On Monday, the Supreme Court added two significant immigration cases to its docket. The cases are styled Noem v. Doe and Trump v. Miot, and both involve the issue of Temporary Protected Status (TPS). The first comes out of the Southern District of New York and involves TPS for Syrians; the second comes from the D.C. District and involves Haitians.
Congress enacted the Temporary Protected Status program in 1990. The program gives the Department of Homeland Security the power to designate a country’s citizens as eligible to remain in the U.S. and work if they cannot return to their own country because of a natural disaster, armed conflict, or other “extraordinary and temporary” conditions there.
It can’t be said often enough: States around the country have granted tens of thousands of commercial drivers’ licenses (CDLs) to illegal aliens who can’t read English, don’t understand road signs, don’t know the rules of the road, and whose prior driving records are unknown.
And American drivers are dying as a result.
During the month of February, for example, illegal aliens caused two fatal crashes in Indiana. The first killed four Amish men — Henry Eicher, 50, Menno Eicher, 25, Paul Eicher, 19, and Simon Girod, 23 — after Bekzhan Beishekeev, an illegal from Kyrgyzstan, swerved into a lane of oncoming traffic, hitting their van head-on. Beishekeev came to the United States using the CBP One app developed by the Biden administration to help illegal immigrants enter the United States more easily. He was released into the country in 2023, and soon thereafter, Beishekeev got a CDL in Pennsylvania.
The second crash happened later in the month when illegal alien Singh Sukhdeep allegedly ran a red light in his big rig, causing a crash that killed 64-year-old Terry Schultz. Sukhdeep entered the United States as a minor, and the Flores settlement has continued to shape how minors are processed and released. The first Trump administration tried to change that framework in 2019, but federal courts blocked key portions of that effort and the agreement remained in effect.
Late last year, my colleague Elizabeth Stauffer reported that “ultra-conservative” candidate José Antonio Kast had won a landslide victory in Chile’s presidential election.
And by “ultra-conservative,” what is really meant is running for office by promising to take actions that normal people want and need. Kast, a Roman Catholic and lawyer, had a campaign centered on restoring order, cracking down on crime and illegal immigration, and revitalizing Chile’s market-oriented economic model through spending cuts and pro-business reforms.
How is Kast doing at this point? Less than a week after his inauguration, construction of a border wall between Chile and Peru began.
Less than a week after his inauguration, Chile’s arch-conservative president on Monday began overseeing preparations to build a border barrier — part of his flagship campaign promise to block immigrants from crossing illegally.
From Chile’s northern frontier area of Chacalluta, where legions of immigrants have slipped across the Peruvian border into one of the region’s most prosperous nations, Kast vowed to implement what he calls his “Border Shield” plan. Among other steps, it involves the construction of a physical barrier at the nation’s northern border made up of ditches and fences and patrolled by drones and the military forces.
…Kast assured the public that “for all of Chile, this is a milestone.”
“We have taken clear and concrete decisions to close our border to illegal immigration, drug trafficking and organized crime,” he said. “We want to implement this without any delay.”
Diesel fuel, the lifeblood of U.S. industry, crossed an alarming and historic benchmark Tuesday.
Amid the Iran War and the Strait of Hormuz crisis, the U.S. average retail diesel prices have crossed $5 a gallon, the highest since December 2022.
This marks only the second time diesel prices have hit the historic 5-dollar benchmark, according to Reuters. Tuesday’s new average of $5.04 is now a record high, according to analysts at GasBuddy.
Meanwhile, gas prices across the country have surged 74 cents a gallon. This reportedly marks nearly a 30% increase over the past month, the highest monthly spike since Hurricane Katrina.
“The problem is, is we’re so strained financially coming into this issue,” explained Littleton, a third-generation farmer from Gibson County in the state’s northwest.
“We have had a couple of record losses over the last couple of years, so everyone’s kind of grabbing at straws anyway, and then to have input prices increase yet again, it just really couldn’t happen at a worse time.”
Littleton, who cultivates corn, soybeans, and wheat, is one of thousands of farmers nationwide who will pay significantly more this spring for the essential nutrients their crops require.
Nitrogen-based fertilizer is particularly crucial for corn, typically the largest crop in the U.S., which feeds the nation’s livestock and is converted into fuel for most U.S. vehicles.
This action has caused a significant slowdown in shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, a critical choke point for 20 per cent of the world’s oil and natural gas.
One of the most poorly kept political secrets in modern times is that Democrats just love themselves some unfettered illegal immigration.
Sure, they’ll never outright admit to it — that would be tantamount to political suicide — but actions speak louder than words, and when it comes to illegal immigration, Democrats have practically been screaming at the top of their lungs of late.
The million (billion? trillion?) dollar question, then, is why?
Look, anyone with a room-temperature IQ can tell you that Democrats are trying to “import voters.”
The common criticism is that Dems, alongside all of their unpopular ideas, can’t win over the average American on policy. Instead of changing those unpopular policies, however, Democrats seem far more intent on simply bringing in more agreeable voters.
But it’s not quite so surface-level, as Border Czar Tom Homan so eloquently — and worryingly — pointed out during a Fox News appearance on Tuesday.
