The battle ahead.
President-elect Donald Trump’s landslide victory over the Democrats’ hapless nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris, has given him a clear mandate to vigorously pursue his policy priorities. These include strong immigration law enforcement, lowering prices and reinvigorating domestic manufacturing to create more good paying jobs, U.S. energy dominance, strengthening national security, conducting foreign policy that puts America first, and protecting free speech.
Mr. Trump emphasized these policy goals repeatedly during his campaign. He left no doubt with the American people what he would do if elected. The American people responded with overwhelming approval in a fair, transparent election – across demographics, classes, ages, and geographical regions.
But the hypocritical left-wing progressives, who have continually smeared Mr. Trump as an existential threat to democracy, are proving that they are the real threats to democracy. They refuse to accept the majority of voters’ verdict on the direction they want the country to follow.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) is plotting with his Democrat colleagues to block President-elect Trump’s achievement of his policy agenda priorities, or at least to slow them down as much as possible. Members of the Progressive, Black, Hispanic, Asian Pacific American and Equality caucuses are the most vocal advocates in Congress of this obstructionist strategy. Governors in Democrat-run states such as California Governor Gavin Newsom, New York Governor Kathy Hochul, and Illinois Governor JB Pritzker are planning to fight Mr. Trump every step of the way. This includes shielding illegal immigrants who reside within their sanctuary jurisdictions from federal law enforcement officers.
President-elect Trump has said that the illegal immigration crisis, which the Biden-Harris open border and catch-and-release policies precipitated, is his top priority to solve when he becomes the 47th president on January 20, 2025. Because of these outrageous policies, more than ten million illegal immigrants have poured into the U.S., many of whom are residing in communities across America including record numbers of suspected terrorists and criminal gang members. About eight million of these illegal immigrants crossed into the United States from Mexico – more than three times the number during the Trump administration. This is unsustainable.
On the day Mr. Trump takes office, he is expected to sign a series of executive orders to crack down on illegal immigration. These will include one or more executive orders ending the Biden-Harris administration’s catch-and-release policy, imposing more stringent restrictions on eligibility for asylum, and reinstating the successful border security policies of Mr. Trump’s first administration that the Biden-Harris administration reversed. Restoring the Remain-in-Mexico program and building the wall come to mind. Mr. Trump is also likely to sign an executive order that would cancel the Biden-Harris administration’s mass humanitarian parole programs that has allowed migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela who received such parole to stay in the United States indefinitely. And on Day One of his administration, we can expect Mr. Trump to kick off his mass deportation program through an executive order and to reallocate sufficient funds to expand capacity for detaining illegal immigrants pending their expedited removal hearings.
Border agents will be directed to stop performing the Biden-Harris administration’s wasteful task of processing papers to permit immigrants who entered the U.S. illegally to remain in the country. Instead, the border agents will be assigned full time to barring illegal immigrants from entering the United States and turning back illegal immigrants managing to set foot on U.S. soil who have not been thoroughly vetted.
Adversaries such as China and Venezuela do not share accurate background information regarding their citizens with the United States, or in many cases do not share any information at all. Therefore, absent clear and convincing evidence to the contrary, it is reasonable for border agents to presume that illegal immigrants from these adversarial countries are trying to enter the United States under false pretenses. And absent clear and convincing evidence to the contrary, it is reasonable for border agents to presume that they would pose a security threat to the American people if they were permitted to remain in this country.
Mr. Trump has said that he intends to invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 in support of his mass deportation program. The Alien Enemies Act of 1798, which is still in effect, authorizes the president to apprehend, restrain, and remove male noncitizens who are fourteen years or older if, among other things, the U.S. faces an “invasion or predatory incursion” by a hostile country or foreign government. The statute can be reasonably interpreted to apply to male teen and adult illegal immigrants from Venezuela and China, for example.
The Venezuelan government is reported to have released violent criminals from its jails, allowing them to head to the United States to cross the U.S. southern border, which constitutes an “invasion or predatory incursion” by a hostile country. Invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 will allow the Trump administration to round up, detain, and deport male Venezuelan teen and adult gang members without any lengthy hearing or judicial review.
Moreover, a spike in encounters of Chinese nationals at the southern border with Mexico became noticeable starting in 2023 compared to the prior years. Many of these Chinese nationals are military-age men.
“We know that China is using everything that they have, every bit of espionage, to spy on our military and our high technology,” said Rebecca Grant, Ph.D., a national security analyst at IRIS Independent Research. “And we know China’s government is not our friend, so this dramatic upswing, I think it could definitely present a potential national security risk.”
The Alien Enemies Act is a tool that Mr. Trump should be able to use to detain and expel male, military-age Chinese nationals who entered the U.S. illegally. --->READ MORE HERE
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