Conniption fits are convulsing liberal pundits, Democratic Party candidates, and Republican serf-labor advocates over the idea that President Donald Trump is now, finally, cleared to deport some 340,000 Haitians. On Tuesday, the administration followed through on a Supreme Court decision allowing it to terminate the Temporary Protected Status designation for Haitian nationals. Their advocates claim that deporting Haitians to “death sentences” in a Haiti run by homicidal gangs is cruel, immoral, un-American, and hurtful to the U.S. home health care industry. On these bases, they are calling on Trump to forget the whole thing and for Congress to quickly pass a law to keep these deportable Haitians here. They’re using their old emotional but false narratives. “This means that while these Haitians were working and contributing to our community and economy yesterday, today it is now illegal to employ them,” said Ohio’s Republican Gov. Mike DeWine in one typical statement before he went on to deplore sending Haitians to Haiti. “The violent gangs run most of the country. The government barely functions. And the economy is in shambles. Further, our federal government has an advisory against traveling to Haiti.” But there’s a big problem with the facts undergirding this hyperbolic lobbying effort. It’s that most, if not all, of the hundreds of thousands of Haitians whom President Joe Biden let in at the southern border and gave TPS to from 2021 to 2025 were never eligible for it because they’d already been safely resettled for years in third countries and often had legal residency, citizenship, and passports. That means the Trump administration need not deport them to lawless Haiti at all. They can be returned to countries like Brazil, which already took them in once, or other countries with which the Trump State Department has already penned more than a dozen safe third deportation country agreements across Latin America, with more in process. Many Haitians here know they never needed humanitarian protection in the U.S. but came when they did only because Biden opened the border wide and offered a nice economic and lifestyle upgrade. I too know their TPS was granted under false pretenses because I found thousands of burned, disfigured, and discarded Chilean and Brazilian identity cards left along the Rio Grande. Discarded evidence of Haitian ineligibility for U.S. humanitarian protection, Acuna, Mexico. (Todd Bensman, 2022) Why destroy your third-country ID cards and the passports of Children born citizens of countries like Brazil and Chile? Because they’d been coached to know that those documents showing years of legal status in other countries would prove they were ineligible for U.S. TPS, asylum, parole, or any other grace the American immigration system was doling out then under Biden. That’s not the only evidence I have of this massive fraud on the American people. From 2021 to 2025 as Biden was bringing Haitians in from Chile, Brazil, and other South American safe haven countries, I personally interviewed them by the hundreds on their way up the trails from Colombia to Mexico. Every single one of them attested to me that they’d been living in either Chile or Brazil for up to a decade before they received Biden’s invitation to richer rewards in the U.S. They were all coming in to make more money while the getting was good. Not a single Haitian I interviewed claimed to fear living in an adoptive country. “How would you compare living the last four years in Santiago, Chile, to Haiti?” I once asked a young Haitian man moving north through Costa Rica in 2021, in but one representative interview. He’d been showing me video memories of nightclub life in a favorite coastal resort town. “A thousand times better,” he promptly answered. I asked him why he was uprooting his life to cross the American border. “Because,” he answered, chuckling, “life in the United States will be a million times better.” Chile had formally taken in about 186,000 Haitian immigrants between 2017 and 2019. Immigrants were attracted by the nation’s prosperous, stable economy and relaxed immigration laws for work permits. The informal presence of untold thousands more was tolerated. Meanwhile, Haitians made up the largest immigrant nationality in the formal labor market in Brazil. In 2019, Brazilian agencies reported that 128,968 had been welcomed in since 2010 and were issued 90,607 work permits. Thousands more were likely present without status. A Haitian child’s shirt patch from his private religious school in Chile as he traveled north to the U.S. border. The boy was born a Chilean citizen. (Todd Bensman, circa 2022) About the only true claim in the political storyline is that Haiti is indeed a hellscape. But the Trump administration can, in good conscience, return these wrongly awarded TPS recipients to the comparative nirvanas where they already lived. It might take some diplomatic finesse or even muscle to get countries to take back (or start taking) Haitians. Chile’s politics, for example, have changed—with new conservative leadership tightly allied with the Trump government that might resist taking back Haitians. One could also argue that a Trump ally would agree to his request. But Brazil and other countries such as Mexico almost certainly would take them back if the Trump State Department asked or pressed the issue using its usual carrot-or-stick approach. Candidates are plentiful, like oil-rich Guyana, which is so desperate for labor to fill its booming energy sector that it has opened its doors to accept third country nationals from the U.S., albeit not yet explicitly Haitians. What is important to know and say at this point is that claims that most Haitians ever needed TPS and that there is nowhere else but Haiti to return them are invalid.