Reducing trade deficits also means reducing the number of US dollars that end up in foreign hands. Those dollars are typically recycled into US bonds. That’s the way the fake money model works.
In spite of what the mainstream media would have us believe, I believe that the ICE deportation activities are presently focused on the criminal and “non-contributing” elements of the illegal immigrant masses. They are not, at least at this juncture, focused on the contributors, ie those amongst the Rio Grande crossers who managed to get jobs in agriculture, construction, hospitality, etc. and are by all appearances obeying the laws of the country. But of course the media will always portray the deportation efforts as cruel and unusual heartlessness, and will hold up any exception to the above rule as exemplary of the entire operation. I think Bill’s assertion of the resource cost of deportation(dollars and Human Resources) will continue to drive this kind of prioritization, and the fact that this is simply the right thing to do and gets at the heart of what the American people are demanding that Trump do. And after all, it is the fact that we don’t know who these people are but we know that there are hundreds of thousands among them that have no good intentions for being in America that the deportation efforts must continue. And the bottom line remains the necessity to enforce immigration law and restore the integrity of the process.
“hundreds of thousands among them that have no good intentions”. Where do you get your statistics from? The same false media Bill gets his from? Or have illegals invaded your home and robbed you personally? Doubt it. Which makes your comment suspect and useless.
I get my statistics from Todd Bensman’s book Overrun, How Joe Biden Unleashed the Greatest Border Crisis in US History. I suggest you read it. Where do you get your statistics from? My guess is you don’t have any. Prove me wrong by poviding them along with your source.
Well let’s see. My dad was US Border Patrol and later US Immigration. On the northern border our house was a 100 yards from Canada, on the southern border, were I spent most of my life, our hose was 3 quarters of a mile from the Mexican border, an area now known as one of the largest smuggling corridors coming in from Mexico, human and drugs. I own apartments close to the border; so yea, I know a bit. But going back to your comment hundreds of thousands have no good intent, is a matter of semantics. You make sound like they are all here to murder us in our beds and rape our wives. What bure BS!! Now, if you want to get real, and suggest that 100s of 1000s are taking advantage of the freebies that we are too stupid to give away, yea your right. But whose fault if that? The majority just want a better life: a job, to be able to afford a car, to be able to raise their kids without some politico or drug lord taking away their hard-earned gains. Just like you! Let’s face it, if we shut the border down completely Las Vegas would dry up and blow away (well may be not, cause I’m sure your kids want to clean the shit and puck from those hotel rooms), farmers would go bankrupt with no one get their crops in, no one would be available to flip your burgers, and mow your lawn. So, are there mad terrorist bombers getting in? Yea probably a good number, because running people and drugs across the border is big business, with corrupt officials all over the place (no time for stories today). Some mordida here and there gets you in. Then there are the ones that want to rent my apartments, they want 15 people in a studio, they don’t live there, they just want a US address to collect benefits, AND THEY ARE LEGAL, and do they know how to milk benefits! Then there are the ones, in the 100s of 1000s, that come for free school, financial assistance, free medical care in some states, social assistance and the list goes on. But most want to come and work, and we need them. If we are going to get rid of all these ones that “mean us harm”, in your words, let’s get rid of them all, including: student loan freeloaders, welfare recipients, most government employees (local, state and federal), lazy farmers and businesspeople on government dole; and while we are at it public education administrators, and University professors.
<"Remember, the pool of homegrown labor is stagnant. There has been no increase in the number of jobs going to native born workers in the last five years. Without the foreigners, the US economy would scarcely have grown at all." >When
This is not true. For the month of May 2025, of the 139,00 new hires, 90% were native born. The foreign born job loss was anywhere from 195,00-400,00. He's too smart to not know this. There was actually a 1.04 million native born job gain from March 2025 to April 2025 Does he have a severe case of TDS? Source was Grok
As well as a Democrat policy group Who helped encourage illegal immigration as well as illegal voting.
How much to deport someone?How about almost nothing. Simply stop all foreign remunerations by anyone illegally in the united states. No proper residency no transferring money to any country. At the same time develop and aggressive immigration plan that allows for millions to work leavely in this country. Vetted individuals. No medicaid, no snap.No cell phone is no rent subsidies come here like previous waves of immigration. Immigration is not bad. We need it, just not this debacle.
With regards to illegal immigrants and unfilled construction jobs, this is false. I've been in the construction business for over 30 years and closely follow the industry trends. Just recently they raided a project near where I live and arrested most of the crew for one of the contractors on site. Contractors who use illegals gain competitive advantage by paying lower wages and benefits (if even offered). This undercuts companies doing things the right way i.e. legally and depresses wages for American trade workers. Agree with comments on college degrees, many of which are worthless. The construction industry, especially major industrial & commercial sectors, have long had issues with finding enough skilled trades. Many baby boomers are retiring and not enough to fill all the slots. Just perspective from someone who lives it every day.
I had a client who owned a roofing company. As many of you know , roofing is one of the highest workcomp charge businesses. He told me how one illegal on one job can completely affect the outcome of a bid. Then it became 2,3, 20, 100. Everyone thinks it's peach pickers and gardeners. These used to be high paying union jobs. It was one thing when illegals were at the low end of the market. I challenge you to find a white English-speaking. Bricklayer or Stone Mason. The high paid, high workk comp jobs went first. These men and women were at the top of the blue collar food chain. I guarantee millions of americans will take those jobs. We used to teach those jobs in high school. ...
