Thursday, August 25, 2016
Trump's Immigration Policy Is and Will Remain Conservative, with America's Welfare and Safety in First Place
Both Donald Trump and his new campaign manager Kellyanne Conway said on Thursday that Trump's stance on immigration is "what it's always been," rejecting concerns that he's softened his stance on the hardline policies he's backed since the beginning of his campaign last summer. Conway told CNN's Chris Cuomo : "Donald Trump's against amnesty." Cuomo told Conway that Trump's words could sound like a departure for other hardliners, who call for deportation, but Conway said what "voters need to see is what Donald Trump is saying his immigration plan is. That plan is 'no amnesty, no sanctuary cities' so that innocent victims like Kate Steinle who was murdered right in front of her father in San Francisco, by a man who had been deported five times. That should outrage everybody in the United States, regardless of their political affiliation." Conway added that Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton supports sanctuary cities and amnesty : "She's actually considerably to the left of [President] Barack Obama on the issue of immigration, and the only way the voters are going to know that is if we tell them." Trump's plans also continue to include building "the wall" at the US-Mexico border, she added. Conway told Cuomo Trump is now working on a new message on immigration with Alabama GOP Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama, who calls for a border, and with Stephen Miller, a Trump advisor and former Sessions staff worker. Both men are "immigration experts," Conway told Cuomo. "I think that they are trying to find a way for Donald Trump to articulate to Americans a very complex issue and how he feels about it." ~~~~~~ Donald Trump's son Eric told CNBC on Wednesday that his father is not flip-flopping on immigration...he wants "America to come first." Eric said : "We've got a lot of problems in this country and we need to take care of our own first." His explanation came as the mainstream media is trying to
use the immigration issue to once more attack Trump as changeable and unable to develop serious policies. This bru-ha-ha started simply because Donald Trump eased his call for total deportation of all undocumented immigrants -- a proposal that everyone knows is, in practical terms, impossible. In a "Hannity" town hall on Fox News, Donald Trump said Tuesday he's open to "softening" laws dealing with undocumented immigrants, indicating his policies could allow "working with" some undocumented immigrants to stay in the United States,
drawing comparisons to Jeb Bush and departing from calls he'd made before about deporting the 11 million or more undocumented immigrants living in the country : "No citizenship. Let me go a step further -- they'll pay back-taxes, they have to pay taxes, there's no amnesty, as such, there's no amnesty, but we work with them," Trump told Hannity, promising “no amnesty” for undocumented immigrants, adding that his administration would “work with” those who came to America illegally years ago and haven’t committed other crimes. ~~~~~~ Trump’s
Wednesday speech in Tampa, which has a large community of Cuban immigrants, included a departure from his prepared remarks as he reached out to Hispanic voters : “To the Hispanic parent, you have a right to walk outside without being shot. You have a right to good education for your child....You have a right to own your home. You have a right to have a good job. I am going to fight to give every Hispanic citizen in this country a better future.” Later, Wednesday evening in Jackson, Mississippi, Trump accused the media of downplaying the “plight of Americans who have lost their children to illegal immigrants” while the media "pushes for amnesty.” He told the crowd that any immigration policy he blesses must improve wages, jobs, safety and quality of life for US citizens. ~~~~~~ Conservative commentators are not happy with Trump's immigration expanations this week. Ann Coulter wrote on Twitter that his immigration statements could risk his losing the support of his base while he works to engage Hispanic voters. Meanwhile, the Trump campaign has rescheduled his immigration speech for next Wednesday in Phoenix, according to The Arizona Republic. Arizona is the home of one of Trump’s top supporters, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who has made his name thanks to his hard-line position on immigration. And, Arpaio told CNN on Wednesday : “I’m not disappointed. He’s going to...study the law, and he’s going to follow the law and see where that takes us on enforcing the illegal immigration problem that we have.” ~~~~~~ Trump spokeswoman Katrina Pierson told CNN : "What he has always said from the beginning is that he does not want to allow people to stay in this country illegally. He does want to build a wall. Everyone on the news is saying that he's a bigot and that he's a racist because of the words that he uses...he's simply saying, yeah, we are going to follow the law. We are going to enforce the law. ~~~~~~ Concerning the immigration issue related to Trump's stand on not letting terrorists into the US, there is an immigration law on the books that was enacted in 1952 -- the McCarren-Walter Act [officially the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952] that supports his position. All the counterpunching, with the media, Democrats and Hillary Clinton calling him racist, bigoted and ignorant about US law and the Constitution -- overlooks the historical fact of the McCarren-Walter Act, making one wonder if any of the people Americans elect to Congress or the White House have the slightest idea about laws that already exist. Trump is severely criticized for suggesting that the US should limit or temporarily suspend the immigration of certain ethnic groups, nationalities, and even people of certain religions (Moslems). The criticisms condemn such a suggestion as, among other things, being un-American, dumb, stupid, reckless, dangerous and racist.
