CHANGE: Trump administration to fine illegal migrants $998 a day unless they self-deport.

“Illegal aliens should use the CBP Home app to self-deport and leave the country now,” Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in an interview with Fox News on Tuesday. “If they don’t, they will face the consequences. This includes a fine of $998 per day for every day that the illegal alien overstayed their final deportation order.”

The administration is using a 1996 law that will allow illegal migrants to be fined if they don’t leave the U.S.

Property can also be seized from illegal migrants who don’t pay the fine.

A flyer was given to Fox News Digital that showed the “benefits” and “consequences” of self-deporting through the CBP app.

Mitt Romney was mocked for suggesting self-deportation in 2012 but change the incentives and it will happen.

KAROL MARKOWICZ: Democrats lit the ‘assassination culture’ fuse — now their silence equals violence.

Related:

Democrats routinely call for street violence and refuse to condemn it when it happens because they know it’s effective. Weak losers like Mitt Romney and Amy Barrett get eaten alive by these tactics.

The failed assassination of Kavanaugh wasn’t a failure. It was a huge success. https://t.co/NF0UCfNPLD

— Jesse Kelly (@JesseKellyDC) April 8, 2025

Plus: Let’s Kill the Republicans. “It has been a while since Democrats have assassinated a Republican president, but that peaceful interlude may be ending soon.”

Stop tolerating this behavior and hold those behind it accountable.

WELL, THAT’S A PROBLEM:

A single shipyard in China can, within a year, out-produce decades worth of ships in the US. That’s a huge problem.

An unclassified slide released by U.S. naval intelligence last year estimated that China’s total shipbuilding capacity was now more than 632 times that of the US. https://t.co/AtWFUuA7UP

— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) April 8, 2025

THERE AREN’T BOOKS TOO BIG TO THROW AT PEOPLE WHO DO THIS: Justice Is Coming: Florida Busts International Child Porn Ring.

MY FELLOW PROMETHEUS AWARD WINNER (AND FRIEND) DAVE FREER TALKS ABOUT HIS UPCOMING BOOK:  STORM-DRAGON by Dave Freer.

IT’S MORE LIKE ANOTHER BREED OF DOG, IF YOU LOOK INTO IT:  Genetic Scientists Mix Dire Wolf and Grey Wolf Genes, Producing Ethics Debates.

BYE-BYE:   DHS Has a Message for Migrants Using the CBP One App.

IN A MINE, BY HAND:   Guess How Federal Retirements Are Processed.

MANAGING THE REQUESTS FOR MEETINGS WITH OTHER COUNTRIES IS PROVING A CHALLENGE:  There’s an Update on Tariff Negotiations.

SOMETHING NEEDS TO BE DONE ABOUT THESE DEMS EXPOSING THEMSELVES:  MSNBC Guest Totally Implodes Over Trump’s Immigration Policy, But Exposed Something Hilarious.

APPARENTLY HE’LL HAVE TO CHARGE SOME SUPREME COURT JUSTICES, TOO:   Yeah, About Those Contempt Hearings Boasberg Was Mulling for Trump Officials…

I’M OLD ENOUGH TO KNOW THE LEFT HAS ALWAYS BEEN MURDEROUS. THEY JUST USED TO BE QUIETER ABOUT IT:  Stunning New Study Shows Left’s ‘Assassination Culture’ Has Hit Disturbing Levels – Trump and Musk Targeted.

I HAVE NOTED THAT SOCIALISM MAKES EVERYTHING GREY:  Is Color Being Drained from the World?

Let’s reverse that.

THIS IS THE MOST META DISGRACEFUL EVENT EVER:  German journalist sentenced to seven months of probation for a Twitter meme poking fun at the Interior Minister’s lack of commitment to free speech3

WHAT HE SAID:  Wanting or Not Wanting to Work in Factories Doesn’t Matter.

CAN GREAT BRITAIN SURVIVE THE PRESENT? I DON’T KNOW. AND IT MAKES ME SAD:  This British woman should not be in jail.

OH, CALIFORNIA, NEVER CHANGE:  This is one of those stories that could only happen in California.

