Carl Schmitt’s friend/enemy distinction returns with a vengeance.
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The poo that made the subcontinent famous.
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Andrew Marvell may have been on the wrong track when he penned, “Thou by the Indian Ganges’ side
Shouldst rubies find…”
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As Sharyl Attkisson likes to say, “I need to find some new conspiracy theories; all my old ones came true.”
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Great example of FAFO.
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Right now we’re arresting and deporting mostly serious criminals. Fine and good, but we must force those who are criminals (entering illegally is a crime) out anyway. The easiest way to do this is to cut off all public benefits and arrest anyone who is harboring or employing them under long-standing law that not only permits it demands exactly this. Yes, this includes state employees (e.g. teachers and school administrators ) who harbor illegal aliens – again, 8 USC 1324 makes this expressly illegal and mandates a 10 year prison term for violations. Nobody here unlawfully has a right to a single penny of public funds and any they have received are further criminal acts**.**
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1986 was the year of amnesty.
That was certainly not the case in California. I remember an illegal alien from Mexico (or Central America) won the California lottery in 1986.
Construction is a popular industry for Spanish speaking immigrants in California. I assume most are undocumented but I have not investigated nor do I plan to.
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Ah yes, 1986! At that point the Celtic Tiger hadn’t been born, and everybody was leaving Ireland. Every construction site in our country was staffed with illegal Irish workers. THAT was the big issue back then.
I don’t remember the numbers but I read that, of course, the day Reagan granted amnesty, there were NO illiberal immigrants here: they were all,legal! But even before Ol’Jo[k]e’s open invitation, there were, like 3 times as many 2 decades later as there hd beeen before the amnesty.
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Didn’t a lot of these Irish migrants return to the Emerald Isle? Anecdotally, I know a couple who did. At least the Irishmen/women had something good to return to. The Central Americans and Africans, not so much.
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They did go back, during the Celtic Tiger period
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The Blob made a big mistake when they went after Eric Adams.
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Adams was guilty of a couple misdemeanors that the over aggressive Southern District NY wanted to prosecute as felonies.
also:
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VDH has too rosy a view of Trump’s first term:
There was a promising start during Trump’s first administration. Corporate interest in a porous border to ensure inexpensive labor was ignored; immigration was deterred or restricted to legal channels, and the border was largely secured.
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Despite intense resistance from the media, the Democratic Party, and the cultural Left, the first Trump term enjoyed success in implementing many of these agendas.
The sad truth is that most of Trump’s initiatives were thwarted by the Regime in the form of rogue district court judges and limp-wristed RINOs in Congress and elsewhere. Because of Trump’s CivNat naïveté, he appointed a number of Regime operatives to posts in his administration. The folly of these choices is crystal clear now that these Quislings have become Trump opponents. Bolton and Barr immediately come to mind but there were countless others.
Mr. Hanson does himself and his readers a disservice by sugar-coating the first-term record. The reason that the second term’s performance has taken so many by surprise, both on the Left and Right, is that lessons were learned and mistakes were not repeated. It’s safe to say that hardly anyone expected such a dramatically different approach. That’s exactly the point: the old way was a failure, yet someone who considered it a success would have continued with business-as-usual, leading to the same disappointing results.
This is why I’m often frustrated with CivNats. Mr. Trump underwent a change during the interregnum, probably caused by a combination of the intense lawfare and the assassination attempts. Absent this change, the second term would have been a rerun of the first. If he does not lose his nerve, the second will not.
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An immigration enforcement honeypot!
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