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Splitting up Homeland Security funding
Editors at National Review Online ponder funding for the federal Department of Homeland Security. And to think, Congress was just about to look competent. For the first time in decades,…
Immigration policy of the Donald Trump administration
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New Yorkers, Latinos Support Booting Illegal Immigrant Criminals
Vaughn Golden writes for the New York Post about interesting new poll results. An overwhelming number of New Yorkers support deporting illegal-immigrant criminals, a new poll reveals. Nearly 80% of…
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Sending Foreign Criminals Home
Charles Cooke of National Review Online reacts to the Trump administration’s approach toward illegal immigration. National Review senior editor Charles C. W. Cooke … said he has “no issue with…
Elections & Public Integrity
Washington Examiner highlights potential Tillis primary challenge
David Drucker of the Washington Examiner reports on potential political challenges facing first-term U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis in 2020. Conservatives in North Carolina have not forgiven Sen. Thom Tillis for…
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Fund focuses on Democrats’ disinterest in dealing with Trump
John Fund of National Review Online addresses Democrats’ refusal to accept President Trump’s compromise proposal for ending the partial federal government shutdown. Lots of people are wondering just why Democrats…
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Poll results contrast with conventional political wisdom about border controversy
Chris White of the Daily Caller highlights the apparent impact of recent immigration controversy on voters’ attitudes toward 2018 elections. Democrats’ advantage over Republicans going into November’s midterm election has…
Elections & Public Integrity
Paying your enemy’s bills
Joe Simonson of the Daily Caller reports on the surprising source of income for one socialist protester who recently harassed the U.S. Homeland Security secretary. One of the activists who…
Liberty
A plea to end the visa lottery
Kevin Williamson of National Review Online highlights one aspect of President Trump’s immigration agenda he particularly likes. [I]t is easy to forget that immigration is the one subject upon which…
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Say what you really mean, Mayor Roberts
Geez—getting her “what’s expected be a difficult reelection campaign” underway, Charlotte Mayor Jennifer Roberts comes out with guns ablazin against —do I even need to say it—President Trump: In fundraising…
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A Tempest in a Teapot
On Tuesday, North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein joined 17 other amici curiae (“friends of the court”) in a brief filed in State of Washington v. Trump. The case involves…
Law & Public Safety
Court ruling falls flat
No, federal Judge James Robart of Washington state is not a “so-called judge,” and President Trump was wrong to apply that label to him. Still, Robart’s response to Trump’s immigration…
Health Care
New Carolina Journal Online features
Dan Way reports for Carolina Journal Online on the Durham protest linked to the Trump administration’s immigration orders. Roy Cordato’s Daily Journal urges N.C. policymakers to repeal what he labels…