One of the Biggest Fraud Rings You Never Heard of: Social Adult Daycares — Billions in NYC alone

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As a taxpayer I am sickened at the abuse and contempt of hardworking Americans.

CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz joined investigative influencer Nick Shirley in New York City to confront operators of suspected Medicare and Medicaid fraud schemes. Visiting elderly daycare centers and medical equipment companies, there are major red flags,  including three medical supply companies allegedly operating out of a single apartment with no inventory. Calling the suspected scams a massive theft of taxpayer dollars, Oz said the government has failed to stop fraudsters who he claimed are making millions each month through bogus billing operations.

In NYC alone billions in fraud, sanctioned by Democrat politicians who are voting themselves massive raises, have been discovered.

‘Major Red Flags’: Dr. Oz Joins MAGA Influencer Nick Shirley to Confront Alleged Fraudsters

Kathryn Wilkens 

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz joined MAGA influencer Nick Shirley to confront alleged fraudsters in New York City, with Oz stressing that the experience showed “major red flags” in a video posted on Friday.

Oz, a member of President Donald Trump’s administration, accompanied Shirley to a variety of different elderly daycare centers and medical equipment companies across the city, confronting folks who they say are committing both Medicare and Medicaid fraud — many of whom either did not speak English or seemed hesitant to answer questions about the services they provide.

“One of the largest fraud schemes in America is taking place in New York City as billions of dollars are being defrauded by organized Korean and Chinese mafias, along with other foreigners operating and stealing taxpayer dollars,” Shirley claimed.

“It’s almost certainly fraud,” Oz said of an apartment they visited where three durable medical companies allegedly operate from, purporting that the benefactors make “$2 to $8 million a month.”

“These guys grow like vermin,” the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services administrator continued. “There are twice as many durable medical suppliers in South Florida as McDonald’s, because it’s easier to open one than a bank account,” alleging that there, “the Cuban government is involved.”

His and Shirley’s conversation continued:

OZ: To open three in one apartment makes no sense, especially when there’s no product there. All you’re doing is gaming the system, and the fact that we didn’t audit it, didn’t catch it, didn’t stop it, and they’re probably out there making money infuriates me. It should bother folks out there, ’cause it’s your tax dollars paying for this

SHIRLEY: So, it’s literally impossible for someone to be operating a durable medical company outside — inside of an apartment?

OZ: Inside of an apartment with no goods and two other durable medical equipment suppliers? That’s a major red flag — the kind you walk into battle with.

In one NYC neighborhood, dozens of adult daycares bill millions to taxpayers. Now the feds have questions.

By Laura Geller, Rachel Gold, Tom Hanson, CBS News, July 1, 2026:

Dozens of Medicaid-funded social adult daycare centers are packed into one New York City neighborhood, a CBS News data analysis has found.

The proliferation of the facilities has caught the attention of federal authorities, who confirmed they are investigating across New York whether the rapid spread of centers catering to seniors is indicative of fraud.

“[It] begs the question: How many social adult daycare centers do you need?” Dr. Mehmet Oz, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, told CBS News.

Social daycare facilities offer meals, personal care, social activities and other assistance to seniors and people with disabilities. Those services are then billed to the state government and covered by federal and state tax dollars.

The costs have been rising — especially in New York state, a CBS News data analysis found. Medicaid paid adult daycare providers $3.35 billion nationwide in 2024, and 17% of that money went to the 375 facilities across New York state — more than any other state. New York spending on these adult daycares ballooned in recent years, with the bill to taxpayers nearly quadrupling from 2018 to 2024.

The facilities in Flushing bill Medicaid for the equivalent of more than 90% of local Medicaid-eligible seniors.

Those numbers have not gone unnoticed. Investigations are underway into some social adult daycare centers across New York with potential federal action against them anticipated, CBS News has learned.

The epicenter of the spike in spending is the bustling neighborhood of Flushing, Queens, the densest cluster of social adult daycare facilities in the country: 64 within a one-mile radius, according to a CBS News analysis of Medicaid data.

Dr Oz currently leads a sweeping federal crackdown on Medicare and Medicaid fraud in his role as the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

Here’s his latest:

And this:

Nick Shirley: Here is the full 53 minutes of my crew and I exposing New York fraud, we uncovered over $190,000,000 in fraud as these fraudsters use the elderly and needy to commit fraud through adult and personal home care scams in NYC. Your tax dollars are paying for elderly Koreans and Chinese to play ping pong and do tai chi, while the fraudsters give $ kickbacks to those who enroll. Like it and share this video, the fraud must STOP.

We ALL work way too hard and pay too much in taxes for fraudsters to steal from our pockets. These fraudsters have been able to defraud American taxpayers for years without any pushback from the public and politicians. Time is up.

AUTHOR

Pamela Geller

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26 House Republicans Earned an “F” on Amnesty

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See 26 RINO Traitors below who favor amnensty for Illegal aliens.

The latest Grade Cards are flashing red. But first…

We won a victory today when House leadership pulled back a bill that would have effectively reauthorized loopholes that facilitate child trafficking, fake family claims, and abuse of visa programs. The bill would have authorized billions in funding without making needed reforms.

Instead, it would have left largely untouched the same system that existed during the Biden border crisis, when more than 500,000 unaccompanied children were released into the United States.

In many cases, those children were trafficked, lost, exploited, or placed in unsafe homes.

Your calls, emails and appeals on social media were heard. Speaker Mike Johnson stepped up to the plate and worked with NumbersUSA to understand our concerns, and your participation in the process helped us secure the win. Thank you!

Now, How About Some Offense?!?

The House missed its promised deadline to vote on permanent border security reforms. NumbersUSA has called on Congress to take up and pass H.R. 2, as they did in 2023. They have just 8 legislative days left before the August recess. A look at our Grade Cards helps explain the holdup.

Twenty-six House Republicans have an F in our Stop Amnesty Category. That’s twenty-six members of the majority who are working to keep illegal aliens in the country. Another thirty-six House Republicans have a D or D-Minus Amnesty Grade.

Just before the Independence Day holiday, 45 House Republicans cosponsored Rep. G.T. Thompson’s bill to give amnesty to more than 600,000 illegal workers and grow the H-2A temporary visa program by a million people over the next decade.

And because birthright citizenship remains in place, the long-term fiscal impact would extend beyond the workers themselves, including future educational and public service costs borne by taxpayers.

Share Their Grades

At the link, you can view the updated grade cards for the Members of Congress representing your area. Click the share button below the images to send them directly to the elected officials. Add a note about what you’d like to see them do better.

See all 535 Grades here.

Which Side Are They On?

Last Spring, Vice President Vance described cheap labor, imported by mass immigration, as “a drug that too many American firms got addicted to.”

Last week, Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez reminded us that lower wages are a feature of mass immigration, not a bug. “Who is going to be helping build your home?” She asked, adding that “Healthcare [cost] is going to rise” if workers who lose deportation protections are required to go home.

