WE CERTAINLY KNOW WHAT BARACK OBAMA AND JOE BIDEN DID FOR LA RAZA AND THE MEX WELFARE STATE
Throughout the Obama administration, sanctuary cities and states were able to get away with these policies because the Obama administration, despite Obama’s sworn obligation to upload the laws of the United States, approved of open borders. Trump promised to change all that.
Kamala Harris cackles and squirms about her past attack against Biden
One of the most striking things about the now-joint candidacy of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris is the way they’re being shielded from the press. We’ve long known that Biden, who is suffering a severe cognitive decline, can’t be allowed to roam free. However, most people assumed that Kamala would become his mouthpiece to the media. That assumption, so far, has been wrong, and Kamala’s dismal performance when faced with a single tough question from an obsequious Stephen Colbert probably explains why.
To set the stage for Kamala’s embarrassing Colbert moment, you have to remember how brutally she attacked Joe Biden back in June 2019. Without using the word “racist,” she nevertheless made it clear to everyone watching that Biden, because he opposed busing and palled around with segregationists, was, in fact, a racist who virtually destroyed the little girl that was Kamala:
The media adored Kamala’s attack (which she’d obviously prepared well in advance) and wasn’t bothered that her shtick about “that little girl was me” was inaccurate, if not downright dishonest.
Kamala was right, of course, that Biden is racist. From the start -- and this is something he has in common with all Democrats – he’s been obsessed with race. From his first day in the Senate, Biden hung out with racists, and his anecdotes show he remembers that time fondly. Biden can’t stop talking about Indian accents; he called integrated schools jungles; he said it was a “storybook” that Obama was clean and articulate; he thinks all blacks think alike, and he insisted that people are black only if they vote for him.
Nevertheless, the nakedly-ambitious Kamala readily agreed when Biden (whom she also said probably digitally raped a Senate employee in the 1990s) asked her to join him on the presidential ticket. This is a problem for Democrats, who have to address this inconsistency because her “I was that little girl” speech was her breakout moment in the primaries.
It fell to Stephen Colbert, as part of a fawning interview with Kamala, to ask her the question:
Because in those debates, you landed haymakers on Joe Biden. I mean, his teeth were like Chiclets all over the stage. And now, I believe you that you’re fully supportive of him. How does that transition happen? How do you go from being such a passionate opponent, on such bedrock principles for you, and now you guys seem to be pals?
Colbert framed the question to elicit a substantive answer. He assumed that Kamala, as well as the whole Democrat team running Biden’s campaign, knew the question was coming and had prepared a good response. For example, Kamala might have said that, during her meetings with Biden, she’s learned how he’s grown over the decades. He can sometimes say awkward, or even hurtful things, but his record shows that he’s an ally, and yadda, yadda, yadda.
That’s what Kamala could have done. But that’s not what Kamala did. Instead, in between manic cackles (clearly stolen from Hillary), Kamala just repeated over and over, “It was a debate. It was a debate.”
Kamala Harris basically accused Joe Biden of being a racist during the debates and her only defense is “it was a debate”.
— Benny (@bennyjohnson) August 15, 2020
So did you never think he was racist and knowingly falsely accused him of being one or are you now just ok with being on a ticket with a racist? pic.twitter.com/0axLvxtf9Z
That’s not even a good non-answer. It’s a mindless and moronic mental reflex. It’s like a dead frog’s leg kicking if an electric charge runs through its body.
Kamala also gave the game away about the Democrat primary debates. These were not real battles so that the voters could get the true measure of the candidates. Instead, they were staged spectacles, closer to the WWE than to an actual airing of political differences and mental acumen. The goal, always, was to get voters to choose the hardest left candidate who did not actually look hard left, and who stood a chance of winning (so, not Amy Klobuchar).
It continues to be shocking that Biden and Harris are the best that the Democrats can offer America. Neither can function without a handler at his or her side. Biden, never bright, is now getting senile, and Harris, equally never bright, is the person that we all know (nudge, nudge, wink, wink) is the actual presidential candidate.
Image: Kamala Harris, Gage Skidmore on Flickr; CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
Paris Dennard: All Joe Biden Has Done for Blacks Is ‘Lock Us Up’
Former Vice President Joe Biden has
done nothing as a politician to help the black community, said Paris
Dennard, senior communications advisor for
black media affairs with the Republican Party, offering his remarks on
Tuesday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News
Daily with host Alex Marlow.
Biden’s declared on Friday
that if a black American is unsure of supporting him over President Donald
Trump in the 2020 election “then you ain’t black.”
.@JoeBiden: "If you have a problem figuring out
whether you're for me or Trump, then you ain't black." @cthagod: "It don't have nothing to do
with Trump, it has to do with the fact — I want something for my
community." @breakfastclubam pic.twitter.com/endvWnOIV2
— America Rising (@AmericaRising) May 22, 2020
Dennard warned against characterizing Biden’s statement as a
“gaffe.” Biden’s comment, he maintained, reflected the politician’s
condescension towards blacks. “It’s paternalistic, and it’s bigoted,” he said.
“We’ve got to stop calling these gaffes,” urged Dennard. “We
need to stop calling these ‘insensitive statements.’ No, They’re bigoted.
They’re racist, and it’s exposing Joe Biden’s long history. Stop giving him
cover for being a bigot.
Dennard noted the refusal of numerous Democrats to condemn
Biden’s framing of black identity as contingent on partisan political support
for the Democrat Party.
“I have been waiting to hear Amb. Susan Rice, Sen. Kamala
Harris, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, [and] Stacey Abrams stand up and say something
about this, but they’re not because it’s not about the people [or] the black
community,” Dennard stated. “It’s about the black vote. That’s all they’re
concerned about. It’s all politics.”
LISTEN:
“The RNC and the Trump campaign are going to be very
aggressively going after Joe Biden. The impact of his statement not only was
offensive to black Republicans or conservatives — or just free-thinking black
Americans like myself who are supporting President Trump — but it’s also
offensive to any black person who decides to just be a free thinker. … He’s
essentially saying, ‘If you are not on my team — Joe Biden’s team — you’re not
black,'” said Dennard.
“You have Joe Biden trying to put people in a box and think, ‘You’ve
got to think the way I want you to think. If you don’t think that way. I’m
going to pull away your identity. I’m going to pull away your cultural
connection. I’m going to say that you are not a part of the community.’ That is
an offensive thing to say, because this is exactly what they did during
slavery, they wanted slaves to not be able to read and to write and to remain
dumb and illiterate so that we wouldn’t be able to be educated and learned and
advance and grow and prosper,” Dennard added.
“It is a way to suppress the vote,” Dennard stated. “It is a way
to discourage people from daring to be able to do like Kanye West did and do
like Vernon Jones did down in
Georgia. … When you talk about voter suppression, this is a tactic from the
left that we’re seeing play out by their nominee.”
