Kamala Harris Promises Immediate Gun Control Action If Elected

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Over the past century, beginning in earnest with the Woodrow Wilson administration, the executive branch has engorged in size at the general expense of the legislative branch that James Madison, in The Federalist No. 51, famously assured us would “necessarily predominate[]” in our “republican” form of government. Aided and abetted by a complicit Congress, which has generally been all too eager to delegate hitherto unprecedented unilateral authority to the executive, the president’s ability to seemingly legislate by administrative fiat has done much to undermine the original tripartite nature of our delicately prescribed constitutional order.

This pattern holds true for both major political parties. On a personal note, I have made public my sympathy to the argument, advanced by John Eastman of the Claremont Institute and John Yoo of Berkeley Law and the American Enterprise Institute (both former U.S. Supreme Court law clerks for originalist stalwart Justice Clarence Thomas) that President Donald Trump acted well within his statutorily delegated authority in his recent unilateral declaration of a national emergency at our beleaguered southern border. But, as I noted on the Steve Deace Show in late January, a judgment as to the political prudence of making such a unilateral executive branch move was a different calculation entirely. The Obama Administration, especially in the realm of immigration and amnesty, had engaged in previously unforeseen unilateralism. With Trump engaging in a symbolically meaningful assertion of executive authority — however properly delegated from Congress it may or may not have been — the one-way ratchet only seemed to exacerbate.

Now, it seems, the chickens are already coming home to roost a bit for conservatives. Specifically, U.S. Senator and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris (D-CA) has now vowed to initiate unilateral action on gun control within her first 100 days as president, if Congress does not act according to her whims. (Read more from “Kamala Harris Promises Immediate Gun Control Action If Elected” HERE)

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Trump Orders All Staffers to Boycott White House Correspondents Dinner. Here’s Why

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It was confirmed on Tuesday that President Donald Trump has ordered his administration to boycott the White House Correspondents Association dinner, an event he has skipped the past two years. Trump has made his disdain for the annual dinner known on more than one occasion, calling the event outright “boring” last year. This year, the president plans to hold a 2020 campaign rally in Green Bay, Wisconsin, on the night of the dinner.

“White House Cabinet Secretary Bill McGinley announced that all Trump administration officials are being ordered to boycott the dinner,” The Washington Times reported Tuesday.

A senior official from the administration said Trump “and members of his administration will not attend the White House Correspondents Dinner this year. Instead, Saturday evening President Trump will travel to Green Bay, Wisconsin where he will hold a campaign rally.”

“We’re looking forward to an enjoyable evening of celebrating the First Amendment and great journalists past, present, and future,” said WHCA president Olivier Knox in response to the news, according to the Times.

Hosting the event in 2018, raunchy comedian Michelle Wolf took heat for making remarks widely castigated as tasteless and sexist toward White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who was in attendance at the event. “She burns facts and then she uses that ash to create a perfect smokey eye. Like maybe she’s born with it, maybe it’s lies. It’s probably lies,” she mocked Sanders, The Daily Wire previously reported.

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Criminal Alien Rampage: Homicide, Molestation, Drunk Driving

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Americans Debbie Burgess and Mark O’Gara were killed this month due to our lack of resolve to secure the border and expeditiously deport other countries’ criminals. In addition, there are many criminal aliens, being allowed to remain in the country way too long, committing rape and child molestation. Sadly, most of these cases will remain unknown to the public.

Father of 10 killed in St. Paul by drunk-driving Central American teen

Mark J. O’Gara, a 52-year-old father of 10 children, was killed on April 3 in St. Paul when he was pulling out of a driveway and was hit by a speeding drunk driver. That driver was Jose O. Vasquez-Guillen, a 19-year-old illegal alien who came here in 2016 from Honduras. No, not all those innocent faces the media shows at the border will be harmless upstanding citizens once they are resettled in this country. Vasquez-Guillen was ordered deported in 2016 by an immigration judge — in absentia, because he failed to show up to his immigration hearing. He was a fugitive until he was arrested by ICE this month.

Once again, this is another case where our broken policies are allowing these individuals to obtain catch-and-release with the hope that they show up for a hearing in front of an immigration judge. Sadly, they often commit deadly crimes after it’s already too late to apprehend them. There are over one million illegal aliens with final deportation orders who remain in the country, including 644,000 from Mexico and Central America. Last month, a Guatemalan teen who was the recipient of catch-and-release killed a beloved mother and schoolteacher in a driving wreck in Mobile, Alabama.

