Sanctuary cities and activist opposition tactics emerge as next phase of immigration policy struggle unfolds
The second Trump administration has radically reduced illegal migration. The border-control blitzkrieg brought quick victory. But, from here on, the campaign will be a long slog — finding, arresting and removing deportable aliens inside the U.S.
The most dramatic change since President Donald Trump took office has been at the southern border, where almost no aliens caught entering illegally are now released. Under Biden, "catch-and-release" was routine, and tens of thousands of illegal aliens were fed into an overloaded immigration system that takes years to work through. If their asylum claims fail, someone has to deport them.
This month, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) claimed they had deported more than half a million illegal aliens since Trump took office. They hope to top 600,000 by year’s end.
Additionally, researchers at the Center for Immigration Studies estimate that over a million additional illegal aliens have left the U.S. on their own since January 2025.
In that same time, DHS says they’ve arrested 485,000 illegal aliens. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) says that 70% of them have been charged with or convicted of a crime committed in the U.S. (in addition to being illegally in the country). Given that there were at least 435,000 aliens with criminal convictions in the U.S. a year ago, and another 200,000 more with pending charges, that’s easy to believe.
Most of those criminal aliens were on ICE’s non-detained docket, meaning they lived freely in the community. Few were monitored. Some of those ICE arrested since January will have been deported, but most probably remain while their immigration cases drag on.
The American left was aghast to see the speed and ease with which Trump proved that it was lack of will, not means, that shut down the illegal migration trail from Yuma to the Darien Gap.
For four years, they wanted Americans to believe that mass illegal migration was inevitable — caused by forces beyond U.S. control. That narrative has collapsed like the tent camps U.S. taxpayers paid for to house millions of illegal migrants a few years ago. --->READ MORE HERE
A Trump administration lawsuit filed against the city of Rochester earlier this year over its sanctuary city policy has been thrown out by a federal judge.
On Thursday, U.S. District Judge Frank Geraci dismissed the case filed by the U.S. Department of Justice. Geraci found in his judgment that the DOJ's complaint is now moot because the city adopted a new sanctuary policy over the summer.
Rochester City Council voted in August to strengthen its sanctuary city policy. The vote was unanimous and council members say it's meant to bolster protections for all people, especially immigrants and those in the LGBTQ+ community. The vote turned the current ordinance into city law.
In court paperwork, Geraci also determined that it was unclear what the DOJ was asking of the court, as the filing requested issuing a “hold.” He also described the motion as "unusual."
According to court paperwork, the DOJ's suit, filed in April, stemmed from an incident in March in which Rochester police officers assisted federal agents in detaining three people during a traffic stop. City leaders say that was against Rochester's sanctuary policy.
The lawsuit aimed to stop the city from following that sanctuary policy, which prevents Rochester police and other city employees from assisting in immigration enforcement.
On Friday, Mayor Malik Evans issued the following statement in response to the ruling: --->READ MORE HERE
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