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Trump's National Security Picks Want to
Air liar-nObama's Iran Secrets
by Eli Lake
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Sanctuary City Showdown
Arnold Ahlert: "To be clear about what Chicago is, it always will be a sanctuary city. To all those who are, after Tuesday's election, very nervous and filled with anxiety as we've spoken to, you are safe in Chicago, you are secure in Chicago and you are supported in Chicago. Chicago will always be a sanctuary city." —Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel
Perhaps nothing defines progressive arrogance better than the idea the Rule of Law can be ignored when it doesn't align with the Left's "superior" wisdom. Thus, of all the battles president-elect Donald Trump will wage against entrenched progressivism, the effort to deconstruct sanctuary cities is one of the most important.
Trump has the law on his side. Section 1373 of the U.S. Federal Code is clear: "Notwithstanding any other provision of Federal, State, or local law, a Federal, State, or local government entity or official may not prohibit, or in any way restrict, any government entity or official from sending to, or receiving from, the Immigration and Naturalization Service information regarding the citizenship or immigration status, lawful or unlawful, of any individual."
It further notes that no person or agency may prohibit, or in any way restrict, the same entities from exchanging such information with ICE, maintaining it, or exchanging it with any other Federal, State, or local government entity. Reciprocally, ICE is expected to respond to those entities "seeking to verify or ascertain the citizenship or immigration status of any individual within the jurisdiction of the agency for any purpose authorized by law, by providing the requested verification or status information."
There's also Section 133 of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigration Responsibility Act of 1996 that allows the U.S. attorney general to enter into an agreement with a state, or any political subdivision therein related, to carry out "the investigation, apprehension, or detention of aliens in the United States." This authorizes the AG to train local police for the purposes of identifying and detaining illegals.
Despite these statutes, more than 340 municipalities in the nation have been identified by ICE as having polices non-cooperative with, or obstructive of, law enforcement.
A report released last August by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) illuminates the damning consequences of that defiance: Between January 2014 and September 2015, more than 17,000 ICE detainers were rejected by these municipalities — including about 11,800 detainers for individuals with prior criminal histories.
Detailed information of crimes committed by illegals would go a long way toward underscoring the recklessness of sanctuary city policies and galvanizing public opinion against them. Yet the same government agencies that crunch numerous sets of crime statistics are either unable — or unwilling — to provide comprehensive data on illegal alien criminal activity. Former DOJ attorney J. Christian Adams, who characterizes immigrant crime as a "wave of staggering proportions," explains why: "These numbers would expose how serious the problem is and make the government look bad."
How bad? U.S. Commission on Civil Rights member Peter Kirsanow released hard numbers for illegal aliens "imprisoned for homicide-related offenses" in five states — Arizona, California, Florida, New York and Texas — with high illegal alien populations. Assuming they only committed one murder apiece, these illegals accounted for approximately 5,400 homicides.
For illegal immigrant advocates, that level of slaughter is apparently tolerable because "using the data we have, it seems impossible to responsibly claim that those immigrants are more likely to commit crimes than their American-born neighbors," writes columnist Alan Gomez. In other words, Americans are supposed to take solace from the idea that people who shouldn't be here are at all might be murdering, raping, molesting and otherwise accosting them at lower rates than American criminals are.
It doesn't get more intellectually or morally bankrupt than that. A Trump administration aims to cut federal funding for sanctuary cities. By contrast, until Congressman John Culbertson (R-TX) used his position as chairman of the Commerce, Justice, and Science Subcommittee on Appropriations to force the liar-nObama administration to reverse course, it was actually rewarding sanctuary cities with hundreds of millions of dollars in federal grant money.
Thus, is it any wonder why politicians in cities like Chicago, New York, Seattle, Boston, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Oakland, Denver and Washington, DC, etc., insist they will maintain their sanctuary status? Mayor Emanuel, whose city has endured more than 600 murders and 3,000 shootings so far this year, epitomizes their arrogance. "I would say to the president-elect that the idea that you're going to penalize Boston, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Philadelphia — these are the economic, cultural and intellectual energy of this country," he contended.
No, they are not. They are leftist strongholds populated by elitist, illegal-immigration-supporting officials who believe they're entitled to defy the law and embrace de facto anarchy.
Trump's efforts to stop this nonsense will be hindered by one certainty and one possibility. In South Dakota v. Dole, the Supreme Court ruled that any withholding of federal funds by Congress must be "reasonably related" to the purposes for which those funds are allocated. Thus, it is likely law enforcement agencies in various locales will take the hit, and it remains to be seen if political officials will be willing to endure the likely wrath of American citizens who realize their safety is being held hostage to progressive-inspired lawlessness.
It also remains to be seen if a GOP-controlled Congress can summon the will necessary to withhold that funding. The Senate failed to pass a couple of bills targeting sanctuary cities because vote totals fell short of the 60-vote threshold needed to overcome a filibuster. That's the same 60-vote threshold eliminated by former Senate Majority Leader Harry dinky-Reid's invocation of the "nuclear option" when it suited Democrat purposes. It remains to be seen if traditionally spineless Republicans are willing to return the favor, especially those attuned to the leftist siren song of "comprehensive immigration reform."
