DO YOU FIND IT STRANGE
THAT THE DEMOCRAT PARTY IS HELL BENT ON EXPANDING INFANTICIDE OF UNBORN CHILDREN
EVEN AS THE EXPAND MEXICO’S ANCHOR BABY WELFARE STATE ON OUR BACKS?
THE COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES
ALONE HANDS ILLEGALS’ ANCHOR BABIES MORE THAN $1 BILLION PER YEAR SO THEY KEEP
COMING AND KEEP PRODUCING GENERATIONS OF ‘CHEAP’ MEX LABOR.
Lies and Sacraments: The
story of the Democratic Party
By Eric Utter
We are
being fed an unending stream of lies by the media/academia/Democrat
complex. The party of segregation and Jim Crow now claims to be the
one true friend of African-Americans and people of color. In fact,
according to its current presidential nominee, "you ain't black"
if you vote for the other guy. Does that not mean that "you
ain't white" if you vote for Biden? Maybe by Biden's "logic." But
conservatives don't think that way.
The
ugly truth is that slavery and abortion have been the two sacraments of the
Democratic Party. The first, since its inception, the latter in more
modern times. Slavery was a monstrous evil as practiced then and is
a monstrous evil as practiced now. Stray too far from the Democratic
plantation, and they try to strip you of your dignity. Erase your
identity. Call you names. Say you aren't actually
black. They actively foment race and class warfare to further
their own cause, their own power. Screw the country. This
is the mother of all evils.
Speaking
of mothers, while those aborted don't have to be provided for, they aren't
worth mentioning to Democrats since they can't vote. Because they're
dead. That's the difference. Abortions are effectively
partly subsidized by our tax dollars. What does one say about a
party that advocates confiscating people's money to fund Planned Parenthood (or
pay for union dues, for that matter) without their consent, or even in direct
opposition to their beliefs? Is that not another form of
slavery? It certainly is taxation without representation at
a minimum. The Founders rebelled against a three-pence tax on
tea. Isn't this worse?
We are
being lied to continually. Very few people in the media, such as
Tucker Carlson, are brave enough to speak truth to power, whoever that power may be,
wherever it may lie. Democrats are gifted liars, preternatural
prevaricators. (See also the
Clintons.) They will tell you Republicans are racist. They will tell
you that President Trump colluded with the Russians, might even be a Russian
asset. They tell us that global warming is an existential crisis and
that the Earth will be toast in ten years. Of course, they also told
us that ten years ago. They
told us that COVID-19 would likely kill countless millions, maybe 2.2 million in
this country alone, so we should stay inside. We couldn't have
graduation ceremonies, get married, attend funerals, or get a haircut. For our own good. Those
few of us who eventually dared to leave our homes and peacefully protest this
usurpation of our constitutional rights were labeled as selfish, hateful,
bigots — terrorists, in
fact — who were going to be responsible for a surge in coronavirus infections
and resultant deaths.
And
now they tell us that certain protests, even violent ones, are a public health good, even a
necessity. That isn't "their truth." It's a
lie. There's no such thing as my truth, your truth, his truth, or her truth. There is
only the truth.
The
truth is: the truth is.
It is up to us to recognize
it. Embrace it. Cherish it. Protect
it. And tell it.
Photo
illustration by Monica Showalter with use
of public domain images.
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.”
Obama Quietly Erasing Borders (Article)
WIKILEAKS EXPOSES THE OBAMA CONSPIRACY TO
FLOOD AMERICAN WITH DEM VOTING ILLEGALS
“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
Obama Funds the Mexican Fascist Party of
LA RAZA “The Race”… now calling itself UNIDOSus.
"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!
Previous
generations of immigrants did not believe they were racially superior to
Americans. That is the view of La Raza Cosmica, by Jose Vasconcelos,
Mexico’s former education minister and a presidential candidate. According to
this book, republished in 1979 by the Department of Chicano Studies at Cal
State LA, students of Scandinavian, Dutch and English background are dullards,
blacks are ugly and inferior, and those “Mongols” with the slanted eyes lack
enterprise. The superior new “cosmic” race of Spaniards and Indians is
replacing them, and all Yankee “Anglos.” LLOYD
BILLINGSLEY/ FRONTPAGE mag
*
GLOBALIST BARACK OBAMA
AND NANCY PELOSI’S CONSPIRACY TO SABOTAGE HOMELAND SECURITY AND KEEP AMERICA
FLOODED WITH DEM VOTING ILLEGALS
"Along with Obama, Pelosi and
Schumer are responsible for incalculable damage done to this country over the
eight years of that administration." PATRICIA McCARTHY
“One of the most disgusting things to come out of the Obama administration
was "Operation Fast and Furious," where members of the Department of
Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) allowed illegal gun sales to go
through – commonly referred to as "gun walking" – in order to track
buyers and sellers they believed were connected to the Mexican drug cartels.
Nearly 2,000 firearms were sold and were eventually found throughout the United
States and Mexico. Two of them were used to k ill Border Patrol Agent Brian
Terry.” BETH BAUMANN
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.
Jose
Angel Gutierrez, professor, University of Texas, Arlington and founder of
La Raza Unida political party screams at rallies: "We have
an aging white America. They are d ying. They are s hitting in their
pants with fear! I love it! We have got to eliminate the g ringo, and what
I mean by that is if the worst comes to the worst, we have got to k ill him!"
Previous
generations of immigrants did not believe they were racially superior to
Americans. That is the view of La Raza Cosmica, by Jose Vasconcelos,
Mexico’s former education minister and a presidential candidate. According to
this book, republished in 1979 by the Department of Chicano Studies at Cal
State LA, students of Scandinavian, Dutch and English background are dullards,
blacks are ugly and inferior, and those “Mongols” with the slanted eyes lack
enterprise. The superior new “cosmic” race of Spaniards and Indians is replacing
them, and all Yankee “Anglos.” LLOYD
BILLINGSLEY/ FRONTPAGE mag
Joe
Biden: ‘Absolutely Bizarre’ to Suggest Limit on U.S. Capacity to Absorb
Immigrants
LAS VEGAS, Nevada — Former Vice President Joe Biden campaigned
inside a Chinese restaurant on Tuesday evening, telling supporters it was
“bizarre” to suggest a limit on immigration to the U.S.
Biden promised to expand immigration to the U.S. if elected
president.
“Folks, look — the idea that there’s some limitation on the
capacity of anyone who — on the immigrants in this country is absolutely
bizarre! It’s absolutely bizarre.”
Biden, speaking to a packed crowd inside the Harbor Palace
Seafood Restaurant on the eve of the next Democratic debate, addressed members
of the Asian-American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community, urging them to
turn out the vote ahead of Saturday’s caucuses.
