Immigration
February 1, 2025 — John Hinderaker

When I moved to Minnesota after law school, it was considered a good place to live. The state had a strong economy, pretty good public schools and an educated work force, above average health care, very little crime and a reputation for clean government. All of that is gone. These charts tell the sad story. Minnesota’s decline is best documented in news reports like this one: “MN High School Basketball
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January 26, 2025 — John Hinderaker

Every significant strand of American conservatism includes a major libertarian element. In fact, I would argue that you can distinguish among the varieties of American conservatism by how that libertarianism is expressed. That said, there are fundamental differences between conservatism and libertarianism. For this purpose, let’s define libertarianism as the view that maximizing individual liberty is the sole legitimate aim of government, and conservatism as the view that maximizing liberty
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January 18, 2025 — Steven Hayward

For a long time I have been speculating that the time will come when Europe faces a choice—it will need to expel large numbers of culturally incompatible immigrants, or face the extinction of their national identities. It is easy to make the case that Europe will choose, by default, the second option. But perhaps the turn is coming, from the most unexpected place. From Reuters: Sweden seeks to change constitution
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January 4, 2025 — John Hinderaker

Elon Musk ignited a firestorm of controversy in Germany by penning a column in Die Welt in which he supported the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in the election scheduled for next month. AfD is a “far right” European party, which means that it doubts the wisdom of mass third-world immigration. Given their experience in recent years, most Germans share that skepticism; hence the fear in establishment circles that AfD
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December 31, 2024 — John Hinderaker

It’s a knotty puzzle, isn’t it? Our laws forbid people from entering our country illegally, yet they keep doing it anyway! The Biden administration couldn’t solve the puzzle. Until its last days, in fear of electoral defeat, it didn’t come up with a plan to slow, let alone reverse, illegal immigration. This is because the Democrats actually like illegal immigration. As the party of small families (if any), their future
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December 31, 2024 — Steven Hayward

Going through some old chaotic files (why the adjective—all of my files are chaotic by now), I happened to stumble across my grandfather’s immigration “declaration of intention” form from 1911, the first formal step to becoming a citizen. (His immigration status actually got held up for several years because his residence for several years in Manila, even though an American-managed protectorate at the time, somehow didn’t qualify as U.S. territory
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December 28, 2024 — John Hinderaker

Liberal news outlets are gleefully reporting that the MAGA coalition is falling apart over–surprisingly–immigration. Thus, Axios writes: A virtual right-wing civil war has broken out over race, class, immigration and the future of President-elect Trump’s movement, and [Elon] Musk is increasingly at odds with Trump’s historic base. The schism may force Trump to ultimately take sides between the largely white, working-class supporters who first made MAGA succeed, and the techno-libertarian
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December 11, 2024 — John Hinderaker

In today’s morning email, the New York Times lays out the basic facts relating to immigration to the U.S. The email is titled: “The largest immigration surge in U.S. history.” 1. The immigration surge since 2021 has been the largest in U.S. history, surpassing even the levels of the late 1800s and early 1900s. Total net migration — the number of people coming to the country minus the number leaving
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December 1, 2024 — Steven Hayward

All of a sudden even liberal politicians, here and abroad, are publicly confessing “concern” about unlimited immigration. Justin Trudeau hopped the first plane to Mar-a-Lago after Trump threatened Canada with 25 percent tariffs if they don’t stop bad actors from exploiting our northern border. (A 25% tariff on Canada would have a significant impact on Canada’s economy.) But before departing Trudeau posted this: Over in Britain, Prime Minister Keir Starmer,
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November 28, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley

“Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has clapped back at President-elect Trump’s proposed 25% tariff on imported goods from Mexico,” Fox News reports, “saying she would impose tariffs of her own on the U.S.” Also protesting the tariffs is Mexico’s economy minister Marcelo Ebrard, who has a curious history with American elections. Ebrard served as mayor of Mexico City from 2006-2012 and mounted a failed campaign for president in 2011. After a
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November 26, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley

The millions of illegals Biden-Harris brought into the country can be traced to UnidosUS, formerly the National Council of La Raza. Like their pro-Nazi godfather Jose Vasconcellos, author of La Raza Cósmica, the razaistas believe that the Spaniard-Indian mestizos are superior to the black race, the Asian race, and particularly those awful yankee “Anglos.” These are all inferior to the raza of the future, even the violent criminals among them.
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November 23, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley

Georgia District Attorney Deborah Gonzalez will not pursue the death penalty for Jose Ibarra, the criminal illegal who stalked nursing student Laken Riley, bashed in her head with rocks, and possibly strangled the 22-year-old. Aside from the “absolutely outrageous” sentence, this case confirms Americans’ protest that illegals get better treatment than they do. Like millions of others, Biden’s Department of Homeland Security admitted the Venezuelan with no criminal background check,
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November 8, 2024 — Scott Johnson

Jewish Insider reports on the events in Amsterdam last night in “Israeli soccer fans attacked by assailants in Amsterdam.” The Times of Israel has its own story here. The Jerusalem Post reports that previously missing Israelis have now been accounted for and provides relevant background based on a “highly classified report from Israel’s Ministry for Diaspora Affairs and Combatting Antisemitism, written in May 2024.” These do not appear to be
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November 4, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley

California Sen. Alex Padilla, appointed by Gov. Gavin Newson as the replacement for Kamala Harris, wants the Treasury Department to provide voter registration services for “people with limited English.” The senator nobody voted for is a key figure in enabling those not eligible to cast ballots. This is hardly a new development. As a State Department investigation discovered, false-documented illegals have voted in local, state, and federal elections for decades.
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October 3, 2024 — John Hinderaker

When I was a kid, it was a proud boast that the US-Canada border is the longest unguarded border in the world. That is still true, but we may need to start guarding it. Our northern border is not as much of a disaster as the southern border, only because it is so far from Mexico. But things are getting much worse: The number of migrants caught crossing a stretch
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October 2, 2024 — John Hinderaker

It is no coincidence that, in last night’s debate, immigration was the issue on which the moderators intervened to try to stop the Democratic Party’s bleeding. The Biden/Harris administration’s immigration policies have been disastrous, unless they are actually trying to destroy our country. In which case they make perfect sense. My colleague David Zimmer recaps the Biden/Harris debacle by the numbers. There is more at the link; here are some
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September 30, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley

In March of 2021, Joe Biden appointed Kamala Harris to take charge of the border. Since then, the Biden-Harris administration ushered in some 10 million illegals, with no criminal background checks. With crime by these illegals a raging issue with voters, Harris made a rather odd choice to introduce her at an event in Douglas, Arizona, last Friday. Doing the honors was Tori Verber Salazar, former district attorney of California’s
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