"Trump Bad" isn't an excuse to ignore the nation's immigration laws

0:00I had talked about this in a while, but everyone kind of knows how I feel about this particular issue when talking about immigration. Well the Washington Post had an article the other day, and I've been meaning to talk about this and it's just too many things happening, a lot of things coming from a lot of directions. Well the article was weird because they were expressed frustration and being upset that 40% of the illegal aliens detained by US immigration and customs enforcement since President Trump has taken office that they have no criminal records. Really, it would seem to me that one would be more upset that 60% of those that have been detained have been running around this country, unvetted, nobody knows what they're doing,

1:00committing crime on the streets of our country, and maybe we should be applauding ICE for removing the 60% of people that have been wreaking havoc in our communities across our country. I mean we all know that this comes on the heels of one of the worst times in history as it relates to migration into this country under the Biden administration where they basically ignored the entire federal register as it relates to immigration and immigration enforcement for four years. And it's really interesting because there was a lot of discussion about reforming the Immigration and Nationality Act. And a lot of what we do is no different than almost all of our allies, no different than

2:02most of the democracies that exist across the world as it relates to how they deal with immigration and immigration policy. I mean simply put, when you cross the border illegally, it's a federal crime. Eight U.S.C. 1325. You overstay a visa, it's not a criminal offense, it's a civil offense, but it's still wrong and you can still be detained for doing so. That's what they do in other countries. The fact they move you to detention facilities to assess that you are in fact overstayed your visa and then you're out. So being unlawfully present in the United States, not unlike most other countries around the world, is an offense against the country. And there's a wide plethora of options at each of these countries exercise to include

3:07the United States, detention and deportation. It was funny in the Washington Post article, they wanted to make a big thing between a criminal offense and a civil offense. But never really mentioning the fact that these immigration laws have been on the books for decades. And it were not an outlier as it relates to how we handle immigration in this country. There's never been a requirement that you have to have a criminal record before you detained by ICE and otherwise deported, ever. This has been gone on for decades, like I said, in under multiple administrations. The Obama administration in the first four years he was referred to as the deporter in chief. Bill Clinton campaigned on this issue in a huge way.

4:11George Bush, one and two, both, same thing. There's also this misnomer and it's really interesting when you read the article talking about judicial warrants. ICE does not need a judicial warrant to make an arrest unless they're entering private property like a home. Otherwise they do not need a judicial warrant. They do not need an arrest warrant. They do not need to go before it to tax magistrate and articulate facts and circumstances in order to gain a warrant. It's not required. We've been providing all of this misinformation as though there's been an abuse of the laws and the privileges afforded people in the United States of America. There hasn't been. It's all BS and all they ever needed was a reasonable suspicion that an alien is unlawfully

5:18present in the country. That's it. A reasonable suspicion. So in the end we have all these laws and if an alien violates any of them, guess what happens? The same thing that happens to you as a citizen. You walk into the local convenience store and you steal a candy bar, you have committed a theft. Now it is a misdemeanor theft. What do you think happens? You get arrested. You get booked. Yes, you will probably be released on bail because in most jurisdictions we have jail over crowding because unfortunately and historically in this country we offend at a higher rate than a lot of other emerging nations, industrialized nations.

6:23It's just a simple fact. But nonetheless you are documented. You are then from that point forward tattooed with having been arrested for making a choice to walk into a store and steal something. In some states you drive without insurance, you drive without a driver's license, you exploit that privilege by not doing the right thing, by documenting oneself as having passed the test and is out on the road. It's about the safety for others. In some states you are in fact arrested. In fact in some states if you exceed the speed limit by a certain amount you are compelled to go to a local county courthouse and immediately pay a fine as opposed to being arrested.

7:27And then they figure out whether or not you are in fact guilty or not and if you are you get your money back. These are all things that we do to citizens. We create these inconveniences to serve as a deterrent factor so that you don't repeat this behavior. But what's amazing by the mainstream media is that that doesn't apply when you come to this country because we should be a compassionate nation, one that embraces everyone. Other you are going to follow the rules or not. If your first act in this country is that you are violating the norms, the customs, the protocols and more importantly the federal laws, how far should that compassion extend?

8:28Well, there are those in the Democrat Party that have gone to incredible lengths to protect these folks and believe that you and I and others should pay to provide them with all the necessities of life. Knowing that the first thing that they've done is violate the rules and customs, conditions, protocols, laws of this country. You know, typically as a citizen in this country, if you are hired by someone, you are a probationary employee and if your first act is to violate the company's rules, standard of conduct or whatever, you're what? It's okay, go ahead, you can say it. You're terminated, you're no longer welcome to work there, right?

