California became a Democratic stronghold not because
Californians became socialists, but because millions of socialists
moved there. Immigration turned California blue,
and immigration is ultimately to blame for California's high
poverty level.
Californians became socialists, but because millions of socialists
moved there. Immigration turned California blue,
and immigration is ultimately to blame for California's high
poverty level.
Potential Speaker Candidate Marcia Fudge: Nancy Pelosi an ‘Elitist,’ ‘Very Wealthy Person’
Pelosi’s Pacific Heights needs refugees
Pacific Heights is one of San Francisco’s most expensive neighborhoods. It boasts dramatic views of the Golden Gate Bridge, the Marin Headlands, and the blue waters of San Francisco Bay.
Oracle founder Larry Ellison is one of its more prominent and distinguished residents, as is House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
For all its attractiveness as a neighborhood with its boutique shops and upscale restaurants, Pacific Heights lacks two vital ingredients to make it a truly great American neighborhood -- economic and cultural diversity.
That’s why President Donald Trump’s plan to resettle “refugees” in sanctuary cities should be embraced by Pacific Heights’ residents.
By inviting the refugees now stranded at the border, Pacific Heights would not only strengthen the sinew of its community but also contribute to alleviating the humanitarian crisis at the border.
Our strength is our diversity, and Pacific Heights lacks that strength. It is culturally homogenous in a city that is diverse.
In San Francisco, earning $117,000 a year or less makes you a low-income earner. Placing refugees in Pacific Heights where housing and other costs are truly astronomical would require the compassion and economic assistance of its residents. The former they have long signaled, and the latter they are more than able to do.
Nancy Pelosi lives in a walled mansion on a large expanse of land with majestic views. Her mansion could easily house thirty or forty refugee families, and she is hardly there. The expansive grounds could house dozens of refugee families in tents.
Imagine refugee children who survived the arduous and life-threatening journey from Central America playing on Pelosi’s lawn while breathing the clean and invigorating air from off the San Francisco coastline. Imagine alleviating the humanitarian crisis by creating additional tent cities in Pacific Heights’ splendid parks.
Pelosi also owns a second mansion in the Wine Country north of San Francisco. This too is walled and could hold dozens of refugee families.
Neither Pelosi herself nor the community of Pacific Heights can solve the refugee problem, but they could set a standard that other wealthy and pro-sanctuary communities could easily emulate.
Just a few miles away from Pacific Heights, my liberal acquaintances “Ann” and “Christopher” live in a complex that is more difficult to enter than the Central Intelligence Agency. They both support the sanctuary status of San Francisco and think the border wall, but not their complex’s barrier, is immoral. Ann is a big DACA supporter although she has been seen adroitly ignoring and bypassing the homeless that proliferate in her neighborhood and sleep on her streets. Her compassion obviously has its limits.
Their complex boasts extensive patios between the stacks of apartments. These could host a dozen or more tents and port-a-potties that could alleviate the cagelike situations at the border that they lament as deplorable. Although these facilities would constitute an eyesore and block the light and view Ann and Christopher currently enjoy, creating a tent community for refugees would demonstrate the concern and compassion that people like Ann and Christopher love to remind the rest of us that they possess.
Real compassion in Western Civilization derives from the Biblical sense of the term and means to share in the suffering and emotions of others. When Jesus saw his friends weeping at the grave of Lazarus, He wept with them and acted. Compassion means to suffer with and to be motivated to take immediate action to alleviate the suffering of others.
So, let the virtue-signaling liberals in sanctuary cities who incessantly lecture us on their commitment to taking in everyone, liberals who find the rest of us insensitive and heartless, let them manifest in deed the compassion they so relentlessly embrace in word. Let them fulfill the Biblical imperative to suffer with and take immediate action.
And they will be rewarded for this in knowing that their upscale white communities can find new strength in the economic and cultural diversity that the refugees will provide. I am looking forward to the sprouting of tent cities in Pacific Heights and elsewhere in the upscale parts of San Francisco. Diversity is truly a community’s strength.
Abraham H. Miller is an emeritus professor of political science, University of Cincinnati and a distinguished fellow with the Hyam Salomon Center
Pelosi - Illegals - Sunkist - Her investments!
Pelosi's corrupt insider passing of bills that make her rich.
Check for yourself
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's home House District includes San Francisco.
Star-Kist Tuna's headquarters are in San Francisco, Pelosi's home district.
Star-Kist is owned by Del Monte Foods and is a major contributor to Pelosi.
Star-Kist is the major employer in American Samoa employing 75% of the Samoan workforce.
Paul Pelosi, Nancy's husband, owns $17 million dollars of Star-Kist stock.
In January, 2007 when the minimum wage was increased from $5.15 to $7.25, Pelosi had American Samoa exempted from the increase so Del Monte would not have to pay the higher wage. This would make Del Monte products less expensive than their competition's.
Last week when the huge bailout bill was passed, Pelosi added an earmark to the final bill adding $33 million dollars for an "economic development credit in American Samoa".
Check some more for yourself
Conservative Activist Jumps Pelosi's Fence With Illegal Aliens to Prove a Vital Point
Conservative activist Laura Loomer, who is known for going undercover with James O'Keefe, took alleged illegal aliens from Mexico and Guatemala to Speaker Nancy Pelosi's home in California. There, the group jumped the fence and Loomer demanded the group be let into the home. The group set up a pop up tent with the word "morality" on it and hung the pictures of those who were killed by illegal aliens, The Daily Caller reported.
Illegals and the American Dream
When talking about immigration, Democrats like to conflate illegal and legal immigration, dropping the word “illegal” and spouting meaningless babble about no human being illegal. They like to preach that illegal immigrants commit crimes at a lower rate than American citizens, a factoid that has been exposed as a lie.
The murder of legal immigrant and Newman Police Corporal Ronil Singh on Christmas night by an illegal alien in the sanctuary state of California shows not only that the claims by Chuck Schumer and the “bride of Chucky” Nancy Pelosi that the Democrats support border security is a deadly and bald-faced lie. It highlights the difference between legal and illegal immigrants, between those who love America and want to be Americans and those who murder them.
Pelosi and Schumer like to talk about the “Dreamers.” Well, Ronil Singh had dreams, too:
Ronil Singh came to the U.S. from his native Fiji to fulfill a lifelong dream of becoming an officer, joining a small-town police force in California and working to improve his English. The day after Christmas, he stopped another immigrant, this one in the country illegally, who shot and killed the corporal, authorities said Thursday…
"This suspect is in our country illegally. He doesn't belong here. He is a criminal," Stanislaus County Sheriff Adam Christianson, whose agency is leading the investigation, told reporters.
Newman Police Chief Randy Richardson fought back tears as he described Singh, a 33-year-old with a newborn son, as an "American patriot."
"He came to America with one purpose, and that was to serve this country," Richardson said…
"He was living the American dream," said Stanislaus County Sheriff's Deputy Royjinder Singh, who is not related to the slain officer but knew him. "He loved camping, loved hunting, loved fishing, loved his family."
And now he is dead. The blood of Kate Steinle, Mollie Tibbetts, and now Ronil Singh and others is on the hands of open border advocates and the sanctuary city loons who provide no sanctuary for the American citizen victims of illegal alien criminals.
Even if it were true that illegal aliens commit crimes, including murder, at rates lower than American citizens, that would be irrelevant. The murder rate for illegal aliens should be zero because none of them should be here and the indisputable fact is that Jamiel Shaw Jr., Kate Steinle, and Mollie Tibbetts would be alive today if the illegal aliens who slew them were still staring at the other side of a border wall liberals refuse to build.
Pelosi has said that a border wall would be “immoral, ineffective, and expensive” when it has been documented when it has been demonstrated that none of that is true. The fact is that walls are so effective they have been built in scores of countries around the world and in the U.S. places like San Diego and Yuma have demonstrated their effectiveness as Pelosi and Schumer worry more about Syria’s borders than our own:
According to Quebec University expert Elisabeth Vallet. there are65 completed or under construction border walls in the world today.
One-third of the world’s nations have border walls or barriers with their neighbors.
Pelosi believes this is immoral.
Tell that to Israel, Hungary, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, India, Pakistan, Spain, Greece, Cyprus, Ireland, etc.
And Nancy Pelosi has a wall around the backyard at her home in San Francisco.
What is immoral is a policy endorsed by Pelosi
and Schumer of sanctuary cities and even states
that allows such criminal aliens in our country
to murder Americans and a Democratic caucus
that would abolish I.C.E. and those who risk
their lives daily to provide some semblance of
border security. What is immoral is politicians such as Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf not only refusing to cooperate with I.C.E. butgiving illegal aliens a heads-up when I.C.E. raids are imminent.
In the wake of the Singh murder, Schaaf still insists that warning illegal aliens about I.C.E. raids was and is the right thing to do, the lives of American citizens she is sworn to protect be damned:
Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf -- who once warned Northern California residents about an impending ICE raid -- said she has “no regrets” for her actions and said the federal immigration agency “has gone astray.”
“I have no regrets, none. The more time goes by, the more certain I feel that I did the right thing in standing up for our community and pointing out our values are not aligned with our laws,” Schaff toldBuzzFeed in an interview. “That’s hopefully the message that is sent out.”
The message Schaaf, Pelosi, and Schumer are sending out is one of callous disregard for the lives of American citizens. Democrats are endangering their lives and the lives of migrant children by enticing caravans to drag young children a thousand miles with lies about easy entry and waiting jobs:
The father of an 8-year-old Guatemalan boy who died in U.S. custody took his son to the border after hearing rumors that parents and their children would be allowed to migrate to the United States and escape the poverty in their homeland, the boy's stepsister told the Associated Press.
Felipe Gomez Alonzo died Monday at a New Mexico hospital after suffering coughing, vomiting and fever, authorities said. It was the second such death this month. Another Guatemalan child, 7-year-old Jakelin Caal, died in U.S. custody on Dec. 8.
The fact is that if we had a wall, or whatever the hair-splitters want to call it, both these children would be alive today. And it is American kids are dying too, killed and murdered by illegal aliens who have no right to be here. Just ask the parents of Justin Lee, 14, who was killed in a hit-and-run accident by an illegal alien:
An illegal immigrant has pleaded guilty to a hit and run that killed a Wixom teen in June.
Miguel Ibarra-Cerda, 22, entered his plea Thursday, the day his trial was set to begin before Judge Cheryl Matthews in Oakland County Circuit Court.
Ibarra-Cerda is charged with failing to stop at the scene of an accident when at fault, resulting in death, and reckless driving causing death for the collision which killed Justin Lee, 14. Ibarra-Cerda faces up to 15 years in prison and a $10,000 fine for the first charge and 15 years in prison and a $2,500-$10,000 fine on the second charge. Matthews will sentence him Dec. 20.
Or ask the parents of 12-year-old Clinton Howell, shot and killed shortly before Christmas by an illegal alien from Jamaica:
Police in Connecticut have arrested an 18-year-old undocumented immigrant from Jamaica on murder charges related to the shooting death of an innocent 12-year-old boy a week before Christmas.
Bridgeport Police Chief Armando Perez on Monday announced the charges against Tajay Chambers stemming from the December 18 death of Clinton Howell outside his family's home on Willow Street.
Chambers has been charged with murder; murder with special circumstances; use of a firearm during the commission of a felony; illegal possession of a firearm without a permit; risk of injury to a child; reckless endangerment, and larceny….
CTpost.com reported, citing police sources, that earlier that evening, Chambers and his alleged co-conspirators were driving in a stolen car when they got into an argument with some people walking along Willow Street, among them Howell’s relative.
There have been many suggestions as to how to pay for the wall, such as Sen. Ted Cruz’s idea to apply drug asset forfeitures to wall construction or to tax the billions of dollars aliens return to their home countries.. Pelosi certainly found no problem locating $3 billion for the ineffective and absurd “Cash for Clunkers” program under Obama, didn’t she?
The wall would in fact pay for itself, if only in the reduced cost of crimes that would be eliminated, saving both dollars from overburdened social services and the cost of illegal alien crimes, particularly the cost in human lives such as that of Ronil Singh, who is survived by his wife and young son.
His death, the death of a legal immigrant pursuing the American dream, and countless other American citizens, including children, is on the hands of Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer. Perhaps Pelosi can attend Singh’s funeral and explain how his death and the deaths of others in the absence of a wall is all President Trump’s fault and that not building the wall is the moral thing to do.
Daniel John Sobieski is a freelance writer whose pieces have appeared inInvestor’s Business Daily, Human Events, Reason Magazine and the ChicagoSun-Times among other publications.
CALIFORNIA and the RISE OF THE LA RAZA MEXICAN FASCIST WELFARE STATE
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/08/they-invading-horde-waving-their.html
"The costs of illegal immigration are being carefully hidden by Democrats."
Accounting for these differences reveals that California's real poverty rate is 20.6 percent – the highest in America, and nearly twice the national average of 12.7 percent.
"The public schools indoctrinate their young charges to hate this country and the rule of law. Illegal aliens continue overwhelming the state, draining California’s already depleted public services while endangering our lives, the rule of law, and public safety for all citizens."
"America’s elites, now overwhelmingly represented by the Democratic Party, have a single overriding interest: their self-indulgent lifestyle."
