President-Elect Donald Trump won a sweeping victory on Election Day based in part on his pledge to tackle the crime-riddled border crisis he will inherit from President Joe Biden and make it a top priority when he retakes office in mid-January.
Among the actions Trump has said he will take to address the problem will be some form of mass deportation of illegal immigrants, prioritizing those with criminal records first and then dealing with the others later.
He reiterated this promise during an early December interview with NBC News, telling them that though, “it’s a very tough thing to do … you have to have, you know, you have rules, regulations, laws. They came in illegally.”
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Naturally, it’s an issue that has open borders woketivists up in arms, including National Immigration Law Center president Kica Matos, who told MSNBC Friday morning in an interview that Trump’s plan, if carried through, would “be one of the worst moments in our nation’s history when it comes to what is likely to happen to our immigrant populations.”
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Kica Matos, president of the National Immigration Law Center, says Trump’s deportation of illegal immigrants will “be one of the worst moments in our nation’s history when it comes to what is likely to happen to our immigrant populations” pic.twitter.com/i1JAEP3UOq
— Julio Rosas (@Julio_Rosas11) December 27, 2024
It was Matos’ use of the word “immigrants” to describe illegal immigrants who could be deported that caught the attention of Fox News national correspondent Bill Melugin, who has been a fixture at the border for several years now and who also had a timely correction for Matos on the subject:
Immigrants aren’t being deported. Illegal immigrants are.
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) December 27, 2024
Because the left loves to play word games in an effort to deliberately misinform and gaslight people, this was a critically important correction to make in light of the current situation at the border and in so-called “sanctuary cities” across the country.
Trump’s pledge wasn’t to mass deport “immigrants.” It was to deport illegal immigrants, again with the focus first being on those who have committed criminal offenses.
It’s something that law-abiding citizens should support, especially considering the wave of violent, often deadly crimes we’ve seen happen this year, including the murder of Georgia nursing student Laken Riley in February at the hands of an illegal immigrant, and more recently, the unidentified woman who was set on fire and killed on a New York City subway, allegedly by an illegal immigrant.
Matos and her allies can try to stand in the way of mass deportations all they want to, but they’re going to hit a roadblock not just with traditional conservative voters but with members of the Hispanic community as well who Trump has won over the course of the last three election cycles and who also think an orderly and controlled process at the southern border is the right way to go.
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