Posted on 06/23/2019 12:55:24 PM PDT by Kaslin
Only one day after mayors and governors around the country stood in unison to support people breaking the law, the President has temporarily put on hold plans to have ICE detain and deport large numbers of illegal aliens in as many as ten cities. Is this a sign that he’s suddenly “seen the light” and decided that enforcing our immigration laws isn’t such a big deal? Not in the slightest. Instead, he might be angling for a better immigration bill out of Congress. And according to CNN, the change in plans was prompted by a call from Nancy Pelosi.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called President Donald Trump Friday night and asked him to call off the Immigration and Customs Enforcement deportation raids scheduled for Sunday, a source familiar with the call told CNN.
Trump pulled back on the raids Saturday a matter of hours after he spoke in support of the coordinated arrests and deportations that were slated to hit 10 major cities. Trump announced via Twitter that he would delay for two weeks US raids to give Congress a chance to “get together and work out a solution” on the enforcement of his signature immigration policy.
Trump and Pelosi spoke at 7:20 p.m. ET Friday night for about 12 minutes, according to the source. White House deputy press secretary Judd Deere confirmed a phone call took place Friday night between Trump and Pelosi.
So what happened on that call? We’re not getting specifics yet, but it’s fairly easy to guess. There is absolutely zero chance that the President would suddenly do an about-face on one of his highest policy priorities just because “Nancy asked him.” So the only other realistic scenario is one in which the Speaker put something on the table after refusing to deal with Trump at all previously. Thus far the President has had to deal with all of these immigration and border security issues using the same broken, underfunded, understaffed system that’s been in place for ages. The Democrats have been unwilling to come to the table and do a deal.
As of yesterday, however, the President was putting his plans on hold to give Congress a couple of weeks to come up with a proposal. Why would he do that unless Pelosi signaled that she was ready to give him something he wants? That’s probably some combination of border wall funding, more immigration judges or additional border security personnel. And what could she be expecting to get in return? If the answer is the cancellation of those major ICE raids, the President can make that deal without breaking a sweat.
ICE can temporarily put those plans on hold and go back to prioritizing the arrests of criminal illegal aliens. (It’s not like we’ve caught them all yet.) There are, no doubt, also plenty of employers hiring illegals to go after. And if they run out of work in those sectors, they can still go round up the people who already have final deportation judgments against them… just not all at once in a sweeping, ten city crackdown. In other words, ICE can simply go back to doing what they’ve been doing all along.
Looked at from that perspective, the planned raids could be seen in a similar light as the Mexico tariffs. Trump threatened to put them in place, then Mexico backed down and cut a favorable deal, so the President canceled them. It sounds as if he’s trying to use exactly the same tactic on Pelosi.
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Trump has lost the border wall issue. He should have vetoed the first budget bill for failing to address the issue.
Ok. So he gets more money to store more illegals so he can do more of what that he promised to do? Build a wall? I thought he already had that in hand and well underway.
How about playing Rawhide and rounding them doggies up and sending them back where they came from? I think he also promised that somewhere along the way.
You can bet that Nutty Nancy expects to get a whole lot more than she plans on giving.
Ann Coulter was right.
When President Trump postponed the ICE raids this week after he warned they were coming, it was the ringside tactics of a prize fighter. He didn’t obstruct justice by warning of the impending raid. By “feinting,” Trump pretended he is going to hit a part of the body, but then he hit a different area. In this case, he pretended he was going to round up the border jumpers, but then he hit the Dems in the chops by giving them a deadline to stop their obstruction of justice. All eyes will be on the countdown as the Dems lay paralyzed on the mat. It’s called WINNING!
The dems will use the next two weeks to increase the flood of illegals into the country, and whip up anti-Trump media storms about the “poor, scared, migrants”.
Trump should have told Nervous Nancy and Crying Chuck to “shove it” and tell them that the deportation will commence immediately and increase in scope every week until they come up with a realistic plan.
You are right, Nervous Nancy just pulled the rabbit out of the hat, and Trump was mystified!!
Love how these threads bring forth the posts from our President’s enemies.
I agree, nervous Nancy is not our friend. Now she has two more weeks to stir up trouble. And she will. Big trouble. I wrote and told him so.
Are you saying that everyone who voted for Trump based on his promises and who actually expects him to keep them is now an enemy?
Trump knows what he is doing and is clearly trying to make it happen. People here who have no idea about the facts or the law want impossible instant solutions.
And what’s the alternative? Hillary? Biden? Any Leftist D?
Trump’s 1000 miles ahead of the AND any other R or “Conservative”
120,000 last month. Now some from the congo, the Congo, in africa. The one across the ocean. Normal people call that losing.
Trump was hoping his call from the caboose would stop the train wreck to migrant disaster. He has put in multiple calls and the Dimwhit engineers ignored him. Now he is applying the breaks himself. We will see what happens. I predict we will call it WINNING!
That's what I predicted yesterday.
Here's how this is playing out.
- Trump announces sweeping deportations of people who have been served final notices by a federal judge.
- The MSM typically mischaracterizes this as "sweeping," "cruel," "inhumane," etc.
- Democrats like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez likens it to the Holocaust.
- Pundits twist themselves into a pretzel to keep the Democrats from sounding stupid, but YOU have to agree to be the stupid one for this to work.
- This time, the Nazi blowback sticks to Democrats. They overreached in their rhetoric.
- The House submits a border bill that is more accommodative of the needs of illegals after crossing the border than it is preventative of illegals to cross the border.
- Pelosi calls for a time-out.
- Now... Trump gets to call what comes next Pelosi's fault if it fails because she's the one who asked for the delay.
- Pelosi is now in the spotlight to make good on her request for a delay by giving Trump some real money for a border wall instead of the nickel-and-diming with prohibitive conditions like she did the last time.
- If Pelosi whiffs on this, Trump will resume the border round-ups and blame it on Pelosi's failure to get her caucus in line.
- Democrat border-state governors have been coming around admitting that there is a serious crisis at the border.
- Trump would probably accept spending on more family facilities, more processing resources, etc., as long as it is matched with real wall spending and not a token bone to Trump. This time, Trump has to hold Pelosi's feet to the fire to get what he wants, once and for all.
-PJ
No, just those that want us to believe he hasn’t kept his promises and won’t continue to do so.
pic.twitter.com/SSWnX8oQ65— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 22, 2019
Action and results, not promises and spin
Eagerly awaiting a reduction in third world migration into my homeland.
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