ICE Director To Sanctuary Cities: ICE Is Open For Business

By William Teach July 23, 2017 – 8:01 am

Where is one of the best places to find illegal aliens? That’s right, sanctuary cities. The acting ICE director has a message

(Fox News) The acting ICE director is vowing to use new resources to target undocumented immigrants in sanctuary cities – a move likely to hit resistance from mayors and local law enforcement who previously have refused to cooperate with federal authorities.

ICE Director Thomas Homan told The Washington Examiner he thinks sanctuary cities like New York and San Francisco are “ludicrous” and plans to direct extra agents to those areas.

“What I want to get to is a clear understanding from everybody, from the congressmen to the politicians to law enforcement to those who enter the country illegally, that ICE is open for business,” Homan said.

As well it should be. Illegal aliens are, at a base, trespassing. If you came home and a bunch of folks had started camping in your back yard, and all had some sob stories, would you let them stay? Or would you call the police to have them removed? You can bet supporters of illegal aliens would have them removed.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions also traveled Friday to Philadelphia, one of the nation’s biggest sanctuary cities, to call out the local government for not cooperating with federal immigration policies. He said such cities “aren’t giving sanctuary to law-abiding people but criminals” and urged Philadelphia to “reconsider carefully the harm they are doing to their citizens.”

In a CBS News article, he also said that “They are not allowed to come without permission” and “if they commit a crime while they’re in here, my goodness, what right do they have to demand that they not be deported?”

“As Director Homan stated, uncooperative jurisdictions have a higher rate of criminal alien releases than in places that honor ICE detainers,” the ICE official told Fox News. “As a result, ICE is forced to focus additional resources to conduct at-large arrests in the field in these non-cooperative areas.”

One of the big problems with sanctuary cities is that they very often refuse to hold illegal aliens who have committed serious crimes, including felonies like rape, murder, assault, arson, etc., for a mere 48 hours as per immigration detainers. It’s not just illegals who have committed DUIs and “smaller” crimes they cities are letting go.

That said, I still think there should be a change in the law which would make immigration holds actual warrants, things that jurisdictions have to follow under penalty of law. Stop giving sanctuary jurisdictions a choice.

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 22, 2017 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrible grill using horrible fossil fuels to cook horrible meat near a horrible pool which uses lots of water and made with horrible concrete, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Right Scoop, with a post noting Anthony Scaramucci’s anti-gun and anti-border wall positions.

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Hot Take: ‘Climate Change’ Is Driving Child Marriage Risks In Bangladesh

By William Teach July 22, 2017 – 10:30 am

Because everything is the fault of you driving a fossil fueled vehicle, taking showers longer than two minutes, having an extra child, and refusing to go vegan

With climate change driving child marriage risks, Bangladesh fights back

Climate change-driven extreme weather – from flooding and mudslides to blistering heat – is accelerating migration to Bangladesh’s cities, raising the risks of problems such as child marriage, according to UNICEF’s head of Bangladesh programmes.

“In Bangladesh, climate change is in your face. You can’t avoid it. You can see it happening,” said Sheema Sen Gupta in an interview in London with the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

“Every year you have cyclones, floods, landslides. It’s a given. It’s now part of everyday living, and the clearest thing you see (from it) is rural to urban migration.”

But surging migration to cities by rural families no longer able to make a living from farming or fishing brings other threats, from worsening urban overcrowding to child marriage, as families seek to keep girls “safe” in a new environments.

“I hesitate to say climate change and urbanisation are the major causes of child marriage. But they do compound it and make it a bit more difficult to intervene,” said Sen Gupta, who has been in Bangladesh for seven months and previously worked for UNICEF in India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Ghana and Somalia.

Or, it could be that Bangladesh is a 3rd World Shithole developing nation with the 4th largest population of Muslims in the world, with an ever growing percentage of those who are radicalized and approve and even push child marriage. And, even beyond that, developing nations tend to have a much higher percentage of marrying young. Like below the age of 18 young.

But, for all the blamestorming, the number of child marriages is down, due to several initiatives, including a law which bans girls being married under the age of 18.

But, hey, let’s blame ‘climate change’, because why not.

