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Enforcing our immigration laws works!

We reported, on June 19th, that the decrease in the estimated illegal immigrant population was far greater than the number who had been deported, meaning that the greater part of the decrease was among those who ‘self-deported,’ those who realized that the welcome mat had been pulled, and chose to return to their homelands by themselves rather than being picked up and shoved out the door. Now, the number is even greater!

New Milestone: Over 2 Million Illegal Aliens Out of the United States in Less Than 250 Days

President Trump and Secretary Noem’s Robust Immigration Law Enforcement Yields Real Results for Americans

Release Date: September 23, 2025

WASHINGTON – On Tuesday, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced that 2 million illegal aliens have been removed or have self-deported since January 20.

The Trump administration is on pace to shatter historic records and deport nearly 600,000 illegal aliens by the end of President Donald Trump’s first year since returning to office. Two million illegal aliens have left the United States in less than 250 days, including an estimated 1.6 million who have voluntarily self-deported and more than 400,000 deportations.

Just the threat of being picked up and deported has caused somewhere around 1.6 million illegals to head back home; the threat of our immigration laws actually being enforced has worked. This is for what 77,302,580 Americans voted!

“The numbers don’t lie: 2 million illegal aliens have been removed or self-deported in just 250 days— proving that President Trump’s policies and Secretary Noem’s leadership are working and making American communities safe,” said Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin. “Ramped-up immigration enforcement targeting the worst of the worst is removing more and more criminal illegal aliens off our streets every day and is sending a clear message to anyone else in this country illegally: Self-deport or we will arrest and deport you.”

Let’s tell the truth here: if by the “worst of the worst” the Department means the illegals with other criminal arrests and convictions, that’s not quite right: a lot of illegals who don’t have criminal records have been picked up and shipped out as well. But the story of Des Moines, Iowa, school superintendent Ian Roberts provides us with a window into how even the (supposedly) nicest of the illegals have had to circumvent our laws and fabricate their backgrounds to make it economically in the US. They loved him in Des Moines, and thought that he was doing a good job — at $300,000 a year that could have gone to an actual American citizen — but he was a bad guy:

  • 1996 charges in New York of forgery and drug possession with intent to deliver.
  • A 1998 charge of unauthorized use of a vehicle in New York City, which was later dismissed.
  • A 2012 conviction for reckless driving, unsafe operation and speeding in Maryland.
  • 2020 charges in New York of criminal possession of a loaded weapon outside a home or business. The list notes one of those charges, for second-degree criminal possession, was “inchoate,” a legal term meaning the crime has been committed when the individual takes a “substantial step” even if the person ultimately fails to complete the crime.
  • A previously reported 2022 Pennsylvania conviction for unlawful possession of a loaded firearm.

The Des Moines Register also noted that some of the criminal records against him had been sealed.

He also falsified his academic credentials in applying for the Des Moines job. Living and working illegally in the United States is something which has to be built on a web of lies. I wonder how many of those who have ‘self-deported’ realized the network of lies that had been forced to use would quickly fall apart if anyone looked.

The apparently entitled Mr Roberts thought that our laws simply didn’t apply to him, as he ignored a June 2024 deportation order. How many other illegals have similar records of law-breaking and evasion? We don’t know, but the probabilities that Mr Roberts is the only one of the illegals who have done things like this are vanishingly small.

The New York Times, which is editorially hostile to President Trump, reported:

The Superintendent’s Bio Seemed Too Good to Be True. It Was.

Ian Roberts rose through the ranks of American education with talent, charm and a riveting back story. He was also hiding a shocking secret.

By Mitch Smith, Ernesto Londoño, and Dana Goldstein | Sunday, October 5, 2025

School district leaders in Des Moines drew up a detailed wish list when they set out to hire a new superintendent in 2023. They wanted someone who could increase reading scores, improve the math skills of Black boys, adhere to an affirmative action plan and much more.

Most of all, Des Moines Public Schools needed a galvanizing leader who could meet a moment shaped by the aftermath of Covid and the racial justice movement of 2020.

Translation: the Des Moines school board wanted someone who is black for the job. Des Moines city is only 11.7% black, more than twice the state’s 5.2% black population. Judging solely by his résumé, Mr Roberts certainly filled the desired qualifications, or at least would have had his résumé not been partially falsified.

Ian Roberts’s application seemed almost too perfect.

