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| Silverfiddle Rant! |
President Trump spoke for all sane Americans:
"We have the worst laws of any country in the world. ... You have to fix the asylum situation, it's ridiculous."
Damon Linker, a sensible liberal who excoriates President Trump daily, begrudgingly agrees:
It's a mess. But things truly cross over into the absurd with the recent decision of a California judge to block the Trump administration's effort to get most migrants to remain in Mexico until their asylum hearing. The U.S. is confronting a flood of migrants fleeing oppression, violence, and poverty in one country (usually Honduras, Guatemala, or El Salvador), crossing a massive intermediary country (Mexico) that no one claims is persecuting them, and yet a judge insists that it's a violation of the law to deny them entry.
That ruling is either an outrageous warping of the law, in which case it needs to be quickly overturned by a higher court, or it is a demonstration that the law itself needs to be changed […]. In the current situation of years-long backlogs and restrictions on detaining kids, it amounts to a wide-open door to anyone who shows up on the border with a child claiming asylum. To the extent that current law requires this fiasco, it needs to be scrapped and replaced.
Bernie Sanders agrees as well, stating he is not for open borders:
What we need is comprehensive immigration reform. If you open the borders, my God, there's a lot of poverty in this world, and you're going to have people from all over the world. And I don't think that's something that we can do at this point. Can't do it. So that is not my position.
The ground is shifting under the Democrats. President Trump may be demagoguing the illegal immigration issue, but his demagoguery is working, and it is needed to wake us from our media-induced stupor.
Our president is stymied by our idiotic immigration laws and Trump-hating judges who allowed the previous president to make up his own immigration laws, but Democrats will pay a price in 2020.
President Trump's trollery and demagoguery have manipulated Democrats onto the side of open borders and illegal immigration, where some don the presidentially-proffered political suicide vest, while others scramble and scurry to split hairs, make excuses and confect distinctions without differences.
Despite losing every battle, President Trump is winning. How do we know? After struggling mightily to deny reality, Democrats now acknowledge the crisis, but blame President Trump.
At least half of the world's 7.5 billion people want to come here. Government needs to act.
Democrats Powerless to Stop Red Wave
David Frum - How Much Immigration is Too Much?
Recently, Jeh Johnson, Obama's Secretary of Homeland Security, and the NYT's Thomas Friedman have acknowledged that "we have a crisis at the border." Friedman went so far as to advocate for a high wall with a big gate.
ReplyDeleteI’m personally disgusted with Congress. The GOP had plenty of opportunity to make things right but failed to act on a wide range of important issues. Now that Democrats control the House, that opportunity is a thing of the past. Owing to the fact of human nature I’m not looking for miracles. I just want Congress to do its Constitutionally mandated job, as set forth in the enumerated powers. Establishing rules for immigration rests with the House of Representatives (Section 8, Article I). If the founding fathers made any mistake at all, it is that they wrote about the power of the House of Representatives, but never once mentioned its responsibility or obligations to the American people.
DeleteGovernment needs to act. Right.
The truth is that government is too big to be efficient. Worse, there are too many federal employees invested with an interest in maintaining the status quo. What should happen to the jobs of tens of thousands of federal civil servants if suddenly the federal government divested itself or downsized its many departments and agencies? Knowing this, politically these civil servants form an important voting block against anything like that from ever happening. The people who are the wheels of government benefit from larger government, and the larger it becomes, the less efficient it is.
Immigration is not the problem. Illegal immigration is the problem. It’s far more than a bunch of people streaming into the US —and given where they are coming from, it’s hard to blame them. But there are reasons for having a system that is sometimes slow moving. Immigrants should be carefully screened. Why do they want to come here? How will they contribute to American Society? Illegal immigrants try to avoid this screening, an important part of which is health screening. Illegal aliens pose a significant health risk to the American people. Why isn’t the nation's health a priority inside the House of Representatives?
Trump and sane do not belong in the same sentence together.
ReplyDeleteTwo years later and butthurt Hellary stooges are still whining and soiling their diapers.
Delete#GetOverIt
First, not an HRC stooge, don't like her. Second, not whining. Truth is Truth. Third, been over it for 2 years. Fourth, now is the season to speak truth to deceit and defeat Trump in 2020.
DeleteYou are obviously NOT over it. LOL! But keep telling us that.
DeleteAnd when you continue to whine two years after you didn't get your way, yes, that is whining.
Is that CI?
Delete@ Ed,
DeleteI don't think so, Ed.
It's not his writing style.