Last month, the AAPI Victory
Fund super PAC endorsed Biden for president, citing his ability to defeat
President Donald Trump and his experience working with immigrant communities
from South Asia, East Asia and the Pacific generally.
Though the AAPI immigrant community is politically diverse, it
has trended Democratic in recent years.
Last year, Breitbart News reported,
another local AAPI organization in Las Vegas expressed opposition to President
Trump’s proposed merit-based system for legal immigration.
On Tuesday, Biden promised, if elected, to allow family
reunification visas.
“We should be able to increase, to three million people, the
people who could come for family reunification. Period, period, period,
period.”
He called the idea that the U.S. could not “reunite” more
families “absolutely bizarre.”
Biden also reminded his audience that Latinos were not the only
beneficiaries of President Barack Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood
Arrivals (DACA) program, which applied to those brought to the country
illegally as children.
He said there were “thousands and thousands of AAPI ‘Dreamers'”
who had benefited from DACA as well.
Afterwards, Biden greeted attendees, some of whom proceeded to
the Chinatown Mall to cast early votes before the polling place there closed.
Biden hopes to finish in the top three in Nevada, and to win
South Carolina on Feb. 29, to make the case that he is still a top contender
for his party’s nomination. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) now leads national
polls, as well as Nevada polls.
Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large
at Breitbart News. He earned an A.B. in Social Studies and Environmental
Science and Public Policy from Harvard College, and a J.D. from Harvard Law
School. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship.
He is also the co-author of How Trump Won: The Inside Story of a Revolution, which is available from Regnery. Follow him on Twitter
at @joelpollak.
Biden
and the Immigration Trap
'Uncle
Joe' Agonistes
On Tuesday, the Washington Post ran an article detailing the struggles confronting
the campaign of presumptive Democratic nominee for president Joe Biden with
respect to immigration. There are a few things that the article leaves out, but
it is notable (and somewhat shocking) for what it contains. What it ultimately
shows is that the former vice president is boxed into an immigration trap.
Specifically, the article details
the competing forces that are pulling "Uncle Joe" on immigration as
he seeks to wrest the White House from Donald Trump (whose immigration stance,
the paper admits, helped propel him to the presidency in 2016).
On the one side is the
presumptive candidate's desire to capture the votes of white blue-collar voters
in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin (all won by Trump in the last
election), while on the other is his need to turn out the Hispanic vote,
particularly in Florida and Arizona. The article states that Latino voters
"are expected to become the country's largest nonwhite voting bloc this
fall."
Although the Post alludes to
Biden's immigration proposals (which
are somewhat out there, as I have described here, here, and here), and discusses his more outré ideas, such as suspending
deportations for his first 100 days in office and then deporting only
felons (which would essentially nullify much of the Immigration and Nationality
Act), the Post simultaneously fails to note that those proposals would likely
not resound with much of the voting populace, while at the same time contending
that these policies don't go far enough for "significant segments of his
own party".
Those "segments" are,
the paper contends, clamoring for Biden to commit to "removing criminal
penalties for those who cross the border illegally, removing barriers from the
border [,and] abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement." There is
likely a reason that Biden does not want to talk about those ideas on the
campaign trail.
Polls don't show support for Biden positions
Polling from August 2018 — when the "Abolish ICE" fever was likely cresting — showed only 24 percent of voters
supported the idea, with Democrats, Republicans, and independents staking out
that position about equally. Some 40 percent disagreed, while 34 percent had no
opinion.
Not to say that Democrats wildly
supported the agency — 57 percent of Democrats had an unfavorable view of ICE,
with an equal percentage of Republicans in favor of it, and 46 percent of
independents took no view. Many of those opposed to abolition but who also
don't like ICE likely were concerned about the law of unintended consequences,
and by May 2019 Buzzfeed News reported: "'Abolish ICE' Was The Call Of
Last Summer. 2020 Democrats Have Moved On".
Further, in July 2019, The Hill noted that a poll found "a plurality of voters,
41 percent, thought those crossing the border illegally should face criminal
punishment, while 32 percent said it should just warrant a fine." With
respect to independents, 36 percent favored criminal penalties, while "33
percent ... think it should be treated as a misdemeanor, with just a fine as
punishment."
I note that this response shows a
certain misapprehension of the current state of the law (initial illegal entry is already a misdemeanor, with a
fine as an optional but rarely, if ever, imposed punishment, and most of those
prosecuted are sentenced merely to time served while awaiting prosecution),
suggesting that even those voters — if they knew the facts — would actually
want stricter punishment than most aliens who have entered illegally already
receive. No wonder the former vice president does not want to discuss the
issue, let alone make it a key point for his campaign.
On barriers at the border, the
polling is a bit more mixed. In February 2019, Gallup reported that six in 10 Americans opposed a border
wall, but that poll was taken directly after a bruising government shutdown
that largely focused on the issue. I will note that last Monday, KXAN (the NBC affiliate in Austin, Texas) released a
poll showing that excitement for Donald Trump in Texas swamped enthusiasm for
Biden in the Lone Star State. Most significantly:
When broken down by party, 19.5% of Democrats said they
were extremely excited about Biden and 22.6 said they were "not that
excited." Meanwhile, 49.4% of Republicans said they were "extremely
excited" about supporting Trump and 9.5% reported they were not that
excited about him.
Texas and Arizona are currently the primary sites for new border wall
construction, and if Texans were that opposed to what is and has been the
president's key immigration proposal, it would likely be reflected in their
lack of enthusiasm. It does not seem to have moved the needle, however, or if
it did, it is in Trump's favor.
I will note that I spoke on the
issue in a debate in February before a largely liberal crowd, and opposition to
the wall was an applause point (from an audience that all but defined the "Dunning-Kruger Effect" on the issue), but a lot has changed in three
months. The Post itself reported on April 28 that 65 percent of Americans were in favor of a
temporary suspension in immigration during the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic, with
34 percent opposed.
Polling found that 83 percent of
Republicans and 67 percent of independents were in favor of temporary
restrictions, and Democrats were split 49-49 on the issue. Significantly, 67
percent of whites, 61 percent of "nonwhites" (presumably including
Latinos), and a majority of 18- to 29-year-olds were in favor. Now again,
"temporary suspensions on immigration" and "border wall
construction" are two different things, but an influx of illegal entrants
during the (traditional) illegal travel season of
April to December while lockdowns are still in place could tie the two issues
in voters' minds, and gubernatorial inter-state travel
restrictions may have done so
already.
