The Independent reported: “When it comes to actual numbers, the most recent figures tell a mixed story. In 2024 — the last year for which stats are available — the Sheriff allowed ICE to “re-arrest” 16 county jail inmates. That’s up from five the previous year. But ICE expressed interest in re-arresting 229 in 2024. And that’s up from 141 the year before.” Shameful!
There is no better example of Trump Derangement Syndrome. Our elected officials and the voters who elected them would rather release criminal aliens into the community than to hand them over to ICE, solely to thwart Trump’s agenda. While this amounts to societal self mutilation, in the mind of those in the grip of TDS it is preferable to abetting the orange devil. One so consumed with hatred that they would harm themselves under the assumption that the collateral harm to the enemy is greater is the useful idiot of the Democrat party. The Trump Deranged Idiot TDI is so blinded by hatred that the true agenda of the party is obscured. The goal is to destroy western society, Judaeo-Christian values, the middle class, capitalism, individual liberty, freedom of speech, freedom of religion and more. Everything that makes America great, free and the envy of the world is under attack but the TDI cannot see it beyond the hate.
Thank you Denise for having the courage to step forward and speak out on this important issue. Are supporters of sanctuary policies stupid or ignorant? How about BOTH! To include lawless. Interesting how the same cast of characters show up in support of criminal aliens; Casa de La Raza (House of the Race), SEIU, local Dem operatives, and assorted tie-dyed burn outs. No doubt these are the same “activists” that let their “freak flag” fly at Tesla Dealerships in support of their twisted narrative of political expediency, by any means necessary to include violence.
Clearly, our elected Sheriff, Bill Brown’s first allegiance is to the US Constitution and NOT local leftist lunatics, the Sheriff’s Deputy Union or protecting his own big fat pension. If Brown is not willing to uphold his oath of office because of conflicts with local or state laws, then the US Department of Justice or SCOTUS needs to put an end to this madness.
How many more innocent victims need to suffer because of leftist sanctuary laws? BTW, it is outrageous how Democrat politicians wrap their arms around a wife beating thug and known gang banger being recently sent to El Salvador?
Hey Salud Carbajal, how about getting off your ass and support the rule of law that your crew often talks about? Oh that’s right, he’s too busy cutting ribbons at Post Offices!
Hello LT me thinks "Hey Salud Carbajal, how about getting off your ass and support the rule of law that your crew often talks about? Oh that’s right, he’s too busy cutting ribbons at Post Offices!" some other cuts may be occurring with the interesting PEOPLE in town the last
few days. BIG DOINGS AT THE OK CORAL that is down the Beach from the CORAL>>
Excellent reporting, Denise. Thank you for your time and research. Why do both SEIU and the teachers union members always come to the forefront when supporting unmitigated open borders and refusal to support enforcement of the plain language immigration laws? Let alone, bring in cheering crowds who support defiance of those very same laws. This is sick. This is wrong.
These are questions all five county supervisors need to ask themselves, since they often ride into elected office on the backs of SEIU and teacher union member support.
How did our taxpayer-funded government employee unions and their members become so antithetical to the rule of law? We taxpayers pay their union members, who in turn pay their union membership dues. At what point have those essentially tax-payer funded special interests groups finally broken trust with the taxpayers, taxpayer who are mandated by law to continue funding them? This too is sick, sick, sick. This too is wrong.
The trust between taxpayers and the government employee unions we are forced indirectly to support was broken beyond all repair long ago. Government employee unions have absolutely no place in our system of governance. None. That is my answer.
Much of this suicidal empathy goes primarily to upper middle class white women who gather in the village square to stone people. If only they would actually talk to those here legally on what their thoughts are to those who jump the border, thereby deflating wages to compete for work. I’ve been taken to task about this. Immigration is an issue I find the most distressing.
Thank you, Denice, for attending the BOS hearing and standing amidst a mob of ideologues. Not so many years ago, these same folks openly shamed Hollywood elites outed for hiring illegals as nannies and housekeepers. Remember? At that time it was their own condemning the practice. Today's world, the consequences are much higher: criminal acts against citizens (including minorities): rape, child trafficking, indentured servitude, and murder.
