"Stop Nick Shirley Act"

Newsom signs bill critics call the 'Stop Nick Shirley Act,' threatening fines and jail for exposing nonprofit immigration workers

California's governor signed a law that could punish anyone who posts information or images of nonprofit immigration workers with fines up to $50,000 and prison time, and critics say it was written to silence one independent journalist.

Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 2624 into law on Saturday, expanding the state's "Safe at Home" program to cover employees of nonprofits that help people navigate the U.S. immigration system.

The bill, introduced in February by Assemblywoman Mia Bonta, an Alameda Democrat, penalizes anyone who distributes or posts information or images of immigration workers in a way that "incites violence or threats." Violators face fines ranging from $10,000 to $50,000, plus sentences from one year in county jail to state prison time.

Republican Assemblyman Carl DeMaio of San Diego coined the nickname that stuck: the "Stop Nick Shirley Act." The bill, he argued, is meant to intimidate people "trying to shine light on bad behavior." The law does not take effect until October 1, 2027, by which point Newsom, limited by term limits, will no longer hold office.

Terry Schanz, chief of staff to Democratic Assemblywoman Tina McKinnor, interrupted Shirley while he was conducting an interview outside the Capitol. Schanz held up a printed flyer and, according to reporting attributed to the New York Post, made a crude public statement about the journalist:

"Did you guys hear that Nick Shirley has a small penis allegedly?"

Schanz earns $17,319 per month in taxpayer-funded compensation. Multiple complaints were filed against him with the legislature's human resources department following the incident. The content of those complaints and the identity of the filers have not been disclosed.

When the government's response to embarrassing journalism is not a rebuttal but a criminal statute, the problem is not the journalist.

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Biden's last minute act for TPS

Eric Schmitt Releases Biden Memo on Last-Minute TPS Push for 3 Million Illegals

According to Schmitt, Republican Senator from Misouri, the January 2025 memo discussed expanding TPS to cover more than 3 million people. The memo reportedly listed about 1.5 million Guatemalans, 600,000 Ecuadorians, 464,000 Nicaraguans, and 455,000 Venezuelans as still eligible for the program.

It also referenced populations from Ukraine, Sudan, and Afghanistan who could potentially receive protection.

The timing is the key issue here. This was during Biden’s final stretch in office, after voters had already chosen President Trump to return to the White House on a platform that included tougher immigration enforcement.

Republicans argue the memo shows Biden officials were looking for ways to lock in protections before Trump could act.

“After the American people voted for President Trump’s promise to end the TPS scam, the Biden administration tried to subvert the will of the American people. This was mass amnesty-by-decree. America is for Americans, and it is our home—it is not a permanent refugee camp,” Schmitt added.

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U.S. Senator Eric Schmitt serves on the Armed Services Committee, the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, and the Judiciary Committee.

Birthright Citizenship

Moreno revives Harry Reid's 1993 immigration bill to force Democrats' hand on birthright citizenship

Sen. Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio, plans to circulate legislation that mirrors, nearly word for word, a 1993 bill introduced by the late Sen. Harry Reid, the Nevada Democrat who went on to become Senate Majority Leader and one of the most powerful figures in his party.

The move is designed to put today's Democrats in an uncomfortable position: vote against a bill authored by their own icon, or concede ground on birthright citizenship, legal immigration caps, and faster deportations.

Fox News Digital first obtained the forthcoming bill, which Moreno described as "a mirror image of Reid's initial offering from 1993." The package is sweeping. It would restrict birthright citizenship, cut legal immigration substantially, cap refugee admissions at 50,000 per year, and speed up deportations with limited court review.

The timing is no accident. The Supreme Court recently ruled on birthright citizenship, interpreting the Fourteenth Amendment's "subject to the jurisdiction of" clause in a way that effectively grants automatic citizenship to all children born on U.S. soil.

Moreno's bill responds directly to that ruling, and uses Reid's own three-decade-old language to do it.