Dennard assessed Biden’s political record.
“Let’s start with the Clinton crime bill, which [Joe Biden]
wrote,” Dennard recalled. “You want to have a conversation about anybody’s
statements to or for the black community? Let’s talk about how he talked about Barack Obama.
Let’s talk about how he talked about Indian-Americans. Let’s talk about how he talked about black kids
rubbing their their hands on [his] leg because they had never seen curly hair,
and ‘Corn Pop,’ and little
roaches, and people getting locked up for crossing the street.”
“You’ve been a vice president, but you haven’t done anything to
directly impact the black community in a positive way besides lock us up,”
concluded Dennard.
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Joe Biden questions my blackness one moment, defends racist 1994
crime bill the next
Paris Dennard, Opinion contributor
,
USA
TODAY Opinion•May 25, 2020
Much attention has been rightfully devoted to bigoted comments former Vice President Joe Biden made during his Friday interview with “The Breakfast Club” when he had the audacity to say "Well I tell you what, If you have a problem figuring out whether you're for me or Trump, then you ain't black."
As a black man who voted for Donald J. Trump for president in
2016, and plans to do so in 2020, no 77-year-old white man from Delaware has
the right, authority or rationale to question my blackness or the blackness of
millions of Americans exercising our God-given right to be free and
exercise our constitutionally granted power to vote for whomever we want, even
if they are Republican.
If you only watch the sound bites of the interview, you
miss his full-throated support and
defense of the 1994 crime bill. Biden literally tried to convince black America that our communities
weren't destroyed,
black families weren't ripped apart, and black wealth was not stifled for
generations because of a bill he designed.
So this happened... “If you got a problem figuring out whether
you’re for me or for Trump then you ain’t Black.”
-@JoeBiden to @cthagod pic.twitter.com/IdnyxSAY5k
— Maliek Blade (@MaliekBlade) May 22, 2020
Even the host from “The Breakfast Club” agrees. After the
interview, host Charlamagne tha God
said, “He
really was one of the people on the front lines when it came to the war on
drugs, and mass incarceration. If he wants to be president, he needs to fix
that."
Joe Biden's record is a shame
The black community is well aware of the real impact of his
signature legislation. The Center for American Progress sums it up: “The crime bill also
expanded the school-to-prison pipeline and increased racial disparities in
juvenile justice involvement by creating draconian penalties for so-called
super predators — low-income children of color, especially black children, who
are convicted of multiple crimes.”
Thanks to President Trump’s courageous leadership pushing for
historic criminal justice reform and signing the First Step
Act into
law, he helped reverse the pain and suffering many black men and
women experienced because of Biden’s bill.
He put the vulnerable at risk: Why oh why is NY
Governor Andrew Cuomo being praised for his coronavirus response?
If Biden felt any remorse over what he helped do to the black
community, he could have spent his next decades of service to Delaware to undo
the damage, but he didn’t. If Biden was so connected, concerned, and passionate
about helping and uplifting the black community he would have publicly pushed
President Barack Obama to get criminal justice reform over the finish
line, but he was silent.
Biden and the Democratic National Committee seem to look at
black Americans just as votes and not as actual people, with brains,
feelings and families. Liberal policies have not made it easier for
black business owners to navigate fewer
regulations, pay less in taxes, and be lifted out of poverty. Liberal policies were not
responsible for historic low
black unemployment, and
the creation of opportunity zones. But the Trump
administration did. So, Biden should not be asking black America to
compare his record to that of Trump's.
Democrats try to scare black voters
What this entire episode shows us is Biden and his team are
running scared of the continued black engagement efforts of the Republican
National Committee and the Trump campaign’s Black Voices for
Trump Coalition, which
are doing the work to build the relationships and amplify the record of
achievement of this current administration. Biden is threatened. So, his latest
voter intimidation tactic is to scare black voters into submission by
attempting to take away our cultural identity if we do not vote for
him.
Curiously, we have not heard from former President Obama, or
from several of the black women who are rumored to be on Biden’s shortlist for vice president. So far, California Sen.
Kamala Harris, Stacey Abrams, Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, Ohio Rep.
Marcia Fudge, Florida Rep. Val
Demings, and
former Ambassador Susan Rice are keeping mum or giving him a pass. Why let
bigoted comments get in the way of their own political interests?
Former Vice President Joe Biden interviewed by radio host
Charlamagne tha God in May 2020.
Thankfully, Black Entertainment Television (BET)
co-founder Bob Johnson called him out saying in part “This proves
unequivocally that the Democratic nominee believes that black people owe
him their vote without
question; even though we as black people know it is exactly the
opposite. He should spend the rest of his campaign apologizing to every
black person he meets.”
Yes, Biden issued an
apology, not
for being a bigot, or offensive, rude or arrogant, but he only said, “I
shouldn’t have been such a wise guy. I shouldn’t have been so cavalier.” A
lackluster response to match his lackluster record of fighting for the
black community.
Sen. Rand Paul and Rep. Andy Biggs: Anthony Fauci
wants America closed until there's nothing to reopen
Add it to the list of racist things he has said as
an elected official, like saying of his political opponents "They're gonna
put y'all back in chains;" and talking about Obama as "the first mainstream African
American who
is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy;" and "In
Delaware, the largest growth of population is Indian Americans, moving from
India. You cannot go to
a 7-11 or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I'm not joking."
This is Joe Biden. These are not gaffes. His horrible record
matches his horrible rhetoric. The contrast between him and President
Trump on the issues of jobs, justice, the economy, historically black colleges and
universities, and
even pandemic
management is
one that Biden is not prepared to have, especially as he insults black
Americans in the process.
Paris Dennard is a senior communications
adviser for black media affairs at the Republican National Committee and the
former White House director of black outreach for George W. Bush. Follow him on
Twitter: @PARISDENNARD
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ain't black' comment is voter intimidation
Biden And Blacks: No Gaffe Can Threaten This Venal Relationship
05/25/2020
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See, earlier: Forget THE APPRENTICE, Trump—Blacks Will Never Vote For You
Enough To Make A Difference
Joe Biden’s recent gaffe about blacks isn’t going to cost him
black support. It may even strengthen him because, far from being offended,
black political consultants, activists, and journalists just see more dollar
signs. Whereas First Son-in-Law Jared
Kushner reportedly wants to cut out the word "freedom" out of the GOP
platform because “polling showed it doesn't appeal to African Americans” [Scoop: Inside the
secret talks to overhaul the GOP platform, by Jonathan Swan, Axios, May 24, 2020], the Biden-black relationship is solidly based
not on illusory symbols but on venal material interests. The GOP can’t compete,
nor should it.
