Biden Says Trump is America’s First “Racist” President
Biden Says Trump is America’s First “Racist” President
He missed a few Democrats.
If President Trump is really a “racist,” as Joe Biden claims, he is one of the strangest racists who ever lived: before the coronavirus hit, black and Hispanic unemployment was at record low levels, the President has repeatedly hailed the achievements of black Americans, and Trump himself, before he entered politics as an unapologetic, non-establishment Republican, was widely respected even by the likes of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton for his work for the black community. But none of that matters to Joe Biden or whomever is putting words in his mouth: they want us to believe that Trump is a racist, indeed, the first racist President, because for years they’ve been destroying Republicans with this charge, however false it may be. Why stop now? But Biden has missed a few Democrats.
Rating America’s Presidents: An America-First Look at Who Is Best, Who Is Overrated, and Who Was An Absolute Disaster recounts that progressive hero Woodrow Wilson, for example, was born in Virginia a bit more than four years before the Civil War broke out. Throughout his life, he retained the racist attitudes he learned in his youth, and when he became president, he made them U.S. government policy. In 1915, the notorious film The Birth of a Nation became the first motion picture to get a screening in the White House; the film portrayed the Ku Klux Klan as heroes, denigrated blacks in numerous ways, and quoted Wilson as a respected authority.
Wilson was also quoted decrying the supposed “policy of congressional leaders” to “put the white South under the heel of the black South.” In response, Wilson went on, as quoted in the film: “The white men were roused by a mere instinct of self-preservation... until at last there had sprung into existence a great Ku Klux Klan, a veritable empire of the South, to protect the Southern country.”
The showing of The Birth of a Nation was indicative of Wilson’s attitudes: during his administration, government departments in Washington were segregated.
Rating America’s Presidents also shows how another Democrat, James Buchanan, presided over the dissolution of the Union in the years leading up to the Civil War, appealing to the South not to secede by adopting a full-hearted, enthusiastic endorsement of slavery and all it represented. On March 6, 1857, two days after Buchanan took office, the Supreme Court, under the leadership of Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, published its infamous ruling in Dred Scott v. Sandford, a case that had been brought by Dred Scott, a slave who had been taken into free territory and argued that, as a result, he was now free. The court voted 7–2 against Scott. In his opinion, Taney wrote that blacks were a “subordinate and inferior class of beings” who “are not included, and were not intended to be included, under the word ‘citizens’ in the Constitution, and can therefore claim none of the rights and privileges which that instrument provides for and secures to citizens of the United States.”
Buchanan strongly endorsed the decision. However, the Dred Scott decision was fundamentally incoherent. As Justice Benjamin Robbins Curtis noted in his dissent, blacks at the beginning of the republic had the right to vote in five states; how, then, could Taney declare that they were not and had never been intended to be citizens? (This was long before the idea became fashionable that non-citizens should vote in American elections and receive the fruit of American taxpayers’ labor.) But Buchanan had neither the wit nor the imagination to think through the implications of that fact, even if he had been inclined to do so.
At that time, the Kansas Territory had two governments: one in Topeka that outlawed slavery and enjoyed the support of a majority of Kansans and another in Lecompton that was pro-slavery. When the Lecompton government sent a proposed pro-slavery state constitution to Washington, Buchanan accepted it, despite the fact that he was committed to the principle of popular sovereignty and that slavery would almost certainly have been voted down in a free and fair election in Kansas. The president tried to win support for the Lecompton Constitution in Congress with a variety of favors and perks, but the House voted it down anyway. Buchanan kept pushing for Kansans to accept it, offering them all manner of inducements also, but they, too, voted it down. They didn’t want slavery, no matter how determined President Buchanan was that they have it.
Joe Biden doesn’t know and almost certainly doesn’t care about any of this, and probably didn’t even when he was of sound mind. American history, the record of our successes and our missteps, and of our struggles and sacrifices to create the freest society the world has ever known, is of no importance whatsoever -- indeed, it is actively offensive -- to the Leftists who are determined to “fundamentally transform” this free society into one that is decidedly unfree. That is why it is all the more important for patriots to arm themselves about our nation’s history, so that we can defend it more effectively and beat back the opportunistic and corrosive lies of Biden and his handlers. What we do not know, we do not value. What we do not value, we will lose.
Robert Spencer is the director of Jihad Watch and a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. He is author of 21 books, including the New York Times bestsellers The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades) and The Truth About Muhammad. His latest book is Rating America’s Presidents: An America-First Look at Who Is Best, Who Is Overrated, and Who Was An Absolute Disaster. Follow him on Twitter here. Like him on Facebook here.
Paris
Dennard: All Joe Biden Has Done for Blacks Is ‘Lock Us Up’
Mario Tama/Getty Images
Joe Biden questions my blackness one moment, defends racist 1994
crime bill the next
Joe Biden's record is a shame
Democrats try to scare black voters
Biden won the Democrat Presidential
nomination because he was endorsed by South Carolina’s Jim
Clyburn and bought off black politicos like Symone Sanders, right, the former Bernie Sanders
supporter. Black Democrats support
Biden because they knew he would provide specific benefits for their
“community,” in contrast to the more class-based, universal policies offered by
Leftists such as Bernie Sanders or Andrew Yang. Like Virginia Governor Ralph Northam, Biden’s silly persona lets him be the hapless white frontman
for racial socialist redistribution programs. And now, like Northam after the
blackface brouhaha, Biden will have to offer blacks even more concrete benefits
to ensure their turnout.
ALL BILLIONAIRES ARE DEMOCRATS. ALL BILLIONIARES WANT OPEN BORDERS FOR MORE CHEAP LABOR AND NO CAPS ON IMPORTING CHINESE AND INDIANS TO WORK OUR TECH JOBS CHEAP.
New Federal Reserve report
US
median income has plunged, inequality has grown in Obama “recovery”
Who ‘Ain’t Black’?
THIS IS FOR REAL!
'We've got to strengthen our own borders': MLK niece supports
Trump's temporary immigration ban
US median
income has plunged, inequality has grown in Obama “recovery”
6 September
2014
The yearly
income of a typical US household dropped by a massive 12 percent, or $6,400, in
the six years between 2007 and 2013. This is just one of the findings of the
2013 Federal Reserve Survey of Consumer Finances released Thursday, which
documents a sharp decline in working class living standards and a further
concentration of wealth in the hands of the rich and the super-rich.
The report
makes clear that the drop in a typical household’s income was not merely the
result of what is referred to as the 2008 recession, which officially lasted
only 18 months, through June 2009. Much of the decline in workers’ incomes
occurred during the so-called “economic recovery” presided over by the Obama
administration.
In the three
years between 2010 and 2013, the annual income of a typical household actually
fell by 5 percent.
The Fed
report exposes as a fraud the efforts of the Obama administration to present
itself as a defender of the “middle class”. It has systematically pursued
policies to redistribute wealth from the bottom to the very top of the income
ladder. These include the multi-trillion-dollar bailout of the banks, near-zero
interest rates to drive up the stock market, and austerity measures and wage
cutting to lift corporate profits and CEO pay to record highs.
The Federal
Reserve data, based on in-person interviews, show a far larger decline in the
median income of American households than indicated by earlier figures from the
Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey.
In line with
the figures on household income, the report shows an ever-growing concentration
of wealth among the richest households. The Fed’s summary of its data notes
that “the wealth share of the top 3 percent climbed from 44.8 percent in 1989
to 51.8 percent in 2007 and 54.4 percent in 2013,” while the wealth of the
“next 7 highest percent of families changed very little.”
The report
states that “the rising wealth share of the top 3 percent of families is
mirrored by the declining share of wealth held by the bottom 90 percent,” which
fell from 33.2 percent in 1989 to 24.7 percent in 2013.
The ongoing
impoverishment of the population is an indictment of capitalism. There has been
no genuine recovery from the Wall Street crash of 2008, only a further
plundering of the economy by the financial aristocracy. The crisis precipitated
by the rapacious, criminal practices of the bankers and hedge fund speculators
has been used to restructure the economy to the benefit of the rich at the
expense of everyone else.
Decent-paying
jobs have been wiped out and replaced by low-wage, part-time and temporary
jobs, with little or no benefits. Pensions and health benefits have come under
savage attack, as seen in the bankruptcy of Detroit.
Not
surprisingly, the Fed report has been buried by the American media, confined to
the inside pages of the major newspapers.
Measured in 2013 dollars, a typical household received an income
of $53,100 in 2007. By 2010, this had fallen to $49,000. It hit $46,700 by
2013. At the same time, the average income for the wealthiest tenth of families
grew by ten percent.
While median income fell between 2010 and 2013, mean (average)
income grew, from $84,100 to $87,200. The report noted that, “the decline in
median income coupled with the rise in mean income is consistent with a
widening income distribution during this period.”
For the poorest households, the
drop in income has been even more dramatic. Among the bottom quarter of
households, mean income fell a full 10 percent between 2010 and 2013.
The report
reveals other aspects of the social crisis. The share of young families
burdened by education debt nearly doubled, from 22.4 percent to 38.8 percent,
between 2001 and 2013. The share of young families with more than $100,000 in
debt has grown nearly tenfold, from 0.6 percent to 5.6 percent.
These statistics reflect both a
historic and insoluble crisis of the profit system and the brutal policies of
the American ruling class, which is carrying out a relentless assault on
working people and preparing to go even further by dismantling bedrock social
programs such as Medicare and Social Security. The data undercuts the endless
talk of “partisan gridlock” in Washington and the media presentation of a
political system paralyzed by irreconcilable differences between the Democratic
and Republican parties.
There has, in fact, been a
seamless continuity between the Bush and Obama administrations in the pursuit
of reactionary policies of war abroad and class war at home. The two parties
have worked hand in glove to make the working class pay for the crisis of the
capitalist system.
The Federal
Reserve has itself played a critical role in the growth of social inequality in
the US. The bailout of the banks, estimated at $7 trillion, has been followed
by six years of virtually free money for the banks.
Every facet
of American life is dominated by the immense concentration of wealth at the
very top of society. The grotesque levels of wealth amassed by the parasites
and criminals who dominate American business, and the flaunting of their
fortunes before tens of millions struggling to pay their bills and keep from falling
into destitution, are fueling the growth of social anger. This anger will
increasingly be directed against the entire economic and political system.
