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BREAKING: General Michael Flynn
Will Plead the Fifth
by Katie Pavlich
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Comprehensive Immigration Reform Subterfuge
By Arnold Ahlert: A couple of politically tone-deaf GOP congressmen, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) and Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO), have introduced the State-Sponsored Visa Pilot Program Act of 2017, a proposal aimed at allowing individual states to set up their own guest-worker programs. "My concept of border security includes a robust guest-worker program," Johnson declared. "It's going to be a whole lot easier to secure the border when you're not having to clamp down on people coming here to seek the opportunities that America provides."
While the federal government would still control the issuance of visas, states would be granted the discretion to admit guest workers for as long as three years, after which their visas could be renewed.
Johnson's proposal allows each state to issue visas to as many as 5,000 workers, and draw from additional pool of 250,000 visas based on the state's population relative to its percentage of the nation's total population. The House version reduces those numbers to 2,500 and 125,000, respectively.
In addition, states could increase their caps by 10% in any year where 97% of their sponsored guest workers comply with their visa requirements and stay out of the black market. Any year a state missed that target would engender a 50% cap reduction. A state missing its target for four years would be suspended from the program for five years.
To make the proposal more palatable, participating workers would be barred from accessing welfare state benefits, such as liar-nObamaCare or the Earned Income Tax Credit, and granting citizenship or permanent resident status to these workers would be prohibited. Workers would be able to change jobs, ostensibly as protection against possible abuse, but would be required to seek other employment only in the state that issued the visa, unless states formed "compacts" allowing workers multi-state employment access. Violators would lose their status and be subject to deportation.
Unsurprisingly, champions of "comprehensive immigration reform" are extolling the proposal's virtues. Columnist Shikha Dalmia hails the "great upside" of an approach that would "sidestep the messy politics in Washington that have long made sensible immigration reform well nigh impossible." The libertarian Cato Institute's David Bier applauds an approach in accordance "with America's long tradition of federalism in almost every other policy area," one that "has the potential to increase support for immigration across the country, allowing America to set aside harmful protectionism and move closer to an economically competitive system."
At what price? We begin with the American Left's dream of unassailable power, underscored by the reality that the 500,000 guest workers who could enter the country on renewable three-year visas — per year — would be allowed to bring with them their spouses and children who would not be counted as part of the cap. Under Johnson's proposal, this would allow more than a million people to enter the country annually — a country in which more than half of illegal aliens overstayed their visas rather than crossed the border.
Enter birthright citizenship. "As the law stands now, the hypothetical American-born child of state-based guest workers would be granted immediate U.S. citizenship and access to federal benefits," National Review's Fred Bauer explains. "At the age of 21, a U.S. citizen can sponsor his or her parents to become permanent residents and, eventually, citizens."
Add incrementalism to the mix. As Bauer warns, it wouldn't be long before Democrats would demand that "guest workers and their families have access to at least some federal benefits, health care likely chief among them," even as they would smear Republicans as cold-hearted and anti-immigrant for resisting.
Bauer further notes the horrendous "optics" ripe for leftist exploitation, including "tenements swollen with guest workers and their beleaguered families ... and tearful U.S. citizens waving goodbye to their guest-worker parents, who have to leave the country because they've lost their jobs." He also worries about the diminishment of civic health attached to a "large class of residents who are viewed purely as economic resources with no stake in American society."
If that sounds familiar, it's because America abided a similar arrangement once before — it was called slavery.
Hot Air columnist Jazz Shaw focuses on security, warning that though the H-1B visa program is exploited by large companies to replace American workers with cheaper foreign counterparts, it's also "one of the only ways to find out if someone is no longer complying with the rules or is in an overstay situation." This proposal would engender "a red carpet invitation to abuse the visa system and disappear into the crowd."
Regardless, Johnson remains wedded to the prevailing — and demonstrably false — assertions driving ideas like this. "We have a shortage of workers in all different areas of the economy," he insists. "We need to recognize that a one-size-fits-all federal model for visas or guest workers doesn't work."
No, we need to recognize that, as is so often the case, government is determined to fix a problem on the wrong end. If there is a shortage of high-skill American workers in certain fields, it makes far more sense to reform a failing educational system that churns out Americans ill-equipped to compete in the 21st century economy.
As for the "jobs Americans refuse to do," the notion that government would simultaneously underwrite millions of able-bodied dependents who refuse to work (or believe that certain work is "beneath them") and the additional economic costs that attend themselves to accommodating millions of guest workers and their families is utterly absurd.
"I had thought that the current agenda for any sort of 'immigration reform' was pretty clear following the last election cycle," Shaw writes. "There would be no discussions of amnesty or any other priorities of liberals and open borders advocates until the border was secure and progress was being made on getting at least the worst offending criminal illegal aliens out of the country. Apparently I was mistaken."
Once again, the public's foremost immigration concerns, as in national security and the Rule of Law, are being ignored by Republicans still pushing "comprehensive immigration reform" — by any subterfuge necessary.