First, to quote statistics from obviously biased sources shows incompetence. Surely BB learned that in grade school?
Second, how about discussing what it’s costing us to keep them here!
Third, the criminals ICE is targeting now are certainly a MAJOR drain on Americans. There’s no upside to having them here.
Fourth, cost doesn’t matter. This is a war and one we can’t afford to lose.
There’s a time and place for everything and once the criminals are gone there will be time to assess the remaining groups of immigrants and see who fits and who doesn’t.
"MAGA forces are up against a brick wall of unrelenting reality. No free lunches. No easy fixes. And no non-problem that can’t be turned into a real problem with the forceful application of a MAGA solution."
At least its not Joe or Kamala confronting the same brick wall. That 1 trillion to return illegals should be a poster child for the republicans to use against the democrats and the sanctuary cities. Cut off the money and you end the problem. That is not a one way door along the southern border. They can be pushed right back into Mexico just like they came in. Why the hell are we housing, feeding, and flying them around like celebrities.
Also, there are plenty of jobs out there for Americans, save the money from the illegals, and spend it on the getting the waste and fraud out of the american handout system. Even the mention of a living wage for american citizens makes me sick. All these riotors and shitbags that don't work for a living are getting paid by (tax free) by somebody. Round up about 100 of them, and ask them where they are from and what are they doing. I am sure there are few blessed hearts in the crowd, but the cream will come to the top. As far as LA, if they don't want help, let it burn and let them know that there will be no money to re-build. Desperate times require desperate actions.
Oh No!! An organization firmly opposed to deporting illegal immigrants says it will be too expensive!! Next Bill will ask Al Gore if CO2 is bad and ask Greta Thunderburger what it's like to be kidnapped. Bill is getting quite tiresome, but I stay for Tom and Dan.
There is really only one problem - out of control spending. And that is firmly the fault of congress (and all of us for electing such fools).
The old saying "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure" is relevant here with America's immigration issues. If we had a rational system, which we do not, we would have a work permit process whereby needed laborers could be vetted and processed and legally be employed where needed without becoming citizens and obtaining government benefits.
If we had no government handouts, American unskilled workers would be filling the "undesirable" jobs as they would have no other option. This would of course create strong incentives for individuals to acquire skills for better paying more desirable jobs.
In other words, if the free market was allowed to be a free market these problems would get solved voluntarily.
Good Luck removing millions upon millions of illegal migrants. The cat is already out of the bag.
Hi Bill, how about presenting the flip side? What will be the cost and consequences of not deporting I’ll illegals along with welfare handouts for as long as they live in US?
If Bongo Bill gave a reasonable and unbiased analysis of the situation, I would not be name calling. It is not what I prefer to do, but he has become a total farce. What is unbecoming is that you cannot see it and give him a pass because in every column he does make a few reasonable statements, which are unfortunately undone by mostly exaggerated claptrap. He has become unhinged in his analysis and because he might write a couple things you agree with, you give him a pass on the garbage. I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt here - I'm assuming you can see the garbage. It is quite obvious from the comments that most people who post here see the garbage, exaggerations, and falsehoods that Bonner spews.
What baffles me are those that pontificate daily that they don't but, like moths attracted to a flame, refuse to find opinion-makers who views they do like
Foremost, I recall no one persuasively and without acrimony and name calling explaining why their opinion "trumps" his, you included.
Well, Jimm, if you weren't so biased on the side of Bonner, you would realize that there are many commenters on this page that are very persuasive. I don't know why you have anointed yourself as Bonner's defender and why you don't see the, at minimum, sarcasm in his columns (to put it mildly). Bonner gets the pushback that he does on this page because his comments are offensive in many cases, and untruthful because he distorts and exaggerates what the facts are. And then draws conclusions based on his distortions.
Are you suggesting that the only people that are allowed to read Bonner are those that agree with him? Or that the commenters on this page only read Bonner and don't get info from other sources. It's a ludicrous supposition. I have given detailed rebuttals to Bonner's columns in the past. It is no longer worth my time to do so as I, unlike Bonner, refuse to think of one thousand different ways to say the same thing over and over again.
John, My schedule permitting, I read many of the comments. I gain perspective from all but few are persuasive or educational.
Foremost, I find the retorts have no there there; just creative invective, adoration of Trump and/or hatred for undocumented immigrants.
If you have crafted a response justifying why you are disagreeing with something Bill wrote, then I missed it.
I generally read your comments because you are among the few who don't hide behind a pseudonym.
