Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced in May that it had identified more than 10,000 foreign students claiming to work for highly suspect employers under Optional Practical Training. Acting Director Todd Lyons called the figure the tip of the iceberg, limited to the top 25 such employers. Agents had visited sites in Virginia, Texas, Georgia, Illinois, […]
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Vice President JD Vance wants every official in America on the record about fraud. This week he unveiled the “Pledge to Protect Americans from Fraud,” and by Friday the White House had published a list of more than 100 signers, from Cabinet secretaries to governors, state attorneys general, U.S. attorneys and members of Congress. Twenty-two […]
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The Justice Department on Friday charged 16 noncitizens in North Carolina, New York and Idaho with illegal voting, falsely claiming U.S. citizenship and related election crimes. Several of them allegedly voted in federal elections for years, and in some cases for decades, without ever being citizens. The announcement came 18 days before the November 3 […]
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Two members of the Democratic Socialists of America likely to win House elections have already turned their sights toward shaping what they see as a probable Democrat majority in the chamber. In an interview with Politico’s Dasha Burns, New York Democrat Darializa Avila Chevalier and Colorado Democrat Melat Kiros declined to commit to supporting Rep. […]
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Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” from Daily Signal senior contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to Victor Davis Hanson’s own YouTube channel to watch past episodes. Sami Winc: “Could you explain, VDH, why the media and government doesn’t remove the smoke and mirrors from this issue, which is […]
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California put roughly 24 billion dollars into homelessness and housing programs over five fiscal years ending in 2022-23. Nine state agencies ran more than thirty separate efforts. The State Auditor’s April 2024 report found that the agency charged with tracking the results had stopped analyzing the spending after 2021. Of five major programs that together […]
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On March 8, 2020, Anthony Fauci told “60 Minutes” that a healthy person had “no reason to be walking around with a mask.” Within a year, he was applauding the idea of wearing two. The official explanation is that the science changed—that we learned about presymptomatic and asymptomatic spread. Fauci’s own diary destroys that explanation […]
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Democrat U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico appeared at CNN’s town hall Wednesday night, speaking to prospective voters. However, multiple claims made by him appear to be misleading or untrue. On the issue of border security, Talarico said during the town hall that he is a “border security Democrat” and did not support abolishing ICE. “I […]
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The Department of Justice is suing California after state officials failed to comply with a 48-hour ultimatum to review a list of suspected noncitizen voters and set aside their ballots pending citizenship verification. The Justice Department, in coordination with the Department of Homeland Security, determined that more than 20,000 people are likely aliens and are […]
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Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal senior contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. This is Victor Davis Hanson for the Daily Signal. We’re in the eighth month of an on-and-off war, as we all know, with Iran, and since 2022, […]