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Just days after President Trump called out Los Angeles for its sluggish response to fire-affected residents, Mayor Karen Bass reversed course. Starting Monday, Jan. 27, Pacific Palisades residents will be allowed to return to their homes during daylight hours—albeit with restrictions.
The decision came after Trump publicly scolded Bass during a roundtable discussion. Residents voiced their frustration over the delays, prompting Bass to suggest a one-week wait. Trump pushed back, saying, “A week is a long time… They’re safe. You know what? They’re not safe now. They’re going to be much safer.”
Residents, desperate to return to their properties, began making their way past police on Saturday, with some reportedly negotiating entry. Breitbart’s Joel Pollak, a Palisades resident whose home survived the fires, has been documenting the situation on the ground since the fires began.
The city’s caveat allows residents to return “weather permitting” and only until 5:00 p.m., giving them limited time to recover belongings or come to terms with their loss.
This turnaround follows Trump’s bold retaliation against Colombia earlier this week, demonstrating how his leadership style is pressuring officials, both domestic and international, to take action. Once again, common sense prevails under the Trump Effect.
Mom and pop businesses were once the backbone of this country.
They will be once again.
To fully understand just how remarkable today’s exchange with Colombia was, you need to understand how Washington DC has traditionally worked through these sorts of issues, and the different way it works now under Trump.
I’ll illustrate.
Traditional Approach:
- Colombia announces it will not take our repatriation flights.
- On Monday, the State Department convenes an interagency task force with DoD, NSC, DEA, INS, ICE, Commerce, Treasury and Homeland Security.
- The task force meets for four days and develops a position paper.
- The position paper is rejected by the Secretary of State, who is unhappy that insufficient equity considerations are built into the process.
- The task force reconvenes a week later to redevelop three new, equity-centric courses of action and create a new position paper.
- The process is delayed a week because Washington DC gets three inches of snow.
- SecState approves the new position paper for interagency circulation, and considerable input is received from the heads of other departments so the task force must reconvene.
- The original three proposed responsive courses of action are scrapped in favor of a new, fourth course of action that achieves the worst aspects of the three prior courses of action but satisfies the interagency.
- Someone in State who disagrees leaks to the Washington Post, who writes a story about how ineffective the Presidential administration is.
- The White House Chief of Staff sets up a session three days later to brief the President, who approves the new fourth course of action.
- Over a month after the issue is first raised, the State Department Public Affairs Officer holds a press conference announcing that Colombia has agreed to try to send fewer criminals into the US and everyone declares victory.
Trump Approach:
- Colombia announces it will not take our repatriation flights.
- After a par-5 third hole where he goes one under par, Trump uses his iPhone to post on social media as to how the USA will destroy Colombia’s economy if they do not do what the USA demands.
- By the time Trump gets to the par-4 sixth hole, Colombia’s President has agreed to repatriate all the illegal Colombians in his own plane, which he will pay for.
- Trump finishes three under par and goes to the clubhouse for a Diet Coke where he posts a gangsta AI image of himself and the new FAFO Doctrine.
- Winning.
See the difference? It’s called LEADERSHIP.
Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita announced on Friday that his office has filed a lawsuit against the St. Joseph County Sheriff’s Department over illegal immigration.
"I filed a lawsuit against St. Joseph County Sheriff [William] Redman and his department over their persistent practice of refusing to cooperate with federal immigration authorities," Rokita told reporters at the press conference in South Bend, Indiana.
He continued, "This includes refusing to notify ICE properly about the release of illegal aliens and also refusing to honor ICE detainers. This deliberate decision to not cooperate with federal immigration authorities is giving safe harbor to criminal aliens that need to be removed from our country and this county."
ICE detainers refers to people ICE asks local authorities to hold until an agent can take custody of them.
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Todd Rokita speaking Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita announced on Friday that his office has filed a lawsuit against the St. Joseph County Sheriff’s Department over illegal immigration. (AG Todd Rokita/X)
He said the sheriff’s actions would cause more migrants in the country illegally to come to St. Joseph County and commit crimes.
"I refuse as your attorney general to just stand by and watch the lawlessness happen from law enforcement officials," he added.
Rokita said the Sheriff’s Department remains noncompliant with Indiana law after multiple attempts to communicate with the sheriff.
He noted that despite the lawsuit, Indiana will continue to support its law enforcement, "but we will also hold those who deserve to be held accountable, accountable."
"My office will not stop in our work here on this issue until the law is followed and we put our people first over illegal aliens," he said.
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Rokita said his office would "happily rescind the lawsuit" if the sheriff’s department begins to cooperate.
Sheriff William Redman Rokita's office filed the lawsuit against St. Joseph County Sheriff William Redman and his department. (St. Joseph County Sheriff's Department)
He added that his office is also investigating potential labor tracking networks in the state amid reports from residents of an influx of migrants into communities.
Fox News Digital has reached out to Redman and the St. Joseph Sheriff’s Department for comment.
The lawsuit comes as President Trump unveils his mass deportation plan, with the White House saying that hundreds of migrants in the country illegally have been removed since he was sworn-in on Monday.
Deportation flight out of U.S. People are seen boarding a U.S. military aircraft. The White House announced Friday that "deportation flights have begun" in the U.S. (White House)
"TODAY: The Trump Administration arrested 538 illegal immigrant criminals including a suspected terrorist, four members of the Tren de Aragua gang, and several illegals convicted of sex crimes against minors," White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt wrote on X on Thursday. "The Trump Administration also deported hundreds of illegal immigrant criminals via military aircraft. The largest massive deportation operation in history is well underway."
