Day: June 18, 2025

Trump Admin Let Zero Illegals into the U.S. in May

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Illegal Immigrants

The U.S. Border Patrol released a grand total of zero illegal migrants into the country during the month of May, demonstrating the rapid decline in illegal migration since President Donald Trump returned to office.

In what the administration is describing as the “fastest improvement in American border security of all time,” not a single illegal migrant was released into the U.S. in May, according to newly-released data from Customs and Border Protection (CBP). The figure marks a major improvement from the 62,000 illegal migrants released into the country in May 2024, as then-president Joe Biden was continuing to deal with an unprecedented border crisis.

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Ron Johnson Seeks to Postpone Vote on Trump’s Megabill With Release of ‘Dire’ Report

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Ron Johnson

Republican Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson is sounding the alarm about the deficit impact of President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” raising the prospect that he will ultimately vote against the president’s landmark bill.

Johnson released a long-hyped report on the fiscal impact of President Trump’s sweeping tax and spending bill Wednesday morning, arguing the legislation would add to the national debt even in high economic growth scenarios and fail to put the country on a path toward shrinking budget deficits. The fiscal hawk and known critic of Washington’s alleged failure to rein in government spending told reporters Tuesday that he’s informed leadership he will vote against the budget package as currently drafted and urged Senate Majority Leader John Thune to not put the bill on the floor before his self-imposed deadline of July 4.

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Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Made Nearly $3 Million from Her Memoir

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KJB

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has made nearly $3 million from her memoir, “Lovely One,” according to a financial disclosure.

The disclosure released Tuesday showed that Jackson received $2 million of the advance last year for the book, in addition to about $900,000 that publisher Penguin Random House paid her in 2023, Politico reported. Her memoir reached No. 1 on the New York Times bestseller list following its release.

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Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei Says His Country ‘Will Never Surrender’

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Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Wednesday his country “will never surrender” as President Trump urged him to end reciprocal air strikes with Israel. 

“It isn’t wise to tell the Iranian nation to surrender,” Khamenei posted on X. “What should the Iranian nation surrender to? We will never surrender in response to the attacks of anyone. This is the logic of the Iranian nation. This is the spirit of the Iranian nation.”

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Illegal Alien Who Coached Youth Soccer in Franklin Pleads Guilty to Child Exploitation and Immigration Offenses

Kaitlin Housler
Camilo Hurtado Campos

A former Franklin youth soccer coach who is in the U.S. illegally pleaded guilty to child exploitation and immigration offenses on Tuesday, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Tennessee announced.

Camilo Campos-Hurtado pleaded guilty to four counts of sexual exploitation of a minor, one count of receiving visual depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct, one count of using or possessing fraudulent immigration documents, and one count of possessing an identification document or authentication feature that was stolen or produced without lawful authority.

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Tennessee AG Skrmetti, Sen. Blackburn Join Bipartisan Call Raising Alarm over Possible 10-Year Ban on AI Regulations

Tom Pappert
Blackburn and Skrmetti

Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti and U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) joined Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA) and Washington Attorney General Nick Brown for a bipartisan press conference on Wednesday, urging Congress to reconsider a provision of the budget reconciliation bill, known as the “Big Beautiful Bill,” which establishes a 10-year moratorium prohibiting states from regulating artificial intelligence (AI). 

Leading the press conference, Cantwell told reporters that a 10-year moratorium would block states from establishing and enforcing “laws that protect their citizens from AI harm and responsible development as AI systems,” erasing “hundreds of state laws that protect Americans from harm.”

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Tennessee Star Settles Lawsuit with FBI Following Release of Covenant School Killer Manifesto Pages

Tom Pappert

The Tennessee Star on Wednesday settled its lawsuit against the FBI over the manifesto written by Covenant School killer Audrey Elizabeth Hale, a biological woman who identified as a transgender man when she killed six during her attack at the Christian school in Nashville on March 27, 2023.

The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty announced that its clients, Michael Patrick Leahy, the editor-in-chief of The Star, and his company, Star News Digital Media, Inc., agreed to settle the lawsuit after more than two years of litigation to secure the release of Hale’s writings.

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Amid Support of Deportation, ICE Raids Also Raise Concerns About More Students Avoiding School

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student in library

Americans have strongly voiced their desire for tougher illegal-immigration enforcement policies, most notably at election booths and in polls, but recent federal deportation raids appear to have also resulted in the unintended consequence of increasing truancy rates in U.S. schools.  

A recent study by Stanford University Professor Thomas S. Dee shows a 22% increase in truancy in the first two months of this year in the Central Valley region of California – where parents living in the U.S. illegally fear they will be detained, resulting in their child or children returning from school to an empty house.

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Commentary: Most Americans Support Trump’s Effort to Suppress Anti-ICE Riots

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Posing for Pictures at L.A. Anti-ICE Riot

56 percent of voters say they support deploying the National Guard to quell the anti-Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) riots in Los Angeles according to the latest polling taken by Harvard-Harris on June 11 and June 12.

That includes 29 percent of Democrats, 55 percent of independents and 83 percent of Republicans and comes as the No Kings rallies, the latest of which came on June 14, face increasing public rejection as protesters and rioters block traffic and attack local police, which began on June 6 in Los Angeles, Calif.

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