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President Trump’s rally in Manchester, New Hampshire on 8/15/19 was covered on page four of our local newspaper in an article written by Hunter Woodall and Kevin Freking, apparently from the A.P. and WaPo. What I found interesting was that there was only one word, “boisterous” as in “a boisterous crowd,” that described the enthusiasm of those at the speech. But “boisterous” does not do justice to what was happening at ground zero in the SNHUArena. What the reporters from the Main Stream Media do not capture in their articles is the “more than boisterous” enthusiasm at this rally, just as it is at every one of these Trump rallies.

The attendance at the Manchester’s SNHUArena broke the previous attendance record that had been held by Elton John. Inside the arena, President Trump emerged to an ear-splitting, raucous welcome that lasted several minutes. It was “more than boisterous!”
Not mentioned in this article is the fact that this most recent rally was very similar to the last rally a few weeks ago in Cincinnati, Ohio at U.S. Bank Arena. In Ohio, where the  line to get in was wrapped around Great America ballpark hours before the event was to begin. The 17,500 capacity arena appeared packed before Trump even took the stage, and there was an overflow crowd outside! The crowd was “more than boisterous”!

In New Hampshire, on 8/15/19 15,000 people applied for tickets at the 11,700 capacity arena of SNHU in Manchester. There were few if any no-shows and so about 4,000 had to watch the speech on outside screens in the overflow area. Tickets do not guarantee a seat, and seating is always on a first-come first-served basis. Some people were outside waiting in line for two days to guarantee that they would get in, and have good seats. 

Lisa Belanger, the first in line, talked to a local radio station about why she got there so early. “This may be the only opportunity I’ll ever have to go to a Trump rally and I was not going to miss it,” she said. An hour before the rally began there appeared to be some empty seats, but at that time the line outside still stretched for blocks, and by a half an hour before it started, the venue looked packed, and the crowd was “more than boisterous”!

“I’ve never experienced anything like this, but I knew I wanted to be right where he was. I’m probably going to faint,” Darlene Weeks of Waltham, Mass. said, wearing a Trump 2020 hat.

“More than boisterous” is going to continue in future rallies and this is going to translate into a 2020 Trump victory.

Last week ICE conducted raids in Mississippi searching for illegals working at factories. Of course, CNN played the sympathy card, emphasizing the trauma that these arrests had on the children of those that were arrested. I do not know of any other situation where the child gets to accompany the parent when the parent is taken into custody . . . but CNN played this to the hilt, even emphasizing that this all occurred on the first day of school!

“I need my dad . . . he’s not a criminal,” one little girl cried as she spoke on camera with CNN.

The headline on CNN: “680 undocumented workers arrested in record setting immigration sweep on the first day of school.” CNN continued, “Children sobbed as they waited for word on what had happened to their parents, as shown by video footage.” BTW: Way down in the article, “In Forest, Mississippi hours later, all the kids had been reunited with family members. “
A few days before, there was an article on Townhall concerning S.B. who was separated from his children, because of something that should never have happened. (BTW: This was not reported on CNN!) Mr. S.B. woke up that particular morning, and was just minding his own business when he was tragically separated from from his five children . . . not temporarily, but permanently! “He was amazing,” said his grieving wife Kathy, struggling to cope with an unimaginable loss. “It’s trying to figure out what the new normal looks like when the old normal was so good.”
No, this did not happen in Mississippi, but rather in Colorado. No, it wasn’t ICE who separated him from his family, but rather it was it was an illegal immigrant, Miguel Ramirez Valiente, who killed Sean Buchanan. Mr. Buchanan was struck while he was riding his motorcycle on Highway 83. Colorado State Patrol troopers said Ramirez Valiente was driving recklessly, swerved into Buchanan’s lane and killed him. Again from Townhall:Valiente had previously pled guilty to reckless endangerment of a child & DUI, but escaped deportation claiming sanctuary at a church while media gave him sympathetic coverage. 

But those who know Ramirez said his arrest history tells a different story, and they want the Buchanan family to know it. “This family deserves to know who they’re dealing with,” said a close acquaintance of Ramirez Valiente. “He’s an alcoholic and an abuser.” His arrest record shows charges for reckless endangerment in 2011 in Douglas County and domestic violence in 2016 in El Paso County. In 2018, he plead guilty to a 2017 charge of driving under the influence and his license was revoked, according to court records and Colorado State Patrol. On Aug. 1, one day before the deadly crash, his probation for that DUI was extended because he had not completed alcohol therapy and community service. He was driving without a license when troopers said he over-corrected and swerved into Buchanan’s lane on Aug. 2.

