Political observers in the year 2020 know that, for the Democratic Party and the broader political Left alike, intersectionality often reigns supreme. For those still wondering what exactly &#8220;intersectionality&#8221; is, Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro has produced a helpful explanatory video on the topic:
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&#8220;Intersectionality is a form of identity politics in which the value of your opinion depends on how many victim groups you belong to,&#8221; Shapiro <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ben-shapiro-what-intersectionality-jacob-airey">explained</a>. &#8220;At the bottom of the totem pole is the person everybody loves to hate: The straight, white male. And who’s at the top? Well, it’s very hard to say, because new groups claim victim status all the time. No one can keep track.&#8221;
Alas, it should come as no surprise that contemporary Democrats would rally around what is perhaps one of the most readily identifiable sub-identity groups boasting immense &#8220;intersectional&#8221; street credibility: The transgender illegal alien.
&#8220;House Democrats plan to call on a key immigration agency to release all transgender people who are currently being detained, arguing that the U.S. has failed to follow guidelines to protect individuals who face more perilous conditions in detention than other migrants,&#8221; The Hill <a href="https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/477954-lawmakers-to-call-on-ice-to-release-all-transgender-detainees">reported</a> yesterday.
The outlet then reported on the precise contents of the early copy of the letter it obtained. The letter will be sent to Acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf and Acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Matthew Albence. Per <a href="https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/477954-lawmakers-to-call-on-ice-to-release-all-transgender-detainees">The Hill</a>, the letter reads, in relevant part:
<blockquote>We write to demand the release of all transgender people currently detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Transgender migrants and asylum seekers are particularly vulnerable to sexual harassment, solitary confinement, physical assault, and medical neglect. These inhumane conditions and systematic abuses are evidenced in countless reports and accounts by formally detained people.</blockquote>
According to the outlet, the letter cites research from left-wing organizations such as the Human Rights Campaign, Amnesty International, and the Center for American Progress in order to argue that &#8220;due to their gender identity, transgender migrants are more likely to face &#8216;the pervasive use of solitary confinement&#8217; and that they are &#8217;97 times more likely to be sexually victimized&#8217; compared to &#8216;their cis-gender and straight counterparts in detention.'&#8221;
The effort is being led by Rep. Mike Quigley (D-IL), who TheBlaze <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/house-democrats-want-ice-to-release-all-transgender-detainees">notes</a> is of the belief that ICE is actually required to release all transgender detainees. In order to advance that claim, the letter cites a 2015 ICE memo and the Department of Homeland Security&#8217;s 2020 appropriations bill.
&#8220;Quigley&#8217;s office is working to get lawmakers&#8217; signatures on the letter and expects to send it to acting DHS Secretary Chad Wolf and ICE Director Matt Albence later this week,&#8221; the Washington Examiner <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/house-democrats-to-ask-ice-to-release-all-transgender-immigrants-in-custody">reports</a>.
The year 2019 was a busy year for ICE, especially over the first six months. Record numbers of illegal aliens seemed to flood over America&#8217;s porous southern border on a seemingly monthly basis, although the tide has stemmed over the <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/month-decline-unauthorized-border-crossings-nearing-million/story?id=66134521">past few months</a>. As the 2020 election heats up, President Donald Trump is continuing to emphasize border security and immigration enforcement as key political priorities.

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According to a letter sent today to U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that was just obtained by The Daily Wire, Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott has announced Texas&#8217;s refusal to accept any additional refugees for fiscal year (FY) 2020. The letter was prompted by <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-enhancing-state-local-involvement-refugee-resettlement/">Executive Order 13888</a>, on &#8220;Enhancing State and Local Involvement in Refugee Resettlement,&#8221; which was issued by President Donald Trump on September 26, 2019.
According to the <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-enhancing-state-local-involvement-refugee-resettlement/">text</a> of the September executive order, &#8220;[t]he Federal Government consults with State and local governments &#8230; to be respectful of those communities that may not be able to accommodate refugee resettlement.&#8221; Furthermore, &#8220;if either a State or locality has not provided consent to receive refugees under the Program, then refugees should not be resettled within that State or locality,&#8221; and &#8220;the Secretary shall notify the President of such decision.&#8221;
Today, Greg Abbott, governor of the nation&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hammer-at-texas-scorecard-texas-is-a-less-business-friendly-environment-than-you-might-think-its-time-to-fix-that">most iconic red state</a>, has made clear that Texas does not consent.
&#8220;Texas is one of the most welcoming states for refugees seeking to escape dangers abroad,&#8221; Abbott begins. &#8220;Since FY 2010, more refugees have been received in Texas than in any other state. In fact, over that decade, roughly 10% of all refugees resettled in the United States have been placed in Texas. Even today, the process of resettling continues for many of these refugees.&#8221;
&#8220;In addition to accepting refugees all these years, Texas has been left by Congress to deal with disproportionate migration issues resulting from a broken federal immigration system,&#8221; the governor continues. &#8220;In May 2019, for example, around 100,000 migrants were apprehended crossing this state&#8217;s southern border. In June 2019, individuals from 52 different countries were apprehended here. And in FY 2018, the apprehensions included citizens from disparate countries like China, Iran, Kenya, Russia, and Tonga. Texas continues to have to deal with the consequences of an immigration system that Congress has failed to fix.&#8221;
&#8220;At this time, the state and non-profit organizations have a responsibility to dedicate available resources to those who are already here, including refugees, migrants, and the homeless — indeed, all Texans,&#8221; the Republican writes in his denouement. &#8220;As a result, Texas cannot consent to initial refugee resettlement for FY2020. This decision does not deny any refugee access to the United States. Nor does it preclude a refugee from later coming to Texas after initially settling in another state.&#8221;
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&#8220;Texas has carried more than its share in assisting the refugee resettlement process and appreciates that other states are available to help with these efforts,&#8221; Abbott concludes.
Abbott&#8217;s bold stand will please immigration hawks, who have long sounded the alarm on America&#8217;s shoddy, loophole-ridden refugee system and our wholly inadequate vetting capabilities for prospective refugees. As the Center for Immigration Studies&#8217; investigative journalist extraordinaire Todd Bensman <a href="https://cis.org/Bensman/Idiot-Lights-Blinking-Vetting-Failures-Still-Favor-Lying-Terrorist-Migrants">wrote</a> last April: &#8220;Few outside of intelligence and law enforcement circles — and perhaps not even those inside the circles — really know the actual extent of vetting failures that grant legal status to those hiding terrorism involvement. <a href="https://www.cato.org/publications/policy-analysis/extreme-vetting-immigrants-estimating-terrorism-vetting-failures" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">One tally</a> found an entirely unacceptable 13 cases of vetting failures involving actual terrorists caught or killed between 9/11 and April 2018. But the numbers are undoubtedly higher, accounting for cases where the liars just haven&#8217;t been made public yet or there was strong terrorism intelligence rather than some sort of conviction under terrorism statutes or attack.&#8221;
Abbott&#8217;s move also follows closely on the heels of at least 15 separate Republican governors who have all affirmatively signed onto more refugee resettlement in their states in the aftermath of Executive Order 13888. Immigration hawk Daniel Horowitz recently <a href="https://www.conservativereview.com/news/15-gop-governors-asking-refugee-resettlement-red-states/">excoriated</a> these governors at Conservative Review: &#8220;Except for New England, these are all states carried by Trump, some of them by a very wide margin. Trump won every single county in West Virginia and Oklahoma, for example. Why are conservatives with platforms not talking about this? &#8230; Who needs George Soros when you have GOP governors endorsed by Trump doing his bidding, along with the help of so-called evangelical groups?&#8221;
Governor Abbott will take no shortage of heat for this move, even within the still-reliably Republican Lone Star State. But he should rest well at night, for he has done the right thing for his state.
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Saiful Islam emigrated to the United Kingdom in 2003 with a valid work permit and began working as a chef at a restaurant.
Things were going well for about two years, but in 2005, he told the U.K.’s Home Office (the department that handles immigration, security, and legal issues) that  his employer was exploiting him by withholding the bulk of his wages, forcing him to work 18-hour days, and beating him,” The Guardian <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/jan/02/bangladesh-chef-saiful-islam-faces-removal-from-uk-despite-home-office-errors">reported</a>.
The Home Office let him change employers, but the move triggered a host of errors that plagued Islam for more than a decade and now threatens his ability to stay in the country. The Home Office even apologized to Islam and offered him $6,550 in compensation for the issues. Despite all that, a judge denied Islam’s right to remain in the country.
A U.K. court found that “the Home Office wrongly served him with a notice curtailing his visa in 2005, wrongly linked other people’s criminal convictions to him, failed to disclose a full copy of his passport to a court in 2010 and destroyed part of his file,” the Guardian reported.
None of these errors mattered, the judge determined, because issues with a work permit application made in 2008 by Islam’s employer made him ineligible to remain in the U.K.
“The Home Office has treated me worse than a dog. I am a victim of a scandal and of race discrimination. I have lost so many years, I’ve lost my health, I’ve lost so much money. I’ll never get this time back but I’m determined to fight on,” Islam told the outlet.
Islam wasn’t even able to receive his file from the Home Office until 2018, after a lengthy court battle and a ruling demanding the government hand it over.
“As well as initially withholding his file in a previous court case, the Home Office did not provide relevant pages of his passport that proved he had entered the country legally. Instead, officials argued he had entered the country illegally,” the Guardian reported.
Islam finally received an apology from the Home Office in 2019 via email. The message apologized for wrongly labeling Islam as a sex offender due to mixing him up with the criminal records of three other people. Islam has no criminal convictions.
“After investigating the issue it appears documents relating to three individuals were incorrectly placed on your paper file. A number of processes had not been followed which allowed these errors to occur,” the email stated. “Although such errors are not common … we recognise that such issues can have significant impacts.”
Islam is receiving help from the Migrants’ Rights Network. The organization’s chief executive, Fizza Qureshi, told the Guardian: “If Saiful had not persevered with his case for nearly 16 years, he would not have known that the Home Office had mixed up his file and wrongly labelled him a criminal. Alongside the Home Office’s errors, they have also failed to praise Saiful’s actions of reporting an exploitative employer. Instead they have chosen to penalise him by pursuing his removal, despite his innocence and courage. We would urge the Home Office to reconsider his case, and offer him leave so he can utilise his skills as a chef, and allow him to rebuild his life.”

