Both foreign born population and foreign born employment ticked up again in March 2026

 

"The 14th Amendment was never that great"

 

She's so . . . u n u s u a l

 Sotomayor: Do You Want to 'Unnaturalize People?'

... Sauer replied, “No, we believe the court should do what it did in Sessions v. Morales-Santana, where there was a ruling that would have deprived people who are already citizens of citizenship, and the court said this applies prospectively only. We think that’s the appropriate course here. ..."

 

This is so great

 

Drudge version:

RUBIO MAY NEED TO SURRENDER PASSPORT; Neither parent was citizen at time of his birth...

 

Actual version:

 

Trump’s Own Cabinet Would Have Been Harmed by Birthright Citizenship Move

... Rubio, who was born to Cuban parents who were not American citizens at the time of his birth ...

 

 

The Newsweek story simply omits the crux interpretum involved in "and subject to" in the 14th Amendment.

Rubio's parents were subject to the jurisdiction of Cuba, and therefore so was he, making none of them citizens.

Same was true of Native Americans, none of whom were made citizens by the 14th Amendment. They were subject to The Nations, which the federal government recognized by treaties as nations within the American nation. Native Americans received citizenship by law passed in 1924.  

14th Amendment:

All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens ...                                               

It is high time that "and subject to the jurisdiction thereof" be treated seriously and not superfluously.  

 

Your reminder that today's so-called conservatives look at US institutions and traditions as impediments, same as liberals do

I am sick of TSA's illegal searches and seizures, and of DHS' deadly incompetence in Minneapolis and at Barksdale AFB.

The author below lists four recent incidents of terrorism in the United States in support of funding DHS outside the filibuster so that this incompetence can continue!  

They're not keeping us safe!

Millions of illegals remain in America who were supposed to Remain in Mexico!

Fire them all! These post-911 innovations aren't working. 

 

Terrorism trumps America again:

Time for a Filibuster Carve-Out for Terrorism

J.T. Young, RealClearPolitics

Senate Democrats get partial win, bill funding DHS passes without further funding for ICE and parts of Customs and Border Protection, which were massively funded last year by the Big Ugly Bill

Senate advances DHS funding bill, tees up House vote to end shutdown as TSA airport lines stretch 

... After weeks of Republicans fighting Democrats on their calls to remove funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement from any potential deal, the bill does exactly that. It would fund all of DHS except for ICE and parts of Customs and Border Protection, though it does not include the changes to ICE’s immigration enforcement practices that Democrats had demanded. 

... The shutdown began in February in the weeks after federal agents shot and killed two U.S. citizens in Minneapolis as part of a federal immigration crackdown. Democrats demanded changes in ICE and DHS more broadly and refused to fund the department. ...

Because they have nothing better to do

 ICE agents might as well try security theatre after deportation theatre flopped at the box office earlier.  

 

ICE agents will be deployed to U.S. airports on Monday: Homan

... “We will be at the airports tomorrow, helping TSA move those lines along,” Homan said, adding that ICE will assist in areas like guarding exit doors to relieve TSA agents for screening travelers. “We’re simply there to help TSA do their jobs in areas that don’t need their specialized expertise.” ...

If stuff like guarding exit doors is an area that doesn't need the TSA's "specialized expertise", why are TSA agents doing that stuff in the first place, and why are we paying for it?

 

 

Stephen Miller is full of it, as usual

 Stephen Miller: Every Blue State Has Refused To Share Their Voter Rolls So We Can Remove Non-Citizens

 Map Shows States That Have Handed Over Voter Information to Trump Admin

 

Fetterman voted for this numbskull Mullin, who will be an improvement over Noem, if you can imagine that

At least we hope so.

 

 Trump’s DHS pick Markwayne Mullin advances out of Senate committee after tough confirmation hearing

... The vote was 8-7, with Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky, chair of the Senate panel, the lone Republican vote against the nomination and Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., the lone Democrat voting in favor. Republicans hold an 8-7 majority on the committee. ...

Paul’s “no” vote came after he lashed out at the nominee the day prior. Mullin recently said he understood why Paul’s neighbor physically attacked him in 2017 and called Paul, a libertarian-leaning Republican who often does not vote with his party, a “freaking snake.” Paul called Mullin “unrepentant.”