Oren Cass of American Compass once summed up the immigration labor debate like this: Worker Power, Loose Borders: Pick One.

This week, Cass argued that just as “the global economy doesn’t ‘need aliens from Mars to fill jobs’…the U.S. economy doesn’t ‘need immigrants to fill jobs.’ You may prefer cheaper labor. By all means argue for it. But don’t say we need it.”

Mass immigration is a choice, not a need. House Republicans, like the rest of Congress, need to choose a side. They need to vote. Failure to act is an endorsement of the status quo: loose borders and mass immigration.

Cheap labor may benefit some employers in the short term, but Americans pay for it in lower wages, higher housing costs, and weaker bargaining power.

Tell Congress: Cheap Labor Costs Americans Dearly

At the link — below the grade cards, you’ll find several new campaigns (each one offers an email, phone, and social media action) on the latest and most important immigration battles we’re waging, including:

Another Way to Limit Birthright: After the Supreme Court’s ruling on Birthright Citizenship, a national E-Verify mandate would dry up illegal paychecks and make it difficult for inadmissible aliens to stay here illegally long enough to cash in on the birthright citizenship reward. A party committed to American workers and borders would prioritize E-Verify and vote on the border security package.

Expansion Alert: America’s leisure and hospitality sector — the companies that lean most heavily on seasonal labor — lost 61,000 jobs in June. This is projected to be the worst summer job season for teenagers ever. Yet the Homeland Security funding bill (H.R. 9310) includes a doubling of seasonal H-2B guest workers.

Sanctuary Fallout: A man arrested for the rape and sexual abuse of a 16-year-old girl in New York had a 28-year-old final order of removal that was never carried out. ICE has requested a detainer. The Shut Down Sanctuary Policies Act passed out of committee, but like the border security/E-Verify package has not been placed on the calendar for a vote.

Affordability: A new Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas study concluded the border crisis drove roughly 30% of increased housing costs and 20% of rent increases during President Biden’s term. Congress’s housing bill – expected to become law tonight – is an attempt to accommodate mass immigration, not rein it in. Cheap labor or affordable housing: Choose one, Congress!

Quote of the Week

“For decades, powerful corporate interests have undermined workers by importing foreign labor, both legal and illegal.” – Rep. Riley Moore (WV-02), Compact

NumbersUSA In The News

Fox News featured NumbersUSA Co-President Michael Hough’s response to the Supreme Court’s birthright citizenship ruling.

“The people who drafted the 14th Amendment in the 1860s obviously weren’t contemplating wealthy foreign nationals creating children in the United States through modern reproductive technology. Those kinds of questions should be left to Congress, not decided by judges stretching constitutional language.”
Reuters highlighted NumbersUSA’s warning that the Court’s decision increases the importance of interior enforcement and E-Verify.
“Every illegal entry, visa overstay, and birth tourism visit carries a citizenship multiplier that Congress never intended.”
Newsweek covered NumbersUSA’s opposition to the proposed agricultural amnesty and guest worker expansion.
“Cheap captive labor is a feature of large-scale guest worker programs. Other countries facing the same labor questions have modernized instead–we’d be choosing captivity over innovation.”
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The Trillion-Dollar Jihad Against the West

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Melanie Phillips nails it here. My only criticism is the use of the term ‘islamist.’ I have pointed out repeatedly that Islamist and Islamism are western constructs, a fabrication, an artificial distinction. Islam is Islam. Nonetheless, she is closer to the truth than anyone else on the subject.

The trillion-dollar campaign to conquer the West

The Islamists are playing the longest civilisational war game in the world

By: Melanie Phillips, Jul 10, 2026:

More and more information is surfacing to reveal that the Islamic holy war against the West isn’t just being waged on the battleground of the Middle East.

Even more significantly, it’s also being waged through a trillion-dollar influence campaign to colonise and subvert the Western mind, organised by extremists from the Islamic world.

These have tunnelled into the West through a vast civic infrastructure whose real purpose and sources of funding have been as well concealed, and in their own way are just as deadly, as the subterranean genocide factories in Gaza and Lebanon.

To those with eyes to see, it was obvious from the start that the hate marches springing into existence after October 7, 2023 — even while the Hamas-led atrocities were still going on — weren’t spontaneous protests against Israel.

They were instead a globally co-ordinated campaign to turn gullible Westerners into the unwitting army of Islamic jihad through support for the Palestinian cause.

An important new report by NGO Monitor shows that this post-October 7 protest infrastructure in Britain has used the signature liberal causes of humanitarianism and human rights to launder the Islamic jihad against the West.

The report found that, through a series of concentric circles, just six groups have been involved in more than 80 per cent of the major protests.

In the innermost circle sit the states hostile to the West: Iran, China, Russia and Qatar; terrorist organisations such as Hamas, Hezbollah and al Qaeda; and extremist religious-political movements like the Muslim Brotherhood.

Lapping around them are charities, campaign groups, protest movements and advocacy organisations that provide legitimacy for these hostile forces, amplify their propaganda and transmit extremism to society.

Out of 40 organisations mapped in the report, at least 11 have links to extremist groups or officials who have co-operated with Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the Muslim Brotherhood.

US-based progressive foundations and far-left activist groups, such as the Open Society Foundation, Action Network, Cultures of Resistance and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, are providing significant funding and support, facilitating donations and strengthening the British protests.

Some of these groups have helped inspire violence in the United States. Last month, US prosecutors indicted eight current and former students at the University of Michigan for conspiring to threaten university leaders, law enforcement, businesses and the Jewish Federation.

The indictment stated that one of the internet websites used by the defendants to spread their demands belonged to Palestine Action, the UK group that continues to attract passionate support from otherwise respectable, middle-class Brits despite having been proscribed by the government as a terrorist outfit.

Well-meaning, if ignorant, people continue to support such organisations on the naive assumption that they help the oppressed.

The Islamist programme to subvert the Western mind has relentlessly focused for years on universities and schools. The Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy has just published another vitally important report, Institutional Capture, which documents how anti-West, Islamist Qatar has reshaped American education in a devastating programme of cultural infiltration.

Over the past 16 years, according to the report, Qatar Foundation International (QFI), the US member of the Doha-based Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development, has conducted a systematic campaign to embed itself within American educational institutions.

Deploying at least $65.3 million across 220 documented initiatives between 2009 and 2025, it has been a “manipulator of thought” in social studies, science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics, as well as in youth engagement, professional development and social activism initiatives.

Through corporate restructuring and strategic partnerships, it has leveraged the reputation of host organisations to embed the Qatari viewpoint on the Middle East in educational materials served up to students in both universities and K-12 schools.

At national conferences for social studies educators, it has stacked the proceedings with presenters trained by QFI to present Qatari talking points.

The result has been an educational echo chamber that “casts doubt on Israel’s very existence, rejects curriculum that teaches students about the efforts to normalise relations between Israel and Arab states, and normalises and relativizes terrorism”.

