A leftist professor was hit with felony charges for her alleged participation in violent anti-ICE riots in Illinois Friday.
University of Chicago assistant <a href="https://humdev.uchicago.edu/directory/eman-abdelhadi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">professor</a> Eman Abdelhadi, who teaches in the department of comparative human development, was charged with two counts of aggravated battery to a government employee, a Class 3 felony, and two counts of resisting/obstructing peace, a Class A misdemeanor, the Cook County Sheriff’s Office told The Daily Wire.
She was released on Saturday.
Abdelhadi posted a photo of Illinois state police outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview, Illinois, on X the day of her arrest with the caption: “Here’s a picture of Illinois state tax dollars going to enforcing Trump’s agenda of terrorizing our community with abductions.”
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Here’s a picture of Illinois state tax dollars going to enforcing Trump’s agenda of terrorizing our community with abductions. Thanks <a href="https://twitter.com/GovPritzker?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GovPritzker</a>! <a href="https://t.co/0wfNCBAtb8">pic.twitter.com/0wfNCBAtb8</a>
— Eman Abdelhadi (@emanabdelhadi) <a href="https://twitter.com/emanabdelhadi/status/1974095223820296388?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 3, 2025</a></blockquote>
She was seen at an anti-ICE demonstration shouting in officers’ faces while <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DPWnbkBDe5I/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">donning</a> a shirt reading “FREE PALESTINE” in a video posted to her Instagram.
Abdelhadi <a href="https://organizingmythoughts.org/holding-the-line-through-tear-gas-and-censorship/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">appeared</a> on “Movement Memos” the day before her arrest, where she shared her experiences participating in anti-ICE protests in Illinois.
“These people are terrorizing our communities and they’re setting up shop. I mean, in Broadview, ICE has been setting up shop in our backyard. Just brazenly taking up community resources to terrorize this very same community,” Abdelhadi said. “And so it felt really important to join protesters out there to say, not in our city, not in our name, not in our backyard. This will not go by unnoticed. This will not go by without resistance.”
“At this point, you are either on the side of protecting our neighbors and protecting our community, or you’re on the side of this administration. There is no neutral ground in this moment. There’s no center left. You’re either resisting or you’re complicit,” she added.
Abdelhadi was <a href="https://news.uchicago.edu/media/statement/update-faculty-members-recent-comments" target="_blank" rel="noopener">investigated</a> by the University of Chicago after she called the school “evil” and “a colonial landlord” at an annual socialism conference on July 5.
The anti-Israel professor also <a href="https://www.adl.org/resources/article/some-us-professors-praise-hamass-october-7-terror-attacks" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a> “Morning Freedom” with a Palestinian flag emoji on the day of the October 7 attack.
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Eman Abdelhadi: “F*** the University of Chicago&#8230; but it’s my best shot at power.”
At Socialism 2025, <a href="https://twitter.com/UChicago?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@UChicago</a> professor Eman Abdelhadi called her employer “evil colonial landlord.&#8221;
Use it. Organize it. Seize its structural leverage.
“We don’t have power&#8230; but I work at one… <a href="https://t.co/Mes06SYMEp">pic.twitter.com/Mes06SYMEp</a>
— Stu Smith (@thestustustudio) <a href="https://twitter.com/thestustustudio/status/1941958171389538635?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 6, 2025</a></blockquote>
The University of Chicago did not immediately respond to a request for comment regarding Abdelhadi’s latest arrest.
The Trump administration has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-to-send-texas-national-guard-troops-to-quell-anti-ice-attacks-in-chicago">deployed</a> 200 Texas National Guard soldiers to Illinois amid an uptick in anti-ICE assaults.
On Saturday, Border Patrol agents in the Chicago area were boxed in by a convoy of vehicles. Agents opened fire on one of the alleged attackers after it was determined that she was armed with a semi-automatic weapon.
A federal judge <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/judge-allows-trump-to-deploy-troops-to-chicago-for-now?author=Jennie+Taer&amp;category=undefined&amp;elementPosition=9&amp;row=3&amp;rowHeadline=Latest+News&amp;rowType=Vertical+Carousel&amp;title=Judge+Allows+Trump+To+Deploy+Troops+To+Chicago+%E2%80%94+For+Now">declined</a> to block President Donald Trump’s deployment of Texas troops to Chicago Monday, rejecting a lawsuit filed by the state of Illinois challenging the deployment.
Meanwhile, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chicago-mayor-brandon-johnson-signs-executive-order-establishing-ice-free-zones">signed</a> an executive order Monday to create “ICE-free zones” across the city.

