Illegal Alien “Activist” Claims Deportation Action Is Political

By William Teach March 16, 2018 – 6:56 am

Could it be political?

(King5) An immigration judge Thursday gave the government until early next month to respond to the allegations of an immigrant-rights advocate who says she’s been targeted for deportation because of her political activism.

Dozens of supporters greeted Maru Mora-Villalpando, 47, as she arrived outside a downtown Seattle building for her first deportation hearing.

A Mexico City native who overstayed a visa issued in 1996, Mora-Villalpando says she has had no convictions or contacts with police that might normally trigger deportation proceedings. But in December, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement sent her a notice to appear in immigration court.

An officer’s report in her case said she came to the agency’s attention because she discussed her unlawful status in a newspaper interview last year. The report also cited her “extensive involvement with anti-ICE protests and Latino advocacy programs.”

She cited that statement in a motion filed Monday arguing that the proceedings should be dismissed as a violation of her free-speech rights. An attorney for the Justice Department, Brent Campbell, told U.S. Immigration Judge Brett Parchert that the government would oppose that motion, and Parchert gave him until April 9 to file a written response.

Well, yes, it definitely could be political, but, it’s her own politics to blame. If this person who is in the United States in contradiction of federal law, by definition an illegal alien, wouldn’t have constantly opened up her mouth she might not have ended up on ICE’s radar. Because they need no other reason to deport her other than her being illegally present in the United States. If you’re a criminal, is it a good idea to broadcast to the police? If you’re dealing marijuana, should you get your car wrapped saying you sell marijuana illegally?

ICE has repeatedly denied targeting anyone for political reasons and called such allegations “irresponsible, speculative and inaccurate.”

Pro-immigration advocates around the country have cited other cases, including deportation proceedings against Eliseo Jurado, the husband of an immigrant activist in Boulder, Colorado, who sought sanctuary from deportation in a church, and Ravi Ragbir, a citizen of Trinidad and Tobago who leads the New Sanctuary Coalition of New York City.

It’s the exact same thing: if you’re an illegal alien, do not do things that broadcast to ICE that you’re illegal. Being here illegally is already on them: so is broadcasting it.

“We need to be dismantling ICE,” Mora-Villalpando told the crowd Thursday. “ICE has no oversight. ICE is not accountable to anybody.”

Illegal aliens do not get to make that determination, but, I supposed people dealing drugs would like to get anti-drug units dismantled, like the DEA. Gangs would love to get anti-gang units dismantled. People who engage in all sorts of crimes would love to see lots of law enforcement dismantled. Ms. Mora-Villalpando can go back to her home country of Mexico and complain.

But, that talking point about dismantling ICE is becoming a huge talking point by Democrats. This should play well with illegal aliens who can’t vote and the Democrat base who cares more for illegal aliens than Americans.

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CNN: Say, Enforcing Immigration Law Is Like Jews Under Hitler

By William Teach March 15, 2018 – 2:22 pm

Every day, a new beclowing

(Breitbart) CNN published a news article on Wednesday evening that suggested the enforcement of federal immigration law was equivalent to the murder of six million Jews in the Holocaust.

The article, by Kyung Lah and Alberto Moya, was presented as news, not opinion. Its central premise was that a Jewish woman was inspired by memories of the Holocaust to hide illegal aliens on the run from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials (a federal crime).

CNN posted a tweet to promote the article, declaring: “A Jewish woman heard an undocumented immigrant and her two daughters were on the run from ICE. Driven by thoughts of the Holocaust, she risked her own comfort to offer them shelter.”

The “Jewish woman” in question has no particular link to the Holocaust. She was born after the war and cites no relatives as survivors. She is simply exploiting the symbolism of the Holocaust for a cause.

The implication is that ICE agents are like Nazis or Gestapo secret police ready to arrest illegal aliens for legitimate reason other than their identity. Jews in Germany and in Nazi-occupied Europe were citizens of the countries where they were arrested, and where they were murdered or deported to death camps. They had not violated immigration laws or any other laws except laws preventing them from existing.

Just typical unhinged behavior from Leftists. Who, interestingly, are often calling for the end of the Jewish state and backing murderous Palestinians.

BTW, yes, this actually does bother me. My grandparents on my mother’s side escape from Europe in the late 1930’s as the Nazi party was coming to power, seeing the writing on the wall. They were Jews.

