Bummer: Local Economies Reeling From Fear Of ICE Raids

By William Teach June 25, 2025 – 6:45 am

It’s a real shame that businesses that are dependent on illegal immigrants are having such problems

Local economies under pressure as ICE crackdowns create climate of fear

Lupe Lopez’s Latino market in Newark, California, has been a shopping and social hub for decades — until recently.

Now the aisles are often quiet, the parking lot near empty, she said. Neighboring businesses are no different, she added: Restaurants, party and clothing stores, and even the big-box retailers seem to be emptier since the Trump administration ramped up its mass deportation campaign, raiding businesses across industries and targeting day workers in retail parking lots.

“The fear is felt in every aspect — no one is doing a party, no one is going anywhere,” the 68-year-old said of her customers. “The shelves are just untouched.”

From California grocery stores to chicken chains in suburban D.C., businesses that serve large immigrant populations are reporting shifts in consumer behavior — fewer in-store visits, lower receipts and more delivery orders — that threaten to drag down local economies, according to interviews with business owners, as well as spending data.

If your business model depends on illegals, you’re doing something wrong. They just figured that the illegal would be forever, and never really under any pressure for violating America’s borders. No one cries when another business has issues, such as Blockbuster, which made a huge mistake in not purchasing Netflix. And some other issues. Businesses get themselves into issues, which sometimes they cannot recover from. No one is getting all squishy.

Lopez says deportation fears are affecting who comes into her stores, noting that some of her undocumented customers are sending their U.S.-born children to pick up groceries. Even those here legally are afraid to be out during the day, she added, and many people carry their passport with them in case they are stopped.

“If this doesn’t stop, I feel it’s going to break our economy.”

Maybe do things to attract customers who are legally in the U.S.? Anyhow, it is a long, long article based on emotion, but, as the saying goes, we are a nation of Law, not Men. Meanwhile

Florida sprints ahead with ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ immigration detention center project

Florida’s headline-grabbing push to create “Alligator Alcatraz” — an immigration detention center deep in the Everglades — happened swiftly, with little apparent notice to state legislators responsible for paying for it or to local officials who will have it on their doorstep.

It also may prove to be one of Gov. Ron DeSantis’ most aggressive moves during his six-plus years in office. Citing the governor’s emergency powers, the state’s emergency management director told Miami-Dade County that it was taking control of an Everglades airstrip now owned by Miami-Dade County and located mainly in Collier County in order to begin building the multimillion dollar facility. (snip)

Not much was known publicly about the plans for the detention center until Attorney General James Uthmeier — DeSantis’ former chief of staff who was appointed to the job in February — talked up the idea of “Alligator Alcatraz” on social media last week. The chosen site is a long airstrip that was built as part of a massive project abandoned in 1970 amid environmental opposition.

By Monday, the Department of Homeland Security said it had signed off on a plan to house up to 5,000 people in Florida who are either arrested by state law enforcement or brought to detention centers by federal immigration authorities. DHS said in a statement that it planned to tap into a Federal Emergency Management Agency shelter program to reimburse the state the estimated $450 million a year it will cost to run the remote detention centers.

LOL. Have fun there, illegals.

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Dems Join With GOP To Block Dems Idiotic Impeachment For Iran Bombing

By William Teach June 24, 2025 – 3:23 pm

Look, we can, as a coworker says, debate whether bombing Iran was the right or wrong thing to do, whether the consequences were worth it. What we can’t debate is that it was 100% legal, per the War Powers Resolution of 1973

128 Democrats join House GOP to block progressive’s bid to impeach Trump

The House of Representatives voted along bipartisan lines to quash a lone progressive lawmaker’s bid to impeach President Donald Trump Tuesday afternoon.

Lawmakers agreed to table the measure in a 344–79 vote. A vote to table is a procedural mechanism allowing House members to vote against consideration of a bill without having to vote on the bill itself.

The resolution was offered by Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, who was infamously ejected from Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress earlier this year for repeatedly interrupting the president.

A majority of House Democrats joined Republican lawmakers to kill Green’s resolution, a sign of how politically caustic the effort appears to be. Just 79 Democrats voted to proceed with the impeachment vote, while 128 voted to halt it in its tracks.

