March 3, 2016
Romney to give 'major speech' trashing Trump
By Rick Moran
Mitt Romney will give what his camp is calling a "major speech" today, commenting on the GOP nomination fight. Specifically, Ronney will bash frontrunner Donald Trump for being a "phony" and a "fraud."
CNN:
Former GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romneythinks "Donald Trump is a phony, a fraud" and that he's "playing the American public for suckers," according to prepared remarks provided by Romney to CNN.
Romney, the party's nominee in 2012, will urge Americans "to make the right choices" and not support the GOP front runner during a speech he'll give today at 11:30 a.m. ET at the University of Utah's Hinckley Institute of Politics Forum.
With Dr. Ben Carson bowing out of tonight's Republican presidential debate, Romney will promote the remaining candidates. According to the former Massachusetts governor, "the only serious policy proposals that deal with the broad range of national challenges we confront have come from Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and John Kasich."
Romney is expected to remark on some what-ifs about Trump becoming president. "His domestic policies would lead to recession. His foreign policies would make America and the world less safe. He has neither the temperament nor the judgment to be president," Romney is expected to say.
Romney will also touch on a "twisted example of evil trumping good: "Trump's claims that he admires Russian President Vladimir Putin while calling "George W. Bush a liar."
It is clear that Romney thinks a Trump nomination istroublesome for both the Republican Party and the country.
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EXCLUSIVE – Insider at Mitt Romney Speech: ‘This Is Just Act One’
by Joel B. Pollak3 Mar 2016917
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah — The host of Mitt Romney’s speech attacking Republican frontrunner Donald Trump on Thursday at the University of Utah told Breitbart News: “This is just Act One” for Mitt Romney.
Jason Perry, director of the Hinckley Institute of Politics at the University of Utah, told Breitbart News that he expected Romney’s speech would be the first in a series of steps in an attempt to derail Trump’s progress to the GOP nomination.
He predicted that Romney would take other actions leading up to the key winner-take-all primaries on March 15, such as Florida.
“When Mitt Romney does something, he never just does one thing,” said Perry, citing Romney’s reputation for thoroughness and preparation.
He added that while Romney had given him “no indication” that he intends to become a candidate for the presidency himself, “A lot of people in Salt Lake City and Utah are urging [Romney] to get into the race.”
Asked by Breitbart News whether failing to endorse a single alternative to Trump made it easier for Trump to divide the field and win, Perry merely agreed with the observation.
In his speech, Romney explicitly said that he was not announcing his candidacy, but encouraged voters to back whichever alternative to Trump was most popular in their particular state.
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Romney excoriates Trump, says he's led nation to 'abyss'
By Jonathan Easley - 03/03/16
Mitt Romney on Thursday sought to embarrass and humiliate Donald Trump in a blistering speech meant to buttress the growing movement of conservatives desperate to stop the Republican presidential front-runner at any cost.
Speaking at the University of Utah in a much-anticipated address on the state of the 2016 presidential race, Romney tore into Trump on every front.
The 2012 GOP nominee framed Trump as a vain loser – two insults directed at the heart of Trump’s appeal – who would get crushed by Hillary Clinton in the general election if he wins the party’s nomination.
Romney went after one of Trump’s biggest selling points, diminishing his success as businessman by saying the billionaire real estate mogul had been born into privilege and squandered his inheritance through a series of frivolous investments.
“He inherited his business, he didn't create it,” said Romney, himself a wealthy entrepreneur. “And what ever happened to Trump Airlines? How about Trump University? And then there's Trump Magazine and Trump Vodka and Trump Steaks, and Trump Mortgage? A business genius he is not.”
The former Massachusetts governor repeatedly called into question Trump’s temperament, condemning the GOP front-runner for “the greed, the showing off, the misogyny, the absurd third grade theatrics,” and accusing him of creating “scapegoats” out of minority groups.
“The audio and video of the infamous Tapper-Trump exchange on the Ku Klux Klan will play a hundred thousand times on cable and who knows how many million times on social media,” Romney warned.
Romney went after Trump’s economic policies, saying they would cause the nation to “sink into a prolonged recession,” and said his foreign policy would “make America and the world less safe.”
“He calls for the use of torture and for killing the innocent children and family members of terrorists,” Romney said. “He cheers assaults on protesters. He applauds the prospect of twisting the Constitution to limit first amendment freedom of the press.”
And he joined Marco Rubio in describing Trump as a con-man who is fleecing voters by taking advantage of their anger at Washington.
