Published on Apr 8, 2019
Bernie Sanders Rejects Call for Open Borders, Savaged by Left
Sanders surprised some by rejecting a platform of open borders.
By Richard Moorhead
Bernie Sanders made himself an unlikely target for criticism among his detractors in the Democrat Party on Sunday, after rejecting an assertion from a questioner that he supported open borders.
A man asked how Bernie intended to sustain his vision of enlarged governmental social programs while supporting open borders. The Vermont Senator and Presidential candidate clarified that he did not support open borders, going into brief detail as to why he did not. Watch here:
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âMy point is that if you open the borders, youâre going to have people from all over the world. That is not my position.â
As milquetoast and basic as Sandersâ argument against a policy of open borders was, it became a target for derision among some on the progressive left unwilling to accept anything less. Some expressed indignation that Sanders would so much as even take a stance on the subject, stating that any conversation about the notion of open borders- a commonly suggested policy proposal in corporate media- was nothing more than cleverly disguised Republican propaganda.
The Koch brothers-funded corporate libertarian outlet Reason Foundation also published a piece criticizing Sanders for taking the most elementary stance possible in support of American workers by rejecting open migration to the United States. Increasingly centrists and liberals on both the left and ârightâ find themselves in league with one another in support of radical globalist policies that would import millions of new low-wage workers and voters into American society. If such an open borders vision were to be executed, itâs likely the American middle and working class would be crushed by an onslaught of cheap-labor competition, eventually resulting in the creation of a new Brazilian or Russian-style class system in the United States in which a small contingent of wealthy oligarchs have complete leverage over the vast impoverished masses.
Sanders still advocates for a massive amnesty of up to twelve million illegal immigrants and the drastic neutering of immigration law enforcement agencies such as ICE in the United States. However, one canât help but notice the irony that his immigration policy views are probably well on the right of whatâs commonly proposed by Democratic Party presidential candidates and legislators. Julian Castro, another Democratic Presidential candidate, potentially represents the left wing of Democratic Party opinion migration. Castro has called for the full decriminalization of illegal migration, potentially opening the southern border up to unprecedented waves of crossings that could make the caravans appear no greater than small formations in comparison.
âOur country is fullâ: Trump vows more troops at border on visit to wall in California (VIDEO)
Visiting the US-Mexico border in Calexico, California, President Donald Trump declared America “full” and repeated that illegal crossings constituted an emergency, vowing to send more troops to the border and build the wall.
Trump argued that many migrants crossing the border illegally are making bogus asylum claims.
âItâs a scam, itâs a hoax. I know about hoaxes, I just went through a hoax,â he said at one point, indicating ‘Russiagate.’
He also said that Mexico was apprehending migrants âby the thousands,â doing more in the past four days than they have ever done before, but if that does not stem the flow of migrants he is âtotally willing to close the border.â
The “colossal surge” in border crossings is overwhelming the US immigration system, and “we can’t have that,” Trump said.
Border Patrol agents at the meeting agreed with the president about the crisis on the border, and informed Trump that they had apprehended almost 200 “fake families,” migrants fraudulently claiming children in order to avoid detention.
CBP El Centro Sector chief Gloria Chavez presented Trump with a segment of the newly built border barrier, as a symbol that the “wall works.”
US Army Corps of Engineers (ACE) is building the border barrier and expects to have approximately 450 miles done by the end of 2020, General Todd Semonite said.
Not everyone agreed with the Border Patrol, however. Protesters in the area deployed the giant “Trump baby” balloon ahead of the president’s visit on Friday.
Democrats are challenging Trump’s border emergency declaration in the courts and have called it a “manufactured crisis.”
DEMOCRATS ARE SUING TO STOP TRUMP FROM FUNDING BORDER WALL CONSTRUCTION
By Jason Hopkins
Democratic leaders voted to file a lawsuit against President Donald Trumpâs emergency declaration, a move they hope will block the billions in funding heâs accessed for border wall construction.
âThe Presidentâs sham emergency declaration and unlawful transfers of funds have undermined our democracy, contravening the vote of the bipartisan Congress, the will of the American people and the letter of the Constitution,â House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said in a Thursday statement following the vote.
The Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group, a five-member board that controls the House of Representativesâ general counsel, voted 3-2 on Thursday to authorize a lawsuit against Trumpâs emergency declaration. The lawsuit claims the president violated the Constitutionâs Appropriations Clause, which gives lawmakers in Congress the authority to control funding measures.
The vote fell strictly along party lines, with Pelosi, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer and Majority Whip Jim Clyburn voting for it, and Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and Minority Whip Steve Scalise voting against it.
âThe Presidentâs action clearly violates the Appropriations Clause by stealing from appropriated funds, an action that was not authorized by constitutional or statutory authority,â Pelosi continued in her statement. âCongress, as Article I â the first branch, co-equal to the other branches â must reassert its exclusive responsibilities reserved by the text of the Constitution and protect our system of checks and balances.â
This isnât the first time congressional Democrats have tried to block the emergency declaration, nor is it the first lawsuit.
Both chambers of Congress, with the help of some GOP support, were able to pass a resolution that condemned Trumpâs emergency crisis. However, in the first veto of his presidency, he struck it down. Lawmakers were not able to obtain a two-thirds majority in Congress to override the veto.
Trumpâs declaration has also been challenged in court from a multitude of state attorneys general, led by California. A handful of progressive and environmental groups are also trying to fight the proclamation in the courtroom. (RELATED: âDisastrous Consequencesâ: Democrats Blast Trumpâs Border Wall Threats)
After accepting the $1.375 billion in funds Congress appropriated for border wall construction in February, Trump declared an emergency, authorizing billions more in funding from the militaryâs budget. The Pentagon has already authorized the Army Corps of Engineers to shift $1 billion to the border wall.
When he originally made his crisis declaration, Trump predicted it would face a lawsuit that would eventually make its way to the Supreme Court.
âWe will have a national emergency, and then we will then be sued, and they will sue us in the 9th Circuit, even though it shouldnât be there,â the president said in February. âAnd we will possibly get a bad ruling, and then weâll get another bad ruling. And then weâll end up in the Supreme Court, and hopefully, weâll get a fair shake.â
Illegal Alien Who Overstayed Visa Kills Girl While Driving Without License
A 13-year-old girl tragically died after an accident caused by an illegal alien.
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A 13-year-old Florida girl is dead after an illegal alien from Argentina driving without a license struck the child with her car.
âDeputies said Mariana Perez Borroto, of Kissimmee, was bicycling to Lake Marion Creek Middle School shortly after 7:45 a.m. when she was hit by a minivan being driven by Micaela Coronel,â according to WFTV.
The local news site confirmed that Coronel was living in the United States on an expired visa.
The Polk County Sheriffâs Office released a statement regarding Coronelâs arrest, saying that they have âcharged her with operating a motor vehicle without a valid DL causing death, which is a third degree felony.â
âCoronel told deputies sheâs been in the country on a âvisitor passâ from Argentina since October 2018, and presented them with an Argentinian identification card,â according to the statement. âShe does not have a Florida driverâs license, and deputies determined through their investigation that she does not have a valid driverâs license at all.â
The Sheriffâs Office is working with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to determine the next steps in the case.
Coronel reportedly told the police that she could not see out of her windshield, which was about 80 percent covered with condensation at the time of the crash.
Meanwhile, the battle over illegal immigration rages in Washington, D.C., as both parties have failed to secure the Southern border with Mexico. There have also been no reforms to the visa program, which could have prevented the latest tragedy which can be blamed on the Americaâs insane immigration policies.
As illegal border crossings surge, Democrats blocked a meaningful amount of wall funding in the 2019 federal budget. President Donald J. Trump declared a National Emergency to address the issue, with plans to diver Department of Defense funding for the project, for which several heavily-blue states immediately sued his administration.
In what many conservatives see as a colossal failure, the Republican Congress, led by former House Speaker Paul Ryan, current House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), failed to deliver wall funding to the presidentâs desk during all of 2017 and 2018, when Republicans held the House, the Senate, and the White House.
{MORE FROM THE DEEP STATE} – AWFUL! Mitch McConnell Refutes Trump Again, Says âClosing the Border Would Have Catostrophic Impact on Countryâ (VIDEO)
 April 2, 2019
Sometimes itâs hard to see who these Republican senators represent?
