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Thursday, April 16, 2026

Links - 16th April 2026 (1 - Migrants: US)

. on X - "Awful: Stephen Miller is privately floating the idea of restricting funding for the public education of undocumented kids. This has long been a right-wing dream: They want to get SCOTUS to reverse Plyler v Doe and further chip away at 14th Amendment. New:"
Syd Steyerhart on X - "The idea that a criminal can bypass border security and then the US taxpayer is on the hook to pay $40,000 per year for eighteen years to educate their children is simply insane. It never should have been allowed to happen."
If the Equal Protection clause means that you can't treat illegal immigrants differently from legal immigrants, that's basically endorsing open borders. In 1982, no less.

Chicago Dem slammed for suggesting Loyola student caused her own murder - "A progressive Chicago Democrat is taking a ton of heat for suggesting that a Loyola University Chicago student who was allegedly executed by an illegal migrant caused her own murder — and that she was “in the wrong place at the wrong time.”  Chicago Alderwoman Maria Hadden was speaking after Sheridan Gorman, an 18-year-old from Yorktown, New York, was shot dead...   “They might have unintentionally startled this person at the end of the pier,” she added. “We don’t believe there is cause for broader community concern.”  An illegal Venezuelan migrant, 25-year-old Jose Medina-Medina, was arrested and charged with the killing. Hadden’s comments come despite police reports that Gorman’s killer stalked her from behind for some time before shooting her at point-blank range and fleeing. Hadden was accused of having “pretty much blamed Sheridan Gorman for her own murder”...   Another X user accused Hadden of “downplaying the murder of an American citizen in defense of a Venezuelan gangbanging invader.”  “Blaming the victim for startling the armed illegal invader? You, Maria Hadden, are garbage,” wrote a third."
It would only have been victim blaming if she had been raped, of course

Chicago Dem slammed for suggesting Loyola student caused her own murder by an illegal migrant : r/NewsWorthPayingFor - "On the one hand, she downplays the murder:
Chicago Alderwoman Maria Hadden was speaking after Sheridan Gorman, an 18-year-old from Yorktown, New York, was shot dead Thursday morning while she walked with friends along the city’s lakefront near campus. Hadden said the deadly shooting appeared to be a case of Gorman being “in the wrong place at the wrong time, running into a person who had a gun,” in an interview with Fox 32 Chicago.
On the other hand, she's happy to demonize the people who are working to remove illegal gangbangers from America.
   In January, she drew parallels between the Holocaust and ICE immigration raids in Chicago during a city council meeting.
If I didn't know better, I'd say she's prioritizing the safety of violent illegals over that of peaceful Americans."

ABC News on X - "The Trump administration is moving forward with its plan to swiftly remove Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Liberia as soon as a court allows."
Lomez on X - "An illegal immigrant El Salvadoran gang member in Maryland getting deported to El Salvador then repatriated back to the United States then, after being indicted in Tennessee for human trafficking and subsequently released back to Maryland, now awaiting deportation to Liberia of all places is just about the perfect microcosm of the immigration problem.   Let in 10s of millions of illegals just by refusing to enforce border laws but to get just 1 of them out you need to spend millions of dollars and months or even years of legal wrangling just to dump them halfway around the world.   Entropy v order. Order is extremely difficult and costly. Stop breaking things!"

Heather Knight on X - "NEW: A viral video showed ICE agents detaining a woman at SFO on Sunday night. Documents obtained by the @nytimes show TSA officials scanning passenger lists tipped off ICE she was planning to fly to Miami. The woman has no criminal history. Always great to team with @Haleaziz."
Erick Erickson on X - "This is the bureau chief for the NY Times. She never mentions a judge ordered the woman deported. She also claims the woman has no criminal history, but she does. It is a crime to illegally enter the United States. The reporter made a choice to not give you the full story."

