Swinging Senators Offer Amnesty With a ‘Trigger’

A group of swing-voting Senators has drafted an immigration proposal which recycles the failed “trigger” scheme from the disastrous Gang of Eight amnesty plan which eventually loosed Donald Trump on Washington.

The bill has been developed for introduction in the Senate’s immigration debate, starting Monday, by a group of GOP and Democratic Senators.

The proposal is just grandstanding, said one source, because it does not try to meet three of President Donald Trump four requirements, which were laid out in his State of the Union speech. “If they wanted a bill, they would be working with the President,” said the source.

The trigger in the 2013 plan was intended to mute public opposition to the bill’s huge amnesty for all illegals in the United States. It allowed Senators to say that the final parts of the amnesty would be withheld until government officials certified the border security met supposedly strict criteria outlined in the Senates amnesty bill.

But the 2013 trigger was a fake because the criteria were so vague they could not have stopped the political and business pressure to complete the amnesty.

The trigger was also a political failure because it could not save the unpopular amnesty bill from being buried by the House in June 2014.

Also, while the trigger helped the amnesty bill pass the Senate 68-32, the amnesty debate prompted a populist reaction in the GOP. That reaction helped flip nine Democratic seats to the GOP the next November, and helped Trump win election as President in November 2016. It also left Sen. Chuck Schumer as Minority Leader in 2017, not Majority Leader.

The new trigger is included in the group’s draft amnesty for roughly 3 million young illegals, which is wrapped up in a few token offsets. Those offsets include just $1 billion for border security — despite Trump’s request for $25 billion — plus the promise of a GAO study on security, plus the “trigger.”

The swing-voting Senators are being led by Maine Sen. Susan Collin. She’s pushing for more legal immigration even though her home state is losing investment and residents to other warmer states where the annual wave of 1 million legal immigrant workers and consumers mostly choose to live. Only 95 of 690,000 DACA illegals are based in Maine according to 2017 data.

On February 8, Collins told reporters:

There will probably be more than one [bill proposed], but it’s too early to tell right now … There’s still a lot of discussion going on.

Collins has closeted herself with other swinging Senators, such as GOP Sens. Lindsey Graham, Lisa Kurkowski, Jeff Flake, Mike Rounds, Cory Gardner, James Lankford and retiring Jeff Flake.

They are meeting with Democrats who are facing tough election battles this year, including Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, Claire McCaskill of Missouri, and Bill Nelson from Florida. Those Democrats are reluctant to vote for an amnesty that will be used against them in the November election — especially if the House prevents a political payoff by deep-sixing the amnesty as it did in 2014.

The group describes itself as the “Common Sense Caucus.”

The caucus also includes Sen. Marco Rubio, whose lost his presidential chance in 2016 when he accepted the 2012 invitation to join the Gang of Eight, at the request of Graham and Schumer.

GOP Sen. Thom Tillis, a strong advocate for outsourcing white-collar jobs, told reporters Thursday the group of swing-voting Senators would authorize only $2.5 billion, but would also include a promise to spend another $22.5 billion.

According to the Washington Times, Tillis “said there appears to be consensus on the 1.8 million number, and said they are willing to authorize up to $25 billion for fencing — though they’ll only allocate $2.5 billion to $5 billion in real money.”

Flake is also developing a fallback anesty plan if the first amnesty is rejected.  According to Politico, he “is preparing a fallback measure that would extend Obama-era legal protections for young undocumented immigrants paired with some border security funding if Congress fails to come up with a broader agreement on so-called Dreamers.”

According to Politico, Flake said that multiple Democratic Senators prefer keeping the immigration issue boiling up to election day:

“A lot of Democrats, a lot of the base, from what I hear, is just saying: ‘Forget it. Wait for the midterms,’” Flake said. “It’s not as if we hold all the cards here as Republicans.”

Trump’s 2016 immigration policies are very popular among the public, including among blue-collar African-Americans who are a core element of the Democrats’ current electoral base.

In contrast, business groups, Democrats, and the establishment media tout misleading, industry-funded “Nation of Immigrants” polls which pressure Americans to say they welcome migrants, including the roughly 3 million ‘dreamer’ illegals.

The alternative “priority or fairness” polls — plus the 2016 election — show that voters in the polling booth put a much higher priority on helping their families, neighbors, and fellow nationals get decent jobs in a high-tech, high-immigrationlow-wage economy.

