The Border & Illegal Aliens, And What We Are Doing About It.

[Bullheaded Texan]

Attorney General Jeff Sessions said.

“We are not going to let this country be invaded!

We will not be stampeded!

We will not capitulate to lawlessness!

This is NOT business as usual.

This is the Trump era!," the Attorney General said.
 

[Landel Cathcart]

Following the death of President George H.W. Bush, we took our cameras to the streets of Capitol Hill to talk to people about the legacy our 41st president leaves behind.

Bush died at his home in Houston on Friday at the age of 94.

 We spoke to people all of ages, including veterans and former members of Bush’s administration, about what they will remember most about him and what he will be remembered for.

 One woman told The Daily Signal: “First all of all, he loved God, he loved his family, he loved this nation. Having served this nation with a man of decency and dignity … and a dad, dignity, decency, and a dad.”

 “I think those combinations were wonderful and I have so much respect for him. I’m so glad to be here,” she added.

[Landel Cathcart]

George H.W. Bush’s Presidency as a Model of Competence!

  12/4/8  Fred Lucas

George H.W. Bush congratulates campaign headquarters staff in Washington following victory in New Hampshire's Republican presidential primary on Feb. 17, 1988. A funeral service for the 41st president is set Wednesday at Washington National Cathedral.

 President George H.W. Bush’s lasting legacy won’t be that of a transformational reformer or an ideologue, but rather a skillful manager of a world under extraordinary change, say biographers and experts looking at his presidency.

“He didn’t change the presidency at all. To do so would be contrary to who he is,” said Jeffrey Engel, director of the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University and author of “When the World Seemed New: George H.W. Bush and the End of the Cold....”

“Throughout his career, in the CIA or Congress, he was not an innovator but a very competent implementor,” Engel told The Daily Signal. “He wanted to uphold the dignity, integrity, and power of the office for the next president. He felt the presidency, like public service, had to endure beyond him.”

 Bush presided over triumphs for Western values such as the end of the Cold War, the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the fall of the Berlin Wall. He led the country, and a coalition of allies, to victory in Operation Desert Storm in 1991, the first war in Iraq.

 But, after winning a landslide victory in the 1988 election by running a conservative campaign, Bush disappointed many voters, chiefly by breaking his “no new taxes” pledge, a chief slogan of his campaign.

Bush was willing to take politically unpopular actions, Engel said, and he faced consequences in his 1992 election loss to Slick Willy bill clinton. Another factor in Bush’s failed re-election bid, Engel said, was that skillful management of the unpredictable world he inherited.

“This is a category with an asterix, but he is the most accomplished and most successful one-term president,” Engel said of the 41st president, adding:

He was a one-term president in part because of his successes. The Gulf War had wrapped up early enough that it didn’t impact re-election. He managed things well enough that by 1992, people thought that foreign affairs were not important.

The elder Bush also “looked the part” of president in a way that his four successors—including his son, George W. Bush—did not, Engel said.

He was a Navy veteran of World War II as well as a former director of the Central Intelligence Agency, member of Congress, envoy to China, ambassador to the United Nations, and chairman of the Republican National Committee. So no one questioned his experience, Engel said, and he didn’t prompt polarization along a cultural divide.

“Bush was recognized as the establishment and respectable, even for people who didn’t like him,” Engel said. “Every subsequent president was despised by some in part because they all were outside what many Americans conceived of or imagined as presidential.”

Although history credits Ronald Reagan for winning the Cold War—reaching a historic arms reduction agreement with the Soviet Union before the regime collapsed as Reagan built up the U.S. military—experts note that Bush, who served as Reagan’s vice president, deserves much credit for presiding over the uncertain aftermath.

“Ronald Reagan had better foreign policy and leadership, but no White House managed foreign policy as professionally as the Bush White House,” James Carafano, vice president for national security and foreign policy at The Heritage Foundation, told The Daily Signal.

“As a war leader, he was Lincolnesque,” Carafano, a 25-year Army veteran, added of Bush.

