Posted on 05/17/2018 11:18:22 AM PDT by ethom
Establishment Republicans are trying to beat populist GOP primary rivals by mimicking President Donald Trump’s pro-American immigration arguments, says a top editor at the Atlantic magazine.
If there was a major GOP candidate in these primaries who did not loudly declare their support for building Trump’s border wall, I didn’t see it. Likewise, every major GOP candidate pledged to crack down on so-called “sanctuary cities,” which limit their cooperation with federal immigration-enforcement officials, and several pledged to constrict legal immigration.
The trend towards populist migration policies is nationwide, Brownstein laments in his article, which is titled “The Eroding GOP Resistance to Trump’s Immigration Agenda”:
… relatively more mainstream Republican candidates are holding off the anti-immigration vanguard by accepting much of their agenda.
Especially striking is that Republicans are stampeding toward this harder line not just in Rustbelt states like Ohio, West Virginia, and Indiana—which have few immigrants and little diversity. They’re also doing so in the Southwest states, where there are growing Latino and Asian American populations. Texas Governor Greg Abbot has signed legislation to punish sanctuary cities.
Trump’s four-part reforms go far beyond simply enforcing the popular laws against CEOs hiring illegal migrants.
His popular reforms include reducing the level of immigration by ending the visa lottery and chain-migration program, fixing the many loopholes that are used by migrants, cheap-labor employers, and their allied politicians to reduce Americans’ wages and salaries. He wants to build the wall to block crime and illegal migration, and also to celebrate Americans’ borders and distinctiveness in a world where globalists enforce “diversity” to erase national democracies, culture, economies and communities’ political clout.
Those populist policies have been embraced by some GOP primary winners, including populists in West Virginia and North Carolina, but are just mimicked by establishment GOP candidates.
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Both parties could not continue to be the party for illegal aliens.
Somebody has to represent the citizens.
Enough promises. Build the Wall.
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They are pretending to support the public, but they are lying.
They just want amnesty but the use words that hide they plans.
(California Sanctuary State is the latest method for trapping and trading slaves.)
We are bringing in a million to a million and a half new LEGAL immigrants per year (in addition to illegal)
Most of it is Hispanic and Hispanics vote 70% democrat. It doesn’t take a math genius to realize that this change in demographics over the next decade or two will give the left unopposed control of everything (like in Mexiifornia but countywide)
We MUST change our immigration policies or we are doomed to becoming a communist/socialists country in the next twenty years or less.
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