And voters stuck at home as a
result of Wuhan coronavirus restrictions could be only temporarily less
inclined to support the entry of aliens, legal or otherwise. That said,
the transit of the illness from China could give them pause to take a slightly more
charitable view toward Donald Trump's opposition to open borders.
Sound tough on China, or not?
Lest you think I am casting
aspersions with respect to the last point (I am not, and consider anyone who
blames any American — citizen or immigrant — for the virus to be an idiot), I
am really just channeling the former vice president. The Post article on Biden notes: "Some were alarmed when the
Biden campaign began airing an ad in battleground states that accused Trump of
having 'rolled over for the Chinese' amid the pandemic and 'let in 40,000
travelers from China.'" That is an apt description of the response to that
ad on the part of progressives.
In particular, an April 23
Politico article captioned "Biden ad exposes a rift over
China on the left: The former vice president's effort to hit Trump as soft on
Beijing is backfiring among parts of his base" states:
Joe Biden's effort to outflank
President Donald Trump on China is leading to blowback from within his own
political base.
Some worry the rhetoric in a
new Biden campaign ad could spur anti-Asian bias already on the rise because of
the coronavirus pandemic. Others argue that Biden's effort to sound tougher on
China than Trump could backfire diplomatically in the long run.
...
"I acknowledge and understand the need and desire to
defeat and beat Trump, however, my question is 'Who is the Biden campaign
willing to sacrifice along that way?'" said Timmy Lu, executive director
of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders for Civic Empowerment.
So why did Biden release the ad?
Because he was in a box over his earlier statements criticizing the president
for his response to the Wuhan coronavirus the day that the White House
announced restrictions on travel from the People's Republic of China.
Specifically, Biden, campaigning in Iowa, stated: "This is no time for
Donald Trump's record of hysteria and xenophobia — hysterical xenophobia — and
fearmongering to lead the way instead of science." (Curiously, the YouTube link to the video of those comments states: "Video
unavailable, This video has been removed by the uploader." Hmmm.)
The Post notes that Biden has sought insight into handling
the issue of immigration as a candidate from, among others, Sen. Robert Casey
(D-Pa.). Casey fought off Republican Lou Barletta — an immigration hawk — in a
2018 challenge for Casey's senate seat, and:
He urged Biden to emphasize
the economic benefits of immigration while pledging to secure the southern
border to keep drugs and criminals out.
"You have to make it very
clear that you stand for border security — and not just that you stand for it,
but that you voted for it," Casey said, citing past measures that have won
Democratic backing.
But, at the same time, he said most voters want an
immigration system that is humane and fair. The separation of families at the
border was a wake-up call for some voters, Casey said.
I am not sure how that border
security advice squares with Biden's promise that
"the only deportations that will take place" under his administration
"are commissions of felonies in the United States of America"
(meaning that Mexican cartel members who enter illegally will not be deported,
for example), but for some reason the Post fails to mention the discrepancy.
That said, such advice is easier
given to the former vice president than it will be swallowed by the American
people, because of Biden's record.
I would posit initially that
recommendations like Casey's are likely the reason that Biden's immigration proposals begin:
It is a moral failing and a national shame when a father
and his baby daughter drown seeking our shores. When children are locked away
in overcrowded detention centers and the government seeks to keep them there
indefinitely. When our government argues in court against giving those children
toothbrushes and soap. When President Trump uses family separation as a weapon
against desperate mothers, fathers, and children seeking safety and a better
life.
The Obama-Biden administration's record
Again,
easily said. It will, however, be very difficult for Biden to distance himself
from some very similar policies enacted under the "Obama-Biden
administration".
There
is likely a reason why Biden does not (directly) fall back on the "kids in
cages" trope that has become a standard for tendentious discussions
of immigration by political
hacks.
As I have previously noted:
Snopes
(not exactly a Trump-friendly outlet) examined the following fact: "The
Obama administration, not the Trump administration, built the cages that hold
many immigrant children at the U.S.-Mexico border." They deemed that
statement "true", explaining:
Pictures of children
behind chain-link fencing were captured at a site in McAllen, Texas, that had
been converted from a warehouse to an immigrant-detention facility in 2014.
Social media users who defended Trump's immigration policies also shared a 2014
photograph of Obama's Homeland Security Secretary, Jeh Johnson, touring a
facility in Nogales, Arizona, in 2014, in which the fencing could be seen
surrounding migrants there as well. That picture was taken during a spike in
the number of unaccompanied children fleeing violence in Central American
countries.
That
said, there is a direct line from "children ... locked away in overcrowded
detention centers and the government [that] seeks to keep them there
indefinitely", who cannot access "toothbrushes and soap" and the
decisions of the previous administration to erect fencing in Border Patrol
processing centers to protect unaccompanied alien children (UACs). One that
Biden would likely prefer to be forgotten.
And
a direct line to the Obama-Biden administration's 2014 "blanket policy to
detain all female-headed families, including children, in secure, unlicensed
facilities for the duration of the proceedings that determine whether they are
entitled to remain in the United States," which prompted Judge
Dolly Gee of
the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California to find President
Obama's Department of Homeland Security in breach of the Flores settlement
agreement in July 2015.
Plus,
as I have previously
noted ad
nauseam, the fact that UACs were stuck in the conditions Biden describes
had everything to do with Congress's (and especially congressional Democrats')
failure to provide funding Trump and his acting Homeland Security secretary had
sought for more than a month, and nothing to do with a volitional decision by
the administration to keep them there.
These
facts may have been elided by a compliant press (the Post did not mention
them at all in its Biden immigration piece), but I doubt that they will escape
notice during a presidential campaign when the president and independent
interest groups can throw money at ads highlighting them.
Pandering to Latino voters
Then,
there is the pandering by Biden and his surrogates themselves. Much of Biden's
outreach to Latino voters appears to focus on immigration, but is that really
the most important issue to those voters?
In
a June 2019 survey by Unidos
US,
"jobs and the economy" was the most important issue an ideal
candidate would address (23 percent) for 1,854 eligible Latino voters in
Arizona, California, Florida, Nevada, and Texas, followed by
"healthcare" (17 percent) and then "immigration" (15
percent). "Gun violence" (8 percent) and "climate change"
(7 percent) together equaled that total.
BLOG:
OBAMA FUNDED AND OPERATED LA RAZA 'The Race" NOW CALLING ITSELF UNIDOSUS
FROM THE WHITE HOUSE. IT IS A MEX FASCIST ANTI-AMERICAN POLITICAL MOVEMENT FOR
SURRENDER OF AMERICA TO MEXICO.
