Author: Anna Giaritelli, Washington Examiner

Republicans and the Trump administration are pushing for the denaturalization of any immigrant-turned United States citizen who is found to have stolen U.S. tax dollars and fraudulently obtained Minnesota welfare funds. Somali immigrants have been accused of orchestrating a successful billion-dollar fraud ring that siphoned large sums of money from the U.S. government intended for…

EXCLUSIVE — Border Patrol agents spent much of 2025 enforcing immigration laws inside the United States, far from the nation’s borders with Canada and Mexico. Michael Banks, the Border Patrol’s national chief, told the Washington Examiner that the public can expect to continue seeing an unprecedented level of cooperation between Border Patrol and the Department…

EXCLUSIVE — The Trump administration will soon install 900 miles of buoy barrier at the United States-Mexico border, marking the first time the U.S. government has used a water-based defense system to stop illegal immigration, the Border Patrol’s national chief told the Washington Examiner. Construction teams will start dropping the red-orange floating devices in the Rio…

EXCLUSIVE — The Department of Housing and Urban Development has sent federal employees into Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, to investigate federally administered aid programs following the discovery of a massive welfare fraud scheme believed to have been carried out by Somali immigrants. A HUD spokesperson told the Washington Examiner that the department is the latest…

The top U.S. counterterrorism official testified on Thursday that the federal government is aware of 18,000 people on the FBI terrorism watch list who were brought into the country during the Biden administration’s botched 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan. National Counterterrorism Center Director Joseph Kent told lawmakers on the House Homeland Security Committee that the center…

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem rebuked the top Democrat on the House Homeland Security Committee on Thursday for labeling the shootings of two National Guard members in Washington, D.C, last month an “unfortunate accident.” In a hearing on worldwide threats before lawmakers Thursday, Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS) characterized the murder of one National Guard member,…