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March 17, 2025
Immigration

A Judge Tried to Keep Violent Gang Members in America. It Was Too Late.

The United States has deported over 250 individuals, primarily Venezuelan gang members, to El Salvador, following an order from President Donald J. Trump invoking the Alien Enemies Act. A federal judge subsequently attempted to block the deportations, but they proceeded despite his ruling.

El Salvador’s President, Nayib Bukele, confirmed the arrival of 238 Venezuelan and 23 Salvadoran gang members, including those affiliated with Tren de Aragua (TdA) and MS-13. This transfer is part of an agreement for the U.S. to fund their containment within El Salvador’s 40,000-capacity “terrorism confinement center,” a facility central to Bukele’s anti-gangs initiative.

The Trump administration labeled TdA a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) last month, citing unlawful infiltration of and hostility against the U.S. For instance, there were numerous instances documented of  TdA gang members taking over apartment complexes in Colorado over the summer. The 18th-century Alien Enemies Act, historically invoked during wartime, was used to expedite these deportations.

U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg had expanded a ruling to temporarily block this action, aiming to reverse deportations in progress. However, President Bukele posting about the flights landing indicates they were beyond reversal. Following this, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio thanked Bukele for his cooperation.

El Salvador’s Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT) has been a focal point of international attention, being termed both a robust crime deterrent by conservatives and a violation of human rights by liberals.

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The United States has deported over 250 individuals, primarily Venezuelan gang members, to El Salvador, following an order from President Donald J. Trump invoking the Alien Enemies Act. A federal judge subsequently attempted to block the deportations, but they proceeded despite his ruling. show more
March 14, 2025
Crime
Immigration

Illegal Immigrant Accused of Fatally Beating Infant.

An illegal immigrant in New York has been arrested and accused of fatally assaulting his two-month-old daughter. Marlon Rabanales-Pretzantzin, 20, was charged with second-degree murder following his arrest on Wednesday, related to the death of his daughter, Liseyda Rabanales Barrios. Authorities responded to a call concerning a choking incident at an Inwood residence on March 7, shortly after 10:30 AM. Emergency services transported the infant to a hospital and later to another facility, where she succumbed to her injuries.

Nassau County Police Department’s investigation revealed signs of physical abuse, including abrasions and fractures on the infant. Detective Capt. Stephen Fitzpatrick stated that Rabanales-Pretzantzin “admitted to us what had happened with the baby, how he abused it physically, how he felt the child wasn’t his, and how he did not respect or want that child.” He added that the illegal had admitted he “hit the child several times around the head and face” and “threw the child on the ground.”

Also residing in the home with Rabanales-Pretzantzin was the children’s 20-year-old mother. Another child, a one-year-old boy, was removed for medical evaluation, though police do not suspect the mother’s involvement in the alleged abuse.

Rabanales-Pretzantzin was arraigned without bail in Nassau County Court on Thursday. Patrick Ryder, Nassau County Police Commissioner, confirmed that the accused is originally from Guatemala and had entered the U.S. via El Paso, Texas, under the former Biden government policy commonly called “catch and release.”

Ryder stated that once Rabanales-Pretzantzin’s legal proceedings are completed in Nassau County, a determination will be made regarding his deportation.

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An illegal immigrant in New York has been arrested and accused of fatally assaulting his two-month-old daughter. Marlon Rabanales-Pretzantzin, 20, was charged with second-degree murder following his arrest on Wednesday, related to the death of his daughter, Liseyda Rabanales Barrios. Authorities responded to a call concerning a choking incident at an Inwood residence on March 7, shortly after 10:30 AM. Emergency services transported the infant to a hospital and later to another facility, where she succumbed to her injuries. show more
March 14, 2025
Jack Montgomery
Immigration

Trump Admin Acts Against Two More Columbia University Hamas Supporters.

Ranjani Srinivasan, an Indian migrant “who had her student visa revoked for advocating for violence and terrorism” against Israel, has “self-deported,” according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The department says the Columbia University student used the CBP One app—used by the Biden regime to admit hundreds of thousands of migrants to the U.S. but converted into a self-deportation tool by the Trump administration—to facilitate her departure. Her visa had been revoked on March 5.

Meanwhile, another Columbia student accused of participating in pro-Hamas demonstrations, Leqaa Kordia, has been arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for overstaying her expired F-1 student visa. Kordia is a Palestinian, originally from the West Bank.

“It is a privilege to be granted a visa to live & study in the United States of America,” Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said of her department’s moves against the students. “When you advocate for violence and terrorism that privilege should be revoked and you should not be in this country,” she continued, adding she was “glad to see one of the Columbia University terrorist sympathizers use the CBP Home app to self deport.”

