An alleged Chinese &#8220;birth tourism&#8221; center — which claims to have facilitated the births of 1,000 American-born babies — has been operating in Texas for nearly two decades.
Now, the Lone Star State is trying to stop them.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton <a href="https://x.com/KenPaxtonTX/status/2049570167475368334">announced</a> a lawsuit Wednesday against the De’Ai Postpartum Care Center in Houston, accusing them of &#8220;exploiting birthright citizenship by unlawfully facilitating the invasion of Chinese nationals &#8230; for the sole purpose of giving birth.&#8221;
“America is for Americans, not foreigners trying to cheat the system to claim citizenship,” Paxton said Wednesday, alleging that the center &#8220;facilitated an invasion of Texas&#8221; while &#8220;shielding and facilitating violations of immigration law.&#8221;
&#8220;Birthright citizenship is a scam that threatens national security, and I will do everything in my power to stop unlawful ‘birth tourism’ schemes like this one,&#8221; Paxton added.
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Last week, the center posted a video to TikTok encouraging women to apply for US tourist visas &#8220;before pregnancy,&#8221; stating that the federal government &#8220;will strictly investigate birth tourism.&#8221;
&#8220;It is easy to be rejected if you sign after pregnancy.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/2E2wSxnFlO">pic.twitter.com/2E2wSxnFlO</a>
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Last week, the center posted a video to TikTok encouraging women to apply for American tourist visas &#8220;before pregnancy,&#8221; stating that the federal government &#8220;will strictly investigate birth tourism,&#8221; adding, &#8220;It is easy to be rejected if you sign after pregnancy.&#8221;
The center runs at least four homes, which host multiple families at once and can facilitate &#8220;up to twenty new births per day,&#8221; according to the lawsuit.
It also &#8220;claims to offer a variety of options for tourism while expectant families await the birth of their child,&#8221; that include a &#8220;luxury chauffeured black-car service across the Houston area for its high-paying guests, purportedly to visit the variety of different locales advertised on its social media page, including the spring bluebonnets in Brenham, Texas, the Houston Rodeo, Christmas light shows in Houston, and the Louvre Couture exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts,&#8221; the lawsuit states.
The Daily Wire requested comment from two of the accused clinic partners.
On the first day of his second term in the White House, President Donald Trump signed an executive order ending birthright citizenship. The order, which has been paused due to multiple legal challenges, now sits before the Supreme Court.
The high court heard oral arguments April 1, which were attended by the president himself.
“We are the only Country in the World STUPID enough to allow ‘Birthright’ Citizenship!” Trump posted on Truth Social shortly after the conclusion of the oral arguments.
Republican Kentucky Senator Rand Paul <a href="https://x.com/SenRandPaul/status/2049862587064443291">introduced</a> a constitutional amendment Thursday to end birthright citizenship to ensure &#8220;that only children born to legal residents of the U.S. are automatically citizens.&#8221;
&#8220;Under current interpretations of American law, anyone born on American soil automatically becomes a U.S. citizen, regardless of whether the parent was here legally or not,&#8221; Paul said. &#8220;This is wrong and not at all the intent of those who wrote the 14th Amendment.&#8221;
&#8220;We are a country filled with immigrants, and legal immigration is valuable and should be protected. But we are also a country whose borders have been too open and our generosity exploited too often. President Trump has moved to seal our border from illegal immigrants more than any other president. But we will have more to do,&#8221; he added.

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A Southern California city is suing Democratic Attorney General Rob Bonta over the state’s sanctuary policies, arguing they are putting public safety at risk and tying the hands of local police.
Officials in El Cajon say those policies had real-world consequences when federal authorities warned the city that 52 children may have been victims of sex trafficking by illegal immigrants — but the state blocked local officials from acting on that information.
The lawsuit, filed Wednesday in San Diego County, seeks to overturn Senate Bill 54, a 2017 law that limits cooperation between local law enforcement and federal immigration agencies like ICE.
Mayor Bill Wells, a Republican backed by the America First Policy Institute, argues the law forces police into an impossible position — choosing between following state rules or enforcing federal law.
“Our officers are put in a situation every day where they’re breaking either federal law or state law,” Wells told The Daily Wire. “SB 54 is in direct conflict with federal law.”
Wells said the restrictions go even further, preventing officers from coordinating with federal agents or even asking basic questions about immigration status in many cases.
The clash came into sharp focus earlier this year. In February 2025, federal immigration authorities alerted El Cajon officials that dozens of unaccompanied children in the area could be victims of sex trafficking.