Debbie Burgess killed by illegal immigrant deported nine times

Police in Knoxville, Tennessee, suspect Juan Francisco, an illegal alien with a prior DUI conviction, as the driver behind a hit-and-run that killed Debbie Burgess on April 8. Francisco is still at large. His history goes back as far as 2002, when he was charged with theft, and 2004, when he was charged with reckless driving. According to an ICE official I spoke to, the Juan Francisco they have on record was actually deported nine times, but they will not publicly confirm it until they actually apprehend him and verify his identity.

Just last December, the Knoxville fire chief’s son, Pierce Corcoran, was killed in a hit-and-run by an illegal alien who crossed over the middle of a highway, striking the victim’s vehicle in a head-on collision. The grieving parents have not gotten justice yet from Francisco Franco-Cambrany, a Mexican national, because the perpetrator was deported after it was too late and after he was released on bond. It appears that ICE feared he’d evade justice altogether and remain in our country, so it quickly deported him to Mexico.

CASA “election canvasser” arrested for murder

Not all the illegal aliens working for CASA de Maryland are merely working on civil rights for peaceful “immigrants.” Darwin Reynadi-Rosa was arrested by police in Montgomery County, Maryland, for serving as the driver and lookout for an assassination-style shooting that left one man seriously wounded. According to WJLA, CASA confirmed that Reynadi-Rosa was indeed employed as “an election canvasser,” but was terminated in 2018 for “poor performance.” According to an ICE spokesman, “On April 16, ICE lodged a detainer on unlawfully present El Salvadoran national Darwin Reynadi-Rosa following his recent arrest for assault and attempted murder.” ICE confirmed to me that “an immigration judge previously granted Reynadi-Rosa voluntary departure on Aug. 26, 2008, however Reynadi-Rosa failed to comply with the judge’s order and depart the United States.”

Again, we see that because our government fails to follow expedited removal laws, these criminals get placed in the black hole of immigration courts and can remain in the country. In this case, we had the worst of gang-bangers being allowed to remain and engage in “election canvassing.”

An illegal alien recipient of catch-and-release charged with raping a 7-year-old girl

Even rural Culpeper County, Virginia, is not immune to the criminal alien activity that plagues northern Virginia. Last Thursday, Oscar Ramirez, a 33-year-old illegal alien from El Salvador, was charged with raping a seven-year-old girl between April 6 and 7. According to an ICE official, Ramirez was picked up in Roma, Texas, in 2005 but was released on his own recognizance pending an immigration hearing. Ramirez absconded and was order deported in absentia in August 2006 and has been a fugitive until he was arrested on April 11.

All of these individuals who are not placed into expedited removal, as required by the laws passed by Congress in 1996, are very unlikely to show up to their hearings. All the crimes committed after aliens are either released by the feds or sanctuary cities are, by definition, completely avoidable.

Catching sex slavers: Just another day on the highway

Last week, an astute Ohio state trooper pulled over Juan Carlos Morales-Pedraza, an illegal alien from Mexico, and discovered that he was transporting his 15-year-old sex slave from New Jersey to Chicago. Human and sex trafficking were terms that were rarely used in this country until this decade, yet now they are commonplace, thanks to the criminal aliens that have been brought in and allowed to reside with impunity, against the laws on the books. Morales-Pedraza was previously deported but was able to come back in.

Also in Ohio, Clementino Co-Juc, an 18-year-old illegal alien from Guatemala, was charged last week in Defiance County, Ohio, with the rape of a minor.

The rash of criminal alien murders, drunk driving, drug trafficking, and sex offenses in this country demonstrates the need for more ICE agents. At the border, we need a change in policies to follow the actual laws on the books so that these people are immediately deported without access to the courts. But for the estimated two million criminal aliens already in this country, we need more manpower to apprehend them before more Americans are harmed.

