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Marco Rubio says the US State Department will no longer accept Congresswoman Ilhan Omar's sponsorship of foreign refugees after more than a dozen of the Minnesota fraudsters were found to be on her list. "She allows people in who can pay a nice fee," said Rubio, "But she doesn't vet them in any way." Rubio says allowing people in just because they appear to have money is how we ended up with the Twin Towers on the streets of Lower Manhattan. "It's a dangerous practice."

A South African civic group called March and March held a rally in the city of Durban on Wednesday to call for tougher immigration laws and stronger border controls. The group was particularly critical of migrants from Nigeria, disparaging them as parasitic and prone to crime. The Vanguard of Nigeria said the March and March activists were joined by “several political parties, including ActionSA, and vigilante anti-migrant group Operation Dudula” in their call for mass deportation of foreign nationals, using language “widely condemned as xenophobic.” “If you are saying you can’t refuse [illegal aliens] healthcare for example, why must it...

Costa Rica said Thursday that it would accept 25 migrants deported from the United States per week as part of an agreement to help the Trump administration’s latest policy of deporting immigrants to “third countries.” The Central American nation joins a growing number of countries across Africa and the Americas that have signed contentious, often secretive agreements with the U.S. to accept deportees from other countries as U.S. President Donald Trump pressures governments to help him advance his agenda. In many cases, migrants who previously hoped to seek asylum in the U.S. are left in a legal “black hole” in...

The U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation Wednesday to crack down on illegal immigrants participating in welfare fraud despite fierce objections from most Democrats. Lawmakers voted 231-186 to approve the Deporting Fraudsters Act, with 186 Democrats opposing the measure. The bill, sponsored by Rep. David Taylor, R-Ohio, would amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to explicitly define fraud as a deportable offense. Republicans said the legislation is necessary to ensure that noncitizens who steal taxpayer dollars are no longer eligible for immigration relief services or legal protections. "If you admit to or you’re convicted of fraudulently receiving public benefits, you...

An immigration judge has ordered the deportation of a former New York City Council employee federal officials said in January was an undocumented immigrant with a prior assault arrest. City Council Speaker Julie Menin announced the deportation ruling on Wednesday, condemning it as a "miscarriage of justice and wholly deplorable" and pledging to fight back by filing an appeal. Two months ago, Rafael Andres Rubio Bohorquez, 53, was detained during an immigration appointment and was identified by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) as a Venezuelan "criminal illegal alien" who overstayed his visa. Federal officials said despite having no work...

A federal judge appointed by former President Joe Biden on Thursday again ruled against the Trump administration’s third-country deportation policy, months after the Supreme Court blocked his earlier decision and rebuked him in a rare follow-up order. The Supreme Court not only stayed Boston-based Judge Brian Murphy's injunction over the same deportation policy in a 6-3 order last June, but the high court followed up with a second 7-2 order a week later admonishing the judge for flouting its decision. Murphy's latest ruling is also likely to land before the justices, setting up a fresh test of the judge's decisions...

Trump blasts Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib for heckling him during the State of the Union, calling them "mentally deranged" and demanding they be sent "back from where they came."

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement cannot re-detain Kilmar Abrego Garcia because a 90-day detention period has expired and the government has no viable plan for deporting him, a federal judge ruled on Tuesday. The Salvadoran national’s case has become a focal point in the immigration debate after he was mistakenly deported to his home country last year. Since his return, he has been fighting a second deportation to a series of African countries proposed by Department of Homeland Security officials. The government “made one empty threat after another to remove him to countries in Africa with no real chance of...

“I always tell people the day Latinos, African-American, Asian and other communities realize that they share the same oppressor is the day we start winning. Because we are the majority in this country. We have the ability to take over this country,” State Rep. ‘Gene’ Yuanzhi Wu, who serves as the Texas Democrat House Minority Leader, recently declared. Who is oppressing Wu? The Chinese immigrant came here from Guangzhou, graduated from law school and became one of the top officials in the state. Good luck to any American who wants to move to China, become a lawyer and run for...

NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani just signed a defiant executive order to ban ICE from city property. Invoking the Quran and calling federal enforcement an "abuse of power," Mamdani is drawing a line in the sand against the Trump administration.

You really can’t make it up. A previously deported illegal immigrant named Gerardo Miguel Mora, whose rap sheet includes attempted rape and strangulation, was back in a New York City courtroom last week on a shoplifting charge, which, according to The Post, was his second arrest in the month of January — the first being for crack possession. That’s actually not the unbelievable part of the story. The reason Mora’s most recent criminal case made news is that New York City Judge Sheridan Jack-Browne allowed him to waltz right out of the courthouse despite being made aware of a federal...

