Written by Larry Elder
This is not our first partial government shutdown. Somehow, someway, from 1976 through 2017, the nation has survived 18 shutdowns, the longest lasting 21 days. In this case, President Donald Trump insists that the next budget deal contain $5 billion to construct a wall on part of our southern border with Mexico.
Trump, say the Democrats, is “unwilling to compromise.” But when he asks for only $5 billion for a project with a U.S.… Continue Reading
Tags: Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Build the Wall, Cash for Clunkers, Chuck Schumer, Congressional Budget Office, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, Donald Trump, George Herbert Walker Bush, government shutdown, immigration, James Carville, Lyndon Johnson, Melissa Harris-Perry, MSNBC, Nancy Pelosi, Ted Lieu, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Vanity Fair, War on Poverty
Political | David E. Smith | January 5, 2019 7:33 AM | Comments Off on Government Shutdown: Money, Money Everywhere, But Not a Drop for a Wall
Written by Jonathan Clay de Hale
In just the week since Part I of this two-part series was published, we’ve learned from a new study that the number of foreigners illegally living in the United States is twice as high as the conventionally accepted level of 11.3 million (and could be as high as 29.1 million, as suggested earlier); that Democrats intend to pressure President Donald Trump to raise the refugee resettlement number to 110,000 refugees a year (five times the number of foreign refugees taken in 2018); and that the Border Patrol found nearly 200 illegal aliens from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador wandering in the Arizona desert—the third such finding in the last month.… Continue Reading
Tags: Bangladeshi, border control, Border Patrol, border security, Border wall, Donald Trump, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, illegal aliens, immigration, James Hoffmeier, multiculturalism, national security, refugees, Tucker Carlson, Wayne Grudem
Federal Issues, Immigration | David E. Smith | October 2, 2018 5:00 AM | Comments Off on Why Christians Should Support Building a Wall – Part II
Written by Daniel Horowitz
All things in life, even good things, have a limit to their utility and a point at which they become liabilities. Think of tasty spices in a dish or other ingredients in a melting pot. Quantities count, particularly over a specific period of time. Immigration is no different.
Recent Census data released from the 2017 American Community Survey (ACS) shows that immigration has grown to shocking, wholly unprecedented levels. Is it too much to ask that we engage in a mature policy discussion after five decades of record immigration with no end in sight?… Continue Reading
Tags: American Community Survey, balkanization, Democrat Party, George Washington, Harry Reid, immigration, Maldwyn Allen Jones, naturalization, The Great Wave
Federal Issues, Immigration | David E. Smith | September 26, 2018 9:00 AM | Comments Off on How to Fundamentally Transform a Country
Written by Daniel Horowitz
Republicans are bleeding their traditional suburban voters at a quick pace. They are without a narrative and nearly out of time to make a difference for this election. When they return from summer recess, they have one final opportunity to either make a big play on the top issue on voter’s minds. Or they could simply monkey it up by running out the clock while they are losing.
According to recent polls, immigration is the top concern of voters.… Continue Reading
Tags: border control, border security, ICE, immigration, Immigration and Citizenship Services, MS-13, sanctuary cities, Visa Lottery, Voter Fraud, voter integrity
Federal Issues | David E. Smith | August 31, 2018 11:00 AM | Comments Off on 25 No-Brainer Immigration Plans to Make America Safer — and Win the Election
Written by Walker Wildmon
In recent years we’ve seen Democrat-run states and cities move to protect illegal immigrants from federal immigration officials. Yes, you read that correctly. It is a classic state law versus federal law conundrum costing the lives and quality of life of legal citizens.
California has declared itself a “sanctuary state” meaning that you can cross the American border illegally and be protected from consequences in their state. New York and other states have passed similar measures.… Continue Reading
Written by Michelle Malkin
It’s quite simple: Some political relatives are more equal than others.
Agenda-driven journalists love to exploit familial dysfunction when a prominent politician is conservative and his or her kinfolk espouse liberal views. When a vengeful offspring, sibling, cousin or distant relation wants to wreak havoc, instant fame and adoration are just a tweet or call away. The media schadenfreude over such bloody bloodline battles is thicker than California wildfire smoke.
By contrast, relatives who openly challenge powerful Democrats are dismissed as gadflies and publicity hounds.… Continue Reading
Tags: Barack Obama, Bonnie Fuller, border security, CNN, Donald Trump, Dr. David Glosser, GQ, Hillary Clinton, Huffington Post, immigration, Kyung Lah, Lawrence O'Donnell, Malik, Maria Hinojosa, MSNBC, New York Times, Politico, Slate, Stephen Miller, Vox, Wajahat Ali
Federal Issues, Media Watch | David E. Smith | August 15, 2018 11:00 AM | Comments Off on The Theory of Political Relative Relativity
Written by Dr. Frank Turek
If you say you’re for open borders, you’re not. Not completely.
Do you have locks on your doors? How about on your car? Got a fence so your kids can play safely? Do you have passwords on your computers? How about your bank accounts? Do you protect your credit card numbers? Your social security number? How about your medical records? Do you think curbs, guardrails, and traffic lines are a good idea, or should people be able to drive anywhere and any way they want? … Continue Reading
Written by Tom Trinko
Leftists have a long history of exploiting children to advance the left’s political agenda. The most recent case is the left’s screeching about the fact that when illegals are arrested for trying to sneak into the country, their children are separated from them.
We know that leftists don’t really care about this because it happened under Barack Obama, and they said nothing. It even happened under George W. Bush, and they didn’t complain about it then, either, even though they hated Bush.… Continue Reading
Tags: Barack Obama, Border Patrol, George W. Bush, human-trafficking, illegal aliens, immigration, open borders, Roman Polanski, Tom Trinko, Woody Allen
Federal Issues, Media Watch, Sanctity of Life | David E. Smith | June 25, 2018 5:31 AM | Comments Off on The Big Lie: Leftists Care about Children
Written by Daniel Horowitz
With the recent surge at the border, our national security is in grave danger. Because of judicial amnesty and catch-and-release, there is nothing to deter gang members, Middle Eastern terrorists, and drug runners from crossing the border, asserting a credible fear of persecution, and then disappearing indefinitely into our population as they “await” an asylum hearing. This was an egregious act of stolen sovereignty by the Obama administration, and despite the rhetoric to the contrary, Trump’s DHS has not fundamentally changed course.… Continue Reading
Written by Daniel Horowitz
If one district judge demands that a president take a given course of action and another district judge prohibits the president from making such a move, what’s a president to do? He should ignore the judiciary, of course, and only take executive action pursuant to the law and the U.S. Constitution as he sees it.
When leftist organizations forum-shop their political issues to liberal judicial districts, seeking a phantom nationwide veto on a law or executive policy, they are not always guaranteed they will get a likeminded judge drawn by random selection.… Continue Reading
Tags: Barack Obama, Casa de Maryland, DACA, Donald Trump, immigration, Judicial Branch, judiciary, Nicholas Garaufis, Roger W. Titus, William Alsup
Federal Issues | David E. Smith | March 8, 2018 6:00 AM | Comments Off on Trump is Obligated to Follow Immigration Law