“Donald Trump is a phony, a fraud,” Romney declared. “His promises are as worthless as a degree from Trump University. He's playing the American public for suckers. He gets a free ride to the White House and all we get is a lousy hat.”
Romney sought to paint a bleak picture of the nation’s future with Trump in the White House.
“Mr. Trump is directing our anger for less than noble purposes,” Romney said. “This is the very brand of anger that has led other nations into the abyss.”
Trump knew the attack was coming, and set out on a media blitz before the speech to preempt the attacks.
“Mitt Romney was a failed candidate; should have beaten Barack Obama easily," Trump said on ABC’s Good Morning America.
Tweeting to his 6.6 million followers, Trump ticked through a point-by-point rebuttal, arguing that “Hillary wants no part” of him in a general election, and saying he’s uniting the party and bringing scores of new Republicans into the fold.
At a campaign rally in Portland, Maine, Trump kicked back hard at Romney, calling him a “disaster” as a candidate and a “choke artist.”
Trump said Romney “demeaned 47 percent of the country” with his infamous remarks on poverty.
He said Romney thought about running for president again in 2016, but “chickened out because of me,” and claimed the 2012 nominee “begged” him for an endorsement.
“I could’ve just said, Mitt, drop to your knees, he would’ve dropped to his knees,” Trump said.
Romney has a complicated history with Trump. He sought out and ultimately won Trump’s endorsement in 2012.
At the time, Romney said of Trump's endorsement, "There are some things you just can't imagine happening in your life — this is one of them."
He praised Trump's "extraordinary ability to understand how our economy works to create jobs for the American people." Pointing to Trump, Romney said that while he had spent his life in the private sector, he said he was "not quite as successful as this guy."
He concluded that he appreciated the endorsement of Trump and "people across this country who care about the future of America."
Romney defended his past statements later Thursday, tweeting: "If Trump had said 4 years ago the things he says today about the KKK, Muslims, Mexicans, disabled, I would NOT have accepted his endorsement."
Now, Romney’s vice presidential candidate, Paul Ryan, is Speaker of the House and chairman of the Republican convention.
Ryan this week condemned Trump’s initial refusal to disavow white supremacist David Duke, but he has reached out to Trump’s campaign in an attempt to forge a working relationship with him.
On Thursday, Ryan dodged a series of questions about Romney's attack, saying only that "everything is fair game" until a nominee is chosen.
"I know Mitt feels strongly about this election and he's going to speak his mind," Ryan said on "Fox and Friends," adding that Romney is a party leader who's "worried about the future of the party."
Romney and Ryan attended a fundraiser together in Utah in late February, and ABC News is reporting that the two met privately at Romney’s home over the weekend.
While Romney’s insults were directed at Trump, his speech was meant to light a fire under the growing anti-Trump movement within the party.
Many mainstream Republicans are going public in their efforts to block Trump from the nomination by any means possible and are vowing not to support him if he makes it to the general election.
Dozens of high-profile conservatives, from Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) to conservative media personality Erick Erickson, are using their platforms to make the case against Trump.
And top GOP donors are scrambling to fund super-PACs that produce anti-Trump advertisements nationally and in critical primary states.
Romney’s speech could give direction to a faction of the party that appears panicked and flailing over what to do about Trump.
He has been venerated in conservative circles, as many Republicans believe the 2012 nominee, for all his faults as a candidate, has been proven right on a host of issues he ran on in 2012.
Romney has a has sought to use his influence in the 2016 cycle by refereeing from the sidelines, weighing in to influence the direction of discourse and connecting his network of fundraisers with the candidates they might support.
Ohio Gov. John Kasich, Trump’s rival for the GOP nomination who has largely steered clear of conflict with the front-runner, tweeted: “Well said.”
And John McCain, the 2008 Republican presidential nominee who has previously stated he would support Trump if he wins the nomination, also voiced his support for Romney’s remarks.
“I share the concerns about Donald Trump that my friend and former Republican nominee, Mitt Romney, described in his speech today,” McCain said in a statement.
In July, Trump came under fire for denigrating McCain’s military service.
The Arizona Republican and entrenched establishment figure is up for reelection in 2016 and his rival, Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick, has sought to tie him to Trump.
“Voters should ask McCain why he is still planning to support Trump if he truly believes Trump would be a bad president,” she said in a statement on Thursday.
Many Republicans will view Romney’s remarks as a declaration of war by the establishment against grassroots conservatives.
Some believe Romney is merely adding fuel to the Trump movement, which is driven by a fierce anti-establishment streak.
“Mitt Romney with an incredible endorsement for Donald Trump,” Trump adviser Dan Scavino tweeted sarcastically on Thursday.
