Michael Moore’s "Dreaded" predictions.

Michael Moore keeps making shocking
predictions , no Democrat is heeding
them!

Us political pundits read a lot . We spend our "time" in nervous anticipation of our current American political system . The midterms , the year 2020 might ring a bell .My last post I talked a bit about the Democratic ' anticipated blue wave in November . I really think the Democrats have to get their act together , the party needs new leadership ,get the incumbents out . Recently (1)>>Micheal Moore, a left wing commentator  correctly predicted that Donald Trump would win the presidency this past (2)>>November 2016 , and in a new interview with Fast Company he is saying he thinks Trump will be re-elected come 2020. "I should say re-appointed, because we will have an even larger population that will vote against him in 2020,” the filmmaker told the magazine. “But he will win those electoral states as it stands now.” Can what he says be true ? If it is true ,  our American system is in trouble.To this date, Franklin Delano Roosevelt is the only president to have served more than two terms. The U.S. Congress passed the 22nd amendment in 1947, then ratified it in 1951,

16th century the prophet and
apothecary Michel de Nostradame

which limits any elected president to serving no more than two terms, amounting out to the maximum of eight years in office.But he says it's not too late to flip that script, and he's outlaid a simple agenda: Stoking activism and supporting an insurgent law that would make it happen.Moore is looking hopefully at the National Popular Vote interstate compact, an accord in which states agree to award all of their electoral votes to the presidential candidate who wins the popular vote. He said that even though it's a long shot, with only 10 states and Washington, D.C., having signed on so far, he looks to the uphill battle women had to secure the right to vote. Moore also thinks there is hope in the younger generation. "We’ve raised a generation of kids who don’t hate people on the basis of race, or they don’t hate somebody because they’re in love with somebody of the same gender," he said. "Nearly 70 percent of the country is either female, people of color or young adults between 18 and 35, or a combination of the three. The angry white guy is dying out, and the Census Bureau has already told us that by 2050, white people are going to be the minority, and I’m not sad to say I can’t wait for that day to happen. I hope I live long enough to see it, because it will be a better country.”
Nostradamus Predicted too a Donald Trump win ( with Caution) 
It was revealed Nostradamus also predicted a (3)>>Trump presidency as well as the end of the world. The seer has been credited by some with predicting World War Two and the 11 September Attacks on New York City. Some believe that Century III, quatrain 81 refers to the 2016 presidential election.

"The great shameless, audacious bawler. He will be elected governor of the army: The boldness of his contention.
"The bridge broken, the city faint from fear."

The majority of the
Evangelicals see
Trump as the Messiah .

A recent analysis of several of (3.1)>>Nostradamus’ quatrains has some believing that the legendary prophet has also indeed predicted billionaire-turned-realty TV personality-turned-U.S. President-Elect Donald Trump’s stunning clenching of the 2016 presidential election—as well as its apocalyptic aftermath. Some began wondering if Trump might be the Antichrist back before the last U.S. election, when he was briefly a potential candidate. This time round, quite a few folks are reaching the same conclusion. Trump’s unprecedented triumph over presumed Democratic victor former U.S. Secretary of State (3.2)>>Hillary Clinton is perhaps the greatest upset in U.S. political history, with the Republican’s surge to the White House through battleground states largely unforeseen among pollsters. (4)>>Though Clinton won the popular vote, Trump seized the all-important electorate vote.The real estate mogul, as known for his brash, unapologetic style and off-the-cuff tirades—encompassing everything from the need for a physical wall to be constructed between the United States and Mexico to keep undocumented immigrants out and the establishment of a Muslim database to keep dibs on followers of Islam, and countless sexist comments, most infamously, perhaps, his “Grab them by the p***” remarks championing sexual assault against women—as his signature blonde hair, will soon be crowned the most powerful elected official in the free world.It is well known that Donald Trump is self-conscious about the size of his hands, appendages apparently so tiny that Nostradamus couldn’t see them at all from his 16th century vantage. Born into wealth, Trump would have appeared to Nostradamus as of almost royal nobility, and the wounding at a game of tennis may be a reference to when Donald made a first-class goat of himself playing tennis against Serena Williams in April, 2015. Having already referred to Trump as a thunderbolt, Nostradamus predicts Trump’s striking moment occurs near a well “under the oaks” – a reference, perhaps, to the pool at the Washington Monument and nearly Dumbarton Oaks. The “three” who are joined together are undoubtedly Trump, vice-President Pence and Steve Bannon, Trump’s closest advisor.This is perhaps the most interesting quatrain of all, as it accurately predicts the time of all events portrayed. In the first three lines, Nostradamus sees America “sorely troubled” that her democratic values and constitution (“holy law”) are being ruined by Trump. He sees a time when Christianity is secondary to “other laws” – money, politics, and perhaps even Islam. But the real kicker comes in the last line, when “a new source of gold and silver is discovered". If Nostradamus is referring to the revolutionary currency, Bitcoin, that’s as close to a time-continuum bullseye as can be expected from a distance of 500-odd years. Nostradamus  says in a cyrptic way that Trump's own psychological make up hides a maniac . The "false Trumpet" :

