Somewhere, a guy wearing a tinfoil hat is having a really tough night.
Anyone who rushed to Aliens.gov on Thursday expecting UFO disclosure was in for a rude awakening. Because the website has nothing to do with extraterrestrials, but rather, illegal immigrants.
The website — which looks like something a guy named Randy would show you at 2 a.m. while explaining what really happened at Area 51 — opens with neon text on a poorly designed background proclaiming &#8220;They Walk Among Us.&#8221; Only &#8220;they&#8221; are not little green men, but the countless illegal immigrants who have entered the United States through the southern border.
&#8220;They&#8217;ve shopped in the same stores, attended the same classes as our children, and lived seemingly normal human existences,&#8221; the site reads. &#8220;With one exception — they do not belong here.&#8221;
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&#8220;President Trump was the first to call out the real danger Aliens pose to every American family, every community, and the future of our nation,&#8221; it continues. &#8220;The truth is no longer out there. It is right here. Right now.&#8221;
The site contains an interactive map showing immigration arrests around the country, where visitors can search by city, state, alleged crimes, countries of origin, and suspected gang affiliations. The site also includes encounter statistics, enforcement information, and a tip line for reporting suspicious activity.
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A running counter of &#8220;encounters&#8221; at the bottom of the site tracks in real time how many illegals have been apprehended at the southern border.
Perhaps the Fox Mulders of the world are disappointed that this site doesn&#8217;t reveal all the secrets of Area 51. But this is just the latest social media coup from a White House that has repeatedly proven it has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/everyone-go-to-covid-gov-right-now-just-trust-us">no problem using memes</a> and viral content to get its serious policy points across to the American people.

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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump will speak to the mothers of children killed by illegal immigrants, mothers who lost their children in the service of the United States Armed Forces, and other courageous everyday American mothers during an event at the White House on Friday afternoon, The Daily Wire can first report.
The president will host a luncheon to honor Mother&#8217;s Day 2026 in the newly renovated White House Rose Garden at noon on Friday where he will give remarks to a group that includes Angel Mothers and Gold Star Mothers, a White House official shared.
During his remarks, Trump will discuss topics including the Working Families Tax Cut, Trump Accounts, his efforts to enable more Americans to access IVF, school choice, and how his administration is keeping men out of women&#8217;s sports and spaces.
White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles will be in attendance, as will Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins.
One of the president&#8217;s guests will be Anna Zarutska, the mother of Iryna Zarutska, the 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee who was brutally stabbed to death on a train in Charlotte, North Carolina in August 2025. Anna Zarutska fled Ukraine with her daughter in 2022 and journeyed to the United States to live with their family in North Carolina, where Iryna Zarutska was working full-time at a pizzeria while attending community college.
<div id="attachment_1091589" style="width: 1034px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-president-trump-to-host-angel-moms-gold-star-mothers-for-mothers-day-luncheon/president-trump-delivers-state-of-the-union-address-11" rel="attachment wp-att-1091589"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1091589" class="wp-image-1091589 size-full" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/05/GettyImages-2262920074.jpg" alt="" width="1024" height="683" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/05/GettyImages-2262920074.jpg 1024w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/05/GettyImages-2262920074-300x200.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/05/GettyImages-2262920074-864x576.jpg 864w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/05/GettyImages-2262920074-768x512.jpg 768w" sizes=" (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /></a>Erika Kirk and Anna Zarutska, the mother of Iryna Zarutska, during a State of the Union address in the House Chamber of the US Capitol in Washington, DC, US, on Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2026. Photographer: Daniel Heuer/Bloomberg via Getty Images</div>
Her murderer, Decarlos Brown Jr., had more than a dozen prior arrests and was released on no-cash bail when he killed her. He faces both state and federal murder charges, though <a href="https://www.wral.com/news/local/examiners-determine-charlotte-light-rail-stabbing-suspect-currenly-incapable-to-stand-trail-may-2026/">as recently as Thursday</a>, federal examiners found him &#8220;incapable to proceed&#8221; in the federal case due to mental illness. He was found &#8220;incapable to proceed&#8221; on the state murder charge last month.
Six-time Olympic Medalist Kallie Humphries will also attend the luncheon, a White House official shared. Humphries is a Canadian and American bobsledder whose dream was to stand on the Olympic podium not only as an athlete, but as a mother. She achieved that dream during the 2026 Olympics when earned two bronze medals with her husband and son present to cheer her victory. Her son was born in 2024 through IVF, prompting Humphries to become an advocate for the process.
The president will also host Alicia Lopez, the mother of Marine Corps Corporal Hunter Lopez, one of the 13 U.S. service members killed in the ISIS-K suicide bombing at Abbey Gate outside the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul on August 26, 2021, during former President Joe Biden&#8217;s botched Afghanistan withdrawal. Corporal Lopez was 22-years-old at the time and hoped to become a sheriff in his hometown sheriff&#8217;s department, following in his family&#8217;s footsteps.
A number of Angel mothers will be present as well: Angel mother Sabine Durden-Coulter, whose son Dominic Durden was killed in 2012 by an illegal immigrant in California, Angel mom Anne Fundner, whose son Weston died after taking a counterfeit fentanyl-laced pill in 2022, and Angel mom Jaqueline Medina, whose daughter Lizbeth Medina was killed in Texas in 2023 by an illegal alien.
Other guests include Dalisia Ballinger, a Memphis mother and public safety advocate who is a member of &#8220;Make Memphis Safe Again,&#8221; and Melody Wolfe, the mother of West Virginia National Guard Staff Sergeant Andrew Wolfe, who was critically wounded in a terrorist attack on November 26, 2025, near the White House by Rahmanullah Lakanwal, an Afghan national who entered the country in 2021.

