{"id":38387,"date":"2018-07-05T11:00:16","date_gmt":"2018-07-05T18:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=38387"},"modified":"2018-07-05T11:01:33","modified_gmt":"2018-07-05T18:01:33","slug":"grumpy-old-trump-yells-impotently-at-congress-to-get-those-immigrants-off-of-my-lawn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=38387","title":{"rendered":"Grumpy Old Trump Yells Impotently at Congress to &#8216;Get Those Immigrants Off of My Lawn&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the day following America&#8217;s birthday, Donald Trump resumes his hostile stance toward immigrants. There is a sad irony to Trump using Independence Day for his relentless attacks on the category of people most responsible for this country&#8217;s progress and prosperity. But it&#8217;s also as predictable as the sunrise.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-child-immigrant.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump, Immigrant, Child\" width=\"550\" height=\"317\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-38388\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NewsCorpse\/posts\/2214730681875048\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Advs\/fb-share-tn.jpg\" width=\"274\" height=\"20\" class=\"aligncenter\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Thursday morning Trump was doing the critical work of the presidency, as he normally does. Just kidding. He was tweeting, of course. And in this spray of ignorant and agitated nonsense, Trump displayed one of the cliche characteristics of grumpy old men who fear every shadow that approaches. He lashed out frightened and vulnerable people who are seeking the goodness of America&#8217;s compassion toward refugees and asylum seekers, and told them to <em>&#8220;get off of my lawn.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Congress must pass smart, fast and reasonable Immigration Laws now. Law Enforcement at the Border is doing a great job, but the laws they are forced to work with are insane. When people, with or without children, enter our Country, they must be told to leave without our&#8230;&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1014873774003556354?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 5, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8230;..Country being forced to endure a long and costly trial. Tell the people \u201cOUT,\u201d and they must leave, just as they would if they were standing on your front lawn. Hiring thousands of \u201cjudges\u201d does not work and is not acceptable &#8211; only Country in the World that does this!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1014875575557804034?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 5, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Congress &#8211; FIX OUR INSANE IMMIGRATION LAWS NOW!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1014875894614319104?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 5, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Like a broken record, Trump bleats out his typically ill-informed complaints about immigration laws that he says are <em>&#8220;insane.&#8221;<\/em> Never mind that he has been the sole obstacle of bipartisan efforts to reform them. He carelessly writes that when people <em>&#8220;enter our Country, they must be told to leave.&#8221;<\/em> Notice that he didn&#8217;t even say anything about them entering illegally. He&#8217;s saying all people. Of course, that was a just mistake of omission on his part. He meant to say all non-white people.<\/p>\n<p>However, the key phrase in Trump&#8217;s Twitter tirade came as he sought trivialize the complex issue of immigration. Saying that <em>&#8220;they must leave, just as they would if they were standing on your front lawn,&#8221;<\/em> is glaringly stupid. It&#8217;s a lame attempt to conflate personal property with the much broader matter of federal immigration laws. Unless he&#8217;s suggesting that people from other countries could legally apply with the government for residency on <em>&#8220;your front lawn&#8221;<\/em> and eventually become citizens of your house.<\/p>\n<p>Trump went on to whine about the burden of <em>&#8220;hiring thousands of &#8216;judges'&#8221;<\/em> to decide the fate of the families seeking asylum. He made that up. There is no plan &#8211; or need &#8211; to increase the judiciary for that purpose. Most of these cases have historically been resolved through civil adjudication. It would probably be necessary to provide some more resources to make that process more efficient, but it wouldn&#8217;t be by hiring judges or anywhere near thousands of the appropriate arbitrators.<\/p>\n<p>Trump closed his morning catharsis with an all caps demand to Congress that they <em>&#8220;FIX OUR INSANE IMMIGRATION LAWS NOW!&#8221;<\/em> Does he think that by yelling on Twitter the representatives are going to snap to attention and obey his commands? Well, probably yes, he does think that. But it isn&#8217;t true. The problem will be solved when Congress gets the courage to negotiate a fair and bipartisan bill that addresses the issues at hand, and compels the President to sign it under the threat of a veto override.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00QSSMOES\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B00QSSMOES&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=newscorpsecom-20&#038;linkId=TLI6JC2OYE22MUTS\" target=\"_blank\">Fox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><br \/>\nAvailable now at Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In the meantime, DACA applicants are still living in fear of being deported from the only home they have ever known. And children are still terrified from having been ripped out of their parents arms and sent to virtual prisons, a human rights abuse that they can&#8217;t possibly understand. That&#8217;s the most pressing <em>&#8220;INSANE&#8221;<\/em> policy that needs to be resolved <em>&#8220;NOW.&#8221;<\/em> And if necessary, every American should yell at Congress to do it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the day following America&#8217;s birthday, Donald Trump resumes his hostile stance toward immigrants. There is a sad irony to Trump using Independence Day for his relentless attacks on the category of people most responsible for this country&#8217;s progress and prosperity. But it&#8217;s also as predictable as the sunrise. On Thursday morning Trump was doing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38388,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,1200],"tags":[554,1013,1163],"class_list":["post-38387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-politics","tag-donald-trump","tag-immigration","tag-twitter"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-child-immigrant.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-9Z9","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":29248,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=29248","url_meta":{"origin":38387,"position":0},"title":"Donald Trump Cites Racist Hate Group To Support His Anti-Immigrant Rants","author":"Mark NC","date":"7\/20\/2015","format":false,"excerpt":"There is no one currently in the Republican Party who is more rapidly assuming the role of the new Sarah Palin than Donald Trump. 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