Links - 31st January 2026 (3 - Migrants: US)

Thread by @camhigby on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "🧵🚨 MINNEAPOLIS SIGNAL INFILTRATED I have infiltrated organizational signal groups all around Minneapolis with the sole intention of tracking down federal agents and impeding/assaulting/and obstructing them. BUCKLE UP ALL WILL BE REVEALED Each area of the city has a signal or several signals. Let’s start with a screen recording of all members of the south side group to start. I have been undercover inside the groups for days. You’ll notice emojis next to people’s names. Here’s a key for what those emojis mean. The highlighted positions are the most crucial. Most are self explanatory. Mobile patrols spend their entire “shift” searching for suspicious vehicles. When they find one they send it to the group so that “plate checkers” can compare with their database and see if it’s a known federal vehicle or if the patrol can make the confirmation so that the database can be updated. Dispatch runs a maxed out call all day telling protestors where ICE has been spotted and how they can be best impeded. For each “occupation” or “shift” position, protestors have to undergo “training” It’s unclear what the training entails - other than numerous slides of instruction. I’ve seen it mentioned repeatedly. Who is paying for all this?! Each chat (for a specific part of each city) has smaller districts broken up within it called “patrol zones” which guide ICE chasers on where they should be/position. Here is a screen recording of their plate database as well as a link to its instructions. Here is a screenshot of the active dispatch call (it’s always active) as well as a shift change. You can see folks are changing their emojis, clocking in and out. I’ll also attach below a video of dispatch actually tracking the vehicle I was in claiming that we were “confirmed ICE” They constantly misidentify vehicles. Pay attention to emojis tagged on plate checks. Here is a recording of protestors actively tailing the vehicle I was in, labeling me as ICE and instructing “commuters” (ICE chasers) to follow me. A new group chat for each zone is made each day. The chats are dated, and deleted at the end of each day. This is likely to avoid detection, record keeping, and consequences. My mid-day, the group chats hit maximum capacity (1,000 people) allowed by signal and people who are not chasing federal agents are asked to leave to create room for those who are. The dispatch calls also reach maximum capacity constantly. I believe it’s 50 people maximum. Which means, at any given time in each small zone, there are 50 people chasing agents. The quasi police force uses a system called “SALUTE” which calls out the size of federal units, activity, locations, uniforms, times and locations. They then instruct their ICE chasers to follow and confront agents at their known locations. THEY ARE EVERYWHERE AND LOCAL POLICE ARE COOPERATING. Here an “observer” calls out a possible agent but says she’s just out walking her dog so can’t continue on. Dispatch called for “backup” Also below is a message indicating that local PD may get involved if ICE “hinders public safety” These thugs apparently have a “HOME BASE” though I haven’t been able to identify it. Here’s an ICE chaser indicating that he is “expected” there. Here are chasers discussing what should be done after realizing they positively identified my vehicle as ICE, but then found out it was me. I believe this person MIGHT be the aggressive individual in the second photo. Here is more dispatch chatter, where they tweak out when they discover a vehicle. Whistles and horns can be heard in the background. The dispatcher asks for photos and videos of the plate for “documentation” purposes. The protestors use a “mutual aid” system. I tried to join the mutual aid that for Bloomington. An admin told me that it was a vetted chat for teachers and that I’d need to describe my relationship to a school. And give my real name. I couldn’t do that so I never made it in. Why are there teachers aiding in this effort?!?! ICE chaser operations go all night. The dispatch call is 24/7. These are messages screenshotted at 2am asking for observers at a location with potential illegals. It’s from a “vetted” chat called “Wolfpack” The coordinators frequently delete messages to cover their tracks. This is another layer of security on top of the daily chat refreshes. Here is an admin list for several chats. These generally consist of code names."

Moongazer on X - "Antifascism is when you create secret organizations run by traitorous government officials and funded by laundered tax dollars to train and empower communists to cause anarchy to impede with the democratically elected government legally carrying out the will of the people"

Adam B. Coleman, Proud Father & Imperfect Man on X - "This is insane. I know there are a lot of bored people out there but that's not what is happening here. These people are doing rotating shifts because they are being paid. This is highly organized and efficient. Follow the money and it'll eventually lead back to the CCP."
Undercover Brother on X - "It is maddening that people think all of this is just happening spontaneously. I worked in operations (of various sorts) for 2 decades. It is sometimes challenging to get 20 people in the same room at the same time on the same day EVERY WEEK for meetings that are on a routine and predictable schedule. There are planners and operators working around the clock in some sort of operations command post SOMEWHERE. Things like this DO NOT HAPPEN ON THEIR OWN!"
Adam B. Coleman, Proud Father & Imperfect Man on X - "If your movement is being funded by foreign governments, it's not organic. It's highly organized. I'm not one of these people who just says stuff online for attention; it's based on reality. Our House has been talking about The People's Forum & other orgs tied to the CCP. Article after article, committee meetings about leftist/communist organizations being funded by the CCP and other foreign entities. This isnt fantasy or make believe. They are well funded and organized ops, the opposite of organic."

GunShyMartyr on X - "Meet Flan Southside, aka Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan, dispatch admin of the Signals Chat group. Of course Anita Smithson would include her to the group to run dispatch operations. Still figuring out who Boogie is...maybe its Tim Walz."
Chad Mizelle on X - "If this is true, and if the Signal chat can be tied to the Pretti shooting, LG Flanagan is in serious trouble. Let me spell it out: If you are involved in a conspiracy (here, interfering with ICE operations) and someone dies as part of that conspiracy, even if the deceased is a co-conspirator, all participants in the conspiracy can be charged with murder. LG Flanagan better lawyer up. She may have some federal agents who want to talk to her…"

0HOUR1 on X - "Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan is one of the admins of Signal Chat. This means the State of Minnesota is behind the protests. Its not organic its a insurrection at the very top."
memetic_sisyphus on X - ">Sue the federal government from building a border wall
>fund NGOs that build migrant caravans millions of people strong to come across the border
>Let in every illegal, give them fake asylum claims, open the borders, tear down the wall
>tell your police to not work with immigration enforcement
>when immigration enforcement comes to do their job start mass agitation movement, organize citizens tell them to harass officers carrying out their duties
>organizers start assaulting officers, the organizers get shot
>tell people to harasses the officers even harder.
These people really really really want to change the demographics of this country."

dan linnaeus on X - "This smiley lady is Amanda Koehler, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s former campaign strategist, with ties to his inner circle and the MN Democracy Defense Table. She’s also an admin and key organizer, going under code name ‘HAH’, in the ICE Watch Signal chat group coordinating real-time tracking, mobilization, and disruptive actions against federal agents enforcing immigration law in MN."

James O'Keefe on X - "🚨 BREAKING: MINNEAPOLIS MOB THREATENS TO KILL O’KEEFE — ICE BOTTLES THROWN, FOLLOWED, AND OMG TEAM UNDER ATTACK. My team and I are in downtown Minneapolis right now. We still have undercover reporters inside the mob. I was at the scene of the shooting this morning and barely made it out alive. Hundreds surrounded us. They were throwing ice bottles, ripping off my bulletproof vest. They even followed us all the way back to our hotel. As all of this was happening, we received death threats via text. Pray for our team out in the field. We are reaching a boiling point in this country."
James O'Keefe on X - "URGENT UPDATE: I’ve never experienced anything quite like today in my life. I’ve interacted with the Cartel and have witnessed some crazy things in the desert in ‘24. But what strikes me is how organized these agitators in Minneapolis are. They have spotters everywhere in the city and suburbs, on street corners, even 30 minutes away from downtown. They have people at hotels that work with them and signal to them which made it making it difficult for us to lose our tail once my cover was blown. Usually I lose a tail. Not this time. We switched locations THREE times. I recorded and posted this while leaving Wayzata, while they were STILL surveilling. We all agreed we must make the threats public ASAP, even if we had people still in the field with the hidden cams. Earlier around noon, while @camhigby released his report on the Signal threads, I was inside what appeared to be a fully autonomous Zone. No police presence. The police were told to leave. I identified myself as Press and they said they will kill Press and will not let me leave. My skin was fully covered because it was so cold. But because they couldn’t verify who I was, they screamed and started throwing ice bottles at us. One hit, @SKRUCHTENMMA , a marine who was with me. They patted him down like THEY were the authorities, attempting to confiscate any weapons. They were set to destroy our vehicle before we even got to it. I will have a full video report shortly. But the bigger picture here is more important. I am angry. But not at the agitators. I find myself already angry at the people who don’t understand what we’re dealing with and will do nothing about it. When I got to the suburbs I felt like I was in a simulation. I believe the American people need to wake up. This moment is a warning about where we’re headed. Fear pushes people to care only about their money and their families—I get it. But when fear turns inward, when self-preservation and greed replace moral courage, evil goes unchallenged. And history shows that what we ignore today will come for all of us tomorrow. Ironically and incredibly, I see that these Communists do not fear death in the same way most good people seem to. The only thing the Communists fear is exposure itself. And that’s good news because it may be our only option. I’m dead serious about investigating the prosecutors themselves if they don’t hold these Minnesota fraudsters and violent mobsters accountable for what they’re doing. Stay tuned for the videos."