It's Lestard the liberal dancing boy.
DeleteYUP! i[ didn't want tobe the one to say it, but it SHORE is Dat One. i can always tell by the SMELL. Why can't the rest of you?
DeleteI am NEVER wrong, just frequently misunderstood by those who haven't enough intelligence to understand the wonderful things I have to say.
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Here is an excellent article from The Nation, of all places. They do indulge in some musty 1970's Yanqui Imperialist propaganda, but it doesn't detract from the overall point of the article
ReplyDeleteTrump is Laying a Trap for Democrats on Immigration
SF,
DeleteThat's quite an article!
Didn't we put a stop to Apache marauding with a scalps-for-cash incentive? No wall necessary.
ReplyDeleteNo, it only stopped when they gave the war chiefs government jobs and rounded up the rest of them and put them in government owned ghettos. Read, reservations.-
DeleteGovernment Largesse
DeleteKILLS Ambition,
MAIMS character,
SUBJUGATES then DESTROYS what it purports to HELP.
Surely the scalps-for-cash program whittled the Apache problem down to a manageable level.
DeleteSF,
ReplyDeleteAfter struggling mightily to deny reality, Democrats now acknowledge the crisis, but blame President Trump.
[HEAD/DESK]
And the craziness of the Dems in that regard is not lost on the majority of Americans, IMO.
Head/Desk is right.....I think Sanctuary Cities popularity is waning (let us pray!) and Trump has made even liberals able to see with their own eyes the huge lines of immigrants marching into AMerica and understand it for what it is. What are they thinking when they see thousands a day and say "Trump's wrong, there's no emergency? :-)
DeleteThe border system is indeed broken. And here's why, at least IMO as someone who lives between both Mexico and the US.
ReplyDeleteThe Dems are unable or unwilling to publicly say to their base that coming here illegally is bad and needs to stop.
The GOP is is unable or unwilling to publicly say to their base that the great majority of those who are here already are gonna get a pass as we revamp the system.
Until the two sides can accept those realities, it's gonna remain broken as "leaders" jockey for position within their owns tribes.
Intelligent people with values aren't of the nature to say "You broke the law? That's OKAY!" So I'm not sure that's the smartest thing to do, but I believe it's clear Republicans will accept some good way to stay here legally. They MUST.
DeleteI'm impressed to hear some of the Lib Loons admitting that we just can't let this happen; WE suffer as a consequence of letting poor people here with their palms open (though the Latinos I know are hard workers, kind and loving)...it's time Americans started loving America again; Sanctuary Cities show no understanding or love of our country. I hope they STOP. I agree with much of what you said...It'll remain broken until both parties WAKE UP!!!
The American people are essentially fair. They judge the government to be unfair when they are told this next amnesty will be the last one. We've heard this before ... too many times, quite frankly. Nothing was fixed, nothing was improved. So how many "passes" do illegal aliens get? Two? Twenty?
DeleteKawanio che Keeteru!
ReplyDelete"Song for St. Tamminy s Day.
"The Old Song.
Of Andrew, of Patrick, of David, & George,
What mighty achievements we hear!
While no one relates great Tammany's feats,
Although more heroic by far, my brave boys,
Although more heroic by far.
These heroes fought only as fancy inspired,
As by their own stories we find;
Whilst Tammany, he fought only to free,
From cruel oppression mankind, my brave boys,
From cruel oppression mankind.
"When our country was young and our numbers were few
To our fathers his friendship was shown,
(For he e'er would oppose whom he took for his foes),
And made our misfortunes his own, my brave boys,
And he made our misfortunes his own.
"At length growing old and quite worn out with years,
As history doth truly proclaim,
His wigwam was fired, he nobly expired,
And flew to the skies in a flame, my brave boys,
And flew to the skies in a flame.
Farmer,
DeleteI see that you're singing your song again on this day. **smile**
Some things never change... ;)
Delete_____ On St. Tammany's Birthday _____
DeleteA shame the name of Tammany’s been linked
With the vilest of politicos named Tweed,
Who ran New York in manner quite distinct
Eschewing never any dirty deed.
The entity still known as Tammany Hall
Shall live in infamy, and so obscures
The truth about its namesake, overall ––
A noble savage, whose good name endures
Only in the writings of The Sachem,
Neddy, who on Tammany heaped praise.
But kind words today are scarce. We rarely watch ‘em,
Because none restores these days, instead they raze.
Of Tammany, himself, we should think kindly,
Not follow false associations blindly.
~ FreeThinke (2014)