Question: Is a country run by feelings or laws? Answer: Laws. Written by humans that have feelings. Enforced by institutions that are supposed to constrain those feelings and follow the law.

Once enforcement depends on how sad a story sounds, equality ceases to exist. Emotional arbitration is not compassion, it is favoritism. One whole half of the country (intentionally or unintentionally) confuses equality with equity. They turn their lens towards a photogenic opportunity, a feel-good virtue signal that also just happens to benefit their worldview. But the truth is, the advocacy of selective enforcement of federal law is an attempt to create equity, not equality. One is fair, one is not.

Hillary Clinton said in 2008, “So, I think we’ve got to have tough conditions. Tell people to come out of the shadows. If they’ve committed a crime, deport them. No questions asked, they’re gone. If they’ve been working and are law-abiding, we should say here are the conditions for you staying — you have to pay a stiff fine because you came here illegally, pay back taxes, you have to learn English, and you have to wait in line.”

I might ask, how can one be ‘law-abiding’ if you’re actively, illegally in a country? I always thought Hillary was a moron, but this quote is technically oxymoronic, as well as opposed to the current left’s stance on the entire subject. History like this makes this meme seem entirely accurate for the moderates in our country:

Barack Obama said in 2014, ““Undocumented workers broke our immigration laws, and I believe that they must be held accountable — especially those who may be dangerous. That’s why… we’re going to keep focusing enforcement resources on actual threats to our security. Felons, not families. Criminals, not children.”

The leaders of the left have been advocating for deportations for decades because it’s logical. It’s almost like when Trump said, “They are sending their worst people.” it was true. Some of those that come here are the worst of the worst. He did NOT say that everyone that comes here illegally is the worst of the worst. But also, if they are “illegal” or “undocumented”, how do we know if they are dangerous? If they haven’t even been through the “system”, how do we know who they are, what their criminal record is or what they will do to the vulnerable if given the opportunity? Many American citizens have died because of this.

So much time and energy is spent in discourse with the left on this issue. And the thing is, the left purposely, intentionally misinterprets and misunderstands simple terminology in order to garner public sympathy. They conflate illegal and legal immigration. “Trump, your wife is an immigrant!” (she is a legal immigrant). It’s on purpose. It makes no sense as a “gotcha”, but it sounds good to those that can’t think past their nose. Hate will quickly make you look stupid to those with a vocabulary. Trump isn’t anti-immigration, in fact, he has broadened the way and speed in which people can come here with the Gold Card. Do we want those that can afford to pay to live here or those that strain the welfare, healthcare, low-income housing and public transportation services?

Another example of deliberate misinterpretation is Don Lemon’s viral clip from his Youtube channel in which he speaks with an immigrant woman on the sidewalk of Kansas City. I’ll transcribe a portion of the conversation here:

Woman: Crossing the border illegally is not a crime?
Lemon: No, it’s not a criminal act, it’s a misdemeanor.
Woman: So a misdemeanor is not a crime?
Lemon: It’s not a criminal act, no. If you get charged with a misdemeanor that’s not a criminal act.
Woman: So why are they charged at all, then, if it’s not a criminal act?
Lemon: Because we have different levels of crime, everything is not the same.
Woman: So it is crime.

Anything to not enforce the law, you know.

8 U.S. Code § 1325 — Improper entry by alien.

“Any alien who
(1) enters or attempts to enter the United States at any time or place other than as designated by immigration officers, or
(2) eludes examination or inspection by immigration officers, or
(3) attempts to enter or obtains entry to the United States by a willfully false or misleading representation or the willful concealment of a material fact,

shall, for the first commission of any such offense, be fined under title 18 or imprisoned not more than 6 months, or both, and, for a subsequent commission of any such offense, be fined”

This is separate from civil immigration violations (like overstaying a visa). So yes — crossing the border without permission is explicitly a crime under federal law, not just a civil issue. But Lemon is just a journalist, he feels like it’s not a crime, therefore that becomes reality, right?

Another fun reality nobody speaks on; President Herbert Hoover signed this federal statute into law in 1929. The government’s ability to enforce it has existed since then. It’s nothing new. President Obama deported roughly 3 million illegal immigrants during his 8 years in office, and the only thing we ever hear from the left about that is when they incorrectly attribute the cages at detention facilities (media uses pictures of these a lot in articles defaming the Trump administration) to Trump when they were actually built by the Obama administration. Trump isn’t a stampeding bull in America’s China cabinet, he’s just finally enforcing the law as it was written.

But hasn’t Trump deported American citizens?!? The answer is no. There are a handful of cases where a natural born citizen child has left on a government flight with an illegal parent that is being deported. This is the parent’s choice. The citizen left voluntarily. Courts have consistently ruled that it is familial decision (the parents decide) when it comes to an underage citizen leaving the country. Bergstrom V. Bergstrom (ND Supreme Court 1980). Is the child able to return to the United States at adulthood or prior if a legal guardian is available? Yes, of course, leaving and going is completely voluntary unless ordered otherwise by a court.

So why do people follow federal officers around, dox them and their families, block roads and impede law enforcement activities? The answer is closer to home than you may think. The popularity of the movement is in the past, but the long-term effect of indoctrinating our youth with it’s twisted, overboard implementation still exists. It’s narrative drift caused by DEI. Diversity, equity and inclusion. It’s not a slogan, it’s a worldview. Americans don’t deserve their own country. We must allow anyone who wants to be here, in. If we allow anyone in, we are more diverse and can overpower the evil, white majority. We must be racist to end racism. We must provide grants to people as long as they aren’t “the majority” (white). We must lower standards for certain occupations so we can create a diversity quota in them.

But this is truly racist as it doesn’t go both ways. The USA is 61.6% white, but we aren’t advocating for 61.6% of the NBA to be white, we just want the best players to play. Hear me out. Maybe the kids with the best grades and community service records should get into Ivy League colleges? Racism against white people that are alive today doesn’t rectify racism that happened to non-whites decades ago, it’s just more racism.

Diversity is great when it happens naturally and you don’t promote things that benefit only certain races.

Equity is great when the perfect human determines what is fair. Do you know a perfect human? Should the law be equal or equitable? Equity can inform how laws are written (variable fines, etc.), but equality must be how they are enforced.

Inclusion is great when you eliminate quotas.

Immigration is great when you know and approve of who is immigrating.

Immigration is fair when legal immigrants aren’t overlooked by politicians that advocate for mass amnesty or selective enforcement of federal law for those that didn’t wait in line and follow the law.

The only way for a government to function is to enforce the law indiscriminately. The country will only survive if we enforce immigration law equally.