Meme - James O'Keefe: "I've been to a lot of hell Holes but being completely surrounded by 200 white communists in the autonomous zone in Minneapolis was probably the most terrifying sensation I've ever experienced. They are more organized than you can possibly imagine. You will not understand unless you go there."
James O'Keefe @JamesOKeefeIII: "Read the message we received:"
"+1 (725) 246-0777
We know you're in Minneapolis, you're with Okeefe and his crew of Nazis. You're in a white ford license plate *** from Florida. You have 1 hour to leave or you're dead"

F.A. United States Attorney Bill Essayli on X - "Antifa tactics are on full display today. What you're seeing is straight from their playbook to undermine government:
1. Agitate law enforcement (get in their face, spit on them, assault them, etc.)
2. Trigger a response and use of force by law enforcement
3. Film the use of force and publicize it out of context
4. Use mainstream media and social media to inflame the public with a false narrative
5. Trigger a riot to overthrow the government
They tried this last summer in Los Angeles, and it did not work. We aggressively arrested and charged violators on the spot, and called in the National Guard. We restored law and order in California. @TheJusticeDept will do the same in Minnesota."
Andy Ngo on X - "Yes, this is the Antifa playbook for when they are at a use of force disadvantage when it comes to law enforcement agencies. (The strategy is also used by some Palestinian nationalist propagandists as well.) I wrote in detail about this strategy in my book about Antifa. Confrontation, escalation, and getting arrested for the cameras ARE the point. They believe the propaganda and hoaxes, amplified without question by mainstream media and far-left activists, can help give them an upper hand. It's worked in some ways. As in 2020, regular leftists and Democrats are coming out in large numbers to act as body shields for rioters and to create an appearance of mass mobilization. And as before, Democrats are there to provide institutional and local governmental support. http://ngocomment.com"

Shipwreckedcrew on X - "Something I did not know until research today.... In INS v. Lopez-Mendoza the Supreme Court held that because deportation is a CIVIL proceeding, the Fifth Amendment right to remain silent does not apply. If a suspected illegal alien is asked a question but does not answer, the ICE Officers are allowed to infer from his silence that an answer would incriminate him. So, on the question of "totality of circumstances" that authorize a detention for purposes of immigration investigation, racial profiling is not allowed. But if an ICE Officer asks a person in a consensual encounter whether they are a US citizen, the failure to answer can be considered as evidence that the person is NOT, and that contributes to the "totality of circumstances" that justifies an investigatory detention. Don't believe me?"
INS v. Lopez-Mendoza | 468 U.S. 1032 (1984) | Justia U.S. Supreme Court Center - "Matter of Sandoval, supra, at 79; see, e.g., Avila-Gallegos v. INS, 525 F.2d 666 (CA2 1975). The INS' task is simplified in this regard by the civil nature of the proceeding. As Justice Brandeis stated: "Silence is often evidence of the most persuasive character. . . . [T]here is no rule of law which prohibits officers charged with the administration of the immigration law from drawing an inference from the silence of one who is called upon to speak. . . . A person arrested on the preliminary warrant is not protected by a presumption of citizenship comparable to the presumption of innocence in a criminal case. There is no provision which forbids drawing an adverse inference from the fact of standing mute." United States ex rel. Bilokumsky v. Tod, 263 U.S. at 263 U. S. 153-154."

Payton Alexander on X - "This is how little you people care about consent. Tens of millions of people were brought here without our permission. We explicitly passed laws preventing it, and you not only don’t care, you violently attack any attempt to get them out. I could not care less what you think."
Wilfred Reilly on X - "Good and obvious point. Large NGOs trained millions of people to - per both common sense, and ~three dozen conversations with activists and migrants - flatly lie on our asylum paperwork...after passing through 6-7 other stable nations. These people surged into the USA, were assigned imaginary hearing dates often years in the future, and were shipped about the heartland. There, they were joined by millions of others to just illegally walk over our border. Under the last Presidency, anyone CAUGHT illegally walking across the border could THEN make his fake-ass asylum claim. Now, finally, we are removing some of these people - and this is being greeted with hysterical noise about "breaking the law" and "respect for the norms." It really is beyond satire."

A Troubled Place - "The municipal government has felt the strain. The town, already struggling with high rates of poverty and unemployment, has been forced to assimilate thousands of new arrivals. The schools now crowd with new Haitian pupils, and have had to hire translators and English teachers. Some of the old pipes downtown have started releasing the smell of sewage... there is a growing sense of trepidation about the alarming number of car crashes, with some vehicles reportedly slamming into buildings. Among the city’s old guard, frustrations are starting to boil over. Instead of being used to revitalize these communities, these residents argue, resources get redirected to the new arrivals, who undercut wages, drive rents up, and, so far, have failed to assimilate. Worst of all, these residents say, they had no choice—there was never a vote on the question of migration; it simply materialized... How did thousands of Haitians end up in a tiny borough in Western Pennsylvania? What are they doing there? And cui bono—who benefits? The answers to these questions have ramifications not only for Charleroi, but for the general trajectory of mass migration under the Biden administration, which has allowed more than 7 million migrants to enter the United States, either illegally, or, as with some 309,000 Haitians, under ad hoc asylum rules. The basic pattern in Charleroi has been replicated in thousands of cities and towns across America: the federal government has opened the borders to all comers; a web of publicly funded NGOs has facilitated the flow of migrants within the country; local industries have welcomed the arrival of cheap, pliant labor. And, under these enormous pressures, places like Charleroi often revert to an older form: that of the company town, in which an open conspiracy of government, charity, and industry reshapes the society to its advantage—whether the citizens want it or not. The best way to understand the migrant crisis is to follow the flow of people, money, and power—in other words, to trace the supply chain of human migration. In Charleroi, we have mapped the web of institutions that have facilitated the flow of migrants from Port-au-Prince. Some of these institutions are public and, as such, must make their records available; others, to avoid scrutiny, keep a low profile. The initial, and most powerful, institution is the federal government... The next link in the web is the network of publicly funded NGOs that provide migrants with resources to assist in travel, housing, income, and work. These groups are called “national resettlement agencies,” and serve as the key middleman in the flow of migration. The scale of this effort is astounding. These agencies are affiliated with more than 340 local offices nationwide and have received some $5.5 billion in new awards since 2021. And, because they are technically non-governmental institutions, they are not required to disclose detailed information about their operations. In Charleroi, one of the most active resettlement agencies is Jewish Family and Community Services Pittsburgh. According to a September Pittsburgh Post-Gazette report, JFCS staff have been traveling to Charleroi weekly for the past year and a half to resettle many of the migrants. The organization has offered to help migrants sign up for welfare programs, including SNAP, Medicaid, and direct financial assistance. While JFCS Pittsburgh offers “employment services” to migrants, it denies any involvement with the employer and staffing agencies that were the focus of our investigation. And yet, business is brisk. In 2023, JFCS Pittsburgh reported $12.5 million in revenue, of which $6.15 million came directly from government grants. Much of the remaining funding came from other nonprofits that also get federal funds, such as a $2.8 million grant from its parent organization, HIAS. And JFCS’s executives enjoy generous salaries: the CEO earned $215,590, the CFO $148,601, and the COO $125,218—all subsidized by the taxpayer. What is next in the chain? Business. In Charleroi, the Haitians are, above all, a new supply of inexpensive labor... While some recruitment happens through word-of-mouth, many staffing agencies partner with local nonprofits that specialize in refugee resettlement to find immigrants who need work... The final link is housing. And here, too, Fourth Street Foods has an organized interest. During the Covid-19 pandemic, Scott said, Fourth Street Foods was “scrambling” to find additional workers. The owner of the company, David Barbe, stepped in, acquiring and renovating a “significant number of homes” to provide housing for his workforce... In recent years, a debate has raged about “replacement migration,” which some left-wing critics have dubbed a racist conspiracy theory. But in Charleroi, “replacement” is a plain reality... the benefits of mass migration seem to accrue to the organized interests, while citizens and taxpayers absorb the costs... for the old residents of Charleroi, who cherish their distinct heritage and fear that their quality of life is being compromised, it’s mostly downside. The evictions, the undercut wages, the car crashes, the cramped quarters, the unfamiliar culture: these are not trivialities, nor are they racist conspiracy theories. They are the signs of a disconcerting reality: Charleroi is a dying town that could not revitalize itself on its own, which made it the perfect target for “revitalization” by elite powers—the federal government, the NGOs, and their local satraps. The key question in Charleroi is the fundamental question of politics: Who decides? The citizens of the United States, and of Charleroi, have been assured since birth that they are the ultimate sovereign. The government, they were told, must earn the consent of the governed. But the people of Charleroi were never asked if they wanted to submit their borough to an experiment in mass migration. Others chose for them—and slandered them when they objected. The decisive factor, which many on the institutional Left would rather conceal, is one of power. Martha’s Vineyard, when faced with a single planeload of migrants, can evict them in a flash. But Charleroi—the broken man of the Rust Belt—cannot. This is the reality of replacement: the strong do what they can, and the weak do what they must."
From 2024