 

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NYT: U.S. Spies Paid $100,000 to Russian Claiming to Have Damaging Info on Trump

NYT: U.S. Spies Paid $100,000 to Russian Claiming to Have Damaging Info on Trump



Matthew Rosenberg writes at the New York Times that American spies, while trying to recover stolen NSA hacking tools, paid a Russian claiming to have damaging information about Donald Trump:

After months of secret negotiations, a shadowy Russian bilked American spies out of $100,000 last year, promising to deliver stolen National Security Agency cyberweapons in a deal that he insisted would also include compromising material on President Trump, according to American and European intelligence officials.

The cash, delivered in a suitcase to a Berlin hotel room in September, was intended as the first installment of a $1 million payout, according to American officials, the Russian and communications reviewed by The New York Times. The theft of the secret hacking tools had been devastating to the N.S.A., and the agency was struggling to get a full inventory of what was missing.

Several American intelligence officials said they made clear that they did not want the Trump material from the Russian, who was suspected of having murky ties to Russian intelligence and to Eastern European cybercriminals. He claimed the information would link the president and his associates to Russia. Instead of providing the hacking tools, the Russian produced unverified and possibly fabricated information involving Mr. Trump and others, including bank records, emails and purported Russian intelligence data.

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MSNBC Nitwit Calls for Women to Walk Out of White House En Masse

Feminists have been shrieking like banshees over the overblown scandal of the week that White House assistant staff secretary Rob Porter had been accused of domestic abuse.

In becoming the latest scalp on the wall for the weaponized and politicized #MeToo movement, Porter was forced to resign under pressure as the Washington sky was nearly black from circling vultures.

Like everything else, Porter’s troubles were quickly spun to be an attack on President Trump’s character and that of White House Chief of Staff General John Kelly.

With the left no longer able to articulate any logical arguments on real issues that actually affect the lives of Americans (the economy, jobs, taxes, the military etc.) they are only left with the lurid tabloid sleaze of identity politics and radical feminism.

Let’s face it, millions of women were crushed and ruined forever by Hillary Clinton’s failure to consider campaigning in the Rust Belt states and like vengeful harpies, they will never be satisfied until they have castrated every powerful male in the country without the benefit of due process.

MSNBC’s clownish Nicole Wallace who served in the Bush White House has gone so far as to call for all women who work in the White House to walk out en masse although she didn’t have any suggestions on how they could find new employment after quitting their jobs.

Via The Hill “Nicolle Wallace: Why don’t women in White House ‘walk out’?”:

MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace on Friday questioned why women serving in the White House don’t resign in protest following controversy over aides’ handling of domestic abuse allegations against former staff secretary Rob Porter.

In a monologue on her show reported by Mediaite, the former press secretary to President George W. Bush asked why women in the White House such as communications director Hope Hicks and others don’t resign over President Trump’s behavior towards women.

“Where are the women?” Wallace asked. “Why don’t they walk out en masse?”

“I know they feel picked on,” Wallace said, not naming any specific names. “I know they do because I’ve asked this twice, I asked it after the president tweeted at Mika, I singled out the women and named them, and I won’t do that today.”

“But why don’t you walk out?” she finished. “Why don’t they leave?”

Here it is if you can get through it without vomiting.

You have to wonder how in the hell that Democrats somehow believe that the war on men is going to be a winning issue with voters. After all, if Queen Hillary herself failed to win with all feminists fully mobilized to install the historic first female president then somehow even more women are going to be motivated to vote.

As loathsome as Hillary was, at least there was a positive idea in seeing the ultimate glass ceiling shattered that drove women to vote. They won’t be so motivated by such negativity but Wallace and her fellow cable twits will still be pulling down their paychecks.

This is truly insane and these news bimbos are inflicting serious psychological damage on their viewers.

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The Sad Transformation of Jimmy Kimmel Is Complete

Remember Jimmy Kimmel?

Most of us don’t. Not anymore. He’s unrecognizable in his current form, a hard-left comic with little empathy for those who lean to the right. That’s roughly half the country.

What a shame.

The jocular comic shot to fame by hosting “Win Ben Stein’s Money” and palling around with Adam Carolla. The duo created The Man Show, a gleefully macho series that wouldn’t be allowed on Comedy Central today.

Gorgeous women jumping on trampolines? Skits mocking the women’s suffrage movement? The online petitions by outraged progressives to shut the show down would break records. Comedy Central would quickly take a knee.

