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President Donald Trump at a White House meeting on immigration in January. Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images If we don't change it let's have a shutdown ... and it's worth it for our country. I'd love to see a shutdown if we don't get this stuff taken care of. Gosh, what a president. trump would love a shutdown if he doesn't get his own way . There is definitely something wrong with this man and his values. trump is not what should be considered Great. He barely approaches M ediocre.

As a continuation on the preceding post, particularly on comments therein, what is your take on the following short excerpt taken from THE HILL .   President Trump bashed a bipartisan immigration proposal on Wednesday, raising fresh doubts about Congress’s ability to strike a deal to save protections for young immigrants living illegally in the U.S. In an interview with Reuters , Trump called the Senate proposal “horrible” on border security and “very, very weak” on reforms to the legal immigration system. “It’s the opposite of what I campaigned for,” Trump said. Skip Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Wednesday he would not put an immigration bill on the floor for a vote until Trump declares what proposal he supports. "I'm looking for something President Trump supports, and he's not yet indicated what measure he's willing to sign. As soon as we figure out what he is for then I would be convinced that we were not just spinning our wheels,” h...

The following short excerpt from the L.A. Times was posted by Silverfiddle over at the Always on Watch weblog. His question at is an interesting one and deserving of honest consideration. “Everyone has the Right to Be Here” From the El Lay Times ... "Federal immigration agents targeted nearly 100 7-Eleven stores across the nation for audits and inspections Wednesday, including several locations in Los Angeles, as the Trump administration ramps up workplace raids to punish employers hiring people who are in the country illegally." Here’s the money quote, provided by “Imelda Vargas, who works for the dry cleaner across the street,” and “said it wasn’t right for immigration agents to target the store’s workers.” “Everyone has the right to be here, to work,” she said in Spanish. Why would this woman believe and espouse such an absurd statement that has no basis in law or fact? I answered the question over at AOW with an admittedly flippant reply, B...

Rational Nation U S A Purvyor of Truth Donald Trump, a man who time and again has demonstrated his aversion to facts, continued his distortions and false claims Wednesday in his major speech on immigration. Following is a brief summary. As is Trump's wont to do he continues to play on fear, extreme nationalism, xenophobia, and ignorance. There are historical examples of demagogoues and the misery they created for their people and the world. Our electorate ought to revisit the history of a prior era. Wrong on Deportations “Using the existing laws, millions of people are deported every year.” FALSE Claims “nearly 200,000 illegal immigrants” booked into Texas jails from 2011 to 2016 “were responsible for more than half a million criminal offenses.” FALSE     Says “nobody even knows” if there are 11 million immigrants in the country illegally; says there could be 30 million or 5 million. FALSE     Claims Hillary Clinton’s immigration plan ...

Rational Nation U S A Purveyor of Truth Corey Lewandowski arrives to the floor of Quicken Loans Arena during the opening day of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Monday, July 18, 2016. CREDIT: AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill Former Trump campaign manager Cory Lewandowski truthfully discussed Trump's motive behind his Wedsnesday speech on immigration. Which was to lock in the white male vote. Polls show Trump enjoys an approximate 18% point lead over HRC in his demographic group. Making another one of his paid appearances as a CNN contributor late Wednesday night, former Trump campaign manager made no bones about the fact that Trump’s big immigration speech was aimed at white men. “Look, I think Donald Trump’s message tonight was the message that he started with back on June of 2015, which was ‘America First,’” Lewandkowski said. “That’s what he believes, and what he is playing to — and if you look at the polling data, he’s got about an 18 point lead in the dem...

Rational Nation USA Purveyor of Truth From Slate a reasoned and accurate explanation with respect to President Obama's temporary immigration plan. A fitting rebuttal to the screeching Tea Baggers that have tied themselves in knots over something that is far from new . The idea that the immigration plan just announced by President Obama is a lawless power grab is absurd. As the Justice Department legal analysis that was just released amply demonstrates, much of the advance criticism of the president’s action has been uninformed and unwarranted. The opinion is well-reasoned and at times even conservative. The president is not acting unilaterally, but pursuant to his statutory authority. Wide discretion over deportation priorities has long been conferred on the executive branch by Congress, and it is being exercised in this case consistent with policies such as family unification that have been endorsed by Congress. Even though the action is breathtaking in scope, there is not...