9:31Why does that not hold true in this country as it relates to immigration? Why is it that there has to be this continuing feeling that we need to create a reception, so to speak, and even maybe a party for individuals who in their first act have chosen and made a choice to violate the immigration laws of this country? It is really mind numbing and mystifying to me that's how that's how that we propose that this country should act. Recently there's been some new data, a report from the Center for Immigration Studies that suggested foreign-born population is down 2.9 million people over the first 18 months of the Trump administration.

10:32Interestingly they said that this could not be managed, it could not be done, that we needed to have immigration reform. Most importantly what we needed to do is reward people that kind of snubbed our way of life and creating a pathway to citizenship for them. In other words, you don't have to earn anything, you can do what you want when you want how you want, which citizens are not afforded, that accommodation, and still it is incumbent upon us because we are a compassionate nation to create a pathway to citizenship. It doesn't matter how offensive you are, how much of a disciplinary problem you are if we want to use the school or university analogy, you can be completely disruptive in this

11:33country and still because of this compassion thing that we ought to be giving people multiple chances to reach the pot of goal. The benefit of living in a democracy, a constitutional republic that has an organized set of rules, laws, acceptable patterns of behavior, and that we actually adopted outcomes. What happens when you violate that? What happens when you run counter to it? And now all of a sudden we throw caution to the wind because allegedly we are, need to be more compassionate. That compassion and removal of accountability in this country, we see what's happening right now.

12:35We see what's happening right now. We see the outcome of this in so many different ways. In fact, just the other day in New Jersey, we know where Governor Mikey Sherrill has been and the anti-ice policies that she's been involved in, where she's actually passed all kinds of laws there. The trust directive, which creates public safety risks by limiting the ability of ICE to work with police offices, they have handcuffed local law enforcement of cooperating with ICE at all in New Jersey. I mean, it's actually a joke what's going on there, the length to which they have created

13:36this sanctuary environment there, which all of it just limits the cooperation amongst law enforcement officials, which is absolutely a joke. And the executive order that she passed not too long ago, you can only arrest in a public area if authorized by a judicial warranted, a judicial order. It violates all the federal laws. They're in court, they're fighting this. I mean, this is the kind of stuff that's going on. This is the outcome of where we're at. But it's interesting what happens when there's horror that comes to Democrat families. It'll be interesting to see how this flips. Dr. Penelope Cohen, the wife of the East Brunswick mayor, Brad Cohen, was in a test lady of the other day. And an illegal alien fled a scene of a targeted ICE operation.

14:42And you know what happened. Ranner Red Light and crashed right into Dr. Cohen's car. Now, thankfully, she was treated at the hospital and she doesn't have significant physical injuries. But we read these stories every day. We should every day. And we wonder why the conversation never moves to the safety and well-being of the citizens of this country. That's all we want. That's all we want. We've adopted rules based on customs and the way that we've decided that we want to live our lives here and the way that we've decided that we want to have an ordered and structured society. It doesn't matter if there's individuals out there because I get a lot of text all the time like this one. No, you're missing the point. Citizens want law and order. Unfortunately, the Trump administration is lawless and orderless and is degrading the

15:45Constitution. I don't know that he's degrading the Constitution when it comes to immigration laws. Both can be true. He can be lawless and he can engage in unconstitutional behavior in other areas. Of government, but it doesn't necessarily mean that he is in this area government. And it doesn't necessarily mean that we should be willing to accept less. We set the bar. We elected people that passed the immigration and nationality act. We've understood for generations how this works. We also understood the necessity of migration legally, legally. But for some reason, we want to make this political football out of it because we really believe that one side of the equation or one side of the aisle is going to benefit more than others.

16:45So what we do is we will engage in bastardizing this entire process. We'll choose when it's comfortable for us and work to our benefit to ignore the law. Like the Biden administration did. They ignored it each and every day. They lied to us about the border each and every day. They lied to us about what was happening to immigrant children that were coming across the border. They continued to lie to us today about this and we just sit back and take it and think that this is all good because Trump's bad. Well, Trump being bad should not be our focus, I don't believe, as it relates to certain issues. We should understand that we have to continue doing what we're doing for the greater good of society at large in this country. And that's simply enforce the laws.

17:47Enforce the laws. We celebrate in communities when you see our part one crime offenses or the lowest they've been since 1972. But we are not going to celebrate the fact that the number of illegal immigrants coming to this country has fallen by 2.3 million people over the last 18 months. And the question is, why? We'll be right back.