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wretchardthecat‏ @wretchardthecat 20h20 hours ago Erdogan currently lacks the forces to take more than an a narrow sliver of border. He may be reliant on proxies for infantry. Air will be his most potent weapon. https://amp.dw.com/en/explained-why-turkey-wants-a-military-assault-on-syrian-kurds/a-50731834?__twitter_impression=true … wretchardthecat‏ @wretchardthecat 20h20 hours ago Erdogan's biggest long term stick are the millions of refugees he threatens to settle on the to be conquered zone who he alternatively threatens to send to Europe. But this is likely to be the seed of future war. wretchardthecat‏ @wretchardthecat 20h20 hours ago We may be watching the end of Erdogan not the end of the Kurds. The Turks may dent the border but how will they hold It?

Please read The Democratic Candidates Are in a Bubble on Immigration New York Magazine, by Andrew Sullivan Original Article FTA: The Democrats want to raise the cap on refugees from Central America to 100,000 a year and propose no tightening of asylum law. But it’s the asylum law that needs to change. Since 2014, there has been a 240 percent increase in asylum cases. As Fareed Zakaria has pointed out, the number of asylum cases from Honduras, Guatemala, and Venezuela has soared at the same time as the crime rate in those countries was being cut in half. Take the tragic tale of Oscar Ramirez and his young daughter Valeria, the father and daughter captured in death in that heartbreaking photograph. Ramirez’s widow explained to the Washington Post why her husband wanted to move to America: He wanted “a better future for their girl.” This is an admirable goal, but it is classic economic immigration, and it would appear, based on what we know, that it has absolutely nothing to do with asylum. Here again is the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services definition: “Refugee status or asylum may be granted to people who have been persecuted or fear they will be persecuted on account of race, religion, nationality, and/or membership in a particular social group or political opinion.” But somehow the courts have decided that you qualify for asylum if there is simply widespread crime or violence where you live, and Ramirez was also going to use that argument as well. A government need not persecute you; you just have to experience an unsafe environment that your government is failing to suppress. This so expands the idea of asylum, in my view, as to render it meaningless. Courts have also expanded asylum to include domestic violence, determining that women in abusive relationships are a “particular social group” and thereby qualify. In other words, every woman on the planet who has experienced domestic abuse can now come to America and claim asylum. Also everyone on the planet who doesn’t live in a stable, orderly, low-crime society. Literally billions of human beings now have the right to asylum in America. As climate change worsens, more will rush to claim it. All they have to do is show up. Last month alone, 144,000 people were detained at the border making an asylum claim. This year, about a million Central Americans will have relocated to the U.S. on those grounds. To add to this, a big majority of the candidates in the Democratic debates also want to remove the grounds for detention at all, by repealing the 1929 law that made illegal entry a criminal offense and turning it into a civil one. And almost all of them said that if illegal immigrants do not commit a crime once they’re in the U.S., they should be allowed to become citizens. How, I ask, is that not practically open borders? The answer I usually get is that all these millions will have to, at some point, go to court hearings and have their asylum cases adjudicated. The trouble with that argument is that only 44 percent actually turn up for their hearings; and those who do show up and whose claims nonetheless fail can simply walk out of the court and know they probably won’t be deported in the foreseeable future. Much More at the link: .

"Getting Results" Biden Requests $6.4B in Taxpayer Money to Resettle 95K Afghans in U.S. 15 hours ago — President Joe Biden's administration is asking Congress to authorize about $6.4 billion in American taxpayer money to bring 95,000 Afghans to the United ... https://cbnc.com/biden-requests-6-4b-in-taxpayer-money-to-resettle-95k-afghans-in-u-s/

BYRON YORK: TWO AWKWARD QUESTIONS ABOUT AFGHAN REFUGEES: “Biden administration officials are proud of their effort to airlift about 118,000 Afghans, plus somewhere between 5,000 and 6,000 U.S. citizens, from the Kabul airport in the final days of the president’s botched withdrawal from Afghanistan. But still unanswered are two key questions. One, who did we leave behind? And two, who did we bring out? The administration would prefer you did not ask those questions.” https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/byron-yorks-daily-memo-two-questions-about-afghan-refugees

