Where and who recoded it? Is this legit?
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The Most Important Immigration Stories of 2025
By David J. Bier
December 30, 2025
In 2025, President Trump’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) attempted and carried out so many unlawful, unconstitutional, immoral, and economically and socially damaging actions in the name of “immigration enforcement” that it is difficult to rank them. Nonetheless, it is worth considering which DHS actions were the most impactful.
1 - Banning legal immigrants: As I predicted, President Trump’s administration has already lowered legal entries far more than illegal entries simply by canceling the CBP One port of entry scheduling app for asylum seekers at the southwest border and the humanitarian parole sponsorship processes. He has effectively ended the refugee program, slashing permanent legal immigration by about 10 percent. As I reported, he has now also banned legal immigration for about 20 percent of legal immigrants. His administration suspended the immigrant visa lottery without warning in December, and it unilaterally imposed a $100,000 fee on companies seeking to hire H‑1B workers. All these actions will lead to the largest restriction in legal immigration—setting aside 2020—since the 1920s, and will cause the first sustained reduction in the total immigrant population in decades.
2 - Cancellation of legal statuses: The most important immigration story in 2025 was the mass cancellation of lawful status for the roughly 2.5 million immigrants with humanitarian parole and Temporary Protected Status (TPS). In justifying these actions, DHS cited risible claims like Afghanistan becoming a tourist destination, Haiti being a safe country, and vetted Venezuelans with legal status and no criminal record being a serious threat to Americans. In its haste to cancel the parole grants, DHS accidentally sent notices telling US citizen attorneys to leave the country.
These decisions manufactured millions of illegal immigrants who would be easy to identify and deport. As I documented, DHS deported dozens of legal immigrants straight to a Salvadoran torture prison. The president’s attempt to end birthright citizenship would force actual US citizens to leave, and although courts have blocked it for now, his executive order demonstrates how little this deportation campaign cares about “illegality” as opposed to body counts.
3 - Deprioritization of criminals: Despite the administration’s relentless rhetorical focus on criminal immigrants, the administration has radically shifted its efforts away from public safety threats. As I’ve reported, by October, just 5 percent of ICE book-ins had violent criminal convictions. Nearly three-quarters had no conviction at all. The number of ICE arrests of people without charges or convictions has increased by 1,200 percent since the start of the year. This makes sense because they are arresting legal immigrants who were vetted before and during the time that they had status.
Moreover, as I’ve described, DHS has diverted much of the federal criminal law enforcement from their jobs, including a quarter of the FBI, half the DEA, two-thirds of the ATF, and almost 90 percent of Homeland Security Investigations. This has led to a drastic reduction in arrests for various kinds of trafficking, including child sex trafficking and weapons trafficking.
4 - “Papers-please” profiling: The effect of the Supreme Court’s decision in Perdomo v. Noem has been to green-light arrests, detentions, and harassment of people based on demographic characteristics like race, without any actual evidence that they are in the country illegally. As I documented, the Perdomo injunction had blocked about two-thirds of all arrests in the Los Angeles area where it was in effect.
Since the injunction was lifted, it has turbocharged the profiling operation in the rest of the country. From January 20 to October 15, more than 40,000 people were arrested off the streets who have never been charged with any crime and for whom DHS has no removal orders—in other words, people whom ICE had no reason to single out. The total is likely over 60,000 by now since, by the middle of October, DHS was already making 2,000 such arrests per week.
5 - Attacks on the Constitution: Papers-please policing is one of many assaults on the Constitution. DHS agents are routinely trespassing on private property to make immigration arrests, and DHS is leading the charge for the most extreme attack on the First Amendment this century. It is arresting and imprisoning people for political speech, even op-eds mildly critical of college administrators. As I’ve documented, DHS has labeled ICE observers who record them “domestic terrorists” and has launched a campaign of threats, arrests, and violence to stop them.
