Incomes for young people born between 1980 and 1994 have hit
unprecedented low levels in the aftermath of the 2008 financial
collapse, according to a recent investigative series conducted by the
UK’s
.”
The study draws on income statistics from eight of the world’s 15 most
advanced economies, including the US, Canada, Great Britain, Australia,
France, Italy, Spain and Germany to paint a picture of dimming social
prospects for young people throughout the developed world.
“It is likely to be the first time in industrialized history, save
for periods of war or natural disaster, that the incomes of young adults
have fallen so far when compared with the rest of society,” the British
newspaper states.
In the US and Italy, incomes were lower in actual figures than they
were a generation ago, with Americans averaging a yearly salary of
$27,757 in 2010 compared to $29,638 in 1979. The study notes that young
US workers currently make less than those in retirement. In France,
households headed by individuals under the age of 50 made less
disposable income than recent retirees. In Italy, an 80-year-old
pensioner possesses more income than someone under the age of 35.
In many cases, the 2008 financial collapse simply accelerated trends
that were already underway. Housing prices in Great Britain and
Australia are among the most expensive in the developed world. The
average price for a home in Sydney, Australia, is $1 million in
Australian dollars, more than 12 times the median household income in
the city. The average home loan for first-time buyers in New South Wales
is A$424,000. This figure has increased by 43 percent in the past four
years alone.
According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, housing prices have
increased more sharply and for a longer period in the past 20 years
than at any time since 1880. The
notes that housing
costs in the UK and Australia have been increasing at a “neck and neck”
pace ahead of the average household income. “We’re heading for a world
where rates of home ownership among young people are below 50 percent
for the first time,” states Alan Milburn of the Social Mobility and
Child Poverty Commission, adding that the UK is heading toward becoming
“a society that is permanently divided.” Income for those in their late
20s in the UK remain below levels seen in 2004-2005.
A recent survey by British polling firm Ipsos Mori found that 54
percent of those questioned thought the next generation was or would be
worse off than the previous. “It’s the highest we’ve measured—it’s
completely flipped around from April 2003,” stated Bobby Duffy, managing
director of Ipsos Mori’s Social Research Institute of the findings.
In addition, more than a quarter of individuals in this age group
live with their parents. An average woman in this age group today waits
7.1 years longer to become married than in 1981; and the average age of
childbirth for young families is nearly four years later than those in
1974.
Many others
share similar nightmares.
The study comes amid other findings revealing similar declines in
living standards for youth in the developed world. A 2013 Organization
for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) report found nearly 30
million youth in the developed capitalist countries without a job or an
education, the basic requirements for functioning in society.
The circumstances faced by young people throughout the world speak to
a systemic breakdown of the social order in both the so-called
developing and advanced countries, which has been compounded by war and
militarism, consecutive attacks on living standards and cuts to social
programs, which invariably hit the youngest and most vulnerable the
hardest. Though not covered by the study, European nations such as
Greece have been reduced to conditions unseen in the developed world,
with youth unemployment at over 60 percent due to attacks on living
standards demanded by the European Union and enforced by consecutive
governments, both right and “left,” under Syriza.
investigation, in an effort to
divert rising anger away from the social system responsible for the
poverty, destruction of living standards and attendant social misery,
single out the relatively-better off living conditions of retirees in
order to make a case for attacking pensions and other benefits accruing
to the older generation. The publication quotes a recently published
interview with Mario Draghi, head of the European Central Bank (ECB),
who states “in many countries the labor market is set up to protect
older ‘insiders’—people with permanent, high-paid contracts and shielded
by strong labor laws. … The side-effect is that young people are stuck
with lower-paid, temporary contracts and get fired first in crisis
times.”
While Draghi advocates attacking the pay and
benefits of older workers, the ECB head has funneled billions into the
hands of European banking institutions; recently upping the monthly
total of cash infusions to €80 billion from €60 billion previously and
adding to the wealth of the financial elite.
The fate of retirement benefits and wages under the profit-system is
pointed to when the newspaper notes “pensioners’ incomes are likely to
rise for at least the next decade, after which future generations will
be unlikely to benefit [due to] a drop in home ownership, weaker private
sector pension schemes and the expectation that state pensions will be
less generous in the future.”
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The Hillary Clinton emails: A record of imperialist crimes
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ALL
HILLARY CLINTON DID AS SECRETARY of STATE, ARGUABLY ALL SHE DOES
PERIOD, IS SUCK UP TO MUSLIM DICTATORS, OBAMA'S CRONY BANKSTERS AND
CRIMINAL BILLIONAIRE CRONYIES OF BILLARY.... SO SHE AND BILLARY CAN SUCK
IN THOSE BIG BRIBES TO THEIR PHONY CLINTON FOUNDATION!
OTHER
THAN THE TENS OF MILLIONS IN BRIBES SHE SUCKED UP AS SEC. OF STATE, HER
TENURE WAS AN UTTER DISASTERS AS WOULD BE ANOTHER WALL STREET BACKED
CLINTON ADMINISTRATION!
The Hillary Clinton emails: A record of imperialist crimes
The Hillary Clinton emails: A record of imperialist crimes
By Tom Hall
7 March 2016
Last Monday, the US State Department published the last batch
of declassified emails from a private, unsecured server used by
Democratic
presidential candidate Hillary Clinton
during her tenure as secretary of state. This latest release draws to a
close a year-long review by US intelligence agencies of 52,000 pages of
Clinton emails, ostensibly motivated by concerns over possible leaks of
classified material.
To date, more than 30,000 emails
dating from Clinton’s four-year tenure as secretary of state have been
released to the public. Clinton played a central role in the prosecution
of aggressive wars in Afghanistan, Syria and Libya as well as the
carrying out of drone assassinations and other
illegal actions in a
number of additional countries, including Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia.
Yet in its extensive reporting of the email scandal, the American media
has virtually ignored the actual content of these emails, which contain a
wealth of information about the day-to-day functioning of the Clinton
State Department.
A review of even a small sampling of
the emails, which are available on the State Department’s web site,
reveals the reason why: the emails are a damning indictment of the
criminal activities of not only Hillary Clinton herself, but the entire
imperialist state apparatus, with the corporate-controlled media in tow.
The emails could easily serve as evidence in future war crimes trials
of Clinton and other top US officials.
One particularly revealing email from 2010, cited by the
Interceptn web
site but not picked up by the national media, recounts the experiences
of former ambassador Joseph Wilson (whose CIA agent wife
Valerie
Plame was outed by the Bush administration in retaliation for his
criticisms of the war in Iraq) during a recent trip to Iraq in his
capacity as an executive for a US engineering firm. The Obama
administration,
elected by exploiting mass anti-war sentiment, continued the US
occupation of Iraq for three years during Obama’s first term in office,
when Clinton was secretary of state, prolonging a conflict that claimed
more than 1 million lives. Since then, US troops have returned to Iraq,
ostensibly to fight ISIS, as part of the US war for regime-change in
neighboring Syria.
Wilson’s email begins: “My trip to Baghdad (September 6-11) has left me slack jawed. I have
struggled
to find the correct historical analogy to describe a
vibrant,historically important Middle Eastern city being slowly bled to
death.Berlin and Dresden in World War II were devastated, but they and
their populations were not subjected to seven years of occupation.”
Describing
the rampant racism and sadism among US occupation troops, Wilson
writes, “Shirts with mushroom clouds [for sale at a gift shop on a US
military base at the Baghdad airport] conveyed the Baghdad weather as
32,000 degrees and partly cloudy. Others referred to Arabs as camel
jockeys
and those were the least offensive… The service people don’t see
themselves there to bring peace, light, joy or even democracy to Iraq.
They are there to kill the ‘camel jockeys.’”
Hundreds more emails deal with the US-led proxy war in Libya, in which Clinton played a
leading role. As a recent series of articles in the
New York Times confirmed,
Clinton was the leading advocate in the White House for the clandestine
arming of “rebel” militias comprised largely of Islamic fundamentalists,
which comprised the main fighting force against the regime of Muammar
Gaddafi.
One email from February 2011, written by a
veteran diplomat before the launching of the US-NATO war that ended with
the murder of Gaddafi, lays out proposals for the construction of a
future “post-Gaddafi” political order in Libya. The memo recommends the
use of the United Nations to lend political legitimacy to the
imperialist carve-up of the country.