The celebrated gaffe: In an interview with radio host Lenard
McKelvey, aka “Charlamagne tha God,” Biden said if blacks have a problem figuring
out whether to support him or President Trump, “you ain’t black” [Joe Biden: ‘You Ain’t
Black’ If You Don’t Back Me Over Trump, by Joshua Caplan, Breitbart, May 22, 2020].
Adding to the fun: Biden’s bizarre comment that “everyone in jail… can’t read,”
amusing since the “tha God” spent time in jail after various crimes when he was
a teenager [Five Things You Didn’t
Know About Charlamagne tha God, by Aiden Mason, TVOM, 2018].
The Kushner campaign has pounced on Biden with the
usual DR3 (Dems R the Real Racists) tactic, and is now selling extremely cringe T-shirts, below.
Official Trump Campaign
T-Shirt
But of course this overlooks the fact that McKelvey wasn’t
offended on behalf of black Republicans. “It don’t have nothing to do with
Trump, it has to do with the fact—I want something for my community,” he
responded to Biden.
In other words, there’s no chance most blacks will consider
voting for Trump. But they do want more handouts for their group.
McKelvey, excuse me, “tha God,” pressed Biden on “what have you
done for me [blacks] lately” and condemned him for the 1994 crime bill [Charlamagne tha God slams
Joe Biden’s record with African Americans after the Democrat’s ‘ain’t black’
gaffe and says his 1994 crime bill was a ‘very intricate’ part of ‘systemic
racism,’ by Matthew Wright and Nikki Schwab, Daily Mail, May 23, 2020].
Joe Biden has promptly groveled, vowing that “I’ve never, ever taken the
African American community for granted” [Joe Biden Regrets ‘You
Ain’t Black Comment: ‘I Shouldn’t Have Been Such A Wise Guy, by Joshua Caplan, Breitbart, May 22, 2020].
But he has and he can. Thus Symone Sanders, running interference
for the former VP, tweeted that his comments
were “in jest” and that he could put “his record with the African American
community up against Trump’s any day,” steamrolled Chuck Todd’s attempt to
question her about it on Meet The Press [Symone Sanders vs. Chuck Todd on Biden’s “You Ain’t Black”
Comment; “I’m Not Going To Do This, by Ian Schwartz, RealClearPolitics, May 23, 2020].
Former president Barack Obama is preparing to campaign for Biden
to drive up black turnout [Barack Obama poised to
add his star appeal to Joe Biden campaign, by Daniel Strauss, The Guardian, May 23,
2020]. And fears that blacks might stay home if they feel Biden hasn’t done
enough for them lately can be countered if necessary by choosing a black woman
female VP candidate, like Florida Congresswoman Val Demings [Val Demings rips Trump for having the "gall" to use
Biden remarks in campaign, Axios, May 24, 2020] or Georgia’s Stacey Abrams.
Biden’s weakness is his strength. Like Virginia’s Northam, he
can’t rule his party without monolithic black support [Joe Biden, the National
Northam, by Gregory Hood, American Renaissance, March 6, 2020]. But that means black Democrats like Clyburn will
support him because Biden must deliver. Blacks vote as a bloc and win concessions as a
bloc.
Consider what Biden has already done before this. He began his campaign running
on the Charlottesville hoax that
alleges far-right protesters attacked the city and President Trump praised
them. Biden has said abandoning Anglo-American legal culture and its
presumption of innocence has “got to go” because it’s a “white man’s culture.” He’s more
recently said Ahmaud Arbery was “killed in cold blood.”
Biden is going to give blacks everything he thinks they want as
long as he gets to be president. President Trump was absolutely right when he
defined Biden as an empty shell, a “non-factor,” and said that his real
opponent was the radical Left and its Main Stream Media allies [Trump dismisses Biden:
‘Not even a factor,’ by Tal
Axelrod, The Hill, May 16, 2020].
Still, why don’t the Democrats have a black person at the top of
the Democratic ticket? Because Joe Biden provides a way to soothe the moral
panic that older liberal whites are undergoing. It’s not surprising he leads in
critical suburban communities [Where Biden, Trump
stand in key swing states, by Jonathan Easley, The Hill, May 23, 2020]. Biden’s own personal failings, including plagiarism, allegations of corruption, and, most recently,
sexual assault, don’t matter without the MSM covering them aggressively.
Thus The Nation’s Katha Pollitt openly states she’d vote for Biden even if “he
boiled babies and ate them” or if Tara Reade’s account of sexual harassment was
true [We Should Take Women’s
Accusations Seriously. But Tara Reade’s Fall Short. May 20, 2020]. Feminists
had no problem voting for Bill Clinton or his enabler Hillary; why would they
object to Biden?
If anything, Biden’s creeping senility, bumbling, and overall
buffoonery are endearing to white liberal voters who want to go back to the
“normality” of the Obama years when the president was just another celebrity. I
suspect Biden was picked by Obama because he’s an oaf, the dumb white sitcom dad we’ve seen on television
a million times. He’s got a certain charm, but no one respects or fears him.
There is no white “community” in American politics conscious of
itself as a group possessing collective interests and identity. The pollster
Zach Goldberg has found that white liberals actually possess an “out-group
bias”—meaning that they dislike their own ethnic group more
than any other. In academia, journalism and increasingly, “white” is an all-purpose insult. The
only qualification: many of these white liberals don’t
identify with whites anyway, either because they are part of an ethnic group that considers
itself distinct from whites (like many Jews); an oppressed group (like some
sexual minorities); or are genuinely post-national (and think they’re
citizens/consumers of the world).
Notwithstanding the constant denunciations of President Trump as
a white nationalist, the fact is he never speaks explicitly in defense of his white
supporters. He’ll occasionally send out what appears to be a dog whistle, as
when he cryptically referenced the savage beating of
a helpless elderly white man by a younger black man in a nursing home in Michigan. But his supporters are learning
that there will be no political consequences from this dog whistle. There’s no
push to eliminate Affirmative Action or establish Official English. Even
Trump’s recent boast that he was going to
remedy the “illegal” bias and deplatforming of patriots on social media is apparently just means a “commission”—which is still
being “considered” [Trump Considers Forming
Panel to Review Complaints of Online Bias, by John McKinnon and Alex
Leary, The Wall Street
Journal, May 23, 2020].
Arguably, the GOP could move to the left and propose a civic
nationalist program that might well win a few more black votes than the GOP is
getting now: a universal basic income, an immigration moratorium, Official English and
replacing Affirmative Action with a system that gives advantages to those from
a lower economic class
In other words, challenge the Democrats for black voters by
offering them something real.
But we know the GOP won’t do that—not least because Conservatism Inc. ideologues would
fight it every step of the way. Better to lose and have some other black conservative we’ve never heard of lecture us on “Republican outreach” again next CPAC.
