The Quote Below—More Misinformation from the Media
“President Donald Trump’s campaign promise to deport ‘violent criminal illegal aliens’ won him votes, but has now become a far broader effort ensnaring millions of law-abiding people living and working productively in all parts of the country. . . . The architect of this campaign is White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller.
“The right leaning Washington Examiner reports that Miller gathered ICE leaders in Washington to berate them for not arresting more people. An exasperated Miller asked “what do you mean you’re going after criminals?” and demanded that the ICE field office directors explain “why aren’t you at Home Depot? Why aren’t you at 7-Eleven?” to arrest immigrants. . . .
“It was clear to anyone paying attention that Trump’s second term would make it a focus to detain and deport as many people as possible. . . . Who is going to take the low-paying jobs that undocumented immigrants filled? Who will take care of your kids or clean your home?
“There was never going to be a system that somehow only nabbed the really bad guys and excluded all of the ‘good guys’ that people believed would be exempt from Trump‘s explicit promises. It was always going to be an effort to bump up the numbers that Miller wants at all costs.
“Miller does dislike immigrants because they are ‘criminals,’ but precisely because they are immigrants. If Miller can expend the exact same amount of resources to capture and deport 100 law-abiding families versus a few hard-core criminals, he’ll pick the families every time, because that just means fewer immigrants overall, his ultimate objective. It’s not and never was about safety.” — High Price of the Trump Roundups — Stephen Miller wants to deport law-abiding immigrants, Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 6/9/2025 [Link]
Fact of Above Quote: To these editorialists, there is no such thing as an illegal alien because our immigration laws are essentially illegal. No, these aliens are “law-abiding immigrants.” So, just what are the laws they do abide by?
Such laws, if they may be called that, bear a suspicious similarity to the legal vision of globalist elites who propose eliminate all distinctions between nations, and citizens and noncitizens, thus making everyone equal—at least everyone the elites deem to be beneath them. In this vision, nations will fade into insignificance, patriotism will be meaningless, and sterile sameness will replace true and vibrant diversity.
So can we conclude that these editorialists are just obedient shills and propagandists for the globalists? No doubt they would disagree. But what difference, if any, is there between what they advocate and what the globalists espouse? They seem to think that most illegal aliens should have a free pass to violate our immigration laws. Just how is that consistent with protecting our rule of law and our national sovereignty? Whatever the editorialists’ motives, they are certainly carrying water for the anti-American globalists.
The editorialist try to justify their position by claiming that we need illegal aliens to do low-paying jobs. The implication is that Americans won’t do them. The reality is that in almost all job categories, native-born Americans are the majority of workers. Therefore, illegal aliens are commonly competing with them, and thereby reducing their wages. Do the editorialists care? Probably not. Few illegal aliens will be competing for their jobs. Certainly to some degree, they are elitists, which probably gives them some sympathy for the globalist elites.