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VIDEO: Minnesota civil war: it's not about ICE any more (Michael Matt)

Our old friend Michael Matt, editor of The Remnant newspaper, lives in Minneapolis-St. Paul. He speaks today about what's going on -- an incipient international incident -- not 100 miles from his home.

Today, it was -20 F in the Twin Cities, yet tens of thousands – including many priests and rabbis — showed up for the #ICEout rally. Bivc-President J.D. Vance flew to Minnesota to tell the press that, although he wants more co-operation with local law enforcement, the Insurrection Act is not needed. 

Meanwhile, President Trump does a complete 180 and says the shooting of Renee Good was a "tragic accident." In this week's Remnant Underground, Mr Matt explains why so many conservative influencers agree that the ICE tactics are the problem. 

Joe Rogan compared the tactics to those of the Gestapo, and Bill O'Reilly said that if POTUS doesn't find a way to lower the temperature he's going to "lose the country." 

Mr Matt argues that this is not a Republican vs Democrat issue. There is a whole lot more going on here than mere immigration enforcement. What is happening in Minnesota right now could negatively impact the entire world. Why so much outrage? Where’s the Catholic Church? And what’s the connection between Minneapolis, Gaza, Greenland and Davos? If you scrolled past the "play" button, go back and hit it now.

Funny headline of the month (so far)

Seen on the BBC News website

Walt's comment: Goodness! How uncomfortable for him! 😱😁😂

Your Singhs today (Washington state edition) - Out on bail again!

Earlier today Walt posted a story about three Sikhs (and two non-Sikh accomplices) who are free to roam around the GTA once again following their release on bail by female DEI-hire judges. See "Your Singhs today: Guess which one is still behind bars", WWW 18/12/25. 

It wasn't our usual story about atrocious truck driving and/or drug smuggling. The perps were accused of kidnapping and attempted murder. But there are still plenty of dangerous truck drivers out there, graduates of the infamous Singh School of Truck Driving. 

One such is Kamalpreet Singh, an illegal immigrant from India, accused of killing a father of two in a horrific crash on December 11th. Mr Singh has now been released on bail by the woke authorities of Washington state.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) issued a detainer for Mr Singh following his arrest after it was found he was in the country illegally. But that didn't matter to the Washington wokesters, who refused to honour the order. Poor Mr Singh was somehow able to raise $100,00 [not drug $$$, shurely. Ed.] to post bond, and was released from King County jail on Friday last.

The Department of Homeland Security issued a scathing press release Tuesday slamming the move, saying "Washington politicians chose to release this public safety threat back onto America’s roads." DHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs Tricia McLaughlin told the Daily Caller that she was dismayed by the move, saying that "these demented and dangerous sanctuary policies have deadly consequences.... How many more Americans have to be killed before Democrat politicians start to put the public’s safety ahead of politics?"

But hey, Washington is a sanctuary state, where poor refugees, asylum-seekers and simple illegals are safe from federal immigration authorities. Officials said Singh entered the US of A illegally in 2023 at Lukeville AZ, but was, as Ms McLaughlin said, "'released into this country by the Biden administration."

A spokesthingy for the Washington State Patrol confirmed to the Daily Caller that Singh was driving with a commercial driver's licence issued by California. Just like Harjinder Singh, the asylum-seeker accused of killing three people in Florida in August when he made an illegal U-turn while also on the roads illegally. 

Harjinder Singh is no relation to Kamalpreet Singh. What they share is fellowship in the Sikh religion, as well as a lack of English skills. He was unable to read street signs, but was handed a driver's license by California anyway. 

It is illegal for undocumented immigrants to obtain a commercial driver's licence, but a federal government investigation found earlier this year that California had unlawfully issued 17,000 commercial driver's licences to migrants. 

Commenting on the latest outrage, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said that President Trump and Department of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy "will aggressively enforce our laws to protect the safety of American truckers, drivers, and passengers by ensuring anyone behind the wheel of a commercial vehicle is here legally, properly qualified, and proficient in our national language - English!'"

Mr Duffy threatened to withhold federal funding for highways in Blue states if they refused to respect and enforce the law. "If we’re going to have drivers on American roadways, they need to be the best trained…because if operated incorrectly or inappropriately, these [vehicles] are lethal weapons on American roadways," the Secretary said in a press conference. 

