"Imagine the end of capitalism." Those words in the Democratic Socialists of America manifesto offer Americans a world without landlords, debt, mandatory work hours, and "food, education, energy, medicine, and transportation ... are common goods and utilities."

The left often refers to radical changes as "reimagining" everything from police to the Supreme Court to prisons to borders. However, the rise of socialists in the Democratic Party has moved such claims from the merely rhetorical to the outright revolutionary.

The release of the DSA platform on Bastille Day, July 14, was fitting since the Jacobins pushed for the same unicameral system that the socialists are now advocating.The platform promised to change the constitutional system and end the rule of "the same criminal class of billionaires and war profiteers."

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The DSA, which counts various Democrat figures such as New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, includes a plan to eliminate the Senate, the Supreme Court, the presidency and other institutions in remaking the American constitutional system.

In my new book "Rage and the Republic: The Unfinished Story of the American Revolution," I discuss the rise of socialism and the move among professors and pundits to scrap key aspects, or the entirety, of our constitutional system on the 250th anniversary of the republic.

The book compares many of these proposals to identical policies of the Jacobin movement in the French Revolution. It is a book about revolutions and how they can consume those who start them. Both the American and French revolutions arose during the same period, but one became the world’s oldest democracy while the other became a blood-soaked tyranny known as "The Reign of Terror."

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Notably, the Jacobins pushed for the same unicameral system that the socialists are now advocating. Even figures such as Thomas Paine (one of two figures who played a significant role in both revolutions) supported such measures to allow for more direct democracy.

It was an approach that the Framers expressly rejected. Great students of history, they did not want to replicate the elements that led to the destruction of past democracies going back to ancient Athens. Benjamin Rush, a signatory to the Declaration of Independence, referred to it as democracies becoming "mobocracies."

The DSA is the direct descendant of the Jacobins in seeking to tear down moderating institutions and replace the President and justices with democratically elected figures by a Congress composed only of the House of Representatives. However, many of these suggestions are also found among leading academics and influencers.

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As with the original Jacobins, those demanding these changes are not the working class but professors, pundits and young college-educated voters.

Mainstream figures such as Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of UC Berkeley Law School, have published books such as "No Democracy Lasts Forever: How the Constitution Threatens the United States."

The media eagerly publishes such radical views, such as the New York Times column, "The Constitution Is Broken and Should Not Be Reclaimed," in which Ryan D. Doerfler of Harvard and Samuel Moyn of Yale call for the nation to "reclaim America from constitutionalism."

As discussed in "Rage and the Republic":

"Those who want to remain in favor often pander to the extremes. Radical leftist sites like the Jacobin have grown in popularity ... They use some of the same words and symbols but still seem improvisational and inauthentic, like a child’s game of dress-up with oversized outfits. Indeed, that is precisely the danger.

There is little knowledge, let alone memory, of what such radicalism became under the real Jacobins. There is the same blissful ignorance that allowed Rousseauian dilettantes to mutate into monsters, escalating radical agendas with every failure...As the popular slogans became disastrous policies, the momentum would carry them beyond any point of recognition or return. The new Jacobins show the same blind ambition and abandon in striking out at institutions and the Constitution itself."

Those slogans are now preying on the gullible and the vulnerable. Take the recent pitch of Michaela Brangan, DSA National Political Education Chair, who declared that with socialism:

"[Y]ou are able to take a day off and not have to worry and you don't have to have a job just to pay the bills because you do not have a lot of bills. Right? Bills are no longer a thing because there's not for-profit businesses that are constantly trying to exploit you and trying, you know, to put you into debt."

She laughed at the suggestion of, "Why do we have a Senate? What is so great about the Senate?"

If she wants that answer, she only needs to look around her at the mob seeking to destroy the world's oldest and most successful republic in history.

She is right about one thing. Capitalism has played a critical role in our republic. This is the 250th anniversary of not just our Declaration but the publication of Adam Smith's "Wealth of Nations," which the Founders eagerly embraced. They believed that you could not be truly independent and free if you are not economically independent and free. They rejected the economic dependency pushed by many on the left.

The left has found a voice in the class warfare espoused by Vermont Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders and others. However, it is not a new voice. It is the same Siren's call that we rejected 250 years ago. Paine himself would barely survive in France and come to appreciate the structural precautions that Founding Father and President James Madison created in our system that were absent in the French system.

