When Biden took office, one of his first acts was the elimination of our border security. Like a power-hungry dictator, Biden simply decided to ignore our immigration laws. His catastrophic border policy resulted in untold millions of unidentified foreign citizens from around the world pouring into our country. Its impact is now being felt in cities across the country. The worst is yet to come. PETER LEMISKA - AND WE'RE ALREADY THERE!!!
Mitt
Romney will give what his camp is calling a "major speech" today,
commenting on the GOP nomination fight. Specifically, Ronney will bash
frontrunner Donald Trump for being a "phony" and a "fraud." CNN:
Former GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romneythinks
"Donald Trump is a phony, a fraud" and that he's "playing the American
public for suckers," according to prepared remarks provided by Romney to
CNN.
Romney, the party's nominee in 2012, will urge Americans "to make the right choices" and not support the GOP front runner during a speech he'll give today at 11:30 a.m. ET at the University of Utah's Hinckley Institute of Politics Forum.
With Dr. Ben Carson bowing out of
tonight's Republican presidential debate, Romney will promote the
remaining candidates. According to the former Massachusetts governor,
"the only serious policy proposals that deal with the broad range of
national challenges we confront have come from Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and
John Kasich."
Romney
is expected to remark on some what-ifs about Trump becoming president.
"His domestic policies would lead to recession. His foreign policies
would make America and the world less safe. He has neither the
temperament nor the judgment to be president," Romney is expected to
say.
Romney
will also touch on a "twisted example of evil trumping good: "Trump's
claims that he admires Russian President Vladimir Putin while calling
"George W. Bush a liar."
It is clear that Romney thinks a Trump nomination istroublesome for both the Republican Party and the country.
Immigration
expert Mark Krikorian dissects Donald Trump's ever changing, always
evolving positions on immigration. At first, Trump explained that by
using foreign labor, he was only being a smart businessman. But now he
says that his hard and fast position taken since running for president
that he would eliminate the visa program that brings in foreign workers
at the expense of American workers, his position is "softening." Just what does Donald Trump believe?
Any
time Donald Trump has to talk about any aspect of immigration other
than his border wall – the one Mexico’s going to pay for, in case you
hadn’t heard – he falls back on his donor-class, crony-corporatist
instincts. In the October CNBC debate, he essentially embraced Marco
Rubio’s support for increased “skilled” worker visas and praised Mark
Zuckerberg, both positions diametrically opposed to his published
immigration platform.
Then
in the debate late last month, he embraced the Chuck Schumer/Marco
Rubio position that there are Jobs Americans Won’t Do, specifically
low-skilled jobs at his club in Palm Beach, and that foreigners have to
be imported to do them.
In
Thursday’s debate, he reiterated both anti-American-worker positions,
favoring the importation of more high-skilled and low-skilled foreign
workers. “I’m changing,” Trump said, regarding his views on skilled
visas. “I’m changing it and I’m softening the position because we have
to have talented people in this country.” True enough, except that we
already have twice as many technical degree holders as there are tech
jobs.
What
made Trump’s “I’m changing” comment even more shameless than usual for
him is that just on Sunday he held a rally featuring former Disney
employees who were replaced by the very foreign worker program he’s now
praising.
And
just as happened in October, his appalled staff quickly fired off a
press release this morning essentially saying “Never mind.” It ends, “I
will end forever the use of the H-1B as a cheap labor program, and
institute an absolute requirement to hire American workers first for
every visa and immigration program. No exceptions.” At least until the
next time he’s asked about it.
Trump
also reiterated his position that he has no choice but to hire foreign
workers to make beds and the like at his Florida resorts. His defense is
they’re seasonal jobs: “It’s a few months, five months at the most.
People don’t want a short-term job.
Trump fails to mention that he has continously applied for extensions of those "seasonable jobs":
The
work period for Mar-a-Lago’s guest workers, according to the petitions,
is nearly always October 1 to May 31, which is 8 months. On other
occasions, his company petitioned for even longer periods. For example,
in 2009, the Trump National Golf Club petitioned for guest workers for
the period January 26 through November 20.
Is
Trump unaware of his own policies or is he lying? Given the statement
from his staff repudiating what he had just said about visas in the
debates, you have to think The Donald is ignorant of the policies of his
own companies. Yes...a great businessman.
I guess if Trump is elected president, we'll all have to wait and see what his immigration policies will actually be.
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah — The host of Mitt Romney’s speech
attacking Republican frontrunner Donald Trump on Thursday at the
University of Utah told Breitbart News: “This is just Act One” for Mitt
Romney.
Jason Perry, director of the Hinckley Institute of Politics at the
University of Utah, told Breitbart News that he expected Romney’s speech
would be the first in a series of steps in an attempt to derail Trump’s
progress to the GOP nomination.
He predicted that Romney would take other actions leading up to the key winner-take-all primaries on March 15, such as Florida.
“When Mitt Romney does something, he never just does one thing,” said
Perry, citing Romney’s reputation for thoroughness and preparation.
He added that while Romney had given him “no indication” that he
intends to become a candidate for the presidency himself, “A lot of
people in Salt Lake City and Utah are urging [Romney] to get into the
race.”
Asked by Breitbart News whether failing to endorse a single
alternative to Trump made it easier for Trump to divide the field and
win, Perry merely agreed with the observation.
In his speech,
Romney explicitly said that he was not announcing his candidacy, but
encouraged voters to back whichever alternative to Trump was most
popular in their particular state.
Romney excoriates Trump, says he's led nation to 'abyss'
Mitt Romney on Thursday sought to embarrass and humiliate Donald Trump in
a blistering speech meant to buttress the growing movement of
conservatives desperate to stop the Republican presidential front-runner
at any cost.
Speaking at the University of Utah in a
much-anticipated address on the state of the 2016 presidential race,
Romney tore into Trump on every front.
The
2012 GOP nominee framed Trump as a vain loser – two insults directed at
the heart of Trump’s appeal – who would get crushed by Hillary Clinton in the general election if he wins the party’s nomination.
Romney
went after one of Trump’s biggest selling points, diminishing his
success as businessman by saying the billionaire real estate mogul had
been born into privilege and squandered his inheritance through a series
of frivolous investments.
