Rep. Goodlatte Demolishes Camerota’s Lies and Cover Up for Obama on Illegal Immigration

On Wednesday’s edition of New Day, co-host Alisyn Camerota interviewed Congressman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) about the current illegal immigration crisis. In the interview, Camerota pushed many of the misleading talking points that have dominated the airwaves on CNN. When the Congressman countered them with facts, she continued to push the talking points as well as falsely defending the Obama administration.

 

 

The first major lie that Camerota pushed regarded the origin of the separation of families practice. She said “This is a new zero tolerance policy where they must be separated.”

The truth about this matter is more complicated. It originates from two different court rulings. The first is the 1997 Flores Settlement. This settlement said that unaccompanied minors, including those who cross the border illegally cannot be held in custody for more than twenty days. The second court ruling occurred during the Obama administration, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals extended that ruling to children who crossed the border illegally. The “new policy” that Camerota speaks of doesn’t explicitly state that the immigration officials must separate families. What it does say is that the Trump administration will prosecute all border crossings. This means that when families are arrested, by law the immigration officials cannot hold the families in custody together. They must either separate the family or release the whole family. Goodlatte correctly pointed this out replying:

It is a new policy for some people but children have been separated from their parents under previous administrations and in this administration prior but now with the zero tolerance policy, if you are apprehended across the border you’re automatically going to be placed in prosecution and the department of justice doesn’t have the facilities to take care of the children therefore they are being placed elsewhere.

Goodlatte also pointed out that because of those court rulings, there were instances of children being separated from their families during the Obama administration. Camerota sprang to Obama’s defense, leading to this exchange:

GOODLATTE: During the Obama administration there were plenty of children —

CAMEROTA: Those were unaccompanied minors. Those were unaccompanied minors. These are separated from their parents intentionally as a deterrent as we’ve heard from the administration. This is different, congressman.

GOODLATTE: It is true in both instances and the Obama administration did it until a court said they couldn’t do it.

CAMEROTA: Those were unaccompanied minors.

GOODLATTE: No. There were unaccompanied minors and there were families with children as well.

After her defense of the Obama administration was disproven, she moved onto the next New Day talking point, saying, “if the President can end it today and he can why not end it today while you hammer out the details of the legislation?” Goodlatte correctly pointed out while yes, the Trump administration could end the no tolerance policy, this would require a return to a catch and release policy in which “he has to allow these families to enter the interior of the United States.”

Then Camerota proposed what many Republican lawmakers have proposed which is to hold the families in custody together. However, as New Day has refused to report on during this crisis, Goodlatte said:

He can’t do that. The law doesn’t permit them to hold them for the department of justice more than 72 hours. That’s a court ruling and for — for the department of homeland security, 20 days. So that’s — that’s the issue that has to be addressed. It has to be addressed legislatively and we are doing that.

Congressman Goodlatte managed to disassemble the nauseating amount misleading information that had dominated New Day’s coverage of this story. Their act of omitting basic information of the reasoning behind families being separated shows either a deliberate will to mislead the public or a radical inability to understand the basic nuance of this issue.
 

A transcript of the relavent segment is below.

New Day With Alisyn Camerota and John Berman

6/20/18

08:19:01 – 08:21:09

ALISYN CAMEROTA: Have you been in the past week as children are being separated from parents? Have you been there this round?

REP BOB GOODLATTE:  I have not. No. But children have been separated from their parents for years.
 

CAMEROTA: No, no Congressman. This is a new policy. This is a new zero tolerance policy where they must be separated.

GOODLATTE: It is a new policy for some people but children have been separated from their parents under previous administrations and in this administration prior but now with the zero tolerance policy, if you are apprehended across the border you’re automatically going to be placed in prosecution and the department of justice doesn’t have the facilities to take care of the children therefore they are being placed elsewhere —

CAMEROTA: That’s right. 2,342 children is the latest number that we have. This is – I mean look. I’m listening to the administration saying that this is their new policy, that they decided.

GOODLATTE: During the Obama administration there were plenty of children —

CAMEROTA: Those were unaccompanied minors. Those were unaccompanied minors. These are separated from their parents intentionally as a deterrent as we’ve heard from the administration. This is different, congressman.

GOODLATTE: It is true in both instances and the Obama administration did it until a court said they couldn’t do it.

CAMEROTA: Those were unaccompanied minors.

GOODLATTE: No. There were unaccompanied minors and there were families with children as well.

CAMEROTA: So Congressman, I don’t know what your answer is. I don’t know what your answer is. Are you okay — if the President can end it today and he can why not end it today while you hammer out the details of the legislation?

