December 24, 2025, Glendale, CA, A LA Park Ranger in FrogTown passes by a drainage culvert pouring into the unusually high LA River that threatens to flood portions of the city on Christmas Eve.
Scott Mc Kiernan Presents zReportage.com Issue #1019 Story of the Week: Published TUESDAY, December 23, 2024: ‘ICE: Deportation Trap’ Pictures by 4 time Pulitzer Prize winning ZUMA Press photographer Carol Guzy: Migrants line up in the lobby of the Jacob Javits Federal building in NY near a wall bearing a portrait of President Trump and the Preamble to the US Constitution. Upstairs masked ICE agents and federal officers in balaclavas and sunglasses detain people after court hearings during this administration’s controversial immigration reform policies amid a mass deportation effort. They stand outside courtrooms with papers bearing photos of their ‘target’. After an arduous journey seeking asylum and the American dream, some react with anguish and tears, others walk quietly on their final steps to a new destiny. There is a vast political divide. Some participate in prayer walks and protests, decrying a lack of due process claiming troubling parallel’s to fascism and authoritarianism. A woman screamed with indignation, ‘We angry. We all angry out here.’ Others applaud. Welcome to ‘ICE: Deportation Trap
The video shows scenes from Berlin on Saturday, December 20, 2025, as the city prepares for Christmas. It opens at the Brandenburg Gate, where people gather around holiday installations as they move through the historic square. The footage continues at a busy street crossing near Kurfuerstendamm, showing pedestrians and shoppers navigating heavy foot traffic. A street musician performs rock songs on guitar as a crowd gathers to listen in a central shopping area. The video concludes with cars moving along the Autobahn 100, reflecting increased holiday travel across the German capital.