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, appeared before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on Wednesday. And offered nothing. Despite having been granted a pardon in January 2025 by then-outgoing President Joe Biden, Fauci invoked the Fifth Amendment throughout the entire hearing, a total of 111 times. That wasn’t to say there weren’t some memorable moments, however, especially from Sen. Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio. Moreno called out Fauci and the Democrats who defended him while explaining how Fauci’s draconian policies motivated him to run for office. He ran in 2024 and ousted Sherrod Brown, then the Democratic incumbent. The senator described how a family was arrested for daring to watch a football game outside without masks. “They were dragged out of that stadium and arrested,” Moreno somberly explained. “Those policies were put in place because you had moronic politicians that listened to the words of a megalomaniac who was more interested in having met a Kardashian than the suffering of the American people, and that is you,” he emphasized to Fauci. “Your advice to communities like that, to idiotic politicians to enforce those rules, arrested that mom for watching a football game, with her own family, outside.” “When that story broke, I said to myself, ‘I cannot stand idly on the side and watch this happen.’ It was about six years ago today that I decided I’m going to give up my businesses, sell them all, run for office, run for the United States Senate, and here I am sitting in front of you, six years later, saying who the f— do you think you were for doing that?” Moreno demanded, wagging his finger at Fauci as he continued. He also called out the Democrats who defended Fauci, insisting “there is no defense of what [Fauci] did. You may have had a 50-plus year legacy of public service, but it ends in total and complete disgrace.” “Who the f— do you think you were?”: Sen. Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio, slammed Dr. Anthony Fauci for advice he gave the public as part of the White House COVID-19 task force, accusing him of “being more interested in being a celebrity than saving American people.”More:… pic.twitter.com/Cjzc211Zzk— NewsNation (@NewsNation) July 29, 2026 Moreno gave Fauci an opportunity to apologize. “Will you apologize? Just apologize to the people who you harmed through your actions… do you have the dignity to just say you’re sorry?” Fauci instead responded by invoking the Fifth Amendment, which prompted Moreno to reference those harmed by COVID policies. He mentioned how Biden had “summarily dismissed” members of the military for not getting vaccinated, how businesses were lost and never recovered, how children as young as two years old were forcibly masked and the trauma they faced as a result, family members of those whose loved ones received the multiple booster shots that were not needed, and, that mom from Ohio. The senator began, however, by speaking about David Schertler, one of Fauci’s attorneys, who was ejected from the hearing by Chairman Rand Paul, R-Ky. Chairman Rand Paul just had security remove Dr. Fauci’s attorney from the hearing room for being “unruly” and interrupting the hearing without being recognized by the chair“He has a valid 5th amendment privilege and he has the right to assert it and that’s what I was trying to… pic.twitter.com/WeMAyCmqsn— Virginia Grace McKinnon (@virginiagmck) July 29, 2026 “He’s a high-profile criminal attorney,” Moreno said of Schertler, referencing how “he’s represented some really great people like Senator Bob Menendez.” Moreno also recounted how the Washington Free Beacon Schertler as a fixer who, “if you’re in deep s—, that’s who you call.” “Do you feel like you’re in deep s—,” Moreno asked Fauci. Again, Fauci invoked the Fifth Amendment. “Clearly, what you think today is that somehow you’re above reproach,” continued Moreno. “Somehow you feel like you don’t need to be treated like a normal American.” Moreno also called upon those witnessing the hearing to “stand up if during the time of the COVID pandemic you were called a racist for calling the virus the Wuhan virus or the China virus? If you thought the six-foot rule was total crap. If you thought the vaccine wasn’t something you should take. If you thought it was outrageous the way the mask policy was rolled out. If you were fired from your job for not taking the vaccine, including members of the military. If you thought closing schools was catastrophically stupid and that you thought that during these times that saying these things made you somehow a lesser human being.” With many audience members standing him, Moreno asked Fauci if he could “just turn around and look at the people behind you?” When no such action was made on Fauci’s part, Moreno pointed out that he was “not willing to do that.” This morning, I gave Anthony Fauci the chance to do something simple: turn around, look at everyone he hurt with his lockdowns, vax mandates, and mask mandates, and apologize.He wouldn’t even look at them. What a disgrace, but Democrats still slavishly defend him. Pathetic. pic.twitter.com/fbfd6OzlwE— Bernie Moreno (@berniemoreno) July 29, 2026 “All you have to do is look up from your lawyers and look at the people who were absolutely shamed for saying what we know now to be the truth,” the senator emphasized. “You can’t even look at ’em?” Moreno continued, which Fauci still refused to answer. As the exchange came to a close, Moreno informed how it was James Madison who wrote the Fifth Amendment, noting, “I can only wonder what he would think of somebody like you invoking his writings to shield culpability for the actions that you took.”

