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FROM THE NY POST – TRUMP HAS EVERY RIGHT TO TURN THE CARAVAN AWAY

US has every reason to turn the caravan away

Former President Barack Obama is ridiculing President Trump and Republicans for vowing to stop the caravan of 4,000 Central American migrants heading toward our border. Republicans are “trying to convince everybody to be afraid of a bunch of impoverished, malnourished refugees,” says Obama. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi blasts Republicans for stoking “baseless fear” in the lead-up to Tuesday’s election.

Baseless fear? Democrats aren’t leveling with youabout the welfare, health benefits and education resources these migrants will consume, if they’re allowed in.

Democrats are also claiming the US has to let the migrants in, because they’re seeking asylum. The truth is, the US Constitution and federal law give the president the authority to block their entry.

Trump’s critics portray migrants as families fleeing for their lives. Don’t believe it. Few are truly legitimate asylum seekers. Mexico launched a “Make Yourself at Home” program, offering migrants shelter, food, work and schools for their kids. Most turned it down. They’re heading to the US for a lifestyle upgrade, knowing that uttering the words “asylum” and “credible fear” to a US border agent is a get-in-free card.

More than half never apply for asylum, according to Attorney General Jeff Sessions. They just melt into the US interior. Of those who apply, only a minuscule 8.3 percent qualify.

These migrants are making a mockery of asylum.

Trump is halting this hoax. At the White House last Thursday, he previewed an executive order expected this week. Step One: targeting migrants who cross the border illegally.

Every month, thousands wade across the Rio Grande or scale fences, then plead asylum to a border agent. They’re taken into custody briefly, released and told to appear at an immigration hearing. Surprise: They almost never do.

Trump announced an end to this “catch and release” fiasco. Soldiers are laying barbed wire to deter illegal crossings, but those who get through will be detained in tent cities until their claims are heard.

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Amazingly, attorneys for six Hondurans in the caravan sued the Trump administration last week for violating their constitutional rights. History shows they don’t have a legal leg to stand on.
In 1981, President Reagan deployed the US Coast Guard to turn back boatloads of migrants trying to enter illegally and claim asylum. Reagan called the attempted mass migration “detrimental to the interests of the United States.”Attorneys for the seafaring migrants sued, but the US Supreme Court backed up Reagan, ruling the Executive Branch has the “discretion” to grant or not grant asylum (Sale v. Haiti). Illegal immigrants do not have a constitutional right to come in, period. Even to seek asylum. Whether they’re on boats or in caravans on land.

What about migrants who line up at official border entrances instead of sneaking in? Trump skirted the issue on Thursday but he has the authority to deny them entry, too. Section 212(f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act gives the president broad discretion, even in the case of refugees and asylum-seekers.

Last year, in Trump v. Hawaii, the Supreme Court confirmed that the president can turn away aliens who are “detrimental to the interests of the United States.”

Using that test, who can doubt the right thing to do? Already, there may be 22 million illegal immigrants in the United States, according to new research by Yale and MIT statisticians, double what is commonly acknowledged. Federal taxpayers pay billions of dollars a year to fund community health clinics primarily used by illegal immigrants, while local taxpayers foot school bills for their children.

When migrant children lacking English skills and school experience are placed in public schools here, they require enormous resources. Too bad for the rest of the kids.

Worse, dozens of Central American migrant children have been arrested as “suspected gang members” of the violent MS-13 street gangs, according to US Citizenship and Immigration Services.

How can anyone so easily dismiss the problems migrants bring to our nation?

 

Former President Barack Obama is ridiculing President Trump and Republicans for vowing to stop the caravan of 4,000 Central American migrants heading toward our border. Republicans are “trying to convince everybody to be afraid of a bunch of impoverished, malnourished refugees,” says Obama. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi blasts Republicans for stoking “baseless fear” in the lead-up to Tuesday’s election.

Baseless fear? Democrats aren’t leveling with you about the welfare, health benefits and education resources these migrants will consume, if they’re allowed in.

Democrats are also claiming the US has to let the migrants in, because they’re seeking asylum. The truth is, the US Constitution and federal law give the president the authority to block their entry.

Trump’s critics portray migrants as families fleeing for their lives. Don’t believe it. Few are truly legitimate asylum seekers. Mexico launched a “Make Yourself at Home” program, offering migrants shelter, food, work and schools for their kids. Most turned it down. They’re heading to the US for a lifestyle upgrade, knowing that uttering the words “asylum” and “credible fear” to a US border agent is a get-in-free card.