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Pro-&#8220;sanctuary state&#8221; California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) has come under fire from left-wing immigrant rights groups for &#8220;choosing to work with ICE.&#8221;
&#8220;It&#8217;s deeply disappointing that the governor is choosing to work with ICE,&#8221; said Asian Law Caucus attorney Anoop Prasad, as reported by <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-12-23/newsom-paroles-immigrant-who-is-immediately-detained-by-ice">The Los Angeles Times</a>.
Newsom&#8217;s &#8220;deeply disappointing&#8221; actions, according to Prasad and other immigrant rights activists, is his decision to allow a paroled immigrant who served two decades behind bars for murder to be handed over to federal immigration authorities, a process Prasad decried as &#8220;unjust and illogical&#8221; and &#8220;tearing apart communities in California.&#8221;
The outrage from immigration rights groups stems from the case of Cambodian refugee Tith Ton, 40, who served 22 years in prison for the murder of a rival gang member.
Upon Newsom approving his parole, Ton was immediately transferred into the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Immigration rights groups are demanding that Newsom further expand California&#8217;s &#8220;sanctuary state&#8221; policies by refusing to cooperate with federal authorities in such circumstances.
According to the LA Times, Ton&#8217;s case, as well as other convicts from Southeast Asia facing deportation, drew &#8220;dozens&#8221; of rallyers last month, who gathered on the lawn of the state Capitol to attempt to pressure the state to further thwart federal authorities by ending a corrections policy of notifying them about the release of convicts listed on ICE detainers or arrest warrants.
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Their demand would expand the state&#8217;s already radical &#8220;sanctuary&#8221; policy, the &#8220;Trust Act&#8221; (SB 54), which &#8220;prohibits state and local law enforcement from holding people longer than 48 hours for federal immigration agents — unless they’ve been convicted of certain crimes, most of them serious or violent,&#8221; as the Times <a href="https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-trust-act-sanctuary-state-immigration-20170910-htmlstory.html">explained</a> in 2017.
The revised Trust Act (2017) &#8220;curb[s] state and local agencies from collecting or sharing their personal information and release dates from jail or prison with federal immigration officials.&#8221;
&#8220;Ton was picked up Monday by a private government contractor in what immigrant groups contend is a violation of federal law, his attorney said,&#8221; the Times reports. &#8220;Newsom this year vetoed a bill that would have blocked private companies from picking up paroled immigrants in California.&#8221;
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Asked about the decision to approve the parole and transfer of Ton, Newsom&#8217;s office offered no comment. A corrections department spokesman, however, did respond, succinctly telling the LA Times, &#8220;We followed normal procedure.&#8221;
Prasad says that while in prison Ton turned his life around and has become a substance abuse counselor. Since Newsom approved his parole, he must agree that Ton no longer poses a threat to the community, Prasad maintains.
Newsom has made national headlines in recent days due to a public feud with President Trump. Newsom has attempted to shift the blame for the homeless crisis in California away from the progressive policies Newsom has supported to Trump&#8217;s Department of Housing and Urban Development &#8220;doing nothing&#8221; on the &#8220;housing first&#8221; initiative.
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In response, Trump offered to get the federal government more involved in Newsom&#8217;s state: &#8220;Governor Gavin [Newsom] has done a really bad job on taking care of the homeless population in California. If he can’t fix the problem, the Federal Govt. will get involved!&#8221;
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Governor Gavin N has done a really bad job on taking care of the homeless population in California. If he can’t fix the problem, the Federal Govt. will get involved! <a href="https://t.co/2z8zM37PUA">https://t.co/2z8zM37PUA</a>
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A new analysis released late last week found that a massive number of seats in the House of Representatives — enough to flip the majority in the House — will be redistributed primarily to Democrat states as a result of the increasing number of legal and illegal immigrants in the U.S. population.
The Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) released the findings from their analysis on how legal and illegal immigration is set to impact the political power structure in Washington, D.C. for the 2020 elections.
Key findings from CIS&#8217;s <a href="https://cis.org/Report/Impact-Legal-and-Illegal-Immigration-Apportionment-Seats-US-House-Representatives-2020">analysis</a> include:
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The Trump administration fought to include a citizenship question on the 2020 census, which would have likely provided a mild alleviation from the dramatic power shift that is about to occur, but it was <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/12/politics/john-roberts-census-citizenship-supreme-court/index.html">shot down</a> by Chief Justice John Roberts — the same conservative Supreme Court Justice who <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2012/07/01/the-supreme-courts-john-roberts-changed-his-obamacare-vote-in-may/#71a357e0d701">kept</a> Obamacare from being destroyed in the courts.
CIS found that Democrat-controlled California was &#8220;the biggest winner&#8221; in the political power shift &#8220;as it will gain 11 more congressional seats due to immigrants and their young children.&#8221;
The analysis came at approximately the same time as a new <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/homelessness-is-on-the-rise-in-the-u-s-and-one-state-is-driving-it">report</a> from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) which found that the homeless population in California has exploded over the last year and was single-handedly responsible for the increase in the national U.S. homeless population.
A separate <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-12-21/california-population-continues-to-decline-with-state-emigration-a-major-factor">report</a>, also just released, found that California&#8217;s population growth rate has declined to its lowest rate in nearly 120 years as tens of thousands of people are fleeing the state.
The analysis from CIS also found that &#8220;Ohio is the biggest loser from immigration, with three fewer seats due to the presence of immigrants and their U.S.-born children residing in other states. Michigan and Pennsylvania will have two fewer seats, while Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah, West Virginia, and Wisconsin will each lose one seat.&#8221;

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There has been a dramatic increase in the number of African migrants attempting to travel into the U.S. through Mexico.
In 2007, the Mexican government started keeping records on migrants from countries in Africa. At that time, The Los Angeles Times <a href="https://www.latimes.com/story/2019-12-08/record-number-of-african-migrants-at-u-s-mexico-border">reported</a>, an annual immigration report included 460 migrants from Africa. In 2018, that number was roughly 2,700 and in 2019 it doubled to about 5,800. From the Times:
And that dramatic increase has been mostly left out of U.S. immigration conversations, activists say.
“Even within the immigration movement, you see a lack of visibility of black narratives with what is happening at the border,” said Guerline Jozef, director and co-founder of the Haitian Bridge Alliance, an organization that helps black migrants from all over the world.
Jozef was initially caught off-guard by the number of black migrants south of the border.
Jozef told the outlet that in 2016 she met with a group of Haitian migrants in Tijuana, which was unusual since Florida was the typical migration route for Caribbean migrants. At the time she met with 12 Haitian migrants. After a month in the area, she counted more than 400 migrants from Haiti and Congo, Cameroon, and Sierra Leone.
“Now, almost four years later, we have thousands and thousands of black migrants,” she told the outlet.
The Times reported that the vast majority of those who travel through Mexico to the U.S. border are from Central America, and that the journey for black migrants from Africa is especially difficult. From the Times:
The journey isn’t easy, many of them are robbed and beaten while traveling north.
On top of these dangers, African migrants face additional obstacles in terms of language and cultural barriers. They also have less access to services from legal aid organizations who do not have staff who speak the same language as the migrants.
They also face racism and discrimination because of the color of their skin, Jozef added.
The migrants from Africa are now unable to even reach the U.S. border, as the Mexican government no longer provides transit visas to travel to the border. This has resulted in the migrants camping out in front of the immigration building in Tijuana “because they literally have nowhere else to go,” immigration lawyer Rebecca Alemayehu told the Times.
Even with the situation at the border and in Mexico, African migrants continue to travel to Mexico to attempt passage into the U.S.
The Congressional Black Caucus had noted the increasing numbers of black migrants and their unique plight, writing in a statement that the number appears to be increasing “as Europe closes its doors to migrants.”
Alemayehu also tole the Times that the migrants can’t simply stay in Mexico because of the dangers they face there.
“A lot of them are getting robbed, beat up and mistreated there,” she told the outlet.