***Important to note, today is “VE Day,” (Victory in Europe Day), celebrating our victory over Nazi Germany. Who would’ve ever thought those sacrifices made by GI’s storming the beaches at Normandy and Anzio, only to be thrown away by lefty lunatics selling out our sovereignty?
I was one of the last speakers to go, so I saw that Denice and I were the only speakers on law and order. Two hours of comments were filled with protestors advocating for illegal criminals. Sheriff Fryoff from Ventura spoke at length about the issue at a Common Sense Club meeting a few weeks ago. SB 54, the CA Values Act or Sanctuary State Act, prohibits our state and local law enforcement from communicating with ICE. Sheriff Fryhoff said the only communication is one way from ICE for a 24-hour notice so that he can avoid blue on blue with his officers. SB Sheriffs confirmed essentially the same, no two-way communication to ICE.
Sheriff Fryhoff walked us through a scenario. If they detain an illegal immigrant with prior violent crime convictions but have nothing to hold them on presently, they must release the person from the county jail. If ICE sees that fingerprints were run federally on the detainee and they can respond to Ventura based on the fingerprint run, they have to wait outside in the parking lot to re-apprehend the person. If they don't catch this and make it on time on their own accord, the violent criminal gang member or sex trafficker is released onto our streets. SB Sheriffs didn't provide a detailed account like this, but essentially conveyed the same during the BOS meeting.
Just a reminder: 9/11 occurred in part because various authorities and intel agencies, from state to federal, did not communicate the pieces of data they each had. All 19 hijackers were foreign nationals involved in visa fraud, document forgery, overstays, etc. California has doubled down on its lack of communication with SB 54, which, frankly, any reasonable person can see violates the Constitution's Supremacy Clause and is, quite frankly, irresponsible, putting American lives at risk.
The protesters seem to believe that good family people are being ripped from their homes and families and deported from SB without due process. This has happened zero times in the entire United States. In SB County this year, we are in the single digits of deportations, and it's all criminals who had due process. It's time for these people to turn off MSNBC, their Facebook algorithm, and go for a walk outside in our beautiful county before it's too unsafe to do that anymore.
At Tuesday’s hearing, did Sheriff communicate to BOS and public anything about the 17 held in the jail that were subject of this hearing on ICE? Their past records or current charges? Anything?
No. They discussed no specifics about detainees, and most of the conversation was from Hartmann and Capps asking for the Public Defender to be more rapidly notified when an ICE request comes for them.
Capps loves to claim the Clinton speech writer gig when she's campaigning. But in front of the left wing woke crazies, Bill Clinton is multiple standard deviations right of her comments.
Clinton signed into law the Illegal Immigration Reform Act, which included the Expedited Deportation. He deported 12 million. He has some great speeches on it, including the 1996 State of the Union. Did she work on that?
Great work Denise. As usual EVERYTHING the Dems say they stand for is shown to be smoke and mirrors. Smoke hiding what they do and the mirrors deflecting their true intentions “no one is above the law“ is what they love to say, reverberating through the lame stream media, but never when it’s one of their own, or in this case what they see as millions of their own. I don’t know what it’s going to take to wake the American public to the danger these people pose. It’s usually an unfortunate incident like the one you mentioned above which Ryles people up for a short while, only to see them slip back into apathy and staring at their little phones again.
Stupid is as stupid does could not apply anymore to democratic supporters. God help us.
Questions remain: what can we do to get Sheriff to cooperate with I.C.E.? Aren’t pro-cooperation locals outnumbered? How can we get local South County media to report both sides in their biased reporting? It seems at least after-the-fact, North County newspapers do a better job.
Related examples:
“Though the weapons charge earned him 30 days in jail, which would have begun October 31, Martinez was ORDERED RELEASED on July 20, FIVE DAYS BEFORE Pharis was attacked, police said. He was supposed to return to court in August”.
“In a statement, ICE said it lodged an immigration detainer on Martinez after the May 2014 incident and asked that ICE “be notified prior to Mr. Martinez’s release to enable the agency to take custody to pursue possible administrative immigration enforcement action. Available records indicate that Mr. Martinez was released by local authorities a week later without ICE receiving the requested notification.”
