Trump Selling Out 'America First' By Promoting Amnesty For Illegals
Americans voted for Trump on the promise of mass deportations. He should keep his promise — all of it...
The promise was the restoration of American sovereignty through the removal of all illegal aliens — not just the violent ones...
But on Thursday President Donald Trump posted the following on Truth Social:
“Our great Farmers and people in the Hotel and Leisure business have been stating that our very aggressive policy on immigration is taking very good, long time workers away from them, with those jobs being almost impossible to replace...
We can’t take farmers and take all their people and send them back because they don’t have, maybe, what they’re supposed to have, maybe not.”..
American immigration policy should never be dictated by the labor needs of employers, especially not in industries built around a permanent, low-wage migrant workforce...
As The Federalist’s John Daniel Davidson pointed out in a post on X, “This is amnesty. … [Trump is] also making a declaration that businesses that openly flout US immigration law (for decades!) will face no consequences. This isn’t how you end illegal immigration. It’s how you entrench it.”...
Caving to the demands of farmers and hoteliers doesn’t just undermine that goal — it sends a signal to activists and rioters that America’s sovereignty is up for negotiation...
If America is merely an economic opportunity zone, then Trump’s concessions make perfect sense. But if America is a country — a real nation with a shared history, culture, and people — then our immigration policy must reflect that reality. No one who sneaks into the country illegally should be rewarded with legal status or amnesty...
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Two Trump blunders, by Molly Slag, American Thinker, 15 June 2025:
... The actual blunder is the welcoming of Chinese students into American Universities...
But it is the case that each and every Chinese student is legally obliged under Chinese law to undertake espionage whenever so directed by Chinese authorities. The Chinese law is found in sections 7 and 17 of the Chinese statute known as the “National Intelligence Law.”
And each and every one of these Chinese students has family back in China, rendering the student vulnerable to pressure arising from threats against the family.
Moreover, the presence inside the USA of secret Chinese “police stations” provides the organizational potential to harness this vulnerability to drive the student to espionage.
The President’s potential blunder lies in his quest for a deal with Iran...
The President does not appear to understand that Iran is in the grip of Islamic doctrine that glorifies deception, pursuant to which no deal is binding on Iran...
Good News, Political Pressure Works, Trump Administration Reverses Amnesty, Work-Site Enforcement Back On, by Federale, June 18, 2025.
This isn’t the way to get illegal aliens to self-deport, by Mark Krikorian, Washington Examiner, 19 June 2025:
The Trump administration almost snatched defeat from the jaws of victory last week on immigration. Just as self-deportation is gaining steam, the White House briefly gave in to corporate pressure and announced that whole sections of the economy would be exempt from immigration enforcement. Immigration and Customs Enforcement cancelled that order Monday, but the incident is an important reminder that eternal vigilance is the price of immigration control.
Any successful strategy to cut the illegal population significantly will have to combine two things: ICE arresting and removing illegal aliens, and other illegal aliens leaving on their own. During the Eisenhower administration’s deportation push, it’s estimated that for every illegal alien apprehended and removed by Border Patrol, 10 others left on their own...
Longstanding federal law that requires all foreigners in the country to be registered with the federal government is now being enforced. (Legal visitors are registered when they arrive.)
The CBP One cell phone app, which the Biden administration used to let hundreds of thousands of inadmissible aliens into the country illegally, has been rebranded CBP Home, which illegal aliens can use to facilitate their return.
To sweeten the pot, DHS is offering free flights home, plus a $1,000 bonus, for those who self-deport...
And it seems to be working: Preliminary data suggest nearly 1 million illegal aliens have departed the country since President Donald Trump’s inauguration...
But powerful cheap-labor business interests, upset that the illegal population was actually dropping, got to the president and persuaded him to exempt whole industries from immigration enforcement...
It would have made the goal of deporting 1 million illegal aliens a year — the “mass deportation” benchmark the administration has set for itself — impossible to meet, or even approach...
More importantly, it would have fatally undermined the self-deportation strategy...
And the illegal immigrants [illegal alien invaders] in other industries — such as construction, landscaping, office cleaning, etc. — would have made the same calculation, figuring that their employers’ lobbyists would also complain to the White House and demand the same deal...
To adapt a favorite saying of former President Ronald Reagan, border control is never more than one memo away from extinction...
How’s Trump doing on immigration? Great! (mostly), by Mark Krikorian, The Spectator World, 23 June 2025.