“He inherited his business, he didn't
create it,” said Romney, himself a wealthy entrepreneur. “And what ever
happened to Trump Airlines? How about Trump University? And then there's
Trump Magazine and Trump Vodka and Trump Steaks, and Trump Mortgage? A
business genius he is not.”
The former Massachusetts governor
repeatedly called into question Trump’s temperament, condemning the GOP
front-runner for “the greed, the showing off, the misogyny, the absurd
third grade theatrics,” and accusing him of creating “scapegoats” out of
minority groups.
“The audio and video of the infamous
Tapper-Trump exchange on the Ku Klux Klan will play a hundred thousand
times on cable and who knows how many million times on social media,”
Romney warned.
Romney went after Trump’s economic policies,
saying they would cause the nation to “sink into a prolonged recession,”
and said his foreign policy would “make America and the world less
safe.”
“He calls for the use of torture and for killing the
innocent children and family members of terrorists,” Romney said. “He
cheers assaults on protesters. He applauds the prospect of twisting the
Constitution to limit first amendment freedom of the press.”
And he joined Marco Rubio in describing Trump as a con-man who is fleecing voters by taking advantage of their anger at Washington.
“Donald Trump
is a phony, a fraud,” Romney declared. “His promises are as worthless
as a degree from Trump University. He's playing the American public for
suckers. He gets a free ride to the White House and all we get is a
lousy hat.”
Romney sought to paint a bleak picture of the nation’s future with Trump in the White House.
“Mr.
Trump is directing our anger for less than noble purposes,” Romney
said. “This is the very brand of anger that has led other nations into
the abyss.”
Trump knew the attack was coming, and set out on a media blitz before the speech to preempt the attacks.
“Mitt Romney was a failed candidate; should have beaten Barack Obama easily," Trump said on ABC’s Good Morning America.
Tweeting
to his 6.6 million followers, Trump ticked through a point-by-point
rebuttal, arguing that “Hillary wants no part” of him in a general
election, and saying he’s uniting the party and bringing scores of new
Republicans into the fold.
At a campaign rally in Portland, Maine,
Trump kicked back hard at Romney, calling him a “disaster” as a
candidate and a “choke artist.”
Trump said Romney “demeaned 47 percent of the country” with his infamous remarks on poverty.
He
said Romney thought about running for president again in 2016, but
“chickened out because of me,” and claimed the 2012 nominee “begged” him
for an endorsement.
At the time,
Romney said of Trump's endorsement, "There are some things you just
can't imagine happening in your life — this is one of them."
He praised Trump's "extraordinary
ability to understand how our economy works to create jobs for the
American people." Pointing to Trump, Romney said that while he had spent
his life in the private sector, he said he was "not quite as successful
as this guy."
He concluded that he appreciated the endorsement
of Trump and "people across this country who care about the future of
America."
Romney defended his past statements later Thursday,
tweeting: "If Trump had said 4 years ago the things he says today about
the KKK, Muslims, Mexicans, disabled, I would NOT have accepted his
endorsement."
Now, Romney’s vice presidential candidate, Paul Ryan, is Speaker of the House and chairman of the Republican convention.
Ryan
this week condemned Trump’s initial refusal to disavow white
supremacist David Duke, but he has reached out to Trump’s campaign in an
attempt to forge a working relationship with him.
On Thursday,
Ryan dodged a series of questions about Romney's attack, saying only
that "everything is fair game" until a nominee is chosen.
"I know
Mitt feels strongly about this election and he's going to speak his
mind," Ryan said on "Fox and Friends," adding that Romney is a party
leader who's "worried about the future of the party."
Romney and
Ryan attended a fundraiser together in Utah in late February, and ABC
News is reporting that the two met privately at Romney’s home over the
weekend.
While Romney’s insults were directed at Trump, his speech
was meant to light a fire under the growing anti-Trump movement within
the party.
Many mainstream Republicans are going public in their
efforts to block Trump from the nomination by any means possible and
are vowing not to support him if he makes it to the general election.
Dozens
of high-profile conservatives, from Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) to
conservative media personality Erick Erickson, are using their platforms
to make the case against Trump.
And top GOP donors are
scrambling to fund super-PACs that produce anti-Trump advertisements
nationally and in critical primary states.
Romney’s speech could give direction to a faction of the party that appears panicked and flailing over what to do about Trump.
He
has been venerated in conservative circles, as many Republicans believe
the 2012 nominee, for all his faults as a candidate, has been proven
right on a host of issues he ran on in 2012.
Romney has a has
sought to use his influence in the 2016 cycle by refereeing from the
sidelines, weighing in to influence the direction of discourse and
connecting his network of fundraisers with the candidates they might
support.
Ohio Gov. John Kasich, Trump’s rival for the GOP
nomination who has largely steered clear of conflict with the
front-runner, tweeted: “Well said.”
And John McCain,
the 2008 Republican presidential nominee who has previously stated he
would support Trump if he wins the nomination, also voiced his support
for Romney’s remarks.
“I share the concerns about Donald Trump
that my friend and former Republican nominee, Mitt Romney, described in
his speech today,” McCain said in a statement.
In July, Trump came under fire for denigrating McCain’s military service.
The Arizona Republican and entrenched establishment figure is up for reelection in 2016 and his rival, Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick, has sought to tie him to Trump.
“Voters
should ask McCain why he is still planning to support Trump if he truly
believes Trump would be a bad president,” she said in a statement on
Thursday.
Many Republicans will view Romney’s remarks as a declaration of war by the establishment against grassroots conservatives.
Some believe Romney is merely adding fuel to the Trump movement, which is driven by a fierce anti-establishment streak.
“Mitt Romney with an incredible endorsement for Donald Trump,” Trump adviser Dan Scavino tweeted sarcastically on Thursday.
Some establishment Republicans, led by New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Sen. Jeff Sessions, are beginning to line up behind Trump, seeking to build on the wave of enthusiasm surrounding his campaign.
They
argue that Trump has galvanized grassroots conservatives who are
frustrated with Washington and turned out millions to the polls – many
of whom are participating for the first time, or formerly identified as
Democrats or independents.
"I brought millions of millions people
into the Republican Party over the last very short period of time,”
Trump said Thursday. “It's the biggest story in politics, how many
people are flocking into the Republican Party.”
“They're leaving
the Democrats. They're leaving the independents. And they're with me 100
percent. There's great enthusiasm in the Republican Party except in the
establishment.” - Updated at 2:25 p.m.