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ICE Plans Crackdown On Teen Gang Members, Which Is Apparently A Bad Thing Or Something

By William Teach July 22, 2017 – 7:21 am

Remember the days when we were told by the pro-illegal alien crowd that they had no problem getting rid of the Bad Illegals Undocumenteds? In practice, they aren’t happy over targeting those bad ones

(Reuters) U.S. immigration agents are planning nationwide raids next week to arrest, among others, teenagers who entered the country without guardians and are suspected gang members, in a widening of President Donald Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigrants.

The raids are set to begin on Sunday and continue through Wednesday, according to an internal memo seen by Reuters. The teenagers targeted will be 16- and 17-years-old.

So, gang members. People who engage in criminal activity. Violence. Rape. Murder. Drug dealing. Terrorizing areas. Fights. Destruction of property. One would thing this would be a good thing. Uh huh. Not in Liberal World

The raids represent a sharp departure from practices during the presidency of Barack Obama. Under Obama, minors could be targeted for deportation if they had been convicted of crimes, but were not arrested simply for suspected gang activity or membership.

Sure, great policy. People who law enforcement knew were gang members and are unlawfully present in the United States, yeah, let’s let them go till they’ve committed a big crime.

Although children can be deported like adults, U.S. immigration law considers minors arriving at the border without a parent or guardian particularly vulnerable and gives them additional protections.

They aren’t arriving at the border: they’re already here. One also has to wonder how many of these gang members were let in by Team Obama?

Immigration lawyer David Leopold of Ulmer & Berne said innocent children could be swept up in the raids.

“In many cases, children don’t freely decide to join a gang. They are threatened by older gang members and forced to get a gang tattoo if they live in a certain neighborhood,” he said.

I bet all the ones scooped up will tell the story about how they were forced in, once they get done talking to the lawyers.

Over at The Hill, working off the Reuters article, they find this to be controversial

In a statement to the news outlet, ICE said that teenagers can be identified in their database as gang members if they meet two or more criteria of gang identifiers, including having gang tattoos, wearing gang apparel or being frequently spotted in an area known for heavy gang activity.

The change in policy is likely to be controversial, especially since it targets minors.

Only to those who are supporters of illegal immigration. Most people will say “they’re here unlawfully and have gang affiliations? Two strikes, goodbye.”

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Going After Wives And Pets: Things That Are Important In Anti-Trump World

By William Teach July 22, 2017 – 7:05 am

This is real journalism at work. First up, CNN’s Chris Cillizza things he has a major, major scoop

https://twitter.com/CillizzaCNN/status/888051745439580160

Responding to Chris, Gregg noted “And the first one in 8 years to not eat a dog.” Steve Mudflap McGrew wrote “Umm wrong. You forgot “the media”. He’s got them on a short leash.”

https://twitter.com/WilliamTeach/status/888432282998120448

Then we have Nutty Joy Reid at MSNBC

(Daily Caller) MSNBC host Joy Reid spectacularly failed when she tried to take a swing at President Donald Trump on Friday.

Reid, who hosts a weekend show on MSNBC, attempted to cast aspersions on Trump by pointing out that two of his three wives are from nations formerly part of the Soviet Union.

Reid did not clarify why she was making the point, though it’s most likely part of the campaign to tie Trump to Russia.

She dropped this

Getting beyond the errors in the tweet, which you can read at the DC, what, exactly, was the point? These are the types of rambling bits of unhinged moonbattery which you’d read at the Democratic Underground, Daily Kos, and other leftist outlets suffering from Bush Derangement Syndrome. Now, when they aren’t going Russia Russia Russia on camera, they’re doing Trump Derangement Syndrome in 140 characters.

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Goracle: ‘Climate Change’ Will Totally Be A Bigger Issue Or Something

By William Teach July 21, 2017 – 4:34 pm

There’s not a lot to this NPR article, just a quick blurb and a very long, boring audio interview of Al Gore by NPR. If you’re willing to listen and make it through, go for it. I started falling asleep at around the 2:00 minute mark

They’ve been pushing this for 25+ years. All the ever increasing scaremongering is not making the issue more important.

