Posted on 11/13/2015 8:01:54 AM PST by SeekAndFind
The fourth Republican presidential debate was, by most accounts, a bit of a snoozer. But in a good way. There was less interpersonal conflict, more substantive discussion of economic policy. Donald Trump, in particular, was judged "subdued" and “surprisingly subdued†and "uncharacteristically subdued.†Trump himself pronounced it "a very elegant evening" in which "everybody actually did fine."
All very forgettable, civil and elegant. Except the part where the Republican front-runner proposed the forced expulsion of 11 million people and endorsed the historical precedent of Operation Wetback, an Eisenhower-era mass deportation program that was as ugly and offensive as its name.
Trump did not actually say that name, presumably because it would have sounded racist. (I apologize for the necessity of using it to make my argument.) But shouldn't it set off moral and ethical alarm bells when a candidate embraces a policy with a historical label too loathsome to mention in public? Instead, Trump said: "Dwight Eisenhower. You don't get nicer. You don't get friendlier. They moved 1.5 million people out. We have no choice. We. Have. No. Choice."
The operation in question, energetically led by Army Gen. Joseph Swing, probably did move more than a million undocumented Mexican immigrants back to Mexico (though the figure may be exaggerated). People were taken with few possessions, in stroke-inducing heat, deep into the Mexican interior and dropped off, at first by bus, then on cargo boats in conditions a congressional investigation later compared to 18th-century slave ships. Eventually there was a mutiny aboard the Mercurio, after seven passengers drowned jumping from the ship. Dozens of others died after being left in sweltering, remote locations. This had been an embarrassing and largely forgotten historical footnote.
Until Trump. People have gotten accustomed and inured to the proposal at the heart of Trump's appeal.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
But it worked.
Not reading it.
Just in to say this:
FUWP
We MUST draw a line on illegal aliens or we lose our country.
We MUST retain the rule of law or we lose our country.
We MUST require foreigners to comply or we lose our country.
We MUST elect a President who WILL enforce the laws.
We MUST stop the illegal alien inundation.
New high more like. Deport every illegal you can find and build a fence so no more come in. Exactly what needs to be done. Way to go Trump!
So because this writer wets his panties, that's the standard - and the entire argument - against deporting illegal invaders?
Journalism reaches new lows every single day. What utter garbage.
New high, more like. Deport every illegal you can find and build a fence so no more come in. Exactly what needs to be done. Way to go Trump!
Agreed! As far as a name being declared loathsome, etc., it is long past time to STOP Political Correctness!
Yep that's the real new low.
If you want to know why the Post keeps Michael Gerson around as their token “conservative” houseboy, this column is the reason. When they want to unload on a conservative or some other Republican who goes off the message that the Post thinks good Republicans should have, they let Gerson out of his cage to write a “Republican/conservative Candidate X hits a new low” column.
Typical liberal take on the situation. Just saw Drudge link to a WA PO article that mentioned establishment Republicans are in a panic and are threatening to resurrect Romney, so that the Democrats don’t win the presidency and the senate too. Hell, they already have the senate!
If the fools buy Romney the nomination, we will have a Democrat president, no matter who wins. I am not shilling for Trump, but I will support him if he gets the nomination. Same for Cruz. Why nominate Romney when you can go ahead and nominate Kasich and make 100% sure the Republican Party is destroyed?
Someone came up with an appropriate descriptor for this type of delicate male — “snowflake”.
And in Europe, Hungary built a fence in weeks and it is working there.
It can be done. All that is required is the will to do it.
This is the worst that the Washington ComPost can come up with? Nobody forced any of the seven passengers to jump from the ship did they?
And "dozens of others died after being left in sweltering, remote locations." Really?
How does this compare with the hundreds who die "after being left in sweltering, remote locations" by coyotes and smugglers? Or the thousands who are raped by the same coyotes and smugglers? Or the hundreds of Americans who are murdered, robbed and raped by illegal aliens?
Naturally, a modern operation would have to be handled a little differently than Eisenhower's operation, but the handful who perished in this quick and efficient repatriation operation probably prevented the deaths of several times that many making illegal border crossings.
Heck, I'd even charter cruise ships for the first million or so who volunteered to go home, with the quality of the transportation gradually being ratcheted down for those going later.
As someone who was actually alive and an adult at that time all I can say is the writer is a total loon!
Trump, Immigration, Washington Post .....
What’s inside is entirely predictable.
I find this distasteful
He knows that just like in this country there is a finite number of decent paying jobs and places to live in Mexico and as soon as it is made clear that they are going back one way or another there will be a mass exodus back to Mexico to try and secure the available jobs there before they dry up. I know that if I were in their shoes that is what I would do.
There is no such thing as a quote, Hispanic race, unquote. That term has been applied to those from individual South American countries some of which have governments hostile to US and actually claim parts of this country as theirs, and others which are friendly. They are composed of various races as we are, with the difference being their primary common language is Spanish.
This destructive utopian Mexican open border approach of even considering granting those who enter the US illegally through it. Entitlement to all benefits beyond those of what we give to our citizens destroys the value of an American citizenship. It is being promoted by the name callers mostly in socialist circles such as the democrat party as well some republicans who use such terms as nativist promoting racial division .
What we should be doing is taking a very very hard look at our relationship with Mexico along with trade and its myriad misstreatment of Americans as 2nd class citizens and its claims on American territory . While we are expected to allow Mexican citizens enter to our country illegally and offer them preferential treatment over our citizens allowing them to purchase land in their own name and and even voting privledges which they cannot do if they choose to retire in Mexico.
The leading Republican candidates and that includes Trump may mention some of this but thus far have refused to identify the problem let alone properly redress it by suggesting or implementing reciprocity.
I strongly suspect that there are many complaints being taken by the various American consulates in Mexico of the third class treatment of Americans in Mexico which are being hushed up. Which should be looked into but won’t because of the push for amnesty.
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