PS: I saw a headline with Kristy Noem and the painting of the wall. That Stones song didn't come into my head till your comment, Alarmist.

When I was younger, I could have gotten right up one of those steel plates, the way it looks. Will there be concertina wire at the top? I would sure hope so.* If it's just the usual 3 strands of barbed wire, a few thick blankets or a jacket will beat it.

Paint, no paint, whatever, the main thing is to have cameras close enough to watch it all and people with guns within quick driving distance.



* Then, one might ask, why not lay big coils of it on the ground, and do this simply as I wrote about?

PS: Good afternoon, Mr Alarmist,

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𝐿𝑒𝑡’𝑠 𝑏𝑢𝑖𝑙𝑑 𝑎 𝑏𝑖𝑔 𝑤𝑎𝑙𝑙
𝐴𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑤𝑒’𝑙𝑙 𝑝𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑡 𝑖𝑡 𝑏𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑘....
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Because Mexicans don't have oven mitts or leather gloves. (Problem Solved!)

It's a good thing the sun doesn't set or they might climb over at night, in the dark, once the fence cools off.

Cheers! ☮️

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Doh! That should be CBP ... I must be thinking in French or Spanish.

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When the Mrs. and I come to the US, I always try to get her through the citizen line with me (despite no Green Card). More often than not, it is ok (one CPB person joked that they don’t separate families), but if the CPB person is darker, we usually get sent to the “Rest of the World” line. BTW, way too many CPB people are first generation immigrants, IMHO.

Cue the Rolling Stones “Paint it Black”
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Let’s build a big wall
And then we’ll paint it black....
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“Southern border wall will be painted black so it will heat up in the sun, to make it ‘even harder for people to climb’: DHS Secretary Kristi Noem.”

https://nypost.com/2025/08/19/us-news/southern-border-wall-will-be-painted-black-to-make-it-even-harder-for-people-to-climb-dhs-secretary-kristi-noem-says/

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PS: I'm sure 1-d, Mr. Hail, but the fact is, why are these people that I just don't trust by looks determining who gets into the country? Not the way to do it. The Chinese would NEVER do this.

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"today is Ron Paul's 90th birthday"

Recently I was at a big Ron Paul event but never found time to write about it. Probably because in may ways the event was, as I saw it, politically incoherent and a let-down.

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Moderator wrote: "much of the time the people sitting *behind the computers and cameras in booths to check passports and visas* are ALL foreigners themselves!"

Do you mean they are obviously of recent-foreign origin (not members of my category 1a or similar)?

Can actual non-citizens (legally speaking; passport holders of some foreign country and not the country in which they're working) work as those passport-control people?

Of those who may be reading this, it's possible Mr. Alarmist may have most international-travel experience, and I wonder what he'd say in general on the matter.

Upon a recent re-entry into the US myself, I noticed a lot of little things had changed, probably directives from the Trump government. I may write on that later. The summary is, there is indication they are trying to overtly favor U.S. Citizens. The commonly heard lament from our quarters about foreignization of these airport lines is something that'd be particularly galvanizing to your pro-Trump intellectuals out there who may be staffing such things.

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OilcanFloyd wrote: "Who is willing to call 1965 undemocratic and reverse it? What about all the amnesties and chain migration that also would have never passed a vote?"

Yes, this is a core of my criticism of Trump-II.

To me, he and his people have wasted lots of time and political capital, and seem content with image over substance on the Immigration and Nationality questions. Many of them, I am sure, really do prefer to demagogue and dog-whistle on these topics "into" power, and then sit around and get fat "in" power. To grapple with these issues requires a major, major moral commitment and moral seriousness I find lacking in most of these people.

Here's an image for you:

Will Vivek Ramaswamy say: "The 1965 Immigration Act was illegal and invalid and we will take all legal measures to work to counter-act its effects"?

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-- On the Transgender Survey 2025 --

Unrelated, in a direct way at least, to immigration-restrictionism and the physical Wall idea (I am for the wall, of course, and don't have much more productive to say, I think, on it, than has already been said): I want to post this new Transgender-survey data here for consideration.

Lately I hear people saying Wokeness is over. What does it mean? What is/was Wokeness? What happens to those who committed emotionally to Wokeness, who are still among us in force?

A new study, by the Williams Institute (UCLA), finds the following rates, by age, of self-identified Transgenderism as of 2023:

- 3.3% of Americans born ca.2005 to ca.2011 (teenagers, before 18th birthday as of 2023) identify as Transgender or Non-Binary;

- 2.7% of Americans born ca.1998 to ca.2005 (ages 18-24 as of 2023) identify as Transgender or Non-Binary;

- 0.25% of Americans born before 1960 claim to be Transgender or Non-Binary.

