My plan to “keep America great” is very uncomplicated:
1) Stop exporting American troops to countries that hate us.
2) Let’s stop importing people from countries that hate us.
When I voted for Donald Trump in 2016, I thought this was the plan. The America First champion rightly attacked Barack Obama for recklessly risking the lives of our troops in endless politically motivated wars. President Trump has promised to build an effective wall on the southern border. He has implemented severe travel restrictions, upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court, on visitors from countries whose governments that indulge terrorism pose a national security threat.
Yet here we are, on the threshold of 2020, with thousands of U.S. troops returning to the maw of the Stone Age Middle East, Mexican drug cartels on the loose, while our Border Patrol is handing out diapers to illegal immigrants and refugees from around the world—including nearly 1,400 admitted last year alone from the very high-risk countries Trump’s travel ban was meant to block—reshaping the nation without the consent of the governed. The leaky list of blockades includes Syria, Iraq, and Iran, which fired multiple missiles at U.S. air bases slow Tuesday in retaliation for our deadly airstrike last week that killed Quds Gen. Qassem Soleimani.
We are now on heightened alert in our homeland, with authorities concerned that Hezbollah sleeper cells (which I have been documenting since writing “The Invasion” in 2002) could strike from within.
Some of you still wonder why I write so often and passionately about our failed immigration and entry policies. It is because nothing matters more to the survival of our country now than the right to decide who can enter and the ability to enforce it.
As I reported last year, thanks to an executive order signed by Trump in September, local communities were given clear opt-in rights to stem the lucrative wave of refugees arriving mostly from third-world countries and jihadist hotbeds. This Wednesday, the religious “charities” that are the biggest beneficiaries of this multibillion-dollar fraud will go on trial to demand a blanket, open veto over the people.
The U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland is hearing arguments from refugee resettlement interests challenging Trump’s executive order requiring government contractors to obtain written consent from all localities and states where they plan to resettle refugees. The Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, Church World Service and the Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service — three of nine State Department partners that resettle all refugees — argue that the federal government should prioritize family reunification for foreign refugees over local control. Translation: Americans are last.
The lawsuit attacks a White House executive order that threatens to “systematically dismantle organizations—including Plaintiffs—that have spent decades developing the networks, expertise, and resources to advance the American ideal of welcoming refugees.” Those “resources” come from you and me: the tax subsidies that make up the expansive majority of these activist nonprofits’ budgets. Over the past decade, according to an analysis by immigration scholar James Simpson, the three plaintiff groups have raked in the following amounts from the federal refugee resettlement program:
–Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Services: $471.6 million (94% of budget).
–Church World Service: $433.3 million (72% of budget).
–Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society: $186.1 million (54% of budget).
The refugee resettlement companies, in turn, are spreading their enormous wealth — from both public and private sources — across a galaxy of contractors looking to register Democratic voters, fill church pews, and attract recent customers and voters. The “Interfaith Immigration Coalition,” which is organizing the protest after Wednesday’s hearing to support the refugee admissions program, includes: Columban Center for Advocacy and Outreach; Congregation of Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd; US Provinces; Daughters of Charity; Disciples Refugee & Immigration Ministries; Franciscan Action Network; Interfaith Immigration Coalition; Jewish Council for Public Affairs; Leadership Conference of Women Religious; National Advocacy Center of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd; National Council of Jewish Women; Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism; Rise for Refuge; Sisters of Mercy of the Americas – Institute Leadership Team; T’ruah; The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights; The United Church of Christ; and We Are All America.
Thanks to pressure from these groups with huge budgets and influence, 18 Republican (yes, Republican) governors are also opposing Trump and self-determination, favoring more refugee settlements. They include Doug Ducey of Arizona, Asa Hutchinson of Arkansas, Eric Holcomb of Indiana, Kim Reynolds of Iowa, Brad Little of Idaho, Mike Parsons of Missouri, Larry Hogan of Maryland, Charlie Baker of Massachusetts, Mike DeWine of Ohio, Kevin Stitt of Oklahoma, Pete Ricketts of Nebraska, Chris Sununu of New Hampshire, Doug Burgum of North Dakota, Kristi Noem of South Dakota, Bill Lee of Tennessee, Gary Herbert of Utah, Jim Justice of West Virginia, and Phil Scott of Vermont.
Names must be named and traitors must be shamed, especially when war is breaking out on all fronts. What is the point of sending adolescent American soldiers to fight enemies “over there” when we welcome them here by tens and hundreds of thousands?
Michelle Malkin’s email address is MichelleMalkinInvestigates@protonmail.com.