“A UN ‘hat’
for multinational/international assistance efforts could be effective,”
the author states bluntly. However, the extensive involvement of Italy,
whose participation in the war marked a return to the scene of its bloody
colonial occupation, should, the author recommends, be “kept relatively
low-profile.” Another email chain discusses how to disburse the tens of
billions of dollars of frozen Libyan assets stolen by the imperialist
powers during the regime-change operation.
Many other
emails concern the organization and coordination of the Obama
administration's drone assassination program, which has killed thousands
in Afghanistan and Pakistan alone. “Twenty-two of the emails on Mrs.
Clinton’s server have now been classified as ‘top secret’ at the demand
of
the CIA because they discuss the program to hunt and kill terrorist
suspects using drone strikes, as well as other intelligence operations
and sources,” the
New York Times noted two weeks ago, prior to
the
latest release. “The emails [also] contain direct and indirect
references to secret programs,” the newspaper added obliquely.
One
such secret program was the bribing of high-ranking officials in the
Afghan government by the CIA. “[The US embassy in Afghanistan's] line
has been and will be the standard approach--that we refrain from comment
on stories discussing intelligence matters,” one embassy official
writes in a 2010 email, in response to an impending
New York Times story
revealing that Muhammad Zia Salehi, head of the Afghan National
Security Council, was on the CIA payroll. Later reports by the
Times revealed that former President Hamid Karzai for years received shopping bags full of cash from the CIA on a regular basis.
Dozens
of emails document the collusion between the corporate-controlled media
and the State Department in containing the fallout from the release of
US diplomatic cables by Wikileaks. In one
2010 exchange,
Washington Post
writer Craig Whitlock reaches out to the State Department to request “a
mechanism to receive [the] State [Department's] input” before running a
series of articles based on cables revealing the existence of a secret
US drone base in the Seychelles Islands, off the coast of Somalia.
The exchange demonstrates that the major newspapers, including the
Washington Post and the
New York Times,
provided the State Department with advance printed copies of every
cable about which they planned to write, along with drafts to the White
House, to be redacted or censored at their discretion. In a conversation
between Whitlock’s State Department handlers, they note approvingly
that
the practice “was extremely helpful in preparing our redaction
requests, as well as anticipating what damage control we’d need to do in
diplomatic channels.” Another email describes an editorial by the
Washington Post calling for the prosecution of Wikileaks editor Julian Assange and
Chelsea (then Bradley) Manning as “helpful,” adding, “We’ll try and get pickup in [the] international media.”
Clinton also received hundreds of emails via her private server from Sidney Blumenthal, a
former
advisor in the Bill Clinton administration, who served as the head of
Hillary’s 2008 presidential campaign. Blumenthal, then an employee of the
Clinton Family Foundation, functioned as a de facto back channel
intelligence gatherer and advisor for Clinton, despite not
officially
being a member of her staff. It was Blumenthal’s 2015 testimony to the
House Select Committee on Benghazi, the Republican-controlled body set
up for the purpose of torpedoing the
likely presidential run of Clinton, which revealed the existence of Clinton’s private email server.
Blumenthal sent Clinton a wide array of intelligence reports from foreign countries targeted by US
imperialism.
In one email, he passes on concerns that Islamist militias in Libya
might retaliate against the assassination of Osama bin Laden,using
weapons obtained from the United States. In another, he recounts the
furtive dealings between the Muslim Brotherhood and the Egyptian
military to smother the Egyptian revolution, writing that the two will
“continue to work together secretly in an effort to establish a stable
government” and create “a secure environment throughout the country” for
investment.
In
another email, Blumenthal advises Clinton on how to orchestrate the
cover-up of the circumstances surrounding the assassination of bin Laden
in a cross-border raid into Pakistan by US Special Forces. As a report
by investigative journalist Seymour Hersh later made clear, the official
version of bin Laden’s death was a collection of lies from start to
finish.
“Show [the pictures of bin Laden’s body] to members of Congress in a special secure room,
something
like when members were permitted to view Abu Ghraib pictures,”
Blumenthal writes. “Each of them will emerge speaking to the national and
local press on what they have seen… Having members of Congress testify
to the reality of the photos will suppress any potential ‘Deather’
movement, that the administration has either fabricated the event or
suppressed some aspect of it.”
What the ultimate out come of the Clinton email scandal will be is not yet clear. An FBI criminal
investigation
into the emails is ongoing, with signs that the case might be headed to
a grand jury. On Wednesday, a former employee of Clinton’s 2008
presidential campaign, Bryan Pagliano, who set up the private email
server in Clinton’s home, was granted immunity by federal investigators
as part of the investigation.
TIME TO END MEXICO'S LOOTING?
"As alarming as those numbers are, it's gotten a whole lot worse.
It's the reason why in both 2013 and 2015 I introduced legislation, the
"Remittance Status Verification Act," to fix this. I call this the
"Wire Act" for short."
"My bill would require a fee on remittances for customers who
wire money to another country but cannot prove that they are in the
United States legally. The fee would be used to enhance border security.
Basically, we would be able to dramatically improve border security
while making illegal immigrants pay for it."
"We also have evidence that many of those illegals who are remitting
money are more likely to be illegal immigrant households receiving
Social Security, health care benefits, unemployment insurance and/or
stimulus money. Is it really fair for those individuals to live off our
tax dollars but send untaxed, under-the-table money abroad?"
ON TOP OF THESE FIGURES ADD THE TENS OF BILLIONS HANDED TO INVADING MEXICANS IN THE FORM OF WELFARE.
ON THE STATE LEVEL ALONE, MEXIFORNIA HANDS LA RAZA $30 BILLION IN SOCIAL SERVICES.
THE COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES CHIPS IN ANOTHER BILLION FOR THE LA RAZA ANCHOR BABY BREEDING FOR GRINGO WELFARE PROGRAM.
NOW..... HOW MUCH DOES THE MEX DRUG CARTELS HAUL BACK? SOME ESTIMATES PUT THE NUMBER AT $40 - $60 BILLION!
BLOG: IT IS ESTIMATED THAT THE COUNTY OF LOS
ANGELES HAS A MEXICAN TAX-FREE UNDERGROUND
ECONOMY CALCULATED TO BE IN EXCESS OF $2
BILLION PER YEAR!
There are the billions of taxpayer dollars used to subsidize illegal
immigrants' health care and education. There's the revenue we lose out
on when illegal immigrants don't pay income taxes. And there's a less
recognized pot of billions — the billions of dollars of earnings that
illegal immigrants wire out of the United States with no tax or penalty.
more here:
We need to crack down on illegal immigrants wiring money out of the U.S.: We need to crack down on illegal immigrants wiring money out of the U.S.
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/02/why_is_everything_amnesty.html
February 26, 2016
Why is everything amnesty?
Senator
Cruz and Rubio will argue a lot about amnesty in the next few days. I
guess that standing against amnesty has become the new flag that every
GOP candidate wants to carry.
Yet who is actually calling for amnesty? Or something like what President Reagan did in 1986?
Have they changed the definition of the word amnesty? According to the dictionary, amnesty is "the act of an authority (as a government) by which pardon is granted to a large group of individuals."
Who is pardoning any group or letting people stay here without consequences?
The
GOP should be for an immigration solution that enforces the law against
employers and protects the border. At the same time, what is wrong
with offering some of those here a chance to stay here? It would go
like this:
BLOG: THAT JOB THAT "ALREADY EXISTS" BELONGS TO AN UNEMPLOYED LEGAL!
1)
The illegal immigrant would be given a chance to apply for a work visa
supported by an employer's letter that a job actually exists.
BLOG: LET US REVIEW OBAMA'S SABOTAGE OF OUR LAWS AND PROMISE OF NON-ENFORCEMENT!
2)
He or she would undergo a full criminal background check including
fingerprints. We will also check with the home country to verify that
the applicant is not married here and back home.
BLOG: LET US REVIEW OBAMA'S SABOTAGE OF OUR LAWS AND PROMISE OF NON-ENFORCEMENT!
3) The applicant will pay a fine for violating the law and or not filing tax returns.
