Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Spencer Pratt in Los Angeles Mayoral Race Offers Chicago a Blueprint
June 4, 2026
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With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
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A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
Bold move fat man, bold move!
JB, please release the details of the divestments you make. That will be the basis for charging breach of fiduciary duty for having invested IL taxpayers funds in a country as unstable as El Salvador has been for decades.
Just national headline propaganda for the Pritzker For President 2028 Campaign. All on the Illinois taxpayers dime. Get used to it for the next four years.
Hey, JB, quit worrying about El Salvador and fix the damn state you were elected to run. It’s turning into a s***hole, and you’re obsessing about a Central American country that has ZERO connection with Illinois except for however many of its citizens you are protecting here.
This helps Illinois how? Will he examine his own holdings and contact his family to do the same investigation of their far flung investments?
Helping Illinois and its citizens is the furthest thing on Porkulus’s mind.
Waddles picking useless fights to stay in the spotlight, all on the taxpayers dime.
Be sure to read this about Mr. Garcia, who Pritzker is so worried about. He’s bad to the bone: https://jonathanturley.org/2025/04/24/npr-abrego-garcia-was-living-quietly-in-maryland-before-he-was-deported/
LIke Crabby Appleton, rotten to the core?
We need to start talking about the math involved in the hysteria over due process.
Insisting that every single person who entered the US during the Biden administration is entitled to multiple hearings, as Garcia got, is de facto arguing that they must all be allowed to stay.
Estimates are that 10-12 million were allowed entry. It would take a century to adjudicate every claim. What to do?
We ignored the law and due process to let them in. Should that be factored in to discussions of due process for deportation?
I don’t think it’s that bad. Garcia is a very odd, complicated case because he was covered by a protective order that prohibited his deportation to El Salvador. So, don’t draw too many conclusions from his case. For standard deportation of illegal immigrant cases, I am quite confident the courts will make clear that no individual hearings are needed. But there is one group where at least some form of due process/hearing probably will be needed, and should be needed in my opinion. That’s the students here legally on visas who apparently are having those visas cancelled merely for what… Read more »
I agree that a student should not have visa revoked over an op ed. I also think that, just like the Abrego Garcia case, it’s a mistake to assume that people are as innocent as they appear from initial stories.
Many of us are old enough to remember the 9/11 hijackers. Ordinary students, taking flight lessons. They carefully followed all our rules. Until they didn’t.
We wondered then how nobody realized they were not here as the innocent students they seemed to be.
They did not identify themselves as protesters, so what we are doing with student visas now would have made no difference. The problem is at the visa award stage. I have no problem with being much more careful about weeding out would-be terrorists or troublemakers.
Agree that more careful scrutiny should be done prior to awarding visas. We know just how much scrutiny the Biden administration gave to people entering the country- basically none.
I don’t think it’s valid to assume the visas are being revoked solely due to protests or viewpoints.
Since there has been no weeding for years, you can and I do believe that these students are probably associated with undesirable groups and have lied on their application. I could be wrong but I doubt it.
You don’t think the government should at least state the grounds for revoking their visas, which it has not done in most cases?
I’m sure at some point we will know names and reasons, but for now this is enough for most of us.This is from CBS news. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Thursday that 300 student visas have been revoked, asserting “we have a right” to rescind the visas of students who participate in campus protests, despite questions about due process and First Amendment objections. “If you apply for a visa to enter the United States and be a student, and you tell us that the reason why you’re coming to the United States is not just because you want to write op-eds, but… Read more »
And shame on that Rubio for that horribly wrong answer.
Mark, these aren’t “students” and we play into China, MS-13, Hamas, the communists et al’s hands if we pretend that they are. President Trump and Secretary Rubio are right to deport these people.
Deporting student immigrants is a good start. Next stop: deport the rest of them. ALL of them.