Submitted by G. Jones
If Trump has a mandate from voters for anything, it is
building this wall to help secure our borders. Fulfilling this mandate is all
the more vital given the madness of the immigration position of Democrats:
sanctuary cities; catch and release; no voter IDs; abolishing ICE (i.e., having
no border security at all.)
These policies are -- to say the least -- far away from
where most American voters are on immigration. Conservative and centrist voters
are much more in line with Trump's position: that a nation without borders is
no nation at all.
This is a political fight that Republicans should be
relishing on the eve of the election. Border security vs. no borders at all.
Democrats are so in bed with a radical fringe that they are handing Republicans
the issue of the decade on a silver platter.
Yet Republicans are huddled in the fetal position on
immigration. The Washington Post headline from last week said it all: Congress
"Tries to Delay Border-Wall Fight to After Midterms."
Huh? No this is a fight for the week before the midterms,
not after. The issue paints with very broad colours the difference between the
two parties on a seminal issue.
An in-depth autopsy on why Hillary Clinton lost the election to
Trump showed one of the most salient issues for Trump, they tell me, was immigration.
Trump was tough; Clinton was weak and for the status quo.
Incidentally, Republicans should be for legal immigration.
The "big beautiful wall" Trump wants to erect will also have big
beautiful gates for immigrants to enter orderly and lawfully.
The last thing Democrats want on the eve of the midterm
elections is to have to go on TV and explain why they won't vote for funding
the government because they don't want Donald Trump to secure America's
borders. And if House and Senate Republicans don't want to go to the mat on
this issue, then Trump voters are probably right in asking: What's the point of
having a Republican Congress?