This is the template for the Muslim Brotherhood’s long-term strategy for civilisational jihad against Western society, turning educational institutions into a weapon of war by shaping, producing and normalising ideological positions that fit the agenda of conquering the West for Islam.

It’s scant wonder, therefore, that the West has fallen victim to a psychotic madness about Israel’s fictitious perfidies — a malevolent narrative of demonisation that is in turn a Trojan horse for suicidal anti-Western loathing and contempt among the elites. Millions of people are being manipulated on a staggering scale.

America is beginning to grapple with this. In March, the House Committee on Education and the Workforce released nearly 900 pages of documents detailing two major American university partnerships in Qatar.

As the Jewish Institute for National Security of America observed in its own analysis of these documents last month, they showed that Qatar has “used complex funding contracts with American universities to acquire access to intellectual property, governance deliberation, academic credentialing and institutional reputation, which it has used to help support Islamist movements hostile to the United States and its allies”.

The release of those documents galvanised the introduction last month of legislation to ban federal funding to colleges that operate branch campuses in adversarial countries, or accept research funding for sensitive fields like artificial intelligence, biotech and quantum computing.

That’s a welcome development, but acute concerns still remain. This process of jihadi infiltration has been going on for decades. Successive British governments and US administrations have refused to acknowledge the civilisational threat that it poses.

In large measure, this is because the West can’t understand Islamic religious fanaticism. It assumes that everyone in the world is, like itself, governed by self-interest. So it simply can’t get its collective head around the fact that Islamists are apocalyptic and messianic, and believe they have a divine command to conquer Israel, America and the West for Islam.

US President Donald Trump seems to make the same mistake. True, none of us can know what’s in his mind. Maybe he really does understand the Islamists’ mindset and is playing a long game to reel them in.

But maybe he believes that the Iranian regime and other Islamists are driven by the same self-interest as in his own world, and that therefore he can end all such conflict through his supposedly unmatched “art of the deal”.

Such concerns are exacerbated by the extremely troubling financial links between members of Trump’s circle and Qatar. Rather than treating it as the enemy of the civilisation that it is, Trump has used Qatar as a trusted interlocutor in talks with Hamas, the Taliban and Iran. His apparently unshakeable belief in the universality of venal self-interest presumably explains his disbelief that the Iranian regime won’t accept that its devastating military losses mean it’s lost the war.

It explains his view that Gaza’s Islamist lions would obviously be turned into lambs by the prospect of the Strip’s transformation into a property developer’s Riviera paradise.

And it may explain his support for Turkey’s menacing Islamist president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. According to Trump, Erdoğan almost entered the war in support of Iran and against America, but the US president talked him out of it. Now, Trump reportedly intends to reward him for this by selling him F-35 warplanes.

Taking his words at their face value (which may always be a mistake), this suggests that narcissistic fantasies prevent this American president from understanding what being an Islamist means.

So as Trump continues to give us all political whiplash by his on-off-on Iran war, and as the West allows its mouth to be stuffed with Qatari gold, the Islamists fight on — as they’ve done ever since the seventh century — playing the longest civilisational war game in the world.

AUTHOR

Pamela Geller

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Pope Leo Welcomes New Migrants to Europe, and Not Every Catholic Is Delighted

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And not every Catholic is delighted. Pope Leo XIV went to the Italian island of Lampedusa to greet a large number of migrants from North and sub-Saharan Africa; the video has been seen by more than a million people, and it has elicited more than two thousand mostly negative comments.

More on the smiling immigrant-favoring, interfaith-racketing Pope can be found here: “Pope Leo welcomes migrants to Europe while Vatican keeps fortress-like borders,” LifeSiteNews, 

Images of Pope Leo XIV welcoming African migrants to Europe has sparked outrage, as some accuse the Pontiff of encouraging the weakening of western nations while maintaining Vatican City as an impenetrable fortress that threatens illegal migrants with huge fines and lengthy prison sentences.

In a widely viewed video posted by EWTN, the Pope can be seen greeting a large group of migrants who had just made their way by boat to the Sicilian Island of Lampedusa. He also prayed at a cemetery there for migrants who died making the perilous journey.

The viral video has been seen over 1.1 million times while triggering nearly 2,000 mostly negative comments because of the Vatican’s longstanding hypocrisy on migration and open borders.

“The Church’s silence regarding the threats European Christians face is already deafening. Combining it with telling Europeans that they must do more to ‘integrate and protect migrants’, is adding insult to injury,” declared Eva Vlaardingerbroek, conservative European commentator and founder of the Save Europe Act, responding to the video….

“It is a painful slap in the face of the Christian native peoples of Europe and all those who lost their children and loved ones as a result of mass migration,” Vlaardingerbroek said….

Pope Leo XIV is a kind man, but too kind to those mostly Muslim migrants he has been welcoming and whose presence in Europe has been catastrophic for the indigenous peoples of the Continent. He was raised in the U.S. He spent fifteen years of his life in Peru. Europe is not central to his mental makeup, as it has been for every other Pope. He does not feel the threat of a demographically triumphant Islam’s transformation of Europe that Eva Vlaardingerbroek feels, and the late Pope Benedict felt, and tens of millions of Europeans who have now awakened to that threat, now feel. Perhaps he will at least give Cardinal Muller’s warning his attention. One does not expect. One hopes.

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Immigration Enforcement Finally Arrives, and It’s Long Overdue

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I’ve spent time on both sides of a badge. I worked private security and executive protection, and in 1992, I drove in the presidential motorcade for President George H.W. Bush after the Los Angeles riots while working on an Assembly campaign with Young Republicans. I earned my California EMT license in 1992. I know what it looks like when the rule of law breaks down, and I know what it looks like when someone finally decides to enforce it. What’s happening at ICE right now is the latter, and it’s about time.

The numbers tell the story. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested more than 10,000 people over a five-day stretch at the end of June, roughly 2,000 arrests a day, close to double the pace tracked in recent months.

The Department of Homeland Security says roughly 70% of ICE arrests this year have targeted people already facing criminal charges or convictions, and reports that more than 3 million illegal aliens have left the country since the administration took office—roughly 900,000 formally deported and the rest self-deported. ICE is finally doing the job Congress funded it to do.

Compare that to what came before. The House Homeland Security Committee documented more than 10.8 million Customs and Border Protection encounters nationwide since the start of fiscal year 2021, with roughly 2 million more “gotaways” who were never even processed. Millions of those encountered were released into the interior on notices to appear, a paperwork promise that a huge share of them simply ignored.

Thomas Sowell spent a career explaining that you get more of what you subsidize and less of what you tax. Catch-and-release subsidized illegal entry. Predictably, we got more of it.

Jonathan Turley has written for years that a nation that stops enforcing its own laws doesn’t have a border policy; it has an opinion about borders. For four years, that’s roughly what we had. Agents were told to prioritize almost nothing, judges were backlogged for years, and the message that traveled fast was the one that mattered: Get across, and you’re probably staying. Ten million-plus encounters later, nobody serious should be surprised by the result.

