April Was Another Record Month for Illegal Immigration

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The problem with waiting months to act decisively at the border is that we become accustomed to the new normal of record border numbers.

According to Customs and Border Protection (CBP), April set yet another record, with a total of 109,000 apprehensions at the southwest border. Unless the administration harnesses this news and calls for a complete shutoff of immigration processing at the border, it’s unlikely that the numbers will fall significantly. The partial measures being pursued currently might have worked a year ago when we warned about the tsunami, but not now that we are squarely in the storm.

Here are the key takeaways from the April CBP border report:

In total, 109,144 individuals were apprehended at the border – 98,977 between points of entry and 10,167 at points of entry. This is the highest number in 12 years, it is very likely the highest number of unique individuals of all time, given that many in the past were the same individuals deported multiple times within the same week, while almost all of these are first-timers.

The 58,474 individuals in family units set another record, but an increasing number of people are also coming as single adults, 31,606. The overwhelming number of single adults are from Mexico, while most of the family units and unaccompanied teens are from Central America.

The increases over the previous month seemed to be from the Rio Grande Valley (RGV), El Paso, and Yuma sectors, the three busiest corridors in absolute numbers. Overall, for this fiscal year, every sector has seen a massive increase in family units.

Guatemala still leads the pack for the most migrants coming in all categories, followed by Honduras, with a sharp drop-off for Salvadorans. Overall, 301,900 Guatemalans were apprehended at and between points of entry since the beginning of fiscal year 2018. In other words, in just 19 months, 1.7 percent of Guatemala’s population came to our border, and that is on top of the 815,000 Guatemalan nationals who already lived here, most of them illegally. A recent poll showed that a third of Guatemalans would like to immigrate to the U.S. A total of 224,078 Hondurans have come since FY 2018, 2.4 percent of the population. That is on top of the 623,000 already here. This means that the size of these countries’ populations in America equal roughly 6.6 percent and 9.2 percent of their respective populations in Guatemala and Honduras. “Only” 79,000 have come from El Salvador over the past 19 months, but because they dominated the Central American migration in previous years, we already had 1.4 million Salvadorans in this country as of last year, representing roughly 22 percent of their entire homeland population!

Has the trajectory been bent? Will the numbers go down in May? Well, CBP reported on Tuesday that during the first week in May, there were 10,000 apprehensions in the Rio Grande Valley, a new weekly record. During the 30 days of April, there were 36,681 apprehensions in the RGV. It is therefore clear that the message has not yet gone out to Central America that we are no longer tolerating this violation of sovereignty.

Unlike in the past, when mainly single adults were coming over and were immediately repatriated, most of these individuals are being released. ICE has released 168,000 just since December 21, and that number doesn’t include the 33,000 released by CBP directly without ever being processed in an ICE holding facility since March 19. If these individuals are never repatriated, the lifetime cost to taxpayers, as estimated by the Center for Immigration Studies, would be roughly $30 billion.

This is the part of the crisis that is never discussed. The philosophical problem with the approach of our government over the past year is that when circumstances such as lack of detention space create a scenario where our laws cannot be implemented properly, they err on the side of the alien and not on the side of the American people.

Our laws require that every alien, including those seeking asylum and even those approved for it, be detained throughout the entire process. Moreover, our laws require that these economic migrants be immediately placed into expedited removal. Any appeal of a credible fear denial must be handled within a day and no later than seven days, according to existing law. Why should the fact that they flood us with invasion levels of migrants strengthen their hands to achieve the very intent of their mission? Why should the fact that they increase the illegal smuggling to levels that can’t be detained result in rewarding the cartels with catch-and-release and making Americans pay for the crime, gangs, drugs, lack of security checkpoints, fiscal costs, cultural problems in the schools, and the health risks?

Part of the problem is that the desires of the aliens are individualized and immediately apparent before the TV cameras. The harm they cause to Americans – both directly through fiscal, security, and health concerns and indirectly by draining off resources and empowering the cartels and gangs – are long-term, less apparent, and often go unreported. Nobody sees a rapist right at the border, but there are sadly plenty of people like Juan Leon-Gomez, an illegal alien from Guatemala, who is now charged with raping and impregnating an 11-year-old girl and keeping her in his closet. The TV cameras show 16-year-olds in need at the border, but they won’t show you how 40 percent of those caught in a recent MS-13 sting were border teens who were resettled as refugees.

