Politico, giving Trump some props

[fredtoast]

(07-08-2015, 06:45 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: Fred, I don't know where you found that load of kum-bay-ya feel good crap, but here are some REAL statistics about illegal aliens and crime.

http://cis.org/ImmigrantCrime

It is rather lengthy, too much so to post in it's entirety, but well worth your time to read.

Steven A. Camarota is Director of Research and Jessica M. Vaughan is Director of Policy Studies at the Center for Immigration Studies

You clearly did not read it yourself.  here is the conclusion at the end.



In conclusion, we find that it would be a mistake to assume that immigrants as a group are more prone to crime than other groups, or that they should be viewed with more suspicion than others. Even though immigrant incarceration rates are high in some populations, there is no clear evidence that immigrants commit crimes at higher or lower rates than others. Nevertheless, it also would be a mistake to conclude that immigrant crime is insignificant or that offenders’ immigration status is irrelevant in local policing. The newer information available as a result of better screening of the incarcerated population suggests that, in many parts of the country, immigrants are responsible for a significant share of crime. This indicates that there are legitimate public safety reasons for local law enforcement agencies to determine the immigration status of offenders and to work with federal immigration authorities.



And I agree with this. Immigrants do commit crimes, but their incarceration rates are inflated compared to non-immigrants for several reasons.

[SunsetBengal]

Another illegal on American murder...


http://www.newsmax.com/Headline/Donald-Trumped-praised-mother-student/2015/07/07/id/653920/


A still-grieving mom whose teenaged son was murdered by an illegal immigrant gangbanger under disturbingly similar circumstances to the July 1 slaying of Kathryn Steinle praises Donald Trump for "trying to do something" about a failed immigration system that allowed the double tragedies.


"It's amazing to me that the same incident is still going on today," Iraq war veteran Army Sgt. Anita Shaw, whose 17-year-old son Jamiel Jr. was gunned down in Los Angeles in 2008, tells Britain's Daily Mail.

"It's like, when will the public wake up and do something. And this guy who is running for president, Donald Trump, he's trying to do something and they're trying to shut him down."

"I believe in what he's saying," Shaw tells the newspaper. "He's trying to fix the borders and do all the things people should have done a long time ago.'

Shaw says she's "angry" at the current immigration policy.

"It makes me sad, it makes me angry, it makes me frustrated," she tells the Daily Mail.

Her son, a Los Angeles High School football star, was shot twice near his home in March 2008 by Pedro Espinoza, who mistook the teen for a rival gang member. Espinoza had been released from jail a day earlier after serving four months of an eight-month sentence for assault with a deadly weapon and battery on a police officer, the Daily Mail notes.

But the gangbanger lied about his immigration status – and had authorities checked, they would have found him ordered for deportation. Espinoza was sentenced to death in 2012.

The case echoes Steinle's fatal shooting by suspect Francisco Sanchez, 45, who was deported five times before he allegedly opened fire on the 32-year-old San Francisco woman.

"I still don't understand why it happened, just like what happened in San Francisco, why wasn't this guy deported after he was released from prison," Shaw tells the Daily Mail. "'Sanctuary City.' That's crazy."

Shaw says when she first heard of Steinle's slaying, "I said, 'oh no, not again.' She was so pretty and so young and to be with her father and her brother when it happened, just enjoying her day, and then all of a sudden no more."

Shaw, currently based at Fort Hood, Texas, as a supply specialist, said the Steinle case brought all the memories back of her son's slaying.

"I remember crying a lot when I was told about Jamiel because I was still in Iraq," she tells the Daily Mail. "I was screaming and crying, I wanted to help find the guy, but I felt completely helpless.

"And then when I found out he was an illegal alien, I felt everyone was trying to keep it quiet, I felt like because he was an illegal alien it was alright that he killed my son.

"It felt like an American citizen living in the United States is not worth anything, but my son was worth something."



