Re: Boiled Green Peanuts

On 10/25/2024 8:31 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> He and his cult thinks the Democrats are the ones violating the
> Constitution.

And they are.

Open southern border (a direct violation of Article 2) = all DEMOTARDS!

You treasonous scumbitch!

https://www.city-journal.org/article/bidens-border-policy-is-an-impeachable-offense

The House of Representatives has launched an impeachment inquiry into 
whether Joe Biden, while serving as vice president, abused the powers of 
his office to enrich and protect his dissolute son and himself. But if 
Republicans are going to pursue such a step, they might have stronger 
grounds in focusing not only on Biden’s vice presidential deeds but also 
on his refusal, as president, to exercise his own powers and 
responsibilities—namely, by failing to enforce federal immigration laws.

A president’s most basic obligation is to enforce, or execute, federal 
laws as written and passed by Congress. The opening line of Article II 
of the Constitution declares, “The executive Power shall be vested in a 
President of the United States of America.” The essence of executive 
power is the authority—and the corresponding responsibility—to carry out 
the laws. If any more clarity were needed, the Constitution also states 
that the president “shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully 
executed.” The current immigration crisis is largely a product of 
Biden’s refusal to fulfill his core constitutional duty to enforce 
federal laws.

Under Biden’s presidency, illegal aliens are often willingly turning 
themselves in to the authorities under the guise of seeking asylum, even 
though from fiscal year (FY) 2008 through FY 2019, only 14 percent of 
those claiming a credible fear were actually granted asylum. In the 
words of Raul Ortiz, whom the Biden administration selected as U.S. 
Border Patrol (USBP) chief, aliens are likely “turning themselves in 
because they think they’re going to be released” into the United States. 
This awareness of the likelihood of being released has brought a flood 
of illegal aliens to the American border, a flood that won’t be 
significantly affected by Biden's recently announced change of heart on 
building a few miles of border wall.

Indeed, the cause of the current migrant crisis is Biden’s refusal to 
detain illegal aliens as the law requires. In the words of U.S. District 
Court Judge T. Kent Wetherell, that refusal is “akin to posting a 
flashing ‘Come In, We’re Open’ sign on the southern border.” Aliens—and 
cartels—can hardly miss this signal, and so they have come to the border 
in huge numbers. Calculations by the American Main Street Initiative 
(where I am president), based upon U.S. Customs and Border Protection 
statistics, reveal that in just two and a half years under Biden, 1 
million more encounters with noncitizens at the southwest border have 
taken place than in the prior eight years combined under Presidents 
Obama and Trump.

Many of these noncitizens have stealthily crossed the border and gotten 
away. In fact, Biden has already presided over more “got-aways” than his 
two immediate predecessors combined. Many more have been apprehended at 
the border and summarily released into the U.S. In December 2020 (under 
Donald Trump), the USBP released 17 aliens into our country. Two years 
later, in December 2022 (under Biden), it released 140,355—more than 
8,000 times as many.

As these numbers demonstrate, a night-and-day difference exists between 
immigration enforcement before Biden and under Biden. Of the three most 
recent presidents, Biden is the clear outlier. His refusal to execute 
federal immigration laws is unlike anything we’ve ever seen before from 
any president.

The Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) states that if “an alien 
seeking admission is not clearly and beyond a doubt entitled to be 
admitted, the alien shall be detained for a [removal] proceeding.” It 
also states that “if an alien asserts a credible fear of persecution, he 
or she shall be detained for further consideration of the application 
for asylum.” Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito writes that these 
detention “requirements, as we have held, are mandatory.”

As the American Main Street Initiative points out, “the law requires 
that those entering the U.S. without proper documentation be 
continuously detained until their claim can be adjudicated, since they 
don’t have the documents required to enter lawfully.” This law is not 
being enforced. As Andrew Arthur, a former federal immigration judge now 
at the Center for Immigration Studies, writes, “The reason why nearly 
100,000 migrants are jamming the streets and hotels of New York City is 
because the Biden administration refuses to detain them.”

