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‘People Could Die’: Mamdani Sounds Alarm as Cities Sue Trump Administration Over Immigrant Welfare Benefits
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced Monday he was leading a coalition of cities suing over the Trump administration’s effort to block welfare benefits for certain immigrants. Other plaintiffs suing the Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York are… -
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OH BROTHER: DHS Investigating Ilhan Omar Marriage Fraud Allegations, Homan Says
Border Czar Tom Homan confirmed that the Department of Homeland Security is investigating allegations that Rep. Ilhan Omar committed immigration fraud by marrying her brother. “I’m confirming that [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] is, yeah, look, I said months ago that it’s something that has been reported and needs to be looked at,” Homan said on… -
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Wisconsin Tragedy Is a Warning About Illegal Alien Crime
Wisconsin is the latest state to fall victim to rampant illegal alien crimes that have resulted in hundreds of preventable accidents, assaults, and deaths, according to a new documentary released Monday. Steve Cortes, a Daily Signal contributor who hosts the “Danger in the Heartland” documentary, explores the policies that lead to this tragic trend, interviews… -
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Hey, Germany. It’s Legitimate to Limit Immigration.
Just weeks after far-left candidates have won surprising victories in Democratic primaries in Pennsylvania, Florida, Michigan, Colorado and New York City for the Senate and House in the United States, the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has won a widely predicted victory in the election last Sunday for the legislature of Sachsen-Anhalt, one of Germany’s… -
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Greg Abbott Defends Texas Border Policies, Blasts Democrats at Convention
Speaking at the Republican Midterm Convention in Dallas, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott highlighted his border security record and accused Texas Democrats of opposing what he described as common-sense policies on immigration and public safety. -
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We’ve Forgotten What the Days After 9/11 Were Like
Twenty-five years ago this month, the country we love did something it rarely does: It stopped arguing with itself. For a few weeks after the Twin Towers fell on Sept. 11, 2001, there was no red America or blue America. There was just America, standing in line to give blood, enlisting in numbers recruiters hadn’t seen since Vietnam, hanging flags off overpasses in towns that had… -
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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 Johnson Tells GOP ‘We’re Not Done Yet’ as Republicans Push Pre-January Agenda
DALLAS—The midterm elections are just weeks away, but House Speaker Mike Johnson says Republicans are “not done yet.” The GOP has a guaranteed majority until January, when the next Congress begins, and they still have time to pass legislation and codify the conservative agenda. Johnson took the stage on Thursday night at the Republican National… -
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Former Texas Democrat Blasts Washington Democrats’ Negligence Over Open Border Crisis at RNC Convention
A South Texas county judge running to flip a key House seat shined a light on why he switched to the Republican Party during his speech at the Republican National Committee’s Midterm Convention on Thursday. Tano Tijerina, who served as Webb County judge from 2015 until launching his congressional campaign, attributed President Donald Trump’s decisive… -
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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… -
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HUD Secretary Fires Up Republican Convention
Scott Turner, who serves as the 19th secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, fired up conventiongoers at the Republican midterm convention in Texas Wednesday. He began with a look back. Under President Joe Biden, “the American flag became a white flag of surrender,” Turner told the convention. That is no longer… -
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Left-Leaning News Outlet Stealth-Edits Video of Professor Asking Audience to ‘F— Up’ ICE Officer
A professor of pan-African studies with a leadership role in Black Lives Matter urged her audience to “f— up” an officer with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Sunday, stating that there should be nowhere the agent could “go where they are comfortable.” Melina Abdullah, a professor of Pan-African studies at California State University, Los Angeles,… -
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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… -
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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… -
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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”… -
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Comer Targets Biden-Era DEA Policy That Allowed Fentanyl Loads to Move Unimpeded
A House committee is investigating whether a Biden-era fentanyl walking program affected more states than New Mexico and if allowing the deadly drug to flow across the border violated federal law enforcement policy. “We’ve talked to the whistleblower that said the Biden [Drug Enforcement Administration] allowed for fentanyl to hit the streets presumably to try… -
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Dems Call Birthright Citizenship Hearing a ‘Bigoted’ Effort From Chip Roy
House Democrats said that a key House Judiciary Subcommittee hearing on Wednesday, which focused on ending the birth tourism industry, was a “bigoted” effort to crack down on what they described as the baseless claim of widespread birth tourism. Led by the ranking member of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government,… -
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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… -
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Victor Davis Hanson: Canada Is Picking the Wrong Fight With Trump
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. We’re in another spat with our northern neighbor, Canada, kind of a psychodrama again. We were… -
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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….