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In The Mailbox: 06.19.18

Posted on | June 19, 2018 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: National Martini Day
Twitchy: Chuck Schumer Just Exposed The Democrats’ Whole Border Crisis Charade
Louder With Crowder: Chris Pratt Shocks MTV Awards Audience – God Is Real, also, Hidden Camera – SvenComputer Crashes Another LGBTQ Panel

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Sunday Lifting Thread, also, At This Point, You May As Well Come Out As A Misogynist
American Thinker: The IG Report – They’re Guilty But It’s Okay, also, Sleazy Sex Games And Dirty Politics In The Southern Baptist Convention
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Good Guy With Gun News
BattleSwarm: Labour Live Was Merely Pining For The Fjords, also, Clinton Corruption Update For June 19, 2018
CDR Salamander: The NATSEC Marketplace Of Ideas Ain’t Beanbag
Da Tech Guy: The Unexpectedly Chronicles – Media/Left Suddenly Stop Quoting Pope Francis, also, Figment Jesus
Don Surber: Proof That Hillary, Michelle, And Laura Lied
Dustbury: A Woman With Whom You Do Not Mess
Fausta: On The Mend
First Street Journal: Harvard And Affirmative Action, also, Hold Them Accountable!
The Geller Report: SecDHS Nielsen – “Vast Majority Of Underage Illegals Sent Here By Parents”, also, Spanish Students Evicted From Housing To Make Room For Muslim Migrants
Hogewash: Social Justice Math, also, Team Kimberlin Post of The Day
Legal Insurrection: U.S. Withdraws From UN Human Rights Council, a/k/a “Cesspool Of Political Bias”, also, Trump Says “We Must Always Arrest People Coming Into Our Country Illegally”
Power Line: Trey Gowdy, We’re Going To Miss You, also, I Have Seen The Future
Shark Tank: Bondi Endorses Patel For Hillsborough Commission
Shot In The Dark: Down The Memory Hole, also, More, Faster!
STUMP: Mornings With Meep, also, Taxing Tuesday
This Ain’t Hell: Commie Lieutenant Submits Resignation
Victory Girls: Merkel’s Migrants – Two Weeks To Save Her Government
Volokh Conspiracy: KS Secretary Of State Stuck With CLE Sanction
Weasel Zippers: Flashback – Obama Punishing Mexican Border-Crossing Kids By Holding Them Months Without Family, also, McCabe Pleads The Fifth While Comey & Lynch Refuse To Appear
Megan McArdle: In Defense Of IHOb
Mark Steyn: The Sentimentalization Of Public Policy, also, Live Around The Planet, June 19


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Autistic Teenage Neckbeard Charged With Raping and Murdering Australian Woman

Posted on | June 19, 2018 | Comments Off on Autistic Teenage Neckbeard Charged With Raping and Murdering Australian Woman

 

Police in Australia don’t release mug shots of criminal suspects, and their laws require media to conceal the faces of those arrested, but as you can see, murder suspect Jaymes Todd is a neckbeard — the stereotype of an obese, poorly groomed, basement-dwelling teenage geek.

Far be it from me to suggest all fat geeks are a menace to public safety, but Melbourne police say this neckbeard was dangerous:

An autistic teenager charged with the rape and murder of a young woman appeared disinterested and yawned while he sat in the dock in court on Thursday.
Aspiring comedian Eurydice Dixon’s body was found on a soccer field in Princes Park in Carlton North, inner Melbourne, at about 3am on Wednesday by a passerby.
The 22-year-old was on her way home from a Tuesday night performance at Highlander Bar in Melbourne’s CBD [central business district] when she was allegedly raped and murdered. . . .
Jaymes Todd handed himself in to police on Wednesday night and was charged over the alleged killing and sexual assault on Thursday morning.
The 19-year-old man, who police said did not know Ms Dixon, surrendered himself at Broadmeadows Police Station after officers released CCTV images.
Mr Todd did not say anything for the full hour he spent sitting in Melbourne Magistrates Court dock — although at one point he was seen putting a hand over his mouth in order to conceal a yawn.
His Legal Aid lawyer John Riordan argued that Mr Todd’s mental health condition, as well as his age and appearance, would put the teenager at high risk in prison, The Age reports.
Mr Riordan told the court that Mr Todd’s family had ‘indicated his condition makes him socially regressive.
‘He struggles in certain social environments and that may have a significant impact on him in custody,’ said the lawyer.
The court further heard that Mr Todd was on prescribed medication for his condition. . . .