Dr. Roberts had spent most of his career in urban school systems, building a reputation as a charismatic, hands-on administrator. He wrote books, gave speeches and boasted of degrees from brand-name universities. His life story was also compelling: an immigrant from Guyana who competed in the Olympics and spoke bluntly about his experiences as a Black man in the United States.

“I believe deeply in the promise of public education being the most important opportunity gap closer for youth, particularly with a focus on diverse populations,” Dr. Roberts, who is in his 50s, wrote in his cover letter for the Des Moines job.

“Dr Roberts”? The Times noted that Mr Roberts initially claimed a doctorate in education from Morgan State University, but though the school says he attended there, there is no record of him actually earning his doctorate. He now claims a doctorate in education from Trident University International, a non-resident school which Wikipedia is circumspect enough to not call a diploma mill, but the school’s Wikipedia description certainly sounds like just that. The First Street Journal, in line with very few other publications, does use honorifics, but we decline to refer to Mr Roberts as Dr Roberts; we will not honor such a sketchy school.

Back to the Department of Homeland Security:

DHS has made it clear: the era of open borders is over. For four straight months, United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has released zero illegal aliens into the country.

The rest of the world is hearing our message. DHS immigration enforcement is also demonstrably deterring illegal aliens from trying to come here in the first place.[1]Though my wife and I are both native-born American citizens, with American passports, I can testify that the re-entry screenings of ourselves and our luggage were far stricter when we arrived from … Continue reading

A recent study from the United Nations reported that President Trump’s immigration policies led to a 97% reduction in illegal aliens heading northbound to the U.S. from Central America. That same study found that 49% of would-be illegal aliens who decided to stop their journey towards the U.S. did so because they thought it would be impossible to enter the U.S. under President Trump. Likewise, 46% said fears of detention or deportation led to abandoning their attempt to illegally enter the U.S.

There’s a little more at the link.

It’s simple: no one is going to make the costly and difficult trek from Guatemala and Honduras and Mexico if they believe that they won’t be able to cross into the United States. When President Biden reversed President Trump’s first term policies, policies which had greatly reduced, though not completely eliminated, the flow of illegals across our southern border, he effectively opened the floodgates, and perhaps ten million or more people entered illegally under Mr Biden’s policies; only the Lord knows the actual number.

Illegal immigration was Donald Trump’s primary issue in 2016, and again in 2024. If President Biden had retained just his predecessor’s immigration policies, it’s fair to ask the Democrats whether Mr Trump would be President today.

We can and should discuss reasonable immigration reform . . . after we have deported all of those currently here illegally. But right now, no matter how good and kind and noble they seem — Mr Roberts certainly filled that bill! — they are constant liars and criminals, because that is what is required for an illegal immigrant to live in the United States.

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↑1 Though my wife and I are both native-born American citizens, with American passports, I can testify that the re-entry screenings of ourselves and our luggage were far stricter when we arrived from London a couple of weeks ago than they were to board the plane in the UK, or to board the plane to leave the US a couple of weeks earlier than that.
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Good News: 2 Million Illegals Gone In 250 Days

It’s a good start

Trump’s immigration crackdown: 2 million illegal immigrants gone in just 250 days

The Department of Homeland Security celebrated on Tuesday that two million illegal immigrants have either self-deported or have been deported since the start of the Trump administration.

“The numbers don’t lie: 2 million illegal aliens have been removed or self-deported in just 250 days— proving that President Trump’s policies and Secretary Noem’s leadership are working and making American communities safe,” Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement. “Ramped-up immigration enforcement targeting the worst of the worst is removing more and more criminal illegal aliens off our streets every day and is sending a clear message to anyone else in this country illegally: Self-deport or we will arrest and deport you.”

Amid President Donald Trump’s heightened efforts in supporting Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s mission, which includes increasing the agency’s budget by $75 billion through the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, ICE is on track to shatter its record by deporting nearly 600,000 illegals by the end of the year. So far, ICE has successfully deported 400,000 illegal immigrations. Meanwhile, 1.6 million illegals have voluntary left the country. Since May, the Trump administration has offered illegal immigrants that decide to self-deport a free flight as well as $1,000. It is uncertain how many illegal migrants have taken the Trump administration up on its offer.

