- You are wrong in believing that merely deporting 11 million undocumented immigrants will make the USA a safer place. It won’t. The reasons behind this have already been laid out in this blog in the article entitled “They all entered legally” published here August 1 2015). Take a look at it.
- I really hate to tell you this, but your “idea” of building a great big wall to isolate your country from Mexico is not original. It is a chinese copy of an idea that was actually turned into reality a long time ago, but not in the American continent. Your chinese copy is, as a matter of fact, a chinese conception from beginning to end. It is known today as the Great Wall of China, and for a long time it was believed to be visible for a man who would look at it while standing on the surface of the Moon (the belief turned out to be wrong, but nevertheless it is still a monumental construction) . And the reason for building the Great Wall of China was exactly the same reason you are now giving for building a wall between the USA and Mexico, to keep invaders out. And guess what? It failed! Even after the Great Wall was completed, mainland China was overrun by the Mongols and other unwelcome visitors, and the dynasty who ordered the construction of such a wall was wiped out from the history books by the invaders who were not deterred by the Great Wall. In the end, the Great Wall proved to be a fiasco, completely useless for the original purpose for which it was built (it is, however, a great tourist attraction, and it now provides China with a good source of income just as the mummies of the Egyptian Pharaohs and their tombs provide sustenance nowadays to the descendants of the Egyptians who ended up making death itself and its relics the number one source of income of modern Egypt). And you intend to repeat that fiasco? C’mon, Messr. Trump. Even a toddler who is just learning about the Great Wall could tell you that your idea of building a similar wall between USA and Mexico would be a mistake. Indeed, it would be a bad business decision. The Great Wall of China did not deter those invaders the rulers of China feared the most, and the Great Wall of the USA (in case you become President and decide to build it) will not deter undocumented immigrants either. Perhaps that is the reason of why you have stated from the outset that you intend Mexico to pay for the building of you wall, knowing damn well that based on the chinese experience the US Congress will never appropriate a single penny for the building of your wall. So, your proposal amounts to merely repeating an historic fiasco. The amazing fact here is the enormous among of gullible followers you are picking up (according to the most recent polls) with just a rehash of a chinese idea that failed in the past and will most likely fail again. Have you ever heard of George Santayana? He’s the historian who stated that those who have not learned the lessons from the past are doomed to repeat it. Obviously, you have never read Santayana. But then, you are no historian either, and as a matter of fact, you never digested your History lessons as you should have. You are a businessman, not a historian, and this fact might excuse you. Unfortunately for you, good heads of state are those whose knowledge includes a good deal of history, in order not to repeat the mistakes of the past. Take George W. Bush, for instance. Take a close look at his invasion of Iraq. Was the overthrowing of Saddam Hussein worth all the blood and money that was spent? And all this because the young George W. Bush was unable to assimilate the hard won American experiences in Vietnam!
- Technology-wise, your proposal to build a big wall between the USA and Mexico is outdated. It is not a matter of undocumented immigrants simply procuring higher ladders in order to jump higher walls, which in itself is simply naive. Just take a look at the recent spectacular escape from prison carried out by drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzman. His engineers dug for him an underground tunnel a mile away from prison, and with that tunnel being dug underground all of the time (in the blind, as you would say) even at that horizontal distance a mile away the vertical hole dug upwards beneath the maximum security cell of El Chapo managed to come up exactly at the spot where El Chapo went into the bathroom. Now try to answer this: why should long and wavy ladders be used to jump from Mexico into the USA, ladders whose climbers would be clearly visible miles away by US Border Patrol agents, when underground tunnels which are undetectable even by the US military can be dug beneath the US-Mexico border line? Many of those tunnels are being found, and you can bet there are many many more tunnels already built that remain undetected. In the third millennium, migrant trafficking is no longer what it used to be.