“SMPD Chief Martin said although Martinez – originally from the state of Durango, Mexico – was in the United States illegally and even though he’d been booked in Santa Barbara County at least FOUR times since 2009, local police received no formal requests from federal immigration authorities.”
The county first booked Martinez on November 19, 2009, for driving without a valid license. He was released 19 days later, police said.
He was picked up again on May 22, 2014, initially for felony drug and sexual assault charges, police said. The assault charge was later modified to misdemeanor battery. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement filed an “immigration detainer – notice of action,” but the sheriff’s office determined the request did not meet its “immigration detention requirements,” police said. Martinez posted bail and was released June 4.
And during the methamphetamine arrest Martin referenced, Martinez was arrested July 17 on charges of possessing drug paraphernalia and felony possession of a “concealed dirk or dagger.” The paraphernalia charge was dismissed, and Martinez pleaded no contest to the weapons charge and the 2014 drug charge.
Martinez due back in court in August. Released 7/20; Pharis attacked 7/25.
It's not possible with SB 54 in place. A few rogue sheriffs in CA are going against it, and they are facing legal actions from the ACLU because of it. Sheriff Chad Bianco is running for Governor and has vowed to repeal if elected. Almost every sheriff knows this is foolish, unsafe, and lacks common sense.
We can't expect the sheriff or BOS to break state law, which the Ninth Circuit Court has upheld. My request to them was to make their voices heard in Sacramento. This law isn't safe for the county citizens, law enforcement officers, or the detainees. It's just plain foolish all around.
The only way we can change CA's prioritization of predators and criminals over law-abiding citizens is to vote people out of state office.
A thought for I.C.E. Form a perimeter around the county. Send back any immigrants who try to leave and keep them there. Until the county citizens ask for help. If the county wants to coddle illegals, let them. Just wall them off so they don’t hurt the rest of us.
Please understand I am not Hispanic in any way. None. I am an American. I have deeply rooted Irish Republican values (folks, do read that carefully with honest understanding). I moved into a neighborhood that is, but for me, 100% Latino surnamed. They ALL voted for Mr. Trump. I have been given dozens of new friends. But...they are very quiet about the effects of leftist 'liberal' political actions. They have careers, businesses and extended families all being pushed by the left agenda. These are 'gentle folk' (unlike me) and choose to remain quiet. So...to my point...let us remain calm and vigilant. Let the enemy fail. Be above the nonsense and the gaslighting. Stay the course, be resolute, and in telling the truth we will prevail. Take care all.
The video link to the hearing should be sent directly to Tom Homan’s office. Let us not forget, “nobody is above the law”
The Independent reported: “When it comes to actual numbers, the most recent figures tell a mixed story. In 2024 — the last year for which stats are available — the Sheriff allowed ICE to “re-arrest” 16 county jail inmates. That’s up from five the previous year. But ICE expressed interest in re-arresting 229 in 2024. And that’s up from 141 the year before.” Shameful!
There is no better example of Trump Derangement Syndrome. Our elected officials and the voters who elected them would rather release criminal aliens into the community than to hand them over to ICE, solely to thwart Trump’s agenda. While this amounts to societal self mutilation, in the mind of those in the grip of TDS it is preferable to abetting the orange devil. One so consumed with hatred that they would harm themselves under the assumption that the collateral harm to the enemy is greater is the useful idiot of the Democrat party. The Trump Deranged Idiot TDI is so blinded by hatred that the true agenda of the party is obscured. The goal is to destroy western society, Judaeo-Christian values, the middle class, capitalism, individual liberty, freedom of speech, freedom of religion and more. Everything that makes America great, free and the envy of the world is under attack but the TDI cannot see it beyond the hate.
E-X-C-E-L-L-E-N-T Jeff.
THANK YOU DENISE FOR SPEAKING FOR HONEST TRUE AMERICAN CITIZENS' RIGHTS AGAINST CRIMINALS WHO AGAINST OUR LAWS OF PROTECTION, LURK IN OUR CITIES.
When a sheriff is a protector of the criminal, that position job has less value to the citizen. Eliminate the position or reduce the salary.
