Recognizing America
Pete Buttigieg says we won't recognize America if Trump is re-elected.
"This country cannot afford four more years of Donald Trump," he said. "We will not recognize it if he gets reelected."
Gee, Pete, America's already unrecognizable because of Trump. All those long lines at the unemployment office, the food stamp lines at the grocery store, the emergency rooms jam-packed with illegals waiting for free medical care — that sort of thing has almost vanished since Donald got in.
What will set America off on the road to civil war is Democrats once again stealing an election, as Kennedy did in 1960. Our choice is clear: the Obama road or the Trump road. America has graphically seen the difference. Under Obama, we had to get used to new normals of low GDP, low employment, high unemployment, wide open borders, etc. With Trump, we've seen that none of that is necessary, that the right policies unleash the economy and put everybody to work. Simply stated: Obama and his people lied to us about the world and about America. Trump has told us the truth and has acted on it, and the results are unequivocally positive.
There's also the fact that Trump has teased the Ugly Left out of its shy, retiring shell to reveal a repellent, vicious alien we had thought human. It's hard to believe anybody not adjudged insane could be so nasty, so brimful of burning hatred. How do people get this way? What about life in these United States is so awful that anybody could truly hate it? It makes no sense unless we invoke the biblical Adversary.
Fear not. Hate not. Their time is coming.
Mass
Immigration Poses An Existential Crisis For The West
https://finance.townhall.com/columnists/petermorici/2019/04/29/mass-immigration-poses-an-existential-crisis-for-the-west-n2545545
Source: AP
Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza
America
needs well-enforced borders but President Donald Trump’s national “emergency”
is part of a much larger crisis facing Western nations.
State
entropy, widespread violence and economic desperation, prevalent in many parts
of Central and South America, the Middle East and Africa, are
driving millions north—mostly to America and the European Union. The sheer potential numbers
could pose overwhelming challenges of assimilation and undermine the cultural
underpinnings of our market economies and democratic institutions.
The
recent sharp increase in Border Patrol apprehensions of illegal migrants and
asylum seekers has exhausted U.S. recourses to detain those awaiting
adjudication. Within several weeks of apprehension, they join 11
million immigrantswithout
permanent legal status—driving down wages for lower-paid Americans and
overwhelming local cultures in some of the nation’s poorest communities.
Sophisticated
technologies—cameras, drones and the like—are more cost efficient than a wall,
but only a wall could keep migrants from setting foot on American soil and
being released into the general population.
Most
asylum claims are questionable. Mexico offers migrants humanitarian visas and
the opportunity to work, but politically motivated judges have squashed
administration attempts to limit asylum claims.
Sadly,
federal courts led by Supreme Court Chief Justice Roberts have become quite
comfortable arrogating power in response to public sentiment—for example,
striking down state statutes prohibiting gay marriage—and acceding to political
pressure from Democrats—the
peculiar reasoning Roberts
applied to declare Affordable Care Act fines are taxes.
Presidential
claims about “Obama Judges” and “Trump
Judges” have
some merit but in any case, Trump’s immigration point man, Stephen Miller, has
not done the homework to effectively argue that a national emergency exists.
Trump
charges the illegal flood is full of criminals, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi,
always a comforting presence, counters that Americans commit rape, robbery and
homicide too. What matters is whether poor
immigrants commit crimes at an alarming higher rate that our indigenous population.
Since
2015, Germany has admitted over 1.4
million asylum seekers—about 2% of its population, and they commit about 14% of the crimes.
Surely, the FBI could help Miller to come up with comparable U.S. statistics.
Then we could get at the truth—or he has but the administration is not willing
to back off on its crime claims.
Polls
show most
Americans don’t support the wall and believe legal
immigration is good for the economy and our culture, and no one has a finger on the pulse of
voters like Pelosi, except perhaps Roberts.
The 1976
National Emergency Act empowers a majority in the Congress to nullify
presidential declarations. However, with the GOP holding the Senate, lawsuits
will decide whether
the president can supplement the $1.4 billion authorized by Congress to build
55 miles of border fence by transferring Department of Defense funds to instead
build 234 miles of fence.
