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Playing for the cameras won’t help Democrats in midterm elections, Krikorian says

Playing for the cameras won’t help Democrats in midterm elections, Krikorian says

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Playing for the cameras won’t help Democrats in midterm elections, Krikorian says

The head of an immigration reform think tank doesn't think all the crazy antics of the Left are going to help Democrats in next year's midterm elections.

Every day it becomes more abundantly clear that the Democratic Party is committed to defending illegal aliens but not the citizens of the states or Congressional districts they represent.

Recently California Senator Alex Padilla had to be forcibly removed from a news conference of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. On the other side of the country, in New York City, a radical mayoral candidate pulled a similar stunt at an immigration court.

Meanwhile the president has directed ICE to expand deportations in Democrat-run cities.

Trump in a social media posting called on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials “to do all in their power to achieve the very important goal of delivering the single largest Mass Deportation Program in History.”

He added that to reach the goal officials” must expand efforts to detain and deport Illegal Aliens in America’s largest Cities, such as Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York, where Millions upon Millions of Illegal Aliens reside.”

Trump's declaration comes after weeks of increased enforcement, and after Stephen Miller, White House deputy chief of staff and main architect of Trump’s immigration policies, said ICE officers would target at least 3,000 arrests a day, up from about 650 a day during the first five months of Trump’s second term, The Associated Press reported.

Trump immigrations numbers strong

Mark Krikorian is the director of the Center for Immigration Studies. He says the president's immigration policies are still pretty popular.

Krikorian, Mark (Ctr. for Immigration Studies) Krikorian

"So I think the odds are good that this issue is going to keep working for the Republicans, not because of some cynical political calculations, but because people want immigration fixed. And Biden was so bad for four years that the public is willing to give Trump a lot of slack in dealing with the disaster that Biden brought about."  

Krikorian believes in a sense it was good that Trump lost the 2020 election. 

"Because what Biden did was change the political environment so much that in the second term, Trump has way more leeway and way more political capital to pursue things like real immigration enforcement in a way that might not have been true had he just had one more consecutive term, without people being able to see what a disaster Joe Biden was."

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