Trump touts controversial Eisenhower program as deportation model

To be fair what Trump's really saying is... if we had the wherewithal to get rid of illegals back in the Eisenhower years why is it an insurmountable task to do it now? 

Why is we can arrest 1.5 million people a year for DWI but it is unfathomable to do the same with illegals?

 I'll tell you why. Because people like these 4 "conservatives" below have no appetite for it. No one is suggesting killing anybody. Yet they describe their deportation as inhumane, brutal. Try telling that to Kate Steinle's family not to mention a slew of others. People with this thought process are part and parcel as to why we have sanctuary cities today.

 How you get rid of them:

The first two are an absolute must if you ever expect to correct the problem!

1. Do whatever it takes to seal the border. 

2. Change the 14th Amendment by not automatically granting citizenship to "anchor babies".

3.  This could be done in some form. This is just one suggestion.

Once it is determined they're here illegally... e.g. committed a crime, traffic violation, domestic violence, etc they are sent to a detention centers. I can hear the libs crying now... oh-no don't say  detention centers. These detention centers will be located in 49 sates (Hawaii will have to deal with it on its own). Once a month they are picked up and since the vast majority of illegals are Mexicans, and to a lesser amount South America's, are transported over the border to Mexico. If Mexico doesn't like it that's to damn bad. That's where they came in from... that's where they're going back. Put the problem in Mexico's lap where it belongs. They created it with their own citizens and also allowed South America's to waltz through their country to get here. Now we can return the favor. 

People will say...well how much is this going to cost?

How much does it cost not to?

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/07/02/immigration-costs-fair-amnesty-educations-costs-reform/

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You know we got a problem when you have these 4 guys...

siding with Comrade de Blasio.

De Blasio would 'unquestionably' resist Trump's deportation plan

“This is outrageous and we really need to fight this right now because what he is saying, you know, to call it un-American is an understatement. It is inhumane. He’s talking about deporting people using as his example a plan that was inhumane, that was proven to be in so many ways immoral, which lead to the deaths of many people.”

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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump again touted a controversial policy from the 1950s Wednesday as a model for his plan to deport an estimated 11 million illegal immigrants. 

The program, known as "Operation Wetback," was a complicated undertaking largely viewed by historians as a dark moment in America's past. 

Read this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Wetback

I'm not advocating death to illegals. But as you read about the "dark moment in America's past" maybe you should also read the dark moment real Americans are facing today.

http://www.ojjpac.org/memorial.asp

The head count indicates more Americans are killed by illegals than Mexicans were during Operation Wetback. 


It also coincided with a guest worker program that provided legal status to hundreds of thousands of largely Mexican farm workers. 

Fox News' Bill O'Reilly confronted Trump about his support for the program Wednesday night on "The O'Reilly Factor." 

"Believe me when I tell you, Mr. Trump, that was brutal what they did to those people to kick them back [across the border]," O'Reilly said. "I mean, the stuff they did was really brutal." 

"I've heard it both ways. I've heard good reports, I've heard bad reports," Trump responded. "We would do it in a very humane way." The real estate billionaire also refused to refer to the program by its name, which is now widely considered a racial slur against Mexicans, saying "I don't like the term at all." 

The 1954 initiative was aimed at apprehending and deporting agricultural workers who had crossed the border illegally looking for work. 

Critics of the program say the conditions for those the agents apprehended were anything but humane. Many of the apprehended migrants were transported in crowded buses and dumped on the other side of the border in a manner some at the time equated with the treatment of livestock. 

Rival GOP candidates have started to challenge Trump's deportation plan claims. 

Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., told Fox News on Thursday that the U.S. needs to deport criminal offenders, those overstaying visas and others. 

But, he said, "I do not believe you can round up and deport 11 million people, especially people who have been here 15 years, have not otherwise violated a law." 

Using this same methodology if you robbed a bank 15 years ago and stayed clean since... all is forgiven?

Trump touted the Eisenhower-era program in Tuesday night's debate. 

"He's only got part of the story," Mae Ngaio  a professor of history at Columbia University, told the Associated Press. 

Stop right here. This guy's a professor at liberal Columbia University. That's really all you need to know. The good professor is brimming with facts and figures. A very through investigative job. But if you asked him where a certain alumni's college transcripts are he wouldn't have a clue.

According to a summary of the project from the Texas State Historical Association, the United States Border Patrol "aided by municipal, county, state, and federal authorities, as well as the military, began a quasi-military operation of search and seizure of all unauthorized immigrants." 

