Posts Tagged ‘Immigration’
October 14th, 2011 by John Feehery
Never assume.
I usually get in trouble when I make assumptions and then challenge them.
I have been assuming for some time that the Republicans will easily beat Barack Hussein Obama.
I have been assuming that for some very good reasons.
For example, Obama is just not a very good President. He doesn’t have a clue how the private market place works. He is not much of a leader. His neo-Marxist philosophy is all out of step with our free-market system.
Even if you do like the President personally, it is still hard to make the case that he deserves to be re-hired. The economy is in terrible shape. Our country is “this close” to going completely broke. He has failed to take on entitlements in any serious way.
He has had some successes in the war on terror, but unfortunately for him, this election won’t hinge on Mr. Obama’s ability to give the order to kill terrorists.
That is what we all know, and that is why he is cracking 50% in his disapproval ratings.
But the Republicans can still screw this up. Here are a few ways BHO could still win: Read more...
Tags: 9-9-9 plan, afghanistan, American economy, Barack Hussein Obama, Bill Clinton, Dodd-Frank regulations, economic growth, Freedom Works, Hermann Cain, Hispanic voters, Immigration, Libertarian, Matt Kibbe, Mitt Romney, neo-Marxist philosophy, Obamacare, Republicans, Rick Perry, Super Pacs, Tea Party, Unemployment
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June 20th, 2011 by John Feehery
It used to be said that domestic differences stop at the water’s edge.
That was never less true than it is today.
The fact of the matter is that foreign policy and domestic policy are the same thing.
It is trite to say that we live in a global economy. Now more than ever, we live in a global society. The country that is best able to handle globalism will be the country that is best able to prosper.
That is but one reason to be bullish on America. We embrace globalism, even when we don’t want to.
Immigration built America and it continues to do so. That is why America always changes, always adapts, rarely become stagnant and constantly improves. Sometimes the pace of change is hard for the nativists, but eventually they come around to the notion that these new arrivals can be useful in their own way.
What do I mean when I say that domestic and foreign policy are inexorably linked? Let me give you an example.
Health care is a first-class domestic issue, right? Read more...
Tags: America, Americans, china, Columbia, domestic and foreign policy, foriegn policy, German government, global economy, global society, Government, health care, Immigration, international crime, Japanese government, John McCain, Nigeria, Panama, russia, South Korea, spending
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February 23rd, 2011 by John Feehery
My good friend Ed Gillespie is a smart guy and an exceptional communications professional. I heard him speak a couple of weeks ago about politics and he made a good point about how Republicans tend to communicate on immigration policy. He said that Republicans often forget to finish the sentence when it comes to talking about how we like legal immigrants, but dislike illegal immigration. People usually just hear the part about how we hate illegal immigrants.
I agree with Ed on immigration policy, and I think his point carries over to the latest debate that has engulfed Congress.
Since they took over the Congress in January, they have had a pretty consistent message. They want to cut spending and create jobs.
Now, this isn’t an easy message to convey. It takes discipline, it takes solid examples, and it takes repetition.
Last week, House Republicans passed a monumental spending cut bill. It didn’t just trim spending. It took a $61 billion dollar whack out of discretionary spending in one year, the single largest spending cut package in the history of the Congress.
I got the message that the Republicans cut spending loud and clear. In fact, that was pretty much all I heard. Read more...
Tags: Congress, Conservatives, Democrats, dollar, Economy, Government, Immigration, job creation, Politics, Republican, Republicans, spending
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August 4th, 2010 by John Feehery
It is unclear whether the paddy wagon got its name from the Irish who were hauled off in police wagons in the late 19th century or from the Irish cops who threw them in there in the first place.
What is clear is that when the Irish descended upon America starting in the 1840’s, it created social disruption, political chaos, and a crime wave for a generation.
My great great grandfather on my father’s side was one of those Paddys who came to New York fleeing a desperate potato famine in the 1840’s, and while I don’t know for sure if old Tom Feehery ever ended up in a paddy wagon, I know for sure that some of his friends probably did. Tom Feehery was a legal immigrant, but old Joe Hurley (my mother’s grandfather) probably wasn’t.
