June 23, 2019
MY CORNER by Boyd Cathey
The DEEP STATE Throttles Immigration Reform…and Stymies the Trump
Agenda
From Within the Administration
Friends,
If anything demonstrates beyond debate the tentacles and
power of the Deep State inside-the-DC Beltway it is some very recent events,
and the kind of open defiance of and intense pressure on Donald Trump from
within his administration. And, unfortunately, some of the blame for the resulting
confusion must be laid squarely at the president’s feet.
It is a question I and others have asked for some time: why
appoint—or keep—highly placed officials in the administration if they simply
bury deep and subvert, even destroy your announced agenda?
We have seen this on several occasions: in foreign policy
in Syria and in the president’s attempt to normalize relations with
Russia. And, perhaps, most recently in
regards to Iran, and whether the United States should launch another war (and
land in another potential quagmire) with that country. The president pulled
back at the last minute, much to the chagrin of his National Security Adviser
John Bolton who seems to do little but fantasize about the next possible
military conflict where American boys can be sent…and where they can die.
“Maybe there is a civil war in, say, East Timor?”
“Well, we simply have got to intervene!”
“Maybe a conflict in Uganda?”
“Americans need to restore order and impose all the ‘fruits
of American democracy’ and [as is always unsaid] the control of American crony
capitalism!”
Understand?
Yet the question continues to emerge: why do you keep such
fanatics in your inner circle if they consistently oppose your agenda? Indeed, why did you appoint them in the first
place?
My answer, such as it is, I gave back in an earlier
installment in the MY CORNER series. Here
is what I wrote on May 17:
Certainly, it has much to do with the loudest
voices and most visible talent pool inside the Washington DC Beltway and that
many of those globalists, who were former Never Trumpers, strategically
attached themselves to Donald Trump after he was victorious, hoping—in some
cases successfully—to shape his foreign policy along their internationalist
lines. And, also, the fact that during the critical days after the 2016
election many of the Establishment Neocons were able to bend Trump’s ear first,
and that a major gap, a major lacuna, in the president’s knowledge was his lack
of familiarity with foreign policy. As president, Donald Trump hoped to unify
the Republican Party, and, thus, his desire was to bring in various factions,
including those who had opposed him (but now offered “support”)…not realizing
that such additions could—and would—undermine his announced America First
agenda. Lastly, the support of major pro-Israeli pressure
groups and personalities, and their bank accounts, certainly was not to be
ignored.
But that doesn’t make it any better, and it doesn’t assist
advancing the agenda that sixty-three million Americans voted for back in 2016.
Rather, it demonstrates again the immense power and deep-rooted control that
the Deep State cabal continues to exercise, even within an administration whose
leader has stated in no uncertain terms his very opposition to that cabal.
And the latest kerfuffle about immigration and the
president’s delayed (perhaps even aborted?) order to remove thousands of illegals?
First, he announced that he was going to order ICE to deport a number of
illegal aliens. But, then, there was such a hue and cry, not only from Nancy
Pelosi and the Democrats, but also from some in the “business community,” that
he relented. Instead, the president told Speaker Pelosi basically: “I’ll give
you two weeks, and if Congress, both Dems and Republicans, can’t come up with
at least the beginning of a solution, the order will go into effect.”
As Representative Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) has stated in a
much-deserved reproach: does ANYONE in his most charitable and hopeful moment
actually think that this critical national problem, unresolved for decades,
with Democrats now firmly embracing an open borders template and too many
Republicans in subinfeudation to the Chamber of Commerce and the Koch brothers paralleling
that position (if for different reasons)—does anyone in his right mind think
that our corrupted and bought off Congress will even come close, even in the
spewed verbiage that is bound to be emitted?
If so, then, I have an oil well in my back yard I’ll sell you,
cheap.
And, of course, what happens after the two weeks are over,
and nothing—except that usual palaver—is accomplished? Will there be another
delay—pleas from the Chamber of Commerce wing of the GOP to “go slow” and not
rock the boat? Will the promise be lost just like the threat last year to issue
an Executive Order by the president to clarify the issue of birthright
citizenship: that children born of aliens coming across the border are not,
under the 14th Amendment, American citizens?
I wrote about that also.
In fact, unknown to me until recently the MY
CORNER of this past October 31, 2018, on that topic, was actually picked up
by an online journal, STRAIGHT LINE LOGIC (November 2, 2018).
