Declan Leary

I spent a weekend with the NeverTrumpers so you don’t have to. Read all about it @amconmag: theamericanconservative.com/articles/dispa…

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…

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/mak…

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/mak…

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/mak…

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/mak…

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…

"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."

Look at all those “cut waste” signs

>start a new political entity called the “America Party” with plans to overturn a two-party system that has endured for a century and a half >forget to invite any Americans to the America Party

We are so cooked

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…

The Nicene Creed in Old English, translated by Ælfric

Borat is not just strange, it’s highly suspect. There is more to globetrotting Cambridge man Sacha Baron Cohen than meets the eye. theamericanconservative.com/sacha-baron-co…