The First Days of the First 100 Days
The EO Avalanche
After flirting with Writer’s Cramp, dashing with subdued flourish “Donald J. Trump” on a boatload of Executive Orders, cheers fueled anticipation for Day One Action as 47 did his thing on Live TV with 20+ thousand cheering extra behind him. Then, off to the Oval Office and the sigs just kept on comin’. But Pen on Paper isn’t Boots on Ground, prisoners freed, or criminal immigrants heading back home.
Taking nothing away from the ‘Promises Made – Promised Kept’ performance, media and supporters were focused on those promised One-Way tickets outta here! It turns out that India agreed to take back 18,000. ICE Heavy, Tom Homan surprised FOX’s John Roberts who asked “When?” with “We’ve already started – just not in Chicago.”
Well!
Out of the headlines, other conversations raised questions that may/may not impact how far (or short) Trump’s deportation efforts may go.
Did you know, f’rinstance, it costs about$17K to whisk an Illegal back to whence he came? Where former Trump press sec, Kayleigh McEnany, got that figure for the FOX audience, she didn’t say. But assuming it’s reasonably accurate, it raises sticky questions about how Trump will afford to fulfill his promise.
More than just the economics, is the growing debate about the need and justice of picking up the tab to rid the country of seriously Bad Guys, the ones who killed, raped Americans, sometimes in multiples. Depending on the jurisdiction, if they were ‘ordinary citizens’, they would be facing execution or a life sentence. One question: Why should taxpayers who have already been saddled with monumental costs for the food, medical, pre-paid Visas, and play money, now pay for some heinous felon’s trip home or 3-hots-and-a-cot prison time TFN?
The debate continues…
“I know this will not be very popular, but how about sending the murderers straight to their maker instead? Why does a murderer from outside this country, who entered here illegally, abused our default hospitality, and took a life - along with all the lives that might have been created from the life he took - get to stay? We are beyond insane for allowing such people who hold us in the lowest esteem and take our lives for whatever twisted reason; they don't deserve our mercy.”
Well?
“Deporting all illegal aliens is economic insanity!" say some.
“All” may be extreme considering millions came, albeit illegally, to “seek a better life”. Their level of understanding what is legally involved may not be sufficient for them to process beyond their urgent desire to be here. Shouldn’t they have the opportunity to be processed accordingly, based on circumstances? Would shipping them back like gang bangers be equitable?
“Big Ag just wants cheap labor; prices will skyrocket if American Labor (who don’t want to do those jobs) do those jobs.”
“Would some prices go up? Maybe. Okay--we'll deal with it just fine. Rising prices, taxes, inflation – the solution sure won’t come from supporting a small nation-size gang of lethal criminals and welfare addicts. At least our homes, schools, and streets will be safer. Cutting out the taxes supporting them being here, welfare, law enforcement, and health care costs would decline.”
It’s ironic, almost amusing, to hear people who created the problem complain that it will cost too much to fix it.
“If we stopped all monies and other benefits to these freeloading parasites, they would leave on their own. Someone should encourage Trump to stop the money bennies to anyone except US citizens in need - like WNC.”
While murderers, rapists, and gang members aren’t here for the Freebies, that’s at the center of the debate. Americans are done with being the world’s breast and piggy bank. Of course, Jessica Tarloff Liberals will pivot to some specially constructed one-in-a-million single person who will “suffer irreparably” from any effective corrective action; “greater good”, ya know?
“What’s the cost of that ‘greater good’? Great! You pay for it! My ‘good’ doesn’t get ‘greater’, only my bills do; my cost of living goes up and my quality of life goes down. Homey don’t play that way.”
“Why not just enforce existing illegal alien laws, including E-Verify, send out the Social Security no-match and multiple-use letters, and reinstate workplace raids”?
Too logical. Tough sell to the Cheap Labor folks who tend to grease their State representatives, Party affiliation notwithstanding.
Overarching the debate is the specter of Promises Made. If Trump doesn’t strike a balance between “Deport ‘Em All” and ”the worst first”, the Base will not be amused. Or pleased.
But hey! It’s only Day 2!
BW
The last "job" I had was thirty years ago, I started out as salesman and ended up owning half the place after I was put in charge of restructuring it, I decided we should become a valve importer, and put together a direct marking campaign that took off big time. We did well enough that I could have retired by the age of thirty, provided I lived frugally.
The owner and my future partner was very wealthy farm boy who had also sold feed for Moorman's Manufacturing, which I had done in Michigan, until the state bought all the dairy farms out, if they agreed to shut down and never start up again. This was during a milk price slump.
Initially we were selling farm implements in the Salinas Valley, they certainly did have a lot of migrants working for them, BUT they were almost all extremely well paid, at least by all the larger farms, heck most of them even belong to unions. Whites who try to do the job are practically run out of town on a rail by them, it would not be Fun at all to work in the fields, not because the job is hard, I did it growing up, but because the Mexicans who run the work gangs will terrorize you.
I also knew a couple army guys who left the Army out there and thought they would try it. considering the pay was great and they were in prime shape and didn't want to leave California, why not? They could handle to the work, they couldn't handle the people they had to work with.
Whites would do the job, if they weren't basically forced out of it or at least they would have back in the day.
I'd also point out that while forty percent of field workers might be "illegal", that still only means that about 2% of illegals will ever step foot in a field and we could always do a work program just for field workers, like they used to do, to cover those two percent, that's if they can't get the video game generation to work, which sadly is a distinct possibility.
Think how many millions are being spent to feed, clothe and house illegal aliens. Finding the money should be a snap, just reprogram the funds…