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Time's Up For Temporary Alien Protection
by MICHELLE MALKIN
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Economists Say Carbon
Taxes Increase Carbon Emissions
by Spencer Morrison
{lidblog.com} ~ Most legislation especially the liberal bills tend to have really awful unintended consequences... That’s because their primary purpose is to change human behavior. Except humans aren’t always predictable. That’s what happens with Carbon Taxes. Instead of forcing the use of carbon-based fuels to diminish, economists say carbon taxes cause an increase the CO2 in the atmosphere. As the hysteria over global warming heats up, carbon taxes have become the “cool” option. Environmentalists love them. So do politicians, who are more than happy to raise taxes while scoring political points. Carbon taxes, or other analogous pricing schemes, are now prevalent in Western Europe, and are making headway in North America—California recently joined forces with the Canadian Provinces of Ontario and Quebec to create an integrated cap-and-trade carbon market... https://lidblog.com/carbon-taxes-emissions/.
Federal Agents Enter Warehouse in
Puerto Rico to Seize Hoarded Electric Equipment
by Kate Aronoff
{theintercept.com} ~ ON SATURDAY, A day after becoming aware of a massive store of rebuilding materials being held by the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority... the U.S. federal government — the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, along with their security detail — entered a Palo Seco warehouse owned by the public utility to claim and distribute the equipment, according to a spokesperson for the Corps. Rumors of a tense standoff had been circulating on the island, but the encounter was confirmed to The Intercept in a statement from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Asked if the federal officers were armed when they entered the warehouse, USACE spokesperson Luciano Vera said they were indeed accompanied by security detail and quickly began distributing the material after seizing it. Vera declined to say whether there was a confrontation at the entrance, saying only that PREPA officials ultimately toured the warehouse along with the feds... https://theintercept.com/2018/01/10/puerto-rico-electricity-prepa-hurricane-maria/?utm_source=The+Intercept+Newsletter&utm_campaign=5048b151ca-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_01_12&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_e00a5122d3-5048b151ca-131896129.
U.N. Backed Police Force
Carried Out a Massacre in Haiti
by Jake Johnston
{theintercept.com} ~ On the morning of November 13, more than 200 Haitian police officers raided the Grand Ravine area of Port-au-Prince... There was a series of loud explosions, followed by gunfire. For the next six hours, the commotion didn’t stop. The neighborhood was under siege. What had started as an anti-gang operation in a poor and largely forgotten neighborhood — in a poor and largely forgotten country — ended in the summary execution of innocent civilians on a school campus. The police officers were working with the United Nations Mission for Justice Support in Haiti. It was launched in October, a reboot of a previous mission that had begun in 2004, when thousands of U.N. troops were sent to Haiti following a coup d’etat, tasked in part with restoring stability and reinforcing national police capacities... https://theintercept.com/2018/01/10/haiti-raid-united-nations-police-grand-ravine/.
RINO-John McCain was
critical part of anti-Trump dossier plan
by Gage Skidmore
{conservativeinstitute.org} ~ The infamous 35-page dossier pertaining to President Donald Trump and his relationship with the Russians has been a source of controversy for months... And while the dossier has been largely discredited and dismissed as a work of fiction, the circumstances surrounding its creation — and its release — are still cause for question. Glenn Simpson and Peter Fritsch, the founders of Fusion GPS, the firm that created the dossier, added an interesting bit of information to the dossier scandal in a New York Times op-ed on Tuesday that involves none other than Sen. RINO-John McCain (R-Ariz.). According to the controversial “opposition research” executives, they shared the dossier with Sen. RINO-McCain to ensure the information would be transferred to intelligence agencies in the Barack liar-nObama administration... https://www.conservativeinstitute.org/government-corruption/report-john-mccain-dossier.htm?utm_source=boomtrain&utm_medium=automated&utm_campaign=ci1&bt_alias=eyJ1c2VySWQiOiAiYzM2M2U0NGMtNjcxZS00YzJlLWJkYjktYzRiZjI3OGZmOGFkIn0%3D.