Leftist Colombian President Gustavo Petro has issued an official response to President Trump’s announcement of consequences for his country after he initially blocked flights carrying criminal aliens in the state capital of Bogata’ and it is a quite a doozy.
As The Gateway Pundit reported earlier, Petro, a former Marxist guerrilla and a vocal critic of the U.S. foreign policy, embarrassingly folded to President Donald Trump’s strategic pressure on tariffs and sanctions, making a drastic U-turn by sending the presidential plane to collect Colombian deportees previously barred from landing.
This move came after Petro’s initial bravado in blocking two U.S. military deportation flights, a decision that sparked an angry response from Trump.
But Petro appears to have finished cooperating for now and is puffing out his chest again. Late Sunday afternoon, Petro issued a bizarre statement to Trump that must be seen to be believed.
Petro first scoffed at the sanctions, remarking that he finds America “a bit boring” before going on a bizarre screed parsing a variety of far-left American political figures, including Noam Chomsky. But this was just the beginning of his nonsensical screed.
The Colombian leader went on to blast U.S. oil, call Trump a racist, and portray himself as a martyr all while using vernacular so wacky one can only wonder what is going on inside his head.
I don’t like your oil, Trump, you’re going to wipe out the human species because of greed. Maybe one day, over a glass of whiskey, which I accept, despite my gastritis, we can talk frankly about this, but it’s difficult because you consider me an inferior race and I’m not, nor is any Colombian.
So if you know someone who is stubborn, that’s me, period. You can try to carry out a coup with your economic strength and your arrogance, like they did with Allende. But I will die in my law, I resisted torture and I resist you.
I don’t want slavers next to Colombia, we already had many and we freed ourselves. What I want next to Colombia are lovers of freedom. If you can’t accompany me, I’ll go elsewhere. Colombia is the heart of the world and you didn’t understand that, this is the land of the yellow butterflies, of the beauty of Remedios, but also of the colonels Aureliano Buendía, of which I am one, perhaps the last.
You will kill me, but I will survive in my people, which is before yours, in the Americas. We are peoples of the winds, the mountains, the Caribbean Sea and of freedom.
After more race-baiting, he continued to portray himself as a Hispanic William Wallace while spouting more weird and wacky garbage.
Colombia now stops looking north, looks at the world, our blood comes from the blood of the Caliphate of Cordoba, the civilization of that time, of the Roman Latins of the Mediterranean, the civilization of that time, who founded the republic, democracy in Athens; our blood has the black resistance fighters turned into slaves by you. In Colombia is the first free territory of America, before Washington, of all America, there I take refuge in its African songs.
My land is made up of goldsmiths who worked in the time of the Egyptian pharaohs and of the first artists in the world in Chiribiquete.
You will never rule us. The warrior who rode our lands, shouting freedom, who is called Bolívar, opposes us.
Our people are somewhat fearful, somewhat timid, they are naive and kind, loving, but they will know how to win the Panama Canal, which you took from us with violence. Two hundred heroes from all of Latin America lie in Bocas del Toro, today’s Panama, formerly Colombia, which you murdered.
Petro then closed by threatening to impose tariffs on America, which would basically guarantee economic suicide for his country.
“Your blockade does not scare me, because Colombia, besides being the country of beauty, is the heart of the world,” Petro wrote.
“I am informed that you impose a 50% tariff on the fruits of our human labor to enter the United States,” he concluded. “And I do the same.”
One could say Petro should have just skipped his entire screed until the very end because no one really knows what he was talking about.
I don't buy ice cream anymore. My wife and my grandkids can't get enough of it.
Homemade Ice cream
2 cups heavy cream
14oz sweetened condensed milk
1tsp vanilla extract
Whip cream until stiff
Thoroughly mix in sweetened condensed milk and vanilla
Mix in any choc/nuts/fruit
Transfer to freezer container and freeze for 4 hours
Just like polio before it, they are placing the blame on a virus and not the pesticides they are using. Years ago there were many more articles about this.
Wish I knew how to down-doot a post.
When I was a kid and started working (late 60's early 70's), manufacturing was so rampant that you could quit a job in the morning and have a new one before dinner.
Maybe that's why I had so many (more than 2 doz.).
Don't judge me.
kek
Sometimes you can't TELL the public the truth.
YOU MUST SHOW THEM.
ONLY THEN WILL PEOPLE FIND THE WILL TO CHANGE.
CRIMES AGAINST CHILDREN unite all humanity [cross party lines]?
Difficult truths.
Q
"Nothing is ever truly erased/deleted."
-Q
It takes money to conduct a narrative. Follow the money.
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You guys are awesome!
So..he was a Diddy fan before there was a Diddy.
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Legal immigrants wanting to be citizens know and agree that they assimilate into the population.
These people don't give a shit about the population. Sudden mixtures of cultures creates turmoil. Send them back.
Trump said it: "We will not comply."
just a reshuffle
That action takes the wind out of their sails. Their power evaporates by getting stuck in a different job/responsibilities until Trump can banish them altogether.
...according to the rule of law...
The black population has GOT to be saying "Wtf have we done to ourselves?".
This public fu attitude should get the ball rolling.
I love my President!
"We have it all."