IN REALITY, BIDEN IS NO MORE
FOR OPEN BORDERS, NON-ENFORCEMENT, NO E-VERIFY AND AMNESTY THAN TRUMP. TRUMP’S
IMMIGRATION POLICIES ARE NOTHING BUT A HOAX SIMILAR TO HIS PRETEND WALL.
MULTI-CULTURALISM and the
creation of a one-party globalist country to serve the rich in America’s open
borders.
“Open border advocates, such as
Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, claim illegal aliens are a net benefit to
California with little evidence to support such an assertion. As the CIS has
documented, the vast majority of illegals are poor, uneducated, and with few skills.
How does accepting millions of illegal aliens and then granting them access to
dozens of welfare programs benefit California’s economy? If illegals were
contributing to the economy in any meaningful way, CA, with its 2.6 million
illegals, would be booming.” STEVE BALDWIN – AMERICAN SPECTATOR
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
What will America stand for in 2050?
The US should think long and hard about the high number of
Latino immigrants.
By Lawrence Harrison
It's not just a
short-run issue of immigrants competing with citizens for jobs as unemployment
approaches 10 percent or the number of uninsured straining the quality of
healthcare. Heavy immigration from Latin America threatens our cohesiveness as
a nation.
MEXICO WILL DOUBLE U.S.
POPULATION
By Tom Barrett
At the current rate of invasion (mostly through Mexico, but also
through Canada) the United States will be completely over run with illegal
aliens by the year 2025. I’m not talking about legal immigrants who follow US
law to become citizens. In less than 20 years, if we do not stop the invasion,
ILLEGAL aliens and their offspring will be the dominant population in the
United States.
The Biden
campaign had outsourced its policymaking to a radical Hungarian billionaire
with a passion for open borders.
But Biden doesn’t care
because what the Democrats really want are illegal alien votes. And if millions
of Americans lose their jobs and their homes, that’s a small price to pay for
millions of illegal alien votes.
Open Borders Biden
President Trump calls out
Biden’s betrayal of American workers.
July 16, 2020
Daniel Greenfield
Daniel Greenfield is a
Shillman Journalism Fellow exploring the influence of the radical Left on
America.
“There’s probably never been a
time when candidates are so different. We want law and order. They don’t want
law and order. We want strong, closed borders with people able to come in
through merit, through a legal process. They don’t want to have any borders at
all. They’re going to rip down the wall,” President Trump declared.
Trump called out Biden’s
immigration extremism in the Rose Garden. Earlier, task forces from the Biden
and Sanders campaign had released the Biden-Sanders unity policy recommendations.
The co-chair of the immigration
task force, Marielena Hincapie, is the executive director of the National
Immigration Law Center which is funded, by among others, George Soros. Other
members of the task force included
Marisa Franco, who had called for "dismantling ICE", and Javier
Valdes, the executive director of Make the Road which supports abolishing ICE
and letting illegal aliens vote in state elections.
BLOG EDITOR: GEORGE
SOROS PLAYED A MAJOR PART IN THE OBAMA-BIDEN ADMINSTRATION FOR OPEN BORDERS.
Make the Road was part of an
anti-Trump coalition funded by Soros.
The Biden campaign had
outsourced its policymaking to a radical Hungarian billionaire with a passion
for open borders. The attack on our immigration
system that President Trump called out was the result.
“And these are actual key
elements of the Biden Sanders unity platform,” President Trump said.
Open Borders
“Well, basically, as you know,
what they’re going to do is they’re going to rip down the wall. They’re taking
it down. They want to take down the wall,” President Trump warned in the Rose
Garden.
The Biden-Sanders task force
proposal actually goes beyond that, promising that Democrats will "rescind
President Trump's fabricated 'National Emergency'" and end the wall. The
proposal claims that the wall, which was meant to stop the huge influx of
migrants, is “unnecessary”. It's unnecessary because Biden and most
Democrats don't believe that America should have borders or immigration
restrictions.
The Democrats want to go
back to the days when Biden last held office and the function of the border
patrol was to hand out snacks to illegal migrants and help them enter America.
Catch and Release
The Biden-Sanders plan calls for
"community-based alternatives to detention."
As President Trump succinctly
put it, "abolish immigration detention, no more detention. You come in
here illegally, no more detention."
