Wednesday, July 15, 2015

Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders met in the US Senate recently. Why not Cruz and Trump?

I think Ted Cruz wants to get into a solid political issue that will sustain through the presidential elections. The Immigration Reform debate is taking shape and I think both the Republicans and Democrats should be happy Donald Trump was politically unafraid.

This is finally moving. I am happy about it. Donald Trump has been ostracized and for no good reason by his own party. Ted Cruz is a Tea Party member and Donald Trump has said supportive things regarding the Tea Party, too. 

Could it be Americans are finally finding solid ground under their feet?

'TERRIFIC': (click here) Texas Sen. and tea party darling Ted Cruz (shown entering Trump Tower on Wednesday in New York) has been full of praise for Trump, but may be the only Republican presidential candidate to play that role

July 15, 2015
By David Martosko

Trump (click here) has responded with mutual admiration, telling The Washington Post: 'I really respect him for saying what he did.'
An informal Cruz-Trump alliance could prove to be an important moving piece in the GOP primary season if one endorses the other when he drops out of the race....

The majority of Americans believe their vote has become empty. The election of President Obama turned the Republicans into obstructive treason that have caused a change in the credit rating of the USA. That is not what Americans want. They want a government that functions.

Americans want immigration reform, but, they are realists. They know immigration of people from Mexico can come with people that are dangerous. The fact illegals have been released to Mexico is not our problem. We want Iran to release our citizens from their prison system and in proving we return people to their homelands, we do so with Mexicans. 

Gitmo is just a national shame. 

But, the American people can't build prisons on US soil to detain illegal immigrants. That is crazy. These people need to be released to Mexico. I find some of Senator Cruz comments about releasing murderers into the USA interior as outrageous. There are illegals in our prisons and 77 percent are Mexicans. Mexicans are 16 percent of our entire prison population, so Senator Cruz needs to prove his point. Donald Trump has validated his statements with solid and real examples. The recent death of an innocent and loved American woman is a real example. 

The debate will center on all sorts of information, but, there are Undocumented that sincerely belong here. They work and live within the laws most Americans live within. They are more American than they ever could be Mexican, hence, the return time and again to the USA. 

The way to end the Undocumented from coming to the USA is to support Mexico in law enforcement. Mexico all the way to the reaches of South America have problems with drug cartels. The more civilized a country becomes the more citizens will want to stay within their homelands. I firmly believe that. 

But, immigration needs to be addressed. Demonizing these people serves no one's best interest. There are problems. The American people don't buy the idea life for the Undocumented is perfect if all were citizens. That is true for the majority and those facts need to be part of the understanding of the electorate. 

But, there are problems and while we are addressing immigration reform we may as well address everything. We won't get this chance again. Sanctuary cities are a part of that as well. Why are they viewed as anti-federal government? There is no need for it. Sanctuary cities have a reason for their laws and they are valid reasons, but, there is a limit when someone like Mr. Sanchez continues to return over and over again. 

Twenty years is a very long time for an illegal immigrant to live between the USA and Mexico. During that 20 years of Mr. Sanchez, the courts never found reasons to end his deportations. He was deported and returned five times. I don't think Mexico actively sends people into the USA. We witnessed children coming across the Mexican border after they risked their lives on trains. There was no escort from Mexico or anywhere else. They walked and they sustained danger to their lives, but, they came anyway. That is exactly the definition of the Undocumented in the USA. They place their lives in danger to come to the USA.  

The debate going forward has to have real solutions. There are real problems and we have some magnificent young people we cannot afford to send anywhere, except into the USA work force to earn and buy homes and set down roots. The USA is their home. It is the only home they have known. It is morally wrong to think they belong anywhere but here. 

With those young people are their families. If these young people can be this wonderful, they were raised by someone and it wasn't an American born here because they would have been adopted already. Families that are Undocumented and have brought their children and raised them in the USA have a right to stay and make their children's reality complete. Breaking up families serves no one.

President Obama saw 5 million of the Undocumented as unnecessary to process in deportation. He had something in mind when he wrote that Executive Order regardless of the political activism of the appeals court. If he has a clear understanding of those that would be left alone to carry out their lives because they are an asset to the USA that is a special class of people. There is no reason to move away from that understanding and instead protect them and the Dreamers. 

So, the debate begins and those that make extremist statements better have real information to back up their statements otherwise it will be dismissed as election rhetoric and discriminatory to the Undocumented.