By ramping up deportations and then putting together a comprehensive plan to stop illegal immigration and counter the cartels at the border, we will stop needlessly importing other countries’ criminals and prevent avoidable crimes from taking place. As it stands now, there are nearly 60,000 foreign nationals in the federal prison system in the custody of Bureau of Prisons and the U.S. Marshals. It costs $1.42 billion a year. In addition, our government has continued the suicidal policy of counting these people in the Census! Thus, we pay for the rope that hangs our own people in more ways than one. (For more from the author of “Criminal Alien Rampage: Homicide, Molestation, Drunk Driving” please click HERE)

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Supreme Court Hears Oral Arguments in Citizenship Census Question Case, Looks Likely to Rule for Trump Admin

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The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Tuesday as it tries to decide whether the Trump administration has the authority to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census. Based on the questions posed by the justices during these arguments, the court seems likely to rule in favor of the administration.

The total number of Americans counted by the census is used to determine how many seats each state gets in the House of Representatives, as well as how many electoral votes it gets during the presidential election. The census is taken once every ten years. This particular question has been on the census before but was removed in 1960.

When he ruled in January to block the addition of this question, U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman said that adding the question would result in “hundreds of thousands — of millions — people” going uncounted. He also said that “for decades thereafter the official position of the Census Bureau was that reintroducing such a question was inadvisable because it would depress the count for already ‘hard-to-count’ groups — particularly noncitizens and Hispanics — whose members would be less likely to participate in the census for fear that the data could be used against them or their loved ones.”

But the Trump administration has argued that the citizenship question is needed to properly enforce the Voting Rights Act. Presenting the administration’s case before the court on Tuesday, Solicitor General Noel Francisco said that Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross “understood there was a downside” to adding the question, but had “concluded that the benefits outweighed the costs.”

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was designed to prevent the suppression of minority votes.

Justices Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor grilled Francisco about the addition of the question, as expected. Chief Justice John Roberts, however, now largely considered to be the swing vote since the retirement of former Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy, asked the New York Solicitor General Barbara Underwood, who was arguing against adding the question, if the administration could be right that the question would help enforcement of the Voting Rights Act:

Do you think it wouldn’t help voting rights enforcement? The CVAP, Citizen Voting Age Population, is the critical element in voting rights enforcement, and this is getting citizen information.

The other conservative justices also seemed to lean in favor of the administration. Newly minted Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who succeeded the more liberal Kennedy, noted that many other countries include such a question. Justices Neil Gorsuch and Samuel Alito both questioned whether adding the question would actually depress the number of responses, since obstacles like a language barrier or socioeconomic differences might keep non-citizens from filling out their census forms. Both Kavanaugh and Gorsuch are Trump appointees.

The court is expected to issue a ruling on the case in June. (For more from the author of “Supreme Court Hears Oral Arguments in Citizenship Census Question Case, Looks Likely to Rule for Trump Admin” please click HERE)

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Pelosi Reveals Why Dems Can’t Impeach Trump

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By Townhall. Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on Monday penned a letter to her Democratic colleagues about the Mueller report. Without coming out and directly saying it, Pelosi told her caucus she doesn’t want to go through with impeachment proceedings against President Trump. The reason? The American people will see their proceedings as an act of “passion or prejudice,” not one of “truth finding.” . . .

We know the progressive wing of the Democratic Party, like Reps. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (NY), Rashida Tlaib (MI) and Ilhan Omar (MN), want to move forward with impeachment proceedings. They even campaigned on doing such. Other more moderate Democrats, like Pelosi, see the danger in moving full steam ahead with impeachment. (Read more from “Pelosi Reveals Why Dems Can’t Impeach Trump” HERE)

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Pelosi to Democrats: If Facts Support Impeaching Trump, ‘That’s the Place We Have to Go’

By USA Today. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi left open the possibility Monday of impeachment of Donald Trump during a conference call with Democrats, saying “if that’s the place the facts take us, that’s the place we have to go.”

“We have to save our democracy. This isn’t about Democrats or Republicans. It’s about saving our democracy,” Pelosi said in a call with her colleagues, according to a source on the call. But Pelosi also urged Democrats to first focus on following the facts.

“Whether it’s articles of impeachment or investigations, it’s the same obtaining of facts. We don’t have to go to articles of impeachment to obtain the facts, the presentation of facts,” she said.

The nearly hour-and-a-half call was the first time Democrats had all spoken following the release of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on the investigation into Russian election interference.

