The headline is a false conclusion of a faulty premise. The assumption is that “millions” of people are going to be deported and unable to return because of a wall. This will never happen. But they are trying to stick things onto Trump. He may have even said he wants to remove illegal immigrants, but he will most certainly clarify his plan in the general and I would wager that it will not include the round-up of masses of people for deportation.
IMO the best idea he had on this topic, and unfortunately it was a golden nugget lost in a ton of hyperbole and sloppy language, was that if people who came illegally want a path they would have to leave and come back with papers. I cannot speak for Trump obviously and I am not a psychiatrist, but the symbolism of this idea is enormous. If a person’s first task upon entering the country is to break the law, it has to play a part in their view of the country in general. By absolving that crime through a ritual like leaving and coming back the lawful way, it should also instill more pride and more respect for the country and its laws in general, the way people who go through the swearing in ceremony claim to feel.
I quite agree with the premise that if an immigrant’s first act is to break the law, there is something primoridally insidious and undermining about that that I can’t and do not wish to get over. That these folks want us to respect their culture when they crap on our laws is and should be intolerable to any genuine citizen. Unless said citizen has zero respect for our country which they are free to do. But enacting their miscreant wishes into law and action is what this president has been all about. A juvenile delinquent wanting to spray paint his name on your garage door.
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