op ed review 4/8
THIS WEEK’S NEWS
In spite of relentless hammering by the
mainstream media, 51% now view President Trump favorably.
Jobless Claims Hit Lowest Level Since the Nixon
Administration
President Trump said Tuesday that the US military will be
used to guard the US-Mexico border.
The number of illegal immigrants arrested along the
southwest border with Mexico jumped 200 percent in March when compared to the
previous year.
More than a million undocumented immigrants have received
California driver's licenses
77 Percent Believe Traditional Media Guilty of Fake News
The death this week of 9th Circuit Court of Appeals Judge
Reinhardt gives President Trump the opportunity to boost the number of
Republican-appointed judges on the famously liberal-leaning court, with seven
seats now open.
Saudi Arabia's crown prince slams Obama's Iran nuclear deal,
backs Israel's right to exist
Did political correctness allow abusive lesbian couple to
adopt (and kill) six black children?
According to the insipid press, President Trump has ignited
a trade war with China that will bring down both economies. "China is
imposing tariffs on more than 125 US imports including fruit and pork,
heightening fears of a trade war between the two countries," the Mirror
reported. Oh no! The tariffs will actually affect less than 1%
of the economy.
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COLUMN OF THE WEEK
By Handing Out Driver's Licenses, Far-Left California
Invites Illegals To Stay — And Taxpayers To Pay
1,001,000.
It's a big number, especially since it represents the number of so-called
undocumented immigrants who now have driver's licenses in California, according
to the state's Department of Motor Vehicles. Welcome to the Golden State's
special brand of lunacy.
Providing
documents to "undocumented immigrants," of course, merely makes them
"immigrants." That's the intent, we suppose, of a law that makes it not only legal but easy
to remain in California, even if you commit felonies once you are here. All
they have to do, thanks to that 2013 law, is "prove their identity and
residence within the state," according to the Sacramento Bee.
What
could possibly go wrong? Plenty, of course. A driver's license let's you drive,
even if you have no insurance or real training. It also presents a doorway for
illegals to enter the welfare system, and to vote. Even though they're not
citizens. Citizen-lite.
This
is part of California's lapse into a kind of lawlessness unseen since the days when
southern states bucked federal anti-Jim Crow and voting rights laws. By declaring itself a "sanctuary
state" and handing out goodies like welfare and driver's licenses, the
state has made a mockery of our national immigration system and controls —
and made it necessary for President Trump to deploy National Guard troops at
the nation's border with Mexico.
Illegal
immigrants are once again swarming the border, convinced that once here,
they'll be immune from being arrested or deported thanks to the "Sanctuary
State" movement, of which California is at the fore.
CNSNews
reports that,
according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, 50,308 illegals were either
"apprehended or deemed inadmissible at the Southwest border last
month." That represents a 203% rise from a year earlier and a 37% gain
from February. Meanwhile, the number of unaccompanied children surged 41% in
just one month. "The traffickers and smugglers know that, if you arrive
with a family, under our current legal and court system, you have a much better
chance of being released into the United States," Homeland Security
Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said Wednesday. "We have seen the smugglers
advertise this as an enticement. And we have seen traffickers, unfortunately,
fraudulently use children to gain entry into our country."
This
is why Trump is acting. The so-called Caravan of immigrants from Central
America, which at one point numbered as many as 1,400 people, had been moving
inexorably across Mexico (aided by that country's government) toward the U.S.
to test our border resolve. As soon as Trump vowed to use National Guard units
to protect our frontier with Mexico, many of the Caravan's participants fell
out.
Nor
is California alone in its anti-Trump obstinacy. Oregon's Democratic Gov. Kate
Brown says she won't let the Beaver State's National Guard units take part in
Trump's plan to bolster the border. "If @realDonaldTrump asks me to deploy
Oregon Guard troops to the Mexico border, I'll say no," Brown
tweeted out Wednesday.
"As Commander of Oregon's Guard, I'm deeply troubled by Trump's plan to
militarize our border."
We're
troubled, too, but by the growing refusal of anti-Trump states to help defend
our nation's borders and their choice to exercise a kind of "cafeteria democracy"
in which they pick and choose which laws they'll follow, and selectively
challenge the federal government's legitimate legal duty to protect our
borders.
Meanwhile,
Californians will soon find out that being a Sanctuary State means
problems — big problems. The state already has an estimated one-quarter of
the 11 million illegal immigrants here in the U.S. (and that's a low-ball
estimate). and more are coming all the time.
