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    It’s Official: Illegal Alien-Loving Dems Cannot Stand American Citizens

    President Donald Trump could not have made it easier for congressional Democrats. During Tuesday night’s State of the Union address, Trump’s simple offer to them, and their Republican counterparts, was like a college professor telling his students: “Anyone who wants 10 points of extra credit, please stand up if you believe the Earth is round.”…
    Deroy Murdock
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    5-Year-Old’s Near-Death Experience Moves Congress to Stop Illegal Aliens From Truck Driving

    This story has been updated to include comment from Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark. Congressional Republicans are pushing to prevent illegal immigrants from obtaining commercial driver’s licenses in the wake of President Donald Trump acknowledging 5-year-old Dalilah Coleman during his State of the Union address. Dalilah was nearly killed in 2022 by Partap Singh, an illegal…
    Pedro Rodriguez
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    Dems Sit in Protest After Trump Demands Americans Be Placed Over Illegal Aliens

    The House chamber broke out in U.S.A. chants after President Donald Trump called on all elected officials to place American citizens over illegal immigrants during his State of the Union address, but the cheers were from only one side of the aisle: that of the Republicans. “One of the great things about the SOTU is…
    Pedro Rodriguez
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    Illegal Alien Flees ICE, Kills Teacher in Crash

    A Georgia teacher is dead after an illegal alien ran a red light while fleeing Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and crashed his car into her vehicle.  The fatal crash occured in Savannah, Georgia. The Chatham County Police Department has charged Oscar Vasquez Lopez, an illegal alien from Guatemala, with first-degree homicide by vehicle, reckless…
    Virginia Allen
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    EXCLUSIVE: Heritage Says States Should Charge Tuition to Illegal Alien Children

    Children should not receive a free education at America’s public schools unless they are lawfully present in the United States, a new report from The Heritage Foundation contends. States and local governments have been “overwhelmed with costs that flow from illegal immigration, including public education,” Lora Ries, director of Heritage’s Border Security and Immigration Center…
    Virginia Allen
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    EXCLUSIVE: ICE Arrests Illegal Aliens Convicted of Manslaughter, Arson

    Federal immigration agents on Thursday arrested illegal aliens convicted of a third-degree sex offense, manslaughter, and arson, as the Department of Homeland Security continues to deal with backlash over enforcement operations in Minnesota. “These thugs have no place in our communities,” DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said, adding, “Seventy percent of [Immigration and Customs Enforcement]…
    Virginia Allen
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    Walz Silent Following Criticism Over Comparing Illegal Alien Children to Anne Frank

    The office of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has not responded to condemnations of his comparing illegal alien children to Holocaust victim Anne Frank. The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum on Monday issued a statement rebuking “leaders” for using Frank’s tragic story for “political purposes,” but did not mention Walz by name. Walz had made the reference at a press conference…
    Virginia Allen
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    If Illegal Aliens Don’t Vote in Virginia Elections, Then Why Are Democrats Trying to Ban ICE From Polling Places?

    With Democrats pushing a number of progressive policies now that they are in control of Virginia, a Virginia state Democrat is working to ban immigration agents from operating near polling places. Democrat Virginia Del. Alfonso H. Lopez introduced the bill, which has been described as a “safeguard.” The bill, HB 1442, would amend the Code of Virginia to prohibit law enforcement from…
    Virginia Grace McKinnon
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    Federal Officer Shoots Illegal Alien After Being Attacked With Snow Shovel

    Protests erupted again in Minneapolis after a federal law enforcement officer shot a Venezuelan man in the leg Wednesday night after being attacked by him and two others wielding a snow shovel and a broom.   According to the Department of Homeland Security, the Venezuelan man was an illegal immigrant who fled a traffic stop by federal agents in…
    Virginia Allen
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    How Illegal Immigration and Government Failure Fuel Identity Theft

    More than a million Americans may unwittingly hold second jobs—because that work is being performed by an illegal alien using their stolen social security number. News of the identity theft can come as a rude shock to citizens like the Minnesota factory worker who had crushing tax bills because of a thrice-deported illegal immigrant in Missouri who…
    James Varney
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    DHS Encourages Illegal Aliens to Go ‘Home for the Holidays’ With $3,000 Stipend