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[fredtoast]

(07-09-2015, 07:32 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: Another illegal on American murder...


http://www.newsmax.com/Headline/Donald-Trumped-praised-mother-student/2015/07/07/id/653920/


A still-grieving mom whose teenaged son was murdered by an illegal immigrant gangbanger under disturbingly similar circumstances to the July 1 slaying of Kathryn Steinle praises Donald Trump for "trying to do something" about a failed immigration system that allowed the double tragedies.


"It's amazing to me that the same incident is still going on today," Iraq war veteran Army Sgt. Anita Shaw, whose 17-year-old son Jamiel Jr. was gunned down in Los Angeles in 2008, tells Britain's Daily Mail.

"It's like, when will the public wake up and do something. And this guy who is running for president, Donald Trump, he's trying to do something and they're trying to shut him down."

"I believe in what he's saying," Shaw tells the newspaper. "He's trying to fix the borders and do all the things people should have done a long time ago.'

Shaw says she's "angry" at the current immigration policy.

"It makes me sad, it makes me angry, it makes me frustrated," she tells the Daily Mail.

Her son, a Los Angeles High School football star, was shot twice near his home in March 2008 by Pedro Espinoza, who mistook the teen for a rival gang member. Espinoza had been released from jail a day earlier after serving four months of an eight-month sentence for assault with a deadly weapon and battery on a police officer, the Daily Mail notes.

But the gangbanger lied about his immigration status – and had authorities checked, they would have found him ordered for deportation. Espinoza was sentenced to death in 2012.

The case echoes Steinle's fatal shooting by suspect Francisco Sanchez, 45, who was deported five times before he allegedly opened fire on the 32-year-old San Francisco woman.

"I still don't understand why it happened, just like what happened in San Francisco, why wasn't this guy deported after he was released from prison," Shaw tells the Daily Mail. "'Sanctuary City.' That's crazy."

Shaw says when she first heard of Steinle's slaying, "I said, 'oh no, not again.' She was so pretty and so young and to be with her father and her brother when it happened, just enjoying her day, and then all of a sudden no more."

Shaw, currently based at Fort Hood, Texas, as a supply specialist, said the Steinle case brought all the memories back of her son's slaying.

"I remember crying a lot when I was told about Jamiel because I was still in Iraq," she tells the Daily Mail. "I was screaming and crying, I wanted to help find the guy, but I felt completely helpless.

"And then when I found out he was an illegal alien, I felt everyone was trying to keep it quiet, I felt like because he was an illegal alien it was alright that he killed my son.

"It felt like an American citizen living in the United States is not worth anything, but my son was worth something."



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Anecdotal stories don't prove anything.  I can find stories about murders and other horrible crimes committed by soldiers, preachers, firemen, and policemen.  None of those prove that soldiers, preachers, firemen, or policemen should be singled out as serious threats to our society.

[SunsetBengal]

Even Matthews and Gulliani know the truth, Trump is the only one bold enough to stand up and say it.


http://video.lauraingraham.com/MSNBC-Host-Democrats-Want-Illegal-Immigration-For-Votes-Lets-Face-it-29341639?utm_content=buffercae32&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

[SunsetBengal]

Trump, the early leader in the already crowded GOP field, has the party's leaders shaken up..

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/10/us/politics/donald-trump-republican-party-debate.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=0

I say good for them, they deserve a bit of uneasiness.  Many of those GOP congressmen all ran on platforms to fight the Obama regime, promised their constituents that they would put a stop to the progressive agenda, and yet, they all continue to sit on their hands.

Now, I'm not a fan of Trump, cannot even say that I would vote for him.  However, he get's it.  He sees what's really going on, and is willing to take the heat by standing up and shouting about it.

[*bfine32*]

[fredtoast]

(07-09-2015, 09:23 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: Now, I'm not a fan of Trump, cannot even say that I would vote for him.  However, he get's it.

Yep, he understands it is all about telling the rubes what they want to hear instead of the truth.  No better way to get people on your side.

[GodHatesBengals]

Trump is hilarious.

[JustWinBaby]

I never trust polls this early, much less with this many candidates.  But if Trump can lock-up the idiots and have 4-5 others split the rest, he COULD actually be leading for a while.  But he's got a dogfight with Cruz over the idiots.