I spent 2023 working on a rainforest preservation project deep in the Brazilian Amazon, flying into Manaus and traveling upriver past the reach of any government office, coordinating with indigenous community leaders and local officials on land nobody effectively polices. What struck me wasn’t the remoteness. It was how quickly any system, jungle, or border degrades once the people responsible for it stop showing up.

A border isn’t a mere line on a map; it’s a commitment that gets renewed daily by whether anyone’s actually standing on it. We stopped standing on ours for the better part of a decade, and the detention population, which independent tracking of ICE’s own released data put above 60,000 as of the most recent figures, is the bill coming due.

None of this means the current surge is without friction. Federal officials say Renee Good drove her vehicle at an ICE agent in Minneapolis after ignoring an order to get out of the car and defended the shooting as self-defense; Minneapolis officials dispute that account, citing security footage, and the case remains under state investigation, along with the separate killing of Alex Pretti two and a half weeks later.

Whatever the final findings, the controversy forced DHS to adjust its posture, and Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin has since pursued a quieter way of carrying out removals rather than high-visibility citywide raids. That’s the right call.

Competent enforcement doesn’t require theatrics. It requires consistency, and it requires prioritizing people who’ve already proven, through a felony charge or conviction, that they don’t belong here.

I trained in Muay Thai and Brazilian jiu-jitsu for years, and every striking coach teaches the same first lesson: Dropping your hands has to cost you something. Get tagged for it enough times in sparring and the bad habit disappears. Take away the consequence, and the same mistake repeats forever.

We ran a decade-long experiment in removing consequences from illegal entry, and the mistake repeated by the millions. What ICE is doing now—arresting people with real criminal histories at a real operational pace—isn’t cruelty. It’s the return of consequences to a system that had abandoned them entirely.

Fix the border, and you fix the incentives. Everything else downstream; the fentanyl, the human trafficking, and the strain on schools and hospitals in border and sanctuary states all trace back to that one broken incentive. I’ve spent 30 years managing risk for a living. Unenforced law is the biggest unpriced risk a country can carry, and we’re only now starting to price it correctly.

We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of the Daily Signal.

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Jay Rogers

Jay Rogers is President of Alpha Strategies and a financial professional with more than 30 years of experience in private equity, private credit, hedge funds, and wealth management. He writes about issues in finance, constitutional law, national security, human nature, and public policy.

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Even After SCOTUS Citizenship Ruling, Trump Has These Options to Fight Birth Tourism

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Although the Supreme Court ruled in favor of birthright citizenship last week, the Trump administration and Congress could still take action to reduce the effect of the policy.

Vice President JD Vance endorsed a proposal to restrict birthright citizenship in the U.S. territories, citing Roger Severino, vice president of economic and domestic policy at The Heritage Foundation. Vance asserted in a Fox News interview with Laura Ingraham that the Trump administration is reviewing ways to close the loopholes in the policy.

Severino noted that under the Immigration and Nationality Act, the president also has broad authority to impose penalties on immigrants who engage in “birth tourism,” when a woman who is a citizen of another country travels to the United States to give birth and secure U.S. citizenship for her child. Members of Congress and policy experts have identified the Northern Mariana Islands as a particular concern for Chinese birth tourism.

The case began after President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January 2025 to end birthright citizenship for children born to illegal immigrants or temporary workers.

Severino posted on X that in light of the high court’s 5-4 ruling that struck down the executive order, Trump should amend the order to apply only to U.S. territories.

“Trump should immediately amend his EO to apply to U.S. Territories which are not auto-bound by the 14th Amendment,” Severino said in the post on X after the ruling. “Trump should keep pushing the issue wherever he can and force the court to reckon with the logic of its decision. Will they overrule the insular cases next?”

After Vance supported the idea, Severino outlined other steps the administration could take.

“Specifically, if an alien without legal permanent residency chooses to have a child on U.S. soil, the foreigner parents must either renounce the child’s American citizenship or lose the ability to ever again legally step foot in the U.S., their choice,” wrote Severino, a lawyer and former director of the Office of Civil Rights at the Department of Health and Human Services.

Severino said presidents have broad authority under the Immigration and Nationality Act “to suspend or restrict entry of any class of foreign nationals.”

He said the Trump administration could make someone engaging in birth tourism “permanently ineligible for U.S. entry under any visa type (whether visitor, student, work, or otherwise)” and “permanently ineligible to petition for asylum, refugee, or temporary protected status.”

He also suggested making immigrants engaged in birth tourism “ineligible for lottery or family-based entry, and ineligible to petition for any legal residency or U.S. citizenship whatsoever.”

“Congress, for its part, should codify these changes to prevent any potential future open borders president from unilaterally undoing them. It may also need to create mechanisms for a parent covered by the EO to be able to renounce their child’s American citizenship as an exercise of their parental rights, especially in cases of truly accidental births on U.S. soil,” Severino added.

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Fred Lucas 

Fred Lucas is senior investigative reporter for the Daily Signal. He is the author of “The Myth of Voter Suppression: The Left’s Assault on Clean Elections.” Follow on X FredLucasWH.

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Britain’s Nightmare Is America’s Final Warning

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A bombshell 216-page report proves authorities didn’t just ignore organized rape networks—they actively punished the whistleblowers who tried to stop them. 

When looking over the newly released, 216-page independent British Gang Rape Inquiry Report, it is nearly impossible to determine which institutional failure or horrific detail scales to the top of the list.

Anyone reading this report will not only find it painful to consume but will walk away wondering how British jails are not full of rapists.

To understand the sheer scope of this national betrayal, one must sift through a series of deeply horrifying realities that would cause even fiction writers to hesitate.

  • Nightmarish Scale: Estimates suggest over a quarter-of-a-million young girls have been targeted nationwide, with data indicating that between 87% and 95% of the perpetrators are Muslim men operating in organized networks.
  • Extreme Torture: Victims detailed being subjected to ongoing violence, held at gunpoint, beaten, and in the most barbaric instances, physically branded with the letter “M” to signify property.
  • Institutional Complicity: State-run care homes designed to protect vulnerable youth functioned instead as trafficking pipelines, while school administrators routinely looked the other way as perpetrators arrived at schoolyard gates to pick up underage targets.
  • Islamic Submission: Young Christian girls were systematically targeted, repeatedly violated—sometimes hundreds of times—and forced into Islamic submission.

And this is only a fraction of the sobering web of atrocities, failings, and shortcomings found within the report.

It’s not an exaggeration to say these girls were treated as sacrificial pawns by authorities desperate to appease a demographic they both feared and courted for political survival.

Here’s how the authors of the inquiry stated this failure:

“Political correctness, fear of accusations of racism, fear of losing electoral support from certain demographics have taken precedence over the protection of British children.” (page 9)

What’s more, the Rape Gangs exercised a strategy for selecting, coercing, threatening, and manipulating vulnerable girls into a culture of submission and rape.