    Illegal aliens who choose to self-deport “home for the holidays” will be given $3,000.   “During the Christmas Season, the U.S. taxpayer is so generously TRIPLING the incentive to leave voluntarily for those in this country illegally, offering a $3,000 exit bonus, but just until the end of the year,” Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said in a statement Monday…
    Virginia Allen
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    An Illegal Alien Killed His Daughter in a Sanctuary State

    It has been almost one year since Joe Abraham learned an illegal alien was responsible for his daughter’s tragic death. The father says he is still waiting to hear from Illinois Democrat Gov. JB Pritzker.   “President [Donald] Trump shook my hand, looked me in the eye, said ‘It’s a mess, and we’re going to clean it up,’” the father said, referring to America’s border and…
    Virginia Allen
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    EXCLUSIVE: Illegal Alien Involved in Shooting of 4 Police Officers and a Civilian  

    An illegal alien from El Salvador shot a civilian and multiple police officers in Omaha, Nebraska, last week.   Juan Ayala Ramos, 28, is reported to have randomly shot 61-year-old Michael Kasper, critically injuring the man, outside a grocery store in Omaha as Kasper was loading groceries into his vehicle.   Using his license plate number, police tracked Ayala Ramos to a local QuikTrip gas station where…
    Virginia Allen
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    New Tool Allows Americans to Learn Identities of Illegal Aliens Arrested in Their Communities  

    The Department of Homeland Security has rolled out a new searchable website allowing Americans to see the names and faces of the “worst of the worst” criminal illegal aliens arrested across all 50 states since the start of the Trump administration.   Now, Americans from Springfield, Ohio, to San Diego to Boston can learn the identities of some of the illegal aliens Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have detained in…
    Virginia Allen
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    EXCLUSIVE: GOP Lawmakers Move to Help Trump Walk Back Rule Forcing Taxpayers to Fund Illegal Alien Kids’ Abortions

    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Two lawmakers are working with the Trump administration to roll back a Biden-era regulation forcing taxpayers to pay for unaccompanied illegal alien children in the U.S. to travel to get abortions. Rep. Mark Harris, R-N.C., and Rep. Mary Miller, R-Ill., are leading a group of lawmakers in introducing a bill to…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    DHS Closing in on Half-Million Arrests of Criminal Illegal Aliens 

    Since President Donald Trump returned to the White House nine months ago Monday, the Department of Homeland Security has arrested some 480,000 criminal illegal aliens, according to DHS Secretary Kristi Noem.   Among the nearly half a million arrests, “70% of those individuals have criminal charges against them or have been convicted of those criminal…
    Virginia Allen
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    EXCLUSIVE: Lawsuit Aims to Force Veterans Affairs to Disclose Information Related to Diverting Resources to Illegal Aliens Under Biden  

    The Veterans Affairs Department is facing a lawsuit after failing to disclose information related to the department’s alleged improper use of medical resources during the Biden administration to benefit illegal immigrants.   Following a Daily Signal report in August 2024, a policy organization in Washington asked the VA for more information related to its reputed…
    Virginia Allen
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    Shutdown Exposes Democrats’ True Love: Illegal Aliens

    It’s hard to believe, but true: Democrats love illegal aliens more than Big Government itself. The Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives passed a “clean” continuing resolution on Sept. 19 on a vote of 217-212. It would have kept the federal government open through Nov. 21, well past fiscal year 2025’s conclusion on Sept. 30. Republicans performed their responsibility to finance Uncle Sam’s activities, from Social Security to…
    Deroy Murdock
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    • News

    Democrats Take Heat Over Health Care for Illegal Aliens

    As the government appears to be barreling toward a shutdown, which will begin at midnight, Democrats are facing criticism over their alleged support for health care subsidies to noncitizens residing in the United States.  The Democrat continuing resolution bill would revoke Subtitle B in Title VII of the One Big Beautiful Act, effectively restoring accessibility…
    Jacob Adams
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    EXCLUSIVE: 10 Mugshots of Criminal Illegal Aliens Now in ICE Custody  

    Alvaro Yax-Gutierrez’s record includes conviction on charges of lascivious acts with a child and is one of 10 “worst of the worst” criminal illegal aliens recently apprehended by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.   Alvaro Yax-Gutierrez According to border czar Tom Homan, 70% of the illegal aliens the Trump administration has arrested to date are criminals…
    Virginia Allen
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