In contrast, Democrats provide blacks with concrete advantages
like set-asides, special programs, ethnic narcissism, and cultural victories.
Why would blacks give that up? Once in a while, they might throw a minor
tantrum to win more subsidies, but it’s not like a party that wants “limited
government” can offer anything to people that rely on government being big.
Let the Kushner campaign sell its shirt. It won’t make a
difference. Blacks will vote for Biden this fall by the usual margins, if not
greater ones than last time.
Joe Biden has already shown he’s willing to degrade himself as
much as he has to in order to be president. Kissing up to “Charlamagne da God”
is just business as usual.
James Kirkpatrick [Email him |Tweet him @VDAREJamesK] is a Beltway veteran and a refugee from Conservatism Inc. His latest
book is Conservatism Inc.: The Battle for the
American Right. Read VDARE.com Editor Peter Brimelow's Preface here.
THE
GLOBALIST DEMOCRAT PARTY IS FOR BILLIONAIRES, BANKSTERS, BAILOUTS AND OPEN
BORDERS TO KEEP WAGES DEPRESSED
On the topic of immigration, she added, “During
her lifetime, my aunt Coretta Scott King spoke about immigration coming in, and
it would displace ‘negroes,’ or blacks, as we were called back then. And she
even wrote about that. My uncle, Martin Luther King, Jr., spoke about
immigration as well.
ALL BILLIONAIRES ARE
DEMOCRATS. ALL BILLIONIARES WANT OPEN BORDERS FOR MORE CHEAP LABOR AND NO CAPS
ON IMPORTING CHINESE AND INDIANS TO WORK OUR TECH JOBS CHEAP.
Obama’s State
of Delusion ... OR JUST ANOTHER "Hope & Change" HOAX?
”The
delusional character of Obama’s State of the Union
address on
Tuesday—presenting an America of rising living
standards and
a booming economy, capped by his declaration
that the
“shadow of crisis has passed”—is perhaps matched
only in its
presentation by the media and supporters of the
Democratic
Party.”
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2015/01/oxfam-richest-one-percent-set-to.html
“The general
tone was set by the New York Times in its lead editorial on Wednesday, which
described the speech as a “simple, dramatic message about economic fairness,
about the fact that the well-off—the top earners, the big banks, Silicon
Valley—have done just great, while middle and working classes remain dead in
the water.”
OBAMANOMICS:
The report
observes that while the wealth of the world’s 80 richest people doubled between
2009 and 2014, the wealth of the poorest half of the world’s population (3.5
billion people) was lower in 2014 than it was in 2009.
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2015/01/oxfam-richest-one-percent-set-to.html
In 2010, it
took 388 billionaires to match the wealth of the bottom half of the earth’s
population; by 2013, the figure had fallen to just 92 billionaires. It fell to
80 in 2014.
THE OBAMA
ASSAULT ON THE AMERICAN MIDDLE-CLASS
“The goal of
the Obama administration, working with the Republicans and local governments,
is to roll back the living conditions of the vast majority of the population to
levels not seen since the 19th century, prior to the advent of the eight-hour
day, child labor laws, comprehensive public education, pensions, health
benefits, workplace health and safety regulations, etc.”
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2015/01/oxfam-richest-one-percent-set-to.html
“In response
to the ruthless assault of the financial oligarchy, spearheaded by Obama, the
working class must advance, no less ruthlessly, its own policy.”
New Federal Reserve report
US
median income has plunged, inequality has grown in Obama “recovery”
The yearly
income of a typical US household dropped by a massive 12 percent, or $6,400, in
the six years between 2007 and 2013. This is just one of the findings of the
2013 Federal Reserve Survey of Consumer Finances released Thursday, which
documents a sharp decline in working class living standards and a further
concentration of wealth in the hands of the rich and the super-rich.
Who ‘Ain’t Black’?
THIS IS FOR REAL!
Biden reminds African-Americans where they stand in the Democratic
Party.
May 25, 2020
Lloyd Billingsley
“I tell you,
if you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t black.”
Thus spake
Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden last Friday in an interview with
host Charlamagne tha God. Accomplished
black people were surprised to hear they were not black.
“I thought to
myself, I have been black for 54 years,” said Sen. Tim Scott, South Carolina Republican. “1.3 million black Americans already voted for Trump in 2016,”
and “this morning, Joe Biden told every single one of us we ‘ain’t
black.’” For Scott it was “sadly par for the course for Democrats to take
the black community for granted and brow beat those that don’t agree.” Black
Entertainment Television (BET) co-founder Robert Johnson expressed similar
sentiments.
“Vice
President Biden’s statement today represents the arrogant and out-of-touch
attitude of a paternalistic white candidate who
has the audacity to tell black people, the descendants of slaves, that they are
not black unless they vote for him,” Johnson told Fox News. “This proves
unequivocally that the Democratic nominee believes that black people owe him
their vote without question, even though we as black people know it is exactly
the opposite.”
For former NFL
player Jack Brewer, “the mask is off” and “America can see the real Joe
Biden, hopefully all of my African-American brothers
and sisters.” As Brewer told Fox News on Sunday, “He was the
VP of Barack Obama so he hides in the closet at lot,” covering up “oppressive
policies that he’s pushed since he’s been in the Senate,” the 1994 crime bill
among them.
What Biden had
revealed, wrote Deroy Murdock of National Review, was the view, “widely popular among Democrats,” that black Americans
who fail to support the Democrat agenda are not just wrong but, much worse,
“they’re not even black.” Murdoch found this “insulting, degrading and
dehumanizing,” and there was more to it.
“Note Biden’s
pandering use of ‘ain’t’ and ‘y’all’ when addressing blacks, including a
southern accent in the latter instance.” In similar style, Hillary Clinton
“exhibits the same annoying, patronizing behavior.” Larry Elder tweeted a
cartoon of Hillary Clinton in blackface saying “I ain’t no ways tired of
pandering to African Americans.” This was allegedly racist, but Joe Biden
telling blacks that GOP is ‘going to put y’all back in chains’ – not a problem.” On the other hand, some blacks had no
problem with the Biden statement.
“The issue
wasn’t what Joe Biden said, because it was accurate,” tweeted
Jamele Hill of The Atlantic, formerly of ESPN. It was “clearly a joke
that didn’t land,” but if you support what Hill calls anti-black policies,
“you’re still technically black but you ain’t with us.” Others were eager to
clarify.
“There is a
difference between being politically black and being racially black,”
wrote New York Times correspondent Nikole Hannah-Jones, a Pulitzer
Prize winner for her contribution to the 1619
Project. “Being born black does not necessitate
being politically black,” wrote Hannah-Jones in a tweet she has since deleted.