The entire purpose of our federal government is to care for Americans, not foreign invaders.

Today, as the DHS announces the unprecedented data from April, would be the most auspicious time for the president to announce a complete shutoff of all cross-border migration of those who show up without documentation. Unless he acts now, the American people will become used to the cartels and illegal aliens pouring over our border as the new normal. (For more from the author of “April Was Another Record Month for Illegal Immigration” please click HERE)

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Writer Wore a MAGA Hat Into an Ultra-Liberal Vegan Restaurant. Here’s What Happened.

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As a case study in American political tribalism in the age of President Trump, a Los Angeles writer wore a MAGA hat to an ultra-liberal vegan restaurant in the city to see what sort of adventures would unfold. Quite shockingly, people actually proved his thesis wrong.

The article by Joel Stein in Los Angeles Magazine confronts the fact that Americans hate each other in the age of President Trump, a fever he himself admits to having been inflicted with at times. . .

In light of all this, Stein devised a little social experiment: wear the iconic Make America Great Again hat to the ultra-liberal Café Gratitude in Larchmont, which he describes as a “vegan hipster restaurant.” It’s a restaurant so liberal that when the establishment sold a “Make America Grateful Hat,” customers complained that it took President Trump’s evil too lightly. . .

“Before I left, I asked the black waiter, Darick Thomas, how he felt about my hat,” Stein continues. “‘I don’t care. At all. Really. At all! I look at a hat and that doesn’t tell me who the person is,’ he said. “‘I’m not against Trump. He says some smart things; he says some dumb things.'”

Throughout Stein’s whole time at the restaurant, only one person, a patron, openly expressed disapproval of his MAGA hat. “Is that guy wearing a f***ing MAGA hat?” the patron asked at the counter. (Read more from “Writer Wore a MAGA Hat Into an Ultra-Liberal Vegan Restaurant. Here’s What Happened.” HERE)

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Horrible: Major University Warns Jewish Students Not to Celebrate Israel Independence Day

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According to a tip provided to The Daily Wire by a Ph.D. student at the U.K.’s prestigious University of Leeds, the student union at the educational institutional recently deemed it appropriate to post something on Facebook warning students that they may not be happy with Jewish students celebrating Israel Independence Day. The post even goes so far as to offer a help and support line for thin-skinned Jew-hating ignoramuses who are so grossly offended by the mere sight of Jewish university students celebrating the independence day — known in Hebrew as Yom Ha’atzmaut — of the world’s one and only Jewish state. . .

Here is the full post:

[Leeds University Union] has given permission for the Jewish Society to run an event on Thursday 9th May in Union Square (12pm-2pm) celebrating Israel Independence Day.

We understand that some of our members will be unhappy that this event is taking place, which is why we are letting students know in advance.

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One commented: “Politicising an event devoid of politics. Any nation should be allowed to celebrate their culture away from politics. … Offence is taken, not given, but it seems some are beginning to pick and choose what to take offence to in terms of nation, nationhood and culture. Yom Haatsmaut [sic] celebrations should be able to go ahead tomorrow with no fear of a backlash. It isn’t politics. Its a cultural celebration[.]” (Read more from “Horrible: Major University Warns Jewish Students Not to Celebrate Israel Independence Day” HERE)

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BBC Now Promoting Show About Drag Queens With Down Syndrome

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This week, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) showcased folks with Down syndrome dressing and performing in full drag.

“Meet Drag Syndrome – the outspoken performers with Down’s syndrome who are creating a stir on the drag scene,” the BBC captioned a four-minute video. “These drag queens and kings were brought together in 2018 by choreographer Daniel Vais, to provide a platform for performers with learning disabilities and to challenge stereotypes.”

“They have received criticism along the way, but with a performance at Glastonbury coming up, could they be about to hit the big time?” the public broadcaster posed. . .

In October, NBC News similarly showcased “Drag Syndrome.” The network highlighted performances by the group’s members at a popular gay venue called Royal Vauxhall Tavern.

