Video: Michelle Malkin Speaks at the Freedom Center
Who's really behind America's immigration crisis?
Mon Oct 21, 2019
Transcript:
Michelle Malkin: As many of you may know, I cut my teeth and
started my newspaper journalism career in Southern California, in the
Valley. And I was just joking with a tablemate of mine that I literally
lived in a closet in Canoga Park in my early years. I was an editorial
writer and columnist for the Los Angeles Daily News. And so much of what
I observed, reported on, exposed in those early newbie years as a journalist,
colored the career that I've laid out for myself over the last 25-plus years.
And as many of you who are longtime Californians, native
Californians, know, everything that we're experiencing now with regard to open
borders and Open Borders, Inc. started here. This was ground zero.
And I had my journalistic antennae tuned to grassroots citizens in this state
who were the early warning sentinels, who were exposing and decrying the
fissures that were beginning to show in our civic culture -- the balkanization
of the school system, the impact of the open borders infrastructures Cloward-Piven
strategy, which David and the Center have for so long exposed, of completely
overwhelming our health, education, welfare, public safety and national
security systems.
I was here when Proposition 187 came into existence. And
that too was, I think, a prescient outbreak, revolt, of grassroots citizens
against Open Borders, Inc. And of course, over the last 25-plus years,
anytime that citizens have actually had a direct vote and referendum on
immigration matters, it is always in favor of sovereignty and against open
borders and Open Borders, Inc.
So I've described this latest book, this seventh book of mine,
"Open Borders, Inc.: Who's Funding America's Destruction?" as the
third in my Star Wars trilogy of books on immigration. And I was very
humbled to be able to talk about my first book, "Invasion," in 2002
at one of David's early gatherings. That book was fueled by my outrage in
the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. And I sought to document how
every lapse in immigration enforcement had paved the path for the 19 hijackers
who came in through the front door.
This is one of my biggest pet peeves, okay? So I will see a
lot of young people purporting to represent the Right and right-thinking
people, declaim that they are against illegal immigration and for legal
immigration. Can we graduate beyond this kindergarten level of expressing
our views and thoughts and analysis of immigration policy? All 19
hijackers came through the front door, the vast majority of them through the
Bush-created Visa Express program. That is a legal immigration
program. That is a legal means of getting into the country. I get
it. You are against people traipsing across the border illegally.
But are you for that? Are you for the Diversity Visa lottery program,
which has been the bane of our immigration system now for 20 years? We've
had Republicans promise over and over again to kill this program, which still
is preserved to this day, of randomly giving out the privilege of entering this
country.
How many of you are naturalized Americans yourself? Raise
your hands. Yes. Anyone come here through the Diversity Visa
lottery program? Handing out the privilege of coming into this country
randomly, like the lotto, is probably the most insane thing that I've heard any
sovereign country consider doing.
Many of you will remember that there was an attack at the El Al
counter at LAX in 2002. Hesham Hadayet. How to get into this
country randomly through the Diversity Visa lottery program. There are
countless examples of people who were not vetted properly, who did not offer
some sort of special skill or special fealty to our Western principles,
culture; who didn't have to demonstrate any type of willingness to assimilate
to American values, who've come through that legal pipeline into the country.
So "Invasion" connected the dots between our blind
tolerance for mass uncontrolled immigration to the 9/11 terrorist
attacks. And there's a scene I'll never forget. And I lived in the
Beltway swamp. This is the kind of refugee that I endorse, refugees from
the Beltway swamp. But when I was there, I would often have to do
business and work around the Fairfax County area. And after 9/11, I
visited the same 7-Eleven and DMVs that the 9/11 hijackers did, where they
hooked up with illegal alien day laborers who helped provide them with the
state IDs that helped them get onto the planes and board the planes that they
then drove into the Pentagon, the Twin Towers and Shanksville,
Pennsylvania. And you couldn't connect the dots any more clearly or
efficiently than that, allowing a swamp of upwards of 30 million illegal aliens
in the country, not just border trespassers and deportation evaders, but visa
overstayers. Forty percent of the people who are here illegally are visa
overstayers. And this is a lesson that 3,000 people sacrificed their
lives for America to learn. And we still refuse to learn it to this day.
So flash forward to the launch of "Open Borders, Inc."
and my book tour. I went back to the Beltway swamp, because it is an
occasional hazard. And I helped lead a rally to show support for
Immigrations and Customs Enforcement. As part of my book tour, I've
become a community organizer for America. We need more of those.
Right?
(Applause)
And put out a call for patriots and citizens in one of my other
former adopted home counties, Montgomery County, Maryland, which is ground zero
in the battle against extremist radical sanctuary policies that are endangering
America. And nearly a thousand people came out on our side. On our
side. This is a county where Soros organizations have held sway over an
extremist county council for years now, paving the way for MS-13 to hijack the
streets, hijack the schools.
And one of the lead organizations there, which you may be familiar
with, is a group called Casa de Maryland, directly subsidized by George Soros
-- tax exempt, nonprofit, previously led by the now chief of the Democratic
National Committee, Thomas Perez, which was one of the forerunners in the
amnesty movement, lobbying successfully for driver's licenses for illegal
aliens, in-state tuition discounts for so-called "dreamers," doing
everything that they can to obliterate the fundamental difference between legal
and illegal aliens.
