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American Sovereignty Under Assault by Obama and the Courts

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Our Framers vested the people’s representatives – the United States Congress – with plenary power over immigration. At the core of the social compact and the unalienable right to governance by the consent of the governed, as echoed in the preamble of the Declaration of Independence, is the notion that the citizens who formed that compact have the right to determine who joins their society.

Over the years, Congress has (for the most part) done its job and passed statutes protecting our sovereignty. But the executive branch, and more recently, the federal courts, have ignored our laws and the will of the people. Here are two stories just from this week on how both the Obama administration and the unelected federal courts are violating that sovereignty. This is the worst form of social transformation without representation and will be the focus of my upcoming book next year.

Suspension of Deportations

Yesterday, the Department of Homeland Security released its deportation numbers for 2015. The numbers are not pretty. Here are the salient bullet points from the Center for Immigration Studies:

Total deportations by ICE (including both border and interior cases) declined 25% from last year, from 315,943 in 2014 to 235,413 in 2015.

Interior deportations by ICE declined 31% from last year, from 100,114 in 2014 to 69,478 in 2015.

Most concerning, deportations of criminal aliens from the interior declined 27% from last year, from 86,923 in 2014 to 63,127 in 2015.

Remember, this drop is just for 2015. It is the fourth consecutive year with a sharp drop in deportations from the previous year. Since Obama began his amnesty programs in 2011, deportations have dropped to less than one-third their annual level prior to Obama’s suspension of congressional statutes. What about criminal aliens? Wasn’t the purpose of amnesty to focus just on criminal aliens? They also plummeted by almost 60%.

You can read more about the appalling number of criminal aliens released into our population here.

Judicial Amnesty for Homosexual Illegal Aliens

In a disturbing trend, even the few individual illegal aliens this administration is willing to deport are being released into our population by federal judges – the unelected branch of government that has no authority over immigration. Two of the many ways they are granting judicial amnesty is by applying international law or by abusing our asylum statutes to suspend deportations of illegal aliens who declare themselves homosexual or transgender.

In September, we reported on a Ninth Circuit judge who suspended the deportation of a dangerous criminal alien claiming to be transgendered and in fear of returning home to Mexico. Yesterday, the Miami Herald reported that a federal judge in Florida is granting full amnesty to José Crespo-Cagnant, an illegal alien who crossed over from Mexico using false identity on multiple occasions. The judge, who was appointed by George H. W. Bush, sided with the illegal immigrant who claimed that, because he is homosexual, he has a well-founded fear of persecution were he to be repatriated to Mexico. Even though the border patrol agent asserts that he never heard Crespo-Cagnant express a fear of persecution. The agent complied with the ridiculous regulations required to place him in deportation proceedings, yet the judge sided with the illegal alien.

We now have unelected judges determining who gets to stay in this country by simply concocting a super-right – a de facto affirmative right to immigrate for any homosexual from a third world country. This is what happens when we allow the court system to create new protected classes and super-rights for foreign nationals at the expense of the unalienable rights of the sovereign citizen. The courts must be stripped of their jurisdiction to adjudicate these cases otherwise we will no longer determine our own destiny.

Let us not forget the words of Gouverneur Morris, one of the key drafters of the Constitution, at the Constitutional Convention: “every society from a great nation down to a club had the right of declaring the conditions on which new members should be admitted.” It’s time we exercise that right and demand Congress reassert the will of the people over the lawlessness of the unelected branches of government. (For more from the author of “American Sovereignty Under Assault by Obama and the Courts” please click HERE)

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Clinton Deported 4 Times as Many Illegal Aliens as Obama

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Obama’s ICE Director, Sarah Saldaña, admitted to members of the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday that she is derelict in her primary job of deporting illegal aliens, including criminal aliens, from the country.

Despite the fact ICE’s budget for removals has increased from $2.6 billion in 2011 to $3.4 billion and they are privy to more resources and technology than ever before, deportations have plummeted by almost two thirds from 200,000 to 70,000. What’s worse, the deportation of criminal aliens dropped from 150,000 to just 63,000.

There you have it. As Jessica Vaughn presented before the committee in painstaking detail, while overall deportations dropped dramatically, the decline in deportations of criminal aliens has been breathtaking. So the entire rationale for Obama’s amnesty and suspension of deportations – to focus on criminal aliens – has been proven false beyond a shadow of a doubt.

What was Saldaña left to say?