“Girls as young as 11 were initially befriended by a young Muslim man who then treated the young child like an adult and would then start providing them with alcohol, drugs, and cigarettes.

“After a few months the girls would then be collected from school gates, care homes, and streets in taxis.

“They were taken to houses, flats, restaurants, and hotels where they were raped repeatedly by groups of men, tortured, filmed for blackmail, and told they were ‘white trash’ or ‘kuffar’ who merited punishment.”

Muslim rape gangs are not a newly discovered phenomenon in England. It’s been a hotly debated topic in Great Britain for well over a decade. In fact, our 2014 film Europe’s Last Stand: America’s Final Warning devoted considerable attention to these organized rape cells.

But, as we reported then, government officials and law enforcement agencies routinely refuted the claims and actively threatened anyone who dared to expose them. The new inquiry confirms this exact betrayal:

“The authorities at every level, including the police, social services, health services, schools, licensing bodies, and politicians knew the patterns, possessed the intelligence, and still failed to protect the country’s children.”

In one harrowing interview, a young girl named Taylor told investigators she “witnessed shootings, had knives held to her throat, and a gun held to her head.” To prevent her from going to the police, the gangs used the murder of other girls as a deterrent, threatening that anyone who spoke out would be next.

Remarkably, she still managed to make a twenty-page statement to law enforcement—only for the police to completely bury the investigation.

Her claim was given massive weight by the inquiry investigators, who wrote:

“Whistleblowers who tried to expose the rape gangs were systematically silenced, discredited, and punished.”

In a process difficult to imagine occurring in a Western nation, these punishments included facing workplace suspensions, defamation proceedings, dawn raids, asset freezes, fabricated charges, gagging bail conditions, and career-ending isolation.

Ultimately, the report issued this damning claim against state authorities:

“The state did not merely ignore whistleblowers; it punished them to protect the gangs and its own reputation.”

It is dangerously easy for Americans to look across the Atlantic, shake their heads, and view this tragedy as a uniquely British failure. But the horrifying truth is that the machinery behind this cover-up does not require a British accent. It only requires a ruling elite that values political correctness over the lives of children.

The foundational lesson of this devastating 216-page report is that the vulnerability isn’t just logistical—it is ideological.

When we look at our own borders, our own major metropolitan areas, and our own cultural institutions, the exact same psychological pressures are already deeply embedded. We live in an environment where American law enforcement, school boards, and social workers are intensely hypersensitive to accusations of racism, Islamophobia, or bigotry.

If a system is conditioned to fear a media label more than it fears a criminal network, it will inevitably default to the same deliberate blindness that destroyed the lives of a quarter-of-a-million British schoolgirls.

We must understand that the threat is twofold: it is the criminals who target our daughters and granddaughters, and it is the paralyzing political correctness that protects them by silencing anyone who dares to speak out.

In America, we are already seeing the early stages of this institutional decay, where whistleblowers in education and healthcare are systematically canceled, sidelined, or fired for stepping outside ideologically approved boundaries.

The British Inquiry Report is a chilling transmission from a possible future. It proves that when a government prioritizes “community harmony” and voter demographics over blind justice, children become the ultimate collateral damage.

America cannot wait for twenty years of destruction before we demand accountability.

The lesson we must implement right now is one of absolute, uncompromising transparency.

Our federal, state, and local authorities must be explicitly mandated to investigate exploitation and grooming networks wherever the evidence leads, entirely insulated from the terror of political correctness.

Public officials who choose silence to protect their political careers must face immediate prosecution, not administrative cover.

We were warned over a decade ago when we produced Europe’s Last Stand: America’s Final Warning. Today, the official evidence has caught up to the warnings. If we do not have the courage to confront this specific, documented threat with colorblind, ruthless justice today, we aren’t just watching Britain’s nightmare—we are actively inviting it to our own shores.

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Martin Mawyer

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Trump says China is the winner in Supreme Court’s birthright citizenship ruling!

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The high court said the Constitution guarantees automatic citizenship to nearly everyone born on American soil, including children born to illegal immigrants and temporary visitors. Mr. Trump complained about the decision on social media and, in particular, suggested it was a boon for China. “I would like to congratulate President Xi, and the Great Country of China, on their massive Birthright Citizenship WIN!” he wrote.

During oral argument in the case this spring, the Trump administration pointed to China’s “birth tourism,” where Chinese women come to the U.S. specifically to give birth. Those children enjoy automatic citizenship. Companies have emerged to facilitate the births, charging tens of thousands of dollars to help the women obtain travel visas, house them while they’re here and even apply for government assistance programs to help offset the medical costs. Birth tourism isn’t limited to China, though it’s a large player in the market.

Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel A. Alito Jr., who dissented from Tuesday’s ruling, both cited the problem of tourism in their opinions. Justice Alito said the practice creates a national security issue by allowing people of enemy nations to obtain citizenship. “Suppose the child never visited the United States while growing up and was inculcated with hatred of this country. According to the court, that person is a citizen of the United States. He can enter and leave the country as he pleases. He can travel the world on a United States passport. Even if he plots to harm this country, he cannot be deprived of his status as a citizen, at least under current precedent,” Justice Alito wrote.

Mr. Trump, on social media, suggested Congress can still step in and act. “No long and unwieldy Constitutional Amendment is necessary! Congress should start TODAY to work on ending expensive and unfair to our Country, Birthright Citizenship. They will have my Complete and Total Support!” he wrote.

But the court’s ruling seems to prevent that option. Five justices said the Constitution does guarantee automatic citizenship. To overcome that would seem to require an amendment — something almost unthinkable in the current political climate. Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh, a Trump appointee, wrote his own opinion Tuesday to say that while he disagreed that the Constitution guaranteed birthright citizenship to children of illegal immigrants and temporary visitors, a federal statute written by Congress in 1940 did.

He said since federal statute trumps an executive order, Mr. Trump’s order was illegal. Had Justice Kavanaugh’s view prevailed, Mr. Trump’s option of having Congress act might have been viable. Republicans suggested there may still be wiggle room for Congress to pass legislation redefining who is subject to the 14th Amendment’s citizenship guarantee.

Rep. Chip Roy, Texas Republican, also suggested Congress could pass legislation blocking federal funding from any agency or state that takes an expansive view of birthright citizenship. “Congress must act immediately and must not hide behind the fiction that it must amend the Constitution to fix this abuse of our laws,” Mr. Roy said.

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EXCLUSIVE: DOJ Arrests Illegal Alien For Voting In Federal Election

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Federal authorities arrested and charged an illegal alien in New Jersey for voting in a federal election, the Daily Caller has learned.

Marian Charitun, a 62-year-old from Slovakia, was charged with illegally voting in a federal election as well as making false statements while applying for U.S. citizenship, according to information shared with the Caller. Charitun allegedly registered to vote in New Jersey and falsely stated that he was a U.S. citizen when doing so. He then went on to vote in the 2022 midterm elections, according to the information provided to the Caller. 