So I pass on two items: the first one, from today, concerns
the delay of the president’s deportation order; the second, is my published
column from last year about the threatened Executive Order, which was
followed by—nothing.
Interestingly, I call your attention to the interview in
the first article with former Acting Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
(ICE) Thomas Homan. Notice, in particular, what he says about the Acting
Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Kevin McAleenan who
is resisting immigration enforcement.
How many times—how many more times—must we glean such
information of ensconced Deep State bureaucrats and, most particularly, “Republicans”
who surreptitiously, and even at times quite publicly, undercut the “America
First” agenda? How much longer until that hopeful agenda just simply disappears
into the putrid maelstrom that is internecine Washington “politics-as-usual” in
which the fat-cats get more powerful and richer, while the deplorables out in “fly-over”
country continue to sink into wretchedness and despair? And the mask of the managerial
state drops for good and we fully behold the visage and bare fangs of a ruling
class that would make George Orwell’s dystopian fantasy, Nineteen-Eighty-Four, seem like a Sunday school picnic?
Mr. President: if you really wish to advance your stated agenda,
remove those men and women around you and in your administration who are doing
their damnedest to subvert it.
ICE Director Accuses Acting DHS
Secretary of 'Resisting' ICE Raids, Leaking To Press Featured
Appearing Saturday on Fox &
Friends, former Acting Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs
Enforcement (ICE) Thomas Homan accused Acting Secretary of the
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Kevin McAleenan of “resisting” the
agency’s planned raids targeting illegal aliens.
A partial transcript is as follows:
PETE HEGSETH: The president says if you’re a double
law-breaker, you got to go. These mayors’ resisting, Tom.
TOM HOMAN: The president is exactly right.
I’ve read several news accounts of these mayors
talking about terrorizing innocent immigrant communities. We’re
not terrorizing innocent immigrant communities. They’re arresting illegal
aliens by definition of law, who entered this country in violation of law, [who
were] ordered deported by a federal judge. The men and women of ICE don’t
arrest innocent people. They don’t terror innocent immigrant communities.
They don’t arrest innocent people, they’re doing their job. And as far as these
mayors of these sanctuary cities, I just wish they would shut their mouths.
You want to talk about the separation of families? The
separation of families are the angel moms and dads, who have been separated
from their children forever because a criminal alien walked out of your sanctuary
jail.
Every one of those mayors ought to be ashamed. San
Francisco, New York, Chicago. I can go on. Oakland’s mayor giving a heads up on
a criminal operation. And they’re going to talk about ICE separating families?
I’m disgusted. The story in the Washington Post especially got me off. The men
and women of ICE deserve better than this.
JEDEDIAH BILA: Let’s look at what some of those
mayors are actually saying.
You have Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf [who said] “know
your rights and use your local resources. Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot [said]
“CDP will not cooperate or facilitate any ICE enforcement actions.” And of
course, my personal favorite New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio [said], “A sick
plot to tear families apart and force immigrants into the shadows.” This is
outrageous to me that they’re saying things like this. They make it as if
they’re law abiding citizens. They came into the country illegally, who then
defied the court. At what point do we stop caring about the law at all? Maybe
we should advocate openly, as some of these Democrats are, lawlessness, and
have this be our new platform.
HOMAN: If they don’t do operations like this, if they
don’t carry out the judge’s order, there would be no integrity in the entire
system. It means nothing. There are no consequences, no deterrence. They can
just keep coming from across the border if you bring a kid. You won’t be
detained if you bring a kid. You won’t be arrested if a judge tells you to
remove yourself. These mayors aren’t the only ones resisting ICE. You’ve got acting Secretary of Homeland
Security [Kevin McAleenan] resisting what ICE is trying to do. In
the Washington Post story, and numerous media outlets, he does not
support this operation. And I tell you what, if that’s his position then he’s
on the wrong side of this issue. You don’t tell the men and women of ICE a day
before they go out there to do this operation.
When this story was leaked, they gave the location of
the cities, the day this was supposed to start, how many targets. This leak, which
I know where the leak came from, I think we all know where the leak came from.
That story only benefits one person. Put these officers at greater risk of
harm. I know the president said we’re going to do an operation, one million
people in a week. He didn’t give the location. He didn’t give the number of
targets.
