Informing Iran, "The U.S. is watching what you do," Amb. Nikki Haley called an emergency meeting Friday of the Security Council regarding the riots in Iran. The session left her and us looking ridiculous.

France's ambassador tutored Haley that how nations deal with internal disorders is not the council's concern. Read more >>

What will happen with DACA [Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals] is the biggest policy question looming over the Trump Administration as Congress returns to session. [ With DC distracted, immigration debate reaches critical point, by Byron York, Washington Examiner, January 8, 2017] The President is meeting with a bipartisan group of Senators at the White House tomorrow—January 9. But right now, it appears the most likely answer is: nothing. And that’s the best-case scenario for immigration patriots.

Back in September, Donald Trump scrapped this unconstitutional Obama decree that granted temporary legalization to illegal aliens who came to America as minors—something he had promised to do on his first day in office. VDARE.com had speculated that Trump was waiting for the courts to strike it down, as they had the broader DAPA Amnesty, although this was obviously risky. Now, however, Trump chose to punt the issue to Congress, challenging it to create a permanent legalization for these so-called “Dreamers.”

For those who wanted Trump to live up to the promise of putting Americans first, his stated desire of wanting to give permanent legalization to these illegals was a disappointment, although not new. VDARE.com Editor Peter Brimelow counselled patience and this now seems to have been justified: the president did not propose to grant this Amnesty in exchange for nothing.

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Alien Smuggler William McManus

Recently a dozen illegal aliens were smuggled across the Rio Grande, driven in a tractor trailer northward, then deposited in San Antonio, TX. This is not unusual—alien smuggling happens every day in Texas, because with few border fences or walls, the state is wide open to the cartels that run alien and drug smuggling.

San Antonio is one of those centers where aliens are regularly dropped off, as it is north of all the Border Patrol checkpoints. The unusual part of this story: besides the cartel, the San Antonio Police Department (William McManus, Chief) and the local Catholic Charities were two of the organizations involved.

SAPD Chief William McManus answered his critics and defended his decision to release 12 undocumented immigrants that were victims of trafficking.

The San Antonio Police Department is coming under fire after releasing a dozen people found inside a trailer. SAPD handled the case instead of handing it over to the feds.

On Thursday, SAPD Chief William McManus says that he doesn't regret the decision.

The trafficking incident took place on December 23. Police found an 18-wheeler with 12 people inside. The people admitted that they were from Guatemala and, after being detained, the driver of that truck admitted that he picked the people up from a warehouse in Laredo.

The driver of the truck, Herbert Nichols [right] was arrested and is being charged with trafficking. While SAPD called homeland security investigators, Chief McManus decided to handle this at the state level and not the federal level.

[ SAPD Responds After Department Releases Immigrants In Trafficking Case , by Priya Sridhar, KENS 5, January 4, 2018]

Trafficking in persons is a state-level offense in Texas. But it requires persons to be held against their will or to be engaged in other criminal acts. But from the story, there was no evidence that any of the Guatemalans found in the tractor trailer were being trafficked for the purpose of forced labor, child exploitation, or prostitution. Read more >>

Boy, they're dragging out this DACA thing, aren't they? Where are we up to this week?

As I've been reporting, there are two issues in play here: Funding the government, and resolving the DACA business—those 800,000 illegal aliens who were given temporary work permits, probably illegally, by Barack Obama … and who are not, by the way, to be confused with "Dreamers." "Dreamers" are illegals who would have been beneficiaries of the DREAM Act, except that Congress has never been able to pass it. There would have been two million of them.

The two issues, DACA and funding the government, have two different deadlines for congressional action. For funding the government, Congress has to pass a law before midnight January 19th, two weeks from this last Friday. For DACA the deadline is March 5th, eight and a half weeks from Friday, when President Trump's extension of Obama's (probably unconstitutional) order expires. Read more >>