The meme below brutally sums up the Democratic Party priorities for the 2018 mid-term elections and beyond.
We all know that Democrats favor illegal aliens over more than half of the country.
They’ve never liked us “deplorables” but now they are very open about it.
It’s like they don’t even care anymore.
Guess if you don’t like the voters you have you try to import new one.
That seems to be the Democratic party’s strategy, at least for now.
What’s really interesting is to compare and contrast the President’s approach with the Democrats.
The other day Trump suggested that one way to solve the problem with illegal immigration is to deport illegals after being caught, without trial or due process of any kind.
Liberals of course claim that Trump even suggesting deporting illegal immigrants without due process shows he’s a wannabe dictator.
In fact what it really shows is how ignorant Democrats and their followers really are.
There is no question that by law President Donald Trump can deny illegal migrants due process and deport them out of hand:
Let’s take a look at the language of the statute granting the president at-will plenary authority to shut down even legal immigration:
Whenever the President 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, he may by proclamation, and for such period as he shall deem necessary, suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens as immigrants or nonimmigrants, or impose on the entry of aliens any restrictions he may deem to be appropriate.
There are three important observations to be made here:
The criteria for exclusion is not based on “national security concerns” or “terrorism.” It’s anything that, in the determination of the president, would be “detrimental to the interests of the United States.” That includes public welfare, health concerns, values, attitudes, etc. Thus, in this case, where the surge has already created the worst drug and gang crisis in the history of the country, the president would be justified in invoking this power.
Just like the president has the authority to completely shut off immigration, he may impose any restrictions on entry even if he chooses to continue various forms of immigration. Thus, in order to abide by the Geneva Conventions on asylum, the president can condition any asylum claims on applying at a U.S. consulate in Mexico, not at the border – or turn them back immediately.
This is not the type of provision in which a court can demand evidence that the condition of “detrimental to the interests of the United States” was met. The delegation of authority was designed as plenary power. The courts have absolutely no authority to second-guess the president’s determination. That is up to Congress and the electorate. As a recent Congressional Research Service report observes, from the House report on the 1952 immigration bill that granted this authority: “The bill vests in the President the authority to suspend the entry of all aliens if he finds that their entry would be detrimental to the interests of the United States, for such period as he shall deem necessary” (H.R.RPT.1365, 82d Cong.,2d Sess., at 53 (Feb. 14, 1952)).
Section 212(f) has been invoked 43 times since 1981, 19 of which were by President Obama. The one major Supreme Court case covering 212(f) was Sale v. Haitian Centers Council, Inc. (1993), which dealt with a policy established by Bush 41 and Clinton to apprehend Haitians traveling by sea to our shores. The policy was designed to return these Haitians to their home country before they could land in the United States and apply for asylum. In a clear 8-1 decision authored by Justice John Paul Stevens, the court fully upheld the act and made it clear that there are no limitations on 212(f) authority.
Similarly, the few lower court decisions on this matter clearly affirmed long-standing settled law. Any alien who enters the country without lawful status or against the president’s 212(f) proclamation is considered to be outside our borders and has no right to apply the due process of deportation procedures to his predicament.
In one of the few cases on 212(f) (Encuentro del Canto Popular v. Christopher, 1996), a district judge in California made it clear that not only does the president have the delegated authority from the legislature to cut off visas, but he also has his own powers to conduct foreign affairs:
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. * * * When Congress prescribes a procedure concerning the admissibility of aliens, it is not dealing alone with a legislative power. It is implementing an inherent executive power” [930 F. Supp. 1360, 1365 (N.D. Cal. 1996)].
If a president can’t put a temporary halt on asylum requests when over 90 percent of them are bogus and they serve as the impetus for empowering drug cartels, which pose the most imminent national security threat to our homeland, then a president has no power over foreign affairs whatsoever without asking permission of a court.
Liberals claim that Trump even suggesting deporting immigrants without due process shows he’s a wannabe dictator.
In fact what it really shows is how ignorant Democrats and their followers really are.
