The Quote Below—More Misinformation from the Media
“Trump has vowed to launch the largest domestic deportation operation in American history. He’s planning huge internment camps for immigrants, including people who’ve lived here for decades. His operation would separate millions of mixed-status families across the country and leave countless U.S. citizen children, including babies, without their parents. It would make his family separation policy, which focused on recent arrivals at the border and was halted by a national outcry, look restrained. . . .
“Eight years ago, Trump’s call to ‘build a wall’ was not yet part of standard GOP rhetoric. Now, the party’s new normal includes dreams of internment camps . . . and calls to end birthright citizenship, a constitutional right, and proposals to deputize local and state officials to round people up for the camps.
“The mainstreaming of extreme ideas would’ve been impossible without Stephen Miller, the Trump advisor responsible for some of the demagogue’s most restrictionist policies, including strangling refugee access and other legal pathways into the country. It was Miller’s idea to use a public health rule to reject asylum seekers during the pandemic, a policy Trump hopes to revive. . . . To ensure this agenda could not be thwarted as frequently as it was in 2017-20, Trump would install far-right attorneys and other loyalist officials in the administration.
“Trump’s challengers are all scrambling to go as low as possible on immigration, but nobody can play the tyrant better than Trump. The strategy of his challengers — to try to outperform the showman on his signature issue — is doomed to fail. Instead, it’s empowering him and stoking anti-immigrant hate that is endangering the lives of ethnic minorities across the country. No matter what his rivals promise to inflict on immigrants, Trump, the despot, wins with hate.” – No Republican Presidential Candidate Can Sound Crueler Than Trump on Immigration, Jean Guerrero, Los Angeles Times, 12/11/23 [Link]
Fact Check of Above Quote: This writer, Jean Guerrero, suggests it’s “cruel” that Donald Trump or anyone else to enforce our immigration laws. She offers no concern about the cruelty that will befall a society when the rule of law breaks down. Open borders promote anarchy, and anarchy is never kind. This is not to say, however, that Trump’s plan for a fast mass round up of illegal aliens is the best way forward. This approach would be expensive and disruptive in an economy where many job-holders are illegal aliens.
A better strategy is called attrition through enforcement. It involves a slow but steady increase of immigration law enforcement which makes illegal residence in the U.S. increasingly difficult. In this situation, with minimal disruption, illegal aliens will start to go home on their own, a process of self-deportation.
More detention facilities will be necessary for people making asylum claims. Under the law, they are supposed to be detained until their hearings, a law the Biden Administration has largely ignored. Instead it commonly releases them with their promise that they will show up for the hearings, a promise many probably won’t keep.
Trump is correct to question birthright citizenship, which makes the children of illegal aliens born in the U.S. automatic citizens. Contrary to Guerrero’s assertion, much evidence indicates that birthright citizenship is a misinterpretation of the Constitution. She maintains that it is outrageous to deport illegal parents of birthright citizen children, saying that this would break up families. But that wouldn’t necessarily be the case. The parents could take the children back home with them. As citizens, the children could return when they become adults.
As for keeping illegal aliens out in the first place, there is nothing cruel about building a border wall, nor is it cruel to keep out bogus asylum claimants, as Trump did with his “Remain in Mexico” policy. Guerrero worries that Trump will install “far-right” attorneys and other conservative appointees if he wins in November. Perhaps that could help to correct and balance the far-left binge of the Biden Administration on immigration.
Immigration advocates like Guerrero try to shoot down nearly every proposal to stem illegal immigration. The question thus arises: Is unrestricted immigration what they really want? So often they obsess about the alleged “hate” of their opponents, but if they don’t think our country should have borders and enforceable laws, it’s pretty clear that they don’t love our country.