NewsMachete: The very real consequences of the effort to remove John Boehner - Bottom line: not removal but each outing as a cuckservative erodes powers. --tma

The very real consequences of the effort to remove John Boehner

North Carolina Republican Representative Mark Meadows has filed a motion to remove John Boehner as Speaker of the House. Technically it's called a motion to "vacate the chair", though it feels like the chair has been vacant for some time already, given the absence of any meaningful opposition to Obama's agenda. Meadows is unhappy with Boehner's unwillingness to fight for Republican or Conservative values (which used to be the same thing).

Of course, his motion has no chance of passing, and publically Boehner and his cronies will probably smirk and laugh at Meadows as it is voted down, the very same way Mitch McConnell and his Chamber of Commerce mafiosi smirked at Ted Cruz when Cruz confronted McConnell about his lies concerning the Export/Import Bank.

But there are still consequences. I am reminded by the efforts by militant gays to "out" members of congress who voted against homosexual preferences in public but in private were homosexuals themselves. This is the same thing. John Boehner's public persona is of a conservative Republican who is opposed to Obama's agenda. That's what you'd think if you saw him on the Sunday shows, or orchestrating symbolic votes on legislation that he knew would never go anywhere.

But John Boehner in private is a nearly 100% supporter of the Obama agenda, which we know for a fact since he has fully funded all of Obama's initiatives, legal and otherwise, for the past five years.

So what Meadows has done will not remove Boehner from the Speakership right now, but will help to "out" Boehner as a liberal, which is exactly what he is. And that's what got establishment Republicans scared. Money is not such a problem; the Chamber of Commerce keeps them well supplied. But they need the base to be at least somewhat energized to come out and vote. There is also the matter of keeping conservative primary challengers at bay. ...

http://newsmachete.com/?news=845

RR Watch - Ann Corcoran: Texas Congressman Brian Babin introduces bill to suspend Refugee Resettlement Program! - Thank you Rep Babin and Texas for your patriotic sanity!! --tma

Texas Congressman Brian Babin introduces bill to suspend Refugee Resettlement Program!

Posted by Ann Corcoran on July 30, 2015

Update July 31: Daniel Horowitz at Conservative Review has more, go here (hat tip: Dick).

Rep. Brian Babin (R-TX) has introduced the Resettlement Accountability National Security Act (H.R. 3314) which seeks to suspend refugee resettlement to America until economic costs are analyzed and national security concerns are put to rest.

Rep. Brian Babin is a first term Congressman from East Texas.

http://babin.house.gov/biography/

I’ve been following this issue for eight years and this is the first time I have seen anyone in Congress (other than recent concerns about Syrian refugees) take a single step to begin to scrutinize the entire program.

Now, let’s see if Rep. Trey Gowdy will give the bill a hearing in his all-important Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security!

Just a reminder, Babin’s home state of Texas is presently the number one state targeted by the UN/US State Department for refugee distribution.

Here is Babin’s press release late today (hat tip: Rosemary):

Washington, DC – U.S. Rep. Brian Babin (TX-36) yesterday introduced the Resettlement Accountability National Security Act (H.R. 3314), which places an immediate suspension on allowing immigrants into the United States under the refugee resettlement program, until the Government Accountability Office (GAO) completes a thorough examination of its costs on federal, state and local governments. According to the U.S. refugee admissions database, nearly 500,000 new immigrants have come to the U.S. under the resettlement program since President Obama first took office – with the state of Texas and its taxpayers being asked to take in more than any other state.

“It is extremely unsettling that the Obama Administration would continue to expand the U.S. resettlement program at such an irresponsible pace in light of our economic and national security challenges,” said Rep. Babin. “While this program may be warranted in certain situations, it is continuing at an unchecked pace. For the past decade the U.S. has been admitting roughly 70,000 new refugees a year, with little understanding of the economic and social costs on our communities.

“Our legislation institutes a common sense pause in the program so that we can better understand the long-term and short-term costs that this program has on local governments, states and U.S. taxpayers. It also gives us an opportunity to examine potential national security issues related to entry and resettlement, particularly as federal law enforcement officials are increasingly concerned about home-grown terrorists.”

This is a very big deal!  Please! Thank Rep. Babin (202-225-1555) and put pressure on Gowdy’s subcommittee to give the bill a hearing!  It is shameful that the program has not in all of its 35-year history been subject to a thorough review.  Call Gowdy at 202-225-6030 even if you have done it before!

Consider sending your horror stories to Rep. Babin!

