As Chicago and other blue cities move toward reparations for African Americans, Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D, Wa.) wants reparations for illegal immigrants for the trauma caused by immigration enforcement. At the same time, various Democrats are making clear that they want to entirely defund and eliminate Immigration and Customs Enforcement. So, after the Biden Administration allowed in millions over an open border, Democrats would eliminate ICE and some like Jayapal would pay illegal immigrants reparations.
Rep. Jayapal declared on Friday:
“They need to be brought before us, and they need to be held account [sic] for the trauma that they have created, and we are going to have to have some form of reparation for the kids and the families that have been traumatized through all of this.”
While not calling for reparations, other democrats have picked up the theme that someone has to pay for the trauma caused by immigration enforcement.
Rep. Maxine Dexter (D, Or.) echoed the mantra of Democratic members that “The administration has terrorized our communities and mine in the Willamette Valley.”
Rep. Christian Menefee (D-TX) told constituents, “I can’t imagine seeing my kid in a jail cell just because of where he was born, just because of what language he speaks at home.”
Jayapal fought back tears in her “shadow hearing” on Friday after calling for reparations, stating, “I still cannot believe that we are doing this to our own children.”
U.S.-born President Donald Trump is the outsider, Jayapal argued: “When the founders put into the Constitution the idea that Congress would have power, they assumed that the party that was in control of Congress would stand up to a dictatorial, authoritarian president.”
Jayapal did not mention the many American children killed by what she called “our” migrants.
The question becomes, if more groups get reparations, when does this become a form of wealth redistribution? Indeed, according to these members, much of the country has been traumatized by the Trump Administration. What is missing in cities like Chicago facing economic meltdowns is any notion of financial limits. Instead, Democrats are pushing tax hikes and wealth taxes to cover bloated budgets and growing deficits.
Should all conservatives get reparations for the way Democrats treat us?
😉 If ‘reparations’ is such an obvious moral imperative, why didn’t the Founders demand them from the King? They took independence, not a lifetime grievance check.
I could be wrong, but the authors of this covetous act of stealing, born of false witness, may have committed a typographical error and meant to say “repatriation” considering the clearly manifested convictions of the American Founders.
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To wit,
Naturalization Acts of 1790, 1795, 1798, 1802
United States Congress, “An act to establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization,” March 26, 1790
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That any Alien being a free white person, who shall have resided within the limits and under the jurisdiction of the United States for the term of two years, may be admitted to become a citizen thereof….
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“We the people of the United States…secure the blessings of liberty TO OURSELVES and OUR POSTERITY….”
– Preamble to the Constitution of the American Founders
Reprarations for EVERYONE… as long as it’s OPM (Other People’s Money) 😺😺😺
It all comes back to the root problem: open borders and mass illegal immigration. Biden tore down deterrence and turned the southern border into a revolving door, and now we are stuck arguing about band‑aids like the SAVE Act, half‑funding DHS, terrorist watchlist hits, insane TSA lines, and even ‘reparations’ hearings for people who broke our laws. Forced ‘reparations’ do not erase victims, they create a new class of them: the people who are compelled to pay for it.
Take away the decision to invite millions in illegally and this whole chain of events never starts: no overrun cities, no DHS brinkmanship, no panicked talk about non‑citizen voting, no terrorist cells setting up shop here, no endless airport misery, and probably no President Trump 2.0. We likely would not have widespread TDS, No Kings Day marches, and the rest of the ever‑growing drama either.
And if you really want to go down to bedrock, the root root problem is citizens who lack the capacity for self‑government: people who vote on vibes, outsource judgment to hashtags, and treat serious tradeoffs like fandom wars. A republic can survive bad leaders for a while; it cannot survive a critical mass of citizens who refuse the hard work of being sovereign.
Now do it without AI.
See folks, this is unmitigated lying here. No source… nuttin.
What lying are you referring to?
Olly, your argument relies on a ‘border crisis’ narrative that simply doesn’t match the 2026 data. Far from a ‘revolving door,’ we’ve seen ten straight months of zero releases and the lowest crossing numbers since 1970.
You mention the SAVE Act as a necessary fix for ‘non-citizen voting,’ yet extensive state audits—like Utah’s recent review of 2 million voters—found zero cases of non-citizens voting.
