Comment on The Atlantic:
How do you prevent crimes committed by undocumented immigrants?
Proper terminology please, you are, after all a journalist. Immigration involves being invited to join a society, so undocumented immigrant is an oxymoron. Now that illegal alien is a term which is frowned upon, the polite term to use is infiltrator.
To answer your question, you deport all the infiltrators and thus you have no crimes to prevent. See how simple that is?
But what if immigration reform is actually the solution?
I see the genius of your liberal ways, The way to prevent crimes by infiltrators is to make them citizens and then the blame can fall squarely on citizens. Brilliant. I see how the Caitlyn Jenner principle applies, a man is a woman, an infiltrator is a citizen.
The current system has left many Latinos—immigrant and native born alike—alienated from law enforcement.
You’re chock full of weird liberal principles, aren’t you? Here is the Rahm Emmanuel, “Never let a good crisis go to waste” principle. Why not use this murder as an excuse to push the line that Hispanics are afraid to talk to the police when this issue has no damn bearing on this case at all? See, a principled journalist would stay focused on the issue, not use a tragedy to push a liberal agenda, but what would you know about that?
“They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists,” he said. “And some, I assume, are good people.” If that were accurate, then building a bigger, badder fence might be a rational response.
Wow, you are a pushover. That is accurate, so thanks for lending your support to a border wall. That was easy,
Thousands of children were then arriving at the border fleeing violence in Honduras and El Salvador. Children. But even then, many on the right felt threatened, and endorsed greater force and more security as the sole solution.
Honduras and El Salvador do NOT border the US. UN Refugee law requires refugees to claim refugee status in the first safe country though which they transit. That country would be Mexico. Those kids are not our problem, they’re Mexico’s problem.
Obama has also deported more undocumented immigrants than any of his predecessors, of either party.
This is outrageous bullsh*t. Are you merely ignorant or purposely lying? Returns versus Removals:
“Since 2011, the Obama administration has included numbers from a Border Patrol program that returns illegal immigrants to Mexico right after they cross the Southwest border in their year-end deportation statistics. It is dishonest to count illegal immigrants apprehended by the Border Patrol along the border as ICE removals. And these ‘removals’ from the Border Patrol program do not subject the illegal immigrant to any penalties or bars for returning to the U.S. This means a single illegal immigrant can show up at the border and be removed numerous times in a single year – and counted each time as a removal. When the numbers from this Border Patrol program are removed from this year’s deportation data, it shows that removals are actually down nearly 20% from 2009. Another 40,000 removals are also included in the final deportation count but it is unclear where these removals came from.
With Removals down, this means that there are more infiltrators awaiting court dates in the US and it appears that Obama is playing a game of running out the clock hoping that he can amnesty these infiltrators if they are still physically present in the US.
Meanwhile, San Francisco, a “sanctuary city” that tries to protect undocumented immigrants from deportation, may have declined to turn this particular man over to federal immigration authorities, and action that would have prevented his crime.
May have declined? Now you become judicious with your language? The whole point of sanctuary policies is to stop turning these infiltrators over to ICE. There’s no may have involved. They DID NOT turn over this man because to do so would violate their sanctuary policy.
It’s interesting how liberal cities feel that they can choose to not enforce federal law. I wonder if conservatives cities are going to try this liberal innovation with respect to homosexual “marriage” licenses.
That sort of obstruction would be less likely to happen if the vast majority of immigrants no longer had to worry about deportation.
There would be no need for sanctuary policies if we simply followed the damn law and deported all of these infiltrators. See how simple it all becomes when you follow the law.
Perhaps the irony in all of this is that if Donald Trump were right, policing and immigration reform would be easy. We’d just round up all the immigrants, ship them away, and crime would disappear.
Of course Trump is right. No infiltrators, no crime committed by infiltrators. Americans can once again follow the law.
But most immigrants, like most native-born Americans, are simply hardworking people trying to feed their families and help their kids succeed.
There’s nothing stopping these infiltrators from working hard and feeding their families in Mexico or points further south. They’re a financial and cultural and governmental burden on the people of the US. We counsel our own children to finish school, to not drop out of high school, because HS drop-outs impose huge tax burdens on other citizens, so the last thing we need to be doing is importing and coddling 20 million infiltrators, 70% of whom are HS drop-outs with Spanish as their first, and in many cases only, language. They put a millstone around our neck at a time when we have record numbers of our own citizens out of the labor force and this in an environment where ALL of the job gains since 2000 have gone to immigrants and infiltrators:
Government data show that since 2000 all of the net gain in the number of working-age (16 to 65) people holding a job has gone to immigrants (legal and illegal). This is remarkable given that native-born Americans accounted for two-thirds of the growth in the total working-age population. Though there has been some recovery from the Great Recession, there were still fewer working-age natives holding a job in the first quarter of 2014 than in 2000, while the number of immigrants with a job was 5.7 million above the 2000 level.
Contempt for the “journalist” needs to be expressed alongside dissent. No one likes being targeted with blatant propaganda.
I’m still waiting for the Atlantic to review Coulter’s book. That’ll be a fantastic event. Maybe they’ll have to offer hazard pay to one of their editors to subject themselves to such crimethink.
But the establishment on BOTH sides likes it.
Hence Trump’s rise. People are also not overlooking the burned bridges here. Props to the guy. All the other politicians can be bought, Trump has enough wealth to be immune. Romney did too, but his heart was with the elite.
The solution to so, so many of our problems lies with ridding ourselves of the deadweight of these infiltrators:
A new study of black male employment trends has come up with the following extremely depressing finding: “By 2002, one of every four black men in the U.S. was idle all year long. This idleness rate was twice as high as that of white and Hispanic males.”
It’s possible the rate of idleness is even higher, said the lead author of the study, Andrew Sum, who is director of the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University in Boston.
“That was a conservative count,” he said. The study did not consider homeless men or those in jail or prison. It is believed that up to 10 percent of the black male population under age 40 is incarcerated.
While some of the men not working undoubtedly were ill or disabled, the 25 percent figure is still staggeringly high. And for some segments of the black male population, the situation is even worse.
Among black male dropouts, for example, 44 percent were idle year-round, as were nearly 42 of every 100 black men aged 55 to 64.
“I was surprised by the magnitude of the population that was idle all year-round,” said Professor Sum. “Typically, some groups will find work part of the year, but not the other part, and you end up with a high joblessness rate. But here we’ve got a growing number of men just not working at all.”
* My father in law oversaw some of the construction at the ’96 Olympics. This event explains some – or much – of the Hispanic immigration into the greater Atlanta area. He said – and I have no reason to think he was lying – that they tried and tried and tried to lure the thousands of unemployed young black men to take these jobs. They failed and had to import labor from Mexico.
