When antifa, a violent far-left group, couldn’t find any real “Nazis,” they decided to threaten and intimidate an innocent reporter.

Andy C. Ngo, an editor at Quillette, traveled to downtown Seattle last Saturday to cover antifa’s protest of an event held by the Washington State Three Percent.

As noted in Ngo’s article for The Daily Wire, the Washington State Three Percent is a conservative group that describes itself as constitutionalist.

However, antifa falsely claimed that members of the group are “white supremacists” and “misogynists” on their Facebook event page.

Matt Marshall, leader of the Washington State Three Percent, challenged antifa to find any evidence for their claims.

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“We are a completely non-discriminatory organization,” Marshall said. “I would challenge anyone to find a statement or action that would prove any of those claims.”

Ngo suggested that antifa might have gotten the Washington State Three Percent mixed up with a completely different group, the “3% Security Force,” which is more radical.

Not only did antifa mischaracterize the Washington State Three Percent as white supremacists, but they also claimed Ngo was a “Nazi.”

In reality, Ngo is a gay Asian-American journalist, which is the kind of person antifa claims to represent.

After being confronted by armed members of antifa, a group surrounded Ngo and shouted “Nazi fascists out!” while pushing him.

Ngo also received death threats for filming the far-left radicals.

Warning: the tweet below contains strong language.

“Are you willing to die for YouTube s—?” one protester threatened.

“I’m known to do this shit for real,” an antifa protester said to me. “Are you willing to die for Youtube shit?…Death is coming to you.” pic.twitter.com/bhK2wWkMBD

— Andy C. Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) December 2, 2018

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“Death is coming to you,” the left-wing radical added.

Another protester used a megaphone to chant phrases like “Nazis go home!” in front of Ngo’s face.

“It was so loud that I felt physical pain in my ear drums,” Ngo recalled on Twitter.

A woman screamed into a bullhorn in front of my face. I was pressed up against a barrier. She led the mob into called me a “Nazi.” It was so loud that I felt physical pain in my ear drums. pic.twitter.com/0C8Ny16nQH

— Andy C. Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) December 2, 2018

When Ngo finally left the protest, the mob laughed and cheered believing that they’ve defeated an evil Nazi.

The far-left seems willing to call anybody a “Nazi” regardless of the truth. They just want an excuse to attack and threaten people.

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Retiring House Speaker Paul Ryan is quietly pushing a bill to outsource many thousands of U.S. college graduate jobs to Irish graduates and deliver amnesty to Irish illegals.

His Irish-only bill was quietly pushed through the House on November 28 without a recorded vote by legislators. It is now awaiting approval by the U.S. Senate — but the outsourcing and amnesty bill will be blocked if even one U.S. senator privately or publicly notifies GOP Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell that he or she will oppose the measure. 

The plan would provide the Irish — but not anyone else — with roughly 50,000 endlessly renewable work permits per decade.

In 2005, President George W. Bush signed a treaty offering 10,500 annual E-3 work permits to Australian college graduates. Lobbyists say roughly half of those visas are unused each year, so the Ryan plan would annually allocate the roughly 5,000 unused E-3 visas to Irish graduates so they can take jobs sought by American graduates.

Currently, about 1.5 million foreign contract workers are holding college graduate jobs in the United States. The foreign workers are allowed to get these jobs via the H-1B, L-1, and other visa programs, and they help suppress the salaries earned by millions of American college graduates who will vote for or against President Trump in 2020.

The beneficiaries of the Ryan plan would include many Irish who are working illegally in the United States, said Billy Lawless, a Chicago-based Irish politician who is responsible for representing the Irish diaspora in the United States. “The undocumented are number one in my mind … maybe more than I think might qualify for this,” he told a radio show on November 13. 

“More importantly, it is a stepping stone” to further reforms that could increase migration from Ireland, Lawless said. “Irish communities are suffering because we are not getting the young Irish out [to the United States] anymore.”

Lawless runs a restaurant in Chicago and is a member of the largely powerless Senate in the Irish Parliament. 

The Irish government has promised to repay Ryan’s huge gift of 50,000 extra jobs per decade by allowing older Americans to spend their retirement savings in Ireland.