In Mississippi ICE temporarily separated a bunch of probable illegals from their children . . . CNN was close to apoplectic. In Colorado, an illegal without a valid driver’s license,  permanently separated a father from his five children . . . CNN was strangely quiet.

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What is the deal with bottled water? I can basically only think of a few reasons for buying bottled water. Obviously if your local water tastes really awful, bottled water may be your only option, but in most places in the U.S. bottled water and tap water taste pretty much the same. I can understand that a lot of people want some bottled water on hand in case of an emergency, like an earthquake or an approaching hurricane. This makes a lot of sense, and when we lived in Florida bottled water became a scarce commodity in stores when a hurricane was heading our way. The only other truly justifiable reason to have bottled water is if you were traveling to a country whose water is questionable in terms of its purity. Better to drink bottled water instead of getting Montezuma‘s revenge.

In this day and age with the taking away our use of plastic bags in order to save the planet, why are plastic bottles not close to extinction? These days beer comes mostly in cans or glass bottles. Most soda comes in cans or less frequently in the larger liter plastic bottles, although I do not recall the last time I bought a liter bottle of soda.

What’s left? Which plastic bottles are the culprits? Plastic water bottles! Ah yes, you say, but each of these plastic bottles has a deposit of a nickel or a dime, and so are most likely recycled. You might think so, but actually this is not the case. Less than a third of six billion pounds of plastic most commonly used for drink bottles and food containers is recovered by U.S recycling programs! So what happens to the over two-thirds of this plastic that  is not recycled? Obviously most of this recycleable  plastic ends up as litter, or ends up in our landfills or in the oceans. 

Since it appears to me that non-recycled plastic bottles, especially plastic water bottles, are a much bigger problem than plastic bags, why have we banned the useful plastic bag and not the plastic bottle? (In general, if there seems to be an unanswerable question, always follow the money!) Lo-and-behold if you follow the money here, the answer becomes obvious. What do you think happens to those billions of nickels and dimes that were paid on those billions of plastic water bottles that never make it to recycling? The government gets to keep this money. It is really a tax that is not referred to as such. Perhaps if the state or the local government called it by its real name, “a tax,” maybe the people, especially the thirsty ones, would raise a ruckus. Oops, I forgot that in California, most of the voters are too dense and cannot understand anything that is basic economics even when they are the ones being screwed!

Last week I read two different pieces in two different newspapers that emphasized the difference between what is happening in the liberal world of California and what is happening in the real world.

The first article was by Tricia Gallagher-Guertsen (TGG), who is the co-chair of the Ethnic Studies Advisory Committee of San Diego Unified School District. (In the guise of being fair and equal, I must again admit my visceral distrust of anything written by someone with a hyphenated last name!) TGG was extolling the praises of Assembly Bill 331, which would require a semester course in ethnic studies for high school graduation. As TGG states, “These ethnic studies courses instead of focusing on the contributions, history and perspective of European Americans, would present content of understudied populations, like women, blacks, and Pacific Islanders, for example.” AB 331 . . . that is insane!

TGG feels that this bill will increase “cumbia” amongst the many, many ethnic groups in this state. Those of us who happen to live in California realize that this type of liberal drivel is just the sort of thing that will sail through the California Legislature in Sacramento, and will be signed by our uber liberal governor.

The second article was about how “the American middle class is falling deeper into debt to maintain a middle-class lifestyle.” There was a lot of numbers and figures comparing consumer debt adjusted for inflation over the last two decades. “Consumer debt, not counting mortgages has climbed to $4 trillion – higher than it has ever been adjusting for inflation. Student debt totaled about $1.5 trillion. Auto debt is up nearly 40% adjusting for inflation in the last decade to $1.3 trillion. The average loan for new cars is up 11% in a decade to $32,187.” That is insane! $32,000+ for the average car loan! I have never paid close to this for a car. Some 85% of new cars were financed in the first quarter of this year. 32% of new car loans are for six or seven years. A decade ago only 12% were for that long. And so a third of new car buyers roll debt from their old loans into the new one. The average amount that is rolled over is $5000. That is insane!
In the body of the article were stories about three different families who were having difficulty making it, despite earning good salaries, because of all that they owed. One of the husbands, aged 33, had to cash out $8000 from his pension to pay off credit card debt. Credit card debt of $8000! That is insane!

