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Friday, December 2, 2016

NEW SOCIALIST U.N. CHIEF TO EUROPE: IGNORE VOTERS, OPEN THE BORDERS~OBAMA EXPRESSES "CONFIDENCE" IN HIM

UN refugee chief urges countries to open their borders to Syria's refugees

NEW SOCIALIST UN CHIEF TO EUROPE: 
IGNORE VOTERS, OPEN THE BORDERS
BY ALEX NEWMAN
SEE: http://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/europe/item/24744-new-un-chief-to-europe-ignore-voters-open-the-bordersrepublished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:

Incoming United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres last week urged European Union politicians and bureaucrats to ignore voters and open up their borders, claiming the growing Islamic tsunami of African and Middle Eastern immigration into the West was “inevitable” anyway. Critics were outraged. Speaking like a committed globalist, the Socialist UN boss also argued that “multi-ethnic,” “multi-religious,” and “multi-cultural” societies would be the only ones to succeed.  
On a visit to Communist China this week, though, not a word was said by the new UN chief about the brutal regime's penchant for kidnapping savagely persecuted North Koreans and sending them back to be tortured and then murdered by the most barbarous totalitarian dictatorship on the planet. Instead, Guterres praised the communist tyrants in Beijing, currently engaged in what experts call the “cultural genocide” of Tibet, and encouraged the regime to continue pursuing its leadership role in what the UN refers to as “global governance.”
At a think-tank conference for European policymakers in his hometown of Lisbon, dubbed “Vision Europe Summit,” Guterres attacked the idea that sovereign nations have a right to control their borders. “The idea that management of migration is a matter of national sovereignty is extremely limited,” he was quoted as saying in European media reports later picked up by Breitbart. “The truth is that in the meantime, the real controllers of international mobility are the smugglers and criminal organizations. It must be recognized that migration is inevitable and will not stop.”
In essence, Guterres argued that only open borders and legal mass migration could shut down people-smuggling organizations. Developing “legal migration opportunities,” the incoming UN boss said, is the “only way to fight against criminal networks.” Similar arguments might be made for burglary, rape, racketeering, assassination services, abortion, and more — just legalize it, then criminals will not control the market for it.   
Other top UN officials, such as Bilderberg operative, Goldman Sachs man, and UN migration czar Peter Sutherland have made similarly outrageous remarks. “I will ask the governments to cooperate, to recognize that sovereignty is an illusion — that sovereignty is an absolute illusion that has to be put behind us,” Sutherland argued last year in an official UN publication. “The days of hiding behind borders and fences are long gone.” In short, the UN is waging open war on national sovereignty, in part through its extreme demands for open borders and mass immigration into the West.
Guterres was also clear in his recent remarks: Politicians and policymakers must ignore citizens and voters in order to choose the “values” of open borders and the end of nations. “When elected officials hesitate to choose between values and the next election, I would advise them to choose values,” he said, with “values” standing not for traditional Judeo-Christian values or even democratic values of self-government, but rather, for extremist globalist and socialist values. “If they go for short term [electoral gain] they will lose both, because there will always come a time when they lose an election. At that point, it becomes very hard to recover the values that have been abandoned.”
The longtime Socialist Party leader, who served as the prime minister of Portugal and led the globalist and totalitarian-minded Socialist International alliance for five years, also argued — yet again — that the massive migration swamping the Western world “is not the problem, but the solution.” In a TV interview earlier this year, Guterres, who led the UN “refugee” bureaucracy before being selected to lead the full dictator-dominated UN, referred to opponents of open borders as “irrational.” “Migration is, in my opinion, part of the solution to the global problems,” he added, without specifying which alleged problems open borders would supposedly solve.   
Despite calling for ignoring or outright defying voters, Guterres also suggested that governments should manipulate public opinion by trying to convince their subjects that the open-borders extremism is actually good for them. “We must convince [Europeans] that migration is inevitable and that it is the multiethnic societies which are multicultural and multi-religious who are building wealth,” he said.
Critics, though, blasted the false claims, and suggested the comments urging policymakers to defy the citizens they ostensibly represent and serve were dangerous, outrageous, and extreme. Breitbart London also cited a growing body of data showing that, rather than making European countries more prosperous, massive Third World immigration is serving as a huge drain on public funds. In the Netherlands, for example, some two thirds of non-European immigrants who arrived during the 1990s are still living on tax-funded welfare payments, according to Dutch research. Similar trends have been observed in other European nations with bloated welfare states and massive immigration.   
Other critics of the open-borders extremism touted by Guterres and his comrades have been even more blunt. Hungarian Prime Minster Viktor Orban, for example, has argued that globalist-engineered wave of Islamic immigration into Europe was orchestrated by a “treasonous conspiracy.” The goal of the “internationalist fanatics” behind the plotting, he said, was to undermine the West, Christianity, culture, and the nation-state itself as part of the globalist push to create what establishment figures around the globe often describe as a “New World Order.”