We are expected to sympathize with the accused killer’s “mental health condition” — autistic geeks are “socially regressive,” after all. The suspect’s family are predictably clueless:

The father of accused killer Jaymes Todd has described how his shocked family is struggling to comes to terms with his son’s arrest and had “no inkling” Jaymes could allegedly be connected to the Carlton North attack.
Jason Todd told The Age on Friday his family was stunned when told the 19-year-old had been charged with the rape and murder of aspiring comedian Eurydice Dixon.
“We are struggling obviously — it’s a huge thing we didn’t think we would ever have to deal with in our lives,” he said.
“We had no inkling anything like this was possible to happen.”
Facebook posts from several years ago show Jaymes interacting with his parents and grandparents, and celebrating being in the top 100 Australian students in online education program Mathletics. He also posted about playing Farmville and dice game Farkle.

Again, the geek stereotypes — good at math and playing videogames, but “socially regressive,” and his family had “no inkling” he was dangerous.

Perhaps by now, some of my readers are wondering, “Hey, what’s the deal with gratuitous bashing on neckbeards here?” Well, I found this story via a feminist site which reported it this way:

Earlier this week, Eurydice Dixon was raped and murdered while walking home through a park in Melbourne, Australia. Police responded by warning “people” to be vigilant when walking home alone. 19-year-old Jaymes Todd — a stranger to Dixon — has now been charged. Dixon is the thirtieth woman who has been murdered in Australia this year.

You see the feminist angle on this story is “male violence,” as if rapists and murderers are a random and representative sample of all men, so that men bear a collective responsibility for such crimes. Feminism’s anti-male hate rhetoric promotes negative stereotypes of men, generally, encouraging a paranoid fear of “male violence,” implying that there can be no rational basis for distinguishing between ordinary law-abiding men and dangerous killers who exhibit known risk factors for violence.

Feminists want to make this neurologically impaired endomorph a symbol in their Atrocity Narrative about “male violence,” and expect us not to notice that this is simplistic anti-male propaganda.

Notice that the feminist website says Ms. Dixon’s death was “the thirtieth woman who has been murdered in Australia this year,” which would put the country on pace for about 60 such murders annually, or five women murdered per month. There are 24.8 million people in Australia, about half of whom are women. Does an average of five murders a month represent an “epidemic” of violence against women in a population that size? The 2016 homicide rate in Illinois was 8.2 per 100,000, where there were 1,016 murders that year. The population of Illinois is 12.8 million. If we were to extrapolate that rate for a population the size of Australia’s, there would be 2,034 murders annually. Well, as bad as crime may be in Melbourne, it ain’t Chicago, where there have been more than 200 homicides this year, including 29 female victims. In other words, Chicago alone, with a population of 2.7 million, has produced nearly as many female homicide victims this year as the entire country of Australia.

Gosh, why don’t feminist websites talk about “violence against women” in Chicago? Because nearly all those perpetrators are black or Hispanic. You would be accused of promoting racist stereotypes if you were to make the crime rate in Chicago the basis of an argument suggesting that black and Hispanic men pose a particular danger to women, but somehow feminists get a pass when they seize upon a crime like the rape and murder of Eurydice Dixon as “evidence” to condemn all men, collectively.

It is seldom necessary to “get down in the tall grass” and argue about details when countering this kind of propaganda. Too often, men permit feminists to incite their anger. Do not be provoked into defensive reactions or indulge in insults and name-calling. It is far more effective simply to point out that hate propaganda is hate propaganda.

What is implied by feminism’s categorical rhetoric is that all men bear a collective responsibility for everything done wrong by any man anywhere. By calling attention to their dishonest tactics — i.e., implying a prejudicial belief that would be rejected as obviously false, if stated explicitly — you force your antagonist onto the defensive and demonstrate that they are arguing in bad faith. You cannot argue with hate; facts and logic will never persuade the feminist to abandon her anti-male prejudice. What you can do, however, is to discredit her by exposing her use of propaganda tactics by which feminists promote their ideology.

One man is accused of killing Eurydice Dixon. It is absurd — a hateful and dishonest guilt-by-association smear — to suggest that all men are somehow implicated in this obese autistic Australian’s crime. When I describe the suspect as obese and autistic, this seems prejudicial, but it is no less prejudicial than the way feminists routinely use criminal atrocities to scapegoat men, collectively and categorically. It is only because we have become accustomed to this tactic (or are afraid of being accused of “sexism” for criticizing feminists) that it usually goes unremarked.