Biden said he
“shouldn’t have been so cavalier” and “no one should have to vote for any
party, based on their race or religion or background,” but that failed to land
with Kanye West, also a supporter of President Trump. “I will not be told who I’m gonna vote on because of my color,”
West proclaimed.
Supreme Court
Justice Clarence Thomas made a comment by way of the new
documentary Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words. “One of the things you do in hearings is you have to sit there
and look attentively at people you know have no idea what they are talking
about,” Thomas said. In his 1991 confirmation hearing, one of them was Senate
Judiciary Committee chairman Joe Biden, and as Thomas recalled, “We know
exactly what’s going on here. This is the wrong black guy. He has to be
destroyed.”
For someone
often unsure of his location, the day of the week, and what office he is
seeking, Joe Biden does not hesitate to tell others what he thinks they are,
with absolute certainty. For example, according to the former vice president,
the millions of people illegally present in the United States are “already American citizens.” That would
surprise countless legal immigrants and legitimate citizens of all skin shades.
Last year,
Biden could have told Democrat rival Elizabeth Warren “you ain’t no Cherokee,”
which would have been true. Instead, the serial plagiarist tells African
Americans they “ain’t black,” which is not an original racist smear.
Back in the
1990s, Clinton assistant attorney general nominee Lani Guinier questioned the
blackness of Thomas Sowell, the great scholar, economist and author of books
such as Intellectuals and Race.
Nikole Hannah-Jones and Jamele Hill might check out Sowell’s response to Lani Guinier: “I
don’t need some half-white woman from Martha’s Vineyard telling me about being
black.” By their own admission, African Americans don’t need an addled white
Democrat telling them “you ain’t black,” if they fail to support him.
“Wow,” tweeted
former NFL great Herschel Walker. “Does he not
understand that black and brown skinned people can think for themselves? You
don’t determine who we vote for.”
“Thank you
Herschel!” tweeted President Trump, who has established www.youaintblack.com with the logo “Black Voices for Trump 2020.” As the
president says, we’ll see what happens.
'We've got to strengthen our own borders': MLK niece supports
Trump's temporary immigration ban
by Emma
Colton
|
April 22, 2020 10:34 AM
Martin
Luther King Jr.’s niece said she supports President Trump’s forthcoming
temporary suspension of immigration to the United States.
Trump
announced he would be signing an executive
order this week that is
expected to put a 60-day ban on immigrants seeking permanent status in the U.S.
Alveda King, the director of Civil Rights for the Unborn at Priests for Life,
said she agrees with the order, arguing that it will help the U.S. become
healthier and stronger amid the coronavirus.
“I
agree with President Trump,” King
told Just the News on
Tuesday. “Now, this is a temporary measure. This is not a forever
measure."
"So,
the president, when he says 'America first' — he never says 'America only,'
just 'America first,'" she said. "Immigration slows for a time. Then
we become healthier. Then we can reach out to others. That is the strategy. So,
people need to understand that. We've got to strengthen our own borders, our
own lives, our own families, our own communities. Once we do that, then we can
help others."
Just the News reported that
the U.S.
Civil Rights Commission under
the Obama administration showed illegal immigration negatively affects blacks
and asked King if the U.S. should consider immigration control a civil right.
“Civil
rights, I would not say — I think more it helps human rights. It helps
Americans to get better," King said. "Civil rights, of course, come
after human rights, and human rights are endowed by our creator. So, there are
some rights, human rights, that we all have. And I believe we all have rights
all over the planet to safety, security, provision, and all of that. When that
is missing, it is wise for leaders of any nation to stop, take toll, repent,
pray, return to God, and get things straightened out."
On the topic of immigration, she added, “During her lifetime, my aunt
Coretta Scott King spoke about immigration coming in, and it would displace
‘negroes,’ or blacks, as we were called back then. And she even wrote about
that. My uncle, Martin Luther King, Jr., spoke about immigration as well.
"My
father, the Rev. A.D. King, with all of us having the understanding this nation
was founded by immigrants, as it is today," she continued. "We had
the Native Americans here before we were here, of course. So, we are all
immigrants. ... Martin Luther King Jr. said, ‘Well, we may have come out on
different boats, but we are all in the same boat now.'"
US median
income has plunged, inequality has grown in Obama “recovery”
6 September
2014
The yearly
income of a typical US household dropped by a massive 12 percent, or $6,400, in
the six years between 2007 and 2013. This is just one of the findings of the
2013 Federal Reserve Survey of Consumer Finances released Thursday, which
documents a sharp decline in working class living standards and a further
concentration of wealth in the hands of the rich and the super-rich.
The report
makes clear that the drop in a typical household’s income was not merely the
result of what is referred to as the 2008 recession, which officially lasted
only 18 months, through June 2009. Much of the decline in workers’ incomes
occurred during the so-called “economic recovery” presided over by the Obama
administration.
In the three
years between 2010 and 2013, the annual income of a typical household actually
fell by 5 percent.
The Fed
report exposes as a fraud the efforts of the Obama administration to present
itself as a defender of the “middle class”. It has systematically pursued
policies to redistribute wealth from the bottom to the very top of the income
ladder. These include the multi-trillion-dollar bailout of the banks, near-zero
interest rates to drive up the stock market, and austerity measures and wage
cutting to lift corporate profits and CEO pay to record highs.
The Federal
Reserve data, based on in-person interviews, show a far larger decline in the
median income of American households than indicated by earlier figures from the
Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey.
In line with
the figures on household income, the report shows an ever-growing concentration
of wealth among the richest households. The Fed’s summary of its data notes
that “the wealth share of the top 3 percent climbed from 44.8 percent in 1989
to 51.8 percent in 2007 and 54.4 percent in 2013,” while the wealth of the
“next 7 highest percent of families changed very little.”
The report
states that “the rising wealth share of the top 3 percent of families is
mirrored by the declining share of wealth held by the bottom 90 percent,” which
fell from 33.2 percent in 1989 to 24.7 percent in 2013.
The ongoing
impoverishment of the population is an indictment of capitalism. There has been
no genuine recovery from the Wall Street crash of 2008, only a further
plundering of the economy by the financial aristocracy. The crisis precipitated
by the rapacious, criminal practices of the bankers and hedge fund speculators
has been used to restructure the economy to the benefit of the rich at the
expense of everyone else.
Decent-paying
jobs have been wiped out and replaced by low-wage, part-time and temporary
jobs, with little or no benefits. Pensions and health benefits have come under
savage attack, as seen in the bankruptcy of Detroit.
Not
surprisingly, the Fed report has been buried by the American media, confined to
the inside pages of the major newspapers.
Measured in 2013 dollars, a typical household received an income
of $53,100 in 2007. By 2010, this had fallen to $49,000. It hit $46,700 by
2013. At the same time, the average income for the wealthiest tenth of families
grew by ten percent.