UN and EU bureaucracies are all on the bandwagon, too. UNESCO, for example, which is seeking to globalize the indoctrination of children, recently helped produce a TV commercial encouraging German women to wear Islamic head scarves as part of “tolerance.” The UN refugee bureaucracy, meanwhile, is in charge of selecting immigrants from around the world to be settled in the United States at taxpayer expense. And the extremism is only getting worse.   
Ironically, Guterres' comments in Lisbon last week were a sharp contrast to those made before a brutal totalitarian regime. The new UN boss, set to take office on January 1, was in China to meet with its brutal Communist Party dictator, Xi Jinping. (His regime fervently backed Socialist Guterres after Bulgarian Communist Party operative and UNESCO boss Irina Bokova's campaign for the post imploded amid scandal and public exposure.) “China is more and more involved in international affairs, and that is very much welcomed,” Guterres told the regime's propaganda and espionage service Xinhua.
But unlike his comments to European leaders urging them to defy voters and open the borders, there was no lecturing of the savage Chinese regime by Guterres on refugees or opening its own borders. And that is despite the fact UN itself documented that Beijing has forcibly returned tens of thousands of North Korean refugees — knowing full well that they would be imprisoned, tortured, and executed by Beijing's close barbarous ally Kim Jong Un. The regime in China calls the North Koreans “economic migrants” and claims they are not entitled to protection, sending them home to face a certain murder following savage torture.   
Instead of urging Beijing to stop murdering North Koreans, persecuting Christians, harvesting organs from Falun Gong practitioners, censoring the Internet, jailing and torturing critics, forcing women to abort their children, and other barbaric practices, Guterres had nothing but praise for the tyrants in Beijing. According to the left-wing establishment mouthpiece New York Times, “Mr. Guterres’s visit, which ended on Tuesday, was another chance for China to promote its growing role in global governance.” “Mr. Guterres praised China during his visit,” the Times added.
The feeling was apparently mutual, with the dictator, Xi, showering praise on the UN dictators club and calling it “the most universal, representative and authoritative intergovernmental international organization.” Indeed, as The New American has reported in a series of in-depth investigations, the brutal regime in Beijing — installed with crucial support from Western globalists — is set to play a key role in the so-called “New World Order” being imposed on humanity. Guterres expressed delight at the growing role the Chinese Communist Party is playing in “global governance.”  
The new UN chief's affinity for open borders and brutal communist dictatorships, though, is hardly surprising. As this magazine documented when his selection was announced, Guterres has a long history of promoting socialism, globalism, and other violent extremism. Perhaps among the most significant red flags (no pun intended) on Guterres' troubling résumé was his presidency, from 1999 to 2005, of the Socialist International. Often referred to as SI, the outfit is a global alliance of socialist and communist political parties from around the world, including many re-branded “former” communist parties from the Cold War era that murdered and tortured huge numbers of people. Despite the lack of coverage the outfit receives from the U.S. establishment media, the SI alliance is extraordinarily powerful — especially at the UN, where its members control a massive voting bloc and multiple UN bureaucracies.
The outfit is also extremely radical and dangerous. To understand just how extreme Socialist International is, consider that, in 2012, the alliance unapologetically held its annual Congress in an African nation led by a Marxist-Leninist SI-member political party that, according to leading genocide experts, was at that very moment engaged in the planning and preparation phase of genocide in a bid to exterminate an embattled minority group. Earlier that year, the president and party chief who hosted the SI Congress even went on national television to sing songs in front of his military celebrating massacring members of the minority group with his “machine gun.” SI profusely praised its hosts nonetheless.
Unsurprisingly, the brutal communist regime in Beijing was represented at the summit, too. “Vice-Minister of the International Department of the Communist Party of China Central Committee” Liu Jieyi, for example, lectured assembled attendees on the “social democratic response to the financial crisis.” Seriously. Representatives from murderous and un-free regimes and totalitarian parties from around the world were also in attendance, demanding more “global governance,” more wealth redistribution from Western taxpayers to their corrupt governments, what they call “Global Welfare Statehood,” and other extremism. SI has previously called for “world government” in official statements.  
Guterres' call for Western governments to defy voters and citizens, and his ludicrous claim that immigration policy is not a matter of national sovereignty, illustrate perfectly why the United States must urgently exit the UN and evict its headquarters from U.S. soil. Legislation to do that, the American Sovereignty Restoration Act, is already sitting in Congress waiting for enough public pressure to force its passage. With globalists increasingly coming out of the closet with their dangerous totalitarian extremism, the time to demand an American exit from the UN — or an “Amexit” — is now.
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Thursday, December 1, 2016