And this group had a political arm, Casa in Action, that had
supported and given campaign donations to the Montgomery County Executive, Marc
Elrich. He showed up at the Stand With ICE rally on the other side, with
the amnesty mob, with people who were wearing Antifa T-shirts. And the
people on the other side, who I call sanctuary anarchists, outlaws, tried to
drown out an Angel Mom and an Angel Wife who talked about the bloody
consequences of open borders and how they had been permanently separated from
their family members because of this revolving door that benefits criminal
aliens.
Well, that night, I debated one of the leaders of Casa de
Maryland. And I started out by talking about how I had bought my first
house in Montgomery County, how my two children were raised in Montgomery
County, and how we used to be able to go to a local mall and play land and
local parks with our then baby and toddler and feel safe.
But in Germantown, where I had bought my house, multiple criminal
aliens had preyed upon young girls and teenagers, one an 11-year-old who was
gang raped by two criminals who had already been issued final orders of
deportation, after multiple encounters with the law. Another 16-year-old
girl was the victim of a home invasion robbery in Germantown, not far from
where I had raised my kids. Her suspected rapist had also been
apprehended multiple times at the border, issued an NTA, a notice to appear;
which really should be called an NTD, a notice to disappear. And the only
reason why these incidents became news and then national news, because I'm sure
-- raise your hand if you heard about this over the summer -- in the course of
one month, 10 of these suspects had finally been caught after going through the
revolving door.
Why do we know about them? Not because of the county.
The county doesn't keep statistics like that. They don't want to
know. No papers, no problems. The only reason we know about it is
because brave local police officers were so disgusted with sanctuary policies
that tied their hands behind their backs and gagged their mouths, and prevented
them from communicating and cooperating with federal immigration agents.
And so I laid this all out in this local debate on a DC TV station
with this smirking Soros minion sitting next to me. This was the week of
the 18th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks that we were debating.
And so I started talking about the nexus between mass uncontrolled immigration
and national security. And her response was to laugh. To laugh out
loud. And then, the so-called moderator -- moderator -- immoderator --
said, "That's a different topic," and interrupted me, and prevented
me from finishing the thought. We just keep hitting the snooze button and
indulging in this collective amnesia about what the fundamental lessons
should've been, that we should've learned and acted upon. Every September
11th, there are platitudes: never again, never forget. And then amnesia
sets in all over again.
The second in my Star Wars trilogy of immigration books shifted
focus to the economic impact on American workers. That book was called
"Sold Out," and it was coauthored with an incredible patriot, a
former American computer software programmer, who is now a lawyer who
represents the best and brightest American IT workers who've been negatively
affected by the H-1B visa program and other pipelines that have been
abused by big business, with its insatiable thirst for cheap foreign labor.
This book was initially prompted by my exasperation, on both sides
of the camera, of watching TV news segments try to explain the phenomenon of
these illegal alien caravans that have escalated under the Trump
Administration. So watching them, but also being on the other side of the
camera, and being asked a question and only having two minutes to answer, who's
funding this, who's behind it? And by the time I start my answer, the
segment is over.
So I sought to cram as much information in the middle of two
covers to answer that question, and to provide people with intellectual
ammunition -- uh-oh, I said ammunition, that's a trigger word. I said
trigger, that's a trigger word, too -- so that they have as much knowledge and
data and facts to counter the daily onslaught of Open Borders, Inc. propaganda.
I have sought over the course of my career to highlight the work
of so many independent investigators, think tanks, organizations like David's,
that have done the yeoman's work in this regard. A lot of the information
will not be necessarily new to you all. But I think what I did was take
all of the puzzle pieces and piece them together to paint, I think, as vivid a
picture as possible of how these hundreds of organizations and dozens of very
powerful CEOs and open borders philanthropists work in concert to sabotage our
borders and undermine our sovereignty.
People have asked me, "What was the most surprising thing
that you learned in the course of writing the book?" And I would
have to say that, looking from 14,000 feet -- and that is almost literal,
because I'm on my mountaintop in Colorado Springs -- what was most daunting was
documenting the billions of dollars of taxpayer subsidies that are underwriting
our own destruction and, along with that, the billions of dollars that people
may unwittingly and unknowingly be donating to charities and organizations that
they think are doing good for those communities.
And I'll start with the Catholic Church. I am a
Catholic. And I have long known about -- and I'm sure -- how many
Catholics in the room here, yes -- we all know about the social justice
hijacked wing of the Church. We've got this nightmare of a Pope who has
designated himself the global leader of the anti-Trump Resistance every single
day. We know about the radical ties between the bishops in Chicago and
Saul Alinsky himself. Much of the work that David's researchers have done
has illuminated this, the funding mechanism created by Saul Alinsky and Bernard
Sheil, the Chicago bishop, in the late '60s. That was the permanent
legacy of the community organizing wing of the U.S. Conference of Catholic
Bishops, the Industrial Areas Foundation.
And these groups have persisted decade after decade. During
the Bush years, they were at the forefront of organizing the illegal alien
marches that we saw, where the American flag was flown upside-down and replaced
with the Mexican flag. And the sort of militant and most grievance
mongering of the open borders protestors showed their faces before there was a
PR makeover. Right? Because, remember that, after the defeat, they
realized they needed to clean up, give everybody a little American flag and
stop talking about La Raza, and the borders crossed us, we didn't cross the
borders. Right? No more Reconquista talk for a little while.