This follows the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia graduate and permanent resident, by ICE for his leading role in anti-Israel campus encampments. President Donald J. Trump said of Khalil, “If you support terrorism, including the slaughtering of innocent men, women, and children, your presence is contrary to our national and foreign policy interests, and you are not welcome here.” However, his deportation is on pause after a judge intervened.

Khalil turns out to have worked for the British government in Syria and received a security clearance from London.

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Ranjani Srinivasan, an Indian migrant "who had her student visa revoked for advocating for violence and terrorism" against Israel, has "self-deported," according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The department says the Columbia University student used the CBP One app—used by the Biden regime to admit hundreds of thousands of migrants to the U.S. but converted into a self-deportation tool by the Trump administration—to facilitate her departure. Her visa had been revoked on March 5. show more
March 13, 2025
Corruption
Crime
Immigration

Trump DOJ Investigates NYC Illegal Immigrant Hotels for Criminal Activity.

President Donald J. Trump’s Department of Justice (DOJ) has issued subpoenas to two New York City hotels that were converted into aid centers and shelters for illegal immigrants. The subpoenas order the infamous Roosevelt Hotel and the Stewart Hotel to provide federal prosecutors with the names of individuals, contractors, and other entities that oversaw the “funding and management of the illegal immigrant/migrant shelter program.” Additionally, the DOJ is seeking the names and other identifying information of the individuals who stayed at both hotels.

In addition to the Roosevelt Hotel and the Stewart Hotel, the Hotel Chandler also received a DOJ subpoena. While the Hotel Chandler is being operated ostensibly as a homeless shelter, it appears federal prosecutors believe the facility has either housed illegal immigrants in the past or is connected financially to the other two hotels.

The DOJ investigation is centered on suspected violations of federal immigration law and is explicitly directed at the hotels and their operators rather than New York City government officials. Since its conversion to an aid center and shelter in May 2023, the Roosevelt Hotel alone has processed 173,000 illegal immigrants. In exchange for serving as a shelter, the New York City government agreed to pay up to $220 million to the hotel, which is owned by the Pakistani government, as part of a larger financial arrangement involving an International Monetary Fund (IMF) bailout package.

Currently, the city provides shelter and assistance to around 45,000 illegal immigrants—down from a peak of around 70,000 in January last year. Notably, Mayor Eric Adams testified before Congress that his city has spent nearly $7 billion on housing and feeding an estimated 232,000 illegal immigrants since 2022.

The National Pulse reported in late February that Adams announced that the city is moving to shut down the Roosevelt Hotel shelter facility.

Image by Billy Hathorn.

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President Donald J. Trump's Department of Justice (DOJ) has issued subpoenas to two New York City hotels that were converted into aid centers and shelters for illegal immigrants. The subpoenas order the infamous Roosevelt Hotel and the Stewart Hotel to provide federal prosecutors with the names of individuals, contractors, and other entities that oversaw the "funding and management of the illegal immigrant/migrant shelter program." Additionally, the DOJ is seeking the names and other identifying information of the individuals who stayed at both hotels. show more
March 12, 2025
Jack Montgomery
Immigration

Trump’s ICE Reveals Biden Regime ‘Cooked the Books’ on Illegals, ‘Purposely Misleading’ the Public.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrests since President Donald J. Trump took office are already outpacing arrests made in all of 2024, the agency said Wednesday—and the Biden government had been “cooking the books” to produce its numbers. “We have uncovered that the previous administration… was cooking the books on ICE data,” acting ICE Director Todd Lyons told reporters. “They were purposely misleading the American people by categorizing individuals processed and released into the interior of the United States as ICE arrests.”

Lyons confirmed a “comprehensive review was done internally here with ICE,” finding “tens of thousands of cases that were recorded as arrests when, in fact, these instances were illegal aliens that were simply processed and released into the American communities,” he said.

Senior officials report that the majority of the 113,431 arrests made in FY 2024 were so-called “pass-through” arrests, meaning that ICE did not take enforcement action against those migrants and instead released them into the interior. No arrests made by ICE under the Trump administration have been pass-through arrests: “What we are doing now is actual immigration enforcement, not enforcement theater,” an official said.

For interior arrests, ICE made 33,242 at-large arrests in FY 2024. For comparison, officials say ICE made 32,809 arrests from January 20 to March 10, meaning they will surpass the FY 2024 number this week.

The Trump administration says its efforts are already yielding positive results. Just this week, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced that it had replaced the controversial CBP One app with a new CBP Home app that helps facilitate self-deportations.

“After four years of not being allowed to effectively do their jobs, our agents and officers are excited to get to work and fulfill the agency’s mission,” Lyons said.

