Alaska Man Monday - Illegal Aliens, Snow Plowing, and Squirrels

Alaska is a very different place than the lower 48, for any number of reasons, but we still have some things in common - like illegal immigration. It’s happening here, too. Alaska’s FBI branch is rounding up some of the illegal aliens in Anchorage.

The Anchorage FBI says it is cooperating with other federal agencies to round up illegal aliens in Alaska and deport them.
At 4:12 p.m. on Monday, the Anchorage FBI posted on Facebook “The #FBI Anchorage Field Office, along with our Department of Justice (DOJ) partners, is supporting the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with their immigration enforcement efforts in #Alaska.” This is in direct response to President Donald Trump’s order to secure the borders and clean up the cartels and violent crime across America.

Now, the Anchorage school district is saying they won’t comply. But they are on very shaky legal ground.

Then at 4:37 p.m., the Anchorage School superintendent released an announcement saying the Anchorage schools will not only not cooperate with federal authorities, they won’t even allow them on campus. In essence, Superintendent Jharrett Bryantt was saying Anchorage schools are sanctuaries for illegal immigrants.
Superintendent Bryantt said the federal agents would have to have a warrant, and even if they did, he would have the warrant reviewed by district attorneys before deciding if they were valid and whether federal immigration agents could come onto any school grounds.
In his explanation, Bryantt cited a federal law, to which he gave a novel interpretation.

It’s a novel interpretation that probably won’t fly.

The law, called the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) “protects your child’s privacy by prohibiting ASD from sharing student-specific information with anyone other than the student’s parents or legal guardians, except in specific situations such as when required by a judicial warrant or court order,” Bryantt wrote.
But FERPA wasn’t intended to protect illegal aliens and criminals.
According to the Department of Education, it’s to protect a student’s education records from being shared without parents’ permission (or the student’s permission once he or she turns 18). The law says nothing about the students’ immigration status.

Superintendent Byrantt is fighting out of his league. But, yes, there are illegal aliens here in the Great Land, even though our only land border is with the Yukon Territory, and if we are to be a nation of laws, then we can’t have people who are in the country illegally be allowed to stay.

No Alaska man score for this. It’s a serious matter, and shouldn’t be happening.

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Now, on to the weather, which we are still complaining about: It’s been a dry winter. Didn’t seem that way when it rained for nearly a week here in the middle of January, turning my driveway into something as slick as spit on a doorknob. But it’s true, we haven’t had much snow at all for an Alaska winter. It’s causing some hardship for some small businesses, too.

Kaedyn Jennings squeezed between a lawnmower and a white truck on a recent Wednesday at his shop in Wasilla. He climbed on the truck bed and pulled back a tarp covering a large drum full of loose gravel. Jennings usually is hard at work with his plow route this time of year, but right now, he’s spending more time sanding.
Jennings is the owner and operator of Snip and Clip, a lawncare and snow management company that services roughly 110 residential and commercial properties in Anchorage and the Matanuska-Susitna Borough.
He started servicing lawns in 2022, then bought a plow the following year after nearly eleven feet of snow blanketed the region. Anchorage has had less than 10 inches of snow since Nov. 1, according to the National Weather Service.

Anchorage's winter weather is stressing local businesses dependent on snow.

“December is usually our killer month," said Kaedyn Jennings who owns a lawncare and snow management company.https://t.co/x1cVYrzHVM
— Alaska Public Media News (@AKpublicnews) February 7, 2025

Betting on snow in Alaska is like betting on politicians to be crooks; as good a sure thing as you’re likely to find anywhere. But not this year.

Jennings has only plowed eight times this season.

“December is usually our killer month, where it snows a ton. Last time in December we plowed seven or eight times. For this year to be only one time in December, and it was only one time in the Valley. We didn't even plow in Anchorage in December. That was kind of where I was like, ‘huh, this might be a little weird,’” Jennings said.

A local guy plows our drive every winter, and by this time of year, we’re typically seeing a lot of him. However, this year, we haven’t seen him since early December, although I’ve spoken with him on the phone, and he’s struggling. It’s been a bizarre winter.

Alaska Man score: 5 moose nuggets, for a persistent and hard-working small businessman.

We’re all waiting for the other shoe to drop. It’s not uncommon to get heavy snow as late as April, and I’m worried that Mother Nature is going to make up for lost time.

Now, let’s talk about squirrels.