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If All You See…

By William Teach March 15, 2018 – 1:00 pm

…is horrible evil carbon polluting ice cream, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Other McCain, with a post on Palm Beach jihad, which is being ignored by the media.

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Warmist Recommends Bolshevik Revolution To Stop ‘Climate Change’ (scam)

By William Teach March 15, 2018 – 10:30 am

Funny how Warmists so often recommend the destruction of capitalism in favor of hard left authoritarian governmental economic systems. Here’s Jeff Sparrow at the UK Guardian

Climate change is a disaster foretold, just like the first world war

(you’ll need to read the first 2/3rds yourself for full context)

From a global perspective, the necessity to abandon fossil fuels cannot be denied. But for individual economies, change risks undermining comparative advantages.

If we don’t sell coal, says Malcolm Turnbull, our competitors will – which was, of course precisely the logic of the British fleet expansion in 1908.

The devastation of the first world war eventually engendered a wave of revolt from a populace appalled at the carnage their politicians had wrought.

Climate change has not yet spurred an equivalent of the mutinies in France or the revolution in Petrograd or the uprising in Berlin.

Yet Labor’s appalling equivocation over the Adani mine – a piece of environmental vandalism for which there can be no justification – illustrates the urgency with which we need a new and different type of politics.

The stakes could not be higher. Lamps are going out all over the natural world … and no one will ever see them lit again.

Funny, the UK Guardian wouldn’t be operating without capitalism.

As Eric Worrall points out

Perhaps pseudocryptic demands for a “new and different type of politics” is what fanatics do when they realise ordinary people have stopped listening to their ranting.

Pretty much.

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Legal Immigration Has Gone Up While Illegal Has Gone Way Down

By William Teach March 15, 2018 – 7:15 am

Dallas Morning News contributor David J. Bier has an interesting article on legal vs illegal immigration at the southern border, but does miss something when he eventually takes a few shots at President Trump

Legal immigration has soared as illegal entries have dwindled

Here’s the paradox of immigration in America right now: The economy is roaring, and wages are rising, yet 2017 was another year of virtually no illegal border crossings. On average, each Border Patrol agent apprehended just 16 people all year — one every three weeks, tied for the lowest rate since World War II. This is down from when Border Patrol agents apprehended an average of 261 crossers per agent in 1996.

Where have the illegal crossers gone? Newly released statistics from the Department of State give a plausible answer: They haven’t disappeared; they’ve become legal.

The 16 apprehensions per agent in the entire year was significantly fewer than the 21 apprehensions that each agent was making in a month throughout the 1990s. This figure actually overstates the agency’s current workload because so many of today’s “apprehensions” are, in fact, asylum seekers, families and unaccompanied children who turn themselves in to the agents. (snip)

From 1996 to 2017, the number of temporary visas issued to seasonal workers on farms and other industries increased tenfold, from 23,204 to 236,695. Even while Congress has done little on other immigration issues, seasonal worker programs have gradually expanded.

Entries using these visas have increased twice as fast as the number of legal documents issued themselves, meaning that each worker is crossing back and forth legally in a way that was much less common in 1996. This is partly because an increasing share of the visas are going to Mexican workers who can easily criss-cross the border. In 1996, Mexicans made just 60 percent of all border crossing entries. In 2016, that figure was 90 percent.

Of course, these aren’t actually legal immigrants: they’re temporary workers. A person who comes to the U.S. for a two week visit, be it for work or vacation, isn’t an immigrant, either. Regardless, most of us have no problem with these temporary work visas, not when they are willing to do the work. It becomes a problem when they overstay those visa, which has increasingly become a problem, hence the reason ICE, as directed by President Trump, is focusing hard on interior immigration enforcement.

Of course, it seems we shouldn’t even bother with border security in Bier’s world

While Border Patrol has tripled its manpower and constructed a system of more than 600 miles of fences and barriers during this period, increased security is not the primary explanation for the reduction in illegal immigration. We know this because it hasn’t actually worked very well.

According to the Department of Homeland Security, the agency caught only half of the people who actually attempted to evade entry in 2014 and 2015 (i.e., not the asylum seekers or children). The best estimate by Princeton University’s Douglas Massey finds that in the 1990s, 95 percent or more border crossers eventually made it across after multiple attempts. All of the increased enforcement decreased the success rate only to 75 percent. In other words, now that the economy has rebounded, many more people ought to be attempting to sneak into the country.

