An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer was injured when he was struck by a van whose driver was fleeing from an arrest operation in Stafford Township in New Jersey, according to police.

A spokesperson for ICE said agents were trying to arrest Friedrich Castillo-Ormeno, of Peru, at about 9:30 a.m. on Route 72 in the Manahawkin community.

‘You just see the guy’s body just get twisted and mangled, and in that twist, you know, he then pulled out his gun and shot at the van.’

Castillo-Ormeno had been ordered to leave the country by the end of January, but when ICE agents tried to arrest him, he fled in his van and struck one of the officers, according to officials.

That officer fired his gun at the van and possibly blew out the vehicle’s back window.

Law enforcement officials are searching for Castillo-Ormeno and the van.

One witness described the incident in unnerving detail to WCAU-TV.

“They tell him to roll down his window; he’s inching forward, and you can tell it’s getting tense by his inching forward,” said Payton Johnson, a resident of the township.

“As soon as he gunned it, you just see the the front of the van, pin the lower half of the officer’s body into the officer’s car,” he added. “You just see the guy’s body just get twisted and mangled, and in that twist, you know, he then pulled out his gun and shot at the van.”

Sources told WCAU that the officer who was struck would recover.

A spokesperson for the Stafford Township Police said they were not involved in the ICE operation but were providing help to manage traffic and secure the crime scene. According to New Jersey’s Immigrant Trust Directive, police are restricted from helping federal immigration officers.

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“ICE agents put their lives on the line every day to enforce our nation’s laws and protect our communities,” Republican Rep. Jeff Van Drew of New Jersey said in a statement.

“Yet too many politicians and activists continue to demonize them for doing the job they are sworn to do,” he added. “This incident is a reminder of the dangers these brave men and women face. I am grateful the agent is expected to recover, and I will always stand with ICE and law enforcement.”

The investigation into the incident has been taken over by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

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Vice President JD Vance is taking on those accused of immigration fraud and asylum approvals in the hope of completely turning back the clock on Biden-era policies that are still in play, explaining in an interview on Fox News just how this administration plans to do it.

“One of the angles that we’re looking at is the people who committed immigration fraud against our system and how do we denaturalize those people and send them back to where they came from,” Vance said.

“The Biden administration would often take people who were coming in on fraudulent asylum claims, fraudulent refugee claims, and basically wave the magic wand of amnesty and say, ‘We’re not going to enforce the immigration laws against those people,’” he continued.

“We stopped that from happening. But then you still have a lot of people who benefited from that Biden administration amnesty program. We’re trying to unwind as much of that as possible,” he added.

And even though “left-wing radicals in the justice system” have tried to stop the Trump administration, Vance explained that they’ve still found success.

“We have been able to denaturalize and actually unwind that temporary protected status, a lot of those fraudulent asylum claims,” he said, explaining that this will keep happening “so long as Donald Trump is president.”

“The good news is that we’re stopping the fraud that’s happening against the American taxpayer. The bad news is that my own children will never be able to attend school at the Quality Learing Center,” he joked.

“That ‘Learing Center’ has gotten a lot of mileage,” BlazeTV host Pat Gray laughs.

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Parents of students in Fairfax County Public Schools say their opposition to a suggestion about religious holidays is being ignored, and they believe anti-Christian bias to blame.

The district asked parents whether they would be open to adding more instructional days to the school calendar at the expense of the holiday vacation that included Christmas Day.

‘Even though my friends are certainly against ignoring Christmas, the district won’t listen to us anyways because the leaders have their pre-selected conclusion.’

Stephanie Lundquist-Arora appeared on Fox News to voice her opposition to the change and noted that it was only the latest scheme by the school to cut out Christianity from the classroom.

“Fairfax leaders have an anti-Christian bias,” Lundquist-Arora said.

“In 2022, the school board voted to change spring break with the express purpose of decoupling it from Easter. And then in 2024, the county’s Board of Supervisors, the governing council, also voted to commemorate transgender visibility day on Easter,” she continued.

The mom of three students in the district went on to say that her friends were shocked at the suggestion by the district.

“This is just a drop in the bucket in showing their anti-Christian biases once again,” Lundquist-Arora added.

The text of the survey was published by WJLA-TV.

“Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) values your input as we plan future school calendars,” the email reads. “You are invited to complete a brief survey to share your priorities and perspectives, which will be considered as part of the calendar planning process. Your feedback matters, and we appreciate you taking a few minutes to respond.”

One of the questions reads: “If the school calendar required modifying one of the following, which would be the most acceptable to you?”

One option reads, “Winter break shorter than a full two weeks,” while another reads, “Eliminating holidays recognizing religious and cultural observances (e.g., Christmas, Diwali, Eid al-Fitr, Rosh Hashanah, and other observed holidays).”

They are given the option to say all of the options are “equally unacceptable.”

Board members of the district told WJLA that they had received thousands of message from parents demanding more weeks of five-day instruction be added to the school calendar. The report says that fewer than half of the weeks of instruction at Fairfax County Public Schools include a full five days.

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Lundquist-Arora told Fox News that the district had previously ignored an overwhelming poll of parents.

“They sent out a survey asking if we wanted to have shared-sex classrooms for sex education. Eighty-four percent of us said, ‘No, we did not,’ and then the superintendent responded by saying, ‘Well, the majority doesn’t always dictate,’ and then implemented a pilot program doing just that,” she said.

“So, even though my friends are certainly against ignoring Christmas, the district won’t listen to us anyways because the leaders have their pre-selected conclusion,” Lundquist-Arora concluded.

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California Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom says that he and his wife are under investigation by the Department of Justice and claims the president ordered the probe.

Newsom accused President Donald Trump of targeting him because he “consistently” calls out the president, who he said was the most corrupt in U.S. history.

‘We have nothing to hide. Mr. President, come after me.’

“Today, my wife & I joined Donald Trump’s hit list. He has directed his Department of Justice to investigate us,” the governor wrote in a post on social media Monday.

“They have not found a crime — they are simply trying to find one,” he added. “He isn’t coming after me because of mean tweets, but because I am considering running for President.”

Newsom posted a video in which he expanded on the accusations.

“He’s coming after my wife, Jen, a public servant, a woman who’s dedicated her life to supporting women and girls, someone who has done nothing wrong other than having the temerity to advocate for what she believes in,” he said. “If they can’t intimidate me, they’ll go after the mother of our children.”

He then addressed the president directly.

“I have a message for you,” Newsom said. “You can subpoena my records. You can investigate me. You can harass me. Put my name on every and any enemies list you have, but leave my wife and family out of your personal vendetta.”

He also apologized to his wife over the investigation and said that investigators looking for corruption should look at Trump instead.

The DOJ declined a request for comment from NBC News.

RELATED: Gavin Newsom tries to dunk on Trump and gets obliterated with online ridicule

Newsom has previously positioned his administration in California as the foremost state opposition to Trump and his policies. Many believe the rhetoric is intended to amplify Newsom as a possible presidential candidate for 2028.

“We have nothing to hide. Mr. President, come after me,” he concluded. “I am not going anywhere. The country is watching.”

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