ANN COULTER EXPOSES TRUMP’S “WALL” HOAX
In fact, Trump is steadily moving in the precise opposite
direction of what he promised.
Illegal immigration is on track to hit the highest levels in
more than a decade, and Trump has willfully decided to keep amnesty advocates
Jared, Ivanka, Mick Mulvaney, Marc Short, and Mercedes Schlapp in the White
House. For all his talk about immigration, did he ever consider hiring people
who share his MAGA vision?
Video shows climbers surmounting border wall Trump claimed 'impossible to climb'
by Ellie Bufkin
A popular video clip shows two climbers using a ladder
and rope to successfully cross a border wall President Trump claimed was
"impossible to climb."
In a visit to
the southern border in September, Trump claimed that portions of newly built
wall along the U.S.-Mexico border near Tijuana were reinforced and even
"championship mountain climbers" were unable to cross them. A video
posted by photojournalist J. Omar Ornelas, however, shows two individuals using
a ladder and other tools to cross the border successfully.
The president
also noted the recent throttle in immigration
numbers and credited the newly built wall. "People aren't even coming
up," Trump said. "You see the numbers are going way down, and we're
not doing a catch and release anymore."
The video of the
climbers was widely shared as critics of Trump's border wall policy championed
the effort of the migrant climbers to disprove the president's claim. Several
hundred miles of border wall are currently under construction at the southern
border, though no new fencing has been completed since
Trump took office.
While the
"impossible to climb" claim was disproven, the Department of Homeland
Security claims the wall's efficacy cannot be understated. "When it comes
to stopping drugs and illegal aliens from crossing our borders, border walls
have proven to be extremely effective," a statement said.
"Border security relies on a combination of border infrastructure,
technology, personnel and partnerships with law enforcement at the state,
local, tribal, and federal level. For example, when we installed a border wall
in the Yuma Sector, we have seen border apprehensions decrease by 90
percent."
Jared
Kushner Fails Up, Again
Having solved the Middle East, the president’s son-in-law tackles the
border wall.
Opinion Columnist
Ivanka
Trump and Jared Kushner, who, reports say, has been given the job of overseeing
construction of a wall between Mexico and the United States.Credit...Anna
Moneymaker/The New York Times
Jared
Kushner just got a promotion. Another one. At
least I think we can call it that, and it’s a deliciously perfect assignment.
The pallid princeling is now responsible for speeding construction of the
border wall. In other words, a make-believe fixer will oversee a fairy-tale
fix.
Josh
Dawsey and Nick Miroff of The Washington Post broke
the news, and when I read it, I realized that I hadn’t
heard much about Jared — or, for that matter, Ivanka — in a good long while.
They’re front and center when the administration is announcing some ostensibly
sensible initiative or claiming a pittance of progress. But when its corruption
is being exposed and the drizzle of subpoenas becomes a downpour, they vanish,
cuddling for warmth under the gilded umbrella of their hallucinatory virtue.
We can
pretty much chart the weather of the administration by the relative visibility
of Donald Jr., so loud and hirsute, and Jared, so smooth-cheeked and mute.
Donald Jr. thrives when it’s nastiest, stomping gleefully through the muck.
Jared comes out only if his suit won’t get dirty or his hair wet.
During the impeachment inquiry, we’ve seen a lot
of Donald Jr. That’s partly because he has been hawking his new book, copies of
which the Republican National Committee spent nearly $100,000 on. But
it’s also because he’s such a ready, eager conduit for his father’s wrath, with
a talent for exaggeration and misdirection that’s clearly chromosomal.
Jared and Ivanka have been strategically scarce,
though Ivanka did flutter into view, in a fashion, when President Trump boasted
two weeks ago that she had created 14 million jobs since
the inauguration. “Fourteen million and going up!” he clarified, lest anyone
get the misimpression that she thought her work was done. Never! On behalf of
the American people, Ivanka is tireless. There’s no rest for the weary, and
there’s even less of it for those who live at the crossroads of
self-infatuation and delusion.