Meet the Americans so desperate to flee Trump they're now living in filthy Dutch REFUGEE camps - "Americans who fled to the Netherlands in a bid to escape the Trump administration are now living in filthy refugee camps, it has emerged. According to Dutch immigration authorities, 76 US citizens claimed asylum in the country last year, a significant increase from the nine that did in 2024. Many of those who have left are transgender or parents to transgender children and are housed in the 'queer block' of an overcrowded camp in the northern village of Ter Apel... The camp, which resembles a prison, has guards stationed at every gate and offers less than desirable amenities. Residents have complained that the tiny college-dorm-like rooms they are provided are covered in graffiti, with some alleging that they suspect bodily fluids have been smeared on the walls. Asylum seekers are permitted to leave the camp, but must be present for daily bed checks. They are also given a small allowance so they can purchase food and cook meals in the communal kitchen. Many of the American refugees are transgender and are seeking asylum after allegedly being victims of hostility and discrimination in their home states. But the Dutch ministry of asylum and migration has so far deemed that the alleged mistreatment of the LGBTQ community in the US is not grounds for refugee status... Actor and visual artist Veronica Clifford Carlos, 28, flew to Amsterdam in June last year to seek asylum after receiving daily death threats in San Francisco. San Diego resident Jane Michelle Arc, 47, painted a similar picture, alleging that she was 'getting punched or pushed or shoved every single week' while walking the city streets... Ashe Wilde, 40, fled Massachusetts, which she admitted is 'one of the most liberal states' and a place where officials are working to 'preserve our identities across the queer spectrum.'... Gayle Carter-Stewart, who moved her transgender teen Nox to the country from Montana last April, said their asylum application was 'automatically rejected because America is considered a safe country of origin.' She said Nox, 14, told authorities that they would kill themselves if they returned to the US but noted that 'none of that was considered in their decision-making process.'"
When left wingers want to move into concentration camps
Are left wingers going to call the Netherlands fascist and homophobic/transphobic/queerphobic?
If the US is not safe for LGBTQ people, it should not accept asylum claims on the basis of LGBTQ identity, to protect asylum seekers

Daniel Friedman on X - "Here are some things that are all true:
1. ICE agents have been assaulted, hit with cars, shot at and otherwise endangered at these demonstrations. These are not peaceful protests.
2. If you are in an interaction where a cop thinks he is in danger, you are in danger. This is always true. A cop is not expected to tolerate risk to himself for the sake of your safety. If he perceives danger he is trained to eliminate it. ICE agents don’t know who among these protesters are going to try to kill them, but they reasonably believe some of them might, and that means every encounter between ICE and protesters is dangerous for everyone.
3. Democratic officials, invoking sanctuary laws, will not use local police to control crowds, or keep protesters away from federal agents or do anything to defuse this powder keg of a situation or keep people safe during these demonstrations.
4. The Leftist propaganda campaign against ICE is modeled after the Hamas propaganda campaign which turned public sentiment against Israel. They intentionally create dangerous situations that get people killed and then exploit these sympathetic “martyrs” for social media engagement. They want as many dead people as possible and are encouraging activists to bring their kids to violent riots where extremists are clashing with federal agents.
5. This propaganda campaign has been enormously successful. ICE has never been less popular, the fringe leftist “abolish ICE” position now has traction among center-left mainstream Democrats, and nobody is talking about the rampant Somali fraud in Minnesota that was the reason ICE surged activity in the state in the first place."

Carmine Sabia on X - "ICE is in cities nationwide, and shootings are not happening. Even in Memphis, with a Democrat mayor, they are getting cooperation, and none of this is happening. But Tim Walz and Jacob Frey want chaos, so you do not learn about their theft of taxpayers' money."
Sunny on X - "ICE is acting all across the country and the only place we keep getting the violence is where Democrats were found funneling billions of taxpayer dollars to immigrant community fraudsters in a scandal so big that the incumbent Democratic governor had to drop his reelection."

skepticalifornia on X - "The MS-13 gang clique based in a San Fernando Valley high school murdered at least 10 people, including a 16-year-old student One victim had their heart cut out by machete 19 of the 22 defendants entered the country illegally One had a taxpayer-funded salary, via a nonprofit"

Americans have long talked about Canada becoming a state

Only In Canada | This is from my small town, July 2/25 edition | Facebook

"This is from my small town, July 2/25 edition. Scream all you want, but Trump is not the first US president to suggest statehood."

"Americans have long talked about Canada becoming a state

Not long before Alaska and Hawaii became the 49th and 50th states in 1959, President Eisenhower pitched Canada becoming the 49th state. Now that sounds familiar.

A 1958 Mountaineer editorial took exception, but the Commonwealth was a factor unlike today. The old editorial stated:

We just read that some time ago, President Eisenhower asked to a prominent Canadian, "Don't you think you would be better off as our 49th State?"

If the president did ask that, then he should have stayed with the army, where he knew the ground rules.

Surely, all educated Americans should know by this time that Canadians are very content as they are; they have never expressed a wish to join the States and unless there is a very drastic change of heart, we doubt they ever will.

Ninety-nine per cent of Canadians are proud to be a part of the British Commonwealth.

Whatever would we gain by selling ourselves down the river to a boastful nation, that right now, often treats us like a poor relation, and most certainly would if we were? We would only lose our identity and be constantly reminded of how much better we were under the Stars and Stripes.

Few Canadians bear any enmity toward the Americans; most of us have many relatives there; our own favorite uncle and cousins are American citizens; people south of the border are kind, gen- erous neighbours, but being so rich and power- ful, far too many of them feel we are not as rich and powerful (which we aren't). But rich or poor, we are on our own - not dominated by another country, and we want to stay that way.

However, if the head of the American nation, does actually think and say, that we would be better off to join them, then we had better raise our voices in long and loud protests. Frankly, we thought Ike [Eisenhower] had more sense and lacking that, at least more tact."

Links - 31st January 2026 (2 - USA & Venezuela)

Mike Netter on X - "Sentiments of Venezuelans
I’m going to say this once, and I don’t care if it makes people uncomfortable. If you have never lived in Venezuela If you did not grow up there If you did not watch your country collapse in real time If you did not stand in food lines If you did not watch your parents lose everything they built If you did not have to leave your home with nothing Then shut the fuck up. You do not have an opinion. Your opinion does not matter. And you don’t get to lecture anyone about what’s happening there. I’m Venezuelan. I lived there most of my life until my early twenties. I watched my country go from a functioning democracy to full blown socialism right in front of my eyes. This is not politics to me. This is trauma. Before socialism, Venezuela was not perfect, but it worked. There was trade. There was money coming in. There was investment from the US. There were jobs. There was food. There was medicine. My family had five businesses. We had our home We had investments. We had a future. Then the government started nationalizing everything. Private companies were taken. Foreign investors were pushed out. Imports were blocked. Price controls destroyed production. Corruption exploded. And everything died. Not slowly. Violently. People didn’t suddenly become poor because of “capitalism” or “the US” or whatever bullshit slogan people like to repeat online. They became poor because socialism destroyed incentives, destroyed production, destroyed trust, and destroyed hope. People today in Venezuela are not debating ideology. They are trying to survive. They are trying to find food. Trying to find medication. Trying to keep their families alive. So when I see people in the West posting from comfortable homes, full fridges, stable currencies, and safe streets talking about “imperialism” or “US bad” or “Trump this or that” No. It’s not complicated. You’re just ignorant. China is not rebuilding Venezuela. Russia is not rebuilding Venezuela. Cartels are not rebuilding Venezuela. They are stealing. They are extracting. They are draining what’s left. If the US comes in and reinvests If refineries get rebuilt If infrastructure gets restored If imports open back up If food, water, and medicine become accessible again If people can work and earn with dignity Then yes. Let them take all the oil they want. Because at least something gets built instead of destroyed. This is something to celebrate. Not because it’s perfect. But because for the first time in a long time, there is hope. Hope that families can eat. Hope that people don’t have to flee their country. Hope that Venezuela can function again. If you’ve never lived through a country collapsing If you’ve never watched socialism destroy everything around you If you’ve never had to leave your home because staying meant starvation Then again Shut the fuck up. This isn’t theory. This isn’t politics. This is lived experience.
By Stephen Subero"

Meme - Trump on phone: "Look, Vlad, for it to be considered a "special military operation" it's got to be fast and decisive, not a 4-year trench war"
*Monkey Putin with bananaphone*

Defiant L’s on X - "Venezuelan woman: “In 25 years, nobody has done anything about us except for Trump”"

Is Doug Ford next on Trump’s capture list? (aka "After Donald Trump’s capture of Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro, does Doug Ford need to watch his back?")
Left wingers are crazy

The ‘International Law’ Illusion in Venezuela - WSJ - "Has international law become a tyrant’s best friend? Democrats and foreign leaders are claiming that President Trump’s arrest of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro is illegal—at least as international law is interpreted by the reigning complex of professors, NGOs and multilateral bureaucrats... Our favorite is Hamas’s statement condemning the Maduro arrest as a “grave violation of international law” and “assault on the sovereignty of an independent state.” It would be nice to think we live in a Wilsonian garden where law governs relations among nations. We don’t. The closest we’ve come was in the aftermath of the Cold War, when the U.S. was dominant globally and rallied coalitions to enforce international norms in the first Gulf War and the Balkans. Today rogue regimes are on the march, and international law and the institutions that supposedly uphold it end up protecting the lawbreakers... The rogues of the world break all the rules, only to deploy them against law-abiding democracies as a way to continue in their lawlessness. The frequent citation concerning Venezuela is Article 2(4) of the U.N. Charter: “All Members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any State.” But go a little deeper and the analysis becomes muddy. First, is the U.S. intervention a violation of Venezuelan sovereignty when the country’s legitimate authority consents to it? Edmundo González, elected by the Venezuelan people in 2024, has spoken in support of the operation. The Maduro regime, which stole that election, objects. The bipartisan U.S. position is that Mr. Maduro wasn’t the legitimate President. Mr. Maduro welcomed Hezbollah and used Cuban troops to impose his rule on Venezuela. The regime in Havana says 32 Cubans died defending Mr. Maduro. As our contributor Eugene Kontorovich writes, “It would be odd to read [Article] 2(4) as allowing foreign powers to use troops to prop up an illegitimate, unelected dictator, but not to remove him.” Second, does this qualify as U.S. self-defense against the Venezuelan regime’s drug smuggling and use of migration as a weapon? The U.S. also claimed self-defense as grounds to arrest Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega in 1989... The herd of instant analysts also claim the U.S. operation will give Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping license in Ukraine and Taiwan. “Think of what Russia and China just learned,” Rep. Jim Himes, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation.” As if Moscow and Beijing don’t already trample international law when it gets in their way. President Xi isn’t waiting on a new legal interpretation to seize Taiwan; that’s what his military buildup is for. China has ignored the international ruling against its island grabs in the South China Sea. Vetoes by China and Russia have neutered the U.N. Security Council. The International Criminal Court has become a weapon against the U.S. and Israel when they fight terrorism. The only defense against global rogues is the deterrent of Western military force. That force was on display with flawless precision in snatching Mr. Maduro. And the demonstration of U.S. nerve and military prowess will do more than a thousand U.N. resolutions to protect the free world and make Russia, China and Iran think twice. Liberal internationalism is a moral and political failure if it can’t distinguish between the aggression of Russia and China to swallow neighboring democracies and a U.S. military action to arrest a lawless dictator in league with the world’s worst actors."