Kristi Noem spent £15k on horses for promotional advert - "Kristi Noem spent $20,000 (£15,000) on horses and thousands more on her hair and make-up for an advertising campaign that led Donald Trump to sack her.  The former homeland security secretary remains under investigation over $220m (£164m) billed to taxpayers in contracts tied to the controversial ads."
Weird. Left wingers claim that she was fired for mismanaging ICE

Meme - Geiger Capital @Geiger_Capital: "TRUMP: I'm sorry Zohran, but we can't make exceptions for illegal immigration.
MAMDANI: *shows picture"
TRUMP: She can stay."
New York Post @nypost: "Columbia student detained by ICE will be released after Mamdani meeting with President Trump, mayor says *hot woman Elaina Aghayeva*"

Russian-born Harvard researcher describes detention at ICE facility and deportation fears - "Kseniia Petrova, a Russian scientist at Harvard Medical School, has been detained by ICE since February. She was arrested as she returned to Boston with frog embryo samples. The government says she knowingly failed to declare them. Petrova's visa was revoked and she is flagged for deportation."
Weird. Left wingers tell us ICE only goes after brown and black people

Libs of TikTok on X - "WOW. A student at @TorreyPinesHS was suspended for putting up a poster at school which said "We❤️ICE. From real Americans." The school claims putting up these posters "incites pupils to create a clear and present danger" and produces a "hostile learning environment." This same school held an anti-ICE walkout last month. How many students were suspended for that @TorreyPinesHS ?  You can contact the principal here: robert.coppo@sduhsd.net"
Youth activism is only good when it pushes the left wing agenda

Wall Street Apes on X - "Democrats constructed a giant ‘Prosecute ICE’ sign made out of ice at the Minnesota State Capitol Jake Lang came and destroyed it “I’m currently being arrested” So only Democrats are allowed to destroy property in protest and burn down entire cities??"

Kali Fontanilla on X - "Just saw a video of a white liberal woman saying the new American Dream is leaving the country. ๐Ÿ™„ She is pushing a stroller through some beautiful scenery and using the hashtag #Switzerland.  A country that is 93% white and has stricter immigration laws than the United States. They even have train checkpoints where you must show citizenship papers. If you are caught in Switzerland illegally, you are immediately placed in detention centers, which the left would absolutely call “concentration camps”๐Ÿคฆ๐Ÿฝ‍♀️  So she moved to a majority white country with strict immigration laws to get away from “racist Trump” and protect her peace.  The irony is completely lost on these morons. Oh well. Good riddance.  Maybe we should send 30,000 Haitians to her cute little white town in Switzerland to remind her why America should be just as strict as Switzerland."
Thread by @SydneyLWatson on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "This is actually ridiculously common among small, white, female content creators who talk about leaving the US for a better life.  I've seen them posting about moving to Poland, Russia, Switzerland, Japan etc. And, when people in the comments ask them what they like about the new country, these women ALWAYS say shit about how safe it is, how they can walk anywhere, any time of day, and not worry about being harassed.  Yeah, bitch. You moved to an ethnically homogeneous place that aggressively enforces immigration laws.  You moved to a country that aggressively enforces laws generally.  You moved to a CONSERVATIVE COUNTRY.  The insane irony for me is that these women actually can't see that the dumbass leftist policies they vote for in the US don't exist in the places they've moved to.  And, as a result, they are living a way happier, better life? lol?????
One of my oldest friends moved to Japan for a girl. He told me recently he could never live in a "diverse" country again.  And I just find it so funny. He's never been liberal, by any stretch. But, we used to get into some real heated arguments about immigration, and here he is, all these years later, telling me how terrific it is to live in a place with one people and one universal culture. ๐Ÿ˜‚"

Everybody is Insane on X - "The New York Times ran a piece on their homepage about a guy getting deported even though he had lived in the US since a teenager and had been here for 20 years, and waited until the end of the article to mention that 19 of those years were spent in prison for murder."
MattieJohns on X - "Funny. It's also funny that the NYT thinks that the fact this guy was here illegally for 20 years is somehow a reason he should be allowed to stay. If you stole someone's car, and managed to avoid capture for 20 years, should you be allowed to just keep it?"
Trump Administration Deports Jamaican Man to African Prison Years After U.S. Sentence - The New York Times

