And you better believe Capps, Carbajal (I like to spell his name CarbaTel) and Company are trying to ruin Fiesta so they can blame the ruination of Fiesta on ICE and Trump. Nick Welsh wrote “The two Kellys — City Administrator Kelly McAdoo and Police Chief Kelly Gordon (have concluded) that … ICE agents could find themselves easily overwhelmed in the tsunami of Tsanta Barbara humanity thronging the streets or De la Guerra Plaza. It could be Custer’s Last Stand all over again.” Gee, Nick, I'm so grateful to you for making sure it's a peaceful Fiesta by inciting violence. You know why you call yourself The Angry Poodle? Because you're a spoiled lapdog of the rich Marianne Partridge who didn't have to do a thing to own 18,000 acres and all you get are the crumbs from her table she entertains her A+ Dem friends at.
It is shocking how the “Angry Poodle” and Jerry Roberts from “Newsfakers” have called for obstruction of Federal Agents and looking the other way in the removal of violent criminals.
The calls for cancellation of our Old Spanish Days is yet another example of how Cancel Culture is intentionally inciting our community, much like they did during the height of COVID hysteria!
Don't get me started on the BLM nonsense in Santa Barbara. My family had always donated to the Botanical Garden here, and my late brother has a memorial bench at the head of the meadow. During the BLM summer, the director of The Garden sent out an offensive mass email about how racism at The Garden was no longer going to be tolerated! Like we white people stand outside the gates there and make sure no person who isn't 100% white gets in. I told him if he thinks it's so bad in Santa Barbara to go to the South Side of Chicago and do some good. He actually wrote me that he couldn't do that because he's needed here to combat racism. Yeah, sure, the weather, mountains and ocean - not to mention the gullible liberals he could bilk for money- have nothing to do with it.
I cancelled my subscription to Sky&Telescope magazine when they started pushing the Black Lives Matter agenda. I had been subscribed--with a lapse of maybe a year and a half c.2015-17--since 1974. By the way, does it occur to them that by far, a Black person is more likely to get killed by another Black person than by a White person? Also, White people can die at the hands of cops as well. Google the case of Kelly Thomas being beaten to death by Fullerton, Ca, cops in 2009, and the main perpetrator, Manuel Ramos, was acquitted. Also look up the case of Justine Damonde, a women in Minneapolis c. 2019 who was shot and killed be a cop as she ran up to him looking for help. He is Black, she was White, and he walked after serving about three years.
A couple of years ago the Poodle wrote that the reason not to return the Fiesta Parade to State Street was the threat of gunfire assassination from rooftops of buildings. The photo illustrating his article was me riding my mule dressed as a nun. I yearn for the days when we rode on State, when the Solstice Parade pranced there. But so many pleasures are shut down with FUD: Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt.
Brilliant ! And yes, the more that these hoaxes are revealed the more we know the root cause of the TDS and all that followed. And as they kept whipping that to a froth in the media.... along comes the Plague, the great experiment in social control and obedience.
Pat, I saw there is a change in the return route this year, up Cesar Chavez then back along Yanonali then back down on Garden to Cabrillo.
I wish they continued through the Funk Zone then took a left on State street. (You know, that section of State that is still open to traffic. . .) and then right on Mason @The California Hotel. Back to Castillo thru West Beach. Like the days when the parade retuned down Castillo street.
I bring this up because I saw you in your nun getup as you rode by JJ's Liquor. Might have been the same year Brooks Firestone was El Prez. He stopped and chatted for a minute even though I had never met him before.
They have thoroughly botched the parade ever since moving it to the beach. The first year I immediately contacted the Fiesta Organizers as soon as I saw that there was NO return route. We all just doubled back on Cabrillo as the crowds dispersed. Sloppy. Now they are passing up the opportunity you suggest, that would have allowed the numerous alcohol establishments proliferating in the Funk Zone to offer front row seats to the Parade passing by. What could and should be the biggest draw of the year, our Mardi Gras, is being dismantled piece by piece. Rodeo cancelled, then replaced by an out-of-town promoter with no locals participating. Children's events cancelled with talk of fear of ICE descending on the crowd. In a society more and more constrained by stress and economic hardship, the Rulers who "represent" us chisel away at the small joys of community that serve to bring us together.
A few years ago it was the threat of out of town Ventura gangs disrupting Fiesta. Which they did for a while, and also brought out the SBPD mobile command post down town as a deterrence.
Yet now our own SBPD is spreading unfounded fears about our own fellow federal law enforcement agents. That is the most frightening threat of all. We want their mutual cooperation, not bragging that the SBPD will be making snap judgments on the spot whether to offer or decline any mutual law enforcement cooperation.
Did SBPD even meet with federal agents and establish a mutual cooperation and communication agreement? This intentional and partisan polarization must stop at the top levels of our city government.
Excellent question elcx. “Did SBPD even meet with federal agents and establish a mutual cooperation and communication agreement?” And could not agree more: “This intentional and partisan polarization must stop at the top levels of our city government.”
Another excellent article Andy. We have been watching your war against the idiot monsters that the people of Santa Barbara County and City have elected over the years. We are from Ventura county and are watching our elected officials going down the same sewer hole of woke insanity.
Every person that threw items at our ICE and CBP agents should be arrested and given a minimum prison sentence of 10 years. For the morons who insist that agents not cover their faces, I say that we should DOX every SBCC, SBCBS, State Senator's, and State Legislators home address, work place and where their children and family goes to school.
One would think that, especially in the legal drug business, background checks would be made on people prior to hiring. Perhaps, for some, that is not possible. Essentially, Glass House, likes hiring slave labor. My first thought regarding Hunter Biden’s comments regarding illegal immigration was, you don’t wash your dishes? I think Andy is right, Glass House is operated like a criminal enterprise. ICE went to Glass House to pick up convicted rapists etc. The priority was not hard working illegals. If we need illegal labor, create a program giving those who qualify temporary work permits. That and e-verify would solve the problem. I suspect that many Democrats don’t want to solve the problem. After all, someone has got to wash Hunter’s dishes.
Democrats, 1860: "Who will pick our cotton if we can't have slaves?"
Democrats, "cheap labor" RINOs & "Libertarians", 2025: "Who will harvest our crops & clean our toilets if we can't import foreign labor to undercut wages for citizens?"
Regressives never change. We don't need foreign labor, illegal or legal. Over 100 million able-bodied citizens are either underemployed at crap real wages due to mass immigration, early retired (even forced to train H1B replacements), unemployed, on welfare or scamming disability. They're victims of "cheap labor" special interests that love blaming their victims. "Americans are too proud or lazy to do those jobs...We need new vibrant blood" etc ad nauseam.