- The Trump doctrine states that Mexico (i.e. Mexicans) should pay for the construction of the Trump wall all over the US-Mexico border. Mexico is a multi-cultural country with close to 130 million inhabitants. This means that the 11 million or so undocumented immigrants now living in the USA, not all of whom are Mexicans, do not represent not even ten per cent of the entire population of Mexico. It means that nine out of every ten Mexicans have a deep respect for the USA immigration laws, and even more, it means that at least nine out of every ten Mexicans have no interest whatsoever of abandoning Mexico to take up permanent residency in the USA. You see, not all Mexicans are like Jorge Ramos (with whom you are well familiar by now). What’s more, even many prominent figures and Latinos from other countries have chosen Mexico over the USA as their favorite country to live and work (Maribel Guardia, Andrés García, Barbara Mori, Nobel Prize Winner Gabriel García Márquez, Marjorie de Sousa, Livia Brito, and the list goes on and on. Sorry, but the truth had to be told somewhere sooner or later.) Even more significant, many Americans, especially American retirees, have permanently changed their address to live in places like Baja, Guadalajara, and Guanajuato (there are reports that approximately one million Americans live in Mexico, and I sincerely hope you are not among them). Don’t take my word for it, the US Social Security which sends them their checks can clear you up on this. So, may I ask, what the hell is going on inside your mind?. Why should all Mexicans pay for the wall you plan to build across the border? Why should I pay (and this blogger takes personal offense in it) for your wall, considering that I have no plans nor any intention whatsoever to go to the USA now OR EVER to live and work there? Frankly, if the US Congress shuts the door of “a nation of immigrants” by bringing the immigration quota all the way down to zero, I couldn’t care any less. (Since I have a college degree in physics and math, perhaps I could be of help to many American kids with their math homework, but I prefer to stay in Mexico, helping Mexican kids with their math homework, rather than uprooting myself to live in a country that gave birth to the KKK, many of whose current citizens are quickly forgetting and even repudiating their roots outside North America, and several of whose founding fathers practiced slavery, the latter being the reason of why slavery was not outlawed from the out start in the much ballyhooed Bill of Rights). If you want to punish someone for breaking the law, at least punish those who have broken it instead of adopting a closed-minded Al Qaeda inspired Jihadist mentality. Use those 11 million undocumented immigrants to build your wall, without pay, if you will, and then deport them if you will, but don’t look south of the border for more scapegoats.
- In order to fund outlandish ideas such as the construction of the Trump wall , Messr. Trump plans among other things to impound all the money sent by Mexicans who live and work in the USA to their relatives in Mexico. Beyond the issue of whether this confiscation could be made legal under international law (otherwise it would amount to stealing), Messr. Trump should take a close look at which country is right now receiving the greatest amount of money sent from outside its borders, and we are interested here in remittances sent to the homeland to relatives and family members from its émigrés who live and work outside the country. It is not Mexico. Check it out here. Which makes me wonder, where does Donald Trump get his info? From the Sunday funnies? It is either that, or Messr. Trump is prejudiced against Mexico for some hidden reason only known to him, perhaps a humilliating early childhood traumatic experience at the hand of a Machete Kills-type of bully, or perhaps being disdained and rejected by a charming bronze-tanned señorita, or something of the sort.
- Let’s talk now about anchor babies, those children of undocumented immigrants who deliberately arrive into the USA with the hope that their USA-born kids, as American citizens, will help them get the coveted green card they would not be able to get otherwise if they applied for legal immigration into the USA at their countries of origin. You have to get the credit for bringing this concept into the forefront of the debates. In the past, and because of political correctness, the issue of “anchor babies” was considered taboo, it was skipped so as not to offend Latino voters. But you, being no politician, and certainly not bound by the mystique of political correctness being just a businessman, found no problem in taking it up against anchor babies, proclaiming your intentions of denying US citizenship to those anchor babies and thereby making it impossible for their parents to use their anchor babies to apply for legal US residence.