Just last month 12 Republican senators stood proudly with Democrats against President Trumpâs border emergency declaration.
That was the best Mitch McConnell could do â 12 defectors.
This past weekend President Trump suggested he may be forced to close the southern border.
In March 100,000 illegal immigrants invaded the southern border. Immigration services are overwhelmed.
Mitch McConnell and Senate Republicans have no answer for this crisis.
Closing the border is NOT their priority.
They could not care less about their voting base.
Instead Mitch McConnell refuted the Republican President and said, âClosing the border would have a catastrophic economic impact on the country.â
Did Pelosi or Harry Reid EVER do this to Barack Obama?
Ramos calls for open borders: ‘Nobody can stop them’…
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TONY LEEJorge Ramos: Amnesty for Illegals, MigrantsââNothing We Can Do to Stop Themâ
Univision anchor Jorge Ramos said on Tuesday evening that he believes the solution to the migrant crisis at U.S.-Mexico border is to just legalize illegal immigrants because ânobody can really stop themâ from entering the United States.
âThe U.S. economy has been absorbing them and it seems that we have to realize that the only way to deal with this is in a legal way,â Ramos told CNNâs Anderson Cooper. âJust to understand that legally they are going to keep coming and there is really nothing we can do to stop them.â
Ramos said Americans have to understand that 300,000 to a million illegal immigrants have entered the United States every year for decades and if more âof these immigrants want to come to the United States, it is very difficult to stop them at the border.â Ramos added that âCentral American countries and Mexico are not the immigration police of Donald Trumpâ and insisted that no matter how much money is spent trying to solve the migrant crisis, governments âsimply donât have the power to stop that from becoming reality.â
âBut the truth is that, Anderson, nobody can stop them,â Ramos said. âNobody can really stop them.â
Ramos, the amnesty advocate who has said that the United States has a responsibility to âabsorbâ the caravan migrants, made his remarks just a week after Border Patrol officials announced that they are seeing the âhighest total of apprehensions and encounters in over a decade.â
President Donald Trump will head to the border town of Calexico, California, on Friday and has threatened to close the U.S.-Mexico border if Mexico does not do more to curb the migrant caravans. This weekend, Trump announced that he will be cutting off aid to Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador, but Ramos said doing so will only encourage more migrants to trek to the United States.
Earlier this year, Ramos called for the legalization of all the countryâs illegal immigrations while saying that the border wall is a âsymbol of hate and racismâ for âthose who want to make America white again.â He has also insisted that Americans must âacceptâ that the U.S.-Mexico border is ânothing more than an invention.â
{THE SWAMP} – US Chamber of Commerce Opposes Border Shutdown, Supports âNew NAFTA Agreementâ to End Tariffs
The Chamber is using its lobbying power to stifle President Trumpâs âAmerica Firstâ agenda with great effectiveness.
By Shane Trejo
The US Chamber of Commerce is not happy about President Donald Trumpâs threats to close down the US southern border, and the organization is using its tremendous lobbying power to curtail Trump on immigration and trade issues.
âEven threatening to close the border to legitimate commerce and travel creates a degree of economic uncertainty that risks compromising the very gains in growth and productivity that policies of the Trump administration have helped achieve,â said Neil Bradley, the Chamberâs executive vice president and chief policy officer.
Thomas Donahue, CEO for the US Chamber of Commerce, appeared on CNBC yesterday where he attempted to downplay his organizationâs opposition to the Presidentâs agenda. Still, he expressed some concerns with Trumpâs tough talk on Mexico.
âWe donât want to shut down the people that come to the United States everyday to work here across the border that we need. We donât want to shut down the trade,â Donahue said.
Although Donahue admitted that the migrant crisis at the border is substantial and that âthe house is full,â the Chamber is still lobbying President Trump to moderate his trade and immigration policies.
âI think we have conveyed to the President some of the issues he should be thinking about,â Donahue said.
Donahue hopes that Trumpâs strong rhetoric on the border is mostly to garner attention and not a serious public policy proposal. He also wants Trumpâs trade war with China to conclude as quickly as possible.
