Federal Judge Temporarily Blocks Virginia’s Law On ICE Cooperation

By William Teach September 1, 2026 – 10:30 am

Virginia is now 0-2 on their ICE hatred, having previously been blocked on their ICE mask ban

Bummer

(WRIC) A new law regulating how Virginia’s local law enforcement agencies participate in immigration enforcement alongside U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has been temporarily blocked by a federal judge.

Multiple new laws regulating ICE enforcement in Virginia have faced legal challenges from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) in recent months.

On Monday, Aug. 31, a federal judge granted an injunction temporarily blocking a law involved in one such lawsuit. This injunction will keep the law from being enforced as the legal process plays out.

Companion bills SB 783 and HB 1441 placed constraints on Section 287(g) agreements within the state. These agreements allow law enforcement agencies to assist ICE in immigration enforcement.

This is different from simply having a working relationship with ICE and complying with ICE investigations, which all agencies are expected to do. Instead, 287(g) agreements allow law enforcement to actively participate in immigration enforcement.

Under this new law, Virginia’s local and state agencies cannot maintain, renew or enter into any federal immigration agreement unless it meets certain conditions. Law enforcement is also barred from assisting in immigration operations unless presented with a valid judicial warrant, subpoena or detainer.

The federal judge stated that Virginia was violating the Constitution in multiple ways, and was overriding federal authority. This is just preliminary, stopping the law from taking effect, but, it sure looks like Virginia will lose. Don’t forget, a goodly chunk of the counties in Va. are Republican, it’s just the populations of liberals in small areas like northern Va near DC that make the state “Democrat”.

And, yes, there is some cooperation between law enforcement and ICE even in those heavily Democrat areas

Undocumented immigrant convicted of groping girls at Virginia high school released to ICE custody

An undocumented immigrant who was convicted of groping girls at a Northern Virginia high school has been released into the custody of ICE, according to the Fairfax County Sheriff’s Office.

What we know: In early March, Israel Flores Ortiz, 19, was accused of groping several of his classmates after officials at Fairfax High School reported multiple cases of assault. A police investigation revealed Ortiz had assaulted numerous girls at the school.

He was convicted of 9 counts of assault and battery, after coming behind females in school and “grabbing them between the legs.” He ended up serving just 140 days for these assaults on minors. He was an illegal who came into the US in 2024, and was then dropped into high school.

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Oops: Judge Shoots Down New York’s Climate Superfund Law

By William Teach September 1, 2026 – 7:15 am

Yeah, I pretty much prognosticated that this was going to happen

New York cannot enforce $75 billion climate ‘superfund’ law, US judge rules

A federal judge ?ruled on Monday that New York cannot enforce a 2024 state law that sought to force fossil fuel companies to contribute $75 billion over 25 years into a fund to pay for damage caused by climate change.

Chief U.S. District Judge Brenda Sannes in Syracuse, New York sided, opens new tab with 22 Republican ?state attorneys general, as well as industry groups including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, in finding the state ?measure preempted by federal law.

Sannes, an appointee of Democratic President Barack Obama, said the Clean Air ?Act, which gave the federal Environmental Protection Agency authority to regulate carbon-dioxide emissions, did not authorize states to adopt emissions ?compensation schemes such as New York’s.

She said enforcing New York’s Climate Change Superfund Act risked upsetting the balance between preventing global ?warming, “a project that necessarily requires national standards and global participation,” and promoting economic growth, energy production, foreign policy interests and national security.

“The Climate Act conflicts with the overriding need for a uniform rule of decision on matters influencing national energy and environmental policy, and basic interests of ?federalism,” she wrote.

There are no reports about NY appealing this, but, hey, even the speaker of the NY assembly was against it back in 2024. That said, I was actually hoping that the courts would let the law stand long enough to see Consequences happen to the citizens of NY, let them see what their own votes wrought.

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Wackos Wonder If Newsom Will Let Illegals Work At Colleges

By William Teach September 1, 2026 – 7:00 am

I’d love to see them give it a whirl

Will Newsom let immigrant college students without legal status work at their campuses?

Is this the year that Gov. Gavin Newsom allows students without legal status to legally work at California’s public colleges and universities?

