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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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    Democrats Defend Medicaid Coverage for Illegal Immigrants
    The Trump administration is praising House Republicans for protecting Americans’ Medicaid access by removing noncitizens from the program. The House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Tuesday markup of budget reconciliation prohibits federal funding under Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program for illegal immigrants. “President Trump and Republicans are protecting Medicaid—and that starts with kicking 1.4…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Cornyn Calls for Death Penalty for Illegal Aliens Convicted of Murder
    Sen. John Cornyn on Thursday announced legislation that would create an option to pursue the death penalty in federal court for illegal aliens convicted of murdering Americans. Typically, the death penalty for murder is meted out by the individual states where the crime occurs.  However, the Texas Republican’s legislation, the Justice for American Victims of…
    Jacob Adams
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    ‘Near-Total Control’: Noem Shares Border Security Successes With House Panel
    Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem appeared on Capitol Hill on Tuesday to outline her budget priorities and the department’s accomplishments thus far in the second Trump term.  Sitting before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security, Noem answered members’ questions regarding securing the border and keeping American citizens safe and secure. The secretary touted…
    Jacob Adams
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    ‘We Need Detention Beds’: Border Czar Homan Says of Trump’s Plan to Reopen Alcatraz Prison 
    President Donald Trump wants to reopen Alcatraz, a long-closed former prison on a small island off the coast of San Francisco.  As the Trump administration steps up its efforts to secure the border and deport illegal aliens, especially criminal illegal aliens, the president has ordered the Bureau of Prisons and several other departments to work…
    Virginia Allen
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    DHS to Pay Illegal Aliens to Self-Deport
    The Department of Homeland Security is offering to pay for illegal aliens to return home to their native countries. DHS announced that it would give illegal immigrants $1,000 when they confirm through the Customs and Border Patrol Home app that they have returned to their homeland. The app also facilitates eligible illegal aliens to request…
    Jacob Adams
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    EXCLUSIVE: Meet 6 Illegal Aliens Arrested in Raid at Underground Nightclub
    More than 300 law enforcement officers from 13 federal, state, and local agencies busted an illegal after-hours nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colorado, at the end of April, arresting 104 illegal aliens.  “Under President [Donald] Trump and [Homeland Security Secretary Kristi] Noem, the days of unchecked cartel violence are over,” Tricia McLaughlin, assistant secretary at the Department of…
    Virginia Allen
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    We Needed a New President, Not ‘Comprehensive Immigration Reform’
    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. At the end of the 90-day period, where are we on the immigration issue? And there’s…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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