Good News from President Trump on the Budget and the Honduras Caravan, and from Others about the #1 US Economy, and Exposing Abortion

THERE IS GOOD NEWS TODAY. The economy. Abortion horrors outed in a new film. The borders, Honduras and Soros • • • TRUMP TURNS HIS ATTENTION TO THE DEFICIT. President Trump told reporters at the White House on Wednesday : "Cutting spending is ‘not as tough as you think.’ And, in a Fox Business Network interview, the President said the federal budget has lots of fat that can be trimmed. President Trump vowed Wednesday to take a hatchet to the federal budget, attacking a deficit that is spiraling out of control. He told Fox Business host Stuart Varney : "We’re going to do a lot of cutting of the budget.” • Everybody in Washington talks about the budget and cutting spending, and Trump himself took cuts to entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare off the table when he launched his presidential campaign in 2015. But, during his 2016 campaign, Trump also promised to “Drain the Swamp” and "Make America Great Again," and that requires reversing the federal govenrment's spending habits accumulated since the 1930s New Deal. • In March, President Trump reluctantly signed a $1.3 trillion spending bill that blew away spending caps that had slowed the growth of domestic programs. BUT, Trump told Varney that it will be easy to cut the budget : “It’s not as tough as you think and, frankly, there’s a lot of fat in there, but we had to get the military done last time. You know, President Obama let it go, and I could say beyond President Obama, the military was in terrible shape. Now we’ve got $700 billion approved and we got $716 billion, two years, and our military is rebuilding like it’s never been, really never happened, before." • Yet, the spending undertaken by Trump are leading to another trillion-dollar annual deficit. Trump explained that to get the military spending hike : “We had to give up things to the Democrats that I hated to give up, that you wouldn’t have liked, but I had to.” • Trump’s comments come as a Treasury Department report this week showed that the deficit for the fiscal year that ended September 30 ballooned to $779 billion, the largest since 2012. Michael Peterson, chairman and CEO of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, pointed to projections that the deficit soon could exceed $1 trillion. Peterson says : “As troubling as this year’s deficit is, it’s just the beginning of large and growing deficits as far as the eye can see. Trillion-dollar annual deficits are expected to return as soon as next year and continue indefinitely, driving historically high and dangerous levels of debt.” • But, on wednesday, President Trump told reporters in the White House before a Cabinet meeting that he would ask each secretary to cut 5% from department budgets in the coming fiscal year. The President last month signed an $854 billion spending measure to keep the federal government in business through December 7 while congressional negotiators work on a spending plan to fund the government for the entire fiscal year. • Trump told Varney in the Fox interview that he plans to continue cutting regulations : “You know, it used to take 21 years to get a highway built -- you know, bad case -- but it would take 21 years. We’re trying to bring that down to two, and maybe even one. And by the way, if it’s not right, we’re not going to approve it, but we’re not going to take 21 years to find out whether or not we can do it.” • President Trump said he’d propose a $700 billion budget for military spending in fiscal 2020, which would be about a $15 billion increase over total appropriations for the Defense Department this year. It’s “a very substantial number,” Trump said, “but it’s defense, it’s important.” • Heritage Foundation's Daily Signal reported that Justin Bogie, senior policy analyst in fiscal affairs for The Heritage Foundation says : : "Given the $779 billion budget deficit, and a 13% increase in discretionary spending from 2017 to 2018, each department should be able to cut 5%....Federal spending is also set to increase by more than 3% from 2018 to 2019. Congress and federal agencies should adhere to the 2011 Budget Control Act, which limits the growth in spending. Congress should stick to the current discretionary budget caps and, moving forward, should look to implement a cap on all spending. We support defense spending to the level needed. But if you increase it, you should find a way to pay for it through cuts elsewhere.” • The President acknowledged that some fiscal hawks likely won’t believe a 5% cut is enough : “Some will say I can do much more than 5 [percent]....It will get rid of the fat, get rid of the waste. It’ll have a huge impact.” • Such a cut is achievable, since government spending increased by 16% in the previous two years, said Maya MacGuineas, president of the nonprofit Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget : “We should be able