I was told that the only thing that could be done was pass a law that would have shut *wink wink* the border down when daily encounters exceeded 4,000 a day. Those claiming asylum would be quickly given work permits. Denials would take years to adjudicate. And then give amnesty and stuff with a promise that border security would be ramped up. Meanwhile, Trump comes in and puts people in place who have policies that simply shut illegal immigration down and caused illegals to get out. It tells them “don’t come”.

And DHS said “it’s just getting started” as it intends to recruit more ICE agents thanks to funding from Trump’s “one big beautiful bill.” While offering $50,000 sign-on bonuses and other recruitment bonuses, ICE has received more than 150,000 applications in the past couple of weeks. ICE has also signed more than 1,000 286(g) agreements, which gives local and state enforcement officers the tools and authority to perform specified immigration officer functions.

Keep it going. They say there are around 11 million in the US. Most likely the number is well over 20 million.

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A Dozen SCNY Officials Arrested By ICE

Maybe it’s time to start throwing some real federal charges at these unhinged Sanctuary City New York wackos interfering with federal agents?

More than a dozen city officials arrested while protesting immigration crackdown

More than a dozen city officials and lawmakers, and dozens of other demonstrators, were arrested Thursday both inside and outside 26 Federal Plaza while protesting conditions at the building and President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown in the city.

Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, state Sen. Julia Salazar, Assemblymember Phara Souffrant Forrest and members of the City Council were among those detained at the protest. (snip)

Others, including City Comptroller Brad Lander, were taken from the 10th floor of the plaza after trying to catch a glimpse of the conditions there.

All the officials have now been released. Lander and 10 others were given summonses for blocking the lobby and the foyer upstairs. They have a court date in November.

Defending illegal aliens, many of whom are serious criminals, seems like the hill they want to die on

(Newsweek) Thursday was Lander’s second time being detained at the facility, following an arrest in June.

DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin told Newsweek in a statement, in part, “Brad Lander’s obsession with attacking the brave men and women of law enforcement, physically and rhetorically, must stop NOW. The men and women of ICE put their lives on the line every day to arrest violent criminal illegal aliens to protect and defend the lives of American citizens. This type of rhetoric is contributing to the 1000% surge in assaults of ICE officers through this repeated vilification and demonization of ICE.”

Have they passed the point of not protesting peaceably? Sooner or later these protests are going to lead to serious violence, because the Democrat politicians and high end activists are whipping everyone up into a frenzy.

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LOL: Newsom Signs Legislation Blocking ICE From Wearing Masks

I’m looking forward to any state, county, or local law enforcement in the People’s Republik Of California to try and arrest any federal law enforcement agent

Newsom signs legislation banning ICE agents from wearing masks in California

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) on Saturday signed a first of its kind bill banning Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents from wearing masks while conducting operations in the state of California.

Newsom said ICE agents would no longer be “hidden from accountability” arguing masks prevent “transparency” for citizens and hinder “oversight.”

“That’s Trump’s America but that’s not the America we’ve grown up in. And so we are pushing back,” the governor said during remarks at a local high school.

Newsom said many residents are living in fear as the Trump administration cracks down on communities of illegal immigrants. Twenty-seven percent of Californians are foreign-born.

I’m all for federalism and State’s Rights, but, Los Federales have primacy when it comes to immigration, and federal law enforcement outranks state, county, and local when it comes to federal matters. Illegal immigration is a federal matter. I remember when Gavin banned all San Francisco (he was mayor at the time) city employee travel to Arizona in 2010 over the “show your papers” law. Not sure why so many employees were traveling to Arizona on the taxxpayer dime, but, Dems said SB1070 usurped federal power.

Newsom’s office also took aim at Noem in its announcing of the legislation, which drew a backlash from the administration.

“Kristi Noem is going to have a bad day today,” Newsom’s press office tweeted. “You’re welcome, America.”

“This reads like a threat. This is ugly, @GavinNewsom,” Department of Homeland Security (DHS) spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin tweeted in response.

See, Democrats in the PRC want to ban law enforcement from protecting their identities, thereby allowing the unhinged nuts in the Democrat party to retaliate against them and their families. Violently. But, the PRC general assembly won’t restrict criminals from wearing masks.

(AP) Bill Essayli, acting U.S. attorney for Southern California, said on the social platform X that the state does not have jurisdiction over the federal government and he has told agencies the mask ban has no effect on their operations. “Our agents will continue to protect their identities,” he said.