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How do we measure the effectiveness of public policy? As the kids say, there will be signs. For measuring immigration policies, birth data serves as a lagging indicator.
Newly released Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/america-is-on-track-to-literally-die-off-new-fertility-data-warns">data</a> indicate that the number of babies born in the United States in 2025 declined 1% from a year earlier. Some in the anti-natalist camp might tout that number as a positive indication of an upwardly mobile, (mostly white), urban class prioritizing career and climate concerns for such a change. But a closer look at the demographic data reveals something different at play.
Though all demographics are declining in raw birth numbers, non-Hispanic whites are declining by the smallest amount, meaning their overall percentage of births is increasing. In February, non-Hispanic whites accounted for 50.7% of all births in the United States, and could well be a majority this year, the first time in three years.<img decoding="async" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Xg6C!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa2f6471b-e187-49f7-bd9e-5f82942417f4_1714x1126.png" />
With the exception of Indian and Cuban immigrants, all other large populations have seen their birth rates decline by double digits compared to last February.
Births from Chinese immigrants are -17.5%, Colombians are -10.5%, Ecuadorans are -22%, El Salvadorians are -15%, Guatemalans are -16%, Haitians are -16%, Hondurans are -15%, and Mexicans are -13%. The data is computed from the <a href="https://wonder.cdc.gov/natality.html">CDC Wonder</a> website&#8217;s live birth natality data.
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Trump’s mass deportation efforts, which include practices such as self-deportation, may be having a large effect.
There still is not much to be done when an illegal alien is in the U.S. and already pregnant; she’ll only need to wait through the term of her pregnancy and have the baby here to grant the child citizenship, as recent Supreme Court arguments look poised to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/supreme-court-weighs-trumps-push-to-end-birthright-citizenship-with-president-in-attendance?author=Zach+Jewell&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=1&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Trump+Torches+%E2%80%98Stupid%E2%80%99+Birthright+Citizenship+After+Supreme+Court+Appearance">reinforce</a>.
If she’s not pregnant, then there’s less of an incentive to stay.
In fact, the Trump administration has been reshaping the immigration courts to reflect his policies. The outcome of pressuring judges to conform to stricter parameters for granting <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/us/politics/trump-miller-immigration-judges-purge.html">asylum</a> is a dramatic decrease in asylum grant rates — just 7% in February. This is down from totals above 50% under the Biden and Obama administrations. In conjunction with immigration cases being decided faster, this adds up to fewer potential babies being born to illegal immigrants.
With the immigration crackdown, the U.S. fertility rate has dipped to 1.57 children per woman, which is still larger than most countries in Europe, Asia, Australia, and South America. There are more factors than just immigration to explain the dip.
Aside from American Indians and Native Hawaiians, all other races and ethnicities saw their raw numbers decline from February 2025 to February 2026. This is especially true of black Americans whose numbers are falling by nearly double digits year-to-year.<img decoding="async" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!oopR!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdb6f67ab-9c8f-4f98-9f05-ed0941086261_1724x1096.png" />
Whites accounted for a majority of births in 34 states and a plurality in nine states. Latinos were a plurality of births in four states and a majority in one. The District of Columbia was plurality non-Hispanic black, and Hawaii was the only state where multiracial births were the plurality.
The decline in black fertility has been so large that many states with historically large black populations have more Latino births in February than black, including Virginia, North Carolina, and Tennessee. Other states like Arkansas and Maryland could very well see Latino births outpacing blacks by the end of the year or the beginning of next year.
The birthrate numbers don’t lie. They unequivocally demonstrate the effectiveness of the Trump administration’s policies — policies that are bringing the country back from the brink of an uncontrolled influx of illegal immigrants and the persistent socioeconomic, political, and cultural problems that go with it. Future administrations should continue these policies for lasting change and signal to the rest of the world that America is no longer an open-border free-for-all. Illegal immigration isn’t inevitable; it’s a policy choice. We should continue to make the right one.
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Ryan James Girdusky is an author, podcaster, political consultant, and writer whose work has been featured in multiple publications including the Washington Examiner, The American Conservative Magazine, The Week, Human Events, and The Daily Caller. He is the host of “It’s A Numbers Game with Ryan Girdusky” podcast and writes at the <a href="https://natpop.substack.com/">Nationalist Populist</a> Substack. Follow him on X: @RyanGirdusky

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A Republican state senator in Idaho said her family’s livelihood is on the line after a united effort from major dairies in the state to cut off business with her husband over her stance on illegal immigration. 
Senator Glenneda Zuiderveld said multiple dairies are refusing to work with her husband Tom because of her politics, adding that they have lost 85% of their income in the past month. While the state&#8217;s dairy industry says Zuiderveld is &#8220;anti-ag,&#8221; she believes that she is being targeted because of her support for tough-on-illegal immigration policies like those that mandate employers verify the legal status of workers.
“I&#8217;m about trying to protect our state from illegal immigration, but they&#8217;re always trying to protect their workforce,” she told The Daily Wire. “They&#8217;re basically working with other dairies that will probably be withdrawing from us. So they&#8217;re colluding together. So that&#8217;s not free market. That’s intimidation.” 
The incident shows how even in red states, Republicans can split over agricultural and immigration enforcement interests. In this case, it appears to be large dairies against Zuiderveld, a member of Idaho&#8217;s firebrand Gang of Eight caucus which is associated with the State Freedom Caucus Network.
A letter from Zuiderveld’s employer obtained by The Daily Wire shows that multiple dairies, including Millenkamp Cattle, Black Pine Cattle, and Cedar Ridge Dairy requested last month “to no longer work with” her husband. 
“We have been informed that these customers have aligned with others in a coordinated effort to no longer direct business through you,” the letter said. “The concerns raised are tied to your wife’s political role and are not related to the level of service you have provided. While not making judgements on these factors, they are impacting these customers’ willingness to continue doing business with us.”
The letter added that one dairy even demanded that Tom be fired from the company, which the Zuidervelds have chosen to keep anonymous. 
“One customer indicated they would consider moving their business away from [redacted] if we did not terminate you. While termination is not something we are considering, it does underscore the seriousness of the situation,” the letter said. 
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The Daily Wire reached out to Millenkamp Cattle and Black Pine Cattle for comment, which falls under the same ownership. An employee for Cedar Ridge Dairy who answered a phone call said he was not authorized to talk to the press and hung up. 
“Our business has always been in the dairy industry,” Zuiderveld told The Daily Wire. “They&#8217;ve always known what our politics are, but just recently they wrote a letter saying that they didn&#8217;t like my politics, and that they wanted our company basically to fire my husband, which they didn&#8217;t do because we&#8217;re independent sales reps.”
Zuiderveld said that her Senate district, which encompasses the Magic Valley heavy agricultural area of south central Idaho, has more dairies than any other district. A fourth dairy, Riverbend Dairy, stopped doing business with them on Monday, Zuiderveld said. The Daily Wire reached out to a phone number listed for the dairy, but did not hear back. 
While the dairies did not respond to requests for comment, Rick Naerebout, the CEO of the Idaho Dairymen’s Association, chalked up the issue to “free-market capitalism” in an <a href="https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article315355006.html">interview</a> with The Idaho Statesman. 
He accused the Zuidervelds of being “anti-ag” and claimed that “not all Idaho Republicans are created equal.” He pointed to Zuiderveld’s opposition to $30 million in taxpayer dollars for water infrastructure and vote over funding to target an invasive mussel. 
Zuiderveld said that those issues were just a distraction from the issues of illegal immigration. She said that she opposed the water funding because there was not significant accountability for the dollars and said she was skeptical of the environmental claims about the mussel. 
“They&#8217;re trying to distract,” she told The Daily Wire. “The main reason is the illegal immigration issue — 90% of their workforce is what they call foreign-born, and I would have to say, probably 70% if not more of it is illegal.”