If we’re talking about citizens ‘lacking the capacity for self-government,’ maybe we should start by not basing major legislation on hashtags and ‘panicked talk’ that isn’t supported by federal or state data. The real trade-off isn’t between ‘security’ and ‘chaos,’ but between restricting the rights of millions of eligible Americans and solving a problem that exists mostly in campaign ads.
X, two things can be true at once: you can have a historic border disaster for years and then see numbers drop only after the political cost becomes unbearable. ‘Ten months of lower crossings’ in 2026 does not erase 10–11 million encounters and millions released into the interior under Biden. That is exactly what people mean by ‘open border’ and ‘revolving door,’ and city budgets, shelters and schools are living with those facts right now, no matter how you spin this year’s trend line.
On non‑citizen voting, your own example proves my point about capacity for self‑government. If we agree elections are the core of the regime, then tightening the system on the front end is not ‘restricting rights,’ it is basic prudence. We require ID to fly, to buy certain products, to enter federal buildings; pretending it is some shocking assault on liberty to verify that voters are citizens is hashtag logic, not republican self‑rule.
So yes, I want policy grounded in data, not campaign ads. The data show years of unprecedented illegal inflows, real stress on border communities and ‘sanctuary’ cities, and a political class that spent those years denying a crisis and now insists that any attempt to fix it is an attack on rights. That gap between reality and rhetoric is exactly what I mean by citizens losing the capacity for self‑government.
Jayapal confirms — without any serious, rational counterargument — that Democrats should never again be allowed within 52 factorial cubed parsecs of governmental authority or power. They are, to quote 47 at his recent SOTU: “crazy.”
You can’t fix stupid. Not the leading Democrats, they are just evil, but the fools that vote for Democrats.
The Democrats hate you. Figure that out before it to late.
Democrats keep starting this story in the middle. Jayapal talks like “trauma” just showed up one day because mean agents enforced the law, and skips the first move: Biden blew the border wide open and invited millions to come here illegally. Once you erase that, the people who broke the law become the victims, and the people enforcing it become the villains. And now the answer is “reparations.”
Forced “reparations” do not erase victims, they create a new class of them: the people who are compelled to pay for it. If “I was traumatized by government enforcing the law” is enough to get a check, there is no off ramp; every criminal, every deportee, every regulated business, every overtaxed citizen in places like Chicago can make the same claim. At that point “reparations” is just a fancy word for taking money from the politically weak and handing it to the politically loud. That is one hell of a feedback loop.
Olly, for someone complaining about ‘starting the story in the middle,’ you’ve conveniently deleted the first few chapters of 2026. You’re tilting at an ‘open border’ windmill while ignoring that we are currently in our tenth straight month of zero migrant releases—the border is effectively a wall of red tape and record-low crossings.
The real irony is your outrage over ‘forced reparations’ creating a ‘new class of victims.’ While you’re worried about hypothetical checks for ‘people who broke the law,’ actual American citizens are currently victims of the DHS funding brinkmanship you seem to support. Because the House is refusing to fund the TSA until they get more enforcement money, 50,000 agents are working without pay and travelers are stuck in the ‘endless airport misery’ you blamed on immigrants.
Rep. Jayapal isn’t talking about ‘vibes’; she’s talking about constitutional accountability following the deaths of American protesters during recent ICE raids. If you think asking the government not to kill or disappear people is ‘treating serious tradeoffs like fandom wars,’ then you’ve outsourced your judgment to a narrative that hasn’t been updated since 2023. A republic survives on facts and fiscal responsibility, not on holding the entire aviation industry hostage to fund a deportation machine that’s already cost us billions.
You are doing exactly what I criticized Jayapal for: starting the story at the end and pretending the first act never happened. Ten months of tighter numbers in 2026 do not erase years of record encounters, mass releases, and an administration that openly dismantled deterrence. The ‘border crisis’ isn’t a mood; it is baked into the millions already here, the budgets and shelters already blown up, and the criminal networks that flourished while you were assuring everyone it was all a Fox News narrative.
Same move with DHS. You want to talk about TSA lines and agents working without pay, but skip right over the fact that we got here by spending years underfunding serious enforcement, overusing catch‑and‑release, and treating the border as a social‑justice prop. When Congress finally tries to use the power of the purse to force a change in priorities, you call it ‘hostage‑taking’ and rush to defend the status quo that created the mess.
And spare me the idea that this is just about ‘asking the government not to kill people.’ I am all for constitutional accountability for actual abuses. What Jayapal is doing is something else: turning lawful enforcement into a civil‑rights violation, demanding ‘reparations’ for people who violated federal law, and sending the bill to citizens who never signed up for any of this. That is not fact‑based republican self‑government, it is narrative politics from the last page of the book, with the whole beginning ripped out.
