Weekly Report to Montgomery County
Quote of the Week:
“The Trump administration immigration policy is a threat to immigrants like criminals.” Representative Ilian Omar
Illegal Immigration NOT undocumented………..
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks during preparations for the second day of the Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum on July 16, 2024 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images)
The Trump Effect: Gov. DeSantis Reminds Woke Reporter It's OK To Call Illegal Aliens Illegal Again
By C. Douglas Golden January 24, 2025 at 5:52am
One of the themes in President Donald Trump’s inaugural address on Monday was a “revolution of common sense.”
“It’s all about common sense,” Trump said, before announcing his executive order “declar[ing] a national emergency at our southern border.”
That there is a national emergency there should be, well, common sense. Consider the fact that, under the previous president, roughly 10 million illegal aliens were encountered trying to enter the United States in an unlawful manner. However, doing anything about this was considered impolitic. In fact, it was impolitic to even call illegal immigrants “illegal,” or referring to the process of letting them free in the United States pending an immigration court date as “catch and release.”
Instead, a whole raft of tortured euphemisms to refer to these individuals and the process were coined by the left and the establishment media — I repeat myself, as always — and those who didn’t use the approved terminology was, at the very least, suspected of wrongthink.
On Monday, we didn’t necessarily slam the door on that unhappy period in our national linguistic life, but we began to close it. If you need evidence, Exhibit A, dear reader: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis reminding a reporter that, yes, you can call illegal immigrants illegal again — since, well, that’s how they got here.
The move came Thursday as DeSantis visited Jacksonville to promote proposed legislation that would “allocate money to help local law enforcement agencies arrest and jail illegal immigrants, keeping them behind bars until immigration officials can secure, then deport them,” according to Jacksonville Today.
“We want our localities, municipalities, counties and, of course, state — all of them to help facilitate this important mission,” DeSantis said. “[It would] not displace the federal government’s role — obviously it is their primary responsibility — but to complement that so that we have robust interior enforcement of our nation’s laws again.”
However, the big news from the visit was DeSantis’ showdown with a reporter from WJXC-TV who was quite fluent in wokespeak.
After announcing his affiliation, the reporter began his question: “Florida has hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants–” he said, before DeSantis cut him off.
Is "illegal immigrant" an offensive term?
“The statutory term, per the Trump administration, is illegal alien,” he said.
“Undocumented, it’s like if I get in my car and I forget my wallet. Oh, OK, I don’t have my document on me, my driver’s license. But I still have a right to drive. I just made a mistake.
“This is intentional to come in illegally, and it’s not just the question of missing a document,” he continued. “It’s a question of, you know, you violated the laws that were very clear, and knowingly, and with the help of the cartels in many cases”
And, indeed, a fact-sheet from the White House released Wednesday about President Trump’s executive orders on border security uses “illegal aliens” or “illegal immigration” nine times.
“Undocumented immigrants?” Zero times.
According to Florida Politics, DeSantis went on to chastise the media for playing along with the wokespeak and the leftist line on illegal immigration.
“The media will be like, they’ll say, ‘Immigrants commit crimes at lower rates,’ and they conflate legal with illegal immigrants,” he said.
“I would hope legal immigrants commit at less rates, because if they’re committing at higher rates, why would they have knowingly been led into this country? Illegal immigrants, the crime rate should be close to zero because we can choose who we’re bringing in.
“Obviously our native population, you know, it’s not like we can choose. ‘Oh, well, we’re going to send you to Chile or something,’” he added. “If you’re a natural-born American, it is what it is. But any crime committed by an illegal by definition was avoidable if you had been enforcing the law.”
Now, of course, this isn’t to say that Ron DeSantis was some hypersensitive milquetoast before Trump took the oath of office on Monday. Far from it, actually. But for those of you hoping that “peak woke” has already passed, this is yet another hopeful sign. Hopefully, even more politicians will start telling it like it is, unafraid of using terms the media deems objectionable.
