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Illegal Alien Gets 3 Years in Prison for Voting in Elections After Falsely Claiming American Citizenship

An illegal alien was sentenced this week after voting in United States elections by falsely claiming naturalized American citizenship, Department of Justice (DOJ) officials said on Friday.

Carlos Felipe Jaramillo-Grajales, a 55-year-old illegal alien from Colombia, was sentenced to three years in federal prison for making false statements in an application for a U.S. passport, aggravated identity theft, falsely claiming that a Social Security number was his, and falsely claiming to be a U.S. citizen to vote in an election.

Likewise, Jaramillo-Grajales was given a deportation order, requiring federal immigration officials to deport him once he has completed his sentence.

“Federal immigration laws serve to safeguard our nation’s borders and protect the integrity of our government,” U.S. Attorney Gregory Kehoe said. “Those who seek to circumvent, exploit, or break these laws will be prosecuted fully.”

According to prosecutors, Jaramillo-Grajales stole the Social Security Number of an American citizen so that he could secure an American passport. The illegal alien used the same Social Security Number to claim American citizenship while obtaining a Florida driver’s license, giving him the ability to register to vote.

Jaramillo-Grajales went on to vote in the 2020 election and several other elections.

“This criminal illegal alien from Colombia has just been sentenced to three years in a federal prison for identity theft and falsely claiming to be a U.S. citizen,” Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Markwayne Mullin said:

Because of his fraud, he was able to obtain a driver’s license and vote in our elections. Thanks to the hard work of the men and women of [Homeland Security Investigations], along with our federal partners, this criminal is out of our communities and, at the end of his sentence, will be removed from our country. DHS will always fight to protect the integrity of our elections, because election security is national security. Only Americans should be electing American leaders.
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Prosecutors said that Jaramillo-Grajales, using the stolen Social Security number, married a foreign national who arrived in the U.S. in September 2003 on a B visitor visa. The woman eventually secured naturalized American citizenship in August 2017 before divorcing the illegal alien in January 2020.

Following his divorce, Jaramillo-Grajales left the U.S. for Colombia using his stolen Social Security number while his ex-wife left for Colombia and applied to secure a fiancé visa for him under his real name.

The fiancé visa was approved for Jaramillo-Grajales, allowing him to fly back to the U.S. under his real name, where he remarried his ex-wife in June 2025 before applying for a green card.

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New York Governor Kathy Hochul BRAGS About Spending Millions of Tax Dollars on Legal Bills for Illegal Immigrant Children

The New York Post just did a story about how New York’s Democrat Governor Kathy Hochul is spending upwards of $7 million in taxpayer dollars on the legal bills of illegal immigrant youths in the state.

When the Post promoted the story on Twitter/X, Hochul jumped in and bragged about it.

Why is it that every single Democrat is so determined to let the public know that they care more about people in the country illegally than they do about American citizens?

This is the story from the New York Post:

Hochul shells out over $7M to cover legal bills for 1,400 migrant children in NY

Gov. Kathy Hochul announced the Empire State will be shelling out over $7 million to cover the legal bills for more than 1,000 unaccompanied migrant children across New York.

The $7.25 million in funding will cover an estimated 1,400 migrant kids facing removal proceedings, including about 250 in detention, the governor said at a press conference in Manhattan alongside Mayor Zohran Mamdani and state Attorney General Letitia James.

The announcement came after the Trump administration let its contract with a network of about 100 providers working with migrant kids nationwide lapse in July.

“It’s cruel. It’s illegal. And for nearly two decades our federal government required by law that these children be protected when they cross the border,” Hochul railed.

The Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008, passed during President George W. Bush’s tenure, required the US government to provide legal representation for kids in deportation proceedings.

Children caught crossing into the US alone are generally entrusted to the federal government and placed in the care of an adult sponsor, typically a parent, relative or family friend by the Office of Refugee Resettlement.

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Pro-Amnesty Groups Fund Wall of 20,000 Lawsuits to Block Migrant Deportations

Pro-migration activists have funded some 20,000 lawsuits to release roughly 17,300 illegal migrants — including many criminals — mostly with the aid of judges nominated by President Joe Biden.

The massive resistance to President Donald Trump’s 2024 deportation mandate has been outlined by Politico:

POLITICO is tracking the surge in litigation triggered by the administration’s novel policy that began in July, and releasing our database, below, of the 20,000-plus cases in which federal district courts reached a ruling on Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s detention practices.

“Millions and millions of dollars are wrapped up in that lobby,” Michael Howell, president of the  Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project, told Breitbart News. He added:

Some of it’s government money. Some of it is obviously the [universities’] legal clinics. Some of it is large donors — [such as the] ACLU, everyone else. We’re talking about a multi-billion-dollar industry in support of the invasion of the United States.

Trump’s Department of Justice is pushing back on the campaign, partly because it reduces the rising number of monthly deportations. The administration has also asked the U.S. Supreme Court to decide the rules for “habeas corpus” lawsuits that ask ICE to release migrants.

