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President Donald Trump suggested Monday (May 5) that the historical island prison of Alcatraz should be rebuilt and reopened to house some of America’s most serious criminals.

“REBUILD, AND OPEN ALCATRAZ! For too long, America has been plagued by vicious, violent, and repeat Criminal Offenders, the dregs of society, who will never contribute anything other than Misery and Suffering,” Trump wrote on X mid-morning Monday.

“When we were a more serious Nation, in times past, we did not hesitate to lock up the most dangerous criminals, and keep them far away from anyone they could harm. That’s the way it’s supposed to be. No longer will we tolerate these Serial Offenders who spread filth, bloodshed, and mayhem on our streets. That is why, today, I am directing the Bureau of Prisons, together with the Department of Justice, FBI, and Homeland Security, to reopen a substantially enlarged and rebuilt ALCATRAZ, to house America’s most ruthless and violent Offenders,” he continued. “We will no longer be held hostage to criminals, thugs, and Judges that are afraid to do their job and allow us to remove criminals, who came into our Country illegally. The reopening of ALCATRAZ will serve as a symbol of Law, Order, and JUSTICE. We will, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”

Alcatraz is famously located in the San Francisco Bay and once housed America’s most notorious criminals. Many of our modern day monsters now freely roam the streets of San Francisco. While many posts try to claim crime in the Bay Area has decreased significantly in recent years, this is untrue. California’s largely Soros-funded politicians have simply relegated many violent crimes to misdemeanors, meaning the crime stats are lower because the crimes have been rebranded as “not crimes.”

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Did One Famous Finance Guy See This Coming?

Back in 2022, financial expert Michael Burry — best known for his portrayal by Christian Bale in “The Big Short” — liquidated almost all of his investments except for one, according to me (Kay Smythe Hill) when I wrote for the Daily Caller. His one remaining investment was 500,000 Geo Group, an organization dedicated to building private prisons and mental health facilities.

At the time, the need for private prisons and mental health facilities was enormous across a majority of blue states, thanks largely to poor policy and the defund the police movement.

Burry, who knew the housing market would crash in 2008 and was one of the few people who actually made money from his bet, is seen as something of an economic oracle. Did he see the need for a regrowth in the prison and mental health systems, and knew that one day a great leader would destroy the normalization of violent crime across the U.S.? Maybe. It was a pretty easy bet, but it was one that so many others missed.

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Democrats’ poster child for anti-Trump deportations, Kilmer Abrego-Garcia, continues to suffer reputational damage as his checkered past continues to surface. 

His alleged human trafficking boss has spoken after the Tennessee Highway Patrol (THP) released the bodycam footage of his traffic stop while hauling alleged human trafficking subjects.

“He’s hauling these people for money,” the trooper said.

During the stop, the El Salvadorian was driving a 2001 Chevrolet Silverado belonging to a convicted human trafficker, Ramon Hernandez Reyes. The alleged MS-13 gang member also had $1,400 in cash, which one THP officer suggested was his payment for transporting the suspected illegal aliens across the country. All nine passengers in the vehicle had no luggage and gave Abrego-Garcia’s address, which is typical of individuals being smuggled into the country.

THP officers contacted Biden’s FBI and were instructed to release him without charges. He also did not receive a speeding ticket but was given a warning for driving with an expired license.

“Per standard protocol, the THP contacted federal law enforcement authorities with the Biden-era FBI — the agency of jurisdiction — who made the decision not to detain him.”

Reyes has now confirmed that he had indeed hired Abrego-Garcia to transport illegal immigrants from Texas to other parts of the country, as the officer had suspected. When asked about the car owner, Abrego-Garcia said it belonged to his boss, further corroborating Reyes’ claim.

The convicted smuggler also disclosed that he met Abrego-Garcia in 2015 and they started working together for many years before he was arrested in 2019 and convicted in 2020.

