No Ocasio-Cortez. Following and enforcing the law is not a matter of policy!
Let's start with the fact that Ocasio-Cortez seems very confused by the fact that there is actually a law against illegally passing over the borders in areas that are not designated as a border port of entry. She either doesn't want to acknowledge this (as it undercuts her main talking point) or she honestly doesn't know the difference between someone who applied for asylum and someone who is detained for sneaking across the border. It's almost as if she expects people in the executive branch to simply create and follow a policy of open borders, even if doing so would not be following the laws.
The reality is that it is not up to the border agents, the Department of Homeland Security, or even the President to change our immigration laws. If Ocasio-Cortez wants the laws changed, then it's up to her to do it. Not Thomas Homan. The fact that she sits around and judges someone for following the laws (when she is the person who can change them) is, well, very Democratic these days. Perhaps this is one of those times that AOC feels compelled to be more "morally correct" than "factually correct".
The bottom line was that Homan made the Congresswoman look like a fool. Not that this is a difficult thing to do, but it was a complete smackdown of Ocasio-Cortez, who looked just as confused by his rebuttal as she does about what the law is.
Of course things went from bad to worse when Gerry Connolly took to the microphone and basically blamed everything happening at the border on Homan. Connolly's tirade was more insulting attempt to suggest that the law isn't to blame, but it's the people who are following and enforcing it who are to blame. Homan put him in his place, just as he did to Ocasio Cortez.
"Your comments are disgusting," Homan replied. "For you to sit there and insult my integrity and my love for my country and for children — that's why this whole thing needs to be fixed! And you're the member of Congress. Fix it."
That really is the bottom line. Democrats in Congress literally don't want to fix any problem that exists. They just want to point fingers and blame. They want to hold hearings. They want to continue investigating things that have been investigated five times previously. They want to everything they can to draw attention to themselves. They just don't actually want to do their jobs.
43 comments:
“So interesting to see ‘Progressive’ Democrat Congresswomen, who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world (if they even have a functioning government at all), now loudly and viciously telling the people of the United States, the greatest and most powerful Nation on earth, how our government is to be run,” Trump tweeted.
“Why don’t they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came,” his thread continued. “Then come back and show us how it is done. These places need your help badly, you can’t leave fast enough. I’m sure that Nancy Pelosi would be very happy to quickly work out free travel arrangements!”
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That will be a little difficult, since two of them are from the United States.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez slapped back Sunday at President Trump for suggesting that she and three other freshman Democrats “go back” to the countries they’re from, saying he’s irked at them because they push back at his version of America.
“You are angry because you can’t conceive of an America that includes us. You rely on a frightened America for your plunder,” the New York Democrat wrote on Twitter. “You won’t accept a nation that sees healthcare as a right or education as a #1 priority, especially where we’re the ones fighting for it. Yet here we are.”
”But you know what’s the rub of it all, Mr. President? On top of not accepting an America that elected us, you cannot accept that we don’t fear you, either,” she continued. “You can’t accept that we will call your bluff & offer a positive vision for this country. And that’s what makes you seethe.”
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@courrielche
Media falsely accused Sarah Palin of inciting violence for using a symbol on a map.
Media is NOT accusing @AOC of inciting domestic terrorism after her blatant lies about ICE detention centers become violent and leave a man dead.
The media is the enemy of the people.
Omar, the first-ever Somali-American in Congress and the first hijab-wearing Muslim member of the House, also responded to Trump, tweeting, “Mr. President, As Members of Congress, the only country we swear an oath to is the United States. Which is why we are fighting to protect it from the worst, most corrupt and inept president we have ever seen.”
“You are stoking white nationalism [because] you are angry that people like us are serving in Congress and fighting against your hate-filled agenda,” she added.
Rep. Tlaib called for Trump’s impeachment in her response, and Pressley denounced the president’s tweets as racist.
“THIS is what racism looks like,” the Massachusetts lawmaker tweeted Sunday. “WE are what democracy looks like. And we’re not going anywhere. Except back to DC to fight for the families you marginalize and vilify everyday.”
Trump violated the first rule of politics.
When your opponents are self-immolating, just stay the hell out of the way.
That will be a little difficult, since two of them are from the United States.
actually he didn't say ALL OF THEM.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi also rejected Trump’s “xenophobic comments meant to divide our nation.”
That will be a little difficult, since two of them are from the United States.
@SayWhenLA
Somalian immigrants defrauded the state of Minnesota of at least $108M through a childcare scam.
Zero accountability has happened.
That state has been stupid for decades .. Mondale, Wellstone, Franken.
Also, the Only idiots to NOT vote for Reagan in his 49 state landslide.
on the other side it is host to our host...
three
WE AIN'T SCARED OF THE BIG BAD TRUMP
@EdAsante77
A woman with a hijab bashes America 24/7
Trump suggests she go back and help build her homeland
Media: that’s so racist!
