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Daily Mail
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
A-list Marvel actor says billionaires and 'white people' are creating more problems than migrants
Mark Ruffalo has claimed billionaires and 'white people' are creating more problems in the United States than illegal immigrants. The Avengers actor attended a No Kings Day protest in New York City on Saturday to speak out against President Donald Trump 's immigration enforcement. Ruffalo, an outspoken liberal, was seen wearing a hat with the word 'Immigrant' emblazoned on it. He argued that the migrants the Trump administration is targeting in its ICE raids are good people - and that wealthy Americans and 'white people' are the ones who are committing crimes. 'We get to see who is really making our lives unbearable and making us so desperate,' he told the activist group New York Immigration Coalition at the scene. 'It's not the immigrants, it's the billionaires.' Ruffalo, whom Finance Monthly estimates has a net worth of $90 million, then went on to claim Trump and conservatives are wrongfully scapegoating migrants for the problems created by white Americans and billionaires. 'We're seeing what's happening,' he said. 'First of all, we're understanding that the immigrants aren't the criminals. If you look at the statistics, most of the crimes committed in this country are by white people - non immigrants,' the actor claimed, adding that immigrants 'add to our economy by the billions.' The Spotlight star concluded his remarks by saying: 'It's time to take our country back from that extreme wealth that has its hands all over the power of the nation, and become a beautiful, burgeoning democracy that works for the people, not just the very wealthy.' Ruffalo repeated those sentiments in prepared remarks at the massive protest. 'Sadly, today Donald Trump and the administration of billionaires, crackpots and ICE brigades have taken over,' he lamented. 'We have a king and his court and his beige henchmen - and they're trampling on our rights and our laws and our freedoms, making themselves richer with taxpayer dollars and making us less safe with their love of other kings and dictators and the likes of Putin and Netanyahu and Kim Jong Un of the world.' He then concluded by declaring that the protesters who took to the streets 'are the Avengers' as they are not afraid to fight. The protest on Saturday drew boisterous crowds marching, dancing, drumming and chanting shoulder-to-shoulder in New York, as well as cities like Denver, Chicago, Austin and Los Angeles. In some places, organizers handed out little American flags while others flew their flags upside down, a sign of distress. Mexican flags which have become a fixture of the Los Angeles protests against immigration raids, also made an appearance at some of the demonstrations. "It's not the immigrants, it's the billionaires." @MarkRuffalo #NoKings #MarkRuffalo #immigration #nokingsprotest #keepfamiliestogether — New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC) (@thenyic) June 17, 2025 But the Trump administration has claimed the migrants it is rounding up are convicted criminals. 'The Trump Administration will fulfill the President's promise to deport illegal aliens and no one – not even violent left-wing rioters – will get in the way of our mission,' White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson told the Daily Mail last week. 'ICE is arresting illegal aliens and will continue to do so all around the country no matter what radical liberals do, the safety of the American people depends on it,' she said.
New York Post
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- New York Post
Mark Ruffalo declares ‘time to take our country back' from billionaires, as he blames ‘extreme wealth' for nation's problems
'Avengers' actor Mark Ruffalo declared last weekend that billionaires and 'White people' are creating the country's problems, not immigrants. While attending a 'No Kings' rally against President Donald Trump in New York City on Saturday, the actor spoke out against Trump's immigration policies, saying that the immigrants the administration is allegedly targeting are good people, while wealthy Americans and 'White people' are the ones committing the crimes. 'We get to see who is really making our lives unbearable and making us so desperate. It's not the immigrants, it's the billionaires,' he said in an interview with activist group New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC). According to several sources, Ruffalo's net worth is in the tens of millions of dollars, with one site reporting he is worth $90 million. Ruffalo attended one of hundreds of 'No Kings' protests held on Saturday that were organized the same day as Trump's military parade in Washington, D.C. One of the key issues for 'No Kings' protestors was Trump's mass deportation programs. Protests against Trump's immigration crackdown turned violent in Los Angeles last week, with Trump calling in the National Guard and several hundred U.S. Marines to quell the chaos. While at the NYC rally, Ruffalo wore a hat with the word 'immigrant' emblazoned on it, and made various statements about the value of immigrants to America and how the Trump administration is targeting the wrong group of people. 