NYT: No Purge of Criminal Aliens

More Misinformation from the Media:

President-elect Donald Trump says he will move immediately to deport or imprison two million . . . unauthorized-immigrant criminals. . . . Like many of his proposals, this one sounds tough and straightforward, but it makes no sense under scrutiny and is frightening to think about. Start with the fact that the target number is made up. According to rough estimates by the Migration Policy Institute, of the 11 million unauthorized immigrants, about 820,000 have criminal records. . . . [Trump] would have to haul away a lot of terrific people, and terrorize many more. . . . All the while he would be snatching workers from their jobs, workers who keep the economy humming. – Donald Trump’s Plan to Purge the Nation, The Editorial Board, The New York Times, 11/18/16.

Mr. Trump and his Republican allies in congress have threatened to cut off federal funding to immigrant-friendly “sanctuary cities” like San Francisco, Chicago, and New York. It’s unclear what budgetary pain they can cause. But we can only hope these places stand firm when cherished American ideals are under siege.

Fact Check: Just when you think The New York Times can’t go any lower in its efforts to promote illegal immigration, it finds a way to sink lower. What Trump proposes is simply getting rid of foreigners who reside in our country and inflict harm on American citizens. What patriotic American could oppose that? Well, the editors of the New York Times do, which certainly raises the question of their patriotism.

Trump has reason to cite the number of two million alien criminals because Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) estimates that there are 1.9 million deportable criminal aliens in the U.S. But for the sake of argument, let’s assume that the figure of 820,000 is accurate. The whole tone and tenor of the Times article is that it is somehow improper even to go after these people. Maintenance of sanctuary cities most certainly would protect them there.

To the Times editors, “a lot” of the people who break our immigration laws—and quite a number of other laws in the process—are “terrific people.” And when they do their jobs they “keep the economy humming.” And for hard-core criminals among them, what might some of those jobs be? Drug pushing? Theft rings? Such “humming” we definitely can do without.

In the bizarro world of the Times, public officials who protect lawbreakers are upholders of “cherished American ideals.” Evidently, they don’t regard the rule of law as an American ideal—and perhaps the reason is that they have little regard for America and her citizens. The latter, alas, aren’t so “terrific” in the eyes of these editors. If they suffer crimes by illegal foreign residents, these journalists will lose no sleep over it. In their protected bubbles of privilege and power, they have little need to worry about crime.

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