BLOG: MEXICANS ARE A CRIME TIDAL WAVE AND OBAMA LETS THEM LOSE ON US WEEKLY!
4) He or she will be under a period of probation where the person could be deported in case of any violation of law.
5) No path to citizenship or green card will be available to this person.
BLOG: UNDER OBAMA AND HISPANDERING HOLDER, THE DEMS HAVE SABOTAGED E-VERIFY NATIONWIDE. AMNESTY IS ALL ABOUT KEEPING WAGES DEPRESSED AND BUYING THE ILLEGALS' VOTES WITH OUR JOBS AND BILLIONS IN WELFARE!
6) Employers will be harshly punished, including jail time, for hiring someone without papers.
How is that amnesty? Who is getting off free for violating the law?
BLOG: "HUMAN ENFORCEMENT" HALF THE MURDERS IN LA RAZA-OCCUPIED MEXIFORNIA ARE BY MEXICANS! THERE HAVE BEEN MORE THAN 2,000 CALIFORNIANS MURDERED BY MEXICANS WHO FLED BACK OVER THE BOARD TO AVOID PROSECUTION. WE WILL NOT HEAR FROM THE PRO-AMNESTY GROUPS ABOUT THE VIOLENCE OF THE OCCUPYING MEXICANS!
We
have been arguing about immigration for too long. It's time to fix the
problem rather than just shout at each other. As Newt Gingrich said in 2012:
And
I'm prepared to take the heat for saying, let's be humane in enforcing
the law without giving them citizenship but by finding a way to create
legality so that they are not separated from their families.
So let's stop shouting about immigration, settle the issue, and move to other topics, like ISIS and the U.S. economy.
P.S. You can listen to my show (Canto Talk) and follow me on Twitter.
Gang of Eight? What Gang of Eight?
By Mark Krikorian
The Corner at National Review Online, February 16, 2016
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/431394/rubios-immigration-excuses?target=author&tid=982
Marco Rubio’s excuse du jour for his central role in passing the
monstrous Gang of Eight amnesty/immigration-surge bill is the most
shameless yet: “Rubio: Gang of 8 Bill Never Intended to Become Law“.
Coulda fooled me!
The Hill wryly noted “This represents a sharp departure for Rubio.”
I’ll say. In his final speech on the Senate floor before voting on
S.744, Rubio concluded, “Here in America, generations of unfulfilled
dreams will finally come to pass. And that’s why I support this reform.”
Not sure how much clearer you can get.
Rubio’s latest excuse would have fooled Harry Reid too; he dedicated the
bill to Ted Kennedy and said, when it passed, “And while I am sad that
Senator Kennedy isn’t here to see history made, I know he is looking at
us proudly and loudly.” Whatever that means, it sure doesn’t sound like
he didn’t intend the Gang of Eight bill to become law.
Or Lindsey Graham, after the bill got 68 votes: “This is overwhelming support for the bill … This is incredibly pleasing.”
Pat Leahy didn’t seem to think the bill was just for show either: “Today
is another historic day in the Senate. This legislation will reunite
families. It will bring millions of people out of the shadows and into
our legal system. It will spur job growth and reduce our deficit. And it
will make us safer.”
Or Chuck Schumer: “The bill has generated a level of support that we believe will be impossible for the House to ignore.”
If I may steal a line from one of my Twitter followers, next thing you
know Rubio will tell us it was really just the Gang of Seven all along.
TSA Airport Credentialing Process Overlooks Terrorists, Criminals, and Illegal Aliens on a Large Scale
By Dan Cadman
CIS Immigration Blog, February 16, 2016
. . .
Calculating those figures, it means that more than 16 percent of the
individuals who were subjected to these secondary inquiries (which
represent only a small fraction of the workforce) — and, as Roth notes,
already recipients of airport clearances — were illegal aliens with no
right to work. What's more, Roth also notes that airport authorities
routinely fail to annotate their security credentials with the
expiration date of aliens' employment authorization documents, meaning
that such persons are routinely employed in sterile areas long past
their legally authorized right to work.
Which raises the question: Why have rules not been written that simply
preclude individuals with limited time authorizations on their work
permits or, better yet, who are not legally authorized to live in the
United States on a permanent basis, from being employed in secure areas
of airports? Is this so onerous, given the importance of securing the
safety of the traveling public?
But back to the immediate issue of TSA and its oversight of airport
authorities doing the credentialing. There is obviously something
seriously amiss.
Why, for instance, is E-Verify not being used
in each and every application for credentialing?
. . .
http://www.cis.org/cadman/tsa-airport-credentialing-process-overlooks-terrorists-criminals-and-illegal-aliens-large-sca
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CUNY Devises H-1B Trick, NYT Cheers, DHS Will Probably Accept It
By David North
CIS Immigration Blog, February 18, 2016
. . .
What CUNY is doing, publicly, is approximately what Wright State
University in Dayton, Ohio, did quietly. That resulted in such a scandal
that two university employees were fired and the WSU Provost was
demoted, as we reported earlier. In both cases, the universities used
their power to obtain H-1B workers in unlimited numbers in order to
benefit private, non-university corporations; at Wright State a member
of the WSU Board of Trustees was president of one of the for-profit,
benefitting corporations.
The immigration law allows universities, and university-connected
entities to bring in H-1B workers outside the 65,000 and 20,000 ceilings
— and the Obama administration has done yeoman service to expand the
loophole. The connections are sometimes quite tenuous.
There is a long list of problems and potential problems with the CUNY scheme:
. . .
http://www.cis.org/north/cuny-devises-h-1b-trick-nyt-cheers-dhs-will-probably-accept-it
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Another Embezzlement and Three Other Developments in EB-5 Land
By David North
CIS Immigration Blog, February 16, 2016
. . .
GAO quietly made this observation:
However, the study was not intended to address the program's costs
which are important for assessing a program's net economic impact. Both
USCIS and ESA officials confirmed the study would be an economic
valuation which, unlike an evaluation considers only the benefits of
economic activity, and does not assess the program costs. (Emphasis Added.)
The slippery term "valuation" is a new one to me in this context, but it
fits neatly with the way DHS manipulates things in defense of this
program. I can assure you that two of the real costs of the program will
not be mentioned by the Department of Commerce, one obvious, and one quite obscure.
The obvious cost of the program is the moral one of selling membership in our society for half a million a pop.
The more obscure one is that, given the workings of immigration law, for
every visa sold to a rich alien, a visa is denied to an alien in the
first or second employment-based categories — that's where the really
skilled immigrants are found. Were there to be a reduction in the number
of applications for the EB-5 visas, the unused visas would "fall down"
into the categories where one truly finds the best and the brightest.
. . .
http://www.cis.org/north/another-embezzlement-and-three-other-developments-eb-5-land
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6.
Schools Undergo Comprehensive Immigration Reform
By John Wahala
CIS Immigration Blog, February 19, 2016
. . .
Given the obstacles they face, the poor academic performance of
immigrant students is not surprising and has been well documented.
English-language fluency, test scores, and graduation rates lag far
behind. Some researchers have even called the situation a crisis that
threatens democracy itself. But more troubling than slow academic
progress is the way mass immigration is shifting the educators' focus.
When resources and time are diverted from teaching, the quality of
education deteriorates. Learning becomes secondary when teachers are
trying to keep children safe and well-adjusted.
. . .
http://www.cis.org/wahala/schools-undergo-comprehensive-immigration-reform
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7.
The Divisive, Political Pope
By Marguerite Telford
CIS Immigration Blog, February 18, 2016
. . .
The Catholic Church recognizes that sovereign nations have the right to
control their borders and to enforce their laws. The U.S. system of
legal immigration is the most generous in the world, allowing in over
one million legal permanent immigrants annually, more than all the rest
of the nations of the world combined. These numbers do not even include
the hundreds of thousands of guestworkers, foreign students, and illegal
immigrants offered temporary protected status, parole, or asylum. Our
immigration ceilings are set through a democratic process and try to
balance openness with the need to screen for national security purposes,
to allow immigrants to assimilate, and to avoid disadvantaging American
workers at a time of high unemployment, underemployment, stagnant
wages, and increasing economic inequality.
