USA IMMIGRATION: THE WORLD’S OPEN BORDER NATION

There are many unusual characteristics of our complex and irrational  and immigration laws and policies.  See Ann Coulter (July 29, 2019) “How we became the world’s suckers on immigration.”  Coulter suggests that we must have simply “lost a bet” to become the nation with the world’s most irrational, random, and reckless policies.  She points out that the USA is one of only two nations which award “birthright citizenship”.  We also honor “anchor babies”—those children born to stray visitors, illegal aliens, and a pregnant woman who happens to overstay a visit or a visa.  That child becomes a citizen as well all of the child’s extended family—cousins, uncles, grandparents etc.etc,. These distant relatives are welcomed as well.  We also have a special category for those young children who were not born here but as minors—tagged along with adult illegal immigrant parents.  We call these children “dreamers”.  We confer citizenship on all these folks and make no requirement that they “speak our language”—a requirement that many other nations impose, so that citizens—old and new— can actually communicate with each other,  And believe this or not—with all of the folks crashing over our borders illegally, we also continue to operate a lottery for 50,000 or so more immigrants from distant “unrepresented”lands.  These lucky folks as well as all of their extended family, become instant citizens with the pulling of a winning slip out of a hat.    

So the following story of Minnesota “marriage mystery and fraud” arising in that most northern contiguous state’s Minneapolis area may seem just another example of how some unscrupulous folks enter the USA and avoid, an uncomfortable flight in the later stages of pregnancy, or the long hot treck  across the southern desert, or even the dangerous swim across the rushing waters of the Rio Grande.  To sneak int the USA some folks simply go to live in “nice” Minnesota. 

This tale of US immigration madness—not included in Ms Coulter’s piece above —concerns a nameless (but prominent) female political figure who seems to have a starkly exceptional concept of marriage, disrespect for immigration law, and a highly unusual marital history.   

This unusual narrative (names changed to protect the innocent)  begins nearly four decades ago in a Horn of Africa nation torn by the chaos attendant to all civil wars.  As this nation descended into anarchy those of its citizenry who could, fled west into the relative safety of Central African refugee camps to escape the violence.  It was there in one of these camps two East African families  fleeing the war  found themselves living in close quarters.   One family (called here) the Ahmeds— were part of a religious minority group subjected to persecution in their native land.  For them documents were available that would permit them to seek asylum in the USA.   The other family (called here)  the Medis were members of a majority religion and could not prove they had suffered persecution and were not candidates for asylum.   As the Ahmed family  packed up to leave the camp, the kindly Ahmed patriarch  suggested to the Medi family  that they take one of the younger Medi children with them into better economic circumstances. The Medis  agreed and picked their young 8 year old daughter known (here) as Fatima to accompany  the Ahmeds to America.  Fatima would play the role as a legitimate member of the Ahmed family.  The Ahmeds reassured the other parents of the practicality of the plan.  Who would know, that Fatima was not of their family, they asked?  Who would be able to prove otherwise? The both families agreed, it was easy to fool the American immigration officials. 

The Ahmeds with their (undocumented)  Medi child in tow eventually arrived in the USA and settled in the state of Minnesota in a Minneapolis neighborhood where other East African natives had settled in the past.  The years passed and  the young Fatima Medi —now known as  Fatima Ahmed, grew up into an attractive young woman,  In her late teens she was courted by and agreed to marry a young man —we will call him Ramesh— also of  East African immigrant parents. The young  married couple soon had  two children of their own.     

When Fatima  was in her late 20s her estranged natural family had reason for  more frequent  contact. The Medis had eventually made it out of the Central Africa refugee camp and had migrated to the UK.  They had settled into an immigrant community in London.  

As a result of these communications, Fatima learned that her birth brother — we will call him— Mohamed—was unhappy with his life in Britian.  His complaint was that in London he had limited opportunity.  He claimed he was subjected to intolerance. He  could envision little educational or financial opportunity in London..  Mohammed pleaded with his sister Fatima to help him get into America— where he could realize better options for financial advancement.  As his actual blood relative—his sister— could legally make a formal request for him to join her.  (Based on our family reunification policy).  But her difficulty was that Mohamed was no longer her family.  She had long ago established herself as an Ahmed family member,  How could she help her sibling  without revealing her fraudulent identity, and the illegality perpetrated by the kindly Ahmeds. There was also the fact that she had entered the country illegally as a presumptive member of a family to which she was not related.  

