Texas Democratic Senate nominee M.J. Hegar repeatedly equated U.S. immigration policies to Uyghur concentration camps in China, saying Americans “cannot lecture China” on human rights issues. Source: Cornyn Challenger Equates U.S. Border Policies to Chinese Concentration Camps – Washington Free Beacon

By: Eric Mack – newsmax.com – April 21, 2020 President Donald Trump announced a temporary immigration ban Monday that a conservative-leaning poll from three days ago found had 70% support among voters, The Washington Times reported. “Seventy percent of registered voters believe the federal government should place a temporary ban on allowing people from any other country to enter the United...

By: Ellen Mitchell – thehill.com – February 17, 2020 Lawmakers are calling out the Trump administration over its latest plan to shift billions of dollars meant for the Pentagon’s budget to instead pay for border wall construction. The top Democrat and Republican on the House Armed Services Committee are among the numerous lawmakers that last week pushed back on President...

By: Jason Hopkins – dailycaller.com – February 10, 2020 After a New York Times op-ed writer said President Donald Trump’s stories about immigrant crime were “bogus,” a spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security provided him with examples. David Brooks, an opinion writer for The New York Times, appeared on PBS NewsHour on Feb. 7 to discuss a slate of political...

By: Meredith Lawrence – dallasobserver.com – January 15, 2020 A federal judge in the U.S. District Court of Appeals in Maryland issued a preliminary injunction Wednesday morning blocking the executive order that allowed Gov. Greg Abbott to reject all new refugees to Texas. In a 31-page ruling, U.S. District Judge Peter Messitte blocked the order, stating that the plaintiffs would...

By: Sarah McConnell – thetexan.news – November 14, 2019 At a White House press briefing earlier today, acting U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner Mark Morgan announced that the number of apprehensions during the month of October decreased, marking five consecutive months apprehension levels have declined.  With last month’s border statistics revealing a 12-year high in apprehension at the end...

By: Merrill Matthews – ipi.org – October 9, 2019 President Donald Trump issued a “Proclamation” on Oct. 4 requiring many immigrants seeking a U.S. visa to prove they will have health insurance coverage within 30 days of entering the country. While we are skeptical that such a requirement will save taxpayers a lot of money, it’s still the right thing to do. The Proclamation...

By: Hans A. von Spakovsky – heritage.org – October 4th, 2019 The propaganda, surveillance, and censorship of Big Brother in George Orwell’s novel “1984” has now arrived in New York. The city’s Commission on Human Rights recently released new legal enforcement guidelines that ban the use of the term “illegal alien” by employers, housing providers (including hotels), and law enforcement as “discriminatory.” Violators can be...

By: Hans A. von Spakovsky – heritage.org – October 4th, 2019 The propaganda, surveillance, and censorship of Big Brother in George Orwell’s novel “1984” has now arrived in New York. The city’s Commission on Human Rights recently released new legal enforcement guidelines that ban the use of the term “illegal alien” by employers, housing providers (including hotels), and law enforcement as “discriminatory.” Violators can be...

By: Ted Hesson –  politico.com – September 8, 2019 President Donald Trump’s plan to force Mexico to stem the flow of migrants across the southwest border of the U.S. appears to be working. Border arrests, a metric for illegal crossings, plummeted to 51,000 in August, according to preliminary government figures obtained by POLITICO Wednesday, down more than 60 percent since...