An afterthought:  Babin is going to get pounded by the supposedly religious resettlement contractors especially ones with tentacles in his district.  If you live in his district and are supportive of his efforts, please let him know.  Those ‘Christian’ contractors can be pretty mean!

https://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/2015/07/30/texas-congressman-introduces-bill-to-suspend-refugee-resettlement-program/

Atlantic Discussions - 'Aiming for clarity' writes: Between the costs of compulsory education for illegals who are children and incarcerating criminals who are illegal, states like CA hemorrhage tax payers' money. - Thank you for your excellent reply. Long ago I was "banned" for life from commenting at Atlantic, by that Ta-Nehisi Coates person, for calmly bringing up the subject of Black-on-White violent crime on a thread where it was totally appropriate. In other words, the loving Tolerance Police struck again.

Between the costs of compulsory education for illegals who are children and incarcerating criminals who are illegal, states like CA hemorrhage tax payers' money.

Just on education: under the June 1982 Supreme Court decision in Plyler v. Doe, the court was clear that "states cannot constitutionally deny students a free public education on account of their immigration status." That is an **enormous** cost that the states and local tax payers bear. Tax payer funded benefits mis-allocated to illegals should have been directed to a citizen or permanent resident lawfully present in the U.S.

The taxes that illegals pay do not offset the costs that illegals represent. Ostensibly, tenants "pay" the landlord's property taxes (which support school districts) through rent. But as many towns with large illegal populations will relate, many, many illegals occupy rental units beyond the intended occupancy of such apartments. Per person, each illegal would "pay" a very nominal portion of property taxes that support school systems. That means that school districts are sustaining more students than the tax base would reflect.

Illegals do pay some taxes, e.g., user taxes. As well as SS under fraudulent/ stolen SSNs. But it's hardly the case that illegals pay enough taxes, fees to cover what they cost in the U.S. And depending on the service/ benefit in question, are very likely to be drains. This argument that illegals are a boon is LAME and not supportable macro-wise.

As to so-called Dreamers and other illegals: "earning citizenship" means that you enter lawfully, pay U.S. taxes as they are due as you earn income from employment, and abide by local law. The U.S. is not like a McDonald's, where anyone can be illegal, stand in line with a promise to pay U.S. taxes in the future, to later collect U.S. Green Cards to then apply for citizenship and a passport.

It's untenable arrogance to unlawfully enter the U.S. to then assert that the U.S. owes the illegal a U.S. stay, access to jobs, driver's licenses, tax payer funded education, healthcare, housing.... At minimum, it's not fiscally responsible for U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents who pay taxes and vote. And it's not fair to those who have lawfully entered this country.

The southern border is in urgent need of enhancement/ expansion. Most of illegal immigration into the U.S. has consistently originated from the same countries: Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. "According to DHS’ Office of Immigration Statistics (OIS), an estimated 11.5 million unauthorized immigrants resided in the United States in January 2011. The latest available estimates from DHS, released in March 2012, suggest that the unauthorized population was virtually unchanged compared to the revised 2010 estimate of 11.6 million.

https://disqus.com/by/AimingForClarity/?utm_source=reply&utm_medium=email&utm_content=comment_other

Refugee R Watch - Ann Corcoran: Obama extends Temporary Protected Status for Somalis - About as temporary as your average CA Redwood. --tma

Obama extends Temporary Protected Status for Somalis, confusion evident in media reports

Posted by Ann Corcoran on July 30, 2015

Temporary Protected Status (TPS) is one more of those LEGAL immigration programs that needs to be completely reformed or dumped altogether.  It might sound good on the surface.  Of course we can’t send nationals of certain countries home to a devastated country, they should get to stay for 18 months until their country improves is how the logic goes.

However, here is the rub—they never go home!  Every 18 months the federal government gives them another extension!  Look at wikipedia here where we learn that a 2001 earthquake in El Salvador is responsible for permission for over 100,000 Salvadorans already (illegally? on tourist or student visas?) in the US to file for TPS.  Honduras is even worse, ‘temporary’ status has been regularly extended since 1998! Somalia longer still!

Can’t just blame Obama!

Some years ago when Bush did one of those Central American TPS extensions he literally said we need to keep them here so they could prop up their home country’s economy by sending remittance money back home!  That means taking money out of the US economy! Right! The Bush Administration surely extended Somali TPS several times.

When Obama extended TPS status for Somalis that is only for a relatively small number who have been here for a very long time.  Al Jazeera tells us this:

Some 355,000 people total hold temporary protected status, with El Salvadorians making up more than half of those. The government regularly extends TPS for some nationalities, sometimes for decades. An estimated 270 Somalis have held their TPS designation continuously since 1991.

Somali TPS holders though are a drop in the bucket compared to the nearly 10,000 Somalis entering the US annually through the permanent Refugee Resettlement Program.

By the way, Al Jazerra also tells us that there are 10,000 Syrians in the US eligible for TPS and they are not rushing to make themselves known to the government.

