'Dreamers' An Oxymoron Description

Dreamers In The News

4/11/2018 - Ann Coulter Townhall.com

With all the tender concern President Trump and Nancy Pelosi have been heaping on "Dreamers" of late, you'd think the media would notice and pepper us with stories about these "incredible kids," as Trump calls them. Alas, no. Our tedious media drones refuse to provide us with moving human interest stories about the Dreamers.

Journalists and politicians love to give us archetypes: the DACA soldier, the DACA valedictorian, the DACA grandmother. But there are so many other roles they fill!

To make up for the Fourth Estate's failure, this week, I'll highlight five Dreamers who have done noteworthy things just in the last month.

The Bounceback Child Rapist

A few weeks ago, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement caught up with Dreamer Anastacio Eugenio Lopez-Fabian, 24, in a courthouse parking lot in Oregon. Police in Seaside, Oregon, had arrested Lopez-Fabian for multiple rapes of a girl "younger than 14," assault and harassment.

Law enforcement then released Lopez-Fabian the day of his arrest, without notifying I.C.E., despite the fact that he had already been deported twice to his native Guatemala, in 2013 and 2014.

Apart from conservative websites -- and Britain's indispensable Daily Mail! -- this story made only the local press.

The Butterfingered Gun Slinger

Also two weeks ago, Dreamer Jaime Melchi-Sigas, 22, pleaded guilty to the federal offenses of unlawful possession of a firearm and unlawful possession of a counterfeit alien registration card. Melchi-Sigas was already serving time in a state prison for reckless homicide and tampering with physical evidence.

His convictions stemmed from an incident last year when Melchi-Sigas was sitting in the back seat of a car, examining an illegal gun he intended to purchase, and accidentally shot and killed the man in the front seat.

This item appeared in one small local Bowling Green, Kentucky, newspaper.

The Oppressed Rapist

Three weeks ago, Dreamer Alejandro Perez-Cortez, 26, appealed his five-year sentence for attempting to anally rape a woman, pointing out that he was drunk at the time and barely made enough money to live on, much less send back to his wife and two children in Mexico.

The appeal was denied, on the grounds that being drunk and poor did not constitute evidence of good character -- and also that Perez-Cortez was an illegal alien. (Until Trump has his way on Dreamers!)

The opinion of the Indiana court turning down Perez-Cortez's appeal was published on March 19, but no media found the story interesting enough to print. What I find interesting about the case -- fascinating, in fact! -- is that we have lawyers willing to bring utterly frivolous appeals on behalf of drunk, raping illegal aliens, but not one willing to represent the president.

The Fleet-Footed Drunk Driver

Dreamer Ivan Gerardo Zamarripa-Castaneda, 26, killed 57-year-old John Anderson in Denver at around midnight on March 3, when he smashed his pickup truck into Anderson's truck, setting off a fiery explosion and shutting down I-70 for hours. This poor Mexican who was driving drunk on an interstate -- through no fault of his own -- fled the scene.

In another example of the day-to-day terror illegal aliens endure "living in the shadows," Zamarripa-Castaneda was captured by the police the next day, sound asleep at his home. And that wasn't the end of Zamarripa-Castaneda's nightmare. After his arrest, Denver police held him for ONE FULL WEEK, before releasing him without informing I.C.E.

Only after Attorney General Jeff Sessions and President Trump began denouncing the local sheriff for refusing to turn Zamarripa-Castaneda over to I.C.E. did the story appear anywhere beyond the local press. Now in I.C.E.'s clutches, Zamarripa-Castaneda waits impatiently for Trump to amnesty "incredible kids" like him.

The May-December Rapist

Dreamer Juan Vazquez Cornelio, 38, was recently charged with raping a 10-year-old girl and sending her to the hospital. The reddest state in the Union -- Alabama -- gave Kardashian-level media coverage to the arrest: THREE local news stories. The Tuscaloosa News lavished 100 words on the child-rapist before turning to another topic: "Severe weather possible Monday in state -- Tuscaloosa County could experience severe weather beginning Monday afternoon, according to the National Weather Service."