ICE has attempted and largely succeeded in stripping constitutionally protected due process from many immigrants being deported. The Supreme Court ruled 9–0 that using the Alien Enemies Act to spirit away hundreds of Venezuelans to an El Salvador prison in the dead of night was unconstitutional, but the administration has evaded accountability for that brazen act. Nonetheless, ICE continues to abuse “expedited removal” to arrest and deport people without a hearing, which is leading to tens of thousands of additional deportations every month.
The good news is that the Trump administration has not, in fact, deported “millions and millions” of people. The primary reason that the immigrant population is falling is not deportations or even self-deportations, but because of the dramatic drop in immigration—legal and illegal—to the United States. That development is unfortunate. Despite the hailstorm of attacks, however, immigrants continue to help Americans, reducing government deficits, innovating and starting businesses, growing the economy, increasing the availability of critical goods and services, and improving our lives in innumerable other ways.
Click Above Link For More Information And View Charts/Graphs
The CATO Institute is funded by the Koch Bros. network.
The Most Important Immigration Stories of 2025
By David J. Bier
December 30, 2025
In 2025, President Trump’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) attempted and carried out so many unlawful, unconstitutional, immoral, and economically and socially damaging actions in the name of “immigration enforcement” that it is difficult to rank them. Nonetheless, it is worth considering which DHS actions were the most impactful.
1 - Banning legal immigrants: As I predicted, President Trump’s administration has already lowered legal entries far more than illegal entries simply by canceling the CBP One port of entry scheduling app for asylum seekers at the southwest border and the humanitarian parole sponsorship processes. He has effectively ended the refugee program, slashing permanent legal immigration by about 10 percent. As I reported, he has now also banned legal immigration for about 20 percent of legal immigrants. His administration suspended the immigrant visa lottery without warning in December, and it unilaterally imposed a $100,000 fee on companies seeking to hire H‑1B workers. All these actions will lead to the largest restriction in legal immigration—setting aside 2020—since the 1920s, and will cause the first sustained reduction in the total immigrant population in decades.
2 - Cancellation of legal statuses: The most important immigration story in 2025 was the mass cancellation of lawful status for the roughly 2.5 million immigrants with humanitarian parole and Temporary Protected Status (TPS). In justifying these actions, DHS cited risible claims like Afghanistan becoming a tourist destination, Haiti being a safe country, and vetted Venezuelans with legal status and no criminal record being a serious threat to Americans. In its haste to cancel the parole grants, DHS accidentally sent notices telling US citizen attorneys to leave the country.
These decisions manufactured millions of illegal immigrants who would be easy to identify and deport. As I documented, DHS deported dozens of legal immigrants straight to a Salvadoran torture prison. The president’s attempt to end birthright citizenship would force actual US citizens to leave, and although courts have blocked it for now, his executive order demonstrates how little this deportation campaign cares about “illegality” as opposed to body counts.
3 - Deprioritization of criminals: Despite the administration’s relentless rhetorical focus on criminal immigrants, the administration has radically shifted its efforts away from public safety threats. As I’ve reported, by October, just 5 percent of ICE book-ins had violent criminal convictions. Nearly three-quarters had no conviction at all. The number of ICE arrests of people without charges or convictions has increased by 1,200 percent since the start of the year. This makes sense because they are arresting legal immigrants who were vetted before and during the time that they had status.
Moreover, as I’ve described, DHS has diverted much of the federal criminal law enforcement from their jobs, including a quarter of the FBI, half the DEA, two-thirds of the ATF, and almost 90 percent of Homeland Security Investigations. This has led to a drastic reduction in arrests for various kinds of trafficking, including child sex trafficking and weapons trafficking.
4 - “Papers-please” profiling: The effect of the Supreme Court’s decision in Perdomo v. Noem has been to green-light arrests, detentions, and harassment of people based on demographic characteristics like race, without any actual evidence that they are in the country illegally. As I documented, the Perdomo injunction had blocked about two-thirds of all arrests in the Los Angeles area where it was in effect.
