By Fareed Zakaria Fareed Zakaria Columnist focusing on foreign affairs Email Bio Follow Columnist April 4 at 8:32 PM President Trump’s threat to close the U.S.-Mexico border has confused even his allies. Sen. John Cornyn said it “would be bad for everybody.” Sen. John Thune remarked, “I’m not sure that’s a particularly good idea, and I’m not sure it gets the desired result.
If this is Trump’s new and improved immigration position, the president might find his way to a powerful compromise — real crackdowns on illegal immigration, coupled with reform and actual increases in legal immigration. This also happens to be a smart policy idea. The United States’ working-age numbers are set to rise by 12 percent in the same period. In fact, only three other major developed countries will see increases in their working-age cohort: Australia, Canada and Britain. But all four countries are expected to enjoy this boost only because of immigration. Without immigration, by 2050, the U.S. working-age population would actually shrink by 4.5 percent. Canada’s would plummet by 20 percent.
Like it or not what people really fear in Trump is that he is about getting things done. What a concept?
GRAPHIC: Cartel Dumps Tortured Bodies Along Mexican Border City Highway Breitbart / 27 Jan. 2019 Democrats seem to love the Mexican Drug Cartels. They are trying to kill our children.
Stop hiring lower IQ media comrades
Nobody like Trump who has proposed an end to 'chain migration' and birthright citizenship and limiting migration by English skills is interested in compromise.
The flaw in this article is not its logic. It is the notion that the administration could intelligently plan a meaningful strategy.
Garbage. Trump is solely interested in trying to convince his trumpkin base that he is catering to them He's not looking to do anything positive - he wouldn't know how.
Fareed is smoking the good stuff. The GOP and Trump have no interest in governing...just staying in power. Racist and xenophobic appeals to their base with a good dose of cruelty thrown in is what works to keep them in office.
Looks like a war zone
Even if does stick, even if it does work to some degree, ppl are suffering and in some cases dying as a result. Not a peaceful solution to a humanitarian crisis beyond the border. Not a presidential solution by any means.
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border coyotes