After the Jacobins implemented some of these very same policies, they destroyed their economy and then devoured themselves in waves of executions. Once again, these same voices are asking a people to destroy the most successful and stable democracy in history. Mainstream figures are conditioning the public for radical changes, often using the same coded messaging. Former Vice President Kamala Harris dismissed the opposition to ideas like packing the Supreme Court as mere "nostalgia" for a system that is no longer working.

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California Gov. Gavin Newsom recently also pandered to the mob in declaring that "nostalgia is not working," and added, "capitalism as we know it doesn't work either."

It is not "nostalgia" that binds us to this constitutional system. It is the faith in a system based on natural rights; a system that protects the minority from the majority. It is a system based on faith in both political and economic independence; the embrace of freedom and free-market principles that created the greatest prosperity in history.

We have heard these voices before and we would be wise to take them seriously if we are, as Benjamin Franklin asked, to keep this Republic for the next generation.

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A summer job was once a rite of passage for teens hired to staff local restaurants, stores, and pools. But today the percentage of 16-19-year-olds now working summer jobs is at or near the lowest levels since the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics began tracking this data just after World War II.

Today, about one in three 16-19-year-olds have a summer job. As there are about 17 million high-school-aged students in the U.S., this means that more than 11 million currently don’t have a summer job.

About half of these teens participate in some type of summer camp, according to Gallup, but many of these camps are day camps that only last one week (baseball camps, soccer camps, band camps, and so on). Also, the "gap in participation rates between upper- and lower-income families is nearly 30 percentage points, 67% versus 38%," determined Gallup.

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What this means is millions of teens are at home — or hanging out somewhere — likely playing video games and scrolling through social media all day and night. The percentage goes up in the poorer neighborhoods — places where they are much more likely to be in fatherless homes.

Free play is a critical part of social and personal development, but a summer of nothing but screen time can lead teens into who knows what online and in their neighborhoods.

Also, when parents later complain that their kids were indoctrinated by teachers and professors with political ideologies or values the parents do not share, I ask what challenges they gave their kids, as positively learning or overcoming real things builds a foundation of conservative values that later help them critically evaluate impractical ideologies (such as socialism).

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Summer jobs, of course, can do this. A teen with a job has to show up on time, be in the proper attire, speak clearly, treat customers respectably (even when the customers are rude), and much more. But what these jobs can teach is limited.

A good parent adds challenges — this is where it gets interesting, individualistic and difficult.

Many parents have a hard time with this; for example, when I coached my son’s soccer team, I literally had parents ask me if I could tell their son, "No," as they said they could not do that — and these were dads.

I have also had many parents ask me how I regulate my son’s screen time. I always flip the script by answering that screen time is a useful tool, as it is so easy to take away if benchmarks are not being met. When they hear this, parents typically frown and tell me they can’t do that.

When I see this reaction, I tell them it doesn’t need to be negative. (Indeed, when youth see their parents are firm, the friction they give goes away a little more each time.)

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Parents do need to have some idea what their son or daughter is interested in. If it is a sport, break it down into three parts as a summer challenge: physical goals (every sport has drills that teach skills — help them come up with and master three skills before sports begin again in the fall); mental challenges (require them to draw, animate or write about these skills); and set related goals that inspire, such as reading a book on the topic.

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It is easy for an involved parent to ask about the progress on these three parts and then to help.

And it needn’t just be a sport. My son is into karate, animation and science. Those are diverse topics, but they can come together. He is now mastering his next kata and volunteering in the dojo by helping to teach younger kids (he is about to turn 14). He is using Adobe products to create a cartoon of a karate master doing his kata. He is reading Andy Weir’s "The Martian," as it is about a man who has to use science to survive. (Picking a book for/with a teen is complicated and personal; the keys are: a teen needs to be into the main character and the adventure, the books needs to challenge them but not overwhelm them, and it needs to teach good lessons — I wrote "Cool Heroes for Boy" to do precisely do all of that.

All the parts of his summer challenge are checkable, positive and are within areas my son is interested in. If he misses a benchmark, he loses screen time — benchmarks, of course, do need to be adjusted at times. But I always find that, as long as I remain open, honest and compassionate, my son happily stays within the steps of the adventure.

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A New Hampshire Democratic lawmaker's 107 mph traffic stop has thrust the debate over police body cameras and dashboard cameras back into the spotlight after Fox News Digital confirmed the sheriff's office involved in the stop has neither.

