Blake Neff on X - "This story is great: During the Biden admin a migrant came all the way to the U.S. from Mauritania, and was immediately allowed in by claimig he needed asylum for being gay. He moved to Indiana, married the (female) daughter of a sheriff, and got a job as a prison guard from his father-in-law. But now the Trump Admin has swooped in, pointed out that since he's not gay his asylum claim is clearly fraudulent, and has arrested him for deportation."
Ask Your Doctor if Jihad Is Right for You - "Medicine has a serious antisemitism problem. It especially has a problem among doctors, and a lot of that problem is concentrated among doctors educated overseas. We identified a set of over 700 people from all walks of life profiled by the organization StopAntisemitism for displaying flagrant hostility toward Jews and Israel. We found that health professionals were more than 2.5 times more likely to be found among antisemites than their share of the workforce. Doctors were almost 26 times overrepresented in the list of antisemites relative to their prevalence in the workforce. And half of those Jew-hating doctors received their medical degrees abroad. The fact that Jew-hatred has found a perch among highly educated doctors and other health professionals runs counter to the conventional explanations for antisemitism. According to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and other legacy Jewish organizations, antisemitism is born of ignorance which must be fought through education... Both the past and present put the lie to Greenblatt’s hypothesis. Campus Hamasniks at Columbia and Harvard are radical and morally depraved, but they aren’t uneducated. Nor were the architects of the Holocaust, inheritors of a German cultural tradition that was arguably unmatched in its yearning for modernity. Our own empirical work also calls the education-antisemitism intersection into question. Traditionally, the hypothesized link between education and antisemitism arises from the observation that individuals with lower levels of education are more likely to admit to harboring explicitly antisemitic attitudes. It was unclear, however, whether this meant that elites were in fact less antisemitic or whether they were more inclined to provide socially desirable responses. A study we published in 2021 indicates that it’s the latter. In an experiment designed to detect double standards, we drafted two versions of the same question that ask respondents about one principle but using a Jewish and non-Jewish example. Illustratively, one item asks whether “the U.S. military should be allowed to forbid” the wearing of religious headgear, with a Jewish yarmulke or Sikh turban offered as examples. Responses indicated that higher levels of education are associated with antisemitism since they are more likely to apply a double standard against Jews, such as allowing supporting Sikhs in the military who want to wear turbans but not Jews who want to wear yarmulkes... doctors make up only 0.5% of the entire American workforce, so they are more than 26 times overrepresented among the antisemites identified by StopAntisemitism... if history is any guide, the overrepresentation of health care workers and physicians in particular should not qualify as a surprise. As bioethicist Ashley Fernandes points out, physicians were early and enthusiastic Nazi Party members who were ultimately seven times as likely as other employed males to join the SS. Part of the draw was the “biocracy” that became central to Nazi mythology. “For Hitler and the Nazi physicians,” Fernandes notes, “the state was analogous to a living organism—a supreme political vitalism … The Jews are a disease; disease must be completely cut out (not merely suppressed), for it will otherwise poison and kill the body.” Nazi doctors didn’t imagine forced sterilization and mass slaughter as a dereliction of their oath, but the ultimate fulfillment of it... in the Middle East, higher levels of education are associated with an increased propensity for professing antisemitism... Combine those attitudes with an American health care system that normalizes racial and ethnic tribalism with ideas like whiteness as a form of psychopathology, and the results are predictably disastrous. This problem will only get worse as the rate of importing doctors from abroad is rising"
NJ Gov. Sherrill blames outsiders for Delaney Hall protest violence - "New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill on Saturday blamed out-of-state agitators for clashes that erupted between protesters and local law enforcement outside the Delaney Detention Center in Newark. Sherrill said five of the six people arrested Friday night in clashes outside the detention center for immigrants were not New Jersey residents. State police said the five out-of-staters were from New York and Pennsylvania."
