Tag: illegal immigration

Understanding the 14th Amendment

In his efforts to get illegal immigration resolved and/or reversed, President Elect Trump has recently hinted of an executive action to repeal birthright citizenship. This seems to indicate a multiple level of misunderstanding the Constitution of the United States. First is his premise of overriding a Constitutional provision via executive or legislative action. When will our elected officials stop with the efforts to ignore or rewrite a Constitutional provision without taking it to the States?

Secondly, Trump could accomplish his goal by ABIDING by the 14th Amendment. In an excellent article by Professor Edward J. Erler in July of 2008, he helps us to understand the original intent behind the citizenship clause. Section one of the Amendment (which contains the citizenship clause) begins as, “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.” Professor Erler states,

“…during the debate of the [14th A]mendment, Senator Jacob Howard of Ohio, the author of the citizenship clause, attempted to assure skeptical colleagues that the new language was not intended to make Indians citizens of the U.S. Indians, Howard conceded, were born within the nation’s geographical limits, but he steadfastly maintained that they were not subject to its jurisdiction because they owed allegiance to their tribes. Senator Lyman Trumbull, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, rose to support his colleague, arguing that ‘subject to the jurisdiction thereof’ meant ‘not owing allegiance to anybody else and being subject to the complete jurisdiction of the United States.’ Jurisdiction understood as allegiance, Senator Howard interjected, excludes not only Indians but ‘persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens, [or] who belong to the families of ambassadors or foreign ministers.’ Thus ‘subject to the jurisdiction’ does not simply mean, as is commonly thought today, subject to American laws or American courts. It means owing exclusive political allegiance to the U.S.”

In the past there has been support from the Mexican government itself for asserting this argument as applied to illegal aliens in the U.S. of any nationality. Former Mexican President Felipe Calderon helped us better understand this provision of the 14th Amendment in 2008 while attending the opening of a Mexican Consulate in New Orleans. A report of the event notes,

“At the opening of the consulate, President Calderon, said Mexico wants to assist and protect its citizens in the states of Louisiana and Mississippi that the consulate will serve,” and further quotes the former president: “With the reopening of this consulate, we will be able to guarantee those Mexicans who live and work in Louisiana and Mississippi that they will have the support of the Mexican government. It is my commitment that no matter where there is a Mexican citizen, he or she will also have the support of our government.”

Author asserts that these are basically re-statements of the Constitutional provisions as explained in Professor Erler’s article, courtesy of the then president of Mexico.

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Mass Shootings Including Police Officer Shot in Cicero, Illinois After Venezuelan Transnational Gang Member Had Been Arrested by I.C.E.

Over the weekend in Cicero, Illinois—a southwest suburb of Chicago—there were five total people shot, including one police officer and one person killed.

This comes just a week after eight people were shot, with three killed just south of Cicero in the Gage Park neighborhood.

The Gateway Pundit previously reported on the Gage Park incident, which has now been confirmed to be Venezuelan and likely illegals.

Recent reporting from WBBM Chicago indicates the shooter of the police officer has been identified as a known “street gang member.” Police have arrested 19-year-old Giovanni Saldivar.

At this time, it is undetermined whether or not the man is directly connected to Tren de Aragua, a Venezuelan Transnational gang. However, Tren de Aragua-connected gang members have been known to be in the area.

This marks a considerable uptick in Cicero’s murder rate. According to Crimegrade.org, Cicero has a murder rate of 0.0432 murders in 1,000. In the last year, they have seen a spike in violence.

It’s relevant to note there have been considerable changes as Illinois’ sanctuary state status has funneled an influx of illegal immigrants to the City of Chicago. This has had a spillover effect in the suburbs.

In February of this year, The Gateway Pundit reported that there were buses of illegals landing in train stations all over the suburbs. Terry Newsome of Behind Enemy Lines filmed illegals flashing gang signs and tattoos seemingly affiliated with the transnational criminal gang from Venezuela known as Tren de Aragua.

Tren de Aragua has embedded itself all over the country, famously taking over apartment complexes in Colorado. In March of this year, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement reported removing a Venezuelan non-citizen with ties to Tren de Aragua from Cicero, Illinois.

