Posted on 06/26/2018 4:36:19 AM PDT by Liberty7732
Despite the public black eye the Trump administration received over following the law and separating families at the border exactly as Obama had done only on a larger scale, one certainty remains that could backfire on Democrats in November:
Americans want the borders secured and controlled and an end to some of the worst policies, such as chain migration, diversity lottery, sanctuary cities and drivers licenses for illegal aliens. They strongly oppose what has become the operative Democratic position: illegals-first.
This is an overall winning issue for Republicans on the merits alone — a secure border is necessary for the proper and safe operations of a free country. We are rightly generous in our asylum laws because we are the safe port for the world. But we should not be generous with liars and lawbreakers sneaking in to the country.
This is a winning issue politically, too. Because it is not hard for Americans to look past the obstructionist media — with a little help — to see that Democrats always side with illegal immigrants over Americans and legal immigrants. Always. Democrats will and do prioritize energy, money and political capital for illegals at the expense of Americans every time. Every. Time. This is, in operation, an illegals-first policy.
This knee-jerk pro-illegal immigrant position materially damages the American working poor and minorities the most — supposedly the groups benefiting from their loyal Democratic patronage. Yet Democrats prioritize illegals anyway. And secondarily, all American taxpayers are also hurt. Who wins? Big business and select Democrats in deep blue areas. This is a terrible dynamic for Democrats and therefore a strong one for Republicans.
Republicans should run hard on border control and legal immigration that can only be debated after the border is secure. That combination resonates with Americans. Republicans need to be strongly proactive on legal immigration — it is vital to include that word in all campaigns because Americans are sympathetic to immigration conceptually, but not to illegal immigration.
Naturally, Democrats may help Republicans with that. Democrat-connected, well-funded professional protest organizations are ginned up for more outrage campaigns and protests over splitting up children and parents at the border, tugging at American heartstrings to feed their own raging hatred of President Trump.
Verbally or physically threatening and attacking Sarah Huckabee Sanders, DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi in recent days is exactly the how the reactionary Left pushes voters into the Trump/Republican camp. Their antics are a turn-off to mainstream voters, even if those voters are unaware that Obama did the same thing.
A Harvard Harris Poll in January found that even when a government shutdown was looming — and government shutdowns are unpopular — Americans supported Trump’s three main positions for a border wall: strict limits to the chain of family migration; an end to the nonsensical Diversity Visa Lottery program; and a dramatic cut by almost two-thirds to legal immigration from 1.3 million currently to 500,000.
A more recent Gallup poll found that about 80 percent of Republicans remain “somewhat dissatisfied” or “very dissatisfied” with current legal immigration levels, and a surprising one in four Democrats do, also.
If Americans feel that strongly about legal immigration, it is not hard to see their general animosity toward illegal immigration. It’s just that Americans are big-hearted and when they see people struggling, and families separated and general hardship, they want to mitigate that situation. It’s an excellent and fairly unique national instinct. But they overall think we have been on the wrong immigration track for a long time.
Here are the big picture policies that are winners for Republicans in November:
➜ Secure the border so that we can compassionately handle the small number of families coming with legitimate asylum issues;
➜ End chain migration for families that opens the door for virtually limitless legal immigration based on initial illegal immigration;
➜ End the Diversity Immigrant Visa Lottery program where immigration applicants are chosen at random to jump to the front of the line to come to America — regardless of the merits of their need or what they bring to the country.
And these are the immigration issues on which Republicans can successfully put Democrats on the defensive:
➜ Sanctuary cities
➜ Drivers licenses for illegal aliens
➜ In-state tuition for illegal aliens
➜ Voter ID based only on drivers licenses
➜ Opposition to English only
All Republicans really need to do is remain (or become) strong on legal immigration and border enforcement issues and allow Democrats to turn off voters.
If we would have had a good border wall 30 years ago, we wouldn’t have this problem now.
JUST DO IT...DAMN-IT.
That depends on the ‘Pubbies willingness to exploit this.
Remember there are a lot pro-illegal ‘Pubbies, too.
But leave it up to the Republicans Swamp Uniparty to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory
_Excellent_ article—totally _nails_ it.
Every Republican candidate and their campaign needs to read it and re-read it until they have it memorized.
Then they can win.
I’ll say it again, this autumn the Republicans don’t have to spend a dime on writing ads, hiring actors, or building sets for their campaign commercials. There are uncountable video clips of Democrats speaking to their supporters in public and in Congress. Edit four or five clips into a 60-second commercial, put “DEMOCRATS HATE YOU — VOTE REPUBLICAN IN 2018” text on it, the legalities of “I’m Joe Deplorable and I approved this message. Paid for by Deplorable For Congress 2018”, done.
Until the pubbies get rid of rinoryan, nothing is going to happen. We may keep the majority, but it won’t be because of what they do, it will be in spite of them and our desire to protect President Trump from the demonRATS.
Sorry but I had it right the first time.
I have to admit that I’m a bit stumped as to why democrats think making the election about getting more illegal immigration is a good idea for them. Trump just won the presidency taking them on over that very issue. And yet they are indeed making this election about that. Are they just stupid beyond imagining or do they know something I do not?
Why would Trump be so foolish as to wait until any actual shooting starts? Why not nip the entire communist putsch in the bud by a stunning, overwhelming electoral victory in November?
While we may see the visible side of the war in the ongoing Russia, FISA, Cankles email, and other Hussein coup attempts fought back in media and Congress, rest assured there's a dark side to this conflict as well.
As yourself why is Ryan retiring? Now, consider the stakes and who's in charge.
We need to set up the jurisprudence equivalent of MASH on the border. Mobile tribunals that can rule on these absurd “asylum” claims within hours of someone illegally entering the country.
It just takes a simple law:
“No person entering the United States of America from Mexico or Canada, regardless of their nationality or country of origin, and whether or not that person entered the United States illegally or under a valid Visa, shall be permitted to claim refugee status. All such persons shall be immediately returned to either Mexico or Canada by any authorized Agent of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency without any right of appeal or challenge in any court . Any decision of an Agent to remove such persons may not be appealed to or challenged in any tribunal or court, and no person so removed from the United States has any standing to bring an action in any civil or criminal court in the United States for any action taken by such Agent, peace officer, or by the United States Government.”
Yes you did!
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