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The official account of California Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom&#8217;s press office posted a vile meme on social media depicting White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller walking President Donald Trump as a dog on a leash.
The press office for California Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom posted a vile meme portraying White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller walking President Donald Trump as a dog on a leash.
In all caps, the account wrote: “TIME FOR YOUR DAILY WALK, DONALD! (NO STAIRS),” a flourish echoing Trump’s own style that Newsom has recently adopted.
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TIME FOR YOUR DAILY WALK, DONALD! (NO STAIRS) <a href="https://t.co/I3tLw7fhyA">pic.twitter.com/I3tLw7fhyA</a>
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The cartoon also appealed to antisemitic tropes, enlarging Miller’s nose in the caricature style long used by Jew-haters.
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The meme was also similar to an infamous 2019 cartoon published in The New York Times&#8217; international edition, which depicted a guide dog with the face of Benjamin Netanyahu — wearing a collar with a Star of David hanging from it — leading a blind, overweight Donald Trump, who was wearing dark glasses and a black yarmulke.
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Liberalism = 21st century Reich
Hitler and Goebbles used propaganda pre-WW2 very successfully. NYTimes, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib. The left is trying to normalize anti-semitism again:
New York Times Posts then Deletes ‘Anti-Semitic’ Cartoon Depicting Trump, Netanyahu <a href="https://t.co/nByctsQnrM">pic.twitter.com/nByctsQnrM</a>
&mdash; Տᗩᑎᗪᖇᗩ🎗️ (@SandraXFreedom) <a href="https://twitter.com/SandraXFreedom/status/1122552143469326337?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 28, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Newsom&#8217;s office has previously targeted Miller&#8217;s hard-line positions on immigration. In July, responding to a ruling from a Biden-appointed judge involving immigration enforcement in the Central District of California (Los Angeles area), Miller wrote on X: “The ruling has just been issued. A communist judge in LA has ordered ICE to report directly to her and radical left NGOs — not the president. This is another act of insurrection against the United States and its sovereign people.”
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The ruling has just been issued. A communist judge in LA has ordered ICE to report directly to her and radical left NGOs — not the president. This is another act of insurrection against the United States and its sovereign people. <a href="https://t.co/pkEjl7lEP4">https://t.co/pkEjl7lEP4</a>
&mdash; Stephen Miller (@StephenM) <a href="https://twitter.com/StephenM/status/1943855465349198026?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 12, 2025</a></blockquote>
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The Newsom press office account on X responded, “This fascist cuck in DC continues his assault on democracy and the Constitution, and his attempt to replace the sovereignty of the people with autocracy. Sorry the Constitution hurt your feelings, Stephen. Cry harder.”
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This fascist cuck in DC continues his assault on democracy and the Constitution, and his attempt to replace the sovereignty of the people with autocracy.
Sorry the Constitution hurt your feelings, Stephen.
Cry harder. <a href="https://t.co/3a4pvYftxb">https://t.co/3a4pvYftxb</a>
&mdash; Governor Newsom Press Office (@GovPressOffice) <a href="https://twitter.com/GovPressOffice/status/1943871761658835148?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 12, 2025</a></blockquote>
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In June 2025, the federal government, via ICE and other agencies, started launching patrols in Los Angeles. On July 11, 2025, Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong <a href="https://kesq.com/news/california/2025/07/14/feds-seek-stay-of-la-judges-ruling-on-immigration-raids/">issued</a> a temporary restraining order barring federal agents from conducting detentions unless they had “reasonable suspicion” that the person was unlawfully present in the country. The Trump administration sought a stay of the order, which Frimpong denied, prompting the case to be taken up by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. On August 1, the court rejected the emergency motion to stay the order.

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The illegal immigrant <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/illegal-immigrant-superintendent-has-six-kids-with-five-different-women-records-show?author=Jennie+Taer&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=1&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Illegal+Immigrant+School+Superintendent+Has+Six+Kids+With+Five+Different+Women%2C+Records+Show">superintendent</a> of an Iowa public school system did not undergo an immigration employment verification through the federal E-Verify system, which ensures workers are in the country legally and eligible to work, before he was hired for the role, The Daily Wire has learned.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested Des Moines Public Schools Superintendent Ian Andre Roberts of Guyana on Friday. Roberts was handed a deportation order from an immigration judge in May 2024 and had weapons charges from Feb. 5, 2020, according to ICE.
Since then, the school district has come under scrutiny for how it came to hire Roberts in the first place.
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services spokesman Matthew Tragesser told The Daily Wire that the agency &#8220;did not find&#8221; any <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/red-states-consider-bills-to-push-illegals-to-self-deport">E-Verify</a> cases under Roberts&#8217; name going back more than a decade. Roberts <a href="https://www.dmschools.org/2025/09/announcements-on-detention-of-dr-ian-roberts/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">assumed</a> his latest role in July 2023.
USCIS also doesn&#8217;t have any record that Des Moines Public Schools &#8220;has ever been enrolled in the E-Verify program.&#8221;
&#8220;It&#8217;s inconceivable. Roberts deceived parents, students, and administrators. Justice will be served,&#8221; Tragesser said.
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Des Moines Public School board chair Jackie Norris <a href="https://www.dmschools.org/2025/09/announcements-on-detention-of-dr-ian-roberts/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claimed</a> Monday that &#8220;at no point was any DMPS employee or board member notified that Dr. Roberts was not eligible to work, either by a federal agency or Dr. Roberts.&#8221; She also said that Roberts &#8220;stated he was a citizen&#8221; on his I-9 employment eligibility form and provided a driver&#8217;s license and social security card when he was hired.
During Roberts&#8217; hiring process, the Dentons Davis Brown law firm reviewed the form and accompanying documents and stated that the information provided &#8220;did not raise concerns about his eligibility to work,&#8221; Norris said.
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Des Moines Public Schools also contracted the outside firm JG Consulting to recruit possible superintendent candidates in December 2022, the school district <a href="https://www.dmschools.org/2025/09/announcements-on-detention-of-dr-ian-roberts/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. The firm used the company Baker-Eubanks to conduct a background check into Roberts, which the district said &#8220;found nothing related to citizenship or immigration matters related to Dr. Roberts.&#8221;
A spokesman for Baker-Eubanks, however, told The Daily Wire that &#8220;all publicly available criminal records&#8221; were disclosed to the school district, which &#8220;ultimately chose to proceed with the hire despite having received&#8221; the concerning history.
Notably, Iowa doesn&#8217;t require employers in the state to use E-Verify. The state Senate voted to mandate that employers use E-Verify last year, but the fate of the bill still sits in the hands of House legislators.
Former New York Field Office Deputy Director Scott Mechkowski told The Daily Wire that the Roberts case is the perfect example of why E-Verify is needed nationwide.
&#8220;The hiring of an undocumented individual with a criminal history and deportation order into a position of educational leadership exposes a profound vulnerability in our systems, one that E-Verify could have sealed at the outset,&#8221; said Mechkowski.
&#8220;This is not merely an oversight, it is a betrayal of public trust, demanding immediate reform to safeguard our institutions and communities. How many more are out there? Pass E-Verify immediately,&#8221; he added.
A spokesman for the school district didn&#8217;t immediately respond to The Daily Wire&#8217;s request for comment.
Roberts has since been placed on unpaid leave and lost his superintendent license. His lawyers <a href="https://x.com/GrageDustin/status/1973080084157174239" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> during a press conference on Tuesday that Roberts will submit a formal resignation letter later in the day.
When he was nabbed by ICE, Roberts fled the scene and abandoned his car in the nearby woods, the agency said. ICE eventually found him and discovered he was carrying a loaded handgun, $3,000 in cash, and a fixed-blade hunting knife.
Roberts previously applied for immigration status after overstaying his student visa and stated on the application that he had six children with five different women, including two in the same year, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/illegal-immigrant-superintendent-has-six-kids-with-five-different-women-records-show?author=Jennie+Taer&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=2&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Illegal+Immigrant+School+Superintendent+Has+Six+Kids+With+Five+Different+Women%2C+Records+Show">reported</a>. The application was denied.
He first came to the United States in 1999 on a student visa.