“I just wonder if someone who applauds violence against their political opponents is the right person to lead an agency that has struggled to accept limits to the proper use of force,” Paul said. ... 

Fetterman declined to speak to reporters outside the hearing room following the vote, instead referring them to a statement posted to his X.

“In January, I called on the president to fire Noem —and he did. I truly approached the confirmation of my colleague and friend, Senator Mullin, with an open-mind,” Fetterman said in the post. “We need a leader at DHS. We must reopen DHS. My AYE is rooted in a strong committed, constructive working relationship with Senator Mullin for our nation’s security.”

Noem has been lambasted by lawmakers on both sides of the aisle for her leadership. And polling on the Trump administration’s immigration policies flagged in the winter after two U.S. citizens were killed by federal agents during an immigration crackdown in Minneapolis in January.

Mullin, signaling a break from his predecessor said Wednesday that he would require immigration agents to obtain judicial warrants to enter private property. He also seemed open to rethinking Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s role in immigration crackdowns. ...

Trump's voting legislation faces defeat in the U.S. Senate next week

Trump is convinced illegal aliens vote in large enough numbers to prevent Republicans from winning even though he and the Republicans swept into office in 2024 and control the executive and legislative branches of government.

 

 Trump-backed SAVE America Act will get a Senate vote next week, Thune says

The legislation is expected to fail unless a change is made to the filibuster, which requires 60 votes on most measures considered by the Senate. ...

For months Trump, GOP hardliners and online influencers like Elon Musk have railed against opponents of the bill and called repeatedly for a change to the Senate filibuster rule to ensure passage in the upper chamber. Thune supports the legislation but has rejected those calls, saying changing Senate procedure could have unintended consequences. Speaking from the Senate floor Thursday, he made no mention of changing the chamber’s rules, all but assuring the proposal will not pass. ... 

Anticipating the bill’s failure in the Senate, Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, who introduced the legislation, and other proponents have engaged in a pressure campaign to revert back to a “standing filibuster,” which requires dissenting members to actively hold the Senate floor to block legislation and could, in theory, allow for the passage of the bill with a simple 50-vote majority. ...

The critics ignore that Kristi Noem's DHS ad campaign was all Trump's idea and that she was saying so already in February 2025

 

Noem Everything a Cabinet Member Not Supposed To Be

R.T. Beckwith, MS Now

 

... made herself the star of a $220 million ad campaign that followed a no-bid contract ... 

 

 

'Self-Serving Glory Hound' Kristi Noem Got What She Deserved

Rich Lowry, NY Post

 

... Self-dealing played a direct role in Noem’s defenestration.

The department approved a $220 million contract — funneled in part through firms run by Noem and Lewandowski allies — for an ad campaign encouraging illegal immigrants to go home. 

The ad starred — who else? — Kristi Noem, on horseback and in chaps.

The implicit message was that if illegal immigrants didn’t leave on their own, she’d immediately form a posse and run them over the border. 

It was a production worthy of a spaghetti Western, or — more to the point, given her political ambitions — a commercial for a 2028 presidential campaign. 

Noem couldn’t defend the sketchy spending decisions, or the blatantly self-glorifying ad, or much of anything else in the brutal back-to-back House and Senate hearings that precipitated her doom. 

She’d already been taken down a notch after the Minneapolis ICE operation went sideways. ...

 

https://www.c-span.org/clip/public-affairs-event/user-clip-dhs-secretary-kristi-noem-describes-ad-campaign/5195580

Trump threw Kristi Noem under the bus: She told the story at CPAC in February 2025 how Trump specifically asked her to make the TV ads he now says he knows nothing about

 Here.

 

 

As a share of the native born employment level, the foreign born employment level is much higher in Feb 2026 under Trump II than in Feb 2019 under Trump I lol

 

How come there are still 5.75 million more foreign born in the United States in Feb 2026 than when Trump was president the first time?

I used peak ! foreign born under Trump I in Mar 2019 just to be fair!

 

Totalitarian DHS wants total information awareness about you, and got it illegally 42,695 times from the IRS

How many violent criminals and terrorists do you think file tax returns, vote, and collect welfare? 