One way to help Mohammed get into the USA was still an option for Fatima.  That was the time honored method of fraudulent  marriage,  She—as an Ahmed— could marry Mohamed  If Mohammed was the spouse of an American citizen, based on family reunification policy he would be granted  permanent US residence status and a much desired green card.  But Fatima was already married to Ramesh!   However, for Fatima —who had little respect for the intelligence of US officials and had overconfidence in her ability to defraud them—fraudulent marriage was the easy remedy,  Who would know?  Who could prove otherwise, she asked?  She decided she would simply divorce Ramesh and marry her birth brother Mohammed to permit him to enter the USA!  This divorce and  marriage were of course both fraudulent. Ramesh, his family and the Ahmeds probably were all well aware of and complicit in on this immigration illegality and malfeasance committed against the US government and the American tax payers.

In due course—the divorce between Fatima and Ramesh was accomplished.  Upon Mohammed’s arrival in the US,  Fatima quickly married her brother Mohammed.  As per their plan, he received residence status and a green card,  The newly “married” couple—Fatima and Mohammed—with Fatima’s two children by her previous marriage took up a new life.  

The newly married couple, but now with Fatima’s  ex-husband Ramesh in tow (making up a really strange family unit) packed up and left Minnesota for North Dakota.  It was there in North Dakota where the strange family unit settled and lived together amicably. The  two men folk of this strange family unit enrolled in a degree program at North Dakota University.  

In due time, the two men completed their degrees and the strange family unit of husband, ex husband and two children now departed for Minnesota again. Back in their own community Fatima—now with child again—divorced Mohammed.  Mohammed (the brother/husband) with his fresh degree from university in hand, (and now much improved options for employment) departed for the UK where he was reunited with his own family—the Medis.  Immediately after his departure , Fatima  remarried her first husband Ramesh and father of her (three) children.  

So these are some of the stories coming out of Minnesota.  Who would have thought such things would occur there in “nice” Minnesota?  And we also learn how frequently and how flagrantly and how  easy it is to defraud the American immigration system and the American taxpayers? 

Most recently (July 25, 2019) the person at the center of this seeming fraud has done it again.  She has divorced again the poor sap Ramesh!   

One wonders,  does merry married Fatima  have another sibling that she plans to fraudulently marry and bring to the USA?  

       

MUELLER REPUTATION IN TATTERS—FRAIL NOT IN CHARGE OF INVESTIGATION

Special Investigator Robert Mueller once had a reputation as a straight shooter, tough guy, a former hero Marine of few words, an honest —unbiased— broker, as well as a sharp operator.  Well that was then, today he metaphorically was observed dribbling his oatmeal in front of the nation on national TV.

His either could not hear or could not fully grasp the barrage of sometimes complex questions directed to him.    His difficulty was most pronounces when his interlocutors read him text from his own report—then asked him to respond.  He was  “hoisted  on his own petard”  since his 440 plus page text was written in such a purposely obfuscating manner (rife with  double negatives, obscure, nebulous and murky language and innuendo) so as to be useful to smear reputations,  but bring no formal charges,  The so called “Mueller” team could bring no charges, because as the now infamous Trump hater and former member of that investigatory team, FBI agent Peter Strzok once  texted : “there was no there there”.  

Now we know why Mueller kept a strict rule for taciturnity—often touted by the press as and example of his investigatory prudence .  But we now know that as long as Mueller was not heard from we could all keep thinking of him as he was— three or four decades ago.  However, his “disastrous” performance in the hearings as well as his flakey and tentative answers to questions and and his lack of familiarity with his own report now indicates he was appointed as a figurehead investigator.

 He was apparently picked to head the team because he was known as a Republican with a “sterling” reputation for honesty.  However his performance yesterday (July 24, 2019) reveal that he was in no way capable of such a role and the real power was apparently held by his much more radical underlings —like Peter Strzok and Lisa Page (former members) who were eventually secretly fired from the team for their overt and self incriminating emails and bias against the President whom they were investigating.  The Mueller team members who remained were all card carrying Democrats most of whom had either supported  Ms Clinton with donations or worked for the Clinton Global Initiative (aka as the Clinton family reelection slush fund).

As long as “straight arrow” Mueller was perceived to be in charge of this team—the public perceptions of the investigation could be at least minimally defended for its integrity and honesty.   But after Mr. Mueller’s display of frailty and lack of awareness of his own  report—yesterday—it is now clear that he had little oversight and little or no control of its contents.  One must conclude that appearances now suggest that Mueller must have was  emplaced as “special investigator” to draw off criticism of what was in fact a  cabal of Trump-haters intent on framing the President and setting up conditions for his impeachment.