At the same time mass immigration crushes real wages, it jacks up the cost of land & housing, creating the massive surge in homelessness that developers & "Libertarian" groups like Pacific Legal blame-shift onto zoning, drugs & mental illness.
Drugs & mental issues are nothing new. What's new? Mass migration made housing unaffordable. Citizens can no longer make it who used to be able to hang in there despite losing a job, or drug or mental issues. They're victims of the special interests that blame them for their predicament.
Special interests don't want to pay enough to incentivize citizens to do the work we used to do. They want to keep flooding the market with "cheap labor", always the most expensive kind, costing society hundreds of times more than their illusory savings from betraying fellow citizens & forcing them onto the safety net at a cost of $Trillions in government spending.
There's no labor shortage. There's a surplus of greedy unpatriotic interests betraying & writing off fellow citizens, importing "cheap labor", making the safety net more attractive than work.
Deport all Illegals. No exceptions, no return for self-deporters. And slash legal immigration back to the pleasant, assimilable levels we enjoyed from the 1920s under Coolidge through 1960 under Eisenhower (~150k/yr total). Let real wages rise & gradually cut back safety net payments. That will incentivize tens of millions of citizens to work at the same time housing availability & cost improve, and incentivize companies to recruit, train & hire them. Tough love, America First style.
First NAFTA allowed corporations to decimate the American industrial base, offshoring to cheaper labor, and then they decided to bring those cheap workers here. Except the citizens can't afford to hire them at living wages, so they create an underground economy getting more in social support than they contribute.
I believe the very original intent of NAFTA under Bill Clinton was to provide more economic opportunities for Mexicans in their own country, which in turn would stop the growth of migrating illegally into the US.
That original expectation appears now to be a double fail - Mexico started eating our lunch in some manufacturing sectors, and their illegal border crossings into the US only increased leaving the US taxpayers to provide all basic essentials for their own Mexican citizens. No reimbursement for those extraordinary US costs for this illegal influx of Mexican citizens was ever charged to the Mexican government.
However, this recent history of enhanced development in Mexico has turned much of Mexico into a middle class economy, along with tourism and greater ex-pat residency. So it is myth to claim anyone needs to come to the US illegally, in order to "have a better life".
They can migrate to the stronger economic centers in their own country. Mexico is quite capable today providing for their own citizens on their own. Trump gets this. So did 2024 voters.
Mexico is a narco-state, and their economy is propped up by the remittances sent back by the citizens who live here working in our underground economy and being supported by our welfare state, and have money to send back South. The Cartels are in every aspect of Government there, utterly ruthless, and are a strong incentive to build a life elsewhere. Unfortunately they are here now also.
Also true. Yet thousands of American expats like to still call Mexico home - good enough for them, it is good enough for their own citizens. When the first thing a cruise passenger sees in Puerto Vallarta today is a massive WalMart, the times have been a'changing in Mexico.
However, the growing numbers of ex-pats in Mexico today are finally getting ironic push back from the local Mexican ... "they don't even speak our language"!
I lived in Mexico for the last 6 months of 1983, so granted my life experience is dated, but I traveled in a converted Green Tortoise bus across the whole country looking at pyramids and temples and museums and mummies. And I got a ground level look at the lives of the people there. Suffice to say I kissed the tarmac of LAX when I flew home from the Yucatan and I will never go back.
That analysis of yours is brilliant, and worth forwarding on... to put paid to the sentiment that the illegals are "necessary" for America. The numbers don't lie, and we want an honest society in which citizens prosper and work and achieve their goals.
10 yrs or so ago, K-12 alone cost over $15k/yr for each one of their kids, $25k including capital cost to build schools for them. $100k/yr for a family with 4 kids. They don't even *earn* that much, let alone pay remotely near that in taxes that cover schools.
And the teachers' union wants ever higher wages, and a huge layer of administrators, all expecting pensions, while not one public school in our district has their students testing at adequate levels in core subjects. Major reason why? They teach to the median student who is no longer an English first language speaker.
That's ONE reason why. The *main* reason is they're government-owned schools controlled by union teachers. They will *always* demand higher pay even as they do an ever crappier, groomier job.
The money is already there, by law, to provide handsomely for public education in this state.
But education itself is not getting delivered, in return for the vast amounts of voter-mandated Prop 98 funding that is automatically put on the table every single year. This must stop. The automatic funding, with no accountability that Prop 98 now provides, must be rescinded.
We should also put all this outrage, taxpayer funding diverted to NGOs, and the scale of the paid anti-ICE operations into context.
620 people (50% of it from this cannabis operation) have been detained total from all 3 counties on the central coast (Ventura, SLO, SB), since Jan 14th. So this rhetoric making it seem like a militarized force is out here randomly snatching thousands of people each week from our streets is complete nonsense.
The whole Glass House Farms event was a black eye on the county. It showcased the sheeple that make up our electorate and the moronic "leaders" that are dumber than dirt.
Carbajal, Capps, Lee, Rouse (now hiding under his desk) are inept ideologs.
Don't forget to include the Carpinteria City Council who were the first to have an emergency meeting due to 2 arrests. The raid happens the day of the meeting and never once mentioned the children that were rescued.
They tried to get the police chief /Sherriff to interfere but he held his ground and set them straight.
Why would Mayor Rowse of the city of Santa Barbara have any connection to the Carpinteria and Camarillo Glass House Farms operations? This is pure county of Santa Barbara Supervisor Roy Lee and Rep Salud Carbajal's back yard.
Another great article Andy, I’ve been screaming all of this at anyone that will listen since it happened. It never ceases to amaze me how gullible the American public is and how well the brainwashing by the California teachers association has worked. God help us all if we don’t wake up soon And change direction.
The obfuscation of our elected officials regarding removal of illegal migrants is outrageous. Yes, BOS Capps, “Uncle Chen” Lee and Hartman should be careful in their dealings with ICE as it relates to obstruction in arrest and removal of known criminals from our community.
Not since the Civil War, have Democrats so blatantly challenged the Supremacy Clause of our Constitution and just like Jefferson Davis, they must be held accountable!
