Supreme Court to weigh rights of legal
immigrants who commit crimes
Posted By: sunset, 4/23/2026 12:16:41 AM
The Supreme Court will review on Wednesday the Trump administration’s bid to remove a criminal noncitizen who was paroled into the country, one of two immigration cases the justices will hear over the next week. The case, Blanche v. Lau, centers on a Chinese national, Muk Choi Lau, who became a legal permanent resident in 2005 but was eventually charged with trademark counterfeiting in 2012 and left the country. When Lau returned later in 2012, he was paroled into the country by immigration officers to face trial, then convicted. Immigration officials began removal proceedings against him in 2014, but a federal appeals court tossed out an immigration court’s removal order
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The Supreme Court will review on Wednesday the Trump administration’s bid to remove a criminal noncitizen who was paroled into the country, one of two immigration cases the justices will hear over the next week.
The case, Blanche v. Lau, centers on a Chinese national, Muk Choi Lau, who became a legal permanent resident in 2005 but was eventually charged with trademark counterfeiting in 2012 and left the country. When Lau returned later in 2012, he was paroled into the country by immigration officers to face trial, then convicted. Immigration officials began removal proceedings against him in 2014, but a federal appeals court tossed out an immigration court’s removal order
Cuban-American Congressman Carlos Giménez has once again issued one of the strongest warnings against the Cuban regime amid increasing pressure from Washington: its leaders could end up behind bars in the United States, just like Nicolás Maduro. During an interview with Fox News, Giménez stated that "the leaders of the Cuban regime" could end up meeting the former Venezuelan president "in a New York prison, if they are lucky," referring directly to Maduro's capture on January 3 following an operation authorized by President Donald Trump. The legislator from Florida made it clear that Cuba remains a consistent priority on the White House agenda.
An appeals court has blocked a California law passed in 2025 requiring federal immigration agents to wear a badge or some form of identification.
The Trump administration filed a lawsuit in November challenging the law, arguing that it would threaten the safety of officers who are facing harassment, doxing, and violence and that they violated the constitution because the state is directly regulating the federal government.
A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued an injunction pending appeal Wednesday. It had already granted a temporary administrative injunction to block the implementation of the law.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled Wednesday that the state of California -- for now -- cannot enforce two state laws that require all law enforcement officials, including federal and immigration agents, to wear visible identification while banning them from wearing facial coverings.
The panel granted an injunction requested by the U.S. government, saying the No Vigilantes Act and No Secret Police Act attempt "to directly reregulate the United States." The ruling also meant the court found the California law violates the Supremacy Clause in the U.S. Constitution, which requires judges to uphold federal law over conflicting state laws.
Texas can require the Ten Commandments to be displayed in public schools, a U.S. appeals court ruled Tuesday in a victory for conservatives who have long sought to incorporate more religion into classrooms.
The 9-8 decision by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals delivered a boost to backers of similar laws in Arkansas and Louisiana. Opponents have argued that hanging the Ten Commandments in classrooms proselytizes to students and amounts to religious indoctrination by the government.
The government of Peru finalized the sign a contract to purchase 12 F-16 Block 70 fighter jets from Lockheed Martin after several days of uncertainty and tensions with the United States that had cast doubt over the deal, according to Peruvian media reports. The signing reportedly took place privately at Las Palmas Air Base on Monday, despite the interim administration of President José María Balcázar having announced suspension of negotiations Friday. The initial agreement includes the acquisition of Fighting Falcons under the United States Foreign Military Sales program. The comprehensive package includes weapons, radar systems and logistical support, with an estimated value of $3.42 billion.
The Cabinet of Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi approved new guidelines that pave the way for a wider range of arms exports, including domestically developed warships, combat drones and other military equipment.
The move has been welcomed by key defence partners such as Australia and has drawn interest from countries in Southeast Asia and Europe. US Ambassador to Japan George Glass described it as a "historic step" that would strengthen defence cooperation between allies. However, China strongly criticised the decision, warning that the international community would oppose what it called Japan's shift toward militarism.
President Trump has signed an executive order to ease research restrictions on psychedelics, including the drug ibogaine, which is used in some countries to treat post-traumatic stress disorder. Health officials, including Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and podcaster Joe Rogan joined Mr. Trump in the Oval Office for the signing Saturday. Mr. Trump said the order will "dramatically accelerate access to new medical research and treatments based on psychedelic drugs," which he said have shown "life-changing potential."