Congressmen and Senators have sworn that they would never allow such legislation, and President Obama called such a prohibition on immigration unconstitutional. Surprise! The selective immigration ban is already law and has been applied on several occasions. The McCarran-Walter Act allows for the "Suspension of entry or imposition of restrictions by the President. Whenever the President finds that the entry of aliens or of any class of aliens into the United States would be detrimental to the interests of the United States, the President may, by proclamation, and for such period as he shall deem necessary, suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens as immigrants or non-immigrants or impose on the entry of aliens any restrictions he may deem to be appropriate." The act was utilized by Democrat President Jimmy Carter in 1979 to keep Iranians out of the United States, but he actually did more. He made all Iranian students already in hte US check in, and then he deported many. Seven thousand were found in violation of their visas, 15,000 Iranians were forced to leave the United States in 1979. It is of note that the McCarren-Walter Act also requires that an applicant for immigration "must be of good moral character and attached to the principles of the Constitution." ~~~~~~ Dear readers, this, too, shall pass. Like every other attempt by Progressives, Democrats, Obama and Hillary to tar and feather Donald Trump for putting the welfare and safety of Americans first, their current effort to destroy him by attacking his immigration position will fail. It is clear that Trump is simply trying to : (1) clarify that it is not possible to deport 11 million people, but it is possible to deport all illegals with criminal records; (2) with this in focus, mold the rest of his immigration policy into a plan that is not amnesty, and does not reward illegal entry with citizenship; (3) enforce immigration law as it exists and add to it what is missing so that the current abandonment of immigration law enforcement is stopped; and, (4) close the borders, building a wall where needed, and support and strengthen the Border Patrol so that the flood of illegal immigrants is ended. That makes a lot of sense to me, and it certainly beats the Obama/Hillary open borders-amnesty policy that got America into the mess it is in today.
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Some of the most pressing of issues—immigration, trade, and foreign policy—Donald Trump’s “America First” positions are more align with traditional conservatism than are those of any other candidate. That is, they clash with the neoconservatism, the faux “conservatism,” that the GOP Establishment and its media apologists have promoted for decades as the genuine article.
ReplyDeleteIn Trump’s nearly 70 years, until very recently, he has done little to nothing to indicate that he has so much as an awareness of the classical conservative tradition, much less a commitment to it. Even if he really believes all that he is now saying, the inability of one person, even if he is the President, to accomplish what Trump vows to achieve supplies grounds for skepticism.
Neither is the Supreme Court, as so many Republicans would have us think, necessarily a sufficient reason to vote for Trump. Republicans play the Democrats’ game when they attempt to scare voters into thinking that, unless the latter reward them with political offices, the opposition party, by way of its Supreme Court Justice nominees, will deprive them of their guns, speech, borders, etc. However, Article Three, Section II of the US Constitution explicitly states that “the Supreme Court shall have appellate jurisdiction, both as to law and fact, with such exceptions, and under such regulations as the Congress shall make.”
In short, Republicans could’ve ended years ago judicial tyranny by simply exercising their Congressional authority to determine which topics would fall within the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court – but didn’t and most likely won’. Why because most of the Republicans inside the Washington D.C. Beltway are less “real” conservative than is Donald Trump.
Trump is no traditional conservative certainly. He’s no libertarian. Yet he has taken a crucial first step, a step that no one else had proven willing to take.
And for this, he has got my solid vote.