Or perhaps people are sending a message they want plain talk on tough issues and don't want their candidates bending over for the liberal media.

[SunsetBengal]

This ^, is what I think is the case. 

Trump is not a politician, has nothing to lose by speaking his mind, upsetting the media, etc., etc.  I think that many Americans wish that politicians had the courage to speak up, without fear of retribution from the media. 

[GMDino]

(07-10-2015, 08:54 AM)SunsetBengal Wrote: This ^, is what I think is the case. 

Trump is not a politician, has nothing to lose by speaking his mind, upsetting the media, etc., etc.  I think that many Americans wish that politicians had the courage to speak up, without fear of retribution from the media. 

Yes.  As long as they make some kind of sense.

Trump is an ego-maniac who refuses to admit he was ever wrong about anything.  that makes for a great sound bite and maybe a good dictator...not so much a politician.

Its all hat no cattle as they say.

[SunsetBengal]

(07-10-2015, 09:11 AM)GMDino Wrote: Yes.  As long as they make some kind of sense.

Trump is an ego-maniac who refuses to admit he was ever wrong about anything.  that makes for a great sound bite and maybe a good dictator...not so much a politician.

Its all hat no cattle as they say.

True, as I've said before, I'm not a fan of Trump.  However, at least he is causing the party to get nervous, making a stir.  GOP donors are calling for him to be banned from 1st debate, guys like Trey Gowdy and Mike Huckabee are admitting that there is some substance to what Trump has to say about illegal immigration.

On here, I just like watching the reaction from some of the posters, as Trump is so polarizing.

[GMDino]

(07-10-2015, 09:22 AM)SunsetBengal Wrote: True, as I've said before, I'm not a fan of Trump.  However, at least he is causing the party to get nervous, making a stir.  GOP donors are calling for him to be banned from 1st debate, guys like Trey Gowdy and Mike Huckabee are admitting that there is some substance to what Trump has to say about illegal immigration.

On here, I just like watching the reaction from some of the posters, as Trump is so polarizing.

Polarizing would imply people strongly support him.

I don't even think he's good at business let alone making political decisions.

But if you want a circus you got the head clown so enjoy.

[fredtoast]

(07-10-2015, 09:22 AM)SunsetBengal Wrote: On here, I just like watching the reaction from some of the posters.

I get a kick out of the way you support everything he says, but then are too embarrassed to admit it.

"I don't support Trump.  I just agree with everything he tells me is true."

[SunsetBengal]

(07-10-2015, 09:38 AM)GMDino Wrote: Polarizing would imply people strongly support him.

If you read around, rather than just look at what the TV is saying, you'll see that his list of supporters is growing.

(07-10-2015, 09:52 AM)fredtoast Wrote: I get a kick out of the way your jock supports your package, but I'm just too embarrassed to admit it.

"I don't support Trump.  I just agree with everything he tells me is true."

Why, thanks Fred!  I guess...


http://www.newsmax.com/TheWire/donald-trump-immigration-reasons-not-wrong/2015/07/08/id/654086/



Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump created a firestorm of controversy with his comments about Mexican illegal immigrants, asserting that they are "bringing drugs" and "crime" and include "rapists."


To date, his Miss Universe pageant has been cut from Univision and NBC, he's been severed permanently from his top-rated "Apprentice" show on NBC, and dropped from endorsement deals with Macy's, the Professional Golfers' Association, NASCAR, and even Serta mattresses.

He has also drawn criticism across the political spectrum, including from some of his GOP presidential rivals.

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But there are compelling reasons why the outspoken billionaire businessman is on the right track with his views on illegal immigration:

1. The border is extremely porous: The United Nations reported that 97 percent of the illegal immigrants who enter the U.S. clandestinely do so across the nearly 2,000-mile Mexican border, but only 20 percent of those who cross illegally are caught.

2. Illegal immigrants do bring crime: Of the 61,529 criminal cases initiated by federal prosecutors in 2013, more than 40 percent were filed in court districts neighboring the border. Nearly 22 percent were drug-related, 19.7 percent were violent crimes, and 10.2 percent involved white-collar offenses.