Am I inciting hate against basement-dwelling neckbeards? Maybe, but if so, you must admit that feminists are inciting anti-male hatred. If we consistently call attention to the rhetorical tactics of propaganda employed by feminists, they will be effectively disarmed.





 

 

Category: Australia, Crime, Sex Trouble

Democrats and Media Are Lying: Behind the Phony ‘Family Separation’ Propaganda

Posted on | June 19, 2018 | Comments Off on Democrats and Media Are Lying: Behind the Phony ‘Family Separation’ Propaganda

 

The media headlines are deliberately misleading:

Nielsen becomes face
of Trump’s border separations
— Politico

All four living former first ladies
condemn Trump border policy
— NBC News

Less Than One-Third Of The Public
Supports Family Separations
— Huffington Post

The myth being promoted by Democrats and the media (but I repeat myself) is that the so-called “Trump border policy” is something new. This is a media-manufactured fiction — a hoax — ginned up for partisan political purposes. If the public opposes the current policy, this may be because the media have intentionally published disinformation about the policy. Here is a New York Times article from July 2014:

Immigrant Surge Rooted in Law to Curb Child Trafficking
It was one of the final pieces of legislation signed into law by President George W. Bush, a measure that passed without controversy, along with a pension bill and another one calling for national parks to be commemorated on quarters.
“This is a piece of legislation we’re very proud to sign,” a White House spokesman, Tony Fratto, told reporters on Dec. 23, 2008, as the president put his pen to the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008, named for a 19th-century British abolitionist. “This program has been very effective around the world in trying to stop trafficking in persons.”
Now the legislation, enacted quietly during the transition to the Obama administration, is at the root of the potentially calamitous flow of unaccompanied minors to the nation’s southern border.
Originally pushed by a bipartisan coalition of lawmakers as well as by evangelical groups to combat sex trafficking, the bill gave substantial new protections to children entering the country alone who were not from Mexico or Canada by prohibiting them from being quickly sent back to their country of origin.
Instead, it required that they be given an opportunity to appear at an immigration hearing and consult with an advocate, and it recommended that they have access to counsel. It also required that they be turned over to the care of the Department of Health and Human Services, and the agency was directed to place the minor “in the least restrictive setting that is in the best interest of the child” and to explore reuniting those children with family members.
The Obama administration says the law is partly responsible for tying its hands in dealing with the current influx of children. Officials have suggested that the White House might seek flexibility in the law’s requirements when it asks Congress to provide emergency funds to contend with the latest immigration crisis, a request that could come as early as Tuesday. About 52,000 minors without their parents have been caught at the Southwest border since October [2013].

The problem is caused by this 10-year-old law, which passed Congress with the kind of good intentions that pave the road to Hell. The flaws in this law have been recognized — indeed, the liberal media and the Obama administration complained about it — for more than four years.

In a press release Monday, the White House said:

Following the 2014 child migrant crisis, Republicans sought repeatedly to close “catch-and-release” loopholes that incentivize child smuggling and endangerment. As early as October of last year, President Trump sent a letter to Congressional leadership in which he specifically asked lawmakers to “amend the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 (TVRPA)”. Yet Congressional Democrats continue to oppose the Trump Administration’s efforts to close loopholes that would put criminal child smuggling organizations out of business.

Congress failed to act, and the Trump administration has tried to enforce existing law while preventing smugglers from exploiting the loopholes. Democrats and their media allies have orchestrated a dishonest propaganda campaign to create the false impression that President Trump has caused a problem which he is in fact trying to solve.

Democrats like Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer are complaining about a “crisis” at the border which they have helped caused, and which is only continuing because Democrats don’t want to fix the problem.

