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  ICE pitches legal insurance to help shield local officers who make immigration arrests

  Aug 17, 2026 ·PBS NewsHour(Lean left)

  U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is pitching a plan to help shield local police officers who make immigration arrests from possible financial consequences if they are accused of on-duty misconduct.

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  CBP halts Big Bend National Park border construction

  Aug 17, 2026 ·The Hill(Center)

  {beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment The Big Story CBP halts Big Bend National Park border construction Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner Rodney Scott said he would halt construction activity in Big Bend National Park as efforts to erect a border barrier have been met with bipartisan pushback. © Getty Images In...

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  DHS pauses contentious Big Bend construction

  Aug 17, 2026 ·Straight Arrow News(Center)

  Construction on the border wall through Big Bend National Park has been halted amid criticism from both parties.

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  Ceuta Tests Spain's Border, Exposes Britain's

  Aug 17, 2026 ·RealClearPolitics(Lean right)

  The arrival of approximately 80,000 Moroccans at Ceuta highlights challenges in Europe's immigration policy and the contrasting approaches of Spain and the U.S. government.

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  Did Trump's Harvard Loss Conceal a Strategic Victory?

  Aug 17, 2026 ·RealClearPolitics(Lean right)

  It's hard to tell in the middle of a president's term how much he's changing the country. Donald Trump's second presidency has seemed transformative on many fronts - trade, immigration and culture - but he has mostly pursued his objectives through unilateral executive actions rather than legislation. Genuinely transformative presidencies notch achievements that last; Democrats can reverse much of

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  ‘Parasites’: Puerto Rican-Born Man Torches Dems’ Socialist Takeover

  Aug 17, 2026 ·The Daily Wire(Right)

  A growing rift between Democrats and their growing socialist wing is threatening to alienate the very voters the party needs to win elections — including people who have lived under communist regimes. On Mark Halperin’s The Morning Meeting platform , a Puerto Rican-born voter with Cuban heritage living in Florida sounded the alarm Monday over the Democrats’ far-left drift and announced a permanent

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  Sanctuary City Mayor Vows To Hunt Down Property Owners Looking To Lease To ICE

  Aug 17, 2026 ·The Daily Wire(Right)

  Boston Democratic Mayor Michelle Wu wants to expose property owners looking to lease parking spots to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in her sanctuary city. The federal immigration enforcement agency recently posted about its search for property owners across the country “capable of providing surface and/or structured vehicle parking spaces in the vicinity of existing or planned ICE faci

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  LA teachers patrol for ICE before class as DHS blasts enforcement ‘false narrative’

  Aug 17, 2026 ·Fox News (Politics)(Right)

  Los Angeles teachers are patrolling neighborhoods near schools for ICE agents — a rogue effort the school district disavowed as it ramps up support for immigrant families, while DHS blasts critics for pushing a "false narrative" about enforcement at schools. "We recognize the fear and uncertainty that immigration enforcement activity can create for students, families, and staff," a Los Angeles Uni

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  Bloodright Citizenship (Citizenship by Descent): Who Decides?

  Aug 17, 2026 ·Reason(Center)

  An excerpt from Friday's concurrence in Guerra Quezada v. U.S. , by Fifth Circuit Judge James Ho: The Constitution vests Congress—not the judiciary—with the power to "establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization." And that basic principle dictates the correct result in this case. Federal courts may not confer U.S. citizenship on any individual who fails to comply with all of the conditions and requ

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  Hundreds Of Illegal Migrants Demand Asylum After Storming Spanish Beach

  Aug 17, 2026 ·The Daily Wire(Right)

  Hundreds of illegal migrants who stormed the beaches of the Spanish exclave of Ceuta staged a protest Sunday to demand asylum. More than 70,000 migrants, mainly from Morocco, swam and scaled border fences to reach Ceuta, which is situated on the African continent, in a matter of days last month. Most of the illegal border crossers have since returned to Africa after complaining about a lack of foo

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  Why Texas May Soon Have More People Than California

  Aug 17, 2026 ·RealClearPolitics(Lean right)

  Texas is now slated to pass California in population, driven both by both immigration and domestic migration.

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  Will the Pentagon’s Latest UFO Files Satisfy the Alien Theorists?

  Aug 17, 2026 ·National Review(Right)

  The government’s UFO reports spell trouble for those who insist Washington is hiding evidence of extraterrestrial life.

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  Construction on a border security measures in Texas national park halted, Rodney Scott says

  Aug 17, 2026 ·Just the News(Lean right)

  The agency had originally planned a 30-foot-high wall in the park, which shares a border with Mexico, but it scrapped those plans in favor of "limited" vehicle barriers with detection technology.

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  ICE nabs illegal alien drug trafficker from Mexico

  Aug 17, 2026 ·Just the News(Lean right)

  Guadarrama-Loza was deported in 2008, but later re-entered the U.S. and was again deported in 2017. DHS has not identified the time or location of his second re-entry.

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  Bessent Makes the Economic Case for Deportations

  Aug 16, 2026 ·RealClearPolitics(Lean right)

  Scott Bessent links mass deportations to rising wages, lower rents, and economic improvement in the US.

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  Federal judge clears path for border wall construction in Arizona

  Aug 16, 2026 ·Fox News (Politics)(Right)

  A federal judge in Arizona cleared the path for border wall construction in the state after a Native American tribe attempted to block its construction. The Tohono O'odham Nation had argued that constructing the border wall along its southern border with Mexico would constitute illegal trespassing on tribal lands as well as effectively shrink the reservation. Judge Richard Leon noted in his ruling

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  Humanoid robots could patrol southern border, CEO pitches, as futuristic technology moves closer to reality

  Aug 16, 2026 ·Fox News (Politics)(Right)

  Humanoid robots capable of autonomously navigating rugged terrain and detecting people could eventually join federal agents patrolling the southern border, with one U.S. robotics company telling Fox News Digital it has already demonstrated the technology to Department of Homeland Security officials. Sankaet Pathak, founder and CEO of Foundation, spoke with Fox News Digital to discuss the company's

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  Texas state lawmakers urge Abbott to help stop CBP barrier construction in Big Bend National Park

  Aug 16, 2026 ·The Hill(Center)

  Dozens of Texas lawmakers earlier this week urged Gov. Greg Abbott (R) to put a stop to the Trump administration’s plans to build border barrier installations at Big Bend National Park. In a Thursday letter to Abbott, 44 state lawmakers from both parties asked the governor to “swiftly use every available avenue” to call on...

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  Trump's Assault on Judicial Review Undermines a Crucial Safeguard Against Tyranny

  Aug 16, 2026 ·Reason(Center)

  "This was an Obama judge," President Donald Trump remarked in November 2018, referring to a decision temporarily blocking his restrictions on asylum applications. "And I'll tell you what, it's not going to happen like this anymore." The ruling that irked Trump involved a provision of the Immigration and Nationality Act that says "any alien" may "apply for asylum" if he is "physically present in th

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  ‘Abolish ICE’ Is Now Official DNC Policy

  Aug 16, 2026 ·The Daily Wire(Right)

  The Democratic National Committee adopted a resolution Saturday urging congressional Democrats to abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), alongside a competing measure calling only for reforms to the agency, at the party’s summer meeting in Austin, Texas. The abolition measure, known as Resolution 27, cleared the DNC’s Resolutions Committee on Thursday in a 25-12 vote with one abstentio