Posted On: Tuesday - January 20th 2026 7:01PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Trump
We've got plenty of other posts in mind here at Peak Stupidity, but I realized what day it was a few hours ago. It's been 1 year into the 2nd Presidential term of Donald Trump as of today. I have neither the time nor inclination to lay out opinions on all of what's gone on in the past year out of that one guy. However, I can write about Job # 1, his work against the Population Replacement Programme, version America.
As opposed to my tepid views about his work on this existential issue at the end of the last term, I am pretty much ecstatic about Trump's work so far, one year in. I would not have imagined that half of the policies he's introduced would have, back on January 20th of '24.
First thing you do, you STOP DIGGING! We've all heard that one. What we don't hear so much about, mainly because it's long been a relatively easy fait accompli, the US southern border is more controlled than it has been since the time of President Eisenhower's Operation Wetback. That was 72 years ago, for anyone counting. The digging down there at least, has been stopped.
That's a feat in and of itself, something they told us - even Trump himself was fooled by them last term - would take a whole lot of money - I mean HALF A DAY of a year of Congressional spending, for crying out loud! They said it was very difficult. Nah. Done... until the next destructive ctrl-left President...
Starting a reversal of the PRP, at least the illegal alien side of it, is something else. People have been deported over the years before of course. We've got to be careful to differentiate, though, between those sent right back across the border when they arrive, and the deportation of illegal aliens residing here. This time, we have ICE nabbing people in the interior. We've all heard of ICE by now, and Minneapolis is surely in the interior. (Well, there's a northern border too, and that is no friendly 49th parallel of the last century.*) As we noted in our post How many times must a man be deported? last summer, all the deportations in the world mean squat if you have un-secure borders.
Last I read, a couple of months ago, 2 1/2 million illegal aliens had left. Granted, only half a million were deported, but that 2 million that "walked before they made me run" are just as appreciated. Will this continue? Will it get ramped up even? Peak Stupidity pulls a number of 10,000 per day via rectal extraction, 3 1/2 million annually, as a sufficient number of forced deportations. If it were done with a real strategy and publicity where warranted, it could result in a total of 15 million, maybe more, leaving yearly, due to self-deportation.
We've written (here and here) about the ongoing violence in Minneapolis. The Communists who want to destroy America require the PRP to move forward - it is Job #1 for them, along with Feminism and other destruction of the nuclear family, Regime Media propaganda, University and other indoctrination, trashing of the culture... well, they've got lots of jobs I guess. This is why they are taking a stand in the Sanctimony States and municipalities. Trump and his Staff (Miller) and Field (Homan) Generals have their work cut out for them. I have no problem with whatever tactics Trump ends up using.
OK, this is all very good news. However the LEGAL side of the PRP is just as big - it's been on the same order as illegal for many years. What has Trump done?
What he hasn't done is listen to Elon Musk on this issue, as we worried about a year ago. (See here - - here, and here.) Trump's administrative move to change the H1B Indentured Servant fee from $2,000 to $100,000, "just a slight administrative change, mind you, part of my job, you know", has been very welcomed. The money matters, if you want cheap labor. It's not all about replacing the White Middle Class. Greed is a part of it too.
Then, whether it just a great excuse, or it's nothing but Trump taking things personally again, either way, the halting of visa issuances to first 49, then 75 countries is also an exciting thing.
Effective January 21, 2026, the Department of State is pausing all visa issuances to immigrant visa applicants who are nationals of the following countries:No, I don’t know who stuck Russia in there. Why Uruguay, though? It’s not a bad place, but Montevideo is not as nice as I’d imagined. (They love their graffiti, more than the thugs of Harlem!)
Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Antigua and Barbuda, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belize, Bhutan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Burma, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Colombia, Cote d’Ivoire, Cuba, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Dominica, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Fiji, The Gambia, Georgia, Ghana, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea, Haiti, Iran, Iraq, Jamaica, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kuwait, Kyrgyz Republic**, Laos, Lebanon, Liberia, Libya, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Nepal, Nicaragua, Nigeria, North Macedonia, Pakistan, Republic of the Congo, Russia, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, and Yemen.