Many are not trying now, thanks to the White House pushing for implementation of the U.S. laws to rid the nation of illegal aliens, for which the leftist media was very helpful in constantly posting breathless articles about how scary this is for illegals, how doomy. Which helped reduce the flow. And Trump allowing ICE, the Border Patrol, and other law enforcement to do their jobs helps.

Instead, potential undocumented border crossers have found their way into the legal system. As the number entering legally has increased, the Border Patrol’s job has become much easier. They have effectively gained control over the border for the first time since the early 1960s, with guest worker programs an important factor. America has two guest worker programs for seasonal laborers, the H-2A for agriculture and the H-2B for other industries, both created in 1986.

Wait, I thought border patrol didn’t work? No? Under Obama, things were rather different, with illegals streaming across the border. That has dipped immensely under Trump.

While anti-immigrant groups on the right and union-founded groups on the left have fought the H-2 trends, a coalition of moderate Democrats and Republicans has defended the programs, citing solid evidence that they don’t displace U.S. workers and do increase economic growth. Trump’s businesses use both programs, and he defended the practice in a GOP primary debate in 2016.

The trends paint a compelling picture of what would happen if the administration does limit the flow: a lot more illegal immigration.

But, Trump isn’t recommending a reduction in these visas. This is conflating a reduction in actual immigrants looking for citizenship to those who actually bring something to the table, rather than bringing in lots who have few work skill. This is the way most of the 1st World countries do it.

And this is why we can’t have an adult conversation on the subjects, because Leftists always muddy the waters.

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People Protected By People With Firearms Leave Work To Protest With Kids They Want To Deny Same Proptection

By William Teach March 15, 2018 – 6:51 am

Democrats are so cute when they’re pandering

(The Hill) Democratic leaders in the House and Senate exited the Capitol on Wednesday to march with and speak to students protesting gun violence to mark one month since the Parkland, Fla., school shooting.

Senior members of Democratic leadership joined other lawmakers from the House and Senate on Capitol Hill as thousands of students marched while others around the country walked out of classes or staged other protests.

Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (N.Y.) and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) both spoke to the demonstrators, while other Democrats such as Sen. Richard Blumenthal (Conn.), Rep. Ted Deutch (Fla.) and Rep. Keith Ellison (Minn.) were spotted in the crowd.
“[We are] representing in Congress the students who have sacrificed so much, spoken so eloquently, commanded the attention of the nation,” Pelosi told the crowd. “We are all moved by your eloquence and fearless insistence on action to prevent gun violence.”

“Don’t give up the fight! We will win,” added Schumer.

These are all people who have, at least during the work day, armed security protecting them. And not just with handguns. There are more powerful rifles available to all the security for the various Congressional work buildings (the Capital building and the two office buildings), ones which would be considered “weapons of war”, as the current talking point goes, as they are automatic weapons, which you cannot legally own.

A large crowd of students surrounded progressive Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), whose 2016 presidential campaign was buoyed by support from younger voters. Sanders, speaking through a megaphone, thanked the students for their protest and declared that student protesters were “leading the nation” in the conversation on gun violence.

“All across this country, people are sick and tired of gun violence, and the time is now for all of us together to stand up,” Sanders said.

Un huh

He had at least three armed guards, who kept telling the kids to stay back. Why do Democrats want kids to be denied the same protection they themselves have during the place they spend the day?

Oh, and then we have this

https://twitter.com/RobProvince/status/974040381661859840

Try jumping the fence and see if it is a gun free zone.

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Super Late If All You See…

By William Teach March 14, 2018 – 5:51 pm

…is a horrible street made for fossil fueled vehicles that is cracking due to carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Moonbattery, with a post on London’s nutty, free speech hating Islamist mayor.

Wrote most of this before heading to work, forgot to finish, and didn’t set it for posting at 1pm. Happy Hump Day!

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Surprise: “Extreme Winter Weather” Linked To Global Warming

By William Teach March 14, 2018 – 4:51 pm

Of course it is. These people, the Cult of Climastrology, are worse than those who claim that the Earth is only 6,000 years old, and pass out literature that says things like that God planted dinosaur bones in the ground. At least those people aren’t using their beliefs to enact taxes/fees on Other People, while trying to initiate laws that put people’s freedom and choice in the hands of government, and, in some cases, succeeding

Extreme winter weather becoming more common as Arctic warms, study finds
Scientists found a strong link between high temperatures near the pole and unusually heavy snowfall and frigid weather farther south.

