If enough benefits are denied to illegal aliens - they will go home on their own.

 

Congressman Wants to Ban Illegal Aliens From Banking System Amid Possible Trump EO

Pedro Rodriguez May 14, 2026 dailysignal.com

FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Citing concerns that access to financial services incentivizes illegal immigration and could aid terrorism, Rep. Keith Self, R‑Texas, introduced legislation Thursday that would bar illegal aliens from the U.S. banking system by requiring banks to collect customers’ citizenship or immigration status.

“Access to America’s financial system is reserved for those who respect our laws—not for illegal aliens who break them,” Self told The Daily Signal. “Those who enter illegally should not be rewarded with taxpayer‑backed banking services. This legislation draws a hard line: If you are here illegally, you will not have access to our financial system.”

The bill would prohibit covered financial institutions from opening or maintaining accounts for individuals who are not lawfully present in the United States. It would require customers to present documentation demonstrating U.S. citizenship or lawful presence, such as a U.S. passport, a REAL ID‑compliant driver’s license, a permanent resident card, or other qualifying federal documentation.

Individuals with authorized temporary stays would be required to certify their lawful presence under a structured compliance process. Existing accounts would also be subject to review, restriction, and eventual closure if updated documentation is not provided after an individual’s lawful status expires.

The legislation establishes penalties for individuals who knowingly open or maintain active accounts while not lawfully present and includes safe‑harbor protections for financial institutions that make good‑faith efforts to comply.

A companion bill has been introduced in the Senate by Sen. Tom Cotton, R‑Ark.

“Access to the American banking system is a privilege that should be reserved only for those who respect our laws and sovereignty,” Cotton said in a press release shared with the Daily Signal. “My bill will prevent illegal aliens from using our financial institutions to help them stay in our country.”

Trump Administration Action

In April, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said an executive order directing banks to collect customers’ immigration data is currently “in process.”

Bessent said such a requirement would not be “unreasonable.”

“Why don’t we have information on who’s in our banking system?” he said. “I have a place in the U.K.; they want to know who lives in every apartment. And how do we know that it’s not part of a foreign terrorist organization?”

While a White House official did not rule out the executive order, the official told The Daily Signal that its contents have not been finalized.

At the time of the initial reporting, a White House official told Time magazine that the administration “continues to explore ways to protect our banking system from unacceptable credit risks and to ensure that banking services remain available and affordable for all Americans.”

 

Illegal immigration is loaded with numerous fraudulent activities!

 

DHS identifies 10,000+ foreign students working for 'highly suspect' employers

Vice President JD Vance celebrated the announcement, calling it "[a]nother great win for our fraud task force."

By Ben Whedon 5-12-26 justthenews.com

The Department of Homeland Security on Tuesday announced its identification of more than 10,000 foreign students who allegedly work for dubious employers as part of its crackdown on visa work programs.

"This is only the tip of the iceberg. Over the past year, we've dramatically expanded our oversight of OPT," a DHS spokesman said. "Many of these employers include NGOS engaged in suspicious activities. We've discovered empty buildings and locked doors at addresses where hundreds of foreign students are allegedly employed."

The Optional Practical Training (OPT) program, is a work authorization for students on visas. The program, along with the H-1B visa, has drawn intense scrutiny from immigration hawks, who have long contended that it is ridden with fraud.

"We've found small residential addresses listed as work sites for hundreds of foreign students, yet no employees were present," the spokesman added. "We're also seeing financial red flags."

Vice President JD Vance celebrated the announcement, calling it "[a]nother great win for our fraud task force."

"We will not tolerate foreign nationals abusing our visa system at the expense of the American people," he added.

 

Illegal alien invaders leaving on their own accord has its merits - let's hope more make that decision.

 

80,000 illegal aliens gave up immigration cases and left US in 2026

Seven times as many people are abandoning their immigration cases and leaving when compared to the last 15 months of the Biden administration.

Libby Emmons Brooklyn NY May 11, 2026 thepostmillennial.com

From January to March, American immigration judges processed 80,000 voluntary departure orders, per a report from the Vera Institute for Justice. As the Trump administration has embarked on plans to deport illegal immigrant criminals, they have also encouraged those who are in the US illegally to leave of their own accord. 70% of those were in immigration detention when they came up with the idea to leave on their own rather than wait for their court date.

When illegal immigrants leave on their own, they are still permitted to return to the US as tourists or to seek legal immigration down the road. That is not the case for those who exit the borders with a deportation order. Seven times as many people are abandoning their immigration cases and leaving when compared to the last 15 months of the Biden administration. During that time, only 11,400 people took the option to depart of their own accord. The Department of Justice issued a document on how to apply for voluntary departure.

