My current state of legal residence has gone nuts.
On November’s Virginia ballot, Virginia’s voters will consider “Amendment 1,” which would:
- Make abortion freely available throughout the third trimester of pregnancy, all the way up to birth;
- Abolish the right of parents to be consulted on, and to consent to, abortions sought by their young daughters; and
- Enable anyone to perform an abortion and to escape legal responsibility for botching an abortion.
- Enable a child, without her parents’ knowledge or consent, to receive puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and sterilization surgery.
Like the earlier Democratic attempt to sneak a Constitutional amendment past voters with a dishonest description on the ballot, this one employs misleading and deceitful language (“reproductive health” standing in for “the ability to kill unborn babies in the ninth month of pregnancy”) and belies Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger’s promise that she would govern as a “moderate Democrat.”
But wait…there’s more!
The Arlington County Board just voted to put aside $50,000 for families whose head of the household is an illegal immigrant and has been detained or deported by ICE. Moreover, the county won’t require families to prove detention or deportation or provide employment records. Each eligible family can get up to $2,000. The money will be distributed by Arlington Thrive, a non-profit organization that provides emergency financial assistance.
“This investment in our families is about the urgency we have seen in our community in the last month,” said Arlington County Board Chairman Matt de Ferranti. “And we are going to respond with care. and we are going to respond proudly. That’s what this $50,000 is toward with Thrive.”
Former Acting ICE Director and former federal prosecutor Jonathan Fahey said the county may be violating federal law, arguing, “Arlington County is putting aside money for presumably people that are not even legal in the country, as opposed to giving it to Arlington County residents or American citizens.” “But I think the one thing that’s really interesting about what they’re doing here, there’s this alien harboring statute, a federal statute that makes it illegal to do something that induces or encourages someone to come to the country illegally or to reside in the country illegally, and I think Arlington County has a real problem with that statute.”
“They’re going to induce more illegal aliens into Arlington County, which will also cost the taxpayers even more money,” added Fahey. “There’s probably so many things that could be done that are better for the taxpayers and the residents and the legal residents of Arlington County.”
Sorry, this doesn’t count as crazy. This is ‘moderate Democrat’ stuff. In my state, the ‘urban Republicans’ have been caught using state victim compensation fund money to pay attorneys to challenge deportation orders of illegal immigrants. The same city’s ‘Republican’ police force proudly announced that they were funding people to go throughout the city to talk with illegal immigrant groups to assure them that the city does not cooperate with ICE and they can report crimes without fear of being deported. No, focusing all state resources on abortion and illegal aliens is mainstream Democratic Party these days.
None of the initiatives you listed in Amendment 1 are extreme anymore. They are mainstream Democratic Party positions. Things don’t get on the ballot unless there is widespread support for it in the party. Spanberger is a moderate Democrat. Anyone who thinks she is extreme is delusional about the current Democratic Party. The foundations for Amendment 1 have been set since the ‘It takes a village’ days of Hillary Clinton. The Democratic Party, with their followers in the public schools, have been pushing the idea that children belong to the state, not the parents. They pretty much accomplished it in 2020-2021 when schools were vaccinating children against their parent’s explicit wishes and instructions and they got away with it.
Regarding the Arlington Board slush fund, how will they verify the non-citizenship status of the applicants for relief? What if they are not able to obtain a copy of their birth certificates or passports?
Sounds pretty racist if you ask me.
-Jut
If there is no verification of status, is it fraud if I make a quick trip up to Arlington and claim a couple of thou$?
“If there is no verification of status, is it fraud if I make a quick trip up to Arlington and claim a couple of thou$?”
This is the exact same thing that happened with the Paycheck Protection Program. No check and balance – they are basically inviting people to commit fraud and claim these funds.