Immigration: One issue, both sides knocking down walls.
What I learned on Easter Sunday from the family gathering in San Diego County.
I really believe Trump generated chaos is more controlled than the MSM will acknowledge. it's cover for a lot of change ongoing that average Americans approve. And targeted job growth is outside the wall to wall coverage of "Russia/Sex Scandals/Business Woes/Nepotism/Apocalypse" that we tend to obsess over. How do Democrats nullify Trump's advantage come election? From what I gleaned, Immigration language.
The Obama Administration did too stealth a job of deporting criminal illegals. He gets no credit for his accomplishments. We are stretched too thin to fight on all fronts. The fear of losing more low paying jobs is driving this more than (or as much as) racism. We have to get in office up and down the ballot with a strong message on "compassionate deportation". Using more palatable terms for "Anchor Baby", "Catch and Release", and "the Wall" will serve Democrats well. And possibly tackling drug trafficking as part if a 2018/2020 campaign tactic could win back poor white voters put out of work by cheap labor.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/obama-deported-more-people/
From Snopes:
Until recent years, most people caught illegally crossing the southern border were simply bused back into Mexico in what officials called “voluntary returns,” but which critics derisively termed “catch and release.” Those removals, which during the 1990s reached more 1 million a year, were not counted in Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s deportation statistics.
Now, the vast majority of border crossers who are apprehended get fingerprinted and formally deported. The change began during the George W. Bush administration and accelerated under Obama.
Can we brainstorm this? California, Texas and Arizona people especially.
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