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On the first COMMENTARY podcast of this week, the hosts note that the groundwork is being laid to declare Donald Trump mentally unfit and that he should be stripped of authority under the Constitution’s 25th Amendment. Also, Donald Trump and Republicans have come up with a border security ask in exchange for passing DACA into law. Is it a gambit or a capitulation? Finally, Oprah-mania sweeps the country, but does she have what it takes to win the presidency?
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The “Wall” is just symbolism. It does not deal with illegals already in the country. Even if they got the money to build it – it would take years to build – well beyond Trump’s term(s). And to be effective it needs to be manned and maintained. The next Democrat president will just abandon it and let it decay.
Changing the law (not executive orders) to use e-verify, and get rid of lottery and chain migration, would be hard to undo, even with the next Democrat president.
Yes like Rubio wanted but the Horde just screamed “Amnesty” and “Rino”.
I think the gang of eight/Rubio plan included an amnesty for almost all illegal aliens, and an increase in legal immigration. Trump is talking about just the DACA illegal aliens, which is a much smaller number, and a decrease in legal immigration.
The details were negotiable with the House- including legal immigration numbers, types of immigrants (skilled vs unskilled), and details of amnesty, which has always been inevitable (were we going to use the army to round up millions of people onto 200,000 buses and dump them over the border on a country that would not accept them?); de facto amnesty is in place right just it is impossible to do anything, whether nativists like it or not. By screaming constantly about amnesty, etc., it was ensured that nothing would ever be accomplished to address the real problems, particularly chain migration, etc.
2 nights on a Casper mattress so far.
I am waking up with a back ache both mornings.
I will give it a few weeks.
Glad I will be able to return it if necessary.
Please keep us updated.
The essay mentioned in the podcast: Who Goes Nazi?
The 2016 version: Who Goes Trump?