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Two Middle Eastern men accused of shooting a Texas youth baseball coach during a pregame prayer were handed immigration status by the Biden administration, The Daily Wire has learned.
Three men opened fire on the Ameripark youth baseball field in Katy, Texas, on Sunday from a nearby pasture, shooting the coach in the shoulder, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/wallercountysheriff/posts/pfbid02gy5JP5GCDkxYyDsSW4cBBuQnzE1mpkoE6cM9QSoCCJh5ERQytnvD7DqFjfXZBscgl?rdid=oLONrjJntJtH19n4#" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the Waller County Sheriff&#8217;s office. The three suspects — Mahmood Abdelsalam Rababah, 23, Ahmad Mawed, 21, and Mustafa Mohammad Matalgah, 27 — have been charged with deadly conduct and are each being held on $100,000 bond.
Mohammad Matalgah of Jordan was given American citizenship on Aug. 1, 2023, despite having prior arrests for drug possession, the Department of Homeland Security told The Daily Wire. Mawed, a Lebanese immigrant, entered the United States on an IR-2 <a href="https://www.uscis.gov/adoption/bringing-your-internationally-adopted-child-to-the-united-states/before-your-child-immigrates-to-the-united-states" target="_blank" rel="noopener">visa</a> — which is given to children of American citizens — on June 3, 2021, automatically granting him a green card.
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“This horrific act of terror firing on children praying before the start of a baseball game is pure evil,&#8221; Assistant Homeland Security Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement. &#8220;These individuals from high threat countries were let in by Biden. They clearly were not vetting the aliens they were letting legally enter our country and even become U.S. citizens.&#8221;
“Not only did Biden fail the American people by leaving our borders wide open to criminals, but he also legally allowed them to gain status and citizenship to terrorize our communities,&#8221; she said.
The motive for the attack is unclear.
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The Trump administration has been cracking down on immigrant crime with its mass deportation sweeps across the country. President Donald Trump&#8217;s Department of Justice has also commenced an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-admin-orders-justice-dept-to-denaturalize-new-citizens-convicted-of-crimes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">audit</a> of the legal immigration system with an effort to denaturalize new citizens who may “pose a potential danger to national security.”
The injured coach, whose name has not been released, was airlifted to a nearby hospital and has since been discharged, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1217185030454181&amp;set=a.303691761803517" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the sheriff&#8217;s office.
Dramatic video of the attack showed bullets raining down as the young players ran for cover.
The team&#8217;s founder, Andy Baize, <a href="https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/baseball-coach-shot-katy-texas/285-6992be75-6eee-4938-8506-2ca48ef2e851" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> KHOU that the injured coach took a bullet to protect the children.
&#8220;He literally took the bullet for a child that was to his left and so thankfully we avoided a major disaster, still very very emotional over it,&#8221; said Baize.
&#8220;When he was struck by the bullet, his first reaction was to get down to the ground, cover his kids and get them to a safe space,&#8221; he added.

