By JAVIER MANJARRES | The Floridian
President
Trump was also popular in Central America
Vice President Kamala Harris’ much
anticipated “foreign policy” trip to Guatemala to meet with leaders there about
what can be done to stem the influx of illegal
immigrants that are crossing into the U.S. from that country,
got off to a bad start with Air Force 2 having to turn around
because of “technical issue” and was then being greeted by
pro-Trump, anti-Biden Guatemalan protestors.
“It is a technical issue. There are no major
safety concerns,” said Symone Sanders, spokeswoman for VP Harris.
But after boarding a new plane and taking the
4 1/2 hour flight to Guatemala, protestors were at the Guatemalan Air Force
base waiting for the vice president with open arms and signs. Big signs.
One sign simply stated, “Kamala, TRUMP WON,” another told the vice president that “Guatemala as pro-life,” and another want to her to “go home.”
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GUATEMALANS TO KAMALA HARRIS: CLUELESS YANKEE
GO HOME
By PAUL
MIRENGOFF | POWERLINE
Kamala Harris is visiting Guatemala
carrying this
message from Joe Biden: “Guatemalans stay home.” Indeed, according
to this
New York Post report, Harris pleaded with potential migrants not to come to
U.S.
Begging people not to do what they clearly believe
is in their interests isn’t much of a strategy for dealing with the border
crisis. Thus, it’s not surprising that Harris isn’t being well received.
Protesters greeted
Harris with such signs as “Trump won,” “Kamala, Go home,” “Kamala,
Mind Your Own Business,” “Guatemala is pro-life,” and “Kamala Stop Funding
Criminals.”
It’s not clear from any report I’ve seen how
many people participated in the anti-Harris protests. It’s possible that the
numbers were small.
But Harris also received disapproval from
Guatemala’s president, Alejandro Giammattei. He told CBS News that the Biden
administration is to blame for sparking the migration crisis.
That’s certainly true. As Giammattei says,
when Biden took office, the U.S. message changed to: “‘We’re going to reunite
families, we’re going to reunite children.’ The very next day, the coyotes were
here organizing groups of children to take them to the United States.”
Giammattei concluded by stating that he and
Harris “are not on the same side of the coin” on migration. I’ll say.
I doubt that Benjamin Franklin could have made much headway selling Biden’s positions on migration to Guatemala. I also doubt that Kamala Harris is taken seriously by officials in that country. Beyond the office she holds, there’s no reason why she should be.
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KAGAN
Writes 9-0 Supreme Court Opinion Rejecting Liz Warren's Subversion of
Immigration Law
BY TYLER O'NEIL |
P J MEDIA
On Monday, the Supreme Court unanimously rejected an
illegal immigrant’s attempt to twist immigration law and create a loophole that
would allow thousands of illegal immigrants to become lawful permanent
residents. Democratic senators and attorneys general advocated for this
loophole, but a liberal justice wrote the opinion for a unanimous Court.
“Petitioner Jose Santos Sanchez entered this country
unlawfully from El Salvador. Years later, because of unsafe living conditions
in that country, the Government granted him Temporary Protected Status (TPS),
entitling him to stay and work in the United States for as long as those
conditions persist,” Associate Justice Elena Kagan, an Obama appointee, wrote in the opinion. “Sanchez now wishes to become a
lawful permanent resident (LPR) of the United States. The question here is
whether the conferral of TPS enables him to obtain LPR status despite his
unlawful entry. We hold that it does not,”
In Sanchez v. Mayorkas, Kagan noted that U.S.
immigration law, “applied according to its plain terms,” “prevents Sanchez from
becoming an LPR. There is no dispute that Sanchez ‘entered the United States in
the late 1990s unlawfully, without inspection.'”