to scale back one-third of that, easily. A 5% cut will actually cost money, though, since current law brings back budget caps next year that equal a 10% cut. So going with 5% over 10% means a $63 billion deficit increase just for a single year. Something will have to give if we stay on our current track. With trillion-dollar deficits returning in as soon as a year -- indefinitely -- 5% budget cuts to a small portion of the budget will pale in comparison to what will be needed in 15 years. Thoughtful reforms phased in now over time will be much better for the American people and economic growth." • Presidential budget proposals rarely are enacted by Congress. The roadblock, as always, is Senate Democrats, who refuse to go along with deep spending cuts. Trump and the GOP need the Democrats because Senate rules require 60 votes to pass spending bills, and Republicans have only 51 votes. • However nthe Trump Cabinet has members who previously ran large organizations and will have expertise in managing waste, said Tom Schatz, president of the nonprofit Citizens Against Government Waste : “This is better than nothing, but we’d like to see more. It’s achievable. We’d rather see a 10% cut. If this was the Trump Organization,” Schatz said of the president, “he could say he wants a 10% cut and employees would come back with 15%. But given how government works, 5% is a good start.” • The important thing is that PResident Trump has zeroed in on the budget. With his two-year track record for getting things done, even in the federal government Sammp, his attention is the key to cutting the budget back and managing the deficit. Nexwt trop -- the national debt. And, that will repsond downwardly as Trump's economy continues to grow and tax revenues increase. • • • THE US IS AGAIN THE WORLD'S #1 ECONOMY. The World Economic Forum’s (WEF) 2018 World Competitiveness Report ranks the United States No. 1 in global competitiveness, up from No. 3 in the past few years and its first top ranking in a decade. A high ranking matters. As the WEF reports : “Global competitiveness is determined by the set of institutions, policies and factors that determine the level of productivity of a country....And productivity leads to growth...and improved well-being. The US’s top ranking therefore suggests a lot of growth and prosperity to come." • According to the Davos elite-of -all-th-elites (who are no fans of Donald Trump), the US is indeed “great again,” to borrow a Trumpian slogan. It is the country, according to the WEF, that should best prosper in Davos’ “fourth industrial revolution.” • As the world’s most innovative economy, America is well positioned to take advantage of the new competitive environment. This should be welcome news for the Trump administration and a Republican Party fighting to retain control of Congress. • The WEF ranks each of the 140 countries they study according to what they identify as the determinants of productivity and dynamism. The individual country scores are determined by a combination of executive opinion surveys and quantitative measures. Which countries, they ask, will better be able to compete in the age of social media, robotics, big data and whatever else may come. The 2018 World Competitiveness Report ranks countries according to 12 productivity-enhancing “pillars,” among them legal institutions, infrastructure, macroeconomic stability, skills of the labor force, product and labor markets, the financial system and innovation capability. The U.S. ranks in the top three in more than half of the categories and is in first place in three categories -- labor market, the financial system and business dynamism. The US trails only Germany in innovation capability. • The US labor market is flexible, unlike highly regulated labor markets elsewhere. Employers hire and fire freely, redundancy costs are low, wage determination is flexible and professional management is the norm. The strengths of the US financial system are its promotion of business formation and innovation through its provision of capital to the private sector, its financing of small and medium size businesses, and very active venture capital markets. The dynamic US approach toward entrepreneurial risk, efficient bankruptcy procedures, and innovative start-up company controls are factors that promote innovative capacity, as do the US's highest quality research institutions and strong cluster development. The US also has the world’s best road and airport connectivity and electrification rate, and excluding the two city-states (Singapore and Hong Kong), US infrastructure overall ranks No. 7 behind Germany, Japan, Korea, Netherlands, France, and Switzerland -- all noted for their excellent infrastructure. Trump’s signature deregulation actions led the WEF to rank the US second (behind Finland) in the efficiency of the legal framework in challenging regulations. • The WEF’s World Competitiveness Report praises diverse US capital markets as open to financing new