This one-sided deal will give the Irish government two wins — the ability to get tens of thousands of U.S. visas for the Irish — including Irish illegals now living in the United States — as well as the ability to create more jobs in Ireland by importing retired Americans and their hugely valuable 401K retirement accounts. 

Lawless, however, insisted the plan is reciprocal because it would allow wealthier American retirees aged 55 and above to get to live in Ireland. “Here’s the real kicker: after five years, we will give them Irish citizenship if they want it,” he told the radio show. “It is a huge benefit … so it is not a one-way street, this bill.”

The government-funded Irish TV network reported on the November 28 vote:

Those [lobbying] efforts have been led by the Department of Foreign Affairs, the Irish Embassy in Washington and the government’s special envoy to the US Fine Gael [legislator] John Deasy.

Speaking in Washington following last night’s vote, Mr Deasy welcomed the passage of the bill in the House of Representatives but warned that there’s still some way to go.

“The bill will now be sent to the US Senate and it needs to be passed there by unanimous consent meaning that it will require the agreement of all 100 senators for this to be signed into law”, he said.

The second-ranking politician in Ireland applauded Ryan’s vote:

This is a really positive development for future generations to travel to USA. Still work to do but thanks to our team in @IrelandEmbUSA and @JohnDeasyTD for their tireless work and thanks to @RepRichardNeal and all our friends in US House of Representatives. 🇺🇸 https://t.co/d0SN7o5PMv

— Simon Coveney (@simoncoveney) November 28, 2018

Deasy did not return calls from Breitbart News. 

American politicians, including Ryan, did not bother to win any gains for young Americans, such as the equal opportunity to get good jobs in Ireland.

Lawless said the outsourcing-and-amnesty plan is backed by White House chief of staff John Kelly, as well as Mike Mulvaney, the business-first, pro-migration director of the Office of Management and Budget. “And Speaker Ryan, Paul Ryan, of course,” he said.

Lawless also said President Trump proposed the outsourcing-and-amnesty plan when he met the Irish prime minister on St. Patrick’s Day in 2017.  

Ryan has repeatedly touted his ancestors’ Irish roots while covertly undermining Trump’s pro-American immigration reforms and Trump’s effort to build a barrier on the U.S.-Mexico border. 

In June, Ryan blocked the passage of the Trump-backed pro-American immigration reforms by splitting the GOP’s votes between two rival reform bills. “If it has been the only bill offered, it might have passed,” said Rep. Bob Goodlatte, the pro-reform chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, who authored the pro-American bill. “If we had gotten half of [the GOP ‘no’ voters] to join with us, we would have gotten there,” he said.

Ryan’s support for more Irish immigration and more outsourcing spotlights his career-long support for the “any willing worker” plan favored by President George W. Bush. The very radical policy would allow U.S. employers to hire anyone in the world for U.S. jobs when Americans decline to take the jobs at the offered minimal wage:

Tech Billionaires urge fast-track green cards for 400,000 contract visa-workers – and many more later. Just guessing here, but maybe most Americans prefer fewer visa workers for biz & higher salaries for their families? https://t.co/yXhMswXOXK

— Neil Munro (@NeilMunroDC) December 8, 2018

Ryan’s business-first ideology helped the GOP lose 40 seats and its House majority in November, leaving Trump to deal with investigations and hostility from the new Democrat majority.

Ryan is expected to take a job in the nation’s banking industry. The industry gains enormously when the government annually imports approximately 1.1 million new consumers and workers via legal immigration. 

Passage of the Irish-only outsourcing-and-amnesty bill would likely spur charges of racism against GOP legislators who wish to enforce the nation’s immigration laws and to protect Americans from Democrat calls for more cheap-labor migration:

You got anything to say about E-3 Irish visa, which imports free labor, or does it just have to do with RACE???https://t.co/SSRv3h5fz6

— therealslimshady (@thereal21413505) December 6, 2018

Lawless owns restaurants in Chicago and is an appointed member of the largely powerless Senate in the Irish Parliament. In June, Lawless said in a speech in the Irish Senate that Trump’s prosecution of migrants who bring children over the border is a “horrendous policy”:

Since Trump withdrew that enforcement policy, the number of economic migrants getting through the border with children has risen dramatically. 

