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.
 

[Bullheaded Texan]

After a long struggle with cancer, beloved Fox News commentator Charles Krauthammer died at 68. R.I.P. Charles.
In addition to his work at Fox, the syndicated columnist was also known as a Pulitzer Prize winner, Harvard-trained psychiatrist, and New York Times' best-selling author.
Krauthammer was nothing less than a Renaissance man whose thirst for knowledge and razor-sharp wit made him arguably the right's most formidable intellectual.
Without further ado, here are 10 of his most profound quotes.
1.) Regarding the Swamp;
"Whenever you're faced with an explanation of what's going on in Wash., the choice between incompetence and conspiracy, always choose incompetence."
2.) Evolving Political Views;
"I was a Great Society liberal on domestic issues. People ask me, 'How do you go from Walter Mondale to Fox News?' The answer is, 'I was young once.' End of answer.
3.) Why Conservatism?;
"I believe in what I believe, and I think after all these years I've heard a lot of arguments, and I'm convinced by the superiority of the arguments that are made on the conservative side. I think that's a better way to run a society."
4.) On obuma;
"obuma is a man of first-class intellect and first-class temperament. But his character remains highly suspect."
5.) The United Nations;
"The U.N. is worse than a disaster. The U.N. creates conflicts. Look at the disgraceful U.N. Human Rights Council: It transmits norms which are harmful, anti-liberty and anti-Semitic, among other things. The world would be better off in its absence."
6.) America's Place in the World;
"Americans are not intrinsically imperial, but we ended up dominant by default: Europe disappeared after the Second World War, the Soviet Union disappeared in 1991, so here we are."
7.) The Fallacy of Gun Control;
"In the liberal remake of 'Casablanca,' the police captain comes upon the scene of the shooting and orders his men to 'round up the usual weapons.' It's always the weapon and never the shooter."
8.) Underestimating the Horrors of Terrorism;
"This is a formidable enemy. To dismiss it as a bunch of 'cowards' perpetuating 'senseless acts of violence' is complacent nonsense. People willing to kill thousands of innocents while they kill themselves are not cowards. They are deadly vicious warriors and need to be treated as such."
9.) On obuma's Failures;
" Ideas matter. Legislative proposals matter. Slick campaigns and dazzling speeches can work for a while, but the magic always wears off."
10.) Facing the Opposition;
"I don't mind going into a liberal lion's den. That's where you test yourself."

[Bullheaded Texan]

The U.S. States, People Are Fleeing (And The Ones They Are Moving To).
6/21/18 Karsten Strauss Forbes Staff
Each year families pack up their belongings and move to a new home, sometimes out of state. Tracking where they go—and where they’re leaving from, shows an interesting picture of U.S. migration.
This past year, United Van Lines, a moving company that operates throughout the country, moved about 110,000 families and provided each with a simple questionnaire to discover the reasons they were moving.
The results tell us which states are attracting families and why.
For a look at the top ten states people are leaving, check out our slideshow.
10. Wisconsin; Total Moves: 3,285 Percentage Moving Out: 54.5%
09. Utah; Total Moves: 2,118 Percentage Moving Out: 55.7%
08. Kentucky; Total Moves: 2,837 Percentage Moving Out: 56%
07. Ohio; Total Moves: 6,684 Percentage Moving Out: 56.2%
06. Massachusetts; Total Moves: 4,567 Percentage Moving Out: 56.3%
05. Kansas; Total Moves: 2,370 Percentage Moving Out: 56.7%
04. Connecticut; Total Moves: 2,866 Percentage Moving Out: 57.1%
03. New York; Total Moves: 8,381 Percentage Moving Out: 60.6%
02. New Jersey; Total Moves: 4,723 Percentage Moving Out: 62.9%
01. Illinois; Total Moves: 8,157 Percentage Moving Out: 63.4%
To find out which states people are moving to, read on.
The Top Inbound States of 2017;
1. Vermont 2. Oregon 3. Idaho 4. Nevada 5. South Dakota 6. Washington
7. South Carolina 8. North Carolina 9. Colorado 10. Alabama

