posted February 17, 2017 03:32 PM            

Here's another one from what a lot of people consider the main stream media.

Rational people wonder if these leftist idiots...so called journalists are so stupid as to think they're going to get away with running totally false, fake news stories.

Notice, this so called memo is ADDRESSED to holdovers from the Obama administration. You know, those people who are most certain to embrace the use of the National Guard to round up illegal aliens...NOT.

White House Denies Fake News of National Guard Immigration Force
Bob Price
17 Feb 2017

The White House is flatly denying media reports that the Trump Administration is considering using national guard troops as immigration officers to round up illegal aliens.

“There is no effort at all to round up, to utilize the National Guard to round up illegal immigrants,” White House press secretary Sean Spicer said of the report, The Hill reported. “That is 100% not true. It is false. It is irresponsible to be saying this.”

Spicer continued, “I don’t know what could potentially be out there, but I know that there is no effort to do what is potentially suggested.”

The Associated Press reported on a leaked “draft memo” claiming that up to 100,000 National Guard troops could be used to round up unauthorized immigration. The AP reported the plan would round up illegal aliens living nowhere near the Mexican border. The headline appears to falsely claim “Trump weighs mobilizing Nat Guard for immigration roundups.”

Department of Homeland Security Spokesman David Lapan responded to an inquiry from Breitbart Texas stating, “The Department is not considering mobilizing the National Guard for immigration enforcement.”

The AP report claims:

Four states that border on Mexico are included in the proposal — California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas — but it also encompasses seven states contiguous to those four — Oregon, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana.

Governors in the 11 states would have a choice whether to have their guard troops participate, according to the memo, written by U.S. Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly, a retired four-star Marine general.

While National Guard personnel have been used to assist with immigration-related missions on the U.S.-Mexico border before, they have never been used as broadly or as far north.

The memo is addressed to the then-acting heads of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Customs and Border Protection. It would serve as guidance to implement the wide-ranging executive order on immigration and border security that President Donald Trump signed Jan. 25. Such memos are routinely issued to supplement executive orders.

The AP claims the 18-page January 25 “draft memo,” addressed to Obama holdovers in the CBP, calls for the troops to “perform the functions of an immigration officer in relation to the investigation, apprehension, and detention of aliens in the United States.”

Breitbart Texas reached out to Texas Governor Greg Abbott for comment on the alleged plans. “The Office of the Governor has not received, much less seen, a memo or request from the White House or Department of Homeland Security regarding the use of Texas National Guard troops for immigration enforcement,” Governor Abbott’s Spokesman John Wittman responded. “The White House has adamantly denied there are efforts underway to mobilize the National Guard for this purpose.”

posted February 17, 2017 11:18 PM            

Or "Mexico is going to pay for the wall" and when that is debunked "I never said they'd pay up front".. nor did he say the taxpayer was going to get stuck, possibly twice, with it.

But "the media" are liars (and alternative media are not media in Dumpty's New American Dictionary)

Calling someone out as"fake" does not prove the caller is genuine.

posted February 17, 2017 11:49 PM            

I can think of at least 5 ways Trump can get the money from Mexico to pay for the wall.

Nevertheless, Trump isn't in the news business. The As$ ociated Press is and they're running fake news stories.

posted February 18, 2017 12:58 AM              

Do you think is the only reliable source out there?

posted February 18, 2017 05:01 AM            

No "Rust Belt" American who voted Trump would do the work the Mexicans do anyway.

Hope some deep thought is given to mathematical and economic facts by the Trump Administration, then the Media will be forced to acknowledge the good work done.

posted February 21, 2017 09:47 AM            

For instance, all US aid to Mexico could be withheld to pay for the wall.

All remittances (money transfers, money wires, ect) to Mexico could have a tax or other fee imposed.

Just for instance.

posted February 21, 2017 12:23 PM            

So far the only suggestion that has been aired by Congress is a 20% sales tax on Mexican goods. This would actually double-dip from US citizens pockets, or force a boycott on Mexican goods (produce being a huge portion of that trade) and wouldn't likely produce the payback intended.. but cause scarcity for the poorest consumers.

Your ideas sound reasonable but, seeing as the taxpayer is basically fronting the costs, how do you think we Taxpayers would be repaid? Why should we trust that we would get a tax rebate or check in the mail when the President is famous for stiffing people when he no longer needs them?

I saw a program about Castro/Cuba the other day. Remember when the US decided to starve them into submission by boycotting Cuban products? Who came along and made our gesture useless by buying up everything Cuba had to sell?

If we severed all aid to Mexico what do you think they would do in return? Sit there sucking their thumbs? And even if it were directly transferred to us it would come to about a dollar per person per year and take about 60 years to recoup... No thanks

posted February 21, 2017 03:55 PM            

As for a border tax on goods produced in Mexico by American companies, that wouldn't hit the Mexican government and, as you say, would hit American consumers. I don't think that's being considered as a way to make Mexico pay the cost of constructing the wall.

posted February 21, 2017 06:50 PM            

Is it really worth the 8mpingement on our own liberties, checkpoints becoming a daily hazard, stop and search whomever, commandeering cellphones and scanning private conversations.. this is all of us giving up significant liberties, not just "illegals"..

posted February 22, 2017 10:07 AM            

Gee, less than 700 arrested so far...out of 950,000 who are still walking around America with criminal convictions or current deportment orders....during the Obama malfeasance.

So, how about you tell me. How much has it already cost American taxpayers to catch, indict, prosecute, convict and imprison illegal alien criminals...so far?