“Then, without warning, the steady electronic beat of the music shifts to a more familiar Divine track, and out pops a drag queen dressed to the nines in a skin-tight catsuit, draped with purple sequins, and a blond wig to top it all off,” reported NBC. (Read more from “BBC Now Promoting Show About Drag Queens With Down Syndrome” HERE)

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Mike Pence Makes BIG Announcement About the Trump Administration

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At a Wednesday speech at a Federalist Society event in Washington, D.C., Vice President Mike Pence took aim at judicial activism and the practice of lower courts of unilaterally blocking laws and policies from taking effect.

The administration plans to fight this practice, Pence explained, by bringing the question of nationwide injunctions before the Supreme Court.

“The Supreme Court of the United States must clarify that district judges can decide no more than the cases before them,” said Pence. “And it’s imperative that we restore the historic tradition that district judges do not set policy for the whole nation. In the days ahead, our administration will seek opportunities to put this very question before the Supreme Court to ensure that decisions affecting every American are made either by those elected to represent the American people or by the highest court in the land.”

“The kind of government control that our Founders were concerned about is too often exerted by the administrative state in this country,” Pence explained. “And it’s been emerging in recent years in the federal judiciary in the form of nationwide injunctions.”

A nationwide injunction is a court order sent out by lower judges that prevents the executive branch from enforcing policies, statutes and/or regulations all across the country. Such orders affect parties who aren’t remotely involved in the case and are one of the most popular tools of activist judges to thwart the efforts of the Trump White House.

And it’s not just the White House that has a problem with nationwide injunctions. During his remarks, Pence also cited a 2018 Supreme Court Opinion from Justice Clarence Thomas, who wrote:

These injunctions are beginning to take a toll on the federal court system— preventing legal questions from percolating through the federal courts, encouraging forum shopping, and making every case a national emergency for the courts and for the Executive Branch.

I am skeptical that district courts have the authority to enter universal injunctions. These injunctions did not emerge until a century and a half after the founding. And they appear to be inconsistent with longstanding limits on equitable relief and the power of Article III courts. If their popularity continues, this Court must address their legality.

Indeed, while our federal courts go back to the earliest days of our republic, the ability of lower court judges to unilaterally hamstring the executive with the flick of a pen and bang of a gavel is a far more recent innovation.

“This obstruction at the district [court] level is unprecedented. Studies show that there’s not a single example of a nationwide injunction in the first 175 years of our nation’s history,” Pence said. “The truth is, our administration has been unfairly hit with more nationwide injunctions than the first 40 American presidents combined.”

The vice president also made the case that such injunctions are hazardous to Americans’ safety, arguing that they compromise national security by “obstructing the lawful ability of the President to stop threats to the homeland, where he sees them.”

Lest we forget, Trump v. Hawaii — about which Justice Thomas wrote the earlier opinion — was over President Trump’s ability to use the president’s plenary powers to pause immigration due to national security concerns.

“These injunctions undermine the rule of law and the separation of powers that are central to our nation’s founding, that lie at the very heart of our Constitution,” Pence concluded. “And so I say to all those gathered here, for the sake of our liberty, our security, our prosperity, and the separation of powers: This era of judicial activism must come to an end.”

While new legal precedent from the Supreme Court might be the most realistic way to end the capricious practice of nationwide injunctions with a divided national government, it isn’t the only way; Congress also has the power to act.

Last session, the GOP-controlled House Judiciary Committee considered and approved a bill that would have ended the universal injunctions once and for all, despite protests from committee Democrats.

“We are at a crossroads in our nation,” wrote Conservative Review’s Daniel Horowitz about a recent nationwide injunction case out of California. “Either we have three branches of government, or we have one branch of government, with the most liberal of the 94 district courts controlling every aspect of our country.” (For more from the author of “Mike Pence Makes BIG Announcement About the Trump Administration” please click HERE)

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This Is the Bill New York Passed to Try and Trash the Trump Administration

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With President Donald Trump not playing the Democrats’ impeachment games (and rightfully so), states have done their part in fighting this administration. Washington State and New Jersey have passed laws keeping presidential candidates off the ballot if they don’t release their taxes. Well, it’s not like any Republican candidate was going to win those states anyway, but it’s all part of the two-year long temper tantrum over Hillary Clinton’s shocking election loss in 2016.