The lack of body camera and dashboard camera footage has become a focal point in the legal battle involving state Rep. Ellen Read, who is fighting charges stemming from two Rockingham County traffic stops, including one in which a deputy accused her of driving 107 mph. Read argues both stops violated a provision of the New Hampshire Constitution protecting lawmakers while traveling to and from legislative duties.

Without body camera or dashboard camera footage, there is no official recording of the traffic stop that sparked a constitutional fight over legislative immunity.

Rockingham County Sheriff's Office Major Christopher Bashaw told Fox News Digital the agency does not use body-worn cameras or dashboard cameras because it lacks funding to purchase them.

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"We don't have that either," Bashaw said when asked whether deputies use body cameras or dashboard cameras, adding the sheriff's office would like to equip deputies with the technology.

New Hampshire lawmakers established a Body-Worn and Dashboard Camera Fund in 2021 to provide matching grants to local law enforcement agencies for purchasing cameras and covering maintenance, replacement and data storage costs. All local law enforcement agencies are eligible to apply.

State law also requires agencies that choose to deploy body cameras to adopt policies governing when officers must record law enforcement encounters, including traffic stops. The law, however, does not require agencies to purchase or use body cameras.

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It is unclear whether the Rockingham County Sheriff's Office has applied for funding through the state grant program.

Read told Fox News Digital she has consistently supported legislation governing body-worn cameras, as well as funding to help law enforcement agencies purchase them. She also said she would be willing to work with the Rockingham County Sheriff's Office to help secure funding for body cameras in the next state budget.

Read said she supports funding body cameras even though she questions other forms of law enforcement spending, including military-grade equipment and expensive vehicles.

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She also disputed the sheriff's office's assertion that she recorded part of the traffic stop on her cellphone.

"They are incorrect, I wish I had," Read said. "The officers conveniently not wearing/using body cams are the reason that I'm investing in a dash cam."

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According to Read, the sheriff's office misunderstood what happened during the stop. She said she did not record the encounter and that a witness listening during a cellphone call later testified in court.

Read has argued the constitutional provision protects lawmakers from being delayed while traveling to legislative duties—not from prosecution.

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"I admitted to the officer and in court that I was going about 85 miles an hour on the highway," she said, adding that she was willing to accept a speeding ticket but disputed the deputy's allegation that she was traveling 107 mph and driving recklessly.

Lawrence Friedman, a professor at New England Law, said the constitutional provision dates back centuries and was intended to prevent lawmakers from being delayed while performing their legislative duties – not to provide blanket immunity from traffic stops or criminal prosecution.

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"I think it's probably not the case that this provision provides some kind of absolute immunity," Friedman told Fox News Digital. "It's unlikely that a court would say, 'No, you're absolutely immune from arrest for a moving violation that everyone else would be subject to arrest for just because you happen to be a legislator.'"

Friedman also said the New Hampshire Supreme Court's refusal to immediately hear Read's constitutional challenge should not be interpreted as a ruling on the merits of her argument.

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"My understanding is that it's not that her appeal is denied," Friedman said. "The Supreme Court said no because they want to see how it plays out at the trial court."

Bashaw said the constitutional provision was intended to prevent law enforcement from interfering with legislative business, not to shield lawmakers from accountability for dangerous driving.

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"The claim that you're immune from all types of arrests ... that'd be like saying you could drive at those speeds, commit a vehicular homicide, and that you are not allowed to be held accountable because you're traveling to and from session," Bashaw said.

Read acknowledged the constitutional language could be modernized while preserving its original intent.

"I did not write this constitutional provision ... it was written before cars existed," she said.

Trump's housing chief is taking aim at New York City's housing agenda, arguing the policies championed by Mayor Zohran Mamdani would worsen affordability rather than solve it by discouraging private investment.

"Socialist progressive policies never work," Turner told Fox News Digital in an exclusive interview. "To try to implement those policies in one of our greatest cities in the world — you will see people leaving New York in droves. Businesses and families can't afford it."

Turner's comments come as Mamdani has made housing affordability a centerpiece of his administration, backing policies like rent freezes for stabilized apartments and higher taxes on corporations and wealthy residents to fund affordable housing. He also wants local government to play a larger role in addressing New York City's housing shortage.

