Trump trying to take credit for Obama’s Immigration Plan
Posted by Michelle Moquin on August 30th, 2016
Good morning!
Yes, history does repeat itself. Here you have yet another white man (Trump) claiming he’s got a great idea…and yet it is the same idea a black man (Our POTUS) has already implemented and is enforcing. Just another example of a white man claiming something of his own, basically stealing an idea and trying to get the credit for it.
From Think Progress:
If Trump’s New Immigration Plan Sounds Familiar, That’s Because Obama Is Already Enforcing It
Donald Trump has built his presidential campaign around harsh rhetoric toward immigrants — referring to people who cross the border as “rapists,” pledging to build a wall between the United States and Mexico, and promising to round up millions of undocumented immigrants for deportation.
But Trump is now attempting to moderate his position, going back on some of his more hardline stances. During an interview with Fox News host Bill O’Reilly on Monday night, the candidate struck a dramatically different tone, promising to implement a “humane” immigration policy that’s essentially exactly what the Obama administration is already doing.
Trump told O’Reilly that he would enforce “existing” federal immigration laws, promising to deport “gang members,” “killers,” and “a lot of bad people,” while allowing other people to “go through the process.”
“The first thing we’re gonna do, if and when I win, is we’re gonna get rid of all of the bad ones,” Trump told O’Reilly. “We’ve got gang members, we have killers, we have a lot of bad people that have to get out of this country.”
Trump even praised the president’s current deportation policies. “What people don’t know is that Obama got tremendous numbers of people out of the country, Bush the same thing,” he said. “Lots of people were brought out of the country with the existing laws. Well, I’m gonna do the same thing.”
Trump also told the Fox News host that he would not make use of detention centers, though it’s as yet unclear where undocumented immigrants would be held if he were to use a deportation task force to round them up.
“I never even heard the term. I’m not gonna put them in a detention center,” he added. “We want to do it in a very humane manner.”
Trump’s attempt to put immigrants into two categories —cracking down on people who have committed crimes, while being more lenient on those who have not — is a shift from his long-standing promise to deport the country’s 11 million undocumented immigrants regardless of their records.
This policy mirrors what Obama is already doing. In November 2014, the Obama administration announced a tiered approach to target “felons, not families” through the Priority Enforcement Program, which purportedly focuses on the removal of convicted criminals rather than on deporting people who have long-standing roots in the country.
Though Trump’s recent statements are certainly an attempt to moderate his stance on the issue, immigration advocates wouldn’t agree that Obama — who earned the nickname “Deporter-in-Chief” for having authorized two million deportations between 2009 and 2014 — takes a truly “humane” approach to immigration policy.
Under the Obama administration, even immigrants who have turned their lives around since they committed years-old crimes have been caught up in the deportation dragnet. Take, for example, the Mennonite Pastor Max Villatoro — who was convicted of drunk driving two decades ago, and pleaded guilty in 1999 to record tampering, but later became an upstanding citizen in his Iowan community. He was deported to Honduras last year anyway.
And as recently as the beginning of the year, the administration began terrorizing Latino communities after it authorized a series of immigration raids targeting some Central American mothers and children who fled their home countries after January 2014. Hundreds of Central Americans were arrested in their homes, on their way to school, outside of church, and even pulled out of cars as their children watched from the backseat.
It’s unclear where Trump’s immigration policy will end up landing. At a rally in Akron, Ohio on Monday night, Trump assured the crowd that he would still build a wall across the southern U.S. border paid for by Mexico.
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Mike, TM: As usual you are in the know with some staggering news. I HOPE Obama isn’t the POTUS either. This will inevitably be a hard decision that unfortunately will have to be made. Alas with China’s HUGE military it may come down to that scary and horrific act. Be well, Mike.
Robert: Nicely stated. Isn’t it just typical of Trump and of his supporters. Like you said, …an absolutely classic case of “the pot calling the kettle black.” Speaking of…Craig, King, et al: Once again, false equivalence is showing face. There is no way you can compare Trump’s current connection, former KKK member David Duke, still an active member of another white supremacist organization, NAAWP, with Hillary’s connection to Senator Byrd.
Expose, Expose, Expose!!! (That’s a nod to you Craig) lol…
From Snopes:
“…Robert Byrd was a member of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1940s and helped establish the hate group’s chapter in Sophia, West Virginia. However, in 1952 Byrd avowed that “After about a year, I became disinterested [in the KKK], quit paying my dues, and dropped my membership in the organization,” and throughout his long political career (he served for 57 years in the United States Congress) he repeatedly apologized for his involvement with the KKK:
“I know now I was wrong. Intolerance had no place in America. I apologized a thousand times … and I don’t mind apologizing over and over again. I can’t erase what happened.”
