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Saturday, December 3, 2016
Illegal immigrants don't want American values, Originally published May 27, 2006
It is appalling the way our government is so casually throwing away American citizenship. There is no country in Europe that would allow any individual to enter and establish a legal life in direct violation of their laws. Mexico would not allow Americans to illegally enter Mexico and stay.
For over two centuries, the Stars and Stripes hung with pride over a nation of solid citizens. Yet today, we fight over the details of a law to throw our citizenship to illegal immigrants who slithered across our borders and laughed at our laws.
It is shameful that any American could have such a low self-esteem that they would consider a criminal worthy of the highest honor we can bestow on someone born in another nation — the right to call themselves an American.
For over two centuries, tens of thousands of immigrants have slaved for years to prove to us that they shared our values by first entering America legally, then studying our history and laws so they could stand proudly as they took the oath of allegiance. The new breed of immigrants refuse to study our language, yet they demand citizenship! Why? If they do not want to earn citizenship, what is it they want? Just a free ride!
One illegal proudly boasted on national TV that he owned over a dozen eateries and only hired illegals. That's national pride — for Mexico, not America.
Also, illegals cannot have a Social Security card and therefore cannot pay taxes. Remember that 35 percent the government took from your last paycheck? Illegals cannot pay that. They keep every cent of their pay! An employer can pay an illegal 40 percent less than a legal and keep them in the same economic class. Oh, how many true Americans would love to work in a restaurant, but can't find a job because illegals have them?
No sane person would say that a law-breaker is not a criminal. What the illegal immigrant community has proven is their total disdain for our values, laws and safety. Remember that over the decades, we have seen news coverage of the murders committed by the gangs crossing our borders ... The bodies found in the Texas, Arizona and New Mexico deserts, the dead Border Patrol members who are turning in their graves for the lives they wasted uselessly, defending our homeland from the invading throng.
David Darcy
Poplar Road
Rep. McCaul: Yes, we will build a wall, put Mexico on a “payment plan” and enforce the law
Donald Trump campaigned on a big promise: he would secure our border and confront the illegal immigration crisis head-on.
A lot of people doubted him. And why not? Politicians have been promising to do this for years, and they have let Americans down every single time.
That’s all about to change. Starting next month, the people are going to get what they asked for.
We are going to build the wall. Period. In the process, I pledge to stand side-by-side with the Trump administration to throw out Obama’s reckless immigration policies and start enforcing our nation’s laws.We are going to build the wall. Period. In the process, I pledge to stand side-by-side with the Trump administration to throw out Obama’s reckless immigration policies and start enforcing our nation’s laws.
In fact, we are already starting to work on an emergency plan in Congress to build the tough barriers we need along the border, close all gaps, and defend this country’s sovereignty.
But we are talking about more than just a wall. We are talking about a historic, multi-layered defense system so that drug cartels and terrorists cannot simply slip through the cracks.
This means more border patrol agents, new authorities, aerial surveillance, sensors, and other technology to make sure we seal our territory from illegals for good.
We will take a military-style approach by giving our border and immigration agencies the real command-and-control they need to make it happen.
Congress will seek to fund this effort straight-away, but we cannot simply stick Americans with the bill.
Our neighbors have failed to contain the crisis within their own countries, and they must have skin in the game to fix it once and for all.
That is why I’m proposing we put Mexico on a “payment plan” and fulfill President-Elect Trump’s demand that our allies help resolve this mess.
There are many reasonable ways to do this. For starters, we can put in place new immigration fees from Mexico, institute a security toll at border crossings, “seize and freeze” drug cartel assets, and more.
But it shouldn’t be limited to Mexico. Other countries in Latin America have contributed to the crisis—and failed to rein in the chaos—so they should also help pay for these fixes, too.
In turn, we will offer to work with them to help their governments figure out how to secure their own borders and keep threats from spilling over into neighboring countries like our own.
Additionally, we must urgently deter new waves of illegal aliens by overturning Obama’s failed immigration policies.
I will back Donald Trump’s efforts to rescind the Obama administration’s unlawful executive actions. And I will do all that I can to see that we end “catch-and-release,” enforce expedited removal of people who come into America illegally, and reform asylum standards so that foreigners cannot simply use “magic words” to get a free pass into America.
