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President Trump took the adage about finding yourself in a hole and stopping digging to heart, at least when it comes to illegal immigration, where his almost miraculous improvements at the southern border have resulted in the first sustained decrease in the immigration court backlog in nearly two decades. In little more than six months, Mr. Trump pared the Biden-era backlog of more than 4.2 million pending cases before immigration judges to 3.8 million. Some of that is because of better efficiency in the immigration courts, officially known as the Executive Office for Immigration Review. However, “the real change has...

Benjamin Marcelo Guerrero-Cruz was walking his family’s dog in Van Nuys on a recent morning when he was taken into custody by federal immigration officials, according to authorities and published reports. Guerrero-Cruz, who turned 18 this month, was set to start his senior year at Reseda Charter High School on Thursday. Instead, he’s being held in Department of Homeland Security custody pending removal from the United States, the agency confirmed in statement to The Times on Friday. “Benjamin Guerrero-Cruz, an illegal alien from Chile, overstayed his visa by more than two years, abusing the Visa Waiver Program under which he...

D.C. police officers making traffic stops can now notify U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents about encounters with undocumented immigrants, per an order the police chief issued Thursday. Why it matters: Days after President Trump took control of the city's police force, sanctuary protections are being rolled back in D.C. The big picture: Trump praised the move Thursday, saying that a next step for nationwide immigration enforcement would be identifying undocumented immigrants during traffic stops. "I think that's going to happen all over the country. We want to stop crime," Trump said during remarks in the Oval Office. When asked...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) on Thursday announced the soon-to-be opening of a second illegal immigration detention center in the state called the “Deportation Depot,” explaining that the demand is now here for it. DeSantis made the announcement during a press conference in Florida’s Baker County. He explained that they were originally considering Camp Blanding for the second immigration detention center, until they stumbled upon an unused portion of the Baker Correctional Institution, which already had so much of the infrastructure they were looking for, saving millions of dollars. Further, he noted that Camp Blanding’s runway did not have the...

‘These types of smears are directly contributing to our officers facing a 1000% increase in assaults against them,’ said DHS’s McLaughlin. Americans’ trust in corporate media has plummeted to its lowest level in more than five decades, according to Gallup polling. That trust gap should come as no surprise when reading the propaganda press’s hyperbolic coverage of the Trump administration’s immigration law enforcement policies. Department of Homeland Security officials say reporting on Alligator Alcatraz, the new Florida Everglades-based holding facility for illegal aliens facing deportation, has been drenched in “lies” and “baseless allegations.” “Nearly every single day, my office responds...

This is not the first time Waters has used such rhetoric. In March, Waters stated that she was “worried that Trump is on the edge of creating a civil war.” “He alluded to it more than once. He alluded to the fact that if he did not get re-elected, there could be a civil war,” Waters said at the time. Waters’ remarks come as Customs and Border Protection (CBP) report record-breaking lows in terms of border crossings in the month of July, thanks to Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration. …

The foreign-born population of the United States declined by 2.2 million people since January, according to an analysis from the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS). That figure includes an estimated 1.6 million illegal aliens. The CIS based its report on Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data and suggested that much of the exodus stemmed from self-deportations driven by the Trump administration's immigration crackdown. Overall, the study found that there were roughly 53.3 million foreign-born people in the U.S. in January of 2025, compared with 51.1 million in July.

FAFO in Florida Two illegal immigrant sisters caught shoplifting shocked to find out they're being deported, one claims they can't be deported because she had a child here. Turns out they're habitual shoplifters with tools that makes it a felony. They shouldn't have tried this in Florida. Should have tried their crime spree in Illinois or Calif. Where the authorities would have done everything possible to set them free.

The state of Florida is looking to expand its immigration crackdown and build another “Alligator Alcatraz” detention facility, as deportations continue to mount. A second detention center known as the “North Detention Facility” is being planned for Camp Blanding, a Florida National Guard training site in Clay County, in the northeastern part of the state, the Tallahassee Democrat reported. The site once served as a prisoner-of-war camp during World War II. The Florida Department of Emergency Management is reportedly purchasing weather monitoring equipment and two lightning sirens for the facility for almost $40,000, according to a state contract. CBS News...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of Homeland Security said Wednesday that it is removing age limits for new hires at the agency responsible for immigration enforcement, as it aims to expand hiring after a massive infusion of cash from Congress.The department said in a news release that it would waive age limits for new applicants so “even more patriots will qualify to join ICE,” the agency responsible for finding, arresting, detaining and removing people who are in the U.S. illegally. The agency is at the center of the Trump administration’s efforts to carry out President Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda....