He added, "We will pull every dollar possible from every single state that’s unwilling to work with this administration and these longstanding rules to make sure that when [an] American family gets in a car, they shouldn't be worried that they have an unqualified foreigner operating an 80,000-pound big rig that could endanger their lives."

VIDEO: Your Singhs today (California edition)

An assiduous reader has emailed to ask why our posts on "Your Singhs today" always focuses on Canada, notably the Toronto and Vancouver areas. "We're plagued with them too!", writes our acidulous correspondent, "and I'm pretty sure there's a Singh School of Truck Driving somewhere in California." 

As proof of this, our reader sent us the link to this video which just appeared on "X".

The story is confirmed by Breitbart News. under the headline "FL Officials: Illegal Alien Trucker from India Received CDL from California Before Killing 3 Americans"

BN reports that the driver of a semi-truck involved in the deaths of three Americans has been identified as Harjinder Singh, a migrant from India who illegally entered the United States in 2018 across the U.S. border with Mexico. He's one of the 1000s that ICE hadn't caught until this happened.

The accident -- now being designated as a homicide -- occurred near Fort Pierce FL on August 12th, when a northbound semi-truck allegedly crossed over all lanes as the driver tried to use an "official use only" turn opening on the Florida Turnpike so he could head south. Well, that's the way they do it in India. Rules? What rules?

The abrupt crossing of all lanes gave other drivers little time to slow down, resulting in a Chrysler Town & Country slamming head-on into the trailer. All three of the car’s occupants died as a result of the collision, two at the scene and a third at a hospital, according to WPTV-TV. 

Officials initially noted that the men in the cab of the semi were from California, and video of the drivers' dashcam was released. That's what you see above. 

A statement from the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles (FHSMV) said Mr Singh obtained a commercial driver's license (CDL) in California. The Democratically-run state allows migrants — including tourists and illegal aliens like Mr Singh — to quickly get licenses to operate 18-wheel trucks.

A spokesthing for the Florida Department of Highway Safety [Ha!] and Motor Vehicles told the meeja, "Three people lost their lives as a result of his recklessness, and countless friends and family members will experience the pain of their loss forever. Harjinder Singh is in custody on state vehicular homicide charges and immigration violations. He will no longer be able to damage and destroy the lives of Floridians and visitors."

Mr Singh has been arrested, and officials say they are investigating the incident as a homicide. The illegal migrant is also on an ICE detainer, and Florida officials say he will be deported after he serves his prison sentence, whatever that sentence may be. 

BN comments: "As more migrants hit our roads — many of whom cannot read or speak English — the death toll on our highways has skyrocketed. The Trump administration has taken notice of this horrible statistic, and recently, Trump’s transportation secretary, Sean Duffy, directed federal highway safety offices to enforce a law requiring foreign drivers to be able to read English."

Walt comments: This is just one very small tip of one very large iceberg. There are literally millions of Singhs in the USA and Canada. Not all of them are bad people, but since they all share the same middle- or surname, and all wear turbans (and the little daggers and holy underpants) separating the sheep fro the goats is a major problem.

Crackdown on illegal immigrants worries and angers Muslims

Doesn't look like LA, does it. Well, it's not. It's Gurugram, an upscale suburb just outside Delhi, India. But, come to think of it, there are similarities with the City of the Angels. Gleaming SUVs, futuristic skyscrapers and neat apartments stand in stark contrast to nearby homeless encampments and feces-strewn streets.

Unlike the slums of LA, those of Gurugram are inhabited by people who aren't living off food stamps and the proceeds of dealing drugs, but working! They are migrant workers -- mostly domestic helpers, garbage-pickers and daily-wage workers. Last month, the Indian version of ICE rounded up hundreds of them, mostly Bengali-speaking Muslims from India's West Bengal state.

The mass arrests are part of a "verification" drive targeting illegal Bangladeshi immigrants. The suspects were detained and kept at "holding centres" (not to be confused with "concentration camps") where they were asked to provide documents to prove their citizenship. 