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President Donald Trump plans to impose a new $100,000 application fee for H-1B worker visas, a White House official said, potentially dealing a big blow to the technology sector that relies heavily on skilled workers from India and China.
As part of his broader immigration crackdown, the Republican president was expected to sign a proclamation as early as Friday restricting entry under the H-1B visa program unless the application fee is paid, the official said.
Reuters was not immediately able to establish details of who the fee would apply to or how it would be administered.
The H-1B program has become a major flashpoint between Trump&#8217;s conservative base and the tech industry that contributed millions of dollars to his presidential campaign.
Critics of the program, including many U.S. technology workers, argue that it allows firms to suppress wages and sideline Americans who could do the jobs. Supporters, including Tesla CEO Elon Musk, say it brings in highly skilled workers essential to filling talent gaps and keeping firms competitive.
The $100,000 fee could significantly push up costs for companies. While the new fees may not deter Big Tech, which routinely spends heavily to secure top talent, they could squeeze smaller tech firms and start-ups.
Roughly two-thirds of jobs secured through the program are computer-related, government figures show, but employers also use the visa to bring in engineers, educators, and health care workers.
India was the largest beneficiary of H-1B visas last year, accounting for 71% of approved beneficiaries, while China was a distant second at 11.7%, according to government data.
In the first half of 2025, Amazon.com had more than 10,000 H-1B visas approved, while Microsoft and Meta Platforms had over 5,000 H-1B visa approvals each.
Shares of Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp, an IT services company that relies extensively on H-1B visa holders, as well as U.S.-listed shares of Indian tech firms Infosys and Wipro, fell more than 2% each.
Microsoft declined to comment. The other companies, the Indian embassy in Washington, and the Chinese Consulate General in New York did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Since taking office in January, Trump has kicked off a wide-ranging immigration crackdown, including moves to limit some forms of legal immigration. The move to reshape the H-1B visa program represents his administration&#8217;s most high-profile effort so far to rework temporary employment visas.
The H-1B program offers 65,000 visas annually to employers bringing in temporary foreign workers in specialized fields, with another 20,000 visas for workers with advanced degrees.
Under the current system, H-1B applicants pay a small fee to enter a lottery and, if selected, subsequent fees that can amount to several thousand dollars depending on the case. Nearly all the visa fees have to be paid by the employers. The H-1B visas are approved for a period of three to six years.
Last month, the U.S. launched a pilot program allowing consular officers to demand bonds of up to $15,000 for tourist and business visas from countries with high overstay rates or limited vetting data, a Federal Register notice said.
That followed Trump&#8217;s June travel ban restricting entry from 19 nations, part of a broader immigration push that has already deterred some visitors and driven down transatlantic airfares.
Trump&#8217;s first-term administration issued several regulations that aimed to limit access to the visas and give them to higher-paying employers, but the regulations were blocked in federal court.
(Reporting by Nandita Bose in Washington, Dheeraj Kumar in Bengaluru, and Aditya Soni and Greg Bensinger in San Francisco; additional reporting by Andy Sullivan in Washington; Editing by Rosalba O&#8217;Brien)

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The Trump administration is changing the tests that immigrants must take to become a citizen to ensure that only those with “the ability to read, write, and speak English and understand U.S. government and civics, are able to naturalize.”
“American citizenship is the most sacred citizenship in the world and should only be reserved for aliens who will fully embrace our values and principles as a nation,” U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services spokesman Matthew Tragesser <a href="https://www.uscis.gov/newsroom/news-releases/uscis-unveils-first-changes-to-naturalization-test-in-multi-step-overhaul-of-american-citizenship">said</a> Wednesday. He added that the changes are so that “the American people can be assured that those joining us as fellow citizens are fully assimilated and will contribute to America’s greatness.”
In 2020, near the end of Trump’s first presidency, USCIS increased the number of questions on the Naturalization Civics Test from 10 to 20. The bar for passage was still low: applicants only had to answer 12 out of 20 correctly, the same as the previous requirement of 6 out of 10. The questions were drawn from a slightly larger pool of 128 instead of 100.
The lengthier test was administered from December 2020 to April 2021. But the Biden administration reverted to the easier version, stating that the 20-question test “may inadvertently create potential barriers to the naturalization process.” It said the move was part of Biden’s “Executive Order on Restoring Faith in Our Legal Immigration Systems.”
A newly published notice in the <a href="https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-18050.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Federal Register</a> said that the prior determination “was not supported by data or other evidence,” and “the revised test was in place for too short a time” to make such a conclusion. The move to make it easier to become a citizen came as the Biden administration ushered a flood of immigrants into the country.
The Trump administration said tests are administered orally, and prospective citizens can stop taking the test as soon as they answer 12 questions correctly, and that the necessary study materials will be available online.
&#8220;Demonstration of English and civics knowledge is essential to showing an alien’s commitment to fulfill the rights and responsibilities of U.S. citizenship and to actively assimilate into American society,” the notice read. “Understanding the rights and responsibilities of citizenship, engaging with the government, and fully contributing to the democratic process all rely on a basic understanding of U.S. government and civics. Further, knowledge of U.S. government and civics enables naturalized citizens to more fully engage with local and federal government agencies and be active and responsible members of their local communities, furthering the success of our democracy.”
The change comes as a flood of foreigners reject American ideals, such as pluralism, the separation of church and state, and freedom of speech. Mobs of Arabs on college campuses <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/george-washington-university-antisemitism-lawsuit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">took to lawlessness</a> to protest Israel. This week, the Muslim mayor of Dearborn, Michigan, told a Christian man he was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/muslim-mayor-in-dearborn-michigan-tells-christian-resident-you-are-not-welcome-here" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“not welcome here”</a> after he questioned why the city was honoring a man who praised Hezbollah. In Texas, imams threatened shop owners who didn’t abide by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/sharia-law-comes-knocking-in-texas-abbott-slams-door-shut" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sharia law</a>.
USCIS said the civics test is only “the first of many” changes to be announced in the coming months.
The agency has also “announced several changes, including restoring robust vetting for all aliens and stricter reviews of disability exceptions to the English and civics requirements. USCIS has also provided officers guidance on assessing aliens’ good moral character, looking for positive contributions to American society instead of a mere absence of bad behavior,” it said. Those include reviewing the social media of aliens to ensure that they don’t celebrate terrorism.
On Tuesday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the Trump administration will, for example, revoke or deny visas to foreigners who celebrate the assassination of Charlie Kirk. “We should not be giving visas to people who are going to come to the United States and do things like celebrate the murder, the execution, the assassination of a political figure. We should not. And if they’re already here, we should be revoking their visa,” he <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rubio-promises-to-block-visas-of-foreigners-who-cheer-charlie-kirks-death?author=Tim+Pearce&amp;category=undefined&amp;elementPosition=10&amp;row=3&amp;rowHeadline=Latest+News&amp;rowType=Vertical+Carousel&amp;title=Rubio+Promises+To+Block+Visas+Of+Foreigners+Who+Cheer+Charlie+Kirk’s+Death">said</a>.