âI am not in all of the trade issues enamored with tariffs because, as you know, theyâre all paid for by American companies,â Donahue said, in direct opposition to Trumpâs trade policy.
âYou buy a million dollars worth of steel somewhere that has a tariff on it, you send a check for a quarter of a million dollars to the US government,â Donahue said, deriding the effect of Trumpâs policies.
Additionally, Donahue hopes that Congress will pass a ânew NAFTA agreementâ so Trumpâs tariffs can be brought to an end.
The Chamber, along with Koch Industries and other globalist lobbying interests, have driven the pro-trade, open immigration status quo of the Republican Party for decades. Donahueâs comments make it clear that the Chamberâs agenda has not changed in the Trump era.
âImmigrants have long been a vital part of our economy, and they can help fill those gaps nowâŚ. Our nation must continue to attract and welcome the worldâs most industrious and innovative people and finally fix our broken immigration system,â Donahue said last year.
âThe United States is fundamentally out of people,â Donohue said.
The lobbying push by the Chamber toward Trump to persuade him to abandon his electoral mandate seems to be working as Trumpâs rhetoric on immigration has shifted drastically in recent months.
Organizations like the Chamber are never going to make it easy to repel globalism from the Republican Party.
Texans Living Over 70 Miles North of Border Terrorized by Illegals, Cartels
Tuesday, April 02, 2019
Terrified residents desperate for border wall, protection
Americans living roughly 75 miles north of the Mexican border are being terrorized by foreign gang members and illegal aliens, according to a resident of Encino, Texas, who says a border wall is needed to protect U.S. citizens.
A woman identified only as âSoilaâ told NBC affiliate KVEO that âhundredsâ of illegal aliens pass through her neighborhood on any given day, while Mexican cartel members threaten her family and friends â and even attempt to invade her property.
âWe no longer can go out without a gun; you canât go for a walk,â Soila said. âMy neighbor and his daughter were chased by men with masks. She was riding her 4-wheeler down 281 â they saw her and they jumped the fence and started chasing her.â
âHuge groups â and weâre not talking 10 or 15, weâre talking about 40, 70 â and the last few months itâs getting worse. They really need to go after the coyotes because we have seen so many abandoned families, women with children just left out there. These people are not educated â they donât know east or west, they donât know where the sun rises and sets. You ask them, âHave you ever seen a map of Texas?â They donât even know how big Texas is.â
Soila tells of multiple confrontations between her husband and gang members who use intimidation to silence and control opposition, adding that her neighbors are scared to call Border Patrol due to threats.
â12 young men dressed in black â my husband automatically stops, and they just put a finger to their lips and itâs like, âYou better not say anything,ââ Soila said. âThey know what we drive, they know where we live.â
âThere was a young man, [my husband] kept telling him to stop right at the gate, but he kept coming. My husband cocked the gun, and right on his left-hand side, 12-15 more pop out. They were trying to get in towards the house.â
Soila says a border wall is desperately needed, and that those who oppose it are foolish or protecting their short-term financial interests.
âWhoever tells you there is no danger out here and we donât need the wall, they have no idea what theyâre talking about,â she said. âThey donât care as long as the businesses keep thriving in McAllen or Brownsville.â
Democrat Presidential Candidate JuliĂĄn Castro: Open the Borders
By Neil Munro
Democratic presidential hopeful JuliĂĄn Castro is hoping to win primary voters by urging an open-borders policy, even though his plan would likely shrink wages and spike rents for the partyâs base of lower-income voters.
Castro, a former housing secretary in President Barack Obamaâs cabinet, announced his innovative promise to cut votersâ wages via a friendly interview in the Washington Post:
Democratic presidential candidate JuliĂĄn Castro offered a far-reaching plan to remake the nationâs immigration policy Tuesday with a new call to end criminal penalties for migrants entering the country without permission and a plan to remove detention as a tool for most immigration enforcement.
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By repealing the criminal code that allows the Trump administration to prosecute people who enter the country, Castro would remove the mechanism that previously allowed the administration to separate asylum-seeking parents and children after detention. Trump has since stopped those prosecutions, though single adults continue to face criminal penalties. Castro said he would impose a civil legal process for sorting out refuÂgee applications and deportations, with an emphasis on jailing and removing those with criminal records.
