THE DEMOCRATS’ SEISMIC SHIFT ON IMMIGRATION
Erasing boundaries, embracing chaos.
January 10, 2019
The Apostle James might not have thought much of Chuck Schumer or Nancy Pelosi or Dianne Feinstein or Bill Clinton or even Barack “He-Who-Can-Do-No-Wrong” Obama. They are just some of the political prodigies who change their policies as often as Lady Gaga changes her clothes—about five times a day.
James has a juicy jibe for such political pendulums. He calls them “double-minded,” warning his readers that “a double-minded man is unstable in all his ways.” If you are going to swing from policy to policy like Tarzan the Ape Man, at least clarify and justify your political flip-flopping.
A little over a decade ago, the Democrats were singing in four-part harmony to President Trump’s “we need another brick in the wall” anthem. “We simply cannot allow people to pour into the United States undetected, undocumented, unchecked, and circumventing the line of people who are waiting patiently, diligently and lawfully to become immigrants into this country,” belted out Barack Obama.
Cue prima donna Pelosi, 2008: “Do we have a commitment to secure the border? Yes.” Why? “Because we do need to address the issue of immigration and the challenge we have of undocumented people in our country. We certainly do not want any more coming in.” Solo from Chuck Schumer, Georgetown, 2009: “Illegal immigration is wrong. A primary goal of comprehensive immigration reform must be to dramatically curtail future illegal immigration.”
In 2013, each of the 54 Democrats in the Senate voted for $46 billion in border security, which included 700 miles in border fencing. Blaring through their Marxist megaphones they pleaded the plight of low-skilled American workers whose wages were hit by cheap immigrant labor. The burden on America’s welfare state would be intolerable, they wailed.
So what are the sirens luring the Democrats to the perilous shores of open borders? Why now? Why so radically? Why display this double-mindedness in such a short span of time?
Commentators from conservative Dan Bongino to leftwing The Atlantic posit two political explanations. First, more illegals means more votes for the Democrats. Second, given the contagion of the Trump Derangement Syndrome, “Democrats hate the wall because Trump loves it” as the National Review puts it bluntly.
There is an economic explanation: globalists like George Soros, Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates (the latter duo helped found the border-busting FWD.us) have made a Faustian bargain with their Democratic hangers-on. The UN and the EU are in the vanguard of an open borders agenda and the Democrats are keen to keep up with the globalist Joneses (or, in this case, Merkels) and pro-migrant Pope Francis. If not for Trump, it the US would have possibly signed up to the UN global compact on migration in December 2018.
Maybe the Democrats were lying like Pinocchio on steroids when they said a decade ago they believed in border security and immigration control. Maybe they never really changed their position but simply used taqiyya—the Islamic doctrine of deception—to consolidate their position with gullible voters.
The Democrat ideological pedigree would surely predispose its activists to share Marx’s vision of nation states collapsing and workers of the world uniting in the new egalitarian heaven on earth.
Islam, in some sense, shares the Left’s doctrine of open borders. Especially potent in the West over the last decade, Islam’s dream is a universal Caliphate that will bulldoze national borders and unite the Umma—the international Muslim community—under the rule of Shariah. Moreover, Muslims are seeking to migrate to Western countries to push their proselytizing agenda. “Muhammad mapped a migration master plan centuries before Merkel,” is how I put it.
A boundary demarcates a nation. Tear down borders and you wipe a nation off the map—never mind casting cartographers into outer darkness! Marriage between a man and a woman demarcates a family—the basic unit of society. Destroy marriage and you destroy the family. If a family can mean anything—from serial orgies to sologamy—a family will ultimately mean nothing.
Just before the Democrats changed their position on geographical boundaries—they did a 180 on the boundary protecting marriage and family. The anarchist U-turn on marriage by the Democrats defies a number of the above explanations that explain this flip-flop with political or economic explanations.
Above all, Trump wasn’t the tectonic factor when Democrats made a seismic shift from heterosexual to gay marriage.
In September 1996, US Congress passed the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). The law defined marriage as a strictly opposite-sex institution. Not a single Republican senator voted against the legislation; in the House of Representatives only Republican Steven Gunderson voted against it.
