Looks like privilege just got handchecked.
🇺🇸 A thief in a hijab was caught stealing from Walmart, and tried to worm her way out of it by pleading about being Palestinian, like that made her crimes some kind of twisted reparations. When the officer tried to take her out, she even insisted on not being touched on account of her virtue. Thankfully, pity politics didn't stretch far enough for her this time. 😂 Writer: Mhedi https://t.co/j73ZTbvo6Z
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) October 9, 2026
@rascal113646 @ScottMechkowski Yes, along with the 1982 law, Plyler v. Doe, that ruled the right of undocumented students to attend public school is guaranteed under the U.S. Constitution. https://t.co/DWbSLOMtLc
— Mike Walgenbach (@Walgenbach82743) October 9, 2026
As I said last evening, mass deportations can't be a slogan. All immigration violators need to dealt with period. Please refrain from the “ worst if the worst “. They're all bad. #neverforget 9-11-2001 @Phase2Deport
— Scott Mechkowski (@ScottMechkowski) October 9, 2026
Scott Mechkowski, Former ICE Agent. Visiting Fellow / Oversight Project.
STINCHFIELD: How's my analysis? Because I look at that and say, "O, my God! Are the terrorists all of a sudden flooding here? But that's not really the case, is it?
MECHKOWSKI: No. I have a real issue with all of this being on the job for so long and seeing this first hand. It's just so disheartening that the president, his administration was handed basically a Bible on how this all goes down and what we should be focused on. And these numbers are nothing more than . . . it's just fanfare, right? You saw the Visa overstays. I mean the 911 Commission back on 9/11 they pointed out where the problems were 104,000 terrorists related leads and only 12 were acted upon or even arrested. And then you want to know why we couldn't even find the unaccompanied children. Same problem, same issue. So it's just really a shame that this is still going on.
STINCHFIELD: Alright, so when you look at these overseas and you'll hear I know what you're going to hear from those on the left you'll hear many Republicans say let's start with the worst of the worst. I have a problem with that philosophy because you have to go in my opinion after every single person that is here illegally. And sure there are worse than others, but if you ignore one side you're going to have a whole set of problems on our hands, Scott.
MECHKOWSKI: 100%. Listen, think about this. They used our immigration [framework] . . . the 911 terrorists used our immigration system; they used the processes knowing that nobody even prioritized them, and look what they did. It was a catastrophic event here in the United States. You'd think we'd learn from that. It's not about the worst of the worst anymore. It's not, it's never been. Any immigration violator needs to be dealt with and they need to be dealt with in accordance with the law. And if Congress doesn't like it, then Congress should go back and do their job and rewrite it. But if you are an overstay . . . , and listen, let's get this right because they made a legal entry, they gamed the system by filing all these other add-on petitions later on. I mean that's a huge problem.
STINCHFIELD: Here's what worries me. President Trump has clearly done a great job along with your fellow border patrol agents, of course, securing the southern border. The cartel are in fits. I saw a piece that they're using live living horses to smuggle drugs into the country. And then I saw a piece that they are now contemplating kidnapping, abducting border patrol officers. I would have imagined this was always a threat, but do you think it's more of a threat now than ever?
MECHKOWSKI: I mean I don't put anything past the cartel, right. They're resourceful. One thing about the cartel is they're always a step ahead of us because we are always reactive; we're not proactive. We have so much intelligence in this country along the Southwest border. Agents you know you're right the brave men and women of the border patrol deserve a lot of credit. They were taken out of their mission by the Biden Administration along with the interior enforcement agents, and they were held to process family units and millions of illegals that were coming through the border and taken off their posts. You know, we don't know who is in this country. I mean I challenge anybody to tell me that they can undoubtedly say that they don't even know how many people are here. We don't know. I mean look, the cartel will always use anything they can to get illicit drugs and their stuff through the border. It's always been [the thing] . . . .
STINCHFIELD: Real quick in 30 seconds. If you can for me, what's the one tip you would give Tom Homan, his ICE agents, the Border Patrol that you would like to see them Institute tomorrow to make America safer on this subject?
MECHKOWSKI: Listen, institute worksite enforcement. Get e-verified done. Mass deportations means Mass deportations, not Mass importations. What you need to do is everybody is on the table and it doesn't matter as long as they have they've gotten due process, they've been through the system, they need to go. We need a full reset.
STINCHFIELD: I'm right there with you on that and workplace enforcement may be the number one on my priority, because you've got to go after employers as well and stop incentivizing them from hiring all these illegals too.
Scott Makowski it's great to see you, my friend. Thank you for coming on as always.
