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    Homeland Security Chief Orders Review of State Laws Allowing Driver’s Licenses for Illegal Aliens

    Chad Wolf, the acting secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, ordered a review of state laws that allow illegal aliens to obtain driver’s licenses and restrict data sharing with federal immigration authorities. Wolf on Tuesday ordered all of the components of DHS to conduct a department-wide review of the state laws to determine how…
    Jason Hopkins
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    Immigration Will Shift Electoral College in Favor of Democrats, Study Finds

    A new analysis finds that immigration will dramatically reshape the Electoral College map in favor of the Democratic Party after completion of the 2020 census. Rising immigrant populations around the United States will result in several solidly Democratic states gaining more seats in the House of Representatives at the expense of solidly Republican states, the study by…
    Jason Hopkins
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    ‘This Will Protect Criminals’: Homeland Security Blasts New York Law Allowing Illegal Aliens to Get Driver’s Licenses

    The Department of Homeland Security rebuked a New York law that took effect Monday allowing illegal aliens to obtain driver’s licenses. The state’s “Green Light” bill, which Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed in June, makes it possible to apply for a driver’s license without a Social Security number, and makes foreign documentation valid for the…
    Peter Hasson
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    DHS Deputy Says ‘About 60,000’ Migrants Have Been Sent Back Under ‘Remain in Mexico’ Program

    Ken Cuccinelli, the acting deputy secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, lauded the Trump administration’s "Remain in Mexico" program, which has sent tens of thousands of asylum-seekers back across the southern border to wait. Cuccinelli appeared Sunday on “Fox & Friends” to discuss the White House’s efforts to manage the illegal immigration crisis at…
    Jason Hopkins
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    Nearly 80,000 Illegal Aliens Had Arrest Records Before Winning DACA Approval

    Tens of thousands of illegal immigrants who successfully enrolled in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program carried prior arrest records, according to data released by the Trump administration. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services—the agency under the Department of Homeland Security that is tasked with managing the country’s legal immigration system—released a report Saturday detailing the arrest…
    Jason Hopkins
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    Are Conservative Immigration Restrictionists Racist?

    This week, The Atlantic released its newest issue, provocatively titled “How to Stop a Civil War.” Leading its collection of essays is a fascinating piece by Yoni Appelbaum. In it, Appelbaum posits that at the crux of America’s vitriolic politics lies demographic change: The United States is undergoing a transition perhaps no rich and stable…
    Ben Shapiro
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    Trump Should Take on the Mexican Cartels

    At least nine American women and children were slaughtered in northern Mexico on Monday, the victims of cartel violence. Tragically, such carnage is all too common. The unchecked power of criminal enterprises in Mexico poses an unacceptable threat, not just to Mexico, but to the entire Western Hemisphere. The cartels’ reach extends from the tip of Latin America to Northern Canada….
    James Carafano
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    ‘Clear Public Safety Threat’: ICE Rips Sanctuary County for Releasing Illegal Alien Convicted for Deadly Crash

    Officials in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, refused to honor an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainer placed on an illegal alien convicted in a deadly drunk driving accident, opting instead to release him back into the community. ICE placed a detainer request on Jose Barajas-Diaz, a Mexican national living illegally in the U.S., a day after…
    Jason Hopkins
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    Obama-Appointed Judge Blocks Trump’s Health Care Rule for Immigrants

    A federal judge has, at least temporarily, blocked the Trump administration from implementing a rule that would require immigrants prove that they have health insurance or can afford to pay for it. Judge Michael Simon of the federal district court in Portland, Oregon, issued a nationwide temporary restraining order Saturday, barring President Donald Trump from implementing his…
    Jason Hopkins
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    How Trump Is Beating Activist Judges on Immigration

