What if someone you hated offered to pay off your mortgage or put your kids through college? You'd be suspicious at first, of course. Why is an enemy giving you the gift of a lifetime? But in the end, if you were smart, you'd take it. It would be too good to pass up.
Something very much like that happened in Washington, D.C., recently. The Trump administration debated moving some of the thousands of migrants now massing through our southern border into various self-proclaimed sanctuary cities across the United States.
Talk about great news for blue America. The left tells us that all immigration is good. More immigration is better. There is no distinction between legal and illegal varieties of immigration. If you disagree with any of this, you're a white nationalist. That's what they've said almost every day for the last two years.
And now, completely out of the blue, comes the man they despise most in the world, Donald J. Trump, offering them what they want more than anything: more immigrants, immediately, delivered right to their door at federal expense. It must have been like Christmas morning.
But that's not how they responded. The left wasn't happy about Trump's offer. They were shocked and enraged. You know what this is, they said? It's dumping. The headline on Mother Jones read,
"Donald Trump Wanted to Dump Asylum Seekers on Streets of Democratic Cities." In the view of The Daily Beast's Harry Siegel, "The White House wanted to dump refugees in sanctuary cities."He called that idea "nasty." At the same time, almost simultaneously, both CNN and MSNBC ran headlines accusing the White House of wanting to "dump" migrants into cities..........To Read More....
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