Castro also wants to amnesty the population of at least 11 million illegals in the United States, to accelerate the chain-migration of foreigners into the United States, to boost the inflow of refugees, and to end construction of a border barrier. He would also block the power of ICE to enforce the nationâs immigration laws, so further reducing the already small threat of repatriation for the growing population of at least 11 million illegals in the United States.
Overall, Castroâs policy would explode the population of non-Americans in the United States and so further expand opportunities for Latino politicians and power-brokers. In February 2019, Breitbart reported Castroâs political roots in Latino identity politics:
Castroâs mother, Maria del Rosario Castro, or Rosie Castro, was a major leftist organizer who co-founded La Raza Unida, an extremist third party separatist group in the 1970s. La Raza Unida literally translates to âThe Race United,â and the group sought to create a new country in the American Southwest called Aztlan. Breitbart News has run a number of pieces over the years on this group and the Castro familyâs connections to it, but perhaps the most interesting thing about Castroâs presidential campaign launch is that he did not shy away from this radical upbringing; he embraced it.
The Washington Post reporter, Michael Scherer, did not ask Castro how Americans voters would gain or lose amid of flood of blue-collar and white-collar labor. The reporter did not address how a massive rise of the immigrant population would help lower-income Americans keep their homes in neighborhoods that are already seeing rising real-estate prices, such as New York and Los Angeles.
Instead, Castro and Scherer treated the migration issue merely as a matter of the migrantsâ welfare. This skew hides the greatest economic impact of migration â the transfer of blue-collar wages and white-collar salaries earned by ordinary Americans and legal immigrants up to wealthy, older recipients, including investors, CEOs, and real estate owners.
Also, Castro and Scherer treated the migration as only a humanitarian crisis, and portrayed the migrants as helpless victims, which are described as âasylum-seeking families.â Castro told Scherer that âWe see this administrationâs approach to immigration is a total failure. Instead of marching forward with cruelty, I believe we should choose compassion.â
That approach dismisses the strong evidence that the migrants are rationally exploiting the many legal loopholes which are being held open by Democrats, judges and business lobbyists, to win jobs and residency for their children in the peaceful, prosperous United States.
Scherer did not reply to questions from Breitbart News.
The focus by Castro and Scherer on the migrantsâ welfare and on humanitarian concerns also echoes the bipartisan claim that the United States is a ânation of immigrants,â not a nation of and for Americans.
The voting public is likely to strongly oppose Castroâs open-borders and cheap-labor policy.
Each year, roughly four million young Americans join the workforce after graduating from high school or university. But the federal government then imports approximately 1.1 million legal immigrants, refreshes a resident population of roughly 1.5 million white-collar guest workers and roughly 500,000 blue-collar visa workers, and also tolerates about eight million illegal workers.
This federal policy of flooding the market with cheap white-collar graduates and blue-collar foreign labor is intended to boost economic growth for investors. This policy shiftsenormous wealth from young employees towards older investors, widens wealth gaps, reduces high-tech investment, increases state and local tax burdens, hurts childrenâs schools and college education, pushes Americans away from high-tech careers, and sidelines millions of marginalized Americans, including many who are now struggling with fentanyl addictions.
But the Washington Post article also put a racial, class, and regional skew on the rational public opposition to elite support for cheap-labor migration:
Some Democratic strategists are wary of turning off white voters in swing states of the upper Midwest who Trump has been able to sway with anti-immigration rhetoric.
Those views of âwhite votersâ have been validated by President Donald Trumpâs âHire Americanâ policy which has raised wages in 2018 by limiting the inflow of new workers in 2017 and 2018:
Amnesty advocates rely on business-funded âNation of Immigrantsâ push polls to show apparent voter support for immigration and immigrants.
But âchoiceâ polls reveal most votersâ often-ignored preference that CEOs should hire Americans at decent wages before hiring migrants. Those Americans include many blue-collar Blacks, Latinos, and people who hide their opinions from pollsters. Similarly, the 2018 polls show that GOP voters are far more concerned about migration â more properly, the economics of migration â than they are concerned about illegal migration and MS-13, taxes, or House Speaker Rep. Nancy Pelosi.
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