Trump's Biggest Mistake Yet

Trump should remember that he was not the first choice of many true conservatives.  Ted Cruz had a large following, too, and if he decides to run again in 2020, he may unseat Trump if the current president continues his rudderless trip through troubled immigration waters like another boatload of so-called (mostly Muslim) refugees headed for Europe's border-less society.

First of all, Trump's  proposed Border Wall is a waste of time and money and would be a concession of thousands of acres of border land to Mexico where citizens will no longer have access. Border Treaties have made the center of the Rio Grande the International boundary, and that is a lot of land to give away--even more than LBJ gave away with his "Chamizal Settlement."  Naive El Pasoans once proposed "river walks" along the Rio Grande, and if Mexico ever tosses out the cartels, such projects might be feasible--if it is not fenced off by a wall..

Trump';s announcement last week that the so-called Dreamers can now rest easy and not fear deportation was a broad, ill-conceived statement.  Actually the Dream Act never passed Congress and conservatives continue to oppose it. It has never been a law--only a proposal.  Obama created DACA based upon the imaginary law that never passed Congress, recruiting future applicants, aiding and abetting their illegal entry into the U.S. to grow the Democrat Party.  Now, Trump is showing his globalist colors by also assuming that if presidents can continue giving these still unclassified  illegal aliens breaks, the conservatives will come around and accept it. Some ill-informed ones will. 

Congress has consistently failed to pass the Dream Act into law after many attempts (see URL below) beginning with the Bush 43 Administration in 2001.  It was just one of several of Bush's proposed amnesties that he always described as "not amnesties," that never made it though Congress.  It spelled the demise of Marco Rubio and John McCain's campaigns for the nation's highest office, since they were members of the Gang of 8 that Bush 43 commissioned unsuccessfully to get yet another massive immigration amnesty passed into law.   Many Americans accepted Bush as  puppet of globalists, but now, most Americans are smarter than the puppet--at least they seem to have been until  now--while Trump takes his swing at the curve ball foisted upon us by globalist, open-border advocates and their think tanks.  Many of Trump's apparent supporters are jurors still out from openly supporting him, very circumspect about his apparent willingness to propagate the fictional immigration monster called "Dreamers."  The overwhelming majority of Trump's supporters voted for his as the lesser of two evils, the other choice being Hillary Clinton.  By no means does Trump have a mandate, and his low supporter percentage, 42%, is bound to sink much lower unless he does an about face on coddling the illegal wannabe "dreamers." Some, including myself, think Trump just came out as a true closet globalist who has, up to now, duped his conservative base.

The only way any politician can convince the majority of Americans that he/she is sincere about controlling illegal immigration is to defeat organized crime in Government by passing a law requiring a national identity card.  That would shift the burden of proof from ICE to applicants for employment and immediately identify unscrupulous employers of illegal aliens and make life much tougher on criminals, especially identity thieves.

Failed attempts by Congress to pass the Dream Act can be found here:

http://www.lawlogix.com/what-is-the-dream-act-and-who-are-dreamers/