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Records Show CIA Deployed Bomb Techs, Dog Teams to DC on January 6

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January 6 continues to get even more interesting. It turns out that
the CIA was involved in the response to the disturbance.

We received
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of Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) records
from the Department of Justice in a FOIA lawsuit that show that the
CIA deployed personnel to Washington, DC, on January 6, 2021.

We forced the release of the records through a June 5, 2023,
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after the Justice Department failed to respond to an August 10, 2023,
FOIA request for records and communications regarding shots being
fired inside the U.S. Capitol, as well as requests for ATF Special
Response Team assistance on January 6, 2021 (_Judicial Watch Inc. v
U.S. Department of Justice_
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(No. 1:23-cv-01608)).

The ATF records include a series of text messages under the heading
“January 7 Intel Chain
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in which two separate references to participation by the CIA are made.

One
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that “two CIA bomb techs” are assisting with “a pipe bomb scene
on New Jersey and D ST SE.” Another references “several CIA dog
teams on standby
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Group texts contain a 4 p.m. hour message by persons whose names are
redacted regarding
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explosive devices
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found at the Democratic National Committee (DNC) building and one at
the Republican National Committee (RNC): “Train traffic is
stopped.” “It appears the powerplant is unfounded….” “Upper
west Terrance of the capital breached by protesters.” “USCP is
sending out a Mutual Aid request.” “Capital Police may be moving
resources inside.” “Protesters are cutting tarp at bottom of
scaffolding and moving up through that.” “FYSA-FC1, WASH1, SAC,
ASAC responded to Capitol….” “2 explosive devices at DNC.”
“One at rnc one at dnc.”

The “Intel Chain” also reports on the shooting of
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Babbitt
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“Shots fired house floor. 1 civilian down with a gun shot [sic]
wound to the chest on the 2nd floor. Gunshot victim has been
extracted. Shooting was officer involved.”

A separate series of
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messages
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is included in the records. In the 2 p.m. hour on January 6, 2021, the
texts read: “West Terrace has been breached [redacted] … Explosion
reported on the rotunda steps [redacted]. Shots fired at rotunda.”

Shortly thereafter, another set of texts report: Party 1: “VP stuck
inside last I heard.” Patry 2: Copy.” Party 1: “Capitol PD shot
someone dead on house floor. Dead.” Party 2: “Christ. What was the
final in the devices real or not [redacted].” Party 1: “Clearing
Capitol now with bomb techs. Lots of damage.” Party 2: “Damn
that’s scary. So sad. Thx for keeping me in the loop brother. I was
able to get I [sic] go to my team and the Director before they heard
it from outside sources.”

The “Intel Chain” also reports that members of Congress are being
evacuated to
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McNair
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which is located about two miles south of the Capitol: “Capitol has
been transferred to Fort McNair.” “It's an alternate location so
they can continue their work.”

A heavily redacted series of
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messages
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from redacted sources state, “Command post is at JERSEY and D St
SE.” Three additional recipients are added to the text group at 1:21
p.m., one of whom reports: “Just made contact with [redacted] FBI is
reporting an additional 3 possible devices for a total of 5 now.” A
response follows: “Do you have the locations of the other
devices?” The reply is: “Not yet, the FBI is going to pass it on.
I believe one was located at the gates to the Power Plant.” The
following text states: “LEO’s [Law Enforcement Officers] being
attacked on the west side of Capitol with pieces of the restraining
fence. Some officers injured.”

We are extensively investigating the events of January 6.

In February 2024, we filed a
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on
behalf of Aaron Babbitt, the late Ashli Elizabeth Babbitt’s husband,
and Ashli Babbitt’s estate against the U.S. Department of Justice
for all FBI files on Ashli Babbitt, an U.S. Air Force veteran who was
shot and killed inside the U.S. Capitol by then-Capitol Police Lt.
Michael Byrd on January 6, 2021.

In October 2023, we
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that we received the
court-ordered
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of James W. Joyce, senior counsel in the Office of the General Counsel
for the Capitol Police, in which he describes emails among senior
officials of the United States Capitol Police (USCP) in January 2021
that show warnings of possible January 6 protests that could lead to
serious disruptions at the U.S. Capitol.

In September, we received
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from
the Executive Office for United States Attorneys, a component of the
Department of Justice, in a FOIA lawsuit that detailed the extensive
apparatus the Biden Justice Department set up to investigate and
prosecute January 6 protestors.

A
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review of records
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from that lawsuit highlighted the
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declination memorandum
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justifying the decision not to prosecute U.S. Capitol Police Lt.
Michael Byrd for the shooting death of Babbitt.

In January 2023,
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from the Department of the Air Force, Joint Base Andrews, MD, showed
U.S. Capitol Police Lieutenant Michael Byrd was housed at taxpayer
expense at Joint Base Andrews after he shot and killed Babbitt.