businesses and risky ventures and as efficiently allocating capital, while the rest of the world relies on stodgy banks to decide who gets financing. NOTE, that in contrast, the American Progressive Left views the US financial system with distrust and hostility, as an institution designed to cheat rather than to grow business. Instead of viewing the US labor market as a marvel of flexibility and fast reaction to change, the Progressive Left views it as an instrument of exploitation. • The No. 1 ranking of the United States as the world’s most competitive economy by the world’s elite shows that those who value productivity, innovation and growth may be coming around to Trump, despite his inflammatory tweets and rhetoric. Have they decided that what counts is results and not style or persona? • • • ABORTION TAKES A HIT IN A NEW FILM BEING BOYCOTTED BY PROGDEMS. American Thinker's Daniel John Sobieski wrote a reivew of the film "Gosnell : Trial of America's Biggest Serial Killer," on Wednesday. Kermit Gosnell was a Philadelphia doctor who was charged with seven counts of first-degree murder and one count of third-degree murder for killing seven babies who survived his abortions and a woman who died after a botched painkiller injection. As Investor's Business Daily noted at the time of his trial, comparing what went on at Gosnell's clinic to the school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut : "Whether one is pro-life or pro-choice, there ought to be agreement that a squirming infant on a table outside the mother's womb is as worthy of protection from harm as children in classrooms in a school in Connecticut. If Dr. Gosnell had walked into a nursery and shot seven infants with an AR-15, it would be national news and the subject of presidential hand-wringing[.]" • Although charged with only seven counts of infant murder, witnesses have testified that he may have murdered more than 100 babies outside the womb in the three decades the clinic has been open. One witness says she saw Gosnell perform his "procedure" on 30 infants. According to another, Gosnell said in one instance, "This baby is big enough to walk around with me or walk me to the bus stop." • The Gosnell film is either being panned or just ignored by liberal movie critics because it exposes the horrors of abortion and destroys the liberal narrative of the unborn being clumps of random tissue. • Sobieski gives the horrific details : "Sometimes, a movie is not about entertainment. Sometimes, it's about something much more important. A film can expose grave evils, and even inspire us to fight those evils. I think 'Gosnell: Trial of America's Biggest Serial Killer,' is just such a film. Directed by Nick Searcy, the movie dramatizes the horrific, real-life account of Dr. Kermit Gosnell, the west Philadelphia abortionist whose clinic was described in a 2011 Grand Jury report as a 'house of horrors.' During a drug raid there, authorities discovered unsanitary conditions, remnants of 45 aborted fetuses in bags inside freezers, rows of jars containing fetal feet, and untrained staff administering medications, which resulted in the death of at least one patient. The 281-page report described how Gosnell and his staff regularly delivered full-term babies whom they then killed by 'snipping' their spinal cords with scissors. Hundreds of infants were dispatched in this way. Despite numerous complaints to the state health department about the clinic conditions, Gosnell's filthy abortion mill went without an inspection for sixteen years. As LifeSiteNews.com reports, Gosnell and his crimes were the subject of a media blackout. Rows of jars containing fetal feet do not lend themselves to a narrative about abortion being strictly a women's health issue....A famous photo of the courtroom was circulated that showed rows of seats reserved for the press, empty. Apparently, the trial of an abortionist who had murdered born-alive infants wasn't a story newsrooms wanted to cover -- at least until they were guilted into it." • Sobieski points out he difference, noting the media frenzy over every sexual assualt allegation levied at Judge Brett Kavanaugh, and the media obsession with the idea that Kavanaugh might repeal Roe v. Wade, which legalized abortion on demand nationwide : "Judge Kavanaugh is savaged on a hypothetical. Gosnell is ignored for a documented horror....One CNN commentator flippantly explained that the network's lack of interest was a 'business decision,' not bias....Taxpayer-supported National Public Radio refused to run sponsored ads describing Kermit Gosnell as an 'abortionist' because its legal department determined the accurate description violated the left-leaning network's 'value neutral' platform.....And this past week, Facebook banned advertising for the movie -- a continuation of its systemic crackdown on conservative speech....Why? Because radical leftists zealously believe that abortion must be defended at all costs, even if it means whitewashing its