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White House cancels congressional picnic; serves up ribeyes to military patients.
6/22/18 Carmel Kookogey
President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he would cancel the annual congressional picnic, saying “we want to solve this immigration problem” and that “it didn’t feel exactly right” to have a picnic before the issue is solved.
Rather than feeding members of Congress, whom Trump has recently admonished for not passing immigration reform laws, the president opted to feed those who have fought to protect America!
***WAY TO GO PRESIDENT TRUMP!****
White House reporter for Bloomberg News Jennifer Jacobs shared on Twitter Friday morning that the food prepared for the congressional picnic, “including rib eye steaks, spinach, cole slaw, quinoa, black beans and pies, will be served at a lunch today to Walter Reed hospital patients, caregivers and employees at the Warrior and Family Center in Bethesda,” citing a United Service Organizations spokeswoman. " They are grilling up some massive steaks here at the White House today, I could smell these all the way out on Pennsylvania Avenue!"
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[Bullheaded Texan]

Famous Superman Actor Becomes A Police Officer.
6/22/18 Barry Brecheisen
“Superman” actor Dean Cain was sworn in as a reserve officer in the St. Anthony Police Department in Idaho, Fox News reported Thursday.
Cain, who’s known for his role as Superman in the ABC television show “Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman,” explained why he decided to take on some real-life crime fighting with the department’s “All About Kids” program.
“I’ve had a tremendous respect for law enforcement, and for military and first responders my whole life. My grandfather was a commander in the Navy, my uncle was a lieutenant colonel in the Air Force, and I haven’t served, and I had an opportunity to do so and actually help kids at the same time, so I jumped at the chance and put on the badge,” Cain told “Fox & Friends.”
Watch:

Cain expressed his support for law enforcement in our current climate.
“Law enforcement is under a lot of attack right now. They’re getting a lot of heat in our country … I’m hoping to be able to help sort of blur that line a little bit and bring the community and the men and women in blue a little bit closer.
So, I’m actually joining up.”
https://video.foxnews.com/v/video-embed.html?

[Bullheaded Texan]

M, what happened to all of the icons on top of the comment window?
"Bold", 'underline' ect...
Haven't seen them in awhile.
Bull