There’s no border enforcement
without detention. Just as there’s no criminal justice system without detaining
criminals. Once illegal migrants are released, few of them ever show up for
a hearing. Why would they? Their whole goal is to enter the country and work
here illegally. Few of their claims of persecution would stand up at a hearing
and they know it.
“Catch and release is gone. So
many different things have taken place. We used to catch them, take their name,
and release them into our country. We don’t do that anymore. We now release
them back where they came from. Sometimes we’ll bring them back to their
country,” President Trump said.
Catch and release has been
tried for decades. And it’s failed.
America’s huge illegal alien
population is partly due to catch and release policies. Catch and release
policies are why massive illegal alien caravans have headed for our border,
knowing that they will be released, instead of detained. Biden would like to
bring back the worst catch and release days of the Obama administration and his
call for community detention is just catch and release by another name.
Mass Illegal Alien Amnesty
“Grant mass amnesty. Everybody
gets amnesty, mass amnesty. Think of that. And this has created a roadmap to
citizenship for massive, massive numbers,” President Trump warned.
"Democrats believe it is long
past time to provide a roadmap to citizenship for the millions of undocumented
workers," the Biden-Sanders proposal demands.
How many millions is that? The
Biden-Sanders task force carefully doesn’t clarify.
But, as the country staggers
under the weight of mass unemployment, mass amnesty is a monumental betrayal of
American workers, cutting off their dreams, and denying them any hope of a job.
But Biden doesn’t care because
what the Democrats really want are illegal alien votes. And if millions of Americans
lose their jobs and their homes, that’s a small price to pay for millions of
illegal alien votes.
Jihadis Welcome
"We will immediately
terminate the Trump Administration's discriminatory travel and immigration bans
that disproportionately impact Muslim and African people," the
Biden-Sanders task force vows.
“End all travel bans including
from Jihadist regions,” President Trump warned against such a foolish and
destructive policy. “We have a very strong travel ban, and we don’t want people
that are going to come in and blow up our cities.”
The Democrats not only want
them, but the Biden-Sanders task force promises to invite any potential
terrorists whose visas were denied because of the travel ban to "re-apply
to come to the United States."
The Islamic terrorist attacks
of tomorrow will be brought to you by Biden’s terror amnesty.
If Your Country Has a
Crime Problem, Apply for Refugee Status
The refugee system was created
for people fleeing oppression, not bad neighborhoods. But the Biden-Sanders
task force promises to go back to the broken policy of allowing asylum requests
by people complaining about gang violence. The so-called "victims" of
gang violence are often involved in it and allowing them to apply for asylum
has helped boost the gang violence problem in America.
And gang violence is the main
cause of gun violence in America.
Mass immigration from gang
countries, like El Salvador, just like mass migration from Jihadist countries,
like Syria and Iraq, brings gang violence to America. The Democrats claim that
they want to end gun violence by banning guns. That didn’t work in Europe and
it won’t work here. The best way to stop gun violence is to cut off the flow of
new gang members to America by ending open borders asylum.
Instead, Biden is telling
Americans that if they like their MS-13 beheadings, they can keep them.
Free Health Care for
Illegal Aliens
"They want government
healthcare for all illegal aliens. This is part of their plan. I’m not making
this up. This is all down in their plan from last week," President Trump
said.
And, indeed, the Biden-Sanders
plan calls for expanding ObamaCare to DACA illegal aliens and rushing new
immigrants into Medicaid without a waiting period.
"Sign new immigrants up
for welfare immediately. This is Joe Biden. So they walk off and they come in
and they put a foot into our land, and we sign up new immigrants up for
welfare. We sign them up immediately. They get welfare benefits. United States
citizens. Don’t get what they’re looking to give illegal immigrants. Think of
that,” President Trump expressed his frustration. “Sign up. It’s hard to
believe I’m even reading that, new immigrants for welfare immediately. Not to
mention the cost of this which is incalculable. The cost of this is so crazy.”
The Biden-Sanders plan claims
that illegal aliens need free health care because of the Wuhan Virus.
But, as President Trump points
out, Democrat support for open borders is what really spread the virus.
“The wall was so timely because
it stopped people coming in from heavily infected areas of Mexico. If we had
that, we would be in trouble like you wouldn’t believe,” President Trump said.