Some establishment Republicans, led by New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Sen. Jeff Sessions, are beginning to line up behind Trump, seeking to build on the wave of enthusiasm surrounding his campaign.
They argue that Trump has galvanized grassroots conservatives who are frustrated with Washington and turned out millions to the polls – many of whom are participating for the first time, or formerly identified as Democrats or independents.
"I brought millions of millions people into the Republican Party over the last very short period of time,” Trump said Thursday. “It's the biggest story in politics, how many people are flocking into the Republican Party.”
“They're leaving the Democrats. They're leaving the independents. And they're with me 100 percent. There's great enthusiasm in the Republican Party except in the establishment.”
- Updated at 2:25 p.m.
LA RAZA HILLARY CLINTON'S PROMISE TO THE MEX OCCUPIERS: OBAMA'S AMNESTY TO LEGALIZE MEXICO'S LOOTING!!!
AMNESTY: IT'S ALL ABOUT KEEPING WAGES DEPRESSED AND THERE'S NO DEM POLITICIAN OR FREAKING BILLIONAIRE THAT DOESN'T WANT OBAMA'S AMNESTY HOAX TO LEGALIZE MEXICO'S LOOTING!!!
Think Trump Will be Tough on Immigration? Consider His Company's Use of Guestworkers
By David Seminara
CIS Immigration Blog, February 26, 2016
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I combed through the government databases detailing H-2B petitions and here are some observations regarding the Trump Organization's use of H-2B guest workers:
* In petitioning for workers, employers are supposed to prove that their hiring need is "seasonal" and "temporary", yet Trump's Mar-a-Lago Club has sought to import guest workers year after year, including right now. (Their most recent petition was filed in July 2015 and the workers are on contract at the resort until May 31, 2016.)
* Trump maintained at the debate on Thursday night that the jobs he had filled with guest workers were hard to fill because they were only for 90 or 120 days. But in fact, the duration of the petitions was never just three months. The work period for Mar-a-Lago's guest workers, according to the petitions, is nearly always October 1 to May 31, which is 8 months. On other occasions, his company petitioned for even longer periods. For example, in 2009, the Trump National Golf Club petitioned for guest workers for the period January 26 through November 20.
* I note that even during the height of the recession, this and other Trump properties were petitioning for workers.
* In 2009, again, during the height of the recession, the Trump Organization used an H-2B broker called Más Labor to import workers. Más Labor extols the benefits of Mexican workers on their website, which allows employers to add guest workers to their online shopping carts. "You'll never wonder if your workers are going to show up on Monday morning and make it through a full work week," it reads. "MAS H2 workers are dedicated to their families, their work and their employers. They'll be there, ready to work hard for you. ... The only thing an H2 worker can do legally in the U.S. is work for their specified employer. ... For Mexican workers, seven to nine dollars an hour is about ten times what could be earned in most jobs at home."
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http://www.cis.org/seminara/think-trump-will-be-tough-immigration-consider-his-companys-use-guestworkers
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Hillary Clinton's mishandling of classified information by using her private, unsecured server to store sensitive documents makes it look more and more as though a criminal case is being developed against her by the FBI. One by one, her campai...
Mrs. William Jefferson Clinton may be the most pathetic presidential nominee of any major political party in our nation's history.
March 1, 2016
Just How Bad a Candidate Will Hillary Be?
I asked last March, "Just How Bad a Candidate Would Hillary Be?" As Hillary locks up the Democrat nomination, the question is "Just How Bad a Candidate Will Hillary Be?" Mrs. William Jefferson Clinton may be the most p...
By Bruce Walker
I asked last March, "Just How Bad a Candidate Would Hillary Be?" As Hillary locks up the Democrat
nomination, the question is "Just How Bad a Candidate Will Hillary Be?" Mrs. William Jefferson Clinton may be the most pathetic presidential nominee of any major political party in our nation's history.
First dispel the myth of her husband as a consummate politician. Bill was a flop as governor of Arkansas and as president of the United States. Bill managed to be the only Democrat in Arkansas state history to lose re-election as governor and won two presidential elections with a minority of the popular vote. He entered the White House with huge Democrat majorities at every level of government and left with Democrats in the minority at every level of government.
Bill Clinton was impeached, disbarred, and found in contempt of court while president, which was a worse record of determined malfeasance than any president in history. As an ex-president, Clinton seems frail, dull, and testy – as evidenced most recently by his snapping angrily at a veteran in South Carolina asking about Hillary ending corruption in the Veterans Administration.