I read this Star Wars article titled "A Long List of Undesirables; Elected, Blind, and Otherwise"
By Andy Caldwell and I quote from same "Do you remember in the 1977 film “Star Wars” when Obi-Wan Kenobi described the infamous saloon as a “wretched hive of scum and villainy?” AND
"won’t lift a finger to save us from the hundreds of thousands of illegal alien criminals in this country who are committing heinous crimes against citizens and immigrants alike"
I of course have a new title "Dan Bogino Describes the "wretched hive of scum and villainy
of Public Corruption that thrives in our Politicians and So-Called-Leaders" >
Thank you Andy for such a well written presentation. While reading about the things that the politicians were accusing local law enforcement of not doing to protect the immigrants, I found myself wondering what they were not doing to protect us. Identify, and take action, against the violations of California law including exploitation of children? Protect us from the criminals living among us? Protect federal agents from being subject to violence? Same questions for the politicians.
Thank you Andy for a great article and exposing the hypocrisy of our leaders.
Either these leaders are ignorant and uneducated on the laws of this country or it's all just political theater to keep their votes coming in and holding on to as many Congressional seats as they can. And of course there is the issue of slave labor that the Dems so dearly hold onto. Capps was anti Cannabis and Lees platform was also anti Cannabis and I would of thought that they would have been cheering this raid on to further bring down the business they once despised.
Or are they so deeply involved financially with Glass House in political donations and who knows what else and trying to save themselves from further imbracement.
Farar is and was a big Dem Donor giving to Newsome and Carbajal. He also had donations to Act Blue and manyother politicians.
Interesting you bring up The Heritage Foundation, which advocated for NAFTA- a globalist coup against American sovereignty. They’re still at it, with advocating for School Choice™️, which will further erode our national sovereignty and commodify education.
What people object to is the militarization of ICE & Dept Homeland Security. There are laws in place that could be actually enforced, which would make this unnecessary. What’s happening is a further push towards government surveillance and fascism.
It wasn't militarized,as you say. Let's look at what really happened.
Ice had previously visited the farm in June with no arrests.
Prior to the arrests in July, ICE obtained two warrants signed off by a judge.
They included the NG in the operation due to the sensitivity and danger of the operation to rescue the 14 children working at the Farms and 10 who were in accompanied or trafficked.The Federal government includes the NG to protect the children and themselves.
The protesters were not civil and some even violent.
It's not about becoming a surveillance state it's about following our laws and protecting children from trafficking.
Then remove sanctuary law. Can’t have your cake and eat it too. They can’t not come full force when if things get out of hand like LA or Camarillo they have no option to call in back up from local authorities.
It’s very clear that people calling for this want a couple of plain clothes agents so they can be easily overwhelmed by hundreds of protestors. There is an entire network tracking their every movement…
My point was that without the heritage foundation, the problems of illegal immigration would not be happening, especially in these volumes of people that have come up across the border. It’s the neoliberal globalist, which had huge control over both parties, but you can definitely see it with the Republican Party, instead of caused a lot of this.
What? “without the heritage foundation, the problems of illegal immigration would not be happening, especially in these volumes of people that have come up across the border…”
I think you forgot that the Biden regime, on Day One, reversed all of Trump’s border enforcement policies and opened the border… it’s a criminal enterprise run by the Uni-party, but mostly the D party. Trafficking women and children for profit and evil play is at the front of their game.
I’m not discounting that. What the Biden admin did too was reprehensible, but the roots of the problem go back to neoliberal policies that conservatives, aligned with transnational business interests, pushed at the expense of the American working class.
OK, but our recent border problem explosion under the Biden regime was
all about their plan to collapse Our Country…
When you cannot destroy/defeat the United States of America by attacking head on, you change tactics and deploy a 'KILL FROM WITHIN' [internal] operation.
>Financial/Economy
>Military/Police
>Division of Citizenry
>BORDER Collapse
[Install 'like-minded' leaders in key positions of US Gov]
How many people [removed] from the FBI had Iranian family backgrounds?
Confused??? Anyway 22 million illegals were let in during JBS 4 year Presidency.
I'm not sure how Republicans caused this. Seems like JB allowed them in.
Saying the Republicans causes this is kinda of like the Dems posting a Twitter about inflation trying to blame on the current administration but so bantly obvious it happened during JBs presidency they had to pull the Twitter.
I thought the 22 million number was the total suspected of living in the US
currently. And that most estimates I've run across are more in line with 5-7 million new undocumented people during Biden's 4 years. Not that 7 million is trival by any means.
Considering the current state of our school systems and the noneducating and indoctrination of our youth,School Choice is a great path for families and their children.
The US pays the most per student yet we are last on the list of educating students.
Taxes are already paid for schools so why couldn't that tax money be allocated to the school that a parent chooses would be best for their child's education?
School choice already exists. What’s needed is to fix the school system, which had been corrupted to an unimaginable degree. Trump’s “Universal School Choice” is globalization on steroids and will increase property taxes exponentially, benefiting corporations and ed tech companies and expanding the federal government into home schooling and private schools as well, which shouldn’t be subject to federal regulations any more than schools are at the state level.
Not all schools rely on Federal monies to operate. The funding falls into two categories. Some are funded by property taxes,most on the Central coast fall into this Category and some that are funded by Federal and state taxes.
Property taxes can't go up in California due to Property 13.
People were so willing to pass the bond for SBCC as they waste money and build another building,yet it would be terrible if this occured for the future and for the future of the children.
Most on the Central Coast receive their funding from your property taxes.They receive a small percentage from Federal funding and about 97-98% from property taxes.
Only if you live in Montecito. If you look at the school districts in the usafacts data goleta, hope, sb are all getting 7-10% of their funds by the Feds.
"School choice already exists". I'm afraid that is naive...it exists only if a family can afford it and viable alternative are available...particularly in the inner cities.
The various and corrupt teacher organizations are the roadblock with money and lockstep voting are their weapons. They just eliminated reference to Jews in their "treatment of the Holocaust. AFT's Randi Weingarten is one of the most despicable creatures to crawl this planet.
Please explain the remark "Trump’s “Universal School Choice” is globalization on steroids and will increase property taxes exponentially, benefiting corporations and ed tech companies..."...not withstanding Andy's article is illegal immigration centric, albeit encompassing.
Top of the local news, Noozhawk's Fiesta article headlines: Santa Barbara Police Department said it does not assist ICE in immigration enforcement.
"The city and SBPD take public concerns regarding the presence of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) seriously.
SBPD does not assist ICE in immigration enforcement.
“If any federal agency were to operate in a manner that compromises public safety or violates legal protocols, we would take appropriate action to ensure the safety of our community,” the city said. “Our officers are trained to verify credentials and protect the rights of all individuals, especially in public high-traffic areas.
“We remain committed to fostering trust with our community and will continue to monitor any concerns that may impact the safety and tone of our city events.”