But they can only hold it in for so long. Right?
And there was an outbreak of that as I was finishing up the manuscript
this summer for "Open Borders, Inc." in my adopted home state of
Colorado. At an ICE facility right outside of Denver, in Aurora,
Colorado, these Antifa and Abolish ICE forces laid siege to the grounds of the
facility. The police had been ordered to stand down. And the
American flag at the facility was torn down and replaced with a Mexican flag
and a defaced "Blue Lives Matter" flag.
Again, sort of looking at this from 14,000 feet, you can see the
natural progression of the cop bashing that David and so many of his
compatriots first exposed in the '60s and '70s. The Weather Underground,
the Black Liberation Army. They morphed into the MoveOn mob and the
Answer Coalition, the Soros funded organizations; whether it was ACORN morphing
into the Code Pink people. Then it became the Occupy movement. And
these were the people that were defecating on police cars in New York
City. And now, under Trump, it's the same people. You know, they
even have some of the same signs, targeting immigration enforcement now, and
physically intimidating and harassing 20,000-plus ICE agents across the
country.
There was an op-ed piece in the New York Times earlier this year
championing the doxing -- in other words, the revealing of the private
information -- of ICE agents and their families. And these are the people
who call us inciters to violence and hatred. In the book, I have a
screenshot of a tweet that was allowed to stand on Twitter for many days, that
was posted by Occupy Wall Street New York's chapter, graphically showing the
murder of an ICE agent and what illegal aliens should do if they encounter
them, basically garroting them.
This week, we had this hoo-hah about some meme video that was
shown at a conference at the Trump Doral Hotel. And yet, the same people
who are decrying that as some incitement to violence have had nothing to say
about the shots that have been fired at ICE facilities in San Antonio.
There was a protest at the house of the warden of the Aurora, Colorado
facility, where the Antifa mobsters threatened not only the warden and his
family but shouted at the "pigs" of the Aurora Police Department who
were there to protect the house and the neighborhood and told them to "go
home and swallow bullets."
Hardly a peep about what happened in Tacoma, Washington, at the
ICE facility there, where the paid Soros-Lite minions included an Antifa thug
who attempted to firebomb the building. Did you hear about that?
Not a peep.
There's one other huge factor in perpetuating these gross
caricatures of our ICE agents as somehow KKK or Nazis or SS guards; the most
noxious rhetoric aimed at them. And that is Hollywood itself.
Right? And here we are, in the land of high walls and bulletproof windows
and armed 24/7 guards. Many of the social justice groups have infiltrated
the Screenwriters' Guild. And they're weaving their open borders
ICE-bashing narratives into sitcoms and movies. And they are allowed to
advocate physical violence against ICE agents and then put a laugh track
underneath.
Some of you may remember, before it died a necessary death, the
revival of Murphy Brown in the past year. And for Thanksgiving, they had
an episode where there was an ICE raid that was going to target a family friend
who had a food truck. And Murphy Brown threatened to spatchcock the ICE
agents if they did their job. Any culinary folks here know what
spatchcocking is? Do you want to say what it means?
Unidentified Audience Member: [Inaudible]
Michelle Malkin: And crack it open.
Unidentified Audience Member: [Inaudible]
Michelle Malkin: Yes. For roasting. This is what they
wanted to do to ICE agents. And yet, this week, we've got this hue and
cry, and there's going to be op-eds out the wazoo about a meme of Trump.
But that's allowed.
The underwriting of that agenda in Hollywood, unfortunately,
doesn't just come from the Left. And I document in the book about the
Chrissy Teigens and John Legends of the world directing millions of dollars to
illegal alien propaganda groups. These are the same groups that are
taking cases on behalf of illegal aliens all the way up to the Supreme
Court. So, you know, I've told people outside of the Hollywood zone that
they should think twice about downloading another John Legend song.
Because you can defund Open Borders, Inc. in small ways in your own home.
It's easy not to give him money when you know where it's going.
And when people open up the newspapers every day and see that our
President's plenary powers are once again being stymied by these rogue judicial
sanctuary anarchists -- I mean, at least Antifa, they wear their black masks;
we know that they're the enemy. But it's the anarchists in black robes
who are doing so much more damage and causing so much more peril to our
country.
But it's not just the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. All
across this country, we have these judges who are issuing nationwide
injunctions from their lower court benches affecting the entire country and
throwing monkey wrenches into every aspect of immigration enforcement, whether
it's slamming shut the revolving door of the deportation abyss, trying to get a
handle on the asylum racket, stopping the "dreamer" scheme that
issued 800,000 work permits. That's what it's really about. It's
not about hopes and dreams; it's about work permits.
And the entire illegal alien lawyers lobby, of course, is
subsidized by both Soros and Hollywood and, again, our own tax dollars.
Pretty much every law school, public and private, in this country runs clinics
where they take their law school students down to the border to conduct Know
Your Rights seminars, where they're -- I mean, you wonder where they're cooking
up all of the fraudulent claims? It's at the Know Your Rights seminars.
So the Catholic Church, the Hollywood elite, the legal
infrastructure, and the deliberate overwhelming of every aspect of our system
-- if that wasn't enough -- and this is something that so many patriots have
faced over the years, but it's escalating now -- is that there's an
intersection between the war on our borders, the war on our sovereignty and the
war on free speech.