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On November 24, 2019, Michael Rubens Bloomberg announced his formal entrance into the Democratic Party&#8217;s 2020 presidential primary. To date, he is the latest candidate to enter the primary field.
Michael Bloomberg served three full terms as mayor of New York City, from 2002 through the end of 2013. He was New York City&#8217;s mayoral successor of the failed 2008 Republican presidential candidate and current private attorney for President Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani. Bloomberg is also the co-founder, CEO, and majority owner of financial services conglomerate Bloomberg L.P., which is perhaps best known for its flagship Bloomberg Terminal hardware. As of November 2019, Bloomberg&#8217;s net worth was <a href="https://www.forbes.com/profile/michael-bloomberg">estimated</a> at $58 billion dollars, which makes him one of the wealthiest individuals in the world. He has been a prolific donator to various charitable and political causes.
Born in Boston in 1942, Bloomberg has degrees from Johns Hopkins University and Harvard Business School. A registered Democrat earlier in his career, Bloomberg actually ran for and successfully sought the New York City mayoralty office as a registered Republican before re-registering as an independent in the midst of his second mayoral term. He re-registered as a Democrat in 2018. Since joining the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primary field, Bloomberg News — an international news outlet operating as a legal subsidiary of Bloomberg L.P. — has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bloomberg-news-wont-investigate-bloomberg-democrats-its-journalists-go-to-work-on-bloombergs-campaign">announced</a> that it will not journalistically investigate Bloomberg or his fellow 2020 Democratic Party primary campaign rivals.
Electoral History: Bloomberg&#8217;s only experience in elected office is his three terms as New York City mayor. In 2001, shortly following the 9/11 jihadist attacks, Bloomberg sought to replace outgoing Mayor Rudy Giuliani as a fellow Republican and defeated his Democratic opponent, Mark Green, by a 50.3%–47.9% margin. In 2005, Bloomberg once again ran as a Republican and was re-elected by a nearly 20-point margin over his opponent, Fernando Ferrer. In 2009, after having successfully lobbied the New York City Council to change its mayoral two-term limit to a three-term limit, Bloomberg was narrowly elected to a third mayoral term while running as a Republican Party-endorsed registered independent.
On The Issues: Bloomberg&#8217;s general political profile is that of a fiscal and national security centrist, although he positions himself far to the left on social issues — with his <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2019/12/05/bloomberg-unveils-expansive-gun-control-plan-076376">anti-gun advocacy</a> perhaps emerging as the political issue with which he has become most closely identified. The latter stages of Bloomberg&#8217;s mayoral tenure were marked by odd flirtations with nanny state-style progressive governance, with the infamous <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2013/03/11/the-new-york-city-soda-ban-explained/">&#8220;soda ban&#8221;</a> as the most prominent example. Furthermore, in terms of hot-button leftist issues, Bloomberg&#8217;s current 2020 presidential campaign is aggressively <a href="https://www.mikebloomberg.com/policies/international-climate-priorities">advertising</a> his commitment to combatting global warming. But on bread-and-butter issues pertaining to fiscal prudence and foreign policy — perhaps especially with respect to Israel and the Middle East — Bloomberg is generally <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hammer-michael-bloomberg-would-have-no-chance-at-the-democratic-presidential-nomination">far more centrist</a> than most of his other primary opponents.
Constitution: Bloomberg&#8217;s career in the financial services industry and his tenure as New York City mayor provide little in the way of concrete guidance as to what he may believe about constitutional interpretation and judicial philosophy. However, following the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, Bloomberg expressed support for &#8220;chang[ing]&#8221; prevailing constitutional jurisprudence so as to allow for easier mass domestic surveillance. His far-left stances on most cultural issues might also portend a belief in leftist &#8220;living constitutionalism.&#8221; Similarly, his nanny state governing proclivities likely augur in favor of an expansive view of the Constitution&#8217;s Commerce Clause — a provision that has justified decades of progressive economic regulatory overreach, going back to the New Deal.
Economy: Bloomberg has self-described as a fiscal conservative, pointing to his balancing New York City&#8217;s budget as his most supportive data point. Bloomberg may indeed be fiscally conservative to the extent fiscal conservatism means cutting deficits and balancing budgets, but his mayoral tenure and public statements also evince a willingness to raise various taxes toward achieving those ends. Bloomberg is also a firm proponent of free trade and opponent of protectionist policies. Out of all the 2020 Democratic presidential candidates, it is possible that no one better personifies the decades-long post-Reagan/Clinton bipartisan neoliberal economic consensus than Bloomberg.
Health Care: Bloomberg&#8217;s nanny state governing tendencies, as best seen with the now-infamous &#8220;soda ban,&#8221; are perhaps most evident in the health care context. Despite his self-identification as a fiscal conservative, then, Bloomberg has long demonstrated a willingness to extend the reach of government to regulate both health care and the health of those citizens under his governing watch. His 2020 presidential campaign now <a href="https://www.mikebloomberg.com/getting-stuff-done">emphasizes</a> the pursuit of universal health care, and how &#8220;expanding Obamacare and Medicare is the best way to achieve universal coverage.&#8221;
Immigration: Bloomberg has previously been very critical of border hawks who call for deportations of illegal aliens, suggesting a personal view that mass amnesty is proper. To that end, he was supportive of the U.S. Senate&#8217;s failed 2007 &#8220;comprehensive immigration reform&#8221; push, which included amnesty for millions of illegal aliens as one of its underlying goals. As mayor of New York City, Bloomberg was fairly lax on immigration enforcement and largely shirked meaningful steps to crack down on illegal immigration plaguing the city. His current campaign <a href="https://www.mikebloomberg.com/getting-stuff-done">website</a> hails Bloomberg&#8217;s erstwhile formation of &#8220;pro-immigration organization New American Economy,&#8221; and he is generally seen as a staunch advocate of large-scale legal immigration.
Foreign Policy: Bloomberg assumed the New York City mayoralty in the near-term aftermath of the 9/11 jihadist attacks, and he is generally considered to be more hawkish on foreign policy and national security matters than most of his 2020 Democratic presidential rivals. He previously supported the PATRIOT Act, was an initial supporter of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and publicly endorsed President George W. Bush&#8217;s re-election campaign at the New York City-hosted Republican National Convention in 2004. Bloomberg is much more pro-Israel than most of his 2020 Democratic rivals: In 2014, when President Barack Obama oversaw a temporary <a href="https://thehill.com/policy/transportation/213288-obama-defends-israel-flight-ban">U.S. flight ban</a> to Israel amidst the jihadist rocket fire that rained down on the Jewish state that summer from the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hammer-israel-must-destroy-hamas-once-and-all-josh-hammer">Hamas</a>-controlled Gaza Strip, Bloomberg personally <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2014-07-23/why-i-flew-to-israel">flew to Israel</a> solely to demonstrate to his fellow Americans that it was safe to do so. In September 2019, Bloomberg conducted an odd interview on the issue of China, in which he <a href="http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/12/michael-bloomberg-china-pbs-climate-xi-dictator.html">defended</a> Chinese Communist Party strongman Xi Jinping against charges that he is a &#8220;dictator.&#8221;
Abortion: Bloomberg is emphatically pro-abortion.
Guns: Bloomberg&#8217;s anti-gun advocacy is perhaps the single most defining issue of his recent private citizen activism — and perhaps the single most defining issue of his 2020 presidential bid. He is very closely affiliated with and has <a href="https://everytown.org/press/new-gun-violence-prevention-group-everytown-for-gun-safety-unites-mayors-moms-and-millions-of-americans-on-new-paths-to-victory-state-capitols-corporate-responsibility-voter-activation/">helped</a> <a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/amberjamieson/bloomberg-gun-violence-moms-demand-action-volunteers">fund</a> Everytown for Gun Safety and Moms Demand Action, which are both groups deeply hostile to Second Amendment rights. He also co-founded Mayors Against Illegal Guns while he was mayor of New York City. Bloomberg supports <a href="https://www.mikebloomberg.com/policies/gun-safety">“universal” background checks</a>, which often serve as a rhetorical euphemism for the government serving as an intermediary in all private firearms transfers. Bloomberg believes that every gun owner should need a permit before making a gun purchase. He <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/cory-booker-wants-a-ban-on-assault-weapons-and-yes-it-means-putting-gun-owners-in-jail" data-reader-unique-id="49">supports a ban</a> on the undefinable sub-class of firearms referred to as so-called “assault weapons” — a line of thought that, if taken to its logical conclusion, could <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/42837/hammer-kamala-harriss-flirtation-banning-all-semi-josh-hammer" data-reader-unique-id="50">lead to the banning of all semi-automatic firearms in America</a>.

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On Wednesday, a video went viral on social media seemingly showcasing a portion of President Donald Trump&#8217;s new southern border wall failing to do its job. At least one illegal immigrant, using a rope ladder, scales the border wall and takes off before border patrol agents show up on scene, the video appears to show.
Here&#8217;s the video, which has been viewed nearly 8.5 million times:
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This is the newly replaced wall along the US/MEXICO border. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TheWall?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TheWall</a> <a href="https://t.co/MIrD3HhVsE">pic.twitter.com/MIrD3HhVsE</a>
&mdash; J. Omar Ornelas (@fotornelas) <a href="https://twitter.com/fotornelas/status/1202065077328924672?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 4, 2019</a></blockquote>
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However, on Thursday, Rep. Sam Graves (R-MO) shared a video of a border patrol agent explaining that the illegal immigrant who seemed to successfully cross the border was quickly apprehended by officers, thanks to the design of the wall and other security measures.
&#8220;Yesterday, a video showing someone illegally crossing into the United States over the new border wall went viral,&#8221; Rep. Graves captioned the tweet. &#8220;Today the Border Patrol revealed there was more to the story.&#8221;
&#8220;Spoiler alert: the suspect didn’t get away – and the wall worked as planned,&#8221; the Republican added.
&#8220;Less than 24 hours ago, a video showed up on both Facebook and Twitter showing an individual climbing the border wall. That individual was assisted by the use of a rope ladder and two subjects on the Mexican side,” the officer explains. “In the video clip, the individual makes it over the border wall and begins to run north into the United States.”
“I’m standing in the exact location where this incident took place,” the officer continued. “The border wall systems consists of not only a physical barrier, but also lighting, patrol roads, and detection technology. While the physical barrier serves to slow down illicit traffic, the detection technology alerts our agents as to where and when threats emerge. The patrol roads allow for a rapid response.”
“In this particular incident,&#8221; he said, &#8220;the border wall system worked exactly as designed. The illicit traffic was slowed down. The detection technology alerted our agents. Agents responded, and the subject was apprehended.” 
“That subject turned out to be a 16-year-old Mexican male. All too often, criminal organizations exploit juveniles in this regard,” the agent said. “Through partnerships with the government of Mexico, coordination is currently underway to locate the other two subjects involved in this incident.” 
“Crossing illegally into the United States is a federal crime. Those who violate the law will be held accountable and there are consequences to these actions,&#8221; the officer concluded.
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Yesterday, a video showing someone illegally crossing into the United States over the new border wall went viral.
Today the Border Patrol revealed there was more to the story. 
Spoiler alert: the suspect didn’t get away—and the wall worked as planned. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BuildTheWall?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BuildTheWall</a> <a href="https://t.co/oY6ondY4pX">pic.twitter.com/oY6ondY4pX</a>
&mdash; Rep. Sam Graves (@RepSamGraves) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepSamGraves/status/1202731880069705728?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 5, 2019</a></blockquote>
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As noted by <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/cbp-posts-image-of-child-found-being-used-by-impostor-parent-to-cross-border">Fox News</a> in August, the Trump administration and Republican lawmakers sounded the alarm on so-called &#8220;child recycling&#8221; at the southern border.
&#8220;Administration officials and GOP lawmakers have been trying to bring attention to the problem of child trafficking and &#8216;child recycling&#8217; whereby kids are used by multiple migrants to take advantage of restrictions that limit how long family units can be held in detention before being released into the U.S. while their asylum cases are considered,&#8221; Fox reported.
“Unfortunately we see that all too often now &#8230; adults that are bringing children with them that are not their own to try and take advantage of what they perceive as a loophole in our law that would allow them to be released into the United States,” acting DHS Secretary Kevin McAleenan told the House Oversight Committee in July.
“There are one in five cases, according to ICE, of groups of people coming over with children, saying ‘these are our children’ – when they say that, they get preferential treatment through the asylum process – and then we have later found out they are not even related, so the DNA testing helps us to determine if they’re telling the truth or not,” Rep. Lance Gooden (R-TX) told the outlet.