No more difficult than setting up vehicular check-points for drunk drivers, but wait, deluded people take pleasure in announcing in advance when and where those will be! I say surprising drunks driving and getting them off the streets is a societal good. Arresting and removing illegals is a necessary priority.
I barely made it through high school, wasn't smart enough to go to college, and never achieved much worth noting so I'll defer to being rather simple minded, so forgive me if I ask a stupid question. My question is this: if my recollection of history is correct, prior to the gradual acceptance of the Black Market economy of illegal immigration, which perhaps may have been prepared by the Bracero program, wasn't America a place where even blue collar folks without much education could eke out a living in such a way where the thought of becoming homeless was not even within the realm of consideration?
As I recall, one lived at home, got a job, moved out while still in their teens, got an apartment, saved up some money, put a down payment on a house shortly thereafter, and on one income (assuming they married and had children) could raise a family?
Also, the Left loves to extol their perception that capitalism is evil, yet they tell us that the money that the...capitalists who hire people in the country illegally, and are working them at cheap wages somehow translates into us saving money on food expenses. Isn't it a contradiction to assume such altruism on the part of these people? Either way, when people are working all day picking produce at cheap wages, are systematically kept from learning English (though the enabling bilingual government services) and the curriculum in the public schools is dumbed down for their kids, the resultant poverty, lack of education, overcrowding, and feral childhood their kids experience is going to result in crime, and the euphemism of "at-risk youth". Then, people get tired of gangs, low test scores, and then being called "racist" for daring to mention these things, and yet the supporters of this Ponzi scheme and perennial racial guilt trip are surprised when people criticize illegal immigration?
Good article Andy. We don't need illegals anymore to do work because they will be replaced by robots. There's somebody working on perfecting a robot that can determined a good strawberry from a bad one and will only pick the good one. There are already robot lawnmowers. The nice thing about robots is you can shoot them, such as robotic leaf blowers. One shot to a robot leaf blower and it will be silenced forever <g>!
Thank God Capps, The Angry Poodle and Carbajal are stronger than the EU! They will cancel the Fiesta! Take that European tourists coming to Santa Barbara!
Nicole Acevedo of NBC News reported that the U.S. was holding more than 56,000 people in detention centers, the highest number in U.S. history. Nearly 72% of those held had no criminal history.
A poll released Friday makes it clear that the American people do not support such a vision and did not, in fact, expect a Trump administration to deport undocumented immigrants who have no criminal record and have lived in the U.S. for years. A Gallup poll released yesterday shows that the administration’s draconian policies toward immigrants have created a backlash. A record 79% of adults say immigration is good for the country, with only 17% seeing it as bad. That change has been driven primarily by a shift in Republicans, 64% of whom now agree that immigrants are good for the country, up from their low of under 40%. The percentage of American adults who say immigration should be reduced has dropped to 30%, down from 55% in 2024.
DH, conflating legal immigration with illegal border crossing is a fools errand. Can you explain why you are doing this? Your phony polls and statistics never sound in fact. Your motives have quickly become transparent. Just so you understand the nature of the playing field you have chosen here.
I keep making the point criminals out but deporting hardworking undocumented workers who are contributing possitively to our society is wrong. All the poles are supporting this, Joe Rogan too. Calling national poles phony because they do not align with your beliefs is interesting behaviour.
A Gallup poll early July shows that the administration’s draconian policies toward immigrants have created a backlash. A record 79% of adults say immigration is good for the country, with only 17% seeing it as bad. That change has been driven primarily by a shift in Republicans, 64% of whom now agree that immigrants are good for the country, up from their low of under 40%. The percentage of American adults who say immigration should be reduced has dropped to 30%, down from 55% in 2024.
As an aside how a company can choose to be in the cannabis industry and then employ underage illegals when you know the authorities will look very closely at the busines , beats me, madness. Then to compound it how some Dem politicians are on site at the time of arrest, supporting the unsupportabkle is incredulous to me.
I am appalled that ICE workers wear masks. They are the law, they do not need to hide. I am appalled that ICE workers are being incentivised with a bonus structure for number of arrests made. I am appalled that the immigration system is so broken. It is a disgrace that there is no attempt at policy initiatives to resolve the issue. Perhaps review a new Bareco style progam or a new Amnesty pardon for people who meet set criteria. The tools, knowledge and experience are there to call upon. But no the MAGA hold on the party is destructive. For MAGA to be of real value at some point it is going to have to build something positive for the country. All I am seeing so far is negative, destruction, nilhilsm personified.
And you better believe Capps, Carbajal (I like to spell his name CarbaTel) and Company are trying to ruin Fiesta so they can blame the ruination of Fiesta on ICE and Trump. Nick Welsh wrote “The two Kellys — City Administrator Kelly McAdoo and Police Chief Kelly Gordon (have concluded) that … ICE agents could find themselves easily overwhelmed in the tsunami of Tsanta Barbara humanity thronging the streets or De la Guerra Plaza. It could be Custer’s Last Stand all over again.” Gee, Nick, I'm so grateful to you for making sure it's a peaceful Fiesta by inciting violence. You know why you call yourself The Angry Poodle? Because you're a spoiled lapdog of the rich Marianne Partridge who didn't have to do a thing to own 18,000 acres and all you get are the crumbs from her table she entertains her A+ Dem friends at.
It is shocking how the “Angry Poodle” and Jerry Roberts from “Newsfakers” have called for obstruction of Federal Agents and looking the other way in the removal of violent criminals.
The calls for cancellation of our Old Spanish Days is yet another example of how Cancel Culture is intentionally inciting our community, much like they did during the height of COVID hysteria!
And during BLM.
Don't get me started on the BLM nonsense in Santa Barbara. My family had always donated to the Botanical Garden here, and my late brother has a memorial bench at the head of the meadow. During the BLM summer, the director of The Garden sent out an offensive mass email about how racism at The Garden was no longer going to be tolerated! Like we white people stand outside the gates there and make sure no person who isn't 100% white gets in. I told him if he thinks it's so bad in Santa Barbara to go to the South Side of Chicago and do some good. He actually wrote me that he couldn't do that because he's needed here to combat racism. Yeah, sure, the weather, mountains and ocean - not to mention the gullible liberals he could bilk for money- have nothing to do with it.
