Tag: Illegal Immigrants

Two-Tiered Justice: Local DAs Shield Noncitizens from Immigration Consequences

Just the News

District attorneys across the country are accused of providing illegal immigrants preferential treatment when they commit crimes, allowing them to remain free in the country and put U.S. citizens’ lives at risk. The related reports seem to indicate that when the arrested person is a U.S. citizen, they are denied much of the leniency shown to illegal immigrants accused of the same crime. 

The House Judiciary Committee and its Immigration Subcommittee released a report this week detailing how Arlington County, Virginia’s Commonwealth’s Attorney, Parisa Dehghani-Tafti, “obstructs the enforcement of federal immigration law and shields foreign national criminals from accountability.” Dehghani-Tafti’s campaign received $515,000 from George Soros-affiliated political entities, Fox News reported last October.

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Panel: Congress Has Power to Buck SCOTUS Birthright Citizenship Ruling

The Center Square
Supreme Court

As the Trump administration continues to pursue ways to quell “birth tourism,” legal scholars are probing potential actions Congress could take to rewrite the common interpretation of the 14th amendment’s citizenship clause.

The clause states that “all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States.”

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Commentary: Chaz Molder’s Recent Poll Gives Voters a Big Reason to Not Trust the Columbia Democrat

Star News Contributor
Chaz Molder

Mark Twain famously published that “There are three types of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.” Were Twain with us today he might add a fourth type of lie – political polling. Specifically, those polls released for public consumption.

Most campaign polling is internal, unpublicized, and genuinely used by campaigns to understand where a race stands. You will likely never hear about most of it, because that isn’t its purpose. These are legitimate benchmark and brushfire polls. 

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EXCLUSIVE: ICE Confirms over 120 Illegal Aliens Arrested During ‘Operation Corral Light’ at Memphis Nightclub

Tom Pappert
ICE officers

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) The Tennessee Star on Tuesday that more than 120 illegal aliens were arrested on August 30 at the Memphis nightclub, El Corralón, during a multi-agency operation led by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement ICE).

DHS told The Star that Operation Corral Light resulted in arrests of illegal aliens with prior criminal history, including arrests or convictions for “larceny, drug possession, domestic violence, driving while intoxicated, assault, child endangerment, and prostitution.”

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Three More States Slapped with Lawsuits over In-State Tuition for Illegal Aliens

The Daily Signal
college students

The Justice Department filed three lawsuits Monday against states that offer in-state tuition for illegal aliens, after securing victories in five similar cases.

“Congress long ago made clear that states cannot put illegal aliens over our nation’s own citizens,” Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward said in a statement first provided to the Daily Signal. “By granting illegal aliens in-state tuition, New York, Vermont, and Connecticut are doing just that. No more.”

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Commentary: If Senate Won’t Pass SAVE America Act, Deport Noncitizens Registered to Vote

The Daily Torch
voting curtain

President Donald Trump is asking the Senate to abolish the Senate filibuster and adopt the SAVE America Act to get illegal aliens off of the voter rolls and to require proof of citizenship to register to vote from now on, citing over 250,000 non-citizens are illegally registered to vote in California, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Nevada alone. So far, the Senate is saying there aren’t the votes to abolish the filibuster.

What can be done in the interim, then?

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Trump Overturns DHS Directive Banning ICE from Conducting Vehicle Stops

American Greatness
ICE arrest

President Trump on Wednesday ordered ICE to resume vehicle stops, reversing the temporary pause initiated by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) just one day prior. The president declared on Truth Social that traffic stops are “one of ICE’s most important and effective Crime Fighting tools” and instructed agents to “go back and do your very important job.”

On Tuesday, DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin directed Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers to halt most vehicle stops indefinitely following two fatal shootings in Maine and Texas.

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‘Reeks of Fraud’: Sean Duffy Calls Out CDL Tragedy in Ohio

The Daily Signal
truck driver

Department of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is speaking out about another deadly crash allegedly caused by a foreign-born driver who had a commercial driver’s license despite not being able to speak English.

Earlier this month, Bekhzod Asrarov, who was born in Uzbekistan, allegedly struck the back of a 2025 Honda Accord in Madison County, Ohio. The incident resulted in the death of the driver, 21-year-old Tobias Forsythe, who was a native of Gahanna, Ohio, and a soccer player at the University of Massachusetts-Lowell.

