September 28, 2016, 11:45 am
What will Trump do about the 11 million illegal immigrants?
On August 31, Donald Trump delivered the most detailed policy speech on immigration by a candidate for national office. Despite spending 70 minutes addressing one of the most important issues on voters’ minds, many pundits found the speech lacking because it didn’t answer their most important question: What do we do about the 11 million illegal aliens living here?
While that may be the big question for professional talking heads, it’s hardly the definitive question for most Americans. To most Americans, the crucial question in the immigration debate is one that the opinion oligarchs have never even considered: How do we get immigration to serve some clear, identifiable public interest?
In sharp contrast to how the immigration debate has played out over the past decade,Trump acknowledged the American people as the primary stakeholders in immigration policy. Immigration reform, he asserted, must begin from the premise that the policy exists to advance “the wellbeing of the American people,” and “protect all aspects of American life.”
http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/immigration/298251-what-will-trump-do-about-the-11-million-illegal-immigrants
