3/2/2017 - Ilana Mercer Townhall.com
There were
a few tense hours before President Trump's First Address to Congress. All news
outlets were claiming the president would call for an immigration bill in which
both sides would be asked to compromise.
Was this
Fake News? Or, was the president sending up a trial balloon to test the
reaction? Was Donald Trump, who has both Houses, planning to give away the
store (and a shot at a second term)? I hope I speak for Deplorables when I say
this: The only time you want the president to reach across the aisle on matters
immigration is to grab a Democrat or an errant Republican by the throat.
Like many
legal immigrants, I'm an immigration restrictionist. As soon as open-border
enthusiasts discover this; they tell me to go back whence I came (Canada and
before that South-Africa), the idea being that I'm not suited to join "the
nation of immigrants." Agreed. I'll save them the effort. Americans have
little use for a scribe with a love of the English idiom and an oddball,
annoying attachment to the American ideas of limited government and
self-governance. You wouldn't want to import too many such subversives, who'll
agitate for the values that made us great and will MAGA.
The only TV
personality to have vigorously stood up for the high-value immigrant minority
is Tucker Carlson. In 2013, before it was safe for mainstream to speak of any
immigration vetting whatsoever—and as his neoconservative Fox News co-panelists
(Charles Krauthammer, Bret Bair) noodled on about their Latino philosophical
soul-mates—Mr. Carlson blurted this out:
"What
is missing in this conversation is the fact that not all immigrants are the
same. Immigrants from certain countries go on welfare overwhelmingly. Many
Latin American countries send us immigrants who go on welfare. The question is,
does the United States need massive new numbers of the low-skilled immigrants
in a post-industrial economy? Is that good for the United States? Is it not
mindless to say all immigrants are good? They are not. Some are, some aren't.
... the Republican Party ought to be courageous enough to draw the distinction
between people who add to the sum total of the American economy, who
buy into the culture, who improve the country, and those who don't.
And there is a difference. Sorry."
Thank you,
Tucker Carlson, for being, I believe, the first famous pundit to doff the
proverbial hat to those high-value immigrants who not only talk the American
creed, but live it; the kind who subsidize the largess Republican turncoats
seem so eager to dispense.
Thankfully,
the patriotic president said nothing, in his Address, about a
"compromise" immigration bill. Rather, Trump rededicated himself to
The Wall and to a merit-based point system à la Canada. (Been there, done that.
Canada is tougher and smarter than America.)
Judging by
the mirth among good people and the misery among the bad, the president has
already made progress. It's just over a month into his presidency and the
deportations of illegal immigrants are proceeding swimmingly. The morale among
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has never been higher. Their jobs are
becoming "fun, again," lamented a New York Times reporter, whose job
has become a living hell. Joy!
Some
anonymous informants for the newspaper-of-record within ICE say they miss the
days of doing diaper duty. In 2012, following Barack Obama's reelection, the
men of ICE were forced to babysit Central American minors who rushed the
South-Western border, "for the DREAM Act." (All you need to know
about the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act is that it
culminates in Green Cards and citizenship for millions of Democrats.) ICE was
charged with minding the minors before escorting them in style to their
destinations in the interior.
Most agents
are, however, over the moon about enforcement. ICE agents "are
predominantly male, and have often served in the military, with a police
department or both." While working without women could predispose them to
happiness, the agents are likely just overjoyed because President Trump has let
them do their job!
By upholding
the moral order, President Trump is also restoring the natural order, inverted
by his predecessors. The feminist order of Obama had humiliated
thousands of American men-of-action by turning them into wet-nurses. Obama
messed with their biology. Men who think of themselves as protectors resent
looking like child minders.
Dead ringer
"W," currently being rehabilitated by certain conservatives, was more
"manly" in the way he emasculated these men. In 2005, George Bush
indicted and viciously prosecuted two border-patrol agents, Ignacio Ramos and
Jose Compean. Their crime: Shooting a drug dealer in the derriere, in the
process of defending their countrymen.
So, look
forward to epic images of heavy equipment barreling toward the Southern border.
The sight of a gold-plated structure going up, as sections of the borderland
along Mexico start to resemble Liberace’s backyard: This is sure to warm the
cockles of your heart, and make America's monomaniacal media go berserk. (Let
Milo design The Wall. If conservatives can rehabilitate the unrepentant Bush;
they can forgive Milo for saying stupid stuff.)
Of course,
ordinary concrete would do just fine.
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