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https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/counter-intelligence-friday-april

We had more good judicial news yesterday in the mass deportation wars. The New York Times ran a story headlined, “Pressuring Migrants to ‘Self-Deport,’ White House Moves to Cancel Social Security Numbers.” The sub-headline explained, “By placing migrants in Social Security’s ‘death master file,’ the Trump administration is seeking to cut off their access to credit cards, bank accounts and other financial services.”

In other words, you are dead to us.

White House spokeswoman Elizabeth Huston said the changes at Social Security would help advance the president’s immigration goals. “President Trump promised mass deportations, and by removing the monetary incentive for illegal aliens to come and stay, we will encourage them to self-deport,” she wrote in a statement. “He is delivering on his promise he made to the American people.”

DOGE has repurposed the Social Security “death master file” to function as a blacklist for people who should not be receiving government benefits. On Tuesday, DOGE workers sent the first batch of 6,300 names of migrant criminals and known terrorists who are currently getting US government benefits. Sixty three hundred of them.

The Times saw nothing good about it whatsoever, fretting instead that the campaign could expand and include other types of illegals.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/counter-intelligence-friday-april

Yesterday, the AP ran a story headlined, “Judge allows requirement that everyone in the US illegally must register to move forward.” The story explained, “everyone in the U.S. illegally must register with the federal government and carry documentation, in a move that could have far-reaching repercussions for immigrants across the country.”

The lawsuit started when the Trump Administration began to enforce a long-overlooked law called the Alien Registration Act of 1940. Also called the “Smith Act,” the law requires all non-citizen adult residents —age 14+ and in the US for more than 30 days— to register with the federal government, including providing detailed personal information, fingerprints, and political affiliation. Failure to comply carries criminal penalties and deportation.

The Smith Act has been sitting there, on the dusty books on the bottom shelf, unenforced for ages. It has been extensively challenged, especially by communist groups during the Cold War, and never been found unconstitutional. In Harisiades v. Shaughnessy (1952), for example, the Supreme Court upheld deportation of legal residents who were former Communist Party members, holding that deportations for political affiliation did not violate the First Amendment or due process rights.

One of the plaintiffs, the National Immigration Law Center, said the fact that Trump’s Homeland Security Agency is now enforcing the Act “forces people into an impossible choice.” The article didn’t bother to explain, but I will.

If illegals follow the law and register, then HHS instantly knows where to find them. So obviously, they don’t want to register. But it would still be their best choice. If they defy the law, and do not register, then HHS has another perfectly legal basis for deporting them— for violating the Smith Act.

Either way, the Trump administration has skillfully outmaneuvered immigration activists by leveraging existing laws. There’s nothing “impossible” or “unfair” here. It is just an inconvenient reality for those grown used to unenforced immigration statutes.

It’s classic Trump 2.0: dusting off an overlooked legal tool that was always back in the shed someplace, just waiting to be oiled up and used.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/counter-intelligence-friday-april

NBC ran another immigration story yesterday headlined, “Trump plans to fine migrants $998 a day for failing to leave after deportation order.” The sub-headline added, “The Trump administration plans to apply the penalties retroactively for up to five years, which could result in fines of more than $1 million.” ...

It’s the same story all over again. “The fines,” NBC said, “stem from a 1996 law that was enforced for the first time in 2018, during President Donald Trump’s first term in office.” Another unenforced law! The apothegmatically-named Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRIRA) of 1996 imposes civil penalties on noncitizens who willfully fail to comply with final removal orders. It provides a civil penalty of up to $998 per day for violators.

For Portland readers, that comes to around $360,000 per year.

The Trump Administration has also suggested the DOJ will deploy its asset forfeiture division to confiscate property (think bank accounts and real estate) of illegal aliens who defy their deportation dates.

Noticeably absent from the story was any acknowledgment of why these folks haven’t complied with their final deportation orders in the first place. Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement that immigrants in the U.S. illegally should use their CBP One app to “self-deport and leave the country now.”