In addition to the evidence of Tren de Aragua presence in the suburb of Cicero, there is the involvement of Catholic Charities in placing illegals all over the City and State. In June of this year, The Gateway Pundit reported on FOIA findings that Catholic Charities had been colluding with the City of Chicago to place 13,000 illegals between December 2022 and February 2024.

Another article pointed out that Catholic Charities, along with an Obama Foundation-affiliated NGO, placed over 8,900 illegals in fully furnished apartments. Interestingly enough, there is a Catholic Charities Food Distribution Center located in Cicero, Illinois.

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President Trump Doubles Down On Pledge To End Birthright Citizenship, A Policy Backed By The Overwhelming Majority Of American People

America, since its inception, has been a place of opportunity for aspiring, high-skilled people.

The geniuses and artisans of Europe of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries flooded to these shores, enriching the society in many cases and making invaluable contributions to American culture – from our culinary traditions to newfound architectural styles – that continue to be influential through the present day.

This custom of selecting only the best and brightest is not anomalous to great nations throughout history.

All nations are only as good as the people which compose them: thus, any worthwhile nation would desire to enhance the quality of its people overall in order to elevate its global standing.

That operative goal, however, cannot be achieved under the present, suicidal policy of citizenship by birthright.

Among nations of the world, America is the only developed one that confers citizenship onto anyone simply for having been born to a parent who managed to inhabit these borders, regardless of legality.

That America is the only noteworthy country to still have this policy in place should be enough evidence alone of its insanity. The prevailing view among liberal legal scholars is that the Fourteenth Amendment sanctions this policy, which is permanent and cannot be altered.

This is flatly wrong. This erroneous interpretation is the byproduct of a slipshod and lazy construction of that particular Amendment, through the prism of erroneous interpretations of largely discredited, or at least, increasingly obsolete legal precedent.

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Memo starkly warned Mayorkas in 2021 about migrant kids, long before crisis that alarmed Congress

Long before Congress became alarmed over as many as 320,000 unaccompanied minor children from the border crisis, the Department of Homeland Security prepared a briefing memo in summer 2021 starkly warning Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas that federal authorities were ill-equipped to deal with a surge of young immigrants or reunite them with their parents, according to a copy of the memo reviewed by Just the News.

“[The] Department of Homeland Security (DHS) does not have the necessary government authorities or resources for all that needs to be accomplished to reunify families within the scope of the Family Reunification Task Force,” Anna Hinken, an official in Homeland’s partnerships outreach office, wrote in the July 22, 2021 memo she prepared for Mayorkas as part of a planned call with a person whose name was redacted from the memo.

The memo, obtained by the nonpartisan watchdog group Protect the Public’s Trust under the Freedom of Information Act, provides one of the earliest clues as to how the Biden administration failed to reunite children with their parents and eventually lost track of large numbers of them, a failure that has embarrassed the administration with Congress.

The memo warned that as the Biden-era migration surge began, DHS was paying for airfare, domestic travel and other needs to reunify parents with children already trafficked through the southern U.S. border, but the project suffered from a serious flaw: Immigrant families weren’t willing to join their children because the government couldn’t pay for additional family members to travel.

“[We] are unable to cover the expenses for additional family members,” she wrote.

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Trump Gives Stark Answer When Asked If He’ll Split Up Families During Mass Deportations

During a sit down interview with NBC News, president Trump gave a striking answer when asked if he intends to separate families through mass deportations of illegal aliens.

“Well, I don’t want to be breaking up families, so the only way that you don’t break up the family is you keep them together and you have to send them all back,” Trump declared.

“We don’t have to separate families, we’ll send the whole family very humanely, back to the country where they came,” Trump emphasised.

“If they come here illegally but their family is here legally, then the family has a choice. The person that came in illegally can go out, or they can all go out together,” he added.

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California Reaffirms An Open Arms Invitation To Illegal Immigrants

Protests based on the “California Values ​​Act” which limits state cooperation with federal immigration authorities are underway…

Hundreds of people demonstrated around the California Capitol on Monday to urge the Legislature to try to stop Trump’s mass deportation plans. They carried banners that said “Not one cent for mass deportation” and “MAGA out of California.”

