Day: January 11, 2025

As Violent Venezuelan Gang Plagues US, Biden DHS Issues Deportation Protections for Migrants from Venezuela

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ICE arresting suspect

The Biden administration rolled out deportation protections to nearly a million foreign nationals living in the United States, including hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans.

More than 900,000 beneficiaries of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) will be allowed to register for an 18-month extension, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced on Friday. The massive roll out — just days before President Joe Biden leaves office and President-elect Donald Trump returns to power — includes TPS extensions for roughly 600,000 Venezuelans living in the country.

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Illegal Immigrant Arrested in Florida After Allegedly Sexually Assaulting 14-Year-Old Georgia Girl

Tom Pappert
Luis Mario Santizo-Mendez

A man is being held in Florida on a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainer after police charged him with sexual battery against a 14-year-old girl who he allegedly transported to the state from Georgia.

Public records reveal Luis Mario Santizo-Mendez, 18, was booked into the Miami Dade County jail on Tuesday, where he was charged with lewd or lascivious battery on a child, and is now precluded from release due to both an immigration hold and an out-of-state warrant that may pertain to alleged crimes he may have committed in Georgia. He was initially granted a $7,500 bond.

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AFP Virginia Director Gives Winsome Earle-Sears ‘Fighting Chance’ to Beat Abigail Spanberger amid Tight Polls

Tom Pappert

Tim Parrish, the state director of Americans for Prosperity (AFP) – Virginia, predicted that Lieutenant Governor Winsome Earle-Sears has a “fighting chance” to beat either former Representative Abigail Spanberger (D-VA-07) or Representative Bobby Scott (D-VA-03) in the 2025 race for governor as polls show the Republican statistically tied with both candidates.

Parrish made the remarks during a Friday appearance on “The John Fredericks Show,” offering his analysis after The Virginia Star publisher John Fredericks suggested Earle-Sears has slim odds of repeating the 2021 victory that saw Governor Glenn Youngkin become the first Republican elected governor of Virginia since 2010.

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Commentary: America Is Already Seeing Signs of a Trump Economic Revival

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Blue Collar Work

Job creation smashed expectations in December, as employers finished the hiring season strong, optimistic about the end of Bidenomics and the return of the Trump bump. Employers added 256,000 jobs last month, and the unemployment rate fell to 4.1%. So much for Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell’s weakening labor market.

It’s New Year in America again.

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Arizona GOP Chair: Trump New York Criminal Sentencing a ‘Desperate Attempt’ by the Left to ‘Silence the One Man Who Puts America First’

Kaitlin Housler

Chair of the Arizona Republican Party (AZGOP) Gina Swoboda released a statement on Friday reacting to President-elect Donald Trump’s sentencing in the New York City hush money trial, describing the entire case as a “desperate attempt” by the Democratic left to “silence” Trump.

In May 2024, Trump was found guilty by a New York jury of 34 counts of falsifying business records in the Stormy Daniels hush money case.

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Report: President-Elect Trump Plans Many Ambitious Executive Orders on Immigration

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President Donald Trump

President-elect Donald Trump reportedly has plans to issue as many as 100 executive orders on his first day in office, dealing with a wide range of topics including his signature issue of immigration.

According to Axios, the president-elect and his advisors detailed these plans during a meeting with Senate Republicans on Wednesday. Among those present at the meeting was Stephen Miller, who has been designated as the Chief of Staff for Policy in Trump’s second presidency, as well as the advisor for homeland security.

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