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Illegal Immigration: The Cleansing of American Society

In a little over two weeks, Joe Biden has managed to destroy all the advancements achieved during the Trump administration regarding immigration.

From “Zero Tolerance” on illegal border prosecutions, halting construction of the border wall, doubling down on DACA, and ending the visa ban on mostly third world Muslim countries under the excuse the Trump administration was targeting Muslims, when in fact these countries which include Libya, Somalia, Syria, and Yemen, are sponsors of terrorism.

This is just to name a few of the things Joe Biden has done to make our country a safe haven for terrorists, drug dealers, child smugglers, and illegal aliens.

If you think the Department of Homeland Security under the supervision of newly confirmed Secretary, Alejandro Mayorkas, is going to enforce the rules and the law, you are in for a big surprise. All you are going to see is more of the lawlessness experienced during the Obama years.

Alejandro Mayorkas comes to office with a bag full of scandal, from ethics violations to pushing Democrat agendas while in charge of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigrations Services.

They cheer the fact he is the first “Latino” to serve in the capacity of DHS Secretary. Spare me the cheers, as a former DHS employee, I am embarrassed that a scandal ridden individual oversees our country’s security, regardless of ethnicity.

We had some weak and ineffective secretaries during my tenure at DHS, but not even G.W. Bush or Obama appointees were as bad as Mayorkas. DHS employees, and the American people, are going wish to they had President Trump back in charge.

As an American of Spanish heritage, I despise illegal immigration and illegal aliens. As a former law enforcement officer, even more so.

Illegal aliens are a burden to our system and pose a threat to the security of our country. It is ironic that countries who export these people to our border do not export their “best and brightest”. We only get the sick, uneducated, and criminal element.

Of course, it is a business of demand. Since Americans are too lazy to work the fields and farmers need cheap labor, Washington looks the other way while eating their freshly picked strawberries.

What we are witnessing is the “cleansing” of the American society. The American citizen has been systematically replaced by the non-citizen because the non-citizen is easy to mold, easy to be programmed.

Illegal aliens have no loyalty towards our Constitution or system of law, so they have nothing to fight for, nothing to be proud of. They just take from hard working Americans, they get “free everything”; housing, healthcare, education, childcare, basically all the things hard working Americans must pay for.

Meanwhile, thousands of people trying to come to our country legally must wait in line, and face the bureaucracy, to enjoy the privileged of becoming an American citizen. The system is broken because of people like Joe Biden and the Democratic Party, they think of the American citizen as second class while fighting for the illegal alien.

American citizenship is a privilege, and in my opinion, an honor. To call yourself an American should be something to be proud of, and if you are not a legal citizen, you should earn that privilege. Unfortunately, the Democrats and their cronies in the Chamber of Commerce, think illegal aliens are better than you and me.

Next time your congressman tries to sell you a sob story about why we need illegal aliens in our country, remind him or her that you can do your own laundry, cook your own meals, and cut your own grass. That is the American Way!

The American Flag

As the United States Supreme Court prepares to start hearing arguments on the legalities and authority exercised by President Donald J. Trump to shutdown the Obama era policy known as DACA, I ask myself many questions.

As I look at the people arguing the validity of the program, I can’t help to notice the lack of American flags among those who claimed to belong in this country. I see flags from every other Latin American country, I see signs in Spanish, and all I can hear is pure hatred towards the country they claim to have a right to live in.

As a Combat Veteran and retired Federal Law Enforcement Officer, the American flag means everything I fought for. I was born in Puerto Rico, and despite the fact Puerto Rico has its own flag, the only flag I have ever flown in my house is the beautiful Stars and Stripes.

Since passing of the act by the Continental Congress in 1777 authorizing the creation of a flag for this great nation, many men and woman have died defending it. The American flag, as the Constitution, is a symbol of freedom worldwide. Countries fighting for their own freedom from fascism and communism often march with the American flag as a symbol of strength and resolution. So why people who claim to want to be in this country won’t do the same?

It is embarrassing, and actually sad, to see DACA recipients on the steps of the Supreme Court waving foreign flags while speaking Spanish and demanding they be accepted by our society.

Citizenship is a privilege, not a right, and those seeking that privilege ought to earn that privilege, not by waving foreign flags, but by waving the American flag, embracing our culture, speak the English language, and actually loving this great country.

As an American of Spanish heritage, and as a citizen of this great country, I despise illegal immigration, illegal aliens, and anybody who has no respect for our laws. I love my flag, my language, and my country, and I wouldn’t trade them for anything in this world.

As the Supreme Court of the United States embarks on this journey, I hope and pray they will come to the understanding that DACA was an unconstitutional action, even admitted to be by then President Barack Obama, and that is up to the United States Congress to pass the laws and for the President of the United States to enforce such laws. This is an issue for the United States Congress, not for the Supreme Court to legislate from the bench.