The NEA
does not define a national emergency. Instead that is spread over at least 470
statutory provisions. One states “the Secretary of Defense can ‘undertake
military construction projects … necessary to support such use of the armed
forces.’”
As
Justice Robert Jackson reminded in Youngstown v.
Sawyer (1952),
which overturned President Harry Truman’s nationalization of the steel industry
to support the Korean War effort, presidential
discretion is
at its peak when it acts with the support of Congress and “at its lowest ebb”
when it is “incompatible with the expressed or implied will of Congress.”
When the
Republicans controlled Congress, Trump could not get his wall built, and he
campaigned on the issue in 2018 and got shellacked. Now congressional House
Democrats have decided there is no pressing need for a wall.
The
president recognizes he will get pilloried in the lower courts but expects a
fair hearing in the Supreme Court. He should ponder Roberts’s ire regarding his
charges about the politicization of the courts—sometimes being right is not
enough.
For
Americans living in large prosperous cities, the influx of well-educated legal
immigrants, especially in STEM disciplines, are welcome, but many illegal
immigrants become burdens in the labor markets and on public services in Trump
country.
If Trump
fails to get his wall, the crisis at the border could easily become a mass
migration that imposes incalculable burdens on those Americans least able to
bear them.
DEAR LA RAZA PETE:
WE ALREADY GIVE ILLEGALS OUR JOBS, BILLIONS IN WELFARE AND PAY FOR THEIR CRIME TIDAL WAVE. HOW MUCH MORE DO YOU WANT TO SUCK OUT OF US FOR LA RAZA?
Pete Buttigieg: US owes separated migrant families 'compensation'
CHARLES CITY, Iowa — Pete Buttigieg said he believes migrant families separated by U.S. border authorities deserve compensation.
The mayor of South Bend, Indiana, 37, on Sunday vowed to end the practice of separating asylum-seeking children from their parents or guardians if he wins the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination and the White House next year.
“Can you imagine if you’ve been taken away from your parents and didn’t know where they are?” Buttigieg said to a 9-year-old girl who asked him about his position during a town hall in Charles City, Iowa. “The United States owes something to the kids in that situation. First of all, of course, to swiftly reunite them with their families. But we probably owe them a little more than that given what we’ve done. In fact, we definitely we owe them more than that.”
Buttigieg added, “We need to make sure that they have compensation and that we do things to try to make it right," without defining what he meant by "compensation" or how much his proposal would cost.
“It doesn’t make America safe to separate families. And kids ought to have nothing to be afraid of from the greatest country in the world,” the presidential candidate said.
Another attendee at the event in the heavily Republican county asked Buttigieg about his plans to help boost legal immigration in parts of the country that rely on migrant labor.
"Another thing we're proposing is what we call 'community renewal visas.' And the idea is that if a community gets together and says, 'We need more people,' then you would apply for an allotment of community renewal visas that will then be issued to people who commit that they will bring their skills and their resources to live in an area for a certain fixed amount of time to really contribute to te community," he replied.
Migrant children were separated by the U.S. government under the Flores Settlement Agreement, which prohibited Customs and Border Protection from holding minors in detention for more than 20 days. The issue received nationwide attention last year after the Trump administration implemented a "zero tolerance" approach to illegal immigration, pledging to prosecute all cases of unlawful border crossings. Large numbers of children were removed from CBP facilities while their parents or guardians remained detained to wait out the legal process. The Trump administration over the summer took steps to roll back the Flores agreement, introducing a Department of Homeland Security rule that would allow families to stay together until their day in court.
After speaking at the Iowa Democratic Party's Liberty and Justice Celebration last week, Buttigieg is touring counties in Iowa that voted for former President Barack Obama before flipping to Trump in 2016. Although he's polling an average of 7.1% nationwide, putting him well behind the double-digit support of former Vice President Joe Biden and Sens. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Bernie Sanders of Vermont, he only trails Warren in Iowa state polls by 5.3 percentage points with an average of 17% of the vote, according to RealClearPolitics data.
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