There is a chapter, that I think is especially important and
especially relevant to David's group and all of you who support him, on the
Southern Poverty Law Center. And of course, the SPLC has now infiltrated
the inner sanctums of Silicon Valley. And that is what's most daunting.
And I'll tell you, just from a personal perspective as somebody
who was an early adopter in the social media space, it seems so quaint now,
this idea, when I first started out on the internet in 1999. I mean, I
started a blog before "blog" was even a word. I used this
clunky program called Microsoft FrontPage to construct a website that took all
day to update, for just like a single paragraph. And when I talk to young
people, I say, "You don't understand what 2400 baud sounded
like." Remember that? And then, when it would finally finish,
"Yes! One new paragraph on the internet!" But the idea that you
could just plant your flag and never have to be concerned that the political or
ideological nature of your content would get your website pulled, those days
are over.
And as I was putting this manuscript to bed, one of the
researchers that I most admire, a solo practitioner named Ann Corcoran -- and
I'm saying it in the past tense -- had an incredible website called Refugee
Resettlement Watch. And this is an aspect of our failure to have a
rational immigration system that is very discriminating -- and yes, we can say
that word, discriminating -- this is one aspect that has been neglected until
recently. And she highlighted cases of fraud, cases of lack of community
input, subversion of local control.
You wonder how the Twin Cities became the Twin Cities? It
was because of the United Nations, Soros NGOs, and religious contractors.
U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops is a biggie. But in Minnesota, it was
the Lutheran Immigrant and Refugee Services. And when I've talked about
this, there are lot of conservative Lutherans who protest, they don't want to
hear it. Well, that's not our Senate; that's someone else's. Both
Senates, whether it's the conservative one or the more liberal ELCA, have
supported the work of the Lutheran Immigrant and Refugee Services, which is one
of the biggest profiteers in the refugee resettlement space.
And Ann Corcoran had been reporting on this for upwards of 10
years and woke up one morning earlier this summer to find that WordPress, which
is the blogging software that she uses -- and that I use, by the way -- had
determined that her work had violated some community guidelines or
standards. There's no appellate process, and she has spent the last
several months trying to rebuild 10 years' worth of reporting on this racket.
So I finished this book with a special sense of urgency.
Because the tactics of the SPLC, which named Ann Corcoran one of its agents of
hate, along with me and David, and Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Ben Carson -- these are
the groups that have labeled me a white supremacist.
(Laughter)
I'm not doing a very good job of it, am I? They're the same
groups that have attacked me since the launch of the book as -- yes, and I know
many of you have also borne these slings and arrows and chuckled about it -- an
anti-Semite. I am married to the grandson of Ukrainian Jews.
Doesn't matter. They have gotten away with slapping these defamatory
labels on peaceful patriotic citizens for decades. You would've thought,
after the internal crumbling of the SPLC in the past year, whistleblowers
coming out of the woodworks to talk about sexual harassment, racial harassment,
Morris Dees finally slinking away -- even many left-wing publications and
reporters talking about the fraud of the poverty palace. And within weeks
of that scandal finally blowing up, there was the New York Times and the
Washington Post reverting back to form, quoting the SPLC as the absolute moral
authority on who's a hater, who's a xenophobe, who's a racist.
When is this going to stop? After the House Republicans,
when they were in power, defunded ACORN, didn't you have a sense of hope?
All right! We're just getting started! What happened? ACORN reconstituted
itself into five different other community organizations that still do their
work. Many of these groups are going to be getting money to conduct the
census. We continue to subsidize our own destruction. And these
establishment Republicans in the swamp have allowed it to happen. They've
enabled it either by default, by neglect or, unfortunately -- and this has been
a theme of so much of my work over the last 25-plus years, and it's a note I'll
end on now -- too many of these Republicans themselves are charter members of
Open Borders, Inc. who are lining their own pockets.
Some of you might've seen a speech that I did at CPAC earlier this
year. Anybody? Thank you. You can watch it on YouTube if you
haven't seen it yet. But I was disgusted by the fact that after two days
into the conference, only 13 minutes total had been spent on the most important
existential issue of our time. And that is, it's not just immigration.
It is the right of self-determination of any country to decide who gets in, how
many; and what we do when we detect people who don't belong here in the first
place.
And the numbers are everything. The numbers are
everything. It's not just the 30 million who may be here illegally, and
that's probably a lowball figure. It's the one million new green cards
that we issue every year. It's the overwhelming that I've talked about,
the 700,000 visa overstayers, the half million deportation evaders; and then
all of these legal pipelines which are being exploited to the detriment of
American citizens, American families and American workers.
And I gave the speech. And I pointed out that the organizers
of CPAC itself had allowed people to come inside their tent who have targeted
many of the patriots who've warned about our problems. Van Jones got to
cuddle up to Matt Schlapp onstage at CPAC. Van Jones, who has been one of
the most active hit men of the Soros-funded Left. And yet, many
nationalist patriots were banned from even entering the ballroom to listen to
my speech. There's something wrong with that kind of enterprise which has
been converted into a pay-for-play system for Open Borders, Inc.
