Pollak:
Barack Obama Himself Was the Threat to the Rule of Law
10 May 20203860
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Former President Barack Obama warned Friday that the “rule of
law is at risk” because former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn will no
longer be prosecuted.
Obama’s remarks, leaked from a
private conference call with members of something called the “Obama Alumni
Association,” show a breathtaking lack of self-awareness.
Obama himself was the threat to the rule of
law, both during his presidency and as it ended.
As Breitbart News has
previously noted, Obama routinely violated the Constitution’s separation of
powers, challenging America’s constitutional foundation in a way no president
before him had done in peacetime.
“I’ve got a pen, and I’ve got a
phone,” Obama said,
threatening to use — and abuse — his executive power — rather than allow the
constitutional process of legislation to proceed.
- Refusing to submit the Iran deal to the
Senate for ratification
- Declaring the Senate in recess when it
was not (struck down, later, in a 9-0 Supreme
Court decision)
- Defying the courts when
told to renew oil and gas activity in the Gulf of Mexico, or to stop giving amnesty to illegal aliens
- Threatening the Supreme Court
after Citizens United,
and before the Obamacare decision
- Altering Obamacare’s
statutory deadline unilaterally
- Creating the Deferred Action for
Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and Deferred Action for Parents of Americans
(DAPA) programs after admitting it
was unconstitutional
- Trying to wipe out the coal industry
Moreover, the Flynn investigation
itself undermined the rule of law by targeting a man the government knew was
innocent of any crime. Similarly, Obama’s own effort to
protect Hillary Clinton, and his administration’s attempt to undermine Trump
through false allegations of “Russia collusion,” also violated the rule of law.
Last week it emerged that it was
Obama himself who told then-Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates about
Flynn’s lawful conversation
with the Russian ambassador, which set the investigative wheels in motion.
Obama’s phony protest suggests he is
feeling desperate as attention turns, finally, to his own role in the affair.
Joel B.
Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday
evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). His new book, RED
NOVEMBER, is available for pre-order. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert
Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.
Biden’s
Coronavirus Plan: Catch and Release Border Crossers into U.S.
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1 May 20201,989
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Presumptive 2020 Democrat
presidential nominee Joe Biden is suggesting a restart of the nation’s “Catch
and Release” program in the midst of the coronavirus crisis. The policy would
ensure thousands of border crossers are readily released into the United
States.
This week, during an interview with
Florida local media, Biden suggested a return to
the previous, decades-long policy of catching and releasing border crossers
into the U.S. as they await their asylum hearings despite public health
concerns over the coronavirus.
“You’ve never seen a time where
someone seeking asylum has to seek it from another country,” Biden said when
asked about his immigration plan in the middle of the coronavirus crisis.
“You’ve never seen a circumstance where we put people in cages. We have to take
stock of where we are.”
Biden’s plan would ensure that
thousands of border crossers who have arrived at the U.S.-Mexico border since
President Trump’s shutdown of the region
would be released into the country while they await their asylum hearings — the
majority of which take years to hold.
Today, Trump’s “Remain in Mexico”
policy coupled with the border shutdown has allowed federal immigration
officials to swiftly return border crossers to Mexico in an average of 96 minutes. The policy means
border crossers from Mexico and Central America are processed and immediately
returned to Mexico without setting foot in the U.S. interior.
As Breitbart News reported, federal
immigration officials have said that as of April 10, Trump’s policy
had successfully returned 10,000 border crossers to Mexico.
Analysis conducted by the Center
for Economic and Policy Research shows a continued flow of border crossers
being returned to their native countries in recent weeks.
From March 15 to April 24, ICE Air
appears to have made 21 deportation flights to Guatemala; 18 to Honduras; 12 to
El Salvador; six to Brazil; three each to Nicaragua, Ecuador, Haiti, and the
Dominican Republic; and one each to Colombia and Jamaica…
…
Over the last 12 weeks, it appears
that ICE has used 22 unique charter planes for 232 likely deportation flights.
Of those planes, 15 participated in confirmed ICE Air deportation flights
between October 2018 and May 2019, the most recent data compiled by UWCHR.
Biden’s plan, though, would reverse
such measures, halting deportations except for convicted felon illegal aliens
and allowing those arriving at the border to await their asylum hearings in the
U.S. interior with the hopes that they show up to court.
The plan proposed by Biden comes
even as public health concerns have circulated around border crossers arriving
at the southern border. This week, an illegal alien from India tested positive for
coronavirus after he snuck across the border into California with a group of
Mexican nationals.
