Trump goes soft on immigration enforcement; Ted Cruz - vindicated? - Granite Grok

Trump goes soft on immigration enforcement; Ted Cruz – vindicated?

“Everything Trump promises comes with an expiration date,” said Cruz’s former Senate communications director, Amanda Carpenter. “We knew it during the primary, and now it is apparent he has duped his most loyal supporters on the issue they care about most, immigration. Don’t say we didn’t warn them.”

“It vindicates the speech, it vindicates what Ted Cruz warned would happen during the course of the campaign,” said Chris Wilson, the director of research, analytics and digital strategy on Cruz’s campaign and a top Cruz adviser who has always argued that the RNC speech would be remembered favorably. He went on to add, “I do think, yes, the immigration point is another data point that he was right, it’s another data point that leads people to understand Ted Cruz knew what he was talking about, he was making the right decision.”

While I am not a Trump supporter per se, I have stood up and clapped on a couple of items.  One was excoriating the Media for being biased to the point of being bigoted against Republican. They have decided that they cannot allow Trump to gain the office and it shows – they no longer report the news objectively but have become full-fledged members of the Democrat Party and acting like campaigners-with-bylines.

We on the Right have known this tendency for years but with this campaign, both the mask and any pretense to the contrary have been dropped.  And they wonder why their circulation rates and stock prices are plummeting still?

The other

is Political Correctness – need I say more?

But one of the biggest reasons people were supporting him was his uttermost outbursts in supporting The Rule of Law- especially that in our immigration law.  While the Left believes that ignoring and not enforcing law with which they don’t agree is a feature and not a bug, we on the right know that The Rule of Law is one of our foundational principles – that NO ONE is above or beyond the Law.  Yet it seems that the Obama Administration takes no account of it unless it is politically advantageous to enforce it.  Goes against its ideology?  Fuggetaboutit!

And now it is unclear if Trump is now willing to do the same.  I did agree with his stance on immigration (no secret there if you read the ‘Grok regularly).  If you have come here illegally, if you brought your children here illegally, you are responsible for your decisions and your actions.  Which, according to our current law, means you should go home.  And yes, if you had children here while being illegal, you are STILL responsible for them even if they are American citizens.  YOU put them at risk – I did not.  YOU put them into the situation of being a split family if you are deported – I did not.

What is the fairness in taking advantage of our laws to get what you wanted?  It isn’t.

I thought Trump supported the Rule of Law in this respect.  Now, not so much.  I haven’t been much of a Trump supporter (I was for Ted Cruz) but if he travels down this road, it will be much more so less.

(H/T: RedState)

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