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Nov 26, 2025
As we near the end of the calendar year, DHS plainly has immigration-enforcement victories to trumpet.
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Nov 24, 2025
Things are a little different in my home region, the Piedmont of North Carolina, ever since DHS launched “Operation Charlotte’s Web” to target criminal illegal...
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Nov 23, 2025
‘Politicians, business leaders, and activist groups have long exploited this issue for their own advantage. That is why the problem persists.’
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Nov 21, 2025
‘Politicians, business leaders, and activist groups have long exploited this issue for their own advantage. That is why the problem persists.’
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Nov 17, 2025
Congress decides who must leave, not the president, the protestors, or the bishops.
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Nov 14, 2025
Kudos to ICE and the Sunshine State, but there’s more work to do — and misguided protestors should let them do it.
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Nov 3, 2025
As Roll Call noted after the November elections, “The promise of mass deportations was a cornerstone of Trump’s campaign”.
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Oct 21, 2025
In April, my then-colleague Todd Bensman reported that Mexican drug cartels cum foreign terrorist organizations were heeding the Trump...
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Oct 18, 2025
If states and localities really believe only a small minority of immigrants are criminals, give ICE access to the criminals and watch the ‘at large’ arrests plummet.
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Oct 17, 2025
Border Patrol agents on the East Side of Chicago faced an angry mob this week after executing a “precision immobilization technique” (PIT) maneuver on a vehicle...
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Oct 15, 2025
If states and localities really believe only a small minority of immigrants are criminals, give ICE access to the criminals and watch the ‘at large’ arrests plummet.
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Oct 14, 2025
One thing we all can agree on is there are strong disagreements over immigration, with one side decrying any ICE enforcement and the other demanding more removals...
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Oct 10, 2025
So, why all the opposition from governors and mayors? It’s time for them to get smart or risk electoral backlash
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Oct 2, 2025
On Monday, Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt tweeted a picture of a New York state commercial driver’s license his officers seized during an “enforcement action” on an...
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Oct 1, 2025
ICE arrested Des Moines (Iowa) Public School Superintendent Ian Roberts last week, not for protesting or interfering with the agency’s operations, but because it...
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Sep 26, 2025
On Friday, the Washington Post and opinion outfit Ipsos released the results of their latest poll, in which they surveyed 2,513 U.S. adults between September 11 and 15. The results...
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Sep 8, 2025
Don’t believe the headlines — two-thirds of aliens deported from ICE custody under the current administration have criminal histories.
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Aug 28, 2025
More popular than many in the media would lead you to believe.
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Aug 26, 2025
Sharp criticisms about free speech and censorship in the UK in State Department’s 2024 Country Reports on Human Rights.
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Aug 7, 2025
Has the foreign-born population really dropped by nearly two million since March? That’s what FRED says.
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Jul 31, 2025
eterrence is the key to border security, and Congress gave DHS four main tools to deter would-be migrants from entering illegally: fencing and other border impediments;...
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Jul 24, 2025
The percentage of criminal alien arrests remains the same, but the president’s opponents aren’t happy because he’s arresting more aliens, period.
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Jul 23, 2025
United States Senate, Subcommittee on Border Security and Immigration
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Jul 22, 2025
The Center for American Political Studies at Harvard University, The Harris Poll, and Harris X have just released the results of their latest poll. While it shows immigration is...
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Jul 18, 2025
Americans are safer today than we were six months ago, which is why nobody’s talking about ‘border security’ anymore.
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Jul 12, 2025
The Washington Post ran an opinion piece this week captioned “The obvious peril of federal agents in masks”.
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Jul 9, 2025
Two cops shot, one by an attacker ‘loaded for bear’ and the other in an ‘organized ambush’ as a high-raking Dem calls ICE a ‘terrorist force’
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Jul 4, 2025
Quite the opposite; the dissent would have made the judiciary the strongest branch, based on the slimmest of reeds
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Jun 30, 2025
Not a surprise, because the real issue was ‘universal injunctions’ — which are dead.
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Jun 27, 2025
Reuters recently reported that, “Trump and his allies have called judges who have ruled against his administration as ‘activists,’ ‘crooked,’...
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Jun 26, 2025
Continuing fallout — and vulnerabilities — from the Biden border crisis.
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Jun 19, 2025
In a recent Harvard/Harris poll, 63 percent of U.S. voters supported the Trump administration’s efforts to close the Southwest border.
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Jun 12, 2025
After a prolonged legal battle that stretched all the way to the Supreme Court, Kilmar Abrego Garcia — alleged MS-13 member and Salvadoran national...
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Jun 4, 2025
On Sunday, Mohamed Sabry Soliman — an Egyptian national admitted under the Biden administration who overstayed a tourist visa — was named as a suspect in a...
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Jun 3, 2025
On May 31, the Washington Post examined — but failed to find a dispositive reason for — a decline in fentanyl seizures at the Southwest border. Perhaps the...
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May 30, 2025
‘This business will get out of control’ unless responsible adults turn down the heat on immigration enforcement
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May 24, 2025
‘This administration is holding Harvard accountable for fostering violence, antisemitism, and coordinating with the Chinese Communist Party on its campus.’
