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If we can't stop this invasion, we no longer have a sovereign nation
Conservative Review ^ | November 20, 2018 | Daniel Horowitz

Posted on 11/20/2018 10:27:33 PM PST by UMCRevMom@aol.com

You might not have heard the news overnight, but our national government has been shut down. Yes, that long-dreaded government shutdown is upon us. No, there was no appropriations lapse of 18 percent of the bureaucracies, nor was there a three-inch snowstorm in the nation's capital. A single district judge thinks he can violate all rules of standing, 130 years of Supreme Court precedent on sovereignty up to and including Trump v. Hawaii, and shut down any effort to secure our border, including the administration's half-baked plan on bogus asylum.

Despite spending $892 billion on the military and defense, we refuse to assert our rights over our own border because the ACLU and judges evidently control our borders. We continue to allow lawfare to incentivize and actually allow the entirety of Central America to cross our border, along with drugs, gangs, violence, poverty, and possibly diseases.

In every media interview I've given, when asked about the future of the caravan, I emphatically said that there was no way Trump would allow any of them to submit "asylum" claims, because if he couldn't stop such a brazen invasion, it would be the end of his presidency. Nonetheless, I expressed concern that we'd still ignore the dangerous invasion of roughly 1,000-2,000 coming over every day independently smuggled in by coyotes.

Now it appears I was too charitable. We are not even categorically blocking the caravan, and that was before last night's illegal, lawless injunction from an Obama judge in San Francisco. It appears that the people in the caravan are being allowed to submit claims, 100 a day. I guess slow-motion catch-and-release is better than a mass rush, but why should we be "managing" an invasion rather than repelling it, as required by the Constitution's Guarantee Clause, Article IV, Section 4? Slow-motion admission is not what Trump promised before the election:

To those in the Caravan, turnaround, we are not letting people into the United States illegally. Go back to your Country and if you want, apply for citizenship like millions of others are doing!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 25, 2018

If we can't stop a belligerent group of economic migrants carrying flags of their "persecutors" and will instead indulge them as questionable asylees, we no longer have a sovereign nation. Mexicans in Tijuana are now vigorously protesting the caravan's illegal occupation of their own country. The migrants are reportedly smoking weed and throwing garbage in their neighborhoods, after rejecting Mexico's own offer of asylum, which in itself is a violation of international asylum law.

Here is a video of a Honduran man in the caravan threatening to kill Mexicans and burn Tijuana after residents of Playas de Tijuana demanded that the caravan leave.

Folks, a functioning government would send our military to the San Diego border, not as "confidence builders" for Border Patrol, as Defense Secretary Mattis suggested, but locked and loaded. This is an invasion, plain and simple. Why are we even discussing how many of these applications we should process? What ever happened to the promise to use Trump's inherent and delegated authority to shut down all border migration for the time being?

The Trump administration deserves credit for its decision yesterday to shut down all northbound lanes and half the pedestrian crossings into the San Ysidro crossing at Tijuana. That will slow down the pace, but still, why are we taking in invaders at any pace? And why is the DOJ even showing up in two separate lawsuits lodged by the ACLU on behalf of invaders, when the most unassailable case law says that A) the president controls who comes into the country; B) foreign nationals have no standing to sue; and C) courts have no jurisdiction to second-guess the executive on exclusions? If after 130 years of settled law on this issue, we are going to allow California judges to destroy our border, that is the ultimate government shutdown.

And this is just the problem with the caravan at the points of entry. The larger problem is the invasion of hundreds of thousands between the points of entry who are helping the drug cartels prosper. In just two days last week, over 650 illegals were apprehended in the Yuma sector. This is just one sector, which means that the pace of the broader border invasion has intensified to well over 1,000 apprehensions a day. And that means there are at least as many we don’t apprehend.

I spoke with Sheriff Leon Wilmot of Yuma County yesterday, and he was frustrated that everyone is missing the point about the lawfare. "We already have a fence here, and it worked fine during Operation Streamline last decade, when we prosecuted 100 percent of the border crossers rather than processing them. But now they are just hanging off the fence and surrendering themselves to border agents." He told me about women "dropping babies off the fence" and breaking limbs. His sheriff's deputies must deal with the medical emergencies. "None of these folks are being prosecuted. My deputies are the ones who have to take those rape and robbery reports because the feds refuse to do their jobs."

