A Good Start on Immigration

White advocates have a simple measure of political success for Donald Trump’s second term: In four years, will our demographic situation be better or worse? Jared Taylor has said that to make America great again means to make America white again. No one in office is allowed to say that, but the President ran and won on a campaign of mass deportations, and that would help.

Deportations have begun, but on a small scale. Immigration czar Tom Homan says ICE arrested 308 migrants on President Trump’s first day in office. That’s not nearly enough, since there could be as many as 20 to 30 million illegals. From the Oval Office, the President said about mass deportations, “I don’t want to say when, but it’s going to happen.” The Administration has already repealed regulations that prevented illegals from being detained near churches and schools. La Migra began efforts in Bakersfield, California, earlier this month, reportedly keeping illegals from their jobs. Illegals are reportedly afraid to appear on the streets, though that isn’t stopping them from complaining to sympathetic reporters.

Mr. Trump is also cleaning house. He has fired four top officials in the Justice Department’s Executive Office of Immigration Review. An app called CBP One, which helped illegals schedule appointments to legalize their status, has been shut down.

The Administration issued a memo calling for investigations of state and local officials who obstruct immigration law enforcement. The FBI has been ordered to cooperate in immigration enforcement. Still, there will undoubtedly be major showdowns in the courts and between different levels of authority.

Ambitious Democrats in blue states will fight the Administration to build their own political profiles. Philadelphia is already holding a “preparedness hearing” to help save its illegals. Antifa in Portland attacked an ICE detention center and further terrorism is likely. A Border Patrol agent in Vermont has already been shot and killed, though we don’t know the full details.

The most important thing President Trump has done is eliminate birthright citizenship via an executive order. This is something he promised to do during his first term but never did. It sets up a major fight over the correct interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment that will probably go to the Supreme Court. Patriots should be prepared for disappointment from Chief Justice John Roberts and Trump-appointee Amy Coney Barrett (who boasts adopted children from Haiti). Naturally, 22 states are already suing to stop the order. The Great Replacement will be slowed if birthright citizenship ends, so we can expect fierce resistance. There is an effort to eliminate birthright citizenship in Congress, too, but the final decision will be up to the courts.

The news is worse on visas. President Trump enthusiastically backs H-1B visas, even for “waiters,” another job Americans apparently can’t do. The President is dismissing even the pretense that this is about attracting the so-called best, instead calling for foreign workers at “all levels.” This would presumably include H-2B service workers, not just H-1B “skilled” workers. However, he has not pledged to expand these programs. If President Trump’s birthright citizenship order stands, children of visa workers would not be Americans, thus taking away a big reason for the parents to come. There seems to be no chance the President will eliminate H-1B visas, as he said he would doing during his first term.

The news is better on affirmative action. President Trump overturned Lyndon Johnson’s original 1965 executive order on affirmative action for federal contractors. All DEI employees are on leave and DEI is being shut down. President Biden’s executive order on government-wide “equity” has also been revoked. Even the Spanish-language website for the White House is down.

Ann Coulter, who has tacked back to supporting President Trump after the shortcomings of his first term, says none of this means anything unless it becomes law. President Trump’s measures are necessary but defensive. The GOP Senate is already waffling on his agenda. If the midterm elections fit the usual pattern, Mr. Trump has only two years to get anything important done, and then only if the Supreme Court even lets him. We are making progress, but all of this merely slows the Great Replacement. It doesn’t stop it. We have a long way to go, but it’s a start.