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May 23, 2025
It’s a good thing that almost three-quarters of illegal entrants are from Mexico — and border security dodged a bullet when the ‘Senate border bill’ failed.
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May 21, 2025
The Supreme Court heard arguments last week in Trump v. CASA, the “birthright citizenship case”.
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May 15, 2025
As you’ve likely heard, a fracas broke out at the ICE Delaney Hall Detention Center in Newark, N.J., last week, which resulted in the arrest of the city’s...
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May 13, 2025
Irecently offered a quick tutorial on “due process” in the immigration context, that is the steps the government must take to remove inadmissible and deportable...
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May 9, 2025
In much the same way many in the public square have suddenly become experts on papal conclaves (and the media was crawling with amateur virologists five years ago during...
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May 7, 2025
There has been much discussion in the media of late about how Donald Trump is “slipping” in the polls, but one current administration policy remains popular...
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Apr 21, 2025
The Washington Times has reported that the backlog of cases pending before U.S. immigration courts declined for the first time in 17 years as the Trump administration...
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Apr 19, 2025
Ahigh-profile immigration case involving the removal to El Salvador of an alien in what the government terms “administrative error” has gotten under the skin of a...
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Apr 16, 2025
On Monday, CBP released its latest statistics. According to those stats, Border Patrol’s Southwest border apprehensions fell to fewer than 7,200 in March — a 14 percent...
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Mar 12, 2025
AP reports that ICE officers arrested Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil, whom the outlet describes as a “a Palestinian activist ... who has played a...
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Mar 10, 2025
On March 4, Donald Trump delivered an address to a joint session of Congress — equivalent to a “State of the Union address”, only given by a newly...
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Feb 18, 2025
Axios last week published what it described as a “scoop”, with a title that was both bombastic and noncommittal: “Trump's immigration arrests appear to lag...
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Feb 15, 2025
The topline result from the latest CBS News poll shows that Donald Trump currently enjoys a relatively high approval rating, with 53 percent of respondents pleased with the...
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Feb 14, 2025
In her first press conference since being confirmed as U.S. Attorney General (AG), Pam Bondi announced that her Department of Justice will be suing the state of New York...
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Feb 10, 2025
Critics scoff, but they’re pretty good deals for the United States — and our neighbors.
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Jan 22, 2025
Executive orders aside, Laken Riley Act advances, Rubio gets confirmed, CHNV ends, and bureaucrats get sacked.
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Jan 20, 2025
Almost immediately after he again took office as president, Donald Trump began issuing orders to secure the Southwest border and to shut down access to the CBP One app for aliens...
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Jan 17, 2025
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis this week tapped his state’s attorney general, Ashley Moody, to replace Marco Rubio, President-elect Trump’s nominee for Secretary of State, in...
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Jan 16, 2025
Key to understanding any border policy is identifying where U.S. immigration authority is placed under our nation’s constitutional order.
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Jan 13, 2025
I previously reported that the House overwhelmingly passed H.R. 29, the “Laken Riley Act” — the first bill considered on the floor in the new 119th Congress...
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Jan 8, 2025
As if to provide a post-mortem on the unpopularity and polarization of the Biden-Harris administration’s immigration policies, UK journal The Economist and opinion outfit...
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Jan 2, 2025
In the talk about what immigration enforcement will look like under a second Trump administration, one key provision of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) has been overlooked:...
Nov 26, 2025As we near the end of the calendar year, DHS plainly has immigration-enforcement victories to trumpet. 
Nov 24, 2025Things are a little different in my home region, the Piedmont of North Carolina, ever since DHS launched “Operation Charlotte’s Web” to target criminal illegal...
Nov 23, 2025‘Politicians, business leaders, and activist groups have long exploited this issue for their own advantage. That is why the problem persists.’
Nov 17, 2025Congress decides who must leave, not the president, the protestors, or the bishops.
Oct 21, 2025In April, my then-colleague Todd Bensman reported that Mexican drug cartels cum foreign terrorist organizations were heeding the Trump...
Oct 18, 2025If states and localities really believe only a small minority of immigrants are criminals, give ICE access to the criminals and watch the ‘at large’ arrests plummet.
Oct 17, 2025Border Patrol agents on the East Side of Chicago faced an angry mob this week after executing a “precision immobilization technique” (PIT) maneuver on a vehicle...
Oct 14, 2025One thing we all can agree on is there are strong disagreements over immigration, with one side decrying any ICE enforcement and the other demanding more removals...
Oct 2, 2025On Monday, Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt tweeted a picture of a New York state commercial driver’s license his officers seized during an “enforcement action” on an...
Oct 1, 2025ICE arrested Des Moines (Iowa) Public School Superintendent Ian Roberts last week, not for protesting or interfering with the agency’s operations, but because it...
Sep 26, 2025On Friday, the Washington Post and opinion outfit Ipsos released the results of their latest poll, in which they surveyed 2,513 U.S. adults between September 11 and 15. The results...
Sep 8, 2025Don’t believe the headlines — two-thirds of aliens deported from ICE custody under the current administration have criminal histories.