Unidos
US,
for those who are not familiar, is the current incarnation of the
"National Council of La Raza", which bills itself as "the
nation's largest Hispanic civil rights and advocacy organization". Hardly
a MAGA front group.
Given
these numbers, it is no surprise that the Atlantic magazine in February stated
that 30 percent of Latino voters support the president, in an opinion piece
captioned "Latino
Support for Trump Is Real: And that's a problem for Democrats" (not to be
confused with the outlet's January 2020 article captioned "Democrats
Should Be Worried About the Latino Vote: Political organizers have a warning
for the 2020 candidates").
In
this vein, in early May, Slate ran an article captioned "Biden
Has a Real Latino Problem", which stated:
A recent Latino
Decisions poll reveals a clear enthusiasm gap among Latinos for both Biden and
the 2020 election itself, with only 49 percent of registered voters currently
committed to choosing Biden over Trump, and just six out of 10 planning to go
to the polls in November.
That
article focuses on Biden's initial reluctance to distance himself from what the
outlet deems "the controversial immigration policy of the first two years
of the Obama administration" (perhaps too good a sales job by a president
whose rhetoric on removals did not match his actions), and Biden's inability to
present himself to Hispanic voters due to the current pandemic.
Speaking
of which, Slate notes that: "According to the Latino Decisions poll,
almost half of all respondents approve of Trump's handling of the coronavirus
crisis, with 47 percent saying Trump was delivering 'clear and helpful'
information about the pandemic." Again, showing that
"immigration" is not the only concern of Hispanic voters.
Back
to the pandering, however. The Post notes that
Biden's "wife Jill, who is learning Spanish while stuck at home by the
pandemic, has begun meeting weekly with small groups of Latino members of
Congress, taking notes on a range of issues to share with her husband" (I
don't have the heart to tell her they speak English), and the article is
accompanied by a photo of Biden "at a campaign stop at King Taco in Los
Angeles, with Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti".
The
paper also reports that "Biden campaign officials have promised to
significantly increase outreach to Latinos and further diversify the staff now
that they have raised more money, although," the Post notes, "they
declined to provide target numbers."
I
suppose that a Spanish-speaking spouse, an ethnically diverse staff, and a
documented hankering for regional cuisine may win Biden some votes, but the
fact is he is stuck in an immigration box.
If
he ties himself to the "Obama-Biden" administration on the issue, it
appears that he will alienate both immigration activists and those who favor
the Trump administration's reversal of those policies. But, if he panders to those
activists, he will likely turn off many of the voters in swing states who
supported Trump in 2016 (and especially those who were swayed by the
now-president's promises of border security and immigration limitations).
A January
article in
the Post contained a list of "Bidenisms", folksy aphorisms that the
candidate uses on the stump. One is: "My dad had an expression ... 'Joey,
don't compare me to the Almighty, compare me to the alternative.''' Most voters
already know that the president has his flaws and imperfections, but once
voters get to know Biden's immigration record and his proposals, they may pull
the level for Trump as the better alternative.
Biden’s
Coronavirus Plan: Catch and Release Border Crossers into U.S.
508David McNew/Getty Images
1 May 20201,989
3:45
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.
Democrats - Like the Mensheviks - Will Go Into the Dustbin of History
Democrats - Like the Mensheviks - Will Go Into the Dustbin of History
How history is repeating itself.
All it took was a spark, the tragic police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, to trigger the explosion of anger and frustration that the radical left exploited to orchestrate the violent insurrection across America they had been planning for months.
The radicals strike when then see weakness, and that is what they saw in the largely Democrat run cities where the major riots broke out. These professional agitators have a well-planned strategy for the violent takeover of America which they can never accomplish peacefully through elections. Hours after the video of Floyd began circulating the internet, militant Antifa, Black Lives Matters cells and other radical socialist groups began deploying to Minnesota to riot, according to Andy Ngo, an American conservative journalist who studies the revolutionary tactics of the radical left. The anarchist-communist group, Antifa has perfected the art of rioting and chaos, first breaking store windows, calling in the looters, and then burning the place down. It is encouraging news that Antifa, whose stated goals are to abolish capitalism and law enforcement in America, will be designated as a terrorist organization as President Trump announced on Sunday May 31st.
Antifa and an amalgam of radical leftist movements in America including Black Lives Matter (BLM), Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL), and the Bernie Bros, have taken a page from Lenin’s playbook of the Bolshevik Revolution. They follow in the footsteps of murderous dictators such as Lenin, Castro, Mao, Pol Pot, and Maduro, who exploited the poverty, chaos and turmoil of their societies to take over through violent insurrections, since they could never achieve power through a peaceful election process.
History is repeating itself now as we are witnessing the battle of the moderates versus the radical left within the Democrat Party. Lenin’s totalitarian Bolsheviks split from the more moderate democratic Mensheviks, who were the popular establishment party, violently seized power, overthrew the Tsarist regime, and ultimately established the Soviet Union. Lenin hated the Mensheviks more than the Tsar, whom he had executed along with his entire family. Along with capitalism and democracy, Lenin annihilated the Mensheviks and sent them, as Trotsky chided “… into the dustbin of history!”
These radical socialist movements, all enthusiastic supporters of socialist Bernie Sanders during the Presidential Primaries, will not be supporting Joe Biden, as DSA and others stated. Similar to Lenin and the Mensheviks, the radical socialists hate the establishment Democrats more than the president. The political war the establishment Democrat-media complex waged against the Sanders presidential campaign and the system rigged against him to defeat him the second time, pushed them over the boiling point to set off “the powder keg that is growing all over this country,” in the words of Nina Turner, former top aide for Sander’s presidential campaign, inciting the flames of riot and revolt across the nation.
Most of the rioting is happening now in Democratic strongholds, as payback for their offences against the left. Chicago, Detroit, Baltimore, Minneapolis, St Louis, Washington DC, Cleveland, some of the most dangerous cites in America, now hotbeds of rioting and unrest have been totally controlled by the Democrat Party for 50 years or more. The radical socialists doing the looting, burning, and causing chaos, do not care about the poverty, unemployment, the failing schools, the crumbling infrastructure, over-regulated businesses, or the black, the poor or minority populations living there. Their aim is to create chaos and take over when the people are sufficiently cowed and afraid. Democrat mayors and governors are giving them carte blanche to create havoc and destroy property and human life, as did leftwing Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey who surrendered the Third Police Precinct to the rioters. On top of that, the son of Minnesota AG Keith Ellison, and City Council member, officially declared his support for Antifa. Voters throughout America need to rise up and kick out these soft-on-crime political has-beens.