Democrats strongly supported the legislation (Nancy Pelosi an exception among leading Democrats) with House members voting in favor by a nearly two-to-one margin (118-65) and Senate Democrats surpassing that mark (32-14). President Bill Clinton signed DOMA into law.
By the time America’s first legal same-sex marriage took place in 2004, the Democrats had dramatically reversed their position. In the same year, House Democrats vigorously opposed the Marriage Protection Act by a 176-27 margin. Darel Paul in From Tolerance to Equality: How Elites brought America to Same-Sex Marriagedocuments the “tremendous collapse of support within the party’s House caucus for a traditionalist definition of marriage, from 64% in 1996 to a mere 13% in 2004.”
He notes: “In the 1990s even the most liberal Democrats avoided clear public endorsements of same-sex marriage” but by “2004 all three minor Democratic candidates for president were calling openly for national same-sex marriage.”
There is a fundamental parallel between the volte-face on immigration and on marriage by the Democrats. Both have to do with distinctions—and making distinctions is a biblical imperative that goes back to the archetypal story of creation in the first chapter of the book of Genesis.
I first spotted this when studying intermediate Hebrew. I was memorizing Genesis 1 in Hebrew but hit the brakes when I reached verse 4b: “And God separated the light from the darkness.” ‘Separate’ was a funny verb! But it recurred again and again in the chapter. Later I discovered commentator and biblical scholar Dennis Prager’s stunning exposition on distinctions in the Torah, explaining how separations are God’s signature tune in creation. God himself creates separations or distinctions or barriers or boundaries, says Prager.
The deep-rooted problem with the Democrats is not political, economic or even Donald Trump. It is spiritual. Radical secularization has led to a radical removal of all boundaries—beginning with feminist bulldozing of the boundary between man and woman and culminating paradoxically with the gender fluidity non-existence of this boundary—much to the outrage of some radical feminists.
Laws are predicated on boundaries. If Democrats no longer believe in markers that distinguish right from wrong, good from evil, lawful from lawless, order from anarchy, electing them as lawmakers can only be self-defeating at best, suicidal at worst.
There is, of course, one great benefit to be had from a complete erosion of borders and boundaries—whether in the area of immigration or in the realm of the family.
In biblical religion, God’s boundaries in creation keeps order in place: the sea and the land; light and darkness; day and night; human and animal; etc. The separations serve to sustain creation and prevent it from backsliding into primeval chaos.
In the religion of Leftism, the great monster of chaos is a prelude to the Leviathan of the State emerging and subduing the chaos with a view to establish its own idolatrous hegemony.
If this is the ultimate goal of the Democratic Party, the Chuck Schumers and Nancy Pelosis of this world might not be so double-minded or unstable after all. On the contrary, they will be pursuing their master plan of achieving totalitarian State control with remarkable and ruthless single-mindedness.
Democrats Can Fund the World, but Not the Wall
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 kill Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry. BETH BAUMANN
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/11/frontpage-hidden-agenda-of-pueblo-sin.html
Democrats Can Fund the World, but Not the Wall
There
is nothing like a government shutdown to illustrate clearly the priorities of
the two opposing sides to the standoff. On one side is President
Trump, keeping a campaign promise to build a wall, to keep crime,
sex-trafficking, drugs, and terrorism, not to mention the unfunded burden of
illegal aliens, out of America.
On
the other side are the Democrats, hell-bent on keeping 25 percent of the
government closed for business rather than funding border security, a concept
they wholeheartedly supported a decade ago.
Who's
winning and who's losing the battle? If you watch cable news, it's
clear that the president is on the ropes, having backed himself into a
corner. Reality sings a different tune. How did we get
here?
Donald
Trump, announcing his candidacy for president in June 2015, rode down the
escalator at Trump Tower and said, "When Mexico sends its people,
they're not sending their best." He went on, "They're
bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're
rapists. And some, I assume, are good people."
These
were among his first pronouncements that day and have been a constant theme of
his rallies and tweets since then – including this tweet from a few days ago.
Democrats
were once in favor of border security, too. Many, including Senate
minority leader Chuck Schumer, voted
for the Secure Fence Act of 2006. This provided for,
"Operational control over the entire international land and maritime
borders of the United States."