Weird. I thought this was a baseless conspiracy theory. The next cope is going to be that it's the Proud Boys or ICE themselves behind it
If a Democratic state arrests "peaceful protesters", is it still "fascism"?
Nick Sortor on X - "🚨 This is EXACTLY WHY ICE agents are FORCED to wear masks ICE Newark rioter: “I HAVE YOUR FACE, MOTHERF***ER” “Your WHOLE F***ING FAMILY is DEAD!” “Your KIDS. Your WIFE. ALL DEAD!” This is the type of TERRORISM Democrats WANT ICE agents to face by de-masking them"
KTLA on X - "DHS Secretary Kristi Noem attends ICE raid at home of pregnant L.A. County mother"
Bill Melugin on X - "I was at this operation with Noem. It wasn’t targeting a “pregnant mother”, it was targeting her previously deported illegal alien Mexican husband who had been convicted of drug trafficking in February & had an attempted murder charge pleaded down to an assault conviction. ICE had a criminal judicial warrant for his arrest, signed off on by a federal judge, because he illegally re-entered the U.S. after removal, which is a felony. Of course, none of that context is in @KTLA reporting here as they only spoke to his wife, who apparently *shockingly* didn’t disclose any of his criminal history."
Graham Allen on X - "This is hilarious… two brown guys just walked out of ICE’s Newark facility, and leftist idiots started CHEERING They didn’t realize that they WORK THERE🤣🤣🤣 “THEY WORK HERE, DUMBASSES!”"
New York Post on X - "Anti-Israel activist Mahmoud Khalil to appeal to US Supreme Court in last bid to avoid deportation"
Will Ricciardella on X - "I had a professor at Cal State Long Beach who constantly trashed America as racist, oppressive, and irredeemable. He mocked the Constitution, capitalism, and virtually every American institution. At the end of the semester, he gave an emotional story about how his mother crawled through sewer pipes to reach America. So I raised my hand and asked: if America is this irredeemable, oppressive country, why did she risk everything to come here? And why are neither of you interested in going back? He didn’t answer the question. Instead he called me disrespectful. That’s because much of this ideology is not rooted in reality testing. It’s institutional theater rewarded by academia, media, and activism. The system incentivizes moral denunciation of America while simultaneously depending on the opportunities America uniquely provides."
Grifters know that white people are masochistic suckers who will pay them to abuse white people
Meme - "My god, they killed Peanut"
Democratic party: "Well he was being housed illegally"
*side eye*
Seattle socialist mayor will NOT investigate fraud at Somali-run daycare centers, calls it attack on immigrants - "Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson said the city has no intention of investigating fraud claims in taxpayer-funded social programs, claiming the concerns are an effort to target immigrant communities rather than address legitimate financial irregularities... "This whole issue is not really about fraud," said Wilson. "It's about dividing and conquering. It's about making an immigrant community a target. There's no reason to assume based on the identity of a daycare operator that their small business is doing anything wrong."... The comments come amid a nationwide crackdown on fraud discovered in taxpayer-funded programs. After millions of dollars worth of fraud was discovered in Minnesota, particularly among the Somali immigrant community in Minneapolis, similar investigations arose in Washington state. Independent journalists discovered earmarks of fraud in Seattle-area immigrant-run daycares, specifically those operated within the Somali community. In January, Mayor Wilson denounced the investigations, claiming they were an attack on immigrants. "I stand with the Somali childcare providers who have experienced targeted harassment and condemn the surveillance campaign promoted by extremist influencers," she said at the time. Wilson announced her intention to charge independent journalists with "hate crimes" for investigating fraud. Reports earlier this year revealed that at least one Somali-run daycare recieved $200,000 of taxpayer funds, but the childcare business did not appear to exist."
The fraud is the point
Jim Njue on X - "“Ethiopia and Kenya stole our Land. We Must work together to liberate our occupied territories. Somalia is for Somalis Only” -Ilhan Omar"
Christian Heiens 🏛 on X - "I love how the Third World caucus of the Democratic Party are Gay Race Communists here in the US, but they’re blood and soil nationalists in their home country."