Democratic governors and mayors have been weak and spineless as the riots have consumed their cities and the people were left terrified and hopeless. The riot at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn was a well-organized attack orchestrated by radical socialist groups throwing bottles, bricks, Molotov cocktails and other debris at police. Police were injured, some almost killed, but that didn’t prevent Governor Cuomo, Mayor de Blasio as well as other elected officials from taking the side of the rioters and calling for an investigation into police responses, and Senator Gounares (D-Brooklyn) blaming the police when they were trying to defend themselves. Senator Michael Gianaris (D-Astoria) and many other New York City Democrat elected officials, said they will no longer accept campaign contributions from police unions and declared, “we deserve a police force that is held accountable for racist behavior.” Setting the stage for lawlessness and mayhem, New York City with its bail reform laws releasing criminals to the streets and emptying city jails, welcomes the professional agitators expediting their plunder.
In contrast, the mayors and governors of Republican cities and Trump strongholds, who refuse to placate the rioters, who are not afraid to stand up to the criminals and thugs looting and rioting in the streets of their cities, have set curfews and declared state of emergency orders early on and rioting has been curtailed. While Democrats have failed to protect American lives or property, Republicans have protected this country from foreign adversaries and domestic foes since 1861, when Abraham Lincoln, the first Republican president emancipated the slaves and won the Civil War. In 1864 he defeated the Democratic nominee, former General George McClellan who wanted to make peace with the South and discard the victory that Lincoln and the Union was about to achieve. Teddy Roosevelt saved this country with “big stick” diplomacy, built up our military, and made America a superpower. Eisenhower defeated the Nazis and stood up to the Soviet Union. Ronald Reagan defeated communism and the Soviet Union and won the Cold War.
The Republican Party is historically the Party of law and order and strong defense. They have always championed the protection of the people and always will. In 1968, the chaos and storming of the Democrat National Convention and the riots that shook the nation, paved the way for the victory of Richard Nixon who ran for president on a law and order platform. History is now repeating itself. On Monday June 1st, President Trump called himself “the president of law and order” and promised to restore security and safety and mobilize the United States military to American cities to stop the rioting and looting and protect the rights of Americans. When chaos happens, people seek law and order, and will vote for Republicans. Rudy Giuliani recently said: “Don’t elect progressive Democrats if you want to be safe.” Just like the Mensheviks, the Democrat Party is headed for the dustbin of history.
Phil Orenstein is the president of the Queens Village Republican Club. Established in 1875, it is America’s oldest Republican Club. Historian, Jerry Matacotta was the advisor for this article.
A Deliberately Bankrupted
America
The
Truth about Interracial Violent Crime
A Deliberately Bankrupted America
The
Truth about Interracial Violent Crime
NO ONE WORKED HARDER FOR NAFTA THAN JOE BIDEN! IT IS THE
BASIS OF THE GLOBALIST DEMOCRAT PARTY’S PLATFORM OR BILLIONAIRES AND BANKSTERS.
THAT IS THE REASON WE HAVE OPEN BORDERS WITH NARCOMEX.
LOOK AT THE CRIME TIDAL WAVE IN ALL DEMOCRAT PARTY-CONTROLLED
LA RAZA SANCTUARY CITIES ALL OF WHICH ARE IN MELTDOWN!
A Deliberately Bankrupted
America
Why
are the cities burning? African Americans have been a part of our history since
our nation’s founding -- they fought for independence. They are found on
the Supreme Court, in military leadership, as
prominent mayors, Members of Congress, academics, authors, cabinet secretaries, ambassadors, police chiefs, surgeons, business owners, entertainers, athletes, astronauts, and CEOs. A 75% white America
even voted twice to choose an African American leader. If so much progress has
been made, why are the nation’s cities -- some led by African American mayors,
with a diverse police force often led by non-white police chiefs -- burning?
Could
this be the end result of choices made over time by some of our leaders to
bankrupt America and African-Americans economically, morally, educationally,
and spiritually?
The
Free Trade Agreements from ‘94 to ‘01, with NAFTA, and then with China,
bankrupted the nation economically. The ‘sucking sound’ of factories closing and millions of jobs
disappearing hit both sides of the border. Millions of Mexican family farmers
could not compete with American agribusiness, lost their farms .and began the trek
northward. Those men (in the words of the times) worked ‘twice as hard as black
men, for half the pay’. Systemic unemployment enabled by free trade and open
borders was made worse by floods of drugs brought by the Colombian and Mexican
Cartels, and synthetic drugs manufactured in Chinese factories. Addicted men engaged in
petty theft to support their habits or became part of the predatory gangs
profiting off the addicts. The explosion in crime, starting with the crack wars
of the late 80s, resulted in the imprisoning of many young African American
men. In 1990, one of every three African-American
men under 29 were in prison or on parole.
Already
stressed family bonds broke under this strain. Currently 77% percent of African
Americans are born into unmarried families. The family pictures of son, father,
and grandson is almost unknown in our poorest communities. The anger and pain
of sons abandoned by their fathers is a lifelong wound. The consequences of
numerous short-term disposable relationships is abusive stepparents and the loss of
positive male role models. When the patriarchy is smashed, there are no fathers
to guide boys to manhood, and the masculinity that remains is too often toxic.
If
the family is a broken reed, what of the schools? In our poorest schools,
the lowest achieving students, mostly young men with attention and behavior problems, leave elementary school
without learning to read or mastering arithmetic, only to fall behind further
each year. In our nation’s capital, one-third of the adults
cannot read. Our lowest-performing students learn from school that no matter
how disruptively and disrespectfully you behave, no matter how little you work
or how low your test scores, you will pass on to the next grade.
When 2/3rds of students are not at grade
level, maintaining standards is impossible
without drastic reform.
Our
schools and our culture do not support societal stability. They are creating a
nation of moral and spiritual midgets. With the Biblical Ten Commandments
ridiculed for a generation, looters of every background across the nation defy
the unknown command “Thou Shalt Not Steal.” Rather than heed Jesus’ example of
forgiveness, grievance is nurtured and encouraged. In expelling those old white
men, the Greek philosophers, from our humanities, we do not teach Aristotle’s
virtue of moderation in a democratic society. In schools today, the focus is
not on the virtues or genius of our founding generation. There is little talk of innovators, entrepreneurs, explorers, soldiers, scientists, pioneers, architects, or engineers. Instead, a cartoon
version of only protestors and oppressors becomes our national story. America is portrayed as a shameful, oppressive country, one that deserves
little loyalty or protection from
the mob. The social compact has been deliberately frayed.