I cancelled my subscription to Sky&Telescope magazine when they started pushing the Black Lives Matter agenda. I had been subscribed--with a lapse of maybe a year and a half c.2015-17--since 1974. By the way, does it occur to them that by far, a Black person is more likely to get killed by another Black person than by a White person? Also, White people can die at the hands of cops as well. Google the case of Kelly Thomas being beaten to death by Fullerton, Ca, cops in 2009, and the main perpetrator, Manuel Ramos, was acquitted. Also look up the case of Justine Damonde, a women in Minneapolis c. 2019 who was shot and killed be a cop as she ran up to him looking for help. He is Black, she was White, and he walked after serving about three years.
Does he live in a Black-and-or-HIspanic neighborhood?
Surely you jest :-)
You have to be quite morally bankrupt to think that depriving people of a holiday is the right thing to do.
A couple of years ago the Poodle wrote that the reason not to return the Fiesta Parade to State Street was the threat of gunfire assassination from rooftops of buildings. The photo illustrating his article was me riding my mule dressed as a nun. I yearn for the days when we rode on State, when the Solstice Parade pranced there. But so many pleasures are shut down with FUD: Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt.
Pat, have you read Scott Adams on this?
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/07/scott-adams-says-these-two-anti-trump-hoaxes/
Brilliant ! And yes, the more that these hoaxes are revealed the more we know the root cause of the TDS and all that followed. And as they kept whipping that to a froth in the media.... along comes the Plague, the great experiment in social control and obedience.
Pat, I saw there is a change in the return route this year, up Cesar Chavez then back along Yanonali then back down on Garden to Cabrillo.
I wish they continued through the Funk Zone then took a left on State street. (You know, that section of State that is still open to traffic. . .) and then right on Mason @The California Hotel. Back to Castillo thru West Beach. Like the days when the parade retuned down Castillo street.
I bring this up because I saw you in your nun getup as you rode by JJ's Liquor. Might have been the same year Brooks Firestone was El Prez. He stopped and chatted for a minute even though I had never met him before.
They have thoroughly botched the parade ever since moving it to the beach. The first year I immediately contacted the Fiesta Organizers as soon as I saw that there was NO return route. We all just doubled back on Cabrillo as the crowds dispersed. Sloppy. Now they are passing up the opportunity you suggest, that would have allowed the numerous alcohol establishments proliferating in the Funk Zone to offer front row seats to the Parade passing by. What could and should be the biggest draw of the year, our Mardi Gras, is being dismantled piece by piece. Rodeo cancelled, then replaced by an out-of-town promoter with no locals participating. Children's events cancelled with talk of fear of ICE descending on the crowd. In a society more and more constrained by stress and economic hardship, the Rulers who "represent" us chisel away at the small joys of community that serve to bring us together.
"he Rulers who "represent" us chisel away at the small joys of community that serve to bring us together."
Exactly!
A few years ago it was the threat of out of town Ventura gangs disrupting Fiesta. Which they did for a while, and also brought out the SBPD mobile command post down town as a deterrence.
Yet now our own SBPD is spreading unfounded fears about our own fellow federal law enforcement agents. That is the most frightening threat of all. We want their mutual cooperation, not bragging that the SBPD will be making snap judgments on the spot whether to offer or decline any mutual law enforcement cooperation.
Did SBPD even meet with federal agents and establish a mutual cooperation and communication agreement? This intentional and partisan polarization must stop at the top levels of our city government.
Excellent question elcx. “Did SBPD even meet with federal agents and establish a mutual cooperation and communication agreement?” And could not agree more: “This intentional and partisan polarization must stop at the top levels of our city government.”
Another excellent article Andy. We have been watching your war against the idiot monsters that the people of Santa Barbara County and City have elected over the years. We are from Ventura county and are watching our elected officials going down the same sewer hole of woke insanity.
Every person that threw items at our ICE and CBP agents should be arrested and given a minimum prison sentence of 10 years. For the morons who insist that agents not cover their faces, I say that we should DOX every SBCC, SBCBS, State Senator's, and State Legislators home address, work place and where their children and family goes to school.
One would think that, especially in the legal drug business, background checks would be made on people prior to hiring. Perhaps, for some, that is not possible. Essentially, Glass House, likes hiring slave labor. My first thought regarding Hunter Biden’s comments regarding illegal immigration was, you don’t wash your dishes? I think Andy is right, Glass House is operated like a criminal enterprise. ICE went to Glass House to pick up convicted rapists etc. The priority was not hard working illegals. If we need illegal labor, create a program giving those who qualify temporary work permits. That and e-verify would solve the problem. I suspect that many Democrats don’t want to solve the problem. After all, someone has got to wash Hunter’s dishes.
Democrats, 1860: "Who will pick our cotton if we can't have slaves?"
Democrats, "cheap labor" RINOs & "Libertarians", 2025: "Who will harvest our crops & clean our toilets if we can't import foreign labor to undercut wages for citizens?"
Regressives never change. We don't need foreign labor, illegal or legal. Over 100 million able-bodied citizens are either underemployed at crap real wages due to mass immigration, early retired (even forced to train H1B replacements), unemployed, on welfare or scamming disability. They're victims of "cheap labor" special interests that love blaming their victims. "Americans are too proud or lazy to do those jobs...We need new vibrant blood" etc ad nauseam.
At the same time mass immigration crushes real wages, it jacks up the cost of land & housing, creating the massive surge in homelessness that developers & "Libertarian" groups like Pacific Legal blame-shift onto zoning, drugs & mental illness.
Drugs & mental issues are nothing new. What's new? Mass migration made housing unaffordable. Citizens can no longer make it who used to be able to hang in there despite losing a job, or drug or mental issues. They're victims of the special interests that blame them for their predicament.
Special interests don't want to pay enough to incentivize citizens to do the work we used to do. They want to keep flooding the market with "cheap labor", always the most expensive kind, costing society hundreds of times more than their illusory savings from betraying fellow citizens & forcing them onto the safety net at a cost of $Trillions in government spending.
There's no labor shortage. There's a surplus of greedy unpatriotic interests betraying & writing off fellow citizens, importing "cheap labor", making the safety net more attractive than work.
Deport all Illegals. No exceptions, no return for self-deporters. And slash legal immigration back to the pleasant, assimilable levels we enjoyed from the 1920s under Coolidge through 1960 under Eisenhower (~150k/yr total). Let real wages rise & gradually cut back safety net payments. That will incentivize tens of millions of citizens to work at the same time housing availability & cost improve, and incentivize companies to recruit, train & hire them. Tough love, America First style.
First NAFTA allowed corporations to decimate the American industrial base, offshoring to cheaper labor, and then they decided to bring those cheap workers here. Except the citizens can't afford to hire them at living wages, so they create an underground economy getting more in social support than they contribute.