bloody, half-century legacy of mass genocide in our nation's inner cities." • Sobieski believes part of the media and Hollywood banning of the film is because its widespread viewing could actually "put Roe v. Wade at risk more than any Supreme Court appointment. Matt Walsh at the Daily Wire calls it major media malpractice : "I could go on for several pages listing the horrific details. There's a reason why the clinic was dubbed a 'house of horrors.' There were 'fetuses and blood all over the place,' as one medical student described it. You could hear the screams of children who were born alive and then decapitated. Carcasses and body parts were stored in shoe boxes, water jugs, jars, and break room refrigerators. And this is to say nothing of the unsanitary medical equipment which caused disease and infection in the patients. One woman had to go to a hospital and have part of her intestine removed after contracting an infection from Gosnell's butcher shop. One woman died because of his gross malpractice." • One Washington Post reporter, states Sobieski : "infamously scoffed at Gosnell's systematic slaughter of infants, calling it a mere "local crime story." The film, which emphasizes the media blackout of the case, has also received a blackout by the media. As of this writing, Rotten Tomatoes has only aggregated 5 reviews of the movie. By comparison, Ryan Gosling's moon landing movie [not showing the planting of the American flag], also released today, has over 200 reviews. Even "Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween" has 6 times more reviews than "Gosnell : The Trial of America's Biggest Serial Killer." • Sobieski's advice : "Go see the movie. Go see the truth about abortion, although you will be told Gosnell was an aberration, an outlier. He isn't. His successors run so-called 'women's health' organizations and dine at fancy restaurants, where they are occasionally caught in undercover videos discussing the price of Lamborghinis -- when they aren't funding the Democratic Party." • Will America at last get a full airing of the abortion issue -- its violence against human life, its destruction of minority babies, its unholy "womens' rights at any cost Progressive agenda. This film may start the abortion debate anew. • • • TRUMP STANDS FIRM ON PROTECTING THE SOUTHERN BORDER. TheHill reported on Thrusday that President Trump "warned that he may take military action to stop immigrants from crossing the southern border into the US if Mexico does not take action to stop the 'onslaught.' " • TheHill was exaggerating -- the President said in April he would use the military to protect the southern border until a wal lcould be built. The President told reporters then that he had been discussing the idea with Defense Secretary James Mattis : “Until we can have a wall and proper security, we are going to be guarding our border with the military. That's a big step. We really haven't done that before, or certainly not very much before.” Mattis later authorized the National Guard to deploy up to 4,000 troops to the US-Mexico border. A memo signed by the Pentagon chief allowed the use of Title 32 and Defense Department dollars for up to 4,000 National Guard personnel to support the Department of Homeland Security’s "southern border security mission while under the command and control of their respective governors through September 30, 2018." BUT, as always, the ProgDems stiff-armed portecting US borders and a number of governors refused to send troops to the border, citing Trump’s "zero-tolerance” immigration policy, which resulted in the separation of illegal immigrant families. • Trump in a series of early-morning tweets again blamed Democrats for the “assault on our country,” adding that illegal immigration is “far more important” to him than trade or the new USMCA trade pact with Mexico and Canada. And he strongly warned Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, saying they “have almost no control over their population....I am watching the Democrat Party-led (because they want Open Borders and existing weak laws) assault on our country by Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, whose leaders are doing little to stop this large flow of people, INCLUDING MANY CRIMINALS, from entering Mexico to U.S....In addition to stopping all payments to these countries, which seem to have almost no control over their population, I must, in the strongest of terms, ask Mexico to stop this onslaught -- and if unable to do so I will call up the US Military and CLOSE OUR SOUTHERN BORDER!....Hopefully Mexico will stop this onslaught at their Northern Border. All Democrats fault for weak laws!” • President Trump's tweets come as an immigrant caravan that has grown to more than 4,000 people moves north from Honduras toward the US-Mexico border. Trump has threatened to withhold funds for some Central American countries over the caravan. The U.S. gave about $248 million in aid to Guatemala in fiscal year 2017, $175 million to Honduras and $115 to El Salvador. • • • MEXICO GOT THE MESSAGE. TheHill also reported on Thursday that : "Mexican President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Wednesday his administration will give work visas to Central American migrants who flee their countries. Lopez Obrador, who will be sworn in on December 1, said his work visa program will start on the first day of his administration, the Excelsior newspaper reported. 