Posted on 04/14/2019 3:24:09 AM PDT by Kaslin
It was framed as a big scoop – the Washington Post headline blared, “White House proposed releasing immigrant detainees in sanctuary cities, targeting political foes.” “My God,” the blue checkmark brigade on Twitter gasped, “how dare the President of the United States even consider doing such a horrible thing?” But why? If liberals have been honest with the American public for the past few years, they not only should welcome every illegal alien they can find to their refuges, they should be thanking Donald Trump for his kindness to them.
Watching the story unfold was a bit odd, if you’ve paid even a little bit of attention to the debate over illegal immigration these last few years. Supposed journalists and “open-minded” progressive Democrats who’ve sworn six ways from Sunday that illegal aliens are our moral betters were outraged. Words like “dumping” and “punish” were used to describe the idea of releasing illegals, required by law to be set free, in jurisdictions that have laws protecting illegals from the consequences of their actions. You’d think a few more would be welcomed, considering those laws are designed to make them feel welcomed in the first place. You’d be wrong.
Almost to a person, anger was the order of the day from the left. But why?
Why wouldn’t cities like San Francisco welcome as many illegal aliens as possible? After all, we’ve been told by these very people, leaders in and from these sanctuary areas, that illegals commit fewer crimes than Americans and are an unbridled boon to the economy. Opposing their relocation would not only be missing an opportunity to lower the crime rate, but to bring about economic growth unrivaled since post-World War II.
Of course, they were lying to us. Only the most faithful, the people for whom MSNBC is too “fair,” ever really believed those lies. Everyone with more IQ points than fingers recognized these leftists were relieving themselves on the public while telling people it was raining. Now their bluff was called, and they folded like a cheap suit.
Still, the President should follow through on this idea. Make Democrats make the case against it. Let them explain how it’s “disrespectful” somehow and to whom, as Nancy Pelosi said.
The Mayor Oakland, California, Libby Schaaf, who made news last year by tipping off illegal alien criminals to ICE raids, shared her sentiments, which are common among the left. About the Post story, Schaaf said it was “(a)n outrageous abuse of power — using human beings to settle political scores. Our President wants to punish everyone; those who seek sanctuary in our country and those who provide it.”
Schaaf went so far as to call the idea “illegal, immoral, undemocratic, and racist,” though didn’t explain how. Granted, no one wants to move to Oakland, but how it’s racist remains a mystery.
In her local TV appearance, Schaaf repeated the standard lie that illegal immigrants “actually makes our city better and safer.” If that were so, why is she so outraged? Shouldn’t this idea be greeted with tickertape parades? Oakland isn’t exactly a safe city, the opportunity to reduce crime by importing people with higher moral character than the average American should be a net-plus, right?
The truth is illegal immigrants are a net drain on society. These aren’t people with PhDs and piles of seed money looking to create the next great start-up, they’re largely people who can’t speak English, with little to know education; many are illiterate in their native language. They will become the servant class for the liberal elite and their wealthy donors. More importantly to the left, they will be dependent on government.
Illegals, if liberals get their way, will count in the census. That means more federal money and continued overrepresentation in Democratic states. While Democrats support these things, they prefer it to happen under the radar. They don’t like it when crime and depressed wages can be traced to their policies. They don’t like it when people notice they’re picking up the tab for emergency rooms are flooded with non-English speakers, or schools have budget shortfalls and low test scores from the added cost of teaching kids who don’t speak the language. They hate reports gang activity and the inhuman violence of MS 13. They call all of these things racist to point out because there is no legitimate answer they can give.
But it’s never wealthy liberal areas impacted in these ways. The people inflicting this on their fellow Americans remain insulated from the consequences. It’s poor, mostly minority kids who suffer. It’s also poor minority kids who are inundated by these same liberal politicians and community leaders with the soul-crushing mantra that “the system is rigged against them.” They never mention how the system got “rigged,” they just attack Republicans and police as racist.
It wasn’t Republicans or the police who herded them into failing schools diverting resources to bilingual education. It wasn’t Republicans or police who keep entry level wages artificially low by flooding the market with unskilled labor. It wasn’t Republicans or the police who protect foreign gang members while neighborhoods are flooded with the opioids they peddle. To the extent that there is any rigging, the blame lies firmly with the people who set it up and have managed it for generations.
Of course, none of this matters. Minds will not be changed by words, no matter how true, from outside observers. This is the type of change that has to be realized from within. Bringing in more illegal aliens in the sunlight will shine some uncomfortable light on those problems, which is what liberals fear most.
Sunlight is the best disinfectant, and the calling of bluffs is as old as time. Both of those would be engaged if the Trump administration followed through with the plan reported Friday. That’s why liberals so desperately oppose it.
