“If it weren’t for me,” Donald Trump told Fox News moderators during the first Republican presidential debate, “you wouldn’t even be talking about illegal immigration.” A record audience of 24 million, or 10 times Fox’s usual overnight viewership, had to agree.
Trump’s up-to-date position reinforces the blunt statement that has propelled him up in the polls: “A nation without borders is not a nation. A nation without laws is not a nation. A nation that does not serve its own citizens is not a nation. “
This is a refreshing contrast to the immigration document recently released by Jeb Bush, the candidate of the big-money and big-business faction of the Republican Party. Jeb famously said that illegal immigrants were only owed an “act of love” and that his plan would reward them with enduring “legal status,” which he said must be “coupled with” long-awaited border security measures.
If Jeb’s candidacy falters despite the $114 million he has raised, the establishment’s next picks, Sen. Marco Rubio and Ohio Gov. John Kasich, will have broadly similar views. Kasich said the 12 million illegal immigrants should be “legalized once we find out who they are,” and Rubio said Obama’s amnesty “can’t be ended because people are already taking advantage of it.”
Rubio’s statement was made in Spanish on the Spanish-language network Univision, which is reason enough to eliminate him from earnest consideration. When someone is running for president of the United States, why should we have someone translate his remarks into English?
Trump’s up-to-date position responds to his opponents with the uncomplicated truth that “America will only be great as long as America remains a nation of laws that lives by the Constitution. “No one is above the law” – including the more than 300 sanctuary cities and counties that openly refuse to assist expel illegal aliens, even if they have committed heinous crimes.
Donald Trump launched his campaign in June accusing Mexico of sending its worst criminals, murderers and rapists to the country – an accusation tragically confirmed by the murder of Kate Steinle on July 1 in San Francisco. The madness continued after Marilyn Pharis was raped and murdered on July 24 in her own home in Santa Maria, California; the attempted rape of a 14-year-old girl and the July 27 murder of Peggy Kostelnik in Lake County, Ohio, near Cleveland; and the July 29 murders of Jason and Tana Shane of Crow Nation, Montana, all crimes committed by Mexicans living here illegally who should have been deported for previous crimes.
Having argued his position on crimes committed by immigrants, in his position paper Donald Trump next addresses the economic harm resulting from unrestricted immigration, both legal and illegal. The topic was introduced to the presidential campaign in April, when Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker said immigration should be “based on establishing the No. 1 priority of protecting American workers and their wages” – a statement that alarmed GOP donors and Wall Street. Journal”.
In a section titled “Put American Workers First,” Trump’s up-to-date position expands on Walker’s idea, noting that the massive influx of foreign workers is “making it harder for Americans — including immigrants — to earn middle-class wages.” Trump would limit the hiring of low-wage workers and require companies to hire people from our national unemployed pool before they import foreigners to fill “jobs that Americans won’t do.”
As for the millions of people who have settled here illegally since the last amnesty, Trump said without hesitation: “They have to leave. We either have a country or we don’t have a country.”
A recent guest on my weekly radio show, political expert Steve Deace, emphasized that Iowa is critical to the “game on the ground,” where voters want to shake candidates’ hands, look them in the eye and hear them answer questions about issues that are significant to them. are significant to citizens. Iowans seem to like Donald Trump’s brash New York style, and a poll in Nevada even showed him gaining support among Republicans among Latinos.
Trump’s high position guarantees that presidential candidates of both parties will not avoid the crisis of uncontrolled immigration. Hillary Clinton’s promise to “go even further” than Obama in granting legal status to millions of illegal immigrants was questioned by Senator Bernie Sanders, who on July 30 condemned the concept of a “completely open border so that anyone can enter the United States.” United States of America. If this were to happen, there is no doubt that it would significantly reduce wages in this country.”
