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Mayorkas touts 'enormous opportunities' with AI as DHS launches new pilot programs

The Department of Homeland Security is announcing a new artificial intelligence road map that includes multiple programs to better train immigration officers, plan for hazards and tackle child exploitation and fentanyl smuggling — as the use of the technology grows within the federal government. The agency announced on Monday three pilot programs that will use AI in three agencies: U.S. …

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Top Democrat in tight Senate race backs citizenship, voting rights for millions of illegal immigrants

The Democrat frontrunner in what could be one of the most unexpectedly tight Senate races this year recently declared his support for granting citizenship and voting rights to the millions of illegal immigrants residing in the U.S. Speaking at a candidate forum in Bladensburg, Maryland, earlier this month, Rep. David Trone, who represents the state’s 6th Congressional District, argued illegal …

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Massachusetts Gov Healey's 'things will happen' comment on migrant rape case spills into NH gov race

New Hampshire Republican gubernatorial candidate Kelly Ayotte on Tuesday torched Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey’s recent comments on a migrant rape case in the Bay State. Healey, a Democrat, recently was asked on camera by Boston 25 News about the case against Cory Alvarez, a 26-year-old migrant from Haiti who is charged with raping a 15-year-old disabled girl at the Comfort …

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Governor who clashed with Obama over attempted illegal immigration crackdown reacts to SCOTUS' Texas ruling

EXCLUSIVE: A former Republican governor widely known for her clashes with the Obama administration while attempting to crack down on illegal immigration in her state reacted to Tuesday’s Supreme Court’s ruling that Texas can enforce a law that allows local police to arrest migrants suspected of crossing the border illegally. Former Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer celebrated what she said was …

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Judge rules illegal immigrants have gun rights protected by 2nd Amendment

A federal judge in Illinois has found that the Constitution protects the gun rights of noncitizens who enter the United States illegally. U.S. District Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman on Friday ruled that a federal prohibition on illegal immigrants owning firearms is unconstitutional as applied to defendant Heriberto Carbajal-Flores. The court found that while the federal ban is “facially constitutional,” there …

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Biden launches 'Latinos con Biden-Harris' to court Hispanic voters wooed by Trump

President Biden’s re-election campaign is targeting Latino voters with a new initiative. The president is slated to launch the Latinos con Biden-Harris campaign program on Tuesday during a campaign stop in Arizona. “The Latino vote was critical to the President’s victory in 2020, and 2024 will be no different,” said campaign manager Julie Chávez Rodríguez. LATINO EVANGELICALS REJECTING DEMOCRATIC PARTY, …

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House Republicans demand DHS provide docs on deportations of brothers of Laken Riley's accused killer

House Judiciary Committee Republicans are demanding that Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas provide documents about the previous deportations and other information on the two brothers of Laken Riley’s accused killer – two men from Venezuela who were also in the United States illegally at the time of the Georgia nursing student’s brutal slaying. Committee Chair Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, and …

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