Trump Immigration Policy Now 'Get Off My Lawn'

Donald Trump

Donald Trump went on a Twitter rant this morning railing against the concept of due process for immigrants who come to America.

In a series of tweets, the Trumpster demanded that Congress enact new laws that would allow law enforcement at the U.S. border to kick out people entering the country “just as they would if they were standing on your front lawn.”

Along the way, he called current laws "INSANE" and denouncing the process of legal proceedings by judges in immigration cases.

Congress must pass smart, fast and reasonable Immigration Laws now. Law Enforcement at the Border is doing a great job, but the laws they are forced to work with are insane. When people, with or without children, enter our Country, they must be told to leave without our........

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 5, 2018

.....Country being forced to endure a long and costly trial. Tell the people “OUT,” and they must leave, just as they would if they were standing on your front lawn. Hiring thousands of “judges” does not work and is not acceptable - only Country in the World that does this!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 5, 2018

Congress - FIX OUR INSANE IMMIGRATION LAWS NOW!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 5, 2018

Republicans are fear-mongers

1) Democrats passed immigration reform that also secured the border (S.744). Republicans obstructed.

2) Undocumented immigrants can’t utilize social services.

3) Blaming undocumented immigrants for crime is the real fake news. pic.twitter.com/pFKWdQzHgs

— ♻️💙🇺🇸 Christopher Zullo (@ChrisJZullo) July 5, 2018

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From yesterday's rallies across the country protesting the immigration policies of the Trump administration.

GOP Immigration Bill Fails Miserably In House Vote 301-121

Donald Trump

Donald Trump keeps blaming Democrats in Congress for the lack of meaningful immigration reform, but the Republicans (who control both the House and the Senate) can't get their own act together.

From The Washington Post:

The House on Wednesday soundly rejected a wide-ranging GOP immigration bill that would have funded President Trump’s border wall, offered young undocumented immigrants a path to citizenship and partially addressed the family-separation crisis at the southwest border.

The bill failed on a vote of 301 to 121 despite a last-minute tweet — in all caps — of support from Trump, the backing of GOP leadership and weeks of negotiations between conservatives and moderate Republicans who sought an elusive intraparty compromise.

But the GOP has been unable to bridge the divide between hard-liners aligned with Trump and moderates intent on addressing the fate of immigrants known as “dreamers.”

Highlighting the GOP’s failure to achieve consensus on any immigration-related legislation, Republican aides said he House would not vote this week on a narrower measure aimed squarely at the separation policy, amid disputes between Congress and the White House on how far such a bill should go.

With immigration reform now being kicked down the road yet again, the only legislative achievement Donald Trump will be able to tout on the mid-term campaign trail this fall will be his tax cuts.

A recent Wall Street Journal poll showed the tax reform law only garners 27% approval.

Here's the Donald's all-caps tweet from earlier today, plus a few other thoughts from the Twitterverse:

HOUSE REPUBLICANS SHOULD PASS THE STRONG BUT FAIR IMMIGRATION BILL, KNOWN AS GOODLATTE II, IN THEIR AFTERNOON VOTE TODAY, EVEN THOUGH THE DEMS WON’T LET IT PASS IN THE SENATE. PASSAGE WILL SHOW THAT WE WANT STRONG BORDERS & SECURITY WHILE THE DEMS WANT OPEN BORDERS = CRIME. WIN!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 27, 2018

So-called moderate Republicans folded & destroyed the best chance Congress had to provide a permanent legislative fix for our immigration system, & all they have to show for it is a failed bill that would have sold out Dreamers, families, asylum seekers & children at the border.

— Nancy Pelosi (@NancyPelosi) June 27, 2018

112 Republicans voted against their own immigration bill...but Democrats.

— Pesach 'Pace' Lattin ❎ (@pacelattin) June 27, 2018

Chris Hayes: 'The Border' Is a Convenient Metaphor For Anxious Whites

I usually tune into late night talk shows for folks to say something funny or clever.