Charitun also applied for U.S. citizenship and allegedly claimed he never voted in a federal election, the Caller learned. Charitun never obtained citizenship as his voting history was discovered during the application process and he was denied, an official told the Caller.

If convicted, Charitun could face a maximum of one year in prison. The count of voting by an alien in a federal election carries a maximum penalty of one year in prison. The count of unlawful procurement of citizenship or naturalization carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison.

This case was brought under the United States Attorney’s Office’s Election Integrity Task Force. 

In May, four green card holders living in New Jersey were separately charged with illegally voting in federal elections and falsely claiming they never did such a thing while applying for U.S. citizenship, officials said.

The Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE America) Act, which would require proof of American citizenship to register to vote and photo identification to vote in federal elections, has stalled in Congress with no clear path forward.

While some studies have found that illegal aliens voting in elections is rare, others have shown that it can still impact the results of elections.

Speaker Mike Johnson told Fox News on Sunday that House Republicans could put the SAVE America Act into a reconciliation bill.

“This time we’re going to try to put it on a reconciliation bill, and the reason that’s so important, Maria [Bartiromo], as you know, is it prevents the necessity of 60 votes in the Senate,” Johnson said. “The Democrats want no part of this, and remember, this is very basic stuff.”

“We’re just going to make sure you have to have proof of citizenship to register to vote and then show an ID when you turn out at the ballot box,” he added. “These are 90-10 public opinion issues, and more than 70 percent of Democrats want to do it, but not the Democrats in the House and Senate, and so we’ve got to go around them.”

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Reagan Reese

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Hill GOP Erupts Over Birthright Citizenship Decision

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Congressional conservatives are slamming the Supreme Court of the United States after it ruled to strike down a request from the president to redefine birthright citizenship.

The 6-3 decision comes after President Donald Trump’s administration argued that the birthright citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution applied to descendants of slaves in the 1800s, and not to the chain migration the United States has been subject to in recent decades.

Chief Justice John Roberts delivered the opinion of the court, joined by Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, Amy Coney Barrett, and Ketanji Brown Jackson. Justice Brett Kavanaugh concurs in part in the judgment and dissents in part. Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, and Neil Gorsuch dissent.

“Neither the Founding Fathers, nor the authors of the 14th Amendment, nor the millions of Americans who fought and died for their country through the ages intended to establish a nation whose citizenship could so easily be purchased, whether through birth tourism of China’s communist party members or an invasion of millions enabled by faithless presidents,” Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, told the Daily Signal.

The clause in the 14th Amendment attracted controversy after U.S. births from noncitizens, especially illegal aliens, increased tremendously in recent years. The U.S. Center for Immigration Studies has estimated that in 2023 alone, between 225,000 and 250,000 births stemmed directly from illegal immigration.

Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, expanded on Lee’s remarks and told the Daily Signal that the “Supreme Court failed the American people.”

“The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in no way stands for the proposition of creating a dangerous cottage industry of traveling to our soil to manufacture United States citizenship,” Roy continued. “The Supreme Court today should have said so explicitly and ended this damaging exploitation of our laws.”

Roy has now called on Congress to “immediately do at least two things it should have done long ago,” which include “defin[ing] the phrase ‘subject to the jurisdiction thereof’ very specifically to make clear that citizenship is tied to the citizenship of the parent, not the soil,” and “completely restrict[ing] funding from [the Department of Homeland Security] or any other agency or state that provides documentation and status to anyone not subject to the ‘jurisdiction thereof.’”

“In other words, Congress must act immediately and must not hide behind the fiction that it must amend the Constitution to fix this abuse of our laws,” Roy continued. “To do otherwise would be an abject failure of the United States Congress.”

In a statement to the Daily Signal, Rep. Keith Self added that the ruling comes as a “catastrophic defeat” to “every American citizen, our national sovereignty, and the very future of our Republic.”

Self added that “American citizenship is a sacred privilege—not a participation trophy handed out to those who violate our laws.”

“The 14th Amendment was never meant to reward illegal aliens with the priceless gift of U.S. citizenship for breaking into our country,” he continued.

The members’ remarks reflect those of the president.

Prior to the decision, President Donald Trump advocated against birthright citizenship, writing on Truth Social that “we are the only Country in the World STUPID enough to allow ‘Birthright’ Citizenship!”

Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., agrees with the president’s remarks, and wrote on X that the decision comes as a call to action for conservative members of Congress to pass legislation that’ll align with their views on the 14th Amendment, while preventing illegal immigration from exploiting the American immigration system.

“Congress needs to respond,” Scott wrote. “We need to make sure illegal aliens don’t come into our country and EXPLOIT our immigration system.”

“That means closing EVERY. SINGLE. LOOPHOLE,” Scott continued. “I have a bill, the SAFE KIDS Act, to combat the exploitation of U.S. surrogacy laws for birthright citizenship.”

“We also need to codify President Trump’s border actions so a future Democrat administration can’t undo them,” Scott added, calling on his colleagues to vote “on these EVERY WEEK until we provide the American people with an answer for this question.”

This story will be updated with further congressional reaction.

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Pedro Rodriguez 

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EXCLUSIVE: Mike Lee Explains How LBJ Broke A Filibuster And What It Means For The SAVE America Act

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Republican Utah Sen. Mike Lee laid out how former President Lyndon B. Johnson’s battle to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964 has important implications for the adoption of the SAVE America Act during an interview with the Daily Caller on Monday.

Lee, a leading advocate and sponsor of the SAVE America Act — landmark election integrity legislation supported by President Donald Trump — cited the Senate’s handling of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as a historical example of how major legislation can advance even when the votes for cloture are not initially in place.

The Utah Senator explained that when the bill arrived in the Senate from the House in March 1964, supporters of the bill were still significantly short of the votes needed to invoke cloture — roughly 30 votes, though he noted even at the time the exact count was uncertain. As Lee explained, “It’s a good example because they were clearly not close to achieving cloture when it arrived.”

US President Lyndon B. Johnson hands a pent to the Rev. Martin Luther King (2nd-R) after signing the historic Civil Rights Act in the East Room of the White House, in Washington, D.C., 02 July 1964. The Civil Rights Act of 1964, signed into law by United States President Lyndon B. Johnson on July 2, 1964, put an end to all forms of segregation and discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)

US President Lyndon B. Johnson hands a pent to the Rev. Martin Luther King (2nd-R) after signing the historic Civil Rights Act in the East Room of the White House, in Washington, D.C., 02 July 1964. The Civil Rights Act of 1964, signed into law by United States President Lyndon B. Johnson on July 2, 1964, put an end to all forms of segregation and discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)

Drawing a parallel to his efforts to invoke the same talking filibuster to advance the SAVE America Act, Lee noted that then-President Johnson — a vocal supporter of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 — backed an aggressive floor strategy during the debate. At the time, Johnson urged Democratic Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield to keep the Senate in continuous, round-the-clock session to wear down opposition, a tactic LBJ had previously used as majority leader to advance civil rights legislation, according to a U.S. Senate historical report.