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WATCH: Border Patrol Agent Debunks Viral Video Showing Illegal Immigrant Scaling Trump Wall

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The news that the deceased suspect of this morning&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-active-shooter-at-pensacola-naval-air-base-at-least-5-rushed-to-hospital-shooter-confirmed-dead">horrific shooting spree</a> at Naval Air Station Pensacola was a Saudi aviation student here to <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/news/authorities-identify-pensacola-naval-base-shooter-as-saudi-national">train with the Saudi military</a> ought to serve as a wakeup call for American elected officials.
The suspect appears to have been a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-attacker-at-florida-military-base-was-member-of-saudi-military-was-an-act-of-terrorism-congressman-says">student officer</a> with the Saudi Air Force and, while it is unclear right now which U.S. visa he obtained to arrive here, an <a href="https://twitter.com/RMConservative/status/1203012127952449541">A-2 visa</a> — <a href="https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/other-visa-categories/visas-diplomats.html">described</a> by the U.S. State Department as appropriate for those &#8220;traveling to the United States on behalf of [his/her] national government to engage solely in official activities for that government&#8221; — is perhaps likely . As The Daily Wire has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-active-shooter-at-pensacola-naval-air-base-at-least-5-rushed-to-hospital-shooter-confirmed-dead">reported</a>, there are at least ten victims injured, including three dead.
There is a lot to unpack and unravel here — especially for <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hammer-us-must-side-saudi-arabia-against-iranian-josh-hammer">those of us</a> who have generally encouraged closer U.S.-Saudi military ties in order to help deter the far greater Middle East terrorism threat, Iran. This developing story has many moving parts, and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia ought to be prepared for a Jamal Khashoggi-level public relations blowback when even a stalwart pro-Israel/anti-Iran conservative such as Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has an <a href="https://twitter.com/NBCNightlyNews/status/1203029174753153025">immediate reaction</a> that the Saudi government &#8220;needs to [financially] make things better for these victims.&#8221; Indeed, it is hard to disagree with the governor.
But the focus here must be on immigration policy. As The Daily Wire&#8217;s Ryan Saavedra already <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-attacker-at-florida-military-base-was-member-of-saudi-military-was-an-act-of-terrorism-congressman-says">reported</a>, hardline conservative Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) has opined that today&#8217;s naval base tragedy &#8220;represents a serious failure in the vetting process and in the way in which we invite &#8230; people into our community.&#8221; Gaetz vowed to help &#8220;ensure that we have extreme vetting for the people that come into our country on our bases and in our communities.&#8221;
This is obviously correct. And it is important that this, and not a short-sighted hard diplomatic pivot away from Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman at a time when the uniquely evil Iranian regime is yet again on the proverbial ropes and facing an increasingly restive population, become the preeminent takeaway from today&#8217;s horrific incident.
Why, as I <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hammer-never-forget-911-we-need-rethink-how-we-josh-hammer">lamented</a> on the most recent anniversary of the 9/11 jihadist attacks, has the U.S. continued to implement an exceedingly generous and lax immigration policy for prospective immigrants from the broader Islamic world? While there will always be dispensations for legal immigration from the Islamic world, why are we not starting from a default baseline level of effectively zero? Our much-ballyhooed &#8220;vetting&#8221; procedures are oftentimes, as was tragically the case today, revealed to be exceedingly inadequate. But hey, in fairness, <a href="https://twitter.com/josh_hammer/status/1203010783958982657">how would we ever have known</a> to keep a close eye on Saudi aviation students? It&#8217;s not like we&#8217;ve had <a href="https://twitter.com/Sultanknish/status/1203014470525542400">previous noteworthy incidents</a>, right?
Policymakers ought to heed the unassailable wisdom of the <a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1213676/m1/6/?q=cornerstone">9/11 Commission Report</a>: &#8220;It is perhaps obvious to state that terrorists cannot plan and carry out attacks in the United States if they are unable to enter the country.&#8221; Heck, does anyone even remember that 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, according to former CIA contractor James Mitchell, <a href="https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/307362-9-11-mastermind-al-qaeda-to-use-immigration-to-end-us">allegedly believes</a> that &#8220;the &#8216;practical&#8217; way to defeat America [is] through immigration?&#8221;
Immigration policy is national security policy. And that extends to both illegal immigration and legal immigration. Our policymakers ought to not forget that.

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Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) said on Friday that the individual who opened fire at Naval Air Station Pensacola was a member of the Saudi military and that the attack &#8220;was an act of terrorism.&#8221;
The foreign national attacker killed at least <a href="https://www.pnj.com/story/news/2019/12/06/breaking-active-shooter-reported-base-nas-pensacola/4351773002/">three</a> people and injured several others who were sent to a nearby hospital for treatment.
Gaetz responded to the attack by calling for &#8220;extreme vetting&#8221; of those who are allowed into the United States and who train at U.S. military bases.
&#8220;Major news organizations are now reporting the information that we began to learn earlier this morning that it was a Saudi Arabian military official in Pensacola, in our community for training, who committed these murderous acts and this terrible, terrible violence at NAS Pensacola,&#8221; Gaetz said. &#8220;I think it&#8217;s important for us to know a little bit about why Saudi Arabian officials are in our community.&#8221;
&#8220;Training is a critical part of the mission that we engage in in NAS Pensacola,&#8221; Gaetz continued. &#8220;One way that we leverage that training is to ensure that our allies around the world are capable and familiar with U.S. systems, that they&#8217;re comfortable working with U.S. officers, and that we have an interoperability in our lexicon and in the way we engage in battle.&#8221;
&#8220;This event represents a serious failure in the vetting process and in the way in which we invite these people into our community,&#8221; Gaetz continued. &#8220;So today, as we learn more as the investigation continues to unfold &#8230; I&#8217;m going to be very active in working with the Department of Defense and the Department of State to ensure that we have extreme vetting for the people that come into our country on our bases and in our communities.&#8221;
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We&#39;re learning a Saudi Arabian military member in Pensacola committed these murders.
I&#39;m working with the <a href="https://twitter.com/DeptofDefense?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DeptofDefense</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/StateDept?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@StateDept</a>, and <a href="https://twitter.com/DHSgov?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DHSgov</a> to ensure there&#39;s extreme vetting for people who come to our country and train on our bases. <a href="https://t.co/LUhSE6UAHO">pic.twitter.com/LUhSE6UAHO</a>
&mdash; Rep. Matt Gaetz (@RepMattGaetz) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepMattGaetz/status/1203019241626185730?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 6, 2019</a></blockquote>
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In a subsequent tweet that featured a video of Gaetz appearing on CNN, Gaetz wrote: &#8220;This was not a murder. This was an act of terrorism.&#8221;
&#8220;If this were a murder, it would typically be investigated by NCIS &#8230; but this was not a murder,&#8221; Gaetz said. &#8220;This was an act of terrorism and as we speak the investigation is being handed over from the NCIS to the FBI, that is the signal that this will now be treated by our government as an act of terrorism, not a murder.&#8221;
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This was not a murder. This was an act of terrorism. <a href="https://t.co/AJfTQOOE68">pic.twitter.com/AJfTQOOE68</a>
&mdash; Rep. Matt Gaetz (@RepMattGaetz) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepMattGaetz/status/1203025382632546305?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 6, 2019</a></blockquote>
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The U.S. Navy confirmed on Twitter that the attacker, who was an aviation student, is dead.
Heavy.com <a href="https://heavy.com/news/2019/12/mohammed-saeed-alshamrani/">noted</a> some of the history surrounding the military base, with respect to past incidents involving terrorism:
<blockquote>In the aftermath of the attacks on 9/11, Newsweek reported that three of the hijackers had the addresses on their driver’s licenses listed as being at NAS Pensacola. The article notes that Naval Air Station Pensacola is known as the “Cradle of U.S. Navy Aviation.”
The Navy Times reported in February 2016 that NAS Pensacola officials had increased security measures at the base, after the base had been known was “unusually open” for years.
The Pensacola News Journal reported in September 2019 the “new, top-secret classrooms” had been built on the base to counteract the threat caused by cyber terrorism.</blockquote>
UPDATE: This report has been updated to accurately state that the alleged attacker killed three individuals, not four. The fourth person who was killed was the alleged attacker.