Now,
because it's 2019 and Trump is president, Democrats are conveniently against
border security. This is a common theme of Democrats, frequently for
something before they are against it. Remember John Kerry and the
Iraq War?
The
current fight is over a mere $5 billion in funding for a wall – or a
"fence" if the term "wall" is offensive, but a physical
barrier between two nations, controlling who and what traipses from one country
to the other. The federal budget is $4.4 trillion, meaning
wall funding represents about a tenth of a percent of the budget, a rounding
error. What else are Nancy Pelosi and colleagues spending money
on? How about foreign aid?
The
2019 federal budget requests nearly $27 billion in foreign
aid for economic development, health, humanitarian assistance, peace and
security, and other objectives. This is over half the cost of
securing "[t]he entire international land and maritime borders of the
United States" something Democrats were keen about in 2006.
The
Secure Fence Act of 2006 budgeted $50 billion over 25 years to
control America's borders. Unfortunately, Congress appropriated only
$1.4 billion and forgot about the rest. The foreign aid request
above was for one single year. Two years of the foreign aid budget
spent instead on U.S. border security would create the type of physical borders
so common in the countries we are generously supporting.
Fund
the world, but not America.
It's
instructive to compare the current administration to the past one, since the
media treat the last administration as the Second Coming and the current
administration as the Fourth Reich.
In
2012, Congress appropriated $40 billion in foreign aid,
a billion more than what was requested. In 2013, the amount went up to
$43 billion appropriated. The following year, 2014, $42 billion was
appropriated.
Let's
look at what was actually spent on foreign aid in Barack Obama's
final year of 2016: $31 billion total – more than half of what America needs to
insure its own "peace and security."
Countries
receiving American taxpayer largess include Pakistan, $687 million, the same
country that provided sanctuary to Osama bin Laden. Seven point two
billion dollars went to Afghanistan, with not much to show for it other than
its opium products finding their way through our unsecure southern border.
Five
hundred seventy million went to Syria, a country where I thought Obama was
calling for regime change. Even China received $20
million. I thought China was our geopolitical and economic
adversary! A few hundred million each went to most African
countries, quickly adding up to the grand total of $31 billion.
This
is not to say that all foreign aid is bad, as clearly, it is not. America
is the most generous nation in the world. Much of our foreign aid is
lifesaving. Much of it is also wasted or filling the Swiss bank accounts of
foreign thug leaders – or worse, finding its way into the bank accounts of those
who appropriated the money from the U.S. Treasury.
How
else to explain members of Congress living in multimillion-dollar mansions or
having net worths in the tens of millions while earning a congressional salary
of under $200,000 per year?
An
old proverb says, "Charity begins at home." Even the Bible
reinforces the idea in 1 Timothy 5:8: "Anyone who does not
provide for their relatives, and especially for their own household, has denied
the faith and is worse than an unbeliever."
American
taxpayers are footing the bill not only for foreign aid, but also for illegal
immigration, which costs U.S. taxpayers $115 billion a year.
Then
there is the human toll, from Kate Steinle to police officer Ronil
Singh. Or the previously deported illegal alien who viciously raped a woman in New
York. Or another previously deported illegal who raped a child in Philadelphia.
Don't
forget illegal drugs. Heroin and cocaine aren't produced
domestically and instead transit our southern border. How much
Chinese fentanyl is arriving through Mexico?
The
United States gives about a million dollars a year in aid to Hungary, the same country that was able to
fund the construction of "a second fence on the border with Serbia to keep
migrants out."
Congress
is happy to give money to countries to secure their borders, but House
Democrats refuse to spend a dime for the same security measures in their own
country.
Shameful,
but the shutdown is illustrating Democrat priorities, especially for
Pelosi-Schumer Democrats. Let's have the debate. Where do
taxpayers want their hard-earned money to go? To foreign countries
so they can secure their borders and protect their citizens? Or
should some of that money stay here, providing safety and security for
Americans?
Trump
will get his wall, either through an eventual budget deal or via the military
on the basis of national security. The shutdown may simply be
Trump's way of exposing Democrat priorities, which are not for those they are
elected to represent or the constitution they swore
to support and defend.