LA RAZA HILLARY CLINTON'S PROMISE TO THE MEX OCCUPIERS: OBAMA'S AMNESTY TO LEGALIZE MEXICO'S LOOTING!!! AMNESTY:
IT'S ALL ABOUT KEEPING WAGES DEPRESSED AND THERE'S NO DEM POLITICIAN OR
FREAKING BILLIONAIRE THAT DOESN'T WANT OBAMA'S AMNESTY HOAX TO LEGALIZE
MEXICO'S LOOTING!!!
Think Trump Will be Tough on Immigration? Consider His Company's Use of Guestworkers
By David Seminara
CIS Immigration Blog, February 26, 2016
. . .
I combed through the government databases detailing H-2B petitions and
here are some observations regarding the Trump Organization's use of
H-2B guest workers:
* In petitioning for workers, employers are supposed to prove that their
hiring need is "seasonal" and "temporary", yet Trump's Mar-a-Lago Club
has sought to import guest workers year after year, including right now.
(Their most recent petition was filed in July 2015 and the workers are
on contract at the resort until May 31, 2016.)
* Trump maintained at the debate on Thursday night that the jobs he had
filled with guest workers were hard to fill because they were only for
90 or 120 days. But in fact, the duration of the petitions was never
just three months. The work period for Mar-a-Lago's guest workers,
according to the petitions, is nearly always October 1 to May 31, which
is 8 months. On other occasions, his company petitioned for even longer
periods. For example, in 2009, the Trump National Golf Club petitioned
for guest workers for the period January 26 through November 20.
* I note that even during the height of the recession, this and other Trump properties were petitioning for workers.
* In 2009, again, during the height of the recession, the Trump
Organization used an H-2B broker called Más Labor to import workers. Más
Labor extols the benefits of Mexican workers on their website, which
allows employers to add guest workers to their online shopping carts.
"You'll never wonder if your workers are going to show up on Monday
morning and make it through a full work week," it reads. "MAS H2 workers
are dedicated to their families, their work and their employers.
They'll be there, ready to work hard for you. ... The only thing an H2
worker can do legally in the U.S. is work for their specified employer.
... For Mexican workers, seven to nine dollars an hour is about ten
times what could be earned in most jobs at home."
. . . http://www.cis.org/seminara/think-trump-will-be-tough-immigration-consider-his-companys-use-guestworkers
I asked last March, "Just How Bad a Candidate Would Hillary Be?" As Hillary locks up the Democrat nomination, the question is "Just How Bad a Candidate Will Hillary Be?"
Mrs. William Jefferson Clinton may be the most pathetic presidential
nominee of any major political party in our nation's history.
First
dispel the myth of her husband as a consummate politician. Bill was a
flop as governor of Arkansas and as president of the United States.
Bill managed to be the only Democrat in Arkansas state history to lose
re-election as governor and won two presidential elections with a
minority of the popular vote. He entered the White House with huge
Democrat majorities at every level of government and left with Democrats
in the minority at every level of government.
Bill
Clinton was impeached, disbarred, and found in contempt of court while
president, which was a worse record of determined malfeasance than any
president in history. As an ex-president, Clinton seems
frail, dull, and testy – as evidenced most recently by his snapping
angrily at a veteran in South Carolina asking about Hillary ending
corruption in the Veterans Administration.
Since
my article last March, the women who have been harassed, threatened,
and raped by Clinton have served notice that they will not be quiet
while his wife, Hillary, ignores and dismisses them. This is a problem
Hillary has never addressed but cannot ignore, as Republican candidates
have made clear, in a presidential election.
The
hideous behavior of Hillary towards these women brutalized by her
husband is one problem. A related problem is the limp appeal of
"women's issues" in electoral campaigns. Consider the utter failure in
the 2014 election cycle of every candidate who based a campaign on
"women's issues." Further, the failure of Hillary to attract young
women in primaries against an ancient Vermont Socialist shows how little she appeals to female voters.
If
there is an issue that motivates Americans across the spectrum, it is
trust, because we have been lied to so often and so cavalierly by
Washington politicians. No
sane person trusts Hillary. She not only lies even when the truth
would serve as well, but she lies about telling the truth, as in her
recent CBS interview. She lies almost as much as her husband.
Compounding
this pathological dishonesty are the natural consequences of aging,
obesity, and health problems that strongly suggest a slowing down of her
mental processes. The ravages of immoral life and old age clearly have
reduced her husband into a very dull mind, and it is likely that many
of the same abuses of youth harrowing her husband are affecting her,
too.
There
is another aspect to her lying. Hillary has a very ordinary brain,
artificially inflated by the left because leftists always consider those
who agree with them "smart." In college she followed the familiar path
of lackey to leftism. Hillary failed the District of Columbia Bar Examination; nearly everyone who takes it passes. Her legal career was
constructed around her husband's political success.
Hillary
has for decades been surrounded by flacks and toadies whose work is
making Hillary seem and feel intelligent. Some of the emails released
from her server note that these minions, among themselves, note that she
is often confused. The numerous unforced errors in her campaign also
suggest a rather mean old lady used to bullying rather than reasoning.
This, too, becomes over time a mental limp, a cognitive sloth, an
atrophied intellect.
The
stench of criminal conspiracy follows Hillary, and that is because
Hillary is so utterly conspiratorial in nature, but these crimes are
also so frequent that if the FBI and Justice Department does nothing,
then the Justice Department itself may face future investigation –
indeed, some of us may ask why we even need a department to protect criminals like Hillary.
Finally,
Hillary cannot embrace that "change" Americans want when she has been a
Washington insider so long. How can Hillary campaign for those goals
in a general election when the only real selling point she has is
"experience"? There is nothing Hillary says that is not hopelessly
tired and hackneyed rhetoric, and nothing that inspires hope.
Forget
the fact that she is finally dispatching the non-Democrat running
against her for the Democrat nomination, and ignore the general polls
today, which mean nothing. Hillary will be swamped this November.
Mitt
Romney warned Thursday that picking Donald Trump as the Republican
nominee for the presidency would doom Republicans and greatly reduce the
chances of American prosperity in the future.
Let me put in very plainly, he said in a much-touted and stinging public
speech at the University of Utah. If we Republicans choose Donald Trump
as our nominee, the prospects for a safe and prosperous future are
greatly diminished.