The title of Excitable Al’s resolution was

Abuse of Presidential Powers by Disregarding
the Separation of Powers—Devolving American
Democracy into Authoritarianism by Unconstitutionally
Usurping Congress’s Power to Declare War

Will Al try to retroactively impeach Biden and Obama for bombing place like Syria and others without the approval of Congress? Wasn’t Obama flying to South America or something when he started a war in Libya? Anyhow, I’m sure those 128 Dems were thinking it is idiotic and really bad optics to try and impeach Trump for bombing Iran with their “Death To America” chants, and wanted no part in general election opponents brining it up.

 

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If All You See…

By William Teach June 24, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrible fossil fueled vehicle, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Outside The Beltway, with a post wondering if Trump’s Iran strike was legal. (FYI: as I’ve said before, I don’t always agree in full with articles I post)

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Huh: UK Ministers Won’t Put Levies On Streaming Services Because They Are Scared Of Trump

By William Teach June 24, 2025 – 10:30 am

Is this a case of pure Trump Derangement Syndrome, or something real?

UK ministers ‘too scared of Donald Trump’ to back levy on TV streaming giants

British ministers are “running scared” of Donald Trump in their refusal to force US streaming services to fund more UK-focused shows, the director of the BBC’s Wolf Hall has warned.

Peter Kosminsky said a “supine and terrified” government was worried about anything that might upset the “bully in the White House”.

He said programmes that spoke truth to power were needed amid global tensions and political division. However, he said important UK dramas were “under threat as never before”, with the BBC and ITV struggling to fund shows and cautious about productions that did not appeal to audiences outside Britain.

Kosminsky is calling for a 5% levy on streaming companies – to be spent on UK-focused television – and said a similar surcharge had been adopted by 17 other countries.

But he accused UK ministers of being afraid to follow suit because of the US president’s threat to impose huge tariffs on films made outside the US.

“We’re running scared of Donald Trump and his tariffs,” he said in a speech last week, reproduced in Radio Times.

Wow, now that is a whole mishmash of crazy. There are plenty of UK focused movies and TV shows on streaming services, though some, like the newest Doctor Who, were pure garbage. What Kosminsky really wants is to put the levy on streaming services which are producing content people want to watch and use that money to produce content at the BBC that people do not want to watch.

He added: “If you care about public service broadcasting, if you care about the BBC, ITV and Channel 4, I would beg you – get out there and campaign for the government to stand up to the bully in the White House and protect the 100-year tradition of public service broadcasting in this country, of which we are rightly proud, before it is lost for ever.”

Do British citizens care? Especially the younger ones? They have way more problems with the government importing too many people who refuse to assimilate into the UK.

Worth reading that whole story, which includes

Violence against women and girls in London has increased sharply and remains “endemic”. Homelessness and rough sleeping are up. Violent offences in London are up 35 per cent on a decade ago. Knife-crime surged by over 20% in the last year alone, as gang violence has become a depressing, everyday feature of London life.

While ‘theft from the person’ fell across England last year, by 14 per cent, in London it rocketed by 41 per cent. Robberies are also up 10 per cent. ‘Moped-enabled crimes’ are booming. Pickpocketing is up 38 per cent in a year.

Londoners surely do not care about the whines of the public broadcasters. And those around the nation are seeing this same thing grow.

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Climate Cult Wants People To Use Old Phones

By William Teach June 24, 2025 – 7:00 am

I wonder if these cultists are using dumb phones themselves

Old phones are the new climate heroes as users ditch new tech and save the planet without knowing

The global mobile industry has managed to cut its operational carbon emissions by 8% between 2019 and 2023, despite a massive surge in data usage across the world, official figures have claimed.

The GSMA Mobile Net Zero report found mobile data traffic grew fourfold during this period while mobile connections increased by 9%.

In contrast, global emissions rose 4% during the same window – but the report makes it clear: the pace of progress must double if the sector is to align with net-zero targets by 2050.

Why must it? Why must the rest of us be forced to join the ravings of doomsday nutjobs?

One area needing urgent attention is Scope 3 emissions, which stem from supply chains and manufacturing and account for over two-thirds of the sector’s footprint.

Another growing area of focus is circularity. Consumers are showing rising interest in sustainability, with 90% of those surveyed by the GSMA saying they value device longevity and repairability, and nearly half indicated they would consider purchasing a refurbished phone next.

Bugger off. Mind your own business.

Since refurbished devices produce 80–90% fewer emissions than new ones, this trend could play a role in emissions reduction, as the second-hand phone market, now expanding quickly, is expected to hit $150 billion by 2027.