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Judge Who Helped Illegal Immigrant Evade ICE Walks Away with $5,000 Fine, No Prison Time

Daily Caller News Foundation
Hannah Dugan

A former Wisconsin judge received only a $5,000 fine after a jury found her guilty of helping illegal immigrants evade federal agents.

The jury found former Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan guilty of obstruction with the judge fining her $5,000 determined Wednesday during sentence hearing, according to Spectrum News 1.

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Fed Reserve Working Paper Suggests Biden’s Illegal Immigrant Wave Caused 30 Percent of Home Price Increases

Just the News
home sale

A new Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas working paper estimates the record surge in illegal immigration during the Biden administration boosted employment while causing 30% of home price increases and 20% of rent increases.

The paper combined immigration court records with government administrative data to create the first ever calculation of how a wave of 7 million illegal immigrants from 2021 through 2024 affected local labor and housing markets.

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Rep. Andy Ogles Introduces Bill Banning All Pregnant Noncitizens from Entering the U.S.

Zachery Schmidt
pregnant woman

A new congressional bill proposal seeks to prevent pregnant women who are noncitizens from entering America.

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court, in a 6-3 decision in Trump v. Barbara, struck down a President Donald Trump executive order that sought to outlaw birthright citizenship. With this ruling, noncitizens who give birth in America will continue to have their children become American citizens regardless of whether they have any ties to the country.

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Commentary: Rental Prices Plummet Across Nationwide as Immigration Laws Are Enforced

The Daily Torch
apartment moving

Rental prices for the 46 million Americans who rent their homes are finally reversing, and there’s speculation President Donald Trump’s border security and deportation policies are a driving factor. With over three million illegal aliens either voluntarily leaving the country or deported since President Trump took office according to the Department of Homeland Security, rental homes are freeing up for U.S. citizens across major metro areas.

According to the latest Apartment List National Rent Report released May 27, rental prices are down 1.5 percent nationally compared to one year ago. This is the lowest year over year rent increase since 2017. For comparison, the year over year rent growth in 2022 during the Biden Administration was 17.7 percent.

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Metro Nashville Estimates 18 Business Days to Produce Records on Nearly $1.5 Million in Grants to Pro-Illegal Alien Nonprofits After Tennessee Star Request

Tom Pappert
Mayor Freddie O'Connell

Metro Nashville on Tuesday told The Tennessee Star that Metro estimates it will need until July 10 to provide documents justifying the nearly $1.5 million in grants awarded to the Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition (TIRRC) and Tennessee Justice for Our Neighbors (TNJFON) in the fiscal year (FY) 2027 budget passed earlier this month.

The response from Metro came six business days after Metro confirmed receipt of the public records request on June 12, at which point the request had been sent to the Metro Department of Finance, the law department, the mayor’s office, and the Metro Council.

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Commentary: A Program Just for Immigrants Could Bankrupt Your Hometown

Daily Caller News Foundation
classroom work

Somewhere in Charleroi, Pennsylvania, a small steel-town school district of about 1,400 kids, a school board member is looking at a budget line that didn’t exist a decade ago. In 2014, the district had approximately seven English Learner or “EL” students. In 2024, that number crossed 200.

Charleroi is a small story with a national plot. Over the past decade, the number of students who require extra support with English or multilingual education has exploded nationwide. From Georgia to Ohio and from Texas to Colorado, we are seeing the same thing: as the share of students needing English language services has gone up, the share of the budget going to core classroom instruction has gone down.

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Civil Rights Lawyer Ben Crump Claims Tennessee Law Requiring English Proficiency Test for Driver’s License Could Undo ’30 Years of Progress’

Tom Pappert
Ben Crump

Civil rights attorney Ben Crump on Saturday claimed Tennessee’s new law requiring those applying for a driver’s license to demonstrate their lawful residence status in the country and take an English proficiency exam has the potential to undo “30 years of progress” in the Volunteer State. 

Crump made the comments on social media while sharing an article about House Bill (HB) 1708, the legislation signed into law by Governor Bill Lee earlier this year. Once effective in January 2027, it will require those applying for a Tennessee driver’s license to submit documentation providing citizenship, and to complete an English proficiency exam.

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Ohio Cracks Down on CDLs for Foreign-Born Drivers

The Daily Signal
truck driver

Amid federal scrutiny and concerns about commercial driver’s licenses being in the hands of unqualified drivers, Ohio is cracking down on CDLs for those drivers not born in the United States. The CDLs of 1,200 foreign-born drivers will be downgraded to a Class D by the state for failing to adequately meet standards proving they are in the United States legally.

