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As Trump vows to shut the border to illegals, Gavin Newsom makes a suspicious trip to El Salvador

The California governor is up to no good on this trip to a foreign land to figure out how to undercut President Trump.

March 30, 2019
By Monica Showalter

With 1.5 million illegal aliens from Central America rolling into the U.S., President Trump has declared an emergency in order to construct a badly needed wall at the border, and now he has threatened to shut the gates of the border down, too, unless Mexico's government quits enabling the problem. It's a major issue, and a recent poll shows that many Americans want it dealt with as a top priority.
Who should show up to throw a stick into these turning wheels but California's Gov. Gavin Newsom, who's announced his first gubernatorial trip abroad to El Salvador for the purpose of "lifting up our immigrant communities and understanding the root causes of migration."
Oh, really? Here's his tell-nothing statement about it for the press:

While the Trump Administration demonizes those who are fleeing violence from Central America, California is committed to lifting up our immigrant communities and understanding the root causes of migration," Newsom said in a statement. "I am looking forward to traveling to El Salvador in April to talk with the nation's leaders and activists while deepening the bond between our families and communities.

One can just picture how this trip looks from the Salvadoran side of things. Here come Big Daddy, the California governor, the gringo who's already laid out a banquet of goodies for Salvadorans in California, from free health care to free education, to sanctuary state protections to enable illegals to work, coming there supposedly to find out how he can offer...even more goodies to Salvador's uneducated lower middle classes. The idea is to get even more of them to come over. Big Daddy comes down with the Santa sack full of goodies.
From the Salvadoran perspective, his reception is likely to be warm from the Salvadoran government, which benefits hugely from the remittances sent home by El Salvador's mostly illegal aliens, allowing it to finance itself and employ ever larger numbers of bureaucrats without having to house, educate, or medically care for its nationals. This is one reason why remittance economies tends to underdevelop a country, according to the World Bank.
Last year, in fact, that game was going full speed. El Salvador's remittances hit a record $5.47 billion. Literally one out of six Salvadorans now lives in the U.S., and 680,000 of those make their home in benefit-rich California. Salvadoran politicians actually campaign for office in California, owing to the sizable number of Salvadoran voters, many of whom are here illegally, signaling that there's a lot of work to be had for the newest (and least likely to be legal) migrants in the states now, most of which is coming from California. From the Salvadoran private sector, maybe not so much, given that the country is losing a critical component of its work force and is already looking at labor shortages even as the government grows bigger and more powerful from the remittances. Big California Daddy coming in to scoop up more of the Salvadoran labor force may well prompt some anger and disgust in those quarters.
Newsom doesn't care about any of that, because that's economics, and he's a leftist.
Obviously, his mission is domestic: to undercut President Trump's effort to control the border at a time of national emergency, with very large numbers of Salvadorans now planning to come to the U.S. without authorization. The technical infrastructure has emerged with the new (and supercharged) phenomenon of the caravans, aided also by the fact that the U.S. is legally powerless to stop them, so the numbers are projected to soar. Why not goose them a bit? It leaves the question on the table of what Newsom's plotting with the foreigners, and why this isn't classified as subversion.
Newsom's already signaled his strong support for "sanctuary state" policies, as well as pulled U.S. National Guard troops from the California border, creating a good entry point for the caravans on the long stretches of California's wide open border. This, in addition to all the free health care, housing, education, driver's licenses, and legal privileges he's set up for the Salvadorans and other illegal migrants. What more can he offer them? He's met with the farthest of the far-left Salvadoran "community leaders" here, excluding any reasonably minded Salvadorans, and now he's going down to El Salvador to find out how.
It's nothing but a bid to trawl for votes, legal or otherwise, since legality no longer seems to matter to California's ruling class.
It's worth noting that Newsom has already pulled this stunt once before, shortly before he was sworn in to office, right when President Trump shut the border last November. Remember this one, reported by Politico?

As President Donald Trump threatens to shut down the Mexican border access and demands $5 billion from Congress to build a wall, Gov.-elect Gavin Newsom, Attorney General Xavier Becerra and state lawmakers are heading to Mexico City this week to celebrate the inauguration of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
The message: The country's most populous state wants to work with Mexico despite the president's rhetoric.