Taxes remain another front in the ongoing crusade to impeach Trump. Democrats don’t have Russian collusion anymore; that was nuked by the Mueller report. They’re still clinging to obstruction of justice, but there’s not enough evidence to pursue charges, as determined by Attorney General William Barr and soon-to-be-ex Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. The only evidence in the affirmative is that liberal CNN pundits think this happened because…they don’t like Trump. Belief is not evidence. And excuse me if I don’t care what a horde of former Obama officials have to say on this matter. With the Treasury Department refusing to turn over information on Trump’s finances, New York State is making legislative moves to make that happen, passing a bill that would allow them to turn over such documents if asked by Congress. Yet, this will only apply to state income taxes (via NBC News):

The New York State Senate passed a bill Wednesday that would make it easier for Congress to obtain President Donald Trump’s state tax returns, a measure that Gov. Andrew Cuomo has said he will sign if it reaches his desk.

The bill, called the TRUST Act, passed by a 39-to-21 vote. It would amend state law to permit the commissioner of the state Department of Taxation and Finance to release any state tax return requested by the leaders of the House Ways and Means Committee, the Senate Finance Committee or the Joint Committee on Taxation for any “specific and legitimate legislative purpose.” Existing laws generally prohibit such a release.

Those congressional committees could file a request with the state only after efforts to gain access to federal tax filings through the U.S. Treasury Department failed.

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Bradley ‘Chelsea’ Manning Released From Prison

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By Townhall. Chelsea Manning, formerly Bradley Manning, the former U.S. Army soldier who was court martialed for leaking government secrets to WikiLeaks, has been released from prison after 62 days following the expiration of the grand jury’s term. Glenn Greenwald, the former Guardian journalist who broke the similar Edward Snowden bombshell back in 2013, shared the news on Twitter.

Manning was behind bars for refusing to testify about those WikiLeaks connections, but had previously admitted to leaking more than 725,000 classified documents to the organization, including military documents. [His] attorneys revealed what comes next. (Read more from “Bradley ‘Chelsea’ Manning Released From Prison” HERE)

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Chelsea Manning Released From Jail After Refusing to Testify to Grand Jury

By The Hill. Manning’s attorneys said that while [he] was being released, [he] had been served with another subpoena to testify before a different grand jury or face more jail time.

“Today marked the expiration of the term of the grand jury, and so, after 62 days of confinement, Chelsea was released from the Alexandria Detention Center earlier today,” her lawyers said in a statement.

“Unfortunately, even prior to [his] release, Chelsea was served with another subpoena. This means [he] is expected to appear before a different grand jury, on Thursday, May 16, 2019, just one week from [his] release today.”

The lawyers said it was “conceivable” that Manning would again be held in contempt of court and return to the jail in Alexandria, Va., as soon as next week.

“Chelsea will continue to refuse to answer questions, and will use every available legal defense to prove to District Judge Trenga that [he] has just cause for her refusal to give testimony,” the lawyers said. (Read more from “Chelsea Manning Released From Jail After Refusing to Testify to Grand Jury” HERE)

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Did Swalwell Really Just Compare Mueller Report to September 11?

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Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA), who thinks President Trump is a Russian agent (and, yes, I will mention this every day until the primary), has made another farfetched comparison. On Twitter, he put special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation on par with the attack on Pearl Harbor and the September 11 terror attacks by way of condemning Trump’s relationship with Vladimir Putin.

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Bush Judge Creates Fake Right for Non-Doctors to Perform Abortions

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Remember when judges had to take the abortion issue away from the legislatures so that women wouldn’t receive abortions performed with hangers in back alleys? Now, judges have to take the health care standards away from legislatures so that non-doctors can perform back alley-type abortions. The common denominator is that abortion is a religion where typical rules of law don’t apply, and judges are gods who can contradict law, the Constitution, and their own precedents at will.

