Flashpoint Immigration, Part II

Immigration should help society as it exists in its current form, not alter it beyond recognition.

It wasn’t enough to break into this country. Now they’re burning us alive. Source

This is the second in what will now be a three-part series. You can read Part I here.

There’s an update in the case of 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray, the girl raped and murdered by Venezuelan illegal immigrants:

HOUSTON (TNND) — Harris County, Texas District Attorney Kim Ogg announced Friday she will seek the death penalty in the killing of 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray.

Nungaray was sexually assaulted, killed and left in a creek in June. A medical examiner determined she had been strangled to death.

Ogg said she will seek to have Venezuelan nationals Johan Jose Martinez-Rangel, 22, and Franklin Pena, 26, put to death for the offense, counting their alleged crimes among the worst she’s ever seen.

“Jocelyn’s murder was as vile, brutal and senseless as any case in my tenure as district attorney,” Ogg said. “And it was made worse by knowing that these two men were here illegally and, had they been held after being captured at the border, they would never have had the opportunity to murder Jocelyn and destroy her family’s future.”

Once they’ve been put to death, I hope their remains are shipped back to Venezuela, where they belong. Dumped onto the ground upon arrival. Not buried in our soil. The way I see it, Venezuela itself deserves to be punished, but we’ll talk more about that later.

Immigration As A Weapon

J.G. Martinez D, a Venezuelan native, wrote an informative essay on the weaponization of immigration throughout history. It throws cold water on the Left’s assertion that immigration is only a good thing, it strengthens societies, and that no country can live without heavy doses of it.

He explains:

Under certain contexts, migration can be weaponized, functioning as a form of “slow violence” that inflicts widespread suffering and undermines the stability of states and societies.

The concept of migration as a weapon of mass destruction may seem hyperbolic, but it is grounded in a growing body of evidence. The infiltration of criminal groups in the migration wave is one of the most blatant pieces of evidence.

By systematically targeting civilian populations, undermining state institutions, and provoking social unrest, actors can exploit migration to achieve a spectrum of strategic objectives. These objectives may include territorial expansion, regime change, or distracting attention from domestic problems.

He goes on to say that Latin America has a history of weaponized migration. So it should come as no surprise it’s happening to the United States as well. We’re all in the same hemisphere, after all:

We have in recent history two perfect examples: the displacement of Venezuelan migrants, resulting in turmoil in the streets under the government of President Duque (a known enemy of the Venezuelan regime) in 2017-2018. This chaos disappeared once the guerrilla chief Petro and his gang took over the Presidency.

The same pattern was generated in Chile, with such unrest in the streets never seen in years, only to produce problems in the government of President Piñera (compared by the Venezuelan regime with Pinochet, a known dictator). Once again, as President Boric assumed office, all the turmoil ceased, and there has not been a serious demonstration ever since.

Historically, forced migration has been used also as a tool for ethnic cleansing. In the case of the most recent regimes, the rogue States use it to expel opposition and enemies. The Colombian guerrilla expelled and displaced almost 5 million people only to use their territory as a sanctuary. The leftist ideology once exhibited by these groups lost all the “coating” they had. Their real purpose of existing is to serve as guardians of the humungous [sic] drug production business and the corresponding trafficking routes.

Which can be considered an act of war.

Martinez goes on to discuss other examples throughout history worldwide of weaponized migration, even citing a study showing that migration and refugee flows are the most significant causes of armed conflict following the end of the Cold War. Did you know that? I certainly didn’t, despite all my research on the topic.

He also provides useful personal safety advice for how to deal with changing demographics where you live on a practical level. The reality is, changing demographics isn’t about having a wider variety of food, learning to have more tolerance towards others different from us, or any of the typical progressive gobbledygook. It’s about changes to your way of life without consent, forced upon you by a foreign power or, in our case, by our own government. It’s about being dispossessed, replaced, and denied a future.

Lest anyone accuse me of “demonizing” immigrants, it’s true that many do go on to assimilate or otherwise become productive members of society. However, too much is too much. Even some immigrants would say so themselves. If immigration occurs to the point that it results in demographic replacement, it’s gone way too far. Immigration should help society as it exists in its current form, not alter it beyond recognition. Otherwise, what is the purpose of immigration? Demographic change is like going into an art museum, taking down a painting on display, then putting one’s own in its place, claiming afterwards that you made the last painting better, when in fact you replaced it.

It’s dispossession, that’s what it is.