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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrests since President Donald J. Trump took office are already outpacing arrests made in all of 2024, the agency said Wednesday—and the Biden government had been "cooking the books" to produce its numbers. "We have uncovered that the previous administration… was cooking the books on ICE data," acting ICE Director Todd Lyons told reporters. "They were purposely misleading the American people by categorizing individuals processed and released into the interior of the United States as ICE arrests." show more
March 12, 2025
Immigration
News

Ex-Obama Aides Slam ADL for Backing Trump Deportations.

Two former Obama government officials have criticized the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) for its endorsement of President Donald J. Trump’s order to deport foreign-born students protesting Israel. The controversy follows the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil, a permanent U.S. resident with British government ties, by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) under the new directive targeting student protesters who support the Hamas terrorist group.

The ADL expressed its support for Khalil’s detention, citing the need for significant repercussions for those involved in activities such as providing material support to foreign terrorist organizations and inciting violence. The organization added that Khalil’s arrest should serve as a deterrent against future antisemitic protests.

Jon Lovett, a former speechwriter for President Barack Obama, openly criticized the ADL’s stance. Lovett denounced the ADL’s statement as “shameful,” emphasizing that crimes should be charged accordingly without infringing upon First Amendment rights or revoking immigration status as a form of protest punishment.

Lovett expressed his disillusionment with the ADL, suggesting that the organization no longer represents American Jewish interests, and called for financial support to be withdrawn.

Ben Rhodes, who served as deputy national security adviser under Obama, echoed Lovett’s sentiments, also labeling the ADL’s statement as “shameful.”

President Trump has also cracked down on universities that have allowed antisemitic protests on their campuses, cutting millions in federal funding.

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Two former Obama government officials have criticized the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) for its endorsement of President Donald J. Trump's order to deport foreign-born students protesting Israel. The controversy follows the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil, a permanent U.S. resident with British government ties, by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) under the new directive targeting student protesters who support the Hamas terrorist group. show more
March 12, 2025
William Upton
Immigration

Foreign-Born Share of U.S. Population Hit All-Time High in January.

The foreign-born share of the United States population hit an all-time high in January, according to the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS). At 15.8 percent of the total U.S. population, the ratio of foreign-born individuals living in the country to native-born now exceeds prior highs reached during the mass immigration influxes experienced in 1890 and 1910.

Citing data from the federal government’s January 2025 Current Population Survey (CPS), the CIS report reveals that at the start of the year, there were 53.3 million foreign-born individuals residing in the U.S. The immigration policy group notes that this represents an 8.3 million increase from the total foreign-born population share when former President Joe Biden took office in 2021. Additionally, CIS estimates that of the 8.3 million increase, at least 5.4 million—or two-thirds—are illegal immigrants. It should be noted that CIS states these numbers do not include potentially millions of foreign-born individuals missed by the federal government survey.

“At 15.8 percent of the total U.S. population, the foreign-born share is higher now than at the prior peaks reached in 1890 and 1910. No U.S. government survey or census has ever shown such a large foreign-born population,” the CIS report states, continuing: “The current numbers have rendered Census Bureau projections obsolete. Just two years ago, the Bureau projected the foreign-born share would not reach 15.8 percent until 2042.”

Noting that the government figures represent net growth, the CIS report contends: “Our best estimate is that 11.5 to 12.5 million legal and illegal immigrants settled in the country in the last four years,” adding, “…our preliminary estimate is that there are 15.4 million illegal immigrants in the January 2025 CPS, an increase of more than 50 percent (5.4 million) over the last four years in the survey.”

Image by Gage Skidmore.

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The foreign-born share of the United States population hit an all-time high in January, according to the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS). At 15.8 percent of the total U.S. population, the ratio of foreign-born individuals living in the country to native-born now exceeds prior highs reached during the mass immigration influxes experienced in 1890 and 1910. show more
March 12, 2025
Jack Montgomery
Immigration
UK

Trump’s ‘Radical Pro-Hamas’ Student Deportee Has UK Govt Security Clearance: REPORT.

Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian Columbia University graduate and U.S. permanent resident now detained in a federal jail in Louisiana following his arrest by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents on Saturday night, previously worked with the British government. Khalil emerged as a key figure during the anti-Israel campus encampment in the spring of 2024, serving as a lead negotiator for student protesters. His arrest over the weekend prompted a federal judge to issue a temporary block on his deportation, leaving his fate hanging in the balance as legal proceedings unfold.

President Donald J. Trump branded Khalil a “Radical Foreign Pro-Hamas Student” on Monday, hailing his arrest as “the first of many to come” for foreign agitators. “We know there are more students at Columbia and other Universities across the Country who have engaged in pro-terrorist, anti-Semitic, anti-American activity, and the Trump Administration will not tolerate it,” he wrote on his Truth Social platform. “Many are not students, they are paid agitators. We will find, apprehend, and deport these terrorist sympathizers from our country—never to return again. If you support terrorism, including the slaughtering of innocent men, women, and children, your presence is contrary to our national and foreign policy interests, and you are not welcome here.”

