LA Faces A Moral Test On Illegal Aliens Or Something

By William Teach March 5, 2017 – 8:02 am

Arrests by Immigration And Customs Enforcement are causing great disturbances in the Leftist news rooms of America, starting with the NY Times, which is vexed by the detainment of an illegal ordered deported back in 2014, which I mentioned yesterday, and sees the Times’ Jennifer Medina throwing out strawmen

Deportation Arrest Highlights Tensions in Los Angeles on Immigration

(discussion of the arrest of Mr. Gonzalez blocks from the school in a sobby manner)

As news quickly spread of Mr. Avelica’s arrest, local activists and leaders responded with anger and dismay that an arrest could happen so close to a school and in front of a child. Outraged local officials said that the tactics showed a new kind of aggressiveness from immigration agents.

Parents and others are arrested in front of their kids all the time, because the parents broke the law. It’s 100% on the parents. They made unwise choices.

Mr. Avelica’s case is the latest example of the growing tension building in Los Angeles between federal immigration enforcers and local officials. The fraught relationship could continue to fray as the Trump administration ramps up arrests and detentions. Local leaders in California and other parts of the country are increasingly criticizing federal immigration agents, saying their actions threaten to erode the trust between local law enforcement officials and immigrants, whom they depend on to report crimes. California officials have for years declined to help enforce immigration laws, but they do not have the power to stop roundups of immigrants living in the United States illegally.

There’s an easy solution to this strawman: deport the illegals. Why are we concerned with trust between law enforcement and criminals? If you do not coddle those who are unlawfully present, there’s no problem. Instead of letting them reside in the U.S. for 25 years, you scoop them up and send them home.

L.A. faces a moral test: How will we respond to deportation threats?

Since election day, children are scared about what might happen to their parents,” says Angelica Salas, executive director of the Coalition for Humane Immigration Rights of Los Angeles. “And parents for their children. We fill out at least 10 guardianship letters every day for [undocumented] parents who fear for their [U.S. citizen] kids if they — the parents — are deported.”

Los Angeles has rarely been a more fearful place than it is today. L.A. and Orange counties are home to roughly 1 million immigrants in the country illegally — more than any region except greater New York. That’s not counting the U.S. citizens in mixed-status families — like those American-born children losing sleep at the prospect of losing their mothers and fathers.

Business is off at stores with a predominantly immigrant clientele, Salas says. The possibility of stakeouts by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents has caused thousands of Angelenos to abbreviate their daily rounds.

With the Trump administration eliminating most of the legal distinctions between law-abiding, productive undocumented immigrants and their violent, convicted counterparts, the entire city is facing a test of character. “The question before us,” says Rusty Hicks, who heads the L.A. County Federation of Labor, “is how do we make this different from 1942, when Japanese Americans were carted away and no one lifted a finger to help them.”

That’s a pretty darned big strawman. Those Japanese Americans (who were detained by a Democratic Party president, BTW) were American citizens. The illegal aliens in question are not. There is no legal distinction between “law abiding” illegals and violent illegals. Bother are unlawfully present. And, as far as “law abiding” goes, beside being here illegally (it’s in the very word), each and every illegal scooped up recently that’s made the news has some sort of criminal issue involved.

Last weekend, about 600 Angelenos — the majority, presumably, immigrants in the country illegally — attended a “Know Your Rights” forum convened by State Senate President Kevin de Leon in downtown Los Angeles. County Sheriff Jim McDonnell and LAPD Deputy Chief Robert Arcos sought to assure the assemblage, in McDonnell’s words, that “we focus on behavior, not who somebody is or how he got here.”

This is what’s it has come to: three high ranking public officials, two serving in elected positions, are providing aid and comfort to law breakers, and there’s no action against them.

A massive march in defense of immigrants, backed by the Service Employees International Union, is scheduled for May 1. Organizers hope it will combine the mega-turnouts of the immigrant legalization march of 2006 with the women’s march of this January. The organizations providing legal assistance — the most crucial determinant in deportation proceedings — need more funding, and some immigrants likely will need physical sanctuary, too.

Cities seldom get a moral test as defining as this one.

They’re failing to the moral test by condoning illegality. The march would be a good time for ICE to swoop in and scoop up lots of illegals, though.

Illegal alien supports are also apoplectic over the arrest of Juan Coronilla-Guerrero at the Travis County courthouse, which they claim is mean. Even the judge who presided over his charges (misdemeanor assault and possession of marijuana) is a squish

“We need agreement from ICE that administration of criminal justice is presumed to be a higher purpose than administration of immigration justice,” said Judge Sarah Eckhardt.