Class Conflict within the Democratic Party
Over many decades, the American Left, the Democratic Party and their mutual propaganda arm, the self-styled “mainstream media,” have successfully portrayed conservatives and the Republican Party as a coalition of the wealthy and intolerant. Further, the Democrats and the left have claimed that they are the true champions of the working or middle class as they unceasingly fight to defeat and marginalize this evil menace.
The reality, however, is that this cabal has virtually no interest in defending or aiding the working class as they are, in fact, the party of a bifurcated constituency: the wealthy and those dependent on the largess of the government.
Of the fifty wealthiest congressional districts throughout the country, the Democrats now represent forty-one. Of the remaining nine represented by Republicans, three are in Texas, the only red state on the list of fifty districts. Not coincidentally the residents of these same fifty districts are supposedly among the most well-educated and sophisticated. This transformative process is not a recent phenomenon as the trend began in the 1980’s and accelerated rapidly in the early 2000’s.
America’s elites, now overwhelmingly represented by the Democratic Party, have a single overriding interest: their self-indulgent lifestyle. This is manifested in their mistaken belief that conservatives (i.e. the “right”) are hell bent on enforcing their version of morality on the nation, thus potentially calling into question the lifestyles of the rich and solipsistic.
The veracity of this claim is immaterial as it would require an element of deliberation not emotion -- a trait in extremely short supply among the nation’s privileged class, nearly all of whom have difficulty in generating an original thought due to the ill-education rampant in America’s universities. Thus, the mindless accusations of racism, misogyny and Fascism directed at the conservative rubes in middle America are acceptable, and in far too many instances believed, particularly as many had the temerity to vote for Donald Trump – who, although wealthy and Ivy League educated, is considered the ultimate unsophisticated rube.
As conservatives are the dominant force in the Republican Party and this nation cannot function politically with more than two major political parties, the alternative is the Democratic Party. An entity dominated by the American Left, an assemblage whose core philosophy is antithetical to the interests of the wealthy and privileged. Yet, determined to protect their lifestyles and vilify conservatives, they willingly ally with the left and overwhelmingly support virtually any Democratic candidate. In the recent 2018 mid-terms, Democratic House candidates outspent their Republican opponents by a two to one margin thanks primarily to this wealthy but myopic assemblage.
Their colleagues in the Democratic Party, and the preponderance of the membership, are those dependent on the largess of the federal and state governments. On the other hand, the growing segment of the citizenry who are working and self-sufficient are increasingly joining those who believe in limited government in migrating to the Republican Party-- a process that is accelerating with the policies and tactics of Donald Trump in combating the entrenched left and their determination to culturally and economically transform the nation. The Republican Party will inevitably become the party of the working or middle class. As such, they could potentially dominate the political agenda for the foreseeable future.
The left and the Democratic Party, in order to offset this possibility, must aggressively seek to increase the number of dependents by promoting the legalization and ultimate citizenship for untold millions of illegal immigrants and promising all Americans cradle to grave economic security. In order to enact this strategy to defeat the Republicans, the left must have the active participation and financial support of the nation’s wealthy-- which they have.
The Democratic Party has evolved into essentially an incompatible two-tier class-driven entity encompassing the nation’s wealthiest and the nation’s poorest. Nonetheless, it is at present a convenient home for the elites to hold off the imaginary horde of conservatives outside their gilded doors.
However, the voting numbers within the party are overwhelmingly with those who generally support the leftist philosophies of redistribution (e.g. socialized medicine and guaranteed incomes) and curtailing of freedom (e.g. speech, assembly and religion). While it may not manifest itself to the affluent who have cast their lot with the Democrats, the redistribution of wealth must, by necessity, come from the wealthy, as that is where the bulk of the nation’s wealth resides. It is also this same small-in-numbers group that benefits the most from freedom of speech and assembly.
Once fully embroiled in this marriage of convenience, a divorce will be impossible as the co-inhabitant of the Democratic Party, the dependent class, must continue grow in order to electorally defeat the Republicans and protect the left’s agenda. Further, the oversold expectations promulgated by the left will never be satisfied regardless of how many promises are made or token redistributive programs are enacted by the current ruling class. Only a complete transformation of this nation into a failed socialist state will satiate the left, their acolytes and their attendant army of dependency. A goal more in reach than ever thanks to the inability of the nation’s elites to give a damn about the future of the country.
There is not a more short-sighted and self-absorbed group of citizens in this nation than the white, wealthy well-educated urban and suburban voters. They are willing to rend the fabric of this nation in order to protect their privilege and lifestyle. While the vast majority of Americans will ultimately pay the price, the current ruling class and their progeny will have far more to lose.
BLOG: COME TO MEXIFORNIA! HALF OF
LOS ANGELES 15 MILLION ARE
ILLEGALS!
This figure includes 2.4 million illegal aliens, although a recent study from Yale University suggests that the true number of aliens is at least double that. Modifying the initial figure implies that nearly one in three Californians is an immigrant. This is not to disparage California's immigrant population, but it is madness to deny that such a large influx of people has changed California's society and economy.
Importantly, immigrants vote Democrat by a ratio higher than 2:1, according to a report from the Center for Immigration Studies. In California, immigration has increased the pool of likely Democrat voters by nearly 5 million people, compared to just 2.4 million additional likely Republican voters. Not only does this almost guarantee Democratic victories, but it also shifts California's political midpoint to the left. This means that to remain competitive in elections, the Republicans must abandon or soften many conservative positions so as to cater to the center.
California became a Democratic stronghold not because Californians became socialists, but because millions of socialists moved there. Immigration turned California blue, and immigration is ultimately to blame for California's high poverty level.
It Pays to be Illegal in California
It certainly is a good time to be an illegal alien in California. Democratic State Sen. Ricardo Lara last week pitched a bill to permit illegal immigrants to serve on all state and local boards and commissions. This week, lawmakers unveiled a $1 billion health care plan that would include spending $250 million to extend health care coverage to all illegal alien adults.
“Currently, undocumented adults are explicitly and unjustly locked out of healthcare due to their immigration status. In a matter of weeks, California legislators will have a decisive opportunity to reverse that cruel and counterproductive fact,” Assemblyman Joaquin Arambula said in Monday’s Sacramento Bee.
His legislation, Assembly Bill 2965, would give as many as 114,000 uninsured illegal aliens access to Medi-Cal programs. A companion bill has been sponsored by State Sen. Richard Lara.
But that could just be a drop in the bucket. The Democrats’ plan covers more than 100,000 illegal aliens with annual incomes bless than $25,000, however an estimated 1.3 million might be eligible based on their earnings.
In addition, it is estimated that 20 percent of those living in California illegally are uninsured – the $250 million covers just 11 percent.
So, will politicians soon be asking California taxpayers once again to dip into their pockets to pay for the remaining 9 percent?
Before they ask for more, Democrats have to win the approval of Gov. Jerry Brown, who cautioned against spending away the state’s surplus when he introduced his $190 billion budget proposal in January.
Given Brown’s openness to expanding Medi-Cal expansions in recent years, not to mention his proclivity for blindly supporting any measure benefitting lawbreaking immigrants, the latest fiscal irresponsibility may win approval.
And if he takes a pass, the two Democrats most likely to succeed Brown – Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom and former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa – favor excessive social spending and are actively courting illegal immigrant support.
COST to AMERICANS of the LA RAZA MEXICAN OCCUPATION in CALIFORNIA ALONE: $2,370 per legal.
All that “cheap” labor is staggeringly expensive!
"Most Californians, who have seen their taxes increase while public services deteriorate, already know the impact that mass illegal immigration is having on their communities, but even they may be shocked when they learn just how much of a drain illegal immigration has become." FAIR President Dan Stein.
Californians bear an enormous fiscal burden as a result of an illegal alien population estimated at almost 3 million residents. The annual expenditure of state and local tax dollars on services for that population is $25.3 billion. That total amounts to a yearly burden of about $2,370 for a household headed by a U.S. citizen.
The Gospel According to Nancy: No Borders, Kill Babies (UNLESS THEY'RE LA RAZA ANCHOR BABIES!)
By T.R. Clancy
Tucker Carlson pointed out a few days ago how the already insufferable leader of the Congressional Democrats has recently been "ordained….an archbishop in the church of progressive sanctimony." For a while now, Nancy Pelosi's been the country's expert on morality (e.g., border wall: immoral; abortion on demand: moral). She's now taken to telling the country how much she prays, and she's urging others to do it, too – at least that old sinner, Donald Trump. After last Thursday's televised squabble in the Oval Office, Pelosi shared with reporters how she told Trump she was praying for him and urged the president (whom she also called a "skunk" while ridiculing his manhood) to accept the Democrats' budget proposal with no funding for a border wall. "In fact," she said with stomach-turning piety, "I asked him to pray over it."
When a smug person ends an argument by telling you to "pray over it," she's really saying, "Ask God. He knows I'm right!"
Summarizing her and Chuck Schumer's meeting with Trump, she told the media, "I myself thought we should open the meeting with a prayer, which I did. I told him about King Solomon, when he was to become king of the Jews, he prayed to God, he said: 'I need you to give me great understanding and wisdom, Lord.'"
King Solomon is Pelosi's favorite Bible character, especially because he proposed solving a problem by cutting a baby in half.
Now Sister Nancy's praying for Trump to keep the government open so federal employees can finish their Christmas shopping.
It's an axiom that if a conservative says his faith informs his political decisions, he'll be condemned for establishing a state religion, while liberals get to veer back and forth over the church-state centerline as freely as those motorists who love to text while driving. Right now the liberal media are applauding the way Pelosi "schooled President Donald Trump about the Bible," but it's not clear why. It's not as if they're suddenly in favor of anyone being schooled in the Bible, especially anyone in a public classroom.
Pelosi never bats an eye without a political motive. This Saint Nancy act might be her attempt to occupy the spiritual high ground that, obviously, Donald Trump has shown no interest in occupying himself. Pelosi wouldn't dare try this with a president like George W. Bush, who, while he didn't boast about his piety on TV, was recognized as genuine in his Christian faith – prompting the left's usual reaction: Ross Douthat wrote in 2006 that "the fear of theocracy has become a defining panic of the Bush era."
Theology was less of an issue for liberals during the Obama years; he was their messiah, and they just worshiped him. Meantime, Obama conspicuously dissed orthodox Christians with everything from calculated snubs and criticism to gratuitously tormenting the Little Sisters of the Poor, all the while devotedly celebrating the unblemished virtues of Islam. In 2015, Hillary bluntly stated that "[d]eep-seated ... religious beliefs ... have to be changed" to accommodate the unlimited abortion license. Then, last year, Democratic National Committee chairman Tom Perez said it is "not negotiable" that "[e]very Democrat" support abortion. Pelosi tried to mitigate Perez's remarks by saying "of course" there's room for pro-lifers in the Democratic Party, but try to find one who's not actually voting Perez-style.
This year, Pelosi watched the Democrats lurch wildly to the extreme left. For decades before that, they were trusted allies in the left's war on conventional morality and religion (except Islam!) for being repressive, patriarchal, and counterrevolutionary. It may be that, alarmed that the Democrat brand has become too materialistic, amoral, and atheist, she thinks she can give it religion. Maybe she can draw an unfavorable comparison between the reprobate and undisciplined Donald Trump and herself: the "ardent, practicing Catholic," who exhorts the President to beg for "the great understanding and wisdom" that she (and Chuck Schumer?) have already been granted by God. Haven't Republicans marched under the banner of morality and Christian values long enough? Now that they've elected the unholy Trump, why can't the Democrats seize that banner for themselves?
For one thing, because no evangelical or conservative Catholic would ever buy it. Sure, the Democratic Party is crowded with Catholics, but the serious ones left years ago. The leading unserious Catholic is Pelosi herself, who professes her devotion to the faith but does it while living in open, willful defiance of the Church's crystal-clear teaching against abortion: "It is the teaching of the Catholic Church from the very beginning that the killing of an unborn child is always intrinsically evil and can never be justified."
When her duplicity threatened to become an issue in 2004, Pelosi pretended that, moved by her "ardent" devotion to the Church, she had been studying the Church's teaching on the beginning of life "a long time," and she stated falsely to Tom Brokaw on Meet the Press that the Church has never defined it. Asked when human life begins, she replied, "We don't know," and that "[t]he point is, that it shouldn't have an impact on the woman's right to choose" – the "it" being when a human life begins, which shouldn't have an impact on the decision to get an abortion. Easy mistake to make when your catechism is Roe v. Wade.
Later, when a reporter mentioned the Gosnell infanticides and challenged her own support for partial-birth abortion, an agitated Pelosi snarled back that "[a]s a practicing and respectful Catholic, this is sacred ground to me when we talk about this[.] ... This shouldn't have anything to do with politics." But as a politician, she never stops talking about it, and the sacred ground she was talking about wasn't human life, but the exercise of a mother's "free will" to terminate her child. In response, New York's Cardinal Egan said, "Anyone who dares to defend that [the unborn] may be legitimately killed because another human being 'chooses' to do so or for any other equally ridiculous reason should not be providing leadership in a civilized democracy worthy of the name." Her own bishop reluctantly corrected her misstatements in a public letter, necessitated by "the widespread consternation among Catholics" of her deliberate distortions of Catholic doctrine. Pope Benedict counseled her, in person, on the Church's express teaching, "which enjoins all Catholics, and especially legislators," to protect "human life at all stages of its development." Pelosi, " the respectful Catholic" who presumed to tell Trump to pray for wisdom, emerged from thatmeeting no wiser for it, obtusely extolling the "Church's leadership in fighting poverty, hunger and global warming."
