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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
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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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    Crime Rate for Illegal Aliens Vastly Understated, Data Shows

    In June, illegal alien Victor Martinez-Hernandez was charged with the murder of Rachel Morin, a mother of five in Maryland. Police in Oklahoma tracked the accused repeat offender down with a sample of his DNA recovered from a Los Angeles home invasion in which a 9-year-old girl and her mother were assaulted. Police say Martinez-Hernandez…
    John R Lott Jr.
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    US Government Is ‘World’s Largest Child Sex Trafficking Organization,’ Former Border Patrol Agent Claims

    Sitting before members of Congress on Capitol Hill Tuesday, retired Border Patrol agent J.J. Carrell told the lawmakers that the “United States federal government is the world’s largest child sex trafficking organization in modern history.”  Carrell served in the Border Patrol for 24 years, retiring as a deputy patrol agent in charge of the San Diego…
    Virginia Allen
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    Despite the Left’s Hysterics, We Can Deport Millions of Illegal Aliens

    Illegal immigration activists are already panicked that Donald Trump will keep one of his biggest campaign promises. Trump recently announced that Tom Homan will be his “border czar.” Homan isn’t a household name, but he’s had a long career in government. Homan was the acting head of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement during Trump’s first…
    Victor Joecks
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    Tom Homan and Kristi Noem: What Border Agents Think of Their Incoming Bosses

    Border Patrol agents are “ecstatic” that immigration-enforcement veteran Tom Homan will serve as border czar in the second Trump administration, a union spokesman told The Daily Signal.  “We have somebody now that’s [come up] within the ranks,” Manny Bayon, president of the National Border Patrol Council for the San Diego area, said of Homan. “He…
    Virginia Allen
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    Democrats Once Gave Trump’s New Border Czar an Award for Mass Deportation of Illegal Aliens

    The gnashing of teeth and tearing of hair have begun. Trump-haters in newsrooms are sounding the alarm about the anticipated separation of families under “Operation Aurora,” the mass-deportation of illegal aliens that president-elect Donald Trump promises and which 58% of Americans support, according to an Oct. 16 Marquette University survey. “If Trump gets his way,…
    Deroy Murdock
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    Trump Confirms He’ll Use Military to Help Deport Illegal Aliens 

    The new Trump administration will declare a state of emergency and use military assets to deport illegal aliens, President-elect Donald Trump has confirmed.   “Reports are the incoming [Trump] administration [is] prepared to declare a national emergency and will use military assets to reverse the Biden invasion through a mass deportation program,” Judicial Watch President…
    Virginia Allen
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    Laken Riley’s Roommates Testify at Murder Trial of Illegal Alien Accused of Killing Georgia Nursing Student

    Wearing a plaid, button-down shirt and headphones, Jose Ibarra looked ahead and listened to an interpreter translate from English to Spanish as a friend of Laken Riley's took the witness stand at the illegal alien's trial for her murder.  “How would you describe your relationship with Laken?” a prosecuting attorney asked Lilly Steiner on Friday morning in…
    Virginia Allen
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    To Have a Serious Talk About Immigration, You’ve Got to First Debunk the Myths: The BorderLine

    Conservatives know that when the American Left wants us to “have a conversation” about an issue, it means they get to talk incessantly until we agree with them. To progressives, there is one, approved view on a given issue and all others are atavistic throwbacks to an era before “progress.” Observe that humans (and all…
    Simon Hankinson
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    Elected Democrats Say They’ll Stand in Trump’s Way to Protect Illegal Aliens

    THE DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Democratic governors and other liberal elected officials have lined up to declare that they will fight back against President-elect Donald Trump’s hard-line agenda against illegal immigration. Trump, who won the Nov. 5 election, has promised to conduct mass deportations across the country and withhold federal funding from sanctuary cities, along with…
    Jason Hopkins
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    Federal Court Rejects Biden’s ‘Parole in Place’ for Illegal Aliens

    Two days after the election, a federal court in Texas ruled against President Joe Biden’s latest unauthorized scheme to subvert immigration law: “parole in place” for illegal aliens who are the spouses of U.S. citizens. In a 73-page decision, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas upheld a challenge by 16 states…
    Simon Hankinson
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    The Mass Hysteria Over Deportation: The BorderLine

    There were 959 carjackings in Washington, D.C., last year—up from 148 in 2018. Shoplifting is so bad that stores in some neighborhoods have closed. The CVS on Pennsylvania Avenue, a few blocks from the White House, keeps Charmin toilet paper and trash bags in locked cabinets. Not surprisingly, though, to the dismay of progressive activists,…
    Simon Hankinson
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    As an Immigrant, I Ask My Fellow Christians to Vote 

    With the Nov. 5 presidential election fast approaching, I’m reminded of my family’s journey to American citizenship and the duties and privileges associated with it. Namely, voting.  When I was 3 years old, I moved to the U.S. with my parents as legal immigrants, all our belongings packed away in suitcases and with a couple…
    Christina Lewis
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    Migrant Caravan Headed for Border Ahead of Election

    VILLAHERMOSA, Mexico—Jairo Salvador Salinas, a migrant from Honduras, was riding a northbound train toward the Mexico-U.S. border. But Mexican immigration officials detained him at a checkpoint near the city of Monterrey, just 100 miles south of the border. Instead of being deported back to Central America, he was put on a flight to southern Mexico….
    David Agren
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    ‘QUIET AMNESTY’: 1 Million Illegal Aliens Get Assist From Biden-Harris Admin, House Report Reveals

    DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Nearly 1 million illegal aliens in the United States have benefited from “quiet amnesty” by the Biden-Harris administration’s immigration court system, according to a report released Thursday. Over 700,000 illegal migrants have had their cases administratively closed, terminated, or dismissed, allowing them to remain in the country “indefinitely” without being subject to…
    Jason Hopkins
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    Biden-Harris Admin Tried to Dump Illegal Aliens in Tennessee, AG Says

    DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Tennessee’s top prosecutor said Wednesday that his office uncovered a scheme by the Biden-Harris administration to release a massive number of illegal aliens into the state, but the plan ultimately was derailed. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, known as ICE, attempted to release illegal aliens into Tennessee, but those plans were scrapped…
    Jason Hopkins
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    My Job Was Getting Countries to Take Back Their Criminal Illegal Aliens. Under Biden-Harris, I’d Be Unemployed—The BorderLine

    In the United States today, there are over 660,000 illegal aliens with pending criminal charges for crimes other than just crossing the border illegally. By all law and logic, they should be behind bars. Instead, they are allowed to roam free throughout the country, putting all the risk of their future misbehavior on American communities…
    Simon Hankinson
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    Minors – The Greatest Victims of America’s Border Crisis

    Lying among the 16 or 17 dead bodies, Tom Homan spotted the corpse of a little boy, only 5 years old. The child died inside a sweltering truck trailer in Victoria, Texas, while being smuggled into the U.S. in May 2003. These are the memories that today’s images from the border evoke in Homan, a…
    Virginia Allen
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