Liberalism is a mental disease. Newsweek editor-at-large Naveed Jamali made it clear: just because the Taliban is not allowing private charter planes to evacuate American citizens and Afghan allies doesn’t mean that the Taliban is trying to keep American citizens and Afghan allies from leaving Afghanistan. Those people trapped on the tarmac for six days are not hostages; nobody is being denied exit from Afghanistan. Well, if you're *on* the airplane in question... not so much We’ll if that isn’t twisting words, I don’t know what is. https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2021/09/06/that-is-a-pretty-big-distinction-its-the-planes-being-denied-clearance-to-leave-afghanistan-not-the-people/

HMM: To Free Cuba, Make Guantanamo the New Ellis Island. The drowning risk for incoming Cuban refugees could be entirely eliminated by inviting the Cubans seeking freedom and democracy to make their way by land to Guantanamo. At the navy base, their applications could be processed, they could be vaccinated against Covid-19, and they could eventually be transported safely to America by airplane or in seaworthy vessels. The images of this exodus would help advance what Mr. Biden professes to be a core foreign policy objective. In his July 15 “Washington Declaration” with Chancellor Merkel, Mr. Biden said, “We must act now to demonstrate that democracy delivers for our people at home and that democratic leadership delivers for the world.” Forget Biden’s words and watch his actions instead — and his actions show he’s no friend of liberty in Cuba or here. https://www.nysun.com/foreign/to-free-cuba-make-guantanamo-the-new-ellis-island/91585/

ROGER SIMON: Cuba, Iran, and the Shame of the United States. If I hadn’t left the Democratic Party years ago, I would leave it now. Their namby-pamby, lip-service reaction to the uprising of the Cuban people against 62 years of brutal communist oppression is shameful beyond words. Apparently, the protests are a bit inconvenient for them. AOC might be embarrassed if they said or did anything, not to mention Bernie. The Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas warned Cuban refugees not to come (while the border is open to practically everybody else, from Houthis to extra-terrestrials) put the capper on it. The Coast Guard has evidently already been alerted not to allow this freedom-loving riff-riff on our shores. After all, some of them might vote Republican. Cuban-born himself, Mayorkas’ behavior is not that far from the Jewish Kapos who kept order for the Nazis inside the concentration camps. What he’s done—no doubt on orders from above—is that repellent. But the Democrats clearly had and have more important fish to fry, like prolonging the fiction that another freedom-oriented demonstration (Jan. 6), clumsy as it might have been, was a veritable “insurrection.” (The poor folks just somehow forgot to bring guns.) https://www.theepochtimes.com/cuba-iran-and-the-shame-of-the-united-states_3903345.html Related: Former Florida Democrat Congresswoman Scolds AOC for Blaming Cuba Crisis on U.S. https://www.nationalreview.com/news/former-florida-dem-congresswoman-scolds-aoc-for-blaming-cuba-crisis-on-u-s/

Department of Homeland Security Braces for Terror Threat on Southern Border. “National security officials fear newly freed Afghan terrorists may exploit border crisis.” https://freebeacon.com/national-security/dhs-braces-for-terror-threat-on-southern-border/

JOHN KASS: The one thing keeping Biden in office. What worries me in addition to his incompetence is his style, the way he presents the presidency to the world, with those watery and unfocused blue eyes, Biden babbling softly while reading his teleprompter in the White House. Such is the President of the United States of America. It was like watching some foreign film actor who can’t speak a word of English reciting his lines phonetically for Hollywood, issuing pleasant sounds devoid of meaning in place of cold, hard ideas and realities. Bela Lugosi, the Hungarian refugee who became world-famous as “Dracula” knew no English when he arrived in America. According to his son, Lugosi memorized his lines phonetically in the Broadway play “The Red Poppy” to rave reviews. And Yoko Shimada, the accomplished and lovely Japanese actress who starred in the old mini-series “Shogun” was another, making sounds without knowing exactly what they were saying. There have been other such actors speaking phonetically to their audience. But none of these were President of the United States. https://johnkassnews.com/the-one-thing-keeping-biden-in-office/ Read the whole thing.

"Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken was in the Oval Office, pleading with President Biden... to end Trump-era restrictions on immigration..." "... and to allow tens of thousands of desperate refugees fleeing war, poverty and natural disasters into the United States... The attitude of the president during the meeting, according to one person to whom the conversation was later described, was, essentially: Why are you bothering me with this? What had been an easy promise on the campaign trail — to reverse what Democrats called President Donald J. Trump’s “racist” limits on accepting refugees — has become a test of what is truly important to the new occupant of the White House... Now, a decision to raise the refugee limit to 62,500 — as Mr. Biden had promised only weeks earlier to members of Congress — would invite from Republicans new attacks of hypocrisy and open borders even as the president was calling for bipartisanship. It was terrible timing, he told officials.... Biden’s staff came up with a compromise.... The backlash was immediate.... Within hours, the president backtracked...." Writes Maggie Haberman in the NYT. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/20/us/politics/biden-refugees.html?smid=url-share

WELL WE WOULDN’T WANT THAT: Swedish judges refuse to deport two Eritrean refugees who gang-raped a woman for hours – because they ran away from the army there and would face punishment. ? .

Impeachment alone does not doom Democrats in 2020. Their ideas also doom them. Their candidates espouse ideas that not only are contrary to the American experience, but contrary to the American ideals.The primary anti-American idea Democrats espouse is the confiscation of guns. Both Beto O'Rourke and Eric Swalwell made this a major part of their campaign, with the latter flashing our nuclear capabilities as a warning to anyone who would dare defy such an order.The Second Amendment enforces the First.Democrats plan to neutralize the First with a ban on hate speech and Beto's call to tax churches.Next up is reparations to African-Americans for a slavery that ended 154 years ago. Reparations are a repudiation of Martin Luther King's vision of a colorblind society in which all men are equal.The purpose of Democrats is to divide our nation based on pigmentation and other superficial genetic differences.This is followed by the promotion of transgendering elementary school-aged children to the opposite sex. This is part of the Democrat Party's promotion of sexualizing children. Too many powerful Democrats boarded Jeff Epstein's Lolita Express to Pedo Island for it not to reflect on the party itself.Elizabeth Warren meanwhile wants to confiscate the wealth of "billionaires," which she defines as anyone worth $50 million -- or 1/20th of a billion.Don't worry. Over time that number will drop to whatever your savings have.With every candidate supporting the elimination of private health insurance in favor of government control of health care, Bernie Sanders find himself out-flanked on his left and separated from his base.However, he was able to move even further left.Fox News reported, "Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., on Thursday released a sweeping immigration plan that would impose a moratorium on deportations, 'break up' existing immigration enforcement agencies, grant full welfare access to illegal immigrants and welcome a minimum of 50,000 'climate migrants' in the first year of a Sanders administration."The plan effectively establishes Sanders at the far left of the immigration debate, as he aims to energize a base that helped drive his 2016 primary campaign amid competition from other liberal candidates in the field this time around."Climate refugees!That phrase combines the Democrat call for open borders with the voodoo science of global warming.How clever.And how stupid.Americans are not going for this. https://donsurber.blogspot.com/2019/11/impeachment-is-not-why-democrats-will.html?spref=tw&m=1

GREEK TROOPS OPEN FIRE ON REFUGEES WHILE VIGILANTES ATTACK AID WORKERS AND THE MEDIA. “The situation in the no-mans-land between Turkey and Greece is becoming increasingly more violent and desperate for the refugees. Reporters on a tour heard gunshots despite the Greek government denying the use of anything except tear gas to stop the refugees.” .