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Yes, the president can deploy troops to enforce immigration law

President-elect Trump’s confirmation last month of his plan to deploy military assets for immigration enforcement sparked a constitutional debate. Legal scholars and commentators quickly declared such action forbidden by long-standing prohibitions on military involvement in domestic law enforcement. But this conventional wisdom misreads both the letter and spirit of American law. A careful examination of a pair of longstanding statutes reveals military support for immigration enforcement is permissible.

(Article by Patrick O’Malley and Joe Buccino republished from RealClearWire.com)

The issue hinges on two 19th century laws: the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 and the Insurrection Act of 1807. When properly understood, both allow the President to use active-duty military forces to support the deportation of illegal immigrants.

Posse Comitatus: A Firewall Between the Military and Law Enforcement

Since our nation’s founding, Americans have been wary of standing armies and their role in civilian affairs. Concerns about military involvement in domestic law enforcement dates back to colonial experiences under British rule, particularly the quartering of British troops in civilian homes and their use to enforce British law. This experience was so troubling that it influenced several key elements of the Constitution and Bill of Rights.

The Third Amendment, ratified in 1791, explicitly prohibits American soldiers from occupying private homes inside the county during peacetime. The Posse Comitatus Act of 1878, informed by a distrust of a large military force employed against its citizenry, codified the separation of military and civilian law enforcement. This act established a firewall between military force and civilian law enforcement.

The term “posse comitatus,” Latin for “power of the country,” dates back to the medieval England tradition of local sheriffs organizing citizens to assist in maintaining public order. A form of this practice made its way to the American Old West: sheriffs called for volunteers – “a posse” of the county – to chase down bandits. This power allowed sheriffs to deputize civilians to temporarily suppress lawlessness and maintain order.

The Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 derives its name from this practice with a crucial distinction: it specifically prohibits the military from acting as this civilian force. The law’s architects recognized that using soldiers instead of citizens for domestic law enforcement would fundamentally alter the relationship between military power and civil society. They sought to ensure that federal troops were kept out of local law enforcement.

Yet this legislative barrier against using military force for domestic law enforcement is not absolute. Congress regularly makes exceptions, allowing military support to civilian law enforcement for actions such as protecting federal property, conducting domestic counterterror operations, engaging in counterdrug efforts. In cases related to immigration enforcement, courts have ruled the Posse Comitatus Act only prohibits direct military involvement in law enforcement actions such as detaining citizens. Support activities, from transportation to surveillance, remain legal. This distinction between direct enforcement and support operations provides the legal basis for President-elect Trump’s proposed use of military assets in his planned deportation program.

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Pure Gold: Trump’s Plan for Illegals Whose Own Countries Won’t Take Them Back

Illegal immigrants facing deportation could be sent to places other than their home countries under a plan developed by President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team.

Deportation can be stalled when a nation, such as Venezuela, refuses to accept citizens America wants to deport.

To address that, Trump’s aides are trying to develop a list of nations that will accept illegal immigrants who are not citizens of that nation, according to NBC, which cited sources it did not name.

NBC listed multiple nations in and around the Caribbean Sea as possible destinations, including Turks and Caicos, the Bahamas, Panama and Grenada.

The office of Bahamas Prime Minister Philip Davis said it was approached by the transition team but rejected the concept, according to the Guardian.

Mexico, which has also been mentioned as a possible destination for illegal immigrants, wants to avoid taking deported illegal immigrants from other countries, according to Reuters.

“We hope to reach an agreement with the Trump administration so that, in case these deportations happen, they send people from other countries directly to their countries of origin,” President Claudia Sheinbaum said.

Sheinbaum did not say Mexico would flat-out refuse deported illegal immigrants.

NBC’s report said Trump could use the threat of tariffs against Mexican products to force Mexico to accept illegal immigrants from other countries.

NBC reported that in 2019, Trump flew some illegal immigrants being deported to Guatemala.

NBC said the numbers involved were small, and that practice ended in 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic dawned.

The NBC report said that the Trump administration is trying to develop a system that can deport illegal immigrants within a week of their arrests.

