Lake Worth Beach's City Manager position

ICE fears arise as 2 Lake Worth city manager candidates interviewed

Half of our City does not speak English at home

Two of four candidates to become Lake Worth Beach city manager addressed concerns about ICE detentions in a city filled with recent immigrants

Days after one of Palm Beach County's most immigrant-filled cities signed a policing deal over the objections of ICE critics, the issue of how to deal with detentions — and the fear of them — came up again in Lake Worth Beach's search for a new city manager.

The City Commission voted 3-1 on Sept. 2 to increase payments by $500,000 annually for three years to the police agency it contracts with, the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office, to hire park rangers. Advocates for immigrants and their U.S.-born families demanded the city reject the deal because PBSO works with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The city will spend more than $15.8 million annually.

Two of the four finalists for the city manager position discussed during a Sept. 9 commission meeting the fear from residents worrying that law enforcement will detain them and turn them over to ICE, regardless of whether they have broken the law.

About 41% of the city's nearly 44,000 residents come from another country, and 57% do not speak English at home, U.S. Census Bureau estimates show.

Commissioner Chris McVoy, the lone "no" vote on the PBSO contract, pointed out that federal government has ramped up its denials of asylum cases. "Legal help is not going to do any good," he said. McVoy said "the federal government is regularly doing things they know they can't do, and they're doing them anyway. ... We need much stronger pushback that says we need to do something that actually is useful."

The Sheriff's Office works with ICE through Section 287(g) of the federal Immigration and Nationality Act, which allows ICE to deputize state and local law-enforcement agencies. Gov. Ron DeSantis required Florida law-enforcement agencies to comply in 2025.

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Contract with PBSO all up in the air over immigration enforcement

Lake Worth Beach commissioners did not take a vote on a new policing contract

with the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office during Tuesday’s meeting

But one commissioner used the closing comments to signal that immigration enforcement remains a central concern as the agreement returns for consideration.

This is all about ICE and the deportation of illegals with the assistance of PBSO

Commissioner Christopher McVoy said the city has a legal basis to limit the use of local law enforcement resources for federal immigration enforcement.

McVoy pointed to a recent federal court decision involving Washtenaw County, Michigan, where the court dismissed the U.S. Department of Justice’s challenge to local policies that limited assistance to federal immigration authorities.

“The federal government cannot force us to do things,” McVoy said, arguing Lake Worth Beach should not dilute local policing resources with federal immigration enforcement. “We have a legal basis to push back. And we should.”

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ICE had Murderer in custody but Biden let him loose

Raul Aballe would be alive today if our government had done its job.

That’s not hyperbole or partisan spin. That’s the cold, hard truth staring us in the face from Miami, where a 42-year-old man died on a hospital bed with a bullet in his stomach because bureaucrats in Washington made a choice that put ideology over common sense.

William Serrano Domenech, the man charged with killing Aballe, shouldn’t have been walking American streets. The 49-year-old Cuban national had a criminal record so extensive it reads like a tour of America’s most permissive immigration policies.

We’re talking convictions across Florida and Michigan for drug trafficking and illegal firearm possession. Arrests in New Mexico and Tennessee for aggravated assault, theft, and resisting arrest. This wasn’t some guy who overstayed a visa and kept his nose clean. This was a career criminal who somehow remained in our country despite giving us every reason to show him the door.

Here’s where it gets infuriating. ICE had Domenech in custody in 2023. They had him. And the Biden Administration let him go.

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Angie Nixon, Playing the Race Card

The DNC just made abolishing ICE official party policy

Now a Florida Senate candidate is telling Black voters that ICE agents will shoot them in the streets.

Tom Homan had four words for Democrat Angie Nixon that ended the conversation.

Angie Nixon – the Democratic Socialist who just shocked Florida by winning the Senate primary – went on a podcast and told listeners that ICE agents cannot tell the difference between black Americans and illegal immigrants from Jamaica or Nigeria.

Then she went further. "They are going to racially profile us," Nixon said, "and they are going to escalate things, and they are going to shoot and kill us." Not a policy critique. Not a call for reform.

A direct claim that federal immigration agents are hunting black Americans.

Homan's response was four words: "That's a ridiculous statement."

Then he explained exactly why. "We don't racially profile. Everybody we talk to, we have reasonable suspicion of aliens to talk to them and to arrest them we need probable cause. That's what the law says. And that's what we do."

He wasn't finished.

"We don't arrest people based on the color of their skin,” he said. “I'm actually an equal opportunity deporter. I deported people to 180 countries last year. I don't care if you're from Asia, you're from Europe, or you're from other countries. If you're in the country illegally, you will be deported, regardless of the color of your skin."