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It&#8217;s becoming a weekly ritual: California&#8217;s First Lady opens her mouth, inserts her foot, and the rest of the country winces.
In a resurfaced interview, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-gavin-newsoms-wife-bizarrely-attempt-to-relate-to-prisoners">Jennifer</a> Siebel Newsom recounts telling prisoners at San Quentin State Prison that she could relate to them. Why? Because at age six, she accidentally struck and killed her eight-year-old sister with a golf cart during a family vacation in Hawaii. She wasn&#8217;t punished, she explained, because it was clearly an accident, and she wanted those inmates to know their crimes were &#8220;probably an accident too.&#8221;
To call that comparison a stretch would be the understatement of the century.
Here&#8217;s the silver lining: if she keeps this up, she will single-handedly torch whatever remains of Gavin Newsom&#8217;s presidential ambitions. But there&#8217;s a larger point that cannot be glossed over. Democrats have long acted like they care more about criminals than their victims. Now they&#8217;re just saying the quiet part out loud.
The <a href="https://www.gov.ca.gov/2026/02/20/governor-newsom-transforms-san-quentin-opens-nation-leading-learning-center/">prison</a> known as &#8220;The Q&#8221; has become the Newsoms&#8217; progressive playground. The couple has poured millions into rebranding the facility as a &#8220;rehabilitation center&#8221; for wayward souls, even though the vast majority of its 3,500 to 4,000 inmates are Level II and Level IV prisoners with rap sheets containing murder, assault, armed robbery, and rape. This is the same prison that once housed the largest death row in America — until Gavin Newsom imposed a moratorium on executions in 2019. At least <a href="https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/twenty-years-since-last-execution-california-remains-under-execution-moratorium-as-advocates-push-for-mass-clemency-grant">650</a> condemned inmates were then quietly integrated into the general population. Empathy, apparently, has no room for such inconvenient details.
And who exactly are these &#8220;wronged individuals&#8221; the Newsoms are so eager to coddle? <a href="https://www.modbee.com/news/local/crime/scott-peterson-case/article267796397.html">Scott</a> Peterson, who murdered his pregnant wife Laci and their unborn son Connor, and <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/polly-klaas-killer-richard-allen-davis-seeks-death-sentence-overturned/#:~:text=Crime-,Judge%20to%20mull%20overturning%20Polly%20Klaas%20killer%20Richard%20Allen%20Davis,governor%20could%20change%20that%20policy.">Richard</a> Allen Davis, who kidnapped and strangled 12-year-old Polly <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/25/us/scott-peterson-off-death-row">Klaas</a>, for starters. The prison has also held Charles Manson, Robert F. Kennedy assassin Sirhan Sirhan, and a rogues&#8217; gallery of serial killers. But still — ‘accidents happen’ the First Partner assures us! The bleeding-heart Newsoms just feel too strongly for these poor souls. They want to ease their sentences and — one suspects eventually — set them free.
This is not an isolated gaffe. Progressives are increasingly defending the perpetrator over the victim, and they&#8217;re doing it with brazen clarity. Remember the State of the Union, when Democrats refused to stand for the simple proposition: &#8220;The first duty of the American government is to protect American citizens, not illegal aliens. If you agree with this statement, stand up and show your support.&#8221;
That moment crystallized the divide. Democrats care about &#8220;them,&#8221; not you. It doesn&#8217;t matter that 18-year-old Sheridan Gorman was allegedly murdered by an illegal immigrant from Venezuela, or that 15-year-old Amber Paris was allegedly killed by a Guatemalan illegal immigrant speeding through North Carolina, or that 7-year-old Delilah Coleman will never walk again after an illegal immigrant from India crashed into her family&#8217;s car. The progressive catechism demands solidarity with the &#8220;oppressed&#8221; (i.e., criminal) over the &#8220;oppressor&#8221; — no matter the facts.
Despite a $3 billion state deficit in the 2026-27 budget and a total price tag for the &#8220;California Model&#8221; prison overhaul now reaching $14.2 billion, the Newsom administration carved out $78.5 million specifically for San Quentin&#8217;s physical makeover into a feel-good &#8220;rehabilitation center.&#8221; Compare that architectural largesse to the relative crumbs tossed at victim-services programs in the neighborhoods these criminals terrorized.
Violent crime in California remains nearly 10 percent higher than pre-pandemic 2019 levels. Aggravated assaults are still roughly 22 percent higher. The state&#8217;s overall recidivism rate hovers between 45 and 50 percent, even as boutique programs brag about single-digit success stories for a tiny slice of participants. This is an expensive experiment with other people&#8217;s safety.
Which brings us back to Jennifer Siebel Newsom and the story she told those inmates.
She was six years old, playing with her eight-year-old sister Stacey and other children on golf carts during a family vacation in Hawaii in 1981. The cart she was driving slipped into reverse. She did not see her sister behind it. The tragedy that followed was, by any measure, a genuine accident — the kind of event that would leave any child scarred.
&#8220;I felt the pressure to be perfect,&#8221; she later told the Los Angeles Times, &#8220;to make my parents forget, by being two daughters instead of one.&#8221; She described the survivor&#8217;s guilt, the compulsion to compensate, to improve other people&#8217;s lives, to do double the good. It’s no wonder she’s the way she is.
But sympathy does not require the eradication of judgment. The men Jennifer Siebel Newsom addressed at San Quentin were not involved in golf cart accidents. They were convicted killers, rapists, and predators. Projecting her childhood trauma onto their deliberate acts of violence is not empathy. It is a category error with consequences, and those consequences are carried not by the Newsoms but by the families of Laci Peterson, Polly Klaas, and every other victim whose killer now enjoys a governor&#8217;s reprieve and a First “Partner’s” suicidal empathy.
Soft on crime, hard on victims: If this is the compassion the progressive left wants to export to the rest of America, voters would be wise to decline the invitation. Some accidents, after all, are entirely avoidable.

