Larry O’Connor penned an opinion piece at The Washington Times. An excerpt of his latest article, Trump’s ‘Draconian’ immigration policies were recently embraced by Dems and Establishment Repubs, is below:
The politics of immigration in the Trump era dictates that the president’s plan to secure the American border with a wall, restrict family migration to immediate family members and reduce overall legal immigration numbers to 500,000 per year must be decried as draconian, hateful and racist.
But it wasn’t long ago that each and every one of these ideas was endorsed, celebrated and in some cases even voted on by Democrats and establishment Republicans… some of the same people vitriolically attacking Trump today.
It’s been well documented that Chuck Schumer, Diane Feinstein and Hillary Clinton (along with 77 other senators) voted for comprehensive border protection just ten years ago. It was the Secure Fence Act of 2006 and it effectively still stands as the law of the land. Congress just refuses to appropriate funding for the border protection they supported. Nice trick, right? [Read More]
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