Then he explained exactly why. "We don't racially profile. Everybody we talk to, we have reasonable suspicion of aliens to talk to them and to arrest them we need probable cause. That's what the law says. And that's what we do."

He wasn't finished.

"We don't arrest people based on the color of their skin,” he said. “I'm actually an equal opportunity deporter. I deported people to 180 countries last year. I don't care if you're from Asia, you're from Europe, or you're from other countries. If you're in the country illegally, you will be deported, regardless of the color of your skin."

But Democrats would much rather play the race card...pathetically sad....they have nohing left to play.

Liberal lawyer screams at ICE agent

Woke “lawyer" gets in ICE agent's face! - She gets a BRUTAL reality check

“If you get in my face again we’ll have a problem!!”

A deranged “TikTok lawyer” tried to scream in an ICE agent’s face during an enforcement operation. It did not end well for her at all… “If you get in my face again we’ll have a problem!!”

ICE deports criminal illegals

ICE removes gang members convicted of manslaughter, attempted murder, and sexual assault

Immigration and Customs Enforcement deported five illegal immigrant gang members with convictions ranging from manslaughter to sexual assault, part of what DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin called delivering on "President Trump's mandate from the American people."

The deportees, removed over the past week, belonged to four separate criminal gangs and held convictions across at least seven categories of violent and drug-related offenses. Three were Mexican nationals. One came from Honduras. One came from the Dominican Republic. All five had criminal records that stretched well beyond a single charge.

Mullin framed the removals as a direct public-safety gain. Breitbart News reported the secretary's full statement, in which he ticked through the categories of offenders ICE had put on planes.

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Now if this happened in Lake Worth, there would be demonstrations at City Hall with all the anti-Ice liberals acting stupid..

Compliant Technologies Built a Glove That Stops a Fight Without a Single Bullet called G.L.O.V.E.

Tom Homan Just Laid the Leather on Critics of the New Gear He Got for ICE

Assaults on ICE agents have spiked more than 1,300 percent since Trump took office. Now the agency wants to arm agents with something besides a firearm.

The tool Homan just defended is already dividing Washington before agents even get it. DHS is planning to spend up to $20 million on a device called G.L.O.V.E., short for Generated Low Output Voltage Emitter. A Kentucky company called Compliant Technologies LLC builds it.

The glove looks normal until an agent activates it, then a single touch delivers a jolt strong enough to stop a combative suspect cold. No projectiles, no chase, no split second decision about pulling a trigger.

The manufacturer's own guidance keeps agents from using it on senior citizens, kids, pregnant women, or anyone with a serious disability.

ICE says agents will have to renew their certification every two years and are expected to try standard de-escalation tactics before ever reaching for the glove. DHS could start handing the gloves out as early as March 2027.

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Immigrant groups want to protect Illegals from the Law

Lake Worth Beach urged to rethink PBSO contract extension over fears of immigration crackdown

It's all about ICE and allowing anyone to enter our country uninvited

Immigrant rights groups on Thursday gathered outside Lake Worth Beach City Hall to decry the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office 287(g) enforcement agreement with federal immigration authorities.

The groups are urging members of the Lake Worth Beach city commission to reject a proposed 10-year contract extension with the sheriff's office.

Their argument: “Lake Worth Beach has an opportunity to decide what kind of community it wants to be,” said Renata Bozzetto, Deputy Director of the Florida Immigrant Coalition, (a group that wants all people to live and work without fear) “A 10-year law-enforcement agreement that expands collaboration with federal immigration authorities deserves far more scrutiny than a routine contract renewal."

"We have hundreds of families who are [being] separated, hundreds of kids who are left without a mom and a dad who are either in detention or deported at this moment," Bozzetto said. "It's hurting the community on a daily basis."

Lake Worth contracts with PBSO for 24/7 public safety services. PBSO provides everything from top command officers to school crossing guards, allowing the city not to have to fund its own police department.

The Lake Worth Beach city commission is expected to discuss the proposed extension with PBSO on Aug. 18.

The city will also supply a dedicated local district office for the assigned deputies. Annual cost could total nearly $16 million for the contract. Additional law enforcement services are billed at hourly rates of $142 for a deputy and $183 for a sergeant.

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Don Lemon insists his arrest and charges be dismissed--Trump's to blame

Don Lemon insists charges for mob invasion of church must be dismissed because of Trump

Claims 'the Justice Department acted on the president's animus' against him

Media personality Don Lemon, fired by CNN, is insisting that charges against him stemming from that mob invasion of a church in Minnesota must be dismissed because of President Donald Trump.

