I don’t think Liberals are stupid for saying that we need to take a balanced approach to illegal immigration – I just think they’re being ignorant and naive. The reason why is because they think the Federal Government can actually do a good job of this in the first place when left to their own currently liberal devices.
Well I strongly disagree, and I’m sure Kesler Dufrene’s victims and the families of his victims disagree, too. When Dufrene’s sentence was over, a judge ordered him deported back to Haiti. it never happened. Instead, he went on to kill three people, including a 15-year old girl.
“Wait, we all agree that criminals like this should be deported”, is what comes back from liberals whenever a case like Dufrene’s is cited. This is b.s., however, because they’ll say that on the one hand, and yet on the other support every single action and policy that allows a monster like Dufrene to do what he did in the first place.
What liberals don’t get is that there’s a difference between how we’d like things to be, and the way that they actually are. They don’t get that while they’re sitting their pouring over data from liberal studies in some ivory tower somewhere, there’s actually things occurring down on the ground that have a much more urgent timeline that need much more decisive, and even at times draconian actions if lives are going to be saved.
The liberal ways seems to be let all these guys in here, then spend years and years deciding who should stay and who should go. What they don’t get, however, is the federal government is not accurate or skilled enough to make those kind of decisions with any sort of precision – they’re just too big – and as a result, you get tragedies like the one Dufrene caused tmie and time again.
The conservative approach, rather, is to move these sorts of policy and enforcement decisions to at least the state level, or ideally, some joint level between the state and private enterprise (no, liberals, conservatives don’t want immigration and crime to be handled fully by private enterprise – that’s how much you misunderstand libertarianism).
Liberals see government as “government”. They make (nor do they care to make) any distinction between municipal, state, and federal governments because to them trying to make those distinctions when it comes to creating and enforcing policy affects their joy of dependency all the same.
This upcoming election could possibly hold one of the biggest power grabs by the federal government in American history. I’m not asking liberals to prevent it by voting Republican or anything crazy like that, I’m just hoping that they can understand what the conservative argument here actually is in regards to government and policy so that we can look for solutions to immigration and guys like Dufrene through something other than a purely partisan and ideological lens.