In 2010, even the NAACP released a statement honoring Senator Byrd and mourning his passing:
The NAACP is saddened by the passing of United States Senator Robert Byrd. Byrd, the longest serving member of congress was first elected to the U.S. House from [West Virginia] in 1952 and was elected Senator in 1958. Byrd passed away this morning at the age of 92.
“Senator Byrd reflects the transformative power of this nation,” stated NAACP President and CEO Benjamin Todd Jealous. “Senator Byrd went from being an active member of the KKK to a being a stalwart supporter of the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act and many other pieces of seminal legislation that advanced the civil rights and liberties of our country.
“Senator Byrd came to consistently support the NAACP civil rights agenda, doing well on the NAACP Annual Civil Rights Report Card. He stood with us on many issues of crucial importance to our members from the reauthorization of the Voting Rights Act, the historic health care legislation of 2010 and his support for the Hate Crimes Prevention legislation,” stated Hilary O. Shelton, Director of the NAACP Washington Bureau and Senior Vice President for Advocacy and Policy. “Senator Byrd was a master of the Senate Rules, and helped strategize passage of legislation that helped millions of Americans. He will be sorely missed.”
Versus:
“…while David Duke is no longer a member of the Ku Klux Klan, he is still an active member of another white supremacist organization, NAAWP: the National Association for the Advancement of White People. Duke, a prominent Holocaust denier (although he describes himself as a “Holocaust exposer“), also has a more-than-passing interest in politics: the former member of the Louisiana House of Representatives has run for the U.S. Senate, governor of Louisiana, and President of the United States. Duke has spent his life founding and supporting various white nationalist and white supremacist groups, while Byrd, by contrast, spent the majority of his life publicly disavowing and repeatedly apologizing for his early KKK affiliation.
There is just no comparison. I think if the NAACP can praise Senator Byrd and morn his death, we, the people, can do the same. Please get your facts straight.
Peace out.
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August 30th, 2016 at 8:01 pm
The guy is a fucking racist idiot. If he weren’t a racist the idiot part would disqualify him among his white supporters But alas, most of white america always votes color.
August 30th, 2016 at 8:05 pm
Carrie#41, your post deserves a mention here.
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Carrie Says:
August 30th, 2016 at 7:58 pm
Please do an article about that racist Francis Scott Key who wrote that bigoted and hypocritical Star Spangled Banner. No one sings the third verse.
And where is that band who so vauntingly swore,
That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion
A home and a Country should leave us no more?
Their blood has wash’d out their foul footstep’s pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave,
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
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In other words, Key was saying that the blood of all the former slaves and “hirelings” on the battlefield will wash away the pollution of the British invaders.
With Key still bitter that some black soldiers got the best of him a few weeks earlier, “The Star-Spangled Banner” is as much a patriotic song as it is a diss track to black people who had the audacity to fight for their freedom.
Perhaps that’s why it took almost 100 years for the song to become the national anthem.
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I was going to ask Michelle to do an article about Kaepernick’s stand against standing for the National Anthem. The MSM is calling him unpatriotic because of his actions. I beg to differ.
August 30th, 2016 at 8:09 pm
I like what you have to say Jerry#2, it is easy for those white reporters to call someone who doesn’t enjoy the benefits and freedoms they do merely because of the color of their skins to say someone who doesn’t receive those natural rights of citizenship should just shut the fuck up and be “patriotic.”
I say walk in their shoes a few days you insensitive sons of bastards.
August 30th, 2016 at 8:17 pm
We are all waiting for the Super Brother.
https://youtu.be/wMfrnkm0c6k
Eyes to the Skye
August 30th, 2016 at 8:18 pm
And then the false equivalency arguments white folk like to postulate when they attempt to diffuse or negate an issue that shows the evil of their ancestors and the continuation of those evils today by many of their race.
i.e. Black people owned slaves, black people sold slaves to white people and my all time favorite white people were slaves too back then.
White people were not slaves if by slaves you mean being taken from your home, raped, beaten, murdered, and having members of your family separated and sold like cattle with NO rights.
White people were indentured servants. The lot of the “Plymouth Rock” whites were indentured servants and criminals sent to the Americas to work off their crimes and pay a tariff to England. The lie perpetrated by white historians (if you can call any LSOS white boy that) is they came of their own free will to seek religious freedom. Pure bullshit!
August 30th, 2016 at 8:31 pm
Blackaphonic#4, the truth is most white boys fear the average black man so for them just about every black man is a Super Brother.
That’s why he encourages and condones racist thugs with badges. It gives his cowardly ass an opportunity to vicariously experience what he can only dream of, being equal to the average black man.
August 30th, 2016 at 8:36 pm
If you niggers are trying to justify the dissing of our military heros by that talentless quarterback, Kaepernick, you are just wasting your time.
August 30th, 2016 at 8:38 pm
Better niggers than him like Martin Luther King and Jackie Robinson. Those were good niggers who did something to get you burl heads some civil rights.
