Discussion: Will Trump Really Clear Up All The Unknowns About His Immigration Plan?

Will Trump Really Clear Up All The Unknowns About His Immigration Plan?

No. Next question please.

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O PLUUSE, like there’s some method to his MADNESS…NOPE hs just F’G CRAZY.

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maybe he’s bringing Don Rumsfeld to explain the known knowns, the known unknowns and the unknown unknowns… and that we have to fight the war with the tools we have…

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Will Trump Really Clear Up All The Unknowns About His Immigration Plan?

A better question would be:

“Will Trump present a coherent immigration policy, one that constitutes a credible compromise, that will gain the buy-in of competing political factions, and at the same time be a viable alternative to other current and proposed policies?”

In a nutshell:

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Questions left unasked. I do not expect Trump to actually answer these, but it would be nice if a reporter asked him.

What will Trump do about DACA (or DAPA)?

Does he still favor abolishing birthright citizenship as stated on his website?

What does IMMEDIATELY deporting all criminal illegals mean beyond what is already being done? The Obama administration prioritizes deportation of those with felony convictions. Where is Trump’s line? Misdemeanors? Jaywalking?

How do you put a fence in the middle of a river? On which side of the river (US or Mexico)? What about private property?

What about people who enter on tourist Visas? Are we going to stop tourism with Mexico on the off chance that some overstay?

How do you plan to force Mexico to pay for the wall? Will you build it and then bill them for it, or wait for the money up front?

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Will Trump Really Clear Up All The Unknowns About His Immigration Plan?

Lemme take a stab at that…Ummm, NO.

If past is prologue, as they say…then I’ll reiterate only slightly to say, HELL NO.

Edit to add: I prefer harder questions Josh Marshall poses in his online questionnaire, like is IBM, GM or Starbucks best days ahead of them, behind them, or I really don’t know…

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We will not get much. Trump is playing the media again. Free Press, Free Coverage, Their is Trump, Here is Trump, what will Trump Do, what will Trump say, Oh Look , look look see Trump, See Trump speak, Oh See, See Trump. There there Trump.

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As an aside, every stock photo of Trump is ugly, ugly, ugly. Really ugly.

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I am 100% certain Trump has no idea what his policy is at all, outside the empty sloganeering.

This will be his Waterloo. As he glides his outlandish proposals back to what candidates like JEB!, Rubio, and even “The Gang of Eight” suggested, his low-information supporters with their torches, and pitchforks will abandon him in droves, or stay home on election day. We’ll see…

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The known unknowns…the unknown knowns…the unknown unknowns or the known knowns (strokes whiskers and reaches for bong…)
But he said he’d get rid of the illegal aliens in the 1st hour of his term… now Donnie Jr says it’d happen in “baby steps”
Aw geeze…

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More likely to create more controversy - it’s what he does.

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The question is…who cares? Trump is obviously not in this thing to win, nor could he if he wanted to. Trump is simply the boogie hired to keep real change at bay.

In the mean time; I wonder what’s going on with Obama and Hillary’s big Trans Pacific partnership bill? What about them indians trying to hold off that tar sand pipeline out west? I wonder…does Hillary (r Josh) support the soft coup by wealthy Brazilian elites against the left leaning president of Brazil? Why does hillary support the right wing military after their coup against the democratically elected leadership in Honduras? Will Hillary commit more troops to Iraq, Syria and Libya? Are the Koch brothers actually giving money to Hillary? Do payed Hillary Trolls outnumber the other people who post to the forums here? Pretty sure Josh and TPM ain’t looking’ into *any * of that sort of thing.

Yes, trying to clean up his Immigration Plan is just as realistic as trying to clean up a public toilet… will NEVER really be clean

Thing is (as you are well aware) no POTUS can alter that by fiat since it is enshrined in the 14th amendment of the Constitution (pulls out pocket copy, thumbs pages to the 14th…)
“Section 1
All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside…”
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That is very clear to me.
I would challenge trump to change it cuz I don’t think he can. (It’s one of my favorite sentences in the document). And goddammit he should NOT change it because he would open a Pandora’s box of crap. The powers that be could then pick and choose who’s a citizen (whites only need apply??)
Once again I say that trump— without any reservation— is by far and away the worst person to seek any elective office in the United States in my near 70 years of life.

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Look at that! Hillary’s having a seizure!!

Somebody forgot to pay me… just sayin’.
And thanks for the concern trolling.

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The Plan

  1. Install mirrors
  2. Deploy smoke
  3. Double the rent on campaign office space.
  4. Hope MSM is distracted
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