The false trumpet concealing madness
will cause Byzantium to change its laws.
From Egypt there will go forth a man who wants
the edict withdrawn, changing money and standards.

Seventeen years ago, Rage Against the Machine accidentally saw the future.During the band’s infamous 2000 video shoot for “Sleep Now in the Fire” — directed by Michael Moore and filmed on Wall Street — they caused such a ruckus that the Stock Exchange was forced to shutter early.In the finished video, around a minute in, you can see an onlooker holding a sign that says “Donald J. Trump for President.”“I think it was either Michael Moore’s idea or one of his staffers,” Rage guitarist Tom Morello tells The Post. “It wasn’t a warning, it was just meant as a joke — pure humor. But it turned out to be so Nostradamus-like.”. In reality a vary bad joke!

NOTES AND COMMENTS:

(1)>>Micheal Moore .Michael Moore’s predictions about American politics have been consistently accurate and surprisingly prescient in recent years. Moore shocked a lot of people (Exhibit A: An essay predicting Donald Trump’s presidential victory months before it actually happened. Exhibit B: An interview anticipating Trump’s Muslim travel ban.) And now, appearing on Real Time last night to chat with Bill Maher, Moore has another political prophecy up his sleeve. That being, Trump will get elected to another term — and maybe more beyond that. “You have to listen this time, because he is going to win the 2020 election,” he explained. “He won’t leave after the second term if he doesn’t have to, if nobody stops him. This man believes in being president for life. He said a few weeks ago, Roosevelt got four terms, why can’t I? He loves President Xi. President Kim. He loves the dictators.”(2)>>November 2016. Moore notes that Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by 3 million and lost the election by only 77,000 votes in the Rust Belt states. "Here’s the good news: We don’t have to convince a single Trump voter to vote differently because we already have the majority,” says Moore. The harsh reality , Moore says “Eight million Obama voters voted for Trump. We just need to convince a few of them–hold out our hand and bring them back. Can we do that? I think we can do that,” Moore says. “You know, there were seven-and-a-half million that voted Green or Libertarian. I think we can convince a few of them to come back. We don’t need to convince a whole lot here.”(3)>>Trump presidency. Before we start, some people claim that Donald Trump is the Third Antichrist … I do not believe that, when you read the prophecies the Antichrist will fulfill, almost none of them connect to Donald Trump. For me, if he is a human … (3.1)>>Nostradamus’ quatrains. During his lifetime (1503-1566), French prophet-healer Nostradamus made a spot-on prediction that France's king would soon die. He also predicted the Great London Fire of 1666, more than a century in the future. One of his four-line prophetic poems, called quatrains, pinpointed the year 1999 and described an event much like the aerial terrorist attack on New York City's World Trade Center:

In the year 1999, in the seventh month,
from the sky will come the great King of Terror,
bringing back to life the great King of the Mongols.
Before and after, Mars will reign by good fortune.

