Border & Immigration

AFPI on the Walz-Ellison Pardon: Minnesota’s Leaders Handed a Child Rapist a Clean Slate

MINNEAPOLIS, MN — The America First Policy Institute (AFPI) today released the following statement after the Minnesota Board of Pardons cleared the record of Tou Lue Vang, an illegal alien convicted of repeatedly sexually assaulting a 10-year-old girl. The pardon strips away the convictions that made him deportable, just a week before he was set to be removed from the country.

Saving America Through Growth & Security: Top 5 Reconciliation 3.0 Policies to Build on America First Wins in Congress

The following outlines five must-have elements for Congress to consider in its third reconciliation package to promote an agenda of economic growth and security that will: Keep America safe by fully funding national security, replenishing our munitions, and ending sanctuary cities (while non-reconcilable, reauthorizing FISA is a priority); Secure our elections by requiring a voter ID; Keep our children safe by ending men and boys in girls’ sports, and banning child sex mutilation; Grow our economy, including the exclusion of capital gains for owner-occupied housing; Ending corruption and the abuse of taxpayer money by codifying fraud reforms identified by Vice President Vance and the Fraud Task Force.

America First Policy Institute Responds to Supreme Court Decision on Birthright Citizenship

The America First Policy Institute (AFPI) today responded to the United States Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision in Trump v. Barbara, holding that children born in the United States to parents who are unlawfully or temporarily present are “subject to the jurisdiction”of the United States and thus citizens at birth under the Fourteenth Amendment’s Citizenship Clause.

AFPI Celebrates Supreme Court Victories for Secure Border Enforcement and Second Amendment Rights

Former Acting DHS Secretary Chad F. Wolf Commends Charges Against Minneapolis Antifa Members

Following the announcement by the U.S. Attorney for the District of Minnesota and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) of charges against multiple defendants for a conspiracy to impede or injure federal officers, AFPI's Chair of Homeland Security & Immigration and former acting Secretary of Homeland Security Chad F. Wolf, released the following statement.