President Donald Trump's immigration agenda has always been considered exclusionary and prejudiced by progressives; now they consider it tainted by mass murder.
The El Paso massacre, carried out by a white nationalist waging a lunatic war against Hispanic immigration, is being used as a bludgeon against Trump, and immigration restriction more broadly.
After years spent trying to rule immigration restriction out of bounds, the Left is doubling down on ruling immigration restriction out of bounds.
First, let's stipulate that Trump's words on immigration often are crude and inflammatory.
When a member of Antifa was shot dead by police while attacking an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Washington state, Democrats weren't made to answer for their harsh attacks on immigration enforcement.
It's even a count against Trump that the shooter, too, says that Democrats favor "Open borders." If it's going to be unacceptable to use the term "Open borders" of a party that is getting closer and closer to embracing a policy of open borders, we might as well shut down the immigration debate now.
What much of the Left won't acknowledge is that restrictionists have a sincere belief that secure borders and a reformed legal immigration system would be better for our laws, our economy, and our cultural cohesion.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/08/immigration-debate-restriction-not-hate/
The El Paso massacre, carried out by a white nationalist waging a lunatic war against Hispanic immigration, is being used as a bludgeon against Trump, and immigration restriction more broadly.
After years spent trying to rule immigration restriction out of bounds, the Left is doubling down on ruling immigration restriction out of bounds.
First, let's stipulate that Trump's words on immigration often are crude and inflammatory.
When a member of Antifa was shot dead by police while attacking an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Washington state, Democrats weren't made to answer for their harsh attacks on immigration enforcement.
It's even a count against Trump that the shooter, too, says that Democrats favor "Open borders." If it's going to be unacceptable to use the term "Open borders" of a party that is getting closer and closer to embracing a policy of open borders, we might as well shut down the immigration debate now.
What much of the Left won't acknowledge is that restrictionists have a sincere belief that secure borders and a reformed legal immigration system would be better for our laws, our economy, and our cultural cohesion.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/08/immigration-debate-restriction-not-hate/
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