He said the federal government was also opening a pathway for ibogaine to be administered to "desperately ill patients" under the Food and Drug Administration's Right To Try rule.
A strategically important air base and port have been offered to the U.S. as a blockade of the Strait of Hormuz begins and Iran-backed threats target the key Red Sea choke point of the Bab el-Mandeb Strait. Top U.S. military officials, including the commander of Africa Command, recently visited facilities being offered in Somaliland. Somaliland is a pro-U.S. outpost, having broken away from war-torn Somalia in 1991. Bab-el-Mandeb has become the main route for oil to ship out of the Middle East since the Strait of Hormuz was effectively closed. Saudi Arabia has switched to shipping up to 7 million barrels of oil a day through the strait.
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin may take action against “sanctuary cities” that subvert federal immigration laws by removing customs agents at their international airports. The move would crush the tourist economies of sanctuary cities such as New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco by rendering them incapable of processing international travelers. “I believe sanctuary cities — it’s not lawful,” the DHS boss said. “This one area we may take a hard look at is … some of these cities have international airports. If they’re a sanctuary city, should they really be processing customs into their city?"
The U.S. government is using AI to locate and arrest migrants who are accused of being in the United States illegally. According to several reports, the Department of Homeland Security is hiring a litany of private contractors and giving them the names of thousands of migrants. The contractors are then using artificial intelligence to find the migrants. The process of using AI, public records, databases, online information and surveillance is called “skip tracing.” It’s been used by debt collectors, bail bondsmen and private investigators for years. But reports say DHS is paying private companies billions of dollars to use this process to find migrants for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
On Apr. 3, 2026, multiple specialized units sprang into action for a complex mission they train extensively for but hope never to execute: Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR). As we reported, an F-15E Strike Eagle was lost over Iran and an A-10C Thunderbolt II crashed in Kuwait after being hit by enemy fire while supporting the CSAR operation. Early in the morning, videos started emerging on social media, showing U.S. rescue assets in flight at low altitude over southern Iran. Among them, two were quickly recognizable: the HC-130J Combat King II aircraft and the HH-60W Jolly Green II helicopter.
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This forecast does not look good. Archaeologists might need to locate Noah’s lost ark sooner than we think. By 2085, over a third of all land animals’ habitats could be adversely impacted by extreme weather events such as fires and floods, should temperatures continue to surge worldwide, per an alarming study in the journal Nature Ecology and Evolution. If we don’t reverse course, this “Day After Tomorrow”-esque confluence of events could potentially expedite extinctions.
Greg Gutfeld absolutely destroyed Jessica Tarlov on The Five on Thursday, and boy did things get crazy. It was the kind of television that makes you put down your phone and actually pay attention. The two went back and forth, screaming at each other over the question of whether the American right-wing threat narrative has always been overblown, ginned up, or an outright fabrication.
And boy did Gutfeld come in swinging… and he never really stopped, either.
It started when Tarlov pushed back on Gutfeld's characterization of hate crime hoaxes, demanding examples. Gutfeld was ready.
Virginia Senator Says He Can Relate To
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Rural Americans Because He Watched ‘The
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A Virginia state senator told colleagues he understands rural America because he grew up watching “The Dukes of Hazzard.”
Democratic state Sen. Lamont Bagby made the claim during a floor debate on the state’s gerrymandering amendment, according to video posted by WJLA reporter Nick Minock. Bagby pushed back on Republicans who argued Democrats have no grasp of rural life.
“I grew up watching the Waltons. I grew up with Opie. I even watched the Dukes of Hazzard. I think I know a little bit about rural America,” Bagby said, apparently referencing “The Waltons” and “The Andy Griffith Show” alongside the hit CBS series. He then rattled off characters from
The Department of Justice on Friday directed the Bureau of Prisons to expand death penalty protocols to include pentobarbital injections and firing squads as part of broader actions to strengthen the federal death penalty. "Today, the Department of Justice acted to restore its solemn duty to seek, obtain, and implement lawful capital sentences — clearing the way for the Department to carry out executions once death-sentenced inmates have exhausted their appeals," the DOJ memo obtained by Fox News read.
