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Shutdown Blackmail

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The Democrats right now are a minority in Congress, but you wouldn’t know that by their actions. They have decided to use a strategy of creating chaos and fiscal blackmail to try to derail the Trump agenda (and work against policies that they have supported in the past).

On Monday, American Greatness reported:

Another government shutdown looks increasingly likely by the end of the week. Democrats are demanding that major changes to Department of Homeland Security enforcement policy be written directly into the budget agreement. Those changes would largely shut down President Trump’s deportation efforts.

Trump has already made some changes. For example, DHS removed Border Patrol commander Gregory Bovino – who had become a political lightning rod – from his assignment in Minneapolis. Democrats, however, are pressing for far more sweeping changes. They want to require judicial warrants for immigration arrests, force ICE agents to be easily identifiable, and grant states the authority to conduct their own investigations of federal ICE agents. Democrats have also demanded body cameras for ICE agents, even though the current budget proposal already funds them.

After the unprecedented percentage increase in violent crime during the Biden administration, Democrats may be pushing to halt deportations to prevent Republicans from getting credit for the sharp drop in violent crime that appears to have started last year. New evidence shows that illegal aliens commit crimes at rates at least 3.4 times higher than their share of the population. At the same time, about 47% of ICE detainees have criminal charges or convictions in the United States, and it is possible that an additional 23% have criminal records in their home countries. Removing hundreds of thousands of offenders through immigration enforcement could therefore have a meaningful impact on crime in the United States and help explain the huge drop in crime last year. Strong enforcement could also deter future crimes by signaling that arrest for criminal activity is likely to result in deportation, not release back into the community.

The article concludes:

Democrats are using the threat of yet another government shutdown to force sweeping policy changes that would sharply curtail federal immigration enforcement. Some of their demands even contradict long-standing Democratic positions on federal supremacy in immigration. But Democrats have one goal in mind: Stop Trump from deporting illegal aliens.

Voting for a Democrat in the midterms is voting for less safe neighborhoods.

Keeping America Safe

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Yesterday The Attleboro Sun Chronicle posted an article about a recent Massachusetts court case involving the detaining of illegal aliens who had committed crimes.

The article reports:

A federal appeals court has handed Bristol County Sheriff Thomas Hodgson a victory in his effort to keep criminal immigration detainees behind bars.

The First Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Boston last week denied a release petition filed by immigration activists on behalf of five inmates.

The inmates are U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees being held at the Bristol County House of Corrections in Dartmouth.

The article reports some of the history of the case:

Last year, U.S. District Court Judge William Young granted release to about 50 ICE detainees held at the Dartmouth facility and denied bail to 19 during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Young also ordered that no new detainees be transferred to the ICE center, which is part of the jail complex in Dartmouth.

The order came almost a week after an uprising by detainees at the facility.

Prisoner and immigration activists have criticized Hodgson’s agreement with the federal government to keep ICE detainees at his facility.

Five individuals who were denied release due to serious criminal histories appealed to the First Circuit through the Harvard Law School Immigration Clinic.

“Each of the petitioners here, as the district court knew, had committed serious, violent crimes, many of which were felonies,” Judge Sandra L. Lynch wrote in the decision.

“Based on their criminal histories, it was reasonable to deny bail to these petitioners because they each posed dangers to the community and/or were flight risks,” Lynch said.

I don’t claim to be a legal scholar, but it seems to me that if they were American citizens who committed violent crimes they probably would not be let out on bail. Why are we giving rights to people who are not citizens that American citizens do not have?