More than half never apply for asylum, according to Attorney General Jeff Sessions. They just melt into the US interior. Of those who apply, only a minuscule 8.3 percent qualify.

These migrants are making a mockery of asylum.

Trump is halting this hoax. At the White House last Thursday, he previewed an executive order expected this week. Step One: targeting migrants who cross the border illegally.

Every month, thousands wade across the Rio Grande or scale fences, then plead asylum to a border agent. They’re taken into custody briefly, released and told to appear at an immigration hearing. Surprise: They almost never do.

Trump announced an end to this “catch and release” fiasco. Soldiers are laying barbed wire to deter illegal crossings, but those who get through will be detained in tent cities until their claims are heard.

Amazingly, attorneys for six Hondurans in the caravan sued the Trump administration last week for violating their constitutional rights. History shows they don’t have a legal leg to stand on.
In 1981, President Reagan deployed the US Coast Guard to turn back boatloads of migrants trying to enter illegally and claim asylum. Reagan called the attempted mass migration “detrimental to the interests of the United States.”Attorneys for the seafaring migrants sued, but the US Supreme Court backed up Reagan, ruling the Executive Branch has the “discretion” to grant or not grant asylum (Sale v. Haiti). Illegal immigrants do not have a constitutional right to come in, period. Even to seek asylum. Whether they’re on boats or in caravans on land.

What about migrants who line up at official border entrances instead of sneaking in? Trump skirted the issue on Thursday but he has the authority to deny them entry, too. Section 212(f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act gives the president broad discretion, even in the case of refugees and asylum-seekers.

Last year, in Trump v. Hawaii, the Supreme Court confirmed that the president can turn away aliens who are “detrimental to the interests of the United States.”

Using that test, who can doubt the right thing to do? Already, there may be 22 million illegal immigrants in the United States, according to new research by Yale and MIT statisticians, double what is commonly acknowledged. Federal taxpayers pay billions of dollars a year to fund community health clinics primarily used by illegal immigrants, while local taxpayers foot school bills for their children.

When migrant children lacking English skills and school experience are placed in public schools here, they require enormous resources. Too bad for the rest of the kids.

Worse, dozens of Central American migrant children have been arrested as “suspected gang members” of the violent MS-13 street gangs, according to US Citizenship and Immigration Services.

How can anyone so easily dismiss the problems migrants bring to our nation?

Betsy McCaughey is a senior fellow at the London Center for Policy Research.

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OBAMA SPEAKS WITH FORKED TONGUE

FROM THE LYING LIPS OF THE FORMER EX-PRESIDENT:

Trump tweeted a 2005 video in which Obama, then a senator, made a statement against illegal immigration, accompanied by the comment “I agree with President Obama 100%”.

“We are a generous and welcoming people here in the United States,” Obama says in the 31-second clip. “But those who enter the country illegally and those who employ them disrespect the rule of law and they are showing disregard for those who are following the law.

We simply cannot allow people to pour into the United States undetected, undocumented, unchecked, and circumventing the line of people who are waiting patiently, diligently and lawfully to become immigrants into this country.”

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WHY IS THIS GUY STILL ON FOX?

Juan Williams blasted President Donald Trump and some of his Republican acolytes while discussing the Central American migrant caravan Tuesday on The Five.

Williams said that Trump is using fiery rhetoric against the caravan members and making purportedly unverified claims — including there being potential terrorists therein — because he is “absent a message for the midterms.”

ABSENT A MESSAGE“,  Wrong, Williams is a laughing stock to the other journalists that usually sit on the panel. He has nothing upstairs but a vacuum.

Jesse Watters said that he has seen reports showing a large percentage of the caravan is made up of younger, working-age males who are “economic refugees” and not explicitly fleeing “violence” as mainstream media pundits have claimed.

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.@JesseBWatters comments on the migrant caravan moving toward the U.S. southern border:

“When they get [here] they’re going to wire [funds back] to El Salvador,” he said, adding that instead of marching toward the U.S., they should “march against their own corrupt governments — that would solve a lot of problems.”

Williams blasted Watters’ remarks, saying that Trump “doesn’t have proof” for many of his claims about the migrants.


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The guy is a low weight on the Totem pole of journalists. In fact he is NOTHING but a shill for the Democrats.