Since my article last March, the women who have been harassed, threatened, and raped by Clinton have served notice that they will not be quiet while his wife, Hillary, ignores and dismisses them. This is a problem Hillary has never addressed but cannot ignore, as Republican candidates have made clear, in a presidential election.
The hideous behavior of Hillary towards these women brutalized by her husband is one problem. A related problem is the limp appeal of "women's issues" in electoral campaigns. Consider the utter failure in the 2014 election cycle of every candidate who based a campaign on "women's issues." Further, the failure of Hillary to attract young
women in primaries against an ancient Vermont Socialist shows how little she appeals to female voters.
If there is an issue that motivates Americans across the spectrum, it is trust, because we have been lied to so often and so cavalierly by Washington politicians. No sane person trusts Hillary. She not only lies even when the truth would serve as well, but she lies about telling the truth, as in her recent CBS interview. She lies almost as much as her husband.
Compounding this pathological dishonesty are the natural consequences of aging, obesity, and health problems that strongly suggest a slowing down of her mental processes. The ravages of immoral life and old age clearly have
reduced her husband into a very dull mind, and it is likely that many of the same abuses of youth harrowing her husband are affecting her, too.
There is another aspect to her lying. Hillary has a very ordinary brain, artificially inflated by the left because leftists always consider those who agree with them "smart." In college she followed the familiar path of lackey to leftism. Hillary failed the District of Columbia Bar Examination; nearly everyone who takes it passes. Her legal career was
constructed around her husband's political success.
Hillary has for decades been surrounded by flacks and toadies whose work is making Hillary seem and feel intelligent. Some of the emails released from her server note that these minions, among themselves, note that she
is often confused. The numerous unforced errors in her campaign also suggest a rather mean old lady used to bullying rather than reasoning. This, too, becomes over time a mental limp, a cognitive sloth, an atrophied intellect.
The stench of criminal conspiracy follows Hillary, and that is because Hillary is so utterly conspiratorial in nature, but these crimes are also so frequent that if the FBI and Justice Department does nothing, then the Justice Department itself may face future investigation – indeed, some of us may ask why we even need a department to protect criminals like Hillary.
Finally, Hillary cannot embrace that "change" Americans want when she has been a Washington insider so long. How can Hillary campaign for those goals in a general election when the only real selling point she has is
"experience"? There is nothing Hillary says that is not hopelessly tired and hackneyed rhetoric, and nothing that inspires hope.
Forget the fact that she is finally dispatching the non-Democrat running against her for the Democrat nomination, and ignore the general polls today, which mean nothing. Hillary will be swamped this November.
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Romney unloads on Trump: Con man, fake, phony, fraud:
Mitt Romney warned Thursday that picking Donald Trump as the Republican nominee for the presidency would doom Republicans and greatly reduce the chances of American prosperity in the future. Let me put in very plainly, he said in a much-touted and stinging public speech at the University of Utah. If we Republicans choose Donald Trump as our nominee, the prospects for a safe and prosperous future are greatly diminished. There is plenty of evidence that Mr. Trump is a con man, a fake, he said. Mr. Trump has changed his positions not just over the years, but over the course of the campaign. Romney, speaking for the GOP establishment, tore apart Trump's character, and said voters should watch to see how Trump reacts to his speech as proof. Will he talk about our policy differences, or will he attack me with every imaginable low-road insult? Romney asked as the audience laughed. This may tell you what you need to know about his temperament, his stability, and his suitability to be president.
AMNESTY: IT'S ALL ABOUT KEEPING WAGES DEPRESSED AND THERE'S NO DEM POLITICIAN OR FREAKING BILLIONAIRE THAT DOESN'T WANT OBAMA'S AMNESTY HOAX TO LEGALIZE MEXICO'S LOOTING!!!
Think Trump Will be Tough on Immigration? Consider His Company's Use of Guestworkers
By David Seminara
CIS Immigration Blog, February 26, 2016
. . .
I combed through the government databases detailing H-2B petitions and here are some observations regarding the Trump Organization's use of H-2B guest workers:
* In petitioning for workers, employers are supposed to prove that their hiring need is "seasonal" and "temporary", yet Trump's Mar-a-Lago Club has sought to import guest workers year after year, including right now. (Their most recent petition was filed in July 2015 and the workers are on contract at the resort until May 31, 2016.)
* Trump maintained at the debate on Thursday night that the jobs he had filled with guest workers were hard to fill because they were only for 90 or 120 days. But in fact, the duration of the petitions was never just three months. The work period for Mar-a-Lago's guest workers, according to the petitions, is nearly always October 1 to May 31, which is 8 months. On other occasions, his company petitioned for even longer periods. For example, in 2009, the Trump National Golf Club petitioned for guest workers for the period January 26 through November 20.