That of course happened on September 11, 2001, not in 1999 in July or even that September (the prophet's original French says sept). But it was close, and five distressing prophecies mentioning a "trumpet" have now stirred up fresh fascination with the prophecies of Nostradamus.Nostradamus wrote 942 "prophecies" he said spanned the years 1555 to 3797, using symbolic language to describe future wars and events. He predicted three powerful political "Anti-Christs." Most occultists agree that the first two were Napoleon and Hitler. They disagree about whether the third Anti-Christ has come and gone, is currently alive, or has yet to be born.  (3.2)>>Hillary Clinton is perhaps the greatest upset in U.S. political history.  Donald Trump pulled a stunning election victory despite his rival Hillary Clinton winning nearly 2.9 million more popular votes than the real estate mogul. To hear Clinton tell it today, Russia’s interference was the deciding factor. “Even if Russian interference made only a marginal difference,” Clinton said during a speech at Stanford University this October, “this election was won at the margins, in the Electoral College.” (4)>>Though Clinton won the popular vote, Trump seized the all-important electorate vote.  Mrs. Clinton was the obvious victim of the American Electoral Collage not the Russian Meddling investigation circus . While we are being told that the Russians made her lose , while that may be serious enough . There is still no proof . Mrs . Clinton did win just as much Al Gore won out in 2000 , but she lost because of our American system is corrupt and nothing else . 

The Democrats' anticipated Blue Wave.

"Democrats have it within their power to effect a change."

Well right now I am a bit extremely worried that the midterms (1.0)>>Blue Wave If it's  going to happen.The Democrats' anticipated Blue Wave was downgraded as voters backed strong candidates who can enable the GOP to hold and potentially expand its majority in the crucial midterm elections.  Former President Barack Obama re-emerged into the political scene after months of maintaining a low profile, making subtle references to his disapproval of the current administration and possibly illuminating the reason behind his return to the limelight. Obama had a message "Fear is powerful," he said. "Telling people that somebody's out to get you, or somebody took your job, or somebody has it out for you, or is going to change you, or your community, or your way of life - that's an old story and it has shown itself to be powerful in societies all around the world," Mr Obama said. "It is a deliberate, systematic effort to tap into that part of our brain that carries fear in it." (1.1)>>I believe the Democratic Party is in need of help. Its incumbents in Congress might be on survival mode , So what might speak against the possibility of a blue wave?  Then comes the crazy rants by (1.1.2)>>Representative Maxine Waters and House leader Nancy Pelosi Wednesday morning, calling them the “unhinged face” of the Democratic Party. Right-wing pundits have accused Waters of instigating violence and called for her formal censure. Rep. Anthony Biggs of Arizona insists that she resign and issue a public apology to White House officials for “endangering their lives and sowing seeds of discord.” Even some Democrats directly or indirectly criticized their colleague. House minority leader Chuck Schumer said that Waters’s words were “not American” and Nancy Pelosi suggested that “we must conduct elections in a way that achieves unity from sea to shining sea.” Waters has already canceled two speaking events due to threats.  (1.2)>>Well, favorability ratings of the Democratic Party currently stand at 38% to 49% - the population does not like the body of the Democratic Party. Of course, the 49% disapproval also contains a large part of the 40%

Nancy Pelosi & Chuck Schumer ,
Democratic incumbents.
Regardless of Trump tantrums
approvals are slipping as well.  

voters who approve of Donald Trump’s presidecny, but it still speaks to the ideological split between the established moderates and the recently emerged radicals within the Democratic Party . Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a 28-year-old grassroots activist, just pulled off the biggest upset so far in the 2018 election cycle.Her Democratic primary win Tuesday in a race with Congressman Joe Crowley, a veteran party operative and 10-term incumbent who is the fourth-ranking Democrat in the House, may well be the most remarkable New York City congressional election result since 31-year-old Elizabeth Holtzman beat House Judiciary Committee chairman Emanuel Celler in a 1972 primary.The defeat of Crowley, who was widely seen as a potential successor to House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi, was described by a stunned New York Times as “the most significant loss for a Democratic incumbent in years and one that will reverberate across the party and the country.” Ocasio-Cortez won 57.5 to 42.5, despite the fact that Crowley overwhelmingly outspent her and enjoyed support from the same top-ranking Democrats who are lining up to back New York Governor Andrew Cuomo in his September Democratic primary contest with Cynthia Nixon.
"Socialist Democrats?"
That was the result of the primary elections in New York on Tuesday when a young

