The Real Problem With Trump’s Equivocation on Immigration
The news cycle this week is saturated with headlines about Donald Trump equivocating, “softening,” or questioning his own position on illegal immigration. In this podcast, Daniel, using his decade-long experience fighting open borders, explains what is so damaging about Trump being off message on this issue. It’s not just the concern of a man who, to begin with, never had a firm grounding in the issue and is now all over the map. It’s that he is messaging the issue in the worst possible way, validating the premise of Hillary and Obama.
One of the old tactics of the Left is to use ‘straw men examples’ of extreme manifestations of a given issue to distract from the main policy problem confronting the nation. This is why they make the entire abortion debate about rape rather than about 50 million abortions on demand, including partial birth abortions and taxpayer funding for harvesting baby organs. This is why they want to distract from a destructive regulatory state by asking people if they want toxic waste in their water. And it is for this reason why they focus the immigration discussion on what to do with those already here for 1,000 years and are model citizens or Medal of Honor recipients.
The key is not to get caught in their straw men and focus instead on their extreme positions. What Donald Trump has been doing over the past few days is validating every straw man premise of the left with his gratuitous chatter and conflicting comments from campaign aids.
Further disturbing is the fact that Trump keeps praising Obama for deporting people. He is validating a widely-held belief on the Left that the “borders are more secure than ever before.” This is demonstrably false, but it serves as Hillary’s number one defense of her policies. It is irresponsible for Trump to self-destruct in this way.
In reality, as Daniel demonstrates, there are endless lines of attack Trump can open up with regards to open borders, especially with the polling on refugees, the endless executive and judicial amnesties for criminal aliens, and the security concerns with Middle Eastern illegal immigrants rushing our southern border. Linked below are some articles with great talking points to go offense on immigration instead of turning this winning issue into a loser. Daniel also plugs chapters 6 and 7 from his book, Stolen Sovereignty, where he breaks down all the messaging and data that conservatives need to throw at open borders advocates. Trump and his team should order a copy!
Conservative Review show links:
Jihadists being smuggled through our border, yet we can’t deport them
The Forgotten Man in the Immigration Debate
Trump on deportations: Do what Obama has done but with 'more energy'
Clinton deported 4 Times as many illegal aliens as Obama
How about learning immigration messaging from..Bill Clinton!?
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