[WAPO] In 2015, the year President Trump launched his White House bid with a promise to build a wall on the Mexico border, illegal migration to the United States plunged 31 percent, falling near its lowest level in 50 years.
Security experts saw a success, but Trump looked at the border and saw something ominous: "rapists," "criminals" and other predators lurking on the other side.
In 2017, Trump’s first year in office, he continued to insist on the urgent need for a border wall, even as illegal crossings dropped further.
With parts of the federal government shut down over what has morphed into the defining symbol of Trump’s presidency, administration officials are clamoring louder than ever. Only this time, they face a bona fide emergency on the border, and they’re struggling to make the case there’s truly a problem.
Record numbers of migrant families are streaming into the United States, overwhelming border agents and leaving holding cells dangerously overcrowded with children, many of whom are falling sick. Two Guatemalan children taken into U.S. custody died in December.
In a letter to lawmakers Friday, the White House and the Department of Homeland Security made a fresh appeal to amend immigration laws they denounce as "legal loopholes" and blame for creating a "border security and humanitarian crisis." But the chance of reaching consensus for such technical fixes to U.S. immigration statutes is growing more remote, buried by the pitched battle over a structure new House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) calls "immoral."
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If Trump says there is a crisis, better believe there isn't one.
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Been to Tijuana lately? I got a buddy living in San Diego, and he's telling me it's more dangerous than he's ever seen for a US citizen to go there because of the thousands of dirtballs that have invaded the city.
Do some research first or get the fuck outta here.
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I'm born and raised 59 years within 20 miles of Tijuana. You couldn't pay me to go there, especially in a new vehicle. Wasn't like that in the 70's, 80's
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I have to go therein 2 weeks for bidness; anything worth reporting will be following return.
While not concerned too much about me, my travel partner is a really attractive 30 YO blonde. Might as well paint a target on her.
[DW] There has been speculation as to what led a man to drive into a group of foreigners in Germany's Ruhr region. Criminologist Britta Bannenberg says murderous Moslems and those who run amok are similar, whatever their ideology.
A 50-year-old German man, Andreas N., deliberately drove his car into groups of foreign-looking people on New Year's Eve ‐ first in Bottrop and then in Essen ‐ before police could apprehend him. He injured eight people during the rampage. Currently, he is in police custody. Authorities assume his actions were racially motivated. Moreover, the welfare recipient and Essen resident is said to be mentally ill.
Deutsche Welle: Seemingly racially-motivated car attacks recently carried out by a 50-year-old German man in Bottrop and Essen have captured the attention of authorities and citizens alike. What might have driven the perpetrator to carry out his New Year's Eve attacks?
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From last April and long, but it holds up under the passage of time. The answer as things currently stand, in my opinion, is no — not just for Germany, but for all of Western Europe and Britain. And not just their Jews, because those with knives, bombs, and motor vehicles are not first checking to see if their male targets have — and their female targets have not — been circumcised. What they can and have been doing is guard Jewish synagogues, schools, and shops, but that only helps when they are there.
[The Atlantic] The nation’s recent intake of migrants from places where anti-Semitism is ubiquitous has produced a scary tension—and one that’s not easy to resolve.
[Rudaw] US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... claims The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund.... can adopt America’s role in Syria following its withdrawal and combat any remnants of the Islamic State
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No support. The Turks did not support the U.S. going into Iraq, and have screwed us at every turn. They do not deserve anything from the U.S. other than a swift kick in the nuts.
And any support we give would allow them to divert resources toward their ethnic destruction of the Kurds.
Plus we are leaving, so screw them. The Turks want us out? Fine, it's your problem now Erdogan. Let your troops bleed and did against ISIS, the Kurds, and the Russian backed Assad Syrian Army. They all play as dirty as you do.
[NR] While assessing the 2016 Bernie Sanders campaign in its aftermath, Jeff Weaver, Sanders’s campaign manager, admitted that the operation was "too male" and "too white." Now, despite the success of the grass-roots revolt Sanders led against the Hillary Clinton juggernaut, both Weaver and Sanders are starting to realize that the continued health of their progressive insurgency is under threat for precisely those reasons. A long-held progressive belief now breaking the surface and gaining acceptance.
As a front-page article in the New York Times this week illustrated, not even a left-wing icon such as Sanders is going to be given a pass for the culture of sexism that apparently pervaded his campaign. Sanders wasn’t accused of any personal misbehavior, but his reactions to the numerous incidences of sexual harassment, demeaning treatment of women, and gender-pay disparity in his campaign, as detailed by the Times, seemed very familiar to those who have been following the way large cultural institutions have dealt with #MeToo allegations.
