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President Donald Trump will nominate federal judges “rapidly,” he told The Daily Signal on Sunday night.

“We’re putting them in rapidly and trying to get very good ones, but we need judges that are not going to be demanding trials for every single illegal immigrant,” Trump said on Air Force One. “We have millions of people that have come here illegally, and we can’t have a trial for every single person, that would be millions of trials.”

Trump is off to a slower start in nominating judges than his first term, having only nominated one federal judge, Whitney Hermandorfer, who will serve on the 6th Circuit Federal Court of Appeals in Cincinnati, Ohio.

About 100 days into Trump’s first term, the Senate had already confirmed a new Supreme Court justice, Trump had nominated an appeals court judge, and several other prominent judicial nominees were in the queue to be announced within days.

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President Trump on Sunday confirmed he offered to send troops into Mexico, but said the country’s president, Claudia Sheinbaum, is terrified of the cartels.

A day earlier, Sheinbaum had said that she rejected an offer from Trump for American troops to be shipped south of the border for the purpose of combating drug trafficking.

“And do you know what I told him? No, President Trump,” she said. “The territory cannot be violated. Sovereignty cannot be sold. Sovereignty is cherished and defended.”

Republicans have long floated the idea of U.S. military intervention in Mexican territory, a suggestion vehemently rejected by multiple Mexican administrations.

In February, Trump fulfilled a campaign promise by designating several Mexican cartels as terrorist organizations. Members of his administration have also talked about potential drone strikes on the groups.

“Mexico is saying that I offered to send U.S. troops into Mexico to take care of the cartel, she wants to know, is that true?” he said back to a reporter Sunday on Air Force One, later adding that “it’s true.”

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Conservative Republicans have spent more than a decade working toward a wholesale rollback of federal regulations — and now they think they have the legislative battle plan to make it happen.

Advocates of the rule-shredding proposal are seeking to give their legislation a coveted spot in the GOP’s party-line energy, tax and border security megabill, a maneuver that would defuse the filibuster threat that has repeatedly thwarted their dreams. They say they have spent the better part of the past year crafting ways to ensure their latest iteration can pass muster in the Senate.

The proposal would turn Congress into a gatekeeper for certain major rules and allow lawmakers to roll back countless regulations for the remainder of President Donald Trump’s term, drastically transforming the way the federal government oversees everything from businesses and banks to health care and energy development. The House Judiciary Committee advanced it last week as part of the Republicans’ broader budget reconciliation package — a potentially major step toward finally catapulting the deregulatory proposal to Trump’s desk.

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The latest ICE target has been the Lima Lopez Transnational Criminal Organization, also known as the Lopez Human Smuggling Organization (LHSO), is a Guatemala-based human smuggling network tied to money laundering, cartel alliances, and the trafficking of migrants into the United States.

Since 2020, the group’s operations have expanded rapidly across Guatemala, Mexico, and the U.S., fueled by rising migration flows under the Biden administration’s open border policies and strategic partnerships with criminal syndicates like the Juarez Cartel.

Democratic lawmakers and mainstream media have recently criticized ICE for its April 24, 2025, raid on a home in northwest Oklahoma City, part of Operation Take Back America, a long-running investigation into transnational human smuggling.

Surveillance confirmed that members of the Lima Lopez Transnational Criminal Organization remained tied to the property through utility records and legal ownership.

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As a number of rulings have come in this afternoon with federal judges blocking several aspects of Trump’s agenda that he’s tried to enact via vehicles such as executive orders, here’s a brief roundup of those developments.

A judge blocked Donald Trump’s efforts to add a proof of citizenship requirement to the federal voter registration form, a change that voting rights advocates warned would have disenfranchised millions of voters. The president sought to unilaterally add the requirement in a 25 March executive orders. The Democratic party, as well as a slew of civil rights groups, challenged that order, arguing the president does not have the power to set the rules for federal elections. US district judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly agreed with that argument. She also blocked a portion of the executive order that required federal agencies to assess the citizenship of individuals applying to vote at a public assistance agency before they offered them a chance to vote. The order would have made it significantly harder to register to vote, even for eligible voters.

Meanwhile, a federal judge said the Trump administration’s attempt to make federal funding to schools conditional on them eliminating any DEI policies erodes the “foundational principles” that separates the United States from totalitarian regimes. US district judge Landya McCafferty partially blocked the Department of Education from enforcing a memo issued earlier this year that directed any institution that receives federal funding to end discrimination on the basis of race or face funding cuts.

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For some good news closing out the week, Trump’s FBI chief, Kash Patel, is demoting the woke, leftist FBI agents who were seen taking a knee during the George Floyd riots in 2020.

You might recall that many members of the federal government were seen kowtowing to the racist Black Lives Matter insurrectionists who were rampaging across the country and destroy billions of dollars in private property.

Remember this:

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The family of a pro-Palestinian protester says that their home was raided by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents who were investigating the posting of officers’ personal information.

Annie Yang and YuZong Chang told KABC-TV that they were awakened by investigators from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security at their Irvine home in California on Thursday morning.

