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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…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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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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    Cash Cows: Gangs Allegedly Smuggling Drugs Across Border Inside Cattle
    The Mexican cartels appear to be smuggling drugs into the U.S. inside cows, according to sources interviewed at the border in Texas and New Mexico last week. The cartels are known to use cattle cars to smuggle drugs, but also seem to be using the cattle themselves as couriers.   “When they do the spaying…
    Virginia Allen
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    Using the Border Patrol Home App to Get Illegal Aliens to Self Deport
    So far, poetic justice seems the theme of this political year. And there’s nothing more poetically just or ironic than what the Donald Trump administration just did: Turned an app used to mass parole millions of aliens into an app to help those aliens leave the U.S. In October 2020, U.S. Customs and Border Patrol launched the…
    Lora Ries
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    After Years of Dealing With Illegal Immigration, ‘Maybe This Issue Is Actually Going to Get Tackled,’ Border Rancher Says
    LUNA COUNTY, N.M.—A Border Patrol helicopter flew overhead in a sight Russell Johnson said was a rarity over his ranch until President Donald Trump returned to the White House.  Johnson says he would like to see an even greater Border Patrol presence along New Mexico’s border with Mexico, but agents “have at least some presence on…
    Virginia Allen
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    The Meritless ACLU Lawsuit to Stop Trump From Sending Illegal Aliens to Gitmo
    Earlier this week, the Trump administration brought about 40 illegal aliens it had taken to the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to a detention facility in Louisiana. The reason behind the surprise move is unclear, but it likely has something to do with the lawsuit filed by the ACLU and others contesting the…
    Cully Stimson
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    ICE Arrests Nearly 550 Criminal Migrants in Massive City Sweep
    DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Federal immigration authorities arrested several hundred criminal migrants in a massive Houston operation that spanned only several days. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested 646 illegal migrants, 543 of which were foreign nationals charged or convicted of a criminal offense and living unlawfully in the United States, according to a press release from the…
    Jason Hopkins
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    CBP One Is Gone, Replaced With CBP Home to Encourage Illegal Aliens to Self-Deport  
    The Trump administration is launching a mobile application to help illegal aliens self-deport. The CBP Home app provides illegal immigrants with a way to report their planned self-deportation to the Department of Homeland Security.   “The CBP Home app gives aliens the option to leave now and self-deport, so they may still have the opportunity to…
    Virginia Allen
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