The sort of severe winter weather that has rattled parts of the US and UK is becoming more common as the Arctic warms, with scientists finding a strong link between high temperatures near the pole and unusually heavy snowfall and frigid weather further south.

A sharp increase in temperatures across the Arctic since the early 1990s has coincided with an uptick in abnormally cold snaps in winter, particularly in the eastern US, according to new research that analyzed temperature data from 1950 onwards.

Extreme cold winter weather is up to four times more likely when temperatures in the Arctic are unusually high, the study found. Researchers compared daily temperatures from across the Arctic region with something called the accumulated winter season severity index, which grades winter weather based on temperature, snow fall and snow depth, across 12 US cities.

If you go looking for the link because you want that link to be there you will make sure you find the link.

Two large winter storms recently swept the US east coast in less than a week, unloading up to three inches of snow per hour in places, resulting in several deaths, thousands of cancelled flights, closed schools and snarled traffic.

The cold front even reached Florida, contributing to a recent surge in manatee deaths. So far this year, 166 of the marine mammals have been found dead off the state’s coast, with stress from the cold the leading cause of mortality. “Manatees may join polar bears as one of the first iconic victims of extinction in the wild from climate change,” said Jeff Ruch, executive director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility.

See? Massive cold that reaches to Florida is the fault of all you people driving fossil fueled vehicles and eating burgers.

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Literally March Madness: Warmists Link NCAA Mascots To ‘Climate Change’ (scam)

By William Teach March 14, 2018 – 10:50 am

As I’ve noted time and time again, if something’s happening, the Cult of Climastrology will link their un-scientific Beliefs to that event

From the link

It’s March Madness. The NCAA college basketball tournament is underway. And while Wildcats, Tigers, and Rams face off on the court, some of the teams’ real-life namesakes face dangers in the wild.

Losoff: “Many of the animals that inspired the team names, these mascots, are at risk of being impacted by climate change.”

Tara Losoff is with the National Wildlife Federation, which describes these impacts in its Mascot Madness report.

For example, big horn sheep – or rams – are affected by warmer temperatures, decreased rainfall, and melting snowpack. And the habitat of Florida’s gators is threatened by coastal sea-level rise. The list goes on – bears, wildcats, wolves, falcons, and more, all face climate-related threats.

Losoff says making a connection between mascots and climate change can help get people thinking and talking about global warming.

Because the climate never changed before the Industrial Revolution and the invention of the combustion engine, you know. Weather was always the same every single year.

Interestingly, these same Warmists aren’t complaining about all the carbon pollution for March Madness, what with the power required for the venues, all the food, all the fossil fuels used to move the teams and their supporters, etc. Probably because Warmists want to watch the games. Because they’re hypocrites.

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Court Upholds Majority Of Texas’ Anti-Sanctuary Jurisdiction Law

By William Teach March 14, 2018 – 8:12 am

At least while the lawsuits play out

(Texas Tribune) A panel of three U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals judges ruled Tuesday that most of the state’s immigration enforcement legislation, Senate Bill 4, can remain in effect while the case plays out, handing a victory to Gov. Greg Abbott and Republican supporters of the law.

As passed, Senate Bill 4 allows local law enforcement officers to question the immigration status of people they detain or arrest and punishes local government department heads and elected officials who don’t cooperate with federal immigration “detainers” — requests by agents to turn over immigrants subject to possible deportation — in the form of jail time and penalties that exceed $25,000.

The one part of SB 4 that is still on hold is a provision that punishes local officials from “adopting, enforcing or endorsing” policies that specifically prohibit or limit enforcement of immigration laws. The judges kept that injunction in place, but said it only applies to the word “endorse.” The bill, as passed and signed, would have made elected and appointed officials subject to a fine, jail time and possible removal from office for violating all or parts of the legislation.

So, any who adopt or enforce sanctuary jurisdiction policies can be punished. This has give the ACLU, who was suing, a big sad, because they very much like to protect people who are unlawfully present above lawful U.S. citizens

The American Civil Liberties Union of Texas, which represents some of the plaintiffs in the SB 4 case, said it was considering how to move forward.

“The court made clear that we remain free to challenge the manner in which the law is implemented, so we will be monitoring the situation on the ground closely,” said Lee Gelernt, deputy director of the ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Project.

You do that, chumps

The law, one of the most controversial in recent Texas Legislature history…

It’s only controversial to Leftists, who support illegal aliens and illegal immigration. The rest of us find it to be a common sense law protecting Americans over illegals.

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