Another Caravan, Warren's Results, The Intolerant Left

Tuesday, October 16, 2018

Another Caravan
 
Another caravan of women and children recently left Honduras headed for the U.S. southern border.  According to Reuters, the caravan of approximately 3,000 migrants has doubled in size since Saturday.  It is now being called the "March of the Migrant."
 
Under current law, if migrants show up at a port of entry claiming refugee status for whatever reason, the law requires us to take them in, assign them a court date and then release them.  The reason they have to be released is because children cannot be held for more than 20 days in detention centers. 
 
When the Trump Administration enforced the law that has been on the books for years and separated children from their parents in the detention facilities, Democrats, parts of the GOP establishment and even some Christian leaders rebelled. 
 
So we're back to the prevailing policy of "catch and release," which is not a deterrent to illegal immigration.  Thus, the new caravan is now headed north. 
 
Consider Andrea Fernandez, 24, who was interviewed by Reuters.  She told reporters, "We're going to drop in on Donald Trump. He has to take us in."  She's coming with a newborn baby, a 5-year-old daughter and 7-year-old son.
 
Ms. Fernandez thinks we have to take her in because that is the message the left is sending when it refuses to secure our borders and enforce our immigration laws or calls for ICE to be abolished.  But the open borders agenda is deeply unpopular with the American people. 
 
America is a generous and welcoming country.  But we have every right to insist that people who want to come here follow the law and do not simply attempt to "march" on our borders.  That is an invasion.
 
At a State Department conference last week, Vice President Mike Pence told Central American leaders, "If you do more [on illegal immigration], I'm here to say on behalf of the president of the United States and the American people, we'll do more [on economic development]."
 
Today, President Trump put it more bluntly, tweeting, "If the large Caravan of people heading to the U.S. is not stopped and brought back to Honduras, no more money or aid will be given to Honduras, effective immediately!"
 
 
 
Warren's Results
 
Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren is making headlines this week.  As you may know, she has claimed in the past to be part Cherokee.  Donald Trump offered her a $1 million charity donation if a DNA test revealed she was legitimately Native American.
 
So she took a secret DNA test and the results are in.  It turns out Warren is about 1/64 to 1/1024 Native American going back between six and ten generations.  According to The Daily Caller, "This means Warren is somewhere between 0.09 and 1.5 percent Native American."
 
Unfortunately for Warren, the company that conducts the tests cannot differentiate between different kinds of Native American DNA.  In other words, the test doesn't tell us whether Warren is actually part Cherokee.  She could be part Incan.
 
Moreover, it turns out that the average Caucasian in America has a higher percentage of Native American DNA than Warren does. 
 
The Cherokee Nation was not amused by all the publicity.  It issued a statement saying:
 
"A DNA test is useless to determine tribal citizenship. . . Using a DNA test to lay claim to any connection to the Cherokee Nation or any tribal nation, even vaguely, is inappropriate and wrong. It makes a mockery out of DNA tests and its legitimate uses while also dishonoring legitimate tribal governments and their citizens. . . Senator Warren is undermining tribal interests with her continued claims of tribal heritage."
 
Nevertheless, Warren is demanding the $1 million from Trump.  Trump says no way.  I think there is a compromise:  Trump could give Warren a check equal to the percentage of her Native American DNA -- $900.
 
 
 
The Intolerant Left
 
Mark Salvas is the latest victim of the left's intolerance. 
 
A Marine and veteran of the Gulf War, Salvas posted on his Facebook page, "I stand for the flag, I kneel at the cross." 
 
His wife also posted a message of support for a police officer involved in a shooting incident.  The officer happens to be a life-long family friend.
 
As a result of these posts, Salvas was forced to resign his position as executive director of the Allegheny County Democrat Party in Pennsylvania. 
 
Patriotism, law and order, a belief in God -- these are fundamental values that used to unite us as Americans.  Sadly, the left is attacking every one.