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I see that some churches are now providing sanctuary for illegal immigrants.

Their facilities are considered sensitive properties, not typically entered into for enforcement purposes, by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials. The churches plan to use that protection to frustrate enforcement of U.S. laws.

Isnt that nice of them?

Immigrants here illegally are here by their own decisions to migrate to the U. S. for primarily economic reasons.

Will the good church people also offer refuge to the millions of people in this country who are put out of work by the willingness of illegal immigrants to work for low- and sometimes off-the-books wages?

I also see that Amazon is providing Prime membership discounts to welfare recipients. Those in the electronic benefits transfer programs and supplemental nutrition assistance programs can use their electronic benefits cards to buy into the program at $5.99 per month.

Now they dont even have to go to the store to get their stuff, just order it from the comfort of their own couch.

Sorry, I am just having a bad day.

Joseph J. Hehir

Niskayuna

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Former President Bill Clintons top pollster acknowledged that Democrats have been losing working-class voters of all races and backgroundsnot just solely white working-class votersbecause the partys elites support open borders, are soft on illegal immigration, and favor trade deals that screw American workers.

Stan Greenbergwho has written extensively about the importance of so-called Reagan Democrats in places like Macomb County, Michigandeclared that Democrats do not just have a white working-class problem. Writing in the American Prospect, Greenberg notes that Democrats have lost support with all working-class voters across the electorate, including the Rising American Electorate of minorities, unmarried women, and millennials because of the partys seeming embrace of multinational trade agreements that have cost American jobs. In addition, he says Democrats have moved from seeking to manage and champion the nations growing immigrant diversity to seeming to champion immigrant rights over those of American citizens.

This decline contributed mightily to the Democrats losses in the states and Congress and to the election of Donald Trump, he says, noting that Democrats have failed to attack a political economy that works for the rich, big corporations, and the cultural elites, but not for average Americans.

Voters, Greenberg points out, are worried about the costs that come with massive immigration, with 60 percent believing that granting legal status to illegal immigrants would lead to greater competition for public services and more than half believe it would take jobs from American citizens. He points out that even a whopping 41 percent of Democrats think those immigrants would take jobs from U.S. citizens and half of Democrats believe granting legal status would be a drain on government services. In the 2016 election, Trump hammeredClinton among white working-class voters, winning their voters by nearly 40 percentage points.

Though white-working class men were most opposed to illegal immigration, Greenberg curiously reveals the inconvenient truth that Democrats should not assume that African Americans do not share some of those concerns for many in our focus groups raise anxieties about competition from new immigrants. In addition, he says, like the more conservative working-class whites, African American women place a high premium on faith in God and the need to put American citizens before immigrants.

During the 2016 election, Jamelle Bouie acknowledged that it would not be a bad play for Trump to appeal to black workers with an immigration agenda that favors American workers. And Hillary Clintons support for amnesty programs may have turned off enough black voters to make Trump president. According to the Census, black Americans showed the sharpest decline in voter turnout 7.1 percent since 2012. At 59.6 percent, it was the lowest black turnout rate since 2000.

Immigration may have also arguably been the reason that propelled trump to the GOP nomination. As Breitbart News Editor-at-Large Joel Pollak has pointed out, on July 10, 2015, nine days after an illegal immigrant murdered Kate Steinle in San Francisco, Trump met with victims of illegal immigrant crime. Trump was in seventh then, trailing former Florida Governor Jeb Bush by 10 percentage points in the RealClearPolitics average of the polls. Nine days later, Trump rocketed into first place in the RealClearPolitics average and never looked back.

Another Greenberg survey a month into Trumps presidency found how central concerns about immigration, borders, foreignness, and Islam were to white working-class Trump voters in Macomb County, Michigan who had previously voted for Obama. These voters were convinced that Clinton and todays Democrats wanted open borders, according to his surveys.

Democrats have also been losing working-class voters because of trade. Greenberg notes that separation grew wider with Obamas battle for the Trans-Pacific Partnership and with Trump making his opposition to it central to his vow to represent the forgotten Americans.

The Obama presidency produced a partisan realignment on trade, reinforcing the class and gender bases of the two parties that will disrupt the politics of both, if it hasnt already, he wrote. Before 2008, Republicans were more supportive of NAFTA than Democrats, but at the end of Obamas presidency, GOP support for NAFTA collapsed, pushed off the cliff by Trump. Democrats, on the other hand, became more favorably disposed to NAFTA.