The purpose was declared to be this:

"We're ushering in new leadership and there is a vital strategic interest for the state of California for continued economic growth on both sides of the border, with collaboration and cooperation that benefits both California and Mexico, regardless of Washington's lack of leadership," said state Sen. Kevin de León, the former Senate leader who authored California's "sanctuary state" law. "A lot of folks view foreign policy through the prism of Washington, D.C., however, because California has the fifth-largest economy in the world and because we share a border with our neighbor to the south, we have many shared interests."

He's as transparent as crystal glassware on that. It's about time he be called out on it - and maybe sanctioned, too — at the national level.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog..._salvador.html

this is a socialist globalist coup... it will not be stopped by any government

Suspend his Visa and do NOT allow Newsome back into the country!

This is Sedition...this is Treason...this is undermining the office of the President.

HE IS PELOSI'S NEPHEW...WON BY ILLEGAL VOTING...WON BY PELOSI'S MOB TIES TO HER WHOLE FAMILY TREE!

INVESTIGATE THAT YOU REPUBLICAN WIMPS!

California's Gavin Newsom travels to El Salvador to sweeten the incentives to come illegally.

Honduran caravan migrant who called Mexican beans 'pig food' arrested on aggravated

Get ready for it: Newsom to blame illegal immigration on global warming

He's headed off to El Salvador, loaded with a bag of goodies, claiming he wants to examine the "root causes" of illegal migration. Watch him link it to global warming now that the rest of the left is doing it.

April 7, 2019
By Monica Showalter

California Gov. Gavin Newsom is going all in on opposing President Trump - and the majority of the American people - on the problem of illegal migration as the caravans from Central America fire up. Now he's heading off to El Salvador to "examine the root causes of migration," as Big Daddy holding out the bag of goodies to would-be illegal immigrants in their home countries. To him, they're his constituents. So he's got to find some justification for this trip and you can bet he will. My bet's on him using the trip as a soapbox to make claims about global warming causing it.
He's started with this package of goodies for illegals described on his gubernatorial website:

In his first weeks in office, Governor Newsom signed AB 72, legislation to fast-track state aid to asylum seekers who are being abandoned at bus stations and on the side of the road by the federal government. It was the first bill he signed into law. AB 72 established a Rapid Response Relief Fund of $5 million in immigration assistance, which helped support the opening of a migrant support shelter in San Diego.

Have pork, will travel.
But his claimed mission is worth looking at, too - to examine the "root causes of illegal migration" not to stop it, but as his pork demonstrates, to encourage more of it.
Latest "narrative" coming from the left is that global warming causes illegal migration. You can bet he will use it.
RealClearPolitics ran a long, very long, article from the New Yorker about how global warming is the real reason illegal migrants are heading in their caravans, not to the next convenient country, but to the United States, that country more than 1,000 miles away that is largely English-speaking and has a modern economy, with modern conventions such as flush toilets and washing machines. The link to "How Climate Change is Fuelling the U.S. Border Crisis" is here.
Global warming.
Which, though the idea is a rapidly discrediting superstitition from the left, is a wonderfully convenient excuse for justifying illegal migration. See, global warming is caused by gringos, so gringos did it. Get ready for the illegal migrants with their hands out as a result.
The New Yorker piece is very very long, (and pretty interesting as a descriptive piece), so I won't quote it, but suffice to say, the author of it failed to make her point. I will sum up what its writer found so as to make her argument that global warming causes illegal immigration:
Guatemala's western highlands are in a drought. That drought is creating food shortages. (Left unsaid: Guatemala's government is apparently doing nothing about it, despite it being its own people). The Guatemalans are clueless about how to adapt to any drought-like conditions. That means they need U.S. NGO aid workers to teach them about crop rotation, saving seeds in their own seed banks, and minimizing the need for water through shade planting. Guatemalans can't figure that out on their own. Aid from American NGO workers is the only thing that can keep people fed. And not just any aid, only American aid (Guatemala is apparently excused from the need to provide aid, despite the record remittances in hard currency it receives). Mean President Trump is cutting off aid. Yet he's the one who caused this whole debacle because he doesn't buy into the idea of global warming.
The writer keeps trying to circle around and claim that global warming is the cause of the Guatemalan drought, as if the region had never seen one earlier, but it's a tenuous and unpersuasive argument, never proved. The writer can describe problems, but can't analyse or consider multiple scenarios, and she wrecks her piece by trying to shoehorn it all into a "narrative' about global warming with insufficient evidence.
Rest assured, she didn't wreck her piece from the perspective of the agenda she was promoting. That influential ''narrative" is going to get into the Democratic party line as justification for cartel-led and gang-led illegal immigration, which of course strengthens cartels and gangs at U.S. taxpayer expense. Global warming means it's all O.K.., and never mind that detail about Guatemala's failure to take care of its own people during what in reality is a temporary weather condition for farmers whose capacity to adapt is basically by fleeing north.
Rest assured, Newsom will be up on this by the time he gets out of El Salvador. He's got to claim he did something other than shovel pork. He's going there to blame Trump for everything, and global warming is a big low hanging fruit for him.

