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    Why George Washington Would Deport Mahmoud Khalil
    Summary Mahmoud Khalil wants to take the case against his deportation all the way to the Supreme Court—and if the justices accept it, they will be deciding one of the oldest and most controversial questions in American politics, a dispute more than 200 years old. Khalil is not an American: He’s a Syrian-born Palestinian, but…
    Daniel McCarthy
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    Victor Davis Hanson: France’s Left Learns Rioters Don’t Check Voting Records
    Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of a segment from today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” from Daily Signal senior contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to Hanson’s own YouTube channel to watch past episodes.  Jack Fowler: Victor, two things I came across today, and I don’t know if it’s apocryphal, one…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    Victor Davis Hanson: The Iran War Is Not an ‘Endless War’
    Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of a segment from today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” from Daily Signal senior contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to Hanson’s own YouTube channel to watch past episodes.  Victor Davis Hanson: I get really tired of the Left and some of the Right because they…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    Omar Breaks Silence on Raid, Offers New Vague Response to Brother-Marriage Allegation
    Rep. Ilhan Omar says she did not marry her brother, to her knowledge, a switch from her vehement denials beginning in 2016. Omar joined MS NOW for her first sit-down interview following the Columbus Day raid on her Washington, D.C., home. When asked if the man she married in 2009, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, was…
    Virginia Grace McKinnon
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    Ilhan Omar Isn’t Above the Law Either 
    One of the foundational ideals of a free nation is that all its citizens live under the same rules. Democrats know this. They’ve been lecturing us for years that “no one is above the law.”  So, what happens if a federal investigation into Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., provides incontrovertible evidence that she obtained citizenship by…
    David Harsanyi
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    EXCLUSIVE: Trump’s Birth Tourism Task Force Revokes Hundreds of Chinese Nationals’ Visas
    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—President Donald Trump’s Birth Tourism Prevention Task Force has revoked more than 700 visas held by Chinese nationals since its launched in August. “The Chinese birth tourism industry should not be allowed to profit from the privileges of American citizenship while undermining the integrity of our immigration laws,” a State Department…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    WATCH: Inside the Federal Investigation That Could Cost Ilhan Omar Her Citizenship
    The Daily Signal reported on site at Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar’s Washington, D.C., home, which was raided by federal agents on Monday morning. The raid was part of an ongoing federal criminal immigration investigation into how Omar obtained her immigration status decades ago when she immigrated to the United States with her father, Nur Omar…
    Virginia Grace McKinnon
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    9th Circuit Delivers Major Setback to California’s Anti-ICE Law, Finds Trump ‘Certain’ to Prevail
    An appeals court Wednesday rejected California’s mandate that federal immigration agents wear identification, asserting it violates the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution. California’s No Vigilantes Act, signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom last year, requires nonuniformed law enforcement officers to display their agency and name or badge number during arrests, detentions, and crowd control enforcement. The…
    Fred Lucas
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    Omar Seeks Funds After Immigration Raid at Her Home
    Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., is soliciting money after her house was raided as part of a federal criminal immigration investigation. Hours after Department of Homeland Security investigative agents raided the home of the Somali native, she sent out a fundraising message to her supporters, saying, “Please … support me [against] fascist bullies.” “[President Donald] Trump’s…
    Virginia Grace McKinnon
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    DHS Raids Rep. Ilhan Omar’s Home as Part of Federal Immigration Investigation
    The Department of Homeland Security raided the home of Somali-born Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., early Monday morning, less than a month before the midterm election. The raid is part of a larger criminal fraud investigation into the congresswoman’s immigration paperwork and was signed off by a federal judge. First reported by Fox News Digital, multiple…
    Virginia Grace McKinnon
