Did Biden destroy his chances when he made this promise?
Joe Biden’s presidential run is pathetic because it’s easy to see that his mind is giving out on him, something the majority of voters recognize. Biden’s presidential run is also scary because the hard leftists who surround him are using him as a Trojan Horse to advance their destructive socialist policies.
It’s these puppet masters who have pushed the formerly middle(ish)-of-the-road (and invariably wrong) politician to make extremist promises. Most people tend to ignore or downplay Biden’s more radical statements, seeing them as the kind of thing politicians say during campaigns. One ask to ask, though, whether we can afford to ignore Biden’s promise to use his executive office to shut down the entire country again should scientists recommend it.
During the Democrat presidential primaries, after the no-hopers dropped out, the remaining presidential candidates ran the gamut from left to communist, with most closer to the communist end. Biden claimed to be the moderate candidate in the race, and that’s how the Democrats are trying to sell him to the general public. After all, Joe’s been around since 1972, and he’s always been a Democrat stalwart, unlike Bernie Sanders, who’s also been around forever, but as a communist stalwart.
Nevertheless, throughout the campaign, even while claiming to be a moderate, Biden has signed on to every radical idea that the Democrat party has moved into the Overton window. He’s gone so far left that even Bernie approves:
Sen. Bernie Sanders said Joe Biden told him that he believes he can become the most progressive president since Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
“The reason I say that I think Biden has a chance to be the most progressive president since FDR is that is exactly what Joe Biden said to me,” Sanders, a former presidential candidate, said in an interview Wednesday on PBS’ “Amanpour & Company.”
“He understands the severity of this moment,” said Sanders.
To that end, Biden’s campaign has adopted most of Sanders’s principles or scooched as close to them as possible. Given a compliant Congress, Biden says that he would reinstate the public option of Obamacare, aim for net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 (so we can all look like California), pay for college for families earning $125,000 or less per year, go in big for racial (in)justice, and, grant mass amnesty to illegal aliens along with opening the borders. Democrats appear willing to stomach all of these proposals.
The big question, though, is whether Democrats can tolerate Biden’s most recent commitment. He insists that, if the Wuhan virus doesn’t retreat and “the scientists” say so, he’ll use his executive power to lock down the entire country all over again:
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden said he would close the United States down over the spread of the new virus from China if health experts recommended to do so.
“I would shut it down; I would listen to the scientists,” Biden, a former vice president, said in an interview with ABC News.
“I will be prepared to do whatever it takes to save lives because we cannot get the country moving, until we control the virus,” Biden added. “That is the fundamental flaw of this administration’s thinking to begin with. In order to keep the country running and moving and the economy growing, and people employed, you have to fix the virus, you have to deal with the virus.”
That is an insane promise. It ignores the fact that the virus has barely touched many states, while it raked through several poorly managed (and densely populated) Democrat-run states. It also pretends that there are no trade-offs for holding the virus at bay. People in Democrat states have watched their economies collapse; businesses close; people die from depression, suicide, substance abuse, and untreated diseases; their young people stop learning; their restaurants close; and their cities empty of businesses and high earners (aka, the entire tax base).
While leftists have been good little soldiers for the first round of shutdowns, aided in part by their extreme lack of perspective about the risks associated with the Wuhan virus, will they really be willing to become prisoners in their own homes once again? Will they be willing to see their economies get destroyed so badly that they can never recover? Will they accept all the unnecessary deaths that flow from preventing virus deaths?
I want to answer those rhetorical questions by saying, “I don’t think so.” Sadly, the left is so maddened by Trump Derangement Syndrome, the best that I can say is, “I hope not.” What I really hope to see happen is normal people vote in overwhelming numbers for Trump on November 3. If that happens, the leftists and those suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome slink back into the shadows where they belong.
Putting 'Americans First' Begins At Our Nation's Borders
Trump’s vision for America parallels Lincoln’s.
July 23, 2020
Michael
Cutler
With
all of the focus on using the term “immigrants” to describe all aliens present
in the United States irrespective of whether they have actually been admitted
for permanent residence, for a temporary period as nonimmigrants, or are
illegally present in the U.S. because they either evaded the inspections
process conducted at ports of entry or violated our law after being lawfully
admitted, one term central to immigration has been carefully avoided by nearly
all politicians and so-called journalists.
That
term and the people it represents is CITIZEN!
President
Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address included
this aspirational excerpt:
“…that
these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have
a new birth of freedom[8]—and
that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish
from the earth.”
Today
politicians from both political parties are quick to praise America’s 16th
president. However, how on earth can politicians who claim to represent
the best interests of America and Americans ignore that our nation’s open
borders and failures to fairly and effectively enforce and administer our
immigration laws in a meaningful way have inflicted great harm and suffering to
our nation’s citizens?
Our
immigration laws were enacted to protect national security, public safety,
public health and the jobs and wages of Americans.
Our
immigration laws have absolutely nothing to do with race, religion or
ethnicity. A review of
8
U.S. Code § 1182 - Inadmissible aliens will provide irrefutable evidence of
the nature of our immigration laws and how they focus solely on threats to the
well being of America and Americans.
Yet
the radicals and globalists accuse advocates for secure borders and effective
but fair enforcement of our immigration laws of being racists, bigots,
xenophobes or haters.
We
have all experienced the situation where in preparing for a family event,
whether it was a holiday dinner, a wedding or other such joyous occasion had to
remove some friends or relatives from the invitation list. Not because we
hated them but because we did not have the resources to invite them all.
The
U.S. visa process is no different. The solution to world hunger does not
demand that we invite all of the world’s poor to come to America!
As
we are seeing now, especially in the wake of the COVID-19, America lacks the
resources to care for its own citizens.
