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    President’s Budget Makes Immigration Enforcement a Priority
    President Donald Trump’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2021 prioritizes immigration enforcement by increasing resources for Customs and Border Protection, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and the Justice Department. The budget also combats “sanctuary” policies through proposed statutory language that conditions certain grants on recipients cooperating with immigration enforcement activities and requests. The budget also calls…
    Lora Ries
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    Virginia Lawmakers Vote to Allow Illegal Aliens to Obtain Driver’s Licenses
    Virginia lawmakers passed legislation in both chambers of the state Legislature that would allow illegal aliens to obtain driver’s licenses, a consequence of the state Capitol’s newly minted Democratic majority. Amid a rush before the end of the Virginia General Assembly’s “crossover” deadline Tuesday, lawmakers in both the state Senate and the House of Delegates…
    Jason Hopkins
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    DHS Suspends New Yorkers From Trusted Travelers Programs in Wake of Illegal Alien ID Law
    The Department of Homeland Security is suspending New Yorkers from enrolling in Global Entry and other Trusted Traveler Programs in response to a new state law that bans information-sharing with the federal government. Acting Deputy DHS Secretary Ken Cuccinelli went into detail in a conference call Thursday with reporters on the department’s decision to no…
    Jason Hopkins
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    Philadelphia Stands by Sanctuary Policy After Releasing Illegal Alien With Excessive Arrest Record
    The government of Philadelphia is standing by its continued release of a criminal illegal alien—ignoring requests by Immigration and Customs Enforcement to hold the individual—arguing that it’s complying with federal law. ICE released a scathing press statement on Friday, slamming Philadelphia for releasing from its custody an illegal alien on three separate occasions, ignoring an ICE detainer…
    Jason Hopkins
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    Rep. Mike Gallagher Files Bill Giving Immigration Judges Contempt Authority. It’s About Time.
    Ronald Reagan once quipped, “They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong.” That’s a lesson Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Wis., proved on Jan. 29 with his simple, but much needed, bill to improve our overburdened immigration courts. His bill, barely more than a page long, would fix a long-standing weakness…
    Cully Stimson | GianCarlo Canaparo | Antonio Apolito
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    Supreme Court Allows Trump to Enforce Rule Barring Green Cards for Migrants Using Social Services
    The Supreme Court Monday allowed the Trump administration to enforce a new rule that will deny green cards to foreign nationals who use taxpayer-funded social services, lifting lower court injunctions that blocked the change. The 5-4 vote followed familiar ideological lines, with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan in dissent….
    Kevin Daley
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    Rocks, Tear Gas, and Riot Shields: Mexico Blocks Advancing Migrant Caravan
    The Mexican government continues to fend off hundreds of Central American migrants who are trying to cross its border in order to reach the U.S., an indication of how much Mexico has stepped up its own immigration enforcement measures. For days, Mexico’s National Guard troops have prevented members of a new migrant caravan from illegally…
    Jason Hopkins
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    Rep. Ilhan Omar Says ‘We Must Stop Detaining’ Illegal Immigrants
    Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar on Thursday called for the U.S. government to cease detaining illegal immigrants. Omar tweeted an ABC News story about a tiny Georgia town having more detained illegal immigrants than residents. Her takeaway: America shouldn’t be detaining those who cross the border illegally. “This should never be the case,” she wrote. “The cruelty…
    Peter Hasson
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    California Now Pushing Free Health Care for Illegal Immigrant Seniors
    California is at it again with a proposal to extend free health care to illegal immigrant senior citizens. Last July, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law that would extend Medicaid coverage to low-income illegal immigrants 25 years old and younger. President Donald Trump, who made the border wall and stopping illegal immigration a central plank…
    Jarrett Stepman
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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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