The figures
released by the Fed reflect a society riven by class divisions that must
inevitably trigger social upheavals. The explosive state of social relations is
itself a major factor in the endless recourse by the Obama administration to
military aggression and war, which serve to deflect internal tensions outward.
The growth
of inequality likewise underlies the relentless attack on democratic rights in
the US, including the massive domestic spying exposed by Edward Snowden and the
use of militarized police to crack down on social opposition, as seen most
recently in Ferguson, Missouri.
Pollak: Barack Obama Himself Was the Threat to the Rule of Law
JOEL B. POLLAK
Biden’s Coronavirus Plan: Catch and Release Border Crossers into
U.S.
Obama: DACA Illegal Aliens Deserve Amnesty During Coronavirus
Crisis
JOHN BINDER
‘Dreamers’ risk lives on pandemic’s front
lines while they await a decision on their own futures
JAMES
WALSH
THE OBAMA-BIDEN
HISPANICAZATION of AMERICA… first ease millions of
illegals over our borders and into our voting booths!
Joe Biden: ‘Absolutely Bizarre’ to Suggest Limit on U.S. Capacity
to Absorb Immigrants
JOEL B. POLLAK
Trump has flipped the 9th Circuit — and some
new judges are causing a 'shock wave'
Surge in Illegal Aliens, 500% Increase in Some U.S. Ports of Entry
Concrete Evidence of the Continuing Plunge in Both Civil and Criminal Immigration Enforcement
By Dan Cadman
CIS Immigration Blog, January 23, 2016
Two recent reports from Syracuse University's Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) reflect the continued erosion of immigration enforcement under the Obama administration.
On January 20, TRAC reported that criminal prosecution for immigration offenses fell 22.3 percent from November 2014 to November 2015, and more than 36 percent over the course of five years, excluding magistrate court (which deals exclusively with petty offenses).
The following day, TRAC announced that "ICE [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] Detainer Use Stabilizes Under Priority Enforcement Program". The Priority Enforcement Program (PEP) is the replacement to the Secure Communities Program mandated by Homeland Security Security Jeh Johnson as a part of the president's "executive actions" on immigration. It significantly restricts the ability of immigration agents to file detainers against aliens arrested by police on criminal charges.
I have no idea what TRAC means by "stabilizes". A quick look at Figure 1a of their report shows a more accurate state of affairs, if one considers the number of detainers being filed over the course of five years, from a high in April 2011, when Secure Communities became fully effective nationwide and kicked into high gear, versus October 2015. I would use other phrases: "plummeted" or "Dropped like a stone". Or, as my colleague Jessica Vaughan has noted, particularly in relation to detainers filed at county jails, where the lion's share of criminals of any stripes are held after being booked for offenses small and large: "a stunning free fall".
http://www.cis.org/cadman/concrete-evidence-continuing-plunge-both-civil-and-criminal-immigration-enforcement
Biden and the Immigration
Trap
'Uncle Joe' Agonistes
Polls don't show support for Biden positions
Sound tough on China, or not?
The Obama-Biden
administration's record
Pandering to
Latino voters
Paris
Dennard: All Joe Biden Has Done for Blacks Is ‘Lock Us Up’
26 May
2020405
3:41
Former Vice
President Joe Biden has done nothing as a politician to help the black
community, said Paris
Dennard, senior communications advisor for
black media affairs with the Republican Party, offering his remarks on
Tuesday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News
Daily with host Alex Marlow.
Biden’s declared on Friday that if a black American is unsure of supporting
him over President Donald Trump in the 2020 election “then you ain’t black.”
.@JoeBiden: "If you have a problem figuring out whether you're for me or Trump,
then you ain't black." @cthagod: "It
don't have nothing to do with Trump, it has to do with the fact — I want
something for my community." @breakfastclubam pic.twitter.com/endvWnOIV2
Dennard warned against characterizing Biden’s statement as a
“gaffe.” Biden’s comment, he maintained, reflected the politician’s
condescension towards blacks. “It’s paternalistic, and it’s bigoted,” he said.
“We’ve got to stop calling these gaffes,” urged Dennard. “We
need to stop calling these ‘insensitive statements.’ No, They’re bigoted.
They’re racist, and it’s exposing Joe Biden’s long history. Stop giving him
cover for being a bigot.
Dennard noted the refusal of numerous Democrats to condemn
Biden’s framing of black identity as contingent on partisan political support
for the Democrat Party.
“I have been waiting to hear Amb. Susan Rice, Sen. Kamala
Harris, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, [and] Stacey Abrams stand up and say something
about this, but they’re not because it’s not about the people [or] the black
community,” Dennard stated. “It’s about the black vote. That’s all they’re
concerned about. It’s all politics.”
LISTEN:
“The RNC and the Trump campaign are going to be very
aggressively going after Joe Biden. The impact of his statement not only was
offensive to black Republicans or conservatives — or just free-thinking black
Americans like myself who are supporting President Trump — but it’s also
offensive to any black person who decides to just be a free thinker. … He’s
essentially saying, ‘If you are not on my team — Joe Biden’s team — you’re not
black,'” said Dennard.
“You have Joe Biden trying to put people in a box and think,
‘You’ve got to think the way I want you to think. If you don’t think that
way. I’m going to pull away your identity. I’m going to pull away your
cultural connection. I’m going to say that you are not a part of the
community.’ That is an offensive thing to say, because this is exactly what
they did during slavery, they wanted slaves to not be able to read and to write
and to remain dumb and illiterate so that we wouldn’t be able to be educated
and learned and advance and grow and prosper,” Dennard added.
“It is a way to suppress the vote,”
Dennard stated. “It is a way to discourage people from daring to be able to do
like Kanye West did and do like Vernon Jones did down in Georgia. … When you talk about voter
suppression, this is a tactic from the left that we’re seeing play out by their
nominee.”
Dennard assessed Biden’s political record.
“Let’s start with the Clinton crime
bill, which [Joe Biden] wrote,” Dennard recalled. “You want to have a
conversation about anybody’s statements to or for the black community? Let’s
talk about how he talked about Barack Obama. Let’s talk about how he talked about Indian-Americans. Let’s talk about how he talked about black kids rubbing their their hands on [his] leg because
they had never seen curly hair, and ‘Corn Pop,’ and little roaches, and people getting locked up for crossing
the street.”
“You’ve been a vice president, but you haven’t done anything to
directly impact the black community in a positive way besides lock us up,”
concluded Dennard.
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Joe Biden questions my blackness one moment, defends racist 1994
crime bill the next
Paris Dennard, Opinion contributor
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Much attention has been rightfully devoted to bigoted comments
former Vice President Joe Biden made during his Friday
interview with “The Breakfast Club” when he had the audacity to say
"Well I tell you what, If you have a problem figuring out whether you're
for me or Trump, then you ain't black."
As a black man who voted for Donald J. Trump for president in
2016, and plans to do so in 2020, no 77-year-old white man from Delaware has
the right, authority or rationale to question my blackness or the blackness of
millions of Americans exercising our God-given right to be free and
exercise our constitutionally granted power to vote for whomever we want, even
if they are Republican.
If you only watch the sound bites of the interview, you
miss his full-throated support and defense of the 1994 crime bill. Biden literally tried to
convince black America that our communities weren't destroyed, black families weren't ripped
apart, and black wealth was not stifled for generations because of a bill he
designed.
So this happened... “If you got a problem figuring out whether
you’re for me or for Trump then you ain’t Black.”
-@JoeBiden to @cthagod pic.twitter.com/IdnyxSAY5k
-@JoeBiden to @cthagod pic.twitter.com/IdnyxSAY5k
Even the host from “The Breakfast Club” agrees. After the
interview, host Charlamagne
tha God said, “He
really was one of the people on the front lines when it came to the war on
drugs, and mass incarceration. If he wants to be president, he needs to fix
that."
Joe Biden's record is a shame
The black community is well aware of the real impact of his
signature legislation. The Center for American Progress sums it up: “The crime bill also expanded the school-to-prison
pipeline and increased racial disparities in juvenile justice involvement by
creating draconian penalties for so-called super predators — low-income
children of color, especially black children, who are convicted of multiple
crimes.”
Thanks to President Trump’s courageous leadership pushing for historic
criminal justice reform and signing the First Step Act into law, he
helped reverse the pain and suffering many black men and women
experienced because of Biden’s bill.
He put the vulnerable at risk: Why oh why is NY Governor Andrew Cuomo being praised
for his coronavirus response?
If Biden felt any remorse over what he helped do to the black
community, he could have spent his next decades of service to Delaware to undo
the damage, but he didn’t. If Biden was so connected, concerned, and passionate
about helping and uplifting the black community he would have publicly pushed
President Barack Obama to get criminal justice reform over the finish
line, but he was silent.
Biden and the Democratic National Committee seem to look at
black Americans just as votes and not as actual people, with brains,
feelings and families. Liberal policies have not made it easier for
black business owners to navigate fewer regulations, pay less in taxes, and be lifted out of poverty. Liberal policies were not
responsible for historic low black unemployment, and the creation of opportunity zones. But the Trump
administration did. So, Biden should not be asking black America to
compare his record to that of Trump's.
Democrats try to scare black voters
What this entire episode shows us is Biden and his team are
running scared of the continued black engagement efforts of the Republican
National Committee and the Trump campaign’s Black Voices for Trump Coalition, which are doing the work
to build the relationships and amplify the record of achievement of this
current administration. Biden is threatened. So, his latest voter intimidation tactic
is to scare black voters into submission by attempting to take away
our cultural identity if we do not vote for him.
Curiously, we have not heard from former President Obama, or
from several of the black women who are rumored to be on Biden’s shortlist
for vice president. So
far, California Sen. Kamala Harris, Stacey Abrams, Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance
Bottoms, Ohio Rep. Marcia Fudge, Florida Rep. Val Demings, and former Ambassador Susan
Rice are keeping mum or giving him a pass. Why let bigoted comments get in the
way of their own political interests?
Former Vice President Joe Biden interviewed by radio host
Charlamagne tha God in May 2020.
Thankfully, Black Entertainment Television (BET)
co-founder Bob Johnson called him out saying in part “This proves
unequivocally that the Democratic nominee believes that black people owe him their vote without question; even
though we as black people know it is exactly the opposite. He should spend
the rest of his campaign apologizing to every black person he meets.”
