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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 | Cully Stimson
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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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    At a Glance: 10 Illegal Aliens Who Committed Violent Crimes in US
    Mohamed Soliman has been charged with a federal hate crime and is facing state attempted murder charges in the attack Sunday on a group of pro-Israel supporters in Boulder, Colorado, but he is just one of thousands of illegal aliens who have been charged with or convicted of crimes in the U.S. in recent years….
    Virginia Allen
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    Homeland Security Calls Out These Municipalities for Refusing to Comply With Immigration Enforcement
    Is your community on “the list”? The Department of Homeland Security has published a list designed to put 500 municipalities on notice for their continued refusal to comply with federal law when it comes to immigration enforcement. “These sanctuary city politicians are endangering Americans and our law enforcement in order to protect violent criminal illegal…
    Joe Thomas
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    SCOTUS Allows Trump Administration to Revoke Legal Status for 500K Illegal Aliens
    The Supreme Court has allowed the Trump administration to revoke temporary protected status for 500,000 illegal aliens living in the U.S.   In a 7-2 ruling on Friday, the justices lifted a lower court’s order that barred the Trump administration from deporting illegal aliens from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela who entered the U.S. under…
    Virginia Allen
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    In Sanctuary State, ICE Arrests Illegal Alien Responsible for Death of 24-Year-Old Woman
    An illegal alien responsible for the death of a 24-year-old Colorado woman has been arrested.   Immigration and Customs Enforcement confirmed the arrest on Thursday of a 16-year-old from Colombia who was convicted of reckless driving resulting in death but was released back onto the streets of Colorado by the Arapahoe District Attorney’s Office.   ICE…
    Virginia Allen
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    Historian Victor Davis Hanson Lays Out Ancient Lessons on Borders: ‘Walls Do Really Work’
    Military historian and classicist Victor Davis Hanson, speaking Wednesday at The Heritage Foundation, drew striking parallels between the empires of the past and the modern United States. Hanson, a Daily Signal contributor, contended that, contrary to the assertions of the Left, “walls do work,” and that the United States is in need of cultural cohesion…
    George Caldwell
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    2 Illegal Aliens Arrested in Jet Ski Incident That Left 18-Year-Old Dead
    Two illegal aliens have been arrested following the death of an 18-year-old woman.   Ava Moore, an Air Force cadet candidate, was kayaking on Lake Grapevine in North Texas on Sunday when Daikerlyn Alejandra Gonzalez Gonzalez, an illegal alien from Venezuela, allegedly struck and killed the 18-year-old with a jet ski.   The suspect is…
    Virginia Allen
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    Illegal Alien Squatters Turned Her Home Purchase into a Nightmare
    Cathy Lindberg Jarosz drove down the street of her newly purchased home but could not find her house. Lindberg, a lawyer from Maryland, had purchased the home in Destin, Florida, in April 2023 to be closer to her daughter who had just had a baby. She turned the house over to contractors for a couple…
    Virginia Allen
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    Illegal Migrant Nabbed After Allegedly Votes in Election, Steals Government Benefits for Decades
    DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—A federal Grand Jury indicted a Colombian national Thursday on allegations of living in the U.S. unlawfully for years under a stolen identity, receiving hundreds of thousands in government benefits and voting in the last presidential election. Lina Maria Orovio-Hernandez, a 59-year-old Colombian woman residing in Boston, lived in the U.S. more than…
    Jason Hopkins
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    Media Hypocrisy on Afrikaner Refugees: The BorderLine
    The legacy media’s coverage of the recent arrival of 49 white refugees from South Africa shows a lamentable hypocrisy compared with its reporting on the previous four years of the mass release of illegal immigrants at the border, their mass parole, and lax enforcement of immigration and deportation laws within our nation. Unlike the border…
    Simon Hankinson
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    There’s No Love Like the Democrats’ Love of Illegal Alien Criminals
    What is the greatest love of all? As Whitney Houston sang, it’s “Learning to love yourself.” To poet Eman Awad, the greatest love is “The feeling i feel but i don’t understand.” “No greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends,” according to the Gospel of…
    Deroy Murdock
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    GOP Aims to Codify Trump’s Border Agenda in ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’
    House Republicans want to provide law enforcement at the border with the resources required to sustain President Donald Trump’s border security victories, members of Congress tell The Daily Signal. The “One Big, Beautiful Bill” makes the largest border security investment in history and equips Immigration and Customs Enforcement to deport millions of illegal immigrants. “Thanks…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Supreme Court Allows Trump to Proceed With Plans to Remove Deportation Protections for Venezuelan Illegal Aliens
    The Supreme Court will allow, for now, the Trump administration to proceed with plans to strip temporary legal protected status from thousands of illegal aliens from Venezuela living in the U.S.  The court’s decision allows the Trump administration to move forward with plans to cancel Temporary Protected Status for illegal aliens who entered the U.S….
    Virginia Allen
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    Biden’s Border Legacy: A Financial Burden That Will Last for Years
    We’ve all been there: you go out with friends, have a great time … then they leave you stuck with the bill. After four years of reckless, ruinous and arguably illegal Joe Biden administration policies, America will be stuck with a massive border bar tab for years to come. President Donald Trump is busy keeping his promises to…
    Simon Hankinson
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    Virginia County Votes Not to Report Illegal Alien Terrorists to ICE—in Name of ‘Public Safety’
    The Arlington County, Virginia, Board of Supervisors voted unanimously on Tuesday to end its police department’s ability to report illegal aliens arrested for felonies and terrorist activity to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Board members couched their decision as a way to protect immigrant communities from the Trump administration’s mass deportation efforts, which, funny enough,…
    Erin Poff
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