President Donald Trump’s Friday announcement that he was ending Temporary Protected Status for Somali immigrants in Minnesota prompted outrage and fear from Minnesota Somalis and their allies over the weekend. In a Truth Social Post, Trump said that he was terminating the TPS program for Somalis in Minnesota “effective immediately,” citing concerns about money laundering and gang activity.
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On Oct. 2, the second day of the government shutdown, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem arrived at Mount Rushmore to shoot a television ad. Sitting on horseback in chaps and a cowboy hat, Noem addressed the camera with a stern message for immigrants: “Break our laws, we’ll punish you.” Noem has hailed the more than $200 million, taxpayer-funded ad campaign as a crucial tool to stem…
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One might think that the word “homeland” is mere post-9/11 sloganeering, but Donald Trump’s new National Security Strategy, now in final edits, makes the United States and the Western Hemisphere the single top priority for the military and the national security agencies, multiple government sources say. Trump is taking “America First” literally. For the first time ever…
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Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced it’s received more than 35,000 applications for the position of “Homeland Defender” since it began its hiring campaign in September. “USCIS is cutting bureaucratic red tape to hire fiercely dedicated, America-first patriots to serve on the front lines and hold the line against terrorists, criminal aliens, and bad actors intent on…
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A proposed change to a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) rule could impose “biological sex” DNA testing on millions of immigrants and Americans as part of the Department’s mass biometric surveillance program — which also includes retinal scans, voice capture, and more. In addition to the obvious human rights violations posed by the changes — which, among other things…
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The Department of Homeland Security says it intends to add state driver’s license information to a swiftly expanding federal system envisioned as a one-stop shop for checking citizenship. The plan, outlined in a public notice posted Thursday, is the latest step in an unprecedented Trump administration initiative to pool confidential data from varied sources that it claims will help identify…
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