* I note that even during the height of the recession, this and other Trump properties were petitioning for workers.
* In 2009, again, during the height of the recession, the Trump Organization used an H-2B broker called Más Labor to import workers. Más Labor extols the benefits of Mexican workers on their website, which allows employers to add guest workers to their online shopping carts. "You'll never wonder if your workers are going to show up on Monday morning and make it through a full work week," it reads. "MAS H2 workers are dedicated to their families, their work and their employers. They'll be there, ready to work hard for you. ... The only thing an H2 worker can do legally in the U.S. is work for their specified employer. ... For Mexican workers, seven to nine dollars an hour is about ten times what could be earned in most jobs at home."
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http://www.cis.org/seminara/think-trump-will-be-tough-immigration-consider-his-companys-use-guestworkers
Aliens and Money: Let's Look at the Big Picture
By David North
CIS Immigration Blog, February 26, 2016
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The other stack of money, some $50 billion-plus, is the sum of all the remittances currently flowing out of our country every year. Much of this is untaxed earnings. With some rather minor public policy adjustments, a significant fraction of those funds, say $5-10 billion, could be caused to stay in America.
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Virtually all the attention paid to these two topics is focused on the little EB-5 program — including two congressional hearings in the last few weeks.
Meanwhile, we can be grateful to Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) for calling our attention to the huge outflow of remittances. Most of these person-to-person transfers of money are from migrants, legal or illegal, to relatives in the homeland. There are also transfers of criminal moneys mixed in with these remittance flows. The latter angle is an important public policy subject, but one I leave to others.
I wrote recently about the isthmus in southern Mexico through which virtually all the Central American illegal migrants flow and which offers enforcement opportunities. There is a similarly narrow channel for the outward flow of remittances; it is through controllable bank and wire transfers. The relatively tiny sums that can be carried, or mailed, in cash or jewels or gold can be safely be ignored in a conversation about remittances.
There are two obvious ways to reduce the outflow of tens of billions of dollars from our economy, but the administration has no interest in reducing remittances by shrinking the size of the illegal alien population. The other way to reduce remittances is to use the wire and banking systems to discourage them and to tax them. But before we discuss the mechanics of such a program, let's return to Sen. Vitter's contribution.
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http://www.cis.org/north/aliens-and-money-lets-look-big-picture
How About a Wall in Mexico That We Pay For?
By David North
CIS Immigration Blog, February 24, 2016
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The suggestion is to construct a fence along an existing railroad, now nearly abandoned, built by dreamers a little more than 100 years ago who thought that they could entice ocean-to-ocean traffic away from the about-to-be built Panama Canal and across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec instead. The dream became a nightmare when it became apparent that using the canal was cheaper and faster than unloading freight at the Gulf of Mexico end of the little railway, shipping it by rail, and then re-loading it on ships at the Pacific end of the line. One website calls it the "UnPanama".
The railway bears the Spanish initials FIT (Ferrocarril del Istmo de Tehuantepec). It runs from sea to sea in a seamless line, though not in a straight line, so it's about 190 miles long. There is a gap in the mountains at this point, which made the rail line easier to build and to maintain. Since the Isthmus is running east and west at this point, the railroad runs roughly north (the Gulf of Mexico) to south (the Pacific).
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The relative ease of the construction of a fence along the FIT railway, as opposed to along the U.S. southern border, is hard to overemphasize. Here is a relatively level land route in which the railway already owns all the real estate needed for the fence. The railway itself gives instant access to the area where the fence is to be built. Construction costs in Mexico are much lower in Mexico than in the States. There would be not be ranches along the border, as there are on some segments of our southern border, where part of the land would be one side of the fence, and part on the other. The railway follows a much straighter line than the Rio Grande, and so forth.
Above all, the total length would be just one-tenth the length of our border with Mexico. This is not to suggest that we abandon efforts to strengthen our own southern border, but the FIT fence would be an extremely valuable tool in the American enforcement arsenal.
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http://www.cis.org/north/how-about-wall-mexico-we-pay-for
BLOG: CAN'T AFFORD TO EDUCATE YOUR KIDS? JUST CLAIM THEY'RE ILLEGALS!!!
Court: DACA Aliens Can't Sue Georgia for In-State Tuition
By David North
CIS Immigration Blog, February 24, 2016
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According to the Atlanta Journal Constitution, several DACA beneficiaries sued the board of regents of Georgia's state university system over this issue. They were turned down by the board, by the trial court, by the appeals court, and ultimately by the state's supreme court.
