Note: Due to what I am told was an editing error, only half of the below column was published in the MDJ today. I note in the text where the published version abruptly ended. We miss Joe Kirby…

Marietta Daily Journal

Straw man anti-enforcement “Nazi” smear on immigration; (Is Barbara Jordan next?)

D.A. King
Columnist

“Those who should get in, get in; those who should be kept out, are kept out; and those who should not be here will be required to leave… Deportation is crucial” – 1995 Testimony of the late Barbara Jordan, the Clinton-appointed Chair, U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform.

In Kevin Foley’s recent column (Trump’s final solution: ‘deportation force’ MDJ 11/20/2015) were treated to another amusing example of the liberal practice of inventing a false scenario, projecting it onto a political enemy and then smearing that enemy as if that enemy had created the scenario.

Look up “straw-man argument” to get a clue on this transparent manipulation.

If you missed it, Foley explained that he heard presidential candidate Donald Trump promise to create a “deportation force” for illegal aliens. Foley then went on to write his own script of what Trump’s immigration enforcement action would do. “In picturing Trump’s “deportation force” deployed throughout a sprawling Los Angeles, I envision something that looks an awful lot like the Nazi Schutzstaffel (“Protection Squadron”) or more familiarly, SS, and the Gestapo secret police who rounded up Jews, political opponents, intellectuals, homosexuals and everyone else Hitler deemed “undesirable,” wrote Foley.

We (yawn) get the idea. Anyone who supports deportation of illegal aliens is obviously a Nazi.

Score one for a slight variation on the observation made on weak arguments by Mike Godwin in 1990. ‘Godwin’s law’ asserts that “as an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches – that is, if an online discussion (regardless of topic or scope) goes on long enough, sooner or later someone will compare someone or something to Hitler or Nazism.”

“I see families torn apart…” is a regurgitation of the standard – and poorly constructed – liberal argument against immigration enforcement. Qualified, for now, with a possible exception for illegal aliens convicted of a felony. All this absent even a token nod to someday, maybe, securing American borders or monitoring visa-holder departures.

The reality is that about half of the illegals now here illegally did not come illegally. They came on a temporary visa and refused to leave. As did several of the 9/11 terrorists.

Don’t disregard the dangerous audacity of hope for this loony “only if they are convicted of a felony” deportation idea. It came a week after Islamists bombed Paris and ran on another day that news stories informed us of the capture at the southern border of illegal aliens from countries with known terrorist ties. The FBI has confirmed last week’s apprehension of six military-aged men from Afghanistan and Pakistan. (THIS IS THE MISTAKEN END OF PUBLISHED COLUMN IN THE MDJ TODAY)

None of these victims of borders have been convicted of a felony here and are apparently exempt from deportation under the enlightened “felons only” premise of immigration enforcement.

The truth is that we already have a federal deportation force. It is called “ICE” and part of its mission is to enforce our immigration laws in the interior of the U.S., including apprehension and processing of illegal aliens for deportation.

The crisis that we are now enduring on immigration has been created by successive White House administrations that refuse to allow ICE to do its job for political reasons. Currently, Obama has ordered ICE to implement policies that allow about 80% of the illegals in the nation to escape deportation.

The far left is in a frenzied panic because Donald Trump has permanently embedded the issue of immigration into the 2016 presidential contest and because the depth of the seething anger of middle-class Americans regarding illegal immigration has been bared.

Barbara Jordan’s recommended solutions to congress included the now proven premise that cutting off access to jobs, benefits and services would result in illegal aliens returning to their home nations in desperation. As has been presented in this space for more than a decade, the reasonable and logical solution is a steady attrition of the illegal population through enforcement of the law. Oh, my!

The late Barbara Jordan Source; GovTrack.us

In a nation gone mad in which the illegal aliens are victims and Americans who demand an equal application of the law are portrayed by many as ‘Nazis’, one should assume that the civil rights icon and presidential Medal of Freedom winner Barbara Jordan would come out on the wrong side of the 21st century liberal’s hate campaign against the pro-enforcement majority.

The bi-partisan Jordan Commission also recommended cutting legal immigration to about 550,000, which is half of today’s level. Oh, my!

We wonder exactly when the far-left will begin to smear ‘the Barbara Jordan solution.’

D.A. King is president of the Georgia-based Dustin Inman Society and a nationally recognized authority on immigration.