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Lake Worth Beach Bakery owner taken into custody by ICE

Lake Worth Beach business owner arrested in ICE operation

family, community push back on agency's claims

ICE says Jacob Zapeta Castro is a 'criminal illegal alien' who has been deported 4 times

A Lake Worth bakery owner is in federal custody after Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested him in what the agency is calling a targeted immigration operation — and his family, coworkers, and community members are pushing back on ICE's characterization of the man.

The arrest of Jacob Zapeta Castro happened at a Guatemalan bakery on Lucerne Avenue, just over the train tracks in Lake Worth Beach, on a day that employees say started like any other.

ICE says Zapeta Castro is "a criminal illegal alien from Guatemala who has been removed from the United States four times and has an extensive criminal history including illegal re-entry after deportation, multiple DUI arrests, hit and run, and resisting law enforcement."

According to ICE, officers encountered a vehicle associated with Zapeta Castro around 10:30 a.m. Wednesday. When they attempted to stop him, the agency says he tried to ram an ICE vehicle, then got out, fled, and barricaded himself inside the bakery.

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Jacob Zapeta Castro is the owner of El Quetzal Panaderia Y Cafeteria on Lucerne Avenue in Lake Worth Beach, FL. He was taken into federal custody during a joint U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) operation.

Democrats don't know what "legal" and "temporary" mean

Democrats unravel after Supreme Court upholds Trump's authority to end Haitian TPS protections

The Supreme Court handed the Trump administration three 6-3 victories on immigration Thursday, and the Democratic response arrived within minutes, loud, emotional, and revealing.

Members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus rushed to the microphones to denounce the rulings, accuse the justices of white supremacy, and recast hundreds of thousands of Temporary Protected Status holders as "American families", a rhetorical sleight of hand that tells you everything about where the left stands on the distinction between legal and temporary.

1. The most consequential of the three decisions, Mullin v. Doe, confirmed that the Trump administration can end TPS for roughly 350,000 Haitians and 6,100 Syrians living in the United States, overturning lower federal court orders that had blocked the termination.
2. A second ruling, Mullin v. Al Otro Lado, clarified that a migrant who has not physically set foot on U.S. soil is not entitled to apply for asylum and does not have to be inspected by an immigration officer.
3.  A third, Blanche v. Muk Choi Lau, will make it easier for the Department of Homeland Security to deport green card holders convicted of crimes.

All three decisions came down on the same 6-3 margin. All three restored executive authority that lower courts had stripped away. And all three drew the same furious reaction from Democrats who have spent years treating temporary immigration protections as permanent entitlements.

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Trump wins another one in Supreme Court

Supreme Court hands Trump administration 6-3 win on green card holder deportation authority

The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that border officers can place lawful permanent residents on immigration parole, opening an easier path to deportation, based on a mere accusation of criminal conduct, without meeting a higher evidentiary standard. The 6-3 decision sided with the Trump administration and affirmed broad executive authority over green card holders returning from travel abroad.

The case centered on Muk Choi Lau, a lawful permanent resident who was flagged by an immigration officer in 2012 when he returned from a short trip to China. Lau had been accused of a counterfeiting crime. Rather than readmitting him as a returning resident, the officer placed him on immigration parole, a classification that stripped away procedural protections and gave the Department of Homeland Security a faster route to remove him from the country.

Lau later pleaded guilty to selling counterfeit clothes in New Jersey. But the legal fight was never really about the counterfeiting conviction. It was about what standard the government must meet before a conviction, at the border, in real time, to reclassify a green card holder and set deportation proceedings in motion. The Court answered: not much.

Thomas writes for the majority--

Justice Clarence Thomas, writing for the six-justice majority, framed the question narrowly. As the Associated Press reported, Thomas wrote:

"Border officers did not have the burden to establish by clear and convincing evidence that Lau had committed a crime involving moral turpitude."

That single sentence resolved the dispute. Lau had argued the immigration officer overstepped by placing him on parole without meeting the "clear and convincing evidence" threshold, a standard typically required before the government can strip someone of significant legal rights. The majority rejected that argument outright.