WATCH: Tom Homan says Dems and Biden “sold this country out for future political power” by importing millions of illegals to swell blue states.
As blue state populations increased, Dems would get more House seats and electoral votes.
President Trump is hitting pause on his highly anticipated summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the end of March and is telling Beijing that it can wait a month as his team focuses on the conflict in Iran and their attempts to disrupt shipping in the crucial waterway of the Strait of Hormuz.
China has been keeping its cards close to the vest as it has warily watched U.S. forces take out most of the senior Iranian leadership in the last 17 days with Operation Epic Fury. Trump, meanwhile, has worked since the beginning of his administration to rebalance the rules of trade between the two powerful countries, as he believes the deck has long been stacked in the People’s Republic’s favor:
The summit was meant to focus on trade, as both Trump and Xi seek to extend a delicate tariff truce between the world’s two biggest economies. But China showed little immediate sign that it was bothered by the likely delay, which analysts told NBC News may actually prove beneficial to efforts to further stabilize relations.
Trump said Monday that his China trip planned for later this month could be postponed because of the war, telling reporters in Washington, “I think it’s important that I be here.” But his administration has not confirmed that the trip is delayed or shared more specific dates for when it would be rescheduled.
🚨BREAKING — POTUS will delay his planned trip to China for approximately one month, due to the war with Iran. pic.twitter.com/ssK3Pdvvzk
A federal appeals court has lifted a lower court order blocking a key immigration policy from President Donald Trump’s administration, allowing officials to resume deporting illegal aliens to countries other than their own.
In a 2–1 decision, the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals granted the administration’s request to pause a prior ruling that had declared the policy unlawful.
The decision allows the policy to remain in effect while the case moves forward on appeal.
President Donald Trump said his administration will continue pursuing tariffs through alternative legal authorities after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a major portion of his administration’s tariff program earlier this year.
In a post on Truth Social, Trump criticized the ruling but emphasized that the decision did not eliminate his ability to impose tariffs through other laws.
“The Court knew where I stood, how badly I wanted this Victory for our Country, and instead decided to, potentially, give away Trillions of Dollars to Countries and Companies who have been taking advantage of the United States for decades,” Trump wrote.
Authorities in Missouri arrested a woman who allegedly planned to assassinate President Donald Trump with a firearm she stole from her father.
Johnetta Parsons allegedly stole the gun back in December, transported it to St. Louis, and left the weapon in her friend’s vehicle, according to a criminal complaint, Newsweek reported.
Parsons’ father reported on Dec. 8 to the Ozark County Sheriff’s Office that Parsons had stolen his firearm, a SCCY CPX-2 9mm.
The Columbia Police Department found the gun on Jan. 3 in a vehicle driven to the Greyhound station, with two people in the vehicle saying they had taken Parsons to St. Louis.
After another Progmerican judge, District Judge Brian Murphy, attempted lawfare sabotage of Trump’s deportation program, a 3-panel appeals court paused that stay for full court review. Murphy ruled that the Trump administration could not deport illegals to “third countries.” The 3-judge panel ruled “after careful review” a temporary pause of the order “is appropriate.” They promised to follow up with a prompt ruling, which indicates the high probability the ruling will officially strike down the unconstitutional effort at lawfare sabotage by a Progmerican judge.
In a win for the Trump administration, a federal appeals court temporarily blocked a lower court ruling on Wednesday that sought to hinder the government’s deportation operations.
In its short order, the three-judge panel for the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals placed an administrative stay (“pause”) on a recent decision by District Judge Brian Murphy. The Biden appointee issued a ruling last month declaring the administration’s efforts to deport illegal aliens to “third countries” (nations other than the individual’s country-of-origin) to be unlawful and blocked its enforcement.
The 1st Circuit panel of two Biden appointees and a Bush 43 appointee determined “[a]fter careful review” that an administrative stay temporarily pausing Murphy’s order “is appropriate.” The judges further indicated their intent to “promptly” issue a complete ruling on revoking the lower court’s blockade.
A new analysis from the Daily Wire revealed that in the first 14 months of President Donald Trump’s second term, federal courts have seen an unprecedented increase in habeas corpus petitions filed by immigrants challenging their detention by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). These legal challenges, which seek to contest the legality of prolonged detention without bond hearings, have exceeded 18,000 cases, surpassing the combined total from the previous three presidential administrations.
Habeas corpus, a legal principle dating back to the Magna Carta and enshrined in the U.S. Constitution, allows individuals to challenge unlawful detention by requiring the government to justify holding them in custody. In the immigration context, it has become a critical tool for those held during deportation proceedings.
On Tuesday, word came that the legal disciplinary authority in Washington, D.C., was charging U.S. Pardon Attorney Ed Martin with ethics violations, kicking off proceedings that could result in penalties up to and including disbarment.
In so doing, it might have just helped make the case for the action the Trump Justice Department recently initiated to begin to combat the weaponization of such bar disciplinary tribunals — namely, against conservatives.