Likewise, data from Guatemalan
officials have said about 50 to 75 percent of all migrants returned to
Guatemala from the U.S. have tested positive for
coronavirus.
Under Biden’s plan, each of these border
crossers would be in a federal immigration facility or already released into
the U.S. interior.
Trump’s Remain in Mexico policy has
decimated asylum fraud. In the first few months of its implementation, the
policy ensured that zero of 1,200 total border
crossers ineligible for asylum in Mexico had been released into the U.S.
interior. Most recent reports have
indicated that the Remain in Mexico policy has a less than one percent
asylum-grant rate.
Obama:
DACA Illegal Aliens Deserve Amnesty During Coronavirus Crisis
Former President Barack Obama says the time is now, during the
Chinese coronavirus crisis, to provide amnesty to about 3.5 million illegal
aliens who are enrolled and eligible for the Deferred Action for Childhood
Arrivals (DACA) program.
While about ten million Americans have
filed for unemployment in just three weeks, Obama took to Twitter to call for
an amnesty for DACA illegal aliens in the midst of the coronavirus crisis.
“Dreamers have contributed so much to our country, and they are
risking their lives fighting on the frontlines of this pandemic,” Obama said.
“They deserve permanent immigration status and a pathway to citizenship—as they
are Americans in every way but on paper.”
Dreamers have contributed so much to our country, and they are risking
their lives fighting on the frontlines of this pandemic. They deserve permanent
immigration status and a pathway to citizenship—as they are Americans in every
way but on paper. https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/dreamers-risk-lives-on-pandemics-front-lines-while-they-await-court-ruling/2020/04/11/d34a7b58-76c4-11ea-85cb-8670579b863d_story.html …
‘Dreamers’ risk lives on pandemic’s front lines while they
await a decision on their own futures
Center for Immigration Studies
Research Director Steven Camarotta has noted that DACA illegal aliens make up about 0.2 percent of the
nation’s nearly 15 million healthcare workers. In New York, where a staggering
number of DACA illegal aliens reside, they still only account for about 0.2
percent of the state’s healthcare workers, according to Camarotta.
Obama’s lobbying for a DACA amnesty
in the middle of the coronavirus crisis comes as House Democrats — including
Congressional Hispanic Caucus Chair Joaquin Castro (D-TX), Rep. Zoe Lofgren
(D-CA), and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) — have sent a letter to the Trump administration demanding DACA illegal aliens
have their work authorizations extended.
“Support of DACA recipients during the current pandemic is
particularly critical as over 200,000 DACA recipients are in occupations and industry
groups that render them ‘essential critical infrastructure workers,’ according
to DHS guidance,” the House Democrats wrote in their letter.
A DACA amnesty would put more
citizen children of illegal aliens — known as “anchor babies” — on federal welfare,
as Breitbart News reported,
while American taxpayers would be left potentially with
a $26 billion bill.
Additionally,
about one-in-five DACA illegal aliens, after an amnesty, would end up on food stamps, while
at least one-in-seven would go on Medicaid.
Any plan to give amnesty to DACA illegal aliens that does not
also include provisions to halve legal immigration levels — the U.S. admits
about 1.2 million legal immigrants a year at the expense of America’s working
and middle class — would give amnestied illegal aliens the opportunity to bring
an unlimited number of foreign relatives to the country.
At the southern border, a DACA amnesty has the potential to
trigger a border surge that could triple the number of illegal aliens pouring
through the border. Since DACA’s inception, more than 2,100 recipients of the
program have been kicked off because they were found to either be criminals or
gang members.
JAMES WALSH
THE OBAMA-BIDEN HISPANICAZATION of AMERICA… first ease millions of illegals over our borders and into our voting
booths!
How the Democrat party
surrendered America to Mexico:
“The watchdogs
at Judicial Watch discovered documents that reveal how the Obama
administration's close coordination with the Mexican government entices
Mexicans to hop over the fence and on to the American dole.” Washington
Times
"This is country belongs to Mexico" is said by the
Mexican Militant. This is a common teaching that the U.S. is really AZTLAN,
belonging to Mexicans, which is taught to Mexican kids in Arizona and
California through a LA Raza educational program funded by American Tax Payers
via President Obama, when he gave LA RAZA $800,000.00 in March of 2009!
The “zero tolerance” program was dismantled by Attorney
General Erc Holder once it had successfully cut the transit of
migrants by roughly 95 percent. Initially, officials made 140,000 arrests per
year in the mid-2000s, but the northward flow dropped so much that officials
only had to make 6,000 arrests in 2013, according to a 2014 letter by two
pro-migration Senators, Sen. Jeff Flake and John McCain.
