Joe Biden's pick to run the DHS immigration agency – Alejandro Mayorkas – is a political gift for the GOP, says Jessica Vaughan at CIS: "Cronyism, corruption, swampiness, and the immigration issue." https://t.co/859b16NhN4
JAMES WALSH
THE OBAMA-BIDEN-HOLDER HISPANICAZATION of AMERICA… first ease millions of illegals over our borders and into our voting booths!
How the Democrat party surrendered America to Mexico:
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2014/07/james-walsh-hispanicazation-of-america.html
“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.”
GRAPHIC IMAGES!
SHATTERED
BORDERS
JOE
BIDEN’S OPEN BORDERS FOR MORE ‘CHEAP’ DEM VOTING WORKERS
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2020/12/joe-bidens-open-borders-and-mexican.html
Alejandro Mayorkas: A Portrait of the Intended Nominee for DHS Secretary
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2020/11/joe-biden-promises-employers-of-cheap.html
Will a Senate confirmation hearing recall troubling integrity scandals and heavy-handed re-direction on immigration law and fraud enforcement?
Feds: Plants that Hired
Illegal Aliens Paid Unlawful Wages, Hired a Child…open borders…it’s all about
keeping wages depressed and passing along the true cost to middle America
Former Vice President Joe Biden will nominate Alejandro Mayorkas
to run the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), despite his role in creating
huge Latin American migration and his involvement in several visas-for-sale
scandals.
Joe Biden's pick to run the DHS immigration
agency – Alejandro Mayorkas – is a political gift for the GOP, says Jessica
Vaughan at CIS: "Cronyism, corruption, swampiness, and the immigration
issue." https://t.co/859b16NhN4
OPEN BORDERS AND A NATION FLOODED WITH ‘CHEAP’ LABOR
Former Vice President Joe Biden will nominate Alejandro Mayorkas
to run the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), despite his role in creating
huge Latin American migration and his involvement in several visas-for-sale
scandals.
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2020/11/biden-keeps-promise-to-narcomex-picks.html
Biden's DHS: Department of Homeland Surrender
Alejandro Mayorkas, architect of DACA, picked by Biden to head DHS.
On May 5, 2005 the House Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security and Claims conducted a hearing on the topic, New ''Dual Missions'' Of The Immigration Enforcement Agencies.
I was one of the four witnesses who testified at that hearing.
One paragraph in particular from Chairman Hostettler’s statement at that hearing back then, is of particular significance today, as we consider what will happen if Joe Biden is sworn in as President of the United States:
The 9/11 terrorists all came to the United States without weapons or contraband—Added customs enforcement would not have stopped 9/11 from happening. What might have foiled al Qaeda's plan was additional immigration focus, vetting and enforcement. And so what is needed is recognition that, one, immigration is a very important national security issue that cannot take a back seat to customs or agriculture. Two, immigration is a very complex issue, and immigration enforcement agencies need experts in immigration enforcement. And three, the leadership of our immigration agencies should be shielded from political pressures to act in a way which could compromise the Nation's security.
Now we come to Biden’s choice for the vital position of Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas. Remember Biden has pledged to create a massive legalization program for unknown millions of illegal aliens. The DHS enforces and administers America’s immigration laws and thus would bear the responsibility for administering this ill-conceived program.
I addressed my concerns about this amnesty in my earlier piece: "Biden’s 'Build Back Better' is Bunk."
Let’s begin by noting that during the Obama administration Mayorkas was the Director of USCIS (United States Citizenship and Immigration Services), an agency that operates under the aegis of the DHS and is responsible for the adjudication of all of the applications that are filed to accord aliens various immigration benefits. This includes applications for political asylum, change in status for various visa lawful immigrant status, and even United States citizenship.
You can think of USCIS as “America’s Locksmith” because lawful status provides aliens with easy entry into the United States through the “front door” of our nation’s ports of entry.
Mayorkas was notorious for demanding that USCIS adjudicators “Get to yes”- that is to say, approve virtually all applications for various immigration benefits.
It must be noted that immigration fraud was determined by the 9/11 Commission to be the key method of entry and embedding for numerous foreign terrorists operating in the United States.
