Posted on 09/14/2017 8:19:40 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
One of the great ironies of the 2016 campaign is that Donald Trump, who has run as the immigration scourge, is actually the amnesty candidate.
Trump has expressly vowed to give legal status to millions of illegal aliens. For any other candidate, such a promise would have been the campaign death knell. To compare, John Kasich -- who is openly pro-amnesty -- has lost 38 of 39 primaries (the sole exception being his own state) and has never been a plausible contestant. When it comes to Trump, however, it seems that the all-important amnesty fine-print of his immigration position has been overlooked. This is no doubt due to his consciously controversial rhetoric: his fixation about building a wall on the Mexican border, his oft-repeated commitment to mass-deportation of illegal aliens, his disparaging comments about Mexicans, and his proposed moratorium on Muslim immigration.
Yet, Trump is the amnesty candidate. What’s more, the amnesty component of his immigration plan is the only part that has a realistic chance of happening.
Trump is not going to build his wall, much less make Mexico pay for it, as he has insisted our southern neighbor will do. Quite apart from the fact that much of the border is not suitable terrain for wall construction, his wall would be astronomically more expensive to build than he has estimated, and in any event, Democrats and many Republicans in Congress would block funding for it. (To be clear: I favor construction of walls and/or fencing where practical; but a wall is only one component, and not nearly the most critical one, of what must be a multi-faceted strategy if we are to be serious about border security.)
Trump’s categorical moratorium on Muslim immigration would also be rejected.
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Sure are a lot of words for not saying a dam thing, typical liberal.
At least these rumors are weeding out the weak supporters.
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He didn’t exactly win by a landslide. He can’t afford to lose any supporters. And right now it sounds like he’s quite possibly hemorrhaging voters. People may not vote for an opposition party but they will stay home if they don’t feel they can trust him
I feel ashamed that I could have been so easily duped.
Or are you a liar and just say you believe it?
My call is just to wait and watch. And pray for the man.
That’s nice ... Andrew and others would love to see Trump fall.
Trump is having to work around a RINO congress.
Where would Congress be if they had run as what they are ...democrats?
If he really wants a wall as he claims..why isn’t he using various means to strong arm for it.
We have so many communists in power because people who will believe any thing the liberal liars says votes them in so it is hard for an American to be president or even a congressman and just as hard to get anything done.
If he really wants a wall as he claims..why isn’t he using various means to strong arm for it.
We have so many communists in power because people who will believe any thing the liberal liars says votes them in so it is hard for an American to be president or even a congressman and just as hard to get anything done.
RE: That’s nice ... Andrew and others would love to see Trump fall.
I actually read this article as them wanting Trump to stick to his campaign promises.
What if he has been lying to us all along, regarding us as chumps?
The Trump Presidency is imploding at this very moment. Conservatives are abandoning ship.
Very disturbing.
Don't we ever get over the notion that we should be happy because it could have been worse? We could be happy if it actually got better too couldn't we?
Andy McCarthy is a never-Trump NRO author. His appearance here shows nobody reads NRO any more.
Andy, nor NRO, can be trusted to tell the truth, much less accurately characterize ANYTHING.
They are both as corrupt as the day is long.
.It’s very widespread.
These people would cut off their nose to spite their face.
That appointment merely kept the status quo. The next one will determine which direction the court will take.
“Forever.”
Amen.
Andrew McCarthy thinks like a lawyer, with the goal of reducing everything to simple strings.
Trump is using many strings to make a complex tapestry.
I hope.
“So how much limited government and constitutional law is in a shumer and Pelosi deal?”
At least as much as you’ll find in a Ryan and McConnell deal.
Additionally, those guys are skimming off the top of the American fire sale to the highest bidder. They would advance any trade deal their masters instruct them to.
Raiderboy is a “True Conservative” operative sent here to sow discord. Probably funded by left over Ted Cruz PAC money...or directly by the corrupt, anti-American bastards at NRO.
You can take that to the bank.
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