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Saturday, February 20, 2021

Does Biden Hate The American People?

COMMENTARY

Biden's New Plan Would Bring Back Illegals Deported by Trump, Even Those Convicted of Some Crimes

By Jack Cowhick
Published February 19, 2021 at 2:18pm

A new immigration bill pushed for by President Joe Biden would provide amnesty for illegal immigrants who have already been deported by United States law enforcement.

The bill, introduced to Congress by Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey, reportedly offers amnesty to illegal immigrants who had been deported under former President Donald Trump from January 2017 onward, according to Breitbart.

It would also provide amnesty for the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants already living in the U.S.

The Department of Homeland Security will reportedly issue waivers for deported illegal immigrants who have not been charged with felonies or three misdemeanors so that they can return to the states.

According to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement report from fiscal year 2019, ICE alone deported 117,000 people who hadn’t been convicted of crimes. Under Biden’s new plan, these immigrants would be eligible for amnesty.

The simple fact of the matter is that this bill is another spit in the face of not only everyday Americans but also immigrants who came to the United States and worked for U.S. citizenship legally.

According to DHS’ 2019 Yearbook of Immigration Statistics, in 2019 alone the United States admitted 1,031,765 legal immigrants. Put simply, Biden is telling over a million legal immigrants one thing: Your work doesn’t mean anything.

The plan would also flood the labor market.

Hundreds of thousands of immigrants, previously unable to work due to a lack of citizenship, would be provided with a path to citizenship.

Do you support amnesty for illegal immigrants?

At a time when millions of Americans are still experiencing the economic havoc that COVID-19 wrought, the absolute last thing lawmakers need to be focused on is giving those convicted of crimes a second chance.

Thankfully, Senate Republicans are pushing against this absurd bill.

Republican Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas released a statement the same day the bill was introduced, saying, “This immigration plan is a disaster.

“It would devastate our economy by flooding our workforce with millions of new workers during a pandemic. And it does nothing to secure our borders, yet grants mass amnesty, welfare benefits — even voting rights — to over 11 million people who came here illegally. It’s a nonstarter.”

Republican Sen. Mike Braun of Indiana also released a statement: “During my campaign I promised to secure our southern border, and we made tremendous success with the previous administration.

“I am disappointed with President Biden’s executive orders to undo the ‘America First’ immigration agenda. Between halting construction of the wall on our southern border and a partisan immigration proposal that offers American citizenship to illegal immigrants, it’s clear Joe Biden is not serious about fixing our broken immigration system that rewards illegal behavior.”

It’s disgusting that Biden and Senate Democrats would so effortlessly stomp on the work of millions of men and women for no other reason than to prove their “wokeness,” but the current administration is committed to proving its worth to the radical left.

All that can be done now is to hope that Senate Republicans can convince some of their Democratic colleagues to vote against this abominable bill.

Friday, February 19, 2021

The Recipe For Disaster!

Kerry Vows Aggressive Climate Steps as US Rejoins Paris Accord

John Kerry (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Friday, 19 February 2021 12:05 PM

Presidential climate envoy John Kerry vowed on Friday that the U.S. would take aggressive steps to reduce its carbon emissions as the nation officially rejoins the Paris climate accord.

Under the agreement, some 195 countries set their own voluntary emissions-reduction targets. The goal is to prevent average global temperatures from rising more than 2 degrees Celsius compared with pre-industrial levels.

Former President Donald Trump withdrew the country from the pact four years ago. But President Joe Biden, on his first day in office last month, notified the United Nations the U.S. would rejoin. That became official Friday.

“We know that just doing Paris is not enough,” Kerry said Friday at a virtual event hosted by groups urging action against climate change. Kerry helped broker the landmark Paris climate accord while serving as secretary of state under then-President Barack Obama and now serves in the newly created role of U.S. special presidential envoy for climate.

“If every country delivered, we’d still see a warming of planet Earth of about 3.7 degrees centigrade,” Kerry said. “Just catastrophic.”

Under Obama, the U.S. had pledged to curb greenhouse gas emissions by 26% to 28% below 2005 levels by 2025. But Kerry and other members of the Biden administration have signaled they intend to go well beyond that as they seek to re-establish their climate credibility with world leaders after four years of environmental rollbacks during the Trump administration.

Gina McCarthy, Biden’s domestic climate adviser, has pledged “the most aggressive” carbon cut the U.S. can make ahead of an April 22 climate summit Biden is hosting with world leaders. The U.S. is expected to announce its next emissions reduction goal, or Nationally Determined Contribution, at or ahead of that meeting.