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South Africa Wants Reimbursement for Migrant Repatriations

The South African Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday it has written to the governments of Malawi, Ethiopia, and Nigeria to request reimbursement for the $18 million cost of repatriating thousands of illegal migrants.

The $18 million total bill was estimated by the South African Home Affairs department in a briefing to Parliament on Tuesday.

Home Affairs Director-General Tommy Makhode said the hefty costs – which covered transportation, temporary shelter, staffing, and other expenses – were “unforeseen and unavoidable,” thanks to the unprecedented exodus of migrants from South Africa over the past few months.

Makhode said that much of this cost has been shouldered by local governments, which are now demanding compensation from Home Affairs, but there is no money to pay them in the department’s budget.

South Africa’s request for the home countries of migrants to cover the tab was not well-received. The Nyasa Times of Malawi said the “explosive” request touched off a “diplomatic storm,” including angry counter-accusations that South Africa did not do enough to protect migrants on its soil, and mis-managed their hasty repatriation.

The Nigerian Foreign Ministry told the BBC it “never received any request” from South Africa for reimbursement, but was prepared to discuss the matter “at the highest levels.”

Malawi did not immediately respond to South Africa’s request, but on Wednesday announced the end of its own government-assisted program to bring its citizens home from South Africa.

Malawi’s Department of Disaster Management Affairs (DoDMA) said the final group of returnees will be processed at the Mwanza Stadium reception center, which will be decommissioned afterward. The government will continue offering consular services to Malawians who want to return home, including emergency travel documents, but will no longer assist them with transportation.

DoDMA said it has repatriated over 56,000 migrants from South Africa since the program began in June, including 4,000 children, at a total cost of about $7 million.

The reason for these repatriations was a surge of anti-migrant violence among South Africans, who said the migrants were taking jobs and spreading crime in their country. Several “vigilante” groups began threatening to use violence to purge South Africa of illegals, if their government did not act.

The South African government estimated a total of some 82,000 deportations and voluntary repatriations this year, although the combined estimates from neighboring countries are more than twice that high.

In late July, Ghana asked a summit of the African Union (AU) to condemn anti-migrant violence and xenophobia in South Africa, but South Africa blocked the motion and instead called for a continental debate on migration.

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‘Excrement’ on the Beaches: Ceuta Health System on Brink of ‘Collapse’ Following Migrant Invasion

A budding health crisis appears to be fomenting in the Spanish autonomous territory of Ceuta amid reports of groups of illegal migrants creating unsanitary conditions on the city’s beaches and even schools, which are claimed to be littered with garbage and “excrement”.

In the wake of upwards of 72,000 illegals flooding across the border from Morocco last month, health officials are warning that the Spanish exclave with a population of just 87,000 is not equipped to handle the needs of the thousands of migrants who have remained in the area.

Speaking on the Espejo Público news programme on Spanish broadcaster Antena 3, University Hospital of Ceuta doctor Guadalupe Sánchez warned that the city is facing a “humanitarian catastrophe” with the mass influx of migrants overwhelming the healthcare system and the local government’s ability to house them.

With many of the remaining migrants being forced to live in makeshift accommodations on Ceuta’s beaches, Sánchez said that people are afraid to go down to the beaches, saying: “They are occupied, they are full of huts, people are eating there, throwing food, it’s full of clothes, of excrement, of cigarettes.”

“With all the diseases I’m seeing, because my WhatsApp is full of photos of people from Ceuta who say ‘look at what came out on my child’, impetigo, mange, contagious diseases, this is a sanitary catastrophe.”

“The beach is contaminated; it is contaminated because, this has to be said, they are peeing, they are doing their necessities, they are bathing,” the doctor added.

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HORRIFIC: Illegal Alien With Lengthy Rap Sheet Brutally Murders California Man ONE DAY After This Woke Judge Releases Him

An innocent American citizen is dead at the hands of an illegal alien with a long criminal record, thanks in no small part to a far-left California judge.

As CBS News San Francisco reported, a man was found fatally stabbed outside his home in Martinez on August 6th. Firefighters and medical personnel promptly responded, but it was too late.

The victim was identified as 68-year-old Todd Stewart.

Authorities later identified 36-year-old Marcos Iriarte-Valdez as the person responsible for the crime and arrested him at his home on August 7th.

Surveillance video released by the police and shared with local news outlets shows the moment Iriarte-Valdez stabs Stewart to death on his own lawn.

It’s truly a horrifying scene.

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TRUMP DOJ Sues New York, Connecticut, and Vermont for Giving Illegal Aliens In-State Tuition and Financial Aid While Americans Pay More

The Justice Department has now filed 17 lawsuits challenging state tuition benefits for illegal aliens, and says it will continue until American citizens are no longer treated as second-class students.

The Trump Justice Department is turning up the heat on three more Democrat-run states accused of placing illegal aliens ahead of American citizens.

On Monday, the Department of Justice filed lawsuits against New York, Connecticut, and Vermont, challenging state laws that provide qualifying illegal aliens with in-state tuition rates, financial assistance, and scholarships unavailable on the same terms to American citizens living outside those states.