There're a lot of African countries there, a good start. No India, no China? You’ve got to get serious at some point…
Then, you've got people who come in legally and stay illegally. Non-immigrant visas can be overstayed pretty easily because, unlike China, America doesn't have a good enough Exit Tracking program.
The Trump Administration has recently required $5,000 to $15,000 bonds be posted to secure the exit of entrants to the US on non-immigrant visas. Those are tourist visas, work visas, and many others. Without it, well, I've seen guys like that Indian down at the crossroads***, and I know that those visitors that never get to the Grand Canyon or Disney World, only the convenience store... on a 3 dozen year tour, a 3 dozen year tour... I know what goes on.
We have someone in mind from overseas that really may benefit from visiting with us for a while, but if we have to put down money, that's on us. We'll have to make sure she gets home safely. Personally, I think it should be $50,000. Not enough tourists at Disney? I don't care.
Finally, this last thing is part a serious effort and part symbolic. The serious effort is that Trump has decided that there shall be no, that is ZERO refugees, asylum seekers, or whatever, coming in, besides a few thousand WHITE South Africans. This is an amazing move. I doubt the S. African number will even get near the 5,000 number, but Trump's stating out loud that it's these White people being persecuted and that they are ACTUAL refugees is very welcome symbolic move.
No, wait, that's not the last thing - it's just the last thing I'll mention, as plenty more work is going on as far as Job #1. Things are better than even I've described due to one factor that I've been seeing, even just today when going over articles. I've heard the promises before. We've mentioned before that one thing Trump has not been good at is follow-through, and without that, the promises were broken most times. Upon looking just today, I see that the items described herein seem to be actually happening. That's gotta take some good advisors, knowing Trump.
I chalk up the ideas and successes to 2 factors: Trump has learned a lot since '20, and he has some good people that he's been listening to this time. Peter Brimelow, in a very recent interview by Tucker Carlson (I'll post it soon) said that Steven Miller might be the first Jewish President. NeoConnery and other problems aside, due to his great work on Job # 1, I'd not have a problem with that.
Yeah, Venezuela, I dunno. Greenland, WTH? and I dunno. Bombing Iran, I dunno. However, some other foreign policy out of Trump has been very good, such as the likelihood that he has nearly single-handedly and FINALLY put the kibosh on the whole 4 decade-long Climate Calamity™ stupidity. It's not just about stupid attempts to claim SCIENCE! It's about control of large portions of CoC's (Oh, Countries Other than China's) economies. The ending of this alone makes for a successful year or full term, if you ask me.
All that aside, Trump-47 gets a solid A on the subject of Immigration Stupidity from this Professor.
* My friend remembers crossing somewhere from Montana to Alberta back in the 1970s, when the border was a traffic cone on the centerline of the road. There was nobody around, so he moved the cone, went past, and then put the cone back in place. Good thing too, as he had something sort of duty-free packed in the spare tire...
** Whaaaa? Then again, if the whole damn country even has not been vetted, we don't need any of that.
*** BTW, I had to go buy a car part in that same direction and I'm sure I turned at that same crossroads just over 8 years later. The gas station is now a much newer looking Shell station, but I didn't go inside this time.
Comments:
Moderator
Wednesday - January 21st 2026 1:59PM MST
PS: I took a break for 1/2 a day, so late reply here, SafeNow. Firstly, that guy Carl Rove is still around? I was reading something on ZH regarding James Carville, and THAT guy is still around too. The political world needs to lose these people.
Anyway, regarding your idea, you foreshadowed a blog post I will put up this week. Indeed all the ills of mass immigration should be touted as being reversed by Trump, since we’ve seen these numbers. It’s not like he’s got a problem bragging about stuff, right?
The healthcare business is one of the points I was going to make too. Trump should promise, as he really could pretty fairly, that ERs will get less crowded and hospitals will be able to stay open rather than going bankrupt. Perhaps he won’t say “If you like your White doctor, you can keep your White doctor”… going a little too far and a hard promise to keep.
Anyway, regarding your idea, you foreshadowed a blog post I will put up this week. Indeed all the ills of mass immigration should be touted as being reversed by Trump, since we’ve seen these numbers. It’s not like he’s got a problem bragging about stuff, right?
