Tea at Trianon: HUGE WIN on Deportation

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

~from History of the Guillotine by John Wilson Croker, 1844

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

Monday, February 9, 2026

HUGE WIN on Deportation

From Tierney's Real News:

The Fifth Circuit affirmed the Trump administration’s policy of detaining illegals arrested in the interior of the United States without a bond hearing to challenge the detention, effectively allowing mandatory detention. Illegals can now be detained for longer periods without release on bond and mass deported quickly....For over thirty years, when ICE arrested illegal aliens living inside the country - not on the border, but in places like Minneapolis or Milwaukee - those detainees could slow deportation down to glacial speed by requesting a “bond hearing” to argue for their release on bail.
Nobody really knew why; it was just how things were done. Norms and customs.

But the Trump Administration took a fresh look at the statute and said, hey, wait a minute, the law says people “seeking admission” to the United States don’t get bond hearings. It just says “shall detain.” Shall.
It also says that, if you’re here illegally, you’re still considered to be ‘seeking admission’— you just skipped the line.
In other words, a person who never bothered to apply for citizenship doesn’t magically get more rights than someone who at least tried.
So, the Trump administration took it to court and the Fifth Circuit agreed, 2-1.
Judge Edith Jones essentially ruled that thirty years of doing it wrong doesn’t automatically make it right.
The decision might sound technical, but the practical implications were huge.
NOW, if an alien crossed illegally and ICE finds them - wherever they are - they’re done. They won’t walk American streets freely again unless they win in their removal proceeding (which is highly unlikely).
In the meantime, they must stay in detention. They can’t go home to get their things. They are simply done, and the longer they fight, the longer they remain in detention.

Their choice now is to either agree to deportation, or cool it in detention while their lawyers waste time on futile filings. Then they get deported anyway when they lose. (Read more.)