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Jessica Vaughan

@JessicaV_CIS

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Director of Policy Studies at Center for Immigration Studies.

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Republicans introduce bill to pull funds from states that give driver's licenses to illegal immigrants
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Lt Gov Patrick: 500,000 crimes committed by illegal aliens in Texas.
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So many layers to this - now learning that the suspect was in ICE custody in 2013, but apparently was released (along with 36,000 others that year) under Obama's interior catch & release policies - see here: .
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San Jose case of woman apparently randomly killed by illegal alien meth user causes rift among city and county officials over sanctuary policy that shielded him from certain deportation - more than once. via @SFGate
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News: DOJ sues Facebook for discriminating against US workers: "The lawsuit alleges Facebook refused to recruit, consider, or hire qualified and available US workers for over 2,600 positions that Facebook instead reserved for temporary visa holders it sponsored for green cards."
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Report: Nearly 200 illegal aliens freed by federal judges, including sex offenders and killers
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Trump orders crackdown on foreign students who overstay visas -- illegally via @dcexaminer
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ICE arrests 200 illegal immigrants in North Carolina, calling it 'the new normal' due to less cooperation with Mecklenburg and wake county sheriffs.
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ICE busts more than 50 illegal immigrants in New England raids: The detainees include three illegal immigrants from Brazil who are wanted there for murder.
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Massachusetts governor calls for removal of judge (he appointed) now accused of helping immigrant avoid ICE (a policy he says they should be allowed to have). Gov. Baker, this is the inevitable result of your tolerance of sanctuaries. @MassGovernor
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UC Berkeley poll: 74% of Californians want sanctuary policies to end, but Calif legislature filing bills to dbl down.
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Angel parents send open letter to President @realDonaldTrump on pre-requisites to DACA amnesty. @AVIACUSA
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Working class voters flee Democrats over party's support for illegals via @dcexaminer
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US starts process to ban work permits for spouses of H1B workers. This controversial benefit was created by the Obama administration. via @economictimes
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Attention DOJ: Suspect in Denver fatal hit-and-run wanted by ICE; sheriff's department refuses to honor detainer. Maybe Denver should be the next one sued. via @KDVR
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Now we have sanctuary airports! "King County airport will begin banning ICE detainee flights." I can think of a few ways the feds could discourage such foolishness. via @KIRO7Seattle
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Jessica Vaughan
3 years
I am hearing credible reports of Biden plans to essentially abolish immigration enforcement by dismantling ICE, abolishing the job of deportation officer, and starving the mission of resources, authority and personnel. The plan reportedly will be released in 90 days.(continued)
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Illegal alien advocacy group Casa de Maryland put up bail money ($15,000) for criminal alien who killed 2 Md men in 2017, also funding the offender's asylum application, so he can't be deported (yet).
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Charlotte Cuthbertson
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@michellemalkin Angel wife Marla Wolff said advocacy group Casa de Maryland, which gets government funding, paid the $15,000 bail and a $280 fine for the illegal alien that killed her FBI agent husband in 2017.
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Wow. Maine migrant advocate says new arrivals deserve priority for employment over military veterans because the veterans have the advantage of being able to speak English.
@TheMaineWire
The Maine Wire
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Sponsor of Mills' migrant resettlement office says "New Americans" deserve priority over US veterans.
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Teen Suspects In Maryland MS-13 Murder Are Unaccompanied Minors From El Salvador via @dailycaller
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Harvard Harris Poll: Americans want massive cuts to legal immigration - - @washtimes
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5 years
NEW from DOJ: While non-U.S. citizens make up 7% of the U.S. population, they accounted for: 24% of all federal drug arrests 25% of all federal property arrests 28% of all federal fraud arrests
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In press conf ICE says they encountered 18 juveniles working at the Mississippi plants raided yesterday, one as young as 14 years old.
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It's not clear to me what difference passing an asylum bill would make in the cases of people who were denied asylum and who absconded. They are still deportable and still should be removed.
@realDonaldTrump
Donald J. Trump
5 years
At the request of Democrats, I have delayed the Illegal Immigration Removal Process (Deportation) for two weeks to see if the Democrats and Republicans can get together and work out a solution to the Asylum and Loophole problems at the Southern Border. If not, Deportations start!
