Trump's America First Immigration Policy

President Trump has been the object of much criticism over his newly announced immigration policy. With his "America first" policy, Trump said this: "And let the test of everything we do be a simple one: Is it good for the American people?"

As for illegal immigration, Trump was strong, as usual. "All Americans, not only in the states most heavily affected but in every place in this country, are rightly disturbed by the large numbers of illegal aliens entering our country. The jobs they hold might otherwise be held by citizens or legal immigrants. The public service they use impose burdens on our taxpayers. That's why our administration has moved aggressively to secure our borders more by hiring a record number of new border guards, by deporting twice as many criminal aliens as ever before, by cracking down on illegal hiring, by barring welfare benefits to illegal aliens."

Trump continued: "In the budget I will present to you, we will try to do more to speed the deportation of illegal aliens who are arrested for crimes, to better identify illegal aliens in the workplace...We are a nation of immigrants. But we are also a nation of laws. It is wrong and ultimately self-defeating for a nation of immigrants to permit the kind of abuse of our immigration laws we have seen in recent years, and we must do more to stop it."

Okay, I owe you all an apology. As in the last post, the above quotes are not from Trump at all. Rather, the above words were said by then President Bill Clinton in his 1995 State of the Union address. So, what's the point? Just to play a trick on everyone? Hardly. The first point is to demonstrate the never ending hypocrisy of the left. When a Republican utters certain words and proposes certain policies - we see demonstrations and even rioting in the streets. When said or done by a Democrat - nary a peep.

But, there is a far larger and more important point. When today's Democrats talk about what is "mainstream" they are really talking about their leftist worldview. Mainstream American values, as enunciated by Bill Clinton, and especially when said by Donald Trump, are now completely anathema to a large segment of the Democratic Party. As previously noted in this blog, the Democrats have been moving further and further to the left, a move which Obama accelerated. However, because of their inability to see how far they have moved, they think it is the Republican Party that has moved further to the right. Think of it as being a passenger (democrat) in a car and looking at a pedestrian (republican) standing on the sidewalk. The car takes a left turn, but the passenger doesn't have any sensation of movement. Therefore, the passenger perceives that the pedestrian is walking away in the opposite direction - to the right.

Here's the proof. Try reading the above quotes to a democrat and see what their reaction is. If you are a democrat reading this, then truthfully, how did you react before you knew it was Clinton speaking those words?