I’m astonished to find myself blogging for a fourth time in a row on “Good Trump” when there hasn’t been any “Bad Trump” in between. There has been talk about things that would be Bad Trump, but all the actions so far have been Good Trump.
Story from Townhall.com:
As expected, President Donald J. Trump has just signed two executive orders that call for the construction of a border wall and outlines a new agenda regarding immigration enforcement. It’s done. Bloomberg’s Jennifer Jacobs reported one of the orders puts an end to catch-and-release, U.S. Customs and Border Protection personnel by 5,000 people, and seeks to put an end to asylum fraud.
The second order seeks to end sanctuary cities, identify criminal illegal aliens, triple the amount of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, and empower them to enforce federal immigration laws. It will also create victims advocacy office for Americans who loved ones had been victimized by people who should have never been here in the first place.
Regarding the second order, the Washington Examiner reports that the sanctions against sanctuary cities will involve cutting off the flow of federal tax dollars:
President Trump will direct his secretary of homeland security to examine ways the administration can suspend grants to so-called “sanctuary cities,” or areas where law enforcement agents do not enforce immigration laws, White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Wednesday.
“What the executive order does is, it directs the secretary to … look at funding streams that are going to these cities … and figure out how we can defund those streams,” Spicer said of an executive action Trump was expected to sign later in the day.
Why is Trump doing this?
It might be worth remembering the case of Kate Steinle, so that we understand what caused American voters to elect Trump.
Five-time deportee, seven-time convicted felon Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez said in a new interview Sunday with a local ABC News affiliate that he came to San Francisco because he knew the sanctuary city would not hand him over to immigration officials.
[…]Lopez-Sanchez has confessed to shooting Kathryn Steinle last Wednesday at Pier 14.
Had San Francisco authorities not refused a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainer request, Lopez-Sanchez may not have been in the United States and Steinle might still be alive.
The Obama administration held to a pattern of releasing illegal immigrants who had been convicted of serious crimes:
[…][A]fter Kathryn Steinle was killed July 1, allegedly by an illegal immigrant with seven felony convictions, Obama said . . . nothing.
[…]Why has Obama been so reticent to speak out? Perhaps it is because any soul-searching in this case would require him to confront the fact that his administration has been releasing tens of thousands of dangerous illegal immigrants with criminal convictions into our communities — including many who have gone on to commit murder.
It got little notice, but on May 28, Sarah Saldana, director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, admitted in a letter to Sens. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) that between fiscal years 2010 and 2014, the Obama administration had released “121 unique criminal aliens who had an active [deportation] case at the time of release and were subsequently charged with homicide-related offenses.”
Think about that: 121 times over the past four years, the administration has released an illegal immigrant with prior criminal convictions who went on to be charged with murder. That is one every 12 days.
Like Obama, Hillary Clinton favored amnesty for illegal immigrants, less border security and no wall. She didn’t care about the victims of crimes committed by illegal immigrants, because she had bodyguards with guns to protect her. And so, that’s how we got President Trump and the Trump wall. It wasn’t that voters didn’t like the idea of a female President, it was that voters didn’t like the idea of a President who would bend over backwards for people who should not be here, and who treated the safety and security of taxpayers with contempt.
WINTERY KNIGHT 
Quit being so astonished, WK! God is working His Good through a highly flawed character like He has many times before, because some of us are praying the Heavens for him, calling him into the fold, praying protection from the demon-crats, etc! :-)
Get that Unborn Scheming Baby ready, WK! :-)
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Get used to it. There’s a lot more win coming down the pipe.
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I think that there will be lots of LOSING coming down the pipe, because of protectionism (taxes on consumer goods) and infrastructure spending, which is just public works (taxing the private sector so that the public sector can waste money).
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I think the money we save from kicking out the illegals, removing Obamacare, and de-funding all these leftist propaganda machines (NPR, Planned Parenthood, etc.), cutting off aid to terrorist nations, and downsizing government employees will go a long way toward paying for that.
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The costs of the tariffs are paid by American consumers, not buy government.
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In a recent post of mine, I refer to reports that violent crime has increased 5% in the last years of Obama’s reign, which countered a claim by another that we’ve been made safer under Obama. Reading about how many dangerous illegals were released into the population demonstrates at the very least that he did little to make us safer, and much to make us less so.
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I have an immigration proposal which I think most Republicans, Democrats, and Independents could support.
In addition to the Mexican embassy in DC, Mexico has 50 consulates in major cities around the U.S. It is a fact that the Mexican government uses these consulates to subvert US immigration policy by advising Mexican citizens on how to skirt our immigration laws. The Trump administration should call this out for what it is and issue an ultimatum to Mexico: stop doing that or we will expel all Mexican consular staff and close all Mexican consulates.
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Yes, we agree on that!
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Great minds think alike!
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This is fantastic beyond words! But my difficulty is that I have learned the hard way in recent years that many otherwise biblical Christians are on the side of the illegal immigrants because… Jesus. Or something.
I am not talking about leftists calling themselves Christians. I mean bible believing followers of Christ who hold to biblical views on abortion, homosexuality, marriage, and the central tenets of the Christian faith. But when it comes to illegals and also BLM (don’t get me started on THAT rant!) I have been stunned to see Christians holding the leftist positions, being FOR lawbreakers!
Where do we even start with these people? I am at a loss! I NEVER dreamed followers of Christ would not only side with the lawless, but then claim Christ does as well!
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