For
a generation, the complaint has been of wealth inequality -- some people
are too rich. An entire race
has been labeled with #Whiteprivilege. We have become a nation singularly focused on
the color of our skin, while blindly ignoring the content of our individual
character. Suddenly America is not the place where an African immigrant genius
can lead our national return to space, but an oppressive land where the fabulously
rich Elon Musk is just another rich white man benefiting from his privilege.
The nuance and truths behind the theories of income inequality and white
privilege are lost on the rioting mobs. Instead it is the sin of envy
personified, and the theory of socialism in street talk: “I need the iPad in your store, so I’ll take it
and beat you senseless if you object --
you privileged, rich, oppressive white.” Or as Karl Marx so eloquently put it:
“From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.”
Our
nation’s political class is deeply divided. Many Democrat politicians cannot
bring themselves to openly side with law and order against their allies and so
remain silent to the hijacking of legitimate protests. To a socialist ‘you
didn’t build that’ -- what the entrepreneur spent a lifetime building up -- is
actually the property of the voters, who have decided to redistribute the
wealth. Thus, hundreds of Minneapolis police stood by, at the mayor’s command,
while businesses were looted across
the street. They were defending the police precinct -- government property. And
even then, they were ordered to give that up to the mob. After all, the city
can just take your money in taxes to rebuild after it’s over. In Minneapolis,
under the leadership of Mayor Jacob Frey, the police are there to keep your
nonessential business shut down because of COVID-19, but not to protect your
life’s work from the anarchists. In Washington D.C., the mayor at first refused
to use city police to protect the White House and our nation’s monuments.
Arlington county withdrew its police from D.C., when
they saw their officers help the President cross the street during the
protests. To some, the real problem is the political opposition, not the
rioting. After all, if Trump succeeds in bringing back American manufacturing,
and if his actions raise American wages by lowering taxes and regulations while
decreasing illegal immigration, then Democratic
politicians might lose a few elections. Better to burn America down, than to
MAGA.
And
therein lies a clue to the problems of our deeply divided country. Our country
is deeply divided and hurting economically, educationally, morally, and
spiritually. But division is in the interests of some of our political leaders.
Why unify, when division makes your supporters more passionate? Why build, when
it is much easier to tear down? The key to our political paradox lies in the
virtues expounded by the world’s first democrats, the Greeks: wisdom, justice, moderation, and
courage.
May we have the wisdom to sit in moderate dialogue with our fellow citizens,
and the courage to seek liberty and justice for all.
The
Truth about Interracial Violent Crime
Debunking the Left's pernicious
lies.
Thu Jun 4, 2020
Instead it is the sin of envy personified, and
the theory of socialism in street talk: “I need the iPad in your store, so I’ll take it
and beat you senseless if you object --
you privileged, rich, oppressive white.”
A Deliberately Bankrupted America
Why
are the cities burning? African Americans have been a part of our history since
our nation’s founding -- they fought for independence. They are found on
the Supreme Court, in military leadership, as
prominent mayors, Members of Congress, academics, authors, cabinet secretaries, ambassadors, police chiefs, surgeons, business owners, entertainers, athletes, astronauts, and CEOs. A 75% white America
even voted twice to choose an African American leader. If so much progress has
been made, why are the nation’s cities -- some led by African American mayors,
with a diverse police force often led by non-white police chiefs -- burning?
Could
this be the end result of choices made over time by some of our leaders to
bankrupt America and African-Americans economically, morally, educationally,
and spiritually?
The
Free Trade Agreements from ‘94 to ‘01, with NAFTA, and then with China,
bankrupted the nation economically. The ‘sucking sound’ of factories closing and millions of jobs
disappearing hit both sides of the border.
BLOG
EDITOR: FOR 8 YEARS BARACK OBAMA AND JOE BIDEN DID NADA FOR BLACK AMERICA AS
THEY SURRENDERED OUR BORDERS TO MEXICO!
Millions
of Mexican family farmers could not compete with American agribusiness, lost their farms .and began the trek
northward.
Those men (in the words of the times) worked ‘twice as hard as black men, for
half the pay’. Systemic unemployment enabled by free trade and open borders
was made worse by floods of drugs brought by the Colombian and Mexican Cartels,
and synthetic drugs manufactured in Chinese factories. Addicted men engaged in
petty theft to support their habits or became part of the predatory gangs
profiting off the addicts. The explosion in crime, starting with the crack wars
of the late 80s, resulted in the imprisoning of many young African American
men. In 1990, one of every three African-American
men under 29 were in prison or on parole.
Already
stressed family bonds broke under this strain. Currently 77% percent of African
Americans are born into unmarried families. The family pictures of son, father,
and grandson is almost unknown in our poorest communities. The anger and pain
of sons abandoned by their fathers is a lifelong wound. The consequences of
numerous short-term disposable relationships is abusive stepparents and the loss of
positive male role models. When the patriarchy is smashed, there are no
fathers to guide boys to manhood, and the masculinity that remains is too often
toxic.
If
the family is a broken reed, what of the schools? In our poorest schools, the lowest achieving
students, mostly young men with attention and behavior problems, leave elementary school
without learning to read or mastering arithmetic, only to fall behind further
each year. In our nation’s capital, one-third of the adults
cannot read. Our lowest-performing students learn from school that no matter
how disruptively and disrespectfully you behave, no matter how little you work
or how low your test scores, you will pass on to the next
grade.
When 2/3rds of students are not at grade
level, maintaining standards is impossible
without drastic reform.
Our
schools and our culture do not support societal stability. They are creating a
nation of moral and spiritual midgets. With the Biblical Ten Commandments
ridiculed for a generation, looters of every background across the nation defy
the unknown command “Thou Shalt Not Steal.” Rather than heed Jesus’ example of
forgiveness, grievance is nurtured and encouraged. In expelling those old white
men, the Greek philosophers, from our humanities, we do not teach Aristotle’s
virtue of moderation in a democratic society. In schools today, the focus is
not on the virtues or genius of our founding generation. There is little talk of innovators, entrepreneurs, explorers, soldiers, scientists, pioneers, architects, or engineers. Instead, a cartoon
version of only protestors and oppressors becomes our national story. America is portrayed as a shameful, oppressive country, one that deserves
little loyalty or protection from
the mob. The social compact has been deliberately frayed.
For
a generation, the complaint has been of wealth inequality -- some people
are too rich. An entire race
has been labeled with #Whiteprivilege. We have become a nation singularly focused on
the color of our skin, while blindly ignoring the content of our individual
character. Suddenly America is not the place where an African immigrant genius
can lead our national return to space, but an oppressive land where the fabulously
rich Elon Musk is just another rich white man benefiting from his privilege.