Ohio Department of Public Safety spokesman Bret Crow confirmed the downgrade to The Center Square last week. “Those receiving this notice who believe their documents do meet the updated federal standards may request a hearing with the Bureau of Motor Vehicles to dispute the downgrade and/or submit additional documentation to BMV to prove their eligibility,” he said.

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2022 Proposal Shows Left-Wing Nonprofits Sought Nashville Grants for Work Permits, Asylum, Deportation Protections as Tennessee Star Seeks FY 27 Records

Tom Pappert
lawyers

The 2022 proposal by the Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition (TIRRC) and Tennessee Justice for Our Neighbors (TNJFON) confirms the pro-illegal alien nonprofits sought more than $3.5 million to provide immigration legal services in Davidson County.

Attached as an exhibit to the June 2022 resolution appropriating Biden-era American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funding to “expand critical immigrant legal services” in Nashville, the document confirms the nonprofits proposed using the funding to help immigrants obtain “protections from deportations.”

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Nashville Mayor Funds Pro-Illegal Alien Nonprofit TIRRC with $735,000 in City Budget After ‘Years’ of ‘Successful Collaboration’

Tom Pappert
Mayor Freddie O'Connell

Metro Nashville Mayor Freddie O’Connell included more than $700,000 in his annual budget for the Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition (TIRRC), a nonprofit supporting illegal aliens living in Tennessee.

TIRRC partnered with the city last year to provide relief for those impacted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), was asked by the Biden administration to support the release of aliens into Tennessee’s interior, and whose affiliated political action committee endorsed O’Connell during his successful 2023 race for mayor.

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Blue States Begin Scaling Back ‘Free’ Healthcare Benefits for Illegal Aliens

American Greatness
Doctor

Budget constraints are forcing a growing number of blue states to cut back on their “free” healthcare programs for illegal aliens, due to a reduction in federal subsidies and Medicaid cuts.

Breitbart reports that a number of liberal-leaning states including California, Colorado, Illinois, New York, Oregon, Washington, and the District of Columbia are unable to replace the federal health benefits for illegals with their own state tax dollars.

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Obama-Appointed Judge’s Dismissal of Human Smuggling Case Against Kilmar Abrego Garcia Ignored Evidence Biden-Era FBI Quashed Investigation into 2022 Traffic Stop

Tom Pappert and Michael Patrick Leahy
Judge Wavery Crenshaw and Kilmar Abrego Garcia courtroom sketch

U.S. District Judge Waverly Crenshaw omitted key evidence from his Friday ruling dismissing the federal human smuggling case against Kilmar Abrego Garcia, including reporting by The Tennessee Star that was seemingly referenced during testimony, revealing the “Biden-era FBI” directed Tennessee authorities to release Abrego Garcia during a 2022 traffic stop despite suspecting human trafficking. Instead, the Obama-appointed judge sided with the foreign national, ruling the Trump administration failed to overcome a presumption of vindictive prosecution.

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President Trump Says He Will Go to Supreme Court on Wednesday for Birthright Citizenship Case

Just the News
Trump and SCOTUS

President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that he will attend a Supreme Court hearing Wednesday on the consitutionality of his Birthright Citizenship executive order.

The case centers on Trump’s executive order directing federal agencies to interpret the 14th Amendment as excluding birthright citizenship to the children of illegal migrants and tourists. 

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Lawmakers to Probe Whether Free Education Incentivizes Illegal Immigration

The Daily Signal
school

A House subcommittee will examine whether the Supreme Court’s decision that states cannot deny the children of illegal aliens access to taxpayer-funded K-12 education incentivized more aliens to come to the U.S. illegally.

The House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government will hold a hearing Wednesday on the Supreme Court’s decision in Plyler v. Doe (1982), Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, told The Daily Signal Friday. The Supreme Court allowed illegal alien children to enroll in public schools, ruling that state laws preventing their enrollment violated the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment.

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Data: ICE Deported Fewer than 40,000 Illegals Between October and Late February

Daily Caller News Foundation
Police ICE

At first blush the Trump administration’s deportation numbers reflect an unparalleled effort to remove vast numbers of illegal immigrants. However, internal data — and the delayed release of the administration’s annual enforcement report — tells a more complicated story.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) conducted slightly over 35,500 deportations from Oct. 1, 2025 to late February, according to internal figures obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation. Unlike publicly available figures that conflate deportation with border turnarounds and voluntary departures, the internal data only pertains to deportations of foreigners under an order of removal by an immigration judge.