There is plenty of evidence that Mr. Trump is a con man, a fake, he
said. Mr. Trump has changed his positions not just over the years, but
over the course of the campaign.
Romney, speaking for the GOP establishment, tore apart Trump's
character, and said voters should watch to see how Trump reacts to his
speech as proof.
Will he talk about our policy differences, or will he attack me with
every imaginable low-road insult? Romney asked as the audience laughed.
This may tell you what you need to know about his temperament, his
stability, and his suitability to be president.
AMNESTY:
IT'S ALL ABOUT KEEPING WAGES DEPRESSED AND THERE'S NO DEM POLITICIAN OR
FREAKING BILLIONAIRE THAT DOESN'T WANT OBAMA'S AMNESTY HOAX TO LEGALIZE
MEXICO'S LOOTING!!!
Think Trump Will be Tough on Immigration? Consider His Company's Use of Guestworkers
By David Seminara
CIS Immigration Blog, February 26, 2016
. . .
I combed through the government databases detailing H-2B petitions and
here are some observations regarding the Trump Organization's use of
H-2B guest workers:
* In petitioning for workers, employers are supposed to prove that their
hiring need is "seasonal" and "temporary", yet Trump's Mar-a-Lago Club
has sought to import guest workers year after year, including right now.
(Their most recent petition was filed in July 2015 and the workers are
on contract at the resort until May 31, 2016.)
* Trump maintained at the debate on Thursday night that the jobs he had
filled with guest workers were hard to fill because they were only for
90 or 120 days. But in fact, the duration of the petitions was never
just three months. The work period for Mar-a-Lago's guest workers,
according to the petitions, is nearly always October 1 to May 31, which
is 8 months. On other occasions, his company petitioned for even longer
periods. For example, in 2009, the Trump National Golf Club petitioned
for guest workers for the period January 26 through November 20.
* I note that even during the height of the recession, this and other Trump properties were petitioning for workers.
* In 2009, again, during the height of the recession, the Trump
Organization used an H-2B broker called Más Labor to import workers. Más
Labor extols the benefits of Mexican workers on their website, which
allows employers to add guest workers to their online shopping carts.
"You'll never wonder if your workers are going to show up on Monday
morning and make it through a full work week," it reads. "MAS H2 workers
are dedicated to their families, their work and their employers.
They'll be there, ready to work hard for you. ... The only thing an H2
worker can do legally in the U.S. is work for their specified employer.
... For Mexican workers, seven to nine dollars an hour is about ten
times what could be earned in most jobs at home."
. . . http://www.cis.org/seminara/think-trump-will-be-tough-immigration-consider-his-companys-use-guestworkers
Aliens and Money: Let's Look at the Big Picture
By David North
CIS Immigration Blog, February 26, 2016
. . .
The other stack of money, some $50 billion-plus, is the sum of all the remittances currently flowing out
of our country every year. Much of this is untaxed earnings. With some
rather minor public policy adjustments, a significant fraction of those
funds, say $5-10 billion, could be caused to stay in America.
. . .
Virtually all the attention paid to these two topics is focused on the
little EB-5 program — including two congressional hearings in the last
few weeks.
Meanwhile, we can be grateful to Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) for calling
our attention to the huge outflow of remittances. Most of these
person-to-person transfers of money are from migrants, legal or illegal,
to relatives in the homeland. There are also transfers of criminal
moneys mixed in with these remittance flows. The latter angle is an
important public policy subject, but one I leave to others.
I wrote recently about the isthmus in southern Mexico through which
virtually all the Central American illegal migrants flow and which
offers enforcement opportunities. There is a similarly narrow channel
for the outward flow of remittances; it is through controllable bank and
wire transfers. The relatively tiny sums that can be carried, or
mailed, in cash or jewels or gold can be safely be ignored in a
conversation about remittances.
There are two obvious ways to reduce the outflow of tens of billions of
dollars from our economy, but the administration has no interest in
reducing remittances by shrinking the size of the illegal alien
population. The other way to reduce remittances is to use the wire and
banking systems to discourage them and to tax them. But before we
discuss the mechanics of such a program, let's return to Sen. Vitter's
contribution.
. . . http://www.cis.org/north/aliens-and-money-lets-look-big-picture
How About a Wall in Mexico That We Pay For?
By David North
CIS Immigration Blog, February 24, 2016
. . .
The suggestion is to construct a fence along an existing railroad, now
nearly abandoned, built by dreamers a little more than 100 years ago who
thought that they could entice ocean-to-ocean traffic away from the
about-to-be built Panama Canal and across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec
instead. The dream became a nightmare when it became apparent that using
the canal was cheaper and faster than unloading freight at the Gulf of
Mexico end of the little railway, shipping it by rail, and then
re-loading it on ships at the Pacific end of the line. One website calls
it the "UnPanama".
The railway bears the Spanish initials FIT (Ferrocarril del Istmo de
Tehuantepec). It runs from sea to sea in a seamless line, though not in a
straight line, so it's about 190 miles long. There is a gap in the
mountains at this point, which made the rail line easier to build and to
maintain. Since the Isthmus is running east and west at this point, the
railroad runs roughly north (the Gulf of Mexico) to south (the
Pacific).
. . .
The relative ease of the construction of a fence along the FIT railway,
as opposed to along the U.S. southern border, is hard to overemphasize.
Here is a relatively level land route in which the railway already owns
all the real estate needed for the fence. The railway itself gives
instant access to the area where the fence is to be built. Construction
costs in Mexico are much lower in Mexico than in the States. There would
be not be ranches along the border, as there are on some segments of
our southern border, where part of the land would be one side of the
fence, and part on the other. The railway follows a much straighter line
than the Rio Grande, and so forth.
Above all, the total length would be just one-tenth the length of our
border with Mexico. This is not to suggest that we abandon efforts to
strengthen our own southern border, but the FIT fence would be an
extremely valuable tool in the American enforcement arsenal.
. . . http://www.cis.org/north/how-about-wall-mexico-we-pay-for
BLOG: CAN'T AFFORD TO EDUCATE YOUR KIDS? JUST CLAIM THEY'RE ILLEGALS!!!
Court: DACA Aliens Can't Sue Georgia for In-State Tuition
By David North
CIS Immigration Blog, February 24, 2016
. . .