3. Immigrants are killing Americans: According to the Center for Immigration Studies, 57 percent of the 76 fugitive murderers wanted by the FBI in 2009 were foreign-born. The Center also disclosed that in Maricopa County in Arizona, 22 percent of felons are illegal immigrants.

4. Illegal immigrants pose a danger on the roads: About 4.5 million illegal aliens in the U.S. drive on a regular basis, many without licenses or insurance or even the ability to read road signs written in English, The New York Times reported. In Arizona, 63 percent of cited drivers have no license, no insurance, and no registration for the vehicle, and 97 percent of them are illegal aliens. Of the 188,380 deportations of illegal aliens in one recent year, 23 percent had committed criminal traffic offenses, primarily driving under the influence. Rep. Steve King of Iowa has estimated that illegal alien drunk drivers kill 13 Americans every day.

5. Statistics back up Trump's charge that illegals bring drugs: In Pinal County, Ariz., about 70 miles from the Mexican border, Sheriff Paul Babeu said marijuana seizures went from about 19,000 pounds in 2008 to more than 45,500 pounds in 2010. Babeu observed: "The Mexican drug cartels have almost toppled the Mexican government and they are crossing into Arizona at will. Pinal County has seen mass murders, execution-style slayings, sexual assaults, kidnappings, shootings, armed robberies, burglaries, and more — all tied to illegal immigration."

6. Many immigrants entering the country illegally have a criminal record in the U.S.: In 2010, the Border Patrol reported that 212,000 illegals were caught in the Tucson, Ariz., sector alone, and as many as 30 percent of them already had a criminal record in the U.S.

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7. Many illegal alien convicts have been arrested multiple times: A Government Accountability Office study of 55,000 illegal aliens found that they were arrested at least 459,614 times, averaging about eight arrests per alien. About one-quarter of them had 11 or more arrests.

8. Deportation of illegal immigrants doesn't keep them out of the country: Due to the wide-open Mexican border, the number of people prosecuted for coming into the country illegally after being deported has increased by 175 percent since 2005, according to a report cited by the Constitution Party website. The illegal alien recently accused of randomly murdering a woman in San Francisco had previously been deported five times.

9. The Mexican border is being used by illegals from other countries: Arrests by the Border Patrol of illegals from countries other than Mexico, particularly from Central America, increased from 59,000 in 2010 to 99,000 in 2012.

10. Immigrants are filling U.S. jails: One quarter of all inmates in California detention centers are Mexican nationals, as are 40 percent of inmates in Arizona and 48 percent in New Mexico. And 75 percent of those on the most wanted criminals list in Los Angeles, Phoenix, and Albuquerque are illegal aliens.

11. Illegals do include "rapists," as Trump charged: Among many examples, an undocumented alien was arrested in Baltimore for raping a 9-year-old girl. In Austin, Texas, police arrested two Mexican nationals who allegedly participated in the gang rape of a 13-year girl in June. As many as 13 men took part, and some filmed the crime on their cell phones. Earlier this year an illegal alien from Mexico admitted in court that he raped a 12-year-old girl.

12. Prominent figures agree with Trump on the dangers of illegal immigration: Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani told MSNBC that while most people who cross the border come for economic reasons, "hidden with them, because they're coming across unchecked, are people who rape, murder people, kill people and are terrorists."

Retired neurosurgeon and GOP presidential candidate Ben Carson said he agrees with Trump that sanctuary cities, who prohibit the use of municipal funds to enforce federal immigration laws, should be outlawed. "No sanctuary cites," he said. "I think that's ridiculous."

Michael Cutler, who spent 30 years with the Immigration and Naturalization Service, said Trump is "really igniting a firestorm that's a long time coming."

And GOP presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz, who represents a border state, said: "I salute Donald Trump for focusing on the need to address illegal immigration. The Washington cartel doesn't want to address that. The Washington cartel doesn't believe we need to secure the borders."