Nothing says reform better than reining in the rampant lawlessness sanctuary cities epitomize. Trump's nomination of staunch anti-illegal immigration advocate Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) for U.S. attorney general is a great first step.
A suggestion for Sessions: In addition to exploring ways of limiting funding, the DOJ could lend its unambiguous support to citizens like the parents of Kate Steinle, murdered by seven-time felon Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez who had been deported five times. They have filed a suit against former San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi, the city and federal officials for failing to do their respective jobs.
Successful litigation by sanctuary city crime victims, making officials liable for large cash awards, should be pursued with vigor all over the nation. There's nothing quite like the prospect of facing personal financial calamity — for supporting lawlessness — to focus the progressive mind.
In 2016, millions of Americans voted to upend the status quo. Sanctuary cities are one of the worst aspects of that status quo.
American have lived with lawlessness orchestrated by leftist politicians long enough. Being a nation of laws is about having respect for all laws. Not just the ones leftists like.
~The Patriot Post
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George Soros’ War on America: Time to Prosecute
the Billionaire's Global Crime Spree
by William F. Jasper
{thenewamerican.com} ~ “Not My President! Not My President!” Day after day, in cities from coast to coast, the chanting mobs of rioters have illegally blocked streets and freeways, set fires, thrown Molotov cocktails, injured police officers, destroyed property, and defaced public buildings with graffiti... Portland, Oregon, a bastion of “progressive” Democrats, has been the epicenter of much of the violent action aimed at president-elect Donald Trump. Of course, as we have previously reported, not only did most of the Portland rioters who were arrested fail to register to vote, a large percentage of them appear to be professional, paid protesters. Many of them, no doubt, were hired in response to the advertisements for paid anti-Trump protesters that appeared on Craigslist and other media in Seattle, Portland, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Boston, Denver, Philadelphia, New York, and elsewhere. Many of these “spontaneous” protests/riots would not have occurred without organized efforts involving hundreds of busses transporting thousands of protesters/rioters, many of whom appear to have travelled across state lines... http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/crime/item/24665-george-soros-war-on-america-time-to-prosecute-the-billionaire
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Anti-Trump Activists Threaten
Presidential Electors
by Steve Byas
{thenewamerican.com} ~ Twenty-two-year-old Michael Banerian, a political science major at Oakland University, and one of Michigan’s 16 electors, has received death threats from individuals who do not want him to cast his vote for Republican Donald Trump... Since Trump has apparently won Michigan, all 16 electors are Republicans. “It’s mostly just a lot of angry people who don’t completely understand how the process works,” Banerian said. Either that, or they believe the end justifies the means. Layne Bangerter and Melinda Smyser, two electors from Idaho — another state carried by the Republican nominee Donald Trump — have said they've been overwhelmed with e-mails, telephone calls, and Facebook messages urging them not to vote for Trump...
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The New York Times' Dishonest Reporting
on the Iran Nuclear Deal
by FRED FLEITZ
by FRED FLEITZ
{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ You may have read that in response to criticism about its biased coverage of the Trump campaign, the New York Times has rededicated itself to honest reporting... After you get up off the floor from laughing hysterically, consider this story that ran days after the Times' renewed commitment to ethical journalism: On November 14, the New York Times ran an article with the headline: "76 Experts Urge Donald Trump to Keep Iran Deal." In the second paragraph, the article claims this report was signed by "former officials from both major political parties." Not until the sixth paragraph does the story mention that this report was issued by the National Iranian American Council (NIAC). This is the kind of dishonest reporting we have come to expect from the New York Times... http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/the-new-york-times-dishonest-reporting-on-the-iran-nuclear-deal?f=must_reads
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Keith Ellison Headlined Fundraiser
For Muslim Activist Who Called For
Palestinians To Embrace ‘The Jihad Way’
by Chuck Ross
{dailycaller.com} ~ Minnesota Rep. Keith Ellison, the favorite to take over as chairman of the Democratic National Committee, campaigned in 2009 for a Libya-born activist who once called on Palestinians to embrace “the jihad way” in order to get free of Israeli control... The activist, Esam Omeish, a former candidate for Virginia state delegate, has also praised one of the founders of Hamas and commended the work of Palestinian suicide bombers. Omeish’s positions had been publicized when Ellison, the first Mulsim ever elected to Congress, headlined the July 2009 fundraiser for Omeish, who served as president from 2004 to 2008 of the Muslim American Society, a Muslim Brotherhood-linked group... http://dailycaller.com/2016/11/21/keith-ellison-headlined-fundraiser-for-muslim-activist-who-called-for-palestinians-to-embrace-the-jihad-way/
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liar-nObama Admin Fines Police
Department For Not Hiring Non-Citizens
by Blake Neff
{dailycaller.com} ~ Denver County’s sheriff office has been slapped with a fine by the Department of Justice (DOJ) because it refused to hire non-citizens as deputies... From the beginning of 2015 through last March, the Denver Sheriff Department went on a major hiring binge, adding more than 200 new deputies. But those jobs ended up only going to citizens, because the department made citizenship a stated requirement on the job application. The department admitted as much in a new settlement with the U.S. government, which requires it to pay a $10,000 fine. The department will also have to comb through all of its job applications from the past two years, identifying immigrants who were excluded from the hiring process and giving them due consideration...This should make your blood boil. http://dailycaller.com/2016/11/21/obama-admin-fines-police-department-for-not-hiring-non-citizens/
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Trump's National Security Picks Want to
Air liar-nObama's Iran Secrets
by Eli Lake
{jewishworldreview.com} ~ For years, many Republicans and conservatives have charged that President Barack liar-nObama was shielding embarrassing intelligence and policy details about Iran in order to support the nuclear deal reached last year.