Immigration law is criminal law, especially in light of the ICE statement

“Officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) arrested Juan Coronilla-Guerrero, from Mexico, March 3 on a federal criminal arrest warrant. The warrant was issued based on a criminal complaint charging him with re-entry after deportation, a felony punishable by up to 20 years in federal prison, if convicted. Guerrero-Coronilla is scheduled to be in court March 6. No further details are releasable at this time.”

Huh. Another alien absconder. Just like this guy

Yennifer Sanchez says her father, Juan Carlos Fomperosa Garcia, went to a check-in with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Phoenix on Thursday and was deported to Mexico the next day. The 23-year-old said she is left to care for her two younger siblings, including a boy who turned 17 the day Fomperosa Garcia was detained. All of Fomperosa Garcia’s children are U.S. citizens.

ICE says Fomperosa Garcia has been deported three times, was convicted of a federal misdemeanor and had a deportation order.

“ICE will continue to focus on identifying and removing individuals with criminal convictions who have final orders of removal issued by the nation’s immigration courts,” spokeswoman Yasmeen Pitts O’Keefe said in a statement.

These are things that also happened under President Obama, just without the negative press coverage. But, the negative, apoplectic press coverage actually helps Trump’s attempt to deport as many illegals as possible, since it creates exactly the type of fear needed to not only get rid of the illegals, but creates a deterrence for those thinking of coming to the U.S. illegally. It’ll make them think hard about doing this.

What would certainly help is if those who just crossed the border recently are detained and quickly deported. And the Trump administration should also focus on those who have overstayed their visas, putting the fear of deportation on their heads. Once we have control of the borders and visa systems, we can then look at possibly creating some sort of pathway to citizenship for those who haven’t been doing bad things while unlawfully present in the nation.

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Chuck Schumer’s Favorite Visa Recepient Arrested For Child Sex Abuse

By William Teach March 4, 2017 – 4:14 pm

I wonder if Chuck regrets this. You should ask him

(Fox News) A snowshoe racer from India whose entry into the U.S. to compete was made possible by Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer was being held Friday in a New York jail on a sex charge.

The U.S. embassy in New Delhi last month rejected Tanveer Hussain’s application for a visa so he could compete in the World Snowshoe Championship in upstate. Local officials then intervened on Hussain’s behalf, appealing for help to the offices of Schumer and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y. Their offices reached out to the New Delhi embassy, which allowed Hussain to reapply for a visa and granted that visa.

“Obviously, this is a troubling matter for him — these are troubling accusations,” Brian Barrett, Hussain’s lawyer, told Fox News over the phone. “He is in good spirits and he looks forward to fighting these charges.”

Saranac Lake Police Chief Charles Potthast told Fox News that the charges, one of first-degree sexual abuse, a felony, and another of endangering the welfare of a child, a misdemeanor, stem from Hussain “engaging in a passionate kiss” with a 12-year-old girl, and accusations of the athlete touching her over her clothing in an “intimate area.”

Both Schumer’s and Gillibrand’s offices replied, essentially saying “shit happens.” Perhaps they should be a little more cautious on who they back to enter the country.

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If All You See…

By William Teach March 4, 2017 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrible fossil fueled machine causing heat waves, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Fausta’s Blog, with a post asking Dems to give up their Russian fearmongering.

And we end military week with lovely ladies from Australia. Any recommendations for next week’s theme? As always, these posts are open to discuss what you want.

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Trump To Do Uturn On Obama Era ‘Climate Change’ Vehicle Rules

By William Teach March 4, 2017 – 7:36 am

This has made the NY Times, which uses lots of fossil fuels to gather the news and never had a problem with the enormous amount of fossil fuels used by Mr. Obama to take long trips for short speeches followed by fundraisers and golf, very upset

From the article

The Trump administration is expected to begin rolling back stringent federal regulations on vehicle pollution that contributes to global warming, according to people familiar with the matter, essentially marking a U-turn to efforts to force the American auto industry to produce more electric cars.

The announcement — which is expected as soon as Tuesday and will be made jointly by the Environmental Protection Agency administrator, Scott Pruitt, and the transportation secretary, Elaine L. Chao — will immediately start to undo one of former President Barack Obama’s most significant environmental legacies.

Sigh. Carbon dioxide is not a pollutant.

Under the Obama administration’s vehicle fuel economy standards, American automakers were locked into nearly a decade of trying to design and build ever more sophisticated fuel-efficient vehicles, including electric and hybrid models. The nation’s largest auto companies told Mr. Trump last month that they found those technical requirements too burdensome.

