Posted on 05/21/2019 8:48:59 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
Every single thing the mainstream media says about the border crisis is a lie.
Media Myth #1: Illegal immigration at all-time low!
Most Americans hear that and think, Trump got us out of bed for this? There are FEWER illegals coming in?
As you might have surmised from the illegals flooding your hospitals, schools and churches, that’s a lie. According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), illegals have been pouring across our border at rates not seen for more than a decade: 76,000-plus in February, 100,000-plus in March, 100,000-plus in April, 100,000 and climbing so far in May.
In fiscal 2016 — the 12 months before Trump won the presidency — an average of 46,000 illegals crossed the border each month. Today we’re taking in twice that many.
And those are just the number of “undocumented immigrants” we caught. How many are actually getting in is some multiple of the illegal aliens the Border Patrol stops.
Media Myth #2: Illegal immigrants at our border are LEGAL — because they’re asking for asylum.
This is the basis on which commentators claim that illegal immigration is lower than ever: They just reclassify anyone they don’t want to count as “a LEGAL asylum-seeker.”
From now on, we’re calling cancer “happy fun times”! Look! We’ve cured cancer!
But, wait — what are all those people dying from?
No, no, that’s nothing like cancer. It’s not even spelled the same. That’s “happy fun times.”
An illegal alien seeking asylum is still “an illegal alien.” It’s against the law to enter the country without our approval. See 8 U.S.C. 1325. Asylum is simply a defense to deportation.
We could also eliminate crime by calling convicted felons “LEGAL reversal-seekers.” Yes, a convict has a right to appeal his conviction but, until it’s reversed, he is “a convicted criminal.”
Media Myth #3: Only 39 percent of illegals released at the border fail to appear at their hearings!
First, that still would be a lot. Second, it isn’t true. And third, it’s irrelevant: Once they’re released from custody — and they’re all released — illegal aliens are never going home.
For starters, there are a million hearings. PolitiFact boasts in a headline: “Majority of undocumented immigrants show up for court, data shows.” That statistic refers only to the first hearing — the preliminary hearing that sets court dates.
Showing up at that one just buys the illegal another year or so in America, so you’d be an idiot not to appear. And yet, about 40 percent of illegals never stroll in for the initial hearing.
It’s the next hearing, the removal hearing, where the illegal’s asylum claim is actually litigated. Another 40 percent of illegals skip that hearing.
If the illegal does drop by and loses his claim — about 85 percent do — and is ordered “removed,” then is he deported? Nope! Next he can appeal the order and get two more years, and not be counted as “illegal” in the U.S. “Happy fun times!”
But say the illegal loses his asylum petition, loses his appeal and is ordered removed — no more review, do not pass “Go.” Is he removed?
You haven’t been paying attention: He’s sent on his merry way — risking one-in-a-million odds that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will ever catch up with him and actually deport him. More like one-in-2 million odds, provided he doesn’t kill anyone in the U.S., and often even if he does.
If ICE somehow — in between fighting with sanctuary cities for custody of “undocumented" felons and gang members — catches an illegal alien with no appeals left, his home country can slow-walk his travel papers or refuse to take him altogether (somehow failing to recognize the promise he holds for their economy in the 21st century!). So what do we do then? Hold him for — at most! — 180 days. Then release him.
Who cares if a “majority” of illegals show up for the first of many pointless hearings, PolitiFact? Other than wasting a few hours of the illegal’s time now and then — and a lot of taxpayer money — what do any of the hearings accomplish?
Obviously, the only question that matters is this: How many illegal aliens captured, and then released from custody at the border, are ever removed from our country?
Ask anyone! Ask the Department of Justice. Ask ICE. Ask America’s leading immigration expert, Jared Kushner.
The answer ranges from “We have no idea” to “None.”
ICE isn’t even trying to deport them. On the agency’s list of priorities, mere illegal aliens — who, contrary to everything you’re being told by the media, actually have broken the law by entering our country — come in at Priority No. 6, after various criminal and welfare-abusing illegal aliens.
You, the taxpayer, are spending billions of dollars, not only on baby formula, blankets and medical care for illegals but for immigration courts, Border Patrol and ICE agents. And the end result is: Illegals crossing our border are never actually deported.
Once they’re in, they’re in. Break into our country — and you are guaranteed a lifetime of support from the U.S. taxpayer!
There’s a reason we wanted a wall.
Media Myth #4: The media, the Democratic Party and 90 percent of the Republican Party genuinely want to control our border, but are deeply moved by the treatment of “undocumented” children at the border.
The truth is, they want illegals released from custody because then they’ll never leave. As Latin America’s poor discover this, more and more will come.
In addition to idiotic court rulings requiring that illegals be released after 20 days if they drag a kid with them, Congress has ensured their release by mandating that ICE have no more than 45,274 detention beds. That’s 45,274 beds for all ICE detainees — including MS-13 gang members, cop-killing illegal aliens, terrorist aliens and so on.