“He was entering an unprecedented shift in global politics,” Carafano said, referring to the end of the Cold War. “Just as people were critical of Harry Truman’s handling of the beginning of the Cold War, some were critical of Bush for his handling of the end. Both faced utterly new and different world with unprecedented changes politically.”

 Bush may have been the right person for a time in need of a leader to building international coalitions, said Michael Cairo, a political science professor at Transylvania University and author of “The Gulf: The Bush Presidencies and the Middle East.”

“A major civil conflict could have erupted and drawn the West in,” Cairo told The Daily Signal. “There was no guarantee of the relatively peaceful end to the cold war that occurred.”

He continued:

Bush worked tirelessly to prevent major conflict and assured the most peaceful demise of the Soviet Union as possible. He understood the importance of diplomacy and personal negotiation, using his contacts throughout the world to help ease the changes that were taking place. Declaring victory in a war, whether it’s cold or hot, is easy; the tough part is dealing with the aftermath. As the Soviet Union broke apart, Bush had to calm fears of both enemies and allies that a stable world could emerge from the aftermath.

Coalition building, Cairo said, was key to Bush’s top military victory.

“President Bush understood that America first doesn’t have to mean America alone,” Cairo said. “When Iraq invaded Kuwait, he did not take unilateral action but worked to strengthen American leadership at the United Nations and around the world. He worked with allies and enemies to build a coalition against Iraq in order to evict Iraq from Kuwait. … His diplomatic leadership as the Cold War came to an end will be his most significant legacy.”

While recognizing Bush as a patriot, pioneering conservative activist and author Richard Viguerie accused him in a column Monday of “breaking the Reagan coalition and undoing many of Ronald Reagan’s hard-won victories.”

“In 1988 George H.W. Bush ran what was arguably one of the most conservative campaigns for president of the modern era,” Viguerie, now chairman of FedUp PAC and the website ConservativeHQ, wrote.

“From the Second Amendment to American exceptionalism to the right to life that Bush had once opposed by backing Roe v. Wade and abortion on demand,” he wrote, “George H.W. Bush hit all the notes conservatives were hoping to hear from the Republican presidential candidate and emphasized the social issues establishment Republicans always do their best to avoid.”

However, Viguerie notes, Bush went on to impose regulations by signing the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Clean Air Act, and to temporarily ban semiautomatic rifles.

In 1991, Bush nominated Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court, and he has proved to be a consistent constitutional conservative ever since.

However, Bush’s 1990 appointment to the high court was David Souter, who went on to vote consistently with the liberal wing of the court and became a sore point with conservatives. Souter retired in 2009.

“And in what was perhaps his most lasting and damaging betrayal of conservatives, he appointed an obscure state judge, David Souter of New Hampshire, to the Supreme Court,” Viguerie wrote of that decision.

Bush was a pragmatic leader, Cairo noted.

“The ADA is certainly one of the most important legacies for President Bush. He understood that government is not the enemy, but could be used to promote the public good and help all Americans,” Cairo said.

“And despite critics who opposed the omnibus budget bill that raised taxes, it’s important to remember that the decision to reverse his pledge on taxes helped open the door to significant deficit reduction in the Clinton administration.”

A funeral service will be held Wednesday morning at Washington National Cathedral.  Son George W. Bush will deliver a eulogy, as will former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, former Sen. Alan Simpson, and presidential historian Jon Meacham, Fox News reported.

The body of the 41st president will be flown back to Houston to lie in repose at St. Martin’s Episcopal Church before another funeral service there Thursday, followed by burial at the George Bush Presidential Library at Texas A&M University.

**** R.I.P. President  George H.W. Bush. 

 We that know, KNOW! ****

[Landel Cathcart]

Migrants have reportedly broken though the U.S. border at Tijuana, Mexico  and some may have escaped.

 About 25 migrants climbed a 10-foot metal fence as darkness descended Monday night.

