Trump Doubles Down

Donald Trump, running for the GOP nomination for president, has taken a detailed position on illegal immigration, as reported by The Washington Post.

Deport the undocumented en masse. Sieze the money they try to send home. Deny citizenship to their U.S.-born children.

All of those ideas have been embraced by Donald Trump, the front-runner in the Republican race.

Meanwhile, CNN reports Trump has pulled further into the lead among voters polled. Especially interesting is that majorities of Republican men and women trust him on the issues of the economy and immigration. See what Trump's website says our principles should be:

1. A nation without borders is not a nation. There must be a wall across the southern border.
2. A nation without laws is not a nation. Laws passed in accordance with our Constitutional system of government must be enforced.
3. A nation that does not serve its own citizens is not a nation. Any immigration plan must improve jobs, wages and security for all Americans.

However crudely Trump expresses it, there is no way 10% of all living Mexicans should be resident in the United States, most here in violation of Federal laws our President gleefully refuses to enforce. It's Obama's sweet revenge against the U.S. for being a colonialist power over a century ago. The ever-quotable Mark Steyn posits the following:

As every functioning society understood until two generations ago, immigration has to benefit the people who are already here. Government owes a duty to its own citizens before those of the rest of the planet - no matter how cuddly and loveable they might be. The fact that it is necessary to state the obvious and that no "viable" "mainstream" candidate from either party is willing to state it is testament to how deformed contemporary western politics is.

WaPo reports Trump's popular stands are slowly forcing other GOP aspirants to express similar sentiments. It is clear these are beliefs shared by many conservative voters. Bush and Kasich are unlikely to go along, and likely will be left behind.

I still don't see Trump as the eventual nominee but he is doing the nation and our party a favor by championing these concerns. Who knows? Maybe he will grow into the role; he's no bigger rascal or boor than the priapic Bill Clinton who turned out to be an okay President.