Everyone else: well if she doesn’t like it here maybe she should think about it.
TRUMP WINS !!!...again
DOJ Could Give Preference in Awarding Grants to Cities Focused on Illegal Immigration, Court of Appeals Rules
The 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday ruled in favor of the Trump administration, saying the Department of Justice could give preference in awarding grants to cities that would use the money to focus on illegal immigration, as the federal government prepares to seek out undocumented immigrants in raids this weekend.
https://ktla.com/2019/07/13/9th-circuit-rules-in-favor-of-trump-administration-in-sanctuary-cities-case/
How Donald Trump Conquered the Republican Party
Jonathan Swan: “Republican members of Congress said nothing when President Trump told minority congresswomen to ‘go back’ to where they came from.”
“Axios obtained an advance copy of the book, American Carnage, which is deeply reported and engrossing. The book reveals Trump’s delight in tormenting Republicans who he views as weak or disloyal, and it helps explain the partywide silence on days like today.”
AMERICAN CANAGE: HOW DONALD TRUMP CONQUERED THE REPUBLICAN PARTY
Politico Magazine’s chief political correspondent provides a rollicking insider’s look at the making of the modern Republican Party—how a decade of cultural upheaval, populist outrage, and ideological warfare made the GOP vulnerable to a hostile takeover from the unlikeliest of insurgents: Donald J. Trump.
The 2016 election was a watershed for the United States. But, as Tim Alberta explains in American Carnage, to understand Trump’s victory is to view him not as the creator of this era of polarization and bruising partisanship, but rather as its most manifest consequence.
American Carnage is the story of a president’s rise based on a country’s evolution and a party’s collapse. As George W. Bush left office with record-low approval ratings and Barack Obama led a Democratic takeover of Washington, Republicans faced a moment of reckoning: They had no vision, no generation of new leaders, and no energy in the party’s base. Yet Obama’s forceful pursuit of his progressive agenda, coupled with the nation’s rapidly changing cultural and demographic landscape, lit a fire under the right, returning Republicans to power and inviting a bloody struggle for the party’s identity in the post-Bush era. The factions that emerged—one led by absolutists like Jim Jordan and Ted Cruz, the other led by pragmatists like John Boehner and Mitch McConnell—engaged in a series of devastating internecine clashes and attempted coups for control. With the GOP’s internal fissures rendering it legislatively impotent, and that impotence fueling a growing resentment toward the political class and its institutions, the stage was set for an outsider to crash the party. When Trump descended a gilded escalator to announce his run in the summer of 2015, the candidate had met the moment.
Only by viewing Trump as the culmination of a decade-long civil war inside the Republican Party—and of the parallel sense of cultural, socioeconomic, and technological disruption during that period—can we appreciate how he won the White House and consider the fundamental questions at the center of America’s current turmoil. How did a party obsessed with the national debt vote for trillion-dollar deficits and record-setting spending increases? How did the party of compassionate conservatism become the party of Muslim bans and walls? How did the party of family values elect a thrice-divorced philanderer? And, most important, how long can such a party survive?
Loaded with exclusive reporting and based off hundreds of interviews—including with key players such as President Trump, Paul Ryan, Ted Cruz, John Boehner, Mitch McConnell, Jim DeMint, and Reince Priebus, and many others—American Carnage takes us behind the scenes of this tumultuous period as we’ve never seen it before and establishes Tim Alberta as the premier chronicler of this political era.
@thebradfordfile
Why on God’s green earth would the US government count citizens of Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua when determining how many representatives California gets in the House?
It is INSANE.
Democrats are NOT working for you.
@michellemalkin
NEW - Jeffrey Epstein, Terry Bean & Ed Buck: The Democratic Donors’ Sex-Creep Club ==>
http://michellemalkin.com/2019/07/10/epstein-bean-buck-the-democratic-donors-sex-creep-club/ …
Democrats - the party for pedophiles
Leaked Memo Says Trump Killed Iran Deal ONLY to Spite Obama
Daily Mail: “Donald Trump abandoned the Iran nuclear deal as an act of ‘diplomatic vandalism’ to spite his predecessor Barack Obama, Britain’s Ambassador to Washington wrote in a bombshell memo to Downing Street.
“Sir Kim Darroch’s claim – made after Boris Johnson made a doomed trip to the White House to change the President’s mind – is revealed in leaked cables and briefing notes which led to Sir Kim’s resignation last week.”
@Rockprincess818
How big of a loser do you have to be to make your humanitarian point using photos of kids in cages from the Obama Administration....? Hahahahaha @TheDemCoalition
Democrats do not care about kids in cages, they do not care about anyone. Reject the left, they are poison
as are their "pastor" spokespeople
@TimRunsHisMouth
Serious Question: Did we ever find out who was behind organizing those migrant caravans that ended up overloading the migrant detention centers and creating the crisis there?