Thread by @JewishSpaceLazr on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "To understand Venezuela, you must understand that the Liberal International Rules-Based Order established after WWII no longer exists. It was based on historically unique circumstances that haven't obtained for 30 years. Here's why that happened and how the world works now 🧵
Post-WWII the world was bi-polar, tense but essentially stable. The US established extraordinary institutions and diplomatic mores: The UN, World Bank, IMF, GATT, etc. But they only existed in the West-dominated world. The Soviet sphere was separate, mostly outside the system. What we called The Third World was weak and dependent. None of that obtains today. The Communist Empire collapsed, Europe is weak, and there are new world powers with little or no stake in the vestigial Rules Based Order: China, the Muslim world, & other BRIC nations. The old Cold war structures fell along with the USSR, the rise of China & Islam, and the economic/military decline of Europe. This new world is disordered. It is a world defined not by ‘international law’ but by something much more traditional - multipolar power dynamics. As leader of the Old Order, the US was slow to adapt. We thought we could withdraw from global activist leadership and the world would still play by our rules. WRONG. China, Russia, Iran, the Gulf powers, etc have all filled the vacuum of global power while we stood idly by. But as the strongest economic and military power on the planet, America is uniquely able to dominate the new system just as we dominated the old. That's what the capture of Maduro means. It’s the US announcing we understand the new global power structure and we intend to lead."

✨️ 𝐃𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐝 𝐋𝐞𝐞 ✨️ on X - "My smile as I tell a liberal, "We didn't "Invade" Venezuela... ... we were "Undocumented" visitors.""

Jesús Enrique Rosas - The Body Language Guy on X - "OPEN LETTER TO LIBERALS, DEMOCRATS, LIBTARDS AND THE GENERAL WOKE MOB
I see too many fuckers in here gripping their ethically sourced oat milk latte so hard the cardboard sleeve is whimpering, staring at footage of us, actual Venezuelan human beings who have spent the last decade eating sleep for dinner, cheering for the Orange Man. HOW DARE WE, RIGHT!? And it hurts, doesn’t it? It feels like your brain is trying to divide by zero while some asshole kicks your junk with Delta Force boots. Since I know you ain't gonna read all this, this is the summary: FUCK YOU and your "ACKSHUALLY..." gag reflex. Too bad your squirrel mind can't fathom a guy in Caracas, who has lost 40 pounds because of a collapsing economy and whose local currency is less valuable than a used napkin, is weeping with joy because he thinks 47th is his ticket out of a socialist fever dream. And yes, we have been waiting for this moment for literal DECADES. But your immediate, lizard-brain reaction is to push up your glasses, scoff and say, "Um, ACKSHUALLY, do these Venezuelans realize that Trump’s stance on globalism is intellectually inconsistent with the neoliberal framework required for true South American stability?" No, you absolute dipshit. We don't. Because we’re too busy being excited about the possibility of living in a country where Maduro's colectivos won't shoot us in the face with a sawed off shotgun, JUST FOR WALKING DOWN THE STREET. You're more worried about the optics of a right-wing populist getting a win than you are about the fact that Maduro’s government has been running a nationwide "Hunger Games" reality for years, and nobody, not you, not the 'international community' has cared one bit about us through all this. You: "But Trump is a threat to our institutions! He's literally HITLER!!1" Gonna tell you a personal anecdote, you liberal POS. I personally know a guy who was snatched off the street just for BEING IN THE WRONG WHATSAPP GROUP. The guy was disappeared for almost a year. His family didn't know if he was dead or alive, or where he was detained. Nothing. AND HE DIDN'T EVEN REALIZE HE WAS IN THAT WHATSAPP GROUP. A FUCKING WHATSAPP GROUP. And yes, that's the reason I'm Venezuelan, I'm living in EUROPE (shocking, right? how do Venezuelans exist outside Venezuela, you might ask!?) and I can't enter the country anymore. Or at least, not yet. Because I would disappear without a trace. Just like your abroadian-lifestyle-funding tax money in the liberal blue shithole you live right now. Any Venezuelan would literally vote for a sentient head of lettuce if it promised to stop these motherfuckers from torturing and raping our families. I WISH I WAS JOKING, YOU PIECE OF SHIT. Your very own problem is that you view the world through a lens of virtue-cosplay. To you, supporting the "wrong" person is a social death sentence. You can't fathom that for us, politics isn't about "identity" or "discourse". For us, politics have become a matter of SURVIVAL. And we have been betrayed SO MANY TIMES by the so-called political opposition, we're tired of all this shit. We've grown too old and too weary to listen to your whining about 'International Law'. If a guy saves you from a bear attack, you don't stand over your bleeding shins and lectursplain to him about his shitty tweets from 2016. You say "Thank you." And I'm PROUD to THANK Donald Fucking J. Trump for this. But to you, modern liberal, rot of all societies, our "Thank You" is the real tragedy here, because it means the "Bad Man" got a nice gold star. Utter narrative fuckery that rains diarrhea on your carefully curated, elitist worldview. So, while you're busy writing a 14-part thread about how our celebrations are "uninformed" or "dangerous for the global narrative," we are celebrating because we see a light at the end of a very long, very dark, very hungry tunnel. We don't give a SINGLE FLYING FUCK about being tweetshamed by some prick in a Brooklyn loft. We're worried about not dying in the bowels of El Helicoide. Google that, coño e' tu madre. So take your "nuance", put it inside a pineapple and shove the whole thing up your ass. We are allowed to be happy that our dictator is going to wear an orange jumpsuit, even if the guy helping us do it makes your therapist rich."

Leo Kearse - on YouTube & touring on X - "See how slyly they "fact check" the claim that the Venezuelan socialist regime stole American oil investments, assets and infrastructure. First they rephrase the claim as just being about oil itself. Then you've got to look past the big blaring "FALSE" symbol to see that yes, the Venezuelan socialists did "seize assets and land from US companies". 92% of fact-checking is socialist propaganda. Don't fact-check me on that."
Snopes lying again

Meme - "TO ALL THE *** WORRIED ABOUT VENEZUELA'S OIL: STOP THE HYPOCRISY. YOU DIDN'T CARE FOR 20 YEARS WHILE THAT OIL WAS STOLEN - NOT FOR THE VENEZUELAN PEOPLE, BUT FOR MADURO HIMSELF, FOR RUSSIA, CHINA, CUBA, AND IRAN - WHILE VENEZUELANS WERE LEFT IN EXTREME POVERTY AND FORCED INTO EXILE. THESE PEOPLE ARE CRIMINALS. AND NOW SUDDENLY YOU CARE MORE ABOUT VENEZUELANS' OIL THAN ABOUT VENEZUELANS THEMSELVES. VENEZUELANS ARE GRATEFUL TO PRESIDENT Donald Trump, AND IF THE PRICE OF FREEDOM IS VENEZUELA'S OIL, WE PAY IT GLADLY - BECAUSE WE DON'T CARE ABOUT THE OIL. WE HAVE THOUSANDS OF OTHER RESOURCES TO SURVIVE. FOR US, FREEDOM IS WORTH MORE THAN ALL THE OIL IN THE WORLD. SO STOP THE HYPOCRISY. SUCK A WHOLE CARAVAN OF EGGS AND SHUT THE FUCK UP."

Meme - Misheru Katorin @Mkatorin: "The third worldists bitching about imperialism while the Maduro regime claimed half the land of its neighbour which actually was just to get more oil."
"TRINIDAD & TOBAGO"
"Claimed by Venezuela"
"Guyana's Exclusive Economic Zone"
"SURINAME"
"Claimed by Venezuela"
"Guyana"

Meme - Trump: "Hey, we captured Maduro."
Tradwife (Venezuela): "OMG!! YAY!!"
Fat woman (Democrats): "She's not interested."

Meme - John Paviovitz @johnpavlovitz: "The grandparents and great grandparents off MAGAs would be sickened of the way they're now on the side of the very authoritarians and dictators they died protecting us from"
John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz: "I stand with Venezuela. Impeach Trump Now."