Your latest ones, however, posit you as the Head Cheerleader of Bill's audacity to proclaim views you don't like for reasons you don't authoritatively justify
I love y'all; I truly do. I'm thankful for each one of you, even those with whom I disagree. I'm done. We're on our own. Truth is we always have been and always will be. Best always. PM
P.S. MAGA is not primarily a political idea, movement, or candidate; it is a mindset, a set of values, and a way of life, which, it appears, we let get away. PM
Brother Paul, a few years ago I was given a few months to live by my highly educated doctors. Truly love them all, and had only one problem with their diagnosis. Not all people are created equal, and I was not the normal patient. I don’t give up and would never quit! Two years later I’m still fighting and I’m improving every month. Love the challenge which makes me stronger! The reality is we are all on our own, and have been since birth, because we have no one to blame for anything but ourselves. Praise or criticism for our actions, it’s all on us. So stick with us brother, and continue your journey and fight with us because we so appreciate you and support who you are and the battle you fight💪. Faith, love and support is the gift that gets us through the toughest times, and God will continue to provide if you ask. You may not believe in him, but he believes in you 💕
Most appreciative of all you say. I'm also a fighter, but I know a hopeless case when I see one. With the arrival of Mr. Trump, Mr. Bonner became a monomaniac. I will continue to observe from the sidelines. He's still a fine writer.
The bigger deal here is your continued perseverance and determination, presenting us a priceless, real-world example. I salute your courage, your grit, and your success. As Yogi Berra said, "It ain't over 'til it's over." My Mom is 2 months away from 97. Keep going. PM
Whatever MAGA is, it's responsible for electing a person who has values that are deplorable and who simply refuses to produce a budget than will not exacerbate the deficit
Jimm, come on... name me a president since Kennedy that produced a budget that Congress authorized (continuing resolutions don't count) which did NOT "exacerbate" the deficit. It's been a team effort, buddy. Vote buying is expensive. Best always. PM
P.S. I'm of the camp that says and thinks that when it comes to values and choices, America was a better place in 1960 than 2025. Now, you can take me to task for thinking that way; that's your privilege and prerogative. I wish that someone less controversial and polarizing other than PDJT could have taken the stand he did, but he is the one that decided to fight, and so he became the one I support, not by choice, not by preference, but by circumstance. He called his platform "MAGA", but the spirit, state of mind, and values that drive MAGA were there before PDJT and will be there long after he's gone. Looks like you may have to deal with that. PM
Paul, You are a yearning soul for a past that I experienced.
It's my reference point for life's small (e.g., I still don a coat and tie when invited to dine out) and large moments (e. g., a prudent, courteous and cautious president)
More: I don't blame the president's for pumping up the deficit as much as I do the Congress. The latter has the purse strings but, for the last half century, round heels too
I'll look forward to the MAGA after PDJT is gone and no longer able to exploit it. I'm anticipating his impeachment and removal in the months following the mid-term elections.
Your take on a possible impeachment and its timing are interesting. MAGA will always exist, but it won't hold sway in ten years, when the white "boomer" (especially male) demographic is gone, the white demographic overall is no longer the "majority", and if big-government socialism comes back in style. I'll be gone by then, one way or another.
My son told me once: "Face it, Dad: The good times are never coming back." The past is the past; however that doesn't mean there is nothing to be learned from compare and contrast. Yes, I'm old-school. One of Kurt Vonnegut's themes which he liked to examine was the tendency in our modern era for Man to outlive himself. He wanted to sue American Tobacco over the fact that Pall Mall cigarettes did NOT kill him, or at least not in timely fashion. Best always. PM
P.S. I was in the bank the other day to discuss aspects of one of my accounts with an account representative. I wore a suit and tie to the interview. Every other man (customer not staff) in the building was in sandals, no socks, shorts, and T-shirt (or some variation). "You see them wearing their baggies, huaraches sandals, too, a bushy, bushy blond hairdo, Surfin' USA." (Mike Love, 1962). Appropriate for the beach, but not for anywhere else. PM
"You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state" Milton Friedman
If we need immigrants to fill labor demands how about legal immigrants that come here to work with jobs in place that will not strain our social services? And legal immigrants that want to assimilate to our American ideals based on Judeo/Christian values found in the Bible... Without a high trust and moral population, a democratic republic cannot survive. I am a Libertarian in thought and absolutely was always taught, believe in, and promote charity for those in need. But I do realize that we as a society are judged on how we care for our poor. However, if we bankrupt ourselves taking in all of the poor of the world, we cannot help ourselves or others. We hear this every time we board an airplane!
Whenever a society gets too "advanced" to do its own dirty work, that society's days are numbered. We put our working class on welfare in the 60s for the sake of securing their votes, thereby opening the door for a new working class which could be paid, at first, under the table, and then were simply moved in EN MASSE for a takeover of the country. It is physically impossible for a "country" of 330,000,000 to have a "labor shortage". Kill welfare and see how many people will take low-skill, "grunt" employment. People fought, literally, for those jobs in the Depression. Vote-buying killed the country. Best always. PM
Bill never criticizes the massive law-breaking performed for four years by the Biden Amin., allowing in about 8M-10M third-world peasants; and, 98% of them would vote for the far-left Democrats, if they were ever provided amnesty, which is the Dems' ultimate goal here. They don't care about these people. They will just herd them like cattle into the voting booths, post-amnesty. And Bill doesn't mention the cost of these people piling into U.S. third-world cities that dish out massive amounts of welfare to them. He quotes from every pro-illegal-peasant publication to try to justify this nonsense, no true conservative publications (the WSJ has always been for open borders).
And as one journalist at Breitbart pointed out last year: If these folks are such a plus, how in the world did the U.S. before 2021 ever survive without them? How come the overall debt continued to grow during the Biden years?
