Posted On: Thursday - June 12th 2025 7:54PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Trump
This is VDare's job, dangit! The reader must know by now how pissed your PS blogger is over the lack of that informative website that had been there for us for 2 decades. We'd have saved ourselves lots of effort getting the straight scoop, with lots of numbers and inside information, had the fatassed* tyrant Letitia James not waged lawfare against them. The last 6 months, or maybe right back to Trump's election win last November, would have been the best time in VDare's history!
We'll keep updating the reader with personally gathered info (at times) and from our various few favored websites on this most existential of issues. Here's Trump's Staff General**, one might call him, in the immigration war:
I had a short Steven Miller interview to show. Not only was I not able to find it on the video-hosting sites, I lost the tab here, search sucks in general now, and it sucks even WITHIN the Gateway Pundit site. That rant over, I can first say it's not the one about Steven MIller leaving the reporter "literally shaking', as is their style of juvenile feminine hype. (The only people I have EVER noticed literally shaking are in California, you know, in those videos taken during Richter 7.5 or higher earthquakes.)
OK, but I can go by memory. To a reporter whose name doesn't at all matter to me, Steven Miller talked about a goal of 3,000 illegal alien deportations daily to be reached, sometime soon. That's about a million a year, meaning, if Donald Trump can live 40 more years, and with the Constitution being, errrr, tweaked a bit, we can get rid of the likely 40 million of them. That's no good. Mr. Miller DOES understand the numbers though. He indicated in the interview that the number would have to go up from there.
I've heard a number of 1/2 a million of the Brandon/Mayorkas-invited 10-12 million being those hard-core criminals. It makes sense that the expulsion of those violent types is first priority, but it absolutely cannot be the end of this. Even, as per Mr. Miller and Trump's words at times, the 10-12 million recent "newcomers" cannot be the end of this. That would put us back to the US of '20, as far as the number of illegals, and the number of LEGAL entrants is not falling drastically (as it should), if at all, last I read. I really don't like hearing that continual talk that we will reverse the damage from Dark Brandon. It sets up the expectation that this is a fine goal.
Tom Homan, the Field General**, as we dub him, talks "collateral". He uses this wartime term to warn hopefully the illegals themselves - though they are not likely to know the word "collateral" or any other English words - that if you are around during an arrest of a hard-core criminal, well, as a criminal yourself, you're fair game. That's fine, but I think that too sets up a bad expectation: We are not out to get you purely because you are here illegally. We should be!
Those are just the words though, perhaps said to put the press at ease slightly. No, they're never at ease when you threaten the Population Replacement Programme, but it's a strategy, I think. I hope it's that. Don't yet let on to everyone the real intention of ramping this up into a full Operation Wetback 2.0.***
Yet, general deportations ARE happening. Gateway Pundit, as much as it takes to put up with their juvenile hype, is very good on this immigration issue, so more from that site a week and a half back was ICE Conclude Largest Immigration Enforcement to Date-Almost 1,500 Arrested in MA, Over Half With Criminal Convictions. That half of them had criminal convictions is important, but I wouldn't care if 2% of them had. That should be the point. You're a criminal by definition. That's just one story on just one day. Were it a story of a raid like this in EVERY STATE on the average weekly, now that would be at the rate that actually works! That's about 10,000 per day.
We've written before that we'd like to see numbers of 10,000 daily deportations. That's yet still only 3 million yearly deportations, meaning a reversal of ONLY the Brandon crowd (as a tally - not necessarily from the Brandon surge - it doesn't matter too much****) during Trump's term, and dozen year steady program, were that allowed to happen. However, that does not take into account self-deportations, something discussed before. Based on President Eisenhower's 1954 Operation Wetback results, 85% - 90% of the people who left self-deported. That only works if our deportation program is continued with steady numbers and with lots of publicity (I don't see THAT as a problem) unrelentingly.
Think of what 10,000 people a day actually feels like. I've lived in a "small town". If you recall old rock singer Johnny Cougar's Small Town from his song - somewhere near his melon camp, IIRC - of Seymour Indiana, I can tell you from driving through long ago that it wasn't exactly what I call a small town. (I was enough of a fan to divert a couple of hundred miles on one of my long road trips to... end up buying a hamburger and being told at the root beer stand that he lives in S. Carolina. ) I think of 500 to a couple of thousand as a small town. My memory is pretty good, as wiki says***** the town had 15-odd thousand residents then (and over 21,000 now).
One can see how big the numbers must be. A number of people that would fill a whole medium sized town - and unfortunately DO - must be sent home every day or two... for YEARS... or just GO home. They came in over half a century, most of them in the last quarter century. This will take a big effort. It sound daunting.
