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.
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."
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.
Frank Gaffney has sent an email that has a hook – a petition,
and a goal – fund raising. Frank Gaffney is the Founder
and President of the Center for Security Policy (CSP) in Washington, D.C. Mr.
Gaffney is the host of Secure Freedom Radio,
a nationally-syndicated radio program. Secure
Freedom Radio is a part of the CSP strategy as a Counterjihad organization
dedicated to America’s National Security especially against the threat of
Radical Islam toward Americans. The CSP looks at the dissemination of Radical
Islam via the fifth column aspects of the Muslim
Brotherhood and their deceptive offshoots of Muslim-American
organizations that outwardly attempt to promote the image of Moderate Islam and
the mesmerization of the concept that Islam is peace on the non-Muslim American
people yet have a Caliphate agenda to Islamize America.
The petition itself serves an awesome purpose if you can get
past CSP fund raising. Although admittedly, CSP is an awesome organization to
invest. Largely because most of the CSP educational resources are FREE. One of
the points this email makes you aware of is that CSP is donor supported and
receives no funding from the government. As
if an Obama led U.S. government would ever support any actual Counterjihad
strategy to keep America safe from any Caliphate agenda.
(Washington, DC): If there were any lingering doubts that the
United States and the rest of the Free World are losing a decades-long war with
the Global Jihad Movement (GJM), events of the past week should have put them
to rest. Murderous attacks in Europe, warnings by MI5 of more – and worse – to
come, there and perhaps here and an intercepted plot to attack the U.S. Capitol
are the most obvious indicators.
Less evident, but no less
portentous, is the absence of the President of the United States from the
Western effort to push back – compounded by his record of accommodation to, and
collaboration with, those seeking to impose “blasphemy” and other restrictions
driven by their shariah ideology at the expense of Americans’ constitutional
freedoms.
Such developments have moved a
remarkable, ad hoc group of highly skilled national security professionals to
step forward and offer an alternative approach: a strategy for actually
countering and defeating totalitarians and their supremacist ideology that has
been proven effective in the one environment that matters: the real world.
This “Tiger Team” has been
sponsored by the Center for Security Policy, an organization whose mode of
operation from its founding 26 years ago has been modeled after the best of
America’s military – its elite unconventional warfare units. As the “Special
Forces in the War of Ideas,” the Center has pulled together, much as the real
special operators would do, sixteen of the best in the business, individuals
with unique and necessary skill sets for the mission at hand: Adapting the
strategy that defeated the last totalitarian ideology that sought our
destruction, Soviet communism.
At a National Press Club conference
at noon on Friday, 16 January 2015, ten members of this Tiger Team will
introduce and explain the component parts of … READ
ENTIRE PDF press release (NATIONAL
SECURITY TIGER TEAM PRESENTS THE ‘SECURE FREEDOM STRATEGY’ FOR VICTORY OVER THE
GLOBAL JIHAD MOVEMENT; CSP Press Release; 1/15/15)
On The Secure Freedom Strategy page at CSP one of the exponents of the strategy – Tommy Waller (a Marine Reserve Major – LinkedIn
profile) - has a roughly four-minute video introducing the
concept of Civilization Jihad:
Tommy Waller, Director of State Legislative Outreach at the Center for
Security Policy, discusses matters of information dominance and civilization
jihad at the launch of the Center’s new “Secure Freedom Strategy” to combat
jihad.
The Secure Freedom
email you are about to read is informative. At the very least it gives you a
great idea to go to one of the great Internet sites to educate yourself on what
many call Radical Islam – I just call it Islam.
The petition link allows you to read the petition that will be sent to your
Congressman according to your zip code. Then as you sign by clicking “submit,”
you will be redirected to the donation page of CSP. If it’s in your budget, throw a
little support toward the Center
for Security Policy. If it’s not in your budget, feel good about doing
the right thing for joining the CSP petition that will reach your Congressman.