Tren de Aragua Is A Clear And Present Danger

Every day, it seems like there’s yet another incident involving Venezuelan migrants or members of the gang Tren de Aragua, or TdA. Since the transnational criminal organization from Venezuela hit the national spotlight in late summer following its takeover of apartment complexes in Aurora, Colorado, their activities have constituted a political battlefield of sorts. The Regime has fought hard to downplay the severity of the situation, playing the “it’s just a few buildings” card, in hopes of neutralizing it as an issue ahead of the presidential election.

That obviously hasn’t worked. Though nobody might be talking about them now that the election is over, the threat posed by TdA only seems to have grown.

Most recently:

The number of people detained by police in Aurora is growing after an alleged overnight home invasion and kidnapping at an apartment building in the Colorado city. Police believe most of the suspects are Venezuelan migrants but they are unsure if they're part of a notorious gang.

A spokesperson for the Aurora Police Department said on Tuesday evening that 19 people have been detained at the apartment complex, in two separate waves of police actions. Police responded to the apartment building at approximately 2:30 a.m. A group of people there had kidnapped and tortured a man and a woman, according to police.

The group allegedly tied up the couple, took them to a different unit that was vacant and beat them there while they burglarized their apartment. The couple was pistol-whipped, and the man was stabbed. Those two people were taken to the hospital but they are going to be okay.

The complex -- The Edge at Lowry apartments on Dallas Street -- has a history of issues with reported crimes.

If The Edge at Lowry sounds familiar, it’s because it was one of the first reported locations in the news where TdA was said to have taken over. Whether or not any of the arrested were in fact members of the group is besides the point: it’s obvious by now that the apartment complex is far from peaceful, with vicious, violent people roaming the property, terrorizing and torturing residents, which is exactly what we’ve been saying all this time. Figures as powerful as the Colorado Governor have gaslit Americans for months about the severity of the problem, yet since the story first became national news, it doesn’t appear as though they have a handle on it. The situation appears to instead be worsening.

Whether they’re overwhelmed or not, it’s clear local authorities are devoting an awful lot of resources to addressing this problem. At what point do we get to call it a crisis? Most of all, why was this allowed to become a problem in the first place? To fashion this as just part-and-parcel of living in diverse America isn’t just incredibly disingenuous, it doesn’t tell the story diversity proponents think it tells. It’s a fact: TdA wasn’t a problem in this country until very recently. Clearly, something changed in the last several years which led to their presence here. What was that, I wonder?

Most concerning now is that TdA’s presence in the U.S. appears to be spreading like wildfire. Showing up in the country’s largest metro areas is unfortunate, but to be expected. However, TdA is now showing up in areas far inland, like North Dakota and Wyoming. Though these places were never without their problems, it was also true that there were some problems one could reasonably expect to not encounter in places like the Dakotas and the Mountain states that were thought to be confined to America’s major population centers. It seems there’s no escaping them any longer, unfortunately. It makes you wonder: where is there left to run to?

Salt Lake City, a place without a reputation as crime-ridden nor violent, is another one of the locations where TdA activity has recently emerged:

A Venezuelan dissident who is running for office in Utah warned that local authorities “are not ready” to deal with Tren de Aragua — as the vicious prison gang has expanded its territory to at least 18 states.

Carlos Moreno, who is running for Salt Lake County Council in District 2, spoke out in a previous interview with The Post against Tren de Aragua gangbangers, who have been linked to at least two separate crimes in the Beehive State capital — including an alleged prostitution ring.

“Our law enforcement people are not ready,” Moreno told The Post previously.

“They are not ready yet to face these kinds of gangs in Utah because the way that they do things are totally different than the criminals here in the United States,” the city council hopeful continued.

“That’s why people right now are very afraid. And they don’t want these kinds of people in the United States.”

The article goes on to say that the victims of TdA tend to be other immigrants, often from Venezuela, who came here hoping to escape the crime and instability of Venezuela. Unfortunately, it appears to have followed them here, thanks to the open-borders policies of the Regime. In fact, a staggering million-plus Venezuelans have arrived in the U.S. during the Biden administration’s four years, constituting arguably the single greatest beneficiaries of the Regime’s lax immigration policies.

An ex-Venezuelan military officer sounded the alarm regarding the threat TdA poses, which goes well beyond what a conventional criminal gang poses:

An expert on the international criminal group Tren de Aragua (TdA) is warning that if sanctuary city and state policies are allowed to continue, the U.S. will soon be facing a slate of targeted assassinations across the U.S.