Dem Socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez defeats
top Dem lawmaker by double
 digits in shocking primary upset

politician beat the "establishment" Democrats at their own game.Longtime Rep. Joseph Crowley (D-N.Y.), who’s been viewed as a potential House Speaker, LOST  the Democratic primary, a massive upset that will shake up the political world in New York and Washington.This is the first time in 14 years that Crowley, 56, has faced a primary challenger. Crowley has long been seen as a potential successor to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.). And he's been a staple in New York City politics as chairman of the Queens County Democratic Party.Prior to his defeat at the hands of Ocasio-Cortez, a 28-year-old member of the (2)>>Socialist Democrats of America who is described by many as “to the left of Bernie Sander,” Crowley was identified as a likely contender to unseat House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) in the next leadership election. Following her 15-point win Tuesday night, the millennial described her socialist vision for America:“To me, what socialism means is to guarantee a basic level of dignity. It’s asserting the value of saying that the America we want and the America that we are proud of is one in which all children can access a dignified education. It’s one in which no person is too poor to have the medicines they need to live. It’s to say that no individual’s civil rights are to be violated. And it’s also to say that we need to really examine the historical inequities that have created much of the inequalities—both in terms of economics and social and racial justice—because they are intertwined. This idea of, like, race or class is a false choice. Even if you wanted to separate those two things, you can’t separate the two, they are intrinsically and inextricably tied. There is no other force, there is no other party, there is no other real ideology out there right now that is asserting the minimum elements necessary to lead a dignified American life.”Some Democrats also said they believe Crowley may have been too focused on party dynamics in D.C. and didn't pay enough attention to his district. Others say it has less to do with politics and more to do with this being the year of the woman, and Ocasio-Cortez just the latest example.Ocasio-Cortez’s second point is related to the first: to attract working-class and middle-class voters of all colors and ethnicities, Democratic candidates need to demonstrate that they aren’t part of a system rigged in favor of the rich and powerful. As a former campaign organizer for Bernie Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez levelled many of the same charges against her opponent, the ten-term Democratic congressman Joseph Crowley, that Sanders hurled at Hillary Clinton during the 2016 Democratic primary. “My opponent takes insane amounts of money from luxury-real-estate developers, from private-equity groups, from pharmaceutical corporations and insurance corporations,” she told Greenwald. “And that is tied directly to the legislation he has been passing. So the future might be vary telling . IF the Democrats don't wake up , quit wining , it may be the cruelest irony of the Trump era. During an election season when the House seems to be a lost cause for Republicans and nearly every indicator suggests massive Democratic gains in November, the outlook for wresting the Senate away from the GOP remains grim.

NOTES AND COMMENTS:

(1.0)>>Blue Wave If it's  going to happen. The GOP was in trouble before Trump. Bush's Iran invasion & Tea Party assured that. However, not to be out done I think the Democratic Party is facing it's day of reckoning too with the "socialist democrat " win Ocasio-Cortez seems to upstart the Democrats . (1)>>Well, favorability ratings of the Democratic Party .The generic ballot tells us voters prefer Democrats to Republicans by a 10-point average. The president’s approval ratings, a historically useful guide to his party’s midterm hopes? The lowest at this point of any in recorded history. Recent special elections? Democrats took a U.S. Senate seat in Alabama for the first time in 30 years and a Wisconsin state Senate seat that had stayed Republican for 17 years. The average swing to Democrats in the four special elections so far: more than 20 percent. Republicans in the House seem to be heading for the hills: Thirty-one have already announced they are leaving, compared with just 15 Democrats.(1.1)>>I believe the Democratic Party is in need of help. To gain a majority in the House, the Democrats need to pick up twenty-three seats. To gain control of the Senate, they need to pick up two seats.Above all, Republican voters have only grown more supportive of the president. The GOP has retained its grasp on the voters and constituencies that delivered the party the White House and both chambers of Congress. Despite the constant tumult in Washington, the GOP is unified in defense of Trump and his allies, and the party is calling on voters to defend Trump at the polls from Democrats who might subvert his agenda, or even call for his impeachment.These facts don’t point to a “blue wave” of Democratic dominance. Instead, they suggest a tight contest—one where Republicans could hold their majority even in the face of scandal, corruption, and mismanagement. (1.1.2)>>Representative Maxine Waters.We’ve all known that Maxine Waters is a crackpot, but this is truly berserk and dangerous — a sitting member of Congress urging mobs to attack senior members of the government!   “Let’s make sure we show up wherever we have to show up,” Waters told a crowd in California over the weekend. “If you see anybody from that cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd, and you push back on them, and you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere.”CNN’s John Avlon pointed out that ahead of the midterm elections, “this is exactly the kind of thing that will get [Trump supporters] motivated, because it creates a veneer of moral equivalency.”(2)>>Socialist Democrats of America. So aside from socialists, as a friendly reminder since everyone's scroll wheel needs a workout every now and again, below is a list of all the "reasons" Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 US election courtesy of the Daily Mail - because it certainly wasn't her fault. The 28-year-old member of Democratic Socialists of America—who shockingly won in New York’s 14th congressional district on a leftist platform of Medicare for All, abolishing ICE, and a federal jobs guarantee—inspired a major boost in membership for the organization on Wednesday.According to Lawrence Dreyfuss, a program associate for DSA, the organization saw a surge of 1,152 new memberships on Wednesday—about 35 times more sign-ups than on an average day.The last major membership bump DSA experienced was in the month following President Trump’s election, during which time they had about six times more sign-ups than in the previous month.

America's Failed Immigration policies .....

18 years ago Elian Gonzalez at gun point 
in an early morning raid on the orders 
of  AG Janet Reno was taken , deported 
to Cuba  under President Bill Clinton .
This is the real image says a lot
about immigration in America .

This week was a tense debate regarding the separation of children from parents who are entering our nation illegally .  PLEASE BARE WITH ME on this subject . I first don't want to accused of being a racist , not for immigrants  . It's so easy for any reader to miss -interpret what I am saying { example I told someone that Presidents Obama & Clinton did the same thing , and I got a mouthful } . Second , I see the separation of parents and their children as deplorable . My READERS listen up, just what do you do with all these people? They have no documentation first of all . IF I were one of them , yea locked up in cages -pens , yea just think if I were from Mexico . I'd put in my back pack a birth certificate of some kind to identify my self . But the reality is many of these people who sneak across the border as "undocumented" . We just don't know who they are . They have no paperwork to identify them . A small percentage of them could be criminals  . The young children as SAD as it really is could be , I don't want to put a label , but it reminds me of "human shields" used by adults [ parents?] to smuggle criminal adults in the country . We don't even know if the parents of those children are really the PARENTS of the children ! . So obviously we have to exercise some kind of caution and concern till be have identified the parents before we reunite the (##)>>"Children" and the "parents".  So if the Parents are real . they took their children with then , its really child endangerment. So there has to be steps to identify if any legal relatives in America . But I am inclined to say that some of them need to be deported back .   What BUT you have to understand that what the Trump administration did was in accordance to a law that was settled out court back in 1995 . YES !  This law was basically put on the shelf until the (1.1>>Republican hardliners like Jeff Sessions sought to follow the latter of the law to detain illegals crossing the border, it involves the separation of children. Its vary ridiculous as a law , its painful , its tear jerking  (1.2)>>But It costs a lot of money to keep these people & children detained for any length of time. But this form of separating children from their parents [ illegal aliens, etc] was going on for a long while as part of law enforcement , cracking down on undocumented aliens . Everything just exploded out in the open media . BUT it was not the first time this happened. In 2015 President Obama took action in one of the largest attempts of deportation Obama actually expanded the system of detaining families – typically mothers and their minor children – after a huge surge of Central Americans along the U.S.-Mexican border in 2014. The policy resulted in many minors being detained in various locations, in much-criticized conditions, either with their families or by themselves, if they had crossed the border alone.  Videos and photos at the time showed children in tears, many of them still wearing dirty clothes, in detention facilities where they were kept with their families. The conditions -- which ranged from six adults and children sleeping crammed on two mattresses laid out on concrete floors, to sick minors not receiving medical care -- were documented in many news accounts and reports by human rights groups. Again the point here is (1.2.2 )>>Obama did the same thing .   We know that President Trump (1.2.3)>>accused the Democrats of upholding a 'deportation law', since the Department of Homeland Security has sent nearly 2,000 children to mass detention centers or foster care. More than 100 of these children are younger than 4 years old. The reason for these separations is a zero-tolerance policy for their parents, who are accused of illegally crossing our borders.  So here is a shocking realization . While separating children from parents who enter the nation is really immoral . It has been going on for the last 30 years  or more . And another shocking twist is that the Democrats under President Bill Clinton , and his Iron lady Attorney  General Janet Reno back in 1995 had a zero tolerance policy on immigration .Seeing all the protesters now, (1.3)>>it shows how little Americans remember what