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The first sentence of Section I of the 14th Amendment — a small piece in our grand Constitutional puzzle  — has left Justice Samuel Alito and his colleagues considering it a puzzle wrapped in an enigma wrapped in a mystery — along with the rest of America.
It reads: &#8220;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.&#8221;
As the Supreme Court hears arguments in Trump v. Barbara — the birthright citizenship case now before the nation’s highest court — America is finally confronting a constitutional question that should have been settled long ago: Who, exactly, is “subject to the jurisdiction” of the United States?
Under the prevailing interpretation of this clause, any child born on U.S. soil is automatically an American citizen — full stop. It doesn’t matter whether the mother is a permanent resident, a tourist on a 90-day visa, or someone who crossed the border illegally last Sunday. Born here, citizen here, benefits and rights that come with an American citizenship — activated.
On his first day back in office in January 2025, President Donald Trump signed Executive Order 14160, directing federal agencies to stop issuing citizenship documents to children born here to parents who are either unlawfully present or lawfully present only on a temporary basis. Essentially, if neither of your parents is a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident, the Trump administration says the 14th Amendment does not guarantee your child citizenship simply by virtue of being born on American soil.
Predictably, lower courts blocked the order. Now it’s before the Supreme Court.
Regardless of the outcome, it’s a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/officialbenshapiro/videos/us-district-judge-temporarily-blocks-president-trumps-executive-order-to-end-bir/1118885666149694/">legal win</a> for the Trump administration — but the broader debate placed a spotlight on a flaw the Founders and post-Civil War Congress never contemplated: the deliberate weaponization of birthright citizenship by adversarial nations.
One slice of the problem reveals the amendment&#8217;s most cynical exploitation: birth tourism, especially by China.
This is an organized, for-profit industry that treats American passports as a commodity. Author and political consultant Peter Schweizer recently documented what he describes as a &#8220;massive effort&#8221; by Chinese nationals — many with Communist Party ties — to secure U.S. citizenship for children raised entirely in China. He estimates that between 750,000 and 1.5 million Chinese-born U.S. citizens are currently being educated under CCP indoctrination.
The business model is brazen. Chinese companies advertise packages costing $40,000 to $80,000. Pregnant women fly in, stay at maternity hotels — often in California — deliver in American hospitals, obtain U.S. birth certificates and passports, and return home. Federal prosecutors have worked to dismantle high-profile rings: in one Southern California case, operators of USA Happy Baby and similar outfits were convicted of conspiracy and money laundering for running maternity houses that served thousands of Chinese clients. The U.S. government has identified hundreds of such firms operating inside China with the sole purpose of gaming our immigration system.
Birth tourism is not the numerical majority — illegal residents produce far more births — but it’s uniquely corrosive. These children are raised abroad with zero lived connection to America. At 21, they gain full voting rights, access to classified jobs, and the power to sponsor their parents for green cards. It is demographic arbitrage. Beijing is cultivating a reserve of future &#8220;anchor citizens&#8221; capable of influencing American elections and policy from within, while owing their primary loyalty elsewhere.
The clause that has long been glossed over — &#8220;subject to the jurisdiction thereof&#8221; — will be central to the administration in oral arguments. The 14th Amendment was ratified in 1868 to overturn the Dred Scott decision and secure citizenship for the children of freed slaves. Its authors understood “jurisdiction” to mean full political allegiance, not mere physical presence. Diplomats’ children, children of invading armies, and those whose parents owed no permanent duty to the United States were explicitly excluded.
The Supreme Court’s 1898 United States v. Wong Kim Ark decision granted citizenship to the child of legal, domiciled Chinese immigrants, but nothing about illegal entrants or short-term visitors. Illegal immigration on today’s scale and the jet-age business of birth tourism simply did not exist.
As Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro has argued, the phrase &#8220;subject to the jurisdiction thereof&#8221; means you are NOT subject to the jurisdiction of a foreign nation. He makes the point — if an illegal immigrant from Mexico gives birth on U.S. soil, that child remains a Mexican citizen under Mexican law — the child is NOT solely subject to American jurisdiction.
As of 2023, the Pew Research Center estimates roughly 320,000 children are born each year to unauthorized or temporary-migrant mothers, meaning approximately 1 in 10 children born in the United States is born to an illegal immigrant mother.
The vast majority of these children are born to parents who intend to stay and raise them here. Those children receive the same benefits as any other American citizen, and they can eventually sponsor their parents for legal residency — a process commonly known as chain migration. In the meantime, 59% of non-citizen households use one or more major federal welfare programs, compared to 33% of native-born households. It is these citizen children — not their illegal parents, who are often eligible for direct benefits — who strain schools, hospitals, and education services.
The Supreme Court may rule that the executive branch cannot, for now, rewrite 150 years of precedent. But the debate itself has been clarifying. The 14th Amendment was not written to hand foreign nationals a backdoor into American democracy nor to grant them a nine-month maternity vacation.
It’s long past time to unravel that mystery.