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 21, 2017 – 1:00 pm

…is an evil grill that has caused the inland parts of the world to flood, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Don Surber, with a post noting that Trump can dump Obamacare.

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Y2K Offers A Lesson On Fighting ‘Climate Change’ Or Something

By William Teach July 21, 2017 – 10:45 am

I thought this article might have been a joke, noting that ‘climate change’ is as about overdone and hysterical as the Y2K issue, and it sorta gave that impression early on. Alas, no

How Y2K offers a lesson for fighting climate change

Earlier this month, New York magazine published a riveting and frightening look at the future of the planet we call home.

Now that global warming is well underway, we are in for an apocalyptic awakening, and “parts of the Earth will likely become close to uninhabitable, and other parts horrifically inhospitable, as soon as the end of this century,” the writer, David Wallace-Wells, argues.

The article captured the public’s attention, quickly becoming the most-read piece in the magazine’s history. But many critics, including several climate scientists, argued that it was flawed because Wallace-Wells focused on the worst-case scenario, a pessimist’s take.

Why feed the public a too-bleak picture of the future? Why frighten people into action, rather than inspire them?

Remember, the article was too insane even for Michael Mann and many other leading Warmists. Here’s where this article dives down into insanity

Because sometimes, the worst case is the only thing that prompts us to get anything done.

I know this because I’ve studied the last time that governments, businesses and ordinary citizens joined together to combat a complex, man-made problem that threatened to wreak global havoc in the distant future.

It was a problem that would cost hundreds of billions of dollars to fix, whose technical basis was not immediately obvious to most non-specialists and which some even doubted was real at all.

It was also a fight that we won - and that we ought to be proud of winning, since it offers a blueprint for combating the many catastrophes that may arise from the technologies underpinning civilisation, including a warming planet.

I speak, of course, of Y2K.

Was Y2K a real issue? Yes. Was it the apocalyptic doom it was made out to be? Heck no. Some may be too young to remember the hysteria surrounding the issue at the time. It had the potential to cause some issues, if you weren’t smart enough to update your software (I warned a company I had worked for 2 years prior to do the update. They didn’t, and they weren’t running their backup of the data. If anyone remembers running Microsoft Access, you’ll remember how easy it was to blow your data up). For the most part, it was the media doing their doom and gloom thing.

That’s much like anthropogenic climate change. It’s overhyped and overblown. It’s a minor issue, mankind is mostly not responsible for the climatic changes, and we are not doomed in the future.

(Computer World) There’s a lesson that came out of Y2K, says Hudson. “No matter what the media says, don’t overhype a crisis. A lot of IT people just said, ‘You’ve read the papers. I need the money.’ They used the fear factor.” And, as a result, “there were credibility issues there.” Those doubts about IT were “unfair and unfounded,” Hudson says, “but nevertheless they happened.”

Are there things we can and should do about climatic changes, regardless of causation? Yes. Should the media and Warmists be hysterical? No. It gets people to tune out.

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Having Run Out Of Ideas, Democrats Co-opt Papa John’s Slogan For 2018 Midterms

By William Teach July 21, 2017 – 7:14 am

Having failed to be anything other than La Resistance to Donald Trump, having no ideas or policies (other than wanting to take people’s guns away and allow abortion with zero restrictions), the Dems have a new slogan (via Twitchy)

https://twitter.com/JStein_Vox/status/888119019688964096

Yup

(Newsweek) Since Wednesday, November 9, 2016—the day after Donald Trump shocked the world by winning the presidency—Democrats have eyed 2018 as a year of redemption. The midterm elections would be the first real shot to make up for their stunning failure in 2016 and to take advantage of a president who has—at least for now—proved to be historically unpopular.

After careful consideration, likely countless hours of work-shopping, and input from focus groups, the Democrats have reportedly settled on a new slogan and tagline for next year’s midterms. That’s a big deal, since a slogan can be massively important—remember that whole thing about Making America Great Again?

“A member of Congress told me Democrats big 2018 slogan, which is set to be released Monday. It’s: ‘Better Skills, Better Jobs, Better Wages'” tweeted Vox congressional reporter Jeff Stein on Thursday. He later deleted that tweet and corrected it by noting the full slogan was actually “A Better Deal: Better Skills, Better Jobs, Better Wages.”