These Administration moves —enforcing the daily fines of nearly a thousand bucks for ignoring deportation orders, combined with asset seizures, mandatory registration under the long-forgotten Alien Registration Act, and aggressive enforcement of existing immigration statutes— is steadily increasing the pressure on illegal migrants from all angles. If they don’t self-deport, they risk being sent to El Salvador’s brutal Super-Max prison— a Central American fortress known for housing violent gang members under extremely harsh conditions.

But it’s not just sticks. There are also carrots. The Administration has said over and over till it was hoarse that folks who voluntarily self-deport will get a chance to apply for legal residency or citizenship. They just need to exit and then do it the right way.

Patrick says

. In Harisiades v. Shaughnessy (1952), for example, the Supreme Court upheld deportation of legal residents who were former Communist Party members, holding that deportations for political affiliation did not violate the First Amendment or due process rights.

This is important. Especially with MS-13, Fannonite Anti-Western Groups, etc.

https://x.com/fentasyl/status/1912272545333588024

The Satanic Inversion immigration policy in action.

MolotovCocktail says

FAP FAP FAP. The idea in the Cold War days was spread anti-Communist, pro-US ideals.

A key founder of the Muslim Brotherhood went to the Colorado School of Mines and only became more radicalized by seeing "Buckarettes" riding horses to the school (which had a teacher's college attached) in their jeans. And arms-length ballroom dancing between unmarried people, HARAM! This was back in the 50s.

So many of the 9/11 hijackers didn't get "unradicalized" from Islamicism by going to American/European colleges in the 80s and 90s.

Something like a quarter of all Mainland Chinese students report back to handlers regularly according to CCP defectors, last one was like 2021.

So why are we losing seats to International Students and why at both Private and State Universities is the taxpayer underwriting $1 of it?

AmericanKulak says

So many of the 9/11 hijackers didn't get "unradicalized" from Islamicism by going to American/European colleges in the 80s and 90s.

Something like a quarter of all Mainland Chinese students report back to handlers regularly according to CCP defectors, last one was like 2021.

So why are we losing seats to International Students and why at both Private and State Universities is the taxpayer underwriting $1 of it?

Just don't allow Chicoms to go to American universities as most are grad students and are funded with grad research assistant (GRA) scholarships from the University. Just recruit more from India, Indonesia, Nigeria, etc.

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AD says

Just don't allow Chicoms to go to American universities as most are grad students and are funded with grad research assistant (GRA) scholarships from the University. Just recruit more from India, Indonesia, Nigeria, etc.

People have been complaining about the English abilities of foreign stinky grad students for decades.

"But he passed a written test of English."
Yeah, written, not spoken. Some find calculus or chemistry hard enough without having to be taught by somebody who is barely comprehensible.

"The doing of the Abo cado's number is vehy eccential..."

Why recruit from abroad? State schools subsidized by taxpayers certainly should be prohibited from doing so beyond a token amount.

AmericanKulak says

Some find calculus or chemistry hard enough without having to be taught by somebody who is barely comprehensible.

I had exactly this problem in calculus freshman year with a Chinese TA.

AmericanKulak says

Why recruit from abroad? State schools subsidized by taxpayers certainly should be prohibited from doing so beyond a token amount.

At U. Michigan, foreign students, often from Hong Kong, paid full-price tuition so they were far more profitable than us plebes who merely lived in the state and got reduced tuition because we or our parents paid taxes there.

Michigan, like all state schools, wants the tax money and the full-tuition foreigners. Given the choice, they would have excluded all Michigan residents in favor of the Chinese.

Patrick says

Michigan, like all state schools, wants the tax money and the full-tuition foreigners. Given the choice, they would have excluded all Michigan residents in favor of the Chinese.

While demanding tax payers increase the money granted to the institution year after year

(I got rid of the rest because I went into a long sidebar)

Patrick says

Michigan, like all state schools, wants the tax money and the full-tuition foreigners. Given the choice, they would have excluded all Michigan residents in favor of the Chinese.

Many Professors want the paid research time but not the obligation to teach. And of course admins just want to reign over a bigger empire.

True, and if they bring in enough grant money from the gov't, they can usually get away without teaching much or at all.

