‘No Human Is Illegal’ Sounds Noble—Until You Examine What It Really Means

Townhall 

As Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers carried out more than 10,000 arrests in just five days last week, a familiar slogan resurfaced among activists and online commentators opposing the operations: “No human is illegal.” The phrase is deployed as a moral trump card, implying that any enforcement of immigration law is inherently cruel or bigoted. It is past time to put this loaded slogan under a microscope. Americans who support secure borders must recognize it for what it is—emotional manipulation designed to erode the distinction between lawful and unlawful presence in our country.

The slogan cynically assumes the worst about what people who favor strong immigration enforcement believe; namely, that a person who has violated our immigration laws is lacking inherent human dignity. No serious person claims that. What it deliberately obscures is that “illegal” is a legal term describing an action: entering the United States without authorization or remaining after a visa expires. Nations have always maintained the sovereign right to decide who may enter and under what conditions. Every country on Earth enforces immigration laws. Pretending the United States is uniquely cruel for doing so is the kind of selective outrage and self-loathing that anti-borders activists have perfected over time.

This rhetorical sleight of hand serves a clear political purpose. By framing border enforcement as an attack on humanity itself, the slogan shifts the debate away from practical questions of sovereignty, public safety, fiscal costs, and fairness to legal immigrants. It paints any deportation—even of violent, convicted criminals—as morally equivalent to denying someone’s humanity. That is destructive propaganda that has worked on too many and has polarized our nation.

Prominent figures have let their extremist flag fly by weaponizing this language for years. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has repeatedly framedstrict immigration enforcement in apocalyptic terms, equating detention facilities with concentration camps and calling for the abolition of ICE. She is one of the leading propagandists selling the “no human is illegal” worldview, suggesting that any distinction between legal and illegal entry is illegitimate.

Activists echoing her message during recent protests in Los Angeles, Chicago, and Newark have carried signs and chanted variations of the slogan while opposing the current enforcement surge. Radical anti-borders groups like the ACLU have promoted merchandise and statements declaring “No person is illegal,” often in direct response to operations targeting individuals with criminal records.

Legal immigration has always been part of America’s story, and millions wait in line to follow the rules. “No human is illegal” erases that line. It implies that anyone who shows up should be allowed to stay, consequences be damned. In practice, this means surrendered borders by another name: no meaningful enforcement, no consequences for unlawful entry, and no priority for those who respect the process.

Consider the real-world results of policies inspired by this mindset. Sanctuary jurisdictions that effectively adopt the “no human is illegal” approach by ignoring ICE detainers have released individuals later charged with serious crimes. Recent examples include cases in Gov. Abigail Spanberger’s Virginiaand elsewhere where ignored detainers led to violent offenses. Meanwhile, the latest ICE operations have focused heavily on individuals with convictions for murder, rape, sexual exploitation of minors, and drug trafficking. These are not “hardworking families” being “torn apart” for minor paperwork issues. They are people whose presence here already violated the law and who then committed additional crimes against Americans.

The slogan also ignores the tangible burdens on citizens. Illegal migrationstrains schools, hospitals, and welfare systems funded by American taxpayers. It depresses wages for citizens and legal residents, particularly in low-skill job sectors. And it undermines the rule of law that protects everyone, including legal immigrants who play by the rules. When activists demand we “shut down” enforcement or abolish the agency responsible for interior removals, they are not advocating humane reform. They are instead advocating the effective nullification of immigration law.

Secure borders are not anti-human; they are pro-sovereignty and pro-order. Countries that lose control of their borders lose the ability to maintain the social contract that makes generous policies possible in the first place. The United States can and should maintain a robust but manageable legal immigration system while enforcing consequences for illegal entry. That is not hatred. It is basic, good governance.

The phrase “no human is illegal” is crafted to short-circuit debate with emotion. It conflates the worth of a person with the legality of their actions. It dismisses the experiences of Americans harmed by lax enforcement and the patience of those waiting legally to immigrate. Those who value safe, prosperous communities should reject this slogan and the toxic policy agenda it conceals.

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You’re Just Going to Have to Kill Them or Walk Away From Iran, Mr. President

Townhall 

In late 2003, if you’d sat across the table from a team of negotiators from Al Qaeda to work out some kind of deal to end hostilities, what could have possibly come from it? The answer is nothing, because there is no compromise with someone whose position is that they want you dead. Where’s the middle ground with that – can you be half-dead? Are you willing to lose a limb or two to get peace?

