Posted on 08/22/2015 7:13:27 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
It has come to this: The GOP, formerly the party of Lincoln and ostensibly the party of liberty and limited government, is being defined by clamors for a mass roundup and deportation of millions of human beings. To will an end is to will the means for the end, so the Republican clamors are also for the requisite expansion of government’s size and coercive powers.
Most of Donald Trump’s normally loquacious rivals are swaggeringly eager to confront Vladimir Putin but are too invertebrate — Lindsey Graham is an honorable exception — to voice robust disgust with Trump and the spirit of, the police measures necessary for and the cruelties that would accompany his policy. The policy is: “They’ve got to go.”
“They,” the approximately 11.3 million illegal immigrants (down from 12.2 million in 2007), have these attributes: Eighty-eight percent have been here at least five years. Of the 62 percent who have been here at least 10 years, about 45 percent own their own homes. About half have children who were born here and hence are citizens. Dara Lind of Vox reports that at least 4.5 million children who are citizens have at least one parent who is an illegal immigrant.
Trump evidently plans to deport almost 10 percent of California’s workers and 13 percent of that state’s K-12 students. He is, however, at his most Republican when he honors family values: He proposes to deport intact families, including children who are citizens. “We have to keep the families together,” he says, “but they have to go.” Trump would deport everyone, then “have an expedited way of getting them [“the good ones”; “when somebody is terrific”] back.” Big Brother government will identify the “good” and “terrific” from among the wretched refuse of other teeming shores.
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Good God George Will-— pull yourself together man!!
No, Will is no conservative.
Hell I don't even know how to tie a bow tie.
George is a mule with horn rimmed glasses and bad bow ties. What he really needs is a boot in the nether region. If you do, please be careful not to hit him in the head.
Stupid guy.
Trump’s immigration plan could spell doom for The Cheap Labor Express.
That’s what George really means.
His employers are plenty worried.
RE: My son’s high school has gone from zero dedicated classes for immigrants when he was a freshman to now having in his senior year five dedicated full time teachers of English as a Second Language.
Well lookie here, Obama created jobs for ESL teachers! /sarc
He ain’t young (George sWill)
What Trump will do is not mass deportation, it will be mass enforcement of our laws.
Not to support Will but 80% of these replies are attacks on the man, not his ideas.
Georgie: You supported Obama in 08. He won. How did that turn out?
I really despise concern trolling.
At what point does George Will acknowledge who has responsibility for their predicament, namely, the illegal aliens themselves?
I like Ike’s Operation Wetback.
Will once said a country that can’t control it’s borders isn’t sovereign. Is he now a “country without borders guy?”
Blow it out your ass George!
Another George Will hit piece — quelle surprise
>>>the approximately 11.3 million illegal immigrants (down from 12.2 million in 2007<<<
Yeah, Obama got rid of 900,000 Illegal Invaders, right.
Me thinks George is about 20,000,000 off his estimate.
What a friggin Maroon. To think I heard him speak at the Reagan Dinner at CPAC some years back.
I had no idea what a Rat he really is.
Day after passing day, I am begrudgingly becoming a Trump supporter, only because he’s pissing off the right people.
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