Yes, Biden issued an apology, not for being a bigot, or
offensive, rude or arrogant, but he only said, “I shouldn’t have been such a
wise guy. I shouldn’t have been so cavalier.” A lackluster response to
match his lackluster record of fighting for the black community.
Sen. Rand Paul and Rep. Andy Biggs: Anthony Fauci wants America closed until there's
nothing to reopen
Add it to the list of racist things he has said as
an elected official, like saying of his political opponents "They're gonna put y'all back in chains;" and talking about Obama
as "the
first mainstream African American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking
guy;" and "In Delaware, the largest growth of population is Indian
Americans, moving from India. You cannot go to a 7-11 or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight
Indian accent. I'm not joking."
This is Joe Biden. These are not gaffes. His horrible record
matches his horrible rhetoric. The contrast between him and President
Trump on the issues of jobs, justice, the economy, historically
black colleges and universities, and even pandemic management is one that Biden is not
prepared to have, especially as he insults black Americans in the
process.
Paris
Dennard is
a senior communications adviser for black media affairs at the Republican
National Committee and the former White House director of black outreach for
George W. Bush. Follow him on Twitter: @PARISDENNARD
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Biden And Blacks: No Gaffe Can Threaten This Venal Relationship
05/25/2020
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See, earlier: Forget THE APPRENTICE,
Trump—Blacks Will Never Vote For You Enough To Make A Difference
Joe Biden’s recent gaffe about blacks isn’t going to cost him
black support. It may even strengthen him because, far from being offended,
black political consultants, activists, and journalists just see more dollar
signs. Whereas First Son-in-Law Jared Kushner reportedly wants to cut out the word
"freedom" out of the GOP platform because “polling showed it doesn't
appeal to African Americans” [Scoop: Inside the secret talks to overhaul the GOP
platform, by Jonathan Swan, Axios, May 24, 2020], the Biden-black
relationship is solidly based not on illusory symbols but on venal material
interests. The GOP can’t compete, nor should it.
The celebrated gaffe: In an interview with radio host Lenard
McKelvey, aka “Charlamagne tha God,” Biden said if blacks have a problem
figuring out whether to support him or President Trump, “you ain’t black” [Joe Biden: ‘You Ain’t Black’ If You Don’t Back Me Over
Trump, by Joshua Caplan, Breitbart, May 22, 2020]. Adding to the fun: Biden’s bizarre comment that
“everyone in jail… can’t read,” amusing since the “tha God” spent time in jail
after various crimes when he was a teenager [Five Things You Didn’t Know About Charlamagne tha God, by Aiden Mason, TVOM, 2018].
The Kushner campaign has pounced on Biden with the usual DR3 (Dems R the Real Racists)
tactic, and is now selling extremely cringe T-shirts, below.
Official Trump Campaign
T-Shirt
But of course this overlooks the fact that McKelvey wasn’t
offended on behalf of black Republicans. “It don’t have nothing to do with
Trump, it has to do with the fact—I want something for my community,” he
responded to Biden.
In other words, there’s no chance most blacks will consider
voting for Trump. But they do want more handouts for their group.
McKelvey, excuse me, “tha God,” pressed Biden on “what have you
done for me [blacks] lately” and condemned him for the 1994 crime bill [Charlamagne tha God slams Joe Biden’s record with African
Americans after the Democrat’s ‘ain’t black’ gaffe and says his 1994 crime bill
was a ‘very intricate’ part of ‘systemic racism,’ by Matthew Wright and
Nikki Schwab, Daily Mail, May 23, 2020]. Joe Biden has promptly groveled, vowing that
“I’ve never, ever taken the African American community for granted” [Joe Biden Regrets ‘You Ain’t Black Comment: ‘I Shouldn’t
Have Been Such A Wise Guy, by Joshua Caplan, Breitbart, May 22, 2020].
But he has and he can. Thus Symone Sanders, running interference
for the former VP, tweeted that his comments were “in jest” and that he could put
“his record with the African American community up against Trump’s any day,”
steamrolled Chuck Todd’s attempt to question her about it on Meet The Press [Symone Sanders vs.
Chuck Todd on Biden’s “You Ain’t Black” Comment; “I’m Not Going To Do This, by Ian Schwartz, RealClearPolitics, May 23, 2020].
Former president Barack Obama is preparing to campaign for Biden
to drive up black turnout [Barack Obama poised to add his star appeal to Joe Biden
campaign, by Daniel Strauss, The Guardian, May 23, 2020]. And fears that blacks might stay home if
they feel Biden hasn’t done enough for them lately can be countered if
necessary by choosing a black woman female VP candidate, like Florida
Congresswoman Val Demings [Val Demings rips Trump
for having the "gall" to use Biden remarks in campaign, Axios, May 24, 2020] or
Georgia’s Stacey Abrams.
Biden’s weakness is his strength. Like Virginia’s Northam, he
can’t rule his party without monolithic black support [Joe Biden, the National Northam, by Gregory Hood, American Renaissance, March
6, 2020]. But that means black Democrats like Clyburn will support him because
Biden must deliver. Blacks vote as a bloc and win concessions as a
bloc.
Consider what Biden has already done before this. He began his campaign running on the Charlottesville hoax that alleges far-right protesters attacked the city and
President Trump praised them. Biden has said abandoning Anglo-American legal
culture and its presumption of innocence has “got to go” because it’s a “white man’s culture.” He’s more recently said Ahmaud Arbery was “killed in cold blood.”
Biden is going to give blacks everything he thinks they want as
long as he gets to be president. President Trump was absolutely right when he
defined Biden as an empty shell, a “non-factor,” and said that his real
opponent was the radical Left and its Main Stream Media allies [Trump dismisses Biden: ‘Not even a factor,’ by Tal Axelrod, The
Hill, May 16, 2020].
Still, why don’t the Democrats have a black person at the top of
the Democratic ticket? Because Joe Biden provides a way to soothe the moral
panic that older liberal whites are undergoing. It’s not surprising he leads in
critical suburban communities [Where Biden, Trump stand in key swing states, by Jonathan Easley, The Hill, May 23, 2020].
Biden’s own personal failings, including plagiarism, allegations of corruption, and, most recently, sexual assault, don’t matter without the
MSM covering them aggressively. Thus The
Nation’s Katha Pollitt openly states
she’d vote for Biden even if “he boiled babies and ate them” or if Tara Reade’s
account of sexual harassment was true [We Should Take Women’s Accusations Seriously. But Tara
Reade’s Fall Short. May 20, 2020]. Feminists had no problem voting for Bill Clinton
or his enabler Hillary; why would they object to Biden?
If anything, Biden’s creeping senility, bumbling, and overall
buffoonery are endearing to white liberal voters who want to go back to the
“normality” of the Obama years when the president was just another celebrity. I
suspect Biden was picked by Obama because he’s an oaf, the dumb white sitcom dad we’ve seen on television
a million times. He’s got a certain charm, but no one respects or fears him.
There is no white “community” in American politics conscious of
itself as a group possessing collective interests and identity. The pollster
Zach Goldberg has found that white liberals actually possess an “out-group
bias”—meaning that they dislike their own ethnic
group more than any other. In
academia, journalism and increasingly, “white” is an all-purpose insult. The only qualification: many of these white
liberals don’t identify with
whites anyway, either because they are part of an ethnic group that considers itself distinct from whites (like many
Jews); an oppressed group (like some sexual minorities); or are genuinely
post-national (and think they’re citizens/consumers of the world).
Notwithstanding the constant denunciations of President Trump as
a white nationalist, the fact is he never speaks explicitly in defense of his
white supporters. He’ll occasionally send out what appears to be a dog whistle,
as when he cryptically referenced the savage beating of a helpless elderly white
man by a younger black man in a
nursing home in Michigan. But his supporters are learning that there will be no
political consequences from this dog whistle. There’s no push to eliminate
Affirmative Action or establish Official English. Even Trump’s recent boast that he was going to remedy the “illegal” bias and deplatforming of
patriots on social media is
apparently just means a “commission”—which is still being “considered” [Trump Considers Forming Panel to Review Complaints of
Online Bias, by John McKinnon and Alex Leary, The Wall Street Journal, May 23, 2020].
Arguably, the GOP could move to the left and propose a civic
nationalist program that might well win a few more black votes than the GOP is
getting now: a universal basic income, an immigration
moratorium, Official English and replacing Affirmative Action with a system that gives
advantages to those from a lower economic class
In other words, challenge the Democrats for black voters by
offering them something real.
But we know the GOP won’t do that—not least because Conservatism Inc.
ideologues would fight it every step
of the way. Better to lose and have some other black conservative
we’ve never heard of lecture us on
“Republican outreach” again next CPAC.
In contrast, Democrats provide blacks with concrete advantages
like set-asides, special programs, ethnic narcissism, and cultural victories.
Why would blacks give that up? Once in a while, they might throw a minor
tantrum to win more subsidies, but it’s not like a party that wants “limited
government” can offer anything to people that rely on government being big.
Let the Kushner campaign sell its shirt. It won’t make a
difference. Blacks will vote for Biden this fall by the usual margins, if not
greater ones than last time.
Joe Biden has already shown he’s willing to degrade himself as
much as he has to in order to be president. Kissing up to “Charlamagne da God”
is just business as usual.
James Kirkpatrick [Email him |Tweet him @VDAREJamesK] is a Beltway veteran and a refugee from Conservatism Inc. His
latest book is Conservatism Inc.: The Battle for the
American Right. Read VDARE.com Editor Peter Brimelow's Preface here.
THE GLOBALIST DEMOCRAT PARTY IS FOR BILLIONAIRES, BANKSTERS,
BAILOUTS AND OPEN BORDERS TO KEEP WAGES DEPRESSED
On the topic
of immigration, she added, “During her lifetime, my aunt Coretta Scott King
spoke about immigration coming in, and it would displace ‘negroes,’ or blacks,
as we were called back then. And she even wrote about that. My uncle, Martin
Luther King, Jr., spoke about immigration as well.
ALL BILLIONAIRES ARE DEMOCRATS. ALL BILLIONIARES WANT OPEN BORDERS FOR MORE CHEAP LABOR AND NO CAPS ON IMPORTING CHINESE AND INDIANS TO WORK OUR TECH JOBS CHEAP.