Anti Woke Memes on X - "Rep. Jayapal (D): "This country was built by Somalis, Indians, Latinos, Africans." Is she Wrong or Retarded?"
Christian Heiens ๐Ÿ› on X - "I am so tired of third world foreigners who do not belong in my country not only getting elected to Congress, but then using that platform to lie about how other third-world foreigners built my country. None of you people built anything, much less America. You couldn't even build your own nations, which is part of the reason you continue to flood into mine."
JovanHuttonPulitzer™ ืื ื™ ืœื ืกื•ื‘ืœ ืื™ื“ื™ื•ื˜ื™ื! on X - "ANOTHER INCONVIENT FACT: Chinese and Irish workers were crucial to the transcontinental railroad, and many later industries were built with immigrant labor. But the Census Bureau’s historical data show that the huge foreign-born waves in the 1800s and early 1900s were mostly European, not primarily Somali, Indian, or Latino. From 1850 to 1930, the foreign-born population rose from 2.2 million to 14.2 million, reflecting large-scale immigration that was predominantly European in those decades."

TRUMPGIRL on X - "Celebrities are bashing ICE on the Oscars red carpet while being protected by massive security. At the Oscars you’ll find:
• car sweeps
• K9 units
• helicopters overhead
• SWAT teams
• entire streets locked down
The message from Hollywood: security for us, but not for you!"

E.J. Antoni, Ph.D. on X - "During Trump's 1st year in office (Jan '25 to Jan '26), native-born employment rose 840k while the number of foreign-born workers employed fell 97k:"
E.J. Antoni, Ph.D. on X - "The average American's weekly paycheck, adjusted for inflation, shrunk 4.0% under Biden, but is now estimated to have surged 2.0% during Trump's first year back at the helm - this is how you address the affordability crisis left by the last administration:"
E.J. Antoni, Ph.D. on X - "Job growth in Jan came almost entirely from full-time jobs w/ only about 5% of the monthly increase in employment coming from part-time work; it's very positive to see people getting good paying full-time jobs w/ benefits and not just gig work:"
Weird. Left wingers keep claiming deporting illegal immigrants doesn't improve Americans' lives, and that Trump has done nothing to make Americans better off

The Latest Jobs Report Proves Trump's Theory of the Economy: Tariffs and Deportations Put Money in the Pockets of Working-Class Americans
Batya Ungar-Sargon on X - "Turns out, when you deport 500,000 people and 2 million more voluntarily go home, Americans line up for the jobs they were doing—and companies have to pay them more! How Trump repudiated the Democrats' addiction to cheap labor:"
Batya Ungar-Sargon on X - "When Biden’s DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas was hauled before the Senate, he routinely bemoaned the lack of cheap labor plaguing poor, desperate American corporations. He of course denied the border was open, but Mayorkas would also almost always say the quiet part out loud: American corporations need more cheap labor.  Trump was elected to reverse all that—not just the chaos of the open border and the dangers presented by illegal criminals, but to reverse the Democrats whole economic paradigm in which you ship good jobs to China and import people enslaved to cartels to do the jobs remaining here.  Trump’s theory of the case was that if we deport the illegals and impose tariffs, American corporations would have to hire Americans and build stuff here."