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VIDEO: President Trump Stands with Victims of Illegal Alien Crime.
6/22/18
https://youtu.be/bb3b3lRliig
“It’s time to support our police, to protect our families, and to save American lives.” President Donald J. Trump
SUPPORTING ANGEL FAMILIES: President Donald J. Trump is hearing firsthand from the American families who have lost loved ones to illegal alien crime.
*President Donald J. Trump is meeting with “Angel families,” who have lost loved ones to illegal alien crime.
*The Trump Administration created the Victims of Immigration Crime Engagement (VOICE) Office in order to support the victims and families affected by illegal alien crime. ◾U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement launched the VOICE Office in April 2017, following an Executive Order by the President calling for its creation.
*The VOICE Office operates a hotline to connect victims with social services and, when possible, assist them in obtaining immigration information regarding the offender.
*The VOICE Office has released a new report that includes case studies explaining how they were able to assist victims who contacted them.
*A 2011 Government Accountability Office report found nearly 3 million offenses tied to criminal aliens, including:
*More than 25,000 homicide offenses.
*More than 42,000 robbery offenses.
*Nearly 70,000 sex crime offenses.
*Nearly 15,000 kidnapping offenses.
*In Texas alone, more than 250,000 criminal aliens have been arrested and charged with over 600,000 criminal offenses within the last seven years.
*{In fiscal year 2017, more than 8,000 criminal illegal aliens in police custody were released back into our communities as a result of sanctuary policies}.
PROTECTING COMMUNITIES FROM MS-13:
Gangs like MS-13 have taken advantage of our porous borders and broken immigration system!
*MS-13 has exploited the influx of Unaccompanied Alien Children (UACs) entering the United States in order to bolster its ranks.
*Federal authorities are not able to quickly remove illegal alien gang members based on their membership in a gang.
*In May 2015, U.S. Border Patrol apprehended a UAC who was later released into American communities.
*The illegal alien was arrested in November 2017 in connection with the MS-13 related killing of a man who was stabbed over 100 times and decapitated.
*In December 2014, U.S. Border Patrol apprehended a UAC who was later released into American communities.
*In July 2017, the same illegal alien was listed as a known MS-13 gang member and placed on the State of Texas’ 10 Most Wanted list.
*The illegal alien has been arrested and is awaiting trial for the murder of two individuals.
*In December 2013, U.S. Border Patrol apprehended a UAC who was later released into American communities.
*In September 2016, the same illegal alien was one of 11 MS-13 gang members involved in the killing of teenage girls in Long Island, NY.
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Justice: 10 illegal Immigrants, MS-13, Dead Virginian Teenagers.
6/22/18
Eleven MS-13 gang members – all of whom are illegal immigrants except one – are facing life in prison after being charged in the kidnappings and deaths of two teens whose bodies were dug up in a Virginia park last year.
The ages of the male gang members charged Friday ranged from 20 to 27. All of them are from El Salvador and only one – who is believed to have fled the country – is not in police custody, according to NBC Washington.
Police uncovered the bodies of 17-year-old Edvin Escobar Mendez and 14-year-old Sergio Arita Triminio at Holmes Run Park in March 2017 after receiving a tip.
After Mendez vanished and was reported missing by his family, his brother tracked down Triminio – one of his friends – who revealed to him that Mendez was “abducted or killed” because the MS-13 members thought he was allied with a rival gang.
Eleven MS-13 gang members – all of whom are illegal immigrants except one – are facing life in prison after being charged in the kidnappings and deaths of two teens whose bodies were dug up in a Virginia park last year.
The ages of the male gang members charged Friday ranged from 20 to 27. All of them are from El Salvador and only one – who is believed to have fled the country – is not in police custody, according to NBC Washington.
Police uncovered the bodies of 17-year-old Edvin Escobar Mendez and 14-year-old Sergio Arita Triminio at Holmes Run Park in March 2017 after receiving a tip.
The two teens disappeared just weeks apart the prior year.
REMAINS OF SUSPECTED MS-13 MURDER VICTIM UNEARTHED IN NEW YORK, POLICE SAY
After Mendez vanished and was reported missing by his family, his brother tracked down Triminio - one of his friends - who revealed to him that Mendez was “abducted or killed” because the MS-13 members thought he was allied with a rival gang.
Two days after that reported conversation, Triminio, who lived near Holmes Run Park, disappeared while taking out the trash.
"He never came back," his mother said.
Investigators believe Triminio was killed because the MS-13 members thought he was working as a police informant, a federal indictment said. A court-ordered electronic monitoring device that Triminio was wearing, per his probation orders, stopped working the day he vanished, the documents added.

All but one of the men facing the conspiracy to kidnap charges are reported to be illegal immigrants, and one suspect is facing a conspiracy to commit murder in aid of racketeering charge.

WHAT IS MS-13, THE VIOLENT GANG TRUMP VOWED TO TARGET?

The names of those charged are Elmer Zelaya Martinez, 27, Erick Palacios Ruiz, 20, Ronald Herrera Contreras, 20, Josue Vigil Mejia, 21, Henry Zelaya Martinez, 24, Oscar Contreras Aguilar, 20, Yonathan Melgar Martinez, 21, Pablo Miguel Barrera Velasco, 20, Anderson Villatoro, 21, Francisco Avila Avalos, 20 and Fredys Baires Abarca, 20. Their gang member aliases included nicknames such as "Killer", "Horror" and "Lil Clandestino".
All of them are charged with conspiracy to kidnap, while Aguilar is also charged with conspiracy to commit murder and aid of racketeering.
MS-13 was started by Central American immigrants, mainly from El Salvador, in Los Angeles in the 1980s and has expanded to include Hondurans, Guatamalans, Mexicans and other Central and South Americans.
President Trump's Justice and Homeland Security Departments have made targeting the gang a top priority. The president himself has used the word "animals" to describe the gang.
Their sentence should be death. Not time in jail eating up taxpayers dollars and causing even more issues in the prison system. When we say enough, we mean ENOUGH! WE THE PEOPLE WANT THEM GONE!

