biggest hole of his political career,” Husted campaign spokesman Tyson Shepard said in a statement posted to X by Jeremy Pelzer, the reporter who broke the story. “He has never faced a candidate like Jon Husted,” Pelzer continued. “Brown’s slogans will ring hollow as his coalition walks away, tired of the radical policies he’s forced to support to appease his coastal bosses in California and New York.”

A group of ex-national security officials is protesting the Trump administration’s recent removal of high-level intelligence officers as “a purge.” In an open letter published Saturday, the group, which calls itself “The Steady State,” condemned the Trump administration’s decision to fire three FBI officials: former Acting Director Brian Driscoll and Special Agents Walter Giardina and Michael Feinberg. The signatories said the removal of these agents appeared “part of a broader campaign to dismantle the FBI’s long-standing independence and recast it as a tool of political loyalty.” The letter continued by denouncing the move as “a purge” of officials whose views expressed “perceived personal disloyalty to former President Donald Trump.” The Steady State is a group of hundreds of former intelligence, defense policy, diplomacy, law enforcement, and Congressional workers that claims to be nonpartisan, although recent statements by the group’s Executive Director, Steven Cash, show an anti-Trump lean. Speaking about the recent revelations about the Trump-Russia collusion allegations, Cash said in an interview that, “A lot of documents have been released, but it doesn’t appear to be anything there that makes sense.” Cash continued by calling the renewal of the Trump administration’s efforts to uncover the truth about the Russiagate conspiracy evidence of  “a democracy sliding into an autocracy.” Critics have called the removal of Driscoll, Giardina, and Feinberg politically motivated. Although no official reason has been released, analysts have pointed out that these officials may have acted against the commands of the Commander in Chief, among other things. According to MSNBC’s Ken Dilanian, Driscoll’s ouster was directly related to his refusal to carry out an order from then Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove to compile a list of all agents involved in investigating cases related to January 6th. Similarly, analysts have connected Giardina’s firing to his involvement in the investigation of former Trump trade official Peter Navarro, who Trump often said was “treated horribly by the Deep State.” Feinberg retired, he claimed, at the threat of the Trump administration, which was probing his relationship with Peter Strzok, the lead FBI agent who investigated President Trump’s connection with Russia before revelations of extreme anti-Trump rhetoric with subordinates. The current director of the FBI, Kash Patel, wrote a letter to Giardina explaining his firing. “This document provides official notice that you are being summarily dismissed from your position at the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and removed from the federal service, under my authority as the FBI Director, effective immediately,” Patel wrote. “You have exercised poor judgment and a lack of impartiality in carrying out duties, leading to the political weaponization of the government.” The Steady State’s letter also singled out Patel and Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino, who they claim are “unqualified political loyalists.” Referring to Bongino and Patel’s appointments, The Steady State said, “The aim, it seems, is to transform the FBI from a respected, constitutionally grounded investigative service into a personal enforcement arm of a political figure.”

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