Moreover, we will work with the administration to take sweeping actions to find and deport all criminal aliens in our country and ensure foreign governments accept those who are sent back.
I will also see to it that we catch people who violate their visas by putting in place a rigorous entry-exit system to track foreigners who overstay their welcome.
In the meantime, we can’t forget about American workers. We’ve got to protect our economy by mandating the use of E-Verify to ensure illegal aliens are not taking away American jobs and by re-examining foreign guest-worker programs.
Finally, and most critically, I will push to close terrorist pathways into the United States.
In Congress, I was the architect of “extreme vetting” and have pushed to ramp up security screening of U.S.-bound travelers.
I will help champion President Trump’s vision to do exactly that and stop jihadists from exploiting our immigration system to enter the country posing as tourists, immigrants, and refugees.
In countries where our law enforcement and intelligence officials tell us we cannot confidently weed out Islamist terror operatives, we will temporarily suspend immigration until better security checks can be put in place.
Next Wednesday, December 7, I will deliver my annual State of Homeland Security Address at the Heritage Foundation and discuss these policies in more detail.
But for now, the American people should know this: your voice was heard, and we are going to work with the Trump administration to shake up Washington and get the job done.
Republican Michael McCaul, represents Texas' 10th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives. He serves as chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security.
Social media site Reddit censors Trump supporters
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| Reddit CEO admits to editing pro-Trump users’ comments |
The trouble began over the Thanksgiving holiday when Reddit’s CEO, Steve Huffman, secretly used his administrative access to the site to alter angry comments directed at him – changing the text of the comments to make them appear directed at Trump supporters on the site instead.
After an uproar, Huffman admitted doing that and said “as the CEO, I shouldn’t play such games, and it’s all fixed now… I most assuredly won’t do this again.”
But Wednesday, while issuing a further apology, Huffman announced that due to some “toxic” users, he would begin to censor all posts in a pro-Trump section of the site (called “r/The_Donald”) by limiting the ability of posts there to reach what many consider the “front page” of Reddit – where the posts get seen by a wider audience.
Huffman added: “We have identified hundreds of the most toxic users and are taking action against them, ranging from warnings to timeouts to permanent bans.”
Reddit’s “r/The_Donald” community has more than 300,000 users, who are known for being both enthusiastic and irreverent. In July, Donald Trump visited the page and answered fans’ questions there.
Reddit and the company that owns it, Advance Publications, did not respond to requests for comment.
Huffman also hinted that he may further target the Trump section of Reddit. Responding to a question Thursday about whether the new limits impacted anyone besides the “r/The_Donald” community, he replied, “Right now, just them… Going forward, we'll just take away their toys specifically and move on.”
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Many Reddit users welcomed their CEO’s crackdown on the Trump section, with some saying he should go further.
“’The_donald’ is not something that should be on Reddit… It should be banned, along with all its members,” user “Tyler_Vakarian” wrote.
The volunteer moderators who support and run the Trump section of Reddit told FoxNews.com through a spokesperson (user “PrinceCamelton”) that they were not surprised by the censorship given censorship by other social media CEOs such as Twitter’s Jack Dorsey – but were surprised that Huffman had not apologized to the users of r/The_Donald for using his administrative access to falsely direct angry comments towards them.
“Huffman has not directly issued our community an apology. Instead, he has the audacity to call us ‘toxic.’ They are trying to control and push the radical left-wing narrative that our country has turned away by electing Mr. Trump.”
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The moderators added that their section of Reddit does not allow either hateful comments or harassment.
“We are not a toxic community. Huffman is trying to frame us as a community that harbors harassment. This couldn't be any further from the truth. We have let our community know multiple times that we do not support harassment. We've even been complimented by the Staff Coordinator of Reddit,” moderators from “r/The_Donald” told FoxNews.com in an emailed statement.
The moderators said that despite the limits imposed on them, they will continue spreading their pro-Trump message on the site as long as they are allowed to.
“We live in a phenomenal information age that makes it so easy to pass on information. Do not allow these radical leftists push you around. Stand up for what you believe in.”