I believe the very original intent of NAFTA under Bill Clinton was to provide more economic opportunities for Mexicans in their own country, which in turn would stop the growth of migrating illegally into the US.
That original expectation appears now to be a double fail - Mexico started eating our lunch in some manufacturing sectors, and their illegal border crossings into the US only increased leaving the US taxpayers to provide all basic essentials for their own Mexican citizens. No reimbursement for those extraordinary US costs for this illegal influx of Mexican citizens was ever charged to the Mexican government.
However, this recent history of enhanced development in Mexico has turned much of Mexico into a middle class economy, along with tourism and greater ex-pat residency. So it is myth to claim anyone needs to come to the US illegally, in order to "have a better life".
They can migrate to the stronger economic centers in their own country. Mexico is quite capable today providing for their own citizens on their own. Trump gets this. So did 2024 voters.
Mexico is a narco-state, and their economy is propped up by the remittances sent back by the citizens who live here working in our underground economy and being supported by our welfare state, and have money to send back South. The Cartels are in every aspect of Government there, utterly ruthless, and are a strong incentive to build a life elsewhere. Unfortunately they are here now also.
Also true. Yet thousands of American expats like to still call Mexico home - good enough for them, it is good enough for their own citizens. When the first thing a cruise passenger sees in Puerto Vallarta today is a massive WalMart, the times have been a'changing in Mexico.
However, the growing numbers of ex-pats in Mexico today are finally getting ironic push back from the local Mexican ... "they don't even speak our language"!
I lived in Mexico for the last 6 months of 1983, so granted my life experience is dated, but I traveled in a converted Green Tortoise bus across the whole country looking at pyramids and temples and museums and mummies. And I got a ground level look at the lives of the people there. Suffice to say I kissed the tarmac of LAX when I flew home from the Yucatan and I will never go back.
Absolutely.. https://www.analytics805.com/post/the-hidden-costs-of-illegal-elbonian-cash-employment
That analysis of yours is brilliant, and worth forwarding on... to put paid to the sentiment that the illegals are "necessary" for America. The numbers don't lie, and we want an honest society in which citizens prosper and work and achieve their goals.
10 yrs or so ago, K-12 alone cost over $15k/yr for each one of their kids, $25k including capital cost to build schools for them. $100k/yr for a family with 4 kids. They don't even *earn* that much, let alone pay remotely near that in taxes that cover schools.
And the teachers' union wants ever higher wages, and a huge layer of administrators, all expecting pensions, while not one public school in our district has their students testing at adequate levels in core subjects. Major reason why? They teach to the median student who is no longer an English first language speaker.
That's ONE reason why. The *main* reason is they're government-owned schools controlled by union teachers. They will *always* demand higher pay even as they do an ever crappier, groomier job.
The solution to that is Universal School Choice.
The money is already there, by law, to provide handsomely for public education in this state.
But education itself is not getting delivered, in return for the vast amounts of voter-mandated Prop 98 funding that is automatically put on the table every single year. This must stop. The automatic funding, with no accountability that Prop 98 now provides, must be rescinded.
https://youtu.be/-Z04aZ3LtTA
They have some other illegal sales of their cannabis too.
A big Dem donor including to Salud. I hear GN has a financial stake in Glass House Farms
We should also put all this outrage, taxpayer funding diverted to NGOs, and the scale of the paid anti-ICE operations into context.
620 people (50% of it from this cannabis operation) have been detained total from all 3 counties on the central coast (Ventura, SLO, SB), since Jan 14th. So this rhetoric making it seem like a militarized force is out here randomly snatching thousands of people each week from our streets is complete nonsense.
The whole Glass House Farms event was a black eye on the county. It showcased the sheeple that make up our electorate and the moronic "leaders" that are dumber than dirt.
Carbajal, Capps, Lee, Rouse (now hiding under his desk) are inept ideologs.
Don't forget to include the Carpinteria City Council who were the first to have an emergency meeting due to 2 arrests. The raid happens the day of the meeting and never once mentioned the children that were rescued.
They tried to get the police chief /Sherriff to interfere but he held his ground and set them straight.
Why would Mayor Rowse of the city of Santa Barbara have any connection to the Carpinteria and Camarillo Glass House Farms operations? This is pure county of Santa Barbara Supervisor Roy Lee and Rep Salud Carbajal's back yard.
Rowse wrote an opinion column that was posted on the Noozhawk & Independent website--look it up and read it.
Thanks, missed it. Hard to stomach both publications today.
Another great article Andy, I’ve been screaming all of this at anyone that will listen since it happened. It never ceases to amaze me how gullible the American public is and how well the brainwashing by the California teachers association has worked. God help us all if we don’t wake up soon And change direction.
"gullible the American public'= stupid
The obfuscation of our elected officials regarding removal of illegal migrants is outrageous. Yes, BOS Capps, “Uncle Chen” Lee and Hartman should be careful in their dealings with ICE as it relates to obstruction in arrest and removal of known criminals from our community.
Not since the Civil War, have Democrats so blatantly challenged the Supremacy Clause of our Constitution and just like Jefferson Davis, they must be held accountable!
I read this Star Wars article titled "A Long List of Undesirables; Elected, Blind, and Otherwise"
By Andy Caldwell and I quote from same "Do you remember in the 1977 film “Star Wars” when Obi-Wan Kenobi described the infamous saloon as a “wretched hive of scum and villainy?” AND
"won’t lift a finger to save us from the hundreds of thousands of illegal alien criminals in this country who are committing heinous crimes against citizens and immigrants alike"
I of course have a new title "Dan Bogino Describes the "wretched hive of scum and villainy
of Public Corruption that thrives in our Politicians and So-Called-Leaders" >
https://x.com/MJTruthUltra/status/1949137465647796382
"FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino "shocked to his core" over FBI’s recent corruption discoveries: ‘I’ll never be the same’"
Well, DD Bongino you then know exactly what is going down in Santa Barbara and
are you SHOCKED enough? Because it scares the Hell-Out-Of-Me and I will never be the same.
Howard Walther, Member of a Military Family
PS1 - tiny.cc/qscq001
"Today in a Tweet Message, Deputy Dan Bongino seems to realize things are not what he thought they were."
Thank you Andy for such a well written presentation. While reading about the things that the politicians were accusing local law enforcement of not doing to protect the immigrants, I found myself wondering what they were not doing to protect us. Identify, and take action, against the violations of California law including exploitation of children? Protect us from the criminals living among us? Protect federal agents from being subject to violence? Same questions for the politicians.