@TimRunsHisMouth
Fill in the blank: Illegally crossing the border of ANY country makes you a ______________ in that country.
easy for anyone except the left
Leaked Memo Says Trump Killed Iran Deal ONLY to Spite Obama
Daily Mail: “Donald Trump abandoned the Iran nuclear deal as an act of ‘diplomatic vandalism’ to spite his predecessor Barack Obama, Britain’s Ambassador to Washington wrote in a bombshell memo to Downing Street.
“Sir Kim Darroch’s claim – made after Boris Johnson made a doomed trip to the White House to change the President’s mind – is revealed in leaked cables and briefing notes which led to Sir Kim’s resignation last week.”
"But you know what's the rub of it all, Mr. President? On top of not accepting an America that elected us, you cannot accept that we don't fear you, either. You can't accept that we will call your bluff & offer a positive vision for this country. And that's what makes you seethe," she wrote.
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@SethMacFarlane
1) An impeachment attempt begins. We all jump for joy. Trump is ecstatic. 2) Impeachment fails. 3) Trump shouts “I have been exonerated!” 4) A weary, substantial number of essential voters resent the Democratic Party for wasting time and energy. 5) Trump is re-elected in 2020.
@willchamberlain
Remember:
Ilhan Omar pled for leniency for 9 men convicted of attempting to join ISIS
She argued for “including” and “rehabilitating” wannabe Islamist terrorists
She may be American, by law
But her politics are un-American
You can't accept that we will call your bluff & offer a positive vision for this country.
Calling border agents Nazis, comparing the detention centers to concentration camps, calling your own leader a racist...
is the AOC idea of a positive vision?
so the POS "pastor" james boswell posts that Trump only got out of the non-treaty Iran "deal" to spite POS Obama.
GEE he ran on that before the election.
Like the wall, Jerusalem, tax cuts, regulation cuts, energy independence, supreme court justices, Paris "accord" etc, etc, etc.
@DavidWohl
Replying to @realDonaldTrump
SO TRUE!! The "Squad" should be called the SS Squad! They hate Israel and Jews with a passion!
And guess what? The miserable mainstream media does too - that's why they ignore these awful, antisemitic women!
@SaraCarterDC
Kim Darroch, The British Ambassador Who Resigned Last Week Amid Leaked Diplomatic Cables, Vouched For Christopher Steele the author of the discredited anti-Trump dossier as ‘Absolutely Legit’
“When @realDonaldTrump tells four American Congresswomen to go back to their countries, he reaffirms his plan to ’Make America Great Again’ has always been about making America white again. Our diversity is our strength and our unity is our power,” Pelosi said in a pair of tweets.
Trump Doubles Down on Criticism of Congresswomen
“President Trump on Sunday night doubled down on his rhetoric amid a growing backlash over his earlier tweets telling a group of progressive Democratic congresswomen that they should ‘go back’ to the countries that they came from,” The Hill reports.
Said Trump: “So sad to see the Democrats sticking up for people who speak so badly of our Country and who, in addition, hate Israel with a true and unbridled passion. Whenever confronted, they call their adversaries, including Nancy Pelosi, ‘RACIST.'”
He added: “Their disgusting language and the many terrible things they say about the United States must not be allowed to go unchallenged.”
Trump Fans the Flames of a Racial Fire
New York Times: “President Trump woke up on Sunday morning, gazed out at the nation he leads, saw the dry kindling of race relations and decided to throw a match on it. It was not the first time, nor is it likely to be the last. He has a pretty large carton of matches and a ready supply of kerosene.”
“When it comes to race, Mr. Trump plays with fire like no other president in a century. While others who occupied the White House at times skirted close to or even over the line, finding ways to appeal to the resentments of white Americans with subtle and not-so-subtle appeals, none of them in modern times fanned the flames as overtly, relentlessly and even eagerly as Mr. Trump.”
When members of your own party call you a racist what should Pelosi do?
President Trump at least came to her defense.
ROFLMFAO !!!
The party of the KKK is the DEMOCRAT party.
And anti-Semitism.
And facist antifa.
And POS "pastors"
'Racist and un-American': Harris condemns Trump for latest attacks on Democrats
SOMERSWORTH, N.H. — Kamala Harris on Sunday labeled President Trump’s comment that Democratic congresswomen should return to their countries of origin as a racist trope and said he is failing to unite the country.
“It is absolutely racist and un-American, and it is an old trope,” Harris said to reporters after a town hall meeting here. “You might hear it on the street but you should never hear it from the president of the United States. This guy doesn’t understand his responsibilities and I don’t think he understands what the American people want from their president, which is somebody who is going to elevate public discourse and speak with a level of dignity with the goal of unity. … That’s why he needs to go.”