Aug 28, 2025More popular than many in the media would lead you to believe.
Aug 26, 2025Sharp criticisms about free speech and censorship in the UK in State Department’s 2024 Country Reports on Human Rights.
Aug 7, 2025Has the foreign-born population really dropped by nearly two million since March? That’s what FRED says.
Jul 31, 2025eterrence is the key to border security, and Congress gave DHS four main tools to deter would-be migrants from entering illegally: fencing and other border impediments;...
Jul 24, 2025The percentage of criminal alien arrests remains the same, but the president’s opponents aren’t happy because he’s arresting more aliens, period.
Jul 23, 2025United States Senate, Subcommittee on Border Security and Immigration
Jul 22, 2025The Center for American Political Studies at Harvard University, The Harris Poll, and Harris X have just released the results of their latest poll. While it shows immigration is...
Jul 18, 2025Americans are safer today than we were six months ago, which is why nobody’s talking about ‘border security’ anymore.
Jul 12, 2025The Washington Post ran an opinion piece this week captioned “The obvious peril of federal agents in masks”. 
Jul 9, 2025Two cops shot, one by an attacker ‘loaded for bear’ and the other in an ‘organized ambush’ as a high-raking Dem calls ICE a ‘terrorist force’
Jul 4, 2025Quite the opposite; the dissent would have made the judiciary the strongest branch, based on the slimmest of reeds
Jun 30, 2025Not a surprise, because the real issue was ‘universal injunctions’ — which are dead.
Jun 27, 2025Reuters recently reported that, “Trump and his allies have called judges who have ruled against his administration as ‘activists,’ ‘crooked,’...
Jun 19, 2025In a recent Harvard/Harris poll, 63 percent of U.S. voters supported the Trump administration’s efforts to close the Southwest border. 
Jun 12, 2025After a prolonged legal battle that stretched all the way to the Supreme Court, Kilmar Abrego Garcia — alleged MS-13 member and Salvadoran national...
Jun 4, 2025On Sunday, Mohamed Sabry Soliman — an Egyptian national admitted under the Biden administration who overstayed a tourist visa — was named as a suspect in a...
Jun 3, 2025On May 31, the Washington Post examined — but failed to find a dispositive reason for — a decline in fentanyl seizures at the Southwest border. Perhaps the...
May 24, 2025‘This administration is holding Harvard accountable for fostering violence, antisemitism, and coordinating with the Chinese Communist Party on its campus.’
May 23, 2025It’s a good thing that almost three-quarters of illegal entrants are from Mexico — and border security dodged a bullet when the ‘Senate border bill’ failed.
May 21, 2025The Supreme Court heard arguments last week in Trump v. CASA, the “birthright citizenship case”. 
May 15, 2025As you’ve likely heard, a fracas broke out at the ICE Delaney Hall Detention Center in Newark, N.J., last week, which resulted in the arrest of the city’s...
May 13, 2025Irecently offered a quick tutorial on “due process” in the immigration context, that is the steps the government must take to remove inadmissible and deportable...
May 9, 2025In much the same way many in the public square have suddenly become experts on papal conclaves (and the media was crawling with amateur virologists five years ago during...
Apr 19, 2025Ahigh-profile immigration case involving the removal to El Salvador of an alien in what the government terms “administrative error” has gotten under the skin of a...
Apr 16, 2025On Monday, CBP released its latest statistics. According to those stats, Border Patrol’s Southwest border apprehensions fell to fewer than 7,200 in March — a 14 percent...
Mar 12, 2025AP reports that ICE officers arrested Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil, whom the outlet describes as a “a Palestinian activist ... who has played a...
Mar 10, 2025On March 4, Donald Trump delivered an address to a joint session of Congress — equivalent to a “State of the Union address”, only given by a newly...
Feb 18, 2025Axios last week published what it described as a “scoop”, with a title that was both bombastic and noncommittal: “Trump's immigration arrests appear to lag...
Feb 14, 2025In her first press conference since being confirmed as U.S. Attorney General (AG), Pam Bondi announced that her Department of Justice will be suing the state of New York...
Jan 22, 2025Executive orders aside, Laken Riley Act advances, Rubio gets confirmed, CHNV ends, and bureaucrats get sacked.
Jan 20, 2025Almost immediately after he again took office as president, Donald Trump began issuing orders to secure the Southwest border and to shut down access to the CBP One app for aliens...
Jan 17, 2025Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis this week tapped his state’s attorney general, Ashley Moody, to replace Marco Rubio, President-elect Trump’s nominee for Secretary of State, in...
Jan 16, 2025Key to understanding any border policy is identifying where U.S. immigration authority is placed under our nation’s constitutional order.
Jan 13, 2025I previously reported that the House overwhelmingly passed H.R. 29, the “Laken Riley Act” — the first bill considered on the floor in the new 119th Congress...
Jan 8, 2025As if to provide a post-mortem on the unpopularity and polarization of the Biden-Harris administration’s immigration policies, UK journal The Economist and opinion outfit...
Jan 2, 2025In the talk about what immigration enforcement will look like under a second Trump administration, one key provision of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) has been overlooked:...