Op-ed:
The Unspoken Truth Behind Trump v.
Pelosi
By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor /
Right Side Patriots on American Political Radio
“I will do the Address when the
Shutdown is over because there is no venue that can compete with the
history, tradition, and importance of the House chamber.”
- President Trump on Nancy Pelosi
denying him the national platform for delivering the State of the
Union Address
He caved...or did he. She won this
round...not really. “We the People” lost on both
accounts... unfortunately true.
And so this media driven battle is
publicly being fought over a wall...a much needed wall to keep our
country safe from the illegal invaders Democrats invited in...while
in actuality this battle is two-fold as it also encompasses the
700,000+ DACA recipients and garnering their votes. The last thing
this battle is over is the partial government shutdown...media and
Pelosi bloviations to the contrary.
So as Nancy Pelosi continues to
spew out the lie that she and the Democrats care about the 800,000 nonessential government workers still on furlough, the truth is that
their loyalties lie not with those workers who are into paycheck
number two not being received, but with the 700,000+ DACA recipients
residing in our country today...illegally residing that is albeit
through no fault of their own. And it's over those 700,000+ now of
voting age young adults that has Pelosi denying President Trump the
time honored tradition of giving the Constitutionally mandated State
of the Union Address at the place it has been given since the days of
Woodrow Wilson...in the halls of Congress before a joint session of
Congress.
A ploy to save face perhaps, as Nancy
Pelosi surely did not want to be seated behind President Trump when
he exposed for all the nation...for all the world...to hear and see
what a two-faced, manipulating, obstructionist she and her party have
turned out to be.
Using the furloughed workers as but a
diversion to deflect us away from the truth about the importance the
DACA recipients are to her party, Pelosi has made it clear that
illegals...especially those DACA illegals...do indeed take precedence over
American citizens...at least for her party that is. Zeroing in on
those brought to America as infants, young children or as teenagers
by parents who knowingly and willingly crossed our borders
illegally...the fact is that under the Obama initiated DACA program
these children, now young adults, had every chance to take a “pathway
to citizenship” upon reaching a certain age. And while some did
indeed take the “pathway” offered by the DACA program,
thus righting at least in part, for them, their parents wrong, most
did not for it was and still is far more advantageous to keep
sponging off our hard earned taxpayer dime by their continuing to
take all the “free stuff”...college
educations included...most illegals are afforded once
on American soil.
Continuing the “gimmee-gimmee”
mentality of their parents, the bulk of these so called “dreamers”
love to publicly protest and demand rights they actually don't have
while they whine that this is the only country they know. And while
for many that might be the case, what the majority of “dreamers”
don't realize is that they are but pawns being used by the
Democrats...Democrats who could care less about them or their
plight...but who care solely about those 700,000+ “dreamers” equating into 700,000+ most likely Democrat party votes...enough
votes to turn almost any election in the Democrats favor...it simply all
boils down to that.
Remember, as long as the “dreamers”
remain in legal limbo per se...as long as the “dreamers” are
the recipients of “free stuff”...the old adage that no
one bites the hand that feeds them surely comes into play...the
“dreamers” remain a valuable commodity that Nancy Pelosi and
crew will continue to use as leverage against President Trump, and
they will do so even knowing that Republicans are wise to their game.
Wise yes, but sadly coupled with a bit of cowardliness for no
Republican has dared to challenge the nightmare that is political correctness to say the
bottom line truth that for Democrats it's all about the
“dreamers”...and of course the “illegals”...votes.
If only President Trump would publicly
state this truth for only then would the ongoing battle be laid to
rest as the Democrats and the media would collectively have a major
meltdown for truth is something they are in no way prepared to
handle...as they run head first into a brick wall...pun ever so
intended.
And so it's over the “dreamers”
and the “illegals”
to be a bit less of a degree...not
the 800,000 furloughed workers...especially
the “dreamers” and their potential 2020 election
changing votes...that has Pelosi demanding that President Trump
reopen the partial government shutdown before they will even
consider inviting him to speak before Congress or allotting him even
one bloody dime of funding for what would be the denying Democrats
even more votes...wall.
A temporary fix to DACA is what Trump
proposed and that is not acceptable as Democrats demand
nothing less than a permanent solution...a solution that equates to
amnesty for the “dreamers” thus garnering Democrats a
major boost to their voting rolls. And the Democrats are
willing to throw the 800,000 government
workers now furloughed under the bus to get those coveted votes.
But first we must understand the
legalities or lack thereof regarding both the “dreamers” and
the “illegals” in general, and how both come into play in
this standoff...in this now tit-for-tat political game.
Briefly, some legal scholars say that
because the Constitution's provisions apply to “personhood”
and “jurisdiction”
and use the term “people” or “person” instead
of “citizen” that
all its laws apply to every and anyone physically on U.S. soil,
whether or not they are a U.S. citizen. And some of those same legal
scholars go so far as to say that “illegals” are afforded
the basic rights “We the People” have
under the Bill of Rights, such as the freedom of religion and
speech, the right to due process, and most importantly equal
protection under the law.
However, contrary to what the Democrats
and their legal eagles say, “undocumented immigrants”...
