{"id":17596,"date":"2018-09-12T14:53:24","date_gmt":"2018-09-12T18:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=17596"},"modified":"2018-12-28T09:54:13","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T14:54:13","slug":"the-atlantics-distorted-perspective-on-immigration-enforcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2018\/09\/12\/the-atlantics-distorted-perspective-on-immigration-enforcement\/","title":{"rendered":"The Atlantic\u2019s Distorted Perspective on Immigration Enforcement"},"content":{"rendered":"

For years, the open-borders lobby has applauded efforts by successive administrations to selectively ignore<\/a> whatever parts of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) might offend favored political constituencies. What\u2019s worse, they treated each decision to let a group of immigration violators off-the-hook as though it were an irreversible constitutional mandate, never to be undone<\/a> by any successive administration.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, most Americans viewed these rule-bending policies as an immigration disaster waiting to happen. And they were right, as tragic events ranging from the September 11, 2001 attacks to the Unaccompanied Alien Children crisis have consistently proven. So, fed up with a lack of meaningful immigration enforcement, American voters elected Donald Trump<\/a> to hit the so-called \u201creset button.\u201d And that has irked the elitist open-borders contingent.<\/p>\n

Witness The Atlantic<\/em>\u2019s recently published an article titled, \u201cHow Trump Radicalized ICE\u201d<\/a>.\u00a0 It claims that, \u201cUnder the current administration, many of the formal restraints on ICE have been removed,\u201d allowing the Trump administration to turn U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement into a highly-efficient federal law enforcement agency focused on deporting illegal aliens and other immigration law-breakers.\u00a0 According to The Atlantic<\/em> this is radical.<\/p>\n

Except that The Atlantic<\/em> has gotten it completely backward<\/a>. None of what it decries as \u201cformal restraints on ICE\u201d were ever anything but informal policies. And, far from \u201cradicalizing\u201d ICE, President Trump is simply allowing the agency to perform its assigned tasks, as they were prescribed by Congress.<\/p>\n

So, what purports to be an expos\u00e9 on the misuse of ICE by President Trump turns out to be nothing more than an incoherent rant. And, to support its wobbly argument, The Atlantic <\/em>relies on all sorts of outlandish claims and outrageous assertions. Here are just a few of the more egregious examples:<\/p>\n