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Imperative Reading: Trump’s Immigration Paper (Or Is It Jeff Sessions’?)
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Patrick Cleburne
August 16, 2015, 2:41 pm
Donald Trump’s campaign has posted on its website Immigration Reform That Will Make America Great Again (PDF version here). James Fulford has documented the resulting neocon shock/ horror. My own first impression is that some extremely knowledgeable Patriots very strongly influenced the document: Jeff Sessions’ staff being the likely group.
Following the general statement
Here are the three core principles of real immigration reform:
A nation without borders is not a nation. There must be a wall across the southern border.
A nation without laws is not a nation. Laws passed in accordance with our Constitutional system of government must be enforced.
A nation that does not serve its own citizens is not a nation. Any immigration plan must improve jobs, wages and security for all Americans…
the paper takes a very adversarial stance towards Mexico.
For many years, Mexico’s leaders have been taking advantage of the United States by using illegal immigration to export the crime and poverty in their own country… the Mexican government has taken the United States to the cleaners. They are responsible for this problem, and they must help pay to clean it up.
and targets the jugular
Mexico must pay for the wall and, until they do, the United States will, among other things: impound all remittance payments derived from illegal wages…
The Israelis long since realized this is a decisive measure: in 2012 I asked Israel To Block Illegal Immigrant Remittances: Why Doesn`t America?
The paper goes on to propose tripling the Enforcement and Removal Operation of ICE, making the enterprising proposal
This will be funded by accepting the recommendation of the Inspector General for Tax Administration and eliminating tax credit payments to illegal immigrants.
Implementing E-verify, Mandatory return of Criminal Aliens, end of catch-and-release, and defunding sanctuary cities—this is a Patriot’s Christmas tree! Particularly warming to us at VDARE.com is
End birthright citizenship. This remains the biggest magnet for illegal immigration. By a 2:1 margin, voters say it’s the wrong policy, including Harry Reid who said “no sane country” would give automatic citizenship to the children of illegal immigrants.
We published Weigh Anchor! Enforce the Citizenship Clause, our definitive explication of the issue in 2001. “Birthright Citizenship” is the engine for the political, as distinct from the demographic, transformation of America and the hysterical fury with which the Treason Lobby greeted the revival of the issue in 2010 shows that they are perfectly aware of this.
The only disappointment I find in this plan in that it only proposes to
Increase standards for the admission of refugees and asylum-seekers to crack down on abuses.
The refugee/asylee program is fatally flawed and should be abolished.
On the other hand, the Trump paper proposes to abolish the j-1 visa which has wrecked summer employment prospects for American youth. And in
Immigration moderation. Before any new green cards are issued to foreign workers abroad, there will be a pause where employers will have to hire from the domestic pool of unemployed immigrant and native workers.
do I hear a hint of…MORATORIUM!!!
Trump’s plan is imperative reading for all Patriots.
http://www.vdare.com/posts/imperative-reading-trumps-immigration-paper-or-is-it-jeff-sessions
In what may be the most important development in the 2016 Presidential race to date, Donald Trump has announced, and Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL)
’ office has confirmed, that the GOP front-runner is consulting with the Alabama Senator in crafting his immigration plan for the future of America.
The real estate mogul’s announcement will send shock waves through Washington D.C. and all across primary states.
Trump, whose campaign has focused primarily on issues of immigration and trade, has seen a meteoric rise since entering the race, with throngs of supporters across the country rocketing him to the top of every single poll, despite an extraordinary effort of establishment Republicans to take him down. Republican pundits have lobbed every imaginable accusation at Trump. Yet these same pundits, while seemingly furious at the man, have demonstrated no similar concern, angst, or passion about the dissolution of our southern border, the rampant exploitation of guest-worker programs, the collapse of middle class wages, and the growing illegal immigrant crime wave.
Sen. Sessions, Chairman of the Senate’s Immigration Subcommittee, is widely regarded as the gold standard on immigration. Sessions has also become the intellectual thought leader in the Republican Party on appealing to the blue collar voters who have been abandoned by their political leaders.
For instance, Sen. Sessions recently led the fight against Obamatrade, issuing one in-depth report after another about its effects on working families.
The Washington Post reports:
Donald Trump will unveil a series of position papers in early September, he said in an interview Friday, beginning with a plan to address immigration policy that was crafted with the counsel of Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), a favorite of conservative activists and an outspoken border hawk…
Sen. Sessions’ spokesman Stephen Miller told The Post:
Senator Sessions enjoyed the opportunity to speak with Mr. Trump. The senator believes the defining issues in 2016 will be how to earn the trust of struggling workers, and how to develop trade and immigration policies that serve their interests.
Trump told The Post that he holds the Alabama Senator in extremely high regard: “I like him… Tough guy. I like that. We have a similar thought process.”
Indeed, Sessions is well-known for his no-nonsense cross examinations, including his subtle yet devastating unraveling of Lorreta Lynch and his hard-hitting exchanges in the Budget Committee before Republicans gave the gavel to leadership-ally Sen. Mike Enzi.