The healthcare business is one of the points I was going to make too. Trump should promise, as he really could pretty fairly, that ERs will get less crowded and hospitals will be able to stay open rather than going bankrupt. Perhaps he won’t say “If you like your White doctor, you can keep your White doctor”… going a little too far and a hard promise to keep.
Dieter Kief
Wednesday - January 21st 2026 7:15AM MST
PS
Apropos end of the climate-calamity - - - here is new very good reason why via a massive study showing that clouds*** ar4 - by far! - the mightiest driver of temps on earth - - CO-2 is over...
Clouds:
https://x.com/DieterKief/status/2009550668483174673?s=20
***some might remember that we discussed Sabine Hossenfelder about the difficulties in getting the tropospheric radiation measures straight - - - and how Thoma^s Allmendinger, Boris smirnov and geologist Christina Schlüchter fitted in this puzzle - -as did Richard Lindzen and William Happer plus willi Soon and Steven Koonin!
Apropos end of the climate-calamity - - - here is new very good reason why via a massive study showing that clouds*** ar4 - by far! - the mightiest driver of temps on earth - - CO-2 is over...
Clouds:
https://x.com/DieterKief/status/2009550668483174673?s=20
***some might remember that we discussed Sabine Hossenfelder about the difficulties in getting the tropospheric radiation measures straight - - - and how Thoma^s Allmendinger, Boris smirnov and geologist Christina Schlüchter fitted in this puzzle - -as did Richard Lindzen and William Happer plus willi Soon and Steven Koonin!
SafeNow
Tuesday - January 20th 2026 9:06PM MST
PS
Carl Rove, on his whiteboard this past weekend on The War Street Journal’s weekly Editorial Report: Americans favor the deportation of serious criminals, but OPPOSE the same where NONserious criminals are concerned. This underscores a Trump failure, and opportunity. So, how to flip the Rove whiteboard on hard-working chicken pluckers?
Stress access to competent, timely health care. There exist 40 million people who don’t belong here, and they are absorbing not only ER visits. It is an ongoing, frustrating, stressful, humiliating, health-compromising, losing battle to get timely office visits. And, fully one quarter of visits are now handled by - - new-word warning - - “providers” - - that is, PAs and NPs. It didn’t used to be like this, back in the day. And in fact, it is CURRENTLY not like this in overwhelmingly white places. This will get worse and worse because currently leaf blowers and chicken pluckers, being on the young side, are healthy (except when they get into a traffic accident or fall off a roof) But here in California, we are decades into this demographic, and millions of Josés are no longer young. Get a mother to understand that Jose is the reason why it takes so long to get her kid with a fever in to see a pediatrician. She is, groan, empathic and sympathetic, but when it comes to her kid and the pediatrician that will flip the whiteboard.
Carl Rove, on his whiteboard this past weekend on The War Street Journal’s weekly Editorial Report: Americans favor the deportation of serious criminals, but OPPOSE the same where NONserious criminals are concerned. This underscores a Trump failure, and opportunity. So, how to flip the Rove whiteboard on hard-working chicken pluckers?
Stress access to competent, timely health care. There exist 40 million people who don’t belong here, and they are absorbing not only ER visits. It is an ongoing, frustrating, stressful, humiliating, health-compromising, losing battle to get timely office visits. And, fully one quarter of visits are now handled by - - new-word warning - - “providers” - - that is, PAs and NPs. It didn’t used to be like this, back in the day. And in fact, it is CURRENTLY not like this in overwhelmingly white places. This will get worse and worse because currently leaf blowers and chicken pluckers, being on the young side, are healthy (except when they get into a traffic accident or fall off a roof) But here in California, we are decades into this demographic, and millions of Josés are no longer young. Get a mother to understand that Jose is the reason why it takes so long to get her kid with a fever in to see a pediatrician. She is, groan, empathic and sympathetic, but when it comes to her kid and the pediatrician that will flip the whiteboard.
See, I’m not the Climatologist, but, dang, I can see when there MUCH more to a complex physical system like the world’s climate than can be modeled ACCURATELY at this time… maybe not for a LONG time.
Yes, I remember Miss Hossenfelder. I learned later that she’s quite the influencer. Don’t know if she’s winning friends though… (Not sure Dieter will get that one, haha.)