Patel Heaps Praise On FBI Agents Over Uptick In Arrests

The streets were supposed to be safer. In just seven days, federal agents swept through Illinois, cuffing dozens and seizing drugs and cash.

But even as officials celebrated, another, darker operation was quietly unfolding.

A radical group, homemade bombs, New Year’s Eve, Los Angeles, ICE agents—an alleged plot to shatter America’s sense of sec… Continues…

Yet the same week, agents were racing a clock on the other side of the country. In California and Louisiana, they quietly intercepted an alleged terror plot tied to a radical pro-Palestinian offshoot of the Turtle Island Liberation Front. Prosecutors say the group envisioned coordinated New Year’s Eve bombings and attacks on ICE. Two stories, one message: the line between ordinary security and catastrophe is far thinner than most Americans ever see.