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House Speaker Nancy "Hyper Hands" Pelosi got into a verbal kerfuffle with Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen.
Pelosi kept interrupting Nielsen's presentation on border security and illegal immigration, saying "I reject your facts." Ironically, the facts don't belong to anyone--they simply exist--and Pelosi's facts only exist in her mind. Meanwhile, President Trump is not budging on his demand for funding a border wall.
At one point during Nielsen's presentation, according to the Wall Street Journal, Pelosi interrupted her as she was citing statistics related to the border, including how many criminal illegal immigrants attempted to enter the U.S. last year.
“I reject your facts,” Pelosi told Nielsen.
“These aren’t my facts," Nielsen shot back. "These are the facts.” But Pelosi's feelings were hurt and that's all that matters to liberals.
Following the episode, Nielsen went to social media to criticize Pelosi and the Democrats for not wanting to hear about the issue of illegal immigration. She tweeted:
“I am disappointed that Dems did not want to hear from @DHSgov about the security & humanitarian crisis we are facing at the border. They didn’t want to hear about criminal aliens, drug smugglers, smuggled & abused children or violent caravans trying to breach the border wall.”It isn't about border security, Kirstjen--it's all about politics, nothing more. To give Trump a victory on a campaign promise, in spite of the good it does for the country and that the voters elected him on that promise, does not matter to Democrats.
“The crisis is not going away-it is getting worse. The status quo in funding & authorities for #DHS is irresponsible & makes our country less secure. Kicking the can down the road is not the answer. I look forward to engaging w Members who want to.”
Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois, the second-ranking Senate Democrat, also criticized Nielsen’s presentation, telling Bloomberg that it “was not a credible presentation.”
“It was preposterous,” Durbin said. “At a time when we have the lowest level of apprehensions at the border — stopping people from coming in illegally — the lowest level historically, she is saying that we have all these terrorists and criminals and all these people on their way in.”
The lowest level of apprehension is due to the fact that under the Obama administration, whenever an illegal alien was immediately turned back, they counted it as an apprehension. The Trump administration is being honest about the situation--what a novel idea.
Nielsen reportedly told the Democrats at the meeting that border officials along the U.S.-Mexico border had apprehended about 3,000 people with terrorist ties and 17,000 criminals last year. Whether that number is accurate is less important than the fact that terrorists are among the migrants, and the fact that we have a constitutional obligation to preserve the sanctity of our nation.
However, to be clear, the number may very well be accurate.
"Hyper Hands" also asked the DHS head whether she was counting anyone crossing the border illegally as having a criminal record, with the administration denying that’s how the figure was devised.
Wednesday’s meeting didn’t resolve the government shutdown as both sides continue to stick to their principles and refuse to concede.
On Friday, following another contentious meeting in the White House with congressional leaders, Trump warned that the partial government shutdown could last “years” and saying he could even declare a “national emergency” to bypass Congress if necessary to build the wall.
What he also needs to do, is make it clear that the government shutdown would end if the Democrats would simply fund the wall like they advocated in the past. What has changed[?] he needs to ask.
“We can call a national emergency [to build a border wall] because of the security of our country,” Trump told reporters in the Rose Garden, during a lengthy and impromptu press conference on Friday.
“I may do it,” he said, before adding, “If we can do it through a negotiated process, we’re giving it a shot.”
Well here we are in the beginning of a new year and the world still hasn't come to an end with President Trump in the White House, in spite of what the media and the left [but I repeat myself] would have you believe.
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