Obama’s State of Delusion ... OR JUST ANOTHER "Hope &
Change" HOAX?
”The delusional character of Obama’s State of the Union
address on Tuesday—presenting an America of rising living
standards and a booming economy, capped by his declaration
that the “shadow of crisis has passed”—is perhaps matched
only in its presentation by the media and supporters of the
Democratic Party.”
“The general tone was set by the New York Times in its lead
editorial on Wednesday, which described the speech as a “simple, dramatic
message about economic fairness, about the fact that the well-off—the top
earners, the big banks, Silicon Valley—have done just great, while middle and
working classes remain dead in the water.”
OBAMANOMICS:
The report observes that while the wealth of the world’s 80
richest people doubled between 2009 and 2014, the wealth of the poorest half of
the world’s population (3.5 billion people) was lower in 2014 than it was in
2009.
In 2010, it took 388 billionaires to match the wealth of the
bottom half of the earth’s population; by 2013, the figure had fallen to just
92 billionaires. It fell to 80 in 2014.
THE OBAMA ASSAULT ON THE AMERICAN MIDDLE-CLASS
“The goal of the Obama administration, working with the Republicans
and local governments, is to roll back the living conditions of the vast
majority of the population to levels not seen since the 19th century, prior to
the advent of the eight-hour day, child labor laws, comprehensive public
education, pensions, health benefits, workplace health and safety regulations,
etc.”
“In response to the ruthless assault of the financial oligarchy,
spearheaded by Obama, the working class must advance, no less ruthlessly, its
own policy.”
New Federal Reserve report
US
median income has plunged, inequality has grown in Obama “recovery”
The yearly income of a typical US household dropped by a massive
12 percent, or $6,400, in the six years between 2007 and 2013. This is just one
of the findings of the 2013 Federal Reserve Survey of Consumer Finances
released Thursday, which documents a sharp decline in working class living
standards and a further concentration of wealth in the hands of the rich and
the super-rich.
Who ‘Ain’t Black’?
THIS IS FOR REAL!
Biden reminds African-Americans
where they stand in the Democratic Party.
May 25, 2020
Lloyd
Billingsley
“I tell you, if you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for
me or Trump, then you ain’t black.”
Thus spake Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden last Friday
in an interview with host Charlamagne tha God. Accomplished black people were surprised to hear they were not
black.
“I thought to myself, I have been black for 54 years,” said
Sen. Tim Scott, South
Carolina Republican. “1.3 million black
Americans already voted for Trump in 2016,” and “this morning, Joe Biden told
every single one of us we ‘ain’t black.’” For Scott it was “sadly par for
the course for Democrats to take the black community for granted and brow beat
those that don’t agree.” Black Entertainment Television (BET) co-founder Robert
Johnson expressed similar sentiments.
“Vice President Biden’s statement today represents the arrogant
and out-of-touch attitude of a paternalistic white
candidate who has the audacity to
tell black people, the descendants of slaves, that they are not black unless
they vote for him,” Johnson told Fox News. “This proves unequivocally that the
Democratic nominee believes that black people owe him their vote without
question, even though we as black people know it is exactly the opposite.”
For former NFL player Jack Brewer, “the mask is off” and “America
can see the real Joe Biden, hopefully all of my African-American
brothers and sisters.” As Brewer told Fox News on
Sunday, “He was the VP of Barack
Obama so he hides in the closet at lot,” covering up “oppressive policies that
he’s pushed since he’s been in the Senate,” the 1994 crime bill among them.
What Biden had revealed, wrote Deroy Murdock of
National Review, was the view, “widely
popular among Democrats,” that black Americans who fail to support the Democrat
agenda are not just wrong but, much worse, “they’re not even black.” Murdoch
found this “insulting, degrading and dehumanizing,” and there was more to it.
“Note Biden’s pandering use of ‘ain’t’ and ‘y’all’ when addressing
blacks, including a southern accent in the latter instance.” In similar style,
Hillary Clinton “exhibits the same annoying, patronizing behavior.” Larry Elder tweeted a cartoon of Hillary Clinton in blackface saying “I ain’t no
ways tired of pandering to African Americans.” This was allegedly racist, but
Joe Biden telling blacks that GOP is ‘going to put y’all
back in chains’ – not a problem.” On
the other hand, some blacks had no problem with the Biden statement.
“The issue wasn’t what Joe Biden said, because it was
accurate,” tweeted Jamele Hill of The
Atlantic, formerly of ESPN. It was “clearly a joke that didn’t land,” but
if you support what Hill calls anti-black policies, “you’re still technically
black but you ain’t with us.” Others were eager to clarify.
“There is a difference between being politically black and being
racially black,” wrote New York
Times correspondent Nikole Hannah-Jones, a Pulitzer Prize winner for her contribution to the 1619 Project. “Being born black does not necessitate being politically black,”
wrote Hannah-Jones in a tweet she has since deleted.
Biden said he “shouldn’t have been so cavalier” and “no one should
have to vote for any party, based on their race or religion or background,” but
that failed to land with Kanye West, also a
supporter of President Trump. “I will not
be told who I’m gonna vote on because of my color,” West proclaimed.
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas made a comment by way of the
new documentary Created Equal:
Clarence Thomas in His Own Words. “One of the
things you do in hearings is you have to sit there and look attentively at
people you know have no idea what they are talking about,” Thomas said. In his
1991 confirmation hearing, one of them was Senate Judiciary Committee chairman
Joe Biden, and as Thomas recalled, “We know exactly what’s going on here. This
is the wrong black guy. He has to be destroyed.”
For someone often unsure of his location, the day of the week, and
what office he is seeking, Joe Biden does not hesitate to tell others what he
thinks they are, with absolute certainty. For example, according to the former
vice president, the millions of people illegally present in the United States
are “already American
citizens.” That would surprise
countless legal immigrants and legitimate citizens of all skin shades.
Last year, Biden could have told Democrat rival Elizabeth Warren
“you ain’t no Cherokee,” which would have been true. Instead, the serial
plagiarist tells African Americans they “ain’t black,” which is not an original
racist smear.
Back in the 1990s, Clinton assistant attorney general nominee Lani
Guinier questioned the blackness of Thomas Sowell, the great scholar, economist
and author of books such as Intellectuals and Race. Nikole Hannah-Jones and Jamele Hill might check out Sowell’s response to Lani
Guinier: “I don’t need some
half-white woman from Martha’s Vineyard telling me about being black.” By their
own admission, African Americans don’t need an addled white Democrat telling
them “you ain’t black,” if they fail to support him.
“Wow,” tweeted former NFL great Herschel Walker. “Does he not understand that black and brown skinned people can
think for themselves? You don’t determine who we vote for.”
“Thank you Herschel!” tweeted President Trump, who has
established www.youaintblack.com with
the logo “Black Voices for Trump 2020.” As the president says, we’ll see what
happens.
'We've got to strengthen our own borders': MLK niece supports
Trump's temporary immigration ban
| April 22, 2020 10:34 AM
Martin Luther King Jr.’s niece said she supports President Trump’s
forthcoming temporary suspension of immigration to the United States.
Trump announced he would be signing an executive order this week that is expected to put a 60-day ban on immigrants
seeking permanent status in the U.S. Alveda King, the director of Civil Rights
for the Unborn at Priests for Life, said she agrees with the order, arguing
that it will help the U.S. become healthier and stronger amid the coronavirus.
“I agree with President Trump,” King told Just the News on Tuesday. “Now, this is a
temporary measure. This is not a forever measure."
"So, the president, when he says 'America first' — he never
says 'America only,' just 'America first,'" she said. "Immigration
slows for a time. Then we become healthier. Then we can reach out to others.
That is the strategy. So, people need to understand that. We've got to
strengthen our own borders, our own lives, our own families, our own
communities. Once we do that, then we can help others."
Just the News reported that
the U.S. Civil Rights Commission under the Obama administration showed illegal immigration
negatively affects blacks and asked King if the U.S. should consider
immigration control a civil right.
“Civil rights, I would not say — I think more it helps human
rights. It helps Americans to get better," King said. "Civil rights,
of course, come after human rights, and human rights are endowed by our
creator. So, there are some rights, human rights, that we all have. And I
believe we all have rights all over the planet to safety, security, provision,
and all of that. When that is missing, it is wise for leaders of any nation to
stop, take toll, repent, pray, return to God, and get things straightened
out."
On the topic of immigration, she added, “During her lifetime, my aunt
Coretta Scott King spoke about immigration coming in, and it would displace
‘negroes,’ or blacks, as we were called back then. And she even wrote about
that. My uncle, Martin Luther King, Jr., spoke about immigration as well.
"My father, the Rev. A.D. King, with all of us having the
understanding this nation was founded by immigrants, as it is today," she
continued. "We had the Native Americans here before we were here, of
course. So, we are all immigrants. ... Martin Luther King Jr. said, ‘Well, we
may have come out on different boats, but we are all in the same boat
now.'"
US median
income has plunged, inequality has grown in Obama “recovery”
6 September
2014
The yearly
income of a typical US household dropped by a massive 12 percent, or $6,400, in
the six years between 2007 and 2013. This is just one of the findings of the
2013 Federal Reserve Survey of Consumer Finances released Thursday, which
documents a sharp decline in working class living standards and a further
concentration of wealth in the hands of the rich and the super-rich.
The report
makes clear that the drop in a typical household’s income was not merely the
result of what is referred to as the 2008 recession, which officially lasted
only 18 months, through June 2009. Much of the decline in workers’ incomes
occurred during the so-called “economic recovery” presided over by the Obama
administration.
In the three
years between 2010 and 2013, the annual income of a typical household actually
fell by 5 percent.
The Fed
report exposes as a fraud the efforts of the Obama administration to present
itself as a defender of the “middle class”. It has systematically pursued
policies to redistribute wealth from the bottom to the very top of the income
ladder. These include the multi-trillion-dollar bailout of the banks, near-zero
interest rates to drive up the stock market, and austerity measures and wage
cutting to lift corporate profits and CEO pay to record highs.
The Federal
Reserve data, based on in-person interviews, show a far larger decline in the
median income of American households than indicated by earlier figures from the
Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey.