Left wingers just hate the West
Nick shirley on X - "CBS News said there was no evidence of fraud. The NYT said the Somali community was being targeted CNN said there was "little evidence." Tim Walz said it was “white supremacy” to expose fraud Today: $90M busted and 15 charged. IT WAS ALL FRAUD AND THEY KNEW."
Minnesota FGM prosecutions remain zero despite state felony law - "More than half a million women and girls in the United States are living with the physical and psychological scars of female genital mutilation — including many in Minnesota, home to a large Somali community from a country where roughly 98% of women have undergone the procedure, according to United Nations data. Yet despite a state law that makes performing the procedures a felony, Minnesota has never secured a single criminal prosecution under its law — raising questions about enforcement, and whether cases could be going on undetected... Fox News Digital also contacted multiple Minnesota clinics that provide reproductive and women’s health services asking whether clinicians encounter patients with physical evidence of female genital mutilation. None responded... prosecutions nationwide have remained rare, with the only widely cited state-level conviction occurring in Georgia in 2006, where a woman was convicted under Georgia state law for performing FGM on a minor."
Eli Steele on X - "Margaret Cho turned down hit show in Canada because she feared being arrested by ICE. She was born in California. As Shelby Steele put it simply: “By rewarding victimization, we encouraged people to think of themselves as victims.” For some elites, victimization has become their most prized possession, their self-referential worth. And yet it is the most meaningless thing about them for its a lie."
Robert Sterling on X - "During the Biden administration, H-1B visa holders were buying houses with 97-100% financing. 97% would come from the FHA, with the rest coming from state first-time home buyer programs. Zero money down. Thanks to programs that were supposed to be helping low-income American families buy their own homes. FHA loans to non-permanent residents quickly grew to represent 6% of mortgage issuances. The percentage was undoubtedly higher in places like the DFW area, where H-1B visa holders are disproportionately concentrated. I don’t have anything against people in America on H-1B visas. I’ve said it before—and I’ll say it again—that I’ve found many of them to be great people on an individual level, and I wish them all nothing but the best. Individual immigrants—especially those here legally—are not at fault for flawed US immigration policy. But this might be the most radicalizing thing I’ve ever seen. Not only are American workers forced to compete for jobs, they’re also forced to compete in the housing market against people bringing 0-3% of a house’s cost to the closing table, versus the 10-20% most people have to pay. First, companies import mass numbers of H-1B visa holders, largely in "back office" white-collar fields like IT and accounting. This essentially imposes a lower ceiling on domestic wages in these job categories. Next, these workers—who are generally concentrated in certain geographic areas—create more demand for housing (especially in good school districts), driving up home prices and the cost of living. Then, to top it off, they don’t even have to save up money for a down payment. They can close on a $500k house with $0-15k plus a 97% FHA loan. Meanwhile, ordinary American families are forced to come to with $50-100k for the same down payment. I don’t care how you feel about Trump or what your preferred immigration policies are; there’s no defending this. It screws over hard-working American citizens several different ways over, and it’s yet another reason why I will always be glad Trump won and Kamala Harris lost in 2024."
Steven Edginton on X - "For months I’ve been speaking to American tech workers forced to train their H-1B replacements, or told their jobs were being moved to India. I’ve now heard from whistleblowers from Google and FedEx describing the same pattern. Two-thirds of Silicon Valley tech workers are foreign born. There are now more Indian-born workers in Silicon Valley (23%) than California-born (18%). More than 70% of H1-B visas go to Indians."