In the late-1990s-early-2000s, when conservatives were complaining about all the jobs shipped overseas, free traders pointed out that there would have to be a difficult transition period of adjustment; that tech jobs would eventually replace almost all the jobs lost, and that free trade would build a middle-class in China that would eventually overthrow the authoritarian govt. (which simply used lots of the money handed to them to build up their police state and military).
None of this has occurred except to grow the U.S. public and private debt from $34T to $100T over 25 years in order to prop up jobs lost to the massive jobs giveaway to overseas authoritarian countries; or, the middle-class would have revolted. (And the RINO Bushies and Obama-Biden leftists didn't help with a massive increase in onerous regulations on U.S. businesses.) And now free traders like Bill are telling us that the transition period to reverse much of this free-trade/open borders nonsense will be extremely difficult, so why even try? Talk about hypocrisy!
Wow! ...more evidence of your blatant bias Bill... one group opens the border to allow 'ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION' to explode to crazy unsustainable levels... pretty much insuring major problems for the U.S. for decades to come..... a new group is voted in... due in no small part to the aforementioned fiasco created by an 'open border' policy. The newly elected group begins trying to fix the problem, and lo and behold... our dear BB not only has nothing bad to say about those who created and implemented the horrible policy... but also has nothing good to say about those trying to fix it. Bill, it's becoming quite difficult to not believe that you do really hate the U.S. of A. .... just sayin'
There is another factor in the deportations. As illegals see their fellows being rounded up and maybe not being handled quite so gently, some of them will chose to head back across one of our borders, to Mexico or maybe to Canada, where Carney will probably welcome them with open arms...
I stopped reading Bill long ago. Stopped by periodically to see if anything changed.
What has changed you all, who read and respond, are sick and tired of the daily rant against this administration and Trump in particular. This used to be an economy-based read with tidbits about Ireland life. That is why I joined.
Hey everyone, I got to read Bill Bonner’s Missive to President Trump this morning at the weekly CIA briefing and here is what happened:
President Donald J. Trump sat at the head of the titanium horseshoe table, arms folded, his famous brow furrowed not with worry, but sheer annoyance.
“I don’t know why I gotta sit through this garbage every week,” he muttered under his breath, “but they say it’s protocol.”
When the final word echoed off the bunker wall, a long pause followed. President Trump shifted in his chair, looked around, then leaned forward…
PRESIDENT TRUMP:
“Well, folks, I just heard that whole long… beautifully written, very dramatic, very sad little essay, probably from some failing newspaper, maybe ghostwritten by CNN’s janitor after hours, and I gotta say: total nonsense. Fake numbers, fake logic, and very fake outrage. The truth? I saved this country. The border? Safer than ever. The economy? Booming. And deporting illegal aliens? That’s called enforcing the law. You break the law, you go home. It’s very simple. They say it’s expensive, well, you know what’s more expensive? Letting millions of people break into your house and eat your food and take your job. Not under my watch! We’re putting America First again, something these globalist clowns don’t understand.”
Two very well-known personalities were also in the room… and here’s what they had to say!
P1:
“Look, I used to think the term “dumpster fire” was just a metaphor for California’s policies, but after hearing that missive, I realize it’s actually their plan. Trump isn’t the problem, he’s the firewall. Deporting illegals, cutting dependence on foreign junk, making America manufacture again, that’s not xenophobia, that’s just how grown-ups run a country. If enforcing the law offends you, maybe you’re on the wrong side of it. End of story.”
P2:
“Let me tell you, I was a liberal, until I realized liberalism became a punchline. Trump’s not the villain, he’s the adult in the room. You want to save Social Security? Secure the border. Want to raise wages? Cut off the illegal labor undercutting Americans. The media’s allergic to common sense, but President Trump, love him or hate him, he’s got it. He’s the one guy who actually gives a damn about the working class, and for that, I salute him.”
What a beauty that turned out to be! Thank you Bill!
And please Egypt, tell Mr President that even though I was never a fan, he was our only choice and hope for America’s future. The option was total and complete failure as we’ve seen with his predecessor. So please thank him for trying to MAGA and know that he still has the support and backing of 75% of America. The other 25% are known criminals, severely mentally compromised or satanist who love pain and suffering. Or the New Democrat Party 🤔
In spite of what the mainstream media would have us believe, I believe that the ICE deportation activities are presently focused on the criminal and “non-contributing” elements of the illegal immigrant masses. They are not, at least at this juncture, focused on the contributors, ie those amongst the Rio Grande crossers who managed to get jobs in agriculture, construction, hospitality, etc. and are by all appearances obeying the laws of the country. But of course the media will always portray the deportation efforts as cruel and unusual heartlessness, and will hold up any exception to the above rule as exemplary of the entire operation. I think Bill’s assertion of the resource cost of deportation(dollars and Human Resources) will continue to drive this kind of prioritization, and the fact that this is simply the right thing to do and gets at the heart of what the American people are demanding that Trump do. And after all, it is the fact that we don’t know who these people are but we know that there are hundreds of thousands among them that have no good intentions for being in America that the deportation efforts must continue. And the bottom line remains the necessity to enforce immigration law and restore the integrity of the process.