AND FOR THE X-LESS: Here.

WELL, HE IS (WAS?) AN HONEST POLITICIAN. HE STAYED BOUGHT:  Report: Biden Admin Hid Report Linking American COVID Cases to China’s Military Games in October 2019.

THE LEFT’S OUTRAGE IS HIGHLY SELECTIVE:  Where is the outrage now?

WASHPOST FAWNS OVER FINAL SEASON OF HANDMAID’S TALE, DUCKS MOSS’S SCIENTOLOGY: We quoted Mark Judge in the last hour, who wrote, “Jeff Bezos is trying to save The Washington Post, which is losing hundreds of millions of dollars a year and has lost all credibility.” Bezos’ spring clean of the Augean Stables is, alas, going quite slowly. At NewsBusters, Curtis Houck writes:

In a huge, five-page, 3,200-word spread in Sunday’s Washington Post, Style section writer Jada Yuan heaped more liberal bile on the grossly anti-Christian, anti-family, pro-baby death, and far-left crowd behind the show The Handmaid’s Tale ahead of its final season. As is usually the case with puff pieces on the show, Yuan left out that star Elizabeth Moss is a devout Scientology which, if there ever was a dangerous cult, that’s it.

“‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ is ready for its revolution; The dystopian TV drama is winding up for its big finish. Its cast members have lots to say about its relevance,” Yuan beamed in the online headline.

Despite women still having been allowed to protest en masse and abortions continuing to take place across the country, Yuan fed the narrative women* have almost become lifeless, listless vessels for the patriarchy in the Trump presidencies.

The image that accompanies Houck’s post is doubly ironic:

Everybody’s masked up, which is what the left demanded of all of America in 2020, they’re all wearing outfits that seem much like jilbabs. But many leftists have long defended the jilbab; or as Phyllis Chesler wrote in 2009, paraphrasing the opinion of a pre-Trump supporting Naomi Wolf: The Burqa: Ultimate Feminist Choice?

* But what is a woman? Flashback to 2021: The author of The Handmaid’s Tale tweeted a column defending the word ‘woman’ and the woke are outraged.

UPDATE: As I was saying:

OPEN THREAD: Blogging on a groovy Tuesday.

AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD:

Touching: Amy Coney Barrett Adopts MS-13 Gang Member https://t.co/e6NavId0D0 pic.twitter.com/PPugCUcZOB

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) April 8, 2025

SO COMMON IT’S NOT NEWS ANYMORE, BUT THAT’S NEWSWORTHY ON ITS OWN: SpaceX launches 27 Starlink satellites on brand-new Falcon 9 rocket, aces Pacific Ocean landing (video).

CHANGE: Miners Cheer As Trump Signs Orders to Bring Back Energy Dominance, Has Them Laughing at Remarks on Biden.

According to the Trump team, the orders will:

— Reinvigorate America’s beautiful clean coal industry

— Lift Biden-era restrictions on coal plants

— Strengthen the reliability and security of the electric grid

— Protect American energy from overreach by radical leftists in the states

It will also expedite leases for coal mining on federal lands.

What a stark contrast with the clueless Biden.

Well, Biden was merely a puppet carrying out the wishes of his boss: “If somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can–it’s just that it will bankrupt them.”

KAROL MARKOWICZ: Democrats lit the ‘assassination culture’ fuse — now their silence equals violence.

“We are at war,” Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-NJ) shouted in February, as she denounced what she called Trump’s “hostile takeover” of the government he was elected to lead.

“We have to fight in the streets,” said Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.).

Now, the fuse is lit — and the elected firebrands have nothing to say.

Voters chose Trump, very recently and very specifically, to shake Washington up.

It’s OK to protest, to loudly oppose the changes Trump was elected to make. That’s part of America’s political legacy.

But “assassination culture,” as the lead author of the NCRI report calls the new spike in violent rhetoric, is not.

Democrats don’t get a pass on it this time. They set this ball rolling; they own it. Their silence now is encouragement.

They need to be the ones to stop it. Time to take responsibility and lower the temperature.

Read the whole thing.