The left's irrational embrace of illegals

 The Blaze:

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To take on this gargantuan task, Trump has appointed Tom Homan, former acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, as the next border czar. Homan seems prepared and eager to carry out the mission.

But of course, leftists are screaming racism and xenophobia. They’re already throwing accusations that frail grandmothers will be deported, among other innocents.
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“You are carrying out a targeted enforcement operation. Grandma’s in the house. She’s undocumented. She get arrested too?” Homan was asked in a “60 Minutes” interview back in October.

Mark Levin has a better question for this “reprobate” reporter.

“How did Grandma get in the country?” he asks.

“Here's the deal — everybody who's here illegally wasn't dragged out of their country and brought to the United States. They came voluntarily,” he says. That’s why “there's deportation processes in place under our immigration laws.”

“Is there a grandma exception in our immigration laws if you come here illegally?” Levin asks. People have seemingly forgotten that if you “voluntarily come into this country,” then you are “[subjecting yourself] to our laws.”
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When my parents lived in the Rio Grande Valley we still took trips to Alabama to see relatives in that state.  Coming out of the Valley involved immigration stops by the Border Patrol usually somewhere in the King Ranch.  I remember them checking my mother's ID at those stops.  While she was born in Alabama the sun in the valley had darkened her complexion.  The stops were routine and the Border Patrol always acted professionally.  While traveling to Austin as a student at UT, I also dealt with those stops. 

The stops were never about racism or xenophobia.  They were about controlling the border.

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Donald Trump’s stance on upholding the authority of the U.S. Supreme Court and scrutinizing universities that defy its rulings is not without merit, especially when considering the actions of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) following the Supreme Court’s landmark 2023 decision to ban race-based affirmative action in college admissions. UCLA’s recent efforts to circumvent the ruling by increasing diversity through questionable methods put it squarely under the spotlight for potential legal challenges.

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