Immigration and the Left's Plans for Our Nation

Earlier this week, President Trump released a 70-point plan reflecting his immigration priorities. The President has indicated that he wants these provisions included in any bill giving any type of amnesty to the “dreamers”, a group of illegal immigrants brought here by their parents as minors.  The 70-point plan focuses on three primary priorities; improved border security, interior enforcement, and the creation of a merit-based immigration policy.  This surely did not impress the Democrats; who hoped that the dreamers would receive amnesty with no strings attached.  They could promise to address border security at a later time all they wanted to but it looks like the President has decided to call their bluff.

 

President Trump had previously caused anxiety among some in his base by meeting with Senate Minority Leader and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi shortly after he decided to discontinue DACA; an executive order signed by President Obama designed to protect the dreamers from deportation.  The leaders of the opposition party released a statement after that meeting saying that the President had agreed to a “compromise” that would guarantee protection for the dreamers in exchange for vague measures of “increased border security”, excluding the wall.  The fact that Pelosi dared to speak with the President caused outrage among a group of angry DACA beneficiaries who confronted the House Minority Leader at a town hall last month.        

 

Democrats say that they oppose restrictions on immigration because it goes against “our values” as a “nation of immigrants.”  The real reason behind their steadfast opposition to any border security has more to do with the Democratic Party’s status as a “party of immigrants”.  As the Democrats have adopted more extreme positions on economic and social issues, they have become increasingly dependent on the votes of immigrants; as a majority of native-born voters reject their extremism.  For an example of this new wave of left-wing extremism, look no further than Bedlam Coffee, a business in Seattle where the owner harassed a group of pro-life activists and told them he wanted to anally penetrate Jesus Christ; whom the overwhelming majority of Americans consider their lord and savior.  Rather than calling this guy extreme, the Democrats instead use that term to describe President Trump’s immigration priorities.    

 

Opinion polling shows that a majority of Americans disagree with the Democrats’ characterization of President Trump’s immigration proposals as “extreme.” 71 percent of Americans agree with President Trump that companies should hire Americans before they hire foreign workers.  A whopping 82 percent of Americans support stronger penalties for previously deported illegal immigrants who re-enter the country.  Bill O’Reilly spearheaded this proposal, known as Kate’s Law, after Kate Steinle lost her life at the hands of an illegal immigrant who had been deported multiple times.  76 percent of Americans support the call for more ICE officers.  75 percent of Americans support the President’s efforts to target MS-13.  73 percent of Americans support instituting a requirement that new arrivals into the country have the ability to support themselves financially.  64 percent of Americans support withholding Federal funding to sanctuary cities that thumb their noses at Federal immigration law.  59 percent of Americans agree that immigrants should have the ability to speak English.  64 percent of Americans support a points-based system that would select immigrants based on their education levels, English speaking ability and job skills.  Fortunately for these Americans, Senators Tom Cotton (R-AR) and David Perdue (R-GA) have already introduced the RAISE Act, which calls for the creation of a points-based system that benefits America as a whole rather than caters to the desires of a few powerful interest groups. Finally, 59 percent of Americans support ending “chain-migration”; which allows relatives of immigrants already living here to come into the country regardless of whether they would serve as a net benefit to our economy.  For the record, the definition of “relative” goes far beyond the immediate family.    

 

Unfortunately, many of our elected representatives in Congress do not support these wildly popular proposals.  The Democrats want millions of new voters and the Republicans want to please their donors at the Chamber of Commerce, who love taking advantage of cheap labor.  Hopefully, Steve Bannon’s efforts to replace establishment Republicans with conservatives who support the Trump agenda will help take care of this.  The fact that members of Congress are so out of touch with the priorities of the American people might explain their low poll numbers.

 

Upon further reflection, I found it quite strange that the radical left wants to bring more people into a country they hate so much.  Why would they want to subject anyone else to the horrors of patriarchy and colonialism?  But then it hit me: liberals see the new immigrants as a vital part of their coalition to remake America.  Ann Coulter pointed out in a decade-old article that they will serve as “the vanguard of the new socialist state.”  As is the case with most remakes, the new America will pale in comparison to the original. Liberals have already provided a preview of coming attractions as to what our new country will look like.  They’ve already destroyed and/or deconstructed most of the inner cities as well as the concept of the nuclear family; and made a mockery of the virtues of temperance and self-reliance.  The new America will have much in common with Western Europe; free healthcare, free college and free birth control will replace free speech and free exercise of religion as the dominant pillars of our society.  The “old virtues” of free exercise of religion and free speech will apply to some of the interest groups the left cares about such as Muslims and Antifa.  The Constitution of the New United States of America will surely include provisions outlawing “hate speech” and mandating safe spaces.  Liberals in Europe have already surrendered their national autonomy to the bureaucrats in Brussels and many liberals in North America have a desire to institute something similar here.  Even as far back as 2000, Then-Mexican President Vicente Fox romanticized the idea of a North American Union consisting of Mexico, Canada, and the United States.  No wonder he hates the idea of the “f***ing wall.”      

 

Now, let’s get back to the Democrats’ opposition to the President’s immigration proposals.  The Democrats don’t oppose the wall because they don’t think it will work, they oppose it because they know it will work.  If a wall successfully manages to keep illegal immigrants (and drugs) from entering our country, that will throw a wrench in the Democrats’ plans to remake America.  The election of President Trump over Hillary Clinton has already provided them with an unanticipated road block.  Until President Trump came along, the Democrats had successfully convinced most of our previous Republican Presidents and a large number of Congressional Republicans to go along with their amnesty schemes by promising them that they would appear “compassionate” for doing so.  Most of them went along with the schemes because the Democrats deceptively assured Republicans that they wanted a secure border.

 

The immigration debate is an important one to have as we continue fighting the culture war. Successful implementation of President Trump’s immigration priorities will allow the traditionalists to make up some ground in the culture war.  If he makes any concessions on the wall and/or ending chain migration, then the secular progressives will have enough power to declare victory in the culture war and do irreversible damage to America as we know it.