At the New York Times Omer Aziz urges support for President Trump’s immigration plan. Here is the kernel of the piece:
When an immigration system becomes overburdened, even immigrants and their children can become pessimistic. I have heard Canadians of Hungarian, West Indian and Pakistani origin all express frustration that more recent arrivals have jumped the line. Part of this is the very human tendency of immigrants to pull up the drawbridge after they have crossed over. Part of it is a sincere belief that the integrity of the system that brought them here should not be corrupted.
In the United States, the vicious cycle of unlawful migration and heightened xenophobia has been going on for decades. It’s what led to Mr. Trump’s election in 2016, and if Democrats cannot propose reasonable alternatives on immigration, they will lose again. No amount of multicultural sloganeering will assuage Americans’ concerns that the system is broken.
It is not unreasonable for the United States to adopt a system similar to those of countries we resemble like Canada or Australia. We are all geographically large, primarily English-speaking former British colonies. Letting the perfect be the enemy of the good, as Democrats seem predisposed to do on this issue, does provide a trap. While exercising their hatred of all things Trump, they also portray themselves as radicals out of touch with the concerns of many Americans.
Letting the perfect be the enemy of the good, as Republicans seem predisposed to do on this issue, does provide a trap. While exercising their hatred of all things Obama, they also portray themselves as radicals out of touch with the concerns of many Americans.
The above could have been written during the prior admin. You can change the party and name of the POTUS as needed. As we saw with he prior admin, all it takes is the House OR the Senate to vote a plan down. The House seems to maintain more radicals.
In theory, Trump sweetens the deal a bit to get Dems to go along, but then, as we have seen before, Miller and the radicals put a stop to it.
Steve
Please allow Mssr. Obama to rest in peace. He’s gone, along with the senseless song of soaring rhetoric. We have Mayor Pete to do that now.
And nothing will be done about immigration. Nothing we are willing to do will staunch the flow. Legal immigrants will realize they are played for fools, as fake families go to the front of the line, with airline tickets to California, (they have the best benefit levels).
What we will need is thousands more bi-lingual police and SWAT officers and billions more dollars for medicaid as hospital ER s are swamped with pregnant migrants, sorry, newcomers, shooting victims and overdoses.
I do really mean that. We will do nothing that will staunch the flow.