“Hernandez Reyes reportedly told the DOJ officials that he met Abrego Garcia in 2015, just three years after the latter man reportedly admitted to illegally entering the United States,” the Tennessee Star reported.

Reyes also disclosed that he charged $350 per head and paid Abrego-Garcia part of the money to drive illegal immigrants across the country. 

Meanwhile, Reyes was sentenced to 18 months in prison, deported, and ordered not to return to the United States for three years. However, he illegally re-entered the country and was re-arrested. He confessed to illegal reentry and was sentenced to 30 months in prison in 2022, which he is currently serving at the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) in Talladega, Alabama. 

Reyes confessed to the Department of Justice attorneys and will receive “limited immunity.” During his trial, Reyes had also confessed to conspiring to smuggle illegal immigrants and being in the country illegally. Thus, his recent confession may not significantly affect his current sentence.

Similarly, Abrego-Garcia admitted to being in the country illegally during his 2019 trial, in which he was the judge entered a “withholding of removal” order preventing him from being deported to his home country of El Salvador or Guatemala.

Nonetheless, Democrats will continue to lie that American citizens could be deported to foreign countries, often citing Abrego-Garcia as an example. They will also continue to ignore all the mounting evidence that the alleged MS-13 gangbanger was not the model citizen they present him to be.

Over the course of at least 20 years, we have slid into a world of euphemistic, feminized public conversation full of feelings and empty of facts. The cultural rise of what you could call “resentment feminism,” which is really just female narcissism, has made it impossible for many alleged adults to use their brains. Oh, they claim they have “thoughts” about policy and societal questions, but they don’t. They have feelings. 

Everyone knows this is true. Look at the way we talk now, compared to 20 years ago. Even middle-aged adults—even men—talk about “vibes,” “feelz,” “inclusivity,” “belonging.” There’s been at least a 10-year social ban on recognizing that men in dresses aren’t women because we’re not allowed to “invalidate” “transwomen.” This is the product of a culture that has put the prototypical elementary school teacher on a cultural pedestal while wussifying boys and men. 

The change in tone, the infantilization of adult political discourse, is most obvious in the legacy news media. There was never a golden age in which the New York Times, CNN, and CBS only told the truth straight down the middle, but there was a time in living memory when you could expect at least some facts, and almost no overt “feelings,” in the pages of the newspapers of record. 

Today? News anchors blatantly editorialize during their broadcasts. The entire legacy media is liberal and woke, and hates Donald Trump with an intensity usually reserved for intra-family generational grudges. Women like Rachel Maddow on MSNBC drone on in histrionic terms, telling Americans that the Republican Party is bringing authoritarianism and fascism to the country because the President wants to deport illegal aliens. 

While no one was looking it became mainstream cultural opinion, at least in the media, that’s it’s “mean” to kick people out of the U.S. who broke in illegally. In April of 2025 we were treated to the astonishing spectacle of elected U.S. officials flying to El Salvador to do “wellness checks” on a Salvadoran gang member who finally got booted out of the country, which makes liberals sad. 

That’s why it’s such a treat to watch top Trump advisor Stephen Miller bring back fully adult, masculine, fact-based authority to the political conversation. The man knows the constitution and U.S. law backward and forward, and he tolerates no mewling emotional nonsense from the mainstream press. 

Check out this scolding Miller gave the White House press corps, which seems to have no idea what legal due process actually is. Bafflingly, they’re more concerned about the alleged “legal rights” of foreign nationals who bust into the U.S. than they are about the fact that some of these aliens are raping and murdering American women. 

A good portion of the American public is glad to hear. Here’s how people reacted on X/Twitter. 

Of course, there are always a few who have a hard time understanding clear, declarative sentences. Or, perhaps they’re just “fact-sensitive.”

Hold onto your hat because I’m about to break some unbelievable news: two Democrat activist judge are actually going to face consequences for their illegal (in my view, treasonous) behavior. Both of them were caught hiding, or helping to escape, illegal aliens. That’s right. They were both on the side of illegal aliens and tried to help them evade arrest and deportation. 

