Would A Nationality Card Reduce Your Privacy?

The proposed wall on the border would be a tragic, wasteful boondoggle.

Organized crime has long been deeply embedded in our own government.  You’ve heard of our shaddow (deliberately misspelled in conjunction with "government" to avoid auto-deletion of the post) government, and it is as unscrupulous as that of any third world government, just much more sophisticated.  In the last half century, a few Congressmen have gone to prison, one president impeached, another forced to resign; but the “swamp” is still polluted. Since the ”roaring twenties” when crime bosses, like Al Capone and Luck Luciano,  were blatantly involved in politicians’ lives at the local and federal levels, the only thing that has changed are the criminals’ degree of sophistication and their astute dissimulation.

The reason we are the only industrialized country that does not have a national identity card, is that the clout of organized crime is powerful and understandably dedicated to actively opposing such a security device. The sine qua non of organized crime is free travel within the country with the ability to change their members' identity, often using a stolen one.

 Think of it: a security enhanced social security card could accomplish more than a one hundred foot high wall a thousand miles long at a fraction of the cost. Security enhancement could be a  current social security card being replaced with one that has a photo image of the bearer and coded information that could be machine read, or field-read, by authorized federal agents, just like the green cards, since their security enhancement in the mid-1970s.

As long as there are planes in Mexico and hundreds of mining companies capable of digging a mile long tunnel through solid rock in a matter of a few days, no border fence, or wall, is going to be security-relevant. Moreover, any gain would be offset by amnesties by a corrupt government, like that of Bush 43 who sneaked two amnesties through on us, (245(i) and Extension of 245(i), and failed at a third humongous one by his commission of the infamous "Gang of 8. There have been about 15 failed attempts to pass the Dream Act, but both Obama and Trump have issued executive orders governing it as if it were actually law.

Would a national identity card reduce your privacy?  Not significantly, because you have very little to lose. Privacy in the U.S. is a privilege restricted mostly to illegal aliens and criminals. Everyone in the U.S., except illegal aliens, criminals and the very poor, already have a national identity card: it is called a U.S. passport, necessary for most foreign travel since the discovery of easy infiltration of our borders by Middle Eastern terrorists.  Anyone who wants one, can buy an electronic  device that can read the account number of every credit card in your wallet. The life of honest people is an open book to organized crime, whereas honest people have no clue as to who the criminals are, though they may be living next door under assumed names.  You cannot hide your identity, address or biographical history from criminal cyber hackers.

Mexico has a very secure national identity card, restricted to the upper class, or gainfully employed.  It is called the “Cedula de Profesion.” This upper class in Mexico has many other benefits, such as free health clinics and  hospitals, not available to the “undocumented” class you see coming across the border illegally.

Trump's Biggest Mistake Yet

Trump should remember that he was not the first choice of many true conservatives.  Ted Cruz had a large following, too, and if he decides to run again in 2020, he may unseat Trump if the current president continues his rudderless trip through troubled immigration waters like another boatload of so-called (mostly Muslim) refugees headed for Europe's border-less society.

First of all, Trump's  proposed Border Wall is a waste of time and money and would be a concession of thousands of acres of border land to Mexico where citizens will no longer have access. Border Treaties have made the center of the Rio Grande the International boundary, and that is a lot of land to give away--even more than LBJ gave away with his "Chamizal Settlement."  Naive El Pasoans once proposed "river walks" along the Rio Grande, and if Mexico ever tosses out the cartels, such projects might be feasible--if it is not fenced off by a wall..

Trump';s announcement last week that the so-called Dreamers can now rest easy and not fear deportation was a broad, ill-conceived statement.  Actually the Dream Act never passed Congress and conservatives continue to oppose it. It has never been a law--only a proposal.  Obama created DACA based upon the imaginary law that never passed Congress, recruiting future applicants, aiding and abetting their illegal entry into the U.S. to grow the Democrat Party.  Now, Trump is showing his globalist colors by also assuming that if presidents can continue giving these still unclassified  illegal aliens breaks, the conservatives will come around and accept it. Some ill-informed ones will. 

Congress has consistently failed to pass the Dream Act into law after many attempts (see URL below) beginning with the Bush 43 Administration in 2001.  It was just one of several of Bush's proposed amnesties that he always described as "not amnesties," that never made it though Congress.  It spelled the demise of Marco Rubio and John McCain's campaigns for the nation's highest office, since they were members of the Gang of 8 that Bush 43 commissioned unsuccessfully to get yet another massive immigration amnesty passed into law.   Many Americans accepted Bush as  puppet of globalists, but now, most Americans are smarter than the puppet--at least they seem to have been until  now--while Trump takes his swing at the curve ball foisted upon us by globalist, open-border advocates and their think tanks.  Many of Trump's apparent supporters are jurors still out from openly supporting him, very circumspect about his apparent willingness to propagate the fictional immigration monster called "Dreamers."  The overwhelming majority of Trump's supporters voted for his as the lesser of two evils, the other choice being Hillary Clinton.  By no means does Trump have a mandate, and his low supporter percentage, 42%, is bound to sink much lower unless he does an about face on coddling the illegal wannabe "dreamers." Some, including myself, think Trump just came out as a true closet globalist who has, up to now, duped his conservative base.