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That’s what I want to say to Alex Gervasi, a paid Zohran Mamdani influencer, who recently posted a social media <a href="https://www.instagram.com/reel/DWehnSricXr/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&amp;igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==">reel</a> declaring that J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series taught her everything she needed to know about “fascism.” Gervasi, who says she volunteers in immigration courts, offered this insightful gem: ICE agents are comparable to Dementors, because both “patrol hallways.” One looks for half-bloods, the other for people illegally residing in the country after bypassing our immigration laws.
Quite the stretch. But I’m glad she made it, because it gives us the opportunity to dismantle her bloody narrative piece by piece.
First, let’s address the premise of her argument: that J.K. Rowling is a “transphobic, right-wing, lunatic.” 

Incorrect — on all counts. 

Rowling wrote the first Harry Potter book in an Edinburgh café while her infant daughter napped beside her, having recently fled an abusive marriage. She became a feminist icon. She is, by any serious measure, a formidably intelligent, philanthropic activist who has donated hundreds of millions of dollars to charity. She supported the Labour Party for years, vocally opposed Scottish independence, and was adamantly against Brexit. She was, in short, the liberal establishment’s dream — until she committed the unthinkable: she broke ranks with the progressive vanguard to argue that sex is real, sex is binary, and a woman is not a costume a man can put on.
Rowling is not transphobic. A phobia, by definition, is a fear. She does not fear transgender people — she has explicitly stated she supports their right to live free from harassment. What she maintains, correctly, is that biological sex is real, immutable, and distinct from gender identity, and that self-identification policies can undermine women’s hard-won protections in single-sex spaces, sports, and medical services. She opposes the surgical and chemical alteration of minors. She is commonsensical. She lives in the world of observable reality, not the relativism that insists biological sex is merely a social construct. She is right.
Now, to the Harry Potter-as-an-antifascist-manifesto argument — our influencer seems to have consumed something stronger than Butterbeer, because one simply cannot conflate the half-blood persecution of Voldemort’s regime with American immigration enforcement without abandoning all logical rigor.
Many of the illegal immigrants she is so passionately defending have entered our sovereign nation, bypassed established vetting processes, ignored or fled immigration hearings, and are living among citizens while accessing American housing, education, and healthcare — in some jurisdictions, even participating in elections. Contrast that with the legal immigrant: a cornerstone of this nation, who spent time, money, and genuine effort into assimilation, who learned the language, who embraced American civic culture. Those muggles are welcome. They are, in every meaningful sense, American.
A half-blood — a person born to one magical and one non-magical parent — has no analog to an illegal immigrant. If anything, a half-blood maps far more neatly onto an American citizen with one immigrant parent. The persecution Rowling depicts is irrational bigotry directed at an immutable biological characteristic. Illegal entry into a country is not a birth status. It is a policy violation.
As for ICE agents being Dementors? ICE officers enforce democratically passed federal law. They detain individuals who have violated immigration statutes, often after due process proceedings, and their work directly protects American communities from cartel activity, fentanyl trafficking, and the strain of an overwhelmed immigration system. Dementors, for the record, guard actual criminals and feed on human despair. If we’re hunting for that particular archetype in the real world, I’d suggest looking considerably further left. 
The crowning irony is that J.K. Rowling did mock fascism in her books. She did mock racism. She continues to oppose both. She constructed an entire fictional universe as a sustained meditation on the dangers of blood purity ideology, authoritarianism, and mob conformity. She won. The books are beloved the world over — including, apparently, by people who now use them to smear her as a fascist because she won’t agree that biology is a social construct. 

We do not live under a fascist regime. Our leaders are not rounding up people for their bloodlines. These are rhetorical cudgels, deployed in lieu of actual argument when policy disagreement becomes too uncomfortable to engage with honestly.
J.K. Rowling simply acknowledges that biological sex is a real and immutable characteristic. In the wizarding world of Harry Potter, perhaps the rules are different. But we do not live in the wizarding world. We live in this one. Pretending otherwise — subordinating observable and scientific reality to ideological comfort — is not progressivism. It is, to borrow a phrase, mental.

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WASHINGTON—A decade into his political career, Donald Trump is still finding precedents to break.
Trump hinted to reporters earlier this week that he would attend Wednesday&#8217;s Supreme Court session, sitting in the gallery as the justices hear oral arguments surrounding his executive order banning birthright citizenship.
“I’m going,” Trump said Tuesday. “I think so. I do believe.”
No sitting president has ever attended oral arguments, though they are technically permitted to do so. Trump said he was going to attend oral arguments for October&#8217;s &#8220;Liberation Day&#8221; tariffs case, but later <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/02/donald-trump-supreme-court-tariff-arguments-00633159">changed course</a>. When the High Court ruled against Trump in that case in February, the president <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/20/donald-trump-tariff-supreme-court-reaction-00791245">lashed out</a> at the justices — particularly Neil Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett, his appointees — calling them a &#8220;disgrace to our nation&#8221; and suggesting they were corrupted by foreign influences.
Trump reiterated that criticism just days ago at a dinner with the National Republican Congressional Committee.
“The Supreme Court, that’s right, of the United States cost our country — all they needed was a sentence — our country hundreds of billions of dollars, and they couldn’t care less,” <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/26/trump-supreme-court-tariffs-barrett-gorsuch-trade-ieepa-ruling.html">Trump said</a>. “They couldn’t care less.”
“They sicken me because they’re bad for our country,” Trump said, once again singling out Gorsuch and Barrett.
Whether or not this heated rhetoric means the president intends to actually attend the session remains to be seen. But Wednesday&#8217;s case, Trump v. Barbara, is at least as important to the president as the liberation day tariffs.
Shortly after returning to office last year, the president signed an executive order barring the children of illegal immigrants or foreigners with temporary visas from receiving citizenship upon birth. The order, &#8220;Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship&#8221; was swiftly challenged in a number of lawsuits arguing the order violated the 14th Amendment, which affords citizenship to anyone born on U.S. soil regardless of their parents’ immigration status.
That definition of the 14th Amendment&#8217;s guarantee of &#8220;birthright citizenship,&#8221; while commonly held, has come under scrutiny in recent years. The Claremont Institute, which filed an <a href="https://www.claremont.org/the-claremont-institute-files-amicus-brief-on-birthright-citizenship/">amicus brief</a> in support of Trump&#8217;s order, has been at the forefront of the charge to rethink the automatic granting of birthright citizenship.
&#8220;The notion that foreign nationals can secure American citizenship for their children merely by being present on U.S. soil — lawfully or unlawfully — has no basis in the text, history, or original understanding of the Fourteenth Amendment,&#8221; Claremont Institute president Ryan Williams said, saying Trump&#8217;s order promoted &#8220;a constitutional understanding of citizenship — one based on consent, allegiance, and a nation’s sovereign right to define its own political community.”
Opponents say that ending birthright citizenship will be detrimental to around 150,000 children born to foreign parents on American soil every year.
While Trump could become the first president to attend oral arguments, he is not the first executive to clash with the Supreme Court.
In 1832, the Court handed down a landmark ruling on Native American rights in Worcester v. Georgia. Conventional wisdom held that President Andrew Jackson would have to intervene to ensure state governments obeyed the Court&#8217;s ruling.
Faced with this prospect, Jackson — whom Trump idolizes and whose portrait has hung in the Oval Office during both of the president&#8217;s terms — famously, though likely apocryphally, said, &#8220;John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it.&#8221;
Oral arguments begin at 10:00 a.m. ET.