Jesus warned against hypocrites who make a public display of praying "that they may be seen by men." The way Pelosi pretends to exemplify "prayerful" politics, and the way she told Trump "in private" that she's praying for him – and immediately announced it in a televised press conference – is pure Pelosi: cynical, addlebrained, phony. If it might hurt Trump, she'll pontificate how every MS-13 killer retains a "spark of divinity," then goes right back to her life's work snuffing out that spark from 60 million innocents and counting. The Bible never says it's intrinsically evil to build a wall or protect a border, but it's still got that commandment against murder.
Let the Democrats canonize this Pharisee if they need a patron saint. Her feast day can fall on January 22.
T.R. Clancy looks at the world from Dearborn, Michigan. You can email him at trclancy@yahoo.com.
The Schumer & Pelosi show
Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi, the twin nutters of Congress, were certain they could beat Trump at his own game, but have made fools of themselves, as usual. The stand-off is not over but with each passing day, the Democrats reveal more of their anti-American, pro-illegal immigration agenda. Conservatives have been sounding the alarm for years: Democrats do not care about American citizens!
We are an annoying inconvenience, especially those of us who do not buy what they are selling. We vote against them, which makes them angry. They lash out at us, call us names, impugn our intelligence with fervor. All of the late-night comics, the Bill Mahers of the comedy branch of the entertainment industry, are especially venal. Jimmy Kimmel has decried those who have contributed to the GoFundMe page to fund the border wall as meth addicts. It was begun by a Vet, Brad Kolfage, who lost three limbs and it's raised nearly $15m.
It appears that Democratic members of Congress are as snowflakey as millennials on our university campuses. They assume that anyone who opposes their ridiculous socialist, genderless, climate-alarmist, virtue-signaling directives is a Neanderthal, unfit to have an opinion. It is then thoroughly acceptable to malign such people, those of us who oppose every aspect of their anti-America-as-founded agenda, in any and every disgusting manner they can devise.
The left is all about identity politics. They assign all of us to a group -- racial, class, and/or all of their fabricated gender categories. The right is all about individuals, their character, their talent, their contributions to society. We do not care about skin color, economic class or sexual orientation. We do care about good vs. evil, right vs. wrong. This makes us quite villainous in the eyes of the left for whom everything is relative. For example, we do not think poverty causes crime, unlearned values of Western Civilization do. Try to steal an election? It is moral if it takes out an opponent. We are, it appears, the left vs. the right, very different on a neurological level.
Schumer and Pelosi have armed guards whenever they are amongst the public. But they are both fervent in their quest to deny us the right to bear arms and to prevent a wall on the southern border to protect us from the flood of lethal drugs that flow into the US. They are impervious to the crimes of the barbaric gangs like MS13, no matter how many innocent Americans they kill. They do not give a thought to the many illegals from terrorist nations that also seek to enter the country on a daily basis. Schumer, Pelosi and their willing subjects in Congress ignore completely the horrific hazards that cross the border every day. They want cheap labor, no matter how many Americans are left jobless, and they want, more than anything, a dependent underclass whom they mean to give the right to vote. They already vote anyway, thanks to the Left's rejection of Common-sense voter ID.
If there were a television program based on Schumer and Pelosi, it would have to be a comedy; the two of them are so inept, so childish. They would be Dumb and Dumber redux. Each of them seems to believe they run the country and can dictate to the president how he will govern. They demand that Trump abandon the wall. They have no intention of compromising; they only want to deny Trump and his supporters what they want -- border security that works. So enraged, so benighted, by Trump's presidency, they would rather see us overrun by migrants from third-world nations, like those who have destroyed the UK, Germany, Sweden, and the rest of Europe, than protect America as a sovereign nation.
The "government shutdown" is just a ploy, many times overused by now, relatively meaningless to the lives of most Americans. The Schumer & Pelosi show will do everything they can to hype it as a disaster, but we all know it is nothing of the kind. Trump must hold out for funding of the wall.
While there have been some bad actors in our government in the past, Schumer and Pelosi are the worst of the worst. They are equally arrogant, each thoroughly ignorant of reality beyond the bubble of wealth and privilege they inhabit. They both believe themselves to be smarter than the rest of us, when in fact they are both really dim bulbs, long past their sell-by date. Yes, Pelosi is good at raising money; how and why is a mystery. That each of them is repeatedly re-elected does not say much for their constituents' familiarity with the Constitution, the law, American history or the facts in their own communities.
San Francisco, Pelosi's district is now a hell-hole but for her walled compound. New York too, like California, is a state that residents are fleeing as fast as they can. Both states have been destroyed by moonbatty leftists; high taxes, dumbing down of education for political purposes, and the sacrifice of common sense to global warming alarmists. Schumer and Pelosi have for years been on board with every silly attempt to restructure, to transform, American society. They both jumped on the Obama bandwagon the moment he was elected. Along with Obama, they are responsible for incalculable damage done to this country over the eight years of that administration. While their constant appearances on television are so often humorous (Pelosi's silly, practiced hand gestures and Schumer's relentless badgering of Trump), they are not one bit funny. They are just loathsome.
Pelosi's Stake in Illegal Immigration
The Minuteman Project, founded by Jim Gilchrist (who is also the co-author of the book Minutemen: The Battle to Secure America’s Borders), is made up of citizen volunteers who watch our border with Mexico and report illegal entry to the border patrol. For performing that thankless task in full compliance with the law, Gilchrist and his colleagues have been falsely maligned as fascists, racists, and even murderers. They have been driven off the speaker’s platform at Columbia University and vilified by Leftist politicians and their handmaidens in the liberal press.
So it was no surprise that the mainstream media chose to ignore a recent press release, issued by his publisher, in which Gilchrist asked the question about Nancy Pelosi’s ethics that should be on the minds of every law-abiding American – including those immigrants who are following the law to become citizens here the proper way: “Do we really need a House Speaker whose every action is calculated to enhance her own financial interests, instead of focusing on how porous borders will affect the security of everyday American citizens?”
Gilchrist did not stop there. He demanded an investigation into Pelosi’s “economic stake in just the kind of illegal alien exploitation that we deplore in Minutemen.” But you would never know it from the liberal media, who - while ignoring this demand - have had no compunctions in calling for Speaker Hastert’s head in the wake of the Foley page controversy.
Gilchrist was reacting to my report several weeks ago in FrontPage Magazine that Pelosi – who owns non-union vineyards in Napa Valley where grape-picking depends chiefly on the availability of cheap foreign labor – is doing everything she can to help open the floodgates to more illegal immigration. And she wants the American taxpayers to pay their way. As even more proof of this than I previously reported, Pelosi does not want employers like her to be required to pay the cost of illegal aliens’ hospital care. She voted against a bill that would make employers liable for the reimbursements if an undocumented employee seeks medical attention. And she voted in favor of rewarding illegal aliens from Mexico with Social Security benefits.
At the same time, Pelosi has led the Democratic opposition to any effective border controls or documentation requirements. She opposed the Secure Fence Act of 2006, signed into law by President Bush, and voted against final passage of a border security and enforcement bill in 2005 which required that all businesses must use an electronic system to check if all new hires have the legal right to work in this country. She voted against a bill to bar drivers' licenses for illegal aliens in 2005. This year she opposed legislation requiring presentation of a legitimate government-issued photo ID to prove eligibility to vote, claiming that “there is little evidence anywhere in the country of a significant problem with non-citizen voters.” She is dead wrong. For example, an accused terrorist by the name of Nuradin Abdi was just recently reported to have illegally registered to vote at the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles. Nuradin Abdi was indicted earlier this year as part of a conspiracy to blow up the Columbus Mall.
How many other terrorist suspects may have slipped through the system because Leftists like Pelosi oppose any meaningful screens? Instead she continues to advocate our recognition of the flimsy, non-validated ID card that the Mexican consulates provide to illegal aliens before they cross over our border, called the “matricula consular”, which gives them phony documentation to set up bank accounts, apply for jobs, obtain social benefits, board airplanes, identify themselves to police, enter buildings that require IDs, obtain drivers’ licenses and then perhaps use those drivers’ licenses to try to illegally register to vote in our elections.
Pelosi also believes in giving sanctuary to illegal aliens. She opposed legislation to deny federal homeland security funding to state and local governments who refuse to share information they learn about an individual's immigration status with Federal immigration authorities. Pelosi’s hometown of San Francisco is one of the sanctuary cities she voted to protect for the benefit of illegal aliens. Pelosi even voted against strengthening our immigration law with regard to the deportability of alien terrorists.
Jim Gilchrist cut to the chase with this devastating observation that the mainstream media does not want you to read:
"As we’ve shown again and again in ‘Minutemen,’ the Democrats aren’t just hypocrites, but are working actively to subvert our legislative system to their own ends. Their only goal is votes, votes and more votes, no matter where they come from, no matter if they’re cast legally, no matter whether the person casting them is dead, alive, a citizen or an illegal alien."
Pelosi sees Jim Gilchrist’s Minutemen Project as a threat to her pro-illegal alien agenda. More illegal aliens mean more votes for the Democrats and more grape-pickers for Napa Valley vineyards like hers. So she even voted against a measure that would have cut off the use of U.S. taxpayers’ funds to tip off illegal aliens as to where the Minutemen citizen patrols may be located! She obviously wants to see the Minutemen put out of business – permanently. She can count on the liberal press to distort the work of the Minutemen and to keep out of the public eye Gilchrist’s pointed questions about her motivations for helping illegal aliens during the run-up to the mid-term elections that may make her the next Speaker of the House.
Gilchrist, of course, is accustomed to being vilified and prevented by the Left from getting his message out. In early October, he was prevented from finishing his speech at the "Minutemen Forum" sponsored by the Columbia College Republicans. Gilchrist had spoken for just a few minutes and managed to utter the words “I love the First Amendment” when a group of radical protestors took the stage and interrupted him, displaying a big banner saying "There are no illegals." More protestors then stormed the stage. Chaos erupted and the audience members who had come to hear Gilchrist speak never got the chance, which was precisely the protestors’ objective. As reported online by the staff of Columbia’s undergraduate newspaper, “a mosh pit of triumphal students and community members danced and chanted outside, "Asian, Black, Brown and White, we smashed the Minutemen tonight!" They also put out a statement declaring:
“The Minutemen are not a legitimate voice in the debate on immigration. They are a racist, armed militia who have declared open hunting season on immigrants, causing countless hate crimes and over 3000 deaths on the border. Why should exploitative corporations have free passes between nations, but individual people not? No human being is illegal.” (Emphasis added)
We have come to the point in this country where a bunch of radical protestors get to decide who is and who is not a legitimate voice in the debate on as critical a public policy issue as immigration. Such Leftists think that migration in a borderless world is a basic human right. They want no barriers, no guards, and no proof of lawful residency. They certainly do not want the Minutemen watching the border and reporting illegal entry to the authorities.
Leftist slogans like “no human being is illegal” are red herrings. It is not the human being who is illegal; it is what the human being does that may be illegal. One’s conduct is the test, not simply who one is. Immigrants who follow our rules are welcome here. Those who do not abide by our laws have no right to be here. A person who breaks into your house without your permission does not deserve room, board and a job as a reward, even if the intruder may be much poorer than you. He has broken the law and deserves to be punished for what he has done. Our country’s boundaries and rules for entry and residency similarly define who is permitted to be here and how we choose to protect ourselves. We are a land of immigrants, but we are also a land of laws with certain core values. Those seeking to enter our country and remain here must learn to accommodate to our laws and values, not the other way around. That is the way prior generations of immigrants did it, including those who passed through Ellis Island. Why should the law be thrown aside now?
What we are witnessing is a frontal challenge to our nation’s sovereignty. Mexico’s Foreign Secretary wants to drag us before the United Nations for intending to build a fence on our side of the border with our money to keep out aliens who seek to enter our country illegally. They will probably get a sympathetic ear as some UN bureaucrats believe there should be no such thing as “illegal” immigrants in the first place. For the first time in our history, Americans are being asked to cede the right to decide how we define ourselves as a nation and protect our own borders to a globalist governance body. Will Pelosi lead her liberal loyalists as House Speaker to support the UN against America’s right to control its own borders? Do we really want to risk finding out?
It is high time, as Jim Gilchrist demanded in the press release ignored by the mainstream media, that Pelosi come clean under oath as to her personal stake in the illegal immigration issue before she can do even more damage as House Speaker.
California
Has Become America's Cannibal State
https://townhall.com/columnists/victordavishanson/2019/04/11/california-has-become-americas-cannibal-state-n2544573
Watch the illegal immigrant 'conveyor belt' - in action
Exclusive–California
Refused 5.6K Requests to Turn over Criminal Illegal Aliens to Federal Officials
The sanctuary state of California refused 5,600 requests by federal
immigration officials over two years to turn over criminal illegal aliens,
state data finds.
California's
Rendezvous With Reality
https://townhall.com/columnists/victordavishanson/2019/02/28/californias-rendezvous-with-reality-n2542316
ADD CHAIN MIGRATION
WHEREBY THE ILLEGALS GET TO BRING UP THE REST OF THEIR FAMILY AND THEN DO THE
MATH!
