Sanctuary cities are a dated concept that, even from the point of view of immigration doves, are unsustainable when confronted with today’s realities.
Tag: immigration
The Modern Right’s Most Original Thinker
A new biography of Chronicles columnist Sam Francis by Joseph Scotchie is filled with quotes and stories that testify to Francis’s underappreciated brilliance and wit. Sam’s memory lives on!
Tax Remittances to Stop the Border Cash Leak
Enforcing immigration law with ICE raids is an important, but difficult, way to secure the border. Taxing remittances is much easier and would also be very effective.
Trump Upended the GOP’s Old Racial Calculus in the 2024 Election
After Pew’s review of the 2024 election, the GOP can never again claim that immigration restriction and winning minority voters are mutually exclusive.
Study Blames Americans for Stressing Out Immigrants
Researchers discover that immigration to the U.S. is harmful to immigrants, but only because we’re so terrible that we ask them to assimilate.
America Needs ‘Alligator Alcatraz’
America has suffered the consequences of false compassion for illegal immigrants for too long.
Tallying Up Biden’s Immigration Damage
After four years of Biden, the foreign-born population now makes up a higher percentage of the overall U.S. population than at any time on record.
Who Counts? Trump Poised To Try To Remove Non-citizens From Census
Eliminating the influence of non-citizens in our elections means not counting them in the census.
Secure Borders Win Wars Like This One
Winning the wars of the future will require defending ourselves against the dark side of globalization.
LA Is Proof Trump Was Right About Mass Immigration
The current round of LA Riots shows that importing masses of foreign-born migrants into our country was a recipe for disloyalty and disunion.
BBB Is a Win For MAGA
Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” budget is as close to as good as it gets without departing from the realm of possibility.
How Democrats Can Stop Alienating Young Men: Some Unsolicited Advice
When it comes to courting young male voters, policy matters more than syntax.
Shutting the Door on a Biden-Era Immigration Cheat Code
Trump has ended the Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela (CHNV) parole program with the blessing of the Supreme Court and the free rides resulting from Biden’s deception end now.
Bruce Springsteen May Be a Woke Loser, But His Art Is MAGA
It is fascinating to see how the musician’s political opinions diverge so greatly from the art that made him rich and famous.
Refugees From South Africa’s Anti-White Racist Tyranny Should Be Welcomed
The victims of South Africa’s anti-white, genocidal policies come to America ready to assimilate and show gratitude to their new home.
The Practical Genius of Trump’s Self-Deportation Policy
The Trump administration’s incentivization of self-deportation is saving taxpayers billions, effectively removing illegal aliens, and prioritizing the rule of law.
On Immigration and In the Academy, Leftist Hypocrisy Stinks
Things Democrats and leftists have tolerated and even praised in their heroes become intolerable and hateful to them when championed by Republicans.
The Media’s Fake Narrative on Trump’s First 100 Days
There is no reason to trust the narrative from discredited legacy media outlets that Trump is now suddenly less popular. His first 100 days have been a triumph.
Beyond ‘Due Process’
The obsession the left is now exhibiting with questions of due process in immigration cases is, in fact, a thin veneer covering their naked aggression against the legal tradition that created it.
Kilmar’s Deportation is Not a Constitutional Crisis
The open defiance of the Constitution exhibited by sanctuary cities and states makes it difficult to swallow the labeling of irregularities in Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s deportation a “constitutional crisis.”
Don’t Fall Into the Issue-Legitimacy Trap
The media and the elites they service want to trap Americans into believing that their legitimate concerns are “fringe issues.”
The Alarm-Bell City of the West
Why Birmingham, not London, best captures the collapse of Britain and serves as a warning to the rest of the West.
Tariffs Are Essential to a Free People
Tariffs are about much more than just securing the interests of the working class. They’re essential to national security and defense.
Taking on the Globalization Gods Requires Courage
Trump has always been clear that the path to sovereignty, self-reliance, and national purpose would require some amount of sacrifice and uncertainty.
How Lawmen Learned to Love 287(g)
Trump’s threat of withholding federal funding to communities with anti-borders policies is making law enforcement in blue states come to love this ICE program.
