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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…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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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…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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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…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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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…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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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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  • SEE YOU IN COURT: 3 More States Slapped With Lawsuits Over In-State Tuition for Illegal Aliens
    The Justice Department filed three lawsuits Monday against states that offer in-state tuition for illegal aliens, after securing victories in five similar cases. “Congress long ago made clear that states cannot put illegal aliens over our nation’s own citizens,” Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward said in a statement first provided to the Daily Signal. “By…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Did Spain Go Full Trump to End the Ceuta Mass Migration Crisis?
    The great Ceuta mass migration crisis—during which a human tsunami of 72,000 North Africans swamped the Spanish enclave on the Moroccan coast on July 30 and 31—could easily have lasted for months. However, it is all over but for some mopping up. Few, if any more, are coming or adding to the death toll of…
    Todd Bensman
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    Americans Are Demanding the SAVE America Act. Guess What the Senate Did Instead?
    For months, conservatives have asked, pleaded, and ultimately demanded action on the SAVE America Act. The legislation seeks to restore confidence in America’s elections at a time when voters in both parties are losing faith in the process. A Pew Research Center survey released this week found that just 55% of Americans are confident this…
    Robert B. Bluey
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    Victor Davis Hanson: Spain Is Overrun by Migrants
    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: This from the New York Post the other day: “Thousands of illegal African immigrants overrun Spanish…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    GOP Senator Who Sponsored Dignity Act Introduces State Amnesty Bill, Experts Say
    Sen. John Curtis, R-Utah, joined his Democrat colleagues on Monday in introducing legislation that would establish a “state-run visa pipeline with a built-in legalization component” for illegal aliens, which critics categorized as a “de facto amnesty” bill that rewards those who broke American immigration laws. “I’ve heard time and again from small business owners, farmers,…
    Pedro Rodriguez
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    Ceuta Invasion Is the Predictable Result of Spanish Amnesty
    On Thursday, Americans watched in stunned recognition as thousands of young men poured from Morocco into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta. Like Melilla, further to the east on the far northern shore of Morocco, the city is a relic of Spain’s once vast colonial empire. Nothing separates Morocco from these Spanish territories except shallow waters…
    Simon Hankinson
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