And of course take advantage of educating yourself at CSP. ( For that matter
wouldn’t hold it against you to through a little financial love to your Blog
Editor via the SlantRight 2.0Paypal
button or perhaps this
Paypal link.)
The Petition is to
encourage your Congressman to do this:
This petition is part of a targeted signature campaign being launched in
response to elevated security concerns over the vulnerability of our country
due the lax security of our southern border.
The link
to the petition will include my name and email – CHANGE IT TO
YOUR INFORMATION.
This petition is part of a targeted signature campaign being launched in
response to elevated security concerns over the vulnerability of our country
due the lax security of our southern border.
I do not want to alarm you. We are aware of no actionable intelligence
of an immediate threat of violence in your vicinity or against the United
States.
But there are growing concerns regarding the threat posed by documented numbers
of drug and sex-traffickers, gang members and suspected jihadists who are
taking advantage of the border's porousness.
It is widely known, for example, that Iran and its proxy, the terrorist
organization Hezbollah, have had a presence in Latin America for years.
And most recently, ISIS, the notorious terrorist jihad group, has been
discovered operating a camp about 8 miles from the U.S. border near Juarez in
Mexico. And another ISIS cell in Puerto Palomas is close to the New Mexico
towns of Columbus and Deming and has easy access to the United States.
And perhaps the gravest warning was sounded by the Home Secretary of Great
Britain, a key ally in the war on terror, who stated that "ISIS could
become the world's first truly terrorist state," and that "we will
see the risk . . . that the terrorists will acquire chemical, biological or even
nuclear weapons to attack us."
Some "experts" and Members of Congress dismiss these concerns. But as
Pearl Harbor should have taught us, it is the nature of warfare to exploit
surprise and vulnerability. And it is widely acknowledged that our insecure
southern border offers enemies of this country abundant vulnerabilities and
opportunities for surprise attacks.
In the words of the Chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security,
Representative Michael McCaul:
"President Obama claims that our borders are more secure than ever
before . . . This is simply not true. As of last count, only 44 percent
of the border was under operational control.
"Just last year the Border Patrol apprehended almost half a million
individuals along our Southern border -- representing only the people we know
that are being stopped. We have no way of telling how many people we didn't
catch, or what they brought with them."
WHY IS CONGRESS
NEGLECTING TO TAKE THE COMMON-SENSE STEPS NEEDED TO PROTECT OUR BORDERS FROM
THE LIKELIHOOD OF TERRORIST INTRUSION?
We believe a good part of the answer lies with the policies of Barack Obama.
President Obama's political agenda of dramatically increasing immigration
appeals to many of his partisans. And the prospect of more and more
aliens-turned-voters causes even some of his political opponents to shy away
from taking key steps to secure our borders lest they alienate potentially
influential voting blocs.
Politics, in short, has again taken precedence over Congress' responsibility to
do what is right for our country -- which is why we have made the decision to
launch this citizens' campaign and ask for your support by signing this letter
to your Member of Congress.
Surprise attacks are, by definition, "unlikely." That is why they are
"surprise attacks." But there are often forewarnings.
For example, the surprise 9/11 attack was preceded by a failed attempt to bomb
the World Trade Center years earlier.
And the Wall Street Journal last year ran an account of an attack on a
California power station, reporting that the former chairman of the Federal
Energy Regulatory Commission "is calling it a terrorist act that, if it
were widely replicated across the country, could take down the U.S. electric
grid and black out much of the country."
And the intent of ISIS to launch attacks on shopping malls and kill as many
Americans as possible is being widely reported.
Even the threat of nuclear or chemical terror attack, while also dismissed
as "unlikely" by some, cannot be responsibly ruled out.
According to Marine Corps Gen. John Kelly, Commander of the U.S. Southern
Command, "Terrorist organizations could seek to leverage . . . smuggling
routes to move operatives with intent to cause grave harm to our citizens or
even quite easily bring weapons of mass destruction into the United States."
The hard truth is, a
mass-destruction assault on the U.S power grid, or financial or communications
hubs, a population concentration such as a sporting event or shopping mall, or
to our seat of government could be catastrophic to our nation.
