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Trump Admin Targets Big Immigration’s Legal Industrial Complex
The Federalist ^ | May 27, 2026 | Breccan F. Thies

Posted on 05/28/2026 1:01:01 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

‘It is standard practice for immigration attorneys representing illegal aliens to assert that virtually every illegal alien is going to be persecuted or tortured in his or her home country.’

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is starting to dismantle the legal industrial complex pushing for mass migration by cracking down on immigration lawyers who file fraudulent asylum claims.

DHS directed Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Tuesday to develop policies to go after the attorneys who aid and abet illegals obtaining legal entry and status in the United States fraudulently, under a law already establishing penalties for document fraud. DHS said that ICE attorneys will have “greater authority to enforce the law.”

“For many years, millions of illegal aliens have committed fraud in our immigration system. No place is this more rampant than in immigration court,” DHS General Counsel James Percival said. “Protection claims like asylum are intended to cover unique and narrow circumstances, but it is standard practice for immigration attorneys representing illegal aliens to assert that virtually every illegal alien is going to be persecuted or tortured in his or her home country.”

The move is in line with other Trump administration attempts to end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for certain groups, but will ostensibly make it more difficult for migrants to successfully gain entry into the United States using pro-immigration lawyers coaching them on how to make false claims. Under such guidance, aliens often assert that their lives are at risk in their home country, when they are nothing more than economic migrants looking to take American jobs and access welfare programs.

As The Federalist reported, 54 percent of all immigrant households are on at least one welfare program,...

(Excerpt) Read more at thefederalist.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government
KEYWORDS: aliens; asylum; attorneys; dhs; falseclaims; fraud; ice; scam; shyster; tds; tdstrolls

1 posted on 05/28/2026 1:01:01 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Screaming starts in 3, 2, 1....


2 posted on 05/28/2026 1:05:11 PM PDT by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

What about the 4 million Indians that we brought over here to take ALL of our tech jobs so the tech bros could get bigger yachts?

You are a racist for bringing this up. That is why you never her about it.

Don’t talk about this issue!!!!!!!!!!!!!


3 posted on 05/28/2026 1:08:20 PM PDT by jroehl (And how we burned in the camps later - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - The Gulag Archipelago)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

but it’s OK to have Illegals Rob ,Torture and Murder Americans


4 posted on 05/28/2026 1:09:32 PM PDT by butlerweave (Fateh)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Every day it seems that the president is doing what obama declared he was going to do, “transform America”...we, with President Trump are going to UNDO obama’s transformation and get the country back where it should be!!! So much to do, so little time but so much accomplished already...


5 posted on 05/28/2026 1:10:30 PM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: butlerweave

Its every immigrants right to do that.


6 posted on 05/28/2026 1:14:51 PM PDT by shotgun
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Yes!!! Winning, winning, winning!

More court rulings going our way today, too.

Send these slime ball “immigration” attorneys to the Big House.

Next, go after the Homeless Industrial Complex! Far too many people make really big money by keeping the homeless gig going forever.


7 posted on 05/28/2026 1:15:39 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom ( )
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To: Thank You Rush

Not only is he undoing that bastard’s “transformation,” President Trump is taking us all the way back to NORMALCY. He is, by far, the most transformative president in my 74 years.

I pray every day for his safety. So many forces of evil want him gone.


8 posted on 05/28/2026 1:17:18 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom ( )
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To: jroehl

I bring it up all the time. My salary actually decreased from 2000 to 2004 because of this. Later, my manager was one of them and he told me to my face one year that he gave me a lesser raise so he could give more to the lower paid Indians that I was forced to mentor.


9 posted on 05/28/2026 1:26:03 PM PDT by CarmichaelPatriot (Recovering Kalifornian... Loving Alabama)
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To: butlerweave

and the argument is “citizens do it too!”


10 posted on 05/28/2026 1:32:08 PM PDT by cableguymn (Can't cancel all of us)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

OMG WINNING.


11 posted on 05/28/2026 1:53:56 PM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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To: jroehl

Yeah worked with a Microsoft contractor a few years ago. He was from France.


12 posted on 05/28/2026 1:54:31 PM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Good, I like it


13 posted on 05/28/2026 2:10:03 PM PDT by eyeamok
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To: jroehl

You have to start somewhere.