It must be made clear from the very outset that, indeed, the usage of anchor babies to obtain legal residence in the USA has been abused by many undocumented immigrants. Besides the many women who enter the USA with a legal visa just to have their kids born as US citizens (this was covered partially in the entry “Bebés chinos-gringos” published in this blog on March 22nd 2015, and sorry Messr. Trump, it was written in Spanish and that will make it nigh on to impossible for you to read it), there are thousands upon thousands of undocumented pregnant women whose primary purpose when they are about to give birth is to have their children born in the USA, even if it is inside the US border a few centimeters from the international border line at one of the international bridges connecting both countries. As a matter of fact, one of the first entries in this blog, entitled “Elvira Arellano” published in this blog on August 25th 2015 (which by the way is also in Spanish) talked precisely about this. I personally find repugnant the idea of a woman getting pregnant for the sole purpose of having her child born in the USA for the sole purpose of gaining access to permanent legal residence under the concept of family reunification. In this I believe we are in full accord. So your proposal to deal with this issue is: “Deny automatic US citizenship to children born in the USA of undocumented parents”. Right? Unfortunately, it is not as simple as that. Take you, for example (YES, THIS MEANS YOU, MESSR. TRUMP!!!) According to your golden rule, you received automatic US citizenship solely on the premise that your parents were legal US immigrants, you didn’t earn your US citizenship because of any personal merit, the cold hard fact is that you didn’t do anything in order to receive your US citizenship, you are now a US citizen by a mere chance of destiny. Now, assuming both your parents were legal US immigrants, what about their parents? If we trace back your ancestry (as well as the ancestries of many US citizens) the odds are that, technically and according to current standards, some of your ancestors did not file an application for legal entry into the USA, they merely landed in US soil (just as is done today by undocumented immigrants) and thereafter became “leagal bona fide US citizens” (we will not delve into the particular details). If those forebears of yours did not enter the US mainland with a valid immigrant visa, then according to your golden rule their children born in the USA should have never been considered legal US citizens. Same with their children’s children. And so forth down the ladder. Until we come to YOU!! (Yes Messr. Trump, this means YOU!!) By now you already know the logical conclusion. Now, are you going to go back to whatever country in Europe those forebears of yours immigrated from into America, and stand up in line waiting your turn in a US Consulate or US Embassy, waiting to be called for your scheduled appointment? Fat chance! The odds you have no intentions whatsoever to apply your golden rule to yourself (or to any of your relatives, for that matter). So, in order to make your anchor babies proposal the rule of the land, some jurisdiction has to be implemented, and for starters, the US Constitution has to be rewritten. With a dysfunctional Congress in permanent gridlock unable to reach any kind of agreement on the immigration issue and enacting close to zero laws regarding anything, the odds of the Constitucional amendment your golden rule requires is not something that will happen any time soon; indeed it will not happen in your lifetime.
There is also another stumbling block in your intentions to do away with the issue of anchor babies. Assuming that somehow by some strange twist of destiny your golden rule denying US citizenship to anchor babies becomes the law of the land, what happens if their country of origin were they should have been born in the first place denies them citizenship on the legal basis that only children born in that country have a right to citizenship of that country? Technically, if they are born in the USA but are denied US citizenship, and the country of origin of the baby’s parents also denies citizenship to the baby arguing that the baby already has US citizenship (this would be done by some countries that refuse to abide to the concept of dual citizenship), we would have a person with no citizenship whatsoever in any part of the world! Where will the baby (forget about the parents) be deported? To the North Pole? Ha!
These are just some of the legal issues that are certain to come up if US citizenship by birthright is done away with, and in the end it may all end up even worse that it was when it started. Either your legal advisers are a bunch of well paid jackasses who have somehow convinced you they are really good, or fearing a fit of mistemper and a bashing from you they have decided to take you in for a ride whispering into your ears the things they think you want to hear.
In spite of it all, there is one simple way to end with the current abuse of the immigration system in the usage of anchor babies. It is very simple. All that has to be done is deny any kind of special status or immigration preference to parents of anchor babies. There would be no special category in the immigration application form for parents of a US-born kid. This means, in effect, doing away with the long standing tradition of giving official support to the concept of family reunification. This would foil any plan of obtaining a green card, now or ever, by merely being the parent of a US-born kid, and the parents of such a kid would not be eligible for any kind of special consideration and they would have to stand in line just like everyone else without the fact that they are parents of a US citizen even mentioned on their immigration application form. However, the US Congress cannot even agree on a measure as simple as this one, and if it can’t, what makes you think that you will be the next Franklin Delano Roosevelt under whom the US Congress will be firmly united? - Let us now use Trump-lingo instead of using politically correct lingo, let us refer to undocumented immigrants as “illegal aliens” (this oft-used derogatory term kinda reminds us about Sigourney Weaver). Your intention of deporting 11 million illegal aliens to Mexico has always been clearly stated. But why just to Mexico? Don’t you know that there are hoards of illegal aliens in the USA not just from Mexico but from all over the world including countries such as Ireland, India, Honduras, El Salvador, Haiti, Guatemala, Nepal, and so forth? Why deport them all to Mexico? What gives you the right of trying to send the entire UN to Mexico? If you still believe that all the illegal aliens in the USA were born in Mexico, perhaps you should take a look at the statistics kept by ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement), don’t take my word for it.