Mexicans fret over coming immigration changes under Trump administration
Some days, U.S.-bound illegal immigrants surrender themselves for asylum. Other days, bored and frustrated Mexican teens toss stones at the officers from behind the rocky shields. But now change is in the air, as people on both sides of the border – and the law – await the arrival of President-elect Donald Trump in the White House.
"We are very worried, no one was expecting those results," Martha Leticia Castaneda Rojas, Tijuana City Council member and president of the Border Affairs Committee, told FoxNews.com. "We're all still in shock."
Rojas and others now fear Trump’s plan to deport up to two million illegal immigrant criminals will flood the border city.
As it stands, Tijuana – a city of 1.3 million – has around 40 shelters for the homeless and deported, as well as an increasing number of refugees from earthquake-ravaged Haiti. These shelters are "expandable," Rojas said, pointing out that they have already identified a parcel of land on which to establish a tent city, if need be.
Mexican officials are also bracing for Trump’s policies with a campaign using social media, community outreach, a 24/7 toll free consular assistance hotline and mobile consulates across the country to make sure Mexicans “know their rights,” Rojas said.
Erika Santana, president of the Tijuana Attorney Bar Association and a prominent human rights leader, said the area could be overwhelmed if Trump follows through on his campaign pledge.
"This could become a total humanitarian crisis,” Santana said. “Currently, shelters are not equipped for more people. There are not enough rooms, not enough food and not enough medical supplies. City doctors are struggling just to tend to taxpayers and are over-extended – this could be a huge problem."
Marcela Celoiro, the San Diego-based Consulate General of Mexico, favors preparation, but not panic.
"We don't know what is going to happen,” Celoiro said. “Nobody in the States even knows what is going to happen. But we have to be ready.”
Another controversial cornerstone of Trump's immigration plan consists of building a wall along the border, which he insists Mexico will fund. Currently, around 15 percent of the border is protected by a steel barricade. The first fencing was built in the 1950s, and more stringent structures went up in the mid-90's under President Clinton's Operation Gatekeeper.
For Shawn Moran, vice president of the National Border Patrol Council, Trump's policies come as a welcome relief.
"Agents do this job because they want to serve their country and what we have been doing is a disservice – allowing people that have broken laws to stay," Moran said. "The wall is one tool that we have; we need to be able to secure our borders."
San Diego-based Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., agreed that securing the border is paramount – both for national security, as individuals from all nations with possible terrorist ties can also use Mexico as an entry point - as well as overall crime reduction.
"Walling works. We had the first wall in San Diego," he said. "By FBI statistics, it reduced crime by 50 percent here and drug trafficking by ninety."
But for some Mexicans, the issue is about money, not the notion of being fenced in – or out.
"The U.S. has the full right to build a wall if they think it will help," said State Council member and National Action Party (PAN) Adrian Garcia, staring out at the high fence partitioning the beaches of Playas de Tijuana and Imperial Beach, which abruptly stops in the ocean. "But if the U.S tries to force Mexico to pay for it; that is what is causing a lot of upset and anger."
Open Letter To All Of The Whiny Safe Space Liberals Crying Over Our ‘Racist’ And ‘Sexist’ Country
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November 9, 2016 02:28pm by
Hannah Bleau (Red Dawn)
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The first half of last night was stressful. I could barely eat. Stupid Florida, always keeping us on the edge of our seats. I switched my networks around last night. I mostly relied on Fox News and Twitter. CNN wasn’t calling states as fast, and MSNBC is a last resort kind of thing. I vowed to stay away from that channel, UNLESS things started shaping up for Donald Trump.
Then the results started coming in. Flyover nation. North Carolina. Ohio. Florida? Wisconsin?!!! That’s when the wheels started falling off their wagon. That’s when I started thinking about Hillary Clinton’s defeat. I never really allowed myself to go there before. I didn’t want to get my hopes up, but my country came through. We the People are not stupid.
We the People defeated MSM. We the People defeated the establishment. We the People saved the Supreme Court. We the People rejected the power-hungry, seahag criminal in a pantsuit.