In line with
the figures on household income, the report shows an ever-growing concentration
of wealth among the richest households. The Fed’s summary of its data notes
that “the wealth share of the top 3 percent climbed from 44.8 percent in 1989
to 51.8 percent in 2007 and 54.4 percent in 2013,” while the wealth of the
“next 7 highest percent of families changed very little.”
The report
states that “the rising wealth share of the top 3 percent of families is
mirrored by the declining share of wealth held by the bottom 90 percent,” which
fell from 33.2 percent in 1989 to 24.7 percent in 2013.
The ongoing
impoverishment of the population is an indictment of capitalism. There has been
no genuine recovery from the Wall Street crash of 2008, only a further
plundering of the economy by the financial aristocracy. The crisis precipitated
by the rapacious, criminal practices of the bankers and hedge fund speculators
has been used to restructure the economy to the benefit of the rich at the
expense of everyone else.
Decent-paying
jobs have been wiped out and replaced by low-wage, part-time and temporary
jobs, with little or no benefits. Pensions and health benefits have come under
savage attack, as seen in the bankruptcy of Detroit.
Not
surprisingly, the Fed report has been buried by the American media, confined to
the inside pages of the major newspapers.
Measured in 2013 dollars, a typical household received an income
of $53,100 in 2007. By 2010, this had fallen to $49,000. It hit $46,700 by
2013. At the same time, the average income for the wealthiest tenth of families
grew by ten percent.
While median income fell between 2010 and 2013, mean (average)
income grew, from $84,100 to $87,200. The report noted that, “the decline in
median income coupled with the rise in mean income is consistent with a
widening income distribution during this period.”
For the poorest households, the
drop in income has been even more dramatic. Among the bottom quarter of
households, mean income fell a full 10 percent between 2010 and 2013.
The report
reveals other aspects of the social crisis. The share of young families
burdened by education debt nearly doubled, from 22.4 percent to 38.8 percent,
between 2001 and 2013. The share of young families with more than $100,000 in
debt has grown nearly tenfold, from 0.6 percent to 5.6 percent.
These statistics reflect both a
historic and insoluble crisis of the profit system and the brutal policies of
the American ruling class, which is carrying out a relentless assault on
working people and preparing to go even further by dismantling bedrock social
programs such as Medicare and Social Security. The data undercuts the endless
talk of “partisan gridlock” in Washington and the media presentation of a
political system paralyzed by irreconcilable differences between the Democratic
and Republican parties.
There has, in fact, been a
seamless continuity between the Bush and Obama administrations in the pursuit
of reactionary policies of war abroad and class war at home. The two parties
have worked hand in glove to make the working class pay for the crisis of the
capitalist system.
The Federal
Reserve has itself played a critical role in the growth of social inequality in
the US. The bailout of the banks, estimated at $7 trillion, has been followed
by six years of virtually free money for the banks.
Every facet
of American life is dominated by the immense concentration of wealth at the
very top of society. The grotesque levels of wealth amassed by the parasites
and criminals who dominate American business, and the flaunting of their
fortunes before tens of millions struggling to pay their bills and keep from falling
into destitution, are fueling the growth of social anger. This anger will
increasingly be directed against the entire economic and political system.
The figures
released by the Fed reflect a society riven by class divisions that must
inevitably trigger social upheavals. The explosive state of social relations is
itself a major factor in the endless recourse by the Obama administration to
military aggression and war, which serve to deflect internal tensions outward.
The growth
of inequality likewise underlies the relentless attack on democratic rights in
the US, including the massive domestic spying exposed by Edward Snowden and the
use of militarized police to crack down on social opposition, as seen most
recently in Ferguson, Missouri.
Pollak: Barack Obama Himself Was the Threat to the Rule of Law
JOEL B. POLLAK
10 May 20203860
2:47
Former President Barack Obama warned Friday that the “rule of
law is at risk” because former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn will no
longer be prosecuted.
Obama’s remarks, leaked from a private conference call with
members of something called the “Obama Alumni Association,” show a breathtaking
lack of self-awareness.
Obama himself was the threat to the rule of law, both during
his presidency and as it ended.
As Breitbart News has previously noted, Obama routinely
violated the Constitution’s separation of powers, challenging America’s
constitutional foundation in a way no president before him had done in
peacetime.
“I’ve got a pen, and I’ve got a phone,” Obama said, threatening to use — and abuse — his
executive power — rather than allow the constitutional process of legislation
to proceed.
- Refusing to submit the Iran deal
to the Senate for ratification
- Declaring the Senate in recess
when it was not (struck down, later, in a 9-0 Supreme Court decision)
- Defying the courts when told to
renew oil and gas activity in the Gulf of Mexico, or to stop
giving amnesty to illegal aliens
- Threatening the Supreme Court
after Citizens
United, and
before the Obamacare decision
- Altering Obamacare’s statutory deadline unilaterally
- Creating the Deferred Action for
Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and Deferred Action for Parents of Americans
(DAPA) programs after admitting it was unconstitutional
- Trying to wipe out the coal
industry
Moreover, the Flynn investigation itself undermined the rule of
law by targeting a man the government knew was innocent of any crime.
Similarly, Obama’s own effort to protect Hillary Clinton, and his
administration’s attempt to undermine Trump through false allegations of
“Russia collusion,” also violated the rule of law.
Last week it emerged that it was Obama himself who told
then-Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates about Flynn’s lawful conversation with
the Russian ambassador, which set the investigative wheels in motion.
Obama’s phony protest suggests he is feeling desperate as
attention turns, finally, to his own role in the affair.
Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and
the host of Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from
7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). His new book, RED NOVEMBER, is available for pre-order. He is a winner of
the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter
at @joelpollak.
Biden’s Coronavirus Plan: Catch and Release Border Crossers into
U.S.
508David McNew/Getty Images
JOHN BINDER
1 May 20201,989
3:45
Presumptive 2020 Democrat presidential nominee Joe Biden is
suggesting a restart of the nation’s “Catch and Release” program in the midst
of the coronavirus crisis. The policy would ensure thousands of border crossers
are readily released into the United States.
This week, during an interview with Florida local media, Biden suggested a return to the previous,
decades-long policy of catching and releasing border crossers into the U.S. as
they await their asylum hearings despite public health concerns over the
coronavirus.
“You’ve never seen a time where someone seeking asylum has to
seek it from another country,” Biden said when asked about his immigration plan
in the middle of the coronavirus crisis. “You’ve never seen a circumstance
where we put people in cages. We have to take stock of where we are.”
Biden’s plan would ensure that thousands of border crossers who
have arrived at the U.S.-Mexico border since President Trump’s shutdown of the region would be released
into the country while they await their asylum hearings — the majority of which
take years to hold.
Today, Trump’s “Remain in Mexico” policy coupled with the border
shutdown has allowed federal immigration officials to swiftly return border
crossers to Mexico in an average of 96 minutes. The policy means border crossers from Mexico
and Central America are processed and immediately returned to Mexico without
setting foot in the U.S. interior.
As Breitbart News reported, federal immigration officials have
said that as of April 10, Trump’s policy had successfully
returned 10,000 border crossers to Mexico.
Analysis conducted by the Center for Economic and Policy
Research shows a continued flow of border crossers being returned to their
native countries in recent weeks.
From March 15 to April 24, ICE Air appears to have made 21
deportation flights to Guatemala; 18 to Honduras; 12 to El Salvador; six to
Brazil; three each to Nicaragua, Ecuador, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic;
and one each to Colombia and Jamaica…
…
Over the last 12 weeks, it appears that ICE has used 22 unique
charter planes for 232 likely deportation flights. Of those planes, 15
participated in confirmed ICE Air deportation flights between October 2018 and
May 2019, the most recent data compiled by UWCHR.
Biden’s plan, though, would reverse such measures, halting
deportations except for convicted felon illegal aliens and allowing those arriving
at the border to await their asylum hearings in the U.S. interior with the
hopes that they show up to court.
The plan proposed by Biden comes even as public health concerns
have circulated around border crossers arriving at the southern border. This week,
an illegal alien from India tested positive for coronavirus after he snuck
across the border into California with a group of Mexican nationals.
Likewise, data from Guatemalan officials have said about 50 to
75 percent of all migrants returned to Guatemala from the U.S. have tested positive for coronavirus.
Under Biden’s plan, each of these border crossers would be in a
federal immigration facility or already released into the U.S. interior.
Trump’s Remain in Mexico policy has decimated asylum fraud. In
the first few months of its implementation, the policy ensured that zero of 1,200 total border crossers ineligible
for asylum in Mexico had been released into the U.S. interior. Most recent reports have indicated that the Remain in
Mexico policy has a less than one percent asylum-grant rate.
Obama: DACA Illegal Aliens Deserve Amnesty During Coronavirus
Crisis
JOHN BINDER
Former President Barack Obama says the time is now, during the
Chinese coronavirus crisis, to provide amnesty to about 3.5 million illegal
aliens who are enrolled and eligible for the Deferred Action for Childhood
Arrivals (DACA) program.
While about ten million Americans have filed for
unemployment in just three weeks, Obama took to Twitter to call for an amnesty
for DACA illegal aliens in the midst of the coronavirus crisis.
“Dreamers have contributed so much to our country, and they are
risking their lives fighting on the frontlines of this pandemic,” Obama said.
“They deserve permanent immigration status and a pathway to citizenship—as they
are Americans in every way but on paper.”
Dreamers
have contributed so much to our country, and they are risking their lives
fighting on the frontlines of this pandemic. They deserve permanent immigration
status and a pathway to citizenship—as they are Americans in every way but on
paper. https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/dreamers-risk-lives-on-pandemics-front-lines-while-they-await-court-ruling/2020/04/11/d34a7b58-76c4-11ea-85cb-8670579b863d_story.html …
‘Dreamers’ risk lives on pandemic’s front
lines while they await a decision on their own futures
Center for Immigration Studies Research Director Steven
Camarotta has noted that DACA illegal aliens make up about
0.2 percent of the nation’s nearly 15 million healthcare workers. In New York,
where a staggering number of DACA illegal aliens reside, they still only
account for about 0.2 percent of the state’s healthcare workers, according to
Camarotta.