Good God, who is he kidding ? Top House Intel Democrat defends ‘very strong vetting process’ as Biden administration considers admitting Gazan refugees to US. https://nypost.com/2024/05/05/us-news/top-house-intel-dem-defends-very-strong-vetting-process-as-biden-admin-considers-admitting-gazan-refugees-to-us/

Look at those poor "refugee children" Illegal Alien from Lebanon Caught at Border Admits He is Hezbollah, Hoped to Make a Bomb. An illegal alien from Lebanon was apprehended illegally crossing the southern border near El Paso, Texas by Border Patrol agents on March 9. Basel Bassel Ebbadi, 22, was asked what he was doing in the United States. He said he was going to New York and hoped to make a bomb. "I'm going to make a bomb." He admitted he is a member of Hezbollah. During a sworn interview, Ebbadi said he trained with Hezbollah for seven years. He said he was an active member guarding weapons locations for another four years. https://hotair.com/karen-townsend/2024/03/18/illegal-alien-from-lebanon-caught-at-border-admits-he-is-hezbollah-hoped-to-make-a-bomb-n3784874 Thanks, Joe Biden. .

For those who won't click the SHOW MORE button They can say *technically* the lady who ate a cat on camera in Ohio wasn’t a Haitian migrant They can say there are *no police reports* of missing pets in Springfield, Ohio They can say the photo of the guy carrying the goose by it’s neck *wasn’t a migrant* and was in *Columbus* They can debunk it all. Go ahead, call us racist bigots! We’re spreading misinformation !!!!! Because none of that even matters. It was never about the damn cat. The truth is: -the US Federal Government flew / bussed in 20,000 Haitians refugees to a small Republican county in Ohio of only 50,000. Now, those migrants make up almost 30% of the Springfield population & are overwhelming their limited resources - Kamala Harris is on camera bragging about importing 100,000 Haitian refugees during her tenure on the Biden administration -the citizens of Springfield are reporting that they feel unsafe and are desperately asking for help. Not via anon accounts, but in real life under their real names in city council meetings. Its all recorded and It’s falling on deaf ears, while the mainstream media calls them racist and denies that there’s a problem Meanwhile in New York City: -20% of Hotel Rooms have been converted to shelters. Not for vets, not for the homeless, not for Americans at all. These are specifically to house undocumented migrants -Not enough is being done to convert these migrants into productive members of society, and in New York after they are evicted from hotel shelters after a few months, they’re out on the streets… with what other option but to turn to crime? -By policy, career shoplifters are NOT prosecuted & not even required to put up bail in NYC if the damage is under $1000. Instead, they are set free to do it again -multiple Key Foods in Brooklyn may shut down because of the shoplifting epidemic -everything is locked up at NYC drugstores from shampoo to razors -This information is coming out primarily from citizen journalists. Why? The establishment media, for the most part, does not give a flying f*ck New Yorkers were dumb enough to vote for this. Many of ones that did have a doorman and live a few floors up. That’s a whole other topic for another day, but TLDR they can tune it out… Blue collar Americans in red counties in the Midwest cannot. They don’t have summer homes in Montauk. They live in single family homes. They’re on the ground exposed, they didn’t ask for this, and they don’t deserve it. I’m sure most of the undocumented migrants are good people. But why the hell are they even here?? Who the ***** is bussing them to the middle of the Midwest? Why can’t we send aid to their countries instead of destroying our own, and depleting our limited resources that are meant for citizens? The establishment media is not asking these questions. They have become nothing but a propaganda arm of a system that hates us, and we’re noticing

