Thread: While Trump attacks conservatives, his immigration agenda burns

While Trump attacks conservatives, his immigration agenda burns
By: Daniel Horowitz | March 31, 2017

The biggest news story of the week is not that President Trump is attacking conservatives for wanting to uphold his campaign promise and protect him from owning a more insolvent version of Obamacare. The biggest story is that he is not attacking the establishment and Senate appropriators for preemptively negotiating away his leverage by promising Chuck Schumer there won’t be funding for the border wall in the April budget.
President capitulating on border funding

One of the few good things that has come from this nascent administration is its discretionary budget proposal for FY 2017 and FY 2018. The budget bill for the remainder of the fiscal year, which comes due on April 28, presents the president with his only opportunity to force through critical policy changes and his spending priorities. The president has asked for immediate supplemental funds for the border wall and for rebuilding the military in exchange for $18 billion in cuts to the non-defense bureaucracies. Yet, as we noted earlier this week, Senate Republicans already forged a deal to fund Planned Parenthood, refugee resettlement, and the extra spending for the bureaucracies…but not for the border wall!
Why isn’t the president demanding an immediate course correction? The border wall is the most foundational promise of Trump’s campaign, yet he has nothing to say when liberal Republicans negotiate away his leverage. The more the border wall funding is delayed, the less likely it will ever get done. What gives?
Refusing to fight for moratorium

Meanwhile, the maniacal courts continue to assault national sovereignty. On Wednesday, the radical judge in Hawaii upgraded his temporary restraining order on the immigration moratorium to a preliminary injunction. Unfortunately, this administration refuses to plow ahead with the moratorium and its lawyers are capitulating to the courts, even though courts have no jurisdiction over this issue and there was no legitimate case or controversy to rule on. A district judge cannot place a nationwide injunction on the lack of issuance of visas to hypothetical prospective immigrants or travelers.
There is a term for this obsequious behavior from the White House, widely popularized by some pro-Trump social media outlets, and it begins with a C.
Welcome to sanctuary nation

We haven’t heard the last from the courts, either. The Seattle mayor is also suing the administration for cutting off funding to lawless sanctuary cities. Mayor Ed Murray filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington (the court where James Robart sits) claiming that the federal government cannot cut off funding despite the jurisdiction’s violation of federal law and national sovereignty. I’ve already explained that their anti-coercion federalism argument is absurd, but there is no doubt the courts will place a nationwide injunction on this order and declare America a sanctuary nation. The courts are insane and have already issued similar rulings.
Which is why it’s so important to include in the funding bill a provision denying Justice Department grants to lawless jurisdictions. Why is the president not making the case, and why is he groveling before the courts when the courts are engaging in civil disobedience?
Make refugee resettlement great again

Worse, as the Huffington Post reported, the State Department has reset the refugee caps to near-Obama levels and is bringing in 900 refuges per week. This is completely gratuitous, even for one who wants to abide by the lawless court decision.
Obsessing with Palestinian “peace” and allowing terrorist travel

Meanwhile, the State Department is issuing a visa to Palestinian terrorist Jibril Rajoub to participate in peace talks! Aside from the fact that this action reveals the administration is just as obsessed with the two-state solution as the Obama administration, the issuance of such a visa violates federal law (INA Sec. 212(a)(2)(B)), which bars entry to anyone associated with terrorists or who has espoused support for terrorism.

Why is he not subjecting the establishment to his Twitter treatment as it relates to the budget, immigration, and his most foundational promises?

What happened to putting Americans first?

Moreover, why is he not demanding that the House and Senate vote on all his immigration promises – from halting the Central American surge to the Davis-Oliver interior enforcement bill? Why isn’t he demanding that they pay for the wall by cutting off remittances to Mexico and refundable tax credits for illegal aliens, including the “DACA” amnesty he continues to facilitate?
Sure, constitutionally speaking, Congress sets the agenda, but politically, the president sets the agenda when his party controls Congress. And if Trump has the time and moxie to go after conservatives on health care, why is he not subjecting the establishment to his Twitter treatment as it relates to the budget, immigration, and his most foundational promises?
Yet instead of harnessing the outrage from the Rockville rape to protect our sovereignty, DHS Secretary John Kelly won’t stop talking about “Dreamers” as if they are covered by a legitimate statute. He promised Democrats on Wednesday that he would not deport any “Dreamer” without a criminal record. Not only is it against the law to categorically exempt them from deportation, but the Rockville rape demonstrated that there are indeed violent ones who have never previously offended.
It is precisely the promise of “Dream” amnesty that has led to the disastrous border surge from Central America. Furthermore, forget about deportations, why is DHS handing out affirmative benefits to new applicants every week? This is patently unconstitutional, as well as a violation of our sovereignty and a drain on taxpayers. Not to mention a violation of another campaign promise.
Then again, it’s always easy to make conservatives the bogeyman. The media will certainly let that one go. Attacking the swamp? Not so much.

Article: https://www.conservativereview.com/commentary/2017/03/while-trump-attacks-conservatives-his-immigration-agenda-burns

What happened to putting Americans first?