First she attempted to blame the decline in deportations on an overall decline in illegal immigration across the border. The problem is that the Census has picked up on a massive surge over the past few years, following the post-recession decline in illegal immigration from 2009-2013. Moreover, as the New York Times reports, the surge in illegal crossings is stronger than ever. And the fact that this administration has released hundreds of thousands of criminal aliens over the past few years demonstrates that the reduction in deportation is not the result of a decline in the potential pool of deportable illegal aliens.

The excuse that they are lacking resources is absurd because ICE’s budget and access to high tech databases is more robust than ever.

Secondly, Saldaña attempted to say that deportation is not a good thing and a that following current law “is not practical and that is, quite frankly, not very smart.” The problem with this assertion, as Cruz noted, is that Bill Clinton, with much fewer assets in the field, deported 12.3 million immigrants during his presidency, almost four times the number of the Obama Administration.

Finally, the ICE Director attempted to blame the drop in deportations on the 2001 Zadvydas v Davis court decision, which limited ICE’s ability to hold illegal aliens whose home countries refuse to accept them back. While the Zadvydas case was definitely an egregious violation of the plenary power of Congress over immigration, using it as in excuse for suspending all deportations is a facial absurdity. The court ruling has been in place for 15 years. Why would it precipitate a decline in deportations only over the past few years? Further, even the court’s decision, which was decisively shredded by Scalia in his dissent, conceded that the government has the right to hold an alien in confinement “until it has been determined that there is no significant likelihood of removal in the reasonably foreseeable future.” Clearly, very few of those released by the Administration meet that threshold.

At the hearing, Senators Sessions and Cruz revealed the true magnitude of the criminal alien problem, the lack of deportations, and the existential threat of open borders. Consider the following information that was exposed by the senators and the witnesses at the hearing:

There are 929,684 illegal aliens present in this country who have been ordered deported but remain at large in our communities. It’s pretty hard to get a deportation order these days so if the number is that high for those who were ordered deported you can imagine how many potential security threats we don’t even know about.

Between the 179,027 criminal aliens ordered deported but remaining at large and the 194,791 convicted criminal aliens who have not yet been issued deportation orders, there are over 375,000 identified criminal aliens that have not been deported.
121 criminal aliens released by ICE between FY2010 and FY2014 committed homicides after their release.

Between FY 2009 and FY 2015, the Obama Administration has released 6,151 criminal aliens convicted of a sexual offense.

Now with the increased flow of middle easterners crossing our border and the massive number of middle easterners who come here on temporary visas or immigrant visas, does this information make you feel safe?

At the same time, Democrats refuse to implement a visa tracking system so we don’t even know all the people that have disappeared into our population. ABC News reported last year that DHS has lost track of 58,000 foreign students who have overstayed their visas, of which 6,000 presented a “heightened concern.” Keep in mind we admit over 150,000 foreign students from the Middle East, 60,000 from Saudi Arabia alone, every year.

Obama’s open border policies and refusal to deport even criminal aliens is perhaps the biggest existential threat to our security. (For more from the author of “Clinton Deported 4 Times as Many Illegal Aliens as Obama” please click HERE)

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REPORT: 30% of Nashville School Children Not Native English Speakers

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Over the past year, Conservative Review has published numerous reports illustrating how the current protracted wave of immigration is unlike anything this country has ever experienced since our founding. Today, I’d like to draw attention to the following article from the Tennessean demonstrating just how fundamentally transformed the city of Nashville has become in recent years and what it portends for the rest of the country.

With about 85,000 kids enrolled in the district, those who speak a first language other than English sits at about 30 percent of the district’s population — or just over 25,300 students. Of that number, more than 12,300 need English language services, with the majority of those students, 62 percent, attending elementary schools.

It’s important to note that we are not talking about Las Angeles, Miami, or New York City. Nashville is a microcosm of what is happening to small and mid-sized cities across the country. A number of smaller, heartland cities are being rapidly transformed without the spirit of any democratic decision-making deriving its legitimacy from the existing population. For 30% of a smaller southern city’s school-age population to be non-English speakers is a poignant reflection of the broader transformation.

And it’s quite evident that the wave has not crested yet, and is in fact, increasing more rapidly than ever. The number of students in Nashville “needing English language services” increased 41% over the past four years.

It’s also noteworthy that Arabic is the #2 most common foreign language spoken, with Somali checking in at fourth place. As we’ve been chronicling over the past few months, immigration from the Middle East is the fastest growing subset of our recent migrant population.

