Trump, GOP on Immigration
<p>Elect Donald Trump president next year and immigration issues apparently will cease, he is telling us — along with any restrictions normally associated with law, court order or tip of the hat to human rights.</p>
<p>While skipping the niceties of participating in any policy debate with his Republican primary rivals, Trump is making it known that he stands ready to launch a naval blockade, more border wall construction, eliminating “birthright citizenship,” and to insist on ideological tests to weed out “Marxists” among potential immigrants, as if we know what that might mean.</p>
<p>And that’s just the start.</p>
<p>According to <a href="https://www.axios.com/2023/08/21/trump-immigration-border-mexico-cartels-2024-election" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Axios</a>, Trump will reinvent Title 42 to devise an ill-health excuse to keep immigrants from the border, rule out the population from designated countries from eligibility, and force an income test to assure that migrants could afford health insurance and living expenses.</p>
<p>Elect any of his Republican rivals and you’ll get much the same, if moderated by mixed adherence to law. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, for example, is proposing send U.S. troops across the Mexican border and to shoot anyone at the border with fentanyl in a backpack without a lot of concern about administrative law, while former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley suggests a system in which ”legal immigration should be dependent on factors such as merit, talent and business needs.”</p>
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