Posted on 04/05/2018 5:15:59 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends) Tired of all this Winning yet? Part I – President Donald Trump’s job approval rating in the Rasmussen Survey – the most accurate poll throughout the 2016 campaign season – rose again on Wednesday, to 51%. On the same date in his first term in office, Barack Obama’s approval rating stood at 46%. The new poll result caused enraged fake reporters and social justice warriors’ heads to explode across the country.
Tired of all this Winning yet? Part II – The Trump economy continued to roar, with the ADP/Moody’s private sector survey of payrolls showing that 241,000 jobs were added in February, well above the expectation of 205,000. The rapid creation of private sector jobs, along with the tax cuts taking effect in people’s paychecks, most likely has a lot to do with the President’s strong job approval. Go figure.
Formerly amusing late-night comic Jimmy Kimmel used part of his monologue Wednesday night to mock First Lady Melania Trump’s accent, as he played a tape of her reading a book to children at the White House Easter Egg Roll. No one could confirm whether or not the First Lady responded by calling him a simpleton in each and every one of the five languages that she speaks fluently, but she should have.
As the caravan of Honduran “refugees” began to dissolve south of Mexico City on Wednesday, President Trump signed an executive order sending national guard troops to patrol the Southern border, saying the action is necessary since congress refuses to act to change the country’s idiotic open borders immigration rules.
Following the signing, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen told reporters that her department would be working with state officials in Texas, Arizona, New Mexico and California to activate and deploy the guard personnel and equipment that will be assigned to the border. That was all expected.
What came next, though, was somewhat surprising to the fake journalists at the presser. In response to a question about the President’s recent comments that he might use the military budget to fund the building of his long-promised border wall, Sec. Nielsen said:
“What [Trump] meant is there are some lands that the Defense Department owns right on the border where we see illicit activity,” Nielsen said during a White House press briefing. “We’re looking into options for the military to build wall or military installations on the border.”
And so it begins. Isn’t it ironic that Pueblas sin Fronteras, the radical open borders group that organized the caravan of Hondurans, has in fact provided Mr. Trump the justifying event for deploying the National Guard to the border – thus providing the enhanced border security congress refuses to fund – and which in turn is going to provide the pretext for using part of the beefed-up military budget for constructing at least part of a border wall? Because that’s exactly what has taken place here since the President first began tweeting about the caravan on Saturday.
If you still buy into the fake news media/Democrat narrative that the President just belches random stuff out onto his Twitter feed while eating ice cream in bed with no plan in mind, well, there’s really not much anyone can do for you, is there?
By the way, if you’re thinking this is all Mr. Trump is going to do related to taking executive action to enhance border security, you might want to hold that thought. One of the aspects of illegal immigration policy that the President has complained about in recent days is the so-called “catch and release” policy.
Under this policy – which we can lay at the feet of George W. Bush and Karl Rove, who began it – illegal immigrants who are caught coming across the southern border are briefly held while their personal information is recorded by border officials, and then just released on their own recognizance while awaiting a hearing before an immigration judge. Obviously, the vast majority of these folks simply vanish into the interior of the country and never show up for said hearing.
This policy is not a part of immigration law. It was created via an executive order by former President Bush, and happily continued throughout the Obama years. While Mr. Trump has repeatedly criticized the policy, he has not taken action to rescind the Bush order, or to formally issue guidance to border officials to halt its enforcement.
It isn’t being reported anywhere in the fake news media right now, but there are two main reasons why Mr. Trump has kept this policy in place:
- Absent the creation of more immigration judges, the illegals currently being released into the general population will have to be held, probably for months, in detention centers, and congress has failed to provide additional funding for the creation of more such judges; and
- While the Obama Administration did for a time hold hundreds of illegal immigrants in such detention centers along the border – centers that still exist – the media studiously ignored reporting on them. In a Trump Administration, we can bet the fake news media would focus on such centers every day in an effort to portray them as modern-day concentration camps.
To this point, the President has no doubt been convinced by his advisors not to take any action on “catch and release” for these reasons. But it is obvious that Mr. Trump is now fed up with the current status quo, and is going to act on his own to enhance the nation’s border security in pretty much any way he can.
You should expect Mr. Trump to formally rescind the Bush order in the coming days, and then prepare yourselves for all the “concentration camp” stories that will become ubiquitous on CNN and the broadcast networks in the following weeks and months. Because that is what the fake news media does.
Just another day in no more open borders America.
That is all.
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Bush used an EO to start “catch and release”. Trump could use and EO to make that now void.
Is this true?
These people are not liberal ..they are dangerous nincompoops.
An EXCELLENT explanation of current events. Thanks!
Yes.
Thanks!
I don’t know what is wrong with catch and release. You catch illegals, document them and release them in Mexico.
Wait... what?
'Refuses' is the operative word. They don't want to do any heavy lifting for the people. They're only interested in doing things that benefit themselves.
Note that when our so-called congress goes on one its frequent vacations nobody notices they're gone.
Do the GOP Know/Do-Nothings in Congress realize how badly PDJT is making them look?
Do they even care?
And the Republican party wonders why their losing elections. Because they keep,sending us spineless wimps who won’t do what they say they will, Mitch Mcconell, and Ryan must go!
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