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    Border Czar Homan: Every Media ‘Hit Piece’ Fuels ‘My Fire’

    The criticism from the legacy media, and every protest outside his home, “throws more gas on my fire,” border czar Tom Homan says.   Every “hit piece” Homan reads criticizing his campaign to arrest and deport illegal aliens confirms “I’m over the target,” the border czar told The Daily Signal in an exclusive interview. Hundreds of…
    Virginia Allen
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    Trump DHS to Fine Illegal Aliens Ordered Deported $998 for Each Day Overstayed

    Illegal immigrants overstaying their deportation day will have to pay a fine of $998 per day after their official removal date.  The Trump administration is enforcing a 1996 Clinton administration-era law. Though on the books, the law was enforced for the first time in 2018 during President Donald Trump’s first term, Reuters reported.  The Department…
    Fred Lucas
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    DOGE Exposed Our Immigration Asylum Disaster. That Was the Tip of the Iceberg

    Elon Musk, Antonio Gracias, and the Department of Government Efficiency team recently exposed how rampant immigration fraud and government corruption became under the Joe Biden administration. Specifically, they showed how aliens “getting” asylum can receive work authorization and, with it, an automatic Social Security number, which enables them to obtain driver’s licenses, commit voter fraud, and receive…
    Lora Ries
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    Justices Hand Trump National Security Win That Protects Public From Illegal Alien Criminals

    On Monday night, a 5-to-4 majority of the Supreme Court not only dissolved the controversial temporary restraining orders issued by Judge James Boasberg of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, but the high court, in essence, took the case away from him. So much for any pending action by Boasberg to hold…
    Hans von Spakovsky
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    Trump Reacts to Supreme Court Ruling Allowing Use of Alien Enemies Act to Deport Venezuelan Illegal Aliens

    The Supreme Court has ruled that the Trump administration can, for now, resume deportations of Venezuelan criminal illegal aliens under the Alien Enemies Act.   “The Supreme Court has upheld the rule of law in our nation by allowing a president, whoever that may be, to be able to secure our borders, and protect our…
    Virginia Allen
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    Democrats’ Visit of Southern Border Is ‘Years Too Late,’ GOP Lawmaker Laments

    A group of Democrats on the House Homeland Security Committee is visiting the southern border Friday, a visit that “comes years too late,” according to Rep. Mark Green, the Republican chairman of the committee.   “It’s no coincidence that committee Democrats are choosing to visit the border after President [Donald] Trump cleaned up the mess…
    Virginia Allen
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    What Was the Purpose of Opening Our Southern Border?

    Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. Now that we’ve seen, in the first eight weeks of the Trump administration, a 96% reduction…
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    Border Czar Tom Homan Celebrates Historic Low Border Encounters

    Trump administration border czar Tom Homan joined the Border Patrol in 1984 and can’t recall illegal crossings ever being as low as they are right now.   In March, Border Patrol encountered 7,181 illegal aliens at the southwest border, “a far cry from the more than 11,000 a day that we saw for a time…
    Virginia Allen
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    Illegal Alien Accused of Raping, Killing Maryland Mother Gets Pretrial Hearing

    The illegal alien accused of killing Maryland mother Rachel Morin walked, shackled, into the Harford County, Maryland, courthouse on Monday for a pretrial hearing.   Victor Antonio Martinez-Hernandez faces a number of charges in Morin's death, including first-degree murder and first-degree rape.   “Rachel Morin is another victim of the failed policies of the Biden-Harris administration,” Rep. Michael…
    Virginia Allen
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    Problems and Solutions: Illegal Immigration and the Construction Industry

    There might be less incentive for migrants to enter the country illegally if clearer U.S. visa work programs were in place, says Ben Brubeck, vice president of regulatory, labor, and state affairs for Associated Builders and Contractors.   Associated Builders and Contractors, a construction industry trade association, “is clear that there’s no place in our country…
    Virginia Allen
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    Wokeness Finds New Life South of the Border