This is why it is extremely dishonest for the political elite to focus on the debate over 10,000 Syrian Muslims without taking into account the context of the existing record growth in immigration and its future effect on the cohesion of this great nation.

Since our founding, our country has been a melting pot united by what George Washington referred to as a “Common Cause.” The past few decades of immigration have clearly dismantled the great melting pot. The question we must ask at this point is whether we will continue to function as a sovereign nation state. (For more from the author of “REPORT: 30% of Nashville School Children Not Native English Speakers” please click HERE)

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Controversy Over Boston High School Student’s Illegal Immigration Tweet

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A local high school cheerleading captain was disciplined after she sent out a tweet about illegal aliens.

She says it was a political statement, not a racial one! FOX25 spoke with the teen who says she was taking a page from Donald Trump. Caley Godino is a senior at Revere High School and she says part of their homework is to watch these presidential debates and her tweet was simply about a hot button issue in the headlines.

“When only 10 percent of Revere votes for mayor cause the other 90 percent isn’t legal,” Godino said in the tweet.

She says it was a response to a tweet from her teacher about the low voter turnout for November’s mayoral race. Caley says she meant her tweet as a political comment not a racial comment.

But after other students complained, the school stepped in. Revere Superintendent Dianne Kelly says the district believes in freedom of speech, but cannot support what she calls insensitive language. (Read more from “Controversy Over Boston High School Student’s Illegal Immigration Tweet” HERE)

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Arizona Sheriff: 67,000 Criminal Illegals’ Have Been Released Into Our Community

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Pinal County, AZ Sheriff and Congressional candidate Paul Babeu (R) said, “67,000 criminal illegals, the violent ones, have been released into our community” and that GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump’s deportation plan is “logistically very difficult” in addition to stating, “we’re not going to build the great wall of Mexico” on Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “AC360.”

Babeu stated, “This didn’t happen overnight. It didn’t happen just with Barack Obama. It’s been exacerbated because of him, but this happened under Republicans as well. This has gone on for decades, and remember the last time, Simpson-Mazzoli in ’86, it was President Reagan who signed for 2 million illegals to get citizenship, and everybody thinks that every illegal wants citizenship. Only about half of them took it. The other half just wanted to work here. So, we got here, I’m not supportive of people getting here illegally. I’m fighting against it every day, but it’s not helpful when the president, to the point made earlier, saying the president has been deporting all these criminals, the fact is he hasn’t, and that’s why we’re in this fight here where people are so angry. 67,000 criminal illegals, the violent ones, have been released into our community, and we’ve got guys like Grant Ronnebeck, who wanted to be a deputy with my agency, who was shot right beneath his left eye, executed, by a criminal illegal, who had raped, and did a home invasion, and this guy was out on the lam to commit other crimes. Nobody should be for this, and this is what’s happened. The rule of law has been undermined. So, if we can have a little bit of both, you know, we’re not going to build the great wall of Mexico, and I’m a combat engineer in the Army, we need about 700 miles of border, not 2,000 miles.” (Read more from “Arizona Sheriff: 67,000 Criminal Illegals’ Have Been Released Into Our Community” HERE)

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Donald Trump Wants to Deport Every Single Illegal Alien – Could He?

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By BBC News. US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump wants to deport every illegal immigrant from the United States. The other Republican candidates say it can’t be done – one called it a “silly argument”.

And the majority of US Republican voters disagree with Mr Trump: according to a 2015 survey by the Pew Research Center, 56% believe undocumented immigrants should be allowed to stay if they meet certain criteria.

So who’s right? And what would happen if US authorities attempted to carry out Mr Trump’s audacious plan? . . .

There are approximately 11.3 million undocumented immigrants in the US. Rounding them up and deporting them would present a huge logistical and financial challenge to America’s military, law enforcement, and border control agencies . . .

Based on an analysis for 5 million people, the Centre for American Progress estimates that a mass deportation from the US would cost an average of $10,070 (£6,624) per person. For 11.3 million people, that’s $114bn (£75bn). (Read more from “Donald Trump Wants to Deport Every Single Illegal Alien – Could He?” HERE)

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Donald Trump Promises ‘Deportation Force’ to Remove 11 Million

By Tom LoBianco. Pressed on how he would deport 11 million undocumented immigrants from the country, Donald Trump said Wednesday he would build a “deportation force.”

Trump was pressed for specifics on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” by co-host Mika Brzezinski, who asked if he would have a “massive deportation force.”