The supreme court said, unanimously, that the DACA beneficiaries could not sue the sovereign state of Georgia without its own consent, deciding the case on that issue, rather than on the legal status of the aliens.
According to the NCSL this is the current status of in-state tuition for illegals:
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http://www.cis.org/north/georgia-court-rules-out-state-tuition-daca-aliens
CBP Pressies Would Rather Talk about Hoverboards Than Illegal Aliens
By David North
CIS Immigration Blog, February 22, 2016
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The hoverboard incident was one of many noted in CBP releases, and the news of drug seizures seems to account for a large majority of these press items. If you read the whole set of them you will find that there are many different ways to try to smuggle drugs into the country, such as hiding them in the panels of trucks, putting them in tightly sealed bags within gas tanks or inside spare tires, and tucking them into clothing. If is often the drug-sniffing dogs that get the credit for the seizure.
Sometimes when an illegal alien who has also committed a violent crime is located CBP writes about it, but rarely the significant work it does in apprehending and/or turning back illegal aliens at the border.
From my experience I know that when a government agency releases a news item, it is something that the political leadership wants discussed. So it is clear that the DHS leadership is not interested in the detection of illegal immigration — otherwise its pressies would tell us about it.
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http://www.cis.org/north/cbp-pressies-would-rather-talk-about-hoverboards-illegal-aliens
Ambassador: U.S. Paying to Support Cuban Illegals in Costa Rica
By Kausha Luna
CIS Immigration Blog, February 24, 2016
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How much is the monetary contribution being made by the U.S. government for the attention of Cubans who have not yet left Costa Rica?
I would say it is significant.
So, while the Cuban illegal aliens themselves had to pay for their transportation to the Rio Grande, the U.S. government helped pay for their accommodations while in Costa Rica and then looked on as foreign nations worked together to complete their smuggling journey north. Then, once in the U.S., they are given immediate status under the obsolete Cuban Adjustment Act, including full access to welfare benefits.
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http://www.cis.org/luna/ambassador-us-paying-support-cuban-illegals-costa-rica
Mexican Tourists Working on California Marijuana Farms
By Kausha Luna
CIS Immigration Blog, February 22, 2016
Mexican professionals and students are coming to the United States on tourist visas to work on marijuana farms and make quick money.
An article printed in the Excelsior, a Mexican newspaper, describes a "new migratory trend towards the United States." This new trend is an unprecedented flow of English-speaking Mexicans, aged 24 to 34, who travel to the United States on a tourist visa to take advantage of the marijuana harvest season in the "Emerald Triangle". The Emerald Triangle is in Northern California, made up of Medocino, Humboldt, and Trinity counties, and is the largest cannabis-producing region in the United States and the world.
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The quick money comes with risks, however. Firstly, how much money one earns depends on the demand for labor; if one isn't working then he or she is only spending money. Secondly, migrants searching for jobs on these marijuana farms are compromising their security as they trek into the mountains with people they just met, due to a job offer that may not be real. Thirdly, when it is time to get paid, it is common to be held at gunpoint and thrown off the property, or be threatened with calling the police. Finally, organized crime is starting to get a grip on this area, including Mexican cartels.
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http://www.cis.org/luna/mexicans-tourists-working-california-marijuana-farms
San Francisco Puts Sanctuary Before Funding
By Debra J. Saunders
Townhall.com, February 28, 2016
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The Republican Congress is not of like mind. The new chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee that oversees the Department of Justice, Rep. John Culberson, R-Texas, is poised to use Congress' power of the purse to withhold federal law enforcement funds from sanctuary cities. He told me, "There will be no more Kate Steinle murders, if I can help it."
U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch is on board. Wednesday she told the subcommittee that the Bureau of Prisons will transfer released federal inmates who are undocumented and due for deportation directly to ICE -- not to sanctuary cities, unless the sanctuary agrees only to release the inmate to ICE. Culberson had nothing but praise for Lynch "for doing the right thing."
Center for Immigration Studies Policy Director Jessica Vaughan is less impressed. She sees "a very narrow response to what went wrong in the Steinle case" that doesn't address the real problem: state and local policies of obstruction. "Most criminal aliens are in state and local custody instead of federal prison."
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San Francisco stands to lose about $170,000 from the alien assistance program alone. As a believer in the rights of local governments, Culberson told me, he supports San Francisco's right to abstain from ICE enforcement. But if San Francisco chooses to release "illegal aliens" and turn them loose on the streets, "don't even ask for SCAAP funding."
