Looking around it appears that the Trump administration intends to make an example of Los Angeles.\u00a0 If we really were living in an analog of the Roman Empire then we could expect all kinds of fun.\u00a0 All the men would be put to the sword; the women and children would be led away into slavery to the sound of their lamentations and the ground would be sown with salt. \u00a0Today the best we could hope for would be a perp walk for the Mayor of LA and the Governor of California.\u00a0 But that would be a start.\u00a0 But it appears that Trump is serious about confronting the sanctuary state on its home turf.<\/p>\n
What that looks like is ICE lurking around Home Depot and scooping up the illegals looking for work.\u00a0 As expected, the NGO\u2019s have deployed their permanent college students with bull horns and whistles and assigned street actors to riot.\u00a0 And we see all the usual theater.\u00a0 Masked weirdos throwing water bottles, Molotov cocktails, bricks or whatever comes to hand.\u00a0 But there has been a surprise.\u00a0 The feds are arresting the guys throwing bricks.\u00a0 Yesterday I read that the guy throwing fire bombs has been charged with attempted murder.\u00a0 Now that\u2019s progress!<\/p>\n
Following this the Mayor of LA decided to order a curfew.\u00a0 That\u2019s huge.\u00a0 In a sense she\u2019s declaring defeat.\u00a0 She blinked.\u00a0 Basically, she\u2019s telling the shock troops to go home and wait for a better opportunity.\u00a0 That\u2019s huge.\u00a0 Because Trump isn\u2019t going home.\u00a0 ICE and the FBI are ferreting out the people who organized the violence.\u00a0 And they are still rounding up illegals.\u00a0 Now, without a doubt what has been done so far is a drop in the bucket.\u00a0 Half of LA is made up of illegal aliens and their children and grandchildren.\u00a0 But unless all of this is public relations it looks very much like Trump is going to make deporting illegal aliens his dominant play.<\/p>\n
And he should because it\u2019s extremely popular and it allows him to show his opponents as complicit with illegal immigration and on the side of the foreigners in the street burning cars and throwing firebombs at law enforcement doing their jobs.<\/p>\n
As far as the scope of deportation, I\u2019m not worried about how slow it currently is.\u00a0 Trump learns by doing and as he learns he will get better and more efficient.\u00a0 By the end of his four years, he\u2019ll probably have it down to a science and there will probably be a bullet train shooting fifty thousand illegals down to Mexico City every day (and he\u2019ll get the Mexicans to pay for it too).<\/p>\n
So, looking at Trump\u2019s current strategy, I think he\u2019s making gains on multiple fronts.\u00a0 He hasn\u2019t ended the Ukraine or the Gaza wars or gotten his \u201cbig beautiful bill\u201d signed or annexed Greenland yet but he has gotten the military and the ICE personnel to begin the signature policy of the Trump administration; deporting the millions of illegals that Joe Biden inflicted on us.\u00a0 And energy prices are coming down and that drives down inflation.<\/p>\n
Keep up the good work Mr. Trump.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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