Lawless said the outsourcing-and-amnesty push has been aided by Irish ethnic groups in the United States, such as the Ancient Order of Hibernians. Bruce Morrison, a lobbyist and former representative who helped write the nation’s largest outsourcing program, the H-1B visa, has also aided the push. “Everybody has chimed in,” he said. 

The push to outsource U.S. jobs to Irish graduates comes as the Irish government also tries to import more foreigners into Ireland. 

Ireland’s progressive prime minister, Leo Varadkar, has accelerated plans to dramatically boost the nation’s population, even though a huge inflow of foreigners will drive up real estate prices, force down blue collar wages, and fragment civic solidarity.

Varadkar wishes to raise the nation’s population from 4.8 million in 2017 to 5.8 million in 2040. Varadkar is the son of an Indian immigrant and is increasingly popular among anti-national elites in European politics:

Also, pro-migration advocates are trying to provide birthright citizenship to illegal migrants in Ireland. The very unpopular policy practice was ended by a 2004 referendum.

In the United States, large numbers of rational foreigners have used the birthright legalization process since the 1970s to win citizenship.

This inflow has transformed California. For example, the once-economically equal state now has one of the largest wealth gaps between the rich and poor, as well as low-quality schools and high housing costs. Many children of California’s 1970s population have fled to other states, regardless of their politics. This year, California Sen. Dianne Feinstein faced a serious primary challenge from the son of an illegal immigrant:

Caravan migrant crosses US-Mexico border, delivers baby following day. Child is now a birthright citizen. https://t.co/OMdNXU7sMj

— John Binder 👽 (@JxhnBinder) December 5, 2018

The rising legal and illegal inflow of migrants, especially Asians, and the wealth created by the Internet economy are also pricing poor U.S. Latinos and blacks out of middle-class and coastal towns, such as Berkeley and Oakland. But this process has generated windfall profits for real estate owners.

Nationwide, the establishment’s economic policy of using legal migration to boost economic growth shifts wealth from young people towards older people by flooding the market with cheap white collar and blue collar foreign labor. That flood of outside labor spikes profits and Wall Street values by cutting salaries for manual and skilled labor that blue collar and white collar employees offer.

The policy also drives up real estate prices, widens wealth gaps, reduces high tech investment, increases state and local tax burdens, hurts kids’ schools and college education, pushes Americans away from high tech careers, and sidelines at least five million marginalized Americans and their families, including many who are now struggling with fentanyl addictions.

Immigration also pulls investment and wealth away from heartland states because coastal investors can more easily hire and supervise the large immigrant populations who prefer to live in the coastal states.

Despite doom and gloom from voices on the left, the U.S. oil industry is booming — and it may be about to get even bigger.

On Thursday, the U.S. Department of the Interior made a major announcement: Some of the largest oil and gas reserves ever discovered have been assessed in the western United States. Even better, experts believe that much of the newly discovered oil is accessible, which could mean a rich future of Americans.

U.S. Geological Survey estimated the untapped areas in the Delaware Basin hold about 46 billion barrels of oil, 281 trillion cubic feet of natural gas and nearly 20 billion barrels of natural gas liquids.

Despite having the name of an East Coast state, the oil basin covers a wide area in western Texas and southeastern New Mexico.

U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke couldn’t hide his enthusiasm in announcing the historic discovery.

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“Christmas came a few weeks early this year,” he declared in a statement. “American strength flows from American energy, and as it turns out, we have a lot of American energy.

“Before this assessment came down, I was bullish on oil and gas production in the United States. Now, I know for a fact that American energy dominance is within our grasp as a nation.”

It’s no secret that Middle Eastern oil has played a major role in geopolitical conflicts. When it comes to oil, many people think of places like Saudi Arabia, but the new discovery could help keep the U.S. energy independent for many years.

“In 2016, independent oil and gas consulting firm Rystad Energy released data that revealed Texas held 60 billion barrels of shale oil, more recoverable oil than in Saudi Arabia,” Breitbart explained. The latest information from the USGS appears to confirm that.