Moreover, why is he not demanding that the House and Senate vote on all his immigration promises – from halting the Central American surge to the Davis-Oliver interior enforcement bill? Why isn’t he demanding that they pay for the wall by cutting off remittances to Mexico andrefundable tax credits for illegal aliens, including the “DACA” amnesty he continues to facilitate?
Sure, constitutionally speaking, Congress sets the agenda, but politically, the president sets the agenda when his party controls Congress. And if Trump has the time and moxie to go after conservatives on health care, why is he not subjecting the establishment to his Twitter treatment as it relates to the budget, immigration, and his most foundational promises?
Yet instead of harnessing the outrage from the Rockville rape to protect our sovereignty, DHS Secretary John Kelly won’t stop talking about “Dreamers” as if they are covered by a legitimate statute. He promised Democrats on Wednesday that he would not deport any “Dreamer” without a criminal record. Not only is it against the law to categorically exempt them from deportation, but the Rockville rape demonstrated that there are indeed violent ones who have never previously offended.
It is precisely the promise of “Dream” amnesty that has led to the disastrous border surge from Central America. Furthermore, forget about deportations, why is DHS handing out affirmative benefits to new applicants every week? This is patently unconstitutional, as well as a violation of our sovereignty and a drain on taxpayers. Not to mention a violation of another campaign promise.
Then again, it’s always easy to make conservatives the bogeyman. The media will certainly let that one go. Attacking the swamp? Not so much.

I agree that Trump's attacks on the most conservative member of the House is misguided and wrong. He'll need those folks for other parts of his supposed agenda.

Costly invasion: Alleged Rockville rape case should spur Trump to act on immigration

By: Daniel Horowitz | March 28, 2017

If the president wants to unite with conservatives instead of fighting them, it’s time he turns his focus to immigration.
Last week, the nation was stunned by another shocking crime allegedly committed by two illegal aliens from Central America, individuals who are generally categorized as “Dreamers” by their defenders. A 14-year-old girl from Montgomery County, Maryland was allegedly brutally raped in a public-school bathroom by two illegal aliens. One suspect Jose Montano, 17, was from El Salvador, and the other, Sanchez Milian, 18, was from Guatemala. Both were placed in ninth grade with this girl and many other students.
The Baltimore Sun, after conducting extensive interviews with immigration officials, reported the following details:

• A variety of U.S. government agencies already had contact with Montano and Sanchez Milian prior to the rape.
• “Border agents had given the teens notices to appear in immigration court. But Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which initiates deportation proceedings in immigration courts, never filed charges against Sanchez Milian.” Why not? “ICE officials said Wednesday that the teen was not a priority for deportation because he had no criminal record and "no known gang affiliations."” Can we say the chickens of Obama’s amnesty (and now Trump’s, until he rescinds it) is coming home to roost? Like most violent illegal aliens, they “have not committed a crime” until … they commit a crime.
• “Montano, who is from El Salvador, was apprehended last in April 2016, five months after his 16th birthday. Sanchez Milian, from Guatemala, was caught in August of that year, 12 days before he turned 18.” The Sun further reports that “Border Patrol officials stopped both teens near McAllen, Texas, and detained them for less than the legal limit of 72 hours, then handed them over to HHS's Health and Human Services' Office for Refugee Resettlement, according to a federal official with direct knowledge of the case.”

While certainly not all illegal alien children are brutal rapists, there are far too many problems among them, and they are not all valedictorians in waiting. Most importantly, they have no legal right to be placed in American schools without the consent of the people. So why is this happening? Why are 18-year-old illegal aliens being placed with 14 year-old-girls in ninth grade? Who is paying for the fiscal, cultural, and security problems, and why should we accept this travesty for even one more day?

The constant promise of “Dream” amnesty steals the sovereignty of taxpayers

While the legal and procedural reasons are a bit more complex, the political reasons are simple. The bipartisan mantra of the need to care for “children” and “dreamers” of Central America— a sentiment even expressed on and off by the president himself — is single-handedly responsible for encouraging teenagers or families with children to cross the border. The perception in Central America is that if you come here with children under 18 (or thought to be under 1, the children will be immediately provided for and the parents will never be deported. It is why the promise of “Dream” amnesty and Obama’s illegal DACA program have been so destructive and downright immoral when viewed against the interests of American taxpayers. As Ian Smith of the Immigration Reform Law Institute observed in 2015, “[F]rom 2012, when DACA was announced, to last year [2014], UAM [Unaccompanied Child Minor] apprehensions increased 490 percent, 444 percent, and 610 percent for El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, respectively.” He added that “even the Congressional Research Service, the Washington Post, and the Soros-funded Migration Policy Institute have made the link between ending the threat of deportation and the rise in illegal immigration.

This is the ultimate social transformation without representation.

That link between incentives and border-crossings was driven home when The El Paso Intelligence Center (EPIC) drafted a memo in 2014 asserting that 95% of the border-crossers interviewed cited the promise of amnesty as the primary factor behind their migration, not violence back home. Their promise turned out to be correct, as only 4% of the Central American teenagers have been deported (as opposed to Mexico, which deported 90 percent of its Central American migrants).