Thank you Andy for a great article and exposing the hypocrisy of our leaders.
Either these leaders are ignorant and uneducated on the laws of this country or it's all just political theater to keep their votes coming in and holding on to as many Congressional seats as they can. And of course there is the issue of slave labor that the Dems so dearly hold onto. Capps was anti Cannabis and Lees platform was also anti Cannabis and I would of thought that they would have been cheering this raid on to further bring down the business they once despised.
Or are they so deeply involved financially with Glass House in political donations and who knows what else and trying to save themselves from further imbracement.
Farar is and was a big Dem Donor giving to Newsome and Carbajal. He also had donations to Act Blue and manyother politicians.
Interesting you bring up The Heritage Foundation, which advocated for NAFTA- a globalist coup against American sovereignty. They’re still at it, with advocating for School Choice™️, which will further erode our national sovereignty and commodify education.
What people object to is the militarization of ICE & Dept Homeland Security. There are laws in place that could be actually enforced, which would make this unnecessary. What’s happening is a further push towards government surveillance and fascism.
It wasn't militarized,as you say. Let's look at what really happened.
Ice had previously visited the farm in June with no arrests.
Prior to the arrests in July, ICE obtained two warrants signed off by a judge.
They included the NG in the operation due to the sensitivity and danger of the operation to rescue the 14 children working at the Farms and 10 who were in accompanied or trafficked.The Federal government includes the NG to protect the children and themselves.
The protesters were not civil and some even violent.
It's not about becoming a surveillance state it's about following our laws and protecting children from trafficking.
Then remove sanctuary law. Can’t have your cake and eat it too. They can’t not come full force when if things get out of hand like LA or Camarillo they have no option to call in back up from local authorities.
It’s very clear that people calling for this want a couple of plain clothes agents so they can be easily overwhelmed by hundreds of protestors. There is an entire network tracking their every movement…
Exactly but since they can't arrest them at the jails, ICE has to go into the cities and find the criminals.
My point was that without the heritage foundation, the problems of illegal immigration would not be happening, especially in these volumes of people that have come up across the border. It’s the neoliberal globalist, which had huge control over both parties, but you can definitely see it with the Republican Party, instead of caused a lot of this.
What? “without the heritage foundation, the problems of illegal immigration would not be happening, especially in these volumes of people that have come up across the border…”
I think you forgot that the Biden regime, on Day One, reversed all of Trump’s border enforcement policies and opened the border… it’s a criminal enterprise run by the Uni-party, but mostly the D party. Trafficking women and children for profit and evil play is at the front of their game.
I’m not discounting that. What the Biden admin did too was reprehensible, but the roots of the problem go back to neoliberal policies that conservatives, aligned with transnational business interests, pushed at the expense of the American working class.
OK, but our recent border problem explosion under the Biden regime was
all about their plan to collapse Our Country…
When you cannot destroy/defeat the United States of America by attacking head on, you change tactics and deploy a 'KILL FROM WITHIN' [internal] operation.
>Financial/Economy
>Military/Police
>Division of Citizenry
>BORDER Collapse
[Install 'like-minded' leaders in key positions of US Gov]
How many people [removed] from the FBI had Iranian family backgrounds?
The Silent War Continues…..
Confused??? Anyway 22 million illegals were let in during JBS 4 year Presidency.
I'm not sure how Republicans caused this. Seems like JB allowed them in.
Saying the Republicans causes this is kinda of like the Dems posting a Twitter about inflation trying to blame on the current administration but so bantly obvious it happened during JBs presidency they had to pull the Twitter.
I thought the 22 million number was the total suspected of living in the US
currently. And that most estimates I've run across are more in line with 5-7 million new undocumented people during Biden's 4 years. Not that 7 million is trival by any means.
There were already 22 million and JB let in additional 22 million
So we have 44 million undocumented people living in the US?
Haha, same people telling you 5-7 million under Biden regime kept telling us for the past 25 years that the number of illegal immigrants = 11,000,000…
The Pew Research Center estimated the unauthorized immigrant population at 11 million in 2022.
The Center for Migration Studies provisionally estimated the number at 11.7 million in July 2023.
The Migration Policy Institute estimated the unauthorized population at 13.7 million in 2023.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) estimated the population at 11.0 million in 2022.
https://www.npr.org/2017/03/07/518201210/how-did-we-get-to-11-million-unauthorized-immigrants
https://www.migrationpolicy.org/data/unauthorized-immigrant-population/state/US
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0jp4xqx2z3o
https://abcnews.go.com/ABC_Univision/News/11-million-undocumented-immigrants/story?id=17886889
etc, etc, etc…
Here is some numbers we drummed up. We estimate 10 million illegals in CA and 50 million in the USA. https://www.analytics805.com/post/the-hidden-costs-of-illegal-elbonian-cash-employment
Correct. Messy numbers. Which ever view it's a lot.
Considering the current state of our school systems and the noneducating and indoctrination of our youth,School Choice is a great path for families and their children.
The US pays the most per student yet we are last on the list of educating students.
Taxes are already paid for schools so why couldn't that tax money be allocated to the school that a parent chooses would be best for their child's education?
School choice already exists. What’s needed is to fix the school system, which had been corrupted to an unimaginable degree. Trump’s “Universal School Choice” is globalization on steroids and will increase property taxes exponentially, benefiting corporations and ed tech companies and expanding the federal government into home schooling and private schools as well, which shouldn’t be subject to federal regulations any more than schools are at the state level.
Not all schools rely on Federal monies to operate. The funding falls into two categories. Some are funded by property taxes,most on the Central coast fall into this Category and some that are funded by Federal and state taxes.
Property taxes can't go up in California due to Property 13.
People were so willing to pass the bond for SBCC as they waste money and build another building,yet it would be terrible if this occured for the future and for the future of the children.
All public schools in CA receive some Federal funding. The lowest as little as 0.3% of their budget the highest is almost 70% of their budget. https://usafacts.org/answers/what-percentage-of-public-school-funding-comes-from-the-federal-government/state/california/
Most on the Central Coast receive their funding from your property taxes.They receive a small percentage from Federal funding and about 97-98% from property taxes.
Only if you live in Montecito. If you look at the school districts in the usafacts data goleta, hope, sb are all getting 7-10% of their funds by the Feds.
"School choice already exists". I'm afraid that is naive...it exists only if a family can afford it and viable alternative are available...particularly in the inner cities.
The various and corrupt teacher organizations are the roadblock with money and lockstep voting are their weapons. They just eliminated reference to Jews in their "treatment of the Holocaust. AFT's Randi Weingarten is one of the most despicable creatures to crawl this planet.