A state bill with wide support from Democrats but opposed by Republicans seeks to do just that by adopting an untested legal theory that argues a 1980s federal law banning employment for people without legal status doesn’t apply to state agencies. But university leaders and Newsom worry that acting on the theory could put the state on another collision course with the Trump administration.

The bill easily cleared the Legislature Friday, including a yes vote from one Republican. The bill now heads to Newsom’s desk.

Assembly Bill 713 by Assemblymember José Luis Solache, a Democrat from Lakewood, is seemingly straightforward: The University of California, California State University and community colleges cannot disqualify students without legal status from campus employment. If it becomes law, it would kick in Jan. 6.

That’s cute and all, but, 8 U.S. Code § 1324a makes it illegal under federal law to knowingly hire any alien in the US without valid work authorization, and the penalties range from fines to serious federal jail time.

The systems together enrolled an estimated 60,000 students without legal status in 2023 and most were in the community colleges. Some attend private colleges and wouldn’t be covered by the bill.

Leading the charge for this right to work on campuses are students without legal status, immigration rights groups and legal scholars. Access to safe working conditions for students without legal status is a high priority because they’re ineligible for federal Pell grants — up to $7,400 annually — and federal student loans that come with more borrower protections than ones offered by private lenders. California awards eligible in-state students tuition waivers regardless of immigration status, so many students without legal status can at least attend a public institution tuition-free.

I love how you have all these people coming illegally and then thinking they can dictate how America operates

Newsom vetoed a similar bill in 2024, echoing a chief worry put forward by the University of California: Any effort to employ students without proper status would incur the wrath of the Trump administration, which could attempt to pull some or all of the $17 billion in annual federal support the system gets.

The state’s Department of Finance is recommending a no vote on Solache’s bill. The fear of federal litigation and budget cuts are the main reasons why.

If he signs it you can bet the DOJ  and other federal agencies will jump right in, and anyone who hires an illegal will be immediately arrested. They might even find a way to hold Newsom and those who voted for the bill personally responsible.

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“Experts Say” AC Saves Lives But Is Also Killing The Planet

By William Teach August 31, 2026 – 3:06 pm

I wonder if the same “Experts” have given up their own use of AC?

Keeping cool saves thousands of lives yearly, but at a cost of worsening global warming, experts say

(the original headline was “Experts say air conditioning saves many lives, but worsens climate change…”)

Cooling from air conditioning saves lives — more than 5,000 a year in the United States alone — but it also heats up the planet and taxes our electrical grid, scientists say.

As the world warms, heat waves strike nearly every continent and United Nations officials estimate that about half a million people die a year from heat, air conditioning is needed and being used more than ever. A study in Nature Health reported Monday that air conditioning saved nearly 58,000 lives between 2010 and 2020 in the U.S. Air conditioning use is skyrocketing around the world, with electricity demand from cooling expected to triple, according to the International Energy Agency and the United Nations Environment Programme.

It’s also more of a problem than ever. Because most of the electricity for cooling comes from the burning of fossil fuels, the U.N. projects the amount of heat-trapping gas spewed into the atmosphere from air conditioning use to rise from 4.5 billion to 7.2 billion tons in the next 25 years or so. That 7.2 billion tons is almost as much as the carbon pollution from the United States and Europe now.

Well, let us build nuclear power plants. Even Michael Mann and some other leading climahysterics are in favor of them. We can have Gen 6 and mini-nuclear plants, and then this would be no problem, at least according to climate cult dogma about CO2.

But, until the cult has reasonable solutions, they can f*** right off.

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If All You See…

By William Teach August 31, 2026 – 1:00 pm

…is a world killing dog causing sea rise, you might just be a Warmist

 

The blog of the day is Bearing Arms, with a post on “Charges Dropped Against Man Who Shot at Armed Robbers”

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DHS Calls NY Times’ “Report” On Abuse Of Illegals A Bunch Of BS

By William Teach August 31, 2026 – 10:30 am

This is the state of Modern Journalism: talk to a bunch of people with an axe to grind but never leave your office to investigate

DHS Rejects NY Times Report on ICE Abuse Claims

The Department of Homeland Security on Sunday rejected a New York Times report alleging that migrants in U.S. immigration detention experienced abusive and violent treatment at the hands of Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers.