Ready for the next 5
million illegals getting ready to enter the U.S. in 2019?
California
Wants to Secede? Let's Help Them!
Gavin Newsom’s First Act as California Governor: More Healthcare
for Illegal Aliens
Rich Pedroncelli / Associated
Press
California Governor Gavin Newsom’s first act in office was to propose
extending state healthcare benefits to more illegal aliens.
HALF THE MURDERS IN MEXIFORNIA ARE NOW BY MEX GANGS -
MORE THAN 90% OF THE MURDERS IN MEXICO’S SECOND LARGEST CITY ARE BY
MEXICANS!
Sheriff David Clarke (Ret.)
Enabling Criminal Aliens
NY Times: ’40-Year’ Flood of Immigration Turns Orange County
Blue
Frederic J. Brown/AFP/Getty
Images
The New York
Times admits a “40-year rise in the number of
immigrants” living in Orange County, California has transformed the region from
a “fortress of conservative Republicanism” to a Democrat electoral sweep.
Congress’s toleration
of the nation’s catch-and-release rules is responsible for the migration
crisis, outgoing Chief of Staff John Kelly told the Los Angeles Times.
Caught Again: Dangerous Gang Member Deported 10 Times Since 1993
Arrested in Tucson
Bienvenidos a Mexico:
California's ballot-harvesting, sure enough, is borrowed from Mexico
CALIFORNIA ICE CAPADES
Crackdown
on sheriffs, comfort for criminal illegals.
California
Has Become America's Cannibal State
https://townhall.com/columnists/victordavishanson/2019/04/11/california-has-become-americas-cannibal-state-n2544573
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For over
six years, California has had a top marginal income tax rate of 13.3 percent,
the highest in the nation. About 150,000 households in a state of 40 million
people now pay nearly half of the total annual state income tax.
The state
legislature sold that confiscatory tax rate on the idea that it was a temporary
fix and would eventually be phased out. No one believed that. California
voters, about 40 percent of whom pay no state income taxes, naturally approved
the extension of the high rate by an overwhelming margin.
California
recently raised gas taxes by 40 percent and now has the second-highest gas
taxes in the United States.
California
has the ninth-highest combined state and local sales taxes in the country, but
its state sales tax of 7.3 percent is America's highest. As of April 1,
California is now applying that high state sales tax to goods that residents
buy online from out-of-state sellers.
In late
2017, the federal government capped state and local tax deductions at $10,000.
For high earners in California, the change effectively almost doubled their
state and local taxes.
Such high
taxes, often targeting a small percentage of the population, may have brought
California a budget surplus of more than $20 million. Yet California is never
satiated with high new tax rates that bring in additional revenue. It's always
hungry for more.
Scott
Wiener, a Democratic state senator from San Francisco, has introduced a bill
that would create a new California estate tax. Wiener outlined a death tax of
40 percent on estates worth more than $3.5 million for single Californians or
more than $7 million for married couples.
Given the
soaring valuations of California properties, a new estate tax could force
children to sell homes or family farms they inherited just to pay the tax
bills.
Soon,
even more of the Californian taxpayers who chip in to pay half of the state
income taxes will flee in droves for low-tax or no-tax states.
What really
irks California taxpayers are the shoddy public services that they receive in
exchange for such burdensome taxes. California can be found near the bottom of
state rankings for schools and infrastructure.
San
Francisco ranks first among America's largest cities in property crimes per
capita. The massive concrete ruins of the state's quarter-built and now either
canceled or postponed multibillion-dollar high-speed rail system are already
collecting graffiti.
Roughly a
quarter of the nation's homeless live in California. So do about one-third of
all Americans on public assistance. Approximately one-fifth of the state's
population lives below the poverty line. About one-third of Californians are
enrolled in Medi-Cal, the state's health care program for low-income residents.
California's
social programs are magnets that draw in the indigent from all over the world,
who arrive in search of generous health, education, legal, nutritional and
housing subsidies. Some 27 percent of the state's residents were not born in
the United States.
Last
month alone, nearly 100,000 foreign nationals were stopped at the southern
border, according to officials. Huge numbers of migrants are able to make it
across without being caught, and many end up in California.
A lot of
upper-middle-class taxpayers feel that not only does California fail to
appreciate their contributions, but that the state often blames them for not
paying even more -- as if paying about half of their incomes to local, state
and federal governments somehow reveals their greed.
The
hyper-wealthy liberal denizens of Hollywood, Silicon Valley and the coastal
enclaves often seem exempt from the consequences of the high taxes they so
often advocate for others. The super-rich either have the clout to hire experts
to help them avoid such taxes, or they simply have so much money that they are
not much affected by even California's high taxes.
What is
the ideology behind such destructive state policies?
Venezuela,
which is driving out its middle class, is apparently California's model.
Venezuelan leaders believed in providing vast subsidies for the poor. The
country's super-rich are often crony capitalists who can avoid high taxes.
Similarly,
California is waging an outright war on the upper-middle class, which lacks the
numbers of the poor and the clout of the rich.
Those who
administer California's plagued department of motor vehicles and high-speed
rail authority may often be inept and dysfunctional, but the state's tax
collectors are the most obsessive bureaucrats in the nation.
What is
Sacramento's message to those who combine to pay half the state's income taxes
and have not yet left California?
"Be
gone or we will eat you!"
Watch the illegal immigrant 'conveyor belt' - in action
Want to see how the illegal immigrant
'conveyor belt' works?
Here in San Diego, a demonstration of it
in action was posted by the San Diego office of the U.S. Border Patrol on
Twitter, which was then all over the local news, and then
picked up by the Daily Mail.
Video
captured 3/14 shows an illegal crossing of Central American migrants. None of
the 52 people surrendered to the #USBP agent on the beach. All 52 people were eventually arrested after a 2 hour
foot chase with multiple agents. Once in custody, everyone claimed asylum. #CBP
Some 50-plus illegal immigrants
traveling in family units slipped through one of the openings in the junk
fences delineating the U.S.-Mexico border in San Diego, and then, in two
groups, ran in procession to the U.S. Border Patrol vehicle waiting for
them on the beach at Imperial Beach to promptly claim asylum.
A total of 52
people were arrested for crossing the border illegally and CBP said it did not
appear anyone got away. This includes 23 males, ages 18 to 53, 12 females,
ages 21 to 50, and 17 juveniles, ages 1 to 14.
Video captured
at the scene, where the wall was cut and people got through, credited to
“Mexican Andy.”
It was all so very orderly, actually.
Border chaos? Not in the least. There's border order all right, but it's
cartels who control the order. They already are the ones who take the fees
(or promises of free labor or drug transport) from the illegal migrants and
anyone who doesn't pay doesn't cross. Cartels not only sell access, they
provide a package deal - with the legal instruction, Mexico-based bus service
from Central America to the border, and the U.S. bus service to the U.S.
workplaces, all for a tidy profit, made even more profitable as economies of
scale kick in. As Rick Moran noted in his blog post yesterday, the conveyor
belt has enabled the cartels to 'drastically
lower their overhead costs while maximizing profit.'
Which is why the U.S. is on track to
apprehend a million illegal immigrants - a figure which doesn't count those who
get in without getting caught. Those conveyor-belt economies of scale produce
numbers.
Facts:
If border crossings continue at the same record levels they were at in February, 916,000+ illegal aliens will flow into our country this year
This is unsustainable for any country. There is an undeniable crisis at our border
This is a emergency!
Build. The. Wall.
If border crossings continue at the same record levels they were at in February, 916,000+ illegal aliens will flow into our country this year
This is unsustainable for any country. There is an undeniable crisis at our border
This is a emergency!
Build. The. Wall.
And the false identification business
is being cranked to eleven. Where there is demand, there will be those who
fill the demand, and to scale:
Wow:
An illegal alien in Oregon is charged with creating and distributing over 10,000 fake IDs, voter registration cards, & Social Security cards
How many illegal aliens were able to vote and exploit our welfare state because of his crimes?
How can Democrats support this?
An illegal alien in Oregon is charged with creating and distributing over 10,000 fake IDs, voter registration cards, & Social Security cards
How many illegal aliens were able to vote and exploit our welfare state because of his crimes?
How can Democrats support this?
The border crossing seen here, with all
of the illegal migrants lining up for their phony asylum claims, appears to be
a good representation of the dynamic described in the Washington Post's investigative
piece about these 'conveyor belts' that ran two days
ago.
It shows how the U.S. has lost control,
given that the Border Patrol is powerless to send these illegal crossers back.
Border Patrol agents are supposed to
determine who gets into the U.S., but with this video, it's
obvious they are just reduced to being handmaidens and enablers of
the cartel and its conveyor belt, handing the lined up illegals their asylum
claim papers. Cartels are the ones who school these migrants for entry into the
U.S., teaching them how to immediately launch claims for asylum whether they
merit it or not, and then board the bus waiting for them for the jobs awaiting
them with those de facto if
temporary legalization papers the asylum claim gives them. The Border
Patrol has been reduced to being their instrument.
Democrats who claim to be against
walls and borders show just how disingenuous their claims really are. Walls and
borders will always be there, but the real question is whether they
want cartels to control the access, as they are in this conveyor-belt video, or
U.S. Border Patrol agents.
I'm no big fan of the big
state but I sure as heck don't want vile money-grubbing Mexican cartels
replacing it. The conveyor belt shows that it's actually an either-or
proposition.
Exclusive–California
Refused 5.6K Requests to Turn over Criminal Illegal Aliens to Federal Officials
28 Feb 20192,401
4:06
The sanctuary state of California refused 5,600 requests by federal
immigration officials over two years to turn over criminal illegal aliens,
state data finds.
In
an exclusive interview with SiriusXM Patriot’s Breitbart News Tonight, Immigration Reform Law
Institute (IRLI) Executive Director Dale Wilcox revealed that within a 27-month
period, the state of California had failed to honor about 5,600 Immigration and
Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainers which are the holds ICE agents file to
local jails and police to request that an illegal alien be turned over to them
for arrest and deportation.
Of
these 5,600 failed ICE detainers, more than 3,400 were lodged against an
illegal alien who had been classified “level 1” and “level 2” offenders —
meaning that these illegal aliens had been charged with crimes like homicide,
kidnapping, sexual assault, robbery, aggravated assault, drugs, and fraud.
“The
bottom line is, sanctuary cities are neither humane or compassionate,” Wilcox
told Breitbart News Tonight.
“They’re dangerous policies that cost Americans lives … what will it take for
these anti-borders politicians to wake up and put the safety and security of
their citizens, their legal residents before the interests of criminal aliens.”
About
250 of the ICE detainers not honored had been filed to Napa County and Sonoma
County law enforcement officials. These two California counties had sanctuary
city policies before the state’s statewide sanctuary policy.
The
5,600 failed requests by ICE to have criminal illegal aliens turned over to
them came before California enacted their statewide sanctuary policy, where all
local jails and counties are prohibited from cooperating with federal
immigration officials.
IRLI
researchers said records after the passage of California’s sanctuary state
policy are likely to show an increased number of cases where local jails and
law enforcement officials refused to turn criminal illegal aliens over to ICE.
In
a specific case, most recently, Wilcox noted that Napa County, California
deputy Riley Jarecki was nearly killed by
three-time deported illegal alien Javier Hernandez-Morales during a traffic
stop after local officials refused to turn him over to ICE agents for
deportation.
“Its
own deputy almost got killed as a result of its refusal to honor ICE detainer
requests,” Wilcox said. “And this individual had been deported three times in
the past … so they say there’s no need emergency or need for a wall, this
criminal alien is just walking back into the country.”
ICE
had requested four separate times that Hernandez-Morales be turned over to them
to be arrested and deported back to Mexico. Three of the detainers were placed
with the Napa Couty Sheriff’s Department and one was placed with the Sonoma
County Sheriff’s Department. None of the ICE detainers were honored.
Wilcox
said Americans’ lives are being put at risk in sanctuary cities and sanctuary
states like California, all so that Democrats are able to import potential voters.
“With
the Democrats, it’s about potential, future voters,” Wilcox said. “They have an
interest in bringing in new voters so that they can win elections. That’s what
that’s all about. I mean, 10 years ago, Democrats weren’t out preaching
sanctuary cities and open borders, that just wasn’t their party platform.
They’ve swallowed this belief that if you want to stay in power, if you want to
win future elections, more voters and diverse voters is the way to go.”
“Sanctuary
cities are dangerous. They’re not humane, they’re not compassionate,” Wilcox
continued. “People are dying. It’s senseless and avoidable deaths. There’s no
excuse for politicians to sell out their constituency for potential, future
voters.”
Listen
to Wilcox’s full interview here:
California's
Rendezvous With Reality
https://townhall.com/columnists/victordavishanson/2019/02/28/californias-rendezvous-with-reality-n2542316
Californians brag that their state is the world's fifth-largest economy.
They talk as reverentially of Silicon Valley companies Apple, Facebook and
Google as the ancient Greeks did of their Olympian gods.
Hollywood and universities such as Caltech, Stanford and Berkeley are
cited as permanent proof of the intellectual, aesthetic and technological
dominance of West Coast culture.