Advocates for voter ID in California have sued the state over altered ballot language for the November initiative. The ballot initiative Proposition 39, which would amend the state constitution to require that voters provide government-issued identification to vote, originally included the description, “Establishes additional voter identification and citizenship verification requirements.” However, last week, California Attorney General Rob Bonta, a Democrat, changed the language to say: “Prohibits citizens from voting unless they present government-issued identification.” Plaintiffs supporting the passage of Proposition 39 say it would not “prohibit” any votes. Under federal law—the Help America Vote Act—voters can cast provisional ballots if there is a question about their eligibility. Further, supporters of the ballot initiative contend that state law requires state officials to “give a true and impartial statement of the purpose of the measure” in developing ballot language, KCRA Channel 3 Sacramento reported. The lawsuit calls the state’s updated description “not a true and impartial statement of the measure’s purpose.” The lawsuit names both Bonta and California Secretary of State Shirley Weber as defendants. A Weber spokesman told the Daily Signal in an email that the office doesn’t comment on pending litigation. Last week, before the lawsuit was filed, a Bonta spokesman told the Daily Signal that all nine voter-proposed ballot initiatives had language changes this year. “When a measure qualifies for the ballot, the Attorney General’s office is required to issue a ballot title and summary and a condensed ballot title and summary,” Bonta’s spokesman told the Daily Signal in an email. The spokesman added, “Our office properly exercised its discretion to provide further clarity to voters about Prop. 39’s chief purpose and points for the ballot stage.” Plaintiffs are seeking an expedited decision from the court, as the review period for ballot language questions runs from July 21 through Aug. 10 before materials go to the printer, Courthouse News Service reported. “The lead characterization in the title, summary, and label, that the measure ‘prohibits citizens from voting,’ is affirmatively inaccurate,” the complaint says. “By its terms the measure regulates which ballots are counted, not whether a citizen may cast one.”

Sen. Jon Ossoff presents himself as a typical Democrat out on the campaign trail, but his Republican opponent and some political analysts say he’s closer to a Democratic Socialists of America dream candidate. Since being elected in 2021, Ossoff has sided with the democratic socialists in more ways than one, threatening to undermine the very core of America’s republic. At least, that’s the view coming out of the Mike Collins for Senate campaign. “The call is coming from inside the house, and Jon Ossoff and the Democrat Socialists of America are looking to destroy our country from the inside out,” Rep. Mike Collins, the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in Georgia, said Tuesday in a press release. “Jon Ossoff is a reliable vote for a socialist economy, opening up jails, and abolishing the Supreme Court.” On many issues, Ossoff’s record would appear to support Collins’ claims. One of the platforms that the democratic socialists pride themselves on is their radical anti-law-and-order agenda. On their website, the DSA calls for defunding the police, “freedom for all incarcerated people,” and ending “colonial policing of our cities and neighborhoods.” During his run for Senate in 2020, Ossoff said he would “reverse the militarization of local police forces … ban private prisons, end cash bail, reform prisons and raise conditions of incarceration to humane standards, abolish the death penalty, legalize cannabis and end incarceration for nonviolent drug offenses,” WALB 10 News reported. According to the DSA website, the goal of their members is to “end qualified immunity and empower civilian oversight bodies with real authority over the police.” On abortion, Ossoff appears to embrace the same policy goals as democratic socialists. Ossoff voted for Sen. Richard Blumenthal’s Women’s Health Protection Act of 2022, proposed legislation that would have lifted restrictions on abortion. The legislation said government cannot hinder or interfere with a doctor’s ability to assist with abortion services via telemedicine. It also stated that government cannot require women to visit doctors in person before receiving abortion services if deemed “medically unnecessary.” Ossoff’s vote to promote abortion and limit restrictions ties in with the democratic socialists’ claim that bodily autonomy and intimate life can be “oppressed” through legislation, including “patriarchal