But not as insane as a second couple who in addition to their $51,000 in student loan debt, have $18000 in auto loans, and $50,000 spread across eight credit cards. This is insane, and to make matters worse both the husband and the wife are college graduates, and have about double the median income. Still they cannot come close to making ends meet. Did they ever learn about budgeting? Do they think that using eight credit cards is like using free money?

Another couple vowed to stop using their credit cards, but broke that promise when they were invited to an out of town wedding. Airfare, hotel accommodations, and a rental car meant that they started that uphill trek of trying to pay off their maxed out credit card all over again! (What about, “Sorry, we cannot come to your wedding as we cannot afford it. Good luck to you.”) That is insane!

Who taught them about the wisdom of not getting into debt? Nobody did!! It would seem to me that “common sense personal financial management” should be a semester high school class, a class required for graduation. Learning some basic financial planning strategy will be much more useful than ten classes in ethnic studies! If individuals wish to learn more about how important their ancestors were, I think that is very commendable . . . but do it after school or as an elective. That, my friends, would be the sane way to re-write and then pass A.B. 331!

In view of the recent shootings in El Paso and in Dayton, imagine the horror next week if CNN or MSNBC reported: “120 Killed in the Last Hour Across the U.S.A.!” The liberals, assuming that this was referring to assault gun violence would be apoplectic, and of course Trump would be blamed. Actually as many of you are perhaps aware this is a U.S. abortion statistic . . . 120 abortions every hour; 2899 abortions each day; 1.058 million each year in the U.S. Those on the right are probably shocked at these numbers, while those on the left are applauding a “woman’s right to choose.From my perspective, a woman does have “the right to choose,” until the embryo, at some point, deserves “the right to live.” Although I do not agree with abortion in general, I can appreciate the argument on the other side . . . up to a point, and that point is when the embryo becomes a “living thing,” and by this, I mean, when there is a heartbeat. If the fetus has its own heartbeat, it is now a living thing and deserves its own right to life.

There is no segue here!

Let’s now consider the recent mass shootings in Gilroy, in El Paso, and in Dayton. These involved semi-automatic weapons and high capacity magazines. Ohio and Texas allow these  guns and the magazines to be sold. California bans the sale of magazines that hold more than 10 rounds, but the Gilroy shooter legally bought his gun in Nevada. In Dayton, Ohio, police said Sunday afternoon the shooter legally purchased his .223-caliber weapon online and then had it transferred to a local arms dealer. Police said he affixed the rifle with a 100-round drum magazine and was carrying 250 rounds with him. Now let’s think rationally for a second. Is there any situation that a hunter would require a 100-round magazine? Likewise would someone who owns a gun for personal protection ever need a semi-automatic weapon with even a 30-round magazine? The reasonable answer to each of these questions is “no!”
My suggestion to both the liberals and the conservatives, both the left and the right, especially those in Congress is a version of “Let’s Make a Deal.” “Compromise” is a term that used to be actually practiced in Washington. Now is the time to resurrect “compromise.”                                

Follow me with this:No abortions once a fetal heartbeat is heard. Outlaw all semi-automatic guns and high capacity gun magazines.Both of these are non-negotiable, and together both will make both the left and the right extremely unhappy! . . . and this, my friends, is essential to the art of compromise!

The headline, “Two Mass Shootings Leave 29 Dead,” is horrifying, and the responses from those on the left mainly involve banning “assault weapons.” The responses from those on the right mainly have something to do with “guns don’t kill, people do,” or violent video games and the abolition of God in our society are responsible. While I agree with the responses of those on the right, these responses do not get us anywhere. Likewise, I am not a gun owner, and I assume that most, if not close to all, of us non-gun owners are confused by some of the terms that are flippantly tossed about. Only after there is an understanding of the basic terminology can we, as a country, have some reconciliation, and make some progress on this issue. The first step in reconciliation would be to have the Democratic presidential candidates keep their mouths shut, at least until the dead are buried!

What is an “assault weapon?”