Thank you Denise for having the courage to step forward and speak out on this important issue. Are supporters of sanctuary policies stupid or ignorant? How about BOTH! To include lawless. Interesting how the same cast of characters show up in support of criminal aliens; Casa de La Raza (House of the Race), SEIU, local Dem operatives, and assorted tie-dyed burn outs. No doubt these are the same “activists” that let their “freak flag” fly at Tesla Dealerships in support of their twisted narrative of political expediency, by any means necessary to include violence.
Clearly, our elected Sheriff, Bill Brown’s first allegiance is to the US Constitution and NOT local leftist lunatics, the Sheriff’s Deputy Union or protecting his own big fat pension. If Brown is not willing to uphold his oath of office because of conflicts with local or state laws, then the US Department of Justice or SCOTUS needs to put an end to this madness.
How many more innocent victims need to suffer because of leftist sanctuary laws? BTW, it is outrageous how Democrat politicians wrap their arms around a wife beating thug and known gang banger being recently sent to El Salvador?
Hey Salud Carbajal, how about getting off your ass and support the rule of law that your crew often talks about? Oh that’s right, he’s too busy cutting ribbons at Post Offices!
Hello LT me thinks "Hey Salud Carbajal, how about getting off your ass and support the rule of law that your crew often talks about? Oh that’s right, he’s too busy cutting ribbons at Post Offices!" some other cuts may be occurring with the interesting PEOPLE in town the last
few days. BIG DOINGS AT THE OK CORAL that is down the Beach from the CORAL>>
https://www.coralcasinobeachclub.com/ AND https://www.ok-corral.com/
I Think DOC HOLIDAY IS IN OUR LIL OLE BEACH TOWN TODAY!!
https://www.fbi.gov/about/leadership-and-structure/deputy-director-dan-bongino
That would be a conflict of Salud’s interests.
Great meeting you at the Hilton Rally, Howard.
Yes that was nice LT and really, we should get to know folks
on the site. And my HAT off to the Hostess Ms. Aijian.
LT, I hope you will report more about the Steve Hilton for Governor rally last Tuesday, for those of us who could not attend.
Sure, my dream team: Steve Hilton for Governor and Harmeet Dhillon for Lt. Governor!
Hey Harmeet, cannot do that she is the Head of the Civil Rights
at DOJ and #3 Gal at DOJ I think.
That's a great combo. I'm Steve Hilton's biggest fan!
Good Idea, I/we nominate LT to write a Steve Hilton
Report.
Excellent reporting, Denise. Thank you for your time and research. Why do both SEIU and the teachers union members always come to the forefront when supporting unmitigated open borders and refusal to support enforcement of the plain language immigration laws? Let alone, bring in cheering crowds who support defiance of those very same laws. This is sick. This is wrong.
These are questions all five county supervisors need to ask themselves, since they often ride into elected office on the backs of SEIU and teacher union member support.
How did our taxpayer-funded government employee unions and their members become so antithetical to the rule of law? We taxpayers pay their union members, who in turn pay their union membership dues. At what point have those essentially tax-payer funded special interests groups finally broken trust with the taxpayers, taxpayer who are mandated by law to continue funding them? This too is sick, sick, sick. This too is wrong.
The trust between taxpayers and the government employee unions we are forced indirectly to support was broken beyond all repair long ago. Government employee unions have absolutely no place in our system of governance. None. That is my answer.
We gotta get 'em O-U-T !
Much of this suicidal empathy goes primarily to upper middle class white women who gather in the village square to stone people. If only they would actually talk to those here legally on what their thoughts are to those who jump the border, thereby deflating wages to compete for work. I’ve been taken to task about this. Immigration is an issue I find the most distressing.
Thank you, Denice, for attending the BOS hearing and standing amidst a mob of ideologues. Not so many years ago, these same folks openly shamed Hollywood elites outed for hiring illegals as nannies and housekeepers. Remember? At that time it was their own condemning the practice. Today's world, the consequences are much higher: criminal acts against citizens (including minorities): rape, child trafficking, indentured servitude, and murder.