In November 2021, we
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multiple
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and
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records
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from the DC Metropolitan Police Department about the shooting death of
Babbitt. The records included a
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phone video
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of the shooting and an audio of a brief police interview of the
shooter, Byrd.

In October 2021, United States Park Police
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related to the January 6, 2021, demonstrations showed that on the day
before the January 6 rally featuring President Trump, U.S. Park Police
expected a “large portion” of the attendees to march to the U.S.
Capitol and that the FBI was monitoring the January 6 demonstrations,
including travel to the events by “subjects of interest.”

JUDICIAL WATCH SUES FANI WILLIS FOR COMMUNICATIONS WITH JACK SMITH,
PELOSI COMMITTEE

District Attorney Fani Willis and Fulton County, Georgia, seem to have
provided false information about having no records of communications
with Jack Smith and the Pelosi January 6 committee.

We filed a Georgia Open Records Act
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against Willis and the county for records of any communication they
had with Special Counsel Jack Smith and the House January 6 Committee
(_Judicial Watch Inc. v. Fani Willis et al._
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(No. 24-CV-002805)).

We sued in the Superior Court of Fulton County, GA, after Willis and
the county denied having any records responsive to an August 2023
Georgia Open Records Act request for:

> All documents and communications sent to, received from, or relating
> to Special Counsel Jack Smith or any employees in his office.
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> All documents and communications sent to or received from the United
> States House January 6th Committee or any of its employees.
We state in the lawsuit that Willis’ and the county’s
“representation about not having records responsive to the request
is likely false.” We refer to a December 5, 2023,
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from House
Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan to Willis that cites a
December 2021, letter from Willis to then-House January 6 Committee
Chairman Bennie Thompson. In that letter Willis requested assistance
from the committee and offered to travel to DC. Jordan writes:

> Specifically, you asked Rep. Thompson for access to “record [sic]
> includ[ing] but . . . not limited to recordings and transcripts of
> witness interviews and depositions, electronic and print records of
> communications, and records of travel.” You even offered that you
> and your staff were eager to travel to Washington, D.C, to “meet
> with investigators in person” and to receive these records “any
> time” between January 31, 2022, and February 25, 2022.
We argue: “Willis’s letter to [former] Chairman Thompson is
plainly responsive to the request, yet it was neither produced to
Plaintiff in response to the request nor claimed to be subject to
exemption from production under the Open Records Act.”

We also cite recent news reports and other records which “indicate
that representatives of Willis’s office traveled to Washington, DC,
and met with January 6 Select Committee staffers in April, May, and
November 2022, as Willis proposed in her December 17, 2021 letter
…”

We state that a January 2024, _Politico_
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titled “Jan.
6 committee helped guide days of Georgia Trump probe” and a January
2024,
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from the
House Judiciary Committee to Fulton County Special Prosecutor Nathan
J. Wade are examples that “Such meetings plainly had to be
coordinated and likely generated communications if not other records
about or memorializing these meetings.”

Any such records would be responsive to our request, the lawsuit
states.

On January 30, 2024, we announced that we filed a
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against Fulton County for records regarding the hiring of Wade as a
special prosecutor by Willis. Wade was hired to pursue unprecedented
criminal investigations and prosecutions against former President
Trump and others over the 2020 election disputes.

In October 2023, we
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the DOJ for records and communications between the Office of U.S.
Special Counsel Jack Smith and the Fulton County, Georgia, District
Attorney’s office regarding requests/receipt of federal
funding/assistance in the investigation of former President Trump and
his 18 codefendants in the
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County indictment
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of August 14, 2023. To date, the DOJ is refusing to confirm or deny
the existence of records, claiming that to do so would interfere with
enforcement proceedings. Judicial Watch’s litigation challenging
this is continuing.

JUDICIAL WATCH SUES FOR TRANSCRIPTS OF BIDEN SPECIAL COUNSEL
INTERVIEWS

We filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
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against the U.S. Department of Justice for records of all Special
Counsel interviews of President Biden (_Judicial Watch, Inc. v. U.S.
Department of Justice_
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(No. 1:24-cv-00700)).

We filed the lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of
Columbia after the Department of Justice failed to respond to a
February 8, 2024, FOIA request for “all transcripts, audio
recordings, and video recordings of all interviews of President Biden
conducted during the course of the investigation led by Special
Counsel Robert Hur.”

On February 5, 2024, Hur
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the “Report of the Special Counsel on the Investigation Into
Unauthorized Removal, Retention, and Disclosure of Classified
Documents Discovered at Locations Including the Penn Biden Center and
the Delaware Private Residence of President Joseph R. Biden, Jr.”