“Another day and another hoax about ICE detention from the @nytimes,” DHS said on X. “The media is clearly desperate for these false allegations to be true.”

The dispute centers on a report in the Times published Sunday that featured accounts from 10 deportees who said they experienced or witnessed what they described as abusive treatment by ICE officers.

The migrants were among those deported by the Trump administration to third countries, including Liberia, despite having no apparent ties to the West African nation, according to The Hill.

So, the illegals are upset over where they were sent

One deportee, Leonardo Sánchez, a Cuban migrant, told the Times that ICE officers forced him and three other migrants onto the tarmac in Monrovia after they refused to leave the aircraft.

Sánchez alleged that federal agents twisted the migrants’ handcuffs, forced them to the ground, and pressed their knees onto their necks.

“They didn’t treat us like people, like human beings,” said Carlos Téllez-Sanchez, a Venezuelan migrant deported to Liberia. “They can say or do anything to you and there’s nothing you can do.”

If you wanted to be treated well you could have voluntarily left the U.S. Gone back to your home country. Could have gone anywhere else. They chose not to. Did the NY Times’ reach out to the illegals to solicit these stories of “abuse”? And find 10, who do not seem to speak English, who will Complain? Remember, this is the same media who had to be dragged kicking and screaming to covering Obama’s cages for illegals, but, then wanted to Blame Trump for them.

In a Sunday statement, the Times said its four journalists who worked on the story “rigorously reported it” by “interviewing 10 people sent from the United States to Africa and obtaining corroborating information about their experiences.”

Four “journalists” who never went there in person.

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Your Fault: Trees In UK Are Just Giving Up Or Something

By William Teach August 31, 2026 – 7:15 am

I don’t think I’ve seen this one before

Trees ‘giving up’: Climate change hammers historic English gardens

At Hampton Court Palace, head gardener Graham Dillamore strode across the burnt beige grass in the spectacular formal gardens southwest of London, laid out in the 17th century.

“If we have a summer like this next year, by God, it’s going to be a struggle,” said Dillamore, who has spent more than 20 years tending the gardens of the Baroque and Tudor red-brick palace where King Henry VIII once caroused.

Created by master designers such as Lancelot “Capability” Brown and William Kent, the gardens of stately homes such as Hampton Court, Blenheim Palace, and Chatsworth House are among England’s top visitor attractions.

But their historic style of planting and ancient trees are being hammered by climate change — including record heatwaves and drought this summer.

Weather changes.

“Some of these trees have actually given up. They’re not going to come back, they’re finished,” said Dillamore, who also oversees gardens at Kensington Palace, the official London residence of Prince William and his wife, Catherine. “We’re losing mature tree stock and that’s tragic in a historic garden.”

It was warmer in the UK during the Medieval Warm Period than it is now. But, cultists have to fearmonger.

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Wacko Judge Decides It’s Not OK To Deport Pro-Hamas Foreigners

By William Teach August 31, 2026 – 7:00 am

Obviously a Biden appointee, and fits the bill of an AWFL to a tee. She’s a wacko on gender, of course, and outside the mainstream on the 1st Amendment. Except where it applies to foreigners who hate America, hate Jews, hate Israel, and love Islamic terrorists

Judge declares Rubio’s speech-based student deportations violate the Constitution

A federal judge on Friday declared that the Trump administration’s efforts to deport noncitizens for political speech run counter to the Constitution’s First and Fifth Amendments, the latest legal rebuke of the White House’s expansive immigration agenda.

Northern District of California Judge Noël Wise, an appointee of former President Joe Biden, sided with the Stanford Daily, which sued Secretary of State Marco Rubio, arguing that his use of the Immigration and Nationality Act to deport noncitizen students had foreign students refraining from writing opinion pieces critical of the administration.

”In the United States, freedom of speech belongs to the people,” Wise wrote in her opinion. “It is not the government’s to take.”

