Cloward-Piven at work on the border
There’s a new record being set:
Illegal immigration continues to break records on the southwestern border — and they’re not good ones.
The number of families snared trying to sneak into the U.S. soared by 50 percent in one month alone, setting an all-time record with more than 36,000 family members apprehended, Homeland Security officials announced Tuesday.
The government has also encountered some 70 groups of at least 100 migrants during the first five months of the fiscal year, shattering records and placing new challenges on Border Patrol agents.
The mini-caravans are being funneled to some of the remotest parts of the border, where there is little in the way of medical help and it takes hours to process and transport the groups. That takes agents off the line, and drug smugglers use the distraction to send across their shipments, top border officials said.
Indeed, the formation of mini-caravans is a tactic used by smugglers, officials said Tuesday. The same cartels control drugs and human smuggling, and they use migrants as a distraction by sending a large group of people to occupy agents’ attention and then try to slip drugs into the U.S. in another location.
The idea is to overwhelm the system and make it easier to get through. But paradoxically, the situation also helps to bolster Trump’s argument that what’s going on at the border constitutes an emergency.
And yet Trump can’t convince the vast majority of RINOs, er Republicans in the Senate that there really is an emergency.
Another interesting angle is, would it be appropriate to engage the CIA at some level, to help deal with this problem? Obviously, it’s possible they already are, and we wouldn’t know about it. If they are doing something it doesn’t seem to having any effect.
I heard that there are a couple human smuggler kingpins in Tijuana that made $2B last year.
The other new buzz is the Dems are busy with a programmatic media push on the “phantom or made-up” emergency, and then The New York Times came out with a big expose on the humanitarian crisis at the border.
Three of the most important elements of leftist warfare against Western civilization are the Cloward-Piven strategy, the playbook of Saul Alinsky, and Rudi Dutschke’s Gramscian “long march though the institutions.” Perhaps needless to say, mainstream conservatives and the Republican establishment continue to be completely clueless about dealing with any of this madness.
“And yet Trump can’t convince the vast majority of RINOs, er Republicans in the Senate that there really is an emergency.” TommyJay
Add to them Senators like Paul Rand, who out of misguided principle insist that the Constitution be turned into a suicide pact.
I understand that Claymore mines may be more effective than a wall.
Geoffrey,
I really want to like or be sympathetic to Rand, but this one ticks me off. “Oh, be fearful of the precedent.” Wait … Didn’t Obama declare multiple bogus emergencies? Don’t you have to be a moron to think that the next Dem president won’t do so also? Rand is no moron. So, it’s a “Look at me, I’m principled” posture.
While it’s clear that one can quibble over the severity of Trump’s declared emergency, this one’s fairly severe and the onset moderately sudden.
Or is it specifically the power of purse? Obama took in 10’s of $B from fines on banks and directed that cash with some level of specificity. No one even complained on some Sunday talk show about that.
j e at 3:48 pm said, in conclusion: “Perhaps needless to say, mainstream conservatives and the Republican establishment continue to be completely clueless about dealing with any of this madness.”
I wonder if we’re finally at a point where at least mainstream conservatives have become cluesome, but find themselves totally overwhelmed by the results of that “long Gramscian march though the institutions.”
I take the experience of Sen. Lindsey Graham to be emblematic. Sen. Graham, long derided by the right as Sen. Grahamnesty, appears to have experienced an epiphany, resoundingly signaled by his articulate rebuke of the Democrats during the Kavanaugh hearings. It’s been very refreshing to have him on our side, but it’s late in the game now. We needed this sort of awakening four or five decades ago, when there was still time to reverse the left’s momentum. By now, as we here have discussed ad nauseum, the left has taken over the communications media (including Hollywood), far too many of the courts, and the entire education industry, prechool-to-K-to-12-to-college and beyond.
Being cluesome is not enough. We need very, very powerful artillery (I don’t mean literally the military kind) and an awful lot of patience, because that’s what it’s going to take — given the head start they’ve got.
I’m not at all optimistic.
You just need the right class of wall. For example, the walls that hide the activity in abortion chambers are legally, ethically, politically, ideologically, and socially impenetrable. We should either construct a string of PP offices along the border or cannibalize those offices that we deem not viable and redistribute their walls along the border.
Time to break out the firehouses, gas cannisters, plastic bullets, and, where necessary, the live ammo.
The rad Left is threatening to primary the Dems who don’t go along — but when the Tea Party tried to do that, the GOPe shut it down.
We won’t see for another year if Trump supports any primarying of those who aren’t on board with this, but that’s one of the things needed.
I don’t think the other Reps are pushing a Wall enough.
Trump doesn’t have enough GOPe deep state support.
The fear of the successful Leftist long march is very actual. The discrimination against Reps done for decades by colleges is now demonization, and accepted by most of the educated/ indoctrinated.
Colleges need to lose tax-exempt status for not having Rep professors.
The left has turned the border crisis into a specious moral crusade (if you watched the idiotic congressmen & woman last week w/their crocodile tears and faux outrage you know what I mean). This is an invasion, pure and simple. It even looks like an invasion!
Why we can’t just spin them around and send them back where they came from is a reason why nations need to be skeptical about “international law.”
As it is, every illiterate, unskilled migrant who makes it across the goal line, the US border, gets to stay FOREVER. And congress, left and right, sees no problem with this. Partly, it’s because they have no respect for the wealth they are stealing from each and every one of us. They are a pack of grifters and looters. They are either ferociously cynical, or plan dumb.
Either one will do.
Trump is all alone. Even if he wins reelection, he’s still all alone.
The problem is twofold: Washington DC & America’s colleges and universities. If Washington wasn’t there. we wouldn’t notice it was gone. I feel the same about Harvard and Yale. Time to start gathering wood.
Geoffrey and TommyJay,
At first (long, long ago and pretty far away) I thought Rand Paul could push things in a more libertarian direction.
Now, I wouldn’t even dream of voting for him instead of the President. For one thing, I don’t think he has the juice to stand up to the New Democrats. For another, I don’t trust him with foreign policy at all.
(And I left the Open-Borders bunch awhile back.)
Of course, he’s young yet. I didn’t come to reject some of the beliefs of hard-core libertarianism until I was in my late sixties .
I don’t think Ted Cruz could stand up to them meaningfully, either. (And I’m not quite as sure as I once was that he’s such a hot Constitutional expert and so ready to follow it even if it’s inconvenient. But maybe I’ll explain that some other time. The main thing for now is unhorsing the New Dems, and a good many of the old Dems who are their enablers — such as Mizz Pelosi.
The problem with the border crisis is the media refuses to ack its existence in any way.
Tell someone thost WTimes numbers and they immediately claim it’s fake data.