Trump's Most Aggressive Immigration Policy Yet Just Dropped

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The Trump administration has issued a new policy denying bond hearings to illegal immigrants as they challenge their deportation proceedings.

Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons put out a memo directing officers to detain illegal immigrants “for the duration for their removal proceedings,” according to The Washington Post. This move prevents judges from granting bond to illegal immigrants as they go through the process.

Lyons noted that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Justice Department “revisited its legal position on detention and release authorities” and decided that illegals “may not be released from ICE custody.”  

Immigration lawyers have criticized the policy, arguing that it would affect millions of migrants — including those who entered the US decades ago.

The new policy is based on a provision in immigration law noting that illegal immigrants “shall be detained.” That statute had only been applied to recent arrivals. Read more, see X and video here.

Constitutional scholar uses Biden autopen to flip Dems’ ‘democracy’ script against them: ‘Scandal’

Trump ordered an investigation into the Biden administration's controversial autopen use back in June

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Constitutional legal scholar Randy Barnett admonished Democrats' rhetoric claiming democracy is at risk under the Trump administration when "the biggest constitutional scandal in US history" played out under the Biden administration with the use of the autopen. 

"For all the talk of a ‘constitutional crisis' or threats to ‘our democracy’ having the executive branch systematically run by unknown subordinates of a mentally incompetent president is the biggest constitutional scandal in US history – it’s called into question the legality of official acts done in his name but without proper authority," Barnett posted to X Monday. 

"Southern secession was a ‘constitutional crisis,’" Barnett added in a follow-up message Tuesday. "This is a constitutional scandal." 

Barnett, a Georgetown University law professor who serves as the director of the Georgetown Center for the Constitution, was referring to an interview former President Joe Biden conducted with the New York Times defending his use of an autopen. Biden said he orally approved a long list of clemency and pardon actions at the end of his tenure, but that his aides used the autopen to officiate the actions. Read more and see video here. 

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