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I told you about the Trump admin suspending several identification programs due to the state of New York’s illegal alien driver’s license policies. This has, as expected, driven Democrats nuttier

In suspending Global Entry, a spiteful Trump makes us all less safe

Ninety seconds. That’s my record for getting through border controls at John F. Kennedy International Airport, armed with my Global Entry card. Customs took an additional two minutes (Global Entry card holders have their own line). This streamlined processing by the Trusted Traveler program allowed me to plan same-day business, rather than spend hours in line.

The Trump administration’s suspension of Global Entry, NEXUS and other Trusted Traveler programs for residents of New York state, announced Wednesday by Chad Wolf, the acting secretary of Homeland Security, will change all that. According to Wolf, new enrollments and re-enrollments for the service that costs $100 every five years are no longer possible, although current card holders can in theory continue to participate in the program until their special status expires.

While the official reason Wolf gave for the move was national security, in reality an authoritarian cocktail of spite, corruption and racism drives this decision — one that will make America less secure and less efficient.

I love how all these unhinged fools like throwing around terms like authoritarian. If he was, Ruth Ben-Ghiat wouldn’t be able to write this screed.

Every autocrat has an obsession, and one of President Donald Trump’s is targeting immigrants as part of a crusade to rally his base and keep America a majority-white and Christian territory. His Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is targeting New York state because of its Green Light Law that allows undocumented immigrants to obtain drivers’ licenses and forbids government officials from turning over Department of Motor Vehicles records to federal officials.

Here’s an idea: don’t give driver’s licenses to illegal aliens, especially in the manner New York is engaged in.

Revoking Global Entry has less to do with security than with the latest retaliation by Trump against a state that contains New York City, a place he felt has never really accepted him. More precisely, the New York City area, home to two busy international airports, Newark and JFK, is now a sanctuary for immigrants — and to a state attorney general’s office that under Barbara Underwood and now Letitia James has investigated him for alleged corruption and forced him to dissolve his Trump Foundation for what Underwood said was a “shocking pattern” of illegal behaviors.

What does Trump really want to obtain with this power play? As always with authoritarians, the people and businesses that will lose time needlessly are just his pawns. His real targets are New York City and state politicians who have defied him: he hopes to make them unpopular and put pressure on them to renounce sanctuary cities, investigations and other measures that stand in the way of his personal and ideological goals. His further targets are other cities — and whole states, such as California — whose leaders must now be wondering: Are we next? And if so, what will the retaliation look like?

Here’s an idea: don’t want none, don’t start none. All sorts of elected officials in the state of NY have been going after Trump since the moment he was elected. Welcome to Politics 101. Remember, these same people whining now had zero problem with the IRS under Obama targeting private citizens and groups. At least Trump is targeting politicians and government employees.

Perhaps Democrats shouldn’t protect illegal aliens. And they’re lucky the Trump admin isn’t charging them with crimes, including felonies.

Read: Good News: Democrats Losing Their Minds Over Trump Admin Suspending Global Entry For New York »

Have you heard of the New Way Forward Act? No? Usually, Democrats like to talk a lot about their proposed legislation. Their buddies in the Credentialed Media talk it up as the best thing ever. Strange that this one has been MIA

Tucker Carlson: Criminals would be protected from deportation under bill AOC and other House Democrats back

At this moment there is a bill pending in Congress called the New Way Forward Act. It’s received almost no publicity, which is unfortunate as well as revealing.

The legislation is sponsored by 44 House Democrats, including Reps. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York. At roughly 4,400 words, it’s almost exactly as long as the U.S. Constitution.

Like the Constitution, this legislation is designed to create a whole new country. The bill would entirely remake our immigration system, with the explicit purpose of ensuring that criminals are able to move here, and settle here permanently, with impunity.

You may think we’re exaggerating for effect. We’re not – not even a little.

The New Way Forward act is the most radical single piece of legislation we’ve seen proposed in this country. It makes the Green New Deal look like the status quo.

A document produced by Democrats to promote the bill says: “Convictions … should not lead to deportation.”

Keep in mind, we’re not talking about convictions for double parking. The bill targets felony convictions – serious crimes that send you to prison for years. A press release from Rep., Jesus Garcia, D-Ill., is explicit about this.

Garcia brags that the bill will break the “prison to deportation pipeline.” How does the bill do that? Under current U.S. law, legal U.S. immigrants can be deported if they commit an “aggravated felony” or a “crime of moral turpitude” – that is, a vile, depraved act, like molesting a child. Under the New Way Forward Act, “crimes of moral turpitude” are eliminated entirely as a justification for deportation. And the category of “aggravated felony” gets circumscribed too.

I’ve gone and read the act. Tucker is not exaggerating.

To detain illegal immigrants, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) would have to prove in court that the illegal immigrants are dangerous or a flight risk. But of course, ICE wouldn’t be allowed to use a detainee’s prior criminal behavior as proof he or she is dangerous. That’s banned.

ICE would have to overcome even more hurdles if the detainee claims to be gay or transgender, under 21, or can’t speak English and an interpreter isn’t immediately available.

In other words, it would be much harder to arrest an illegal alien than it is to arrest you. They’re the protected class here. You’re just some loser who’s paying for it all.

But, wait, there’s more (actually, you should read the whole article, because I’m only excerpting)

But believe it or not, we saved the nuttiest part for last. What could be more destructive than changing U.S. law, specifically to allow rapists, child molesters, and drug dealers to stay in America? How about this: Using taxpayer money to bring deported criminals back into America.

That’s right. This bill would not only abolish your right to control who lives in your own country, but it invents a new right in return: the “right to come home.”

There’s zero chance this passes the GOP controlled Senate, much less makes it to the President’s desk. And, with something this radical, House Democrats will most likely hold off to wait and see if they take the White House and the Senate. It’s just another big, big reason to make sure Trump is re-elected and the GOP keeps the Senate.

Read: Democrats Look To Protect Immigrant Criminals With New Way Forward Act »