Soon, Donald J. Trump will become President of the United States. He has a track record of doing in office what he said he would do while campaigning. He promised to begin a mass deportation of persons who have entered the United States illegally. We may fully expect him to do it.
President Trump has appointed Tom Homan to be in charge of preventing illegal entry into the United States at our borders, seaports, and airports. He will also be responsible for the deportation of persons residing in our country illegally. In a segment on Fox News, Mr. Homan said that they plan to begin by deporting the worst criminals among the illegal migrants first. That is probably the best place to start. It is something most people think is needed, so it should have popular support.
According to the BBC, the Pew Research Center found that “six out of ten” Americans considered immigration to be an important issue when casting their ballots last November. [1] A Scripps poll reported that 86% of Republicans and 25% of Democrats support mass deportation. The same source stated that 54% of all voters support mass deportation, while 42% oppose it. [2]
Prior to the national election, polls often showed that American voters trusted the Republicans more than the Democrats to manage border security. [3] Last November, we elected Donald Trump, and gave the Republicans voting majorities in congress. Turning a deaf ear to the people, Democratic Governors are planning and implementing actions to resist President Trump’s efforts to begin deporting “unauthorized residents.” [4] So are Democratic mayors, including the mayors of sanctuary cities. [5] In the US Senate and House of Representatives members are split along party lines on the issue of mass deportation, Republicans in favor and Democrats opposed. [6] Once again, Average Americans can expect to see their government deadlocked on an important part of the peoples’ business.
Estimates vary, but one reliable source reports that 8 million persons entered the United States across its southern land border, during the Biden Administration. [7] Estimates of the number of persons illegally residing in the USA vary from about 10.5 million to 16.5 million depending on when the estimate was done and who estimated it. [8]
The American people have spoken clearly, and we want the border crisis, and the problems it has created dealt with – now. The Democratic legislation allowing up to 5,000 illegal migrants per day into the country before the president may close the border is unacceptable. It appears to have been proposed to force the Republicans to refuse to approve it. That way the Democrats could blame them for failing to give President Biden the tools he needs to secure the border. That is typical of the political “dirty tricks” the Democrats are famous for. Hear this, one illegal entry into the United States is one too many.
Lamp in a Corner welcomes persons who enter the USA legally. We call on congress to pass immigration reform legislation that will effectively regulate legal immigration, while providing those who want to become US citizens a workable way to do so. Those who enter the country illegally must be deported – humanely.
Problems have been created by allowing millions of people to enter the United States illegally. They include housing shortages; excessive demands on our educational, welfare, and medical systems; human trafficking; sexual assault and exploitation; the importation of illegal drugs; criminal gangs; terrorists and foreign espionage agents in our midst; and criminal cartels operating in many of our major cities - to name a few. Together, they have produced a significant threat to our national security and our culture, and have contributed to deficit government spending.
Title 8 U.S.C. Section 1325 is the law that makes illegal entry into the United States a crime. It was later amended to make violations subject to civil penalties. Title 8 U.S.C. 1324 makes it illegal to import persons into the US. [9] Section 1326 makes illegal reentry a crime punishable by a fine or two years in prison. [10] In the United States of America we are subject to the rule of law. In other words we are ruled by laws – not by men. We elect leaders to operate the government within the law, and we expect them to protect and defend us by enforcing the law.
Allowing millions of people to enter the country illegally, to remain here illegally, and to eventually become citizens is a slap in the face to the rule of law. Therefore, it violates who we are as a nation and as a people. There are other reasons that all persons who are in the United States illegally must be deported, but if this were the only one, it would be sufficient.
We are already beginning to see demonstrations against the new Trump Administration’s plans to deport illegal migrants. When the deportations begin the liberal press will fill the airwaves with stories about families being torn apart, people being dragged from their homes, and “concentration camps” where people are held after being apprehended entering the country illegally. Two thirds of our population is about to be labeled as fascist, racist, oppressors, and xenophobic.
Leftist lawyers in groups like the ACLU and SPLC have probably already prepared legal briefs to persuade liberal judges to issue injunctions to stop mass deportations. We may be sanctioned by the United Nations. Countries around the world will likely condemn us, while conveniently ignoring China’s human rights violations.
Demonstrations often have the potential of becoming violent. Some of our “unauthorized residents” may refuse to leave peacefully; especially the hardened criminals among them. If there is violence, the liberals in the press, congress, and the universities will want “justice” for the “victims.”
The task of deporting 3.3 % [11] of our population seems to be a bit overwhelming. There are some people who seem to think that all the incoming Trump Administration has to do is to wave a magic wand and 10 to 16 million people will suddenly disappear. They are in for a disappointment. Deporting all illegal residents will require a herculean effort. It is virtually impossible to deport millions of people without occasional encroachments on human rights. Therefore, we must try to remember that the greatest inhumanity that has been done to illegal migrants was letting them into the USA illegally in the first place. It has created the necessity for any unkindness that may occur from mass deportation.
To retain the support of the American people, every effort must be made to conduct the proposed mass deportation of illegal migrants as humanely as possible. We urge those responsible to make humane deportation a first consideration before any operation is begun and conducted.
To reduce the cost to the taxpayer and ensure that mass deportation is done as humanely as possible, we suggest that our government remove the incentives that motivate illegal migration. These include, but are not limited to, employment, public welfare benefits, subsidized housing, medical treatment, free public education, bilingual government services, and mass transit (air, ground, and rail). Hopefully, the removal of these incentives would provide the motivation needed to cause illegal migrants to return to their countries of origin on their own.
Providing transportation to their countries of origin by the least expensive carrier possible would motivate illegal migrants to leave the United States voluntarily. If they have not been convicted of a crime, or are not known or suspected terrorists or spies, they should have the opportunity to return if they apply and are approved for entry.
To reiterate, entry to the United States legally must be denied to those who are known or suspected of having terrorist affiliations or an intent to conduct criminal activities. Entry should also be denied to persons from countries who have shown themselves to be opponents of the United States and its interests.
Before you dismiss these suggestions as hateful, racist, fascist, or cruel, please understand:
They are submitted in the hope that they will deter people from illegal entry and provide illegal residents with the motivation to leave on their own. They are intended to make harsher actions that might occur under a mass deportation unnecessary.
US citizens, and our nation, have the right to self-defense.
They will save the US Government a ton of borrowed money.
One last thing. Before you call American conservatives fascist, dictatorial, and anti-democratic remember that under Democrat presidents like Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden our fellow citizens were killed by government agents who may have rushed to judgement and possibly failed to exhaust all other available alternatives to lethal force; and the IRS and Justice Department were weaponized to persecute the Democrats’ political opponents like the Tea Party Movement and Donald Trump and his associates.
Remember, it is the Democrats who want the government to have a monopoly on the possession and use of deadly weapons, denying law abiding Americans the ability to defend themselves, while they let criminals, terrorists and foreign agents flow freely across the border. They want us to stand helplessly by while they let criminals rule the streets of our cities. If we don’t support President Trump’s efforts to get things back under control, we are in deep kimchee. We do not have a lot of time left to get it right.