Bill Clinton did , which was greater under Reno than Sessions.  (2)>>President Clinton turned far to the right on enforcing immigration control . Clinton it seemed back in 1995 echoed the vary same Trump style populist agenda that Trump is exposing . And he said a few things that would shock any American right now .So remembering a news briefing way back Clinton acknowledged that the US "was built by immigrants," but he then asserted that the US "won't tolerate immigration by people whose first act is to break the law as they enter the country." An April 1995 Times Mirror poll found that 62 percent of all Americans, up from 58 percent in March 1994, believe that the US is losing ground in dealing with illegal immigration. On May 6, 1995, President Clinton pledged to expedite the deportation of criminal aliens from the US. Under US law, there must be a separate proceeding to determine whether convicted "criminal aliens" should be deported. The US deported about 40,000 aliens who had been convicted of crimes in 1994, and there is a backlog of another 100,000 awaiting deportation. US Attorney General Janet Reno announced on May 22 a one-month pilot program at the Men's Central Jail in Los Angeles that would place 46 INS agents at the facility to detain all illegal immigrants upon their release. The inmates will be taken into federal custody, transported to a special immigration court, and promptly deported, most on the same day they are released from jail. The answer is, essentially, that on some level the Clinton administration really did want to look tough on immigration. And that was more important than vetoing a bill because some in the administration didn't like its policy provision

HOW AMERICA NEEDS TO FIX ITS IMMIGRATION PROBLEM.

Rep. Senator Paul Ryan says this about nations immigration problem . 

" Currently, there are 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the United States.  Because these immigrants are here undocumented, and are consequently outside the scope of the law, we often do not know who they are or the activities in which they are engaged.  There are also immigrants who attempt to come to this country by legal means and find themselves wrapped up in endless paperwork and bureaucracy, and in turn, live in the United States unauthorized.  The result of these failures is a system that encourages people to break the law, and punishes those who follow it.  To be clear, as we work to fix this broken system, I do not support granting amnesty to illegal immigrants.  We need immigration reform that respects the rule of law, and is fair to those immigrants who have played by the rules." 

 In 2008, the Democratic platform called undocumented immigrants “our neighbors.” But it also warned, “We cannot continue to allow people to enter the United States undetected, undocumented, and unchecked,” adding that “those who enter our country’s borders illegally, and those who employ them, disrespect the rule of the law.” By 2016, such language was gone. The party’s platform described America’s immigration system as a problem, but not illegal immigration itself. And it focused almost entirely on the forms of immigration enforcement that Democrats opposed. In its immigration section, the 2008 platform referred three times to people entering the country “illegally.” The immigration section of the 2016 platform didn’t use the word illegal, or any variation of it, at all. There are two GOP bills being considered on immigration: the so-called Goodlatte bill, and the compromise bill put forward by Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-WI). According to the House GOP source, “The drafts of both bills clarify the Flores Settlement by ensuring accompanied alien minors apprehended at the border can remain with their parent or legal guardian while in DHS custody. Drafters are also working to include a provision that not only addresses DHS custody but DOJ custody as well.” The vast majority of undocumented workers aren’t criminals. A comprehensive 2015 study by the National Academy of Sciences concluded, “Immigrants are less likely than the native-born to commit crimes, and neighborhoods with greater concentrations of immigrants have much lower rates of crime and violence than comparable non-immigrant neighborhoods.”In the case of immigration, the sorry truth is that the government provides only about one third as many visas as needed by U.S. businesses, primarily in agriculture and construction, even as these businesses are unable to find Americans to fill these jobs. President Trump argues that Americans want 'good jobs'.(3)>>That includes lower-skilled immigrants from Mexico and Central America, who are the most likely to be in the United States without documentation.Almost all illegal immigrants are peaceful, hard-working members of their communities. Most belong to families that include U.S. citizens and citizen children. A majority have lived in the United States for more than half a decade, a third for a full decade or more. They fill vital jobs in sectors such as agriculture, hospitality, retail and other services. Yanking them from the workplace would cause those industries to contract, reducing investment, and putting at risk the jobs of managers, accountants, sales representatives and other middle-class U.S. citizens.The only humane and practical solution to illegal immigration is earned legalization for those who are already living and working here, and expanded opportunities for the legal entry of future workers.

