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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…. -
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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… -
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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,… -
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Border Patrol Applications Highest in US History Under Trump
THE CENTER SQUARE—Since President Donald Trump took office, the U.S. Border Patrol has seen an unprecedented surge in applications from men and women who want to serve at the U.S. borders. From January to April 2025, Border Patrol received 34,650 applications, representing a 44% increase over the same four-month period in 2024, U.S. Customs and… -
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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… -
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The Left Says Quiet Part Out Loud: Whites Need Not Apply for Asylum
It looks like your liberal neighbors will have to take down their “refugees welcome” signs now. A small group of South African refugees arrived in the United States on Monday bearing American flags. They came to the U.S. after President Donald Trump signed an executive order in February designating them as in need of asylum. One would… -
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Congress Must End, or Radically Amend, Temporary Protected Status for Immigrants
The Temporary Protected Status immigration program was enacted into law in 1990. Its original intent was to give a brief safe haven to aliens in the U.S. without regard to their legal or illegal status when man-made situations or natural disasters temporarily made return to their countries unsafe. The law gives the homeland security secretary… -
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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… -
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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… -
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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… -
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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… -
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Study: Asylum-Seekers Primarily Responsible for Large Spike in Homelessness
Between 2022 and 2024, the U.S. saw a record 43% rise in “sheltered homelessness”—staying in some sort of emergency shelter, as opposed to living on the street. That is shocking enough on its own, but according to a new study, a contemporaneous spike in asylum-seekers accounted for a stunning 60% of that increase. “Asylum-seekers”—as referenced… -
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Federal Judges Ruling Against Deportations is ‘Big’ Emergency, Trump Tells ‘Meet the Press’
President Donald Trump said he doesn’t plan to lift the state of emergency he declared at the southern border on his first day in office because “we have a massive emergency overall.” “It’s an overall emergency on immigration,” the president said in an interview with “Meet the Press with Kristen Welker” on NBC News. “If… -
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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… -
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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… -
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America’s Immigration Laws Are Just
This story—that sadly has a tragic ending—began 15 years ago when an immigration court looked at the case of a Guatemalan national named Jose Paxtor-Oxlaj. He was arrested in Oklahoma in 2023—13 years after he had been deported. “A check of records confirmed Paxtor’s identity and confirmed he is an alien who was ordered removed… -
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Illegal Immigrants Are My Constituents, California Democrat Says
Rep. Norma Torres said at a Wednesday press conference that every taxpayer in her district—including illegal immigrants—is her constituent. Torres, D-Calif., held the event to promote her Fairness to Freedom Act, which would require the government to pay for the legal defense of any immigrant facing deportation who cannot afford counsel. “Everyone living in my… -
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Blurring Trump’s Posters Displaying Illegal Immigrant Mug Shots
At the 100-day mark, it’s an obvious fact that the border is now secure. Illegal immigration is now a trickle. The network “news” folks hate to mention it. But they are eager to cite polls that find President Donald Trump’s immigration approval number is declining. Forget the successes, and drive the notion that he’s losing… -
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The Process Due Illegal Immigrants Is Deportation
If you break a system, you can’t be upset when fixing that system requires a solution that’s outside the normal operation of the system. Congressional Democrats continue to demand the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia to America. In March, the Trump administration deported him to El Salvador. Congressional Democrats, including Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md.,… -
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Republican Slams Dem’s ‘Disgustingly Ignorant’ Holocaust Comparison in Battle Over Immigration Bill
A Republican Colorado state representative who came to the U.S. legally and is descended from a Holocaust survivor slammed his Democrat colleague for comparing President Donald Trump’s recent deportations of illegal aliens to the Nazis rounding up Jews. State Rep. Lorena Garcia, a sponsor of the immigration bill SB 25-276, spoke in a hearing on…