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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… -
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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… -
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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… -
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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… -
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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… -
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Trump Now Says Biden Was ‘Not for Open Borders,’ Blames ‘Thugs’ in His Administration
For years, President Donald Trump has bashed his successor and predecessor, President Joe Biden, for his handling of the southern border, but on Tuesday, Trump said Biden “was not for open borders.” Biden “never talked about open borders, where criminals of all kinds, shapes, and sizes can flow into our country at will,” Trump… -
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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… -
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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… -
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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…