In a major victory for the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement agenda, the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued an extraordinary published order staying three district court rulings that had required bond hearings or release for illegal aliens challenging their detention during removal proceedings.

The unanimous action from the full Fifth Circuit effectively blocks lower court rulings that had ordered the release of three illegal aliens and makes clear that the administration may continue enforcing its detention policy while the full court considers the underlying constitutional questions.

The court granted the government’s motion to stay the district court judgments pending rehearing en banc, preventing the releases ordered by the lower courts.

The order stems from consolidated cases involving three illegal aliens who entered the United States unlawfully years ago (Ignacio Sosnava Rodriguez v. Sylvester M. Ortega (and companions involving Alejandro Villegas Angel and Miguel Angel Gomez Alvarado), and challenged the Trump administration’s policy of mandatory immigration detention without individualized bond hearings.

Earlier this month, a divided three-judge Fifth Circuit panel ruled that the detainees were entitled to bond hearings after 90 days in custody on due process grounds, creating a conflict with the court’s earlier precedent and triggering a request for rehearing by the full court.

Tuesday’s order immediately suspends those district court rulings while the en banc Fifth Circuit reviews the case, ensuring ICE may continue detaining the illegal aliens rather than releasing them into American communities.

The published order grants the government’s request for a stay pending rehearing and expedites consideration of the matter.

Assistant Attorney General Brett Shumate hailed the ruling on X:

“The full Fifth Circuit has issued an extraordinary precedential order making clear that illegal aliens do not have a constitutional right to roam free in the United States during their removal proceedings.”

The full Fifth Circuit has issued an extraordinary precedential order making clear that illegal aliens do not have a constitutional right to roam free in the United States during their removal proceedings. pic.twitter.com/oDyMOw1PXg

— Brett Shumate (@AAGShumate) July 22, 2026

As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, the Fifth Circuit has consistently backed the administration’s authority to detain illegal aliens without bond hearings under federal immigration law. In April, the full Fifth Circuit declined to rehear Buenrostro-Mendez v. Bondi, leaving intact a panel decision holding that illegal aliens who entered the country unlawfully are subject to mandatory detention under federal law while their removal proceedings are pending.

That ruling concluded that illegal aliens who entered without inspection remain “applicants for admission” under the Immigration and Nationality Act and therefore may be detained without automatic bond hearings during the deportation process.

Tuesday’s precedential order reinforces that position by ensuring the administration’s detention policy remains in force while the full Fifth Circuit weighs the constitutional issues.

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Four Republicans just teamed up with Democrats to torpedo an amendment that would have locked in President Donald Trump’s critical Executive Order banning transgender individuals from serving in the U.S. military.

The amendment, sponsored by fiery Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO), aimed to codify Trump’s policy into law as part of the fiscal year 2027 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).

President Trump’s Executive Order rightly recognizes that military service demands the highest physical and mental standards, standards that biological reality and decades of data prove are incompatible with gender dysphoria and the radical “transitions” pushed by the left.

“Next to ensure that we have the most lethal fighting force in the world, we will get transgender ideology the hell out of our military. It’s going to be gone,” Trump announced last year.

“In addition, we will stop our service members from being indoctrinated with radical left ideologies such as critical race theory. We’re going to stop it. It’s already been stopped. It’s already been halted, totally halted.”

The amendment failed by a razor-thin 212-217 vote, with 210 Republicans supporting it and four Republicans voting against it, joining every voting Democrat in opposition.

The GOP lawmakers were Reps. Mike Lawler (R-NY), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), as well as the non-voting Republican delegates from Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands.

JUST IN: 4 House Republicans blocked an amendment to the NDAA that would have locked in President Trump’s executive order banning mentally ill transgender individuals from serving in the U.S. military.

The vote failed 211-217.

The four who voted against it:

– Rep. Brian… pic.twitter.com/tIVLrpfvp7

— The Patriot Oasis (@ThePatriotOasis) July 22, 2026

The vote came as House Republicans considered several amendments dealing with transgender policies in the military.

The House approved two amendments offered by Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) aimed at restricting transgender-related policies within the armed forces.

One amendment prohibits TRICARE, the military’s healthcare program, from covering gender transition procedures, including transition surgeries, puberty blockers, and cross-sex hormones.

The second bars transgender-identifying biological males from competing in girls’ sports at Department of Defense schools.

The House approved 2 Nancy Mace amendments restricting transgender policies in the military.

1 bans TRICARE from covering transition surgeries, puberty blockers, and hormones; the other bars transgender girls from girls’ sports at Defense Department schools.

A broader ban on…

— NewsForce (@Newsforce) July 22, 2026

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The recent news of illegal aliens registering in mass in NJ, and then voting, is not a surprise and is almost expected.

New Jersey is one of many States that DO NOT use the free Federal SAVE system to check for illegal aliens in their voter registrations or existing voter rolls.

SAVE is an online service administered by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) that provides immigration status and U.S. citizenship information. SAVE only returns verification information. The decision to register or remove a voter remains with state or local election officials.

