6/14/2014, “Why Eric Cantor’s shocking loss likely kills immigration reform this year,” Miami Herald, Marc Caputo: “The No. 2 Republican in the U.S. House is a goner. And amid the ashes of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s shocking defeat Tuesday night, comprehensive immigration reform smolders….Cantor’s defeat to tea partyer David Brat was so intertwined with immigration-“amnesty” and “illegal aliens”- that the few fence-sitters in the GOP-led House are going to flock back to the politically right side of the divide.”….Additional source: 6/10/2014, “Immigration Reform Died With Eric Cantor’s Shocking Loss to a Tea Party Challenger,“ New Republic, Danny Vinik: “The immediate policy implications of this are clear: Immigration reform is completely dead.”…10/17/18: News broadcasts in Guatemala say you can get into the US by just presenting yourself with at least one other apparent “family” member at the US border. Guatemala loves its citizens flooding the US. In 2017 alone Guatemalan workers in the US sent a record $8 billion back home. In 2012 when remittances were only $4.8 billion they comprised 10% of Guatemala’s GDP.…Above image from June 9, 2014, “Eric Cantor “Let’s Solve Immigration Crisis I Created with ‘Kids Act’ By Caving In to Obama’s Amnesty Plan,” Breitbart, Tom White
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10/17/18, “President Trump has full Constitutional power to stop the border invasion – even without Congress,“ Daniel Horowitz, Conservative Review
“President Trump can be remembered as the one who ended the war on our sovereignty. Will he rise to the occasion?
Here’s the stone-cold truth about our border: We could construct a border wall as high as the stratosphere, and it won’t help much if we continue our self-destructing policies of allowing bogus asylees to come through our front door and legitimizing the opinions of sanctuary judges who “make denizens of aliens.”
President Trump publicly warned the governments of Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala that if they don’t take steps to stop the latest caravan of bogus asylum invaders, he will cut off aid to the countries. While this is a good first step, it won’t deter the invasion unless we stop admitting the invaders and implementing catch-and-release under orders from illegitimate court rulings, as we did with the previous caravan and countless tens of thousands of others coming in with less pomp. And that would hold true even with a border wall. They just come to our points of entry, surrender themselves, get released into our communities, and never show up to their hearings until and unless they wind up committing crimes.
Moreover, the caravan is already in Guatemala and headed for Mexico. Thus, the Honduran diplomacy is moot at this point. And this is much bigger than one caravan. We must first dissect what is actually happening at our border.
This is nothing short of an invasion.
Earlier this week, KTAR news in Phoenix, Arizona, sat down with ICE’s Phoenix field director, Henry Lucero. What he revealed should disturb all of us:
*Only two percent of family units released from custody are ever deported. And there are a lot of families. In fiscal year 2017, roughly 13,000 came through the Yuma Sector. This year’s final numbers will likely show double that number. Freeze-frame right there. This is the magnet. Until this policy stops, the border invasion will not cease.
*85 percent of the recent families are from Guatemala, and they ask for asylum while surrendering themselves to border agents. They are not even attempting to smuggle themselves in between the points of entry. Thus, a wall will not help if we continue to allow this because they just come to the points of entry. As Lucero said, “On the news in Guatemala they are saying that you can get a work permit if you’re in a family, if you’re coming with your child, and that you’re going to be released.”
*Border agents interviewed by KTAR said that resources designed to protect our national security are now being used to aid and treat illegal aliens in distress. This, in a nutshell, is why the gang and drug crisis spiked to unprecedented levels beginning with the Central American migration in 2014. Officials said that 95 percent of those caught in Arizona go to the East Coast, which explains why places like Long Island are the hardest hit from the gang and drug crises.
Thus, it all boils down to bogus asylum and catch-and-release. Either Trump ends those, or everything else is just talk. While Trump is right to ask Congress to step in, we’ve noted before that our statute is already clear that these people do not qualify as asylees and that the unaccompanied teenagers do not qualify as refugees.
