Pirate's Cove

Seriously, the Washington Post and excitable writers Marianne LeVine and Adriana Usero don’t seem to get that sending chilling messages to illegals already here and ones who are thinking of coming is exactly the point

As Trump aides celebrate deportations, chilling message sent to migrants

As the Trump administration battled with a federal judge over the use of wartime powers to deport alleged gang members to El Salvador, the White House X account on Monday posted a video of migrants being handcuffed and sent away, to the soundtrack of the 1998 Semisonic hit “Closing Time,” a song that’s often associated with the end of a party.

“You don’t have to go home but you can’t stay here @CBP,” the White House posted, with musical note emojis — a reference to the song lyrics. The video was also posted on Team Trump’s TikTok and reposted by the official account for U.S. Customs and Border Protection, with the caption: “It’s closing time. We are making America safe again.”

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Monday that the video “sums up our immigration policy pretty well” and that the White House is “encouraging illegal immigrants to actively self-deport, to maybe save themselves from being in one of these fun videos.”

Obviously, this makes the unhinged illegal aliens supporters Upset, yet, you do not see them offering to house the illegals, do you?

Immigration experts, academics and political strategists see a communications approach that’s aimed at the administration’s core supporters and leans into a policy area where President Donald Trump polls more favorably compared with the economy or his overall job performance. During his presidential campaign, Trump said repeatedly that he viewed immigration and the border as the top issue for Americans over the economy.

But some immigration experts also described the use of humor as dehumanizing by minimizing the impact and repercussions of the government’s aggressive actions. They added that images of migrants in shackles boarding deportation flights contribute to Trump’s broad portrayal of undocumented immigrants as criminals, even though there’s little evidence that they commit crimes at a higher rate than U.S. citizens.

Are those experts, academics, and strategists housing illegals? Everything the Trump admin is doing is to disincentivize illegal immigration, as well as fake asylum seekers. And then massive drop in people showing up at the border from the Biden-Harris numbers is indicative that it is all working.

“The sense of humor really signals that the person consuming this message is in the in-group, they’re in on the joke,” said Natalia Banulescu-Bogdan, deputy director of the international program at the Migration Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank. “It amplifies the sense of accomplishment that is not readily apparent in the data. … In so doing, they’ve made a real choice to use dehumanizing and what I would say is a cruel juxtaposition of humor and suffering that is read by the other side.”

It’s like these wackos are denying one of the reasons Trump beat Kamala. Seriously, this is the kind of article that should appear in Media Matters, Salon, and other wacko lefty sites, not a major national newspaper. Shameful. And then they wonder why no one trusts them.

Looking to self-deport? There's an app for that.

The CBP Home app gives illegal aliens the option to self-deport, so they may still have the opportunity to return legally in the future and live the American dream. If they don’t, we will find them, and we will deport them. pic.twitter.com/1br0sFXLhV

— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) March 19, 2025