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That's not to say San Francisco pols don't believe in rules. When undocumented immigrant Pedro Figueroa-Zarceno, 31, announced that San Francisco police had referred him to ICE after he reported his car stolen, the force launched an investigation -- on the police, not Figueroa-Zarceno, who was facing a 2005 deportation order and was convicted of drunken driving in 2012. "It's absurd that the city is investigating the cop who did the right thing," quoth Vaughan, "instead of the illegal alien, who's here in defiance of the law."
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http://townhall.com/columnists/debrajsaunders/2016/02/28/san-francisco-puts-sanctuary-before-funding-n2125386
Hillary vs. The Donald
By Patrick Buchanan
Townhall.com, February 26, 2016
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On immigration, where are the polls that show Middle Americans enthusiastic about increasing the numbers coming? Where is the majority demanding amnesty or open borders?
The elites of Europe are as out of touch as America's.
Angela Merkel, Time's Person of the Year in 2015, is at risk of being dumped in 2016 if she does not halt the next wave of Middle Eastern refugees who will be arriving on Europe's shores when the seas calm in the spring in the Aegean and the Mediterranean.
If we believe the immigration issue Trump has seized upon is explosive here, look to Europe. In the Balkans and Central Europe, even in Austria, the barriers are going up and the border guards appearing.
Mass migration from the Third World to the First World is not only radicalizing America. It could destroy the European Union. Anger over any more migrants entering the country is among the reasons British patriots now want out of the EU.
America is crossing into a new era. Trump seems to have caught the wave, while Clinton seems to belong to yesterday.
A note of caution: This establishment is not going quietly.
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http://townhall.com/columnists/patbuchanan/2016/02/26/hillary-vs-the-donald-n2124785/page/2
By Attacking Trump on ‘H’ Visas Will Be Difficult for Candidates Who Support ‘H’ Visas
By Fred Bauer
National Review Online, February 25, 2016
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Still, even if the hypocrisy charge might be a bit muddled, Trump’s rivals could still try to attack him on this issue. However, that task will be harder if these rivals themselves support guest-worker programs in their current state and, especially, if they support expanding them. Many proponents of guest-worker programs argue that such programs do not hurt the American worker and are good for economic growth as a whole. Thus, when attacking Trump for using guest workers, a supporter of guest-worker programs finds himself in an odd position: Mr. Trump, you’re such a hypocrite for hiring guest workers instead of Americans — but no big deal because you actually helped the American economy grow and ended up not displacing any American workers at all.
That argument falls even flatter if someone supports the expansion of guest-worker programs: Mr. Trump, you’re such a hypocrite for hiring guest workers instead of Americans. When I’m president, it will be a top priority to make it even easier for employers to do what you just did.
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http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/431921/donald-trumps-h-visa-problem-difficult-attack-candidates-who-support-h-visas
Donald Trump Thinks American Workers Aren’t Good Enough for the Trump Organization
By Ian Tuttle
National Review Online, February 25, 2016
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Apparently, the first leg of the project was too important to entrust to American workers. In a lawsuit filed in Manhattan Federal Court, members of House Wreckers Local 95 alleged that, to avoid paying union employees their pension and welfare benefits, Trump (and the contractor he used for the job, Kaszycki & Sons) brought in some 200 undocumented Polish workers to demolish the Bonwit Teller building that then occupied the site of the future Trump Tower.
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http://www.nationalreview.com/article/431933/donald-trump-foreign-workers-american-workers-arent-good-enough
Marco Rubio’s Immigration Dilemma
Can he persuade conservatives that his immigration bill is really a reform?
By John Fonte
National Review Online, February 24, 2016
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Chris Crane, the head of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) union, told Breitbart News that Schumer–Rubio was actually “weaker” than current law. There were over 1,000 waivers, which gave the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) the power to bypass enforcement. The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services Council, which represents 12,000 federal employees, denounced Schumer–Rubio, declaring: “It was deliberately designed to undermine the integrity of our lawful immigration system.”
Further, the ICE Officers Council stated: “The 1,200-page substitute bill before the Senate will provide instant legalization and a path to citizenship to gang members and other dangerous criminal aliens.” Moreover, the Congressional Budget Office declared that S-744 would not stop most illegal immigration. The CBO forecast that Schumer–Rubio would reduce illegal immigration by only one-third to one-half. And the bill would almost double legal (overwhelmingly low-skilled) immigration. This is a much larger increase than under Kennedy–McCain.
