While everyone is focused on the ICE shooting in Austin, the City Council is quietly spending an insane amount of taxpayer money on lawyers to fight deportations.
It's tucked into Thursday's consent agenda so it can pass without a word of debate or controversy.
The money goes to two nonprofits, American Gateways and Catholic Charities, to provide what the City's own documents call "deportation defense."
It pays for:
1. Lawyers representing "detained and non-detained immigrants," including people ICE is actively trying to remove.
2. Coaching immigrants representing themselves in immigration court, helping them file motions and meet deadlines to stay in the country.
3. Legal work that helps immigrants obtain work permits.
4. Federal immigration filing fees.
Total bill to be approved: $854,872
City staff list one of the program's goals as helping clients "obtain and maintain public benefits."
Austin has already paid American Gateways $3.4 million since 2019, and after Thursday the four contracts will be authorized for up to $6.7 million.
EXCLUSIVE: Jeanette Martinez, a school social worker for @ABQschools, is SUING the district over woke policy that forces staff to conceal a student's gender transition from parents.
Jeanette was not comfortable hiding information from parents and requested an exemption on religious grounds. The district DENIED her request.
She now faces discipline and possible termination for refusing to comply.
@Liberty_Ctr has filed a lawsuit on her behalf 🔥
Exclusive: Undercover Video Catches James Talarico’s Minister Admitting His Political Makeover Is A Lie
“I can guarantee you that once he gets elected, he’ll change his tune back to where he was.” @realDailyWire
This is absolutely DISGUSTING.
James Talarico said parents who don’t transition their kids are “abusive” and thinks they should have their kids taken from them.
🚨 NEW LAWSUIT: Can the government charge you to exercise your First Amendment rights?
The City of Benson, MN tried to force a Christian evangelist to pay a $20 "vendor fee" just to peacefully hold a pro-life sign on public property. When he refused, police cited him with two criminal trespass charges carrying up to 90 days in jail.
There is NO price tag on free speech.
Our CEO @mark_trammell explains 👇
Does your child's school have to tell you if they're socially transitioning your child?
Our CEO @mark_trammell and VP of Litigation Josh Dixon break down the Supreme Court's Mirabelli decision, what rights parents actually have, and the steps every parent should take before school starts.
Watch now 👀👇
🚨NEW LAWSUIT FILED!
Imagine being criminally charged...
...for quietly holding a sign on public property.
That's exactly what happened to Christian evangelist Bryan Conwell at a farmer's market in Minnesota.
That' why we filed a federal lawsuit.
https://t.co/W650RCIUUv
What is Berkeley Police hiding?
After violent protests erupted during @TPUSA's event featuring comedian @RobSchneider at UC Berkeley, we requested public records to learn how officials prepared for the event and protected free speech.
Berkeley Police ignored our request.
Now we're suing for body cam footage, planning documents, and communications with the university.
The public has a right to know. Our CEO @mark_trammell breaks it down 👇
This sounds cool. But wait.
400 diapers will last a family with a newborn approximately five weeks.
The program will cost the state approx. $12.4 million this year alone.
That money will be funneled through a company called Baby2Baby, which will then provide their branded diapers to 400 participating in hospitals (California has over 500 hospitals in total.)
Meaning that instead of lowering taxes and letting families keep their own money to buy essentials like diapers, California takes their money, pumps it through a “nonprofit” that has overhead and whose CEO made $240,000 in 2024, to provide a “free” service available only in certain locations, and that you could have bought yourself for much cheaper.
This saturday: Save Girls’ Sports Press Conference Featuring female athletes
📍 Yorba Linda High School, 9:00 AM
Join us ahead of CIF prelims where a MALE athlete is scheduled to compete in the girls’ long jump, high jump, and triple jump.
Come for the press conference and stand in support of the female athletes.
🚨 BREAKING: We’re suing UC Berkeley
After months of ignoring a lawful public records request tied to a TPUSA event featuring @RobSchneider that turned violent, Berkeley still hasn’t produced a single document.
We're demanding TRANSPARENCY!
🔗https://t.co/dBrx8doe5k
"Why is the preoccupation always with expanding abortion and not with supporting mothers...? Where are the bills promoting adoption? The lopsidedness of this legislature's attention should trouble all of us."
CFC VP Greg Burt testified in opposition to AB 1973
AB 1973 allows physician assistants to perform abortions beyond the 1st trimester, meaning these non-physicians will be able to kill unborn babies in the 2nd and 3rd trimesters as well.
🚨 JUST IN: Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is being praised nationwide for dropping this TRUTH on leftism and "progressivism"
"Progressivism seeks to replace the basic premises of the Declaration of Independence, and hence our form of government. It holds that our rights and our dignities come not from God, but from government."
"It requires of the people a subservience and weakness incompatible with a constitution premised on the transcendent origin of our rights."
You NAILED IT, Justice Thomas! 🇺🇸
This guy is the true GOAT.
🚨 WIN for Parental Rights 🚨
Kimberley Brock was silenced by her child’s school district for simply asking a question. That’s unconstitutional—and we fought back.
Now:
✅ She’s unblocked and can speak freely
✅ CCSD reformed its policies
Free speech doesn’t end at the schoolhouse gate. Parents have a right to be heard. Our CEO @mark_trammell weighs in ⬇️
https://t.co/AsAMvGT3gG
🚨 HOLY SMOKES. Every single Democrat in the Minnesota House Rules Committee votes to BLOCK investigations into fraud under Tim Walz
With a straight face, Democrats endorsed $9B+ in stolen tax dollars
They're panicked and don't want anyone finding out how this was allowed to happen.
REMOVE WALZ FROM OFFICE and start the criminal proceedings for complicity!
She did it AGAIN!! @Jennifersey just put together another video that has me in tears.
Wait for it.
Sound on.
They block these videos on other platforms bc they don’t want you seeing them. But you can see them here!!
You tried to paint me as a pervert for exposing fraud, and as a result radical leftists started trying to dox me and send death threats, wanting to kill me.
Now you are taking credit for “leading the charge” on the fraud. Are you serious?
You are the fraud.