Mansfield, however, rejected the proposal.

He argued that marathon sessions would turn the Senate into “a circus or a sideshow,” warning that the sight of senators appearing in “bedroom slippers, without neckties, with hair uncombed and pajama tops sticking out” would diminish the chamber’s dignity.

Rather than forcing continuous debate, Mansfield allowed the fight over the legislation to unfold over more than 50 days, insisting on preserving the Senate’s “dignity and decorum” while keeping the bill on the floor until supporters ultimately secured enough votes to invoke cloture. In effect, grinding most other Senate business to a halt.

Rather than personally managing every moment of the floor fight, like Johnson, Mansfield delegated much of the day-to-day debate to key allies, including soon-to-be Vice President Hubert Humphrey — then still a Democrat senator for Minnesota — and Democratic California Senator Thomas Kuchel, while he coordinated the broader legislative strategy behind the scenes.

Mansfield believed the lengthy debate served an important purpose. With many senators still undecided, he viewed the Senate as a deliberative body where extended discussion could persuade Democrat lawmakers and help opponents ultimately “accept the legitimacy of the outcome,” according to the Senator.

Asked whether he sees parallels between Mansfield’s strategy and the approach the current GOP Senate should take to advance election integrity legislation, Lee said he does, though he noted there are important differences between Mansfield’s effort and the current Senate under Republican Majority Leader John Thune.

“I mean, you did have the majority leader who was saying, ‘I’m willing to do this, and that is what it takes.’ In the modern Senate, you do need the support, active involvement, and engagement by the Senate Majority Leader in order for this to work,” Lee said.

Lee went on to note that one of the “distinct privileges” of the leader is to set the chamber’s schedule, and a talking filibuster is a “significant scheduling commitment.”

Lee said that during the 1964 legislative debate, Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield reinforced his commitment to ensuring passage by making it clear the chamber would remain on the bill for as long as necessary. To Lee’s understanding, Mansfield told senators, “We’re going to do this. We’re going to pass it, and we’re going to debate this for as many weeks as it takes in order to pass it. And they stayed in week in, week out.”

Noting he believes the Senate often debated on Saturdays and typically recessed on Sundays for church attendance, but otherwise remained in continuous session, he said it became increasingly clear Mansfield would not back down, “And they saw that he meant it, especially when you get into it that far. When you get weeks into it, it’s, ‘oh my gosh, he’s not messing around. This is serious.’”

With national attention focused on the Senate, supporters of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 used the prolonged floor debate to build momentum for the legislation, while opponents relied on extended debate tactics in an effort to delay or weaken the bill.

When the bill’s supporters briefly failed to produce enough senators for a quorum call, Mansfield privately admonished colleagues, reminding them that “there comes a point in time when certain procedures must, in the best interest of the Senate, be laid down.” Attendance quickly improved.

Lee, who has faced pushback from his own party for his support for this approach, responded to criticism over why the Senate should prioritize the measure even with GOP control of both the legislative and executive branches. The Senator, responding to Thune and Republican Texas Sen. John Cornyn’s argument that Republicans lack the votes, told the Caller that cloture is just one way to break a filibuster — and when you use only that method of breaking the filibuster — after a while, you can become convinced that it’s the only way. But it’s not the only way.”

The talking filibuster employed against the Civil Rights Act only lasted roughly 54–60 working days, or up to about 75 calendar days by some counts, beginning in late March 1964 and ending with final Senate passage on June 19, 1964.

Lee cites the episode and use of the talking filibuster to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as a blueprint for how sustained floor debate and prolonged pressure can still, more than six decades later, be used to advance major legislation like the SAVE America Act.

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Ashley Brasfield

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Supreme Court Upholds Birthright Citizenship in Blow to Trump Immigration Enforcement

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In a 6–3 ruling, the Supreme Court ruled against President Donald Trump on the issue of birthright citizenship, maintaining the status quo.

The majority held that children born in the United States to illegal immigrant parents are citizens at birth under the Fourteenth Amendment’s Citizenship Clause.

Chief Justice John Roberts, a George W. Bush appointee, wrote for the majority and was joined by Trump-appointed Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett, as well as the trio of Democrat appointees, Justices Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor, and Ketanji Brown Jackson.

“The Fourteenth Amendment achieved its aim. The Citizenship Clause mirrored the common law’s criteria for citizenship,” Roberts wrote. “The Clause starts, like the common law, with territory—a child must be ‘born . . . in the United States,’ not elsewhere (even to American parents). And the Clause ends, again like the common law, with sovereign power—a child must be ‘subject to the jurisdiction’ of the United States, unlike (say) the families of foreign ministers. A child born on American soil and subject to American law was made an American citizen.”

“Citizenship, then and now, was the right to have rights— to freely participate in our political community,” Roberts later added. “The Framers of the Fourteenth Amendment extended that promise to ‘every free-born person in this land.’ We keep that promise today.”

Justice Clarence Thomas wrote the dissenting opinion, joined by Justices Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch, all Republican appointees.

Thomas wrote that the majority “has repurposed the Fourteenth Amendment”

“The Court today takes the extraordinary step of holding facially unconstitutional the president’s Order excluding from citizenship the children of foreign temporary visitors and illegal aliens,” Thomas wrote. “In doing so, the court adds to the sad history of the Fourteenth Amendment, which was designed and understood to secure equal rights for the freed blacks but has instead been repurposed for political projects that the Reconstruction Congress did not support.”

Thomas later added, “Today, the Court does so again by recognizing a constitutional right to citizenship for the children of all foreign birth tourists and illegal aliens.”

“I am not sure that today’s opinion will stand the test of time. The Citizenship Clause ‘added greatly to the dignity and glory of American citizenship,’” Thomas added. “Today’s opinion devalues that citizenship. I respectfully dissent.”

Some conservative-leaning justices had hard questions for Solicitor General John Sauer during arguments in April over reversing nearly 130 years of precedent on birthright citizenship, as President Donald Trump was in attendance.

The case involves Trump’s January 2025 executive order instructing federal agencies not to recognize citizenship for children born in the United States without at least one parent who is an American citizen.

Birthright citizenship is the view that anyone born in the United States—even a child of illegal aliens—is automatically a U.S. citizen.

The case has the potential to overturn a Supreme Court precedent dating back to 1898, when the court upheld birthright citizenship under the 14th Amendment, which granted citizenship to freed slaves after the Civil War.

The disputed provision of the 14th Amendment states, “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.”

The point of contention in the case is the phrase “subject to the jurisdiction thereof,” which Solicitor General D. John Sauer has argued was misinterpreted by the court’s late 19th-century ruling.

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Fred Lucas 

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Study: Illegal Immigration Drives Up American Housing Prices

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President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance have both repeatedly asserted that the Trump administration’s immigration policy — chiefly, deportations — will significantly ease economic burdens on Americans, especially in sectors like housing. A new report is confirming those statements as likely accurate.