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After years on the run, one of Canada’s most wanted murder fugitives has been arrested in Mississippi by federal law enforcement after he illegally crossed into the United States. 
A federal and state task force captured fugitive Adrian Vincent Walker in Tupelo, Mississippi, on March 23 after the 30-year-old evaded Canadian law enforcement for nearly two years, landing on Canada’s top 25 most wanted list. He faces charges in Canada for murder and attempted murder. 
“Thanks to the brave men and women of ICE, one of Canada’s most wanted criminals is behind bars. This illegal alien was wanted for a murder in Canada,” Acting Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis told The Daily Wire. “He is now facing charges for illegal entry into the U.S. and illegal possession of a firearm. DHS is grateful to our law enforcement officers and partners who took this illegal alien off of our streets and behind bars where he will finally face justice for his crimes.”
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It is unclear when Walker illegally entered the United States, but Toronto Police <a href="https://www.tps.ca/media-centre/news-releases/65497/">said</a> he murdered 31-year-old Trevor Dalton John and wounded an unidentified woman on May 7, 2024. 
Under former President Joe Biden, illegal crossings at the northern border <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/illegal-immigrant-crossings-are-spiking-at-the-northern-border">surged</a>, with thousands crossing from Canada into New York, New Hampshire, and Vermont. After coming into office, President Donald Trump took steps to pressure Canada into cracking down on illegal immigration into the United States and the trafficking of drugs and guns over the border. 
Walker previously spent three years behind bars in Canada for aggravated assault, according to the Department of Homeland Security. 
After his arrest on March 23, 2026, by a Homeland Security Investigations task force, Walker was charged with illegally entering the country and possession of a firearm by an alien. ICE has placed an immigration detainer on Walker so he will not be released after he faces his charges in the United States. 
“This was a serious case. A Canadian national, wanted for murder, entered our country illegally and was living in our midst. He even made a Canadian Most Wanted list. Seeking sanctuary in Mississippi is not a smart move,” <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndms/pr/violent-international-fugitive-arrested-lee-county-northern-district-mississippi">said</a> United States Attorney Scott Leary. “Those that continually criticize law enforcement are not in the arena; our agents and officers are, and the folks in our district can sleep soundly knowing law enforcement officers did their job.”

