Saturday, May 31, 2025

So many inompetent people are getting away with horrible crimes and may never be held accountable; that is the disgusting truth!

 

The horrible human cost of Joe Biden’s immigration policies

By Andrea Widburg www.americanthinker.com

The big headline today was that the United States Supreme Court granted a Trump administration request to stay a Massachusetts District Court order pending appeal. The order would have allowed half a million Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan, and Venezuelan citizens to remain in this country based on Biden’s say-so. The second headline was that Ketanji Brown Jackson, backed by Sonia Sotomayor, wrote an attack on her fellow justices, one rooted in emotionalism about the people affected by the order.

But—and I’m going to shock you—the two leftists have a point, which is that there is a tragic aspect to these illegal aliens’ situation. These people behaved rationally, given all the perverse incentives the Biden administration created. However, that’s neither Trump’s nor the other justices’ problem. This one is all on Joe Biden (or the AutoPen) and everyone else in the Biden orbit.

Let’s begin at the beginning. During the Biden administration, orders came from the Oval Office (no one knows who really authorized them) granting various protections to hundreds of thousands of people from countries mired in poverty and crime. It’s very important to note that none of these countries were experiencing a genocide, as that term was understood after WWII: Namely, a government deliberately targeting for extermination a cohort of people based upon race or creed. Instead, they were and are just lousy places to live.

 


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If you find yourself living in an anarchic, impoverished hellhole, and you’re a good person, you’ll try to flee to make a better life for yourself and your family. Likewise, if you’re a criminal, you’ll flee, too, whether to escape your own country’s legal system or to find easier pickings than an impoverished country can offer.

But the fact that some countries are hellholes does not give a United States president (or his AutoPen) the unilateral right to reverse America’s immigration laws. Nevertheless, that’s exactly what AutoPen Biden did. In 2022 and 2023, his administration created what came to be known as the Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, Venezuela (CHNV) Parole Program, giving minimally vetted residents of those four countries the complete and unfettered right to move to America for two years, including the right to work in this country. Eventually, over half a million people came in through this program, which has no legislative basis.

When the CHNV program—a purely executive action—was set to expire by its own terms in January 2025, President Trump exercised his executive prerogative and announced via two executive actions (here and here) that he was definitively terminating the program. The Department of Homeland Security then issued a notice putting Trump’s orders into effect, by “terminating the categorical parole programs for inadmissible aliens from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela and their immediate family members...that DHS announced in 2022 and 2023.”

Naturally, the Democrats found people to serve as names in a lawsuit filed against Kristi Noem. Also, naturally, they filed their suit in a friendly jurisdiction (Massachusetts), and a judge blocked Trump’s immigration initiative.

However, today, the Supreme Court issued a ruling stopping that judge’s order from going into effect while the matter is being appealed to the 11th Circuit. That means that the CHNV “refugees” are now here illegally, and can either depart voluntarily or wait until they’re deported.

The ruling is a single paragraph, but it’s accompanied by a bosom-heaving seven-page existential scream from Justice Jackson insisting that the “Court has plainly botched” its analysis of whether to grant a stay of Noem’s and Trump’s directives pending the appeal. The gist of the scream is that the people who arrived here will be irreparably harmed if their status is returned to that of being illegal aliens at the end of the appellate process. Thus, even if the Supreme Court is pretty sure the case is a loser, it’s still supposed to do whatever it can to ensure that the probable losing party—that is, the illegal aliens—doesn’t suffer during the process.

In fact, the case is a loser. What Biden did, Trump can undo, especially because Biden’s actions clearly contravened American law. Still, the dissent has a point: People will suffer.

All of these illegal aliens gave up their old lives, maybe spent money to come here (if they weren’t subsidized by George Soros-type organizations), and have started new lives in America. But that’s not a problem that should be blamed on Trump or a burden that should be placed on the American people, many of whom have already suffered tremendously, whether economically or in more deadly ways, from this influx of illegal aliens.

Instead, it’s just one more reminder of the terrible consequences that arise when an administration makes up the rules as it goes along to achieve political goals. The whole point of the rule of law is certainty, so that people can make rational choices that will best serve them.

Biden/AutoPen destroyed that certainty. The fact that ordinary people, whether Americans or illegal aliens, would be hurt by this despotic, arbitrary, and capricious approach was irrelevant. Democrats needed to change America’s racial, social, economic, and political make-up, and they willingly broke a lot of eggs (i.e., human lives) to make it happen.