Many allege they were beaten and mistreated by police during the process. Ather Ali Sheikh told the BBC, "I had my voter and national ID cards, but they told me they were fake. I spent six days not knowing my fate before I was finally released." How very misfortunate for him!

Hundreds of migrant workers have fled overnight, abandoning jobs, homes and, in some cases, even families in their haste to escape. "I still don't understand why they suddenly came after me," Mr Sheikh said. Behind him, his wife hurriedly packed their belongings - torn clothes, old utensils and school books - into flimsy boxes. "Was it because of my language, my religion or because I am poor? Why weren't the rich Bengali residents held up?" 

Police in Gurugram deny targeting any particular community. "Neither religion nor class has anything to do with the drive," spokesthingy Sandeep Kumar told the Beeb. He added that out of the 250 people picked up, only 10 have been identified as illegal migrants and will actually be deported. "Everyone else was released. No one was mistreated at the centres. We have been completely fair and objective." 

Crackdowns on alleged illegal immigrants from Muslim-majority Bangladesh are not new in India. The countries are divided by a porous 2500-mile-long border, which, ever since the partition of India, has seen waves of movement of people on both sides. But these efforts seem to have intensified under the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Deportations are also under way in Delhi, where some 700 people were picked up and flown out to border states in the last six months. This has had a chilling impact on the marginalised community. In Gurugram, a sense of shock prevailed over their dust-blanketed colonies. "For years, we have cleaned and collected their garbage. Now we are being treated like it ourselves," said Rauna Bibi, a domestic worker.

The police say the detentions in Gurugram were made on the basis of strong preliminary evidence. You'll notice that the lady in the photo isn't so poor that she can't afford a phone with which to take a selfie. But the phone may have been her undoing. "We checked their phones," said the same police flak-catcher, "and found suspicious contacts from Bangladesh. Some of them also failed to answer questions about their ancestry during interrogation."

Suhas Chakma, a non-Muslim human rights worker, denies that the crackdown is motivated by Islamophobia. "The arrest of the Muslims appears to be more as they constitute about 95% of Bangladesh's population," he explained. But, he added, for a country that has seen an influx of refugees for decades, India does need a wider refugee law to address many of these complex issues.

"A wider refugee law." Right. Like that of... where??? Let it not be said that Prime Minister Modi is looking to President Trump for inspiration -- although he probably is. Let us instead wonder how much longer the prime ministers of Britain and Canada can get away with not taking similar measures before what's left of their countries' white  populace rise up in arms.

"Bite me!" - "No? OK, I'll bite myself!" - Cannibal fights deportation

Here's an unusual story... very unusual... copied right from Breitbart News, who got it from Fox News.

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem told reporters that an alleged cannibal attempted to eat himself during a deportation flight to his home country. Noem said US Marshals deputies told her the man inflicted serious wounds requiring immediate medical attention.

"The other day, I was talking to some marshals who have been partnering with ICE. They said that they had detained a cannibal and put him on a plane to take him home," Noem told reporters at a meeting with President Donald Trump and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, "and while they had him in his seat, he started to eat himself, and they had to get him off and get him medical attention."

Noem's comments to reporters came during a tour of Florida's new "Alligator Alcatraz". The facility, located in the Florida Everglades, is designed to hold up to 3000 detained illegal aliens as they await deportation proceedings. "These are the kind of deranged individuals that are on our streets in America that we're trying to target and get out of our country," the DHS Secretary continued, "because they are so deranged they don't belong here. They shouldn’t be walking the streets with our children, and they shouldn’t be living in the communities with our families who just want to… raise their children to grow up and get a job, and to live the American dream."

Noem told reporters that the new "Alligator Alcatraz" is a state-of-the-art facility that needs to be replicated in other states around the country. Due to budget cuts in the Biden era, the number of beds available for illegal alien detention decreased significantly, and additional capacity is needed to meet the demands of President Trump' aggressive mass deportation orders. "I hope my phone rings off the hook from governors calling and saying, ‘How can we do what Florida just did? How can we do exactly what they did?'" she said.

Innocent questions from Walt: What's the name of the cannibal wannabe's "unnamed country"? Apart from this, how do they know he's a cannibal? Did he actually eat someone in the US of A? Answers on the back of a postage stamp, please, to the usual address.