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The Invention of White Supremacy
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The Southern Poverty Law Center scandal is reverberating everywhere today. We always knew the SPLC was a fraud perpetrated for the benefit of the Democratic Party, but I, for one, never imagined that it was actually funding the organizations that it excoriated. But with hindsight, it makes sense: the SPLC needed to keep alive absurd groups like the Ku Klux Klan to keep the money coming in, so that it could smear completely innocent organizations like Turning Point USA, Coral Ridge Ministries, the David Horowitz Freedom Center and the Family Research Council, which was its true purpose.
This is what makes the claim of SPLC’s defenders that
Senate Majority Leader John Thune encouraged senators to stop talking about President Donald Trump’s stated priority of nuking the filibuster, according to two sources familiar with the matter.
After a few moderates at the Senate’s Wednesday steering lunch urged the Republican conference not to talk about nuking the filibusteropens in a new tab, Thune agreed that the move lacks the necessary support in the current conference, the sources said.
Thune clearly seemed to agree with the members asking their colleagues to stop discussing it, the sources said.
Joe Biden has told his absurd Charlottesville story so many times that it has become folklore.
He has framed a 2017 rally in Virginia as a moral turning point and the moment that supposedly compelled him to step in and “save” the country, and run for president in 2020.
Biden’s claim was emotionally effective — even if difficult to believe — which is exactly why it has been repeated so often. But the narrative is even more laughable when you juxtapose it with what the Department of Justice is now alleging.
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — Millions more Americans might qualify for dual Canadian citizenship under a recent change to Canada’s requirements that has led to a surge in applications from its southern neighbor.
For people like Zack Loud of Farmington, Minnesota, it was a surprise to learn that under a new law, Canada already considered him and his siblings citizens because their grandmother is Canadian.
“My wife and I were already talking about potentially looking at jobs outside the country, but citizenship pushed Canada way up on our list,” he said. Since the new law took effect on Dec. 15, immigration lawyers in the United States and Canada say they have been overwhelmed
FLASHBACK: In 2014, the Southern Poverty
Law Center Put Dr. Ben Carson on an ‘Extremist’ List 14 replies
Law Center Put Dr. Ben Carson on an ‘Extremist’ List 14 replies
Now that the Southern Poverty Law Center is being exposed, it is important to look back at some of the outrageous claims made by this group in the past.
It is absolutely amazing to think that in 2015, they put Dr. Ben Carson on an ‘extremist’ list. Is ‘extremist’ one of the words that comes into your mind when you think of Carson?
Perhaps when they targeted one of the most renowned and highly respected pediatric brain surgeons in the entire country in this way, it was a clue that they were not operating in good faith.
They were eventually forced to take Carson off the list and then apologized…
Big-name donors to the Southern Poverty Law Center, including George Clooney and George Soros, have stayed silent amid allegations that the nonprofit funneled more than $3 million to the hate groups it claimed to fight.
The SPLC was charged with wire fraud, bank fraud and money laundering on Wednesday for allegedly bankrolling at least eight leaders and members of extremist groups — all behind the backs of their deep-pocketed benefactors.
The foundations of Clooney and Soros, along with MGM Resorts and other high-profile backers, haven’t spoken up about the Justice Department indictment.
Why Do Democrats Hate America?
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Democrats and their ideological allies really do hate America.
Earlier this week, Democrat Senator Chris Murphy highlighted a disputed news story claiming that a shadow fleet of several dozen Iranian vessels had successfully eluded the U.S. Navy’s blockade near the Strait of Hormuz. Above what appears to have been Iranian propaganda, Murphy wrote one word: “Awesome.” How much does a Democrat senator have to hate the country he putatively represents to root for a foreign enemy presently engaged in battle with the United States?
Murphy’s choice to side with Iran’s Islamic terrorists over American servicemembers should surprise no-one.
A Northern California woman has died from a snake bite, marking the third death of its kind in the Golden State so far this year. Authorities said the 78-year-old was bitten multiple times by a venomous snake on a rural property in Redwood Valley in Mendocino County on April 8. (Snip) A Costa Mesa man, identified as 25-year-old Julian Hernandez, died after he was bitten by a rattlesnake while mountain biking at Quail Hill Trailhead in Irvine on Feb. 1. A 46-year-old Ventura County woman died five days after she was reportedly bitten by a rattlesnake while hiking a trail
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Break the rules and get kicked out. Simple misbehavior by citizens often leads to having contracts cancelled, having their admission tickets to paid events cancelled and being removed from premises, having signed lease contracts cancelled and being evicted, and even being kicked out of their own parents' homes.