But in this short segment from Late Night with Seth Meyers, MSNBC's Chris Hayes succinctly breaks down what's really behind today's anti-immigration debate.

In discussing his trip to the southern border of the United States to examine immigration issues, Hayes is asked about Donald Trump going to Duluth, Minnesota, for a campaign rally and raging about 'the border' to his supporters there - in a state that isn't directly impacted by folks crossing any 'border' into their state.

So - why do they rage? Because white folks are afraid America won't be 'America' if our demographics shift.

Said Hayes, "It's not actually 'the border.' It's this idea of 'invasion.' The country is changing in ways they don't like. The border is a convenient metaphor for that anxiety."

And he's right.

Watch the clip below.

Donald Trump Wants To Eliminate Due Process For Immigrants Coming Into US

Apparently, Donald Trump wasn't paying attention when he swore to uphold the U.S. Constitution during his inauguration.

The New York Times reports:

President Trump asserted on Sunday that immigrants who crossed into the United States illegally should be sent back immediately without due process or an appearance before a judge, an escalation of his attacks on the judicial system.

It was another twist in an already head-spinning series of developments on immigration after the president reversed a policy last week that had resulted in the separation of more than 2,300 children from their families.

The call to abandon due process on Sunday in some ways echoed part of his executive order, which seeks to detain immigrant families indefinitely, a stance that courts have said violates the rights of the children. But on Sunday, Mr. Trump went further, saying no judges at all were needed to process immigration cases.

The ACLU responded to Trump's call to eliminate due process for migrants: "What President Trump has suggested here is both illegal and unconstitutional. Any official who has sworn an oath to uphold the Constitution and laws should disavow it unequivocally."

We cannot allow all of these people to invade our Country. When somebody comes in, we must immediately, with no Judges or Court Cases, bring them back from where they came. Our system is a mockery to good immigration policy and Law and Order. Most children come without parents...

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 24, 2018

....Our Immigration policy, laughed at all over the world, is very unfair to all of those people who have gone through the system legally and are waiting on line for years! Immigration must be based on merit - we need people who will help to Make America Great Again!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 24, 2018

If Trump can deny due process to those allegedly here unlawfully, ICE can grab YOU, allege you aren’t a citizen & deport you w/out a hearing

— Ronald Klain (@RonaldKlain) June 24, 2018

To everyone who has tweeted back, "Not me, I can PROVE I'm a citizen" -- you miss the point. Without due process, who will you "prove" it to? Where will you show your proof? A right to a hearing / judicial review protects ALL of us. https://t.co/6vfJckx4Uu

— Ronald Klain (@RonaldKlain) June 24, 2018

#SCOTUS has been clear that everyone has a right to a “judge and court case” since at least 1886.https://t.co/0uFeANAuN2

— Southern Poverty Law Center (@splcenter) June 25, 2018

House Republicans Fail To Pass Their Own Immigration Bill

Lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives failed today to pass their more extreme immigration bill by a vote of 193-231.

Speaker of the House Paul Ryan says he will not bring a more narrowly tailored bill to the floor for a vote.

But with Donald Trump's recent executive order addressing family separations at the border possibly being challenged in courts, Ryan may have to rethink that position.

It's still possible that a solution might be found in the Senate where Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has signaled he would consider emergency legislation on the issue.

All 49 Democratic Senators have signed on in support of a bill they've crafted that would legally put an end to the family separations but it's doubtful McConnell would embrace the legislation.

Here's the report from CBSN below.

JUST IN: Immigration bill backed by conservative Republicans has failed in the House. https://t.co/DDnIkfCENC pic.twitter.com/P7CURwjYZN

— CBS News (@CBSNews) June 21, 2018

Donald Trump Celebrates Easter With Immigration Rant

Donald Trump

Donald Trump celebrated Easter by taking to Twitter and ranting about immigration saying "Border Patrol Agents are not allowed to properly do their job at the Border because of ridiculous liberal (Democrat) laws like Catch & Release. Getting more dangerous. “Caravans” coming. Republicans must go to Nuclear Option to pass tough laws NOW. NO MORE DACA DEAL!"