“Nothing is off the table,” McCarthy said during Friday’s webcast.

The event was hosted by America is All In, a coalition of groups urging action against climate change that is co-chaired by Michael R. Bloomberg, the U.N. secretary general’s special envoy for climate ambition and solutions. Bloomberg is the founder and majority owner of Bloomberg LP, parent company of Bloomberg News.

The World Resources Institute and other environmental groups have advocated a U.S. commitment to cutting greenhouse gas emissions by as much as 50% over the next decade. Achieving that would require a broad mix of domestic climate action, including more zero-emissions vehicles and rapid shifts in how the U.S. generates its electricity.

Some activists are pushing even more rapid reductions before 2030. The U.S. Climate Action Network has advocated the U.S. cut its “fair share” of emissions by paring them 70% below 2005 levels by 2030 while helping developing countries stifle greenhouse gases too.

Whatever the U.S. pledges comes on top of a sweeping $2 trillion climate plan proposed by Biden that calls for an emissions-free electric grid in 15 years, and a target of net-zero emissions across the entire economy by 2050.

Trump formally pulled out of the Paris climate pact in November 2020, making the U.S. the first nation to quit the agreement. He had labeled the pact “a total disaster” that would harm American competitiveness by enabling “a giant transfer of American wealth to foreign nations that are responsible for most of the world’s pollution.”

“The Paris Agreement is an unprecedented framework for global action,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement Friday. “We know because we helped design it and make it a reality. Its purpose is both simple and expansive: to help us all avoid catastrophic planetary warming and to build resilience around the world to the impacts from climate change we already see.”

Thursday, February 18, 2021

Mother Nature Just Crashed The Windmill Dream/Nightmare

Tuesday, February 16, 2021

A Real Texas Cold Horn

Is The Sun Passe?

Politically Bad Or The Future Of The Biden Administration

Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md., on Jan. 26, 2021. (Patrick Semansky/AP Photo)

EXECUTIVE BRANCH

Harris Takes Customary Role Of President by Calling Several Heads of State

BY ZACHARY STIEBER

February 16, 2021 Updated: February 16, 2021

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Vice President Kamala Harris has recently called multiple heads of state, a task that is normally done by the president.

Harris spoke with French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday, the White House said.

Harris “expressed her commitment to strengthening bilateral ties between the United States and France and to revitalizing the transatlantic alliance,” a readout said. She and Macron “agreed on the need for close bilateral and multilateral cooperation to address COVID-19, climate change, and support democracy at home and around the world.”

“They also discussed numerous regional challenges, including those in the Middle East and Africa, and the need to confront them together,” according to the readout.

There was no mention of President Joe Biden.

“We discussed COVID-19, climate change, supporting democracy at home and around the world, and regional challenges. @POTUS and I look forward to working with President Macron to build a better future for our two countries,” Harris wrote in a tweet.

Biden spoke to Macron on Jan. 24.

Harris shared a call with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau earlier this month. The White House said it was her first call to a foreign leader as vice president.

“The Prime Minister congratulated the Vice President on her historic election, and she recalled fondly her years spent in Montréal,” a readout from Trudeau’s office said, adding that they discussed other matters, including fighting the COVID-19 pandemic.

“We discussed our commitment to work closely on several issues, including combating COVID-19, addressing climate change, and expanding our economic partnership in ways that advance the recovery and create jobs in both countries,” Harris said in a statement after the call.

Biden and Trudeau spoke on Jan. 22. It was the first call Biden made after being sworn into office two days prior.

Vice presidents rarely call heads of state. The last vice president, Mike Pence, did not share calls with Trudeau or Macron, though he visited in person with heads of state on a number of occasions.

The White House didn’t respond to requests for comment.

Harris’s calls drew notice from conservatives, with criticism lobbed by the National Pulse, an upstart outlet started by Raheem Kassam, former adviser to Britain’s Nigel Farage.

“It is bizarre for a Vice President to be making contact with key world leaders just weeks into a new administration,” the outlet said.

The calls could be a sign that Harris will have an elevated position when compared to past vice presidents, particularly in matters of foreign policy.

Biden, 78, became the oldest person to enter the White House last month. Speculation was rampant during the 2020 campaign about him potentially only serving one term in office. But Biden has said he is open to vying for a second term.

“I think it’s a legitimate question to ask anybody over 70 years old whether or not they’re fit and whether they’re ready,” he told ABC last year. “But … [the] only thing I can say to the American people, it’s a legitimate question to ask anybody, watch me.”