Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump unveiled a 10-part immigration policy plan during a speech in Phoenix on Aug. 31 after meeting with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto earlier in the day. ended illegal immigration for good.” Everyone knows what that means: One way or another, they will be allowed to stay. It gets buy-in from Democrats who for whatever reason — self-styled humanitarianism or bare-knuckled partisanship — have no interest in real border enforcement. The American public will accept today’s illegal immigrants if it is convinced that this will be the last such cohort. Once the river of illegal immigration has been demonstrably and securely reduced to a trickle, the country will readily exercise its natural magnanimity and legalize.

Source: Washington Post September 01, 2016 23:26 UTC