FIRST ISRAEL, NOW SWEDEN BURNING: STOCKHOLM IN FLAMES AS ARSON JIHAD EPIDEMIC RAGES IN "NO GO" ZONES

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SWEDEN BURNING: STOCKHOLM IN FLAMES 
AS ARSON JIHAD EPIDEMIC RAGES 
IN "NO GO" ZONES 
BY PAMELA GELLER
SEE: http://pamelageller.com/2016/11/sweden-burning-stockholm-flames-arson-jihad-epidemic-rages-no-go-zones.html/republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:

Police lose control in Sweden to Muslims, but we are admonished and smeared for questioning the hijrah from the Middle East and Africa.
Trump is under enormous pressure from the left to alter his vow to halt this invasion. He must not waver.
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SWEDEN BURNING: STOCKHOLM IN FLAMES AS CAR FIRE EPIDEMIC RAGES IN ‘NO-GO’ ZONE

SHOCKING footage of cars burning out in Stockholm has emerged as the fire epidemic continues to spread uncontrolled throughout crisis-hit Sweden.
By Lizzie Stromme, The Express, Nov 30, 2016
The Scandinavian country has been plagued with arsonist thugs setting vehicles alight, with since 2015.In 2016 alone, more than 70 cars have been destroyed as  to combat the increasing  in the famously liberal country.
The latest video shows three cars in Hallunda in southern Stockholm engulfed by flames as firefighters battle to put out the blaze.
Overnight Sunday another car was also reported to be burning out in the crime hotbed, which was heavily hit by arson attacks in 2015.
Hallunda was one of the cities which was placed on Sweden’s National Criminal Investigation Service’s list over “no-go” zones due to the police force’s increased lack of control over anti-social behaviour.In February, Express.co.uk reported the Scandinavian country had seen a huge surge in crime since the start of the migrant crisis in Europe – with a rise in sex assaults, drug dealing and children carrying weapons.At the time around 50 areas were put on a “blacklist” which are then divided into three categories from “risk areas” to “seriously vulnerable” as it was announced Stockholm had over 20 no-go areas where over 75,000 people live.However, the figure was increased to 55 in September as the, with on average three officers handing in their notice every day.
Hallunda, with a population with just over 14,000, was one of the areas where it was claimed violence was flourishing due to high immigration, low employment rates and bad living conditions.In 2015 alone Sweden, with a population of 9.5 million, received over 160,000 asylum applications, resulting in the country closing its internal borders despite being a member of the Schengen Area, in a desperate attempt to.The report also said children aged 12 carry weapons for older criminals and 70 cars and buildings were set on fire in an arson spate last year.The southern city of  over the summer, as almost a 100 car fires ripped through the country’s third-largest city.
Car burning RT
The Scandinavian country has been plagued with arsonist thugs setting vehicles a blaze


AMAZON ROLLS OUT ANTI TRUMP PRO ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT AD

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In the Wake of Ohio University Jihad Attack, Amazon Rolls-Out ANTI-TRUMP, Pro-Migrant Ad

