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ICE Apprehends 934 Illegal Aliens in Raids, Delivers Inspection Notices to Check Hiring Records of Businesses in 50 States

BY VENUS UPADHAYAYA, EPOCH TIMES U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has apprehended 934 illegal aliens who have final removal orders but are still in the country. ICE has also delivered notices of inspection to businesses to check their hiring records in all 50 states. “U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement conducted a comprehensive interior enforcement initiative—targeting charged or […]

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Pence Rebuts Mueller Claim He Didn’t Meet With Trump as FBI Director Candidate Day Before Appointment

BY ZACHARY STIEBER Vice President Mike Pence said that he was in the Oval Office when Robert Mueller met with President Donald Trump as a candidate for the position of FBI director. Mueller claimed during his testimony before Congress on July 24 that he met with Trump but “not as a candidate.” Mueller did not give further details as Rep. Louie […]

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Tight-lipped Mueller faces GOP ire over probe’s handling, as hearing retreads Russia report

By Alex Pappas, Judson Berger | Fox News Former Special Counsel Robert Mueller faced a barrage of criticism Wednesday from House Republicans for his handling of the collusion and obstruction investigations into President Trump, as his fiery congressional hearing gave the probes detractors a rare chance to confront him. At the same time, the highly anticipated testimony offered little in […]

Posted inBudget & Spending

Trump announces ‘real compromise’ on budget deal, as fiscal hawks and some Dems cry foul

By Gregg Re | Fox News The Trump administration and congressional leaders, including Democrats, have reached a critical debt and budget agreement that all but eliminates the risk of another government shut down this fall — but that has already drawn fierce blow back from fiscal conservatives worried about overspending, as well as progressives unhappy with where the money could […]

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Liberal activists turning away from Bernie

By Chris Stirewalt | Fox News LIBERAL ACTIVISTS TURNING AWAY FROM BERNIEPolitico: “Elizabeth Warren has cut sharply into Bernie Sanders’ front-runner standing among members of the progressive political action committee Democracy for America, according to the group’s latest straw poll, while Kamala Harris vaulted ahead of Joe Biden into third place. Pete Buttigieg, the South Bend, Ind., mayor who was previously running third among […]

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Arizona Dem Kyrsten Sinema joins GOP in push for program that would quickly deport migrants without valid asylum claims

By Adam Shaw | Fox News Freshman Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., was one of a number of Democrats to join Republican colleagues this week who called for the implementation of a pilot program that would work to quickly identify and deport migrants at the border who are judged not to have a valid asylum claim. Sinema, along with Sen. Joe […]

Posted inNational News

Poll: 54 Percent of Americans in the South Approve of President Trump

By Janita Kan A new poll has found that 54 percent of Americans in the south approve the way President Donald Trump is handling his job as the country’s commander-in-chief. According to the recent NBC News|SurveyMonkey online poll (pdf), conducted between July 2 and 16, 38 percent of Americans in the south “strongly approve” of Trump’s job as president, while […]

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Republicans Introduce Bill To Label Antifa Domestic Terrorists After Attack on ICE Facility

BY ZACHARY STIEBER Republican Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Bill Cassidy (R-La.) introduced a bill on July 18 that would label Antifa a domestic terror organization after police in Washington said an Antifa member committed a terror attack on an immigration facility and Antifa members battered a journalist in Portland in broad daylight without being arrested. “Antifa is […]

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Border deaths declined in Trump’s first two years in office, data shows

By Hollie McKay | Fox News A gut-wrenching photograph late last month of a father and daughter in the Rio Grande – while attempting to cross from Mexico into the United States – sharply exacerbated existing tensions over the ongoing border and migration crisis dividing Americans. But while politicians and Presidential hopefuls expressed their outrage and pointed […]

Posted inJudicial Watch

Illegal Aliens Released from Local Custody Commit More Crimes—Honduran Freed 10 Times

Following a Judicial Watch lawsuit, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has reinstated a reporting system that informs the public about illegal immigrants who commit crimes after being released from state or local custody. The offenders are shielded by sanctuary policies that ban local law enforcement from honoring Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainers placed on illegal aliens […]

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House holds Barr, Ross in criminal contempt, as GOP decries ‘more political theater’

By Gregg Re | Fox News The Democrat-controlled House of Representatives on Wednesday voted to hold Attorney General Bill Barr and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross in criminal contempt, saying they were stonewalling congressional probes into the Trump administration’s efforts to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census. The vote was one of a series of rapid-fire developments to rock the House, coming less […]

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Trump slams progressive congresswomen at fiery ‘MAGA’ rally in North Carolina

By Vandana Rambaran | Fox News President Trump, at a fiery “Make America Great Again” campaign rally Wednesday night in Greenville, North Carolina, blasted four progressive congresswomen, Reps. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York and Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts, with whom he continues to spar after an ongoing feud over comments he made against them that critics […]