“The open-borders crowd is stuffed with liars and cowards. They get what they want through deceit, trickery, and lawlessness. They’re screaming like wounded animals now that people are actually discussing concrete measures that really would resolve the illegal-immigration problem, instead of rewarding scofflaws and making it worse. For the first time in a generation, amnesty shills have to confront proposals for serious enforcement. They’re trying the usual tactic of sneering that it’s all ‘unthinkable,’ but it’s not working.”
There is much heated discussion and angry invective flying over presidential candidate Donald Trump’s immigration plan, including some vicious crossfires between segments of the Republican political coalition.
Meanwhile, normal people hear Trump’s ideas and think: If immigration policy is a law, then violating it is a crime. Why are we refusing to enforce it, and instead rewarding the criminals?
Writing at the Washington Examiner, Byron York counters all the howling about how Trump’s ideas are supposedly outrages that put him beyond the orbit of Pluto in our political solar system by noting that most of what he’s suggesting is actually quite consistent with what a majority of American voters have been telling pollsters for a long time. In fact, York cites a research paper suggesting a quarter of the public is even tougher than Trump on issues such as closing the border entirely and beginning mass deportation proceedings. A slim, but clear, majority is on more or less the same page as Trump.
Of course, the political class considers all of these ideas non-starters, and does not even pretend to care what the American people want. As the authors of the study cited by York put it, “Many citizens support policies that seem to fall outside the range of policy options considered in elite discourse.”
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