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Fox News host Tucker Carlson admits that President Trump is a &#8220;full-blown B.S. artist&#8221; who &#8220;could&#8217;ve made a fortune selling cars,&#8221; but his knack for twisting the truth to make his &#8220;sales pitches&#8221; isn&#8217;t why the media actually despises him, as they claim. In fact, argued Carlson on his show Wednesday night, the media resents Trump so much for &#8220;the exact opposite&#8221; reason.
&#8220;One of the reasons progressives say they hate Donald Trump is because he lies a lot,&#8221;  Carlson said on his <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/tucker-carlson-truth-is-the-reason-the-left-despises-trump">Fox News</a> show Wednesday night. &#8220;Trump, they&#8217;ll tell you, is a committed liar, an inveterate one. To prove he point the left has set about trying to catalog Trump&#8217;s dishonesty with the kind of scientific precision you normally associate with obsessed baseball fans or amateur bird watchers. As of last month, according to The Washington Post, Donald Trump has made a total of 13,435 false or misleading statements while in office.&#8221;
Carlson then played a famous claim by Trump which the Post marks as the starting point of Trump&#8217;s presidential lies: his claim that his inauguration crowd was &#8220;the biggest ever.&#8221;
&#8220;We’re not going to lie to you: that was untrue,&#8221; said Carlson. &#8220;The crowd at the 2017 inauguration was not the largest ever measured on the national mall. Sorry. It wasn’t.&#8221;
&#8220;Why did the president claim that it was?&#8221; Carlson asked. &#8220;Well, because that&#8217;s who he is. Donald Trump is a salesman. He&#8217;s a talker, a boaster, a booster, a compulsive self-promoter. At times, he&#8217;s a full-blown B.S. artist. If Trump hadn&#8217;t gotten rich in real estate, he could&#8217;ve made a fortune selling cars. Most people know this. It&#8217;s obvious, transparent, really.&#8221;
Carlson then got to his central argument: Yes, Trump is a &#8220;B.S. artist,&#8221; but his lies are not what is actually driving the mass disdain for him from left-wing politicians and their allies in the media.
&#8220;Is lying really the reason the left despises Donald Trump? Or could the real problem be, as is so often the case, the exact opposite of what they claim it is?&#8221; asked Carlson.
&#8220;Think back over the last four years,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;When have the CNN anchors been the angriest? Was it when Donald Trump told some whopper, or exaggerated his own accomplishments? Nope. They’re used to that kind of lying. Everyone who spends time around politicians is used to it. What infuriates official Washington is not when Trump lies, it&#8217;s when he tells the truth. Truth is the real threat to their power.”
&#8220;There&#8217;s an unspoken agreement among the people in charge of our country not to talk about what has happened to it,&#8221; Carlson said. &#8220;They are personally implicated in its decline, for one thing &#8212; often they&#8217;re profiting from it. The last thing they want is a national conversation about what went wrong. So they maintain an increasingly strict policy of mandatory reality avoidance.&#8221;
As an example of this &#8220;reality avoidance,&#8221; Carlson pointed to our unsustainable immigration policies. &#8220;If the people in charge actually cared about us, they would protect our borders,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The gatekeepers in our national media, the people who should have been sounding the alarm about all of this, but instead made common cause with the ruling class they were supposed to be covering and keeping honest.&#8221;
When Trump tells the truth about the situation at the border, he&#8217;s branded a bigot by Democrats and the media in an attempt to deflect from the issue. Raising such issues as immigration exposes the ruling class&#8217;s &#8220;own egregious failures and selfishness,&#8221; so they instead try to redirect the conversation by declaring that &#8220;Donald Trump is a racist liar.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/washington-post-obama-is-a-conservative">Washington Post: ‘Obama Is A Conservative’</a>
Partial transcript via <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/tucker-carlson-truth-is-the-reason-the-left-despises-trump">Fox News</a>, <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/trump/a-full-blown-bs-artist-tucker-carlson-says-media-is-right-about-trump-lying-but-defends-him-still/">Mediaite</a>.

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Former Maryland Democrat Governor Martin O&#8217;Malley forced Acting Deputy Homeland Security Secretary Ken Cuccinelli to leave a bar in Maryland during a Thanksgiving eve event after he berated Cuccinelli over immigration policies, according to witnesses.
The alleged incident took place at the Dubliner, an Irish pub on Capitol Hill where the two men were attending an event with graduates of Gonzaga College High School, where they both graduated from in the 1980s.
Siobhan Arnold, who claims to work in media relations at Villanova University, <a href="https://web.archive.org/save/https://twitter.com/siobhanphilly/status/1199838534573658113">wrote</a> on Twitter, &#8220;Martin O’Malley just drove Ken Cuccinelli out of the Dubliner in DC w/ a passion-laced and shame-invoking tirade on behalf of immigrant refugee children!!!&#8221;
In an interview with The Washington Post, Arnold <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/ken-cuccinelli-walked-into-a-bar-and-martin-omalley-lit-into-him/2019/11/28/8277421c-1191-11ea-b0fc-62cc38411ebb_story.html">said</a>, “O’Malley was shouting,” adding that Cuccinelli did not appear to even want to engage with an allegedly belligerent O&#8217;Malley, “I don’t think Cuccinelli was responding. I think he’s like, ‘Time to go. Just got here and I’m leaving.’”
The Post added that O&#8217;Malley taunted Cuccinelli, asking him if &#8220;he wanted to throw a punch.&#8221;
In a <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/cuccinelli-fires-back-at-omalley-calls-behavior-sad-and-shocking">statement</a> to Fox News, Cuccinelli said that O’Malley was cursing so loudly that people on the opposite end of the bar could hear him and that he was hot-headed “to the point of veins bulging on his neck.”
O&#8217;Malley did not deny using obscenities during an interview with the Post.
Cuccinelli told Fox News, “As I walked up to one of the bars among several in The Dubliner to order my Guinness, I heard screaming and cussing behind me to my left, which I did not immediately take notice of other than the fact that it was louder than everything else in the pub.”
&#8220;When I turned to look I saw O&#8217;Malley and he was obviously screaming at me,&#8221; Cuccinelli continued. &#8220;For a moment I thought he was trying to be funny, as we&#8217;ve met before, which I thought was strange. It was immediately clear that he was cursing and screaming for real, to the point of veins bulging on his neck.”
“O&#8217;Malley pushed his way through the small group to confront me face to face, still cursing me, the President, and my Italian ancestry and he got right up in my face, bumped up against me and invited me to take a swing at him,” Cuccinelli continued.
Cuccinelli realized that he had to be the bigger person, saying “at which point I said ‘Martin, one of us has to rise above this, and it&#8217;s obviously not going to be you.’”
Cuccinelli told Fox News that O&#8217;Malley&#8217;s comments about the Trump administration&#8217;s immigration policies were “odd” since his comments “applied to President Obama&#8217;s policies, a fact he clearly did not appreciate me pointing out (without screaming it, btw).”
“Martin&#8217;s behavior was as sad as it was shocking,” Cuccinelli said. “I learned on the other side of the pub that Martin&#8217;s screaming was so loud that people on the other side of the pub heard him.  I also learned from others who have known Martin for years that while his behavior was shocking, it was not new to them.”

