Italy Is Taking Harder Stance Against Migrants

No more playing nice to a bunch of criminals and social welfare free-riders. This time around, Italians had enough and their government has started to increase deportations of migrants who do not have a right to stay in the country. They will also open new detention centers for those being sent home, Interior Minister Marco Minniti said last 8 February.

The Interior Ministry said in December it would take a tougher stance on migrants this year, without giving details. In testimony to parliament, Minniti described his plan publicly for the first time.

Illegal Alien Crosses Border, Kills and Runs

Under Barrack Obama's migration policy, one illegal immigrant was deported eight times, but he keeps on coming back. Now, he is wanted in the hit-and-run deaths of two women in Louisville, Ky.

The Department of Justice announced that Mexican national Miguel Angel Villasenor-Saucedo, 40, was driving the truck that killed the women on 22 October and then fled the scene.

Trump Will Sign New Migrant EO

If the Courts in the U.S. won't cooperate and enforce the law, President Donald Trump has no choice but to continue issuing a new travel ban executive order.

Last 10 February, President Trump said the White House does not plan to escalate a legal dispute over the original travel ban order to the Supreme Court.

Texas Start Defunding Sanctuary Cities

Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott receives thousands of praise from all over the United States after blocking the funding over so-called "sanctuary cities" for the first time last 1 February. This came after Austin's sheriff said the city's jails would no longer honor most federal immigration detainers.

The move begins a crackdown Abbott wants in Texas over criminal suspects who are in the country illegally, which comes as he pushes to sign new laws that could go even further than President Donald Trump's new executive actions against sanctuary policies.

After Brexit, Frexit Could Be Next

The stakes in French election just went up a notch further after far-right leader Marine Le Pen pledged last 6 December that she would campaign for France to leave the EU unless Brussels agreed to return full powers to control immigration and economic policy to member states.

The presidential candidate has promised if elected in May to dump the euro and organize a Brexit-style referendum on France's membership in the European Union.