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Trudeau doesn’t have a border security plan to avoid Trump’s tariff

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By David Krayden 

And Poilievre needs to nail the Liberals to the wall over it

If there is anything funny – and I mean funny strange here – about the current tariff dispute between the Trudeau government and President Donald Trump it is the repetition by all interested parties in Canada to continue to give the Liberals a pass for their “border security plan.” To begin with, I say the fight is between Justin Trudeau and Trump and not Canada and the US because this is a highly personal matter between the two men. Trudeau could have ended this dispute on the night he invited himself to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago lair and did the embarrassing photo op with the president-elect.

It was obviously a fruitless night of conversation and not negotiation because Trudeau did not come back to Canada with any commitment to satisfy Trump’s demand that Canada do something about its porous border that simultaneously allows illegals to cross into Canada from the US and provides easy access for illegals – a significant number of which are terrorists – to enter the United States. Trump announced that a 25% tariff against all Canadian goods will proceed by Feb. 1.

Instead, Trudeau cooked up a scheme that he must have thought would either satisfy or fool Trump and included an “investment” of $1.3 billion in the long overdue Fall Economic Statement that was literally printed and delivered into the hands of the media and MPs just days before autumn turned into winter. Even though most of the mainstream media reported that this funding would be spread out over SIX years, nobody really read the fine print of the document that indicated most of the money would be spent in the fourth, fifth and sixth year of the program and very little in the first two years when of course it would be most required to demonstrate some degree of good faith to the Trump administration in order to avoid the promised 25% tariff that was promised if good faith was not delivered along with literal and tangible border security measures.

Looking at the ridiculous allocation of taxpayer dollars it is clear that this is a facade or a bad joke.

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“Securing Our Borders” is a line item under section 3.1 that deals with “Safer, Healthier Communities.” None of the items described herein, with the exception of the border security line, have anything to do with safer or healthier communities and everything to do with more of Trudeau’s identity politics and woke policies.

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Trudeau clearly wants a trade war and to frame the coming federal election as a battle between us and them, or more precisely, Canada, as represented by the Liberal Party, and the US as led by Trump. That’s the only way he, his successor and the Liberals can hope to defeat the Conservatives. That has been the plan long before Trump even started talking about his dissatisfaction with Canada’s borders. That’s why Team Trudeau has done virtually nothing on border security, except for having the RCMP buy Chinese drones in December (they are now saying they are buying American drones, since the USA is passing a bill to outlaw Chinese drones due to the security risk).

Do the Trudeau Liberals think Donald Trump and his staff cannot read the publicly available fall economic statement with all the woke line items and the massive discrepancy between Liberal talking points and what is in this “border security plan”?

The so-called border security plan cannot even get off the ground because Trudeau suspended Canadian Parliament at the same time as his so-called resignation, so the $1.3 billion spending cannot even be approved to start with. Plus, the spending is projected for 5 years into the future. In 2025 to 2026 the Liberal planned gun grab is receiving 5 times more spending than border security. And as experts continue to say, there are no more boots on the ground within this yet to be approved Trudeau’s border security plan.

The focus, instead, for the Trudeau Liberals and Ontario Premier Doug Ford has been talking about shutting off energy to the US. And why has Canada’ prime minister continued to taunt and belittle Trump?

“Trump has announced that he wants a golden age for the American economy. The federal government has continued to say, clearly, as I will, that everything is on the table if he does move forward on tariffs on Canada, as he has said, whether it be back on January 20 or on Feb. 1 or Feb. 15 is a Valentine’s Day present, or on Apr. 1, or whenever he says he’s going to do it, as he keeps repeating, two things will happen,” Trudeau told reporters during a recent retreat.

Trudeau then talked about Canada having “a strong, robust response, because we don’t want this, but we will respond if necessary. And two, prices for American consumers on just about everything will go up, and we don’t think he wants that.” Trudeau then revealed his contempt for Trump saying the president “has talked about the border as being a great preoccupation for him.” The angrier that Trudeau makes Trump, the more Trump helps the Liberals by becoming the very embodiment of the American bogeyman that leftist Canadians have always loved to hate. The Official Opposition must respond and lead Canada into the next election. They need to form a legitimate government that can truly promote Canadian interests.

Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre has been put into the uncomfortable position of defending Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and her insistence that the federal government does not control provincial natural resources while advocating for retaliatory tariffs. Trudeau has demonized Smith and accused her of putting her interests and those of Alberta of Canada. He has suggested that both she and Poilievre are working for Trump and not Canada. Concomitant with this lie, Trudeau has also co-opted Ontario Premier Doug Ford for his Liberal team. Ford has shamelessly repeated Liberal talking points that he has embraced. Ford, of course, is a faux conservative who has supported all of the Trudeau government’s darkest policies.

