Justin Smith and many Conservatives looking at President
Trump’s willingness to negotiate on allowing illegal aliens to remain in
America is viewed as a betrayal of one his campaign promises.
In my humble opinion some kind of give and take is necessary
to end legislative gridlock. So, if illegals are proven working individuals
that pay taxes, I don’t have a problem with amnesty. HOWEVER, if illegal aliens
are living on taxpayer social programs, those illegal aliens need to receive
the boot.
ALSO, if the Dems will not negotiate on effective border
control – e.g. A WALL – Then blame the Dems and give all illegal aliens the
boot. If illegal aliens cry racism, they should direct their anger toward recalcitrant
Dems.
Thus, I am not totally on board with Justin, but in some ways,
I am willing to be harsher with the blame falling squarely on the Dems.
JRH 1/14/18
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The Great Negotiator
By Justin O. Smith
Sent 1/13/2018 4:28 PM
The negotiations on Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals
(DACA), opened under a false sense of urgency by President Trump, the
"stable genius" and "great negotiator", and sixteen
senators and seven House members, on Tuesday January 9, 2018 in an ineffectual
move to protect 800,000 DACA recipients from potential deportation, once DACA
ends on March 5th. These negotiations represent the lowest moment of the Trump
presidency, nothing more and nothing less than another amnesty for illegal
aliens and the Democrats' first step towards a full amnesty for nearly forty million illegal aliens (government stats 11 to 12 million), a betrayal
of America.
If the proposed Dream Act of 2017, the replacement bill of
choice, introduced by Senators Dick Durbin (D-ILL) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) is
any indication of the legislative "solution", America will be forced
to give 3.3 million illegal aliens a conditional lawful permanent resident
status. Roughly 1.8 million would certainly become naturalized citizens over
the next decade, if not sooner, with voting rights.
What happened to President Trump's 2016 campaign promise to
deport all illegal aliens?
The switch came after his advisors told him that this
DACA amnesty is popular with both Democrats and liberal Republicans. He
probably also noted left-leaning polls, like in Politico, that show 54 percent
of Americans want to give the "Dreamers" a path to citizenship.
I stated in October 2015, that "Trump's values shift
like the changing of one's underwear from day to day, depending on his personal
agenda and who had his ear at the moment". Ann Coulter, a conservative
journalist, seemed to concur, as she recently stated, "The president cares
only about his press, has no grasp of details of policy, and simply agrees with
the last person to speak."
Under no illusions, one might wish to see our leaders vote
to deport all illegal aliens, but the reality of the matter suggests some form
of amnesty will be passed eventually, unless there is a loud and massive
opposition immediately voiced. While House Republicans are forcefully pushing
President Trump's demands on the wall and heightened security, along with the
addition of thousands of federal immigration enforcement officers and judges
and E-Verify, through the Goodlatte-McCaul bill, the
Senate is prepared to give amnesty in exchange for nothing.
The Goodlatte-McCaul bill also ends chain migration and the
diversity visa lottery, which allowed the last two Islamic terrorists into the
country and the attacks on New York City. It allows the Justice Department to
withhold grants from sanctuary cities too.
It should also be noted, that after the Department of
Homeland Security detained a DACA recipient with gang ties, early in 2017, it
acknowledged revoking the DACA status of over 1500 recipients, due to criminal
conviction or gang affiliation. How many other criminals have evaded the
department's scrutiny?
To his credit, President Trump stated: "It has to be a
bill where we're able to secure our border. Drugs are pouring into our country
at a record pace. A lot of people coming in that we can't have."
Congress could accomplish the same things, without granting
a blanket amnesty, if they really wanted to do so, couldn't they? But the
liberals of both parties aren't working for America, are they?
Curiously, the Great Negotiator's negotiating skills are
less than impressive, given Republicans hold the House, the Senate and the
presidency. It is the Democrats, not the president, who are driving a hard
bargain.
The Dreamers have no right to be here in the first place,
since they or their parents broke U.S. law, and they deserve that right even
less, when they display 1794 maps of Mexico and wave the Mexican flag in our
streets. They have no say over anything America chooses to grant them; and yet,
these Dreamers beseech our Congress for America's solicitude and benevolent
care, while standing on the steps of our state houses and at the Capital in
D.C. and demand that any DACA replacement legislation be a "clean"
bill.
During the meeting, when Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA)
asked President Trump if he would "be agreeable" to a
"clean" bill, it was obvious that he didn't understand that meant
leaving out his demands, like more border security and the wall, because he
replied: "Yeah ... I would like to do that. Go ahead. I think a lot of
people would like to see that, but I think we have to do DACA first."
Representative Kevin McCarthy, a liberal Republican,
interceded, fortunately. He clarified for the President that he was, in fact, acquiescing to an amnesty bill absent any
border security provisions.
Later, flanked by Senator Dick Durbin (D-ILL) and
Representative Steny Hoyer (D-MD), President Trump said: "We'll do DACA and
we can certainly start comprehensive immigration reform the following
afternoon. Okay? We'll take an hour off and then we'll start." Whether the
president understood it or not, "comprehensive immigration reform"
stands for amnesty.
To be clear, Congress has no moral or legal obligation or
responsibility to grant amnesty to anyone who violated our immigration laws or
knowingly put their children in an awful legal predicament. Let the March 5th
deadline pass, let deportations proceed, and let the Dreamers sort it out, case
by case, in immigration court, like they should have done over all these years.
Complicating negotiations further is a decision by a liberal
activist judge in San Francisco on Tuesday evening, January 9th, that temporarily banned the Trump administration
from ending DACA. Until Congress takes immigration policy matters
out of the Courts' jurisdiction, invoking that right under Article III of the
Constitution, our borders will never be fully secured and illegals will continue
to arrive at our borders en masse.
This DACA bill and any general amnesty for the total
millions of other illegal aliens helps and benefits the illegal alien
population and the Democratic Party only. Within a year of being granted
residency or a path to citizenship, activist judges will grant full
citizenship, and the bulk of these illegals will expand the Democratic voter
base, setting aside all of Trump's "wins" and border security gains;
and Democratic Socialists will get to take permanent control of U.S. elections,
laws and governments, for decades to come.
A recently leaked memo from the Center For American Progress
reads, in part: "The fight to protect Dreamers is not only a moral
imperative, it is also a critical component to the Democratic Party's
electoral success ... ".
An attempt to destroy our borders forever more is still
underway as "elite" liberals from both parties, backed by U.S. and
global billionaires, seek to force American citizens towards a regional and
then global governance. They present America a false solution, in these DACA proposals,
on the pretext it serves America's interests and does not harm our society at
large, for their own self-interest, and these members of Congress, who are
supposed to represent Americans, not illegal aliens, are eroding and
undermining the sanctity of the entire legal system and, by extension, our
Republic.
By Justin O. Smith
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Edited by John R. Houk
Source links are by the Editor.
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