Mass Deportations Begin!



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Trump Persevered and Triumphed against Lawfare

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The Left tried through lawfare and every other trick in the book to
derail President Trump’s electoral victory, but the voters
essentially found President Donald Trump “innocent” of his
political opponents’ fake charges. Trump persevered and triumphed in
the courts, as well as in the court of public opinion. Let us hope
that his success puts an end to the practice of lawfare for good.

Democrat-allied prosecutors and judges did their best to derail this
presidency, but the people have spoken and now the reversal of the
failed (and frequently unconstitutional) policies of the Biden
administration are being reversed. America has reason to hope again
for a country that is led by the rule of law.

President Trump’s first-day executive orders correctly address the
border, rule of law, and constitutional crises created by the Biden
regime. And his pardons and commutations related to the January 6
defendants are fair, just and brave.

Judicial Watch remains ready, willing and able to help (and sue) for
government accountability as we continue our mission to ensure clean
elections, secure borders, and transparency in government – and to
thwart the Left’s attack on our constitutional republic through
their censorship of free speech and abuse of power.

We are pushing for accountability and transparency in Fulton County,
GA, where the court recently issued an order
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“attorney’s fees and costs” in an open records lawsuit for
communications Willis had with Special Counsel Jack Smith and the
House January 6 Committee. Judicial Watch has also filed a motion
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asking
the court to appoint a special master
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to
oversee her search for records.

As you know, we are a national leader in voting integrity and voting
rights. As part of our work, we assembled a team of highly experienced
voting rights attorneys who stopped discriminatory elections in
Hawaii, and cleaned up voter rolls in California, Ohio, Indiana, and
Kentucky, among other achievements
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For instance, in response to our inquiries
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Washington, DC, officials admitted that they had not complied with
the National Voter Registration Act
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promptly removed 65,544 outdated names from the voting rolls, promised
to remove 37,962 more, and designated another 73,522 registrations as
“inactive.”

And in November, we filed a petition for a
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of
certiorari_
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to the
United States Supreme Court challenging the decision by the U.S. Court
of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in the case filed on behalf of
Congressman Mike Bost and two presidential electors from Illinois to
prevent state election officials from extending Election Day for 14
days beyond the date established by federal law.


JUDICIAL WATCH SUES CHICAGO MAYOR FOR RESISTING TRUMP’S DEPORTATIONS

We will see much resistance to President Trump’s policies at every
level of government, something we expected, and Judicial Watch taking
steps to uncover the lawlessness, especially the massive resistance
expected over President Trump’s mass deportations, which have
already begun.

We sued
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Chicago
Mayor Brandon Johnson for records regarding his vow to resist the
Trump administration’s mass deportation and other immigration law
enforcement activities (_Judicial Watch Inc. v. Office of the Mayor_
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(No.
2025-CH-00347)).

On November 11, 2024, the mayor held a press conference at which he
stated that Chicago would remain a so-called “sanctuary city” and
that city officials “will continue to shield all immigrants in
Chicago from federal agents, regardless of whether they are citizens,
permanent residents or asylum seekers, despite the election of
President-elect Donald Trump.”

According to a WTTW News report
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Mayor Johnson said he “was prepared to fight any effort to stop
federal funds from flowing to Chicago because it will not cooperate
with mass deportation efforts, and would work to stop the arrival of
immigration agents.”

“We will not bend or break,” Johnson said. “Our values will
remain strong and firm. We will face likely hurdles in our work over
the next four years but we will not be stopped and we will not go
back.”

The firm Chalmers, Adams, Backer & Kaufman filed the lawsuit on our
behalf in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois County Department
Chancery Division after the mayor’s office failed to adequately
respond to a November 27, 2024, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
request for records or communications of Mayor Johnson or his
designated representative about plans or preparations to resist
federal efforts to enforce immigration laws or not cooperate with
Immigration and Customs Enforcement deportations.

The new Trump Justice Department initiated a policy directing federal
prosecutors to investigate and consider prosecuting “resistance,
obstruction, and other non-compliance with lawful immigration-related
commands and requests from federal authorities.” Fox News reported
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last
month that since August 2022 Chicago has spent $574.5 million on
sheltering migrants.

Johnson announced himself and his city government to be outlaws on
illegal immigration as they plan to help illegal aliens resist the
rule of law. Sure enough, this scandal is worsened by the evident
cover-up of the full scope of Mayor Johnson’s lawlessness, which we
aim to remedy with our open records lawsuit.


