“The reconciliation bill President Donald Trump signed last month increased Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s detention budget by more than 300%, making the immigration enforcement machine’s budget comparable to that of some foreign armed forces. ICE has begun hiring thousands of new agents. . . .
“Six months into his second term, Trump’s immigration policy is what many feared it would be when he was elected. This goes beyond simply getting “tough” on immigration. The administration is undertaking an unprecedented realignment of the federal government, turning it into a detention and deportation machine that threatens communities, upends legal norms and shakes the foundation of American democracy.
“In the next month, detentions under the Trump administration are expected to hit 60,000 people — the highest number in modern history. . . . The goal isn’t justice. It’s fear and authoritarian control.
“Let’s be clear: The immigration system was broken before Trump returned to office. Our asylum system was overwhelmed, our visa and green-card processes were slow and under-resourced, and our immigration courts were backlogged by years. But instead of fixing any of this, the Trump administration has chosen to make things worse — on purpose. And in doing so, they’ve turned immigration enforcement into a cudgel that is destroying the core pillars of our democracy.
“As we at the American Immigration Council laid out in a recent report. Trump’s second-term immigration policies, in just six months, represent an unprecedented and coordinated assault on democratic rights and principles. We are now witnessing the routine violation of rights that most Americans consider fundamental. . . .”—Trump’s Immigration Policies Make Americans Less Safe, Nayna Gupta, MSNBC, 8/11/25 [Link]
Fact Check of Above Quote: This article is right about one thing. Our immigration system was indeed broken before Donald Trump came back into office. And the reason it was broken was that the Biden Administration deliberately and maliciously chose to break it. Yes, the asylum system was overwhelmed. That was because of Biden’s policies which encouraged illegal aliens to make bogus asylum claims. One of those policies was granting parole to “asylum seekers” in clear violation of the stated intent of the parole law.
Interestingly, this clear breach of the law did not bother illegal alien advocates who now obsess that Trump is violating the rule of law and democracy as he he tried to enforce the immigration laws passed by Congress.
In this effort he has made great strides toward securing the border, something these illegal advocates said could never be done (their wishful thinking no doubt). Now they’ seem deeply concerned that he might start succeeding at interior enforcement. So, it’s understandable why they grasp—hypocritically–at any phony legal straws they can to thwart enforcement.
The legitimacy of our immigration restrictions rests on the fundamental reality that we simply can’t accept all the people who would like to move here. According to one survey, 170 million people around the world would like to settle in our country. Certainly, they would like to bring their spouses and children with them, so the total of the potential influx could approach 500 million. This potential tide of humanity could easily swamp us and erase our national identity. We encourage this tide to surge if we do not enforce our immigration laws, which must include carrying out deportations.
Illegal alien advocates can blather all they like about America’s “democratic rights and principles.” Without effective limits on immigration, there won’t be any America.