His surveys have discovered that the white working class, who live amid the remains of the manufacturing sector in the industrial Midwest, strongly oppose these trade agreements with increasing ferocity, particularly the men who were disproportionately employed in manufacturing. During the 2016 campaign, Trump relentlessly opposed the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) deal and called out Clinton for waffling on it and never giving a clear answer about where she stood. One of Trumps first actions as president was signing an executive order formally withdrawing the United States from the TPP.

Greenberg also points out that working-class Americans of all backgrounds pulled back from Democrats in this last period of Democratic governance because of Obamas insistence on heralding economic progress and the bailout of the irresponsible elites, while ordinary peoples incomes crashed and they continued to struggle financially. Interestingly, according to Greenberg, Obamas embrace of policies favored by elites who live in the countrys wealthiest zip codes did the party no favors with minority voters, who have been left behind in liberal cities like San Francisco and New York.

That is why the simple embrace of metropolitan Americas liberal values and economic elite hurt Democrats with working-class voters in both the big cities and in rural America, he notes.

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Top Ex-Clinton Pollster: Dems Losing Working-Class Voters of ALL Races Due to Illegal Immigration, Trade - Breitbart News

One of President Donald Trumps central (and most controversial) campaign promises was to shut down the flow of immigrants illegally crossing into the United States, especially from Mexico. Newly released figures show Trump appears to be making good on his promise.

An analysis by the Daily Caller News Foundationfound that from February through May in 2016, 188,000 people were caught attempting to illegally enter the United States from Mexico. During the same period in 2017, only 76,000 were captured or deemed inadmissible, a decline of 59 percent.

In May alone, the number caught in 2017 was less than half (19,967) that recorded in 2016 (55,442), a truly remarkable turnaround considering Trumps much-talked-about border wall has still yet to be financed by Congress.

Theyve done more than any administration in the history of the world, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton told the Daily Caller.

So, Im pretty happy that theyve done so much in such a short period of time so it would really be difficult for me to criticize them on that issue because theres no comparison with any other administration as far as how quickly and effectively theyve approached the problem on many different fronts, Paxton also said.

In May, Ronald Vitiello, the chief of the U.S. Border Patrol, told a Senate Judiciary subcommittee the decline is due to Trumps January executive orders mandating a shift in policy and resources on the border.

As a result of the executive orders issued by the president, and the implementing policies issued by the secretary, as well as earlier policy changes and the significant investments we have made in border-enforcement personnel, technology, and infrastructure, we are seeing a historic shift in illegal crossings along the southwest border, Vitiello said, according to the Washington Examiner.

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Travis County Sheriff Sanctuary Sally Hernandez came up with the idea of instructing crime victims who happen to be in the country illegally on how they can apply for a U visa, Fox 7 in Austin reported. Merely filing out the application for the visa, intended to help true crime victims, is enough to at least temporarily block immigration officials from deporting an applicant.

Her work continues to propagate the myth that Texas new sanctuary city law (previously known as Senate Bill 4) is a threat to crime victims.

During the final days of the debate, several Texas law enforcement officials joined together penning an op-ed published in April by the Dallas Morning News. The police chiefs stated:

Officers would start inquiring about the immigration status of every person they come in contact with, or worse, inquire about the immigration status of people based on their appearance. This will lead to distrust of police and less cooperation from members of the community. And it will foster the belief that people cannot seek assistance from police for fear of being subjected to an immigration status investigation.

Distrust and fear of contacting or assisting the police have already become evident among legal immigrants. Legal immigrants are beginning to avoid contact with the police for fear that they themselves or undocumented family members or friends may become subject to immigration enforcement.

Such a divide between the local police and immigrant groups will result in increased crime against immigrants and in the broader community, create a class of silent victims, and eliminate the potential for assistance from immigrants in solving crimes or preventing crime.

Their statement ignores the fact that SB 4 specifically prohibits officers from inquiring about the immigration status of a crime victim or a witness to a crime, unless the information is pertinent to the crime as in the case of human smuggling or sex trafficking crimes.

ARITCLE 6, SECTION 6.01 Article 2.13: (I)n the course of investigating an alleged criminal offense, a peace officer may inquire ast o the nationality or immigration status of a victim of or witness to the offense only if the officer determines that the inquiry is necessary to: (1) Investigate the offense; or (2) provide the victim or witness with information about federal visas designed to protect individuals providing assistance to law enforcement.

In apparently ignoring this section of the new law (effective September 1, 2017), the Travis County Sheriffs Office is preparing to pro-actively distribute flyers. These flyers could be used to teach people how to abuse or take advantage of a program designed to protect true victims of or witnesses to crimes.