There’s no technical definition of an “assault weapon.” There are fully automatic weapons, which fire continuously when the trigger is held down. These “machine guns” have been strictly regulated since 1934. Then there are semiautomatic weapons that reload automatically but fire only once each time the trigger is depressed. Semiautomatic pistols and rifles come in all shapes and sizes and are extremely common in the United States. [FYI: The AR in AR-15 refers to ArmaLite Rifle . . .not Assault Rifle. (Due to financial problems, and limitations in terms of manpower and production capacity, ArmaLite sold the ArmaLite Rifle-15, abbreviated AR-15 design and the AR-15 trademark to Colt’s Manufacturing Company in 1959. Colt started selling the semi-automatic version of the M16 rifle as the Colt AR-15 in 1964.)]
The New York Timesadmitted in 2014 that Democrats manufactured the term “assault weapons” in order to ban a “politically defined category of guns — a selection of rifles, shotguns and handguns with ‘military-style’ features’” and added that those weapons “only figured in about 2 percent of gun crimes nationwide before the ban in 1994.”In 1994 Congress passed and President Clinton signed the “Assault Weapons Ban,” which expired in 2004, and was not renewed by Congress. Although not agreed upon by all, it seems that this 10 year ban did not do much in terms of preventing killings.

What is a gun magazine?

The magazine holds additional bullets for the weapon, and can be changed out in approximately five seconds by an experienced shooter. AR-15 rifles usually come with 30 or fewer rounds in a magazine. But increasingly gun manufacturers have catered to shooters looking to have 40, 60 or 100-round magazines that traditionally were shunned because they were heavy and cumbersome. High-capacity magazines have been used in mass shootings, including in Las Vegas, Sutherland Springs, Texas, and Parkland, Florida as well as in the recent mass shootings.

What are “bump stocks?”

“Bump stocks,” for practical purposes, convert a semi-automatic weapon to an automatic weapon. They are now apparently mostly a thing of the past, as a ban on them went into effect on March 26, 2019. The ban dictated that owners of bump stocks were required to destroy them or surrender them to ATF, punishable by 10 years imprisonment and $250,000 fine.
Now that we all have a basic understanding of the terms, what do we do now? 

At this point, I recommend the following in order to slow down the slander and chaos on both sides, and hopefully move toward some reasonable compromises:

1. Totally eliminate the term “assault weapon” from the discourse, as it is confusing and and only serves to muddy the waters when used by those who do not know what the term means. Just the other day Joe Biden said that, if elected president, he would institute a national buyback program for “assault weapons.”
2. Encourage Congress to immediately reinstitute the 1994  “Assault Weapons Ban.” Since it is already written it could be passed and signed quickly. Magazine size bans need legislation, like the federal ban that ran from 1994 to 2004. I know that I said the “Assault Weapons Ban” was of only questionable effectiveness, but it could perhaps get the bickering off of the front page and restore some sanity to the process. I would suggest that this remake of the 1994 law be in effect for only for six months, so that Congress would have a reasonable length of time to come up with some sort of bipartisan, more effective resolution.
3. Immediately implement “Red Flag” laws. As President Trump said, “We must make sure that those judged to pose a risk to public safety do not have access to firearms—and that if they do, those firearms can be taken through rapid due process. That is why I have called for “Red Flag” laws, also known as Extreme Risk Protection Orders.”
4. As I noted above, politicians should keep their mouths shut, at least until the dead are buried! Beto, are you listening? Again here I agree with President Trump who tweeted, “Beto . . . respect the victims & law enforcement – & be quiet!”  At this point I am seeing many anti-Trump comments by Dems about the El Paso shooter’s manifesto, but I have not seen any comments by Republicans concerning the very liberal pro-Warren philosophy of the Dayton shooter.

I usually do not invest too much time paying attention to polls, especially after the “spot-on” polls that told us who was going to win the 2016 presidential election! However, I came across some interesting poll results earlier this week, and it made me think that the Democrats are spot-on with their message to the voters. 
This survey of 1,346 adults was conducted July 15th through July 17th, 2019 by The Marist Poll sponsored in partnership with NPR and PBS NewsHour. Adults 18 years of age and older residing in the contiguous United States were contacted on landline or mobile numbers and interviewed in English by telephone using live interviewers. Mobile telephone numbers were randomly selected based upon a list of telephone exchanges from throughout the nation from Survey Sampling International. The exchanges were selected to ensure that each region was represented in proportion to its population.
So this particular poll sounds like a reasonable sampling of the population. What was interesting to me was not what the Democrats or the Republicans thought, but what the Independents thought. As most of us are aware it is often the Independents that determine the outcome of elections.In general this poll was encouraging to me, because it should be discouraging to the Democrats!

