Posted on 06/24/2019 1:10:04 AM PDT by Kaslin
Last Monday, Trump announced, via Twitter, of course, a bold, direct, and, most importantly, necessary move in the war on illegal immigration. ‘The Donald’ informed the country that ICE would be deployed to various American sanctuary cities in order to detain and deport “millions” of illegal aliens. Predictably, this set off a firestorm of hysterics from the left, illegal alien rights groups, and, alas, the media. Yet Trump’s proclamation was right, necessary, and long overdue.
Illegal immigration is a detriment to our national sovereignty, national economy, and, by extension, our national security. Current estimates put the total number of illegal aliens in our country at over 12 million. Exact numbers are difficult to come by for reasons such as citizenship questions on the national census (let’s see if the Supreme Court recognizes that this term).
The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) conducted a comprehensive study regarding the financial impact of illegal immigration. Services provided to these some 12 million illegals and their families are just over $135,000,000,000, don’t count the zeroes, that’s BILLIONS. Remember during the 2014 Ebola outbreak when NIH and CDC didn’t have enough money to properly address the problem? Where could the government have found that money? When funding for the Veterans’ Administration was in question, what other purse could have been raided? Of course, federal funding and appropriation laws don’t exactly work that way, but the underlying principle should resonate with anyone who owns a calculator.
Remember the recent government shutdown? $5.7 billion was too much for a wall, but somehow $135 billion in services to illegal aliens is just the cost of government doing business. These are the same arguments, from the same people, who want to mandate what taxes, living wages, and Congressional pay raises should be. Not a comforting realization.
America, with or without illegal aliens, has crime, as does any nation. But is that any justification to import more? From Kate Steinle’s 2015 murder by an illegal to Mollie Tibbett’s 2018 brutal killing, along with the federal government’s report of 2,028 murders by illegals arrested in 2018, an important question arises: Why, through inaction, allow such crimes to persist?
Simply because America already has crime is no justification. If your son or daughter was in the emergency room for a stab wound would you tell the doctor, “Don’t bother stitching him up. He already has pneumonia?" Of course not. If we can’t get rid of our own crime problem, we certainly should not invite more that we can get rid of.
We have serious problems that we must deal with, and deal with effectively.
Sanctuary cities that flout our laws only serve to aggravate an already overwhelming set of problems. Los Angeles and San Francisco, both sanctuary cities, are both crumbling under crises of homelessness and crime. A new app in San Francisco allows people to track human feces in the street. Back in L.A., even Cher, a liberal stalwart, recently felt compelled to tweet about the homeless problem in the City of Angels and the insanity of inviting more.
Sanctuary cities not only serve to exacerbate the tribulations we see every day, they invite them. They are beacons to every illegal border crosser, “Come here, we don’t care about the law or big picture!”
Of course, the Left has attempted to frame the issue of illegal immigration into the only argument they ever make: one of race. Not surprising for a party whose primary tenet is identity politics. If the Left can only see race or gender or sexual orientation, then they can only believe others’ opinions are based on the same. Therein lies their argument. “You don’t want unfettered illegal immigration because of race, not for the actual reasons. Therefore, your opinions are invalid because I believe your basis is in racism.” A complete lie that the media and 2020 candidates tout more often than Joe Biden makes a gaffe.
They conveniently ignore the logical fallacy of their primary economic beliefs, that a welfare state can support everyone that wants in. Free college, free health care, guaranteed free income, free to everyone who wants, yet, free of any rational way to support such a utopia. Free thinkers indeed.
Now the Left has turned its ire on ICE. These federal law enforcement officers are evil, equated to Nazis they shout in almost every sentence. Democratic members of Congress screaming “Concentration camps!” (PLEASE read a history book on the Holocaust!). They may as well work for the Department of Redundancy.
ICE is not evil. ICE is not the problem. Illegal immigration is the problem. Sanctuary cities are a symptom of that problem. ICE is simply doing what is necessary.
As of today, Trump has placed a two-week hold on his plan to detain and deport, hoping Democrats in Congress can do their job and fix the problem. Failing that, people should remember, Illegal immigration is the cancer, sanctuary cities are the tumors, and ICE is the chemotherapy.
L8r
ICE should change its name...
No jobs?
No illegal immigrants.
Trump could have written that Executive Order his first day in office.
E-Verify has a pristine legal heritage of statutes, agency regulations, previous Executive Orders, and Supreme Court decisions that go all the way back to the Reagan Amnesty in 1986.
Just do it, President Trump.
if we dont remove the illegals the game is over USA lost,it will not end
So what do you think will happen in two weeks?
Without casting a single fraudulent vote, Illegal Aliens distort the allocation of Congressional Representatives and Electoral votes to favor the Democrats.
ICE is the cause. All they do is stamp “approved” on paperwork and don’t do any vetting.
We need The List, pronto!
The list goes like this -
1) southern barrier;
2) require eVerify to hire;
3) end all chain migration;
4) birthright per Minor v. Happersett (plural parents);
5) end work visas;
6) 10-year moratorium on all new applications for citizenship (40 years to allow workplace automation effects on downsizing population)
7) demonstrate English proficiency to acquire citizenship and pass civics test.
Enactment of these provisions will motivate illegal aliens to SELF-deport.
Also consider reciprocation of the laws of the countries of origin of the illegal aliens. For example, Mexico doesn’t allow land ownership or voting to immigrants, and doesn’t honor birthright citizenship like its citizens expect from the U.S. We should offer the same deal to them.
I waited almost 11 years before I made my citizenship and the examiner chewed me out because I waited so long, and there you come and demand a 10 year moratorium meaning waiting time.
My husband brought me and our son who was about 3 1/2 years old over to the states on September 25th 1966 from Germany where we met and married (in my hometown. Our son was born in the American Hospital in Nuremberg, which btw not exist anymore. When he was six weeks hold we drove to Munich and my husband registered his birth at the American Consulate.
Anyway my husband was on orders for Vietnam, but he had to go to Fort Eustis, VA for a Helicopter mechanic course. My son and I stayed with his parents in florida, while he was in FT Eustis. After he came back we drove to Fort Campbell, Ky where he had to wait until his company was ready to go. We bought our house and moved in on April 1, 1967. He left in June or July with his company for Vietnam and they arrived in August 1967 in Nam.
He came back the end of July and we drove to Florida and spend a month with his parents. He had requested Germany as his next duty station. He had hoped to be stationed at the same place where he had been before, but it did not happen. We went back to Germany exactly 2 years after he brought me to the states which was September 25, 1966. He took me through immigration center where I received my Green Card and was declared a legal resident.
I always knew that an immigrant had to wait 5 years before he or she could apply for citizenship, but we went back to Germany two times to different duty stations and I thought I had to wait. I found out in 1977 when I took a citizenship class. There were some Koreans who had just come to the states 3 weeks earlier and their husbands were transferred overseas on Accompanied tour, meaning their spouses could go with them
When my husband brought me over on September 25, 1966 I already was able to read, speak, and write English because I had 4 years practice. To become a citizen it is required to pass the citizenship and civic test. You can be sure that I know more about that than you do
And incredibly, millions of Americans want to interfere with the therapy and allow the cancer to destroy the USA.
Sehr gut, Kaslin!
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