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Immigration bill heads to Trump's desk

House sends $70 billion immigration enforcement bill to Trump after razor-thin 214-212 vote

House Republicans muscled a nearly $70 billion immigration enforcement funding bill to President Donald Trump's desk on Tuesday, clearing the chamber on a 214-212 vote that required near-total party unity and zero Democratic support.

The legislation funds Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Border Patrol for three years, a timeline designed to take the fight off the table through the next election cycle and beyond.

Not a single Democrat voted yes. One Republican, Rep. Kevin Kiley of California, sided with the opposition. Every other GOP member held the line.

The bill caps a monthslong standoff in Congress that began when Democrats refused to fund the Department of Homeland Security. Republicans responded by using a procedural maneuver to bypass the Senate filibuster and pass the package without a single vote from across the aisle.

The Senate cleared its version last week during an overnight session, 52-47, with Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska the only Republican to break ranks. Now the bill heads to the president, as the Associated Press reported, for what is expected to be a swift signature.

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Civilizational Decline

Vance: 'He should still be alive today'

Vance didn't hold back. He wrote on X:

"Henry Nowak died the same way a civilization dies: abandoned, handcuffed by authorities who neither trusted nor cared for him, and accused of hate crimes he did not commit."

He went further, tying Nowak's death to broader migration policy across Europe:

"He should still be alive today, and he would be if the last few generations of European elites had stood their ground against the politics of self-hatred and the mass invasion of migrants, many of whom despise the West and the people who love it."

Vance wrote that the only proper response to the incident "is righteous anger," and that nobody "should ever die the way that Henry Nowak died."

The vice president, who has increasingly used his platform to address law-and-order failures both at home and abroad, framed the case not as a one-off crime but as a pattern enabled by political leadership that refuses to confront uncomfortable truths about migration and public safety.

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Republican bill moves forward

Senate Republicans advance $72 billion immigration bill after scrapping White House ballroom funds

Senate Republicans voted Wednesday to move forward with a massive reconciliation package funding the Department of Homeland Security's immigration agencies, clearing a key procedural hurdle on a 53-to-46 party-line vote after weeks of intraparty friction over a controversial Justice Department fund and a billion-dollar Secret Service line item that included money for a White House ballroom renovation.

The vote sets up a marathon amendment session, the dreaded "vote-a-rama", that could stretch into Thursday, with Democrats vowing to force Republicans into difficult votes on the DOJ fund and other provisions they oppose.

But the real story is what Republicans had to strip out of the bill to get here, and what remains unresolved even after the acting attorney general told Congress the disputed fund is dead.

A revised version of one section of the package, released Wednesday, dropped language that would have provided $1 billion in security funding for the Secret Service. That line item had drawn scrutiny because it included money for President Trump's planned East Wing renovation, where he intends to build a large ballroom.

The original $72 billion package, unveiled last month by Republicans on the Senate Judiciary and Homeland Security committees, funds DHS immigration agencies through fiscal year 2029. Republicans have moved it through the budget reconciliation process, which sidesteps the 60-vote threshold required to advance most legislation in the Senate.

That procedural path is the only realistic route for a Republican-only bill in a chamber where Democrats have spent months opposing funding for immigration enforcement agencies.

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Expanding the Immigration Court

Trump Admin Takes Significant Step To Increase Deportations

The Trump administration is moving to further accelerate its deportation agenda by significantly expanding the nation’s immigration court system, according to a report from The Daily Wire.

In its latest effort, the Department of Justice announced Thursday that it has hired 82 immigration judges — the largest single-year class in agency history. The additions bring the total number of immigration judges in the United States to nearly 700.

“The Trump administration is committed to reestablishing an immigration judge corps that is dedicated to restoring the rule [of] law in our nation’s immigration system,” Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said in a statement.

“Today, we are onboarding the largest immigration judge class in agency history,” Blanche added. “This could only happen thanks to President Trump’s decisive leadership and commitment to securing our borders. I also applaud EOIR’s leadership team for helping facilitate these hiring efforts and recruiting highly qualified and talented personnel in record time.”

The incoming class consists of 77 permanent judges and five temporary appointments.