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Trump hits 4 countries w/ visa sanctions for not taking back deportees: Cambodia, Eritrea, Guinea & Sierra Leone -
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Trump admin quietly restores stricter evaluation of credible fear in fraud-ridden asylum system @CNNPolitics
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Grand jury approves indictment of Mass state judge and court officer who helped illegal alien escape ICE officer waiting to arrest in courtroom.
@DMAnews1
U.S. Attorney Massachusetts
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#BREAKING : USA #Lelling to announce federal indictment charging Massachusetts Trial Court Judge & Court Officer with obstruction of justice during 12:45 pm press conference
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Man involved in Connecticut Amber Alert deported in 2013; killed ex-wife, abducted child. via @nbc4i
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ICE says man w/DACA picked up in recent fug op is 'self-admitted gang member'. There are 100s w/DACA via @DCExaminer
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Some DACA applicants had several adult children, meaning they could not possibly be <30 at time. via @LifeZette
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Trump cancels Obama’s controversial and unauthorized immigration program for foreign entrepreneurs - - @washtimes
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Build the Wall: NC Family Begs for Justice After Illegal Alien Decapitates Son in Hit-and-Run sentenced to 33 months.
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This is the real chilling effect law enforcement leaders should be concerned about, not the fake one they use to justify sanctuary policies: Border residents fear retaliation from cartels if they report crimes
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Jessica Vaughan
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AG Sessions is Dems nightmare-They cant say they dont want laws enforced so they call him racist instead- @DCExaminer
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"Mexican govt has urged migrants to register for asylum in Mexico or risk deportation. Incoming govt vowed to provide jobs & visas to them. That message has not been popular with all Mexicans, many of whom fear for their own futures." via @businessinsider
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Feds: 2,139 DACAs have been revoked due to criminality and/or gang affiliation. #GreatVettingSystem via @dcexaminer
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Absurd: Third Circuit rules that 2 illegal aliens cannot be deported based on ICE finding them after a lawful traffic stop initiated by a state trooper. via @RMConservative
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ICE Dir Homan says 10,000 aliens released by sanctuary policies have committed new crimes after release. That's 10,000 preventable crimes.
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6th Circ. slaps down district court rulings that prevented ICE from deporting a group of Iraqis in Michigan (mostly criminals). Said lower court erred and had no authority to block these detentions and deportations. Behind paywall.
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Top border agent: We don’t need Congress to stop mass migration - just use the law in the way it was intended (to prevent the frivolous asylum claims & spare us from what is now happening). via @RMConservative
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Courting Disaster: Over the last 20 yrs, 37% of all aliens free pending trial failed to appear for their hearings.
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Jessica Vaughan
5 years
This illustrates how the Kushner immigration plan, to be released soon, which increases immigration -- especially in the white collar sector, will rip the GOP apart. Americans want relief from immigration, not more of it, even if the immigrants are better educated.
@michellemalkin
Michelle Malkin
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A true *turning point* in the decades-long battle between gatekeepers and gate-smashers on the Right has been reached. I’m so glad I stuck it out long enough to witness it. 🔥
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USCIS lawyers told adjudicators to approve DACA applications even when fraud was found. via @LifeZette
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Advocates for US tech workers place ad in today's Wall St Journal on the Big Tech employers' green card facilitation bill under consideration. It would fast track green cards for contract visa workers.
@kava_no
kavaNO
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Page A7, Wall Street Journal #NoS386
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Manufacturing plants in SC using foreign construction workers on B visas for 6 mos at a time. SC govt official (former BMW exec) ignores complaints of local businesses.
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San Jose case of woman apparently randomly killed by illegal alien meth user causes rift among city and county officials over sanctuary policy that shielded him from certain deportation - more than once. via @SFGate
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Illegal alien: “I’m not afraid if I actually get deported,” she said. “Sooner or later, I’m going back home."
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5 years
Why on earth would the NC Governor and a couple of sheriffs want to inflict these criminal aliens on the good people of NC, when ICE is ready to remove them? ICE: Nearly 500 undocumented immigrants released from NC jails despite detainer.
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Tax burden of accommodating years-long influx of illegal child migrants weighs on Minnesota town. Major impact on school system.