WELL, YES: It’s No Accident The Southern Border Is Collapsing, It’s Intentional. Customs and Border Protection shut down two international bridges to deal with the crisis. The mayor of Eagle Pass, Rolando Salinas, declared an emergency on Wednesday, it seems with good reason. He told The New York Post that the surge of illegal immigrants, most of them single adult men from Venezuela, has swamped the city’s only migrant shelter. Many of them, says Salinas, “don’t want to listen to instructions.” He added, “Not all of them come in peace.” Bill Melugin of Fox News has been in Eagle Pass this week posting jaw-dropping videos and images of the influx, which sure enough consists of mostly single adult men. The lines stretch over the river and along both banks as far as the eye can see. Whatever you think of the border and U.S. immigration policy, this is shocking. All of it recalls the mass encampment of some 15,000 Haitians under a bridge in Del Rio, Texas, two years ago. At the time, images of what looked like a refugee camp you might see in a war-torn country dominated several news cycles, goading the Biden administration to disband the encampment and deport a small number of Haitians as a warning to others. Most of them fled back across the Rio Grande rather than face being deported to Haiti, a country they had left years ago for better jobs in South America (which countries they in turn left for better jobs in the United States). But notice how the illegal immigrants in Melugin’s footage are walking calmly, not running, not trying to evade Border Patrol. They show every indication they believe they will not be detained long. https://thefederalist.com/2023/09/21/its-no-accident-the-southern-border-is-collapsing-its-intentional/ You might call it a crisis by design, to coin an Insta-phrase.

Hundreds of migrants line up at NYC hospital for healthcare, food, free phones by Kyle Schnitzer & David Meyer Hundreds of migrants—at least some bussed to the Big Apple by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott—lined up outside Lincoln Hospital in The Bronx on Sunday to get healthcare coverage, food and other items including school supplies and free phones. The event, organized by the city hospital system, was billed as a “resource and family fun day” for the migrants and their children, many of whom have come to New York City in droves in recent weeks. “I came to New York about three days ago. I am a welder, and I am looking for work here,” Venezuelan refugee Adrian Medina, 32, said through a translator. https://nypost.com/2022/08/21/hundreds-of-migrants-line-up-in-nyc-for-healthcare-food-phones/ Nothing for NYC citizens though.

When I established an exploratory committee for Senate, I understood the challenge ahead. Running for office requires an extraordinary commitment, not just from the candidate but also from family, friends, volunteers, and donors. A campaign puts them through so much. That’s reason enough not to run for office unless there’s a clear path to victory and a high likelihood of success. After thoroughly evaluating all aspects of a potential campaign, I’m convinced that no candidate would be better positioned to win both the Republican primary and the general election. That’s why, today, I’m making it official: I’m joining the race for United States Senate in Michigan. The past few years away from Congress have given me time to reflect on the experiences that have shaped my life, the principles of liberty that inspire me, and what my tenure in Congress meant to the people of my community. My parents arrived in the United States as teenagers in search of a better future—my father, a Palestinian refugee, and my mother, a Syrian immigrant. They instilled in me a love for America and for the values and principles at the heart of our Declaration of Independence and Constitution.

REPORT: The Biden Administration Has Spent $20 Billion on ‘Refugee’ Resettlement in Just Two Years by Mike LaChance The situation at the southern border has become a multi-level crisis and it turns out that it has been incredibly expensive, too. The Biden administration has spent $20 billion hard-earned American tax dollars on ‘refugee’ resettlement in just the last two years. Of course, the vast majority of illegal border crossers are not refugees at all. Democrats sure do seem to enjoy spending other people’s money. (Snip) The Biden administration has poured billions of taxpayer dollars into the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) since October 2022, according to a new report from Open the Books. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/01/report-biden-administration-has-spent-20-billion-refugee/

