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The Patriot Post Digest 2-16-2017
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New York progressives are hardly outliers. Alisa Wellek, executive director of the Immigrant Defense Project, reveals25 the mindset that animates the Left’s casual relationship with the Rule of Law regarding illegal aliens. “We see a ton of people deported for misdemeanors, probation violations, petty theft, shoplifting,” she states. “The federal government has these really overreaching laws on the books, laws that are very unforgiving for anyone who’s had any contact with the criminal justice system — even if you’ve never served a day in jail.”
The headline26 of a Denver Post editorial is equally absurd. “Trump should deport criminals, but let’s be reasonable,” it states. The editorial board offers up the boilerplate progressive rationale that crime thrives “in an environment where the threat of deportation prevents victims and witnesses from contacting law enforcement or even from seeking emergency medical attention.” So the paper concludes that Trump, who has “demonized immigrants in his climb to the White House,” should “reconsider his inexorable march to mass deportation.”
The Atlantic’s J. Weston Phippen is another hand-wringer upset27 with Trump’s executive order27 regarding illegals. “There is no priority anymore,” he laments. “The language in the order says that any unauthorized immigrant convicted of any crime can be deported.”
In other words, no illegal convicted of a crime should be deported if that deportation offends progressive sensibilities.
This sentiment is shared28 by “Monarca,” a group of Mexican legislators, governors and public figures whose name is the Mexican word for a butterfly that migrates throughout North America. Their strategy is straight out of Cloward-Piven29: overwhelm the immigration court system until it breaks down. “The backlog in the immigration system is tremendous,” said former Foreign Minister Jorge Castañeda. Monarca intends to double or triple the backlog, “until Trump desists in this stupid idea,” Castañeda adds.
The courts are already in chaos with a backlog of more than 500,000 cases. That number that has steadily increased30 over the last eight years, due to a shortage of immigration judges. The current number31 of judges is 296, and Human Rights First (HRF) estimates the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR), the DOJ agency that adjudicates immigration cases, needs to hire 524 immigration judges to eliminate the backlog by 2023.
That’s not soon enough. The Trump administration needs to make the hiring of judges a top priority to counter Monarca’s contemptible strategy, as well as the reality expressed32 in 2011 by former Miami immigration jurist Mark H. Metcalf. He explained that the current system is “built to fail” because deportation orders “are rarely enforced,” illegals don’t show up for court dates and immigration judges “can’t enforce their own orders.”
The message is clear: Progressives and their media enablers embrace orchestrated anarchy. Orchestrated anarchy that essentially defines criminal deviancy down to the point where leftists demand that people already here illegally be allowed to stay, even if they have committed additional crimes — including “acceptable” felonies. And if these would-be anarchists don’t get their way, they will attempt to crash the court system.
It remains to be seen if the GOP will abide the Left’s “by any means necessary” approach, or stand up for “deplorable” Americans tired of being told they are bigoted or xenophobic because they reject a de facto invasion — and the bastardization of the law necessary to facilitate it.
How this plays out is America’s ultimate litmus test. There is either national sovereignty and the Rule of Law — or there isn’t.
MORE ANALYSIS FROM THE PATRIOT POST
Pull the Plug; ObamaCare Is Dying33 — Insurers drop out, the IRS relaxes enforcement and the GOP prepares replacement.
Not Tied to Two-State Solution34 — Trump changes U.S. policy on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
BEST OF RIGHT OPINION
Jeff Jacoby: What ObamaCare’s Drafters Could Have Learned From a Hairdresser35
Richard D. Kocur: Crossing the Line on Health Insurance36
Victor Davis Hanson: The Three-Headed Hydra of the Middle East37
For more, visit Right Opinion38.
OPINION IN BRIEF
Jeff Jacoby: “Lawmakers so often enact far-reaching rules with worthy intentions, but little awareness of how much harm government burdens can cause. Sometimes, belatedly, they come to understand how clueless they had been. As a congressman, New York’s Ed Koch routinely voted for liberal social and welfare proposals. Only much later, after leaving Congress and observing the practical impact of all those rules and programs, did the scales fall from his eyes. ‘I was dumb,’ Koch told an interviewer in 1980. ‘We all were. I voted for so much crap. Who knew? We got carried away with what the sociologists were telling us.’ Years later, an even more liberal Democrat expressed similar regrets. After a long career in Congress, former senator George McGovern tried his hand a running a business — a small hotel in Connecticut. ‘In retrospect,’ McGovern wrote after the inn went bankrupt, ‘I wish I had known more about the hazards and difficulties of such a business. … I also wish that during the years I was in public office, I had had this firsthand experience about the difficulties business people face every day.’ Government’s power to do good is limited, and heavy-handed regulation habitually proves counterproductive. If Bernie Sanders had operated a few hair salons before going into politics, he would know that, and he’d be a better senator as a result.”
SHORT CUTS
Insight: “You want to know what fascism is like? It is like your New Deal!” —Benito Mussolini (1883-1945)
Upright: “There is one easy way … to get a real sense of whether General Michael Flynn, the now-former national-security adviser, is a lying rogue who deceived every Trump administration official in sight, or the victim of an elaborate ‘deep state’ scam whose real objective is to destroy not merely Flynn but the Trump presidency. Let’s go to the audio tape.” —Andrew McCarthy
Braying Jackass: “In thinking of the larger problem, Trump doesn’t have time to help Americans because of all the scandals that are taking place, which is within just a three-week period. … This is not just about President Trump. This is about our Republican colleagues and the separation of powers and holding this president accountable for the lies that have been taking place in the White House that have made America less safe. That is what this is about.” —Rep. Joseph Crowley
Out on a limb: “This is bigger than Watergate.” —Democrat National Committee
The BIG Lie: “Watergate is the biggest political scandal of my lifetime, until maybe now. It was the closest we came to a debilitating Constitutional crisis, until maybe now. … And we may look back and see, in the end, that it is at least as big as Watergate. It may become the measure by which all future scandals are judged. It has all the necessary ingredients, and that is chilling.” —Dan Rather
A blind squirrel finds a nut: “There is an absolutely frenzied and concerted attempt to delegitimize, sabotage and destroy the Trump presidency before it’s even started. I think that is un-American. I don’t think it’s a patriotic thing that they’re doing. I think it’s nakedly partisan.” —Piers Morgan
And last… “Obama learned of IRS/VA scandals, AP spying, and HRC’s server from the news: COOL. Trump anything: WHAT DID TRUMP KNOW & WHEN DID HE KNOW IT.” —Twitter satirist @hale_razor
Semper Vigilans Fortis Paratus et Fidelis
Managing Editor Nate Jackson
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