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The Unwanted
December 4, 2025 by Sgt. Mom
…. [T] he prospect of body-armored and masked agents of ICE rounding up illegal immigrants and visa-overstayers, bundling them off to a sort of American gulag before returning them to the third-world hell-holes from whence they came is somehow very distressing to most Americans and will result in diminishing support for Trump and all his MAGA works and ways, according to such reports. Well, I suppose that if one is sitting in a very sheltered bubble, well-shielded against certain contingencies of fortune, it might look like that would be the case.
I am reminded of a bumper sticker which my daughter and I spotted, last week on a car ahead of is, in a very upscale suburb in north San Antonio. The sticker read “Keep the Immigrants, Deport the Racists.” On a very new and well-maintained Lexus SUV. In a part of town, where the City of San Antonio bus system had built (at considerable public expense) an elaborate bus station. This bus station was apparently intended to feed commuters from a well-heeled neighborhood by bus into more urban parts, thereby to make a stab at making the city into some green, fifteen-minute commuter city, I guess. Instead, the bus station mainly serves as a transit station, bringing domestic help to their jobs in the well-heeled outer-ring and very posh suburb.
Essentially, the driver of the Lexus with that bumper sticker appears to be OK with maintaining criminal illegals, sex-traffickers, drug dealers, people-smugglers, and identity-thieves in the US as long as they stay in the ickier parts of town, and don’t impinge in any way on her (I presume it was a female driver – it looked like it, from what I could see through the Lexus’ tinted windows) neighborhood or adversely affect her way of life. Nice. Just the week previous, ICE and the local PD busted a Tren de Aragua cell in a part of town that I’d venture to guess the driver of an expensive car would never be caught dead in.
The heart of the matter is that the tide of illegal immigrants in the US is one which likely only washes through those locations which well-meaning people like the driver of that Lexus, the writer of a recent NY Times sob story, or any of their comfortable friends wouldn’t frequent on a bet. It is not their schools, hospitals and workplaces swamped with illegal immigrants who must be catered to. It probably isn’t their school aged offspring exposed to diseases which haven’t commonly been seen by American doctors in eighty or a hundred years. It’s not their neighborhoods being ruined by twenty or thirty illegal immigrants crammed into a single two-bed-one-bath house, their trucking or construction businesses consistently underbid by competitors paying their hired illegal workers cash under the table. They’re not directly affected by crime committed by illegals; crimes often downplayed by local and national news media organs, and civic authorities. ….
All this has been going on for years, in the places that the comfortably-situated do not know or care about. So of course, massive, coordinated raids by ICE and illegal migrants being arrested and deported en masse is deeply unsettling … but only to them. Everyone else, especially those who have been personally affected – are very pleased with immigration laws being enforced.
(FWIW) This comment by one of the author’s readers is also on target, and offers a helpful suggestion:
Subotai Bahadur
It really comes down to the fact that we are no longer really one culture, one society, or one country anymore. As you note, they live in their own bubbles away from most of the country, and they do their best to keep the country from dealing with its problems because of DEI and PC.
Noting that my father was an immigrant, and further noting that it was not possible for him to be a legal immigrant because American statute law defined us literally as not being human beings with such affirmed by the Supreme Court. He got his citizenship when in 1943 the law was finally changed to make us people and he was able to start earning it as an infantry squad leader in Patton’s 3rd Army. I am not anti-legal immigrant, but I am pro-rule of law.
…[P] unishing the HR and payroll people for not hiring only those who are here lawfully would bring things to a screeching halt. Remove their immunity from the law. Instead it has gotten so bad that, literally today, we have a commissioned police officer in a suburb of Chicago who is committing a Federal crime every second he is here.
Short form, a tourist from the Balkans had his tourist visa expire 10 years ago. On a tourist visa, you cannot work here. When it expired, he became functionally an invader, also not allowed to work here. He got a job, illegally, as a police officer and went through their hiring and academy and it was ignored that he was here illegally and was not a citizen. A few months ago, it came out and he was suspended. He was just brought back to duty with back pay, still illegally in the country. The number of defense attorneys who are licking their chops must be tremendous, since he could not legally be a cop and legally arrest anyone. A lot of people are going to be let out of jail and/or get horrendous cash settlements.
….[I] f the ICC, Federal Marshals, Customs, Border Patrol, etc. come across a driver whose presence in the country is not legal regardless of which state issued him a Commercial Drivers License; arrest him. Contact the trucking line and tell them either a) come get your truck and cargo we are leaving it here, or b) we are impounding it and the cargo at “x” dollars a day till the case is settled.
You can absolutely bet that faced with that the trucking line is going to scramble madly to recover truck and cargo, and that they are not going to deal with whoever trained and licensed the illegal driver. It is a self-healing problem. Use the remedies created by the law to fix the problem.
Subotai Bahadur