Friday, August 21, 2015

American Thinker - Thomas Lifson: Critics Miss How Well Trump's Deportation Plan Actually Could Work



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Donald Trump has laid out the bare bones of a deportation plan that has an excellent chance of working well. The caricatures presented by his critics overlook the clever incentives he apparently is building into it. The reaction has been as negative as the reaction to his initial contention, when he announced his candidacy, that rapists and criminals are streaming across the border. That was twisted into a false claim that he was thus characterizing all people coming across the border, earning him accusations of racism and worse. Yet the string of disgusting crimes at the hands of illegals, who would have been deported but for sanctuary city policies, has made his point, and the surge in his popularity has shown that demonization by media and political elites has backfired.

Something quite similar may well happen with his deportation proposal. ...

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/08/critics_miss_how_well_trumps_deportation_plan_actually_could_work.html#ixzz3jTuxTYDT