The Frontier

Greg Boveno attended a 'remigration' summit in Portugal organized by Martin Sellner, a neo-Nazi who exchanged emails with Christchurch shooter Brenton Tarrant.

Boveno calls border patrol 'the federal law enforcement Marine Corps' and sees agents as soldiers in a war. The agents who show compassion for migrants tend to leave quickly.

In 2010, Boveno's 'Operation Don't Let Them Ride' in Las Vegas apprehended more undocumented people per minute than minutes in the operation, but failed to find any traffickers or trafficking victims.

Robert Evans cites the Pew Research Center's 2023 finding of 14 million unauthorized immigrants in the U.S., contrasting Boveno's claim of a static 20 million figure since the 1970s.

Border patrol trains and equips foreign units across the Americas, externalizing U.S. border enforcement abroad. This mirrors Europe's externalization through agreements with Libya and Tunisia.

Evans argues the Border Patrol cannot be reformed. Democrats built the tool Boveno wielded, funding it under Obama and Biden. The institution is designed to create agents who hate.

Robert Lifton's framework of ideological totalism identifies eight criteria for thought reform: milieu control, mystical manipulation, demand for purity, cult of confession, sacred science, loading the language, doctrine over person, and dispensing of existence.

Andrewism notes ISIS, Aum Shinrikyo, and Christian Zionism all use ideological totalism to eliminate nuance and destroy the self, offering followers eternal significance through martyrdom or obedience.

Andrewism argues deradicalization efforts should focus on politically unaffiliated people, not committed right-wingers, by building attractive alternatives. The backfire effect makes direct attacks on core beliefs counterproductive.

Fernando Tarrida del Mármol, imprisoned in Spain's Montjuich fortress after the 1896 Corpus Christi bombing, later used Paris's radical press to link Spanish repression in Barcelona to its colonial brutality in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines.

In 1897, Italian anarchist Michele Angiolillo assassinated Spanish Prime Minister Antonio Cánovas del Castillo in retaliation for torture at Montjuich. Angiolillo said he rid the world of 'religious ferocity, military cruelty, and tyranny.'

Isabelo de los Reyes, imprisoned in Montjuich, brought works by Voltaire, Marx, and Kropotkin to Manila, helping organize the first cross-industry worker federation in the Philippines, the Union Obrera Democrática.

Bill Ackman lost roughly $500 million on his JC Penney investment after acquiring a board seat with a $900 million stake in 2010.

Ackman's plan to revive JC Penney centered on hiring Apple Store creator Ron Johnson as CEO, who eliminated coupons and implemented an 'everyday low price' model. This alienated the chain's core customer base of women aged 35-55 with household incomes between $35k and $100k.

Ron Johnson's 17-month tenure as JC Penney CEO cratered same-store sales by 30% and burned roughly $1 billion in cash, equal to Pershing Square's total investment.

In 2012, Ackman took a $1 billion short position against Herbalife, calling it a pyramid scheme and lobbying for government investigation. He ultimately lost the bet after rivals Carl Icahn and Dan Loeb bought stock to counter his short.

The MLM industry maintains a powerful 'pyramid lobby' to prevent regulatory extinction. Amway founders the DeVos family gave $4.4 million in soft money to the RNC between 1991-1997 alone.

Ackman's investment in Valeant Pharmaceuticals lost Pershing Square roughly $4 billion as the stock fell from $250 to $10 per share amid SEC scrutiny over price gouging.

In March 2020, Ackman turned a $27 million bet on credit default swaps into $2.6 billion by correctly predicting COVID-19's economic disruption, then reinvested the profits as markets fell 30%.

Ackman led a public campaign demanding Harvard name students who 'blamed Israel' for the October 7 attacks so CEOs could blacklist them from hiring, and amplified efforts to oust President Claudine Gay over plagiarism allegations.

After Business Insider reported plagiarism by his wife, Neri Oxman, Ackman defended her with invented metrics like a '0.1% error rate' and claimed the reporting 'could have literally killed her'.

Ackman endorsed Donald Trump and praised Trump's 2026 war with Iran as a 'very good war' that 'reset the Middle East in a very positive way', despite having told investors weeks earlier he foresaw no 'black swan' market events.