Was the investigation a witch hunt—Mueller said “no” but it sure looks like one to an unbiased observer.

On another matter —Mueller claims he COULD NOT EXONERATE the President and the Democrats and the biased press ran with this idea with glee. “He was not able to “exonerate” the President from criminal wrong doing”.  The fact is that Mr. Mueller can not exonerate anyone—not even Jesus Christ—were he to be investigated, since there is no such “critter” in our judicial system.  Everyone even the President starts out as “innocent” i.e. exonerated already.   Mueller in his frailty just invented a new category completely alien to our system.  Where has Mr. Mueller been in the last decades to come up with such an idea?

A prosecutor has enormous power of investigation and with these powers he must decide if he or she has evidence to bring a charge against the individual who is the focus of the investigation.  If there is no evidence or not enough evidence to bring a charge—the investigator drops the investigation.   The person who is not charged thus remains in his or her original state as “presumed innocent”.  That is why all the unused evidence dug up against this now uncharted (innocent) person should not be aired in public.

What a waste of time and effort.

“SEND HER BACK” FREE SPEECH— NOT RACISM

NYT SMEARS TRUMP WITH RACISM

SUPPORTS “SQUAD” VITRIOL BUT  LABELS TRUMP SUPPORTERS “RACIST”

The NY Times Editorial Board opinion piece: “The Real Meaning Of “Send Her Back” ( Friday July 19, 2019) attacks President Trump as an “avid race warrior”, who “foments racial hatred”.   But the core of the Times editor’s argument is unsupported by fact.  Clear to anyone who observed the speech was that  the President aimed his polemical ire at Ilhan Omar (D Min) not for her race or national origin—but her seeming hatred of America.   The Times claims the President “smeared Representative Omar for trafficking in vicious anti-semitic screeds”.  But yes, she did make those statements.  The editors at NYT attack  Mr. Trump for characterizing  Omar as a “left wing radical who sympathizes with Al Qaida”.   Media reports and quotes of the representative from Minnesota support this conclusion.  But the authors of the Times’ opinion piece try mightily to suggest to the reader that the allegations of the President regarding Ms Omar have no basis in fact.

The fact is that Rep. Omar has a right to her opinions.  Thankfully, as a US citizen she also has a right to express them.  The majority of Americans may not agree with her and that is their right too.  This IS America.

Rep Omar was legitimately elected by the voters of the 5th CD in Minnesota.  If she represents their opinions,  no one can argue with the voter’s choice.  The President has concluded—with probable good cause —that Rep Omar “looks down on working class Americans and hates America”.  These are reasonable conclusions based on Rep Omar’s own statements.  He also reminded the crowd in NC that Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) referred to “contemporary America as “garbage”.  That is also true based upon the Congresswoman's published comments.

Our nation prides itself on free speech.  Our Constitution enshrines those beliefs  of unfettered free dialogue as a critical element for a vibrant responsive democracy.  Sadly, the NY Times has forgotten this. They are  happy to  applaud and encourage Reps Omar and Cortez’s  freedom to air their opinions and even outdated, déclassé political theories,  but would like to silence and smear as racist the free speech of people of North Carolina.  But this seeming oversight  is actually part of a sinister election strategy of which the former “great gray lady” on 41St NYC is now a political partner. .

Readers of this screed should realize that the “racist” canard used so frequently by the left (and above in the NYT) against Mr. Trump and his supporters is just another cheap election  strategy of the Democrats and nothing more.  To win in 2020 the Democrats must energize the African American faction which is a major part of their increasingly narrow and unrepresentative coalition, now confined to illegal aliens, urbanites, the LBGTQ community, and radical pro-abortion feminists living within the nation’s narrow coastal zones.  The Democrats have foolishly abandoned the numberless independent and moderate working class people who reside  in our nation’s vast Mississippi and Ohio river drainages —whom they at one time claimed to represent.  These Americans they have left for Mr. Trump to succor and represent.  

The left and its media facilitators have embraced a divisive, dangerous  and foolish strategy which seems more and more likely to lead to defeat.

PLANT FORESTS TO CONTROL GLOBAL WARMING —EUREKA DISCOVERY!