GOODLATTE: The President — if he ends it, then he has to allow these families to enter the interior of the United States —

CAMEROTA: Hold them in detention

GOODLATTE: They give them court dates and they never return.

CAMEROTA: Hold them together in detention.

GOODLATTE: He can’t do that. The law doesn’t permit them to hold them for the department of justice more than 72 hours. That’s a court ruling and for — for the department of homeland security, 20 days. So that’s — that’s the issue that has to be addressed. It has to be addressed legislatively and we are doing that.

CAMEROTA: Okay. I want to move on to what I know is really pressing for you to talk about and that is the inspector general’s report.

 

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Donald Trump Jr. Torches Peter Fonda Over Vile Attack on 12-Year-Old Barron

Donald Trump Jr. hit back at actor Peter Fonda late Wednesday morning after the Oscar-nominee publicly called for a mob to kidnap his 12-year-old brother, Barron Trump, and throw him in a cage with pedophiles.

“You’re clearly a sick individual and everyone is an internet badass but rather than attack an 11 year old like a bully and a coward why don’t you pick on someone a bit bigger.,” Don Jr. closed with “LMK,” which means “let me know.”

Don Jr. was responding to a tweet from Fonda, where urged a mob to kidnap Barron so he could be thrown in a cage and raped by pedophiles.

“We should rip Barron Trump from his mother’s arms and put him in a cage with pedophiles and see if mother will …stand up against the giant asshole she is married to,” Fonda’s tweet read.

After Don Jr. fired back, another off-the-rails leftist, undoubtedly fueled by the media’s ongoing misinformation campaign regarding children being separated from adults at the border, threatened the president’s son with, “Don’t worry we’re coming for Chloe, too.”

Chloe is Chloe Trump, Don Jr’s. three-year-old daughter.

During his Tuesday night tirade, Fonda also launched sexist attacks against Press Secretary Sarah Sanders and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen. He referred to both with the sexist slur “gash” an called on Nelsen to be publicly stripped naked and whipped.

Nancy Sinatra and left-wing documentary filmmaker Josh Fox both praised Fonda for his tweets.

As of now, there is no indication that Twitter is enforcing its own policies that calls for penalties, including banishment, for promoting violence, most especially against women and children.

Fonda was active on Twitter Wednesday morning. He deleted one of his sexist tweets, but he chose not to respond to Don Jr’s offer to “pick on someone bigger.”

Fonda’s new movie, Boundaries, is set to be released Friday and is produced by Sony  Classics.

As of yet, Sony Classics has not tweeted or commented on their star’s call to have an 11-year-old boy kidnapped raped. The company has not responded to a request for comment from Breitbart News.
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ABC News Apologizes After Banner Falsely Claims Paul Manafort Killed Five People

ABC News issued an apology Wednesday after a banner during a live report claimed that former Donald Trump aide Paul Manafort had admitted to killing five people.

The network covered President Donald Trump’s afternoon meeting live in anticipation of his announcement that he was issuing a directive to end the practice of separating parents and children caught crossing the border illegally.

During the ABC broadcast, the banner briefly displayed the chyron "Manafort pleads guilty to 5 charges of manslaughter." While the former Trump campaign manager is in jail after his bail was revoked, he has not pleaded guilty to any crimes and has not been charged with manslaughter.

In a series of tweets, ABC News apologized for the error and promised to get the bottom of why the graphic appeared.

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Socialism versus Education


To understand the failures of public education, we have to understand the dreams of socialism.

It has always had three main targets it hopes to destroy: family, religion, and private property.

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Gallup: “Right track” response highest in 12 years – Trump approval ties his personal best

Gallup: “Right track” response highest in 12 years – Trump approval ties his personal best
I’ve written before about the fact that liberals require misery to win. A happy, successful, country is not a place where their doomsaying can find purchase, so the better things are going, the harder it is for them to sell their class-warfare ideology.  If people are happy, they’re not looking for a scapegoat – and the blame game is the only operational strategy the left has.

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Dem Rep: Comey ‘Decided to Play Judge, Jury, and Executioner’ in Clinton Email Probe

Democratic Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (N.Y.) on Tuesday castigated Republican lawmakers for calling special council Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation a witch hunt targeting President Donald Trump, arguing that Hillary Clinton was the only person connected to the 2016 presidential campaign to be "victimized by prosecutorial misconduct."

Jeffries also argued that James Comey was to blame for Clinton’s election loss, charging that the former FBI director "executed" her campaign.

