A Misunderstanding

Posted on 3 August 2019 by eehines

In a house editorial concerning the Supreme Court’s ruling upholding President Donald Trump’s authority to reallocate some DoD funds toward building a border wall, The Wall Street Journal expressed the hope that the ruling—which lifted a nation-wide injunction issued by a Federal district [sic] judge—would send an appropriate signal to district judges regarding nation-wide injunctions. The editors also had this remark regarding such injunctions.

The proliferation of national injunctions has inserted judges into policy debates in ways they should avoid….

This is a misapprehension of the situation and a mischaracterization of what the judges are doing.

This is a preview of A Misunderstanding. Read the full post (255 words, estimated 1:01 mins reading time)

Asylum Seekers

Posted on 26 July 2019 by eehines

The Trump administration has moved to make it harder for folks arriving on our border to claim to be seeking asylum, and the American Civil Liberties Union and American Immigration Council don’t like it. Here’s AIC’s Managing Director Royce Murray:

…the Trump administration is “throwing everything they have at asylum seekers in an effort to turn everyone humanly possible away….”

Which, of course, misrepresents the facts. The vast majority of folks arriving at our border claiming to be asylum seekers are nothing of the sort. Their presence on our border or illegally crossing it demonstrates that they’ve already rejected asylum offers, even job possibilities—offers and possibilities Mexico has offered them.

This is a preview of Asylum Seekers. Read the full post (156 words, estimated 37 secs reading time)

Distortions and Misguided Solutions

Posted on 16 July 2019 by eehines

Wrong answers:

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) and UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) have called on the EU to implement a series of measures aimed at assisting people trapped in Libya or at risk of dying on the Mediterranean Sea. The suggestions include restarting a program of organized sea rescues.
In the past European State vessels conducting search and rescue operations saved thousands of lives, including through disembarkations in safe ports,” the IOM and UNHCR noted in a statement on Thursday. “They should resume this vital work….”

This is a preview of Distortions and Misguided Solutions. Read the full post (397 words, estimated 1:35 mins reading time)

Free Speech

Posted on 7 July 2019 by eehines

…Progressive-Democrat style. Here’s Congresswoman Frederica Wilson (D, FL):

people who are “making fun of members of Congress” online “should be prosecuted”

Because, she went on, making fun of Congress intimidates Congressmen. In fact, she went on in that vein for more than 40 seconds, just in the recording.

Wow.

Permanent link to this post (83 words, estimated 20 secs reading time)

Misunderstanding

Posted on 5 July 2019 by eehines

This one regards the rescue of those escaping from northern Africa and their disposition on arrival on European shores. The particular case concerns Italy’s arrest of a German national who is the captain of an NGO ship that had rescued a number of refugees whose ship was in danger in international waters in the middle of the Mediterranean. Carola Rakete, captain of the Sea-Watch 3, was arrested after she docked her ship at Italy’s Lampedusa, an island in the southern Med—and closer to Tunisia than to any land of Italy’s.

This is a preview of Misunderstanding. Read the full post (441 words, estimated 1:46 mins reading time)

Foolishness

Posted on 2 July 2019 by eehines

Kate Cronin-Furman, Assistant Professor of Human Rights at University College London—that’s London, Great Britain, mind you, not London, KY—thinks our Border Patrol agents should be doxed and then shamed for doing their jobs in trying to keep our borders secure and detaining illegal aliens.

Of course, she denies that her demand is doxing.

The identities of the individual Customs and Border Protection agents who are physically separating children from their families and staffing the detention centers are not undiscoverable. Immigration lawyers have agent names; journalists reporting at the border have names, photos and even videos.

This is a preview of Foolishness. Read the full post (661 words, estimated 2:39 mins reading time)

Tariffs on Mexico

Posted on 8 June 2019 by eehines

There is some hue and cry over President Donald Trump’s threatened tariff on Mexico in an effort to get the Mexican government to take seriously its role in the crisis on our common border.

Critics of the tariffs, including those within the administration, have said the ratification of the pact would be threatened by the tariffs.

There’s no threat to ratification of the USMCA from these tariffs. There is a threat from the Progressive-Democrats who hate the treaty separately from this. However, the lack of threat is illustrated by Mexico; since the tariff threat, that government has said it still intends to ratify the treaty.

This is a preview of Tariffs on Mexico. Read the full post (253 words, estimated 1:01 mins reading time)

Bad Policy

Posted on 6 June 2019 by eehines

Recall that President Donald Trump has threatened a sequence of rising tariffs on all Mexican goods in an effort to get Mexico to take seriously its broad contribution to the crisis we have on our border with that nation.

Republican lawmakers are gearing up for a vote to potentially override President Trump’s planned tariff on Mexico this month….

These lawmakers are concerned that the tariffs could jeopardize passage of the USMCA, and they’re worried that they will hurt Americans. These folks have lost sight of some important facts.

This is a preview of Bad Policy. Read the full post (374 words, estimated 1:30 mins reading time)

The Racism of the Left

Posted on 1 June 2019 by eehines

Here’s another example, this one from Progressive-Democrat Ilhan Omar (D, MN). No link to her remark, she tweeted it and then didn’t have the courage to leave it up; she deleted quickly deleted it.

A “merit based” immigration policy is fueled by racism towards the Latinx community….

Sure. Because Hispanics are inherently inferior and wholly incapable of competing with other Americans or other immigrants without special treatment. That’s worse than the soft bigotry of low expectation which President Bush the Younger so rightly decried. That’s outright racism.

That silence you hear from the Progressive-Democratic Party is their open, straight-up agreement with Omar’s racist sewage.

This is a preview of The Racism of the Left. Read the full post (138 words, estimated 33 secs reading time)

AMLO Wrote a Letter

Posted on 31 May 2019 by eehines

…to President Donald Trump on Trump’s decision to begin, early this month, imposing tariffs on Mexican exports into the US. The letter can be read at The Wall Street Journal here.

I have a couple of thoughts on that letter.

We base our immigration policy on this thought. Human beings do not abandon their town for pleasure but for need.

This is a preview of AMLO Wrote a Letter. Read the full post (868 words, estimated 3:28 mins reading time)

A Plebe's Site

Quam bene vivas referre, non quam diu.

Category Archives: immigration