I wrote about the nexus between immigration fraud and national security in my article: "Immigration Fraud: Lies That Kill - 9/11 Commission identified immigration fraud as a key embedding tactic of terrorists"
On December 20, 2013 a website known then as watchdog.com published a report: "Grassley Rips DHS Nominee Maorkas, E-5 Visa Program." That report began with this statement:
Washington, DC – As Democrats in the filibuster-free U.S. Senate fill key administration vacancies, U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA) assailed a Department of Homeland Security nominee for playing a key role in aiding Terry McAuliffe’s electric-car company raise funds through a visa-investor program.
“Whistleblowers have provided my office with very troubling evidence. Much of the evidence involves the EB-5 regional center program, which (U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Alejandro) Mayorkas is responsible for managing,” charged Grassley, the top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, which oversees immigration issues.
“The evidence appears to support allegations that Mr. Mayorkas and his leadership team at Citizenship and Immigration Services are susceptible to political pressure and favoritism,” the Iowa Republican said.
Grassley said documents “appear to show (Mayorkas) intervening in an EB-5 decision involving Gulf Coast Funds Management, an organization run by Hillary Clinton’s brother, Anthony Rodham.”
So much for Chairman Hostettler's heartfelt concerns about the politicization of immigration law enforcement!
Mayorkas was also the architect of the DACA (Deferred Action, Childhood Arrivals) Program.
Additionally, in 2015, prompted by serious complaints from many USCIS employees, the Office of the Inspector General conducted an investigation into allegations of malfeasance committed by Mayorkas when he was the head of USCIS.
On March 24, 2015 a report of the findings of the investigation by the Office of the Inspector General was released.
The focus was on how applications for a particular visa category, the EB-5 Visa for aliens who invest between 500,000 and 1,000,000 in businesses that creates jobs for Americans in the United States, were wrongly approved.
ABC News published several in-depth articles about the troubling findings of the Office of the Inspector General (OIG).
On March 24, 2015 ABC News reported, “Top Homeland Official Alejandro Mayorkas Accused of Political Favoritism Alejandro Mayorkas oversaw controversial $500,000 visa program.”
The above-noted report was preceded by two ABC News reports that were published on February 3, 2015 which illustrate a clear nexus between these visas and national security:
“Whistleblowers: US Gave Visas to Suspected Forgers, Fraudsters, Criminals Internal documents show feds ignored warnings from FBI.” This report began with this excerpt:
Officials overseeing a federal program that offers an immigration short-cut to wealthy foreign investors have ignored pointed warnings from federal agents and approved visas for some immigrants suspected of having committed fraud, money laundering, and even one applicant with alleged ties to a child porn website, an ABC News investigation has found. The shortcomings prompted concerns within the Department of Homeland Security that the boutique immigration program would be exploited by terrorists, according to internal documents obtained by ABC News.
“It is shocking,” said Sen. Charles Grassley, an Iowa Republican. “Particularly when you have F.B.I. and other law enforcement agencies that are saying national security could be compromised or is being compromised -- that's enough for us to be concerned.”
“Feds Investigating Iran Ties to Firm Involved in US Visa Program Documents: Iranian operatives may be abusing program to "infiltrate" U.S.” This report began with these excerpt:
Federal agents in Los Angeles are investigating an L.A. shipping firm and its Iranian-born owner who for years have participated in and promoted an obscure U.S. immigration program -- allowing the company to recruit wealthy foreign investors to receive visas and potentially Green Cards, law enforcement sources told ABC News.
The company’s name surfaced in a confidential Department of Homeland Security government document, which raised “concerns that this particular visa program may be abused by Iranian operatives to infiltrate the United States.”
Whistleblowers inside the federal agency that oversees the immigration program told ABC News they have been deeply frustrated by an inability to de-certify the company, even after they became aware of the investigation and saw the company’s name surface in an alarming internal Department Homeland Security memo. The memo, shared with ABC News, outlines concerns that Iran’s Revolutionary Guards have attempted to exploit the visa program “to infiltrate the United States.”
