Illegal immigration
March 16, 2025 — John Hinderaker
President Trump has moved aggressively and effectively against the horrific Venezuelan gang, Tren de Aragua. He is using a federal statute, 50 U.S.C. 21, the Enemy Aliens Act, to expedite that removal. The legal analysis underlying his actions is, in my opinion, sound. 50 U.S.C. 21 says, in pertinent part: Whenever there is a declared war between the United States and any foreign nation or government, or any invasion or
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March 16, 2025 — Bill Glahn
In a report with “exclusive details,” the New York Post writes today, Texas nonprofit housing migrant kids took $3B in grants from Biden admin — and boosted executive salaries up to 139% — before Trump pulled plug. The nonprofit in question, the Austin, TX-based Southwest Key Programs, has been around for decades, but as the Post shows, their operations exploded under the multi-billion-dollar Biden grant. The group’s CEO now earns
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March 14, 2025 — John Hinderaker
This captures the corruption and hypocrisy of the modern Left in a single news story: A United Nations judge was convicted on Thursday of trafficking a young woman to the United Kingdom and forcing her to work as a slave. United Nations: check. And a judge, too! Ugandan judge Lydia Mugambe, 49, “exploited and abused” the victim, prosecutors said, forcing her to work as an unpaid maid and caregiver while
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February 7, 2025 — Scott Johnson
The New York Post cover story documents the progress President Trump made in controlling the border within 24 hours of his inauguration: The new US Border Patrol chief said the number of illegal migrants stopped trying to cross the besieged southern border has dropped an astonishing 90% since January 21 — a day after President Trump’s inauguration. Michael Banks, a longtime former border agent himself, touted the plunge in illegal
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February 4, 2025 — John Hinderaker
When I first heard President Trump talking about sending illegal aliens to Guantanamo Bay, I doubted that he was serious. It turns out that he was: The first flight carrying detained migrants from the U.S. to Guantanamo Bay was set to head to the American naval base in Cuba, as the Trump administration undertakes the initial phases of expanding a small migrant-detention center there. A flight Tuesday from Fort Bliss
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January 30, 2025 — Scott Johnson
President Trump means to keep his campaign promises, foremost among them his promise to deport illegal aliens of the criminal kind. Today comes this story, via Steven Nelson in the New York Post reporting on Trump’s comments at the Laken Riley Act signing ceremony: President Trump said Wednesday that he plans to send up to 30,000 illegal immigrants to detention facilities at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as part of his campaign
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January 29, 2025 — John Hinderaker
The Laken Riley Act provides that illegal aliens who are charged with, arrested for, or admit to having committed any crime that results in death or serious bodily injury, or lesser crimes like theft or burglary, shall be detained by order of the Department of Homeland Security if not already detained by another law enforcement agency. The act is named after Riley because the illegal alien who killed her, a
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January 29, 2025 — Scott Johnson
President Trump’s opposition to illegal immigration had more than a little to do with his stunning defeat of Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election and may have been the leading issue (after the economy) that accounted for his stunning reelection in in 2024. President Biden’s opening of the borders and invitation to come on up proved not to be hugely popular among likely voters. Biden’s invitation was a shot heard
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January 27, 2025 — Scott Johnson
When the United States sought to return to planeloads of illegal aliens to sender yesterday, Colombia’s Marxist president Gustavo Petro turned away the planes. President Trump promptly announced “sweeping punitive measures,” as Adam Kredo puts it in his Free Beacon story. Among the announced measures was an emergency tariff of 25 percent to hit Colombia in the pocketbook — the new meaning of Petro dollars. BREAKING: Trump releases statement &
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January 26, 2025 — John Hinderaker
The New York Post reports on another immigration crackdown: Federal agents rounded up dozens of members of Tren de Aragua [Ed.: around fifty] in an overnight raid on a “makeshift nightclub” in Denver — after the vicious Venezuelan prison gang terrorized the city and the suburb of Aurora. The DEA said agents in Colorado interrupted an “invite-only party” where dozens of the gangbangers were cutting loose in Adams County —
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January 24, 2025 — John Hinderaker
Everyone else has posted this clip, so we might as well, too: NEW: Haitian man says “F*ck Trump, Biden forever,” gets arrested by ICE’s elite Boston unit to be deported. The ultimate FAFO. The arrest was part of a Boston raid on the “worst of the worst” criminal illegal aliens, as reported by @BillMelugin_. “It's a frigid five degrees in… pic.twitter.com/83XgPMgNlt — Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) January 23, 2025 You are
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January 22, 2025 — John Hinderaker
Or does he? One of President Trump’s initial round of executive orders is titled Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship. Like his other orders, this one begins with a statement of purpose, which reads in part: The Fourteenth Amendment states: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.”
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January 18, 2025 — John Hinderaker
Having opened our borders to many millions of illegal immigrants, Democrats now argue that it is impossible, or impractical, to send them back where they came from. In their view, once an illegal crosses the border he is home free. The sheer scale of their malfeasance makes it impossible to do anything about it. NBC’s Kristen Welker runs that theory past Marco Rubio, and he is having none of it.
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December 31, 2024 — John Hinderaker
It’s a knotty puzzle, isn’t it? Our laws forbid people from entering our country illegally, yet they keep doing it anyway! The Biden administration couldn’t solve the puzzle. Until its last days, in fear of electoral defeat, it didn’t come up with a plan to slow, let alone reverse, illegal immigration. This is because the Democrats actually like illegal immigration. As the party of small families (if any), their future
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December 23, 2024 — Scott Johnson
The New York Post has the story of the New York subway murderer who was apprehended today after burning a woman to death on the F train. The Post reports the story under the narrative headline “Fiend accused of burning woman to death on NYC subway is illegal migrant from Guatemala who sneaked into US after he was deported.” Bill Melugin adds this footnote on X: Per DHS sources, the
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December 11, 2024 — John Hinderaker
In today’s morning email, the New York Times lays out the basic facts relating to immigration to the U.S. The email is titled: “The largest immigration surge in U.S. history.” 1. The immigration surge since 2021 has been the largest in U.S. history, surpassing even the levels of the late 1800s and early 1900s. Total net migration — the number of people coming to the country minus the number leaving
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December 1, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Steve thinks liberals may be hoisting the white flag on immigration, but I don’t know: some of them seem to be awfully dug in. Take Denver’s Mayor Mike Johnston. Johnston said that he was willing to deploy the Denver Police Department to stop federal agents from deporting illegal aliens from his city, a clear act of insurrection. He has backed off that position to some degree, but still intends to
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