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    Democrats Use Illegal Aliens to Obtain Cheap Labor to Support Their Lifestyles

    What happens when U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement rescues 14 children from labor exploitation and exposure to sex offenders in marijuana fields? Surely, this would be a moment for mental clarity and political cohesion, where federal law enforcement officials are recognized for their good work. That was not what happened. Instead, Democrat leaders rushed to…
    Hans von Spakovsky
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    EXCLUSIVE: New Data Shows Arrests of Criminal Illegal Aliens Have Made a ‘Real Impact on Public Safety,’ DHS Official Announces

    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Violent crime is on the decline in the U.S. following the arrest and removal of criminal illegal aliens, the Department of Homeland Security announced Monday.   “Under President [Donald] Trump and [DHS Secretary Kristi] Noem, our law enforcement is working at lightning speed to remove violent criminal illegal aliens from the…
    Virginia Allen
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    EXCLUSIVE: GOP Lawmaker Introduces Bill to End Automatic Birthright Citizenship for Children of Illegal Aliens

    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The children of “lawbreakers” should not be rewarded with U.S. citizenship, a Republican congresswoman from New York says. The Constitutional Citizenship Clarification Act, which Rep. Claudia Tenney introduced Wednesday, would end automatic birthright citizenship for the children of illegal aliens.   “The United States should not reward illegal entry into our…
    Virginia Allen
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    NYC Mayor Says He Will ‘Welcome’ Help Arresting ‘Dangerous’ Criminal Illegal Aliens  

    New York City Mayor Eric Adams says he will “welcome” the help of border czar Tom Homan to arrest criminal illegal aliens like the ones who attacked a Customs and Border Protection officer in the city over the weekend.   If Homan assists New York City in the apprehension of “dangerous people,” Adams told reporters,…
    Virginia Allen
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    EXCLUSIVE: Meet 5 Criminal Illegal Aliens No Longer Roaming America’s Streets

    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Five illegal aliens with criminal convictions were arrested in cities across the U.S. over the weekend, the Department of Homeland Security announced Tuesday.   The arrests, each carried out by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, is a fulfillment of DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and President Donald Trump’s pledge to “target the worst…
    Virginia Allen
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    He Smuggled Thousands of Illegal Aliens Into the US

    A Honduran national living in Texas and responsible for smuggling an estimated 2,500 to 3,000 illegal aliens into the U.S. has been sentenced for his crimes. Over the course of three years, Enil Edil Mejia-Zuniga was a leader of a large illegal-immigrant smuggling ring, helping thousands of migrants enter the U.S. from 11 different countries, according to…
    Virginia Allen
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    Zero Illegal Aliens Were Let Into US in June

    The Trump administration’s border czar Tom Homan announced on X Tuesday evening that not a single person detained at the border in June was released into the country. Last month’s border numbers are in, and they are a massive win for President Donald Trump and the rule of law. That goes alongside a dramatic decline in total border encounters…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    DOJ Sues More States Over In-State Tuition for Illegal Aliens

    Attention, all parents and college students worried about the ever-rising cost of college tuition. The Department of Justice has finally—after three decades—started enforcing the federal law that prohibits states from offering in-state tuition to illegal aliens unless they also offer in-state tuition to everyone else—including all citizen students from out of state.  The law it’s…
    Cully Stimson
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    Supreme Court Gives Trump Administration Green Light to Deport Illegal Aliens to Third-Party Countries

    In a win for President Donald Trump, the Supreme Court issued a brief order Monday allowing the Trump administration to restart deportation flights of illegal aliens to nations other than their own. The high court’s order lifts, for now, a lower court’s order allowing illegal immigrants to challenge their deportation order before their removal.  …
    Virginia Allen
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  • Los Angeles Riots May Encourage Illegal Immigrants to Self-Deport

    “How’m I doin’?” the late New York Mayor Ed Koch used to ask constituents on his travels through the city. President Donald Trump, in the opinion of most Americans, is doin’ pretty well. His job approval, which jutted downward after he announced his “Liberation Day” tariffs on April 2, has recovered and hovers just below…
    Michael Barone
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  • Here Are Some ‘Worst of the Worst’ Illegal Alien Criminals Arrested During LA Riots 

