Lawns and gardens, bedpans and orchards: who's going to meet our needs if we don't have immigrants?

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Brandon Morse, RedState:

I'm not actually concerned about the vulgarity. Republicans use it from time to time, including Trump, so I'm not going to get to clutching my pearls over words. 

What I think is actually disgusting is the fact that these Democrats just effectively told you how they see these illegal immigrants. They're not people. They're not the oppressed. 

They're the help. 

First off, you wanna talk about racism? There it is. Democrats go on and on about how these people are just coming here for a better life, standing on some sort of moral soapbox, and wagging their finger at those who want these illegals deported. 

Then they turn around, and say the quiet part out loud, making it clear that what they really see in these people is a cheap labor force that makes the Democrat's personal life and costs more comfortable. 

This isn't the first time it's happened either. 

It was January when Democrat Strategist Jenn Arnold sat on a CNN panel discussing Donald Trump's deportations when she dropped the line "I can't wait until American women can't get blueberries for their smoothies." 

FWIW: Morse only mentions two incidents as illustrations: there are far more, all from Democrat defenders of open borders. Notice that Rep. Balint doesn’t say we need more nurses or doctors, although there’s a shortage of both, especially in rural areas like her home state of Vermont. Her default reference, like those of her peers, is the dearth of unskilled, low-paid laborers, and that says it all.

Can there be any purpose behind this other than to destroy the country? (Updated)

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Now all permanent residents, according to biden judges

Deportation of Boulder terror suspect Mohamed Soliman’s wife, five children blocked by Biden-appointed judge

The terrorist, his wife and five children entered the country in 2022 on one-year tourist visas and almost immediately filed for asylum, naming his wife and their five children as dependants. Now a judge has ruled, as have others of his ilk, that she is entitled to a hearing before she can be deported. There was already a years-long backlog of asylum cases before Biden’s handlers opened our borders and waved in millions more. If each of them is entitled to an individual hearing before being removed, they’re here for life, which is exactly what the Democrats intended.

If this is not the law, the Roberts court has to summon some heretofore hidden courage and shut these judges down. If it is the law, Congress must change it, now.

My guess is that neither will happen; there are dark forces at work here.

UPDATE: “Curiouser and Curiouser”

PowerLine’s John Hinderaker provides more background details.

“The petition was brought, not by Soliman’s wife, but by one Susanna Dvortsin as “next friend” of the prospective deportees. So, who is Susanna Dvortsin? She is an immigration lawyer with a checkered history. I haven’t tried to untangle it in detail, but she was fired from the Department of Homeland Security for dishonesty:”

[E]leven days before her one-year probationary employment period expired, the agency terminated Ms. Dvortsin for failing to provide accurate information on the SF-86 form. The agency listed four reasons for her removal including failure to list her daughter’s father Mr. Jaime Arias as an illegal alien, failure to list the psychiatric medication she had been prescribed during the last seven years, failure to list credit information, and failure to list foreign travel information.

“Some years later, Dvortsin was suspended from practicing law by the Supreme Court of South Dakota for “misconduct concerning an immigration matter.” Nevertheless, Democratic Party judge Gordon Gallagher considered her a fine representative of the Soliman family’s interests.

Gallagher issued his TRO without hearing from the government, but an essential element of any such order is a finding that the petitioner is likely to prevail, ultimately, on the merits. Presumably the Solimans could prevail on the merits only by showing that they are, in fact, legal residents. Judge Gallagher’s order contains no hint of any such showing.

“Gallagher’s order bars the government from deporting the Solimans, but also says the government “SHALL NOT REMOVE Hayem El Gamal and her five children from the District of Colorado….” Why? Because if they were not in Colorado, a different federal judge would have jurisdiction–one who might not be a rabid Democratic Party partisan.”

Back with a price cut

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37 Burying Hill Road, 18,000 sq.ft., 9-acres, has been returned to the MLS with a new, improved sticker of $19.9 million. First listed in 2019 for $17,620,000 (? Don’t ask me), it was pulled from the market in November of that year and brought back July ‘24 at $22 million; that had the advantage of at least being a round number, but no one bit, so the listing was cancelled in September. Now it’s back.

Utterly predictable: swift justice, followed immediately by a great wailing and gnashing of teeth by the flying monkeys

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USA Today’s on it:

Boulder suspect’s daughter dreamed of studying medicine. Now she faces deportation.

Habiba Soliman moved to the U.S. hoping to study medicine. Then her father Mohamed Soliman was charged with a hate crime in an attack aimed at peaceful Jewish demonstrators.

As well as the NYPost, which should know better, but never seems to.
Daughter of suspected Colorado terrorist Mohamed Soliman said ‘USA has fundamentally changed me’ — and revealed why family moved here — weeks before firebombing  

Papa Soliman might have thought about the ruination he was about to bring down on his family, but he didn’t, and if he didn’t care, why should we? As for the media loads, they couldn’t be bothered to profile the actual victims of this fire bomber, because that’s not how “journalism” works these days. Screw’em all, father, daughter, and the NY Post.