In an
interview last month on Fox Business, Ivanka said that
she and Dad were “fighting every day for the American worker” and that she was
determined to “drive hard every single day to make an impact.”
“Your
time and service — our time here — is finite,” she mused, and while I’d love to
believe that she was prophesying her and her father’s imminent eviction from
the White House, I think she was referring, in her deeply spiritual way, to the
span of a human life. “It’s sand through an hourglass.” As Ivanka serves us,
she never forgets the sand.
Democrats believe that the Trump administration’s
void of ethics will sour American voters on the president. But those voters are
likelier to abandon him for the administration’s vacuum of competence — for his
nonsensical managerial style, captured in his magical thinking about Jared.
He tasked
Jared with reinventing the federal government. Unless constant rash firings,
unfilled jobs and shakedowns of foreign governments constitute reinvention,
this remains on Jared’s infinite to-do list. The
president put Jared in charge of brokering a durable peace between Israelis and
Palestinians. Insert punch line here. He followed Jared’s counsel that faith be placed in Saudi Arabia and
its crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman. We know how that worked out.
The
president somehow looked at that track record and decided that the dynamo he
should entrust with his central campaign
promise — a secure barrier between the United States and Mexico — was … Jared!
And so we have the trillionth gorgeous example of his investment in fiction.
Nearly
three years into Trump’s presidency, the border wall barely exists. Subtract
the upgrading of fencing and such that was already there and Trump has, by some recent estimates,
constructed
fewer than 25 miles of
actually new barrier. The southwestern
border is nearly
2,000 miles long.
But Jared
is on the case! According to The Post, he “convenes biweekly meetings in the
West Wing, where he questions an array of government officials about progress”
and “explains the president’s wishes.” Huh. Those wishes are hardly cryptic,
and how complicated can this questioning be? Already, The Post reported,
there’s grumbling that Jared is just an annoyance.
That
belittles his symbolic significance. Many journalists, including me, have tried
to settle on the perfect mascot for the Trump administration. There are choices
galore. The greedy, vainglorious Scott Pruitt, who did his best to decimate the
Environmental Protection Agency, fit the bill, but
he’s long gone. Mike Pompeo embodies the Faustian arc of
so many of the president’s aides and allies, from principle-driven dismissal of
Trump during the 2016 campaign to reputation-torching submission when he
dangled a ticket to the big time.
But for
naked opportunism and situational scruples, Jared’s my guy.
Remember how he and
Ivanka were going to contain the president’s ego, blunt his cruelty, whisper
sweet moderation in his ear? That was then. Now he’s devoting himself to an
exorbitant, unnecessary monument to Trump’s nativism and xenophobia.
There’s
an upside, though. With Jared in the saddle, this horse won’t go far.
More than 7-in-10 households headed by immigrants in the state
of California are on taxpayer-funded welfare, a new study reveals.
WHO REALLY PAYS THE COST OF OPEN BORDERS?
More than 7-in-10 households headed by immigrants in the state
of California are on taxpayer-funded welfare, a new study reveals.
The
latest Census Bureau data analyzed by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) finds that about
72 percent of households headed by noncitizens and immigrants use one or more
forms of taxpayer-funded welfare programs in California — the number one
immigrant-receiving state in the U.S. JOHN BINDER
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. JENNIFER G. HICKEY
Two groups of
Central American migrants made separate marches on the U.S. Consulate in
Tijuana Tuesday, demanding that they be processed through the asylum system
more quickly and in greater numbers, that deportations be halted and that President Trump either let them
into the country or pay them $50,000 each to go home. MONICA SHOWALTER
This annual
income for an impoverished American family is $10,000 less than the more than
$34,500 in federal funds which are spent on each unaccompanied minor border
crosser.
A study by Tom
Wong of the University of California at San Diego discovered that more than 25
percent of DACA-enrolled illegal aliens in the program have anchor babies. That
totals about 200,000 anchor babies who are the children of DACA-enrolled
illegal aliens. This does not include the anchor babies of DACA-qualified
illegal aliens. JOHN BINDER
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