Visiting Fellow @amrenewctr. Formerly @amconmag, @DallasExpress. Opinions are mine.
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Declan Leary retweeted
We need new solutions to make housing more affordable for families.
@DeclanLeary discusses the idea of raising property taxes, while providing generous exemptions for family primary residences, to discourage speculative ownership and support families.
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Declan Leary retweeted
Anyone who admits they’d fight for the other side if the chips were down needs to get denaturalized and deported.
This is getting ridiculous.
I’m not going to share a country with sworn enemies.
This isn’t a controversial take.
Declan Leary retweeted
Using the term “stranded” to describe people being in their homeland is beyond ridiculous
Indian H-1B visa holders who traveled back to India this month to renew their American work permits are now stranded after their appointments were abruptly canceled and rescheduled for months later, according to immigration lawyers. wapo.st/4pUpcIc
Declan Leary retweeted
Apparently nobody is understanding that this guy isn’t accidentally “good” on an issue.
This is done only to make it easier for illegal aliens and other foreigners to “set up shop” without having to jump through hoops. Established businesses didn’t have that luxury, but now Mamdani is increasing startup cash for “new businesses” (whose businesses?) and removing regulations or waving fines for things that I’m guessing these extremely un-assimilated demographics would have no ability to do, much less interest in doing.
Cleanliness standards, worker hygiene standards, temperature control/food safety, inspections, record-keeping…something tells me that Mamdani isn’t rugpulling his Marxist base. He’s rewarding it.
Because Marxism is not an ideology to people with no intellectual history. It means “free stuff and doing whatever I want.” That’s why the foreign-born population elected him mayor and that’s what he’s doing here.
The absolutely last thing you need is less oversight and regulation of people who are navigating civilization for the first time.
Declan Leary retweeted
Imagine telling the Crusaders that one day the heirs of Saladin would own half of London.
Declan Leary retweeted
Embarrassing that the worthless GOP has never come with and campaigned on a real plan to do something about student loans.
The solution is obvious:
(1) Make student loans dischargeable in bankruptcy like any other debt;
(^and I say that as someone who paid off 100% of my $200,000 in student loans, so don’t think that I’m just talking my book here because I wouldn’t personally benefit)
(2) Require colleges to guarantee all student loan debt so that if they get discharged in bankruptcy, then the college is on the hook to pay them off; and
(3) Repeal the U.S. Civil Rights Act of 1964 and allow employers to use employment tests to judge the aptitude of potential employees.
Just get those three things done and watch what happens.
You don’t need to just forgive student loans the way Joe Biden tried to do.
Bankruptcy exists for a reason, and people who get into too much debt, even if it was for a college education, should have access to it just the same as someone who has too much credit card debt.
And there are definitely reasons why you would NOT want to declare bankruptcy if you were actually capable of paying off your loans, so colleges that actually did a good job of educating their students at a reasonable price and helping them get good paying jobs should still be fine.
The colleges that wouldn’t be fine are the worst offenders of overcharging students for worthless degrees to support sinecures for leftists, and those colleges deserve to be shut down anyway.
People are detached from the reality of what student loans are doing to our younger generations. A lot of people are deaf to it and simply offer a "well why don't you make a million dollars a year and pay it back?" Much of the right like to act like they're all the Monopoly guy where cash grows from trees.
I know full forgiveness seems extreme, but at a minimum, the interest should be removed (They've earned enough) or reduced DRAMATICALLY. A lot of the right seems to love blood sucking usury, but it is the death of a nation.
Declan Leary retweeted
Both of these people would get insanely offended if you starting talking about 'real Americans' vs 'immigrant Americans' but for some reason being from Ohio and moving to New York is a form of original sin that must be cleansed with humiliation rituals.
Declan Leary retweeted
The 1986 Reagan amnesty bill made it a crime to knowingly employ illegal immigrant labor. Yet in the 39 years since that bill passed, "there has not been a single year ... that more than 25 people have been prosecuted under the statute."
That should change. People respond to incentives: If business owners learn that employing illegal labor is a fast track to fines and criminal charges, they will stop hiring them, and self-deportation will dramatically accelerate.
It's also an easy PR win. Force the left to defend businesses that are exploiting migrant labor and undercutting American workers.
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Declan Leary retweeted
How rare is it for employers to be prosecuted for hiring illegal immigrant workers? “There has not been a single year since 1986, when the Immigration Reform and Control Act took effect, that more than 25 people have been prosecuted under the statute.” commonplace.org/2025/07/14/m…
Declan Leary retweeted
Excellent @DeclanLeary @commonplc on the absurd failure to enforce immigration law against the employers abusing the system, exploiting the immigrants, and leaving American workers behind. commonplace.org/2025/07/14/m…
Declan Leary retweeted
Virtually no employer, no corporation, no hiring manager in America fears any consequence for the use of illegal labor because no administration has ever given them reason to be afraid.
commonplace.org/2025/07/14/m…
Declan Leary retweeted
Excellent piece in @commonplc from @DeclanLeary about why, to actualize Trump’s deportation agenda, the admin must hold accountable businesses who exploit cheap, illegal labor. commonplace.org/2025/07/14/m…
Declan Leary retweeted
Exactly right. There are two basic reasons that telling the elite universities to “just stop discriminating against conservatives” won’t work:
(1) The people doing the hiring don’t think they are engaged in ideological discrimination. The psychology is: “We’re perfectly open to hiring conservatives! But it just so happens that we’ve never seen a conservative candidate we thought was good enough.” (Funny how that works).
(2) Progressivism is in their view not something separate from “merit.” It is a component of merit, indeed it is the highest standard of merit.
Overall, the elite universities cannot be reformed by arguments that they cannot even hear, and they will not reform themselves from within. They must be subjected to a more profound structural reorganization.
“Just not discriminating against conservatives would fix the problem!”
What? Is this idea going to be implemented in the 1990s? How is a conservative liberal arts scholar going to advance when half the departments are ideologically left in their inception? When the journals and chairs are all progressive ideologues who think advancing their cause is the primary point of their field?
You can’t just tell these institutions to “be good” and then fix them.
Declan Leary retweeted
"We need to compete with China, the rising world power."
"How?"
"Admit infinity immigrants from the most dysfunctional places in the world and dismantle our own culture and identity."
"Wow, is China doing that so they can succeed?"
"No, they just do the opposite of all that."
Declan Leary retweeted
I just read a short story in The New Yorker by a Pulitzer Prize finalist. It included this sentence, similar to many others in the story.
"The wish to be context-free often came in the wake of an unresolvable pretext, which was where real life was."
Literature is in big trouble.
Declan Leary retweeted
“Remember what we’re fighting for, boys. If we win someday there could be a strip mall here and a bunch of ugly apartment complexes for foreigners.”