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REPORT:
Nancy Pelosi Called Trump Last Night Requesting ICE Raids Be Called Off – And
He Caved This article was sourced
from The Gateway Pundit
President Trump said on Monday evening in a pair of
tweets that next week ICE will begin the process of removing millions illegal
aliens who have illicitly entered the US.
ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) was set to
begin raids with court-ordered removals in 10 cities beginning Sunday.
On Saturday Trump walked back his promise and
announced he will be delaying the illegal immigration removal process for two
weeks at the request of Democrats to see if Congress will work together on a
solution to fix the asylum loopholes.
According to reports by CNN and the Associated Press,
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) called President Trump on Friday evening and
requested he call off the ICE raids…and he listened to her.
“At the request of Democrats, I have delayed the
Illegal Immigration Removal Process (Deportation) for two weeks to see if the
Democrats and Republicans can get together and work out a solution to the
Asylum and Loophole problems at the Southern Border.
If not, Deportations start!” Trump said on Saturday.
At the request of Democrats, I have delayed the Illegal Immigration Removal
Process (Deportation) for two weeks to see if the Democrats and Republicans can
get together and work out a solution to the Asylum and Loophole problems at the
Southern Border. If not, Deportations start! 14:56 -
22 Jun 2019
Pelosi called Trump Friday night and requested the
raids be called off — the two spoke for 12 minutes according to reports.
Via AP:
Pelosi called Trump on Friday night and the two spoke
for about 12 minutes, according to a person familiar with the situation and not
authorized to discuss it publicly. She asked him to call off the raids and he
said he would consider the request, the person said.
It’s unclear what else was said during the call. But
in a statement Saturday before the president’s decision was announced, Pelosi
appealed to the same compassion Trump expressed in declining to strike Iran
because of the potential for lost lives.
Pelosi celebrated the win on Saturday.
“Mr. President, delay is welcome. Time is needed for
comprehensive immigration reform. Families belong together,” Pelosi said.
Mr. President, delay is welcome. Time is
needed for comprehensive immigration reform. Families belong together. https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1142506687020130306 …
Never underestimate the power of
a question
Birthright Citizenship, the Constitution, and the Subterfuge of
the Left
by Boyd D. Cathey
Are people who are in this country illegally “subject to the
jurisdiction” of the United States’ government if, by definition, the only
interaction they should have with the government would be deportation
proceedings? From Boyd D. Cathey at unz.com:
The
Leftist hyenas howled…the wimpish, scaredy-cat Republicans wailed…the
television pundits, both on the Mainstream channels and on Fox (and, yes, even
locally) seemed ready to shed tears of anguish punctuating their uncontrolled
outrage: what had Donald Trump done this time to cause such extreme perturbation? What
had he done this
time to
increase their unleashed hysteria and self-consuming madness?
Watching
any of the so-called newscasters on CNN, MSNBC or on the other major networks
frothing-at-the-mouth, you would have thought that their pious and frenetic
condemnations could not get more severe. But Joe Scarborough over on MSNBC
would up the ante and expectorate multiple, blustering word clusters, all of
which contained loaded phrases about Donald Trump, like “full blown racism,”
“appeals to white supremacy,” “undermines and attacks our democracy,” each more
emotional as he went along. Finally, that Trump was not really “our” president,
but in fact an interloper—and if that be the case, then almost any type of
resistance is permissible.
You
get the drift.
These
are the very same folks who have been telling us since the pipe bomber and the
anti-semitic attack in Pittsburgh last week that the president is completely
responsible for the “climate of hatred and fear,” but who do all they can to
stoke that out-of-control raging bonfire.
And
locally in Raleigh, NC, a pompous social justice warrior disguised as a
television announcer, David Crabtree of WRAL-TV, who wears his nugatory
Episcopalianism on his sleeve, could hardly restrain himself. His eyes betrayed
both his anger and his abject fear….
But
what was it that Donald Trump had done this time? What had inspired such “fear and loathing”
in all those denizens of the lunatic Left…and, yes, in the Establishment GOP
(including a fatuous and obviously self-serving, utterly stupid statement by
outgoing House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan)?