    Mexico City—“Now,” Elon Musk responded this week on the social media site he bought two years ago and renamed X. What was this an answer to? This post by the evolutionary biologist Gad Saad: “What is it going to take for the West to wake up? When will the West reclaim its heritage, culture, values, freedoms, and…
    Mike Gonzalez
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    States Where Illegal Immigrant Children Were Released Across US

    Of the hundreds of thousands of unaccompanied alien children the Department of Health and Human Services transferred to sponsors between fiscal year 2019 and 2023, the majority were sent to 10 states, according to a new report.   More than 63,000 unaccompanied alien children were released to sponsors in Texas, according to a March Department of…
    Virginia Allen
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    DHS and HUD Team Up to Tackle Illegal Immigration and Housing Affordability

    In a move to kill two birds with one stone, the Trump administration is simultaneously tackling both illegal immigration and the U.S. housing crisis. In a “Memorandum of Understanding” signed Monday, the U.S. departments of Homeland Security and Housing and Urban Development agreed to work together to ensure that taxpayer-funded public housing is afforded to American citizens,…
    S.A. McCarthy
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    DHS Chief Issues Warning to Illegal Aliens During Visit to Prison Holding Deported Criminals

    Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem visited El Salvador's Terrorism Confinement Center on Wednesday and met with the Central American nation's president, Nayib Bukele, to discuss deportation flights and removals of criminal illegal aliens from the U.S.  Noem’s visit follows the recent deportation of about 250 criminal illegal aliens from the U.S. to the detention facility…
    Virginia Allen
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    Without Learning From Biden’s ‘Failure’ at Border, US ‘Doomed to Repeat It,’ Lawmaker Warns

    The border crisis of the past four years will repeat itself unless members of Congress understand the “failure” of President Joe Biden’s border policies, according to Rep. Michael Guest, chairman of the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Border Security and Enforcement.  “Those who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it,” Guest, R-Miss., told The…
    Virginia Allen
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    DHS Secretary to Visit El Salvador Prison Holding Illegal Aliens

    Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem will visit El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center on Wednesday, just over a week after the U.S. transferred hundreds of illegal aliens to the prison, Fox News first reported.   Noem will tour the detention center with Salvadoran Minister of Justice Héctor Gustavo Villatoro and will later meet with El Salvador’s President…
    Virginia Allen
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    Welcome to the Krytocracy: The BorderLine

    We may think we live in a democracy, which comes from the Greek words “demos” (people) and “kratos” (rule). But with one federal district judge after another attempting to stop President Donald Trump from carrying out his policies, it’s starting to look more like a “krytocracy,” or rule by judges. Look at the litigation tracker…
    Simon Hankinson
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    They Live and Work on the Border. Here’s What’s Changed Since Trump’s Return.

    It’s “beautiful” to see more Border Patrol agents back on the southern border since President Donald Trump entered the White House, Efrain Sella said.   Sella spent 25 years with the Border Patrol before retiring in 2019. Speaking with The Daily Signal at the Big Bend Area Law Enforcement Officers Association's March meeting, he said…
    Virginia Allen
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    The Cost of an Open Border? Enormous.

    Our southern border isn’t a line on a map. It’s a gaping hole in our national security and it’s bleeding us dry. Mexican cartels flood our streets with fentanyl, traffic humans, and exploit vulnerabilities that could allow terrorists to slip through. President Joe Biden spent four years pretending it wasn’t a problem, letting chaos explode…
    Pat Harrigan
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    Biden-Era App Was Like ‘Fast Pass at Disneyland’ for Illegal Aliens, Trump Press Secretary Says

    The Biden administration’s CBP One app facilitated the “mass illegal entry” of illegal immigrants, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Monday. “It was like a fast pass at Disneyland,” Leavitt told The Daily Signal at a White House press briefing. The Trump administration, however, repurposed the app to make it easier for illegal immigrants…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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