August 30th, 2016 at 8:46 pm
Ernie, you are a real piece of work. One of those white boys who is obviously afraid of the average black man(Nice Alycedale and so true) so you troll blogs and get you anger out in a safe venue.
I was going to respond personally, but this post serves the purpose quite well.
I don’t know if Dr. King did or not, but Jackie Robinson, in his 1972 autobiography, “I Never Had It Made,” described the moment when he realized that he could not “stand and sing the anthem,” nor “salute the flag.”
But let’s say that Dr. King didn’t… They were also in different positions, and it could have hampered his cause to do so, at the time.
It’s apples and oranges to compare Dr. King and an Athlete. Dr. King was negotiating with the POTUS where there was some political influence to gain, and agreements and actual progress to be made.
I think if they were here today, they would support Colin Kaepernick on this. When Ali wouldn’t fight for this country and refused to be inducted in the Army (via draft) was he a rich headline-grabbing mansion dweller?
Of course, he wasn’t making the same type of money that athletes are making now, but he was rich by the standards of the time. I think you are conflating the issues, and unfairly negating his “Why?”
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That question I will answer myself. “Why?” because you are a racist hypocrite trolling to get your wad off.
August 30th, 2016 at 8:55 pm
Black people who don’t know history (that the bullshit white america holds out to be history) are easily fooled into buying the lie that Kaepernick is being unpatriotic.
Francis Scott Key, who wrote that disgusting third verse of our national anthem was a slave owner who in 1810′s wanted freed slaves to be shipped back to Africa.
Dumb ass black people need to check out what they are dancing to when they mindlessly dance to the white boy’s tune. Those racist bastards know about that racist disgusting third verse of the song. They just sit back and smile while their “niggers” are the jig they taught them.
August 30th, 2016 at 9:03 pm
Thank you Paula#10, our white public schools “hides” and “fabricates” the real history of this country. All of the text books I was forced to learn from were written by LSOS white people.
So of course they hid the third verse of the national anthem. Now the bastards will do everything in their power to shame Kaepernick to prevent this from becoming the land swell it should to dump that racist piece of shit.
Most certainly when the demographics change this topic will rise again. So white folk hold on to your bullshit version of history as long as you can. There will be a reckoning.
August 30th, 2016 at 9:14 pm
It says “land of the free” that meant white males, because ONLY white males were free, and “home of the brave” that must have meant (black) because black did not mean free and the ones trying to fight for their freedom were probably called “brave.”
Blacks didn’t have “rights” until the 1960′s. This whole song was written on the premise that white people were superior to black people.
It has NOTHING to do with what this country should be about today, but ironically, it is still stating the same thing because white people in this country are treated with special privileges that OTWs never receive.
August 30th, 2016 at 9:18 pm
8 years ago the majority in the US was still Anglo Saxon. Which means that in order for Obama to win he had to have our support. I supported him the first time, not the second because he did what every other politician does… he lied, he failed, he broke promises and contributed to greater racial division than bringing us closer together.
I had such high hopes for him, even with his inexperienced ideas… But he created a much bigger problem than his election could have ever imagined. So don’t think we didn’t believe things could be better, we did. He just proved us wrong.
August 30th, 2016 at 9:34 pm
Owen#13, I don’t think President Obama hurt us at all. I think he played the safe card, and did what they allowed.. He did more good then bad and that is the truth. He made mistakes just like they all did.
Never would I gave AIG or the banks bail out money, if he was a black man he would have stood against that because those were the very ass holes that supported slavery and funded it!!!! Besides being a half “white” man with an African father he has no slave roots like most Descendants of Slaves.
He grew up different he is not the same. I don’t know why white people won’t get that right?
August 30th, 2016 at 9:37 pm
Owen#13, I agree with you regarding most of your message except for Obama dividing the country. it is not Obama doing that. Most white folk are mad that he is in the big house, that is racist america that is dividing us.
Obama got move death threats than the other 43 presidents combined!! He is the only black president that we acknowledge. How many blacks ever threatened a president!!?? Whites do it because they are taught to hate, blacks are not taught to hate.
August 30th, 2016 at 9:42 pm
Constantly ignoring the white boy’s past anti-social behavior and other such ills, stomps out, annihilates, eradicates and permanently silences the names of those that suffered.
That in itself is a blatant, rude way to dishonor my ancestors who built up this country under the constant threat of the whip, the constant threat of being murdered, the constant threat of their children being sold away, (which often was the case) and America has the audacity to expect African Americans to simply overlook that and ignore that……oh I beg to differ.
The Jewish community will never let the world forget the atrocities of the Holocaust and I too will never allow my children and society to forget, dismiss and wipe out the memory of the institution of slavery.
It was one of the most evil practices on the face of this earth, practiced by people who often professed to be so-called Christians. Go figure.