The D.C. Board on Professional Responsibility alleges that while serving as U.S. attorney last year, Martin — a conservative stalwart long loathed by the left — violated local rules of legal conduct in probing Georgetown Law School for its alleged continued promotion of DEI in its curriculum, and refusing to hire those affiliated with the school until it purged DEI accordingly.
“Lawfare/Barfare is alive & well,” said Jeff Clark, the recently departed chief Trump administration regulatory officer. “Apparently, DC’s Disciplinary Counsel cares not that 1) DEI is an unconstitutional violation of equal protection of the laws; & 2) the President had issued an executive order banning it if an institution takes federal money. Blatantly political.”
The lust for political vengeance against anyone who provided assistance to Donald Trump in the 2020 election is still in full swing in Wisconsin, as evidenced by an ongoing abusive criminal prosecution that has now reached the state supreme court with motions over possible misconduct by the trial judge and a request for two biased members of the high court to recuse themselves from the case.
Not to be outdone by discredited Georgia prosecutor Fani Willis, Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul, the Les Misérables Inspector Javert of Wisconsin, has been obsessively pursuing a lawyer, Jim Troupis, along with two other defendants, Kenneth Chesebro and Mike Roman, for engaging in completely lawful political activities.
President Trump’s efforts, along with his co-defendants, to win a civil lawsuit against Fani Willis’ Prosecutor’s Office, won’t be affected by Fani Willis herself. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee ruled Fani Willis was “wholly disqualified” from being involved in this case at all, and therefore, she will not be allowed to participate in any capacity in the proceedings of the civil trial.
Judge Blocks Fani Willis from Intervening in Trump’s Legal Fee Fight Over Failed RICO Case – slaynews.com
A judge in Fulton County, Georgia, ruled that District Attorney Fani Willis cannot participate in the legal fight over whether President Donald Trump and his co-defendants should be reimbursed millions of dollars in attorney fees following the collapse of her Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act case against them.
Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee issued the order on Monday.
The judge stated that Willis, who had already been disqualified from the prosecution, could not insert herself into the dispute over the legal fees.
The reimbursement claims total about $16.8 million, including more than $6.2 million sought by President Trump.
President Trump is overseeing the return of American energy sovereignty through the construction of new oil refineries and nuclear power plants. The Biden administration had begun the process of reactivating nuclear energy by completing the construction of a nuclear power plant in George in 2024. It was the first nuclear reactor to be built in America in over 30 years.
Now, President Trump has overseen the approval of an oil refinery in Brownsville, Texas, and the construction of a first-of-its-kind nuclear reactor in Wyoming. The oil refinery is the first approved building of a new refinery in America in over 50 years. This same week, the nuclear power plant received its approval to build the nuclear reactor. With the need for energy for AI machines, nuclear power is sure to move to the fore of future energy planning, especially micro-reactors for individual AI machines.
Trump Is Bringing Historic Changes to the U.S. Energy Sector – Townhall
For the first time in over 40 years, the United States will be seriously expanding their energy production in two major ways. On Tuesday, it was announced that a new oil refinery and a new nuclear reactor would begin construction shortly.
JUST IN – Trump announces that “America First Refining is opening the FIRST new U.S. Oil Refinery in 50 YEARS in Brownsville, Texas,” and thanks “our partners in India, and their largest privately held Energy Company, Reliance, for this tremendous Investment.”
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested over 400 illegal alien child predators in the Houston area during the first year of President Donald Trump’s second term, according to a new agency report.
All 414 illegals were charged or convicted of child sex offenses.
The total is nearly double the 211 arrests recorded during the final year of former President Joe Biden’s administration, ICE said in a press release.
The national average price for regular gas continues to soar, reaching $3.578 per gallon on Wednesday morning. The price point marks a 64-cent-per-gallon increase compared to a month ago, according to AAA.
The rise in gas prices over the last month is the largest single monthly increase since 2022, when fuel costs increased by 71 cents per gallon between February and March, according to data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Between the week of February 9, 2026, and March 9, 2026, the average price for regular grade gasoline rose from $2.902 per gallon to $3.502 per gallon, according to the EIA. Moreover, gas prices today are nearly 50 cents per gallon more expensive than a year ago, according to AAA.
The Chinese Communist Party oddly found a reason to promote the U.S. Constitution, or at least an interpretation of it, journalist and author Peter Schweizer noted before a Senate panel Tuesday.
At a hearing on birthright citizenship, Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., asked Schweizer if the Chinese government promotes exploiting the concept.
“They have run articles in the People’s Daily, which is the main news organ of the Communist Party, explaining that you have a constitutional right in the United States,” said Schweizer, president of the watchdog Government Accountability Institute and author of the recent book, “The Invisible Coup: How American Elites and Foreign Powers Use Immigration as a Weapon.”
Oil prices retreated Tuesday, even after Secretary of Energy Chris Wright wrongly claimed in a social media post that the U.S. Navy had escorted a tanker through the Strait of Hormuz.
“The U.S. Navy has not escorted a tanker or a vessel at this time,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters Tuesday.
U.S. crude oil fell 11.94% to close at $83.45 per barrel.Brent crude, the global benchmark, lost 11.28% to settle at $87.80. Prices fell more than 17% immediately after Wright’s post.