As far as Sanders was concerned, poor "human resources" work was to blame. He offered the obligatory, unconvincing non-apology apology "to any woman who felt she was not treated appropriately" and promised to "do better the next time," but nevertheless claimed he should not be held responsible because he "was a little bit busy running around the country" while his campaign was devolving into a hotbed of malfeasance.
Sanders acted, in other words, as if the investigation of his last campaign were irrelevant to the question of whether he should run another one in 2020 ‐ a distraction from the Democrats’ singular focus on "resisting" President Donald Trump. But if he thinks this isn’t a serious obstacle to winning the nomination he came so close to securing in 2016 the next time around, he hasn’t been paying attention to what’s been going on in the country in the 15 months since the #MeToo movement began.
The same can be said for Joe Biden as he also ponders whether to enter the 2020 race. The increased focus on Biden’s role in the confirmation of Justice Clarence Thomas after charges of attempted sexual assault were made against Justice Brett Kavanaugh last fall should weigh on Democrats’ minds as they decide whether the former senator and vice president should be their party’s standard-bearer next year.
[Gallup] WASHINGTON, D.C. -- While Donald Trump has spent much of his presidency focused on the number of people who want to get into the U.S., since he took office, record numbers of Americans have wanted to get out.
Though relatively average by global standards, the 16% of Americans overall who said in 2017 and again in 2018 that they would like to permanently move to another country -- if they could -- is higher than the average levels during either the George W. Bush (11%) or Barack Obama administration (10%).
While Gallup's World Poll does not ask people about their political leanings, most of the recent surge in Americans' desire to migrate has come among groups that typically lean Democratic and that have disapproved of Trump's job performance so far in his presidency: women, young Americans and people in lower-income groups.
During the first two years of the Trump administration, a record-high one in five U.S. women (20%) said they would like to move to another country permanently if they could. This is twice the average for women during the Obama (10%) or Bush years (11%) and almost twice the level among men (13%) under Trump. Before the Trump years, there was no difference between men's and women's desires to move.
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I have two clients from Argentina, married couple. During Obama's reign, we know that question was asked on our side, so I asked him if he ever considered moving back there.
"Raj, I don't care how fucking bad things ever got here, it will always be better than down in that shithole."
"What about Brazil?" He just laughed and gave me the 'what the fuck' stare, which is what I was looking for, and that made me start laughing too.
Naturally, these 'record number of Americans' fail to understand why people move here in the first place.
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According to project fivethirtyeight Gallup gets a grade=B with an Advanced Plus-Minus=+0.5
Negative numbers are good on that plus-minus so meh.
Did you think that the coordinated disinformation campaign being waged by the MSM was having no effect? My answer is don't let the door bang your butt on the way out.
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Even Mattis can't stand being around Drumpf.
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TrollBGone spray *shakes can*
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:-)
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Record Numbers of Americans Want to Leave the U.S exercise more and eat less..... but still don't
Satire, or is it ?
[Babylon Bee] SALT LAKE CITY, UT‐Mitt Romney, incoming senator for Utah and follower of Joseph Smith, lectured the nation in an op-ed Tuesday on the need to reject morally flawed leaders.
The man who has devoted his life to the teachings of a con artist encouraged the nation to examine its leaders to see whether they are worthy of our devotion and respect.
"A president should demonstrate the essential qualities of honesty and integrity, and elevate the national discourse with comity and mutual respect," wrote the man who follows Joseph Smith, a false prophet, notorious polygamist, and scam artist. He pointed out that the president hasn't shown himself to be honest or forthcoming in his dealings with opponents and other countries, while Joseph Smith's own prophecies failed to come true over and over again, and while the Mormon Church continues to deceive its members by covering up its past.
Romney took Trump to task for his immoral lifestyle, slamming him for being divisive, destructive, and sexist, though the first prophet of his church consolidated power throughout his life in order to marry more women and eventually deceive millions into believing a false gospel.
To close his opinion piece, Romney urged the president to live a morally upstanding lifestyle, "and maybe look for wisdom to lead the nation by staring at stones in a hat."
[Rightscoop] Well this is interesting ‐ while libs are freaking out that Trump said earlier today that he has the power to build the border wall without Congress, one Democrat admitted that yes, he can do that.
Seems POTUS has broad authority under the National Emergencies Act to undertake military construction projects if a national emergency is declared. So the question is not whether he is in possession of this power but rather whether it ought to be used this way.