A city council member sought permission from the state Attorney General’s office to use that information to conduct welfare checks on the children.
The answer was no.
“Pursuing wellness checks of unaccompanied children alongside or based on information provided by federal immigration authorities may implicate conduct prohibited by SB 54,” Special Assistant Attorney General Jackie Gonzalez wrote in a letter obtained by The Daily Wire, adding that county social services — not local police working with federal agents — should handle such cases.
Wells blasted the response as a “moral failure.”
“I think it’s really important to understand how far this ideology goes,” he said. “They are so wedded to this anti-ICE ideology that when the question is, can we save children who are being sex trafficked, the answer is no. That’s shocking.”
Wells also tied the broader impact of illegal immigration policies to rising crime and drug-related deaths in his city of roughly 100,000 people.
“California used to be the greatest state in the nation,” he said. “Now it’s declined on so many fronts, and a lot of that comes from this idea that the state doesn’t care about enforcing the law.”
SB 54 bars state and local law enforcement agencies from using resources to assist in federal immigration enforcement, including sharing certain information with federal authorities.
The law has already survived a major legal challenge. During President Donald Trump’s first term, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld SB 54, ruling that the federal government cannot force states to participate in immigration enforcement.
“We have no doubt that SB 54 makes the jobs of federal immigration authorities more difficult,” the court wrote, but added that California has the right to decline cooperation.
The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to take up the case, calling SB 54 the “centerpiece” of California’s immigration policy, but the justices declined to hear it.
Wells argues his lawsuit is different and could ultimately give individual cities more authority to decide how much they cooperate with federal agencies.
“I don’t know a law enforcement officer anywhere in California who wouldn’t want more tools to get bad guys off the street,” he said.
State officials have already signaled they will fight the lawsuit.
“El Cajon should prepare for another loss,” Bonta said in a statement. “There have been endless attempts to mislead the public about SB 54, but the truth is that anyone who commits a crime can be held accountable under California law.”
Wells fired back, accusing the attorney general of ignoring the real-world consequences of the policy.
“It’s so obviously clear he’s making things up,” Wells said. “I really lost respect for his ability to be [an] honest actor in this.&#8221;
Wells said the stakes go beyond a single lawsuit.
At its core, he argued, the case is about whether local communities can work with federal authorities to stop crime — or whether state policies will continue to stand in the way.

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A visa program created to support victims of crimes has become a breeding ground for &#8220;fraud,&#8221; a new Republican-sponsored bill seeking to end the immigration program argues.
Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) introduced the &#8220;End U Visa Abuse Act&#8221; Thursday, saying that the U visa program has become &#8220;a magnet for fraud, allowing illegal aliens to game the system, avoid deportation, and secure work permits they were never meant to have in the first place.&#8221;
“This broken program undermines the rule of law and encourages further illegal immigration by allowing immigration lawbreakers to claim they are crime victims to potentially qualify for the visa,&#8221; Roy told The Daily Wire. &#8220;Alleged victimization should not be a basis for securing a green card — it’s time we end the fraud-ridden U visa program once and for all.”
The United States began handing out U visas in 2000 &#8220;for victims of certain crimes who have suffered mental or physical abuse and are helpful to law enforcement or government officials in the investigation or prosecution of criminal activity,&#8221; according to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).
Roughly 400,000 petitions for U visas are pending approval, according to the Center for Immigration Studies. The United States caps yearly approvals at 10,000, which doesn&#8217;t include the spouses, children, or parents who the primary applicant can sponsor.
One major issue with the program is that the applicant&#8217;s reported crime doesn&#8217;t need to have yielded any arrests, charges, formal investigation, prosecution, or conviction, as USCIS states on its website in its instructions to law enforcement signing off on an alleged victim&#8217;s petition.
While awaiting the outcome of their application, immigrants can avoid deportation, which is put on hold while a decision is pending. That&#8217;s a massive incentive, leaving the program vulnerable to abuse, Roy&#8217;s bill argues.
Between 2012 and 2018, roughly 22% of U visa applicants were previously in removal proceedings, while about 13% said they were in deportation proceedings when they applied, <a href="https://www.law.georgetown.edu/immigration-law-journal/wp-content/uploads/sites/19/2022/06/GT-GILJ220021.pdf?utm_source=chatgpt.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to a 2022 Georgetown Immigration Law Journal article. In 2018 alone, 33% of applicants were in removal proceedings before and 15% had ongoing deportation cases when they applied.