Meme - Tombstone: "RIP 1713 AMERICAN CITIZENS K*LLED BY ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS"
Tombstone: "RIP 5 AMERICAN CITIZENS K*LLED BY ICE"
*Crying Democratic donkey at the second, ignoring the first*

Estefany Rodriguez: A reporter in Nashville covering ICE arrests in her community has been detained - "Nashville journalist Estefany Rodriguez frequently reports on Immigration and Customs Enforcement action, becoming familiar with the sudden arrests that have become hallmarks of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown...  Rodriguez also has a pending political asylum claim and a valid work permit, according to court documents. A spokesperson for ICE told CNN in a statement Rodriguez “currently has no lawful immigration status.”  “A pending green card application and work authorization does NOT give someone legal status to be in our country,” a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson told CNN... She came to the United States on a tourist visa in 2021, according to court documents. Before it expired, she applied for political asylum, it said.  However, according to ICE, “she failed to depart the country and is in violation of the conditions of her visa and currently has no lawful immigration status...   While Coxander said Friday he asked the court to let him amend his initial petition to release Rodriguez to “specifically address that this is a First Amendment violation and retaliation” for her coverage of ICE activities, the agents said they were detaining her because she had failed to show up for two immigration appointments."
Journalists are above the law and if you arrest them, it's a violation of the First Amendment

Ben Dreyfuss on X - "i still dont understand why these maga whackos are mad about people from india specifically."
Matthew Yglesias on X - "Indian immigration to the United States is legal, skilled, not associated with any crime problems, Indian-Americans are very successful, etc so the final boss of nativism is to convince people it’s bad based on random memes."
Project for Immigration Reform on X - "From the @nytimes :   “India is one of the top sources of illegal immigration to the United States, according to the Pew Research Center. As of 2022, more than 700,000 undocumented Indians were living in the United States, the center estimates, making them the third-largest group, behind Mexicans and Salvadorans.”"

Project for Immigration Reform on X - "Before “MAGA whackos”, there was liberal American journalist Joel Stein, who wrote about why he soured on Indian immigration to the United States, based on his experience growing up in a town that changed demographically almost overnight."
My Own Private India | TIME - "when I was a kid, a few engineers and doctors from Gujarat moved to Edison because of its proximity to AT&T;, good schools and reasonably priced, if slightly deteriorating, post–WW II housing. For a while, we assumed all Indians were geniuses. Then, in the 1980s, the doctors and engineers brought over their merchant cousins, and we were no longer so sure about the genius thing. In the 1990s, the not-as-brilliant merchants brought their even-less-bright cousins, and we started to understand why India is so damn poor. Eventually, there were enough Indians in Edison to change the culture... sometime after I left, the town became a maze of charmless Indian strip malls and housing developments. Whenever I go back, I feel what people in Arizona talk about: a sense of loss and anomie and disbelief that anyone can eat food that spicy."

Chief_Engineer on X - "They moved the goalposts again.  Now the claim is that caste discrimination is a First Amendment “religious right.” Not a civil rights violation, but a protected practice.  And as usual… the story gets mass-reported and scrubbed from Reddit.  If 1.4 billion people gain control of America’s hiring pipelines and bring caste with them, this isn’t a conspiracy. It’s our future unless we stop it."

Tim Young on X - "Nancy Mace eviscerates Tim Walz on Minnesota’s fraudulent autism program spending and lists the numbers. He tries to play dumb… “Did you not prepare for this hearing today?!?!”"
Marilia De Benedictis on X - "“What is a woman? If You cannot define that, you cannot define What is a Fraud”, Rep Nancy Mace hearing Tim Walz. #minessotaFraud"
Amazingly, I still see left wingers denying that there's fraud in Minnesota

Mike Netter on X - "And just like that... State Rep. Kristin Robbins showed the world the "webs of fraud" in Minnesota:  "Her child care center was shut down on Feb. 10 of 2026, just a couple weeks ago. She was caught at the airport fleeing the country. That's how they arrested her.    "The next day, Feb. 11, a new child care center -- hers was called Future Leaders Early Learning Center -- opened on the same site called Leaders Childcare Center, and it is operating right now, getting paid by our taxpayers.""