You go for it, Warmists. Practice what you preach. Get out of our lives.

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Heartache: SCOTUS Rules Trump Admin Can Send Illegals To 3rd Party Countries

By William Teach June 24, 2025 – 6:45 am

And, without “due process”. This is going to cause some baying from the moonbats. Also, I love that ABC News, and many others, portray this as Trump personally picking and choosing

SCOTUS allows Trump to resume 3rd-country removals without due process requirements

The Supreme Court’s conservative majority on Monday delivered a significant win for the Trump administration’s immigration policy, clearing the way for officials to resume deportation of migrants to third countries without additional due process requirements imposed by a district court judge.

The nation’s hight court did not explain the decision, but it said the stay of Judge Brian Murphy’s mandate would terminate should the administration ultimately lose an appeal on the merits. Litigation is ongoing, but is expected to take years to complete.

The case was brought by a group of detainees said to be headed to South Sudan who alleged they were never given a chance to raise fears of torture. Judge Murphy last month issued a preliminary injunction halting any future removals unless detainees were given notice of their destination, at least 10 days to raise concerns for their safety and 15 days to contest an adverse finding by an immigration officer.

The effective impact of the Supreme Court’s order on Monday is a resumption of expedited removals of dozens of unauthorized immigrants to countries other than their own. The Trump administration has sent plane loads to El Salvador, Guatemala, South Sudan and Libya.

Well, see there’s an easy answer for this illegals: tell the DHS they want to leave, and let them pick a country. Then immediately book the flight and leave.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor, joined by Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson, issued a biting dissent, accusing her colleagues of condoning “lawless” behavior by the administration in “matters of life and death.”

Well, no surprise there. They care more about illegals and fake asylum seekers than Americans. Anyhow, the Court really needs to put an end to these rogue judges who think they can make rulings for beyond their jurisdiction. In this case, Murphy has jurisdiction over Massachusetts.

The plaintiffs in the case criticized the Supreme Court’s granted stay and vowed to keep fighting.

“The ramifications of Supreme Court’s order will be horrifying; it strips away critical due process protections that have been protecting our class members from torture and death,” said Trina Realmuto, the executive director of the National Immigration Litigation Alliance. “Importantly, however, the Court’s ruling only takes issue with the court’s authority to afford these protections at this intermediate stage of the case — we now need to move as swiftly as possible to conclude the case and restore these protections.”

Where was the process when the Biden regime brought these people into the U.S. in mass numbers, failing to check to see if they were criminals, murderers, rapists, gang members, child predators?

Damn. I wrote this post early Monday evening to post Tuesday morning, and, less than an hour later I see this

This is the same Judge Murphy, who doesn’t seem to understand who the Constitution works, and that he’s way out of his jurisdiction. I’m sure there will be a SCOTUS smackdown coming Tuesday.

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Surprise: Democrats Want To Rename Russell Senate Building

By William Teach June 23, 2025 – 2:48 pm

Remember, it was just a few statues of Confederates. The Woke/Cancel Culture renaming of stuff may have chilled for a bit, but, they will never give up on this

Democrat calls for renaming of Russell Senate Office Building

Cancel Culture Friendly FireRep. Al Green (D-Texas) is urging senators to rename the Russell Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill because of former Sen. Richard Russell’s history of opposing civil rights and avowing white supremacy.

“Throughout his career, Senator Russell engaged in constant lobbying on behalf of opponents to Civil Rights,” Green wrote in a letter to senators Thursday about the Georgia Democrat who died in 1971. “Perhaps most telling of his beliefs, during a lengthy filibuster against anti-lynching legislation, Senator Russell professed a willingness to uphold ‘white supremacy in the social, economic, and political life of our state.’”

“His public assertions, including ones that declared America ‘a white man’s country’ and his outspoken opposition to ‘political and social equality with the Negro,’ further underscored his divisive ideology,” Green added.

Russell, who was Georgia’s governor from 1931-33, held his Senate seat for nearly four decades until his death.

Green asked senators to revert to using the name “Old Senate Office Building” for the structure built in the early 1900s that 33 senators and five committees currently occupy. It was named in honor of Russell the year after he died.

So, um, will Green call for all the things named of Robert “Sheets” Byrd be renamed? A lot of these receive federal money.