REPLANTING FORESTS BEST WAY TO CONTROL ATMOSPHERIC CARBON

REPLANTING AREA THE SIZE OF USA TO CONTROL MOST GLOBAL CARBON EXCESSES

Thomas Crowther Professor of Environmental Systems at Ecole Polytechnique Federal, Zurich, Switzerland, co-author of a fascinating analysis of trees and forests as a means of controlling global  atmospheric carbon dioxide has just  published his  findings in “Science” yesterday (July 4, 2019)   In the report: “Global Tree Restoration Potential,  Crowther and his co-author Jean Francois Bastin and colleagues  analyzed  global  satellite images from Google Earth data sets (!) to generate calculations regarding areas which have the potential for reforestation.  Their data indicates that there are vast areas—which are presently not in agriculture or pasture are vacant with no forest cover.  About half of these potential areas are found in the nations of China, Russia, Canada and Australia.  This EPF study identified areas for potential reforestation, and as well quantified the potential benefits were these areas to be reforested.   Their calculations indicate that  reforestation would have a major impact on efforts to address the  imminent problem of the  accumulation of carbon (CO2) in the atmosphere and global warming.

Crowther and  Bastin concluded that reforestation of an area (@2.2 billion acres) roughly the size of the continental USA (@2 billion acres) would increase the world’s forested area by one-third and would sequester (or take out of circulation)  approximately 66% (or 200 billion metric tons) of the estimated 300 billion metric tons of excess carbon in the atmosphere.  That amount is equivalent to the amount added to the atmosphere by man since the beginning of the Industrial Age.  

In one of the earth’s great natural cycles —green plants —such as forest trees—take in atmospheric carbon dioxide and convert it to sugars and cellulose (by photosynthesis) creating oxygen as a waste-product.  Thus, green plants remove carbon dioxide  from the atmosphere to create plant tissues— such as leaves and wood.    Animals (as well as plants) utilize atmospheric oxygen by combining it with the sugars (produced by plants) extracting energy from the process and  producing carbon dioxide as a waste product.   This recycled carbon dioxide from natural combustion (burning of wood) and metabolism  goes right back into the atmosphere.  This earth cycle is (was) a perfect system of users and consumers, kept in balance by a continuous and conservative  recycling process.  And as a result of that balance. the amount of carbon dioxide in the earth’s atmosphere under those circumstances remained relatively stable (at @ 0.02 percent) for long periods of time.  

But once humans discovered a black colored hard substance (coal) which could be dug up from below would burn longer and hotter than wood—-they preferred to use it.  It was discovered at a time when rising populations and need for energy had just about depleted many forests of sizable trees.  Coal was so common that it could provide an almost inexhaustible source of energy.  Not more than a century later petroleum (rock oil) another source of buried carbon was exploited.  It was even easier to extract and transport and burned as hot.  It was eventually preferred over coal. 

These fossil fuels are burned in the atmosphere to produce energy for our needs. In this combustion process the fossil fuels combining with oxygen of the atmosphere to produce new CO2!  That is carbon dioxide which had (been recently unearthed) not been part of the recent carbon cycling from green plants on the earth’s  surface,  This new carbon dioxide is added to the original natural recycled carbon dioxide of the atmosphere and thus the percent of this gas in the atmosphere rose steadily.  It presently comprises at about 0.04 percent of the atmosphere.    Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has the unusual property of absorbing heat radiated upward through the atmosphere from the sun-warmed earth surface, trapping earth heat (like—but not exactly— a greenhouse)  and thus warming the atmosphere.  

 More heat (energy ) in the atmosphere results in more, larger and more intense  storms, , more rain, more flooding in some places and more intense droughts in others.  yes and even more snow in some places too.  In general, more energy in the atmosphere causes more intense forms of storms and atmospheric phenomena which are only processes which function to disperse excess heat energy as wind clouds, snow and rain. 

The problem for modern humans is how to put that bad “new carbon” back into the box—back underground or in some solid state where it can not act as a heat absorbing gas in the atmosphere.  

Crowther and Bastin have thankful given us some tools to work with to achieve that goal—to sequester put underground or in a solid state the new carbon we have Crete’s as an industrial society.  We can of course also plant trees in urban areas, plant trees on our own lands, fight to keep others from indescriminately cutting trees, reduce wasteful and harmful forest clearing, reduce and replant waste areas like unused parking fields, and reduce our wasteful consumptio. of fossil carbon fuels.  Move toward expanding use of electric vehicles, and reduce heating and cooling waste, etc. etc.—-But if as Crowther and Bastin claim that we can replant forests  to take up as much as two tries of the carbon we have generated over centuries of fossil fuel use may be able to keep our heads above the proverbial water—-so to speak— as we all learn how to become more circumspect on how we use and conserve energy. 

This study is indeed a Eureka moment.  Kudos to the authors!

DEMOCRATS OF 2019 A THREAT FROM WITHIN?