While median income fell between 2010 and 2013, mean (average)
income grew, from $84,100 to $87,200. The report noted that, “the decline in
median income coupled with the rise in mean income is consistent with a
widening income distribution during this period.”
For the poorest households, the
drop in income has been even more dramatic. Among the bottom quarter of
households, mean income fell a full 10 percent between 2010 and 2013.
The report
reveals other aspects of the social crisis. The share of young families
burdened by education debt nearly doubled, from 22.4 percent to 38.8 percent,
between 2001 and 2013. The share of young families with more than $100,000 in
debt has grown nearly tenfold, from 0.6 percent to 5.6 percent.
These statistics reflect both a
historic and insoluble crisis of the profit system and the brutal policies of
the American ruling class, which is carrying out a relentless assault on
working people and preparing to go even further by dismantling bedrock social
programs such as Medicare and Social Security. The data undercuts the endless
talk of “partisan gridlock” in Washington and the media presentation of a
political system paralyzed by irreconcilable differences between the Democratic
and Republican parties.
There has, in fact, been a
seamless continuity between the Bush and Obama administrations in the pursuit
of reactionary policies of war abroad and class war at home. The two parties
have worked hand in glove to make the working class pay for the crisis of the
capitalist system.
The Federal
Reserve has itself played a critical role in the growth of social inequality in
the US. The bailout of the banks, estimated at $7 trillion, has been followed
by six years of virtually free money for the banks.
Every facet
of American life is dominated by the immense concentration of wealth at the
very top of society. The grotesque levels of wealth amassed by the parasites
and criminals who dominate American business, and the flaunting of their
fortunes before tens of millions struggling to pay their bills and keep from
falling into destitution, are fueling the growth of social anger. This anger
will increasingly be directed against the entire economic and political system.
The figures
released by the Fed reflect a society riven by class divisions that must
inevitably trigger social upheavals. The explosive state of social relations is
itself a major factor in the endless recourse by the Obama administration to
military aggression and war, which serve to deflect internal tensions outward.
The growth
of inequality likewise underlies the relentless attack on democratic rights in
the US, including the massive domestic spying exposed by Edward Snowden and the
use of militarized police to crack down on social opposition, as seen most
recently in Ferguson, Missouri.
Pollak: Barack Obama Himself Was the Threat to the Rule of Law
JOEL B. POLLAK10 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.
Obama: DACA Illegal Aliens Deserve Amnesty During Coronavirus
Crisis
JOHN BINDERFormer President Barack
Obama says the time is now, during the Chinese coronavirus crisis, to provide
amnesty to about 3.5 million illegal aliens who are enrolled and eligible for
the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
While about ten million Americans have filed for
unemployment in just three weeks, Obama took to Twitter to call for an amnesty
for DACA illegal aliens in the midst of the coronavirus crisis.
“Dreamers have
contributed so much to our country, and they are risking their lives fighting
on the frontlines of this pandemic,” Obama said. “They deserve permanent
immigration status and a pathway to citizenship—as they are Americans in every
way but on paper.”
Dreamers have contributed so much to our
country, and they are risking their lives fighting on the frontlines of this
pandemic. They deserve permanent immigration status and a pathway to
citizenship—as they are Americans in every way but on paper. https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/dreamers-risk-lives-on-pandemics-front-lines-while-they-await-court-ruling/2020/04/11/d34a7b58-76c4-11ea-85cb-8670579b863d_story.html …
‘Dreamers’ risk lives on pandemic’s front
lines while they await a decision on their own futures
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Center for Immigration
Studies Research Director Steven Camarotta has noted that DACA illegal
aliens make up about 0.2 percent of the nation’s nearly 15 million healthcare
workers. In New York, where a staggering number of DACA illegal aliens reside,
they still only account for about 0.2 percent of the state’s healthcare
workers, according to Camarotta.
Obama’s lobbying for a
DACA amnesty in the middle of the coronavirus crisis comes as House Democrats —
including Congressional Hispanic Caucus Chair Joaquin Castro (D-TX), Rep. Zoe
Lofgren (D-CA), and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) — have sent a letter to the Trump
administration demanding DACA illegal aliens have their work authorizations
extended.
“Support of DACA
recipients during the current pandemic is particularly critical as over 200,000
DACA recipients are in occupations and industry groups that render them
‘essential critical infrastructure workers,’ according to DHS guidance,” the
House Democrats wrote in their letter.
A DACA amnesty would
put more citizen children of illegal aliens — known as “anchor babies” — on
federal welfare, as Breitbart News reported, while American
taxpayers would be left potentially with
a $26 billion bill.
Additionally,
about one-in-five DACA illegal aliens, after an amnesty, would end up on food
stamps, while at least one-in-seven would go on Medicaid.
Any plan to give
amnesty to DACA illegal aliens that does not also include provisions to halve
legal immigration levels — the U.S. admits about 1.2 million legal immigrants a
year at the expense of America’s working and middle class — would give
amnestied illegal aliens the opportunity to bring an unlimited number of
foreign relatives to the country.
At the southern border,
a DACA amnesty has the potential to trigger a border surge that could triple
the number of illegal aliens pouring through the border. Since DACA’s
inception, more than 2,100 recipients of the program have been kicked off
because they were found to either be criminals or gang members.
John Binder is a reporter
for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.
JAMES
WALSH
THE OBAMA-BIDEN
HISPANICAZATION of AMERICA… first ease millions of
illegals over our borders and into our voting booths!
How the Democrat party surrendered America
to Mexico:
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2014/07/james-walsh-hispanicazation-of-america.html
“The watchdogs at Judicial Watch discovered
documents that reveal how the Obama administration's close coordination with
the Mexican government entices Mexicans to hop over the fence and on to the
American dole.” Washington Times
"This is
country belongs to Mexico" is said by the Mexican Militant. This is a
common teaching that the U.S. is really AZTLAN, belonging to Mexicans, which is
taught to Mexican kids in Arizona and California through a LA Raza educational
program funded by American Tax Payers via President Obama, when he gave LA RAZA
$800,000.00 in March of 2009!
The “zero tolerance” program was dismantled by Attorney
General Erc Holder once it had successfully cut the transit of
migrants by roughly 95 percent. Initially, officials made 140,000 arrests per
year in the mid-2000s, but the northward flow dropped so much that officials
only had to make 6,000 arrests in 2013, according to a 2014 letter by two pro-migration Senators, Sen.
Jeff Flake and John McCain.
“The cost of the Dream Act is far bigger than the
Democrats or their media allies admit. Instead of covering 690,000 younger
illegals now enrolled in former President Barack Obama’s 2012 “DACA” amnesty,
the Dream Act would legalize at least 3.3 million
illegals, according to a
pro-immigration group, the Migration Policy Institute.”