“You’re going to have a deportation force, and you’re going to do it humanely,” Trump said. “Don’t forget, Mika, that you have millions of people that are waiting in line to come into this country and they’re waiting to come in legally. And I always say the wall, we’re going to build the wall. It’s going to be a real deal. It’s going to be a real wall.”

Included in the immigration proposal Trump released this past August is a call for to triple the number of immigrations and customs enforcement agents. He has also proposed ending birthright citizenship, which is included in the fourteenth amendment of the Constitution and grants automatic citizenship to anyone born in the U.S. (Read more from “Donald Trump Promises ‘Deportation Force’ to Remove 11 Million” HERE)

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Illegal Aliens Release ‘Bill of Rights’

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An immigrant-rights group proposed a “Bill of Rights” for illegal immigrants Thursday, demanding that Americans recognize there are millions already in the country who deserve health care, in-state tuition rates for college and a guarantee of citizenship in the long term.

The list of demands runs 10 items long — the same as the U.S. Constitution’s Bill of Rights — and also calls for an end to arrests and deportations for “all law-abiding undocumented Americans.”

The document was circulated by United We Stay, which is a group of illegal immigrants, first generation Americans and human rights activists pushing for changes to immigration law.

We know we have human rights, even though our very presence is deemed illegal and our existence alien. Now we have our own Bill of Rights and we want it to be the framework for every immigration decision going forward from the local to the national level,” the group said in a statement announcing their demands.

The 10 points include a demand that they be accorded respect; calls for citizenship rights and an immediate deferment of deportations; in-state tuition at public colleges; “wage equality”; medical care; and protection against deportation if illegal immigrants report a crime as a witness. (Read more from “Illegal Aliens Release ‘Bill of Rights'” HERE)

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The Criminal Alien Emergency: American Lives Matter

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There seems to be a grievance group that has successfully attracted the attention of all or a portion of the political class for any perceived injustice under the sun. But why is it that nobody in the political class finds a need to act with urgency to protect American lives from violent illegal aliens? Why are American victims of violence from illegal aliens the only group that garners no attention from the media or politicians?

Yesterday, a group of families who’ve lost loved ones at the hands of illegal aliens met in Yorba Linda, California for their annual “National Remembrance Day,” an event sponsored by The Remembrance Project – the only organization that gives voice to these grieving families. While all lives cut short at the hands of murderers are “stolen lives” and represent a tragedy for those families and our nation, deaths at the hands of illegal aliens are even more egregious because they are so preventable. In fact, all too often these murders are the direct result of federal or state malfeasance, sanctuary city and sanctuary nation policies.

On Friday, the Obama Justice Department began releasing the first tranche of 6,000 felons from federal prison, which will include 2,000 criminal aliens. How many more Americans will be killed or injured as a result of this policy?

We need not speculate. Obama has already released 66,000 criminal aliens in FY 2013 and 2014. Who knows how many more he has recently released. The released illegal immigrants had a total of 166,000 convictions on their collective rap sheets: 30k DUIs, 414 kidnappings, 11,000 sex assaults, 395 homicides. At least 121 of them went on to commit more murders after being released.

According to DHS, there are an estimated 179,027 illegal aliens with criminal convictions at large in the country who have already been ordered deported. And those are just the ones ordered deported. There are an estimated 2.1 million illegal and legal immigrants convicted of crimes in this country, but 1.2 million criminal aliens remain at large in the U.S. Imagine how many more criminal aliens have never been arrested, convicted, or ordered deported?

There is no greater threat to our public safety and our sovereignty than the growing population of criminal aliens, yet Obama is continuing to encourage more illegal immigration and is refusing to deport even criminal aliens. A recently revealed report from Customs and Border Protection shows that most recent arrivals have come here under the impression that they will never be deported and will be entitled to the full array of benefits.

As an aside, this report blows up the false choice propagated by the open border crowd of mass and complete deportation vs. amnesty. If we simply enforced the laws and reasserted congressional plenary power over the harmful acts of the executive branch and the lawless courts, the incentive that invites illegal aliens would evaporate.

Meanwhile, the courts are granting illegal aliens the right to bail, even though they represent a consummate flight risk. A number of these individuals have gone on to commit more heinous crimes, including one case in which an illegal alien beat a two-year-old girl to within an inch of her life. They have tossed out state laws passed by Arizona to prevent violent aliens from being released on bail. Now they are violating congress’ plenary power over immigration and the people’s control of their own sovereignty by mandating the release of even more criminal aliens.