Meme - Joe Biden @JoeBiden: "Trump talks tough on Venezuela, but admires thugs and dictators like Nicolas Maduro. As President, I will stand with the Venezuelan people and for democracy."
Joe Biden @JoeBiden: "Venezuela's election to the UN Human Rights Council is a travesty. Nicolas Maduro is a dictator, plain and simple. His regime's human rights violations and extrajudicial killings have been documented by the UNHRC."
Joe Biden @JoeBiden: "As Juan Guaido speaks about the Venezuelan humanitarian crisis and the crimes against humanity perpetrated by Maduro, I reaffirm my commitment to stand with the Venezuelan people. A Biden-Harris administration will always champion democracy and human rights around the world."
Joe Biden @JoeBiden: "On the anniversary of a hopeful moment, it's clear Trump's Venezuela policy is a dead end. Millions are suffering with the Maduro regime still in power."
Joe Biden @JoeBiden: "Only a tyrant would prevent the delivery of food and medicine to people he claims to lead. The international community must support Juan Guaido and the National Assembly. It is time for Maduro to step aside and allow a democratic transition. The Venezuelan people deserve better."
Joe Biden @JoeBiden: "On this Venezuelan Independence Day, my thoughts are with Venezuelans who continue to work tirelessly for the cause of democracy. It's time for free and fair elections so that the Venezuelan people can turn the page on the corrupt and repressive Maduro regime."
Joe Biden @JoeBiden: "Nicolas Maduro is a dictator. I strongly condemn his regime's violent takeover of the Venezuelan National Assembly, the country's sole remaining democratic institution."

Meme - Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree: "Maduro's security forces opened fire on unarmed protesters. He needs to go."
Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree: "TRUMP IS A WAR CRIMINAL TRUMP IS A WAR CRIMINAL TRUMP IS A WAR CRIMINAL TRUMP IS A WAR CRIMINAL TRUMP IS A WAR CRIMINAL"

Meme - "Luigi Mangione should be allowed to execute American civilians with zero consequences but Trump removing Maduro is Le "War Crime" The left is a joke. Nobody cares what you idiots think anymore."
evan loves worf @esjesjesj: "Luigi Mangione acted in self defense"
evan loves worf @esjesjesj: "This is a war crime btw"

Top economist says Trump may have 'outsmarted all of us' on tariffs - "A prominent Wall Street economist who had slammed President Trump’s tariffs earlier this year now says that the president may have “outsmarted all of us” with his controversial trade policies. Torsten Sløk, chief economist at investment giant Apollo Global Management, said that while the uncertainty surrounding trade policy has already started to weigh on the economy, Trump could lower tariffs on most of the US trading partners while using the levies to boost federal revenue. Sløk suggested in a recently posted analysis that the administration’s approach may be more strategic than previously thought... In April, Sløk warned that Trump’s tariffs could trigger a recession by summer, particularly harming American small businesses and potentially halting the flow of goods from China to the US, leading to layoffs and a broader economic slowdown."

Scotiabank’s CEO is a Trumper, Boycott ScotiaBank : r/Scotiabank - " While everyone is entitled to their own political beliefs, the recent comments by Scotiabank’s CEO about U.S. political developments are deeply troubling. At the Royal Bank of Canada’s annual Canadian bank CEO conference, Scotiabank CEO Scott Thomson described what he called a “bit of a lost decade” for regional growth, and said U.S. President Donald Trump’s renewed push for Western Hemisphere dominance would be a “longer-term positive” for the Western Hemisphere, the U.S. and Scotiabank. He cited shifts toward right-of-center governments in countries like Chile, Colombia and Peru, and a “very business-friendly administration” in Mexico as supportive of stronger growth trends he believes should benefit the bank over the next several years. What is happening in the United States right now is dangerous for everyone, and embracing or celebrating that direction, especially from the leadership of a major Canadian bank, is unacceptable. Because of this, we can no longer support Scotiabank."
"“Everyone is entitled to their own opinions”
“Boycott the bank because the CEO may not be a leftist and lightly criticized Canadian economic policy”
Lol"

Meme - "Chuck Schumer voted 'Yes' for the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act of 1986 authorizing the military to fire on drug-smuggling boats. The House approved it 392-16 and the Senate approved it 97-2. All current Democrats voted serving back then voted YES"

Meme - John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz: "The Right has generated so many conspiracies that they no longer know why they're lying- but that doesn't stop them."
John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz: "There are people who believe the moon landing was staged but this wasn't. *Trump assassination attempt*"

Caryma Sa'd - Lawyer + Political Satirist on X - "In a city of over one million people, quoting Deana Sherif is a bizarre choice. The Globe and Mail presents the perpetual protester merely as “a property manager of housing co-ops,” ignoring her documented pattern of violent and antisocial behaviour. Sherif has already been found guilty in relation to protest-related incidents and faces another trial later this month on serious charges, including assault, assault with a weapon, intimidation, and hate-motivated harassment. How are readers meant to understand her perspective without any context? 📸 Jan 4, 2026 #Ottawa #ProtestMania"

Meme - JJ McCullough: "Canada has not recognized Maduro as a "head of state" since 2018 because we do not recognize the validity of any of the elections he claimed to have won. Avi should be asked if he believes Maduro was legitimately elected and if he believes Venezuela was a democracy under him."
Avi Lewis @avilewis: "The US has attacked a country, kidnapped its head of state, and is seizing its oil. Trump has invoked the Monroe Doctrine. This is a moment for Canada to stand up: condemn this act of imperialism. Reject impunity and the politics of brute force. ..."
Readers added context: "The Government of Canada has not recognized Maduro as the legitimate "head of state" of Venezuela since 2019 because it does not believe he was legitimately chosen in a free and fair election."

Pete North on X - "The age of empires never ended. Multilateralism was always a facade. The "international rules based order" was essentially America's soft power empire until it was captured by liberal internationalists, and then America woke up to the fact that it's carrying the weight of this entire system which enables despots and parasites while being lectured by Europeans who lean on America for security. The whale is scraping the barnacles of its back."
Collingwood 🇬🇧 on X - "I love how they treat this as if it is a unique Trump novelty, target than standard practice for the last 27 years. Just the examples of two countries Clinton bombed Serbia and then occupied part of it after redrawing the borders (of a sovereign European country, no less) against its will. Bush II led an illegal and unprovoked invasion of Iraq Obama (egged on by Cameroon and Sarkozy and his state department) bombed Libya, turning one of the richest African countries into a hellhole run by warlords and where cities have open air slave markets. Obama and Biden bombed Syria and funded and trained Al Qaeda there to take down the sovereign government (not conspiracy: well documented fact). Putin invaded Ukraine. Yet somehow this is all Trump's doing. These people have the memories of fish. Or the intellect of fish."

Richard Hanania on X - "*New polling among Venezuelans* The Economist finds that over half of Venezuelans support the raid against Maduro. Only 13% oppose it. 70% believe that their economic situation will be better in a year. About half support some form of US governance, only 18% oppose. Trump, Rubio, and Machado all have approval ratings over 50%. Major figures in the regime are all under 15%. If elections were held, Machado would beat Rodriguez in a landslide. There were a lot of assumptions made about how this would discredit the US abroad. No. People want to be free from socialist dictators. They care about that more than abstract concepts of international law. America is in the right here. We should keep going until Venezuela is free. It's what the people of that country want. It's ok to be proud of your country, and stand on the side of freedom against tyranny."

Labour MP ‘goes Caracas’ with praise for Venezuela ‘heroes’ - "During Mr Maduro’s 13 years at the helm in Venezuela, eight million people – a quarter of the population – fled their homeland. Those who opposed the regime risked jail and torture at the hands of the security forces, while the country’s economy shrank by at least 75 per cent."

Minnesota’s Post-Assimilation Reality

Minnesota’s Post-Assimilation Reality

What is unfolding in Minnesota cannot be understood without first confronting a difficult truth: some cultures arrive intact. They do not dissolve on contact with modern society, nor do they gently adapt—they replicate.

Somali society is organized around the clan. Loyalty is not abstract, nor is it civic. It is biological and binding. The individual exists only insofar as he serves the group. Protection, marriage, honor, silence, and punishment are governed by this code. Obligations flow inward, sanctions flow downward. The clan precedes the individual and outlives him.

This structure is pre-modern, but it is also anti-modern. It resists the very conditions that make liberal societies function: individual accountability, transparency, impersonal law, and trust beyond kin. Ernest Gellner warned that a modern nation-state cannot be built on tribal loyalty. Tribalism fragments authority and dissolves shared obligation. Where it persists, institutions decay.

Industrial societies require a high culture that is transmitted through mass, state-run education, because only such a culture can sustain economic mobility, the bonds of social trust, and full political citizenship within a highly differentiated division of labor. Nationalism in this sense is not an irrational passion but the adjustment mechanism by which politics and culture come into alignment.

The clan code also explains something many observers prefer not to see: silence. Silence is enforcement. Those who break ranks are dealt with swiftly. Ostracism is severe and permanent. This clarifies why so few Somalis publicly condemn abuse, even when wrongdoing is obvious. To speak is to choose exile. To remain silent is to survive. In clan societies, loyalty is rewarded more reliably than honesty.

These dynamics are not unique to Minnesota. The same patterns appear wherever clan-based cultures are transplanted into advanced welfare states—Sweden, the Netherlands, and Britain. The logic is consistent. Extract what can be extracted, and when the host weakens, move on. This is adaptation in its purest form. But it is fundamentally incompatible with modern civic life, which depends on social trust rather than blood ties.

Edward Banfield called this phenomenon “amoral familism.” Loyalty inward, indifference outward. Where it dominates, corruption is not a deviation from the system. In truth, it is the system. Public institutions become spoils to be captured, law becomes negotiable, and accountability vanishes.

This failure wasn’t the result of chance, but of choice.

In Who Are We? Samuel Huntington traced the foundations of the United States to a specific and demanding cultural inheritance: Anglo-Protestantism, which was rule-bound, future-oriented, and property-respecting. This culture generated habits of work, restraint, and institutional loyalty that made self-government possible. Assimilation was mandatory. Immigration was selective—often brutally so.

