Tea at Trianon: Dangerous Criminals Enter and Stay

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

~from History of the Guillotine by John Wilson Croker, 1844

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

Saturday, June 17, 2023

Dangerous Criminals Enter and Stay

From UncoverDC:

Biden’s border enforcement is collapsing as dangerous criminal aliens enter and stay in the U.S. while ICE agents wait for approval from bureaucrats to detain or deport. Alarmed by this administration’s dangerous border policies, America First Legal (AFL) again sued the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). According to a May 10 press release, AFL sued the administration for illegally withholding records on dangerous criminals who have been allowed to enter and stay in the U.S. FOIAs reveal ICE’s weekly enforcement reports show the Biden administration is requiring ICE to provide “narrative justification” for the removal of asylum seekers and other illegal aliens prior to acting on their detention or removal. According to the AFL press release:
“At the beginning of the Biden Administration, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) directed ICE to “reprioritize” its approach to enforcement actions. Open border zealots, newly in charge of immigration enforcement, required all ICE officers to seek pre-approval from headquarters in Washington, D.C., before they were allowed to arrest or remove an illegal alien—even those convicted of heinous crimes.”
In May 2023, about “half of the existing data” was turned over to AFL with alarming results. According to the documents obtained, “ICE has produced data on 24,000 illegal aliens against whom an enforcement action was approved.” ICE officers may arrest illegal aliens with pending criminal charges; however, they are required to enter personal information into the system and then wait for someone up the chain of command to approve their disposition. Many of them should have been deported immediately.