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Donald Trump will not be president for almost another two months.
Yet Democrat politicians, both federal and local, vie to be the most strident in denouncing his plans to begin deporting millions of foreign nationals who, over the last four years, have entered the U.S. illegally. Trump pledges to focus initially only on the 400,000 to 500,000 current felons and some 1.4 million additional aliens who have ignored legal summons for their deportation.
Weekly we read of thousands of illegal immigrants arriving from areas controlled by violent Mexican cartel gangs or failed, strife-torn South American countries that have emptied their jails to send their felons northwards. Hundreds of thousands of them have been committing violent crimes while demanding still more free housing and support from strapped American taxpayers.
Big-city left-wing mayors and city councils boast that they will do all their best to nullify federal immigration laws, even as their cities face near insolvency housing, feeding, and monitoring the influx. More specifically, they brag they will continue to order local and state authorities to resist all efforts of federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers. They scream about possible “massive deportations” to come under Trump, callously ignoring that their own advocacy has fueled rising crime waves of unaudited illegal aliens. And they appear absolutely indifferent to the social costs imposed by illegal immigration upon their own poor and middle-class constituents.
Virtue-signaling Democratic governors and mayors have so far not dared to utter a word of criticism about what has been the Biden administration’s truly historic “massive importation” of illegal aliens into the U.S. over the last four years.
Why?
Largely because these political grandees and media demagogues have the money, connections, zip codes, and influence to be immune from the fallout of their own performance-art advocacy of illegal immigration. They take for granted that the baleful consequences of open borders always falls upon the distant and vulnerable Other.
Again, consider the left-wing logic: it is deemed moral to dismantle the border, disrupt the social fabric of the country, and destroy federal immigration laws. But it is immoral to restore U.S. sovereignty, secure the border, stop the flux of lethal cartel-supplied fentanyl and child sex trafficking, and follow the law?
In this regard, the party that prides itself as progressive is regressively adopting the states’ rights arguments of 19th-century southern states that boasted they would resist all federal enforcement of tariffs. By the late 1850s, these future Confederates were asserting that the national government had no jurisdiction in their state domains. Such brazen nullification would lead to the Civil War.
Note the left assumes that conservatives will not emulate their tactics and thus declare swaths of federal firearms or environmental laws null and void within their red state and county jurisdictions. They know that doing so would start a cycle of lawlessness that would eventually result in either civil war, total anarchy, or both.
The open-borders left’s more immediate spiritual predecessors are states’ rights resisters like former segregationist Governor George Wallace. He boasted that federal civil rights legislation had no sway over his own state’s laws. Wallace, remember, in a historic moment, was removed from blocking the entry of black students to the University of Alabama by federal troops.
Given that nullification now has been turned upside down, will California Governor Gavin Newsom or New York Governor Kathy Hochul block the entrance to their state jails to prevent federal agents from sending home murderers and rapists who arrived in the U.S. illegally?
The left has learned nothing and forgotten nothing from the recent election and decisive Trump victory. The defeat of left-wing candidates was a result most prominently of the Biden administration’s deliberate destruction of the southern border and the illegal welcoming of some 12 million foreigners without legal sanction or health and criminal background audits.
This lawlessness ensured that Kamala Harris, who had sanctioned it, was going to lose the election. The daily sight of thousands swarming the border with impunity, coupled with Orwellian assertions of President Biden, “Border Czar” Vice President Harris, and Homeland Security Director Alejandro Mayorkas that the border was absolutely “secure,” doomed the Biden and then Harris campaigns.
Violating U.S. sovereignty and laws while sending millions into already frayed health, food, housing, medical, legal, and education social services designed to help American citizens was never a winning campaign strategy.
Yet almost nothing could deter the Biden-Harris administration from their fixation with undermining the border and federal immigration law while seeking to change the very demography of the American southwest. The resulting influx of illegal aliens within just three years proved comparable in size to the creation of some 12 American cities, all the size of San Francisco.
The mass crossings resulted from an effort by Joe Biden to utterly disregard his oath to faithfully execute the laws of his country. He was also helped in his lawlessness by some 600 state and local “sanctuary city” jurisdictions that subverted federal law by using their own offices to thwart immigration enforcement. Indeed, left-wing state and local officials pledged their own greater fealty to the welfare of the illegal millions who ignored the law and swamped the border than to their own overtaxed and underserved American citizen constituents.
Finally, on November 5, the people said no more. In historic fashion, traditional Democratic constituencies of the working class and minorities turned on their own left-wing politicians who had first turned on them.
Yet the cynicism of the left had known no bounds. As the presidential campaign had heated up, and the polls, first for Biden and then for his surrogate Harris, began to erode, both began to lie that their vanished border was in fact “secure.”
In other words, they knew they had permanently alienated the American public, knew that it would cost them the election, and so then frantically first tried to deny the truth they had welcomed in millions of illegal aliens. Then they pivoted and sought belatedly to stop the public relations disaster at the border for a few weeks before the election, vainly hiding the sheer cynicism of such an insincere effort.
Earlier, they had tried blaming border hawk Republicans for not signing onto a false border “bipartisan,” red-herring bill. The left introduced it in Congress solely to allow blanket amnesties for millions of illegal aliens while still allowing 4,000 illegal aliens daily to enter the U.S.
The great majority of sane senators who did not sign the Trojan Horse bill were then immediately demonized for the mess by Biden and Harris themselves, who deliberately created the catastrophe.
Now that the election is over, an enfeebled Joe Biden has two months left on his presidency and no longer worries about reelection. So, in its final gasp, the left is again trying to invite in more illegal aliens. Apparently one final huge caravan is forming south of the border and plans to make its way northward just days before Trump takes office and begins to fulfill his promises to the majority of voters to close the border.
