Liberty's Advocate Loc: Cedar Rapids, IA

Fans of former Attorney General Jeff Sessions were lamenting his resignation the day after the 2018 midterms. Many were bemoaning the fact that Sessions was the only member of Trump’s cabinet who was enforcing America’s immigration laws.

While this is significant, the more important point is that Sessions effectively hamstrung the Trump administration by recusing himself from the Russia fiasco.

As for the claim that Sessions was the “only one” enforcing immigration laws, is that true? Not if you look at the extremely short track record (so far) of acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker. Matt is from Iowa and a personal friend of mine.

The day after Sessions turned in his resignation, Whitaker announced a dramatic course change that has effectively put an end to the so-called “migrant crisis.”

Under new guidelines from the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security, illegal aliens can no longer pretend to be refugees and claim asylum in America.

Barack Obama’s creative interpretation of immigration laws was what caused the “migrant crisis” to become a crisis in the first place. Most Americans are shocked when you describe Obama’s shenanigans to them because they thought the laws would actually do something to get an illegal alien out of the country.

Not under Obama’s interpretation.

The way that Obama suddenly had federal agencies “interpreting” the law worked like this…

Suppose an illegal alien sneaks into the country and gets a job as a dishwasher in Boise, Idaho in 2005. Then, ICE catches the illegal, who has stolen an entry-level job and parked on it for several years, denying American youths their chance at their “first job” for several years.

Under Obama’s interpretation of the law, that illegal alien can then claim asylum as a refugee. He's given a court date at which he'll never appear and then goes right back to doing what he was doing before.

And that’s just assuming the illegal is not here to live a life of crime – dealing drugs, stealing, being a serial rapist or murderer in your neighborhood and so forth. (Those could claim asylum as refugees, too.)

This makes an absolute mockery of the law. A “refugee” is someone who has to leave their home country due to warfare or persecution due to race, religion, etc., who has a fear of imminent death.

Basically, they have to be running for their lives to qualify as a “refugee.” If you come to America because you can get a better job at a meatpacking plant in Arkansas than you can back home, that is not “fleeing persecution.”

That is why, to this day, no one in the federal government knows how many people were granted asylum as refugees in the United States. We know where the federal caps were set by the Obama administration, but none of the illegal aliens who claimed to be refugees counted toward the caps.

Conservative activists in California filmed busloads of Somalis being transported in DHS vehicles to be processed as “refugees” after they were caught a hundred miles inside the border. Our immigration laws basically became a farce under Obama. Somali conclaves of illegals have sprung up in the North as far as Fargo, ND, and one lady shopper in St. Cloud, MN was stabbed repeatedly by one such illegal wacko.

Acting AG Whitaker’s first act was to put a stop to this ridiculous interpretation of the law. It’s something that Jeff Sessions could have done back in 2017, but he failed to do so.

Now, if an illegal alien sneaks across the border, they have automatically surrendered the ability to claim they are a refugee.

Refugees don’t sneak in, sign up for welfare under false identities, steal jobs and then one day suddenly remember to contact the government and ask for asylum. They turn themselves in at the border and make their asylum claim. Actually, they are required to turn themselves in and seek asylum in the FIRST country whose border they cross.

Ironically, this is the way the law was interpreted before Obama showed up. Illegal aliens were never classified as refugees before the reign of B. Hussein Obama.

Many Democrats would have scoffed at the idea a few years ago. It was only after Obama “reinterpreted” the law that these massive “migrant caravans” started showing up.

The only thing that will put an end to the problem once and for all is if the wall, which Americans have been asking for since before World War I, is finally built.

In the meantime, it looks like acting AG Whitaker is off to a good start. We know he doesn’t have that creative reading disability that everyone in the Obama administration had, where the words “illegal alien” and “refugee” became interchangeable.

tempered by age

I couldn't agree more. This is the enforcement we need to protect our childrens country until they can do it themselves. The way things were going, there wouldn't have been a county left for them to defend. If we don't defend our borders now, there won't be a border to defend!