Note from Ed.: About the photo... I tried very hard to find a better illustration for this story, but this was the only one I could find that was funny(ish) and not sick-making. There are a lot of very sick people posting memes on the Internet.

We are nearing the end of a natural political cycle

Walt spent a large part of the weekend watching the parade. Vas you dere, Charlie? 

I don't think you need me to tell you what the event was about really, and why it was inevitable. Words like "fascist" and "nazi" and (of course) "dictatorship" were being shouted at us repeatedly by the the lickspittle media all weekend... before, during and after the parade itself. Like this.

"Tanks, flypasts, missiles: what to expect at Trump’s ‘dictator chic’ military parade Washington will host a celebration of US army’s 250th anniversary, which also coincides with president’s birthday" The Grauniad [Readers of Private Eye will understand this. Ed.] 13/5/25. 

"America Is Finally Getting A Fascist Dictator Parade, Courtesy Of Donald Trump Trump has long admired autocrats like Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong Un and Xi Jinping, and now he is getting an autocrat's parade" Huffpost (surprised?) 14/5/25. 

"Trump presides over army parade: Celebration or ‘dictator behaviour’? Tanks roll through US capital to mark army’s 250th anniversary, prompting cheers and condemnation" Al-Jazeera, 15/6/25

I didn't bother to read any of these very predictable anti-Trump tirades. Reading what follows such loony left headlines is like following a lit fuse in search of an explosion; you won't have long to wait.

Nor was I suprised by the anti-ICE and "No kings!" mostly peaceful demonstrations (TM), fomented by TDS-afflicted Dimocrats and agitators paid by the usual suspects.

I'm not worried by what's happening in and to the United States of America these days. I care, but I'm not worried. Why not? Let me quote from Left Luggage by C. Northcote Parkinson (referred to on Saturday and highly recommended), at page 114: The common though not invariable pattern [of political development] has been for democracy to turn into socialism, for socialism to end in chaos, and for a dictatorship to restore some sort of order.

The cleansing of America will be painful, but it has to happen before America can be made great again. Those who do not believe this had best get out of the way!

Further reading: "MSNBC Shocked Army’s 250th Birthday Lacked 'Tense' or 'Dark, Malevolent Energy'", Townhall, 15/6/25.

Biden tries to rewrite four years of American history

Earlier today, Walt wrote that Sleepy Joe Biden now snoozes in the Oval Office, waking every now and then to undo some of the good things done by his predecessor. Indeed, everything he does -- or is made to do by the puppeteer who pulls his strings -- seems calculated to erase from the history of the Disunited States President Trump, and all his works, no matter the consequences.

This past Wednesday, Mr Biden revoked seven Executive Orders issued by President Trump between 2017 and 2021. The White House offered no explanation for the revocations, so let's take a look at them to see if we can discern any rationale other than that argued above.

Among the Executive Orders was one of the first signed by President Trump, titled "Core Principles for Regulating the United States Financial System". It set out the Trump administration's policy on financial regulation, with the first listed goal to "empower Americans to make independent financial decisions and informed choices in the marketplace, save for retirement, and build individual wealth." What's wrong with that?

The policy also sought to "prevent taxpayer-funded bailouts" and "enable American companies to be competitive with foreign firms in domestic and foreign markets." Not bad ideas, surely!

China Joe also countermanded an April 2018 EO titled "Reducing Poverty in America by Promoting Opportunity and Economic Mobility." It directed the federal government to reform the welfare system around a set of core principles, including improving economic independence, targeting benefits for people with low incomes, and reducing "wasteful spending by consolidating or eliminating federal programs that are duplicative or ineffective." Is it that the Dumbocrats are in favour of wasteful spending and inefficient welfare programs?

Another casualty of the New Order was a memo that unshackled the Department of Defense from collective bargaining constraints in order to give the military maximum flexibility "to cultivate a lethal, agile force adaptive to new technologies and posture changes." Will Americans be better protected by a military constrained by policies and spending limits devised during the Obama years?