Democrats
may believe that the shutdown is a way to insulate themselves against exposure
of their real priorities, but the longer the shutdown goes on, the more their
insulation melts away.
ISLAMIST BARACK OBAMA
*
“Of
course, one of the main reasons the nation is now “divided, resentful and angry” is because
race-baiting, Islamist, class warrior Barack Hussein Obama was
president for eight long years." MATTHEW VADUM
*
"But the Obamas are the center of the most delusional
cult of personality that the media has yet spawned. And so we get bizarre
pieces like these." MONICA SHOWALTER
*
"Along with Obama, Pelosi and
Schumer are responsible for incalculable damage done to this country over the
eight years of that administration." PATRICIA McCARTHY
GLOBALIST BARACK OBAMA
AND NANCY PELOSI’S CONSPIRACY TO SABOTAGE HOMELAND SECURITY AND KEEP AMERICA FLOODED
WITH DEM VOTING ILLEGALS
"Along with Obama, Pelosi and
Schumer are responsible for incalculable damage done to this country over the
eight years of that administration." PATRICIA McCARTHY
One of the most disgusting things to come out of the
Obama administration was "Operation Fast and Furious," where members
of the Department of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) allowed
illegal gun sales to go through – commonly referred to as "gun
walking" – in order to track buyers and sellers they believed were
connected to the Mexican drug cartels. Nearly 2,000 firearms were sold and were
eventually found throughout the United States and Mexico. Two of them were used
to kill Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry. BETH BAUMANN
THE CONSPIRACY TO SABOTAGE HOMELAND SECURITY
The Democrat
Party’s secret agenda for wider open borders, more welfare for invading
illegals, more jobs and free anything they illegally vote for…. All to destroy
the two-party system and build the GLOBALISTS’ DEMOCRAT PARTY FOR WIDER OPEN
BORDERS TO KEEP WAGES DEPRESSED.
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/11/frontpage-hidden-agenda-of-pueblo-sin.html
Demonstrably and
irrefutably the Democrat Party became the party whose principle objective is to
thoroughly transform the nature of the American electorate by means of open
borders and the mass, unchecked importation of illiterate third world peasants
who will vote in overwhelming numbers for Democrats and their La Raza welfare
state. FRONTPAGE MAG
“They knew Obama
was an unqualified crook; yet they promoted him. They knew Obama was a train
wreck waiting to happen; yet they made him president, to the great injury of
America and the world. They understood he was only a figurehead, an egomaniac,
and a liar; yet they made him king, doing great harm to our republic (perhaps
irreparable.)”
ALLAN ERICKSON
Obamanomics: How Barack
Obama Is Bankrupting You and Enriching His Wall Street Friends, Corporate
Lobbyists, and Union Bosses
Anti-Semitic, open borders for cheaper labor and
funded by criminal banksters… and these pols are making vast fortunes sucking
the blood of America!
We must not let them cheat their way to power
over the rest of us. Their ongoing vote fraud must be stopped and
the Democrats need to take a look at themselves and at what they have become.
It's not a pretty picture. What they have become threatens to
destroy the greatest nation on the planet and they are doing it on purpose. They
have nothing but contempt for the US as founded and for those of us who love
this country. PATRICIA McCARTHY – AMERICAN THINKER
“Then we suffered
the rattling election of Barack Obama, whose active membership in a white-,
Jewish-, and America-hating church was well known to the
electorate. His close personal relationship with the likes of
his adored Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Louis Farrakhan was no
secret. Obama was open about his goals. He told us he was
out to "fundamentally transform America" and the world.” ALAN BERGSTEIN
“There is a deep
racist and anti-Semitic disease in the leadership of the Democrats. As Senator
Cory Booker brings his hatred for the Jewish State to the Senate, he should be
asked whether he agrees with his hero, “The only good Zionist is a dead Zionist
we must take a lesson from Hitler”. DANIEL GREENFIELD
OBAMANOMICS
TO SERVE BANKSTERS
AND
GLOBAL BILLIONAIRES
"One of the premier institutions of
big business, JP Morgan Chase, issued an internal report on the
eve of the 10th anniversary of the 2008 crash, which warned that
another “great liquidity crisis” was possible, and that a
government bailout on the scale of that effected by Bush and Obama
will produce social unrest, “in light of the potential impact
of central bank actions in driving inequality between
asset owners and labor."