Californians also see their progressive, one-party state as a
neo-socialist model for a nation moving hard to the left.
But how long will they retain such confidence?
California's 40 million residents depend on less than one-percent of the
state's taxpayers to pay nearly half of the state income tax, which for
California's highest tier of earners tops out at the nation's highest rate of
13.3 percent.
In other words, California cannot afford to lose even a few thousand of
its wealthiest individual taxpayers. But a new federal tax law now caps
deductions for state and local taxes at $10,000 -- a radical change that
promises to cost many high-earning taxpayers tens of thousands of dollars.
If even a few thousand of the state's one-percent flee to nearby no-tax
states such as Nevada or Texas, California could face a devastating shortfall
in annual income.
During the 2011-16 California drought, politicians and experts claimed
that global warming had permanently altered the climate, and that snow and rain
would become increasingly rare in California. As a result, long-planned
low-elevation reservoirs, designed to store water during exceptionally wet
years, were considered all but useless and thus were never built.
Then, in 2016 and 2017, California received record snow and rainfall --
and the windfall of millions of acre-feet of runoff was mostly let out to sea.
Nothing since has been learned.
California has again been experiencing rain and cold that could approach
seasonal records. The state has been soaked by some 18 trillion gallons of rain
in February alone. With still no effort to expand California's water-storage
capacity, millions of acre-feet of runoff are once again cascading out to sea
(and may be sorely missed next year).
The inability to build reservoirs is especially tragic given that the
state's high-speed-rail project has gobbled up more than $5 billion in funds
without a single foot of track laid. The total cost soared from an original $40
billion promise to a projected $77 billion. To his credit, newly elected Gov.
Gavin Newsom, fearing a budget catastrophe, canceled the statewide project
while allowing a few miles of the quarter-built Central Valley "track to
nowhere" to be finished.
For years, high-speed rail has drained the state budget of transportation
funds that might have easily updated nightmarish stretches of the Central
Valley's Highway 99, or ensured that the nearby ossified Amtrak line became a
modern two-track line.
California
politicians vie with each other to prove their open-borders bona fides in an
effort to appeal to the estimated 27 percent of Californians who were not born
in the United States.
But
the health, educational and legal costs associated with massive illegal
immigration are squeezing the budget. About a third of the California budget
goes to the state's Medicare program, Medi-Cal. Half the state's births are
funded by Medi-Cal, and in nearly a third of those state-funded births, the
mother is an undocumented immigrant.
California is facing a perfect storm of
homelessness. Its labyrinth of zoning and building regulations discourages
low-cost housing. Its generous welfare benefits, non-enforcement of vagrancy
and public health laws, and moderate climate draw in the homeless. Nearly
one-third of the nation's welfare recipients live in the state, and nearly one
in five live below the poverty line.
The result is that tens of thousands of
people live on the streets and sidewalks of the state's major cities, where
primeval diseases such as typhus have reappeared.
California's progressive government seems
clueless how to deal with these issues, given that solutions such as low-cost
housing and strict enforcement of health codes are seen as either too expensive
or politically incorrect.
In sum, California has no margin for error.
Spiraling entitlements, unwieldy pension costs, money wasted on high-speed
rail, inadequate water storage and delivery, and lax immigration policies were
formerly tolerable only because about 150,000 Californians paid huge but
federally deductible state income taxes.
No more. Californians may have once derided the state's one-percent as
selfish rich people. Now, they are praying that these heavily burdened
taxpayers stay put and are willing to pay far more than what they had paid
before.
That is the only way California can continue to spend money on projects
that have not led to safe roads, plentiful water, good schools and safe
streets.
A California reckoning is on the horizon, and it may not be pretty.
city journal – california’s
poverty
FROM THE MAGAZINE
poor in the Golden State?
California
Economy,
finance, and budgets
California—not
Mississippi, New Mexico, or West Virginia—has the highest poverty rate in the
United States. According to the Census Bureau’s Supplemental Poverty
Measure—which accounts for the cost of housing, food, utilities, and clothing,
and which includes noncash government assistance as a form of income—nearly one
out of four Californians is poor. Given robust job growth in the state and the prosperity
generated by several industries, especially the supercharged tech sector, the
question arises as to why California has so many poor people, especially when
the state’s per-capita GDP increased roughly twice as much as the U.S. average
over the five years ending in 2016 (12.5 percent, compared with 6.27 percent).
It’s not
as if California policymakers have neglected to wage war on poverty. Sacramento
and local governments have spent massive amounts in the cause, for decades now.
Myriad state and municipal benefit programs overlap with one another; in some
cases, individuals with incomes 200 percent above the poverty line receive
benefits, according to the California Policy Center. California state and local
governments spent nearly $958 billion from 1992 through 2015 on public welfare
programs, including cash-assistance payments, vendor payments, and “other
public welfare,” according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Unfortunately,
California, with 12 percent of the American population, is home today to roughly
one in three of the nation’s welfare recipients. The generous spending, then,
has not only failed to decrease poverty; it actually seems to have made it
worse.
In the
late 1980s and early 1990s, some states—principally Wisconsin, Michigan, and
Virginia—initiated welfare reform, as did the federal government under
President Bill Clinton and the Republican Congress. The common thread of the
reformed welfare programs was strong work requirements placed on aid
recipients. These overhauls were widely recognized as a big success, as welfare
rolls plummeted and millions of former aid recipients entered the workforce.
The state and local bureaucracies that implement California’s antipoverty
programs, however, have resisted pro-work reforms. In fact, California recipients
of state aid receive a disproportionately large share of it in
no-strings-attached cash disbursements. It’s as if welfare reform passed
California by, leaving a dependency trap in place. Immigrants are falling into
it: 55 percent of immigrant families in the state get some kind of means-tested
benefits, compared with just 30 percent of natives, according to City Journal contributing editor Kay S. Hymowitz.
Self-interest
in the social-services community may be at work here. If California’s poverty
rate should ever be substantially reduced by getting the typical welfare client
back into the workforce, many bureaucrats could lose their jobs. As economist
William A. Niskanen explained back in 1971, public agencies seek to maximize
their budgets, through which they acquire increased power, status, comfort, and
job security. In order to keep growing its budget, and hence its power, a
welfare bureaucracy has an incentive to expand its “customer” base—to ensure
that the welfare rolls remain full and, ideally, growing. With 883,000
full-time-equivalent state and local employees in 2014, according to Governing, California has an enormous bureaucracy—a unionized,
public-sector workforce that exercises tremendous power through voting and
lobbying. Many work in social services.
Further
contributing to the poverty problem is California’s housing crisis.
Californians spent more than one-third of their incomes on housing in 2014, the
third-highest rate in the country. A shortage of housing has driven prices ever
higher, far above income increases. And that shortage is a direct outgrowth of
misguided policies. “Counties and local governments have imposed restrictive
land-use regulations that drove up the price of land and dwellings,” explains
analyst Wendell Cox. “Middle income households have been forced to accept lower
standards of living while the less fortunate have been driven into poverty by
the high cost of housing.” The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA),
passed in 1971, is one example; it can add $1 million to the cost of completing
a housing development, says Todd Williams, an Oakland attorney who chairs the
Wendel Rosen Black & Dean land-use group. CEQA costs have been known to
shut down entire home-building projects. CEQA reform would help increase housing
supply, but there’s no real movement to change the law.
Extensive
environmental regulations aimed at reducing carbon-dioxide emissions make
energy more expensive, also hurting the poor. On some estimates, California
energy costs are as much as 50 percent higher than the national average.
Jonathan A. Lesser of Continental Economics, author of a 2015 Manhattan
Institute study, “Less Carbon, Higher Prices,” found that “in 2012, nearly 1
million California households faced ‘energy poverty’—defined as energy
expenditures exceeding 10 percent of household income. In certain California
counties, the rate of energy poverty was as high as 15 percent of all
households.” A Pacific Research Institute study by Wayne Winegarden found that
the rate could exceed 17 percent of median income in some areas. “The impacts
on the poorest households are not only the largest,” states Winegarden. “They
are clearly unaffordable.”
Looking
to help poor and low-income residents, California lawmakers recently passed a
measure raising the minimum wage from $10 an hour to $15 an hour by 2022—but a
higher minimum wage will do nothing for the 60 percent of Californians who live
in poverty and don’t have jobs, and studies suggest that it will likely cause
many who do have jobs to lose them. A Harvard study found evidence that “higher
minimum wages increase overall exit rates for restaurants” in the Bay Area,
where more than a dozen cities and counties, including San Francisco, have
changed their minimum-wage ordinances in the last five years. “Estimates
suggest that a one-dollar increase in the minimum wage leads to a 14 percent
increase in the likelihood of exit for a 3.5-star restaurant (which is the
median rating),” the report says. These restaurants are a significant source of
employment for low-skilled and entry-level workers.
Apparently
content with futile poverty policies, Sacramento lawmakers can turn their
attention to what historian Victor Davis Hanson aptly describes as a fixation
on “remaking the world.” The political class wants to build a costly and
needless high-speed rail system; talks of secession from a United States
presided over by Donald Trump; hired former attorney general Eric Holder to
“resist” Trump’s agenda; enacted the first state-level cap-and-trade regime; established
California as a “sanctuary state” for illegal immigrants; banned plastic bags,
threatening the jobs of thousands of workers involved in their manufacture; and
is consumed by its dedication to “California values.” All this only reinforces
the rest of America’s perception of an out-of-touch Left Coast, to the
disservice of millions of Californians whose values are more traditional,
including many of the state’s poor residents.
California’s
de facto status as a one-party state lies at the heart of its poverty problem.
With a permanent majority in the state senate and the assembly, a prolonged
dominance in the executive branch, and a weak opposition, California Democrats
have long been free to indulge blue-state ideology while paying little or no
political price. The state’s poverty problem is unlikely to improve while
policymakers remain unwilling to unleash the engines of economic prosperity
that drove California to its golden years.
Kerry Jackson is the Pacific Research Institute’s fellow in
California studie
ADD CHAIN MIGRATION
WHEREBY THE ILLEGALS GET TO BRING UP THE REST OF THEIR FAMILY AND THEN DO THE
MATH!
Ready for the next 5
million illegals getting ready to enter the U.S. in 2019?
Gallup put out a poll last
week, finding that five million Latin Americans plan to cross into the U.S.
this year alone. And the total number who plan to enter the U.S., either this
year, or later, is 42 million. The U.S. admits a million legal
immigrants each year from all countries. This new survey
shows that at least four million of that five million are
planning to enter illegally, most likely by crossing the border. That's a human
tide.
And the case for President
Trump declaring an emergency and building a wall instead of bargaining with an
unwilling Congress convinced there's no crisis has just gotten that much
stronger.
Here's
a good question about caravans: How many more are coming?
Gallup
asked the whole population of Latin America. There are 33 countries in Latin
America and the Caribbean. Roughly 450 million adults live in the region.
Gallup asked them, "Would you
like to move to another country permanently if you could?"
A
whopping 27% said "yes."
So
this means roughly 120 million would like to migrate somewhere.
The
next question Gallup asked was, "Where would you like to move?"
Of
those who want to leave their Latin American country permanently, 35% said they want to go to the
United States.
The Gallup analytics estimate is that 42
million want to come to the U.S.
That is one hell of a big
number, particularly since much of the data suggest that the U.S. already
houses some 30 million illegal immigrants. Four or five million more will
increase the illegal population by 12% to 17% in just one year, something that
will make assimilation for migrants already here in migrant enclaves that
much harder. Migrant enclaves already are at the top of the U.S. lists for
bad places to live - 10 of the 50 worst places in America to live
according to this list are
in California, and all of them are famous for their illegal populations. The
newcomers will need social services, given that most will not have the
requisite language, education or skills to succeed here. Many will be
unwed mothers, which ensures even here that they will be assimilating into
the underclass. The cost to taxpayers to feed, house, educate, medically
treat and jail the newcomers will run into billions.
And sure enough, the
Border Patrol does say that illegal border crossings are up, way up,
and hitting record
numbers, according to the Washington Post. The human tide has started.
Gallup's CEO does ask an
intelligent question in the wake of this new reality:
Most
U.S. citizens like me just want to know the plan. What is the 10-year plan? How
many, exactly whom and what skills will they bring? What do we want? Answer
these questions, and the current discussion can be resolved.
Keep
in mind that it's not only 330 million Americans who are wondering -- so are 42
million seekers from Latin America.
I can add that Latin America
isn't the only place where people are contemplating entering the U.S.
illegally. The African and Asian continents are also loaded with aspiring
illegal immigrants.
Democrats, of course are
never going to answer that question.
But it needs answering,
because the human waves are coming.
Gallup didn't ask Latin
Americans why they might be planning to come now in such great
numbers this year, but it's pretty obvious that one answer is that there is an
ongoing border wall debate, and the talk just keeps going.
So long as the U.S. is
enmired in Democrats' blockage of any funds for a border wall, yet the talk
goes on of building, the message to illegal migrants is to move. Get in before
the wall gets built while the Democrats are still arguing. This is the window.
Don't wait for the border wall to get built. Get in under the wire.
That very dynamic is a good argument
for why President Trump should just skip the shenanigans with the Democrats,
declare an emergency, and build the wall. The longer this drags on the
more the human waves are going to build. And as Gallup reports, we're looking
at a tsunami.
