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As the battle rages on regarding the new president’s immigration ban, truly understanding the argument of those who feel no restrictions are required becomes continually harder to grasp. That’s because, in a world that’s dramatically changed to include incalculable risks, one wonders why anyone would vilify prudent precaution against potential danger.  
   
In attempting to better understand the situation, considerable research was done this morning which revealed some lengthy results. However, they’re well-worth reading for those having an interest in the subject.  

To begin, according to FoxNews.com, the POTUS continued his assault on mainstream polling today, tweeting that “Any negative polls are fake news, just like the CNN, ABC, NBC polls in the election. Sorry, people want border security and extreme vetting.” 

He added: “I call my own shots, largely based on an accumulation of data, and everyone knows it. Some FAKE NEWS media, in order to marginalize, lies!” 

“Trump’s early-morning slam of network polling came just days after a CNN/ORC poll found 6-in-10 people opposed Trump’s planned wall on the Mexican border and 53 percent of respondents said they opposed Trump’s immigration executive order.”

While the POTUS used his inimitable personal style to get his message out to the pubic, disclaiming the MSM’s polling results, an article from 9 months ago suggested that he was more than likely correct in his analysis.  

While at the time, Sara Kehaulani Goo titled an article @pewresearch.org: “What Americans want to do about illegal immigration,” most readers were far clearer than she was.

Reader, Anonymous, summed up the thoughts of a substantial number of others as follows: 

“Every American must have their basic needs met before one illegal gets in or is given anything.

"It is beyond ignorant to think flooding the country with foreigners is helping our failing economy.

"If we stay on this path of gender bending, bathroom controversy, tolerance for everyone but ourselves, and open borders we are finished as a nation.

"Every single american first. We spend billions on foreigners while the number of homeless americans explodes.

"This is inexcusable.” 

The premise was furthered by Chilton Williamson Jr. in a piece headed “Ideology of Unrestricted Immigration,” appearing in the Summer 2016 issue of Modern Age: 

“The late Julian Simon, who believed in the benefits of virtually unlimited immigration to America (and elsewhere), conceded in his book The Ultimate Resource, “I don’t claim that [immigration] is necessary; we can live quite nicely without it.” Similarly, the late Ben Wattenberg, author of The First Universal Nation, admitted that immigration has “never been popular” with Americans, from the early seventeenth century down to the present. In the early 1990s a CBS poll reported that two-thirds of the respondents who wanted immigration quotas reduced preferred they be abolished altogether, and that 20 percent of the American public favored summarily returning immigrants to their countries of origin. No polling done in the past twenty years that I know of suggests that Americans feel different today”

And then, Mr. Williamson approached the subject from a perspective that applies not only to immigration, but virtually ever aspect of life as perceived by leftist elitists who consider themselves far superior to all others, regardless.       

“But why, if immigration really is unnecessary to the welfare of the United States, and as it is demonstrably unpopular with a large majority of Americans, need we debate the matter further? In a democracy, vox populi should have been heeded long ago. 

“Since polls register near-unanimity about immigration to a degree that is rarely if ever achieved on matters of crucial national importance, the response of democratic politicians should be to acknowledge the popular consensus and respect it. Instead they prefer to treat that consensus as mere irrational, ignorant, and even sinister preference: insufficient basis for a national immigration policy, which, they insist, must be determined by a developed technocratic and moral construct of “experts.” 

After laying the foundation, Mr. Williamson got to Trump specifically, explaining why it really doesn’t matter what the MSM writes or thinks, whereas: “Sophisticated people, no matter what they think about immigration, cannot overlook the simplemindedness of Donald Trump’s remarks on immigration, tossed off with his characteristic air of bravado and casual defiance, during the past primary season. Trump does not, indeed, appear to have studied the immigration issue in depth, or at all. That is exactly why what he has to say about it resonates as strongly as it does with significant portions of the electorate. 

“What Trump has really been saying is: “To hell with all these excuses for why illegal immigrants are still crossing our borders in droves. Why they can’t be deported once they’re here, or encouraged to self-deport. We the People don’t have to give You People in Washington reasons why we won’t tolerate illegal immigration any longer, and why we don’t want America to be transformed, by them or by legal immigration, or anything else for that matter. we don’t want any such thing and we are the voters to whom you are constitutionally responsible.” 

“That is not a calibrated “policy” argument, of course: it is a demand for comprehensive action. It is also, in a democracy, all the justification for restriction that is necessary—the more so because Americans do indeed have their practical and moral reasons to resist immigration, and eminently sensible ones at that.” 

So, what seems to be presently building is a major standoff between the left and their allies in the MSM that is different than what’s come before. Because while Republicans have always been aware of the partnership joined against them, they’ve generally accepted the circumstances and tried to prevail politely despite it.  

Trump however, is not only stimulated by the situation, but believes he has a significant majority in agreement with him. Which is why he’s comfortable tweeting such as: “I call my own shots, largely based on an accumulation of data, and everyone knows it. Some FAKE NEWS media, in order to marginalize, lies!” 

And in the case of illegal immigration, basic logic, rational thought and the majority of popular opinion add up to the quite certain conclusion that he’s absolutely correct in his assumptions. 

That’s it for today folks. 

Adios