... Candidate Trump campaigned on vigorous border and interior enforcement. Opponent Hillary Clinton indicated that her administration would support higher immigration levels, and continue President Obama’s indifference to enforcement. Writing in The Wall Street Journal, conservative columnist and former special assistant to President Ronald Reagan, Peggy Noonan, perfectly summed up most Americans’ sentiments about unchecked immigration. Noonan wrote that many Americans suffered from illegal immigration, specifically its effect on jobs, costs and crime...
Going into 2018, the question is whether President Trump has rewarded his base and delivered on his promises. The answer is that despite united Democratic opposition, a federal court system that has defied immigration laws to rule against the president, and an unprecedented, intensely adversarial media, President Trump has in large part succeeded. Nowhere is his success more apparent than immigration enforcement, long ignored by the Obama administration...
ICE’s most significant gains were made in administrative arrests and interior removals. Administrative arrests totaled more than 143,000; of those, 110,568 occurred after the Jan. 20 inauguration date, a 42 percent increase over the same prior-year period.
Interior removals were also significantly higher in FY 2017 than last year. In 2017, ICE removed more than 81,000 individuals here illegally from the interior. More than 61,000 of those removals occurred after President Trump’s Jan. 20 inauguration date, a 37 percent increase over the same FY 2016 period.
Although the anti-Trump media wrote fear-mongering stories that alleged that ICE conducted indiscriminate raids and sweeps, the truth is that 92 percent of arrests had criminal convictions, pending criminal charges, were immigration fugitives from justice or were illegal re-entrants.
Finally, countries that refuse to repatriate their criminal nationals dropped from 12 in April to nine by year end. Four countries that remained uncooperative received visa sanctions in FY 2017 – Cambodia, Eritrea, Guinea and Sierra Leone. ICE’s message to those countries: cooperate or face the consequences.
Despite being stymied by congressional open borders advocates and federal courts, President Trump has made good on his immigration enforcement promises.
A Year of Spectacular Accomplishments for President Trump, by Joan Swirsky, Canada Free Press, December 31, 2017.
2017, the year America became great again: January, by Don Surber, December 22, 2017:
Final score: GOOD 26, EVIL 5.
Trump’s Wildly Successful First Year Again Exposes #NeverTrump as Amoral Saboteurs, John Nolte, Breitbart, December 22, 2017:
Remember these names: Jonah Goldberg, David Frum, Bill Kristol, Rich Lowry, Max Boot, Mitt Romney, John Kasich, Joe Scarborough, Jeff Flake, Ben Sasse, Jennifer Rubin, George Will, Josh Jordan, Tom Nichols, Charles Cooke, Stephen Hayes, Tim Miller, John Podhoretz, Nicole Wallace, Steven Schmidt, Bret Stephens, Ross Douthat, Leon Wolf, David Brooks, Rick Wilson, Evan McMullin, Stuart Stevens, Red State, National Review, the Weekly Standard…
These are the so-called conservative men, women, and institutions who (among others) fought the hardest to sabotage Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, all in the unforgivable hope that Hillary Clinton would become president...
Trump has had, in my opinion, the most successful first year of any president since Ronald Reagan...
Real, honest-to-goodness tax reform and cuts...
Opening ANWR for oil exploration...
Killing the Obamacare mandate...
The Islamic State (ISIS) has been decimated.
...predictions for the final quarter of 2017 are as high as four percent.
Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch, who has already proven himself the perfect replacement for Justice Antonin Scalia.
The Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines are a go...
A record number of judicial appointments on the appeals courts.
The end of the War on Coal.
A surge in coal mining after 2016’s decline.
The end of the federal government’s violating the religious conscience through indefensible Obamacare mandates...
The civil rights movement for school choice is getting the green light throughout the country.
Illegal immigration is way down.
The stock market hit record highs 70 times in 2017...
The long-overdue recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
We are free of the awful Paris climate treaty...
Regulatory reform that is just getting started, but it has already had a hugely positive effect on our economy.
Withdrawal from the Global Compact on Migration, which undercut American sovereignty.
Return of nearly two million acres to the state Utah that the federal government had stolen...
Pulled us out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) in favor of the American worker and sovereignty...
Ban on transgender military recruits.
Now, you need to close your eyes and imagine what the list above would look like had #NeverTrump won the day and made Hillary Clinton president...
... the five phases of the Muslim Brotherhood Movement in North America.
Phase One: Phase of discreet and secret establishment of leadership.
Phase Two: Phase of gradual appearance on the public scene and exercising and utilizing various public activities. Establishing a shadow government (secret) within the Government.
... Candidate Obama gave specific guidance for staffing his administration, captured in an email from September 2008, advisers would choose Arab Muslims over Arab Christians for the top jobs.
While the Obama transition team aimed to hire Muslims "for the top jobs," President Obama directed his cabinet and political appointees to develop and implement "Muslim Outreach" programs. The program would be available nationwide for all elementary school students grade K-12...
Another cabinet member, Secretary Hillary Clinton, stressed her belief that "we must increase outreach not simply to American Muslims, but to Muslims around the world." Secretary Clinton's right-hand aide, Huma Abedin, may have been the go-to person for the State Department's "Muslim outreach" programs...
Also remember, Barack Obama also reversed President Bush's policy and removed the FBI from conducting surveillance on mosques...