I tell a story in the preface of the book about how after I
finished my speech, I had to go backstage to get out of the venue. And I
was stopped by a couple of people who thanked me for my speech. Then
there were people who sort of avoided me. And then there were the
clueless, three-piece-suited lobbyists who came up to me. And remember
what I said at the beginning about this platitude of "I'm against illegal,
I'm for legal." So a lobbyist comes up to me. Says, "Oh,
I really appreciated what you had to say." Hadn't listened to me.
"I'm against illegal immigration, too. But here's my business
card. We really ought to talk about how you can support expansion of the
H-2 program for seasonal workers." Low-wage foreign workers.
Did you not hear anything I just said?
This is the Beltway mentality. This is what we face.
Because these people are inside the tent. And I will say it again --
fragging from inside the tent is so much more dangerous than the bombs and
grenades that are lobbied from outside. And that is not a comfortable
message. It's definitely not one that I'm going on Fox News to talk about
a lot, although I'm happy to, if anyone wants me to.
But going forward, I think, especially as we head into this deep
plunge of an election cycle, it's easy to make fun of the clown car of the
Democratic presidential candidates. That's easy. What's harder is
to combat the people from inside the tent that are sabotaging the best
opportunities we have to seize back control of our country. We've got
good people in the West Wing. They're the ones who are revamping the
Refugee Resettlement program who are doing everything they can do in their
power to fight back against judicial anarchy and reclaim the powers of the
President over immigration policy.
The last platitude that just gets on my nerves is that our laws
are broken. Our laws are not broken. Our will to enforce them is.
(Applause)
I will stop here, because I think I am going to answer questions?
Unidentified Participant: Yes.
Michelle Malkin: And I appreciate your time. Thank you.
(Applause)
Yes?
Unidentified Audience Member: [Inaudible]
Unidentified Participant: Wait. We've got the mic.
I'll come to you next. But we'll start here, and then I'll come over.
Michelle Malkin: Yes, ma'am?
Unidentified Audience Member: I'm going to assume that Trump takes
back the House and the Senate. What can we expect on immigration,
assuming that?
Michelle Malkin: It depends on who we're sending to the House and
the Senate. And what I have seen over the last couple of years,
unfortunately, are groups funded, for example, by the open borders Libertarians
-- the Koch Foundation, for example -- to combat patriots that would be sent to
Washington to help provide ground troops and support for President Trump.
There was a race up in Northern California where a longtime grassroots
immigration enforcement hawk, Tim Donnelly, was going up against a Never
Trumper moderate. And for some reason, forces in the White House
convinced Trump to endorse the guy who hated him instead of the guy who
supported him.
And so when you have this open borders, Never Trump faction that
does things like what 11 Republican senators did in the last couple of weeks --
two weeks ago, you might've seen the headlines -- 11 GOP senators voted against
the emergency declaration at the border that was supported by President
Trump. If we keep sending people like that back to the House and Senate,
what's the point?
Unidentified Audience Member: Yeah. I know you didn't quite
-- there's kind of an elephant in the living room that I don't know if you
really talk about in your book or not, but it's human trafficking, like the sex
trafficking. I mean, that's what's really kind of behind this is the mass
enslavement of these people that is even -- you know, because, like I said,
they're being brought as a permanent basically slave class to vote in and
destroy this country, like is being done throughout Europe. I don't know
how much you discuss that. But that seems kind of the elephant in the
living room I wanted to say.
Michelle Malkin: Yeah. Chapter one, which is called,
"Sin Fronteras: All Aboard The Caravan Cartel," talks about the
misery that is enabled and induced by people who hide behind the compassion
curtain. And that includes many of the Catholic organizations that stand
up all of these illegal alien shelters, from Central America all the way up
through Mexico and into the interior of our country. I mean, the
inducements that they are creating, the pull factors, the magnets, of illegal
alien family, parents, who are paying coyotes to drag their underage girls, who
are then subjected to the worst kind of abuse. And then, the coyotes, who
pay the drug cartels derecho de piso to get across the finish line into the
country. And at some point, there needs to be some sort of journalistic
and political and ideological jujitsu to turn the table of that narrative that
we're the ones that don't care, that we don't care about human rights, that we
don't care about women.
And I think the Montgomery County, Maryland example was a perfect
opportunity to do that, to put that laser focus on the fact that most of the
victims of these criminal aliens going through the revolving door are
themselves members of these illegal alien communities.
Unidentified Participant: We'll go here. And then, Carl,
you're next.
Unidentified Audience Member: Yeah. You're one of the good
naturalized citizens in this country. So the country needs people like
you and other naturalized citizens that are contributing greatly to our economy
and to our country. How would you design an immigration policy that
attracts those people that are going to benefit the country in a manner that
gets our economy going forward, as opposed to just getting people who are here
to undermine our country?
Michelle Malkin: So just to refresh a little bit about my own
personal background -- my parents came here legally from the Philippines in
1970. They had to know English fluently before they even stepped foot on
American soil. They had to pay all of their medical fees and undergo
medical screening. I was born here. And my father was a
neonatologist at a time when that specialty was really just coming into the
fore. And so he had to demonstrate an extreme benefit to the country,
because there weren't many people who were involved in his specialty. And
he was at the Johns Hopkins University with one of the godfathers of
neonatology and then ran the NICU unit at the Atlantic City Medical Center for
almost 30 years.
