A lot of our standing immigration bills would have to go away~~

Such radical and self-destructive legislation has already been proposed.
It’s called the New Way Forward Act (H.R. 5383), and it goes way beyond Hillary Clinton’s 2013 call for a “hemispheric common market” with “open borders,” according to commentator Tucker Carlson. In fact, it would be the c**p de grâce to our already balkanized country, reflecting a radical new Democratic Party that views our nation as “a rogue state, in which everything must be destroyed and remade: our laws, our institutions, our freedoms, our history and our values,” ..

end automatic deportation for all crimes, including robbery, fraud, and child sexual abuse;
• make aliens who falsify passports immune from deportation, period;
• raise the minimum sentence triggering deportation, for crimes that still require it, from one to five years. Note that “crimes like car theft, fraud, and weapons offenses all carry average prison sentences of fewer than five years,” informs Carlson. Moreover, some rapists, child abusers, and even k**lers receive less time than that. Yet aliens thus convicted would stay in our country and eventually receive citizenship;
• allow anti-American immigration judges to nullify deportation orders even for aliens with five-year-plus sentences;
• allow drug addicts and those convicted of drug crimes abroad to immigrate to the U.S;
• decriminalize illegal entry, even for the previously deported. The NWFA asserts that “criminalizing illegal entry … is ‘w***e s*********t,’” relates Carlson; and
• effectively abolish all enforcement against illegal migration.
In summary, it would be much harder arresting i******s than arresting you. “They’re the protected class here. You’re just some loser who’s paying for it all,” laments Carlson.
As for the aforementioned “right to come home,” it would include tens of thousands of aliens expelled from our country for manifold crimes: “Sexual abuse. Robbery. Assault. Drug trafficking, weapons trafficking, human trafficking,” Carlson further reports.
In fact, from “2002 to 2018, 480,000 people were deported for illegal entry or reentry into America,” Carlson continues. The NWFA would force us to buy them all plane tickets back here — costing approximately a billion dollars — “and that’s before Democrats make you start paying for these criminals’ free health care, too. Which they plan to,” Carlson adds.
It’s not surprising the mainstream media have suppressed this story. It reveals, right before an e******n and in stark terms, the new Democratic Party’s face: radical, anti-American, angry, and bent on our nation’s destruction.
Of course, as with most all of today’s illegal and legal immigrants, the vast majority of these “new Americans” would v**e Democratic. That’s the whole idea, too: The Left wants an “entirely new country, in which resistance is crushed, and they’re in charge forever,” Carlson concludes.
The NWFA won’t likely pass and be signed into law anytime soon. But know that this is precisely what the Democrats’ ascendant AOC/Sanders wing — which will one day control the whole party — has in store for us. They are the Enemy Within...

Well, think of it this way. *IF* Trump is elected to a second term, which is unlikely but not impossible he will have enough rope to hang himself. Trump has been very lucky so far because he's riding on a strong economy that he inherited from Obama.

The fact is we have only had two years of Trump budgets so far, 2018 and 2019. (The 2017 budget was proposed by Obama not Trump.) We are already seeing signs of economic stress resulting from Trump's two years of influence but so far they have not exceeded the momentum of Obama's economic recovery, but that's not going to last much longer. Trump's influence will soon take over and we will start to feel the effects and in a sense it might be better that he stay in office to take the blame for his own economic stupidity, instead of giving Republican i***ts the chance to blame it on an incoming Democrat, which is what usually happens.

I realize there is much more to worry about. The environment for instance but as you can see many local and state governments are resisting Trump's call to pollute the Earth. This in itself is an interesting development and I have to admit I'm pretty excited about the way states like NY and CA are telling Trump to f-off. It's invigorating. I'm not saying we aren't still left with a problem nation-wide, we all share the same air and most states are too weak to stand up to Trump and too stupid to know why they should.

Probably the most dangerous threat of all is the way Trump is being used to flush the liberals out of the judicial system. That's a tough one and as much as I want Trump supporters to pull their heads out of their asses I don't think they will - at least not soon enough, so the middle class is in for a rough ride.

In 20 years from now... we will probably be looking at a much more socialist America that will credit Trump for pushing the middle-class to the breaking point. Already, socialism is on the rise BECAUSE of Trump. Maybe in the long term, Trump is that "rock-bottom" that America might need to start recovering from its current s***e-mentality.

One can hope.

This is where I point out that YOU are the one who doesn't fully comprehend the situation. First of all, our judicial system has never lost it's awareness that "improper entry" into the U.S. is a crime.

That being said, there are exceptions to the law that the Trump administration has incorrectly ignored, such as something called 'Defense of Infancy", which is based on yet another 13th century rule of common law called doli incapax. The basic idea is that children can't be guilty of crimes they are too young to understand. Even in those dark barbaric days, people were apparently more humane than Trump.

So let me put this together for you...

1. It is NOT illegal for undocumented immigrants to BE in the U.S. The basis for calling them "illegal" is the assumption that to BE in the U.S. an immigrant would have had to cross our border and if they don't do it legally it's considered "improper entry", which *IS* a crime.

2. But if the immigrant is a baby being carried across the border by his mother, it's fair to assume he is too young to understand the crime and can therefore be defended by our legal Defense of Infancy.

3. Even if after that baby grows to adulthood he is innocent of crime so long as he stays within the borders because again, it's not illegal to BE in the U.S.

4. Obama recognized this legal predicament and asked Congress to legislate a solution as to what to do in these particular cases (childhood arrivals).

5. Congress refused to act, so Obama signed an executive order to defer action on childhood arrivals until
Congress can get their thumbs out of their asses. The executive order is aptly called "deferred action on childhood arrivals (DACA).

6. Congress never did take any action and they probably won't until the Democrats take over. Meanwhile, Trump has been doing everything possible to k**l DACA and subject childhood arrivals, many of whom have grown up and established families in the U.S. to deportation because of a crime they have unjustly been accused of.

7. After a century of i*********n l*ws it was only AFTER Trump attacked DACA that cities across the nation rightfully decided to resist with declarations of sanctuary.

So, the bottom line is... Sanctuary cities are refusing to yield to Trump because HE is the one breaking the rules and tearing families apart in the process and yes... treating them like animals.

Now, I understand that some people are nasty bigots... Some of them just straight up h**e immigrants (that's always been a problem in America) and these bigots will try to stereotype immigrants by their worst examples while ignoring the legal defense of infancy or the legal difference between BEING in the U.S. and ENTERING the U.S. and their rants are parroted right here on OPP all too often.

The total of what? Deficits aren't accumulative. You DO realize we're talking about the deficit not the debt, right?

So, I'm looking at the chart and to be honest I don't see where the deficit was better in ANY of Obama's years. And how could it be? Did you miss where I explained WHY the deficit spiked under Obama? It's spiked because Bush f'ed up the economy so bad that we now call it the "Great Recession" And Obama was the one who had to get the government to bail out the industries that crashed with the economy. It's called saving jobs and it came at a cost, which is what you see in the chart.

In other words, the effect happened under Obama, the cause happened under Bush.

I think the biggest story in the picture though is the new spike under Trump because there's no cause for it. That's just really bad management. Trump really sucks at this. And if people weren't such suckers for political BS they would see it.