Illegal Immigration News

The Daily Signal covers illegal immigration with reporting and conservative commentary. Reporting on immigration policy, border security, and the cultural and economic impact. Includes conservative commentary and opinion on U.S. immigration debates.
Filter articles by
    • Opinion

    ‘The Pain Grows Every Day,’ Says Woman Who Lost Daughter, Mother in Crash With Vehicle Smuggling Illegal Aliens

    One year ago Wednesday, Elisa Tambunga lost her mother and daughter at the hands of a human smuggler.  Rassian Comer is accused of speeding through a red light in Ozona, Texas, crashing into Maria Tambunga’s pickup truck. Seven-year-old Emilia was in the back seat, and both she and her grandmother were pronounced dead at the…
    Virginia Allen
    Read More
    • Opinion

    Call Them What They Are: Illegal Aliens

    According to the embargoed version of Thursday’s State of the Union address, which journalists previewed, President Joe Biden planned to remain silent about the late Laken Riley, the 22-year old Georgia nursing student who was killed while jogging on Feb. 22, reportedly by Venezuelan illegal alien Jose Antonio Ibarra, 26. He broke into America in…
    Deroy Murdock
    Read More
    • Opinion

    The Real Obstacle to Immigration Reform 

    A Wall Street Journal headline Thursday stated: “Americans Want the Immigration Bill Congress Won’t Pass.” Citing the Journal’s own polling, the article suggested that “voters crave a blueprint for compromise that Congress has all but abandoned.” However, a more accurate description of the dynamic would be to say that reform efforts “repeatedly failed in recent years”…
    Scott Rasmussen
    Read More
    • News

    SPLC Fought Reforms That Might Have Helped Prevent Laken Riley’s Death, Immigration Activist Says

    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The Southern Poverty Law Center has repeatedly opposed Georgia bills that would require local law enforcement to report illegal aliens to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement if they are charged with or convicted of other crimes. This activism has drawn renewed scrutiny in the wake of Laken Riley’s killing, allegedly at…
    Tyler O’Neil
    Read More
    • Opinion

    How ‘Sanctuary Cities’ Are Costing American Lives: The BorderLine

    According to a former Immigration and Customs Enforcement official, ICE asked police in Montgomery County, Maryland, 119 times this year to detain and hand over criminal aliens they had arrested. The criminals’ records included “convictions for assault, robbery, illegal firearms, sex abuse of a minor, rape, and MS-13 gang membership,” former official John Feere said….
    Simon Hankinson
    Read More
    • Opinion

    The Right to Vote Is a Privilege Reserved for Citizens, Not for Illegal Immigrants

    The New York City Legislature, following in the footsteps of Washington, D.C., passed a groundbreaking bill into law in 2022. The law would have allowed any lawful permanent resident or green card holder to vote in a New York City election. That law was met with legal challenges as quickly as it was passed, which…
    Armstrong Williams
    Read More
    • News

    Single Adult Illegal Alien Men Flood San Diego Streets

    The Border Patrol began releasing illegal aliens onto the streets of San Diego last week after local funding for migrant resources ran out.  The illegal aliens being released onto the city streets of San Diego County are “predominantly single adults, and predominantly men,” Jim Desmond, a San Diego County supervisor, told The Daily Signal.  Desmond…
    Virginia Allen
    Read More
    • Opinion

    Biden’s Catch-22—Continue Border Crisis or Fix It—Either Way, He Loses Support: The BorderLine

    By hinting that he will use executive power to crack down on mass illegal immigration for the first time in his administration, President Joe Biden is admitting that he already has the necessary authority to do so. This completely undercuts his attempt to blame Republicans in Congress for not giving him additional laws, money, and…
    Simon Hankinson
    Read More
    • Opinion

    Are We the Chump on the Latin American Block?: The BorderLine

    The interests of our Latin American friends (and enemies) are not the same as ours when it comes to immigration. They want to get foreign migrants out of their territories while making money. They also want their own access to the U.S. labor market—for example, Mexicans working in the U.S. sent back $55 billion in…
    Simon Hankinson
    Read More
    • Opinion

    Asylum Zombies: The BorderLine

    In France last June, an unnamed Syrian “refugee” stabbed six people on a playground. He had applied for asylum in France but was rejected—because he had already received asylum in Sweden a few years earlier. In Switzerland last week, a man with an ax took passengers hostage on a train until police shot him. Thought…
    Simon Hankinson
    Read More
    • Opinion