Yet Democrats and immigration activists twist the law to
argue that if an illegal immigrant obtains temporary protected status due to
violence or bad conditions in his or her home country, he or she can be
considered “admitted” for the purposes of obtaining LPR status. While TPS does
protect illegal immigrants from removal and authorizes them to work in the U.S.
as long as the TPS designation lasts, the Court rightly ruled that this
provision does not erase a person’s unlawful entry into the U.S. for permanent
residency status.
Kagan’s conclusion is blunt: U.S. law “generally requires
a lawful admission before a person can obtain LPR status. Sanchez was not
lawfully admitted, and his TPS does not alter that fact. He therefore cannot
become a permanent resident of this country.”
This decision will come as a blow to many Democrats.
Sens. Mazi Hirono (D-Hawaii), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Ed Markey
(D-Mass.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) joined
Reps. Diana DeGette (D-Colo.), Adriano Espaillat (D-N.Y.), Darren Soto
(D-Fla.), and Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) in supporting Sanchez’s claim. Democrat attorneys general for
Washington, D.C., Massachusetts, California, and 17 other states also backed the illegal immigration loophole.
Kagan’s opinion represents a blunt refutation of this
sleight-of-hand attempt to undermine immigration law. Jonathan Turley has suggested that the Court’s recent
string of unanimous decisions like this one may be a subtle message to
Democrats, warning them against packing the Supreme Court. While Turley has a
point, the Supreme Court often hands down unanimous decisions — yet these
decisions do not often gain the same coverage as 5-4 rulings on controversial
issues.
Immigration advocates will lament the fact that many of
the 400,000 people with temporary protected status are illegal immigrants and
that these people will not be able to become permanent residents. Yet blatant
violations of immigration law do not disappear when Congress grants illegal
immigrants a temporary status due to horrible conditions in their home
countries.
The Court made the right decision in this case.
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SHOCKER: Illegal Border Crossings by Venezuelans Up More Than 8000%
BY KEVIN DOWNEY JR. |
PJ Media
Townhall Media/Julio Rosas
You read that right. Customs and Border Patrol, (CBP)
reports that 10,864 Venezuelans have crossed the border this fiscal year, which
began on October 1, 2020—in just the Del Rio sector. The Del Rio sector covers
47 counties and 245 miles of border along the Rio Grande in Southwest Texas.
Last fiscal year the number of illegal immigrants from Venezuela was 135. If
my calculator is accurate, that’s a 7947.71% increase.
All thanks to Gropey Joe Biden.
Epoch Times reporter Charlotte Cuthbertson tweeted a
video of Venezuelans in Texas waiting to get a lift by CBP to a processing
center. One is seen on his phone utilizing his international phone plan.
It’s the same drill every time: people cross illegally,
welcoming troopers hand them water and granola bars, the immigrants relieve
themselves in the tall carrizo cane reeds and are soon picked up by CBP and
driven to processing centers and then released. If you want to know why Kamala
Harris hasn’t gone to the border it’s because she doesn’t need to. Things at
the border are operating just as the Biden administration wants them to.
More than 119,000 illegal immigrants from 70 countries
have been “apprehended” in the Del Rio sector alone so far this fiscal year.
Many of the illegal Venezuelans told The Epoch Times their route to the U.S. involved
flying to Cancún then to Monterrey, Mexico, before crossing the river into Del
Rio. Some came through Colombia. Most Venezuelans carry more belongings than
people coming from Central America. A large portion of them plan to settle in
Florida, where they have family members.
Del Rio’s Chief Patrol Agent Austin Skero tweeted that
his officers encountered, not apprehended, over 5,8000 immigrants from 29
countries in seven days.
The only potential positive I can see here is that
Venezuelans, having watched their own once-great nation destroyed by socialism,
will Vote Trump in 2024.
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TWEET
Chief Patrol Agent Austin Skero
AP Photo/Gregory Bull
National security remains our number one priority and
knowing who or what is entering our country is key. In just the last 7 days,
our agents have encountered over 5,800 migrants from 29 different countries.
During this same time, 63 smuggling attempts were caught on our highways.
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