The ABC report included this excerpt about one company in particularly, TTC (Total Transportation Concepts):
The records show that the TTC employee was suspected of ties to an Iranian terror network that was involved in bombing plots and attempted assassinations. In 2012, federal investigators sent an email to immigration officials to advise them against re-certifying American Logistics for the immigration program, warning that an approval “would likely have serious national security implications.”
“I strongly advise against a favorable adjudication,” wrote a Homeland Security Special Agent in the Counter-Proliferation Investigations Center in the April 30, 2012 email.
But agents with United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) moved forward and green-lighted American Logistics and Mahdavi, to continue overseeing a designated “regional center” for a special U.S. immigration program for wealthy foreigners known by its visa classification, EB-5.
It appears that Biden is not assembling a Cabinet but a syndicate (SINdicate?).
If Biden is inaugurated as President, all that would stand between him and his dangerous plans would be the confirmation process conducted by the U.S. Senate. That is why today all eyes are on the runoff elections for the U.S. Senate in Georgia.
Where the confirmation hearing for Mayorkas is concerned, the Senate must “Get to no!”
DURING OBOMB'S 8 YEAR BANKSTER REGIME, HE AND BANKSTER-LAWYER
ERIC HOLDER SABOTAGED HOMELAND SECURITY, VOTING AND AMERICA'S BORDERS TO FLOOD
AMERICA WITH DEM VOTING MEXICANS.
OBOMB OPERATED AND FUNDED
THE MEXICAN FASCIST PARTY OF LA RAZA 'The Race' NOW CALLING ITSELF UNIDOSus OUT
OF THE WHITE HOUSE.
Unlimited immigration. Obama issued an unconstitutional executive order – an
action he repeated routinely to counter Congressional action – that instituted
mass immigration of poor, uneducated third-world people into the U.S., not to
assimilate with our culture but to keep their own and demand that U.S.
taxpayers subsidize them. Deportations of illegal immigrants under the new
policy were dramatically reduced, even as scores more poured across the
southern border as the number of border patrol agents decreased.
The Unhinging of
America
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/08/the_unhinging_of_america.html
Since
my return from the war in Korea (1950-53) I have witnessed America sink into a
state of insanity unknown in its history:
Kids
shooting classmates at school, people like zombies gazing at little screens
while they walk, stand, sit, shop, talk, drive cars, watch TV telling them what
to think, women blaming men for not being treated like men, men having their
genitals “replaced with vaginas,” women leaving dependent children behind to
join the military, mothers having their babies killed when they are ready to be
born . . .
By
the 1980s the moral and cultural swamp that America was sinking into made me
wave red flags in newsletters I published. The acceleration toward and past the
turn of the century has been breathless! Many Americans have wondered what
happened to America?
Well,
to begin with, anti-American activists have pushed hard to fulfill a mission
launched by early 20th century Marxists to establish a new world order. It
would be a God-free world under a global government run by amoral men smarter
than everybody else in the world, past and present. Soon after the start of the
21st century, Barack Obama, latest edition of this breed of visionary,
positioned himself to lead the team in Washington to help “transform America” –
make it ready, that is, for the new world order.
There
has never been a place in my mind for anyone in public office who would harm
America and the people he or she is elected or appointed to serve, which is the
inevitable consequence of pushing for a moral-free, God-free world. Such
action, no matter how packaged, serves evil. They who use
their talents to harm their fellow human beings – they’re known as traitors –
are placed by Dante in the deepest circle of hell [Inferno].
Now
there was someone who wanted to be president who could and would utilize
Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals – a book that salutes the devil
in its opening pages – to take down America, while pretending to make it better
than ever!
Could
Obama in truth and honesty have, as president, served “one nation under God,
with liberty and justice for all”? Could he have been sincere when he took the
oath to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States”? I
don’t think so.
My
worst fear, that Americans might lose their country if they did not stand up to
and shout down the God-haters and Leftists undermining their country – what
culture warriors have been fighting for decades – seemed closer than ever to
becoming a reality.