On this Fourth of July we remember the courage of our Founders who placed their lives, fortunes and families in jeopardy for the ideal of freedom from oppression.  We especially recall the threats our forefather’s faced from abroad in 1776 as a weak new-born nation.  They—our ancestors—  faced a fearful war with the most powerful nation of its time.  Today we have taken up that position, as a powerhouse  both economically and militarily.  Foreign enemies continue to plague us but are not an existential threat.  Today the greatest  challenges to our survival come from within.

Sadly, the party of Roosevelt, Truman and Kennedy—the Democrats—in response to a disastrous loss of power in during the Obama Administration and in the aftermath of the 2016 election –have forgotten what the name of their party: “Democrat” actually means.  It derives from  two Greek words: “demos” — people,  and “kratis”—“rule”.  That is: a party which claims to abide by a system in which the people are the source of power to govern.  That is all the people.  Not just those the Democrats have cut out of the herd and pandered to for support in elections.

It is now evident that in the 2016 election,  the Democrats in Congress and the Obama Administration as well as powerful elements of government conspired and colluded to affect the outcome of the 2016 election.   These Democrat conspirators secretly joined forces prior to the election to undermine the candidacy of the opposing (GOP) party, by turning powerful weapons of the foreign and domestic intelligence state against political opponents (Yes they spied upon the GOP!).  These acts were designed to insure an election outcome preferred by few individuals in high places.  These “democrats”  did not respect the “will of the people” who went to the polls to vote. They undermined the sanctity of our election process.  Then, after the people had spoken in November 2016, making their preferences clear—these same individuals in government and their supporters and facilitators in the media attempted a coup d’etat from within, to unseat a legitimately elected president .  They conspired to overturn the will of the people.  

Then to hide their perfidy they developed and persued —with the malicious help of the MSM —a totally false—red herring— story of “Trump collusion with Russia”.    

SGT. EDDIE GALLEGHER FOUND “NOT GUILTY”. EMBARRASSES USA

WE SHOULD HONOR THOSE OF SEAL TEAM 7 WHO BROUGHT CHARGES

Navy Seal Team 7,  Alpha squad, staff sergeant Eddie Gallagher was fund ‘not guilty” of all criminal counts against him today. Except the crime of posing in a picture with his brutally murdered 15 year old Iraqi victim.  If the jury had not convicted him of the lesser crime—a charge that SIMPLY could not be ignored— supported by a  widely available photographic RECORD OF BOTH perp and victim— the apparent  “kangaroo court” would probably have cleared him of that as well.

Gallagher was accused by the US Navy of war crimes while on duty in Iraq in 2107 for using his sniper rifle to target and kill an innocent elderly man and a young girl, and, as well, firing a large caliber machine gun into a densely occupied residential area.  Another charge was of brutally stabbing a 15 year old Iraqi fighter in the neck and chest while he was incapacitated and being treated for his wounds by a US medic.  After killing the youth, Gallegher posed for a picture with the victim’s bloody corpse.  

In a military trial in Sand Diego today, (July 2, 2019) Gallagher, 39 years old,  was found not guilty on all counts (except for the photo crime).  As Americans we should  ashamed of the results.  We can be proud of the men of Navy Seal Team 7 under Sargent Gallagher’s  command who had the courage and decency  to complain to their Navy superiors about what they considered disturbing, dishonorable and illegal behavior of their their immediate superior, staff sergeant Gallagher.  They are the ones we should be honoring for bravery and for service to their nation.

Gallagher, who, in spite of the obvious, well-documented and well known charges of disobedience of orders or engagement, as well as  ignoring international rules of war, and apparent acts construed as war crimes was  lionized as a “war hero” and protected by too many on FOX news, as well as the GOP right wing, and 40  US Congressmen who signed a letter of support for him as a “hero’ warrior.  Shame on them as knee jerk morons.

In truth Gallagher (and those who have looked the other way to ignore his crimes) has embarrassed the US Navy, Seal Team 7 and the vast majority of his fellow US. citizens who when they send men to war, they expect them to act in accordance with our laws—not to become thugs and brutes who kill innocents indiscriminately and succumb to their most base emotions of rage and revenge.

Perhaps the example of our first Commander In Chief, General George Washington, who during the latter years of the Revolutionary War faced an enemy—aware that victory was slipping away—and encouraged or ignored horrible acts of  brutality— we would class as war crimes today.  Washington made a point of never responding in kind to these incidents.   In the face of these atrocities he was always mindful of his honor, his righteousness, his duty to his cause and to his countrymen.   Our modern warriors and their commanders would be wise to remember the wise and honorable precedents General  Washington set.