Retiring U.S. Immigration and Customs Immigration Enforcement chief official, Thomas Homan, sat down with the Washington Examiner‘s Anna Giaritelli to discuss his time in the agency and what can be improved upon to increase border security. Homan remarked during the interview that, of the six administrations that he has worked for, no commander-in-chief has more positively impacted the…
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DOJ staffer among socialist group that heckled DHS boss in public place: report One of the socialist protesters who accosted Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen on Tuesday at a Mexican restaurant has been exposed as a Department of Justice employee. Allison Hrabar, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America who attended the protest against…
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President Trump signed an executive order Wednesday afternoon ending the separation of parents from children who are detained for crossing the border illegally. “Thank you very much. We’re signing an executive order. I consider it to be a very important executive order. It’s about keeping families together while at the same time being sure that…
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The media and political class become more and more outraged over the Trump administration’s decision to detain and prosecute immigrants illegally crossing the border. Lost in the debate is any acknowledgement that President Obama’s administration also used detention facilities. Current U.S. immigration laws, when enforced, have the consequence of temporarily separating families that arrive with…
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The United States has officially ended its membership on the United Nations Human Rights Council. Ambassador Nikki Haley did not mince words while making the announcement with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo late Tuesday afternoon. “For too long the human rights council has been a protector of human rights abusers and a cesspool of political…
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James Comey fired back this week at Hillary Clinton after the former secretary of state cited the Justice Department inspector general report on her email case to challenge the premise of the investigation itself. Clinton did so in a terse, snarky tweet following the release of the nearly 600-page report, which accused the former FBI…
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EXCLUSIVE – Nearly 60,000 immigrants with arrest records — including 10 accused of murder — have been allowed to stay in the United States under the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) revealed Monday. Watch the latest video at foxnews.com According to DHS, 59,786 DACA recipients have been…
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DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz released a long awaited report Thursday afternoon detailing FBI behavior during the 2016 presidential election. Here are some important points found in the report: 1) Bias was found at the FBI: During the course of the review, the OIG discovered text messages and instant messages between some FBI employees on the investigative…
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The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program could come to an end if the Trump administration is successful in what appears to be a secondary protocol for how to deal with an executive order that is arguably unconstitutional. Executed under the Obama White House, DACA shields illegal aliens brought over as children who have met…
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Tuesday’s historic summit between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un was a major step forward for peace on the Korean peninsula. Although the possibility of future conflict or tensions breaking out between the U.S. and North Korea has by no means been completely eliminated, the denuclearization and de-escalation agreement that both parties reached marks important progress towards…
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After a one-on-one meeting and an expanded bilateral working session with senior aides from the United States and North Korea in Singapore Monday, President Donald Trump and Chairman Kim Jong Un officially established a new relationship under a joint agreement of the eventual denuclearization of the regime. “President Trump and Chairman Kim Jong Un conducted…
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A federal Judge in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania ruled that President Donald Trump cannot strip grants to Philadelphia over its sanctuary city status on Wednesday. U.S. District Judge Michael Baylson said in his ruling that the conditions the federal government placed on the city in order to receive the funding are unconstitutional, “arbitrary and…
DetailsU.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley had a strong rebuke for the UN Tuesday following the UN Human Rights Council’s criticism of the U.S. separating families at the border. “Once again, the United Nations shows its hypocrisy by calling out the United States while it ignores the reprehensible human rights records of several…
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Major League Baseball is partnering with private equity firm Seidler Equity Partners to purchase Rawlings Sporting Goods Company for $395 million, the league’s longtime baseball and helmet supplier. Newell Brands, the previous owner of Rawlings, said it would use the sale proceeds to fund share buybacks and reduce its debt load. Rawlings posted net sales…
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Obama administration let Iran tap financial system, ‘misled the American people:’ report The Obama administration granted a license letting Iran access the United States financial system despite officials’ pledges that they would prohibit it, according to a draft report from the Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. “On Feb. 24, 2016, the Treasury Department issued a…
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On Monday morning the United States Supreme Court issued its 7-2 decision in the case concerning Jack Phillips, the Christian owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop in Colorado who declined to make a homosexual “wedding” cake. Some liberal legislators are both denouncing the Court’s decision and calling for the passage of LGBT-related legislation. In her statement House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi…
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Sears Holdings has identified approximately 100 non-profitable stores and will close 72 of them in the near future. The stores destined for closure have not yet been revealed, but the company said it would identify them by mid-day. The company said that it came to the decision as part of their ongoing efforts to streamline…
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Planned Parenthood once again finds itself under fire after a report was released showing that the ‘women’s health’ clinic performed abortions on young girls who had been sexually abused by family members, and then failed to report these crimes. Instead of taking a harsh stance against sexual abuse, Planned Parenthood sent these girls back home to the…
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Because I showcased some of the most ridiculous rhetoric and “outrage” surrounding the immigration issue earlier in the week, I figured I owe it to you to highlight this surprisingly rational and measured take from a fairly unlikely source. First, imagine watching your spouse get detained and deported by ICE agents after he or she had lived…
DetailsThis controversy already feels like it played out ages ago, but fewer than two weeks have passed since we were all yelling at each other about whether President Trump was right to refer to members of MS-13 as ‘animals’ in response to a law enforcement officer’s question during an immigration roundtable. That national ‘debate’ was largely triggered,…
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