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https://www.americanthinker.com/blog...l_warming.html

They have land, they have resources.

Send in NATO troops to round up their gangs, put them in prisons, and send their UAC's and illegal aliens back.

What Newsome is doing is Sedition...encouraging foreigners to illegally come to the USA, give them drivers licenses and REGISTER them to vote. He needs to be prosecuted and removed from office.

THIS IS PELOSI'S NEPHEW...WHO IS TAKING DIRECTION FROM THAT SWAMP RAT!!!

PELOSI NEEDS TO GO!

California Governor Gavin Newsom Ignores Watts and Hyde Park – Travels to El Salvador to Study Poverty and Violence

April 8, 2019, 11:25 am by Jim Hoft 84 Comments

Last week California Governor Gavin Newsom and Attorney General Xavier Becerra sued President Trump for using $1.6 billion to pay for his “vanity wall.”

Xavier Becerra ✔ @XavierBecerra

While Trump tours the California-Mexico border today, @GavinNewsom and I filed a motion to immediately block the President’s attempt to illegally build his vanity wall with $1.6 billion taxpayer dollars. #FakeNationalEmergency

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Democrats do not believe there is a crisis on the border.
The US is projected to see nearly half a million new illegal aliens in the next three months.

FAIR ✔ @FAIRImmigration

Illegal Immigration Levels May Reach Half a Million over Three Months http://bit.ly/2VpLkfg via @BreitbartNews @JxhnBinder

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Illegal Immigration Levels May Reach Half a Million over Three Months

Illegal immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border could more than double in the next three months as Trump postpones action on the issue.
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On Sunday California Governor Gavin Newsom traveled to El Salvador to study the poverty and violence in the communities.

MSNBC ✔ @MSNBC

California Gov. Newsom has traveled to El Salvador to learn about the poverty and violence forcing thousands to flee and demonstrate an alternative to what he called President Trump's demoralizing rhetoric about the Central American nation. https://on.msnbc.com/2UpofwI

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California Gov. Gavin Newsom seeks to counter Trump's rhetoric in El Salvador

"I think it's important to let folks know that's not our country," Newsom said. "That's an individual in our country who happens at this moment to be president."
nbcnews.com

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Of course, there are several communities in California and throughoutthe United States that have as much violence and lack of opportunities as in El Salvador.

For some reason Democrats don’t like to make special trips to these suffering Democrat-led hellholes.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/201...-and-violence/

Study the POVERTY, HOMELESSNESS, DRUGS, OVERBREEDING, FECES, NEEDLES, AND TARP CITIES in your own State you traitor!!!

Their "country" is El Salvador...not the USA...and we are a Nation of Laws!

If this isn't unlawful, it should be. How can we, as a country. function in solidarity as a sovereign nation if we have every single state operating as an independent entity separate from country? To my knowledge California has not yet succeeded from the United States of America!

How much is the cartel paying him and Auntie Nancy off???