The President Trump Immigration Thread

[SheepDog4Life]

I missed the part where he suggested end-running the legislature...and the separation of powers.

First, I don't think Trump should go down that path for many reasons stated here and elsewhere.

BUT, to say he is doing something "extra-legal" is not correct, IMO. The congress, in it's wisdom, gave the occupant of the oval office the discretion to declare national emergencies, take certain actions and spend monies set aside for emergencies.

Is it within the law for him to declare the situation at the Southern border a national emergency? It either is or isn't, regardless of whether it's a good idea or not. A lot of this is left to the discretion of the current president.

 

[actaeon277]

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...cies-in-history-civil-war-to-9-11-to-the-wall

 

[T.Lex]

https://www.wthr.com/article/two-us-citizens-detained-border-agent-after-speaking-spanish

This shouldn't happen.

The agent held Ana Suda and Martha Hernandez for 40 minutes in a parking lot in the city of Havre in May 2018 without reasonable suspicion or probable cause, according to the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Great Falls.
...
“Ma’am, the reason I asked you for your ID is because I came in here and I saw that you guys are speaking Spanish, which is very unheard of up here,” O’Neill said in the video.

 

[MarkC]

https://www.wthr.com/article/two-us-citizens-detained-border-agent-after-speaking-spanish

This shouldn't happen.

So does that seem like a violation of a "clearly established" constitutional right?

Trying to defend cases like that are why I'm glad in a way that I have left my old, old job.

 

[JettaKnight]

Number one, they are clearly not "guys" but women... hot women...

Number two, I'm sure many of our peers think this is exactly what should happen.

 

[jamil]

https://www.wthr.com/article/two-us-citizens-detained-border-agent-after-speaking-spanish

This shouldn't happen.

Wha? Speaking a foreign language isn't probably cause for police to detain people? The hell you say.

 

[MarkC]

Number one, they are clearly not "guys" but women... hot women...

Maybe that's the real reason for the detention?

 

[Dead Duck]

Well, 100% of Mexican illegal aliens in the US speak Spanish. Call it racial profiling but that was the correct group to go after.

 

[MarkC]

Well, 100% of Mexican illegal aliens in the US speak Spanish. Call it racial profiling but that was the correct group to go after.

You know, you're onto something! Since most general crime is committed by English speaking white males, let's do some proactive detentions!

 

[JettaKnight]

INGO just delivered quicker than Jimmy John's!

 

[jamil]

Number one, they are clearly not "guys" but women... hot women...

Number two, I'm sure many of our peers think this is exactly what should happen.

Number one, hot? Eh, not unattractive, but I wouldn't say hot. Number two, perhaps you should post an anonymous poll to find out exactly how "INGO" it is to think people daring to speak Spanish should be stopped and questioned.

 

[T.Lex]

Well, 100% of Mexican illegal aliens in the US speak Spanish. Call it racial profiling but that was the correct group to go after.

 

[JettaKnight]

Number one, hot? Eh, not unattractive, but I wouldn't say hot. Number two, perhaps you should post an anonymous poll to find out exactly how "INGO" it is to think people daring to speak Spanish should be stopped and questioned.

Yeah... I like being on INGO, so I'll let someone else do that...


Oh, and I have it on good authority that 100% of British illegal aliens speak English.

 

[Route 45]

Well, 100% of Mexican illegal aliens in the US speak Spanish. Call it racial profiling but that was the correct group to go after.

Maybe we could make Spanish speakers wear armbands or something, to make it easier to go after them.

 

[Kutnupe14]

Lol. I won't say it, but I'm thinking it...

 

[ArcadiaGP]

 

[Dead Duck]

Maybe we could make Spanish speakers wear armbands or something, to make it easier to go after them.

The Illegals I grew up with call those - Bandanas.

 

[Route 45]

Beto O’Rourke may have inadvertently got the ball rolling this week on an emerging litmus test for Democrats eyeing the White House in 2020 when he said he “absolutely” supports tearing down the existing barriers along the southern border with Mexico.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/tear-down-that-border-wall-the-new-dem-litmus-test

 

[jamil]

So now for 2020 we get to see two extremes competing to have the craziest positions on stuff.

 

[KLB]

So now for 2020 we get to see two extremes competing to have the craziest positions on stuff.