How to win friends and influence enemies. An illegal immigrant turned Goldman Sachs veep turned activist appeared on Tucker Carlson’s show on Fox News Channel to attempt to justify her having called the proposed border wall “a symbol of hate.”
In an article published at CNBC, Julissa Arce (pronounced arse, I think) specified that the wall was “Trump’s symbol of hate,” which is not merely provocative but dead wrong. If she bothered to learn a little of the history of the country that was magnanimous enough to allow her to stay despite having sneaked across the border, she would know that plans for a wall along the southern border predate the presidency of Donald Trump by more than a decade.
She would know that in 2005, the “Secure Fence Act of 2006” passed the U.S. House of Representatives with a vote of 283-138 and the Senate with an even more compelling 80-19 vote.
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The problem with this sort of heated rhetoric is that it only builds resentment from the host country, which has every right to defend its sovereign borders.
But we’re well past the point of healthy dialog. This become abundantly clear on Friday when New York Democratic Rep. Yvette Clark defamed Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as “the Gestapo of the United States of America.”
Clark made her ugly comment outside ICE headquarters, according to a tweet by a reporter on the scene:
“We are standing in front of a building that has become the headquarters for the Gestapo of the United States of America”: Brooklyn Democrat @RepYvetteClarke, outside @ICEgov’s Manhattan hq. pic.twitter.com/5iNoTZ0mVf
— Matthew Chayes (@chayesmatthew) January 27, 2018
Yet another immigration activist named Eddie Vale called the White House plan to give 1.8 million illegal immigrants amnesty in exchange for border wall funding and ending chain migration a “legislative burning cross.”
Despite Arce’s patently absurd claim that a border fence will prevent “the world’s top talent from coming to the U.S.,” the Heritage Foundation fixes the fiscal burden of permitting the approximately 3.7 million illegal immigrant households in the U.S. to remain is around $54.5 billion per year.
If those on the left side of the immigration debate aren’t going to show gratitude for the nation whose borders they demand be flung open, they can at least keep a civil tongue in their heads.