“Knowing where these resources are located and how much exists is crucial to ensuring both our energy independence and energy dominance,” USGS Director Jim Reilly said.

In many ways, the Delaware Basin discovery is the icing on the cake for America. Even before the stunning assessment was released, the U.S. was making major gains compared with competing countries.

“U.S. oil exports reached a record 3 million barrels a day last week — a greater amount than is pumped each day by all but three OPEC countries,” CNBC reported back in June. “U.S. oil and related products exports totaled 8.5 million barrels a day last week, the most ever.”

On the same day that the Delaware Basin news broke, Reuters also reported that in a historic first, America was exporting more oil than it was having shipped in.

“The United States last week exported more crude oil and fuel than it imported for the first time on record,” the news service said.

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“When adding in all imports and exports of crude and refined products, the U.S. exported a net 211,000 barrels per day for the week through Nov. 30 — the first time that has happened, according to U.S. Energy Department figures dating to 1973,” Reuters continued.

Americans are already seeing the positive results. With gas prices under $2 per gallon in many parts of the country, the latest news will no doubt put a smile on many people’s faces, and leave more cash in their wallets.

Are you tired of all the winning yet?

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The legal dodge used by James Comey to exonerate Hillary Clinton from her prima facie crimes in using an unsecured server for official business won’t be any help to the Clinton Foundation as it faces charges coming from whistleblowers.

Clinton Inc. criminal defense lawyers trying to hide behind the word “intent” won’t work because the Clintons were previously warned early and often about improper compliance:

.. internal legal reviews that the foundation conducted on itself in 2008 and 2011.

Those reviews flagged serious concerns about legal compliance, improper commingling of personal and charity business and “quid pro quo” promises made to donors while Hillary Clinton was secretary of State.

“With a cloth?”

There is a great line in the fun movie, National Treasure, spoken by the accomplished, former Marine, Harvey Keitel, who was playing a very solid FBI Special Agent “Someone has to go to prison Ben.”

Sadly, as both the first Assistant Secretary for Congressional and Public Affairs and then in a reorganization  as being in charge of  Public and Intergovernmental Affairs for the Veterans Administration, I did experience many scammers and real criminal types that actually did not go to prison but  walked away without being charged after running truly horrific veteran charity scams.

The lesson I learned in trying to bring many veteran charity scams to justice was, sadly, that a legal strategy adopted by defendants often worked. Two FBI Special Agents who were investigating a $ 6 million scam out of the $ 7 million collected said DOJ Attorneys prosecuting charity cases have to respect the power of the word “intent”. Thus the cases were often dropped.

But now the  FBI/DOJ does not have that excuse to withhold a prosecution going forward.

One of the elements of a crime is that the criminal behavior has to be documented as being undertaken knowingly and purposeful which is exactly what the whistleblower documents prove.

Often, charity scammers walk away clean because the Government cannot prove “intent”  because the defendant if taken to court will simply say; look at our good work we are just bad managers.

Anyone watching cable shows have by now seen Clinton, Inc. supporters focus on all the “good works” the Clinton Charity supposedly has accomplished. However, whistleblowers now tell us it was willful criminal conduct on the part of the Clintons, thus legally spiking the no criminal intent defense.

I know that the “no criminal intent but we are just bad managers”, would be an audacious defense strategy by a former governor and president and his wife, a former Senator and Secretary of State. However, I have learned in over two decades of investigating all things criminal with Clinton, Inc, to never ever count them out in their powering through real criminal behavior. It is almost like a big game to them.

One can finally hope that the recent whistleblower revelations will tell us that a legal prosecution fuse has finally been lit to embrace the legitimate campaign chant of Trump Nation supporters to “Lock Her Up,”

Finally one can only hope that Bill and Hillary Clinton may legally have no way out.

Edward  Timperlake was the Co-author of NYT Best Seller; Year of the Rat: How Bill Clinton Compromised U.S. Security for Chinese Cash

The legal dodge used by James Comey to exonerate Hillary Clinton from her prima facie crimes in using an unsecured server for official business won’t be any help to the Clinton Foundation as it faces charges coming from whistleblowers.