13. Ordinary Americans agree with Trump as well: According to Rasmussen Reports, 63 percent of Americans want the U.S. to gain control of the border. A recent CNN national survey found that of the announced Republican candidates, Trump placed second only to Jeb Bush. And Bill Kristol, founder and editor of The Weekly Standard, said Trump "is an outsider who was saying some things that the establishment doesn't want to hear, that is resonating with voters."

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14. Relatives of victims know that Trump is right: The mother of a teenager who was murdered by an illegal immigrant gang member, Army Sgt. Anita Shaw, praised Trump for "trying to do something about a failed immigration system."

15. Even wealthy Mexicans agree with Trump: Reuben Navarette Jr. writes in The Daily Beast that Mexico's elite, despite displaying "outrage" at Trump's comments, often speak in the same manner at high-end golf courses and banquets.

16. The Pew Research Center estimated that there are nearly 12 million illegal aliens in the nation — and the key word is "estimated." Trump made that point when he said that illegal immigration is "coming from more than Mexico. It's coming from all over Latin America, and it's coming probably from the Middle East. But we don't know. Because we have no protection and we have no competence, we don't know what's happening. And it's got to stop."
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[GMDino]

http://americablog.com/2015/07/donald-trump-hired-illegal-immigrants-to-build-his-new-luxury-hotel-because-of-course-he-did.html

Quote:Donald Trump hired illegal immigrants to build his new luxury hotel because of course he did
7/8/15 12:30pm by Jon Green 4



Donald Trump has jumped to second place in early-state Republican primary polling on the backs of undocumented immigrants.

More precisely, Donald Trump has jumped to second place in the Republican primary polling by calling undocumented immigrants diseased-infested rapists and murderers — comments that have energized the Republican base beyond belief.

The absurdity of Donald Trump can be measured many ways: the number of times he’s gone bankrupt; the number of companies and organization’s he’s sued; the number of times he’s been married — despite his support for “traditional” marriage, as in one man, one woman, one time; the number of secret plans he has to fight the Islamic State; and so on. So it should come as no surprise that The Washington Post found a new way to measure Trump’s absurdity yesterday: the number of undocumented immigrants he’s currently employing.

The Post interviewed roughly twenty people working on construction for Trump’s new luxury hotel in Washington, D.C., and found that a number of them were there in the country illegally. Still more had illegally immigrated before later gaining legal status. They are employed by Lend Lease, a contracting firm hired by one of Trumps companies. In a statement, one of Trump’s spokespeople would only say that they and affiliated companies had complied with all applicable laws when hiring employees for the project.

The workers, many of whom commute from as far away as Baltimore to work on construction for the hotel, which will be located five blocks from the White House, expressed concern that they could lose their jobs at any moment now that the candidate has a political interest in seeing them deported. Others were just (righteously) angry over his remarks:

“Do you think that when we’re hanging out there from the eighth floor that we’re raping or selling drugs?” Ramon Alvarez, 48, a window worker from El Salvador, said during a break Monday morning just outside the construction site. “We’re risking our lives and our health. A lot of the chemicals we deal with are toxic.”

Mediaite called the Post‘s report “the most predictable development in world history.”

After all, for all of Trump’s bloviating against all things Mexico, this is a man who will ditch all of his moral convictions if he thinks it will get him a buck, or a “young and beautiful piece of ass.” As Gabe Ortiz of America’s Voice pointed out, much of his clothing line is manufactured in Mexico.

It will be interesting to see how the GOP base handles the news that their anti-immigrant champion is totally pro-immigrant when it comes to exploiting their labor for personal gain. Mitt “Self-Deportation” Romney took damage over similar charges in 2011, when reports re-emerged that he had hired undocumented immigrants to work on his lawn. Of course, he went on to win the nomination, so history suggests that Republican voter can handle at least some level of immigration hypocrisy from their leaders.

But Trump is taking that hypocrisy to immeasurably absurd levels. So absurd, in fact, that — according to him — he’s going to win the latino vote.

[GMDino]

Donald Trump In 1999: “I Believe In Universal Health Care…It’s An Entitlement” From Birth

http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/donald-trump-in-1999-i-believe-in-universal-health-careits-a#.mvPDGwzXK

Quote:Donald Trump, the reality TV host and real estate mogul running for the Republican presidential nomination, once said we should make health care an entitlement and that health care coverage should be universal.

