radiofree.asia

Confusion as White House announces ‘zero releases in November’

On the sixth day of Christmas, the White House said to me:

On the seventh day of Christmas, I and many others asked:

White House ZERO (releases)?

Before we get to what the White House was actually announcing, we’ll go over some of the top theories.

First up, the month between October and December is the time of year when ‘No Nut November’ takes place. This is an internet challenge in which (mostly) men abstain from ejaculating. While this started off as a joke, it gained popularity after content creators began preaching that abstaining from masturbation can have borderline magical effects on a person’s mental faculties.

Anyway, with that in mind, let’s look at the White House tweet again:

Wow, he really made it all the way through, huh?

The only problem with this theory is that:

  • It would mean Trump’s No Nut November began in May.
  • His concentration clearly hasn’t improved over the past few months.

Another theory is that they’re bragging about not releasing the Epstein files:

Others have speculated the White House is running some sort of psyop to drive people to distraction:

So what’s the reality of what we’re looking at? According to Homeland Security:

For the seventh consecutive month, U.S. Border Patrol released zero illegal aliens into the United States. Every individual apprehended was processed according to law – a milestone unmatched in modern border history.

Okay, so they’re saying they’ve stopped accidentally releasing people during the processing phase. I think? It doesn’t say ‘accidental’, after all, so this is still somewhat vague.

While this seems like the sort of thing the Trump admin would brag about, they’re obviously not referencing the concept of ‘releases’ enough for people to recognise what they’re talking about.

Data

Homeland Security highlighted other statistics related to Trump’s aggressive border policy in addition to the ‘no releases’ stuff. What they didn’t highlight were stats like the following from the American Immigration Council:

  • Mass deportation would separate millions of U.S. citizen children from their family. Some 4.1 million U.S. citizen children live with an undocumented parent.
  • Undocumented immigrants are essential contributors to the economy. In 2023, undocumented immigrant households paid $89.8 billion in federal, state, and local taxes and held $299 billion in spending power. In total, immigrant (both legal and undocumented) households paid nearly $16.80 in every $100 tax dollars collected by federal, state, and local governments, funding a wide range of social services that benefit all Americans.
  • Immigrants inject trillions of dollars of housing wealth in the United States. The vast majority of immigrants are not dependent on state governments to guarantee them with housing; in reality, they are putting back vast sums of money into the housing market and revitalizing neighborhoods. In 2023, immigrant households paid over $167 billion in rent in the housing market, and held over $6.6 trillion in housing wealth.
  • Immigrants help ease key labor shortages, and are driving innovation and business creation. Almost 1 in 4 entrepreneurs in the country are immigrants. About 46 percent of the Fortune 500 companies were founded by immigrants or their children. Elsewhere, immigrants are helping ease the labor shortage in the healthcare industry, where nearly 16 percent of nurses and about 28 percent of health aides were immigrants in 2023.

We agree that the case for migration shouldn’t focus first and foremost on the economic contribution that people can make. What we’re pointing out here is that the US has shaped its economic model around migration, and the Trump admin have replaced that model with — *DRUM ROLL* — chaos and nonsense.

As we’ve reported, the US economy is in dire straits, and on the edge of some sort of financial crisis. When America tips over the edge, the right’s drive to oppress the non-white population will be a big part of why every American suffers.

Featured image via the Twitter

By Willem Moore

This post was originally published on Canary.