Stein said that a member of Congress “noted that this is the result of months of polling and internal deliberations among the House Democratic caucus.”

If you’re suddenly hankering for a slice of greasy, cheesy pizza with sauce that—hot take alert—is reminiscent of ketchup, it’s hard to blame you. The Democrats’ tagline is eerily similar to that of Papa John’s: “Better Ingredients. Better Pizza. Papa John’s.” The similarity was not noticed solely by your intrepid Newsweek writer. The internet was quick to point it out.

But the real inspiration for the slogan and tagline likely isn’t a late-night pizza order. Ezra Levin, co-executive director of liberal grassroots organization the Indivisible Project, pointed out on Twitter that the new slogan appeared to be co-opted from an op-ed written by Virginia Senator Tim Kaine, who was Clinton’s running mate in 2016.

Well, that might make it worse, since we were told that the Obama economy was super wonderful majorly awesome. Either way, it exposes that things were not particularly great during that time period. But, the slogan has not been officially rolled out yet, and if it is, it’ll get a lot of ridicule.

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Bummer: Fear Of Immigration Raids Hitting Saratoga Springs Hard Before Race Season

By William Teach July 21, 2017 – 6:55 am

This is supposed to be a sob story, but what it really does is expose employers who have been breaking federal law

Fears of immigration raids linger as Saratoga racing season gets underway

It’s opening day at the Saratoga Race Course. Thoroughbred racing is one of the biggest summer attractions and money makers in Saratoga Springs. The industry relies heavily on foreign workers, many of whom are undocumented.

But President Trump has authorized an aggressive crackdown on illegal immigration. After two federal raids in Saratoga Springs, there are concerns that some laborers will be too scared to show up for work this racing season.

Last month, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested 27 Guatemalan and Mexican men near their homes in Saratoga Springs.

ICE says the arrests were targeted enforcement actions, based on leads the agency had gathered. The charges ranged from administrative violations to felony reentry or visa fraud.

These are the bad illegals that supporters of illegal aliens supposedly claim it are OK to round up and deport. Right up till they are rounded up and deported

Activists say some undocumented workers have been scared out of the area since then, leaving some restaurant kitchens understaffed.

“Some restaurant owners have had to cook, be in the kitchen, do dishes, until such time they can find somebody. But they have lost some pretty critical workers,” said Saratoga Springs Mayor Joanne Yepsen.

What it sounds like is that area businesses are not doing their due diligence to make sure their employees are legally authorized to work in the United States, and should get a visit from federal authorities to check their records. And this is what happens when businesses rely on labor which is not authorized to work in the U.S.: they hide when immigration comes sniffing around.

Yepsen said over a thousand foreign workers are behind the scenes at the race track, in the part called the backstretch.

Some business leaders and racing enthusiasts are worried about another immigration raid, this time at the track itself, or about the idea of those crucial workers being scared off.

The illegals are taking jobs that might otherwise have gone to those legally authorized to work in the U.S., and they most likely get paid less than the law requires, all so that these illegal immigration supporters can see some horses race.

Nor is this the only article. The Times Union, the Saratogian, the Saratoga Today, and many other area papers are Very Concerned. The Times Union editorial board wrote a Very Concerned editorial.

And the city has essentially declared itself a sanctuary city, with the mayor giving a cute response that shows where the priorities of herself and other illegal alien supporters lies

Saratoga Springs has experienced dozens of arrests of illegal immigrants this year, and several trainers indicated that their staff are afraid to travel upstate for the race meet. According to nyupstate.com, the city’s mayor Joanne Yepsen declared on Monday that Saratoga police would not be initiating or participating in federal deportation of illegal immigrants.

“There are certain jobs like mucking stalls and washing dishes,” said Yepsen, noting that the deportation fears have been affecting both the racetrack and the local restaurant industry. “You know for some reason, they’re just not able to fill those jobs so it was a win win in my opinion to have those immigrants.”

So, they’re just cheap labor for mucking stalls and washing dishes for these Liberals. When illegal alien supporters start yammering about being compassionate and stuff, just remember Mayor Yepsen’s comment.

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