Of course not, that’s stupid. Al Qaeda wanted all Americans dead, so the only “solution” to their existence was to either work to contain them so attacking us would be harder and less frequent, or to kill them all. Thankfully, President George W. Bush opted to kill them all, then set about killing as many of them as humanly possible. He ignored the whining of Democrats who wanted to arrest them, give them lawyers and trials, and (for the most part) left the sorting them out part to God.

Iran is pretty much the same situation, with the only differences breaking down to them having some semblance of a government, their own currency, and sympathetic client states who want to keep them afloat because of the way they are a disruptive force in the world and a thorn in the side of civilization.

Whatever remains of a government in Iran has no interest in cutting a “deal” with the United States. They don’t need us; they make money and gain power by poking us. Their “demand” that for no peache negotiations rang hollow as their weeks-long funeral for the dead former leader was punctuated by their launching drones against ships in the Strait of Hormuz. Radical Islamists always demand “holy days” and “holy months” off from fighting, and every other day or month seems to have some kind of “holy” designation to it. But it never stops terrorist attacks. Weird, isn’t it?

Iran has no interest in a deal because they don’t need one. The appeals to a “booming economy” Iran could have if they chose peace mean nothing, as the leaders of the country are fine and always will be – they take what they want, and the average Iranian suffers. If there’s less in the country, as there has been for decades, they still get theirs. No Mafia don ever told their underlings to be understanding if someone paying “protection” was a little short sometimes, as downturns happen. No, they’d break the guy’s arm and take everything he had, leaving him with nothing and charging him interest on the difference he couldn’t cover. That’s how Iran works internally.

There is no carrot on a stick that will change their behavior because they’re lousy with carrots. The people are the ones without vegetables, and they don’t care about the people.

The only options are to bomb the hell out of them, leaving not a stone unbombed, or leave them alone. You either have to kill them, or they stay the way they’ve always been.

The only other option, the one I believe might change the path of Iranian history, is to tell our allies in the area that they are free to take as big or small a piece of Iran as they want – Persia is a region and has always existed; the country of Iran has not and does not need to. Let its neighbors take pieces and rule them.

They’d go for the oil and the ports; we’d provide air cover, and that would really choke off the government.

It would also have the benefit of scaring the hell out of these leaders. They know we won’t torture them; we’d give them three hot meals and a cot and access to a jury of Democrats who’d likely cheer them for 47 years of killing Americans. Their neighbors, against whom they’ve funded terror for five decades, wouldn’t be so nice. The Iranian leadership would know what being captured by them would likely mean, and it isn’t pretty.

Maybe THAT would get them to negotiate in good faith, because nothing else will. Drop guns to the freedom-minded, too, and level anywhere a government official might be hiding, unleash the region, or cut bait.

These aren’t rational people; they aren’t motivated by things that motivate normal people. It’s time to recognize that and choose a path forward based on that reality.

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Here's the Truth About AI Data Centers—and Why the Wealthiest County in America Is Full of Them

Townhall 

Data centers remain one of the most contentious issues in the United States, as Republicans and Democrats alike have taken to opposing their construction. 

This is not a simple issue with bland, unimportant consequences. The construction of data centers is set to lay the foundation for America's performance in the next great economic and technological contest with our foreign adversaries, the race for dominance on the frontier of artificial intelligence. It will also help determine which economic system Americans ultimately embrace, especially amid the rise of socialism on the left and the troubling adoption of socialist language on the right in some of its criticisms of AI.

First, most people would be surprised to learn where the global epicenter of AI data centers actually is. It isn't in some anonymous, forgettable area of the country; it resides in Loudoun County, Virginia, the wealthiest county in the entire nation. And far from being a burden on that wealth, data centers are one of its primary sources.

Second, the discussed economic strain on resources that people regularly cite in their opposition to data centers is simply false.

"Most of the opposition to data centers is based on simply incorrect ideas about their water usage or their electricity cost," Judge Glock, the director of research and a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, said. "Water usage in data centers is unbelievably minimal. It's less than half a percent of all U.S. freshwater usage, and in many places, a big data center will use less water than a single square mile of farmland. Data centers have little to no effect on local electricity prices. Electricity prices in America are generally set in large regional markets, and a single factory or single data center will have little to no effect on those general regional markets and almost certainly will have no effect on a local market that approves them."