Sessions’ esteemed reputation on immigration is indeed well-earned. Sessions led the fight to stop the immigration expansion effort of 2006 and 2007, before leading the charge to derail the 2013 Gang of Eight bill. Following the 2007 implosion of McCain-Kennedy, the donor class has spent unprecedented sums of money and organizational resources to try to pass legislation that would combine amnesty with a massive increase to record yearly immigration levels.
It looks to me like someone wanted to build a LAKE and couldent get the Permits cause of EPA requirements ..then took matters into his own hands and did a quick by pass of regulations ! Brilliant !
So, if u’ve ridden down your gold stocks. u aren’t the only one–and these boys were supposed to be the smart money–a subscription the Murph’s Le metropole woulda saved em millions…
Top Institutional Holders
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Van Eck Associates Corporation 55,799,280 12.80 74,771,035 Jun 30, 2015
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United Services Automobile Association 4,077,000 0.94 5,463,180 Jun 30, 2015
JP Morgan Chase & Company 4,050,105 0.93 7,047,182 Mar 31, 2015
Oppenheimer Funds, Inc. 3,700,000 0.85 4,958,000 Jun 30, 2015
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Market Vectors ETF Tr-Gold Miners ETF 29,615,638 6.80 39,684,954 Jun 30, 2015
Market Vectors ETF Tr-Junior Gold Miners ETF 25,605,886 5.88 34,311,887 Jun 30, 2015
USAA Mutual Fd Tr-Precious Metals & Minerals Fd 3,700,000 0.85 9,102,000 Feb 28, 2015
DFA Emerging Markets Small Cap Series 2,826,385 0.65 8,761,793 Jan 31, 2015
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Alps ETF Tr-Alps Sprott Gold Miners ETF 2,024,332 0.46 4,979,856 Feb 28, 2015
Fidelity Select Portfolios – Gold 1,732,900 0.40 2,564,692 May 31, 2015
Oppenheimer Gold & Special Minerals Fund, Inc. 1,300,000 0.30 2,262,000 Mar 31, 2015
Fidelity Select Portfolios – Natural Resources 530,400 0.12 784,992 May 31, 2015
DFA Investment Dimensions-DFA Emerging Mkts Value 463,646 0.11 1,437,302 Jan 31, 2015
The political scene is very different this year. Hillary Clinton is imploding and Donald Trump is rising. Is Donald Trump strange? Or does he appear more normal than the rest of the political world as illustrated below?
NO WAREHOUSE AT EPICENTER OF EXPLOSION
Official story a proven (call it “error” for now).
After carefully poring over the images, it is now obvious that the actual epicenter of the explosion was nowhere near ANY WAREHOUSE AT ALL, and in fact happened across property owned by more than one shipping company. Ruihai was supposed to be blamed for this, but it is obvious at this point that they were not responsible for the blast. Now I really think it was a kinetic weapon that did this, because the big crater happened in the middle of nowhere at all, and targeting is probably very difficult to get perfect with that type of weapon. One thing is certain, this surely was NOT a warehouse blast, the closest warehouse was approximately 100 yards away.
The explosion was actually closest to their security gate and whatever other shipping companies surrounded Ruihai. The explosion was so massive that many many buildings have completely vanished, including all warehouses and storage areas owned by Ruihai and surrounding shipping companies, with only a concrete office building remaining (1 of 2). All others are completely gone without a trace. Selective deletion of buildings (based on what they are made of) is a hallmark indicator of a nuclear weapons type blast, and if this was a kinetic weapon, results are similar.
One thing is made obvious by the very up to date “before” image: there was nothing at the epicenter that could have exploded, something other than chemicals did this. And the scale of the blast proves it was definitely a multiple kiloton range blast, achievable ONLY BY A SUPER POWER NATION.
Now the only thing up to speculation is exactly why a superpower attacked China. Was it the currency devaluation? Hillary’s espionage story in need of burial? You guess, at this point it is irrelevant, an attack is proven.
August 15 2015
Having Druckenmiller join the dark side and get himself some paper gold is actually some of the better news we’ve had in quite awhile. Hopefully some of the lemming hedge fund managers will jump on board with him.
I am a little concerned though that he hasn’t actually watched the paper killers on Comex long enough and might not realize just how tough an uphill battle he’s in for. Fundamentals don’t really matter in the gold market Druck, just sayin’.
One of my grandsons age 8 at Santa Cruz and Montery Aquarium. He loved the aquarium wasn’t too jazzed about Santa Cruz except the ice cream. Grandmas in there being me, ahh were getting old. He had a original name for the sardines swimming in circles, called it a fish tornado. Couldn’t get him to go Kayaking to get out there with the sea life. He was cool with that. Guess he saw a great white sneak up on a surfer who escaped but was enough to keep him from kayaking, seems to love the ocean anyways.
The PBS show NOVA… “Nuclear Meltdown Disaster” is still available online. If you are at all interested, catch it. Wow!
http://video.pbs.org/video/2365535896/