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Trump and Allies Launch Census Strategy That Could Upend Blue States’ Advantage with Illegal Aliens

Just the News
Missouri AG

President Donald Trump and his allies are launching a double-barreled U.S. census strategy that could eliminate a big electoral and federal funding mechanism for blue states: illegal immigrants.

Missouri Attorney General Katherine Hanaway said her office is asking the courts to bar the federal government from counting immigrants living in the country illegally when determining congressional representation and federal funding, a move she argued could shift political power among the states for decades.

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Powerful Conservative Orgs Think Trump Needs to Step Up His Deportation Game

Daily Caller News Foundation
ICE arrest

A group of conservative organizations is launching a coalition to push the Trump administration to take its deportation agenda to the next level.

The Mass Deportation Coalition, to be officially unveiled on Wednesday, calls on President Donald Trump to fulfill his campaign promise of executing the largest deportation operation in history by focusing on the removal of most illegal migrants from the country. The group is pledging to release a comprehensive plan on how to achieve at least one million deportations throughout 2026.

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New Maryland Bill Means ‘More Victims’ of Migrant Criminals, DHS Warns

Daily Caller News Foundation
Wes Moore

Maryland legislation cracking down on police cooperation with immigration officials will put violent aliens back on the streets, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) captured sex offenders, a murderer and an MS-13 gang member in Maryland while ICE partnerships were active, a DHS spokesperson said in a Monday statement. Democratic Maryland Gov. Wes Moore signed his party’s bill on Tuesday, banning contracts known as 287(g) agreements, a once-obscure tool that the Trump administration used to build law enforcement alliances across the country. The change could make future ICE arrests of dangerous people harder, the department said.

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Tennessee Subcommittee Advances School Immigration Status Tracking Bill

Zachery Schmidt
Elaine Davis

The Tennessee House Departments and Agencies Subcommittee advanced a bill on Tuesday that would require schools to track students’ immigration status. House Bill (HB) 1711, sponsored by State Representative Elaine Davis (R-Knoxville), now heads to the House State & Local Government Committee. HB 1711 expands reporting requirements in Tennessee for illegal immigrants. Schools would need to keep track of students’ immigration status so the Tennessee Department of Finance and Administration can make a report on how much illegal immigrants in public schools are costing the state annually. Besides schools, prisons, hospitals, and social service agencies would be required to keep track of people’s immigration status to create a report to determine the annual financial effect illegal immigrants have on these services. The bill proposal would mandate law enforcement agencies to submit quarterly reports to the Tennessee Department of Safety, to include information about illegal activities committed by illegal immigrants, criminal gang activity, violations of federal law, and illegal immigrants arrested or detained for federal immigration laws. Law enforcement would need to report legal residents and illegal immigrants who have been charged with crimes or convicted of crimes, the bill proposal states. A government official or employee who fails to file…

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Dems Push Judicial Warrant Mandate for ICE Arrest Powers

Daily Caller News Foundation
ICE arrest

Democrats are demanding federal agents obtain judicial warrants before arresting illegals on private property, a move experts liken to a Trojan horse that would irreversibly weaken American immigration enforcement for years to come.

Judicial warrants have become a flashpoint in immigration enforcement, with sanctuary jurisdictions increasingly claiming that administrative warrants are not enough and a judge’s signature should be a prerequisite to any type of cooperation. Capitol Hill Democrats have seized on the issue, threatening to block funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) if judicial warrants — along with body cameras and uniform requirements — aren’t mandated for personnel on the ground.

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Spain’s Socialist Government Expedites Mass Amnesty for Illegals

Daily Caller News Foundation
African refugees

Spain’s socialist government announced Tuesday it will provide amnesty to potentially hundreds of thousands of immigrants living in the country without authorization.

Spain’s Council of Ministers announced that it will use an expedited decree to amend existing immigration laws, providing illegal migrants with one-year residency permits and the right to work legally. Estimates suggest the measure could benefit roughly 500,000 people, though some studies place the number closer to 800,000, according to the AP.

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Federal Judge Orders ICE Chief to Appear in Court over Alleged Denial of Detainees’ Due Process

Just the News
Patrick Schiltz

A federal judge has ordered acting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Todd Lyons to appear in court over detained illegal immigrants allegedly not receiving hearings.

