With the Trump indictment the flood gates for prosecuting former US presidents is open. Here are some thoughts from Vdare.com about where this could go, if Republicans get power, and backbone to see things through. Imagine Obama, prosecuted; and Bill Clinton.
“The precedent has been set. Former presidents can and will be prosecuted, even if the prosecution is or looks politically motivated. The unprecedented campaign against former President Donald J. Trump—from the Deep State’s effort to stop his election and the fraudulent Russian Collusion Hoax, to his impeachment and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s preposterous indictment—has established a new standard for the application of criminal laws. They will be used to crush political opponents. So now is the time to indict and prosecute men who are actually breaking the law to bring about The Great Replacement: President Joe Biden, and former presidents George Bush, Bill Clinton, and Barack Hussein Obama.
The issue at hand is the alien smuggling organized by Biden and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, as well as those three former presidents. By funding a major project to import illegal aliens, they are conspiring to violate Title 8 Section 1324 of the U.S. federal code, Bringing In and Harboring Certain Aliens [Legal Information Institute, Law.Cornell.edu].
This is what the law says:
- a) Criminal penalties (1) (A) Any person who—
(i) knowing that a person is an alien, brings to or attempts to bring to the United States in any manner whatsoever such person at a place other than a designated port of entry or place other than as designated by the Commissioner, regardless of whether such alien has received prior official authorization to come to, enter, or reside in the United States and regardless of any future official action which may be taken with respect to such alien.
That language applies to those bringing illegal aliens into the United States: for instance, the coyotes, in border parlance, who smuggle illegals across the border. Of course, the term conjures pictures of a dusty Mexican border road, a filthy van, a cartel driver with cowboy boots and a large belt buckle. And that is generally correct.
But the new coyotes are a different breed. And they aren’t cartel jefes in Italian suits, gold chains, and diamond pinky rings. Alien smuggling has gone respectable, or at least woke. The head smugglers wear Brooks Brothers suits, and starched white shirts and red ties, and shined Allen Edmonds cap-toe Oxfords. They are the epitome of the American political class that detests the Historic American Nation and wants it replaced.
Bush, Clinton, and Obama have joined the Biden Crime Outfit in funding the dispossession and replacement of the Historic American Nation through an outfit called Welcome.US:
A non-governmental organization (NGO) founded by former Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama and backed by a litany of multinational corporations is teaming up with American Express Global Business Travel to fly migrants into the United States.
The NGO, called Welcome.US, was initially launched to work with President Joe Biden’s administration in resettling some 85,000 Afghans across the U.S. in 2021 and 2022, as Breitbart News reported extensively at the time. …
Now, the NGO is teaming up with the open borders group Miles4Migrants as well as American Express Global Business Travel to fund flights to American communities for migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Venezuela, Ukraine, and Nicaragua.
[Bush, Obama, Clinton Team Up with American Express Global Business Travel to Fly Migrants into American Communities, by John Binder, Breitbart, April 20, 2023]
The effort is a criminal conspiracy, and by funding it, they are violating other statutes that define federal financial crimes, such as wire and mail fraud, punishable under Title 18 USC 1341 and 1343, and 18 U.S.C 371, Conspiracy.
One might argue that the aliens on these flights are not illegals, but instead parolees lawfully approved by DHS, i.e., legal aliens. That assumes these Cubans, Haitians, Ukrainians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans actually have legal “parole” status.
Wrong. The parole offered to them, Ukrainians included, is illegal, and especially illegal for Haitians, Venezuelans, and Nicaraguans. Only Cubans have a colorable claim to refugee or asylum status. But even Cubans are not submitting refugee applications that can be adjudicated and approved. Like the rest, they are parolees.
Parole is a highly restricted status. It is not a wild card for aliens who do not qualify for an approved Immigrant Visa, or approved asylum or refugee application.
