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'
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."
THE NEW YORK TIMES IS MEX OWNED AND SUBSTANTIALLY NOTHING BUT A
MOUTHPIECE FOR LA RAZA 'The Race'
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.
Originally published on this day in 2014.
More evidence has been released that foretells a collapse in the numbers of aliens deported. The number of deportation cases initiated by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has collapsed by almost 20,000 for the first quarter of Fiscal Year (FY) 2012.
LA Times February 24, 2012 By Paloma EsquivelThe drop recorded in the last three months of 2011 may reflect the administration's plan to focus its deportation efforts by weighing discretionary factors, including whether the person is a veteran, came to the United States as a child or is a college student.The number of deportation cases filed by federal immigration officials dropped by nearly a third in the first three months of the fiscal year, according to a report by the Syracuse University Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse.The drop recorded in the last three months of 2011 may reflect the Obama administration's plan to focus its deportation efforts by weighing a variety of discretionary factors, including whether the person is a veteran, came to the U.S. as a child or is a college student, according to the report. But experts said it's too soon to say if deportations overall will decline.From October through December, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement initiated 39,331 deportation cases in immigration court, down from 58,639 the previous quarter, the report says. Filings are typically lower during the holiday months, but even adjusted for the seasonal drop-off the numbers are significantly lower, according to the authors.
And ICE is full of excuses for the fail:
The report, said ICE spokeswoman Gillian Christensen, is focused only on submissions for deportations made to immigration courts."It ignores the fact that ICE regularly removes individuals without going through formal [immigration court] proceedings utilizing voluntary, administrative, expedited and stipulated removals as well the reinstatement of old removal orders," she said.
Of note is that ICE does not use expedited removal (ER), only CBP uses ER authority, and only for arriving aliens and those aliens arrested soon after an illegal entry. ICE has always ignored its authority to use ER against aliens in general and criminal aliens specifically.
An ICE spokesman also restates the myth that ICE can only remove 400,000 aliens per year. Something that it has never accomplished anyway.
Congress has provided enough funds for the ICE to deport about 400,000 people annually, and the administration has said it intends to focus those resources on cases deemed high-priority, including those involving national security, serious felons, individuals with lengthy criminal records, known gang members and others who pose a threat to public safety."We're being smart about how we enforce the law. We're doing it in a way that makes sense and in a way that uses tax dollars effectively," said ICE spokeswoman Barbara Gonzalez. "Law enforcement has to have set priorities because the American public doesn't want us to just arrest the first 400,000 people we can remove. Why arrest the first 400,000 people when you can arrest those who are threats to the community?"
In fact there is no limit to the number of aliens who can be placed in removal proceedings, as the costs to ICE are fixed, as Special Agents and Deportation Officers are not paid overtime, but must work all hours as assigned,with the main cost to ICE being fixed salaries.
ICE employees who work on arrests and removals are paid the same regardless of the number of arrests they make and the number of cases filed with the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR), the immigration "courts." It costs nothing for ICE to file a case with the EOIR. EOIR must accept and process the case. The only effect is that processing times for removal are extended by the filing of more cases.
ICE is actually increasing the cost of removals by wasting man-hours of ICE attorneys by having those attorneys review cases already filed with the intent of dismissing those cases when they could be in court trying deportation cases. It is of no cost benefit for ICE attorneys to spend time deciding to drop cases already filed.
If ICE started using Expedited Removal it could significantly increase removals at little or no cost. However ICE refuses still to use its ER authority. In many cases it could actually decrease the cost of removals by using ER, as today it continues to allow many aliens to use the EOIR system when they are liable to be removed with ER.
It should not be forgotten though that of the 11-20 million illegal aliens in the United States, removing under 400,000 per year is not an accomplishment. Most illegal aliens, like those working at Pacific Steel, such as Jesus Navarro, or those testifying at public hearings before State legislatures, such as Keish Kim, are known to ICE, yet nothing is done. There would be no cost to ICE to place both in removal proceedings. Yet ICE ignores both. One of who will be costing taxpayers millions in the near future.
The import however of the collapse of removal proceedings in the first part of FY 2012 though means that many fewer than 400,000 aliens will be deported by the end of FY 2012, which will coincide with the election in November. The question is will Romney use this? It also gives the lie to the ICE claim that it will continue to remove aliens at the same rate. A 32% decline in cases filed with the EOIR will result in a corresponding decline in removals for FY 2012.
It is clear—abundantly clear—that ICE is not replacing every DREAM Act deportation with a criminal alien. Otherwise there would not be a decline in initial filings of removals with the EOIR. It means that either there are not that many criminal aliens to remove or criminal aliens are enjoying the amnesty as well. Which is what has been reported here; Jose Manuel Gonzalez-Sandoval and Edwin Ramos specifically.
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