'Avengers' actor Mark Ruffalo said 'White people' are causing rising tensions seen across the nation. Peter Foley/UPI/Shutterstock During his interview with NYIC, the actor claimed that Trump and conservatives are scapegoating migrants for the problems created by America's majority population and billionaires. He said, 'Well, we're seeing what's happening. First of all, we're understanding that the immigrants aren't the criminals. If you look at the statistics, most of the crimes committed in this country are by White people — non-immigrants.' He added that immigrants 'add to our economy by the billions.' Elsewhere in the interview, Ruffalo declared, 'It's time to take our country back' from the billionaires — which he described as the 'extreme wealth that has its hands all over the power of the nation.' He added that all people should come together to make the country 'a beautiful, burgeoning democracy that works for the people, not just the very wealthy.' Ruffalo attended the 'No Kings' rally against President Donald Trump in New York City and called out his administration for targeting immigrants whom he called good people, in an interview with New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC). AP Separate footage from the rally showed the actor reading some prepared remarks to the crowd. He stated, 'Sadly, today Donald Trump and the administration of billionaires, crackpots and ICE brigades have taken over. We have a king, and his court, and his beige henchmen, and they're trampling on our rights and our laws and our freedoms, making themselves richer with taxpayer dollars and making us less safe with their love of other kings and dictators, and the likes of Putin, and Netanyahu and Kim Jong Un of the world.' Fox News Digital's Michael Dorgan contributed to this report.
Yahoo
7 days ago
- Politics
- Yahoo
New York judge blocks ICE office from opening on Rikers Island
NEW YORK (PIX11) — The Supreme Court of the State of New York has issued a preliminary injunction to block New York City Mayor Eric Adams from opening an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office at Rikers Island. The ruling on Friday came after Adams previously announced that Homeland Security would work with the NYPD and the city's Department of Correction to investigate gang activity at Rikers Island. More Local News 'The State Supreme Court's ruling will effectively prevent thousands of New Yorkers a year from being deported simply because they were accused – not even convicted – of a crime,' said the President and CEO of the New York Immigration Coalition Murad Awawdeh. 'New York City should not be in the business of carrying out Donald Trump's mass disappearance agenda, which is in fact illegal under our local laws,' the statement continued. More: Latest News from Around the Tri-State ICE previously had officers on Rikers Island until 2014 when the City Council passed sanctuary laws that banned the organization from operating in NYC jails. Advocates had been hoping to block immigration officials from reestablishing an office on Rikers Island saying that the agency had been depriving defendants of due process, some of whom may be in the U.S. legally. According to court documents, judges found that reestablishing an ICE office on Rikers Island would risk 'damage to reputation, loss of goodwill, and brand tarnishment' to New York City due to its reputation as a 'Sanctuary City.' 'Moreover, the imminent threat of the loss of public trust in government institutions serves as a basis for injunctive relief,' the court document reads. The injunction makes it so that all other NYC government officials, officers, personnel and agencies are barred from creating an ICE office on Rikers until the end of the proceeding. Dominique Jack is a digital content producer from Brooklyn with more than five years of experience covering news. She joined PIX11 in 2024. More of her work can be found here. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
10-06-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
ICE agents deploy new tactic: arresting people as they leave mandatory court hearings
Federal agents executing President Donald Trump's plans to dramatically scale up deportations have adopted a new tactic of detaining undocumented immigrants while they're leaving mandatory court appearances. In many cases, immigrant-rights advocates say, the people being detained were expecting only a routine court check-in after being permitted to enter the United States during the Biden administration. Trump has ended many of the programs that Biden used to allow undocumented people to enter and live in the country, and ICE agents are now targeting those people for removal. "This escalation of tactics breaks down trust," the New York Immigration Coalition said in a statement. "People should be free to attend their important court cases without fear of being arrested, detained and deported outside of the court." Under Biden, many people who crossed the border without permission turned themselves in, were paroled into the country and later allowed to plead their case before an immigration court. A few were released with orders to wear GPS trackers, but many others were just told to come back to court at an appointed time. Now, in addition to more aggressively stopping people at the border, the White House has given ICE agents new powers to detain and deport people when they show up for those court hearings, as long as they arrived in the United States within the