Illegal immigration continues to be a 'stumbling block', a 'thorn in a side', a 'national disgrace'. Not changing soon!

 

Trump revives immigration pressure move in tariffs, as Democrats likely to reverse admin policies

With Democrats taking over both chambers of Congress and a number of key border-state positions, illegal immigration is poised to be a battleground once again.

By Amanda Head justthenews.com 11-13-26

 In President Donald Trump's border playbook, the barrier that has moved Mexico fastest isn't made of steel or concrete but of tariffs. With Democrats retaking Congress and at least one new migrant caravan heading north, the president is reaching for the weapon once more.

In a Thursday post on Truth Social, Trump warned that if Mexico does not stop the caravans, "the Tariffs on Mexico will be IMMEDIATELY DOUBLED." He added that there would be "no leniency."

One group of about 2,000 migrants left the southern Mexican city of Tapachula, roughly 1,150 miles from the U.S. border, with some saying they hoped Democratic gains in the midterm elections would soften U.S. immigration policy. 

Fox News put the group at about 1,500 people, mostly from Central America, and is reportedly the third caravan to try to cross Mexico since September. 

Trump tied the surge directly to the election, arguing that Republican losses had invited a renewed "INVASION" even though he was not on the ballot. 

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum rejected Trump's claims, saying no migrant caravan has reached the U.S. border since January 2025. That point, made as a rebuttal, also shows how much the border has changed since Trump returned to office.

The 2019 blueprint

This is not the first time Trump has used trade as a border tool. In May 2019, he announced a 5% tariff on all Mexican imports starting June 10 unless Mexico acted to stop Central American migrants from crossing its territory. The tariff could have climbed to 25% by October.

The resulting deal came about a week later. In a joint declaration, Mexico pledged "unprecedented steps to increase enforcement to curb irregular migration," including deploying its National Guard nationwide. Mexico also agreed to share more intelligence and to let the U.S. return asylum-seekers to Mexico while their cases were pending. Mexico committed 6,000 Guard troops to its border with Guatemala.

Critics argued the concessions were overstated. Mexico had already planned the Guard deployment and had told U.S. officials so. Trump defended the deal, insisting Mexico never would have acted without the threat.

Round two came even faster

Trump returned to the same lever weeks into his second term. After he ordered 25% tariffs on Mexican goods on February 1, 2025, Sheinbaum initially threatened retaliation. Within two days, Trump paused the tariffs for a month after Sheinbaum agreed to send 10,000 National Guard members to the border. Mexico began moving 6,310 Guard members and 2,700 soldiers north the next day, to states including Baja California, Chihuahua, Sonora and Tamaulipas.

The results have shown up in the numbers. The Washington Examiner reported about 99,000 border arrests in Trump's first year back, compared with about 2 million in former President Joe Biden's first year.

Same lever, new rules

This time, Trump is reaching for the lever under different legal limits. On Feb. 20, the Supreme Court ruled that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act does not allow the president to impose tariffs. The 6-3 decision struck down a central piece of his trade agenda. That ruling wiped out the 25% fentanyl-related tariff on Mexico. Brookings analysts noted that it specifically limits the use of emergency tariffs to pressure countries on fentanyl and related enforcement.

The administration responded quickly. It imposed a temporary global tariff under Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974, which caps such tariffs at 15% for 150 days and exempted USMCA-compliant goods from Mexico and Canada. That tariff expired July 24.

Other tools remain in play. The ruling did not touch Section 232 national security tariffs on goods such as steel, aluminum and autos, and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said combining the remaining authorities would leave 2026 tariff revenue "virtually unchanged." Trump's post did not say which tariffs would be doubled or under what law.

Border states are also shifting. Trump's post said Texas' incoming Democratic governor had been informed, and Texas Attorney General-elect Nathan Johnson, a Democrat, could drop the state's defense of SB4, the law allowing state arrests for illegal border crossings. That would make federal leverage over Mexico more important to Trump's border agenda.

Amanda Head is White House Correspondent for Just the News. You can follow her here.

 

If there is one subject that government continues to use as a political tool - it is 'immigration'!

 

Enforce Immigration Law in the Boardroom

Immigration has always been a winning issue for Trump. Now he needs to make it one for his party as well.

Daniel McCarthyColumnist@ToryAnarchist patriotpost.us 11-10-26

President Donald Trump gave his base a shock Sunday, telling “60 Minutes” he’s having second thoughts about his hardball approach to immigration enforcement.

Asked how immigration affected the Republican Party’s midterm performance, he told interviewer Ross Douthat, “I think I got an A-plus for closing up the border.”

But then he said the verdict was mixed, adding: “I get hurt because we also took people that had good jobs, that — that created one violation or breaking of the law: that was that they came into the country illegally.”

“I think it might be too tough, yeah,” he concluded when pressed by Douthat. 

“That hurt me.”

Yet two years ago, Trump’s promises to reverse the flood of illegal immigration unleashed by Joe Biden helped him win reelection — and win every battleground state to boot.

And as dismal as last Tuesday’s results were for the GOP, exit polls show voters trusted Republicans more than Democrats on immigration, 45% to 43%.

Republicans were a solid majority — 57% — of those who rated immigration enforcement “crucial” to how they voted.

Those core Republicans won’t reward the president, or the party, for going weak.

But Trump sent another signal shortly after the midterms that ought to reassure immigration hawks when he announced Stephen Miller, a staunch restrictionist, would replace Susie Wiles as White House chief of staff.

MAGA wasn’t wiped out in last week’s Democratic tsunami — just as Trump wasn’t swept out of public life by the 2020 election.

He knows how to make a comeback, and that’s what he’s planning here.