Obama’s lobbying for a DACA amnesty in the middle of the
coronavirus crisis comes as House Democrats — including Congressional Hispanic
Caucus Chair Joaquin Castro (D-TX), Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), and Rep.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) — have sent a letter to the Trump administration demanding
DACA illegal aliens have their work authorizations extended.
“Support of DACA recipients during the current pandemic is
particularly critical as over 200,000 DACA recipients are in occupations and
industry groups that render them ‘essential critical infrastructure workers,’
according to DHS guidance,” the House Democrats wrote in their letter.
A DACA amnesty would put more citizen children of illegal aliens
— known as “anchor babies” — on federal welfare, as Breitbart News reported, while American taxpayers would be left potentially with a $26
billion bill.
Additionally, about one-in-five DACA illegal aliens,
after an amnesty, would end up on food stamps, while at
least one-in-seven would go on Medicaid.
Any plan to give amnesty to DACA illegal aliens that does not
also include provisions to halve legal immigration levels — the U.S. admits
about 1.2 million legal immigrants a year at the expense of America’s working
and middle class — would give amnestied illegal aliens the opportunity to bring
an unlimited number of foreign relatives to the country.
At the southern border, a DACA amnesty has the potential to
trigger a border surge that could triple the number of illegal aliens pouring
through the border. Since DACA’s inception, more than 2,100 recipients of the
program have been kicked off because they were found to either be criminals or
gang members.
JAMES
WALSH
THE OBAMA-BIDEN
HISPANICAZATION of AMERICA… first ease millions of
illegals over our borders and into our voting booths!
How the Democrat
party surrendered America to Mexico:
“The watchdogs at
Judicial Watch discovered documents that reveal how the Obama administration's
close coordination with the Mexican government entices Mexicans to hop over the
fence and on to the American dole.” Washington Times
"This is country belongs to Mexico" is said by the
Mexican Militant. This is a common teaching that the U.S. is really AZTLAN,
belonging to Mexicans, which is taught to Mexican kids in Arizona and
California through a LA Raza educational program funded by American Tax Payers
via President Obama, when he gave LA RAZA $800,000.00 in March of 2009!
The “zero tolerance” program was
dismantled by Attorney General Erc Holder once it had successfully cut the
transit of migrants by roughly 95 percent. Initially, officials made
140,000 arrests per year in the mid-2000s, but the northward flow dropped so much
that officials only had to make 6,000 arrests in 2013, according to a 2014 letter by two pro-migration Senators, Sen.
Jeff Flake and John McCain.
“The cost of the Dream Act is far
bigger than the Democrats or their media allies admit. Instead of covering
690,000 younger illegals now enrolled in former President Barack Obama’s 2012
“DACA” amnesty, the Dream Act would legalize at least 3.3 million illegals, according to a pro-immigration group, the
Migration Policy Institute.”
Obama Quietly Erasing Borders (Article)
WIKILEAKS EXPOSES THE OBAMA CONSPIRACY TO FLOOD AMERICAN WITH DEM
VOTING ILLEGALS
“The watchdogs at
Judicial Watch discovered documents that reveal how the Obama administration's
close coordination with the Mexican government entices Mexicans to hop over the
fence and on to the American dole.” Washington Times
Obama Funds the Mexican Fascist Party of LA RAZA “The Race”… now
calling itself UNIDOSus.
"This is country belongs to Mexico" is said by the
Mexican Militant. This is a common teaching that the U.S. is really AZTLAN,
belonging to Mexicans, which is taught to Mexican kids in Arizona and
California through a LA Raza educational program funded by American Tax Payers
via President Obama, when he gave LA RAZA $800,000.00 in March of 2009!
Previous generations of immigrants did not
believe they were racially superior to Americans. That is the view of La Raza Cosmica, by Jose Vasconcelos, Mexico’s former education
minister and a presidential candidate. According to this book, republished in
1979 by the Department of Chicano Studies at Cal State LA, students of
Scandinavian, Dutch and English background are dullards, blacks are ugly and
inferior, and those “Mongols” with the slanted eyes lack enterprise. The
superior new “cosmic” race of Spaniards and Indians is replacing them, and all
Yankee “Anglos.” LLOYD BILLINGSLEY/ FRONTPAGE mag
*
GLOBALIST BARACK OBAMA AND NANCY PELOSI’S CONSPIRACY TO SABOTAGE
HOMELAND SECURITY AND KEEP AMERICA FLOODED WITH DEM VOTING ILLEGALS
"Along with Obama, Pelosi and Schumer are responsible for
incalculable damage done to this country over the eight years of that
administration." PATRICIA McCARTHY
“One
of the most disgusting things to come out of the Obama administration was
"Operation Fast and Furious," where members of the Department of
Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) allowed illegal gun sales to go
through – commonly referred to as "gun walking" – in order to track
buyers and sellers they believed were connected to the Mexican drug cartels.
Nearly 2,000 firearms were sold and were eventually found throughout the United
States and Mexico. Two of them were used to k ill Border Patrol Agent Brian
Terry.” BETH BAUMANN
The “zero tolerance” program was dismantled
by Attorney General Erc Holder once it had successfully cut the
transit of migrants by roughly 95 percent. Initially, officials made
140,000 arrests per year in the mid-2000s, but the northward flow dropped so
much that officials only had to make 6,000 arrests in 2013, according to
a 2014 letter by two pro-migration Senators, Sen.
Jeff Flake and John McCain.
Jose Angel Gutierrez, professor, University of Texas,
Arlington and founder of La Raza Unida political party screams at rallies:
"We have an aging white America. They are d ying. They are s
hitting in their pants with fear! I love it! We have got to eliminate the
g ringo, and what I mean by that is if the worst comes to the worst,
we have got to k ill him!"
Previous generations of immigrants did not
believe they were racially superior to Americans. That is the view of La Raza Cosmica, by Jose Vasconcelos, Mexico’s former education
minister and a presidential candidate. According to this book, republished in
1979 by the Department of Chicano Studies at Cal State LA, students of
Scandinavian, Dutch and English background are dullards, blacks are ugly and
inferior, and those “Mongols” with the slanted eyes lack enterprise. The
superior new “cosmic” race of Spaniards and Indians is replacing them, and all
Yankee “Anglos.” LLOYD BILLINGSLEY/ FRONTPAGE mag
Joe Biden: ‘Absolutely Bizarre’ to Suggest Limit on U.S. Capacity
to Absorb Immigrants
JOEL B. POLLAK
LAS VEGAS, Nevada — Former Vice President Joe Biden campaigned
inside a Chinese restaurant on Tuesday evening, telling supporters it was
“bizarre” to suggest a limit on immigration to the U.S.
Biden promised to expand immigration to the U.S. if elected
president.
“Folks, look — the idea that there’s some limitation on the
capacity of anyone who — on the immigrants in this country is absolutely
bizarre! It’s absolutely bizarre.”
Biden, speaking to a packed crowd inside the Harbor Palace
Seafood Restaurant on the eve of the next Democratic debate, addressed members
of the Asian-American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community, urging them to
turn out the vote ahead of Saturday’s caucuses.
Last month, the AAPI Victory Fund super PAC endorsed Biden for president, citing his ability
to defeat President Donald Trump and his experience working with immigrant
communities from South Asia, East Asia and the Pacific generally.
Though the AAPI immigrant community is politically diverse, it
has trended Democratic in recent years.
Last year, Breitbart News reported, another local AAPI
organization in Las Vegas expressed opposition to President Trump’s proposed merit-based
system for legal immigration.
On Tuesday, Biden promised, if elected, to allow family
reunification visas.
“We should be able to increase, to three million people, the
people who could come for family reunification. Period, period, period,
period.”
He called the idea that the U.S. could not “reunite” more
families “absolutely bizarre.”
Biden also reminded his audience that Latinos were not the only
beneficiaries of President Barack Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood
Arrivals (DACA) program, which applied to those brought to the country
illegally as children.
He said there were “thousands and thousands of AAPI ‘Dreamers'”
who had benefited from DACA as well.
Afterwards, Biden greeted attendees, some of whom proceeded to
the Chinatown Mall to cast early votes before the polling place there closed.
Biden hopes to finish in the top three in Nevada, and to win
South Carolina on Feb. 29, to make the case that he is still a top contender
for his party’s nomination. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) now leads national
polls, as well as Nevada polls.
Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News. He
earned an A.B. in Social Studies and Environmental Science and Public Policy
from Harvard College, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. He is a winner of the
2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. He is also the co-author
of How Trump Won: The Inside Story of a Revolution, which is available from
Regnery. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.
ICE ignores California laws and arrests illegal aliens at the
courthouse door
In 2018, California implemented the California Values Act, which gave special protection to illegal aliens by mandating
that California law enforcement agencies cannot cooperate with federal
immigration authorities. Last week, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”)
thumbed its nose at California and arrested two people in Sonoma County
Superior Court.
BLOG: CALIFORNIA HAS 15 MILLION ILLEGALS!
California has lots of reasons to hang onto its roughly 2.2 – 3.5
million illegal immigrants. They provide cheap, easily-exploited labor. They
swell the state’s population, which matters for electors and congresspeople, as
well as the distribution of certain federal funds. As illegal immigrants are
fed into the system, they provide reliable (legal or illegal) Democrat votes.
And they make Californians feel virtuous even as they allow corrupt Latin
American states to continue exploiting their own citizens and destroying their
economies by relying on remittances from people illegally in America.
For these reasons, California enacted the pompously named
“California Values Act.” Although the act refers to “immigrants,” it’s
obviously intended to affect only illegal aliens because the Act’s entire
purpose is to use the agencies of the state to prevent ICE from gaining access
to people illegally in California – including people who have committed crimes
in California. This is the type of law that could only come from legislators
and other virtue signalers ensconced in comfortable middle- and
upper-middle-class enclaves unaffected by felonies that would never have
happened but for open borders and sanctuaries.
Throughout the Obama administration, sanctuary cities and states
were able to get away with these policies because the Obama administration,
despite Obama’s sworn obligation to upload the laws of the United States,
approved of open borders. Trump promised to change all that.
During the first three years of his administration, rather
disappointingly, Trump was able to have little effect on illegal immigration or
on deportation. However, Trump was just getting his ducks in a row. He was
hampered by a reluctant Republican Congress, which was superseded by a violently
resisting Democrat House. He also had to deal with “resistance” judges who
blocked every immigration initiative he made.