My mom was a public schoolteacher and taught everything from
so-called bilingual education -- and of course, those of you in California know
why I say "so-called" bilingual education, right? Because it's
really native language maintenance that helps school districts collect a $2,000
per pupil fee. That was a shock to my mom, a revelation. She was
outraged to learn that she was participating in that and stopped doing
it. Because she knew, even in her own life, of course, that English is
the language of success. Of course, that's a trigger, you're not allowed
to say that, either.
And so both of my parents, by virtue of their own educational
background and work skills, demonstrated that they were not going to be public
charges in America. And of course, we've got all of these left-wing
groups suing over that reform by President Trump.
What does an ideal immigration system look like? Well, we
can't know until we have what I have advocated since I came out with
"Invasion" in 2002, a complete immigration moratorium. We need
to take a breather.
(Applause)
Then we can systematically go through every single aspect, both
physical control of our land, sea and air ports of entry. We have to look
at the consular offices overseas and what they're doing to vet people who are
applying for short-term visas and green cards. Every single program --
and I've documented this in my entire trilogy -- has been overwhelmed.
There is no control. We have to reassert control.
And then, that of course includes thinking about the magnets that
are drawing people here to break our laws. That includes rethinking
birthright citizenship. And it means ditching chain migration. And
then, when it comes to elevating special skills, we have to be very vigilant
and make sure that we are not shortchanging American workers. Because the
H-1B program is proof of concept that, even if you have special skills as your
criteria, it is being abused and sabotaged by big business forces.
Unidentified Participant: We're going to do two more
questions. Carl, and then we'll see about the last one.
Unidentified Audience Member: Yeah. Ms. Malkin, in your
discussion, you mentioned the New York Times twice. A couple of weeks
ago, the New York Times came out with a publication that said the United States
as a nation didn't start with the pilgrims in 1620 or with the Declaration of
Independence in 1776; but in 1619, when 20 or 40 black slaves were imported
into Jamestown. Which means that the United States is fundamentally a
racist, white supremacist nation that has no right to any sovereignty, has no
right to make any borders. Could you comment on that?
Michelle Malkin: Yes.
So that curriculum now will be spread in thousands of
government-run school districts across the country. And it is merely a
supplement to all of the sovereignty undermining propaganda that has
metastasized in the school system for the last 30 years. Think about
that. And couple it with the fact -- and I report on this in the book --
that the SPLC has a curriculum called -- and they always have the most
brilliant and anodyne sounding names -- Teaching Tolerance. Teaching
Tolerance. This is in 10,000 school districts. And what they're
doing with that curriculum is obliterating the difference, again, between legal
and illegal immigration. They teach the children how to be junior
lobbyist for the illegal alien dreamer agenda. And they teach the
kindergarteners how to draw signs that say, "migration is beautiful"
and "no human being is illegal." Everything starts in K through
12.
And that is my warning to -- I understand that we absolutely have
to focus on all of the craziness and the orthodoxies that have infested higher
education. But I think the mistake is that we haven't paid nearly enough
attention to what's going on in K through 12.
My friend, Brigitte Gabriel, who has an organization, Act for
America, did an analysis of middle school textbooks and how they are
whitewashing violent jihad in their propagandizing about radical Islam.
When you've got the teachers' unions, who put "Rules for Radicals" as
the number-one book on their teachers' reaching list, we've ceded the game
right there.
And again, I practice what I preach. I homeschooled, with my
husband, my youngest child for five years. And I think that's probably
the best immunization. That's the one kind of vaccine I support these
days is the vaccine against liberal virus, right? But it goes to show you
that we have to pay attention down-ballot as well. And that's something
that's not going to get on the Drudge Report or Fox News. But I absolutely
support more people, like the people in this room, running for school boards
across the country.
Unidentified Participant: Okay. Brent's going to get the
last question. But before that, Michelle is going to sign books at the
table in the back of the room here. And we still have books for sale out
by the registration.
Unidentified Audience Member: Hello. God bless you,
Michelle.
(Applause)
Michelle Malkin: Thank you, appreciate that.
Unidentified Audience Member: You are what I call one of the
modern American matriarchs and the authentic feminists. With the
situation with the viciousness of the Cloward-Piven invasion, euphemistically
called immigration, what is it that women don't realize? And how can they
be spoken to to recognize they are the direct victims of this fraud?
Michelle Malkin: I need to think about how to answer that.
Because, you know, I've done this for a long time. And I had the passion
to expose radical open borders ideology early on in my career because I
understood what a privilege it was for my parents to come here. And they
always inculcated that in me. And, you know, you hear this word
"privilege" bandied about now as if it's some sort of
expletive. And the problem isn't that we should apologize for privilege;
it's that we should be grateful for it.
And then, when I had my own kids, the nature of my passion
changed. Because I thought about what my parents were able to bestow on
my brother and me. And the urgency of writing "Invasion," and
the thousands of columns and blog posts that I've done over the years, was
fueled by my desire to leave a better place for my own children. And
that's obviously what binds us all together as fellow American citizens is that
we want to preserve and protect the American dream for ourselves and our
posterity.
And for so many addled left-wing women not to see that they are
cheating themselves and their futures, it alarms me to no end. And again,
I just want to come back to the fact that it's women who are paying the most
attention to what goes on in the classroom. And it's women who need to
take more responsibility for inculcating in their children this sense of
gratitude that I'm talking about.