“The next step is targeted assassinations,” said Jose Gustavo Arocha, a senior fellow for the Center for a Secure Free Society and former lieutenant colonel in the Venezuelan army. “That is what has happened in Venezuela, what is happening in Latin America and that will happen here in the U.S.”

They’re beginning to sound like a bit more than just another gang. They are, in the words of a former Homeland Security Investigations agent, a cartel and like the Mexican drug cartels we’re more familiar with, are quite sophisticated in their operations, more than they appear on the surface. Unfortunately, TdA appears to have a more expansive repertoire, involved in a much wider range of criminal activity all across America.

I could, probably should, devote an entire essay to TdA. The threat they pose to Americans is very real. While Islamism is still a significant threat to the country almost a quarter-century following 9/11, the fact is we are more likely to run into a member of TdA than we are a member of al-Qaeda or ISIS. The problem with groups like TdA is that their activities impact our day-to-day living, whereas the threat posed by terrorists is the shock and unpredictability they pose. Islamists are very good at grabbing headlines and should be taken seriously. But TdA’s activities are the ones we’re more likely to run into in our daily lives. In terms of threat prioritization, TdA should be at the top of the list. This means they should also be at the top of the nation’s threat hierarchy. They’ve already done so much damage and taken so many innocent lives.

The X account “Tren De Aragua Tracker” does a yeoman’s job covering the group’s activities using open-source intelligence. Based on publicly available information, they created a map showing all the states where TdA members have been encountered:

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That’s almost half the country. I often hear TdA’s activities described by the authorities as “isolated,” but this means nothing in a practical sense, since all crime is isolated in that the impact of any one incident is limited to its victims.

The bottom line, according to Tren De Aragua Tracker, is this:

The list of states and cities will continue to grow if the problem remains unchecked. The dangers to Americans will also continue to grow as the organization becomes bolder and learns to how to control the logistics, economic resources, weapons and knowledge of the terrain they are operating in. They will work on developing intelligence of the territories to learn how to control them. (Quoted and paraphrased from Analisis Urbano November 1st 2024)

Both American citizens and law enforcement are behind the curve when it comes to understanding this group. Members of the Tren De Aragua organization are gathering intelligence on American communities.

The criminal finances that support the Venezuelan criminal organization come from kidnapping, smuggling, human trafficking, sex trafficking, drugs, fraud, robbery, theft extortion and weapons.

What do we do about this? Honestly, I don’t know. I’ve never been a policy guy; my goal has always been to prepare you at an individual, familial, and community level to mitigate or outright avoid these problems. But TdA, as is illegal immigration, is a national problem and I just don’t know how we’re going to fix this without some serious violence.

The real story, of course, is how the people running this country let this happen. This is indisputable: either they’re accountable for securing this country or they’re not. If they’re not, then they’re not really in charge, are they? Either way, we’re not only dealing with a foreign invasion, but we’re dealing with complicity in our own government. Again, I don’t know how you fix a problem when our own government is causing it to happen.

In a separate, but related example, Tony Thurmond, California State Superintendent of public schools, endorsed legislation which would prevent federal authorities from enforcing immigration laws on campuses without a judicial warrant.

Why would he do this? Who knows, but take note of an incident which occurred before Thurmond took office, whose aftermath he presided over:

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Believe it or not, it gets worse:

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Again, Thurmond isn’t implicated in this incident, not fully. However, if he’s so dead set on not cooperating with immigration authorities and California schools are MS-13 operating grounds, what do you think is going to happen?

Nothing good, obviously.

Trump Elaborates On His Immigration Policy

There’s one person who believes there’s a solution to the problems posed by mass immigration: President-Elect Donald Trump. Unlike 2016, there’s much less opposition to taking a harder line against immigration, so this is as golden an opportunity as any for the president to land a strong blow against the illegal immigration monstrosity.

In an interview with NBC, Trump stated he’d get rid of birthright citizenship for the children of illegal immigrants:

President-elect Donald Trump said he still plans to end birthright citizenship in the United States on day one — but was unable to provide insight into how he would go around the 14th Amendment.

“We’re going to have to get it changed. We’ll maybe have to go back to the people,” Trump said in an interview with NBC’s Kristen Welker on that aired Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “But we have to end it.”