Congress' spending scorecard
so far: Punt, punt, punt, punt
by Susan Ferrechio
{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ The House and Senate next week will punt on a major spending deal and instead fall back on yet another temporary spending bill... the fourth so far in fiscal year 2018. House Appropriations officials said they are preparing a short-term government funding bill for a vote next week but would not confirm how long the spending authority would be granted under the measure. The legislation could extend funding for as long as six weeks, according to some lawmakers. Republicans and Democrats are seeking an accord on how to raise federal spending caps to fund the government until the end of fiscal 2018, but have yet to reach a deal. As a result, they're stuck living with temporary measures that each time last just a few weeks or months... http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/congress-spending-scorecard-so-far-punt-punt-punt-punt/article/2645829?utm_campaign=Washington%20Examiner:%20News%20From&utm_source=Washington%20Examiner:%20News%20From%20-%2001/13/18&utm_medium=email.
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Time's Up For Temporary Alien Protection
by MICHELLE MALKIN
Se acabó el tiempo.
{wnd.com} ~ Seventeen years after granting “temporary protected status” to nearly 200,000 Salvadoran citizens who had fled earthquakes in 2001 or who were already here illegally and claimed they were unable to return to their homeland because of civil strife, America is setting a deadline:
Get right with the law or go home.
As if we haven’t shown enough generosity to these provisional guests in our home, the Department of Homeland Security gave the Salvadorans until September 2019 to get their affairs in order. But the usual suspects in the permanent Gang of Amnesty – identity-politics Democrats, Big Business Republicans, anti-rule of law activists and sovereignty-sabotaging pundits – condemned the Trump administration’s announcement this week with a heaping dose of hyperbole.
Maria Rodriguez, executive director of the Florida Immigrant Coalition, called the move a “racial cleansing.”
Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin called the revocation “monstrous” and called on Democrats to hold government funding hostage until the nearly two-decade-old “temporary” protections were restored indefinitely.
NBC analyst Anand Giridharadas likened the decision to “the German occupation of, and use of forced labor from, Belgium in World War I; and the Armenian genocide.”
That’s insanity. Here’s a proposal. How about I force my way into Mr. Giridharadas’ residence uninvited and demand to stay for at least 17 years under the guise of seeking “temporary” shelter. Would he consider a rational and responsible decision to evict me and reclaim his home for himself and his family tantamount to a war crime?
Enforcing a limit on humanitarian gestures is the responsible thing for any self-sustaining nation to do. Previous Democrat and Republican presidents, however, have shirked their duty – opting instead to renew illegal alien protections ad nauseam. So beneficiaries of our supposedly time-limited generosity established families and footholds here. They gained permanent residency, work permits and other taxpayer-subsidized benefits, along with ever-expanding lobbying power as a political constituency.
The Temporary Protected Status program was supposed to provide short-term relief and shelter to people from foreign countries hit by natural disasters, environmental catastrophes, civil war, epidemic diseases or other “extraordinary and temporary conditions.” But they were always expected to go back home when those conditions improved.
The federal statute that created TPS clearly mandates terminating the protections once the conditions that led to TPS designation no longer exist. The law “prohibits judicial review of any determination with respect to the designation, termination, or extension of TPS” and “prohibits the Senate from considering legislation that would adjust the status of TPS aliens to that of a lawful temporary or permanent resident” once the status is removed, according to former House Judiciary Committee immigration counsel Nolan Rappaport.
Back in 1999, however, the Federation for American Immigration Reform warned Congress:
“Each special program that provides short-term relief has been followed by persistent demands for similar treatment by other groups and nationalities, not necessarily made up of persons in the same circumstances. It has now been politicized beyond recognition, and certainly no longer deserves the support of the general public.”
Indeed, TPS turned into TINO: Temporary in Name Only. Illegal aliens from Honduras and Nicaragua were added to the list, followed by citizens of Haiti, Nepal, Syria, Angola, Sudan, Yemen, Montserrat and more. To date, we’ve granted sacrosanct TPS status to more than 400,000 people from a total of 22 countries who have grown increasingly entitled to automatic renewal of their protections every 18 months over the past two decades.
There’s no polite way to tell house guests who’ve overstayed their welcome that it’s time to go, but perpetual amnesty for illegal aliens – whether it’s called TPS, DACA or DREAM – will only beget more illegal immigration.
Time’s up.
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