Republicans should be against illegal immigration, not legal immigration
Randi Weingarten gets paid $500k to protest with Starbucks baristas?
In our political and cultural landscape, seemingly countless issues represent clear divides along party lines. While certain issues remain hopelessly polarized, the Republican Party should be proud of several key and monumental successes. One example is obviously the protection and expansion of gun rights across the country. Another could be immigration — unless some on the fringes of the Right have something to say about it.
Under President Donald Trump’s second administration, the border crisis that existed for decades and exploded under the inept leadership of former President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris is now over. Yes, Trump actually solved a problem he promised to solve. Not only that, but he essentially solved the problem in an afternoon.
With this success now comes a dangerous void where the issue of illegal immigration once stood. If we’re not careful, that void will become occupied by a growing faction of the Right that views immigration, both legal and illegal, as a negative feature of the American experiment, with a particularly vile layer of overt racism applied in order to portray the United States as a white nation that needs protecting from non-white invaders.
Read the rest of my latest column for Washington Examiner here.
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