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The Patriot Post Digest 6-26-2019
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The Patriot Post® · Mid-Day Digest
Jun. 26, 2019
https://patriotpost.us/digests/63903-mid-day-digest
THE FOUNDATION
“Born in other countries, yet believing you could be happy in this, our laws acknowledge, as they should do, your right to join us in society, conforming, as I doubt not you will do, to our established rules. That these rules shall be as equal as prudential considerations will admit, will certainly be the aim of our legislatures, general and particular.” —Thomas Jefferson (1801)
https://patriotpost.us/fqd/63900-founders-quote-daily
IN TODAY’S EDITION
The real immigration crisis.1
Mueller will testify publicly after insisting he wouldn’t.2
Daily Features: More Analysis3, Columnists4, Headlines5, Opinion in Brief6, Short Cuts7, Memes8, and Cartoons9.
IN BRIEF
Dems’ ‘Fake Border Crisis’ Turns Out to Be Real10
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi dismissed the “fake crisis at the border.” Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer called it “a crisis that does not exist.” House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said, “There is no crisis at the border.”
Byron York highlights11 those and many other Democrats (and a few Republicans) utterly denying the crisis at our southern border. But many of those same people are now decrying that crisis, particularly so they can blame President Donald Trump, who just happens to be the only one trying to stop the crisis.
With that, we come to the latest news on the immigration front.
First, Trump has named Mark Morgan, Barack Obama’s former Border Patrol chief, acting commissioner of Customs and Border Protection after its current acting commissioner, John Sanders, announced his resignation effective July 5. Morgan had just taken over at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) earlier this month. Here’s how The Washington Post “reports” the move:
A week after beginning his reelection campaign with promises of mass deportations, President Trump sent the agencies responsible for immigration enforcement deeper into disarray on Tuesday, replacing his interim border chief with a figure he plucked from cable news punditry last month.
You know where the Post mentions that Morgan was Obama’s guy? The 25th paragraph.
In any case, Trump’s move does come amid continued bad Leftmedia publicity for his border policies, particularly regarding detention of illegal border crossers. Perhaps his strategy with personnel changes is to keep moving the lightning rod.
Beyond the kerfuffle over “concentration camps12” at detention facilities, the latest bad publicity is the horrific photo of the Salvadoran father and toddler daughter who drowned trying to cross the Rio Grande. “This photo of a dead father and daughter shows the true nature of Trump’s immigration policy,” reads the headline at Vox. No it doesn’t. Why was this Salvadoran man and his family allowed to get through Mexico and then escape a holding facility? Poor enforcement there, for one thing, but also because Democrats invited a border invasion13.
Don’t believe us? Take Elizabeth Warren’s word for it. She backs the proposal of fellow Democrat presidential candidate Julian Castro to repeal the federal law criminalizing illegal border crossing. “We should not be criminalizing mamas and babies trying to flee violence at home or trying to build a better future,” Warren says. Well, they’re dying on the way here trying to follow her advice, all while leftists are standing on the caskets of the dead to politically attack Trump.
Meanwhile, before tonight’s presidential debate, several candidates attempted14 to gain access to detention facilities for political photo ops — like the pathetically embarrassing one15 staged by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
What happened to this father and daughter shouldn’t happen to anyone. The question is what are government officials going to do to stop it? The Trump administration, despite being utterly overwhelmed with illegal crossings and managing detention centers well over capacity, wants to close the border to such crossings. Democrats want to fling wide the gates.
As for legislation, the House passed a $4.5 million emergency border bill Tuesday, but it includes so many mandates to provide free stuff for border crossers while lacking key enforcement provisions that Trump has threatened a veto. To be clear, there should be money allocated for true humanitarian relief, and detained migrants should be treated humanely. But a U.S. detention center is not the Ritz-Carlton, and people who cross the border illegally have no “right” to be here.
This humanitarian crisis is largely the result of Democrats, who advertise “free” stuff and sanctuary policies if only migrants can reach American soil. That’s a cynical ploy for votes and it’s having serious and deadly consequences.
https://patriotpost.us/articles/63898-dems-fake-border-crisis-turns-out-to-be-real
Mueller Subpoena Reeks of Political Theater16
Robert Mueller, who spearheaded the special-counsel investigation of Donald Trump and his fictitious collusion with Russia, was inevitably subpoenaed yesterday by Democrat lawmakers. Mueller will publicly converse with the House Judiciary and Intelligence Committees on July 17, during which time Democrats will engage in an all-out effort to leverage the situation17 to their advantage. It may very well be their final opportunity to orchestrate more make-believe collusion fodder — straight from the horse’s mouth, no less — before the 2020 election.
But Democrats may be remiss if they think Mueller’s testimony will implicate Trump. According to The Washington Post, “Even Mueller repeating aspects of his report in a public setting could be politically damaging for Trump — exposing the findings to sections of the country that may not be aware of them, and creating a televised spectacle.” It will be a spectacle alright — but perhaps not in the way Democrats think.
Sen. Lindsey Graham hypothetically asks, “Bottom line is, after all of your looking and all the time you had and all the money you spent, did Trump collude with the Russians? ‘No.’ Do you stand by your report? ‘Yes.’” He added, “It is ‘case-closed’ for me. [Democrats] can do anything they want to in the House, and I think it will blow up in their face. … The conclusions can’t change. There is no collusion. That’s what the whole thing was about to begin with.” Moreover, Graham added, “There’s nobody on Earth who could bring an obstruction case based on these facts.”
Harvard Law School professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz echoes these sentiments. He stated, “[Mueller] can’t refuse to answer questions about the FISA application18 [for surveilling Trump’s campaign]. Those are the kind of questions that I think Republicans will be very well prepared to ask. Those are the kind of questions which are currently under investigation19 by the inspector general whose report we are waiting for. But those are not in any way precluded. So I think that [Democrats] will regret having called him.”
Time will tell. But if the Democrats’ history of overplaying their witch-hunt cards is any indication, Graham and Dershowitz are probably right. Or as Rep. Mark Meadows sums it up: “Mr. Mueller better be prepared. I mean, there’s a lot more questions that Republicans have than Democrats. This is the Democrats trying to resurrect a Russia collusion narrative that the American people are tired of. And yet, Mr. Mueller has not been subject to cross examination. He will be now.”
https://patriotpost.us/articles/63899-mueller-subpoena-reeks-of-political-theater
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