Author: Anna Giaritelli, Washington Examiner

House Democrats have proposed a bill that would allow illegal immigrants who helped clean up ground zero in New York City the chance to become U.S. citizens. Congressional Hispanic Caucus Chairman Adriano Espaillat (D-NY), Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), and Rep. Grace Meng (D-NY) reintroduced the 9/11 Immigrant Worker Freedom Act on Thursday, the 24-year anniversary…

The House has passed a Trump-endorsed Republican bill that significantly enhances the punishment for illegal immigrants who cross the border, particularly those who have previously been deported. House lawmakers on Thursday passed House Rule 3486, which would allow the Trump administration to impose harsher punishments on illegal immigrants. House Republican leadership had fast-tracked the bill since Reps.…

A Democratic senator who represents a southern border state moved to push lawmakers to address immigration reform and border security with a plan that he hopes can please both Democrats and Republicans. Four months into his first term, Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) introduced a framework on Monday that addresses the “broken” state of America’s border…

Cameron Hamilton, the recently terminated chief of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, was let go suddenly this week for undercutting President Donald Trump while testifying before Congress, according to the White House. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters during a press briefing Friday afternoon that comments Hamilton made while on Capitol Hill Wednesday…

The Trump administration has begun reopening immigrant detention facilities and shuttered prisons nationwide, the latest move in its effort to arrest, detain, and then deport illegal immigrants in the United States. Two prison corporations and the Federal Bureau of Prisons have moved quickly to prepare facilities to hold immigrants in virtually every region of the…

A Senate oversight hearing of the Department of Homeland Security became heated as Democrats pushed Secretary Kristi Noem to explain why the Trump administration had not followed through with a Supreme Court order to bring illegal immigrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia back from El Salvador. Two lawmakers, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) and Sen. Chris Van Hollen…

Cameron Hamilton, acting administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, told House lawmakers he does not believe the agency should be abolished. This marked a break from President Donald Trump, who has called for the agency’s dismantling. Hamilton testified before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security on Wednesday afternoon. During the hearing, Rep. Rosa…

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem lambasted Gov. JB Pritzker (D-IL) for how she said he had “invited” criminal illegal immigrants to the state through sanctuary policies. Standing down the block from where 24-year-old Emma Shafer was allegedly killed in July 2023 by illegal immigrant Gabriel Calixto Pichardo, Noem and more than a dozen elected officials…

EXCLUSIVE — Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) anticipates that Congress will need to pass a bill that locks in conservative border and immigration policies before President Donald Trump leaves office. Lankford, one of three co-authors who spent months in late 2023 drafting a bipartisan border bill that ultimately failed to make it through the Senate, said legal…

New Hampshire was rated the best state in the United States in the category of public safety, according to a new study released Tuesday. Findings from the U.S. News and World Report revealed that the New England state outranked all 49 other states in the metric of public safety, which takes into account violent and property…