“illegals”...are truly not privy to all the rights held by
we citizens, two key rights of which are the fact that “illegals”
cannot vote in state or in national elections...even though we know well
that in certain states they most assuredly do...and that they are
subject to our immigration laws whether they or their Democrats
enablers like it or not. In specific, while the Constitution does not
provide an affirmative grant of the right to vote, a series of
amendments...as in the 15th, 19th, 24th, and 26th amendments...all
clearly list the qualifications for voting being for American “citizens”
alone...with “citizens” being the operative word.
Also, as per other legal scholars, the
executive branch...as in President Trump...does have “broad
authority” to determine whether those we call “illegals”
have a right to even be in our country. And until “illegals”
have passed through immigration control and gone through “due
process,” they are not technically nor legally on U.S. soil
“thanks to a legal fiction or counterintuitive legal
understanding that carves out an exception to the normal rule,” so
says Jennifer Gordon, a professor of immigration law at Fordham
University Law School.
And again whether the Democrats like it or not President Trump can legally close our southern border or any of America's borders
if need be, with his legal justification being found within Section 215
of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA)...an act which clearly
states that the president can do whatever he must in order to
“safeguard the nation and its citizenry.”
And that is what President Trump is trying to do with his
wanting to build the wall for he knows that while a wall will not
keep everyone out who wants in, it surely will slow down the number
of “illegals” who
are coming here solely for their share of the Democrats promised
“free stuff” in exchange for their votes.
Remember, nowhere in the Constitution does it say that the
president cannot protect our nation's borders with a wall for nowhere
in the Constitution is a wall even mentioned let alone alluded to.
This means that in the end Trump will get that wall built one legal
way or another while the Democrats will continue using the plight of
the “
dreamers” and the government workers currently
furloughed as their way to try and manipulate President Trump into
reopening the 25% of the government currently shutdown while at the
same time working behind closed doors to see that the much needed
wall does not get built.
And Pelosi's using the
“dreamers” as one of her
leveraging tools against both President Trump and his latest
compromise proposal is not a wise idea for the Obama 2012 initiated
DACA program is in and of itself illegal. How so...simply, Obama did
not go through Congress to initiate the DACA program, something he
most assuredly should have done. In fact, Obama himself has in the
past stated that he did lack the authority to grant such a
“broad
carve-out from deportation,” yet he did it anyway. However,
DACA went uncontested in the courts until last year, when Texas
Attorney General Ken Paxton initiated a lawsuit arguing that DACA was
illegal.
Judge Andrew S. Hanen, in his ruling, found that Obama did indeed
exceed his Constitutional powers when he created a program that
basically granted a
“broad amnesty from deportation” to an
entire class of people, in this case the so-called
“dreamers.”
Stating in his decision that he
was bound by precedent in a 2015 case that struck down a similar but
broader Obama-era amnesty program...as in DAPA...a program
encompassing four million parents who crossed the border illegally
but who have U.S. citizen or legal immigrant children, as well as
expanding the DACA program itself. Stating there was little
“practical difference”
between DACA and DAPA, Judge Hanen found that if DAPA was illegal,
then DACA was just as “likely illegal”
as well.
And on appeal, the 5th U.S.
Circuit Court of Appeals also ruled that DACA, with its
“broad attempts to create immigration policy through deferred
action” violated the
Immigration and Nationality Act (INA).
And this ruling led the Democrats
to once again play tit-for-tat by using the argument that several
other courts ruled that Trump's original wanting of a DACA phaseout
is just as likely illegal. And when you add both musings together the
takeaway becomes that while Obama's granting what amounts to amnesty
is indeed illegal so too, according to some, is Trump's past efforts
to phase said amnesty out. And this translates into something we have
known all along...the solution to the
“dreamers” issue
must come from Congress, as per the Constitution, but with Nancy
Pelosi blocking every solution President Trump proposes has allowed
us to reach the point we find ourselves at today...and it's a point
where the Supreme Court might or might not take on the case of DACA.
So, as I write this article many Republicans are angry at
President Trump for what they perceive as his caving to Nancy Pelosi
regarding the State of the Union Address. But what these folks forget
is that the battle our president is fighting with Pelosi is not over
a venue or a date for his giving the Address, but is a battle for
getting the funding for the much needed wall v. the Democrats
garnering 700,000+
“dreamer” votes...enough votes to
possibly turn all future elections in the Democrats favor. And that
alone is why Nancy Pelosi is demanding a permanent solution to DACA
along with them being granting an expedited
“pathway” to
become citizens as amendments to the Constitution clearly state that
only citizens can vote.
Nancy Pelosi is using the current plight of the 800,000
temporarily furloughed government workers as but a ploy and a
diversion to reach her intended goal, but I have a feeling that
President Trump knows her plan well as well as he knows that even the
State of the Union Address can wait...the wall cannot. So the
naysayers on our side need to cut him some slack for Trump knows well
what he's doing...maybe even soon declaring a
"national emergency" and appropriating the needed wall funds...Nancy Pelosi be damned.
Copyright @ 2019 Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / All Rights Reserved.
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