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As America's largest city and one of its most expensive housing markets, New York has become a focal point in the national debate over how to address affordability.

Turner's criticism reflects the Trump administration's broader affordability strategy, which, in contrast to Mamdani, emphasizes reducing regulations, expanding the nation's housing supply and encouraging private-sector investment rather than increasing government's role in the market.

The Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary told Fox News Digital that states such as Florida and Texas are "ahead of the game" on addressing the affordability crisis because they have prioritized homebuilding and reducing regulatory barriers that drive up costs.

He argued New York should follow a similar approach, saying affordability improves when governments make it easier for builders to construct new homes rather than expand their role in the housing market.

"That's what we're doing now is easing the regulatory environment, bringing the cost down, raising the supply so builders can build and homeowners can buy," Turner said.

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Turner contrasted that approach with the policies championed by Mamdani in the nation's largest city, arguing his approach discourages the investment needed to increase housing supply.

"The policies that he's putting forth are not encouraging, they're discouraging," Turner said. "People want to go a place where they can get the government out of the way. The government is not the answer. The private sector is the answer. Family is the answer. Church and faith is the answer."

Turner predicted that Mamdani's governing philosophy would ultimately fail.

"Mamdani and his policies are the complete opposite of that," Turner said. "So no, they're not gonna work, period."

Mamdani has argued his proposals are necessary to address New York City's housing affordability crisis, contending that stronger tenant protections and expanded public investment would help ease rising costs for working families.

Mamdani's office did not respond to Fox New Digital's request for comment.

The American education establishment is currently having a collective meltdown. If you watch the headlines closely, you can see the panic setting in across the country.

This is the unmistakable sound of a broken progressive machine collapsing under the weight of its own arrogance. The radical left has engineered our educational system to prioritize ideological compliance over human formation. Reality is finally catching up with them, and the collapse is starting where the crusade began. The war on merit.

A few years ago, the "prestigious" University of California system proudly eliminated standardized testing. They sacrificed the SAT and ACT on the altar of "equity," claiming that objective academic standards were inherently discriminatory. The administrators confidently claimed that removing the tests would level the playing field. They promised it would open the doors of elite academia to students with fewer resources, reshaping the demographic makeup of the incoming students.

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This decision turned out to be a complete disaster.

The results are in and the failure is so undeniable that even the New York Times admitted that dropping test requirements was a terrible mistake. These universities are discovering the hard way that when you declare war on merit, you reward mediocrity. You rob intelligent, hard-working students of the ability to prove their worth, all to satisfy a progressive political checklist.

Standardized tests stood for generations as an equalizer. They were a reliable tool for intelligent hard-working students from a failing public school could use to prove they were just as capable as a wealthy student from a private prep school. A high SAT score cut through the noise of privilege. By eliminating that objective metric, the University of California did not fix inequality. They worsened the issue. Admissions offices were forced to rely on highly subjective metrics like inflated GPAs, heavily coached essays, and expensive extracurricular activities, things that favor the wealthy.

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Without a standardized test to anchor the admissions process, they tried to engineer a utopian admissions process and ended up robbing working-class students of the ability to prove they are just as capable as those with limitless money and private tutors. The war on merit has led to the destruction of the higher education standard. Now, replacing it is a subjective system where ideological compliance and family wealth rule the day.

This spectacular failure in California should cause grave concern and serve as a warning for other higher education institutions in the country. We cannot build a prosperous, resilient nation by hiding from the truth or lowering the bar. If we want to truly help the next generation, we must stop lying to them about what it takes to succeed.

Real life does not operate on a test blind curve. In fact, we are already seeing elite institutions like MIT, Dartmouth, and Yale reinstating their test requirements because they realized the "equity" argument was entirely backward.

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As a university president, I, for one, will not stand by and watch higher education lose its merit. We must restore objectivity to the application process, and demand genuine intellectual effort over artificial, progressive shortcuts.

But this fight is about much more than admission to college. This is about the survival of America. The defining promise of this country has always been that it does not matter where you come from, how much money your parents make, or your last name. If you work hard and achieve excellence, there is a place for you. When education abandons merit, they destroy that promise.

The war on standards has failed. It is time to reject the equity hustle and restore excellence.

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In December 1995, the world's two most famous people met in secret at New York City's Carlyle Hotel.

