Peter Van Buren's Blog, page 2

U.S. Gets Internal Immigration Enforcement for First Time

The millions of illegal aliens resident in the United States got here primarily through two avenues of neglect, exacerbated by a lack of internal immigration enforcement. Here’s how the system works, and what has changed under Trump. Many aliens simply walked in, using the wide-open southern border. The others, perhaps the majority over the years, […]

The Real Cost of Illegal Immigration

A stretch of Roosevelt Avenue running through AOC’s Bronx district is nicknamed “The Market of Sweethearts,” due to the chaotic bazaar of prostitution there. Most workers are illegal aliens from Central America. It is impossible to provide a definitive number of undocumented immigrant sex workers in the United States due to the clandestine nature of […]

Trump vs. Immigration, Full-Spectrum Approach

While all eyes are on what will someday soon be a battle royale in the Supreme Court over whether or not Trump’s plan to do away with birthright citizenship is constitutional, he has elsewhere taken a full-spectrum approach to the immigration problem. Most of the changes now in play will engender court challenges, and some […]

The Colbert Report: Overreaction and the End of Democracy

Sunny Hostin claims Stephen Colbert’s cancellation is a “dismantling of our democracy.” An X commenter wrote “Democracy is when Colbert is on television.” Sunny is either a host on “The View” or she has fallen off Venus and is unused to Earth gravity. She epitomizes the overreaction that has overtaken rationale thought and replaced political […]

Yellow Supremacy in Japan?

When in doubt, blame the foreigners. Such is the case in Japan, undergoing a bout of what we’d in the U.S. call “Yellow Supremacy.” But is it more than an election season ploy to wind up a crowd? Is it a movement or a protest vote? From its earliest contact with foreigners as dramaticized in […]

RIP, er, RIF, State Department

RIP, er, RIF, State Department as we knew you. One of my early duties during my over two and a half decades working for the State Department was to “support” Secretary of State James Baker’s official visit to London. I read up on current policy, made sure I had my passwords and combinations in hand […]

New York Goes After X on Free Speech

Can someone please tell New York things have changed? New York city and state are stuck in the Biden era or earlier, repeating themselves in hopes something might change. They are still stuck in BLM-catch-and-release policing and surprised crime is not falling, and still have people hoping defunding the cops might somehow be a way […]

The Secret Financial Weapon to Use Against Illegal Immigration

Buried in the Big, Beautiful Bill is a weapon Trump can use against illegal immigration, deincentivizing working illegally in the United States while at the same time cutting into money laundering by Mexican and other drug cartels. It is a 3.5 percent remittance tax on money sent by aliens in the U.S. home to their […]

What Will Iran Do Next?

The world now knows Trump’s initial play. But what of Iran’s next move? Here history suggests a course forward, which, if history is indeed our guide, says diplomacy is the endgame. What matters most to Iran is regime survival and some form of diplomacy is the only path. Look back at the previous time the […]

Like It Was Only Yesterday

I purposefully held off writing anything until now  because none of that happened. None of the apocalyptic predictions came true even a little bit. We had protests, we had a parade, and then on Monday morning we all went back to work or school. The panic was simply because of the left’s unnatural desire to […]