Did you catch that last part - "NO MORE DACA DEAL!"

Just last week Trump was telling Dreamers it was the Democrats who weren't trying to solve the DACA issue. Now he's saying, "NO MORE DACA DEAL!"

He also berated Mexico for "doing very little, at stopping folks at the border.

Interestingly, Trump doesn't seem to understand exactly what DACA is.

He added that "These big flows of people are all trying to take advantage of DACA. They want in on the act!"

The DACA program (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) is only for recipients who have entered the United States before their 16th birthday and prior to June 2007.

There's no getting "in on the act." Either you were in the U.S. before 2007 or you're not eligible.

Happy Easter!

Border Patrol Agents are not allowed to properly do their job at the Border because of ridiculous liberal (Democrat) laws like Catch & Release. Getting more dangerous. “Caravans” coming. Republicans must go to Nuclear Option to pass tough laws NOW. NO MORE DACA DEAL!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 1, 2018

Mexico is doing very little, if not NOTHING, at stopping people from flowing into Mexico through their Southern Border, and then into the U.S. They laugh at our dumb immigration laws. They must stop the big drug and people flows, or I will stop their cash cow, NAFTA. NEED WALL!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 1, 2018

These big flows of people are all trying to take advantage of DACA. They want in on the act!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 1, 2018

"You must not mistreat or oppress foreigners in any way. Remember, you yourselves were once foreigners in the land of Egypt.” Exodus — 22:21

Happy Easter, Mr. President! https://t.co/X7AEMN8DVf

— Rep. Eric Swalwell (@RepSwalwell) April 1, 2018

Must be some kind of Easter special on Fox and Friends. https://t.co/Kx12S91RA9

— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) April 1, 2018

In the spirit of Passover and Easter, our president tweets:
“NO MORE DACA DEAL!”

— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) April 1, 2018

My favorite Bible story just might be the one where Jesus rage-tweets NO MORE DACA DEAL while yelling at his television on Easter morning and then heads off for an afternoon of golf at Galilee-a-Lago.

— Jeff Tiedrich (@jefftiedrich) April 1, 2018

Trump: "I'd Love To See A Shutdown"

During a meeting on the MS-13 gang, Donald Trump announced he supports a government shutdown if Democrats won't agree to tighten immigration laws:

"If we don't change it, let's have a shutdown. We'll do a shutdown and it's worth it for our country. I'd love to see a shutdown if we don't get this stuff taken care of."

Trump's comments came at 2:33pm today.

At 3:50pm, White House press secretary Sarah Huckbee Sanders walked that back telling the press, "We are not advocating for a shutdown."

#chaos

During a meeting on the MS-13 gang, Trump said he supports a government shutdown if Democrats won't agree to tighten immigration laws: "If we don't change it, let's have a shutdown. ... I'd love to see a shutdown if we don't get this stuff taken care of." https://t.co/IghwpT0aPr pic.twitter.com/rlUMfOu7WD

— CNN (@CNN) February 6, 2018

Trump: "We're Working On A Plan For DACA"

You could get whiplash following the story of whether or not Donald Trump has agreed to work with Democrats in Congress on solving the issue of DACA.

Last night Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi announced, after a dinner meeting at the White House, that Trump had agreed to support legislation that would allow undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children to remain in the states.

Then, Trump tweeted there was no deal.

Now, he says there is.

From the New York Times:

President Trump confirmed on Thursday morning that he supports legislation that would protect young undocumented immigrants from deportation and would deliver a “massive” increase in border security — but not with a wall on the southern border.

Mr. Trump’s comments, both in Washington and in Florida, affirmed the broad parameters of an agreement that Democratic leaders unilaterally announced Wednesday night after dinner with the president at the White House.

