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    Thousands Arrested: Trump’s Week 1 Border Crackdown
    President Donald Trump is making good on his campaign promise to arrest and deport criminal illegal aliens and take action to secure the border.   Deportations U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has specifically focused on arresting criminal illegal aliens and those who pose a threat to the U.S. ICE made more than 3,500 arrests of…
    Virginia Allen
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    Trump’s Aggressive Response Pressures South American Country to Finally Accept Criminal Illegal Aliens, White House Says
    President Donald Trump has already begun deporting illegal aliens who have been convicted of other crimes, and one South American country has refused to allow a U.S. plane carrying criminal illegal aliens to land, in what Trump says is a violation of its legal obligations. Trump announced tariffs, a travel ban, and sanctions against members…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Cracking Down on Illegal Immigration Would Raise Wages for Lower-Income Americans
    President Donald Trump signed so many executive orders on his first two days in office that many Americans were naturally left wondering how his policy changes would affect their everyday lives. One such question looms particularly large: If we deport illegal aliens, who will take their place in working low-skilled jobs? Many seem to think…
    Alexander Frei
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    ‘Strong and Clear Message’: Illegal Aliens Deportation Flights Begin
    “Deportation flights have begun,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt wrote on X Friday morning above two photos of a line of illegal alien men preparing to board a large military plane.   “President [Donald] Trump is sending a strong and clear message to the entire world: if you illegally enter the United States of…
    Virginia Allen
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    Savor the Border Wins For a While
    I’ve been feeling a warm glow this week, despite the bitter cold in Washington. For four years, I’ve been railing in print, podcast, radio, and video against now-former President Joe Biden’s deliberate takedown of our border controls and his evisceration of our legal immigration system through policy fudges and executive overreach. I have also inveighed…
    Simon Hankinson
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    Letting People ‘Self-Identify’ Gender on Government Documents Poses National Security and Fraud Risks: The BorderLine
    The social media site Twitter now “identifies” as “X.” A different kind of “X” now marks the spot where radical gender ideology has trumped national security under the Biden administration. Over the past decade, encouraging people to be their “authentic selves” has left us with no clear and agreed upon terms for sex, gender, and…
    Simon Hankinson
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    The Anglosphere’s Migration Mess: The BorderLine
    The Anglosphere is too attractive for its own good. Great Britain, and its largest progeny—the USA and Canada—face the same problem: We attract more foreign migration, legal and illegal, than we want or can handle. This is where leadership is needed—and has so far failed. In Britain, the Conservatives promised to reduce migration but didn’t….
    Simon Hankinson
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    Rep. Brandon Gill: This Could Be Republicans’ Last Chance to Fix Immigration
    The Republican-controlled Congress has a monumental task ahead of it: Passing the agenda that elected President-elect Donald Trump and gave Republicans control of both the House and Senate. It will be trial by fire for the newest members of the Republican House like Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas. This week on “The Signal Sitdown,” I interviewed…
    Bradley Devlin
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    Rise of Illegal Alien Criminal Gangs Prompts Urgent Call to End Sanctuary Policies
    The United States is a nation built on the principle of law and order. But today, we face an urgent threat from illegal alien criminal gangs infiltrating our communities and undermining the safety and security we hold dear. The rise of transnational criminal organizations like Tren de Aragua, originally from Venezuela, highlights the chaotic border…
    John Fabbricatore
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    ‘Border Was Not Biden’s Finest Moment,’ MSNBC Analyst Says 
    Over 10 million illegal aliens entered the U.S. under President Joe Biden’s leadership, a reality that even MSNBC has become critical of.   “The border was not Biden’s finest moment, frankly,” economic analyst Steve Rattner said on MSNBC Thursday.   Rattner, who served in the Obama administration, pointed to a large chart on MSNBC’s “Morning…
    Virginia Allen
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    Immigration Moratorium Now!
    For the past few days, certain highly visible elements of the MAGA coalition have been sparring with one another. Specifically, X users have been privy to an extensive immigration policy flame war between two competing MAGA coalition camps: the pro-immigration “tech bros” on the one hand, and the nationalist-populist immigration restrictionists on the other hand….
    Josh Hammer
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    Biden’s Border Legacy Is More Crime, Strained Cities: The BorderLine
    Joseph R. Biden (reminder: still the president of the United States) will leave office in a month, leaving behind a legacy of achievements and failures, as all presidents do. Nowhere has his footprint been greater than on the issue of borders and immigration. History will judge more clearly with the perspective of time exactly what…
    Simon Hankinson
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    Legacy Media Pretend There’s No Cost to Biden’s Mass Importation of Illegal Immigrants
    The Trump-loathing media hate the notion of mass deportations. They are upset that voters support it. After the election, a CBS News poll found 57% of Americans are ready to put the brakes on illegal immigration. On Sunday, ABC’s “This Week” moderator Martha Raddatz pressed conservative Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., on the cost: “A recent…
    Tim Graham
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    Josh Hawley Confronts Witness Who Says Flooding Job Market With Illegal Aliens Helps Americans
    DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Republican Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley confronted American Immigration Council senior fellow Aaron Reichlin-Melnick during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Tuesday about how flooding the job market with illegal immigrants benefits Americans. Melnick previously stated in October that mass deportations would be detrimental to many American industries, including hospitality, construction, and agriculture. During a hearing…
    Nicole Silverio
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    Birthright Citizenship Is a Breach in the Border
    “Birthright citizenship” may sound benign, but thanks to an overreaching Supreme Court decision 126 years ago, it’s the biggest legal hole in our border. President-elect Donald Trump has the opportunity to seal it, but it won’t be easy. When the Supreme Court handed down its United States v. Wong Kim Ark decision, illegal immigration was nothing like…
    Daniel McCarthy
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    Sen Cruz: How the Media Will Cover Illegal Alien Deportations
    President-elect Donald Trump made mass deportations a pillar of his winning campaign platform. Trump and Tom Homan—the former acting head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, who Trump tapped to be his border czar—say they will prioritize the deportations of criminal illegal aliens.   Whether all of the estimated more than 10 million illegal aliens who…
    Virginia Allen
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  • opinion

    Biden’s Open Border and the ISIS-K Threat
    When President George W. Bush stood in front of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 20, 2005, and gave his second inaugural address, as this column has noted before, he argued that maintaining freedom in the United States would require spreading freedom all around the world. “We are led, by events and common sense, to one…
    Terence Jeffrey
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    These 2 Laws Allow the President to Use Troops for Immigration Enforcement
    President-elect Donald Trump’s confirmation last month of his plan to deploy military assets for immigration enforcement sparked a constitutional debate. Legal scholars and commentators quickly declared such action forbidden by long-standing prohibitions on military involvement in domestic law enforcement. But this conventional wisdom misreads both the letter and spirit of American law. A careful examination of a pair of longstanding statutes…
    Patrick O’Malley | Joe Buccino
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    Northern Border Terrorist-Related Arrests Soar
    THE CENTER SQUARE—Federal agents are arresting a record number of individuals on the terrorist watchlist at the northern U.S. border, including a Jordanian national with ties to terrorism who recently was removed from the country after illegally entering from Canada. Border Patrol agents in the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Blaine Sector apprehended Jordanian national Mohammad…
    Bethany Blankley
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    Soros Prosecutors Reap What They Sowed—Unfortunately, We Did, Too: The BorderLine
    All across America, people are feeling the effects of four years of mass immigration parole programs and the release at the border of millions of aliens we know nothing verifiable about. Many aliens head for big cities that have adopted “sanctuary” policies, whereby their police officers and prosecutors don’t cooperate with federal authorities on immigration…
    Simon Hankinson
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