'It's about giving options, giving alternatives, so those who leave their towns in search of work will have work opportunities....whoever wants to work in our country will have support, will have a work visa, [we] won't address the issue only with deportations or shows of force,." • Okay. the Socialist Lopez Obrador took a swipe at President Trump and his threat to militarize the US-Mexico border in response to a surge in family units from Central America seeking asylum in the United States. BUT, on Wednesday, Mexico announced the deployment of 500 federal police to its southern border to cope with a 4,000-strong migrant caravan that left Honduras Monday. Lopez Obrador, who's maintained a cordial relationship with Trump, has said he wants to initiate a bilateral development agreement between Mexico and the United States, in the vein of former President Kennedy's Alliance for Prosperity program." • Whatever. The key is to protect the southern US border from thousands of Soros-sponsored illegal immigrants being sent to pump up Democrat Party voter lists. • • • IS SOROS FUNDING THE HONDURAS CARAVAN? Western Journal Conservative Tribune published an article on Wednesday afternoon that asks the question : "Are poor Hondurans being bribed to join the latest migrant caravan heading for the US border...and if so, who is paying them? That’s the question that Rep. Matt Gaetz is raising after he discovered footage of a strange scene allegedly shot in Central America. On Wednesday, the Florida Republican Representative Matt Gaetz posted a one-minute video that appears to show women being handed cash to join a group -- possibly, according to Gaetz, to be part of a slow-moving horde that plans on making its way north through Mexico and then into the United States. The suspicious timing of the caravan, just three weeks before November’s midterm elections, and questions about what was happening in the clip were both raised by Gaetz on Twitter : "@RepMattGaetz BREAKING : Footage in Honduras giving cash 2 women & children 2 join the caravan & storm the US border @ election time. Soros? US-backed NGOs? Time to investigate the source!" • Soros referred to one of the most infamous wealthy backers of liberal political movements, billionaire George Soros. Western Journal reported: "Information was not immediately available regarding where the video came from or what, precisely, it showed. More than 15,000 Twitter users responded to the post online, and the comments about the video were overwhelmingly against illegal immigration. While many details about the clip are still missing, Gaetz’s allegation would have serious implications if it is accurate. A scheme that paid poor Central American citizens to leave their country and march toward the US border would help explain the speed at which the latest caravan has grown in size. 'Up to 3,000 migrants crossed from Honduras into Guatemala on Monday on a trek northward, after a standoff with police in riot gear and warnings from Washington that migrants should not try to enter the United States illegally,' Reuters reported on Tuesday, adding, “The crowd more than doubled in size from Saturday, when some 1,300 people set off from northern Honduras in what has been dubbed ‘March of the Migrant.' ” Western Journal says :"It probably wouldn’t take much money to tempt them. The average monthly income in Honduras is about $230 US, and that’s if a person actually has a job in its shattered economy. There are a number of plausible explanations for the footage shared by Gaetz, including the possibility of a non-governmental organization trying to assist the migrants by handing out cash for their unsanctioned journey. Gaetz’s theory about somebody like Soros pulling strings to influence what is happening may be less likely, but it certainly is worth considering." • What do we know? Western Journal says : "InfluenceWatch, a project from the Capital Research Center that tracks the funding of various groups, lists several Soros-backed movements in the category of 'Mass Mobilization.' The leftist billionaire has been linked to disruptive organizations including Black Lives Matter and the Women’s March, and may be linked to the radical far-left group 'Antifa' as well.' Capital Research Center states : "The left-wing billionaire George Soros has ties to Antifa through a group called the Alliance for Global Justice (AfGJ). Soros’s philanthropy, known at the time as the Open Society Institute, gave $100,000 to AfGJ.' Considering that Soros is also an avowed advocate of open