Looks like the “Angry Poodle,” Laura Capps and other “Activists” are bed wetting over recent ICE arrests.
https://www.independent.com/2025/05/07/sheriff-under-fire-for-cooperating-with-ice/?amp=1
***Important to note, today is “VE Day,” (Victory in Europe Day), celebrating our victory over Nazi Germany. Who would’ve ever thought those sacrifices made by GI’s storming the beaches at Normandy and Anzio, only to be thrown away by lefty lunatics selling out our sovereignty?
I was one of the last speakers to go, so I saw that Denice and I were the only speakers on law and order. Two hours of comments were filled with protestors advocating for illegal criminals. Sheriff Fryoff from Ventura spoke at length about the issue at a Common Sense Club meeting a few weeks ago. SB 54, the CA Values Act or Sanctuary State Act, prohibits our state and local law enforcement from communicating with ICE. Sheriff Fryhoff said the only communication is one way from ICE for a 24-hour notice so that he can avoid blue on blue with his officers. SB Sheriffs confirmed essentially the same, no two-way communication to ICE.
Sheriff Fryhoff walked us through a scenario. If they detain an illegal immigrant with prior violent crime convictions but have nothing to hold them on presently, they must release the person from the county jail. If ICE sees that fingerprints were run federally on the detainee and they can respond to Ventura based on the fingerprint run, they have to wait outside in the parking lot to re-apprehend the person. If they don't catch this and make it on time on their own accord, the violent criminal gang member or sex trafficker is released onto our streets. SB Sheriffs didn't provide a detailed account like this, but essentially conveyed the same during the BOS meeting.
Just a reminder: 9/11 occurred in part because various authorities and intel agencies, from state to federal, did not communicate the pieces of data they each had. All 19 hijackers were foreign nationals involved in visa fraud, document forgery, overstays, etc. California has doubled down on its lack of communication with SB 54, which, frankly, any reasonable person can see violates the Constitution's Supremacy Clause and is, quite frankly, irresponsible, putting American lives at risk.
The protesters seem to believe that good family people are being ripped from their homes and families and deported from SB without due process. This has happened zero times in the entire United States. In SB County this year, we are in the single digits of deportations, and it's all criminals who had due process. It's time for these people to turn off MSNBC, their Facebook algorithm, and go for a walk outside in our beautiful county before it's too unsafe to do that anymore.
At Tuesday’s hearing, did Sheriff communicate to BOS and public anything about the 17 held in the jail that were subject of this hearing on ICE? Their past records or current charges? Anything?
No. They discussed no specifics about detainees, and most of the conversation was from Hartmann and Capps asking for the Public Defender to be more rapidly notified when an ICE request comes for them.
Santa Barbara County cannot survive as long as Hartman and Capps continue to virtue-signal for their personal gain and suffocating photo-ops.
Capps loves to claim the Clinton speech writer gig when she's campaigning. But in front of the left wing woke crazies, Bill Clinton is multiple standard deviations right of her comments.
Clinton signed into law the Illegal Immigration Reform Act, which included the Expedited Deportation. He deported 12 million. He has some great speeches on it, including the 1996 State of the Union. Did she work on that?
Great work Denise. As usual EVERYTHING the Dems say they stand for is shown to be smoke and mirrors. Smoke hiding what they do and the mirrors deflecting their true intentions “no one is above the law“ is what they love to say, reverberating through the lame stream media, but never when it’s one of their own, or in this case what they see as millions of their own. I don’t know what it’s going to take to wake the American public to the danger these people pose. It’s usually an unfortunate incident like the one you mentioned above which Ryles people up for a short while, only to see them slip back into apathy and staring at their little phones again.
Stupid is as stupid does could not apply anymore to democratic supporters. God help us.
I am going with “plain stupid.”
No Stephanie They All .......... The Santa Barbara Cabal know EXACTLY
what they are doing down under in Lil Ole SB.
Unions gonna union.
Questions remain: what can we do to get Sheriff to cooperate with I.C.E.? Aren’t pro-cooperation locals outnumbered? How can we get local South County media to report both sides in their biased reporting? It seems at least after-the-fact, North County newspapers do a better job.
Related examples:
“Though the weapons charge earned him 30 days in jail, which would have begun October 31, Martinez was ORDERED RELEASED on July 20, FIVE DAYS BEFORE Pharis was attacked, police said. He was supposed to return to court in August”.
