Politics

By Elise Winland, Catholic Vote - President Donald Trump has ordered federal law enforcement to assist in policing Washington, DC, in what the White House calls a response to violent crime in the nation’s capital... “President Trump has directed an increased presence of federal law enforcement to protect innocent citizens,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said in an Aug. 7 statement, according to POLITICO. “Starting tonight, there will be no safe harbor for violent criminals in D.C.” ...

By John Daniel Davidson, The Federalist - Mass deportation of illegal immigrants is not enough to save America. We have to recover an insistence on assimilation... There’s a bit more to say about Democrat Illinois Rep. Delia Ramírez, who in her recent opening remarks at the second annual Panamerican Congress in Mexico City declared (in Spanish), “I am a proud Guatemalan before I am American.”... You might think, as I initially did, that Ramírez is an immigrant from Guatemala. But she was actually born in Chicago. Her mother illegally entered the United States by crossing the Rio Grande while she was pregnant, which gave Ramírez birthright citizenship. In common parlance, she’s an “anchor baby.”