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On Tuesday, a U.S. judge in Oregon blocked the Trump administration from implementing a policy that would require require immigrants to show proof of health insurance to get a visa.
On October 4, the White House released a <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/presidential-proclamation-suspension-entry-immigrants-will-financially-burden-united-states-healthcare-system/">statement</a> explaining the reasons for its decision:
<blockquote>Healthcare providers and taxpayers bear substantial costs in paying for medical expenses incurred by people who lack health insurance or the ability to pay for their healthcare.  Hospitals and other providers often administer care to the uninsured without any hope of receiving reimbursement from them.  The costs associated with this care are passed on to the American people in the form of higher taxes, higher premiums, and higher fees for medical services.
In total, uncompensated care costs — the overall measure of unreimbursed services that hospitals give their patients — have exceeded $35 billion in each of the last 10 years.  These costs amount to approximately $7 million on average for each hospital in the United States, and can drive hospitals into insolvency.  Beyond uncompensated care costs, the uninsured strain Federal and State government budgets through their reliance on publicly funded programs, which ultimately are financed by taxpayers.
Beyond imposing higher costs on hospitals and other healthcare infrastructure, uninsured individuals often use emergency rooms to seek remedies for a variety of non-emergency conditions, causing overcrowding and delays for those who truly need emergency services.  This non-emergency usage places a large burden on taxpayers, who reimburse hospitals for a portion of their uncompensated emergency care costs.
While our healthcare system grapples with the challenges caused by uncompensated care, the United States Government is making the problem worse by admitting thousands of aliens who have not demonstrated any ability to pay for their healthcare costs.  Notably, data show that lawful immigrants are about three times more likely than United States citizens to lack health insurance.  Immigrants who enter this country should not further saddle our healthcare system, and subsequently American taxpayers, with higher costs.
The United States has a long history of welcoming immigrants who come lawfully in search of brighter futures.  We must continue that tradition while also addressing the challenges facing our healthcare system, including protecting both it and the American taxpayer from the burdens of uncompensated care.  Continuing to allow entry into the United States of certain immigrants who lack health insurance or the demonstrated ability to pay for their healthcare would be detrimental to these interests.</blockquote>
President Trump stated in his proclamation, &#8220;The entry into the United States as immigrants of aliens who will financially burden the United States healthcare system is hereby suspended and limited subject to section 2 of this proclamation.  An alien will financially burden the United States healthcare system unless the alien will be covered by approved health insurance, as defined in subsection (b) of this section, within 30 days of the alien’s entry into the United States, or unless the alien possesses the financial resources to pay for reasonably foreseeable medical costs.&#8221;
U.S. District Court Judge Michael Simon rebuffed the White House, writing in his <a href="https://www.aila.org/File/Related/19103090e.pdf">opinion</a> that Trump’s proclamation was “inconsistent” with the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965. He stated, &#8220;In addition, and independently, the Proclamation was not issued under any properly delegated authority. It is, therefore, the duty of the Court in this case to preliminarily enjoin enforcement of that Proclamation.&#8221;
As <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-immigration-donald-trump-rule-requiring-immigrants-prove-health-insurance-blocked-federal-judge-2019-11-27/">CBS News</a> reported, Simon also stated:&#8221;No national security or foreign relations justification for this sweeping change in immigration law. Instead, the President attempts to justify the Proclamation based on <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/presidential-proclamation-suspension-entry-immigrants-will-financially-burden-united-states-healthcare-system/">an asserted burden</a> to the United States healthcare system and federal taxpayers.&#8221;
White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham responded to Simon’s decision, saying, &#8220;We look forward to defending the President&#8217;s lawful action.”
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This week, The Atlantic released its newest issue, provocatively titled &#8220;How to Stop a Civil War.&#8221; Leading its collection of essays is a fascinating piece by Yoni Applebaum. In it, Applebaum posits that at the crux of America&#8217;s vitriolic politics lies demographic change: &#8220;The United States is undergoing a transition perhaps no rich and stable democracy has ever experienced: Its historically dominant group is on its way to becoming a political minority — and its minority groups are asserting their co-equal rights and interests.&#8221;
This, he suggests, has led to an impasse for the center-right, which refuses to adapt to changing demographics, instead doubling down on President Donald Trump&#8217;s white, working-class base. Applebaum explains, &#8220;When a group that has traditionally exercised power comes to believe that its eclipse is inevitable, and that the destruction of all it holds dear will follow, it will fight to preserve what it has — whatever the cost.&#8221;
But Applebaum&#8217;s thesis doesn&#8217;t explain why, in his view, conservatives have abandoned the attempt to persuade new populations. Applebaum himself acknowledges that a &#8220;conservatism defined by ideas can hold its own against progressivism, winning converts to its principles and evolving with each generation.&#8221; Why, then, have conservatives supposedly given up?
The answer lies in a simple truth: Conservatives haven&#8217;t despaired of winning over new converts.
While a slight majority of Republicans believe that immigration should be reduced, pluralities or majorities of Republicans in the majority of polls believe that immigration is good for the country; a heavy majority of Republicans favor a &#8220;merit-based&#8221; immigration approach.
Conservative opposition to increased immigration isn&#8217;t driven by fears of demographic change. It&#8217;s driven by fear of ideological change. And that fear of ideological change is actually driven by Democrats&#8217; radicalism — and their overt suggestion that demographic change will provide the fodder for that radicalism.
Applebaum rightly states, &#8220;The United States possesses a strong radical tradition, but its most successful social movements have generally adopted the language of conservatism, framing their calls for change as an expression of America&#8217;s founding ideals rather than as a rejection of them.&#8221;
But today&#8217;s successful social movements — the movements of the Democratic left — no longer bother with such niceties. Instead, they declare that America was, has been and always will be a racist place, riven by hierarchies of power, a corrupt structure to be overturned by that emerging demographic majority. These movements overtly call for curbing essential American freedoms — freedom of speech, freedom to bear arms, freedom of religion — in order to overthrow the corrupt power structure. The Democratic left then insists that immigration levels be increased both legally and illegally and suggests that its opponents are driven by unbridled racism.
In essence, the Democrats have decided that rather than expanding the application of American principles to new groups, they prefer to fundamentally change the definition of American principles and utilize immigration policy to facilitate that change. No wonder conservatives have responded by calling for immigration restrictions.
Conservatism must indeed root out and destroy any elements of race-driven policy from its midst. Conservatism speaks every language and can reside in any human heart. If the left wishes to avoid a civil war, it can start by doing the same: refraining from the argument that demographic change innately signals rewriting the definition of Americanism, and arguing in favor of that revision.

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On Tuesday morning, President Donald Trump signaled a deal with congressional Democrats if the U.S. Supreme Court were to rule in his favor concerning the controversial Obama-era DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) immigration program.
&#8220;If Supreme Court remedies with overturn, a deal will be made with Dems for them to stay!” the president said via Twitter regarding DACA.
The Supreme Court will consider the Trump administration&#8217;s decision to end the DACA program, which has been argued to have been <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/federal-judge-rules-trump-must-reinstate-daca-ben-shapiro">unconstitutionally</a> enacted by the Obama administration via executive action.
The program defers deportations of immigrants brought over by their parents at a young age.
In the same tweet where Trump signaled a forthcoming deal, he ripped DACA. &#8220;Many of the people in DACA, no longer very young, are far from &#8216;angels,'&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;Some are very tough, hardened criminals.&#8221;
According to <a href="https://www.uscis.gov/news/new-data-shows-criminal-arrest-histories-daca-requestors">U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services</a>, about 8% of DACA recipients have criminal records:
<blockquote>8-percent of total DACA requestors (59,786 individuals) had arrest records as of the date the systems were queried, which included offenses such as assault and battery, rape, murder, and drunk driving, among others. &#8220;Requestors&#8221; includes individuals approved and denied DACA.</blockquote>
Trump added in the tweet: &#8220;President Obama said he had no legal right to sign order, but would anyway.&#8221;
This is also basically true. As noted by <a href="https://www.heritage.org/immigration/commentary/daca-unconstitutional-obama-admitted">Heritage</a>, Obama repeatedly acknowledged that he could not take such action alone, but did so anyway:
<blockquote>Responding in October 2010 to demands that he implement immigration reforms unilaterally, Obama declared, &#8220;I am not king. I can&#8217;t do these things just by myself.&#8221; In March 2011, he said that with &#8220;respect to the notion that I can just suspend deportations through executive order, that&#8217;s just not the case.&#8221; In May 2011, he acknowledged that he couldn&#8217;t &#8220;just bypass Congress and change the (immigration) law myself. &#8230; That&#8217;s not how a democracy works.&#8221;</blockquote>
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Many of the people in DACA, no longer very young, are far from “angels.” Some are very tough, hardened criminals. President Obama said he had no legal right to sign order, but would anyway. If Supreme Court remedies with overturn, a deal will be made with Dems for them to stay!
&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1194219655717642240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 12, 2019</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;The Trump administration announced its plan to phase out the program in 2017, only for the federal courts to rule that it could not apply retroactively and that DACA should be restarted in full,&#8221; <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-daca-supreme-court">Fox News</a> reported.
In April 2018, U.S. District Judge John Bates <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/immigration/2018/04/24/cfb41578-4816-11e8-8b5a-3b1697adcc2a_story.html?noredirect=on&amp;utm_term=.a5adf4fd5206">ruled</a> that Trump could not legally end DACA, calling the decision to end the program &#8220;arbitrary and capricious because the [Trump administration] failed adequately to explain its conclusion that the program was unlawful.&#8221;
&#8220;So, in other words, if a president takes an executive action, then the subsequent president cannot undo that executive action — even if that original executive action has been declared unconstitutional, at least in part,&#8221; Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/federal-judge-rules-trump-must-reinstate-daca-ben-shapiro">Ben Shapiro</a> explained at the time.
&#8220;This is insanity,&#8221; Shapiro continued, adding, &#8220;Here’s how leftist courts have now ruled: an action that is obviously unconstitutional is no longer unconstitutional when performed by President Obama; undoing that unconstitutional action is unconstitutional if performed by President Trump.&#8221;
A spokesperson for the Department of Justice said of the decision at the time: &#8220;Today’s order doesn’t change the Department of Justice’s position on the facts: DACA was implemented unilaterally after Congress declined to extend benefits to this same group of illegal aliens.&#8221;