From 2018 to 2022, Khalil worked as a program manager at the British Embassy’s Syria Office in Beirut, Lebanon, overseeing the Syria Chevening Program—a prestigious British scholarship initiative. Online records confirm his role in managing these efforts, which aimed to foster ties with future global leaders for Britain’s Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office (FCDO).

Andrew Waller, a former British diplomat and policy advisor at the Syria Office during Khalil’s tenure, told Middle East Eye that Khalil “went through a vetting process to get the job and was cleared to work on sensitive issues for the British government.”

Waller described the Chevening scholarship as a “flagship UK soft power policy” that draws top talent worldwide to British universities. “Mahmoud ran its Syria program and interviewed hundreds, if not thousands, of applicants on behalf of the British government,” he said. Khalil also served as a “local staff political officer,” leveraging his linguistic skills to support high-level meetings.

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Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian Columbia University graduate and U.S. permanent resident now detained in a federal jail in Louisiana following his arrest by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents on Saturday night, previously worked with the British government. Khalil emerged as a key figure during the anti-Israel campus encampment in the spring of 2024, serving as a lead negotiator for student protesters. His arrest over the weekend prompted a federal judge to issue a temporary block on his deportation, leaving his fate hanging in the balance as legal proceedings unfold. show more
March 12, 2025
Culture
Immigration
News

Nearly 1 Million in Britain Struggle To Speak English.

Nearly a million people in Britain cannot speak English fluently, with over 130,000 unable to speak a word of the language native to the British Isles. According to the 2021 UK Census, approximately 10 percent of the United Kingdom’s foreign-born population—equivalent to 932,208 people — face challenges in speaking English.

The data provided by the UK Statistics Authority to the Conservative Party shows that 8.6 percent, or 794,332 people, have limited English skills, and 1.4 percent, or 137,876 individuals, cannot speak the language at all. Consequently, just over half of migrants aged 16 and above reported that English is their primary language, and only 38.4 percent state they can speak English well.

The UK’s population reached 67.6 million in mid-2022 and is projected to rise to 72.5 million by 2032. Net migration is expected to be around 631,000 this year, a decrease from the recent high of 906,000.

Criticism is mounting against Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s government regarding migration policy management. Subsequently, the government has dismissed allegations of inefficacy in addressing people smuggling across the Channel. The ruling Labour Party continues to resist calls to implement a migration cap.

Meanwhile, some estimate that as many as one in twelve residents of London, Britain’s largest city, are illegal immigrants.

Image by Lauren Hurley / No 10 Downing Street. 

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Nearly a million people in Britain cannot speak English fluently, with over 130,000 unable to speak a word of the language native to the British Isles. According to the 2021 UK Census, approximately 10 percent of the United Kingdom's foreign-born population—equivalent to 932,208 people — face challenges in speaking English. show more
March 12, 2025
Crime
Immigration
UK

Migrants Over 70% More Likely to Commit Sex Crimes Than Native Britons.

Migrants are 70 percent more likely to commit sex crimes compared to natives in Great Britain, new data reveals. While details on the ethnic and migration backgrounds of offenders remain undisclosed by authorities, figures released via Freedom of Information requests by the Centre for Migration Control highlight a notable trend.

From 2021 to 2023, migrants or individuals with “unknown” nationality accounted for nearly 23 percent of all sexual offenses, including rape, in Britain. This statistic is notable given that migrants represent approximately 9.3 percent of the population.

The Centre for Migration Control’s analysis reveals significant variations among different groups. North Africans reportedly have a 6.6-fold increased likelihood of committing sex crimes compared to Britons. Similarly, Middle Eastern individuals are 3.8 times more likely, and Sub-Saharan Africans are 2.6 times more likely to be convicted of such offenses.

The think tank’s research identified 87 foreign ethnic groups with sex crime conviction rates surpassing those of native Britons. Government figures highlight that individuals from Afghanistan and Eritrea face over 20 times the likelihood of sex offense convictions compared to the native population.

In the broader context of crime, migrants are disproportionately represented. Over 100,000 migrants were convicted of serious crimes in Britain from 2021 to 2023. Figures released last year revealed that Albanians offend the most, with an incarceration rate of 232.33 per 10,000 people.

 

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Migrants are 70 percent more likely to commit sex crimes compared to natives in Great Britain, new data reveals. While details on the ethnic and migration backgrounds of offenders remain undisclosed by authorities, figures released via Freedom of Information requests by the Centre for Migration Control highlight a notable trend. show more