A better immigration plan for Jared Taylor and the Alt-Right

At Vox Media, Zack Beauchamp blogs "What the alt-right actually wants from President Trump" [1], containing this:

The policy that (Jared Taylor of American Renaissance) is most excited about is Trump's idea of deporting every undocumented immigrant, all 11 million of them. This isn't quite an official campaign policy - it's something Trump floated repeatedly in TV interviews but that his campaign has attempted to downplay. Official policy is that they'll start by deporting the roughly 2 to 3 million with criminal records and then will see how things stand with the rest.

Taylor doesn't believe Trump will follow through on the full deportation plan, though he says, “If he actually did those things, I'd very much applaud.” Nonetheless, he believes a few high-profile deportation raids on innocent families could go a long way.

He explains why in a 2015 article titled “Is Trump Our Last Chance?”:

The key, however, would be a few well publicized raids on non-criminal illegals. Television images of Mexican families dropped over the border with no more than they could carry would be very powerful. The vast majority of illegals would quickly decide to get their affairs in order and choose their own day of departure rather than wait for ICE to choose it for them.

Those who comment at Breitbart News would just love that.

The problem is that so too would the entire pro-illegal immigration establishment. It would give them a huge chance to continue their war on immigration enforcement. They'd probably go to Mexico and interview those affected, splashing them across front pages throughout the USA and on every nightly newscast. Here's just one example of them doing things like that. Dozens of more examples could be offered, such as the crying baby featured in this report. That coverage of crying babies would be used to pressure Congress and those in Donald Trump's cabinet to halt such things. There'd be tremendous pressure from the business community and others, and Trump would relent (assuming, for the sake of argument, that he was sincere to begin with).

If you're a Breitbart reader, you're saying something like "Ah don't care, Ah want to see crying babies!" And, that's why you shouldn't try to make plans: you don't understand everything involved, and you don't understand that such high profile incidents play right into the hands of the other side. In fact, George W Bush relied on things like that to push his high immigration agenda. If you only support things that make you feel better but that have an overall negative impact, then please just stand down. If Donald Trump did what you wanted, neither you nor he would be able to intellectually defend it. You'd end up helping the bad guys. And, of course, you'd never admit you'd done that so you could keep on doing it.

A much better alternative to giving the establishment media the crying babies they want to put on TV is to make enabling illegal immigration politically toxic. That's easier, but it requires actual thinking and real work: it's not enough to just suggest things other people should do. Done in a smart, rational, pro-American, big tent way it would be very powerful. And, that can be done by anyone, whether they completely agree with Jared Taylor or hate his guts. All they have to do is want to keep the media in line and make sure they support pro-American policies rather than policies that only help the wealthy and foreign citizens.

Let me suggest a first step: discredit some of those at Vox. Zack Beauchamp is quite the piece of work; Dara Lind has deceived her readers; Matt Yglesias and Ezra Klein have been featured here over several posts. All are extremely vulnerable to smart, rational, pro-American, big tent arguments. If you're a Breitbart reader, you'd probably saying, "but Ah don't read Vox, I know they're wrong!" The problem is that most of their audience doesn't, and that's who the target audience is. If a good part of the Vox audience realize Vox isn't telling them the truth and doesn't represent their interests, then that will reduce Vox's influence. And, doing that will send a strong message to the pro-illegal immigration establishment.

Isn't doing something that hurts the pro-illegal immigration establishment better than something that helps them?

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[1] vox . com/world/2016/11/28/13716038/
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