9/25/2017 - Arthur Schaper Townhall.com
Last week,
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and uber-liberal Congresswoman Barbara
Lee held a press
conference with fellow open-border and amnesty advocates. They wanted to
discuss their proposed legislative deal to grant legal status to the 800,000
DACA recipients who are losing that status following President Trump’s
executive order to phase out the program. Suddenly, a small crowd of irate
illegal alien youth crowded the stage, stole the show, and demanded complete
amnesty for all illegals in the country: not just for themselves, but for their
parents, their siblings, for anyone else who has broken into this country.
Pelosi lost her cool, then tried to pick up the pieces afterwards, defending
their outrageous conduct but displacing their demands for full-blown
immigration “Reform”.
While that
press conference has gone viral, one part of the event did not get proper
coverage. In addition to the repeated phrases demanding full inclusion of all
illegals, one of organizers shouted at Pelosi and the press crowd: “We
are not ‘Dreamers’!” They want to be recognized as young and innocent,
not at fault for their unlawful presence in the country. They insist that
everyone respect their “right” to have a future in the United States, even if they
have resided in the country illegally. But do not call them “dreamers”! Why?
The label has engendered an ongoing narrative of “good illegals” vs. “bad
illegals”, and they want to phase out the moral distinctions entirely, treating
all migrants in the country illegally, adverse criminal records
notwithstanding, as entitled to full legal status in the United States.
I say we
call the illegal alien youths “nightmares” and end this illegal immigration
nightmare once and for all. Some of my closest allies in the fight against
illegal immigration have called out this false dichotomy before. “There are no
good illegal aliens vs. bad ones. Illegal is illegal.” Part of the reason why
this immigration debate has fallen into such confused rancor is precisely because
of this false division. Let’s not forget, however, who created this mess: The
Democratic Party, with Alzheimer’s Nancy at the helm for the greater part of
her tenure in Democratic leadership.
Yes, we all
know that illegal alien “nightmares” showed their true colors when they took
over Alzheimer’s Nancy’s press conference last week in San Francisco.
Notice that I wrote “nightmares” to describe these young illegals. I
think we should stop using the term “dreamers” altogether to describe this
cohort of DACA recipients. That politicized abuse of the English language
represents the unwarranted friction in the whole immigration debate. Calling a
criminal a “dreamer” is patently offensive, just like calling illegal aliens in
general “undocumented immigrants” is outrageous political correctness and moral
fraud. Human beings are not pieces of paper, but moral agents charged with
making decisions and accepting the consequences for their actions. “Nightmares”
is a perfect label for these arrogant illegals, and they are living up to that
moniker.
They have
become arrogant and incorrigible. After 8 years of hasty, lawless promises and
reassurances from the Democratic Party, the Nightmares refuse to be placated,
and they will raise as much hell as they can--as though they are entitled to
dismiss all decorum. They are not just spoiled, self-absorbed Millennials, but
they are fear-fueled politicized Marxist-leaning college militants who have
been indoctrinated to define their own truth and go off their feelings: a very
bad combination.
Beside, we
have so many Americans with dreams in this country, young and old. And some
American dreamers never got to fulfill their dreams in the first place. At the 2016 RNC Convention,
keynote speaker Sabine Durden had dreams of being a grandmother, but
her son Dominick was killed by an illegal alien. Angie Morfin dreamed that her
son Ruben would grow up and take on the world. He was executed by an illegal
alien. Those dreamers mattered, and yet their dreams will never materialize
because of the illegal alien nightmare, both their criminal presence and
activities in this country. Young dreamer Drew Rosenberg was killed by an
illegal alien, and his father Don Rosenberg fights to ensure that American
dreamers come first, that their dreams receive full attention.
Fortunately
for all of us, these illegals are also sorely mistaken about their chances of
success. The vast majority of Americans oppose sanctuary cities and want
enforcement of our immigration laws. They sent that message loud and clear on
election day.No matter how much lawmakers on both sides of the aisle try to
engage in the Potomac Two-Step, talking a tough game but then caving to
amnesty, We the People have seen enough.
Foolishly,
they are playing off the same play book that helped Barack Obama get elected in
2008. Political engagement of this kind failed in 2016. All the rallies,
protests, screaming and yelling in the public square cannot out-shout the 95
million Americans forced out of work because of regulatory schemes and open
border policies. Not being able to pay your bills at the end of the month
resonates a lot louder for average voters than the screaming brats who took
over Nancy Pelosi’s press conference last week. They have overplayed their
hand, and we have had enough. Their protests cannot overcome the grief that
American families have suffered watching their loved ones get murdered by
illegal aliens.
The more
criminal riots and unlawful assemblies they engage in, the more that We the
People will stand firm in our conviction that this country is welcoming for
those who come legally, and we will not be bullied or guilt-tripped into
throwing amnesty to spoiled brats convinced that they have the moral high
ground because their college professors told them so. With the American
people’s unwavering demand for secure borders, the rancor among left-wing
grassroots activists will merely make them look bad, and all but assures that
our dreams will come true: the Nightmare kids will be deported, and this
nightmare of illegal immigration will finally draw to a close.
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