Kangmin Lee | 이강민 on X - "This story is insane. Chinese-American professor Sean Wang is suing Southern Methodist University over Discrimination & Retaliation from Indian Professors. Indian professors at @SMU classified Dr. Wang as white in HR records to justify denying him a promotion. Dr. Hemang Desai, chair of the Accounting Department, along with other Indian faculty, granted tenure to 100% of Indian candidates, while denying tenure to 100% of non-Indian candidates. Indian faculty were also handed prime offices with nice views, while East Asian and non-Indian faculty were assigned to a lesser offices. This perfectly illustrates East Asians' white-adjacent status, the deep normalization of anti-white discrimination, and parasitic Indian nepotism."
Libs of TikTok on X - "BREAKING: Aimee Bock, the ringleader of the massive Feeding our Future $250 million COVID fraud scheme, told the NYP that Rep. Ilhan Omar was IN ON IT LOCK UP @IlhanMN"
RNC Research on X - "Jamie Raskin asks why ICE can't just "pick up" criminal illegals from jail before they are released. Who is going to tell this moron that Democrats are REFUSING cooperation and instead releasing the criminals back into communities?"
Meme - captive dreamer @siegfriedmuell: "The left goes to bat for MS-13 criminal aliens and Haitians who eat people's pets for a reason - they want to make your life worse. South Africans are successful, law abiding and White. That's why they hate them. Immigration is about making your life worse."
Meme - Occupy Democrats Logic:
Common Sense Extremists: "Yes, instead of immigrants who will come here to rape us, pollute our streets, drive down our wages and erase our culture they will at worst actually return their shopping carts and not talk during the movies ..."
Richard Poplak @Poplak: "Not your traditional refugee exodus. *South Africans*"
"Also these are ACTUAL families..."
"Not a bunch of military aged males flipping off the camera... How refreshing!"
Meme - "Twatwaffles Beware !!!
* Public Service Announcement *
DHS will now refer to "IIlegal Aliens" as "Travelers Without Authority To Stay", or "TWATS." The term "Illegal" upsets members of the Democrat Socialist Party and we want them to shut the hell up already. In short, ICE will continue making America safe through the arrests and deportation of TWATS. Thank You."
Thread by @SanDiegoKnight on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "This Cato ‘immigrants pay more taxes’ flex + Indian chart is peak cherry-picking. Impressive numbers… until you actually look under the hood. 🧐”
1. It’s median household income, not individual or per-capita — and Indian households are structured differently
• The chart (and the “twice as much” claim) uses households, not people. Indian-American households are larger on average (~3.0–3.8 people vs. U.S. average ~2.5) and far more likely to have multiple full-time high earners (dual STEM/medical professionals is common). en.wikipedia.
• Indian Americans still have high personal earnings (median ~$85k for ages 16+, ~$106k for full-time workers per 2023 Pew), but the “almost twice” headline evaporates when you adjust for household size and number of workers. This is a classic statistical sleight-of-hand when comparing groups with different living arrangements.
2. Extreme positive selection bias … this is the cream of India’s elite, not “immigrants” in general
• Indian Americans aren’t a random sample of India’s 1.4 billion people. The vast majority arrived via H-1B, EB-2/3, or student visas …hyper-selective for advanced degrees and high-skill jobs. You’re comparing the top ~0.1–1% of India’s talent/IQ/education distribution to the broad U.S. average (which includes everyone from McDonald’s workers to retirees).
• India’s own per-capita income and education levels are far lower. This doesn’t prove broad immigration is economically magical; it proves cherry-picked high-skill immigration works for the selectees. Second-generation outcomes are strong but show some regression toward the mean, and chain migration/family sponsorship often dilutes the skill level over time.
3. Cato’s overall “immigrants pay more taxes” claim has well-documented methodological holes
• Cato (a libertarian think tank that favors more immigration) attributes welfare benefits received by U.S.-born children of immigrants to “natives,” not the immigrant parents. This understates immigrant fiscal costs. The Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) and others note this flips the picture: when you count the full household burden (including kids), immigrant-headed households use welfare at higher rates than native-headed ones.