Harris said that the president should focus on fixing the problems at the border rather than making divisive comments.
“You don’t just say go back to where you came from which the president has a tendency to say to everybody he doesn’t like to look at,” she said.
Prior to the town hall, Harris campaigned in the lakes region of the Granite state. The midday event was held at a supporter’s home in the backyard, but ballooned into a rally with several hundred people who parked their cars on the side of a back road for nearly a mile and walked to see her.
And in the late afternoon, Harris came to this town 17 miles from the New Hampshire coast, which has welcomed a growing community of Indonesian immigrants in recent years. A large crowd filled a high school cafeteria and spilled into the back of the room, and another several dozen people watched Harris on a live feed in a gymnasium down the hall. Organizers estimated the crowd at roughly 900 people.
The throngs at both places — the kind of crowds usually seen in New Hampshire closer to the primary — were the sign of Harris’ momentum as a candidate, which has taken off over the past two weeks following her performance at the first Democratic primary debate in Miami.
Harris called Trump a “so-called commander-in-chief” and added to her line that there is a “predator in the White House,” a dig at Trump’s ego. “And another thing about predators: they’re cowards,” Harris said.
Why does the party of the KKK keep screaming racist?
Deflection.
How many people of color have died by the deadly immigration laws they created and have refused to fix?
Blood is on the minions that support those policies as well as from the crimes committed by criminals also crossing into America. And now trafficking children.
Sickening except to pedophiles and those without souls.
Ilhan Omar is evil, hateful, ungrateful, anti-American, who fraudulently entered the United States by marrying her brother.
In a just world her citizenship should be stripped and she should be sent back to Somalia.
HEADLINE:
TRUMP SAYS:
LAWMAKERS I INSULTED
SHOULD APOLOGIZE TO ME
(You really can't make this stuff up!)
The American REICH! The American EMPIRE!
An Empire that, unlike that failure of Hitler's,
WILL last A THOUSAND YEARS!
Ilhan Omar is evil, hateful, ungrateful, anti-American, who fraudulently entered the United States by marrying her brother.
Well the jury is still out on whether or not it was her brother. But we do know that she married him, never divorced him, married another man (according to her "faith" as Omar suggested) and then started filing joint tax returns with the second man, while still technically married to the first man.
I think she is just very dumb. As in box of rocks dumb.
The stupidity continues as Lil Scoty berates a congress critter in his own bigoted way.....!!!
By Editorial Board July 15 at 3:17 PM
PERHAPS PRESIDENT TRUMP was trying to distract his base from the fact that his promised immigration raids did not occur over the weekend. Maybe he failed to understand that he would only help the Democrats unite around the four congresswomen he attacked, until then a source of party division. Whatever his motivation, Mr. Trump hit one of the lowest moments of his presidency on Sunday, which is saying something, when he tweeted that “ ‘Progressive’ Democrat Congresswomen, who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe” should “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came.”
This reference to four left-wing members of Congress — widely understood to mean Democratic Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (N.Y.), Ilhan Omar (Minn.), Ayanna Pressley (Mass.) and Rashida Tlaib (Mich.) — required an explanation and an apology. Instead, Mr. Trump doubled down on Monday, insisting, essentially, that his critics are the real racists.
If the president had a real press secretary who offered daily briefings, as was the long-established custom, now would be a time for clarification. A few of the questions that might be asked: Which governments was Mr. Trump criticizing? Is it the president’s view that foreign-born Americans should be judged based on their place of origin, rather than their actions? And does he believe that people of color, even if born in the United States, are not true Americans?
Because, in fact, three of the four members of Congress he targeted were not born abroad. The president’s impression that they were seems to stem from some combination of their skin color and foreign-sounding (to him) names, reflecting his casual, shallow, ignorant, toxic racism.
But even if they were all foreign-born — so what? Just as many, if not most, Americans would be horrified to be blamed for their current president and his actions — his family separations, admiration for dictators and so on — individuals hailing from other countries are individuals who deserve to be judged on the content of their character. Once they are citizens, they are citizens, indistinguishable from those born into citizenship. In its dehumanizing essence, this episode recalls Mr. Trump’s insistence that the United States should attract more immigrants from Norway than “shithole” countries in Latin America and Africa.
Monday was sentencing day on state charges for the neo-Nazi who rammed his car into a group of protesters in Charlottesville, killing Heather Heyer, a reminder of another low moment in Mr. Trump’s presidency. But his Sunday tweets are among the most despicable comments from any president in recent memory — with the only competition coming from other comments by Mr. Trump. Sadly, the poison by now is no more surprising than the cowardly complicity of the Republican Party.
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