He is taking them deeper down a slippery Rabbit hole…
Donald Trump and his trusty assistant Stephen Miller are dead sit against immigration into America…
Even as Trump says he’s for legal immigration?
His admin has those enfacing immigration law looking for and scooping up illegal AND LEGAL immigrants for holding and deportation…
The ironic thing is that a counting majority of Americans believe there SHOULD be a path to citizenship for immigrant refuges and those who have been in the country for a long time under the radar …An even bigger majority do NOT see the reason’s for government shutdowns….They are on Democratic House Speaker Pelosi’s side in NOT seeing the reason for Trump’s insistence on building section of border wall that will cost in the billions of dollars…
Trump and Republican lawmakers in Congress that are together on this ARE slowly locking themselves out of the overall American vote base….
While many Republicans were initially skeptical of the border wall when Trump first endorsed it in the 2016 campaign, those voices have been almost completely silenced: Until the very end, hardly any congressional Republicans complained about his strategy of shutting down the federal government for five weeks to pursue funding for the barrier.
Republican senators have grumbled more loudly about the prospect of Trump declaring a national emergency to unilaterally fund the wall. But pressure on them to consolidate behind an emergency declaration is rapidly increasing, too: Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina this week warned that there will be a “war”within the GOP if Trump issues a declaration and Republicans don’t support him.
The party’s willingness to link arms behind Trump over the wall is especially striking, because the idea faces such preponderant opposition from all the groups that powered the big Democratic gains in November’s midterm elections: young adults, minorities, independents, and college-educated white voters, especially women. The party’s embrace of the wall is symbolic of its larger choice to follow Trump’s strategy of trying to squeeze bigger electoral margins out of groups that are shrinking in society: the blue-collar, evangelical, and rural whites who consistently express the most unease in polls about not only immigration, but also other types of social change, from increasing diversity to evolving gender roles.
“My own sense of it is people like Lindsey Graham are being exceedingly shortsighted,” says Pete Wehner, a senior fellow at the conservative Ethics and Public Policy Center and a frequent Trump critic. “All they are looking at is the next day and the next week and the next month. If the Republican Party breaks with Trump in a fundamental way, there will be costs to it because it will be a divided party. What they are missing is the medium- and long-term damage in attaching themselves to Trump. He is leaving a crimson stain on the party. And instead of finding ways to remove that crimson stain, they are making it more indelible.”…
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