A Pair of Outrages

I’m riled up about two things this week.  (There are actually more, but for purposes of keeping my blog at an acceptable length, I’m limiting it to the two.)

First, someone’s innocent, beautiful, thirty-two year-old daughter, Kate Steinle, was brutally murdered in San Francisco last week by an illegal alien, Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez, who shouldn’t even have been in the country.  This guy was a one man crime spree, having been convicted of seven felonies in four different states – that we know of.  He’d been deported from our country five times, but kept returning, because our border control is so pathetic.

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Everything I’ve mentioned so far is enough to make a conservative’s blood boil (or a liberal yawn.)  But the most outrageous fact, is that because San Francisco is a sanctuary city, the murderer had just been released from custody following the dropping of some new criminal charges, rather than turned over to ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) for deportation.  Sanctuary cities like San Francisco refuse to honor federal detainers, which are notices that ICE requests custody of illegal immigrants when state or local authorities release them, so they can be deported.

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The Obama Administration by the way, is fine with the establishment of sanctuary cities.  It means that more illegals get to stay in this country, and eventually vote for Democrats.  Unfortunately it also means that some innocent Americans will die.  Like Kate Steinle.

One thing the Obama Administration refuses to tolerate however, is states that take enforcement of immigration laws seriously.  Arizona for example.  There you risk being sued by Obama’s Justice Department (Eric Holder at the time) and your case could even go all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.  And with the Court trending in a more liberal direction, a conservative outcome there is indeed becoming more and more rare.

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Now for the second outrage.  If you’re a regular reader of my weekly blog, you’ve heard me rant innumerable times about the stupidity of President Obama’s decision to pull all U.S. troops out of Iraq, which led directly to the rise of ISIS.  When pressed to reveal what his plan was to defeat ISIS, President Obama first didn’t have a plan, then he came up with a thoroughly unsatisfactory one – we’d bomb ISIS from the air, and train a force of 5,400 fighters from the region (who were supposed to defeat 30,000 battle-hardened, rabid, merciless ISIS monsters.)

Well it was revealed last week that 5,400 (a woefully inadequate number) so far amounts to – just 60.  That’s right, not 6,000 or even 600, but just 60.  (The Administration claims that this embarrassingly low number is due to the difficulty of vetting the recruits.  Which means making sure that the people our trainers are training won’t instead of shooting ISIS, turn around and shoot the trainers.  It’s a bit more complicated than that, but not much.)

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What’s really happening here in my opinion, is that the Administration is so unserious about actually defeating ISIS, that it is doing only the bare minimum necessary to prevent ISIS from completely overrunning Iraq and much of the Middle East, and leaving to the next Administration the serious work of protecting U.S. interests around the globe.

One thing Obama isn’t leaving to the next Administration – the rush to reach a deal, any deal, with Iran.  And the concern of our traditional allies in the region (including Israel) and the United States Congress, be damned.

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Obama’s legacy is now paramount to him.  Obamacare.  Dodd-Frank.  Cuba.  Gay marriage.  A liberal Supreme Court.  A Democrat lock on the White House through open borders, and more voters dependent on government welfare.  A weaker U.S. role on the world scene (since U.S. involvement around the world IS the problem according to Obama.)  Iran.  (His Rasputin in the White House, Valerie Jarrett, was born in Iran by the way.)  What a legacy.

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I know it’s not a pretty picture.  Hope I haven’t completely depressed you.  But you turn here each week for a dose of reality.  And I, your humble servant, will continue to call ‘em the way I see ‘em.

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See you next week.

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