When I look at the faces of the congressional brat pack, and
Alexandria Open Borders --
(Laughter)
-- and how vile and ugly that hatred they have for the blessings
that we enjoy every day, I know that I'm going to be in this fight for a long
time. And I know you will be, too.
Thank you.
(Applause)
"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!" PATRICIA McCARTHY
In the next two decades, should the country’s
legal immigration policy go unchanged, the U.S. is set to import about
15 million new foreign-born voters. About eight million of these new
foreign-born voters will have arrived through the process known as “chain
migration,” whereby newly naturalized citizens are allowed to bring an
unlimited number of foreign relatives to the country. JOHN BINDER
This policy
of flooding the market
with cheap, foreign, white-collar graduates and
blue-collar labor also shifts
enormous wealth from young employees
towards older investors, even as it also widens wealth
gaps, reduces high-tech
investment, increases state and
local tax burdens, and hurts children’s schools and college educations.
It also pushes Americans
away from high-tech careers and sidelines millions of marginalized Americans,
including many who are now struggling with
fentanyl addictions. The labor policy also moves business investment and
wealth from the heartland to the coastal cities , explodes rents
and housing costs , shrivels real estate
values in the Midwest, and rewards investors for creating low-tech, labor-intensive workplaces.
JOHN BINDER
The Democrats' Alien Voting
Strategy
2020 Democrats All Have the
Same Immigration Position: Open Borders
2020 Democrats all have the same immigration
position: Open borders
Other than offering
some vague nods to “border security,” Democrats never put forth any policy that
would prevent the hundreds of thousands of unknown people streaming into the
U.S. Yet if you point out that the party doesn't care about securing the
border, a confounded news anchor will insist, “Silly fool! Why, everyone
supports border security!”
It’s a cover-up for
what Democrats truly believe in: An open border that discriminates against no
one from anywhere.
Look at any one of the
Democrats running for the party’s presidential nomination, and you will not
find a single policy proposal that would stop a single illegal entrant. Or even
just the top five of them in the RealClearPolitics national average.
Former Vice President
Joe Biden’s plan on his website : “We have got to
address the root causes of migration that push people to leave behind their
homes and everything they know to undertake a dangerous journey for the chance
at a better life." It says nothing about halting the obscene numbers of
migrants showing up at the border with bogus claims for asylum or the illegal
border crossers with histories of child sex abuse
and violent gang affiliations caught daily. Ah, but it does check the
empty “secure our border and enforce our laws” banality.
Vermont Sen. Bernie
Sanders calls for expanding protections for illegal immigrants already in the
U.S., “developing a humane policy for those seeking asylum," and virtually
eliminating the deportation and detention of illegal aliens altogether.
Sanders’ website doesn’t even bother nodding to the “border security” cliché.
Massachusetts Sen.
Elizabeth Warren doesn’t mention immigration at all on her website. But in
interviews, she says the same nothing that every Democrat says. “We need an
immigration system that is effective, that focuses on where problems are,” she
said Wednesday on CNN , though Democrats
never seem to find “where the problems are” when talking about the topic. They
deny that even one illegal immigrant might be a rapist or drug dealer, even
though there are scores of them. They deny that there’s a “crisis” at the
border, where five children have died in recent weeks. They deny that illegal
immigrants soak up welfare benefits (even though they do). So where exactly are
the “problems”? Warren said in the interview that “we need immigration laws
that focus on people who pose a real threat,” but how exactly do Democrats
define “real threat”? They apparently see no threat, otherwise they wouldn’t
oppose the construction of a border wall with the fury of a volcano god.
California Sen. Kamala
Harris has compared Immigration and Customs Enforcement to the Ku Klux Klan,
called on Senate Democrats to resist funding any measure or resource on the
border that functions to apprehend and detain illegal border crossers, and made
protections for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipients among her top
issues. I think we know where
she stands on “border security.”
South Bend, Ind., Mayor
Pete Buttigieg finally got some policy positions on his website and he proposes
“immigration laws to reflect today’s humanitarian and economic needs” as well
as “reasonable security measures at the border.” Well, I feel better now, how
about you? Last month, Buttigieg said he would be happy to
welcome an infinite number of immigrants, legal or not, to his
city, where he thought they would contribute to the snowplowing and need for
more firefighters. Aw, shucks! Is that what the tiny Guatemalan woman who
arrived at the Texas border with seven children wanted to do all along? Why
didn’t they say so? Hand them each a helmet and hose!
The 2020 Democrats,
with the media’s help, will either avoid the immigration issue as long as
possible, or keep repeating “border security, border security, border security”
in hopes that no one notices what they’re really after: Open borders and
unabated immigration.
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.
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.
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, through her holdings in local restaurants
and vineyards, is reputed to be one of the largest
employers of illegal labor in Northern California.
Consequently, the people she would compassionately house might be able to find
work in her network of businesses, especially her fabled
vineyard on the banks of the Napa River.
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".
Pelosi has called the Bush Administration
"corrupt".
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 r eported.
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.
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. but giving 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 told BuzzFeed in an interview . “That’s hopefully the
message that is sent out.”
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.
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.
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 in Investor’s Business Daily, Human
Events, Reason Magazine and the Chicago Sun-Times among
other publications.