Since the injunction was lifted, it has turbocharged the profiling operation in the rest of the country. From January 20 to October 15, more than 40,000 people were arrested off the streets who have never been charged with any crime and for whom DHS has no removal orders—in other words, people whom ICE had no reason to single out. The total is likely over 60,000 by now since, by the middle of October, DHS was already making 2,000 such arrests per week.
5 - Attacks on the Constitution: Papers-please policing is one of many assaults on the Constitution. DHS agents are routinely trespassing on private property to make immigration arrests, and DHS is leading the charge for the most extreme attack on the First Amendment this century. It is arresting and imprisoning people for political speech, even op-eds mildly critical of college administrators. As I’ve documented, DHS has labeled ICE observers who record them “domestic terrorists” and has launched a campaign of threats, arrests, and violence to stop them.
ICE has attempted and largely succeeded in stripping constitutionally protected due process from many immigrants being deported. The Supreme Court ruled 9–0 that using the Alien Enemies Act to spirit away hundreds of Venezuelans to an El Salvador prison in the dead of night was unconstitutional, but the administration has evaded accountability for that brazen act. Nonetheless, ICE continues to abuse “expedited removal” to arrest and deport people without a hearing, which is leading to tens of thousands of additional deportations every month.
The good news is that the Trump administration has not, in fact, deported “millions and millions” of people. The primary reason that the immigrant population is falling is not deportations or even self-deportations, but because of the dramatic drop in immigration—legal and illegal—to the United States. That development is unfortunate. Despite the hailstorm of attacks, however, immigrants continue to help Americans, reducing government deficits, innovating and starting businesses, growing the economy, increasing the availability of critical goods and services, and improving our lives in innumerable other ways.
Click Above Link For More Information And View Charts/Graphs
Nicki Minaj’s Husband and Brother’s Criminal Records: What to Know
As rapper Nicki Minaj aligns herself with President Donald Trump, some critics claim she is doing so to secure pardons for her brother and husband.
By Andrew Stanton
January 28, 2026
Nicki Minaj's husband and brother's criminal records: What to know
Some critics claim Minaj is aligning herself with President Trump to secure pardons for her husband and brother.
www.newsweek.com
Minaj has become increasingly supportive of conservative politics over recent months and has expressed support for the president. She met with Trump on Wednesday, describing herself as “probably the president’s number one fan." She said during an event about Trump accounts, a new type of bank account for new babies, that the negative reaction of some fans to her alignment with Trump “motivates me to support him more."
While some have praised her support for the president, others have been more critical. Some Democrats have suggested her embrace of the president is to help her brother and husband, who have faced legal challenges, obtain a pardon.
“It's super f****** embarrassing watching Nicki Minaj kiss Donald Trump's a** to get a pardon for her husband and her brother,” Democratic strategist Mike Nellis wrote on X.
Minaj is married to Kenneth Petty. They met when they were teenagers but reconnected in 2018, getting married in 2019. The couple welcomed a son in September 2020.
Petty previously served four years in prison as a Level 2 sex offender after he was found guilty of raping a 16-year-old girl, whom he held at knifepoint, in 1994.
Minaj has responded to criticism toward Petty, writing on social media, “He was 15, she was 16 … in a relationship. But go awf Internet. Y’all can’t run my life. Y’all can’t even run y’all own life. Thank you boo.”
Minaj’s brother, Jelani Maraj, has also faced legal issues. In 2017, Maraj, then 38, was convicted of raping an 11-year-old girl at his Long Island residence. Maraj said the accusations were invented by the victim’s mother to go after Minaj’s family’s fortune. He was sentenced to 25 years to life in 2020.
Despite speculation that her rightward shift is intended to secure a pardon for her family members, Minaj has not indicated that she would like the president to do so.
Minaj has been critical of Trump in the past. She discussed his candidacy in a 2015 interview with Billboard in which she said she wanted to be “open-minded about everyone” ahead of the election.
“There are points he has made that may not have been so horrible if his approach wasn’t so childish. But in terms of entertainment, I think he’s hilarious. I wish they could just film him running for president. That’s the ultimate reality show,” she said of Trump at the time.