Those were less “woke” times, though.

He parlayed that Everyman persona into late night fame. His Jimmy Kimmel Live, now in its 14th season, never threatened The Late Show or The Tonight Show in the ratings wars. The ABC show still draws a sizable crowd and occasionally inspires viral gags that crush YouTube.

That was then. Before the rise of Donald Trump and a media landscape that threw away the remaining shreds of its integrity.

Kimmel wants in, apparently. And if his aw, shucks brand has to hit the circular file, so be it. The transformation began with a heartfelt tale tied to his ailing newborn.

Last May the comedian shared an update on his young son’s health. The lad required significant medical attention to fix a heart birth defect. A teary-eyed Kimmel shared the latest updates on his son’s condition, slipping in a plea for better health care options for all.

Weeks later, Kimmel got more pointed, and partisan, in his defense of ObamaCare. A quick note: Kimmel never shed a tear, or weighed in in a similar fashion, when we learned President Barack Obama’s pitch for his health care overhaul was riddled with lies.

The Daily Wire’s Ben Shapiro deftly explained the flaws in Kimmel’s baby strategy.

“But the invocation of personal experience in political debate is generally obtuse because it is a soft form of identity politics. It puts those arguing in the position of supposedly rejecting your personal experience, thus impugning your integrity or the veracity of your feelings … The whole point of determining policy is that empathy shouldn’t outweigh reason.”

Shapiro runs a conservative web site where lucid, right-leaning arguments are encouraged. Good luck finding that sensibility across mainstream outlets.

The old Kimmel was fading fast. In recent months he’s cranked up the partisan rhetoric. The Daily Beast reported that he sought out the counsel of Sen. Chuck Schumer, a hard-left Democrat, before one energized monologue.

Kimmel even called out Rep. Paul Ryan in a way the “old” Kimmel never would.    

 

He waded into the gun control debate following the Las Vegas shooting massacre. Naturally he demonized those with whom he disagrees.

“They should be praying for God to forgive them for letting the gun lobby run this country,” Kimmel said of the GOP.

Over the weekend Kimmel spoke to the folks at Pod Save America, a liberal chat show. Here’s a tweet sharing one of the comedian’s comments.

 

 

Fellow late nighter Stephen Colbert once said, “reality has a well-known liberal bias.” Even Colbert wouldn’t push the comment as far as Kimmel did.

Kimmel’s hard-left opinions can be seen in many of ABC monologues. Here’s a sample rant from his Feb. 1 telecast. See if you can spot any gut busters in the following:

To call Devin Nunes Donald Trump’s lap dog would be an insult to dogs. And laps …”

He then targeted President Trump and his Fake News assault.

“When a newspaper digs whatever you did up, and publishes a story about it, you don’t just attack the facts, you don’t just attack the story, you attack the newspaper. The newspaper is biased. Even if the newspaper clearly isn’t biased.

“That’s Step 1. Step 2 is when multiple newspapers, and news organizations, and reporters, further an investigation, whatever it is, when they report something you don’t like. If you’re the President now, you don’t just attack the newspapers or the news networks, you attack the media. You say the media is biased. You call them the elite media. They’re all in league together. Everyone except Fox and Friends is plotting to get you. Because they don’t want America to be great again!”

“And then, once the media is playing defense, you climb another rung…When the FBI steps in and starts sniffing around and handing out subpoenas…what do you do? Same thing you always do…You discredit the FBI, you discredit the special counsel, you discredit anybody who might possibly come up with information you don’t like.”

 

Is anyone laughing? What you just read sounds like a Daily Kos diarist, not one of the country’s notable late night comics. Fact checking his comments, an easy effort, is besides the point.

So why the Kimmel transformation? He’s no longer the bratty young comic trying to cut his teeth in comedy. He’s 50 He’s also aware how the media treats comics who lean left.

Hero worship hardly describes it.

Today’s media outlets regularly share Kimmel’s liberal rants … just like they do any “Saturday Night Live” skit attacking the GOP.

What you’re not seeing in the media love fest for Kimmel? Anyone digging into Kimmel’s Comedy Central past. Shouldn’t a woke reporter or two remind us how he ogled bikini women jumping on trampolines? What about Kimmel, in blackface, imitating basketball legend Karl Malone for the same show?

Kimmel is hardly the only late night show leaning to the left. They all do, save Jimmy Fallon. There’s still a big distinction between the “new” Kimmel and his competition.