U.S. Border Patrol guards caught most of them, according to Reuters, but others may have escaped detention. Witnesses say the would-be refugees used blankets and ropes to climb over the wall, where thousands of them remain, despite Tijuana’s apparent resolve to move the migrants further south amid reports of infectious diseases at the border shelter. (RELATED: Tijuana Kicks Out Migrants From Border Shelter)

Central American migrants who have been travelling in a caravan hoping to get to the United States, climb the metal barrier separating Mexico and the US, in Playas de Tijuana, Mexico on Dec. 2, 2018. (Photo credit PEDRO PARDO/AFP/Getty Images)

One witness told Reuters that she and her three children were just watching other migrants scale the fence and “waiting to see what happens.” However, according to the news outlet, she and her family were over the border within two hours.

The border incursion occurred as chaos continues to define the status of the caravan migrants and as President Donald Trump promotes his border wall with renewed fervor. He has vowed to proceed with the development of the wall, despite threats of a government shutdown by his opponents in Congress. Trump is also challenging a federal judge’s ruling that the federal government must assess the refugee status of migrants who illegally enter the U.S. (RELATED: Tijuana Mayor Denounces ‘Horde’ Of Caravan Migrants, Calls For Swift Deportation)

Central American migrants -mostly from Honduras- struggle with Mexican Police officers near the El Chaparral border crossing close to the Mexico-US border, in Tijuana, Baja California State, Mexico, on Nov. 25, 2018 (Photo by GUILLERMO ARIAS/AFP/Getty Images)

Reports have warned that certain migrants among the caravan are criminals and carrying infectious diseases. About 500 in the group already tried to storm the U.S. border, but were repulsed with tear gas. (RELATED: Angry Tijuana Residents Push Back Against Migrant Caravan: ‘This Is An Invasion’)

Many Tijuana residents exhibited their irritation when the migrants first arrived in their city with loud protests.

[Landel Cathcart]

Missouri City Fires Entire Police Force!
11/21/18 by Tom Knighton
A lot of small towns don’t have precisely large police departments. My father was a chief of police for a department that, after a while, was pretty much just him, so I’ve seen it sort of up close and personal. Frankly, I suspect anyone with ties to a small town has.
Sometimes, a city will allow their department to dwindle to almost nothing as the cash-strapped community opts not to fill vacancies. What you don’t often see is the city deciding to fire their entire department, especially in a hinky manner as one Missouri town did.
The last police officer in the tiny Cass County town of Garden City was fired Monday as he arrived at the office.
“I was met by the mayor, a sheriff’s deputy and an alderman and handed termination papers,” said 50-year-old Tom Albers, an 18 year veteran of the department.
The letter simply said “The City of Garden City Board of Alderman held an Emergency Executive Closed Session Meeting on November 15, 2018.
Your employment with the City is hereby suspended without pay indefinitely.”
November 15th was Thursday, the day after the city laid off the other seven members of the department.
Albers said he was told at the time that he was being kept on as a one-man department.
In a Facebook post on Wednesday, Garden City Mayor Daniel Cantrell said it was Albers job “to continue to police our City.” However, it is now clear the city decided to fire Albers last week and tell him about it Monday.
Perhaps the worst part is that the city is claiming that the officers won’t be entitled to unemployment benefits. ***THAT'S HOW THEY WORK!***
Albers said his former officers were all told they would be eligible for unemployment benefits. He said he is unsure if being “suspended indefinitely without pay” will allow him to collect unemployment.
Law enforcement in the city will now be handled by the Sheriff’s Department, at the cost of $45 per hour per deputy to cover the community. It makes you wonder how much it cost to have their department on a per hour basis.
Albers argues that the new arrangement will increase response times, which it may well do.
As for the unemployment question, my take is, never trust the employer when they say you aren’t entitled to unemployment. They rarely have your best interests at heart when they tell you that. Instead, they need to take it to a third party and let them evaluate whether or not they’re entitled or not.
I’m telling you, something about this whole mess stinks to high heaven!

It’s not just that they fired the entire department, but that they did it so abruptly with no severance package, no drawdown, and are trying to deny anyone any compensation following that termination. Couple that with telling the police chief that he still has a job, only to change tune later and something doesn’t sound quite right.
There’s probably a lot more to this story than what we’re hearing, but I’m kind of glad I’m not in Garden City, Missouri right about now.

