It won’t be until the end of the 2024 election cycle before President Joe Biden’s administration decides to do something about illegal immigration and the border crisis. By then, it was too late.
In May, GOP members of the Homeland Security Committee estimated that, before the end of the 2024 fiscal year, the Biden administration would be responsible for 10 million illegal immigrant encounters across our nation’s borders. With the policy of catch-and-release and immigration courts created-up dealing with specious asylum claims, which is not a border crisis; it’s officially a border disaster.
President-elect Donald Trump ran to fix this – and use his legal power in the first term, deploying the US military to remove the illegal in this country, to start to stop the bleeding.
America agreed. It’s okay to be the president’s popular choice — that and $5.69 will get you a Big Mac and nothing else — but Trump leads in the tally without even trying. He has won 312 electoral votes, which means he carried every state he targeted. It’s a mandate to do something about the border, and the Democrats, no mistake, are freaking out.
This shouldn’t be bad, mind you. This is what the people want: They are fed up with the cynical open borders policy promoted by a party that believes demographics are destiny. Democrats know this too. And, in a viral clip from a CNN panel discussion on Monday, liberal activist Paul Rieckhoff revealed what strategy he’ll take: thwarting the will of voters by painfully enforcing the law.
The discussion took place after Trump confirmed on Truth Social that he is “ready to declare a national emergency and will use military assets to reverse Biden’s invasion through the mass deportation program,” as the president of Judicial Watch Tom Fitton said, according to Fox News.
It was all legal, but it was finally done in the 1950s and on a much smaller scale – about 1.3 million illegal immigrants. However, drastic times call for drastic measures, so voters gave Trump the mandate.
The problem, of course, is that leftist and more leftist Democratic politicians are about to announce that they will do anything to stop the law:
Katie Hobbs refused to turn over illegally. Arizona became a sanctuary state pic.twitter.com/klnlVSoROg
– Maximus D. Meridius (@Most_Maximus1) November 18, 2024
The Los Angeles City Council unanimously passed an ordinance Tuesday to become a “sanctuary city,” which prohibits city resources from being used to help enforce federal immigration laws. The move comes in response to President Donald Trump’s pledge to… pic.twitter.com/ejKplstNYL
— CBS News (@CBSNews) November 20, 2024
Sanctuary jurisdictions vow to protect illegal aliens, who can include criminals and public safety threats, by fighting the Trump administration’s immigration policies.
This is a direct rejection of Americans across the country who want immigration laws to be enforced. pic.twitter.com/FBAWBPmrhK
— Federation for American Immigration Reform (@FAIRImmigration) November 19, 2024
Thus, Rieckhoff – who served in the military – supports that our men and women in uniform will meet resistance in the streets of our own country when implementing our own laws. Remember when he said we were preparing for Civil War II? To hear Rieckhoff tell it, that apparently changed Nov. 5.
“The challenge to sort out is mammoth. We’ve had a hard time doing it in Iraq, OK? he said.
“Our troops have had a hard time doing it in Afghanistan, trying to ask questions to sort out who’s who and to implement this kind of policy, and continue, in the United States it’s nothing like that. I mean, continue. Maybe the only precedent we have is the internment camps during World War II against Japanese-Americans.
And there we have it: Not just street wars like in Iraq or Afghanistan, but also like the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II. Except these people aren’t citizens – or even in this country legally – and can be deported. But other than that, they are totally the same.
Enter the voice of reason on CNN, conservative commentator Scott Jennings: “You have twice now insinuated that Trump will send the military to round up American citizens, which is totally false,” he said. “There are 1.3 to 1.6 million illegal immigrants in this country today who have received deportation orders from the courts. You can start there.
“There are other populations, as Marc (Lotter) said, who have either committed violent crimes in the United States or committed violent crimes where they came from. You can also do that. That has nothing to do with the people in your environment, no it has to do with the people in your office, and it has nothing to do with what they say. It has to do with people who are not in the country coming out of the country.”
However, here – unfortunately – where Rieckhoff makes a good point when he asks how Jennings will deploy the military to expel these illegal immigrants.
“I’m going to use the military along with local officials, local law enforcement, county sheriffs, people who know their communities, because I think a lot of local sheriffs and jailers are going to be the ones who house some of these people before they’re deported,” Jennings said.
Rieckhoff did not see that he had hit something here and continued to ask how Jennings would handle the military deployment logistically. Jennings again noted, “There are millions of people who came to this country illegally who have received deportation orders or who have committed other crimes while here. The fact that you want to leave them in place is amazing to me.
“That’s not what I said. That’s not what I’m talking about,” Rieckhoff replied.
Host John Berman then interjected and asked Rieckhoff what he considered the mandate of the election.
“I think the voters said, whatever. I think broadly between the partisan lines, there is an almost universal need for people to do something about it. What you do is a very different story,” said Rieckhoff.
NEW: Scott Jennings blasts CNN guest Paul Rieckhoff after he suggested Trump send in the military to round up US citizens.
Rieckhoff had a lot to say about Trump’s deportation plan but offered no solutions.
Rieckhoff: “You’re asking a 19-year-old kid, holding a weapon that… pic.twitter.com/GpKsTxmCWU
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) November 19, 2024
Later in the discussion, Rieckhoff continued his speech: “The idea that things are going to happen in the abstract without protesters and other Americans participating is delusional. I mean, if you go into an American city and start setting up camps to put whoever you want, there will be citizens who will protest. There will be many terrifying and terrifying challenges for a 19-year-old child to carry a gun on the streets of America.
Jennings again tried to find other options from the people there because he always knew about the military: “What is the alternative? To keep the crisis going?”
“It doesn’t spread 82 times or let the crisis continue,” Rieckhoff said. “There’s a lot of middle ground.”
He lied. There is no “middle ground”. And he told you in bold neon signs by falsely claiming, before the discussion, that we would treat Latino citizens like FDR treated Japanese-Americans.
This is the Democrats’ strategy for dealing with illegal immigration: make law enforcement painful, horrible, so it doesn’t. Then we might talk about closing the border if there are too many crossings a week, he said, or maybe appointing some immigration judges so asylum cases are heard before 2035.
That’s your middle ground. Any more, and you put kids in cages like Japanese internment camps, and the Democrats won’t take it, so they’ll make law enforcement a problem, at least, less- civil war-level. Then the conservatives quit, because we are the cruel ones.
There will be no cooperation from state and local officials, Jennings said. On the contrary. The party that voted out the failure to protect our borders is now poised to ensure that the failure remains – because to them, the failure is not a bug, but features of national policy.
They will go against the will of the American voters. They will fight the law. And now it’s so bad that the military has to get involved, they will fight against the military.
Thus sacrosanct the right to illegal immigration for Democrats. There is no peaceful middle solution. Here’s a preview of what’s to come only practice immigration law in Americafor heaven. And if it sounds terrible when you read between the lines of the CNN panel discussion, just wait until you see what it looks like in practice.
This article first appeared in The Western Journal.