Rational Nation USA Purveyor of Truth Senator Ted Cruz, the man without an original though in his tea bag head, let alone a solution to our immigration problem of many years, reached back in time and quoted Cicero in his most recent Obama bashing frenzy. Undoubtedly crafted to further whip up Tea Party ire over the president daring to do what other presidents have done before him. He took to the floor of the Senate and delivered a speech that included one of Cicero’s most famous addresses, subbing in Obama's name. “When, President Obama, do you mean to cease abusing our patience? How long is that madness of yours still to mock us? When is there to be an end to that unbridled audacity of yours, swaggering about as it does now?” he said, using the beginning of Cicero’s First Oration Against Catiline. By substituting Obama's name for Catiline's, Cruz compared the president to a figure who sought to violently overthrow the Roman republic. Of course there is more as t...

by: Les Carpenter Rational Nation USA Purveyor of Truth “If we can’t turn ‘em back, I think if we pop a couple of ‘em off and leave the corpses laying on the border, maybe they’ll see that we’re serious about stopping immigration.” Mediaite - I’m sure you’ve been waiting with bated breath to get the KKK’s thoughts on the crisis at the border with all those undocumented children showing up there. Well, as you can expect, it’s really horrible. Al Jazeera America learned this week that they’re proposing a “shoot to kill” policy to deal with all those people (which again, includes lots of children) at the border. Reporter Robert Ray asked a KKK imperial wizard why they would ever do such a thing. He explained that the people coming to the border are “criminals” and will “continue breaking the law” when they come into the country, not to mention bringing third world diseases. Ray suggested it might be heartless to propose killing young children because of that. And here’s what t...

by: Les Carpenter Rational Nation USA Purveyor of Truth As the crises on our southern border continues illegals are being shipped to Massachusetts by plane according to the Boston Globe . Apparently the feds have been keeping this operation "under the radar." Local law enforcement officials in the Bay State are growing increasingly concerned, as they rightly should. Bristol County Sheriff Thomas Hodgson is calling for sheriffs across America to "“mobilize” on the red-hot immigration issue and confront the feds over their failure to communicate with local officials." Illegal immigrants are being secretly flown to Massachusetts and kept in local lockups in an under-the-radar operation that has alarmed lawmen who are raising health and security concerns amid recent spikes in detainees coming up from Texas during the latest border crisis. “We’re all becoming border sheriffs now with these people being carted all over the country,” said Bristol County Sheriff...

by: Les Carpenter Rational Nation USA Lib e rty -vs- Tyr a nny America must indeed do something to overcome the HU GE immigration problem created over the past thirty three plus years. A problem that everyone (in both parties) one knew was developing and yet no one in either party had any real interest in addressing. So... here we are. Faced with HU GE problem that won;'t go away by itself and will requires some level of rational thinking on the part of both the democrats as well as republicans. Speaker John Boehner may not get it right often, however, when he stated... “we’d be in a much weaker position if we didn’t act" with respect to immigration reform he was EXACTLY right. THE HILL - Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) urged their House Republican colleagues to pass immigration reform legislation in a closed-door meeting Wednesday, with the Speaker arguing his conference would be “in a much weaker position” if it failed to act. A divi...

by: Les Carpenter Rational Nation USA Liberty -vs- Tyranny It seems like a reasonable means of bringing more high tech talent to the USA, thus helping to make us more competitive in the global marketplace. Some however disagree. The New York Times - WHILE genuine immigration reform has the potential to fix a seriously broken system, four senators have introduced a bill to solve a problem we don’t have: the supply of high-tech workers. The bill’s authors, led by Senator Orrin G. Hatch, Republican of Utah, argue that America would benefit from letting more immigrants trained in science, technology, engineering and math work in the country, with the sponsorship of high-tech companies like Microsoft and I.B.M. But the opposite is the case: the bill would flood the job market with indentured foreign workers, people who could not switch employers to improve their wages or working conditions; damage the employment prospects of hundreds of thousands of skilled Americans; and narro...

Alabama Governor David Bentley           AP/David Bundy by: Les Carpenter Rational Nation USA Birthplace of Independent Conservatism Liberty -vs- Tyranny Alabama Governor David Bentley has signed into law what so far is the toughest immigration law in the nation. It includes all of the provisions of Arizona's SB 1070 and goes further, requiring schools and landlords to verify the immigration status of students and tenants. Like the Arizona law Alabama's law is certainly headed for tough challenges in the courts. Civil rights groups such as the far left Southern Poverty Law Center are lining up to challenge the new law. Excerpts from Salon : On Thursday, Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley signed what both critics and backers agree is the toughest immigration law in the country. Despite the relative lack of national media attention, the Alabama law includes more harsh measures than even Arizona's notorious SB 1070, which immediately fac...

by: Les Carpenter Rational Nation USA Birthplace of Independent Conservatism Does the man feel no shame? Another example of Mr. Obama's non-presidential behavior. Washington (CNN) - President Barack Obama used an immigration speech Tuesday to take a jab at News Corporation CEO, Rupert Murdoch, who owns Fox News Channel. Obama quoted the CEO, an Australian native, who said "Immigrants have made America great as the world leader in business, science, higher education and innovation." "That's Rupert Murdoch, the owner of Fox News, and an immigrant himself," Obama said. "I don't know if you're familiar with his views, but let's just say he doesn't have an Obama bumper sticker on his car." Well Mr. President, I and tens of million more Americans don't have an Obama bumper sticker on our car(s). For good reason. We've been on to your pathetic politics since 2008. The full text of the President's El Paso speech ....