First up is Milwaukee County Circuit judge Hannah Dugan, who found herself in handcuffs on April 25. Why? Because she tried to help an illegal alien–a defendant in her courtroom–escape detection by immigration officers. According to a complaint from the U.S. Dept. of Justice, judge Dugan was trying a case in which illegal Mexican alien Eduardo Flores-Ruiz was being tried for battery. Judge Dugan was apparently so upset at contemplating that the border jumper would be deported that, according to the DOJ, she led the defendant and his lawyer through a back door so he could evade federal agents in the lobby waiting to arrest him. 

FBI director Kash Patel said, “We believe Judge Dugan intentionally misdirected federal agents away from the subject to be arrested in her courthouse, Eduardo Flores Ruiz, allowing the subject — an illegal alien — to evade arrest.”

Next up is a former magistrate judge in New Mexico, Joel Cano, along with his wife, Nancy. The government claims judge Cano was hiding a member of the violent Venezualan gang Tren de Aragua gang, another illegal alien, in his own home. A photo from Fox News alleges to show Joel Cano and his family hanging out in the kitchen with the gang member. 

Attorney General Pam Bondi appeared on Fox News and described the brazen lawbreaking alleged against judge Dugan. She said, “She comes back into the courtroom. You’re not going to believe this. Takes the defendant and the defense attorney back in her chambers. Takes them out a private exit and tells them to leave. While the state prosecutor and victims of domestic violence are sitting in the courtroom.”

This shouldn’t be predictable because it’s insane, but it is predictable: the Democrats are losing their everloving minds. The very idea that a judge could be arrested for breaking the law seems to be entirely new to them. 

Here’s Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders:

Wisconsin’s Rep Gwen Moore is also having difficulty understanding the idea that judges cannot break the law, too. 

Here’s a sampling of reaction on X/Twitter. 

Border crossings plummeted 94% from a year ago, while arrests of illegal immigrants in March nearly matched the total for all of Fiscal Year 2024, according to new federal data. A Boarder Brief factsheet released by the U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security on Tuesday highlights U.S. Customs and Border Protection data for March that illustrates the drastic turnaround in the first few months of President Donald Trump’s second term.

The data shows apprehensions along the southern border have declined by 95%, from 137,473 in March 2024 to 7,181 last month, while border encounters nationwide are down 88%, from 189,359 to 11,017 over the same time frame.

“It sure is a breath of fresh air to have a president do what he said he would do,” committee chair Rep. Mark Green, R-Tenn., said in a statement. “With Southwest border apprehensions hitting yet another record-low, law and order is at an all-time high.

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Who knew? The Central American nation of El Salvador is 2025’s hottest vacation destination for Democrat politicians from the U.S. Why, it has everything. Sunny beaches, a good-looking president, and Kilmar Abrego Garcia. 

Who? How can you not know? Kilmar Abrego Garcia is a household name! Sadly, it’s true. Somehow, in year 2025, an illegal alien who broke into the United States, got slapped with domestic violence charges (that his wife later dropped), has a membership in the international criminal gang MS-13, and who was once stopped by a cop under suspicion of human trafficking, has become a name everyone on the left knows. 

And everyone on the political left, it seems, wants to be Garcia’s new best friend. The El Salvadoran national, whom the U.S. media insists on deceptively labeling a “Maryland man” or “Maryland father,” jumped the border in 2011. He met a woman and had children. Then cops stopped him in 2019 hanging around with known members of the MS-13 gang. 

Keep up, but remember that he’s an El Salvadoran man. He’s an illegal alien in the U.S. Notice how many years he was allowed to live here with no papers, absolutely unmolested by U.S. authorities. In the meantime, he roughed his wife up so much that she filed for a protective order, then, as so many battered women do, decided to stop pressing charges.

