We can expect a lot of work in 2018 to do what we
can to block the passage of DACA, start building the wall, and end chain
migration. My fave, Mark Steyn, guest hosted for Rush Limbaugh yesterday, and
his segment on illegal immigration and The Wall were reported at both Breitbart
(“Mark Steyn: In the End, Trump Presidency ‘Will Stand or Fall on How He Tackles Immigration’”) and on Steyn’s blog page (“The Wall Is All”). The
transcript report by Jeff Poor at Breitbart is below.
“[T]here’s a lobby — there’s
lobbies for everything in this country,” Steyn said. “And there’s a strong
lobby for illegal immigration. There’s a strong lobby for refugees, which again
is a completely fraudulent operation by and large. Trump won because a
significant [number of voters] were serious about building a wall, about ending
illegal immigration and about doing something about people who walk into this
country illegally, stay here illegally, take jobs illegally, get driver’s
licenses illegally, use Social Security numbers illegally. And at some point …
I would have liked him to hold the inauguration ceremony on the southern border
and for it to culminate after the oath of office with him ceremonially laying
the brick in the wall. But in the end, his presidency will stand or fall on how
he tackles immigration.”
Steyn pointed to how
low-skilled mass immigration has impacted the American economy, and there is a
demand for low-skilled workers. He added that it isn’t just policy for Trump
that is important [but] shifting “attitudes” as well.
“In the end, the Trump presidency
I believe will stand or fall on how permanently he manages to shift not just
the number of people coming into the country, but how he manages to shift
attitudes towards remorseless unskilled mass immigration,” Steyn added. “That’s
what got him elected, and that’s what [will] actually be the basis on which his
presidency is judged.”
Steyn’s page is here. Ann Coulter recently
published an article along the same lines, at Townhall and Human Events here. Her take is that if the United States does not stop illegal immigration, then all other issues are essentially academic.
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