Managing Attorney of Codias Law Cody Brown, who represents American citizens who are victims of immigration fraud, called the U visa &#8220;the most absurd immigration program ever conceived.&#8221;
&#8220;The federal government hands illegal aliens — and their entire extended families — a path to U.S. citizenship simply for accusing an American of a crime,&#8221; Brown told The Daily Wire. &#8220;No investigation, no prosecution, no conviction required.&#8221;
&#8220;The accused citizen gets no notice, no hearing, and no right to defend themselves. Worse: federal law actually forbids USCIS from denying the visa based solely on the accused citizen&#8217;s evidence,&#8221; he said.
Several recent cases shed light on how foreigners have attempted to fraudulently obtain U visas.
Federal authorities charged a group of ten Indian nationals in March for allegedly staging armed robberies of convenience stores so the clerks could falsely claim to be crime victims in order to apply for U visas, <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/ten-indian-nationals-indicted-visa-fraud-conspiracy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to USCIS.
In a separate case, five current and former law enforcement officials in Louisiana allegedly produced police reports for illegal immigrants to pose as victims of robberies in order to apply for U visas, <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdla/media/1408116/dl?inline" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to a July indictment.
Meanwhile, Roy&#8217;s bill argues that if an immigrant &#8220;is a crime victim and is actively cooperating with law enforcement as a witness&#8221; that they should pursue obtaining an S visa.&#8221; The proposed legislation also states that the Homeland Security secretary &#8220;can grant humanitarian immigration parole to purported alien crime victims or witnesses on a case-by-case basis if they are needed by law enforcement or are required to testify.&#8221;
S visa applications are submitted by a law enforcement agency for a witness or informant. U visas are submitted by the foreigner and are signed by a law enforcement official who &#8220;must confirm that you were helpful, and currently being helpful, or will likely be helpful in the investigation or prosecution of the case,&#8221; according to USCIS.

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Three smuggling boats packed with illegal immigrants, including some with criminal histories, attempted to reach California&#8217;s coast this month before being intercepted by federal authorities, The Daily Wire has learned.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) Air and Marine Operations (AMO) arrested 60 people, some of whom had rap sheets that included DUI, felony hit-and-run, making false police reports, drug possession, active warrants for resisting arrest, trespassing, burglary, possession of burglary tools, receiving stolen property, drug trafficking, aggravated assault with a weapon, and domestic violence, AMO told The Daily Wire.
&#8220;These interdictions show the great lengths dangerous criminals will go to avoid apprehension, including taking to the open ocean in unsafe, overcrowded vessels,&#8221; Air and Marine Operations Southwest Region Executive Director Hunter Robinson said.
&#8220;Their desperation puts lives at risk. Our crews are dedicated to stopping these dangerous individuals far from shore to keep our communities safe,&#8221; he said.
On April 17, agents intercepted a 24-foot vessel on April 17 near San Clemente Island, apprehending 13 illegal migrants, including seven men, five women, and one juvenile girl. The group was transported to Ballast Point Naval Base in San Diego for processing.
The next day, agents located another vessel and intercepted the boat near San Nicolas Island. In total, federal agents apprehended 29 Mexican nationals. The Coast Guard brought the illegal immigrants to Newport Harbor, where they handed them over to Border Patrol.
On April 21, the Coast Guard, along with a CBP AMO aircrew, stopped a 25-foot cuddy cabin boat filled with 18 Mexican illegal migrants. Authorities spotted the boat the day before off the coast of Ensenada, Mexico.
The group was handed off to Border Patrol.
Since President Donald Trump sealed off the U.S.-Mexico border, smugglers have grown desperate to find new ways to keep their profits. Human smuggling by cartels became more lucrative than drug trafficking under the Biden administration.
One way smugglers are trying to hold on to their cash cow is by taking to the waterways.
Coast Guard Capt. Jason Hagen, who is the Southwest District chief of enforcement, told <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/how-cartels-are-forced-to-shift-tactics-after-trump-crushed-their-human-smuggling-empire">The Daily Wire</a> in November that authorities were seeing an increase in smuggling interdictions.
“As you lock down the land border, the cartels will need to make their money, so they push to the maritime, to the water side. And, unfortunately, there is no border wall in the ocean; we’re challenged with the tyranny of distance,” Hagen said at the time.

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We have been importing the people who hate our country and wish to destroy it. They believe in Third Worldism, the philosophy that all the problems of the Third World can be laid at the feet of us here in the West. 
But there&#8217;s more. The people in the Democratic Party elite apparently believe that the West owes it to the Third World to destroy itself, or who view the Third Worlders as fellow travelers, helping them to accomplish that goal.