The E.P.A. will also begin legal proceedings to revoke a waiver for California that was allowing the state to enforce the tougher tailpipe standards for its drivers.

Hey, Democrats keep stating that federal law trump state law, and, if you remember, the argument against Arizona’s SB1070 illegal immigration law was that it was more stringent than federal law, which was, according to Democrats, a big no no. So, if California is more stringent, then that would also be a no no, would it not? (Personally, I think California should be allowed to keep the standards if they want)

They complained about the steep technical challenge posed by the stringent standard, noting that only about 3.5 percent of new vehicles are able to reach it. That even excludes some hybrid cars, plug-in electric cars and fuel cell vehicles, the automakers wrote. “Even today, no conventional vehicle today meets that target.”

The automakers estimated their industry would have to spend a “staggering” $200 billion between 2012 and 2025 to comply and said the tailpipe emissions rule was far more expensive for the industry than enforcing the Clean Power Plan.

Guess who pays for the cost increases?

The tailpipe pollution regulations were among Mr. Obama’s major initiatives to reduce global warming and were put forth jointly by the E.P.A. and the Transportation Department. They would have forced automakers to build passenger cars that achieve an average of 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025, compared with about 36 miles per gallon today.

From the same guy who jumped in a helicopter, flew to an airport, took a fossil fueled flight on a jumbo jet, along with a backup jet and several fighter jets, then got in a low MPG limo to head to a fundraiser with almost two dozen fossil fueled low MPG vehicles, causing traffic jams which force Other People to use more fossil fuels.

Those regulations are locked into place for vehicle model years through 2021, and just before Mr. Trump took office, the E.P.A. put forth a final rule intended to cement them for vehicles built from 2022 through 2025. However, the E.P.A. did not jointly release its plan to do so with the Transportation Department, leaving a legal loophole for the Trump administration to take advantage of.

Oops.

Look, if manufacturers want to build hybrids, then that is their choice. There’s certainly a market for them. If they want to make a big V8 muscle car, they should also be able to do that and not worry about silly rules. CAFE standards have long put drivers in danger due to making lighter and lighter vehicles. Manufacturers have done a great job using technology to avoid going even lighter. But, why not let drivers get what they want without government interference over silly ‘carbon pollution?” Especially when those rules artificially raise vehicle costs. And those rules hurt the poor and middle class more than the rich folks, like Obama, who push the rules.

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Illegal Alien Taken Into Custody Sends Shockwaves Or Something

By William Teach March 4, 2017 – 7:10 am

Illegal aliens and those who support them are utterly freaking out. Which is a good thing. Those unlawfully present in the United States should be fearful that the will be picked up, detained, and potentially deported. Because they are unlawfully present. And this will make those who intend to come to the U.S. illegally or overstay their visas think hard on the consequences

Immigrant arrested by ICE after dropping daughter off at school, sending shockwaves through neighborhood

Romulo Avelica-Gonzalez had just dropped off his 12-year-old daughter Tuesday morning at her Lincoln Heights school when two black, unmarked vehicles surrounded his car.

As he pulled away from the school and got back onto the main road, the vehicles’ lights flashed. Avelica-Gonzalez, with his wife and 13-year-old daughter in the car, pulled over. Agents for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, wearing jackets that said “POLICE” on the back, detained the 48-year-old father of four.

ICE officials said the arrest was routine, citing a 2014 order for Avelica-Gonzalez’s deportation. But amid growing fears of mass deportations under President Trump, the arrest has roiled the largely immigrant community north of downtown Los Angeles.

Here’s what it looked like

Remember, he’s been under order to be deported since 2014. Who was president then?

ICE has a long-standing policy directing agents to generally avoid conducting enforcement activities at so-called “sensitive locations” such as churches, hospitals and schools. But Avelica-Gonzalez’s arrest has sparked new concerns that ICE is loosening that policy — an accusation that federal officials deny.

Not according to ICE

Avelica-Gonzalez’s family says he was less than two blocks away from the school. ICE officials said he was arrested in the 3200 block of Pasadena Avenue, about half a mile from the school.

Many people in article comments support this occurring where ICE states it occurred.

But national cases have stoked fears. One involved a woman who was detained by ICE agents last month while seeking domestic abuse protection at a Texas courthouse. In Virginia, agents arrested men outside a church warming shelter.

I’m not familiar with the latter, but the former involves Ervin Gonzalez, who is a 6 time alien absconder, and has been charged with numerous crimes, including assault and possession of stolen mail, this last being a federal felony. Funny how the article forgot to mention those things.