Clinton Inc. criminal defense lawyers trying to hide behind the word “intent” won’t work because the Clintons were previously warned early and often about improper compliance:

.. internal legal reviews that the foundation conducted on itself in 2008 and 2011.

Those reviews flagged serious concerns about legal compliance, improper commingling of personal and charity business and “quid pro quo” promises made to donors while Hillary Clinton was secretary of State.

“With a cloth?”

There is a great line in the fun movie, National Treasure, spoken by the accomplished, former Marine, Harvey Keitel, who was playing a very solid FBI Special Agent “Someone has to go to prison Ben.”

Sadly, as both the first Assistant Secretary for Congressional and Public Affairs and then in a reorganization  as being in charge of  Public and Intergovernmental Affairs for the Veterans Administration, I did experience many scammers and real criminal types that actually did not go to prison but  walked away without being charged after running truly horrific veteran charity scams.

The lesson I learned in trying to bring many veteran charity scams to justice was, sadly, that a legal strategy adopted by defendants often worked. Two FBI Special Agents who were investigating a $ 6 million scam out of the $ 7 million collected said DOJ Attorneys prosecuting charity cases have to respect the power of the word “intent”. Thus the cases were often dropped.

But now the  FBI/DOJ does not have that excuse to withhold a prosecution going forward.

One of the elements of a crime is that the criminal behavior has to be documented as being undertaken knowingly and purposeful which is exactly what the whistleblower documents prove.

Often, charity scammers walk away clean because the Government cannot prove “intent”  because the defendant if taken to court will simply say; look at our good work we are just bad managers.

Anyone watching cable shows have by now seen Clinton, Inc. supporters focus on all the “good works” the Clinton Charity supposedly has accomplished. However, whistleblowers now tell us it was willful criminal conduct on the part of the Clintons, thus legally spiking the no criminal intent defense.

I know that the “no criminal intent but we are just bad managers”, would be an audacious defense strategy by a former governor and president and his wife, a former Senator and Secretary of State. However, I have learned in over two decades of investigating all things criminal with Clinton, Inc, to never ever count them out in their powering through real criminal behavior. It is almost like a big game to them.

One can finally hope that the recent whistleblower revelations will tell us that a legal prosecution fuse has finally been lit to embrace the legitimate campaign chant of Trump Nation supporters to “Lock Her Up,”

Finally one can only hope that Bill and Hillary Clinton may legally have no way out.

Edward  Timperlake was the Co-author of NYT Best Seller; Year of the Rat: How Bill Clinton Compromised U.S. Security for Chinese Cash

When President Donald Trump referred to illegal aliens in less than flattering terms, he was roasted by the left. However, recent reports have shown that he had a point and was right to be so tough on illegal alien immigration.

The latest ‘proof’ of his accuracy comes from an Associated Press report. In a five-day sweep across New England, police arrested 58 illegal aliens, the majority of whom have some kind of criminal charge previously or pending.

ICE arrests 58 in New England enforcement action https://t.co/5dW2eMcEvs pic.twitter.com/gYFwfnQjY1

— ICE (@ICEgov) December 7, 2018

The Associated Press reported that of the 58, according to immigration officials, “Thirty of the people have prior felony convictions for serious or violent offenses, and 33 have criminal charges pending.” Additionally, “Nine had been previously deported, and 15 had been previously released by local authorities despite the agency’s request to hold them.”

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The sweeps were conducted in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island. They concluded on December 4.

Some of the examples cited included individuals wanted for murder in other countries. Two men, one in Massachusetts and one in Connecticut, were both wanted in Brazil on murder charges.

In addition, an ICE press release about the roundup noted that, “9 of those arrested had been previously removed from the United States and returned illegally. And 4 had active Interpol Red Notices.”

Because a number of cities across New England have adopted “sanctuary city” stances, immigration officials must take independent action. Acting director of ICE’s Boston’s field office, Todd Lyons, explained the situation in the press release.

“ICE officers in New England continue to enforce immigration laws as they have always done, targeting criminal aliens and removing them from our streets. Despite unjustified criticism, our officers continue to work daily with professionalism and integrity to enforce immigration law and protect our communities from criminal aliens.”