Also included in the list of revocations is a COVID-19 Executive Order that directed federal agencies to address the economic repercussions of the Dempanic by "rescinding, modifying, waiving, or providing exemptions from regulations" which could imperil economic recovery. Do the Dems really not want the country to get on its feet again as quickly as possible?

One of the later EOs issued by President Trump directed the federal government to review funding for localities like Seattle, which took a lax stance on the Antifa anarchy and BLM riots of last summer and fall. Why should the administrations of Seattle, Portland, Minneapolis and other Democratic strongholds be held to account for failing to protect their residents and public and private property? Let the federal funds flow again!

Another Executive Order revoked was one titled "Promoting Beautiful Federal Civic Architecture", which directed a sweeping stylistic overhaul of federal architecture with a focus on a return to classical and traditional forms. Also undone was one of the last EOs, which forbade unelected bureaucrats from initiating or signing off on federal rules.

What do you make of all this, dear reader? I can't see in the cancelled orders any link or anything in common which would move a sane and sensible President to revoke them. I can only conclude that Mr Biden simply intends to undo everything the Trump administration accomplished over the last four years. No other explanation makes sense. It's anti-Trumpism, Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) writ large. That's all. 

Let me give you one more example. The Biden administration recently cancelled Operation Talon, a Trump administration programme aimed at removing convicted sex offenders living in the United States illegally. [You can't say "illegal", only that they're "undocumented". Ed.] Dismantling Operation Talon effectively allows sex offenders, who by any measure of commons sense should be deported, to remain in the US of A.

Operation Talon would seem to be something that everyone should support, but the loony lefties who run the Dumbocratic Party (and now the federal government) don't like it. Why? Perhaps because President Trump put the programme in place.

A letter sent by the Attorneys General of 18 states to Mr Biden, the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security and the Acting Director of ICE, pointed out the problems with the cancellation. "The United States' population of illegal immigrants includes disturbingly large numbers of criminals with prior convictions for sexual crimes. ...during the period from October 2014 to May 2018 ICE arrested 19,572 illegal aliens with criminal convictions for whom the most serious prior conviction was a conviction for a sex-related offense.

"Meanwhile, [the letter continues] an increasing number of illegal aliens are entering the United States after having been previously convicted of sexual offenses. The cancellation of [Operation Talon] effectively broadcasts to the world that the United States is now a sanctuary jurisdiction for sexual predators. 

"This message creates a perverse incentive for foreign sexual predators to seek to enter the United States illegally and assault more victims, both in the process of unlawful migration and after they arrive. It will also broadcast the message to other criminal aliens who have committed other offenses that any kind of robust enforcement against them is unlikely."

The letter begs perhaps the most important question: "If the United States will not remove even convicted sex offenders, whom will it remove?" The White House has so far not answered.

Further reading: "Wait...These Are the Top Three Concerns for Democratic Voters? Yes, It's Insane", by Matt Vespa, on Townhall, 25/2/21.

Dog lover to be deported from Oregon... eventually

Over the years, Walt has occasionally posted stories about zoophilia -- sexual attraction to animals -- described over a century ago by Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing in his seminal work [Careful! Ed.] Psychopathia Sexualis. [Ed., have you seen my copy? It's not in its proper place in the library!]

Bestiality -- having sex with an animal -- is one of the few perversions still considered a crime, maybe not in the Middle East but in the rest of the world. Examples posted on WWW include horses, goats, and, from Egypt, a story about a woman who molested a monkey. Just this past March, Walt passed on a report of an illegal alien who was arrested for boffing a cow. WWW 27/3/19.

Sadly, such shockingly deviant behaviour is being reported more often than was the case before hordes of illegal immigrants started streaming across the Rio Grande to take up residence in America's stupid "sanctuary cities". This week we have a report from Breitbart News of the release from detention of Fidel Lopez -- that's him in the picture -- an illegal alien convicted of raping a dog to death. Mr Lopez, aged 52, was turned loose by the sanctuary state of Oregon after being sentenced to just 60 days in prison, for killing his girlfriend's small Lhasa Apso with kindness, so to speak. The judge in the case said he would have given the perv a longer sentence, but that 60 days is the max under Oregon law.