‐ Brian Schatz (@brianschatz) January 4, 2019
I know this isn’t the main thing but this doesn’t sound "conservative" or like "small government." https://t.co/oaGFnkTTIk
‐ Brian Schatz (@brianschatz) January 4, 2019
This is what Trump is best at ‐ figuring out how to ignore traditions and assumptions that keep others from pushing their political imprint. He does it all the time. What’s odd about this one is that he seemed like he got the idea from the reporter who asked him!! But, some might argue, that spending $5 billion might be beyond the scope of what emergency powers were intended. I’m sure they’ll say that. And he won’t care.
Either way, libs are freaking the eff out at the very thought of it:
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Quit releasing them. Put them to work, how could the Donks object, its from their saint FDR. Get them working on flood control with the wall along the border now.
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If Trump can build the wall under the National Emergencies Act, why keep the kabuki theater going with Pelosi and Schumer other than to show the public the Dems are obstructionists? Probably it is better to get a Congressional agreement to show the agreement is non-partisan and that they can play nice together and maybe in the future as well. His unilateral action under the NEA would end up in SCOTUS which is still somewhat a gamble.
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On the assumption that these little faux pas never happen by accident, are the Dems ready to end the shutdown and quietly allow the wall if Trump takes this approach?
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The wall is just a gimmick from Roger Stone, to keep Trump talking about immigration, and there is no crisis on the Southern Border, it's just manufactured for Trump's base since Mexico won't pay for the wall.
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Death and looting are not a problem? Unless you are the one being killed or paying ungodly taxes to provide support? /sarc off
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Yup, Otto or Hupolusing is a Troll. Nothing intelligent to say. Bugwit.
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You are so droll, dear Chesney Darling of the Nebraskans2913. If you knew the retired colonel’s background, you would realize exactly how clever you appear to be.
Neville Glolutch8436, I assume you are unaware what was dug up under the rosebushes at the home of Saddam Hussein’s head nuclear researcher some years ago. You’ll find that information in Rantburg’s archives.
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Waco is a nice town, Not sure if my in laws or parents have ever been there. Darling, if your ever in Phoenix I would love to show you the basement...
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Thanks TW! We get to have a small rantapaloza with Alaska Paul this week!
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Give him a hug from me, 49 Pan. So glad he is feeling better.
I normally try to avoid Israeli politics, except inasmuch as it impacts their actions in the War on Terror. But as a commenter Caroline Glick generally sees deeper into the stone than most, as she does in the first six paragraphs below. The remaining paragraphs exerpted from her much longer piece explain why she won’t be writing as much in the near future. I wish her well — the Knesset could use her perspicacity and willingness to speak bluntly.
[Jpost] The job of a commentator is to interpret reality. The media’s habit of simplifying issues by treating everything as an either-or proposition is disastrous for formulating policy. Israel’s options are rarely binary. On almost all issues, Israel has a full spectrum of options. Yet, due to media pressure, our leaders often miss them.
To advance its interests in the international arena, for instance, Israel doesn’t need to bow before foreign powers. It needs to show foreign powers that they want what Israel has to offer and that it is in their interest to work with Israel. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is the only prime minister Israel has had that fully understands and implements this basic truth.
This may explain why the voters keep returning him and his party to office, despite the loathing he is held in by Israel’s elites and news media.
The same is the case with the Paleostinians. Israel has nothing to fear in its dealing with the Paleostinians. The choice we were presented with for more than a generation ‐ either peace with a Paleostinian state or war without one ‐ was a false and destructive conceit. It was based on a wide array of lies and delusions. I devoted hundreds of columns and my book, The Israeli Solution, to expose them.
[AlAhram] The map of Lion of Islam Islamist organizations in the region is highly fluid in terms of organizational structures and alliances. This has engendered a set of new threats to the security of countries in the region, stemming from the relocations of Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (IS) group fighters, current or potential offshoots, and the ideas and instruments that the terrorist groups might bring to bear to polarise society, to identify targets and to stage terrorist attacks.
One of the major challenges that the region may face is a fresh rise in the influence of al-Qaeda, which appears to be undergoing a resurgence. Signs of this have been evident in 2018 in tandem with the sharply declining capacities of IS since mid-2017, first in Syria and Iraq and then elsewhere in the region.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[WAPO] In 2015, the year President Trump launched his White House bid with a promise to build a wall on the Mexico border, illegal migration to the United States plunged 31 percent, falling near its lowest level in 50 years.
[Zero Hedge] Hacker and serial entrepreneur Kim Dotcom is out with a new prediction for 2019: 
[DW] There has been speculation as to what led a man to drive into a group of foreigners in Germany's Ruhr region. Criminologist Britta Bannenberg says 
[Rudaw] US President 
[AlAhram] The map of