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A Maryland man who lied about his criminal past as a child sex offender in order to fraudulently obtain American citizenship was officially stripped of his immigration status, the Department of Justice announced Tuesday.
Salvadoran immigrant Jorge Antonio Graciano Lara raped his stepdaughter, who was younger than 14 years old at the time, on “several occasions” between 2012 and 2016 at their home in Montgomery County, Maryland, while the child’s mother went to work, according to court <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.571205/gov.uscourts.mdd.571205.9.0.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">documents</a>. Graciano Lara was granted citizenship in 2015 after lying about his crimes on his naturalization application and in an interview with a federal official.
Graciano Lara threatened the young victim against speaking out, saying that if she disclosed the abuse, the family would be separated and have to return to El Salvador.
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“American citizenship is a sacred privilege that this monster should never have obtained,” Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a statement Tuesday.
“This Department of Justice will continue working to denaturalize criminals like these who lie about their past actions to take advantage of our immigration system,” Bondi added.
Graciano Lara was convicted of second-degree rape in September 2017 after admitting to his crime as part of a plea deal.
In November 2024, the feds sued to take away Graciano Lara’s citizenship. A federal judge in Maryland officially granted the DOJ’s request to revoke Graciano Lara’s citizenship in a Monday order.
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Graciano Lara came to the United States in 1991 and received his green card in 1997, according to court documents.
The Salvadoran immigrant’s case is part of a larger effort by the Trump administration to audit the immigration system.
The Trump administration’s Department of Justice in July directed U.S. attorneys to “prioritize” and “pursue” <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-admin-orders-justice-dept-to-denaturalize-new-citizens-convicted-of-crimes">denaturalization</a> proceedings for new citizens who may “pose a potential danger to national security.”
“Sex offenders who try to naturalize by hiding their unlawful acts from immigration officials must learn that if the United States finds out, the government will come after their citizenship,” Assistant Attorney General Brett A. Shumate of the Justice Department’s Civil Division said of the judge’s latest decision.

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An Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer was injured in Chicago on Friday after an illegal immigrant struck him with a vehicle. The suspect was killed in the incident.
A team of ICE agents was conducting “targeted law enforcement activity” at Franklin Park when a suspect was asked to stop his vehicle, but continued to drive, hitting an agent and “subsequently dragging him as he fled the scene,” an ICE spokesman <a href="https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/person-shot-after-ice-agent-apparently-dragged-by-vehicle-in-franklin-park-sources-say/3823259/">told</a> NBC 5 Chicago.
The agent, “fearing for his life,” shot the driver. The agent and suspect were taken to a hospital, where the Department of Homeland Security later identified the victim as Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez, who was pronounced dead. The DHS said that Villegas-Gonzalez was an illegal immigrant.
The ICE agent suffered severe injuries but remained in stable condition. Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said the agent was dragged “a significant distance” after being struck by the illegal immigrant’s vehicle.
“We are praying for the speedy recovery of our law enforcement officer. He followed his training, used appropriate force, and properly enforced the law to protect the public and law enforcement,” said McLaughlin, according to NBC 5.
DHS also called out activists who tell suspected illegal immigrants to resist federal law enforcement.
“Viral social media videos and activists encouraging illegal aliens to resist law enforcement not only spread misinformation, but also undermine public safety, the safety of our officers and those being apprehended,” DHS said.
President Donald Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ice-storm-hits-chicago-trump-launches-operation-midway-blitz">launched</a> “Operation Midway Blitz” in Chicago earlier this week, vowing to “target the criminal illegal aliens who flocked to Chicago and Illinois because they knew Governor Pritzker and his sanctuary policies would protect them and allow them to roam free on American streets.” This week, people have gathered in Chicago to protest Trump’s immigration enforcement in the city, and federal agents had to forcibly remove some protesters on Friday who had staged a sit-in at an ICE processing center, ABC 7 Chicago <a href="https://abc7chicago.com/post/ice-operation-midway-blitz-protesters-gather-outside-broadview-facility-amid-trumps-chicago-immigration-crackdown/17799687/">reported</a>.
Trump also threatened to deploy the National Guard to back up federal authorities during immigration operations and to crack down on violent crime. Last weekend, Trump posted an AI-generated <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115158096026629509">meme</a> on social media, showing Chicago in flames while military helicopters flew overhead. The meme was captioned, “I love the smell of deportations in the morning&#8230; Chicago about to find out why it&#8217;s called the Department of WAR.”
Asked about the meme and whether he was advocating for going to war in Chicago, Trump shot back, “We&#8217;re not going to war. We&#8217;re going to clean up our cities. We&#8217;re going to clean them up so they don&#8217;t kill five people every weekend. That&#8217;s not war, that&#8217;s common sense.”
Democrats in Chicago and around the country have decried Trump’s effort to ramp up immigration enforcement in the Windy City and his threat to send in the National Guard, with Pritzker calling Trump a “wannabe dictator.”