Policymakers must recognize the facts about our immigration policy. They
do not have the luxury of only measuring those coming across our
borders "with names, stories, [and] families".
Pope Francis mistakenly declares, without any support from the Catholic
Catechism, that the U.S. government, the majority of her citizens, the
majority of America Catholics, and Mr. Trump are not Christian, as we do
not support allowing tens of thousands of illegal aliens to flood
across our border. The Church has encouraged it and, as the Pope pointed
out this week, an enormous number of people have died making the trip
and an even larger number have been victimized and injured, both
physically and emotionally.
. . .
http://www.cis.org/telford/divisive-political-pope
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Pope Francis and Immigration in Mexico
By Kausha Luna
CIS Immigration Blog, February 18, 2016
. . .
On Wednesday, the Pope headed to the northern border of Mexico. In
Ciudad Juarez, a city that sits opposite El Paso, Texas, Pope Francis
delivered the most anticipated message in terms of migration. During the
homily, Pope Francis finally alluded to Central American migrants,
"Here in Ciudad Juarez, as border zone, thousands of migrants from
Central America and other countries are concentrated, without forgetting
the many Mexicans who also look to pass 'to the other side,' a path, a
pathway loaded with terrible injustices, enslaved, kidnapped, extorted,
any of our brothers are the result of the business of human trafficking,
trafficking in persons." He went on:
. . .
Originally, the Pope had planned to cross the border into the United
States, which would have been an extremely political statement amidst
the immigration debate in the United States. Even though he did not
cross the border, Pope Francis managed to insert himself into the U.S.
immigration debate. On the sixth and final day of his visit, just before
returning to Rome, Pope Francis made one last statement on migration
when asked about Donald Trump: "A person who thinks only about building
walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges, is not
Christian."
. . .
http://www.cis.org/luna/pope-francis-and-immigration-mexico
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Deportation Protesters Arrested after Blocking Chicago Street; Follow the Money
By Jerry Kammer
CIS Immigration Blog, February 17, 2016
. . .
The protest was organized by a group called Organized Communities
Against Deportations, whose fiscal sponsor is the Illinois Coalition for
Immigrant and Refugee Rights (ICIRR). On January 1, shortly after the
Department of Homeland Security announced plans to deport Central
Americans whose asylum petitions have been denied, ICIRR received a
$450,000 grant from the Marguerite Casey Foundation. The Seattle-based
foundation's website says the grant was intended: "For leadership
development and engagement of immigrant and refugee families in
organizing and advocacy."
The grant award does not mention Organized Communities Against
Deportations. But in January the ICIRR issued a press release declaring
that it had "joined Organized Communities Against Deportations (OCAD),
the National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC), and other community
leaders this morning to condemn the new campaign of raids."
. . .
http://www.cis.org/kammer/deportation-protestors-arrested-after-blocking-chicago-street-follow-money
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Mr. Clooney, Would You Be Willing to Welcome Refugees into Your Home?
By Nayla Rush
CIS Immigration Blog, February 16, 2016
. . .
When asked by the French journalist "Would you be willing to welcome refugees into your home?", Clooney replied:
Amal and I discussed it. It happens that no refugee can set foot in
the United States, but we would be ready to do it. I spend two or three
days a week trying to raise funds for Syrian refugees, this counts more
than anything in my life, actually. I understand your suggestion but I
have the impression I am dedicating a lot of energy and time to this
cause. Simply because I am lucky. I am not a politician but one thing I
can do is attract attention. (Emphasis added)
Is Mr. Clooney misinformed? Syrian refugees not only can and have come
to the United States recently, the U.S. government has made arrangements
for 10,000 more to arrive in FY 2016 (as he himself pointed out in the
interview).
In any case, Mr. Clooney makes a valid point even if he is not quite up
front about it. His message seems to be the following: he is deeply
touched by this humanitarian crisis, and he wants to help but does not
necessarily want his life disrupted. His answer is to raise funds in
order to ease the plight of these refugees while keeping his own door
closed. Who can blame him for that?
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http://www.cis.org/rush/mr-clooneywould-you-be-willing-welcome-refugees-your-home
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Border Surge Solution: Send ‘Em to Camp David!
By Michelle Malkin
Human Events Online, February 17, 2016
. . .
As Brandon Judd of the National Border Patrol Council testified on
Capitol Hill recently: “The cartels understood that the unaccompanied
minors would force the Border Patrol to deploy Agents to these crossing
areas in order to take the minors into custody. I want to stress this
point because it has been completely overlooked by the press,” he told
the House Judiciary Committee. The unaccompanied minors could have
walked right up to the port of entry and requested asylum if they were
truly escaping political persecution or violence. “Why did the cartels
drive them to the middle of the desert and then have them cross over the
Rio Grande only to surrender to the first Border Patrol Agent they came
across?” Judd challenged.
“The reason is that it completely tied up our manpower and allowed the
cartels to smuggle whatever they wanted across our border.”
This is just another maddening example of Obama’s warped priorities at
work. Instead of building effective walls and enforcing our borders to
prevent the coming illegal immigration waves manufactured by criminal
racketeers, this administration rushes to build welcome center magnets
that shelter the next generation of Democrat voters.
. . .
http://humanevents.com/2016/02/17/border-surge-solution-send-em-to-camp-david/
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GOP Baffled As Voters Rally to Popular Candidate
By Ann Coulter
Human Events Online, February 17, 2016
. . .
I wish he’d stop showing off, the little scamp, but maybe the GOP
establishment will finally get the message that voters have been waiting
a really long time for a candidate who would put Americans first. Not
donors, not plutocrats, not foreigners, and certainly not foreign
plutocrats (i.e., Fox News).
Trump is the first presidential candidate in 50 years who might
conceivably: (1) deport illegal aliens, (2) build a wall, (3) block
Muslim immigration, (4) flout political correctness, (5) bring
manufacturing home, and (6) end the GOP’s neurotic compulsion to start
wars in some godforsaken part of the world.
That’s all that matters! Are you listening yet, RNC?
There is not another candidate who agrees with Trump on all these
positions. Maybe one issue, but not all of them — and if it’s
immigration, they would be lying.
Even Ted Cruz still refuses to say he’d deport illegal aliens (unless
they’re arrested for breaking some other law), build a wall (instead he
talks about “border security,” which is code for: No Wall), or reduce
legal immigration at all.
. . .
http://humanevents.com/2016/02/17/gop-baffled-as-voters-rally-to-popular-candidate/
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Pope Francis Rips Capitalism, American Immigration Policy at Mexican Border
By Ben Shapiro
Breitbart.com, February 18, 2016
. . .
The reason for the humanitarian crisis driving people north is the
corrupt anti-capitalist governance so common to Latin America – the same
sort of governance the pope believes is apparently more godly than the
capitalism drawing people like a magnet to the United States. So the
same system the pope decries is the system the pope wants inundated with
victims of those who oppose that system. How ironic. Even more ironic:
the Vatican remains one of the most immigration-restrictive states on
earth.
This is nothing new from Pope Francis, who has spent much of his tenure
bashing capitalism and American border policy. Back in September, Pope
Francis spoke on the National Mall, where he explained, “Thousands of
persons are led to travel north in search of a better life for
themselves and their loved ones, in search of greater opportunities. Is
this not what we want for our own children? We need to avoid a common
temptation nowadays: to discard whatever proves troublesome. Let us
remember the Golden Rule: ‘Do unto others as you would have them do unto
you.’”
. . .
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/02/18/pope-prays-for-migrants-at-mexican-border/
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Pope Slimes Trump, Agitates for Open Borders
The liberation theology-loving pontiff thinks America is evil for having a border.
By Matthew Vadum
FrontPageMag.com, February 19, 2016
. . .
Although Vatican City, recognized as a sovereign nation, has very strict
immigration controls, Francis spent Wednesday afternoon blasting U.S.
immigration policy and condemning capitalism during a mass strategically
located near the fence that separates Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, from El
Paso, Texas. He previously hoped to make an even bigger spectacle of
himself by walking in solidarity with other aliens across the border,
but U.S. officials nixed that plan.
At the service Francis honored "migrants who have perished trying to
reach the United States just a stone's throw away." The pope also
blessed crosses beside "shoes of migrants who died," adding "No more
death! No more exploitation!"
