And Then Trump Changed His Mind Again!

Just yesterday I posted about President Trump’s stand on immigration and his policy to separate immigrant families on the border and then 24 hours later changing his mind! Trump Refuses To Change His Mind and Then Of Course Changes His Mind And then the very next 24 hours brings another…

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An Overlooked Side Effect of Undocumented Immigrants

This recent Associated Press article discusses the growing labor shortage on Washington state farms and orchards. And how the reverse of the normal trend…robots displacing workers…will become robots doing jobs that can’t be filled because of a shortage of labor. But I just want to draw out one point that…

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Trump Administration Needs To Get Their Story Straight on Dreamers:

Just yesterday, President Donald Trump was saying that Dreamers (undocumented immigrants who were brought to the US as minors) should rest easy. Young immigrants brought to the U.S. as children and now here illegally can “rest easy,” President Donald Trump said Friday, telling the “dreamers” they will not be targets…

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Why Trump Is Promoting the Lie About Media Underreporting Terrorist Attacks.

By now we have all digested the nonsense ‘alternative fact’ from President Trump about the media underreporting or just not reporting on terrorist attacks. And how simple it was to debunk. And how the White House quickly and easily provided a list of 78 examples and how simple they were…

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Federal appeals court refuses to reinstate Trump travel ban

I am not surprised by the outcome but I am surprised at the 3 – 0 decision. Here’s the gist: A federal appeals court refused Thursday to reinstate President Donald Trump’s ban on travelers from seven predominantly Muslim nations, unanimously rejecting the administration’s claim of presidential authority, questioning its motives…

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The President Needs To Make Up His Mind On Immigration!

So first he signs an order that is poorly thought out, not shared with the experts, and extremely poorly executed. Then a court overturns that executive order and the president goes off on the judge: “The opinion of this so-called judge, which essentially takes law-enforcement away from our country, is…

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Immigrants Need To Assimilate!

During the campaign and since the election of President-elect Donald Trump…as part of the undercurrent of the anti-immigrant rhetoric there has been the continued story that immigrants need to assimilate. That they don’t do that. But they do…they do it very effectively…even if it isn’t on the schedule that the…

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Carson Campaign Is Channeling the Onion!

I always thought that the Obama campaign and White House stole many of their best riffs from The West Wing television series…but it appears that Dr. Carson’s campaign is stealing their material from the satirical website, The Onion! Dr. Carson: In an interview with Breitbart News Radio, Carson suggested the…

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Trump: With Visions of Kristallnacht Dancing In His Head

GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump quadrupled down on his pledge to deport all of the illegal immigrants in the US if he is elected: Trump forcefully defended the controversial proposal that fueled his candidacy since summer, in which he would deport all undocumented immigrants and construct a wall along the…

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Blue Collar Jobs Lost To Legal Immigrants?

A number of GOP presidential hopefuls including Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker want to halt or decrease LEGAL immigration because it is taking solid blue collar jobs away from Americans! No really…how could I make this stuff up! Republican 2016 presidential hopefuls Scott Walker and Rick Santorum are suggesting a potentially…

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