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SEOUL (Reuters) &#8211; South Korea will send a chartered plane to Atlanta as early as Wednesday to bring back workers detained in a huge immigration raid last week on a car battery plant in the U.S. state of Georgia, a Korean Air spokesperson said on Tuesday.
President Lee Jae Myung said Seoul would negotiate with Washington to achieve a reasonable resolution to the situation based on the spirit of their alliance, adding at a cabinet meeting that he felt a &#8220;heavy responsibility&#8221; for the detained nationals.
A Korean Air Boeing 747-8i plane with 368 seats will fly from South Korea&#8217;s Incheon to Atlanta, according to the spokesperson.
During the U.S. immigration raid about 300 South Koreans were arrested along with 175 others at the site of the $4.3 billion Hyundai Motor and LG Energy Solution project to build batteries for electric cars.
South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Hyun is in Washington to negotiate on points such as seeking assurances that the Koreans returned home will be allowed to re-enter the United States.
The raid &#8211; the largest single-site enforcement operation in the history of the Department of Homeland Security&#8217;s investigative operations &#8211; sent shockwaves through South Korea, a U.S. ally that has been trying to finalise a trade deal agreed with Washington in July.
A Realmeter opinion poll published on Tuesday showed that nearly 60% of South Koreans felt disappointed by what they viewed as excessive action by U.S. authorities in the raid, while about 30% regarded the action as unavoidable.
Two Japanese nationals and up to nine Chinese citizens were among the detainees, the Nikkei business daily reported.
James Rim, who heads the Korean-American Association of Southeast Georgia and runs guesthouses used by Korean workers near the Hyundai plant, said two of his residents had been detained after being found to be on a visa-waiver programme that prohibits employment in the country.
On Thursday evening after the raid they did not come back for dinner, Rim said, noting two other colleagues had made it back to the guesthouse after screening during the raid.
&#8220;I heard two of them saw an officer that didn&#8217;t let them go, while the other two managed to leave after talking to another officer,&#8221; said Rim.
Details on how U.S. immigration rules may have been breached have not been released by the authorities or companies involved, but South Korean lawmakers say some may have overstepped the boundaries of a 90-day visa-waiver programme or a B-1 temporary business visa.
Foreign Minister Cho said he would discuss with Washington creating a special work permit for Korean professionals.
Korean businesses have complained about what they consider strict U.S. limits on visas for skilled foreign workers, making it difficult for them to oversee the construction of factories or to train the local workforce.
According to workers, officials and lawyers, many South Korean workers were sent to the U.S. on questionable documents despite their misgivings and warnings about stricter U.S. immigration enforcement.
After the raid, Rim said some of the 20 subcontractors working at the plant and also staying at his guesthouse had returned to South Korea early.
&#8220;Not everyone, but some of the workers came here on a visa waiver,&#8221; Rim said, adding that this had long been a standard practice.
&#8220;It should have been done earlier but I think now is a good chance to give some kind of a special work permit to Koreans. Otherwise, it would be difficult to build factories only with a local workforce,&#8221; he said.
(Reporting by Ju-min Park and Jack Kim; Editing by Ed Davies and Hugh Lawson)

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South Korea Sending Plane To Retrieve Workers Detained In Georgia Raid

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Federal agents raided a massive Hyundai manufacturing site in southeast Georgia on Thursday, where they apprehended roughly 450 illegal immigrants.
The Atlanta office of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives posted on X, “Today, @ATFAtlanta joined HSI, FBI, DEA, ICE, GSP and other agencies in a major immigration enforcement operation at the Hyundai mega site battery plant in Bryan County, GA, leading to the apprehension of ~450 unlawful aliens, emphasizing our commitment to community safety. #ATF.”
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Today, <a href="https://twitter.com/ATFAtlanta?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ATFAtlanta</a> joined HSI, FBI, DEA, ICE, GSP and other agencies in a major immigration enforcement operation at the Hyundai mega site battery plant in Bryan County, GA, leading to the apprehension of ~450 unlawful aliens, emphasizing our commitment to community safety. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ATF?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ATF</a> <a href="https://t.co/su6raLrLu6">pic.twitter.com/su6raLrLu6</a>
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“Hyundai Motor Group began manufacturing EVs a year ago at the $7.6 billion plant, which employs about 1,200 people,” <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hyundai-georigia-ice-raid-450-detained-electric-vehicles-batteries/">CBS News</a> noted. The company has also partnered with LG Energy Solution to construct an electric battery factory on the site, which is expected to open in 2026.
The Department of Homeland Security said a search warrant was utilized “as part of an ongoing criminal investigation into allegations of unlawful employment practices and other serious federal crimes.”
Hyundai is a South Korean company with a significant global presence.
“The economic activities of Korean investment companies and the rights and interests of Korean citizens must not be unfairly infringed upon during U.S. law enforcement operations,” the South Korean Foreign Ministry responded to the raid, adding:
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We are actively responding to this incident by dispatching the Consul General of the U.S. Embassy in Seoul and the Consulate General in Atlanta to the site and instructing the formation of an on-site response team centered around the local embassy. In Seoul, we also conveyed our concerns and regrets today through the U.S. Embassy in Korea and urged them to exercise extreme caution to ensure that the legitimate rights and interests of Korean citizens are not infringed upon.
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HL-GA Battery Company, a joint venture between Hyundai and LG Energy Solution, announced that it was temporarily halting construction.
The plant’s spokesperson, Bianca Johnson, stated, “This did not impact people getting to work. Production and normal office hours had already begun for the day” when authorities shut down access.
Since President Donald Trump took office in January, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has arrested 66,463 illegal immigrants and removed 65,682; nearly 75% of those have had criminal records, Border Patrol News <a href="https://www.borderpatrol.news/2025-05-01-ice-removals-hit-record-pace-trumps-100-days.html?utm_source=chatgpt.com">reported</a>. In the same period, ICE has <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/ice-data-immigrants-self-deportation-trump-administration-2124106?utm_source=chatgpt.com">deported</a> 145,419 illegal immigrants from its detention centers, with the highest total deported in June: 27,970.