Finally, why did illegal immigration explode to levels never seen before?
One, the left saw millions of desperately poor foreign nationals as a natural long-term constituency for their big-government, anti-poverty programs. They felt that some 20-30 million illegal aliens over the last 50 years, along with their children, had flipped California, Nevada, New Mexico, Colorado—and soon Arizona—from blue to red as planned. Of course, should the sudden Hispanic backlash against the immigration insanity of bicoastal elites persist, then the left might turn on their Hispanic voters as illiberal or brainwashed by the right—and ironically move to close the border to preclude more MAGA boosters.
Two, Mexico and Latin America received some 120 billion dollars per year in remittances, mostly sent by their own citizens residing illegally in the U.S. and reliant on American government services that free them up to send billions into the coffers of our own increasingly hostile neighbors. Mexico further sees its 20 million expatriate illegal aliens as a strong lobby group to promote Mexico City’s agendas. The more Mexico exports its impoverished citizens, the more it saves on social services for them, while cynically noting that the more distant and longer their citizens reside away from Mexico, the more they romanticize it, safely from afar.
Three, corporate employers like cheap labor from Latin America, especially when the U.S. government subsidizes such workers with massive housing, food, transportation, and health social services.
On the other side of the ledger, the left cares little that an open border is destroying support for legal immigration and de facto punishes immigrants who wish to follow our laws. A cynic might argue that the left also may fear legal immigrants applying under meritocratic standards, as too independent, self-supporting, educated, skilled, and law-abiding to become its predictably loyal constituents at the polls.
So, what might change to close the border and stop the massive influx?
Donald Trump won the electoral college and the popular vote with a mandate to restore border security and immigration sanity. He received a near-record number of minority voters for a Republican candidate, given they believed that most often must deal with the realities of what elites have unleashed.
In other words, the proverbial people are on to the no-borders elites. They suffer firsthand from their utopian bromides and are tired of being smeared as racists and xenophobes for simply wishing the United States to follow the law, restore secure borders, and end illegal immigration.
And now they have the power and mandate to do all of that.
Noah Andeark says
Democrats love illegals. Democrats love mandates. Couldn’t we mandate that Democrats house a minimum of four illegals for each room and hallway in their homes? I can’t help but think that Laken (Lincoln to the pedophile in the White House) Riley would still be alive if a Democrat had been the one that Joe’s illegal had killed. I don’t see any downside having Democrats house, clothe, feed, pleasure the “newcummers.”
Wesley Horton says
If Trump were smart he would Federalize the National Guard in California and New York and SEND THEM AFTER THE ILLEGALS. Post guards out side the jails and prisons if need be. . (and intercept any released prisoners not American Citizens.)
And of course flip the bird to Governer Newsome and New Yorks Kathy Houchel. Go after any official that interfears.
Just like Arkansas in the 50’s. . drag the luddite law breaking governors into the reality of Federal law and their stupid “Sanctuary state” game.
Thomas E. Warwick says
I’m a big fan of ear bounties. We could have contests. Trophies. Wouldn’t take long for the flow at the border to reverse itself. Just sayin’
Jim says
You ask why the Democrats are doing this. I’m sure you know. I know David Horowitz knows. The reason Democrats are doing this is because they are trying to destroy the current order, in order to build a communist dictatorship on its ashes. They know time is short (two months), so they are doing as much destruction as they can while they have time.
Gabrielle says
Anyone who facilitates the breaking of federal immigration law is a criminal. The new Border Czar, Tom Homan, has already made it clear that those who think they can defiantly refuse to comply with illegals being deportedwill find themselves wearing orange and sitting in a jail cell!! So all those leftist mayors, governors and self-centered politicians better think again.
Trump, in taking the oath of office, has a major and very fundamental requirement to secure our nation from all enemies both foreign and domestic.
Looking at the millions of illegals and those within our federal agencies who have engaged in the illegal violations of citizens rights, it is blatantly clear we currently have both.
States have rights but their authority does not override federal law and federal agencies have broken laws to engage in these preposterous charges to American citizens! Get ready the trash collector is coming and the cleanup of America has begun!!!🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Russ P. says
Absolutely. And when the politicians who are violating their oath of office by protecting illegal border crossers are prosecuted, the fake news media will depict it as Trump persecuting his political enemies. You can be sure of that.
Doug W. says
Illegal alien are not migrants or immigrants.
THEY ARE JUST THIEVES WHO HAVE STOLEN THE PRIVILEGE OF BEING ABLE TO LIVE IN THE U. S..
THESE THIEVES SHOULD NEVER BE ALLOWED TO KEEP WHAT THEY HAVE STOLEN FOR THEMSELVES OR THEIR CHILDREN.
aristotle cam says
First. Biden, Harris and Mayorkas should all be in prison-yesterday! FOR TREASON PERIOD!
Second. Where are our Congress and Senate? I BLAME THEM MORE THAN THE 3 MENTIONED ABOVE.
You know their names-we all voted for them. You know their routines-get on tv and wave your arms around bluster then clap each other on the back and , tell each other what a great job they did.
Thank God for Trump and thank you to all who voted for him!!!
Ron Kelmell says
Having over thrown any moral authority in favor of shifting popular opinions, that lot of American society is now afflicted with a kind of insanity. In his early 20th Century study of suicide, Emile Durkheim used the term “anomie” to characterize the inner emotional disturbance driving these leftist souls.
St. Paul calls the condition the “reprobate mind” in the first chapter of his warning to the New Testament church at Rome….chapter 1:18-32 (esp. verse 28).
Spurwing Plover says
Send all Illegal Aliens/Future Democrat Voters and Supporters to the DNC HQ and the United Nations where their wanted