While acknowledging that the United States government has not carried out its mission on immigration "perfectly" in Minneapolis, border czar Tom Homan said***that immigration officials "are not surrendering the president's mission and immigration enforcement."Those efforts, he said, will involve making arrests while focusing enforcement on known public safety threats. "We will conduct targeted enforcement operations," Homan said during a press conference in Minneapolis on Thursday, describing a strategy he said ICE and CBP have used "for decades" by identifying specific suspects in advance through criminal and immigration records. *** "ICE is enforcing the laws enacted by Congress," said Homan.However, he...

Kristi Noem has been left utterly humiliated as her hard-charging ICE agents were given new rules last night to ignore 'agitators' and only arrest 'criminal' migrants as part of Trump's new deportation agenda. *** Trump appointed Homan to take command of immigration enforcement in Minnesota. Homan is a longtime rival of Noem and her rumored lover, Corey Lewandowski. [Ed. note: gratuitous, superfluous] 'This is common sense cooperation that allows us to draw down the number of people we have here. Yes, I said it. Draw down the number of people here,' Homan told reporters.New guidance for ICE directs agents to...

Abdi Gelle Mohamed’s appearance on ICE’s ‘Worst of the Worst’ list for Minnesota is only the beginning of the real story. And hopefully the end of it. “Before we arrested Somali criminal alien Abdi Gelle Mohamed in Minnesota, he was convicted of sexually abusing a child,” ICE tweeted. What ICE didn’t mention was that it was in 1998 and we’ve been trying to deport him ever since. Mohamed illegally entered the United States in 1998, claimed that he was mentally ill and had been persecuted in Somalia (one Somali cure for mental illness is to lock the patient in a...

... Alberto Cabral, 73, came to the U.S. from Mexico when he was 15. He has worked as a landscaper for decades with clients in Westwood, West Hollywood and the Hollywood Hills and has lived in the L.A. area for nearly 60 years. ... Cabral remained undocumented and on Jan. 7, as he was working at Llamas’ West Hollywood home, he was surrounded and detained by federal immigration agents. ... Cabral was later transported to a detention center in downtown L.A., where he was given the option to leave the country voluntarily. He agreed and decided to self-deport to Tijuana,...

“Squad’ Rep. Ilhan Omar implored the public to film Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and blasted the Trump administration for making judgments about the shooting of Renee Good before an investigation into it. “It is really important for Americans to record, to create the level of accountability and transparency that we need,” the far-left Minnesota congresswoman told CBS News’ “Face the Nation” Sunday. “What we’ve seen in Minneapolis is ICE agents oftentimes jumping out of their cars, these are unmarked cars, oftentimes they’re wearing a mask, they’re approaching, running towards cars ICE officer Jonathan Ross, who shot Good after she...

Somali-born Oregon state Senate senator Kayse Jama criticized federal immigration enforcement officers Thursday night following a federal agent’s shooting of two people in Portland, telling them they were not welcome in the community. Speaking at a news conference alongside Portland’s mayor and other state and local leaders, Jama, a Somali‑born refugee and Oregon Democrat, addressed federal agencies, including US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, saying, “This is Oregon. We do not need you. You’re not welcome. And you need to get the hell out of our community.” The remarks came amid fallout from a Thursday afternoon incident in which federal Customs...

Congresswoman Ilhan Omar (D-MN) squared off against federal agents at an ICE facility in Minneapolis on Saturday, joining protesters after she was kicked out of the detention center. The controversial Somali-born Omar, 43, and Congress members were turned away while attempting to gain entry into an ICE processing center at the Whipple Building in Minneapolis Video circulating online showed Omar and Rep. Angie Craig (D-MN) and Kelly Morrison (D-MN), flanked by activists and photographers, squaring off against masked military members holding massive rifles who formed a line at the entrance to the facility. The trio were briefly allowed inside before...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced that Florida has arrested more than 10,000 illegal immigrants since starting a state-wide crackdown last year. DeSantis made the announcement during a Monday news conference, declaring that “Operation Tidal Wave” led to the removal of 10,400 illegal immigrants from Florida since April 2025. “In April 2025, Florida partnered with federal law enforcement in the largest joint immigration enforcement operation in ICE’s history: Operation Tidal Wave,” DeSantis wrote on X. “Today, I was proud to announce a new milestone in our joint efforts to combat illegal immigration and restore order in our communities: Florida law enforcement...

WASHINGTON — The tiny Pacific nation of Palau — a former filming location for “Survivor” — has agreed to take up to 75 third-country deportees from the United States who don’t have a criminal record — in exchange for a $7.5 million grant to support the roughly 18,000-person island chain. The $100,000 per-deportee fee, announced on Christmas Eve by Palau’s President Surangel Whipps Jr. and the US embassy in Koror, introduces one of the most favorable venues yet for deportees if their recalcitrant homelands — such as China, Cuba, Russia or Iran — won’t take them. “Palau and the United...