"For the last few hours, we’ve sat in this hearing, and some of my colleagues, part of the cover-up caucus, have attempted to peddle conspiracy theories that the investigation into the Trump campaign’s potential criminality, where we were attacked by a hostile foreign power, is a witch hunt," Jeffries said at a joint hearing of the House Oversight & Government Reform and Judiciary committees. "There is not a scintilla of evidence that a witch hunt exists right now."

Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz appeared before the committees to testify about his report, released last week, on the FBI probe into Clinton’s private email server, which showed the FBI mishandled the investigation and bureau agents engaged in improper behavior.

Jeffries said that if any individual connected to the 2016 presidential campaign was a victim of prosecutorial misconduct, "her name was Hillary Clinton."

The congressman blasted Comey for violating Department of Justice protocol on multiple occasions during the Clinton email probe—most notably, he said, in July 2016, when the then-FBI chief publicly called Clinton "extremely careless" with her handling of classified information but recommended the department bring no criminal charges against her. Jeffries also cited Oct. 28 of that year, when Comey re-opened the investigation after finding new emails just 11 days before the election.

"What are you guys complaining about?" Jeffries asked Republicans. "You know what happened. James Comey decided to play judge, jury, and executioner, and on October 28th, he executed the Hillary Clinton campaign, killed her in Pennsylvania, killed her in Michigan, killed her in Wisconsin, and handed Donald Trump the presidency."

Jeffries also condemned Comey for not announcing an investigation into the Trump campaign for possible ties to Russian interference in the 2016 election.

"Stop peddling lies about a so-called Democratic witch hunt," he said.

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Moms of Those Killed by Illegals Rip Media: You Don’t Care About Kids at All

Two mothers whose sons were killed by illegal immigrants are speaking out against the left and those in the media who they believe use children to push their agenda.

Arizona resident Mary Ann Mendoza lost her son Sgt. Brandon Mendoza when he was hit head-on by an illegal alien who was driving drunk.

“My name is Mary Ann Mendoza and my life course has been changed forever,” she wrote on her website, the Sgt. Brandon Mendoza Memorial Foundation.

“My son, Sgt Brandon Mendoza, was killed on May 12, 2014 in a violent head on collision. He was killed by a 3 times the legal limit drunk and high on meth ILLEGAL CRIMINAL! He had driven 35 MILES the wrong way on four different freeways before slamming head-on into my son’s car. My son had just finished his shift and was heading home after working to keep Mesa citizens safe and his community crime free when his life was taken so tragically.”

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In an exclusive interview with The Daily Caller, Mendoza took the media to task, calling them out for picking and choosing narratives that fit their political agenda, while ignoring the stories of those who have been hurt by those who have entered the country illegally.

“There is hypocrisy in many ways,” she said. “The total disregard for American families ripped apart because of illegal criminals, the total lack of concern for children in the U.S. being raped in North Carolina by illegals at disgusting numbers (some months over 400 child rapes by illegals), no concern (for) homeless American children or Veterans who would do anything to have what’s provided (to) these children. Yet, our politicians call it inhumane treatment. Would they rather these kids coming across our borders stay with the adults who aren’t their biological parents but have kidnapped them to get across the border as a ‘family unit?’”

Mendoza said that at the end of the day, the media is fueled by good ratings and disdain for Trump — not a genuine concern for immigrant children.

“It’s all about sensational headlines,” she said. “They have no real concern for these kids. It’s just another way to make this administration look bad.”

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To prove her point, Mendoza noted that difference in media coverage during the Obama administration.

“Worse things happened to these kids was Obama was president and (the media) was crickets,” she said.

“In closing, the fact that my son was collateral damage and totally disregarded to support their agenda is hypocrisy at its best. My dead son, a fellow American, is nothing to them! This isn’t worth their time because it would disprove their theory that we need illegal aliens here and we don’t need a border wall.”

Sabine Durden, another mother who was killed by an illegal immigrant in a driving accident, thanked the president for his help to give her a voice and blasted the media for turning a blind eye to the stories they don’t want to hear.

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“The hypocrisy is astonishing,” she said. “The MSM has ignored many of us victims of illegal alien crime for so long. They avoid us like pests. If it weren’t for President Trump, no one would even know much about us. He gave my son a voice that was taken by an illegal. And I’m forever thankful to him for that and for bringing the issue of illegal alien invasion to the forefront. It’s deeply hurtful to see how MSM now ‘cares’ so much for children separated from their parents while continuing to ignore thousands of us separated by death, forever.”