Sounding like a Marxist community organizer, Francis blamed U.S.
immigration policies for causing a "humanitarian crisis" and declared
that "the flow of capital cannot decide the flow of people."
The pope erected a cross in memory of border crossers who have died invading the United States.
. . .
http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/261885/pope-slimes-trump-agitates-open-borders-matthew-vadum
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Trump and New Hampshire: It’s the Immigration, Stupid!
Investors Business Daily, February 10, 2016
After Donald Trump ran away with the New Hampshire GOP primary, the
Huffington Post huffed: “NH GOES RACIST SEXIST XENOPHOBIC.” Nice try.
Clearly Democrats are rattled. Trump threatens their open-borders
schemes.
. . .
A Trump supporter recently summed up the concern to a reporter: “Who’s
cutting off people’s heads? Who’s bombing buildings? Who’s bombing
airplanes? It’s not the Christians, it’s not the Jewish, it’s not the
Buddhists, it’s the Muslims. You got that, sport?”
Trump says the nation can’t take the risk of bringing more terrorists
into the country, when the FBI can’t even handle the 1,000-plus
terrorism cases it’s investigating now.
Democrats hope to twist such common-sense thinking into racism. Good
luck with that. Trump won every demographic, and among both
conservatives and independents.
Unlike any other candidate, Trump has locked into people’s anger over
illegal immigration. It’s plain that the electorate is tired of being
pushed around by multiculturalists and Islamic apologists in both
parties.
If current trends continue, the U.S. will admit some 1 million new
Muslim-origin immigrants over the next decade, plus hundreds of
thousands of foreign Muslim students and guest workers.
That’s a death wish when you consider polls showing alarming shares of
Muslim-Americans favoring violent jihad and the supremacy of Islamic
law.
. . .
http://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/trump-and-new-hampshire-its-the-immigration-stupid/
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U.S. Failed Three Times to Deport Illegal Alien Who Murdered Woman
Judicial Watch Corruption Chronicles, February 18, 2016
. . .
Here’s what we already know from local media reports in Norwich, the
city of about 40,000 residents where the murder occurred; the DHS agency
responsible for deporting illegal immigrants, Immigration and Customs
Enforcement (ICE), failed to remove Jacques at least three times dating
back to 2002. As if this weren’t atrocious enough, Jacques spent 17
years in prison for attempted murder before authorities released
him—instead of deporting him—in January of 2015, the Norwich Bulletin
reports. Six months later the 41-year-old illegal alien convict stabbed
25-year-old Casey Chadwick to death. Police said Chadwick died of sharp
forced injuries to the head and neck. Jacques is being held on a $1
million bond.
Unfortunately, this is not an isolated case. In the last few years
illegal immigrants with lengthy criminal histories have been allowed to
remain in the U.S. despite being repeat offenders. Judicial Watch has
investigated several of the cases and obtained public records from the
government. For instance, back in 2008 JW launched a California public
records request with the San Francisco Sheriff’s Department to obtain he
arrest and booking information on Edwin Ramos, an illegal alien from El
Salvador who murdered three innocent American citizens. Ramos was a
member of a renowned violent street gang and had been convicted of two
felonies as a juvenile (a gang-related assault on a bus passenger and
the attempted robbery of a pregnant woman) yet he was allowed to remain
in the country.
. . .
http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2016/02/u-s-failed-3-times-to-deport-illegal-alien-who-murdered-woman/
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Pope Francis: Tear Down the Vatican Wall!
By John Nolte
Breitbart.com, September 24, 2015
. . .
And then there’s the issue of immigration.
Pope Francis urged Catholic bishops in the United States to open their
doors to immigrants, asserting that “these people will enrich America
and its Church.”
As a Latin American, the Pope apologized for “pleading my own case,”
when speaking about the influx of Hispanic immigrants into the United
States. He also thanked the bishops for the work they have done for
immigrants in this country. …
“Perhaps you will be challenged by their diversity,” he said. “But know
that they also possess resources meant to be shared. So do not be afraid
to welcome them.”
The Pope also urged the bishops to offer immigrants “the warmth of the love of Christ.”
Again, I mean no disrespect but this is coming from a man who lives in a
city-state completely surrounded, literally, by giant walls. Vatican
City is a literal fortress.
What would happen to Vatican City if it was to do what Francis is asking America to do?
I’m assuming Pope Francis could order such a thing tomorrow, and after
the walls came down he could also choose to greet the wave of “pilgrims”
with the “warmth of the love of Christ.”
Of course Pope Francis would never do such a thing because he knows what
would happen: Vatican City would be no more, everyone’s security and
well-being would be compromised, and the standard of living for close to
a thousand residents would be destroyed. Chaos would completely destroy
the home of St. Peter.
Just as the loss of Vatican City would be detrimental to the world, so
too will the loss of an America as we know it if our culture and free
enterprise system is exploded into a giant welfare state by waves of
immigrants embraced by mercenary, power-hungry Democrats desperate to
use them to increase the power of the State.
. . .
http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2015/09/24/pope-francis-tear-down-the-vatican-wall/
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Trump is Right, the Pope is Wrong:
Like it or not, one of the most loathsome public figures got the better of one of the most beloved
By Sarah E. Cupp
The New York Daily News, February 19, 2016
. . .
While one could certainly characterize Trump’s immigration policy as
“unwelcoming,” there's nothing un-Christian about securing the border
and protecting the homeland, even through the use of a wall. It’s why
Vatican City originally erected walls. It’s why Jerusalem erected walls.
It’s why Rome had walls. Does the Pope believe the only Christian
approach is open borders? I doubt it, but if so, he’s pretty naive.
Furthermore, it seems seriously unfair to judge a political figure’s
faith by his policies alone. By this standard, no war-time President
would be considered Christian. No pro-abortion-rights President would be
considered Christian. Is reforming welfare un-Christian? Is cutting
entitlements?
. . .
http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/s-e-cupp-trump-pope-wrong-article-1.2537546
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Scalia’s Impact on Patriotic Immigration Reform — in Life and Death
By John Reid
VDare.com February 16, 2016
. . .
I could go on and on about Scalia’s great legacy. But I want to now focus on the immediate implications of his death.
The good news: assuming the Republican-controlled Senate has the
backbone to hold off confirming any Obama appointee for the remainder of
the year, Scalia’s passing will not affect the two most important cases
for VDARE readers: U.S. V. Texas (whether the Court upholds the 5th
Circuit’s injunction against Obama’s executive Amnesty) and Fisher v.
Texas (on the constitutionality of Texas’s Affirmative Action policies).
The 5th Circuit ruled against the Obama administration in
U.S. vs. Texas,
so if there is a 4-4 tie, its ruling stands. Ties do not create any
national precedent, but the lower court’s ruling blocks the Amnesty
nationwide.
In
Fisher v. Texas, Elena Kagan has already agreed to recuse
herself because, while serving as Obama’s Solicitor General, she had
involved herself in the litigation. Thus the Court could strike down
Affirmative Action in a 4-3 vote.
Of course, this does not mean that these cases will necessarily cone out
that way. Roberts and Kennedy could vote with the liberals (though I’m
not too worried about Roberts in
Fisher.) However, if they
switched votes, we would still have lost if Scalia were alive. (In
Fisher, the Fifth Circuit ruled in favor of Affirmative Action, so if
Scalia were alive and Kennedy voted with the liberals, the court would
be deadlocked 4-4. However, unlike
U.S. v. Texas, the lower court ruled in favor of Affirmative Action, so a tie would maintain it.)
. . .
http://www.vdare.com/articles/scalias-impact-on-patriotic-immigration-reform-in-life-and-death
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The President Doesn’t Deserve an EZ-Pass in Replacing Scalia
By Betsy McCaughey
Family Security Matters, February 18, 2016
. . .
In 2007, New York Sen. Charles Schumer called on his Democratic
colleagues to vote against any nominees proposed by George W. Bush,
because Schumer feared the court was moving to the right. He said, "We
should reverse the presumption of confirmation."
Fast-forward to 2016, and Schumer, Biden and Leahy have had a change of
heart. They say Obama's nominee should be speedily confirmed without
regard to politics. In Leahy's words, the Supreme Court is "too
important to our democracy to be understaffed for partisan reasons."