And who would argue that such attacks are not being discussed, planned and
encouraged right now as part of the global Jihad strategy in terror in training
camps in places like Afghanistan, Yemen, Syria, Iran, Iraq, Sudan, Somalia and
countless other places around the world?
In light of this, we believe that leaving the "back door" of our
nation unlocked, open and unguarded in the face of these gravely serious
threats is utterly unacceptable.
THERE ARE SIMPLE, PRUDENT STEPS THAT CONGRESS CAN TAKE.
For example:
Under former Texas Governor Rick Perry, his state's Department of Public
Safety, Border Patrol agents and other federal officials utilized an array of
military-grade video cameras to monitor key crossing points along the
Texas-Mexico frontier.
The cameras' feed was posted on the Internet, drawing on many thousands
of volunteers to help monitor and alert the authorities to aliens sneaking
across the border. This army of "online deputies" helped achieve a
92% rate of interception of individuals crossing the Rio Grande and elsewhere
illegally. But, incredibly, this practical and proven system -- which could be
very cost-effectively deployed across the entire U.S.-Mexico frontier -- has
been discontinued.
In short, we have
the technology, know-how and resources to secure our borders. That is not the
issue.
WHAT IS NEEDED IS THE POLITICAL WILL TO ACT.
And that is why we are launching this campaign to educate and remind Congress
of their prime responsibility to protect our country by protecting our borders
-- and
why your signature is so important.
Limited resources mean we must begin by focusing on certain key Members of
Congress for this campaign. Our goal during this phase is to gather a minimum
of 1,000 signatures from every targeted Congressional District.
YOU ARE ONE OF THE SIGNATURES NEEDED TO HELP MEET THIS GOAL.
Secure Freedom receives no funding from the government. We are entirely independent
-- so we must rely on voluntary contributions like yours to sustain our
efforts.
Even just the mailing portion of a campaign such as this costs upwards of
$100,000 for printing, postage and processing. And, if we have the resources,
we hope to heighten the awareness of this critical issue through a campaign of
TV, radio and print ads, op-ed articles, position papers and studies to be
distributed to the press and Congress.
We face very real, very ominous threats from some of the most ruthless and
brutal adversaries our nation has ever encountered. They have said -- and
demonstrated -- that they will do anything to harm and destroy us.
Protecting our "back door" to keep these sworn enemies of freedom and
America from literally walking in and doing us harm is just common sense.
Please ask your Member of Congress to act responsibly and protect our borders.
Sincerely,
Frank J. Gaffney,
Jr.
President, Secure Freedom
P.S. Some try to discount these warnings as "alarmist." But U.S. Representative
Lamar Smith, chair of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee,
recently substantiated our concern over the border's insecurity, stating
flatly: "The border is not more secure than it's ever been." And with
reports that ISIS has now set up a camp in Mexico, just a few miles away from
the border, I feel it is grossly irresponsible for Congress to wait for another
devastating surprise attack on our nation before it takes concrete and
long-overdue action.
This year Congress will authorize well over half a trillion dollars in defense
spending in order to protect our nation from jihadist enemies and others now on
the march around the globe -- from Iraq and Iran to Afghanistan and Africa to
our own hemisphere.
Taking steps to protect us from harm right here at home just makes common
sense. And choosing NOT to do so -- for fear of "offending" the
political interests of pro-immigration voter-blocs -- is grossly negligent and
irresponsible. We are, after all at war. The global Jihad mission to destroy
the West --and in particular America -- is fully known. And our lack of defense
of our homeland has already cost thousands of American lives.
If you agree, please let your Member of Congress know how you feel ASAP.
Secure Freedom
1901 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Suite 201 Washington, DC 20006, (202) 835-9077
As a 501c3 tax-exempt organization, we are able to do our part to keep America
safe by educating citizens and members of Congress on vital matters of national
security. All gifts to Secure Freedom are therefore tax-deductible. Thank you
for helping to secure freedom in America!
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