After all, Trump doesn't like Lemon and repeatedly has made critical comments about him. That means, according to a court filing, the charges are a "vindictive prosecution" and must go away.

The arguments, of course, overlook what noted commentator Robert Knight said was an invasion where those protesting border security law enforcement in the region made the decision to "scream at parishioners, terrify children and harass people."

He wrote, "If you're a leftwing activist living in St. Paul, Minnesota, you now have official state sanction to invade a church, scream at parishioners, terrify children and harass people on their way out of the worship service. All of that happened at Cities Church last Jan. 18, when a mob invaded the Southern Baptist church during a protest because one of its pastors is also an official with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)."

He explained, "Protesters reduced children to tears by screaming at them, 'Do you know your parents are Nazis? They're going to burn in hell.' Others accused the parishioners of being 'rich' and 'white.' (Tim Malone, Don Lemon's spouse, is White and has a net worth of $3 million to $10 million)

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Don Lemon was arrested and indicted on federal civil rights charges by the U.S. Department of Justice following an anti-ICE protest at Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota, on January 18, 2026

A Cart of Anti-ICE Signage and a Bucket of Gasoline

Tom Homan Stopped Democrat Attackers Cold After the NYC Firebombing With One Warning for Mayor Mamdani

A man armed with axes, a machete and gasoline tried to burn down the federal building that houses ICE in New York City Monday.

Tom Homan skipped past the axes and the gasoline and blamed the people who armed that man with an excuse.

Andrew Arrabaca showed up outside 26 Federal Plaza in Lower Manhattan Monday morning hauling a cart marked with anti-ICE signage. He lit a firework packed inside a canister, fired five to seven rounds from an airsoft rifle at the building, then dumped a bucket of gasoline and set the entrance ablaze.

Federal investigators later found two axes, a machete, three knives and a hammer stashed in his gear.

PJ Media reported Homan has spent recent weeks warning on air that the hostility built up against ICE was about to boil over into real violence.

"There's still going to be more bloodshed unless they shut their mouth and let ICE enforce the laws that they enacted," Homan told Fox News before the NYC attack even happened.

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Jennings Shuts Down The Blame Game In Under Thirty Seconds

Scott Jennings Destroyed CNN’s Sarah Sidner The Moment She Blamed ICE For the Manhattan Firebombing

An anti-ICE extremist poured gasoline outside a federal building in Manhattan and set it on fire Monday morning.

Andrew Arrabaca is a 43-year-old Army veteran from Poughkeepsie, New York. On Monday morning he showed up at the employee entrance of 26 Federal Plaza pushing a cart stocked with two axes, a machete, three knives, a hammer and six fireworks.

Hours later a CNN anchor looked at Scott Jennings and asked whether ICE was actually to blame for it. What Jennings said next left her with absolutely nothing to say. Jennings did not blink.

He laid Sidner's own logic back at her in one sentence.

If you dislike what a federal agency is doing, he said, you have three choices – vote, use your words, or set off an incendiary device at a federal building.

Arrabaca picked option three.

"There's no justification for this," Jennings said, and the debate was over.

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Tom Homan has "had it!"

Illegal aliens being coached to defy ICE

DHS chief calls out top Democrats,aka Anti-Americans, for coaching illegal immigrants on how to resist ICE

Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin singled out four of the Democratic Party's most visible figures, including two widely discussed 2028 presidential contenders, for hosting webinars, publishing multilingual guides, and posting social media instructions that he said teach illegal immigrants how to "openly defy" Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.

Mullin's broadside, delivered in a social media post shared by DHS, named Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, California Gov. Gavin Newsom, Rep. Dan Goldman of New York (at least he lost his primary), and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass.

AOC framed immigration enforcement itself as an "abuse" of power.

The accusation landed the same morning President Trump announced that ICE would resume vehicle stops after a one-day pause triggered by two officer-involved shootings in Maine and Texas.

As Fox News Digital reported, Mullin tied the spike in dangerous encounters directly to what he called reckless guidance from elected officials. In his post, the secretary wrote:

"This reckless [illegal alien] activity comes after sanctuary politicians held webinars and shared resources for how to openly defy [ICE]."

Mullin's 1,300 percent figure on vehicle attacks, if accurate, suggests the coaching is having real-world consequences. Officers are getting attacked at rates that forced DHS to temporarily pull back one of its core enforcement tools.

The secretary drew a direct line between the webinars, the Instagram posts, the flyers, and the violence his agents face on the road.

