I’ll admit, I got kind of carried away for a little while. In my defense, I don’t think I was the only one.
For a couple of months, it really did look like the second Trump administration was going to be as bad as libtards feared, maybe even worse.
The Orange Reich, under the leadership of Adolf Trumpler, had finally arrived. At long last.
A series of daring raids deep into enemy territory—the sanctuary cities, where the writ of ICE was not supposed to run—was putting the fear of God into our enemies, and also bagging large numbers of illegals, including the worst kind of foreign criminals who had escaped deportation for too long.
First there was California, then Minneapolis-St Paul and Chicago. We saw immigration officers on horseback in MacArthur Park. Unthinkable. Marines dispersing rioters outside a detention center in Downtown LA. Again, unthinkable. Snatch squads in full tactical gear grabbing Latrinos in the fields and on the streets and in their cars and at the local courthouse. We saw Obersturmbahnführer Gregory Bovino leading the charge with his razor-cut hair and heavy overcoat redolent of a time when military uniforms looked really good because they were made by fashion designers… Wunderschön!
Kino after kino after kino.
My favorite moment of all, by far, was the brave stand of the immigration agent outside the Homes 2 Suites Hotel in Minneapolis. Battered and bloodied, beleaguered, alone and without backup, a single agent armed with a shotgun defended the entrance of a cheap hotel from a leftist mob bent on destruction. The mob had been told, wrongly, that the hotel was full of ICE agents.
In a flight of fancy, I compared the episode to the famous “lost position” described by Oswald Spengler: the Roman soldier who refused to leave his post while Vesuvius erupted, simply because nobody had told him to do so.
That is greatness. That is what it means to be a thoroughbred. The honorable end is the one thing that cannot be taken from a man.
Like I said, I probably did get a little carried away. But maybe you did too. Let’s just agree to forgive each other, shall we?
The abandonment of these high-profile, headline-grabbing raids, and the replacement of senior leadership at the DHS, including Secretary Kristi Noem, has signaled a clear change in strategy for immigration enforcement. Some, including Bovino himself, who was forced to take statutory retirement a few months ago, have said the Trump administration has abandoned the policy of mass deportations that a majority of the American electorate still supports. The policy, maybe more than any other, that won the 2024 election for Donald Trump. The deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, portrayed by the media as fascist murders by Trumpian orange-shirts, rather than clear acts of self-defense against leftist aggression, generated outrage—and yet they didn’t shake the essential, common-sense conviction that people who have entered the US illegally should be removed. Every last one of them.
In truth, though, the move to a quieter, less openly confrontational strategy seems to be paying off. Bigly. Just ask The New York Times.
This week, the Toilet Paper of Record ran a story about a significant uptick in ICE detentions. More than 10,000 people were detained over a period of five days at the end of June—double the rate at the beginning of this year, when all the fireworks were going off in LA, Minneapolis-St Paul and Chicago.
Just in case you can’t do basic math, that’s an increase from an average of a thousand arrests a day to two thousand.
On one of those five days, 2,400 people were arrested.
ICE are arresting people everywhere—at traffic stops, routine immigration check-ins and on the street—but they’re doing so discreetly, without announcements or fanfare. And they’re not facing anything like the determined resistance they faced before. The lesbian and mulatta shock troops are nowhere to be seen now.
As The Times puts it, “The rise in arrests suggests that President Trump is determined to meet his pledge of mass deportations, a goal that is popular among his conservative supporters but that has fueled a political backlash amid the administration’s heavy-handed tactics.”
According to agency sources, ICE officials have been told to have as many agents as possible “working seven days a week, and to put 80 percent of their officers on arrest operations.”
Far from having abandoned its policy of mass arrests, the Trump administration is taking them to the next level. They’ve been normalised now. Like background noise. A constant ringing in the ears of illegals and their leftist advocates.
A new atmosphere of terror has settled over immigrant communities, the paper says.
“People don’t want to leave their houses,” an immigrant lawyer remarked.
“They are afraid to drive to do their grocery shopping. They are just terrified with these detentions.”
As I said elsewhere—I think in another piece for Alex Jones Live—sometimes it’s better to believe what your enemies are saying about you, rather than the naysayers and doomers in your own camp. And The New York Times, one of the Trump administration’s most persistent enemies, is saying, loud and clear, that Trump is doing what he said he’d do.
Of course, there’s still much more to be done. The number of arrests hasn’t met Stephen Miller’s baseline target of 3,000 a day, which would result in a little over a million deportations a year, or four million over Trump’s full term.
Remember: 20 million was Trump’s promise.
We need to pump up those numbers!
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I want the deportation numbers. Not “captured” numbers.
That was pretty much what I came on here to say.
The deportation numbers are the lowest they have been in several decades.
No one gives a shit about immigration arrest numbers when gas is still between $4 to $6 dollars per gallon!