In 2018, she raised concerns about his immigration policy.
“I came to this country as an illegal immigrant @ 5 years old. I can’t imagine the horror of being in a strange place & having my parents stripped away from me at the age of 5. This is so scary to me. Please stop this. Can you try to imagine the terror & panic these kids feel right now?” she wrote on social media at the time.
In 2020, she said she was “not gonna jump on the Trump bandwagon,” CNN reported.
But she has become more supportive of him, praising the president during an interview with Erika Kirk late last year. She described Trump as “our handsome, dashing president” and an “amazing” role model...
Nicki Minaj and President Donald Trump in Washington, D.C., on January 28, 2026.
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She was always consistent in her messaging. Too bad they didn’t listen. The average American would be in a much better place today
So did Hillary! Look at any clip of Hillarys.
HunchbackNicki Minaj’s Husband and Brother’s Criminal Records: What to Know
As rapper Nicki Minaj aligns herself with President Donald Trump, some critics claim she is doing so to secure pardons for her brother and husband.
By Andrew Stanton
January 28, 2026
Nicki Minaj's husband and brother's criminal records: What to know
Some critics claim Minaj is aligning herself with President Trump to secure pardons for her husband and brother.
Minaj has become increasingly supportive of conservative politics over recent months and has expressed support for the president. She met with Trump on Wednesday, describing herself as “probably the president’s number one fan." She said during an event about Trump accounts, a new type of bank account for new babies, that the negative reaction of some fans to her alignment with Trump “motivates me to support him more."
While some have praised her support for the president, others have been more critical. Some Democrats have suggested her embrace of the president is to help her brother and husband, who have faced legal challenges, obtain a pardon.
“It's super f****** embarrassing watching Nicki Minaj kiss Donald Trump's a** to get a pardon for her husband and her brother,” Democratic strategist Mike Nellis wrote on X.
Minaj is married to Kenneth Petty. They met when they were teenagers but reconnected in 2018, getting married in 2019. The couple welcomed a son in September 2020.
Petty previously served four years in prison as a Level 2 sex offender after he was found guilty of raping a 16-year-old girl, whom he held at knifepoint, in 1994.
Minaj has responded to criticism toward Petty, writing on social media, “He was 15, she was 16 … in a relationship. But go awf Internet. Y’all can’t run my life. Y’all can’t even run y’all own life. Thank you boo.”
Minaj’s brother, Jelani Maraj, has also faced legal issues. In 2017, Maraj, then 38, was convicted of raping an 11-year-old girl at his Long Island residence. Maraj said the accusations were invented by the victim’s mother to go after Minaj’s family’s fortune. He was sentenced to 25 years to life in 2020.
Despite speculation that her rightward shift is intended to secure a pardon for her family members, Minaj has not indicated that she would like the president to do so.
Minaj has been critical of Trump in the past. She discussed his candidacy in a 2015 interview with Billboard in which she said she wanted to be “open-minded about everyone” ahead of the election.
“There are points he has made that may not have been so horrible if his approach wasn’t so childish. But in terms of entertainment, I think he’s hilarious. I wish they could just film him running for president. That’s the ultimate reality show,” she said of Trump at the time.
In 2018, she raised concerns about his immigration policy.
“I came to this country as an illegal immigrant @ 5 years old. I can’t imagine the horror of being in a strange place & having my parents stripped away from me at the age of 5. This is so scary to me. Please stop this. Can you try to imagine the terror & panic these kids feel right now?” she wrote on social media at the time.
In 2020, she said she was “not gonna jump on the Trump bandwagon,” CNN reported.
But she has become more supportive of him, praising the president during an interview with Erika Kirk late last year. She described Trump as “our handsome, dashing president” and an “amazing” role model...
Nicki Minaj and President Donald Trump in Washington, D.C., on January 28, 2026.
What is this guy thinking?
I guess that means its up to white folks to save democracy
It's fake.., he didn't donate his check. At least not according to Grok. Dude who posted it is desperate.
#1984
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