Trump’s immigration “bill of love” too laughable to be taken seriously

President Donald J. Trump’s talk of a “bill of love” being part of the solution toward arriving at a sensible federal immigration policy is just another bit in the line of nonsense that often gets spewed whenever trying to figure out how to properly integrate non-U.S.-born residents into our society.

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It amounts to more cheap rhetoric about the issue, particularly when it relates to people who were brought as children by their parents to this country without all the valid papers being lined up.

WHAT WE HAVE is many thousands of people living in this country who, for all practical purposes, are assimilated into our society. But the paperwork glitch makes it impossible for them to fully enjoy the benefits of living in this country.

Former President Barack Obama tried to address this issue with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals – a program by which those young people registered with the government and were given permits allowing them to work, while also being spared the threat of deportation. Some 700,000 young people took advantage.

It was a step in the right direction (allowing them to work toward naturalization and gain citizenship would complete the process). But of course, to the mindset of people in this Age of Trump we’re now in, it has to be undone. Just as everything Obama became involved with now has to be eradicated from our society.

Trump abolished DACA last year, but said he’d give Congress until March to come up with a long-range solution to the larger problem. Although U.S. District Judge William Alsup late Tuesday ruled against Trump's March deadline -- creating the possibility the issue could drag on longer.

WHICH IS VERY likely, considering that we're talking about the same Congress that has been so inept throughout the years that it can’t come close to finding a solution to eliminating the bureaucratic glitches that exist in our national immigration policy.

So the idea that anything would happen was always laughable – particularly since many of those people most pleased by Trump’s presence in the White House are of a belief that the only real solution is mass deportations. Eliminating all those damn foreigners is what they mean by the insipidness of Trump’s “Make America Great Again” campaign slogan.

Trump on Tuesday met with members of Congress, of both major political persuasions, supposedly to try to come up with a solution to nudge Congress off their collective derriere to do something.

That’s where he came up with his “bill of love” rhetoric, which he says would be a two-phase plan for immigration reform, albeit one that strikes me as being more inaction than anything else.

TRUMP’S FIRST PHASE involves taking action to move forward on the president’s long-desired talk of a full-scale wall along the U.S./Mexico border. He’s determined to have something built along those 1,900 miles in the southwestern U.S. – regardless of how impractical, stupid or irrelevant such a barricade would prove to be in deterring entry into this country by people considered less-than-desirable by racially-motivated ideologues.

The second phase would then give Congress the “green light,” so to speak, to try to figure out a comprehensive immigration reform plan that would resolve the problem, once and for all.

But like I wrote earlier, Congress has tried for decades to come up with real reform – only to be thwarted by the element that likes the bureaucratic mess we have now because it complicates conditions for people wishing to come to this country.

Basically, Trump’s talk on Tuesday amounted to “gimme da wall,” then do nothing more. Which doesn’t fix a thing.

I FOUND IT particularly laughable to learn that Trump talked of restoring “earmarks” to the budget process so as to encourage members of Congress to act. Earmarks are the process by which Congressmen can get federal funds for pet projects in their home districts.

Meaning we use federal funds to buy off the Congress, with no guarantee they’d follow through with immigration reform.

It may actually be more evidence that Trump is a rank amateur when it comes to politics – spewing out such nonsensical talk in hopes that he can get that pointless wall built.

Although considering Trump was a real estate guy who has had several structures bearing his name built all over the world, I’d insist that if this wall ever does get erected, it too should carry his identity. “Trump, the Border Wall!” is all about his warped sensibilities, rather than anything representing American ideals.

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