(All of these are Transgender only, in which they include the confusing concept of 'Non-Binary,' and excludes the L, the G, and the B from the old-acronym LGBT.)

There is a steady decline in rates of Trans-identity with each five-year age-cohort, back to flattening out nearer to zero by the born-early-1980s cohorts.

Polls in the late 2000s and early 2010s had found 0.2%-0.3% self-identified Transgenders among all adults. That has now tripled or quadrupled, and increased by rates of 10x at least among the youngest cohorts subjected to saturation-levels of Wokeness in the 2010s.

Even by about 2010 already the rise of a socially celebrated LGBTQ movement, and the Gay Marriage movement, probably already boosted the supposed Trans number. The label was soon embraced by mentally ill people; and sexual deviants, who adopted the label for their own reasons (see Steve Sailer's "X-men" commentary, not on the comic-book characters but macho men who decided they were Trans women but remain 'masculine' women).

But the real key is Wokeness: The rise of the Trans movement from the mid-2010s onward influenced a lot of b.2000s and b.2010s people. Wokeness' turn towards pro-Trans activism by about 2015 eventually boosted baseline rates of supposed Transgenderism by factors of 10x and 20x and even higher in certain politically-Blue(r) places. Those born in or after about the mid-2000s grew up into a world in which Transgenderism was celebrated as a great social good.

A social mania, a social contagion. The fruit of Wokeness.

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We've been subject to anti-traditionalistic social manias, recently under the blanket term of Wokeness, for decades. It's funny how most every crazy thing eventually gets normalized, to a degree, and integrated into normality. Part of my disappointment with, and opposite to, Trump is his personal opposition to these things, if any, is crude and wavering at best, the opinions of the barstool ranter. I don't see him mounting a real major offensive against Wokeness, like DeSantis or others have done and would do. Granted there is lots of indication he IS doing those things, but it mostly seems for show and always subject to hedging and compromise.

The baseline of normality in the USA is now something strange, something that I think would be basically unrecognizable to Whites living several short decades ago.

I hear a lot of this kind of lament through the sardonic comments left over the years here by our friend Adam Smith. He was born in the 1980s (near to me in age), and therefore came up into a world of standards steadily degrading before our eyes, and a system of White-marginalization combined with White internal-degradation of standards and broad-based embrace of Stupidity.

Adam Smith (and I) are old enough to have seen many glimpses of the older order, but young enough to have seen open social-degradation happening in our formative years. Peak Stupidity itself was founded to critique these same things.

The Transgender Mania of the past ten years is a great example of this degradation, which seems both inexhaustible as a supply of observations and so obviously stupid and harmful (some might say, Evil) that it cannot be argued away by smooth-talkers and it's-not-so-bad Wokeness apologists or pathological optimists. The Trans mania is an easy-pickings example out of dozens or hundreds of (usually) little(r) things.

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I returned from Rome several months ago and the U.S. citizen line in the Rome airport was the U.S. and Israeli citizen line. How many ways can that be abused?

PS: Oilcan Floyd: " Who is willing to call 1965 undemocratic and reverse it? What about all the amnesties and chain migration that also would have never passed a vote?"

No, I too don't think that will ever happen. The whole thing is pretty far along. Imagine if people had gotten worked up about this 3 decades back when Peter Brimelow wrote "Alien Nation". I'm thinking about VDare too. I wish they'd crank it back up, with Fat-Ass Letitia kinda too busy to bother them right now.

Now, looking back 13 years to the Ron Paul primary campaign, I wish that guy would have brought up the issue. It was already late in the game, but 13 years meant another 15-20 million, maybe?, foreigners coming in. I'm thinking of this because today is Ron Paul's 90th birthday. I'll write a post tonight about him.

PS: Great categorization, Mr. Hail, which I know is your thing. That comment would be a great stand-alone post here.

I was just about to comment, but you got this: "For decades, however, there has been an active pipeline from 3b to 2c and a network of do-gooder groups to assist such people."

Yes, that's how they become overstayers. There are so many ways because there are so many types of non-immigrant visas, so many "needs" for, say, Chinese Christian preachers in the US, cause, like, Americans can't preach or something, and also there are so many places to hide out and fit into for 50 or 100 different freaking nationalities until, by God, you're legal... or you just stay anyway.