Very
simply, the president had said he was seriously considering issuing an
Executive Order to both clarify the application of the 14th Amendment
and, essentially, end birthright citizenship for children of illegal aliens who
have come across the US border, many specifically to have children who then, as
if by magic, become American citizens. That is, he was going to do exactly what
President Obama had once boasted he would do with a “pen and telephone,” and
for which he was praised by the Mainstream media and academia for his
statesmanship and his understanding of the real meaning of Constitution.
Recall
that the 14th Amendment was enacted after the War Between the
States to guarantee the rights of citizenship to manumitted slaves and their offspring. And, indeed, there is a
serious legal question about whether the amendment itself was ever legally and
legitimately ratified. But be that as it may, it has applied ever since 1868.
Here
is how Section 1 of the 14th Amendment reads:
Section
1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the
jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State
wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge
the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any
State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of
law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the
laws.
As
I watched David Crabtree in his most officiously sanctimonious manner lecture
his local television audience about the president’s desire to clarify the
amendment’s actual legal application, like other members of mainstream
commentariat he quoted the first section thusly: “All persons born or naturalized in the United
States are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.” Notice the difference;
notice the essential phrase he left out, either by mistake or by design: “and subject to the jurisdiction thereof.”
It’s
a key phrase, critical to understanding what the authors of the amendment
intended and what for nearly 100 years was accepted law up until the 1960s when
leftist lawmakers got into the act simply by de facto practical applications. In other words,
between the very clear and forthright intention of its authors that the 14thAmendment only applied to slaves and their offspring
born in the United State who are necessarily “subject to the jurisdiction
thereof,” and the slyly imposed practice we
now have which enables a foreign woman to illegally slip across the Rio Grande
and have a child who then, mutatis mutandis, becomes a citizen and an “anchor baby,”
permitting usually its illegal relations to all come across—between these two interpretations and
applications there is an absolute irreconcilable difference.
The
key figures in drafting the amendment at the time were clear: As Professor John
Eastman has
pointed out
both recently and back in 2006 in his research essay, “From Feudalism to Consent: Rethinking Birthright
Citizenship,” Senator Lyman Trumbull, who was
pivotal in the drafting the 14th Amendment, declared that the words “subject to
the jurisdiction” meant subject to the “complete” jurisdiction of the United
States, and “[n]ot
owing allegiance to anybody else.” And Senator Jacob Howard of Michigan,
responsible for the specific language of the jurisdiction clause, stated that
it meant “a full and complete jurisdiction,” that is, “the same jurisdiction in
extent and quality as applies to every citizen of the United States now.” In other
words, the new born child of a foreign diplomat in the United States did not
receive automatic citizenship; neither did at the time, for that matter,
citizens of Indian “nations” (that would occur later in our history). And, most
importantly, clearly an illegal alien—a non-citizen—simply by giving birth on this side
geographically of the Rio Grande did not produce a new citizen of the United
States.
Ann
Coulter, in a column from August 19, 2015, sums up the subsequent history and the
regnant confusion, both invincible and vincible, on the question—a piece that
should be read by some of those Fox pundits.
You
can see why the advocates of open borders who wish to obliterate national
boundaries, the social justice warriors and Democratic activists trolling for
potential future dependent voters, and the brain-damaged modernist Christians
would so ferociously oppose a strict constitutional interpretation.
Despite
the shrieks of the no boundaries crowd and the frenzied left, and despite the
groans of the Chamber of Commerce-bound establishment Republicans (and various
Fox pundits and scribblers for National Review and other neoconservative and globalist
publications), President Trump has expressed an idea whose time has come, in
fact, is far overdue. At the very least, an Executive Order would force the
courts, including the Supreme Court, to take a serious look at an historic
abuse of our immigration system and the definition of American citizenship. Of
course, Senator Lindsey Graham plans to introduce legislation, so he says, to
do the same thing that the president promises—but Graham has a history of
favoring amnesty, which makes his motives at least suspect. And, more, does
anyone in his right mind, any rational person, actually believe that Congress,
part of which is controlled by the hard Left, and much of the rest by GOP big
donor cheap labor advocates, will actually get off its duff and enact such
legislation? Not likely.
So,
here’s hoping that President Trump will follow through and issue his Executive
Order, and then let the ACLU and far Left howl and the wimpy Republicans wail.
We’ll
see you—hopefully—in court, gentlemen.
Has Orange Man ever done anything significant and controversial that is uncontestably 100% within his purview without just threatening, tweeting or making announcements? What has he just done with no preamble?
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