That spirit is why the Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids that began days ago against thousands of illegal aliens who have been served final deportation orders from the courts are a political loser for the Democrats so convinced of the opposite.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, rising in the polls in her quest for the Democratic presidential nomination, last week unveiled "a sweeping plan to change the country's immigration system" and decriminalize illegal immigration, while giving away $1.5 billion "To fund programs targeting crime, poverty, sexual violence, and trafficking in Central America" - the operative principle being that if you can't end a crisis, normalize it.
So illegal immigration becomes akin to a traffic ticket.
As much as most of the Democrats running for the White House want to depict them fantastically as Gestapo-like round-ups, ICE's raids are delivering a message that is exactly the opposite from "Pathway to amnesty." As Sen. Tom Cotton, Arkansas Republican, remarked on Fox last month, "If you can't deport an illegal alien who has a valid and final order of removal that's adjudicated by an immigration judge, who can you deport?".
We can't wait until authorized deportations are routine, a wall is completed and functioning effectively, and the U.S. government has full control of who establishes residency here, before embarking a long-overdue debate over the level of legal immigration.
Ethnicity is not what the debate must address but the permanent turn to the left America will take only a few years down the road if the present high levels of immigration continue.
Unless immigration is reduced, in just a few years a future president will look back upon this affirmation of America's founding principles as famous last words.
https://issuesinsights.com/2019/07/17/ice-raids-will-force-long-needed-national-immigration-debate/
Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, rising in the polls in her quest for the Democratic presidential nomination, last week unveiled "a sweeping plan to change the country's immigration system" and decriminalize illegal immigration, while giving away $1.5 billion "To fund programs targeting crime, poverty, sexual violence, and trafficking in Central America" - the operative principle being that if you can't end a crisis, normalize it.
So illegal immigration becomes akin to a traffic ticket.
As much as most of the Democrats running for the White House want to depict them fantastically as Gestapo-like round-ups, ICE's raids are delivering a message that is exactly the opposite from "Pathway to amnesty." As Sen. Tom Cotton, Arkansas Republican, remarked on Fox last month, "If you can't deport an illegal alien who has a valid and final order of removal that's adjudicated by an immigration judge, who can you deport?".
We can't wait until authorized deportations are routine, a wall is completed and functioning effectively, and the U.S. government has full control of who establishes residency here, before embarking a long-overdue debate over the level of legal immigration.
Ethnicity is not what the debate must address but the permanent turn to the left America will take only a few years down the road if the present high levels of immigration continue.
Unless immigration is reduced, in just a few years a future president will look back upon this affirmation of America's founding principles as famous last words.
https://issuesinsights.com/2019/07/17/ice-raids-will-force-long-needed-national-immigration-debate/
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