With this background in mind, it’s easy to understand why Lindsey Grahmanesty’s idea of trading amnesty for a border wall is so counterintuitive. We only have this border invasion because of the magnet of amnesty, and the magnet of amnesty allows them to come to the entry points, demand asylum, sue for rights, and never get deported. A wall only helps a country that has a strong spirit but a weak frontier; it doesn’t help a weak political system that willingly commits national suicide.
Anyone who tells you that the president doesn’t have the authority to exclude anyone for any reason doesn’t deserve to live in a sovereign nation. Sovereignty trumps everything.
There is nothing in our statutes that forces the president to admit anyone he feels is a problem. In fact, as we’ve noted before, he has inherent executive powers from Article II, as well as delegated authority from Congress under existing law, to stop taking in immigrants at the border or through visas for as much time as he deems necessary.
Here’s a quick review.
Inherent executive authority
While Congress controls immigration once immigrants are legally admitted to our country and can also exclude anyone from admission, the president shares concurrent jurisdiction on exclusions. He can’t deport anyone he wants to without an authorizing statue, but he can exclude anyone up front. As the Supreme Court said in a landmark 1950 case, “The exclusion of aliens is a fundamental act of sovereignty. The right to do so stems not alone from legislative power but is inherent in the executive power to control the foreign affairs of the nation.”
This is why for the first 100 years of our country, immigration was entirely controlled by diplomatic correspondence through the State Department. The president was clearly using this authority when communicating with the leader of the country of origin of this caravan.
Trump can simply shut the door and demand that any legitimate asylum claims be processed through our 10 or so consulates in Mexico.
Finally, the president needs to threaten not just Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador, but Mexico with diplomatic sanctions. As Jessica Vaughan, director of policy studies at the Center for Immigration Studies, told me in email, “The president…should consider visa sanctions if they are not cooperative in arranging the swift return of those apprehended. He should suspend certain foreign aid until we gain their cooperation. There almost certainly are other forms of leverage that will get their attention.”…
Along with threatening to cut off aid, he should fund a massive Spanish-language media campaign in these countries to make it clear they can never obtain legal status unless they apply through a consulate.
Delegated authority from Congress
INA 212(f) allows the president, whenever he finds that “the entry of any aliens or of any class of aliens into the United States would be detrimental to the interests of the United States,” to “suspend” all forms of immigration “for such period as he shall deem necessary.” INA 215(a)(1) grants the president an almost equal level of authority to subject entry of all aliens entering or departing to “such reasonable rules, regulations, and orders, and subject to such limitations and exceptions as the President may prescribe.” If demanding that all immigrants enter legally or apply for asylum in a safe and controlled environment at a consulate rather than at a border controlled by some of the most dangerous people in the world is not a “reasonable rule,” I’m not sure what is.
In addition, given that this is not an ordinary case of immigration or a trickle of asylum seekers, but rather a mass influx, the attorney general can use 8 U.S.C. § 1103(a)(10) to deputize local law enforcement bodies at the border that wish to participate to engage in the police powers of federal immigration officers. This section of the law states that when there’s an “imminent mass influx of aliens arriving off the coast of the United States, or near a land border,” the attorney general may “authorize any State or local law enforcement officer” to perform such duties. This will help with the manpower and the national security component of the issue.
The bottom line is that we need to repel the invasion, not manage it. Why are border agents automatically handing over these people to ICE to be processed?…
This is why Trump was elected. Period
This is Trump’s legacy at stake. This is his time in history. He can be the one to stop the border invasion. The minute he forces a national debate over whether we are a sovereign nation, he gains more leverage. The minute he threatens to veto the next budget bill unless it makes changes to sanctuary cities and asylum policies, the tables will be turned. And the minute he actually uses his inherent executive and delegated authority to shut this down temporarily without Congress, he has much more leverage to push long-term reforms as well as deterring Central Americans.”
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Among comments on this topic at Free Republic:
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“If Trump does nothing, he’s toast because he will have publicly lied to his people….If he isn’t going to protect our land, then a standing military is a waste of time and money. There’s no point in it. There’s no point in the expense if we don’t have a nation, and if we don’t have that border stopping point, then we don’t have a nation….