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Medicare Fraud under Investigation

'A lot of this is being done by foreigners': GOP congressmen go after the 'ethnic scam' plaguing America

Brandon Gill: 'We've got two different issues here, an immigration issue, and the welfare state issue'

Republicans are discovering billions of taxpayers' dollars going to waste, being spent fraudulently, and abused by American bureaucracy systems, specifically the welfare state. Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas, is leading the fraud investigations, rooted in immigration policy issues, in Congress.

"A lot of this is being done by foreigners," Gill said at a Republican Study Committee roundtable on Thursday.

"We've got two different issues here, an immigration issue, and the welfare state issue. We're focusing on the latter here on waste, fraud, and abuse. But when you bring in infinity Third Worlders into American society, from low-trust countries, you kind of expect low-trust behavior," Gill continued.

The goal is not simply to expose fraud – it's to put an end to it.

That's exactly why we launched an investigation into the Ohio Medicaid scandal last week. pic.twitter.com/F7yX2wwl0X

— Congressman Brandon Gill (@RepBrandonGill) May 20, 2026

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What Chip Roy's MAMDANI Act Does to Socialist Immigrants

Chip Roy Just Introduced a Bill to Deport Zohran Mamdani and Everyone Like Him

Zohran Mamdani posted photos with an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

That socialist is now the sitting mayor of New York City.

Chip Roy just introduced a bill to make sure that never happens again. The legislation is called the MAMDANI Act, and the name is not subtle.

Roy's bill amends existing immigration law to bar admission, naturalization, and permanent residency to any alien who advocates for, belongs to, or is affiliated with a communist party, socialist party, Chinese communist party, Islamic fundamentalist party, or any organization promoting Marxism, socialism, communism, or Islamic fundamentalism.

It doesn't stop there

The 2011 Obama Letter That Gagged Every School District in America

Obama Kept Your School District in the Dark for 15 Years and Chip Roy Just Found the Memo

Your kid's school cut art class to stretch its budget while nobody was allowed to count who was sitting in the classroom.

Now Texas congressman, Chip Roy, has the memo that made that silence federal policy.

He just sent it to the two people who can kill it – and the clock is ticking before Washington goes back to pretending it doesn't exist.

In May 2011, Barack Obama's Department of Education sent a letter to every school district in America. They called it civil rights guidance. It declared that the immigration status of a student – or their parent – was "irrelevant" to their enrollment in public school.

The Federation for American Immigration Reform estimates it costs public schools just over $78 billion annually to educate the limited-English-proficiency student population – the vast majority of whom are children of illegal immigrants.

$1.9 billion – what illegal alien enrollments have cost Texas taxpayers alone. The Heritage Foundation calculated that in just four states – California, New York, Texas, and Arizona – absorbing a single year's influx of migrant children into public schools cost nearly three-quarters of a billion dollars.

Virtually the entire bill falls on state and local taxpayers.

Not Washington.

You.

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Justice Sonia Sotomayor - Liberal against ICE

Sotomayor targets Kavanaugh's background in public broadside over ICE raid ruling

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor used a public appearance at a University of Kansas School of Law event on Tuesday to single out colleague Brett Kavanaugh, claiming his upbringing as the son of professionals left him unable to understand the real-world consequences of immigration enforcement stops.

The remarks, personal, pointed, and delivered outside the courtroom, centered on Kavanaugh's concurring opinion last September in a case that allowed the Trump administration to continue ICE raids in the Los Angeles area, as the New York Post reported.

Sotomayor did not name Kavanaugh directly in her public remarks. But she left little doubt about her target.

Sotomayor told the Kansas audience that a colleague had characterized immigration stops as merely temporary. She then pivoted to a personal critique of Kavanaugh's family background, arguing it disqualified him from understanding the stakes for hourly workers detained by ICE agents.

"This is from a man whose parents were professionals. And probably doesn't really know any person who works by the hour."

The episode raises a question that has nothing to do with immigration law: When a sitting justice uses a public stage to attack a colleague's personal background as the basis for his legal reasoning, what does that say about the state of the Court?