Not only do data centers fail to generate the resource strain many believe they do, they also end up being one of the largest tax contributors in the local community they're built in. In Loudoun County, the nearly 200 data centers generate roughly half of the county's entire tax revenue. And for every dollar those data centers generate in taxes, they consume only four to five cents in local services. In other words, data centers could serve as the modern equivalent of the factories and manufacturing plants many Americans still feel nostalgic for, the kind of single dominant employer that once anchored small towns across the country. Only this time, instead of clinging to the industries of the past, these facilities will drive the advance of American technological power into the future. 

As for the legitimate concerns surrounding data centers, Glock named only a few, and they mostly concern the sheer unattractiveness of the buildings themselves. 

"If you're near one, they tend to have an overbearing appearance," he said. "They can be almost 100 feet tall in some cases and often they're rather unsightly concrete boxes. Data centers can also emit kind of a low buzzing noise and a hum that can even penetrate some local homes." 

Fortunately, the solution is a simple one: "Mov[e] them a little further down the road."

The conversation surrounding AI data centers has not been one where the vast majority of people have acknowledged their importance while raising genuine, good-faith concerns. It has instead become a legitimate assault on the veracity of the free market and private industry, a shocking embrace of the socialist worldview that insists the wealth and power generated by tech must be reined in, contained, and redistributed by someone other than the people who built it. 

As I wrote yesterday, the market checks itself, especially when the government doesn't get involved in the industry. And in a sector like artificial intelligence, which currently stands as one of the purest forms of a free market left in America, government checks are wholly unnecessary. And yet even the Trump administration has toyed with socialist policy, musing over taking stake in AI companies, a proposal that differs from those of Bernie Sanders by mere degree, not ideology.

Strip away the data center-specific complaints, and what's left is socialism's oldest instinct: success this large cannot be allowed to exist without the state's permission.

Riot Instigators Reveal Communism Inside Anti-American ‘Socialist’ Agitation

‘We want to tear the American system down,’ 

one protestor told The Federalist.

The Federalist 

A week before the 250th anniversary of America declaring independence, more than 1,000 people assembled at the nation’s capital to make a declaration of their own: their vision to dismantle America’s founding institutions. “All of US Next250 National Mobilization” protested the Trump administration, debuted new “founding documents,” and re-envisioned America as seen by Marxist revolutionaries.

“It’s not just a day, it’s a movement, and it’s been three years in the making,” Saru Jayarman, a co-organizer of Next250, told The Federalist. “This is the time to set the tone for what the next 250 years will be.”

Dozens of activist organizations assembled, whose headliners have helmed the largest social-unrest operations in the past decade. On the eve of the nation’s birthday they’re calling for the radical restructuring of America. This Communists have always accomplished through violence, a history eerily recalled at the demonstration, where a squirrel with its throat slit had been laid at the base of a drinking fountain. What appeared to be its blood saturated the fountain during the demonstration.

“The only thing that will save this nation is to create a 250-year progressive route forward,” said speaker Tamika Mallory, a leading force behind the George Floyd riots. “Our assignment is not to preserve institutions and ideologies we inherited from some mythical idea. It is to build a new system worthy of generations to come.”

‘Set Free Our Radical Imaginations’

“Independence is actually a myth created by those with power to erase the work of others that have helped them gain resources and steal resources and status,” said activist Mia Ives-Rublee in a speech at the event. Ives-Rublee said independence impedes the collective mindset Marxists like her coalition desire.

The organizers said they talked to people in “listening groups” across 36 states and 25 tribal nations to free people from the oppression of independence. They propose a new Declaration of Interdependence with a new, communist “bill of rights,” which include: “Right to Climate Justice for All, Right to Protest for All, Right to Gun Safety and Peace for All, Right to Reproductive Health and Health Care for All, Right to Voting Rights for All, Right to Immigration for All, and Right to Living Wage for All.”

Iman Mamdouh, an environmental lawyer and coalition member, told The Federalist the Declaration of Independence was “a beautiful thing, but it was also reflective of an America that existed 250 years ago written by white men. We need to reflect on what was and re-imagine where we are going next in our new vision of America.”

Mamdouh says she can see this new vision reflected in recent elections Democrat Socialists of America (DSA) party members won in New York City and elsewhere: “We’re getting people involved that look, think, and act like us who want to make change.” Stoking grievances is a textbook Marxist tactic to recruit disaffected people.

Saru Jayarman, a co-founder of Next250, said the DSA party has been involved “tangentially” with their cause: “They focus more on winning elections, but they’ve supported all our initiatives,” Jayarman told The Federalist.