“In a statement, ICE said it lodged an immigration detainer on Martinez after the May 2014 incident and asked that ICE “be notified prior to Mr. Martinez’s release to enable the agency to take custody to pursue possible administrative immigration enforcement action. Available records indicate that Mr. Martinez was released by local authorities a week later without ICE receiving the requested notification.”
“SMPD Chief Martin said although Martinez – originally from the state of Durango, Mexico – was in the United States illegally and even though he’d been booked in Santa Barbara County at least FOUR times since 2009, local police received no formal requests from federal immigration authorities.”
The county first booked Martinez on November 19, 2009, for driving without a valid license. He was released 19 days later, police said.
He was picked up again on May 22, 2014, initially for felony drug and sexual assault charges, police said. The assault charge was later modified to misdemeanor battery. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement filed an “immigration detainer – notice of action,” but the sheriff’s office determined the request did not meet its “immigration detention requirements,” police said. Martinez posted bail and was released June 4.
And during the methamphetamine arrest Martin referenced, Martinez was arrested July 17 on charges of possessing drug paraphernalia and felony possession of a “concealed dirk or dagger.” The paraphernalia charge was dismissed, and Martinez pleaded no contest to the weapons charge and the 2014 drug charge.
Martinez due back in court in August. Released 7/20; Pharis attacked 7/25.
It's not possible with SB 54 in place. A few rogue sheriffs in CA are going against it, and they are facing legal actions from the ACLU because of it. Sheriff Chad Bianco is running for Governor and has vowed to repeal if elected. Almost every sheriff knows this is foolish, unsafe, and lacks common sense.
We can't expect the sheriff or BOS to break state law, which the Ninth Circuit Court has upheld. My request to them was to make their voices heard in Sacramento. This law isn't safe for the county citizens, law enforcement officers, or the detainees. It's just plain foolish all around.
The only way we can change CA's prioritization of predators and criminals over law-abiding citizens is to vote people out of state office.
A thought for I.C.E. Form a perimeter around the county. Send back any immigrants who try to leave and keep them there. Until the county citizens ask for help. If the county wants to coddle illegals, let them. Just wall them off so they don’t hurt the rest of us.
I read this Immigration Article by Denice Spangler Adams
Titled "Anti-I.C.E. Activists: Ignorant or Stupid?." and I have a
New Title "ICE Long Beach Office Conceals Major Immigration Fraud Case
in Santa Barbara" HELLO TOM HOMAN, ARE YOU LISTENING??
https://x.com/its_The_Dr/status/1917231994271916075
In 2017, I drove down to the Long Beach ICE Office to provide them
with a large # of Documents that confirmed a Major Immigration
Fraud Case In Santa Barbara. I requested to talk to the Director
and provide the Documents to him. ICE refused to take the Documents
that I provided to them that showed the Major Immigration Fraud Case.
WHY would ICE do that YOU ALL MAY WANT TO ASK?
Any Trouble with ICE in LONG BEACH MAY WE ALL ASK?
"ICE Long Beach shootout: As immigration cauldron boils, ICE agents buckle"
"https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2012/0218/ICE-Long-Beach-shootout-As-immigration-cauldron-boils-ICE-agents-buckle
Over 100 FBI Agents responded to the one ICE Supervisor Shooting his Superior ICE Supervisor
What was ICE In Long Beach COVERING UP WE MAY ALL WANT TO ASK????
Say Something See Something? Better be very careful YOU MAY GET SHOT.
Howard Walther, Member of a Military
Please understand I am not Hispanic in any way. None. I am an American. I have deeply rooted Irish Republican values (folks, do read that carefully with honest understanding). I moved into a neighborhood that is, but for me, 100% Latino surnamed. They ALL voted for Mr. Trump. I have been given dozens of new friends. But...they are very quiet about the effects of leftist 'liberal' political actions. They have careers, businesses and extended families all being pushed by the left agenda. These are 'gentle folk' (unlike me) and choose to remain quiet. So...to my point...let us remain calm and vigilant. Let the enemy fail. Be above the nonsense and the gaslighting. Stay the course, be resolute, and in telling the truth we will prevail. Take care all.