If someone threatens to kill someone, to blow a building up, well, that is not free speech. Taking the side of Islamic terrorists is not free speech

Another plaintiff was an unnamed woman who is a lawful noncitizen in the U.S. who was previously in the country on a student visa at a school that was not Stanford and “has refrained from publishing and voicing her true opinions regarding Palestine and Israel and has deleted a social media account to guard against retaliation for past expression,” according to court documents.

“Here you can simultaneously hate the content of a person’s speech and love the country that cherishes the freedom to allow it,” Wise wrote. “Zealous protection of our Constitutional right to free speech is a provocative demonstration of our country’s powerful lack of fear.”

Most of these foreigners do not love America. They have no Right to be present in the US.

A State Department spokesperson, given anonymity to discuss internal thought processes within the agency, told POLITICO that the U.S. “is under no obligation to admit or suffer the presence of individuals who subvert our laws and deny our citizens their Constitutional rights.”

“More broadly, the Department of State is committed to protecting our nation and its citizens by upholding the highest standards of national security and public safety through our visa process,” the spokesperson said. “A visa is a privilege, not a right.”

And based on the Supreme Court ruling in Trump v CASA, Wise’s ruling can only apply in her district.

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If All You See…

By William Teach August 30, 2026 – 1:50 pm

…is a wonderful low carbon bike, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is IOTW Report, with a post on “Explain To This Dick Why The Yellow Line Is There”

It’s yellow week

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach August 30, 2026 – 9:10 am

Happy Sunday! Another wonderful day in Returned America. The birds are singing, the squirrels are barking, and, oh, look, the coyote is wandering around again. This pinup appears to be AI, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15, er, 16, miscounted

  1. Independent Sentinel: Gov. Hochul’s Administration Sues 15 Sheriffs for Suing to Protect New Yorkers
  2. Wake Up America: 8/29 – ‘Delete From The Deleted File’ — Fauci Tried To Destroy Gain-Of-Function Research Email, New Docs Reveal
  3. The Right Scoop: UGH: Rogue military judge is ruining the Khalid Sheikh Mohammed 9/11 case
  4. The Red Squirrel Report: TODAY’S WORD OF THE DAY: hamasshole
  5. The Other McCain: How You Got Hasan Piker: It Started With Cowardice in the Public School System
  6. The Last Refuge: Caviar and Economics – Hamptons Yacht Club Cancels Restaurant Service After Staff Deported
  7. The First Street Journal: That thing that never happens has happened again
  8. The Astute Bloggers: America before the dhimmitude propaganda took hold
  9. Powerline Blog: Lawfare and the press
  10. Pacific Pundit: Commie Mamdani’s wife jets off to Portugal women’s retreat called “Journey through Islamic Calligraphy”
  11. Outside The Beltway: The One State Solution
  12. neo-neocon: There’s a bid to vacate Chauvin’s state conviction
  13. Moonbattery: Former Gary Resident Explains Why the Lights Have Been Off
  14. Legal Insurrection: Abdul El-Sayed’s Messaging Problem Gets Worse
  15. Jihad Watch: Italy: 17-year-old girl downloaded instructions for making explosive belt, desired ‘martyrdom in the name of Allah’
  16. And last, but, not least, Geller Report has “Jewish Michigan AG Too Terrified to Attend Her Own Democrat Convention as Antisemitism Devours Democrat Party”

As always, the full set of pinups can be seen in the Patriotic Pinup category, or over at my Gallery page (nope, that’s gone, the newest Apache killed access, and the program hasn’t been upgraded since 2014, so, most are hosted internally). While we are on pinups, since it is that time of year, have you gotten your Pinups for Vets calendar yet? And don’t forget to check out what I declare to be our War on Women Rule 5 and linky luv posts and things that interest me. I’ve also mostly alphabetized them, makes it easier scrolling the feedreader

Don’t forget to check out all the other great material all the linked blogs have!

Anyone else have a link or hotty-fest going on? Let me know so I can add you to the list. And do you have a favorite blog you can recommend be added to the feedreader?

As a sidebar, it’s wild how man blogs I’ve seen die over the years for different reasons.

Two great sites for getting news links are Liberty Daily and Whatafinger.

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