Though it shouldn’t, given what we know about the Left, it still surprises me there’s such fierce opposition from the Left regarding ending birthright citizenship. The idea that illegal immigrants can have children who are citizens by virtue of simply being born here never made any sense, even from the perspective of the 14th Amendment. I don’t want to dive deep into the matter because I don’t think there’s really much to debate here. Ending birthright citizenship is arguably the lowest-hanging fruit when it comes to getting immigration under control; the only reason to oppose ending it is because having more illegals enter the country is the whole point.

However, some immigration hardliners were likely disappointed to hear Trump has a soft spot for the so-called “Dreamers”:

Trump also in the interview said he wanted to “work something out” in regards to Dreamers, or children who immigrated with their families at a very young age and have since grown up in the United States.

“We have to do something about the Dreamers because these are people that have been brought here at a very young age,” Trump said. “And many of these are middle-aged people now. They don’t even speak the language of their country. And yes, we’re going to do something about the Dreamers.”

Agree or disagree, this shows Trump is thinking pragmatically about the issue. The fact is, deporting millions is no easy task and it’s gotten tiresome hearing voices on the Right say so. It’s not just about having the will; it’s about having the resources. Inevitably, prioritization will need to take place, something Trump seems to understand.

He says that initial deportation efforts will focus on getting rid of criminals; those who’ve committed other crimes beyond entering the country illegally:

But when Trump was asked about his plans of mass deportation — and whether he still plans to deport everyone who is here illegally — Trump said, “I think you have to do it.” He said he will start with people with a criminal history, then expand out.

“It’s a hard – it’s a very tough thing to do. But you have to have rules, regulations, laws. They came in illegally. You know the people that have been treated very unfairly are the people that have been on line for ten years to come into the country,” Trump said. “And we’re going to make it very easy for people to come in in terms of they have to pass the test.”

He added, “They have to be able to tell you what the Statue of Liberty is. They have to tell you a little bit about our country. They have to love our country. They can’t come out of prisons.”

This is a very pragmatic policy and a much easier sell than just going after everyone in America illegally. At the very least, it forces the Left into an indefensible position: having to explain why they’re opposed to forcing criminals out of the country.

Here’s something I was quite pleased to learn:

Another Biden administration program that’s likely to end fast: a special visa-free humanitarian parole process for some residents of Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela. The Biden administration, to discourage migrants from trying to cross the border illegally, offered a way for some people from these countries to enter the country legally if they were vetted and had an American-based sponsor. As of August, nearly 530,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans had traveled to the U.S. via the program and were granted permission to live and work in the U.S. for two years.

We can have all the sympathy in the world for the people of Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. This doesn’t mean we just open our home to them. They may be victims of terrible regimes, but we have to remember they’re also products of the environments they were born into. In many cases, they are the reason these countries are the way they are, sorry as I am to say so. You don’t just adopt a child from a broken home because you feel bad for them. They can end up becoming more trouble than they’re worth.

What’s it going to take to remove all the illegals from the country? Like I said above, it’s not going to be an easy task. It’s going to take a significant amount of resources, resources which may not be available:

Finding, detaining and removing those people would be resource-intensive, said John Sandweg, acting director of ICE from 2013 to 2014. Detention capacity alone would be a costly and immediate challenge. Lawmakers need to appropriate the funding, and even if they do, the administration would need to hire, vet and train more officers — no easy feat.

ICE currently employs 7,000 officers who conduct 250,000 deportations a year, according to the agency. If Trump’s administration wanted to quadruple this number, as Trump has promised, training academies couldn’t handle a deluge of new hires.

“It is just a resource game, but it’s a hard game to play,” Sandweg said.

Anyone who says mass deportation is easy doesn’t know what they’re talking about. Proponents often cite the success of Operation Wetback in 1954, but overlook some important facts in doing so. 70 years ago, illegal immigrants were primarily concentrated in the border states, not spread all across the country like they are today. They were almost all Mexicans, meaning they could be dumped across the border upon deportation, whereas today, they come from all over, meaning they cannot just be dumped into Mexico and be expected to be sent back to where they came from. And no, you can’t just expect Mexico to deal with them. Mexico is an adversarial state and won’t just take America using them as an illegal migrant dumping ground, even if they deserve it. Finally, there were far fewer illegals in-country back then, nor did we have a government that has pursued a policy of virtually unlimited entry of outsiders.