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A new report from the countries of Colombia, Panama, and Costa Rica reveals President Trump’s border policies are catalyzing over 14,000 migrants who planned to enter the United States to reverse direction.
“Migrants traveling south interviewed in Costa Rica, Panama and Colombia by those countries’ ombudsmen offices were almost all Venezuelans (97%) and about half of them said they <a href="https://apnews.com/article/venezuela-deportation-migrants-maduro-trump-us-385d4a2b9b2148029b326302e4ba80c7" data-gtm-enhancement-style="LinkEnhancementA">planned to return to Venezuela</a>, according to the report,” the Associated Press <a href="https://apnews.com/article/migration-venezuela-darien-gap-trump-colombia-dc7eab62980c98eba5c65ed591a2836f">reported</a>. “Nearly all said they were returning because they could no longer legally reach the U.S.”
Reasons cited by the immigrants for reversing course in the report, which came from a commission formed by the Office of the Ombudsman of Costa Rica and the Ombudsmen’s Offices of Panama and Colombia, with help from the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, included: Refusal of entry to the United States (49%); changes in immigration policy (46%): fear of detention or deportation (17%), and lack of financial resources (34%), according to the <a href="https://ticotimes.net/2025/08/31/costa-rica-joins-regional-call-to-address-reverse-migration-crisis?utm_source=chatgpt.com">Tico Times</a>.
The report stated that northward migration plunged 97% in 2025.
One immigrant stated, “It’s time to go back — the American dream wasn’t like this.”
In April, <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/04/migrant-flow-reversed-costa-rica/682516/">The Atlantic</a> noted, “For the first time in recent history, the people passing through Central America are mostly moving south. The new migration flow seems to have been triggered by the Trump administration’s crackdown on both legal and illegal crossings at the southern U.S. border.” In March, Omer Badilla Toledo, who supervises migration policy for the Costa Rican government, said his country was processing over 200,000 asylum applications.
When President Trump took office on January 20, he issued a <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/guaranteeing-the-states-protection-against-invasion/">proclamation</a> that noted that the Immigration and Nationality Act states that &#8220;[w]henever the President finds that the entry of any aliens or of any class of aliens into the United States would be detrimental to the interests of the United States, he may by proclamation, and for such period as he shall deem necessary, suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens as immigrants or nonimmigrants, or impose on the entry of aliens any restrictions he may deem to be appropriate.&#8221;
He added, “I hereby proclaim, pursuant to sections 212(f) and 215(a) of the INA, 8 U.S.C. 1182(f) and 1185(a), that aliens engaged in the invasion across the southern border of the United States on or after the date of this proclamation are restricted from invoking provisions of the INA that would permit their continued presence in the United States, including, but not limited to, section 208 of the INA, 8 U.S.C. 1158, until I issue a finding that the invasion at the southern border has ceased.”