The illegal alien Mexican Dreamer was charged with rape in the first degree, the girl was hospitalized and it's going to rain on Monday.

Liberal Progressives - Perfect Example of Hypocrisy

Harry Reid and the Liberal Voter ID Scam Exposed

4/23/2018 - Wayne Allyn Root Townhall.com

Please ignore the advertising slogan “What happens in Las Vegas, stays in Las Vegas.” It’s not true. Las Vegas is the crossroads of America. What happens here is a sure sign of what's happening everywhere. So, I’ve uncovered the biggest liberal scam in America, going on right here in Las Vegas.

It revolves around my home community in the suburbs of Las Vegas. I live in exclusive Anthem Country Club. There are about 1500 beautiful homes behind the gates of Anthem. These homes are together worth around $1 billion dollars, behind the gates of just one country club, in just one Las Vegas suburb.

What’s the amazing appeal of Anthem Country Club? It’s got a big beautiful wall around it. And thick iron gates in front, protected by armed guards. The result? There is virtually no crime inside walled, gated, armed Anthem. 

I’ve lived here for almost 17 years. My kids grew up here. They played outside every day from morning to night and I never worried for one moment. Because of the wall, the gates and the armed guards, my kids were as safe as if they lived in “Mayberry R.F.D.” Life is good behind the gates of Anthem. 

In the rest of Las Vegas…not so much. In the rest of Vegas…lots of crime, lots of fear. Proving walls and gates and lots of armed guards are a good thing, if you want your family to be safe.

But wait. Anthem recently added a new feature to keep our residents safe. Every vehicle entering our gates must show government-issued photo ID. Anyone entering our community- guests, gardeners, maids, nannies, pool cleaners, handymen, plumbers, electricians, delivery persons- must provide state or federal government-issued photo ID, or they will be denied entry. Every single one of them.

There are many lessons we can learn from studying Anthem Country Club.

Lesson #1) If you want your family and children to be safe, BUILD A WALL. Preferably a wall that is also surrounded by armed guards. The Vatican understands this lesson. Mexico understands- because they have a wall on their Southern Border. Many rich liberals in America who live in gated communities, or gated private estates, or doorman buildings understand this lesson too. They just don’t want you to have a wall. They clearly think their children are more important than yours. They clearly think you’re stupid, as they argue walls and guns are unnecessary.

Lesson #2) Liberal Democrats are hypocrites. Guess who lives inside the protected walls of Anthem Country Club? Former United States Democrat Senator Harry Reid. You know, the former U.S. Senate Majority Leader...and most importantly, the former chief water carrier and bottle washer of President Obama, who spent his entire Senate career fighting viciously against a wall. Harry and his liberal buddies argued walls were terrible and unnecessary things.

Harry could have retired anywhere in Vegas…or anywhere in America for that matter. But he chose to live behind the walls… and gates…and armed guards…and now photo ID required for entry…of Anthem Country Club. Harry is my neighbor! Welcome to the neighborhood.Can I bring a cake by?

But Harry, don’t liberals hate walls and gates and armed guards and photo ID? Don’t liberals call those things “racist.” According to liberals, aren’t those things meant to “discourage minorities from entering?” Yet behind these "racist" gates lives Harry Reid and the entire Reid clan. Interesting.

Lesson #3) The argument against Voter ID is a total scam.

How do all those gardeners and maids and pool cleaners and handymen drive through the gates of Anthem Country Club every day? The answer: they ALL already have government issued photo ID. 

So, I guess it’s a lie when liberal politicians claim poor people and minorities don’t have photo ID, or its too difficult for them to get, or its “racist” to ask them for it. I guess they all already have it. I guess they are thrilled to show it to earn a paycheck. Just not to vote. That would be “racist.” 

I guess we just proved the liberal argument is a scam. Voter ID is the easiest and simplest request in the world. Heck, they have it inMexico.You can't vote in Mexico without a government issued ID card- complete with photo and biometric thumbprint. Voter ID is the simplest request in the world-ifyou really wanted to stop "foreign interference" in US elections. 

