- Democrats greatest fear – Sessions would enforce the law
- Huckabee says nominating Romney to Secretary of State an insult
One can only imagine the massive and violent civil unrest, encouraged by Obama himself and urged on by the media, and justified by the Democratic congressional caucus that attempting to enforce current immigration law would cause.
If, indeed, a Trump administration attempts to actually observe lawfully enacted legislation, the nation will face the most serious crisis in its entire history. The outcome would decide whether or not the USA is a nation of laws or an anarchy favoring banana republic governance as it has endured for the past 8 years. Go for it!
Byron York: Attorney General Jeff Sessions is Democrats’ nightmare (excerpts)
President-elect Trump’s transition team knew that nominating Jeff Sessions for Attorney General would set off controversy. Democrats and their allies in the press have at key times in the past called Sessions a racist — they’re now using the Alabama senator’s full name, Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III, to heighten the Old South effect — and now, as they oppose Trump at nearly every turn, they’ve turned to race again.
Here’s why the effort to stop Sessions is likely to intensify as his confirmation hearings near. Sessions is the Senate’s highest-profile, most determined, and most knowledgeable opponent of comprehensive immigration reform. Democrats are particularly anxious about immigration because of the unusually tenuous nature of President Obama’s policies on the issue. Those policies can be undone unilaterally, by the new president in some cases, and by the attorney general and head of homeland security in other cases. There’s no need for congressional action — and no way for House or Senate Democrats to slow or stop it. . . .
The Center for Immigration Studies has published a list of 79 Obama policies the new administration could change without any action by Congress. (The list was compiled in April 2016, before anyone could know who the next president would be.) Among them:
1) End the embargo on worksite enforcement. . . .
2) Restore ICE’s authority to make expedited removals of illegal immigrants who are felons or who have recently crossed into the United States.
3) Tighten requirements for H-1B visas . . .
4) Stop suing states that take action to support immigrationenforcement, and instead support such enforcement. . . .
5) Force sanctuary cities to observe the law. . . . Attorney General Sessions could enforce an existing law, 8 USC 1373, which prohibits local communities from banning their officials from cooperating with federal immigration authorities. . . .
“Those are just a few of the things a Trump administration, and an Attorney General Sessions, could do using executive authority. It’s not hard to see why Democrats want to stop them.
Of course, Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee, which will handle the Sessions nomination, cannot very well say to the nominee: “I will not support you because you might actually enforce the law.” So they need another basis on which to oppose Sessions. That’s where 30-plus year-old allegations come in.
Republicans, with a narrow majority in the Senate, should be able confirm their colleague, especially since soon-to-be-former Sen. Harry Reid nuked the minority’s ability to filibuster executive branch nominations. But before that happens, look for the noise and the anger over the Sessions nomination to increase. There’s too much at stake for Democrats to go along.
Newsmax reports:
Mike Huckabee: Trump Putting Romney in Cabinet Would ‘Insult’ Voters
“It would really not so much be an insult to Donald Trump,” he said. “It would be an insult to the supporters of Donald Trump, who went out there and faithfully stood behind Donald Trump, to give a guy a job who basically said all those supporters were following a con man. . . .
In March, the former governor ripped Trump as a “con man” and a “fraud.”
Three months later, Romney told CNN in an interview that a Trump victory would lead to “trickle-down racism.”
DLH