Drone video captured ICE agents entering the Irvine neighborhood on Thursday morning, and neighbors recorded video from their windows.

The couple said the officers were looking for their son, Michael Chang. His father told KABC that they were investigating posters that exposed personal details of ICE officers in public places in Los Angeles about three months prior.

“They say they traced back the IP,” said Yang.

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For years, Democrats have wielded the phrase “no one is above the law” like a cudgel, particularly when it suited their political vendettas against Donald Trump and other political opponents.

Of course, they never really meant it. All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, Hillary Clinton, Anthony Fauci, and other “allies” are above the law — as are illegal aliens (amazingly).

But never let hypocrisy get in the way of a good talking point, right?

During his first term, they chanted it as they pushed the Russia collusion hoax, impeachment circuses, and endless investigations built on evidence so weak that if I had to choose between standing on a wet paper towel suspended over the Grand Canyon or their evidence, I would choose the paper towel.

When Trump was out of office, their zeal only intensified. New York Attorney General Letitia James campaigned on a promise to “get” Trump, weaponizing her office to pursue civil fraud cases built on shaky grounds. Special Counsel Jack Smith, appointed by the Biden Department of Justice, went after Trump with indictments over classified documents and January 6 cases that many legal scholars argued were more about politics than justice.

The left’s mantra was clear: Trump, his supporters, and anyone who dared challenge their narrative must be held accountable, no matter how flimsy the charges or how selective the enforcement.

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Democrats might want to rethink making Kilmar Abrego-Garcia the face of their movement if newly released body cam footage is any indication of where things are headed. And to be clear, that’s rhetorical, because it’s absolutely an indication of where things are headed.

For those unfamiliar with the Abrego-Garcia saga, the illegal immigrant was recently deported back to his home country of El Salvador. Because he was sent to CECOT, the Central American nation’s gang prison (mostly made up of MS-13 members), controversy broke out about whether sufficient due process was given. Multiple judges have been involved, and the Trump administration has been ordered to “facilitate” Abrego-Garcia’s return to the United States.

There’s just one problem: El Salvador said no, and since he’s their citizen, the United States has no ability to undo his deportation. That’s left the two sides of the issue in a stalemate.

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A California Democratic representative told reporters Wednesday that she counted illegal immigrants as some of her constituents.

Democratic California Rep. Norma Torres made the remark at a press conference promoting her Fairness to Freedom Act — a bill seeking to give people who cannot afford to pay their legal fees the right to government-funded legal representation while undergoing specific immigration proceedings, such as removal and immigration bond hearings. Torres introduced the bill in 2023.

“Everyone living in my district is my constituent, and I am there to serve and to be a public servant for them. Everyone who pays taxes is a constituent of all members of Congress, including immigrants that have filed for a tax ID and are denied any benefits,” Torres told reporters.

Torres made the comment in response to a question from Daily Signal journalism fellow George Caldwell.

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The New York Times, along with multiple other outlets, chastised President Donald Trump for allegedly breaking the Vatican’s dress code for Pope Francis’s funeral on Saturday.

The featured image of their story was cropped in such a way as to suggest that Trump was the only leader in a blue suit at the event.

The Times’ chief fashion critic, Vanessa Friedman, wrote that President Emmanuel Macron of France, Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Great Britain, and Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni of Italy all wore black.

But, “Mr. Trump? He was wearing blue. And not even dark, midnight blue, but a clear, sapphire-like blue, with matching tie. Amid all the black and Cardinal red, it popped out like a sign.”

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Ahead of next week’s papal conclave, Friday’s edition of CBS Evening News was caught in a tough situation. On one hand, being the diversity-conscious liberal show that it is, Africa correspondent Debora Patta lamented Africans are not reflected in the Vatican’s halls of power despite Catholicism growing in the area. On the other, Patta warned that an African pope would not be the pro-LGBTQ reformer liberals would want him to be.

Talking over footage of African worshipers, Patta set the scene, “This is the face of the Catholic Church’s future. The African continent is its fastest growing region. Home to at least one-fifth of its followers. That’s more than 272 million people.”

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The Trump administration is now offering $1,000 and flight assistance to any illegal migrant that leaves the United States of their own volition.

An illegal migrant who uses the Trump administration’s CBP Home app to self-deport will receive a $1,000 stipend from the U.S. government, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced in a Monday press release. The “historic opportunity” provides financial and travel assistance to those who leave on their own accord, freeing up resources for immigration authorities stretched thin with the current pace of detentions and deportations.

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Colorado Democrats are moving forward with immigration bills, despite a lawsuit from the Department of Justice over sanctuary laws in the state and the city of Denver.

On Saturday, the state House of Representatives passed a bill limiting how local law enforcement can interact with federal immigration authorities.

Senate Bill 25-276 passed on a party-line vote, with Democrats in favor. The Senate, which approved it in April, needs to sign off on changes made in the House before the bill heads to Gov. Jared Polis’ desk. […]

The bill would prohibit local government officials and employees from sharing personal identifying information about immigration status with ICE and would also limit where ICE can go within a public school, child care facility, hospital and library without a warrant signed by a judge. A House amendment removed the inclusion of “surrounding areas” to those banned spaces.