[Bullheaded Texan]

Trump to GOP: Don’t Bother Voting on Immigration Bills Until After Midterms.
6/22/18 By Eric Levitz
This week, congressional Republicans planned to vote on a pair of immigration bills that can’t pass the House — for the sake of preventing a vote on a bill that actually could.
The charade began last month, when a group of vulnerable House Republicans decided to try to force a vote on a clean DREAM Act (i.e., legislation that gave a pathway to citizenship for Dreamers without funding Trump’s wall or slashing legal immigration).
Such a bill would almost certainly pass the House if brought to the floor, on the strength of its support among Democrats and a faction of Republicans who represent ethnically diverse, purple districts.
But Paul Ryan does not want it to pass!
The Speaker has vowed not to allow a vote on any legislation that a majority of House Republicans oppose.
And he also has no interest in undermining President Trump’s claim that the White House would love to help Dreamers but those rascally Democrats are standing in the way.
So, to get a DREAM Act to the floor, 'moderate Republicans' started a discharge petition, a rarely used parliamentary maneuver that allows 218 House members to force a vote over a Speaker’s opposition.
And once they got 213 signatures on that document, Ryan scrambled to kill the effort by promising moderates a vote on similar legislation.
Specifically, the Speaker worked with them to craft a “compromise” bill — one that was moderate enough to serve as a vehicle for vulnerable Republicans to signal their sympathy for Dreamers, but right-wing enough to alienate House Democrats (thereby ensuring that no immigration legislation would pass without majority GOP support).
Republicans hoped to vote on that “compromise” Friday (after a far-right alternative went down in flames Thursday) — but the president appeared to dash those hopes with an early-morning tweet.
"Republicans should stop wasting their time on Immigration until after we elect more Senators and Congressmen/women in Nov. Dems are just playing games, have no intention of doing anything to solves this decades old problem. We can pass great legislation after the Red Wave!" President Trump
Trump struck similar notes Thursday, when he tweeted, “What is the purpose of the House doing good immigration bills when you need 9 votes by Democrats in the Senate, and the Dems are only looking to Obstruct (which they feel is good for them in the Mid-Terms).”
And, in one sense, the president is right: None of the bills that the House has been considering — not even the clean DREAM Act — stand much chance of passing the Senate.
Every Republican involved in the House’s immigration fight is really just trying to send an advantageous message to his or her constituents. Thus, Trump is correct that, from a policy perspective, this is all a waste of time!
There is one narrow piece of immigration policy that Congress might actually be able to pass: namely, some measure that prevents immigration authorities from separating migrants from their children. In the face of overwhelming, bipartisan opposition to “family separation,” Trump signed an executive order this week instructing his administration to end the practice.
But that order isn’t legally tenable: The administration still intends to jail all migrants who commit the misdemeanor offense of crossing the southern border between official points of entry — which means that, to keep families together, our government must incarcerate innocent children with their parents.
But the judiciary has ruled that the government cannot do that for longer than 20 days.
So, unless the White House backs off its “zero tolerance” policy (which it definitely won’t), or the courts reverse themselves (which they almost definitely won’t), or Congress takes action, family separation will become U.S. policy again.
Friday morning, Trump ostensibly confirmed that he does not want Congress to pass any border enforcement reforms that nine Senate Democrats would be willing to support.
Which is to say:
The president has apparently decided that he would like to continue
holding Dreamers hostage — until voters deliver him a nativist Senate, or Democrats agree to pay his ransom, and vote to fund his wall and slash legal immigration.