Speaking with CNN host Larry King in 1999 when he was flirting with a run for president on the Reform Party ticket, Trump said he was “quite liberal” when it came to health care.

“I said I’m conservative, generally speaking, I’m conservative, and even very conservative,” Trump told King in response to a question about a “patients’ bill of rights.”

“But I’m quite liberal and getting much more liberal on health care and other things. I really say: What’s the purpose of a country if you’re not going to have defensive and health care?’

Trump added believed in “universal health care.”

“If you can’t take care of your sick in the country, forget it, it’s all over. I mean, it’s no good. So I’m very liberal when it comes to health care,” he said. “I believe in universal health care. I believe in whatever it takes to make people well and better.”

Asked if he thought it was an entitlement, Trump affirmed he did indeed believe it was one from birth.

“I think it is. It’s an entitlement to this country, and too bad the world can’t be, you know, in this country. But the fact is, it’s an entitlement to this country if we’re going to have a great country.”

Speaking with The Advocate that year, Trump said he’d fund his universal health care plan with an increase in corporate taxes.

“I would put forward a comprehensive health care program and fund it with an increase in corporate taxes,” Trump said.

In his 2000 book, The America We Deserve, Trump also spoke favorably of the Canadian health care system and said he “we need, as a nation, to reexamine the single-payer plan, as many individual states are doing.”

On Dateline NBC that year, Trump also mentioned he was “totally for choice” when it came to abortion.

“I hate the concept of abortion,” said Trump. “I hate—, I hate anything about abortion, and yet, I’m totally for choice. I think you have no alternative, too.

[GMDino]

http://www.wtae.com/politics/military-analysts-fact-check-donald-trump-on-isis/34090344?utm_source=Social&utm_medium=FBPAGE&utm_campaign=WTAE-TV%20Pittsburgh

Military analysts fact check Donald Trump on ISIS
General had been apolitical but Trump's comments are 'appalling'

Quote:Donald Trump wants to "bomb the hell" out of Iraq's oil fields in order to strike at ISIS.


"If I win, I would attack those oil sites that are controlled and owned -- they are controlled by ISIS," Trump said. "I wouldn't send many troops because you won't need 'em by the time I'm done."

But that strategy might do more harm than good, according to two former U.S. military officers and CNN military analysts who looked at Trump's suggestion. That's because bombing Iraq's oil fields would be a serious blow to Iraq and efforts to recover once ISIS is expelled from the country.

"You're destroying the infrastructure of Iraq, you're not really doing much to hurt ISIS," retired Lt. Col. Rick Francona said. "At some future point those oil fields will have to help regenerate Iraq."

The United States did strike oil fields in Kuwait during Operation Desert Storm in the 1990s, which hurt Kuwait for years after the war.

While Trump suggested that he would then send in Exxon or another oil company to quickly rebuild the infrastructure once the conflict is over, Francona and Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling, another CNN military analyst, said rebuilding infrastructure is easier said than done -- especially when other surrounding infrastructure has been damaged in the process.

"We've made some huge mistakes in terms of just bombing things we think can just bring a nation to its knees," Hertling said. "It's not the people you're going against and yet those are the ones you're going against the most when you're talking about indiscriminate carpet-bombing."

Trump also said that "there is no Iraq" because of longstanding Sunni vs. Shia divides in the country that have come to the fore amid ISIS' advance.

Hertling said that's just not true and that "there most definitely is an Iraq" despite political and ethnic divisions.

Hertling points out that he's remained apolitical throughout his military career but said Trump's comments are "just troubling."

"You have to understand the issues a little bit better than just bombing things," Hertling said. "This is very complex and there are hundreds of thousands of Iraqis who believe they do have a country."

Both Francona and Hertling said there are many better ways to hurt ISIS than striking oil fields in Iraq -- few of which ISIS actually controls.

A large part of ISIS's revenue has come from oil sales, but the terrorist group is mostly pumping oil out of refineries in Syria, not Iraq.