Open
borders left our nation vulnerable to deadly narcotics and other
contraband. Our open borders have facilitated the entry of foreign
workers from around the world who displace American workers and drive down the
wages of those fortunate enough to not lose their jobs to foreign workers.
Most
disturbing, our open borders and multiple failures of the immigration system,
have permitted international terrorists, members of pernicious and violent
transnational gangs to enter our nation and kill innocent victims.
When
politicians speak about immigration they are quick to talk about what is
supposedly fair and compassionate for illegal aliens but ignore how American
citizens are impacted.
The
fundamental question that is never asked is, “How can America live up to
President Lincoln’s lofty vision of our nation possessing a government ‘of the
people, by the people and for the people’ when the citizens of the United
States are assiduously ignored by the politicians who, through the bribes known
as “campaign contributions” and as a consequence, have become virtual employees
of the lobbyists who write the campaign contribution checks?”
During
his campaign and subsequent to being sworn into office, President Trump has
been attacked for his goal of putting “Americans first.”
I
am familiar with this tactic oof bullying and false accusations hurled at every
opportunity by the globalists who hate the “S word”- SOVEREIGNTY!
Yet,
wasn’t President Lincoln calling for putting Americans first in his Gettysburg
Address?
Now
we are seeing riots breaking out across the United States. The Lunatic
Left has demanded the defunding of our police departments, however, not long
ago when President Trump attempted to defund “Sanctuary Cities” the same
Leftist Radicals wailed that defunding the police would cost people their
lives.
Now
anarchistic Sanctuary Cities have defunded the police and people are being
slaughtered on the streets of their cities in huge numbers. Adding to the
crisis is “Bail Reform” whereby criminals who are arrested for all sorts of
crimes, including violent crimes, are being released back onto the increasingly
dangerous streets where they continue to ply their sociopathic crimes of
violence.
Children
are being killed and stores are being looted and put out of business.
Many
Americans are trying to understand how and why this is happening.
Here
is my analysis of what we are witnessing.
First
of all, the Radical Democrats seek to delegitimize the government. (I
will never forget a lecture I attended in a Political Science class back when I
was a student in college. The professor said that when a government loses
legitimacy in the eyes of the governed, revolution is a likely outcome.)
The
political establishment was in such a panic that Donald Trump was elected that
the Radical Leftists began chanting “Not my President” when the results of the
election were known.
I
cannot recall that reaction to any Presidential Election and I found it more
than a bit disturbing because of the clear implication.
The
Democrats’ bogus “Russian collusion hoax” added fuel that that seditionist
fire.
Now
we see unprecedented levels of crime in major cities across the country.
This also adds to the bogus notion that our government lacks legitimacy.
In
the past decade a number of states, primarily those controlled by Democrats
have provided convicted felons with the right to vote. Through the
defunding and demoralizing of the police and with bail reform that turns
criminal suspects loose without bail now provides millions of criminals with an
incentive to vote for the Democratic Party benefactors who have become
increasingly attractive to the criminal voters.
Adding
to this is the way that our kids have been educated by radical teachers in
public school and college, attacking our nation’s foundation. Of course
when you consider how Universities have been receiving billions of dollars from
adversarial nations such as China, Saudi Arabia and likely Russia and Iran, it
is clear that they have bought control over faculty and curricula on our best
college campuses.
Students
suffer the consequences of the admission of millions of foreign workers who
have displaced Americans and driven down wages, putting our middle class on the
“Endangered Species List.”
Awhile
back I wrote an article about the goal of Hillary Clinton to destroy the middle
class to push Americans to socialism. My article, The
Wage Equality Deception (The veiled attack on the middle
class) included this quote from Alan Greenspan:
The
second bonus (to opening quotas for H-1B visas) would address the increasing
concentration of income in this country. Greatly expanding our quotas for the
highly skilled would lower wage premiums of skilled over lesser skilled. Skill
shortages in America exist because we are shielding our skilled labor force
from world competition. Quotas have been substituted for the wage pricing
mechanism. In the process, we have created a privileged elite whose incomes are
being supported at noncompetitively high levels by immigration quotas on
skilled professionals. Eliminating such restrictions would reduce at least some
of our income inequality.
In
no uncertain terms- Greenspan wants to cut middle class wages of so-called
“Privileged Elite” American workers to drive down their wages to greatly reduce
wage inequality between highly educated Americans with those who lack the
education and skills. In other words, decimate the middle class!
I
recently addressed the goals of Joe Biden and his Radical cohorts in my
article, Comprehensive
Immigration Reform Should be Renamed the “Overwhelm America Act" in
which I explained how a Biden administration would set the stage for the
admission of tens of millions of immigrant children- literally over night,
nailing the final nail in America’s coffin.
This
has convinced millions of kids that capitalism is not working for them.
Actually what we now have is a Corporate welfare state where the greatest
example of this is the importation of a foreign labor force that displaces
Americans who have no jobs but huge student loans to pay off.
Donald
Trump is the first U.S. president in decades to get it right- and his phrase,
“Americans First!” echos Lincoln’s eloquent notion of a government Of the
People, By the People and For the People. It is the government we
desperately need, especially now as America stands at the precipice of anarchy!
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.
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2017/12/em-cadwaladr-impending-death-of.html
“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?
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0528/p09s01-coop.html
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.
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/07/mexico-will-double-us-population.html
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
ImmigrationReform.com
https://www.immigrationreform.com/2020/04/08/illegal-alien-benefits-states-immigrationreform-com/
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
By Andrew R. Arthur on May 21, 2020
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.
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.
508David McNew/Getty Images
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.
John Binder is a reporter for
Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.
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