According to the Atlanta Journal Constitution, several DACA
beneficiaries sued the board of regents of Georgia's state university
system over this issue. They were turned down by the board, by the trial
court, by the appeals court, and ultimately by the state's supreme
court.
The supreme court said, unanimously, that the DACA beneficiaries could
not sue the sovereign state of Georgia without its own consent, deciding
the case on that issue, rather than on the legal status of the aliens.
CBP Pressies Would Rather Talk about Hoverboards Than Illegal Aliens
By David North
CIS Immigration Blog, February 22, 2016
. . .
The hoverboard incident was one of many noted in CBP releases, and the
news of drug seizures seems to account for a large majority of these
press items. If you read the whole set of them you will find that there
are many different ways to try to smuggle drugs into the country, such
as hiding them in the panels of trucks, putting them in tightly sealed
bags within gas tanks or inside spare tires, and tucking them into
clothing. If is often the drug-sniffing dogs that get the credit for the
seizure.
Sometimes when an illegal alien who has also committed a violent crime
is located CBP writes about it, but rarely the significant work it does
in apprehending and/or turning back illegal aliens at the border.
From my experience I know that when a government agency releases a news
item, it is something that the political leadership wants discussed. So
it is clear that the DHS leadership is not interested in the detection
of illegal immigration — otherwise its pressies would tell us about it.
. . . http://www.cis.org/north/cbp-pressies-would-rather-talk-about-hoverboards-illegal-aliens
Ambassador: U.S. Paying to Support Cuban Illegals in Costa Rica
By Kausha Luna
CIS Immigration Blog, February 24, 2016
. . . How much is the monetary contribution being made by the U.S.
government for the attention of Cubans who have not yet left Costa
Rica?
I would say it is significant.
So, while the Cuban illegal aliens themselves had to pay for their
transportation to the Rio Grande, the U.S. government helped pay for
their accommodations while in Costa Rica and then looked on as foreign
nations worked together to complete their smuggling journey north. Then,
once in the U.S., they are given immediate status under the obsolete
Cuban Adjustment Act, including full access to welfare benefits.
. . . http://www.cis.org/luna/ambassador-us-paying-support-cuban-illegals-costa-rica
Mexican Tourists Working on California Marijuana Farms
By Kausha Luna
CIS Immigration Blog, February 22, 2016
Mexican professionals and students are coming to the United States on
tourist visas to work on marijuana farms and make quick money.
An article printed in the Excelsior, a Mexican newspaper, describes a
"new migratory trend towards the United States." This new trend is an
unprecedented flow of English-speaking Mexicans, aged 24 to 34, who
travel to the United States on a tourist visa to take advantage of the
marijuana harvest season in the "Emerald Triangle". The Emerald Triangle
is in Northern California, made up of Medocino, Humboldt, and Trinity
counties, and is the largest cannabis-producing region in the United
States and the world.
. . .
The quick money comes with risks, however. Firstly, how much money one
earns depends on the demand for labor; if one isn't working then he or
she is only spending money. Secondly, migrants searching for jobs on
these marijuana farms are compromising their security as they trek into
the mountains with people they just met, due to a job offer that may not
be real. Thirdly, when it is time to get paid, it is common to be held
at gunpoint and thrown off the property, or be threatened with calling
the police. Finally, organized crime is starting to get a grip on this
area, including Mexican cartels.
. . . http://www.cis.org/luna/mexicans-tourists-working-california-marijuana-farms
San Francisco Puts Sanctuary Before Funding
By Debra J. Saunders
Townhall.com, February 28, 2016
. . .
The Republican Congress is not of like mind. The new chairman of the
House Appropriations Subcommittee that oversees the Department of
Justice, Rep. John Culberson, R-Texas, is poised to use Congress' power
of the purse to withhold federal law enforcement funds from sanctuary
cities. He told me, "There will be no more Kate Steinle murders, if I
can help it."
U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch is on board. Wednesday she told the
subcommittee that the Bureau of Prisons will transfer released federal
inmates who are undocumented and due for deportation directly to ICE --
not to sanctuary cities, unless the sanctuary agrees only to release the
inmate to ICE. Culberson had nothing but praise for Lynch "for doing
the right thing."
Center for Immigration Studies Policy Director Jessica Vaughan is less
impressed. She sees "a very narrow response to what went wrong in the
Steinle case" that doesn't address the real problem: state and local
policies of obstruction. "Most criminal aliens are in state and local
custody instead of federal prison."
. . .
San Francisco stands to lose about $170,000 from the alien assistance
program alone. As a believer in the rights of local governments,
Culberson told me, he supports San Francisco's right to abstain from ICE
enforcement. But if San Francisco chooses to release "illegal aliens"
and turn them loose on the streets, "don't even ask for SCAAP funding."
. . .
That's not to say San Francisco pols don't believe in rules. When
undocumented immigrant Pedro Figueroa-Zarceno, 31, announced that San
Francisco police had referred him to ICE after he reported his car
stolen, the force launched an investigation -- on the police, not
Figueroa-Zarceno, who was facing a 2005 deportation order and was
convicted of drunken driving in 2012. "It's absurd that the city is
investigating the cop who did the right thing," quoth Vaughan, "instead
of the illegal alien, who's here in defiance of the law."
. . . http://townhall.com/columnists/debrajsaunders/2016/02/28/san-francisco-puts-sanctuary-before-funding-n2125386
Hillary vs. The Donald
By Patrick Buchanan
Townhall.com, February 26, 2016
. . .
On immigration, where are the polls that show Middle Americans
enthusiastic about increasing the numbers coming? Where is the majority
demanding amnesty or open borders?
The elites of Europe are as out of touch as America's.
Angela Merkel, Time's Person of the Year in 2015, is at risk of being
dumped in 2016 if she does not halt the next wave of Middle Eastern
refugees who will be arriving on Europe's shores when the seas calm in
the spring in the Aegean and the Mediterranean.
If we believe the immigration issue Trump has seized upon is explosive
here, look to Europe. In the Balkans and Central Europe, even in
Austria, the barriers are going up and the border guards appearing.
Mass migration from the Third World to the First World is not only
radicalizing America. It could destroy the European Union. Anger over
any more migrants entering the country is among the reasons British
patriots now want out of the EU.
America is crossing into a new era. Trump seems to have caught the wave, while Clinton seems to belong to yesterday.