Hypocritical nonsense.
The danger is that some GOP Senators actually buy that baloney. When
Obama nominated radical judicial activists Elena Kagan and Sonia
Sotomayor, Lindsey Graham (R-SC) voted for them, saying the Senate
should defer to the president on court nominees. On Sunday, Graham
pledged that "if Hillary Clinton wins the White House and she puts a
liberal who's well qualified, I'll vote for them."
As if senatorial courtesy trumps the survival of freedom.
The court, currently divided 4-4, is on the brink of an activist
majority. An activist court will - for starters - perpetuate racial
preferences, uphold amnesty for illegals, and concoct new "rights" as
fast as they eviscerate conscience rights, the Second Amendment and the
rest of our written Constitution.
If Obama replaces Scalia, it will be his third appointment to the court.
What's to stop Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg or Stephen Breyer from
retiring this fall, making way for a fourth or even fifth Obama
appointment? That could reshape the court for 40 years.
. . .
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/the-president-doesnt-deserve-an-ez-pass-in-replacing-scalia?f=immigration
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One Decision Scalia’s Absence Likely Won’t Change? Immigration
By Siobhán O'Grady
ForeignPolicy.com, February 14, 2016
. . .
Hiroshi Motomura, a law professor at the University of California at Los
Angeles, said he doesn’t expect Scalia’s death to have a significant
impact on the outcome of the immigration case. Because Texas already won
an injunction to freeze the program in lower courts, it will rely on
conservative justices to ensure those earlier decisions prevail in the
Supreme Court. A tie will automatically maintain the earlier freeze on
implementing the program.
Motomura said he believes Scalia would not have voted to reverse the
earlier decision, and that in general, “Scalia’s absence matters if and
when he would have been a vote to reverse.”
“This means that reversal (thus, allowing DAPA to go into effect) would
require five other votes, and his absence won’t change that fact,” he
wrote to FP in an e-mail Sunday.
. . .
http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/02/14/one-decision-scalias-absence-likely-wont-change-executive-action-on-immigration/
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Did Scalia's Death Just Win The Texas Immigration Case For Obama?
An interview with Randal Meyer, legal associate in the Cato Institute’s Center for Constitutional Studies
By Jared Meyer
Forbes.com, February 16, 2016
. . .
JM: Is it possible that the Supreme Court will still rule against President Obama’s executive actions on immigration?
RM: Dan Stein on SCOTUSBlog notes that “Even those Justices on the Court
who might agree with the president’s views on immigration policy
generally should appreciate the precedent-setting decision they would be
making by allowing the president to run roughshod over the
constitutional separation-of-powers doctrine.” So there is some chance
that at least some of the liberal justices will “switch sides” to reign
in presidential lawlessness, as executive authority can be wielded by
both parties. For example, the 2014 decision in National Labor Relations
Board v. Noel Canning, which voided President Obama’s so-called recess
appointments, was unanimous.
But as of now, the four liberal justices are expected to side with the
federal government and permit the president to unilaterally rewrite the
law. If none of the conservatives join them—Chief Justice Roberts and
Justice Kennedy are possible targets for the government’s arguments—the
best that can be expected is a 4-4 outcome, which creates no new law and
affirms the lower court’s decision that sustained the injunction
against DAPA. But even if the Court decides to hold this case over until
there’s a ninth justice, that still means that the injunction stands
into the next administration—at which point a Republican president would
presumably scrap the plan, while a Democratic one would change it in
some way that moots the case.
. . .
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jaredmeyer/2016/02/16/did-scalias-death-just-win-the-texas-immigration-case-for-obama/#6c9a376673de
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Pope Francis: I'm Only a Material Guy
By Deborah C. Tyler
American Thinker Blog, February 19, 2016
. . .
The pope is a dream come true for the ruling class of Mexico. Francis is
the world's preeminent bourgeois reactionary, exhorting people to skip
the class struggle and reject the revolution. Just run away from your
homes, families, and country and invade the United States. Plenty of
people there insist that other Americans take care of you and your
extended families.
. . .
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/02/pope_francis_im_only_a_material_goy.html
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'El Papa' Embraces Raul Castro But Calls Donald Trump Anti-Christian!
By Silvio Canto, Jr.
American Thinker, February 19, 2016
. . .
As he left Mexico, Pope Francis made a terrible mistake by saying that
Donald Trump is not a Christian. I am not sure if he was answering a
question or speaking at a meeting. He had finished a Mass on the El
Paso-Ciudad Juarez border.
First, El Papa should stay away from presidential elections, here, there, and everywhere.
Second, the Vatican is one gigantic place surrounded by walls.
Third, is a border now un-Christian? How did we get to the point that
defending borders and promoting legal immigration is now inhumane?
Fourth, El Papa has given Mr. Trump a huge gift. I am not a Trump
supporter, but I believe that the U.S. has every right to protect and
defend its borders. I don't know whether building a wall from Laredo to
San Diego is the best answer. However, it may work in some isolated
regions currently used by cartels to bring drugs and people.
Last, but not least, El Papa just visited Cuba. He hugged and embraced
Raúl Castro, a man who has executed priests, harassed religious leaders,
and closed Christian schools years ago. Did he call the Castro brothers
un-Christian?
. . .
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/02/el_papa_embraces_raul_castro_but_calls_donald_trump_antichristian.html
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Trump, the Pope, and the Bible
By Rabbi Aryeh Spero
American Thinker, February 19, 2016
. . .
If it is un-Christian to engage in self-defense, then it is un-Christian
to fight a defensive war. For sure, this is not a biblical attitude
and, I imagine, not in sync with the Protestant outlook upon which this
country was founded. In fact, acts of self-defense constitute not only
virtue, but also morality. Morality is what we ought to do, and, first
and foremost, we are required, in the name of personal responsibility,
to meet our obligations toward those whom we have freely chosen in
relationship. Mr. Trump has suggested not using weapons, but merely a
static, non-aggressive wall to protect Americans who are pleading for
protection. Up until now, nothing has worked; our borders are porous. A
wall would be a major remedy.
Perhaps the good pope has not read of the dozens of Americans who have
been physically harmed, their property invaded and trashed, and
threatened by those crossing the border illegally. Worse, under the
burden of caring for illegals, many communities, especially in rural
areas, have been forced to shut down clinics and hospitals that have
gone bankrupt and are made dysfunctional by schools no longer able to
teach and educate due to the excessive burdens of unprepared newcomers.
I ask the pope the following question. No doubt, religion asks that we
make sacrifices for others. But are those sacrifices to be so open-ended
and so unpredictable that one is actually required to suffer…and have
his children suffer? At stake here is not merely doing without certain
luxuries and opulence; rather, it is actual suffering by tens of
thousands of innocent Americans. The elites asking that we make these
enormous sacrifices are not, nor their children, having to sacrifice to
any similar degree.
. . .
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/02/trump_the_pope_and_the_bible.html
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How The Left’s Immigration Tactics Created Donald Trump
Unapologetic liberal hegemony explains the rise of Donald Trump and the European Right.
By Greg Jones
The Federalist, February 15, 2016
. . .
Even after the Boston Marathon bombing, the San Bernardino shooting, and
several would-be attacks fortunately intercepted by law enforcement,
the administration insists that accepting even more refugees, this time
from North Africa and the Middle East, is in America’s best interest.
. . .
Those who feel otherwise have been dismissed by left-wing mouthpieces as
racists or right-wing terrorists, despite the fact that most simply
insist the president enforce the law and put their interests above those
from elsewhere. You know, do the job he was elected to do. Is it any
wonder that Trump’s pledges to build a wall on our southern border and
halt Muslim immigration, at least temporarily, are gaining steam?
The president and his ideological cronies have created a monster, and he
has terrible hair. But rather than incurring the wrath of the mob
himself, the monster is leading it straight to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue,
pitchforks in hand.
As Martin Luther King once said, “A riot is the language of the
unheard.” This is a riot alright, albeit a moral and philosophical one,
and those making the noise have been repeatedly rebuffed by an
administration that feels it can run roughshod over a country that
stripped it of both houses of Congress.
