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.
 

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NC School Safety Bill Would Arm Volunteer Teachers.
5/30/18 by Tom Knighton
While the airwaves and social media have had plenty of teachers saying that they sure don’t want to be armed, they don’t speak for all teachers. Not by a long shot. They’re trying to do just that, mind you, but they don’t.
You see, there are plenty of teachers who would gladly carry a firearm so they could defend not just their own lives, but the lives of their students.
North Carolina is considering a bill that will allow them to do just that.
Republican lawmakers have a new plan to address school safety in North Carolina.
The School Security Act of 2018 would allow teachers to apply to become undercover School Resource Officers.
Participants would be required to undergo basic police training and would be sworn officers with guns in the classroom.
The position would also come with a 55% pay increase.
“The two problems that the bill tries to address is,
One, we really don’t have enough money to put enough School Resource
Officers into schools if we just pay them for a separate position,” said Senator Warren Daniel (R-46).
“And two, even if you had the funding, we wouldn’t have enough applicants to fill those positions. It would provide a cost effective way to get School Resource Officers into the school.”
Senator Warren Daniel is one of the bill’s sponsors, along with Senator Ralph Hise and Senator Dan Bishop.
“Hopefully their skills and services would never be needed as a resource officer and they would be able to focus on their teaching 99.99% of the time.
But there’s just that small fraction of a possibility that something tragic could happen and that they would be ready,” Senator Daniel explained.
Of course, not all teachers are onboard. In particular, one is quoted prattling on like anyone is considering making this mandatory, which is typical for anti-gun zealots.
You see, in almost every aspect of life, those who oppose guns also tend to believe that anything not forbidden should be mandatory. With that mindset, they see a bill like this and automatically jump into the idea that this is somehow going to require teachers to be armed, which it isn’t. They don’t want the facts. More importantly, though, they don’t want the voters of North Carolina to have the facts.
Instead, they want to pretend that the apocalypse is upon us because a handful of teachers who want to will be armed.
I’m not crazy about requiring specialized training since a concealed carry permit should be all that is needed, but there will be more responsible adults armed in our schools.
With this law in place, don’t expect to see another Parkland or Santa Fe happen in North Carolina.
And to those teachers who think the idea of carrying a gun is a disaster, all I can say is, “Then don’t.” No one will make you carry a firearm.\
If you’re stupid enough to think a bill that will allow someone to carry will REQUIRE someone to carry, then I don’t want you to have a gun anyway.
AND you shouldn't be teaching!

[Bullheaded Texan]

President Trump Is Cracking Down Inside The Government
5/30/18
“To empower our civil servants to best help others, the government must always operate more efficiently and more securely.” President Donald J. Trump
PUTTING TAXPAYERS FIRST: President Trump signed an Executive Order requiring agencies to negotiate better union contracts in a more efficient and transparent manner.
◾The order directs agencies to negotiate better contracts with Federal unions, holds down costs, promotes performance and accountability, and creates a Labor Relations Working Group.
◾It will eliminate years of costly drawn-out bargaining by encouraging agencies to conclude labor negotiations in less than a year. ◾Agencies pay for union negotiators’ salaries, so it hurts taxpayers when bargaining drags on for years.
The salaries for union negotiators cost $16 million in 2016 alone.
◾Americans will now be able to gauge for themselves whether they got a good deal. The order requires union contracts to be published in a public online database, promoting transparency.
WORKING FOR THE PEOPLE:
The President’s Executive Order reducing spending on taxpayer-funded union activities will ensure Federal employees prioritize work for the American people.
◾The order directs agencies to work on renegotiating contracts to cut taxpayer-funded union time by an average of two-thirds, reducing union business interfering with agency operations. ◾The Social Security Administration estimates it could complete 135,000 more retirement applications or 17,000 more disability determinations annually, if taxpayer funding for union activities were redirected to public service functions.
◾Those Federal employees authorized to act on behalf of unions will be permitted to spend no more than 25 percent of their time on union business. ◾Over 470 Veterans Affairs employees spend 100 percent of their duty hours working for a labor union instead of serving veterans. This includes 74 full-time nurses.
◾The order cuts back on lobbying or pursuing a grievance against an agency on taxpayer-funded union time. Taxpayers should not pay for unions to sue or lobby the government.
◾Agencies will charge rent to employees that use Federal office space for non-agency business and stop covering travel expenses for non-agency business.
◾This order will save taxpayers at least $100 million a year, when fully implemented.
STRENGTHENING THE MERIT SYSTEM:
Through Executive Order, President Trump is making procedural changes to strengthen the merit system and streamline the removal of poor performers.
◾The current system makes firing bad employees prohibitively difficult, undermining the Federal Government’s merit principles that call for removing poor performers.
◾It takes 6 months to 1 year to remove a tenured Federal employee for poor performance, plus an average of 8 more months to resolve appeals. Tenured Federal employees are also 44 times less likely to get fired or laid off than private sector workers.
◾Tenured Federal employees have stolen agency property, run personal businesses from work, and been arrested for using drugs during lunch breaks and not been fired.
◾The order facilitates the efficient removal of bad employees and makes it hard for those employees to mask adverse employment information when seeking re-employment at another agency, while upholding Federal merit principles.
◾Agencies will be required to report information on disciplinary actions and management of poor performers to the Office of Personnel Management for publication.