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NASHVILLE—It was a humid night in June 2024 when Matt Carney encountered a pair of men rummaging through his truck.
Carney, who owned the popular chicken restaurant Smokin&#8217; Thighs, went to confront the men. As he did, they sped out of the parking lot, striking Carney and knocking him onto the street. As police hunted for the men behind the fatal hit-and-run, Carney succumbed to his injuries in the hospital.
Eventually, Nashville police arrested Ulises Martinez, first confirmed by The Daily Wire to be an illegal immigrant from Mexico, and charged him with murder over the incident. Martinez <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/illegal-immigrant-confesses-to-killing-nashville-man-in-hit-and-run" target="_blank" rel="noopener">admitted</a> to police that he was driving the car that fatally struck Carney, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement slapped a detainer on him.
Smokin&#8217; Thighs, which Carney built from the ground up, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/saying-goodbye-is-hard-nashville-restaurant-closes-doors-after-owner-killed-by-illegal-immigrant" target="_blank" rel="noopener">closed</a> a few short months after his death. Martinez has yet to face justice as his case <a href="https://sci.ccc.nashville.gov/Search/CriminalHistory?P_CASE_IDENTIFIER=ULISES%5EMARTINEZ%5E09131999%5E624024" target="_blank" rel="noopener">makes</a> its way through the Davidson County court system.
The case quickly made headlines as then-candidate Donald Trump talked about the incident as he warned about a “migrant crime wave.”
“Look at what’s happening to our cities. Our cities are being overrun,” Trump said. “On July 4th, a 42-year-old Nashville man died after he tried to stop an illegal alien from stealing tools out of his truck. The illegal alien did a number on this man that nobody could even believe. The police officers said one of the most vicious crimes they’ve ever seen.”
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The case illustrated how illegal immigration can impact even deeply red states like Tennessee. While Joe Biden was in office, conservative states struggled to respond as the federal government released millions of illegal immigrants into the United States. With the Trump administration, some Republican lawmakers see a golden opportunity to crack down on illegal immigration.
<h4>‘Once In A Generation Opportunity’ </h4>
Since Trump’s return to the White House, states like California and Minnesota have made headlines for resisting the president’s immigration agenda. Republican leaders in Tennessee, spurred on by cases like Carney’s, want the Volunteer State to be different.
“We have what I refer to as kind of a once in a generation opportunity, given the Trump administration&#8217;s emphasis on removing illegal immigrants and mass deportation,” Tennessee Senate Majority Leader Jack Johnson told The Daily Wire.
“When we look at states like Michigan, New York, and California, others that are literally fighting the Trump administration on those efforts, we wanted to send a very clear message that we were not only going to cooperate, but do everything we could to help make them successful in their efforts in Tennessee,” he added.
Johnson, alongside other state Republican leaders like House Speaker Cameron Sexton and House Majority Leader William Lamberth, introduced an immigration package at the beginning of the 2026 legislative session focused on reducing illegal immigration.
The legislative package, crafted with input from White House officials, includes bills that would make illegal immigration a crime in Tennessee; mandate legal status for public employees and citizenship verification for those who receive public benefits; protect ICE agents from being doxed; and increase cooperation between local law enforcement and federal immigration officials.
Sexton says he had discussions with the White House after they began collaborating on a project to clean up crime in Memphis. He praised federal officials for their input on the legislative package and said they viewed Tennessee “as being the beacon of showing other states how to do something comprehensive and really transform your state.”
The White House said that it was happy to speak with all state lawmakers about how to fight illegal immigration.
“Illegal aliens should not be receiving federal welfare benefits while hardworking Americans foot the bill,” a White House official told The Daily Wire. “The President’s entire Intergovernmental Affairs team has been willing to speak with state legislators seeking advice on how to effectively enact the President’s agenda and protect the American people from fraud and abuse perpetrated by illegal aliens.”
<h4>A ‘Beacon’ To The Nation </h4>
Republican leaders are confident that most of the bills will make it across the finish line before the legislative session wraps up next month. The proposals are focused on increasing cooperation with the federal government and safeguarding taxpayer dollars.
One of the <a href="https://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/BillInfo/Default?BillNumber=HB1710&amp;ga=114" target="_blank" rel="noopener">proposals</a> making its way through the legislature would mandate that local governments verify legal residency before doling out benefits. It would also mandate reporting to ICE applicants whose citizenship couldn’t be verified. Under that bill, the Tennessee attorney general would be empowered to withhold shared tax revenue from entities that refuse to restrict public benefits.
“I want to help our people who are Tennessee citizens, who are here legally and lawfully, that need help and assistance,” Sexton told The Daily Wire, noting that reports show 20% of public housing is taken up by illegal immigrants. “That&#8217;s taken up space from someone who is here legally and lawfully in a Tennessee resident who&#8217;s homeless and on the streets, that&#8217;s a problem.”
Another <a href="https://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/BillInfo/Default?BillNumber=HB1705&amp;ga=114" target="_blank" rel="noopener">key plank</a> of the package is making <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-the-law-that-would-make-companies-who-hire-illegal-aliens-feel-the-pain" target="_blank" rel="noopener">E-Verify</a> — a free platform from the Department of Homeland Security that employers use to authenticate the legal status of potential employees — mandatory for all state and local government employers, including schools. The proposals come as reports of illegal immigrants being hired as police officers throughout the country. Local entities that don’t implement E-Verify could lose out on shared sales tax revenue.
Some of the proposals are intended to assess the monetary cost of illegal immigration in the state, Sexton told The Daily Wire. He noted that the monetary costs of illegal immigration for the Volunteer State could be as high as $700 million.
One <a href="https://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/BillInfo/Default?BillNumber=HB0793&amp;GA=114" target="_blank" rel="noopener">proposal</a> from Lamberth would instruct schools to count how many illegal immigrants are in Tennessee schools. That would allow officials to determine how much taxpayers were paying to educate kids brought across the border illegally. Originally, the proposal would have required parents to pay tuition if they were illegally in the United States or disenroll their kids.
Other bills would increase the frequency of reporting for state agencies to increase tracking of illegal immigrants by both law enforcement and for the state finance report to produce a report on the cost of illegal immigration, drawing from places like schools, prisons, hospitals, and social services.
Another series of bills would require lawful status for nurses, teachers, contractors, and all licensed professions. One from Johnson and Rep. Jason Zachary <a href="https://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/BillInfo/Default?BillNumber=HB1706&amp;ga=114" target="_blank" rel="noopener">would</a> make it a crime for a person illegally in the country to operate a commercial motor vehicle. Other components would make it a requirement to take the driver’s test in English and make it impossible for an illegal immigrant to register a vehicle with the state.
Sexton noted Republicans were also working on legislation to make sure reciprocal licenses are not issued to those from states where citizenship is not verified.
“If you come from a state that does not verify your legal status, then before you get the reciprocal license, you&#8217;re gonna have to show the state of Tennessee that you&#8217;re here legally and lawfully and if you can&#8217;t, then we&#8217;re not giving your license,” he said.
One bill sponsored by Johnson and Lamberth would make it a crime for someone with a final order of deportation to be in the state of Tennessee.
“If that deportation order has been issued for whatever reason and you&#8217;re out and about, but you set foot in Tennessee, we can arrest you and charge you,” Johnson told The Daily Wire, noting that the proposal was crafted to be in line with the Supreme Court on federal immigration enforcement.
Another <a href="https://capitol.tn.gov/Bills/114/Bill/SB1486.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">proposal</a> would further require local law enforcement to hold illegal immigrants arrested for ICE.
<h4>Cost To Tennesseans </h4>
Thanks to reporting requirements implemented by the legislature last year, district attorneys across the state must produce a report every year on the number of crimes illegal immigrants are arrested and charged with.
The <a href="https://www.tndagc.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/2025-PC998-Immigration-Report-Final-2.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> for 2025 found that there were 11,344 illegal immigrants charged or convicted of a crime during the year. The defendants came from 119 different countries and were charged with a total of 21,648 charges. The report identified  2,183 violent offenses, including 41 murders.
Those crimes are in the minds of lawmakers as they advance their immigration package.
Johnson believes that the immigration package from the General Assembly will “demonstrate to our constituents and to the Trump administration that we welcome your efforts to come in and get violent, illegal aliens out of our communities.”
He noted that presidents have vowed for years to secure the border, but he said Trump was the first one serious about doing it. He said Trump is “serious about it” and “we want to be a good partner with [him] and his administration.”
Sexton said that even one crime by an illegal against a Tennessean is unacceptable.
“You still had thousands of victims in Tennessee who became victims because of an illegal, who came into our country illegally, and they&#8217;re still here,” he said. “One victim by one illegal immigrant is one too many still, so I don&#8217;t care if it&#8217;s a 3% number, a 1% number, or a 10% number. Just one crime committed by an illegal against someone in Tennessee should not happen.”