Look at the following answers from Independents. Independents were asked if they support Medicare for All as a replacement for private health insurance (good idea/bad idea): 39/55. Again in response to the question, Is free healthcare for illegal immigrants a good idea/bad idea? Independents: 27/67. Is decriminalizing border crossings a good idea/bad idea? Independents: 24/68. Is reparations for slavery is a good idea/bad idea? Independents: 23/65. Do you think the ideas being offered by Democrats will move this country in the right direct/wrong direction. Independents: 40/48. Wow!

Remember that this poll was done in conjunction with NPR, who does not exactly have a rightward bent.  My message to the Dems at this point, “Keep on keeping on; you are spot-on!”

In an article entitled “How Trump Won,” written a few days after the 2016 election, the author surmised that a bunch of small voter groups coalesced into a large group that pushed Trump over the top. One of these small groups was comprised of “parents of inner-city children (predominately African-American) who had a choice to make – either to continue the present situation with their failing inner-city schools, dooming their children to a life of poverty and/or crime, or to hope that someone would take a stand on their behalf.” . . . “Mr. Trump’s message to these beleaguered parents was ‘What do you have to lose’?”

In the 2016 election Trump claimed 8 percent of the black vote compared to Romney, the previous Republican nominee’s 6 percent in 2012. This increase of 2% is a small increase, but it represented an increase in a group that no one expected. Will the same thing happen with inner-city black voters as a result of the recent “Elijah affair?” Everyone who is honest has to admit that the country is failing the inner cities and more specifically those who live in these inner-cities, e.g. Detroit, St. Louis, Chicago, Los Angeles, Memphis, Baltimore, etc. As we all now know, Baltimore is the city that Elijah Cummings “represents.”

 Mr. Cummings made a major boo-boo – he pissed off The Donald, and whether President Trump’s anger toward Elijah Cummings was misdirected or not is irrelevant at this point, as the plight of the residents (predominately African-American) who live in his Baltimore district is now national news. Listening to the comments of these poor unfortunate people is heart wrenching! The filth, the trash, the crime, and the rats – awful!

At this point I would ask the predominately black inner-city residents of Baltimore, and by extension those that live in the other failing inner-cities, “Do you want to continue the present situation, or do you hope that someone would take a stand on your behalf?”  Is Donald Trump that someone?  “What do you have to lose?”
BTW: “How Trump Won” was included in my book, “The Quirky Contrarian.”
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Back when I was a young boy, perhaps eight or nine years old, I was allowed to play outside unsupervised on the next block. I do not recall the exact circumstances of the incident in question. All that I can recall is that a bunch of us, including my friend, Jackie, and his older brothers, Jimmy and Tommy, were playing some group game. Certainly the game had to be rough because Jimmy was playing, and I must have gotten hurt. My mother was not particularly fond of Jimmy, as she thought he was a bully. She marched down to the other block, and verbally let Jimmy have it! (The enemy of my friend [son] is my enemy!) Good for my mother. 

I once had a similiar situation at work where I thought that someone in my department was being unfairly being chastised by an administrator and so I lit into the administrator. (The enemy of my friend is my enemy!) Good for me.

President Trump is not about to let some biased congressman (Rep Elijah Cummings) unfairly berate someone in his administration, especially when the congressman is doing it for his own political purpose. So in response, Mr. Trump lit into Rep Cummings (D,Md.) He tweeted:“Rep, Elijah Cummings has been a brutal bullying, shouting and screaming at the great men & women of Border Patrol about conditions at the Southern Border, when actually his Baltimore district is FAR WORSE and more dangerous. His district is considered the worst in the USA.” He added, “As proven last week during a Congressional tour, the Border is clean, efficient & well run, just very crowded. Cummings’ District is a disgusting, rat and rodent-infested mess.”(The enemy of my friend is my enemy!) Good for President Trump.

The response by Democrats and the liberal media was the hackneyed, “Donald Trump is a racist,” as Elijah Cummings is black. To me the crux of the issue is whether or not Cummings’ district is  a “rat and rodent-infested mess.” This is crucial as the vast majority of the district that he “represents,” is black. If President Trump’s comments are true and they eventually lead to an improvement in their living conditions in Baltimore, will the Democrats and the liberal media give Mr. Trump his due?

In 2018 the former mayor of Baltimore, Catherine Pugh while touring an east Baltimore area of vacant houses with city leaders and said: “What the hell? We should just take all this [expletive] down.” “Whoa, you can smell the rats.” “Whew, Jesus.” “Oh, my God, you can smell the dead animals.” Were these comments racist? Of course not, as Mayor Pugh is black.