In the report, Hur called Biden a “well-meaning, elderly man with a
poor memory” and declined to charge Biden with a “serious
felony:”

> We have also considered that, at trial, Mr. Biden would likely
> present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview of him, as
> a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory. Based
> on our direct interactions with and observations of him, he is
> someone for whom many jurors will want to identify reasonable doubt.
> It would be difficult to convince a jury that they should convict
> him-by then a former president well into his eighties-of a serious
> felony that requires a mental state of willfulness.
Prior to the finalization of the report, the White House issued
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letter
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to the Special Counsel’s office attacking the report’s
“treatment of President Biden’s memory,” and added “there is
ample evidence from your interview that the President did well in
answering your questions …”

The Biden Justice Department needs to stop protecting Joe Biden,
follow the law, and release the transcript and any recordings of his
interviews.

The written transcript
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was released almost immediately after Judicial Watch filed its
lawsuit, but we still are interested in any audio or videos of
Biden’s interviews with the special counsel – so stay tuned for
more.

HAITI GETS MILLIONS MORE FROM U.S. AFTER GANGS TAKE OVER, BILLIONS IN
AID PERISH

Does anyone seriously believe that throwing more taxpayer money at
Haiti will do any good? The country is in gang-infested ruin, and yet
more of your tax dollars are on the way. Our _Corruption Chronicles_
blog explains
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> Rife with fraud and corruption, the U.S. government’s
> multi-billion-dollar Haiti aid program has failed miserably to help
> citizens of the impoverished island, yet the Biden administration is
> sending more money as violence and lawlessness grip the country.
> Armed gangs have overrun most of the capital of Port-au-Prince and
> political instability has plateaued, but the American taxpayer
> dollars keep flowing with no oversight though billions in assistance
> have vanished since an earthquake struck Haiti nearly a decade and a
> half ago.
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> This week Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced that the U.S.
> is sending another $33 million in humanitarian assistance
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> to the Caribbean nation to provide in-kind food assistance,
> nutrition support, essential health services, improved access to
> clean water, and prevention and response to gender-based violence,
> among other critical humanitarian activities. “Since February 29,
> organized criminal groups have escalated violence, exacerbating the
> humanitarian situation for Haitians,” says the government press
> release announcing the recent allocation. “Displaced people are
> struggling to access food, health care, water, hygiene facilities,
> and psychological support, further compounding their already dire
> needs.” The document reveals that the U.S. remains the single
> largest donor of humanitarian assistance to Haiti, providing tens of
> millions of dollars in assistance in the last year alone. “The
> United States will continue to stand with Haitians during this
> challenging time, working to save lives and alleviate suffering
> caused by the humanitarian crisis,” the government writes.
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> Since the 2010 earthquake Uncle Sam alone has provided Haiti with
> over $5.6 billion
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> to help the nation bounce back but 14 years later the situation is
> more dire for the island’s 12 million residents and no one really
> knows what happened to the money. The funds were supposed to provide
> Haiti with “life-saving post-disaster relief as well as
> longer-term recovery, reconstruction, and development programs,”
> according to the State Department, which confirms that after another
> earthquake in 2021 the U.S. “again mobilized a whole-of-government
> effort to provide immediate assistance at the Haitian government’s
> request.” Haiti’s reconstruction and development will continue
> for many years, the State Department predicts, adding that in the
> last few years alone it has doled out hundreds of millions of
> dollars in humanitarian and health assistance for Haiti.
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> Even before the natural disasters the U.S.—under both Democratic
> and Republican administrations—has dedicated enormous amounts of
> money to help Haiti despite systemic lapses in the programs it
> funds. For instance, a costly initiative to build housing failed
> miserably after the U.S. spent $90 million
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> and tens of thousands of Haitians remain homeless a decade later.
> The Clinton Foundation and Clinton Bush Haiti Fund also came up with
> some $88 million for earthquake recovery but Haiti remains a
> disaster, the poorest country in the western hemisphere. Even before
> the tremor a federal audit
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revealed that hundreds
> of millions of American taxpayer dollars were wasted on reckless
> Haitian projects with the single largest chunk—$170.3
> million—going to a failed port and power plant adventure heavily
> promoted by Bill and Hillary Clinton. The Clinton-backed power and
> port venture is the biggest and most expensive failure mentioned in
> the probe, which was ordered by a Florida congresswoman who at the
> time confirmed a “troubling lack of progress and accountability”
> in Haiti reconstruction projects. All these years later many
> Haitians still live in deplorable, shanty town tent cities and a
> never-ending epidemic of cholera keeps claiming lives. Nearly half
> of the Haitian population does not have enough food
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> according to the United Nations.
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> At the beginning of last year the Biden administration awarded Haiti
> another $56.5 million
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in
> humanitarian aid, explaining that it was “for the people of Haiti
> in response to the country’s humanitarian crisis and cholera
> epidemic.” A few months later the administration sent another $54
> million
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> under the auspice of Caribbean climate funding. The government
> claimed the money would counter the island’s ongoing
> “humanitarian crisis,” including gang violence on civilians that
> has prevented Haitians from accessing critical food, safe drinking
> water and other basic supplies. The recent turmoil should make it
> even tougher for aid to reach the Haitian people, though the U.S. is
> not addressing that in its latest allocation. It is unknown where
> exactly the money will go and how it will be spent since the
> administration only mentions that the funds “will support the
> World Food Program (WFP), UNICEF, and NGO partners.”

