There is no boogey man at the southern border!
"‘Answer my question’: Fox anchor grills defiant Stephen Miller on Trump’s national emergency"
By Alex Horton February 17, 2019
". . . like a small army of fact-checkers have noted before, Wallace told Miller the vast majority of hard drugs seized by Customs and Border Protection are captured at points of entry, not between them, and unlawful migration over the border has fallen 90 percent since 2000.
So what crisis is the wall supposed to solve? In shades of former defense secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld’s “unknown unknowns” theory, Miller invoked what could not be demonstrated by his own administration’s statistics.
“You don’t know what you don’t know, and you don’t catch what you don’t catch,” Miller told Wallace."
Well . . . what about it Steve?
" . . . the military, conveniently, has already been deployed to the southern border, Miller noted, and a wall is needed to “secure those areas where they’re patrolling.
”In other words, troops were deployed to help harden the border and now need barriers to keep them safe from a threat Miller did not describe."
Obfuscation, absurdity, just silly thinking.
"“Then answer my question, can you name one case where a president has asked Congress for money, Congress has refused, and the president has then invoked national powers to get the money anyway?”"
Demagoguery and fear mongering, gaslighting President . . .
FEAR! BE AFRAID! When Americans are afraid they allow the government to do anything! We should fear government when they stoke fear.
"Fear: The Foundation of Every Government’s Power"
By Robert Higgs | May 17, 2005
http://www.independent.org/publications/article.asp?id=1510
Mistreatment of illegal immigrants and lies about the fake crisis at the border can hurt future America. Western interference in the Middle East for 80 years led to 9-11.
I looked for cartoons about National Security threats and fund one cartoon suggesting Climate Change is a distraction by Obama from the real threats to US National Security. Actually, factually, long-term climate change is more dangerous than domestic terror and extremism in Islam.
The SOTU described violence and drugs at the southern border that does not exist by any fact-based report. Shutting the Government again, and fear mongering for his Wall is bad for America. I look for truth from our President.
"Illegal immigrants sent to jail at a rate 4 times higher than U.S. citizens: study"
Backs Trump's case for cutting crime
By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times - Tuesday, February 5, 2019
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/feb/5/study-finds-high-rates-of-prison-jail-for-illegals/
Not a crisis of rapists and murders. If they are stopped, and found to be illegals, they will be arrested. The report does not show the numbers or types of crimes Trump threw out in various videos and tweets.
Conservatives hammer immigrants.
"Topic - Federation For American Immigration Reform"
https://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/federation-for-american-immigration-reform/
"What the Media Won’t Tell You About Illegal Immigration and Criminal Activity"
Mar 13th, 2017
Commentary By Hans A. von Spakovsky, Election Law Reform Initiative and Senior Legal Fellow and Grant Strobl, National Chairman, Young Americans for Freedom
Reference to GAO reports that have been criticized for misleading numbers, and lack of detail to orient data.
The take away to start the article is incredibly stupid:
"Every crime committed by an illegal alien is one that wouldn't have occurred if that alien wasn’t in the United States in the first place."
Try racial profiling and you get the same result. A crime by a white man is one crime that could have been avoided if we had arrested that person before they commit a crime? It's incredibly stupid!
"Illegal immigration on pace for worst year since massive wall-building spree in 2007"
New surge comprised of migrant families and children, which are a much tougher population to combat"
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/feb/10/illegal-immigration-mexico-border-pace-worst-2007/
None of this "news' obviates the need for Comprehensive Immigration Reform.
If the focus is on building the Wall, Congress will kick the can downstream and avoid doing the real job, handling the real crisis which is immigrants coming across the border for a change of life. It is stupid to say they are coming to for the purpose of committing crimes. That thinking is obviously weak.
Immigrants are coming for jobs and a better life, which can only be managed by legislation. The Wall distracts Congress to our detriment.
"Overall, we rate the Heritage Foundation Right Biased based on conservative policy positions as well as funding from right leaning organizations. We also rate them Mixed for factual reporting due to promoting misleading claims regarding global warming and the health dangers associated with tobacco."
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/heritage-foundation/
"There Is No Border Crisis"
https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2019/01/10/there-is-no-border-crisis/#1e9111de6a52
"Intelligence Chiefs Diverge From Trump On Main Threats to US"
https://www.defenseone.com/threats/2019/01/intelligence-chiefs-diverge-trump-main-threats-us/154511/
"THE TRUTH ABOUT THE BORDER CRISIS: Experts say there is no security crisis, but there is a simple way to fix immigration — and it's not a wall"
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-border-crisis-speech-not-fixed-by-wall-shutdown-2019-1
"Migration experts say there is a border crisis — but it’s not the crisis Trump talks about "
https://www.post-gazette.com/news/nation/2019/01/08/immigration-crisis-US-Mexico-border-experts-children-families-seek-asylum/stories/201901090072
"New Mexico governor pulls National Guard troops from U.S.-Mexico border"
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration-new-mexico/new-mexico-governor-pulls-national-guard-troops-from-us-mexico-border-idUSKCN1PV1VM
"9 facts you should know about the border before Trump addresses the nation"
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2019/01/08/facts-donald-trumps-border-wall-address-nation-immigration-shutdown-column/2503981002/
"Trump’s troop deployment strung ‘lethal’ razor wire on the border. This city has had enough."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/02/07/trumps-troop-deployment-strung-lethal-razor-wire-border-this-city-has-had-enough/?utm_term=.3091cf95664f
"‘Savage gang’: Despite Trump’s relentless rhetoric, MS-13 murders are down"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/savage-gang-despite-trumps-relentless-rhetoric-ms-13-murders-are-down/2019/02/06/9c6ace98-2662-11e9-81fd-b7b05d5bed90_story.html?utm_term=.3f47d25d8311
“A police chief demands Congress act on guns: ‘Doing nothing is not acceptable’”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/02/07/police-chief-demands-congress-act-guns-doing-nothing-is-not-acceptable/?utm_term=.cfd1c1b7aca3
"Sean Hannity: The border crisis is a matter of life and death - and Dems are burying their heads in the sand""
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/sean-hannity-the-border-crisis-is-a-matter-of-life-and-death-and-dems-are-burying-their-heads-in-the-sand
Hannity did not source his numbers.
"Yes, There Is A Crisis At The Border — The Numbers Show It"
https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/trump-crisis-at-the-border/
No sources cited for "data."
The reports of violence and drugs at the border are not fact based, no links to "reports" they cite, or citing poorly controlled and executed studies, or offering cherry picked interviews with a few Border Agents, who can be balanced by similarly cherry picked Border Agents saying the opposite.
Would you argue President Trump is not lying, just exaggerating for effect, using his "truthful hyperbole" philosophy?
Is this say anything to win tactic really good for America? Isn't demagoguery considered a flaw? Isn't lying to convince Americans to support policies unfair to Americans who deserve facts to make choices?
I spoke to a Trump supporter the other day. He said Trump was a good businessman because he figured out how to "use" bankruptcy? One (1) bankruptcy, OK, that might be necessary, but five more bankruptcies after the first means he is cheating the system, and does not care who he hurts. Trump is NOT a good businessman.