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  • Poilievre cannot allow himself to be co-opted or become another spokesman for Team Trudeau. He must present himself as not only the prime minister in waiting but the only federal leader who can effectively negotiate with Trump on behalf of Canada. This is fundamental to Conservative fortunes in the next election. The Liberals will stop at nothing to try to resuscitate their dying party and toxic brand. All leadership candidates are suggesting they represent a new beginning while front-runner Mark Carney has the unmitigated gall to suggest he is an “outsider.”

Poilievre has seized the moment and began to offer some substantive policy ideas. He told CTV News that “he would retaliate” to any Trump tariff and “would target products and services that A, we don’t need, B, we can make ourselves and C, that we can buy elsewhere, so that we maximize impact on the Americans while minimizing impact on Canadians.”

Then he outlined how he would transform the Canadian economy so that it could work in sync with Trump’s fiscal policies. He talked about a “tax cut on work, investment making stuff in Canada, energy, home building so that we can stimulate more economic growth here. Three, we need to become more self-sufficient. That means knocking down barriers. More interprovincial free trade. We have freer trade with the Americans today than we do with ourselves. We have to knock down those barriers, build pipelines, LNG, liquefaction facilities, to sell our stuff to the world without having to go through the Americans.”

Yes. This is common sense, conservative politics that will help Canada to prosper within a world dominated by Trump’s America. But Poilievre also needs to acknowledge that Trudeau and the Liberals and Canada continue to fail on the border. The necessary work has not been done and Trump knows it. He needs to tell Trump that the age of Trudeau is over and it will not be extended by a replacement Liberal leader. If Trudeau will not apologize for his arrogance and rudeness then Poilievre should apologize on his behalf. The Trudeau government is deeply corrupt and thoroughly mendacious.

Poilievre needs to continue to hit back with the necessary ferocity and determination to win.

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DOJ Releases Dossier Of Deported Maryland Man’s Alleged MS-13 Gang Ties

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By Katelynn Richardson

The Department of Justice (DOJ) released documents Wednesday demonstrating Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia’s membership in the MS-13 gang.

Abrego Garcia’s police interview, immigration court rulings and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) deportable/inadmissible alien record highlighting his membership in the gang, which he has disputed in court, are included in the release.

In a December 2019 decision, the Board of Immigration Appeals dismissed Abrego Garcia’s challenge to an immigration judge’s factual finding that he is “a verified member of MS-13.”

The board found the immigration judge “appropriately considered allegations of gang affiliation against the respondent in determining that he has not demonstrated that he is not a danger to property or persons.”

Officers found Abrego Garcia loitering in a Home Depot parking lot on March 28, 2019, wearing “a Chicago Bulls hat and a hoodie with rolls of money covering the eyes, ears and mouth of the presidents on the separate denominations,” the initial Prince George’s County Police Department Gang Field Interview Sheet states.

“Wearing the Chicago Bulls hat represents that they are a member in good standing with the MS-13,” the document states. “Officers contacted a past proven and reliable source of information, who advised Kilmar Armando ABREGO-GARCIA is an active member of MS-13 with the Westerns clique. The confidential source further advised that he is the rank of ‘Chequeo’ with the moniker of ‘Chele.’”

The administration became embroiled in a legal dispute after Abrego Garcia, who entered the country illegally in 2011, was deported in March to El Salvador as a result of an error. In court records, they argued Abrego Garcia could not “relitigate the finding that he is a danger to the community.”

A lower court ordered his return, but the Supreme Court required it to clarify the order and directed the administration to “facilitate” Abrego Garcia’s release.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) indicated Wednesday that it would appeal the amended order Judge Paula Xinis issued which directed the government to “take all available steps to facilitate the return of Abrego Garcia to the United States as soon as possible.”

During a Monday meeting with President Donald Trump, El Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele said he would not “smuggle” a terrorist into the U.S.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) also released court filings Wednesday showing Abrego Garcia’s wife requested a domestic violence restraining order against him.

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Despite court rulings, the Trump Administration shows no interest in helping Abrego Garcia return to the U.S.

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Timeline: The Case of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia

With President Trump sitting next to him, El Salvador President Nayib Bukele told reporters in the Oval Office on Monday that no, he is not going to release Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia from his country’s Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT), despite a Justice Department lawyer admitting in a court filing that Abrego Garcia’s deportation last month was an “administrative error.”

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No matter, Bukele said when asked if would return him to the U.S.:

Bukele: Of course I’m not going to do it. The question is preposterous. How can I smuggle a terrorist into the United States. I don’t have the power to return him to the United States.

