Illegals

Working on It

A Mexican national in the US illegally was being taken into custody by ICE and tried to run over the officers with his car. ICE agents shot and killed him. The man’s son released this:

My father, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a hardworking Mexican man, was the man killed this morning by ICE in the East End. My father has been in this country for nearly 35 years, working in construction to provide for myself, my two brothers, and my mother. He was in the process of obtaining his work permit through the legal process. He was on his way to work, picking up his workers. My father did not deserve this. Please respect my family’s privacy during this time. There are a lot of videos and pictures out there of my father’s final moments that I do not wish to see. For more information, I will be speaking at a press conference, with the support of LULAC Tomorrow, Wednesday, July 8 at 10AM at The Greater Coalition for Justice – 150 West Parker Rd Houston, TX, 5th floor.

I note:

  • How have you been “in the process of obtaining” a work permit for nearly 4 decades?
  • If you want your privacy respected, the best way to do that is not have a press conference
  • Pictures show him to be 52 years old, he illegally immigrated here at the age of 17.

On thing I do agree with is the need for an investigation. All law enforcement shootings should be investigated, just as citizen self defense shootings are. However, when and if the investigation discovers that the man’s wife is also illegal, she should be immediately deported. Of course, the sons are citizens and can’t be, but mom’s got to go.

Local politicians say:

We need answers, and Congress must act with meaningful immigration reform that reduces unlawful border crossings, addresses the backlog of asylum cases, and creates a pathway to legal status. 

There is only one way to do that. If you create a pathway for illegals to become legal, you will simply get more unlawful crossings. The only way to do that is for Congress to throw open the borders and make everyone who comes in legal. You cannot have open borders and a welfare state. It is impossible for the two to coexist.

The illegal immigration ship has sailed. Too many people want the borders open. Our nation is about to fall. Keep prepping. It’s going to get ugly.

By Divemedic, ago

New York Insurrection

It’s time to declare New York City to be in a state of rebellion.

Trump should:

  • Demand the Governor of New York bring her wayward city under control
  • If she fails to do so, declare the entire state of New York to be in a state of rebellion
  • Declare all New York congressional seats to therefore be vacant
  • Declare martial law in the states under rebellion and suspend habias corpus.
  • Ask the other sanctuary states if they would like to continue on their path

It won’t be the first time a Republican President did so.

Either that, or once the 2026 election has been lost (as it likely will be) states like Florida should simply declare Federal law to not be enforceable within their borders. Machine guns and missiles for everyone.

By Divemedic, ago

I Understand

San Francisco schools are closed today because their teachers are on strike. The largest part of their demand is access to the same healthcare benefits enjoyed by their illegal immigrant students.

The district announced that schools would be closed Tuesday and urged parents to check the district website “for learning, food, childcare, and district support resources.

Fully half of all San Francisco students are illegals, or the anchor babies of illegal immigrant parents. Illegal immigrant households get free healthcare. I understand why teachers feel that it is unfair that they have to pay healthcare costs when their students don’t. You know what?

I also don’t care.

The teachers voted for this. Elections have consequences.

By Divemedic, ago

Replaced

So an apology when I am wrong. I posted a couple of months ago my estimate for the illegal immigrant population. I said that I believed it was 16 million. There were those in comments who claimed it was as many 30 million. All of us may have been low.

News came out this week, many of the non-domiciled (in other words out of state residents) CDLs are issued illegally to illegal immigrants. North Carolina has 53%, New York 52%, and California claiming 29%, but not allowing the Feds to check. In all, there are 100,000 KNOWN illegal immigrants with CDLs in the US.

One in five construction workers are illegals. As many as 4 million. Of course, the pro-illegal lobby says those illegals built 400,000 houses (non-hosted PDF alert). Unless they are all living 10 to a house, that’s a net loss.

During the third Obama term Biden administration, as many as 3 million people a year illegally entered the US, so there is another 12 million. In fact, 52 million people (1 in 6 of us) are not born in this nation, that we know of. Half of them have been here for over 10 years, a quarter of them more than 20.

Anecdotally, there are dozens of counties in this state where more than half of the residents do not speak English. Before anyone accuses me of having this opinion out of racism: I say the same shit when people move here from New York, so don’t go there. Your race card won’t work here.

The Center for Migrant Studies of New York, a liberal, pro-illegal immigration lobbying group, claims that there are 8.4 million illegal immigrant workers in the US. as of 2024. The data above suggests that the number is far, far higher. Looking at these numbers, 30 million illegals seems low. While there are no accurate counts, all evidence points to there being a much larger illegal immigrant population than anyone is estimating. There are perhaps as many as 45 million illegals at this point- one out of every 7 residents.

We have been overrun. There is no way the US can possibly get rid of the illegals at this point. They are entering at multiples of what can be deported, especially considering the resistance coming from the left.

By Divemedic, ago

Divide

What we have here is a sharp divide. On the right, there are those who want immigration laws enforced.

On the left, there are those who want open borders and unlimited money giveaways, just not their own money.

This is nothing new. America has been sharply divided many times before: Vietnam, civil rights, women’s suffrage, the temperance movement, and the trade war that brought about the civil war.

What makes today a problem that’s as serious as 1860 is the the judiciary is just as polarized and perfectly willing to twist the law and the constitution to fit their own views.

Thats evident in the Trump kangaroo courts, and in many immigration hearings. Read this one for an example.

When this illegal couple was approached by ICE, they attempted to flee to a local police station in the belief that the cops would rescue them from the Feds.

By Divemedic, ago