Fun Fact: Democrats have made it harder for Americans to get through TSA than they did illegal immigrants to get through our border.
Nope. Trump has. He’s the one telling Republicans not to do any deal with democrats. He’s single handedly made things worse. Republicans were ready to make a deal and Trump’s pettiness has gotten in the way. Btw, having ICE at airports has made zero headway in making lines move faster.
Fun Fact: Trump just signed an executive order to pay the TSA agents.
He could have done that at any time from Day 1 of the shut down.
So how exactly are Democrats responsible for the chaos that ensued from Trump’s failure to secure the nation’s airports ?
Answer: they obviously are in no way responsible.
Trump simply wanted to create as much chaos as possible to pressure the Democrats into passing the SAVE act, a totally unrelated piece of legislation.
You seem to think that good governance requires the minority to simply go along with the whims of the President.
Perhaps you can treat us to one of your interminably long, convoluted, irrational, and self-contradictory diatribes about how this is exactly what the Founder’s had in mind when they formed our government.
See folks, this is unmitigated lying here. No source… nuttin.
One of the most sinister aspects of the Left is the way they politicize mental illness concepts. The Soviet Union used to treat political dissenters as mentally ill. In 1984, the America media called Barry Goldwater mentally ill. Now they say they themselves are mentally ill because they are “triggered” or “traumatized” by people or policies with which they disagree.
One of the most sinister aspects of the Left is the way they politicize mental illness concepts. So conservatives never did anything like that? Find the facts first, then criticize.
Anonymous is a parasite.
The foregoing yada notwithstanding, Jayapal was elected to Congress in the 2016 cycle and has been there ever since. She garnered 83% of the vote in her district in 2024 and is running for re-election in 2026. The core question needing to be addressed is why she and others of her ilk prevail. The demonstrations across the country speak to that as well. Therein lies the rub, and what is roiling underneath this nation’s rug.
Not “roiling”, “breeding”
FTFY
Jayapal spent the first 35 years of her life in India. She just has a different mindset than a “real” American.
America would benefit from a constitutional amendment extending the natural born citizen requirement to all federal elected, appointed, and hired positions.
Actually she came to the US in 1982 at age 16.
So she has lived here for 44 years.
Apparently, as for all MAGA morons, you prefer “alternative facts” rather than reality.
Anytime you wonder what the Dems will do once back in power, you know. It is more and less!
MORE of everything illegal, taxes, spending, borrowing, climate, DEI. That is more Biden.
LESS of everything sensible, practical, free, energy, competent, education. That is, less Trump
“Legalized theft on behalf of illegal immigrants. Will our feckless intelligentsia provide a bounty for those who commit homicides against American citizens?
If we do not stop this ideology now, while we still have the minimum of demographic advantage, we will succumb to this whirlpool of the poor eating us alive. Sure, in the end, this nation will end up like Cuba or Venezuela, but we will be gone and our children will reap this devastation. The progs on this site may call me made, but just a glimpse at history will tell you otherwise. There is not alternative ending to communism/socialism/atheism. it will not end well, but, at 75, what do I need worry about? I worry for my children and grandchildren. Welfare allowed the sustainment of millions who now begin to outnumber the “worker bees” and they will continue to press for more free stuff until the well is dry, just as we see in any communist nation so far. I fear for my children and grandchildren as they will be subsumed in the coming chaos if we do not stop this mindset now.
We? Stop? Now?
You are a bottlemless pit of hate huh?
Hard to think you have spawn. So hate just keeps breeding in your tribe?
again, always short on substance but heavily weighted to vitriol. I do believe we realize that this is your only nature – pure hate – with nothing else going on inside your little bubble of a noggin. Be gone and dye your hair blue and volunteer at one of those protests that wants to end western civilization and replace it with the certitude of tyranny masquerading as the utopia that will never exist.
“we will succumb to this whirlpool of the poor eating us alive.” Um, walks like vitriol, sounds like vitriol, it is vitriol.
“Welfare allowed the sustainment of millions who now begin to outnumber the “worker bees” Um, walks like vitriol, sounds like vitriol, it is vitriol.
BTW, when stealing quotes, do try to give credit where it is due.
A hate so deep even you acknowledge it infests you. Truly, the world would be a much better place without your kind.