But Voter ID is a big issue for Democrats because they want and need election fraud. They can’t win without it. They want their voters to vote multiple times, with no questions asked. They want illegals to be able to vote by the millions for Democrats. Asking for government-issued ID and checking for legal citizenship would ruin all that. 

Folks, we’re being scammed. We need a wall. And we need Voter ID. Everyone knows it- even Harry Reid and his liberal friends. All the proof we need of this scam is right here in the suburbs of Las Vegas. What happens here, is happening everywhere.

Normalcy - Common Sense Must Rule

The Census and Immigration: Ask the Question

4/13/2018 - Ed Feulner Townhall.com

In a saner age, adding a question about an individual’s citizenship status to the decennial U.S. Census would be the most unremarkable thing in the world. The only understandable reaction might be, “What took you so long?”

But no. We live in a hyper-partisan, politically correct era, so the Trump administration’s decision to add the citizenship question has been met with howls of shock and horror. A coalition of Democratic cities and states is suing the administration, claiming the decision violates federal law.

“Galling,” pronounced The New York Times in an editorial titled “The Trump Administration Sabotages The Census.” Along with many other critics, the Times insists that the question will lead to a vast undercounting of the immigrant population.

Such a prospect alarms opponents such as the editors at The Washington Post, who at least admit their concern is more about political power: “Whether by design or incompetence, the Trump administration is threatening to rig the count against Democrats.”

Or maybe – just maybe – the administration is trying to get a better handle on how many non-citizens we have in our country. Sure, you can’t expect 100 percent accuracy, but as the administration noted, the question can be answered anonymously. So why not ask?

Besides, there is nothing new about adding a citizenship question to the U.S. Census. Indeed, the first one was asked almost 200 years ago, in the 1820 Census, after being proposed by our third president, Thomas Jefferson.

“The question was included in censuses, continuously and without controversy, from 1890-1950, a period which encompassed the years of highest immigration and the highest percentage of foreign-born citizens in American history,” notes author Mike Gonzalez. “It was asked on the long-form census until 2000 and continues to be asked today on the American Community Survey.”

In fact, the citizenship question to be included on the 2020 Census is the same one already asked yearly on the American Community Survey.

But no. It wasn’t until the Trump administration -- which is so roundly despised by the Left that none of its proposals are actually considered on its merits – decided to put the question on the Census itself that it became a problem.

How big a problem? According to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), it would “inject fear and distrust into vulnerable communities, and cause traditionally undercounted communities to be even further underrepresented, financially excluded, and left behind.”

Ironically, though, it’s the policies of the Left, not the Right, which are doing that. Liberals are the ones who encourage the identity politics that divide our nation so needlessly. As Justice Clarence Thomas said in the 1994 Supreme Court case Holder v. Hall:

“We have involved the federal courts, and indeed the nation, in the enterprise of systematically dividing the country into electoral districts along racial lines — an enterprise of segregating the races into political homelands that amounts, in truth, to nothing short of a system of ‘political apartheid.’ Blacks are drawn into ‘black districts’ and given ‘black representatives’; Hispanics are drawn into Hispanic districts and given ‘Hispanic representatives’; and so on.”

And isn’t it interesting that the same critics who bang the drums daily about “foreign interference” in our elections should suddenly show absolutely no concern about discovering the extent of illegal immigration in our country? As J. Christian Adams, president of the Public Interest Legal Foundation and a former Justice Department lawyer, said in a public statement:

“It’s critical that the next redistricting cycle account for the citizen residents of districts so urban centers do not unfairly profit from the political subsidy that higher non-citizen populations provide. This carries the nation one step closer to preventing against actual foreign influences in our elections.”

If we want to diminish those influences, and get a better handle on the size of our alien population, asking the immigration question on the Census is a good place to start.

