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Legacy Media Pretend There’s No Cost to Biden’s Mass Importation of Illegal Immigrants
The Trump-loathing media hate the notion of mass deportations. They are upset that voters support it. After the election, a CBS News poll found 57% of Americans are ready to put the brakes on illegal immigration. On Sunday, ABC’s “This Week” moderator Martha Raddatz pressed conservative Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., on the cost: “A recent… -
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Josh Hawley Confronts Witness Who Says Flooding Job Market With Illegal Aliens Helps Americans
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Republican Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley confronted American Immigration Council senior fellow Aaron Reichlin-Melnick during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Tuesday about how flooding the job market with illegal immigrants benefits Americans. Melnick previously stated in October that mass deportations would be detrimental to many American industries, including hospitality, construction, and agriculture. During a hearing… -
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Birthright Citizenship Is a Breach in the Border
“Birthright citizenship” may sound benign, but thanks to an overreaching Supreme Court decision 126 years ago, it’s the biggest legal hole in our border. President-elect Donald Trump has the opportunity to seal it, but it won’t be easy. When the Supreme Court handed down its United States v. Wong Kim Ark decision, illegal immigration was nothing like… -
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Sen Cruz: How the Media Will Cover Illegal Alien Deportations
President-elect Donald Trump made mass deportations a pillar of his winning campaign platform. Trump and Tom Homan—the former acting head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, who Trump tapped to be his border czar—say they will prioritize the deportations of criminal illegal aliens. Whether all of the estimated more than 10 million illegal aliens who… -
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Biden’s Open Border and the ISIS-K Threat
When President George W. Bush stood in front of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 20, 2005, and gave his second inaugural address, as this column has noted before, he argued that maintaining freedom in the United States would require spreading freedom all around the world. “We are led, by events and common sense, to one… -
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These 2 Laws Allow the President to Use Troops for Immigration Enforcement
President-elect Donald Trump’s confirmation last month of his plan to deploy military assets for immigration enforcement sparked a constitutional debate. Legal scholars and commentators quickly declared such action forbidden by long-standing prohibitions on military involvement in domestic law enforcement. But this conventional wisdom misreads both the letter and spirit of American law. A careful examination of a pair of longstanding statutes… -
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Northern Border Terrorist-Related Arrests Soar
THE CENTER SQUARE—Federal agents are arresting a record number of individuals on the terrorist watchlist at the northern U.S. border, including a Jordanian national with ties to terrorism who recently was removed from the country after illegally entering from Canada. Border Patrol agents in the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Blaine Sector apprehended Jordanian national Mohammad… -
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Soros Prosecutors Reap What They Sowed—Unfortunately, We Did, Too: The BorderLine
All across America, people are feeling the effects of four years of mass immigration parole programs and the release at the border of millions of aliens we know nothing verifiable about. Many aliens head for big cities that have adopted “sanctuary” policies, whereby their police officers and prosecutors don’t cooperate with federal authorities on immigration… -
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Crime Rate for Illegal Aliens Vastly Understated, Data Shows
In June, illegal alien Victor Martinez-Hernandez was charged with the murder of Rachel Morin, a mother of five in Maryland. Police in Oklahoma tracked the accused repeat offender down with a sample of his DNA recovered from a Los Angeles home invasion in which a 9-year-old girl and her mother were assaulted. Police say Martinez-Hernandez… -
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The Legal Immigrants This Voting Center Worker Met Gave Him Hope for California
My picturesque and diverse home state of California has become overrun with crime, illegal drugs, and homelessness under “progressive” policies. Yet, following the November elections, it appears there may be hope for the state after all. While illegal immigration is a huge problem for the Golden State, it was legal immigrants who redeemed one voting center… -
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US Government Is ‘World’s Largest Child Sex Trafficking Organization,’ Former Border Patrol Agent Claims
Sitting before members of Congress on Capitol Hill Tuesday, retired Border Patrol agent J.J. Carrell told the lawmakers that the “United States federal government is the world’s largest child sex trafficking organization in modern history.” Carrell served in the Border Patrol for 24 years, retiring as a deputy patrol agent in charge of the San Diego… -
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Despite the Left’s Hysterics, We Can Deport Millions of Illegal Aliens
Illegal immigration activists are already panicked that Donald Trump will keep one of his biggest campaign promises. Trump recently announced that Tom Homan will be his “border czar.” Homan isn’t a household name, but he’s had a long career in government. Homan was the acting head of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement during Trump’s first… -
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Tom Homan and Kristi Noem: What Border Agents Think of Their Incoming Bosses
Border Patrol agents are “ecstatic” that immigration-enforcement veteran Tom Homan will serve as border czar in the second Trump administration, a union spokesman told The Daily Signal. “We have somebody now that’s [come up] within the ranks,” Manny Bayon, president of the National Border Patrol Council for the San Diego area, said of Homan. “He… -
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Democrats Once Gave Trump’s New Border Czar an Award for Mass Deportation of Illegal Aliens
The gnashing of teeth and tearing of hair have begun. Trump-haters in newsrooms are sounding the alarm about the anticipated separation of families under “Operation Aurora,” the mass-deportation of illegal aliens that president-elect Donald Trump promises and which 58% of Americans support, according to an Oct. 16 Marquette University survey. “If Trump gets his way,… -
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Trump Confirms He’ll Use Military to Help Deport Illegal Aliens
The new Trump administration will declare a state of emergency and use military assets to deport illegal aliens, President-elect Donald Trump has confirmed. “Reports are the incoming [Trump] administration [is] prepared to declare a national emergency and will use military assets to reverse the Biden invasion through a mass deportation program,” Judicial Watch President… -
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Laken Riley’s Roommates Testify at Murder Trial of Illegal Alien Accused of Killing Georgia Nursing Student
Wearing a plaid, button-down shirt and headphones, Jose Ibarra looked ahead and listened to an interpreter translate from English to Spanish as a friend of Laken Riley's took the witness stand at the illegal alien's trial for her murder. “How would you describe your relationship with Laken?” a prosecuting attorney asked Lilly Steiner on Friday morning in… -
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To Have a Serious Talk About Immigration, You’ve Got to First Debunk the Myths: The BorderLine
Conservatives know that when the American Left wants us to “have a conversation” about an issue, it means they get to talk incessantly until we agree with them. To progressives, there is one, approved view on a given issue and all others are atavistic throwbacks to an era before “progress.” Observe that humans (and all… -
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Elected Democrats Say They’ll Stand in Trump’s Way to Protect Illegal Aliens
THE DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Democratic governors and other liberal elected officials have lined up to declare that they will fight back against President-elect Donald Trump’s hard-line agenda against illegal immigration. Trump, who won the Nov. 5 election, has promised to conduct mass deportations across the country and withhold federal funding from sanctuary cities, along with… -
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Federal Court Rejects Biden’s ‘Parole in Place’ for Illegal Aliens
Two days after the election, a federal court in Texas ruled against President Joe Biden’s latest unauthorized scheme to subvert immigration law: “parole in place” for illegal aliens who are the spouses of U.S. citizens. In a 73-page decision, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas upheld a challenge by 16 states… -
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3 Reasons Texas Border Counties Went Red
In 1892, Starr County, Texas, voted to reelect Republican President Benjamin Harrison. The president lost, and Starr County turned blue for over 130 years, until the 2024 presidential election. On Tuesday, Donald Trump earned 9,443 votes in the county, which is 97% Hispanic or Latino, and Kamala Harris received 6,845 votes, according to the Texas…