The nuance and truths behind the theories of income inequality and white
privilege are lost on the rioting mobs. Instead it is the sin of envy
personified, and the theory of socialism in street talk: “I need the iPad in your store, so I’ll take it
and beat you senseless if you object --
you privileged, rich, oppressive white.” Or as Karl Marx so eloquently put it: “From each
according to his ability, to each according to his need.”
Our
nation’s political class is deeply divided. Many Democrat politicians cannot
bring themselves to openly side with law and order against their allies and so
remain silent to the hijacking of legitimate protests. To a socialist ‘you
didn’t build that’ -- what the entrepreneur spent a lifetime building up -- is
actually the property of the voters, who have decided to redistribute the
wealth. Thus, hundreds of Minneapolis police stood by, at the mayor’s
command, while businesses were looted across the street. They were defending the
police precinct -- government property. And even then, they were ordered to
give that up to the mob. After all, the city can just take your money in taxes
to rebuild after it’s over. In Minneapolis, under the leadership of Mayor Jacob
Frey, the police are there to keep your nonessential business shut down because
of COVID-19, but not to protect your life’s work from the anarchists. In
Washington D.C., the mayor at first refused to use city police to protect the
White House and our nation’s monuments. Arlington county withdrew its police from D.C., when
they saw their officers help the President cross the street during the
protests. To some, the real problem is the political opposition, not the
rioting. After all, if Trump succeeds in bringing back American manufacturing,
and if his actions raise American wages by lowering taxes and regulations while
decreasing illegal immigration, then Democratic
politicians might lose a few elections. Better to burn America down, than to
MAGA.
And
therein lies a clue to the problems of our deeply divided country. Our country
is deeply divided and hurting economically, educationally, morally, and spiritually.
But division is in the interests of some of our political leaders. Why unify,
when division makes your supporters more passionate? Why build, when it is much
easier to tear down? The key to our political paradox lies in the virtues
expounded by the world’s first democrats, the Greeks: wisdom, justice, moderation, and
courage.
May we have the wisdom to sit in moderate dialogue with our fellow citizens,
and the courage to seek liberty and justice for all.
The
Truth about Interracial Violent Crime
Debunking the Left's pernicious
lies.
Thu Jun 4, 2020
Prior to
the May 25th death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, a major focus of the media
during the preceding two weeks had been a video showing an incident where a
young black man named Ahmaud Arbery was fatally shot by
two white men in Glynn County, Georgia. The killers say that they pursued
Arbery, whom they suspected of having been involved in some recent local
burglaries, when they spotted him running through their neighborhood – though
some accounts claim that he was merely out for a jog. Eventually a fight broke
out, and Arbery was shot and killed. After a video of the deadly altercation
went public in early May, there were massive protests in
Arbery's behalf. On May 8 – which would have been Arbery's 26th birthday –
activist Al Sharpton used the Internet to lead a “virtual
rally” in the young man's memory, drawing some 105,000 participants.
In an
interview four days later, Sharpton, exhorting members
of the black community to “sustain” their “indignation” vis-a-vis the Arbery
case for as long as possible, portrayed the Georgia killing as an extension of
racist American violence dating back to the epoch of slavery: “It was expected
that if you saw a black, that you would suspect that he was a runaway slave,
and you had the runaway slave laws that … they would use that to hunt down
blacks for vigilante groups, the KKK and others, all the way up until the
modern era.”
Television personality Oprah Winfrey likewise characterized Arbery's death as a consequence of intransigent white racism: “He went out for a jog while being Black. I wonder what was he thinking in those last seconds of his life? Unimaginable to go for a run in 2020 and end up dead because of the color of your skin.”
Notably, there is no record of either Sharpton or Winfrey uttering even a single public word in memory of 34-year-old Zackary Randalls, 37-year-old Mark Gassett, or 58-year-old David Jackson. You've never heard of these individuals, of course, because they were merely three white men who were murdered three years ago in Fresno, California by Kori Ali Muhammad, a black racist who candidly sought “to kill as many white males as possible” – killings for which the perpetrator was convicted just six weeks ago. Regarding the Zackary Randalls murder, Mr. Muhammad has since explained: “When I walked up to the truck, I saw a Mexican driver and a white guy. I didn’t want to target the driver because he was Mexican, so I shot the white dude.” The media, for some mysterious reason, didn't find the story compelling enough to cover.
Neither is there any record of Sharpton or Winfrey lamenting the deaths of 86-year-old Paul Marino and his 85-year-old wife, Lidia, both of whom were murdered in cold blood by a black gunman on May 8 – the very day of Sharpton's “virtual rally” in honor of Ahmaud Arbery – while they visited the gravesite of their late son, Anthony, in a Delaware cemetery. To borrow Oprah's pithy maxim, we might say that Mr. and Mrs. Marino were just “visiting their son's grave while being white.”
Other victims whose recent murders were ignored by media outlets and camera hogs like Sharpton and Winfrey include:
Television personality Oprah Winfrey likewise characterized Arbery's death as a consequence of intransigent white racism: “He went out for a jog while being Black. I wonder what was he thinking in those last seconds of his life? Unimaginable to go for a run in 2020 and end up dead because of the color of your skin.”
Notably, there is no record of either Sharpton or Winfrey uttering even a single public word in memory of 34-year-old Zackary Randalls, 37-year-old Mark Gassett, or 58-year-old David Jackson. You've never heard of these individuals, of course, because they were merely three white men who were murdered three years ago in Fresno, California by Kori Ali Muhammad, a black racist who candidly sought “to kill as many white males as possible” – killings for which the perpetrator was convicted just six weeks ago. Regarding the Zackary Randalls murder, Mr. Muhammad has since explained: “When I walked up to the truck, I saw a Mexican driver and a white guy. I didn’t want to target the driver because he was Mexican, so I shot the white dude.” The media, for some mysterious reason, didn't find the story compelling enough to cover.
Neither is there any record of Sharpton or Winfrey lamenting the deaths of 86-year-old Paul Marino and his 85-year-old wife, Lidia, both of whom were murdered in cold blood by a black gunman on May 8 – the very day of Sharpton's “virtual rally” in honor of Ahmaud Arbery – while they visited the gravesite of their late son, Anthony, in a Delaware cemetery. To borrow Oprah's pithy maxim, we might say that Mr. and Mrs. Marino were just “visiting their son's grave while being white.”