Liberals lie?... how could that be?
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Tucker Carlson the other night did a nice monologue on how the president should take the rats up on all the love they espouse for these victims of racism. Lets put them in the posh neighborhoods of these politicians that spew platitudes about the America they grew up in, the diverse America that makes us all stronger. Lets see how they enjoy having their children share a classroom with their children, shop in the same stores, play in the same parks and other public places, eat in the same restaurants. Maxine water, Sheila Jackson lee, Pelosi, Schumer, Bernie, Newsome all have nice posh mansions and lots of money Im sure they have room in their homes for their new boarders
I want these invaders deported immediately. Forget all this hoopla about putting them in the sanctuary areas. Get em outta here. Enough of the cutsie stunts already. I’m pi$$ed!
Let them sleep in the bed they wanted the rest of the country to sleep in.
Can't have a fair election when all of your illegal voters are in one district???
MAGA!
I suspect the problem is more about taking in the Third Worlders without money attached to them; that is what is further destroying the areas into which the illegals are trafficked. I say “further destroying” because right now they aren’t primarily going to areas inhabited by normals, but instead are being used as filler for the growing vacuum created between urban ghettoes and receding white taxpayer populations in suburbs.
they just do not want the illegals being transported into town and making the press. A constant trickle without current residents aware is preferred .
After listening to a lot of people talk and write, I feel that they are falling for this “ let’s put the illegals in sanctuary cities” sham. It’s beginning to look like a clever way to convince the public to accept the fact that there’s nothing we can do about the invasion so just stick em in liberal areas. I’m getting a bad feeling that we’re being played by someone in tha Trump administration. I wouldn’t be saying this unless I had a gut feeling. And what prevents these illegals scattering away from these cities once they’re there? Nothing!
I agree they are being used as “back-fill” for empty cities that the income earning, tax paying and law abiding have fled. “ Nature abhors a vacuum”
It isn’t nature that abhors it; it is the massive gubmint bureaucracy that is losing its clients when Americans abandon an area. The massive gubmint workforce isn’t going to be reduced in response to a shrinking population; they aren’t going to start closing public schools, firehouses, etc. (”Detroitification”). Instead, they are just importing a non-contributing population of clients - for public schools (note the emphasis on “minors” - even unaccompanied ones), housing, etc.; they just need wealth transfers from Americans to pay for it.
Here in NJ, this is driving the American evacuation because 3/4 of our high property taxes are for local schools - and there are fewer and fewer American children in them with each passing day. As the American birthrate continues plummeting, it is very clear that there is another generational angle to this political conflict (beyond the retirees with their benefits versus the younger taxpayers); like Western European countries, young foreigners are increasingly hostile to the middle-aged and older natives. They view the older, established population as enjoying a standard of living beyond the reach of the younger people, and they are probably right - but it is an oversimplification. The same economy that is giving these young people a lower standard of living is wreaking havoc on middle-aged people who’ve already made commitments (families, mortgages, businesses) that are difficult to maintain in this horrible global economy.
Use their own weapons against them.
When they complain, call them racists.
Exactly
I agree with Tucker Carlson 100 percent
"Ship them off" to Sanctuary Cities? Like there's something wrong with that? They tell us they are the best, most progressive, most just, most open & inclusive, most diverse cities in the USA. Boston can lead the way in enjoying the big advantages of multicultural enrichment."I guess I'd do better just to roll my eyes.
I do get angry that the migrants are being shoved like pawns across the geopolitical chessboard. But that begins in El Salvador,Honduras and Mexico. It's not DJT that's doing the shoving.
They’ll just let them vote in elections.
When 1,000 or so show up on Nancy’s door step.....you’ll see an equal number of cops show up.....bet you a nickle.
We have enabled a lazy slothful generation with no concept of working to obtain anything, they never earned anything and they have no self worth.. Todays youth are given, cable TV, Computers, cell phones, sports equipment, cars, free room and board, some of them base their self worth on how much "gold" they have in the lastest video game. All of this for free.
Thats why they hate anyone who works 40-50 hours a week, nights, weekends. From personal experience I've seen people NOT take a job because it involved working friday nights and saturday nights. or even 40 hours a week. Its easier to get unemployment. or take a minimun wage job with little or no responsibility than it is for them to have to work friday and saturday nights or even days.
the stupidest part is they get out of college or even high school and they still think they have summers OFF!!!! or can take days off whenever they feel like it!
The future of our country is going to look very much like South America's. A constant war with drug gangs, corrupt city and county governments hell-bent on filling their pockets with drug money...
Say what you will about Rodrigo Duterte, but I say the hanging of drug dealers in the streets is a good thing.. And you can you sweet hindquarters that, sooner or later, it's going to come to that..... :(
NIMBY alert
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