By Attacking Trump on ‘H’ Visas Will Be Difficult for Candidates Who Support ‘H’ Visas
By Fred Bauer
National Review Online, February 25, 2016
. . .
Still, even if the hypocrisy charge might be a bit muddled, Trump’s
rivals could still try to attack him on this issue. However, that task
will be harder if these rivals themselves support guest-worker programs
in their current state and, especially, if they support expanding them.
Many proponents of guest-worker programs argue that such programs do not
hurt the American worker and are good for economic growth as a whole.
Thus, when attacking Trump for using guest workers, a supporter of
guest-worker programs finds himself in an odd position: Mr. Trump,
you’re such a hypocrite for hiring guest workers instead of Americans —
but no big deal because you actually helped the American economy grow
and ended up not displacing any American workers at all.
Donald Trump Thinks American Workers Aren’t Good Enough for the Trump Organization
By Ian Tuttle
National Review Online, February 25, 2016
. . .
Apparently, the first leg of the project was too important to entrust to
American workers. In a lawsuit filed in Manhattan Federal Court,
members of House Wreckers Local 95 alleged that, to avoid paying union
employees their pension and welfare benefits, Trump (and the contractor
he used for the job, Kaszycki & Sons) brought in some 200
undocumented Polish workers to demolish the Bonwit Teller building that
then occupied the site of the future Trump Tower.
. . . http://www.nationalreview.com/article/431933/donald-trump-foreign-workers-american-workers-arent-good-enough
Marco Rubio’s Immigration Dilemma
Can he persuade conservatives that his immigration bill is really a reform?
By John Fonte
National Review Online, February 24, 2016
. . .
Chris Crane, the head of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
union, told Breitbart News that Schumer–Rubio was actually “weaker” than
current law. There were over 1,000 waivers, which gave the Department
of Homeland Security (DHS) the power to bypass enforcement. The United
States Citizenship and Immigration Services Council, which represents
12,000 federal employees, denounced Schumer–Rubio, declaring: “It was
deliberately designed to undermine the integrity of our lawful
immigration system.”
Further, the ICE Officers Council stated: “The 1,200-page substitute
bill before the Senate will provide instant legalization and a path to
citizenship to gang members and other dangerous criminal aliens.”
Moreover, the Congressional Budget Office declared that S-744 would not
stop most illegal immigration. The CBO forecast that Schumer–Rubio would
reduce illegal immigration by only one-third to one-half. And the bill
would almost double legal (overwhelmingly low-skilled) immigration. This
is a much larger increase than under Kennedy–McCain.
. . . http://www.nationalreview.com/article/431799/marco-rubio-immigration
Water Amnesty for Illegal Aliens in Flint, Michigan
Judicial Watch Corruption Chronicle, February 26, 2016
. . .
This one involves the widely reported water situation in Flint, which is
located about 66 miles northwest of Detroit. Last year researchers
discovered that the city’s drinking water was contaminated with lead
from decaying old pipes. The problem arose after a switch in 2014 in the
city’s water source to save money. Soon complaints mounted that the
water smelled and looked strange and academic researchers discovered
that it was toxic. This all occurred after a 7-1 vote by the Flint City
Council to stop buying Detroit water and join a new pipeline project,
according to a local news report.
Now there’s a state of emergency and the feds have stepped in, supplying
the area with free bottled water and special filters to install at home
until the local water supply is clean. For weeks immigrant rights
groups complained that residents had to show identification to receive
their free goods from the government and illegal aliens were being left
out. National Spanish-language media outlets blasted the Obama
administration for discriminating against illegal aliens. One reported
that undocumented immigrants weren’t getting help for fear of being
deported, instead opting to drink contaminated water or pay out of
pocket to buy some. Another major Spanish-language newspaper wrote that
illegal immigrants and their children suffered lead poisoning and
couldn’t get clean emergency water because they didn’t have
identification cards. “When the National Guard went door to door
distributing potable water, many were scared to open because they feared
the uniformed persons were immigration agents who would deport them,”
the paper wrote.
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL), which claims to combat bigotry and
protect civil rights for all, joined the cause expressing “horror” and
“indignation” that the government denied undocumented immigrants free
water and filters because they couldn’t provide a photo ID or Social
Security number. In a Spanish-language statement the group’s Michigan
chapter referred to news reports that Flint-area fire department
stations distributing water were requiring identification. But even in
places that aren’t requiring ID, illegal immigrants are scared to come
out and get their potable water out of fear that they will be deported,
the ADL stresses in its announcement. “We are calling on the National
Guard to order all fire departments and other centers distributing
supplies that no one be rejected.”
. . . https://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2016/02/water-amnesty-for-illegal-aliens-in-flint-michigan/
Talking Head Twit of the Year Contest
By Ann Coulter
Human Events Online, February 24, 2016
. . .
After Trump’s huge victory in New Hampshire and then in South Carolina,
did it occur to TV bookers to call any of the people who got it right?
Alex Marlow, editor in chief of Breitbart News, explained everything
that was about to happen in this race back on the Sept. 14 edition of
CNN’s Erin Burnett show.
While all the other “strategists” gibbered about Trump losing the
Hispanic vote, Marlow said: “Trump is growing the big tent. ... Trump’s
policies are appealing to blacks. There are even some polls out there,
like a survey USA poll, saying Trump is actually doing fine with
Latinos.”
In the Nevada primary on Tuesday, Trump not only won the Hispanic vote;
he not only won 17 points more of the Hispanic vote than his next
closest rival; but his Latino vote nearly matched that of the two Latino
candidates combined.
In one of the few times you might have heard this point expressed on
television airwaves, Marlow said that the No. 1 issue for Breitbart
News’ 20 million readers, “has consistently been — since last year —
immigration.They are looking for someone who is going to seal the border
and prioritize border security as No. 1.”
Mr. Trump: More Specifics About Mexico Paying for the Wall
By Silvio Canto, Jr.
American Thinker, February 24, 2016
. . .
Mr. Trump wants to build a fence on the border. Frankly, I'm OK with
that, although it's hard to see how beneficial a border fence would be
in the open and desolate areas of Arizona and Mexico. I would rather see
a military presence in the open areas, because it is cartels, who use
these routes. Also, let's remember that many illegal immigrants are
simply flying in and overstaying their tourist visas.
