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#1 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-09-02 11:36 AM
The Democrat party is the party of illegal immigration. They need to own it.
Trump has no success even with legal immigration, even when he wants it - his "Trump Gold Card" and H-2A program to help farmers have been a bust.
investigatemidwest.org - Trump's labor department struggling to deliver on H-2A 'one-stop shop' promise
In fact, for the first time, his policies (including reinstatement of his first-term bigly failed "China Initiative") are inflicting severe "brain drain" from the US already.
#13 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-09-02 12:43 PM
It turns out border enforcement is popular with voters.
It was popular during campaign, when caravans were rolling in, and people waving Mexican flags in May Day and Labor Day parades demanding "special rights" for migrants, images of "immigration crisis" on the border have been on the news daily, and flailing Biden/Harris administration had no idea how to handle it, trying to work something out with Congress.
But what Trump and ICE have been doing since he took office went well beyond border enforcement or deportation of criminals.
Some things do, in fact, change.
Indeed, they do... and things did change!
www.newsweek.com - Trump's Approval Rating On Strongest Issue Hits All-Time Low - NW, 2026-08-30
|------- Trump's handling of immigration has fallen to its weakest position in an Economist/YouGov tracker, a striking reversal on the issue that powered his return to the White House.
Trump's immigration approval fell to 40 percent in August, while 53 percent disapproved, leaving him 13 points underwater...
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People were promised and voted for detentions and/or deportations of illegals with criminal records; they didn't sign up for the Gestapo tactics of ICE wholesale roundups in immigration courts or offices, detaining brown people on "suspicions" of being illegal, harassment of elected representatives or attempts to bend state and local LE agencies to involuntary assistance.
Obama was "Deporter-in-Chief" without all the insanity and faux drama of ICE roundups or NG deployed to "defend" and "clean" the cities of "crimes" allegedly committed by illegals.
Maybe MAGA-hats kept falling for and have enjoyed the "tough guy" s**tshow, majority of normal people were repulsed.
For all of its faults, and they are legion, the GOP is now the party of border enforcement.
And they're going to live with those "faults" and the images of ICE abuses, "we (ICE, DHS, DOJ) can do no wrong" lies and cover-ups of mistakes and intentional, deliberate cruelty, attempts to turn it into a for-profit enterprise, and the revolving door of "strongmen" in charge of ICE promising rounding up and "tough, rough" enforcement of detention and deportations, often of people who had been here legally under [Trump's capriciously-revoked] TPS or in process of obtaining permanent resident legal status or citizenship... only because Trump needs a quota to show "success," beating Obama's "numbers" of deportations.
Some things do, in fact, change.
It's the "constant change" that both GOP and Dems should remember, especially with short fleeting "populist" zeitgeist campaign themes that both parties try to exploit, usually big on promises to economic illiterates and blaming the "others" or "other side" for problems, but absent firm convictions and actual realistic policies addressing the crux of the issues.
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#1 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-09-02 11:36 AM
The Democrat party is the party of illegal immigration. They need to own it.
Trump has no success even with legal immigration, even when he wants it - his "Trump Gold Card" and H-2A program to help farmers have been a bust.
investigatemidwest.org - Trump's labor department struggling to deliver on H-2A 'one-stop shop' promise
In fact, for the first time, his policies (including reinstatement of his first-term bigly failed "China Initiative") are inflicting severe "brain drain" from the US already.
#13 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-09-02 12:43 PM
It turns out border enforcement is popular with voters.
It was popular during campaign, when caravans were rolling in, and people waving Mexican flags in May Day and Labor Day parades demanding "special rights" for migrants, images of "immigration crisis" on the border have been on the news daily, and flailing Biden/Harris administration had no idea how to handle it, trying to work something out with Congress.
But what Trump and ICE have been doing since he took office went well beyond border enforcement or deportation of criminals.
Some things do, in fact, change.
Indeed, they do... and things did change!
www.newsweek.com - Trump's Approval Rating On Strongest Issue Hits All-Time Low - NW, 2026-08-30
|------- Trump's handling of immigration has fallen to its weakest position in an Economist/YouGov tracker, a striking reversal on the issue that powered his return to the White House.
Trump's immigration approval fell to 40 percent in August, while 53 percent disapproved, leaving him 13 points underwater...
-------|
People were promised and voted for detentions and/or deportations of illegals with criminal records; they didn't sign up for the Gestapo tactics of ICE wholesale roundups in immigration courts or offices, detaining brown people on "suspicions" of being illegal, harassment of elected representatives or attempts to bend state and local LE agencies to involuntary assistance.
Obama was "Deporter-in-Chief" without all the insanity and faux drama of ICE roundups or NG deployed to "defend" and "clean" the cities of "crimes" allegedly committed by illegals.
Maybe MAGA-hats kept falling for and have enjoyed the "tough guy" s**tshow, majority of normal people were repulsed.
For all of its faults, and they are legion, the GOP is now the party of border enforcement.
And they're going to live with those "faults" and the images of ICE abuses, "we (ICE, DHS, DOJ) can do no wrong" lies and cover-ups of mistakes and intentional, deliberate cruelty, attempts to turn it into a for-profit enterprise, and the revolving door of "strongmen" in charge of ICE promising rounding up and "tough, rough" enforcement of detention and deportations, often of people who had been here legally under [Trump's capriciously-revoked] TPS or in process of obtaining permanent resident legal status or citizenship... only because Trump needs a quota to show "success," beating Obama's "numbers" of deportations.
Some things do, in fact, change.
It's the "constant change" that both GOP and Dems should remember, especially with short fleeting "populist" zeitgeist campaign themes that both parties try to exploit, usually big on promises to economic illiterates and blaming the "others" or "other side" for problems, but absent firm convictions and actual realistic policies addressing the crux of the issues.
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