- Total cost of deportation. Let us talk now of the cost of deporting all the 11 million plus undocumented migrants now living in the USA until not a single one remains. Cost-wise, the assumption that it is possible to deport 11 million undocumented migrants in a few months or even a few years without spending a lot of money is simple-minded, at best, and you as a businessman should know that. Let us put a price tag of $4 grand on each deportee, assuming . This assumes that all of them will show up voluntarily at the nearest US immigration office (not likely to happen) thus saving the cost of tracking down and apprehending and taking to court each undocumented immigrant. The total cost of deportation would come to about 44 billion dollars. But it is whimsical to assume that they will all leave voluntarily without some resistance. Some will choose to go to the courts to fight their deportation. Others will remain in hiding and using fake identities. Others will simply move from one place to another making tracking them down extremely difficult. The truth of the matter is that the cost of deporting all 11 million illegal aliens will soar from $4 grand into the tens of thousands of dollars, as part of a bill running into the trillions of dollars. Now comes the good part, the one you as a businessman should be familiar with. Who’s going to pick up the total tag? The taxpayer? How about raising the federal debt ceiling? How about raising taxes? Even if you donate all of your fortune to pay for such an endeavor, you would not be able to pay not even one per cent of the total bill, you would not be able to make a dent on the enormous cost of sending everybody back.
- By now, it goes without saying that Messr. Donald Trump does not provide any particular details regarding his intentions on the immigration issue (and most other issues, for that matter), perhaps because as a good businessman Messr. Trump knows the Devil is in the details. One of the things that will almost surely balloon the cost of deporting all undocumented immigrants until there are none left in US territory is the long standing US-policy of granting asylum to refugees. Technically, everyone who lands on US soil without a valid immigrant visa, refugee or not, is an undocumented immigrant. In order to grant asylum to anyone seeking permanent residency who claims to be a refugee, in order to ensure that his claim is a valid claim, in order to weed out valid claims from false claims, in order to discourage freeloaders, a complex judicial system with courts, judges and lawyers must be set up. Indeed, something like that is already in place. But this system delays otherwise quick deportations by months and even years, it has become a congested bottleneck that makes every deportation a very expensive endeavor. Each deportation trial can easily run into the tens of thousands of dollars, with every single penny paid out from the pockets of US taxpayers like Messr. Donald Trump. So far, the US immigration service has cleverly handled the issue of keeping everything under budget constraints by convincing (even coercing) many detainees to waive their right to their day in court. But if all 11 million plus individuals are going to be hunted down (a very expensive operation per se) with the intention of kicking all of them out, it stands to reason they will not leave voluntarily without putting up a legal fight, with a price tag sure to make everybody in Washington wail. The only alternative here, if your campaign promise is to be kept, is to issue an executive presidential order reversing the humanitarian tradition of granting asylum to refugees, with something as simple as this: “From now on, the United States of America will no longer grant asylum to anyone claiming to be a refugee, whether his claim is valid or not” (by the way, didn’t the first European immigrants such as the Quakers and the Pilgrims who landed in North America fleeing from religious persecution?) This ought to work, provided the US Congress goes along with it. What makes you think that even a Republican-controlled Congress will back you up on this? To date, not a single US Congressman or Senator from the Republican party has proposed doing away with the open doors policy for refugees seeking asylum. Indeed, not even any of your rivals competing against you for the nomination has dared to raise this possibility, including those considered to be most hardliners or the most cuckoo. Thus, if you don’t include this as part of your immigration proposal, no one else will. But then, if you also rule out this possibility, your mass deportation plan simply becomes too expensive to be carried out, there is just not enough money in the coffers or in the pipeline to pay for it.
- Taking budget constraints into account, not to say the federal budget deficit, even if President Trump (gosh, don’t you love the sound of it, Messr. Trump?) sets a relatively modest goal of just 100 thousand deportees per year in order to avoid cost overruns, it will take at the very least 120 years to kick them all out (assuming of course there are no new arrivals replenishing the current stock). You would not see your campaign promise fulfilled in your lifetime. And even if you set a loftier goal of 200 thousand deportees per year to speed things up (the American Management Association has candidly admitted at times that top executives and businessmen who were forged under the culture of lean and mean often set unrealistic goals in order to push their employees to their limits, straining resources to their breaking point but obtaining in return higher yields and profits), at the cost of doubling the deportation expenditures much to the chagrin of American taxpayers (not a good way to get re-elected), you would still not live long enough to see your campaign promise fulfilled in your lifetime. Surely you have done the math, it doesn’t take a doctoral degree in statistics to figure it out, and perhaps you have come to the same conclusions. And where’s the profit (in dollars and cents, something that can show up in the accounting books) to be gained in all of this? Keep in mind, and in this you MUST agree with me, that something that is a net loss operating in the red with no profits in the horizon has got to be a very bad business deal. Keep in mind also that every American employer who loses a hard-working undocumented immigrant now working for him doing a job nobody else in the USA wants to do (such as picking cantaloupes and watermelons, or caring round-the-clock for elderly parents afflicted with Alzheimer or senile dementia) will almost certainly feel the loss in his pocket, one way or the other, and in some cases it may end up translating into shop closures, thus reducing the federal government income required to keep the deportation statistics up. If your first-term will only last four years (this assumes you won’t get re-elected or will simply refuse to run rather than face an irate electorate), how on earth can you keep your promise of kicking out 11 million plus undocumented immigrants within that time frame?