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Communist Delivery Driver Rips off ICE and steals their food

Buffalo DoorDash Driver Stole ICE Orders Until She Said The Wrong Thing To One Rep

"I love Communism," she said

A gig driver who calls herself a communist bragged about stealing federal agents' food. She assumed the company would quietly let her keep getting away with it.

One conversation with a company representative ended her scheme for good.

A driver going by nixxslingerland operates out of Batavia, New York. The Daily Caller identified her as Nix Slingerland, matching a Facebook profile using the same photo.

Batavia is home to the Buffalo Federal Detention Center, an ICE processing facility that orders food through delivery apps just like any other workplace. Slingerland decided that was reason enough to steal from federal employees.

She posted screenshots bragging that she had canceled an order bound for the detention center and kept the food, mocking the intended recipients as Nazis in the process.

The account behind the posts describes itself as agender and queer, and it links to content supporting drag performers and anti-ICE protests. DoorDash fired her.

This is what open hatred of law enforcement looks like in 2026. A driver decides federal agents protecting the border do not deserve the meals customers paid for, then calls it communism while pocketing free candy.

DoorDash did the right thing...she should be arrested.

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Marco steps in and Deports pardoned criminal

Marco Rubio Deports Convict Child Rapist After Democrat Walz Pardoned Him

Government exists, first and foremost, to protect people who cannot protect themselves. That’s not a partisan statement. It’s the baseline. Every oath of office, every law on the books, every badge pinned to a chest — all of it flows from that single obligation.

When an elected official actively undermines that mission, he hasn’t just failed at his job. He’s betrayed the very people who trusted him with power.

Which raises an uncomfortable question: what do you do when a sitting governor uses the pardon power to prevent federal authorities from removing a convicted child rapist from American soil? Not a wrongly accused man.

Not a minor offender caught up in red tape. A man who admitted — proudly, almost — to raping a 10-year-old girl. The answer tells you everything about where progressive priorities actually land.

An illegal alien child rapist from Laos who was set for deportation until Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and the State Board of Pardons granted him clemency has been removed from the United States, Secretary of State Marco Rubio told Fox News Digital.

Rubio stepped in to terminate Tue Lue Vang’s legal status in the U.S. and ensure that Walz’s actions would not create roadblocks for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) removing him from the country.

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Lake Worth Beach Bakery owner taken into custody by ICE

Lake Worth Beach business owner arrested in ICE operation

family, community push back on agency's claims

ICE says Jacob Zapeta Castro is a 'criminal illegal alien' who has been deported 4 times

A Lake Worth bakery owner is in federal custody after Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested him in what the agency is calling a targeted immigration operation — and his family, coworkers, and community members are pushing back on ICE's characterization of the man.

The arrest of Jacob Zapeta Castro happened at a Guatemalan bakery on Lucerne Avenue, just over the train tracks in Lake Worth Beach, on a day that employees say started like any other.

ICE says Zapeta Castro is "a criminal illegal alien from Guatemala who has been removed from the United States four times and has an extensive criminal history including illegal re-entry after deportation, multiple DUI arrests, hit and run, and resisting law enforcement."

According to ICE, officers encountered a vehicle associated with Zapeta Castro around 10:30 a.m. Wednesday. When they attempted to stop him, the agency says he tried to ram an ICE vehicle, then got out, fled, and barricaded himself inside the bakery.

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Jacob Zapeta Castro is the owner of El Quetzal Panaderia Y Cafeteria on Lucerne Avenue in Lake Worth Beach, FL. He was taken into federal custody during a joint U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) operation.

Mayor Mamdani defends Illegals and condems our Government

NYC Mayor Mamdani marks Independence Day by defending illegal immigrants as ICE arrests convicted criminals

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani chose the Fourth of July to deliver an Independence Day address focused not on the nation's founding or the men and women who defend it, but on the plight of illegal immigrants facing enforcement by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

The speech landed just days after the Department of Homeland Security published a detailed press release listing ICE arrests of illegal aliens convicted of child sex offenses, manslaughter, drug trafficking, and other serious crimes.

The contrast could hardly be sharper. While Mamdani described ICE agents as a menace to neighborhoods, DHS was naming the people those agents had just pulled off American streets, and the crimes that put them there.

In his address, as Breitbart reported, Mamdani cast immigration enforcement in stark terms, describing agents carrying out federal law as an occupying force:

• "We see masked agents terrorizing our streets, eating food cooked by our undocumented neighbors before spiriting them away in unmarked vans."
• He went further, framing resistance to ICE operations as an expression of patriotism: "We see America each time neighbors link arms with neighbors without asking how long they have lived here or what papers they have as ICE invades our neighborhood."
• And he characterized supporters of immigration enforcement as motivated by bigotry: "America, they will tell you, belongs only to those with the right accent or the right shade of skin. The rest of us, they insist, should be grateful for merely being allowed to visit. How small they are, how weak, how unoriginal."