All animals, humans included, turn aggressive when threatened. Trump is
merely Middle America’s way of flashing its fangs, a warning that if you
keep it up, you might get bit.
. . .
http://thefederalist.com/2016/02/15/how-the-lefts-immigration-tactics-created-donald-trump/
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Conservatives Beware of Immigration “Guru” Ron Hira
RedState.com, February 19, 2016
. . .
It might be understandable for a few progressive interlocutors to slip
through the cracks with the presidential primary debate frenzy underway.
But the two left-wing activists Langer highlights, Ron Hira, a
researcher at the George Soros-funded Economic Policy Institute (EPI),
and Democratic operative Curtis Ellis have routinely been welcomed with
open arms by
Breitbart,
WorldNetDaily,
National Review, the
Daily Caller, and others, including well before the intensity of primary season arrived.
Unfortunately, it’s not just conservative outlets that are giving them
quarter. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) has
twice provided a platform as well to Mr. Hira, inviting him to testify
first in 2013, and again as recently as last spring.
Is Mr. Hira, who recently became an associate professor at Howard
University, the best expert conservatives can muster to point out what
are otherwise important and needed areas of debate around temporary
worker programs?
Let’s take a deeper look at Mr. Hira, who’s opposition to our guest
worker programs offers intrigue for its motivations – and its personal
hypocrisy.
. . .
http://www.redstate.com/diary/freedomlover1776/2016/02/19/conservatives-beware-immigration-guru-ron-hira./
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Who Really Understands the Threatened End of Europe — Trump or Rubio?
By James Kirkpatrick
VDare.com, February 13, 2016
. . .
Rubio runs ads warning that “what happened in France could happen here.”
But he seems utterly oblivious to how uncontrolled immigration enables
Islamic terrorists to strike within Western societies.
Rubio epitomizes the common trend among Beltway Right operatives:
compensate for their cowardice with eagerness to flaunt American
military power abroad. Rubio’s foreign policy promises a return to the
George W. Bush years. But geopolitically, Bush’s policies were a
disaster. And domestically, they tarred Republicans in the eyes of the
young as the “War Party.”
What’s more, the foundation for American power, and more broadly,
Western power, is crumbling before our eyes. The sweeping demographic
changes in Europe are a world-historical event. The homeland of Western
Civilization, for all intents and purposes, may cease to exist within
our lifetimes.
What happens to NATO when countries like the United Kingdom become
Islamic, or start having Islamic parties in government? What happens to
American military bases in Germany if anti-American Muslims start
winning democratic elections? What happens to the nuclear weapons in an
Islamic France?
. . .
http://www.vdare.com/articles/who-really-understands-the-threatened-end-of-europe-trump-or-rubio
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Pope Should Read Bible, Catechism
By Bob Lonsberry
BobLonsberry.com, February 19, 2016
. . .
Which must come as a surprise to the 51 percent of Americans who, in the
most recent poll, believe that a wall along the Mexican border is a
good idea. Presumably those people did not realize that their political
belief stripped them, in the eyes of the pope, of their religious
standing and doomed them to an eternity in hell.
. . .
American immigration policy -- namely that one must come to our country
in accordance with our law -- is exactly in step with the official
teachings of the Catholic Church. A physical means to enforce the law --
a wall -- has no bearing upon that.
The pope was wrong in regard to the Catechism.
And he was wrong in regard to the Bible.
. . .
http://www.boblonsberry.com/writings.cfm?go=4
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Making Sense of The Pope Versus Donald Trump
W. James Antle III
The Washington Examiner, February 18, 2016
Catholics are certainly willing to tolerate a disagreement between Trump
and the pope, but some may not appreciate this kind of language. At
least Trump didn't him a liar or have his lawyer send a cease-and-desist
order (yet).
Catholic teaching on immigration is complex, the call to love thy
neighbor is straightforward. Catholics aren't really called to some kind
of open-borders ideology, as Trump supporters are likely to point out.
And the pope didn't actually say it was illegitimate to build border
walls. He said Christians should only be focused on building walls at
the expense of building bridges, a metaphor as much as a reference to
literal, physical walls.
. . .
http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-pope-and-donald-trump-1455840457
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Univision News Howls 'Anti-Immigrant' at Proposed Wisconsin Laws
By Jorge Bonilla
NewsBusters.org, February 12, 2016
Univision News' national broadcast continues to howl at any legislative
attempt to protect local communities by enforing our immigration laws.
The latest instance comes from efforts in Wisconsin.
Wednesday evening's newscast featured a story about two enforcement
proposals recently filed in Wisconsin: one to ban sanctuary city
policies, and the other to ban local governments from issuing official
alternate ID's to illegal immigrants.
Anchor MarÃa Elena Salinas' introduction to the story was less
incendiary than her late-night counterpart, which we covered last week.
The "anti-immigrant" framing was presented indirectly ("activists
say"...), as opposed to Ilia Calderón's direct indictment of Florida's
HB675 (which overwhelmingly passed the House but seems destined to die
in the Senate). Nonetheless, the screengrab above (which reads
"anti-immigrant proposals") reflects a reversion to classic form.
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http://newsbusters.org/blogs/latino/jorge-bonilla/2016/02/12/univision-news-howls-anti-immigrant-proposed-wisconsin-laws
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Immigration Law is Torn Between Administrative Law and Criminal Law
By Michael Kagan
Notice & Comment, February 12, 2016
. . .
Immigration law is now torn between two alternative paradigms, which
compete with each other and with the vestiges of traditional plenary
power. One alternative paradigm is certainly administrative law. In a
sense, administrative law has been in the background all along. As Alina
Das has observed, the government has increasingly turned to
administrative law doctrines to shield its immigration decisions from
judicial scrutiny. Where in the past the government might have cited the
Chinese Exclusion Case, now the government will cite
Chevron or
Heckler.
But we should remember that plenary power declined in large part because
the Supreme Court became less willing to tolerate the civil liberties
costs that came with unrestrained government authority over individuals.
This was the essential problem in
Zadvydas. But if this is the
central problem with plenary power, it is not clear that administrative
law will be an entirely satisfactory replacement. Administrative law
lacks the tools to cope with the loss of individual liberty which is
intrinsic to immigration enforcement. (Prof. Das’s article does an
excellent job illustrating this problem in the context of habeas review
of immigration detention.)
To put it bluntly, the EPA, the FDA, the VA, the NLRB and the myriad
other agencies that are the focus of administrative law do not operate
private detention centers. By contrast, Immigration and Customs
Enforcement (ICE) detains more than 400,000 people per year. The
draconian use of government force that is inherent in immigration
enforcement raises a very different set of constitutional concerns than
the regulatory contexts that produced
Chevron,
Skidmore,
Overton Park,
Auer,
Brand X,
and the other leading cases of administrative law. But that does not
mean that immigration is an island unto itself. We do have very well
developed legal doctrines to regulate deprivations of liberty like those
involved in immigration enforcement. We call it criminal procedure.
That is the other paradigm that now competes to drive the evolution of
immigration law.
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http://www.yalejreg.com/blog/immigration-law-is-torn-between-administrative-law-and-criminal-law-by-michael-kagan
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Will Republicans Return to Reagan's Voice on Immigration?
By Javier Palomarez
CNN.com, February 17, 2016
. . .
While the policy solutions proposed here are striking -- work visas,
open borders and the recognition that the United States should maintain
good relations with Mexico -- what really sets this apart from the
current discourse on immigration is the tone. Both Bush and Reagan spoke
from a place of understanding and compassion, and they both went on to
act on it -- Reagan won the Republican nomination, but Bush became his
vice president, and eventually President.
In fact, as President of the United States, Reagan would later sign
legislation creating a pathway to citizenship for 3 million undocumented
immigrants. This act earned him the support of many in the Hispanic
community, some of whom now vote Democratic, but remember and praise
Reagan as the President who made it possible for them to stay in the
United States, build lives here, start businesses and raise families.
Their children are now voters, too.
. . .
http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/17/opinions/will-republicans-return-to-reagan-on-immigration-palomarez/index.html
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Contraception, Immigration, and Hypocrisy
By A. Barton Hinkle
The Richmond Times-Dispatch, February 16, 2016
. . .