“There’s real consensus that we need to take this responsibility seriously and people are very sober about the implications about the work that lies ahead and committed to making sure that we hold the president accountable,” said Rep. David Cicilline, a member of the Judiciary Committee and the chair of the Democratic Policy and Communications Committee, which helps the party with messaging. (Read more from “Pelosi to Democrats: If Facts Support Impeaching Trump, ‘That’s the Place We Have to Go'” HERE)

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Most Illegal Aliens in U.S. Receive Government Benefits

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This week, the U.S. Supreme Court considers whether to count self-identified illegal immigrants in the 2020 census. Cities worry adding the citizenship question could undercount 6.5 million people. Their argument, however, isn’t just about political power but billions of dollars in federal funds states expect.

The case underscores what experts say is a growing cost to taxpayers from the surge of Central American families and unaccompanied minors.

“We’re talking about billions of dollars in taxpayer benefits over the next few years,” said Dan Stein, director of the right-leaning think tank, Federation for American Immigration Reform. “The payout for the taxpayer is enormous and income to the Treasury is miniscule.” . . .

While federal benefits are supposed to be off limits, in practice many are not. More than 25,000 undocumented workers receive subsidized housing, according to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Children receive free education and most qualify for English lessons and free school breakfast and lunch.

Illegal immigrants do not qualify for Obamacare but under federal law, hospitals and clinics are required to provide urgent medical care without regard to legal status. Pregnant women are entitled to prenatal and postpartum care under the Women, Infants and Children program. Infant delivery costs are paid for by Medicaid. A study in the Journal of the American Medical Association found a federal-state immigrant insurance program cost $2 billion a year in emergency treatment, not including the $1.24 billion in infant delivery expenses. (Read more from “Most Illegal Aliens in U.S. Receive Government Benefits” HERE)

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Trump Orders Crackdown on Illegal Aliens Overstaying Their Visas in U.S.

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President Trump is ordering a crackdown on the hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens who overstay their visas after arriving in the United States wit a presidential memorandum.

On Monday, Trump signed the memorandum, which calls for the State Department and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to “immediately begin taking all appropriate actions” to reduce the overstay rates for all nonimmigrant visas — that is the more than 415,000 illegal aliens who originally arrived in the U.S. legally but overstayed their visas and have yet to leave.

Specifically, Trump is ordering Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and DHS officials to provide his administration with recommendations within 120 days on how to effectively cut the number of B-1 and B-2 visa overstays from countries that have a visa overstay rate higher than ten percent. . .

The presidential memorandum reads:

Nonimmigrant visa overstay rates are unacceptably high for nationals of certain countries. Aliens must abide by the terms and conditions of their visas for our immigration system to function as intended … individuals who abuse the visa process and decline to abide by the terms and conditions of their visas, including their visa departure dates, undermine the integrity of our immigration system and harm the national interest.

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Uh Oh: Elizabeth Warren’s Past May Catch up to Her

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Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-WA) has made a name for herself as “strong progressive.” She’s championed traditionally progressive values like gun control, taxing the rich and even forgiving people’s student loan debt. But before Warren was a progressive darling she was actually a registered Republican, POLITICO reported.

For quite a few years, Warren was a registered Republican in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. It wasn’t until she was 47 years old and a Harvard professor that she suddenly changed parties. . .

Warren has acknowledged her Republican past before, but she does not often discuss it, or else downplays it. In a recent interview over tea at her home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, she said she assumes the first time she registered as a Democrat was 1996, but added, “I’m not even 100 percent sure what I was registered as.” According to Warren, in the six presidential elections she voted in before 1996, she cast her ballot for just one GOP nominee, Gerald Ford in 1976. She does not talk about her Republican past in either of her books or as part of the biography she recounts in her stump speech; the information often comes as a surprise even to Beltway politicos and longtime Warren allies.

“I was just never very political,” is how Warren explains her Republican years. “I just never thought much about the political end.”

Some on the left have already pointed out the less-than-progressive stances in her 2003 book, The Two Income Trap, including the rejection of a “quasi-socialist safety net to rival the European model.” But a review of Warren’s early scholarship and interviews with more than 20 friends and colleagues from her high school years through her academic career reveal a longer conservative track record that has not been fully explored. Warren’s conservatism centered not on social issues like abortion or gay rights, friends say, but on economic policy, the dominant focus of her academic work and now her presidential candidacy.

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Bill Barr Just Used Even Stronger Language to Exonerate Trump of Collusion

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Speaking to reporters at the Department of Justice Thursday morning, Attorney General Bill Barr used stronger language than he has in the past to exonerate President Trump of collusion with the Russian government during the 2016 presidential election.