Avelica-Gonzalez, a citizen of Mexico, has lived in the U.S. for 25 years. His four daughters — the other two ages 24 and 19 — were all born in the U.S.

He has two prior criminal convictions, said Emi MacLean, an attorney for the National Day Laborer Organizing Network. The organization put out a call to action the day he was arrested, asking supporters to tell ICE not to deport him.

MacLean said Avelica-Gonzalez was convicted of misdemeanor DUI and misdemeanor driving without a license in 2008. Another misdemeanor conviction, in 1998, was for receipt of stolen property when he bought a non-DMV-issued vehicle registration tag. Before 2015, immigrants living in California illegally could not get driver’s licenses.

So, he had 25 years to attempt to do the right thing to gain citizenship. He did. He came illegally and had a family, meaning this is 100% on Avelica-Gonzalez, for breaking the law. This applies to every illegal alien: they took the chance of the crime, and the responsibility for this is on their heads.

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Surprise: Warmists Suddenly Find Computer Model From Almost 30 Ago That Is Totally Awesome

By William Teach March 3, 2017 – 5:46 pm

Of course they did. Strange how they weren’t telling us about this earlier

(UK Independent) Nearly 30 years ago, scientists developed a computer model of the Earth’s climate that predicted the level of global warming – to the ridicule of ‘sceptics’ at a time when there still seemed to be a debate over the issue.

Now two leading researchers have compared the model’s results with what actually happened over the last three decades and, to their surprise, found they were “very similar”. (snip)

Writing in the journal Nature Climate Change, Dr Ronald Stouffer, head of the climate and ecosystem group at Princeton University, and Dr Syukuro Manabe, a senior meteorologist at the same US college, said they had not expected the model to be so accurate.

The model is strictly looking at what can happen from CO2, and ignores natural processes like volcanoes, solar forcing, and other things like man made aerosols. It includes areas that would have had not true hard data for temperature, and wouldn’t have seen satellite cover early on.

That said, it is interesting that it suddenly pops up on the radar.

And, perhaps it is a good model. The vast majority of models are failures, having failed to account for the statistically insignificant warming since 1998. Perhaps this model continues to perform. The authors, though, do a good job at the end of their short paper in hedging their bets, stating that more research needs to be done. They seem to be more interested in the science, rather than advocacy.

The advocacy is apparent in the media articles on the paper, of course.

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If All You See…

By William Teach March 3, 2017 – 1:00 pm

…is and evil fossil fueled vehicle, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Maggie’s Farm, with a post on feminists and math.

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Trump Budget Calls For Ending Lots Of ‘Climate Change’ Programs

By William Teach March 3, 2017 – 10:45 am

It’s time to stop wasting The People’s money on worthless program based on junk science

(Daily Caller)  The White House is pushing for significant cuts to EPA programs and staff levels, giving a glimpse of how the Trump administration plans on devolving more control to the states.

The budget plan sent from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to EPA leadership calls for eliminating dozens of programs, including at least 16 that have to do with global warming and implementing former President Barack Obama’s climate agenda.

On the chopping block, at least for the moment, as the number of programs rise, are these ones

  • Alaska Native Villages
  • Beach and Fish programs
  • Brownfield projects
  • Clean Power Plan implementation
  • Climate Voluntary partnership programs‹there are 14 separate ones
  • Diesel Emissions Reduction Act
  • Endocrine grants
  • Energy star grants
  • Environmental education
  • Environmental justice
  • Geographical programs for lake [Champlain], L.I. Sound, S.F. Bay and South Florida
  • Global Change Research
  • Mexico Border grants
  • Multi-purpose grants
  • Office of Public Engagement
  • RadonStar
  • Research grants
  • Small minority businesses
  • State indoor radon
  • Targeted air shed grants
  • U.S. Mexico Border
  • Water Sense

Most of these are already handled at the state levels and/or within other federal agencies. Much is repetitive. Many are just useless, especially the ‘climate change’ ones. Good to see we’re going to see some common sense in government. This is what happens when you have a businessman looking at spending from a private sector point of view, rather than a governmental “meh, it’s Someone Else’s money” POV.

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DOJ Withdraws Appeal Of Obama’s Transgender School Order

By William Teach March 3, 2017 – 7:15 am

Back in 2016, the Obama administration decided that it would be a great idea to blackmail schools into allowing the tiny number of kids who are gender confused to use the bathrooms, showers, and locker rooms (BSL) of their choice, as matches their so-called gender identity. This flew smack dab in the face of that thing called “biology” and “science”. If the schools didn’t follow the guidance, they could have lost federal funding. Because to hell with the kids who understand which BSL to use based on whether they are a pointer or a sitter. Thirteen states sued, and a federal judge put a hold on the guidance. Now

13 states, DOJ reach settlement in litigation over transgender student rights

The state of Texas and the Justice Department appear to have reached a settlement of a multi-state federal lawsuit over transgender student rights, according to a new filing with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit.