It&#8217;s time to talk about the seemingly irreversible slide of the Democratic Party toward deep radicalism that will destroy our country. But to understand that, we have to understand the existential crisis facing our civilization. 
There’s a rap song by a Syrian-born artist that’s becoming incredibly popular online.
The lyrics read: 
<blockquote>Separate our loved ones and slaughter our children. 
Take our blood for granted and demonize our revolutionaries, 
Steal our knowledge, keep our people oblivious 
And torture our spirits and denounce us our rights 
Colonize our countries and appoint our rulers 
Appropriate our goods and burn down our trees 
But who would you be without us 
Bomb our roofs, make us out as liars 
And watch our pains and belittle our agony 
Ignore our tears and close our eyes 
Mutilate our faces and deny our feelings 
Destroy our dreams, objectify our bodies and darken our skies and kill our peace 
We will keep standing still 
And our love stands in us. But who would you be without us? 
You would not be without us. You will not be without us. </blockquote>
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The video shows a very angry young woman marching. Behind her are a bunch of other people from what appear to be third-world countries, many of them Muslim countries.
Why is this important? 
Because this is, in its essence, what we have imported.
We in the West have imported people who hate our guts. And then there is a group of people in the United States who hate the systems, who have allied with those people to create a mass movement. That is what is happening with people such as Hasan Piker, Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, and Zohran Mamdani.
The basic idea among these people is that the reason other countries suffer is because the West did something wrong to them. Now, the West owes them something.
Therefore, if you are living in the West and you realize that it’s pretty great and pretty prosperous, but you feel alienated because your parents are from somewhere else. As a result, you blame your parents’ problems on the West that took them in, and you blame colonialism and colonization. 
The reality is that this female rapper is apparently from Syria and lives in Germany. 
Germany never colonized Syria. Ever. 
In fact, if you&#8217;re going to talk about the colonization history of Syria, you can talk about the Islamic colonization of Syria. Syria, of course, used to be a Christian country long before it was a Muslim country. But then it was colonized by Muslims, and then the Ottoman Empire controlled it for 400 years. The only Western country to control Syria in the last millennium was France for 26 years. The Assad regime controlled Syria for twice as long as France did. 
You may have noticed that in that entire description of Syrian history, Germany never came up. Germany just took in millions of Syrian immigrants and migrants during the Syrian civil war. 
Syrian refugees entered Germany when Angela Merkel decided to import a bunch of Third World refugees out of some sort of misplaced sense of guilt.
The narrative that is told by the Third Worldists is far too simplistic. The reality is that colonization has been a routine part of human history. It is not merely done by the West. Islamic colonization took over the entire Middle East, moved into Europe, and still controls large swaths of Africa.
There are all sorts of colonization efforts. It is worthwhile to note that the institutions set up by British colonizers made those areas more prosperous. In fact, the countries that retained British institutions, in particular, are the most prosperous countries in Africa, and the ones that reject those British institutions, those Western institutions, completely fail.
European colonization is responsible for the end of slavery in the areas where there is no slavery. It&#8217;s also responsible for the institution of systems and ideas such as private property.
The idea from the Leftists is that all the problems all over the world are the responsibility of the West. And then we decided that we should import all those people. 
There are about 4.5 million Muslims in the United States, up from 1.1 million in the year 2000, a 400% increase. That includes over 10% of the population of New York. Many of those people are undoubtedly decent citizens, but how many of them sympathize with the decolonial ideology of somebody like the Syrian rapper?
According to the polls, the answer is a lot. A recent poll asked how many British Muslims believe al-Qaeda planned 9/11. The answer: 4%.
Does that sound like a deradicalized population that loves the West? Another poll at the time of the Charlie Hebdo massacre a decade ago showed that two-thirds of French Muslims wanted Charlie Hebdo prosecuted for cartoons of Muhammad.
Does that sound like a philosophy that is in keeping with French standards of speech?
Today, some 57% of American Muslims believe that October 7 was at least somewhat justified. 
We can pretend away these ideological conflicts. It doesn&#8217;t make them disappear. We imported a lot of people who do not like Western civilization. 
That doesn&#8217;t mean all Muslims in the West don&#8217;t like Western civilization. I know Muslims who do, but the notion that importing millions of Muslims from third-world countries, or people from other cultures that don&#8217;t appreciate Western civilization, would be a good idea, is idiocy. 
That raises the question of why the West imported all of this in the first place. The answer is that there are a bunch of homegrown people in the West who believe our civilization is inherently guilty and ought to be torn down. They tend toward the Marxist Left. The Marxist Left believes that America was founded in sin, that America&#8217;s foreign policy and the West’s foreign policy more broadly have been about exploitation and evil.