The Biden administration claims that it lacks the space to detain these 
migrants, but this is a thin excuse stemming from a self-inflicted 
wound. Judge Wetherell observes that the Department of Homeland Security 
had the capacity to detain an average daily population (ADP) of 55,000 
people just four years ago, but under the Biden administration “DHS 
requested a reduction to 32,500 ADP for fiscal year 2022” and for FY 
2023 “requested a further reduction to 25,000 ADP.” So the 
administration claims that there isn’t enough detention space, even 
while proposing further reductions in detention space.

When Biden took office, he announced that on Day One his administration 
would “reset” immigration-enforcement policies and that it would 
emphasize “equity.” DHS subsequently announced that it would apply 
Biden’s notions of equity in “the immigration and enforcement context.” 
In practice, this has meant prioritizing equity over law 
enforcement—thereby substituting a de facto new immigration policy for 
Congress’s duly passed policy, which Biden has no constitutional 
authority to do.

In an interview last year, Fox News anchor Bret Baier asked DHS 
Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas whether “it is the objective of the Biden 
administration to reduce—sharply reduce—the total number of illegal 
immigrants coming across the southern border.” Mayorkas amazingly 
wouldn’t answer yes, instead replying, “It is the objective of the Biden 
administration to make sure that we have safe, legal, and orderly 
pathways for individuals to be able to access our legal system.”

Such a policy has had significant consequences. In just the first two 
years under Biden, America’s foreign-born population over the age of 16 
rose by 3.9 million. That’s more than enough people to populate a new 
Los Angeles—or, if you prefer, a new Dallas, Fort Worth, and San Antonio 
combined. This two-year increase of 3.9 million easily surpasses any 
decade-long increase in the foreign-born population prior to 1970–1980.

Sixteen years ago, then-senator Biden said, “No great nation can be in a 
position where they can’t control their borders.” He added that this 
matters “not just for immigration, but it matters for drugs, terror, a 
whole range of other things.” Well, the number of encounters on the 
southwest border between the USBP and those on the terrorist watch list 
increased from three in FY 2019–2020 to 238 in FY 2022–2023. That’s a 
79-fold increase in just three years.

An unsecured border also invites human trafficking. The U.N.’s 
International Organization for Migration now calls our southwest border 
“the deadliest land route for migrants worldwide.” A 2023 DHS Inspector 
General report says, “FY 2022 set the record for migrant deaths with 
more than 800 migrants dying while attempting to cross the Southwest 
border.” The Wall Street Journal reported earlier this year that up to 
30 bodies a month have been found in the Rio Grande near Eagle Pass, 
Texas: “‘It’s like a graveyard,’ said Maverick County Sheriff Tom 
Schmerber. . . . ‘I’ve been working on the border for almost four 
decades and never saw tragedies of this magnitude.’” Particularly 
troubling is the thought of what such treks might mean for innocent 
children. “The border between the ports is no place for a kid,” writes 
Arthur, and that “is likely the safest part of the journey.”

Arthur recently visited Cochise County, on the Arizona–Mexico border, 
where he found an open gate in the border fence. “I was told that there 
are dozens of high-speed chases across the county weekly,” he writes, 
with “many of the drivers” being Americans who are “lured to the border 
via social media to serve as cartel mules carrying drug and migrant 
‘loads’ with promises of adventure and easy cash.”

This is the situation that President Biden has created. In sum, his 
administration has prioritized illegal aliens over Americans, 
substituted its own immigration policy for Congress’s policy, and failed 
to fulfill its constitutional responsibility to enforce federal 
immigration laws, abdicating that duty in the name of equity. Whether 
this Constitution-defying combination of negligence and usurpation 
warrants impeachment is for Congress to judge—but many Americans would 
probably find it at least as relevant to the question as what Biden did 
when he was vice president.