The project, Ngai said, began with 750 immigration officers and border control agents, who used jeeps, trucks, buses and airplanes to apprehend migrants nationwide, including in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Chicago. They apprehended 3,000 people a day and 170,000 during its first three months. 

In one incident, Ngai said, 88 apprehended Mexicans died of sunstroke after being subjected to 112-degree heat. The number would have been higher had the Red Cross not intervened. 

Some of those apprehended were sent deep into the interior of Mexico to prevent re-entry by train or cargo ship, where conditions drew the attention of federal regulators. 

One congressional investigation likened a transport ship that was the site of a riot to an "eighteenth century slave ship" and a "penal hell ship." 

Trump also leaves out of his advocacy for the Eisenhower-era approach the fact the program was developed to complement a guest-worker program that began in the 1940s and was aimed at allowing Mexican farmworkers to enter the country and work in the U.S. legally. 

Hundreds of thousands of farm workers did so, and the deportation effort was conceived as a way to pressure employers into using the guest worker program. 

"It was like a carrot and a stick," Ngai said. 

While Trump has put the number of deportations at 1.5 million, most accounts suggest the numbers are far fewer, because they included those who chose to leave the country voluntarily as well as people who returned after being deported and were deported again. 

Trump has yet to lay out precisely how he would track down those living in the country illegally, or how he would determine who are "the good ones" that he would allow to return. 

Both John Kasich, Ohio's governor, and Jeb Bush, the former governor of Florida, rejected Trump's plan on Tuesday night as unrealistic and cruel. 

"To send them back, 500,000 a month, is just not, not possible," Bush said. "And it's not embracing American values. And it would tear communities apart. And it would send a signal that we're not the kind of country that I know America is." 

Wasn't it Bush who said "They come here out of love". Do you really think he would do anything about illegals? Wonder why his poll numbers are in the tank!

I'm sick of hearing all the excuses. Trump appears to be the only candidate willing to face the situation head on.

Trump touts controversial Eisenhower program as deportation model

The spawn of Bernie Sanders

Watch Cavuto take this brainless lefty to the woodshed.

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The spawn of Bernie Sanders

"We are 99 percent sure we got him."

Good riddance you dirty bastard!

US airstrike targets notorious ISIS militant 'Jihadi John'

DEVELOPING – The Pentagon said late Thursday it had launched an airstrike in Syria targeting "Jihadi John", a British national seen in videos depicting the beheading of hostages held by ISIS.

Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook confirmed that the airstrike in Raqqa was directed at the notorious militant, also known as Mohamed Emwazi. It was not immediately clear whether Emwazi died in the airstrike, but a senior U.S. military official told Fox News, "we are 99 percent sure we got him." The Pentagon was monitoring the aftermath of the strike before making a definitive announcement.

A senior U.S. defense official told Fox News that a drone was used in the airstrike. According to a senior military source, the drone had been tracking Emwazi for most of the day Thursday while he met with other people. The source said the strike took place shortly after Emwazi came out of a building in Raqqa, when he was "ID'd and engaged."

Sky News, citing sources inside Raqqa, reported that Emwazi was badly hurt in the air strike but still alive when he was brought to the hospital there. Later, however, the same sources said the hospital was sealed off to the public. Locals say the hospital is usually closed when an ISIS figure is killed, which allows the group to go on social media and claim he is still alive.

A representative of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights told the Daily Telegraph, "a car carrying four foreign Islamic State leaders, including one British jihadi, was hit by U.S. air strikes [near] the governorate building in Raqqa city.

"All the sources there are saying that the body of an important British jihadi is lying in the hospital of Raqqa," the activist added. "All the sources are saying it is of Jihadi John but I cannot confirm it personally."

Emwazi, believed to be in his mid-20s, has been described by a former hostage as a bloodthirsty psychopath who enjoyed threatening Western hostages. Spanish journalist Javier Espinosa, who had been held in Syria for more than six months after his abduction in September 2013, said Emwazi would explain precisely how the militants would carry out a beheading.

Those being held by three British-sounding captors nicknamed them "the Beatles" with "Jihadi John" a reference to Beatles member John Lennon, Espinosa said in recalling his months as one of more than 20 hostages.

Emwazi is seen in videos showing the beheading of journalists Steve Sotloff and James Foley, American aid worker Abdul-Rahman Kassig, British aid workers David Haines and Alan Henning, Japanese journalist Kenji Goto, and a number of other hostages.

In the videos, a tall masked figure clad in black and speaking in a British accent typically began one of the gruesome videos with a political rant and a kneeling hostage before him, then ended it holding an oversize knife in his hand with the headless victim lying before him in the sand.