Wednesday morning, ICE conducted a raid in Los Angeles at a Home Depot where known MS-13 gang members hang out. It was pretty epic. (Yes, I got what I voted for again) It's something you see in law enforcement operations pretty regularly. Law enforcement hangs out in the back of an unmarked, nondescript vehicle, then pounces. But apparently, Penske wants you to know you can't put people in the back of the truck like that! And they're going to tell on the DHS for improper use of their trucks! Here's the statement in case they wise up and delete the...

Summary Trump administration seeks to deport more migrants to third countries Critics ask why migrants can't be deported home instead Trump tactic stokes fear amid push for mass deportations WASHINGTON, Aug 2 (Reuters) - The Trump administration says that some serious criminals need to be deported to third countries because even their home countries won't accept them. But a review of recent cases shows that at least five men threatened with such a fate were sent to their native countries within weeks.President Donald Trump aims to deport millions of immigrants in the U.S. illegally and his administration has sought to...

Open-borders leftists are constantly claiming illegal immigrants commit disproportionately less crime than their numbers would indicate. But an anonymous source inside the San Diego Police Department tells Amy Reichert that he's seeing something different:A source inside SDPD says crime is unusually low this summer thanks to @EROSanDiego arresting career criminals who thought California’s sanctuary laws would protect them. Now ICE is tracking them down even though @GavinNewsom and Mayor @ToddGloria still shield them. https://t.co/gP88FShvqh — Amy Reichert (@amyforsandiego) July 28, 2025EROSan Diego is ICE, and a glimpse at the ICEBlock app, over the past week on my cell phone suggested...

The first deportation flights out of a temporary detention center in the Florida Everglades began this week, with hundreds of people departing the state — including some who were eventually sent out of the country, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) said Friday.About 100 people previously detained at the Florida center “have fully been deported,” DeSantis said, without specifying where they were sent. The Department of Homeland Security is organizing the departures, he said, adding that two or three “removal flights” have left Florida so far with plans to continue them.Some of the flights went to a federal immigration site in Louisiana...

In the aftermath of Donald Trump’s 2024 election, there was a mandate for him to stop the invasion across our borders. Overwhelmingly, the public wanted illegal aliens to be removed from our country, particularly those who were criminals. That’s when the controversy began:President Donald Trump’s signature promise during his campaign was to carry out the ‘largest deportation’ operation in U.S. history, targeting all migrants “who violated the law coming into this country.”Since anyone living in the U.S. without legal permission has broken civil immigration law, Trump would have to deport all of the 11 million to 12 million immigrants living...

Washington — A federal judge on Wednesday barred federal immigration authorities from immediately taking Kilmar Abrego Garcia into custody once he is released from criminal confinement in Tennessee and ordered the Trump administration to provide him 72 hours' notice if it plans to initiate proceedings to remove him to a country that is not his place of origin. The order from U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis was issued as a federal judge in Tennessee, who is presiding over Abrego Garcia's criminal case, ruled that the Salvadoran national should be released from the custody of federal law enforcement under conditions that...

“Do what’s right: leave now," Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said in an ad encouraging self-deportation.Tens of thousands of illegal aliens have self-deported since the Trump administration began encouraging illegal aliens to return to their nations of origin and repurposed an app used by the Biden administration to streamline mass migration into the United States, a new report says.Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials, Breitbart News reports, say that there have been tens of thousands of illegal alien self-deportations since the Trump administration overhauled the Customs and Border Patrol One app.The platform was originally used by migrants to...

Can anyone tell me why we are deporting illegal aliens to other country prisons and not just imprisoning them here? And what are we giving the countries we are deporting them to? It can't be finality of the action because we could not bring them back since we have brought some back.

On July 18, 1974, the former Beatle was officially told (again) to get out of the United States.Considering the latter-day, beloved status that John Lennon enjoyed as a world citizen who promoted peace and harmony, it almost beggars belief that on July 18, 1974, the former Beatle was officially told (again) to get out of the United States. That was the day newspapers reported that Lennon had been told by the Board of Immigration Appeals that he had until September 10 to leave the country or face deportation. Not exactly the news he wanted to hear, as he set to...

The Rules are ghosted—once more—in California’s latest episode of immigration lawfare. When federal courts issue emergency orders—like temporary restraining orders (TROs) or preliminary injunctions—Rule 65(c) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure imposes a clear requirement: The court may issue a preliminary injunction or a temporary restraining order only if the movant gives security in an amount that the court considers proper to pay the costs and damages sustained by any party found to have been wrongfully enjoined or restrained [emphasis added]. But in Vasquez-Perdomo v. Noem, Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong—a Biden appointee in the Central District of California—blithely casts...