On Monday, Virginia federal district Judge Henry E. Hudson, a George W. Bush appointee, ruled that suddenly the commonwealth’s commonsense law dating back to 1975 requiring abortions to be performed only by licensed physicians is unconstitutional. You see, states and even the federal government can regulate every aspect of health care and even every aspect of medical insurance. But life-and-death procedures like abortions must be free from the most basic health care standards, including the requirement to have a doctor perform the procedure. Imagine a judge declaring that because gun ownership is a real right (unlike abortion), anyone could sell firearms without a license.

Once again, we see vividly how once the other branches of government have ceded every issue to the federal courts, everything goes when it comes to their preferred policy outcomes. Judges don’t even follow their own precedents. Once we grant judges the right to unilaterally make law, set morals, and remake culture, what is to stop them from changing the rules midway? In the landmark Planned Parenthood of Southeastern PA v. Casey ruling affirming the individual “right” to an abortion, the court made clear that states could still regulate the health care standards for performing abortions. “The Constitution gives the States broad latitude to decide that particular functions may be performed only by licensed professionals, even if an objective assessment might suggest that those same tasks could be performed by others,” wrote Justice O’Connor in the 1992 abortion case upholding a state’s ability to require that licensed physicians provide all relevant information in counseling on abortions.

Indeed, states regulate the standards for licensed professionals all the time – everything from lemonade stands to mowing grass – even when “an objective assessment might suggest that those same tasks could be performed by others.” But when it comes to the sacred ideals of abortion, all rules must be broken.

Hudson even quotes from physician testimony noting how “serious complications” could come up during surgical abortions, yet he still orders that all non-physician clinicians be allowed to perform even dilation and evacuation procedures during the first three months of pregnancy. Moreover, Hudson himself conceded that “potential complications in performing second trimester abortions may arise that may warrant the judgment and skills that a physician can best provide.”

When it comes to abortion, everything goes. Take, for example, an authentic right, such as donating to a political campaign or owning a gun. A legal immigrant has no such rights and is indeed barred from donating to political campaigns (First Amendment) or owning a gun (Second Amendment) in most circumstances. Yet in October 2017, the U.S. Court of Appeals for D.C. ruled that even illegal aliens have a right to demand direct access to an abortion. Additionally, courts are increasingly throwing out all safety and health care regulations governing abortions and clinics, ignoring standards for every other aspect of health care.

Everything goes when it comes to the religion of abortion. (For more from the author of “Bush Judge Creates Fake Right for Non-Doctors to Perform Abortions” please click HERE)

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Trump Defends National Emergency Declaration, Reveals the BIG Immigration Problem With Dems

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By Fox News. President Trump again described the situation at the U.S.-Mexico border as a “national emergency” at a Florida campaign rally Wednesday, saying the caravans headed to the United States were an “invasion” and voicing his concerns against human and drug trafficking.

“No nation can tolerate a massive organized violation of its immigration laws. And no one should run for office without an ironclad pledge to protect and defend America’s borders,” Trump told the Panama City Beach crowd. “Shouldn’t be allowed to run. And to confront this crisis — you saw that! It was a big deal two months ago. I declared a national emergency, which is what it is. This is an invasion!”

Trump said Democrats “don’t mind crime” and spoke about caravans heading through Central America to the U.S.-Mexico border.

“When you see these caravans starting out with 20,000 people, that’s an invasion. I was badly criticized for using the word ‘invasion.’ It’s an invasion!” Trump said, defending his rhetoric. (Read more from “Trump Defends National Emergency Declaration, Reveals the Problem With Dems” HERE)

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Trump Briefs Republican Senators on Emerging U.S. Immigration Plan

By Reuters. President Donald Trump and aides on Tuesday briefed a group of Republican senators on a merit-based immigration plan that would let more highly-skilled workers into the United States and fewer low-skilled workers, a senior administration official said.

The overall effect of the plan, the official told a group of reporters, would be to leave the number of legal immigrants allowed into the United States at about the same.

“We want to encourage immigration. But it’s got to be through the legal system,” the official said.

Separately, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham, whose committee would have to shepherd such legislation through the Senate, described the effort to reporters as “a merit-based immigration proposal that deals with increases in work visas and decreases family visas.” The latter refers to visas for relatives of immigrants already in the United States. (Read more from “Trump Briefs Republican Senators on Emerging U.S. Immigration Plan” HERE)

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