The No-Nothing Party was founded as a reaction to the Irish masses. It didn’t do much to stop them though, and pretty soon the Irish were running the big cities, dominating the police forces and fire departments, and making in-roads into the Democratic party North of the Mason-Dixon line. Read more...
Tags: America, Arizona, Economy, George W Bush, illegal immigrants, Immigration, Woodrow Wilson
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April 26th, 2010 by John Feehery
The Mexican drug war has spilled out over the border in the Southwest and has helped precipitate the new immigration law that just was signed into law in Arizona.
Washington activists can cry out about the unfairness of the law all they want, but until the President and his Administration take seriously the threat posed by the Mexican drug gangs, the people of Arizona will have no choice but to take extreme measures.
70 percent of the people of Arizona support the law just enacted. That tells you something right there.
Both Arizona and New Mexico were in the top eight most violent states in the union last year. Most of that can be attributed to the fact that the drug war has spilled out over the border.
I was listening to NPR (the voice of communism as my friends used to call it) and the story I heard was chilling. The drug gangs now control the illegal passage ways into the United States, and if someone wants to come to America to find their version of the American dream, they can come illegally, which is very unlikely (given the cost and the time involved) or they can cut a deal with the drug lords. Most cut a deal with the drug lords, and they become a mule for illegal narcotics. Read more...
Tags: Arizona, Barack Obama, drug gangs, drug war, illegal immigrants, Immigration, immigration law, marijuana, Mexico, New Mexico, racial profiling
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June 17th, 2008 by John Feehery
Crime is the sleeper issue of this campaign, especially in Republican leaning-districts.
While on a nationwide basis, violent crime is actually down, in smaller cities it is up by double-digit numbers. For example in Indianapolis violent crime is up 27%, and in Jacksonville violent crime up 22%. There are many other examples.
I have had a working theory for quite a while that the anger towards illegal immigration is only partially explained by job security. The biggest reason that many Americans dislike illegal immigration is a fear of crime.
The Democrats now sense this and are outbidding the White House on spending for immigration enforcement, with a special emphasis on deporting people convicted of major drug offenses and violent crimes.
According to one news report, “A Homeland Security budget bill now moving through the House Appropriations Committee specifies that at least $800 million be spent after Oct. 1 to identify and remove the most violent and dangerous criminals from the U.S.”
Republicans need to answer this challenge by calling for the deportation of all violent criminals who are illegal immigrants and also call for more support for the Mexican military that is currently engaged in a full-fledged war against Mexican drug gangs. Read more...
Tags: crime, Democrat, Immigration, Republican
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June 7th, 2008 by John Feehery
This orginallly appeared on The Hill’s Pundits blog on May 16, 2008
@ 11:03 am
The New York Times had an interesting story on the front page today called “Immigration and Gang Violence Propel Crusade,” about the bubbling war between African-American gangs and Mexican gangs in Los Angeles. Apparently, members of the African-American community are asking the police to start checking on the immigration status of suspected Mexican gang members.
According to the Justice Department’s National Drug Intelligence Center report, “Mexican Drug Trafficking Organizations control the transportation and wholesale distribution of most illicit drugs in every area of the country except the Northeast; their influence is increasing. Their established overland transportation routes and entrenched distribution networks enable them to supply primary and secondary drug markets throughout these regions. They have gained a greater share of the drug market by forcing African American street gangs out of midlevel drug distribution and relegating them to lower-level retail distribution.”
The fight for control of the drug trade in the United States is exacerbating tensions between African-Americans and Mexicans throughout the country. According to the Office of National Drug Control policy, many Mexican gang members are trying to blend into the local community of Mexican immigrants, from which they develop a marketing plan to distribute drugs. This is especially prevalent in the Midwest. Read more...
Tags: Drugs, Immigration, McCain, Obama, presidential
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