A counterterror analyst told Fox News that Emwazi became so sought-after following his appearances in the beheading videos that he was shunned by ISIS leadership. The analyst said Emwazi had become the "Typhoid Mary" of the terror group, noting that his presence had prompted airstrikes on meetings, buildings, and other commanders.

Early Friday, British Prime Minister David Cameron said that officials are not yet certain whether Emwazi was dead, but said the action was "a strike at the heart" of ISIS, as well as "an act of self-defense" and the right thing to do.

Cameron said Britain has been "working, with the United States, literally around the clock to track him down."

"This was a combined effort," he said. "And the contribution of both our countries was essential."

Cameron said that "it will demonstrate to those who would do Britain, our people and our allies harm: We have a long reach, we have unwavering determination and we never forget about our citizens."

Bethany Haines, the daughter of David Haines, told Sky News Friday that she felt an 'instant sense of" relief" when she heard Emwazi may have been killed. She said her feeling was because of "'knowing he wouldn't appear in any more horrific videos."

Emwazi was identified as "Jihadi John" last February, although a lawyer who once represented Emwazi's father told reporters that there was no evidence supporting the accusation. Experts and others later confirmed the identification.

Emwazi was born in Kuwait and spent part of his childhood in the poor Taima area of Jahra before moving to Britain while still a boy, according to news reports quoting Syrian activists who knew the family. He attended state schools in London, then studied computer science at the University of Westminster before leaving for Syria in 2013. The woman who had been the principal at London's Quintin Kynaston Academy told the BBC earlier this year that Emwazi had been quiet and "reasonably hard-working."

Officials said Britain's intelligence community had Emwazi on its list of potential terror suspects for years but was unable to prevent him from traveling to Syria. He had been known to the nation's intelligence services since at least 2009, when he was connected with investigations into terrorism in Somalia.

The beheading of Foley, 40, of Rochester, New Hampshire, was deemed by IS to be its response to U.S. airstrikes. The release of the video, on Aug. 19, 2014, horrified and outraged the civilized world but was followed the next month by videos showing the beheadings of Sotloff and Haines and, in October, of Henning.

"We are 99 percent sure we got him."

Congratulations

On a tip from Ed Kilbane

Congratulations

First the Bosnian sniper whopper...

And now this.
Maybe she misspoke again?

 Hillary tried to join the Marines in Arkansas

Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton, shown here campaigning in New Hampshire on Tuesday, has revived an old story that she once inquired about joining the Marine Corps

In 1994, Clinton said the incident happened at a Marine Corps office in Arkansas and that she had inquired about joining either the active forces or the reserves.

A Marine Corps recruiter in Arkansas 'looks at me and goes, "Um, how old are you?" And I said, "Well I am 26, I will be 27." And he goes, "Well, that is kind of old for us," ' Clinton recalled on Tuesday.

'And then he says to me - and this is what gets me - "Maybe the dogs will take you," meaning the Army.'

(I think this was a man with a keen foresight talking about liberal voters)

The story has been probed by The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, The New Republic and The Weekly Standard.

The Post this week gave it 'Two Pinocchios,' on a truthfulness scale of one to four, which the paper explains as having 'significant omissions and/or exaggerations.' Back in 1994, a Post columnist was less kind, suggesting that if the story is true, it was part of a 'drunken bar bet.'

Yeah... and she was doing shots of Mezcal when suddenly 31,ooo emails disappeared.

Clinton's campaign has declined to comment, but the Post tracked down two longtime friends of Clinton who confirmed the story.

In 1994, a Marine spokesman told the Times, 'We won't attempt to dispute the first lady's recollection, but if she was ill-treated by a Marine recruiter in 1975, it certainly is unfortunate, unprofessional and a mistake we regret.' whopper

The Marines had long been accepting women in 1975 except for roles in infantry, artillery, armor and flight duties.

Clinton in New York City on Wednesday

Clinton's story is complicated, however, because there was no formal application or written record of the informal conversation - making it nearly impossible to confirm based on a paper trail.

The Times' account in 1994 raised questions about the story's truthfulness by noting that at the time of the alleged incident, Clinton had just moved to Arkansas and was teaching at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, where she and Bill Clinton married in October 1975.

Those circumstances made then-Times reporter Maureen Dowd even more skeptical of the anecdote, suggesting that Clinton was building a steady and stable life and career instead of standing at a crossroads.

Clinton has come under fire before for exaggerations, such as falsely claiming that she and her daughter Chelsea came under sniper fire during a visit to Bosnia in the late 1990's.

First the Bosnian sniper whopper...