[Landel Cathcart]

Landel, Fellow Patriot,
As the country is politically divided, we are fighting to protect our own freedoms from being taken away by fellow Americans. We are also being threatened by non-Americans.
This country is being flooded with illegal immigrants that are draining our system of the benefits meant to help citizens of this country. Our tax dollars are being used to help illegal immigrants that do not contribute to this great country.
Simply protecting our borders isnt enough to fight this plague that is affecting each and every one of us.
President Trump is ready to sign an executive order to eliminate birthright citizenship to help fight this battle and protect the American way of life.
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[M]

Landel,

I was watching a few videos of troop deployment and I did see quite a bit of Area denial equipment. Most of it was of the non-lethal type like the directed microwave, Directed sound,and directed photonic equipment along with the concertina wire. All it is going to take is for Trump to order it's usage. I've caught a few glimpses of it so it is already deployed but not obviously. It will come as a surprise to the invaders when and if it is used. Some of the photonic lighting is so powerful that if someone is standing 100 yards from it it will temporarily blind the person through closed eyelids and having hands in front of their eyes. Simply put, if someone is between you and the light you will be able to see their skeletal structure it's so bright. The Sonic equipment uses varying frequencies and decibels of sound from the high to the low frequencies and that has a definite effect on human physiology. The Directed microwave is more intense the closer you get, and most people will turn away because of the heat it creates on the skin. No one I know can stand it at the distance that will cause a thermal burn akin to a bad sunburn. I hope Trump has the cojones to use it.

M

[Landel Cathcart]

The Military Is 'Securing' a 1,900-Mile Border with 22 Miles of Razor Wire
"Operation Faithful Patriot" is nothing more than a very expensive, politically motivated P.R. campaign.
11/19/18 Eric Boehm
Skim through the Pentagon's media site for Operation Faithful Patriot—the fittingly ridiculous name for the deployment of some 7,000 American troops to various spots along the Mexican border—and you'll see lots of razor wire.
There are photos of American troops laying razor wire (technically known as concertina wire) along the California-Mexico border. Of wire being affixed to the top of fences and to the sides of buildings. Everywhere you look on the Pentagon's site, you find wire, wire, and more wire. Photos of soldiers carrying rolls of unused wire, snapshots of forklifts bringing more of the stuff to the border, and even videos of wire being unrolled and deployed. It's thrilling stuff, truly.
The message is not subtle. President Donald Trump might not have convinced Congress to blow billions for a fully operational border wall, but good luck to any immigrant caravan that happens to stumble into the thorny might of the American military's sharpest deterrents.
The focus on concertina wire isn't just in the Pentagon's internal media. The Wall Street Journal dedicated an entire Election Day story to how troops in Granjeno, Texas, had "unfurled reams of razor wire on top of a wrought-iron fence alongside a bridge to Mexico." Troops stringing wire also appeared in The New York Post, The Washington Post, and elsewhere.
There is so much concertina wire deployed to the southern border that if it were all stretched out from end to end, it would reach all the way from Brownsville, Texas, on the Gulf Coast to....well, whatever is 22 miles west of Brownsville, Texas.
Yes. Despite the deluge of photos and videos of American troops are securing the southern border with reams of razor wire, Buzzfeed's Vera Bergengruen reports that "troops have deployed with 22 miles of the wire so far, with 150 more available."
The U.S.–Mexico border is roughly 1,950 miles long.
The wire doesn't seem to be getting strung with any sort of strategic purpose, either. That WSJ story about the troops in Texas hanging wire from a bridge says that the "wire was placed on top of fences at least 15 feet high along each side of the bridge that sat several dozen feet above an embankment" while the bridge itself remains open to vehicle traffic from Mexico. If there is a goal, it would seem to be making the border look more prickly and dystopian while not actually creating any sort of barrier.
It's no wonder, then, that the troops deployed to the border are confused about why they are there. On Wednesday, when Defense Secretary Jim Mattis visited some of the troops stationed near McAllen, Texas, he was met with lots of questions and provided few answers.
"Sir, I have a question. The wire obstacles that we've implanted along the border....Are we going to be taking those out when we leave?" one of the soldiers asked Mattis, according to Bergengruen. Another asked Mattis to explain the "short- and long-term plans of this operation."
"Short-term right now, you get the obstacles in so the border patrolmen can do what they gotta do," Mattis responded. "Longer term, it's somewhat to be determined."
Even at a time when most American military engagements seem to be conducted with a "TBD" rationale, this feels especially egregious. Mattis did his best on Wednesday to make the effort seem like a meaningful attempt to secure the border, while simultaneously admitting that he does not expect the deployed troops to actually come into contact with any immigrant caravans. Lately he's been talking about how the deployment is supposedly good training for unconventional circumstances.
It's becoming increasingly obvious that Operation Faithful Patriot—a name so silly that the Pentagon has decided to stop using it—is nothing more than a very expensive, politically motivated P.R. campaign. Of the 39 units deployed, five of them are public affairs units. There seems to be no clear mission, no long-term objective, and no indication that the troops will add meaningful enforcement to existing border patrols.
As for all that wire? It doesn't really seem to be working either!