Eternal Vigilance - The Price of Liberty

Citizenship Matters

3/26/2018 - Ken Blackwell Townhall.com

It’s not about being against foreigners. All nations put their people first. If there’s hard work to do in the world, they turn to the U.S.A.

The Left hates President Donald Trump for many reasons. One of the most important is because he really believes in America first. He doesn’t just say it. He bases his policies on that principle.

Which shouldn’t be controversial.

It’s nothing against foreigners. They put their people first. They don’t provide the U.S. with “foreign aid.” They don’t protect America from foreign enemies. If there’s dirty work to do in the world, they turn to Washington.

It’s about time we were equally serious about taking care of our own. The first duty of the federal government—and states and localities too—is to protect and support the American people.

As the Preamble of the Constitution explains, the federal government’s purpose is to “insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity.” If we don’t take care of ourselves no one else will.

The political foundation of our republic is citizenship. - which means enjoying the benefits but also paying the price of being an American.

Becoming a U.S. citizen is an honor, something people all over the world desire. And citizenship is important precisely because it brings full participation in U.S. society. Once you become a citizen—but only then— can you help decide what America is and will become.

So naturally only citizens should vote. But, sadly today that idea offends many Democrats, who see themselves as citizens of the world. To them it’s not a problem if you come to America illegally. And not a problem if you vote illegally.

Thus, the Left, which includes once mainstream organizations such as the League of Women Voters, works hard to prevent us from learning how many illegal ballots are cast. But the American Civil Rights Union has challenged that activity by filing federal lawsuits against numerous jurisdictions which have more people registered to vote than residents.

Where 100-year-olds and 200-year-olds not only are registered but are actively voting. Where people are registered in more than one state. And where non-citizens register and vote, while election officials do little to nothing to remove them from the voter rolls.

Four years ago, three professors at Old Dominion University estimated that at least 620,000 non-citizens were registered to vote nationwide, and the number could be substantially higher. They concluded: “We find that some non-citizens participate in U.S. elections, and that this participation has been large enough to change meaningful election outcomes including Electoral College votes, and Congressional elections.”  

If you believe in democracy, these findings are disturbing. Consider Starr County, Texas, which decades ago helped make “Landslide Lyndon” Johnson’s career in his first race for U.S. Senate. The local District Attorney, Omar Escobar, testified before the state legislature that current registration procedures were “an invitation to fraud.”

Even small numbers of improper votes can have significant impacts. President Donald Trump carried the states of Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin by especially narrow margins—just .3 percent and 12,000 votes in the first. In Virginia one (yes, one) vote determined the outcome of a delegate contest last November, which in turn determined control of the entire legislative body.

The obvious solution is to require proof of citizenship to register to vote. Naturally, the Left calls such a requirement “onerous.” Yet proof of citizenship, most obviously a birth certificate, needs only be procured once.

Anyway, the law should apply even if complying is difficult. The majority is cheated—betrayed, really—when illegal votes change the result of an election. Government has no more fundamental duty than to protect the integrity of the electoral process.

Unfortunately, a federal court previously blocked an attempt by Alabama, Georgia, and Kansas to add a citizenship requirement to the federal registration form, which otherwise only requires that the registrant swear to be a citizen. Only Kansas was actively enforcing a state citizenship requirement, but that state’s secretary of state, Kris Kobach, is now fighting a lawsuit brought by the ACLU (who else!?) claiming it’s illegal for the state to ensure that those registering to vote are doing so legally. The New York Times even celebrated when the federal judge refused to allow Kobach to introduce new evidence of improper registrations.

Critics of election safeguards argue that only a handful of cases of fraudulent behavior have been found. But these are the very people making it virtually impossible to determine the magnitude of the problem.

Republicans need to focus on the upcoming election. The Democratic strategy is to use the courts to block election integrity and manipulate redistricting. It could give them victory.

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty, Thomas Jefferson told us. It also is the only defense for free elections.

Ken Blackwell is a member of the policy board of the American Civil Rights Union and a senior fellow at the Family Research Council.

