Democrats and their supporters in the media are still attempting to thwart the Trump administration’s efforts to remove illegal aliens from the country, as required by federal law, but there are some questions they should all be expected to answer before anyone pays them any heed.
Eddie Scarry at The Federalist poses three simple questions to anyone who stands in opposition to the deportations of illegal immigrants:
1. Can You Identify a Single Alien You Would Deport?
It's difficult to say how people who want to open the border and abolish ICE would answer this question other than a simple, "No, I can't."
2. How Many Appeals Should an Illegal Alien Get for It to Be Considered "Due Process"?
Scarry asks, "How many appeals and hearings should an illegal alien be entitled to, sucking up court hours in hopes of eventually landing on some trick that allows him to stay? If Democrats can’t state a clear number, it’s simply another way of admitting they don’t want to see anyone deported."
3. What Would the Ideal Deportation Look Like?
The point for deportation opponents is not setting up some ideal system whereby the deportee is given an infinity of appeals and then flown to the country of his or her choosing, all at taxpayer expense. The point for deportation opponents is to stop deportations altogether.
These are all good questions. I'd add a fourth question and a few corollaries to Scarry's three: What were the deportation opponents' objections when Barack Obama deported almost 800,000 illegal aliens in 2010 and 2011, about 50% of which were felons? Did liberal judges impose stays on Obama's deportations? Did liberal organizations petition the courts to stop Obama from evicting these people from the country? Did Democrat politicians fly to El Salvador to commiserate with the deported felons?
Not that I can remember, but then Barack Obama was a Democrat, and he was not Donald Trump. That political distinction, apparently, makes a significant difference to much of our media and many of those who have sworn to uphold the law.