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    Judge Rebukes Trump Administration for Doing ‘Nothing’ to Facilitate Release of Illegal Alien Deported to El Salvador

    A federal judge has rebuked the Trump administration for doing “nothing” to facilitate release of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia after he was deported to El Salvador.   “To date nothing has been done,” Judge Paula Xinis said Tuesday.   Following an order from the District Court for the District of Maryland on April 4 directing the…
    Virginia Allen
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    Jury Finds Illegal Alien Guilty of Raping, Murdering Maryland Mother of 5

    A Maryland jury has found an illegal alien guilty of murdering Rachel Morin, a mother of five.  Victor Martinez-Hernandez was charged with first-degree murder, first-degree rape, third-degree sexual offense, and kidnapping in Morin’s case. The jury found Martinez-Hernandez guilty on all four counts.   In August 2023, Morin went missing after leaving home to exercise…
    Virginia Allen
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    Judge Temporary Blocks Trump From Terminating Legal Status for 530,000 Illegal Aliens

    A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from revoking legal status and work permits for over 530,000 illegal aliens from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela.   U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani, an Obama appointee, ruled Monday that the Trump administration cannot terminate the legal status of the migrants “without case-by-case review.”  The Biden administration program…
    Virginia Allen
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    Salvadoran President Won’t Send Deported Illegal Alien Back to US

    El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, will not release Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, an illegal alien deported from the U.S. to El Salvador.   “How can I return him to the United States?” Bukele said when asked whether he would return Abrego Garcia, who had been living in Maryland until March.   “Can I smuggle him…
    Virginia Allen
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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…
    Fred Lucas
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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…
    Hans von Spakovsky
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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…
    Virginia Allen
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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…
    Virginia Allen
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    DHS Chief Issues Warning to Illegal Aliens During Visit to Prison Holding Deported Criminals

    Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem visited El Salvador's Terrorism Confinement Center on Wednesday and met with the Central American nation's president, Nayib Bukele, to discuss deportation flights and removals of criminal illegal aliens from the U.S.  Noem’s visit follows the recent deportation of about 250 criminal illegal aliens from the U.S. to the detention facility…
    Virginia Allen
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    DHS Secretary to Visit El Salvador Prison Holding Illegal Aliens

    Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem will visit El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center on Wednesday, just over a week after the U.S. transferred hundreds of illegal aliens to the prison, Fox News first reported.   Noem will tour the detention center with Salvadoran Minister of Justice Héctor Gustavo Villatoro and will later meet with El Salvador’s President…
    Virginia Allen
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    Biden-Era App Was Like ‘Fast Pass at Disneyland’ for Illegal Aliens, Trump Press Secretary Says

    The Biden administration’s CBP One app facilitated the “mass illegal entry” of illegal immigrants, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Monday. “It was like a fast pass at Disneyland,” Leavitt told The Daily Signal at a White House press briefing. The Trump administration, however, repurposed the app to make it easier for illegal immigrants…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Using the Border Patrol Home App to Get Illegal Aliens to Self Deport

    So far, poetic justice seems the theme of this political year. And there’s nothing more poetically just or ironic than what the Donald Trump administration just did: Turned an app used to mass parole millions of aliens into an app to help those aliens leave the U.S. In October 2020, U.S. Customs and Border Patrol launched the…
    Lora Ries
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    The Meritless ACLU Lawsuit to Stop Trump From Sending Illegal Aliens to Gitmo

    Earlier this week, the Trump administration brought about 40 illegal aliens it had taken to the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to a detention facility in Louisiana. The reason behind the surprise move is unclear, but it likely has something to do with the lawsuit filed by the ACLU and others contesting the…
    Cully Stimson
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    CBP One Is Gone, Replaced With CBP Home to Encourage Illegal Aliens to Self-Deport  

    The Trump administration is launching a mobile application to help illegal aliens self-deport. The CBP Home app provides illegal immigrants with a way to report their planned self-deportation to the Department of Homeland Security.   “The CBP Home app gives aliens the option to leave now and self-deport, so they may still have the opportunity to…
    Virginia Allen
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    Texas Lawmaker’s Bill Would Require DHS to Report to Congress Crimes Illegal Aliens Commit

    New legislation would require the Department of Homeland Security to notify Congress of crimes committed by illegal aliens that the Biden administration paroled in the country.   Rep. Morgan Luttrell, R-Texas, introduced the Criminal Illegal Alien Report Act on Thursday. The bill, if passed and signed into law, would require DHS to “to report to…
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    ICE Arrests of Illegal Aliens Up 627% Under Trump

    Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s monthly arrests have increased 627% under President Donald Trump compared with the last year of the Biden administration, according to the Department of Homeland Security.   In the first month of Trump’s presidency, more than 20,000 illegal aliens were arrested, according to DHS Secretary Kristi Noem. During the last full year of…
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    DHS Is Encouraging Illegal Aliens to Self-Deport

    The Department of Homeland Security announced Tuesday that it will use “every available tool to compel illegal aliens to self-deport.”    “President [Donald] Trump and [DHS] Secretary [Kristi] Noem have a clear message for those in our country illegally: Leave now. If you leave now, you may have the opportunity to return and enjoy our freedom and…
    Virginia Allen
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    Why Does the Left Coddle Illegal Alien Child Rapists?

    When it comes to giving illegal aliens sanctuary, services, and second chances, “Just say, ‘No’” is not in the Democrat–Left’s vocabulary—apparently not even for child rapists. “It’s hard to believe there are any jurisdictions out there that wouldn’t cooperate with [U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement] when it comes to illegal aliens charged with forcibly raping children, but in Massachusetts, it’s…
    Deroy Murdock
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    Trump Vows to Deport Illegal Aliens at Unprecedented Scale in Speech to Conservatives

    OXON HILL, Md.—President Donald Trump slammed left-wing politicians for sending the American military abroad instead of protecting the southern border. “After years of politicians using our military to defend foreign borders while leaving our country defenseless, helpless, we deployed a group of people, active duty troops, to defend our border and repel the invasion of…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    DHS ‘Clawed Back’ $59 Million FEMA Allocated to House Illegal Aliens

    The Trump administration has retrieved the $59 million the Federal Emergency Management Agency allocated last week to house illegal aliens in hotels in New York City.    “I have clawed back the full payment that FEMA deep state activists unilaterally gave to NYC migrant hotels,” Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem wrote on X on Wednesday.  …
    Virginia Allen
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