Among
the warriors “with balls” who saw what was happening, the firebrand Andrew
Breitbart rallied converts and fighters against political traitors scheming to
destroy America, a first step in establishing their New World Order. (I called
it Global Oz.) By the time Breitbart crashed into media and news reporting, a
bloated and flabby federal government had enabled the anti-American Obama to
run for president. Breitbart was ruthless in exposing this two-faced candidate
for president. Shortly after he pledged to release a video showing college-age
Obama alongside notorious Weather Underground terrorists, Breitbart died in Los
Angeles.
And
so a treacherous candidate for president beat a “she’s-not-fit-to-be-president”
(Obama.’s words) Hillary Clinton to the White House. Well, Hillary became part
of the “America-transforming" team as Secretary of State and Obama, with
solemn face and ready platitude, repeated the lie that he would unify America
and transform it into a better place for all.
The
deeds did not match the words. Regarding unity, Obama stoked the fires of
racial division, using his bully pulpit to turn every news event that could be
spun into “discrimination against blacks” into an official denunciation of
racism. And the corporate media did their part to help bring about a hatred of
cops that heedlessly endangered the lives of men and women who daily put their
lives on the line to ensure the safety of a public increasingly divided.
Regarding
improving the lives of all, the following overview of Obama’s “transformation
of America” is based on “The 10 Ways Obama has actively sought to destroy
America” by J. D. Heyes (Natural News, December 25, 2015):
ObamaCare was
sold on false pretenses by people who knew it wouldn’t work as promised. Failed
scheme or intentional failure? The bill was so sloppily crafted that Democrats
were basically signing blank sheets of paper when they rushed it through
Congress. [“We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what’s in it,”
said Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi.] ObamaCare’s designers precipitated a
constitutional crisis with a provision to cut subsidies for states that didn’t
set up health-care exchanges – a provision that would have killed the entire
program stone-dead if it had been enforced as written. And whoever was
uninsured that did not enroll had to pay an annual penalty fee!
Unlimited
immigration. Obama issued an unconstitutional
executive order – an action he repeated routinely to counter Congressional
action – that instituted mass immigration of poor, uneducated third-world
people into the U.S., not to assimilate with our culture but to keep their own
and demand that U.S. taxpayers subsidize them. Deportations of illegal
immigrants under the new policy were dramatically reduced, even as scores more
poured across the southern border as the number of border patrol agents
decreased.
The
Constitution. Obama was a bigger enemy of our
founding document than any president in history. Acting dictatorially, Obama
unconstitutionally “legislated by executive order” whenever his will was in
conflict with that of Congress or the constitution. [His “liberal” activist
judges would back him up, if needed.]
Military
madness. Obama pushed social experimentation
in the military to a level that could cause lasting damage, such as permitting
people to serve who have no idea what sex they are, and allowing women to serve
in combat roles despite increases in injuries, mental health issues,
effectiveness and morale problems.
Packing
the federal courts. Obama “packed” the federal court for
the D.C. Circuit with activist, like-minded judges [who place themselves above the
Law of the Land they are charged to uphold].
Economic
damage. Obama issued more regulations than
any president before him, with tens of billions in burdensome new costs such as
those incurred by the expensive EPA regulations. His packed D.C. Circuit ruled
against states suing to get those rules tossed.
Changes
to society. Obama’s open-border policy and unlimited importation of
third-world poor and Middle Eastern “refugees” [a gateway to anti-American
terrorists] could change the face of the country, culturally and economically.
To
object to any of this insanity is a way to get hit with a legal penalty.
The
founders of our country and its legion of heroes surely tossed and turned in
their graves over the America they had struggled, sacrificed, and died for.
If
there is a silver lining to the dark clouds hanging over America it is the hope
that the young of every description will turn on the mindless haters of America
and launch a course correction. A reset for any semblance of progress starts
with a return to the Constitution and the forces that inspired it, which
include age-independent Judeo-Christian wisdom.
Anthony J. DeBlasi is a veteran and lifelong defender of Western
culture.
Image
credit: Abductit, via Flickr // CC BY-SA 2.0
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.
Pollak:
Barack Obama Himself Was the Threat to the Rule of Law
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.