And even in Syria, the U.S. military and coalition partners have showed restraint in not bombing oil fields in Syria, though the U.S. did strike mobile refineries in ISIS hands there -- not as crippling in the long-term than a blanket bombing of oil fields.

While the Iraqi government is seriously reliant on the United States and other countries in its fight against ISIS and as it strives to keep its country together, Iraq's top leaders would do more than just object to U.S. bombing of oil fields in its country -- a central part of the country's economy and infrastructure.

[SunsetBengal]

1. Any Number Involving LEGAL Immigrants and Crime Is Besides the Point
   

Time and again, during interviews with Trump, or segments covering his comments about illegal aliens,  the media regularly quote statistics that prove legal immigrants commit less crime than native-born Americans.
This number is chaff, a distraction. Mark Murray of NBC News has been especially dishonest about this.
Trump isn’t talking about legal immigrants. No one is. Everyone is in favor of legal immigration, and those statistics have a lot to do with it.
Trump needs to call the media out on this cheap apples and oranges tactic.
 
2. “Illegals Do the Jobs Americans Don’t” — While Black Teen Unemployment Sits at 30%
Americans are not lazy. Moreover, we have just spent two years watching a number of our inner-cities explode — cities filled with predominantly black unemployed youths who believe they have no future.
There are at least 11 million illegals in this country.
The black unemployment rate in America is near 10%, twice that of whites.
The teen black unemployment rate is — are you ready for this — over 30%.
Remember, the unemployment rate only represents people actively looking for work, not those who have given up in despair.
Illegals don’t just pick crops, they work construction jobs in many of our major cities — the same cities where black youths can’t find jobs. These are good jobs. Many of them are union jobs. Perfect starter jobs.
Trump needs to start linking black unemployment to illegal immigration, and challenge the media and Democrats to explain why with unemployment rates this high among black Americans, they are pushing for amnesty and refusing to secure the border.
 
Illegal Traffickers Are Responsible for More Than 90% of the Heroin In America
The same Washington Post attacking Trump with rhetorical tricks that have nothing to do with Trump’s overall point, reported this just last year:
While Colombia has historically been the biggest source of heroin sold in the United States, Mexican output has since surpassed it, DEA officials say. Together, the two countries account for more than 90 percent of the U.S. heroin supply, and nearly all of it is smuggled into this country by Mexican traffickers.
As seizures of cocaine and marijuana along the border have fallen over the past several years, flows of methamphetamine and heroin have soared, federal statistics show.
Need I even point out the crime, violent and otherwise, that stems from drug addiction?
While the media dances on the head of a pin with non sequitur-statistics about LEGAL immigrants, it is South American and Mexican illegals using our porous border to bring in the jet fuel that causes most of our crime.
 
Local and State Prisons Don’t Track Legal Status … Ah, But the Feds Do!
Because local and state prisons don’t track legal status, we don’t know how many illegals are in those prisons. As my colleague Ben Shapiro points out, the lack of this number is being used dishonestly by the media against Trump. As an example, here’s The Washington Post’s left-wing fact-check site:
Trump’s repeated statements about immigrants and crime underscore a common public perception that crime is correlated with immigration, especially illegal immigration. But that is a misperception; no solid data support it, and the data that do exist negate it. Trump can defend himself all he wants, but the facts just are not there.
Except the facts are there. The Feds do track legal status, and the numbers are startling….
Of 78,022 primary offense cases in fiscal year 2013, 38.6 percent were illegal immigrant offenders. The majority of their cases (76 percent) were immigration related. Of total primary offenses, 17.6 percent of drug trafficking offenses and 3.8 percent of sex abuse were illegal immigrants. Of 22,878 drug crime cases, 17.2 percent were illegal immigrants.
The media is using numbers we don’t have to attack Trump.
The numbers we actually do have back up Trump’s point.
 