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The same financial scheme that allowed Texas developers to profit off untold numbers of illegal aliens by selling them American homes is now being employed by lenders all across the country.
In the absence of a Social Security number, many illegal aliens have discovered a widely available form of identification from the IRS that can give them access to lenders all across the country, far beyond Colony Ridge.
Individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers (ITINs), introduced in 1996, enable the IRS to process taxes for individuals who don&#8217;t have a Social Security number. They’ve since been <a href="https://www.nilc.org/resources/itinfaq/">heralded</a> by one far-left, Soros-backed group as a “powerful tool” for illegal aliens, who can use the IRS-issued identification to buy their own slice of America, whether in a development like Colony Ridge or a residential neighborhood.
The financial loophole has allowed for the creation of an entire industry that markets and caters to illegal aliens looking to cement their presence in the United States by securing a mortgage and buying a home. The loophole provides fuel for the growth of places like <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/inside-colony-ridge-the-fastest-growing-development-in-the-u-s-is-a-magnet-for-illegal-immigrants">Colony Ridge</a>, which now hopes to reach a population of 250,000. As The Daily Wire previously reported, with the influx of illegal immigrants, Colony Ridge has become a hub for criminal activity and drug trafficking and has been called home by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/colony-ridge-ceo-denied-having-a-crime-problem-days-before-feds-busted-cartel-members-there?author=Spencer+Lindquist&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Colony+Ridge+CEO+Denied+Having+‘A+Crime+Problem’+Days+Before+Feds+Busted+Cartel+Members+There">cartel members</a>, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-illegal-alien-captured-at-colony-ridge-believed-to-be-tied-to-mexican-drug-cartel?author=Spencer+Lindquist&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=EXCLUSIVE%3A+Illegal+Alien+Captured+At+Colony+Ridge+Believed+To+Be+Tied+To+Mexican+Drug+Cartel">drug runners</a>, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/guatemalan-human-smuggler-arrested-for-mass-casualty-event-hid-out-in-colony-ridge">human smugglers</a>, and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/police-arrest-second-illegal-immigrant-murder-suspect-living-in-colony-ridge?author=Spencer+Lindquist&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Police+Arrest+Second+Illegal+Immigrant+Murder+Suspect+Living+In+Colony+Ridge">wanted murderers</a>.
The Daily Wire spotlighted specific lenders catering to illegal aliens, not by creating massive developments like Colony Ridge, but simply by advertising mortgage loans to illegal aliens looking to buy American homes.
One Pennsylvania-based company, highlighted by The Daily Wire, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/yet-another-mortgage-company-is-marketing-home-loans-to-illegal-aliens">sought</a> to “empower non-citizens” through its lending practices. The company, named Amres, even told the stories of illegal aliens who successfully used ITIN documents to get mortgage loans.
There’s also a Connecticut lender that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/inside-the-company-financing-the-illegal-alien-takeover-of-american-homes">operates</a> in Texas, Florida, and four other states. That company, Prysma Lending Group, distributed a guide to prevent deportation and even hosted a conversation with an immigration lawyer.
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WATCH: A mortgage lending company admitted that its loans are targeted at illegal aliens — and even created a guide for illegals on avoiding deportation.
While Americans struggle to buy homes, Prysma Lending is selling out our country to illegal aliens one home at a time.🧵 <a href="https://t.co/E9n1bql7bi">pic.twitter.com/E9n1bql7bi</a>
— Spencer Lindquist 🇺🇸 (@SpencerLndqst) <a href="https://twitter.com/SpencerLndqst/status/1927734581366505699?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 28, 2025</a></blockquote>
Then there’s Cayetano, a development company highlighted by The Daily Wire that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/texas-developer-tells-mexican-citizens-to-own-a-piece-of-american-land-on-southern-border">tells foreign nationals</a> to “own a piece of American land,” in Texas along the border with Mexico. The company owns multiple developments across Texas and accepts Mexican consulate cards as valid forms of identification, all while mimicking Colony Ridge with marketing tactics that appeared tailored to illegal aliens.
Amres, Prysma, and Cayetano, each of which has previously been the subject of Daily Wire investigations, are just isolated examples of a broader trend, with a slate of companies across the country advertising home loans to illegal aliens.
There’s also Novus Home Mortgage, a division of a Wisconsin-based bank that <a href="https://www.novushomemortgage.com/loans/itin-programs/">says</a> ITIN lending is open to those without a social security number, “including both legal residents and undocumented immigrants.”
Florida-based company AD Mortgage, which operates in 48 states, similarly appeals to illegal aliens on its site. Among those who <a href="https://admortgage.com/blog/itin-for-non-resident/">qualify</a> for ITIN loans, AD Mortgage says, are “immigrants, including undocumented individuals.”
Defy Mortgage <a href="https://defymortgage.com/learn/itin-loans-a-guide-to-mortgages-for-non-us-citizens/">explains</a> that it “provides comprehensive mortgage solutions tailored to non-US citizens.” Defy Mortgage specifically highlights that illegal aliens are eligible to receive ITINs. The company’s site goes on to say that those who can get an ITIN include “non-resident aliens, undocumented immigrants, and dependents who cannot get an SSN.”
ITIN lending, immigration experts say, provides another incentive for illegal aliens to remain in the United States.
“Access to mortgages can serve as an incentive for illegal aliens to remain in the country, especially at a time when the goal of the government is convincing illegal aliens to leave,” Ira Mehlman, the Media Director for the Federation for American Immigration Reform, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/inside-the-company-financing-the-illegal-alien-takeover-of-american-homes">previously told</a> The Daily Wire. He added that Congress could take action to establish a national standard for lending, or even consider prohibiting mortgage lending to individuals without legal residency in the United States. 
Some companies appear to have <a href="https://nationalmortgageprofessional.com/news/undocumented-not-unmortgageable-05042025">noticed</a> that ITIN lending could become increasingly risky under the Trump administration, both because of mass deportations and the potential introduction of new regulations.
Tricolor Holdings, which specializes in auto lending, said that it serves “credit [to] invisible Hispanics” and <a href="https://www.tricolorholdings.com/pdf/investors/Tricolor_Social_Bond_Framework.pdf">boasted</a> in one 2023 report that 69% of its customers were “undocumented,” a conclusion it reached after assessing the percentage of borrowers that didn’t use a social security number.
A representative of Tricolor Holdings told The Daily Wire that it has shifted its focus. &#8220;Due to the current environment, Tricolor shifted its focus from the no FICO borrower to a general market profile,&#8221; the representative said.
There is further indication that the Trump administration&#8217;s immigration enforcement policies could be having a chilling effect on ITIN lending.
One lender at JVN Lending, based in Walnut Creek, California, reports that she has noticed a decrease in the number of ITIN borrowers this year. That company <a href="https://www.jvmlending.com/loan-types/itin-mortgage-loan/">boasts</a> on its site that there is “no visa required” and “no social security number required” for borrowers of ITIN loans.
While it may take congressional action to truly confront the industry, increased enforcement could prompt ITIN lenders to reassess the risk profile of their financial strategies. The Department of Homeland Security and the IRS <a href="https://www.epi.org/policywatch/ice-and-irs-reach-agreement-to-share-taxpayer-information-of-suspected-undocumented-immigrants/">signed an agreement</a> allowing the federal law enforcement agency to receive information on taxpayers who are believed to be illegal aliens.
If illegal aliens know that filing for an ITIN might get their name and identifying information lodged in an ICE database, they may be much less eager to hand over their information to the federal government. 
Novus Home Mortgage, AD Mortgage, and Defy Mortgage did not respond to a request for comment.

American homes, illegal aliens

The Lending Scheme That Gave Rise To Colony Ridge Is Happening All Across America

The Same Lending Scheme That Gave Rise To Colony Ridge Is Happening Across America

Colony Ridge

mass immigration

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