After they announced Wisconsin, commentators started to change their tune. They looked visibly nervous. Eventually, Mockarena told me it was safe to flip to MSNBC, and it was hysterical. I thought Rachel Maddow’s face was going to fall off. I flipped back to Fox News. Juan Williams practically peed himself. I watched the cheese slide off his crackers in real time. It was something.I scrolled through social media. Liberals were melting down. They wrote stuff like, “I don’t know how we consistently underestimated the quiet endurance of racism in America.” They whined over “flagrant sexism.”
I’m sick and tired of it. I’m sick and tired of these uninformed jackholes telling me that I’m racist, sexist, Islamophobic and homophobic. They have no basis for those claims. They’re consumed by their emotions. Do they honestly believe Hillary Clinton lost solely because she’s a woman? It couldn’t possibly have anything with her being a pathological liar who’s spent her entire life pursuing political power? It had nothing to do with the fact that America’s not satisfied with her vision for America– an America with open borders, higher taxes and more bureaucratic scumbags in D.C. telling us how to run our lives?
We’re not racist. We’re not sexist. We want people to come into this country legally. That’s not racist. Progressive leadership in the big, urban cities hasn’t pulled the black community out of poverty. It’s worsened it. Liberalism has failed them. We acknowledge that. We want them to prosper. That’s not racist. And as for being sexist? All issues are women’s issues. I have no idea why liberals continue to separate them. Do they really believe we only care about vaginas, boobs and killing our offspring? Liberals assumed we (women) would vote for Hillary based on those reasons alone. THAT’S sexist, if you ask me. Women care about the economy. We care about national security. We care about the almost $20 trillion national debt. We care about the erosion of our freedoms. We care about the future of the Supreme Court. The list goes on and on and on.
I also saw some posts on how Trump’s victory signifies that America hates the LGBT community. NEWSFLASH: We elected a man who wants to keep dangerous anti-LGBT ideologues OUT OF OUR COUNTRY. Those people who want to throw them off rooftops? We don’t want them here. We want to protect the LGBT community. The fact that we stand for traditional family values and don’t want men in the women’s bathroom doesn’t take anything away from that. Not for one second.
We’re not racist or sexist. We’re
freaking SICK AND TIRED of the political establishment crapping all over
the Constitution and treading on our liberty. We’re sick of them
refusing to uphold the rule of law. We’re sick of being told that this
is as good as it gets. We want economic freedom. We want to keep more of
our hard-earned money. We want healthcare premiums that AREN’T AS MUCH
AS OUR MORTGAGES. We want people to enter our country LEGALLY. We
believe in peace through strength. Faith. Freedom. Family. We’re the
most kick a** country that has ever existed. All you liberals whining
over our “demise,” GET OVER YOURSELVES. You’re clueless. We were founded
on the novel idea that we were endowed by our Creator with certain
unalienable rights. Rights than cannot be given or taken away by a
governing authority. This was about individual liberty. We
reject government force and coercion. Votes. Favors. Political power.
That’s the cycle of every progressive politician. We’re done. We’re sick
of it.
Another part of Ronald Reagan’s 1964 speech, “A Time For Choosing,” comes to mind.
“Public servants say, always with the best of intentions, “What greater service we could render if only we had a little more money and a little more power.” But the truth is that outside of its legitimate function, government does nothing as well or as economically as the private sector.”But we are. We’re for economic prosperity. Individual responsibility. Fiscal responsibility. Less government. More freedom. We’re sick of the liberal do-gooders shoving their BS agenda down our throats and calling us bigots when we reject their horrid ideas. We’re sick of them scoffing at the principles of liberty.
“Yet any time you and I question the schemes of the do-gooders, we’re denounced as being opposed to their humanitarian goals. It seems impossible to legitimately debate their solutions with the assumption that all of us share the desire to help the less fortunate. They tell us we’re always ‘against,’ never ‘for’ anything.”
Donald Trump is America’s middle finger
to the media, Hollywood elites, progressive ideologues and everyone else
in the world who hates our guts.
I’m drinking the tears of our political enemies in a mug today and
loving every minute of it. We defeated them. We have one more chance to
prove that our ideas work. We’re right. We always have been.
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