FLORIDA SHERIFF: ‘FEDERAL POLICY DRIVES ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT CRIME’

Thank goodness for those who speak up against the Biden border
invasion. A Florida sheriff has seen the evil consequences up close,
as our _Corruption Chronicles_ blog reports
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> No American state, not even Republican-led Florida with its strict
> law to mitigate the negative impact of record-breaking illegal
> immigration, can escape the detrimental effects of the Biden
> administration’s catastrophic open border policies. A major human
> trafficking operation recently busted by a multi-agency task force
> in central Florida helps illustrate that illegal aliens are not just
> victimizing communities that offer them sanctuary. The problem is
> spreading nationwide, even to areas where local governments do not
> welcome illegal aliens or shield them from federal authorities.
>
> In central Florida’s Polk County, which has a population of around
> 780,000, authorities just dismantled a large-scale human trafficking
> ring that resulted in the arrest of hundreds, including 21 illegal
> immigrants, involved in acts related to soliciting prostitutes,
> offering to commit prostitution, or aiding and abetting prostitutes.
> Authorities coined it “Operation March Sadness 2024
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> recently confirmed that more than a dozen of the 66 identified
> prostitutes were likely human trafficking victims. Law enforcement
> officials issued 70 felony charges and 288 misdemeanors and the
> suspects’ criminal histories include a combined 879 felonies and
> 1,150 misdemeanors. At least 11 suspects told detectives they
> receive government assistance. Illegal drugs such as fentanyl,
> heroin, methamphetamine, and cocaine were also seized in the sting
> as well as 17 firearms. The eldest person was 73 and youngest 16,
> officials say.
>
> The illegal immigrants arrested in the operation are recent arrivals
> from Chile, Cuba, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, and Venezuela. During a
> televised press conference
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Polk County Sheriff
> Grady Judd blasts the federal government for failing to enforce
> immigration laws. During the segment the sheriff, who oversees a
> force of about 1,800, introduced a poster board from the podium with
> mug shots of the illegal immigrant suspects and silhouettes of
> several victims also in the U.S. illegally so they could not be
> identified. Above the mugshots, in large black letters the poster
> read: “Federal Policy Drives Illegal Immigrant Crime and
> Victimization.” Grady pointed to one of the suspects on the board
> and provided a larger mug shot for the media, explaining that he
> came from New York with three females who are controlled by a human
> trafficker that sets up their appointments, posts ads online and
> tells them where to go. The prostitutes then fly to major metro
> centers where they set up their appointments for sex, said the
> sheriff, who was first elected in 2004 and has been reelected four
> times since. “We have a crisis at the border,” Sheriff Judd
> said. “And because of the crisis at the border we have people that
> are victimizing illegal folks, forcing them into the sex trade
> because we allow these criminals in the country illegally.”
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> Unlike a growing number of law enforcement agencies nationwide that
> have adopted sanctuary policies, the Polk County Sheriff’s Office
> (PCSO) fully cooperates with Immigration and Customs Enforcement
> (ICE) when it encounters criminal illegal immigrants in its
> jurisdiction or jails. Under a partnership known as 287(g), PCSO
> honors ICE detainers and notifies the federal agency of inmates in
> the country illegally so that they can be deported. A few years ago,
> PCSO enlisted in a collaborative federal initiative, known as
> Warrant Service Officer
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> program, that expands the immigration enforcement powers of local
> police after training officers to perform certain duties typically
> carried out by federal immigration agents. “The WSO program will
> protect communities from criminal aliens who threaten vulnerable
> populations with violence, drugs and gang activity by allowing
> partner jurisdictions the flexibility to make immigration arrests in
> their jail or correctional facility,” Acting ICE Director Matthew
> Albence said when the program was launched in 2019.
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> To further deter illegal immigrants from coming to the Sunshine
> State, Florida also passed a law
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> sanctuary cities in the entire state. The measure also requires
> local police to fully comply with federal immigration authorities
> and authorizes law enforcement agencies to transport an alien
> unlawfully present in the U.S. under certain circumstances. Public
> universities and colleges must also abide by the law. Even with the
> strict measures, it appears Florida cannot escape the wrath of the
> unprecedented illegal immigration crisis created by the Biden
> administration.

Until next week,





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