Crossing the Atlantic was arduous. The destination offered discomfort, not charity. Newcomers were expected to contribute immediately. They had to prove they could support themselves and burden no one. Family reunification required proof of means. This wasn’t cruelty but the recognition of reality. And it worked. 

The Irish, Italians, Jews, and others did not indulge in their differences. They adapted slowly, painfully, and unevenly—but successfully—to the American way of life. Their old-world identities weren’t erased overnight, but they were subordinated to a common civic creed that demanded they speak the English language, work hard, and be loyal to our country’s civic institutions. America wasn’t built by preserving every outside culture—it was built by insisting that no foreign culture could remain sovereign.

That settlement began to fracture in the mid-20th century. Charles Taylor’s essay “The Politics of Recognition” supplied the moral vocabulary for the shift. Taylor argued that liberal societies must move beyond equal respect—treating individuals the same under the law—toward recognition, in which distinct cultural identities are publicly affirmed and preserved. Identity, in this view, is dialogical: who we are depends on how others recognize or misrecognize us. Misrecognition, Taylor argued, inflicts real psychological harm. From this followed the claim that a just society cannot be culturally blind, but must actively recognize and affirm the equal worth of distinct cultural identities.

In theory, this was meant to correct historical injustice. In practice, it redefined citizenship itself. Equality before the law was no longer sufficient. Difference demanded deference. Culture became a claim on the state rather than a private inheritance that individuals carried with them.

Huntington clearly identified the turning point: the rise of a cosmopolitan liberal elite that sought to redefine American identity from a coherent national culture into an open-ended social project. The melting pot gave way to the salad bowl, and unity was reframed as oppression. The “we” of the American people was weakened, then stripped of substance, and finally treated as suspect.

This shift carried romantic assumptions. Pre-modern cultures were recast as pure, victimized, and enriching, a modern revival of the noble savage myth. Internal failures were ignored, and illiberal practices were excused. To criticize was to betray. Tolerance slid into indulgence, and indulgence into surrender.

Will Kymlicka then provided the intellectual scaffolding. In Multicultural Citizenship, he argued that justice sometimes requires group-differentiated rights because individuals need a stable “societal culture” as the background condition for meaningful autonomy. He distinguished between “external protections” that shield minority groups from domination by the majority and “internal restrictions” imposed by groups on their own members, which liberalism must reject. But this framework contains a fatal omission. Once assimilation itself is treated as illegitimate, no coherent mechanism remains for protecting individuals trapped inside illiberal minority cultures. The group is shielded from the majority, while the individual is abandoned within the group.

Minnesota is living with the consequences.

This brings us to the convergence now visible: Somali clan structures, Muslim Brotherhood-linked institutions, and the Democratic Party. Multiculturalism made this alliance possible.

Consider the redistributive state. Multiculturalism doesn’t merely tolerate difference—it funds it. The assumption is permanence without assimilation. The assimilationist assumes that individuals fend for themselves. The multiculturalist insists the state will compensate indefinitely. Welfare ceases to be a safety net and instead becomes a settlement mechanism.

Milton Friedman warned, with characteristic precision, that a country cannot simultaneously have a generous welfare state and open borders. One must give way. Minnesota chose neither.

Friedman was explicit that he opposed not immigration itself but immediate access to welfare. He even noted that illegal immigrants in a welfare state could work without drawing benefits. But open borders combined with unconditional welfare, he warned, distort incentives for migrants and host societies alike, and are fiscally and politically unsustainable.

My husband, Niall Ferguson, has spent decades documenting what made Western societies succeed. In Civilization, he formulated the “Six Killer Apps” that supply the West’s vitality: competition, science, property rights, modern medicine, consumer society, and a work ethic rooted in Protestant culture. These were, and remain, functional requirements. His central warning was that electoral democracy is the capstone of this structure, not its foundation, and that overexpansive states and proliferating legalism—the rule of lawyers rather than law—can corrode the norms of trust and legality on which prosperity depends.

Such pressures are usually diffuse, but Minnesota concentrated them.

The scale of the Minnesota story matters—not in vague terms, but in hard sums. The Feeding Our Future case alone involves roughly a quarter-billion dollars in alleged theft from a child nutrition program. That is the “respectable” number, the one no one can deny. But it is only the first layer of the problem.

Prosecutors and investigators have uncovered far larger losses across Minnesota-administered programs, figures that push well north of $9 billion. Further investigations are almost certain to uncover billions more. This isn’t petty corruption, nor is it the case of a few bad apples. It is corruption on an industrial scale—the kind that doesn’t occur without protection.

That is where the Muslim Brotherhood enters the picture, long described by analysts as gradualist rather than confrontational. It focuses on overtaking institutions first, language second, and law last. Its aim is not immediate domination but normalization, demographic leverage, and eventual capture.

Minnesota hosts a dense network of Islamic councils and advocacy groups dominated by Somali leadership. Nationally, the pattern is expanding. Each success is framed as inclusion, which is insulated from scrutiny by the language of civil rights. And each success advances a narrow, disciplined agenda that is deeply anti-modern.

The Democratic Party completes the triangle. Immigration shifted from policy to identity. Enforcement became immoral, and illegality was reframed as victimhood. The result is an unmistakable pattern of activists obstructing federal officers, officials retreating from their duties, and a party increasingly reliant on ethnic blocs it cannot discipline without alienating its base.

These three forces—clan loyalty, Islamist strategy, and progressive politics—aren’t identical, but they are aligned. All reject the assimilationist creed, and all benefit when the common culture dissolves.

Again, this wasn’t unforeseeable. Friedman, Gellner, and Huntington all warned us. Ferguson explained what made the West work. The knowledge existed, but what failed was judgment.

Multiculturalism sounds humane and feels enlightened. But it is neither.

Every successful subversive movement requires camouflage and cover. In Minnesota, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has functioned as both. Formally, it presents itself as a civil rights organization defending Muslim Americans against discrimination. In practice, it has helped recast any scrutiny of their networks, funding, and political behavior as evidence of prejudice. The move is procedural rather than rhetorical. Questions are not answered but reframed.

CAIR’s ideological lineage traces back to networks aligned with the Muslim Brotherhood. The Brotherhood’s own writings describe a project of normalization, demographic leverage, and institutional capture. CAIR’s role is to ensure that the process is never named. Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison’s role has been to normalize it within the state.

As attorney general, he occupies one of the most powerful legal offices in Minnesota, with direct influence over what is pursued, what is delayed, and what quietly disappears. Under his tenure, scrutiny of Somali-linked fraud networks has been politically fraught. Investigations that would be routine elsewhere are treated as sensitive, even dangerous, terrain.

Ellison was raised Catholic and later converted to Islam as a young man. Conversion itself is not a crime, nor is it disqualifying. But in a political environment shaped by recognition politics, symbolism matters. One is permitted, even encouraged, to wonder what incentives operate when faith, identity, and power converge so neatly. When legal authority is exercised by figures embedded—culturally or politically—in the very constituencies under scrutiny, neutrality should no longer be assumed; it must be demonstrated. But in Minnesota, it has not been.

A democratic system cannot function when entire communities are treated as untouchable constituencies rather than equal citizens subject to the same law. When identity shields networks from enforcement, the rule of law gives way to selective indulgence. And once that line is crossed, corruption ceases to be an aberration and starts becoming a protected activity.

Each actor wants the same thing: numbers. For Democratic operatives, immigration has become an electoral strategy. For the Muslim Brotherhood, demographics precede influence. For clan structures, welfare extraction funds expansion and reinforces internal discipline.

What we are witnessing is the inversion of sovereignty. Authority migrates away from neutral institutions and toward organized blocs. Law becomes conditional. Citizenship becomes symbolic rather than substantive. At that point, the nation-state still exists on paper, but its essential functions—boundary enforcement, even-handed governance, shared duty—are already in retreat. What remains is administration without cohesion, elections without a demos, and rights severed from obligation.

By abandoning a common civic creed, Minnesota invited competing loyalties. By rejecting assimilation, it rewarded separatism. The result is a system that no longer knows what it is trying to produce. Citizenship becomes a label rather than a discipline. Belonging is decoupled from obligation. The state asks for nothing in return, and therefore receives nothing it can rely on. In such an environment, organized blocs predictably outperform individuals, and networks built on blood, faith, or grievance steadily replace rule-bound institutions.

The cure is not cosmetic reform but a return to first principles. Immigration must once again be selective, conditional, and unapologetic. Entry should be extended only to those willing to accept the host nation’s laws and culture without negotiation, and to do so in practice rather than rhetoric. There can be no automatic entitlement, no presumption of permanence, and no tolerance for systematic abuse. Residency and citizenship are privileges, not humanitarian vouchers. When they are treated otherwise, they lose all meaning.

The welfare state must also shrink—not out of spite, but out of necessity. Open access to benefits financed by others inverts selection. It attracts those best able to navigate and exploit bureaucratic systems rather than those prepared to contribute to them. The incentive structure is perverse, acting as a magnet for opportunism. When dependency is subsidized and independence is optional, dependency proliferates. No society can remain solvent—financially or morally—under those conditions.

Some may see Minnesota as a cautionary tale. It is, but it’s also more than that. It is evidence of what happens when high-trust societies encounter low-trust systems and fail to recognize the asymmetry between them.

The choice is clear: restore the equal application of authority, dismantle misaligned incentives, and reassert assimilation—or watch Minnesota multiply.