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(##)>>"Children".In 1985, Jenny Lisette Flores, an unaccompanied 15-year-old girl from El Salvador, was apprehended by the Immigration and Naturalization Service after illegally attempting to cross the Mexico-United States border. The unaccompanied minor was taken to a detention facility where she was held among adults of both sexes, was daily strip searched, and was told she would only be released to the custody of her parents, who, INS suspected, were illegal immigrants. On July 11, 1985, the Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law filed a class action lawsuit against U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese, alleging that the government’s detention and release policies were in violation of the children’s rights under the Equal Protection Clause and the Due Process Clause of the United States Constitution. The administration has fingered Flores v. Reno, or the “Flores settlement,” as the reason it is “forced” to separate parents from their children to prosecute them. It claims that because it cannot keep parents and children in immigration detention together, it has no choice but to detain parents in immigration detention (after they’ve been criminally prosecuted for illegal entry) and send the children to the Department of Health and Human Services as “unaccompanied alien children.” The Flores settlement requires the federal government to do two things: to place children with a close relative or family friend “without unnecessary delay,” rather than keeping them in custody; and to keep immigrant children who are in custody in the “least restrictive conditions” possible.The situation of accompanied children, on the other hand, went largely under the radar (the legislation requiring the change in custody from INS to ORR only applied to unaccompanied children). One exception was a lawsuit challenging the deplorable conditions at the former T. Don Hutto facility in Texas, which detained accompanied children with their parents. The federal government agreed to close the controversial Hutto facility in 2009 and only one family detention center remained in the United States, in Berks County, Pennsylvania.