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Alabama Sues to Stop Illegal Aliens.
5/29/18 GOP Presidential Staff 
The state of Alabama is suing the Department of Commerce and the Bureau of the Census to ensure illegal aliens are excluded from the 2020 census, which is used to apportion congressional seats.
Including people who in the country illegally would violate the 14th Amendment’s requirement for an “actual enumeration” of the U.S. and other constitutional protections, the complaint states.
“The plaintiffs assert that because, under existing rules, seats are apportioned by total number of people – including illegal aliens – those states that have the highest concentrations of illegal aliens are gaining seats at the expense of states of Alabama, which stands to lose one of its seven existing representatives,” said a report from the Center for Immigration Students.
The case is just the latest in a years-long battle over illegal aliens entering the United States, who are viewed largely as eventual Democratic voters.
The state of Alabama is suing the Department of Commerce and the Bureau of the Census to ensure illegal aliens are excluded from the 2020 census, which is used to apportion congressional seats!
Including people who in the country illegally would violate the 14th Amendment’s requirement for an “actual enumeration” of the U.S. and other constitutional protections, the complaint states.
“The plaintiffs assert that because, under existing rules, seats are apportioned by total number of people – including illegal aliens – those states that have the highest concentrations of illegal aliens are gaining seats at the expense of states of Alabama, which stands to lose one of its seven existing representatives,” said a report from the Center for Immigration Students.

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New DOJ Study On Criminals.
5/29/18 Daniel Horowitz
Staggering DOJ study: 83% of prisoners re-arrested within 9 years of release.
The BJS study is the most comprehensive analysis of those released from prison in 30 states over the longest period of time relative to any other study.
Those 30 states accounted for 77% of all persons released from state prisons nationwide. The total sample size was 67,966 prisoners, much greater than any study trotted out that supposedly vouches for 'early release' programs.
I cited this report in 2015 when it observed recidivism patterns over five years. Now the BJS has collected the data for the extended nine-year analysis.
Here are the results:
The BJS study is the most comprehensive analysis of those released from prison in 30 states over the longest period of time relative to any other study.
Those 30 states accounted for 77% of all persons released from state prisons nationwide. The total sample size was 67,966 prisoners, much greater than any study trotted out that supposedly vouches for early release programs.
On an annual basis, 44% of prisoners were arrested during the first year after release, 34% were arrested during the third year and 24% were arrested during the ninth year.
5% of prisoners were arrested during the first year after release and were not arrested again during the 9-year follow-up period.
These numbers are staggering. They lend credence to the experience we’ve learned from locking up the bad guys over the past few decades – that most of the crime is committed by a relatively small group of people who continuously re-offend.