Meanwhile, drugs continue to pour over the Arizona border. While most of the drug operations in recent years have been in the Tucson sector, Sheriff Wilmot, who is also the chairman of the Southwestern Border Sheriff's Coalition, has seen an increase in drugs in Yuma in recent months. "Cartels are exploiting the situation in remote areas by backpacking in meth while border agents are busy dealing with the family units hanging off the fence. They are also exploiting juveniles – both the unaccompanied aliens and the American citizens who have family in Mexico but cross over to go to school on our side of the border." He lamented that the feds will do nothing about the teenage drug smugglers and that the cartels are fully aware of that.

Now, if the jailbreak bill passes, the traffickers will enjoy multiple leniencies. And a number of sanctuary cities are giving taxpayer funding for "free" legal counsel for illegal aliens. If you or I were attacked by illegal aliens, we’d need to marshal our own resources to seek justice, yet they can invade for free.

Rather than waste the final month of GOP control of the trifecta of government on promoting a bill that releases these very drug traffickers from prison, Trump should shoot for the moon on immigration in the December budget bill. Unless he demands not just full funding for the wall and border patrol, but clarity in statute on asylum, UACs, sanctuary cities, and interior enforcement, his presidency is done, and we will face the ultimate government shutdown: the end of our sovereignty. Unless Trump leverages his veto until Congress reiterates existing law – that courts have no jurisdiction over border security – he should just step down and allow the ACLU to run our border.


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1 posted on 11/20/2018 10:27:33 PM PST by UMCRevMom@aol.com
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

There are many people in the USA’s vast permanent government bureaucracy and many of America’s corporate, media and financial oligarchs who do not want a sovereign nation, or at least certainly nothing like you imagine it.


2 posted on 11/20/2018 10:32:29 PM PST by PGR88
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To: PGR88

I won’t say what they deserve.


3 posted on 11/20/2018 10:36:12 PM PST by Trod Upon (Government employees and welfare recipients are both net tax consumers. Often for life.)
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To: Trod Upon

The Mussolini dance is what they deserve.


4 posted on 11/20/2018 10:45:52 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com
If after 130 years of settled law on this issue, we are going to allow California judges to destroy our border, that is the ultimate government shutdown.

Because an ignorant and partisan national media backs an Activist Leftist judiciary that pushes a Progressive agenda.

But I have come to believe that the Democrats are trying to push Trump in to some kind of act that they can use as an impeachable offence.

The fact that it would be completely within the powers of the President to ignore this judicial over reach it would be made to look like the act of a power mad insane man in the Leftist press.

The Democrats hate Trump for defeating Hillary and they are still looking for payback for the impeachment and trial of WJ Clinton.

5 posted on 11/20/2018 11:08:00 PM PST by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

Article previously posted on FR at 4:20pm 11/20/2018 with 53 replies:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3707360/posts


6 posted on 11/20/2018 11:13:05 PM PST by 4Runner
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Start by cutting the head off the Left — whatever that may be.


7 posted on 11/20/2018 11:29:09 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com
It's great that this "caravan" is getting the attention it deserves (as the invasion it really is).

But it's just a drop in the bucket.

More than 33,000 are apprehended on the southern border EVERY month. A small cities worth of population, month after month after month after month.

Nearly 400,000 were caught FY 2018 alone. How many actually showed up for any kind of immigration hearing? Less than 10%? How many are actually deported? Less than 5%?

That also doesn't take into account those who are NOT apprehended, nor does it count those who overstay a Visa.

For decades now, there has been a slow...but increasing attempt to subvert our country and culture by permanently changing the demographics. The last few elections are starting to bear that fruit. Is our country better off looking and acting more like a 3rd world tower of babel?

Trump may have been the last hope to stabilize the country, the anomaly.