[Landel Cathcart]

Dropping ‘Zero Tolerance’ Signaled Open Door for Illegal Immigrants!

 10/19/18  Fred Lucas 

Thousands of Honduran migrants climb over a fence into Mexico from Guatemala on Friday at the Suchiate River. The "caravan" is headed toward the United States.

 Feeling the political heat over separating families of illegal immigrants, President Donald Trump took executive action in June to scale back his “zero tolerance” policy for border crossers.

But under existing law, this had fairly predictable results, immigration experts said.

“Catch and release is not an official policy, but it is the default until we have better laws,” Chris Chmielenski, deputy director of Numbers USA, a research group that supports immigration restrictions, told The Daily Signal.

 While curbing illegal immigration was Trump’s signature campaign issue, and the Justice Department and Department of Homeland Security have increased enforcement, the problem of illegal border crossings has escalated again in recent months.

 Experts say the Trump administration may have done everything possible through executive action, and must rely on Congress to close certain loopholes to better secure the border.

 In lieu of consequences, the number of migrant parents illegally entering the United States escalated since Trump ended separation of children from parents at the border, The Washington Post reported this week.

 The Border Patrol arrested 16,658 family members in September–the highest on record, the newspaper reported, citing unpublished Department of Homeland Security statistics.

 Even before a large caravan began making its way through Central America toward the United States, large groups of 100 or more parents and children were crossing through Mexico into Arizona to make asylum claims.

 Under the law, the U.S. is required to adjudicate asylum claims, and cannot detain children for more than 20 days. This can lead to freeing families into the interior of the country who may not show up for their hearing.

“The reason we have border surges is that when migrants get to the border they are either apprehended, but know when they get caught they will get released, or there just isn’t enough space to detain them,” Chmielenski said in an interview with The Daily Signal.

 “You can only hold minors for 20 days. Then they are released, usually with the adult they came with,” he said.

He said Immigration and Customs Enforcement lacks detention space, which requires releasing some illegal immigrants while more flow into the country.

 Three major issues in existing law impede stopping the large influx of illegal immigrants.

In 1997, the Clinton administration entered into something called the Flores Settlement Agreement, which ended a class action lawsuit first brought in the 1980s. The settlement established a policy that the federal government would release unaccompanied minors from custody to their parents, relatives, or other caretakers after no more than 20 days, or, alternatively, determine the “least restrictive” setting for the child.

In 2016, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit expanded the Flores settlement to include children brought to the country illegally by their parents or other adults.

 Separately, Section 235(g) of a law called the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act states that unaccompanied minors entering the United States must be transferred to the custody of the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Refugee Resettlement, rather than to the Department of Homeland Security.

 This left the Trump administration with the option of either releasing every immigrant with a child who crosses the border; or to release only the child, as required by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals’ interpretation of the Flores settlement, while holding the parents or other adults who accompany them for a hearing.

