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analysis
What Will Happen if Democrats Take Over Immigration Policy
Migrants are lining up at the border now that Democrats have won the midterms, according to Mark Krikorian, Center for Immigration Studies president. “What Border Patrol agents have seen is that the Democrats aren’t even in yet, but once they won the election, the number of illegal immigrants trying to get across has gone up,”… -
opinion
Enforce Immigration Law in the Boardroom
Summary President Donald Trump gave his base a shock Sunday, telling “60 Minutes” he’s having second thoughts about his hardball approach to immigration enforcement. Asked how immigration affected the Republican Party’s midterm performance, he told interviewer Ross Douthat, “I think I got an A-plus for closing up the border.” But then he said the verdict… -
opinion
American Immigration and Our National Spirit
Summary The election of America’s first Muslim senator, Michigan’s Abdul El-Sayed, a second-generation immigrant from Egypt, is a watershed moment in the triumph of multiculturalism. This moment was made possible by the enduring legacy of the Johnson administration and the Hart-Celler Act, which opened the United States to large-scale immigration from the Third World in… -
opinion
Victor Davis Hanson: Democrats Are Already Drunk on Power—Their Blue Wave Could Backfire
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript 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: Very briefly here, let me just say that Victor has written a significant post on X. You’ll find it there. His… -
news
Conservative Justices Seem to Balk as Trump Admin Seeks Immigration Authority on Employers
Conservative justices seemed reluctant to grant the Trump administration sweeping authority to penalize employers importing immigrant workers. The Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday in a case that could have broader implications for the Trump administration’s immigration-enforcement agenda. While the administration argues that it can oversee all employer-related cases involving immigration, justices questioned the scope of… -
opinion
Did Houston’s Mayor Just Reveal Texas Democrats’ Immigration Plans?
Summary AUSTIN, Texas—When Houston Mayor John Whitmire announced last week that he would scale back police collaboration with Immigration and Customs Enforcement deportations, he seems to have inadvertently disclosed the approach the state’s newly elected Democrat leadership will be taking on immigration. Whitmire signaled that Gov.-elect Gina Hinojosa, Lt. Gov.-elect Vikki Goodwin, and Attorney General-elect… -
news
What Trump’s Newest Plan to Help Some Illegal Immigrants Really Means for America
After President Donald Trump said he’d work with Democrats on a deal to give some aliens legal status, conservative immigration hawks fear the move will inspire caravans of border crossers. “You’re rewarding people for illegally entering,” Todd Bensman, former senior adviser to border czar Tom Homan, told the Daily Signal. “The message that it sends to… -
news
Supreme Court Hands Trump a Big Win on Border Wall
The Trump administration has the green light to continue building a border wall in the Big Bend region of Texas after a Supreme Court ruling Monday. Plaintiffs seeking to block construction of the wall argued that it threatened the landscape of Big Bend National Park, which historically did not have high rates of illegal immigration,… -
opinion
Victor Davis Hanson: The Collapse of America’s Melting Pot
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’d like to review some matters of immigration, starting with illegal immigration. No one thought a… -
opinion
Is Texas America’s Next Sanctuary State?
Summary AUSTIN, Texas—Operation Linebacker. Operation Rio Grande. Operation Border Star. Operation River Watch. Operation Strong Safety. Operation Secure Texas. Those names cover more than 20 years of state-led operations along the 1,254-mile Texas-Mexico frontier. Successive Republican governors and Republican-majority legislatures in Texas ordered all these operations. They also ordered “Operation Lone Star,” which is in… -
opinion
Victor Davis Hanson: Trump’s Second Term—the Counterrevolution Explained
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. This video was recorded before Tuesday’s midterm elections. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for the Daily Signal. In an earlier video, I talked a little… -
opinion
Midterms: Closing Argument
Summary Heading into Election Day on Tuesday, here are the four most important reasons to vote for patriotic populist candidates: Sovereignty After America endured the madness of the open border of former President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance brought sanity back to migration policies and enforcement. According to DHS, we’ve now seen the lowest annual encounters… -
opinion
How NYC District Attorneys Help Illegal Aliens Dodge Deportation
Summary President Donald Trump’s deportation policies have been a huge contributing factor to falling national crime rates. But rogue judges have been working overtime to undermine those efforts and ensure that the Biden administration’s reckless border policies are made permanent. An underreported, toxic phenomenon is how rogue, open-borders judges in sanctuary cities warp crime statistics… -
analysis
Trump’s Deportation Opponents Just Lost a Key Legal Weapon
Almost 90,000 immigrants have tried a legal maneuver to escape detention, but an appeals court ruling just significantly undermined that part of the Left’s anti-deportation strategy. ProPublica has tracked 89,170 cases in which immigrants filed writs of habeas corpus, challenging the lawfulness of their detention or imprisonment. The scale is extraordinary. Immigrants filed more habeas… -
news
5th Circuit Rules Illegal Immigrants Not Entitled to Bond Hearings
Summary The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 10-7 that detained illegal immigrants do not have a right to bond hearings, marking an immigration win for the Trump administration. The ruling, filed on Oct. 23, states that while illegal aliens are in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody and are going through deportation proceedings, they… -
opinion
Trump’s Deportations Are Making America Safer
Summary The restoration of law and order in America is happening in large part because of President Donald Trump, in particular, his insistence that immigration laws be enforced and criminal illegal aliens be deported. The administration should double and triple down on this message. America’s return to normalcy is contingent on making border security and… -
opinion
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… -
opinion
November’s Stark Choice: 2 Visions for Justice and the Rule of Law
Summary Democrats, suffering from denial and delusion, tend to think of themselves as the guardians of the rule of law. Back in reality, nothing could be further from the case. Consider Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., who fancies herself a rule-of-law-championing model immigrant despite the fact that she literally conceded to her fellow Somalis that she… -
opinion
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… -
opinion
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…