borders in Europe, according to The Daily Caller, it wouldn’t be that much of a stretch for him to have his financial tentacles in the growing Central American immigration crisis." • As more political issues are not exactly what they seem to be on first look, it is time to follow the money to see what is happening with the migrant situation. It certainly would not be surprising if there were some behind-the-scenes figures like George Soros pulling levers in Honduras. behind the scenes. • • • GAETZ LAUGHED AT, BUT HE MAY HAVE THE LAST LAUGH. On Thursday, an article titled "Illegal Caravans Encouraged by Honduras and Soros" was posted at American Thinker by Daniel John Sobieski, who makes a good point : "Just in time for the midterms, another 'spontaneous' migration from Central America began with a bevy of allegedly oppressed and downtrodden Hondurans leading the way. Pressured by a threat from President Trump to cut aid to Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador if the caravan is not stopped, some moves by these governments have been made. Yet evidence exists that these migrations are not spontaneous, with both of the governments in question encouraging them as a political and economic safety valve and a source of foreign currency, financed in part by foreign leftists with connections to George Soros." • And, Fox News's Laura Ingraham noted in a tweet, this is not a walk in a national park, but an expensive and arduous journey : "Who is funding the migrant "caravan"? Each migrant's passage can cost as much as $7K each. Per capita income Honduras is $2.3K." • Sobieski says : "It is doubtful that such sums came from the kiddies' college funds. Evidence of Soros funding of an earlier 'spontaneous' migration have been found among the tentacles of support that flow from his Open Society group coffers : 'Leftist billionaire George Soros is funding the well-organized anti-Trump migrant caravan invasion from Central America that has been hitting the United States-Mexico border in defiance of immigration enforcement. Several major ultra-liberal foundations and corporations have supported the asylum-seeking migrant caravans, and Soros' funding has been tied to several groups that have spearheaded the 'refugee' invasion coalition -- also dubbed 'the Soros Express.' The caravan is organized by a group called Pueblo Sin Fronteras, [b]ut the effort is supported by the coalition CARA Family Detention Pro Bono Project, which includes Catholic Legal Immigration Network (CLIN), the American Immigration Council (AIC), the Refugee and Immigration Center for Education and Legal Services (RICELS) and the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) -- thus the acronym CARA,' WND reported. 'At least three of the four groups are funded by George Soros' Open Society Foundation.' " • The Honduran government's hands are not clean in these efforts either, says Sobieski : "Among the alleged asylum-seekers parked on the US border is a contingent of Hondurans, allegedly fleeing persecution, poverty, crime, and oppression. If that is the case, why is the Honduran government helping them, driving them northward under orders given to the Honduran ambassador, who is helping and escorting them?" Reportedly, leaders of a caravan of Central American migrants traveling toward the United States through Mexico have repeatedly accused the Honduran government of corruption and with failing to address the poverty, crime and economic conditions forcing families to flee by the thousands. So it shocked some observers when the Honduran ambassador joined the migrants protesting outside the Honduran embassy in Mexico City on Wednesday, and then accepted their invitation to walk 9 miles to a migrant shelter. "I have been ordered by my government to support the Honduran migrants traveling with the caravan. There are about 200 Hondurans who we will help out with paperwork and whatever is necessary," Alden Rivera Montes, the Honduran ambassador to Mexico, told El Universal. • Ordered by my government? asks Sobieski : "Why is the country whose oppression they are allegedly fleeing helping them leave? The answer is remittances, the money sent back home by so-called 'migrants.' Asylum is in large part a colossal scam designed to provide Latin American countries with a political and economic safety valve and a cash cow of foreign exchange. In 2017, remittances sent back to Honduras totaled $4.33 billion and make up a significant part of the Honduran economy : 'Within the span of a few short decades, migrants have become an essential engine of economic support for Honduras. Remittances comprised 17% of the nation's gross domestic product (GDP) in 2011, according to World Bank estimates, the second largest share of any country in Latin America or the Caribbean. As such, Honduran emigrants have tremendous significance for the country's economy and for the sustenance of many otherwise impoverished communities and families." • As Sobieski describes the economic