 On other fronts, the 2001 Supreme Court ruling in the case of Zadvydas v. Davis ended indefinite detentions of illegal immigrants who face deportations.

 A loophole used by child smugglers and human traffickers is the Refugee Act, which establishes procedures for admitting and caring for refugees seeking asylum in the United States.

“The reality is when you end the no-tolerance policy with no fixes, then basically, if you come to the U.S. with a child in tow, they have to release you,” David Inserra, a policy analyst for homeland security with The Heritage Foundation, told The Daily Signal. “The number has been spiking in the course of a couple of months.”

 The caravan of 4,000 approaching the U.S. through Central America has drawn even more attention to the problems with immigration law. The group originated Oct. 12 in Honduras.

 Trump issued two strong warnings Thursday on Twitter, saying he is willing to send troops to the border.

And, he has! ...".In addition to stopping all payments to these countries, which seem to have almost no control over their population, I must, in the strongest of terms, ask Mexico to stop this onslaught - and if unable to do so I will call up the U.S. Military and CLOSE OUR SOUTHERN BORDER! The assault on our country at our Southern Border, including the Criminal elements and DRUGS pouring in, is far more important to me, as President, than Trade or the USMCA. Hopefully Mexico will stop this onslaught at their Northern Border. All Democrats are at fault for weak laws!"

 In the case of the caravan, Mexico has stepped up enforcement to prevent it from crossing its border en route to the United States. Meanwhile, law enforcement in Guatemala detained a former Honduran legislator who purportedly is one of the organizers.

 This indicates Trump’s threat to cut off U.S. funding from Central American countries could be effective, Inserra said. However, he said, there should be consideration on following through. “Some countries rely on funding to help fight corruption and instability, so it’s a double-edged sword,” Inserra said. “We don’t want more instability and corruption in those countries, or we could have more migration. But, we do need to ask them to do their part.”

 As for putting the U.S. military on the southern border, Inserra said, there may be better options.

 “If 4,000 people are trying to force their way across the border, it would justify the National Guard. But that’s an expensive route to go,” Inserra said. “A better route would be keeping them from coming here to begin with.”

“If someone claims asylum,” he added, “what is the military supposed to do? Say no? The military can’t. The military is not a law enforcement agency.”

 That said, the military could provide more hands on deck at the border, Numbers USA’s Chmielenski said.

“The military can’t apprehend illegal border crossers, but they can still do a lot of administrative work,” he said. “Drug cartels flood one area of the border to make another border area vulnerable.”

 obuma our self proclaimed dictator gave them the honorable title immigrant while still millions waited years and saved years to pay fees to achieve. obuma illegally brought in millions and millions of welfare dependent aliens overwhelming the system!

  One sneaky unquestioned liar destroyed this nation in only eight short years, one pathological communist liar. Open borders means one sneaky lying communist was able to tear down a Republic that millions died in battle to protect.

 The end of Trump will speed up the death of the USA in debt as planned by the hero of the left.

We now have propaganda news by leftist, dangerous armed unchallenged terrorist running wild in the streets, and Democratic Party leaders calling for anarchist to spread terror to opponents because opponents might be violent?

[Landel Cathcart]

Video footage released by various Mexican news agencies show the first group of migrants with a caravan of 7,000 to 10,000 Central Americans have arrived at the United States-Mexico border.

In live video footage by Televisa Tijuana Oficial and FRONTERA, Central American migrants reportedly with the caravan can be seen scaling a border fence that separates Tijuana, Mexico, and San Diego, Mexifornia.

 11/ 13 /18 John Binder    

The first wave of the caravan (which we were assured wouldn't arrive for weeks), climbing onto the border fence between Tijuana & San Diego. 

 As Breitbart News’s Robert Arce reported, newly released video footage shows that 400 migrants with the caravan were escorted through the northern border state of Sonora as the busloads of Central Americans head to the U.S.-Mexico border.

 President Trump has deployed more than 5,000 members of the U.S. military to the southern border to aid federal immigration officials in dealing with the caravan.