He added that, “Ultimately, efforts by local politicians have shielded removable criminal aliens from immigration enforcement and created another magnet for more illegal immigration, all at the expense of the safety and security of the very people it purports to protect. Despite the severe challenges that local policies have created for ICE, we remain committed to our public safety mission and we will continue to do our sworn duty to seek out dangerous criminal aliens and other immigration violators.”

“ICE seeks straightforward cooperation with all local law enforcement and elected officials.” In his statement he gave other examples, not reported by the Associated Press, of the criminal behavior related to the illegal aliens who were picked up.

One such example involved drugs and identity theft. “In Methuen, Massachusetts, a 23- year old national of the Dominican Republic who had assumed the identity of a U.S. citizen with prior convictions for drug trafficking, identity theft, and resisting arrest, who is facing current pending drug trafficking charges.

Another example included extreme violence. “In Brockton, Massachusetts, a 41-year old national of France with previous convictions for cocaine possession and multiple instances of assault and battery whose history also includes 30 adult arrangements with arrests for kidnapping, assault and battery with a deadly weapon, domestic violence and other felony charges.”

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Other cases cited included drugs and drug trafficking, identity theft, money laundering, embezzling, and gun trafficking. The illegal aliens picked up came from a wide variety of countries, including Antigua, Brazil, the Dominican Republic, France, Haiti, and Jamaica.

Federal criminal prosecution will apply to some of the individuals due to illegal entry and illegal re-entry after deportation. Lyons explained that,”Any individual that returns to the United States illegally after being deported, is subject to immediate removal from the United States.”

A quick perusal of press releases from ICE shows that this is just one of such sweeps being conducted across the United States. On a regular basis, ICE is picking up illegal aliens, many of whom have other alleged criminal activity to their names, including child pornograpy and child sexual abuse.

ICE arrests 105 in New Jersey operation targeting criminal aliens and public safety threats https://t.co/KRSGN9T1aU pic.twitter.com/IArCelYmVz

— ICE (@ICEgov) December 7, 2018

The threat to public safety is real. Despite the choice by some cities to ignore the law and shield illegal aliens regardless of their other alleged crimes, Lyons made it clear that ICE will continue to pursue, arrest and deport them.

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On more than one occasion, former President Barack Obama and others have referred to his presidency as “scandal-free,” or “not having any significant scandals.” In the video below, Obama claims that his presidency has not had “the kinds of scandals that have plagued other administrations.”

But the facts about his presidency paint a very different picture in regards to scandals. Words and phrases such as “IRS,” “Fast and Furious,” and “Benghazi” bring to mind scandals of significance that occurred under his watch.

In the latest example of significant scandals of his presidency, The Washington Examiner has reported that he approved “$310 million in free legal advice to illegal aliens.” Giving aid to law breakers, via tax payer funds, isn’t exactly a non-scandal.

The Washington Examiner wrote that this was done despite the fact that it is against federal law to use tax payer funds to help illegal aliens avoid deportation. But the Obama administration okayed it and did it, anyway.

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The Immigration Reform Law Institute explained that the funds were directed at helping unaccompanied illegal alien minors. The monies were “awarded (to) multiple high-value contracts.”

The contracts and monies were given “for the purpose of providing legal representation” to the minors. Again, this was against federal law.

Under The Immigration and Nationality Act, Section 292, it is written that while illegal aliens are allowed to have legal representation during removal proceedings, it cannot be at tax payer expense. This means they would have to find another way to pay for or obtain the legal assistance.

They may have the money themselves. Or they may obtain the funding or representation from an activist group. There are options available to them.

Despite multiple challenges to this act’s barring of government funding for illegal alien legal representation, special interest groups have filed lawsuits, claiming a violation of rights with such an act. Consistently, their claims have been rejected by federal courts, wrote the Immigration Reform Law Institute.

In a post published on the Institute’s website, executive director and general counsel of IRLI, Dale L. Wilcox said, “When the federal government pays for illegal alien minors to receive direct legal representation, it does more than flout the law. These unauthorized payments have undoubtedly speeded-up UACs’ release from detention facilities to join their families, relatives, or fellow gang members – or help them reconnect with and pay ‘pandillas,’ the criminal cartels that make enormous profits from controlling human trafficking over the southern border.”