Obama Quietly
Erasing Borders (Article)
Article Link:
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=240045
WIKILEAKS
EXPOSES THE OBAMA CONSPIRACY TO FLOOD AMERICAN WITH DEM VOTING ILLEGALS
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2011/05/wikileaks-exposed-obamas-la-raza-open.html
“The watchdogs at Judicial Watch discovered
documents that reveal how the Obama administration's close coordination with
the Mexican government entices Mexicans to hop over the fence and on to the
American dole.” Washington Times
Obama Funds
the Mexican Fascist Party of LA RAZA “The Race”… now calling itself UNIDOSus.
"This is
country belongs to Mexico" is said by the Mexican Militant. This is a
common teaching that the U.S. is really AZTLAN, belonging to Mexicans, which is
taught to Mexican kids in Arizona and California through a LA Raza educational
program funded by American Tax Payers via President Obama, when he gave LA RAZA
$800,000.00 in March of 2009!
Previous generations of immigrants did not believe they were racially
superior to Americans. That is the view of La Raza Cosmica, by Jose Vasconcelos, Mexico’s former education minister and a
presidential candidate. According to this book, republished in 1979 by the
Department of Chicano Studies at Cal State LA, students of Scandinavian, Dutch
and English background are dullards, blacks are ugly and inferior, and those
“Mongols” with the slanted eyes lack enterprise. The superior new “cosmic” race
of Spaniards and Indians is replacing them, and all Yankee “Anglos.” LLOYD
BILLINGSLEY/ FRONTPAGE mag
*
GLOBALIST
BARACK OBAMA AND NANCY PELOSI’S CONSPIRACY TO SABOTAGE HOMELAND SECURITY AND
KEEP AMERICA FLOODED WITH DEM VOTING ILLEGALS
https://globalistbarackobama.blogspot.com/2018/12/nancy-pelosi-and-obama-soros-globalist.html
"Along
with Obama, Pelosi and Schumer are responsible for incalculable damage done to
this country over the eight years of that administration." PATRICIA
McCARTHY
“One of the most disgusting
things to come out of the Obama administration was "Operation Fast and
Furious," where members of the Department of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms
and Explosives (ATF) allowed illegal gun sales to go through – commonly
referred to as "gun walking" – in order to track buyers and sellers
they believed were connected to the Mexican drug cartels. Nearly 2,000 firearms
were sold and were eventually found throughout the United States and Mexico.
Two of them were used to k ill Border Patrol Agent Brian
Terry.” BETH BAUMANN
The “zero tolerance” program was dismantled by Attorney General
Erc Holder once it had successfully cut the transit of migrants by
roughly 95 percent. Initially, officials made 140,000 arrests per year in the
mid-2000s, but the northward flow dropped so much that officials only had to
make 6,000 arrests in 2013, according to a 2014 letter by two pro-migration Senators, Sen.
Jeff Flake and John McCain.
Jose
Angel Gutierrez, professor, University of Texas, Arlington and founder of
La Raza Unida political party screams at rallies: "We have
an aging white America. They are d ying. They are s hitting in their
pants with fear! I love it! We have got to eliminate the g ringo, and what
I mean by that is if the worst comes to the worst, we have got to k ill
him!"
Previous generations of immigrants did not believe they were racially
superior to Americans. That is the view of La Raza Cosmica, by Jose Vasconcelos, Mexico’s former education minister and a
presidential candidate. According to this book, republished in 1979 by the
Department of Chicano Studies at Cal State LA, students of Scandinavian, Dutch
and English background are dullards, blacks are ugly and inferior, and those “Mongols”
with the slanted eyes lack enterprise. The superior new “cosmic” race of
Spaniards and Indians is replacing them, and all Yankee “Anglos.” LLOYD
BILLINGSLEY/ FRONTPAGE mag
Joe Biden: ‘Absolutely Bizarre’ to Suggest Limit on U.S. Capacity
to Absorb Immigrants
JOEL B. POLLAKLAS VEGAS, Nevada —
Former Vice President Joe Biden campaigned inside a Chinese restaurant on
Tuesday evening, telling supporters it was “bizarre” to suggest a limit on
immigration to the U.S.
Biden promised to
expand immigration to the U.S. if elected president.
“Folks, look — the idea
that there’s some limitation on the capacity of anyone who — on the immigrants
in this country is absolutely bizarre! It’s absolutely bizarre.”
Biden, speaking to a
packed crowd inside the Harbor Palace Seafood Restaurant on the eve of the next
Democratic debate, addressed members of the Asian-American and Pacific Islander
(AAPI) community, urging them to turn out the vote ahead of Saturday’s
caucuses.
Last month,
the AAPI Victory Fund super PAC endorsed Biden for
president, citing his ability to defeat President Donald Trump and his
experience working with immigrant communities from South Asia, East Asia and
the Pacific generally.
Though the AAPI
immigrant community is politically diverse, it has trended Democratic in recent
years.
Last year, Breitbart
News reported, another local AAPI organization in Las Vegas expressed opposition to President
Trump’s proposed merit-based system for legal immigration.
On Tuesday, Biden
promised, if elected, to allow family reunification visas.
“We should be able to
increase, to three million people, the people who could come for family
reunification. Period, period, period, period.”
He called the idea that
the U.S. could not “reunite” more families “absolutely bizarre.”
Biden also reminded his
audience that Latinos were not the only beneficiaries of President Barack
Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which applied to
those brought to the country illegally as children.
He said there were
“thousands and thousands of AAPI ‘Dreamers'” who had benefited from DACA as
well.
Afterwards, Biden
greeted attendees, some of whom proceeded to the Chinatown Mall to cast early
votes before the polling place there closed.
Biden hopes to finish
in the top three in Nevada, and to win South Carolina on Feb. 29, to make the
case that he is still a top contender for his party’s nomination. Sen. Bernie
Sanders (I-VT) now leads national polls, as well as Nevada polls.
Joel B. Pollak is Senior
Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News. He earned an A.B. in Social Studies and Environmental
Science and Public Policy from Harvard College, and a J.D. from Harvard Law
School. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship.
He is also the co-author of How Trump Won: The
Inside Story of a Revolution, which is available from Regnery. Follow him on
Twitter at @joelpollak.
ICE ignores
California laws and arrests illegal aliens at the courthouse door
In 2018,
California implemented the California
Values Act, which gave special protection to illegal
aliens by mandating that California law enforcement agencies cannot cooperate
with federal immigration authorities. Last week, Immigration and Customs
Enforcement (“ICE”) thumbed its nose at California and arrested two people in
Sonoma County Superior Court.
BLOG:
CALIFORNIA HAS 15 MILLION ILLEGALS!