“hundreds of thousands among them that have no good intentions”. Where do you get your statistics from? The same false media Bill gets his from? Or have illegals invaded your home and robbed you personally? Doubt it. Which makes your comment suspect and useless.
I get my statistics from Todd Bensman’s book Overrun, How Joe Biden Unleashed the Greatest Border Crisis in US History. I suggest you read it. Where do you get your statistics from? My guess is you don’t have any. Prove me wrong by poviding them along with your source.
Well let’s see. My dad was US Border Patrol and later US Immigration. On the northern border our house was a 100 yards from Canada, on the southern border, were I spent most of my life, our hose was 3 quarters of a mile from the Mexican border, an area now known as one of the largest smuggling corridors coming in from Mexico, human and drugs. I own apartments close to the border; so yea, I know a bit. But going back to your comment hundreds of thousands have no good intent, is a matter of semantics. You make sound like they are all here to murder us in our beds and rape our wives. What bure BS!! Now, if you want to get real, and suggest that 100s of 1000s are taking advantage of the freebies that we are too stupid to give away, yea your right. But whose fault if that? The majority just want a better life: a job, to be able to afford a car, to be able to raise their kids without some politico or drug lord taking away their hard-earned gains. Just like you! Let’s face it, if we shut the border down completely Las Vegas would dry up and blow away (well may be not, cause I’m sure your kids want to clean the shit and puck from those hotel rooms), farmers would go bankrupt with no one get their crops in, no one would be available to flip your burgers, and mow your lawn. So, are there mad terrorist bombers getting in? Yea probably a good number, because running people and drugs across the border is big business, with corrupt officials all over the place (no time for stories today). Some mordida here and there gets you in. Then there are the ones that want to rent my apartments, they want 15 people in a studio, they don’t live there, they just want a US address to collect benefits, AND THEY ARE LEGAL, and do they know how to milk benefits! Then there are the ones, in the 100s of 1000s, that come for free school, financial assistance, free medical care in some states, social assistance and the list goes on. But most want to come and work, and we need them. If we are going to get rid of all these ones that “mean us harm”, in your words, let’s get rid of them all, including: student loan freeloaders, welfare recipients, most government employees (local, state and federal), lazy farmers and businesspeople on government dole; and while we are at it public education administrators, and University professors.
Using the American Immigration Council as a source for your data ? Are you serious ? You’re losing credibility daily.
<"Remember, the pool of homegrown labor is stagnant. There has been no increase in the number of jobs going to native born workers in the last five years. Without the foreigners, the US economy would scarcely have grown at all." >When
This is not true. For the month of May 2025, of the 139,00 new hires, 90% were native born. The foreign born job loss was anywhere from 195,00-400,00. He's too smart to not know this. There was actually a 1.04 million native born job gain from March 2025 to April 2025 Does he have a severe case of TDS? Source was Grok
As well as a Democrat policy group Who helped encourage illegal immigration as well as illegal voting.
How much to deport someone?How about almost nothing. Simply stop all foreign remunerations by anyone illegally in the united states. No proper residency no transferring money to any country. At the same time develop and aggressive immigration plan that allows for millions to work leavely in this country. Vetted individuals. No medicaid, no snap.No cell phone is no rent subsidies come here like previous waves of immigration. Immigration is not bad. We need it, just not this debacle.
With regards to illegal immigrants and unfilled construction jobs, this is false. I've been in the construction business for over 30 years and closely follow the industry trends. Just recently they raided a project near where I live and arrested most of the crew for one of the contractors on site. Contractors who use illegals gain competitive advantage by paying lower wages and benefits (if even offered). This undercuts companies doing things the right way i.e. legally and depresses wages for American trade workers. Agree with comments on college degrees, many of which are worthless. The construction industry, especially major industrial & commercial sectors, have long had issues with finding enough skilled trades. Many baby boomers are retiring and not enough to fill all the slots. Just perspective from someone who lives it every day.
I had a client who owned a roofing company. As many of you know , roofing is one of the highest workcomp charge businesses. He told me how one illegal on one job can completely affect the outcome of a bid. Then it became 2,3, 20, 100. Everyone thinks it's peach pickers and gardeners. These used to be high paying union jobs. It was one thing when illegals were at the low end of the market. I challenge you to find a white English-speaking. Bricklayer or Stone Mason. The high paid, high workk comp jobs went first. These men and women were at the top of the blue collar food chain. I guarantee millions of americans will take those jobs. We used to teach those jobs in high school. ...
Well, another round of bullxxxx.
First, to quote statistics from obviously biased sources shows incompetence. Surely BB learned that in grade school?
Second, how about discussing what it’s costing us to keep them here!
Third, the criminals ICE is targeting now are certainly a MAJOR drain on Americans. There’s no upside to having them here.
Fourth, cost doesn’t matter. This is a war and one we can’t afford to lose.
There’s a time and place for everything and once the criminals are gone there will be time to assess the remaining groups of immigrants and see who fits and who doesn’t.
Fifth, have a great day.
God bless you, BB. You need it.
"Well, another round of bullxxxx." So true and to the point.