He went on to share why the average citizen might be upset about what happened. “My guess is that average voters would not be pleased to know that such vast amounts of their tax dollars are being spent in aid of this giant criminal enterprise.”

BizPac Review noted about the scandal that, “Obama was sympathetic to the illegal immigrants steadily flowing to our southern border and used an executive order in June 2012 to establish the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, known as DACA. The program granted amnesty of sorts for many unaccompanied illegal immigrant minors — which sometimes include MS-13 gang members.”

In January 2017, Breitbart listed 18 separate scandals associated with the Obama administration, some of which relate to things involved in this scandal. They include the use of taxpayer money and aiding criminal enterprises.

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One example is the Operation Fast and Furious scandal. “The Obama administration’s insane program to use American gun dealers and straw purchasers to arm Mexican drug lords, is a scandal with a huge body count, prominently including Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry and Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agent Jamie Zapata, plus hundreds of Mexican citizens.”

The news of this latest scandal is just one more example, like so many before it, of an administration that appeared to be more concerned about agenda than rule of law. The legacy created by President Obama may well go down as the most corruption seen in an American president’s time in office.

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It’s been said that firearms are “the great equalizer.” The Second Amendment gives citizens a fighting chance against thugs, and that advantage is amplified when criminals don’t know who is quietly armed.

Two would-be robbers in Ohio found out the hard way that in America, there’s no such thing as an easy target. The men were just sentenced to decades in prison after they tried to commit armed robbery at a Cleveland barbershop.

“Judge Daniel Gaul sentenced Ross Sumlin Jr., 28, to 18 years in prison. He ordered Rayshaun Perkins, 36, to spend 25 years in prison,” reported The Plain Dealer, a major Cleveland newspaper.

A third accomplice named Deshon Pennyman had previously pleaded guilty and been sentenced to between five and ten years behind bars.

“Pennyman, a 16-year-old who tried as an adult, testified against Sumlin and Perkins and could be released after five years if he has no disciplinary issues behind bars,” the newspaper stated.

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There’s a good chance their crime, which took place back in 2016, would have succeeded except for a key factor: Not one but two of the barbers in the shop were also armed, and quickly responded to the attempted robbery.

The dramatic incident was captured on security video, which can be seen online at LiveLeak.

“The video showed Sumlin walk in, ask for a haircut and sit down in a chair while one of the barbers unpacked his bag to give Sumlin the haircut. A second barber was cutting another man’s hair, and a different man sat in the corner with the 5-year-old boy,” The Plain Dealer explained.

“(A)bout 90 seconds later, Pennyman and Perkins walked into the barbershop with guns drawn and demanded cash,” the paper continued.

They got lead instead. Both barbers drew their own concealed handguns and fired. With their plan turned upside down, the robbers fled. Both criminals were inured, as was the young boy who was in the shop. He survived.

Although it may not be a textbook example of self defense, the eye-opening footage nevertheless shows just how quickly a criminal plan can be foiled by armed citizens. Contrary to what many on the left would have you believe, this kind of defensive gun use is surprisingly common.

“When the Centers for Disease Control researched gun violence two decades ago, it found that firearms are used to protect citizens more than 2 million times per year,” The Western Journal reported earlier this year.

“CDC’s findings indicated that an average of 2.46 million U.S. adults used a gun for self-defense in each of the years from 1996 through 1998,” Gary Kleck of the Florida State University of Criminology and Criminal Justice found after digging into government data.

“(D)efensive gun uses by victims are at least as common as offensive uses by criminals, with estimates of annual uses ranging from about 500,000 to more than 3 million per year,” the CDC itself reported.

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That evidence flies in the face of anti-Second Amendment leftists who seem to believe that disarming law-abiding citizens will magically stop criminals. And it doesn’t even take into account instances of deterrent, when would-be thugs think twice about their actions because they know “victims” may be armed.

Hopefully, other potential criminals will see this same video and realize that actions have consequences … and their next targets might be even better armed than they are.

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