"The result is, if you travel internationally via airports, you see people who are just obviously not Americans in the "US Citizen" line with great frequency (for one thing, because they travel a lot more often than category 1a., those of core-American stock)." Not only that, but much of the time the people sitting *behind the computers and cameras in booths to check passports and visas* are ALL foreigners themselves! That's not just in the US but in Canada too. I saw this recently, and it wasn't in Hongcouver or Toronto either.

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Demographics is the issue, and the only way to solve that problem is to make sure that whites keep their nation. Is anyone seriously willing to do that? I don't think so. Who is willing to call 1965 undemocratic and reverse it? What about all the amnesties and chain migration that also would have never passed a vote? Unless half of the people in the U.S. are sent home, they will just vote for themselves in a generation or two. Do you want to be on the bottom of that pile?

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Old Soldier wrote: "Illegal alien, to me, means you gotta go! And since when do illegals have any rights? They are not our citizens"

In the old days, when most or perhaps nearly all of our ancestors arrived in the US, there was no distinction between illegal and legal. The only distinction was: Citizen of Non-Citizen. Citizens had the rights of citizenship; non-citizens ("aliens") did not.

"Immigration" was restricted to free whites anyway. Famously, the founding generation in the 1790s "codified" Free Whites of good character as the sole category of person eligible for citizenship. By tradition and practice, and repeated tests in the courts, that held until the early 1950s. A little-known but landmark case at the time (within a year or two of "Brown vs Board of Education") allowed wide latitude for non-European-origin people to get US citizenship without special exceptions.

At some point, three categories evolved, of which I'd make sub-types:

1.) Citizens
2.) "Legal Permanent Residents"
3.) Illegals

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1.) CITIZENS

-- 1a. native-born with mostly US-born grandparents at least;

-- 1b. native-born, but no/minimal/trivial/weak US ties before the 1960s (plus 1b-1, Those nevertheless long-run assimilable to the traditional-White-NW-European norm; vs. 1b-2, Others);

-- 1c. foreign-born naturalized citizens, who are basically compatible with US/Western culture (plus 1c-1, Those long-run assimilable to the traditional-White-NW-European norm; vs. 1c-2, Others);

-- 1d. foreign-born naturalized citizens, who are NOT compatible with US/Western culture. (Illegitimate citizens; but legally on equal footing with us "1a's.")

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2.) "LEGAL PERMANENT RESIDENTS," i.e., "Green Card holders"; or "legal immigrants," with sub-types:

-- 2a.) Temporary residents who do indeed go back when their business in the US is finished.

-- 2b.) Those planning in mercenary-strategic fashion to fast-track themselves to citizenship. Often in the way normal people would think of changing credit cards for better rates, and not thru identity or cultural affiliation or loyalty; to me, a deeply unethical practice but long allowable via legal-loopholes and the 18th-19th-century tradition of North America as an underpopulated open continent needing people. The result is, if you travel internationally via airports, you see people who are just obviously not Americans in the "US Citizen" line with great frequency (for one thing, because they travel a lot more often than category 1a., those of core-American stock).

-- 2c.) Those dumped into the category of non-deportable without much thinking or effort about it. "2c" however includes both technically-legal and technically-illegal people. It includes (but is not limited to) those with Anchor Babies.

If they had thought about it ("with malice aforethought"), they'd have been in the 2b category. Effort and mercenary planning, including the unethical, defines 2b.

You often see higher-IQ and lower-ethics Asians successfully on the 2b path and then transmogrifying themselves with the beaming blessing of the Wokeness-regime into 1d (or sometimes 1c for second-generationers). Non-plugged-in, low-English Hispanics and others would generally be mouldering in the 2c category.

Another way to think of 2c is: they were soft-amnestied in. The several million people now often in middle age who are the Obama "Dreamers" are in this status and stuck in it due to opposition by Republicans from legalizing their status and making them jump up to Category 1c.

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3.) ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS" who are in principle entirely deportable.

-- 3a.) Border-jumpers, who are often overlapping with criminal networks and are assuredly a net negative except to the profits of some cheap-labor employers.

-- 3b.) Overstayers. Former Green Card or visitor-visa holders who didn't get good-enough legal help, or luck, or mercenary cunning, to get magic-wanded into a higher category. For decades, however, there has been an active pipeline from 3b to 2c and a network of do-gooder groups to assist such people.

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The people so upset about deportations, and the prospect of deportations, are overplaying their hand. Over-reacting to Trump like it's still 2018.