The French existentialist and Marxist Jean-Paul Sartre wrote the foreword to one of the most important anti-colonial books of the 20th century, a book called “The Wretched of the Earth,” by Frantz Fanon. Sartre wrote: “We are all complicit in a thousand-year-old oppression. You know well enough that we are exploiters. Our precious sets of values begin to molt; on closer scrutiny you won&#8217;t see one that isn&#8217;t stained with blood.” 
He argued that we actually needed to import people from the Third World to destroy us.
The Marxists on the Left love this stuff. They are into this stuff. Suicide is the answer. Western values are evil, and they have to be destroyed.
In the United States, this is the coalition that&#8217;s taking over the Democratic Party. 
Why is the Democratic Party doing this? 
Some are doing this because they&#8217;re actual Marxists, and they&#8217;re happy to travel as fellows with Third Worldism as a front for their destructive goals. There&#8217;s a long history of that. Marxists in Africa worked alongside the Third World to fight the West.
And then there are Democrats who just hate the Right so much that they will find any ally, side with those people, and will treat any Democrat who works with Republicans, or at least any Democrat who doesn&#8217;t want to burn every single thing down, as a traitor.

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The southern border could soon reopen to illegal immigrants.
A federal appeals court ruled Friday that President Donald Trump&#8217;s &#8220;invasion&#8221; declaration at the US-Mexico border was illegal, paving the way for the resumption of asylum processing, The Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2026/04/24/court-border-asylum-trump/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
The Trump administration is expected to appeal the decision, which would delay a possible reopening of the floodgates.
On the first day of his second term, Trump issued a proclamation effectively shutting down asylum at the southern U.S. border, stating it would remain in place &#8220;until I issue a finding that the invasion at the southern border has ceased.&#8221;
The policy change led to months of historically low levels of illegal border crossings. Border Patrol has apprehended fewer than 9,000 illegal migrants each month at the southern border since Trump took office, according to Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data. Monthly migrant encounters under Trump have fallen below levels seen on some single days during the Biden administration.
During Biden&#8217;s presidency, millions of migrants crossed the border illegally and were often afforded years to remain in the country due to the massive court backlog the crisis created. The Trump administration has sought to end the incentives by turning off the asylum valve.
Immigrant rights organizations sued over Trump&#8217;s policy, arguing that it violated the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) by denying migrants fleeing persecution the ability to claim asylum at the border, according to The Washington Post.
“The court’s opinion does not mean there are now open borders, but only that the United States will no longer be one of the few countries in the world who after World War II does not provide a hearing for those fleeing persecution,” said Lee Gelernt, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) who argued the case.
“The court properly made clear that the president cannot simply waive away the laws enacted by Congress,&#8221; Gelernt said.
In its opinion, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit said the law does not grant Trump the broad authority asserted in the proclamation.
“We conclude that the INA’s text, structure, and history make clear that in supplying power to suspend entry by Presidential proclamation, Congress did not intend to grant the Executive the expansive removal authority it asserts,” the court wrote.
The decision was issued by a three-judge panel, with one judge partially concurring and dissenting.

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The illegal immigrant who purse snatched then-Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem received a three-year prison sentence this week.
Chilean national Mario Bustamante Leiva, 50, stole Noem&#8217;s Gucci bag, which had $3,000 cash, her passport, wallet, and government ID inside last April while she was having Easter dinner with family at the Capital Burger in Northwest Washington, D.C., authorities said.
After he serves his time, Bustamante Leiva will be subject to deportation, <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/purse-thief-who-targeted-kristi-noem-sentenced-36-months-wire-fraud-and-first-degree" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the Department of Justice.
It was his fourth theft in eight days, the Justice Department said. Before that, he was arrested in Utah in 2021 for shoplifting and in London in 2015 for a months-long theft spree, according to the New York Post.
He was also let go by authorities in New York City last March after allegedly stealing a fanny pack from a food cart. The victim of that crime, who was a legal immigrant, previously <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/04/28/us-news/illegal-migrant-accused-in-kristi-noems-purse-snatching-had-ny-arrest-warrant-out/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> the New York Post that the suspect racked up $1,200 in credit card charges in just 20 minutes.
“That’s insane. I don’t know how he was let out after that without any reason,” the man said at the time.
“I mean, putting in so much effort and then coming to the States and experiencing something like that intrigued my frightened side,&#8221; he added.