Reporter: But you could release him inside El Salvador.

Bukele: Yeah, but I’m not releasing, I mean I’m not very fond of releasing terrorists into our country. We just turned the murder capital of the world into the safest country in the Western hemisphere, and you want us to go back into releasing criminals so we can go back to being the murder capital of the world? That’s not going to happen.

Not that there was any doubt what Bukele would say. Attorney General Pam Bondi set the tone early on in the meeting. She explained what the Supreme Court meant last week when it said a lower court ruling “properly requires the government to ‘facilitate’ Abrego Garcia’s release from custody in El Salvador.”

The Supreme Court ruled, president, that if El Salvador wants to return him … we would facilitate it, meaning provide a plane.

It brings to mind President Clinton’s infamous grand jury testimony when he said: “It depends upon what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is.”

Abrego-Garcia left El Salvador and illegally entered the U.S. in 2011. His status as an illegal immigrant changed after he was arrested in 2019 and the Department of Homeland Security accused him of being a member of the MS-13 gang. Abrego Garcia fought the accusation and applied for asylum. Instead, an immigration judge granted him “withholding of removal” status.

A federal judge wrote in an April 6 opinion that in El Salvador “the Barrio 18 gang had been targeting him and threatening him with death because of his family’s pupusa business.”

The Justice Department argues its hands are tied. It doesn’t matter that the U.S. is paying El Salvador $6 million a year to house U.S. deportees at CECOT.

“The United States does not have control over Abrego Garcia. Or the sovereign nation of El Salvador,” says one court filing.

Below is a timeline of the case since Abrego Garcia was arrested last month, leading up to Monday’s Oval Office meeting with Bukele.

March 12-15, 2025

ICE agents stop Abrego Garcia and tell him that he is no longer under “withholding of removal” status. The Trump administration says he is a member of the MS-13 gang, which the president has designated a foreign terrorist organization.

Abrego Garcia, who denies he is part of MS-13, is sent to an ICE detention facility in La Villa, Texas, and from there he is deported to El Salvador on March 15 along with 260 others, primarily Venezuelan nationals. He is being held in CECOT, a prison that has a capacity of 40,000 inmates.

March 24, 2025

Abrego Garcia and his wife, Jennifer Vasquez Sura, file a lawsuit that notes Abrego Garcia has been in the U.S. legally since 2019 under withholding of removal status, and that the designation was never lifted.

They also accuse the government of sending Abrego Garcia to El Salvador despite “knowing that he would be immediately incarcerated and tortured in that country’s most notorious prison; indeed, Defendants have paid the government of El Salvador millions of dollars to do exactly that. Such conduct shocks the conscience and cries out for immediate judicial relief.”

The lawsuit requests the court order the U.S. government to tell the government of El Salvador to release and deliver Abrego Garcia to the U.S. Embassy in San Salvador.

March 31, 2025

The Justice Department acknowledges in a court filing that “although ICE was aware of his protection from removal to El Salvador, Abrego Garcia was removed to El Salvador because of an administrative error.”

Still, the Justice Department argues the motion should be denied because the court “has no power” over El Salvador. Justice Department attorneys argue:

Under their (plaintiffs) logic, this Court may assume jurisdiction to decide whether the order is legal, but if the order were determined legal, then jurisdiction would disappear again.

The government also says there’s no proof that Abrego Garcia will be tortured or killed in CECOT:

Plaintiffs point to little evidence about conditions in CECOT itself (focusing primarily on its capacity for detainees), instead extrapolating from allegations about conditions in different Salvadoran prisons. While there may be allegations of abuses in other Salvadoran prisons—very few in relation to the large number of detainees—there is no clear showing that Abrego Garcia himself is likely to be tortured or killed in CECOT. More fundamentally, this Court should defer to the government’s determination that Abrego Garcia will not likely be tortured or killed in El Salvador.

April 4, 2025

U.S. District Court Judge Paula Xinis orders the Trump Administration to return Abrego Garcia to the U.S. by 11:59 p.m., April 7. She writes:

Plaintiffs are likely to succeed on the merits because Abrego Garcia was removed to El Salvador In violation of the Immigration and Nationality Act…and without any legal process; his continued presence in El Salvador, for obvious reasons, constitutes irreparable harm; the balance of equities and the public interest weigh in favor of returning him to the United States; and issuance of a preliminary injunction without further delay is necessary to restore him to the status quo and to avoid ongoing irreparable harm resulting from Abrego Garcia’s unlawful removal.