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roseanne's Racist Tweet Leads Almost Immediately to Show’s Cancellation.
5/29/18 3:20 pm Scott Shackford
The show navigated a fascinating complicated world of ideological diversity. Its star was not so adept.
This morning roseanne star roseanne barr crudely tweeted that valerie jarrett, a former aide to resident barry obuma, is like the "muslim brotherhood and Planet of the Apes had a baby."
She deleted the tweet, but it represented a line of bonkers behavior that ABC would no longer accept.
By the afternoon, the president of ABC Entertainment, Channing Dungey, put out a statement that the show would not be coming back for a new season.
The roseanne reboot's first season of ended just a week ago as a ratings hit for the network. Dungey said in the release, "roseanne's Twitter statement is abhorrent, repugnant and inconsistent with our values, and we have decided to cancel her show."
roseanne has a lengthy history of outrageous statements, behavior, tweets, and conspiracy-mongering, but a statement that cannot be dismissed as anything but a racist slur no matter how hard you squint is something the network is hard-pressed to ignore!
It's also unfortunate that her inability to show any sort of personal restraint doomed the show. I watched most of the first season of the roseanne reboot, and it's important to note that both 'roseanne the character' and roseanne the show did not operate with the same attitude as roseanne the real-life woman.
While both roseannes are big supporters of President Donald Trump, the show was very thoughtful in its portrayal of a wide variety of ideological perspectives and how these family members navigated them, mostly through amusing bickering matches. Because of the show's rich history and years of character work, these political divides didn't feel like fronts; they felt lived-in and real. The conflicts played out as though they involved real people, not social-media constructs trying to score points off their eternal enemies. The show was not about which side was right and which side was wrong but how families deal with real-world problems as they move forward through their lives.
In a short review of the reboot for the July issue of Reason magazine,
I wrote: "Like most of us, they live, and live through, their differences, an accomplishment the show's more ideological critics don't seem to give people much credit for."
It's a shame the real-world roseanne justified the outrage of her ideological critics. The show deserved much more thoughtful critique.
It's also unfortunate that her inability to show any sort of personal restraint doomed the show. I watched most (but not all) of the first season of the roseanne reboot, and it's important to note that both roseanne the character and roseanne the show DID NOT operate with the same attitude as roseanne the real-life woman.

[Bullheaded Texan]

Chicago Rings in Memorial Day With Killing Spree.
5/29/18 Hot Air by: Jazz Shaw
Memorial Day weekend is a time when we traditionally mourn the fallen, but that’s specific to the 'Honored Dead' we have lost in our nation’s various wars and military service.
Residents of Chicago unfortunately encountered additional reasons to mourn this weekend.
A lot of reasons. Eight people were killed and more than two dozen others injured in a spate of violence which was even worse than the same weekend last year!
Residents are being left with a lot of questions. (Fox News)
At least eight people were killed and 25 others wounded in shootings across the city since midnight Friday, police told WLS. Last year, over the entire weekend of the unofficial start of summer, seven people were killed and 45 others were hurt.
The victims, WLS reported, include China Marie Lyons-Upshaw, who was shot in the chest while playing with a gun;
Bobbieana Lyons, 20, a young mother shot and killed on her doorstep while celebrating her 2-year-old’s birthday;
and a 31-year-old man shot twice in the chest and once in the head after he got into a fight with another man.

[Bullheaded Texan]

Twice Deported Man Suspected in Most Horrifying Crime.
05/29/18 Law & Crime by: Aaron Keller
A woman was found dead on a farm in Upstate New York and a days-old AMBER Alert for her 14-month-old child has suddenly been cancelled by local authorities without further explanation.
This comes as authorities are holding the woman’s boyfriend, a twice-deported mexican citizen who is back in the United States without proper documentation, on a charge of evidence tampering in relation to the discovery of the body.
Authorities are calling him a suspect in the homicide of the girlfriend. That’s according to FOX News and the Rochester, N.Y. Democrat and Chronicle.
Meanwhile, authorities in and around Sodus, N.Y. are expressing doubt that the child will be found unharmed, though they are hoping that he is being held somewhere alive.
The body of Selena Hidago-Calderon, 18, was located in a wooded area on a farm where she and Evarardo Donoteo-Reyes, 25, both lived and worked. Donoteo-Reyes sometimes went by the alias Alberto Ebavardo Gutierrez-Reyes, authorities say.
Her child Owen, has not been seen since May 16. A ground search for him has covered about 600 acres, but has turned up nothing.
Investigators are checking leads in seven neighboring counties.
The mother was from Guatemala and was in the United States seeking asylum from there, a local worker’s center said.
Evarardo Donoteo-Reyes, the boyfriend, was deported in 2016 and 2017, and was later convicted in 2017 for trying to enter the United States again illegally.

