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On Wednesday’s broadcast of the “Hugh Hewitt Show,” President Donald Trump said that his administration will be “looking at” immigration reform that would regularize some of those who are in the country. Host Hugh Hewitt said, “Oh, the most impressive thing, Mr. President, the most impressive thing, the Democrats said they could not close the border unless you passed a bill, and you closed it in a month. And I don’t know how it happened, but I think I’ll be waving that flag in every election from now until I retire, because you did it in a month, and I’m...

About one-third of all municipal bonds issued in 2024 and outstanding through 2024 are from sanctuary jurisdictions, concentrated in large cities and states, such as California, New York, and Massachusetts...The absence of truly objective bond ratings or comprehensive risk assessments for sanctuary jurisdictions may place investors, particularly individual investors, who own a significant share of this market, at a disadvantage.

The Biden administration released millions of illegal immigrants into the U.S. interior “on purpose,” Tom Homan, President Donald Trump’s border czar, said during a press conference Monday morning. “And as far as releasing so many people — you know why the Biden administration released millions of people United States?” Homan asked. “No one ever talks about, I’ll talk about it.” “Why did they release people into the interior United States rather than put them into an ICE bed? Why not put them in an empty ICE bed, $127 a night, rather than a hotel at 500 bucks a night?” Homan...

A new Center for Immigration Studies video report provides exclusive footage from the El Paso sector of the U.S. southern border, highlighting a newly constructed road that is enhancing border security.

The government's January 2025 Current Population Survey (CPS) shows the foreign-born or immigrant population (legal and illegal together) hit 53.3 million and 15.8 percent of the total U.S. population in January 2025 - both new record highs...We estimate that 10.8 million illegal immigrants worked in the January 2025 data, accounting for some 6.7 percent of all workers.

A near-record share of working-age U.S.-born men remain out of the labor force...Employment of the U.S.-born is up just 645,000 since January 2020.

Very long, very complex, legal essay. Summary: (1) Tax on employers for all compensation paid to illegal aliens. (2) Private citizens to enforce the tax through lawsuits. (3) Amendments needed to the Internal Revenue Code and the False Claims Act total approximately 650 words. (4) These changes incorporated into a budget reconciliation bill.

From nuclear engineering to undersea warfare, from cyber warfare to combat systems engineering, OPT (Optional Practical Training) presents a growing national security threat that must be addressed...

President Donald Trump's transition team and outside allies have been signaling for weeks that they were planning to "flood the zone" in the first 100 days of the new administration. Former senior adviser and activist Steve Bannon had pushed this idea during Trump's first term, telling author and journalist Michael Lewis, "the Democrats don’t matter. The real opposition is the media. And the way to deal with them is to flood the zone with shit.” He called it "shock and awe," which was described by historian Douglas Brinkley as "bizarre, rapid-fire presidential policy making. * * * Rather than confusing...

In a move that has many critics up in arms, Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas has granted amnesty to 850,000 illegal immigrants, further exacerbating concerns about the Biden administration’s border policies. With just days away from being outgoing President Joe Biden’s last week in office, critics argue that this decision, which effectively shields hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens from deportation, signals an alarming disregard for the rule of law and sets a dangerous precedent for future immigration enforcement. With the U.S. southern border already overwhelmed by record numbers of illegal crossings, conservatives contend that this blanket amnesty acts...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) revealed that firefighters from Mexico were coming to assist with the ongoing Eaton Fire. In a post on X, Newsom expressed gratefulness for Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum’s “support” as California officials “work to suppress the Los Angeles wildfires.” Newsom has received criticism from California residents who have demanded to know what he is going to do in response to the wildfires. Newsom added that the firefighters coming from Mexico would be “joining more than 10,000 personnel already on the ground.” “Firefighters from Mexico are en route to the #EatonFire — joining more than 10,000 personnel...

President Joe Biden’s pro-migration border chief has extended temporary amnesty for 850,000 illegal and quasi-legal economic migrants until 2026, further suppressing American wages and spiking their rents. The 18-month expansion of the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) amnesty was announced by outgoing border chief, Alejandro Mayorkas. The beneficiaries include 234,000 illegal migrants from El Salvador who first got their TPS status after a 2001 earthquake that wrecked their home nation’s economy. The small nation’s economy is now growing amid the successful suppression of gang crime by the nation’s popular President, Nayib Bukele. So Mayorkas’s press statement blamed bad weather for his...

It is crucial to understand how so-called "priorities" and "guidelines" have been used to hobble Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers and Border Patrol agents in their attempts to enforce the immigration laws...What follows is a brief history of such non-enforcement...going back five administrations.

The regulatory and legal battleground will be ground zero for immigration policy starting on January 20...The Supreme Court's recent decision overturning Chevron deference - once a cornerstone of judicial deference to agency interpretations - has reshaped the legal terrain...This landmark shift gives courts greater authority to scrutinize agency actions, making many Trump-era policies more likely to withstand judicial challenges.

President Trump has a tool to push for the passage of legislation, such as the Hearing Protection Act. The executive branch, specifically the Secretary of the Treasury, can unilaterally declare an amnesty for people registering NFA items with the ATF. Congress passed the Gun Control Act of 1968 under enormous pressure from President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1968. At the same time, Congress passed a statute authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to declare amnesties to allow people to register items covered by the act.There are limitations. A single amnesty cannot last for longer than 90 days. The Secretary of...

As reported by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)...there are 1,503,649 foreign students in the United States...and a total of 539,382 of them have obtained work authorization through one version of Optional Practical Training.

Sen. Marco Rubio will succeed Antony Blinken as secretary of State. Rubio has spent most of his political career promoting neoconservative orthodoxy and advocating U.S. military interventions abroad. Until his supposed MAGA conversion two years ago he had never seen a war he did not like and praised George W. Bush’s Iraq disaster as late as 2016... Rubio reportedly was close to the late billionaire Sheldon Adelson and other big neocon donors, and has supported illegal settlement building in the West Bank as well as suggesting that the U.S. may have to go to war with Iran over its nuclear...

Federal funds fuel non-governmental organizations (NGOs) advocating for open-border policies and facilitating the housing and transportation of illegal immigrants across the country...These NGOs have become financially dependent on government grants and contracts, which now far exceed private donations, creating a loop of influence and profit.

The Immigration Act of 1924 ushered in a four-decade-long Great Pause in mass immigration...In 1965, Congress, in its zeal to remove the demon of national origins quotas, restarted mass immigration...The results have been disastrous for our country, with a 19 percent drop in the average real earnings of white men (from 1970 to 2014) and a 32 percent drop for Black men.

Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.), a frequent critic of President-elect Trump, praised the reported nomination of Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) to serve as the next secretary of State. “You know, Marco Rubio has been obviously kind of changing. I think he even voted against Ukraine aid, which was very surprising, when I learned that,” Kinzinger said during his Monday evening appearance on CNN’s The Source.” “But he’s not a, you know, by no means is he like a neocon, so obviously that was important for Donald Trump, but he’s somebody that understands foreign policy. And that’s going to be important,”...