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    Trump to Detain Violent Illegal Immigrants at Guantanamo Bay
    President Donald Trump announced plans to open a new detention center for the worst illegal immigrants at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, where the United States has held terrorism suspects.  “Today I’m also signing an executive order to instruct the departments of Defense and Homeland Security to begin preparing the 30,000-person migrant facility at Guantanamo Bay,”…
    Fred Lucas
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    BREAKING: Trump Signs First Piece of Legislation as 47th President
    Donald Trump signed the Laken Riley Act into law Wednesday, the first piece of legislation he has signed since being sworn in as the 47th president. The law directs U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to arrest and detain illegal aliens charged with theft, assaulting a law enforcement officer, or other crimes causing death or serious bodily…
    Virginia Allen
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    McConnell-Trump Divide Deepens, Setting Stage for GOP Battle
    Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., is making good on his word to “argu[e] more with [some Republicans] probably than the Democrats.” The former Senate GOP leader’s opposition to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s confirmation could be a sign of what’s to come as the upper chamber aims to confirm President Donald Trump’s Cabinet and enact his agenda…
    Jacob Adams
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    Most DC Bureaucrats Who Voted for Harris Say They’ll Refuse a Lawful Trump Order. Rand Paul Won’t Stand for It.
    A recent Napolitan Institute poll found that 64% of Washington, D.C.-based federal bureaucrats who voted for Kamala Harris for president said they would not follow a lawful order from President Donald Trump if they considered it bad policy. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., won’t stand for it. “The American people spoke when they voted President Trump…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Leftists’ Crocodile Tears Over Trump Are Falling Flat
    Just one week into President Donald Trump’s second administration, and the crocodile tears and sensational headlines are flooding in.  Whereas in the Biden administration, nuance and justification were front and center in every legacy news article, now headlines about the Trump administration’s deportation operations for known charged and convicted criminal illegal aliens are filled with…
    Tony Kinnett
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    Trump Signs Executive Order Banning Government Support for Irreversible Child Sex Changes
    President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday preventing the federal government from funding or supporting irreversible transgender medical interventions for minors. “Across the country today, medical professionals are maiming and sterilizing a growing number of impressionable children under the radical and false claim that adults can change a child’s sex through a series of…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    ‘Far-Left Nonsense’: Iraq War Veteran Explains Impact of Trump’s Executive Order on Military DEI Initiatives
    DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—An Iraq War veteran appeared Monday on Fox Business to talk about President Donald Trump’s executive order to stop woke practices within the U.S. armed forces. Trump plans to sign a trio of executive orders pertaining to the military, including one that will eliminate diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives within the U.S. Defense Department. Another will…
    Mariane Angela
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    The Birthright Citizenship Clause Too Many Forget, but Trump Is Right to Question
    Few of President Donald Trump’s new executive orders have caused as much alarm as the one on birthright citizenship.   That order prohibits federal agencies from issuing or accepting citizenship documents for children born in the U.S. when neither parent is a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident at the time of the child’s birth.    Critics paint it as…
    Amy Swearer | Hans von Spakovsky
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    Kevin Roberts Pinpoints How Congress Can Help Trump Execute Massive Deportation Effort
    Kevin Roberts, president of The Heritage Foundation and Heritage Action for America, said it will require 12,000 more agents, 4,000 more attorneys, 1,000 more judges, and 1,000 more support staff to deport the 20 million illegal aliens that voters elected President Donald Trump to evict. Roberts wrote in a Monday op-ed published in Fox News…
    Tom Gantert
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    Trump Justice Department Fires Officials Who Worked With Jack Smith
    DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Over a dozen officials who worked on former special counsel Jack Smith’s team to prosecute President Donald Trump are being fired, a Department of Justice official confirmed to the Daily Caller News Foundation. Acting Attorney General James McHenry determined the officials could not be trusted in “faithfully implementing the president’s agenda,” Fox…