Mr. Trump also wants Mexico to pay for the fence. It is one of his most
popular lines. Unfortunately, he has not explained how exactly Mexico
will do that.
A Trump supporter told me recently that he plans to tax "remittances,"
currently about $25 billion. How do you determine whether Jose sending
money to his mother is illegal or not? My point is that there are a lot
of Mexicans here legally who send money to their families. Is Western
Union going to be requiring documents before wiring money? Is 7-11 going
to require documents when someone buys a $100 pre-paid Visa? My point
is that this is very difficult to do.
American Thinker, February 26, 2016
. . .
Who is pardoning any group or letting people stay here without consequences?
The GOP should be for an immigration solution that enforces the law
against employers and protects the border. At the same time, what is
wrong with offering some of those here a chance to stay here? It would
go like this:
1) The illegal immigrant would be given a chance to apply for a work
visa supported by an employer's letter that a job actually exists; 2) He or she would undergo a full criminal background check including
fingerprints. We will also check with the home country to verify that
the applicant is not married here and back home; 3) The applicant will pay a fine for violating the law and or not filing tax returns; 4) He or she will be under a period of probation where the person could be deported in case of any violation of law; 5) No path to citizenship or green card will be available to this person; and, 6) Employers will be harshly punished, including jail time, for hiring someone without papers.
We don’t have an encryption problem; we have a Muslim immigration problem.
By Daniel Greenfield
FrontPageMag.com, February 25, 2016
. . .
Terrorists adapt to the terrain. They use the native population as
protective coloration. They can find a way to transform a shoe, a tube
of toothpaste or instant messaging on a game console into a terror tool.
Just as the left can 'politicize' everything, Muslim terrorists can
'terrorize' everything. When everything is a potential terrorist tool,
then there can be no such thing as privacy or civil rights.
Muslim immigration is forcing us to constantly choose between our lives
and our civil liberties. It's a Catch 22 decision with no good choices.
Terrorists push governments toward totalitarianism so that their own
alternative totalitarian state starts to seem like a less terrible
alternative. But the refusal to fight terrorism also makes the
totalitarian state of the terrorists more viable.
. . . http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/261941/immigration-or-iphone-daniel-greenfield
Hypocrisy Watch: Trump Hired Hundreds of Foreign Workers For Jobs Americans Wanted
By John Merline
Investors Business Daily, February 25, 2016
. . .
A Reuters report from last summer found Trump’s various companies had
“sought to import at least 1,100 foreign workers on temporary visas
since 2000.” One of the companies applied for temporary work visas for
250 fashion models.
Trump told the Times that the only reason those Americans didn’t get
jobs at the Palm Beach resort was because “they weren’t qualified, for
some reason. There are very few qualified people during the high season
in the area.”
He went on to say that “Certain areas, in really successful areas, where
we can’t get help, many people do that,” meaning they import workers.
“That’s a good thing. Otherwise, you hurt your business.”
From a free-market perspective, Trump is absolutely right to say this.
Businesses should be free to hire whomever they want to get a job done,
at prices they can afford, even if those workers have to be imported
But that’s not what Trump has been telling his audiences on the campaign trail over the past eight months.
WorldNetDaily.com, February 25, 2016
. . .
Indeed, Donald Trump’s promised border wall effectively illustrates the
prudence of Washington’s admonition. Mr. Trump says the wall will be
used to keep illegals out. But a wall once divided Berlin, Germany. It
symbolized an imprisoned people. It would be ironic if our failure to
stop the elitist interests Trump really represents results in an elitist
tyranny that turns the border wall we intend for our security into an
instrument of control intended to bar our posterity from escaping it.
Don’t get me wrong. I favor, and worked with others to support, the
construction of appropriate obstacles along our borders, including
walls, fences and electronic surveillance, as appropriate. I did so
while Mr. Trump was decrying people like us as “mean-spirited” and maybe
even funding or applauding people who ridiculed and hated us. But where
liberty is concerned, our real security is not just in walls and
fences. It is in the loyal hearts and decent will of the guardians who
police them. If Donald Trump is the man his actual record suggests, we
have every reason to beware of any wall he erects – for when it serves
the interest of his factional allegiance, his true persona will prevail
in the use of it, even though it be against our rights and liberty.
. . . http://www.wnd.com/2016/02/will-trumps-wall-protect-or-imprison/
Trump’s Brilliant 30 Second Indictment of an Open Borders Policy
By Kevin Collins
CoachIsRight.com, February 22, 2016
. . .
Trump has been in contact with Jamiel Shaw-the victim’s father-and is helping him tell the story of his son’s death.
The story is so powerful that Trump should use this spot over and over
throughout the whole campaign. It is NOT just an appeal to Blacks; it is
an appeal to all Americans with a clear message: illegal aliens must be
stopped and kicked out.
Trump arranged to have Shaw address the crowd at a recent rally in Los Angeles. This is what he said: “To
see somebody, especially a billionaire, come out. I can’t even get a
neighborhood politician to come out, that’s why it’s so surreal to
me...”
Shaw continued: “People are looking at immigration as just an
immigration issue, but people are dying. It’s a fact. What good is the
economy, healthcare, going to school, if people are dying? Trump is
doing things he doesn’t have to do. He can buy a whole island and get
away from crime…. This was the first time I thought everything’s really
gonna be all right. To me, he was sent from God.”
. . . http://www.coachisright.com/trumps-brilliant-30-second-indictment-open-borders-policy/
Solving The H-1B Visa Problem
By Tom Giovanetti
TechCrunch.com, February 20, 2016
. . .
How shall we break this impasse and make progress on what should be one
of the easiest incremental reforms in the immigration reform debate? A
bipartisan commission likely to end in gridlock? Raw political “we won,
you lost” power? Further inaction, which just exacerbates the problem?
Here’s a better idea — a market mechanism that would determine once and
for all not only who is right, but what the market-clearing price for
skilled immigrant labor actually is, thus informing future immigration
policy formation.
Right now, H-1B visas are issued on a first come, first served basis,
for a flat fee, and the number is arbitrarily capped. Such a system
tells us nothing about how much an H-1B visa (and thus a skilled
immigrant worker) is actually worth to an employer. And because the
number is capped and the fee low, the system actually encourages a
lottery or jackpot approach — in other words, employers would apply for
as many visas as possible, hoping to get enough. This is an irrational
system.
