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EXCLUSIVE: Meet Latest Criminal Illegal Aliens Taken Off US Streets
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested a number of illegal aliens across the U.S. on Thursday, including criminals with sodomy and murder convictions. “These vicious murderers, pedophiles, rapists, and violent criminals have no place in this country,” a senior Department of Homeland Security official said in a statement Friday. “We’ve said it before,… -
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Gunman Dead After Mass Shooting at Minnesota Catholic School
A mass shooting occurred Wednesday morning at a Minneapolis Catholic school, in what the FBI is reportedly investigating as an act of domestic terrorism and a hate crime targeting Catholics. KMSP-TV, the Fox affiliate in Eden Prairie, Minn., reported that two children, ages 8 and 10, were killed, and 17 others were injured. The gunman… -
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Illegal Alien Abrego Garcia Back in ICE Custody
The illegal alien the political left labeled the “Maryland Man” is back in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. “Today, ICE law enforcement arrested Kilmar Abrego Garcia and are processing him for deportation,” Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem wrote on X Monday morning. “President [Donald] Trump is not going to allow this… -
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DeSantis Urges Congress to Defund Sanctuary States That License Illegal Aliens as Drivers
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is calling on Congress to defund sanctuary states that provide illegal immigrants with driver’s licenses. DeSantis’ push comes after an illegal alien, Harjinder Singh, was charged with three counts of vehicular homicide after he appears to have tried to make an illegal U-turn while driving a commercial tractor-trailer on Aug. 12… -
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California’s Illegal Alien Sanctuary Policies Have a Body Count
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. I, each week, drive about 425 miles round trip from my farm residence in Central California… -
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Another Illegal Alien Removed From Streets After Egregious Crime Against a Minor
The Trump administration arrested another illegal immigrant for sexual misconduct against a child. On Tuesday, Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested Michael Kabiona, an illegal alien from the Democratic Republic of the Congo who had been convicted of sexual abuse against a child, an administration official told The Daily Signal. Kabiona “repeatedly raped and sodomized his step-daughter… -
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Illegal Alien Hit With Federal Charges for Sexual Exploitation of Minor
An illegal alien has been indicted by a grand jury in Ohio for disturbing sex crimes against a minor. Victor Juarez, a 26-year-old Mexican national, is accused of sexually exploiting a 12-year-old girl, including creating videos of such exploitation. According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Ohio, Juarez allegedly created videos… -
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Illegal Aliens Staying Away From Border Amid Trump Admin’s 3-Month Zero-Release Record
For three months in a row, no illegal aliens have been released into the U.S., according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Simultaneously, CBP is recording record-low illegal alien encounters at the border. In July, there were just 24,628 total encounters at the U.S. border, down from 170,180 in July 2024, marking the lowest monthly… -
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Gone to Pot: Just Say ‘No’ to Marijuana Lobby
Will more marijuana use make America a better place? Not many who’ve seen and smelled what legalizing the drug has done to cities like New York, D.C., and San Francisco would say so. Yet President Donald Trump is contemplating a change to marijuana’s federal classification that would make it easier to buy and more profitable… -
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5 Cities With High Homicide Numbers
President Donald Trump announced Monday he’s taking decisive action to reduce crime in Washington, D.C., drawing attention to violent crime rates not only in the nation’s capital, but in major cities across the U.S. “We have other cities that are very bad—New York has a problem, and then you have, of course, Baltimore and… -
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EXCLUSIVE: ‘Pedophiles, Car Thieves, and Burglars’—Meet 5 Criminal Illegal Aliens Now in ICE Custody
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Md. Mobarak Hossain is a convicted pedophile from Bangladesh. His criminal record includes sexual contact with a minor under the age of 11 and endangering a child’s welfare in Queens, New York. He was living in the U.S. illegally until Immigration and Customs Enforcement took him into custody this week. Hossain is… -
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EXCLUSIVE: DHS Honors Victims of Fatal DUI, Other Illegal Alien Crimes
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—It was a warm summer night in New Jersey, and Maria Santos Pleitez was driving her 11-year-old daughter and her daughter’s friend to get milkshakes when a drunken driver slammed into Pleitez’s vehicle, killing her and her daughter. The other girl was injured, but survived the July 26 crash. The man… -
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Democrats Use Illegal Aliens to Obtain Cheap Labor to Support Their Lifestyles
What happens when U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement rescues 14 children from labor exploitation and exposure to sex offenders in marijuana fields? Surely, this would be a moment for mental clarity and political cohesion, where federal law enforcement officials are recognized for their good work. That was not what happened. Instead, Democrat leaders rushed to… -
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Another Mass Shooting, Another Butcher’s Bogus Rationale
WASHINGTON—I have a pet peeve about news coverage of mass murder. When the story breaks, cable news anchors report, as they first did after Monday’s shooting in Midtown Manhattan, that the killer’s motives were unknown. What do mass shooters‘ motives matter? When killers leave notes to explain their brutality, they leave self-aggrandizing excuses for snuffing… -
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MASSIVE STING: Authorities Arrest Dozens for Human Trafficking, Child Exploitation, Narcotics
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Combating human trafficking is a priority for the Trump administration’s Health and Human Services Department, but the agency can’t do it alone. That’s why HHS partnered with state and local officials in Mississippi to carry out a two-week human trafficking sting leading to 72 felony and misdemeanor arrests and 29 victim… -
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EXCLUSIVE: New Data Shows Arrests of Criminal Illegal Aliens Have Made a ‘Real Impact on Public Safety,’ DHS Official Announces
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Violent crime is on the decline in the U.S. following the arrest and removal of criminal illegal aliens, the Department of Homeland Security announced Monday. “Under President [Donald] Trump and [DHS Secretary Kristi] Noem, our law enforcement is working at lightning speed to remove violent criminal illegal aliens from the… -
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Bystanders Subdue Walmart Attacker, FBI Supports Investigation Into Michigan Stabbings
None of the 11 victims in the stabbing at a Michigan Walmart Saturday afternoon are in critical condition anymore, the local hospital treating them announced. Munson Medical Center said Sunday morning that it’s seeing “encouraging signs of recovery” in the victims injured in the Traverse City, Michigan, stabbing. As of Sunday morning, four of the… -
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EXCLUSIVE: GOP Lawmaker Introduces Bill to End Automatic Birthright Citizenship for Children of Illegal Aliens
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The children of “lawbreakers” should not be rewarded with U.S. citizenship, a Republican congresswoman from New York says. The Constitutional Citizenship Clarification Act, which Rep. Claudia Tenney introduced Wednesday, would end automatic birthright citizenship for the children of illegal aliens. “The United States should not reward illegal entry into our… -
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NYC Mayor Says He Will ‘Welcome’ Help Arresting ‘Dangerous’ Criminal Illegal Aliens
New York City Mayor Eric Adams says he will “welcome” the help of border czar Tom Homan to arrest criminal illegal aliens like the ones who attacked a Customs and Border Protection officer in the city over the weekend. If Homan assists New York City in the apprehension of “dangerous people,” Adams told reporters,… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Meet 5 Criminal Illegal Aliens No Longer Roaming America’s Streets
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Five illegal aliens with criminal convictions were arrested in cities across the U.S. over the weekend, the Department of Homeland Security announced Tuesday. The arrests, each carried out by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, is a fulfillment of DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and President Donald Trump’s pledge to “target the worst…