- Believe it or not, Messr. Trump, this Mexican blogger is on your side when it comes to sending back Mexican undocumented workers to Mexico. This was clearly stated in an entry with the title “An open letter to US Senator Jeff Sessions” posted here on June 14th 2013. A challenge was posed to Senator Sessions in that entry that to date has gone unanswered. We need all those hard-working Mexicans here in Mexico to create wealth for Mexico, and not in the USA creating wealth for the USA, a country were their hard work goes unnoticed and unrecognized. We are talking about hard-working construction workers (as you surely know by now, some of your buildings, Messr. Trump, were built in part by some of them), electricians, iron-works artisans, maids, nannies who take care of kids while their Moms go out to work, nurses who take care of Mom and Pop when they come down with Alzheimer and senile dementia, farm workers who pick up your vegetables and fruit, carpenters, auto mechanics, and the like. If they are all deported back to Mexico (or wherever country they came from), with no one in the USA ready to fill the gap they leave and take their place, it stands to reason that the US economy will feel some repercussions. However, as a Mexican, a crack in the US-economy due to an anticipated vacuum left by all of those undocumented workers who are deported from the USA doesn’t worry me a bit. And (very obviously) it doesn’t worry you either, Messr. Trump, so once again we are in accord! Isn’t it wonderful, Messr. Trump, all the things upon which we both agree?
- Your spectacular rise in the polls is attributed to a disenchantment of the American people with establishment politicians and a worthless Congress that has failed to get anything really important done in spite of its enormous expenditure. However, every single dysfunctional US Congress since the good old times of Ike Eisenhower has been freely conformed by the votes cast on the ballots by the American peoples themselves, and its rabble-rousing fame-craving zero-productivity Representatives and Senators have not been imposed by any foreign enemy super-power or terrorist group or some fearsome alien invaders. A dysfunctional Congress, whether you like it or not, represents the will of the American people, and if it has failed to do its job not only on the immigration issue but in almost every other worthwhile issue, then it represents a dismal failure of democracy itself. Most of the proposals of Messr. Donald Trump on the immigration issue are actually in agreement with similar proposals set forth by powerful lobbying groups such as the Federation for American Immigration Reform (F.A.I.R.). Lots of time and effort have already been wasted by F.A.I.R. to push its agenda through Congress, and to date F.A.I.R. has been unable to get any of its proposals (not a single one!) approved by Congress and the President, much less turned into law. How then can Messr. Trump expect to outperform F.A.I.R. and other similar groups? By waving a magic wand such as the one used by Mickey Mouse? Or perhaps selling his immortal soul to the Devil, for what it’s worth.
- The US President is not a king. In order to rule, the laws he wants to apply must first be enacted by Congress. And this is usually the end-of-the-road for many presidential promises. In spite of the fact that both houses of Congress are now in the hands of the Republican party, to date Congress has failed to send the current President any kind of initiative regarding the immigration issue, be it an initiative he will sign or an initiative he will veto. The productivity of the Republican-controlled Congress is as close as it can be to a mathematical zero. Not long ago, the stalemate in Congress was blamed on the clash between a Democrat-controlled Senate and a Republican-controlled House of Representatives. But this was corrected in the past federal elections, now both Houses of Congress are in the hands of the Republicans. And guess what? It is just as bad as it was before. Nothing gets done, and the voters are fuming. Perhaps Messr. Trump believes that, being a Republican President, he will get all his initiatives passed by a Republican-controlled Congress even without a debate (maybe a filibuster or two every once in a while, but still something manageable). But these expectations are certain to be buried beginning 2017. The Republican-controlled Congress is reaching no agreements on practically anything, and there is no reason this gridlock will change. Many voters are already anticipating that, even with a federal government entirely run by Republicans, nothing will get done, and yet once again they will be left fuming. If US Congressmen had behaved this way back in the thirties and forties, it is very likely that Germany would have won the war. Understandably, this bodes ill for any major immigration proposal Messr. Trump may have in mind. How then can Messr. Trump insist that he will be the one who will get the job done, when Republicans have failed to demonstrate they can act as a solid block? The 11 million plus undocumented immigrants need not worry over the possibility of Messr. Trump becoming President; even if he does it is almost certain that his own party will torpedo him from the very start.