The Judiciary was always meant to be the weakest branch of the three branches because the framers understood the importance of the Congress and their duty to enact laws. The Federalist Papers are full of examples in which they intended for this to be. In recent years the Supreme Court has almost become a legislative branch by actively reversing current law enacted by the people we have elected to perform those duties.

I hope this time is different.

My Case Against Illegal Immigration and Foreign Aid

Illegal immigration has become a hot topic since the election of President Donald J. Trump. The administration has been trying to work on securing the southern border with every Constitutional tool available. Unfortunately it is a heavy task, and without the help of the United States Congress, and its lack of legislation to fix the problem, it is only going to get worse.

In this post, I’m going to briefly look at the issue from a different angle. I will examine it from the prism of the quality of immigrant who are leaving these countries to come to the United States, and also by looking at the amount of foreign aid these countries are getting. I’m going to concentrate on five countries south of our border from which we are getting the major influx of illegal aliens.

By most accounts, the illegal aliens crossing our southern border are mostly low skilled, don’t speak English, and in some cases can’t even speak or write their own native language. So what are we getting here? What foreign aid is doing for us? I would say not much. According to The Center for Immigration Studies, 63% of non-citizens households are on welfare in comparison to only 35% of native households. What happened to the days when immigrants were required to prove their worth to the country?

https://cis.org/Report/63-NonCitizen-Households-Access-Welfare-Programs

Countries like Mexico, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Guatemala, and Honduras, are not sending us their doctors and engineers, they are sending their sick, old, unemployable, illiterate, and unproductive members of their societies. In a sense it is almost a type of social cleansing.

Our neighborhoods are getting invaded by brutal gangs like MS-13, our schools are getting inundated by foreign born children who have a hard time assimilating and as result American born students are lagging behind, especially in math, science, and reading.

See below chart courtesy of OECD. In all three, the United States ranks below the OECD average and it is not going to get any better.

Drugs continue to pour into the United States via Port of Entries, but mostly by drug smugglers posing as asylum seekers and coyotes who are exploiting the unsecured sections of our southern border. In 2016 an estimate of 17,000 to 19,000 foreign nationals were trafficked into the United States according to figures provided by http://www.fairus.org

These countries get millions of dollars that are supposed to be used to help the population and improve social services for those in need. It seems the money is going somewhere else as shown by the amount of foreign nationals who are leaving their countries and making their way to the United States.

The breakdown and the amount of foreign aid by countries in Central America are astonishing. You would think that with all the money the United States invest in these countries, their governments would be more cooperative in the issue of illegal immigration and securing their own porous borders. Unfortunately they are not and the United States is getting stressed by the influx of illegal aliens. The system can’t handle the amount of family units, nor the asylum claims, which can’t be properly vetted.

When I look at the government officials of these countries in their expensive suits, I really don’t need to be a genius to realize the money is not going anywhere but the pockets of politicians. Why the United States continues to subsidize the “High Life” of these politicians is beyond me.

The amount of foreign aid in fiscal year 2018 is as follows:

Mexico: $29 million, El Salvador: $46 million, Guatemala: $67 million, Nicaragua: $17 million and Honduras: $31 million for a total of $190 million dollars of foreign aid to five countries south of our border. Where’s is this money going?

South of the Border Net Worth

This is the net worth of those five countries presidents as of 2019.

Guatemala, Otto Perez Molina- $400,000

Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega- $50 million

El Salvador, Salvador Sánchez- $2 million

Mexico, Manuel Lopez Obrador- $1.9 million

Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernandez- “Net worth under review”.

It seems these politicians are living pretty well in comparison to their citizens. You be the judge!

I will bet anything if I asked my congressional representative to give me a rundown of how foreign aid is distributed to Central America, he or she would go completely blank. The United States Congress votes on these appropriation bills and they have zero clue on how is distribute and how it is used by these countries. In my opinion, this is like a bad stock people continue to buy despite the negative returns.

Unfortunately, our elected politicians are part of this human tragedy. They have been bought and paid for by the cheap labor crowd, organizations like The Chamber of Commerce and farming groups. These groups spend millions of dollars lobbying politicians in Washington so they can maintain the influx of cheap labor flowing.

In this great article by Devex, Adva Saldinger, the United States Congress refuses to cut foreign aid despite the administration’s efforts to reign on the waste and abuse by recipients of this aid.

https://www.devex.com/news/congress-again-rejects-steep-cuts-to-us-foreign-assistance-in-new-budget-92403

It is a stunning fact that 6 in 10 Americans on food stamps are considered body-able and are not working. When you think about it, this is ridiculous. These people should be working, and if they are receiving government assistance, they should be mandated to get a job. There’s not such thing as a job Americans don’t want or can’t do with this many people physically able to do those jobs. Our government should do better!

At the end of the day Americans should ask themselves, what are we getting in return for this tax payer funded global welfare program? This is a global welfare program with a fancy name.

This is only the tip of the iceberg, just a little taste of what is going on in America. Hopefully, it will make you think and ask questions of your government.

As always, this is my opinion with a little bit of facts.