***. “When men are most sure and arrogant, they are commonly most mistaken, giving views to passion without tht proper deliberation which alone can secure them from the grossest absurdities.” [ David Hume ]
A] “Trump’s ICE push seeks to remake state’s population” [Evan Ramstad; Minnesota Star Tribune; 1/18/26].
This post presents excerpts from analysis of. NUMBERS – NOT rhetoric; NOT fantasies; NOT xenophobic racism; NOT campaign propaganda; NOT lies. THE number one NUMERIC FACT: America, following other endangered advanced countries, will shrink without immigration. But first, YOU will begin to feel slowing growth, labor shortages, maybe lose YOUR job. The Trump DICTATORSHIP is not only crazy, they are INCOMPETENT. And, YOU will pay the price.
7] “..the nation’s population will begin to shrink in 2030 without immigration..”
5] “>>the administration’s entire approach on immigration – including provisions in the “One Big Beautiful Bill” that slowed legal immigration – will end up hurting economic growth for the country and Minnesota in coming years.
“And unfortunately for Trump, he is trying to change the source of population growth at the last possible moment.”
10] “..ICE agents came to Minnesota because of this idea that America must grow through larger families instead of immigration. Renee Good, a mother of three, paid for that idea with her life.”
***. “Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug, but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm.”
[ George Eliot ]
1] “Here’s the cold economic way to look at the deployment of ICE officers in Minnesota this month. President Donald Trump sent thousands of them to one of the nation’s slowest-growing states, and one of the farthest from the southern border, in search of undocumented immigrants he thinks are harming the American economy.”
2]. “He sent the masked federal agents to a state that has relied on international immigrants for the majority of its population growth of 131,000 this decade, the slowest-growing period in its history.”
3]. “Seeing [Good’s] death and hundreds of people being snatched up until they can prove citizenship, the analytical part of my brain moves beyond horror and terror to a rather banal question: Does Donald Trump want Minnesota to shrink?”
4]. “What is clear is Trump and his acolytes want Minnesota and the United States to rely far less on immigrants for population and economic growth. They will sacrifice population growth and the economic growth that comes with it – if too much of it comes from immigrants.”
*** “Fanaticism is the child of false zeal and superstition, the father of intolerance and persecution.” [Samuel Fletcher]
6] “On the day ICE agent Jonathan Ross shot and killed Renee Good in Minneapolis, the Congressional Budget Office updated its 30-year population forecast for the U.S., saying annual growth would slow from 0.3% over the next decade to an average of 0.1% from 2037 to 2056….net immigration…will soon become even more important to population growth because the annual number of deaths in the U.S. will begin to exceed the annual number of births in 2030.”
[NUMBERS – not rhetoric, fantasies, campaign propaganda, xenophobic racism, lies ]
8] “The day after the ICE shooting in Minneapolis, the Heritage Foundation, a right-wing think tank with enormous sway in the Trump administration, published a report decrying the decline of marriage and the natural family and two-parent households in the U.S. for its role in population decline.”
9] “The report takes a sweeping approach to “restoring the American Dream…Heritage wants government agencies to direct grants to cities and towns with high marriage rates and give bigger tax credits to families with three or more children. Other slow-growing countries have tried similar ideas to increase fertility rates among their citizens. No one has succeeded yet.”
***. “Dictatorships usually present a formidable exterior. They seem, on the outside, to be hard, glittering, and irresistible. Within, they are full of rottenness.” { John Foster Dulles ]
{NOTE: We have said, many times, our criticism of the Trump DICTATORSHIP, or ANY American government, is based on success or failure of that government meeting the tests of the Founders in the Constitution’s Preamble: “We the People,” formed a government to achieve. “Union…Justice…Tranquility…the common defence, promote the general Welfare..”
YOU tell us – in SPECIFIC DETAIL – which, if any Trump DICTATORSHIP policies and laws have done ANY of this???????? Not just for a moment, but for years, decades……………..
How does sending masked ICE thugs through peaceful neighborhoods, scooping up ANYBODY who looks like, or sounds like. “a suspicious person;” 70-90%. having NO criminal record, no “crime” other than wanting to work. – will ‘…promote the general Welfare..” of America??????????
WHY – are Americans, like many/most people in other advanced nations. – having fewer children??????? WHY. – did millions of American couples decide, on. their own, to have 0, 1, 2 children??????????
WHAT has happened to and in, America since 1980??????????
***. “Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.” [ John Dryden ]
With Justice For All 