Chief U.S. District Judge Patrick J. Schiltz, for the District of Minnesota, an appointee of former President George W. Bush, on Monday ordered Lyons to personally appear in court over the Trump administration’s handling of bond hearings for detained illegal immigrants, according to the Associated Press.

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Nearly One-Third of Tennessee Construction Firms Say Immigration Enforcement Fears Made Workers, Subcontractors Stay Home in 2025

Tom Pappert
construction worker

An annual report released earlier this month by the Associated General Contractors (AGC) of America, the nation’s largest construction union, found that nearly one-third of construction companies in Tennessee lost workers over immigration enforcement in the last six months, including 9 percent who reported that immigration authorities conducted enforcement operations at their construction sites.

The AGC 2026 Construction Outlook report for Tennessee, released on January 8, found that 9 percent of responding firms in the Volunteer State reported that a federal immigration official visited a job site or construction office in the last six months.

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In Somali Fraud Scandal, Republicans Probe Evidence of a Blue State Election Scheme

Just the News
Voter here sign

As the magnitude and complexity of Minnesota’s Somali immigrant welfare fraud scandal come into clearer focus, Republicans in Congress are more boldly talking about it being part of a larger scheme by Democrats to use illegal immigrants and purported refugees to hijack federal elections and manipulate apportionment that determines Americans’ congressional representation and federal funding.

The Republicans’ argument goes like this: Democrats reversed Donald Trump’s related first-term executive orders and ensured that noncitizens, including illegal immigrants, were counted into 2020 U.S. Census. Then-President Biden opened the southern border so that millions of illegals could flood the country in just a few years.

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Commentary: Myth, Narratives, and the Death of Renee Good

American Greatness
Renee Good Protest

I don’t mean to sound like a conspiracy nut, but we’re being manipulated. By “we,” I mean all of us—you, me, anybody who is exposed to any media at all, but especially social media. We’re not being lied to, exactly, but we’re being force-fed a version of the truth that is intended to control our emotions, influence our reactions, and direct our behavior. The powers that be—and this is very much a part of the rupture between the ruling class and the country class—want to encourage specific social and political responses from us and are doing everything they can to make them happen.

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Gov. Janet Mills Refuses to Act as Maine Becomes De Facto Sanctuary State

Daily Caller News Foundation
Janet Mills

Maine is set to become a de-facto sanctuary state for illegal immigrants in the final year of Democratic Governor Janet Mills’ term.

Mills, a two-term governor vying to defeat Republican Maine Sen. Susan Collins during November’s midterm elections, declined to veto a bill limiting local law enforcement’s collaboration with federal immigration authorities in December. Republicans and law enforcement groups argued the sanctuary state proposal will keep dangerous criminals on the street by shielding illegal immigrants from federal immigration enforcement.

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Illegal Alien Truck Drivers Accused of Smuggling Cocaine Got Driver’s Licenses in Sanctuary California

Daily Caller News Foundation
Singh CDLS

Two illegal migrant truck drivers accused of hauling millions in cocaine across the country had obtained their commercial driver’s licenses in California.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has lodged detainer requests for 25-year-old Gurpreet Singh and 30-year-old Jasper Singh, both of whom are Indian nationals living unlawfully in the U.S., according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Indiana State Police arrested the two men after they were allegedly caught hiding over 300 pounds of cocaine inside a semi-truck in Putnam County on Saturday.

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DOT Secretary Accuses Newsom of ‘Lying,’ Says California Still Risks Losing $160M over Illegal Licenses

Daily Caller News Foundation
Duffy and Newsom

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy accused Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom of lying, saying the state could lose nearly $160 million in federal funds if it fails to comply with a Jan. 5 deadline to revoke foreign trucker licenses.

A group of immigrant truckers sued California’s Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) days before Christmas, alleging the agency violated workers’ rights by planning to revoke thousands of unlawfully issued licenses. With the original deadline set for Jan. 5, the DMV released a statement Tuesday announcing the deadline would be extended to March 6.

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Commentary: Trump Has Shut Down the Border Completely

The Daily Torch
CBP officer

President Donald Trump has completely secured the southern border, with just 108,361 border encounters since he took office on January 20, the latest data through November from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection shows.

That compares to more than 10 million such border encounters the entire time former President Joe Biden was in office from 2021 to 2024, averaging more than 2.5 million a year.

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