Other victims whose recent murders were ignored by media outlets and camera hogs like Sharpton and Winfrey include:
· Joyce
Whaley, Patricia Nibbe, and Nettie Spencer – three middle-aged
white women who were brutally stabbed to death by a black killer at a
Tennessee truck
stop in early April;
· Heather
Perry, a 21-year-old white woman who was shot to
death in a Denver alleyway on May 9 by Cornelius Haney, a
convicted armed robber who had just been released from prison in order to
protect him from contracting the coronavirus;
· Logan Allen
Stacks, a 17-year-old white boy who was gunned
down by two black teens on March 27 in Lancaster County, South
Carolina;
· Dr. Beth
Potter, a 52-year-old white physician who dedicated her career to helping
“underserved communities,” and her husband, educational consultant Robin Carre,
who were shot execution-style by a
pair of black teens on March 30 in Madison, Wisconsin; and
· Kristopher
Dacus, a 33-year-old white man who on February 26 was shot multiple times
and killed by
four black teens in the North Little Rock, Arkansas cemetery where he worked.
Let us
assume for a moment that Ahmaud Arbery – who quite obviously was a volatile and menacing character with
a criminal
history – was in fact the innocent victim of a horrific, wholly
unjustifiable murder. Even if that were the case, why should his death garner
more attention from American media outlets and civil rights activists, than,
say, the deaths of the 13 aforementioned whites whose lives were mercilessly
snuffed out by black killers in 6 different states? Perhaps a case could be
made in favor of such a double standard if white-on-black killings were
commonplace in American society – on the theory that the condemnation of such
occurrences might help raise people's collective consciousness about the deadly
ramifications of white racism. But in fact, white-on-black homicides in the
U.S. have been exceedingly rare for many decades.
Conventional “wisdom” maintains that violent crime tends largely to be an intra-racial affair, where whites target mostly whites, and blacks target mostly blacks. This is certainly true for homicide, but much less true for other crimes of violence such as assault, rape, and robbery.
Let us look first at homicides that involved whites and blacks during 2012 and 2013. During those years, white killers nationwide chose to target white victims approximately 93 percent of the time, and black victims 7 percent of the time. Meanwhile, black killers targeted black victims 84.7 percent of the time, and white victims 15.3 percent of the time.
But violence in America crosses racial lines much more frequently when the crimes in question are rape, robbery, and assault. In 2012 and 2013, for instance, blacks in the U.S. committed an annual average of 560,600 violent crimes (excluding homicide) against whites, while whites committed a yearly average of 99,403 violent crimes against blacks. In other words, blacks were the attackers in about 85 percent of all violent crimes involving blacks and whites, while whites were the attackers in 15 percent.[1]
Those broad figures, however, do not even begin to tell the full story about interracial crime. To get a complete picture, we must also look at crime statistics from the perspective of the offender. That is, when a given violent offender chooses a victim to target for a crime, does he tend to target a victim who is a fellow member of his own racial group, or does he tend to go after a victim from another racial group? Here are the facts:
Conventional “wisdom” maintains that violent crime tends largely to be an intra-racial affair, where whites target mostly whites, and blacks target mostly blacks. This is certainly true for homicide, but much less true for other crimes of violence such as assault, rape, and robbery.
Let us look first at homicides that involved whites and blacks during 2012 and 2013. During those years, white killers nationwide chose to target white victims approximately 93 percent of the time, and black victims 7 percent of the time. Meanwhile, black killers targeted black victims 84.7 percent of the time, and white victims 15.3 percent of the time.
But violence in America crosses racial lines much more frequently when the crimes in question are rape, robbery, and assault. In 2012 and 2013, for instance, blacks in the U.S. committed an annual average of 560,600 violent crimes (excluding homicide) against whites, while whites committed a yearly average of 99,403 violent crimes against blacks. In other words, blacks were the attackers in about 85 percent of all violent crimes involving blacks and whites, while whites were the attackers in 15 percent.[1]
Those broad figures, however, do not even begin to tell the full story about interracial crime. To get a complete picture, we must also look at crime statistics from the perspective of the offender. That is, when a given violent offender chooses a victim to target for a crime, does he tend to target a victim who is a fellow member of his own racial group, or does he tend to go after a victim from another racial group? Here are the facts:
· When white
offenders committed crimes of violence (excluding homicide) against either
whites or blacks in 2012-13, they targeted white victims 95.8 percent of the
time, and they went after black victims a mere 4.1 percent of the time.
· By
contrast, when black offenders committed crimes of violence against either
whites or blacks in 2012-13, they targeted white victims a whopping 48.5
percent of the time, and they went after black victims 51.4 percent of the
time.[2]
If we
factor into the equation the relative sizes of America's white and black
populations, we find that, statistically, any given
black person in 2012-13 was about 27 times more likely to attack a white, than
vice versa.
In more recent years, the disproportionate prevalence of black-on-white crime has only gotten worse. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, in 2018 there were 593,598 interracial violent victimizations (excluding homicide) between blacks and whites in the United States. Blacks committed 537,204 of those interracial felonies, or 90.4 percent, while whites committed 56,394 of them, or about 9.5 percent. Moreover:
In more recent years, the disproportionate prevalence of black-on-white crime has only gotten worse. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, in 2018 there were 593,598 interracial violent victimizations (excluding homicide) between blacks and whites in the United States. Blacks committed 537,204 of those interracial felonies, or 90.4 percent, while whites committed 56,394 of them, or about 9.5 percent. Moreover:
· When white
offenders committed crimes of violence against either whites or blacks in 2018,
they targeted white victims 97.3 percent of the time, and they went after black
victims 2.6 percent of the time.
· By
contrast, when black offenders committed crimes of violence against either
whites or blacks during that same year, they targeted white victims 58 percent
of the time, and they went after black victims 42 percent of the time.[3]
City
Journal also reports that
according to Justice Department data, blacks in 2018 were overrepresented among
the perpetrators of offenses classified as “hate crimes” by a whopping 50
percent—while whites were underrepresented by 24 percent.
These
numbers are staggering.
If America were teeming with white racism, those guilty of interracial crime
would be disproportionately white. But instead, the exact opposite is
the case. Thus, the enormous amount of attention given to white-on-black
attacks – which are statistically rare in the United States – is an obscene and
senseless absurdity. The notion of ubiquitous white racism manifesting itself
in unacceptably high levels of white violence against blacks, is one of the
most destructive and monstrously evil lies of our time, creating levels of
racial mistrust and animosity that are wholly unwarranted.
NOTES
[1] Bureau of Justice Statistics, National Crime Victimization Survey, 2012-13, Special Tabulation, Table 10.
[1] Bureau of Justice Statistics, National Crime Victimization Survey, 2012-13, Special Tabulation, Table 10.
[2] Ibid.
[3] Bureau of Justice Statistics, Criminal Victimization, 2018, Table 14.
[3] Bureau of Justice Statistics, Criminal Victimization, 2018, Table 14.
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