Wise Words From a Retired Sheriff

The Need For Secure Borders

4/11/2018 - Sheriff David Clarke (Ret.) Townhall.com

President Trump is sending National Guard troops to protect America’s southern border. Not only is this a great policy decision, but it’s a strategic one that puts America first.

The troops will help secure the border from illegal immigration, a decision that will protect the American people from foreign and domestic threats. Trump has approached the very solemn duty of protecting the American people by doing what most politicians won’t: actually defending our borders.

America is a sovereign nation, one that is discernible by its identifiable borders that must be secured and defended. Countries have gone to war over border disputes including airspace. We read news stories all the time about air space being violated. That’s how serious countries take their sovereignty. Apparently, that isn’t the case here in the United States.

There are three major reasons America needs to protect and secure its borders: security, health, and American jobs.

The most important aspect of immigration reform is keeping America safe. Illegal drugs, weapons, terrorists, and criminal gangs are pouring into the United States through our unsecured border. The growth of the dangerous criminal gang MS-13 was in part the result of a defective Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program and other illegal southern border crossings.

The second aspect is preventing the potential spread of infectious diseases being brought to the United States. For example, the spread of the Zika virus from South America and the H1N1 or swine flu outbreak from several years ago were in part spread by immigration. In order to prevent such diseases from turning into a pandemic, we started monitoring people for symptoms coming into the country – that’s border enforcement. If people enter the country illegally, we cannot effectively control any disease they may carry.

The third reason that border control is necessary is to deter the influx of another country’s ne’er-do-wells. Many people coming across America’s southern border are in need of welfare services. This is a strain on limited public resources like medical services, schools, and yes, the criminal justice system. Trump was right when he said some countries do not always send us their best and brightest – most immigrants are not self-sufficient. Please tell me how a person who doesn’t have the means to support themselves and does not speak proper English is going to be anything other than a burden on society? Who is going to pick up the tab for this? The American taxpayer will.

It’s important to examine some of the broken immigration policies that Congress must immediately address. Trump’s recent actions need to be supplemented with more speedy and effective processing of people who illegally trespass into our country. The backlog has got to be cleaned up through a streamlined deportation process. Individuals are either in the country legally or illegally – there is no gray area. However, deportation lawyers drag this out and we shouldn’t let them. Trump has provided for more agents and judges to clean up this backlog and we should monitor it closely for results through benchmarks of success.

 Illegal aliens should be detained pending their deportation hearing, and should not be allowed to walk among the public, use public services, and take jobs away from American citizens. Thankfully, Trump recently signed a memorandum ensuring an end to the “catch and release” policy.

 Oftentimes, unscrupulous employers victimize U.S. citizens by providing jobs and safe havens for illegal aliens – a criminal act. Where are we going to put them? We know that Guantanamo Bay currently has space.

Trump has offered a common sense fix for the DACA dilemma. Congress still shows no sense of urgency about this crisis, instead choosing to use it as campaign leverage going into November. His four pillars include: capping chain migration, ending the visa lottery program, mandating employment e-verification, and harshly fining employers who circumvent the law. Those policies should begin today.

We have a president who is going to do more than pay lip service to our broken immigration system like his previous three predecessors had done. Past presidents from both parties spewed hot air about what we needed to do yet they never did much. Many in the media mistook their lip service for accomplishment. President Trump says what he means and means what he says. Sending 4,000 national guard troops to our southern border is action, and actions speak louder than words. Congress needs to exhibit the same sense of urgency that he has.

It’s time to build the wall.

David A. Clarke Jr. is President of DAC Enterprise LLC and senior advisor/spokesman for America First Action PAC/Policies. He formerly served as the Sheriff of Milwaukee County.

Knot Ciutters Get The Job Done!

Trump Is Cutting Old Gordian Knots

4/5/2018 - Victor Davis Hanson Townhall.com

The proverbial knot of Gordium was impossible to untie. Anyone clever enough to untie it would supposedly become the king of Asia. Many princes tried; all failed.