It’s going to be interesting to see how Trump actually goes about his immigration plans. Thus far, however, it’s nice to see he appears to be thinking critically and realistically about it. The fact is, people may want something, but they neither want to break the bank for it or have it cause disruption in the process. This may not make much sense, but it’s the reality of politics.

Deporting millions without causing a tremendous uproar will be a difficult task, as will securing the border. The key is to deport these millions over the course of four years instead of trying to swing for the fences in the first year. As for securing the border, that’s going to involve doing whatever it takes to secure it, using a combination of physical barriers and manpower, and deterring would-be illegal entrants. Right now, the current system isn’t working, which means the big guns might be needed.

We’ll talk about that more in the next installment.

Playing With Fire

As I complete this piece, some horrific news out of New York City:

A migrant from Guatemala has been arrested for allegedly lighting a sleeping subway rider on fire in Brooklyn on Sunday morning — then watching as his innocent victim burned to death in what the New York’s top cop called “one of the most depraved crimes one person could possibly commit.”

The savage killing — which happened at about 7:30 a.m. on an idling F train at the Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue station — shocked commuters, MTA workers and NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch, who said Sunday that the heinous crime “took the life of an innocent New Yorker.”

“As the train pulled into the station, the suspect calmly walked up to the victim, who was in a seated position at the end of a subway car … and used what we believe to be a lighter to ignite the victim’s clothing, which became fully engulfed in a matter of seconds,” Tisch said at a press conference.

As the article suggests, the incident was captured on video, multiple videos, in fact. They’re some of the most disturbing images I’ve witnessed in recent memory, even by my standards, so here’s the link to one of them if you really want to see what happened. Last warning: it is very disturbing, so don’t watch it if stuff like that keeps you up at night.

The fact that all this is happening just a few weeks following the verdict in the case against Daniel Penny is the story. This is what happens not only when you don’t control the country’s borders, but when the state fails to enforce laws, using the vast legal apparatus to punish people like Daniel Penny instead for daring to step into that void. Stuff like this is what Penny was trying to prevent from happening. If allowing preemptive violence to occur in response to a perceived threat is problematic, so is making it impossible for citizens to take action when all three components of the threat triangle are present.

Long-term, the only solution is for the state to do its job and make full use of its authority to establish order, instead of using that authority to keep those who follow the rules in line. I said following the Penny verdict that things are likely to get much worse before they have a chance of getting better. In many ways, Penny getting off was a moral victory; the practical victory went to the NYC government, who has now discouraged anyone from ever intervening in a dangerous situation or even defending themselves.

Look at what’s happened in the NYC Subway in just the last week:

- Guatemalan “migrant” suspected of lighting a sleeping woman on fire (she’s deceased)

- 69-year-old man k*lled after being stabbed in the chest in a Queens subway. Another was stabbed in the face.

- 32-year-old randomly stabbed in the chest by a maniac on the train and sent to the hospital needing to get stitches.

- 17-year-old girl knifed in the face inside the 161st Street-Yankee Stadium subway.

- 72-year-old man pushed on the subway tracks in a random attack after participating in the MTA’s annual Holiday Nostalgia Riders event, suffering lacerations to the back of his head. He needs spinal surgery.

The same day the burning of the woman occurred, New York Governor Kathy Hochul took a victory lap, praising herself for the actions she took to make the NYC Subway safer. The announcement has not been rescinded nor walked back.

I may need to talk about this incident in greater depth in a later essay. It’s truly one of the most disturbing things I’ve seen. Let’s go back to the topic of immigration, though. In case you didn’t catch it at first, the suspect is Guatemalan and is - you guessed it - an illegal immigrant:

The illegal Guatemalan migrant accused of setting a straphanger on fire and gawking as she burned to death was once deported — but sneaked back into the US and the Big Apple shelter system, sources told The Post.

The accused firebug, who has not yet been charged, first entered the US illegally at the Arizona border in 2018, but was nabbed just days later and shipped back home.

He later crossed the border again, dodging federal agents and finding his way north to the five boroughs — although it is unclear how long he was in the city before the horrific F train attack Sunday, the sources said.

I guess the only surprise here is that he wasn’t Venezuelan.

I don’t know how many more examples of this we need before we realize how badly we’re playing with fire here, literally. We control the borders and decide for ourselves who gets to enter this country for this very reason - to prevent innocents from being killed. Anyone who counters with the fact that Americans commit plenty of crime on their own are missing the point. Is mass immigration helping or hurting the situation? I think the answer ought to be plain as day by now.