Finally, though, things are changing. Trump was able to squeeze
money out of Congress for his wall and, even more importantly, with help from
Mitch McConnell, he’s changing the judiciary:
Great news for the U.S. Constitution! @realDonaldTrump has flipped the 9th Circuit — and
some new judges are causing a 'shock wave' https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-02-22/trump-conservative-judges-9th-circuit …
Trump has flipped the 9th Circuit — and some
new judges are causing a 'shock wave'
With a judiciary that believes in interpreting the law, not making
it, Trump’s administration is able to act in accordance with the Supremacy
Clause (Constitution, Art. VI, Clause 2):
This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall
be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made,
under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land;
and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the
Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.
In other words, when there’s a direct conflict between state laws
and federal laws, federal laws prevail.
Because the critical mass of judges is no longer deliberately
inserting itself as an obstacle between federal laws and illegal immigrants,
ICE is beginning to carry out its duty as written under the law:
U.S. immigration agents arrested two people at a Northern
California courthouse, including a man detained in a hallway on his way to a
hearing, flouting a new state law requiring a judicial warrant to make
immigration arrests inside such facilities.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents made the arrests
Tuesday at Sonoma County Superior Court, prompting an outcry from criminal
justice and court officials who said the action undermines local authority and
deters immigrants who are in the country illegally from participating in the
U.S. justice system.
ICE said California's law doesn't supersede federal law and “will
not govern the conduct of federal officers acting pursuant to duly-enacted laws
passed by Congress that provide the authority to make administrative arrests of
removable aliens inside the United States."
“Our officers will not have their hands tied by sanctuary rules
when enforcing immigration laws to remove criminal aliens from our
communities," David Jennings, ICE's field office director in San
Francisco, said in the statement.
At long last, in Trump’s America, the rule of law matters again.
The reliability of law is one of the essential ingredients of a just and
successful civilization. In that context, if you don’t like the law, you change
it through the democratic process, not through illegal and unconstitutional
resistance.
Surge in Illegal Aliens, 500% Increase in Some U.S. Ports of Entry
Judicial Watch Corruption Chronicles, December 30, 2015
The agency’s own statistics certainly contradict that, showing that the southern border region is as porous and vulnerable as ever. Other entry ports that saw large hikes in Central American illegal immigrants during the first two months of this fiscal year include Del Rio, Texas (269%), El Centro, California (216%) and Rio Grande Valley, Texas (154%). The Border Patrol breaks the stats down by “family unit” and illegal immigrants under the age of 18, referred to as “Unaccompanied Alien Children” or UAC. The Rio Grande Valley port of entry topped the list in both categories with 8,537 family units and 6,465 UACs during the two-month period. In all, the nation’s nine southern border crossings saw an average of 173% increase in family units and a 106% increase in minors during the short period considered.
Some of the illegal immigrants are Mexican nationals, but the overwhelming majority comes from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. The government records show that somehow 4,450 family units from El Salvador evaded our topnotch border security and entered the United States in a period of only two months. Guatemala and Honduras had 3,934 and 3,203 respectively. Mexico had 538 family units. Of interesting note is that, during this period, the Border Patrol reports 35,234 apprehensions in the region of foreigners labeled by the government as “Other Than Mexican” or OTM. This is a term used by federal authorities to refer to nationals of countries that represent a terrorist threat to the U.S.
. . .
http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2015/12/surge-in-illegal-aliens-500-increase-in-some-u-s-ports-of-entry/
The agency’s own statistics certainly contradict that, showing that the southern border region is as porous and vulnerable as ever. Other entry ports that saw large hikes in Central American illegal immigrants during the first two months of this fiscal year include Del Rio, Texas (269%), El Centro, California (216%) and Rio Grande Valley, Texas (154%). The Border Patrol breaks the stats down by “family unit” and illegal immigrants under the age of 18, referred to as “Unaccompanied Alien Children” or UAC. The Rio Grande Valley port of entry topped the list in both categories with 8,537 family units and 6,465 UACs during the two-month period. In all, the nation’s nine southern border crossings saw an average of 173% increase in family units and a 106% increase in minors during the short period considered.
Some of the illegal immigrants are Mexican nationals, but the overwhelming majority comes from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. The government records show that somehow 4,450 family units from El Salvador evaded our topnotch border security and entered the United States in a period of only two months. Guatemala and Honduras had 3,934 and 3,203 respectively. Mexico had 538 family units. Of interesting note is that, during this period, the Border Patrol reports 35,234 apprehensions in the region of foreigners labeled by the government as “Other Than Mexican” or OTM. This is a term used by federal authorities to refer to nationals of countries that represent a terrorist threat to the U.S.
. . .
http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2015/12/surge-in-illegal-aliens-500-increase-in-some-u-s-ports-of-entry/
Concrete Evidence of the Continuing Plunge in Both Civil and Criminal Immigration Enforcement
By Dan Cadman
CIS Immigration Blog, January 23, 2016
Two recent reports from Syracuse University's Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) reflect the continued erosion of immigration enforcement under the Obama administration.
On January 20, TRAC reported that criminal prosecution for immigration offenses fell 22.3 percent from November 2014 to November 2015, and more than 36 percent over the course of five years, excluding magistrate court (which deals exclusively with petty offenses).
The following day, TRAC announced that "ICE [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] Detainer Use Stabilizes Under Priority Enforcement Program". The Priority Enforcement Program (PEP) is the replacement to the Secure Communities Program mandated by Homeland Security Security Jeh Johnson as a part of the president's "executive actions" on immigration. It significantly restricts the ability of immigration agents to file detainers against aliens arrested by police on criminal charges.
I have no idea what TRAC means by "stabilizes". A quick look at Figure 1a of their report shows a more accurate state of affairs, if one considers the number of detainers being filed over the course of five years, from a high in April 2011, when Secure Communities became fully effective nationwide and kicked into high gear, versus October 2015. I would use other phrases: "plummeted" or "Dropped like a stone". Or, as my colleague Jessica Vaughan has noted, particularly in relation to detainers filed at county jails, where the lion's share of criminals of any stripes are held after being booked for offenses small and large: "a stunning free fall".
http://www.cis.org/cadman/concrete-evidence-continuing-plunge-both-civil-and-criminal-immigration-enforcement
Biden and the Immigration
Trap
'Uncle Joe' Agonistes
On Tuesday, the Washington Post ran an article detailing the struggles confronting the
campaign of presumptive Democratic nominee for president Joe Biden with respect
to immigration. There are a few things that the article leaves out, but it is
notable (and somewhat shocking) for what it contains. What it ultimately shows
is that the former vice president is boxed into an immigration trap.
Specifically, the article details the competing forces that are
pulling "Uncle Joe" on immigration as he seeks to wrest the White
House from Donald Trump (whose immigration stance, the paper admits, helped
propel him to the presidency in 2016).
On the one side is the presumptive candidate's desire to capture
the votes of white blue-collar voters in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin
(all won by Trump in the last election), while on the other is his need to turn
out the Hispanic vote, particularly in Florida and Arizona. The article states
that Latino voters "are expected to become the country's largest nonwhite
voting bloc this fall."
Although the Post alludes to Biden's immigration proposals (which
are somewhat out there, as I have described here, here, and here), and discusses his more outré ideas, such as suspending deportations for
his first 100 days in office and then deporting only felons (which
would essentially nullify much of the Immigration and Nationality Act), the
Post simultaneously fails to note that those proposals would likely not resound
with much of the voting populace, while at the same time contending that these
policies don't go far enough for "significant segments of his own
party".
Those "segments" are, the paper contends, clamoring
for Biden to commit to "removing criminal penalties for those who cross
the border illegally, removing barriers from the border [,and] abolishing
Immigration and Customs Enforcement." There is likely a reason that Biden
does not want to talk about those ideas on the campaign trail.
Polls don't show support for Biden positions
Polling from August 2018 — when the "Abolish ICE" fever
was likely cresting — showed only 24 percent of voters supported the idea, with
Democrats, Republicans, and independents staking out that position about
equally. Some 40 percent disagreed, while 34 percent had no opinion.
Not to say that Democrats wildly supported the agency — 57
percent of Democrats had an unfavorable view of ICE, with an equal percentage
of Republicans in favor of it, and 46 percent of independents took no view.
Many of those opposed to abolition but who also don't like ICE likely were
concerned about the law of unintended consequences, and by May 2019 Buzzfeed
News reported: "'Abolish ICE'
Was The Call Of Last Summer. 2020 Democrats Have Moved On".
Further, in July 2019, The Hill noted that a poll found "a plurality of voters, 41
percent, thought those crossing the border illegally should face criminal
punishment, while 32 percent said it should just warrant a fine." With
respect to independents, 36 percent favored criminal penalties, while "33
percent ... think it should be treated as a misdemeanor, with just a fine as punishment."
I note that this response shows a certain misapprehension of the
current state of the law (initial illegal entry is already a misdemeanor, with a fine as
an optional but rarely, if ever, imposed punishment, and most of those
prosecuted are sentenced merely to time served while awaiting prosecution),
suggesting that even those voters — if they knew the facts — would actually want
stricter punishment than most aliens who have entered illegally already
receive. No wonder the former vice president does not want to discuss the
issue, let alone make it a key point for his campaign.
On barriers at the border, the polling is a bit more mixed. In
February 2019, Gallup reported that six in 10 Americans opposed a border wall,
but that poll was taken directly after a bruising government shutdown that
largely focused on the issue. I will note that last Monday, KXAN (the NBC affiliate in Austin, Texas) released a poll
showing that excitement for Donald Trump in Texas swamped enthusiasm for Biden
in the Lone Star State. Most significantly:
When broken down by party, 19.5% of Democrats said they were
extremely excited about Biden and 22.6 said they were "not that
excited." Meanwhile, 49.4% of Republicans said they were "extremely
excited" about supporting Trump and 9.5% reported they were not that
excited about him.
Texas and Arizona are currently the primary sites for new border wall
construction, and if Texans were that opposed to what is and has been the
president's key immigration proposal, it would likely be reflected in their
lack of enthusiasm. It does not seem to have moved the needle, however, or if
it did, it is in Trump's favor.
