6/24/2019
- Paul Curry Townhall.com
Last Monday, Trump announced, via Twitter, of course, a
bold, direct, and, most importantly, necessary move in the war on illegal immigration.
‘The Donald’ informed the country that
ICE would be deployed to various American sanctuary cities in order to detain
and deport “millions” of illegal aliens. Predictably, this set off a firestorm
of hysterics from the left, illegal alien rights groups, and, alas, the media.
Yet Trump’s proclamation was right, necessary, and long overdue.
Illegal immigration is a detriment to our national
sovereignty, national economy, and, by extension, our national security.
Current estimates put the total number of illegal aliens in our country at over
12 million. Exact numbers are difficult to come by for reasons such as
citizenship questions on the national census (let’s see if the Supreme Court
recognizes that this term).
The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR)
conducted a comprehensive study
regarding the financial impact of illegal immigration. Services provided to
these some 12 million illegals and their families are just over
$135,000,000,000, don’t count the zeroes, that’s BILLIONS. Remember during the
2014 Ebola outbreak when NIH and CDC didn’t have enough money to properly
address the problem? Where could the government have found that money? When
funding for the Veterans’ Administration was in question, what other purse
could have been raided? Of course, federal funding and appropriation laws don’t
exactly work that way, but the underlying principle should resonate with anyone
who owns a calculator.
Remember the recent government shutdown? $5.7 billion was
too much for a wall, but somehow $135 billion in services to illegal aliens is
just the cost of government doing business. These are the same arguments, from
the same people, who want to mandate what taxes, living wages, and
Congressional pay raises should be. Not a comforting realization.
America, with or without illegal aliens, has crime, as does
any nation. But is that any justification to import more? From Kate Steinle’s
2015 murder by an illegal to Mollie Tibbett’s 2018 brutal killing, along with
the federal government’s report of 2,028
murders by illegals arrested in 2018, an important question arises: Why, through
inaction, allow such crimes to persist?
Simply because America already has crime is no
justification. If your son or daughter was in the emergency room for a stab
wound would you tell the doctor, “Don’t bother stitching him up. He already has
pneumonia?" Of course not. If we can’t get rid of our own crime problem,
we certainly should not invite more that we can get rid of.
We have serious problems that we must deal with, and deal
with effectively.
Sanctuary cities that flout our laws only serve to aggravate
an already overwhelming set of problems. Los Angeles and San Francisco, both
sanctuary cities, are both crumbling under crises of homelessness and crime. A
new app in San Francisco allows people to track human feces in the street. Back
in L.A., even Cher, a liberal stalwart, recently felt compelled to tweet about the homeless problem in the
City of Angels and the insanity of inviting more.
Sanctuary cities not only serve to exacerbate the
tribulations we see every day, they invite them. They are beacons to every
illegal border crosser, “Come here, we don’t care about the law or big
picture!”
Of course, the Left has attempted to frame the issue of
illegal immigration into the only argument they ever make: one of race. Not
surprising for a party whose primary tenet is identity politics. If the Left
can only see race or gender or sexual orientation, then they can only believe
others’ opinions are based on the same. Therein lies their argument. “You don’t
want unfettered illegal immigration because of race, not for the actual
reasons. Therefore, your opinions are invalid because I believe your basis is
in racism.” A complete lie that the media and 2020 candidates tout more often
than Joe Biden makes a gaffe.
They conveniently ignore the logical fallacy of their
primary economic beliefs, that a welfare state can support everyone that wants
in. Free college, free health care, guaranteed free income, free to everyone
who wants, yet, free of any rational way to support such a utopia. Free
thinkers indeed.
Now the Left has turned its ire on ICE. These federal law
enforcement officers are evil, equated to Nazis they shout in almost every
sentence. Democratic members of Congress screaming “Concentration camps!” (PLEASE read
a history book on the Holocaust!). They may as well work for the Department
of Redundancy.
ICE is not evil. ICE is not the problem. Illegal immigration
is the problem. Sanctuary cities are a symptom of that problem. ICE is simply
doing what is necessary.
As of today, Trump has placed a two-week hold
on his plan to detain and deport, hoping Democrats in Congress can do their job
and fix the problem. Failing that, people should remember, Illegal immigration
is the cancer, sanctuary cities are the tumors, and ICE is the chemotherapy.
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