An outstanding post about the success President Trump has accomplished on immigration.

 

Immigration Might Be Trump’s Biggest Success

Border Czar Tom Homan touts ICE’s success, but left-wingers are still challenging Donald Trump’s policies at every turn.

Nate Jackson patriotpost.us 10-2-26

 “Give me an example of where we went too far,” Border Czar Tom Homan challenged. “That’s a pretty bold statement to make.”

Yes, it is a pretty bold statement, but that’s not what Homan meant. He was responding to Florida Republican Representative Maria Elvira Salazar, who recently ran a political ad complaining about the Trump administration’s deportation work. She asserted that Hispanic voters “feel betrayed” because some tactics used by the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement have “gone too far.”

Other Republicans are squirming about deportations, too, thanks to Leftmedia propaganda on behalf of Democrats souring public support.

Homan is generally correct, though. Under his direction — and that’s an important distinction — ICE has largely focused on the right priorities and deported illegal aliens who absolutely should not be in the U.S. Homan was dispatched for cleanup after President Donald Trump deported former DHS chief Kristi Noem in March. Homan’s no-nonsense approach was a notable change from Noem’s more confrontational tactics.

He and ICE are focusing on illegal aliens who have committed crimes beyond the crime of illegally crossing the border or overstaying a visa. But as he correctly notes, illegals are “deportable by federal law.”

“If you’re in the country illegally, you got a problem. You shouldn’t be here,” Homan said. Still, he added, “Everybody we arrest has an opportunity to see a judge and plead their case.”

To critics, he said, “I wish they’d sit down and talk to ICE. I wish they’d find out: What is ICE doing? How are they doing it? And educate themselves.”

As for examples of ICE actions that are, at a minimum, controversial, however, we need not look further than the family of Renee Good filing civil suits against DHS this week for her death. One suit is against the United States, and the second names specific Trump administration officials, including Noem.

“I don’t want to see any tragedies happen,” Homan said of the lawsuit. “I wish Renee Good was alive today. I wish that incident [didn’t] happen, but it happened, and it’s being investigated. I don’t want to see anybody die.”

I covered Good’s death in January. She was shot by an ICE officer after she obstructed lawful ICE operations, refused to comply when given specific instructions, and accelerated her vehicle in the direction of an officer. I’m also sorry she’s dead; it shouldn’t have happened. But she made every possible wrong choice leading to her death.

The same goes for Alex Pretti, who was killed while obstructing and then scuffling with ICE officers in January. These deaths were the direct result of the Left’s anti-ICE strategy.

Other ICE shootings, however, were more problematic, and ICE is sorting through some hiring issues.

Speaking of Trump administration immigration policy, the Supreme Court agreed on Thursday to hear the dispute over detention practices. A ruling may not come until June 2027.

“The administration has argued that [the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996] requires that federal officials detain any immigrant ‘seeking admission’ — a category that the administration says covers almost every immigrant without legal status — indefinitely without bond,” reports Roll Call. “Hundreds of immigrants have challenged the policy in federal court since last year, and a majority of lower court judges have found the policy violates federal law and the Constitution.” That majority comprises nine of the 13 circuits. Only the Fifth and Eighth Circuits have ruled in favor of the administration.

Pro-illegal-immigration activists do two things: First, they conflate legal and illegal immigrants to gin up emotional sympathy for what Roll Call dubs “every immigrant without legal status.” Second, they ignore the fact that illegals who are caught, given a court date, and released routinely skip that court appearance, fading into “the shadows” and evading arrest again. They then become sympathetic “members of the community” — the beloved dishwasher or yard man — which makes them harder to remove, despite them breaking the law.

It’s like the old taunt, “You wouldn’t hit a guy with glasses, would you?”

The Trump administration aims to thwart this game and deport people who are in the U.S. illegally because federal law, duly passed by Congress, prescribes it. I’m not saying Team Trump gets it right every time; I don’t have nearly the faith in government that leftists do, regardless of who’s in charge.