When Alexander the Great arrived, he was challenged to unravel the impossible knot. Instead, he pulled out his sword and cut through it. Problem solved.

Donald Trump inherited an array of perennial crises when he was sworn in as president in 2017. He certainly did not possess the traditional diplomatic skills and temperament to deal with any of them.

In the last year of the Barack Obama administration, a lunatic North Korean regime purportedly had gained the ability to send nuclear-tipped missiles to the U.S. West Coast.

China had not only been violating trade agreements, but forcing U.S. companies to hand over their technological expertise as the price of doing business in China.

NATO may have been born to protect the European mainland, but a distant U.S. was paying an increasingly greater percentage of its budget to maintain NATO than were its direct beneficiaries.

Mexico keeps sending its impoverished citizens to the U.S., and they usually enter illegally. That way, Mexico relieves its own social tensions, develops a pro-Mexico expatriate community in the U.S. and gains an estimated $30 billion a year from remittances that undocumented immigrants send back home, often on the premise that American social services can free up cash for them to do so.

In the past, traditional and accepted methods failed to deal with all of these challenges. Bill Clinton's "Agreed Framework," George W. Bush's "six-party talks" and the "strategic patience" of the Obama administration essentially offered North Korea cash to denuclearize.

American diplomats whined to China about its unfair trade practices. When rebuffed, they more or less shut up, convinced either that they could not do anything or that China's growing economy would sooner or later westernize.

Europeans were used to American nagging about delinquent NATO contributions. Diplomatic niceties usually meant that European leaders only talked nonstop about the idea that they should shoulder more of their own defense.

Mexico ignored U.S. whining that our neighbor to the south was cynically undermining U.S. immigration law. If America protested too much, Mexico usually fell back on boilerplate charges of racism, xenophobia and nativism, despite its own tough treatment of immigrants arriving into Mexico illegally from Central America.

In other words, before Trump arrived, the niceties of American diplomacy and statecraft had untied none of these knots. But like Alexander, the outsider Trump was not invested in any of the accustomed protocols about untying them. Instead, he pulled out his proverbial sword and began slashing.

If Kim Jong Un kept threatening the U.S., then Trump would threaten him back and ridicule him in the process as "Rocket Man." Meanwhile, the U.S. would beef up its own nuclear arsenal, press ahead with missile defense, warn China that its neighbors might have to nuclearize, and generally seem as threatening to Kim as he traditionally has been to others.

Trump was no more patient with China. If it continues to cheat and demand technology transfers as the price of doing business in China, then it will face tariffs on its exports and a trade war. Trump's position is that Chinese trade duplicity is so complex and layered that it can never be untied, only cut apart.

Trump seemingly had no patience with endless rounds of negotiations about NATO defense contributions. If frontline European nations wished to spend little to defend their own borders, why should America have to spend so much to protect such distant nations?

In Trump's mind, if Mexico was often critical of the U.S., despite effectively open borders and billions of dollars in remittances, then he might as well give Mexico something real to be angry about, such as a border wall, enforcement of existing U.S. immigration laws, and deportations of many of those residing illegally on U.S. soil.

There are common themes to all these slashed knots. Diplomatic niceties had solved little. American laxity was seen as naivete to be taken advantage of, not as generous concessions to be returned in kind.

Second, American presidents and their diplomatic teams had spent their careers deeply invested in the so-called postwar rules and protocols of diplomacy. In a nutshell, the central theme has been that the U.S. is so rich and powerful, its duty is to take repeated hits for the global order.

In light of American power, reciprocity supposedly did not matter -- as if getting away with something would not lead to getting away with something even bigger.

Knot cutters may not know how to untie knots. But by the same token, those who struggle to untie knots also do not know how to cut them.

And sometimes knots can only be cut -- even as we recoil at the brash Alexanders who won't play by traditional rules and instead dare to pull out their swords.

Get Educated, Inspired, Involved, Participate - Save the Republic!

How Trump's Presidency Will Be Judged

4/3/2018 - Pat Buchanan Townhall.com

On many issues -- naming Scalia-like judges and backing Reagan-like tax cuts -- President Trump is a conventional Republican.