 

Category: Democrats, Donald Trump, Immigration, Media Bias

In The Mailbox: 06.18.18

Posted on | June 18, 2018 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 06.18.18

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Lies, Damned Lies, And Democrats/Never Trumpers
Twitchy: Sean Spicier Shares His Plan For Keeping Families Together At The Border, And The Left Just Can’t Deal
Louder With Crowder: Ted Cruz Beats Jimmy Kimmel In Charity Basketball Game

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Friday Hawt Chicks & Links – The Whoa! Phat Edition
American Thinker: A Guide To Spygate, also, They’re Calling You Stupid. That’s Right – You.
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
BattleSwarm: Chuck Schumer Says Trump Is “All Cattle, No Hat”
CDR Salamander: Keeping An Eye On The Long Game, Part LXXIV
Da Tech Guy: Five Second Rule, also, The Unspoken Truth – It Was Obama Who Weaponized The Government, And The Media That Let Him Do It
Don Surber: Laura Bush Shows The Democrats’ Desperation, also, Three Years Ago Today, The Experts Beclowned Themselves
Dustbury: Strange Search Engine Queries, also, Woman’s Got Seoul
First Street Journal: KY Dem House Candidate McGrath Calls Voters Un-American, “Enemies Of America”
The Geller Report: Muslima On Portland (ME) Police Force Resigns After Charges Of Assault, Battery, And Resisting Arrest, also, German Pol Predicts Merkel’s Ouster By End Of Next Week
Hogewash: Yours Truly, Johnny Atsign, also, Team Kimberlin Post of The Day
JustOneMinute: Privacy Overwatch
Legal Insurrection: Trump Says Germans “Turning Against Their Leadership” On Mass Immigration, also, Legal Insurrection Semi-Annual Fundraiser
Power Line: A Civil Rights Commissioner Weighs In On Children At The Border, also, Does Trump Have “Dictator Envy”?
Shark Tank: Democrats Fear Nelson’s Loss To Scott
Shot In The Dark: The Wrong Lesson? also, Toxic Social “Justice”
STUMP: Around The Pension-O-Sphere, also, Memory Monday – Second Week Of June 1918
The Jawa Report: Note From Iran – Annihilate Da Yahood
The Political Hat: Just When You Thought The Rotherham Rape Gang Scandal Couldn’t Get Any Worse
This Ain’t Hell: 2@LT Robert Keown Comes Home, also, Veteran Cemetery Vandals Identified
Victory Girls: Trump Haters Go Full Godwin On Migrant Kids In Detention Camps
Volokh Conspiracy: SCOTUS Will Decide Whether Excessive Fines Clause Applies To States
Weasel Zippers: Almost 60,000 DACA Recipients Arrested At Least Once Since Program Began, also, 22 People Shot In NJ But Since It Doesn’t Fit The Narrative…
Megan McArdle: The Game Theory That Explains Our Country’s Mass Psychosis
Mark Steyn: Munich, also, The Dissolution Of The People


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Rule 5 Monday: Shakira Law And The Rock Sharky

Posted on | June 18, 2018 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

“A wave of the Fendy’s fingers sent the man from the room…’Meanwhile, be thou my guest and I shall call in women who know a little of the rock sharky and we shall dine on sweetmeats and dates’…The dancing girls, as promised, did not stumble much, although considering in how many directions they shook their bodies, it was a marvel that they did not…The dancers wore petal skirts and halter tops, except for the boys, of course, who wore only white cotton sirwals. The Fudir found his pulse quickening to the rock beat, the tinkling zills, and the undulating bodies of the dancers…”

-from Michael Flynn’s The January Dancer

I like to joke about people whose grasp on Islamic ideas is so loose that they can’t tell the difference between sharia law and Shakira, a Colombian pop star of Lebanese descent who has been known to delight her fans by performing the raqs sharqi in concert, and it follows that if Shakira Law were imposed upon us, she might require that all women do the dance. Let’s face it, there are some women who would benefit from the exercise. But now that I have scarred you for life by making you imagine Lindy West undulating to Middle Eastern music, let me make amends by presenting Shakira doing the dance of her ancestors.

I don’t care if she plays the zills or not, that there is hot.

Ninety Miles from Tyranny leads off with Hot Pick Of The Late Night, Morning Mistress, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #286, and Girls With Guns. Animal Magnetism is next with Rule Five Fleecing The Rubes Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL brings us Cheers, Dexterity, Miss Iraq and Miss Israel, National Bourbon Day, Flag Day, Corn on The Cob, Seat Belts Are Important, Elastigirl, Ann Margret, and Bloomsday.

A View From The Beach has Down by the Bay, Donna D’Errico, “XXPEN$IVE”, Never Enough!, . . . In the Sky with Diamonds, 2500 Bare Naked Ladies Can’t Be All Bad, Antonia Okafor Wants Freedom from Swimsuits, Your Morning Physics Lesson and This Hurts Just Watching.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Nicole Mitchell Murphy and his Vintage Babe is Karen Steele. At Dustbury, it’s Kira Kosarin and Vanessa Hudgens.