Colbert has always been politically progressive. His shift from Comedy Central to CBS didn’t change that. HBO’s Bill Maher has been acerbic his entire career. Samantha Bee broke out of the late night gate by calling Sen. Ted Cruz a “fish-faced horsesh** sandwich.” She was never a lovable progressive.

It’s what makes Kimmel’s transformation so jarring.

Arrogant. Self-satisfied. Finger wagging. This isn’t the Jimmy Kimmel we got to know over time. Sadly, Kimmel 2.0 is likely here to stay.

[Cross-posted from Hollywood in Toto.] 

 

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Insane Millennials Start New Hot Stove Challenge to Upstage Tide Pods

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Insane Millennials Start New Hot Stove Challenge to Upstage Tide Pods

Millennials started with the “Tide Pod Challenge,” quickly switched to the “Animal Trap Challenge” and have now apparently landed on the “Hot Stove Challenge.”

This new creation by some moron on the internet seems to involve one warming up stove coils and then pressing his or her forearm on those smoldering-hot coils.

Brilliant. Just absolutely brilliant …

Watch below, and note the reaction of the cameraman (WARNING: GRAPHIC LANGUAGE):

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“Holy f*** — that was pretty cool!” the cameraman exclaims after his friend manages to burn the entire length of his forearm.

Dear parents: Where did we go wrong!?

It’s not clear what motivated the “Dumb and Dumber” duo above to perform this stunt, though the timing of the video — it appeared on the social media site Reddit this week, according to Maxim magazine –suggests it may be tied to the whole “Tide Pod Challenge” debacle.

While it’s true young dolts (not to be confused with adults) have been performing stupid stunts since the dawn of civilization, it seems like social media has exacerbated this behavior by making it that much easier for them to advertise their stupid ideas to one another.

Do these challenges concern you?

It hasn’t helped either that the internet is teeming with professional stuntmen who gladly advertise their own extreme stunts and pranks for everyone, including impressionable teenyboppers, to see.

Videos like the one below from The Dudesons, a four-man stunt group from Finland (WARNING: GRAPHIC LANGUAGE):

That was actually pretty funny. And since they’re professionals, I’m not really worried about their safety. By the way, I especially appreciate the warning at the start of the video: “This stunt is dangerous. Do not Try This At Home!”

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But boy, given all the stupid stunts millennials have been partaking in lately, it wouldn’t really surprise me if this too soon becomes a challenge.

If only there were a way to convince millennials to take part in the “SHUT UP AND DO YOUR HOMEWORK CHALLENGE.”

Sigh.

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“Sinking” Pacific Islands Begins Rising, Defies Global Warming Predictions

More evidence defying global warming predictions has emerged, this time coming from the south Pacific Ocean.

According to new research, the nation of Tuvalu, a cluster of 101 islands northeast of Australia, has grown over the last four decades.

That is good news, unless you are a climate change alarmist who has perpetuated the notion that these islands would “sink” due to rising sea levels caused by man-made global warming.

For years, left-wing environmentalists have warned that the islands, which are no more than 15-feet above sea level, would be swallowed up by the ocean due to rising sea levels caused by burning fossil fuels that release carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

As with most global warming scare tactics, the threat that faces Tuvalu may exist only in the minds of climate change enthusiasts.

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The findings, published Friday in the journal Nature Communications, show that the small islands are not sinking — they are getting larger.

Scientists at the University of Auckland in New Zealand who have examined hundreds of aerial photographs of the islands over the last 40 years, reported that the total size of the nation has increased by nearly 3 percent. They report that that islands have gained 181.6 acres of new surface area.

Co-author of the study Paul Kench said the research questioned the theory that the low-lying islands would eventually “sink” as the sea rose.

“We tend to think of Pacific atolls as static landforms that will simply be inundated as sea levels rise, but there is growing evidence these islands are geologically dynamic and are constantly changing,” he said, according to Phys.org.

Are you surprised these islands are not sinking?

“The study findings may seem counter-intuitive, given that (the) sea level has been rising in the region over the past half century, but the dominant mode of change over that time on Tuvalu has been expansion, not erosion,” he added.

The study did reveal that man-made efforts, such as seawalls and shore reclamation, as well as wave patterns and sediment from storms have slowed some coastal erosion, but added that perhaps it was time to rethink what is considered a real threat to the islands.