• Cato aggregates all immigrants (high-skill Indians + low-skill groups + illegals). The net positive they find is heavily driven by the high earners. Other studies (National Academies of Sciences, Heritage, etc.) have found first-generation immigrants often impose net costs, especially low-skilled/illegal cohorts.
• Their data ends before the post-2021 border surge effects fully hit long-term budgets.
4. H-1B-specific issues (the main pipeline for Indian success)
• Many Indian immigrants in tech come via H-1B, which has documented problems: outsourcing/body shops (e.g., Infosys, TCS), wage suppression (foreign workers often paid less for similar roles), and ethnic nepotism once Indians reach management (preferring co-ethnics for hiring/promotions). This displaces U.S. workers and depresses wages in STEM.
• Fraud allegations are common (fake credentials, benching workers, etc.). Critics argue this isn’t “adding value” so much as arbitraging cheaper labor and networks.
5. Other drains and context
• Remittances: Indian Americans send massive sums back to India (India receives over $100B+ in remittances annually, a huge chunk from the U.S.). That’s money leaving the U.S. economy.
• Cost of living: Indians are heavily concentrated in high-cost metros (SF Bay, NYC, etc.), where nominal incomes are inflated anyway. Adjust for purchasing power and the gap shrinks.
• The post uses Indian success to defend a general “immigrants = net positive” narrative from Cato. But Indians are ~1.4% of the U.S. population and an outlier. Broad policy implications (more low-skill immigration, open borders, etc.) don’t follow from one high-performing subgroup.
Bottom line: The raw numbers on Indian achievement are real and impressive — selective high-skill immigration from India has produced strong economic outcomes for that group. But the post overreaches by using an old household-income chart + a contested Cato aggregate study to imply broad immigration is unambiguously great or that Indians represent “typical” immigrants. It’s cherry-picking + statistical framing. "
wanye on X - "You can read the whole thread, but the two biggest things to keep in mind any time you hear that immigrants do better than natives are this:
1. Even if true, this is entirely due to selection effects and therefore *cannot even in principle* be used as an argument for eliminating the selection effects. If selecting only the elite is what produced the favorable comparison, then that *cannot* be an argument for accepting more people (unless you think we're just not capturing enough of the elite). It is at *best* an argument for the status quo or for a careful and measured (and highly selective) increase. And *even if this is all true*, we basically know which immigrants and from where are doing the best. So nothing about this suggests that we should keep inviting people from places that *we already know* do not produce good results. All of this is just to say that you can measure what's happening and react. It's not a mystery.
2. Studies of this form *basically always* leave off the citizen kids of immigrants. The family comes here, they have kids, the kids are citizens. So, now, if the kids get welfare, it doesn't count as immigrant welfare. Sometimes people will counter, "Of course! Because they *are* American citizens!" To that I would just say that when people show you how they argue, you should update your opinion of them accordingly."
Geiger Capital on X - "This is insane… ~21,000 students were absent today in Charlotte Public Schools, likely due to the new ICE operations. That’s ~15% of total enrollment. This is why class sizes are too big, resources are stretched thin, and translators are needed. ~12% of all students in American public schools today are "English learners" Meaning they don’t speak English. We can’t educate our children like this. This isn’t complicated."
Meme - DK @1Nicdar: "Unreal! Traffic congestion in Charlotte, NC, before and after ICE."
We are told that this can't be true because only 8% of the population is illegal (as if this were not alarming large already as it is). Yet, we are also told that just reducing 4-5% of traffic increases speeds by 15-20%
S.T.S. on X - "What we have seen in just a week in Charlotte since ICE arrived:
-traffic and car accidents are down
-over 25,000 public school seats have opened up
- illegal activity is down
-shopping centers and parking have all been relieved from over crowding.
This list doesn't even consider other direct and indirect impacts hospitals and insurance impacts, child and sex trafficking, 911 calls, refuse debris on our streets, gas and energy consumption, housing. It's clear as day. The majority of issues we are experiencing is coming from illegal immigrants."