    Mountain of Expenses: Denver’s Fiscal Woes Climb as Illegal Aliens Overwhelm City

    Denver is buckling under a financial crisis caused by illegal immigration. But the fault lies not in the stars, but with the city itself. “Denver will cut hours at recreation centers, end in-person vehicle-registration renewals and eliminate spring flower beds to save $5 million this year, a response to the migrant crisis that is expected…
    Jarrett Stepman
    Read More
    • News

    Pakistani Illegal Alien on Terror Watchlist Released Before Being Caught Again

    Federal immigration authorities caught and released a Pakistani man who illegally crossed America’s southern border and whose name appeared on the nation’s terror watchlist, according to a memo from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement reviewed by the Daily Caller News Foundation. The Pakistani national entered the U.S. illegally Nov. 9 and was nabbed by…
    Jennie Taer
    Read More
    • Opinion

    An Open Border Policy Is Not a Biblical Mandate

    When the Supreme Court ruled recently that the federal government could remove razor wire on the border between Texas and Mexico that was put in place by the state of Texas, it set off a legal, political, and even theological debate about the federalism and border policy. Despite the ruling, the state of Texas has said it…
    Joseph Backholm
    Read More
    • Opinion

    Democrats Lavish Illegal Immigrants With Valentines. Citizens Take the Arrows.

    They’re just not that into you. Today’s Democrats treat the American people like a spouse who has grown routine, sometimes ungrateful, and decreasingly alluring. And they cannot forgive America for running off for four years with that damn contractor. But Democrats swoon over the 8.8 million illegal aliens who they have helped invade the country on President Joe Biden’s watch. These arrivistes are…
    Deroy Murdock
    Read More
    • News

    Human Trafficking Connects Super Bowl, Southern Border

    A city becomes a prime location for human trafficking when it hosts the Super Bowl, a busy and heavily attended event. Hundreds of thousands of tourists visit for the National Football League’s big game. This makes it easier for traffickers to hide the movement and sale of their human wares. Super Bowl LVII, set for…
    Noah Slayter
    Read More
    • Opinion

    The Absurd Democrat Border Con

    In 2021, President Joe Biden opened wide an inherited, secure southern border that had finally stopped mass illegal immigration. When he overturned former President Donald Trump’s efforts, a planned flood of over 8 million illegal immigrants entered the U.S. Almost all arrived without background checks, health screening, or vaccination certificates—but with massive needs for free…
    Victor Davis Hanson
    Read More
    • Opinion

    The Gang’s All Here—Thanks to Biden’s Open Border: The BorderLine

    Have you heard of the Tren de Aragua, a Venezuelan criminal gang? Maybe not, but this is “the little engine that could” that may bring your quiet American neighborhood some dangerous young men with little to contribute and even less to lose. Joseph Humire, an expert on Latin American security, calls the Tren “the fastest-growing…
    Simon Hankinson
    Read More
    • News

    House Vote to Impeach Mayorkas Over Border Crisis Fails

    The House of Representatives voted Tuesday evening 214 to 216 against impeaching Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. The vote on two articles of impeachment largely was along party lines, with Republicans holding 219 seats in the House and Democrats having 212 seats, plus four vacancies. (House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., was scheduled to be…
    Virginia Allen
    Read More
    • Opinion

    Illegal Alien Work Permits, Sanctuary City Bailouts, $60B for Ukraine: What’s Really in Senate’s 370-Page ‘Border Bill’

    The Senate released the text of a 370-page spending bill Sunday that includes about $20 billion for border-related provisions and $60 billion for Ukraine.  The bill was originally intended to be a bipartisan compromise giving Democrats the Ukraine funding they have advocated for, and Republicans the border-security measure they have called for. But border policy…
    Virginia Allen
    Read More
    • News

    ‘We Are a Happy People’: What I Saw at Trucker Convoy Rally to ‘Close the Border’

    QUEMADO, Texas— Hundreds of trucks and vehicles arrived in western Texas Friday night as part of the Take Our Border Back Convoy.   Americans from Tennessee, Maryland, New York, Missouri, Ohio, New Mexico, and many other states gathered Friday night and Saturday in Quemado, Texas, about 150 miles west of San Antonio, to call on elected…
    Virginia Allen
    Read More