The good news is that there exists greater consensus across the political spectrum regarding not only the importance of public safety, but that illegal immigration is actually not a good idea. The bad news is that we’re on the precipice of things unraveling even further to the point only drastic action, the kind which tends to be politically unpopular, is the only thing that could restore order.

I’m of the belief that the time to avert catastrophe was ages ago - 1980 to 1990 to be exact - and that it’s now really too late. This isn’t to say Trump shouldn’t try to secure the border or to deport illegal immigrants. He absolutely should, since these are fundamental duties of any government. It’s to say that it’s likely to not go down peacefully, even with the political winds blowing in his favor. To quote a French military officer describing the situation in his own country:

The foreign mass on our soil is too deeply implanted; the crazy ideas of guilt are too deeply rooted in the brain of our abused people. It is too late. Much too late. I was 5 years old when it was already too late to act upstream. Our current situation is only the logical extension of these choices (or non choices). Today, it is too late to make the choices we should have made 30 years ago.

What he says about France is applicable to the U.S. as well. I think we have a better chance of avoiding outright conflict than France, but a conflict is coming, nonetheless. We’re dealing with people, both native and foreign, who think they have a right to take this land and its prosperity from its rightful owners: Americans.

Back in February, which seems a lifetime ago now, I went into a great deal of depth about what our coming conflict might look like. If there’s any appeal I can make to Americans of all stripes all across the political spectrum, it’s this [bold added]:

The coming civil war won’t be a race war, however, though it’ll definitely have racial characteristics. Here’s the thing everyone needs to understand, no matter on which side they ultimately fall: regardless of race, all Americans are at risk. Whites, being the majority, are the bigger target, the first in line. But eventually, the Regime will come for us all. We are all replaceable in the end. It doesn’t matter how well we’ve followed the rules, how much we’ve paid in taxes, our political views, or how loyal Democrats we are. Once the Regime decides we’ve outlived our usefulness, or our loyalty is no longer guaranteed, they’ll bring in someone else to take our spot. And they’ll make sure they’re much easier to control than we are. Or maybe they won’t be. Either way, we’re going to pay a heavy price for it.

This is what’s at stake. This is the great crisis of our moment. Can we overcome it? Based on everything I’ve said thus far, you ought to have an idea of where I stand. If nothing else, I’d hope Americans would all agree that civilization is a fragile thing, keeping a lid on the ugliness always lying beneath. Alongside the great crisis of the moment, the great divide of the moment is between those who take civilization for granted, which includes those committed to it’s unraveling, and those who see civilization for what it is: a thin barrier separating us from anarchy and barbarism, one that can only be preserved through violence.

We are here in large part because not enough Americans recognize the urgency of the moment. We are also here because Americans have forgotten what it takes to create a world where we and our families can wake up each morning with something else to look forward to besides fighting for our survival. It seems the time is approaching when we’ll need to learn these lessons again, the hard way.

The “vibe shift” following the election last month has me wondering if maybe Americans do recognize, on some level, the urgency of the moment. Again, it’s probably too late, but better late than never, right? We have a chance to do something; let’s not do nothing nor allow perfect to be the enemy of good enough.

Never Allow Your Humanity To Be Exploited

Most important: the Left and advocates of illegal immigration will undoubtedly employ emotional blackmail in order to shift public opinion against any hard line approach against illegal immigration. Don’t allow your heartstrings to be pulled. If you find yourself feeling sympathetic over families being separated or the citizen children of illegals leaving the country to be with their parents, just remember the poor woman who was burned alive on the NYC Subway. If you saw the video, that image should be burned (no pun intended) into your mind. Remember the names and faces of Laken Riley, Jocelyn Nungaray, and everyone else who lost their lives at the hands of an illegal immigrant.

Then it won’t feel so bad. Remember: we’re here because our sympathy, our kindness, and our openness was exploited. Any time we attempt to draw a boundary, the American is suddenly hated, becoming the most evil person on the planet in an instant. Isn’t it past time to tire of playing this stupid game?

What do you think about anything we discussed? Do you agree that immigration is being weaponized? What are your thoughts on Tren de Aragua? Are they a manageable problem? Or are they a serious threat, one we aren’t paying enough attention to? What do you think of Trump’s plans on immigration? What was your reaction to the woman getting burned on the NYC Subway?

Talk about it in the comments section.

Max Remington writes about armed conflict and prepping. Follow him on Twitter at @AgentMax90.

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