Links - 31st January 2026 (1 - Migrants: US)

Thread by @LauraPowellEsq on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "ICE Watch Minnesota—the group that Renee Good was reportedly affiliated with—shared this graphic in their “Legal/Resources” folder on Instagram. Among the recommended actions when witnessing ICE making an arrest are using cars to block ICE vehicles, and asking white people “to put their bodies” between agents and arrestees. They do warn that there are “legal risks,” but apparently they don’t realize illegally interfering with law enforcement carries an inherent risk of being physically harmed.
As reported in @NRO, the group also shared this “De-Arrest Primer,” with tips on freeing people from law enforcement custody. One action recommended is surrounding law enforcement vehicles so they cannot move. The primer assures people that this tactic carries the lowest level of risk. It explains that these tactics are “well worth the risk,” as protest arrests are usually “catch and release.” Again, these people are not taking into account the inherent risk of being physically hurt when interfering with law enforcement."

Derrick Evans on X - "🚨BREAKING: Border Commander Greg Bovino calmly shuts down a Democrat lawmaker’s heckling: “Crossing the border illegally is NOT a crime!” Bovino: “8 U.S.C. §1325 — improper entry. Federal offense.”"
Deon Joseph on X - "She went to look it up. Saw he was right, then pivoted. She is an elected official who needed assistance from Google and even Google shut her down. This is why they always come for you in mobs to shout you down with prepared talking points they believe no one has an answer to. Because alone, their arguments fall apart. Holes start forming exposing either a lack of due diligence, or even worse, dishonesty. When there is no one to “tag in”, all their circular arguments get picked apart, when they run out of “gotcha” catch phrases, all that remains is an exposed grifter."

Royce White 🇺🇸 on X - "So let me get this right… ICE is dangerous but we’re taking the kids on a protesting field trip? We are living in peak insanity. The parents of these students should be irate and if they allowed it, then the whole thing is a scam and it’s not really that dangerous at all."
Why are left wingers weaponising kids in protests again?

Trump's first year spent arresting 'worst of the worst,' data confirms - "The large majority of illegal immigrant arrests by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement are criminals who have been convicted or those with pending charges for criminal offenses... The Trump administration arrested 595,000 illegal immigrants between Jan. 20 and Dec. 11, according to the Department of Homeland Security. ICE, the federal agency tasked with interior immigration enforcement and deportations, revealed that 70%, or about 416,000, have “criminal convictions or pending criminal charges just in the U.S.,” an agency spokesperson said in a statement. ICE stipulated that even noncriminals whom its officers arrest may still be public safety concerns. “This statistic doesn’t account for those wanted for violent crimes in their home country or another country, INTERPOL notices, human rights abusers, gang members, terrorists, etc.,” the ICE spokesperson said. “The list goes on.” For example, ICE arrested Antonio Israel Lazo-Quintanilla, whose only offense in the United States was driving without a license. However, he is wanted in El Salvador for aggravated homicide, extortion, possession of drugs, and other felonies. In another example, ICE arrested a Uzbekistan citizen, Akhror Bozorov, for operating a commercial vehicle. Bozorov had no criminal record in the U.S., but was wanted in his home country for his involvement with a terrorist organization."

ICE Agents Disguise Themselves As Capitol Police So Democrats Will Defend Them | Babylon Bee

@amuse on X - "POLITICAL VIOLENCE: Trained ICE Watch activists in Portland were seen trapping ICE agents in their vehicles while calling for backup. Citizens cannot take the law into their own hands or obstruct federal officers."
el gato malo on X - "there is a reason that all these "ICE watch activists" are mostly women. it's being done on purpose to make arresting and resisting them look bad. the whole point is that women can bully agents in a way that men cannot and then fall back on "OMG, he hit a girl! poor defenseless her!" it's a technique taught to activists. you put the old lady and the priest in the front row then kick the dog in front of you until it bites someone. then the whole story is "evil dog bites defenseless lady! how terrible!" this is as contrived as it is amoral."

🐺 on X - "These are ambush tactics. We trained for a long time on how to react to the Taliban attempting this exact same tactic against Americans convoys. This is also exactly what Renee Good was attempting to do when officers tried to arrest her. Democrats must explicitly and repeatedly implore their voters to stop doing this. Given the three recent actual ambushes/shootings against ICE, these tactics create an extremely dangerous situation for agents. Anyone who does this must be arrested and held accountable to establish deterrence. This is not protected speech, it’s a crime."
Fat hope. Democrats enourage this because they want tragedies they can weaponise to push the left wing agenda

Christian Heiens 🏛 on X - "The Left is essentially demanding open borders and mass migration at the same time it that it asserts local jurisdiction against Federal authority in order to force this desired outcome. And they’re appealing to “the law” for all of this. There’s no negotiation to be had here and no compromise to make. The people who think they can violently intervene at will to overturn the results of the last Presidential election need to be reminded in no uncertain terms that they are not the ones in charge of this country. Failure to do so would be to implicitly concede that yes, the Left does in fact get to run this country no matter what, even if they lose an election."

Oilfield Rando on X - "It would be unfair to punish all the Somali or Afghan immigrants over the actions of a few people. Now, let’s get back to completely freezing white men out of the job market because one career criminal in Minneapolis overdosed in a white police officer’s custody"

Meme - Drew Pavlou @DrewPavlou: "Islamist guy moves to America from Iran, calls America "the Great Satan," posts "we're going to change your demographics and there's nothing you can do about it" Guys we can't have people like this in Western countries, they want to kill us all."
Mohammad @MargBarAmerica: "america has always been and always will be the great satan. there has never been a more violent terrorist organization than america"
Bill Davis @billdavisllc: "Dude please don't choose to live here anymore. You can do gross webcam porn while drooling for Islamic jihad as a digital nomad so please just go."
Mohammad @MargBarAmerica: "we're going to change your demographics and there's nothing you can do about it"

End Wokeness on X - "11 far-left extremists were just charged in a major terror plot to kiII ICE agents in Texas. Barely any coverage."

On immigration, what Americans want is democratic control - "A Scripps/Ipsos poll from September found 54% in favor of mass deportation. A Harris poll finds 51% of the public, including 42% of Democrats, in support. A CBS/YouGov poll found 53% of Hispanic Americans in support of “"a new national program to deport all undocumented immigrants currently living in the U.S. illegally”, among the overall population, support was 62%. And yet the same polls often find support for a pathway to citizenship. The Ipsos poll that found 54% in support of mass deportations found that 68% supported letting illegal immigrants stay and become citizens... “Borders are necessary to establish and preserve distinctive communities, notably self-governing democracies.” In other words, a nation, fundamentally, is an exclusive club. A democratic nation is one where everybody in the club gets a vote as to who else gets added. But there are still gates, and there are still gatekeepers. Illegal immigration violates that principle, because it flouts the laws created by the democratic will of the citizenry. Even if Americans would let someone in given the choice, they don’t want that person coming in without their say-so. This can potentially explain why a path to citizenship and mass deportation both poll well — the first represents Americans collectively granting people their permission to stay, while the second represents appropriate consequences for people who broke the rules. They can actually be seen as representing the same principle: “Only those who are granted permission to stay by the democratic will of the American people get to stay.”... It’s easy to ask abstract questions like “Why does one group of people get to squat on a piece of land and declare it off-limits to others?”. But like it or not, nation-states are the only workable arrangement for providing public goods and political stability that humankind has discovered in the modern era. And borders are an essential, inalienable part of what it means to be a nation-state. Some progressives have always challenged that idea, and in the 2010s, these challenges spilled into the national discourse. The book This Land is Our Land: An Immigrant’s Manifesto, by Suketu Mehta, explicitly argues that European countries and their offshoots like America are morally obligated to take in immigrants as reparations for European colonialism. The idea that this moral obligation transcends or binds the democratic popular will of those countries is a direct challenge to the idea of a nation on a exclusive club. Leftists, of course, go even further, viewing the U.S. and some other nations as “settler colonies” whose populations lack the historical legitimacy to create borders on “stolen land”. The asylum flood seems also to violate Zolberg’s principle of democratic exclusivity, although this is murkier because most Americans don’t actually understand what’s going on. What’s actually going on is that the U.S. wrote its asylum law to follow the 1967 version of the UN Convention on the Status of Refugees, which states that people who cross the border illegally are entitled to asylum hearings. These asylum seekers exist in a gray zone between “legal” and “illegal” immigration — they’re illegal when they cross the border and turn themselves in, then they’re legal while they await their asylum hearing, then if they get denied asylum (as most do) and stay in the country anyway they’re illegal again. Most Americans simply do not understand how that system works. If they did understand, they’d probably vote to change the asylum law to deny hearings to — or at least penalize — people who crossed illegally. Meanwhile, among the few Americans who do understand how this system works — lawyers, policymakers, and various NGOs — there’s little appetite to reform the system. As a result, the American public sort of vaguely senses that its democratic will is being violated, but doesn’t exactly know how. And so general anger builds... Nor is America the only country where popular democratic will has bucked against permissive immigration rules imposed by elites. I’ve long touted Canada as the world’s most pro-immigration country, and as of 2019 both the polls and policies bore that out. But in the last two years Justin Trudeau’s government has admitted a large surge of asylum-seekers, alongside a bigger and longer-term increase in temporary work permits. This was a change from Canada’s traditional policy of focusing primarily on attracting mostly high-skilled permanent residents. And there was a big turnaround in sentiment, with the majority flipping toward accepting fewer immigrants... Many progressives will interpret these trends as a rise in xenophobia, white supremacy, etc. That interpretation is a mistake that will cost progressives dearly if they persist in making it. A xenophobic country would not favor the admission of more refugees, laborers, and skilled immigrants, as America does. Nor would a white supremacist country, since these immigrants are mostly not white."

