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Federal agents are arresting spouses of Americans, tech workers and others whose visas have expired, including many who have active applications to stay in the country. The Trump administration has begun arresting foreign citizens with expired U.S. visas as they travel through airports, including spouses of Americans, according to documents obtained by The New York Times and interviews with immigration lawyers — a tactic that opens up a vast new pool of people for deportation. Immigration agents in plain clothes have whisked away targets at check-in counters and arrival gates, with enforcement actions in at least 15 airports in recent...

The New York Attorney General’s Office has directed the Steuben County Sheriff’s Office and 11 other law enforcement agencies to end agreements that allow local officers to assist U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Chief Deputy Attorney General for Social Justice Meghan Faux informed Sheriff James Allard that new provisions in the state budget prohibit local governments and police agencies from entering, renewing or extending agreements under which their employees perform immigration enforcement duties. The legislation, called the Local Cops, Local Crimes Act, affects Steuben County’s agreement with ICE under Section 287(g) of the federal Immigration and Nationality Act. The program...

OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) -- U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested a 27-year-old Ecuadorian woman as she prepared to board a flight from Denver to Oakland on July 20, according to ICE and a friend who witnessed the arrest. Chantal Morales Rojas had been living in Oakland and was returning from a visit to Denver with her former host family, according to Bay Area resident Alycia Dantzker. Dantzker said Rojas previously worked for the family as an au pair when they lived in Santa Cruz County. The family has since moved to Denver. Dantzker said she has known Rojas for three...

A recent Supreme Court ruling cleared the way for the Trump administration to end a humanitarian program that has allowed about one million immigrants to work legally in the U.S.Around Washington, Salvadoran-born crews have helped renovate, rebuild and maintain the Capitol, the Pentagon and Arlington National Cemetery. In senior living facilities in Florida, Massachusetts and New York, Haitian caregivers assist aging Americans with daily activities.These workers are among more than one million people who have been allowed to live and work in the United States under a decades-old humanitarian program, and who now face the prospect of deportation.Last month, the...

Jeffrey Bednarek, a former employee at the California Department of Motor Vehicles office in El Cajon, California, was sentenced today by U.S. District Court Judge Cathy A. Bencivengo to three years in prison for his leadership role in a conspiracy to commit bribery, identification document fraud and witness tampering. In addition to the prison sentence imposed, the court also ordered Bednarek to pay a fine of $25,000. In handing down the sentence, Judge Bencivengo told the defendant that as a DMV employee and a former corrections officer, he should have known better. “You were in fact violating the public trust…You...

Nick Sortor@nicksortor·3h🚨 HOLY CRAP! ICE Director Todd Lyons just revealed ICE recently busted the largest gift card fraud scheme EVER — and that stolen money was being sent DIRECTLY BACK to military units in CHINAIt was being carried out by illegal Chinese men who were let in under BIDENAll military aged, of course.The scam is fairly simple: these Chinese fraudsters steal barcodes off gift cards from retail stores, place them back on the shelf, and when a shopper buys it, that money is IMMEDIATELY skimmed by CCP operatives who have the numbers in a databaseAnd the American consumer is left...

The globalist head of The Economist thinks that it's "far right" to want secure borders and legal immigration. If that's true, then this 2009 Chuck Schumer speech on immigration is one of the most far right speeches ever made. Schumer Video summary: "It argues that if those positions are far-right, then a 2009 speech by then-Senator Chuck Schumer on immigration ranks among the most far-right speeches ever given. The post includes a roughly 5-minute video clip of Schumer speaking at Georgetown Law in 2009, in which he discusses immigration enforcement, the need to control illegal immigration, and related policy points."

California Democrat starts by targeting billionaires, ends article demanding taxes on $50-million net worth — that threshold will keep dropping until it hits your 401(k)New York’s socialist mayor campaigned on taxing billionaires, immediately pivoted to hitting millionaires — same playbook progressives used with income tax over a century agoEvery dollar seized in wealth taxes gets ripped out of businesses like Walmart and Tesla, destroying jobs and innovation to fund left-wing NGOs and handouts for illegalsIf you ever wished you could be counted among billionaires, your wish might come true soon if the socialists get their way. Of course, it’s not...

There is probably a camera on a pole at the entrance to your neighborhood. You’ve probably stopped noticing it. It is small, solar-powered, unremarkable, and it photographs every car that passes: yours, your neighbor’s, your teenager’s. And it reads the license plate, logs the time, and files the record in a national database. The company that owns it is called Flock Safety. Founded in 2017, valued at $7.5 billion, it now operates in more than 5,000 communities across 49 states, and its network scans roughly 20 billion vehicles a month. Twenty billion. Each month. For perspective, there are about...

Texas Congressman Brandon Gill is a rising superstar in the Republican Party.You might have caught him dressing down the Smithsonian director with instant-classics like asking if politeness is a form of “white supremacy.”Things that are “white supremacist,” according to the left:Being polite.Being on time.Being objective.We let this insanity go unanswered for years. That ends now. pic.twitter.com/LpXtZAE2NP— Congressman Brandon Gill (@RepBrandonGill) July 23, 2026Unlike a lot of other GOP politicians, however, Gill isn’t just going to toss a few scraps of red meat our way while ignoring it’s actually his job to solve problems.Congress is not political theater and you guys...