The Mayor who hates America

DHS Acting Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis offered a pointed rebuttal to the kind of framing Mamdani employed. Her statement addressed the arrests directly:

"Yesterday, ICE arrested murderers, pedophiles, sexual predators, drug traffickers, and other criminal illegal aliens convicted of heinous crimes. Thanks to President Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill, ICE is supercharged with 12,000 new law enforcement officers to remove the worst of the worst from American communities.

Nearly 70 percent of ICE arrests are of illegal aliens charged or convicted of a crime in the U.S."

Trump Taps 29-Year Vet Lance Schroyer to Lead ICE

Trump nominates 29-year law enforcement vet Lance Schroyer to lead ICE

President Trump said Saturday that he has nominated Lance Schroyer to serve as the next ICE Director. Schroyer is a former Oklahoma State Trooper and a United States Marine. The pick would put a long-time law enforcement figure in one of the most closely watched immigration jobs in Washington.

The nomination also stands out because ICE has gone 11 years without a Senate-confirmed director. That is a long stretch for an agency that sits at the center of the immigration fight. If Schroyer gets through the Senate, he would inherit a job built around arrests, removals, and coordination with state and local police.

Trump praised Schroyer’s background and said he has real hands-on experience. In his statement, Trump said, “I am very pleased to announce that I have nominated Lance Schroyer to be our next ICE Director.”

Schroyer’s résumé is heavy on street-level policing. Trump said he has over 29 years of law enforcement experience in Oklahoma, and that he has worked on 287(g) partnerships with ICE. Those partnerships let local agencies work more directly with federal immigration authorities, which is exactly the kind of setup the administration has been leaning on.

Markwayne Mullin also backed the move. “With over 29 years of law enforcement experience, Lance will play a vital role in helping deliver on the President’s mandate from the American people to target, arrest, and deport illegal aliens,” Mullin said.

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Illegal attacked ICE agent

Mexican national arrested for allegedly attacking ICE agent during Orange County traffic stop

A Mexican national is facing a felony charge after he allegedly struck a federal agent and fled the scene during an Orange County traffic stop last week, prompting a multi-agency manhunt.

On Tuesday, June 16, the Florida Highway Patrol’s Criminal Alien Apprehension Team, working alongside U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, conducted a traffic stop near the intersection of Americana Boulevard and Pointe Vista Circle in Orange County, according to a media release from the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles (FLHSMV).

During the traffic stop, multiple occupants reportedly exited the vehicle and fled on foot. An ICE agent pursued one of the fleeing subjects, identified as Elias Bautista, and attempted to detain him.

FLHSMV reported that Bautista, who authorities say entered the country illegally, actively resisted apprehension. A physical altercation ensued, and Bautista allegedly struck the ICE agent, causing the federal officer to sustain a “significant head injury.”

“ICE officers are facing a 1,300% increase in assaults, a 3,200% increase in vehicle attacks, and an 8,000% increase in death threats.

To make a long story short, they captured the SOB who fled again and who is charged with a felony.

FLHSMV Executive Director Dave Kerner: “We remain focused on ensuring that those who endanger our officers or our communities are held fully accountable, especially those who should have never been in our country to begin with.”

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But Democrats want to abolish ICE and jeopardize the safety of all American citizens.

Domestic Terrorists sentenced

Antifa Leader Benjamin Song Gets 100 Years for Texas ICE Attack

Eight of the ten people convicted in the Texas attack on a federal immigration detention center learned their sentences on Tuesday, and the punishments were steep. Benjamin Song, identified by prosecutors as the group’s leader, received 100 years in prison.

The case stems from the July 4, 2025, attack on the Prairieland ICE detention center in Alvarado, Texas. Prosecutors said the group came prepared, fired off fireworks, vandalized property, and shot at police officers who responded. One officer was struck in the neck with a bullet and survived.

According to the sentencing breakdown reported Tuesday, Maricela Rueda received 70 years. Autumn Hill received 50 years, along with Zachary Evetts, Savanna Batten, Meagan Morris, and Elizabeth Soto. Daniel Rolando Sanchez-Estrada was sentenced to 30 years.

The defendants were convicted earlier this year on a wide range of charges, including riot-related offenses, providing material support to terrorists, conspiracy to use and carry an explosive, using and carrying an explosive, attempted murder of an officer, discharging a firearm during a violent crime, and charges tied to concealing documents. In March, a jury found nine Antifa members guilty after a 12-day trial in federal court.

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