Hilton DISOWNS hotel owned by franchisee who refused to let ICE agents book rooms and orders him to remove its branding - "The Hilton brand has severed ties with a franchisee in Minnesota which sparked outrage by canceling bookings made by immigration agents and refusing them service. Lakeville Hampton Inn in Minneapolis has been ordered to remove all Hilton branding as of Tuesday after head office learned a policy barring Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents was still in effect... 'The independent hotel owner had assured us that they had fixed this problem and published a message confirming this,' a Hilton corporate spokesperson said on Tuesday. But conservative influencer Nick Sorter shared a video of himself approaching hotel staff late on Monday night claiming to be a DHS employee seeking a room. In the footage, the front desk worker told him the hotel was not allowing federal officers conducting immigration enforcement to book rooms. The worker stated he was not aware of any changes to that policy, despite hotel management firm Everpeak Hospitality issuing a statement hours earlier vowing it was committed to 'welcoming all guests.' 'I just talked to the owner of the building, and he didn't say there had been any changes,' the employee said. 'We're not accepting people from immigration, ICE agents, DHS, into our property.' After the video went viral, the Hilton corporate spokesperson said: 'A recent video clearly raises concerns that they are not meeting our standards and values.' The spokesperson said the hotel chain was taking 'immediate action to remove this hotel from our systems.' 'Hilton is — and has always been — a welcoming place for all. We are also engaging with all of our franchisees to reinforce the standards we hold them to across our system to help ensure this does not happen again.' Hilton operates their vast global hotel chain with a franchise model, which means the company is not involved in the day-to-day operations of regional chains."

Meme - "Hot Takes Nobody Asked For:
the gestapo's purpose was to suppress opposition and *Nazi( ideology through fear, surveillance, and violence. ice's purpose is to enforce immigration laws and protect borders. while both exercise state power over targeted populations, the gestapo operated under a totalitarian regime with extreme brutality. ice functions within a legal system, though its actions often spark debate over civil liberties and justice."
Art Candee @ArtCandee: "ICE is the Gestapo. Full stop."
Mary Paulos: "When do we get to the Nuremberg Trials part?"
Art Candee @ArtCa..: "Soon, I hope."
James Cook: "If they were the gestapo nobody would post about it because they would be sent to a camp with their family right after. The only reason these people will say these things because they know they aren't the gestapo and will face no punishment for it. They have no drive in life because they are taken care of by someone else's work so they will jump on every feel good cause they can for a few weeks while it's popular. Once others move on to the next thing they will never think about it again and will look for the next "what can I post to make people think I'm a good person* causes. Remember "kids in cages" that no one cares about anymore? Pepperidge farm remembers."

Meme - "THERE ARE 194 OTHER COUNTRIES IN THE WORLD. BUT YOU WANT TO LIVE IN AMERICA JUST SO YOU CAN BITCH ABOUT IT? PICK ANOTHER COUNTRY THAT'S "UP TO YOUR STANDARDS", AND GO. PLEASE!""

Meme - "THE LEFT FOR SOME REASON: LEAVE OUR FOREIGN CRIMINALS, CHILD TRAFFICKERS, AND TERRORISTS ALONE"

Meme - "We fight them over there so we don't have to fight them over here!"
*Closes and opens eyes*
*Zohran Mamdani, Ilhan Omar, Omar Fateh*

Girl, 11, who killed herself after being bullied over immigration status, said she was sexually abused by family member: investigation - "An 11-year-old Texas girl who killed herself after being bullied about her family’s immigration status told friends she was inappropriately touched by a family member, according to shocking findings by her Texas school district. Jocelyn Rojo Carranza was found unresponsive in her family’s Gainesville home on Feb. 3 and died in the hospital after five days of intensive care."
Clearly she killed herself because of ICE-related stigma, so ICE must be abolished. Of course, if a kid kills himself because he's bullied because of conservative views, left wingers will say he's scum who deserved to die rather than a bulletproof reason to stop disagreeing with conservatives

Nick Sortor on X - "🚨 JUST IN: Small business owners are now BOARDING UP across Los Angeles, as more looting is expected tonight Keep in mind, many of these business are owned by LEGAL immigrants. And they’re being destroyed by the illegals."
From June

Dhaaruni ✨✨✨ on X - "Trump being at -22 points on "immigration" and +2 on "border security" validates my theory that people really don't like seeing immigrants be brutalized on TV but they're happy that immigrants are being deterred from showing up in the first place by the aforementioned brutality"

Thread by @CbzManagement on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "Gangs have taken control of several of our properties in Aurora, Colorado. In an attempt to discredit this fact for political purposes and avoid governmental accountability, some have spread false information about our situation. Let’s set the record straight...🧵
We started managing these buildings when new owners acquired the Colorado properties in 2019. At the time, the properties were in poor condition, and our mission was to renovate them, thereby increasing their value. This was an ambitious project that would significantly benefit the people of Aurora while providing returns to the new owners. We understood this project would take years to yield results and would be both time-consuming and costly, involving comprehensive upgrades to every unit and the overall structure. To manage the project effectively, given our New York-based operations, our representative moved to Colorado with his family. We also undertook a complete renovation of nearly every unit in the now well-known building you’ve seen in the news. (The images shown depict our newly renovated apartments.) Everything was progressing smoothly: property values were rising, and vacancy rates were dropping. It was a win-win for both the owners and the city of Aurora. Then, the gangs arrived...
After some time, we noticed a rise in crime and tenant complaints. The most alarming moment occurred when our local CBZ representative was attacked at the end of 2023. He had gone to inspect a recently vacated three-bedroom apartment (a rare occurrence for such a large unit) only to find a group of men already inside. When he refused their $500 bribe to overlook the situation, they brutally attacked him. (This photo was taken shortly after he escaped, just before being admitted to the hospital. The video footage comes from one of our security cameras, capturing part of the assault.) After the attack on our CBZ representative, he began getting threatening text messages. We also frequently found people illegally occupying newly vacated apartments during scheduled tours. This was initially attributed to an influx of migrants exploiting squatter laws. We even received a call from a tenant returning from vacation, only to find strangers living in his apartment. This legitimate tenant was forced to find a new home after police couldn’t help him. When confronted, many of these illegal tenants and squatters claimed they had already paid rent, which we soon realized was true—but not to us. They were paying rent to a different entity. To address this entity (gangs) we contacted every city official we could think of for help with the problem. Unfortunately, none were willing to take meaningful action. Meanwhile, our CBZ representative continued receiving threatening messages, in which these criminals revealed his home address and his spouse’s name. Finally, the APD, FBI and Homeland Security informed us that those sending the messages and controlling our buildings were part of the notorious Tren De Aragua gang from Venezuela. They also mentioned that our situation was just "a blip on the radar," as this gang is causing significant problems nationwide.
Two days after our FBI meeting, the gang confronted our on-site manager, asserting control over all three properties. They offered an ultimatum: share rental income 50/50 or lose the buildings permanently. They also threatened to harm him and his family. For the safety of our management team and their families, we withdrew them from the properties and focused on seeking help from government agencies. Once we fully understood what we—and our tenants—were facing, we expected a swift response, with the city offering meaningful resources and police protection—perhaps even from the National Guard—to help us regain control of our properties. That never happened. Instead, we were left helpless, watching as violence, bullets, and destruction overtook our buildings. Many of our legitimate tenants fled out of fear. Despite the obvious crisis, several city officials refused to acknowledge the reality. Instead, they blamed us, citing "code violations" as the reason for shutting down our property—violations we couldn’t resolve for tenants who weren’t even ours. Finally, one city councilwoman, @DaniJurinsky, decided to take action after one of our last remaining legitimate tenants, Cindy Romero, reached out to her in desperation. Luckily, Cindy had her own cameras (most of ours had been destroyed by the gangs) and provided video proof to the councilwoman. She realized the city could no longer ignore the situation if it was documented on camera. Once she gathered sufficient video evidence, she assisted the tenant in relocating to safety before publicly releasing the footage.
Despite clear evidence, many still deny the reality of the situation, sometimes using us as scapegoats. That’s why we are no longer staying silent. We will continue to counter falsehoods with simple facts and evidence. Yes, gangs did take control of our apartment complexes in Aurora, Colorado, and the government did nothing. That is the real story. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask."
Weird. The media assured us that this was fake news

U.S. has to stop taking in 'below-average' immigrants who won't help economy, says Lutnick : r/Economics - "If you look at countries like Korea, Switzerland and Singapore, they are also very selective about immigration, and do not allow low-education/low-income people from the so-called 'Third World' countries to freely enter as economic refugees. This isn't being 'racist', its just pragmatism. There is a reason why the Swiss do not have the same social and economic issues as migrant-friendly European societies like the UK, Sweden or France."
"This was always my argument to the "Yeah I'm going to leave the country if Trump becomes president" crowd. Chances are, you're going to want to move someplace nice. Good luck with that."
Of course left wingers are saying it's racist to take in people who'll contribute to the country

Jessica Machado on X - "Section 8 rental vouchers given to migrants will pay the following dollar amount to landlords for a standard 3 bedroom apartment in the following cities or towns in Massachusetts:
Cambridge: $5,976
Boston: $5,772
Plymouth: $3,552
Carver: $3,515
Worcester: $2,750
Fall River: $2,035
New Bedford: $1,815
*source:"

@amuse on X - "CLOSED BORDER: LA passed a $30 minimum wage for hotel employees. Democrats weren't too worried as the majority of positions were filled by illegal aliens working under the table. With illegals not showing up to work hotel operators are sounding alarm they will have to close as a result of the $30 minimum for legal residents and citizens."