California has
lots of reasons to hang onto its roughly 2.2 – 3.5 million illegal immigrants.
They provide cheap, easily-exploited labor. They swell the state’s population,
which matters for electors and congresspeople, as well as the distribution of
certain federal funds. As illegal immigrants are fed into the system, they
provide reliable (legal or illegal) Democrat votes. And they make Californians
feel virtuous even as they allow corrupt Latin American states to continue
exploiting their own citizens and destroying their economies by relying on remittances
from people illegally in America.
For these
reasons, California enacted the pompously named “California Values Act.”
Although the act refers to “immigrants,” it’s obviously intended to affect only
illegal aliens because the Act’s entire purpose is to use the agencies of the
state to prevent ICE from gaining access to people illegally in California –
including people who have committed crimes in California. This is the type of
law that could only come from legislators and other virtue signalers ensconced
in comfortable middle- and upper-middle-class enclaves unaffected by felonies
that would never have happened but for open borders and sanctuaries.
Throughout the
Obama administration, sanctuary cities and states were able to get away with
these policies because the Obama administration, despite Obama’s sworn
obligation to upload the laws of the United States, approved of open borders.
Trump promised to change all that.
During the
first three years of his administration, rather disappointingly, Trump was able
to have little effect on illegal immigration or on deportation. However, Trump
was just getting his ducks in a row. He was hampered by a reluctant Republican
Congress, which was superseded by a violently resisting Democrat House. He also
had to deal with “resistance” judges who blocked every immigration initiative
he made.
Finally,
though, things are changing. Trump was able to squeeze money out of Congress
for his wall and, even more importantly, with help from Mitch McConnell, he’s
changing the judiciary:
Great news for the U.S. Constitution! @realDonaldTrump has flipped the 9th Circuit — and some new judges are causing a
'shock wave' https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-02-22/trump-conservative-judges-9th-circuit …
Trump has flipped the 9th Circuit — and some
new judges are causing a 'shock wave'
8,693 people are talking about this
With a
judiciary that believes in interpreting the law, not making it, Trump’s
administration is able to act in accordance with the Supremacy Clause
(Constitution, Art. VI, Clause 2):
This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall
be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made,
under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land;
and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the
Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.
In other
words, when there’s a direct conflict between state laws and federal laws,
federal laws prevail.
Because the
critical mass of judges is no longer deliberately inserting itself as an
obstacle between federal laws and illegal immigrants, ICE is beginning to carry
out its duty as written under the law:
U.S. immigration agents arrested two people at a Northern
California courthouse, including a man detained in a hallway on his way to a
hearing, flouting a new state law requiring a judicial warrant to make
immigration arrests inside such facilities.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents made the arrests
Tuesday at Sonoma County Superior Court, prompting an outcry from criminal
justice and court officials who said the action undermines local authority and
deters immigrants who are in the country illegally from participating in the
U.S. justice system.
ICE said California's law doesn't supersede federal law and “will
not govern the conduct of federal officers acting pursuant to duly-enacted laws
passed by Congress that provide the authority to make administrative arrests of
removable aliens inside the United States."
“Our officers will not have their hands tied by sanctuary rules
when enforcing immigration laws to remove criminal aliens from our
communities," David Jennings, ICE's field office director in San
Francisco, said in the statement.
At long last,
in Trump’s America, the rule of law matters again. The reliability of law is
one of the essential ingredients of a just and successful civilization. In that
context, if you don’t like the law, you change it through the democratic
process, not through illegal and unconstitutional resistance.
Surge in Illegal Aliens, 500% Increase in Some U.S. Ports of Entry
Judicial
Watch Corruption Chronicles, December 30, 2015
The agency’s own statistics certainly contradict that, showing
that the southern border region is as porous and vulnerable as ever. Other
entry ports that saw large hikes in Central American illegal immigrants during
the first two months of this fiscal year include Del Rio, Texas (269%), El
Centro, California (216%) and Rio Grande Valley, Texas (154%). The Border
Patrol breaks the stats down by “family unit” and illegal immigrants under the
age of 18, referred to as “Unaccompanied Alien Children” or UAC. The Rio Grande
Valley port of entry topped the list in both categories with 8,537 family units
and 6,465 UACs during the two-month period. In all, the nation’s nine southern
border crossings saw an average of 173% increase in family units and a 106%
increase in minors during the short period considered.
Some of the illegal immigrants are Mexican nationals, but the overwhelming
majority comes from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. The government records
show that somehow 4,450 family units from El Salvador evaded our topnotch
border security and entered the United States in a period of only two months.
Guatemala and Honduras had 3,934 and 3,203 respectively. Mexico had 538 family
units. Of interesting note is that, during this period, the Border Patrol reports
35,234 apprehensions in the region of foreigners labeled by the government as
“Other Than Mexican” or OTM. This is a term used by federal authorities to
refer to nationals of countries that represent a terrorist threat to the U.S.
. . .
http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2015/12/surge-in-illegal-aliens-500-increase-in-some-u-s-ports-of-entry/
Concrete Evidence of the Continuing Plunge in Both Civil and
Criminal Immigration Enforcement
By Dan Cadman
CIS Immigration Blog, January 23, 2016
Two recent reports from Syracuse University's Transactional Records Access
Clearinghouse (TRAC) reflect the continued erosion of immigration enforcement
under the Obama administration.
On January 20, TRAC reported that criminal prosecution for immigration offenses
fell 22.3 percent from November 2014 to November 2015, and more than 36 percent
over the course of five years, excluding magistrate court (which deals
exclusively with petty offenses).
The following day, TRAC announced that "ICE [Immigration and Customs
Enforcement] Detainer Use Stabilizes Under Priority Enforcement Program".
The Priority Enforcement Program (PEP) is the replacement to the Secure
Communities Program mandated by Homeland Security Security Jeh Johnson as a
part of the president's "executive actions" on immigration. It
significantly restricts the ability of immigration agents to file detainers
against aliens arrested by police on criminal charges.
I have no idea what TRAC means by "stabilizes". A quick look at
Figure 1a of their report shows a more accurate state of affairs, if one
considers the number of detainers being filed over the course of five years,
from a high in April 2011, when Secure Communities became fully effective
nationwide and kicked into high gear, versus October 2015. I would use other
phrases: "plummeted" or "Dropped like a stone". Or, as my
colleague Jessica Vaughan has noted, particularly in relation to detainers
filed at county jails, where the lion's share of criminals of any stripes are
held after being booked for offenses small and large: "a stunning free
fall".
http://www.cis.org/cadman/concrete-evidence-continuing-plunge-both-civil-and-criminal-immigration-enforcement
Biden and the Immigration
Trap
'Uncle Joe' Agonistes
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.
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