It would make much more sense to allocate H-1B visas via an auction
process. If H-1B visas were auctioned to employers each year in a
sealed-bid process, with the bids allocated from highest to lowest until
the available permits were exhausted, supply and demand would establish
the market-clearing price for the right to hire a skilled immigrant
worker.
. . . http://techcrunch.com/2016/02/20/solving-the-h-1b-visa-problem/
The Trump Surge: It's All About Security
By Marguerite Creel
American Thinker, February 28, 2016
. . .
By summer 2015, there was no candidate, except Trump, who had even begun
to galvanize the base. But even at this late date, GOP leadership and
financiers seem reluctant to put their personal economic interests on
hold. Moreover, Trump identifies with Americans who recognize the
realpolitik black hole that threatens their homeland. Traditional
Americans want to vote for a high-energy candidate whose campaign
reaffirms the Republican Party as the protector of security and the
American way of life.
The political insiders' failure to consolidate behind a solid
closed-border candidate led to a vacuum on the pre-eminent issue of
illegal immigration. It was in this void that Trump's candidacy evolved.
His genius media campaign proved to dovetail nicely with commonsense
conservative positions such as middle-class tax relief, veterans' health
care and fair trade policies with China.
. . . http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/02/the_trump_surge_its_all_about_security.html Will DOJ Push For Illegal Alien Voting in 2016 Fall Flat in Court?
By Robert Romano
Conservative Review, February 28, 2016
. . .
But if the injunction is granted by Judge Leon and the new federal voter
registration form is removed, then Alabama, Georgia and Kansas would
have to begin processing federal applications to the state voter rolls
once again even if there is no proof of citizenship.
This therefore is an attempt by the Justice Department to settle this
case and invalidate the application of the states’ laws without even a
fair hearing of including the state requirements on the federal form.
CoachIsRight.com, February 25, 2016
. . .
Advocacy groups made up of academics, law professors, local and federal
politicians of the progressive Democrat party and groups that advocate
through the socialist La Raza and Soros’ Open Society have filed a
lawsuit against the states of Arizona, Georgia and Kansas. These and a
number of other states supported a decision by the U.S. Election
Assistance Commission allowing only legal citizens to register to vote.
The states are requiring a satisfactory form of proof of citizenship to
assure only citizens will be voting.
Incredible, though understandable, is the fact that the Obama Justice
Department has joined with the advocacy groups rather than defending one
of its own agencies. The Justice Department has gone so far as to take
away all authority from the EAC, the only federal agency working to
protect the states from voting by illegal aliens.
. . . http://www.coachisright.com/fighting-illegal-alien-voting/ Good Fences
By Clarice Feldman
American Thinker, February 21, 2016
. . .
Robert Frost wrote in “Mending Walls” that “good fences make good
neighbors”, and this week it appears that people in this country and the
UK are chock full of citizens who agree. As I explain, the immigration
crises both here and in Europe have underscored growing anger at the
arrogance and incompetence of unelected bureaucrats and their rules.
The big election kerfuffle of the week was the Pope’s ill-considered
attack on those who want to limit illegal immigration from Mexico by
building a wall at the border. To many it seemed an attack on Donald
Trump whose campaign against illegal immigration struck a receptive
chord with voters. Many noted the hypocrisy of such a statement coming
from the head of the Vatican state which is itself surrounded by a wall
erected in the ninth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries to protect
against pirates and invaders.
. . . http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/02/good_fences.html
Conservatism Inc. “Experts” Wrong Again: Exit Polls Show Trump’s Success IS About Immigration
By Washington Watcher
VDare.com, February 26, 2016
. . .
But the fact that the vast majority of voters back the Muslim
moratorium, which virtually no public figure other than Trump will
support, shows how salient the issue is. Moreover, immigration is a much
more specific issue than “the economy” or “national security,” and so
it’s not surprising “immigration” is not the top issue. Given that most
GOP candidates have the same positions on national security and the
budget, immigration can still be the deciding factor for many voters who
did not list it as their favorite.
What about Amnesty, i.e. a path to legalization? On its face, the
results are a bit disappointing. However, it’s worth noting that the
question is phrased in a misleading fashion.
It gives a binary choice between legal status (though not citizenship,
which the Gang of 8 proposes) and deportation, without giving increased
enforcement as an option. As the Center for Immigration Studies has
shown, if you give the option for increased enforcement (rather than
massive deportations] vs. Amnesty, Americans will overwhelmingly choose
enforcement [Rigged Polls That Bolster the Case for Amnesty, by David
Seminara, November 26, 2013].
. . . http://www.vdare.com/articles/conservatism-inc-experts-wrong-again-exit-polls-show-trumps-success-is-about-immigration
Obama Changes Law: Allows Immigrants with Blistering STDs and Leprosy into US
By Jim Hoft
Gateway Pundit, February 23, 2016
. . .
In his first year in office, President Obama lifted an entry ban on foreigners with HIV.
Most U.S. cases of leprosy occur in people who traveled to the United
States from areas of the world where the bacterial infection is endemic.
Obama Embraces Illegals with STDs... SEND THE MEDICAL BILLS TO THE STUPID LEGALS!
By Jeannie DeAngelis
American Thinker Blog, February 27, 2016
. . .
n 2009, the president pulled HIV from the list of diseases that bar
immigrants from coming to the U.S. Now, according to a report issued by
the non-partisan Center for Immigration Studies, Obama’s Health and
Human Services has publicly stated that the cost of handling and
treating immigrants with STDs does not impact taxpayers in a significant
way.
Moreover, even though, by nature, venereal disease is contagious, the
Obama administration has also decreed that specific communicable
diseases are no longer “of public health significance.” Unfortunately,
that opinion only applies to those who are thankfully not among the
victims sexually abused by one of the 2,000 illegals in Texas, who, with
or without a sore on their private parts, were deported because of sex
crimes.
That “not…in a significant way” guarantee comes from the same government
that had a virtual non-response when undocumented workers illegally
employed in places like Chipotle passed along pathogens, which sorry to
say, were likely transported into customer’s intestines via Crispy Corn
Tacos contaminated with human feces.
So, if having an oozing genital sore does not prohibit a person entry
into the U.S., how is the Obama administration going to ensure that
immigrants, who tend to gravitate toward food service, diligently follow
proper hygiene protocol after manhandling their genitalia?
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