Good luck with any attempted arrests of ICE and others, guys. You’ll be going to federal prison.

The new law prohibits neck gaiters, ski masks and other facial coverings for local and federal officers, including immigration enforcement agents, while they conduct official business. It makes exceptions for undercover agents, medical masks such as N95 respirators or tactical gear, and it does not apply to state police.

It’s all performative theater.

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Who’s Up For $100K A Year H1-B Visas

Good idea? Bad idea? Good for some bad for others?

Trump imposes $100K fee on H-1B visas in new immigration action

President Donald Trump signed an executive action on Friday to impose a $100,000 application fee for H-1B visas — in an effort to curb what his administration says is overuse of the program.

“We need great workers, and this pretty much ensures that that’s what’s going to happen,” Trump said from the Oval Office, where officials detailed how the measure would incentivize companies to employ American workers while still providing a pathway to hire highly skilled foreign workers in specialized fields.

The proclamation will restrict entry under the program unless accompanied by the payment.

Now, this is not something that the visa holders pay, companies pay. There is also some confusion as to whether this is per employee or for a multitude. What it is meant to do is have American companies hire Americans, rather than bring them in. The question now is “does the Executive Branch have this authority?” Quite frankly, I’d rather see a lower fee, like, say, $20K per visa holder, and restrict the visas to 3 years with no renewals. Because now they get renewed over and over again, and the holders bring their families, their parents, their cousins.

The moves mark the latest in a series of efforts from the administration to crack down on immigration and place sharp new limits on the types of foreigners allowed into the country. They threaten to significantly impact industries that depend heavily on H-1B workers.

Maybe they should be focusing on hiring Americans.

Meanwhile

More than 400 arrests made so far in Chicago area enforcement operation, top ICE official says

Immigration enforcement officials have arrested more than 400 people as part of an operation in the Chicago area that launched a little less than two weeks ago, a top Immigration and Customs Enforcement official said Friday.

Marcos Charles, the acting head of ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations, gave the figures during an interview with The Associated Press. The figure, which has not been widely reported, offers an early gauge of what is shaping up as a major enforcement effort that comes after similar operations were launched in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C.

For all the caterwauling, protesting, agitating, none of it mattered in Sanctuary City Chicago. ICE knows who they are and where they are.

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Los Federales Starting To Hit SCC

It would actually be kind of fun if ICE and the other agencies involved would just pop up here and there, not really doing anything, just freaking out the citizens, especially the illegals, in Sanctuary City Chicago

Federal immigration agents make arrests in Chicago and West Chicago with sightings in several other suburbs

Federal immigration enforcement agents made arrests in Chicago and the suburb of West Chicago on Monday, while others were spotted in west suburban Aurora, officials and two state lawmakers said.

The actions come one week after President Donald Trump’s Department of Homeland Security announced it was embarking on its latest immigration enforcement surge in the Chicago region, which it dubbed “Operation Midway Blitz.”

State Sen. Karina Villa, a Democrat from West Chicago, said she saw the federal agents assembling at a West Chicago Police Department station parking lot early Monday. When she confronted them about why they were present, they dispersed, she said.

At some point, she said there were “probably over five” arrests, though she said that was not confirmed independently by federal or local law enforcement. Villa said volunteers in the community were dispatched to take video or photos of immigration enforcement activity, and the agents were wearing vests that identified them as being from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and they were in “unmarked vehicles.”

Why they were present? Well, the US Congress has tasked ICE and other federal agents to enforce federal law and detain those illegally present in the US. And, by “dispersed”, they most likely went about doing their jobs, rather than running from her.

Under Illinois’ 2017 Trust Act, signed into law by former Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner, local law enforcement is prohibited from working with federal authorities on immigration enforcement. Villa said West Chicago’s mayor assured her they’re “not collaborating with ICE.”

Then deny them federal funds. Local and state law enforcement are required to help detain people who have broken federal laws.

She said this all transpired as elementary and high school classes in the area were beginning for the day.

“This is a terror that they’re attempting to instill in our community,” Villa said.

Terror, huh? Well, these same people think of Mexico as their home country.

Thousands in Chicago celebrate Mexican American heritage amid immigration crackdown

The annual Mexican Independence Day parade in Little Village on Sunday brought a sea of thousands of people wearing green and red waving Mexican flags of all sizes. Dozens of brightly colored floats highlighting Mexican culture by local organizations, businesses and unions were on display, as men on horseback, marching bands and dancers streamed down 26th Street in this majority Latino neighborhood.