CALIFORNIA'S POPULATION
TO DOUBLE from ILLEGALS along with their CRIME RATES!
Times Staff Writers
July 10, 2007
Over the next
half-century, California's population will explode by nearly 75%, and Riverside
will surpass its bigger neighbors to become the second most populous county
after Los Angeles, according to state Department of Finance projections
released Monday. California will near the 60-million mark in 2050, the study
found, raising questions about how the state will look and function and where all
the people and their cars will go. Dueling visions pit the iconic California
building block of ranch house, big yard and two-car garage against more dense,
high-rise development. But whether sprawl or skyscrapers win the day, the
Golden State will probably be a far different and more complex place than it is
today, as people live longer and Latinos become the dominant ethnic group,
eclipsing all others combined. Some critics forecast disaster if gridlock and
environmental impacts are not averted. Others see a possible economic boon,
particularly for retailers and service industries with an eye on the state as a
burgeoning market. "It's opportunity with baggage," said Jack Kyser,
chief economist for the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corp., in
"a country masquerading as a state. "Other demographers argue that
the huge population increase the state predicts will occur only if officials
complete major improvements to roads and other public infrastructure. Without
that investment, they say, some Californians would flee the state. If the
finance department's calculations hold, California's population will rise from
34.1 million in 2000 to 59.5 million at the mid-century point, about the same
number of people as Italy has today. And its projected growth rate in those 50
years will outstrip the national rate — nearly 75% compared with less than 50%
projected by the federal government. That could translate to increased
political clout in Washington, D.C. Southern California's population is
projected to grow at a rate of more than 60%, according to the new state
figures, reaching 31.6 million by mid-century. That's an increase of 12.1
million over just seven counties. L.A. County alone will top 13 million by
2050, an increase of almost 3.5 million residents. And Riverside County — long
among the fastest-growing in the state — will triple in population to 4.7
million by mid-century. Riverside County will add 3.1 million people, according
to the new state figures, eclipsing Orange and San Diego to become the second
most populous in the state. With less expensive housing than the coast,
Riverside County has grown by more than 472,000 residents since 2000, according
to state estimates. No matter how much local governments build in the way of
public works and how many new jobs are attracted to the region — minimizing the
need for long commutes — Housing figures that growth will still overwhelm the
area's roads. USC Professor Genevieve Giuliano, an expert on land use and
transportation, would probably agree. Such massive growth, if it occurs, she
said, will require huge investment in the state's highways, schools, and energy
and sewer systems at a "very formidable cost."If those things aren't
built, Giuliano questioned whether the projected population increases will occur.
"Sooner or later, the region will not be competitive and the growth is not
going to happen," she said.If major problems like traffic congestion and
housing costs aren't addressed, Giuliano warned, the middle class is going to
exit California, leaving behind very high-income and very low-income residents.
"It's a political question," said Martin Wachs, a transportation
expert at the Rand Corp. in Santa Monica. "Do we have the will, the
consensus, the willingness to pay? If we did, I think we could manage the
growth. "The numbers released Monday underscore most demographers' view
that the state's population is pushing east, from both Los Angeles and the Bay
Area, to counties such as Riverside and San Bernardino as well as half a dozen
or so smaller Central Valley counties. Sutter County, for example, is expected
to be the fastest-growing on a percentage basis between 2000 and 2050, jumping
255% to a population of 282,894 , the state said. Kern County is expected to
see its population more than triple to 2.1 million by mid-century. In Southern
California, San Diego County is projected to grow by almost 1.7 million
residents and Orange County by 1.1 million. Even Ventura County — where voters
have imposed some limits on urban sprawl — will see its population jump 62% to
more than 1.2 million if the projections hold. The Department of Finance
releases long-term population projections every three years. Between the last
two reports, number crunchers have taken a more detailed look at California's
statistics and taken into account the likelihood that people will live longer,
said chief demographer Mary Heim. The result? The latest numbers figure the
state will be much more crowded than earlier estimates (by nearly 5 million)
and that it will take a bit longer than previously thought for Latinos to
become the majority of California's population: 2042, not 2038. The figures
show that the majority
of California's growth
will be in the Latino population, said
Dowell Myers, a professor
of urban planning and demography
at USC, adding that
"68% of the growth this decade will be
Latino, 75% next and 80%
after that."That should be a wake-up call for voting Californians, Myers
said, pointing out a critical disparity. Though the state's growth is young and
Latino, the majority of voters will be older and white — at least for the next
decade." The future of the state is Latino growth," Myers said.
"We'd sure better invest in them and get them up to speed. Older white
voters don't see it that way. They don't realize that someone has to replace
them in the work force, pay for their benefits and buy their house."
California
Wants to Secede? Let's Help Them!
California is a part of America. But it’s
no longer American. It is a foreign state. It is a fugitive state. The U.S.
Constitution and the rule of law no longer apply in California. Call it, “The
People’s Socialist Republic of California.” It’s a state without a country. But
it’s certainly no longer American in any way.
Liberals in California want to secede.
They are trying to put it on the ballot. They call it “Calexit.” I say, “Glory
Hallelujah." Let’s help make it happen. I propose 63 million Trump
voters join the team. Let's work 24/7 to turn their dream into a reality!
Millions of illegal aliens live in
California; drive in California with official state-issued drivers’ licenses;
and of course, use those licenses to vote in California. Millions. That’s
precisely how Hillary won California by over 4 million votes.
California supports illegal aliens over
legal, law-abiding American citizens. They support illegals getting free
college tuition, while children of native-born Americans pay full fare. They
support illegals over police and ICE. Many liberals in California want to
abolish ICE. They want no borders and no immigration law.
The Attorney General of California has
warned any business owner who cooperates with ICE will face prosecution by the
state of California. You heard correctly. California will put the
business owner in prison, for cooperating with federal law, to protect the
criminal breaking the law.
The Mayor of Oakland famously played Paul
Revere to warn illegal felons “ICE is coming. ICE is coming.” The Feds report
over 800 felons evaded arrest because of that stunt. How many legal,
law-abiding, native-born Americans will be robbed, raped, or murdered in the
coming weeks because of that act of sedition?
A California judge just sided with the
ACLU and barred LA County from enforcing gang restrictions that dramatically
lowered crime. California has once again sided with hoodlums and gang-bangers
over the law-abiding taxpayers.
In Oakland, a coffee shop prohibits
employees from serving police, in order to create a “safe space” for their
customers. Californians hate and distrust police more than illegal felons and
thugs who speak no English and wear gang tattoos. Really.
All of this is sheer madness. But
California has taken it to a whole new level.
Just this week the California Senate
appointed the first-ever illegal alien to an official statewide post. Lizbeth
Mateo, a 33-year old illegal alien-turned-attorney, will serve on the official
state committee that doles out money to illegals attending college. In California,
illegals now decide how taxpayer money is spent.
President Trump loves to brand (see
"Crooked Hillary"). Let’s brand California. It’s not a “Sanctuary
State.” It’s a “Fugitive State.” It’s a place that chooses to let felons and
fugitives run free. It’s a place where the rights of criminals are far more
important than protecting legal, law-abiding American citizens who pay taxes.
We are the second class citizens in California.
Here’s the way to fix the problem. Liberal
Californians want to secede. I'm joining the movement. How about you?
Conservatives should beg California to
secede. We should make it easy for them. We should help pay for it. Pass the
hat. Every conservative should chip in $20. I’ll throw $1000 to get the ball
rolling.
Just think of elections. Without
California, Trump and all future Republican presidential candidates would win,
without breaking a sweat. Without California, we’d easily win the popular vote.
And we'd win the electoral vote by a landslide.
Next think of Congress. California has 53
House seats. Democrats lead 39-14, for a net gain of 25 seats. Send California
packing and the GOP gains a 25 House seat lead. We would dominate the House for
decades to come.
And of course, the GOP would gain an
automatic two seats in the Senate through the subtraction of California. As it
stands now, those two U.S. Senate seats are deep blue Democrat forever. But if
California secedes a 51-49 GOP lead instantly moves to 51-47.
If 63 million Trump voters just gave an
average of $20 each to the "Calexit movement" that’s over $1.2
billion dollars. That’s enough money to help California secede, with enough
left over as a down payment on building a wall…
with California.
Gavin Newsom’s First Act as California Governor: More Healthcare
for Illegal Aliens
8 Jan 20193,669
2:32
California Governor Gavin Newsom’s first act in office was to propose
extending state healthcare benefits to more illegal aliens.
On
Tuesday, shortly after being sworn in, Newsom — who ran on the proposal of
providing healthcare to everyone in California, though he struggled to explain how he
would pay for it — signed an executive order taking steps in that direction.
In
his first executive order, Newsom directed the state to
create a single government purchaser for prescription drugs to increase
negotiating leverage with pharmaceutical companies. Alongside the order,
Newsom proposed extending
Medi-Cal — the state’s version of Medicaid — to illegal aliens up to the age of
26, rather than 19.
Breitbart TV
The governor’s forthcoming budget,
his office said, “will make California the first state in the nation to cover
young undocumented adults through a state Medicaid program.”
That
would cover 138,000 “young people in the country illegally,” according to the Associated Press.
“Undocumented young adults should
not have to worry about losing their health coverage when they turn 19,” the
governor’s office added, saying that the budget proposals, to be presented
later this week, would defend Obamacare from “recent federal attacks” and
“bring the state closer toward the goal of health care for all.”
In his inaugural address, Newsom
promised “sanctuary to all who seek it” — a reference to California’s status as
a “sanctuary state” for illegal aliens that refuses to help enforce federal
immigration law.
That policy continues to be a
lightning rod for national criticism after the murder last month of Corporal
Ronil Singh, a legal immigrant and police officer who was allegedly shot and
killed by an illegal alien during a traffic stop.
In addition, Newsom’s new budget
“proposes increasing the size of the subsidies for families who already receive
it, and it would make California the first state to make subsidies available to
middle income families,” his office said.
To pay for the expansion of those benefits, Newsom is proposing that California restore the individual mandate to purchase health insurance, which was canceled by President Donald Trump at the federal level.
To pay for the expansion of those benefits, Newsom is proposing that California restore the individual mandate to purchase health insurance, which was canceled by President Donald Trump at the federal level.
Schumer
also sent a letter to President Trump and to congressional leaders asking for
legislative changes that he argues would make it easier for states, including
California, to develop a single-payer healthcare system.
Joel B. Pollak is Senior
Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak
Journalism Alumni Fellowship. He is also the co-author of How
Trump Won: The Inside Story of a Revolution, which is available from
Regnery. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.
HALF THE MURDERS IN MEXIFORNIA ARE NOW BY MEX GANGS -
MORE THAN 90% OF THE MURDERS IN MEXICO’S SECOND LARGEST CITY ARE BY
MEXICANS!
Sheriff David Clarke (Ret.)
Enabling Criminal Aliens
Source: AP Photo/Noah Berger
The murder of Newman California
Police Corporal Ronil Singh allegedly by an illegal alien with a criminal past
is the latest high-profile killing of an American citizen that contains nearly
every element in our illegal immigration discourse.
Singh,
33, legally immigrated to the United States, became a U.S. citizen, and then
became one of Newman’s finest citizens serving as a police officer for twelve
years. Singh’s legal entry into the U.S. added value to our country. Sadly,
this husband and father of a 5-month-old son was allegedly murdered by an
illegal criminal alien gang member on Christmas Eve.
This
tragedy was preventable.
Singh’s
suspected murderer had “prior criminal activity that should have been reported
to ICE,” Stanislaus County Sheriff Adam Christianson had said. “Law enforcement
was prohibited because of sanctuary laws and that led to the encounter with
(Cpl.) Singh… the outcome could have been different if law enforcement wasn’t
restricted or had their hands tied because of political interference.”
California
is a state that provides a safe harbor for people illegally in the country.
California boasts its status as a sanctuary state in violation of federal law
and the supremacy clause in Article VI of the U.S. Constitution. California
cities have passed laws prohibiting local law enforcement agencies from
cooperating with law enforcement officers from the U.S. Immigration and Customs
Enforcement (ICE) with the apprehension of illegal immigrants even after they
have committed a crime. Many of these illegal criminals continue on to murder,
rape and rob U.S. citizens post-release from a local jail under the
catch-and-release policies before notifying ICE officials.
Currently,
the threshold for immediate deportation proceedings is set too low.
Catch-and-release instead of being detained pending an immigration hearing is
like unleashing a dangerous animal into a public space. Eventually, we’ll be
dealing with an avoidable catastrophe.
Typically
the definition to detain involves only crimes such as murder, rape, and armed
robbery. That’s about it. Serious drug dealing or gun possessions are not
considered crimes of violence under this strict definition. Neither does
burglary or the severe crime of driving under the influence of alcohol. As we
have seen over and over through the cost of American lives, many additional
crimes pose equally great risks to our communities should these illegal
criminal aliens be released without detaining for ICE.
Burglary
is a felony and as far as I am concerned a crime of violence. It’s not merely a
property crime that results in minor victimization. It involves forced entry.
It is a category Part I crime by FBI statistics. Part I crimes are serious
felonies. Anybody whose home has been broken into suffers a traumatic mental
experience. I have seen it when investigating burglaries. People who once felt
safe in their homes lose that sense of security after their home is
burglarized. Their kids have nightmares; adults sleep with one eye open and
every little noise in the house startles them. It takes a long time to heal.