Come to America, Get on
Welfare
"End requirement for
immigrant self-sufficiency and maximize their welfare. Now, this is us writing
this. Who’s not coming to the United States? Every person from South America is
going to pour in,” President Trump fumed.
The Biden-Sanders plan not only
wants quick Medicaid for immigrants, but promises to "immediately halt
enforcement of and rescind the Trump Administration's un-American immigrant
wealth test."
Determining whether new
immigrants can support themselves, or whether they will become a burden on
taxpayers, is not a wealth test and it's not un-American.
It's how America's immigration
system was always meant to work.
The Biden-Sanders plan will
force the citizens of a country already struggling with the economic havoc of
the pandemic lockdowns and the Black Lives Matter riots to shoulder the burden
of welfare migrants.
“Every person from other
countries, they’re going to be pouring in. End requirement, think of that, for
immigrant self-sufficiency and remember to maximize welfare. So we give it a
maximum. Then we have massively expand immigration during a global pandemic,
taking jobs from unemployed Americans," President Trump pointed out.
Are You an Illegal Alien?
Welcome Back to America.
The Biden-Sanders plan really
rolls out the red carpet for illegal aliens who had been banned from returning
to America.
"The task force calls for
eliminating "immigration barriers, such as the 3- and 10-year bars, and
remove the 10-year waiting period for waivers to the permanent bars."
The 3- and 10-year bans are for
illegal aliens who were living in the United States.
The Biden-Sanders plan would
make it very easy for those illegal aliens to emigrate to the United States if
they have family members already living here.
Chain Migration Puts
American Taxpayers in Chains
“Vastly expand low-skilled
immigration to the United States. So they want a lot of people come in with low
skills," President Trump said.
As the president had already
pointed out, quite a lot of American low-skilled workers had lost their jobs because
of the pandemic lockdowns. Bringing in large numbers of low-skilled workers
would cripple the American workforce.
Especially the African-American
workforce.
But the Biden-Sanders plan
doubles down on the Democrat commitment to chain migration, declaring that it
will build immigration policy around "family unity".
Chain migration means lots of
low-skilled and welfare immigrants flooding America.
Protecting Illegal Aliens
and Their Employers From the Law
The Biden-Sanders plan calls
for making every place illegal aliens work into a "sanctuary"
workplace.
The task force promises to
"end workplace and community raids".
The proposal would effectively
end domestic immigration enforcement. As President Trump said, “abolish
immigration enforcement against illegal workers. Think of that.”
The victims of this policy will
be the American workers and unemployed Americans who won’t even have a shot
because their jobs will be taken by illegal aliens who will be protected from
workplace raids.
The plan sends employers of
illegal aliens the message that Joe Biden has their back.
A Radical Attack on
American Workers
As President Trump said, “This
is Biden. Biden’s gone radical left.”
The Biden-Sanders open borders,
amnesty, and welfare plan goes beyond Obama. It incorporates proposals from
Soros grantees and Sanders allies that would end America as an independent
nation.
These proposals would break the
back of American workers and reduce much of the population to welfare status.
They represent the worst attack on the American working class in history.
President Trump is now under
attack for condemning the Biden-Sanders plan in the Rose Garden. Meanwhile the
Democrats, who claim to care about workers, refuse to condemn Biden’s descent
into a radical extremism that puts illegal aliens first and American workers
last.
Biden's mass amnesty would
destroy the Republican Party
Old
Uncle Joe (Biden) recently unveiled the so-called "Unity Plan," the
demon seed spawned from his campaign's forced coupling with the
socialist-progressive contingent led by his former primary opponent and
lifelong pinko Bernie Sanders. In it is included among other things
the long awaited and dreaded "mass amnesty" in which the future Biden
administration pledges itself to provide a pathway to citizenship for an estimated
14 million illegal aliens.
The
three ideological sects in our society that all equally clamor for this act of
gross civic debauchment are (1) the neo-liberals who see this as the harbinger
of "open borders" and with them the final triumph of multiculturalism
and globalism; (2) the Gramscian socialists who consider this the perfect
revolutionary weapon to complete the dissolution of "white" (read:
bourgeois) culture; (3) the international capitalists and their myopic
libertarian flunkies seeking to satiate their hunger for cheap foreign
labor. The Republican Party is sympathetic to the ideals of the
first, terrified of confronting the goals of the second, and held captive to
the appetites of the third.
