This is Rush Limbaugh’s take on the omnibus that Trump signed:
The attempt in this budget deal is to send a message to you Trump voters that it’s worthless voting for him, that it is a waste of time supporting him, because they are demonstrating that he can’t get anything.
I quit listening to Rush two years ago because of how he handled the election. I tuned in recently just to see where he was at. He’s still carrying Trump’s water. He sure does fancy work. Read it again and think about this for just a moment. The Democrats and the RINOs do not need to craft legislation to demonstrate anything. The record is clear even before omnibus deal was made. As far as immigration reform goes, the number one reason Trump was elected, the most important issue in 2016, Trump has successfully demonstrated himself to be a loser.
Loser on Sanctuary Cities
The only two most significant legislative attempts to do something about this was done in the 115th 2017-18 session: H.R.3003 – No Sanctuary for Criminals Act and H.R.3004 – Kate’s Law. Kate’s Law tried to levy stiffer penalties on criminals that re-entered the country but both bills denied cities that harbored criminal federals dollars. Both of these bills passed in the House on June 29, 2017 and were received July 10, 2017 by the Senate and allowed to die.
Jan 25, 2017 Trump issued Executive Order 13768 that threatened to pull federal immigration funds from cities that did not comply with federal immigration law. Long story short, it was stopped by injunction in April and on November 20, 2017 US District Judge William Orrick ruled the Trump move unconstitutional.
Most sane people are fine with the concept of punishing jurisdictions that don’t want to comply with the law and prosecute, punish, or deport illegals. They should not get federal immigration money if you don’t comply with the law. That’s not up for debate.
What we see though is a pattern emerging. And it’s not winning. It’s losing. Trump acts on his own through executive order and gets shut down by the courts. He lets the Legislatures give a stab at it and what happens? Failed again. This is a demonstration that Trump is not able to work within the system to get the job done.
You can blame Mitch all you want, but that is not how it works. Trump is the leader. He must carry the blame. Everybody knew he was going to have to deal with old Mitch when we voted him in. He said he would deliver on the deal and he didn’t. He said we’d win, win, win. But as far as sanctuary cities are concerned, we’ve lost, lost, lost. He had House and Senate and didn’t deliver.
Loser on Catch and Release
When Trump was campaigning he made immigration reforms his number one campaign promise. This is what he said on August 31, 2016 in Phoenix, Arizona:
We are going to end catch and release… Under my administration, anyone who illegally crosses the border will be detained until they are removed out of our country and back to the country from which they came.
Catch and release has not ended. Granted the tough talk at the beginning of his Presidency did curb the amount of catches and subsequently the amount of releases. But five months after the administration took the reins, ICE field offices had yet to receive any new directions and were still releasing at their discretion as they always have been.
Fast forward to April of 2018. Trump issues a memorandum to his administration regarding catch and release. A number of things about this should be considered. Under Section 1. Purpose:
The backlog of immigration-related cases in our administrative system is alarmingly large and has hindered the expeditious adjudication of outstanding cases. Border-security and immigration enforcement personnel shortages have become critical.
How is this still a problem? He’s had two years. He said he was going to appoint more judges. He was going to triple ICE deportation officers. He was going to hire 5000 more border patrol agents. So what happened is one of two things. You can decide which. He either failed to enact his plan or his plan has failed. Either way, he has failed and this memorandum sounds as if we are still at square one. And this time without the House and less than two years left.
Listen to this wonderful plan to make America great again given a year and a half into his Presidency :
Within 45 days of the date of this memorandum, the Secretary of Homeland Security, in coordination with the Secretary of Defense, the Attorney General, and the Secretary of Health and Human Services, shall submit a report to the President detailing all measures that their respective departments have pursued or are pursuing to expeditiously end “catch and release” practices.
This, my dear reader, is a memorandum from a man without a plan. Here’s more:
Within 75 days of the date of this memorandum, the Attorney General and the Secretary of Homeland Security, in consultation with the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Health and Human Services, shall submit a report to the President identifying any additional resources or authorities that may be needed to expeditiously end “catch and release” practices.
So the memorandum declares clearly that catch and release has not been terminated and he has no real plan to end it. Win! Win! Win!
Loser on DACA
Perhaps this one should have been the easiest to get rid of. After all it was just recently created by that last President by simply wielding his pen and making a few phone calls, right? Wrong.
DACA stand for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. Talk about deferred action! That’s a perfect description for how Trump is handling this one. He deferred all the way to September of 2017 to announce plans to phase out DACA. And mind you announcing that you have a plan does not mean that you actually have one.
And that was evident because the plan was apparently to wait another six months so Congress can have a chance grant amnesty to the Dreamers. Yes. You heard that right. Trump’s plan was to do nothing about DACA so that Congress can give amnesty to 800,000 illegal aliens. That was the winning plan.
He even issued a warning that DACA recipients were out of time and to prepare for deportation. It was all nonsense. Congress did nothing as usual. Here’s the latest from an article DACA Is Still in Effect as It Heads to Supreme Court on November 13, 2018:
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a stinging rebuke to President Trump’s ongoing efforts to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) initiative last week, unanimously upholding a lower court injunction which had blocked the Trump administration from ending the program.
So I suppose instead of winning we must settle for more deferred action until Spring at the earliest.
More losing
And now, the latest 1169-page business-as-usual spending omnibus? The one that your representatives had only 12 hours to review and still voted for? Can we have just maybe a little winning this time? No. Nothing. Citizens who want borders and control over immigration and to preserve the country we love get absolutely nothing. Nothing but more losing. From Conservative Review, this:
Trump is permitted to construct just 55 miles of border fencing and is only allowed to build these physical barriers in the Rio Grande Valley.
The president is also prohibited from building barriers in strategic locations where fencing is needed.
The federal government is required to consult with local governments, which must approve of any plans for wall construction.
So, he signs this mess, effectively crippling his so-called efforts to build the wall and solve our immigration problem. And if that’s not enough winning, get a load of this:
Perhaps the worst aspect of this law is a section that will grant de facto amnesty to illegal immigrants. Section 224(a) prohibits the deportation of anyone who is sponsoring an “unaccompanied” minor illegal alien – or who says they might sponsor a UAC, or lives in a household with a UAC, or a household that potentially might sponsor a UAC. This part of the border deal uses migrant children to shield these illegal aliens from deportation, granting effective amnesty to an untold number of illegal immigrants and inviting human traffickers to smuggle children to the border and engage in immigration fraud to stay in the United States.
Is that enough winning? There’s more:
The legislation also contains a cap on ICE’s detention capacity, expands catch-and-release, and a raises pay for federal workers without spending offsets.
What’s even more incredible than the fact the Deal-maker signed this anti-American filth that has come from the cesspool of Congress is that the MAGA-maniacs are still praising him instead of questioning him. They sincerely believe that they’re winning.
Build the Wall!
So go ahead and keep beating that drum. Everybody but Trump is to blame. He’s the newbie. He didn’t understand the system. Paul Ryan tricked him. Poor little baby Trumpy. It’s okay little baby. You tried. You still get a little baby ribbon for trying.
And No. No new wall has been constructed. Old walls have been replaced with new structures. That’s hardly a win. He’s not the deal-maker. He is the deal-breaker. He has failed to deliver on any of the promises he made regarding immigration thus far. What makes you think he’s gonna win on the wall?
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