[Bullheaded Texan]

Trump Kills obuma Loophole for Illegal aliens.
05/29/18 Source: Washington Examiner by: Paul Bedard
The Trump administration has shut down an obuma-era loophole that let aliens who otherwise could not legally enter the U.S. claim a free pass by saying they were “entrepreneurs.”
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, part of the Department of Homeland Security, announced an end to the program, claiming former resident barry obuma overstepped his powers in creating it.
The administration also said that the program that let immigrant small businessmen and women enter was a threat to U.S. workers, a key focus of the White House.
In a statement, Homeland Security said that “the department believes that it represents an overly broad interpretation of parole authority, lacks sufficient protections for U.S. workers and investors, and is not the appropriate vehicle for attracting and retaining international entrepreneurs.”

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~~~~ Especially for all of my Patriotic friends! ~~~~ Bull
Dementia !!! For us old people!

ONE
I went to McDonald's, on the menu you could order 6, 9 or 12 Chicken McNuggets.
I asked for a half dozen nuggets.
'We don't have half dozen nuggets,' said the teenager at the counter.
'You don't?' I asked.
'We only have six, nine, or twelve,' was her reply.
'So I can't order a 'half dozen nuggets', but I CAN order "six"?:
'That's right.'
So I shook my head and ordered six McNuggets. (Unbelievable but sadly true.)
she must have been the same one I asked for 'sweetener' and she said they didn't HAVE any, only "Splenda and sugar". And they think they are worth $15.00 per hour?
TWO
I was checking out at the local Wal-Mart with just a few items and the lady behind me put her things on the belt close to mine. I picked up one of those dividers that they keep by the cash register and placed it between our things so they wouldn't get mixed up.
After the girl had scanned all of my items, she picked up the divider, looking it all over for the bar code so she could scan it. Not finding the bar code, she asked me, 'Do you know how much this is?'
I said, 'I've changed my mind; I don't think I'll buy that today.'
She said 'OK,' and I paid her for the things and left.
She had no clue to what had just happened.
But the lady behind me had a big smirk on her face as I left.
THREE
I saw a woman at work putting a credit card into her 'DVD drive' and pulling it out very quickly.
I inquired what she was doing, she said she was shopping on the Internet and they kept asking for a credit card number, so she was using the ATM thingy.
Shuddering, yet?
FOUR
I recently saw a distraught young lady weeping beside her car.
'Do you need some help?' I asked.
She replied, 'I knew I should have replaced the battery to this remote door un-locker. Now I can't get into my car.. Do you think they (pointing to a distant convenience store) would have a battery to fit this?'
Hmm, I don't know. Do you have an alarm, too?' I asked.
'No, just this remote thingy,' she answered, handing it and the car keys to me.
As I took the key and manually unlocked the door, I replied, 'Why don't you drive over there and check about the batteries. It's a long walk!'
PLEASE just lie down before you hurt yourself !!!
FIVE
Several years ago, we had an Intern who was not too swift. One day she was typing and turned to a secretary and said, 'I'm down to my last sheet of typing paper. What should I do?'
'Just use paper from the photocopier', the secretary told her.
With that, the intern took her last remaining blank piece of paper, put it on the photocopier and proceeded to make five blank copies.
A Brunette, by the way!! However it worked.---
SIX
A mother calls 911 very worried asking the dispatcher if she needs to take her kid to the emergency room, the kid had eaten ants.
The dispatcher tells her to give the kid some Benadryl and he should be fine.
The mother says, 'I just gave him some ant killer......'
Dispatcher: 'Rush him in to emergency right now!'
Life is tough. It's even tougher if you're stupid!!!!
..it is all true...
Perks of reaching 60 or being over 70 and heading towards 80!
1. Kidnappers are not very interested in you.
2. In a hostage situation you are likely to be released first.
3. No one expects you to run--anywhere.
4. People call at 8 PM and ask, "Did I wake you?"
5. People no longer view you as a hypochondriac.
6. There is nothing left to learn the hard way.
7. Things you buy now won't wear out.
8. You can eat supper at 5 PM .
9. You can live without sex but not your glasses.
10. Your supply of brain cells is finally down to manageable size.
11. You can't remember who sent you this list.
12. And you notice these are all in Big Print for your convenience.
Forward this to everyone you can remember! Before you forget.:)

[Bullheaded Texan]

