Update: What does the Democratic Party have against Americans? 

Pamela Geller live-tweets President Trump’s address. 

The failure of the media, explained. 

How dare you divide us, I ask in a foreign language. 

Watch President Trump’s entire speech before Congress, courtesy of the Right Side Broadcasting Network. Jim Antle explains why Donald Trump’s widely reported volte-face on immigration didn’t occur.

Update: Cathy Hoilman asks if the President caved on amnesty. 

Watch President Trump make the announcement live. According to reports, the choice will be former NLRB board member Alexander Acosta. This comes on the heels of the withdrawal of  Andy Puzder’s name from consideration, a decision that had been recommended by some patriotic immigration reformers, including Dan Cadman of the Center for Immigration Studies. Here are some factoids about the new nominee.

Update: Why DACA must end. 

For those of you on the Trump Train, I have some disappointing news. It seems that the President, at least, if we’re to believe his chief mouthpieces, has accepted DACA as a fait accompli. Although Mark Krikorian’s post in NRO frames this as an open question, the truth is that we’ve been given no indication that Donald Trump plans to do away with his predecessor’s unconstitutional administrative amnesty. The fact that he didn’t terminate this program on his first day in office means he has already broken one of his main campaign promises on the subject of immigration.

In terms of draining the swamp, we’re off to a rough start.

Update: Stay classy, SJWs. 

It turns out that it is Constitutional to ditch unconstitutional Obama edicts. 

Dianne Feinstein steps up the plate and whiffs.

Despite the stream of propaganda spewed by the legacy media, the biggest fear the public had of a Trump administration had nothing to do with Vladimir Putin’s Russia or a white nationalist uprising. In fact, the main worry of Trump supporters was that his presidency would simply be business as usual. In other words, a White House dominated by globalist rope-sellers  and corporatist retreads who do not care about American identity. The idea of perpetual debt, unceasing third world immigration, and a continuation of pointless military interventions in Middle Eastern backwaters is something we all feared would come to pass.

Unfortunately, the most recent decisions and statements to come from the Trump transition have not done much to dispel these fears. The fact that Kris Kobach will not be nominated to oversee the Department of Homeland Security is disquieting, to say the least. The fact that he was paraded in front of the White House press corps, seemingly as nothing more than a sop to patriotic immigration reformers, reinforces the belief that President-elect Trump is not genuinely committed to this cause. Even though General Kelly is not the worst possible choice, he also isn’t a shaper of groundbreaking immigration enforcement policies, nor a brilliant immigration law scholar. What’s more, it’s doubtful that he will have the same commitment to prosecuting a national campaign against illegal immigration that Mr. Kobach would have. Coupled with the impending nomination of a Labor Secretary who is an open borders zealot, it makes one wonder what the point of this election was.

Another troubling indication of things to come is Donald Trump’s waffling on President Obama’s unconstitutional administrative amnesties. A central plank of his political platform was the elimination of DACA and DAPA, yet he seemingly left open the option of giving relief to millions of illegal aliens who fall under these 2 executive actions during an interview with Time Magazine. His use of the obnoxious euphemism DREAMer to describe these individuals, many of whom are fully grown adults with tenuous-if any-connections to the United States is particularly galling. Will a President Trump sign Leapin’ Lindsey’s amnesty bill if it passes Congress and reaches his desk? Only time will tell, but these are not good signs for those of us who believed Donald Trump would indeed drain the swamp.

Taking a break from the towering inferno that is our presidential election, it’s worth noting some disturbing, yet sadly predictable, developments in our own backyard. The ad you see above is now plastered over subway cars taken by straphangers traveling to and from their jobs, which they have obtained legally in most cases. Even though the Obama administration’s attempt at unilaterally rewriting federal immigration law was rejected by the Supreme Court, the Jacobins who run the Mayor’s Office Of Immigrant Affairs never call it quits.

In addition to helping illegal aliens take advantage of a federal program of dubious constitutionality, our friend Bill de Blasio has also relieved New York City’s cab drivers of the crushing burden of learning English. Perhaps as a means of grooming future politicians like Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez, a public official who can’t speak the language himself! For those of you who are curious why this might be a bad idea, I’d recommend my friend Karol Markowicz’s op-ed in the New York Post, which pretty much encapsulates my thinking on the subject.

A less recent innovation, just over a year and a half old, is the NYC ID Card. Although billed as a legitimating document for transgendered people, homeless adults, and the entire spectrum of the rainbow coalition, the truth is that it’s sole purpose is to further embed illegal aliens into American culture and normalize the subsidiary crimes their presence occasions, like document fraud. If you think I’m being hyperbolic in my description of this piece of identification, I suggest you examine the words of the Democratic representative to the City’s Board of Elections, who believes that these cards are simply another vessel to commit electoral fraud.

Even so, perhaps having our elections manipulated by scores of people who aren’t legally entitled to be in this country-let alone, cast ballots in municipal or state elections-isn’t much of a concern. In that case, what do you think of the actions of Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito, a woman who’s just as red as her Sandalista friend at Gracie Mansion? Specifically, her attempt to get an African-American NYCHA manager fired because she committed the crime of not being Hispanic. Welcome to the wonderful world of multiculturalism, the war of all against all.

For those of you who thought Hillary Clinton’s admiration of Angela Merkel had something to do with her gender, think again. Actually, Mama Merkel serves as a role model because of her unparalleled ability to destroy a nation, as this article describes in brutal detail. If you want to see the future of the United States, you might want to take a look at Germany.

Not a pretty picture.

The threat of an imperial presidency constantly looms within the American psyche, especially now that the ability of the federal government to intrude into our personal lives appears to be unlimited. However, this administration’s exploitation of its explicit powers-and arrogation of powers it was never granted under our Constitutional framework-is unprecedented in the context of the post-Cold War Era. From usurping Congress’s power of the purse, to investing himself with the authority to kill American citizens overseas, to deploying American special forces to nations with which we’re not at war-an action which Congress explicitly rejected-to expanding the surveillance state in previously unimaginable ways, Barack Obama has created an executive branch which would make Richard Nixon, the bête noire of bien pensant liberals, blush. 

The most egregious example of this President’s contempt for separation of powers is its decision to make immigration policy in defiance of congressional will and legal/constitutional precedents. The Morton Memo, DACA, DAPA, and the  granting of privileges to a broad class of illegal aliens even after his policies had been enjoined by a federal judge are the manifestations of Barack Obama’s general disregard for his co-equal branches of government. With yet another critical Supreme Court decision addressing these abuses of power at hand, it’s imperative that we have a vigorous national discussion over the President’s authority. Intelligence Squared U.S. is facilitating that discussion by holding a debate later tonight over this very issue.

You can watch a live stream of the debate on their website, which also provides a handy overview of the subject. I would urge everyone concerned about this momentous issue to do so.

The American victims our our government’s reckless immigration policies speak out. Watch the complete hearing live. That’s some nice lying, Congresswoman Lofgren.

The White House has been relatively tight-lipped about its deliberations, re: Antonin Scalia’s replacement, but we already know that his death will irrevocably impact a host of Supreme Court cases this term. One of the most consequential-as we’ve pointed out-is United States v. Texas, which will test the novel legal concept that the President is able to unilaterally create and interpret federal immigration law. Dan Stein, of the Federation for American Immigration Reform, has a brilliant analysis of this case-and its implications for the future of this country-on SCOTUSblog. It’s worth reading in its entirety, not only because of its insight but because of startling lack of information found in mainstream press coverage of this subject.