The only way any politician can convince the majority of Americans that he/she is sincere about controlling illegal immigration is to defeat organized crime in Government by passing a law requiring a national identity card.  That would shift the burden of proof from ICE to applicants for employment and immediately identify unscrupulous employers of illegal aliens and make life much tougher on criminals, especially identity thieves.

Failed attempts by Congress to pass the Dream Act can be found here:

http://www.lawlogix.com/what-is-the-dream-act-and-who-are-dreamers/

Will there be a crackdown on Austin, Texas as a sanctuary city?  I guess we shall soon know.  Some sanctions are already being applied by the State, but new legislation proposed by Governor Abbott could do some damage to Travis County.

Bill O'Reilly Misleads the Public

On the O'Reilly Factor on the Fox News Channel tonight, I heard Bill O'Reilly repeat again his often quote that illegal entry into the United States is a civil offense and not a crime.

Nothing could be further from the truth.  First offense is a misdemeanor and a second offense can be a felony. Here is the law obtained from the Cornell Law site:

1. U.S. Code › Title 8 › Chapter 12 › Subchapter II › Part VIII › § 1325

8 U.S. Code § 1325 - Improper entry by alien

Current through Pub. L. 114-38. (See Public Laws for the current Congress.)

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(a)Improper time or place; avoidance of examination or inspection; misrepresentation and concealment of facts

Any alien who (1) enters or attempts to enter the United States at any time or place other than as designated by immigration officers, or (2) eludes examination or inspection by immigration officers, or (3) attempts to enter or obtains entry to the United States by a willfully false or misleading representation or the willful concealment of a material fact, shall, for the first commission of any such offense, be fined under title 18 or imprisoned not more than 6 months, or both, and, for a subsequent commission of any such offense, be fined under title 18, or imprisoned not more than 2 years, or both.

The Border Wall is Too Little, Too Late and a Waste of Money

The proposed Border Wall is a waste of money.  The U.S. could have stopped illegal immigration dead in its tracks a hundred years ago with a national ID like Mexico has.  Anyone gainfully employed in that country has one. That right-to-work I.D. document is called the Cedula de Profesion.  It is like our Social Security Card, except that it hasa  photo ID and other security enhancements. Our social security card can be easily reproduced with a copy machine--but just memorizing the number is as good as possessing the unlaminated, card-stock, paper document issued by the Government.  Legal workers in Mexico also have free medical care with their exclusive, government-owned Hospitales de Seguro Social.  These are full-service hostpitals restricted to use by legally-employed citizens.  That is the reason that Mexican ambulances continue to bring their sick and injured across the border to the U.S. hospitals that are designated to accept indigent patients. There are few independent, full-service hospitals in Mexico.

We won't ever have a national ID because organized crime does not want it.  It would be a threat to their lateral mobility, anonymity and ability to easily change their identity or steal someone else's.  Our populace,. as a whole, are dumbed down in education and so profoundly duped by political correctness that they cannot objectively judge anything they see, hear or read. Political correctness, impressment of the media by organized crime, and the media exaltation of  "diversity" are strategies of the e litists to keep the general population suppressed.. If you do not understand how that can happen, read the George Orwell novel, "1984."

Most of the illegal aliens that come here are illiterate peons that would be a drag on any society, but naturally, they prefer ours because, with welfare, they can live as well as those legal, professional  wage-earners in Mexico who invested a lot of time and money in education and training.

The U.S. Government has always been a co-conspirator in illegal immigration. The new Administration is no different from any of the past 60 years. Trump's immigratin programs are nothing more than window dressing. The Wall sounds good, and so does rounding up CRIMINAL aliens. Unfortunately, in effect, the Government has re-defined illegal immigration, such as that practiced by the Dreamers, their extended famiies, and condoned by our Government.. Notwithstanding, It is still a felony:

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1325

In WWII most farm labor in the Midwest was performed by POWs from Europe. As long as welfare pays more than the minimim wage, there will be no incentive for legal workers to seek employment in the U.S.  Employers use that as an excuse for hiring illegal aliens. Abundant welfare and low wages make that excuse a self-fulfilling prophesy. The only way to cure that excuse would be to raise the minimum wage to about $18.00 per hour, or decrease welfare to a such a low level (for the able-bodied) that it would incentivise working for a living.

We are now bordering on anarchy and violence that military intrervention will eventually become inevitable, unless we want another Bastille-type Revolution. The only impediment would be a national identiy card and strict adherence to the law by employees and employers, severe penalties for violators. The window of opportunity for that option is rapidly diasppearing. We SHOULD be concerned about Russian spy-ships lurking just off our shore.  When aircraft carriers and troop ships start showing up, it might be an incentive for most aliens to go home, but some, the fifth-columnists that now riot in the streets, will mysteriously stay behind.

President Trump May Re-Write and Re-issue His Executive Order on the "ban."