I’m also not saying that many immigrants, even the illegal ones, aren’t decent people just trying to make a better life for themselves. But breaking federal law has consequences.

The Supreme Court has a mixed record on immigration in recent years. At the end of the last term, the justices correctly ruled that “in” means “in” and “temporary” means “temporary.” It was a big win for administration policies regarding asylum and Temporary Protected Status. However, the Court completely blew it on birthright citizenship, ruling that a newborn’s GPS coordinates matter more than the mother’s legal circumstances under the 14th Amendment. Chief Justice John Roberts and gang gave the thumbs up to anchor babies and birth tourists, and that will have dire consequences for our nation.

To sum it up, immigration policies — admission, detention, deportation, and the rest — are unlikely to be fully settled anytime soon. But immigration remains one of the administration’s greatest successes in Donald Trump’s second term. Voters would do well to remember that this fall.

 

The previous administration was a total nightmare concerning illegal immigration, this post is a perfect example!

 

HHS Refugee Resettlement Office finds six types of fraud in Biden unaccompanied minors program

The Department of Homeland Security refers unaccompanied minors to the ORR's care for vetting when they arrive at the northern and southern borders and 479,000 UACs were referred to the office between 2021 and 2024.

By Misty Severi justthenews.com 10-1-26

The Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Refugee Resettlement released a memo Thursday that identified six different types of fraud in the Biden administration's Unaccompanied Alien Children program.

The office is responsible for vetting potential sponsors for the unaccompanied minors before releasing them to that individual's care. 

The Department of Homeland Security refers unaccompanied minors to the ORR's care for vetting when they arrive at the northern and southern borders and 479,000 UACs were referred to the office between 2021 and 2024.

The HHS’ Office of the General Counsel and ORR said it has identified six types of fraud, which consists of false or fraudulent documentation of identity, manipulated photographs, misrepresented or unverifiable addresses, fingerprint-related fraud, failure to disclose household members and misrepresentation of age by the UAC.

The report concluded that intentional documentation fraud perpetrated by some of the sponsors created conditions that put the children at risk and, in some instances, released them into dangerous or harmful situations.

“The Biden Administration failed in its most basic responsibility: protecting vulnerable children in federal care,” HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. said in a statement. “It weakened safeguards and prioritized speed over scrutiny, leaving children exposed to fraud, exploitation, and abuse. 

"Under President Trump, HHS is restoring rigorous oversight, verifying who takes custody of these children, and putting their safety first," he continued. "We will hold this system accountable and never sacrifice a child’s safety for bureaucratic convenience.”

The department said in one case, a 15-year-old teenage girl was released to someone claiming to be the minor's brother, but it was later revealed that he was not related and allegedly raped and impregnated the teen. The failure occurred because no fingerprints or DNA had been used to verify the relationship.

 

Curtail benefits and entitlements to illegal alien invaders and they will self deport. Problem solved.

 

DOJ sues University of Delaware to end in-state tuition for illegal aliens

Ben Whedon justthenews.com 10-1-26

Under the Trump administration, federal agencies have worked to curtail benefits available to illegal aliens to encourage self-deportation.

The Department of Justice on Thursday filed a complaint against the University of Delaware over its policy of providing in-state tuition to illegal aliens.

“This Department of Justice’s efforts will not cease until we have challenged every state law or university policy that gives preferential treatment to illegal aliens over our Nation’s own citizens,” Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward Jr. said in a statement. “Congress long ago made clear that states cannot give reduced tuition to illegal aliens not available to all Americans. When a state Attorney General allows her own state to violate federal law, this department must step in to enforce it.”

The suit marks the 26th such action from the Trump DOJ against institutions offering in-state tuition to illegal aliens. The DOJ has previously brought cases in states across the country, securing court orders to end the practice in several.

Under the Trump administration, federal agencies have worked to curtail benefits available to illegal aliens to encourage self-deportation.

