Posted on 02/27/2016 9:37:11 PM PST by ConservativeTeen
In Thursday night’s debate, Donald Trump put in a word for Saddam Hussein and Moammar Qaddafi, in a way. He said that, if those two were still in power, “instead of having terrorism all over the place, we’d be — at least they killed terrorists, all right?”
The fact is, they were terrorists. And funders and shelterers of other terrorists. (Abu Nidal, for one, in Saddam Hussein’s case.)
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
Of course, most Trump critics refuse to be confused by the facts, but here they are ...
Immigration Reform That Will Make America Great Again
https://www.donaldjtrump.com/positions/immigration-reform
The three core principles of Donald J. Trump’s immigration plan
When politicians talk about immigration reform they mean: amnesty, cheap labor and open borders. The Schumer-Rubio immigration bill was nothing more than a giveaway to the corporate patrons who run both parties.
Real immigration reform puts the needs of working people first, not wealthy globetrotting donors. We are the only country in the world whose immigration system puts the needs of other nations ahead of our own. That must change. Here are the three core principles of real immigration reform:
1. A nation without borders is not a nation. There must be a wall across the southern border.
2. A nation without laws is not a nation. Laws passed in accordance with our Constitutional system of government must be enforced.
3. A nation that does not serve its own citizens is not a nation. Any immigration plan must improve jobs, wages and security for all Americans.
Make Mexico Pay For The Wall
For many years, Mexico’s leaders have been taking advantage of the United States by using illegal immigration to export the crime and poverty in their own country (as well as in other Latin American countries). They have even published pamphlets on how to illegally immigrate to the United States. The costs for the United States have been extraordinary: U.S. taxpayers have been asked to pick up hundreds of billions in healthcare costs, housing costs, education costs, welfare costs, etc. Indeed, the annual cost of free tax credits alone paid to illegal immigrants quadrupled to $4.2 billion in 2011. The effects on jobseekers have also been disastrous, and black Americans have been particularly harmed.
The impact in terms of crime has been tragic. In recent weeks, the headlines have been covered with cases of criminals who crossed our border illegally only to go on to commit horrific crimes against Americans. Most recently, an illegal immigrant from Mexico, with a long arrest record, is charged with breaking into a 64 year-old woman’s home, crushing her skull and eye sockets with a hammer, raping her, and murdering her. The Police Chief in Santa Maria says the blood trail leads straight to Washington.
In 2011, the Government Accountability Office found that there were a shocking 3 million arrests attached to the incarcerated alien population, including tens of thousands of violent beatings, rapes and murders.
Meanwhile, Mexico continues to make billions on not only our bad trade deals but also relies heavily on the billions of dollars in remittances sent from illegal immigrants in the United States back to Mexico ($22 billion in 2013 alone).
In short, the Mexican government has taken the United States to the cleaners. They are responsible for this problem, and they must help pay to clean it up.
The cost of building a permanent border wall pales mightily in comparison to what American taxpayers spend every single year on dealing with the fallout of illegal immigration on their communities, schools and unemployment offices.
Mexico must pay for the wall and, until they do, the United States will, among other things: impound all remittance payments derived from illegal wages; increase fees on all temporary visas issued to Mexican CEOs and diplomats (and if necessary cancel them); increase fees on all border crossing cards,of which we issue about 1 million to Mexican nationals each year (a major source of visa overstays); increase fees on all NAFTA worker visas from Mexico (another major source of overstays); and increase fees at ports of entry to the United States from Mexico [Tariffs and foreign aid cuts are also options]. We will not be taken advantage of anymore.
Defend The Laws And Constitution Of The United States
America will only be great as long as America remains a nation of laws that lives according to the Constitution. No one is above the law. The following steps will return to the American people the safety of their laws, which politicians have stolen from them:
Triple the number of ICE officers. As the President of the ICE Officers’ Council explained in Congressional testimony: Only approximately 5,000 officers and agents within ICE perform the lion’s share of ICE’s immigration mission¦Compare that to the Los Angeles Police Department at approximately 10,000 officers. Approximately 5,000 officers in ICE cover 50 states, Puerto Rico and Guam, and are attempting to enforce immigration law against 11 million illegal aliens already in the interior of the United States. Since 9-11, the U.S. Border Patrol has tripled in size, while ICE’s immigration enforcement arm, Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO), has remained at relatively the same size. This will be funded by accepting the recommendation of the Inspector General for Tax Administration and eliminating tax credit payments to illegal immigrants.
Nationwide e-verify. This simple measure will protect jobs for unemployed Americans.
Mandatory return of all criminal aliens. The Obama Administration has released 76,000 aliens from its custody with criminal convictions since 2013 alone. All criminal aliens must be returned to their home countries, a process which can be aided by canceling any visas to foreign countries which will not accept their own criminals, and making it a separate and additional crime to commit an offense while here illegally.