John F. Kennedy Jr. hoped to persuade Princess Diana to grace the cover of his magazine, "George." The Princess of Wales, for her part, wanted to meet the man who had managed the impossible: living under an unforgiving media spotlight without being consumed by it.

Caroline Hallemann wrote about the encounter in her book, "The Kennedys & the Windsors," which explores the two dynasties and how their paths crossed over the years.

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"It was this clandestine meeting, and they were able to keep it a secret," Hallemann told Fox News Digital. "They were both hounded by paparazzi throughout their lives. That's something they had to deal with, but they were able to maintain privacy around this moment."

"I spoke with Patrick Jephson, who was Princess Diana's private secretary at the time, and I spoke with Rosemarie Terenzio, who was JFK Jr.'s executive assistant at ‘George’ magazine, to hear about what happened in this meeting," she shared. "Patrick was actually in the room when they met."

Hallemann wrote that while Kennedy was "excited" to meet the royal, he was also "annoyed about everybody hinting that this would be a marriage made in heaven if they could be together."

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At the time, Kennedy was considered the world's most eligible bachelor. But for Diana, who had officially divorced then-Prince Charles, the meeting was purely professional.

"Patrick shared that this was really a business meeting," said Hallemann. "[Kennedy] thought that she quintessentially represented what the magazine was trying to achieve, which was to focus on the intersection of popular culture, politics and celebrity. And Princess Diana, from the start of the meeting, knew that she was going to say no, but she still wanted to meet with him anyway, which I think is quite telling."

Kennedy and Diana had met before, the book revealed. About a decade earlier, they both attended a luncheon in Virginia during the 1985 royal visit to Washington, D.C.

"She has the most unusual upward glance, really seductive," Kennedy told his friend Billy Noonan, adding that she had "the most unusual blue eyes," Hallemann wrote.

As for Diana, she was "keen" on the idea of spending time with Kennedy away from cameras.

"[His mother] Jackie Kennedy was a role model for Princess Diana in terms of how Jackie was able to raise her children in the public eye," Hallemann explained. "And I think that Princess Diana wanted to meet with John Jr. just to see how he managed life in the public eye."

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At first, it was suggested that Kennedy would wear a disguise to throw off the paparazzi. But Kennedy told friends, "I'm not going anywhere in disguise; that's the stupidest thing ever." 

The hotel's discretion was described as "extraordinary," Hallemann wrote. Kennedy had lived there following his father's assassination, and it was also a favorite of Diana's whenever she was in New York.

When Kennedy came face to face with the princess, he appeared "nervous."

"He was quite in awe of her," Jephson told Hallemann. "Not uncomfortable, but he certainly seemed to be on his best behavior." Diana was "very cool — and jolly, you know, and smiley and welcoming."

Hallemann told Fox News Digital the pair "spoke about a number of things," including Mother Teresa and the paparazzi.

"But ultimately, for John, the goal of this meeting was for Diana to be featured in ‘George’ magazine," she said. "Sadly, he walked away disappointed in that regard."

After giving Jephson "a sly glance," Diana told Kennedy that she would perhaps consider appearing in the 50th or 100th issue. Her decision was final. Still, the two spent "an hour or so together" talking.

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Later, rumors claimed Kennedy and Diana had an affair that was consummated at the Carlyle that day in a "moment of pure lust." Jephson told Hallemann he was in the room the entire time.

"I stayed in the room throughout and was not aware of any mad, passionate activities," he said. "My observation was that it was a kind of mutual sounding out. It was a kind of appraisal, and it wasn't overtly flirtatious, but it was friendly."

While Kennedy didn't get the answer he was hoping for, Diana left a lasting impression.

"I think he was charmed by her," said Hallemann. "He thought she was quite beautiful. There's one quote that's repeated by several people who spoke to him about her. [He] said she had great legs. I think he thought she was attractive."

"But it was really a business meeting — for him it was," said Hallemann. "It wasn't a social call, and he was really hopeful and saw the value she might bring by appearing in the magazine, and that element didn't work out."

According to the book, Diana wrote Kennedy a note. It read, "Thank you so much, but not right now." Again, she agreed to appear on a future cover.

Kennedy never gave up on the idea. The book describes how he quietly stayed in touch with Diana, asking her for an interview more than once.

