“’Saber rattling’ in this context is tough talk that nobody actually thinks could become public policy. “
Meaning that you put the demands of foreign nationals first and can’t imagine anyone actually enforcing the law.
Dwight Eisenhower had no such problem. His policy for ridding the United States of illegal aliens was Operation Wetback. The PC crowd of opportunists making up today’s GOP can’t even utter the name, much less imagine themselves deporting illegals back to their homes. What cowards.
There is core of opportunists within the GOP who put foreign nationals first, falling all over themselves in their haste to subvert American law as fast as they can. It’s a fascinating marriage of law-ignoring foreign nationals and The Stupid Party’s elites. The best part is that none of the grovelling and pandering will garner The Stupid Party the latino votes that they are whoring after.
No, “saber rattling” means cheap tough talk instead of the hard work of convincing people of the correctness of our position.
Sensible immigration reform, not to mention enforcing the laws we already have, is a reasonable position that we could sell to the country. But simplistic rhetoric and ethnic slurs play into media caricatures, turn off people on all sides of the issue and make meaningful reform all the more difficult.