“The cost
of the Dream Act is far bigger than the Democrats or their media allies admit.
Instead of covering 690,000 younger illegals now enrolled in former President
Barack Obama’s 2012 “DACA” amnesty, the Dream Act would legalize at least 3.3 million
illegals,
according to a pro-immigration group, the Migration Policy Institute.”
'We've
got to strengthen our own borders': MLK niece supports Trump's temporary
immigration ban
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April 22, 2020 10:34 AM
Martin
Luther King Jr.’s niece said she supports President Trump’s forthcoming
temporary suspension of immigration to the United States.
Trump
announced he would be signing an executive order this
week that is expected to put a 60-day ban on immigrants seeking permanent
status in the U.S. Alveda King, the director of Civil Rights for the Unborn at
Priests for Life, said she agrees with the order, arguing that it will help the
U.S. become healthier and stronger amid the coronavirus.
“I
agree with President Trump,” King told Just
the News on Tuesday. “Now, this is a temporary measure. This is not a
forever measure."
"So,
the president, when he says 'America first' — he never says 'America only,'
just 'America first,'" she said. "Immigration slows for a time. Then
we become healthier. Then we can reach out to others. That is the strategy. So,
people need to understand that. We've got to strengthen our own borders, our
own lives, our own families, our own communities. Once we do that, then we can
help others."
Just
the News reported that the U.S. Civil Rights Commission under
the Obama administration showed illegal immigration negatively affects blacks
and asked King if the U.S. should consider immigration control a civil right.
“Civil
rights, I would not say — I think more it helps human rights. It helps
Americans to get better," King said. "Civil rights, of course, come
after human rights, and human rights are endowed by our creator. So, there are
some rights, human rights, that we all have. And I believe we all have rights
all over the planet to safety, security, provision, and all of that. When that
is missing, it is wise for leaders of any nation to stop, take toll, repent,
pray, return to God, and get things straightened out."
On
the topic of immigration, she added, “During her lifetime, my aunt Coretta
Scott King spoke about immigration coming in, and it would displace ‘negroes,’
or blacks, as we were called back then. And she even wrote about that. My
uncle, Martin Luther King, Jr., spoke about immigration as well.
"My
father, the Rev. A.D. King, with all of us having the understanding this nation
was founded by immigrants, as it is today," she continued. "We had
the Native Americans here before we were here, of course. So, we are all
immigrants. ... Martin Luther King Jr. said, ‘Well, we may have come out on
different boats, but we are all in the same boat now.'"
Biden’s Proposal to Woo Black Voters Falls Short
As Donald Trump continues to target the Democratic Party’s long-held advantage among black American voters, the Biden campaign was hoping its rollout of the “Lift Every Voice” plan, discernibly branded to black voters, would stimulate the base that arguably saved him during the Democratic Presidential Primary. But upon examination, Biden’s proposal has no substance, misses the point, and offers nothing but the same failed liberal policies empirically known to destabilize the black community while avoiding our biggest concerns.
First, Biden’s proposal ignores the role illegal immigration has had on disadvantaged black Americans.
Biden’s proposal boldly claims he will “close racial wealth and income gaps.” But he plans to do that during a presidency that would roll back an immigration-labor framework which prioritizes American workers first, something that has been a boon to black workers.
If there’s one thing the Biden campaign and Democrats at large love to do, it's conflating the black and brown condition in America. Homogenizing issues central to black Americans as a singular approach for “people of color” ignores the ways that lax immigration policies have left certain black populations vulnerable to its consequences. While uncomfortable for the left to admit, it’s consensus knowledge that liberal immigration policies have had an adverse effect on black wealth. As the supply of low-skilled, low-wage labor became available in the U.S. labor market, Black wealth declined.
Approximately 60% adult black men have a high school diploma or less, making them disproportionately employed in low-skilled labor markets, where they are more likely to be in competition with immigrants. You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to understand how illegal immigration over the past forty years has depressed wages for low-skilled American citizens, a disproportionate number of whom are black men.
The policy wonks who work for Joe Biden have to know that there is no addressing black wealth inequality without addressing the ways that illegal immigration has systemically undercut the black community. Considering the platform of the Democratic party, addressing illegal immigration in the ways needed to resolve black wealth inequality is an impossibility. Biden’s proposal not only ignores the problem but intensifies it by aiming to spend billions of federal dollars to create more housing projects in “distressed” communities. Empirically, these projects simply create more flashpoints for violence as these projects end up being dominated by street gangs that have evolved (for worse) as a result of the emergence of Latin gangs and their conflicts with the black community.
