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Border Czar Homan: Every Media ‘Hit Piece’ Fuels ‘My Fire’
The criticism from the legacy media, and every protest outside his home, “throws more gas on my fire,” border czar Tom Homan says. Every “hit piece” Homan reads criticizing his campaign to arrest and deport illegal aliens confirms “I’m over the target,” the border czar told The Daily Signal in an exclusive interview. Hundreds of… -
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Treasury Report Exposes How Fentanyl Traffickers Exploit Financial System
The fentanyl trade—which claimed tens of thousands of American lives in 2024 alone—is a multibillion-dollar business supported by sophisticated money laundering schemes, a new report from Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent revealed Wednesday. Bessent released the report amid President Donald Trump’s push to use tariffs as a weapon against foreign nations' reputed abuses of their financial… -
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Trump DHS to Fine Illegal Aliens Ordered Deported $998 for Each Day Overstayed
Illegal immigrants overstaying their deportation day will have to pay a fine of $998 per day after their official removal date. The Trump administration is enforcing a 1996 Clinton administration-era law. Though on the books, the law was enforced for the first time in 2018 during President Donald Trump’s first term, Reuters reported. The Department… -
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DOGE Exposed Our Immigration Asylum Disaster. That Was the Tip of the Iceberg
Elon Musk, Antonio Gracias, and the Department of Government Efficiency team recently exposed how rampant immigration fraud and government corruption became under the Joe Biden administration. Specifically, they showed how aliens “getting” asylum can receive work authorization and, with it, an automatic Social Security number, which enables them to obtain driver’s licenses, commit voter fraud, and receive… -
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Justices Hand Trump National Security Win That Protects Public From Illegal Alien Criminals
On Monday night, a 5-to-4 majority of the Supreme Court not only dissolved the controversial temporary restraining orders issued by Judge James Boasberg of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, but the high court, in essence, took the case away from him. So much for any pending action by Boasberg to hold… -
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WATCH: What’s Changed at the Southern Border Under Trump
Since President Donald Trump returned to the Oval Office on Jan. 20, the number of illegal aliens crossing the southern border has plummeted. Not only did Border Patrol’s March southern border encounters fall to an all-time low of just over 7,000, the number of unaccompanied children arriving at the border is lower now than it… -
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Arizona’s Biggs Introduces Resolution to Support Trump on Deportation of Alien Gangbangers
A border state congressman has introduced a resolution in the House of Representatives to recognize and declare members and affiliates of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua as “alien enemies” under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 and the criminal organization itself as a “terrorist organization perpetrating an invasion of the United States directly and… -
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Trump Reacts to Supreme Court Ruling Allowing Use of Alien Enemies Act to Deport Venezuelan Illegal Aliens
The Supreme Court has ruled that the Trump administration can, for now, resume deportations of Venezuelan criminal illegal aliens under the Alien Enemies Act. “The Supreme Court has upheld the rule of law in our nation by allowing a president, whoever that may be, to be able to secure our borders, and protect our… -
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‘Should Have Recused Himself’: Legal Experts Sound Alarm on Obama-Appointed Judge Blocking Trump’s Deportations
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—As U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg continues to be a thorn in the side of the Trump administration’s effort to deport gangbangers, legal experts have begun to raise questions about his handling of the case. The Barack Obama-appointed judge in March blocked President Donald Trump from using wartime authorities to send suspected Tren de… -
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Arizona Rancher Praises Trump as Illegal Border Crossers on His Land Plunge From 50 or More to 3 Daily
Border rancher John Ladd says President Donald Trump is “doing everything right.” Ladd’s Arizona ranch shares 10.5 miles with the border of Mexico, and during the four years of the Biden administration, about 50 illegal aliens crossed through Ladd’s property daily, and sometimes that number rose to as many as 200, he told The… -
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Democrats’ Visit of Southern Border Is ‘Years Too Late,’ GOP Lawmaker Laments
A group of Democrats on the House Homeland Security Committee is visiting the southern border Friday, a visit that “comes years too late,” according to Rep. Mark Green, the Republican chairman of the committee. “It’s no coincidence that committee Democrats are choosing to visit the border after President [Donald] Trump cleaned up the mess… -
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Trump Nemesis Judge Muses: Who to Hold in Contempt in Deportation Case?
“How should I determine who the contemner or contemners are?” federal District Court Judge James Boasberg asked Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Immigration Litigation Drew Ensign. A contemner is someone said to be in contempt of court. In an at-times contentious hearing on Thursday, the chief judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of… -
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Spanberger Faces Tough Questions on Deportation of Pro-Palestinian Activist
On March 10, Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee sent a tweet on X stating, simply: “Free Mahmoud Khalil.” Khalil, a green card holder, is one of the organizers of the pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University. For two academic years those protests have terrorized Jewish students, occupied buildings, destroyed property, and injured campus employees. The Trump… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Number of Unaccompanied Alien Children Arriving at Border Hits Record Low Under Trump
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The number of migrant children arriving alone at the southern border reached an all-time low in March. Border Patrol encountered 631 unaccompanied alien children at the southwest border last month, down 97% from the record high of 18,716 under the administration of then-President Joe Biden in March 2021, according to… -
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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… -
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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… -
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Deportations Hit 100,000 Under Trump
The Trump administration has carried out more than 100,000 deportations since Jan. 20, The New York Post first reported. In fulfillment of President Donald Trump’s pledge to arrest and remove illegal aliens, Immigration and Customs Enforcement has also made 113,000 arrests. “He’s doing what he was voted in to do. Point blank!” an ICE… -
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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… -
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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… -
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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…