 Nearly 400,000 illegal border-crossers have crossed into the U.S. this year, as of last month. In October, nearly 51,000 border-crossers were apprehended, Breitbart News reported.

 As Breitbart News has chronicled, though the establishment media has repeatedly claimed that the caravan is seeking to enter the U.S. to seek asylum, the Central American migrants have continuously admitted they are not seeking asylum.

 Instead, the migrants are previously deported illegal aliens who are looking to go back to their former, illegal life in the U.S. None of these cases is eligible as asylum claims.

Sex Offenders, Gang Members Apprehended near Texas Border.  

11/14/18 Bob Price   

Cruz: ‘Under No Circumstances’ Should We Let Migrant Caravan into America!

 11/18/18

Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said “under no circumstances” should the so-called migrant caravan be allowed to cross into the United States.

Partial transcript as follows:

BRENNAN: You were very critical of the Obama administration for taking action via executive fiat as you said, you called it dangerous. This week President Trump on immigration has issued orders bypassing Congress to restrict how migrants crossing the border illegally can claim asylum. Are you OK with that now?

CRUZ: Well I’m still studying this specific immigration order, but I’ll tell you look, here’s my view on executive orders–

BRENNAN: But bypassing Congress?–

CRUZ: Well let- let me explain my view on- on executive orders whether from Trump or Obama, George W. Bush or anybody else, which is there is a legitimate role for an executive order, and that is governing how the Executive Branch operates. How under Article II of the Constitution the president of the Executive Branch is charged with- with taking- taking due care that the laws are faithfully executed. And an executive order is perfectly appropriate to direct the Executive Branch. This is the manner in which we shall execute the law. What Obama did repeatedly that was so lawless is his executive orders didn’t do that. Instead, they said here is the federal law passed by Congress signed by the president that we will defy, that we will ignore, and- and that the president can’t do. And- and so that’s the question on any executive order is-is it- is it directing how the executive will behave or is it flying in defiance to- to laws passed by Congress. If it’s the latter, it’s unconstitutional.

BRENNAN: So I- I don’t hear a clear answer on whether you think this asylum change is OK. Do you think via executive order, it is appropriate for the president to end birthright citizenship, again bypassing Congress?

CRUZ: Well, Margaret as I said on the executive order on immigration I have not studied that order yet, it just came out this week. You know I have to admit I was kind of busy, we had an election a couple of days ago. And so, I have not yet reviewed the executive order, and I try on legal decisions – my career has been being a constitutional litigator, so I don’t reach constitutional opinions lightly. If the order defies the laws of Congress, then yes it’s unconstitutional. If the order constrains and directs how the executive will implement the law then it’s not. Now my understanding is this executive order does things directing resources to the border. Those resources are clearly within the purview of an executive order for the president. —

BRENNAN: And birthright citizenship executive order that’s coming–

CRUZ: And the president is charged under existing law– The president is charged under executive -under federal law with securing the border, and if the executive order is in furtherance of the statute then it’s not only allowable, it’s appropriate and good. I mean this so-called migrant caravan of over 10,000 people marching North, declaring their intention to cross the border illegally. I can tell you I told the president just recently when he and I spoke. I said Mr. President under no circumstances should we let them cross, we should use whatever tools are available, whether it is border patrol whether it is National Guard whether- whether it is the military that the president has called up, but we shouldn’t allow 10,000 people to blatantly and deliberately violate the law. There is a right way to come to this country, and that’s following the law, waiting in line and following the rules.

[Landel Cathcart]

Watch–Caravan Migrants Arrive at Southern Border, Easily Scale Fence!

 Video footage released by various Mexican news agencies show the first group of migrants with a caravan of 7,000 to 10,000 Central Americans have arrived at the United States-Mexico border.

In live video footage by Televisa Tijuana Oficial and FRONTERA, Central American migrants reportedly with the caravan can be seen scaling a border fence that separates Tijuana, Mexico, and San Diego, Mexifornia.   

 The first wave of the caravan (which we were assured wouldn't arrive for weeks), climbing onto the border fence between Tijuana & San Diego.