Brutal new reporting from @axios in article titled “How Biden Botched the Border”. - Biden exploded w/ rage at his team aboard AF1 on the way to border last year. - Susan Rice called HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra a “B word ass”& “idiot”. - VP Harris’ team made it clear her responsibilities “began and ended” w/ root causes in just the 3 Northern Triangle counties & Mexico, w/ a former Biden admin official saying Harris has been “at best, ineffective”. - Mayorkas disagreed with Biden’s 100 day halt on deportations. - Homeland Security adviser Liz Sherwood-Randall displayed inexperience, asked for a memo explaining the difference between refugees & asylum seekers. - Biden admin has listened to “vocal immigration advocates outside the administration”. - “The White House generally didn't want to talk publicly about immigration or the border for much of Biden's first three years, feeling it would draw attention to a political vulnerability.” - “Publicly, the White House also initially downplayed jumps in illegal border crossings as normal "ebbs and flows" — even as some internally pushed to acknowledge that the problem was significant.” The article highlights a combination of infighting, incompetence, and indifference regarding the administration’s handling of the border over the last 3 years. https://www.axios.com/2024/02/12/how-biden-botched-border

Remember right after President Donald Trump was inaugurated and mobs of protesters packed JFK International in New York and other airports to protest the new administration’s so-called “Muslim ban?” Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was quick to welcome any and all refugees to head just a little bit further north. More refugees than Trudeau likely imagined took him up on the offer. In yesterday’s Vancouver Sun, however, there was an interesting piece claiming that Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada, formerly just the Immigration Department, hadn’t followed up in two years with a report on some 50,000 Syrian refugees in the country. Columnist Douglas Todd reports: “Integrate into Canadian society?” That sounds vaguely racist to us. What happened to celebrating diversity? https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2018/07/18/bureaucracy-at-work-has-canada-lost-track-of-50000-syrian-refugees/?utm_campaign=twitchywidget

There is a refugee crisis, because there are far too many who WANT one...............

Thousands in her state have been affected by the shutdown, so Elizabeth Warren’s donating her salary to … refugees? It’s been true for a while, but now there’s no doubt: everything Sen. Elizabeth Warren does, from changing her Twitter handle to awkwardly opening a beer bottle, has to be seen through the lens of a woman campaigning for president in 2020. So it says a lot about Democrat policies that Warren pledged on New Year’s Day to donate her salary after learning that more than 7,000 American citizens in Massachusetts would be working for delayed pay because of the limited government shutdown. . What? 7,000 people in her home state are “working without pay,” so she’s donating her salary to a nonprofit that helps refugees? As in, non-U.S. citizens? "I'm so worried about the citizens in the state I represent that I'm going to virtue signal my heart out for illegals." Yep, she's a woman of the people alright...........

Shutdown reaches the people-will-die stage People Will Die is the last-resort of the Democrat Party arguments. CBS reported on June 26, 2017, "Nancy Pelosi warns 'hundreds of thousands of people will die' if GOP health bill passes." The Daily Caller reported on July 10, 2018, "'People Will Die': Yale Students, Faculty Outraged Brett Kavanaugh Might End Abortion." The Guardian reported on September 19, 2018, "'People will die': Obama official's warning as Trump slashes refugee numbers."And of course, CNBC reported on December 4, 2017, "Economist Larry Summers predicts 10,000 will die per year due to tax reform."The government shutdown reached that point today at 4:46 AM, when CNBC reported, "The 'doomsday' scenario: Here's what happens if the shutdown drags on. Economists warn that a catastrophe is in the making if the partial government closure continues for weeks or months."The predictions are worthy of a global warmist. They include: 38 million low-income Americans lose food stamps 6 million face an uncertain timetable for collecting tax refunds 2 million without rental assistance and facing possible eviction 800,000 paycheck-less federal employees plunged into dire financial straits Shuttered parks and museums while overstressed airports cause tourism to tank Federal court system slows to a crawl Disaster relief money doesn't get to storm-ravaged areas Lapsed FDA and EPA inspections lead to dangerous outbreaks Private companies looking to go public are stuck in limbo Stock market plummets And as always, if this keeps up, hair will grow on the palms of your hands.CNBC reported on March 16, 2016, "If Trump wins, stocks will crash 50%: Wedbush pro." https://donsurber.blogspot.com/2019/01/shutdown-reaches-people-will-die-stage.html