This year’s midterm elections concluded with Republicans receiving an unprecedented defeat. Democrats seized control of the U.S. House and Senate, and won by wide margins in previously untouchable GOP strongholds. Texas was one of the most pivotal defeats for the GOP. State Rep. James Talarico defeated Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in the race for […]
Layoff Hedge reported on new data from the USCIS H-1B employer data hub showing a substantial increase in first-time H-1B approvals. During fiscal year 2026, new H-1Bs in Texas rose 32 percent, from 12,619 to 16,659. First-time H-1B data exclude renewals and job switches; the figures therefore reflect a net increase in the total number […]
Federal authorities just pulled the curtain back on Operation Southern Surge, a coordinated strike along the Texas-Mexico border that should leave no doubt about the scale of the criminal enterprise pouring poison and weapons into our state. Since October 19, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Homeland Security Investigations, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and federal prosecutors […]
Authorities arrested leaders of a vast fraud scheme in Illinois for gaming the federal immigration system. Parth Nayi, an immigrant from India, conspired with Indian nationals to run a U-visa scam using fake armed robberies. Nayi coached fellow co-conspirators Bhikhabhai Patel, Nilesh Patel, Ravinaben Patel and Rajnikumar Patel on how to stage the fake robberies […]
The Supreme Court on Tuesday shut down an attempt by left-wing politicians to revive a Biden-era open-borders policy. The cities of Baltimore, Columbus, and New Haven asked the Court to end an agreement with Texas that had terminated administrative closure, a practice that lets immigration judges temporarily pause or set aside deportation proceedings instead of […]
The Department of Justice moved to disqualify two Minnesota immigration judges from their cases after the judges publicly criticized the Trump administration’s deportation policy. Judge Patrick Schlitz and Judge John Tunheim participated in a report by the New York Times in which they criticized the immigration crackdown in Minnesota, Operation Metro Surge. In the report, […]
The Ninth Circuit court handed radical California lawmakers a stern rebuke, declaring the state’s “No Vigilantes Act” (NVA) unconstitutional. The court found that the California law violated the U.S. Constitution’s Supremacy Clause, which makes federal law supreme over state law. The NVA would have required any non-uniformed law enforcement officer in California to display a […]
Attorney General Todd Blanche solidified a DOJ policy allowing employers to post job advertisements that exclude American workers. In August, Administrative Law Judge John A. Henderson dismissed a complaint in US Tech Workers v. Boston Consulting Group that accused H-1B recruiter “Chicago H-1B Connect” of illegal discrimination. The Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) bars discrimination […]
U.S. District Judge Ramon E. Reyes Jr. dismissed the Trump administration’s lawsuit against New York City’s sanctuary city policies. The Trump administration argued that federal law preempts NYC’s prohibition on honoring ICE detainers or sharing information with ICE. Socialist New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani celebrated the left-wing victory, pledging that New York will continue to […]
On April 8, 2025, Hood County Sheriff Roger Deeds stood before Commissioners’ Court and stated his preference: “I feel like what’s appropriate for Hood County is that Warrant Officer one.” He had previously submitted the application for the Warrant Service Officer model under ICE’s 287(g) program. In Commissioners Court that day, he said he lacked […]