by Matthew Vadum
Congressional
Republicans appear poised to betray conservatives and hand Democrats a
spectacular victory over President Trump by funding left-wing priorities such
as illegal alien-shielding sanctuary cities in the must-pass omnibus spending
bill this week, media reports suggest.
The sanctuary
movement gave illegal aliens permission to rob, rape, and murder Americans by,
among other things, stigmatizing immigration enforcement. Some left-wingers
call sanctuary jurisdictions “civil liberties safe zones” to blur the
distinction between citizens and non-citizens by implying illegal aliens
somehow possess a civil right to be present in the U.S. Leftists also like to
refer to all migrants, including illegal aliens, simply as “immigrants” in
order to further muddy the waters.
Sanctuary cities
should be called traitor cities because
they are in open rebellion against the United States just as much as the
Confederate Army was when it opened fire on Fort Sumter. Their modern-day
campaign of massive resistance against federal immigration authorities can only
end in civil strife.
Blocking
Department of Justice law enforcement assistance grants to sanctuary jurisdictions
is a Trump administration priority but for the most part Congress has been cool
to the proposal.
Although some
details of the $1.3 trillion spending legislation have been trickling out, the
text of the bill was reportedly being kept under “lock and key” and had not
become publicly available as of late Monday. If fresh funding isn’t approved by
the end of the day this Friday, March 23, the federal government will run out
of money and partially shut down for the second time in the current calendar
year. It has been reported that the House will begin considering the mystery
bill on Wednesday.
If Speaker of
the House Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
(R-Ky.) do in fact shiv the conservative voters who gave them their respective
majorities, a booming economy may not save GOP office-holders from the
backlash. They may very well be drowned in the much vaunted “blue wave”
NeverTrumpers like Sens. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) and John McCain (R-Ariz.), as
well as erstwhile conservative columnists Bill Kristol, Max Boot, and Jennifer
Rubin are praying for. Double-crossing conservative voters on immigration, the
thinking goes, will make those voters stay home on Election Day this November
6, and hand control over Congress back to the increasingly affective, radical
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