The DOJ alleges that the blue-state programs violate federal law, encourage illegal immigration, and force American students to compete under a system tilted against them.

Let that sink in: An American citizen living across the state line may be charged the full out-of-state tuition rate while someone unlawfully present in the country can qualify for taxpayer-supported benefits based on state residency.

In New York, the average in-state tuition and fees run about $8,300 while out-of-state students pay more than double. Connecticut and Vermont have long maintained similar two-tier systems that favor those who broke federal immigration law over American families from neighboring states.

According to the Justice Department, that arrangement directly conflicts with 8 U.S.C. § 1623. The federal statute generally prohibits states from awarding residence-based higher-education benefits to aliens who are not lawfully present unless the same benefits are available to U.S. citizens regardless of where they live.

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Insane: MSNOW National Security Reporter Horrified That the Trump DOJ is Stopping Illegals From Voting

This week on MSNOW, their national security reporter David Rohde seemed to express shock and horror that the Trump DOJ is trying to make sure tha illegals don’t vote in our elections.

He refers to illegals voting as a ‘Trumpian conspiracy theory’ even though just last week it was revealed that more than 6,000 illegals were on the voter rolls in the state of New Jersey.

This is a window into the mind of the left. They really want illegals to be able to vote and they’re not particularly shy about showing it.

Transcript via NewsBusters:

DAVID ROHDE: More pe- He would not bring- well, the midterm elections are coming. The Justice Department-

RUHLE: This has been your big thing.

ROHDE: -the Justice Department sent election observers to Michigan for the primary last week. And before that happened, they informed election clerks across the country that they would be arrested and prosecuted federally if they allowed non-citizens to vote.

That is an astonishingly rare thing that happens in the U.S. It’s a giant, frankly, Trumpian conspiracy theory that there’s all these people voting. So whether he’s acting or not, it’s just not acceptable that that’s how, you know, and nothing happened, they sort of watched.

But there’s tremendous worry about what will the FBI do on election day? What will the Attorney General do? What will the Director of National Intelligence- given President Trump’s- We just had four judges testifying the other day, and they were asked – judges, federal judges! – who won the 2020 election. They’re afraid to say it was Joe Biden. This is a huge alarm for our democracy.

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Deep-Red Mississippi Hands Black Robe to Full-Hijab Yemeni Immigration Attorney Who Guides Illegals to Citizenship Paths

Mississippi conservatives are demanding answers after Ridgeland immigration attorney Assma A. Ali announced that she had been selected to serve as a municipal court judge, a history-making appointment celebrated by supporters as the first of its kind for a Yemeni-American Muslim woman who wears a hijab.

Amy Mek, Founder & Editor-in-Chief of RAIR Foundation, pushed the controversy into the national spotlight, accusing red-state officials of surrendering a “final firewall” and arguing that Ali’s immigration work and political associations deserve scrutiny.

She wrote on X:

Red State Mississippi just appointed America’s first Yemeni Sharia-hijabi judge.

Assma A. Ali – a full-hijab-wearing “immigration” attorney who built her career guiding illegal entrants and visa overstayers onto citizenship paths without ever needing a green card – now sits on the municipal bench.

Within hours, Yemeni community pages were gushing with pride – America is being conquered from within!

This is the same woman who:

• Extracted an “Arab American Heritage Month” proclamation from Republican Governor Tate Reeves

• Publicly defended the jew-hating, Saddam-glorifying, Muslim Brotherhood-linked Amer Ghalib.

He is the Former Hamtramck mayor – whose nomination as U.S. Ambassador to Kuwait collapsed in the Senate in October 2025 amid bipartisan opposition over his record – of COURSE Assma A. Ali was at the hearing to stand with him!

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EU Cohesion Breaks: Madrid Socialists Impose Border Protections Against Italians After Third World Invasion

Spain is to impose new border controls for flights and ships from Italy as the two countries’ row over the influx of migrants into Ceuta intensifies.

Sky News reports that the Spanish government has confirmed that passport, nationality and visa checks would be conducted for Italian passengers and visitors from other countries arriving from Italy from midnight ​on Saturday ‌until 7 September.

The Spanish government called Italy’s decision to suspend Schengen travel agreements (following the Spanish enclave’s un-fettered invasion by over 70,000 military-aged male Moroccans), “unjust, contrary ‌to EU interests and discriminatory” and with a full straight face the socialist leadership added that the decision has been taken “amid the persistent irregular migratory pressure” from Italy.

The unhinged socialists in Madrid are losing their minds over the Italian government’s move to suspend the Schengen travel agreement because it wanted to protect its national sovereignty after the Spanish African enclave of Ceuta was invaded by 70,000 mostly military-aged men.

The migrant invasion, which Elon Musk described as comparable to scenes from “World War Z,” was a complete optics disaster for the socialists in Madrid, and really, for socialists and the far left across the West, who have been hellbent on importing the Third World to install new voting blocs and build political power. Now, that move, via uncontrolled mass migration, has been delegitimized, and countries like Italy have had enough.

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