Here are just a few of Obama’s more egregious
violations:
- 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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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.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on
Twitter at @JxhnBinder.
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’ risk lives on pandemic’s front lines while they
await a decision on their own futures
23K people are talking about this
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.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on
Twitter at @JxhnBinder.
JAMES WALSH
THE OBAMA-BIDEN-HOLDER HISPANICAZATION of AMERICA… first ease millions of illegals over our borders and into our voting
booths!
How the Democrat party surrendered America to Mexico:
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2014/07/james-walsh-hispanicazation-of-america.html
“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)
Article Link:
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=240045
WIKILEAKS EXPOSES THE OBAMA CONSPIRACY TO FLOOD AMERICAN WITH DEM VOTING ILLEGALS
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2011/05/wikileaks-exposed-obamas-la-raza-open.html
“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
https://globalistbarackobama.blogspot.com/2018/12/nancy-pelosi-and-obama-soros-globalist.html
"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.
ICE ignores California laws and arrests illegal
aliens at the courthouse door
In
2018, California implemented the California Values Act, which gave special
protection to illegal aliens by mandating that California law enforcement
agencies cannot cooperate with federal immigration authorities. Last week,
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”) thumbed its nose at California and
arrested two people in Sonoma County Superior Court.
BLOG:
CALIFORNIA HAS 15 MILLION ILLEGALS!
California
has lots of reasons to hang onto its roughly 2.2 – 3.5 million illegal
immigrants. They provide cheap, easily-exploited labor. They swell the state’s
population, which matters for electors and congresspeople, as well as the
distribution of certain federal funds. As illegal immigrants are fed into the
system, they provide reliable (legal or illegal) Democrat votes. And they make
Californians feel virtuous even as they allow corrupt Latin American states to
continue exploiting their own citizens and destroying their economies by
relying on remittances from people illegally in America.
For
these reasons, California enacted the pompously named “California Values Act.”
Although the act refers to “immigrants,” it’s obviously intended to affect only
illegal aliens because the Act’s entire purpose is to use the agencies of the
state to prevent ICE from gaining access to people illegally in California –
including people who have committed crimes in California. This is the type of
law that could only come from legislators and other virtue signalers ensconced
in comfortable middle- and upper-middle-class enclaves unaffected by felonies
that would never have happened but for open borders and sanctuaries.
Throughout
the Obama administration, sanctuary cities and states were able to get away with
these policies because the Obama administration, despite Obama’s sworn
obligation to upload the laws of the United States, approved of open borders.
Trump promised to change all that.
During
the first three years of his administration, rather disappointingly, Trump was
able to have little effect on illegal immigration or on deportation. However,
Trump was just getting his ducks in a row. He was hampered by a reluctant
Republican Congress, which was superseded by a violently resisting Democrat
House. He also had to deal with “resistance” judges who blocked every
immigration initiative he made.
Finally,
though, things are changing. Trump was able to squeeze money out of Congress
for his wall and, even more importantly, with help from Mitch McConnell, he’s
changing the judiciary:
Great news for the U.S. Constitution! @realDonaldTrump has flipped the 9th Circuit — and some new
judges are causing a 'shock wave' https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-02-22/trump-conservative-judges-9th-circuit …
Trump has flipped the 9th Circuit — and some new judges
are causing a 'shock wave'
8,693
people are talking about this
With
a judiciary that believes in interpreting the law, not making it, Trump’s
administration is able to act in accordance with the Supremacy Clause
(Constitution, Art. VI, Clause 2):
This Constitution, and the Laws of the United
States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or
which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the
supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby,
any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary
notwithstanding.
In
other words, when there’s a direct conflict between state laws and federal
laws, federal laws prevail.
Because
the critical mass of judges is no longer deliberately inserting itself as an
obstacle between federal laws and illegal immigrants, ICE is beginning to carry out its duty as written under
the law:
U.S. immigration agents arrested two people at a
Northern California courthouse, including a man detained in a hallway on his
way to a hearing, flouting a new state law requiring a judicial warrant to make
immigration arrests inside such facilities.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents made
the arrests Tuesday at Sonoma County Superior Court, prompting an outcry from
criminal justice and court officials who said the action undermines local
authority and deters immigrants who are in the country illegally from
participating in the U.S. justice system.