effect, the whole caravan scenario makes sense : "Talk about a trade imbalance. We import alleged asylum-seekers and other illegal aliens, and they send home billions sucked out of a benevolent US government and economy. We have an economy that has some 7.3 million jobs going unfilled because of a shortage of skilled workers. Judging from photos of the latest caravan, one would suggest a paucity of welders, pipefitters, electricians, and long-haul truck-drivers." • And, as Sobieski also points out, American inner cities are paying the bill fort he caravan economy of Honduras : "Inner-city blacks have long asked which country they get to go to to escape violence and poverty. Although President Trump is succeeding in fighting crime and increasing job opportunities in our urban areas, much remains to be done. We do not need to be importing low-wage and low-skilled competitors to American citizens to drive down poor workers' wages. Inner-city residents have long asked, where's our sanctuary? Unlike the children of Central America, arriving en masse, the children of Chicago, facing conditions every bit as horrible, have no border to cross to seek asylum or refuge[.] ...'Do something for our children,' said one of the protesters in a video posted at the blog Rebel Pundit. 'Have the same love for these young people like you got for the ones across the border, and you want to save them.'....A woman, identified only as Elaine, explained the plight of inner-city Baltimore residents on Laura Ingraham's radio show : 'My children cannot play outside. I cannot take my trash out without locking the door -- it's awful. Who is going to give us anything? Where can I get asylum? Where can I get refugee status?' Where, indeed? Perhaps this side of a border wall Democrats oppose in favor of sanctuary cities and Medicare for illegal aliens. If any of the alleged asylum-seekers want to learn a trade -- how about a crash course in border wall construction? Build it, and they won't come." • • • DEAR READERS, it isn't just the illegal immigrants, or even George Soros and his pals trying to flood the US with Democrat voters. It is also about gangs and drugs and other criminal acts. Liberty Headlines reported on Wednesday that illegals are flooding Texas border to exploit weak US immigration policies. Reporter Joshua Paladino says : "Since President Donald Trump announced an end to the so-called child-separation policy, illegal border crossings have increased as immigrants learn they can exploit America’s broken immigration system with impunity. US Border Patrol Agents at the Weslaco station in the Rio Grande Valley have encountered nearly 100 immigrants coming from Nicaragua, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, Customs and Border Patrol reported. A group of 68 adults and children turned itself in to agents at the McAllen Station, likely with the knowledge that federal immigration authorities could not prosecute them. Illegal aliens have come as family units and as unaccompanied children, leaving them exempt from detention and deportation." Chief Patrol Agent Manuel Padilla, Jr. told Paladino : "As the Rio Grande Valley Sector continues to experience an unprecedented flow of family units and unaccompanied children, the increase in identified fraud cases is extremely concerning. The trend in these fraud cases is an effort by smugglers to exploit ongoing US immigration policies and procedures. Agents have already discovered over 60 fraudulent cases in the first two weeks of the new fiscal year.” President Trump indicated the possibility of reinstating the former policy, so that parents who come with minor children could be arrested, tried, and deported : “We have people trying to come in like never before. If they feel there will be separation, then they won’t come.” • That, plus President Trump's threat to cut off funding to Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador as a caravan carrying thousands of their citizens makes its way through central America this week, and his determination to use the US military, if necessary, to protect the US southern border, will make some difference. BUT, nothing will replace a physical barrier -- call it a wall or whatever term you feel comfortable with -- and, the wall must be accompanied by the reform of US immigration law. NO Democrat who opposes either of these measures -- or who talks in pious terms about immigration reform while refusing as a sitting House or Senate member to vote President Trump the funds he needs to build the wall -- deserves your vote. Remember that on November 6 -- before you vote, ask your candidates what they will do about the illegal immigration issue if elected or re-elected. And, in true Reagan style, Trust but Verify -- check their voting record and commentary on immigration, DACA, funding for the wall, and President Trump's 'no tolerance' policy on illegals. America's physical integrity and continuation as a nation is at stake. Nothing is more important.