This may have absolutely nothing to do with today’s article from Casey Pops, but …
ReplyDeleteI think that for the non-political driven people out there is so mush supported TRUTH about Bill and Hillary Clinton, and the Clinton Foundation and their abuse of power and influence, their self-validated authority, their running ruff shard over everything and everybody that they have become deaf to it all and that is why Hillary still remains higher in the polls approval than what we ‘political types’ comprehend.
People simply can’t digest that 2 people could for what some 30 years able to stay free and walking the streets as Bill and Hillary are, and have done what they have been proven to have done.
They comprehend that is ‘harr’ stops at a bar each night going home and has a drink too many he will eventually get stopped by a policeman for some unconnected car problem and get a DUI (driving under the influence of alcohol).
Simply put “JUSTICE” will eventually win out, except it is not in Bill and Hillary’s case, not even close to it being. It’s not and I don’t today believe they will ever be called upon to answer in a court of Law for their behavior.
Today from the House Committee investigating Hillary (in total) that her team of lawyers used a computer program called “Bleach Bit’ to scrub her computer/Server hard drive totally clean. We know this and still NO INDICTMENTS – W H Y???
I’m sure the answer is legally simple, maybe Casey Pops could tell us why sometime.
For decades, there has been a virtual consensus across the whole political spectrum that “Washington,” a.k.a. “the System,” is “broken.” At any frequency, that Americans share this insight explains why those politicians running for office every election cycle repeatedly assure us that they are the candidates to “fix” the mess—even though they never do anything but further grease the wheels of the Government-Media apparatus. And for some unknown reason we keep electing these saviors of the System; or when they stumble we find new saviors to elect.
ReplyDeleteTrump, in stark contrast, and in as little as 14 or so months, has ripped the System asunder. He hasn’t just talked about the cancer. He has vindicated in spades the suspicions of citizens by revealing just how advanced it is. Beyond this, Trump, through his “creative destruction,” as Ilana Mercer describes the Trump phenomenon in her latest book, has spared no occasion to administer heavy-duty blasts of chemo. Whether he recognizes it or not, Trump seems to instinctively know that before the patient can get better, he must get worse. He seems to know that the treatment is sometimes worse than the illness.
I’m not backing Trump because of what he promises to do in the future. I’m backing him because of what he’s done already. Trump has been a one-man wrecking crew, shattering the sacred cows of both the Democrat and Republican wings of the Establishment. He has driven those in the “mainstream” media to relinquish the remaining vestiges of their authority by abandoning so much as the pretense of “objectivity” in their coverage of him even as he has unveiled the hypocrisy, opportunism, and pseudo-conservatism of their counterparts in the “conservative” media.
If things are ever to change for the better, this shaking up is necessary. In serving as the voice of tens of millions of previously voiceless Americans—the early 20th century political theorist William Graham Sumner referred to them (collectively) as “the Forgotten Man.”
Whether he wins or loses in November, Trump and America has already won, for he’s succeeded in emboldening scores of Americans who would have otherwise remained disengaged, Americans who will not go quietly into the night or even back to voting for the Bushes, Kasich’s, and Romney’s. He has made it acceptable, indeed in vogue , even necessary, to talk aloud about issues that have long been neglected by the partisans of both parties.
In recent months, we’ve seen the rise of a movement known as the “Alt-Right,” which seeks to replace constitutional conservatism – rooted in ordered liberty, patriotism, and in the Judeo-Christian founding – with European-style nationalism/populism. Hillary Clinton is set to deliver a speech today addressing her feigned outrage over the rise of the Alt-Right, and in her mind, how it embodies the entire Right in this country.
ReplyDeleteWhat nobody in the media bothers to mention is that we are having all of these debates on the Right precisely because there are different points of view. On the Left, there is no longer any debate. Every single elected Democrat is now a full-throated member of an extremist coalition the media refuses to recognize: the “Alt-Left,” and Hillary Clinton herself was the original pioneer of the modern movement. This is a movement that is not just liberal but seeks to fundamentally alter the character of our nation as founded. Hillary’s existing Democrat Party is a mirror image of what the political Right in America would look like if all of its prominent figures and elected officials had accounts at Stormfront.org, the neo-Nazi internet forum.
To a greater or lesser (depending on your views of Hillary Clinton) we have Donald Trump for this awakening of the “Conservative Right”