Illegal immigration
March 19, 2026 — Scott Johnson
Chuck Cooper is one of Washington’s most prominent conservative attorneys. A former law clerk to Chief Justice Rehnquist, he went on to serve as Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel in the Reagan Justice Department. He is now a principal in private practice at his own Washington firm. Last week Cooper testified at the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on birthright citizenship under the Fourteenth Amendment. The video
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March 18, 2026 — Bill Glahn
Federal judges based in Minnesota are presiding over the world’s largest “lost and found” operation. Looking at the court’s official calendar for the next two weeks, among the district’s seventeen (17) sitting judges, only one (1) jury trial is scheduled, and even that’s just a one-day affair for a civil case. But Obama-appointed Judge John Gerrard (on loan from the Nebraska district) has scheduled a contempt-of-court hearing for Monday, March
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March 16, 2026 — Bill Glahn
The same judge is overruled on the same issue, again. From The Hill, newspaper, Appeals court allows Trump to swiftly deport migrants to third countries. It was the First circuit court of appeals. A 2-1 majority found in favor of Trump (Bush/Biden appointees, a different Biden appointee dissented). The order overrules (for the second time) a Biden-appointed district judge. The Hill reports, A federal appeals court ruled Monday that the
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March 13, 2026 — Scott Johnson
That didn’t take long. Judge Bryan has denied United States Attorney Dan Rosen’s motion that he recuse himself in the habeas case of Tong Xiong’s. In his seven-page order, Judge Bryan holds that the motion is procdurally improper and substantively deficient. Alpha News has posted the order online here. Judge Bryan suggests that the case brought against the Trump administration defendants in Minnesota v. Noem is nothing more than background
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March 13, 2026 — Scott Johnson
I reported on the contempt hearing called by Minnesota federal judge Jeffrey Bryan in “For want of a shoelace.” Judge Bryan ordered United States Attorney Daniel Rosen to attend and answer to the Department of Lost and Found that Judge Bryan was running for ICE in some 28 cases. Judge Bryan’s order scheduling the contempt hearing is posted online here. The absurdist playwright Eugène Ionesco had nothing on Judge Bryan.
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March 12, 2026 — John Hinderaker
Last night I was on the Rita Panahi Show, with Caroline Marcus filling in for Rita. We talked about the war in Iran, reports of possible drone attacks on California, whether Jill Biden’s memoir will give us the straight story of her husband’s withdrawal from the 2024 race, whether illegal immigration should be a crime, and more. The video below leads off with Lefties Losing It. I come on at
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March 7, 2026 — Scott Johnson
In “For want of a shoelace” I tried to convey what I thought was the essence of the contempt hearing called by Judge Jeffrey Bryan in 28 habeas cases earlier this week. The courtrooom in St. Paul’s Warren Burger Federal Building was packed with lawyers and members of the press. Julie Kelly combed through the hearing transcript. She adds some details and comments that I let ride. However, the song
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March 6, 2026 — Scott Johnson
Senior Minnesota federal district Judge John Tunheim held the second contempt hearing this week on the personal property that has gone lost or missing by ICE in the detention and removal of illegal aliens from Minnesota. I reported on Wednesday’s hearing before Judge Jeffrey Bryan in “For want of a shoelace,” now republished by Alpha News under the more straightforward headline “US attorney interrogated at contempt hearing over illegal aliens’
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March 4, 2026 — John Hinderaker
Illegal immigration, even more than men in women’s sports, is the hill that Democrats are determined to die on. They think the issue is a winner for them. In my own state, Minnesota, public officials openly encouraged citizens to interfere with federal law enforcement–such is the Democrats’ commitment to keeping illegal aliens in the U.S. But polling indicates that most Americans are on the Republican side of the issue. Most
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March 4, 2026 — Scott Johnson
The old proverb about causation begins “For want of a nail, the shoe was lost…” For want of a shoelace, United States Attorney Daniel Rosen (my long-time friend — don’t look to me for objectivity) was called to show cause why respondents should not be held in contempt of court by Judge Jeffrey Bryan of the federal district court here yesterday. Judge Bryan’s show cause order is posted online here.
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February 27, 2026 — Bill Glahn
I attended (via Zoom) a video federal court hearing for an illegal alien in Minnesota now on his fourth habeas corpus case seeking release from ICE detention. Walter Acuna-Cruz is a Guatemalan citizen, now aged 21, and is the subject of a final order of removal, dated November 13, 2025. The only obstacle to his immediate deportation back to Guatemala is the endless litigation filed on his behalf in federal
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February 27, 2026 — John Hinderaker
President Trump is carrying out the immigration policies on which he ran successfully for the presidency, but Democrats assure us that Americans oppose his efforts to roll back the outrageous illegal immigration of the Biden years. In particular, Democrats tell us that Americans hate ICE. Is that true? If there is any state where ICE is unpopular, it should be Minnesota. Minnesota was home to a massive resistance to federal
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February 27, 2026 — Scott Johnson
The Trump administration is looking at the issues implicated in Ilhan Omar’s naturalization. That is what is to be inferred from Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon’s comments in the video clip below: “It’s a truism of immigration law that if you commit fraud in the course of obtaining your citizenship…if you lie about your marriage status on which your citizenship depends or you’re familial status or what have you, if
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February 27, 2026 — Scott Johnson
St. Paul Academy is my high school alma mater and it hurts to see what has become of it. When the school conveyed the message that students need protection from ICE at the Winter Dance, a parent forwarded the message to Alpha News. Alpha reporter Liz Collin posted it on X. It has drawn more than 140,000 views and widespread criticism. I asked school officials what it was all about.
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February 25, 2026 — John Hinderaker
This is the moment that Scott and I both wrote about in last night’s State of the Union, when President Trump asked all present to stand to affirm the proposition that the government’s duty is to protect American citizens, not illegal aliens. The applause went on for over a minute, but as far as one could see not a single Democrat was willing to stand: BREAKING: Trump: Stand if you
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February 25, 2026 — Bill Glahn
It appears that the U.S. Department of Justice will be appealing that baseless contempt of court citation imposed by Minnesota-based federal district Judge Laura Provinzino (Biden appointee) last week. I covered the incident here, which involves a habeas corpus case captioned Rigoberto Soto-Jiminez v. Bondi, et. al (File No. 26-cv-957). The facts are pretty straightforward: Mr. Soto is an illegal alien, picked up by ICE. His private lawyer filed a habeas petition for his release. Contrary
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February 25, 2026 — Scott Johnson
St. Paul Academy in Saint Paul is my high school alma mater. In the annals of wokery and false bravado, the security measures it announced to protect those attending the upper school Winter Dance from ICE deserve some kind of recognition. I did my best in “SPA joins the resistance.” What exactly was the threat against which those attending the dance had to be protected? Upper school assistant principal for
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