As of June 30th, there are 26 states using SAVE for voter-registration or voter-list-maintenance purposes. It processed 198 million cases in 2025.

The remaining 24 states have no public info that their election authority uses SAVE. Most of these 24 states are left-leaning.

New Jersey joined the non-profit ERIC in August of 2022 to help clean their voter rolls. Secretary of State Tahesha Way said, “ERIC is a powerful step to strengthen New Jersey’s elections by increasing our ability to support eligible voters while also improving the accuracy of our voting rolls.”

Obviously, this isn’t working.

Their agreement (Section B, pg. 17) with the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC) does not allow NJ, or any other members of ERIC, to communicate or notate to ERIC that a person is a non-citizen.

This supposed sophisticated voter cleaning operation has in its by-laws that they do not want information that a person is a non-citizen. What’s even more bizarre, ERIC doesn’t use the SAVE system.

After President Trump was elected, he mandated enhancements to the SAVE system. There were several major changes. You could now bulk process voter lists. It now uses SSA data during citizenship verification. It now allows searches by Name, DOB, and last four of SS# instead of just the Alien Registration Number or I-94 number.

The SAVE system used to cost $1 per transaction. If you wanted to check, let’s say, 40,000 voters on your rolls, you would get a bill for $40 grand. These kinds of fees prevented many election administrators from using the system in bulk. Trump made it free and encouraged bulk processing.

The SAVE system is not a database. It sits on top of the Verification Information System (VIS), which queries and consolidates information from numerous federal immigration and citizenship databases. This includes everything from flight information, benefits applications, citizenship processing, and much more.

Various systems feed information into the Verification Information System (VIS), which is the technology platform underlying SAVE. The image below is an extensive list of those data sources.

Leftists pushed back and filed lawsuits to stop the use and expansion of SAVE for elections. The number of leftist groups pushing back showed a clear coordination.

Last month, radical U.S. District Court Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan blocked the use of the enhanced SAVE system. She sided with leftist groups like the League of Women Voters. The judge claimed SAVE violated privacy rights and that citizens could be incorrectly identified. The judge overlooked that mistakes happen with every government database.

Earlier this month, a Trump-appointed federal judge in Florida OVERRULED Sooknanan’s highly controversial order by a far-left, foreign-born activist judge in Washington D.C., officially REINSTATING President Donald Trump’s powerhouse election security system.

The Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) system upgrades, which allow patriot states to instantly screen voter rolls and purge illegal aliens, is back online.

However, Judge Sooknanan’s June 22 opinion still remains in effect unless stayed or reversed on appeal.

The federal government appealed that decision to the D.C. Circuit.

Judge Wetherell’s Florida order also remains in effect in his case, creating a direct conflict between two district courts that may ultimately require resolution by the D.C. Circuit, the Eleventh Circuit, or the U.S. Supreme Court if the conflict persists.

James Percival, general counsel at the Department of Homeland Security, which maintains the SAVE database, criticized the ruling as misguided. James said, “It’s amazing how hard the Left will fight to stop us from solving problems they insist do not exist.”

Michael Morley, a professor at the Florida State University College of Law, said the ruling “Restricts the government’s ability to take advantage of all of the most accurate sources of information it has in order, in most cases, to confirm people’s citizenship status.”

Rep. Abraham Hamedeh (R-AZ) rightly submitted a resolution in the House of Representatives to impeach radical Judge Sooknanan on July 9th.

New Jersey isn’t alone with the recurring problem of registering anyone, even illegals. Many other States have had to disclose they are registering non-citizens automatically.

As we mentioned above, members of ERIC are hamstrung with bylaws that restrict the use of tagging non-citizens.

So, was the ERIC system purposely designed to hide illegals among our American citizen voter rolls?

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President Trump on Tuesday said he’ll talk to China after revealing Chinese election interference in 2020, including breaching our election systems and running a disinformation campaign.  

As The Gateway Pundit reported, Trump announced that a massive Chinese voter data breach, affecting 220 million US voters, occurred during the 2020 election cycle.

“The People’s Republic of China carried out what is believed to be the largest compromise of election data in history, resulting in China’s illicit acquisition of 220 million U.S. voter files,” Trump said.

“That information includes names, addresses, phone numbers, political party preferences, and other sensitive data that would be needed to register to vote and engage in other nefarious activities, which is exactly what was happening.”

Trump also sounded the alarm on China’s massive influence campaign on media and business leaders, manipulation of voting machines, a complicit deep state intelligence community, and the results of a Department of Homeland Security investigation into states’ voter rolls, which found over a quarter million noncitizen voters across just four states.

But when asked by the Daily Caller’s Reagan Reese whether he plans to do anything to respond to China’s election meddling, the President didn’t seem worried about it.

“Well, we’re going to talk to them about it. It took place a long time ago. I think China is maybe a little bit different today than it was then,” Trump said.

Trump further suggested that China’s actions were just business as usual because “we do things to them too.”

“But look, they do things, and we do things to them, I’ll be honest, we do things to them too, it’s not a one-way street, but we’ll be talking to them,” the President added.

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