They would like to pretend the 2016 election never happened. But it did. And they ignore its mandate at their own peril. ~The Patriot Post
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Three White House Leakers Identified,
POTUS to ‘Fire Multiple’ People
by Keely Sharp
{eaglerising.com} ~ Hot diggity! President Trump has his hands full with the media against him and the chaos that ensues from the media reports. Unfortunately, he must also deal with people on the inside who are looking to wreak havoc... Three White House staffers have been identified as the leakers of classified information. White House Correspondent for One America News Network, Trey Yingst, tweeted out: Three White House staffers have been identified for leaking classified info. POTUS will fire ‘multiple people’ when he returns to DC...http://eaglerising.com/44035/breaking-three-white-house-leakers-identified-potus-to-fire-multiple-people/
.White House Leakers Identified, Trump Will
Fire When He Returns, Headed To Prison
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ It’s finally catching up with the leakers on the left and once they’re facing prison time, their desire to cover for the corruption and criminal acts of their political masters may not be enough to keep their tongues from wagging and their gums flapping... OAN has announced that multiple White House staffers will be fired for leaking classified information when President Trump returns from his overseas trip. Not only will they be fired, but they will be criminally prosecuted. Trey Yingst reported being told by a source at the White House that “three people have been identified as leaking classified information.” Yingst quoted one of his sources as saying, “This is criminal and that people could go to jail.”... http://rickwells.us/white-house-leakers-identified-trump-fire-returns-headed-prison/
.Mueller Could Become the
Democrats' Worst Nightmare
by Bernard Kerik
{newsmax.com} ~ If Robert Mueller ignores the political rhetoric that's been spewed by members of Congress on both sides of the aisle and focuses strictly on the law and his mandate... then several members of President liar-nObama's administration could ultimately be targeted in this inquiry. The former FBI director has been hired to conduct an investigation regarding any links or coordination between the Russian government and President Donald Trump’s campaign. Consider the implications of the Democrats' accusations against Trump, and against the Russians for hacking into the Democratic national Committee emails. These emails will become a focal point for Mueller's investigators. So too will the murder of Seth Rich... http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/kerik-mueller-investigation/2017/05/19/id/791198/.
liar-nObama Holdover Colluded With Unions
to Pressure Congress on Budget Cuts
by Michael Bastasch
{dailysignal.com} ~ An liar-nObama administration appointee with deep ties to labor unions promoted a grassroots campaign to reverse the Trump administration’s proposal to eliminate funding for the federal regulatory board he sits on... The Daily Caller News Foundation obtained emails that show Chemical Safety Board member Rick Engler worked with union activists to promote a grassroots campaign to keep the agency from losing its funding. President Donald Trump’s “skinny” budget, released in March, called for eliminating the board, which began operating in 1998. Engler and labor union activists quickly worked to try and protect the board’s nearly $12 million budget...http://dailysignal.com/2017/05/22/obama-holdover-colluded-with-unions-to-pressure-congress-on-budget-cuts/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTnpnNU1XVTVPVEpoT1RneiIsInQiOiJmQkpaWmxYWU9OdFFzeDZIcGJrb3ZINUw4M1ZudG1teVVqcGNOZFwvbDdrcEFMejNxeUZ5ZHlncExVWkhRMVFlcmNrc3pnc3NPVmN5NjBiNW1DS2x3U3VMbXVxREU4WTFtYVN1OU9cL0dNZTcrdlY1NERvaTU0eWxXUW1kWDhjR1NnIn0%3D
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Truth About NYT, liar-CLINTON, RINO-MCCAIN –
Brings Sudden End To SCHEUER BBC Interview
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ The BBC interviewer had prepared to lead his guest on a typical President Trump vilification tour of erroneous claims presented as fact... Evidently they didn’t research their guest, Michael Scheuer very well or there’s a patriot somewhere in the ranks of BBC that they’ll need to ferret out and deal with. The truth can’t be allowed out onto the airwaves. Scheuer, a former CIA intelligence officer and author, is calling in from the state of North Virginia, according to the graphic. The interview begins with a question about the guest’s thoughts on the report by the New York Times that President Trump attempted to coerce James Comey into dropping an investigation against General Michael Flynn. After reading the NYT quote, the host asks Scheuer, “What does that amount to you?” He receives the first of several answers he doesn’t like...http://rickwells.us/truth-nyt-clinton-mccain-brings-sudden-end-scheuer-bbc-interview/
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by Katie Pavlich
{townhall.com} ~ After refusing to comply with a subpoena issued by the Senate Intelligence Committee last week, former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn will reportedly invoke his Fifth Amendment rights this afternoon to avoid congressional testimony. From AP:
BREAKING: General Michael Flynn
Will Plead the Fifth
{townhall.com} ~ After refusing to comply with a subpoena issued by the Senate Intelligence Committee last week, former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn will reportedly invoke his Fifth Amendment rights this afternoon to avoid congressional testimony. From AP:
Former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn will invoke his Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination on Monday as he notifies the Senate Intelligence committee that he will not comply with a subpoena seeking documents.That’s according to a person with direct knowledge of the matter. The person spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the private
Flynn was fired in February after misleading Vice President Mike Pence about the content of his conversations with the Russian ambassador during President-elect Trump's transition period. At the time, the White House cited a breach of trust among "other issues" for his dismissal.
"We got to a point not based on a legal issue, but based on a trust issue with a level of trust between the president and General Flynn had eroded to the point where he felt he had to make a change. The president was very concerned that General Flynn had misled the vice president and others," White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said. "The evolving and eroding level of trust as a result of this situation in a series of other questionable instances is what led the president to ask for General Flynn's resignation."
Flynn finds himself in legal trouble after failing to disclose his work as a foreign agent for Turkey, whose government paid him $530,000 as a lobbyist.
The FBI is investigating alleged ties between Trump campaign officials and the Russian government. Last week, the Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein appointed former FBI Director Robert Mueller as special counsel in the Russia investigation. interactions between Flynn and the committee.
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