In remarks to reporters as he left the White House on Thursday, Mr. Trump said, “We’re working on a plan for DACA,” referring to protections for immigrants who are part of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. He confirmed, “the wall will come later.”

Mr. Trump’s comments seemed to contradict his own Twitter posts early Thursday morning when he said, “no deal was made last night on DACA.” But they were very much in line with Democratic leaders’ statements. Representative Nancy Pelosi of California, the House Democratic leader, also stopped short of calling their agreement a “deal” on Thursday.

But she told reporters, “We agreed to a plan to protect our nation’s Dreamers from deportation,” adding that there would be a “border security measure that does not include a wall” included in immigration legislation.

Trump on DACA: We’re not looking at citizenship or amnesty, “we’re looking at allowing people to stay here” https://t.co/5WP4pKOjGg

— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) September 14, 2017

Anti-immigration Republicans like Rep. Steve King are furious over the developments:

@RealDonaldTrump If AP is correct, Trump base is blown up, destroyed, irreparable, and disillusioned beyond repair. No promise is credible. https://t.co/uJjxk6uX5g

— Steve King (@SteveKingIA) September 14, 2017

President Trump brought parents of children murdered by illegal alien "dreamers" on stage with him. #DACADeal will be a huge betrayal.

— Makada 🇺🇸 (@_Makada_) September 14, 2017

Politicians are supposed to keep their word. R's failed on Healthcare, broke their word They have failed! @POTUS needs to keep his promises https://t.co/NldKWcFrRB

— Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) September 14, 2017

At this point, who DOESN'T want Trump impeached? https://t.co/g1mMhmm8ng

— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) September 14, 2017

No "Legal Status" Compromise For Undocumented Immigrants From Trump

President Trump

After surprising many with his flirtation yesterday afternoon with possible legal status for undocumented immigrants, the idea was not included in President Trump's address to a joint sessions of Congress.

Many are curious about what happened between Trump's lunch with TV news anchors and the actual speech in the Capitol last night.

From the New York Times:

The session with the television anchors started out as a nod to tradition by a president who has broken so many. Like his predecessors on the day of a State of the Union address, Mr. Trump hosted the journalists for what was supposed to be an unrecorded lunch to give them a sense of what he would tell Congress. But the conversation took a surprising turn when some of the anchors asked about his efforts to deport many of the estimated 11 million immigrants in the country illegally. Without being prompted, Mr. Trump then raised the idea of legislation, noting that there had not been any comprehensive law passed by Congress on the subject since Ronald Reagan’s amnesty program in the 1980s.

He told the anchors it was time for a bill that would grant legal status to many of those in the country illegally as long as both sides compromised, similar to the legislation sought but never passed by George W. Bush and Barack Obama. Mr. Trump said he recognized that it would cause him political problems with his conservative base voters, according to people in the room, but added that he thought he could keep them happy since they had stuck with him throughout last year’s Republican primaries.

When Mr. Trump offered the idea, he let the word “compromise” hang in the air, gauging the reaction. He then turned to Hope Hicks, his director of strategic communications, and suggested that the thought could be added to his speech.

As Mr. Trump’s words settled over the State Dining Room, the president’s aides glanced at one another. They moved quickly to alert Mr. Bannon and Mr. Miller, two of the main keepers of Mr. Trump’s address before Congress.

And there, we find the answer: Bannon and Miller were not about to allow their protege some kind of political compromise. "Compromise" has yet to be added to this administration's vocabulary.

Most political experts, when they heard of the idea being floated, did not buy into such prospects.

And now you know why.

Trump Signs Executive Order Beginning Process Of Building "The Wall"

President Trump today signed the executive that begins the process of building the famous "Wall" on the border of the United States and Mexico.

In recent weeks since the election, Trump has changed course on how to pay for the wall. Throughout the campaign, Trump repeated over and over that Mexico would "pay for" the wall. But now, the new president says that tax payers will foot the bill initially, and will eventually be reimbursed by Mexico through some mechanism yet to be determined/

From Buzzfeed:

“We’ve been talking about this right from the beginning,” Trump said as he signed an executive order launching the process of “immediately” building a physical wall between the United States and Mexico.

