People are not perfectly rational machines that calculate risk-reward benefits before doing something. People are emotional, persuadable, tribal, and often extremely self-sabotaging.

Many migrants from Mexico and Central America don’t want to be here in the sense of being deeply attached to the need to be Americans. People cross into the US because of family pressure, peer pressure, a desire to avoid legal problems in the home country, because they don’t want to feel like losers, because of “look at María’s son, he crossed and is now sending money for grandma’s medication”, because of large houses built with the money of the neighbors who crossed over, because of “everybody else is doing it”, because of “hey, at least it’s an adventure”, and so on.

By removing the temptation of the open border, we are doing those countries a big favor. We are undermining their oligarchies that have gotten extremely rich by exporting large percentages of their populations. We are leaving people in peace to figure out their lives in their own countries. The only kind thing to do is to end this travesty where we drag millions across the border, leaving their countries in abject misery.

If Mexico’s Claudia Sheinbaum is deprived of remittance money, she’ll have to figure out how to keep the economy functional. She’ll be motivated actually to do something for the Mexican people. That’s a good thing. Once we close the border to people and money, she’ll have to show up, and Mexico will become a great country it deserves to be.

This is actually a good idea:

Trump is setting up index fund accounts for newborns seeded with $1,000, where parents can then invest up to $5,000 a year, tax-deferred.

If parents max out the accounts, kids will have well over six figures for their education when they graduate.

Genius.pic.twitter.com/NdHpyAUuYb

— johnny maga (@_johnnymaga) June 9, 2025

It’s not a measure to stimulate the hyper-irresponsible to procreate. To the contrary, it helps people who will be responsible, intelligent parents capable of long-term thinking. The kind of people we want to have children.

Whoever came up with it is smart.

I had a lengthy conversation about food in Munich with my German chatbot on Duolingo. I was feeling very proud of myself for sustaining such a long dialogue. Did a little happy dance to celebrate my proficiency, and all.

Then I read the transcript and realized that the chatbot was mocking me the whole time.

And that’s before any actual deportations:

President Trump’s net approval on immigration has skyrocketed.

Turns out Americans like a president who defends Americans from illegals.pic.twitter.com/oxCoWY6K2O

— Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 (@Bubblebathgirl) June 9, 2025

Because guess what? A large majority of Americans has wanted less immigration for the past 30 years. This is a winning issue for anybody who is willing to do what the people are asking for. That there’s been nobody willing to do it (including Trump in his first term) should be disturbing to all of us.

The entire American literary scene is female authors writing about women wanting more sex and 60-year-old male authors writing about how Trump is bad.

I’m writing, I’m on a roll, got to a segment where I discuss why neoliberalism is in conflict with Christian morality. Found a great book by two Catholic professors of theology. But no, I have to get up and leave because bathrooms have been closed in my building and the neighboring ones, and I’m a woman who gave birth twice, which means that the gaps between toileting are not vast.

Nobody wants to admit this, but Ronald Reagan granting amnesty to millions of illegals in California was part of the problem.

— Pro America Politics (@Pro__Trading) June 9, 2025

Well, duh. Forget Democrat or Republican. Think, instead, neoliberal or not. Neoliberal is always pro-open borders. Originally, neoliberalism was concentrated on the Right (Reagan, Thatcher). By the end of the 1990s, more left-wing political parties in the West were neoliberal in comparison with right-wing parties. This is one of the most widely analyzed phenomena in social studies.

You can’t be “freedom above all” and not be in favor of one of the most important freedoms of all which is the freedom of reside wherever you are. People who are shocked that Rand and Massie are pro-open borders are not paying attention to the degree that’s quite scary.

The richest people in the country openly vaunt their desire to underpay workers:

The rich denizens of Martha’s Vineyard keep lecturing us about the plight of African Americans yet they have brought in illegals because they don’t have to pay them as much as they would have to pay black citizens.

An extraordinary amount of suffering was occasioned both in the US and these migrants’ home countries so that some rich bitch on Martha’s Vineyard can have cheap maids.

Here's a slice of life in Democrat-run Los Angeles: I've been teaching my 5yo to swim. My wife and I promised him that when he becomes water safe, we'll treat him to a small Lego of his choice at our local Target. He's finally gotten the hang of swimming, so this morning we took… pic.twitter.com/lIdrlHs6AW

— Noah Pollak (@NoahPollak) June 8, 2025

We don’t have this where I live. Everything is standing openly on the shelves at Target, Walgreens, Walmart, everywhere. The only thing I’ve seen locked down are bottles of Scotch upwards of $300.

I’ve heard in some places even detergent is under lock and key.

For a normal person, these locked shelves are a signal of a lower quality of life. When everybody gets treated like a criminal because there are many criminals in a community, that has a demoralizing effect.

When I traveled to the UK in 1990, little stores would place their wares outside. There was no supervision, and as a Soviet child I was stunned by this carefree, trusting approach. When I went back to the UK in 2012 and 2015, I no longer saw that. And it’s sad.

I like going for walks at night. It’s a thing I do, especially in the summer when it’s too hot to move while the sun is out. I’m acutely aware how unusual and precious it is for a woman to be completely comfortable, unafraid, and free on dark, silent streets. I want my daughter and then her daughter to have this. An enormous effort of civilization went into making this very unnatural and very beautiful reality possible.

We can’t make everybody else on the planet live like this. And we shouldn’t try. But neither should we give it up. It’s such a wonderful thing. Let’s do everything to keep it.