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The Patriot Post Digest 8-21-2018
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“You are the patriots and you are the heroes,” Trump told the assembled agents and agency personnel. “You keep us safe and you keep us free. I am honored every single day to serve as your commander-in-chief. I will never leave your side; I will never leave the fight.”
It’s a good thing, too. Both agencies are increasingly under fire by the Left and the media as the debate simmers over illegal immigration and how the government is supposed to handle it. According to leftists, the government shouldn’t do anything at all about illegal immigration. In fact, they are calling for the outright abolition of ICE30.
Don’t underestimate the power behind that challenge. The proposal to dismantle ICE may have started as an offhand remark by Bernie Sanders’s socialist padawan Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, but it is now a mainstream Democrat plank. Likely 2020 presidential candidates such as Kirsten Gillibrand, Elizabeth Warren, and Kamala Harris have all joined the call. And three House Democrats introduced legislation to follow through.
Leftists claim that U.S. border policies are harsh and inhumane, and their media lackeys dutifully go along, bending stories any way they can to fit that narrative. Take, for instance, the widely reported story31 of the illegal immigrant picked up by ICE while taking his pregnant wife to the hospital to have her baby. Conveniently left out of the reporting by virtually every major news outlet — at least the headlines or flashing TV alerts that most people see — was that the man was ducking an outstanding warrant issued for his arrest in Mexico on homicide charges.
Stories like this are meant to cast ICE as the villain, which then leads to further attacks against the agency. What many don’t understand, however, is that ICE is the backbone of America’s immigration enforcement32. There would be (even more) chaos without it.
ICE is the principal agency for enforcing immigration laws inside the U.S., including the apprehension of illegal immigrants who have slipped past the Border Patrol; combatting the smuggling of weapons, drugs, and people into the country; and investigating immigration fraud schemes. ICE also protects immigrant communities by cracking down on criminal activity that takes place there. Gangs and other bad guys generally commit crimes in the communities in which they reside, making legal immigrants the victims.
There are other agencies that also handle some of these tasks, but they are already stretched beyond their limits. The sheer volume of cases is more than any single law enforcement agency can bear. Consider that last year over 700,000 people overstayed their visas33. That is 300,000 more people than the number apprehended while trying to illegally cross the U.S. border with Mexico during that same period.
Take ICE out of the picture, and the whole immigration system would quickly unravel — which is exactly what the Left wants.
It has been said that Democrats and the Left care more about illegal immigrants than they do about American citizens. But even that’s a stretch because they don’t care about illegal immigrants, either. The leftist call for open borders is an attempt to break down American society by overwhelming our communities and our culture with bad people from foreign lands. Leftists discourage assimilation and the learning of English to help further that goal. Democrats see a fresh batch of voters they can hook onto the government dole and keep leftists in office.
But is this a political winner for Democrats? Not necessarily. As W. James Antle III notes34, “House Republicans brought a pro-ICE resolution up for a vote to dare Democrats to vote against it — just 34 did, though 133 voted ‘present’ — while Trump brings it up often on the campaign trail.”
People need to look beyond the rhetoric that demonizes ICE and support the agency’s work to protect American communities from fraud, crime, and terrorism. Without ICE, American streets will not be safe. And that’s why Trump’s celebration yesterday was welcome.
https://patriotpost.us/articles/57769-immigration-problem-put-some-ice-on-it
MORE ANALYSIS FROM THE PATRIOT POST
‘Affordable Care’ Becomes Slightly More Affordable35 — Insurance companies request rate increases at levels substantially below earlier projections.
Video: A Nation of Immigrants36 — The United States still maintains the most generous immigration policies in the world.
OPINION IN BRIEF
Investor’s Business Daily37: “How about removing security clearances for all former employees of the federal government’s national security agencies? Let’s remove the political temptation entirely. After all, letting them keep those security clearances is really a form of extra monetary compensation. No, it doesn’t show up on any ledger. But it does let former intelligence bureaucrats leverage access to taxpayer-funded intelligence for personal profit and political advantage. Brennan was a case in point, but there are many others, as we noted above. Some argue that America is safer because former officials with access to secrets might have to confer with the government in an emergency. But that argument, too, is bogus. Even lacking current security access, any of the former spy chiefs and high-level national security functionaries could have their security clearances restored and quickly get up to speed in an emergency. It’s time to end the profiteering from information gathered on Americans’ behalf for cynical, partisan political use. We should end privileged access to our nation’s secrets.”
SHORT CUTS
For the record: “The Democrats and the Left here are not interested in the truth. They’re interested in taking down Donald Trump. Which is a great point that Rudy Giuliani is making. He’s saying, ‘No, no, no, the thing that you’re calling the truth here — that’s not the truth.’” —Michael Knowles
Braying Jenny: “I’m outraged every day by something our president has done or said or left undone or neglected, or who he has recently bullied on Twitter or television.” —Chelsea Clinton
Alpha Jackass I: “He would certainly like to.” —New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg rebutting MSNBC’s Katy Tur, who said Trump “is not rounding people up and murdering them without any due process.”
Alpha Jackass II: “I will tell you one joke… Do you know the difference between a crisis and a catastrophe? … A crisis is if Donald Trump falls into the Potomac River and can’t swim. … And a catastrophe is anybody saves his ass.” —Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-FL)
Village idiots: “I would love for Al Franken to run again. … I don’t want to diminish anyone’s legitimate claim of feeling like they’ve been assaulted, because that’s your feeling, but I think there is a very big difference of a man putting his arm around you — he’s a comedian. I’ve touched people’s breasts and genitals, I can’t imagine how many times, in photos. That doesn’t excuse it, but … that’s not a rape. That’s not sexual assault.” —Chelsea, er, Handler
And last… “We need hatred in the Church. A real, profound hatred for sin. It is easy to say we hate sin, but how many of us really hate it? How many of us hate sin like we hate cancer? Evil will proliferate if we do not make war against it with righteous hatred and anger in our hearts.” —Matt Walsh
https://patriotpost.us/articles/57768-tuesday-short-cuts
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