‘We’re One Big Family’

Before creating “All of US Next250 mobilization,” Mallory, Linda Sarsour, and Carmen Perez-Jordan were three of the four founders of the anti-Trump 2017 Women’s March. Sarsour and Mallory also co-founded “Until Freedom” in 2019. That was the driving force behind the nationwide Black Lives Matter riots after Floyd’s death.

“We need special opportunities like today to raise awareness to the cause,” Mallory told The Federalist. “But the real work is what our organizations are doing behind the scenes.”

After 2020, Until Freedom’s funding diminished. Then between 2023-2024, it saw a 63 percent increase in revenue from grants, which made up 96 percent of total revenue. The biggest expense was “compensation of current officers,” followed by “travel costs.” The latest federal financial filings from the organization show Sarsour and Mallory made six-figure salaries from Until Freedom, one of their many often-overlapping organizations.

Their “Next250” startup is involved in the “All of U.S. 250” mobilization effort. Numerous chapters of the organizations behind recent anti-Trump ICE Out and No Kings protests, Indivisible and 50501, also partnered with All of U.S. 250. Those groups, which claim to be “grassroots,” are directly linked to funds from foreign leftist billionaires. Indivisible Project, the group’s 501(c) body, has received more than $7.6 million from George Soros’s Open Society Foundations, since 2017.

“We’re all one big family here,” Mallory told The Federalist. “We’re sisters in a greater cause.”

Sarsour spearheaded “All of US.” She has also created campaigns for the Council on American Islamic Relations. She serves on the W.K. Kellogg Foundations Solidarity Council on Racial Equity and played a prominent role in the mayoral campaign for DSA affiliate Zohran Mamdani, New York City’s communist mayor.

“I’m unapologetically Palestinian-American, unapologetically Muslim, and unapologetically from New York,” Sarsour said in a speech at the event.

‘Make This Country Ungovernable’

The Floyd riots brought elementary schoolteacher Katie Sayour, a male who claims to be female and a member of the D.C. chapter of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO), to identify as a revolutionary, he said.

“The George Floyd rebellion is the biggest struggle of our time,” Sayour told The Federalist. “I mean, we literally burned down police stations and yet six years later we’re still fighting.”

D.C. FRSO is part of the D.C. Coalition Against The Trump Agenda, one of the Next250 hosts. The FRSO had a table at the event.

“It starts with building this united front, with building up the people and showing the people what to fight for and that this is everyone’s fight,” Sayour said. “We follow with the masses and support what they want and what they want is to get rid of Trump. All of us here at this protest are united to fan the flames and make this country ungovernable against him.”

An FBI report describes FRSO as a “revolutionary socialist, Marxist-Leninist” and “domestic terrorist” organization that supports foreign terrorist organizations affiliated with the Communist Party in Palestinian territory, Colombia, and the Philippines. A 2023 post on the D.C. FRSO Facebook page says their “general strategy for revolution in the U.S.” is “focused on recruiting and building towards the creation of a new Communist Party based on Marxism-Leninism.”

Sayour said FRSO does “a lot of work with DSA” but their chapter focuses on demonstrations, while DSA focuses on elections.

‘We Own America’

Sarsour asserted in her speech that she is “even more of a true patriot” than “those who support the Trump agenda.”

“We own America and we will set the tone for what the next 250 years will mean,” Mallory said. “It will take a movement of people who are willing to put their lives on the line to protect what we build.”

Mallory said their cause would “not be possible without the work of the Black Panther Party” and that it is “now up to them to finish the unfinished work that the civil rights movement started.” The Black Panther Party is not only violent but has longstanding Communist ties.

Pastor Michael McBride of The Way Christian Center, came from Berkley, California, for the demonstration. McBride called on the crowd to raise their right fists in the Communist salute and affirm the Declaration of Interdependence. It looked like a foreign country at McPherson Square, with no “Old Glory” flying in sight. But Palestinian, Cuban, and Haitian flags were displayed proudly.

“All power to the people!” the crowd shouted. “The people will have all the power!”

President Trump Just Went Scorched Earth Against Communism on the World Stage

Townhall 

President Trump used the global stage at a NATO summit in Turkey to deliver a blunt condemnation of communism, calling out the ideology for the widespread human suffering it has produced. 

Speaking on the second day of the summit, he warned that while communism may be politically easy to sell, its real-world consequences have consistently proved far more destructive than advertised.