BY PAMELA GELLER
SEE: http://pamelageller.com/2016/11/amazon-anti-trump-pro-jihad-ad.html/republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:

As the invasion of Europe brings that continent to the brink of war, left wing Islamic apologists and their running dogs in the media are working furiously to pressure President-elect Trump to back down from his pledge to stop the same invasion of America.
One day after a Muslim migrant mowed down and slashed Ohio University students with a machete, Amazon launched a pro-Muslim migrant, anti-Trump ad.
In the latest cultural psyop, Amazon has created an ad that is being promoted heavily in the enemedia. “A priest and an imam are sitting down for tea…..” Do they discuss the genocide of Christians in Muslim lands? Do they discuss the creed apartheid under Islamic law? Do they attempt to tackle the worldwide jihad and its millions of victims? No, in the liberal fantasist bubble, they play patty-cake and buy presents for each other (even though Christmas is haram and Christians are persecuted for celebrating the birth of Jesus in many Muslim countries).
I am sure a priest and imam can sit down and have a chat. But so what? What about the dead and dying? Anecdotal stories of dhimmitude does nothing to address the Quranic texts and teachings exhorting Muslims to kill the non-believers. What it does do is further disarm the American people in the information battle-space.

                                  A PRIEST AND AN IMAM 
ARE SITTING DOWN FOR TEA.
CNN, November 30, 2016:
It’s not the beginning of a joke. It’s Amazon’s newest ad, and it serves up a healthy dose of anti-Trump messaging.
In the ad, the priest and the imam are friends — and they’re not getting any younger. They share a hug, the imam leaves, and both take out their smartphones and tap on the Amazon app. Two days later, they receive the same package from each other: knee braces. The priest genuflects without pain. The imam kneels for prayer, and he feels just fine.
If the commercial had come out last year, it would have been the usual heart-warming stuff, quickly forgotten.
But the ad has already erupted on social media, even tweeted by Amazon’s Twitter-shy CEO, Jeff Bezos.
Amazon’s ad offers a not-so-subtle counterargument to some of the angry anti-Muslim rhetoric espoused by President-elect Donald Trump and his supporters.
As talk bubbles of Muslim registries and even a potential ban on Muslim immigrants, Amazon’s message offers a different approach: We are people first. We embrace the things that make us different, but we’re all very much the same. Muslims have arthritis, too.
In a statement, Amazon spokeswoman Julie Law said the ad was not connected to any political movement.
“This advertisement was produced and booked to appear on TV before the election result was known, so this certainly isn’t a reaction to that,” she said.

Last December, he went on a Twitter tirade against Bezos. Trump argued that Bezos had bought The Washington Post in 2013 to persuade Washington politicians to keep Amazon’s taxes low and help the company avoid antitrust scrutiny. And Trump said that because he will be tough on Amazon as president, Bezos used the Post to publish nasty articles about Trump in an attempt to keep him out of the White House.
“This is owned as a toy by Jeff Bezos who controls Amazon,” Trump told Fox News’ Sean Hannity in May. “Amazon is getting away with murder tax-wise. He’s using The Washington Post for power so that the politicians in Washington don’t tax Amazon like they should be taxed.”
Shares of Amazon (AMZNTech30) have fallen nearly 5% since Election Day, wiping out about $20 billion in market value.

TRUMP PICKS ELAINE CHAO, WIFE OF MITCH MCCONNELL, FOR TRANSPORTATION SECRETARY

TRUMP PICKS ELAINE CHAO FOR TRANSPORTATION SECRETARY 
WIFE OF MITCH MCCONNELL

BY BOB ADELMANN
SEE: http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/24736-trump-picks-elaine-chao-for-transportation-secretaryrepublished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:

