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Can Trump Stop the Invasion? Pat Buchanan • March 8, 2019 In its lede editorial Wednesday, The New York Times called upon Congress to amend the National Emergency Act to “erect a wall against any President, not just Mr. Trump, who insists on creating emergencies where none exist.” Trump “took advantage” of a “loophole” in the NEA, said The Times, to declare “a crisis at the border, contrary to all evidence.” The Times news desk, however, apparently failed to alert the editorial page on what the top story would be that day. “Record Numbers Crossing to U.S., Deluging Agents” was the page-one headline. The Times quoted Kevin K. McAleenan, commissioner of Customs and Border Protection: “The system is well beyond capacity, and remains at the breaking point. … This is … a border security and a humanitarian crisis.” Reporter Caitlin Dickerson explained what is behind CPB’s alarm: “The number of migrant families crossing the Southwest border has once again broken records, with unauthorized entries nearly double what they were a year ago.” She continued, “More than 76,000 migrants crossed the border without authorization in February, an 11-year high … newcomers continue to arrive, sometimes by the busload, at the rate of 2,200 a day.” Only if one believes in open borders is this not an emergency, not a crisis. Consider the budgetary impact alone of this invasion. The majority of migrants breaching the border are from Mexico and Central and South America. Most do not read, write or speak our English language, are not college graduates and arrive with few skills. Almost all will enter the half of the U.S. population that consumes more in social benefits during their lifetime than they will ever pay in taxes. With the U.S. debt over 100 percent of gross domestic product and the deficit running at nearly 5 percent of GDP, at full employment, the burden the migrant millions are imposing upon our social welfare state will one day collapse the system. For these folks are coming to a country where education K-12 is free and where, if the Democrats take over, pre-K though college will be free. These folks will be eligible for city, county, state and federal programs that provide free or subsidized food, rent, housing and health care. All were enacted for the benefit of U.S. citizens. Uninvited, the Third World is coming to partake of and enjoy them. With 328 million people here now, approaching twice the number as in 1960, how many more can we take in before government sinks under the weight of its beneficiaries? And there is a larger issue. If, as appears probable, President Trump is not going to be able to build his wall and all the security measures taken in this century have proved inadequate to stanch the invasion of America, how does the invasion end? Or is this the endless invasion, where the future is decided on our 1,900-mile border with Mexico and we, as the last superpower, are a pitiful, helpless giant too morally paralyzed to stop it? The resolution and determination of Third World peoples to come to America, even if they have to break our laws to get in and stay, is proven. And if there is no matching national will to halt the invasion, and no truly effective means that would be acceptable to our elites, the migrants are never going to stop coming. And why should they? Politically, this invasion means the inevitable death of the national Republican Party, as peoples of color, who vote 70-90 percent Democratic in presidential elections, become the new majority of 21st-century America. The bell will toll for the Grand Old Party when Texas votes like California in some presidential election. That is game, set, match. What is remarkable is how our cultural elites are giddily embracing what most of the advanced world is recoiling from. The Times that berates Trump for trying to secure the border with his wall constantly bewails the rise of ethnic nationalism, populism, tribalism and “illiberal democracies” in Europe. But the rising “isms” of the new Europe are driven by popular fear and loathing of the very future The Times cannot wait to embrace. Japan’s population of 127 million, the second oldest on Earth, has begun to shrink. But there seems to be no desire in Japan to import millions of East or South Asians or Africans to replace the vanishing Japanese. Does China look upon its diversity as its greatest strength? Hardly. Beijing is repopulating Tibet with Han Chinese, and has set up “re-education camps” to de-program Uighur Muslims and Kazakhs in the west so they sever their birth attachments to their ethnicity and faith and convert into good communists. In the U.S., the ball is now in Trump’s court. If he cannot get a Democratic House to fund his wall and the forces now on the border are being overwhelmed by the migrants, as CPB reports, how does he propose to halt the invasion? And if he does not stop it, who will? And what does failure mean for America’s future as one nation and one people? Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of “Nixon’s White House Wars: The Battles That Made and Broke a President and Divided America Forever.” https://www.unz.com/pbuchanan/...p-stop-the-invasion/ "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." -- Justice Janice Rogers Brown "The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth." -rduckwor | ||
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Cruising the Highway to Hell |
The only way I see that this can be stopped is through military action. Treat it as an invasion and use military force to stop it. “Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.” ― Ronald Reagan Retired old fart | |||
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Crusty old curmudgeon |
As long as Trump is in office and having a Dem. house and liberal Fed judiciary I don't see it happening. If Trump found a way to control the border it would be looked at as a win for him and there is no way the Trump haters would let that happen. No way!! The cost of inaction will be enormous both in dollars and demographically and could be the downfall of this republic. At my age I probably won't see the end result but our grandkids will. Very sad indeed. Jim ________________________ "If you can't be a good example, then you'll have to be a horrible warning" -Catherine Aird | |||
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Member |
I believe that Mexico bears the lions share of responsibility for this situation, and as such, creates an act of war against us. I also favor military intervention. And I also know we do not have the resolve to stop it. End of Earth: 2 Miles Upper Peninsula: 4 Miles | |||
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Lighten up and laugh |
Democrats in the House just passed a bill to give them the right to vote. They are to blame as well. | |||
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Big Stack |
Trump is hamstrung by US law, and political reality. Unless those change, No. | |||
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Crusty old curmudgeon |
This from Fox: "Lauren Fine, a spokeswoman for House GOP Whip Steve Scalise, pointed out that an identical resolution was adopted by the House last September. But on Friday, 41 Democrats flipped to oppose the latest measure." “These 41 Democrats must now answer to voters why they were against illegal immigrants voting in elections six months ago, but are suddenly in favor of it now,” Fine said. https://www.foxnews.com/politi...gal-immigrant-voting Jim ________________________ "If you can't be a good example, then you'll have to be a horrible warning" -Catherine Aird | |||
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Member |
If he kept his mouth shut, yes. Every time a would be president uses immigration as a platform, we get... swamped. Work in the margins man. You invariably get more done. With out the attention. | |||
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Member |
I agree. Congress waking up and working with Trump is the only way; No way, Jose. | |||
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Too old to run, too mean to quit! |
Those assholes in congress and the senate will be responsible for the destruction of the USA as we know and love it. And those assholes include democraPs and all the swamp dwelling republicans who will do anything to get Trump out of office! Elk There has never been an occasion where a people gave up their weapons in the interest of peace that didn't end in their massacre. (Louis L'Amour) "To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical. " -Thomas Jefferson "America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great." Alexis de Tocqueville FBHO!!! The Idaho Elk Hunter | |||
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Banned |
Is an unarmed invasion the same thing as an armed invasion? It absolutely is when the country being invaded doesn’t have the political willpower to stop them. | |||
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