Nearly Half of Federal Crimes Occur In Just 5 of 94 Districts Along the Mexican Border
According to the Justice Department… [emphasis added]
There are 94 federal court districts in this country and the five located near the southern border see a large portion of criminal cases, according to the Justice Department’s annual report on criminal prosecutions. The five federal districts also have the biggest number of defendants actually convicted of federal crimes.
Of the 61,529 criminal cases initiated by federal prosecutors last fiscal year, more than 40%—or 24,746—were filed in court districts neighboring the Mexican border….Nearly 22% (13,383) were drug related, 19.7% (12,123) were violent crimes and 10.2% (6,300) involved white-collar offenses that include a full range of frauds committed by business and government professionals.
Read those stats closely because the media will lie and claim the crimes involve border enforcement. As you can see, over 40% involve drugs and violence.
 
More Than 2,000 Sex Offenders Deported By ICE Every Year In Texas Alone
Again, here are the Trump comments that started all of this… [emphasis added]
They’re not sending you, they’re sending people that have lots of problems and they’re bringing those problems. They’re bringing drugs, they’re bringing crime. They’re rapists and some, I assume, are good people, but I speak to border guards and they’re telling us what we’re getting.”
Here’s what we’re getting, according to statistics released from the United States government: [emphasis added]
Of the 862 alien sex offenders deported by the Texas-based offices, about 27 percent were convicted of sex offenses against children.
ICE’s four Texas field offices are located in Dallas, El Paso, Houston and San Antonio. The Dallas area of responsibility includes 128 counties in north Texas, and the state of Oklahoma. Dallas ERO deported 171 sex offenders so far in fiscal year 2014; 47 were convicted of sex offenses against a minor. In all of fiscal year 2013, the office deported 463 sex offenders; 154 were convicted of sex offenses against a minor. In 2013, all four Texas offices deported 2,124 sex offenders; 508 were convicted of sex offenses against a minor. In fiscal year 2012, Texas ERO offices deported 2,007 sex offenders, and 2,127 in 2011.
 
Nearly a Thousand Texas Children Sexually Assaulted By Illegals Over Last 3 Years
Just do the math above.
Those are actual convictions of sex offenses against children, not reports.
Trump needs to get these numbers out there and remind America’s Anderson Coopers and Chuck Todds that it doesn’t matter how these numbers compare to similar offenses committed by Americans and legal immigrants. The fact that more than a thousand children have been sexually assaulted by illegals — people who never should have been able to get in the country to begin with — is unconscionable and unacceptable.
These children are victims of our feckless government and the media the covers for them.
Democrats and the media aren’t willing to secure the border to save one child from sexual assault, much less near a thousand.
Who are the real monsters here?
The media will cover shark attacks, but not near a thousand children sexually assaulted by illegals?
When it comes to taking the Second Amendment civil rights away from American citizens and legal immigrants, the media regularly exploit the dead with a cry of, “If it saves just one child!” But when it comes to stopping illegals from streaming over our porous border to sexually assault our children, the media not only doesn’t call for better border enforcement, the media covers these crimes up.
 
In 2013, Obama Administration Released 36,007 Illegals with 88,000 Criminal Convictions
In 2013 the Obama administration released 36,007 criminal immigrants who had nearly 88,000 convictions between them. Those convictions included 193 homicide convictions, 426 sexual assault convictions, 303 kidnapping convictions, and 1,075 aggravated assault convictions
In January, the DHS admitted to Sen. Grassley that 1,000 of the 36,007 released had gone on to commit more crime including: terroristic threats, lewd acts with a minor, various types of assault, DUI, robbery, hit-and-run, gang activity, rape, and child cruelty.
 
The Number of Criminal Illegals Deported Has Jumped From 7,000 to 79,000
According to a 2011 GAO report:
ICE is finding and removing more criminal aliens each year. The number ordered removed has gone up from 7,000 in 2007 to 79,000 in 2010.
These criminals are not being stopped at the border. These criminals are being deported after making it across the border and committing tens of thousands of crimes.
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Granted, Trump needs to sharpen his message with more acts and statistics. He’s about to give a couple of speeches on illegal immigration, and I hope he’ll use those opportunities to get these facts out there.
As far the rape-deniers in the media, there is no appealing to these godless liars. It is up to New Media and citizen journalists to get the facts out there.