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    Supreme Court Move Could Have Major Consequences for Trump Deportation Policy
    The Supreme Court lifted the injunction against deporting illegal immigrants to a country other than their country of origin, known as sending them to a “third country,” and announced it will hear a case on the Trump administration’s policy. The case, D.V.D. v. Department of Homeland Security, is about whether the government can deport illegal…
    Fred Lucas
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    Bill to Block Possible Foreign Child Predators From Obtaining US Visas Drops in the Senate
    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The Daily Signal has learned that two outspoken conservative senators introduced legislation Thursday to block potential child predators from obtaining U.S. visas. The Strengthened Checks for Reliable Evaluation of Entrants Nationwide (SCREEN) Act, introduced by Sens. Rick Scott, R-Fla., and Ted Budd, R-N.C., would help keep foreign child predators from obtaining…
    Pedro Rodriguez
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    OH BROTHER: DHS Investigating Ilhan Omar Marriage Fraud Allegations, Homan Says
    Border Czar Tom Homan confirmed that the Department of Homeland Security is investigating allegations that Rep. Ilhan Omar committed immigration fraud by marrying her brother. “I’m confirming that [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] is, yeah, look, I said months ago that it’s something that has been reported and needs to be looked at,” Homan said on…
    Virginia Grace McKinnon
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    We’ve Forgotten What the Days After 9/11 Were Like 
    Twenty-five years ago this month, the country we love did something it rarely does: It stopped arguing with itself. For a few weeks after the Twin Towers fell on Sept. 11, 2001, there was no red America or blue America. There was just America, standing in line to give blood, enlisting in numbers recruiters hadn’t seen since Vietnam, hanging flags off overpasses in towns that had…
    Gen. Keith Kellogg | Chad Wolf
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    Mike Johnson Tells GOP ‘We’re Not Done Yet’ as Republicans Push Pre-January Agenda
    DALLAS—The midterm elections are just weeks away, but House Speaker Mike Johnson says Republicans are “not done yet.” The GOP has a guaranteed majority until January, when the next Congress begins, and they still have time to pass legislation and codify the conservative agenda. Johnson took the stage on Thursday night at the Republican National…
    Virginia Grace McKinnon
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    New Documentary: ‘Preventable: How the System Failed Sheridan Gorman’
    Sheridan Gorman, 18, was killed by an illegal immigrant in Chicago in March 2026. Her parents are now telling her story in hopes of preventing another preventable death. Jose Medina, a Venezuelan national, crossed the Texas border in 2023, and instead of being deported, he was transported to a sanctuary city, Chicago. After being apprehended…
    Virginia Grace McKinnon
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    Markwayne Mullin, Local Leaders in Cincinnati Speak to 287g Program, Make Plea for Cooperation
    Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin on Friday appeared for a roundtable in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he met with local officials and addressed partnerships in Warren County under the 287g program. Mullin touted the Trump administration’s commitment and success on the issue of crime and illegal immigration, comparing that to “just four years ago”…
    Rebecca Downs
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    Dems Call Birthright Citizenship Hearing a ‘Bigoted’ Effort From Chip Roy
    House Democrats said that a key House Judiciary Subcommittee hearing on Wednesday, which focused on ending the birth tourism industry, was a “bigoted” effort to crack down on what they described as the baseless claim of widespread birth tourism. Led by the ranking member of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government,…
    Pedro Rodriguez
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    DOJ Battles Columbus Over ICE Courthouse Arrest Rule
    The Department of Justice on Tuesday filed a civil lawsuit against Franklin County Municipal Court in Columbus, Ohio, to challenge a rule that blocks federal officials from arresting illegal immigrants at or near the courthouse. A press release from the DOJ described the rule as “an illegal attempt to regulate the federal government” and alleged…
    Rebecca Downs
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  • opinion

    He Can’t Vote for Congress. The Census Still Gives Him a Seat.
    A draft rule now moving through the Commerce Department would rewrite how many House seats each state gets by narrowing who counts as a “resident” on Census Day. The proposal hasn’t been published in the Federal Register. Nobody’s voted on it. But the fact that Washington is drafting it at all tells you the current…
    Jay Rogers
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