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SPLC Busted for Lying, Pays $3.3 Million

Posted on | June 18, 2018 | 1 Comment

Let’s talk about sweet cosmic justice:

The Southern Poverty Law Center, which monitors hate groups, has apologized for including the Quilliam Foundation, a counter-extremism group, and its founder, Maajid Nawaz, in its Field Guide to Anti-Muslim Extremists. “Mr. Nawaz and Quilliam have made valuable and important contributions to public discourse, including by promoting pluralism and condemning both anti-Muslim bigotry and Islamist extremism,” the SPLC wrote in a statement. The SPLC will also pay a $3.375 million settlement to Quilliam that will be used to fight “anti-Muslim bigotry and Islamist extremism,” according to a Quilliam press release. “We were able to fight back against the Regressive Left and show them that moderate Muslims will not be silenced,” Nawaz said in the release.

(Hat-tip: Instapundit.)

 

Category: Racism

Preferences Are Not Oppression

Posted on | June 17, 2018 | 1 Comment

 

The last time I paid attention to Lindy West was in February 2017, when I mentioned her role in the 2015 #ShoutYourAbortion campaign, which was about ending the “stigma” of abortion. You see, your belief that some things are good (e.g., human life) and other things are bad (e.g., murdering babies), that there is a difference between right and wrong — between good and evil — is a problem for the “progressive” Left:

The totalitarian can never be appeased.
If you give Hitler the Sudetenland today, next he will demand the rest of Czechoslovakia, and after that, he’ll begin threatening Poland. Likewise with feminists — grant them everything they demand today, and tomorrow they will return with a new list of demands. Feminists have an appetite for power that is ultimately insatiable. . . .
What does feminism share with the occult? Both are about seeking power. Study the life of Aleister Crowley (or Madame Blavatsky or Marion Zimmer Bradley or any other prominent figure in occult movements) and the pattern is clear. What the occultist craves is a lawless power in defiance of the natural order, for the satisfaction of selfish desire. . . .
What is the basis of authority in a godless society? Power.
By power, the rich shall rule the poor and the strong shall rule the weak. The majority can impose its will upon everyone or, by capturing the influential centers of power — in media, in academia, in politics and in the courts — a decadent elite can subvert constitutional law and thereby gain the power to rule by seemingly “democratic” processes.

Feminists are anti-Christian, attacking religion to undermine our sense of morality, in order to arrogate to themselves unlimited power, and so Lindy West wishes to erase the “stigma” of abortion. Q.E.D.

 

In May 2016, Lindy West published a book, Shrill, which rode a tidal wave of critical acclaim to bestseller status. What does she say in this book? A Tumblr blogger has some quotes, including this one:

“America’s monomanical fixation on female thinness isn’t a distant abstraction, something to be pulled apart by academics in women’s studies classrooms or leveraged for traffic in shallow ‘body-positive’ listicles — it is a constant, pervasive taint that warps every single woman’s life.“

Really? How is it that America (evidently unique among all nations) stands accused of a “monomanical fixation” with being thin, while at the same time we’re experiencing an obesity epidemic? And does Lindy West actually believe this “warps every single woman’s life”?

My daughters are not fat. My two daughters-in-law are not fat. My teenage sons’ girlfriends are not fat. If their lives are being “warped” by a “monomanical fixation,” they haven’t mentioned it. Some people are just naturally thin, more or less, and thus suffer no hardship because of the general preference for thinness. “Fat feminism” is a movement organized to convince us that our normal preferences are wrong. If you think a skinny woman is more attractive than Lindy West, your preference oppresses Lindy West, in much the same way (and for much the same reason) that she considers “stigma” against abortion oppressive.

Whatever she wants is “social justice.” Whatever you want is wrong. Lindy West is a feminist, and therefore is beyond criticism, and anyone who disagrees with her is beneath contempt, der untermensch.