    According to former Vice President Kamala Harris, the Los Angeles riots are “overwhelmingly peaceful” and nothing more than “part of the Trump administration’s cruel, calculated agenda to spread panic and division.”   But as one Department of Homeland Security official commented, “These rioters in Los Angeles are fighting to keep rapists, murderers, and other violent criminals…
    Lucy Spence
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  • Illegal Means Illegal: Every Illegal Migrant Is a Criminal

    The current unrest in Los Angeles and other major U.S. cities should serve as a wake-up call to the American public. When law enforcement finally starts doing its job under the leadership of President Donald Trump and border czar Tom Homan, chaos erupts. But not because of law enforcement. It’s because illegal aliens, who have…
    George Harizanov
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  • DOJ Finally Gives Immigration Judges Tools to Prune Their Dockets

    This April, the acting director of the Executive Office for Immigration Review issued a memo clarifying the requirement of immigration judges to effectively manage their crushing caseloads by dismissing legally insufficient applications for protection from removal or for asylum. This is the most significant action taken by any administration to give immigration judges the tools…
    Cully Stimson
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  • Sanctuary Cities Forced to Comply With Federal Immigration Rules Due to Innovative Program

    Sanctuary cities’ runaround of the law may have finally come to an end, thanks to a creative program called Operation Guardian Angel. Launched by Bill Essayli, the new U.S. attorney for the Central District of California, this commonsense approach to force scofflaw sanctuary cities to cooperate with—and stop obstructing—federal immigration authorities should be copied by U.S. attorneys around…
    Cully Stimson
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  • Newsom Challenges Border Czar to Hold Him Accountable for Evading Immigration Law

    After President Donald Trump deployed the National Guard to the Los Angeles area in response to violent protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids, Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-Calif., suggested that he is unwilling to comply with federal authorities. Trump’s border czar Tom Homan said of Newsom’s comments, “It’s a felony to knowingly harbor and conceal an…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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  • Illegal Alien Deported to Salvadoran Prison Brought Back to US to Face Human Trafficking Charges

    Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, an illegal alien removed from the U.S. to his native El Salvador earlier this year, has been brought back to the U.S. following legal challenges to his deportation.   But the Trump administration is welcoming Abrego Garcia back from a Salvadoran prison to the U.S. with an indictment from the Justice…
    Virginia Allen
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  • Teen Suspended and Dubbed a Racist for Saying ‘Illegal Alien’ Wins $20K, Apology From School

    There’s justice for a North Carolina teen wrongly suspended and branded a racist for using the phrase “illegal alien.” Last year, 16-year-old Christian McGhee of Central Davidson High School in Lexington, North Carolina, was given an English assignment: Write about aliens. Being an intelligent lad, Christian asked the teacher a logical question: “Like space aliens…
    Al Perrotta
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  • DOJ Sues Texas to Enforce Law Prohibiting States From Offering Illegal Aliens In-State Tuition—and Wins

    On Wednesday, Attorney General Pam Bondi’s Justice Department finally did what every prior administration (including Trump 1.0) for the past three decades refused to do—enforced the federal immigration law that bans states from providing in-state tuition to illegal aliens unless they provide the same benefit to citizen-students from any state.  That same day, Texas cried…
    Hans von Spakovsky
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  • Illegal Alien Sought in Tennessee Hit-and-Run That Left 21-Year-Old With ‘Severe Injuries’

    An illegal alien is the lead suspect in a hit-and-run accident in Tennessee, according to the Department of Homeland Security.   Tony Gebian Lopez Infante, an illegal alien from Venezuela, is wanted for allegedly striking a 21-year-old American, Zach Carach, in Nashville, Tennessee, on May 18 before fleeing the scene driving a silver Mitsubishi Mirage….
    Virginia Allen
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  • US Attorney Claps Back at Boston Mayor for ‘Inflammatory Statements’ Made Against Immigration Agents

    U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts Leah Foley has fired back at Boston Mayor Michelle Wu after Wu called federal agents making immigration arrests “secret police.”   Recently, “Wu made reckless statements and inflammatory statements regarding enforcement efforts made by federal immigration authorities across the commonwealth,” Foley said.   In an interview at the…
    Virginia Allen
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