Common sense is back, America. It feels like a new, fresh spring day … in the middle of an icy January. Ah well. Sure, the weather outside is frightful, but the candor is so delightful.
Essay of the Week from The Daily Signal, by Victor Davis Hanson
This is the week of the inauguration of Donald Trump, but it also coincides, not just with Martin Luther King’s birthday—on the same day as the inauguration, but also the meeting of the world’s elite at Davos, Switzerland, lorded over by 86-year-old Klaus Schwab, who, created this organization.
If you don’t know what Davos is, don’t worry about it. It’s not that important, in some ways. I mean, it’s not doing a lot of good for the rest of us.
But it is important because it has aspirations that are quite dangerous. Basically, its premise is that if we got together all of the “smart people”—those are people who have letters after their name, or they live in the right ZIP codes, or they’re wealthy, or they’re professors, or they’re key government officials—and we put them all in this beautiful, idyllic place, they can think up utopian dreams that then can be, from the top down, implemented by hoi polloi: the many.
And they have actual disgust for elected governments because you see elected governments make mistakes. They elect people and then they do the wrong thing. They have these 19th-century borders. They believe in legal-only immigration. They don’t believe in redistribution of money. They believe in free market capitalism.
They are opposed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. And they don’t want to put mandates on corporations—ESG—about the environment and social questions and governance questions. They let the market adjudicate, which you can’t do.
Now the reason that they’re really angry this week is Donald Trump was elected in the United States. And he is a Jacksonian, populist, nationalist, who believes that the U.S. Constitution and the creation of this last great hope for Earth is unique and singular. And he trusts it and its Constitution more than he does these Davos international organizations, who, remember, are not elected by anybody. They’re appointed.
So, Donald Trump immediately got out of the International Criminal Court. This was an international body that, if implemented—in the case of the United States—fully, it would say that a major or colonel in the United States could be prosecuted if he issued an order that they felt was inhumane.
He got out of the World Health Organization. That was pretty much a Chinese-dominated world organization that functioned during the COVID crisis, largely, with the help of Anthony Fauci and Peter Daszak to suppress the truth that that virus was created in the Wuhan lab. May or may not have been a biological weapon. May or may not have escaped naturally by mistake. But in any case, Donald Trump poses the threat to the Davos crowd.
And more importantly, his threat, it is amplified because it works. People who have followed the model of Milton Friedman and free market economics in Europe, in Eastern Europe, in Argentina, and the United States are doing very well.
When the EU was created, its [gross domestic product] was almost—25 years ago—the same as the United States. And then it started to implement these Davos-like issues and laws and policy, and now it has almost a little more than half, half the GDP of the United States, and only about 60% of the per capita income.
So, the people at Davos know that their socialist, globalist model doesn’t work. And they know that people don’t want to listen to them anymore because when people adopt these views, their economy slows, they get poorer, their borders are overrun. Illegal immigrants come and cannot be assimilated or integrated. And the people feel they have less security, prosperity, and freedom.
Rather than addressing those concerns—and so having at Davos—why is Donald Trump being elected? Why was [Argentine President Javier] Milei? Maybe we can learn from these people because they represent elections and freedom.
No, it’s Donald Trump. How dare you say this? Milei is wrong. And so, they too, as I’ve said in an earlier broadcast, they have forgotten nothing and learned nothing.
Each year, Davos becomes more and more irrelevant. And the people who oppose them and put their trust in the people, in the U.S. Constitution, in freedom and individual liberty do better and better.
Economic consequences of the end of the Trump tax reform……
https://www.nam.org/Tax2025/MD.pdf
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Peter Huessy is a Member of the Montgomery County Republican Central Committee. Since 1981 he has been President of Geo-Strategic Analysis of Potomac, Maryland. He was a former special assistant to the Secretary of the Interior and consultant to the US Air Force. He can be reached at [email protected]