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    Victor Davis Hanson: Europe’s Immigration Revolt Is Just Getting Started
    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 Victor Davis Hanson’s own YouTube channel to watch past episodes. Jack Fowler: Victor, yesterday, big win for the—this is how the Associated Press calls it—the anti-mass migration Alternative for Germany party….
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    Mike Collins’ RNC Speech: Honoring Laken Riley’s Legacy Amidst Ossoff’s Woke Agenda
    Rep. Mike Collins, the Republican U.S. Senate candidate, centered his speech last night at the Republican National Committee’s Midterm Convention on the Laken Riley Act and described Sen. Jon Ossoff’s “far-left agenda.” Joining Collins was Laken Riley’s family. Riley, an Augusta University nursing student, was murdered in 2024 by an illegal immigrant who had been…
    Rebecca Buis
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    Ohio’s US Senators Call Out Yet Another Deadly Crash Involving Illegal Immigrant
    Over the holiday weekend, another illegal immigrant was involved in a deadly crash, this time in Fairfield County, Ohio. Other Ohioans have also been killed in recent crashes allegedly caused by illegal immigrant drivers. Both Sen. Bernie Moreno and Sen. Jon Husted, two Republicans from Ohio, called attention to the matter on X to express…
    Rebecca Downs
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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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    Bernie Moreno Lashes Out Against ‘Drive-Only’ Licenses for Illegal Immigrants
    Sen. Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio, is taking issue with “drive-only” licenses for illegal immigrants in other states, and the deadly effects they have on Ohioans, including the recent death of a 29-year-old from Fayette. In a letter Tuesday to Gov. Ned Lamont, D-Conn., Moreno lamented the death of Austin J. Karr Grimes, expressing his outrage over…
    Rebecca Downs
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    Duffy and Mullin Target Illegal Immigrant Trucking, Immigration Fraud Network
    The Trump administration just announced an interagency effort to combat fraud in the trucking industry. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin are working with the Justice Department and the White House Fraud Task Force to get non-English-speaking commercial truck drivers, who they say are putting Americans in danger, off the road….
    Virginia Grace McKinnon
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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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    Iowa Democrat Wants Distance From His Own Party. His Record Won’t Let Him. 
    Rob Sand, the Democrat nominee for governor in Iowa, has claimed he is “not a party guy,” but his record suggests otherwise, according to his opponent. With the rise of democratic socialism, many are trying to distance themselves from the Democratic Party, including Sand in the purple state of Iowa. Sand, the current state auditor,…
    Virginia Grace McKinnon
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    Victor Davis Hanson: When the Left Ignores Federal Law and Sounds Like Neo-Confederates
    Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of the latest edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” from Daily Signal senior contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to Victor Davis Hanson’s own YouTube channel to watch past episodes. Jack Fowler: So, Victor, I asked two questions from Barry McDonald in the last episode. We’re doing…
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    Victor Davis Hanson: We Need to Stop Letting in Ungrateful Immigrants
    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.  All Americans support legal immigration, especially legal immigration that is diverse, as I said, measured in numbers…
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    Trump to Revoke 200K Visas From Asylum-Seekers
    President Donald Trump is expected to conduct the largest visa revocation in history, stripping 200,000 foreigners of their asylum status. The business and tourism visas of 200,000 foreigners who have applied for or are currently seeking asylum will be revoked on a rolling basis, The Associated Press first reported. “We are coordinating with [the Department of Homeland Security]…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    You Don’t Have to Help. You Do Have to Police.
    I spent 24 years in Enforcement and Removal Operations. Every officer who has worked in an arrest team knows the moment. The target is in custody, the vehicle is staged, and the perimeter closes. Forty people are on a residential street who did not exist ninety seconds ago. Someone is filming 6 inches off an…
    Scott Mechkowski
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    Victor Davis Hanson: Blue States Are Betting Your Life on Illegal Truck Drivers
    Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of the latest edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” from Daily Signal senior contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to Victor Davis Hanson’s own YouTube channel to watch past episodes. Jack Fowler: Twenty-one states and D.C. sue Trump administration to protect illegal alien drivers from the feds. This…
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    Appeals Court Preserves Injunction Against ICE Enforcing Immigration Laws at Churches
    A federal appeals court upheld a ruling preventing federal immigration officials from conducting enforcement actions at or near houses of worship. In a 2-1 ruling by the U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday, Judge Barbara Keenan, a Barack Obama appointee, wrote that the government likely violated the Religious Freedom Restoration Act in its…
    Fred Lucas
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  • Justice Department Files Appeal Against ‘Maryland Man’
    Remember “Maryland man”? That was the tidy, media-friendly label attached to Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Salvadoran national whom Democrats and their allies in the press made the face of what they called the Trump administration’s lawless and vindictive immigration enforcement program. Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., even traveled to El Salvador to visit him in…
    Cully Stimson
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    Ceuta—Lessons Learned 2 Weeks Later
    On July 30, up to 80,000 people crossed illegally from Morocco into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta. They swam or climbed the fence separating the North African country from a territory Spain has claimed since the 15th century. Most were young men. Most were Moroccans, but hundreds came from sub-Saharan Africa. As many as 100…
    Simon Hankinson
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    Victor Davis Hanson: Not Winning? Just Change the Rules
    What binds the new Democratic Party to the new democratic socialists is a set of shared issues and values. That is, the radicalism of the Democrats in the age of Trump Derangement Syndrome—lawfare, de-balloting, the Mar-a-Lago raid, and calls to destroy the Electoral College, the nine-justice Supreme Court, and the filibuster—helped give birth to the…
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    EXCLUSIVE: ICE Arrests 5 Criminal Illegal Aliens
    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Monday arrested five illegal aliens convicted of violent crimes and drug offenses, the agency announced Tuesday. “Yesterday, ICE arrested murderers, violent assailants, kidnappers, drug traffickers, and other dangerous criminal illegal aliens from our communities,” Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin told the Daily Signal. “Under the leadership…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    11 Charged in Decade-Long Scheme Allegedly Selling Green Cards Through Fake Marriages to Chinese Nationals
    Federal prosecutors have charged 11 people with involvement in more than 1,000 fake marriages to gain legal status in the United States over the last decade. The two-count indictment alleges that some foreign nationals paid as much as $100,000 to be in the sham marriages, according to the Justice Department. The scheme was primarily for…
    Fred Lucas
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