Biden’s proposal is called the “Lift Every Voice” plan, but you can’t lift black voices as they’re being drowned out by the needs of illegal immigrants who seem to have supplanted African-Americans as the Democratic Party’s preferred audience to pander to.
Secondly, prosperity for black Americans is contingent on prosperity for all Americans, and Biden’s plan to raise taxes will likely kill prosperity across the board.
The Joe Biden campaign claims black businesses would flourish by reinstating old Obama and Clinton era tax-credit policies while rolling back the reforms President Trump made that saw the country shatter economic records. He pledges to double funding for the State Small Business Credit Initiative which he says helped black businesses under President Obama but even Obama’s fiercest supporters look back at his presidency wondering why these initiatives did nothing tangible for the black economy. The plan makes no mention of how these tax credits helped in the past or would help now, while also neglecting to explain how the credits would function differently from President Trump’s Urban Revitalization plan, which is already in full swing and having an impact on capital mobility. New income, payroll, and capital gains taxes to pay for a litany of government-funded programs and the permanent expansion of the New Markets Tax Credit will simply be another letdown for the black community, as the 15% estimated market reduction of Biden’s tax proposal will likely be a dark shadow on the market, preventing all growth.
Despite the economic downtown caused by the pandemic, Joe Biden has pledged to eliminate tax reform achieved under the Trump presidency, creating an environment that will make it very hard for all businesses to survive, including black-owned ones.
The coronavirus has undoubtedly stolen President Trump’s economic edge as a tool of persuasion to the black community but the Lift Every Voice plan gives the President another opportunity to regain it by exploiting this weakness of Biden’s. There is simply no way the former vice-president is going to be able to justify the success of this plan as opposed to the pro-business environment most black Americans enjoyed before the COVID-19 pandemic. Black unemployment hit its lowest points in years and the White House’s Urban Revitalization program created optimism where there wasn’t.
A recent poll shows that despite President Trump being less popular than Biden head to head, a majority of Americans believe he is better suited to create jobs. The market likely thinks similarly and if it were to rebound, a Biden victory and perceived incoming taxes could tank investor confidence. Given the fact that statistically speaking, black voters have had the most to lose from the COVID downturn, the economy will likely weigh heavily in their decision. The Lift Every Voice plan was supposed to stimulate trust in Biden’s economic plan but clearly it promises much more than it can deliver.
Third, this plan just reeks of, well, Joe Biden.
Perhaps the most glaring problem with Biden’s so-called plan to empower black America is the fact that it’s based on a realm of failed neoliberal policies with the same concept: the government will fix it this time, we promise.
The idea that a Biden White House would mark the end of government corruption while making it more transparent and efficient in the process is a dream we’ve been sold before. If Joe Biden being in the White House is such an advantage for the black community, why wasn’t it so when Biden was there for nearly a decade? The entire tone of Biden’s plan is that the black community will have some financial renaissance moment because ol’ Joe has finally seized the reins of power. But Biden has been at the highest levels in power in Washington for over 40 years.
The more one delves into Biden’s plan to revitalize black America, the more it becomes obvious that this is merely a distraction or ploy to make up for his campaign’s lack of black engagement at a time when the Trump campaign even beat Biden to the punch on turning black engagement virtual.
Even the rollout of the policy questions its sincerity. Not only does the link to the policy initially take you to a landing page to donate to his campaign, but its wording is extravagant and it lacks necessary implementation specifics. Even the name of the policy plays with complicated emotions and history. “Lift Every Voice and Sing” is the name of a song widely viewed as a “Black national anthem” of sorts dating back to its inception during a crucial time for black Americans as they dealt with the turmoil and hatred of Jim Crow replacing slavery. It’s a song endorsed by Booker T. Washington that was used during a time when Democrats wreaked havoc on black Americans with institutional racism.
Given Biden’s friendship with Jim Crow apologist and former senator Strom Thurman and with the wounds of Biden’s controversial 1994 crime law being fresh, you would think Joe Biden might steer away from claiming such a rich part of black history as his own. The so-called Lift Every Voice plan dismally falls short. There may not have been so much of an eye roll from the black establishment media on this proposal, but given their ties to the Democratic National Committee I wouldn’t hold my breath on waiting for criticism. But social amplification online is already speaking volumes.
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