The action, taken less than a week before Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto is scheduled to visit his US counterpart is already drawing calls for the meeting between the two to be cancelled.

A person familiar with the matter said that Peña Nieto is “considering” canceling the visit, but spoke on condition of anonymity because plans have not been finalized.

Construction of the concrete wall dividing the two countries, which Trump has said will be as high as 55 feet, was indeed one of his first promises on the campaign trail. Further rousing the ire of his southern neighbors, Trump, in the same speech where he announced he was running for president, accused Mexico of sending criminals and “rapists” across the border and promised to deport millions of undocumented immigrants, the majority of them Mexican.

Additionally, Trump says he plans to take away federal funds from any state or local governments that fail to follow his deportation policies. Opponents of that plan say withholding federal funds from "sanctuary cities" would be unconstitutional.

White Supremacist Movement LOVED Donald Trump's Immigration Tirade

While many who watched Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump yell his way through a "policy" speech on immigration last night in Arizona were left fairly dismayed, Trump's white supremacist followers were thrilled.

Anyone expecting some kind of "pivot" during the general election may be surprised to learn that the pivot was from the far-right to the alt-right.

The speech was a grim, high volume rough ride that bordered on fear-mongering against all immigrants. Just the kind of thing white nationalists/supremacists love.

David Duke, former KKK Grand Wizard and current candidate for the U.S. Senate:

@DrDavidDuke Whitey-whitey, white-itty-white white!

— Neko Case (@NekoCase) September 1, 2016

Richard Spencer, of the white nationalist think tank National Policy Institute:

Agenda for August 31.

> Diplomacy in the morning.
> Nationalism in the evening. #Trump is back in a big way!

— Richard B. Spencer (@RichardBSpencer) September 1, 2016

Jared Taylor, editor for the white nationalist publication American Renaissance:

#TrumpAZ Hell of a speech. Almost perfect. Logical, deeply felt, and powerfully delivered. Now watch how the media twists it.

— Jared Taylor (@jartaylor) September 1, 2016

According to former campaign manager and current adviser Corey Lewandowski, the speech was written to appeal to the white male voters who already support Trump's nationalist policies. “White males have a high propensity of voting and this speech is clearly geared at those individuals right now, to make sure he has locked them in for the election,” said Lewandowski on CNN after the hour long speech.

News Round-Up: August 30, 2016

Some news stories you may have missed:

• Photographer Ricki Beason's 2017 “Heartthrobs and Hound Dogs” calendar is out, featuring hunky Texas police officers, firefighters and military veterans. Proceeds go to help Texas dog rescue organizations, so winners all around :)

• Former models for the Donald Trump company Trump Model Management say they worked for months without proper visas or or work permits. #ColorMeShocked

• Lance Bass, host of the LOGO TV gay dating show "Finding Price Charming," confirms that one contestant is HIV+ and that the disclosure will be front and center in an upcoming episode.

• Sarah Palin on San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick: "American, let's sack this ungrateful punk."

• Meet the guy who's making bank offering folks a chance at "Dinner with Trump" for a campaign donation - trick is, he's not affiliated with the Trump campaign.

• Listen below as wing nut Wayne Root explains folks who receive food stamps or welfare or birth control through Obamacare should lose their right to vote. Of course, the idea is unconstitutional, but hey...

The Flip-Flop: Donald Trump Officially "Softens" On Illegal Immigration Plans

After launching his campaign with an attack on undocumented immigrants, and continuing on for over a year promising his supporters he will deport 11 million of them through using a "deportation force," Donald Trump finally acknowledges that the entire concept was flawed, ruthless and inhumane.

Here's the pivot!