And truly, the worst part of it is that the major actors in the Biden administration, from Mayorkas on down, will never be held accountable for the damage they caused and the lives they destroyed.

 

Most if not all large metros in the USA have Democrat dominated City Councils and Mayors. Sad to say, they are the dominate influence in General Elections nationwide.

 

Nashville’s Democrat Mayor Doxxes ICE Agents

By  Spencer Lindquist May 29, 2025 DailyWire.com

O'Connell says the release of the names of ICE agents was a mistake. A DHS official says there's "zero chance it was a mistake."

Nashville’s Democrat mayor released the names of multiple federal law enforcement agents with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), drawing ire from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Sen. Marsha Blackburn, who say that the mayor is putting law enforcement at risk.

Mayor Freddie O’Connell’s office released information on interactions between ICE agents and Nashville emergency service personnel, dropping data that included the names of federal law enforcement personnel. O’Connell says their names were released by mistake, but the Department of Homeland Security isn’t convinced.

“They claimed it was a mistake. There’s zero chance it was a mistake and there will be repercussions,” DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin charged in response to the incident. “Our ICE enforcement officers are already facing a 400% increase in assaults against them and he’s essentially handing over intelligence to these criminal gangs so they can target our ICE enforcement officers. It’s wrong. It’s beneath the city of Nashville.”

“The Nashville Mayor is protecting illegal aliens and gang members over his constituents,” DHS charged.

The doxxing of the federal agents by O’Connell’s office comes just after Congressman Andy Ogles (R-TN) confirmed that the House Judiciary Committee and Homeland Security launched investigations into O’Connell, who condemned ICE after agents carried out enforcement operations in Nashville and signed an executive order requiring city officials to report any correspondence with ICE agents.

Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) also blasted O’Connell, accusing him of “putting ICE agents and law enforcement in harm’s way by releasing their names for criminal gangs to see.”

 “These men and women have risked their lives to make our communities safer by removing gangs, rapists, and other heinous criminals from our communities,” the Senator from Tennessee added. “Shame on him.”

An exclusive report from The Daily Wire revealed that, of the 196 illegal aliens arrested by ICE in Nashville in a weeklong raid, 95 had prior criminal convictions or pending criminal charges.

Included in the nearly 200 illegal aliens arrested by ICE in Music City are sex offenders, convicted rapists, Tren de Aragua and MS-13 members, and drug runners, as well as 31 people who reentered the United States after previously being deported, a felony offense.

 

 

Friday, May 30, 2025

By all means cater to lawlessness - it only creates more lawlessness.

 

America Under the Control of Left-Wing Immigration Policy

By Jim Davis www.americanthinker.com

Illinois’s Democrat governor, J.B. Pritzker, is about to sign a new bill into law that will allow illegal immigrants to become driving instructors. From Peoria’s NBC affiliate:

A proposal that’s passed both chambers would allow some immigrants to become driving instructors in Illinois. In the state, non U.S. citizens can apply for a special drivers license called a Temporary Visitor Drivers License or TVDL.

You might ask, “Where did that TVDL come from?” We’ve had a Democrat-controlled state legislature since 2003, and they currently have supermajorities in both chambers. Except for a single-term RINO governor in 2015–18, we’ve also had 100% Democrat governors since 2003.

The Democrats’ attitudes about illegal immigration have “evolved” considerably since Clinton, Obama, and Schumer talked tough about it 20–30 years ago. If Trump were to read any one of those speeches out loud on the air tonight, he’d be called a racist.

In June 2023, Pritzker even started allowing illegal immigrants to get standard drivers’ licenses, phasing out TVDLs, which had become a “Scarlet Letter” for illegals:

Pritzker signs law giving driver’s licenses to noncitizen immigrants

‘This legislation is a significant step in eliminating the barriers to opportunity that many undocumented immigrants face,’ said Pritzker. ‘We’re ensuring every eligible individual can obtain a driver’s license, making our roads safer, decreasing stigma, and creating more equitable systems for all.’

Notice the careful use of terms like “noncitizen,” “undocumented immigrant,” or just “immigrant.” Nowhere do we see “illegal.” But that’s what these code terms mean. Notice also the deep concern about “stigma,” “incidents of discrimination,” and “creating more equitable systems.”

