Once again, President Trump has promoted a bizarre policy of bringing self-deported illegal aliens back to the United States.
As Border Hawk previously reported, Trump proposed this idea at a public cabinet meeting.
On April 15, tax day for American citizens, the President had similar things to say in a friendly and supportive interview with Rachel Campos-Duffy of Fox Noticias, a branch of Fox News directed toward American Hispanics.
(If they are American citizens, shouldn’t they understand English?)
During the interview, Rachel Campos-Duffy shared a video featuring a pro-Trump illegal alien she had interviewed during the campaign.
It is a classic media technique to present a sympathetic illegal alien (in this case a pro-Trumpster) to make deportation look bad.
She asked if this illegal alien (who’s been here 20 years) should be treated differently than those who entered during the Biden presidency.
“Well, from an actual standpoint, no, but from a practical standpoint, yes. I look at this man, and I say, ‘This is a guy that we want to keep.’ I mean I’ll probably take heat for saying it,” President Trump replied.
“Is he supposed to be deported?” Trump inquired.
Campos-Duffy replied, “No,” and Trump said that was good.
“I think that’s the question people have – right now it’s just illegal criminals,” Campos-Duffy prompted.
Trump replied, “Yeah, yeah.”
The President should never say that. All illegal aliens are legally subject to deportation.
Campos-Duffy continued to talk about the pro-Trump illegal alien, of whom the President said, “I don’t think he’s in any danger of [deportation] and that makes this question a lot easier because if you said they’re ready to pick him up and move him out that would be a much more difficult question because he’s a fine person. Yes. And we don’t want to do that.”
Amazing. The Commander-in-Chief undercuts his own government’s enforcement personnel by making such poorly-informed comments to the media.
A better answer would be, “There are many difficult situations. They exist because, for decades (not just during the Biden era), we have allowed illegals to flaunt the law. So now we have these tough decisions.”
But don’t say people won’t be deported.
Trump then started talking about legalizing illegal labor, just as he did in the cabinet meeting.
“One of the things I am doing, though, is I’m also making it easier on the farmers and the hotels and everything because you have a lot of farmers that are not going to be able to do their crops, and pick up the corn, and do all of the things that they do so incredibly well,” he said.
For centuries, farmers have liked cheap labor. Before 1865, they demanded slavery. Now they demand low-cost illegal labor.
A better strategy is agricultural mechanization.
Trump talked about picking corn. Is he not aware that mechanical corn pickers have been around since the early 1900s?
“We’re going to be very soothing in terms of perhaps letting that farmer have, you know – they’re sort of responsible and we’re going to have the farmer take responsibility, but you know ultimately, at some point, we want the people to go out and come back [legally],” Trump rambled.
“As you probably know, we’re doing a self-deportation and we’re going to make it comfortable for people and we’re going to work with those people to come back into our country legally.”
Santa Claus Trump explained the great things he plans to do for these illegal aliens turned legal aliens: “We’re going to give them a stipend. We’re going to give them some money and a plane ticket. And then we’re going to work with them, if they’re good, if we want them back in, we’re going to work with them to get them back in as quickly as we can.”
Is this what Trump was elected to do? Is this what his supporters want? Is this an America First policy?
Let President Trump know what you think.