Detention, not catch-and-release. Illegal aliens apprehended crossing the border must be detained until they are sent home, no more catch-and-release.
Defund sanctuary cities. Cut-off federal grants to any city which refuses to cooperate with federal law enforcement.
Enhanced penalties for overstaying a visa. Millions of people come to the United States on temporary visas but refuse to leave, without consequence. This is a threat to national security. Individuals who refuse to leave at the time their visa expires should be subject to criminal penalties; this will also help give local jurisdictions the power to hold visa overstays until federal authorities arrive. Completion of a visa tracking system [required by law but blocked by lobbyists] will be necessary as well.
Cooperate with local gang task forces. ICE officers should accompany local police departments conducting raids of violent street gangs like MS-13 and the 18th street gang, which have terrorized the country. All illegal aliens in gangs should be apprehended and deported. Again, quoting Chris Crane: ICE Officers and Agents are forced to apply the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) Directive, not to children in schools, but to adult inmates in jails. If an illegal-alien inmate simply claims eligibility, ICE is forced to release the alien back into the community. This includes serious criminals who have committed felonies, who have assaulted officers, and who prey on children¦ICE officers should be required to place detainers on every illegal alien they encounter in jails and prisons, since these aliens not only violated immigration laws, but then went on to engage in activities that led to their arrest by police; ICE officers should be required to issue Notices to Appear to all illegal aliens with criminal convictions, DUI convictions, or a gang affiliation; ICE should be working with any state or local drug or gang task force that asks for such assistance.
End birthright citizenship. This remains the biggest magnet for illegal immigration. By a 2:1 margin, voters say it’s the wrong policy, including Harry Reid who said no sane country would give automatic citizenship to the children of illegal immigrants.
Put American Workers First
Decades of disastrous trade deals and immigration policies have destroyed our middle class. Today, nearly 40% of black teenagers are unemployed. Nearly 30% of Hispanic teenagers are unemployed. For black Americans without high school diplomas, the bottom has fallen out: more than 70% were employed in 1960, compared to less than 40% in 2000. Across the economy, the percentage of adults in the labor force has collapsed to a level not experienced in generations. As CBS news wrote in a piece entitled America’s incredible shrinking middle class: If the middle-class is the economic backbone of America, then the country is developing osteoporosis.
The influx of foreign workers holds down salaries, keeps unemployment high, and makes it difficult for poor and working class Americans [including immigrants themselves and their children] to earn a middle class wage. Nearly half of all immigrants and their US-born children currently live in or near poverty, including more than 60 percent of Hispanic immigrants. Every year, we voluntarily admit another 2 million new immigrants, guest workers, refugees, and dependents, growing our existing all-time historic record population of 42 million immigrants. We need to control the admission of new low-earning workers in order to: help wages grow, get teenagers back to work, aid minorities’ rise into the middle class, help schools and communities falling behind, and to ensure our immigrant members of the national family become part of the American dream.
Additionally, we need to stop giving legal immigrant visas to people bent on causing us harm. From the 9/11 hijackers, to the Boston Bombers, and many others, our immigration system is being used to attack us. The President of the immigration caseworkers union declared in a statement on ISIS: We’ve become the visa clearinghouse for the world.
Here are some additional specific policy proposals for long-term reform:
Increase prevailing wage for H-1Bs. We graduate two times more Americans with STEM degrees each year than find STEM jobs, yet as much as two-thirds of entry-level hiring for IT jobs is accomplished through the H-1B program. More than half of H-1B visas are issued for the program’s lowest allowable wage level, and more than eighty percent for its bottom two. Raising the prevailing wage paid to H-1Bs will force companies to give these coveted entry-level jobs to the existing domestic pool of unemployed native and immigrant workers in the U.S., instead of flying in cheaper workers from overseas. This will improve the number of black, Hispanic and female workers in Silicon Valley who have been passed over in favor of the H-1B program. Mark Zuckerberg’s personal Senator, Marco Rubio, has a bill to triple H-1Bs that would decimate women and minorities.
Requirement to hire American workers first. Too many visas, like the H-1B, have no such requirement. In the year 2015, with 92 million Americans outside the workforce and incomes collapsing, we need companies to hire from the domestic pool of unemployed. Petitions for workers should be mailed to the unemployment office, not USCIS.
End welfare abuse. Applicants for entry to the United States should be required to certify that they can pay for their own housing, healthcare and other needs before coming to the U.S.
Jobs program for inner city youth. The J-1 visa jobs program for foreign youth will be terminated and replaced with a resume bank for inner city youth provided to all corporate subscribers to the J-1 visa program.
Refugee program for American children. Increase standards for the admission of refugees and asylum-seekers to crack down on abuses. Use the monies saved on expensive refugee programs to help place American children without parents in safer homes and communities, and to improve community safety in high crime neighborhoods in the United States.