In February 1997, she wrote him a letter saying she had to "regrettably" turn down his offer once more. She wrote, "'I hope"—with "hope" underlined—'"that the media are leaving both of you and [your wife] Carolyn alone. I know how difficult it is, but believe it or not, the worst paparazzi are here in Europe!"

On Aug. 31, 1997, Diana died from injuries sustained in a Paris car crash. She was 36. At the time, she was riding in a car that was being pursued by paparazzi.

"Princess Diana's death affected JFK Jr.," said Hallemann. "He saw a real similarity between them. He saw how much media interest and scrutiny there was, and he saw the role the media had played in her death. It worried him."

"In particular, it worried him because of the way his wife reacted to it," Hallemann continued. "Carolyn was deeply upset by Princess Diana's death. She was deeply rattled by her own experience with the paparazzi and also by the way Princess Diana died. She was already struggling with her relationship with the media, and this only took it one step further."

Kennedy and his wife, Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, died in a plane crash less than two years later, on July 16, 1999.

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"I think that when people die young, they are mythologized in a way, and they are canonized in a way," said Hallemann. "For both Princess Diana and JFK Jr., these were two people who lived under enormous media scrutiny. They did a great deal of good, but they were also just people. And for one moment, they came together away from the spotlight."

An immigration lawyer representing two illegal immigrants who were involved in a recent fatal ICE shooting in Houston has prior domestic abuse and kidnapping charges, documents reveal.

Hugo Balderas-Ibarra, a private practice attorney in Texas, represents two of the three passengers who were in a van when Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was fatally shot by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent last week.

At a press conference after the shooting, Balderas-Ibarra ripped the agency, demanding an immediate release of his clients and accusing ICE agents of lying about the shooting and of "racial profiling." He said that his clients "will forever be physically and emotionally scarred by this killing," adding, "None of these families will ever be whole again."

However, a Harris County District Court charging document obtained by Fox News reveals that Balderas-Ibarra is currently out on a $20,000 bond on a felony assault family violence by impeding breathing charge stemming from a 2024 incident.

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The document states that the alleged assault took place in 2024 when the victim and Balderas had a dating relationship. According to the victim, they got into an argument the day she was set to take a flight over something she had seen on his phone. This caused her to pack all her belongings, which Balderas-Ibarra found and took. The woman took an Uber to the airport.

While Balderas-Ibarra agreed to bring her luggage to the airport, once there, the document says he "threw her luggage on the ground," and when she went to pick it up, he "grabbed her by her neck with his left hand." She told investigators that he held her thus for several seconds, and when he noticed people getting close to them, he "squeezed harder and twisted her throat."

She said she was unable to breathe during the strangulation and felt dizzy and disoriented. Afterwards, she said she had nausea, a headache and felt faint. The document states that photos taken by authorities after the incident show redness and swelling on the woman’s neck.

After this incident, Balderas-Ibarra was charged with felony assault family violence – impeding breathing.

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Further, a Harris County bond motion shows that at the time of the strangling incident, Balderas-Ibarra was already on bail for a separate domestic violence charge, kidnapping and false imprisonment in Seminole County, Florida.

Fox News Digital reached out to Balderas-Ibarra’s office for comment.

According to the website for the State Bar of Texas, Balderas-Ibarra is eligible to practice law in the state with a "probationary license."

He spoke at a press conference on the ICE shooting last Friday alongside Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, Rep. Sylvia Garcia, D-Texas, and Harris County District Attorney Sean Teare, who is also a Democrat.

Salgado Araujo, a Mexican citizen who authorities said was in the country illegally, was shot and killed in Houston after ICE said he tried to ram an ICE officer with his vehicle during a traffic stop. Araujo was struck and taken to a hospital, where he later died.

At the press conference, Balderas-Ibarra said that ICE’s accounts of the shooting have "varied" and that his clients’ versions of the events are "extremely different from what ICE agents are saying or what the agency is saying."

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"All three of my clients reiterated that at no point was there ever an agent standing in front of the vehicle, nor was an agent ever placed in the line of danger. That is simply false. And I believe my clients are telling the truth," said Balderas-Ibarra.

He demanded ICE release his clients to ensure they are not deported, which he said would preserve the "integrity" of the investigations into the shooting.

"I am calling for drastic changes to the way ICE conducts their immigration enforcement," he said, adding, "This is not immigration enforcement. This is racial profiling."

Fox News Digital also reached out to the offices of Green, Garcia and Teare for comment.