- There is one important part of the immigration equation missing in Messr. Trump’s grand formula. Illegal immigrants, as all other social phenomena, is driven by economics. Most undocumented immigrants are not political refugees but economic refugees, and they are well aware that they are breaking the law; even human rights organizations that defend them acknowledge this as a fact of life. However, they are not the only culprits in the breaking of the law. There are other culprits whose role has not been given due credit. For starters, how about President Ronald Reagan, who by the way was not a Democrat but a Republican? He is the one who gave the first amnesty to millions of undocumented immigrants, setting up the scenario for the current influx of those who are arriving now demanding a second amnesty. And what about the hundreds of thousands of Americans who knowingly hire and employ undocumented immigrants? How can they be considered innocent bystanders? The only reason undocumented immigrants are flooding the USA right now is because they already know beforehand that there are jobs waiting for them. If nobody hired them, none of them would travel to the USA, it is as simple as that. However, Messr. Trump has so far avoided the thorny issue of employer sanctions, in spite of knowing that without those sanctions any mass deportation scheme is sure to fail. Is Messr. Trump scared stiff about the possibility that maybe, just maybe, employer sanctions with mechanisms already available such as the E-verify program besides other mechanisms that can be readily implemented with existing technology, may end up hurting employers such as Messr. Trump himself? If so, then this omission can be taken as one more paradigm of the case of double standards, which, by the way, is part of the modern politician’s repertoire, and Messr. Trump seems to be no exception.
In the competitive US-economy, businessmen such as yourself are expected to be bossy. The top administrator asks questions, sets agendas, sets goals (some of them unrealistic), hires and fires with the blink of an eye, and keeps a close watch on the stock market and market trends. Those who do not perform as expected can expect to get their pink slips even before their first workday has been completed. That’s the way the cocoon spins. Unfortunately, in a global economy where crackpots such as ISIS and unpredictable rulers as the one who reigns in North Korea manage to become forces to be reckoned with, it is not a simple matter of “business as usual”. Mere savvy in business dealings is not enough, and under some circumstances it can even be a hindrance for it can blind oneself to the point of becoming disconnected with reality. At this point in time, no one knows if you will become the next President of the United States. Barely two months ago, none of the Washington pundits could have predicted that you would be number one in the polls. If you keep riding high, it is possible, just possible, that you will lure enough voters to try you out and give you a chance to prove yourself. And then what? Are you ready for destiny to hand you down a big lesson? And as History proves, some of those lessons can be really hard, they amount to nothing less than a crash landing. Except that in this case, you would be taking down your countrymen with you. Which, by the way, is no consolation. But then again, it is also possible that your presidential aspirations may come to an end coming November 2016. It will all depend on the people.
Before angrily shouting “You’re fired”, you must bear in mind that whilst swinging back and forth the big stick (which by the way reminds me of the Queen in the Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland tale written by Lewis Carroll) you must first double check to see if the one you want to fire is still working for you. For it may be the case that not only he or she is no longer working for you. It may be that he never applied to work for you in the first place because he never wanted to work for someone like you. You see, Messr. Trump, in this world there are smart people; and there are also smarter people. Just think about that for a minute; an executive’s time minute.
Lastly, no judgement will be passed here on the rest of your campaign proposals and promises, and certainly no judgement will be passed here upon you yourself (a preview of what you can expect in the afterlife has already been handed down, and it comes from the highest authority, see Matthew 19:23-26). But these facts and viewpoints regarding the immigration debate had to be laid out in front of you for your consideration, since you cannot expect to get them from any of your subordinates whose priority is to keep their jobs by telling you the things they think you want to hear. Which, by the way, is something as old as time itself, and if you don’t believe it perhaps you should read the classic tale The Emperor’s New Clothes by Hans Christian Andersen.
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