Department of Justice guidelines for voluntary departure

Illegal immigrants in deportation detention facilities can leave at any time they like so long as they return to their home countries and do not pursue a court case in the US. While many people who came to the US during the Biden years applied for asylum, the vast majority of them are not eligible for that residency option. Voluntary departures have been greatest in Texas, Louisiana, Florida, Georgia, and California.

"The number of people receiving a decision of voluntary departure has risen dramatically since the change in presidential administration," writes non-profit Vera Institute of Justice in a report, "particularly among people who were detained. Judges appointed by the second Trump administration have granted voluntary departure at higher rates than judges with more experience—while still granting orders of removal at comparable rates." 

One change is that those illegal immigrants who are detained to wait for their immigration court date are no longer given a bond hearing, meaning that their stay in detention has no reprieve other than voluntarily leaving the country or waiting interminably for their case to make its way through the immigration court system. That order rescinding bond hearings was given in July 2025 and following that, the voluntary removals ramped up.

About 60,000 people are currently in detainment in deportation detention facilities month over month. As of April 4, that number was 60,311. Only those without a criminal record qualify for voluntary departure and those who seek it must request it prior to their court date, agree that they are not legally in the US, waive or withdraw applications to stay, show that they have a plan and intention to leave, and "demonstrate that you are a good person."

 

"While we’re all distracted with the European problem, our nation sinks and drowns".

 

Third world migrant crisis in the US is actually worse than it is in Europe

While we’re all distracted with the European problem, our nation sinks and drowns.

Olivia Murray | May 11, 2026 www.americanthinker.com

Listen, I’ll be the first one to admit that I’ve been hyperfocused on the migration problem consuming Europe, writing on it fairly frequently. 

When you see what Western gems like Paris, London, Berlin, Brussels, and Edinburgh have become, it’s easy. The crime rates are surging, from vandalism to rape and murder, infamous and unforgettable images make it into our news feeds—like the African migrant cooking his breakfast on a Western war memorial or the freaky East African-looking guy grinning from his taxpayer-paid flat balcony after going on a stabbing spree—and Arab delinquents are caught destroying historic walls that have been standing for centuries.

And while we do have our own examples of the migration problem in the U.S., like Laken Riley’s murder and the Somali fraud scandal, they’re relatively rare, or framed in the media as being small scale occurrences—tempting us to think it’s worse in Europe than here. But I think we’re being extremely naive, living in “the white,” fat, dumb, and (relatively) happy.

I first realized that things are actually more dire here than they are in Europe when I went to the U.K. a couple of months back. In the small towns, things still felt and looked distinctly English, Irish, and Scottish (respectively). Small towns in the U.S., even in places like Alabama where I live? Athens, where my kids go to school, is full of Haitians, I’ve seen gaggles of Islamic women covered from head-to-toe in their burkas in Moulton where I go to buy local farm goods, and I refuse to go to Walmart anymore after being jostled down the aisles by diminutive Central Americans one too many times, with not an English-speaking customer to be found. (I was the only American in a sea of foreigners, literally, in my own home country.)

When I visited Blackpool? Only white English people. I didn’t see a single migrant.

When I visited Inverness, Dún Laoghaire, Wrea Green, Dingwall, and Fort Augustus? All Anglos, with a few Asians working the sushi restaurant at which we dined. Again, not a single African or Arab third-worlder.

The big cities? When I went to Dublin, I saw a whopping two Muslims, women with hijabs, participating in the St. Paddy’s Day celebrations, speaking English, and decently Westernized. Not ideal, but at least they know the language, having probably been born there. (I wrote on my trip to Ireland for the AT newsletter, so here’s a quick AT subscription plug for access to exclusive essays that won’t appear on the site.)

Okay, that’s all anecdotal you might say, and fair enough—but let’s look at some numbers.

14.1% of the EU’s population in 2024 reportedly consisted of foreign-born individuals. In Germany, where the numbers are notoriously bad, the overall migrant population is around 20%.

The U.S.? We have a population of roughly 342 million—and around 100 million are foreigners who need to be deported/repatriated:

That’s a whopping 30% of our population being non-Americans, whether they have “legal” status or not.

Consider that the 10-12 million number was what they said…back in the 1970s:

Also consider that since Hart-Celler, which eliminated the prioritization of immigrants from Western nations to instead permit all the net negative individuals from the darkest corners of the globe, some 60 million “immigrants” have flooded into the U.S.—then they reproduced like rabbits. Europe, just by virtue of being small and with limited room for growth, has less migrants. The U.S., with tons of space and a massive economy, is bearing the brunt.

While we’re all distracted with the European problem, our nation sinks and drowns.