President Donald Trump and the Republican-controlled Congress are focused on measures they say will crack down on illegal immigration.

"The number one job of the federal government is protecting the citizenry," House Speaker Johnson said on NBC's Meet the Press.

The House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed legislation Tuesday to require federal immigration authorities to detain illegal migrants who commit theft-related

The Laken Riley Act allows illegal immigrants suspected of theft and violent crimes to be detained. It marks the first legislation that President Donald Trump will sign into law, and it passed with bipartisan support.

The Republican-led Congress delivered Trump an early victory in his promised crackdown on undocumented immigration by green-lighting The Laken Riley Act. | TAG24

San Diego County’s Board of Supervisors, for example, recently voted to forbid local law enforcement from aiding federal immigration agencies (such as U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement) ...

Final approval by the House sent the legislation, which requires the detention and deportation of unauthorized migrants charged with crimes, to President Trump’s desk.

The Justice Department is directing its federal prosecutors to investigate for potential criminal charges any state or local officials who stand in the way of beefed-up

This interview is Adams’s latest stop on his quest for a presidential pardon. The embattled mayor is doing everything he can to align himself with the MAGA right. He requested a meeting with Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, in December, met with Trump at Mar-a-Lago on Friday, and was at Trump’s inauguration yucking it up with Jake and Logan Paul.

"We have very strong degree of trust today between India and the United States, a very high level of convergence of our interests," Jaishankar said.

A memo asserts that state and local officials are bound to cooperate and could face criminal prosecution or civil penalties if they fail to comply.