Yet, the streets weren’t as full as in previous years, largely owing to fears over President Donald Trump’s efforts to ramp up immigration arrests in the city.

Do they want to be Americans or Mexicans? They aren’t making a very convincing case. Do French-Americans, Scottish-Americans, and others celebrate independence for their old countries? Very, very few. They do not have massive parades (these parades happened in other Dem run cities, too). As I’ve maintained for decades, if the illegals really want to be Americans then act like it. Learn the language. Stop taking all that public assistance. Blend in. Don’t fly Mexican flags and pretend like you’re still in Mexico. This goes for the illegals from other nations.

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Bummer: Reports Say There Will Be 1.6 Million Fewer “Immigrants” In The US

The phrase Politico is looking for is “illegal aliens.” Heck, they aren’t even going with something like “undocumented Americans”

1.6M fewer US immigrants expected this year amid Trump, GOP policies, CBO predicts

President Donald Trump’s immigration policies, along with those in the GOP megabill enacted this summer, will significantly reduce the number of immigrants in the United States in the coming years, Congress’ nonpartisan scorekeeper estimated Wednesday.

The Congressional Budget Office now predicts that total net immigration will be 1.6 million people smaller this year than it projected in January. Contributing to that downward trend, the Republican tax and spending package Trump signed into law in January is estimated to result in the removal of 290,000 immigrants and the voluntary exit of 30,000 others over the next five years.

What the budget office has not yet calculated is how stemming the influx of immigrants will affect the federal budget. Those estimates are expected next year.

On the upside for Trump and congressional Republicans, cooling immigration is expected to shrink federal spending. But there are negative counterweights for GOP leaders too: Namely, foregone cash from taxes.

The number seems rather low. I guess we’ll have to see how many actually get deported and how many self deport. Also, remember that the border is not being overrun with illegals and fake asylum seekers. There are very few encounters, and most are not being let in.

New USCIS ‘Special Agents’ Will Be Given the Power to Arrest, Use Deadly Force Against Immigrants

On September 5, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the agency established by Congress to adjudicate immigration applications, made a startling announcement. For the first time since the agency was created in 2003, the agency will create a new class of “special agents,” who will be authorized to carry firearms and arrest people for both civil and criminal immigration and non-immigration violations.

This drastic change in the agency’s mission will instill fear in applicants seeking lawful status with USCIS, further pushing individuals who do not have clear-cut eligibility into the shadows, directly impacting our safety and security. The vagueness of the new rules also creates a lot of uncertainty for U.S. citizens and American businesses sponsoring family members and foreign talent, as well as for the lawyers representing individuals with difficult cases.

If they’ve gone through the standard legal channels, there is no worry. If they are illegal/fake asylum seekers, well, just self deport. Make it easy on yourself.

And things are ramping up in Chicago

It’s worth going and reading the whole DHS thread, which highlights many of the illegals caught, all sorts of very bad people. Who Democrats want to defend.

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The Philadelphia Inquirer supports immigration lawlessness

Screen capture Philadelphia Inquirer website main page, September 8, 2025 at 8:20 AM EDT.

That our nation’s third oldest continuously published daily newspaper supports illegal immigration is no surprise to regular readers and me. The main article listed tells readers how “Rapid Response” activists have been tailing Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to try to intimidate ICE in its apprehension of illegal immigrants, but the subsequently listed articles are all pro-illegal immigration.

Chasing ICE: ‘Rapid-response’ activists follow agents, then stand up for immigrants during arrests

“They’re trying to do this quietly, they’re trying to do this when nobody is watching,” one immigrant-advocate said.

by Jeff Gammage | Monday, September 8, 2025 | 5:00 AM EDT

When ICE agents headed out to raid the Super Gigante food market in West Norriton this summer, they didn’t travel alone.

Following behind them were cars carrying members of the Montgomery County Watch rapid-response team, immigration activists who work to find and follow the Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Their goal: to record agents’ activities, to alert people to protest at the scenes of arrests, and, at times, to loudly confront the officers.

The group had discovered ICE agents and cars gathering that July morning in the parking lot outside the Plymouth Meeting Regal Cinema movie theater.

From there it was 4½ miles to the supermarket. The two groups arrived nearly simultaneously.