"MAGA forces are up against a brick wall of unrelenting reality. No free lunches. No easy fixes. And no non-problem that can’t be turned into a real problem with the forceful application of a MAGA solution."
At least its not Joe or Kamala confronting the same brick wall. That 1 trillion to return illegals should be a poster child for the republicans to use against the democrats and the sanctuary cities. Cut off the money and you end the problem. That is not a one way door along the southern border. They can be pushed right back into Mexico just like they came in. Why the hell are we housing, feeding, and flying them around like celebrities.
Also, there are plenty of jobs out there for Americans, save the money from the illegals, and spend it on the getting the waste and fraud out of the american handout system. Even the mention of a living wage for american citizens makes me sick. All these riotors and shitbags that don't work for a living are getting paid by (tax free) by somebody. Round up about 100 of them, and ask them where they are from and what are they doing. I am sure there are few blessed hearts in the crowd, but the cream will come to the top. As far as LA, if they don't want help, let it burn and let them know that there will be no money to re-build. Desperate times require desperate actions.
Oh No!! An organization firmly opposed to deporting illegal immigrants says it will be too expensive!! Next Bill will ask Al Gore if CO2 is bad and ask Greta Thunderburger what it's like to be kidnapped. Bill is getting quite tiresome, but I stay for Tom and Dan.
There is really only one problem - out of control spending. And that is firmly the fault of congress (and all of us for electing such fools).
Thank you, Erik. Any further rebuttal of Bongo Bill's musings is a waste of time.
The old saying "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure" is relevant here with America's immigration issues. If we had a rational system, which we do not, we would have a work permit process whereby needed laborers could be vetted and processed and legally be employed where needed without becoming citizens and obtaining government benefits.
If we had no government handouts, American unskilled workers would be filling the "undesirable" jobs as they would have no other option. This would of course create strong incentives for individuals to acquire skills for better paying more desirable jobs.
In other words, if the free market was allowed to be a free market these problems would get solved voluntarily.
Good Luck removing millions upon millions of illegal migrants. The cat is already out of the bag.
Hi Bill, how about presenting the flip side? What will be the cost and consequences of not deporting I’ll illegals along with welfare handouts for as long as they live in US?
Because Bongo Bill is a biased hack.
Name calling is unbecoming a man of your age. Tiresome too
If Bongo Bill gave a reasonable and unbiased analysis of the situation, I would not be name calling. It is not what I prefer to do, but he has become a total farce. What is unbecoming is that you cannot see it and give him a pass because in every column he does make a few reasonable statements, which are unfortunately undone by mostly exaggerated claptrap. He has become unhinged in his analysis and because he might write a couple things you agree with, you give him a pass on the garbage. I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt here - I'm assuming you can see the garbage. It is quite obvious from the comments that most people who post here see the garbage, exaggerations, and falsehoods that Bonner spews.
He's penning his opinions. I like most of them.
What baffles me are those that pontificate daily that they don't but, like moths attracted to a flame, refuse to find opinion-makers who views they do like
Foremost, I recall no one persuasively and without acrimony and name calling explaining why their opinion "trumps" his, you included.
Well, Jimm, if you weren't so biased on the side of Bonner, you would realize that there are many commenters on this page that are very persuasive. I don't know why you have anointed yourself as Bonner's defender and why you don't see the, at minimum, sarcasm in his columns (to put it mildly). Bonner gets the pushback that he does on this page because his comments are offensive in many cases, and untruthful because he distorts and exaggerates what the facts are. And then draws conclusions based on his distortions.
Are you suggesting that the only people that are allowed to read Bonner are those that agree with him? Or that the commenters on this page only read Bonner and don't get info from other sources. It's a ludicrous supposition. I have given detailed rebuttals to Bonner's columns in the past. It is no longer worth my time to do so as I, unlike Bonner, refuse to think of one thousand different ways to say the same thing over and over again.
John, My schedule permitting, I read many of the comments. I gain perspective from all but few are persuasive or educational.
Foremost, I find the retorts have no there there; just creative invective, adoration of Trump and/or hatred for undocumented immigrants.
If you have crafted a response justifying why you are disagreeing with something Bill wrote, then I missed it.
I generally read your comments because you are among the few who don't hide behind a pseudonym.
Your latest ones, however, posit you as the Head Cheerleader of Bill's audacity to proclaim views you don't like for reasons you don't authoritatively justify
I love y'all; I truly do. I'm thankful for each one of you, even those with whom I disagree. I'm done. We're on our own. Truth is we always have been and always will be. Best always. PM
P.S. MAGA is not primarily a political idea, movement, or candidate; it is a mindset, a set of values, and a way of life, which, it appears, we let get away. PM
Brother Paul, a few years ago I was given a few months to live by my highly educated doctors. Truly love them all, and had only one problem with their diagnosis. Not all people are created equal, and I was not the normal patient. I don’t give up and would never quit! Two years later I’m still fighting and I’m improving every month. Love the challenge which makes me stronger! The reality is we are all on our own, and have been since birth, because we have no one to blame for anything but ourselves. Praise or criticism for our actions, it’s all on us. So stick with us brother, and continue your journey and fight with us because we so appreciate you and support who you are and the battle you fight💪. Faith, love and support is the gift that gets us through the toughest times, and God will continue to provide if you ask. You may not believe in him, but he believes in you 💕
Most appreciative of all you say. I'm also a fighter, but I know a hopeless case when I see one. With the arrival of Mr. Trump, Mr. Bonner became a monomaniac. I will continue to observe from the sidelines. He's still a fine writer.