The two sides took the same stances in the various cases concerning
whether bakers, photographers, and others who object to gay marriage on
religious grounds should be forced to provide services for gay weddings.
Conservatives said religious liberty trumped equal-protection
guarantees; liberals said the opposite.
And then everybody switched.
Well, maybe not everybody — generalizations are dangerous. But plenty of
people on the right started sounding like leftists, and plenty of those
on the left started sounding like rightists. Why?
Illegal immigration.
As
Christianity Today reported recently, “US Churches Defy
Federal Law and Offer Sanctuary to Illegal Immigrants.” Federal
immigration raids have prompted at least 50 churches across the country
to take in scores of unlawfully present foreigners.
And boy, how the tunes have changed.
“U.S. Churches Offer Safe Haven For A New Generation Of Immigrants,”
reported NPR, which characterized the action as “civil disobedience.” In
November, it interviewed an undocumented immigrant who had been staying
in a Texas church for 15 months. NPR really put the screws to her with
hard-hitting questions about “how she would respond to people who say
that sanctuaries like the ones she used shouldn’t be allowed” (“When I
hear these words of hate, I don’t understand them,” she answered) and
what she thought of “the objection that she has violated the law” (“I
don’t really see it that way”).
The liberal
ThinkProgress — a sharp critic of Hobby Lobby — has
likewise painted the movement in golden hues with a paean to its
“activist roots.” But it recognizes there are difficulties, too. For
instance, “there is no single national organization dedicated to helping
churches find a suitable sanctuary case.” Gosh, if only there were!
Arizona congressman Raul Grijalva, who denounced the Hobby Lobby ruling
as a giant step backward, thinks the sanctuary church movement is
wonderful: “It speaks to faith and it speaks to the humanity of this
issue.”
Meanwhile, conservatives are not thrilled to see churches fulfill their
God-given mission of helping the poor and downtrodden. “Do Churches Have
a Responsibility to Turn over Illegal Immigrants?” asks Fox News, which
helpfully introduces the topic by bringing up “The murder of Kate
Steinle by illegal immigrant Francisco Sanchez.”
. . .
http://www.richmond.com/opinion/our-opinion/bart-hinkle/article_09f487cc-883c-5af5-996d-a1618da05fd8.html
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Marco Rubio’s Immigration Fog: His Stance on His Own Reform Legislation is Impossible to Discern
Marco Rubio worked feverishly to pass an immigration reform bill that he also says was never meant to be a law
By Simon Maloy
Salon.com, February 16, 2016
. . .
At one level, Rubio was just stating the obvious: very few bills passed
by either house of Congress make it to the president’s desk without
going through some significant changes. As it was poised to pass the
Senate, though, Rubio specifically addressed conservative critics of the
legislation and told them that while it obviously wasn’t their idea of
the perfect immigration bill, it was conservative enough and merited
passage. “I realize that in the end, many of my fellow conservatives
will still not be able to support this reform,” Rubio said. “But I hope
you will understand that I honestly believe it is the right thing for
our country. To finally have an immigration system that works, to
finally have a fence, more agents and E-Verify, and to finally put an
end to de facto amnesty.”
. . .
http://www.salon.com/2016/02/16/marco_rubios_immigration_fog_his_stance_on_his_own_reform_legislation_is_impossible_to_discern/
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Immigrants Are Assets For Innovation
By Vijay K. Mathur
Huffington Post, February 15, 2016
. . .
In this blog I discuss the impact of immigrants on innovation and
productivity. Immigrants are self-selected people. In general, in free
societies like the US, where there is opportunity and encouragement for
individual achievement, immigrants are willing to take risks by moving
to a different country with different cultural, economic, political,
social and institutional environments with uncertain future prospects
for economic survival and success. However, the attitude toward risk
taking is an essential ingredient for innovations.
Research by Peter Moser et al., American Economic Review, 104(10), 2014,
shows that Jewish émigré scientists, who were forced out of their
professions by Nazi Germany, revolutionized US innovations. Moser finds
that "US inventions increased by 31 percent after 1933 in fields of
German émigrés." This inventive activity, evidenced by patent activity
in chemical fields, increased not only due to entry of new researchers
in the fields of émigrés but also due to research collaborations with
the émigrés. This spillover effect affirms other research on human
capital. Innovations provide a fertile ground for jobs creation and
employment opportunities.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/vijay-k-mathur/immigrants-are-assets-for-innovation_b_9228290.html
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Immigration Tussle Shows Why Bernie Sanders is Leading Hillary Clinton
By Jon Healey
The Los Angeles Times, February 12, 2016
This all-or-nothing approach simply doesn't work in Washington, and
Sanders acknowledges as much on his site. While he pledges to act
unilaterally to prevent the deportation of relatives of citizens and
lawful permanent residents, the rest of those in the country illegally
will have to wait for the "political revolution" needed to pass
legislation giving them a path to citizenship. Good luck with pulling
that off in the majority of state legislatures that Republicans control
today and are likely to control for years because they hold the power to
draw congressional districts.
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http://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-ol-bernie-sanders-immigration-uncompromising-20160212-story.html
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Mrs. Clinton’s Mixed Immigration Message
The New York Times, February 12, 2016
In Thursday night’s Democratic debate, Hillary Clinton defended her past
statements that Central American migrant children needed to be sent
home from the border to “send a message” to other families: Don’t come.
Wrong answer — which Bernie Sanders immediately pointed out.
. . .
Over the years, Mrs. Clinton has shown an unfortunate tendency to
oscillate between harshness and compassion on immigration questions. She
seems to reach instinctively for the tougher-sounding policy before
coming around, eventually, to positions that more closely reflect
American ideals of welcome — ideals that Mr. Sanders voiced fluently on
Thursday night.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/13/opinion/mrs-clintons-mixed-immigration-message.html
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Pope Francis Joins the 2016 Race at Key Time
By Elizabeth Dias
Time.com, February 18, 2016
. . .
Pope Francis’ words inject sharp focus about immigration into the
presidential campaign, but his critique is larger than Trump. The pope
called out any politician who aims to build walls not bridges, which
would implicate other GOP presidential candidates such as Texas Sen. Ted
Cruz. His words force all the candidates, especially Republicans, to
take note of his broader perspective on immigration.
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http://time.com/4229473/pope-francis-donald-trump-analysis/
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A Little Reality on Immigration
By David Brooks
The New York Times, February 19, 2016
. . .
There are more Mexicans leaving the United States than coming in.
According to the Pew Research Center, there was a net outflow of 140,000
from 2009 to 2014. If Trump builds his wall, he’ll lock more Mexican
immigrants in than he’ll keep out.
Trump plays up the alleged threat of crime committed by immigrants. But
the overall evidence is clear. Immigrants make American streets safer.
Roughly 1.6 percent of immigrant males between ages 18 and 39 wind up
incarcerated, compared with 3.3 percent of native-born American men of
the same age. Among native-born men without a high school diploma, about
11 percent are incarcerated. Among similarly educated Mexican,
Guatemalan and Salvadoran men here, only 2 or 3 percent get
incarcerated.
One study of 103 cities between 1994 and 2004 found that violent crime
rates decreased as the concentration of immigrants increased. Numerous
studies have shown that a big share of the drop in crime rates in the
1990s is a result of the surge in immigration.
Trump plays up the threat of terrorism. But the real threat is that our
border agencies spend so much time tracking down people who want to be
gardeners that they don’t have the resources to track down the people
who want to be suicide bombers. Fighting terrorism by going after the
whole swath of immigration policy is like fighting germs with a
sledgehammer.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/19/opinion/a-little-reality-on-immigration.html
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The Pope and Donald Trump
The Wall Street Journal
February 18, 2016
Mr. Trump called it “disgraceful” to have his faith questioned this way.
Characteristically, he also took the occasion to double down on his
complaints about Mexican emigration to the U.S., and he fired back that
if the Vatican is attacked by Islamic State, the pope would have “wished
and prayed” Mr. Trump had been President.
But he’s right on the main point: Pope Francis was wrong—on many
levels—to question Mr. Trump’s Christianity. To start with, Americans
naturally resent a foreign leader who uses his office to introduce a
religious test into American politics. We say this even though on the
substance of immigration and
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