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Bustamante Leiva pleaded guilty Nov. 21, 2025, to three counts of wire fraud and one count of first-degree theft for his role in Noem&#8217;s purse-snatching.
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“Bustamante Leiva came to Washington illegally to prey on citizens of the District. He methodically targeted women at restaurants, stealing their purses, and monetizing the stolen cards within minutes,” U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro said in a statement Wednesday.
“His pattern of theft ends here. He will serve his prison term and be deported,&#8221; she said.
After the theft, Bustamante Leiva went to a nearby restaurant, where surveillance cameras captured him holding Noem&#8217;s purse, wallet, and at least four of her credit cards, which he used to make a purchase, according to the Justice Department.
Police arrested the illegal immigrant on April 26, 2025, at a D.C. motel, where they found Noem&#8217;s purse and wallet, along with a gift card he had purchased with a stolen card and more than $3,000 in cash.
Bustamante Leiva entered the United States at the Orlando International Airport in August 2021. At the time, he was granted a visa waiver that allowed him to stay in the country until Nov. 13, 2021.
The Chilean national never left and overstayed his permission to remain in the country, making him an illegal immigrant.
Bustamante Leiva&#8217;s co-defendant Cristian Rodrigo Montecino-Sanzana was sentenced on March 13, 2026, to 13 months behind bars and three years of supervised release for his role in one of Bustamante Leiva&#8217;s thefts. He is also expected to face deportation after serving his sentence.

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Hammer Falls On Illegal Immigrant Who Stole From Kristi Noem

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The GOP-led Senate moved early Thursday morning to pass a budget plan that would provide funding for the Department of Homeland Security and allocate another $70 billion for immigration enforcement for the remainder of President Trump&#8217;s time in office.
The proposal <a href="https://www.senate.gov/legislative/votes_new.htm">passed</a> the closely divided chamber 50-48, with Republicans backing the measure and Democrats voting in opposition. Republicans said that the measure, which now goes to the House, would help to secure the border. The passage means the resolution moves forward toward the reconciliation process, meaning Republicans can pass a funding bill without having to get past the filibuster.
“We have a multistep process ahead of us, but at the end, Republicans will have helped ensure that America’s borders are secure and prevented Democrats from defunding these important agencies,” said Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-ND).
Senator John Barrasso (R-WY) criticized Democrats for blocking funding for the Department of Homeland Security 16 times. The department has been defunded since February 14, 2026.
“Democrats are playing to the most radical members of their party.  Through their actions, Democrats are putting the safety and security of our nation behind the safety and security of their own political careers,” he said from the Senate floor.
Democrats tried to add a number of amendments to the proposal that they claimed would address the cost of housing, childcare, and health care.
“Instead of pumping hundreds of billions of dollars into ICE and Border Patrol, Republicans should be working with Democrats to lower out-of-pocket costs,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said.
A number of Republican-backed amendments also fell short after Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) and Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) sided with Democrats. Those senators voted against a proposal from Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) to cut off funding for Planned Parenthood.
&#8220;One recent study found that in three years alone, Planned Parenthood got a billion and a half dollars from Medicaid and Medicare.  Money to be used on these risky surgeries and [transgender] procedures for our children. This is wrong,” Hawley said. “This is a terrible misuse of federal funds, and we should put a stop to it today.”
Senators Thom Tillis (R-NC), Mitch McConnel (R-KY), Murkowski, and Collins and also <a href="https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1192/vote_119_2_00096.htm">voted</a> with Democrats to block an effort from Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) to attach the SAVE Act, which would require photo ID to vote in federal elections, to the proposal.

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Turkish Tufts University student Rumeysa Ozturk, who was held in ICE detention last year after her visa was revoked over alleged &#8220;activities in support of Hamas,&#8221; has returned home to Turkey following a legal settlement with the United States.
The State Department canceled Ozturk&#8217;s student visa after she co-authored an op-ed in her college newspaper calling on Tufts to recognize the “Palestinian genocide” and to divest from companies with ties to Israel.
In March 2025, ICE agents arrested Ozturk while walking on a street in Somerville, Massachusetts. She spent six weeks in federal custody before a judge ordered her release.
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The government appealed the decision, but the case ultimately ended in a settlement after Ozturk completed her PhD in child study and human development.
Under the agreement, Ozturk returned to Turkey &#8220;without further interference by the Department of Homeland Security,&#8221; according to the ACLU.