The bigger deal here is your continued perseverance and determination, presenting us a priceless, real-world example. I salute your courage, your grit, and your success. As Yogi Berra said, "It ain't over 'til it's over." My Mom is 2 months away from 97. Keep going. PM
I would rather you stay, but good luck. You can still see Bonner playing the Bongos on YouTube.
I don't see the point. Hilarious, though, that Trump owns Bonner to the extent that he does. Best always. PM
All strength and gifts from above 😇💪💕
Whatever MAGA is, it's responsible for electing a person who has values that are deplorable and who simply refuses to produce a budget than will not exacerbate the deficit
Jimm, come on... name me a president since Kennedy that produced a budget that Congress authorized (continuing resolutions don't count) which did NOT "exacerbate" the deficit. It's been a team effort, buddy. Vote buying is expensive. Best always. PM
P.S. I'm of the camp that says and thinks that when it comes to values and choices, America was a better place in 1960 than 2025. Now, you can take me to task for thinking that way; that's your privilege and prerogative. I wish that someone less controversial and polarizing other than PDJT could have taken the stand he did, but he is the one that decided to fight, and so he became the one I support, not by choice, not by preference, but by circumstance. He called his platform "MAGA", but the spirit, state of mind, and values that drive MAGA were there before PDJT and will be there long after he's gone. Looks like you may have to deal with that. PM
Paul, You are a yearning soul for a past that I experienced.
It's my reference point for life's small (e.g., I still don a coat and tie when invited to dine out) and large moments (e. g., a prudent, courteous and cautious president)
More: I don't blame the president's for pumping up the deficit as much as I do the Congress. The latter has the purse strings but, for the last half century, round heels too
I'll look forward to the MAGA after PDJT is gone and no longer able to exploit it. I'm anticipating his impeachment and removal in the months following the mid-term elections.
Your take on a possible impeachment and its timing are interesting. MAGA will always exist, but it won't hold sway in ten years, when the white "boomer" (especially male) demographic is gone, the white demographic overall is no longer the "majority", and if big-government socialism comes back in style. I'll be gone by then, one way or another.
My son told me once: "Face it, Dad: The good times are never coming back." The past is the past; however that doesn't mean there is nothing to be learned from compare and contrast. Yes, I'm old-school. One of Kurt Vonnegut's themes which he liked to examine was the tendency in our modern era for Man to outlive himself. He wanted to sue American Tobacco over the fact that Pall Mall cigarettes did NOT kill him, or at least not in timely fashion. Best always. PM
P.S. I was in the bank the other day to discuss aspects of one of my accounts with an account representative. I wore a suit and tie to the interview. Every other man (customer not staff) in the building was in sandals, no socks, shorts, and T-shirt (or some variation). "You see them wearing their baggies, huaraches sandals, too, a bushy, bushy blond hairdo, Surfin' USA." (Mike Love, 1962). Appropriate for the beach, but not for anywhere else. PM
Twenty five years ago, my secretary told me of a chance encounter. She happened to sit next to a celebrity on an airplane.
What she remembered from their conversation was his erudition.
But of all he said, she only remembered his statement that, in the USA, Caucasians will become a minority in the 21st Century.
MAGA nor thee or me can stop the future a-coming.
This future makes me feel blessed to have been born when FDR was president and reared in Ike's tenure
"You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state" Milton Friedman
If we need immigrants to fill labor demands how about legal immigrants that come here to work with jobs in place that will not strain our social services? And legal immigrants that want to assimilate to our American ideals based on Judeo/Christian values found in the Bible... Without a high trust and moral population, a democratic republic cannot survive. I am a Libertarian in thought and absolutely was always taught, believe in, and promote charity for those in need. But I do realize that we as a society are judged on how we care for our poor. However, if we bankrupt ourselves taking in all of the poor of the world, we cannot help ourselves or others. We hear this every time we board an airplane!
Whenever a society gets too "advanced" to do its own dirty work, that society's days are numbered. We put our working class on welfare in the 60s for the sake of securing their votes, thereby opening the door for a new working class which could be paid, at first, under the table, and then were simply moved in EN MASSE for a takeover of the country. It is physically impossible for a "country" of 330,000,000 to have a "labor shortage". Kill welfare and see how many people will take low-skill, "grunt" employment. People fought, literally, for those jobs in the Depression. Vote-buying killed the country. Best always. PM
The Federal government's excessive spending is for American citizens, foremost Medicare, Social Security and the Military.
Bill never criticizes the massive law-breaking performed for four years by the Biden Amin., allowing in about 8M-10M third-world peasants; and, 98% of them would vote for the far-left Democrats, if they were ever provided amnesty, which is the Dems' ultimate goal here. They don't care about these people. They will just herd them like cattle into the voting booths, post-amnesty. And Bill doesn't mention the cost of these people piling into U.S. third-world cities that dish out massive amounts of welfare to them. He quotes from every pro-illegal-peasant publication to try to justify this nonsense, no true conservative publications (the WSJ has always been for open borders).
