Trump Goes Full Throttle On Illegal Immigration
President Trump’s accomplishments in the first three days alone are truly astonishing.
Stopping illegal immigration has been Trump’s key promise as far back as 2015. He is moving fast on this issue now, and he is not letting up.
According to the Associated Press:
The Pentagon said Wednesday it has begun deploying 1,500 active duty troops to help secure the southern border, putting in motion plans President Donald Trump laid out in executive orders shortly after he took office to crack down on immigration.
Acting Defense Secretary Robert Salesses said the troops will fly helicopters to assist Border Patrol agents and help in the construction of barriers. The Pentagon also will provide military aircraft for Department of Homeland Security deportation flights for more than 5,000 detained migrants. …
“This is just the beginning,” he said. “In short order, the department will develop and execute additional missions in cooperation with DHS, federal agencies, and state partners to address the full range of threats outlined by the President at our nation’s borders.”
By the way, the Department is preparing right now to send 2,000 more Marines to help enforce the border. President Trump and his team take this extremely seriously. Not only that, but the DOJ has also been instructed to prosecute any local officials who might actually obstruct the working of the immigration law.
Yahoo News reported:
In the memo, Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove, Trump’s former defense attorney, outlines “interim decisions and policy changes” pending the confirmation of Trump’s nominee for U.S. Attorney General, Pam Bondi. He said interim changes are necessary as an initial response to Trump’s executive orders regarding “three of the most serious threats facing the American people.”
Bove identified the threats as “cartels and other transnational criminal organizations, such as Tren de Aragua (TdA) and Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13).” These “are a scourge on society resulting in an unstable and unsafe border and huge flows of illegal immigration in violation of U.S. law.” He continued that the second threat is how “brutal and intolerable violent crime by members of these organizations and illegal aliens is escalating rapidly across the country.” He explained the third threat to be the “fentanyl crisis and opioid epidemic [that] are poisoning our communities and have inflicted an unprecedented toll of addiction, suffering, and death.”
The article continued:
The Justice Department must, and will, work to eradicate these threats,” Bove wrote. “Indeed, it is the responsibility of the Justice Department to defend the Constitution and, accordingly, to lawfully execute the policies that the American people elected President Trump to implement. The Justice Department’s responsibility, proudly shouldered by each of its employees, includes aggressive enforcement of laws enacted by Congress, as well as vigorous defense of the President’s actions on behalf of the United States against legal challenges. The Department’s personnel must come together in the offices that taxpayers have funded to do this vitally important work.
Bove noted that the Supremacy Clause in the U.S. Constitution and other entities “require state and local actors to comply with the Executive Branch’s immigration enforcement activities.”
So if you are a local politician who is seeking to impede the workings of ICE or Border Patrol, prepare to find yourself in the dark. That is what the DOJ is saying.
They are correct to do so. Because if the plenary power of the federal government includes immigration, that means you can’t obstruct it.
That’s the way that it works.
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“The Justice Department must, and will, work to eradicate these threats,” Bove declared. “Indeed, it is the responsibility of the Justice Department to defend the Constitution and, accordingly, to lawfully execute the policies that the American people elected President Trump to implement. The Justice Department’s responsibility, proudly shouldered by each of its employees, includes aggressive enforcement of laws enacted by Congress, as well as vigorous defense of the President’s actions on behalf of the United States against legal challenges. The Department’s personnel must come together in the offices that taxpayers have funded to do this vitally important work.”
Bove noted that the Supremacy Clause in the U.S. Constitution and other entities “require state and local actors to comply with the Executive Branch’s immigration enforcement activities.”
So if you are a local politician who is seeking to impede the workings of ICE or Border Patrol, prepare to find yourself in the dark. That is what the DOJ is saying.
They are correct to do so. Because if the plenary power of the federal government includes immigration, that means you can’t obstruct it.
That’s the way that it works.
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