She told The Daily Caller that Democrats’ show of compassion is fake, as demonstrated by their action — and lack of action.

“Not one of the Dems has reached out since they heard about my son’s death,” she said. Not one spoke publicly about American victims of illegals. Their fake grandstanding for children is for show and absent of compassion because they didn’t do any of this during Obama’s presidency. We have 1.6 million homeless children, inner cities destroyed and American children in need, homeless veterans and mentally ill people all on their own. No word about them from the left,” she continued.

“Yet they stumble over each other to get to a detention center with their camera crews behind them. They yell and show outrage over illegal aliens who placed themselves in this position. They call them immigrants, which is insulting to true immigrants like me,” she continued.

“They don’t go to jails and prisons where Americans who committed a crime are separated from their children. They didn’t go run and shown outrage when Obama had illegal alien kids in cages. The Dems are losing their voting base and need illegals to fill those spots. They are willing to step over dead Americans to get their amnesty. They continue to put out the welcome mat for more illegals to come by creating Sanctuary cities and states.”

Our prayers are with these women who have endured such horrific tragedy, and we wish them the best as they continue to tell their story — one the mainstream media may ignore but everyday Americans desperately need to hear.

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Chain Migration Turned This Small Penn. Town of 25,000 Upside Down

With the sudden interest of the national media in the families-separated-at-border storyline, the American immigration narrative is currently wound up in what’s happening to children caught crossing illegally with their families on the southern border.

But a look at a town in northeastern Pennsylvania, where immigrant families staying together have completely overhauled the population and atmosphere might have more lessons for country in the long term.

And they don’t paint the rosy picture immigration activists are trying to sell the American public.

During the 2016 campaign, Hazleton, Pennsylvania, and surrounding Luzerne County were occasionally in the national news because of the power of immigration as an issue. In October, The New York Times analyzed the area under the headline: “In a City Built by Immigrants, Immigration Is the Defining Issue.”

After Donald Trump’s unlikely victory in November, Newsweek published a December piece headlined, “Why did Donald Trump win? Just Visit Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.”

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The premise still holds.

A lengthy piece published last week by the City Journal, a quarterly magazine of the conservative Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, is headlined “Chain Migration Comes to Hazleton.”

It describes how in less than 20 years – barely the space of a generation – a town with a population of 25,000 has “been radically transformed since the early 2000s by secondary chain migration, principally driven by Dominicans — immigrants, both legal and illegal, as well as second- and third-generation citizens arriving from the New York metropolitan area.”

The numbers tell the story:

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  In 2000, Hispanics made up less than 5 percent of Hazleton’s population; they now account for more than 50 percent. Such rapid and dramatic demographic shifts are rare in U.S. cities. For Hazleton, the consequences have been profound, and the city is struggling to cope.”

That might be something of an understatement.

The changing demographics have changed the physical appearance of the Luzerne County town, which was incorporated as a borough in 1857 and became a city in 1891.

City Journal reported:

  Vinyl banners with loud graphics soon came to dominate the facades of sober nineteenth-century retail buildings. Pentecostal and evangelical congregations now fill former Catholic and Protestant churches. Blocks of duplex homes, uniformly encased with aluminum siding, crowd with families living in Section 8 housing or in subdivided rental units.

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The public school system has been radically altered:

  In 2007, the district was 28 percent Hispanic and 69 percent non-Hispanic white. As of 2014, the district was 45 percent Hispanic and 51 percent non-Hispanic white… But Hazleton’s budget can’t keep pace with all the new arrivals, many of whom need special services. A district that had need for only one ESL teacher in the 1990s, for example, now has 2,298 English-language learners, nearly 20 percent of its student body; more than half the student body today live in low-income households. By 2017, the school district—encompassing over 250 square miles of southern Luzerne County, northern Schuylkill County, and western Carbon County—faced a $6 million deficit, in part driven by the demographic change.

And then there’s crime. As the City Journal reported, the town’s location near the intersection of Interstates 80 and 81 makes it an “ideal location” for cocaine and heroin operations run by drug rings dominated by immigrants from the Dominican Republic or their families.

When the town eventually tried to take action, it ended up on the losing end of a court case that went all the way to the Supreme Court (and also made Hazleton a national headline name for a time).

