For what was supposed to be a detailed policy speech on illegal immigration featuring an awful lot of yelling as well as discussion of issues which had little or nothing to do with illegal immigration such as the Second Amendment, Obamacare and the military.
If George Orwell had the two minutes hate, Trump offers too much hate.
I was hoping there would be a sliver of policy somewhere inside the red meat Trump was serving. But as usual we got a raw deal.
I'm sure Kellyanne Conway put her head in her hands and asked herself, "What have I done?"
Because when Trump says, "My first hour in office these people are gone," it tells me the "pivot" such as it ever was is gone. While Trump claims to love Mexicans he also claims that Mexicans here illegally take more out of the system than they put in. Evidence please.
It's all well and good that Trump talks about rescinding Obama's unconstitutional executive orders on illegal immigration, But he is only doing it so he can impose some unconstitutional executive orders of his own.
Isn't it funny how Trump (or for that matter any immigration hawk) never talk about the 50,000 illegal immigrants from Ireland?
But I'm sure Hillary Clinton's people are happy tonight. After a bad week with e-mails, this is bound to be a shot in the arm. I'm sure Team Hillary wants Trump to talk more about illegal immigration and "extreme vetting" because every minute he does her numbers will go up a point.
Although I think it would be preferable if Syrian refugees settled in the Gulf States what incentive do they have to co-operate with Trump given his anti-Muslim rhetoric?
In a similar vein, Trump said he would compel 23 countries to take back the criminal illegal aliens we deport. How? Will he send in our troops?
For that matter, how will he deport 11 million illegal aliens when it would require a force larger than that of the NYPD? And how does he pay for it?
Nor does it inspire confidence when he tells an already angry crowd he thinks there are criminal illegal aliens in the audience. Sooner or later someone is going to get killed at a Trump rally.
When Trump asked what we had to lose, I tweeted, "Well, let's see. The Constitution, liberty, free markets, freedom of the press for starters."
It was however quite clever of Trump to have the Angel Moms take the stage and speak on behalf of their children and loved ones killed by illegal immigrants. It made for a stunning visual image.
Yes, there is a problem when someone can be repeatedly deported only to come back and commit murder. But what percentage of illegal immigrants actually come to America to commit murder?
Yet by displaying the Angel Moms, Trump effectively made illegal immigrants synonymous with murderers.
To that I can only say that easy answers are invariably the wrong answers.
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