UPDATE: Mo Soliman would appear to have no complaint with what’s about to happen to his family; it’s the will of allah.

Change (Updated)

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It may not matter most of the time, but when the shit hits the fan, only one of these will save a life

And Chuck Schumer, for one, is furious that this important effort is being put back to sleep. “And during Gay Pride month to boot”. That’s the point, idiot; the guard has changed.

This was Chuck’s hero:

"The cupboard is bare, there's not a penny to be cut" N. Pelosi.

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“Old MacDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O And on that farm he/she/they had a pig, E-I-E-I-O,”

EXCLUSIVE: Federal Education Program Head Start Warned Teachers About Racist Babies, Made Old MacDonald Trans

A new report from the Functional Government Initiative (FGI) reveals just how deeply woke ideology has permeated Head Start, a government program that provides education and other services to children three to five. Head Start held webinars for teachers on “anti-bias and anti-racism strategies Head Start programs can use in their practices, services, and systems.”

One webinar warned that even infants “discriminate between faces by race” and that “babies can categorize people by gender and race.”

Head Start also embraced transgender ideology, referring to pregnant women as “birthing parents” and “pregnant people” in social media posts. The program also proposed ways to make activities for children “more inclusive,” including by changing the lyrics to “Old MacDonald Had A Farm.”

“Old MacDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O And on that farm he/she/they had a pig, E-I-E-I-O,” the updated lyrics read.

Related: Head Start’s long been known to be nothing but an employment program for otherwise-unemployable inner city mothers and, above them, education majors/baristas/fry flippers. And for just as long, it has been known that the program achieves nothing except provide paychecks to those people.

AI Prompt: Do Head Start benefits disappear in later grades?

While Head Start participation benefited children’s learning and development during their time in the federally funded preschool program, those advantages had mostly vanished by the end of 3rd grade 1. Research has demonstrated that federal Head Start centers, which provide preschool care to children from low-income families, have little or no long-term academic value for children 2. Recently released results from the Head Start Impact Study indicate that the benefits of participating in Head Start almost completely disappear by first grade3. If Head Start children are more advanced when they enter kindergarten, schools may divert resources to their less-prepared peers. As those peers catch up, the visible benefits of Head Start would diminish 4. Convincing evidence regarding Head Start’s long-term effects has remained even more elusive, thanks to the lack of program randomization in its early years, small sample sizes of longitudinal surveys, and the difficulty of measuring adults’ access to Head Start decades ago 5.

Education Week

https://www.edweek.org › teaching-learning

Head Start Advantages Mostly Gone by 3rd Grade, Study Finds

Dec 21, 2012 · While Head Start participation benefited children’s learning and development during their time in the federally funded preschool program, those advantages had mostly vanished by the end of 3rd...

Education Next

  1. https://www.educationnext.org

    Is Head Start Worth Saving? - Education Next

    Apr 8, 2025 · Research has demonstrated that federal Head Start centers, which provide preschool care to children from low-income families, have little or no long-term academic value …

  2. The Heritage Foundation

    https://www.heritage.org › education › report › head...

    Head Start Earns an F: No Lasting Impact for Children by First …

    Jan 21, 2010 · Abstract: Recently released results from the Head Start Impact Study indicate that the benefits of participating in Head Start almost completely disappear by first grade. While …

  3. Center for Poverty and Inequality Research

    https://poverty.ucdavis.edu › policy-brief › short-run...

    Short-run Fade-out in Head Start and Implications for Long-run ...

    If Head Start children are more advanced when they enter kindergarten, schools may divert resources to their less-prepared peers. As those peers catch up, the visible benefits of Head …

  4. nih.gov

    https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov › articles

    Prep School for Poor Kids: The Long-Run Impacts of Head Start …

    Convincing evidence regarding Head Start’s long-term effects has remained even more elusive, thanks to the lack of program randomization in its early years, small sample sizes of …

  5. Chalkbeat

    https://www.chalkbeat.org › a-new-study-questions-whether-head-start...

    A new study questions the long-run benefits of Head Start

    Aug 8, 2019 · For those born between 1976 and 1986, they, like Deming, found Head Start provided clear benefits. For children born later, though — largely between 1986 and 1996 — …

What happens in the children’s library should stay in the library — not read aloud to tender, sensitive adults

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give her a medal

Reader “Pierre DeLecto” (I don’t think that’s his real name, btw) sends along this clip of an unidentified* CT Republican representative, along with this comment:

This is somewhat off-topic--the common theme is the complete collapse of what were once assumed to be mutually-accepted societal norms. One has to watch the entire video to see what the CT Rep says, the admonishment she receives (from a Democrat) and her response that more than justifies her initial action. Don’t miss her comments at the end!

Pierre’s right, and so is she.