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Time to go talk to the person who registered the car for him.
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Illegal alien charged with over 200 counts of child sex assault in sanctuary California. News outlets refrain from mentioning he is here illegally. via @RMConservative
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Police Arrest Illegal Alien After Drunken High-Speed Collision Kills Former Missionary -Breitbart via @BreitbartNews
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ICE captures Honduran fugitive criminal alien released by Mecklenburg County despite rape and child sex offense charges. Mecklenburg sheriff refused to honor detainers or give ICE his release info.
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Jessica Vaughan
28 days
So illegal immigrants will have the authority to arrest U.S. citizens.
@BorderHawkNews
Border Hawk
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Seattle Police to Hire Illegals With DACA Status as Cops
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Jessica Vaughan
5 years
Would any of these donors ever consider contributing to a fund for the victims of the crimes committed by the criminal alien she protected?
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Hamed Aleaziz
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GoFundMe set up for Mass. judge indicted on obstruction charges has raised over $20K in one day.
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Jessica Vaughan
4 years
In fact, the new EO actually will rev up immigrant visa admissions, which had been suspended already by the State Dept. No one will be paused, and many who were paused now can be processed.
@FAIRImmigration
Federation for American Immigration Reform
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Tucker cites FAIR’s analysis which found that less than 10% of immigrants will be affected by the weak @realDonaldTrump EO. Not only can guest workers keep coming in, it barely does what they claim.
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Documents: Murdered Illegal Alien Heroin Dealer Was Somehow A Registered Democrat in Massachusetts via @dailycaller
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How to avoid deportation thru a series of bogus immigration benefits applications: Nigerian Accused of Murdering Mackenzie Lueck Came to U.S. on Student Visa via @BreitbartNews
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Rumors are again circulating that Senators will try to enact a bill to fast-track green cards for Indian visa workers. (S.386) Why is this a priority now, with 10s of millions unemployed here and an economic crisis? via @CIS_org
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Please. This has been going on for months, actually years! My Twitter feed has pix I took at Phoenix Greyhound station in early October. Az republic has published on it too. Hundreds a day coming to a town near you.
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Dara Lind
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Updated scoop on mass release of imm families from detention with a statement from DHS, in which they blame...well, guess.
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If she is found guilty of asylum fraud or other immigration crime, how will that affect her law license? California's Illegal Alien Office Holder Was Arrested at U.S.-Mexico Border in 2013 | Breitbart via @BreitbartNews
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Report: Average Mexican Immigrant Sponsors More Than Six Relatives For Visas via @dailycaller
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Jessica Vaughan
6 years
Now federal judges are getting involved in H-1B visa petition denials. Why don't we just swear them in as benefits adjudicators and consular officers, and while they're at it, they can decide what I have for dinner too.
@lauradfrancis
Laura D. Francis
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Companies are increasingly willing to sue over @USCIS visa petition denials. Yesterday, a federal judge temporarily blocked the denial of an #H1B visa so the worker wouldn't have to leave the U.S. or accrue unlawful presence while the appeal is pending.
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Jessica Vaughan
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Albence: Last year 7,526 detainers ignored by NY cops. Among their crimes: 200 homicides, 500 robberies, 1,000 sex assaults, 1,000 weapons, 1500 DUIs.
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Jessica Vaughan
7 years
Headline should read ICE Ends Dubious, Expensive & Ineffective Program Giving Unauthorized Free Legal Services to Illegal Aliens
@FAIRImmigration
Federation for American Immigration Reform
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ICE Shutters Detention Alternate For Asylum-Seekers via @CBSDFW
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Jessica Vaughan
4 years
House Dems work to keep visa tech workers here beyond their visa duration. These workers displaced Americans and were never essential, and it's even more absurd to argue that we need them now.
@USTechWorkers
U.S. Tech Workers
4 years
Looks like the new House version of the Coronavirus Relief Bill has a new amendment added (possibly by Zoe Lofgren) that allows non-immigrant visa workers whose terms are expiring to be automatically extended (p.64). This should NOT be in the bill! cc: @RepGosar @ChuckGrassley
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Jessica Vaughan
5 years
This disaster at the border is likely to be the immigration legacy of the Trump administration. One million more illegal settlers.