This video from Black Conservative Perspective discusses a triple homicide that occurred at the Davern Park Apartments in St. Paul, Minnesota. The host provides commentary on the tragic incident, which was allegedly sparked by a parking garage dispute involving a tenant, Tsegaab Binessu (30). Key details regarding the incident: The Victims: The employees killed in the shooting were Nancy Fuentes Zambrano (25), Dena Silcox (56), and Adam Wilwerding (43) (0:05 - 0:15, 3:41 - 3:47). The Accused: Tsegaab Binessu was arrested near Virginia, Minnesota (0:23, 5:02). Charging documents indicate he expressed frustration over his inability to cancel a parking contract...

The European Commission has officially refused to register the pan-European remigration and anti-immigration campaign ‘Save Europe Act’ as a European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI). On Wednesday, 22 July, organizers announced that Brussels considered the initiative’s aims—to halt open-ended non-Western mass immigration and protect the demographic continuity of Europe’s indigenous population—to constitute ‘racial discrimination’ against third-country nationals and to be ‘contrary to EU values’. ‘Their motivation is vague, weak and telling of their true anti-democratic nature,’ the campaign said in a post on X, accusing the Commission of ‘discarding the voices of nearly 600,000 European patriots’. At the time of writing, the...

Sen. Jim Banks has offered a text-and-precedent-bound response to a decision his opponents assumed had ended the debate.When the Supreme Court decided Trump v. Barbara on June 30, 2026, opponents of birthplace-citizenship reform declared the fight over. But that disappointing decision was not the end of attempts to reform the system. It was merely the “end of the beginning.” Sen. Jim Banks read Barbara as a legislative map. His new Citizenship Act follows the road Wong Kim Ark charted.Barbara held that President Trump’s executive order was unconstitutional by locking in birthplace citizenship’s definition from a much older case. That 1898...

This is one of those stories that sounds made up until you read the federal release yourself. A Liberian national who federal authorities say had no legal status in the United States was allegedly working as a Minnesota corrections officer, posing as a U.S. citizen, and at one point serving in the Pennsylvania Army National Guard before going AWOL. According to USCIS, the case was uncovered through “Operation Twin Shield,” a DHS enforcement effort targeting immigration fraud in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. If the allegations are accurate, this was not a clerical error. It was a years-long chain of deception...

Roughly 6,600 noncitizens were unwittingly registered to vote in New Jersey from 2023 to 2024, Gov. Mikie Sherrill said Tuesday. Roughly 400 of them improperly cast votes, she said. “They were registered as Democrats, Republicans and unaffiliated voters and were scattered across the state,” said Sherrill, a Democrat. She added that it is unclear which elections they voted in and said there was “no evidence at this time that any elections were swayed” as a result.

🚨 WTF?! Minnesota AG Keith Ellison (D) just announced Democrats' plan in the 2026 midterms is to have foreigners VOTE, including people NOT NATURALIZED in the prior election "There's a whole lot of people who were not naturalized citizens in the last election...you know what? We gon' get 'em all THIS election!" 🤯 Make no mistake, he's INCLUDING NON-CITIZENS. SAVE America Act NOW!

🚨 JUST IN: DHS arrested a RECORD 43,138 illegal aliens in June, and data confirms July might even break ANOTHER RECORD June's arrests are higher than January and February's ICE surge into Minnesota, per @BillMelugin_ IT'S TIME FOR ALL GAS AND NO BREAKS! 🔥

The agency’s subtler tactics in recent months aimed to lull citizens into complacency. Arrests, detentions, and deportations have all increased under new DHS Director Markwayne Mullin. As a U.S. Senator from Oklahoma, Markwayne Mullin enjoyed a reputation for confrontation and theatricality. He often donned a cowboy hat on the Senate floor (a no-no for a body that prizes decorum) and strode the hallways of the Capitol bouncing a rubber stress ball. During a 2023 Senate hearing, the former mixed martial arts fighter challenged Teamsters President Sean O’Brien to a fistfight, taunting him to “stand your butt up.” In a...

Is Immigration Becoming a Catholic Dogma? Inside Pope Leo XIV’s New Agenda As Pope Leo XIV's allies travel across America promoting a new immigration initiative, Gaetano Masciullo argues the Church is transforming prudential political questions into moral absolutes—with profound consequences for Catholic social teaching and the common good.The United States Tour of Mattia FerrariOn July 15, several outlets reported the news of a very particular tour that Mattia Ferrari, an Italian priest and coordinator of the World Meeting of Popular Movements (WMPM), is carrying out from the end of June across 21 cities in the United States, starting from California...

A new agriculture bill just dropped in the House of Representatives. It features: Granting amnesty to illegal aliens present in the United States as of May 31, 2026, who meet minimal agricultural work history requirements. How many illegal aliens will claim to be agriculture workers?