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Police Lt. Explains How Cartels Are Taking Advantage of Biden’s Open Border Policies
PINAL COUNTY, Ariz.—Worms crawled out of a small hole in the front of a carpet shoe that was used by a cartel member likely only weeks before. Dropping the piece of camouflage fabric the cartels use to make their tracks less visible to Border Patrol, I scanned the small parcel of desert that was covered… -
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Biden’s ‘La Invitacion’ to Illegal Aliens Triggered Border Crisis, New Book Charges
In 2021, Todd Bensman stood on the edge of the Rio Grande river with a member of a drug cartel. Despite usually trying to avoid the cartels, Bensman found himself interviewing the man, who happened to be on vacation after guiding a group of illegal aliens into Texas. “He had his cocaine. He had a… -
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Angry Federal Judge Orders Biden’s DHS: End Mass Parole of Illegal Aliens
In a scathing opinion on Wednesday that questions the credibility of the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. District Court Judge T. Kent Wetherell II for the Northern District of Florida has ordered a stop to the Biden administration’s “Parole Plus Alternatives to Detention” (“Parole+ATD”) policy that has been illegally releasing hundreds of thousands of aliens… -
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Time to Declare War on Mexican Drug Cartels
The tragic killing of two U.S. citizens this week in the border town of Matamoros, Mexico, should—in a just world—refocus American attention on the glaring problem of transnational drug cartels’ de facto control of large swaths of our perilously porous southern border. That the two Americans killed may have been mistaken by warring cartel clans… -
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The Left Is Downplaying Reality of Fentanyl Crisis
The Left refuses to connect the dots between the fentanyl and border crises because it would require acknowledging that we have an open border. The truth of the matter is that the border crisis and fentanyl problem in America are directly related. Drug overdose or poisoning is the leading cause of death for Americans aged… -
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The Biden Administration Has Been ‘Making the Fentanyl Crisis Worse,’ Republican Warns
OXON HILL, Md.—The crisis at the southern border is both unending and unrelenting. As The Daily Signal previously reported, more than 1 million migrants have been encountered at the southern border since the start of fiscal year 2023 on Oct. 1. Rep. Mark Green, R-Tenn., chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, recently traveled with… -
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‘This Is War,’ Mother of 2 Sons Killed by Fentanyl Testifies, Telling Congress to ‘Do Something’
Rebecca Kiessling struggled to speak as she told members of Congress about the deaths of her two adult sons, who were both killed by fentanyl in 2020. “You talk about welcoming those crossing our border seeking protection—[but] you’re welcoming drug dealers across our border, you’re giving them protection. You’re not protecting our children,” Kiessling… -
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Cartels’ Influence Over Border Is ‘Really Frightening,’ Texas Land Commissioner Says
Drug running and human smuggling by Mexican cartels have become tragically commonplace for many Texas communities. Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham says Texans are deeply frustrated with the situation at their southern border, a situation she describes as “frightening.” There is a “tremendous loss of life with the increase in crime” at the southern border, Buckingham… -
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The 1 Million Illegal Immigrant Encounters in Past 5 Months Is Equivalent to Population of Biden’s Delaware
More than 1 million migrants have been encountered at the southern border just since fiscal year 2023 began on Oct. 1. Fox News reported Saturday that Customs and Border Protection sources confirmed that migrants attempting to cross the border into the U.S. reached 1,008,217 as of Friday. “Of those, 87.8% were single adults,” Fox reported. “Just 328,454… -
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2 Migrants Stoned to Death by Smugglers at Southern Border
Two migrants were reportedly stoned to death on the Mexican side of the southern border Saturday. According to Border Report, police in Tijuana, Mexico, say the migrants were preparing to illegally cross a border barrier into San Diego when smugglers repeatedly struck them in the head with rocks, killing them. A third migrant was shot and… -
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Illegal Immigrants Are Now Using the Northern Border, Too
America’s southern border is not the only one experiencing a dramatic increase in the number of illegal migrants attempting to cross into the country. Customs and Border Protection reports record numbers of encounters with illegal migrants at America’s northern border with Canada. “While the southern border garners most of the attention, both of America’s borders… -
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Supreme Court Cancels Arguments for Health Measure Limiting Illegal Immigration
The Supreme Court has removed arguments from its calendar for a highly anticipated case on Title 42, a COVID-19 public health measure allowing Border Patrol to quickly expel some illegal aliens. The case was going to be heard March 1. The Supreme Court announced Thursday that the case had been removed from its argument… -
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Shocking Cost of the Illegal Immigration Crisis to Americans
As record numbers of illegal aliens continue to flood across our southern border, they are being dispersed into every congressional district in the country, making every state a border state. We’re told they’re merely coming to seek a better life. And while that’s true for many, why do open-borders advocates ignore the enormous toll on… -
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Indian Immigrant Who Was Booted From Education Board, Called ‘White Supremacist’ After Defending Constitution Shares Her Story
Suparna Dutta says she thought the exceptional nature of the Constitution and Declaration of Independence “was common sense,” but her recent experience with the Virginia Board of Education proved otherwise. Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin appointed Dutta—a mother, engineer, and Indian immigrant—to the Virginia Board of Education in July. “I was thrilled and very honored to… -
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Former Border Patrol Chief Opens Up About the Horrifying Power Cartels Wield Around the Rio Grande
Whether it’s a family or a single male, the drug cartels play a role in every illegal crossing into the U.S. at the southern border, former Border Patrol Chief Rodney Scott says. “They’re either directly paying the cartels or the cartels are controlling their movements for another benefit, meaning to systematically overwhelm Border Patrol, create… -
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Fact Check: Karine Jean-Pierre Says Republicans Wanted to ‘Abruptly’ End Title 42 Border Policy
During a White House press briefing on Wednesday, press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Republicans had been the ones to push for an end to the Title 42 border policy, but the record demonstrates the opposite. A reporter asked Jean-Pierre whether the Biden administration would keep or lift Title 42, a public health measure used to easily… -
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Why Blue State Politicians’ Tax Cartel Attempt Will Fail
Cartels are groups of organizations that collude with each other to drive up prices, crush competition, and ultimately extort huge amounts of money to redistribute to the cartel members. While the word is often associated with drugs, oil-producing countries, or anti-competitive business practices, politicians from nine blue states are attempting something new in the U.S.—a… -
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Mother Tells How Daughter Fell Victim to Trafficking After School Hid Her Gender Identity. New Bill Aims to Prevent Such Tragedy.
A subcommittee in the Virginia House of Delegates voted Monday to advance a bill requiring schoolteachers and school staff to notify parents about their children’s purported gender transitions, partially in response to the horrific sex-trafficking story of Sage, a girl whose high school hid her transgender identity from her mother. HB 2432, “Sage’s law,” requires… -
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American History Crisis: Most High Schoolers Flunked US Citizenship Test. They’re Now Adults.
Americans’ lack of historical knowledge is crippling the nation, says Timothy Goeglein, a senior official with the Christian group Focus on the Family. In his new book “Toward a More Perfect Union: The Moral and Cultural Case for Teaching the Great American Story,” Goeglein discusses a survey conducted among public high school students that revealed… -
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On Illegal Immigration, Mexico Isn’t Really America’s Amigo
Left-wing Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador recently praised a visiting President Joe Biden: “Just imagine: There are 40 million Mexicans in the United States. Forty million who were born here in Mexico, [or] who are the children of people who were born in Mexico.” Why wouldn’t Lopez Obrador be delighted? Since Biden took office…