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Senate Democrats used a funding fight to try to gut immigration enforcement

Three House Democrats defy Jeffries, vote with Republicans to fund DHS and immigration enforcement

Three House Democrats broke ranks with Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Friday and voted to fully fund the Department of Homeland Security, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol.

Reps. Henry Cuellar of Texas, Don Davis of North Carolina, and Marie Gluesenkamp Perez of Washington joined 209 House Republicans and independent Rep. Kevin Kiley of California in backing Speaker Mike Johnson's 60-day funding patch.

According to the Washington Examiner, the vote handed Johnson a key win after a weeks-long shutdown fight over immigration enforcement, and it exposed a crack in the Democratic wall that Jeffries has been working to hold together.

The reason for the crack is simple: the Democratic position is untenable, and a few of their members finally admitted it. Defunding Border Patrol isn't a winning hand.

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Ilhan and Immigration Fraud

Vance declares White House will pursue Ilhan Omar over alleged immigration fraud

Vice President J.D. Vance said Friday that the White House "definitely" believes Rep. Ilhan Omar committed immigration fraud and that administration officials are actively working to determine how to build a legal case against the Minnesota Democrat.

The remarks, made on "The Benny Johnson Show," mark the most direct public statement yet from a sitting vice president on allegations that have trailed Omar for years.

Vance told Johnson he had recently spoken with White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller about the matter and that the two are exploring what legal remedies exist.

The comments arrived the same day the vice president's new anti-fraud task force convened for the first time, a body specifically charged with cracking down on social-services fraud across the country, with a particular focus on Minnesota.

The vice president did not announce a specific legal action or filing. But the language he used left little room for ambiguity about the administration's intentions, as the Daily Caller reported.

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We need ICE

Sheriff Bradshaw on Immigration Enforcement

Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw said his agency has been consistent on immigration enforcement

as other Florida sheriffs made headlines expressing opinion that some enforcement has gone too far

As Florida sheriffs are expressing public reservations about excessive immigration enforcement, the sheriff of Palm Beach County — an area that leads the state in law enforcement contacts with undocumented immigrants — says his stance has not changed.

Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw told WLRN his officers weren't conducting sweeps, raids, or proactively enforcing immigration law, something he has maintained since last year.

" I'll do what I have to do in the normal course of law enforcement contacts and business because you can't do anything less than that," Bradshaw said.

"But we're not out here looking for people," he continued, "Stopping 'em on the streets, knocking on people's doors, going to places where people are working that we know are Hispanics. 'Ain't happening."

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Legal Immigration - The Number Democrats Don't Want You to See

Will Cain Just Said What Nobody in Washington Will Admit About Legal Immigration

Democrats spent years telling you the border was the only immigration problem worth fixing.

Now a Fox News host just blew that argument apart with one number.

Will Cain put the data on the screen and said out loud what politicians in both parties have been too afraid to touch – and what he revealed changes the entire immigration conversation. More than half of all households headed by legal immigrants – people Washington politicians assured you were carefully screened and self-sufficient – are drawing federal welfare benefits.

Fifty-two percent. That's the figure Cain cited on The Will Cain Show, and it tracks directly with data from the Center for Immigration Studies' 2024 analysis. Legal immigrant households use welfare at a rate that outpaces American-born households by thirteen points.

The federal government spends roughly $1 trillion a year on welfare programs. States pile another $300 billion on top just for Medicaid. Every legal immigrant household drawing benefits pulls from the same pool your grandchildren will be paying off.

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1965 Immigration Act Created Chain Migration

Congressman Andy Ogles

United States' broken Immigration system

Democrats passed the Hart-Celler Act in 1965 and promised it would change nothing.

They were lying – or they had no idea what they were doing.

Either way, sixty years later, a congressman from Tennessee just introduced the bill to finally fix it.

Rep. Andy Ogles of the House Freedom Caucus dropped legislation this week that would rip out the foundation of America's broken immigration system – the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, known as the Hart-Celler Act.

The bill would end chain migration, scrap the diversity visa lottery, and replace the entire family-reunification racket with a merit-based system built around one standard: "All immigration to the United States shall serve the economic, cultural, and security interests of the United States."

That's it.

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