Where he was exceptional in 2016, where he stood out starkly from his GOP rivals, where he won decisive states like Pennsylvania, was on his uniquely Trumpian agenda to put America and Americans first -- from which the Bush Republicans recoiled.

Trump alone pledged to kill amnesty and secure the border with a 30-foot wall to halt the invasion of our country.

Trump alone pledged to end the de-industrialization of America and bring back our lost factories and lost jobs.

Trump alone pledged to end the democracy-crusading and extricate us from the endless Mideast wars into which George Bush, Barack Obama and the War Party had plunged the nation.

And, upon how he delivers on these three uniquely Trumpian issues will hang his political fate and history's assessment of whether he was a good, great or failed president.

Where this city stands is not in doubt. It is salivating to see Trump's presidency broken, his agenda trashed, and him impeached. This city looks to Robert Mueller as the Moses of its deliverance from the tyrant whom an uncomprehending electorate imposed upon it.

While Trump's support among his deplorables is holding -- indeed, he is creeping back up in the polls -- the outcome of the battle to bring him down remains in doubt.

Consider. Trump's border wall was treated like a disposable bauble in the GOP Congress' $1.6 trillion budget deal. Cities and whole states are declaring themselves sanctuaries for people here illegally and defying U.S. authorities' requests for help in deporting accused criminals.

A "caravan" of a thousand Central Americans is passing through Mexico, aided by the authorities, and headed for the U.S. border.

When they arrive, rely upon it, the anti-Trump media will be there to bewail any transgressions by the Border Patrol.

The hysterical reaction to news that the 2020 census will include a question, "Are you a U.S. citizen?" testifies to what this is all about.

America's elites are adamant that our country should vanish inside a new Third World nation that resembles in its racial, religious and ethnic composition the U.N. General Assembly. The old God-and-country America the people loved they detest.

Trump is likely the last president who will try to preserve that country. If he leaves office with the border unsecured, it is hard to see what stops the Third World invasion, even as it is also coming across the Mediterranean into Europe.

"The Camp of the Saints" is no longer a dystopian novel.

Enoch Powell's warning, 50 years ago, about mass migration into Europe, "Et thybrim multo spumantem sanguine cerno," "I see the River Tiber foaming with much blood," is now seen as prophecy.

And Trump's agenda of economic nationalism -- restoring the industrial dynamism and self-sufficiency America knew from Lincoln to Reagan -- faces relentless hostility from institutionalized power.

Against Trump stand corporate elites, whose profits and stock options depend on producing outside America, and the managerial class of a New World Order that runs the EU, U.N., IMF, World Bank and WTO.

Yet if global elites are hoarding the largest slice of the wealth of nations and a goodly slice of their political power, one senses that they are an unloved crowd, and they are sitting on a volcano.

The third unique Trump issue was his commitment to extricate us from the Middle East wars into which Bush and Obama had entrenched us, and to keep us out of any new wars. Trump also pledged to reach out to Vladimir Putin and to Russia to avoid a second Cold War.

Those who voted for him voted for that foreign policy.

And if Trump is drawn into new wars with Iran or North Korea, or reaches 2020 with U.S. forces still fighting in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Yemen and Libya, he will be perceived as having failed.

Yet the resistance of this city to giving up its vision of U.S. global hegemony is broad and deep, for that vision is almost a defining mark of our foreign policy elites. For them to give it up would be like death itself.

The stunned reaction to Trump's suggestion last week that we will be leaving Syria after ISIS's caliphate is destroyed, testifies to how much their identify is tied up in this vision.

That Trump would accept an end to Syria's civil war, with Bashar Assad still in power, is intolerable. Yet how we can reverse that reality without putting thousands of U.S. combat troops into Syria is unexplained. In the last analysis, then, it is upon three questions that the Trump presidency will be judged:

Did he secure America's borders? Did he restore the industrial might of America? Did he take us out of and keep us out of any more neocon wars?