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The Navy Is Planning Tent Cities for Undocumented Aliens.
6/22/18 By Ed Kilgore
Looks like big plans are underway to detain tens of thousands of unauthorized aliens.
Part of what’s been playing out on television screens and heated public debates over the last few days has been the visible implications of a “zero tolerance” policy toward undocumented aliens crossing the border:
It’s chaotic and often inhumane. But in quieter sectors of the federal government, bureaucrats are working away at plans to regularize the policy by building facilities to house tens of thousands of aliens, while immigration officials and the courts figure out what to do with them. And not just any bureaucrats — but military bureaucrats.
Time has the story:
The U.S. Navy is preparing plans to construct sprawling detention centers for tens of thousands of aliens on remote bases in Mexifornia, Alabama and Arizona, escalating the military’s task in implementing President Donald Trump’s “zero tolerance” policy for people caught crossing the Southern border, according to a copy of a draft memo obtained by TIME.
The internal document, drafted for the Navy Secretary’s approval, signals how the military is anticipating its role in Trump’s immigration crackdown. The planning document indicates a potential growing military responsibility in an administration caught flat-footed in having to house waves of aliens awaiting civilian criminal proceedings.
These plans would appear to be responsive to language in yesterday’s presidential executive order reiterating the “zero tolerance” policy while ending family separations:
The Secretary of Defense shall take all legally available measures to provide to the Secretary of Homeland Security, upon request, any existing facilities available for the housing and care of alien families, and shall construct such facilities if necessary and consistent with law.
The Secretary, to the extent permitted by law, shall be responsible for reimbursement for the use of these facilities.
Indeed, unless the Navy is speedier in its planning operations than one would guess, the “tent cities” discussions must have been underway for a while. But clearly the Navy is ready to hit the ground running:
In the Navy document, military officials propose a 60-day timeline to build the first temporary tent facility for 5,000 adults. After that, military officials suggest they could add room for 10,000 additional individuals each month.
But this is just part of the overall deployment of military resources:
The Pentagon has been asked make preparations on military bases to house as many as 20,000 house alien children who are apprehended at the U.S.-Mexico border without an adult relative or separated from parents, U.S. military officials said.
Department of Health and Human Services completed assessments this week at Goodfellow Air Force Base, Dyess Air Force Base, Fort Bliss in Texas and Little Rock Air Force Base in Arkansas for potential use for the Unaccompanied Alien Children program.
Now some of the reasons for using the military for this non-military task are obvious:
They own a lot of land and operate a lot of secured facilities that include efficient and relatively safe systems for housing and feeding thousands of people.
There are some other reasons that are a bit less reputable:
Military facilities can be easily sequestered from the prying eyes of the news media, immigration and civil-liberties lawyers, and political activists.
If these plans are implemented, it will be interesting to see how Americans react to this sort of use of their armed forces.
The poor and sometimes persecuted people struggling to enter this country without documentation are criminals, sometimes putative rapists and murderers, if not “enemy combatants.”

[Bullheaded Texan]

