Trump's Pressure on Sanctuary Cities Is Working
It was not long ago that Washington’s establishment experts announced that the crisis on the U.S. southern border was unfixable...
As events clearly demonstrated, when Trump returned to the White House... huddled masses [illegal alien invaders] quickly figured out that the United States would no longer tolerate waves of economic migrants storming across Mexico to enter our country illegally...
... journalist Todd Bensman, now working for the border czar Tom Hohman, traveled throughout the Western Hemisphere and reported regularly that U.S. presidential words and deeds were the key determinants in the “go or no-go” decisions of millions of clandestine migrants. It was not distant political upheaval, crop failures, or climate change. Biden told migrants to come, and he would let them in. Trump told them he would detain them and send them back. There is not much subtlety in that...
After all, even with stepped-up ICE deportations, federal officials can probably only remove about 600,000–700,000 a year, which is a large number, but not nearly large enough. That is why presidential messaging is again crucial, and Trump is staying on script...
The recent raid on the Hyundai battery plant in Georgia, despite media caterwauling, was actually another very positive step on the public messaging front. Intentionally or not, the ICE raid signaled to the corporate world that visa status for foreigners working in the U.S. matters.
The White House now needs to get serious about implementing a national E-Verify program that requires employers to undertake systemic online checks to screen their laborers, but the president seems reluctant to take this step. If Trump would do it, he could begin hacking down the jungle of false documents and identities that are everywhere in our country...
The second challenge is to break the network of sanctuary jurisdictions that accommodate illegal presence in our country. On this issue, the president is taking historic action...
Indeed, no other U.S. chief executive since perhaps Calvin Coolidge has so forcefully decided to take on our large metropolitan areas that shield illegal immigrants...
Invaluable positive momentum builds with every twisted media story of “masked ICE agents jumping out of unmarked cars” to make arrests; it is free publicity...