TPS is really an excuse to give work permits and legal permission to stay in the US forever (waiting for amnesty of course!), but it isnot supposed to be a path to citizenship (you can bet many TPS holders are voting anyway!).  Refugees, on the other hand, who are here to stay no matter what, are given permanent resident status and ultimately citizenship.  

See Katie Pavlich writing at Townhall yesterday.  She blurs the lines between the two LEGAL immigration programs, but who can blame her, our LEGAL immigration system is a chaotic mess.

Outside of the investor visas, student visas, and worker visas, the three big LEGAL programs that admit (or permit legal presence) are the Refugee Resettlement/Asylum Program, the Diversity Visa Lottery and Temporary Protected Status—all must be reformed or abolished!

So, the next time some candidate for office (or some other know-it-all) says that “illegal immigration is bad, but legal is good,” tell them they don’t know what the hell they are talking about!

https://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/2015/07/30/obama-extends-temporary-protected-status-for-somalis-confusion-evident-in-media-reports/

AP: Human $5,000 per-ticket smuggling ring dismantled in South Texas - How do I become a penniless Latino invader? --tma

'Your Margarita has been properly chilled, señor.' 
Human smuggling ring dismantled in South Texas

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — U.S. Homeland Security investigators dismantled a South Texas ring that illegally smuggled thousands of immigrants across the border from Mexico and on to other parts of the state -- often tucked in small, dangerous truck crawl spaces.

James Spero, special agent in charge of the San Antonio Division, said Thursday that nearly two dozen people were charged last week with human smuggling. Among them was 49-year-old Jaime Jaramillo-Hernandez, of San Antonio, whom authorities accused of leading the ring that shipped about 150 Central American and Mexican immigrants weekly. The immigrants paid about $5,000 each for the trip. ...

http://news.yahoo.com/human-smuggling-ring-dismantled-south-texas-230414169.html

VDare - Ann Coulter - Voters To GOP: We’re Just Not That Into Immigrants

Voters To G.O.P.: We’re Just Not That Into Immigrants

For years, Republican candidates have been assured by their political consultants that amnesty is a runaway hit with the public. Then they always come in for a zinger of a surprise whenthe American people are finally able to express themselves on the subject. (Sometimes it seems as if political consultants are in the game only to make money.)

Washington has tried to sneak through three amnesties in the last decade–in 2006, 2007 and 2013. Each time, amnesty had the full support of the media, the White House, leaders of both political parties, big campaign donors and lobbyists.

And every time, as soon as the public got wind of what was happening, the politicians scattered like roaches and the loudest amnesty proponent in the room would suddenly be demanding “border security first!” ...

http://www.vdare.com/articles/voters-to-g-o-p-were-just-not-that-into-immigrants

AmRen - Jared Taylor: An Open Letter to Cuckservatives - "I’ll put it bluntly: Nothing you love will survive without white people."

An Open Letter to Cuckservatives

You aren’t just betraying your principles.

Dear Cuckservative,

You are not alone. Like you, Erick Erickson at RedState.com, Matt Lewis at the Daily Caller,Taylor Millard at Hot Air, the blogger Ace of Spades, and Jim Harper with the Cato Institute are all squirming under the lash of this new coinage. They are squirming because a single word–cuckservative–lays bare the rot at the heart of your movement: American conservatism can conserve nothing if it cannot conserve the nation’s founding stock. I’ll put it bluntly: Nothing you love will survive without white people.

Do you stand for limited government and a balanced budget? Count your black and Hispanic allies. Do you admire Thomas Jefferson? He was a slave-holder who will end up on the dung heap with the Confederate flag. Do you care about stable families and the rights of the unborn? Look up illegitimacy, divorce, and abortion rates for blacks and Hispanics. Do you cherish the stillness at dawn in Bryce Canyon? When the park service manages to get blacks and Hispanics to go camping they play boom-boxes until 1:00 a.m. Was Ronald Reagan your hero? He would not win a majority of today’s electorate.

Do you love Tchaikovsky? Count the non-whites in the concert hall. Do you yearn for neighborhoods where you can leave the keys in your car? There still are some; just don’t expect them to be “diverse.” Are hunting and firearms part of your heritage? Explain that to Barack Obama or Sonia Sotomayor. Are you a devout Christian? Muslim immigrants despise you and your faith. Do you support Israel? Mexicans, Haitians, Chinese, and Guatemalans don’t.

Your great festival–CPAC–is as white as a meeting of the Sons of Confederate Veterans. That’s because blacks and Hispanics and even Asians don’t share your dreams. You’ve heard the old joke: “What do you call the only black person at a conservative meeting? The keynote speaker.” Outreach doesn’t work. You can’t talk someone into loving what you love. Faith, patriotism, duty, and honor come from deeply cultural, religious, and ancestral sources you can’t reach. ...

http://www.amren.com/news/2015/07/an-open-letter-to-cuckservatives/