Rep.Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., sparked fierce backlash after her apparent defense of accused antifa cell members sentenced to decades in prison for a violent attack on a Texas immigration facility that federal prosecutors called an act of terrorism. One of the defendants, Benjamin Song, a former Marine Corps reservist, was handed a 100-year prison sentence — the maximum punishment — Tuesday after being convicted of attempted murder for shooting Alvarado Police Lt.
Thomas Gross, who survived a bullet to the neck.Seven other members of the alleged North Texas antifa cell were given sentences spanning 30 to 70 years for charges such as providing material support to terrorists, conspiracy to use weapons and explosives, and rioting. "These sentences are a travesty and totally unjustified, but that's the point," Tlaib, a progressive lawmaker associated with "the Squad," wrote on social media."Americans hate the fascist Trump regime, so the only way they can try to cling to power is brute force."Rep.
Rashida Tlaib, a Democrat from Michigan, sharply criticized lengthy sentences given to alleged antifa rioters — a combined 450 years — after they were convicted on terrorism charges for participating in a violent riot outside a Texas immigration detention facility.(Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images)NINE CONVICTED IN NORTH TEXAS ICE ATTACK AS KASH PATEL ISSUES WARNING TO THOSE WHO TARGET FEDERAL OFFICERSTlaib sharply criticized a 2025 document, known as the National Security Presidential Memo 7, that President Donald Trump released in the wake of conservative activist Charlie Kirk's assassination and that classified antifa as a "domestic terrorist organization."The Texas trial was the first time federal prosecutors successfully brought terrorism charges against alleged members of the far-left antifascist movement following the memo and an executive order associating the militant group with domestic terrorism."NSPM-7 is a grave threat to all of us and more bulls--- ...