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ICE detains woman in Pasadena; Trump sues LA over 'sanctuary' policy By Joe Taglieri joet@beaconmedianews.com
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simmigration enforcement activity continues in Pasadena and throughout the Los Angeles area, Monday the Trump administration sued Los Angeles over so-called "sanctuary city" policies. On Saturday around 7:30 a.m. the Pasadena Police Department received a 911 call reporting suspicious activity at Del Mar Boulevard and Catalina Avenue, Chief Gene Harris said. Officers and a supervisor responded and discovered an ICE operation. Officers verified the federal agents' identification, Harris reported. The agents detained one adult female without incident, and Pasadena
police "did not assist ICE in the apprehension as PPD was solely there for the call for service," Harris said in a statement. The Pasadena Fire Department was called to evaluate the woman who was detained and treated her at the scene. She declined to go to the hospital. Harris said the woman's family was very cooperative in diffusing the situation when a small group assembled near the scene of the ICE operation. "PPD remained on scene to provide for public safety," Harris said. Pasadena officials canceled recreation activities at local parks earlier this month after reports of
An ICE officer participates in a 2018 enforcement operation. | Photo courtesy of the U.S. National Archives
federal immigration enforcement activity in the city.
Officials canceled swim lessons and other programs
at Villa Parke, Robinson Park and Victory Park “out of an abundance of caution after seeing social media posts of what appears to be federal enforcement activity at Villa Parke (Saturday) morning and the potential escalation of conflict that unannounced federal enforcement activity causes,” according to a statement posted on X. Thecancellations followed an ICE detention of six individuals around 6 a.m. June 18 near a Pasadena shopping center, including two men at a bus stop at Los Robles Avenue and Orange Grove Boulevard. 'Sanctuary' lawsuit The Trump administration Monday sued the
city of Los Angeles, Mayor Karen Bass and the City Council over the so-called "sanctuary city" ordinance, alleging the law enacted after Trump's election violates the Constitution by interfering with the federal government’s immigration enforcement. Via sanctuary laws, local officials declare their refusal to assist immigration enforcement operations. “Sanctuary policies were the driving cause of the violence, chaos, and attacks on law enforcement that Americans recently witnessed in Los Angeles,” Attorney General Pamela See ICE Page 23
Kristi Noem secretly took a cut of political donations By Justin Elliott, Joshua Kaplan and Alex Mierjeski, ProPublica This story was originally published by ProPublica. ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox.
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n 2023, while Kristi Noem was governor of South Dakota, she supplemented her income by secretly accepting a cut of the money she raised for a nonprofit that promotes her political career, tax records show. In what experts described as a highly unusual arrangement, the nonprofit routed funds to a personal company of Noem’s that had recently been established in Delaware. The payment totaled $80,000 that year, a significant boost to her roughly $130,000
government salary. Since the nonprofit is a so-called dark money group — one that’s not required to disclose the names of its donors — the original source of the money remains unknown. Noem then failed to disclose the $80,000 payment to the public. After President Donald Trump selected Noem to be his secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, she had to release a detailed accounting of her assets and sources of income from
Then Governor of South Dakota Kristi Noem speaking with attendees at The People’s Convention at Huntington Place in Detroit, Michigan. | Photo by Gage Skidmore CC BY-SA 2.0
2023 on. She did not include the income from the dark money group on her disclo-
sure form, which experts called a likely violation of federal ethics requirements.
Experts told ProPublica it was troubling that Noem was personally taking money that came from political donors. In a filing, the group, a nonprofit called American Resolve Policy Fund, described the $80,000 as a payment for fundraising. The organization said Noem had brought in hundreds of thousands of dollars. There is nothing remarkable about a politician
raising money for nonprofits and other groups that promote their campaigns or agendas. What’s unusual, experts said, is for a politician to keep some of the money for themselves. “If donors to these nonprofits are not just holding the keys to an elected official’s political future but also literally providing them with their income, that’s new and disturbing,” said Daniel Weiner, a former
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