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The Patriot Post Digest 7-23-2018
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Clearly, the partisan divide portrays this issue from different vantage points, but a few facts must be stated and acknowledged in the role of this issue in the ongoing election cycle.
Democrats are energized and exercised because immigration simply provides campaign fodder to attack Trump and congressional Republicans, who Democrats always accuse of hating minorities. Never mind that it’s Democrats whose policies institutionalize poverty, enslave children in failing schools, and embrace government as the “family provider” for its dependents.
Republicans are likely equally mobilized and angered, primarily because they’re tired of being cast as “racist” for supporting law enforcement.
But there are a couple of truths that may be overlooked in this sudden surge of immigration interest.
According to32 the Center for Immigration Studies, California, Colorado, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Mexico, Oregon, and Vermont are either legally or effectively “sanctuary states.” Of these states that welcome illegal immigrants to enjoy the rights of law-abiding, tax-paying citizens in the United States, only Illinois does not have a gubernatorial race this year. Obviously, however, all states have House members and state legislators on the ballot. This is important because many governors’ races as well as legislative races are very active in promoting differences between candidates with the support or opposition of the critical discussion around sanctuary city and state status and laws.
So while the emphasis of our national media revolves in the orbit of DC politics, don’t miss the importance of these state elections on this issue. For example, Oregon, after a petition drive to place the issue on the November ballot, will allow citizens to overturn its state’s sanctuary state law. Immigration is, indeed, a key issue in the federal midterms, but much of the interest is being driven by state politics.
Nonetheless, immigration may be the issue that most demonstrates the inefficiencies of Washington. It turns Republicans and Democrats alike into the DC Elite, who enjoy governance that protects the status quo rather than solving problems. Despite repeated promises to “fix” the broken immigration system since President Ronald Reagan’s 1986 amnesty, neither Republicans nor Democrats have risen to the occasion, even when controlling the White House and the Congress in their respective majorities. For three decades, politicians have recited the problem and offered pandering platitudes with no real solutions. That’s left jaded voters on the Center-Right and turned Democrats into the open-border party aiming to exploit a new pool of voters that will fall prey to their identity politics schemes.
Democrats of all stripes now advocate somewhere along a sliding scale of open borders with little to no enforcement. The recent evidence is the move to abolish ICE33 — the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency. Just this past week, only 18 of the 194 Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives voted for a resolution supporting the agency’s mission of law enforcement of America’s immigration laws. Some 35 of them voted in opposition and another 133 cowered behind a vote of “present.”
Democrats love children when they’re used to bludgeon Republicans for what the Obama administration did for years. Democrats want the immigration issue to live on as a recruiting tool to their dwindling ranks as some #WalkAway34 from the #Resistance and socialism.
Yet too many Republicans can’t find their vertebrae to articulate the value of national sovereignty or the integrity of citizenship to the greatest nation on the planet. And conservative voters have grown weary of the impotence of elected Republicans who fear their own shadow when it comes to immigration votes, and in general can only stammer when the expectation comes their way to defend a Trump policy.
Today’s immigration debate can be boiled down to this: The issue has become little more than a campaign gimmick for politicians and an increasingly worrying topic for most Americans. Will that change anytime soon?
https://patriotpost.us/articles/57272-the-politics-of-immigration
MORE ANALYSIS FROM THE PATRIOT POST
Slouching Towards a Police State35 — Unelected bureaucrats accountable to no one can “get back” at the duly elected president?
U.S. Immigration Enforcement Failures Exposed36 — Officials misrepresented to Congress the numbers on migrant court appearances and deportations.
Video: The Mueller Indictment37 — What’s going on with Robert Mueller’s latest indictment? It seems a bit underwhelming.
Video: How Government Caused ‘The Boy Crisis’38 — Author Warren Farrell says society should offer more respect to men who focus on fathering.
Video: Plastic Straw Myths39 — Have you used a plastic straw lately? Did you feel guilty? Celebrities and activists hope so!
OPINION IN BRIEF
Burt Prelutsky: “There was a day when [Supreme Court] candidates were judged by their understanding of the Constitution. The ideal was a justice who interpreted things as they understood the Founders intended. Along the way, beginning, I suppose, with FDR, justices were selected entirely on the basis of their political allegiance to the sitting president. … It is not a good thing for the nation that so many important decisions by the Court are the result of a 5-4 vote. It is in fact a very bad thing that the votes tend to be as predictable as death and taxes. Anthony Kennedy became known as the swing vote on the Court, meaning he would side with the liberal bloc when it came to social issues like abortion and same-sex marriages and with the conservative bloc on most other matters. It used to make me wonder why we even needed to pay those other eight people to show up. Come to think of it, it bothers me that I just described the four rational judges as conservatives. We don’t tend to think of the men who wrote the Constitution in partisan terms, so why is it that we have been forced to think of justices in that light? Every judge should be a constitutionalist, period. Instead, we have heard justices like Ruth Bader Ginsburg say that if a newly formed nation were looking around for a constitution to adopt, she would not advise them to use ours. That, alone, should have led to her overdue dismissal from the bench.”
SHORT CUTS
The Gipper: “A recession is when your neighbor loses his job. A depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his.”
Braying Jackass: “Before this harebrained and reckless administration is history, the nation will have cause to celebrate the public servants derided by Trumpists as the supposed ‘deep state.’” —Eugene Robinson in The Washington Post
Alpha Jackass: “I was absolutely outraged by [Donald Trump’s] behavior in Helsinki, where he really sold the American people out. … Perhaps he is being blackmailed by Russia because they may have compromising information about him or perhaps also you have a president who really does have strong authoritarian tendencies and maybe he admires the kind of government that Putin is running in Russia.” —Sen. Bernie Sanders (Socialist-VT)
Braying Jenny: “For months I’ve been trying to tell the American public that this president is dangerous [and] that he’s in bed with Putin. Don’t forget this president can’t borrow money in the United States from any bank. This president is looking at Russia for his new money, financial playground. … I think he is Putin’s apprentice. He’s been under his tutelage for a long time now.” —Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA)
Good luck with that: “Hello everybody. I’m so excited to be hopping on here, on Senator Sanders’ [Twitter] account, and we’re here in Kansas City to rally for Brent Welder. We’re going to flip this seat red in November.” —Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez with a Freudian slip about the election map color
Non Compos Mentis: “Julie and Nate Sharpe are raising their 3-year-old twins using the pronoun they, them and their to shield them from gender stereotypes. This is a new parenting technique called, ‘theybies.’” —NBC News (“There is a name for this parenting technique: child abuse.” —Matt Walsh)
And last… “The Left no longer even pretends to believe in borders or in citizenship. They’ve rejected the notion that America is even a country. ‘It’s an idea,’ they tell us again and again. Though really you get the sense they think it’s more like a division of Amazon, staffed by faceless, replaceable drones. Meaning you, for now, and then your foreign replacement if you don’t work eagerly enough or if you complain.” —Tucker Carlson
https://patriotpost.us/articles/57273-monday-short-cuts
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