Posted on 12/22/2018 4:22:04 PM PST by Kaslin
After some indecision, President Trump has decided to roll the dice and embrace a government shutdown in order to put pressure on Congressional Democrats to fund a “Great Wall” on the border with Mexico. Bravo, President Trump!
Conservatives and patriots have watched with consternation over the past two years, as Trump has repeatedly given way on the issue of wall funding. The time has now come for Republicans to put up or shut up. As Trump observed himself, upholding the sovereignty of our nation, and protecting the safety of the American people, is the first responsibility of any elected official. Thus, adequately fortifying our porous border with Mexico ought to be a no-brainer for any congressman. Since, unfortunately, quite a few congressmen failed to realize this, their hands must be forced. So be it. It is high time that an American president showed the mettle to take this battle on.
The media's reaction to a shutdown is predictable: they will spin it as a calamity caused, as per Chuck Schumer's latest trademark sound bite, by a Trumpian “temper tantrum.” Walls are dumb, the press will say, and Trump is wasting everyone's time, since the Democrats will never vote for a wall. The obvious rejoinder is...Trump clearly believes in the necessity of a wall, as do many of his core supporters. We shall see whether a day, or a week, or a month, or a year, of partially disabled government is enough to bring Democrats to the negotiating table, but they will crack, sooner or later. If in the end that means meeting President Trump halfway and voting for slightly less than $5 billion for the wall, that would be vastly better than nothing.
Those who believe in border security should be thrilled that President Trump is finally going to the mat for a wall. The good news doesn't stop there, however. This week the U.S. also agreed with Mexico that, in future, those traveling through Mexico to apply for asylum in the U.S. will stay in Mexico while their claims are being processed. This is a huge win for the Trump administration. What it means is that Mexico will bear the burden of housing and caring for these migrants (no doubt subsidized by the U.S.), but more importantly these opportunistic gate-crashers will be denied, both in the short-term and in the long-term, what they most want: entry into the United States. After all, going forward, how many poor Central Americans will make the trek to the U.S. border if they know that at the end of it they face a long spell in a Mexican detention camp, followed by a likely refusal of their asylum application by U.S. authorities? Very few indeed.
Imagine just for a second, though, that Hillary Clinton had been elected in 2016 instead, and she had welcomed every self-described “refugee” at the border with open arms, continuing President Obama's policy of “catch-and-release,” which gave these mostly phony asylum-seekers immediate gratification: the ability to work and live in the U.S. Trump's new agreement with Mexico constitutes a strong deterrent to illegal immigration and to fraudulent requests for asylum. The Democratic “plan” for the border, though, would have encouraged greater and greater flows of migrants/refugees, and thus by now America's cities would be overflowing.
We can't, of course, rule out the possibility that Mexico will balk, or that some grandstanding federal judge will try to block President Trump's brilliant new deal with Mexico with a national (or international) injunction, but on the face of it Trump has, at a stroke, torpedoed the raison d'être of the “caravan” system. The end of the road for most migrants will now be in Tijuana, instead of Los Angeles. The American people can breathe a huge sigh of relief.
Despite all these positive signs about President Trump's seriousness about defending our border and our sovereignty against the tide of illegal immigration, there is still more to be done. A wall will not, by itself, prevent all illegal crossings, nor will it stop people from coming to the U.S. as tourists or as students and then choosing to stay here. What will put an end to these forms of illegal immigration is strong sanctions on U.S. employers who hire undocumented workers. The Trump administration has so far not moved as aggressively as it should in this regard. Millions of U.S. businesses continue to scoff at our labor and immigration laws. There still exists no better way to disincentivize illegal immigration than by depriving illegal aliens of work opportunities. Despite the carping this will engender from corporate America, it is in the long run the only way that illegal immigration can be defeated.
Secondly, our country has, as I have noted before, strong laws prohibiting the harboring of illegal aliens, and which make it a felony to aid or encourage illegal immigration. Democratic politicians and various “pro-immigrant” advocacy groups are violating these laws with impunity and have been doing so for years. Jeff Sessions' Department of Justice followed standard operating procedure in such cases – that is, it assumed that Democrats and liberals are above the law. There is no reason why the Whitaker or Barr Justice Department should act with similar fecklessness. On the contrary, it is high time that illegal immigration's enablers and apologists should face the music.
With President Trump's help and guidance, the United States is about to turn the corner on the issue of illegal immigration. We are about to control our border with Mexico for the first time in decades.
Let's not stop there, however. Let's control the homeland as well, by making it a place where employers, politicians, and activists alike respect our immigration laws, and where crime does not pay.
I believe you are right. This country is sliding over the edge and if PDJT does not make more progress over the next 6 years, we are done as a Nation.
My question is which of. McConnell or Schumuk will break first?
McConnell will have to be shown something very nasty will happen to him unless he gets Schumer to fold. I am not sure what is but I’d suspect it is nearing time for some of those 65,000 sealed indictments to be used as leverage.
A President who keeps his promises.
I don’t think there is disagreement. To repair America *is* to repair the world. The world can follow along with the American spirit, or not.
President Trump really does want the world to work. The trouble is, the world rejects America. It loves the Establishment that bullied its way in and is as dysfunctional and corrupt as the rest of the planet.
Keep those miserable greedy would-be parasites outta the U.S.
END THE BIRTHRIGHT ANCHOR BABY NONSENSE AND CHAIN MIGRATION!
L8r
Asylum camps. Like Area 51. No one comes in. Cases are adjudicated and the trash is exported, flagged so they will never qualify after having illegally entered the US.
God BLESS YOU Mr.President!!
bkmrk
“Almost every other Republican politician would have folded by now, and taken the crumbs.”
YES! And that is why we need to be working diligently to ferret out the RINOs ( it shouldn’t take more than 5 minutes) and mount campaigns with good candidates early this coming year. Particularly with respect to the 21 GOP Senators up for re-election in 2020. Included in that number are a bunch of turds in the punchbowl, and for all I know it’s all of them! Ditto for 2022, when there are another 22 seeking another six year stint from the voters. The House is a short-term problem and it has more turnover, but the Senate has far too many “lifers” in it in both Parties.
This is EXACTLY why I voted for Donald J Trump, he’s got balls.
I like how you think! And it can be done with a pen and a phone.
I am with Mitch McConnell.
Let’s not just have a squeaker of a win of 51 votes.
We have a winning issue.
Let McConnell make Democrats vote for this too.
Let’s rub their faces in it!
I just tossed and turned all night last night worrying about the government shutdown. NOT!!!
Mexico; YOU are letting these folks assemble on YOUR land as they make their plans to INVADE us.
You have MUCH more to lose than a handful of scruffy caravaners!!
Maybe YOU better send them home before we have to get all nasty with YOU!
Yup. Plus the old hag’s brain is way out there in the Milky way...
Yes!!!
Is there hope for America? My understanding, and tell me if I am wrong, Roberts has said border agents can’t stop anyone who comes to the border who just says “Heh, yeah, I’m a refugee”? They must now let them in? (Which is bloody freaking insane BTW).
Thank you President Trump for standing and fighting for Americans and not illegal aliens.
God Bless you and your family.
Merry Christmas!
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