President-elect Donald Trump picked Elaine Chao (shown) for secretary of the U.S. Department of Transportation on Tuesday, raising concerns about her connections with the Republican establishment as well as China. Some of those concerns are balanced by her affiliations with pro-freedom and pro-free market organizations.
If confirmed, she will face a host of issues, including managing a $1 trillion program to rebuild the nation’s infrastructure of bridges, tunnels, airports, railroads, ports, waterways, and pipelines (assuming the package is funded by Congress). She will be tasked with reducing or eliminating the “burdensome regulations” often derided by Trump during his campaign. There are the ongoing issues of safety recalls due to airbag failures affecting some 50 million vehicles that were recalled in 2015. She will be challenged with finding a way to accommodate drones flying in U.S. airspace, and completing a “comprehensive review” of the government’s present fuel economy and emissions standards. There's talk of privatizing the air traffic control system. And her agency will continue to monitor General Motors in its ongoing issues with ignition-switch failures that have allegedly resulted in 124 deaths.
Chao arrived in the United States on a freighter in 1961 at age eight along with her family, who were fleeing the communist revolution on mainland China. After obtaining degrees from Mount Holyoke College and the Harvard Business School, she worked her way up to vice president of syndications at the Bank of America and then worked in international banking for Citigroup. Following that, she served as deputy transportation secretary in the George H.W. Bush administration.
She then was named director of the Peace Corp, after which she worked for four years as president and CEO of United Way, rebuilding that group’s credibility following a financial scandal involving the previous president.
In 1996, she was a distinguished fellow at the conservative Heritage Foundation until George W. Bush appointed her as his labor secretary. After serving eight years in that administration, she returned to the Heritage Foundation, and just this summer became a fellow at the conservative Hudson Institute as well.
There are both “pluses” and “minuses” about Chao’s nomination by Trump to be his transportation secretary.
Pluses
She has been heartily endorsed by former Secretary of Transportation James Burnley under President Ronald Reagan, who said that Chao “knows DOT [the Department of Transportation] and its issues well” and “is a strong believer in free markets, and I expect she will approach most economic issues from that perspective.”
A not-so-friendly endorsement came from Thomas McGarity, a law professor at the University of Texas and author of Freedom to Harm, a book about the labor department that included some of Chao’s tenure. He told the Associated Press that she is likely to be “skeptical” of adding new regulations and may in fact attempt to roll some of them back. He added “She’s not going to be especially inclined to second-guess the [automobile] industry when they say that [a new technology] is safe.” McGarity added that Chao is “a strong advocate of letting the markets function as they will [and] not intervening into private sector arrangements.” Under Chao, OSHA (the Occupational Safety and Health Administration) — part of the Department of Labor — didn’t issue a single significant new safety regulation for four years.
Also on the "political" plus side for Trump, Chao has been married to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell since 1993, which could prove politically useful when Trump brings his gigantic infrastructure funding bill to the Senate (assuming it gets past the House first).
Another plus: she served as a board member of Bloomberg Philanthropies until that group decided to back the Sierra Club’s “Beyond Coal” initiative that would hurt coal miners in her state of Kentucky. Then she resigned.
She also got a “negative” endorsement from the mouthpiece of the liberal establishment, the New York Times, which described Chao as “an unapologetically ambitious operator with an expansive network, a short fuse, and a seemingly inexhaustible drive to get to the top and stay there.” This negative endorsement is rated as a plus for Chao.
Minuses
She worked closely for many years with both Bushes, unequivocal establishment insiders, while her stints with the Bank of America and Citigroup added their luster to her already expanding resume.
She serves as a board member of the Institute of Politics at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government as well as a board member of News Corp, owned and controlled by insider Rupert Murdoch.
She is a member of the world-government-promoting Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and was part of a coalition of former Bush administration officials that came out at the last minute in support of Donald Trump, including former Treasury Secretary John Snow, former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft, and former Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson.
At a ceremony in Shanghai in 2013 Chao said, "The U.S.-China relations[hip] is among the most important bilateral relationships in the world. And as such, there is no other alternative but to have a harmonious and a cooperative relationship. As with any relationship, there are bound to be ups, downs, disagreements, but in the overall scheme of things, in the overall direction, for the benefit of the world, [the] U.S. and China must get along, and must find a way to do so." This, it must be remembered, is the same Chinese government that murdered tens of millions of its citizens, and that sponsors organ harvesting through kidnapping, as shown in a documentary by NTD Television in 2012.
On top of all that, there is the nasty bit of business that was exposed by the liberal Nation in October 2014: One of the cargo ships belonging to Chao’s father, the owner of Foremost Maritime Corporation, the Ping May, was found, during a routine inspection by Colombian authorities, to contain ninety pounds of cocaine. It was headed from Colombia to the Netherlands. The Nation gleefully reported further that Chao’s family had made substantial gifts to the couple while supporting financially McConnell’s run for the Senate that year.
Chao’s checkered history, though not enough to prove that Trump has sold out, is certainly enough to raise a red (pun intended) flag. The hope is that Trump is smart enough to know when he’s being manipulated into taking positions that he opposes by the likes of Elaine Chao.