In addition, the research revealed that reef islands adjust to shifting sediments, meaning they may be able to cope with any rising sea levels.

Bench said the research changed dire predictions for the islands.

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“On the basis of this research we project a markedly different trajectory for Tuvalu’s islands over the next century than is commonly envisaged,” he said.

He added, “While we recognise that habitability rests on a number of factors, loss of land is unlikely to be a factor in forcing depopulation of Tuvalu.”

It will be difficult for climate change activists to challenge the fact that the islands are growing, but we doubt that will stop them from using their alarmist tactics in the future.

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CNN, MSNBC Push Myth Trump Urged Death Penalty for Innocent Black Teens

<p>On Friday night, during coverage of the resignation of White House aide Rob Porter over spousal abuse charges, CNN’s Anderson Cooper, MSNBC’s Katy Tur and MSNBC’s Jonathan Alter were not content to just complain that President Donald Trump sounded too sympathetic to Porter, but they even had to inject suggestions of racism into the discussion by bringing up debunked claims that Trump used an ad to demand the death penalty for black teens who were actually innocent. </p>

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New poll reveals if Americans think Trump campaign was spied on — Obama will hate the results

A new poll reveals that an “overwhelming” majority of Americans believe the Obama administration “improperly surveilled” on the Trump campaign.

What did the survey find?

The new Investor’s Business Daily/TIPP poll, which surveyed 900 Americans, found that:

  • Regarding election spying, 55 percent said they believe it’s likely the Obama administration “improperly surveilled the Trump campaign during the 2016 election.” Among party lines, 87 percent of Republicans said they believe it is likely while 55 percent of independents concurred.
  • When asked if a special counsel is needed to investigation the Justice Department and FBI for their alleged activities regarding the Trump campaign, 54 percent said “yes” while 44 said “no.”
  • However, just 35 percent of respondents said they believe high-ranking DOJ officials attempted to outright frame Trump for alleged collusion with Russia.

Other polls have shown similar results.

A Rasmussen poll released this week revealed 50 percent of likely U.S. voters believe “it’s at least somewhat likely senior federal law enforcement officials broke the law in an effort to prevent Donald Trump from winning the presidency,” including 32 percent who believe it’s “very likely.”

Meanwhile, a separate Rasmussen poll revealed just 42 percent of likely U.S. voters believe Russia meddled in the 2016 presidential election more than the FBI. On the other hand, 34 percent said they believe the FBI meddled in the election more than Russia.

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Violent, Trump-Bashing ‘Purge’ Film Spotlights Universal’s Left Turn

Editor’s Note: The following has been adapted with the author’s permission from its original publication on Carolina Culture Warrior. To be fully transparent, the author also owns shares in ABC (as previously disclosed).

All too often, talking about the American entertainment industry can be disheartening but especially since President Trump’s election in November 2016 with the rise of the Resistance.

Here’s a recent example. As MRC Culture’s Matt Philbin reported on February 4, CBS is developing a TV series based on the life of former Attorney General Eric Holder with Holder himself serving as executive producer. 

With news like that, you know this will be self-serving liberal drivel. But this move shows that CBS is no different from its competitors in its corporate decision-making to alienate a majority of conservatives.

Mainstream Hollywood is going to push this far-left agenda like never before, especially when the 2020 presidential election rolls around. Universal Pictures – a division of the reliably liberal NBCUniversal – provides the perfect example with a new installment in The Purge series of horror films set for release on Independence Day called The First Purge.

 

 

Judging from the trailer, it should tell you everything you need to know about how blatantly Trump-focused this one will be. This kind of disrespect for decency is all over Hollywood.

The Purge is perhaps one of the most overtly politically charged film franchises in recent history, with the last film in the series – The Purge: Election Year – taking place during the last presidential election. Further, NBCUniversal is perhaps one of the most left-wing media giants out there, so it’s fitting they’d step forward to greenlight this garbage. 

Imagine if any of the major studios made a movie like this targeting Obama. There would be boycotts everywhere, Melissa Harris-Perry would probably re-emerge on MSNBC’s airwaves, and cries of racism would be hurled until the end of time.

Combining that with the Freeform all-but stealing MSNBC’s failed slogan, it’s clear that there is a political and cultural civil war going on for the soul of America.

