Last week during the Question and Answer segment of a speaking engagement, a young person asked me how I could be sure that I was on the correct side of any particular issue. No doubt at one time or another, most people have considered this question. When I was younger and knew very little of the world, I was very careful before pronouncing an opinion on political or international issues. Frankly put, I didn't want to look foolish. During my college days, if some group or another was protesting apartheid or speaking up on the issue of abortion, for instance, I would find the time to learn as much as I could before I put my credibility on the line by stating my opinion, and my audience was usually limited to my friends and family. Today when I listen to the various groups protesting President Donald Trump and his actions since his inauguration, I frequently hear Trump and his supporters referred to as "Nazis and Racists", with the President himself constantly being compared to Nazi Dictator Adolf Hitler. I'm willing to bet that the great majority of people using the term "Nazi" and making comparisons to Hitler, probably could not find Germany on a map, let alone accurately explain Hitler and his National Socialist movement. Regardless, the name-calling and bullying won't be ending anytime soon, so those of us who support President Trump had better prepare ourselves for the long-haul.
When President Trump took office, he immediately went to work following through on a number of his campaign promises. Anyone who followed the 2016 presidential election shouldn't be surprised by Trump's Executive Order temporarily halting immigration from seven Muslim-majority nations. Contrary to what is regularly written by the left-wing press, the order does not "ban" immigrants from any country. Instead, it temporarily freezes the process, to allow officials from the Department of Homeland Security to review and properly investigate each applicant. According to Trump's own language, the review must be completed within a four-month window. Actually, on two separate occasions, President Obama took the same action, albeit his effort included only two "Muslim-majority" nations. What were President Obama and now President Trump intending when issuing these orders?
We have been incredibly fortunate in that significant terror attacks in the United States over the last decade have only occurred about once a year. Europe, which is ground-zero for refugee resettlement, is basically at war with Muslim extremists. The French have felt the brunt of violence, with the United Kingdom and Germany not far behind. Terror-related deaths have also occurred in Belgium, the Netherlands, and Spain. Along with individual terrorist actions, Europeans have had to deal with rampant sexual assaults against women at public celebrations, including New Years. It seems that Muslim extremists have decided that any woman wearing what they consider to be revealing attire, is a justified target fro sexual assault. The terror attacks that fill the headlines of European newspapers are almost always directly tied to the refugee community. Why hasn't the United States suffered the same frequency of terror-related events? One reason is because we have just recently bought into the refugee "come-one, come-all" attitude that the left seems to believe is safe, intelligent policy. President Trump's Executive Order was intended to prevent some of what Europe has suffered. With so many refugees arriving on the borders of Hungary, Greece and Italy every day, it has been impossible for European law enforcement to adequately investigate each new arrival. President Trump enacted his Executive Order so that our law enforcement would have the time and resources to accomplish what the Europeans have so far failed to do- protect innocent civilians from terrorists who have been purposely seeded into refugee communities.
The fact that one court in Washington State and another in California have ruled against the President should come as no surprise. These activist, leftist judges believe that their authority overrides the Executive Branch, which flies directly in the face of the Constitution. If the President of the United States does not have the authority to control the border, then who does? If you speak to rank-and-file Border Patrol and Immigration Enforcement Officers, those who are most familiar with Immigration Law (yours truly has a bit of experience in that area as well), they will tell you that the President absolutely has the authority to take action limiting immigration. Interestingly enough, our Justice Department includes the existence of Immigration Courts, who are trained to interpret law relating to immigrants. Instead, we have the California-based 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ignoring the Constitution for the sole purpose of damaging a President whom they despise.
At the end of the day, those of us who call ourselves Conservatives must be more aggressive in support of our President and the policies for which he was elected. At the moment, the left is running rampant, destroying property, threatening people and bullying our society into hiding behind our locked doors. Their behavior, which has yet to be criticized by any national Democratic Party leader, is an attempt to overurn the results of the 2016 election through intimidation and fear. But they may have a surprise coming. Sixty-four million American citizens voted for Donald Trump, and groups within that block are beginning to mobilize, so that our voices may be heard. At times I almost regret not behaving in such a fashion when Obama was piling up twenty trillion dollars in debt, destroying our reputation internationally, and leaving wounded veterans to die on the streets. Hindsight is 20/20, as the cliche reminds us, so I'm going to focus on the future.
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