BARACK OBAMA’S CONSPIRACY FOR A THIRD TERM FOR LIFE
First, destroy Trump and put Hillary away if she doesn’t end up in
jail.
HE PARTNERS WITH ZUCKERBERG, SOROS AND LOUIS FARRAKHAN
“Obama would declare himself president for life with Soros
really running the show, as he did for the entire Obama presidency.”
“Hillary was always
small potatoes, a placeholder as it were. Her health was always suspect. And do
you think the plotters would have let a doofus like Tim Kaine take office in
the event that Hillary became disabled?”
“Obama has the totalitarian
impulse. After all, he went around saying he didn't have Constitutional
authority to legalize the illegals, and then he tried anyway. The courts
stopped him.”
“The bottom line 2 is
this: Barack Obama is a Communist. This was all an Obama operation. Why is
anyone surprised that a communist (Obama) tried to subvert an election. That is
what Communists do. It is Barack Obama and his people like Brennan and Clapper behaving
to type. That's what Maduro does in Venezuela. That's what the Castro brothers
did. That's what every communist and socialist nation does. THEY FIX ELECTIONS!!”
“Hillary
kept a secret server overflowing with national security info which, more than
likely, was hacked. June 28, 2016, on a Phoenix tarmac, Bill Clinton met with
Attorney General Loretta Lynch to seal a deal insuring Hillary would not be
prosecuted.”
“Obama, of course, covered
up his own role, depicting his presidency as eight years of heroic
efforts to repair the damage caused by the 2008 financial crash. At
the end of those eight years, however, Wall Street and the financial
oligarchy were fully recovered, enjoying record wealth, while
working people were poorer than before, a widening social chasm that
made possible the election of the billionaire con man and Demagogue in November
2016.”
David Bernstein & The Heritage Foundation - “Lawless: The
Obama Administration’s Unprecedented Assault on the Constitution and the Rule
of Law.”
“The
Lawlessness of the Obama Administration: A never-ending story.” Michael
Barone
– American Historian – Washington
Examiner
OBOMB for
BRIBES:
BARACK OBAMA
AGAIN TALKS THIRD TERM.
President
Barack Obama: During
his presidential campaign, President Obama promised to run an ethical and
transparent administration. However, in his first year in office, the President
has delivered corruption and secrecy, bringing Chicago-style political corruption
to the White House. JUDICIAL WATCH
“They knew Obama
was an unqualified crook; yet they promoted him. They knew Obama was a train
wreck waiting to happen; yet they made him president, to the great injury of
America and the world. They understood he was only a figurehead, an egomaniac,
and a liar; yet they made him king, doing great harm to our republic (perhaps
irreparable.)”
ALLAN ERICKSON
"We know that
Obama and his inner circle have set up a war room in his D.C. home to plan
and execute resistance to the Trump administration and
his legislative agenda. None of these people care about the
American people, or the fact thatTrump won the election because
millions of people voted for him." Patricia McCarthy / AMERICAN THINKER.com
Obamanomics: How Barack
Obama Is Bankrupting You and Enriching His Wall Street Friends, Corporate
Lobbyists, and Union Bosses
BY TIMOTHY P CARNEY
Editorial Reviews
Obama Is Making You
Poorer—But Who’s Getting Rich?
Goldman Sachs, GE, Pfizer, the United Auto Workers—the same
“special interests” Barack Obama was supposed to chase from the temple—are
profiting handsomely from Obama’s Big Government policies that crush taxpayers,
small businesses, and consumers. In Obamanomics, investigative
reporter Timothy P. Carney digs up the dirt the mainstream media ignores and
the White House wishes you wouldn’t see. Rather than Hope and Change, Obama is
delivering corporate socialism to America, all while claiming he’s battling
corporate America. It’s corporate welfare and regulatory robbery—it’s
Obamanomics.
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