Public officials who intentionally violate that data sharing provision would be liable for a $50,000 civil fine, which would go to the state’s immigration legal defense fund.

The bill would also prevent local sheriffs from delaying a person’s release from jail for the purpose of immigration enforcement, get rid of certain affidavit requirements for immigrants seeking in-state tuition or a drivers license, and allow immigrant defendants to ask that a guilty plea is overturned if they were not aware of immigration consequences of that plea when they made it.

“This bill does not provide immigrants with more rights than citizens, but it ensures equal treatment under the law,” bill sponsor Rep. Elizabeth Velasco, a Glenwood Springs Democrat, said. (Real Vail)

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During Sunday’s broadcast of Fox News Channel’s “Life, Liberty & Levin,” former House Speaker Newt Gingrich discussed what he deemed “dictatorship by judge,” referring to the district courts working to overrule President Donald Trump.

Gingrich suggested Trump revisit former President Thomas Jefferson’s efforts to eliminate courts by repealing the Judiciary Act of 1801.

“You know, Newt, last segment I asked you, what is their program?” host Mark Levin said.

“And I want to catch myself, we know what their program is. It’s the same old thing. It’s American Marxism.”

“I wrote a whole book on it, so they don’t really want to talk about that, do they? They want to go back to what they always go back to. But is that going to work?”

“Well, we don’t have any evidence it’s going to work,” Gingrich replied.

“Look, you have a whole generation growing up, which saw the government lie to it about COVID, and saw the government lie to it about Russia, Russia, Russia; saw the FBI being corrupted, and saw the lies about Afghanistan, etc.”

“So, over in a poll we do at America’s New Majority Project, over 80% of the American people believe the government is corrupt. Now that’s really dangerous in a free society, and what Trump is doing is he’s taking on the corruption.”

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He was linked to five separate Snapchat profiles, which were used to talk to minors.

A man in East Tennessee was in court on Thursday after he was charged with child sex crimes and conspiring to sexually abuse a young girl. Joseph Brandon, an actor in film and television, saw his home raided amid accusations that he had partnered with a Michigan man to create sexual abuse material. Brandon is also an Antifa influencer who sells t-shirts emblazoned with the words “I am Antifa mother f*cker.”

The alleged plot involved posing “as a young girl on social media to trick another young girl into sharing nude photos,” per WBIR. Accused co-conspirator Michael Bledsoe’s home in Haslett, Michigan, was also searched by the FBI. Court documents reveal that the duo used the messaging app Kik to coordinate their plan to “befriend a girl on Snapchat by pretending to be a girl around her age, and he would use the friendship to try and get sexually explicit images.”

Brandon, who wrote a book on parenting, is also revealed to have admitted, per court documents, “to pulling this same scheme for other men he met online.” He also said “he had success in getting child pornography from other minors.” He was linked to five separate Snapchat profiles, which were used to talk to minors. It was during the search of Beldsoe’s Michigan home that Brandon’s involvement was discovered.

Brandon is an Antifa activist and leftist social media influencer, Andy Ngo writes, who has made videos against Christians and has urged others to kill Proud Boys. He’s also called for direct actions against churches that do not affirm trans and queer ideology and believes that being friends with a Republican is equivalent to being a Nazi.

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Alarming new evidence has emerged to reveal that a top virologist working in Dr. Anthony Fauci’s U.S. biolab engineered COVID-19 to spread more effectively among humans.

Working under Fauci, virologist Ralph Baric reportedly engineered the virus as part of the 2018 DEFUSE project.

The project was designed to modify coronaviruses to study their transmission risks.

The DEFUSE project was first revealed through leaked documents obtained by U.S. Right to Know (USRTK).

Secret documents on the project were leaked by Major Joseph Murphy, an employee of the US military research agency DARPA, in the summer of 2021

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Liberals will tell you that all illegal immigrants are just good-hearted people who want to work as maids, gardeners, crop pickers, and do the “jobs that Americans don’t want to do.” We always knew that sounded kind of racist and wasn’t true, but Donald Trump has fully exposed the lies of the Biden administration by proving that—despite Ole Joe’s assertion that he couldn’t stop the human tsunami—it could actually be done relatively quickly.

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The most memorable meme of the recent Canadian election campaign emerged from the line outside an Ontario microbrewery, where an older Liberal Party supporter named Matt Janes flashed two middle fingers to protesters agitating against Prime Minister Mark Carney.

The obscenity went viral — with Janes becoming infamous as the Brantford Boomer — not just for its crass vulgarity, but for exposing the deep generational divide in Canada.

Polls showed Canadians boomers overwhelmingly backing the successful Liberal campaign, which Carney centered on confronting U.S. President Donald Trump and his threats to annex the country. Younger Canadians stuck living with their parents and unable to afford starting families supported the Conservative Party, which campaigned on cost-of-living issues, combating crime, and reversing what leader Pierre Poilievre branded the “lost decade” of economic malaise under former prime minister Justin Trudeau.