President Trump's executive order concerning the intensive vetting of aliens from problem countries in the Middle East will probably be resubmitted next week and the so-called ban re-instated.

Obama had Chief Justice John Roberts as his personal secretary to do the re-writing of his Obamacare, then along with the other SCOTUS members passed it into law.  Blacks ordinarily get a pass on many mistakes but the courts jumped through their proverbial derrieres to make  America's first black president a success because...well, because he was America's first black president.

Trump does not have the luxury of the courts coddling him like they did Obama.  He is therefore vulnerable to the courts' quibbling and pettifogging his every action, their aiding and abetting the left wing activists, fifth-columnist opponents of law and order and the advocates of anarchy.

Trump should have paid more attention to hiring experts in immigration law, particularly in the fields of examinations and exclusions. Examiners have to write publishable reports of every denial, backing it up with quoted law and precedent decisions.  The best are not lawyers because the vagaries of immigration law are intimidating and they must depend upon impoverished clients, or such organizations as the Legal Aid Society or other charitable sources for their fees.

Immigration Examiners historically worked their way up though the Border Patrol and other divisions of immigration law enforcement.  A few enjoyed encyclopedic memories and the faculty of instant recall. Such skills are now blunted by computers, and I believe, make one mentally lazy.

Most of those "immigration experts" on Trump's staff seem to have been mostly involved in the physical round-up aspect of immigration law enforcement, without in-depth learning in immigration law. Trump should not have ignored the learned, self-taught specialists.  It is hard to conceive, but a few years ago some, if not most, of the real experts in immigration law were also "cowboys" early in their immigration law enforcement careers.  Going from the Border Patrol to Immigration Examinations was an unsettling experience. When I applied for that job in 1975, I went from Fort Hancock, Texas to Los Angeles.  I had just received my degree in English, and I was later told that that was the reason I was selected. I later learned that the job would require  mountains of typewritten reports on my personal adjudications of all sorts of applications for a wide array of immigration benefits, but mostly for permanent residence in the U.S. Many such benefits required the applicant to possess certain skills, from doctors to rocket scientists. Some applicants were movie actors and others were professional athletes. Soon after arrival in L.A. District Office, I was detailed to the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC) for advance training.

Former President Reagan started appointing big campaign contributors, such as Howard Ezell, former Weinerschnitzel CEO, to such powerful decision-making jobs as Southwest Regional Commissioner of the INS.  Such "outsiders" tended to promote sycophants with no regard for merit. In the late 1980s the old INS became just another trove of political spoils. Ezell, seemingly a frustrated, wannabe law-man, liked to go out on raids with enforcement personnel andactually chase the (always) fleeing aliens. Instead of battling the open- border advocates, President Reagan eventually caved in and signed on to the biggest immigration amnesty in  history (IRCA, in 1986).

For the first time ever, last night I found myself agreeing with Geraldo Rivera.  He said that Trump's executive order (on the so-called ban) was "bush league" in the way it was written. Indeed, it was dead in the water before it got off the ground.  Trump is in bad need of some real immigration experts to combat the lurking vultures of left-wing opposition in the courts. If I were young again, I might volunteer to help without compensation, but advancing age and declining energy, now forbid it.


http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/white-house-rewriting-trump-s-controversial-travel-ban-order-sources-n719356

The Firing of Megyn Kelly From Fox News

As a lawyer, Megyn Kelly should know the difference between a question and a statement.  Her statement to Trump at the first debate was a lengthy, poorly disguised, barrage of embarrassing questions with predicated conclusions that highlighted her hostile opinion, but not necessarily facts.  She wanted to turn the debate into the Megyn Kelly coming-out show.  She gambled her career on her effort to destroy Trump.  She had hoped to win the gamble and send her esteem among women activists soaring and become the hero of an over-estimated "feminine movement".  She must have felt that as a member of the media, she could rely on all the other networks to join her smear of Trump.  They did, but the days of the corrupt mainstream media bamboozling the majority is at an end. 

The more the mainstream media tries to destroy someone, like Trump, the stronger they make him. If women, or other minorities, want to get involved in politics, from now on they must be able to stand the heat. With the departure of Obama, we slough off the paranoia of criticizing any minority politician, without a hint of a racial slur, yet still being called a racist.  Color became the King's X of immunity from criticism, even if the criticism is dead on and right.  The only good I can see coming out of the Obama years is the awakening of the American male and restoring his manhood.  It will no longer be noble to bow down before those inferior in intellect and ability.  We have confused noblesse oblige with cowardice and the latter has made us take a back seat to the mentally challenged politicians running for office.  We have learned how needlessly skittish we had become of making any kind of critical remark against any kind of minority.

Our career politicians paid the price of their spinelessness by acquiescing to the election of a president totally at odds with American culture and American values.  Good riddance to him and our paranoia. The Tea party is here to stay and we will, we must, make it stronger.  Anyone is welcome as long as they are conservative, honest and have a firm grip on reality. There is no room for career demagogues, the lazy and the phonies whose only skill is a loud mouth and the ability to rouse the rabble with false claims of oppression. .