“The report details efforts by the Internet Research Agency, a Russian company with close ties to the Russian government, to sow social discord among American voters through disinformation and social media operations. Following a thorough investigation of this disinformation campaign, the Special Counsel brought charges in federal court against several Russian nationals and entities for their respective roles in this scheme. Those charges remain pending, and the individual defendants remain at large,” Barr said (bolding is mine). “But the Special Counsel found no evidence that any Americans – including anyone associated with the Trump campaign – conspired or coordinated with the Russian government or the IRA in carrying out this illegal scheme. Indeed, as the report states, ‘[t]he investigation did not identify evidence that any U.S. persons knowingly or intentionally coordinated with the IRA’s interference operation.’ Put another way, the Special Counsel found no “collusion” by any Americans in the IRA’s illegal activity.”

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Ilhan Omar Sides Against U.S. Soldiers in ‘Black Hawk Down’ Mission

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Ilhan Omar sided against US soldiers in Battle of Mogadishu

A 2017 tweet from Somali-American Rep. Ilhan Omar — discovered by John Rossomando of the Investigative Project on Terrorism — appears to slam U.S. soldiers for their efforts in fighting a Somali warlord’s militia during the infamous Battle of Mogadishu.

“he forgets to also mention the thousands of Somalis killed by the American forces that day!” Omar tweeted, using the hashtag “#NotTodaySatan,” in response to a post commemorating the loss of 19 U.S. soldiers during the operation. The epic battle and the U.S. troops’ heroism and sacrifice during the campaign are depicted in the film “Black Hawk Down.”

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Vladimir Putin emerges victorious from Mueller probe

Citing a former CIA station chief in Moscow, John Solomon of The Hill makes the case that Russia, and Vladimir Putin himself, emerged victorious as a result of the Mueller probe.

I made a similar argument in February 2018 in Conservative Review, writing that the Mueller probe itself “perfectly serves Russia’s agenda.”

North Korean regime takes shots at Bolton and Pompeo, but keeps Trump in good graces, for now

This weekend, regime officials in North Korea teed off against top U.S. officials Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and national security adviser John Bolton. Media outlets have taken notice of the apparent strategy to target everyone but the president. Some believe that Pyongyang appreciates the president’s less hostile rhetoric and prefers to negotiate with Trump rather than his deputies. Others see a more broad anti-American messaging campaign that is focused on forcing the president’s hand.

VOA reports:

“North Korea has directed a wave of criticism at top White House officials, as talks with the United States have stalled. But one person Pyongyang hasn’t criticized: Donald Trump.”

“The pattern reflects North Korea’s apparent preference to continue negotiating directly with Trump, who has taken a more conciliatory approach to the nuclear talks than many of his deputies,” the report adds. “It also appears to be a carefully calibrated effort by North Korea to increase negotiating pressure on the U.S. without completely derailing the talks.”

US tightens screws on Tehran regime, ends Iranian oil waivers for all nations

The U.S. State Department announced Monday that the Trump administration will discontinue waivers that allow select countries to continue to buy Iran-based energy and thwart U.S. sanctions.

“Today I am announcing that we will no longer granting any exemptions,” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Monday. “We are going to zero. We are going to zero across the board.”

Eight countries had previously been granted oil waivers: China, Turkey, Japan, India, South Korea, Taiwan, Italy, and Greece.

The Tehran regime has lashed out against the decision and threatened to close the Strait of Hormuz, a strategically important choke point and a vital shipping route to the Persian Gulf.

Ukraine elects new president on populist platform

Volodymyr Zelenskiy, who is best known in the country as an actor and comedian, has ousted incumbent Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in a blowout.

“With over 90 percent of the ballots counted, Zelenskiy had 73 percent of the vote with Poroshenko at just under 25 percent,” NBC News reports.

“I’m not yet officially the president, but as a citizen of Ukraine, I can say to all countries in the post-Soviet Union look at us. Anything is possible!” the newly elected president said Sunday night during his victory speech.

Zelenskiy won the presidency on a largely populist platform, promising to enhance the transparency of the political process and to tackle political corruption within the country. (For more from the author of “Ilhan Omar Sides Against U.S. Soldiers in ‘Black Hawk Down’ Mission” please click HERE)

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