"Look, I want to get the word out, because what's forming is communism in the country, and communism's easy to sell," the president said. "I would be the greatest communist in history. I'd be right up there with Lenin. I'd be as good as anybody. You've got free rent for the rest of your life. What they don't say is that you'll be living in squalor in 12 months."

You've got the free house. Would anybody like to have a free house? We'll take it away from somebody. We'll give it to you. You'll have murders all over the place. Communism's a disaster. It's been proven to be for thousands of years under different names, but same thing.

"[Communism] has become international, but it's never worked, and it's not going to work," President Trump added. "What is working is the United States. So think of it. We have more jobs than we've ever had. People are making more money than they've ever made. I'm talking about workers now, talking about workers. They're making higher salaries than they've ever made before. It's just the best system. And it's got flaws, but everything's going to have a little flaw. But it's it's been amazing."

In practice, many of the so-called “flaws” attributed to free markets stem less from the markets themselves and more from government overreach, a reality often overlooked by advocates of socialism, communism, and even free marketers themselves.

"I think this country with this thing that's going around is in more danger than it was during World War One, World War Two," the president said. "If you talk about September 11th, if you talk about Pearl Harbor, that was big danger. I think this is I think the concept of us going communist, because one thing that happens when you go communist, you never come back. Never comes back. You die in squalor. You die. You die a horrible death. You die in squalor and it gets very evil and very nasty."

This comes as democratic socialism gains increasing traction within the Democratic Party. While the movement has been building for decades, it reached a new inflection point with Zohran Mamdani’s victory over an establishment Democrat in New York City’s mayoral race. That breakthrough was followed within weeks by three additional wins from socialist candidates in congressional primaries across the city, cementing the financial capital of the world as a growing stronghold for the ideology.  Party leadership, for its part, has largely declined to confront or distance itself from its ascendant progressive wing, even as that faction moves to reshape the party in its image. 

The battle is shaping up as a defining ideological test for conservatives, as they now stand as the last institutional barrier to a broader socialist shift, echoing the stakes of the Reagan era.

President Trump Blasts Iran as Duplicitous “Scum” and Confronts weak NATO Allies During Bilateral with Mark Rutte

Conservative Treehouse 

President Trump held a bilateral meeting with NATO General Secretary Mark Rutte earlier today during the NATO Summit in Ankara, Turkey.

WATCH THIS ONE!

During the press availability President Trump noted the Memorandum of Understanding with Iran has been essentially nullified, and the U.S. is responding with 20:1 retaliatory military strike into Iran. Trump noted “they’re scum” when discussing the lies from the Iranian regime.

Moving to NATO, President Trump specifically called out the weak NATO members who stood by and did nothing while Iran was building nuclear threats. President Trump called out France, Germany and the U.K. specifically, with a strong condemnation of Spain for their political interference.

President Trump pulled no punches and further stated that all U.S. trade with Spain should be immediately discontinued as a consequence of their interference and lack of support for security goals and objectives. WATCH:

Do not skip this press availability.  President Trump speaks plainly about the geopolitical dynamics throughout the region and beyond.  This is a level of brutal honesty that will never be repeated in American politics.

UniParty Senators and Mike Turner Take Trip to Turkey NATO Summit to Coordinate with Zelenskyy

Conservative Treehouse 

At a certain point it all becomes so tiresome to watch unfold.

Senators Lindsey Graham, Mike Rounds, Jeanne Shaheen, Dick Durban and Chris Coons, together with previously removed House Intelligence Committee Chair, Representative Mike Turner, use taxpayer funds for a trip to Ankara, Turkey, to poke their nose in the latest NATO gathering and coordinate with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.  WATCH:

The pontificating Congressional Delegation (CODEL) are visiting the NATO summit on behalf of their paymasters within the military industrial complex who have advocated along with the Europeans for expanded military hardware.

Both Raytheon and Lockheed Martin are positioned to gain billions in revenue from the sale of Patriot missile systems to NATO Europe and via PURL to Ukraine.  It is not coincidental that Raytheon and Lockheed Martin pay both republicans and democrats in the U.S. Senate for legislative outcomes to enhance their profits.

However, that said, the transparency of purpose is sickening.  Taxpayers are in an abusive relationship with government.

Meanwhile Comrade proles, in semi related news….

… The CODEL’s “good friend” Senator Mitch McConnell, is still recovering in the hospital, from an unknown medical event, with an unknown outcome, as the apparatus around the business of Washington DC says, “nothing to see here, move along, move along.”

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