Immigration Restriction Is Not Hate

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President Donald Trump’s immigration agenda has always been considered exclusionary and prejudiced by progressives; now they consider it tainted by mass murder.

The El Paso massacre, carried out by a white nationalist waging a lunatic war against Hispanic immigration, is being used as a bludgeon against Trump, and immigration restriction more broadly.

After years spent trying to rule immigration restriction out of bounds, the Left is doubling down on ruling immigration restriction out of bounds.

It can’t be that the only reason for protecting the border, rejecting bogus asylum-seekers, reorienting the legal immigration system toward skills rather than family unification, and reducing overall numbers is rank hatred bordering on homicidal malice.

It can’t be that the only choice is between extremely latitudinarian policies that allow asylum-seekers into the country, often never to be seen again, or mass murder.

It can’t be that the only respectable position on immigration, safe for the general public, is whatever the Democrats’ center of gravity on the issue is at any given time (always in flux and always moving left).

First, let’s stipulate that Trump’s words on immigration often are crude and inflammatory. Yet nothing he’s ever said could possibly justify indiscriminately shooting people. Trump is not a terrorist, a supporter of terrorism, or an enabler of terrorism.

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