April 5, 2025

The Justice Department appeals the order, calling it “indefensible” that “a federal district judge ordered the United States to force El Salvador to send one of its citizens—a member of MS-13, no less—back to the United States by midnight on Monday. If there was ever a case for an emergency stay pending appeal, this would be it.”

More from the appellate motion:

Foremost, [the order] commands Defendants to do something they have no independent authority to do: Make El Salvador release Abrego Garcia, and send him to America. That is why Plaintiffs did not even ask the district court for an order directing Abrego Garcia’s return. As Plaintiffs themselves acknowledged, a federal court “has no jurisdiction over the Government of El Salvador and cannot force that sovereign nation to release Plaintiff Abrego Garcia from its prison.” That concession is all that is needed to order a stay here. No federal court has the power to command the Executive to engage in a certain act of foreign relations; that is the exclusive prerogative of Article II, immune from superintendence by Article III.

April 6, 2025

Judge Xinis issues a follow-up memorandum opinion to her April 4 order:

Although the legal basis for the mass removal of hundreds of individuals to El Salvador remains disturbingly unclear, Abrego Garcia’s case is categorically different—there were no legal grounds whatsoever for his arrest, detention, or removal. Nor does any evidence suggest that Abrego Garcia is being held in CECOT at the behest of Salvadoran authorities to answer for crimes in that country. Rather, his detention appears wholly lawless.

The judge also writes that in 2019, Homeland Security “relied principally on a singular unsubstantiated allegation that Abrego Garcia was a member of MS-13.”

April 7, 2025

A three-judge panel of Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously denies the government’s motion for a stay of Xinis’ order that say Abrego Garcia must be returned to the U.S. by 11:59 p.m. Judge Stephanie Thacker writes:

The United States Government has no legal authority to snatch a person who is lawfully present in the United States off the street and remove him from the country without due process. The Government’s contention otherwise, and its argument that the federal courts are powerless to intervene, are unconscionable.

The Trump Administration appeals to the U.S. Supreme Court, and Chief Justice John Roberts grants an administrative stay to give justices time to consider the case.

Following the stay, Bondi accuses Abrego Garcia of being a “violent gang member”:

We will continue to fight for the safety of Americans and get these people out of our country to make America safe.

April 10, 2025

The Supreme Court rules against the Trump administration but directs Judge Xinis to “clarify” a portion of her ruling. From the Supreme Court’s decision:

The order properly requires the Government to “facilitate” Abrego Garcia’s release from custody in El Salvador and to ensure that his case is handled as it would have been had he not been improperly sent to El Salvador. The intended scope of the term “effectuate” in the District Court’s order is, however, unclear, and may exceed the District Court’s authority. The District Court should clarify its directive, with due regard for the deference owed to the Executive Branch in the conduct of foreign affairs. For its part, the Government should be prepared to share what it can concerning the steps it has taken and the prospect of further steps.

April 11, 2025

If the Supreme Court said, ‘Bring somebody back,’ I would do that. I respect the Supreme Court.

President Trump says that aboard Air Force One a day after the Supreme Court upholds a lower court ruling and says the government should “facilitate” Abrego Garcia’s return to the U.S.

Meanwhile, Judge Xinis issues a new order that directs the government to “take all available steps to facilitate the return” of Abrego Garcia. In a hearing, she also makes clear her frustration with the Justice Department.

“The record, as it stands, is, despite this court’s clear directive, your clients have done nothing to facilitate the return of Mr. Abrego Garcia,” she says.

Xinis also orders the administration to provide daily updates on the status of Abrego Garcia’s return. She also criticizes Justice Department attorneys in her order:

During the hearing, the Court posed straightforward questions, including: Where is Abrego Garcia right now? What steps had Defendants taken to facilitate his return while the Court’s initial order on injunctive relief was in effect…? Defendants’ counsel responded that he could not answer these questions, and at times suggested that Defendants had withheld such information from him. As a result, counsel could not confirm, and thus did not advance any evidence, that Defendants had done anything to facilitate Abrego Garcia’s return. This remained Defendants’ position even after this Court reminded them that the Supreme Court of the United States expressly affirmed this Court’s authority to require the Government “facilitate” Abrego Garcia’s return. From this Court’s perspective, Defendants’ contention that they could not answer these basic questions absent some nonspecific “vetting” that has yet to take place, provides no basis for their lack of compliance.

April 12, 2025

A State Department official reports to the court that Abrego Garcia is “alive and secure” at CECOT. “He is detained pursuant to the sovereign, domestic authority of El Salvador,” the State Department’s Michael Kozak says in a filing.

However, he does not give an update on the status of Abrego Garcia’s return to the U.S.

 

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