Please explain the remark "Trump’s “Universal School Choice” is globalization on steroids and will increase property taxes exponentially, benefiting corporations and ed tech companies..."...not withstanding Andy's article is illegal immigration centric, albeit encompassing.
Top of the local news, Noozhawk's Fiesta article headlines: Santa Barbara Police Department said it does not assist ICE in immigration enforcement.
"The city and SBPD take public concerns regarding the presence of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) seriously.
SBPD does not assist ICE in immigration enforcement.
“If any federal agency were to operate in a manner that compromises public safety or violates legal protocols, we would take appropriate action to ensure the safety of our community,” the city said. “Our officers are trained to verify credentials and protect the rights of all individuals, especially in public high-traffic areas.
“We remain committed to fostering trust with our community and will continue to monitor any concerns that may impact the safety and tone of our city events.”
No more difficult than setting up vehicular check-points for drunk drivers, but wait, deluded people take pleasure in announcing in advance when and where those will be! I say surprising drunks driving and getting them off the streets is a societal good. Arresting and removing illegals is a necessary priority.
Spreading Fear and division Zzzzz
I barely made it through high school, wasn't smart enough to go to college, and never achieved much worth noting so I'll defer to being rather simple minded, so forgive me if I ask a stupid question. My question is this: if my recollection of history is correct, prior to the gradual acceptance of the Black Market economy of illegal immigration, which perhaps may have been prepared by the Bracero program, wasn't America a place where even blue collar folks without much education could eke out a living in such a way where the thought of becoming homeless was not even within the realm of consideration?
As I recall, one lived at home, got a job, moved out while still in their teens, got an apartment, saved up some money, put a down payment on a house shortly thereafter, and on one income (assuming they married and had children) could raise a family?
Also, the Left loves to extol their perception that capitalism is evil, yet they tell us that the money that the...capitalists who hire people in the country illegally, and are working them at cheap wages somehow translates into us saving money on food expenses. Isn't it a contradiction to assume such altruism on the part of these people? Either way, when people are working all day picking produce at cheap wages, are systematically kept from learning English (though the enabling bilingual government services) and the curriculum in the public schools is dumbed down for their kids, the resultant poverty, lack of education, overcrowding, and feral childhood their kids experience is going to result in crime, and the euphemism of "at-risk youth". Then, people get tired of gangs, low test scores, and then being called "racist" for daring to mention these things, and yet the supporters of this Ponzi scheme and perennial racial guilt trip are surprised when people criticize illegal immigration?
What am I missing.
Good article Andy. We don't need illegals anymore to do work because they will be replaced by robots. There's somebody working on perfecting a robot that can determined a good strawberry from a bad one and will only pick the good one. There are already robot lawnmowers. The nice thing about robots is you can shoot them, such as robotic leaf blowers. One shot to a robot leaf blower and it will be silenced forever <g>!
Meanwhile, Trump has struck what sounds like an awesome deal with the EU.
https://nypost.com/2025/07/27/us-news/trump-european-union-commission-president-give-50-50-chance-of-striking-trade-deal/
What will Jerry and The Poodle have to say about it? Creeping fascism?
Thank God Capps, The Angry Poodle and Carbajal are stronger than the EU! They will cancel the Fiesta! Take that European tourists coming to Santa Barbara!
Those are the only people on State Street these days
Nicole Acevedo of NBC News reported that the U.S. was holding more than 56,000 people in detention centers, the highest number in U.S. history. Nearly 72% of those held had no criminal history.
A poll released Friday makes it clear that the American people do not support such a vision and did not, in fact, expect a Trump administration to deport undocumented immigrants who have no criminal record and have lived in the U.S. for years. A Gallup poll released yesterday shows that the administration’s draconian policies toward immigrants have created a backlash. A record 79% of adults say immigration is good for the country, with only 17% seeing it as bad. That change has been driven primarily by a shift in Republicans, 64% of whom now agree that immigrants are good for the country, up from their low of under 40%. The percentage of American adults who say immigration should be reduced has dropped to 30%, down from 55% in 2024.
DH, conflating legal immigration with illegal border crossing is a fools errand. Can you explain why you are doing this? Your phony polls and statistics never sound in fact. Your motives have quickly become transparent. Just so you understand the nature of the playing field you have chosen here.
I keep making the point criminals out but deporting hardworking undocumented workers who are contributing possitively to our society is wrong. All the poles are supporting this, Joe Rogan too. Calling national poles phony because they do not align with your beliefs is interesting behaviour.
A Gallup poll early July shows that the administration’s draconian policies toward immigrants have created a backlash. A record 79% of adults say immigration is good for the country, with only 17% seeing it as bad. That change has been driven primarily by a shift in Republicans, 64% of whom now agree that immigrants are good for the country, up from their low of under 40%. The percentage of American adults who say immigration should be reduced has dropped to 30%, down from 55% in 2024.
As an aside how a company can choose to be in the cannabis industry and then employ underage illegals when you know the authorities will look very closely at the busines , beats me, madness. Then to compound it how some Dem politicians are on site at the time of arrest, supporting the unsupportabkle is incredulous to me.
I am appalled that ICE workers wear masks. They are the law, they do not need to hide. I am appalled that ICE workers are being incentivised with a bonus structure for number of arrests made. I am appalled that the immigration system is so broken. It is a disgrace that there is no attempt at policy initiatives to resolve the issue. Perhaps review a new Bareco style progam or a new Amnesty pardon for people who meet set criteria. The tools, knowledge and experience are there to call upon. But no the MAGA hold on the party is destructive. For MAGA to be of real value at some point it is going to have to build something positive for the country. All I am seeing so far is negative, destruction, nilhilsm personified.
Why are you appalled at ICE workers wearing masks but not protestors. And everyone loved masks during COVID.
Funny how this broken immigration system was never spoken of when Barak deported many illegal immigrants.
Or when they flooded our cities under the JB presidency.
Let's be real here,the problem is being fixed and the Dems do not want their voter base to be eliminated.
The only poll that counts will happen at midterms - 2026. Save your breath.
The list of criminals is out there that were arrested.
NBC “News” = Fake News…polls are for dancing girls
What poll is that. The poll's I've seen,even from CNN, show that most people agree with these policies and have increased from Trump's previous term.
Love how polls try to turn things around and hide key details lumping it all into one category of immigration.
The difference is there is legal immigration vs illegal immigration which doesn't seem to be differentiated in the poll you shared.
Most are against illegal immigration and not legal immigration.