Thank God Colin Kapernick had the courage of his convictions within his conscious, to act accordingly and not be dismayed by those who are severely out of touch and who only know how to respond in a violent manner, by torching his jersey. So typical.
No one is disrespecting the military, but the National Anthem disrespects African Americans and I will not abide by it until Law Enforcement owns their truth about their treatment and racist profiling methods, which are not proper protocol.
FlagShare
August 30th, 2016 at 9:46 pm
Florence#16, Wow – no one could have said it better…… and anyone who minimizes what black people went through is a racist b*tch who can’t stand to have thier pampered little privileged ears hear that they’re not perfect….
August 30th, 2016 at 9:49 pm
All those white boys working desperately to support the Star-spangled banner and to disparage Colin Kaepernick are just LSOS racist white boys looking to continually suppress America’s Racist history.
August 30th, 2016 at 9:52 pm
Well I know I will NOT be singing that song again for the rest of my life! To hell with star spangled banner and double hell for Francis Scott Key, it’s racist composer!
August 30th, 2016 at 11:00 pm
Thank you Colin Kaepernick. You have opened out eyes to another lie by the hateful ones.
August 30th, 2016 at 11:01 pm
America’s racism has never been hidden. It is part of our national character. That doesn’t change the fact that we are the greatest nation the world has ever known. One can be bitter or wear sack cloth and ashes or we can all strive to be worthy of our blessings.
August 30th, 2016 at 11:02 pm
A post racist America will only happen when there are no more white people to perpetuate white supremacy as their religion. This Age of information is absolutely showing all of the wickedness of white America.
August 30th, 2016 at 11:02 pm
Louis#21, racism as part of our character and white privilege has produced creeps like Donald Trump. We would be great if we could over come that part of the national make up.
Make America Great for the first time.
August 30th, 2016 at 11:03 pm
The wickedness of white America? Africa treats its own far worse than blacks are treated here in America. Where else on this planet do blacks have the opportunities they have here?
August 30th, 2016 at 11:04 pm
Jim#23, And Racism has produced people like Uncle O who stirs the Racial hatred at every chance it gets.
Meanwhile ignoring the success of not only himself, but many great people of all Ethnicity within this country.
White Privelege is a line perpetuated by ignorant masses who do not know history at all. THey discount the simple fact that over half of all white people came as slaves themselves.
They ignore those who starved, were not paid and were generally treated like trash.
But hey, keep twisting history and poking the racial tension rather than moving on, which is what needs to be done.
Signed
The great grandson of a child bride sent to the US with a Loaf of Bread to sustain her three week boat journey. She would have her first husband killed in the applling conditions of a mine as well as the second, and would work to raise 12 children on her own.
With my Grandfather never making it past middle school so he in turn could work at a mine to feed his brothers and sisters.
Thanks
August 30th, 2016 at 11:04 pm
Craig#24, America is a country, AFrica is the second largest continent. You know less about Africa than you do about doritos, so shut up and read a book written by Africans or visit the place and get first hand information.
Better, yet there are already enough opportunists there stealing resources so stay away and go about your biz.
August 30th, 2016 at 11:05 pm
Tom#25, Produce something that President Obama as said or done that the majority (95%) of the world would interpret as racism? Please be logical and realistic.
August 30th, 2016 at 11:05 pm
Tom#25, That always gets me how some people will accuse President Obama of division when he has tried so hard to overcome the divisions. They would only be happy if he turned white and into Donald Trump.
August 30th, 2016 at 11:06 pm
Tom#25, Clearly posted by a person that is not black, nor has any idea on how it feels to be judged solely on the color of their skin.
You are talking about economic racism, between poor and rich, that has nothing to do with social racism, something you will never know unless your skin color is black.
August 31st, 2016 at 8:10 am
You got to love the media. A black man exercising his constitutional right to free speech is the lead story for almost a week. They’ve not taken the time to examine what he said or why to see if there was any validity; they haven’t examined the racism that he raised or that he is having to endure as a result of speaking up; they haven’t examined the racist who wrote the song; or even talked about the words to see if they could be offensive to some. They’ve merely talked about the fact THAT a black man dared to exercise his constitutional rights. You’ve got to love them. #smh #staywoke #sittingwithKaepernick
August 31st, 2016 at 8:12 am
“Third verse of our so-called national anthem: And where is that band who so vauntingly swore,
That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion
A home and a Country should leave us no more?
Their blood has wash’d out their foul footstep’s pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave,
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
In other words, Key was saying that the blood of all the former slaves and “hirelings” on the battlefield will wash away the pollution of the British invaders. With Key still bitter that some black soldiers got the best of him a few weeks earlier, “The Star-Spangled Banner” is as much a patriotic song as it is a diss track to black people who had the audacity to fight for their freedom. Perhaps that’s why it took almost 100 years for the song to become the national anthem.
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