Wednesday, November 30, 2016

TEXAS GOVERNOR ABBOTT TO SIGN LAW BANNING ILLEGAL ALIEN SANCTUARY CITIES

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to Sanctuary Cities: 

You Will ‘Comply With the Law’

TEXAS GOVERNOR ABBOTT TO SIGN LAW BANNING ILLEGAL ALIEN SANCTUARY CITIES
BY WARREN MASS
SEE: http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/immigration/item/24725-texas-governor-abbott-to-sign-law-banning-illegal-alien-sanctuary-citiesrepublished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:

Texas Governor Greg Abbott (shown) has said he’ll sign a law banning sanctuary cities in the Lone Star State. In a November 27 reply to an inquiry from a Twitter user who asked whether he would respond to overtures from political candidates who want Travis County to stop cooperating with ICE agents and make Austin a sanctuary city, Abbott tweeted back: “I'm going to sign a law that bans sanctuary cities. Also I’ve already issued an order cutting funding to sanctuary cities.”
Abbott criticized Dallas County Sheriff Lupe Valdez in October 2015 after she said she would no longer comply with immigration hold requests for people accused of minor offenses, saying: “Your decision to not fully honor ICE’s requests to detain criminal immigrants poses a serious danger to Texans. These detainers provide ICE with the critical notice and time it needs to take incarcerated immigrants into federal custody.”
Sanctuary cities essentially are those that refuse to cooperate in enforcing federal immigration law and refuse to hold illegal aliens arrested on minor charges until ICE agents can pick them up. Under the Immigration and Nationality Act, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) may issue an immigration detainer to another federal, or to a state or local law-enforcement agency, to inform the agency that ICE intends to assume custody of an individual and to request that the agency notify ICE prior to the time when the individual would otherwise be released. It is this type of cooperation that the sanctuary cities refuse to engage in.
On November 15, Texas State Senator Charles Perry (R-Lubbock) filed a bill (S.B. 4) to end “sanctuary cities” in Texas and force compliance with Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainers.
Courthouse News Service (CN) reported on November 18 that S.B. 4 requires local law-enforcement officers to provide notice to a judge or magistrate that an arrested person is in the country illegally if he or she cannot prove a legal right to be in the country within 48 hours.
The law would allow people to file complaints with the Texas attorney general if local authorities carry out sanctuary city policies that discourage enforcement of federal immigration laws.
The attorney general would then have authority to pursue the alleged violations in court, and the local municipality would be denied state grant money for the following year.
Perry explained his bill as follows:
Put simply, sanctuary city policies are any policies that prevent law enforcement from enforcing immigration laws already on the books. This can include, but is not limited to, prohibiting officers from inquiring about immigration status of suspected criminals or ignoring immigration detainers in our corrections system
CN cited Perry’s statement that more than 204,000 criminal aliens were in Texas jails between June 1, 2011 and October 31 this year.
“Of those, 66 percent were identified as being in the U.S. illegally at the time of their last arrest,” Perry said. “These arrests include 1,101 homicide charges, 65,118 assault charges, and 5,745 sexual assault charges.”