Thirteen states, led by Texas, are expected to drop a suit they filed against the Obama administration last year after it released a directive saying that Title IX — a federal law that prohibits sex-based discrimination in federally funded education programs — protects against gender-identity discrimination. Former President Barack Obama’s Education and Justice departments told schools they must allow transgender students to use bathrooms and locker rooms consistent with their gender identities, and threatened withdrawal of education funds for those that did not comply with the non-binding guidance. The directive prompted nearly half of the states to sue. (sue)

And last week the Trump administration moved to rescind Obama’s directive entirely — and without it, the states and DOJ have nothing to fight about. In the filing Thursday, the Justice Department said it’s withdrawing the appeal of the nationwide ban, and the states indicated they’ll soon withdraw their suit.

The Trump guidance leaves it up to the states and school districts to decide what policy they want if they have a gender confused person at their school. Choice. Liberals like choice, don’t they? Not in this case. Liberals were very upset that they would be given the option, rather than having the federal government make it for everyone. Which is one of the reasons Trump won the majority of states, especially in the South and Heartland: people are tired of weenies in Washington making pronouncements that are idiotic and force that idiocy down their throats.

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NY Times Tells Cities To Violate Federal Law And Be Sanctuaries For Illegal Aliens,

By William Teach March 3, 2017 – 6:58 am

Lawrence Downes is a long time member of the NY Times Editorial Board, whose focus is on immigration. One would think that he is aware of federal statues against sheltering people who are unlawfully present in the United States, and that federal immigration law takes precedence over state and local law. Yet, we get this bit of insanity, which tells other cities and states to follow the example of Santa Clara, Ca., and be sanctuary cities

A ‘Sanctuary City’ Seizes the Moment, and the Name

Cities of immigrants, it’s time. Time to declare yourselves sanctuaries. To wear the label proudly, defiantly, even if the White House and its allies threaten you and utter all kinds of falsehoods against you.

President Trump is in power; his nativist ideology is now fully armed and operational. He laid it out with alarming clarity in his “America first” address to Congress this week, painting unauthorized immigrants as vicious criminals, and refugees as dangerous undesirables, using both groups as scapegoats and targets. The homeland security secretary, John Kelly, has given his boss a battle plan. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Border Patrol are carrying it out, combing the country, seizing and terrifying the innocent.

If they’re “unauthorized”, that means they’re in the country illegally. Which means they shouldn’t be here. Which means they should be fearful, because they aren’t innocent. And a high ranking member of the NYTEB just proclaimed, in print, that cities should violate federal immigration law.

Now comes the typical lies and distortions

The sweeps, arrests and intimidation share a brutal randomness. A young “Dreamer” gives a news conference after her father and brother are detained — and is arrested herself. ICE stakes out a courthouse to grab a survivor of domestic violence. Border agents ask a planeload of passengers — on a domestic flight — to show their papers.

We still aren’t 100% sure why the first, Daniela Vargas, was detained, other than she allowed her DACA to lapse back in November, and, after a raid which saw her brother and father detained, an illegal handgun was found in the house.

The survivor of domestic violence? Ervin Gonzalez is a criminal absconder, having been deported six times and coming back illegally. Those deportations were for crimes including possession of stolen mail, false imprisonment and assault.

Border Agents were looking for a known criminal who was unlawfully present, and doing their jobs.

Is it any wonder the citizens distrust the media, when a screed like the above is published without the requisite information?

Many people are confused by the term “sanctuary city,” which has no strict definition. Mr. Trump uses it as an epithet to mean immigrant-loving communities that allow alien criminals to roam free. Used that way, the label is false; no city can suspend the rule of law or keep out the feds. But rather than tolerating such slander, cities should seize back the term, defining sanctuaries as places that stand for reason in the face of overreaching, unjust and often lawless federal enforcement.

They should do what Santa Ana, Calif., has done. It is a city of 335,000, in the heart of Orange County, whose City Council has passed one of the boldest and most far-reaching sanctuary ordinances in the state. In a county that has long been known as a haven of white Republicans, Santa Ana is a mixed-race, mixed-income, All-American town. Its population is about 46 percent immigrant, and its mayor and its six City Council members are all Latino.

The rest continues in the same vein: essentially, Downes recommends violations of federal law.

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