CALIFORNIA and
the RISE OF THE LA RAZA MEXICAN FASCIST WELFARE STATE
"The costs of illegal immigration are being carefully hidden by
Democrats."
"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.
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 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!)
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 that meeting 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 GoFundM e
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.
Sunday
bombshell: Pool for deportation is up to 1 million illegals who have already
had due process
"They're ready to just perform their
mission, which is to go and find and detain and then deport the approximately
one million people who have final removal orders," Acting USCIS Director
Ken Cuccinelli said on " Face
the Nation "
on Sunday, referring to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) branch charged with removal operations.
Cuccinelli, an immigration hardliner who
took the helm of the agency last month, said it is within ICE's discretion to
determine who among those with final orders of deportation will be targeted in
operations, suggesting the full pool of approximately one million immigrants
might not face deportation after all.
"They've been all the way through
the due process and have final removal orders. Who among those will be targeted
for this particular effort ... is really just information kept within ICE at
this point," he added. "The pool of those with final removal orders
is enormous."
The
number one million has tremendous resonance: it is what first comes to mind as
a really big number. It signals "mass deportations" — a bugaboo
for Democrats and advocates of illegal immigration.
Having
Cuccinelli lay out this number serves two functions.
1.
It is a signal to Trump's base that he will deliver on their concerns about
illegal immigration. Many are disappointed that the border wall has not
been completed or even adequately funded. Trump needs them to turn out in
2020. He cannot afford to discourage them.
2.
It is also bait to lure the Democrats into hysteria over "dividing
families" and all the other heartstring-tugging memes they can devise.
Trump wants this reaction because the Democrats, by advocating for people
who have received due process and have flouted court orders, are defending
outright lawlessness. Let them go out on that limb, and Trump will gladly
saw it off during a presidential debate.
Note
that Cuccinelli is a former NeverTrump who has agreed to serve in the Trump
administration. If he handles this well, there may be greater things
ahead for him, as he is a very smart and capable guy. I don't know him
well, but I have spoken to him and regard him as rock-solid, despite his early
reservations about and serious opposition to
Trump's nomination.
Speaking with the White House in the background makes it
unmistakable that he is on board and speaking for the president.
Ilhan
Omar: We Should Debate Whether to Eliminate All Border and Immigration
Enforcement Agencies
By Matt Vespa
Townhall.com, July 5, 2019
JOSH EDELSON/AFP/Getty Images
5 Jul 201971
3:34
Providing
free, American taxpayer-funded healthcare to all illegal aliens is just the
latest effort to use mass immigration to turn the United States into the
sanctuary state of California, Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) says.
As Breitbart News reported , the majority of 2020 Democrat
presidential candidates have endorsed a plan to force taxpayers to pay for free
healthcare for all 11 to 22 million illegal aliens living across the country.
The plan would cost taxpayers at least $660 billion a decade.
Brooks told SiriusXM Patriot’s Breitbart News Tonight
LISTEN :
Brooks said:
The motivation for all for this is even worse. They don’t have
compassion for these illegal aliens. That’s not their primary motivation. Their
primary motivation is the desire to acquire raw political power. That’s what
it’s all about . [Emphasis added]
If you limit votes to American citizens, Democrats do not fair
to well with us. So what they’re trying to do is import people who do not
understand the foundational principles that have combined to make America a
great nation and who … are much more likely to vote Democrat once
Democrats give them voting rights. [Emphasis added]
Brooks detailed how California, the state where former President
Ronald Reagan was governor, has been forever changed due to the country’s mass
illegal and legal immigration policy that imports about 1.5 million foreign
nationals a year.
“Let’s learn from history. California used to be a purple state.
Remember, Ronald Reagan came from there … the Democrats have flooded California
with noncitizens,” Brooks said. “And why do noncitizens vote Democrat so often?
Well, let’s look at illegal aliens. The data shows that 70 percent of
households that have an illegal alien in them are on welfare. The data shows
that 60 percent of households that have a lawful immigrant in them are on
welfare. So, you’ve got three different themes that the Democrat Party now
relies on: One is racism, two is sexism, and three is socialism.”
“In California, what used to be a purple state, now out of 53 congressional
seats, only seven are Republican … 46 are Democrat and seven are Republican,”
Brooks said. “So they have seen how that strategy of importation of foreign
voters has worked in California. They’re trying to do it in Texas, Nevada, New
Mexico, Arizona, in every state where they can possibly do it. They want to
flood the voting booths with people who are dependent on welfare and who do not
understand the principles that have made us a great nation. That’s how they
change the voter pool and they’re doing it successfully.”
Health insurance expert Linda Blumberg told the New York Times
Likely U.S. voters, by a majority, said they oppose being forced
to pay for the healthcare of millions of illegal aliens living in the country,
as Breitbart News reported . The latest Rasmussen Reports
poll found that 55 percent of voters said they opposed such a plan, including
8-in-10 Republican voters, about 6-in-10 swing voters, and 62 percent of
middle-class voters.
In the next two decades, should the country’s legal immigration
policy go unchanged, the U.S. is set to import about 15 million new
foreign-born voters. About eight million of these new foreign-born voters will
have arrived through the process known as “chain migration,” whereby newly
naturalized citizens are allowed to bring an unlimited number of foreign
relatives to the country.
John Binder is a
reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder .
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