President-elect Donald Trump won a stunning victory on Election Day based in part on his promise to address the crime-ridden border crisis he will inherit from President Joe Biden and make it a top priority when he takes office in mid-January.
Among the measures Trump wants to address the problem is a form of mass deportation of illegal immigrants, with those with criminal records prioritized first and the others treated later.
He repeated that promise during an interview with NBC News in early December. tell However, they told them: “It is a very difficult thing… you have to have rules, regulations and laws. You entered illegally.”
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Of course, it’s an issue that has open-borders advocates up in arms, including National Immigration Law Center President Kica Matos, who said in an interview with MSNBC on Friday morning that Trump’s plan, if implemented, would be “one of the… worst moments in our country” would be history when it comes to what is likely to happen to our immigrant population.
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Kica Matos, president of the National Immigration Law Center, says Trump’s deportation of illegal immigrants “will be one of the worst moments in our country’s history in terms of what is likely to happen to our immigrant population.” pic.twitter.com/i1JAEP3UOq
— Julio Rosas (@Julio_Rosas11) December 27, 2024
It was Matos’ apply of the word “immigrant” to describe illegal immigrants who could be deported that caught the attention of Fox News national correspondent Bill Melugin, a fixture at the border for several years, who also made a timely correction became for Matos on this topic:
Immigrants are not deported. Illegal immigrants are.
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) December 27, 2024
Since the left loves to play word games to intentionally misinform and pressure people, this was an extremely essential correction given the current situation at the border and in so-called “sanctuary cities” across the country.
Trump’s promise was not to deport “immigrants” en masse. It was about deportation illegal Immigrants, with an initial focus on those who have committed crimes.
It’s something law-abiding citizens do should Support, especially given the wave of violent, often deadly crimes we have seen this year, including the February murder of Georgia nursing student Laken Riley by an illegal immigrant and, more recently, the murder of the unidentified woman who was set on fire and death on a New York subway, allegedly by an illegal immigrant.
Matos and her allies can try to stand in the way of mass deportations all they want, but they will face a hurdle not only among conventional conservative voters but also among members of the Hispanic community, which Trump has won over over the past three election cycles and who also consider an arranged and controlled process at the southern border to be essential the right way.
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