ICE said California's law doesn't supersede
federal law and “will not govern the conduct of federal officers acting pursuant
to duly-enacted laws passed by Congress that provide the authority to make
administrative arrests of removable aliens inside the United States."
“Our officers will not have their hands tied by
sanctuary rules when enforcing immigration laws to remove criminal aliens from
our communities," David Jennings, ICE's field office director in San
Francisco, said in the statement.
At
long last, in Trump’s America, the rule of law matters again. The reliability
of law is one of the essential ingredients of a just and successful
civilization. In that context, if you don’t like the law, you change it through
the democratic process, not through illegal and unconstitutional resistance.
Judicial Watch Corruption Chronicles, December 30, 2015
The agency’s
own statistics certainly contradict that, showing that the southern border
region is as porous and vulnerable as ever. Other entry ports that saw large
hikes in Central American illegal immigrants during the first two months of
this fiscal year include Del Rio, Texas (269%), El Centro, California (216%)
and Rio Grande Valley, Texas (154%). The Border Patrol breaks the stats down by
“family unit” and illegal immigrants under the age of 18, referred to as
“Unaccompanied Alien Children” or UAC. The Rio Grande Valley port of entry
topped the list in both categories with 8,537 family units and 6,465 UACs
during the two-month period. In all, the nation’s nine southern border
crossings saw an average of 173% increase in family units and a 106% increase
in minors during the short period considered.
Some of the illegal immigrants are Mexican nationals, but the overwhelming
majority comes from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. The government records
show that somehow 4,450 family units from El Salvador evaded our topnotch
border security and entered the United States in a period of only two months.
Guatemala and Honduras had 3,934 and 3,203 respectively. Mexico had 538 family
units. Of interesting note is that, during this period, the Border Patrol
reports 35,234 apprehensions in the region of foreigners labeled by the
government as “Other Than Mexican” or OTM. This is a term used by federal
authorities to refer to nationals of countries that represent a terrorist
threat to the U.S.
. . .
http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2015/12/surge-in-illegal-aliens-500-increase-in-some-u-s-ports-of-entry/
Concrete Evidence of the Continuing Plunge in Both Civil and
Criminal Immigration Enforcement
By Dan Cadman
CIS Immigration Blog, January 23, 2016
Two recent reports from Syracuse University's Transactional
Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) reflect the continued erosion of
immigration enforcement under the Obama administration.
On January 20, TRAC reported that criminal prosecution for immigration offenses
fell 22.3 percent from November 2014 to November 2015, and more than 36 percent
over the course of five years, excluding magistrate court (which deals
exclusively with petty offenses).
The following day, TRAC announced that "ICE [Immigration and Customs
Enforcement] Detainer Use Stabilizes Under Priority Enforcement Program".
The Priority Enforcement Program (PEP) is the replacement to the Secure
Communities Program mandated by Homeland Security Security Jeh Johnson as a
part of the president's "executive actions" on immigration. It
significantly restricts the ability of immigration agents to file detainers against
aliens arrested by police on criminal charges.
I have no idea what TRAC means by "stabilizes". A quick look at
Figure 1a of their report shows a more accurate state of affairs, if one
considers the number of detainers being filed over the course of five years,
from a high in April 2011, when Secure Communities became fully effective
nationwide and kicked into high gear, versus October 2015. I would use other
phrases: "plummeted" or "Dropped like a stone". Or, as my
colleague Jessica Vaughan has noted, particularly in relation to detainers
filed at county jails, where the lion's share of criminals of any stripes are
held after being booked for offenses small and large: "a stunning free
fall".
http://www.cis.org/cadman/concrete-evidence-continuing-plunge-both-civil-and-criminal-immigration-enforcement
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.
Here are just a few of Obama’s
more egregious violations:
- 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
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Biden’s Coronavirus
Plan: Catch and Release Border Crossers into U.S.
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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.
John Binder is a reporter for
Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.
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