Every month, 100,000 illegals are crashing our border and our entire government and legal apparatus is designed to help them across, minister to their needs, then turn them loose. Their brief stay in custody is just a little R&R on the path to American welfare.
This will never, ever change. It’s why we wanted a wall.
That’s what candidate Trump pledged to do. But it’s now abundantly clear that this was an empty promise.
You could teach a Myna bird to say the phrase “Build the Wall” by giving it a delicious cheese cracker every time it says that. The Myna bird might say that beautifully, but it will never understand the meaning of the words. It won’t have the first idea, for example, what steps to take to actually build a wall.
Throughout 2016, we gave Trump cheese crackers every time he said, “Build the Wall!” Yet, as with the Myna bird, it turns out he lacks any comprehension of what those words mean.
Ann Coulter is a lawyer, a syndicated columnist and conservative commentator, and the author of 13 New York Times bestsellers. The most recent, “Resistance Is Futile! How the Trump-Hating Left Lost Its Collective Mind,” was published in 2018.
For better or worse I believe she's trying to goad the President to do something and I personally believe if President Trump doesn't show tangible results before 2020 he's in danger of losing supporters.
If President Trump doesn't find a way to stop this border crisis there will be supporters who will look at him as just another politician who broke his promise and they will sit out 2020.
Flame away.
I have tuned her out. What happened to her, anyway?
Are you related to Anne?
The wall is being built as we speak....slowly but surely. IT NEEDS TO SPEED UP THOUGH and Trump needs to do it himself!
https://observer.com/2019/05/patrick-shanahan-border-wall-underway-despite-consequences/
Flame..flame...flame!!!
F off. Ann should be shunned and ignored.
Has she moved to Utah yet? Is she in ‘secret’ communication with her dream boat Romney?
Our southern border is being overrun because our laws and treaty obligations are inviting rampant abuse of the asylum process.
President Trump needs to declare a national emergency and shut down the border to illegal aliens and asylum seekers. Any caught at the border should be tossed back to Mexico immediately.
Perhaps you are not aware of how this whole thing works
Trump is not a dictator. However he did go around the Congress to secure what could amount to as much as 18 billion dollars from the mlitary budget. He did this despite the liberals using every trick in the book to stop him, like they did with the immigration ban from 6 mainly muzzie countries.
It is evident at this point in his presidency that his base is solidly behind him. A man can only try and live up to his promises as president and fight for what his constituency wants. Trump has never stopped fighting and his voters know this and will I’m stic with him.
Perhaps you can tell us all how Trump can and should move faster and build the wall?
That's why little progress has been made regarding wetbacks.
Too bad people want to shoot the messenger. And Coulter is spot on with this article.
I love Ann Coulter, despite her attacks on Trump about his failure to build the wall fast enough.
Illegal immigration is a huge problem in this country, and needs to be addressed. Trump has done a lot, but much more needs to be done.
"...Ann Coulter..."
Sometimes the truth hurts. But you’ve got to face it.
I read this on Drudge - every word is pure gold. It also explains why we don’t have a lot of time to dither on this subject - we’re very close to the end of our country as we know it.
Good points and good questions.
In a way, it is encouraging that Trump has not been able to do more — in that it reflects the fact that he is president and not dictator.
I think Trump is a great president, and I believe he’s doing all he can.
I just wish there was more he could do — within the limitations of our constitutional system.
I don’t have all the answers.
Ann Coulter realized the ‘illegals problem’ was the most important issue of our day... the only one that mattered... the one that nullified every other issue and concern - AND that if we didn't stop the madness soon our country would never recover. Never.
She saw it first - she saw it in all it's implications, iterations and horror. That's what happened to her.
SHE IS RIGHT.
It’s high fashion to say she’s nuts, or she’s getting old, whatever. Then there will be something about fertility and humping.
And if you are craaazy about Trump but also once in a blue moon take the tiniest bit of time to MAKE SURE Trump actually delivers..?
Then a bunch of people from the amen corner say you don’t REALLY like Trump:
ANN IS RIGHT.
Secondly, advances in genetic science and applied gene therapies are going to soon make the entire issue moot. The single most strident complaint is IQ dilution and the social costs of supporting sub-standard defectives. Imagine however if 100,000s of thousands of scientists, engineers and other productive individuals were storming the border. Well, once we have the manageable ability to improve IQ by around one std deviation, the second scenario will be possible.
Ultimately, the proglibs are going to lose since their entire platform is based on exploiting low intelligence, poorly equipped voters with promises of government support. Take away the need for support by improving intelligence, skills and disciplined behavior, and voters will exhibit traditional conservative tendencies. The take away from the action is to watch/monitor what's happening on the scientific front. This is where fortunes are going to be made, not only through baseline improvements, but elective cosmetic alterations as well.
Anne can freak out all she wants - that's both her job and her destiny as a narrow thinker.
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