As ICE arrested 14 people for immigration offenses, activists yelled at and questioned the masked agents, asking if they told their children that they worked separating families.

That’s what every law enforcement officer does when he arrests someone for breaking the law. When the Philadelphia Police Department arrests a gang-banger for shooting another gang-banger, he’s separating a family.

“Show your face! Show your face!” they demanded.

We know their reasons. The newspaper’s far-left columnist Will Bunch among others has decried ICE agents wearing masks for the very simple reason: they want to publicly identify and dox them, to intimidate them from doing their jobs.

“Get back!” an ICE agent shouted as a woman in sandals and a T-shirt approached him.

“Cowards!” came the rejoinder.

The agents did not respond to the taunt.

“They’re trying to do this quietly, they’re trying to do this when nobody is watching” ― and the rapid-response team aims to ensure that doesn’t happen, said Stephanie Vincent, an organizer who was among those who went to the supermarket that morning. “The citizens are front line right now.”

The front line of what, of protecting criminals? Because that’s what these people are trying to do, trying to protect people who are in the country illegally from being removed from the country. Further down, they admit that directly:

“People are showing up and protesting, to show we support [migrants] and don’t want them taken out of the community, and asking ICE to think about what they’re doing,” said Rachel Rutter, executive director of Project Libertad, a Phoenixville-based organization that assists immigrant families. “It’s a direct response to the increase in enforcement.”

In other words, they are aiding and abetting criminals, trying to keep the illegals from being deported.

ICE noted that the agents are performing legal enforcement actions, and that while everybody has freedom of speech, if they actually interfere with ICE while making arrests, they are committing a federal crime.

There’s a lot more to the article, noting the legality of the protests, but it’s heavily slanted toward glorifying the activists. That goes right along with the newspaper’s Editorial Board’s support of illegal immigration, saying “Heavy-handed immigration enforcement efforts accomplish little beyond the upheaval and inhumane treatment of people just trying to get ahead and make a better life.” They can try to get ahead and make a better life .  .  . in Mexico or Guatemala or from wherever it is they came! That’s our law, and they are breaking the law every time they cross our borders or overstay a visa and every time they provide forged documents to obtain jobs or work for cash and not pay income of Social Security taxes.

Kick them out, and if they want to return to the United States, they can apply for legal immigration from their home countries. That’s the American way!

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Abuse of the asylum claim system

My good friend William Teach noted that the illegal immigrant accused of human trafficking and a known wife beater, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, that darling of Will Bunch and the rest of the American left, has now been notified that he will be deported to Eswatini, a small nation in Africa. But even Mr Bunch would have to admit that Mr Abrego Garcia and his shysters are attempting to abuse the asylum law:

ICE tells Kilmar Abrego Garcia he’ll be deported to tiny African country

DHS mocked Abrego Garcia on social media, saying, ‘Homie is afraid of the entire western hemisphere’

by Peter Pinedo and Bill Melugin | Friday, September 5, 2025 | 7:56 PM EDT

An attorney representing the Department of Homeland Security and ICE has notified high-profile illegal immigrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia that he will be deported to the tiny African nation Eswatini, after the alleged gang member’s lawyers said he fears persecution in 22 other countries.

According to a removal notice shared with Fox News by ICE sources, the agency notified Abrego Garcia that in light of his claims of fear of persecution or torture in nearly two dozen other countries, “we hereby notify you that your new country of removal is Eswatini, Africa.”

“Dear Mr. Abrego Garcia,” the notice reads, “As you know, the United States seeks to remove you from the United States based on your final order of removal. Currently, you are designated to be removed to Uganda. Your attorney has informed us, however, that you fear persecution or torture in Uganda.”

There’s more at the original.

So, the alleged human trafficker fears persecution or torture in twenty-two separate countries? How, exactly, is that a reasonable fear? What reason would Uganda have to persecute Mr Abrego Garcia?

At some point, it has to be asked: have Mr Abrego Garcia’s attorneys, who are legally officers of the court, overstepped in making unsubstantiated and unreasonable claims to seek asylum? What could motivate twenty-two countries to persecute that man? And if twenty-two other countries do have reasons to persecute him, is that not evidence in itself that he’s a bad, bad guy?

One thing is certain: Mr Abrego Garcia needs to never set foot in the United States as a free man. He needs to be in prison, or at the very least, out of here!