And as one journalist at Breitbart pointed out last year: If these folks are such a plus, how in the world did the U.S. before 2021 ever survive without them? How come the overall debt continued to grow during the Biden years?
In the late-1990s-early-2000s, when conservatives were complaining about all the jobs shipped overseas, free traders pointed out that there would have to be a difficult transition period of adjustment; that tech jobs would eventually replace almost all the jobs lost, and that free trade would build a middle-class in China that would eventually overthrow the authoritarian govt. (which simply used lots of the money handed to them to build up their police state and military).
None of this has occurred except to grow the U.S. public and private debt from $34T to $100T over 25 years in order to prop up jobs lost to the massive jobs giveaway to overseas authoritarian countries; or, the middle-class would have revolted. (And the RINO Bushies and Obama-Biden leftists didn't help with a massive increase in onerous regulations on U.S. businesses.) And now free traders like Bill are telling us that the transition period to reverse much of this free-trade/open borders nonsense will be extremely difficult, so why even try? Talk about hypocrisy!
Wow! ...more evidence of your blatant bias Bill... one group opens the border to allow 'ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION' to explode to crazy unsustainable levels... pretty much insuring major problems for the U.S. for decades to come..... a new group is voted in... due in no small part to the aforementioned fiasco created by an 'open border' policy. The newly elected group begins trying to fix the problem, and lo and behold... our dear BB not only has nothing bad to say about those who created and implemented the horrible policy... but also has nothing good to say about those trying to fix it. Bill, it's becoming quite difficult to not believe that you do really hate the U.S. of A. .... just sayin'
There is another factor in the deportations. As illegals see their fellows being rounded up and maybe not being handled quite so gently, some of them will chose to head back across one of our borders, to Mexico or maybe to Canada, where Carney will probably welcome them with open arms...
I stopped reading Bill long ago. Stopped by periodically to see if anything changed.
What has changed you all, who read and respond, are sick and tired of the daily rant against this administration and Trump in particular. This used to be an economy-based read with tidbits about Ireland life. That is why I joined.
• Cause labor shortages in key industries, removing 225,000 workers in agriculture and 1.5 million workers in construction
Will someone please explain this to me?
I own a small manufacturing plant in a sanctuary state, in a sanctuary city.
The demographics here are overwhelmingly Hispanic... my guess 90%.
I am threatened with civil and criminal sanctions if I hire an illegal.
It is against Federal law to hire an illegal.
How can others hire illegals?
You said you are small in a Blue State. How big are your contributions to the Blue Party ?
...contributions?
Interesting word...
The "contributions" are big indeed.
Sometimes I think I support the entire DNC...
Mandatory "contributions" are ripped from the assets, stolen from receivables, confiscated from payroll, surrendered under duress purchasing.
Voluntary contributions?
No.
Hey everyone, I got to read Bill Bonner’s Missive to President Trump this morning at the weekly CIA briefing and here is what happened:
President Donald J. Trump sat at the head of the titanium horseshoe table, arms folded, his famous brow furrowed not with worry, but sheer annoyance.
“I don’t know why I gotta sit through this garbage every week,” he muttered under his breath, “but they say it’s protocol.”
When the final word echoed off the bunker wall, a long pause followed. President Trump shifted in his chair, looked around, then leaned forward…
PRESIDENT TRUMP:
“Well, folks, I just heard that whole long… beautifully written, very dramatic, very sad little essay, probably from some failing newspaper, maybe ghostwritten by CNN’s janitor after hours, and I gotta say: total nonsense. Fake numbers, fake logic, and very fake outrage. The truth? I saved this country. The border? Safer than ever. The economy? Booming. And deporting illegal aliens? That’s called enforcing the law. You break the law, you go home. It’s very simple. They say it’s expensive, well, you know what’s more expensive? Letting millions of people break into your house and eat your food and take your job. Not under my watch! We’re putting America First again, something these globalist clowns don’t understand.”
Two very well-known personalities were also in the room… and here’s what they had to say!
P1:
“Look, I used to think the term “dumpster fire” was just a metaphor for California’s policies, but after hearing that missive, I realize it’s actually their plan. Trump isn’t the problem, he’s the firewall. Deporting illegals, cutting dependence on foreign junk, making America manufacture again, that’s not xenophobia, that’s just how grown-ups run a country. If enforcing the law offends you, maybe you’re on the wrong side of it. End of story.”
P2:
“Let me tell you, I was a liberal, until I realized liberalism became a punchline. Trump’s not the villain, he’s the adult in the room. You want to save Social Security? Secure the border. Want to raise wages? Cut off the illegal labor undercutting Americans. The media’s allergic to common sense, but President Trump, love him or hate him, he’s got it. He’s the one guy who actually gives a damn about the working class, and for that, I salute him.”
What a beauty that turned out to be! Thank you Bill!
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And please Egypt, tell Mr President that even though I was never a fan, he was our only choice and hope for America’s future. The option was total and complete failure as we’ve seen with his predecessor. So please thank him for trying to MAGA and know that he still has the support and backing of 75% of America. The other 25% are known criminals, severely mentally compromised or satanist who love pain and suffering. Or the New Democrat Party 🤔