How About a Road Trip?

I'm sure nothing bad will happen.

What if a few million of us decided to waltz into Mexico or Canada unannounced, uninvited, and undocumented, with plans to stay indefinitely? Surely, the local govts would welcome us. They would provide comfortable accommodation, fine cuisine, and debit cards to cover incidentals and random purchases. Truly adventurous couples in the group could have a child while we were there.

Both nations would undoubtedly celebrate any births, regarding them as anchor babies that provide citizenship for the kids and a license to stay permanently for the parents. To think that either nation would respond in any way other than complete hospitality would suggest that Mexicans and Canadians are, at the very least, xenophobes who hate diversity, and possibly authoritarians

If millions can freely walking into the United States, then why can’t we just as freely walk into another nation? As our friends on the left say – no human is illegal. Surely, the good folks who manage immigration and similar functions for the govts in Canada and Mexico would agree. I have it on good authority that the new Canadian Prime Minister is a bulldog in a bespoke suit regarding matters of Trump, and accepting a new class of refugees is a prime way of “owning” Orange McBadman.

What better way for Mark Carney to troll the trollmaster than by letting any American who wishes to enter his country do so, and to do so by any means, preferably those means that do not require pesky ID checks or visas or any of that bothersome paperwork. It’s less clear what Carney’s Mexican counterpart thinks of Trump, but that could be because the cartels who run the place have not yet told her what to think.

There was an interview with one mal hombre from the Sinaloa cartel, who talked about his feelings – no, really – when asked what he thought of the administration calling people like him terrorists. The gangster’s answer must have triggered palpitations not just at CNN, but across the entire media leftosphere, to the point where it’s reasonable to ask how the response was not edited: “My respect. According to him, he’s looking out for his people.”

It's not clear what CNN thought the cartel guy would say. This is a man in an extremely violent trade and has likely been involved in many distasteful things. But since he did not bash Trump, the left is now on the clock. Surely, the gangster will be attacked just like Bill Maher and Vince Vaughn were after visiting the White House, right? The calls for his cancellation should start any moment now. Consistency demands it. Anything short of immediately condemning Trump for breathing typically results in hysteria. Come on, TDS sufferers; we’re waiting.

All of this is absurd, of course, just like the manufactured outrage over deportation. No country on earth lets people enter as they please and stay as long as they like. Until 15 minutes ago, this country didn’t either. Every single president of the past 40 years talked about shoring up the border, but none of them did much about it. Well, 47 is doing something, and that is the problem. The DC cabal gets cranky enough when its collective fecklessness is exposed by a random act of journalism; the heartburn is off the charts when the Trumpster is orchestrating the effort causing it.

To see and hear the left pretend to care about the fate of illegals is almost comical. It’s as if this group thinks everyone has forgotten what happened in 2022 in Martha’s Vineyard, when a handful of illegals were flown in courtesy of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. The town that speaks loudly and often about diversity and inclusion, with those “hate has no home here” signs, hated the idea of the landscape being sullied by a bunch of Venezuelans that the illegals were bused out of town within 24 hours.

The political theater, meanwhile, has descending into self-parody. Last week, several elected officials crashed an ICE facility in New Jersey. The mayor of Newark was arrested, and some members of Congress may also face charges. The display was so stunning and brave that one could be forgiven for confusing these public officials with the Chinese students who protested in Tiananmen Square in 1989. Except the Americans were not standing before tanks rolling toward them. Or facing the risk of being disappeared. And no one was killed. But otherwise, totally equivalent.

It is bad enough that these people value illegals over citizens in a political sense. They spent four years supporting an open border and calling anyone who opposed that a xenophobe. It’s not like they can now change course. It is worse that they either ignore or gloss over the multiple murders, rapes, and assaults illegals have carried out, as if major crime is the price Americans must pay for the privilege of cheap hotel housekeepers and farm labor. No, seriously; access to labor that can be exploited is listed among the benefits of illegal immigration.

The people who lectured us that no one is above the law are melting down in realizing that this truism includes people who are here illegally, and the judges and other officials who aid and abet them. Their stock response has been the same thing they have said for more than eight years – a reference to a historical period you can likely figure out without me telling you. Even its creator has wondered whether Godwin’s Law needs an update. When enforcing immigration law is given rhetorical equivalent to industrial-scale murder, the plot has been lost.