The demonrats aren’t going to vote for him anyway, so what’s there to loose except a nation?
23 posted on 10/22/2018, 2:25:48 AM by PrairieLady2″
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Added: As expected, Eric Cantor went directly to a job on Wall Street. Cantor, Republican House Majority Leader and 7 term congressman, was defeated in Virginia’s congressional district 7 primary by Dave Brat, a conservative economics professor. Mr. Cantor spent $5.4 million on his campaign. Mr Brat spent less than $300,000.
9/2/2014, “Eric Cantor Cashes In, Goes to Wall Street," Taking Notes, NY Times, Juliet Lapido
As we wrote in early August: “From his first assignment on the Financial Services Committee, Mr. Cantor courted the favor and the donations of Wall Street. He opposed raising the absurdly low income taxes for private-equity managers, and personally eliminated a requirement that hedge funds disclose how they gather market-sensitive intelligence.”
Well, guess what: The former House majority leader is, in fact, going to Wall Street.
“Eric Cantor plans to join boutique investment bank Moelis and Co.,” The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday.
Mr. Cantor has no previous experience in high finance or investment banking. But the reason for his new job is clear:The Moelis founder Ken Moelis told The Journal that he was hiring Mr. Cantor in part for his ability to open doors — an admission that Mr. Cantor will now be paid to trade on the influence and friendships he developed as a House leader.
Mr. Cantor has no previous experience in high finance or investment banking. But the reason for his new job is clear:The Moelis founder Ken Moelis told The Journal that he was hiring Mr. Cantor in part for his ability to open doors — an admission that Mr. Cantor will now be paid to trade on the influence and friendships he developed as a House leader.
The Journal noted that “Mr. Cantor has long been seen as a liaison of sorts between the GOP and Wall Street.” So, basically, he’ll have the same job he always had, but he’ll make a lot more money.”
Added: The message in Eric Cantor’s ‘shocking’ 2014 defeat was even noticed by an Establishment “strategist:” “Time for candidates to run like they are running for sheriff… not prime minister.””
6/11/2014, “How Eric Cantor Lost,” Time, Jay Newton-Small
“The defeat of the Virginia Republican was a wake-up call for establishment Republicans who only days ago thought they had finally put down the Tea Party insurgency that has rocked the GOP the past four years.
“[It’s a] serious wake up call to all incumbents,” said Scott Reed, the top political strategist for the establishment-friendly Chamber of Commerce.“Time for candidates to run like they are running for sheriff… not prime minister.””
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Added: One day before Eric Cantor’s 2014 election loss which major media predicted he’d win by a landslide, a Virginia resident called the race “neck and neck” and was confident voters would reject Cantor. Virginia voters knew Cantor very well:
“It’s for the children!” said Cantor.
June 9, 2014, “Eric Cantor “Let’s Solve Immigration Crisis I Created with ‘Kids Act’ By Caving In to Obama’s Amnesty Plan,” Breitbart, Tom White
“[It’s a] serious wake up call to all incumbents,” said Scott Reed, the top political strategist for the establishment-friendly Chamber of Commerce.“Time for candidates to run like they are running for sheriff… not prime minister.””
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Added: One day before Eric Cantor’s 2014 election loss which major media predicted he’d win by a landslide, a Virginia resident called the race “neck and neck” and was confident voters would reject Cantor. Virginia voters knew Cantor very well:
“It’s for the children!” said Cantor.
June 9, 2014, “Eric Cantor “Let’s Solve Immigration Crisis I Created with ‘Kids Act’ By Caving In to Obama’s Amnesty Plan,” Breitbart, Tom White
“Eric Cantor is either incredibly stupid or he believes you are. You can’t make this stuff up.
The fact is, Eric Cantor is under orders from the US Chamber of Commerce to pass amnesty and throw America’s borders wide open – despite the negatively growing economy – so that big businesses can have a steady pool of cheap labor to exploit.