 

An outstanding history lesson for all of us!

 

The Pilgrims and the Mayflower Compact

The second step toward self-government began in 1620 with 102 people aboard the Mayflower.

  

Linda Moss Mines Contributor patriotpost.us 9-30-26

Most of us were introduced to the Pilgrims and their ship, the Mayflower, as part of a fall remembrance of the “First Thanksgiving,” and that story certainly is inspirational and somewhat true. 

The first gathering between the Plymouth colonists and the Wampanoag people in 1621 was not an event designed to unite the two peoples. Instead, the first day of the three-day harvest gathering began when the Pilgrims fired their guns and cannons to celebrate a successful harvest. The loud noises caused Massasoit and the Wampanoag to fear that an attack was imminent, so the leader gathered 90 of his men and marched toward Plymouth, only to be pleasantly surprised by the foods being prepared for the colony.

Massasoit and his men were invited to stay. Several Wampanoag disappeared for a short time, returning with deer to add to the banquet. No, there was no turkey, mashed potatoes, or pumpkin pie. Diary entries tell us that they ate venison, shellfish, corn porridge and local fowl and fish. 

The first religious day of Thanksgiving did not occur until two years, when a difficult summer drought finally eased up after a prayer service. Again, the Pilgrims and their neighbors shared a harvest feast.

But our story of the second step toward self-government began in 1620 with 102 people aboard the Mayflower and an action that would contribute to the evolution of government in the American colonies and, ultimately, these United States.

After more than 65 days on a storm-tossed Atlantic Ocean, the ship’s lookout sighted land on November 9, 1620. Two days later, the ship anchored in a cove. However, the leaders realized that they were not in Northern Virginia but instead had been blown off course and were now much farther north than anticipated.

Their trip had been authorized under a charter granted by the Virginia Company, and the uncertainty of their colony threatened the group. Some of the non-Pilgrim passengers, referred to as the “Strangers,” threatened to break away and act on their own.

To maintain unity and social order, 41 adult male passengers — Pilgrims, tradesmen, and servants — signed a document believed to have been drafted aboard the ship by William Bradford and John Carver. The document created a “civil body politic” that would enact just laws, pledged the loyalty of all to King James I of England, and created a system by which all agreed to work together for the general good of the colony. It was a private contract between the Pilgrims and the tradesmen (“Strangers”), who had been sent by the Virginia Company to provide the necessary skills for the survival and success of the colony.

In simple but profound terms, the Mayflower Compact provided a written promise to form a government of consent with laws that would bind all — Pilgrims and non-Pilgrims — without religious or political discrimination. As was the tradition of that century, women did not sign.

Why is the Mayflower Compact a significant document in our constitutional-based history? It established a radical idea of government by the “consent of the governed” instead of rule by an absolutist monarch — and James I was indeed an absolutist who believed he ruled by divine authority. The document created a system of governance that existed until the colony became part of the Massachusetts Bay Colony almost 70 years later.

The ideas of communal consent and a social contract between the governed would inspire the framers of both our Declaration of Independence and U.S. Constitution.

These words in the Mayflower Compact remind us that men (and women) are capable of self-government: “doe by these presents solely and mutualy in ye presence of God, and one of another, couenant, & combine our selvues together into a ciuill body politick … and, by virtue hearof, to enacte, constitute, and frame shuch just & equal lawes, ordiances, Acts, constititions & offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meete & coneunient for ye generall good of ye colonie: umtil which we proise all due submission and obedience.”

While their word usage and spelling are different from our current style, there is no doubt as to their intention. Hundreds of miles from the Jamestown Colony and its House of Burgesses, others were attempting to strike a balance between personal freedom and the “greater good.”

Many among us celebrate an ancestor who signed the Mayflower Compact, creating the second posthole for a future Republic. We should be proud, but we must also never forget that the road ahead would not be easy. The document creating our Republic was almost 200 years in the future, but the path was forming — and our ancestors had caught a glimpse of the promised land.