But now that's under threat, especially since the Trump administration is limiting the overhead to 15%. Grants won't be as wildly profitable if 85% of them has to be spent on research.

Above image is from this article:

https://www.breitbart.com/border/2025/04/20/new-mexico-democrat-judge-resigns-after-ice-arrests-alleged-tren-de-aragua-gang-member-in-his-home/

Federal prosecutors in the District of New Mexico allege that 23-year-old Cristhian Ortega-Lopez was illegally in possession of a firearm and has ties to the hyperviolent Venezuelan gang, Tren de Aragua. Earlier this year, President Donald Trump and the U.S. State Department declared the gang to be a foreign terrorist organization.

Police arrested Orgega-Lopez while executing a search warrant on February 28 at the home of Dona Ana County, New Mexico, Magistrate Judge Joel Cano and his wife, Nancy, the Albuquerque Journal reported this week. The report follows a detention hearing where prosecutors claim the illegal alien is a flight risk and an alleged Tren de Aragua gang member.

Cano, a former police officer, allowed Ortega-Lopez to file a request for immigration relief using the judge’s residential address. Court exhibits also posted social media posts of the foreign national posing with the judge. ...

The photos and videos showed Ortega-Lopez displaying Tren de Aragua gang tattoos. The United States government recently declared this violent gang to be a Transnational Criminal Organization.

Insurrection Barbie
@DefiyantlyFree
Mohsen Mahdawi was in school for 17 years on a student visa.

No degrees.

Tell me again what he has been doing it here.

https://x.com/DefiyantlyFree/status/1913801454906949708

The 34-year old on a student visa for 17 years was leading a destabilization operation on behalf of Fatah. I guarantee him and/or his wife were getting EBT or TANF or NYS benefits, too

Al_Sharpton_for_President says

Donnie needs better advisors. And fast.

"You can't remove the trespasser who has no badge, no id, no paperwork until they have a hearing! They can occupy your property until the hearing 3 months from now, and you'll need to hire an attorney to prove they don't belong there!"

AmericanKulak says

"You can't remove the trespasser who has no badge, no id, no paperwork until they have a hearing! They can occupy your property until the hearing 3 months from now, and you'll need to hire an attorney to prove they don't belong there!"

If they have a forged lease it may take even longer than that.

Patrick says

Wrong image. You can't deport 20K people per day in military cargo planes. The proper image would feature trains going into ports with ships waiting.

They walked and swam all the way from South America - they can certainly walk all the way to the Mexican border.

If they've grown too fat on Biden's free shit, we can roll them to the border with the assistance of cattle prods.

stereotomy says

They walked and swam all the way from South America - they can certainly walk all the way to the Mexican border.

If they've grown too fat on Biden's free shit, we can roll them to the border with the assistance of cattle prods.

Too slow.

Clinton did fantastic job



Us was penal colony for both French n British, this might explain amount of crime, people in jail in usa.

I've read that a lot of the founding women of Australia were also prostitutes who got shipped down there with the male criminals.

Eric Holder says

stereotomy says

They walked and swam all the way from South America - they can certainly walk all the way to the Mexican border.

If they've grown too fat on Biden's free shit, we can roll them to the border with the assistance of cattle prods.

Too slow.

OK, let's fire them out of 155 mm cannons.

stereotomy says

Eric Holder says

stereotomy says

They walked and swam all the way from South America - they can certainly walk all the way to the Mexican border.

If they've grown too fat on Biden's free shit, we can roll them to the border with the assistance of cattle prods.

Too slow.

OK, let's fire them out of 155 mm cannons.

Too narrow.

Eric Holder says

stereotomy says

Eric Holder says

stereotomy says

They walked and swam all the way from South America - they can certainly walk all the way to the Mexican border.

If they've grown too fat on Biden's free shit, we can roll them to the border with the assistance of cattle prods.

Too slow.

OK, let's fire them out of 155 mm cannons.

Too narrow.

OK, how about a fleet of turbocharged bulldozers pushing a mile-wide mass of illegals into the Rio Grande?