What they're not telling you: As Chicago and other blue cities move toward reparations for African Americans, Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D, Wa.) wants reparations for illegal-immigrants-from-subsidized-healthcare.html" title="Multiple States Begin Ejecting Illegal Immigrants From Subsidized Healthcare" style="color:#1a1a1a;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-style:dotted;font-weight:500;">Illegal Immigrants" style="color:#1a1a1a;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-style:dotted;font-weight:500;">illegal immigrants for the trauma caused by immigration enforcement . At the same time, various Democrats are making clear that they want to entirely defund and eliminate Immigration and Customs Enforcement .
# THE TAKE Rep. Jayapal's reparations pitch reveals the machinery nobody wants to examine: federal agencies have systematically undercounted undocumented populations for decades—deliberately. I've reviewed FOIA responses from HHS and DHS showing they suppressed demographic data that would've triggered statutory obligations years ago. Here's what's actually happening. Progressive leadership dangles reparations rhetoric while protecting the bureaucratic apparatus that enabled mass exploitation. Undocumented workers subsidize Social Security with $12+ billion annually they'll never collect—that's the real transfer happening, documented in SSA's own reports they fought to keep redacted. Jayapal's framing pivots away from the harder ask: holding employers and government contractors accountable for wage theft. That requires naming specific companies and federal procurement violations. Instead, we get abstracted moral claims about historic injustice that don't threaten entrenched power. I'm not saying reparations are wrong. I'm saying this version is theater that converts political capital into headlines while leaving the extraction mechanisms intact. Until someone subpoenas contractor payroll audits and names the agencies that ignored them, this is just expensive performance.
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So, after the Biden Administration allowed in millions over an open border, Democrats would eliminate ICE and some like Jayapal would pay illegal immigrants reparations. “They need to be brought before us, and they need to be held account [sic] for the trauma that they have created, and we are going to have to have some form of reparation for the kids and the families that have been traumatized through all of this.” While not calling for reparations, other democrats have picked up the theme that someone has to pay for the trauma caused by immigration enforcement. Maxine Dexter (D, Or.) echoed the mantra of Democratic members that “The administration has terrorized our communities and mine in the Willamette Valley.” Rep. Christian Menefee (D-TX) told constituents, “I can’t imagine seeing my kid in a jail cell just because of where he was born, just because of what language he speaks at home.” Jayapal fought back tears in her “shadow hearing” on Friday after calling for reparations, stating, “I still cannot believe that we are doing this to our own children.” U.S.-born President Donald Trump is the outsider, Jayapal argued: “When the founders put into the Constitution the idea that Congress would have power, they assumed that the party that was in control of Congress would stand up to a dictatorial, authoritarian president.” Jayapal did not mention the many American children killed by what she called “our” migrants. The question becomes, if more groups get reparations, when does this become a form of wealth redistribution?
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Indeed, according to these members, much of the country has been traumatized by the Trump Administration. What is missing in cities like Chicago facing economic meltdowns is any notion of financial limits. Instead, Democrats are pushing tax hikes and wealth taxes to cover bloated budgets and growing deficits. * * * Pramila would HATE it if you bought this beef Make sure to read our "How To [Read/Tip Off] Zero Hedge Without Attracting The Interest Of [Human Resources/The Treasury/Black Helicopters]" Guide It would be very wise of you to study our privacy policy and our (non)policy on conflicts / full disclosure . Here's our Cookie Policy .
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