No sooner had we heard that ICE had undertaken enforcement operations in Nebraska and that the administration was proposing that immigrants should be welcomed only if they can carry their own financial weight, than the media unleashed a coordinated howl of protest that these players \u201cwant to make America white again.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMaking America white again,\u201d along with \u201cracist\u201d and \u201cwhite nationalist\u201d seem to be the catch-all phrases for columnists and advocacy organizations that don\u2019t want any immigration to be regulated.\u00a0 This is a lie; transparent \u201cfake news.\u201d It\u2019s wrong, it\u2019s fraudulent and it\u2019s transparent idiocy. Only people who need to believe this sort of doggerel should bother to read it. (I see it because in my profession I have to.)\u00a0 Credit Trump that he ignores it.<\/p>\n
The obvious effort to stop debate at any cost, without regard to facts or reality, has made their \u00a0voices marginal at best. (Who reads Esquire<\/em> and Newsweek<\/em> any more \u2013 like legacy ghost-ships of a by-gone era? Who really supports these outfits these days?) \u00a0The notion that reducing immigration and enforcing established, governing law will \u201cmake America white again\u201d is laughable, unsupported by any empirical data and entirely dishonest.<\/p>\n In fact, most of the criticism about the President\u2019s immigration policies is dishonest \u2013 comprising little more than mindless smears and name-calling.\u00a0 That people are paid to write such drivel, and that it is produced on cue by a coordinated herd of lemmings unable to craft their own arguments or analysis is truly pathetic. It\u2019s getting embarrassing.<\/p>\n Why don\u2019t we just stipulate that leftist organizations like the Center for American Progress and the ACLU, along with their campaign organs masquerading as \u201cnews organizations\u201d like the Washington Post, CNN and the New York Times, don\u2019t really have any arguments to justify continued mass immigration or today\u2019s lawless behavior on the border.<\/p>\n That the public has to endure this sort of nonsense from supposed professionals is remarkable.\u00a0 The collapse of credibility and moral authority is irreparable.