Mr Lopez was able to walk, after hearing his sentence, because he'd already done the time while waiting to stand trial. But what about his illegal alien status, Walt hears you ask. ICE (the Immigration and Customs Enforcement folks) had requested that Mr Lopez be turned over to them for deportation should he be released from prison, but officials in Multnomah County ignored the request and released the illegal alien into the community.

But there's a happyish ending. ICE arrested the miscreant and expect he will be deported from the US of A one of these days... unless sympathetic Democrats and SJWs intervene on his behalf.

Thanks to Agent 6 for the link to this tale of depravity, which Walt would otherwise have missed since, as is well known, he doesn't pay attention to such things!

Canuck government "reviewing" refugee processing after terror attack

This is a relatively minor story compared with the Mandalay Bay massacre, but I think it's worth a follow-up for Canadian readers, since it highlights everything that's wrong with the liberal (and Liberal) approach to dealing with the hundreds of thousands of bogus "refugees" and asylum-seekers who enter Western countries every year.

"Welcome them with open arms," says Justin "Junior" Trudeau, for diversity is what makes Canada strong. See "Welcome to Canada, Syrian refugees!", WWW 8/2/17. 1000s of Canadians are hollering BULLSHIT, but never mind, it's Liberal government policy and there's no way it's going to be changed before the federal election of 2019... if then.

But you can see that M Trudeau and his oh-so-diverse cabinet are being made nervous by incidents such as the Islamic terrorist attack in Edmonton AB last week. That's because, just as Walt predicted (see "Edmonton Muslim terrorist attack: Walt told ya so!", WWW 2/10/17), the perp turned out to be a Muslim Somali "refugee", waved through the porous Canadian border in 2012. But wait (as Vince Offer used to say), there's more!

The information released by the Edmonton police and the Mounties at the time left the impression that Abdulahi Hasan Sharif, now charged with five counts of attempted murder, four counts of criminal flight causing bodily harm, and one count each of dangerous driving and possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose, came to Canada as a refugee from Somalia, or maybe Syria. Exactly how and where he entered Canada was not disclosed, and with good reason. Turns out he entered Canada from... wait for it... the USA!

In July of 2011, US Customs and Border Protection transferred Mr Sharif into the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at Otay Mesa Detention Center in San Diego CA. Two months later, an immigration judge ordered him removed to his native Somalia. He waived his right to appeal that decision. Two months after that, he was released on an ICE order of supervision "due to a lack of likelihood of his removal in the reasonably foreseeable future," according to Jennifer D. Elzea, acting press secretary for the ICE Office of Public Affairs.

This was in the Obama years, remember, and American authorities just kind of, errr, stopped deporting illegal aliens. But ICE did tell Mr Sharif to come back next year. He was scheduled to be removed on 24 January 2012. ICE was shocked, shocked when he failed to turn up at their enforcement and removal operations center on his scheduled date. Next thing you know he presented himself at the Canadian border.

The Honourable Ahmed Hussen, the Canuck Minister of Immigration and Refugees -- that really is his title -- confirmed today that Mr Sharif entered at an official port of entry, went through the 'regular process' and was granted refugee status later that year. He declined to provide any more details, citing an "active, ongoing investigation."

Oh yes, there's an investigation going on -- a classic case of locking the barn door after the horse has bolted. At a scrum outside the House of Commons today, Junior told the meeja "We are looking into exactly what happened in this situation. We're certain that we have asylum processes that needed to be followed when someone presents themselves at our border, we have rules to follow and we make sure those rules are followed. We're looking into the whole system and will reflect on whether we need to do things differently certainly in the future than the way they were done in 2012. But the priority is always making sure that we're defending the values and rights of Canadians while keeping our communities safe." Yeah... right...

M Trudeau had to answer reporters' questions because his Somali-born (aha!) Minister for Refugees etc. was out of town, speaking at an event in the ghetto which is Brampton. Mr Hussen stressed that decisions on whether to grant asylum are not made by the government but by the arms' length, independent Immigration and Refugee Board. "That board is the one that is responsible for determining the merits of each and every case when it comes to asylum claims," he said. What he didn't say is that the members of the IRB -- each and every one of them -- are appointed by the Liberal government. "Arms' length", indeed... NOT.