Illegal immigration
February 25, 2026 — Scott Johnson
St. Paul Academy in Saint Paul is my high school alma mater. In the annals of wokery and false bravado, the security measures it announced to protect those attending the upper school Winter Dance from ICE deserve some kind of recognition. I did my best in “SPA joins the resistance.” What exactly was the threat against which those attending the dance had to be protected? Upper school assistant principal for
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February 24, 2026 — John Hinderaker
There is general agreement that President Trump’s mission tonight should be to focus on domestic policy, and remind viewers of the many tangible accomplishments of his administration. Toward that end, Stephen Moore and the Committee to Unleash Prosperity have supplied these five charts that tell a good part of the story: President Trump has slashed inflation from the 9.1% peak under Biden. Costs of everything from cars to groceries to
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February 23, 2026 — John Hinderaker
This is shocking: Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.) … just happily pardoned an attempted murderer. Wow. Because he was wrongfully convicted? No: because he is an illegal alien, and thus is entitled to special privileges: Cambodian Somboon Phaymany did have a green card at one time, but he lost it after being convicted of attempted murder. Newsom’s pardon was an attempt to prevent the deportation of the foreign criminal from the
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February 21, 2026 — Scott Johnson
I’m an alumnus of St. Paul Academy in Saint Paul. I’ve paid tribute here to two of my teachers — Lyman Hawbaker and Rob Woutat — in recent years. I owe them a debt of gratitude. I also sent my daughters to the school. United States Senator Tim Sheehy, John’s featured speaker at the Center of the American Experiment Annual Dinner Gala this coming April, is a 2004 alumnus. Even
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February 19, 2026 — Scott Johnson
Bill Melugin calls this a “wild one.” Melugin posts this February 18 press release to tell the story of a Minnesota correctional officer and AWOL National Guard member masquerading as a an American citizen despite having no legal status in the United States. The serial fraudster was identified as part of the major enforcement operation that targeted suspected immigration fraud — where else? — in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area last
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February 19, 2026 — Scott Johnson
Having written about the novelist Lionel Shriver yesterday morning, I discover that Spiked has posted the video of Fraser Myers’s interview with her about her wicked novel on our immigration nightmare, the just-published A Better Life — and I find that she and I are on the same wavelength. She even makes a point about the metamorphosis of the “homeless” to the “unhoused” that I made here last week. This
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February 17, 2026 — Scott Johnson
In “The cornerstone 2026” I noted the case of Junior de Jesus Herrera Berrios, the “Burnsville man” (according to the Star Tribune) who was tackled and detained by ICE agents in the Hennepin County Government Center. He was apprehended when he sought to run away from the agents following a state court hearing on drug charges. The drug charges derive from a traffic stop resulting in the discovery of 57
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February 16, 2026 — Bill Glahn
From Fox News, Hillary Clinton says migration ‘went too far’ and ‘needs to be fixed in a humane way.’ Now she tells us. The occasion was that big policy conference in Munich attended by the world and his wife. She’s quoted as saying, There is a legitimate reason to have a debate about things like migration. Where? Where is this debate taking place? Clinton says, It went too far, it’s
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February 13, 2026 — John Hinderaker
The number of people who crossed our border illegally during the Biden administration is insane. If the Democrats’ open border policies had continued, whole countries–or large portions of them, anyway–may have moved here en masse. Check out these numbers, which I believe are in the ballpark: Most Americans still don’t fully understand what happened under Biden… 8% of Nicaragua entered the US in 4 years.8% of the entire country. 7%
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February 12, 2026 — Scott Johnson
At his press conference this morning, Trump border czar Tom Homan had a lot more to say than that he is concluding Operation Metro Surge in the Twin Cities. His prepared remarks are devoted mostly to rebutting the hostility and hysteria conveyed by the Star Tribune and the local media every day that the operation has been in effect. The video is worth watching all the way to the end.
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February 11, 2026 — Scott Johnson
Minnesota’s DFL establishment presents a sort of neo-Confederate scene that used to go under the moniker of “massive resistance,” but the mentality goes beyond that. In 1861 the seceding states could not abide the election of Abraham Lincoln. Although he scrupulously vowed to uphold the Constitution, they feared his view of slavery. Whatever high-minded words they otherwise had to say, their resistance to Lincoln was all about slavery. Confederate Vice
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February 10, 2026 — Bill Glahn
Neil Munro of Breitbart writes, Numerous Democratic leaders say their high-migration, low-wage sanctuary city economies are crashing because President Donald Trump is requiring them to comply with national labor laws. I guess that they didn’t see it coming. Munro reports, The treasurers of Massachusetts, New York, Illinois, Minnesota, and nine other states are asking the federal government to exempt them from national laws that protect Americans’ civil rights, labor, housing,
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February 10, 2026 — John Hinderaker
The world is indeed turned upside down, or at least the United States is. Consider this story from Northern California: A Northern California school placed a teaching intern on leave for celebrating US Immigration and Customs Enforcement in a Facebook comment as a mob of angry locals threatened to damage her property. Sarai Jimenez, a special education teaching intern at MacQuiddy Elementary in Watsonville, endorsed the presence of ICE officers
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February 10, 2026 — Scott Johnson
The resistance to the enforcement of immigration law by state and local authorities bears just about all the hallmarks of the resistance to desegregation by George Wallace and others who adhered to the doctrine of “massive resistance.” It’s a point John, Bill, and I have each made in our own way. I traced the roots back to the Confederacy in “Inside the battle of the Twin Cities.” Last week Wall
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February 6, 2026 — Bill Glahn
From Neil Munro of Breitbart, Minneapolis Mayor: Law Enforcement Wrecks My Sanctuary City Economy. Over the past year, ICE has undertaken large-scale (surge) operations in cities across America. Nearly all of these cities are controlled by Democrats. Many of these are sanctuary cities. But nowhere has the opposition to ICE been as aggressive or as prolonged as in Minneapolis, Minnesota. I think Munro is on to a root cause of
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February 5, 2026 — Scott Johnson
The United States (i.e., the Trump Department of Justice) has moved for an expedited resolution of the legal issue pending before the Eighth Circuit in Avila v. Noem. The motion and supporting declaration of United States Attorney for Minnesota Daniel Rosen attribute the publicized difficulties created by the district judges’ treatment of this recurring issue — the obligation of the Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”) to detain aliens under 8
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February 5, 2026 — Scott Johnson
Bill Glahn provides some of the necessary background to the Johnny Paycheck/”Take This Job and Shove It” outburst of one lawyer — Julie Le — who has represented the United States in habeas cases pending in federal court here. Earlier this week she appeared before Judge Jerry Blackwell in St. Paul. In the background of the hearing is the flood of habeas petitions filed on behalf of scores of illegal
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