Here is the law:
(5)(A) The Attorney General may, except as provided in subparagraph (B) or in section 1184(f) of this title, in his discretion parole into the United States temporarily under such conditions as he may prescribe only on a case-by-case basis for urgent humanitarian reasons or significant public benefit any alien applying for admission to the United States, but such parole of such alien shall not be regarded as an admission of the alien and when the purposes of such parole shall, in the opinion of the Attorney General, have been served the alien shall forthwith return or be returned to the custody from which he was paroled and thereafter his case shall continue to be dealt with in the same manner as that of any other applicant for admission to the United States.
(B) The Attorney General may not parole into the United States an alien who is a refugee unless the Attorney General determines that compelling reasons in the public interest with respect to that particular alien require that the alien be paroled into the United States rather than be admitted as a refugee under section 1157 of this title.
[Title 8 U.S.C. 1187, Inadmissible Aliens, Legal Information Institute, Law.Cornell.edu]
Here is what that law means and allows:
The parole provision in the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) gives the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) discretionary authority to “parole into the United States temporarily under such conditions as he may prescribe only on a case-by-case basis for urgent humanitarian reasons or significant public benefit any alien applying for admission to the United States.”
Immigration parole is official permission to enter and remain temporarily in the United States. It does not constitute formal admission under the U.S. immigration system. An individual granted parole (a parolee) is still considered an applicant for admission. A parolee is permitted to remain in the United States for the duration of the grant of parole, and may be granted work authorization.
[Immigration Parole, Congressional Research Service, October 15, 2020]
Thus, Biden and his sidekick, unindicted visa fraudster Mayorkas, are illegally paroling illegal aliens [Inside The Lawless Biden Regime Administrative Amnesty, by Federale, Federale Blog, January 31, 2022]. These parolees are either wanna-be immigrants who need a visa, or putative refugees or asylees who must apply and await adjudication of their claims. As an aside, a refugee is an alien outside the United States who claims persecution; an asylee is an alien inside the United States who claims persecution. Both are subject to the same standards of adjudication.
Clearly, Biden and the presidential troika are trying to import aliens who will live here forever. Raising money to do so is a crime. They are conspiring in the Biden Regime’s immigration fraud.
Time was, we didn’t prosecute crimes committed by former presidents. Recall that the Clintons stole White House furniture but weren’t prosecuted [Clintons Return White House Furniture, ABC News, February 8, 2021]. As secretary of state, Hillary Clinton committed numerous crimes by mishandling classified information. Again, no prosecution [Clinton Emails: DOJ Will Not File Charges Against Former Secretary of State, by Pierre Thomas and Margaret Chadbourn, ABC News, July 6, 2016]. But those days are over.
Now, consider Bragg’s indictment of Trump. Democrat law professor Jonathan Turley called “legally pathetic” and a “raw political prosecution” [Unprecedented Trump indictment eviscerated as ‘legally pathetic,’ by Ashley Carnahan, Fox News, March 30, 2023]. “In 60 years of practice, this is the worst case of prosecutorial abuse I have ever seen,” leftist law professor and constitutional scholar Alan Dershowitz told the Epoch Times [‘Worst Case of Prosecutorial Abuse’: Alan Dershowitz Reacts to Trump Indictment, by Gary Bai, March 30, 2023].
And so a new standard has been set. Bush, Clinton, and Obama, as well as Biden and Mayorkas, must be investigated, arrested, and prosecuted for crimes related to bringing illegal aliens to the United States. Good thing is, such a probe and prosecution would not be political. The gang is conspiring to break federal law. Trump did not commit a federal crime. Biden and the other three did.
One might claim they don’t know they’re breaking the law, or, as in Hillary Clinton’s classified documents case, they don’t intend to break the law. I call B.S. All three committed the same crimes by illegally paroling aliens in mass numbers when they were president: Clinton imported tens of thousands of Russians, Iraqis, Somalians, and Vietnamese, as did Bush. Obama was in his own category during the Children’s Jihad at the border, which doesn’t count the illegal Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) or his illegal administrative amnesty. The three former presidents know that Biden’s parole amnesty is as illegal as their own abuses.
Donald Trump and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, a possible presidential candidate in 2024, must pledge to prosecute all those involved in the criminal conspiracy led by Biden and Mayorkas, and funded by George Bush, Bill Clinton, Barack Hussein Obama.”