However, most Republicans and conservatives aren’t snowflakes. They can fight their own battles, and they don’t need to advocate for “safe spaces.” But, that doesn’t mean conservatives should have their heads in the sand when it comes to the moral decay of the entertainment industry.

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Another poster child for amnesty is identified

The DACA negotiations must be heating back up because the media is once again seeking out the most sympathetic deportation stories they can find. This week it was CNN, identifying the story of Amer Adi, an illegal alien who had been living in the United States on and off for four decades and who was recently deported to his native land of Jordan. The article on the CNN website is definitely worth a read if only to see the linguistic acrobatics they go through to point out how unjust it all is, how terrible the President is for wanting to see Mr. Adi deported and what a pillar of the community he has been. (That’s literally a phrase that’s used.) But as usual, when you dig a bit deeper there are a few things wrong with the story. (Emphasis added)

With nothing but the clothes on his back and less than $300 in his pocket, Amer Adi was put on a plane and deported to Jordan, the country he left 39 years ago to pursue his American dream.

His 94-year-old mother sat in a wheelchair at the arrivals gate, overcome with emotion as she waited for Adi. She hadn’t seen him in 20 years.
As he walked out, his siblings, nephews and nieces broke out in cheers. But they were soon in tears. Adi fell to his knees, a broken man in his mother’s arms.

“I have mixed feelings, very mixed feelings. I’m so happy, so glad to be here, my home, to see my mother, my brother, my family, my friends, that makes me proud and happy,” Adi told CNN at the airport. “At the same time, I feel so sad of what happened to me. I’m so sorry to tell you what happened is unjust, not right, and everyone back there knows that. What the Trump administration is doing is — you can’t even explain it,” said Adi.

The line about with only the clothes on his back is particularly poignant, isn’t it? But reading further into the details, we learn that Mr. Adi owns multiple businesses as well as a home. Even if he was rushed out without time to pack, I’m sure he’s got an extra suit or two somewhere, not to mention more than 300 dollars, and they could be sent to him. And CNN describes him as a broken man, falling into the arms of his mother. No, wait… his mother in a wheelchair. They couldn’t have picked a better subject and description if they’d found the actual Tiny Tim from A Christmas Carol.

So what’s actually going on with Mr. Adi here? In a system as massive as the United States immigration scene, there are always going to be a few cases that fall through the cracks, and it’s possible that this is one of them. Or maybe not. Back in the 80s, Adi had a green card and was married to an American. But he lost his permanent resident alien status when he moved out of the country for a few years. At some point, they divorced and he remarried a different American woman, but the story doesn’t make clear precisely when that happened.

In any event, he was accused of having a sham marriage and his ex-wife signed a statement saying they had only married so he could get his green card. She later recanted the statement, saying she made it under duress. Which story is true? We have no way of knowing, but the point is that Adi was then in the United States illegally. After battling it out in the courts for a while, he was issued an order of deportation in 2009. (Insert record scratch sound effect here.)

Wait a minute. Did you say 2009? Remind me again who the President was then. Oh, that’s right. Barack Obama.

ICE delayed acting on that order for several years, as so often happens, and appeals were filed. Adi’s congressman even tried to get a special bill passed to allow him to stay in the country. But multiple judges in a number of courts have reviewed the case, and as ICE said in their statement on the matter, “the courts have held that Adi does not have a legal basis to remain in the US.” Having finally made a decision, ICE slapped an ankle bracelet on him in September and told him to make preparations to leave the country. And his family did make those preparations and were ready to go, but the deportation was delayed yet again until the end of January.

So just to review, what really happened here is that ICE, who had been working this case for decades, finally enforced an order given under the Obama administration and deported someone who had lost all of their court challenges. And CNN is happily painting a picture of a “broken man” who was unjustly targeted and ruined by Donald Trump.

It’s not unusual for the media to pick out these poster child cases and highlight them to tug at heartstrings and try to move the needle of public perception on an issue. They did the same thing with the story of the illegal alien journalism student who self-deported last month. Before that, it was the heartwarming story of Jorge Garcia in Detroit. What they all have in common at the end of the day is the fact that these were people who were in the country illegally and were either caught and deported under the normal rule of law or left of their own volition.

It’s definitely possible that mistakes are made from time to time and someone with a lawful basis for being here gets picked up. If that’s the case, highlight it all you like, have them file an appeal and I’m sure it can be worked out. But that wasn’t the case with Mr. Adi or the others we featured here. They were illegal aliens and ICE did their job. End of story.

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