Being a rather reluctant passenger on that which has
come to be referred as being the “Trump Train” to begin with, I now find myself
somewhat torn over that decision because of Mr. Trump’s recent comments
regarding the “softening” of his position on illegal immigration. Now I know there will be those who will tell
me that I shouldn’t be at all surprised, and to some degree, I must admit,
they’re right. But having said that, I’m
not really sure what annoys me more, Trump’s apparent shift in position, or the
fact that in doing so he has needlessly provided the NeverTrumper crowd with
some level of ammunition.
All of this stems from what would at least appear to
be somewhat of a major shift in Trump’s immigration policy, which was revealed during
a Fox News interview which aired Wednesday night and that seemed to indicate
that Trump might now be open to a pathway to legalization for certain illegal
immigrants. Speaking to Sean Hannity,
Trump reiterated his opposition to “amnesty” but seemed to advocate for letting
‘law-abiding illegal immigrants’ who have been in the country for a long time
pay a fine so they can remain in the country.
How can one be in this country illegally and yet be considered as
law-abiding?
“No citizenship,” Trump said. And he then went on to say, “Let me go a step
further — they’ll pay back-taxes, they have to pay taxes, there’s no amnesty,
as such, there’s no amnesty, but we work with them.” Ok, so I’m thinking that he’s going to need
to explain a little more exactly what he means when he says we will “work with
them.” Throughout the campaign, Trump
staked out what was seen as being a pretty tough position on the issue of
illegal immigration. He has vowed to
build a wall along the Mexico border and enforce current immigration laws on
the books as a way to decrease illegal immigration.
Trump said illegal immigrants who have committed
crimes should be deported. He said,
“Now, everybody agrees we get the bad ones out.” And he went on to say, “But when I go through
and I meet thousands and thousands of people on this subject, and I’ve had very
strong people come up to me, really great, great people come up to me, and
they’ve said, ‘Mr. Trump, I love you, but to take a person who’s been here for
15 or 20 years and throw them and their family out, it’s so tough, Mr. Trump,’
I have it all the time! It’s a very, very hard thing.” Regardless of how tough it is, or how hard it
is, those here illegally are breaking our laws!
Aides to two of Trump’s primary opponents, who were
attacked for being weak on illegal immigration, argued Wednesday that Trump was
now adopting their candidate’s position.
A former Jeb Bush spokesman, Tim Miller, said on Wednesday, “This is
basically Jeb’s position.” And John
Weaver, who ran Ohio Gov. John Kasich’s campaign tweeted, “Who needs a policy
shop when they can just flip and take @JohnKasich positions?” There has been much interest in Trump’s
stance on what to do with the more than 11 million illegal immigrants already
in the country since Trump said there could be a “softening” in his position.
And of course it took virtually no time at all for
Hitlery’s campaign to react, and negatively so, to Trump’s immigration comments
by saying that they simply don’t believe him. On Sunday, Hitlery’s campaign
chairman John Podesta said they believe Trump’s “immigration plan remains the
same as it’s always been: tear apart families and deport 16 million people from
the United States.” And I suppose such
comments should be expected. That said,
I have very little sympathy for law breakers, and the fact that those in this
country illegally, are breaking the law every single day that tey are in this
country.
And even though Trump says he isn't talking about amnesty,
I think we can all agree that that's exactly what he is talking about. So the calls have already begun about how he
has sold out his supporters. This new
amnesty position is bad in a few ways.
To the 90 million unemployed Americans, (black, white, and legal
Latino), Trump is saying, "sorry, the illegals are keeping their jobs. And
by the way, they are legal now, ha, ha".
Trump cannot outbid the Democrats. If he offers amnesty, they offer
citizenship. If he offers citizenship, the Democrats offer citizenship and a mule.
But I fear that Trump will not be able to win this way.
So why don't I want illegals to be able to stay once
Trump’s wall has been built? It’s pretty
simple really: 1) They are taking jobs away from US citizens. 2) They are holding wages down. 3) They disproportionately draw on welfare
and other government programs. 4) And as
long as they are here the Democrats will use them as a wedge issue to make them
citizens with voting privileges. Feel
free to add your own reasons not to keep them here! And yes, I suppose that one could very easily
make the argument that Trump is now doing exactly what he accuses Hitlery of
doing, and that is pandering for votes.
We’re told that the polls have been saying for
months now that his stance on deporting families was hurting him with
Republicans and crossover Democrats. Most Republicans are not the stereotype
that Democrats portray them as being. The issue polled over and over showing
the majority of Republicans were more concerned with border security and crime
than rounding up families, especially if it was going to take some new
department to do it and it probably would have.
Now, or so we are told, his position is exactly where the majority of
both Republicans and middle class working Democrats are.
And yes, this “softening” of his position is likely to
tick off some of the very far right, but again many of those guys were
skeptical about growing the government or giving them the new powers it would
take. Now while l may not be in favor of growing the police state to get rid of
families who may not be bothering anyone, at the same time I don’t like the
idea of creating 11 Million brand new Democrat voters. That would be my main reason for booting them
all out of our country. They came here
illegally, hence that have no reason to be here no matter how long ago they
managed to get away with it. And I
thought Mr. Trump understood that.
But still, at the end of the day, my disappointment
in this sudden shift notwithstanding, after taking everything into
consideration, I’m not yet to the point where I’m ready to abandon Trump. That being said, should his position on these
illegal immigrants become any “softer” I may be left with very little choice
but to reconsider my decision to support Mr. Trump. Those who made the conscious decision to
first come here, and then to remain here, illegally should have virtually no
pathway to citizenship. NONE, ZERO, ZIP,
ZILCH, NADDA. And if Mr. Trump comes to
consider that as a viable option, then he will surely have lost a supporter.
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