After the Baltimore riots in 2015, President Barack Obama spoke about communities in the major Maryland city that are struggling with “abject poverty,” “no investment,” and drugs. Obama partially blamed the riots on the lack of opportunity in Baltimore communities, pointing out the high rates of crime, substandard education, and drug abuse. According to Mr. Obama, Baltimore is not exactly the gem of the Chesapeake, although to be fair, he did not mention the rats. Were these comments racist? Of course not, as President Obama is black.

In December, 2015, the Baltimore Sun reported Bernie Sanders said, “Anyone who took the walk that we took around this neighborhood would not think you’re in a wealthy nation,” Sanders said during a visit to the city’s West Baltimore section . . . “You would think that you were in a Third World country.” Were these comments racist? Of course not, as Sanders is a liberal.

From Townhall: 

This week Turning Point USA’s Chief Content Creator, Benny Johnson, hit the streets of Baltimore to talk to residents about their experiences and to set the record straight. On being ‘Rat Infested’:- *Every* person I spoke with *confirmed* that the district was rat infested
– One man told me that rats the “size of cats” run through his house regularly
– One woman told me rats have “taken over” her neighborhood 
– One called it a “plague of rats”
On trash in Rep. Cummings’ district:
– There is trash everywhere
– Filth & garbage piled up high in the street
– One building had a big sign that begged ‘DO NOT PUT TRASH HERE’ – below the signs were piles of rotting refuse
– Constituents blamed the trash for the rat infestation
Were the comments by these black Baltimore residents racist? Obviously No,  even though they were essentially the same as Mr. Trump’s! Is Benny Johnson a racist? Hard for me to know at this point as I neither know the color of his skin nor his political affiliation, which to Democrats appears to be crucial when evaluating whether or not someone or that someone’s comments are racist! (The enemy of my black friend must be a racist!)

Gustavo Perez Arriaga was arrested by Kern County Sheriff’s Deputies on 12/28/18 after authorities learned he was in a residence in the Lamont Area of Kern County. He was arrested because he was a suspect in the murder of Corporal Ronil Singh. The focus in this particular piece is neither that Arriaga was in the country illegally and had previous arrests, nor that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials confirmed that they had no prior encounters with the man, but rather that seven people across the state were subsequently arrested for helping the suspect avoid police (aiding & abetting). These seven people accused of helping Arriaga avoid capture have been since federally indicted.

This arresting and the subsequent indicting of these seven innocent people is racist!  It is racist because all seven are Hispanic. It is racist because all seven are from Mexico, and furthermore it is racist because the high likelihood is that all seven are themselves illegal. Why is the government harassing these seven individuals when in effect they were merely attempting to provide sanctuary for their friend, coworker, or brother. Why should these seven be in trouble when they were in reality basically doing the same thing that the State of California’s lawmakers have mandated . . . “do not tell authorities when someone who is in your custody is a potential bad hombre.” Senior Arriaga was “in the custody” of his friends in Kern County, and they were only trying to follow the California sanctuary state law! The state law signed in 2017 prohibits local law enforcement from notifying federal immigration agents about a detained immigrant’s information if the person is not accused of a serious crime. Since when is running from the police a serious crime? If state lawmakers can make it illegal for certain law-enforcement to contact I.C.E., how can it be illegal to help a friend, a coworker, or a brother?

If the authorities can go after some friend who is providing sanctuary, why can’t the victims of a crime committed by an illegal go after those who have, in effect, mandated sanctuary for that illegal? Republicans in Congress are now looking at this issue: Two  are proposing that American citizens whose families have been victimized by illegal aliens can sue the city that shielded them from deportation, i.e. the city that aided & abetted the illegal criminal. An American citizen whose family, or themselves, have been victimized by a violent crime perpetrated by an illegal could sue the state or the city that failed to enforce an ICE detainer, and thus aided & abetted. Violent crime is defined as rape, murder, and any additional statute as defined by the state. North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis and Rep. Ted Budd (R-NC) have introduced the legislation, which President Trump has supported. I support this type of legislation, and I suspect that many in this country will also be supportive of this legislation.

Of course many of the Democrats in Washington will take the opposite view, and will suggest that such legislation is racist. Good! If the the Democrats in the U.S. Congress do not want to hold accountable those who are advocating looking the other way and thus aiding & abetting, when fellow Americans are being injured or killed because of the sanctuary policies, let them vote as such. Let their local constituents know which side of this supposedly “racist” fence they come down on. Some Democrats in the House are going to have a lot of ‘splainin’ to do if they side with Pelosi and the Squad on this one.