Where are the rest of them? In our communities, schools, and on our streets, creating a massive unfunded liability on the states and gratuitous crime risk. 80 percent of these Unaccompanied children (UACs) are housed with other illegal alien families, and only four percent were sponsored by American families. This is the ultimate social transformation without representation.

While not all Central Americans are violent, far too many of them are and there is no reason there should be any crime risk from those who have no right to be here.

No, these are not legitimate refugees entitled to schooling with our children

Now that we’ve established that the promise of “Dream” amnesty is the source of the children flooding our communities and schools, we must examine the statutory remedy for dealing with the aftermath. There is a misconception that the William Wilberforce Trafficking Act of 2008 requires that all children from Central America (as opposed to Mexico) caught at the border without parents must be turned over to HHS’s Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) and then resettled into our communities and schools. In fact, most of them should be deported.

A statute that was designed to protect victims of sex trafficking who were truly destitute in this country without parents is now being abused to fund a circuitous smuggling operation whereby illegal immigrant parents smuggle in their own children in order to steal our sovereignty. Ironically, and tragically in the case of the Rockville rapists, it came full circle and resulted in the very sex violence any authentic adherence to statute was designed to prevent.

At its core, THIS is the problem Trump was elected to deal with. He was elected to put American taxpayers first.

The relevant statute (Sec. 235(a) of the Wilberforce Act) authorizes the resettlement program only for those children who are 1) indeed children under 18, 2) have no parent or guardian present in the country, and 3) have been victims of “a severe form” of human trafficking. The overwhelming majority of cases, as is evident with the alleged Rockville rapists, have legal guardians in America who themselves are here illegally and are certainly not victims of trafficking. In fact, their parents are usually the ones paying for the smuggling. According to law, these illegals together with their parents should all be deported, yet Obama violated our sovereignty and bastardized the Wilberforce law as an excuse to flood the country with over 182,000 very impoverished and often problematic illegals from Central America (from FY 2014-Dec. 2016). The Rockville rapists should have been deported along with their relatives last year instead of being dumped into a Montgomery County school. Anyone who tells you the law required such action is not reading the statute right.

Judge Andrew Hanen of the Southern District of Texas put it best when he charged that DHS “successfully complet(ed) the mission of the criminal conspiracy” by “delivering [minors caught at the border] to the custody of parents illegally living in the United States.” Amazingly, when the Senate debated a failed human trafficking bill last year, they exempted family members from the harsh anti-trafficking penalties, which was a direct nod to illegal immigration.

The result of this government-sponsored invasion is that states and communities are flooded with crushing costs of hundreds of thousands of illegals from the most impoverished and violent parts of the third world. They must spend countless funds on interpreters and bilingual educators and deal with all the social problems the people never voted for. The state of Arizona alone spends $1.4 billion a year on K-12 education for illegal aliens. At its core, THIS is the problem Trump was elected to deal with. He was elected to put American taxpayers first.

What can be done to protect our sovereignty?

Rather than focus on dubious and undefined tax reform, which will never work out for conservatives, why
not focus on saving our sovereignty and saving taxpayers more money than we’d get from “tax reform?”

Deport Central American migrants and their parents

Although President Trump has already properly identified the correct interpretation of the Wilberforce law in one of his immigration memos (Sec. 11(e)), there is no evidence that this represents an enduring policy change with uniform results. Plus, it is always susceptible to the abuse of the judiciary if Secretary Kelly actually begins deporting the non-trafficked UACs. To that end, Trump should call upon Congress to immediately pass H.R. 495, which would take away any ambiguity in law and ensure that every illegal alien minor who is not trafficked is expeditiously reunited with his/her illegal parents and repatriated to their home country.

Stop forcing state to educate illegal aliens

Furthermore, Congress must explicitly authorize states to use discretion in declining to enroll illegal alien children in public schools unless statute explicitly requires it (a legitimate case of refugee or asylum). At present, the federal courts are stealing the sovereignty of the states and forcing them to enroll all illegal aliens in what is one of their biggest unfunded liabilities. Moreover, the 11^th Circuit has prevented Alabama from even attempting to inquire about the citizenship status of enrollees so they can ascertain the extent of the problem.

While this administration’s action against sanctuary cities is a good start, the president should work with the Freedom Caucus to fix problems at the federal level and with the courts so that states that want to defend our sovereignty can do so.

The cost of border wall dwarfs cost of educating the entire Central America

Finally, as we’ve noted before, by building an impenetrable border wall, we will prevent this entire problem in the future. Even a fully successful border patrol that results in a hypothetical 100% apprehension rate only leads to these children being released into our communities. A border wall, on the other hand, prevents them from entering the country to begin with, which saves us from a massive unfunded liability that outweighs the cost of the wall.

Do we have a sovereign and secure country with the American citizenry in charge of their own communities or not? If the answer to that question is no, then we have failed the most vital question behind the social contract of government. Rather than focus on ill-defined tax and porkulous missions together with Democrats, Trump needs to work with conservatives to immediately enact his immigration promises.

https://www.conservativereview.com/c...on-immigration