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http://www.nationalreview.com/article/431799/marco-rubio-immigration
Water Amnesty for Illegal Aliens in Flint, Michigan
Judicial Watch Corruption Chronicle, February 26, 2016
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This one involves the widely reported water situation in Flint, which is located about 66 miles northwest of Detroit. Last year researchers discovered that the city’s drinking water was contaminated with lead from decaying old pipes. The problem arose after a switch in 2014 in the city’s water source to save money. Soon complaints mounted that the water smelled and looked strange and academic researchers discovered that it was toxic. This all occurred after a 7-1 vote by the Flint City Council to stop buying Detroit water and join a new pipeline project, according to a local news report.
Now there’s a state of emergency and the feds have stepped in, supplying the area with free bottled water and special filters to install at home until the local water supply is clean. For weeks immigrant rights groups complained that residents had to show identification to receive their free goods from the government and illegal aliens were being left out. National Spanish-language media outlets blasted the Obama administration for discriminating against illegal aliens. One reported that undocumented immigrants weren’t getting help for fear of being deported, instead opting to drink contaminated water or pay out of pocket to buy some. Another major Spanish-language newspaper wrote that illegal immigrants and their children suffered lead poisoning and couldn’t get clean emergency water because they didn’t have identification cards. “When the National Guard went door to door distributing potable water, many were scared to open because they feared the uniformed persons were immigration agents who would deport them,” the paper wrote.
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL), which claims to combat bigotry and protect civil rights for all, joined the cause expressing “horror” and “indignation” that the government denied undocumented immigrants free water and filters because they couldn’t provide a photo ID or Social Security number. In a Spanish-language statement the group’s Michigan chapter referred to news reports that Flint-area fire department stations distributing water were requiring identification. But even in places that aren’t requiring ID, illegal immigrants are scared to come out and get their potable water out of fear that they will be deported, the ADL stresses in its announcement. “We are calling on the National Guard to order all fire departments and other centers distributing supplies that no one be rejected.”
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https://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2016/02/water-amnesty-for-illegal-aliens-in-flint-michigan/
Talking Head Twit of the Year Contest
By Ann Coulter
Human Events Online, February 24, 2016
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After Trump’s huge victory in New Hampshire and then in South Carolina, did it occur to TV bookers to call any of the people who got it right?
Alex Marlow, editor in chief of Breitbart News, explained everything that was about to happen in this race back on the Sept. 14 edition of CNN’s Erin Burnett show.
While all the other “strategists” gibbered about Trump losing the Hispanic vote, Marlow said: “Trump is growing the big tent. ... Trump’s policies are appealing to blacks. There are even some polls out there, like a survey USA poll, saying Trump is actually doing fine with Latinos.”
In the Nevada primary on Tuesday, Trump not only won the Hispanic vote; he not only won 17 points more of the Hispanic vote than his next closest rival; but his Latino vote nearly matched that of the two Latino candidates combined.
In one of the few times you might have heard this point expressed on television airwaves, Marlow said that the No. 1 issue for Breitbart News’ 20 million readers, “has consistently been — since last year — immigration.They are looking for someone who is going to seal the border and prioritize border security as No. 1.”
Obviously, Marlow was right about everything. According to Nexis, that was the last time he appeared on TV.
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http://humanevents.com/2016/02/24/talking-head-twit-of-the-year-contest/
Mr. Trump: More Specifics About Mexico Paying for the Wall
By Silvio Canto, Jr.
American Thinker, February 24, 2016
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Mr. Trump wants to build a fence on the border. Frankly, I'm OK with that, although it's hard to see how beneficial a border fence would be in the open and desolate areas of Arizona and Mexico. I would rather see a military presence in the open areas, because it is cartels, who use these routes. Also, let's remember that many illegal immigrants are simply flying in and overstaying their tourist visas.
Mr. Trump also wants Mexico to pay for the fence. It is one of his most popular lines. Unfortunately, he has not explained how exactly Mexico will do that.
A Trump supporter told me recently that he plans to tax "remittances," currently about $25 billion. How do you determine whether Jose sending money to his mother is illegal or not? My point is that there are a lot of Mexicans here legally who send money to their families. Is Western Union going to be requiring documents before wiring money? Is 7-11 going to require documents when someone buys a $100 pre-paid Visa? My point is that this is very difficult to do.
Mr. Trump is talking about "Mexico ripping off the U.S.," another popular line. Where is that happening? According to the latest info available, U.S.-Mexico trade is rather substantial:
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http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/02/_mr_trump_more_specifics_about_mexico_paying_for_the_wall.html
Why is Everything Amnesty?
By Silvio Canto, Jr.
American Thinker, February 26, 2016
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Who is pardoning any group or letting people st