Win-win: A modest proposal to relieve the border crisis
President Trump’s proposal to relocate illegal immigrants to sanctuary cities and states where they’re wanted is a win-win idea to tackle the border crisis until the Wall is built.
“The president’s controversial move offers a political jackpot to liberals and socialists from coast to coast,” Center for Security Vice President J. Michael Waller writes in The Federalist.
“Within a matter of months, Trump would expand leftists’ constituencies in states and towns that voted to become ‘sanctuaries’ for illegal immigrants. Even better, this idea would grant sanctuary to countless foreign citizens from the frigid clutches of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. No sanctuary area is known to have placed a cap on the number of people it would welcome, so the opportunities are endless,” Waller says.
“Trump has taken ‘winning’ to a new level. Under his plan, everybody wins. Legal and constitutional hurdles stand in the way, to be sure. But the nation needs an interim solution, and Trump has found it.” Click here for the full article.
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