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An 83-year old U.S. Air Force veteran who was shoved onto subway tracks in Manhattan earlier this month has died from his injuries, and the suspect, identified as a Honduran national in the country illegally, has now been charged with second-degree murder.
Richard Williams, a grandfather, succumbed to his injuries on March 17 after the March 8 attack at the Lexington Avenue–63rd Street station on the Upper East Side, according to authorities. The suspect, 34-year-old Bairon Hernandez, was arrested on March 10 at a homeless shelter. Following Williams’ death, prosecutors upgraded the charges from assault to second-degree murder, court records show.
The incident occurred just before noon, when police alleged Hernandez <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nypd-search-for-suspect-who-pushed-two-men-onto-subway-tracks">pushed Williams and a 30-year-old man</a> onto the southbound F train tracks. Bystanders managed to pull both victims back onto the platform before an oncoming train arrived. The second victim, identified as 30-year-old Jhon Rodriguez, was hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries. Williams hit his head on the tracks and immediately lost consciousness, bleeding heavily from a head wound, according to Rodriguez.
Hernandez fled the scene but was later taken into custody. Authorities have not publicly indicated a motive. Prosecutors previously said Williams had been left “brain-dead” following the attack, and his daughter indicated in the days afterward that he was unlikely to recover. The medical examiner has since ruled his death a homicide. 
Williams, a retired Air Force pilot, had recently overcome a five-year battle with prostate cancer and was described by family as having found a renewed lease on life in the months before the attack. His daughter expressed outrage at the suspect in earlier remarks, calling for severe punishment in the wake of the attack. 
Hernandez, according to the Department of Homeland Security, is a “serial criminal” with a lengthy rap sheet of at least 15 prior charges, including aggravated assault, weapons possession, and domestic violence. Federal authorities say he had been deported from the United States four times after first entering the country illegally in 2008, but repeatedly reentered. He has since been indicted on a second-degree murder charge.
The killing has intensified concerns over public safety in New York City, which has seen a series of high-profile violent incidents in recent months. While overall crime rates fluctuate year to year, recent acts of violence, specifically by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/illegal-indicted-after-allegedly-burning-woman-to-death-on-nyc-subway" target="_blank" rel="noopener">migrants</a> and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mamdani-breaks-silence-after-nypd-confirms-bomb-was-used-in-terror-attempt" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Islamic-aligned elements,</a> have drawn sustained public attention and political debate.
The case also comes amid ongoing scrutiny of the city’s handling of migrants and the strain on public resources. 
New York has taken in tens of thousands of migrants in recent years, many of whom have been housed in shelters across the city, including facilities similar to the one where <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/illegal-immigrant-accused-of-shoving-air-force-veteran-onto-subway-tracks-was-deported-four-times">Hernandez</a> was arrested. Critics argue that gaps in vetting, supervision, and coordination between federal immigration authorities and local jurisdictions have contributed to public safety risks, while city officials maintain that the vast majority of migrants are law-abiding.
Still, for many New Yorkers, the death of Williams, a veteran who survived war and cancer only to be killed in a random act of violence, has become a stark symbol of the city’s ongoing struggle to balance public safety, immigration policy, and criminal justice enforcement.
The proximity of the events has contributed to a broader sense of unease in the city, particularly as officials grapple with overlapping challenges related to crime, policing, and social services. For many New Yorkers, the death of Williams, a veteran and elderly commuter, has become a stark symbol of those concerns.
Hernandez is to be arraigned in Manhattan Supreme Court on March 30.

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Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy announced on Friday that the Trump administration would make America’s roads safer by continuing to ensure that truck drivers understand English.  
Joined by GOP Rep. Derrick Van Orden, Duffy visited Monroe County, Wisconsin, on Friday to highlight the allocation of $8.4 million to improve infrastructure in the region and the moves made by the Trump administration to make highways safer. Duffy&#8217;s comments come amid several high-profile incidents involving illegal immigrant truck drivers across the country. 
“We have a longstanding rule that you have to speak English if you&#8217;re going to have a commercial driver&#8217;s license,” Duffy said Friday. “And the Obama administration had put a slap on the wrist for that offense. We brought a penalty back for not being able to be English proficient in the cab.”
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🚛 ATTENTION TRUCKERS: I HAVE YOUR BACKS 🚛
I joined <a href="https://twitter.com/RepVanOrden?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RepVanOrden</a> in Wisconsin to talk about the backbone of America’s economy 🇺🇸
💰$8.4 MILLION SECURED TO RURAL WISCONSIN
We also heard you loud and clear: on roads, ❌ NO ENGLISH, NO TRUCKING 🗣️🚫
Make Trucking Great Again! <a href="https://t.co/wfcSaQlTmG">pic.twitter.com/wfcSaQlTmG</a>
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Duffy added that he wished he had law enforcement under his control to help enforce the English proficiency requirements, saying the Department of Transportation was dependent on state partners to crack down on unauthorized drivers. 
“I rely on my state partners to actually help enforce our rules and our laws. And some states are great. Some are not, like California, not so great, or New York or Minnesota, they&#8217;re not good partners,” Duffy said. 
At the same event, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Administrator Derek Barrs said that the agency would be taking steps to make sure that certified truck drivers can pass the written and skills test in English. 
“It doesn&#8217;t make sense where you can go and take the written test in any language that you want to, but then you can do the skills test,” he said. “It has to be in English. It should all be done in English, and that&#8217;s the direction that we&#8217;re going from an agency.”
In one incident highlighted by the White House, an Indian illegal immigrant, Partap Singh, allegedly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/illegal-immigrant-trucker-wrecked-a-little-girls-life-newsom-wont-even-take-her-fathers-calls">caused significant</a> injuries to a 5-year-old girl after triggering a multi-car pileup while driving an 18-wheeler with a California commercial driver’s license in June 2024. The young girl, Dalilah Coleman, suffered a traumatic brain injury, cerebral palsy, and developmental delay as a result of the crash. 
The House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations, and Accountability <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/congress-to-spotlight-illegal-immigrant-trucking-crashes-in-upcoming-hearing">held</a> a hearing earlier this month on the safety issue related to illegal immigrant truck drivers.

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