According to the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, the millions of illegal immigrants ushered into the U.S. by former President Joe Biden and his administration drove up housing costs significantly, making it harder for American families to afford homes. “According to the U.S. Congressional Budget Office, net entry of this category of immigrants added roughly 7 million people to the U.S. population over 2021 to 2024 (1.75 million per year), nearly double that of legal immigration,” the Federal Reserve report found. “To put this growth in perspective, net unauthorized immigration — that is, immigration of individuals who entered the country without being formally admitted for purposes of immigration law — averaged only 0.1 million a year from 2000 to 2019 and was slightly negative from 2010 to 2019.”

“We then turn to the effects of unauthorized immigration on the broader local economy, focusing in particular on the housing market,” the report continued. Between 2021 and 2024, the price of housing increased by 2.2% and rent increased by 1.4% for every 1% that illegal immigration increased a locale’s population. “A back-of-the-envelope calculation suggests that [unauthorized immigrant worker flows] can explain about 30% of the total growth in house prices and 20% of total growth in rents over the boom period for the average local market,” the report concluded.

“Increased housing prices is one of many reasons why mass deportations are still needed,” said Lora Ries, director of the Heritage Foundation’s Border Security and Immigration Center, in comments to The Washington Stand. “We have at least 20 million deportable aliens in the U.S. Deporting millions of them will free up housing supply, bring down housing costs, allow young Americans to buy homes and start families. All of this is needed for America to thrive,” she continued. “Border security is half of the equation. Deportations are the other half.”

The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas report findings are in line with the conclusions of other studies. A Housing and Urban Development (HUD) investigation last year similarly concluded that mass immigration drives up housing costs, particularly for low-income individuals and communities. The HUD report examined “worst-case housing needs, which it defined as Americans who are low-income but do not receive government assistance or welfare and who pay more than one-half of their income toward housing costs. “Between 2021 and 2023, cases of worst-case needs remained elevated at 8.46 million households, virtually the same as the 2019-to-2021 period,” the report found. “One key cause of elevated worst case needs is immigration.”

“Between 2021 and 2024, the foreign-born population of the United States increased by more than 6 million — the largest such increase over such a short period in American history,” HUD found. “The foreign-born population now stands at more than 53 million individuals, making up the highest share of the American population in history,” the report continued. “This immigration-driven increase in households has contributed to a significant increase in housing demand, thus driving up housing prices. In fact, in some markets, immigration has accounted for nearly all of the increase in housing demand in recent years.”

The HUD report found that economic growth over the same period “has been insufficient to lift the wages of low-income renting families high enough to make rent affordable.” The report further concluded that “national macroeconomic policies, such as record immigration, have combined to drive sustained high rental demand, which has continued to place upward pressure on rent prices.” Largely due to mass immigration, fewer than 60 affordable housing units were available per 100 American renters considered “very low-income,” HUD found, and fewer than 40 affordable units were available per 100 American renters considered “extremely low-income.”

Early last year, HUD signed a “memorandum of understanding” with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in an effort to collaborate to ensure that taxpayer-funded housing benefits are received by American citizens, not illegal immigrants. In places like Springfield, Ohio, where the Biden administration dumped tens of thousands of Haitian immigrants under temporary protected status (TPS), Americans have been driven out of their homes, with landlords often raising rent prices higher than American workers can afford in order to take advantage of the taxpayer-funded housing assistance afforded to foreign nationals.

“When we talk about housing and why costs are so high, we don’t talk enough about demand, and one of the drivers of increased housing demand is that we’ve got a lot of people over the last four years who have come into the country illegally,” Vance observed last year. “That’s something we have to work on if we want to meaningfully reduce the cost of housing. … We want Americans to be able to afford the American dream of home ownership.”

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Supreme Court Rules In Favor Of Trump Admin On Government’s Ability To Deny Admission To Green Card Holders

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The Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Trump administration Tuesday, allowing immigration officials to deny green card holders admission to the country.

The court’s 6-3 ruling in Blanche, Acting Attorney General v. Lau allows border officials to deny admission — permission to remain in the U.S. indefinitely — to a legal permanent resident (LPR) suspected of crime under certain circumstances, authorizing officials to parole such LPRs instead.

Authorities typically view LPRs as already admitted to the U.S. when they return from temporary travel, under the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). This allows traveling green card holders to avoid the rigorous processing new immigrants must undergo.

However, the INA provides an exception when an official believes the LPR has committed a “crime involving moral turpitude,” according to court documents. The court ruled border officials do not need to have “clear and convincing evidence that a lawful permanent resident has committed” such a crime before they consider denying that resident admission, according to Justice Clarence Thomas‘ majority opinion.

The case came to the court after Muk Choi Lau, a Chinese citizen and green card holder, appealed an immigration officer’s 2012 decision to place him on parole after he returned from a short trip. New Jersey had accused Lau of trademark counterfeit in May 2012, but Lau decided to travel to China prior to the trial and was paroled upon his return. Lau appealed the parole, arguing the government should have designated him as an “already admitted” LPR instead of labeling him as an applicant “seeking admission,” according to court documents. This distinction allowed the Department of Homeland Security to take swifter action in deporting him.

Trump administration officials argued that suspicion of a crime is a sufficient reason for placing an LPR on immigrant parole.

Blanche v. Lau overturned a Second Circuit Court’s ruling that border officials need “clear and convincing evidence” of crime prior to denying admission, instead concluding that Lau had been “correctly charged with inadmissibility.”

“At step one, the Government regarded him as an alien seeking admission because he had committed a crime involving moral turpitude before attempting to reenter the country. At step two, he was inadmissible and therefore removable because he had been convicted of a crime involving moral turpitude,” the majority opinion reads.

Justice Ketanji Brown wrote the dissenting opinion, with Associate Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan concurring. Brown argued that the court’s decision “allows the Government to deem an LPR to be ‘seeking an admission’ first and justify the applicability of an exception later — undermining the statutory scheme as well as the benefits and security that come with having a green card,” according to court documents.

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Another Heinous Child Sex Crime, Another Illegal Arrested

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Alexis Mejia-Colon, a criminal illegal from Honduras, has been arrested for raping a child for TWO YEARS. He is now facing first-degree rape, oral sexual battery, and aggravated crimes against nature charges.

ICE has also lodged a detainer for this monster.

This is who the Democrats are shutting down the government for.

St. Rose man arrested on rape charges involving juvenile, sheriff says

WWL Staff

A St. Rose man has been arrested on multiple sex crime charges after a juvenile reported years of alleged abuse, according to the St. Charles Parish Sheriff’s Office.

Sheriff Greg Champagne announced the arrest of 42-year-old Alexis Mejia-Colon on Monday.

Investigators said a juvenile female told detectives that Mejia-Colon had allegedly raped her over the past two years. Based on that information, detectives obtained an arrest warrant.

Mejia-Colon was booked on May 29 on charges of first-degree rape, oral sexual battery and aggravated crimes against nature.

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