By: Les Carpenter III Rational Nation USA Back from vacation (and man did it fly by!) checking my e-mail content. While there was much to filter through the forthcoming is a stark example of the direction the United States of America is heading with respect to the issue of diversity and multiculturalism. Both can be directly linked to immigration and the ultimate consequences if not understood so as to effectively control legal immigration and stop illegal immigration. The following content has been verified... . This is the link to Snopes  verifying the legitimacy of the content presented. Taken from a speech by the former Governor of Colorado, Richard Lamm. For those who understand the dangers we are facing as a nation because of uncontrolled immigration this will serve as a reminder of the serious nature of our problem. For those who have a more progressive view on immigration let this serve as words wort...

By: Les Carpenter III Rational Nation USA Michelle Malkin posted an article Friday 7/02/10 on immigration. The main theme was that our founding fathers were very much in favor of legal immigration. Being a nation of immigrants from the beginning it is only natural they would take such a position. That being a given Malkin points out the founders also realized that immigrants must accept our unique American culture and in thereby assimilate into it. To illustrate this point the following excerpt from her article: George Washington, in a letter to John Adams, stated that immigrants should be absorbed into American life so that “by an intermixture with our people, they, or their descendants, get assimilated to our customs, measures, laws: in a word soon become one people.” In a 1790 speech to Congress on the naturalization of immigrants, James Madison stated that America should welcome the immigrant who could assimilate, but exclude the i...

By: Les Carpenter III Rational Nation USA Barrack Hussein Obama hits all the liberal talking points with respect to illegal immigration. After his usual fluff he gets into the issue of immigration reform. Lots of nice words but what I hear is blanket amnesty for illegals loud and clear. The President's concern is 2012 and his motivation is to solidify his progressive collectivist voting block . He simply doesn't get that illegal is breaking US law. Immigration starts at approximately 4 minutes into the video. You be the judge. But my guess is under the bumbling direction of this administration the situation will get worse before it gets better. Arizona has it right. You can read the full text of Obama's speech here . Via:  Memorandum  Note: If the video does not play visit Memorandum and download it.

By: Les Carpenter III Rational Nation USA Community activist Elena Herrada during a panel discussion in Detroit, MI... The event was at the US Social Forum June 23, 2010. As pointed out by Verum Serum Herrada is primarily a local activist in Detroit. She has however been  quoted  often  in national publications. Her claim to fame is her community activism with respect to immigrant rights. Last June the NY Times Opinionator  featured an article written by Herrada on immigration. The US Social Forum is a a gathering radical progressive collectivists of significant consequence. The organization is made up of community activists and organizers as well as union leaders. To demonstrate their radical agenda here is the Forum's slogan..."Another World Is Possible, Another U.S. is Necessary."0 Herrada's comment are chilling and demonstrates great disdain for a group of law enforcement officials with the ...

By: Les Carpenter III Rational Nation USA What is it about these athletes who are speaking out against the sovereign state of Arizona in it's attempt to close it's borders and stop the infiltration of illegal immigrants from crossing the U.S / Mexican border. Existing federal  immigration law was written to accomplish the very same thing Arizona is aiming to achieve with it's new state law. The reason Arizonans acted to pass Senate Bill 1070 is because the federal government stopped enforcing the law a long time ago. And as it looks from this vantage point it is unlikely much will happen at the federal level to change it in the foreseeable future. Okay, I am going to say what is really on my mind. The federal government, and I am NOT singling out just President Obama...  more than one of his predecessors are guilty of doing nothing to control illegal immigration, as they in reality wanted a huge immigra...

By: Les Carpenter III Rational Nation USA I suppose the Phoenix Suns, The San Antonio Spurs, and the NBA saw monetary advantage in publicly opposing Arizona's newly passed immigration law. Or perhaps consideration was given to how this might positively  impact individual teams or the NBA should they fall on tough economic times and want to lobby the Obama administration for bailout money. According to reports the team decided to come out as an organization and make a bold political gesture in opposition to Arizona's new immigration law, Senate Bill 1070. It is obvious the league, it's executives, the players, team management, and team ownership are either ill informed or are pandering to illegals for some unknown reason. The bill mirrors federal law, is not racist or discriminatory in intent, and is the attempt by the State of Arizona to put teeth in immigration law in their state. The state has...

Borders - Language - Culture, three words that are at the core of  Michael Savage's belief  in what helped make America the greatest nation on earth. I believe Doctor Savage also thinks (if I read him correctly) that unless we reverse our current slide into multi-culturalism, required bilingual education, the onslaught of illegal aliens, and our apparent fascination with the goodness of other cultures over our American culture we will never regain our prior position in the world. These are valid concerns, one all American citizens should consider deeply, and with out the lens of political correctness. Immigrants who come to this nation legally, with the idea of securing  a better life for their families, coupled with the desire and willingness to work deserve our countries welcome and respect. This nation has always been a nation of immigrants.  My own heritage is a combination of German, Sw...