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Iconic Canadian broadcaster Don Cherry was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-don-cherry-fired-for-telling-immigrants-to-honor-fallen-vets-responds-to-backlash">fired</a> from his job with Sportsnet this week after using his “Coach’s Corner” segment to encourage immigrants to honor fallen troops. Cherry was apparently upset that a diminishing number of people in the Toronto area wear the traditional poppy pins to commemorate Canada’s Remembrance Day. He (not unreasonably) connected this drop off in traditional observance to the increasing number of immigrants in the area. Here’s how he put it:
<blockquote>“You people love — you, that come here, whatever it is — you love our way of life, you love our milk and honey. At least you could pay a couple of bucks for poppies or something like that. These guys paid for your way of life, that you enjoy in Canada.”</blockquote>
The worst thing you could possibly say about these comments is that they’re a little bit gruff. But Don Cherry is 85 years old and 85-year-old men have earned the right to be gruff. Other than this lack of diplomacy, there is nothing remotely offensive or bigoted in his point of view on this issue. He isn’t telling immigrants not to come to Canada. He isn’t saying they are inferior to, or less than, himself. He certainly isn&#8217;t saying anything &#8220;<a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nhl/2019/11/11/don-cherry-fired-racist-anti-immigrant-comment/2566800001/">racist</a>,&#8221; as USA Today matter-of-factly put it. He doesn&#8217;t mention race at all and could just as easily be talking about immigrants from a mostly white country. His only point, it seems to me, is to lament a perceived deficit of patriotism and gratitude.
Of course, we live in a time when the only thing more lacking than patriotism is fortitude, so everyone associated with Cherry immediately threw him under the bus and prostrated themselves before the outrage mob. The president of Sportsnet, Bart Yablsey (a fitting name, somehow), announced Cherry’s firing while publicly scolding him for &#8220;divisive remarks&#8221; that &#8220;do not represent our values.&#8221;
The NHL chimed in with its own bit of finger-wagging, accusing Cherry of saying things &#8220;that are in direct conflict with the values of diversity and inclusion that we embrace as pillars of the sport.&#8221; Hockey used to be a game where rough men got their teeth knocked out. Now the National Hockey League delivers lectures on &#8220;inclusion.&#8221; We are truly living in &#8220;Idiocracy,&#8221; except everyone has lost their spines as well as their brains.
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Speaking of spineless, Cherry’s longtime co-host, Ron MacLean, who sat and nodded while Cherry was making these comments, tried desperately to keep his job by knifing his friend in the back. MacLean, doing his best to pretend that he understands why people are upset about this nonsense, called Cherry’s remarks &#8220;hurtful, discriminatory&#8221; and &#8220;flat-out wrong.&#8221; He even thanked the whiney masses for &#8220;calling Don and me on that&#8221; and teaching them a &#8220;great lesson.&#8221; Then his skin turned translucent and he morphed into a literal jellyfish on live TV.
I think there are two points to be made about all of this.
First, Don Cherry was correct. It is indeed important to inculcate patriotism and gratitude in all citizens. As for immigrants, it is their responsibility to assimilate themselves to their new country and show a proper respect for the traditions of their adopted home. Cherry’s point is a good one: If you’re immigrating to a country in order to enjoy its freedoms and luxuries, you should appreciate that many people had to die in order to provide you that opportunity. If there is not enough appreciation for that fact, who should we be scolding — Don Cherry, or the people who made his comments necessary in the first place?
Second, let’s pretend for a moment that Don Cherry’s comments really were &#8220;hurtful&#8221; and &#8220;discriminatory,&#8221; like his aquatic broadcasting partner claims. Could they possibly be more hurtful and discriminatory than a blackface costume? And if they don’t &#8220;represent the values&#8221; of Canadians, then does a man who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/blackface-photo-justin-trudeau-surfaces-trudeau-ryan-saavedra">wore blackface multiple times</a> represent them?
The hypocrisy is so blatant that it probably doesn’t need to be pointed out, but I will anyway. There was so much outrage in Canada over opinions expressed by a television host that the host was fired. Yet the prime minister of the country wore blackface and still won re-election. Of course, we Americans have no room to gloat. Megyn Kelly was fired from her job at NBC just for talking about blackface.
It just goes to show that these faux-racism outrages are political and performative. Calling the outrage mob &#8220;sensitive&#8221; or &#8220;snowflakes&#8221; misses the point and gives them too much credit. They aren’t sensitive — they’re just frauds.

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Apprehensions and arrests of immigrants attempting to cross the United States&#8217; southern border illegally were down again in October, and arrests have plummeted a whopping 75% since the Trump Administration took action on illegal immigration back in May.
<a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-mexico-border-arrests-fall-in-october-11573404080">The Wall Street Journal</a> reports that only 36,000 illegal immigrants were arrested in October, a 10% drop from the number of apprehensions in September, and a 75% drop from the 132,856 illegal immigrants arrested in May.
But that doesn&#8217;t mean 2019 wasn&#8217;t a record year for illegal migration.
&#8220;Overall, more than 850,000 migrants were apprehended at the border in 2019, a 12-year high for the year ended in September, driven by a rise in families fleeing violence and poverty in Central America to seek asylum protections in the U.S.,&#8221; the WSJ says.
October, though, was the fifth straight month of decline, and <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/11/11/20959291/southern-us-mexico-border-apprehensions-cbp-arrests-migrant-immigrant-numbers-october">even the left-leaning Vox</a> was forced to admit that President Donald Trump&#8217;s anti-illegal immigration efforts appear to be &#8220;having their intended effect.&#8221; Fewer individuals are seeking asylum at the southern border, and many asylum-seekers &#8212; particularly those who snaked their way to the United States&#8217; southern border through Mexico from places like Honduras and Guatemala, are choosing to return to their home countries.
&#8220;The decline in border apprehensions, which have decreased by about 75 percent since their height of 132,856 in May, and 10 percent in the last month alone, appears to be due to more than typical seasonal fluctuations and suggests that President Donald Trump’s immigration policies are having their intended effect,&#8221; Vox wrote Tuesday.
Oddly enough, the drop may have little to do with President Trump&#8217;s signature anti-immigration measure, a border wall. Only a handful of sections have been raised since the President demanded billions for the structure in the 2018 Federal budget, and at least one of those sections &#8212; a prototype wall in California &#8212; was up only a few short hours before smugglers cut the steel slats and bent a hole, allowing for easy entry into the United States.
Instead, the drop may have to do more with Trump&#8217;s anti-immigration policies, including a pair of controversial measures &#8212; the &#8220;Remain in Mexico&#8221; policy, and a pressure campaign on Mexican and Central American governments &#8212; designed to cut down on the number of asylum seekers presenting themselves to American border officials.
Trump&#8217;s &#8220;Remain in Mexico&#8221; policy requires that asylum seekers who, under previous administrations, might have been allowed to stay in the United States pending adjudication of their asylum claims, are now being turned back into Mexico to await asylum hearings on the other side of the border. The result? Many Central American asylum seekers are either taking Mexico&#8217;s offers of temporary work visas or immigration status, or returning to their home countries.
Around 55,000 migrants have been turned away under the &#8220;Remain in Mexico&#8221; policy.
The Trump Administration has also been putting pressure on the Mexican government to step up their own border control and to ramp up efforts to capture and deport illegal immigrants in Mexico before they reach the United States. &#8221; [A]fter Trump threatened to impose tariffs on all Mexican goods in June, the Mexican government deployed a record 15,000 troops to detain over 31,000 migrants that month and almost 19,000 in July,&#8221; Vox reported.
The decrease is also clearly noticeable in Washington, D.C.; Democrats have stopped using immigration and, in particular, overcrowding at border patrol facilities, as a wedge issue. Instead, most 2020 Democrats have pivoted to abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and declaring a moratorium on deportations to appeal to pro-immigration activists on the far left.

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Over the weekend, President Donald Trump approved a new annual refugee cap of 18,000, the lowest since the U.S. program began in 1980. The reduction follows news that America took a pause last month and refused to admit any new refugees. On economic, public safety and national security grounds, this is a very good thing for the 325 million people already in our country. But you wouldn&#8217;t know it from the grim headlines and hysterical condemnations by globalist zealots and media sympathizers.
CNN International led the open borders funeral procession last week, with a report decrying, &#8220;No refugees will be resettled in the US in October, leaving hundreds in limbo around the world.&#8221; U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) hyperventilated that &#8220;Donald Trump is trying to destroy the very heart of this nation. I won&#8217;t let him.&#8221; Social justice group CARE bemoaned this &#8220;dark moment in our nation&#8217;s history.&#8221; Human Rights First complained that Trump&#8217;s proposal is &#8220;crippling the United States&#8217; status as a global leader in refugee resettlement.&#8221;
Heaven forbid citizens in a sovereign nation have an effective say in who comes here, from where and how many. Is one refugee-less month in America such a catastrophe? Calm down, Chicken Littles. Get some perspective.
It is most certainly true that America has a legacy of embracing people from around the world fleeing persecution and war. After World War II, the U.S. helped lead efforts to assist 650,000 displaced Europeans who had fled in fear, were expelled and were victims of Nazi crimes and terror. Congress passed the 1948 Displaced Persons Act to accommodate them. Five years later, the Refugee Relief Act of 1953 aided refugees from Italy and East Germany escaping Communist regimes, adding another 250,000 refugees over four years. In the 1950s and 1960s, we welcomed Hungarians, Cubans and Czechoslovakians also escaping Communist oppression. In the 1970s, we opened our doors to an estimated 300,000 political refugees from Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. The Refugee Act of 1980 created the Office of Refugee Resettlement and office of U.S. Coordinator for Refugee Affairs and raised the annual ceiling of admissions to 50,000.
Under Obama, that number soared to nearly 100,000 annually. The idea that we&#8217;ve abandoned our humanitarian leadership role because of this refugee resettlement reduction is ludicrous. Overall, since 1975, the U.S. has resettled more than 3 million refugees. Under Trump, the U.S. still accepted more refugees than any other country in both 2017 and 2018. On top of that, America forked over nearly $1.6 billion to support the U.N.&#8217;s refugee resettlement campaign. Moreover, America remains the largest single country provider of humanitarian assistance worldwide. Total U.S. humanitarian assistance was more than $8 billion in fiscal year 2017, covering food, shelter, health care and access to clean water for millions.
That&#8217;s enough.
Past refugee admissions don&#8217;t lock America into those same levels now or in the future. America&#8217;s constitutional duty is to Americans first (&#8220;ourselves and our posterity&#8221;). The truth is that we&#8217;ve been generous to a ruinous, open borders fault. Last year, the Federation for American Immigration Reform tallied refugee resettlement costs to taxpayers at nearly $9 billion over five years.
In my adopted home state of Colorado, a new University of Colorado Boulder study acknowledged that refugees are often &#8220;trapped in chronic poverty&#8221; after resettlement subsidies dry up and are unable to lift themselves out of dependency on government aid such as public housing, Medicaid and food stamps. Federal statistics show that nearly half of all refugee households receive cash welfare. Chain migration perpetuates the cycle of poverty.
A tiny cabal of government contractors, mostly religious groups cloaking their profit-seeking in compassion and Scripture, perpetuates the refugee resettlement racket. Openly hostile to American sovereignty, these people spread their tax-subsidized syndicate&#8217;s wealth to a vast network of subcontractors, often tied to billionaire George Soros and his Open Society Foundations, which promote global governance and unfettered migration espoused by the United Nations, European Union and Vatican. These special interests have systematically blurred the lines between legitimate refugees seeking asylum from oppression and economic migrants from Central America clamoring for higher wages or better welfare benefits. They&#8217;re indifferent to the national security risks of absorbing large numbers of Muslims whose adherence to repressive sharia and religious jihad is utterly incompatible with our constitutional principles.
Mass migration champions have stretched the definition of refugee so thin that &#8220;climate change refugees&#8221; seeking relief from uninhabitable environments are now a phenomenon. Nuts. Doesn&#8217;t America have enough residents in need of shelter and support? If we let in millions of &#8220;climate change refugees,&#8221; where do Americans seek refuge when they render our climate uninhabitable?
Only a complete moratorium on immigration would give America the break it needs to regain control of our system. Trump&#8217;s refugee reduction is not an apocalypse. It&#8217;s a long overdue respite from the world&#8217;s wretched refuse that deserves cheers, not jeers.
Michelle Malkin&#8217;s email address is MichelleMalkinInvestigates@protonmail.com. To find out more about Michelle Malkin and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.

