Again, A Federal Judge Regulates Executive Action With Impunity!

 

Federal Judge Rules DHS Wolf Lacked Authority to Suspend DACA

11/15/2020 - Bronson Stocking Townhall.com

A federal judge in New York ruled on Saturday that Barack Obama's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) amnesty program for illegal alien children was illegally suspended by Acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf because the acting secretary, according to the judge, assumed his position unlawfully. At the time, many argued that it was then-President Barack Obama who lacked the authority to bypass Congress in 2012 and grant amnesty through executive memorandum.

Bill Clinton-appointed Judge Nicholas Garaufis decided that Acting Secretary Chad Wolf lacked the proper statutory authority to hold his current position, as did Kevin McAleenan before him, who took over when Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen resigned in Apr. 2019. Since Wolf lacked the authority to hold the position, the judge decided that Wolf lacked the legal authority to suspend the program. 

"DHS failed to follow the order of succession as it was lawfully designated," Judge Garaufis wrote. "Therefore, the actions taken by purported Acting Secretaries, who were not properly in their roles according to the lawful order of succession, were taken without legal authority."

In Sep. 2017, President Trump moved to end the DACA program, but the Supreme Court ruled in Jun. 2020 that President Trump did not follow the proper procedure in terminating DACA. In the 5-4 ruling, Chief Justice John Roberts joined the liberal wing of the court to keep the program in place, but the court left the door open for DACA to be rescinded in the future. Wolf ended the program, pending a review by DHS, the following month.  

So DACA remains and Joe Biden, if he and Kamala Harris end up in the White House, vow to reinstate the program and pass out amnesty to millions of illegal aliens. 

 

 

Another Horrific Consequence of Illegal Alien Invasion of the U. S. A.

 

Taxpayers Fork Over $1 Billion for Illegal-alien Health Since Fiscal 2016.

by R. Cort Kirkwood November 9, 2020 NewAmerican.com

American taxpayers have spent nearly $1.3 billion on medical and mental healthcare for illegal aliens through the last four fiscal years, and the annual cost of the treatment has jumped from about $190 million in 2016 to more than $300 million in 2020.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s massive expenditure demonstrates not just what a tax burden these illegal aliens will be when and if a President Biden declares a universal amnesty as he has promised. It also shows just how dangerous illegals are to the health of Americans.

Despite the Chinese Virus, they still cross the border either on foot or packed like sardines in automobiles. They also carry other potentially fatal and contagious diseases.

Last year, agents with Customs and Border Protection apprehended just under half a million illegals, a significant number of whom required medical care.

Big Numbers
In fiscal 2020, ICE reported, its Health Service Corps spent $315.1 million to care for illegals. ICEHSC treated 99,670 illegals at a cost of $25.59 per person per day.

Among the frightening numbers are these:

• 3,048 emergency room visits
• 15,571 dental visits
• 19,637 urgent care visits
• 123,936 sick calls
• 69,985 mental health visits
• 270,222 prescriptions
• 52,278 physicals 

The massive waste of tax dollars this year increased 27 percent from last year’s $248.1 million. Though the annual cost decreased slightly from 2017 through 2019, expenditures are significantly more than in 2016.

Since then, when taxpayers coughed up $190.2 million to provide free medical care, the cost has risen 65.6 percent. The daily cost per person has increased 68 percent from $15.22 per person per day.

ICE operates 20 medical facilities.

How Sick Are They?
The report doesn’t detail the diseases, conditions, and mental problems the illegals had, but it’s safe to say a significant number suffered from more than the common cold.

In June, Todd Bensman of the Center for Immigration Studies reported that Chinese Virus cases had spiked along the border largely because of illegal immigration, not because state and local authorities had lifted “lockdown” orders.

“Evidence continues to mount that spikes in Covid cases in U.S. border states are due to successive waves of infected people fleeing Mexico’s dysfunctional and overwhelmed hospitals to get American medical care at least as much, if not more than, to the re-opening of those states’ economies,” Bensman wrote. “This matters because officials in border states are beginning to base policy decisions for partial lock-downs on grounds that lifting them is what caused the spikes.”

Illegals know how to game the system. They know border agents must take them to the hospital if they arrive sick. And border agents, too, were catching the Asiatic pathogen, Bensman reported.

And that isn’t the only danger to agents and American citizens.

Even under the Trump administration, immigration authorities have released hundreds of thousands of illegals into American communities, as The New American reported in 2019.

Aaron Hull, chief of the El Paso Border Sector, said illegals want agents to catch them because the illegals, at least at that time, knew an asylum plea meant immediate release. Then they could disappear.

“They’re not trying to get away,” he told Maria Bartiromo of Fox News. “They know that we’re basically — a period of time, they are going to be held in custody and then they’re going to be released and continue on to all parts of the United States.”

How many illegals with undetected, asymptomatic, or not-yet-symptomatic diseases were released is unknown.

But before the Chinese Virus, border agents worried they might contract Ebola Virus Disease from the illegal Africans who cross the borders.