As the City Journal reported:

  For many Hazletonians, the city reached a grim tipping point in 2006, when two illegal immigrants from the Dominican Republic were charged with murdering a 29-year-old father of three. The killing shocked the community. Hazleton’s then-mayor, Lou Barletta, responded by introducing an ordinance, soon passed by the city council: the Illegal Immigration Relief Act, which fined and penalized employers and landlords for hiring and renting to illegal immigrants. The ACLU challenged the act, and the fight went to the Supreme Court. In 2014, the Court declined to review two federal appellate decisions that struck down the measure. The following year, a U.S. district court judge ruled that Hazleton had to pay $1.4 million to the attorneys who had sued the city over the act. The judge’s order was devastating for a cash-strapped city struggling to provide adequate services to its growing Hispanic population.

None of that is good news for the Democrat Party, or activists on the side of unchecked immigration.

And there’s a reason Donald Trump won Luzerne County with 77 percent of the vote, according to the City Journal.

However, Hazleton shouldn’t be seen as an example of why immigration should be opposed as a rule. One thing the liberals are right about is that immigrants have always played a key part of building the United States.

What Hazleton does show is the danger of unchecked immigration, based solely or even largely on the “chain” of relations to those immigrants who are accepted into the country.

America should be a nation that welcomes immigrants who are willing to assimilate into the country as a whole, not bunker themselves in ethnic enclaves for generations.

While liberals try to stage a tear-jerking soap opera about separating families in the Southwest part of the country, it might behoove the rest of us to look at a town in northeastern Pennsylvania for a bit, like Fox News host Tucker Carlson did in March.

Unchecked, chain immigration is not always a pretty picture.

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Trump’s Approval Rating Ties All-Time High Despite Liberal Pushback on Immigration

There is no denying that the liberal media have declared all-out war against the presidency of Donald Trump since before he even took office.

That “war” is evidenced by an almost weekly — sometimes near-daily — episodic freakout by purportedly unbiased “journalists” who set their hair on fire, crank the volume up to 11 and cry out in progressive leftist anguish over the latest executive action, policy implementation or even random tweet from Trump.

The latest absolute, end-of-the-world outrage that has supposedly neutral reporters comparing Trump and his supporters to Hitler and the Nazis — again — is the “zero tolerance” policy at the border with regard to illegal immigration, which has the unfortunate side effect of children being temporarily separated from their illegal immigrant parents while the parents are prosecuted for illegal entry or have their asylum claims adjudicated.

But if those liberal reporters thought their constant haranguing of Trump and skewed reports of the situation — which conveniently overlook similar situations under former President Barack Obama’s administration — would have a negative effect on Trump’s approval rating, they thought wrong, according to The Daily Caller.

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Despite the constant drumbeat of negativity from the media — or perhaps because of it, ironically — the president’s approval rating has climbed to the highest height it has ever been, tied with the day he first took office, in the latest weekly tracking poll from Gallup.

That poll from Gallup showed that Trump’s approval rating as of June 17 was 45 percent, with a disapproval rating of 50 percent. For some perspective, consider that roughly three weeks prior, May 27, Trump’s approval sat at 40 percent while his disapproval rating was at 55 percent.

Interestingly, the above tweet from Bloomberg reporter Sahil Kapur also included the revelation from Gallup that 38 percent of Americans are satisfied with the current path the United States is on under Trump, the highest rating for that particular question in 12 years.

Do you think the liberal media’s constant anti-Trump coverage has backfired on them?

Of course, some liberals will scoff dismissively at Trump’s sub-50 percent approval, but in doing so they again display their historical and partisan ignorance of the striking similarities between Trump and his predecessors in spite of the vastly different media coverage they have received.

Business Insider senior political reporter Allan Smith noted on Twitter that Trump’s 45 percent approval on Day 513 of his presidency was essentially tied with Obama’s approval on a similar date, and was actually one point higher than former President Bill Clinton’s approval rating at the same time.

To be sure, there are many factors at play when it comes to American voters approving or disapproving of the current president, such as the economy, jobs, foreign policy and wars.

That said, one would assume Trump’s numbers would be much lower when considering the constant negative coverage Trump receives in spite of ample good news with regard to the above issues — here’s looking at you, potential peace and denuclearization on the Korean peninsula.

In actuality, Trump’s approval numbers would be even higher than they are were he to receive even neutral media coverage, let alone positive coverage of his accomplishments instead of incessant attacks.

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The truth is, partisan hack “journalists” can’t stand the fact that Trump is “winning” on many of the issues he campaigned on, and the American people are increasingly taking note of that reality, no matter how negatively his actions are portrayed.

As dismal as it can sometimes seem on a day-to-day basis, we can only encourage the liberal media to keep up with their negative drumbeat against Trump as it appears to be backfiring mightily on them and their Democrat allies in favor of Trump’s growing popularity.

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