I have friends in Canada who can help.
Turley’s latest defense of this administration is a masterclass in ignoring reality. He’s so focused on his talking points that he missed ICE shredding the Constitution and the DOJ’s creative relationship with the truth. But hey, it’s hard to hear over the sound of the GOP imploding—even the CPAC crowd is cheering for impeachment now, no matter how many times the emcee begs them to stop.
Between the desperate push for the SAVE Act to cheat the midterms and the ‘victory’ in a multi-billion dollar Iran war that literally nobody else thinks we won, the desperation is loud. Trump managed to alienate NATO, tank the economy, and put us on the verge of a ground war all at once. It’s a classic Republican cycle: start a fruitless war, blow the budget, and then act surprised when a Democratic majority has to show up to fix the disaster. Better get the brooms ready; this mess is going to take a while.
Democrats fix the disaster?? They started it!!
I’ve heard this tripe expressed by X many times before. The Republicans screw it up and the Democrats have to come in and clean up the mess. X is so invested in this long time fallacy spoken by his long dead grandfather that he missed the inflation and border crisis perpetuated by his hero Joe Biden.
Hey X, it’s not what you don’t know that’s the problem but what you think you know that just ain’t true. Instead of just blindly saying what your grand pappy told you why don’t you grow a pair and think for yourself. Then again, it’s probably too late.
It’s charming that you’re worried about what people ‘think they know,’ because the actual math is going to be a real buzzkill for you. While you’re busy yelling about ‘grandpappy’s fallacies,’ the Joint Economic Committee has some receipts you might find inconvenient:
The Recession Special: Since World War II, 90% of recessions have started under Republicans. It’s not a family legend; it’s a recurring schedule.
The Job Gap: Democrats have overseen the creation of over 56 million more jobs than Republicans since 1961. In fact, private-sector jobs grow nearly 2.5 times faster under Democratic presidents.
Border Reality Check: You might want to update your ‘crisis’ script, considering migrant encounters hit their lowest level since 1970 in 2025. Turns out, ‘thinking for yourself’ works better when you use actual Pew Research data.
Debt Denial: Complaining about Biden’s spending while ignoring that Trump oversaw the third-largest primary deficit growth in U.S. history is a bold choice.
It’s never too late to trade the partisan talking points for a calculator. Then again, if you actually looked at the GDP growth rates—which are significantly higher under Democrats—you’d have to find something else to be angry about.
Would love to see yours sources X.
Google is your friend.
Then post the links. Why is it that old guys just lie and exaggerate nonstop? Something is the drugs you guys take?
Again, Google is your friend. Surely you’re not so lazy that you can’t muster the energy and effort to move your fingers and use your brain, are you?
Clearly you spend more energy and effort coming up with insults.
X’s sources are as Mark Twain said. Three sources: lies, damned lies and statistics.
That’s not a counter argument. Google is right at your fingertips. Perhaps you should make use of it.
Google? So link to it. At least credit the AI machine you steal from.
Again, are you telling me you’re too stupid to figure it out on your own? You must be terrified of putting in a little work and find out for your self. I thought republicans were all about work ethic and not relying on others to do work for them.
it is called willful ignorance of his/her/its own ignorance. Simple as that; at this point to question any part of the prog ideology is to undermine his/her/its own framework of live. I doubt if he/she/it could deal with the mental disorientation of finally admitting truth rather than fiction. Leave him/her/it to stew in its own delusions – it is only another prefab echo chamber of a broken ideology.
Ignorance, your mother is whimsiclamama.
Whimsicalmama, that’s a lot of talk with zero substance. Perhaps you could enlighten us with YOUR wisdom instead of calling out ignorance.
My, my, my, you have swallowed quite a big gulp of propaganda and you do not even seem to be aware of the fact – I prefer to refer to that is being willfully ignorant or your own ignorance. That is your problem, not mine, but the willingness with which you gobble this indoctrination is what is alarming. It is as if our education/media industry has just beaten the concept of critical thinking right out of your noggin many years ago and, like a frog in a pot of slowly warming water, you are unaware that you are at the boiling point.
Preparations!! Be prepared to be deported!!
I am in favor of reparations. All assets of the Democratic Party should be seized and used to pay reparations to (1) descendants of those enslaved in the US (the Democratic Party was founded to protect slavery and later opposed emancipation) and to (2) families of victims of violent crimes committed by illegal immigrants (who were admitted into the US and protected by Democratic administrations).