As Sun Tzu wisely said, he who knows when to fight, and when not to fight, will always be victorious. Or, in modern parlance: pick your battles.
The US Democrats might want to read The Art of War some time, because they sure as hell seem pretty clueless about which battles to pick and it’s showing. Multiple polls have the Democrats’ favourability at its lowest ebb on record.
Probably because of stuff like this.
Bringing back deported Salvadoran national Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the United States – despite being arrested with “rolls of cash and drugs” and alleged to be part of MS-13, now deemed a terrorist organization – must be a “top agenda” item for Democrats, Democrat strategist James Carville said during an episode of his “Politics War Room” podcast.
That’s right: the Democrats should make their top priority kidnapping a foreign terrorist from his home country and releasing him in the US.
Are they really this stupid?
Leaving aside the implications for the “international rules-based order” the left are forever banging on about (Garcia is an El Salvadoran citizen, residing in El Salvador), just whose hearts and minds do they think they’re going to win? Certainly not a majority of American voters, who not only want Garcia to stay deported but for the millions of other people illegally in the US to join him.
A majority of voters favor deporting all illegal immigrants from the United States, despite the ongoing leftist narrative suggesting otherwise – particularly when it comes to the recently deported El Salvadorian national, an alleged member of MS-13 whom Democrats are desperately seeking to return.
The latest data comes straight from CNN, which found that 56 per cent support deporting an estimated 11 million illegal aliens residing in the United States. This is significantly up from 38 per cent who said the same in 2016.
In other words, the American people are on the side of President Donald Trump’s illegal immigration policies regardless of the narrative offered by the radical left.
The narrative is that Garcia is yet another good boy who din’t do nuffin’ and was deported in an ‘administrative error’ that the wicked Trump administration refuses to acknowledge. Even more ludicrously, they claim he was ‘disappeared’.
Needless to say, none of this is the least bit true.
Garcia entered the US illegally 13 years ago. He was arrested six weeks ago and deported. It wasn’t his first arrest, though. He was, according to a 2019 court ruling, “arrested in the company of other ranking gang members and was confirmed to be a ranking member of the MS-13 gang by a proven and reliable source”.
Garcia married his pregnant girlfriend, an American citizen, while still in prison for that arrest. Why was he never deported in the first place? In a bizarro-world ruling, an immigration judge decided that his ‘well-founded’ fear of persecution by a rival gang justified his remaining in the US. That’s right: a US judge decided that a violent gang member worries about getting into an inter-gang fight was reason enough to set said violent gang member loose on American citizens.
The Trump administration disagreed and overruled the soft judgement. This is not an ‘administrative error’ as the left-media would have us believe: it’s a considered judgement that the safety of US citizens, not to mention US laws, overrides a hand-wringing judge fretting about gang fights in third-world countries.
“Garcia invaded our country illegally, broke our laws, and according to his own wife, abused her,” Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) said in a statement.
“He’s exactly the kind of dangerous thug President Trump promised to remove, and he did. Yet while President Trump is protecting American lives, Democrats are working overtime to bring this animal back,” she added. “They’re fighting harder for an MS-13 gang member than they ever have for the victims of his cartel’s violence. This isn’t compassion, it’s betrayal. This isn’t public service, and it’s dangerously close to treason.”
As for the ‘disappeared’ claim – it’s an odd ‘disappearance’ when the supposedly ‘disappeared’ is photographed meeting with moronic Democrat politicians in El Salvador.
The Trump administration should just sit back and let the Democrats keep right on digging their own graves.