&#8220;The time stolen from me by the U.S. government belongs not just to me, but to the children and youth I have dedicated my life to advocating for,&#8221; <a href="https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/after-earning-ph-d-rumeysa-ozturk-chooses-her-next-chapter">she said in a statement released by the ACLU.</a> &#8220;With them in mind, I am choosing to return home as planned to continue my career as a woman scholar without losing more time to the state-imposed violence and hostility I have experienced in the United States – all for nothing more than co-signing an op-ed advocating for Palestinian rights.&#8221;
The resolution is welcome news to the Trump administration, which has taken a more aggressive approach toward foreign students involved in anti-Israel activism.
“Attending elite colleges and universities in the United States is a privilege afforded to foreign students who respect our values and follow our laws,” a Justice Department official <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/17/rumeysa-ozturk-deportation-case-00878694?utm_medium=bluesky&amp;utm_source=dlvr.it">said in a statement to Politico.</a> “We will continue to seek the deportation of any foreign student who abuses their opportunity to study in America by engaging in vile antisemitism, harassment, or other illegal behavior.”
Ozturk&#8217;s detention became a flashpoint in President Donald Trump&#8217;s immigration enforcement efforts and emphasis on stopping antisemitism on college campuses.
Esha Bhandari, director of the ACLU&#8217;s Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project, accused the government of violating the Constitution.
“Rumeysa should never have been detained for expressing her opinions in a country that is supposed to protect freedom of speech,” Bhandari said.
As of early 2026, the State Department has revoked more than 100,000 visas, <a href="https://x.com/StateDept/status/2010740549469557010?s=20">including roughly 8,000 student visas. </a>
In a separate case, Mahmoud Khalil, a Syrian green card holder who led anti-Israel protests at Columbia University, recently lost a bid to have his deportation case thrown out.
“The bottom line is if you come here to stir up trouble on our campuses, we will deny you a visa,” Secretary of State <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rubio-faces-off-with-democratic-senator-during-heated-confrontation">Marco Rubio said last year.</a> “These kids pay money to go to school, and they have to walk through a bunch of lunatics who are here on student visas.”

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She Wrote An Anti-Israel Op-Ed. Trump Moved On Her Visa.

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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President Donald Trump has turned immigration courts into a major tool for his deportation agenda.
Under the Biden administration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) prosecutors were instructed to allow immigration judges to dismiss cases for migrants who weren&#8217;t seen as national security threats. They also allowed millions of illegal immigrants to pour over American borders, creating a massive backlog in the immigration courts that bought migrants time in the United States.
All of that incentivized more illegal immigrants to come to the United States, while allowing them to remain without status during their years-long adjudication.
Word got out and the world came.
&#8220;Biden was granting dismissals of cases even when there was no relief available. He was basically giving out &#8216;get out of deportation free&#8217; cards,&#8221; Matthew Kolken, a New York-based immigration attorney, told The Daily Wire.
Now, immigration judges are granting asylum in just 7% of cases, compared to 50% under the Biden administration, the White House <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/releases/2026/04/era-of-amnesty-is-over-president-trump-restores-rule-of-law-to-immigration-courts/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> last week.
It&#8217;s become so much of a losing battle that Texas-based immigration lawyer Dan Gividen has stopped taking cases in the immigration courts altogether.
&#8220;I reached a point where I started telling potential clients, &#8216;hey, look, I can have my best day &#8230; you could have your best day, we could have all the facts that we need in the world, the law on your side, I&#8217;m still betting against you winning your case,'&#8221; Gividen told The Daily Wire.
One major reason for that is the mass firing of immigration judges who have largely granted asylum at higher rates. More than 100 immigration judges out of roughly 750 have been dismissed under Trump, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/us/politics/trump-miller-immigration-judges-purge.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to The New York Times.
The fired judges granted asylum in 46% of cases, according to the news outlet. The Trump administration has replaced them with judges who are granting asylum in roughly 6% of cases.
In April 2025, Sirce Owen, the acting director of the Executive Office of Immigration Review (EOIR), the Justice Department branch that oversees the immigration courts, produced a <a href="https://www.justice.gov/eoir/media/1396411/dl?inline=&amp;utm_source=chatgpt.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">memo</a> encouraging immigration judges to toss out asylum claims at a quicker pace and without holding a hearing.
Owen issued another <a href="https://www.justice.gov/eoir/media/1396411/dl?inline=&amp;utm_source=chatgpt.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">memo</a> in June 2025, threatening &#8220;disciplinary action&#8221; for immigration judges who exhibit &#8220;bias&#8221; towards illegal immigrants.
&#8220;Judges who would prefer to be policy advocates favoring either aliens or DHS should consider transitioning to alternate career paths,&#8221; Owen wrote in the memo.
