The Deportation Party? [WaLl St. J., EDITORIAL]

Wall St. J ^ | August 17, 2015

[Steelfish]

OPINION REVIEW & OUTLOOK The Deportation Party? Trump proposes to stop even most legal immigration. Aug. 17, 2015

Republican critics of U.S. immigration policy have long claimed that they welcome legal immigrants. That claim is going to be tested now that Donald Trump has unveiled a policy outline that would deport millions and sharply restrict all immigration. Mr. Trump is bidding to make the GOP the deportation party.

[Steelfish]

Pat Buchanan responds:

http://buchanan.org/blog/immigration-issue-of-the-century-16368

[nathanbedford]

First, since I am unable to read the article I assume that it is in keeping with the historic position of the Wall Street Journal to favor open borders and unrestricted immigration.

Obviously, the editorial is trying to stigmatize any effort to restrain immigration as a draconian, brutal, almost fascistic desire to deport (they use the word "deportation") millions of our neighbors. This has been the approach of these people, Democrats, La Raza, establishment Republicans, from the beginning.

This is why I think that Trump's approach when it identifies criminals is politically productive and when he talks about "deportation" it is ideologically sound, but politically dangerous. So I pointed out a weakness in the Trump paper which was an absence of an explicit platform to enforce e-verify. Enforcing E verify is a passive deportation which also runs severe political risks as we have seen with Mitt Romney who was criticized for recommending "self deportation," but it is certainly better than images of boxcars on the way to Auschwitz which Democrats, demagogues, and the Wall Street Journal will no doubt provide us free of charge.

It is vital that the incentive for immigration, which is not birth citizenship as Trump asserts but employment, be removed. It is also better politics.

[LongWayHome]

Crony-capitalist scum at the WSJ want cheap labor....even if it kills you & me.

[hosepipe]

The Deportation Party... I like it.. it SINGS....

[wiggen]

100% carrying the water for the Chamber of Commerce.

[LongWayHome]

Stopped reading the rag 5 years ago.

[tumblindice]

The Democrats had their moratorium against the war they started.
We want a moratorium on the war against Americans. But there are some, even here, urging that we sue for peace.
Instead, we declare war on the Uniparty waging war against us.

[Gaffer]

Gee.....makes you wonder how someone could make “deportation”, following established law, an epithet.

[Democratic-Republican]

[Lurkinanloomin]

Good, it’s about damn time.

[zeugma]

We have exceeded our carrying capacity of immigrants, legal and otherwise. Time to sit back a while and see if we can catch our breath. Continued support of importing yet more people from kleptocratic oligarchies is insanity at this point.