(1.1>>Republican hardliners like Jeff Sessions. Attorney General Jeff Sessions enacted a "zero tolerance" policy for illegal immigration that resources would need to be diverted from other cases to handle the workload.Records obtained by USA Today show that a Justice Department (DOJ) supervisor in San Diego emailed border control authorities warning that immigration-related cases “will occupy substantially more of our resources" in the coming days as the Trump administration increased the number of prosecutions for illegal entry.    (1.2)>>But It costs a lot of money to keep these people & children. Though Trump signed an order he says will keep migrant families together,the detention facilities drawing the most attention right now aren't the only ones in the U.S.As of this month, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement runs 113 detention facilities across the country and works with state and local jails along with private prisons to operate hundreds more. What makes me mad at this is that the Federal government can spend money on housing illegals , but NEVER a dime spent on housing homeless Americans . LETS DO THE MATH HERE .   Well, $700 per day x 35,000 illegal kids (as of yesterday's tally) amounts to the following U.S. taxpayer housings:$24,500,000 per day $735,000,000 per month (give or a take a mil or two) $8,820,000,000 per year.  Another source , The federal government paid a “bed rate” of $127.82 per day to house each illegal alien detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in fiscal 2016, according to ICE data published in a new report by the Government Accountability Office.Even if you do not count the extra day in that leap year, that works out to $46,654.30 for each detention bed occupied by an illegal alien for 365 days.The approximately $46,654 it cost to house a detained illegal alien for 365 days in fiscal 2016 was approximately $104 more than the average income for Americans 15 and older that year—which, according to Census Bureau Table PINC-01, was $46,550. (1.2.2 )>>Obama did the same thing. President Barack Obama (R) participates in the taping of an MSNBC/Telemundo town hall discussion on immigration with host Jose Diaz-Balart (L) at Florida International University in Miami, in February 2015. Photo by Jonathan Ernst/Reuters. “He was facing an unprecedented, highly personalized opposition from Congress,” said Janet Murguia, president of the National Council of La Raza, an immigration advocacy group, who once labeled Obama the “deporter-in-chief.” ”We fault him, I believe correctly, for failing to recognize soon [  Obama Immigration Reform 2014 Speech: Announcing Executive Action [  https://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=wejt939QXko  ]  If evaluating Obama’s record is a matter of tallying two columns — in one, the number of people he protected from removal; in the other, the number deported — the court went a long way toward tipping the ledger toward the latter. The video shows that Obama followed the similar policy, hoping to broker a deal . (1.2.3)>>accused the Democrats. A larger explanation is political. Between 2008 and 2016, Democrats became more and more confident that the country’s growing Latino population gave the party an electoral edge. To win the presidency, Democrats convinced themselves, they didn’t need to reassure white people skeptical of immigration so long as they turned out their Latino base. “The fastest-growing sector of the American electorate stampeded toward the Democrats this November,” Salon declared after Obama’s 2008 win. “If that pattern continues, the GOP is doomed to 40 years of wandering in a desert.”As the Democrats grew more reliant on Latino votes, they were more influenced by pro-immigrant activism. While Obama was running for reelection, immigrants’-rights advocates launched protests against the administration’s deportation practices; these protests culminated, in June 2012, in a sit-in at an Obama campaign office in Denver. Ten days later, the administration announced that it would defer the deportation of undocumented immigrants who had arrived in the U.S. before the age of 16 and met various other criteria. Obama, The New York Times noted, “was facing growing pressure from Latino leaders and Democrats who warned that because of his harsh immigration enforcement, his support was lagging among Latinos who could be crucial voters in his race for re-election.”

 (1.3)>>it shows how little Americans remember what Bill Clinton did.On May 3, 1995, Senators Kennedy (D-MA), Boxer (D-CA), and Simon (D-IL), formally introduced President Clinton's proposals to deal with illegal immigration, S754, the Immigration Enforcement Improvements Act of 1995. The Administration bill is similar to the proposal of Senator Simpson (R-WY), S 269, increasing the likelihood that immigration reform will be enacted in 1995. (2)>>President Clinton turned far to the right on enforcing immigration control . Unlike some of the Clinton-era laws that the Democratic Party has now moved to the left of — like the 1994 crime bill and welfare reform — IIRIRA was not President Clinton's bill. It was Republicans who'd pressed the issue of tightening immigration restrictions during the 1994 campaign (both in Congress and in California, where Gov. Pete Wilson rode to reelection on a ballot proposition severely restricting unauthorized immigrants' use of state services like public schools).When Republicans won the House of Representatives in 1994, they — and especially Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX), the new chair of the Immigration Subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee — came in with a mission. "They were about the business of really toughening up immigration law," says Doris Meissner, who was head of the Immigration and Naturalization Service at the time. "And that is what they did" — sticking immigration provisions in welfare reform and the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 (or AEDPA).  The 1997 law that Mr. Clinton signed says minor children who enter the United States illegally must be separated from their parents who are sent to jail because they crossed the border illegally. Because children cannot accompany their parents to jail, they are separated and sent elsewhere, either shelters or foster homes.There was no single provision of the 1996 law that was as dramatic as the 1986 "amnesty" law, signed by President Reagan, which is why he gets credit for the last major immigration reform. But the '96 law essentially invented immigration enforcement as we know it today — where deportation is a constant and plausible threat to millions of immigrants. (3)>>That includes lower-skilled immigrants .Well, illegal immigrants do not get 'good jobs'. They are taking the jobs no one else wants. This includes almost anything outdoors (not involving a football), for example picking fruits and vegetables, dairy and other agriculture, construction, lawn work, and indoors, house cleaning. Most of these jobs pay around the minimum wage, and often involve travel and difficult working conditions. Very few Americans aspire to these jobs anymore—that's how we know we're a rich country.