Because, as best I can tell, the Trump people are only really doing mass-scale deportations for a sub-set of 3a. Not even all of 3a in a systematic way, just a small portion of them. (Which is not fundamentally different from all previous presidents including Democrats.)Trump was elected to sweep all across the board including even into category-2 and even, if possible, encouraging "1d's" (illegitimate citizens) to leave. They haven't made much hay of when the Sun was shining, except a few photo-ops. To a lesser extent 3b is only weak pressure. For the soft-amnestied 2c, it's a lot less clear and there seems little net action.

We still don't know much of the US resident population is in Category 3. For all the histrionics the man does, why not cause a media-storm with a blue-ribbon commission to establish scientific estimates of illegals and lavish programs to encourage those outside the favorable sub-types of Category 1 to leave? How about the 2020-style Covid-Infection trackers, but for illegals? I see little sign of any of that.

PS: Good to see you here again. O.S.

"If you're here illegally, who cares whether you're suspected of being a gang member or not? Illegal alien, to me, means you gotta go! And since when do illegals have any rights? They are not our citizens,..." See, I think Steven Miller, Tom Homan, their underlings, and most Americans would agree.

I just never know if Trump is starting off talking about, and arresting, thank goodness, all the worst violent ones, the Venezuelan gang member etc. just to keep almost everyone supporting the deportations. (Even lots of the Regime media, well, they can complain about ICE tactics, but they can't really say out loud "We want these people in America.")

... or is that not the short-term strategy but his only real plan, leaving 40 million still here? I've written it before, but he's a kind of guy who doesn't like being scammed, at this point America being scammed either. That's why he's against the illegal entry but very wishy-washy or not at all against mass legal immigration.

Yes, there are a whole lot of other actions that can be, and are being, taken. (I should say "attempted" due to these judges that ought to be ignored.) Stripping out the bennies, jailing employers that hire them, all of it with lots and lots of publicity. Trump does understand that part of it. He's getting things done but also making a big show of it - in this case, I think the "show" part is a good idea to encourage illegals to get out now.

However, at some point, people may realize he's bluffing and that a serious millions/year program will never happen. Then, the self-deportation will stop. The border being strictly controlled is a great thing, but there are other illegal entry methods. (Overstaying non-immigrant visas is the biggest.)

There's a song by Styx from the beginning of the 1980's in which the other lead singer, not Tommy Shaw sings "We need long-term, slow-burn gettin' it done." That ain't Donald Trump, unfortunately!

The song will come to me. "Break me off a piece of that..." no, not that one. I WILL NOT look on the internet, so don't nobody tell me here. I've got most of the lyrics in my head, but not the title yet ...

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If you're here illegally, who cares whether you're suspected of being a gang member or not? Illegal alien, to me, means you gotta go! And since when do illegals have any rights? They are not our citizens, they are in our country illegally. Why do we coddle and embrace these criminal illegal aliens when they entered our country without following our due process laws, and or they've been convicted/indicted of violent felony crimes here, are gang members here (like ms13), or they are criminals in their own countries? When illegals are treated better than US citizens, something is very wrong. Giving illegals FULL voting rights, Social Security numbers, driver licenses when they canNOT speak the language or read traffic signs, get substantial monthly stipends, free housing, free medical, you name it. Nowadays, US laws are only to be enforced upon US citizens and not upon illegals? If a uniformed invading army crossed our border, would we have a lengthy trial for each and every one of the invaders? Why do we allow such madness? Illegal invaders wrap themselves in the flag of their shithole countries while telling us about the superiority of their ‘culture’, then fight like wildcats at the mere prospect of being returned to that ‘culture’, their proclaimed ‘Nirvana’. If they claim to want to make America better by their mere presence, why not go back to their crappy little countries and make it better FIRST? Yet the worst punishment imaginable to these invaders is to be sent back to live among their own people and they fight like crazy to prevent that. Thus, they prove undeniably they are a plague upon us, just ticks on a dog's butt, to me.

If anyone has any doubt about the Democrats and their Anti-US agenda, just watch California and all that Newsom promotes. Remember, if Democrats ever get ANY power back, the borders will again be wide open for several years, allowing another MASSIVE influx of illegal invaders into the US. And who knows who Democrats will assassinate the next time around to allow their agenda to be implemented.

The Trump administration has done everything in its power to advertise to the world that illegal aliens are not welcome here. President Trump, I SALUTE YOU!!! And ALL of you purple haired girls and you pink haired soy boys, can suck on my constipated asshole any time you want, because I've got plenty FOR YOU!!!

BUILD! THE! WALL! Then impose a permanent 40% (or more) tariff on all goods coming from Mexico to pay for that wall. A 10% permanent fee on money transfers to private citizens in other countries can be used to help maintain that wall. And allow American special forces to train in Mexico by taking out the cartels...just sayin.