What can make it less daunting is taking away all the incentives for these illegals to stay here, again promoting self-deportation. Trump and his people have been working on that too. The States that are not pro-PRP must do their parts too. Can we stop the free education, "free" healthcare at taxpayers' and insured people's expense, and all that? It helps if the US Feral gov't will not threaten you if you take away the freebies. The current Fed-Gov may be a breath of fresh air in this respect.
I'm have hope that the talk by Steven Miller, Tom Homan, and even Trump(ha!) is well thought out. Per a strategy, they may want to state their goals as just exporting hard-core criminals, then move on to "we're reversing the damage done by Brandon", and then just keep on trucking...
The ctrl-left is taking a stand early on with these riots. They are trying to go all Barney Fife here, wanting to nip this PRP-resistance in the bud. Nip it, Gavin, nip it!
This new Summer of rioting plan has already become bigger than I'd figured just a couple of days back. Let's hope the President and the American people can push through this, keeping the deportation program not only continuing but expanding to what it must become. We'll have more to come with various heartwarming stories of Deportation Nation.
* Again, we're not trying to be mean here, but "fatassed", or "fat-ass", if you wish, as applied to this particular government official, is de rigueur per the AP style guide - who are WE to argue?
** See The Trump-47 Administration and the Existential Issue from a few weeks after the election of '24.
*** I think the name doesn't work anymore. I don't say that out of Political Correctness, but the illegal invaders are from ALL OVER the world now. They don't all swim the Rio Grande either. (Those were the days, my friend!)
**** ... though, granted, the later arrivals are probably the most extremely foreign. People were flying into Ecuador from all points of the compass and making a trek from there.
***** It also starts of the history of Seymour with the Lenapi Indians! Well, I guess... did these Lenapi's know they were living in Indiana? What a coincidence!
Comments:
Moderator
Saturday - June 14th 2025 12:33PM MST
PS: That's one of my favorite "Dad" jokes, Mr. Anderson.
Ganderson
Saturday - June 14th 2025 8:29AM MST
PS where do cantaloupes go in the summer?
John Cougar Melon-camp
John Cougar Melon-camp
Moderator
Friday - June 13th 2025 6:26AM MST
PS: As you say and wrote before, SN, that would indeed be a good incentive, the Supermax prison.
I don't know if I trust those polls though. Only 57% even are in favor of deporting the really bad guys, much less the roofers/leafblower guys?
I'll write a post about Trump's latest asinine tweet on this subject. I really hope he's again just bullshitting.
I don't know if I trust those polls though. Only 57% even are in favor of deporting the really bad guys, much less the roofers/leafblower guys?
I'll write a post about Trump's latest asinine tweet on this subject. I really hope he's again just bullshitting.
SafeNow
Thursday - June 12th 2025 10:09PM MST
PS
Only self-deport could do the job. The Op Wetback self-deport figure is impressive, but so much is different now that I don’t think Wetback percentages would occur. Today, invaders would not self-deport if the worst thing that could happen to them would be a free-airplane-ride deportation. You can’t take away health care…all presidential candidates raised their hands to that effect. Schooling is analogous.
So now I must repeat what I have written here before. To incentivize self-deport, you have to arrest (some? many?) non-big-criminal invaders and put them into those 23-hours-of-solitary cells in Supermax prisons. For 5-year terms. These are people whose “only” crime is being here illegally. A leafblower guy, a chicken-plucker. At that point, we would see the extent to which, in the words of Barton Swaim of the WSJ, “the word gets around.”
The trouble is, I don’t think the Trump team has the political mindset to do this. Because polls astonishingly say only 57% favor deporting the really bad guys who did serious misdeeds. So, what percentage of Americans would favor being really harsh with invaders who are “merely” here illegally.
Only self-deport could do the job. The Op Wetback self-deport figure is impressive, but so much is different now that I don’t think Wetback percentages would occur. Today, invaders would not self-deport if the worst thing that could happen to them would be a free-airplane-ride deportation. You can’t take away health care…all presidential candidates raised their hands to that effect. Schooling is analogous.
So now I must repeat what I have written here before. To incentivize self-deport, you have to arrest (some? many?) non-big-criminal invaders and put them into those 23-hours-of-solitary cells in Supermax prisons. For 5-year terms. These are people whose “only” crime is being here illegally. A leafblower guy, a chicken-plucker. At that point, we would see the extent to which, in the words of Barton Swaim of the WSJ, “the word gets around.”
The trouble is, I don’t think the Trump team has the political mindset to do this. Because polls astonishingly say only 57% favor deporting the really bad guys who did serious misdeeds. So, what percentage of Americans would favor being really harsh with invaders who are “merely” here illegally.