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  • EXCLUSIVE: Lawmakers to Probe Whether Free Education Incentivizes Illegal Immigration

    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A House subcommittee will examine whether the Supreme Court’s decision that states cannot deny the children of illegal aliens access to taxpayer-funded K-12 education incentivized more aliens to come to the U.S. illegally. The House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government will hold a hearing Wednesday on the Supreme Court’s decision in…
    Pedro Rodriguez
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  • How Illegal Immigration and Government Failure Fuel Identity Theft

    More than a million Americans may unwittingly hold second jobs—because that work is being performed by an illegal alien using their stolen social security number. News of the identity theft can come as a rude shock to citizens like the Minnesota factory worker who had crushing tax bills because of a thrice-deported illegal immigrant in Missouri who…
    James Varney
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  • Los Angeles Riots May Encourage Illegal Immigrants to Self-Deport

    “How’m I doin’?” the late New York Mayor Ed Koch used to ask constituents on his travels through the city. President Donald Trump, in the opinion of most Americans, is doin’ pretty well. His job approval, which jutted downward after he announced his “Liberation Day” tariffs on April 2, has recovered and hovers just below…
    Michael Barone
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  • Illegal Means Illegal: Every Illegal Migrant Is a Criminal

    The current unrest in Los Angeles and other major U.S. cities should serve as a wake-up call to the American public. When law enforcement finally starts doing its job under the leadership of President Donald Trump and border czar Tom Homan, chaos erupts. But not because of law enforcement. It’s because illegal aliens, who have…
    George Harizanov
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  • DOJ Finally Gives Immigration Judges Tools to Prune Their Dockets

    This April, the acting director of the Executive Office for Immigration Review issued a memo clarifying the requirement of immigration judges to effectively manage their crushing caseloads by dismissing legally insufficient applications for protection from removal or for asylum. This is the most significant action taken by any administration to give immigration judges the tools…
    Cully Stimson
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  • Sanctuary Cities Forced to Comply With Federal Immigration Rules Due to Innovative Program

    Sanctuary cities’ runaround of the law may have finally come to an end, thanks to a creative program called Operation Guardian Angel. Launched by Bill Essayli, the new U.S. attorney for the Central District of California, this commonsense approach to force scofflaw sanctuary cities to cooperate with—and stop obstructing—federal immigration authorities should be copied by U.S. attorneys around…
    Cully Stimson
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  • Newsom Challenges Border Czar to Hold Him Accountable for Evading Immigration Law

    After President Donald Trump deployed the National Guard to the Los Angeles area in response to violent protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids, Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-Calif., suggested that he is unwilling to comply with federal authorities. Trump’s border czar Tom Homan said of Newsom’s comments, “It’s a felony to knowingly harbor and conceal an…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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  • US Attorney Claps Back at Boston Mayor for ‘Inflammatory Statements’ Made Against Immigration Agents

    U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts Leah Foley has fired back at Boston Mayor Michelle Wu after Wu called federal agents making immigration arrests “secret police.”   Recently, “Wu made reckless statements and inflammatory statements regarding enforcement efforts made by federal immigration authorities across the commonwealth,” Foley said.   In an interview at the…
    Virginia Allen
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  • Homeland Security Calls Out These Municipalities for Refusing to Comply With Immigration Enforcement

    Is your community on “the list”? The Department of Homeland Security has published a list designed to put 500 municipalities on notice for their continued refusal to comply with federal law when it comes to immigration enforcement. “These sanctuary city politicians are endangering Americans and our law enforcement in order to protect violent criminal illegal…
    Joe Thomas
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  • Historian Victor Davis Hanson Lays Out Ancient Lessons on Borders: ‘Walls Do Really Work’

    Military historian and classicist Victor Davis Hanson, speaking Wednesday at The Heritage Foundation, drew striking parallels between the empires of the past and the modern United States. Hanson, a Daily Signal contributor, contended that, contrary to the assertions of the Left, “walls do work,” and that the United States is in need of cultural cohesion…
    George Caldwell
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  • Illegal Migrant Nabbed After Allegedly Votes in Election, Steals Government Benefits for Decades

    DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—A federal Grand Jury indicted a Colombian national Thursday on allegations of living in the U.S. unlawfully for years under a stolen identity, receiving hundreds of thousands in government benefits and voting in the last presidential election. Lina Maria Orovio-Hernandez, a 59-year-old Colombian woman residing in Boston, lived in the U.S. more than…
    Jason Hopkins
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  • Media Hypocrisy on Afrikaner Refugees: The BorderLine

    The legacy media’s coverage of the recent arrival of 49 white refugees from South Africa shows a lamentable hypocrisy compared with its reporting on the previous four years of the mass release of illegal immigrants at the border, their mass parole, and lax enforcement of immigration and deportation laws within our nation. Unlike the border…
    Simon Hankinson
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  • GOP Aims to Codify Trump’s Border Agenda in ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’

    House Republicans want to provide law enforcement at the border with the resources required to sustain President Donald Trump’s border security victories, members of Congress tell The Daily Signal. The “One Big, Beautiful Bill” makes the largest border security investment in history and equips Immigration and Customs Enforcement to deport millions of illegal immigrants. “Thanks…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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  • Biden’s Border Legacy: A Financial Burden That Will Last for Years

    We’ve all been there: you go out with friends, have a great time … then they leave you stuck with the bill. After four years of reckless, ruinous and arguably illegal Joe Biden administration policies, America will be stuck with a massive border bar tab for years to come. President Donald Trump is busy keeping his promises to…
    Simon Hankinson
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  • Democrats Defend Medicaid Coverage for Illegal Immigrants

    The Trump administration is praising House Republicans for protecting Americans’ Medicaid access by removing noncitizens from the program. The House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Tuesday markup of budget reconciliation prohibits federal funding under Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program for illegal immigrants. “President Trump and Republicans are protecting Medicaid—and that starts with kicking 1.4…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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  • ‘Near-Total Control’: Noem Shares Border Security Successes With House Panel

    Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem appeared on Capitol Hill on Tuesday to outline her budget priorities and the department’s accomplishments thus far in the second Trump term.  Sitting before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security, Noem answered members’ questions regarding securing the border and keeping American citizens safe and secure. The secretary touted…
    Jacob Adams
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  • ‘We Need Detention Beds’: Border Czar Homan Says of Trump’s Plan to Reopen Alcatraz Prison 

    President Donald Trump wants to reopen Alcatraz, a long-closed former prison on a small island off the coast of San Francisco.  As the Trump administration steps up its efforts to secure the border and deport illegal aliens, especially criminal illegal aliens, the president has ordered the Bureau of Prisons and several other departments to work…
    Virginia Allen
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  • We Needed a New President, Not ‘Comprehensive Immigration Reform’

    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. At the end of the 90-day period, where are we on the immigration issue? And there’s…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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  • America’s Immigration Laws Are Just

    This story—that sadly has a tragic ending—began 15 years ago when an immigration court looked at the case of a Guatemalan national named Jose Paxtor-Oxlaj. He was arrested in Oklahoma in 2023—13 years after he had been deported. “A check of records confirmed Paxtor’s identity and confirmed he is an alien who was ordered removed…
    Terence Jeffrey
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  • The Process Due Illegal Immigrants Is Deportation

    If you break a system, you can’t be upset when fixing that system requires a solution that’s outside the normal operation of the system. Congressional Democrats continue to demand the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia to America. In March, the Trump administration deported him to El Salvador. Congressional Democrats, including Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md.,…
    Victor Joecks
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