    President Donald Trump was elected on a promise to secure the border, build the wall, and reform America’s immigration system. At every step, he’s faced opposition not only from Congress, but from federal judges striking down his policy initiatives. In this special edition of The Daily Signal Podcast, Ken Cuccinelli, acting director of U.S. Citizenship…
    Katrina Trinko
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    Dysfunctional Immigration Courts Cited for Growing Asylum Crisis

    Blame for a rising backlog of  immigration asylum claims at the southern border belongs with a dysfunctional system in which immigration judges don’t have the power to toss out meritless and fraudulent claims, a panel of experts said this week. John Hostettler, vice president of federal affairs for the States Trust intiative at the Texas…
    Aaron Credeur
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    ICE Identifies Hundreds of Migrants Allegedly Lying About Their Family Status

    The United States government identified hundreds of migrants allegedly falsely claiming familial status and numerous other migrant adults attempting to pose as minors. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection in the El Paso area have identified 238 fraudulent families, 50 adults falsely claiming to be minors, and have seized hundreds of documents…
    Jason Hopkins
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    Immigration Judges Need 2 Tools to Cut Caseload

    The U.S. Justice Department announced Oct. 10 that the nation’s immigration judges resolved 275,000 immigration cases in fiscal 2019.  That’s the second-highest number of cases resolved in a single year in the immigration courts’ history.  That’s the good news. The bad news is that the backlog of cases is now over 1 million cases, and…
    GianCarlo Canaparo
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    Is Encouraging Illegal Immigration Protected Speech? The Supreme Court Will Decide

    The Supreme Court will decide whether a federal law that makes it a crime to “encourage or induce” someone to enter the country illegally violates the First Amendment. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the law is unconstitutional in December 2018. The justices added the case to their docket Friday. “The provisions here are primarily…
    Kevin Daley
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    Trump Proclamation Bars Immigrants Who Cannot Afford Health Insurance

    The Trump administration will require many future immigrant applicants to prove they can afford health insurance, marking the White House’s latest move to restrict immigration from those who could become a financial burden on the government. President Donald Trump, invoking his executive authority, issued a proclamation Friday evening that will prohibit the entry of immigrants…
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    ACLU Wants Government to Pay Migrant Families Separated at Border

    The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit Thursday, demanding the federal government pay damages to migrant families who were separated under the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy. The lawsuit, which was filed in the U.S. District Court in Arizona, calls for punitive and compensatory damages from the Trump administration, according to court filings. The progressive…
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    Trump Administration to Expand DNA Collection From Migrants Caught at Border

    The Trump administration is moving forward with its plan to dramatically expand DNA testing of illegal migrants at the southern border, a move intended to help control the immigration crisis. Border Patrol agents will soon have the ability to collect DNA samples of migrants apprehended at the U.S.-Mexico border, according to a Department of Homeland…
    Jason Hopkins
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    New York City Will Fine You for Saying ‘Illegal Alien.’ That’s an Assault on the Constitution.

    The propaganda, surveillance, and censorship of Big Brother in George Orwell’s novel “1984” has now arrived in New York. The city’s Commission on Human Rights recently released new legal enforcement guidelines that ban the use of the term “illegal alien” by employers, housing providers (including hotels), and law enforcement as “discriminatory.” Violators can be punished…
    Hans von Spakovsky
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    Police Force Lifts Suspension for Officer Who Reported Illegal Alien to ICE

    Police officials will allow an officer to return to duty after his suspension for turning an illegal alien over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The Fairfax County, Virginia, police officer will return to work Friday following an update from the Fairfax County Police Department’s internal affairs division, according to a news release Wednesday from the department. The…
    Jason Hopkins
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    3 Obama Judges Deliver String of Losses to Trump’s Agenda on Illegal Immigration

    Three Obama-appointed judges ruled in one day against immigration initiatives by the Trump administration, dealing blows to the president’s effort to contain the border crisis. In a span of several hours Friday, a judge in California ruled against the administration’s plan to detain migrant families indefinitely, another California judge blocked U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement…
    Jason Hopkins
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