Matt Wolking on X - "An illegal alien in California, Eduardo Domingo Renoj-Matul, pleaded guilty to smuggling 20,000 illegals into the U.S.  He took payments of $18,000 to smuggle people from Guatemala through Mexico using a network of drivers and safe houses.  In one case when the fee wasn’t paid, Renoj-Matul called the immigrant’s mother and warned her that her daughter “would come home in a box” if the money wasn’t sent. The daughter was held hostage at a house in California for two months.  Renoj-Matul’s co-conspirator Josรฉ Paxtor Oxlaj was a driver involved in a crash in Oklahoma that killed seven people, including a four year old.  These are the people Democrats are trying to protect."

CWBChicago on X - "A migrant is accused of waiting outside a day care to shoot his ex-girlfriend’s new boyfriend as the couple arrived to drop off a child."
Migrant shot ex’s new boyfriend during day care drop off: prosecutors - "Jose Montilla Carreno was ordered detained by Judge Antara Rivera on charges of attempted murder and aggravated battery"
Illinois is broke and corrupt on X - "This story has so many takeaways. The illegal alien shooter has 2 kids since arrival. He shot his ex’s new boyfriend while they dropped off a kid He stole the gun. They used a license plate tracker to find him. The same tracker is illegal to find illegals if ICE uses it"

Prosecutor: 'Minnesota Has Become a Magnet' for Welfare Fraud - "Half of $18 billion in federal welfare funds, which supports 14 Minnesota-run programs since 2018, has been lost to fraud, Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph Thompson said... People come from all over the world to steal millions from U.S. government Medicaid, housing, and other programs, he added. “Minnesota has become a magnet for fraud, so much so that we have developed a fraud tourism industry — people coming to our state purely to exploit and defraud its programs,” Thompson said. “This is a deeply unsettling reality that all Minnesotans should understand.”  Thompson explained that “traditional Medicare and Medicaid fraud is that people overbill,” but said the fraud in Democrat Gov. Tim Walz’s Minnesota has been unique in that thieves are not providing any services, just creating fake companies and filing wholly fake bills to the state. Thompson revealed that charges have been filed against Anthony Waddell Jefferson, Lester Brown, Hassan Ahmed Hussein, Ahmed Abdirashid Mohamed, Kaamil Omar Sallah, and Asha Farhan Hassan, who collectively filed more than eleven million dollars in fake bills for non-existent people with disabilities and autism, which included housing procurement services, wire fraud, and other fraudulent activities. The fraud cases have already resulted in many prosecutions and convictions. A dozen people have been convicted in the Feeding Our Future scam, in which members of Minnesota’s Somali community filed fake bills to the state supposedly for feeding needy children, but the services were never performed and the money was stolen with some of it even sent to Africa to fund terrorist groups in Somalia.  Republican State Rep. Elliot Engen, who is running for the Minnesota State Auditor’s office, posted a video to his social media lamenting that “fraud has been legalized” by leaders neglecting to verify the legitimacy of the companies with contracts being paid by the state."
This won't stop left wingers claiming there was no fraud

Meme - Sarah Stock @sarahcstock: "Which implies that raping 12 year olds is Somali culture"
End Wokeness @EndWokeness: "Qalinle lbrahm abducted a 12 year old in Minnesota and r*ped her. St. Paul Islamic Center wrote a letter of community support, saying he has not "assimilated into non-Somali culture""

NizNellie3 on X - "๐Ÿšจ  Wanna puke?  Qatar-owned Georgetown University professor Badar Khan Suri, a NON-CITIZEN from India, was arrested by ICE for alleged ties to Hamas and promoting their propaganda after Oct 7.  He was released by a Biden judge. Khan Suri’s wife is the daughter of a Hamas official.  Since his release, he’s spoken at numerous events, trashing America, Israel, and telling abhorrent lies about ICE.  He’s now been deemed deportable by a new federal judge, yet he’s still here, still employed by Georgetown, and now a guest of Zohran Mamdani’s cabinet at an event discussing “Islamophobia.”  We have won nothing in 2024 if the result is a citizen from India is permitted to foment terrorism, hatred of America, and receive a federally-funded paycheck."

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