I think that just with the political climate in general across the U.S. that we have victims not reporting crime and thats a concern for us. I mean, we care about all of the victims regardless of immigration status. We want to make sure that we have an avenue to ensure them theyre safe to come and speak with us, Captain Craig Smith of the Travis County Sheriffs Office told Fox 7 News.

Sheriff Hernandez is having the pamphlets printed up to begin distribution, Travis County Sheriffs Office Spokesman Kristin Dark told Breitbart Texas in an email response. It is currently being published in English and Spanish, despite the fact that Travis County has immigrant communities speaking many different languages. The report by Fox 7 does not state what funds the sheriff is using to pay for these pamphlets. Dark told Breitbart Texas she would research the source of funding.

The sheriffs office told the local Fox affiliate they currently receive about 10 U visa applications per month. They stated the department attempts to process the visas within 30 days to forward to immigration officials.

The federal government issues approximately 10,000 U visas per year. Victims or witnesses granted approval receive up to four years of protected status. They are required to cooperate with law enforcement regarding prosecuting the crime they witnessed or were a victim of. While the application is pending, the applicant cannot be removed from the U.S., Fox 7 reported.

At least one Democrat Texas sheriff stood up to tell the truth about SB 4. Hidalgo County Sheriff J.E. Eddie Guerra joined with local chiefs of police in the Rio Grande Valley to try and calm the flames of fear being fanned by others across the state. As Texas Governor Greg Abbott has stated [SB 4] is simply a mechanism such that when someone has a criminal record, or who is also wanted by [U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement], they are going to be detained and turned over to ICE, Sheriff Guerra told local reporters. If you have not committed a crime, regardless of your immigration status, and unless you are subject to an ICE detainer, you have absolutely nothing to worry about.

Sheriff Guerra told the McAllen newspaper, The Monitor, To all the people we serve, we want you to know we are here to help you. We want you to continue working with us. Now more than ever we all need to work together we need to encourage you to report crimes, suspicious activity and fugitives, so that we may all enjoy a better quality of life and a safer community.

In contrast to Sheriff Guerras honesty about the new law, Breitbart Texasreportedthat Travis County Sheriff Sanctuary Sally Hernandez teamed up with four other Texas sheriffs to claim that FBI crime statistics have found that labeled sanctuary cities experience lower rates of all crime types, including homicides. Although fact checkers at the left-of-center PolitiFact admitted that the FBI report does not exist, they still dubbed the statements Half-True. In my book, a half true for an open borders study from Politifact means it was definitely bogus, Center for Immigration Studies Director of Policy Studies Jessica Vaughn told Breitbart Texas.It means we would like it to be true, but it wasnt.

Bob Price serves as associate editor and senior political news contributor for Breitbart Texas. He is a founding member of the Breitbart Texas team. Follow him on Twitter@BobPriceBBTXandFacebook.

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NASHVILLE, Tenn.

Immigration agents nab an undocumented felon Thursday in a Davidson County Courtroom.

Immigration and refugee rights advocates say they went about it the wrong way, using a tactic that's spreading fear of the judicial system.

Undocumented immigrants rallied earlier this week to support Metro Council bills that would protect immigrants from what happened to Faustino Hernandez.

"Yesterday's arrest sent a really dangerous message to the immigrant community that courts are places to avoid," said Lisa Sherman-Nikolaus, policy director for Tennessee Immigrant & Refugee Rights Coalition.

When Hernandez showed up in General Sessions Court for driving without a license, Immigration Customs Enforcement Agents arrested him.

"ICE called the court that morning and said they wanted to pick up Mr. Hernandez and that they had a warrant," Sherman-Nikolaus said.

According to the regional ICE Office, Hernandez is a felon with convictions for aggravated burglary, DUI, and other misdemeanor charges . ICE said he's been deported twice before.

The Metro Council is considering a bill that would require immigration agents to get a criminal warrant before asking a jail to hold and inmate on an ICE detainer. Proponents say the bill sends the wrong message that Nashville is sanctuary city for immigrants possibly running afoul of the law.

TIRRC's Policy Director said ICE Warrants are not signed by a judge like judicial warrants and local courts have no obligation to enforce them.

"We want to make sure local agencies are not carrying out the work of the federal government," said Sherman-Nikolaus. "When they cooperate in this way or help ICE carry out deportations, it erodes trust in the immigrant community."

ICE said many of the targets arrested near courthouses are foreign nationals who have prior criminal convictions.

Because courthouse visitors are typically screened for weapons, the safety risk for the arresting officer and the arrestee inside such facilities are substantially diminished.

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