Posted on 04/02/2019 11:24:46 AM PDT by Kaslin
And, yes, immigration a higher priority. Hopefully it becomes more action than talk. Now that Trump has drawn a clear line in the sand, saying that Mexico must stop all illegal traffic or he closes the border this week, maybe time for action. Five days to watch.
Good!
Build The Wall.
Stop ALL immigration for the time being.
Refuse any and ALL ‘caravans’ that show up.
Close the whole border if need be; Canada, too!
Deport ALL known illegals. NOW!
The pro-illegal invasion GOP’ers burrowed into DJTs administration are busy distracting attention from the border.
If I’d have one piece of advice for Trump, don’t make the mistake of handling problems serial.
Find people you trust and delegate.
With serial thinking, all the left needs to do is keep changing the target.
Which is exactly what they have been doing.
We have more to lose as far as elections from not addressing health care than we do regarding immigration.
If the President and Republicans do not have a GREAT plan in place, and soon, then the border is merely an issue until the Democrats win in 2020, and take the Senate.
I’m not saying ‘immigration isn’t an issue’, nor am I saying that there is any strictly constitutional basis for healthcare as a ‘right’. I *am* saying that if we don’t come up with a REALLY good plan, one where any working or retired Citizen can get whatever they need without danger of bankruptcy, we will lose, we will lose BIG and then the border will not be an issue.
The “but there’s nothing in the Constitution about healthcare” argument matters only to even a few on FR, and to almost no one else. There’s nothing in the Constitution about the war on drugs, the space program, EMP attacks on our infrastructure or any other of a number of issues that affect us.
We are handing the Democrats 2020 all in order to satisfy a microscopic percentage of even the most conservative part of the party.
Get back to basics in order that our grandchildren may enjoy their Creator-endowed lives, rights, and liberties!
Our Declaration of Independence acknowledges a Creator as the source of the unalienable rights that governments are formed to secure. This acknowledgement was the very foundation of the Constitution of the United States of America. What are those unalienable rights with which we are endowed? They may be described in many ways, but English jurist Sir William Blackstone wrote in 1766, "these may be reduced to three principal articles:"We hold these truths to be self-evident...all men are... endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men."
To me, immigration is not a big priority...because I live in Florida and we get good immigrants, at the moment, mostly Venezuelans fleeing Marxism. But they come in legally.
I’d rather see Obamacare ended, because it has negatively impacted my family members who are not wealthy but are not the privileged class on welfare. Or, except for one, not SEIU union affiliate members, who seem still to be able to get huge benefits.
However, the border is seriously becoming an emergency. This could be fixed if the Dems would help, but they seem to think they’re gaining brownie points with the Dem base if they oppose everything, regardless of how much it would benefit either their constituency or the “migrants” themselves.
Can’t this administration do more than one thing at a time? You can bet that the Democrats are going to be promising the moon on health care, and Trump needs to have a credible response.
Postponed h’care & re-focused on immigration?
G-R-E-A-T. He *should* be focused on that which the govt has a Const. authorized role.
Now, if only it’s get the F* OUT of h’care and actually DO it’s job vs. immigration, I’d be a happier camper.
I agree that he needs to have a response. Many middle class and lower middle class people in the US have been seriously harmed by Obamacare. They want to know what the GOP is going to do.
As I said above, I think immigration is important, but at the same time, I don’t think it’s been approached the right way, since a lot of our worst immigrants have been legal (the 9/11 killers were all legal, but several had overstayed their visas). This current wave has got to be presented as sponsored by foreign governments, which it is. Cuba, the Communist LatAm countries which are essentially just catspaws for Cuba and the Communitsts, Russia and China (emphasis on the latter) are behind this.
Trump offered money to Honduras, which has a new and theoretically conservative government, and Honduras offered relocation and jobs to anybody who wouldn’t emigrate.. This had no effect because the amount of money being poured into Honduras to get poor, ignorant people into the “migrant train” to be used as cannon fodder (metaphorically speaking) way exceeds everything else.
Go after the funders: China, Russia, some Arab states (Islam is growing in LatAm) and of course, Cuba, which is the conduit for it all.
The favorite country of Bergoglio, which adds another layer of difficulty.
Federal issues are dealt with through Congressional bills.
A few people with safe seats need to do some typing work.
No sane American can doubt the need to prevent invading hordes of aliens from taking over almost all lower-skilled work in the USA.
No sane Americann can doubt the need for lower health insurance premiums for the tens of millions uncovered in the face of likely future need.
It is insane to expect a person that hasn’t been treated by a doctor for twenty years to pay the same insurance premiums as a person who annually receives $20,000 or more of care.
I have to disagree with you. Healthcare is a red herring, a distraction. We will lose EVERYTHING if we do not deal with this invasion. I wish someone clever could take that photo posted above and photoshop all those young men heading into this country into military uniforms. These young men are the army of the left and when there are enough of them, they will take this country over.
We need tax caps placed in the Constitution to protect the American middle class.
An income tax cap amendment, a property tax cap amendment and an inheritance tax exemption amendment at the very least.
We may not be able to cut taxes, but we can certain cap taxation.
The 1% can protect themselves by fleeing and claiming asylum from the persecution of Democratic scoundrels.
“The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion”
US Constitution, Article IV, Section 4
Protection against invasion is the fundamental purpose of the federal government.
A Constitutional provision can be enforced by court order - treaties and statutes be damned.
The President needs to file suit against the Congress for ample wall and detention facility money, border staffing and refugee convention denunciation.
If Congress can petition a court for the tapes of a President, the President can go to court too.
Yes,actually you are. Just like the ancient Romans demanding "bread and circuses" while the patricians destroy your country over cheap labor.
These are separate issues, and Trump has got to call out the “sponsoring” countries, namely China, Russia and Iran ... and invoke the Monroe Doctrine.
Don’t attack the poor people being encouraged to make a run for the border. Trump has offered these countries money to relocate and employ these people within the borders of their countries, and I know that Honduras was actually very grateful for it...but the power of the Marxist/Muslim alliance has swamped everything.
In the meantime, domestically, people in the US who are not on welfare are concerned about healthcare, and if the GOP could offer a good policy I think it would help.
Wrong.
I actually consider immigration to be *more* important, as it is destroying our country and will destroy it completely.
I *am* saying that healthcare is a more potent issue for 2020. It matters more deeply to more people. And lose the WH in 2020 and just what do you think will happen to *any* chance to reign in untrammeled immigration.
Focus and priorities. IMHO Healthcare can do more damage to us than immigration can do to the Democrats.
You've been drinking the MSM kool-aid again have you?
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"We hold these truths to be self-evident...all men are... endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men."