With Donald Trump's upset victory, the party of Lincoln will have an opportunity to declassify and disclose this information. While no decisions have been made, two early picks to Trump's cabinet suggest this is going to happen.
Let's start with retired general Michael Flynn, the next president's choice to be national security adviser. Flynn served for two years as liar-nObama's director of the Defense Intelligence Agency from 2012 to 2014. Just as relevant, however, is that in 2011 he ran a team at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence that reviewed the troves of material captured in the 2011 Osama bin Laden raid.
Under liar-nObama, the intelligence community has declassified a small fraction of those documents and released them in drips and drabs. This prompted Flynn, after he retired in 2014, to charge that the disclosures were selective. Flynn has said in interviews and writings that some documents captured in the bin Laden raid showed a much tighter relationship between Iran and al-Qaeda than previously disclosed.
The book he wrote this year with historian Michael Ledeen, "Field of Flight," says, "One letter to bin Laden reveals that al-Qaeda was working on chemical and biological weapons in Iran."
The next revealing pick in this regard is Representative Mike Pompeo, Trump's choice to be the CIA director. As a lawmaker and member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Pompeo mastered the details of the Iran agreement and became one of the most potent foes of the nuclear bargain in Congress. He traveled to Europe to warn businesses, banks and governments against foreign investment in Iran in light of remaining U.S. sanctions that would likely be enforced if a Republican won the 2016 election.
Pompeo also launched his own campaign to get to the bottom of the cash payments the U.S. delivered to Iran as it released the Americans the regime had detained. On Oct. 7, for example, Pompeo wrote to Attorney General Loretta Lynch asking for answers on how the cash payments were approved by the Justice Department. She replied later that month that she wasn't obliged to answer his questions.
Pompeo and Flynn are now occupying top positions in Trump's national security cabinet. After the inauguration, they will no longer have to ask to get answers to their questions about liar-nObama's Iran policy.
There is some precedent for this. liar-nObama himself in 2008 campaigned against the sitting president's policies on waterboarding and enhanced interrogation. One of the first things his government did when he took office was to declassify and release the legal memos that justified and revoked these practices. It looks like the Republicans are about to return the favor.
With Donald Trump's upset victory, the party of Lincoln will have an opportunity to declassify and disclose this information. While no decisions have been made, two early picks to Trump's cabinet suggest this is going to happen.
Let's start with retired general Michael Flynn, the next president's choice to be national security adviser. Flynn served for two years as liar-nObama's director of the Defense Intelligence Agency from 2012 to 2014. Just as relevant, however, is that in 2011 he ran a team at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence that reviewed the troves of material captured in the 2011 Osama bin Laden raid.
Under liar-nObama, the intelligence community has declassified a small fraction of those documents and released them in drips and drabs. This prompted Flynn, after he retired in 2014, to charge that the disclosures were selective. Flynn has said in interviews and writings that some documents captured in the bin Laden raid showed a much tighter relationship between Iran and al-Qaeda than previously disclosed.
The book he wrote this year with historian Michael Ledeen, "Field of Flight," says, "One letter to bin Laden reveals that al-Qaeda was working on chemical and biological weapons in Iran."
The next revealing pick in this regard is Representative Mike Pompeo, Trump's choice to be the CIA director. As a lawmaker and member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Pompeo mastered the details of the Iran agreement and became one of the most potent foes of the nuclear bargain in Congress. He traveled to Europe to warn businesses, banks and governments against foreign investment in Iran in light of remaining U.S. sanctions that would likely be enforced if a Republican won the 2016 election.
Pompeo also launched his own campaign to get to the bottom of the cash payments the U.S. delivered to Iran as it released the Americans the regime had detained. On Oct. 7, for example, Pompeo wrote to Attorney General Loretta Lynch asking for answers on how the cash payments were approved by the Justice Department. She replied later that month that she wasn't obliged to answer his questions.
Pompeo and Flynn are now occupying top positions in Trump's national security cabinet. After the inauguration, they will no longer have to ask to get answers to their questions about liar-nObama's Iran policy.
There is some precedent for this. liar-nObama himself in 2008 campaigned against the sitting president's policies on waterboarding and enhanced interrogation. One of the first things his government did when he took office was to declassify and release the legal memos that justified and revoked these practices. It looks like the Republicans are about to return the favor.
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