In 2019, Tom Homan described DUIs by illegal immigrants as a “public safety issue”:

 ‘Ten thousand people a year die from DUIs, twenty eight people a day die from DUIs,’ said Homan. ‘I’d rather put an illegal alien in jail for DUI than white-collar bank fraud. It isn’t about if it’s a felony or misdemeanor, it’s about, is it a public safety threat and is it threatening American citizens? DUIs, are you kidding me? That’s a public safety issue.’

I’ve collected the following anecdotal evidence — but as Dr. Paul Cameron and the Family Research Council learned in the 1980s, the dominant left-wing media and academia carefully discredit anecdotal evidence, if it doesn’t serve left-wing politics. As part of my volunteer work for our church, I regularly provide rides to low-income people for such things as medical appointments, job interviews, and court hearings. So I see the insides of public aid offices, driver services facilities, and courtrooms on a regular basis. (I live in a suburban-Chicago county that’s roughly 10% Latino, according to the Census Bureau—keep that in mind.)

After two months of monitoring, among DUI defendants on our traffic court docket, 19.7% had a Hispanic last name — nearly twice as many as the Latinos in the overall population. And it’s much the same in felony court.

The public aid office and the driver services office are practically wallpapered with notices in Spanish, and substantial portions of the respective staffs are bilingual.

White applicants for SNAP benefits (“food stamps”) are told they’ll get their SNAP debit cards in the mail in 10–14 business days — in other words, up to three weeks. But Latino applicants, who rarely know any English at all, frequently walk into the public aid office with three pieces of paper and walk out happily with an “emergency” SNAP card. So they get same-day service.

I also had extensive opportunities to observe English as a Second Language (ESL) teaching in action, at Chicago’s special school for children of illegal immigrants: Rodolfo Lozano Bilingual Academy, which is of course named for a socialist Latino political figure from Chicago’s past. As I previously wrote, Lozano has the lion’s share of speech therapists and speech pathologists employed by the Chicago Public Schools, because… equity. After all, they have to pronounce English correctly. And I concede that for any immigrant, that isn’t easy.

But they don’t teach “English as a second language” at Lozano. They teach just enough words of English to get by in a city like Chicago. The actual day-to-day lessons are given in Spanish, because “it’s just easier that way.”

So we need bilingual driving instructors. And to fill that quota, we need to hire illegals.

These are just the raw facts, as I’ve observed them. Here are a few more facts that arise, at least in part, from the left’s love affair with illegal immigrants.

Our national debt is now $37 trillion. That’s an average of $383,000 for every taxpayer. The state of Illinois has $159 billion in debt, which is largely unfunded pension liabilities for state workers (an overwhelming majority of whom, particularly at the top levels, are Democrats). This adds another $28,000 in debt per taxpayer.

Pritzker cheerfully doubled the state’s motor fuel tax without a corresponding increase in EV taxes, but deficit spending is a problem wherever Democrats are in charge. California’s debt is $520 billion; New York’s, despite a state constitutional amendment (ratified the last time the GOP was in charge) requiring a balanced budget, is $368 billion.

Next, let’s look at what happens when a leftist Western government goes too far to protect illegal immigrants. Our cousins across the pond in the United Kingdom went too far. The son of Rwandan “migrants” murdered three young British girls at a Taylor Swift dance party, and wounded several more. But as Pritzker said, we mustn’t stigmatize the poor dears.

Naturally though, there were a lot of negative reactions from British parents, and others involved with the care of British children. In the wake of the killings, professional babysitter Lucy Connolly posted an anti-immigrant tweet, which landed her in jail. Here’s the tweet:

 Connolly has been sentenced to 2-1/2 years in prison for her mean tweets, under British “hate speech” laws. Her sentence was upheld on appeal. As Matt Walsh observed at Daily Wire, this was a far harsher sentence than Muslim immigrants, and left-wing politicians, received for the following crimes:

Crime number one: Exposing yourself to a 13-year-old girl, and then stalking her through the streets when she spots you, forcing the girl to bang on the doors of random apartments so that she can hide. Crime number two: publicly threatening to murder an infidel who dares to insult Mohammed. Crime number three: Sexually assaulting a 12-year-old. And crime number four: domestic abuse, including physical abuse, over a three-year-period.

Think it can’t happen here? Think again. Our universities already have codes of conduct that can produce a suspension or expulsion for “hate speech” targeting any of the left’s favorite protected groups.