These Mexifornia Rebels Are Working With Trump, Not Against Him.
5/25/18 Jarrett Stepman
The resistance is growing in Mexifornia.
The Golden State has set itself up as the stridently progressive thorn in the side of the Trump administration.
Mexifornia has not just become a sanctuary state in an attempt to undermine federal immigration enforcement, but has gone a step further.
Recently, Mexifornia lawmakers proposed giving health care to illegal immigrants, which would make it the first state to do so. The plan would cost state taxpayers billions of dollars.
The state, which is under nearly one-party rule, doubles down on its left-wing drift, there is bubbling discontent among residents who are outraged by Mexifornia’s increasing lawlessness and wild spending.
The liberal Left continue to push their radical agenda against American values. The good news is there is a solution.
A growing list of cities and counties have chosen to take action against Mexifornia’s sanctuary policies intended to undermine federal immigration law. They are resisting the resistance.
These localities are taking aim at the Mexifornia Values Act, which, according to the Orange County Register, states that “local and state law enforcement authorities may not use resources, including personnel or facilities, to investigate or arrest people for federal immigration enforcement purposes.”
The latest city to rebel is Carlsbad, which is close to San Diego in Southern Mexifornia.
The Carlsbad City Council voted 4-1 Monday to join the federal government’s lawsuit against Mexifornia’s sanctuary state status, according to The San Diego Union-Tribune.
“I cannot see the difference between a sanctuary state and a secessionist state,” Glenn Bernard, a retired Marine and former teacher, told the council, according to the Union-Tribune.
The council’s criticism of Mexifornia’s sanctuary status echoed that of others around the state.
Other cities have taken additional measures to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement.
The Los Alamitos City Council voted to exempt itself from the state sanctuary law, saying the measure is unconstitutional. This prompted a lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties Union.
This is the “rebellion” President Donald Trump referred to when he visited Mexifornia in mid-May.
The media, dishonestly, mischaracterized some of Trump’s comments at the event, insinuating that he called “some” illegal aliens “animals” when the context shows he was referring to members of the violent MS-13 gang.
Lost in the media storm was the serious and growing discontent over radical, left-wing policies in the deep-blue state.
“Each of you has bravely resisted Mexifornia’s deadly and unconstitutional sanctuary state laws,” Trump said, according to Fox News. “You’ve gone through a lot, too, although it’s become quite popular what you do.”
Cities such as Carlsbad and Los Alamitos use a similar rationale to resist the state as the state does in resisting the federal government. It turns out that although Mexifornia is verging on one-party rule at the state level, significant dissent to sanctuary policies exists in wide swaths of the state.
The common thread from this growing movement is that the state’s policies are reckless, put the lives of citizens in danger, and promote criminality.
“We are not anti-immigrant—there is no one on this council that’s anti-immigrant,” said Hesperia City Councilman Paul Russ, according to the Desert Dispatch. “But for aliens, we’d like to see it done legally. I can also say without a doubt that we are anti-criminal. It’s not about the immigrants; it’s about the criminals in the community.”
The movement has touched on an important element of the debate about immigration, sovereignty, and what it means to be a citizen.
America has had many differing immigration policies over the years. Sometimes they are restrictive, sometimes they are more liberal, and sometimes we’ve decided to vet aliens with extreme caution.
Not every immigration policy has been good, but regardless, they ultimately were created by the American people.
The message that sanctuary laws such as Mexifornia’s send is that Americans have no right, as a nation, to determine who comes into their country.
If there ever was an attack on “democracy,” this surely is it.
Sanctuary policies erode the concept that the people rule, and that both duties and rights come with citizenship, and they damage the concept that America is about upholding the rule of law.
As The Heritage Foundation’s David Azerrad wrote:
People set up governments to ensure ‘their Safety and Happiness’ and provide ‘for their future security.’ Immigration policy, like all other policy, should therefore serve the interests and well-being of the American people. One should not confuse the universal duty not to infringe upon the rights of man with the duty of each government to secure the rights of its people only.
In other words, Americans may choose whom we let in and whom we don’t, for safety reasons!
Mexifornia’s leaders may be enthusiastically pursuing a fight over immigration law with the federal government, but they will face a growing wave of discontent from citizens who are sick of lawmakers in the state capital fueling lawlessness and ignoring their concerns.