@dcexaminer
Washington Examiner
5 years
Monday was a historic day for @CBP -- Agents made 3,700 apprehensions across four states -- 1,100 of those apprehensions took place in Eagle Pass, Texas, which has no border wall -- It was the most apprehensions CBP made in a single day in 10 years
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S386 is not fair to US workers. It strengthens a system that is displacing them, a major concession to employers w/out reforms to reduce admissions or prevent further replacement of US workers. via @CIS_org
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Jessica Vaughan
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This does lead to the question, if your lawyers say it's unconstitutional, why do you keep granting work permits to 90 new people a day?
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Jessica Vaughan
7 years
Kelly said that he’d consulted attorneys inside & outside govt who told him DACA wouldn’t survive a legal challenge.
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Jessica Vaughan
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"Many Hispanics view the Dems as moralistic snobs. No one wants to come home after a long day of work to be wokesplained that they need to change their language, stop buying Goya, and that they're bad people if they're concerned about border security.”
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Jessica Vaughan
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Here's a gem from the spending bill. Section 224 (a) says that ICE may not remove any sponsor or *potential sponsor* or *member of a household* of a UAC. That's de facto sanctuary for anyone near a UAC. Ridiculous. 30-40% of MS-13 arrests have been UACs.
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Jessica Vaughan
6 years
India nationals illegally crossing the US-Mexico border in record numbers, pay smugglers up to $25G
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Jessica Vaughan
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ICE issues new Declined Detainer Report, detailing 16 California cases of criminal aliens who were released by sanctuary policies, sometimes multiple times, and continued to commit crimes.
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Jessica Vaughan
4 years
Don't forget the "Hire American" part. Oh wait, that was already issued early in the administration. Hard to tell, isn't it? A lot left undone on that front.
@ColumbiaBugle
The Columbia Bugle 🇺🇸
4 years
Great News! Tucker Carlson & WH Trade Advisor Peter Navarro Discussing How the White House is in the Final Phases of Completing a "Buy American" EO Tucker: "People mocked you for your 'Buy America' talk...it turned out you were completely right. So God Bless you for that."
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Jessica Vaughan
6 years
Actually, a bunch of the caravaners have been getting through, either brought through by members of Congress to get credible fear hearing or crossing illegally and getting released, or just not getting caught.
@realDonaldTrump
Donald J. Trump
6 years
With so much talk about the Wall, people are losing sight of the great job being done on our Southern Border by Border Patrol, ICE and our great Military. Remember the Caravans? Well, they didn’t get through and none are forming or on their way. Border is tight. Fake News silent!
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Jessica Vaughan
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Surprise, someone released despite ICE action continues to cause problems after release. Thanks, activists. Who should be held accountable?
@NBCNewYork
NBC New York
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#BREAKING : Man detained by ICE after delivering pizza at Army base arrested again
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Jessica Vaughan
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Trump official reportedly warns of potential 20% unemployment due to the pandemic (and the public response). So why are we still admitting visa workers? Especially the H-2B unskilled workers supposedly needed for seasonal or peak load. Shut it down.
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Jessica Vaughan
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Trump: Illegal immigrants should immediately be turned away from US -accelerated due process under the law, not "abolishing" due process.
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Jessica Vaughan
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5 MS-13 gang mbrs arrested in Lynchburg Va boy's death.
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Jessica Vaughan
6 years
The daily, silent caravan continues, along with catch and release directly to US communities.
@CBPRGV
CBP RGV
6 years
US #BorderPatrol agents arrested nearly 200 Family Units and Unaccompanied Children in less than 24 hours in the #RGV Rio Grande Valley @CBP #BorderSecurity #SouthwestBorder #USBP
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Jessica Vaughan
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Virginia illegal alien, prior deportee w crim history, charged in sex abuse case involving 12-year-old girl @FoxNews
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Jessica Vaughan
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Sonoma County sanctuary policy released man who then killed his girlfriend 17 days later.
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Jessica Vaughan
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Kirsanow: every economist who testified before Civil Rights commission agreed that high immigration harms wages of US blacks.
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Jessica Vaughan
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DACA kids approved despite murder, rape and sex crimes arrests. GOP amnesty bill will allow many to become citizens. - - @washtimes
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