8 posted on 11/20/2018 11:32:56 PM PST by rxsid (HOW CAN A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN'S STATUS BE "GOVERNED" BY GREAT BRITAIN? - Leo Donofrio (2009))
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To: Pontiac

I just argued with my son who swears he’s a conservative. He says I sold out to Trump. Arizona bull shit business runs deep. The left owns young business. Young? 45 verses 67. You do the math.


9 posted on 11/20/2018 11:35:55 PM PST by Equine1952 (Get yourself a ticket on a common mans train of thought.she)
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

The black-robed tyrants obviously don’t care.


10 posted on 11/21/2018 2:29:30 AM PST by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

Sorry you tell you we have had not a sovereign republic for some time now and there are people out there that think that elections will fix it. Morons


11 posted on 11/21/2018 2:48:14 AM PST by eartick (Stupidity is expecting the government that broke itself to go out and fix itself. Texan for TEXIT!)
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To: rxsid
More than 33,000 are apprehended on the southern border EVERY month.

And statistics (from trail cams, helo counts and such) BP think they are only, maybe, catching 12%. Does that sound like a secure border?

My dog team (5) on 4wheelers would put 30-40 a night on the ground by ourselves, (and our 4 legged buds)then call beep. At any one time during a night run on the 9500 acres we patrolled for land owner, someone would be on an active trail. Not much dirt considering the length of the border

12 posted on 11/21/2018 2:54:05 AM PST by eartick (Stupidity is expecting the government that broke itself to go out and fix itself. Texan for TEXIT!)
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com
The latest visual is many Mexican flags to counter the invasion meme .......

but don't take your eyes off of the northern border.

Minnesota just SERIOUSLY joined into the jihad.

13 posted on 11/21/2018 3:39:59 AM PST by knarf (I say things that are true; I have no proof .... but they're true.)
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com
Check this out. Hopefully it goes a long distance...


14 posted on 11/21/2018 3:49:25 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com
If we can't stop this invasion, we no longer have a sovereign nation

Golly!

I thought I'd NEVER hear Mexico admit this!!

15 posted on 11/21/2018 4:24:46 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com
Let's try again:


Here is a video of a Honduran man in the caravan threatening to kill Mexicans and burn Tijuana after residents of Playas de Tijuana demanded that the caravan leave.

16 posted on 11/21/2018 4:28:35 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com
Cali
for
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17 posted on 11/21/2018 4:30:18 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

I just listen to him on Patriot Radio in my rental car he did really well. Very good interview.


18 posted on 11/21/2018 4:46:01 AM PST by CincyRichieRich (No provisional ballots allowed; ever notice there have never been Republican ballots found?)
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

It’s past time to come out with both guns blazing and avenge the satanic left.

Time is running out - it’s do or die.

President Trump is a good man, but he is only one man. He needs We the People to do a more effective job of supporting the MAGA agenda.

And it would be nice if y’all wet-noodle Republicans would step up to the plate and DO YOUR JOB!


19 posted on 11/21/2018 4:54:41 AM PST by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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To: MichaelCorleone

this should be posted as an article. PM bowed to public pressure, who wanted the Govt to follow Trump’s example:

21 Nov: news.com.au: (Australian Prime Minister Scott) Morrison pulls UN migration pact support
Australia won’t be signing a UN-sponsored document on safe and orderly migration because Scott Morrison says it would compromise the country’s borders.
by Daniel McCulloch, AAP
Scott Morrison is following in Donald Trump’s footsteps by refusing to sign a non-binding migration agreement which Australia helped draft…

But the prime minister says the UN pact would compromise Australia’s border security and immigration settings.
“It doesn’t distinguish between those who illegally enter Australia and those who come the right way,” he told 2GB radio on Wednesday.
“I would never allow something to compromise our borders, I worked too hard to ensure that we weren’t in that position.”…

(Home Affairs Minister Peter) Dutton said Australia had stopped boat arrivals and drownings at sea through hardline border protection policies.
“We’re not going to surrender that, we want our sovereignty to remain intact,” he said…
https://www.news.com.au/national/breaking-news/morrison-shuns-un-covenant-on-migration/news-story/9d44ce64244455f85c5ad0416d29aaec


20 posted on 11/21/2018 5:10:22 AM PST by MAGAthon
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