Immigration moderation. Before any new green cards are issued to foreign workers abroad, there will be a pause where employers will have to hire from the domestic pool of unemployed immigrant and native workers. This will help reverse women’s plummeting workplace participation rate, grow wages, and allow record immigration levels to subside to more moderate historical averages
https://www.donaldjtrump.com/positions/immigration-reform
I noticed on Twitter that #NeverTrump has been trending [on and off] since Friday night! It’s currently back on in the Chicagoland area!
https://twitter.com/search?q=%23NeverTrump&src=tyah
Would Trump quit hiring illegals if you elect him?
There are two kinds of strength. The USA needs both.
The news was suppressed there in China. Brave martyrs are much less effective without freedom of the press.
Donald Trump wants to bring back waterboarding. He wants our troops armed at all times to prevent another Fort Hood shooting. He believes in striking fear into the heart of your enemy. Terror. Dread.
We need that. And we need it badly.
Some fools will call that ‘facist’. I call it ‘Our Greatest Generation’, our heroes of World War Two. We even dropped the Atom Bomb. That BTW saved lives on both sides by shortening the war. It also could have led to much greater long lasting worldwide peace if Stalin hadn’t stolen our nuclear secrets.
No.. instead let’s back the Mussolini wannabe.
45% or GOP Hispanics... let’s not forget that important little qualifier.
“Trump called them vicious and horrible.”
Yet he admired what he perceives as their “strength.”
Sadly we BUCKLED when faced with the same crap in the 1960s and 1970s, and now we have Obama running the country and a Democrat Party in FULL SOCIALIST MODE, and possibly one more election until fully legalizing millions of new Democrats and PERMANENTLY ENDING this country as we knew it.
It’s not so easy determining who handled things better.
Or way more GOP Hispanics than the GOP Hispanic candidates.
“As for the strong man, fascist innuendo, to some extent America has it coming. I predicted long ago that’s how we would end up although I figured ours would be a little more like Pinochet. “
Truly amazing.
“Or way more GOP Hispanics than the GOP Hispanic candidates.”
Color it how you will, but that bantering around of 45% of Hispanics in Nevada is misleading.
That's the ticket. Go get all morally outraged when the interests of globalists are threatened.
Were you ready to send your children to war to oust Suharto from power after he used his Muslim nation to invade East Timor and murder about 250,000 Roman Catholics?
Are you ready to send your children to fight China and remove them from Tibet and their ethnic cleansing of the Uighurs?
The globalists have no interest in these victims so I suspect you believe its none of our business.
Both could have been easily defended and perhaps stopped diplomatically.
You are defending the communist crackdown on pro-democracy protestors at Tiennamen square. I can’t believe you are doing this on Free Republic. This is crazy.
Perhaps you can explain the point he was trying to make.
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Perceived strength in China.
How many terrorist attacks have taken place in China?
I don’t consider it strength to brutally massacre pro democracy protesters. I want you to see the complete quote by Trump from the National Review article.
“Trump was asked about Gorbachev — who was nearing the end of his time in power.
Trump said, “Russia is out of control and the leadership knows it. That’s my problem with Gorbachev. Not a firm enough hand.” His interviewer asked, “You mean firm hand as in China?”
Trump answered, “When the students poured into Tiananmen Square, the Chinese government almost blew it. Then they were vicious, they were horrible, but they put it down with strength. That shows you the power of strength. Our country is right now perceived as weak … as being spit on by the rest of the world –””
Trump was clearly saying that Gorbachev needed to take a firmer hand in the Soviet Union like China had in Crushing the pro democracy movement. Trump then said that America was weak and needed to take a lesson from China. He said this right after the Reagan Administration when we were at our strongest and the communist world was collapsing.
Trump seems to admire the brutal application of force. At this point he has expressed admiration for Vladimir Putin, the cunning and ruthlessness of Kim Jong Un, and now the the “strength” of the Chinese Communist who crushed the pro democracy movement. Oh, and btw, yesterday he called for making it easier for him to sue the press.
“Perceived strength in China.
How many terrorist attacks have taken place in China?”
A lot.
More than here.
But what does that have to do with the massacre of un-armed pro-liberty demonstrators in Tiananmen Square?
You probably don’t know this, but Chinese communists have made common cause with Islamic terrorists for decades.
Why do you think Trump qualified his comment with the words ‘horrible’ and ‘vicious’?
Do they sound like words of admiration?
He was making a simple point about strength and perceived strength...I hope.
Truth be told after pondering, it’s something I’d like him asked about and raises a point about Cruz’s failings in this campaign. Why are we reading this here rather than listening to Cruz hammer Trump with a question about it during a debate?
Trump is no hitler but he sure does seem like a mussilini.
Obama=dear leader
Trump=il duce american
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