Remembering Charles Krauthammer:
I’ve known Charles Krauthammer for a long time, through the Reagan years all the way through obuma and Trump.
Perhaps the most remarkable thing is that we remained friends, albeit distant from time to time, throughout. Being a dissident on the right as I became — particularly in the new century — was to invite ostracism and obloquy from the mainstream conservative media.
But not from Charles. It wasn’t because we didn’t have disagreements. We argued strenuously from the get-go.
In the 1980s, I was against the Contras; he was for. I then found the Iran-Contra affair appalling; he found it defensible.
I became a sharp critic of Israel, as it continued and intensified the settlements; Charles could not offer a single stray thought critical of the Jewish state.
He opposed marriage equality at first — on the slippery-slope polygamy grounds; I rebutted him.
Then, perhaps most profoundly, he argued for a special team of U.S. forces to torture prisoners; and I pulled out all the stops to oppose him.
We agreed on Trump (he regarded his Russian ties as sinister), but even then, I found Charles’s inability to disown the GOP baffling.
I don’t regret any of those positions now; and I doubt Charles ever did either.
But he seemed incapable of personal abuse, animosity, or rhetorical demonization. He even expressed a kind of fondness for me, I like to think, which was hard not to reciprocate.
He was always a thinker, always drawn to argument and counterargument, even if he almost never conceded a point, however trivial.
He’d smile laconically if you thought you’d made a good point, in what seemed like a mixture of mischief and condescension, and you knew it wouldn’t be worth haggling any further.
He was as far away from bigotry as is humanly possible, which is why I took his argument against gay marriage seriously.
And he was a liberal conservative: completely at home in a pluralist and multicultural world — he was originally Canadian, after all — but with a profound and even dark realism about human affairs.
He supported science and religion. His writing has one quality above all others: total clarity. But he was also able to turn on a dime.
I’ll never forget him writing a piece at The New Republic arguing that the Palestinians would never recognize the Jewish state.
Then they did, and Charles quickly rewrote the piece, with apparent equanimity.
In my time, he was engaged at TNR in a monumental feud with Leon Wieseltier. Both were pro-Israel fanatics.
Leon was always trying to play the role of the liberal Zionist, above certain arguments, attentive to means as well as ends, fond of the bon mot and the elegant phrase.
Charles was emphatically unworried about his rep among liberals and lefties, his language always pellucid, never showy.
They once had a fight over whether Yitzhak Shamir actually referred to Palestinians as “cockroaches.” They never spoke after that.
But our cartoonist, Vint Lawrence, drew a cockroach in a yarmulke, and we framed the image, put it up on the wall between their two offices (which, for some reason, were right next to each other) and amused ourselves.
Magazines were once like that, you know?
The Great Unmentionable was his paralysis that came from a swimming-pool accident as a young man, when his spinal cord was severed. It’s the first thing you’d notice about him in person, and the last thing you’d remember after a few minutes.
He never complained, never explained, and maintained incredible mobility and dignity through it all. He found a way to drive (riding in his Kraut-mobile was a trip). He devised a way to eat. He bore a son and had what seemed a deeply happy marriage. He was of the view that suffering was to be endured in private, eschewing the avalanche of self-exposure that our culture generates and rewards.
Or perhaps he was simply allergic to being pitied. I saw him as a model in my own grappling with HIV in the early years. I kept it secret at TNR because I didn’t want it to be in any way a shield in a contested public battle of ideas. And so he inspired not simply because of the way he wrote, but because of the way he was.
I wish I could be arguing with him forever!

[Bullheaded Texan]

Slew of MS-13 Members From El Salvador Charged With Murder of Teenagers in Virginia.
6/22/18 1:19 PM Katie Pavlich
The Department of Justice announced murder and kidnapping charges for eleven MS-13 gang members in Alexandria, Virginia Friday morning. All of them are from El Salvador, range in age from 20 to 27-years old and are being prosecuted for the killing of teenagers Edvin Escobar Mendez and Sergio Arita Triminio.
One of the defendants is not in custody and suspected of being out of the country. The other ten are being held in federal detention. Whether the members are in the U.S. illegally is unclear.
"While we note in the press release that all of the defendants are from El Salvador, we did not include any information as to their immigration status," U.S. Attorney’s Office Director of Communications for the Eastern District of Virginia Joshua Stueve tells Townhall.
From DOJ:
According to allegations in the indictment, in August 2016, Elmer Zelaya Martinez, Erick Palacios Ruiz, Ronald Herrera Contreras, and Josue Vigil Mejia conspired together and with others to lure a 17 year-old male, Mendez, who they suspected was a member of a rival gang, to a park in Fairfax County, Virginia, in order to attack and kill him. After killing him and to conceal evidence linking them to the juvenile’s disappearance and murder, these four defendants and their co-conspirators buried the juvenile’s remains.
The indictment further alleges that in September 2016, Elmer Zelaya Martinez, Erick Palacios Ruiz, Ronald Herrera Contreras, Henry Zelaya Martinez, Oscar Contreras Aguilar, Yonathan Melgar Martinez, Pablo Miguel Barrera Velasco, Anderson Villatoro, Francisco Avila Avalos, and Fredys Baires Abarca conspired together and with others to lure a 14 year-old male, Triminio to the same park in Fairfax County where he was attacked and killed because he was thought to be cooperating with law enforcement. This juvenile’s remains were also buried.
Each of the following members face life in prison if convicted.
The charges are part of the Justice Department's ongoing crackdown on the violent, transnational gang. Prosecutors are seeking DOJ approval to charge death eligible offenses.