Peewee Loc: San Antonio, TX

Whitaker announced today that he would be releasing the FISA Warrant documents per Trumps orders. No exact release date was mentioned but it will be soon. I'd guess early Dec.

In time you'll find out that Sessions is a white hat doing what Trump wanted him to do, which was to fool people while other tasks were being accomplished. His main job was to divert attention away from what Huber was doing and the sealed indictments and fool the MSM and the public at large. It's all about setting the stage and timing. Or you can call the art of war required to defeat the deep state.

old marine Loc: America home of the brave

It is time American has found some politicians with BACKBONE who will follow the laws and protect our Borders from our enemies the criminal element are not wanted. Those seeking asylum are welcome to apply and do it legally.

Liberty's Advocate Loc: Cedar Rapids, IA

I love your take on this issue!!

Peewee Loc: San Antonio, TX

That's nice of you to say. I just read all the Q posts and follow what others have figured out. I'm not that smart to figure it all out on my own. Believe me, the Deep State reads the Q posts. I absolutely trust Trump and Q.

You may have heard that Corsi and Manafort have both refused to lie for Muller. I love this stuff, I'll be sad when it's all over. I just love seeing bad guys getting what they so richly deserve and have earned. Maybe that's why I always loved westerns. Of course, I believe God is really behind the scene. No one can whip my Father, ha, and prayer really does work, when it aligns with His will. I try not to think how long it'll be before we're lulled back to sleep. For now, we're awake. It's a human and spiritual battle. We have to fight both at the same time to make miracles happen. I think God loves to remove obstacles from our path when we get it right.

Liberty's Advocate Loc: Cedar Rapids, IA

Yes, I did hear about Corsi and Manafort. I think vindication for Trump will be softly swept under the rug by the Left-wing media. They have too much invested in his guilt to utter any mia culpa's, but I hope Mueller is exposed for the vindictive, partisan POS he is.

You and I have some things in common. I have always loved westerns, too, and used the moral lessons taught to us through them as examples to make a point in a speech in a public forum with legislators who were proposing more strict gun control measures. We convinced them that it was a matter of education (or lack of it on their part) and convinced them to abandon their restrictive impulses in favor of seeking more information. We eventually succeeded in converting Iowa from a "may issue" to a "shall issue" state for the issuance of Weapons Permits.

I know from faith - and a powerful personal experience almost losing my wife of 52 years 4 years ago - that the power of prayer is real. I posted recently a reference to a man who worked for me ... a reformed alcoholic, who once told me, "There are no such things as coincidences. Coincidences are just miracles God performs anonymously."

BTW, don't sell yourself short. Anyone who can sift through all the noise and B.S. the Left continues to bomb us with, and come to conclusions that fit in the great scheme of things like pieces in a puzzle, has an intellect and character greater than all the talking heads who sell their souls daily for a job on TV put together.

Peewee Loc: San Antonio, TX

Love it when I find a kindred spirit. It gives me the strength to keep on keeping on.

Let me also say thank you for pushing on the "shall issue" language, hopefully, more states will copy it. The people of Iowa owe you and your group kudos for that and a lot of "atta boys" and back slaps. Well done!

Nice to meet you, glad to know you, and let's keep fighting the good fight! Let's go slay some more giants! We all have gifts, we just need to use them. United we stand and divided we fall.

Liberty's Advocate Loc: Cedar Rapids, IA

Absolutely!

Wonttakeitanymore

Amen!!

Jean Deaux

You and Peewee have nailed this one. I am in total agreement with you both. Keep up the posts!

old marine Loc: America home of the brave

Amen.

Liberty's Advocate Loc: Cedar Rapids, IA

Jean Deaux (Cool moniker!!) - Thank you very much. I only wish more people were driven to SEEK information instead of allowing the media to "spoon feed" it to them like babies, but anymore the major thrills left to us are received when obvious truths elicit comments of recognition from others, and even MORE information is offered by them in support of the point(s) being made. Everyone learns from those exchanges and positions are reinforced.