As
a result of this (outside some token resistance), the Republican Party will
help midwife such an amnesty. The GOP will attempt to justify this
capitulation by pathetically deluding itself into thinking it can somehow win
over these newly enfranchised 14 million from their Democratic patrons. All
the superficial tropes about Hispanic immigrants will be trotted out, ranging
from their traditional family structures and individual industriousness to
their Catholic faith.
The
fact that these supposed "natural Republicans" were able to achieve
a modus vivendi for decades under the rule of
secular-corporatist political parties (e.g., the PRI) in their own homelands
will be considered an unwelcome addition to the discussion and so
discarded. The few pyrrhic victories in this arena that have resulted
in the Republican Party's (ever loosening) grip over certain peculiar Hispanic
immigrant communities (e.g., the Cuban exiles of South Florida) will make the
inevitable even more painful by offering a sliver of false hope to a doomed
enterprise.
In
pursuit of this fantasy, the GOP will give its blessing to the permanent
electoral loss of Texas and Arizona via the activation of millions of
"sleeper voters" in the border states and the never-ending deluge of
Mexican migrants crossing the border with impunity (all with the implicit
promise of future amnesties held before them). To put it simply, the
inauguration of a Biden administration means that the Republican Party as
currently constituted will never be in a position to win any presidential
election worth winning ever again.
It
either will be relegated to operating merely at the state/local level or, in
order to remain (theoretically) nationally competitive, will castrate itself
(i.e., become a socially bland neo-corporatist "loyal opposition" to
a socialist Democratic party). A Trump re-election in 2020 is the
only thing that can provide the necessary few years' reprieve for the
Republican party to finish re-arming itself ideologically in order to stand a
chance at wresting control of the presidency in 2028 from a monstrous and
self-entitled left.
Ernesto J. Antunez is a conservative
columnist residing in Miami. He can be reached at
ernestoantunez@live.com or via Twitter at @ejantunez.
State
and Local Politicians Move to Grant Coronavirus Relief to Illegal Aliens
By Matthew Tragesser
Study: More than 7-in-10 California Immigrant
Welfare
More than 7-in-10 households headed
by immigrants in the state of California are on taxpayer-funded welfare,
a new study reveals.
The latest Census Bureau data analyzed by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) finds that
about 72 percent of households headed by noncitizens and immigrants use one or
more forms of taxpayer-funded welfare programs in California — the number one
immigrant-receiving state in the U.S.
Meanwhile, only about 35 percent of households headed by
native-born Americans use welfare in California.
All four states with the largest foreign-born populations,
including California, have extremely high use of welfare by immigrant
households. In Texas, for example, nearly 70 percent of households headed by
immigrants use taxpayer-funded welfare. Meanwhile, only about 35 percent of
native-born households in Texas are on welfare.
In New York and Florida, a majority of households headed by
immigrants and noncitizens are on welfare. Overall, about 63 percent of
immigrant households use welfare while only 35 percent of native-born
households use welfare.
President Trump’s administration is looking to soon implement a
policy that protects American taxpayers’ dollars from funding the
mass importation of welfare-dependent foreign nationals by enforcing a “public
charge” rule whereby legal immigrants would be less likely to secure a
permanent residency in the U.S. if they have used any forms of welfare in the
past, including using Obamacare, food stamps, and public housing.
The immigration controls would be a boon for American taxpayers
in the form of an annual $57.4
billion tax cut — the amount taxpayers spend every year on paying for
the welfare, crime, and schooling costs of the country’s mass importation of
1.5 million new, mostly low-skilled legal immigrants.
As Breitbart News reported , the majority of
the more than 1.5 million foreign nationals entering the country every
year use about 57
percent more food stamps than the average native-born American
household. Overall, immigrant households consume 33 percent more cash
welfare than American citizen households and 44 percent more in Medicaid
dollars. This straining of public services by a booming 44 million foreign-born
population translates to the average immigrant household costing American
taxpayers $6,234 in federal
welfare.
John
Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder .
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.
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.
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.
Pollak: Barack Obama Himself Was the Threat to the Rule of Law
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.
Here are just a few of Obama’s
more egregious violations:
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.
508 David McNew/Getty Images
1 May 2020 1,989
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.
John Binder
is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder .
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