Burglary costs Americans an estimated 4 billion in property loss every year,
but this does not include the psychological damage. The fact that many states
allow residents to use deadly force to stop intruders means that a burglary
could end violently for the intruder. It will if it happens at my home and I am
there.
Another
offense that is marginalized by sympathetic lawmakers is driving under the
influence. It is not merely a traffic offense. Tens of thousands of people are
killed and maimed by impaired drivers every year. I have arrived on the scene
of crashes involving impaired drivers. Seeing lifeless and mutilated bodies is
not pretty. This is why most states take it so seriously that a first offense
is a crime punishable by imprisonment. Many make a second and third offense a
felony. It’s worth mentioning that the illegal alien who allegedly murdered
Cpl. Singh had two prior arrests for DUI and was being stopped by Cpl. Singh
for suspected driving under the influence again.
A
recent Pew Research study on crimes committed by illegal aliens indicates it’s
time to take this seriously. The study shows that
the bulk of those arrested in 2016 and 2017 had prior criminal convictions. It
indicates that in 2017 illegal immigrants with past criminal convictions
accounted for 74% of all arrests made by ICE which is a 30% increase from the
year before. The study points out that those with no previous conviction
increased by 146% compared to a 12% increase of those with a past criminal
conviction. They have demonstrated a propensity to victimize. This conviction
rate includes nearly 60,000 arrested for drunk driving and approximately 58,000
arrested for dangerous drug dealing (opioids). The other classification of
convictions are as follows:
Assaults:
48,454
Larceny:
20,356
General
Crimes: 17,325
Obstructing
Police: 14,616
Burglary:
12,836
These
numbers are not insignificant. Nobody takes the time to point out to the
criminal alien apologists that the cost associated with these crimes include
police and court costs, incarceration costs, property loss and damage, medical
costs, psychological trauma, lost work time and increased insurance rates
adding up to billions of dollars. Therefore, the policy on when to deport and
for what reasons also needs to reflect these costs to the American people. The
time to deport is before they go on to serious offenses, not after.
Redefining
what constitutes deporting a criminal alien is needed. By changing the
definition from what is considered a ‘violent act’ to a ‘serious act’ would be
more inclusive of the dangerous crimes I have highlighted in this article. Our
laws need to reflect the protection of the American people not sympathy for
criminal aliens.
Is
it not asking too much for people in the country illegally to obey all of our
laws, not just a select few? Neither you nor I would be granted this courtesy
if we were even lawfully in a foreign country with a valid passport and
committed a misdemeanor crime not involving violence. Deportation would be
certain and swift with no release pending a deportation hearing.
It
is time for U.S. policy to change. The American people should not have to
accept such great risks when they don’t have to. They should not have to stand
by idly before a criminal illegal alien victimizes another American citizen.
It
is bad enough that our criminal justice system is soft on crime when it comes
to people legally in the country but when that same leniency is granted to
criminal aliens it’s a problem, and it’s time to recalculate our generosity.
The
position of most politicians in Washington D.C., except for a few Democrats who
are sympathetic to all illegal migrants, is that concerning deportations we
should deal with the criminal aliens first. An overwhelming majority of
Americans agree. Nobody wants to be victimized by a criminal, nonetheless, ones
who should have been deported.
When
we water down the standard for what is criminal behavior, we are heading toward
a very dark place. Crime is crime. Period. This should be the standard for
automatic deportation for criminal aliens.
Once
we get the criminal illegals out, a wall is required to prevent these thugs
from running back in and continuing to victimize Americans like Cpl. Singh who
hours before his death stopped home to visit his family on Christmas Eve,
kissing his wife and child for the last time. The picture of him with his
family taken just hours before his death should serve as a grave reminder to
all who want to hug a criminal illegal alien that at any moment they can lash
out and kill an American, and that it could have been avoided if Congress had
its priorities straight and put politics aside to do what’s right.
NY Times: ’40-Year’ Flood of Immigration Turns Orange County
Blue
2 Jan 20191,184
4:50
The New York
Times admits a “40-year rise in the number of
immigrants” living in Orange County, California has transformed the region from
a “fortress of conservative Republicanism” to a Democrat electoral sweep.
The Times notes in a piece titled “In Orange County, a Republican Fortress Turns Democratic” that the
rapid demographic changes of the county — which now has a more than 30 percent foreign-born population —
has swiftly handed the region over to Democrats.
Breitbart News reported that
Orange County’s booming foreign-born populations of mostly Asian immigrants and
migrants from Central America coincided with Democrats sweeping the midterm
elections in an area that gave birth to President Richard Nixon.
The Times now acknowledges the
demographic changes are at least partially responsible for the diminishing
Republican representation in Orange County:
There was a steady decrease in white voters in the seven
congressional districts that are in and around Orange County between 1980 and
2017, according to census data. In
1980, whites made up 75 percent of the population in the district where Mr.
Cisneros won. By 2017, that number dropped to 30 percent.
[Emphasis added]
The county’s immigrant population grew five times as fast as the
general population between 1980 and 2000, and while the pace of
immigration has slowed, the
Latino and Asian populations continues to increase, driven by
the children of immigrant families born in the United States. [Emphasis added]
…
“You went from a solid Republican county to one in which
Republicans were just barely the majority, and it
fell pretty quickly in the past two years,” said Ms. Godwin. “You have had continued demographic changes.
This is a county that went from majority-white to having a majority that are
Latino and Asian-American. So that has gone hand-in-hand — particularly
with the rising Asian-American population — to voting more Democratic.” [Emphasis
added]
In a series of charts, Times reporters Robert
Gebeloff and Jasmine C. Lee. reveal that while Orange County has become less
and less Republican, the foreign-born population has grown significantly, the
share of college graduates has peaked, and the white American population
has fallen drastically.
Months ago, Breitbart News reported the district-by-district breakdown of
Orange County’s enormous foreign-born populations, which have aided the
Democrats’ electoral sweep in the region.
California’s
46th District, already a Democrat-held congressional seat, has a foreign-born
population that is now reaching 40 percent with four-out-of-ten residents being born
outside the United States.
The other Democrat-held congressional
seat in Orange County, California’s 47th District, has a foreign-born
population of nearly 30 percent.
Three of Orange County’s four
Republican districts that have flipped to Democrat have foreign-born
populations that make up 25 percent or more of the region. For example,
California’s 39th District — where Democrat Gil Cisneros won over Republican
Young Kim — has a 34.1 percent foreign-born population.
In the 45th District, where Rep.
Mimi Walters (R-CA) has conceded to Democrat Katie Porter, the foreign-born
population makes up nearly 30 percent of the district.
Similarly, in the state’s 48th
District, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) — the former speechwriter to
President Ronald Reagan — lost to Democrat Harley Rouda after serving in the
seat since 2013. That district’s foreign-born population is now near 25
percent.
Even
in the 49th District, where the foreign-born population remains below 20
percent, Democrat Mike Levin beat out Republican Diane Harkey. The
district has anywhere between an 18 to 19 percent foreign-born population with
about 55 percent of foreign-born residents arriving from Latin America and nearly 30 percent coming from Asia.
Democrats
have increasingly swept congressional
districts whose demographics have been quickly changed due to the country’s
policy of mass legal and illegal immigration.
The process known as “chain
migration,” for instance — whereby newly naturalized citizens can bring an
unlimited number of foreign relatives to the U.S. with them — has imported more
than nine million foreign nationals since 2005.
As Breitbart
News reported, if chain
migration is not ended — as President Donald Trump has demanded — the U.S.
electorate will forever be changed, with between seven to eight million new
foreign-born individuals being eligible to vote because of chain migration, and
overall, an additional 15 million new foreign-born voters.
John Kelly:
Catch-and-Release Laws Ensure Migration Crisis
3:16
Congress’s toleration
of the nation’s catch-and-release rules is responsible for the migration
crisis, outgoing Chief of Staff John Kelly told the Los Angeles Times.
He blamed immigrants and lawmakers,
not the White House, for the tense situation at the border, where thousands of
Central Americans are stranded in Mexico — and two Guatemalan children have
died in Border Patrol custody in Texas and New Mexico this month.
“One of the reasons why it’s so
difficult to keep people from coming — obviously it’d be preferable for them to
stay in their own homeland but it’s difficult to do sometimes, where they live
— is a crazy, oftentimes conflicting series of loopholes in the law in the
United States that makes it extremely hard to turn people around and send them
home,” Kelly said.
“If we don’t fix the laws, then they
will keep coming,” he continued. “They have known, and they do know, that if
they can get here, they can, generally speaking, stay.”
The L.A. Times report — like many other outlets —
buried Kelly’s condemnation of the House and Senate leaders’ passive support
for the many catch-and-release laws and rules which allow the cartels to
profitably smuggle workers up to many eager employers in the United States.
The L.A. Times submerged Kelly’s judgment under
46 paragraphs and numerous slams on President Donald Trump, including the
claim that Trump’s effort to enforce border law is a “harsh immigration”
measure.
Kelly’s charge is being hidden even
as Democrats and establishment media outlets praise him for using his
power to muffle Trump’s pro-American policies, including his preference for a
lower level of overseas military activity.
The newspaper also tried to smear
Trump’s border defense push as a campaign scare while also admitting that
migration is rising amid congressional passivity:
Asked if there is a security crisis
at the Southern border, or whether Trump has drummed up fears of a migrant
“invasion” for political reasons, Kelly did not answer directly, but said, “We
do have an immigration problem.”
From the 1980s to the mid-2000s,
apprehensions at the border — the most common measure of illegal immigration —
routinely reached more than 1 millionmigrants a year.
Today, they are near historical
lows. In the fiscal year that ended in September, border authorities apprehended 521,090 people.
Nationwide, the U.S. establishment’s
economic policy of using legal migration to boost economic growth shifts wealth
from young people towards older people by flooding the market with cheap
white collar and blue collar foreign labor. That flood of outside labor spikes profits and Wall Street values
by cutting salaries for manual and
skilled labor of blue collar and white collar employees.
The cheap labor policy widens wealth gaps, reduces high tech investment, increases state and local tax
burdens, hurts kids’ schools and college education, pushes Americans away from high tech
careers, and sidelines at least five million marginalized Americans and their
families, including many who are now struggling with fentanyl addictions.
Immigration also steers investment
and wealth away from towns in heartland states because coastal investors can more easily hire and
supervise the large immigrant populations who prefer to live in coastal cities. In
turn, that investment flow drives up coastal real-estate prices,
pricing poor U.S. Latinos and blacks out of prosperous cities, such
as Berkeley and Oakland.
Save the Children, Build a Wall
The Democrats would rather see children die than build a wall.
By Daniel Greenfield
FrontPageMag.com
The dead children are not the victims of an overworked Border Patrol that has been deliberately starved of the resources to do its job, because its job would limit the ability of Democrats to steal elections. They are the victims of abusive parents or caretakers, who are willing to use the lives of their children as tickets to get inside the United States, not to escape persecution, but to double or triple their incomes.
The migrants are not refugees fleeing totalitarian regimes that are persecuting them for their beliefs. They are economic migrants who are willing to kill their children to earn more and get more free stuff. And they are every bit as guilty as the parents who leave their children to die in hot cars while they play slot machines. Any sane society would treat their murderous abuse of their children the same way.
Unfortunately we are not a sane society.
The flow of illegal migrants manufactures Democrat votes, not just through illegal voting, but through the far more pervasive problem of fake districts, boosted by illegal aliens and other non-citizens. The political machine that turned California into a Democrat one-party state where democracy is an alien concept, that has ravaged Virginia and has its gimlet eye on Texas, depends on illegal migration.
. . .
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/272368/save-children-build-wall-daniel-greenfield
The Democrats would rather see children die than build a wall.
By Daniel Greenfield
FrontPageMag.com
The dead children are not the victims of an overworked Border Patrol that has been deliberately starved of the resources to do its job, because its job would limit the ability of Democrats to steal elections. They are the victims of abusive parents or caretakers, who are willing to use the lives of their children as tickets to get inside the United States, not to escape persecution, but to double or triple their incomes.
The migrants are not refugees fleeing totalitarian regimes that are persecuting them for their beliefs. They are economic migrants who are willing to kill their children to earn more and get more free stuff. And they are every bit as guilty as the parents who leave their children to die in hot cars while they play slot machines. Any sane society would treat their murderous abuse of their children the same way.
Unfortunately we are not a sane society.
The flow of illegal migrants manufactures Democrat votes, not just through illegal voting, but through the far more pervasive problem of fake districts, boosted by illegal aliens and other non-citizens. The political machine that turned California into a Democrat one-party state where democracy is an alien concept, that has ravaged Virginia and has its gimlet eye on Texas, depends on illegal migration.
. . .
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/272368/save-children-build-wall-daniel-greenfield
Illegals and the American
Dream
When
talking about immigration, Democrats like to conflate illegal and legal
immigration, dropping the word “illegal” and spouting meaningless babble about
no human being illegal. They like to preach that illegal immigrants
commit crimes at a lower rate than American citizens, a
factoid that has been exposed as a lie.
