Trump’s Pressure on Sanctuary Cities Is Working

The American Conservative ^ | Oct 14, 2025 12:03 AM | Phillip Linderman

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The foreign-born population in the United States declined by an unprecedented 2.2 million in the first half of 2025.

It was not long ago that Washington’s establishment experts announced that the crisis on the U.S. southern border was unfixable. They claimed illegal mass immigration was a historic phenomenon, an unstoppable force that no president could halt. Typical was the Cato Institute’s David Bier, who wrote two years ago in the New York Times: “Biden Can’t Stop Immigration. Time to Embrace It.” Precisely because these open-border illuminati should be held accountable for their irresponsible pronouncements, view a sample of what Bier wrote: 

The data highlights how much of a distraction pinning all migration trends on the executive branch truly is. What’s the point in developing a nuanced understanding of the situation when you believe that all that’s needed is a new person in the Oval Office to proclaim “Stop!” to the huddled masses yearning to breathe free

Bier actually asserted that it did not matter whether Joe Biden or Donald Trump were in the White House because mass illegal immigration would continue. He totally dismissed the power of strong presidential messaging to the world, backed up by executive action, that U.S. federal immigration law would be enforced. As events clearly demonstrated, when Trump returned to the White House, Bier’s yearning, huddled masses quickly figured out that the United States would no longer tolerate waves of economic migrants storming across Mexico to enter our country illegally. Bier’s lack of such a fundamental apprehension should disqualify him as a serious immigration analyst. 

By contrast, the journalist Todd Bensman, now working for the border czar Tom Hohman, traveled throughout the Western Hemisphere and reported regularly that U.S. presidential words and deeds were the key determinants in the “go or no-go” decisions...

[Singermom]

re rioters - A 1996 law prevented migrants from getting welfare — it’s been ignored for 30 years https://nypost.com/2025/09/21/opinion/a-1996-law-prevented-migrants-from-getting-welfare-its-been-ignored-for-30-years/

If you riot or commit a crime or harm anyone the gov’t has the RIGHT to CANCEL YOUR CONTRACT WITH THEM FOR any government money. CUT OF THEIR welfare, food stamps, section 8 OR any GOVERNMENT $.

Every government program you accept comes with CONDITIONS. If you break the CONTRACT you LOSE. The rioting will stop. Soros does not pay enough to the paid rioters for them to lose their government $.

CUT THEM OFF GOV’T TAX $. No Police - No Court giving DUE PROCESS - Just “you broke the contract we are ENFORCING the consequences”.

[posterchild]

They claimed illegal mass immigration was a historic phenomenon, an unstoppable force that no president could halt.

“The man who thinks he can and the man who thinks he can’t are both right.” - Henry Ford

[SuperLuminal]

For many decades, almost everything deriving from the Cato Institute has been pure, unadulterated crap...

[gildafarrell]

Let’s hope so. Keep the pressure on.