restrictions on abortion.” On transgender biological male students partaking in women’s sports, Ossoff voted against legislation aimed at keeping such students out of women’s sports. Specifically, the bill would keep school athletic programs from allowing men to compete in women’s sports, regardless of the gender they identify with. It goes on to say that federally funded education programs or activities cannot “operate, sponsor, or facilitate athletic programs or activities that allow individuals of the male sex to participate in programs or activities that are designated for women or girls.” Ossoff and others who opposed the bill align with the DSA’s agenda of emphasizing “trans rights”. According to the DSA website, the group’s Trans Rights & Bodily Autonomy Campaign Commission is the nation’s biggest center for “grassroots trans rights organizing.” Dr. Kerwin Swint, a professor of political science at Kennesaw State University, told the Daily Signal that DSA candidates and policy positions are “far more radical.” “They call for actually dismantling the democratic institutions that undergird our entire society. And they do so openly and proudly. It’s quite amazing.  And many Democratic Party officials and candidates are embracing it,” Swint said. He added that the “Democratic Party is at war with itself,” and that Ossoff “is running as a moderate, and of course would like to be seen that way, but of course his voting record for Biden-era initiatives belies that completely.” Swint said top Democratic Party leaders in Congress “know that it is political suicide to support these radical positions,” and that Democrats running for office this year should be asked about their position on the socialists’ far-Left ideas, “because they go way beyond anything most Americans could support.” “Jon Ossoff has been a very loyal Democrat in the U.S. Senate. He has voted in lockstep with Joe Biden, Chuck Schumer, and Raphael Warnock,” Swint added. “He wants to get re-elected, so I’m sure he will dismiss any notion that he supports DSA positions or policies. But I doubt he would condemn them either.” “He wants to be able to keep raising money from the political left, so he will walk that line,” he added. The Jon Ossoff campaign did not return the Daily Signal’s request for comment.

The United States on Wednesday issued another round of Iran-related sanctions, taking aim at Iran’s efforts to “monetize the Strait of Hormuz” with designations of 10 entities and eight more tankers, the Treasury Department said. Six of the entities targeted for sanctions were based in China, it said. The sanctions followed a vow by President Donald Trump earlier on Wednesday to hit Iran hard, according to an interview with Fox News, after the U.S. military said it had intercepted multiple ballistic missiles launched by Iran toward American forces in the Middle East. The United States and Saudi Arabia jointly struck Iran-backed ​groups in Iraq on Wednesday. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control designated two firms, the Persian Gulf Marine Insurance Co and HormuzSafe Marine Services Authority, which it said were integral to an Iranian scheme to extract digital assets and other revenue from ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz through various insurance policies. “With its economy in freefall and inflation in the triple digits, the regime is desperate for cash,” said Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent. “The United States will not allow Iran to hold global commerce hostage or use international shipping to finance the IRGC’s terrorism, aggression, and repression,” Bessent said, referring to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. The new sanctions are part of a broader push by the Trump administration to leverage both economic tools and military strikes to intensify pressure on Iran and end a deeply unpopular war that has dragged Trump’s approval ratings lower. “The Iran war demonstrates that this administration will use U.S. economic and military power in concert,” said Jess Hoversen, a former OFAC official who is now chief economist at Column, a digital platform bank. OFAC has moved quickly to designate maritime logistics, currency exchange infrastructure, and procurement networks, even as the U.S. military has increased its strikes, she said. “Treasury is moving at an operational tempo, and combining military strikes with targeted sanctions could be a template for future conflicts,” Hoversen said. Since the start of 2026, OFAC has sanctioned over 100 vessels linked to Iran’s shadow fleet, which has been used to keep oil revenue flowing despite international sanctions. (Reporting by Andrea Shalal and Daphne Psaledakis; Writing by Susan Heavey; Editing by Bill Berkrot)