From the New York Daily News:

“Now, everybody agrees we get the bad ones out,” he told Fox News host Sean Hannity. “But when I go through and I meet thousands and thousands of people on this subject, and I’ve had very strong people come up to me, really great, great people come up to me, and they’ve said, ‘Mr. Trump, I love you, but to take a person who’s been here for 15 or 20 years and throw them and their family out, it’s so tough, Mr. Trump.’ I have it all the time! It’s a very, very hard thing.”

Still, Trump said there would be “no amnesty” for undocumented immigrants, even if they have committed no crimes.

“No citizenship,” Trump said. “Let me go a step further — they’ll pay back taxes, they have to pay taxes, there’s no amnesty, as such, there’s no amnesty, but we work with them.”

Really? After telling the country for a YEAR that "they gotta go," now Trump says he's "softening" on his ideas to cope with illegal immigration in a play for the Hispanic vote?

This is the definition of a classic "flip-flop."

Or is he really not reaching for Latinos, but just wants to look a bit more palatable to Republican voters who were on the fence?

Pro-Hillary Clinton PAC Attacks Republican Candidates Stance On Immigrants

A new political ad, produced by the pro-Hillary Clinton super PAC Priorities USA, highlights much of the controversial campaign rhetoric made by Donald Trump and other GOP hopefuls on the issue of immigration including the use of the term "anchor babies."

The New York Times reports that the ad will begin airing in the swing states of Colorado, Florida and Nevada, all of which have large populations of Hispanics.

Another Company Dumps Trump - Perfumania "Winding Down" Business With The Donald

Another large company has decided to end it's business dealing with Donald Trump as his controversial campaign statements continue to inflame customers and voters.

From Forbes:

It hasn’t been a great few weeks for Brand Trump. In recent days, companies and groups including Macy’s, NBC, Nascar, Serta, the PGA and clothing manufacturer PVH PVH +0.99% Corp. have all cut ties with The Donald following his controversial comments on Mexican immigrants.

Now, the country’s largest fragrance retailer has decided to stop working with the Republican presidential candidate following days of internal discussions.

“Perfumania is winding down its retail business with the Trump fragrance brand,” said a spokesperson for the Bellport, NY-based firm.

The publicly-listed company, best known for its mall stores, had marketed two separate scents inspired by the real estate mogul: Success by Trump, which retails at $49.60 for a 3.4 oz eau de toilette, and Empire by Trump.

Video: "Retrumplican Party"

Meet Ana

Meet Ana, a 20-year-old college student from Dallas and guest at the State of the Union.

“As I write this letter, my heart pounds and tears roll out of my eyes as I remember all the sacrifices my parents have made through the years to procure me a better future.”

This September, Ana Zamora, a 20-year-old college student from Dallas, Texas, sat down at her desk to write a letter to her President. “My parents brought me to the United States before my first birthday, 20 years ago,” she said. “As with any other dreamer, my parents came to this country with a dream of a better future for their children.”

This is the only country Ana has ever called home. So when the President took action to give children who grew up in the U.S. temporary status in 2012, she was overjoyed. “I am finally a person in the United States,” she wrote the President. “I have a social security number, an employment authorization card and a driver’s license to drive the car I pay for with my own money (which I earned working with my employment authorization card) and pay taxes as any law-abiding U.S. citizen. I could not be more proud of myself!!!)

Ana’s life has fundamentally changed. And because she has siblings who are U.S. citizens, her parents – a small business owner and a construction worker -- are among the millions of people who are potentially eligible for the new Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents program the President announced last November. Now, Ana plans on going after a masters degree in business administration while helping to mentor students in situations just like hers. “The United States is my country,” she wrote. “It is where I grew up, took my first steps, learned to read, write, play, graduated from high school, and will graduate from college.”

Ana Zamora is joining the First Lady as a guest at the 2015 State of the Union Address on January 20.

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Undocumented Immigrants and Welfare

Via Occupy Democrats

I know, I know, the folks at FOX News would love for you to think otherwise, but there you go...