The Texas Tribune reported on August 31 that the Democratic candidate for Travis County sheriff, Constable Sally Hernandez, had promised to remove U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, from the county jail. She promised that, if elected, she would not hold illegal-alien inmates for ICE when the federal agency seeks to deport them.
“I just don’t think you solve the criminal justice process by deporting them,” Hernandez told the Texas Tribuneduring an interview in her office during the last week of August. “We talk about being progressive. I believe we need to lead the way.”
Hernandez’ Republican opponent, Joe Martinez, favored cooperating with ICE by holding immigrants the agency wants, as did the current sheriff of Travis County, Democrat Greg Hamilton.
“How can you release somebody back into the population to do more harm? Where is it going to stop? When you hurt or maim and kill somebody? An American citizen or another immigrant? The federal government has a job to do,” the Tribune quote Martinez as saying. “Let’s let them do their job.”
However, Hernandez won the race for Travis County Sheriff, whose jurisdiction includes the city of Austin, by a landslide, winning 60 percent of the vote to Martinez’ 32 percent.
It was probably this event that prompted the individual who tweeted Abbot to ask what he intended to do about Texas cities who declared themselves to be “sanctuary cities.”
The rise of sanctuary cities is a phenomenon that has appeared across the United States, especially in areas dominated by liberal Democratic-controlled city governments. A November 15 AP report noted several mayors who said they will resist President-elect Donald Trump’s plan to increase deportations of illegal aliens and refuse to cooperate in enforcing federal immigration laws. These include New York’s Bill de Blasio, Chicago’s Rahm Emanuel, and Seattle's Ed Murray.
“Seattle has always been a welcoming city,” the report quoted Murray as stating on November 14. “The last thing I want is for us to start turning on our neighbors.”
Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck told the Los Angeles Times that he will stick to a longtime hands-off policy on immigration issues. L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti supports that position, but stopped short of calling L.A. a sanctuary city because he said the term is “ill-defined.”
And, noted AP, Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney restored sanctuary status to the city when he took office in January and said last week that the city would “protect” its residents, presumably from federal enforcement measures.
During the presidential campaign, Trump gave a speech in which he promised to “end the sanctuary cities” and said those “that refuse to cooperate with federal authorities will not receive taxpayer dollars.” He blamed such policies for “so many needless deaths.”
While Trump’s promise to enforce our nation’s immigration laws is commendable, there is a good chance that most of those taxpayer dollars he threatened to withhold should not have been sent to the states anyway. If Trump aspires to be a constitutionalist president, he will do well to remember the words of James Madison, who has been called the father of our Constitution:
The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation and foreign commerce. ... The powers reserved to the several States will extend to all the objects which in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives and liberties, and properties of the people, and the internal order, improvement and prosperity of the State.
An ideal solution to ending sanctuary cities, therefore, might be to forget about granting or withholding federal funds to them, and supporting governors such as Greg Abbott who will do what needs to be done at the state level.
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CLINTON SUPPORTERS' THREATS TO ELECTORS ARE ESCALATING

