President Trump gives us permission to speak!
Posted
by Ann Corcoran 1/12/18
With all the hullabaloo since
yesterday about the President’s question about why we needed to import so many
people from certain s***hole countries, I’m thinking that the great fear the PC
crowd (pulling out the smelling salts) has is that when the President speaks
straightforwardly (on anything), it gives permission for masses of Americans to
do the same. Speaking freely about critical issues facing our country
could be the death of the hard Left and they know it.
So who leaked the comment to the
Washington Post? Some speculate it was someone connected to these two unhappy
participants—Senator Dick Durbin and Senate pal Lindsey Graham
I’m expecting that half of America
was laughing in the privacy of their homes when they heard the President voice
something that they themselves dare not say.
I didn’t look around for what might
be the best discussion about what exactly happened, but this one at the American Spectator by Scott McKay seems on point and brings up the Somali issue
something we know a good bit about.
Here are a few snips (emphasis is
mine):
A quote attributed to
President Trump horrifies our snowflake intellectuals, but accurately reflects
the sentiments of much of America.
Thursday saw a media firestorm erupt
over a Washington Post report
that amid a White House meeting with several members of Congress working on a
compromise having to do with the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood
Arrivals program, or DACA, President Trump asked why America should have to
take in so many immigrants from “s***hole countries” rather than people from
places like Norway.
The Post article isn’t exactly the finest example of American
journalism, identifying as its source no one actually in the room to confirm
what Trump supposedly said but instead naming two anonymous people who were
“briefed on the meeting.”
Those anonymous second-hand sources claimed that the offending
statement came amid a discussion over a proposal to eliminate the diversity
visa lottery program
and use the 50,000 visas per year tied up in it to offer protection to
“vulnerable populations” living in the United States under Temporary Protected
Status.
Trump became irritated at this,
according to the Post, and
asked about Haitians, and when the conversation turned to Africa Trump
supposedly said, “Why are we having all these people from s***hole countries come here?” and suggested that maybe
instead America should be taking in more people from Norway — whose prime
minister visited the White House the day before.
The Post reported that the Senators attempting to come to a
DACA solution, most prominently Illinois Democrat Dick Durbin (whose track
record indicates a lack of reliability where it comes to good faith in
negotiations) and South Carolina Republican Lindsey Graham (no more need be
said) were upset over, upon arriving at the meeting, being joined by
immigration hard-liners Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) and Rep. Bob Goodlatte
(R-Virginia), among others.
Durbin and Graham thought they’d have the president more or less to
themselves. And when the meeting devolved
into disagreement, with Trump showing no interest in a DACA deal, it’s pretty
obvious someone on one or both of their staffs rushed to the Post to offer up a juicy
second-hand Trump quote which might or might not have been reported in proper
context.
Author McKay then goes through a
list of dysfunctional countries whose nationals are here in large numbers,
including from Somalia:
The most recent Somali machete
attacker in Vermont last week (at a hotel for the homeless). A reader tells me he came as a
refugee in 2004. If so, what has he contributed to America in those 13 years?
How about Somalia? Who’s up for more mass immigration from Somalia? Is there any argument Somalia is a s***hole, or do we
need a national screening of Black Hawk Down to remind us what that country is
like? If you’d like a more recent depiction of what Somalia has to offer the
world we could all watch Captain Phillips, the 2013 Tom Hanks vehicle about the
true story of the Maersk Alabama, set upon by one of the multitudinous hordes
of pirates — yes, actual pirates — sloughing off from Somali shores in search
of fat from international commerce.
Somalia is such a s***hole that its
stench infects nearby countries like Kenya — viz., the Westgate Shopping Mall
attack in Nairobi in 2013 — and Uganda, where Al-Shabaab, Somalia’s home-grown
jihadist terror group, set off a series of bombs in the capital of Kampala to
slaughter 76 people as they watched the 2010 World Cup soccer final.
What has America derived from mass
immigration from Somalia? Machete attacks on street corners in Columbus and
mall stabbings in suburban Minneapolis. And if you like, you can ask the
current and former residents of Lewiston, Maine, what a boon Somali immigration
has been to that town. [Seemachete attack in
Shelburne, VT in the last week.—ed]
The last thing the
open-borders Left wants is for you to talk openly about immigration and who
should be permitted to live here.
The open-borders crowd doesn’t want to talk about that, though, and it
wants to call you racist if you’re opposed to a deluge of immigrants from the
worst places on earth. That’s why Trump’s “s***holes” objection is big news rather
than the fact there are so-called political leaders who can’t agree to reorient
our immigration policy toward taking people who can successfully assimilate
here.
Between the two, the crude man who tells the truth and looks out for
his own citizens is preferable to the genteel man who sells us out for cheap
labor or ballot-box fuel for a political machine. If Trump is the former, so be
it.
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