President Donald Trump’s Sunday announcement of plans to reopen San Francisco’s Alcatraz Island as a prison has irked San Francisco Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.
“REBUILD, AND OPEN ALCATRAZ!” said Trump on Truth Social. “Today, I am directing the Bureau of Prisons, together with the Department of Justice, FBI, and Homeland Security, to reopen a substantially enlarged and rebuilt ALCATRAZ, to house America’s most ruthless and violent Offenders.”
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The Trump administration said Monday that it will give illegal immigrants $1,000 to leave the U.S. voluntarily.
The Department of Homeland Security also announced that it will also pay for travel assistance, and people who use the CBP Home app to inform the government they are planning to return home will be “deprioritized” for detention and removal by immigration enforcement.
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President Donald Trump announced Sunday that he will impose a 100% tariff on all films produced outside the U.S., citing national security concerns and a desire to revive America’s “dying” film industry.
Trump authorized the U.S. Trade Representative and the Department of Commerce to begin the process of levying the tariffs, declaring foreign film subsidies a “concerted effort” by other countries to undermine Hollywood’s global dominance.
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The Biden administration inflated its number of reported deportations by conflating the number of illegal immigrants stopped by border agents before they could get inside the United States. Biden’s figures may very well hide the success of Trump’s immigration enforcement.
Trump started his second term notching some early wins on securing the southern border and stemming border crossings to record lows, but at first blush, the rate of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) removals appeared to lag behind the Biden administration’s capture rate in its final full year, according to data released by ICE under both administrations.
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Prominent Democrats are accusing President Trump of violating the law because his administration arrested Hannah Dugan, a Wisconsin judge who allegedly helped an illegal immigrant evade ICE.
U.S. Senator Cory Booker, for example, declared that “Donald Trump is waging an all-out assault” on the “rule of law” because the “FBI took the extreme and dangerous step” of “arresting a sitting judge” as part of “Trump’s playbook for punishing judges when they don’t fall in line.”
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U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has designated two Haitian gangs as foreign terrorist organizations, adding to a list of transnational criminal organizations, including Mexican cartels and the violent Venezuelan prison gang Tren de Aragua.
Rubio designated the violent Haitian gangs, Viv Ansanm and Gran Grif, as FTOs and Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs), saying they “are the primary source of instability and violence in Haiti” and pose “a direct threat to U.S. national security interests in our region.”
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Axios Israel has set President Trump’s visit to the Middle East next week as a deadline for a new hostage and ceasefire deal, with a massive ground operation to commence if no deal is reached, Israeli officials say. Israel’s Security Cabinet approved a plan Sunday night to gradually reoccupy all of Gaza…
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Breitbart Rep. Mary Miller (R-IL) urged her Republican colleagues on Monday to use the budget reconciliation process to strip abortion giant Planned Parenthood of federal funding. Miller sent a letter to Chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce Rep. Brett Guthrie (R-KY) asking him to “use every…
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