past two years. The shift in tactics has prompted confrontations between advocacy groups and ICE agents, and injected further uncertainty into the lives of undocumented people who believed they followed the rules properly. Some advocacy groups are suing to stop the process. In Phoenix, ICE agents detained more than a dozen people outside court over a two-day period, May 20 and 21. Normally, undocumented people who are going through the immigration court process cannot be deported until a judge issues a final order of removal. But federal lawyers have been dropping those cases, allowing ICE agents to swoop in and detain them under the new Trump "expedited removal" process. Phoenix immigration attorney Nera Shefer said some of her clients came to court and were prepared to celebrate when federal lawyers dropped the case against them. Instead, they left the courthouse in handcuffs. "It used to be getting your case dismissed was a celebration," she said. "Not anymore. The government is given the opportunity to reprocess you under the new rules. That's what it means." Immigration-rights groups report having seen also federal immigration attorneys and ICE agents adopting the new tactics in New York, Seattle and Miami. Trump has repeatedly attacked Biden's decision to allow millions of people to enter the United States. And Trump has also repeatedly complained that it would take too long to hold court hearings for every one of those people. The administration has adopted a string of new tactics to speed up deportations, from invoking the Alien Enemies Act to deporting accused criminals before they ever appear in court. "We cannot give everyone a trial, because to do so would take, without exaggeration, 200 years," Trump said in a April 21 social media post. "We would need hundreds of thousands of trials for the hundreds of thousands of Illegals we are sending out of the country. Such a thing is not possible to do. What a ridiculous situation we are in." Immigration advocates and attorneys have argued that witholding such trials is a violation of the Constitution, which guarantees due process to anyone in the United States, not just citizens or other legal residents. Trump has promised to conduct 1 million deportations annually, a dramatic escalation from previous administrations, including his own first term. Congress is considering a proposal to add 10,000 new ICE agents and double the number of detention beds. During his 2024 presidential campaign, Trump repeatedly vowed that his administration would primarily target violent offenders. Immigrant-rights advocates say the administration's get-tough approach is also targeting people without criminal charges or even immigration Edwardo Cuevas, USA TODAY, Raphael Romero Ruiz, David Ulloa Jr and Richard Ruelas, USA TODAY Network This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: ICE now targeting people attending immigration court hearings
Yahoo
06-06-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
New Yorkers react to Trump's travel ban for certain countries: ‘Bad intentions'
QUEENS, N.Y. (PIX11)– Hundreds of people living in New York neighborhoods are now trying to figure out how they will see their families again. Starting June 9th, 2025, President Trump banned citizens of 12 countries from entering the United States, and there is restricted access for people from seven other countries. President Trump cited national security concerns. More Local News The ban announced Wednesday applies to citizens of Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, the Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen. The heightened restrictions also apply to people from Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan, and Venezuela who are outside the U.S. and don't hold a valid visa. Emmanuel Therassens, who immigrated to the U.S. in 2021 to attend college, told PIX11 News the travel ban means he won't be able to return to his native Haiti to visit his father and other family members. Therassens currently has Temporary Protected Status and is working while living in Queens. His father, who still lives in Haiti, was trying to get a travel visa to visit him since the two have not seen each other in four years. 'When we hear this news, it really takes a big toll on us because there is nothing we can do about it, to change the situation,' Therassens told PIX 11 News. 'Everyone is being portrayed as those people with bad intentions. Most of the people who are eager to come to the United States these are hard working people who just want a better chance at life.' The New York Immigration Coalition and the Legal Aid Society are among the groups closely monitoring this latest presidential order. Hasan Shafiqullah, an attorney with the Legal Aid Society, told PIX 11 News, 'for them to say entire countries are categorically banned does not serve national security, this is purely, it is politics, this is keeping out people mostly of color, this is about xenophobia, it is about racism.' In 2017, President Trump's Muslim ban was met with legal challenges. Murad Awadeh, the President and CEO of the New York Immigration Coalition, said this time, 'It should not impact people who currently have status from those countries, but what we saw in 2017 was that regardless of that, people who were green card holders were put in detention at airports.' Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