DRIVER’S LICENSE SECURITY LAW PASSED AFTER 9/11 DELAYED TWO MORE
YEAR

As you might have suspected, your federal government doesn’t take
your security seriously. It has yet to begin a secure driver’s
license system enacted after 9/11, as our _Corruption
Chronicles_ blog reports
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And
it has just delayed the program once again.

> In what has become a decades-long joke, the Department of Homeland
> Security (DHS) is once again postponing the deadline to fully
> enforce a law requiring driver’s license security standards
> designed to prevent another terrorist attack. Unbelievably, among
> the reasons for the latest delay is that the public expects it based
> on the government’s history of repeatedly extending enforcement
> deadlines. The measure, REAL ID Act
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was
> passed by Congress after 9/11 to establish a more secure national
> system less prone to fraud after several of the hijackers exploited
> loopholes to obtain dozens of driver’s licenses from various
> states. The cards allowed the terrorists to take flight lessons and
> board planes to carry out the 2001 attacks. At the recommendation of
> the 9/11 Commission Congress passed the REAL ID Act in 2005 and
> states originally had until 2011 to comply.
>
> Two decades later it has yet to be enforced. The Obama
> administration tried to drastically weaken the legislation with DHS
> Secretary Janet Napolitano granting a 20-month extension on the
> deadline as she worked behind the scenes to undermine the law,
> asserting that it violates civil liberties and privacy. During the
> first Trump administration DHS announced
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that
> full enforcement of REAL ID would take effect at all federally
> regulated airports, federal facilities, and nuclear power plants by
> the fall of 2021 since all 50 states were finally in full compliance
> with the law. It never materialized, however. Biden got elected and
> used COVID-19 as an excuse to postpone the security measure’s
> implementation, extending the deadline by two years to address the
> lingering impacts of the pandemic on the ability to obtain a
> compliant license. Less than a year later, the Biden DHS again
> delayed enforcing REAL ID, claiming that it could cause “undue
> burden and confusion
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for
> those using licenses that fail to meet federal standards.
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> Somewhere along the way, May 2025 became DHS’s target date to
> finally enforce the measure but this month the agency issued yet
> another two-year extension, giving federal agencies the choice to
> begin full enforcement by May or implement a “phased enforcement
> plan” as they see fit. Created after the 2001 terrorist attacks to
> protect the nation from new and emerging threats, DHS justifies the
> delay in the Federal Register
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by
> explaining that the public may not feel an urgency to obtain a REAL
> ID-compliant card because there is a history of enforcement
> deadlines being extended and residents may continue to expect
> additional extensions. “DHS believes this lack of urgency is
> likely to delay increased adoption in many States despite best
> efforts to inform the public, potentially leading to last-minute
> surges in demand for REAL ID-compliant IDs leading up to the
> deadline,” DHS writes. The surge could overwhelm states and result
> in backlogs and delays in REAL ID issuance, according to the agency.
> “In light of this, DHS anticipates that a significant number of
> individuals seeking to use their DL/ID for a REAL ID official
> purpose on and after May 7, 2025, may not have a compliant DL/ID.”
>
> Although the law was enacted two decades ago only around half of the
> U.S. population with a state-issued driver’s license or
> identification card is REAL ID-compliant, DHS reveals. As of January
> 2024, states, territories, and the District of Columbia have issued
> approximately 162 million REAL ID-compliant cards and data from
> states indicates that around 124 million noncompliant licenses and
> ID cards are still in circulation. “DHS recognizes that this could
> result in a situation where individuals are unable to present a
> compliant DL/ID to access a Federal facility, board a federally
> regulated commercial aircraft, or enter a nuclear power plant on a
> large scale,” the new rule states. “For some agencies, this
> scenario may raise serious concerns related to security, agency
> operations, and potential impact to the public.” The newly issued
> rule recognizes the concerns, DHS writes, and provides flexibility
> by giving federal agencies another two years to implement REAL ID
> card-based enforcement “using a phased approach tailored to their
> specific operations.”
>
> DHS estimates the cost of the rule, over two years, is $1.73
> million. The agency fails to offer details but says the expense is
> related to “facilitating phased enforcement” while offering
> federal agencies flexibility that may reduce operational
> disruptions. DHS assures it is working hard to “raise awareness”
> about the 20-year-old driver’s license security law by, among
> other things, engaging in a print, social and digital media
> campaign.

Until next week,





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