Where is Congress? Where is Paul Ryan? Why is this not a national emergency?

As noted last week, it’s not enough for Ryan to merely promise not to add lighter fluid to the fire by passing legislative amnesty. He must lead the fight to put out this raging fire. Yet, just today, Congressional Quarterly has published an article titled, “Obama, Ryan Speak Same Language on Criminal Justice Overhaul.” Meaning, not only won’t he fight Obama’s mass prison break, which includes a substantial number of illegal aliens, he will champion it.

In the coming weeks, look for Ryan to focus on stand-alone conservative fiscal policy, now that he has caved on all the must-pass bills which could have been used as vehicles to force some fiscal changes. Now, there is no leverage to pass these bills and we lack the bully pulpit of the presidency to promote major tax and welfare changes. But it is too much to ask that Republicans in Congress harness this 90-10 issue of criminal aliens and protect public safety from those who are prohibited from being in this country?

If conservatives don’t push for a major funding fight in December against Obama’s release of criminal aliens, more innocent Americans will die on the altar of political correctness. (For more from the author of “The Criminal Alien Emergency: American Lives Matter” please click HERE)

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‘Obvious Flight Risk’: Toddler’s Brutal Beating Prompts Call to Withhold Bail From Illegal Aliens

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When Francisco Javier Chavez posted bail on charges of beating a California toddler within an inch of her life in late July, there was little reason to expect the illegal immigrant, who has spent much of his adult life hopping back and forth across the Mexican border, would return to face justice.

Two weeks later, at his scheduled arraignment on Aug. 13, Chavez was a no-show. The 27-year-old career criminal had put up $10,000, or 10 percent of the amount set for his alleged crimes by California’s bail schedule. His disappearance is hardly a surprise to critics who believe violent illegal immigrants are, by definition, flight risks who should be denied bail in such serious cases. They say judges, especially in border states plagued by illegal immigrant crime, are naive or worse if they expect suspects who regularly cross in and out of Mexico to take the U.S. justice system seriously.

“Frankly, judges grant bail in cases like these because they are being foolish,” said Hans A. von Spakovsky, a former Justice Department lawyer now at The Heritage Foundation’s Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies. “The judge can consider bail for you when you are charged with a crime, but does not have to let you out on bail. If the state can show you are a flight risk, you should not get bail. If the state can show you are a danger to the public because of a history of violence, you should not get bail.”

While Chavez is in the wind, his alleged victim, the 2-year-old daughter of his live-in girlfriend, is now in foster care, paralyzed from the beating that also left her with both arms and a femur broken. Well before he was arrested in San Luis Obispo County for attacking the child, Chavez had compiled a lengthy criminal record that includes assault and drug convictions and arrests for violent acts such as kidnapping, car-jacking and cruelty to a child. He was deported in February 2014, but as in previous instances, found it easy to sneak back across the border and into the U.S.

Weeks after Chavez slipped out of custody, on Sept. 1, another 2-year-old toddler named Jonathan Montez was run down and killed in San Bernardino County. Illegal immigrant Jose Enrique Vasquez, 53, an unlicensed driver who witnesses said was speeding down the child’s residential street, fled the scene, according to authorities. He was arrested two weeks later, and, like Chavez, was granted bail. (Read more from “‘Obvious Flight Risk’: Toddler’s Brutal Beating Prompts Call to Withhold Bail From Illegal Aliens” HERE)

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Here Are the Shocking Numbers on Crimes Committed by Illegal Aliens

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Crimes committed by illegal immigrants, whether as violent as murder or as petty as shoplifting, are not documented by the federal government.

Why? Well, because that would make the federal government look really, really bad. Meanwhile, we do know many crimes are committed each year by Pacific Islanders and Alaska Natives.

However, a little digging by Fox News has shed some light on just how bad illegal immigration is, not only for working class Americans, but for the country entirely when it comes to crime and violence.

The approximately 11.7 million illegal immigrants account for about 13.6 percent of all crimes committed in the country. Nearly 12 percent of murder sentences are credited to illegal immigrants, as well as 20 percent of kidnapping sentences and 16 percent of drug trafficking sentences.

Additionally, there are about 2.1 million legal or illegal immigrants living in the US with criminal convictions that are either in prison and being paid for by the American taxpayer or living free. (Read more from “Here Are the Shocking Numbers on Crimes Committed by Illegal Aliens” HERE)

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