Jon Anfinsen, a National Border Patrol Council vice president, told the Washington Examiner last year that illegals are routinely ill with scabies, mumps, and chickenpox.

Scabies is a skin infection caused by the human itch mite, which burrows into the outer layer of a person’s skin and lays eggs.

Chagas disease is another of gifts the illegals bring.

Diseases “spread like wildfires when you get into a cramped holding cell,” he said. 

“We have a lot of agents who are sick,” he told the newspaper. “The other day I talked to agents from four different stations. And every single one of them had a cough.”

Said Anfinsen:

I’ll go and I’ll help process. There was one day I spent processing and we had like 40 Guatemalans and Hondurans, and most of them had some kind of cough. And sure enough the next day, I’m sick — for a week.

“It’ll go in waves,” a border agent told the Examiner. “Strep throat was the last one.… It was everywhere. Active tuberculosis comes in fairly regularly. We had an incident of H1N1, swine flu, in Clint [Texas] with a juvenile. And then the ones that are most disruptive are the simple ones: regular flu or lice.”

Last year, border agents collared 458,088 illegals.

 

 

A Divided Nation Cannot Stand -- Basic Constitutional Principles Will Unite U. S. A. Again

 

Can a Disintegrating America Come Together?

11/3/2020 - Pat Buchanan Townhall.com

On the last days of the 2020 campaign, President Donald Trump was holding four and five rallies a day in battleground states, drawing thousands upon thousands of loyalists to every one.

Waiting for hours, sometimes in the cold, to cheer their champion on, these rallygoers love Trump as few presidents have been loved. This writer cannot recall a president and campaign that brought out so many and such massive crowds of admirers in its closing days.

And who are these cheering, chanting loyalists who have brought their children out with them to see and remember "the great Trump" -- in the eyes of our dispossessed elites?

They are people who belong in a "basket of deplorables," sneered Hillary Clinton: "racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic" bigots, and a sub-species of humanity that is "irredeemable."

Today's election is an us-versus-them choice unlike any other, for the issues in dispute are broader and deeper than ever before.

And those issues raise questions: No matter who wins, can this nation come together again? And if it cannot -- a real possibility -- what form will America take as it disintegrates?

Even as voters were mailing in ballots in the millions, stores in our great cities were being boarded up against rioters, looters and arsonists.

Suburban residents, fearful that the urban mobs may one day be coming for them, were stockpiling guns and ammunition.

How divided are we?

The New York Times "Sunday Review" devoted its entire section to Donald Trump, as seen from the eyes of its columnists. On the cover page of the Review ran the headline, "All 15 of our columnists explain what the past four years have cost America, and what's at stake in this election."

Each of the 15 trashed Trump from his or her perspective.

Since World War II, America has held elections where the country seemed at sword's point. Not all were like 1960, where scholar Arthur Schlesinger Jr., felt compelled to write the book, "Kennedy or Nixon: Does It Make Any Difference?"

Schlesinger felt he had to explain that despite the similarity of the candidates, both in their 40s, it made a difference who was elected.

Yet, even after the most divisive elections of the post-war era -- 1952 and 1968 -- the country pulled back together. President Dwight Eisenhower, from 1952 to 1956, and Richard Nixon, from 1968 to 1972, restored unity to the nation during their first terms by ending the Asian wars into which their predecessors had taken the nation.

New leadership ended the wars and brought the United States together.

The difference today?

Americans are not divided over war. One of Trump's successes has been to keep us out of new wars, even if he has not yet extracted us from the wars he inherited.

Today, we are divided over ideology, morality, culture, race and history. We are divided over whether America is the great nation we were raised to revere and love or a nation born in great sins and crimes -- such as the near annihilation of indigenous peoples and their cultures and the enslavement of hundreds of thousands of Black peoples from Africa.

Are we the nation of 1776 and 1789, or the nation of 1619, whose institutions are still infected with the "systemic racism" of our birth?

In this divided country, at times, Americans seem to detest each other.

Indeed, if the United States did not exist as one nation, would this diverse people ever agree to form a compact to come together, or would we seek to retain our separate identities?

In tearing down the statues of explorers such as Christopher Columbus or the Founding Fathers and their successor presidents, from Andrew Jackson to Abraham Lincoln to Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, the contempt for the country these men helped to bring into being, and for what this country stands for today, is manifest.

A significant slice of America's young believes that the nation to which they belong was detestable from its birth, and that the Western civilization from which it sprang is not worth saving.

In his farewell address, President Ronald Reagan spoke of the America where he was raised and which he cherished:

"The hope of human freedom -- the quest for it, the achievement of it -- is the American saga. And I've often recalled one group of early settlers making a treacherous crossing of the Atlantic on a small ship when their leader, a minister, noted that perhaps their venture would fail and they would become a byword, a footnote to history. But perhaps, too, with God's help, they might also found a new world, a city upon a hill, a light unto the nations."

How many Americans still believe what Reagan believed? How many yet see America as "a city upon a hill, a light unto the nations"?

Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of "Nixon's White House Wars: The Battles That Made and Broke a President and Divided America Forever."