But it’s a dangerous gambit:

Trump wants to soften his image, and the Republican Party’s, but he has to do it without capitulating to the Democrats, who have not changed a whit since the Biden years.

A smart strategy will be to put the Democrats on the defensive, forcing them to choose between American workers or the companies that employ cheap illegal labor.

If workplace immigration raids trigger bad publicity, there are gentler-seeming yet just as effective ways to go after the boardrooms instead, with high fines and indeed prison terms for executives who break the nation’s immigration and labor laws.

The corporate crooks who profit from illegal immigration aren’t so easily defended by the open-borders left, and if the administration goes after them, it will show voters who is really on the side of American workers — and who’s in bed with big business.

Republicans win when they’re the populist party, as Trump’s reelection and last week’s midterm debacle both illustrated: All the policies Republicans champion have to be framed in populist terms, and the party can’t afford to be seen as corrupt or too tight with Big Tech.

The GOP also can’t afford to seem cruel or racist, and despite what his enemies say about him, Trump has more often than not succeeded in talking about immigration enforcement in ways that appeal to citizens of all ethnic backgrounds.

Midterm voters had qualms about ICE’s enforcement tactics, but Americans still want secure borders, and they want illegal immigrants who commit crimes to be the first to be deported.

The Trump administration can put productive pressure on the Democratic Congress, daring legislators to cut off the forms of enforcement that remain overwhelmingly popular.

Trump today is in the same position Bill Clinton was in after the 1994 midterms, when Democrats suffered an historic wipeout that cost them both the House and Senate.

Clinton looked like he’d be a dead man going into his 1996 reelection battle, but he outmaneuvered the new Republican Congress in the test of wills over the 1995 government shutdown, and voters gave him credit, too, for working with Republicans to pass welfare reform.

He was easily reelected.

Trump won’t be on the ballot in 2028, but the Trump party will be. Republican chances in the next election heavily depend on what the president does from here on out.

He can’t simply trust Democrats to make good on an immigration deal: Ronald Reagan learned that the hard way when he agreed to an amnesty in 1986 on the promise that Democrats in Congress would legislate stronger enforcement. 

But Trump can force Congress to make hard choices between legal workers and lawbreaking employers, and he can speak in conciliatory tones even as he puts Democrats in a position of having to reveal their radicalism.

Immigration has always been a winning issue for Trump. Now he needs to make it one for his party as well.

 

Illegal aliens commit numerous crimes nationwide, many we know nothing about.

 

Justice Department federally charges illegal migrant with threatening the president

The migrant was found with three firearms, including an AR-15-style rifle and two handguns, along with dozens of rounds of ammunition last week and was allegedly in a stolen vehicle.

By Misty Severi justthenews.com 11-10-26

The Justice Department announced Tuesday that an illegal migrant from Venezuela has been formally charged with threatening President Donald Trump and illegally possessing firearms after he was arrested outside the White House last week.

The migrant was found with three firearms, including an AR-15-style rifle and two handguns, along with dozens of rounds of ammunition last week and was allegedly in a stolen vehicle. Secret Service officers said the migrant told them he heard voices in his head that told him to travel to Washington, D.C., and kill the president. 

U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro said 26-year-old Ronny Guanipa-Chrino was charged by complaint on Monday in the U.S. District Court and praised the Secret Service for stopping and arresting the migrant.

"Our nation’s capital is not the place to plan or act out crimes of violence," Pirro said. "This defendant not only admitted to entering the country illegally in 2025, but he was previously detained in 2024 during the Biden Administration at the border in Texas, crossing from Mexico. 

"We will not tolerate threats against the president or illegal possession of weapons by an alien who crosses state lines in a stolen pickup," she added.

The department said Guanipa-Chrinos was previously detained in March 2024 by U.S. Customs and Border Protection near El Paso, Texas. At the time, Guanipa-Chrinos admitted to illegally entering the United States on foot from Mexico. 

 

Seems as though there is no end to the crime committed by illegal aliens!

 

DHS says illegal Honduran migrant is accused of trying to storm United cockpit, threatening bomb

Gomez-Alberto allegedly claimed to have a bomb during the flight, prompting the pilots to issue a reported hijacking alert, and he was also accused of attempting to enter the cockpit.

By Misty Severi justthenews.com 11-10-26

The Department of Homeland Security said Tuesday that an illegal Honduran migrant has been accused of attempting to enter the cockpit of a United Airlines flight after allegedly claiming to have a bomb.

The department told Fox News that Rony Alexander Gomez-Alberto was arrested by the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office after United Airlines Flight 2174 landed at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport on Monday night.

Gomez-Alberto allegedly claimed to have a bomb during the flight, prompting the pilots to issue a reported hijacking alert, and he was also accused of attempting to enter the cockpit. 

Immigration and Customs Enforcement has since lodged a detainer for Gomez-Alberto after his arrest.

"On November 10, 2026, ICE lodged a detainer for Rony Alexander Gomez-Alberto, a criminal illegal alien from Honduras, with Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office after he attempted to gain entry to the cockpit during a flight," a DHS spokesperson told Fox News.

United Airlines also confirmed an incident on board the flight but did not provide details.

"United flight 2174 from Newark to New Orleans landed safely following a disruptive incident involving a passenger onboard. Law enforcement met the aircraft upon arrival," a United spokesperson said.

The incident comes after Gomez-Alberto was allegedly apprehended and deported twice for being in the country illegally. The first time was in 2011 when he entered the country illegally near El Indio, Texas. 

The second time was in 2014 near Columbus, New Mexico. He was deported both times.

He was arrested a third time in 2019 and released in the U.S. in January 2020.

The migrant has been booked on charges of communicating false information of planned arson and terrorizing. DHS said he has been charged with bomb threat, terroristic threat and disorderly conduct offenses.