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.
Our great President, fighting this battle against the Open-Borders, NWO crowd.
God Bless you and keep you, Mr. President.
...at the Border and everywhere else—which is exactly what America needs!
Best election, best POTUS, evah!
“Our great President, fighting this battle against the Open-Borders, NWO crowd.
God Bless you and keep you, Mr. President.”
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That needs repeating, and lets add: Merry Christmas to the Trump family, we have your back!!!
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I am urging every single Democrat in the House of Representatives to cast their votes for Nancy Pelosi to become the “Speaker of the House” come January 3, 2019.
Her outstanding prediction declaring that the Republican Caucus in the House of Representatives did not have the votes to pass a “CR” that would contain a five billion dollar amount to fund the Border Wall that POTUS, Donald J. Trump requested was absolutely stunning.
In fact...she was so “right-on-the-money” before the vote was taken...she was wildly dancing at a retirement party for Congressman, Joe Crowley like the drama queen she is.
Sadly, the CR passed in the house by a quite safe margin...with the Republicans winning the day.
At this very moment...Ms. Pelosi is nowhere to found as the Federal Government shutdown goes forward with 800,000 Federal workers on lay off furlough. Golly...what a gal!!! A true leader for the Democrat caucus.
During this high holy season....I will be standing under the feet of our savior, Jesus Christ in our church, beneath his Crucifix, praying that every Democrat votes with great gusto, to elect Madame, Pelosi the House leader in January.
Bravo, Nancy Pelosi!!! Suddenly, both Ms. Pelosi and Mr. Schumer have gone weirdly silent. Pray tell...why?
Trump is our last chance (my FR moniker).
Amen. He is hated because he genuinely wants to repair the world, to fix stuff because it’s the right thing to do.
That’s why he got the job in the first place.
An elemental Force of Nature, that is our President, Donald J. Trump.
Almost every other Republican politician would have folded by now, and taken the crumbs. But remember this about The Donald - he is an American Patriot first, a nationalist second, and only then a Republican, a conversion he came to only relatively late in his life. Does he have conservative or libertarian impulses? Yes, but he isn’t RULED by them, and should any of the libertarian or conservative principles so beloved of the “purists” be in his way, he has no qualms whatsoever about discarding it and running over it roughshod.
Respect the Force, and may the Force always be with you.
He is a bada$$ mothaf%$$%#.
Just what this country needs.
Thank you Mr. President for standing up to those hypocritical, arrogant politicians and standing FOR America and Americans. It is driving them insane that the can’t control you....shut this government down and keep her shut down...Chuck Shumer aka CHUCK FUMER
(thanks to Freeper 5th MEB)
Not quite. Trump does not want to repair the world. Trump wants to repair United States of America first!
He is hated because he is disrupting the political class who makes big money by selling out America. They want cheap immigrant labor and export manufacturing to cheap labor countries.
Stand firm, Sir. We’ve got your back. Throw out those thousands who have just crossed our border. No asylum.
Someone finally clued me in to the difference between “a wall or fence” and “border security”.
A wall keeps people out;
Border Security lets people through, but then shows the border patrol where to catch them … ( so they can be released!)
This is OUR wall..we either secure our border or LOSE America, its really that simple
They say this cat Trump is a bad mother...
(Shut your mouth)
I’m talkin’ ‘bout Trump
(Then we can dig it)
and taking them on he is. He calls these RINOs and the MSM out on this daily. Hang in there baby the American People want the border secure first and foremost.
Oh, and good move on getting us out of rag head country. Time to think of our borders not some goat humper's.
Is Schumer trying to implement a NAFTA whereby the USA invades Mexico to stabilize it and then both absorb Mexico and Canada into one great North American Amerika?
Employer enforcement and defunding sanctuary states and cities is something that must wait until the SCOTUS in in reliable hands. The border wall is a requirement because Mexico will enforce their border with us/US. Stop all money transfers from the US to Mexico unless they can prove it is done by a US Citizen or someone in the US on a VISA/legally via State Dept Counselor Section approval in their passport. Stopping all trade for 7 days would put Mexico into the boarder security business immediately. Suspend all organic imports for 30 days and their farmers go bankrupt. Cut the natural gas, autos and TV imports for 90-days and they will halt illegal immigration.
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