CLINTON SUPPORTERS' THREATS TO ELECTORS ARE ESCALATING 
BY RAVEN CLABOUGH
SEE: http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/24724-clinton-supporters-threats-to-electors-are-escalatingrepublished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:

The “tolerant” Left continues to flail in the weeks following the presidential election. Clinton supporters have already made headlines over their petulant and in some cases violent reactions to the election results, but after their kicking and screaming has failed to make any change, they’ve resorted to bullying and threats. According to WND.com, disgruntled individuals and groups have reached out to Electoral College voters not only to persuade them to switch their votes to Hillary Clinton, but also to threaten them with violence if they refuse.
The Electoral College will convene on December 19 so that the electors can cast their votes for Trump or Clinton, and all electors have pledged to vote for the candidate elected by their state.
But Clinton’s supporters are reaching out to the electors in states wherein it is not illegal for electors to change their votes. WND writes, “If Clinton’s supporters can get enough of the 163 electors from states where Trump both won and votes can legally be switched on Dec. 19, Hillary Clinton becomes the next president of the United States.”
In the history of the Electoral College, it is extremely rare for electors to vote against the candidate elected by their state. According to Fairvote.org, there have been 157 electors since the founding of the Electoral College who changed their vote, of which 71 were changed because the original candidate died before the Electoral College cast its votes, and three chose to abstain from casting their vote for any candidate. No faithless elector has changed the outcome of an election.
Therefore, Clinton’s supporters are resorting to escalating threats to convince electors to violate their duties to vote for the candidate chosen by the state. According to BuzzFeed, the #NotMyPresident Alliance released the personal information of dozens of Electoral College members in states that went to Trump in an effort to encourage disgruntled people to reach out to and sway the electors.
One such harassed elector is Michael Banerian of Oakland County, Michigan, who told the Detroit News that he has received numerous threatening e-mails demanding that he vote for Clinton instead of Trump, despite it being illegal for Banerian to change his electoral vote in Michigan. “You have people saying ‘you’re a hateful bigot, I hope you die,'” he said. “I’ve had people talk about shoving a gun in my mouth and blowing my brains out. And I’ve received dozens and dozens of those emails. Even the non-threatening-my-life emails are very aggressive.”
“I’ve just gotten a lot of ‘you’re a hateful bigot and I hope you die,’ which is kind of ironic,” Banerian said, “that they’re calling me hateful and yet wishing for my death. They don’t even know me.”
Banerian is not the only one, according to the Michigan Republican Party. “Hearing from them that they are also receiving threats, I’m interested in getting a consensus from the group … and seeing if it’s something that we should report to the police,” Sarah Anderson, the Michigan Republican Party spokeswoman, told theNews. “It’s obviously something that we’re taking very seriously.”
Electors in Arizona are also being harassed, Fox News reports. “Arizona’s presidential electors are reportedly being hit by a flood of emails and phone calls demanding they defy the voters in their state and choose Hillary Clinton instead of President-elect Donald Trump — as part of a last-gasp bid to overturn the election,” Fox reported.
Georgia’s electors too are being bullied and threatened by Clinton supporters, as indicated in a statement by Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp. “The Presidential election is over but, unfortunately, the vitriol remains,” said Kemp. “Our office has received numerous reports of individuals hurling insults and threats at Georgia’s Electors because they are unsettled with America’s choice for President of the United States. This is absolutely unacceptable and those participating in or encouraging these efforts should stop. The electoral process in America has worked, and everyone — Republicans, Democrats, Independents, and others — should respect the will of Georgia’s voters and the Electors who represent them.”
In Texas, Republican Alex Kim said he and his fellow electors have been bombarded with e-mails and phone calls asking them to switch their votes to Clinton. “At first, everyone was kind of enchanted by it,” Kim told NBC5 in Dallas-Fort Worth. "Now all the electors are starting to get beaten down. There are some electors who have been threatened with harm or with death.”
Two Democratic electors are leading a movement called #HamiltonElectors to encourage members of the Electoral College to “vote their conscience” and dump Trump, the Washington Times reports.
Additionally, over four million people have signed a petition on Change.org asking all of the 538 electors to vote for Clinton instead of Trump. The petition reads like the rant of an angry bunch of sore losers:
On December 19, the Electors of the Electoral College will cast their ballots. If they all vote the way their states voted, Donald Trump will win. However, in 14 of the states in Trump's column, they can vote for Hillary Clinton without any legal penalty if they choose.
We are calling on the 149 Electors in those states to ignore their states' votes and cast their ballots for Secretary Clinton. Why?
Mr. Trump is unfit to serve. His scapegoating of so many Americans, and his impulsivity, bullying, lying, admitted history of sexual assault, and utter lack of experience make him a danger to the Republic.
Secretary Clinton WON THE POPULAR VOTE and should be President.
 Hillary won the popular vote. The only reason Trump "won" is because of the Electoral College.
But the Electoral College can actually give the White House to either candidate. So why not use this most undemocratic of our institutions to ensure a democratic result?
SHE WON THE POPULAR VOTE.
There is no reason Trump should be President.
"It's the 'People's Will'"
No. She won the popular vote.
"Our system of government under our Constitution says he wins"
No. Our Constitution says the Electors choose.
"Too many states prohibit 'Faithless Electors'"
24 states bind electors. If electors vote against their party, they usually pay a fine. And people get mad. But they can vote however they want and there is no legal means to stop them in most states.
The irony, of course, is that the petition calls Trump a bully when the same people who support the petition are in fact bullying electors to vote for the person they want.
Meanwhile, the ire over the Electoral College as seen in the petition results from a fundamental lack of understanding of what it means to be a constitutional republic versus a democracy. It is a sad testament to the fact that public and higher education is failing to teach Americans the history of the republic and the government that was created by the Founding Fathers. Those who support the Electoral College understand that it was designed to protect the smaller states from being dominated by the more heavily populated ones.
For some, however, it's more important to get their way than to protect everyone under the Constitution. They are still reeling from the fact that their safe spaces have failed to protect them from the blow that the election dealt.