ICE now has a detention capacity of 70k; that's expected to jump again by January. 60%± of people detained end up deported soon after. Going from 6 to 700,000 can be accomplished within a month; record.

On January 1st, the new remittance tax will take effect, which could induce another wave of self-deportation—legal & illegal.

80,000~ visas have been revoked this year, separate from the 650k aliens deported. Another separate number is the revocation of TPS, CHNV, legal status which will affect between 900k to 1.5m migrants so far.

Legal Status for South Sundanese migrants under U.S. TPS will end on January 5th.

268,000 Venezuelans are no longer eligible for temporary protected status. The few with valid work papers listed to expire on October 2nd, 2026 can stay until that date, then leave. An additional 250,000 lost legal status on November 7th and can leave now or be arrested and removed by force.

Wyoming D.A. will prosecute weed users strongly, says Park Rangers should ‘be on the look out’ for smelly offenders in public. Adopting this nationwide would cut petty crime, disturb undesirable demographics.

140 migrant arrests in 2 days in Charlotte, NC, the city of Iryna Zarutska’s murder. ICE, CBP agents are hitting cars, homes and active work-sites right now to catch more.

@/greatreversal_ analysis of CDC wonder data for 2025 finds ‘non-hispanic’ White mothers have the greatest birth increase since January. Black-mom births dropped the most; latinx and Asian births are greatly slowed compared to Obama or Biden yrs.

Trump's first term was associated with Hispanic moms having fewer children; foreigners reportedly experienced an increase in birth defects due to stress from Trump wins. Trump voters in each election are higher fertility than non-Trump voters. Concurrently White births appeared to rise.

Deportation, denaturalization, revocation, entry denial and self-removal increasing could have a pronounced impact on this demographic trend as the pace improves.

All police depts, District Attorneys, sheriffs, whomever has local authority should be urged to join the 287(g) program with ICE. In January there were only 135 on board; as of today there are 1,167. This allows police & other law enforcement to perform migrant crackdown duties such as arrest, transport.

U.S. has launched 20 strikes against drug boats, drug trafficking by sea is down 85%. Trump says he is willing to bomb Mexico if the country does not figure out ways to reduce the rampant drug cartel activity.

Trump says “Until they [Americans] learn that”, explicitly, in the first five seconds, consistent with the actual policy being implemented which is reducing the total, restricting duration, increasing vetting.

Trump's USCIS officially does not consider the children of illegals, ‘protected migrants’, foreign citizens, non-immigrants such as H-1Bs, students, DACA recipients or visitors to be eligible for any birthright citizenship.

Implementation pursuant to his Day 1 order intends to withhold permanent legitimacy from such foreigners; we are waiting for SCOTUS, if not Congress, to make it final.

Coinciding with a withholding of birthright citizenship access, the administration has several changes which limit legal migrant presence. Will increase our ability to track, expand our capacity to expel and monitor.

USCIS director Joe Edlow is pursuing paths to restrict legal immigration, after having voiced disapproval of scale and suggesting an end to the OPT to H-1Bs, etc pipeline. Senator Eric Schmitt recently petitioned to move forward with shrinking or ending it, alongside the end of birthright citizenship.

Ben Franklin on why imports often, as with most immigration, are harmful to a nation. ‘Gain to the Merchant is not to be compared with Loss for the People’.