There Is No ‘Moderate’ Solution To The Extreme Immigration Problem Democrats Created

The Federalist

The New York Times’ The Daily podcast mistakenly interviewed a reasonable voter on immigration last week, so it looks like they’ve swung hard in the other direction by inviting self-described “moderate” Democrat Catherine Cortez Masto to balance things out with some old-fashioned anti-American insanity.

The U.S. senator from Nevada used the half-hour episode on Thursday to do what all Democrats in Congress do, which is to pretend to be interested in “securing the border” while attempting to complicate what it means to enforce immigration law.

“So what I’ve been talking about with my colleagues — and this is where Democrats need to be aligned — is that we are not saying completely defund ICE,” she said, apparently unaware that at least five of her Democrat colleagues in Congress have called to “abolish ICE,” along with other elected Democrat officials. “What we are saying is fund them to the level they traditionally were so that we’re securing our borders. And we are also working in our communities with local law enforcement to go after the violent criminals under the immigration jurisdiction that they have.”

Cortez Masto also said in the interview it was possible to “do both”— meaning, to “secure our borders” and “address the human trafficking, the drug trafficking and weapons trafficking that’s happening there.”

This is supposed to be the “moderate” position. But if Democrats can do both, why didn’t they? Before Donald Trump was inaugurated, they had the presidency for four years, and in that time, they had full control of Congress for two of them. They instead did the opposite and allowed anyone in through the southern border who could make it there. By some estimates, that was close to 10 million impoverished foreigners flooding into the U.S.

And as Cortez Masto mentioned, it’s not just that an obscene number of people were allowed into the country and loaded up with American taxpayer-funded food and housing. It’s that the Democrat-supervised open border galvanized whole industries in human and drug trafficking, directly leading to countless deaths, rapings and other depravity.

Democrats right now have instigated a shutdown of the Homeland Security department in protest of the Trump administration’s mass deportation operation, the thing he was in large part elected to execute. But even with the department overall closed up due to lack of funding from Congress, ICE and border patrol have billions of dollars in separate money to continue normal business. That’s why Cartez Masto said in the interview that the administration should “divert it to local law enforcement and state law enforcement” and instead “fund [ICE] to the level they traditionally were.”

Ah, yes, wouldn’t it be nice to revert back to “the level they traditionally were,” when Democrats were letting in migrants at a rate approaching three times what was “traditionally” seen.

It apparently needs to be said again that Cortez Masto’s party did something extraordinary while Joe Biden was president. What was “traditionally” done before is no longer going to cut it. But, of course, the Democrat position, including the “moderate” one, is in opposition to every single deportation of every single illegal alien, which they attempt to conceal by talking about “due process” and “a right way of doing things” — by which they mean “endless judicial appeals that ensure no foreigner is ever sent home.”

They created a seismic mess and voters opted to have it cleaned up. There’s no easy way to do it. There’s nothing that can “traditionally” be done. There’s no “moderate” option. Either the people in the country leave voluntarily, or they’re removed by force.