Wednesday, September 30, 2026

SCOTT MECHKOWSKI: We should also call things by their proper names. Issuing work-authorization workarounds, or declining to pursue people with final orders of removal, are just amnesty by other names.

excerpts from Mechkowski's article.

Removals are a pipeline: locating the person, arresting him, detaining him, getting a final order through an overwhelmed court system, and putting him on a plane. The pipeline moves only as fast as its narrowest point.

Consider what happens after an arrest. Many people assume a deportation is nearly complete once an officer puts someone in handcuffs. In reality, the foreign government has to be notified, and it has to confirm the person's identity and issue a travel document. Some countries turn those documents around quickly, while others slow-walk them or refuse outright.

Every day of delay is a day in a detention bed that could hold someone else, and if the wait runs long enough, the person may have to be released back into the community. Even when the document arrives, the flight still has to be coordinated, whether that is a seat on a commercial flight with escorting officers or a spot on a charter that has to be filled and scheduled. 

We should also call things by their proper names. Issuing work-authorization workarounds, or declining to pursue people with final orders of removal, are just amnesty by other names. Every one of these moves is a message to the world that American immigration law is negotiable if you wait long enough.

Regardless of how it is covered, a substantial share of Americans support mass deportation. The Harvard CAPS/Harris poll surveyed 1,725 registered voters from May 29 to 30, 2026, with a margin of error of ±2.4 points. It found that 80% support deporting immigrants who are here illegally and have committed crimes, up five points from 75% in April. That includes 71% of Democrats, 90% of Republicans, and 79% of independents.

They are not asking for cruelty. They are asking for a system that works, one with no amnesty, no fraud, and no exemptions for the well-connected.

Here is what keeping the promise would look like: mandatory E-Verify for every employer, funding for detention capacity and fugitive operations that matches the stated goal, worksite enforcement without industry carve-outs, and immigration judges and attorneys to clear a backlog that currently stretches for years.

Tuesday, September 29, 2026

SAMA HOOLE: 1381. Wat Tyler at Smithfield: all warrens, waters, parks and woods to be common, so a poor man may take game in the field and fish in the river. Tyler stabbed mid-sentence. Promise withdrawn within the month.

Every rising of the English poor for 500 years asked for the same thing, and it was not the vote. It was the meat in the wood. 1381. Wat Tyler at Smithfield: all warrens, waters, parks and woods to be common, so a poor man may take game in the field and fish in the river. Tyler stabbed mid-sentence. Promise withdrawn within the month. 1549. Robert Kett under the oak at Norwich, 29 demands. Rivers free to all men for fishing. No man under the rank of knight to keep a dovehouse, because the lord's pigeons ate the village's seed corn. Three thousand rebels killed on Mousehold Heath. Kett hanged from the castle wall. 1607. The Midland Revolt. Thousands out at night with spades, levelling the hedges that had turned common grazing into a landlord's sheepwalk. The demand was the grass the cow stood on. Cut down by mounted gentry at Newton, the leaders hanged and quartered. 1631. The Forest of Dean and the western forests. Commoners under a man calling himself Lady Skimmington tear down the fences of the King's disafforested woods to get their grazing, their firewood and their pigs back. Leaders fined and pilloried. Fences rebuilt. 1649. Winstanley's Diggers on St George's Hill, planting the common and declaring the earth a common treasury for all. Crops trampled, huts burned, cleared by the following spring. 1723. The Waltham Blacks, faces blackened, taking the bishop's deer by night. Parliament answers in four weeks with 50 new hanging offences. Seven hanged at Tyburn before Christmas. 1820s. The poaching war. In some years 1 conviction in 7 in England is under the game laws. Poachers transported to Australia by the shipload for a pheasant. Spring guns legal until 1827. 1880. The first win, in 500 years. The Ground Game Act, 1880, allows a tenant farmer to kill the hares and rabbits eating his own crop. Not the deer. Not the birds. Rabbits, on land he already rented, after five centuries of asking. The ballot took three great reform acts and a century. The rabbit took 499 years, seven risings and a great many hangings, and the deer are still not on the list.

A landowner will hand the poor a vote before he hands them the animal, because a vote can be managed and a man who can feed himself cannot. 

LINUXHIPPIE: Because (current events notwithstanding) he is a "subject" of the Crown. Therefore, he has no rights at all, only privileges granted by the State. The American foundation rejects that entirely. Our rights are "granted by our Creator" and our Government's principle duty is to protect those rights.

Because (current events notwithstanding) he is a "subject" of the Crown. Therefore, he has no rights at all, only privileges granted by the State. The American foundation rejects that entirely. Our rights are "granted by our Creator" and our Government's principle duty is to protect those rights.

This is what it means to be American. 

PROF. WHITEY MCPRIVILEGED: Imagine a jury of your peers.

SEDD: Birmingham city council has moved to ban the English and British flags. They have done this in the “interest of public safety.” They propose instead to hoist the Pakistani flag.