Polemics & Exchanges: April 2025
Chronicles readers inquire about boomers and guns!
America Needs an Immigration Moratorium
It is not enough to merely undo the damage of the Biden administration by deporting all illegal immigrants. There must be a moratorium on all immigration into the United States from culturally incompatible Third World countries.
A Quarter Century After ‘The Abolition of Britain’
The problems that Peter Hitchens discussed 25 years ago in 'The Abolition of Britain' have only worsened. The book brilliantly sets the stage for Britain's current malaise.
Trump Puts the System on Trial
Judges will rule on procedure and technicalities, but the people will evaluate the legitimacy of our institutions and credibility of our leaders.
The Death of the UK Conservative Party
The Tories had 14 years in power to undo Liberal power structures. Instead, they capitulated and became a pathetic leftist party.
DOGE Has Exposed the Anti-Borders Cash Pipeline
DOGE is exposing how government under Biden was funding both half-hearted efforts to enforce immigration laws and massive efforts to evade them.
USAID Battle Bodes Well for Trump 2.0
As Trump continues to advance the interests of ordinary Americans, his opposition further marginalizes itself.
Father James Martin and the Tired Leftism of the Jesuits
The left-wing priest and apologist for LGBTQ sin and abuse reveals the hatred that moves his order’s well-known, and bogus, calls for “tolerance.”
How Nations Die
England's invaders face less resistance than ever as they settle among an unarmed public led by self-hating flaccid clerks. This is how it ends.
Replacement Theory Meets Replacement Fact
Trump's tech-titan friends clash with the MAGA base over high-skilled foreign labor. In truth, this clash was inevitable. The MAGA honeymoon was over before it began.
We Don’t Really Care, Margaret
CBS News’s Margaret Brennan unwittingly confirmed America’s assimilation problem and the vast difficulties associated with intemperate American compassion for refugees.
The Deportation Revolution Will Be Televised
The former reality television star turned president has mastered the art of optics, as well as the art of the deal.
The War Party is Recycling Their ‘Unpatriotic Conservatives’ Mantra
The fight for the soul of the new Trump administration looks an awful lot like the last one.
Trump Shows Conservatives How to Win Again
The “blackpillers” who doubted Trump have been chastened and those who remained loyal and steady are having the last laugh.
Texas’s Growing Pains
Frustrated residents of blue states flocking to Texas are bringing many of the problems they’re trying to escape with them.
Picking Up Buchanan’s Torch on Immigration
As the Trump administration begins, its immigration policy sounds a lot like the one advocated by Pat Buchanan.
Reality Finally Defeats Sanctuary Utopianism
Nothing has been so thoroughly discredited during the Biden years as the policy of sanctuary cities.
The Lie that MAGA is DEI for White People
The fantastical idea that the West’s survival depends on replacing itself with the rest of the world contorts reality.
The Die-Hard Myth of the Missing American Tech Workers
A narrative with its origins in little more than greed refuses to die, despite readily available evidence refuting it.
The Cost of Trump’s Deportations Is a Bargain
Activists now feigning outrage over the cost of deportation had no problem spending your money to maintain illegal immigrants in the U.S.
A Yuletide Note: Jesus, the Asylum Seeker?
Contemporary attempts to paint Jesus Christ as a slighted migrant are politically, not biblically, inspired.
Immigration Moratorium Now
There is no MAGA without immigration sanity—including limited H1-B visas.
Birthright Citizenship Is a Breach in the Border
Trump’s promise to end birthright citizenship will be a battle but it’s a battle America can’t afford to lose.
The Follies of ‘Centrists’ on Academic Freedom
The defense of academic freedom offered by those who wish to position themselves as centrists on the question is no help at all.
Americans Now See the Fraud of Sanctuary Cities
The high-water mark of virtue signaling sanctuary policies has been reached and the tide is now receding as common sense catches up to reality.

















