Oh, and you know what is missing from Green’s letter? That Russell was, in fact, a Democrat. Surprise!

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If All You See…

By William Teach June 23, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…is a field perfect for a solar farm, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Moonbattery, with a post welcoming you to Michiganistan.

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CNN Says Top Republicans Briefed Before Iran Attack, But, Not Democrats

By William Teach June 23, 2025 – 10:30 am

They think they’re on to something, but, it’s fake news

Trump administration briefed top Republicans before Iran strikes, but not some Democrats

President Donald Trump and his team were in contact with top congressional Republicans before his strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities, but some key Democrats were not told of his plans until after the bombs had dropped, according to multiple people familiar with the plans.

The top two Republicans in Congress, House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune, were both notified of the US strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities ahead of time, according to multiple GOP sources.

People familiar with the matter initially told CNN that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries received notifications shortly before the public announcement — and after the attack itself.

See, they’re still running the article’s headline, but,

Correction: This story has been updated to make clear Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer was called before the strike, not after as initially reported.

But after White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt disputed that account, a source conceded that Schumer had been called around 6 p.m. – a little less than an hour before the strikes began – with little detail. He was told of imminent military action without naming the country in which the action was to take place, the source said.

So, unnamed sources giving bad information, and CNN still has the same headline and runs with the same first 3 paragraphs. The rest is primarily Democrats, and Thomas Massie, whining about this strike being un-Constitutional. If CNN had any journalistic integrity they would have killed the article. Or, at least, change the headline But, it’s all about the TDS.

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Here We Go: Time Wonders What ME Conflict Means For ‘Climate Change’

By William Teach June 23, 2025 – 7:00 am

I expected something like this, but, not this fast

What Conflict in the Middle East Means for Climate Change

The consequences of the increasingly urgent hostilities between Israel and Iran are multifold—humanitarian, geopolitical, and so on. If the situation deepens, it could also have important implications for energy markets and, by extension, climate change and the energy transition.

Central to that picture are oil prices. In the past month, oil prices have risen nearly 25% as hostilities have deepened. On its own, Iran is a significant supplier of oil to global markets, producing roughly 4 million barrels of oil daily, and traders fear that its supply could be cut off. A bigger conflagration could mean significantly higher prices with fears about supply issues across the region, especially as traveling through the Strait of Hormuz grows trickier.

Governments play a key role shaping everything related to the production and consumption of energy, but nonetheless energy is not divorced from market fundamentals broadly and, specifically, the effect of prices. And perhaps no price is more closely tracked in energy markets than the price of a barrel of crude. But how a high-price environment for oil would shake out is complicated—with some clear pluses for decarbonization efforts as well as some big challenges.

On the one hand, high oil prices incentivize investment in alternatives, in this case electrification. Consumers may take a closer look at electric vehicles to save at the pump. Or they may just buy smaller, more fuel efficient cars, a climate win. Meanwhile, companies may take another look at the numbers for ditching diesel in heavy industry.

Over the years I’ve read, and blogged, many screeds by cultists about war being bad for global boiling, but, I think this is the first time I’ve read where a cultist is happy about war in the Middle East because it could make the price of oil skyrocket to get people into EVs. Or, really, on the bus.

On the other hand, high oil prices incentivize fossil fuel companies to drill more to try to take advantage of high prices. Projects that looked too expensive when prices were low start to take on a new sheen when they’re on the rise.

No, not really, because the use of gas drops when prices get too high, so, the return on investment is difficult, especially when the price crashes back and they lose money. Net profits are based on quantity sold, at around 10 cents on the dollar.

None of these factors are likely to play out in a straightforward fashion—and we don’t have to look too far back for a similar analogue. In 2022, oil prices rose dramatically following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, quickly shifting the conversation around clean energy.

Clean energy advocates responded vociferously that renewables could provide stability as Europe tried to wean itself off of Russian energy. In the U.S., they argued, renewables would contribute to energy security. These arguments helped advance clean energy—even if they weren’t decisive. The RePowerEU initiative, launched in the wake of the invasion, helped accelerate the expansion of wind and solar power in the bloc. And energy security was among the arguments that helped get the Inflation Reduction Act across the finish line.

That was due to speculation, since the war really didn’t affect the quantity of petroleum extracted or refined. Just fearmongering. Regardless, this makes the climate cult happy….until the base Warmists realize that their own lives are getting screwed.

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