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Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren made remarks about illegal immigration during a town hall in North Carolina on Friday that are likely to turn off voters across the political spectrum.
During the first exchange, a Hispanic woman who spoke through a translator asked Warren if she would deport illegal aliens who had criminal records.
Transcript of the first set of Warren&#8217;s remarks that are likely to be problematic for her:
<blockquote>Translator: I have two questions. If you become president, will you pass a moratorium on deportations? And, if the answer is yes, will you be willing to include people like my husband with criminal records as part of that moratorium?
Warren: I am so sorry for the troubles that you and your five children face. So, I am open to suspending deportations particularly as a way to push Congress for comprehensive immigration reform. I believe that what we&#8217;re doing right now with ICE focusing on people who do not pose a threat &#8230; that they do not make this country safer.</blockquote>
The woman, through her translator, stated that her husband has a criminal record and Warren responded by saying that she was open to not deporting people with criminal records and suggested that targeting people like that for deportation does &#8220;not make this country safer.&#8221;
A Harvard/Harris from June 2019 found that the majority of Americans support mass deportations of all illegal aliens, not just those who have criminal records.
While there were no easily accessible polls asking voters whether they supported deporting criminal illegal aliens, a Gallup poll from a few years ago asked Americans:
<blockquote>Would you favor or oppose each of the following as part of legislation to address the issue of illegal immigration? How about &#8212; Allowing illegal immigrants already in the country the opportunity to become U.S. citizens if they meet certain requirements over a period of time, including paying taxes and a penalty, passing a criminal background check and learning English?</blockquote>
Gallup received the following results from the question:
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<li>National adults- Favor: 88%. Oppose: 12%.</li>
<li>Non-Hispanic Whites- Favor: 87%. Oppose: 13%.</li>
<li>Blacks- Favor: 89%. Oppose: 10%.</li>
<li>Hispanics- Favor 92%. Oppose 8%.</li>
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The fact that nearly 9 out of 10 of all Americans support illegal aliens needing to pass a criminal background check to become a U.S. Citizen likely means that there is a high possibility that a very high percentage of Americans would also oppose allowing criminal illegal aliens to remain in the United States.
Transcript of the second set of Warren&#8217;s remarks that are likely to be problematic for her:
<blockquote>Warren: We need ICE and Customs and Border Patrol just focused on real threats from terrorism, threats container shipping that comes into the United States, contraband that we need to worry about, fentanyl that we need to be focused on. there are places that we should focus for our safety.
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The Trump administration&#8217;s notion of anyone who has violated any law means that they can&#8217;t even be considered to stay is wrong. I don&#8217;t know the particular circumstances in your case, but I do know because I&#8217;ve met people who are now held because they had a traffic violation and that&#8217;s how they got picked up and then once they got swept into the system ICE is trying to deport them or has deported people. That&#8217;s fundamentally wrong. People who have been treated as criminals simply for having crossed the border, this is part of why I have supported decriminalizing border crossings.</blockquote>
Warren&#8217;s claim that &#8220;we need ICE&#8221; is supported by the majority of Americans, but is not supported by the majority of Democrats. In fact, &#8220;a plurality of Democratic voters do support abolishing ICE,&#8221; according to a POLITICO/Morning Consult <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2018/07/11/immigration-ice-abolish-poll-708703">poll</a>.
Warren&#8217;s support for decriminalizing border crossings is overwhelmingly opposed by the majority of Americans, according to a NPR/PBS News Hour/Marist poll.
The poll found that 66% of Americans said that it was a bad and the <a href="https://theweek.com/speedreads/854249/even-most-democrats-dont-support-decriminalizing-border-crossings-poll-finds">majority</a> of Republicans and Democrats said that they were opposed to the idea.
In a separate interaction during the townhall, Warren answered a question from a man who asked about providing health care to illegal aliens.
Transcript of the third set of Warrens&#8217; remarks that are likely to be problematic for her:
<blockquote>Questioner: I need to ask you a question today about healthcare access. restrictions to ADA and Medicare meant that in 2017 approximately 6.3 million non-citizen immigrant women of reproductive age were far more likely to be uninsured than naturalized immigrants or citizen women. we know that you have included undocumented people in your plans to provide Medicare for all. so, my question is, why did you decide to include people regardless of immigration status and would this include obtaining subsidies like the Affordable Care Act&#8217;s affordability subsidies? and second, would you also support access to the children&#8217;s health insurance program without regard to immigration status?
Warren: Okay, good. so, let&#8217;s start, I know I&#8217;m really glad you asked this, on Medicare for all, as I put this together, covers everyone regardless of immigration status and that&#8217;s it.</blockquote>
Warren&#8217;s support for giving illegal aliens is overwhelming <a href="https://theweek.com/speedreads/854249/even-most-democrats-dont-support-decriminalizing-border-crossings-poll-finds">opposed</a> by the majority of Americans, 62%, who say that it is a bad idea. The only demographic that was in favor of the idea was Democratic voters, although moderate Democrats did not support the idea.

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A Halloween party at the White House last week invited children and their families to help &#8220;Build the Wall&#8221; by creating a paper mural with their own personalized bricks.
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&#8220;The party, which took place inside the office building used by White House staff, included the families of executive-branch employees and VIP guests inside and outside government,&#8221; reports <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/white-house-childre-build-the-wall-halloween_n_5dbdf8b3e4b0576b62a2e141">HuffPost</a>. Even though many of the attendees were members of President Trump’s administration, not everyone thought the Halloween game was a treat.&#8221;
Here is just one photo of the display:
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EXCLUSIVE: At a White House Halloween party, children were encouraged to help “Build the Wall” with their own personalized bricks <a href="https://t.co/ckofO1fIrY">https://t.co/ckofO1fIrY</a> by <a href="https://twitter.com/janawinter?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@janawinter</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/hunterw?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@hunterw</a> &amp; <a href="https://twitter.com/CEDickson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CEDickson</a> <a href="https://t.co/X6QExgMNZ4">pic.twitter.com/X6QExgMNZ4</a>
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Children dressed in costumes were given brick-colored paper and asked to write their names down to form the display. Their &#8220;bricks&#8221; were taped to a wall on, forming a &#8220;Build the Wall&#8221; display on the first floor of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building.
The &#8220;Wall&#8221; was the work of an EEOB staffer, not the president&#8217;s or vice president&#8217;s office directly.
&#8220;Earlier in the week offices inside the EEOB had been instructed to put together kid-friendly displays for trick-or-treaters,&#8221; continued HuffPost. &#8220;The displays were supposed to be interactive and inspiring, and all were supposed to address the party’s theme: &#8216;When I grow up I want to be…'&#8221;
Though the vice president&#8217;s ceremonial office is located on the building&#8217;s second floor, a spokesperson for Mike Pence said his office had no hand in the display.
“Our ceremonial office had a plane display,” the spokesperson said. “We had kids build their own paper airplanes and fly them. That’s what the VP came to. He came to our ceremonial office.”
One person in attendance told Yahoo News on the condition of anonymity that they were horrified by the display. “Horrified. We were horrified,&#8221; the person said.
One anonymous official in the Trump administration felt people were making too big a deal out of the display. “Everyone loses their minds over everything, and nothing can be funny anymore,” the person said.
One Republican congressional staffer frankly said, &#8220;Who gives a s*** about EEOB having Halloween decorations.”
Ben Rohrbaugh, who worked on National Security Council on border security in the Obama administration, told Yahoo News that the wall is a &#8220;xenophobic symbol.&#8221;
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“To the extent the wall is just a xenophobic symbol, this is obviously a gross thing to have children do,” said Rohrbaugh. “To the extent it’s a representation of an actual wall on the southwest border, the kids have made nearly as much progress as the president has since 2017.”
Nate Snyder, who previously served in the Department of Homeland Security as a counterterrorism official, said the White House never created such political displays during the Obama administration.
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“We never did anything like this in the Obama administration,” said Snyder. “We hung up skeletons and ghosts.”
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Immigration activists were also disturbed by the display. Erika Andiola, the chief advocacy officer for pro-immigration non-profit RAICES, said a border wall should never have been part of a children&#8217;s Halloween party.
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“I don’t think they understand the amount of pain that people are going through at the border for them to make a joke out of it,” Andiola said. “We still are dealing with children in cages even if people are not calling it that, so it’s not a joke.”
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Frank Sharry, executive director of America’s Voice, said the display dehumanized brown people. “It screams to white grievance voters that ‘real Americans’ should fear, exclude and dehumanize brown people,” Sharry said. “Only in Trump’s White House would a holiday event centered on kids, costumes and candy become a propaganda opportunity for his racism and xenophobia.”
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