The
murder of legal immigrant and Newman
Police Corporal Ronil Singh on Christmas night by an
illegal alien in the sanctuary state of California shows not only that the
claims by Chuck Schumer and the “bride of Chucky” Nancy Pelosi that the
Democrats support border security is a deadly and bald-faced lie. It highlights
the difference between legal and illegal immigrants, between those who love
America and want to be Americans and those who murder them.
Ronil
Singh came to the U.S. from his native Fiji to fulfill a lifelong dream of
becoming an officer, joining a small-town police force in California and
working to improve his English. The day after Christmas, he stopped another
immigrant, this one in the country illegally, who shot and killed the corporal,
authorities said Thursday…
"This
suspect is in our country illegally. He doesn't belong here. He is a
criminal," Stanislaus County Sheriff Adam Christianson, whose agency is
leading the investigation, told reporters.
Newman
Police Chief Randy Richardson fought back tears as he described Singh, a
33-year-old with a newborn son, as an "American patriot."
"He
came to America with one purpose, and that was to serve this country,"
Richardson said…
"He
was living the American dream," said Stanislaus County Sheriff's Deputy
Royjinder Singh, who is not related to the slain officer but knew him. "He
loved camping, loved hunting, loved fishing, loved his family."
And
now he is dead. The blood of Kate
Steinle, Mollie Tibbetts, and now Ronil Singh and others is
on the hands of open border advocates and the sanctuary city loons who provide
no sanctuary for the American citizen victims of illegal alien criminals.
Even
if it were true that illegal aliens commit crimes, including murder, at rates
lower than American citizens, that would be irrelevant. The murder rate for
illegal aliens should be zero because none of them should be here and the
indisputable fact is that Jamiel Shaw Jr., Kate Steinle, and Mollie Tibbetts
would be alive today if the illegal aliens who slew them were still staring at
the other side of a border wall liberals refuse to build.
Pelosi
has said that a border wall would be “immoral,
ineffective, and expensive” when it has been documented when
it has been demonstrated that none of that is true.
The fact is that walls are so effective they
have been built in scores of countries around the world and
in the U.S. places like San Diego and Yuma have demonstrated their effectiveness
as Pelosi and Schumer worry more about Syria’s borders than our own:
According
to Quebec University expert Elisabeth Vallet. there are65
completed or under construction border walls in the
world today.
One-third
of the world’s nations have border walls or barriers with their neighbors.
Pelosi
believes this is immoral.
Tell
that to Israel, Hungary, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, India, Pakistan, Spain, Greece,
Cyprus, Ireland, etc.
And
Nancy Pelosi has a wall around the backyard at her home in San Francisco.
What
is immoral is a policy endorsed by Pelosi and Schumer of sanctuary cities and
even states that allows such criminal aliens in our country to murder Americans
and a Democratic caucus that would abolish I.C.E. and those who risk their
lives daily to provide some semblance of border security. What is immoral
is politicians such as Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf not only refusing
to cooperate with I.C.E. butgiving
illegal aliens a heads-up when I.C.E. raids are imminent.
In
the wake of the Singh murder, Schaaf still insists that warning illegal aliens
about I.C.E. raids was and is the right thing to do, the lives of American
citizens she is sworn to protect be damned:
Oakland
Mayor Libby Schaaf -- who once warned Northern California residents about an
impending ICE raid -- said she has “no regrets” for her actions and said the
federal immigration agency “has gone astray.”
“I
have no regrets, none. The more time goes by, the more certain I feel that I
did the right thing in standing up for our community and pointing out our
values are not aligned with our laws,” Schaff toldBuzzFeed
in an interview. “That’s hopefully the message that is
sent out.”
The
message Schaaf, Pelosi, and Schumer are sending out is one of callous disregard
for the lives of American citizens. Democrats are endangering their lives and
the lives of migrant children by
enticing caravans to drag young children a thousand miles with lies about easy
entry and waiting jobs:
The
father of an 8-year-old Guatemalan boy who died in U.S. custody took his son to
the border after hearing rumors that parents and their children would be
allowed to migrate to the United States and escape the poverty in their
homeland, the boy's stepsister told the Associated Press.
Felipe
Gomez Alonzo died Monday at a New Mexico hospital after suffering coughing,
vomiting and fever, authorities said. It was the second such death this month.
Another Guatemalan child, 7-year-old Jakelin Caal, died in U.S. custody on Dec.
8.
The
fact is that if we had a wall, or whatever the hair-splitters want to call it,
both these children would be alive today. And it is American kids are dying
too, killed and murdered by illegal aliens who have no right to be here. Just
ask the parents of Justin Lee, 14, who
was killed in a hit-and-run accident by an illegal alien:
An
illegal immigrant has pleaded guilty to a hit and run that killed a Wixom teen
in June.
Miguel
Ibarra-Cerda, 22, entered his plea Thursday, the day his trial was set to begin
before Judge Cheryl Matthews in Oakland County Circuit Court.
Ibarra-Cerda
is charged with failing to stop at the scene of an accident when at fault,
resulting in death, and reckless driving causing death for the collision which
killed Justin Lee, 14. Ibarra-Cerda faces up to 15 years in prison and a
$10,000 fine for the first charge and 15 years in prison and a $2,500-$10,000
fine on the second charge. Matthews will sentence him Dec. 20.
Or
ask the parents of 12-year-old Clinton Howell,
shot and killed shortly before Christmas by an illegal alien from Jamaica:
Police
in Connecticut have arrested an 18-year-old undocumented immigrant from Jamaica
on murder charges related to the shooting death of an innocent 12-year-old boy
a week before Christmas.
Bridgeport
Police Chief Armando Perez on Monday announced the charges against Tajay
Chambers stemming from the December 18 death of Clinton Howell outside his
family's home on Willow Street.
Chambers
has been charged with murder; murder with special circumstances; use of a
firearm during the commission of a felony; illegal possession of a firearm
without a permit; risk of injury to a child; reckless endangerment, and
larceny….
CTpost.com reported,
citing police sources, that earlier that evening, Chambers and his alleged
co-conspirators were driving in a stolen car when they got into an argument
with some people walking along Willow Street, among them Howell’s relative.
There have been many suggestions as to how to pay for the wall,
such as Sen.
Ted Cruz’s idea to apply drug asset forfeitures to wall construction or to tax
the billions of dollars aliens return to their home countries.. Pelosi certainly found no problem locating $3 billion for the
ineffective and absurd “Cash for Clunkers” program under Obama, didn’t she?
The
wall would in fact pay for itself, if only in the reduced cost of crimes that
would be eliminated, saving both dollars from overburdened social services and
the cost of illegal alien crimes, particularly the cost in human lives such as
that of Ronil Singh, who is survived by his wife and young son.
His
death, the death of a legal immigrant pursuing the American dream, and
countless other American citizens, including children, is on the hands of Nancy
Pelosi and Chuck Schumer. Perhaps Pelosi can attend Singh’s funeral and explain
how his death and the deaths of others in the absence of a wall is all
President Trump’s fault and that not building the wall is the moral thing to
do.
Daniel John Sobieski is a
freelance writer whose pieces have appeared inInvestor’s
Business Daily, Human
Events, Reason Magazine and the ChicagoSun-Times among other
publications.
Caught Again: Dangerous Gang Member Deported 10 Times Since 1993
Arrested in Tucson
The
United States Customs and Border Protection agency arrested a dangerous illegal
alien and member of the notorious "18th Street Gang" in Arizona on
Tuesday evening, according to a press release.
Arizona
CBP reports that "51-year-old Hector Gustavo Montoya, a member of the
dangerous 18th Street gang in Los Angeles," was apprehended this week near
Nogales while agents were patrolling the border. Montoya has been arrested by
American authorities on numerous occasions, "most recently in 2016 when he
was convicted for drug smuggling offenses. He served a 24-month prison sentence
for that conviction and was removed from the country after confinement."
Montoya
has an illustrious history with repeated illegal entry into the country. In
what some politicians may describe as "an act of love,"
the 18th street gang member has been deported from America "more than 10
times for immigration violations dating back to 1993, as well as multiple
arrests for crimes committed in California." Montoya hails from Honduras
and will be held in custody by federal authorities.
CBP
has previously dealt with 18th Street gang members who use America's porous southern border as a means of
gaining access into the country. During July 2018, CBP arrested a thug from
this group who entered into the country separately while posing as a migrant seeking
refuge with his child. That same week of that arrest, agents also caught
a Salvadoran national crossing the border who also belonged to the gang.
Montoya's
arrest comes as President Donald J. Trump and other Republicans continue to
demand funding for a border wall to impede the flow of violent illegal aliens.
December 22, 2018
Bienvenidos a Mexico:
California's ballot-harvesting, sure enough, is borrowed from Mexico
In an extraordinary investigative piece on
how ballot-harvesting works by Steve Miller, published on Real Clear
Investigations, we learn an amazing amount of information about how
ballot-harvesting works and why it's so closely connected to election fraud,
skewing elections in directions they normally wouldn't go. Themust-read
piece is focused on how Texas is dealing
with the seedy issue, enforcing the law, prosecuting more
than twice as many cases of electoral fraud
as California, even hampered as Texas is by weak penalties for violators. But a
little detail stands out much deeper into the piece: Ballot-harvesting, which
is at the root of considerable fraud of all kinds, is a practice specifically
borrowed from Latin America, with a very
impressive Latino analyst, K.B. Forbes, who has
electoral experience in both countries, citing Mexico. Here's the passage:
The practice
has its roots in Latin America, said K.B. Forbes, a political consultant
and Hispanic activist who has served as an elections observer in Sonora,
Mexico. “In the Latin culture, they have colonias, which is ‘little colony,’
literally,” he said. “In these, they sometimes have the equivalent of a
precinct boss, and that’s how people move up. The [politiqueras] deliver the
vote and when the candidate moves in, the theory is that they get a good post
inside the government.”
That brings up California, where
ballot-harvesting is perfectly legal, and normal voters have to wonder how the
heck that happened. Ballot-harvesting has been a disaster for Republicans in
California, with all conservatives now shut out from any representation in once-red
Orange County. Most congressional elections there showed Republican candidates
in the lead on election night in the last midterm, but all of them flipped to
Democrats as the Democrat-led ballot-harvesting brought in votes and votes and
votes from supposed precincts, harvested by their political operatives, until
the result went the other way. (This by the way, didn't happen in districts
where Democrats held a small lead, nothing flipped in their cases and ballots
did not keep rolling in).
If ballot harvesting is a practice
imported from Mexican politics, what does that say about California politics,
whose legislators would embrace Mexican electoral practices over the U.S.
standard? As I mentioned earlier, Mexico has been called "a
perfect dicatorship" by none other than
Nobel Prize-winning literary lion Mario Vargas Llosa, owing to the continuous
power of the Mexican Partido
Revolucionario Institucional (or
P.R.I.), which up under a decade or two ago, had a hammerlock monopoly on
Mexican politics, winning every single election in what was then a one-party
state. That's a system so bad people emigrated illegally from that country to
get away from it. Now, the cultural practice is right there waiting for them in
California, albeit, virtually nowhere else.
And like the P.R.I.'s Mexican electoral
practice of ballot-harvesting, it's noteworthy that the ruling Democrats of
California also are famous for doling out the goodies to the loyal voters.
They've promised amazing things to California's illegal immigrant population,
with the latest thing free heath care. California's insurance commissioner, the
respected non-partisan Steve Poizner, was, conveniently, ballot-harvested out
of office after an election-night lead several days after midterm by utterly
leftist Democrat Ricardo Lara who openly declared his support and big plans for
free health care for illegals. He's tried it before in the legislator and now
he's going to do it this time through the executive. California's incoming
governor, of course, is all in for the goody-slinging. In Mexico, they used to
pass out bags of beans for votes. In California, the prizes are considerably
higher, and they go well beyond free health care. I've already noted the
weird similarities to how California is run, and P.R.I-style politics here.
Any wonder California is going way out of
its way to welcome illegal immigrants? "You're all welcome here," as
Gov. Jerry Brown famously said. California already hosts a quarter of the
nation's illegals, and with middle class families now moving out due to high
living costs and punitive taxation, the California P.R.I. likes new bodies
coming in who have a lot of needs, which keeps the congressional seats numerous
and the federal funds flowing.
It all makes a normal person wonder about
the weird closeness of California officials and their Mexican counterparts,
too. Newsom has already paid a visit to Mexico to discuss the caravan with the
Mexican government in Mexico City (not Tijuana, where he would have gotten a
earful from the generally conservative and more dissident-oriented Tijuana
locals), and he has declared he plans to withdraw National Guard troops from
the U.S. border. With his party now embracing the P.R.I's style of governance
and having some unnaturally close ties to Mexican officials (I've seen it
myself at Los Angeles functions as a guest of the Mexican government), it looks
like a growing merger of Mexican and California politics.
Mexico knows how bad the system is, and
its citizens did rebel against it with a Trump-like leftist president, Andres
Manuel Lopez-Obrador, who won on a vow to end corruption. One can safely take
that as a sign that Mexicans are trying to move away from that kind of
politics, which of course would include ballot harvesting. California, on the
other hand, is moving toward it, embracing what Mexico is trying to reject.
That speaks pretty poorly for the sorry state of affairs in California. It's
only great for the rulers and those they patronize, until the money runs out.
Until then, clarification about
California's Mexico borrowings need to stand as an incentive to other states
about what not to do.
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