    Katelynn Richardson
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    Trump Rocks Latin America as Leaders Adjust to Deportations, Tariff Threats
    Latin American leaders are scrambling to react to President Donald Trump’s aggressive foreign policy after he successfully forced Colombian President Gustavo Petro to back down on resisting the deportation of Colombian illegal immigrants back to their home country. After Petro's short-lived feud with Trump, Latin American leaders are scheduled to meet Thursday to discuss how…
    George Caldwell
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    Trump Has Clear Advantage Over Universities and Should Seize It
    The Donald Trump administration is starting with a bang as it issued an executive order ending diversity, equity, and inclusion in government and severely curtailing it in the private sector. I expect that opposition to this effort will crumble quickly and most organizations will rapidly abandon the racial preferences that had oddly become accepted as…
    Jay Greene
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    Daily ICE Arrests Under Trump Already Surpassing Biden-Era Numbers
    DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Deportation officers made nearly 1,000 arrests across the country Sunday, marking the largest number of single-day arrests only six days into the Trump administration and far surpassing the Biden administration average. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents made 956 arrests, according to an announcement from the agency. This figure has already outpaced the average daily…
    Jason Hopkins
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    How Trump Can Beat Beijing at Its Own Game
    President Donald Trump took office on Jan. 20 with a pledge to help America “win like never before.” Winning the competition with China will be key to achieving that outcome. Outcompeting China requires a mixture of creative policymaking, hard-nosed geopolitical posturing, and high-stakes engagement that Trump is uniquely qualified to lead. His strong mandate and…
    Michael Cunningham
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    Let’s Review Lessons From Trump’s Second First Week
    WASHINGTON—What did President Donald Trump learn during his four-year hiatus from the White House? For one thing, he seems to have learned how to listen. But also, to judge by the first week of his second term, Trump 2.0 seems more focused, mission-driven, and prepared to get things done at warp speed. Here’s a short…
    Debra Saunders
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    EXCLUSIVE: President Trump to Sign Executive Order Launching US Iron Dome
    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—President Donald Trump will sign an executive order Monday to build an American version of the Israeli “Iron Dome” missile defense system. An expert in national security—and in the Iron Dome, in particular—praised Trump’s action as the fulfillment of President Ronald Reagan’s strategic defense plan. According to a news release provided…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Trump’s Aggressive Response Pressures South American Country to Finally Accept Criminal Illegal Aliens, White House Says
    President Donald Trump has already begun deporting illegal aliens who have been convicted of other crimes, and one South American country has refused to allow a U.S. plane carrying criminal illegal aliens to land, in what Trump says is a violation of its legal obligations. Trump announced tariffs, a travel ban, and sanctions against members…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Is Donald Trump the Second Coming of Andrew Jackson?
    The portrait of Andrew Jackson has returned to the wall of the Oval Office, put up in time to greet President Donald Trump as he reentered for the first time as the 47th president. It’s a choice Democrats are poorly positioned to criticize, even though the seventh president owned slaves and ordered the Southeastern Indians…
    Michael Barone
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    Trump Was Right to Yank Security Clearances of the 51 ‘Spies Who Lie’
    Amid the tsunami of good that Donald J. Trump has unleashed since returning to the presidency, one wave deserves sustained applause. As I proposed last September, Trump revoked the security clearances of the 51 intelligence operatives who intimated that Hunter Biden’s “Laptop from Hell” was mere Kremlin propaganda.  These “Spies Who Lie,” as the New York Post dubbed them, earned this…
    Deroy Murdock
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    Convicted Defamers at CNN Lecture About ‘Deepfakes’ Under Trump
    In CNN’s buildup to the Trump inauguration on Monday, anchor Jake Tapper uncorked a lecture about how five Big Tech executives in attendance “control so much of the information that we receive.” Was that a warning? Or an expression of jealousy? The leftist media hate that the American people have gone around them for information,…
    Tim Graham
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