Due Process, another fallacy. They get more than Due process. A lot of people think a deportable alien gets one shot at staying here. The truth is they usually get three. Congress set up visas and refugee programs that people can use before they ever come here. Once they’re in the country, they can apply with USCIS for asylum, a green card or a work permit. Then if ICE puts them in removal proceedings, an immigration judge can still give them relief even after finding them deportable. People like (thousands more) Abrego Garcia skipped the first one, blew past the one-year deadline for asylum on the second, and still got his day in front of a judge on the third. That’s a lot of process for someone who came in illegally.Due Process, another fallacy. They get more than Due process. A lot of people think a deportable alien gets one shot at staying here. The truth is they usually get three. Congress set up visas and refugee programs that people can use before they ever come here. Once they’re in the country, they can apply with USCIS for asylum, a green card or a work permit. Then if ICE puts them in removal proceedings, an immigration judge can still give them relief even after finding them deportable. People like ( thousands more) Abrego Garcia skipped the first one, blew past the one year deadline for asylum on the second, and still got his day in front of a judge on the third. That’s a lot of process for someone who came in illegally. The real trouble is that the system lets cases drag on for years, and that’s where the fraud, waste and abuse come from. Congress could fix a lot of this right now. Give us more immigration judges so the backlog gets worked down. Put real consequences on people who file fake or frivolous asylum claims. Cap the continuances so a case can’t be stretched out forever. Stop using parole for things it was never meant for. Pay for enough detention space and removal flights so a final order actually means something. And make E-Verify mandatory so the jobs aren’t there to pull people in.
— Scott Mechkowski (@ScottMechkowski) October 9, 2026
Pay for enough detention space and removal flights so a final order actually means something. And make E-Verify mandatory so the jobs aren’t there to pull people in.
Populists sweep Brazil, throwing out the Socialists. The right has now won 8 out of 8 elections in Latin America since Trump defunded USAID. What it means for the region. And the US Hispanic vote. https://t.co/rFZfm2vI3J
— Peter St Onge, Ph.D. (@profstonge) October 9, 2026
Latin America is going populist in a continental wave that's got the pink hairs running for cover. Last week, it was Brazil who's done being socialism's lab rats with populists crushing the first round of the presidential election, dramatically outperforming expectations. And now running 83% odds of winning outright according to Kalshi along with a slew of seats in Congress where the ruling socialists lost two in three of their Senate seats. Brazil brings it to 8 out of 8 elections won by populous across Latin America since Trump defunded USAID, the Left's tax-funded election fixing operation. Your tax dollars no longer at work electing socialists in Brazil.
So what's going on beyond USAID?
For one, it turns out socialism did not mark again. In the last decade, GDP growth across the region has been stagnant at under 1% per year.
Meanwhile, Latin American socialists, like American socialists, prefer to hug criminals instead of locking them up. So incomes are stagnant, streets are unsafe, eventually voters connect the dots. The most dramatic so far and models for the rest are Argentina and El Salvador. In Argentina, Javier Milei inherited 300% inflation and a budget deficit of 5% of GDP. In U.S. terms, a trillion and a half. It took him literally 3 months to balance the budget and within a year he slashed inflation 15-fold.
In El Salvador, Bukele inherited one of the worst homicide rates on earth. Statistically one in 12 Salvadorans would be murdered at some point in their life. He slashed it by 99% using the crazy idea of locking up gang members and repeat offenders. El Salvador is now safer than Canada. Now populists across Latin America are studying the Milei model and the Bukele model because Latino voters apparently consider not getting murdered a kitchen table issue.
Now aside from Communist dictatorship Cuba and Venezuela and junior dictatorship, Nicaragua, there are only 3 left-wing governments left in Latin America out of 20: Uruguay, Guatemala, and Mexico. Guatemala could flip next year. Uruguay is not voting for a couple of years but Mexico is the interesting one for Americans. The good news is Mexico's got a rising popular star in Ricardo Pliego. The bad news is Mexico's next election is not until 2030 and the ruling left populist Morena is weakening but remains popular since it buys votes like a 1920 Chicago machine and is riding the same elbows up anti-Trump nationalism as Canada's useless prime minister. Still, 2030 is a long ways. We will see if Mexicans lose patience with Morena's slow growth and high crime like the rest of the region.
So what's next? Brought to you by Monetary Metals.
Every ingredient of the Left's collapse will continue. The economy and crime under socialists USAID money. This matters for the long suffering people of Latin America but it also matters because 1 in 7 U.S. voters are now Hispanic and many pay close attention to what's happening in Latin America. When Bukele's crime miracle or Milei's inflation miracle are kitchen table topics for U.S. Hispanics, it concentrates minds. U.S. Hispanics are already abandoning Democrats in droves. In 2016, Trump lost them by 38 points. In 2024, he was within three points. Latin America flips U.S. Hispanics to Republican after Democrats imported 30 million, it would be one of the most delicious ironies in American history.
Read the rest @ ProfStOnge.
--Peter St Onge