14 posted on 05/28/2026 2:28:11 PM PDT by TheThirdRuffian (Orange is the new brown)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
when they are nothing more than economic migrants invaders looking to take American jobs and access welfare programs and steal everything that is not nailed down.

Because I am not in the mood to care about their tiny fee-fees being hurt.

15 posted on 05/28/2026 3:44:08 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (The tree accused of killed Sonny Bono was planted.)
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To: CarmichaelPatriot

Here’s a graphic on how OPTs have flattened wages :

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2021-opinion-optional-practical-training-problems-stem-graduates-deserve-better-jobs-opportunities/

More on STEM-OPT visas :

Besides OPT and STEM OPT extensions, there is also CPT, Curricular Practical Training, which foreign students on F-1 and M-1 visas may participate in after one year of study! :

https://www.uscis.gov/policy-manual/volume-2-part-f-chapter-5

https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-acceptable-documents/combination-documents

https://ifspp.substack.com/p/graduating-into-second-place

https://optobservatory.org/

9 out of every 10 new jobs in the US since 2020 have gone to foreigners :

https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4376285/posts

Thousands of Middlemen Are Gaming the H-1B Program (Bloomberg) - shortcut :

https://archive.is/VHPxZ

Industrialized Fraud in the H-1B program :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KumpIWZ6ZpI

USCIS’s H-1B Employer Data Hub :

https://www.uscis.gov/tools/reports-and-studies/h-1b-employer-data-hub

PERM, LCA (H-1B, H-1B1, E-3) data and statistics - U.S. Department of Labor :

https://www.dol.gov/agencies/eta/foreign-labor/performance

H-1B (and H-1B1, E-3) LCA Labor Condition Application filings, which are far higher than the number of H-1Bs actually granted. The LCA is the first step for a company to take in applying for an H-1B :

https://layoffhedge.com/h1b

Rep. Elijah Crane’s legislation to pause H-1Bs for 3 years, and end OPT visas, is needed :

https://crane.house.gov/2026/04/22/rep-crane-introduces-legislation-to-pause-and-reform-the-broken-h-1b-visa-process/

https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/8443/all-info

Somebody on Free Republic posted that they were offered $13/hour for some type of web development (perhaps creating web pages). This was in New York City.

American citizen employees can’t be threatened with deportation to their home country within 2 months if they don’t perform according to their boss’s ambitions, unlike H-1Bs.

During the Biden administration, H-1B visa holders were buying houses with 97-100% financing :

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4379360/posts


16 posted on 05/28/2026 4:34:19 PM PDT by JeemBeau
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...

17 posted on 05/28/2026 5:34:52 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (The Demagogic Party is just a collection of violent, rival street gangs.)
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To: Regulator

You called it!


18 posted on 05/28/2026 5:35:29 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (The Demagogic Party is just a collection of violent, rival street gangs.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The life of alien residents who did not arrive with a visa should be crimped to make it desirable to go home ASAP:
1. no citizenship possible
2. only one basic cellphone without useable internet capability
3. outbound calling limited to 60 minutes a month
4. inbound calling limited to 200 minutes a month
5. no cable, fiber-optic or satellite service to your residence
6. no license of any kind
7. no driving a motorized vehicle on a public road (except driving across it in a farm equipment vehicle)
8. no ability to fly to a destination in the USA
9. a general return home fund tax rate increasing year by year of residence (2%, 4%, 6%,...) in the USA
on your earnings not paid into your personal return home fund
10. return home fund to be distributed:
a. for purchase of a non-refundable one-way ticket out of the USA specifically for yourself, or a dependent,
b. on personal collection back home,
c. amounts of twice the typical monthly apartment rent in your birth country in a three-day period between the 15th and 28th of the month to be collectable in each month the State Department rates your country below 4 after the initial two, or on your request,
d. unclaimed amounts to be forfeited
11. no interest to be paid on your personal return home fund.


19 posted on 05/28/2026 7:37:21 PM PDT by Brian Griffin (Ask your Congressman to tax tariff refunds at 100% & > $300 to most insured vehicle owners 4 gas)
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To: JeemBeau

“Somebody on Free Republic posted that they were offered $13/hour for some type of web development (perhaps creating web pages). This was in New York City.”

I believe the minimum wage was $15/hour when I last visited the City.


20 posted on 05/28/2026 7:39:58 PM PDT by Brian Griffin (Ask your Congressman to tax tariff refunds at 100% & > $300 to most insured vehicle owners 4 gas)
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