Then this year, Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested Garcia and got him ready for deportation, finally. The left went ballistic, claiming that he “could not be deported,” relying on a prior court order that said he could not be deported to El Salvador, his own country, because he might be hurt by gangs there. But he still was under a deportation order, which Democrats and the media pretend they don’t know. 

That alleged Salvadoran gang (different from MS-13) seems to no longer exist, making him deportable again. But in their zeal to stop an illegal alien gang member from being sent back home, leftists raced to court to get an order stopping his deportation. The Trump administration deported him anyway. 

Now we have the amazing spectacle of multiple elected Democrats flying to El Salvador to do a wellness check on a criminal who isn’t a U.S. citizen. First it was Maryland’s Chris Van Hollen, snapped in photos having a lovely coffee and bottled water tete a tete in El Salvador. 

Now Oregon Democrat Rep. Maxine Dexter is on her way to Central America, proudly proclaiming that she will not leave El Salvador until Kilmar Garcia is returned to the United States. You know, the U.S. in which he is not a citizen, and from which he has been deported. 

Tere’s no way to make any sense of it. Let’s see what X/Twitter users had to say about Dexter’s selfless humanitarian act. 

Four House Democrats arrived in El Salvador this week to protest the recent deportation of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national who had been living in Maryland before being removed from the United States.

The visit comes amid continued tensions over the Trump administration’s expanded immigration enforcement policies, including the deportation of individuals designated as affiliated with foreign criminal organizations.

Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA), one of the four House members who traveled to El Salvador, said the visit was intended to bring attention to what he called the “wrongful deportation” of Abrego Garcia.

“While Donald Trump continues to defy the Supreme Court, Kilmar Abrego Garcia is being held illegally in El Salvador after being wrongfully deported,” Garcia said.

“That is why we’re here – to remind the American people that kidnapping immigrants and deporting them without due process is not how we do things in America.”

The other Democratic lawmakers on the trip include Reps. Maxwell Frost (D-FL), Maxine Dexter (D-OR), and Yassamin Ansari (D-AZ), according to The New York Times.

Their visit follows a similar trip last week by Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), who also met with Abrego Garcia while in the country.

Abrego Garcia originally entered the U.S. illegally and was placed in removal proceedings.

In 2019, an immigration judge granted him a withholding of removal order based on concerns that he could face persecution if returned to El Salvador.

However, under President Donald Trump’s renewed immigration enforcement orders, Abrego Garcia was deported earlier this year.

The Trump administration has stated that Abrego Garcia is a confirmed member of the violent MS-13 gang and was prioritized for removal due to national security concerns.

Administration officials have pointed to gang-related evidence and public safety risks as justification for the deportation.

Stephen Miller, White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy, said last week that Abrego Garcia’s removal was lawful and deliberate.

“Abrego Garcia was not mistakenly deported,” Miller said. “A DOJ attorney mischaracterized the case, and that error was corrected. The claim that this was an accident is completely false.”

Abrego Garcia’s immigration case has become a flashpoint in the debate over the use of the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, which President Trump invoked earlier this year to accelerate the removal of individuals affiliated with designated foreign terrorist organizations, including MS-13.

The law has been cited in multiple deportation actions tied to public safety concerns.

According to court records, Abrego Garcia has been previously arrested in the U.S. and was flagged by the Department of Homeland Security due to suspected gang activity.

The administration has released photographs that it says show gang-affiliated tattoos linked to MS-13.

Democratic lawmakers have argued that even individuals with alleged gang affiliations are entitled to full due process and legal protections before being removed from the country.

The visit by House Democrats is likely to draw further political attention as the administration continues to defend its immigration enforcement actions.

President Trump has stated that the policy aims to remove violent offenders and restore order to a system that has, according to his administration, been exploited for years.

The White House has not issued a new statement in response to the latest congressional delegation’s trip but has maintained that its immigration enforcement efforts are in line with federal law and necessary for public safety.

Their trip did not go as planned…

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