 Judge: IRS broke law ‘approximately 42,695 times’ in giving DHS data

 ... DHS officials have defended the data-sharing agreement as necessary to crack down on illegal immigration. “Information sharing across agencies is essential to identify who is in our country, including violent criminals, determine what public safety and terror threats may exist so we can neutralize them, scrub these individuals from voter rolls, and identify what public benefits these aliens are using at taxpayer expense,” DHS said in a prior statement. ...

Just wait until Democrats run this operation against gun owners and see how you like it. 

Let me fix that for you: Incompetent U.S. military under cowboy Pete Hegseth shoots down our own Border Protection drone in Texas BY accident

Why do Reuters and CNBC bend over backwards to obscure who did what to whom? 

U.S. military shoots down government drone in Texas accident, Reuters sources say

The U.S. military shot down a government drone with a laser-based anti-drone system, an accident that prompted the Federal Aviation Administration to bar flights on Thursday in an area around Fort Hancock, Texas, congressional aides told Reuters.

Congressional aides told Reuters the Pentagon used the high-energy laser system to shoot down a Customs and Border Protection drone near the Mexican border, in an area that often has incursions from Mexican drones used by drug cartels.

The Pentagon, Federal Aviation Administration and Customs and Border Protection issued a statement saying the military used a “counter-unmanned aircraft system ... to mitigate a seemingly threatening unmanned aerial system operating within military airspace.” ...

CBP deployed the laser technology this month to reportedly take down four suspected cartel drones, despite warnings from the FAA that the technology had not been deemed safe to use in the same vicinity as commercial flights, an aide told Reuters, adding agencies told them the laser had never before been deployed domestically.

Two weeks ago the military used this laser, and missed!

US military used laser to take down Border Protection drone, lawmakers say

 

 

Trump expands the police state by bribing local police with monies from the Big Ugly Bill in exchange for help enforcing immigration law

 The Supreme Court slapped down Arizona in 2012 for trying to enforce its border with Mexico when Obama wouldn't do it.

Will they slap this down? 

Agreements that allow local police to work with ICE skyrocket

Agreements between Immigration and Customs Enforcement and local law enforcement that allow officers to make federal immigration arrests have increased by 950% in the first year of President Donald Trump’s second term, according to a new analysis of ICE data.

As of Jan. 26, there were 1,168 agencies with officers trained to help ICE, up from 135 during the Biden administration and 150 at the end of Trump’s first term, according to the analysis by FWD.US, a nonpartisan policy organization.

The Trump administration has called on local law enforcement to support its growing deportation operations nationwide, reviving a controversial “task force” model that allows local police officers to be deputized by ICE to stop people and make arrests based on suspicion that someone is in the country illegally. ...

ICE’s advertising for the program promised to give law enforcement agencies $7,500 for equipment per trained officer; $100,000 for new vehicles and overtime pay of up to 25% of an officer’s salary.

The analysis shows 39 states have policing agencies now participating, but didn’t give the total number of officers now working with ICE.

The states with the most participating agencies were Florida, with 342 agreements, Texas, with 296 agreements, Tennessee, with 63 agreements, Pennsylvania, with 58 agreements and Alabama with 52 agreements, according to the analysis by FWD.US, which advocates for immigration and criminal justice reforms.

State and local police agencies and sheriffs departments potentially stand to gain between $1.4 billion and $2 billion this year if they agree to participate because of the large infusion of cash from Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill, the organization predicted.

“This amount would dwarf all other federal funding for local law enforcement,” the FWD.US report found. ...

 

Winning . . .

All today: 

Bill to fund DHS fails in the Senate

 

Judge blocks Pete Hegseth’s censure of Sen. Mark Kelly over troops video, for now

 

Fed chair drama: Tillis pours cold water on off-ramp for Powell criminal probe

 

Trump administration will end immigration enforcement surge in Minnesota: Homan

 

 

 

Feds declare victory in Minnesota immigration enforcement operation and begin withdrawal, cutting their losses

They leave two murdered civilians in their wake, a permanent stain on the Trump administration. 

Trump administration will end Minnesota immigration operation: Homan

 

... “We have greatly reduced the number of targets for enforcement action” in the Twin Cities region as a result of the influx of thousands of officers from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection agencies, Homan said at a press conference. ...

 

 

Foreign born employment recovers by 565k in Jan 2026 under incompetent anti-immigration president lol