Well, outright amnesty is not popular among Republicans and is considered an abomination by Conservatives. Especially those of us that remember the promises the Democrats made while Ronald Reagan was president….Of course we got amnesty. But the borders remained porous. And now, under the Obama Administration, they are begging illegals to flood into the country.
Democrats understand that they need to increase their pool of voters to remain in power and most of the illegals, if given the right to vote, will vote Democrat.
But the financial ties that Eric Cantor has with big business are too strong to even let a little thing like the annihilation of the Republican Party stand in his way to obey the whims of “The Chamber”.
And Cantor has been as sneaky as a child stealing a cookie before dinner and Dave Brat, his opponent in a neck in neck primary in Virginia, has caught Cantor with his hand in the illegal immigrant cookie jar. Repeatedly.
And you have to be careful and really parse what Cantor is saying on amnesty. Now that Cantor has been caught supporting amnesty, he is pretending to be against it. (Yes. Eric Cantor was for amnesty before he was against it. Only he was never against amnesty.)
Cantor is running around desperately as he sees his reelection slipping away from him trying to keep the money flowing in from big business and “The Chamber” who demand amnesty and also trying to appease the voters he desperately needs by lying to them.
“Harry Reid’s Amnesty bill is DOA – Dead on Arrival in the House,” Cantor promises.
Of course it is dead! Eris Cantor already has his own amnesty bill that is far more liberal than the Senate bill. Remember, the Democrats in the Senate are in serious jeopardy of losing their majority. They are treading carefully hoping to hold on to power. But Eric Cantor knows that if he wants to push through Amnesty he must pass it before Republicans take over the Senate or it will not likely happen. Cantor is anticipating a lame duck amnesty bill.
And Cantor has miscalculated the voters and the entire amnesty saga has blown up in his face. Dave Brat has seen to that. Cantor is not used to being exposed for the duplicitous operator he really is. He hides behind Ronald Reagan’s “11th commandment” ‘Thou shall not speak ill of a fellow Republican” and his deception depends on silence from the Republican Party....
Eric Cantor is using the Democrat’s playbook here with amnesty. “It’s for the children!”
Pleeease!
It is not for the children, it is for “The Chamber”. Period.
So what has now happened is that Eric Cantor has pushed his “Kid’s Act” billed as a lifeline for the poor children of illegal immigrants who have come here through no fault of their own. Let’s make them all citizens. They are the “victims” here.
Now the fact that Eric Cantor would use the “for the children” argument and play the victim card is all the proof you need to understand that what I have been saying is true. Cantor is a Progressive in complete alignment and agreement with Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and Barack Obama. He just plays the same stuff to a different audience by pretending to be a Conservative.
And as a result of Cantor’s Kid’s Act, parents are pushing their children and young adults across the US Border by the thousands. And now Eric Cantor wants to solve the problem by caving in to Barack Obama.
So Eric Cantor is in complete agreement with Obama’s old Chief of Staff and current Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel. “Never waste a good crisis.”
And in Cantor’s case, he is using the crisis he created to enact amnesty. And it won’t stop with the children. It never does.
And the borders will not be secured. Eric Cantor doesn’t want that.
America can’t afford more amnesty. And we can’t afford Eric Cantor’s sneaky ways.
Put a stop to this. Visit Dave Brat for Congress and go out tomorrow – Tuesday June 10, 2014 to your regular polling place (if you live in the 7th District!) and vote for Dave Brat and bring honesty and ethics back to Virginia.
And let me add one more thing.
My personal track record on this blog concerning Eric Cantor caving in to Obama is 100% accurate. He has caved every time.”
"About Tom White"
Tom is a US Navy Veteran, owns an Insurance Agency and is currently an IT Manager for a Virginia Distributor. He has been published in American Thinker, currently writes for the Richmond Examiner as well as Virginia Right! Blog.Tom lives in Hanover County, Va and is involved in politics at every level and is a Recovering Republican who has finally had enough of the War on Conservatives in progress with the Leadership of the GOP on a National Level.”
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