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You Can’t Have A Secure Border Without Deportations

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Posted By: earlybird, 1/29/2026 1:55:05 PM

In the wake of the Border Patrol shooting of anti-ICE agitator Alex Pretti, Democrats — and many Republicans — are utilizing his death to call for a “de-escalation” or a complete end of deportation operations while pushing, yet again, for so-called “comprehensive immigration reform.” But these politicians and pundits persistently ignore the reality that taking deportations at scale off the table undermines the entire immigration law enforcement framework President Donald Trump has so successfully implemented during his second term. Prominent among the anti-deportation voices are, of course, Democrats Tim Walz and Jacob Frey(snip) but their numbers also include GOP Rep. Mike Lawler (snip) along with Problem Solvers Caucus leaders

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Reply 1 - Posted by: bighambone 1/29/2026 9:59:57 PM (No. 2062161)
Common sense will tell you that effective immigration laws including the arrest and deportation of all illegal aliens are necessary to maintain the USA as a sovereign country. As if the leftist, progressive, and socialist Democrats are successful in changing the Federal immigration laws to where only illegal aliens with known very serious violent criminal records are subject to arrest and deportation in the future, from where the law now stands providing that ALL illegal aliens are subject to arrest and deportation proceedings, that once that word got out across the world that it would be impossible to stop the future surge of unlimited millions of future illegal aliens without known criminal records who would be encouraged and invited to gain entry to the USA, including unknown numbers of illegal aliens with foreign very serious criminal records that they would easily be able to keep hidden, knowing that once they are in the USA that they would not be subject to arrest and deportation proceedings. Foreign countries that are adversely opposed to US interests and outright enemy countries with very large populations could facilitate the travel of large numbers of their citizens, including undercover military units, spies, subversives and terrorists to gain entry to the USA. The USA issues probably more then thirty million non-immigrant of temporary visas each year to foreigners from all over the world who come to the USA for purposes like tourism, as foreign students, as temporary workers, and for many other purposes. Those aliens, who would not have a known foreign criminal record in order to have received a temporary visa would not longer have to abide by the terms of their admission to the USA and instead of leaving the USA as previously required could just stay in the USA without facing the consequences of being deported. No doubt if all that started to occur and got a political headway, that the USA would no longer be able to administer or enforce any sort of effective immigration laws or defend its borders.
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