I will note that I spoke on the issue in a debate in February
before a largely liberal crowd, and opposition to the wall was an applause
point (from an audience that all but defined the "Dunning-Kruger
Effect" on the issue), but a
lot has changed in three months. The Post itself reported on April 28 that 65 percent of Americans were in favor of a temporary
suspension in immigration during the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic, with 34
percent opposed.
Polling found that 83 percent of Republicans and 67 percent of
independents were in favor of temporary restrictions, and Democrats were split
49-49 on the issue. Significantly, 67 percent of whites, 61 percent of
"nonwhites" (presumably including Latinos), and a majority of 18- to
29-year-olds were in favor. Now again, "temporary suspensions on
immigration" and "border wall construction" are two different
things, but an influx of illegal entrants during the (traditional) illegal travel season of April to December while lockdowns are still in place
could tie the two issues in voters' minds, and gubernatorial
inter-state travel restrictions may
have done so already.
And voters stuck at home as a result of Wuhan coronavirus
restrictions could be only temporarily less inclined to support the entry of
aliens, legal or otherwise. That said, the transit of the illness
from China could give them pause
to take a slightly more charitable view toward Donald Trump's opposition to
open borders.
Sound tough on China, or not?
Lest you think I am casting aspersions with respect to the last
point (I am not, and consider anyone who blames any American — citizen or
immigrant — for the virus to be an idiot), I am really just channeling the
former vice president. The Post article on Biden notes: "Some were alarmed when the Biden
campaign began airing an ad in battleground states that accused Trump of having
'rolled over for the Chinese' amid the pandemic and 'let in 40,000 travelers
from China.'" That is an apt description of the response to that ad on the
part of progressives.
In particular, an April 23 Politico article captioned "Biden ad exposes
a rift over China on the left: The former vice president's effort to hit Trump
as soft on Beijing is backfiring among parts of his base" states:
Joe Biden's effort to outflank President Donald Trump on China
is leading to blowback from within his own political base.
Some worry the rhetoric in a new Biden campaign ad could spur
anti-Asian bias already on the rise because of the coronavirus pandemic. Others
argue that Biden's effort to sound tougher on China than Trump could backfire
diplomatically in the long run.
...
"I acknowledge and understand the need and desire to defeat
and beat Trump, however, my question is 'Who is the Biden campaign willing to
sacrifice along that way?'" said Timmy Lu, executive director of Asian
Americans and Pacific Islanders for Civic Empowerment.
So why did Biden release the ad? Because he was in a box over
his earlier statements criticizing the president for his response to the Wuhan
coronavirus the day that the White House announced restrictions on travel from the People's Republic of China. Specifically, Biden, campaigning in Iowa, stated: "This is no time for Donald
Trump's record of hysteria and xenophobia — hysterical xenophobia — and
fearmongering to lead the way instead of science." (Curiously, the YouTube link to the video of those comments states: "Video
unavailable, This video has been removed by the uploader." Hmmm.)
The Post notes that Biden has sought insight into handling the
issue of immigration as a candidate from, among others, Sen. Robert Casey
(D-Pa.). Casey fought off Republican Lou Barletta — an immigration hawk — in a
2018 challenge for Casey's senate seat, and:
He urged Biden to emphasize the economic benefits of immigration
while pledging to secure the southern border to keep drugs and criminals out.
"You have to make it very clear that you stand for border
security — and not just that you stand for it, but that you voted for it,"
Casey said, citing past measures that have won Democratic backing.
But, at the same time, he said most voters want an immigration
system that is humane and fair. The separation of families at the border was a
wake-up call for some voters, Casey said.
I am not sure how that border security advice squares with Biden's promise that "the only deportations that will take
place" under his administration "are commissions of felonies in the United
States of America" (meaning that Mexican cartel members who enter
illegally will not be deported, for example), but for some reason the Post fails to mention the discrepancy.
That said, such advice is easier given to the former vice
president than it will be swallowed by the American people, because of Biden's
record.
I would posit initially that recommendations like Casey's are
likely the reason that Biden's immigration proposals begin:
It is a moral failing and a national shame when a father and his
baby daughter drown seeking our shores. When children are locked away in
overcrowded detention centers and the government seeks to keep them there
indefinitely. When our government argues in court against giving those children
toothbrushes and soap. When President Trump uses family separation as a weapon
against desperate mothers, fathers, and children seeking safety and a better
life.
The Obama-Biden
administration's record
Again, easily said. It will, however, be very difficult for
Biden to distance himself from some very similar policies enacted under the
"Obama-Biden administration".
There is likely a reason why Biden does not (directly) fall back
on the "kids in
cages" trope that has become a
standard for tendentious discussions of immigration by political hacks. As I have previously noted:
Snopes (not exactly a Trump-friendly outlet) examined the
following fact: "The Obama administration, not the Trump administration,
built the cages that hold many immigrant children at the U.S.-Mexico
border." They deemed that statement "true", explaining:
Pictures of children behind chain-link fencing were captured at
a site in McAllen, Texas, that had been converted from a warehouse to an
immigrant-detention facility in 2014. Social media users who defended Trump's
immigration policies also shared a 2014 photograph of Obama's Homeland Security
Secretary, Jeh Johnson, touring a facility in Nogales, Arizona, in 2014, in
which the fencing could be seen surrounding migrants there as well. That
picture was taken during a spike in the number of unaccompanied children
fleeing violence in Central American countries.
That said, there is a direct line from "children ... locked
away in overcrowded detention centers and the government [that] seeks to keep
them there indefinitely", who cannot access "toothbrushes and
soap" and the decisions of the previous administration to erect fencing in
Border Patrol processing centers to protect unaccompanied alien children
(UACs). One that Biden would likely prefer to be forgotten.
And a direct line to the Obama-Biden administration's 2014
"blanket policy to detain all female-headed families, including children,
in secure, unlicensed facilities for the duration of the proceedings that
determine whether they are entitled to remain in the United States," which
prompted Judge Dolly Gee of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of
California to find President Obama's Department of Homeland
Security in breach of the Flores settlement agreement in July
2015.
Plus, as I have previously noted ad nauseam, the fact that UACs were stuck in the
conditions Biden describes had everything to do with Congress's (and especially
congressional Democrats') failure to provide funding Trump and his acting
Homeland Security secretary had sought for more than a month, and nothing to do
with a volitional decision by the administration to keep them there.
These
facts may have been elided by a compliant press (the Post did
not mention them at all in its Biden immigration piece), but I doubt that they
will escape notice during a presidential campaign when the president and
independent interest groups can throw money at ads highlighting them.
Pandering to
Latino voters
Then,
there is the pandering by Biden and his surrogates themselves. Much of Biden's
outreach to Latino voters appears to focus on immigration, but is that really
the most important issue to those voters?
In a
June 2019 survey by Unidos
US, "jobs and the economy" was the most important issue
an ideal candidate would address (23 percent) for 1,854 eligible Latino voters
in Arizona, California, Florida, Nevada, and Texas, followed by
"healthcare" (17 percent) and then "immigration" (15
percent). "Gun violence" (8 percent) and "climate change"
(7 percent) together equaled that total.
BLOG:
OBAMA FUNDED AND OPERATED LA RAZA 'The Race" NOW CALLING ITSELF UNIDOSUS
FROM THE WHITE HOUSE. IT IS A MEX FASCIST ANTI-AMERICAN POLITICAL MOVEMENT FOR
SURRENDER OF AMERICA TO MEXICO.
Unidos
US, for those who are not familiar, is the current incarnation
of the "National Council of La Raza", which bills itself as "the
nation's largest Hispanic civil rights and advocacy organization". Hardly
a MAGA front group.
Given
these numbers, it is no surprise that the Atlantic magazine in February stated
that 30 percent of Latino voters support the president, in an opinion piece
captioned "Latino
Support for Trump Is Real: And that's a problem for Democrats" (not
to be confused with the outlet's January 2020 article captioned "Democrats
Should Be Worried About the Latino Vote: Political organizers have a warning
for the 2020 candidates").
In
this vein, in early May, Slate ran an article captioned "Biden
Has a Real Latino Problem", which stated:
A recent Latino Decisions poll reveals a clear enthusiasm gap
among Latinos for both Biden and the 2020 election itself, with only 49 percent
of registered voters currently committed to choosing Biden over Trump, and just
six out of 10 planning to go to the polls in November.
That
article focuses on Biden's initial reluctance to distance himself from what the
outlet deems "the controversial immigration policy of the first two years
of the Obama administration" (perhaps too good a sales job by a president
whose rhetoric on removals did not match his actions), and Biden's inability to
present himself to Hispanic voters due to the current pandemic.
Speaking
of which, Slate notes that: "According to the Latino Decisions poll,
almost half of all respondents approve of Trump's handling of the coronavirus
crisis, with 47 percent saying Trump was delivering 'clear and helpful'
information about the pandemic." Again, showing that
"immigration" is not the only concern of Hispanic voters.
Back
to the pandering, however. The Post notes
that Biden's "wife Jill, who is learning Spanish while stuck at home by
the pandemic, has begun meeting weekly with small groups of Latino members of
Congress, taking notes on a range of issues to share with her husband" (I
don't have the heart to tell her they speak English), and the article is
accompanied by a photo of Biden "at a campaign stop at King Taco in Los Angeles,
with Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti".
The
paper also reports that "Biden campaign officials have promised to
significantly increase outreach to Latinos and further diversify the staff now
that they have raised more money, although," the Post notes, "they
declined to provide target numbers."
I
suppose that a Spanish-speaking spouse, an ethnically diverse staff, and a
documented hankering for regional cuisine may win Biden some votes, but the
fact is he is stuck in an immigration box.
If he
ties himself to the "Obama-Biden" administration on the issue, it
appears that he will alienate both immigration activists and those who favor
the Trump administration's reversal of those policies. But, if he panders to those
activists, he will likely turn off many of the voters in swing states who
supported Trump in 2016 (and especially those who were swayed by the
now-president's promises of border security and immigration limitations).
A January
article in the Post contained a list of "Bidenisms",
folksy aphorisms that the candidate uses on the stump. One is: "My dad had
an expression ... 'Joey, don't compare me to the Almighty, compare me to the
alternative.''' Most voters already know that the president has his flaws and
imperfections, but once voters get to know Biden's immigration record and his
proposals, they may pull the level for Trump as the better alternative.
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