Some people have advantages in life. If I could throw a 95-mph fastball, I’d be a millionaire, but my lack of major-league baseball skills does not make me a victim of oppression. Similarly, skinny girls benefit from the general preference for thinness, and fat women are disadvantaged, but this is not oppression, it’s just the way life is — and no amount of feminist rhetoric will alter this reality of human life. All that will be achieved by such rhetoric is to encourage unrealistic beliefs and self-defeating behaviors that lead to disappointment and failure. Speaking of which, here is another quote from Lindy West:

“Women matter. Women are half of us. When you raise every woman to believe that we are insignificant, we are broken, that we are sick, that the only cure is starvation and restraint and smallness, when you pit women against one another, keep us shackled by shame and hunger, obsessing over our flaws rather than our power and potential; when you leverage all of that to sap our money and our time — that moves the rudder of the world. It steers humanity towards conservatism and walls and the narrow interests of men, and it keeps us adrift in water where women’s safety and humanity are secondary to men’s pleasure and convenience.”

Who is raising “every woman to believe that [women] are insignificant”? And why does Lindy West associate this with “conservatism”? In point of fact, she knows nothing about conservatism or child-raising, for that matter. She is from the liberal cocoon of Seattle and she had an abortion the only time she ever got pregnant. Her prejudice against skinny people, who she imagines only remain thin by “starvation,” is as irrational as her prejudice against men and their allegedly “narrow interests.”

Are my daughters and daughters-in-law “shackled by shame and hunger”? Are they unjustly deprived of their “power and potential”? Only in the irrational self-pitying worldview of perpetual victimhood (to call feminist ideology what it is) is it possible to take these claims seriously.

Feminists still don’t understand why Trump won and, as Vox Day says, “SJWs always double down.” Hillary Clinton’s defeat in 2016 has only inspired feminists to believe that if they just intensify their activism — becoming angrier and more extreme in their anti-male rhetoric — they’ll win next time. May God give them the disappointment they deserve.




 

Category: Sex Trouble

The Democrat Immigration Agenda

Posted on | June 17, 2018 | 1 Comment

The White House sent me this press release:

RESULTS OF CONGRESSIONAL DEMOCRATS’ DANGEROUS IMMIGRATION POLICIES

“We must restore integrity and the rule of law at our borders.” – President Donald J. Trump

CONGRESSIONAL DEMOCRATS’ FAMILY SEPARATION POLICY: Too many American families have been permanently separated from loved ones lost to illegal alien crime.

·        Open border laws and policies are responsible for the permanent separation of too many American families whose loved ones have been lost to illegal alien crime.

·        President Trump has met with family members whose loved ones have fallen victim to illegal alien crime.

o   Juan Pina was permanently separated from his daughter after she was strangled, raped, and murdered by an illegal alien.

o   Laura Wilkerson was permanently separated from her son, who was brutally murdered by an illegal alien classmate.

o   Jamiel Shaw, Sr. was permanently separated from his son, who was tragically murdered by an illegal alien gang member.

·        Congressional Democrats have repeatedly voted against common sense immigration legislation that would help make our communities safer.

o   In 2017, 174 House Democrats voted against legislation that would have helped ensure aliens associated with a gang are not admitted into the United States and would have empowered officials to more effectively remove those already here.

o   In 2017, 166 House Democrats voted against Kate’s Law, named after Kate Steinle who was killed by a previously deported illegal alien with a lengthy criminal history.

o   In February 2018, Senate Democrats blocked legislation that would have cracked down on dangerous sanctuary cities.

OPEN BORDER POLICIES: American communities have suffered from illegal alien crime and illegal drugs flooding our country due to open border policies and immigration enforcement loopholes. 

·        Drugs have flooded across our porous borders, poisoning our communities, and costing American lives.

o   The Southwest border is a major source of illegal drugs entering the United States. 

o   Most heroin entering the United States is produced in Mexico, and production levels there continue to rise.

·        A total of 57,820 known or suspected aliens were in Department of Justice custody at the end of the first quarter of fiscal year 2018, 60 percent of whom were aliens with orders of removal.

·        A 2011 report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) found nearly 3 million criminal arrest offenses tied to incarcerated criminal aliens, including 25,000 homicide offenses.

·        Transnational gangs, such as MS-13, take advantage of our open borders and the loopholes in our immigration system.  

o   MS-13 and other gangs have bolstered their ranks by exploiting the influx of Unaccompanied Alien Children entering the United States.

Democrats and their media allies are portraying President Trump as responsible for the suffering of innocent people, This is dishonest propaganda, intended to shift the blame away from Democrats, who did nothing to solve the immigration problem during the eight years of Obama’s presidency and seek to scapegoat Trump for their failure.

 

Category: Democrats, Donald Trump, Immigration
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