The slew of actions has reduced the massive immigration court backlog by more than 380,000 cases since Inauguration Day, <a href="https://x.com/TheJusticeDept/status/2040512497094988087" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the Department of Justice. As a result, the years-long wait times for illegal immigrants as their cases go through the immigration court system have been reduced.

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Ten Republicans joined with Democratic House members on Thursday to pass a resolution that seeks to protect 350,000 Haitians from deportation.
The House resolution would require the secretary of Homeland Security to designate Haiti for temporary protected status until 2029. Republicans Don Bacon (NE), Mario Díaz-Balart (FL), Mike Carey (OH), Brian Fitzpatrick (PA), Carlos Giménez (FL), Mike Lawler (NY), Nicole Malliotakis (NY), Rich McCormick (GA), Maria Elvira Salazar (FL), and Mike Turner (OH), bucked President Donald Trump and his mass deportation effort and signed onto the resolution. Independent Rep. Kevin Kiley, who caucuses with the Republicans, also voted in favor of the resolution.
The Democrats broke out in cheers and applause when the resolution passed.
While President Donald Trump would likely veto the resolution if it made it to his desk, the vote reflects a divide in the Republican Party that is complicating the administration&#8217;s immigration agenda. The resolution&#8217;s passage also comes just one week after Homeland Security revealed that Rolbert Joachin, an illegal immigrant from Haiti accused of murdering a woman with a hammer, was granted temporary protected status by the Biden administration.
Joachin&#8217;s alleged murder was caught on camera, with footage showing the suspect charge a female gas station attendant in Fort Myers, Florida, before he attacks her. Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116377422440266990">shared</a> the footage of the gruesome murder, calling the killer an &#8220;animal &#8230; who was released into our Country by the WORST President in History, Crooked Joe Biden.&#8221;
Last year, the Trump administration moved to terminate temporary protected status for Haitians, but the move was quickly blocked by a federal judge. The Supreme Court is expected to hear oral arguments on the issue this month after the Trump administration appealed the federal judge&#8217;s decision, NBC News <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/house-bucks-trump-passes-temporary-protected-status-haiti-immigration-rcna332181">reported</a>.
The White House came out &#8220;strongly&#8221; opposing the House resolution on Wednesday, telling <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-trump-admin-comes-out-swinging-on-haitian-immigration-bill-backed-by-some-republicans?author=Leif+Le+Mahieu&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=4&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=EXCLUSIVE%3A+Trump+Admin+Comes+Out+Swinging+On+Haitian+Immigration+Bill+Backed+By+Some+Republicans">The Daily Wire</a>, &#8220;The President has made it clear that this Administration’s priority is protecting the American people and addressing the criminal threat posed by those who enter this nation with little to no vetting or overstay the visa granted them.”
“Numerous Haitian nationals previously granted TPS have been the subject of administrative investigations for fraud, public safety, and national security,&#8221; the White House added.
Rep. Bacon <a href="https://x.com/RepDonBacon/status/2044549535985193241?s=20">argued</a> that deporting 350,000 Haitians would worsen &#8220;serious workforce shortages.&#8221;
&#8220;I’ve heard from healthcare providers and business leaders across Nebraska, including @OmahaChamber, who are concerned about the impact this would have on patient care and our economy. I don’t see the goodness of deporting people who are here legally, working, and contributing to our country,&#8221; Bacon said.
Malliotakis also cited concerns about the health care industry if Haitian migrants were deported.
“Look, I have a lot of health care workers in my district that are of Haitian descent, that are on TPS and my nursing homes,&#8221; she <a href="https://x.com/BillMelugin_/status/2044852771782828391">told</a> Fox News. &#8220;My health care facilities have said that they&#8217;re going to lose skilled staff at a time when there is a shortage. And so it&#8217;s the right thing to do for my district, for the health care facilities I represent.&#8221;
Rep. Lawler <a href="https://x.com/RepMikeLawler/status/2044766720162697580">added</a> that the deteriorating situation in Haiti would cause &#8220;chaos&#8221; and &#8220;uncertainty&#8221; for Haitian migrants if they were forced to go back to their home country. Lawler helped force the vote on the resolution and was joined by Democratic &#8220;Squad&#8221; member Ayanna Pressley (MA). The proposal was also sponsored by Florida Democratic Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, a Haitian-American who faces expulsion from the House for allegedly funneling millions of dollars into her campaign illegally.
The Trump administration has raised concerns about the large number of Haitian migrants in the United States. Trump highlighted reports on Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio, during his 2024 election campaign, including on stage during a debate against then-Vice President Kamala Harris.

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