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Missouri May Offer Bounties for Illegal Immigrants

Missouri may offer bounties for reporting illegal immigrants if a new law is passed.

The bill proposed to the Missouri Senate would pay residents $1000 for reporting illegal immigrants who have entered the state.

Senate Bill 72, proposed by Republican Senator-elect David Gregory, would create a web portal to allow residents to make reports to the state’s Highway Patrol.

In addition, the bill would create a “Missouri Illegal Alien Certified Bounty Hunter Program,” which would allow licensed bail-bond agents to be bounty hunters for illegal immigrants. It would also prevent illegal immigrants from receiving any public benefits, voting in elections, getting a permit or licence to drive or becoming a legal resident of the state.

A number of bills, seven in total, have now been introduced in Missouri that focus on immigration. Among other proposals, businesses would be required to ensure all citizens are documented, cities would be fined for acting as “sanctuaries” for illegals and new immigration offences, complete with fines and jail time, would be created.

Trump has promised the “largest deportation operation in American history,” targeting tens of millions of migrants who are in the country illegally.

A key figure in implementing that policy will be Tom Homan, whom Trump appointed as his “Border Czar” at the beginning of November.

Homan was considered a controversial figure for his no-nonsense approach to immigration and, in particular, for presiding over the so-called “family-separation” policy, which saw illegal immigrant families held apart and removed from the country separately.

In recent days, Homan has promised an investigation into the UN, NGOs and other organizations that have played key roles in the bringing migrants to the US.

“The Trump team is coming to town. We’re going to take control on January 20, and people are going to be held accountable,” Homan told Sean Hannity, on Fox.

Trump made two more important immigration picks on Thursday night.

On Truth Social, Trump announced the nomination of former US Border Patrol chief Rodney Scott to lead Customs and Border Protection, and he also picked long-time Immigration and Customs Enforcement veteran Caleb Vitello to serve as director of that agency.

Both men will play key roles in the new Trump administration’s immigration policies, including his flagship policy of mass deportation.

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Biden White House Worked Directly with the City of Chicago to Place Immigrants Across the State While Leaving Homeless Chicagoans to Freeze

A recent FOIA request made by Terry Newsome of Behind Enemy Lines revealed that the Biden White House worked directly with the City of Chicago placing immigrants.

Throughout an email chain of 207 pages, City of Chicago officials, FEMA representatives, and a Special Assistant to the President of the United States discuss different locations for placing immigrants across the State of Illinois.

The Gateway Pundit previously reported that FEMA had awarded approximately $20 million to the City of Chicago for food service contractors to feed illegal immigrants.

The award timeframe was from October 2022 to December 2024. This article also details the City of Chicago’s ‘Vendor Payments – New Arrivals Mission’ webpage detailing the $574.5 million that has been spent on the immigrant crisis thus far.

It’s relevant to note that the recent trove of FOIA emails between the White House, city officials, and FEMA reference an amount of $20 million being released from an embargo.

This could be the amount that was allocated to food services. However, the recent email chain only discusses placing immigrants in facilities, warming and transporting them in buses, and reports a detailed census on the new arrivals.

Given the context of the recent email chain, it’s plausible that the $20 million referenced could be in addition to the food services funds and reserved for these location and transportation services.

It has been established that the Federal Government has not only allowed the immigrant invasion at the border, but it has also funded it with tax dollars.

It is not surprising that distrust in government is at an all-time high. While Americans in Florida and North Carolina suffer from hurricane fallout, non-citizens are reaping the benefits of shelter, food, clothing, and cell phones.

Most egregious, the unit of government designated to deal with Emergency Response – FEMA – is funding the care for the illegal immigrants.

In other words, the government intentionally created an emergency of illegal immigration, diverted funds away from tax paying Americans who need emergency response, and applied them to non-citizens.

Things get more interesting as Special Assistant to the President of the United States, Molly Ritner, enters the scene.

City of Chicago officials had requested information from the White House on available Federal sites for housing illegals. Special Assistant Ritner provides the following:

“32 federal sites across the State of Illinois were identified as having vacant space — this included review of potential space across federal agencies including DOD.”

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