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Title: Donald Trump, the GOP and the immigration swamp
Source: UK Telegraph
URL Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor ... and-the-immigration-swamp.html
Published: Aug 21, 2015
Author: Charles Krauthammer
Post Date: 2015-08-21 09:07:07 by cranky
Keywords: None
Views: 2027
Comments: 16

Donald Trump should not be exempt from normal scrutiny or from consideration of the effect of his candidacy on conservatism's future.

"This was not a subject that was on anybody's mind until I brought it up at my announcement." Donald Trump, on immigration, Republican debate, Aug. 6

Not on anyone's mind? For years, immigration has been the subject of near-constant, often bitter argument within the GOP. But it is true that Trump has brought the debate to a new place – first, with his announcement speech, about whether Mexican migrants are really rapists, and now with the somewhat more nuanced Trump plan.

Much of it – visa tracking, E-Verify, withholding funds from sanctuary cities – predates Trump. Even building the Great Wall is not particularly new. (I, for one, have been advocating that 2006.) Dominating the discussion, however, are his two policy innovations: (a) abolition of birthright citizenship and (b) mass deportation.

Birthright citizenship

If you are born in the United States, you are an American citizen. So says the 14th Amendment. Barring some esoteric and radically new jurisprudence, abolition would require amending the Constitution. Which would take years and great political effort. And make the GOP anathema to Hispanic-Americans for a generation.

And for what? Birthright citizenship is a symptom, not a cause. If you regain control of the border, the number of birthright babies fades to insignificance. The time and energy it would take to amend the Constitution are far more usefully deployed securing the border.

Moreover, the real issue is not the birthright babies themselves, but the chain migration that follows. It turns one baby into an imported village.

Chain migration, however, is not a constitutional right. It's a result of statutes and regulations. These can be readily changed. That should be the focus, not a quixotic constitutional battle.

Mass deportation

Last Sunday, Trump told NBC's Chuck Todd that all illegal immigrants must leave the country. Although once they've been kicked out, we will let "the good ones" back in.

On its own terms, this is crackpot. Wouldn't you save a lot just on Mayflower moving costs if you chose the "good ones" first before sending Swat teams to turf families out of their homes, loading them on buses and dumping them on the other side of the Rio Grande?

Less frivolously, it is estimated by the conservative American Action Forum that mass deportation would take about 20 years and cost about $500 billion for all the police, judges, lawyers and enforcement agents – and bus drivers! – needed to expel 11 million people.

This would all be merely ridiculous if it weren't morally obscene. Forcibly evict 11 million people from their homes? It can't happen. It shouldn't happen. And, of course, it won't ever happen. But because it's the view of the Republican front-runner, every other candidate is now required to react. So instead of debating border security, guest-worker programs and sanctuary cities – where Republicans are on firm moral and political ground – they are forced into a debate about a repulsive fantasy.

Which, for the Republican Party, is also political poison. Mitt Romney lost the Hispanic vote by 44 points and he was advocating only self-deportation. Now the party is discussing forced deportation.

It is not just Hispanics who will be alienated. Romney lost the Asian vote, too. By 47 points. And many non-minorities will be offended by the idea of rounding up 11 million people, the vast majority of whom are law-abiding members of their communities.

Donald Trump has every right to advance his ideas. He is not to be begrudged his masterly showmanship, his relentless candor or his polling success. I strongly oppose the idea of ostracising anyone from the GOP or the conservative movement. On whose authority? Let the people decide.

But that is not to say that he should be exempt from normal scrutiny or from consideration of the effect of his candidacy on conservatism's future. If you are a conservative alarmed at the country's direction and committed to retaking the White House, you should be concerned about what Trump's ascendancy is doing to the chances of that happening.

The Democrats' presumptive candidate is flailing badly. Republicans have an unusually talented field with a good chance of winning back the presidency. Do they really want to be dragged into the swamps -- right now, on immigration -- that will make that prospect electorally impossible?

Yes, I understand. The anger, the frustration, etc., etc., that Trump is channeling. But how are these alleviated by yelling "I'm mad as hell" -- and proceeding to elect Hillary Clinton?

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#1. To: cranky (#0)

To get the illegal aliens to self-deport, you focus on American employers. You require American employers to file proof-of-citizenship with their taxes for each employee on their payrolls. And for each illegal on the rolls, you prosecute to the fullest extent of the law, and take the maximum fines and penalties for each illegal.

This would, for instance, put some companies out of business completely. The ones who hire Americans will take their market share.

Americans will stop criminally hiring illegals, illegals won't be able to get jobs, and they will self-deport back to Mexico.

You don't need to build a wall if you crucify Americans for hiring illegals.

Some illegals are here and impoverished. And when they come to the system for help - help having children, help with medical emergencies, help to fend off starvation - you help them. You move them into refugee centers where they get the food, shelter and medical care while you repatriate them to their own country.

And the value of those repatriation camps will not amount to the money they paid coyotes to immigrate into America.

That's how you do it once again.

The "knock on the door in the night" is a foolish way to do things.

Vicomte13  posted on  2015-08-21   9:57:55 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: Vicomte13 (#1)

"Americans will stop criminally hiring illegals, illegals won't be able to get jobs, and they will self-deport back to Mexico."

Isn't this the law now? Yet we still have 11 million or so illegals (and growing) taking American jobs and sucking up government benefits. Your plan isn't working.

Time for Plan B: Knock on the doors.

"Some illegals are here and impoverished. And when they come to the system for help - help having children, help with medical emergencies, help to fend off starvation - you help them. You move them into refugee centers where they get the food, shelter and medical care while you repatriate them to their own country."

I see. They come for help and we deport them. Guess what? They know that and won't come for help. They'll spread their diseases and turn to drug selling, prostitution, and robbery to support themselves.

Implement Plan B and we won't create new problems trying to solve the old.

misterwhite  posted on  2015-08-21   10:25:27 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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#7. To: misterwhite (#4)

Isn't this the law now? Yet we still have 11 million or so illegals (and growing) taking American jobs and sucking up government benefits. Your plan isn't working.

We don't enforce the law on Americans, especially connected ones.

Vicomte13  posted on  2015-08-21 13:18:07 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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