Not
surprisingly, the state also has a third of all U.S. welfare recipients within
its borders.
Then
there's the problem of crime. A 2011 Government Accountability Office report looked at 251,000 criminal illegal
aliens who had been incarcerated in the U.S. According to the Heritage
Foundation, those 251,000 had
been "arrested nearly 1.7 million times for close to 3 million criminal
offenses. Sixty-eight percent of those in federal prison and 66% of those in
state prisons were from Mexico. Their offenses ranged from homicide and
kidnapping to drugs, burglary, and larceny."
California
has, in short, become a magnet of all sorts for illegals. Its jails and prisons
are filled with those who have come here illegally and don't fit in, but
continue to prey on citizens, both those born here and legal immigrants.
And
as the problems from this unstanched flow of illegals grow, so will the costs.
A
2016 study by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and
Medicine, "The Economic and Fiscal Consequences of Immigration,"
estimated that 4 million immigrants without high school diplomas had entered
the U.S. since 2000, and that 200,000 more were entering each year. While not
all unschooled immigrants are illegal, most are. And each one will cost
taxpayers on average about $7,551 per year (in constant 2012 dollars) in
welfare costs.
In
California, a fiscal disaster is brewing. Take populous Los Angeles County, for
instance. There, fewer than half of all illegals have a high school diploma, a
2013 study by the University of
Southern California found. While the average resident earned $47,000 a year,
the average illegal earned just $18,000 — not enough to make it in such a
costly city. So it's no surprise that many end up on welfare or turn to crime.
States
like California have been foolish, and are sowing the seeds of future financial
catastrophe with their open-door policy to illegals. Oregon, nearly 1,000 miles
from the U.S.-Mexico border, smugly thinks it can ignore such issues. It will
soon find out different as its own costs explode.
In
the meantime, citizens in these and other states should do their duty and tell
their politicians: It's not acceptable to be an outlaw "sanctuary
state," and we shouldn't hand out rewards like driver's licenses to those
who have already broken U.S. law by being here.
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FROM OTHER COLUMNS
“Believe it or not, Planned Parenthood’s Cecile Richards is
a huge believer in adoption. For dogs. Tuesday, before heading out on a
national book tour, the boss of America’s richest abortion business decided to
act out the title of her new memoir: Make Trouble. In
a Twitter post that struck most people as either incredibly insensitive or
shockingly unaware, Richards took a moment to pitch what her organization
usually doesn’t: compassion. Above a picture of her dachshund, Richards
encourages people to #AdoptDontShop….”
-Tony
Perkins
“It’s been noisy and competitive since Day One, because this
agency (EPA) has been a bastion of liberalism since Day One. As we are making
progress there and also reducing the regulatory burden, it is infuriating to
those that have dominated and controlled the agency for years. … We are getting
things done, and that’s what’s driving these folks crazy.”
-EPA
Administrator Scott Pruitt
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LEFTIST WATCH
First it was “white privilege”, now George Washington
University is hosting a diversity workshop to battle “Christian privilege” The training session for students and faculty proposes to
educate Christians — especially white ones — concerning their “unmerited perks
from institutions and systems all across our country,”
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TV, FILM
Chappaquiddick’ Is A Brutally Honest Movie Laying Bare The
Kennedys For Who They Really Were
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ARTICLES
The 10 Different Reasons the Mueller Investigation is
Unconstitutional!
Mike Lindell of MyPillow is an outspoken Trump supporter,
under attack for refusing to pull his ads from Fox. Don Surber says he ordered some pillows, and
we should too. “Mike Lindell, refuses to be bullied by the fascists who want to
silence conservatives.”
Democrats: The Party of the Super-Duper (Mostly White)
Gazillionaires
Steve Forbes: The New
EPA And Why The Radical Left Is Losing It
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GOOD STUFF
RAF issues fascinating photos of the history of the world's
first air force as it celebrates its centenary
How One Arizona Charter School Teaches Patriotism in Ten
Easy Steps
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WISE
WORDS
“Every new regulation
concerning commerce or revenue; or in any manner affecting the value of the
different species of property, presents a new harvest to those who watch the
change and can trace its consequences; a harvest reared not by themselves but
by the toils and cares of the great body of their fellow citizens. This is a
state of things in which it may be said with some truth that laws are made for
the few not for the many.”
-James
Madison
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